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Microsoft Design opens Fluent UI, a collection of frameworks for next-gen experiences
Benedikt Lehnert who work as 'Director of Product Design for Fluent, Mobile and Office Experiences' at Microsoft shared about their freshest update on Fluent UI. What's Fluent UI? It's a collection of UX frameworks that will be used and shared across platforms to help them produce the next generation of Microsoft 365 experiences. Personally, I am not a huge fan of Microsoft in terms of hardware but I do love their leadership to push through innovative solutions to help them design and build more collaboratively, and pushing an immersive experience across all products. Alike a few other companies who rather keep these things under a locked door. I took the opportunity to share a few key lines from Benedikt's article but I do suggest giving it a full read and make your own mindset. Check it out and props to everyone who worked effortlessly on this endeavor.
the beauty in our open-source approach is that the people who eat, live, and breathe our products contribute to and improve the Fluent Design System for everyone.
In his words
New cross-platform library
Fluent UI is more than a collection of UX frameworks for creating web and mobile apps that share code, design, and interaction behavior. It’s a new approach to how we work across disciplines and product teams to deliver more seamless experiences that feel natural on the devices our customers use throughout their day. We’re simplifying our developer ecosystem, so that all sorts of partners can leverage and contribute to these frameworks to build their own experiences.
Native to each device, still uniquely Fluent
Like in car design, we think it takes only a few signature design elements for each product to shape the impression of a branded experience in people’s minds. These “essential” elements create clarity and structure, so people understand how to use a product no matter which device they’re on. Our Microsoft logo, familiar app icons, recognizable app names, and distinctive app brand colors shape people’s impressions of our branded experiences. But there are also more specific UI components that make our apps feel uniquely Fluent. For example, our custom navigation bar gives our mobile apps a familiar, familial touch.
Delivering a more coherent, productive experience
It can be frustrating when things work differently for no (or some unexplained) reason. It frustrates our customers, frustrates us, and motivates us to make it better. Rallying around the Fluent Design System helps us simplify and become more efficient as a company, which is great. But it also allows us to deliver more coherent and connected experiences for our customers. Win, win. Simply put, Fluent is about designers and developers working better together to create best-in-class experiences that empower our customers.
Modernizing our theming architecture
We’re looking to modernize our theming architecture to create a scalable, future-proof design system. Future themes will make it easier and faster to update design values across all platforms using a common theming infrastructure, taxonomy, and centralized set of cross-platform style libraries across Microsoft frameworks.
To do this, we’re moving away from fixed values and toward more agnostic variables, or design tokens. Design tokens define the visual attributes of a UI surface and link design to code using a common syntax. Centralized style libraries, accessible by both design and development tools, will serve as the place to make updates without having to revise coded components.
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<h1>Static outliers for North Wigan PCN</h1>
<p>There is substantial variation in prescribing behaviours, across various different areas of medicine. Some variation can be explained by demographic changes, or local policies or guidelines, but much of the remaining variation is less easy to
explain. At <a href="https://openprescribing.net/">OpenPrescribing</a> we are piloting a number of data-driven approaches to identify unusual prescribing and collect feedback on this prescribing to inform development of new tools to support
prescribers and organisations to audit and review prescribing.</p>
<p>This report has been developed to automatically identify prescribing patterns at a chemical level which are furthest away from “typical prescribing” and can be classified as an “outlier”. We calculate the number of prescriptions for each chemical
in the <a href="https://www.thedatalab.org/blog/161/prescribing-data-bnf-codes">BNF coding system</a> using the BNF subparagraph as a denominator, for prescriptions dispensed between April 2021 and August 2021. We then calculate the
mean and standard deviation for each numerator and denominator pair across all practices/CCGs/PCNs/STPs. From this we can calculate the “z-score”, which is a measure of how many standard deviations a given practice/CCG/PCN/STP is from the
population mean. We then rank your “z-scores” to find the top 5 results where prescribing is an outlier for prescribing higher than its peers and those where it is an outlier for prescribing lower than its peers.
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<p>It is important to remember that this information was generated automatically and it is therefore likely that some of the behaviour is warranted. This report seeks only to collect information about where this variation may be warranted and where
it might not. Our full analytical method code is openly available on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/ebmdatalab/outliers/">here</a>.
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<p>The DataLab is keen to hear your feedback on the results. You can do this by completing the following <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeH4ai_qyetAY4UAgZSWGnYQHkXNr9efFBmQvdrBi5uuXvgnQ/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.2016356131=pcn+U96127">survey</a> or emailing us at <a href="mailto:ebmdatalab@phc.ox.ac.uk?subject=OpenPrescribing%20outliers%20feedback">ebmdatalab@phc.ox.ac.uk</a>. Please DO NOT INCLUDE IDENTIFIABLE PATIENT information in your feedback. All feedback is helpful, you can
send short or detailed feedback.
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<h2>Prescribing where North Wigan PCN is higher than most</h2>
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<th><abbr title="count of all prescribed items from this subparagraph">Subparagraph Items</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Ratio of chemical items to subparagraph items">Ratio</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Population mean number of chemical items prescribed">Mean</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Standard Deviation">std</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Number of standard deviations prescribed item count is away from the mean">Z_Score</abbr></th>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=1001010X0&denomIds=10.1.1&selectedTab=summary">Nabumetone</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_high_0_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>256</td>
<td>Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs</td>
<td>4510</td>
<td>0.06</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>16.91</td>
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<td>1</td>
<td>Stimulant laxatives</td>
<td>1589</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>12.76</td>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=0403040F0&denomIds=4.3.4&selectedTab=summary">Flupentixol hydrochloride</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_high_2_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>600</td>
<td>Other antidepressant drugs</td>
<td>6730</td>
<td>0.09</td>
<td>0.01</td>
<td>0.01</td>
<td>12.10</td>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=0407010AD&denomIds=4.7.1&selectedTab=summary">Paracetamol and ibuprofen</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_high_3_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>5</td>
<td>Non-opioid analgesics and compound preparations</td>
<td>13147</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>10.17</td>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=0501070AC&denomIds=5.1.7&selectedTab=summary">Fidaxomicin</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_high_4_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>2</td>
<td>Some other antibacterials</td>
<td>54</td>
<td>0.04</td>
<td>0.00</td>
<td>0.01</td>
<td>5.36</td>
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<h2>Prescribing where North Wigan PCN is lower than most</h2>
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<th><abbr title="number of prescribed items containing this chemical">Chemical Items</abbr></th>
<th>BNF Subparagraph</th>
<th><abbr title="count of all prescribed items from this subparagraph">Subparagraph Items</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Ratio of chemical items to subparagraph items">Ratio</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Population mean number of chemical items prescribed">Mean</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Standard Deviation">std</abbr></th>
<th><abbr title="Number of standard deviations prescribed item count is away from the mean">Z_Score</abbr></th>
<th>Plots</th>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=0106060B0&denomIds=1.6.6&selectedTab=summary">Naloxegol</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_low_0_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>19</td>
<td>Peripheral opioid-receptor antagonists</td>
<td>32</td>
<td>0.59</td>
<td>0.98</td>
<td>0.12</td>
<td>-3.19</td>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=1201030N0&denomIds=12.1.3&selectedTab=summary">Urea hydrogen peroxide</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_low_1_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>1</td>
<td>Removal of ear wax and other substances</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>0.17</td>
<td>0.83</td>
<td>0.26</td>
<td>-2.57</td>
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<th><a href="https://openprescribing.net/analyse/#org=pcn&orgIds=U96127&numIds=1305030C0&denomIds=13.5.3&selectedTab=summary">Tacrolimus</a><button type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#table_low_2_items" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">☰</button></th>
<td>42</td>
<td>Drugs affecting the immune response</td>
<td>80</td>
<td>0.52</td>
<td>0.80</td>
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Chinese, Russians shore up Middle East tourism
Chinese and Russian visitors boosted Middle Eastern tourism last year following a 2016 slump as Europeans gave the area a wide berth on security fears, according to the World Tourism Organization (WTO).
The Mideast region as a whole drew 58 million foreign tourists in 2017 — a 4.8 percent rise on the previous year — the Madrid-based WTO said in its latest figures released midweek.
Jihadist attacks on tourist sites in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey in recent years particularly hit the industry.
But “over time, people forget and return,” said Jalel Gasmi, head of Granada Travel Services, a tour operator attending the Fitur international tourism gathering in the Spanish capital.
Despite the annual rise, Marcus Lee, heading the Welcome China agency, said the sector could not rest on its laurels.
For Chinese visitors, security “is the first thing they ask about” beyond visa regulations and often poor flight connections in the Middle East, said Lee.
Security concerns aside, Lee said rising purchasing power means the Chinese tourist takes a different approach compared to 20 years ago when, “for example … coming to Europe they wanted to see ten countries in ten days.
“That’s no longer the case and we are concentrating on one country over ten days,” said Lee.
– Egyptian turnaround –
In the case of Egypt, tourist numbers soared 55 percent last year, even as European numbers dipped, with Chinese and visitors from Egypt’s neighbours taking their place.
Visitor profiles have changed since military man Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to power in 2014 and especially since the 2011 overthrow of longtime Hosni Mubarak.
Before then, “the European market, including Russia, accounted for almost 80 percent (of tourists) but now, 52 percent,” said Hesham El Demeiry, head of the Egyptian tourist authority, adding Chinese and Indian visitors rose from 5 to 12 percent while tourists from Egypt’s neighbours doubled their share from 15 to 30 percent.
Turkey, meanwhile, is back in business after the fallout from the July 2016 coup saw visitor numbers slide by a third, before a similar rise last year.
Ankara is out to keep on attracting more visitors from Russia — whose tourists poured in during 2017 — as well as neighbours including Iran and Ukraine.
The downside, according to Turkish tour operator Ahmet Okay, is that the newcomers are likely to spend fewer tourist dollars than their EU or US counterparts.
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We have increased the default size of all thumbnails to be 320x320, but if the original image is small enough filesize, then we use that image instead... it doesn't really matter what size the image is, so long as the filesize is small... we create thumbnail images only to get the filesize down...
thumbnails or any photo will attempt to full it's container space... so we want the thumbnails to be bigger than the container, and then the CSS should be used to ensure the image is automatically positioned with some padding etc inside... the default max is 160px high, and 160px wide... or only 100px in some other cases..
portrait shaped images have not always been considered from a design perspective, and hence may be truncated by template code.
please don't decrease their product images sizes... you should only upload 1 big product image, which is likely to be 640x640 - 960x960 ish
the thumbnails will be made automatically. the user only has to consider if they want square thumbs, or how big they want their main images.
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Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the esophagus.
A 78-year-old man presented with an esophageal polyp that was confirmed by immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy to be malignant fibrous histiocytoma. The tumor was comprised of a proliferation of spindle-shaped cells admixed with bizarre giant cells. These tumor cells were immunoreactive for smooth muscle actin, vimentin, alpha-1-anti-chymotrypsin and CD68. Electron microscopic examination revealed the myofibroblastic and histiocytic features of the tumor cells. No elements of epithelial or myogenic differentiation were found in the tumor. Malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the esophagus is extremely rare, with 10 cases being documented so far in the literature. The differential diagnosis of pleomorphic tumors of the esophagus is discussed. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '04c75ed7637bd841b099c78260590901c6ae8cc51d826500f129ca717683e566'} |
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Are you one of 25% of Americans who cannot tell celebrities apart? Do you fail to recall the name of the person who acted in that movie or show, only to say the wrong name to the mockery of of your peers? Well, I am here to tell you: you are not alone.
Celebrity Confusion Condition, CCC, is real and highly contagious. Known in scientific circles as Hester’s Disease, the brain abnormality as was named for patient zero, let’s call him "Geoff" to protect the innocent, was one day trying to recall the name of the celebrity lead in The Bourne Identity. His response: Matt Damon Wayans.
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His friends laughed. Poor Geoff played along, but little did the group know, they too were now infected. Over the years, the brain disease spread outward. Each time a person was unable to think of someone in a famous movie or show, and failed, or confused them with someone else, the disease grew.
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Those skeptics are fortunately all dead now. Or, they are doing “important” things like STEM field research, charity work or other such hokum. Like they don’t have Netflix and listen to modern pop music.
Listen, there is no shame in not realizing that the same guy who played Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket was the same bug guy in Men In Black and Kingpin in Daredevil.
Below is a test. Can you tell these celebrities apart?
Which one is America Ferrera and which one is Jordan Sparks?
Which one is Javier Bardem and which is Jeffery Dean Morgan?
Which one is Zooey Deschanel and which one is Katey Perry?
Which one is Will Ferrel and which one is Chad...what'shisnuts the drummer the Chilli Peppers
Which one is Hailey Bennet (the wide from Hardcore Henry) and which one is Jennifer Lawrence?
Lastly, which one of these British ladies is Daisy Ridley from Star Wars, Lena Headey from Gme of Thrones and Kiera Knightly?
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Q:
How to make IObservable.ToEnumerable non blocking / not consume the entire source before returning?
How can I get ToEnumerable to not complete the test() before returning?
IObservable<string> str =
test()
.ToObservable()
.Finally(() => Console.WriteLine("obs done"));
int i = 0;
foreach (string s in str.ToEnumerable())
{
if (i++ > 5)
{
Console.WriteLine("break");
break;
}
Console.WriteLine(s);
}
IEnumerable<string> test()
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Thread.Sleep(500);
Console.WriteLine($"called {i+1} a");
yield return "a";
Console.WriteLine($"called {i+1} b");
yield return "b";
Console.WriteLine($"called {i+1} c");
yield return "c";
}
}
This prints
called 1 a
called 1 b
called 1 c
called 2 a
called 2 b
called 2 c
called 3 a
called 3 b
called 3 c
called 4 a
called 4 b
called 4 c
called 5 a
called 5 b
called 5 c
called 6 a
called 6 b
called 6 c
called 7 a
called 7 b
called 7 c
called 8 a
called 8 b
called 8 c
called 9 a
called 9 b
called 9 c
called 10 a
called 10 b
called 10 c
obs done
a
b
c
a
b
c
break
here
But I would expect it to print something like this
called 1 a
a
called 1 b
b
called 1 c
c
called 2 a
a
called 2 b
b
called 2 c
c
break
obs done
here
EDIT:
it works when I don't originally use an IEnumerable to generate the data, and add a cancellationtoken which presumably is connected to the disposal of the enumerator created by iterating .ToEnumerable...
IObservable<string> str =
test2()
.Finally(() => Console.WriteLine("obs done"));
IObservable<string> test2()
{
return Observable.Create<string>(async (observer, cancel) =>
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10 && !cancel.IsCancellationRequested; i++)
{
await Task.Delay(500);
Console.WriteLine($"called {i + 1} a");
observer.OnNext("a");
Console.WriteLine($"called {i + 1} b");
observer.OnNext("b");
Console.WriteLine($"called {i + 1} c");
observer.OnNext("c");
}
});
}
A:
Something like this might be closer to what you're looking for:
var str =
test()
.ToObservable()
.Finally(() => Console.WriteLine("obs done"));
str.Take(5).Subscribe(
Console.WriteLine,
() => Console.WriteLine("break"));
UPDATE:
OK, I see what you're getting at. I think what you're seeing in your original example is that the default scheduler for ToObservable is effectively CurrentThread. This causes the iteration loop to block the current thread until it's iterated through the entire sequence. You can provide a different Scheduler to ToObservable (eg Default), which would be the equivalent of your second example.
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by Software Architect Janne Väre
Ideally, perfect positioning should work seamlessly both indoors and outside, where users would not even notice that the technology has changed between one space and another. It is possible to achieve such a positioning infrastructure through integration and smart background systems.
GPS is a great positioning system for the outdoors and its incorporation into various applications means that it is now an integral part of our everyday life. But when you go inside or into another space where the connection to satellites is lost, also the positioning data disappears.
Various positioning methods have been developed for interior spaces, for example WiFi is capable of room-specific positioning. However, most sensor- or radio-based methods that use signal travel time or direction in their positioning algorithms do not achieve very high accuracy. Bluetooth-based solutions can achieve an accuracy of 1-2 meters. The UWB radio technology-based solution developed by Iiwari Tracking Solutions is capable of a higher level of precision: under optimal conditions it can locate objects indoors with an accuracy of up to 10 cm.
All solutions that are based on radio technology share a common problem, namely that a base station infrastructure is required in the area where the positioning technology is used. We therefore share a common aim: to enable indoor positioning by building the necessary infrastructure at the lowest possible cost. Under these circumstances, cooperation and synergy in the integration of networks, solutions and devices are key.
An intelligent background system will ensure easy positioning
For users, the ideal situation would be that the dot indicating their position on their mobile screen would not disappear as they move between interior and exterior spaces. To increase compatibility, different positioning systems should be linked to a similar coordinate system. GPS uses global coordinate system and it would be useful if all indoor positioning systems could also provide positioning data in GPS format if required, says Software Architect Janne Väre of Iiwari Tracking Solutions. Indoor maps, in other words floor plans, should also be determined in a standardised form. In this regard, Apple’s and OGC’s Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) look very promising.
According to Väre, different positioning systems can operate independently and do not need to register each other. The systems would be connected by a separate background system, meaning that users could enjoy seamless positioning functions.
Iiwari is already in the process of developing such a UWB-based positioning back-end system for smartphones, which could be deployed soon.
This will become even more timely as the UWB chip and with it, accurate indoor positioning become more common in mobile phones, which have already become the most positioned objects. The advantage of mobile phones is that they already come with the necessary technology and to use positioning, only the relevant software would be needed. In other cases, positioning an object requires that a separate positioning tag be attached to it. Iiwari has already integrated Bluetooth into its own UWB tag, and GPS will also be easy to implement, Väre says.
Shared infrastructure for most telecommunications networks
In addition to creating an open background system and ensuring the ability to connect different positioning technologies to the same device, collaboration can be expanded even further. The construction of networks and base stations could create a bottleneck that may hinder the spread of radio technology-based indoor positioning. The problem would not be as great if infrastructure did not have to be created for each individual indoor location, as is currently the case, but if multiple positioning and communication networks, such as 5G, Bluetooth and UWB base stations, could be installed at the same time.
The best solution and plan for the future would be to design, create and integrate more networks already in the construction phase, for example in shopping malls or other large buildings, and later also in homes.
There are many benefits to creating a shared infrastructure.
Setting up different networks at the same time reduces installation costs, while also saving time. Also, as we learn to include more separate devices in the same container, there will be fewer cables and ‘boxes’, telecommunication base stations, in the positioning space, which will also improve the overall aesthetics of the location, Väre lists.
There are also other possibilities regarding integration. One interesting solution could be to utilise elements that are already needed in a space in the installation of base stations. At Iiwari, this has already been studied and tested, for example, by integrating base stations to lighting infrastructure.
Iiwari Tracking Solutions, a pioneer in indoor positioning, has its roots in the Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (VTT) and long-term UWB research. Iiwari innovates in cost-effective network solutions and products based on UWB technology aimed at increasingly accurate and reliable indoor positioning.
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Janne has extensive experience in telecommunications technology research. He is a modest but ingenious ultra-wideband expert, protocol engineer and coder. Even more ingenious in the future.
Positioning data adds concrete value to applications
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A Tutorial Example
Before delving into the depths of the language, let's look at an example. Suppose you just finished watching a Godzilla movie, complete with roaring monsters, panic-stricken mobs, fire trucks putting out flames, and so forth, and were inspired to design a game around this theme.
Basic Definitions
Start by opening up a file, calling it something like g-vs-t.g, or some other name appropriate for your type of machine, and then type this into it:
(game-module "g-vs-t"
(title "Godzilla vs Tokyo")
(blurb "Godzilla stomps on Tokyo")
This is a GDL form. It declares the name of the game to be "g-vs-t", gives it a title that prospective players will see in menus, plus a short description or blurb. The blurb should tell prospective players what the game is all about, perhaps whether it is simple or complex, or whether it is one-player or multi-player. Both title and blurb are examples of properties, which are like slots in structures.
The game-module form is optional but recommended; some interfaces use it to add the game to a list of games that players can choose from.
The general syntax of game-module form is similar to that used by nearly all GDL forms; it amounts to a definition of an "object" (such as a game module or a unit type) with properties (such as name, description, speed, etc). Some properties are required, and appear at fixed positions, while others are optional and can be specified in any order, so they are introduced by name. The general format, then, looks like
(<object> ... <required properties> ...
(<property name> <property value>)
There are very few exceptions to this general syntax rule.
(People often have trouble with parentheses in Lisp, but if you follow the same kinds of indentation rules that you always use in C or Pascal, then you will encounter no additional trouble. Also, many editors such as Emacs are intelligent enough to indicate when parentheses match, and automatically do proper indentation.)
Now the first thing you'll need is a monster. In Xconq, each unit has a type, and you define the characteristics attached to the type.
(unit-type monster)
This declares a new unit type named monster, but says nothing else about it. Let's use this more interesting form instead:
(unit-type monster
(image-name "monster")
(help "crushes, crumbles, and chomps")
(start-with 1)
This shows the usual way of describing the monster. In this case, image-name is a property that specifies the name of the icon that will be used to display a monster. (Xconq comes with a library of over 700 icons, of which "monster"; it looks a little like Godzilla.) The property start-with says that each side should start out with one monster. This isn't quite right, because there should only be one side with a monster, and this will give each side a monster to start out with, but we'll see how to fix that later on.
We also need at least one type of terrain for the world:
(terrain-type street (image-name "gray"))
These two forms are actually sufficient by themselves to start up a game. (Go ahead and try it.) However, you'll notice that the game is not very interesting. Although each player gets a monster, and the world consists of all-street terrain, nobody can actually do anything, and turns just whiz by, since the defaults basically turn off all possible actions.
Adding Movement
OK, let's give the monsters the ability to act by putting this form into the file:
(add monster acp-per-turn 4)
The add form is very useful; it says to modify the existing type named monster, setting the property acp-per-turn to 4, overwriting whatever value might have been there previously. The acp-per-turn property gives the monster the ability to act, up to 4 actions in each turn. By default, the ability to act is 1-1 with the speed of the unit, so the monster can also move into a new cell 4 times each turn. If you run the game now, you will find that your monster can now get around just fine.
Why 4? Actually, at this point the exact value doesn't matter, since nothing else is happening. If the speed is 1, then the turns go faster; if the speed is 10, then they go slower and more action happens in a single turn. In a complete design however, the exact speed of each unit can be a critical design parameter, and for this game, I figured that a speed of 4 allowed a monster to cover several cells in a hurry while not being able to get too far. Also, I'm planning to make panic-stricken mobs have a speed of 1, which is the slowest possible. Making actions 1-1 with speed is usually the right thing to do, since then a player will get to move 4 times each turn (later on we will see reasons for other combinations of values).
The add form works on most types of objects. It has the general syntax
(add <type(s)/object(s)> <property name> <value(s)>)
The type or object may be a list, in which the value is either given to all members of the list, or if it is a list itself, then the list of values is matched up with the list of types.
Buildings and Rubble Piles
To give the monster something to do besides walk around, add buildings as a new unit type:
(unit-type building (image-name "city20"))
(table independent-density (building street 500))
The building type uses an icon that is normally used for a 20th-century city, but it has the right look. The independent-density table says how many buildings will be scattered across in the world. The table form consists of the name of the table followed by one or several three-part lists; the two indexes into the table, and a value. In this case, one index is a unit type building, the other is a terrain type street, and the value is 500, which means that we will get about 500 buildings placed on a 100x100 world (look up the definition of this table in the index). You need some for testing purposes, otherwise you won't see any when you start up the game.
We're going to let buildings default to not being able to do anything, since that seems like a reasonable behavior for buildings (although Baba Yaga's hut might be fun...).
By default, buildings act strictly as obstacles; monsters cannot touch them, push them out of the way, or walk over them. In real(?) life of course, monsters hit buildings, so we have to define a sort of combat.
(table hit-chance
(monster building 90)
(building monster 10)
(table damage
(monster building 1)
(building monster 3)
(add (monster building) hp-max (100 3))
The hit-chance and damage tables are the two basic tables defining combat. The hit chance is simply the percent chance that an attack will succeed, while the damage is the number of hit points that will be lost in a successful attack. The unit property hp-max is the maximum number of hit points that a unit can have, and by default, that is also what units normally start with.
Note that the add form allows lists in addition to single types and values, in which case it just matches up the two lists. The add tries to be smart about this sort of thing; see its official definition for all the possibilities.
The net effect of these three forms is to say that a monster has a 90% chance of hitting a building and causing 1 hp of damage; three such hits destroy the building. A monster's knuckle might occasionally be skinned doing this; a 10% chance of 3/100 hp damage is not usually dangerous, and feels a little more realistic without complicating things for the player.
Now you can start up a game, and have your monster go over and bash on buildings. Simulated wanton destruction!
By default, a destroyed building vanishes, leaving only empty terrain behind. If you want to leave an obstacle, define a new unit type and let the destroyed building turn into it:
(unit-type rubble-pile)
(add building wrecked-type rubble-pile)
(Incidentally, you need to add the unit-type before any tables are defined, so that Xconq knows how big the tables need to be.)
In practice, you have to be careful to define the behavior of rubble piles. What happens when a monster hits a rubble pile? Can the rubble pile be cleared away? Does it affect movement? Try these things in a game now and see what happens; sometimes the behavior will be sensible, and sometimes not.
For instance, you will observe that the default behavior is for the rubble pile to be an impenetrable obstacle! The monster can't hit it, and can't stand on it, and in fact can't do anything at all. OK, let's fix it. Monsters are agile enough to climb over all sorts of things, so the right thing is to let the monster co-occupy the cell that the rubble pile is in. The default is to only allow one unit in a cell, but this can be changed:
(table unit-size-in-terrain (rubble-pile t* 0))
This says that while all other units have a size of 1, rubble piles only have a size of 0. By default, each terrain type has a capacity of 1, so this allows one unit and any number of rubble piles to stack together in a cell.
If you try this out, you'll find that the monster can now cross over rubble piles, but still has to bash buildings in order to get them out of the way. (Well, actually you probably need to play with zones of control as expressed in terms of mp-to-enter-zoc and others to get this example to work as-is. Or put the monster and the rubble-pile on same side, or some such).
Incidentally, it can cause problems to set a unit size to zero, because it allows infinite stacking. Since buildings and rubble piles don't move, there will never be more than one in a cell, but Xconq will happily let hundreds of units share the same cell, which works, but causes no end of headaches for players confronted with overloaded displays.
Human Units
Now you've got an "interactive experience" but no game; there's no challenge or goal. You could maybe make a two-or-more-player game where the players race to see who can flatten the mostest the fastest, but that's still not too interesting to anyone past the age of 5. Instead, we need to make some units for the people bravely (or not so bravely) resisting the monster's depredations:
(unit-type mob (name "panic-stricken mob") (image-name "mob"))
(unit-type |fire truck| (image-name "firetruck"))
(unit-type |national guard| (image-name "soldiers"))
Note that a type's name may have an embedded space, but then you have to put vertical bars around the whole symbol. Things are starting to get complicated, so let's define some shorter synonyms:
(define f |fire truck|)
(define g |national guard|)
(define humans (mob f g))
You can use the newly defined symbols f and g anywhere in place of the original type names. The symbol humans is a list of types, and will be useful in filling several propertys at once.
As with monsters, all these new units should be able to move:
(add humans acp-per-turn (1 6 2))
The speeds here are adjusted so that monsters can chase and run down (and presumably trample to smithereens) mobs and guards, but fire trucks will be able to race away.
Also note the use of a three-element list that matches up with the three elements in the humans list. This is a very useful features of GDL, and used heavily. It can also be a problem, since if you add or remove elements from the list humans, every list that it is supposed to match up with also has to change. Fortunately, Xconq will tell you if any lists do not match up because they are of different lengths.
We still need to define some interaction, since monsters and humans can make faces at each other, and get in each other's way, but otherwise cannot interact.
(table hit-chance add
(monster humans 50)
(humans monster (0 10 70))
This time we have to say "add table" because we've already defined the hit-chance table and now just want to augment it. (Be sure to place this form after the first hit-chance table definition.)
As with the addition of properties, we can use a list in place of a single type.
Last but not least, we need a scorekeeper to say how winning and losing will happen. This is a simple(-minded?) game, so a standard type will be sufficient:
(scorekeeper (do last-side-wins))
The do property of a scorekeeper may include some rather elaborate tests, but all we want to is to say that the last side left standing should be the winner, and the symbol last-side-wins does just that.
There might be a bit of a problem with this in practice, since in order to win, the monster has to stomp on all the humans, including fire trucks. But fire trucks can always outrun the monster, and cannot attack it directly either, which leads to a stalemate. You can fix this by zeroing the point value of fire trucks:
(add f point-value 0)
Now, when all the mobs and guards have been stomped, the monster wins automatically, no matter how many fire trucks are left.
The Scenario
As it now stands, your game design requires Xconq to generate all kinds of stuff randomly, such as the initial set of units, terrain, and so forth. However, we are doing a monster movie, so random combinations of monsters and people and terrain don't usually make sense. Instead of trying to define a "reasonable" random setup, we should define a scenario, either by starting a random game, modifying, and saving it, or by text editing. Since online scenario creation is hard to describe in the manual, let's do it with GDL instead.
To define a scenario, we generally need three things: sides, units, and terrain. Now the basic monster movie idea puts one monster up against a bunch of people acting together, so that suggests two sides:
(side 1)
(side 2 (name "Tokyo") (adjective "Japanese"))
The 1 and 2 identify the two sides uniquely, since we'll have to match units up with them in a moment. The side that plays the monster is really a convenience; players should just be aware of the one monster unit, so we don't need any sort of names. The other side has many units, which should be qualified as "Japanese", and the side as a whole really represents the city of Tokyo, so use that for the side's name.
Now for the units:
(unit monster (s 1) (n "Godzilla"))
(unit f (s 2))
(unit f (s 2))
(building 9 10 2)
(define b building) ; abbreviate for compactness' sake
(b 10 10 2)
(b 11 10 2 (n "K-Mart"))
(b 12 12 2 (n "Tokyo Hilton"))
(b 13 12 2 (n "Hideyoshi's Rice Farm"))
(b 14 12 2 (n "Apple Japan"))
;; ... need lots of buildings ...
This example shows two syntaxes for defining units: the first is introduced by the symbol unit and requires only a unit type (or an id, see the definition in xxx), while the second is introduced by the unit type name itself and requires a position and side. The second form is more compact and thus suitable for setting up large numbers of units, while the first form is more flexible, and can be used to modify an already-created unit. In both cases, the required data may be followed by optional properties in the usual way.
Also, since the word "building" is a little longwinded, I defined the symbol "b" to evaluate to "building". GDL has very few predefined variables, so you can use almost anything, including weird stuff like "&" and "=". Property names like s and n are NOT predefined variables, so you can use those too if you like.
At this point, you should have a basic game scenario, with one player being Godzilla, and the other trying to keep it from running amuck and flattening all of Tokyo. Have fun!
You can enhance this scenario in all kinds of ways, depending on how ambitious you want to get. Given the basic silliness of the premise, though, it would be more worthwhile to enhance the silliness and speed up the pace, rather than to add features and details. For instance, name the buildings after all the laughingstock places you know of in your own town.
To see where you could go with this, look at the library's monster game and its tokyo scenario, which include fires, different kinds of terrain, and other goodies.
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Stories from the West Virginia mountains, bits of culture, ghost stories from up the holler, grains of truth and torrents of whimsy, blatant love for all things Appalachian, and a loving life in the hills.
Thursday, February 3, 2011
When I was in college, my friend Laura told me that my life was "the best soap opera she'd ever seen". Granted, that remark was made in regards to a different period of my life, but it seems that the drama of life does follow me in (sometimes) inconvenient ways. Take for example, the latest bit - Franklin, my cute little marble tabby cat, decided to take a walk one evening. When he didn't come in (and the temperatures started to drop), I went looking for him and eventually found him here:
Yes, there he is, 60 feet up in a white oak tree. Up until this happened, I liked this tree - revered it for its ancientness and historical memory. At this point, however, I began cursing its existence.
Franklin was evidently spooked by the herd of South Park deer, and ran up the tree to get away from them. However, he would not come down. Not for food, not because he was cold, not for Julius, not for anyone or anything. The first night I called the fire department (cliche', I know, but they did show up and tried to help). Unfortunately, the tree was too far back off the street for them to get the ladder truck up to the top of it, and they said if he was still there in the morning to call them and they would come back and try again.
That night I watched in grief as the temperatures dropped down to ten degrees, and kept getting up every few minutes to check on him to see if he had come down. I hardly slept, and to quote Mammy in Gone with the Wind, I was "prostrate with grief".
The next morning I called the fire station at sunrise - and although they were not too sure about what they could do, the firemen showed up to help. Once again, an unsuccessful attempt ensued, this time with duct tape, several lengths of bamboo, and a snare-like apparatus on the end of it.
Nada - so day two ensued, and I made hundreds of phone calls to rescue centers, the police, the power company, the animal shelters, the city offices, veterinarians, etc. I think everyone in three states heard about Franklin's predicament, and thanks to Facebook even more people were trying to help. Finally, a tree trimming service called one of their climbers and he showed up to help. He brought ropes and clamps and such (and sheer bravery). By this time the story had made it onto the news services, and that's WBOY's Mike Krafcik filming the climber getting ready to go after Franklin. The Dominion Post also sent a reporter and photographer - it was quite the show when it all came together.
This is Mike the tree climber going up the tree to where Franklin is - clear at the TOP, and it's freezing outside. The wind was blowing and it was snowing, so this was all very stressful and intense.
Do you see those two little glowing eyes at the top? That's Franklin. He's sitting in the very top of the tree, where it was nearly impossible to reach him. He's back home safe and sound, though, thanks to everyone who tried and came through.
It was a real show of humanity, really. I learned just how many good people there are out there who are willing to help out when the chips are down. And some people were just mean - saying it was only a cat - but he is MY CAT. As he was being rescued, and even after, there were still people who had seen it posted Facebook stopping by the house to make sure Franklin was okay.
And no one is more relieved than myself.
Franklin is now grounded, until the big oak tree gets fitted with cat-proofing. I'm not going to get him declawed, that's just cruel. And the idea is to put something like metal flashing around the tree trunk so his claws can't get a hold. Keep your fingers (and paws) crossed that this will work.
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About Me
I was born in Elkins, WV and grew up near Riverton, WV in a small holler named Monkeytown. Throughout my life I've had many experiences, from life on the farm, to life on the mountain, to surviving a devastating flood, to private school in Virginia (I don't recommend it). I prefer to live and travel within West Virginia and Appalachia, because that's where I feel at home and around family. I currently live in Morgantown, WV and work at West Virginia University, where I am completing my second Master's Degree in Educational Leadership. My first is in Sociology. I have a Bachelor's in English and Journalism - and I've had more jobs in my life than I can remember. It's been a long road from the holler, and I've learned alot about being who I am. I hope you find my blog interesting - and I hope I do a good job representing my people. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'af3339e3cdbede839d4e640b98f6c7519cc138c4d59ac939bc829b1d331b70f7'} |
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abstract: 'Modern distributed systems often rely on so called weakly consistent databases, which achieve scalability by weakening consistency guarantees of distributed transaction processing. The semantics of such databases have been formalised in two different styles, one based on abstract executions and the other based on dependency graphs. The choice between these styles has been made according to intended applications. The former has been used for specifying and verifying the implementation of the databases, while the latter for proving properties of client programs of the databases. In this paper, we present a set of novel algebraic laws (inequalities) that connect these two styles of specifications. The laws relate binary relations used in a specification based on abstract executions to those used in a specification based on dependency graphs. We then show that this algebraic connection gives rise to so called robustness criteria: conditions which ensure that a client program of a weakly consistent database does not exhibit anomalous behaviours due to weak consistency. These criteria make it easy to reason about these client programs, and may become a basis for dynamic or static program analyses. For a certain class of consistency models specifications, we prove a full abstraction result that connects the two styles of specifications.'
author:
- Andrea Cerone
- Alexey Gotsman
- Hongseok Yang
- Andrea Cerone
- Alexey Gotsman
- Hongseok Yang
bibliography:
- 'bibliography2.bib'
title:
- 'Algebraic Laws for Weak Consistency (Extended Version)'
- Algebraic Laws for Weak Consistency
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Silicon Roundabout sees 70% fall in number of new start-ups as rising rents force firms to look elsewhere
January 16, 2017
Publications that covered this story include The Independent, Daily Mail Online, Business Insider, Economia, and the BBC on 16 January 2017 and IT Pro 17 January 2017.
Silicon Roundabout loses top spot for business creation
City Road saw largest number of new businesses last year
The number of start-ups setting up in the Silicon Roundabout district has fallen by 70% over the last year, from 10,280 to 3,070*, as companies are priced out of the area by rising rents.
Since 2014, Silicon Roundabout has seen an 80% fall in the number of new businesses set-up, which are typically one man band IT contractors, from 15,620 to 3,070. The area has now fallen to sixth place of all UK regions in terms of new business creation, having been ranked first two years in a row.
The area around Silicon Roundabout has been a hub for UK tech contractors and other start-ups but its popularity has led to increased rents as demand for office space outstrips supply. Landlords have been able to take advantage of this increased demand to push up prices.
This has led to many smaller firms looking elsewhere, such as City Road (N1), which lies to the north of Silicon Roundabout. This area saw a 75% increase in the number of new businesses (including one man contractor businesses) last year, from 8,400 to 14,710, and came top in terms of new business creation.
The Leicester Square area was ranked second and saw a 142% increase in the number of new businesses created. The presence of international technology and media firms in the area, such as Google, is likely to have attracted individual programmers and consultants to take on work as contractors.
In terms of new business creation, the divide between London and the rest of the UK is marked, with only two areas outside of the capital featuring in the top ten.
Warrington came third with its high ranking likely related to the number of engineering and utilities companies based in the area, such as Arcadis and United Utilities. The presence of large companies in these fields often attracts specialist self-employed contractors.
Colin Jones, partner, says: “Silicon Roundabout has fallen off the top spot in terms of new business creation; it is a victim of its own success.”
“The Silicon Roundabout area gained popularity with internet companies originally due to its historically low rents. Now that rents have soared, the area has lost its competitive advantage.”
“The PE money that has poured into the tech and Fintech sectors has enabled those tech businesses to keep paying higher and higher rents.”
“Silicon Roundabout remains an important hub but London’s tech cluster is now expanding and City Road has become the newest development corridor.”
“When analysing the data it is evident that new business creation is heavily concentrated in London, which reflects broader trends as the capital’s economy continues to power ahead of regional cities.” | mini_pile | {'original_id': '6ea897cd29fce7c82c0fcc78a3f08ce06e404cdc21e63e949a67fe53e0d16820'} |
Attitude is the key to a happy life!
3 Jan
Enjoying life is all about attitude, being an endurance athlete and going after success is all about attitude. Life is hard, training is hard, racing is hard we have curveballs constantly tossed at us we deal with adversity all the time, but if we have the right attitude about things a positive attitude then we can overcome these things we can improve and make life a whole lot better.
I write today about attitude because as a coach I always hear athletes sort of complain, sort of show that less than excited emotion sometimes based on what the workout might be. Like maybe a Triathlete is not a great swimmer (that would be me also) so we see that swim workout in the schedule and think ugh do we really want to swim? And during the workout as we struggle and maybe get humbled by the faster swimmers around us it’s easy to sort of let our attitude and positive feelings for swimming and the great benefits of it fall apart and we show more frowns than smiles.
As a runner maybe its hill training day and a hard workout with hill repeats and we know it will hurt it will be a struggle. The goal is to come to the workout with a smile a positive attitude and tackle it as best you can. Give that 100% effort that day and embrace the challenge embrace your weakness with the right attitude and work on making that weakness more of strength.
Maybe we are in a race having great success and then all the sudden someone blazes past us, or the pain of the hard effort your kicking out kicks in and starts telling your mind this hurts slow down. You’re chasing a time goal in the marathon clicking off mile after mile at goal race pace then all the sudden you have a bad mile lose pace and start to get negative start getting that feeling of ugh this is hard I can’t obtain my goal so you really dial it back make excuses and basically quit on yourself. When things like this happen and believe me they will! When those humbling moments come along that want to make you negative and get you off your game that is when having the right positive attitude, the mental toughness and strength to keep a smile, to be happy and keep pushing with relentless forward motion is so crucial! The word gratitude comes to mind in moments like this. I’ve been there so many times leading a race feeling good then all the sudden someone catches me passes me and my mind goes into that negative place my attitude switches from excitement and confidence to I suck and frustration. Those are the feelings we must block out because even when that person surges on us and we are in so much pain and pushing at our limits to hang on with them if we keep a positive attitude about us work on recovering maybe we can battle back into that race and catch them again. But if we quickly go into the bad attitude negative feelings then we for sure have no chance.
So when your coach gives you that workout you don’t like say cross training if you’re a runner, strength work, a hard hill effort etc… don’t have a bad attitude about it and no excitement but rather go into with a positive attitude go into it ready to embrace and make the most of it. Same goes for during that race when things start to fall apart, don’t get negative on yourself, don’t quit just fire up that grateful happy attitude and say I got this, I can overcome this feeling fight through the pain whatever you need to do and keep pushing for that finish line and those goals you have set for yourself.
Just remember attitude is everything and will make life so much better if you carry a positive happy attitude even when adversity kicks you in the face!
Coach MB
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Finding an Elusive Cheap iPod Its Possible
Some would compare it to looking for Atlantis, or the search for the fountain youth or maybe the lost city of the Aztecs and their treasure or just a short glimpse of "Nelly" peering out of his (her?) home from Loch Ness. Is a cheap iPod a fable or myth, or is it really a reality? Okay that may be a bit overboard, but let's face the fact, not all of us can just go to our nearest electronics store and get an iPod. Why do you think so many people log on and complete the offers marketing strategies with free iPod schemes? Because people love getting freebies? Yes, but not quite, iPod's are not really cheap. They cost hundreds of dollars and this is money that could be used for other pressing needs. But who wouldn't want an iPod? Even with its high price, the iPod is tallying record sales; now imagine if it was cheaper. You'd probably see an iPod in every corner of your neighborhood and the schools.
While it seems like it now, a cheap iPod would make it more accessible to other people. So back to our quest, where can we really find a cheap iPod? To be honest, if your aiming for the newest iPods, it is going to be a long and tedious search. Although there are many websites that offers affordable and cheap iPods, they do not really range far from the original price. A reduction of about twenty percent would be the norm.
Not a bad deal, but if you want cheap, or dirt cheap, you might as well settle for the older generations of iPods. There are still some second and third generation surplus of iPods that are now still being sold. It's just a matter of looking for them. Don't worry, the internet is your best friend on this one. If you are willing to settle for the old grayscale screens then fine, you could most probably find a cheap iPod.
Although they are among the older generation, these iPods provide great quality sounds, that is the basic point there. Most of them have good hard disks with big capacity so you can still have a great number of songs. But if you want to really find those newer generation iPods with lots of features, there are sites that sells second hand or used iPods that are still in great shape. Some of them are just being sold because the owners wanted to switch to the newer iPods. These second hand iPods are being sold cheap but that doesn't mean they are no good.
One of the best places to go and find a cheap iPod is ebay. You can find cheap iPods for less than 50 to 60 percent of their original price. Not only that, you can get lots of accessories and iPod hook ups as well. It doesn't matter if your cheap iPod has a few scratches, all it matters is that it works great. With a new case or shell, it would look just like new.
Just check for damages like a cracked screen or memory problems. With less than a hundred bucks to your name, you can soon have your own iPod. So forget the myths, fables and legends, a cheap iPod is not a dream. Its no wonder so many people have iPods, I wouldn't even be surprised if they caught Big Foot with a headset and an iPod in his hand.
S. Stammberger is editor of Mega Beats - find everything from mp3 to Ipod. Shopping Guide, reviews and news.
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The trip from Toronto to Niagara might soon be faster and more fun. According to the St. Catharines Standard, a company known as Lake Ontario Express plans to use hovercrafts to link Niagara-on-the-Lake and Port Dalhousie to Toronto.
Two hovercrafts with a capacity of 40 people each would operate 18 hours a day, making the trip between Toronto and Niagara-on-the-Lake in approximately one hour. That's far faster than a standard boat, though roughly the same amount of time that the trip would take by car in ideal traffic conditions.
The lure of the service would be how much faster the trip could be made during rush hour (when it could take far longer than an hour to drive) and the sheer thrill of riding on a hovercraft. Niagara is one of Toronto's chief tourist destinations with over 15,000 trips made between the two cities/regions.
A one-way trip on a hovercraft would cost $25.
Lake Ontario Express still faces a few hurdles before it can get up and running. Namely, it needs to secure permission for use of docks in both Niagara-on-the-Lake and Port Dalhousie. Governmental support appears likely to follow once this is resolved.
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The goal was to emulate the nations the Japanese perceived as the most powerful nations. The Navy emulated the reigning sea power, England, while the Army modeled itself on the Imperial German Army. When the two European powers went to war in 1914, Japan joined the Allies but expected Germany to win. The Army was surprised by Germany’s defeat, but the nation was happy to occupy Germany’s Chinese and Pacific possessions.
The Treaty of Versailles and the later Treaties of Washington (1920) and London (1930) limited the Japanese. The Navy was upset with the officers who negotiated the treaty, including Isoroku Yamamoto. The officers countered with the charge that a war with the west would be suicidal, because of the superior industrial output of the west.
Yamamoto was a vocal advocate for peace, and was targeted for assassination by the right wing extremists. Admiral Osami Nagano, the Supreme Commander, transferred him to take command of the Imperial Japanese Navy, which saved his life.
What the radicals did not understand was that their was a complete lack of coordination between the army and the navy. Naval officers were sent to Washington and London, and Army officers were sent to Moscow. The two branches of the Armed Forces perceived very different opponents. The naval officers, who toured the United States and attended American colleges (Yamamoto studied at Harvard) saw firsthand the immense industrial output, which even though it was idled by the depression, was still capable of greater output than the Japanese economy.
But by 1943, the Japanese would be losing their trained officer core while the Americans were gaining bitter and bloody experience in night fighting. The new F4UCorsair and F6F Hellcat, combined with USAAFP-51 and P-47 fighters, were better than the JapaneseA6M Zero, which was in service until the end of the war.
Bu the biggest problem with Japan’s navy during the war was the lack of training. The number of hours that the naval pilots had in 1941 would never be achieved again during the war. While American pilots had several hundred hours in the air, Japanese pilots were limited by lack of fuel to some 50 hours before combat. The Japanese never had a sustained pilot training program to turn out large numbers of pilots.
In August 1945, the last remaining ships of the once proud Imperial Japanese Navy, without their Imperial insignia, were scuttled or transferred to the Allies. The last Japanese battleship afloat, the IJN Nagato, was sunk off Bikini Atoll in 1946 as part of the atomic weapons tests.
The other ships, including the entire fleet that attacked Pearl, was on the bottom of the Pacific. Only a few destroyers and submarines were left. Rusting hulks dotted the shores of Kure and many other ports once held by the Nihon Kaigun. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'eda011e1a6708019a62c0cd8490687c6a5889ac0f5908ca84b1d3363da417286'} |
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Sony's Kaz Hirai discusses NGP strategy, longevity, expectations (video)
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Why was the NGP announced so far ahead of its launch? How long does Sony expect the NGP to reign before a refresh is needed? What impact will the NGP have on Nintendo's supremacy in mobile gaming? Each of those questions has been handled by Sony Computer Entertainment's chief Kaz Hirai in a video interview you can now eyeball after the break. In case you want the textual version of his responses, Kaz says the PSP successor was unveiled early in order to allow Sony to get as many third-party developers on board as possible (which is a lot easier when you don't have to worry about them leaking your hardware to Engadget), the new mobile console's lifetime should be no less than what we've come to expect from Sony's home consoles (so at least four or five years), and Sony's weapons for attacking Nintendo's dominance will be the litany of integrated sensors and connectivity options at the NGP's disposal. Kaz is careful to note that Sony is only aiming to improve on the PSP's current install base, but we suspect Sony's unofficial ambitions are far higher than that.
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Sun-Mars-Saturn Square Neptune: You're Not Crazy... You're Just Glenn Beck
Dear Glenn:
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to respond to my Amazing Surprise Forecast Offer. It is heartening that a big-time celebrity took time out of his schedule to write to a lil' ol' astrologer like myself.
There are two things I'd like to say about your birth chart. First of all, it says here you were born February 10th, 1964 in Mount Vernon, Washington. However you didn't forward a time of birth. That's okay. Even without a time of birth, there are some things that really stand out about your birth chart.
Your Sun-Mars-Saturn conjunction in Aquarius is really prominent. And it is squared by your natal Neptune. Now, there are those out there who might say this makes you crazy. I'm not one of those people. I know those weird close-ups on your eyes, your perpetually being on the edge of rage and/or tears, your throwing things at the camera, and your thoughtful opinions on Rod Blagojevich's upcoming book ("I swear to God, I am going to hunt you down and kill you like a dog") are merely a part of your persona as a serious, um, journalist.
The best thing about what you do though is, hands down, "War Room." In past I have been entertained by your denial of a human role in Global Warming, your tribute to the final days of Dubya ("a job well done Mr. President"), and your comparison of Al Gore to Hitler ("Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government.") Of all the talking heads on TV, yours seems to be the one that best understands that a day without a spurious Hitler analogy is like a day without sunshine. And that secret FEMA concentration camp for right-wingers? My great-grandfather would have loved that, had he not in fact been killed in an actual concentration camp.
But, "War Room"? Pure fantastic awesomeness! Taking paranoid right-wing delusions and projecting them into a future where "New York City looks like Mexico City" because everything is run either by The Government or Unions? This is exactly what the news needs. Investigation and research are... let's be honest here... boring. What the news really needs is more journalism of your kind. I am hoping that in future segments you and your Fox News consultants cover other vital areas of inquiry that the Liberal Media is afraid to touch. Things like "Superman Vs. The Hulk: Who Would Win?" and "Betty Or Veronica: Who Would America Rather Nationalize?"
And secondly... for God's sake (and mine), please: I'll do your forecast. For free! Hell, I'll wax your car for you. I just have one request:
Please, please, please... never say anything in public about being a "believer" in astrology. Someone might find out, and we astrologers need all the credibility we can get.
Yours truly,
Matthew Currie
PS: Did you know that Barack Obama was born with his Sun conjunct the asteroid Lucifer? Better find a Fox News consultant who can fill you in on all the spookiness that implies. Sorry, not me though. It's that credibility thing, you know.
Starry Night Astrology said...
At this point I'm not sure if you are fraking brilliant or off your nut, but as always you are entertaining.
Anonymous said...
Well said, MTA.
cimbalok said...
That Palin woman was born the next day, 2/11/64 not too many states away. Interesting!
Anonymous said...
Eagerly awaiting your next post!
Amy Herring said...
HA! Awesome. I was just wondering about Palin myself. What is it with those wacko Aquarians? ;)
Najanyx said...
Well, I don't know where he learned astrology, but Sun-Mars-Saturn conjunct in Aquarius square Neptune is not all fun and games. For one, the Sun affliction to Neptune is often indicative of someone that is weak willed (willing to cater to the interests of others), potentially dishonest, and who doesn't see himself clearly. That is not crazy.
The worst aspects of Aquarius, which Beck exhibits on most days, are gross manipulation of the masses and a lack of emotionalism. Sun-Mars-Saturn in and of itself can indicate an extreme inability to handle anger and instability. This is indicative of a a driven revolutionary; the worst case scenario is a revolutionary the destabilizes society. Given the implication of Becks chart, I would think that it might be better to inform him of his potential faults rather than flatter.
Matthew The Astrologer said...
I would have... but honestly, if the man goes around spewing stupidity like "Obama is a racist" and then refusing to back up why he said it... he's gonna listen to ME? :)
Anonymous said...
Like in the example of Barack Obama's sun square neptune?
Matthew The Astrologer said...
Somethings change, some don't. Like, Beck is still crazy, but...
Matthew The Astrologer said...
Matthew The Astrologer said...
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It took longer than I envisioned as I had problems with textures etc. But hopefully its all good now. Let me know if there are any problems and I will do my best to fix them.
Soooo, changes:
-Made Versus mode easier (hopefully) - reduced life on Tikimon, reduced life on Ripper Roo, reduced zombies, reduced life on robots on level 2, and overall just tried to make it easier. Without a full team on both sides to try it on, I don't know how balanced it is. So any feedback on the versus side is welcome.
-Made it so custom sounds work (at least they do for me, let me know if they don't but they should do now).
-Hopefully enabled textures on models to work too, as for some reason, I had real trouble getting them to work again (mainly because I used to use Pakrat, so now I had to mess with the directory etc).
-Fixed miniguns disappearing and thus leaving the player stuck. (This was originally made to make it more difficult, but with that odd glitch, I removed it now so they stay, enabling Tikimon to die easier.)
So, I will be touching up the L4D2 one as well and hopefully both of these campaigns will be as good as they will be.
Send any feedback as soon as possible, as I do not know if I will be able to work on them in the near future after this week.
Well, it's coming. Far Cry 3 has been announced with a story, screenshoots and even gameplay footage.
Beyond the limits of civilization lies an island, a lawless place ruled by piracy and human misery, where your only escape is through drugs or the muzzle of a gun. This is where you find yourself, trapped in a place that’s forgotten right from wrong, a place where you must live by the principles of violence to survive. Discover the island’s bloody secrets and take the fight to the enemy; improvise and use your environment to survive; and outwit its roster of ruthless, desperate characters. Beware the beauty and mystery of this unexplored paradise. You’ll need more than luck to survive.
The latest official campaign The Sacrifice has been crashing between 1st and 2nd chapters and the Tank wasn't showing up correctly in Chapter One. Looks like this was caused by the Coal'd Blood Campaign. Thanks to Keldorn for this information. I've removed this campaign from the main server. If it's ever updated with a fix or I find a way to have it on the server without causing issues to The Sacrifice then I'll add it back.
Keldorn has been busy. Precinct 84 has been updated to v9.1
- Finale difficulty ramped up but not in a way that will make it irritating. - Tank cheese strategy where you can ignore the tank and collect gas safely is now fixed/countered by spawning common infected every time you collect gas.- Glitch fixed where the police car can still be activated if someone is incapacitated inside the police station. This would cause the finale to break.- Removed the ladder off the army truck with the minigun. Simply jumping on the truck is faster. - Optimization: Added Ragdoll fader to finale area. This will improve the framerate by ridding of ragdolls quickly.- Added 3 more songs, Portal Still Alive, All I want for Christmas, Re Your Brains to the Nightclub. (For now a total of 5 random songs)-Changed the Circuit breaker model in map 3 in the tunnel to the breaker from HL2. Since the other model is deeply associated with panic events. Which is not the purpose of the breaker.
Precinct 84 v9.1 is now installed on Main Server.Coal'd Blood can be played on the Test Server on request.
Unfortunately there is no changelog but here are some notes from players leaving feedback on l4dmaps.com after the update..
chewaz
PROSupdate 5/24/2011 v.9- cool custom textures. - maps are still great- i love the new add on's for all the maps- finlale 100 times better- bot nav very good- gas pump dont go boom bots cant f... you over more then normal.!!!!!!
Ban3
I love the new camera angles when you finish this campaign, It's better than before :) On a sad note I do not like what you did with the security gate by the stairs, i loved opening it and hearing a different gate sound, I also am not happy with the room where you get ammo and weapons, it feels too wide and there shouldn't be four medkits if you already get 4 in the room you start in. Other than this the changes are great and I do not agree with what RainingMetal says at all.
Well, Crysis has been on my to-play list for a while now. I figured it was a good time to give it a run with my recent upgrade... what an awesome game! Just stunning. The open environment in this game really is something special. I cranked all settings to maximum. Even my new GTX580 was hurting with GPU usage up over 90% and the temp increasing 25'C. Outstanding graphics (albeit dX9 as I'm still on XP). The story is engaing with gameplay having variety and not too linear. The weapons are solid. Overall a great game and well worth playing especially if you can do so in all it's glory. AI isn't the best but I've seen much worse and the Elimination of General Kyong mission was rather lame. That and a few minor bugs throuhout the game are the only real negatives in my opinion.
Another excellent thing regarding this game is it's quite a challange being one of the hardest 'normal' mode games I've ever completed.
edit: I finished Crysis Warhead. Definitely not as polished as the original but still worth a run. Even though it's a standalone game you need to have played the first Crysis to know exactly what's going on. It also crashed on me about a dozen times throughout the game. I preferred the ending to Warhead to the ending of the original. Overall though the original Crysis is a much better game.
Welcome to my blog :) My hobby is to put together online game servers. This site provides all the information about my servers and mods plus more in the one easy to navigate place. The front page is a chronological account of my workings, server updates and gaming news while the static pages hosts full details of each server/mod. Other things will be posted on occassions but it'll mainly be gaming related. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '0b2ebbeb883a34dc0d9fc54e2d93e78071e5257572728fa36d1c6635da7e0435'} |
4.16.2009
These Shoes Aren't Made for Walking
So here's the thing: I love shoes. and by love, I mean LOVE. I can look at shoe porn for hours on end, never even thinking to stop of stopping until I realize it's 4am and I have to wake up at 8:30am, to which I say "okay, 5 more minutes, 5 more minutes!!!!". So HERE is my fucking issue: apparently brands are making less and less small sizes of shoes. When I initially heard this, I scoffed, thought "SUCKS FOR YOU CHICKAS WITH THEM SIZE 4.5 FEET!", and put it way back in the deepest depths of my brain. It was all well and good UNTIL I was lurking childhood flames and fell in love with her Pierre Hardy for Gap 3 strap platform sandals. I immediately went to Gap.com to find that...they were not made in size 36! THAT'S RIGHT, not EVEN made in 36! Tell me world, what the fuck is this shit? Some sort of sick joke? Cause I'm not laughing. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '4da6785f003380b41863561979951df013ef3abf26731a905784cef5b61faf16'} |
Romann Berrux is an actor from France who first came to light after his recurring role in the French series Detectives and further gained international fame with the television series, Outlander after his portrayal of the character Fergus.
Quick Info
Full NameRomann Berrux.
Date of Birth13th August, 2001
Birth PlaceFrance
Age19 years
Height5 feet and 3 inches
Body Measurement
Net Worth300 thousand dollars
Where was Romann born and raised?
Berrux was born on 13th August 2001 in France. His birth name is Romann Berrux. Further information about his parents isn’t disclosed yet by him. Romann Berrux started acting when he was 11 years old. He belongs to the ethnicity white and his nationality is French. He has Leo as his birth sign. We don’t know anything about his sexual orientation. He is currently 19 years old turning 20 in August of 2021.
Romann Berrux
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Romann Berrux took his acting lessons from Bilingual Acting Workshop which was held in Paris.
How did Romann start her career?
Romann first made his appearance in the French film, Le Coeur des Hommes 2 as Gaston in 2007. He made his television debut in 2008 with the French tv series, Josephine, ange gardien where portrayed the character of Remi in an episode, “Le festin d’Alain”.
He has made his appearances in several French television movies like Miroir, mon beau miroir, Summer Camp, The Robbed Robber, Stroke of Luck, and others.
Tv Shows
He went on to make his small appearances in series like Brigade Navarro, Le Juge es tune femme, Medical Emergency until the year 2013. He made his breakthrough with the role, Hugo Roche in the French series, Detectives. In 2016, Berrux made his international debut with the series, Outlander alongside Cesar Domboy, Graham McTavish, Caitriona Balfe, and Ned Dennehy. In the series, Berrux portrayed the role of Fergus which further gained him fame and public attention. In 2018, Berrux further appeared in the television mini-series, The Inside Game as Damien Forest.
Romann Berrux
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Relationship Status
Romann Berrux is currently single and there has been no information about his past relationships yet. Berrux currently resides in California where he is busy with his acting career.
Body Measurement
He is 5 feet and 3 inches which is 1.6 meters. He possesses an average body build. he has blue eyes and brown curly hair.
Romann Berrux
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Social Media
Berrux is an active social media user. He has over 91.3 thousand followers on his Instagram account where he can be connected by @romannberrux. He has over 44.3 thousand followers on his Twitter account and can be connected by @romannberrux. He also has a Facebook page with over 900 followers and over 800 likes.
What is the current net worth of Romann’s?
Romann Berrux has an estimated net worth of 300 thousand dollars as of 2021. His sole earnings come from his film and television career. since he is just in the starting phase of his career, we believe he will be making a huge fortune in the coming days.
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Swan sinks
OUT NOW! BLACK SWAN is beautifully shot and profoundly boring.
In technical terms, Darren Aronofsky certainly knows how to make a movie. Beautifully shot in pastels and greys, Black Swan is expertly cut, has a nice rhythm and makes the audience feel it’s on stage during some very complex dance sequences. It even resists the obvious pull toward the two-hour mark, mercifully ending at just over 100 minutes. Yet the story of a ballet dancer trying to excel in the performance of her life is so unbearably clichéd, it’s hard not to laugh.
From the dragon-lady mother (Hershey), who transfers her own failed ambitions to her daughter, to the monomaniacal choreographer (Cassel) who tells his dancers to “seduce us,” to the protoganist herself, a virginal twenty-something named Nina (Portman) who knows nothing but the ballet, Aronofsky doesn’t come up with a single original character, line or idea.
Nina pursues the idea of perfection, but of course, as every armchair psychologist knows, there is no such thing. If there were, it would certainly not be Nina’s squeaky-clean virginity. Thomas, the choreographer, knows this too, so in order to help her perform her double role as the white and the black swan in Swan Lake, he begins to torture her a little bit. He teases her with a couple of kisses and invites her to his apartment to ask whether she’s had a boyfriend.
Even Aronofsky seems to have realized that something more is needed here, so he adds some lesbian sex and kinky self-mutilation, but the film never really complicates the solid “women need penetration in order to grow as people and artists” thesis. Introducing Kunis after half an hour as Nina’s alter-ego in a pedestrian, black-and-white doppelgänger-scenario is a pitiful last-ditch attempt to get things going in the right direction, and she does turn out to be the only person who actually puts some spark into the whole arrangement.
Aronofsky’s 2006 film The Fountain may have been a load of New Age blather twisted around a forced love story, but at least it had something unexplained and mysterious. His subsequent film The Wrestler may have lacked originality in its storyline, but it was definitely a very moving human drama. Black Swan is simply profoundly boring.
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How can QA enable IoT transformation for the Airlines sector?
Every industry works towards understanding their customers better and their shifting preferences. Airlines industry, as we know, has gone through rough patches over the years. It has been under the gloom of issues such as cost cutting, security issues, infrastructure hiccups, and software glitches. This has resulted in nothing but more and more customer dismay and severe shots from the legal and political authorities. Internet-of-Things (IoT) is being leveraged by many industries to bring efficiency and elegance to their mundane processes. Placing the bait in this context, let’s evaluate, can IoT bring business value for the Airlines sector?
IoT transformation for Airlines, does it make sense?
In order to answer this question it is critical to understand a traveller’s experience lifecycle during a travel day at the airport. It can be a hectic schedule. The traveller has to reach the airport early for the flight, eventually, go through the long security queues, the check-ins, and finally board the bus for the flight. Various aspects within this cycle can be customized and the experience can be personalized.
Deloitte report suggests that ‘IoT can transform the way we interact with the world around us, but also provides the opportunities to open up new sources of revenue’. Every customer wants to be engaged, empowered, delighted, and heard via various communication channels. This can be possible with IoT-enabled channels.
Airport check-ins have been improvised substantially with online check-in and speedy bag-drop processes. Location based services are offered to the customers while moving across the airport – Bluetooth beacons, NFC tags, Wi-Fi and geolocation. This can not only offer convenience to the customers, but also bring value for various other businesses at the airport.
From a customer-centric perspective, there is added demand for real-time and accurate information, to take informed decisions. Moreover, customer feedback can be taken and actually incorporated to enhance the overall experience. On these lines, the Deloitte report suggests, ‘Instead of a text message announcing a delayed flight, offer one click options for rebooking via a different city, an upgrade for taking a later flight, or continuing to share updates if elect not to change plans.’
Practically, IoT not only enhances customer experience, but also ensures added revenue for the airlines sector, if implemented scrupulously. IoT transformation cannot add value if it is not strategically planned and implemented. Moreover, with growing cyber threats, every open channel within the IoT system has to be tested and validated for security and seamless performance.
How can Quality Assurance enable IoT Transformation?
The Airlines sector has been going through various challenges, related to cybersecurity, software hiccups, and smooth service delivery. Quality Assurance and Testing has been implemented to not only ensure the expected performance, but also make the overall process secure within the system.
Ensuring Security
Processes such as checking a bag without showing a ticket or ID, traveling through the security check-ins via just screening technologies, and buying goods at the airport with your smartphones. These activities are becoming possible, but how secure is your information? Are these devices foolproof and well tested? Security Testing and Vulnerability Assessment is needed to ensure that the IoT systems are well-guarded and no information gets breached. Security is a critical element within your IoT strategy, which cannot be missed. A breach can result in major reputation loss for the airlines.
Validating the Performance
The airline or the airport authorities are introducing various facilities to enhance customer experience. But what will happen if this experience is compromised due to non-performance? It will again result in reputation loss and complaints from the customers. The airlines industry is very competitive, hence, a dissatisfied customer can choose another competing airline in case there is an issue with his/her experience.
Related: BlueSwan : What You Need to Know about Cigniti’s Next-Gen Proprietary Testing Platform!
Establishing Connectivity
IoT cannot function without effectively establishing the connecting nodes overall. Moreover, all the activities need to converge on the devices held by the customers. That’s the way the experience is complete. A report by Deloitte has estimated that ‘Over 95 %of passengers in the US are carrying at least one mobile device’. IoT experience is incomplete if this connect is not established by the respective parties. Additionally, it will help airlines to understand the customer requirements and accumulate feedback in a better way.
It further states, ‘Self-service technologies were preferred by58 % of US passengers for check in and 14 % would use a bag drop station. Consider how combining biometric sensing could simplify checking baggage and security.’
Is your service acceptable, received well, and consumed successfully? These points are critical for the service providers. Ultimately, it will help to bring constant revenue and RoI for the airline.
Service delivery, as expected!
Ultimately, convenience for the passenger is critical. For instance, there could be a solution for long queues and waiting at the boarding gate. Instead of crowding and getting frustrated at the gates, the passenger can leave his/her seat after receiving a message that ‘it’s time to board’. This would be the benefit that IoT can bring for the passenger and the airline. However, what if there is a glitch and the message is delivered after the flight takes off? It is important that these systems get tested for on-time delivery and performance, as planned.
Cigniti looks at its projects as business enablers that can reduce costs in both Manual and Automation testing having domain expertise in the below mentioned areas. It helps to reach and engage customers for all modules related to the Airline Domain. We have staff experienced in managing several advanced airline IT solutions such as new generation Airlines Passenger solutions, Airlines Revenue Accounting, Airlines booking, ecommerce website, and Mobile Apps for different platforms, etc. Testing process and phases vary by development methodologies.
Connect with us to ensure efficiency with your business-critical IoT-based applications and systems.
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from xai.brain.wordbase.nouns._condolence import _CONDOLENCE
#calss header
class _CONDOLENCES(_CONDOLENCE, ):
def __init__(self,):
_CONDOLENCE.__init__(self)
self.name = "CONDOLENCES"
self.specie = 'nouns'
self.basic = "condolence"
self.jsondata = {}
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Application infrastructure
When implementing a new application, the developer has two options in order to design the architecture. First, the different examples included in the CLAM repository must be visited, it is very probable that one of the included examples is closely related or can be used as a base for developing the new application at hand. But if a fast development of a completely new application is sought, the framework also includes some application skeletons that can be particularized to the new application.
CLAM includes several Application classes that provide a basic framework for typical application situations, such as audio, or audio + graphical user interface. When necessary, threads or setup, and several virtual functions are provided, which can be implemented by deriving from the relevant application subclass (AudioApplication or GUIAudioApplication).
The BaseAudioApplication class is the base class of all AudioApplication classes. It sets up a high priority audio thread, and specifies several virtual functions: an AudioMain() that will be executed inside the audio thread, this is where the derived classes implement the actual audio processing; a UserMain() that will be executed by the main thread, this is where the derived classes implement the actual (graphical) user interface; an AppCleanup() that will be executed when the applications ends, this is where the derived classes implement any extra resource cleanup; and a bool Canceled() that can be used in the AudioMain to check if the audio thread has been canceled.
This class should never be used directly. AudioApplication should be used instead when looking for a simple non-graphical application.
The GUIAudioApplication class is derived from BaseAudioApplication, and additionally provides a standard user-interface, with start/stop functionality. This user interface must use the FLTK library. The virtual function UserMain() by default just calls the execution of the FLTK library, but a derived class could add a more complex user interface,. The operation Run(int argc,char** argv) has to be called to execute the application. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9121235609054564}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '5576', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZGQBUGQ4BEA2743UL6Q3KWOZ4NHMWFDV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e4e22ad3-818e-4c60-b9d5-39aa9e070032>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 1, 18, 12, 52, 43), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.199.110.153', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:QF4X6VD5B4DNM3CUNJZ27V6D5D2SMDX5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:417177de-14d7-48f7-9405-209d953e2a9e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://xamat.github.io/Thesis/html-thesis/node123.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:77b7b995-b0fd-4872-bca7-ed284c50535d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '319', 'url': 'https://xamat.github.io/Thesis/html-thesis/node123.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-138-83-232.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': '0.08315134048461914', 'original_id': '9013748953ea8cc733a42873b6506db419020050b18fd00dd4758b8f145a8f43'} |
Girvan - Meaning of Girvan, What does Girvan mean?
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Girvan - Meaning of Girvan
What does Girvan mean?
Meaning of the name GirvanMeaning of the name Girvan
[ 2 syll. gir-van, gi-rv-an ] The baby boy name Girvan is pronounced as GERVahN †. Girvan is of Irish origin. Girvan is a variant transcription of Girvin.
Baby names that sound like Girvan include Girven, Girvon, Garban, Garben, Garbhan, Garbhen, Garbhin, Garbhon, Garbhun, Garbin, Garbon, Garbun, Garbyn, Garvan (English), Garven, Garvin (English), Garvon, Garvun, Garvyn, and Girvin.
† English pronunciation for Girvan: G as in "grin (G.R.IH.N)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)" ; V as in "vow (V.AW)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"
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With the advent of iPhone and iPad, many of the big innovations and newest technologies have focused on the small screens that fit in our pockets or that we carry in our hands. But it’s time our big screens share in that technology and get an equally innovative experience. With the new Apple TV and tvOS, a redesigned interface and the Apple TV Remote with Touch surface, there’s never been a better time to be a TV.
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Analyse de cas de sismicité liée à l’exploitation de la géothermie profonde
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Sismicité anthropique en lien avec l’exploitation de la géothermie profonde : un retour d’expérience disponible
L’exploitation de la géothermie profonde, qui vise à utiliser la chaleur naturellement présente dans le sous-sol pour produire de l’électricité ou alimenter des réseaux de chaleur, peut être parfois associée à l’occurrence d’événements sismiques. Cette sismicité est généralement de faible magnitude mais, sous certaines conditions, des événements peuvent être ressentis en surface. Pour minimiser les risques associés à cette sismicité, il est indispensable de caractériser les mécanismes en jeu et comprendre les interactions entre les facteurs naturels et anthropiques qui interviennent dans le déclenchement de la sismicité.
C’est dans ce contexte que l’Institut publie un travail de recensement et d’analyse de cas de sismicité liés à la géothermie profonde, sur la base d’un retour d’expérience international, réalisé à partir de la littérature scientifique et comprenant plus de 30 projets géothermiques en Europe et dans le monde.
L’analyse qui en est faite vise à comprendre comment, et dans quelle mesure, les facteurs géologiques, hydrogéologiques et structuraux, ainsi que les paramètres opérationnels, tels que les pressions, débits et volumes en jeu, influencent les caractéristiques spatio-temporelles et énergétiques de la sismicité. | common_corpus | {'identifier': '<urn:uuid:fbdd73a8-31a2-4e7a-88c8-6b20e9be7c38>', 'collection': 'French Open Data', 'open_type': 'Open Government', 'license': 'Various open data', 'date': '', 'title': 'https://www.ineris.fr/fr/analyse-cas-sismicite-liee-exploitation-geothermie-profonde', 'creator': 'ineris.fr', 'language': 'French', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '210', 'token_count': '322', '__index_level_0__': '23674', 'original_id': 'f55e1bb5782c286a2672004861d7fe664e59ef8c6e35997ae8e5ce37973dbab7'} |
What does edar receptor mean?
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1. Edar Receptor
A ectodysplasin receptor subtype that is specific for ECTODYSPLASIN A1. It signals via the specific signaling adaptor EDAR-ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN. Loss of function of the edar receptor is associated with AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE ANHIDROTIC ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA and ECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA 3, ANHIDROTIC.
1. Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of edar receptor in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
2. Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of edar receptor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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Israel Tonge
Israel Tonge (11 November 1621 – 1680), aka Ezerel or Ezreel Tongue, was an English divine. He was an informer in and probably one of the inventors of the "Popish" plot.
Career
Tonge was born at Tickhill, near Doncaster, the son of Henry Tongue, minister of Holtby, Yorkshire. He graduated from University College, Oxford and became a schoolmaster at Churchill, Oxfordshire where he became interested in gardening, alchemy, and chemistry. In 1656 he became a doctor of theology, and taught grammar at the Cromwellian Durham College until its closure in 1659.
In 1656 he provided a loan of 100 pounds to Johannes Sibertus Kuffler to have him and his family (including his wife Catharine, daughter of the famous inventor Cornelius Drebbel) moved from the Netherlands to England so that "his abilities in his profession, his relation to Cornelius Dribellius his life & conversation & concerning the reality & certaintie of the Experiments, hereafter mentioned in these præsents, shall vnto wise & indiferent men be of satisfaction."
Following the Restoration, he held a succession of livings. He became chaplain of the garrison of Dunkirk until this was sold to the French in 1661. On 26 June 1666 he became rector of St Mary Staining, but only three months later the church burnt down during the Great Fire of London.
Anti-Catholic activity
Tonge blamed the Jesuits for both his own and London's losses. His obsession was so great that he wrote many articles denouncing the Roman Catholic Church and containing conspiracy theories about Rome's insatiable quest for power. He made very little money from his writing, for which he blamed the Government's hostility, but which the historian J. P. Kenyon attributed to his appallingly "turgid and incoherent" prose style. From 1675, Tonge was acquainted with the fervently anti-Catholic physician, Sir Richard Barker. Barker provided Tonge with food, lodgings, and money. He encouraged Tonge's anti-Catholic studies and had him appointed rector of Avon Dassett in Warwickshire, but "illegall practices", claimed Tonge, prevented him from accepting the position.
Barker also sponsored the Baptist preacher Samuel Oates. In 1677 at the physician's Barbican home, Tonge met Samuel's son, Titus Oates. Tonge provided Titus with money and the two agreed to co-author a series of anti-Catholic pamphlets. In fact Titus converted to Catholicism and left England for the Jesuit College of St Omer. At the time Tonge was puzzled by Oates's disappearance but he would later claim that he encouraged Oates's actions to learn more about the Jesuits.
The fabricated Popish Plot
On Oates's return he further stoked Tonge's paranoia with stories of Jesuit conspiracies, including a plot against a feared anti-Catholic author – Tonge himself. At Tonge's request Oates wrote a lengthy manuscript- the first of many Plot Narratives- and arranged with Tonge that Tonge would pretend to find it in the gallery of Sir Richard Barker's house at the Barbican, where Tonge was then living. So excited was Tonge by the contents of the Narrative that through his friend, the chemist Christopher Kirkby, who assisted the King with his chemical experiments, he managed to obtain an audience with Charles II, where he summarised Oates' claims. Charles soon became a complete sceptic about the Plot, but his initial reaction was that "among so many particulars he could not say that there might not be some truth". He was at least sufficiently impressed to ask the Lord Treasurer, Danby, to investigate. Danby agreed that the matter deserved inquiry, despite opposition from another leading minister, Sir Joseph Williamson, who knew Tonge and believed he was insane.
Tonge then took two crucial decisions: firstly he persuaded Oates to swear to the truth of his allegations before the much respected magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. Secondly he persuaded the King and Danby to put the matter before a full meeting of the Privy Council. At the hearing Tonge himself made a bad impression: his reputation for madness was well known, and he was "altogether smiled at ". Oates on the other hand gave a superb performance: so detailed and convincing was his story that the Council ordered the arrest of all the leading Jesuits accused, as well as Edward Coleman, former secretary to the Duke of York (later James II & VII.) The news of this, followed by the murder of Godfrey, caused public hysteria to erupt.
During the years of the Plot, Tonge was a secondary figure: he did not claim to have any first hand knowledge of the Plot itself, and was never a witness in any of the Plot trials. However a generous allowance from the Crown allowed him to live out his last years in comfort at Whitehall; the
Crown even paid for his funeral.
Reputation
Tonge's reputation has suffered through his close association with Oates, and some historians have bracketed them together as a pair of perjurers. However J. P. Kenyon, in his classic study of the Plot, concludes that Tonge truly believed Oates' lies, because they confirmed his own fixed belief in a Jesuit conspiracy. That Tonge was an honest fanatic seems to have been the view of most of those who knew him, including the King, Danby, and Gilbert Burnet, who wrote in 1678 that Tonge was "so lifted up that he seemed to have lost the little sense he had."
See also
Popish Plot
Titus Oates
Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom
References
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Category:1680 deaths
Category:English theologians
Category:People associated with the Popish Plot
Category:Alumni of University College, Oxford
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Science And Its Reality: Take 2
Friday, December 06, 2013
I agree with commenters on my post last week who challenged the idea that religion and science are competing theories. They are not.
For one thing, religions are not theories; they are not in the explanation and prediction business; and the value that attaches to religious ideas, cultures, texts, practices, attitudes — let's take for granted that there is value — doesn't stem from the fact that these have been tested, confirmed, verified or put to theoretical work using the methods of natural science developed over the last three centuries or so. One way to sum this up: God is not a hypothesis.
It's worth noticing that common sense is not a theory either.
That is, our conviction that the sun will rise tomorrow, that the ground beneath our feet is stable, that the world continues to exist even when we sleep, that we are not living in a Truman Show world or a Matrix world, these are not hypotheses either. Indeed, it is strange even to say that we believe them.
It would be better to say that we take them for granted, that we can't imagine that they could be untrue, that they are constants against the background of which we can come to believe anything at all.
Actually, there is something odd in the claim that science itself is a theory.
Science is made up of many theories. Science is the activity of making theories. A theory, we might say, is a model or picture or story that has testable consequences. We test the theory by seeing whether its consequences match observed events. We devise experiments to let us put highly nuanced and detailed stories or pictures to the test.
But let's not be coy. Science has an ideology. And the ideology is at tension not only with religion, but also common sense, even though these are not rivals in the theory making business.
It isn't for nothing that we speak of a scientific revolution that occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, and that we see Galileo, Newton, Descartes and others as revolutionaries. I don't want to try to put the ideology of science in a nutshell, but it seems clear that one basic commitment is the downgrading of sensory experience as a guide to the nature of things.
In Descartes' famous example: to the senses the wax is transformed completely when it melts; but to reason it is comprehensible that the wax is still present, only in a different form. Appearance is one thing, reality another and the gulf between them is very large.
Science is in the reality business. Another crucial doctrine of the ideology, at least in its traditional form, is that good models are mechanistic; that is, it's like billiard balls hitting billiard balls, all the way down. This has the upshot that there is no work for a divine intelligence to do.
To say that science has an ideology is not to say that all scientists adhere to its dogmas. Many scientists, when the leave the lab, are saddled not only with common sense, but also religion.
This much is clear: the tension between science and other modes of conscious life is real. Maybe the tension can be resolved or dissolved. For example, maybe the fact the table is brown and solid is actually compatible with the (putative) fact that colors are in our head and that the table is a cloud of particles.
Or maybe our common-sense conception of tables and everything else is misguided and needs to be given up like so much superstition.
It is hard work, important work, valuable work, the work of philosophy, to face this head on.
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INTRODUCTION {#s1}
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Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is a procedure that can allow efficient and quick drainage of pancreatic fluid collections, gallbladder, and the biliary tract by the use of a lumen apposing metal stent (LAMS).^[@R1]--[@R4]^ The Hot AXIOS stent (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA) is a commonly used LAMS that allows transgastric and transduodenal endoscopic drainage. Patients with Crohn\'s disease (CD) can have postoperative complications, including postoperative leaks leading to fluid collections and abscesses. Traditionally, these fluid collections can be drained by image-guided percutaneous drainage or surgical drainage or both. We describe a case of EUS-guided drainage of a perigastric abscess in a patient with a history of CD.
CASE REPORT {#s2}
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A 44-year-old man with a history of ileocolonic CD since 2015 and B cell lymphoma of the skull was admitted to a hospital for an elective total abdominal colectomy because of the failure of the medical therapy of CD (failed therapies with infliximab, azathioprine, vedolizumab, and ustekinumab in the past). He underwent a laparoscopic colectomy and end ileostomy. Intraoperative findings revealed thickening and fat stranding of the entire colon with no evidence of disease in the small bowel. Pathology of the colonic samples revealed active chronic colitis.
Postprocedure, he developed abdominal pain and fever and was initiated on ceftriaxone and metronidazole for empiric coverage. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) with oral contrast revealed an iatrogenic small bowel perforation 20 cm proximal to the end ileostomy. An exploratory laparotomy was performed with the resection of approximately 10 cm of the intestine and placement of a biomesh over the enterotomy to prevent future herniation.
However, postsurgery, the patient remained febrile and continued to complain of abdominal pain. Abdominal and pelvic CT with intravenous and retrograde ileostomy contrast was performed 4 days after the surgery, and this revealed multiple intra-abdominal and pelvic fluid collections. The largest anterior midabdominal fluid collection was noted to be 18 × 5 cm and extended into the right paracolic gutter. Imaging also revealed a large perigastric (6 × 7 cm) fluid collection in the splenic bed, with the wall of the collection in contact with the stomach (Figure [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}).
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The patient underwent CT-guided percutaneous drainage of the midabdominal fluid collection, and this grew *Candida albicans*, for which the patient was started on fluconazole. The perigastric fluid collection was found not to be amenable to percutaneous drainage. Gastroenterology was consulted, and the patient underwent EUS-guided drainage of the perigastric abscess using a curvilinear array echoendoscope (GF-UCT180; Olympus, Center Valley, PA) (Figure [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}).
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The EUS-guided drainage was performed using a 15 × 10 mm LAMS (Hot AXIOS; Boston Scientific Corp., Marlborough, MA). After deployment of the stent through the greater curvature of the stomach, the stent lumen was dilated with a 15-mm wire-guided balloon. Two 8.5 × 5 Fr plastic stents (Cook Medical Inc \[Wilson\], Bloomington, IN) were placed across the LAMS to prevent stent migration, ensure the patency of the LAMS, and prevent delayed bleeding. A large amount of purulent fluid was suctioned out (Figure [3](#F3){ref-type="fig"}). Follow-up imaging 4 days later revealed near-total resolution of the perigastric abscess (Figure [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}).
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The LAMS was removed at the follow-up endoscopy 1 week after placement because the follow-up CT scan had shown resolution of the abscess. The LAMS was removed using a rat-toothed forceps and snare. Abdominal CT with oral contrast was performed 1 week after the removal of the LAMS, and this did not reveal any leak from the stomach, indicating complete closure of the gastric fistula, and no further collection was noted (Figure [5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}). The patient was discharged a day after the removal of the LAMS. He was followed up in the gastroenterology clinic, and the plan was to manage conservatively using immunosuppressive therapy with a repeat endoscopic evaluation in 6 months\' time.
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DISCUSSION {#s3}
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Patients with CD who undergo abdominal surgeries can develop postoperative complications, including postoperative fluid collections and abscesses. Physicians are often presented with the challenging task of treating these patients and deciding what mode of drainage is the most efficacious. Surgical drainage of abscesses puts the patients at a higher risk of bleeding, infection, and perforation and may increase the length of stay. Percutaneous drainage has a success rate between 60% and 84%, poses an increased risk of cutaneous fistula and electrolyte losses, and requires closer monitoring by nursing staff.^[@R5]--[@R11]^
Simon-Linares et al described a similar case of a 29-year-old woman with ileocolonic fistulizing CD with a history of exploratory laparotomy. She developed a 7 × 5 cm left subdiaphragmatic abscess and underwent a successful EUS-guided transgastric drainage of the abscess using a LAMS with a complete resolution of the abscess.^[@R12]^ Mudireddy et al reported a case series on the usage of the LAMS to drain postsurgical fluid collections (PSFCs) in 47 patients (without a history of inflammatory bowel disease) and concluded that the use of the LAMS to drain PSFCs has a high technical and clinical success rate with low adverse events.^[@R13]^ Most of the PSFCs (55%) were due to pancreatic duct leaks. Transgastric drainage of PSFCs had a 94.1% success rate, whereas transduodenal and transrectal drainage had 80% and 100% success rates, respectively. Intraprocedural stent migration occurred in 4.25% of the cases, and the incidence of postprocedural stent migration, perforation, and infection was low at 2% each.^[@R13]^ Data regarding the usage of the LAMS for drainage of postoperative fluid collections in CD are lacking.
Our case and the case by Simon-Linares et al point to the safety and efficacy of using the LAMS to drain fluid collections in patients with CD. Both cases had no fistula formation after the drainage was established. In our case, a decision to use the LAMS and not plastic stents for drainage of the fluid collection was made because the initial visualization of the fluid collection revealed complex abscess-like contents that could have led to the occlusion of the plastic stents. Because the usage of the LAMS to drain fluid collections in patients with CD is infrequently described in the literature, complications of this procedure in patients with a history of CD are not well known but may involve stent migration, perforation, bleeding, and infection. This case report highlights the use of existing technology to better manage PSFCs in patients with CD, which may have a decreased complication rate and length of stay and allow fast and efficient drainage.
DISCLOSURES {#s4}
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Author contributions: N. Mohy-ud-din wrote the manuscript and reviewed the literature. G. Kochhar reviewed the manuscript and reviewed the literature. M. Dhawan performed the endoscopy and is the article guarantor.
Financial disclosure: None to report.
Informed consent was obtained for this case report.
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Brazil boosts security for Confederations Cup
On Sunday night Brazil is set to square off against Spain for the Confederations Cup title in front of an estimated 77,000 fans at the famed Maracana stadium.
But when the match starts, the action might be just as hot outside the stadium as whatever would be happening on the pitch.
In response to the most widespread social unrest ever in Brazil, the police have mounted the largest and most complicated security operation the country has ever attempted for a football match.
The Rio police will have 6,000 officers on hand, six times more than for the first Confederations Cup match in Rio just two weeks ago between Mexico and Italy.
Added to that, there will be roughly 600 members of the Ministry of Justice National Force officers, plus an estimated 4,000 other federal security agents, raising the total to almost 11,000 security force. And that is just outside the stadium.
Inside Maracana, security will be handled by a team of 1,300 private security guards (250 more than normal) under auspices of the local organising committee and FIFA.
The 1989 World Cup qualifier in Rio between Brazil and Chile had 2,000 local police, and was until now the largest security operation for a football match inside Brazil. Sunday’s match will be three times larger just in the number of local police deployed.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of the protesters are peaceful, and specially go out of their way to avoid conflict or violence, police say the wall of security will be necessary to ensure ticketed fans, vendors, delegations and FIFA officials can get to the stadium while also maintaining a strict security bubble around the stadium in accordance with FIFA demands and contractual obligations between Brazil and the football body.
Acts of vandalism
Rio police Col. Frederico Caldas told me on Saturday that as the protests increased in intensity at Confederations Cup host cities in the past two weeks, the plans changed for security at Maracana.
"In our initial planning we were going to use 1,000 police officers at Maracana, that is what we had for the Brazil and England friendly," he told me from his office at the main police headquarters in Rio.
"The idea was to repeat this throughout the Confederations Cup tournament, but because of the protests and the increased possibility that protesters will try to block access to the stadium, we have increased security considerably."
Caldas has no idea what to expect in terms of crowds on Sunday, but said they are preparing for hundreds of thousands. He said acts of vandalism by small groups of protesters will not be tolerated.
"The police need to be concerned with providing security to the people on the perimeter of the stadium including the protesters and guaranteeing our safety," he said.
"Because what we have seen in protests the past couple weeks in several host cities is repression and police violence against protesters and even journalists."
A journalism watchdog group in Brazil says that more than 50 journalists have been injured during street protests in the country since the uprising started, many claim to have been targeted by riot police.
Everybody is hoping Sunday is peaceful and both the football and the protests go off without violence.
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Why is composting food scraps better than putting them in a landfill?
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Landfills do not create an ideal environment for organic matter to decompose. They stack garbage up, metals, plastic, paper, non-compostables which all deter the biodegradation of foods and other organic matter. If you have a home compost, you can turn the material to help it break down, you can use the compost along with soil for your garden, and the less you send to the landfill, the longer the landfill can operate, the less garbage being piled up. The first step in the 3 R’s is reduce. If we reduce the waste we create, we reduce our impact.
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In addition to the reasons given above, composting your food scraps at home makes the entire waste disposal system more efficient. If everyone kept a compost heap at home and disposed of their food waste that way, it removes one type of waste that landfills need to handle. The potential inconvenience it causes to people is a small cost compared to the huge benefit that it would create for the system as a whole. Composting would cut short the disposal process, which, as mentioned above, help keep our landfills open for longer.
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According to the EPA, composting materials instead of putting them in a landfill can also reduce the amount of methane and leachate produced, both of which can leach into the ground or into water systems, including groundwater and streams where they can cause a number of harmful effects. Composting would also save money (for landfills) because it allows the landfill to stay open longer and reduces the amount of clean-up they have to do when the surrounding area is contaminated. Hopefully if the landfills can spend less, they can do a better job on the clean-up they still have to do.
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We are composting all of our kitchen waste, paper products and yard waste with worms right in our dining room. Started in June and it couldn’t be easier. With a five rotating tray composting machine, I supply roughly 2000 worms with about 3-5 lbs of garbage/week. I try and maintain a balance of 60% kitchen waste to 40% paper, wood cardboard, fiber. After 6 weeks we mixed the rich worm castings w. potting soil (30/70 mix) Nitrigen-rich but fairly acidic for the first 60 days- roses love it!
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The state of 4G: it’s all about congestion, not speed
Most of the talk about future fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband networks …
Most of the talk about future fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband networks appears to focus on speed. These networks will be far, far faster than current 3G networks. But speed isn't actually the main reason why every carrier in the developed world is trying to extend the life of 3G networks by speeding them up, and build 4G networks as fast as equipment and financing is available. It's all about congestion and capacity, not speed. (In the developing world, 2G networks are being boosted to 3G speeds, too.)
"They're not really for speed, they're not really for voice, they're for capacity," said Allen Nogee, a principal analyst at the In-Stat research firm. Overwhelmed network operators need to handle more devices, each of them owned by high-revenue customers.
Regardless, this year we have already seen significant 3G network upgrades by AT&T and T-Mobile, the mass-market expansion of Clearwire's 4G WiMax network, and the commercial launch of Verizon's 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) network.
What's the road to 4G look like? So far, it's remarkably free of missteps; delay has been the watchword instead of disaster.
The current landscape
If you've used an iPhone in San Francisco or New York, I don't have to explain the problem of congestion to you.
The iPhone is the flag bearer for mobile networks that were underbuilt and overutilized. AT&T hemmed and hawed, but the company has now quite openly admitted that it wasn't spending enough on its mobile network, particularly on backhaul, and has stepped up tremendously.
There are two major parts of a cellular network that handle data relevant to our purposes: the local link, or the wireless connection from your phone, laptop, MiFi router, or other device equipped with mobile broadband, to the nearest cellular base station on a roof or tower; and the backhaul, which connects all the radio gear from a carrier to its core network.
(There are, of course, a whole lot of other components, too, such as the core network, the base station software, the network's interchanges with other networks, and so on, but these pieces have less obvious and direct impact on what an end user experiences.)
Let's address backhaul first, because it's much simpler. Most cell base stations had relatively paltry backhaul until the last two years, even in dense urban markets. Before 3G started to be heavily used by mobile devices, and for previous 2G networks, a 1.5 Mbps T-1 line or an even slower link (whether wireless or wired) could handle all the voice and data capacity for a carrier. Hundreds of voice calls and multiple data devices wouldn't flood the line.
Generation Gap
There are four defined generations of cellular technology. 1G was all analog. 2G is digital, with a small provision for data networking at speeds slower than dial-up modems. 2.5G was a stopgap of 100 to 200 Kbps data networking while 3G was finalized and deployed. 3G networks needed to have a raw downstream rate of 2 Mbps or higher, but voice and data traffic are managed separately. 4G networks are ostensibly all Internet protocol with low latency to allow voice and video to work well without extra effort.
But a cellular node can have multiple pieces of gear and handle multiple cellular channels at once. In the 3G-and-beyond world, that could mean devices capable of pulling down 3 to 4 Mbps per channel. A T-1 doesn't cut it, and the move from T-1 to 10 Mbps isn't a smooth one unless the carrier is the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and it's in an urban area with plenty of wire or fiber.
Carriers have been struggling and investing many billions of dollars to build out fiber or high-speed, high-frequency, point-to-point wireless links to handle the additional backhaul needed. In areas where one carrier has to deal with another—for Sprint and T-Mobile, that's everywhere—it can be even harder.
In a recent interview with T-Mobile, in which the firm announced that a faster 3G flavor was in place (see below), the company said it had paired its new installations with the fastest backhaul it could arrange.
"That's the most complicated part of the upgrade and something we've been at for some time," said Jeremy Korst, a T-Mobile director in charge of broadband products and services. T-Mobile spokesperson David Henderson noted that the new service was a "pretty basic upgrade from a radio side, and then the backhaul is really the biggest gating factor." Fiber and wireless are both being used.
AT&T seems to agree. While announcing an identical network service upgrade in January, the company said it wouldn't be switching on the faster flavor on the back-end (only on the local link) until it had finished a project to "dramatically increase the number of high-speed backhaul connections to cell sites, primarily with fiber-optic connections."
It's odd—possibly even ironic—how wireless networks are so heavily constrained by wires and cables, but that's how the business works.
For the local link, there are currently four dominant network standards for 3G and 4G that are deployed or in the process of being deployed: the GSM flavors of 3G HSPA and 4G LTE, CDMA's 3G EVDO Rev. A, and WiMax, which is considered a 4G standard.
GSM network standards, which dominate cellular markets worldwide, have been broken into many incremental improvements, which allowed a lot of stairstepping and retrofitting of 2G and 3G networks. For instance, the so-called 2.5G (a spot between 2G digital and 3G broadband mobile networks) EDGE standard was developed to provide speeds several times faster than 2G data (GPRS) both before 3G could be deployed and in markets where it was cost-prohibitive to build 3G. EDGE was a relatively minor software and hardware upgrade on the base station side, and less expensive to build into handsets and other devices. Apple's very first iPhone could work only as fast as EDGE.
From EDGE (usually 100 to 200 Kbps), networks moved to UMTS (384 Kbps), and then various flavors of paired HSDPA (High Speed Download Packet Access) and HSUPA (the U for Uplink). HSDPA rates commonly deployed are 3.6, 7.2, 14, and 21 Mbps depending on the network; HSUPA rates run from 1.5 Mbps to 6 Mbps on production networks. AT&T has paired HSPDA on nearly all of its phones with UMTS for upstream.
On the CDMA side, the US market halts at EVDO Rev. A, even though Qualcomm, CDMA's prime mover, had a Rev. B update and a 4G standard in development. Rev. A tops out at 3.1 Mbps downstream, and 1.8 Mbps upstream. (Rev. B will appear in non-US markets, while Qualcomm's 4G Ultra Mobile Broadband was abandoned.)
The two CDMA carriers in the US, Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel, took different 4G courses. Verizon opted for LTE, which it knew would be years away and which it didn't possess the right spectrum for at the time it made its technology decision. Sprint chose WiMax, which was a near-term solution for which it had enough spectrum to deploy right away. Interesting choices in both cases.
I'll get to 4G in a moment.
Bumping up 3G
We all know that 4 follows 3, but just as the sequence in cell generations went 2G, 2.5G (EDGE), 3G in order of deployment, we'll see a lot more tweaks to 3G networks before 4G networks have anything like full national coverage.
T-Mobile already has plans to leapfrog over AT&T, however, with HSPA+, a 21 Mbps variant that it can generally add as a software update.
In January and February, AT&T and T-Mobile respectively announced that their networks had moved from the 3.6 Mbps to 7.2 Mbps (often called HSPA 7.2) flavor of HSDPA. Both networks have also moved to 2.0 Mbps HSUPA. HSPA 7.2 doubles the local link, and it may have an advantage even without increasing backhaul. With a faster local link, you have less congestion among devices contending to have any communication with a cell base station. That means each device can be more fairly dealt with, even while receiving slender slivers of Internet access.
The rub for both firms is backhaul and coverage. As noted above, T-Mobile and AT&T are both focused on improving backhaul. T-Mobile has a little advantage because the company is building its 3G network fresh with spectrum acquired a few years ago. T-Mobile had no 3G network until May 2008, and now covers over 200 million people in nearly 300 cities with service.
AT&T has been building 3G service for years, but hasn't built as fast as one might expect. That telco claims it passes—has the ability to offer service to—just 233 million people with its 3G flavor.
For those who can get access, AT&T and T-Mobile will likely shortly be slugging it out for the fastest 3G network. In a series of PCWorld tests conducted by Novarum in December 2009 and January 2010, AT&T had substantially higher speeds than the other three major 3G network providers, including T-Mobile. That's partly due to AT&T's pre-announcement HSPA 7.2 testing. While HSPA 3.6 typically performs in a downstream rate of 700 Kbps to 1.7 Mbps, AT&T claims, HSPA 7.2 can average 1 to 2 Mbps in typical usage based on results from existing deployments.
Ken Biba, the founder and chief technology officer of Novarum, said that his firm found spikes of near 4 Mbps in nearly all the 13 cities tested. Average raw TCP downloads—which score better than, say, a Web download—averaged over 3 Mbps for 1 minute in 1 percent of tested cities, and 2.5 Mbps in 10 percent of those cities. (Biba said Novarum has no past or current contracts with carriers to test 3G data performance.)
The iPhone 3GS and nine other current AT&T devices use HSPA 7.2, although the company doesn't appear to provide a list. T-Mobile has several HSPA 7.2 compatible devices and smartphones, including its USB webConnect adapter.
T-Mobile already has plans to leapfrog over AT&T, however, with HSPA+, a 21 Mbps variant that it can generally add as a software update. The GSM Association lists 17 networks worldwide already using this flavor, including three in Canada. The company plans to start with coastal US cities in the next few weeks, following commercial availability in Philadelphia, its pilot city, and then fill in most of the rest of its territory during 2010. So far, only one HSPA+ device has been announced—another USB adapter—but there's a variety of HSPA+ gear already for sale in Europe and Canada that can be adapted. (T-Mobile has a nearly unique slice of 3G spectrum that isn't harmonized with any other North American or European carrier.)
These efforts add some life into 3G, and allow AT&T and T-Mobile to both ease congestion and have greater performance than Sprint and Verizon. Sprint and Verizon won't be able to speed up their existing 3G networks, and both are relying on future deployments to let them jump up a notch to 4G, as discussed next.
T-Mobile, as the trailing fourth-largest carrier, and a relatively small amount of mobile broadband spectrum may be able to take the technical advantage for two to three years, as AT&T has no present plans to adopt HSPA+. Monica Paolini, the principal at analysis firm Senza Fili Consulting, said, "An operator with less spectrum, but also fewer subscribers may be better off than a larger operator with more spectrum," but that "HSPA+ is at best a short term advantage" as competitors ramp up for true 4G networks.
Biba of Novarum agreed: "I came away with the clear impression that HSPA 7.2 and HSPA+ have legs over WiMax—much less LTE," he said.
But how long can those flavors compete? It all depends on how fast LTE and WiMax blanket the country.
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Patented June 17, 1947 ELECTRONIC CONTROL FOR MOTORS Konstanty P. Puchlowski, Wilkinsburg, Pa., assignor to Westinghouse Electric Corporation,
East Pittsburgh, vania Pa., a corporation of Pennsyl- Application July 24, 1943, Serial No. 495,993
22 Claims.
This invention relates to apparatus for controllin an electric motor, and has particular relation to an electronic circuit for controlling a direct-current motor supplied from an alternating-current source.
The desirability of an electric motor operated from an alternating-current source with an arrangement for the maintenance of a constant speed over an exceptionally wide adjustable speed range has been recognized for many years. A number of solutions have been offered in the past with some degree of success; for example, various slip clutch arrangements, modifications of the wound-rotor induction motor, and mechanical drives employing a constant speed alternatingcurrent motor and a variable speed output shaft have been used. Another solution, which has been employed to a great extent, is an adjustable speed drive using a motor-generator set. However, none of these special adjustable speed motor drives are without some undesirable feature, whether it be a limited speed range, a poor speedtorque characteristic especially at low speeds, first cost, maintenance, mounting difficulties, excessive vibrations, or difficulties in providing controlled acceleration and reversing.
It is, accordingly, an object of my invention to provide a novel electronic control system for operating a direct-current motor from an alternatlug-current source.
Another object of my invention is to provide a novel electronic control system for operating a direct-current motor from an alternating-current source, which effects smooth acceleration of the motor to the desired speed.
Still another object of my invention is to provide a novel electronic control system for operating a direct-current motor from an alternatingcurrent source which permits adjustment of the motor speed over an exceptionally wide range.
A further object of my invention is to provide a novel electronic control system fo operating a direct-current motor from an alternating-current source which maintains the speed of the motor constant; at any desired speed regardless of the load or variations of the load.
Another object of my invention is to provide a novel electronic control system for operating a direct-current motor from an alternating-cur rent source which permits automatically controlled reversing of the motor.
A still further object of my invention is to provide a new and improved control system for operating a direct-current motor from an alternating current source so that full torque is delivered at low-speeds.
Another object of my invention is to provide an electronic control system fo operating a directcurrent motor from an alternating current source which provides protection for the motor and line r' may be arranged to conduct current to the armature in each half-period of the source. The amount of current supplied to the armature then depends upon both the instant in a half-period of the source, known as the firing point, at which current conduction through the control valves is initiated, and the counter-clectromotive force of the motor in circuit with the valves. Since the magnitude of the counter-electromotive force dependson the speed of the armature with a constant field, control of the motor is effected byv controlling the firing point.
To control the firing point, a control potential is impressed between the control electrode, or
, grid, and the cathode of each control valve, which comprises an alternating potential of the same frequency as said source but displaced in phase relative thereto, superimposed on a variable continuous potential. As the continuous potential is varied, the firing point, i. e. the instant in a. half- 1- period of the source at which the grid-cathode potential rises above the critical value necessary to render the valve conductive, is varied.
The variable component of the control potential is made up primarily of a substantially constant potential, and a variable potential derived from an auxiliary direct-current source through a master electric valve. The master valve may be a pentode connected so that the magnitude of the variable potential depends upon the conductivity of the master valve.
For purposes of speed regulation, the conductivity of the master valve is controlled in accordance with the armature voltage and the armature current as well as the setting of a speed control potentiometer. Voltages proportional to the armature voltage and the speed control potentlome" eter setting are' impressed directly in the control circuit of the master valve. Another voltage which varies with the magnitude of the current through the armature is also impressed in the control circuit of the master valve through an amplifying circuit including a first auxiliary elec- The efiects of these voltages on the so that the conof the master valve is controlled to autrio valve. master valve are proportioned ductivity 3 tomatically adjust the firing point of the control valves in accordance with torque variations. The firing point is advanced with increasing torque and delayed with decreasing torque so as to maintain constant speed for any particular setting of the speed control potentiometer.
A second amplifying circuit using a second auxiliary electric valve is connected to impress still another voltage in the control circuit of the master valve. However, the second auxiliary valve is non-conductive and has no effect on the master valve during normal operation of the motor at the selected speed. Instead the second amplifying circuit and valve are employed in controlling the acceleration and reversing of the motor and in protecting the motor from excessive current in case of an overload.
The second auxiliary valve is controlled in accordance with the difference between a potential proportional to the armature current and a potential appearing across a capacitor. The capacitor potential is controlled so that at the instant of operation of the starting device, the master valve maintains the control valves non-conductive. Thereafter, the firing point of the control valves is advanced gradually but rapidly to increase the average voltage of the armature. However, should the armature current tend to exceeda preselected limit during acceleration, the firing point is delayed.
It will be noted that an increase in armature current above a preselected value which is greater than the rated value tends to affect the master valve through both the first and second auxiliary valves but in opposit manners. However, the tube characteristics and the circuit constants are such that the amplifying action of the second auxiliary valve is much stronger than that of the first auxiliary valve and the action of the former completely overwhelms the opposing action of the latter.
As the speed of the motor increases the counter-electromotive force increases causin the armature current to decrease to its steady state value determined by the load conditions of the motor. When the motor is approaching its selected speed and the armature current consequently drops below the preselected value, the voltages in the control circuit of the second auxiliary valve cause it to become non-conductive. Thereafter, the first auxiliary valve takes over the control of the firing point of the control valves to maintain the speed constant at its selected value regardless of torque changes. However, the second auxiliary valve becomes effective to delay the firing point if an overload causes an excessive aimature current.
A stopping device may also be provided which upon operation causes the second auxiliary valve to again assume control to delay the firing point of the control valves to the extent that they become non-conductive actually interrupting the armature circuit. Dynamic braking means are provided, as well as reversing means which may cause the motor to begin operation in the opposite direction under the control of the master valve if desired.
To enable the speed of the motor to be adjusted over an additional range above the rated speed, provisions are also made for weakening the strength of the motor held after the motor attains its rated or base speed. Current is supplied to the field through still other electric discharge field control valves, which are preferably thyratrons. In selecting the operating speed of the motor by manual adjustment of a potentiometer, a biasing potential is also selected for the field control valves. However, a relay responsive to the speed of the motor prevents the biasing potential from becoming effective until after the motor attains its rated speed. Thus the speed of the motor is controlled only by the armature control valves until the motor reaches its rated speed, and therafter, the field control valves may operate to weaken the field and increase the speed to the desired value greater than the rated speed. After the desired or ultimate speed is attained, the armature voltage is, of course, controlled in the manner described to maintain the speed of the motor substantially constant. Should the speed of the motor be reduced to or below the rated speed by manual adjustment, the biasing potential for the field control valves becomes ineffective, and the strength of the field is increased to its rated value. Consequently, the motor is always operating with a full field at speeds equal to or below its rated speed.
The novel features which I consider characteristic of my invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, both as to the organization and its-method of operation, together with additional objects and advantages thereof, will best be un derstood from the following description of specific embodiments, when read in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:
Fig. 1 is a schematic circuit diagram of the preferred embodiment of my invention; and
Figs. 2 and 8 are graphs by which the operation of certain portions of the circuit may be best understood.-
As shown in the drawings, an alternatingcurrent source 5 is connected through a circuit breaker l to energize the primary 9 of a transformer H. One of the secondaries l3 of the transformer has one end terminal M connected to the anode l5 of an electric discharge control valve l1, and the other end terminal 19 connected to the anode 2! of another electric discharge control valve 23. The cathodes 25 and 21 of control valves I1 and 23 are connected through a resistor 29, and a contactor 3| of a relay 33, or a contactor 35 of a relay 3?, to one side, 39 or 45, as the case may be, of the armature of the motor 43. The other side, 45 or 39, as the case may be, of the armature H is connected through another contactor 47 of the relay 33, or contactor 49 of the relay 31, to a center tap 5| on the secondary 13 of the transformer l I. As will be explained hereinafter relay 33 is energized to close contactors 3i and 41 for what may be designated as forward rotation of the motor and relay 3! is energized to close contactors 35 and 49 for reverse rotation. has a low resistance and does not materially restrict the flow of ciu'rent.
The control grids 53 and 55 of the control valves ll and 23 respectively, are connected together in a circuit extending from one grid 53 through the grid resistor 57, the secondary 59 of another transformer 6!, and another grid resistor 63, to the other grid 55. The control circuit of the control valve ll extends from its grid 53 through the grid resistor 51, one half of the secondary 59 of the transformer 6|, the center tap of the transformer 8!, a conductor 67, a portion of a potentiometer 69, the adjustable tap H on the potentiometer 69, a resistor 13, a pair of resistors 15 and H, conductors 16 and 18, a portion of a speed control potentiometer T9 to the adjustable It is also to be noted that resistor 29 I tap 8| thereon, and thence through a contactor 83 of a relay 85, which is energized for forward operation of the motor, a parallel path comprising a resistor 31 on one side and a capacitor 89 on the other side, and the resistor 29, to the cathode 25. The control circuit of the other control valve 23 may be similarly traced.
The transformer 6! is energized from the a1terhating-current source 5 through a phase-shifting circuit 9!. Consequently, an alternating potential of the same frequency as the source, but displaced in phase relative thereto, is impressed in the control circuit of the control valves l7 and 23. The displacement of the phase is fixed at preferably 90 degrees lagging the source.
A direct current potential is developed across the series-connected resistors 75 and I1 and potentiometer 79 through a full Wave rectifier 33 and filtering elements 95 and 97 energized from the source 5 and auxiliary transformer 99 connected thereto. The polarity of the potential across resistors 15 and 11 tends to make the control grids 53 and 55 of the control valve I! and 23 positive with respect to the cathodes 25 and 21.
A potential is also developed across the resistor 73 of a magnitude dependent upon the conductivity of a master electric valve Nil, which may be an amplifying tube preferably a pentode. The master valve I 0| is connected in a circuit extending from the positive terminal of resistor 15 through resistor 13, and the anode I03 and cathode 195 of master valve llll to the negative terminal of resistor 17. The polarity of the potential across resistor 13 opposes that of the resistors 15 and 11 in the control circuit of the control valves l1 and 23.
A direct current potential is also established. across potentiometer 69 by a voltage doubling circuit I01 energized from the source through a transformer N19. The polarity of the potential across that portion of potentiometer 69 in the control circuit of the control valves I! and 23 also opposes that of the resistors 15 and 77.
Resistor 81 in the control circuit of the control valves I! and 23 is connected in series with an other resistor Ill across the armature 4!. Con sequently, a potential proportional to the armature voltage is present across resistor 87. When current flows through the armature dl it is apparent that a potential is developed across resistor 29 and, as previously pointed out, a potential also is impressed in the control circuit of the control valves l'l and 23 by a portion of potentiometer 19. However, the magnitudes of the various potentials impressed in the control circuit of the control valves is such that changes in the potentials across resistors 81 and 29 and potentioineter (9 have practically no efiect on the control valves.
The control grid' cathode potential is, therefore, comprised primarily of the phase-shifted alternating potential supplied through transformer 6|, a substantially constant potential supplied by potentiometer 69 and resistors 75 and "H, and a variable potential supplied by resistor 13. These potentials are so proportioned that when master valve liil conducts a maximum current, the negative potential across resistor i3 is of a magnitude preventing the resultant control grid-cathode potential of the control valves from rising above the critical value necessary to render the valves conductive. If the conductivity of the master valve decreases gradually, the resultant control grid-cathode potential of the control valves rises above the critical value gradually supply,
stand the operation and performance of such a system it is desirable to refer to the characteristics of a conventional direct-current shunt-wound I It is well-known that a conventional motor. shunt-Wound motor normally hasa slightly drooping speed-torque characteristic which may be represented by the following equation:
EIR W--PT where u is the number of revolutions per minute; E is the direct-current voltage across the armature; I is the armature current; R is the resistance of the armature circuit; is the main magnetic flux; and C is the coefiicient of proportionality. Under normal conditions E is constant, and R may be assumed constant and the equation represents 72 as a linear function of I, or of the torque, The speed of the motor decreases with increasing torque because of the effect of the armature voltage drop which, assuming a constant a, is directly proportional to the torque. The variation in speed obviously depends upon the armature resistance and usually at rated speed amounts to about 8 to 12 per cent with torque varying from no load to full load.
torque. At lower speeds the percentage of speed regulation is higher since for lower values of E, IR constitute a higher percentage of the arma ture voltage and its influence is much more pronounced.
In a system as represented in Fig. 1, however, the interpretation of the speed-load equation must be properly modified. In the first place, neither armature voltage E nor current I are straight direct-current values. In the second place, the average value of voltage E across the armature is not constant as it was in the case of a conventional direct-current drive. If the firing point of the control valves is constant dur ing the time when torque is varied from no-load to fullload, E, itself, varies as a function of torque and in this way speed constitutes a much more involved function of I than that represented I by the speed-load equation.
The meaning of the concept of armature voltage with reference to the grid-controlled valve as illustrated in Fig. 1, may be clarified by reference to Figs. 2 and 3. Figs. 2 and 3 do not illustrate the operation of the system of Fig. 1 in which the firing point of the control valves may be varied but instead illustrate the operation if the firing point is maintained constant.
For purposes of simplification the potentials relating to only one control valve are plotted against time in Figs. 2 and 3. The base line H3 represents the potential of the cathode of the control valve and to further simplify the curves. it is assumed that the critical control grid-cathode potential necessary to render the control valve conductive is zero, that is, the valve becomes conductive in a positive half-period of the source when the control grid potential rises to the oathode potential I l3. The supply potential of the control valve is illustrated by curve I I5 and curve control grid potential.
I [1 represents the Let it first be assumed that the motor is stalled and thus behaves as an ordinary resistive-inductive load. Under these conditions, the supply potential I I5, which is substantially a sine wave, has line H3 as its base. Thus, the anode potential falls along curve H5 at the beginning of a half-period of the anode supply potential. When the grid potential curve II'I rises to the cathode potential line H3 at point H9, the valve becomes conductive and current starts flowing through the armature as shown by curve I2I. Because of the armature inductance, the flow of current does not cease when the supply potential II5 passes through zero at point I23 but continues to the point I25. The magnitude of the armature current curve I2I may be very high and depends upon the position of the firing point and the resistance and inductance of the armature. Of course, when the valve becomes conductive the anode potential drops along line I26 to the arcdrop value I2! and remains there until the valve becomes non-conductive at point I25, at which time the anode potential follows first line I28 and then curve H5. The armature voltage then follows a curve formed by points I29, H9, I3I, I23, I33, I25.
After the motor is running and its speed is established, the situation is quite different as shown in Fig. 3. Now counter-electromotive force is generated in the armature winding and under steady state conditions represents a constant di rect-current potential which may be assumed to be in direct proportion to the speed of the motors under the assumption of constant magnetic flux. The counter-electromotive force is represented by curve I35. It is then apparent that the sine wave of the supply potential curve I I5 is based on curve I and not on the cathode potential line I I3.
The anode potential again falls along curve I I5 at the beginning of a positive half-period of the supply potential. At point H9, the valve becomes conductive and the anode potential drops along line I28 to the arc-drop value I2'I where it remains until the valve becomes non-conductive at point I3l, at which time the anode potential again. follows line I28 and then curve H5. When the valve is conductive, current is supplied to the armature as represented by curve I39. Here again, the flow of current does not cease when the curve I I 5 passes through the line H9 at point I38 but continues to a point I31 where the inductive electromotive force becomes equal to the applied voltage. The average value of the armature IR drop is proportional to the diiierence in areas II9I3II38 and I38I40 I31 and is less than the IR drop represented by the difference in area II9-I3I-I23 and I23 I33I25 in Fig. 2. Consequently, the average value of the armature current represented by curve I99 is less than-that represented by curve I2I in Fig. 2.
If the load troque of the motor increases, the armature current increases as well as the IR drop. It is apparent from Fig. 3 that for the same firing point of the control valve, an increase in armature current necessitates a decrease in counter-electro'motive force and, therefore, a decrease in speed. Moreover, the average value of voltage across the armature also decreases as it varies with the counter-electrornotive force, as can be seen from Fig. 3, instead of remaining constant as is the case for a, conventional direct current drive. Therefore, with reference to the speed-load equation, it is apparent that with increasing torque not only does the IR drop increase but the armature voltage decreases so that the speed of the motor tends to decrease very rapidly.
To prevent such changes in speed with changes in torque by my invention, the firing point; of the control valves IT and 23 is automatically adjusted in accordance with torque variations so that the firing point is advanced with increasing torque and delayed with decreasing torque. This is accomplished by controlling the conductivity of the master valve III I.
The control circuit of the master valve IIJI may be traced from the control grid I4I through resistor I43, an adjustable tap I45 on a potentiometer I41, a variable resistor I49, resistor 81, contactor 83 of relay 85, adjustable tap 8| on potentiometer I9, conductors I8 and IE to the cathode I05. As previously set forth, a potential proportional to the armature voltage is present across resistor 81 and the polarity of this potential opposes that of the potential impressed in the control circuit of the master valve by the portion of potentiometer I9 between conductor I8 and tap 8 I. These two potentials primarily determine the conductivity of the master valve.
Assuming for the moment that the torque remains constant, the conductivity of the master valve IIII, and, therefore, the firing point of the control valves and the speed of the motor, is determined by the setting of potentiometer I9. The potentiometer I9 includes a highly resistive portion I5l in series with a highly conductive portion I53. As the adjustable tap BI is moved from the end of the resistive portion I5I connected to conductor I8, toward the junction of portion I5I and conductive portion I53, the speed of the motor is increased until the average armature voltage necessary to run the motor at rated speed is supplied when tap III is at the junction of portions I5I and I53.
If the torque varies, the armature voltage varies as does the potential across resistor 81. Consequently, the conductivity of master valve IIII is varied. The polarity of the potential on resistor 81 is such that an increase in torque acts through resistor 81 to decrease the conductivity of the master valve and advance the firing point of the control valves. Conversely, the resistor potential effects a delaying of the firing point upon a decrease in torque. In this manner the apparatus compensates for variation in armature voltage with variations in load.
To compensate for variations in the IR drop of the armature with variations in load, a potential is also established across potentiometer I41. The potentiometer I4! is connected to a source of direct current potential I55 through the anode I51 and cathode I59 of a first auxiliary valve I6I. The control circuit of the first auxiliary valve IBI may be traced from its control grid I63 through a resistor I65, a portion of a potentiometer I 51, a capacitor I69 and the variable resistor I43, to the cathode I59.
A small direct-current potential is present across the potentiometer I5! tending to decrease the conductivity of the first auxiliary valve NH. The capacitor I69 is connected in series with a resistor ITI across the resistor 29 in the armature supply circuit. Consequently the capacitor I69 introduces a potential in the control circuit of the first auxiliary valve IGI which is proportional to the current flowing through the armature III. The potential across the capacitor I69 thus varies with variations in the torque on the armature. These variations in the potential across capacitor circuit of the master valve IOI.
I69 are amplified by auxiliary valve iii, and impressed through potentiometer I41 in the control The connection of potentiometer I41 in the master valve control circuit is such that an increase in the armature current as a result of an increase in torque, causes the firing point of the control valves to be ad vanced. Conversely, a decrease in torqu effects a delay in the firing point of the control valves. It should be noted that the amount of compensating action may be controlled by adjustment of potentiometer I41 to adapt the apparatus for any particular motor.
Thus, the apparatus compensates for variations in both the armature voltage and the IR drop with variations in load or torque to maintain the motor speed at the value determined by the setting of potentiometer 19.
The starting and acceleration of a direct-current motor raises many additional problems in providing a motor control. In general, there are two methods by which automatic acceleration can be achieved: first, the time delay method, and, second, the current limit method. In the first case, the voltage applied to the armature is gradually increased to itsnormal value so that the motor is allowed to start smoothly. In the second case, the armature current is not permitted to rise above a predetermined limit and so enables an acceleration consistent with the kind of load with the time of acceleration being different for different loads.
In the system as shown in Fig. 1, the motor is automatically accelerated in a manner affording the advantages of both the time delay method and the current limit method. The resistor 91 in the control circuit of the master valve IIII is also connected in an amplifying circuit extending from the positive terminal of resistor 15 through a resistor I13, the anode I15 and cathode I11 of a second auxiliary valve I19, resistor 81, the contactor 93 of relay 85, tap 9i and a portion of potentiometer 19 and conductors 18 and 16 to the negative terminal of resistor 11. Thus the magnitude of the potential across resistor 81 is also varied as the conductivity of the second auxiliary valve I19 varies. When the potential across resistor 91 is high, the master valve 'IlI is highly conductive to prevent conduction of current through the control valves I1 and 23.
The second auxiliary valve I19 is preferably a pentode characterized by a sharp cut-on. The control circuit of the second auxiliary valve I19 may be traced from its control grid IUI through a grid resistor I83, 8. portion of a potentiometer I95, a conductor I81 and resistor 29, to the cathode I11 of the valve I19. The potentiometer I95 is connected in series with a variable resistor I99, across a capacitor I9I, through either a contactor I93 of a relay I95 or a contactor I91 of another relay I 99. Capacitor I9I is, in turn, connected to another source of direct-current potential 20I, through a variable resistor 203, and either a contactor 205 of relay 33, or a contactor 201.0! relay 31. The relays 3-3 and I95 are energized in response to the operation of a forward starting switch 209 and relays 31 and I99 are energized in response to operation of a reverse starting switch 2II. In either case following operation of one of the starting devices 209 or 2| I, the capacitor I9I is charged at a preselected rate as determined by the setting of resistor 203. The potential across the capacitor I9I appears across the potentiometer I85 and a portion thereof is im- .iary valve I19.
When either of the starting switches 209 and 2 is operated, the corresponding one of relays I95 and I99 is energized to close either contactor I93 or I91. At that moment a discharge circuit is completed across capacitor I9I through either contactor I93 or I91 and contactors 2I3 and 2I5 of relays 33 and 31 respectively, to discharge the capacitor. Consequently, the potential impressed in the control circuit by potentiometer I85 is substantially zero, and the second auxiliary valve I19 is highly conductive. As a result, the master valve I III is highly conductive to prevent the control valves I1 and .23 from supplying any current to the armature. After a very short tim interval the discharge circuit is opened by the energization of either relay 33 or relay 31 and charging of the capacitor I9I is initiated. As the potential across potentiometer I85 increases with the charging of the capacitor I9I, the conductivity of the second auxiliary valve I19 decreases and tends to render the control valves I1 and 23 conductive gradually earlier in successive halfperiods of the alternating potential source 5.
As current is supplied to the armature III, a potential proportional to. the magnitude of the current appears across resistor 29 in the control circuit of the second auxiliary valve I19. The polarity of the potential across resistor 29 is opposite to that of the potential across potentiometer I85 in the control circuit. Thus, an increase in the potential across resistor 29 tends to delay the firing point of the control valves and an increase in the potential across potentiometer I95 tends to advance the firing point of the control valves. The second auxiliary valve is, therefore, controlled in accordance with the difference between the potential across the portion of potentiometer I95 in the control circuit thereof and the potential across the resistor 29.
The potential across potentiometer I 85 is employed .to provide most of the advantages of the time delay method of acceleration. The firing point of the control valves is gradually advanced from a point very late in a half-period because of the increase of the potentiometer potential with the char ing of .the capacitor I9I, thus affording smoot and shockless acceleration.
The potential across resistor 29 is employed to provide most of the advantages of the current limit method of acceleration. The resistor potential has no eifect on the position of the firing point unless the armature current tends to exceed the normal range, at which time the resistor potential delays the firing point to keep the armature current within the normal range. The resister 29 cannot be effective at the start of the accelerating period because it has no control over the firing point until current is flowing. However, the potentiometer potential provides the initial control of the firing point. To obtain ac celeration to the desired speed with smooth and shockless starting, the charging rate of the capacit'or III is adjusted so that control of the firing point by the potentiometer potential extends'only over the first few cycles of the source, during which the capacitor is charged to a predetermined potential, Thereafter, the potential of the capacitor is maintained and the potential across resistor 29 acts to maintain the armature current within the normal range. The upper limit of the armature current range is obviously determined by the setting of potentiometer I as this setting determines the maximum voltage opposing the voltage across resistor 29 in the control circuit of the second auxiliary valve. Of course, if extremely smooth and slow acceleration is required, the capacitor may be charged more slowly to extend its control of the armature current over to greater number of cycles of the source.
It is to be noted that the action of the second auxiliary valve I19 in response to an increase in armature current is opposite to that of the first auxiliary valve IBI. This is necessary because two different functions are to be performed by the two auxiliary valves. However, the circuit constants are such that the second auxiliary valve I19 is maintained non-conductive, by virtue of the negative bias impressed through the potentiometer I95, within the normal operating range of armature current. Thus, within that normal range, the armature current affects only the conductivity of the first auxiliary valve I6 I. If, however, the armature current rises above the normal range, as it does during the accelerating period, the second auxiliary valve I19 becomes conductive. The characteristics of the valves and the circuit constants are such that the amplifying action of the circuit associated with the second auxiliary valve is much stronger than that of the circuit associated with the first auxiliary valve and completely overwhelms the latter. Under these conditions, it is apparent that the second auxiliary valve, in addition to its effect of limiting the starting current of the armature, delays the firing point of the control valves in case of an overload so that the motor stalls at a torque corresponding to the preselected limit of armature current.
The field 2 I1 of the motor 43 is connected to be supplied with power from the alternating-current source 5 through the secondary 2 I 9 of the trans former II and a pair of electric discharge field control valves HI and 223, preferably thyratrons. The end terminals of the secondary 2l9 are connected through the anode 225 and cathode 221 of each of the valves 22I and 223 to one side of the field 211. The other side of the field 2I1 is connected to the center tap 229 of the secondary 2I9. In this manner, the strength of the field is under the control of the field control valves 22I and 223. The grids 23I of the valves HI and 223 are interconnected through grid resistors 233 and another secondary 235 of the transformer 6|. The control circuit of one of the field control valves 22I may then be traced from the grid 23I through the grid resistor 233, one-half of the secondary 235 to the center tap 231 thereof, and thence through a conductor 239, a contactor 2 on relay 95, an adjustable tap 243 on a potentiometer 245, conductor 241, resistor 249, conductor 25I, ptentiometer 19 and a conductor 253 to the cath ode 221.
The secondary 235 of transformer impresses an alternating potential of the same frequency -as the source, but displaced in phase relative thereto in the control circuit of the field control valves HI and 223. Potentiometers 19 and 245 impress a direct-current potential in the control circuit of such magnitude that with the alternating potential from transformer 5|, the resultant potential in the control circuit tends to rise above the critical value necessary to render the field control valves conductive at an instant in each half-period which depends upon the setting of the potentiometer 245. However, the resistor 249 is connected in series with the potentiometer 245 and a resistor 26I across the series connected resistors 15 and 11 so that a potential is present across resistor 249. The polarity and magnitude of the potential across resistor 249 overcomes all possible potentials impressed through potentiometer 245 in the control circuit of the field control valves HI and 223 and causes the valves to be rendered conductive at the beginning of a half-period regardless of the setting of potentiometer 245.
A relay 255 is connected in series with a resistor 251 across the armature M of the motor 43. This relay 255 is so designed that it is not actuated until the voltage across the armature 4| reaches the value corresponding to rated speed of the motor. When the relay 255 is actuated, its contactor 259 closes a short circuit across resistor 249. Then the potential across resistor 249 drops to zero so that the setting of potentiometer 245 thereafter controls the amount of current supplied to the field 2 I1.
As previously indicated, relay for forward operation of the motor but remains deenergized for reverse operation. When relay is energized its contactors 93 and I connect potentiometers 19 and 245 in the circuits as described. These potentiometers have their adjustable taps BI and 243 mechanlcally'interconnected to operate in tandem. The resistive element I5I and conductive element I53 of potentiometer 19 are connected in series to be contacted in the order named by the tap 8| upon movement of the latter clockwise over the range of speed settings. The potentiometer 245 is also made up of a resistive element 263 and a conductive element 265 but they are connected in opposite order to the corresponding elements of potentiometer 19 with respect to contact by their associated tap 243.
By this arrangement both potentiometers 19 and 245 are set simultaneously at the desired point on the speed range which extends clockwise from a minimum at the extreme left setting to a maximum at the extreme right setting. Settings within the left half of the potentiometers 19 and 245 are for speeds less than the rated speed of the motor. At settings for speeds less than the rated speed, the tap 8| of potentiometer 19 is on the resistive element I5I to determine the armature voltage but the tap 243 of potentiometer 245 is on the conductive element 255 and does not efiect a. diminishing of the field from its full strength. In other words, the armature voltage only is adjusted for settings under the rated speed.
When both taps BI and 243 are set at the junction point between the resistive element and conductive element of their corresponding p0- tentiometers, rated armature voltage with full field strength is provided. Consequently the motor operates at rated speed. It is to be noted that the motor is always operating with a full field at speeds equal to or below rated speed.
Settings of the taps 9| and 243 within the right half of their corresponding potentiometers are for speeds greater than rated speed. Here the tap BI is on the conductive element I53 and rated armature voltage is supplied. However tap 243 is on resistive element 263 so that after the motor reaches rated speed and relay 255 is actuated, the field strength is diminished to increase the speed to the desired value.
When reverse operation of the motor is to be obtained, relay 95 remains deenergized and its contactors 83 and 2 connect a second pair of Potentiometers 261 and 259 in the circuits in is energized place of potentiometers 19 and 245. Potentiometers 261 and 269 correspond to and are connected in the same manner as potentiometers 19 and 245. respectively. The second pair of potentiometers are not necessary to the Op on of the apparatus but they do permit a reverse speed different from the forward speed to be selected in advance so that successive forward and reverse operations may be effected in the manner described hereinafter without readjustment of the speed potentiometers.
To initiate operation of the control system, the circuit breaker 1 is closed manually, connecting the system to the alternating-current source 5. After a time interval sufiicient to permit the various valves to become heated by their usual cathode heater circuits, which for purposes of simplification are not shown, either the forward switch 209 or the reverse switch 2| I may be closed, depending upon the direction of rotation desired.
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Need guide on eating healthy specially breakfast
1. agentmango profile image60
agentmangoposted 5 years ago
Hi guys, I don't know If I'm on the right category but this concerns breakfast and healthy eating.
What recipes are good for breakfast that gives me energy to work? What is the best time to eat breakfast to a sleep deprived guy?
I'm having so much problem dealing with this. Sometimes I want to skip breakfast because every time I eat, my stomach don't feel good.
1. couturepopcafe profile image59
couturepopcafeposted 5 years ago in reply to this
agent - I used to have the same problem. Every time I ate breakfast, I felt a little sick in the stomach. All could have for breakfast was tea. Then I started forcing down a banana because it digests easily. But I could never eat before 9am. and I had to be out the door at 7am. So I started piling up food the night before to take with me. It's really important to eat a big breakfast including protein, fats, and carbs. So I packed a peanutbutter sandwich, my banana, an apple, some hard cooked eggs, water, power bar, nuts, and whatever I could think of into a cooler. At least I had it with me and I could eat a little at a time to build up to a big breakfast. Now I usually eat either eggs and toast and fruit or yogurt and fruit and toast. At least I'm getting protein, carbs and fat.
If you're sleep deprived, is it from insomnia or work?
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agentmangoposted 5 years ago in reply to this
I'm sleep deprived because of both; work and insomnia. I count my hours of sleep and I usually get 3-4 hours a day only. Here is my routine:
Wake up 4 am to force myself to have breakfast (I'm hungry but after eating my stomach feel sick)
at 5 am, I'm getting ready to leave
at 6 am, I'm driving my way to work
at 8 am, Im at the office forcing myself again to eat (After eating, I fell im bloated or I'll get stomach ache)
12 nn, lunch (eating is okay)
7pm, dinner (eating is okay)
I'm trying to do an experiment on my eating activity on breakfast. I've been suffering from this for months.
1. couturepopcafe profile image59
couturepopcafeposted 5 years ago in reply to this
Perhaps it's the combinations of food you're intaking. Too many combinations will cause bloat. Maybe just protein and fruit. 1 egg, 1 fruit. At 8am, go for some protein,carb combo but not too heavy on the carbs, we all know what that will do.
One thing I found to be very important and works - eat whole unprocessed foods. No white bread (try Ezekiel bread) no heavy fats (bacon, fried ham, processed peanut butter).
You'll eventually find what's right for you. How old are you and are you active at all or just work a lot with little activity? Also, what is the last thing you eat at night and what time? I found that for some reason eating an orange at night helps me sleep, maybe the calcium and carb combo.
Also, there is a very effective breathing technique which helped me sleep.
Lie on your back, chin tilted toward the ceiling, arms bent out with palms facing up. Tuck your shoulder blades in and under so your rib cage opens allowing lungs to expand.
Take a very deep breath in through the nose and hold for the count of 5 or ten.
Breathe out slowly through the nose to count of 5 then let all the air out through the nose at once, pushing the remaining air from the lungs. It will sound like a steam pipe.
Take a few regular breaths and repeat 3-5 times or as many as you like.
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agentmangoposted 5 years ago in reply to this
We own a small restaurant and I usually take bacon, buffalo wings and similar stuffs for breakfast but in small package.
I'm 23 and I'm not active at work. I just sit in front of the PC for 8 hours and do some paper jobs. I got two 15 min breaks and an hour for lunch.
I usually have my dinner at 10pm, same menu; meat in small package and a glass of milk. Sometimes I eat fish.
About sleeping, I can't sleep lying with my back for long. I usually do it the other way. Let me try your tips and let me see if it will work for me.
I want to know your thoughts about taking a bath and eating breakfast. Is it take a bath first and eat after or is it the other way?
I'm asking this because what I'm usually doing is to eat first. After 20-30 minutes, then I'll take a bath. My stomach sometimes feel sick because of this.
Do you also think that lack of exercise contribute to my sleeping activity?
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paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago in reply to this
Well, looks like timing is everything. smile
Check it out. For all.
http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/5 … 00582.html
2. paradigmsearch profile image89
paradigmsearchposted 5 years ago
I've skipped breakfasts for decades and have never had any ill effects.
1. agentmango profile image60
agentmangoposted 5 years ago in reply to this
Seriously? You might have ulcer.
3. Disturbia profile image59
Disturbiaposted 5 years ago
You don't have to have a "big" breakfast in the morning. You can have a cup of oatmeal with a piece of fruit, or a soft boiled egg and a slice of whole wheat toast. If your stomach really can't cope with solid food that early in the day, make yourself a smoothie, or have a pre-packaged breakfast drink. The point is to put some fuel into your body and kick-start your metabolism. You can have your big meal at noontime or later.
You might actually want to check with a doctor about that bloating problem you mentioned, it could be a sign of something more serious than just an upset stomach, or maybe something as simple as a food allergy, but whatever it is, it's not a normal reaction to breakfast.
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couturepopcafeposted 5 years ago in reply to this
In theory, I agree with everything you've said, Disturbia with one caveat. Although stomach disorders can be serious, most people experience bloating because of poor food combinations, poor food in general, or as you've stated, some allergy to wheat products.
Wheat as we use it today, is far from the grain it once was. The human body has a difficult time understanding what to do with it and tries to compensate. Better to use spelt, buckwheat, quinoa or any of many whole grains which are not necessarily in the mainstream.
In fact, quinoa cooks quickly and is high in protein - great for breakfast. I always cook grains the day before. A little reheat in the morning and leftovers for another meal.
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Michelle Hertzposted 5 years ago
Because it is something I do now, I would recommend adding juicing (with a juicer) and/or smoothies to your morning routine. If you can find the time, a highly nutritious (mainly vegetables with a fruit for sweetness) juice is an excellent way to give your body the nutrition it needs. Poor nutrition might be the reason for the way you are feeling.
You really didn't say what you are eating now for breakfast. If you have a blender, you could try making smoothies for breakfast. These are easier to "go down" for some people than juice because they are sweeter. In the morning if you are forcing yourself to eat, something sweet might be easier to drink.
When I say smoothie, though, I'm talking about a high protein one, with no dairy, soy, or wheat (gluten). My favorite breakfast smoothie is this:
2 tbsp RAW hulled sunflower or pumkin seeds (papitas)these have fiber and protein
1-2 tbsp Flax Seed Meal (Omega 3's which help with mood too)
1 slice of pineapple
1 or 1/2 banana (frozen)
1 orange
1 cup coconut or almond milk
You can change up the fruits you choose, but always keep the flax, raw seeds and the "milk" You can add ice too. Freezing overripe bananas is a great way to use them for smoothies.
Give it a try, hope it helps.
I do have a website on juicing and smoothie making if you want more info on juicing. I haven't started putting in all my smoothie recipes, but will be soon.
We love smoothies at our house (my kids even like it with all the seeds and flax in it. We have a Vitamix though so it really purees everything up smooth.
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What About College - What About Transcripts
Homeschoolers are often asked "What about college?" And "What about transcripts?" Let me explain how it works.
Homeschoolers are sought after by colleges, in demand because of their academic preparation and maturity. Many colleges attend homeschool conventions, hoping to attract these desired applicants. I see this every day in my work with homeschoolers, but it's not just my opinion. It's also backed up with facts. "Homeschool students are increasingly being actively recruited by colleges," NHERI.org Research Facts on Homeschooling .
Homeschoolers create their own official high school transcript the same way other high schools do: the give grades, and credits, and a GPA. A homeschool transcript is not accredited, but there are many public schools across the nation that are also not accredited. Let me repeat: some public schools are not accredited.
Surprised? It's not a secret! You can read more here:
EducationNext: Researching the Ambiguities of School Accreditation
US News & World Report: What Happens When a School District Fails?
So your kid’s school isn’t fully accredited. Now what?
That's why homeschoolers have no trouble creating an official transcript - one that is as official as any other unaccredited public school. And that's why homeschoolers have no trouble getting in to colleges when they meet the requirements. Let me give you just one example from one mother in California. After submitting her high school transcript, made by herself at home, her children were admitted to every college where they applied.
Hi Lee and Matt,
I am so grateful for all the help you, Lee, and your materials have been to me. My girls have beautiful transcripts and high school records and were accepted to every college to which they applied! And, I can't say enough about the blessing that our conversations have been to me. Also, thank you, Matt , for your help when technical snafus came this way! I will continue to recommend The Home Scholar, homehighschoolhelp.com with enthusiasm. God bless you and your growing family in all you do!
Karyn in CA
You can continue to homeschool through high school. You'll be able to make a transcript and your child can go to college if that's your plan. Don't be swayed by fears! If your homeschool has been working, then you can continue all the way though high school and be successful.
My mission is to help parents homeschool high school. Learn more about homeschooling, so you can answer the common questions with facts, maintaining your commitment to a quality high school education.
If you would like some help with your record keeping, consider the Comprehensive Record Solution .
If you need some guidance with the college admission process, look at the College Launch Solution .
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The following statement works fine if the source is not null:
.Select(o => new GetInputItem() { ItemID = o.ItemId })
It bombs if "Filters.Selection" is null (obviously). Is there any possible way to write my own extension method which returns null if the source is null or else execute the "Select" func, if the source is not null.
Say, something like the following:
var s = Filters.Selection
.MyOwnSelect(o => new GetInputItem() { ItemID = o.ItemId })
"s" would be null if "Filters.Selection" is null, or else, "s" would contain the evaluated "func" using LINQ Select.
This is only to learn more about LINQ extensions/customizations.
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It might make more sense to have s be an empty sequence instead of null, as that would allow you to chain other extension methods off it safely. – Reed Copsey Feb 14 '13 at 19:13
Thank you very much Reed – user203687 Feb 18 '13 at 22:11
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You could do this:
public static IEnumerable<U> SelectOrNull<T,U>(this IEnumerable<T> seq, Func<T,U> map)
if (seq == null)
return Enumerable.Empty<U>(); // Or return null, though this will play nicely with other operations
return seq.Select(map);
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Yes have a look at the Enumerable and Queryable classes in the framework, they implement the standard query operators.
You would need to implement a similar class with the same Select extension methods matching the same signatures, then if the source is null exit early, you should return an empty sequence.
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Assuming you're talking about LINQ to Objects, absolutely:
public static class NullSafeLinq
public static IEnumerable<TResult> NullSafeSelect<TSource, TResult>
(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, TResult> selector)
// We don't intend to be safe against null projections...
if (selector == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("selector");
return source == null ? null : source.Select(selector);
You may also want to read my Edulinq blog post series to learn more about how LINQ to Objects works.
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War of the Limburg Succession
Battle of Worringen (The Kalmar Union)
Battle of Worringen
Low Countries, Cologne
Treaty of Cleves
Coat of arms of Brabant Brabant
Flag of Berg (The Kalmar Union).svgBerg
Flag of Anglia (The Kalmar Union).svgAnglia
Flag of Cologne (The Kalmar Union).svgCity of Cologne
25px Guelders
Flag of Luxembourg (The Kalmar Union).svgLuxembourg
Flag of Cologne (The Kalmar Union).svgArchbishopric of Cologne
Coat of arms of Brabant John I
Flag of Berg (The Kalmar Union).svg Adolf VIII
Flag of Anglia (The Kalmar Union).svg Charles III
25px Reginald I
Flag of Luxembourg (The Kalmar Union).svg Henry VI
Flag of Cologne (The Kalmar Union).svg Seigfried II
Casualties and Losses
The War of the Limburg Succession (1283-1289) was a small but decisive struggle between local powers for the Duchy of Limburg. Despite its small scale it would have important ramifications for the Low Countries over the next few centuries.
The death of Waleran IV, duke of Limburg in 1280 left the duchy without an heir. He had sired no sons and neither had his daughter Ermegarde. Ermegarde's husband, Reginald I of Guelders, laid claim to the duchy but he was opposed. Waleran's nephew, Adolf VIII of Berg also claimed the duchy but unable to pursue his claims he sold them to John I, duke of Brabant. Brabant had much more resources at its disposal and from 1283 it and Guelders clashed repeatedly
The War
While the initial battles between Brabant and Guelders were inconclusive other local states began to take notice and choose their sides. Siegfried II, Archbishop of Cologne had long opposed Brabant and sided with Guelders. So too did Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg and Adolf, King of Germany gave his nominal support too.
On Brabant's side fell all those smaller counties eager to assert their independence from overbearing Cologne; Berg, Mark, Loon, Tecklenburg, Waldeck and the City of Cologne too. And to offset the German King came Charles III, King of Anglia, fresh from the conquest of Artois (1281-1283).
The fighting for the first few years was characterised by small engagements but no side really pursued the However in 1288 Reginald I of Guelders sold his his rights to Limburg to Henry VI of Luxembourg. This provoked Brabant into decisive action and John I began a siege of the Archbishop's fortress at Worringen. With Charles III racing to join the siege, Henry VI and Seigfried II attempted to lift it.
The Battle of Worringen, when it was joined, was fierce but was won by Brabant. Henry VI was killed along with several of his male relatives. Charles III was blinded and was lucky to survive. Siegfried II was captured and imprisoned by Berg until he acceded to their demands.
Thanks to the victory at Worringen Brabant absorbed the Duchy of Limburg elevating itself to the premier power on the Lower Rhine. It buried the hatchet with Luxembourg, the new count, Henry VII, who married John I's daughter Margaret in 1292. Cologne was forced to grant independence to the City of Cologne and abandon the pretence of overlordship over Berg and Mark. From this the Archbishops never really recovered. However they still retained an Electoral vote and remembering Luxembourg's friendship they gave Henry VII support for the Imperial crown in 1308, thereby securing his family's future as one of the premier dynasties of Europe.
Meanwhile, Brabant did not forget the friendship that Anglia had shown. Successive marriages brought the two states closer and closer until in 1347 both states were inherited by King Henry II. The huge mercantile potential of Brabant assured Anglia's growing wealth and status.
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Budweiser has released its new Super Bowl commercial online, and the company is using the space to call attention to its environmentally friendly brewing process.
The newly released one-minute clip features the Clydesdales that are the hallmark of the iconic beer brand, along with April the Dalmatian, who is seated atop a covered wagon the horses are pulling through a rugged rural landscape. The familiar first verse of Bob Dylan's classic 1963 protest song "Blowin' in the Wind" accompanies the video.
“How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man? / How many seas must a white dove sail / Before she sleeps in the sand? / Yes, and how many times must the cannon balls fly / Before they’re forever banned? / The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind /The answer is blowin’ in the wind,” Dylan sings as the wagon rolls onward, with April's ears and scruff being blown back by the wind that sweeps across the plains.
As the clip rolls on, the camera changes perspective to reveal that the wagon is traveling through a field of wind turbines, and the commercial ends with the tag line, "Wind never felt better."
11 Super Bowl Commercials That Starred Country Artists
The commercial is intended to call attention to the fact that 100 percent of the electricity used to brew Budweiser comes from renewable energy. The company has a wind farm on a ranch in Oklahoma, according to USA Today.
"We think it's an instant classic," Ricardo Marques, who serves as group vice president of marketing core and value brands at Anheuser-Busch, tells USA Today Sports, adding, "I think people will forgive us" for using such an iconic protest song to sell beer because the song is being used to promote the greater good.
"It's more than just beer," says Angie Slaughter, Anheuser-Busch's vice president of sustainability. "This commercial is for everyone. It's something we should be thinking about every day."
Anheuser-Busch states that Budweiser is the first major brand to brew its beer completely with renewable wind energy. The company is also donating clean energy to the city of Atlanta during the week of the Super Bowl, which is set to take place at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Feb. 3. The New England Patriots are set to face off against the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII.
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Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach ....
Last week, in the lead up to this years school summer break, I was involved in a cross curricular programme of activity at a high school. These events seem quite popular these days. Providing a wide range of activities and engagement for the children in the wind down to the school break.
I’ve done similar events before, but not for a whole week in a school and not at a high school. So what did I learn? Because learn I did, in fact any coach/instructor worth his salt should learn something from all his teaching experiences.
So what did I learn?
Well I learned that two and half hours is far too long for prolonged physical activity in the lead up to summer. Even with a break, it’s hard to engage in a level of activity that requires a high level of physical interaction - our standard Boxercise classes last 60 minutes and that’s for adults.
I also learned, contrary to what I’ve just stated, that with kids, it’s better to keep the action fast, furious and continuous. It reduces the amount of time children are left to ‘day dream’ and ‘misbehave’ and produces an element of competition that they love.
So, to recap and conclude these points, the ideal class is an hour in length and is made up of virtually continuous action.
That’s the positives what about the negatives?
Unfortunately there are a few.
Firstly. Considering the children were supposed to be engaged in physical activity it was disappointing that most of them turned up in jeans, standard shoes and casual, sometimes smart, leisure wear. There were jackets, leather and fabric, in fact some of them looked like they were ready for the catwalk rather than sporting activity.
And as for water, most came without, despite me advising that Boxercise is thirsty work. But the worst thing above all was the lack of respect displayed by some, to the teachers, myself and each other.
When I was at school I would never have said ‘No’ to a teacher and yet this is a word I heard several times. The ability to listen to an instruction and follow it seemed beyond some. I will always take responsibility for this, deeming it my fault if people don’t understand. However, after several times with the same instruction and the same inability to follow, you start to doubt that it is actually your fault.
I had kids doing exactly the opposite of what I’d instructed, I had others refusing to keep quiet when I was talking and some of them were quite quick to give me lip.
It was suggested that perhaps things were so strict at home for some of these kids, that they viewed school as an opportunity to stretch the boundaries. To a small extent I agree, but in my experience, ill discipline at school is merely a repeat of the ill discipline at home.
I only have to deal with these kids for a few hours; the teachers have them for a large part of their lifetime.
I have nothing but admiration for teachers. Especially those who invest their own personalities, compassion and motivation into their teaching. We don’t invest enough time and respect in our teachers. And as for this bollocks of a 9-3 working day - it’s a media fuelled fallacy.
Most days I was at the school 7.30 -7.45am. Staff were already there or arriving while I waited. Yes the bell goes just after 3pm, I’d leave about 4pm and staff were still there. For the sake of these kids, devoid in many cases of decent home living examples of discipline and respect, we need to invest more in our teachers, so that the good ones remain in the system and help shape the future these kids need.
Guardian teaching survey 2016
• 43% of the state school teachers polled said they were planning to leave the profession in the next five years.
• 79% of schools say they are struggling to recruit or retain teachers
• 88% predict things are going to get worse and that this will severely affect students.
― William Arthur Ward
The good guy with a gun, a Brit's perspective ...
Another week, another mass shooting. Will it ever end?
No, really will it ever end?
I doubt it. In the same way that misguided logic and stoic re-interpretation of religious beliefs provide the impetuous for outrageous terror attacks, a similar misguided, as it appears to me at least, belief drives the quite bewildering notion that less gun control is the answer to these mass shootings - by less I mean, allowing more 'good' people access to firearms, because a good guy with a gun is the only way to beat the bad guy with a gun.
Yeah, in a white hat black hat sort of way I'd agree with this simplistic logic.
But simplistic logic is far removed from the logic of reality - take for instance the misconception that a guy with a gun, even a highly trained one, like a police officer can 'outdraw' a man armed with a knife at a distance of 10 feet.
That's a huge gap, and yet scenario training has shown that that the man armed with the knife can cover the ground quicker than the officer can draw - I could be wrong, but I think the ideal distance to ensure success was established at around 21ft.
Now I know that the Orlando incident was a mass shooting, not a mass stabbing, the point I'm trying to raise is that nothing is ever as simple as it seems and even the highly trained can get it wrong - a guy with a gun is always gonna take out a guy with a knife, isn't he?
I've done a little research and I can't find any incident of a 'good guy' with a gun ever shooting at the bad guy involved in any of these horrendous incidents.
What does that prove?
Absolutely nothing.
It's just an observation which intrigues me.
Has any mass shooting 'survivor' ever admitted that they had a gun, but left it at home - I have no idea, but to my way of thinking wouldn't it mean that everyone would have to be armed for the 'good guy' principle to act itself out?
And therein lies another issue.
Earlier this week I commented on someone's post (a little sarcastically) that the 'good guy with a gun' philosophy seems to be the only option that the NRA (National Rifle Association) appears to support.
Someone replied to my comments directing me to an article. Long story short, the article was in effect: "a good guy with a gun etc and how guns don't kill people, people kill people."
I replied saying that I understood his support of said article, but no matter how many times I saw it written down, how it was written down, how may nice platitudes were used, I would never, ever understand the thinking behind it. Goodbye and have a nice day .....
Ah! but I got a reply to my reply.
Extoling the virtues of good guy gun ownership and how the Japanese never invaded the US 'cos everyone had a gun. he then wished me luck when I got mowed down by either terrorists or my own government ...
I did point out that it was a bad analogy. There was a war on and if I thought my home was on the verge of invasion then yeah, I'd probably want a gun - I ignored the mowing down bit, as it didn't make a lot of sence.
Bear with me we're nearly there ....
So I replied, to his reply, replying to my reply and basically said that, if I did subscribe to 'good guy with a gun,' then I would need regular training to ensure that my amygdala and limbic system didn't go into meltdown and freeze me to the spot.
He wished me a good day and told me that he had better 'resolve' than me and that he was a marine!
FFS! A marine!
Someone who lives and deals with armaments as a way of life, someone who could no doubt strip down your average M16 before I've even, in my unresolved manner, reached out and put the kettle on.
Fair play he's a marine so he's probably laid his life on the line for his comrades and his country - RESPECT!
But come on, the average, peace loving, white collar, two up, two down, two kids citizen, doesn't have the inclination or RESOLVE to own a gun let alone learn how to use it effectively by continual training and appraisement.
This is the major flaw with the 'good guy with a gun' philosophy.
I'm not saying people shouldn't own them, the American psyche is too aligned with the notion of gun ownership and, to be honest, guns have a history in mankind’s development too important to just dismiss.
Surely the way forward has got to be stricter gun control and regular training - of course bigger men than me have debated this issue and, I suspect, bigger men will continue to debate for many years to come while, alas, the killings go on regardless.
Confusion reigns ...
I don't think I'll ever understand the business of setting up and running clubs. When I first started out at Stopsley I had, after a 5,000 leaflet campaign, 3 people turn up for my first junior session.
I took almost 16 months to gert to double figures. We had a club in Harpenden, we tried 3 different venues until we scored and then, again, it took over a year to get to double figures - and that after another leaflet campaign.
We had to relocate this club (I upset someone) and that was a painful process. Anyway, only one of the kids came to the new venue and after losing money for the 4 months on the trot I gave it up as a bad lot and moved out of Harpenden.
Now, on to Lewsey, not a particular affluent area, in fact, demographically speaking, probably not a good area to run a monthly subscribed club. I inherited the club after my instructor passed away and most of the kids stayed, there were a couple of dissenting parents but on the whole it was a smooth transition. I don't advertise either by way of leaflet or posters for this club, it doesn't even have a dedicated website like Harpenden did, but I am now in the odd situation of having to turn people away because I can't accomodate the extra numbers!
I recently launched a club at the once defunct Putteridge Leisure Centre. After several weeks we now have as many new starters as we had at Stopsley after 10 months! Again no leafets, just one poster and several facebook ads - incidentally not one of the new starters was in responce to these ads.
So there you go. Advertise, don't advertise it's almost as though the universe decides to muck in and throw you several tidbits or not, as the case maybe.
.... and don't even get me started on Boxercise!
New year ... new venue
We're currently looking at a venue, other than our own in Taylor St for a Monday night children's class. Top of the list currently is Putteridge - we'll keep you posted.
Security and safety, don't underestimate it....
So, I'm in MAGFA, tidying up, vacuuming, emptying bins and what not. I have our dog Lacie with me, my preferred spelling, the family prefer Lacy. She's having a good old nose around, avoiding the vacuum as dogs do and also giving the stereo, pumping out Rod Stewart a wide berth.
I make myself a coffee and we both retire to my office for a bit. Now I know hearing is supposed to deteriorate with age but even with Rods vocals going full pelt I can hear footsteps.
"Wass-at Lacie?"
She looks at me as if to say, "**** knows, but I'll have one of those biscuits your eating."
I listen intently again. Yep footsteps, definitely.
I step out the office slowly to be met by a gentlemen (I could hazard a very strong guess as to his ethnicity but won't as it's has no relevance) coming out of the ladies changing room.
"What do you think you're doing?"
"I've come from London [some gobbledygook, I don't and neither want to understand] what is this place?"
"I'm asking the ******* questions, never you mind! And if you spent more time reading the signs on the outside of the building rather than opening doors which to the casual observer look locked, you'd bloody know. So kindly leave my building now." My voice wasn't threatening but it was firm and in no mood for forced pleasantries."
At this point Lacie decides to get up and investigate, the guy almost pooed himself.
"Don't like dogs, huh! Well remember that next time you walk into a building uninvited."
I lead him down the stairs and along the passage to the gym door.
"You'll notice there's no lights on - that means we're not open if we were, the lights would be on." Out the gym door down the gloomy hallway to the front door.
"Was that door closed, when you walked in?" I asked, I knew it was. He nodded, "So a building with no lights on, with a door closed so the building doesn't look open and you decide to try the door come in and just walk around."
He apologised.
I can hear what you're saying, I should have locked the front door or at least the gym door. You are correct but the building looks closed with no lights on and the red door pulled shut. I've done it loads of times. So what lessons can I learn from this little event.
Lock the doors? No!
Put up a closed sign? No!
Don't play loud music? No!
Well what then?
Golden retrievers make absolutely rubbish guard dogs!
Discipline the road to what?
I come from a time when teachers would throw chalk and wooden board erasers at you in class. A time where, in PE, if you were deemed to have deliberately not passed to the teacher during a game of football, he would either up-end you with a well placed kick, or cuff you around the head.
I remember being clouted around the head for mis-spelling words, screamed at for not wanting to stand up and read in class and basically bullied and shoved around physically by the teaching staff.
It didn’t harm me, but we have progressed from there. I still believe that the cane could have a place, but only as punishment for misbehaviour and ill discipline.
But clipping a kid around the head for not ‘performing’ something correctly is so wrong on many scales.
So, finding out that some coaches still employ this kind of reprimand during their classes comes as a bit of a shock.
Smacking, punching, kicking a kid when they fail to perform something correctly is acceptable?
I am flabbergasted.
However, what I find really disconcerting is that these kids will not misbehave in those classes thus affording their coach a degree of respect, but thy are quite okay with mucking around in mine and affording me little or none.
Lately I’ve been seriously thinking about chucking all this in. Incidents like this I definatlely pointing me towards the exit door.
Blinkered view and myopic logic
Okay this is a bit of a rant, but mainly based on my inability to understand certain illogical thought processes. Yesterday, Sunday 11th October we hosted a joint Krav and Sombo seminar. This was our second seminar held this year, the first being Rory Miller back in January.
Now, this is not aimed at my students who didn't turn up for the event, because being my students, they will benefit to some small degree from what we learned and saw. That is the nature of the way I teach and also reflects my choice in invited coaches who I deem to be the best in their field or at least very approachable. This is aimed at those individuals who, given the opportunity to attend were not interested.
I am flabbergasted!
There are several reasons why people choose not to attend such events, these are some of them:
1) Too expensive
2) I'm not available
3) I'm not interested 'cos I already do jujitsu [or whatever] and that's good enough for me
Too expensive
2x world class coaches £45 for 4 hours .... that's £11.25 per hour! Seriously too expensive? A pint conservatively costs £3 ... I would suggest that rather than being expensive that represents outstanding value for money!
I'm not available
Fine, not a lot I can say to rebut this one. Weekend time is precious for the average working man/women/parent so I get that, but then these guys also have jobs, families etc. Yes I know they're getting 'paid' for their time while you' aren't. Again, what can I say.
I'm not interested 'cos ...
Of all the reasons for not participating in events like these, this has got to be the most ridiculous. If I thought for one moment that everything I've learned while training in jujitsu prepared me for a bullet proof life of self defence tuition and personal safety I would walk off in to the sunset now never to return.
If you seriously think for one moment that your 'system', 'style,' 'method' etc provided you with all the answers I have to say that Stevie Wonder is better prepared.
That one drill of getting up off the floor we went over yesterday had more merit, than a lifetime of techniques from some systems!
If you're happy training in your martial art and don't want to broaden your knowledge or horizons then so be it, but if you go around calling it 'self defence' without recourse to other avenues of learning then you deserve a giant metaphorical kick up the arse!
Only this week I've discovered yet another 'club' training at a 'state of the art leisure complex run by monkeys', advertising 'self defence.'
I've checked out the youtube channel, I wish I hadn't.
You know that device that they use in Men in Black that makes everyone forget I want one now, my eyes are bleeding.
Thanks again to:
Tony Preston
Georgi Georgiev
When is self defence not self defence?
Self defence gone wrong
So when is defending yourself not considered self defence in the eyes of the law? The recent story (featured above) from one of our daily newspapers, perfectly illustrates how a simple process can become complicated by incorrect knowledge.
But, before we examine the article in more detail, let me enforce the complexities of this often misunderstood area by using a more graphic example from the US of another ‘self defence’ incident, where the ‘innocent party’ didn’t get quite what he’d bargained for.
Person ‘A’ came out of his apartment and saw an individual vandalising his car in an attempt to break into it. Vandal ‘B’ runs off with Person ‘A’ in hot pursuit. Person ‘A’ catches up to ‘B’ and under a barrage of aggressive and abusive expletives threatens physical harm to ‘B’ who, armed and in fear of his life - remember this is the US - takes out his gun and shoots ‘A’.
At the subsequent trial, B, even though he had been engaged in a crime before the incident, was judged to have acted in self defence and was found not guilty of bodily harm.
Did someone say gun control?
Now, on to the newspaper article.
The gentleman in question, Mr L, was involved in an incident where another driver pulled out in front of him while he was driving with his family.
We’ve all had that happen and, done it ourselves, if we’re honest. At this point it would appear that neither vehicles, drivers or passengers were harmed, damaged or injured in any way.
Most of us would of indulged in a bit of neanderthal fist waving and expletive hurling (go on admit it) or, having bathed ourselves in all those positive chakra and ‘love thy neighbour’ affirmations’ just ignored the event, smiled sweetly and said in a quite controlled voice: “That bit of road is obviously very important to him, therefore I shall let him wend himself upon his journey, unscathed, with much love and harmony.”
Yep, whatever you’re currently thinking, is probably nearer the truth - anyways to continue…
The point is, that in true, lawful, self defence, (at least in the UK) an individual, even when threatened, must be seen to, or prove their intent not to engage in an immediate physical response - a willingness to retreat if you like.
Even with a preemption strategy, physical action should always be preceded by a response not to engage ‘in fighting,’ or at the very least inferred as such: witness, victim statements etc.
Being cut up in a car, getting out and indulging in the proverbial ‘monkey dance’ with words or physical posturing does not, by any stretch, show a willingness to retreat, quite the opposite - and this applies to both parties.
“We both got out of our cars and I was hit twice, before I retaliated and knocked him down,” says Mr L.
Mr L declares that his subsequent actions and motives were self defence in nature; after all, he only fought back once he’d been attacked.
Once Mr L had decided to get out of his car to confront the other driver, those self defence motives became tarnished. If the other driver had set about damaging Mr L’s car then, it’s reasonable to assume, that Mr L could emerge from his vehicle and engage in some form of physical response to protect his property, the law of self defence allows this, but this was not the case, or at least it does not appear so from the report.
If the other driver felt threatened by Mr L’s physical presence and demeanor and was convinced that he intended him harm then, it could be argued (and I suspect it may be the case, considering the verdict) that he and not Mr L acted in self defence, all be it preemptively, which is legal.
We would also have to consider Mr L’s physical presence compared to the other driver. If he were significantly bigger, stronger looking, indeed if he even looked capable of handling himself compared to the other driver that too may also have worked against him.
That is how the law operates. Whatever happened after that initial ‘physical response’ by the other driver is rendered inconsequential, at least in reference to this incident, assuming that all the facts are contained within the report.
The best course of action for both parties was not to have left their cars and engage in any form of confrontation - I’m not judging either party, we’ve all been there or seen such incidents.
Rather than relying on the inaccuracies of the tabloid press and I’m not suggesting Mr L has done so, but his logic appears badly flawed, anyone truly interested in the legalities governing self defence, reasonable force and preemption should look at: Criminal Law Act 1967 (section 3) Criminal Law & Immigration Act 2008 (section 76)
Some would say that morally Mr L is innocent - possibly, but the law doesn’t deal in morals only facts. Facts couched in words, phrases and examples refined by decades of legal expertise.
You are allowed to protect yourself, loved ones, property and come to the aid of another. Just make sure, without any reasonable doubt, that you have demanded a ‘request’ for the other party to desist in whatever it is they are doing or that you have offered a verbal appeasement as an option for de-escalation or avoidance - then hit them!
Hard and fast!
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Thursday, May 8, 2014
Why Don't You Just Teach
While I enjoy being a SAHM, I have always planned to have a career- not just a job, but an honest to goodness career. I always thought I'd go to college, then law school and be some high powered attorney, but as I got closer to graduating with my bachelor's degree, I realized that it wasn't a passion of mine. Yes, I'm a little naive in my thinking; I understand that not every career can be a passion, but if I'm going to devote years of my life to it, not to mention the money needed to attend law school {or grad school} I want to be sure it is a solid choice.
Which brings me to the title of this post. Often times, when talking with people about careers and aspirations, I note that without some form of graduate degree, my undergrad explorations of Art History and French Literature are pretty darn useless, which always garners the same response. {with some variations}
"Why don't you just teach?"
"Well you can always teach!"
Like, bam. Problem solved. Except do people not understand that just because I have a bachelor's degree, that doesn't mean I can just march into a school and start teaching. Do we really devalue teachers that much that it's a great "fallback" career? I admire people that choose to teach for living, however, I'm not sure that's the path that's best for me and even if it was my choice, a degree in Art History and French Lit isn't really going to help me. There are so many more steps to teaching than just graduate, teach.
As it stands, I will continue doing my best to be a SAHM while working towards finding a career path, but thank you to all those "problem solvers" who believe all that stands between me and a teaching career is walking out the door and doing it ;-)
Jen said...
I think you have a great plan! :)
Munchkins and the Military said...
John wants me to go to grad school, but since I really have no idea what it want to do, I can't justify spending the money on something that may not work out. Hope you're able to find a career that you love!
Jen said...
My husband kept saying he wanted to get out and "just teach" and I was like dude you're nuts, teaching is HARD work! I used to want to be a teacher but after I finished my first semester, I was like "man, I don't have time for this!"
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The following article appeared in the July 1994 issue of Technology Review. The article may not be reprinted or published without the express permission of Technology Review Magaine. The ideas in the article are developed further in the book "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams," published by MIT Press.
Changing the Centralized Mind
Mitchel Resnick
Epistemology and Learning Group
The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20 Ames Street Room E15-312
Cambridge, MA 02139
A flock of birds sweeps across the sky. Like a well-choreographed dance troupe, the birds veer to the left in unison. Then, suddenly, they dart to the right and swoop toward the ground. Each movement seems perfectly coordinated. The flock as a whole is as graceful--maybe more graceful--than any of the birds within it.
How do birds keep their movements so orderly, so synchronized? Most people assume that birds play a game of follow-the-leader: the bird at the front of the flock leads, and the others follow. Indeed, people assume centralized control for almost all patterns they see in the world. But that's not necessarily so. In the case of bird flocks, most don't have leaders at all. Rather, each bird follows a set of simple rules, for example, matching its velocity to that of the other birds around it, and keeping a safe distance from the birds on either side.
A bird flock is one of many phenomena organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. In ant colonies, trail patterns are determined not by the dictates of the queen ant but by local interactions among the worker ants, such as following a scent that their fellow ants emit when they find a source of food. In human societies, macroeconomic patterns arise from the haggling between millions of buyers and sellers in marketplaces and stock markets around the world. And in immune systems, armies of antibodies seek out bacteria in a systematic, coordinated attack--without any "generals" organizing the overall battle plan.
The Era of Decentralization
A growing number of people are now choosing these kinds of decentralized models for the organizations and technologies they construct in the world, and for the theories they construct about the world. One such case began to unfold on December 7, 1991, when Russian President Boris Yeltsin met with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus in a forest dacha outside the city of Brest. After two days of secret meetings, the leaders issued a declaration: "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality, is ceasing its existence." With that announcement, Yeltsin and his colleagues sounded the final death knell for a centralized power structure that had ruled for nearly 75 years. In its place, the leaders established a coalition of independent republics and promised a radical decentralization of both economic and political institutions.
The next day, halfway around the world, another powerful institution announced its own decentralization plans. IBM chairman John Akers publicly announced a sweeping reorganization of the computer giant, dividing the company into more than a dozen semi-autonomous business units, each with its own financial authority and its own board of directors. The goal was to make IBM more flexible and responsive to the needs of rapidly changing markets.
The coincident timing of the above two events actually symbolizes a broad decentralization trend that is sweeping through many different domains. For example:
* Organizations. All types of organizations--schools, companies, even countries--are pushing authority and power down from the top, distributing rights and responsibilities more widely. In U.S. education, for example, decentralization extends to several levels. School choice brings market-oriented thinking to the world of education, asserting that individual families--not state or local governments--should decide where their children go to school. Likewise, school-based management moves decision-making authority from state and district offices to individual schools. And child-centered learning, now adopted in many classrooms, transforms the teacher from a central authority into a catalyst, coach, and collaborator.
* Scientific models. For 300 years, researchers' thinking has been guided by Sir Isaac Newton's model of the physical world as a clocklike mechanism. Newton's world is ruled by a centralized notion of cause and effect--one gear turns, which makes another gear turn, and so on. Now, a new set of decentralized models and metaphors is spreading through the scientific community and gradually into the culture at large. Researchers now view a wide range of systems--everything from bird flocks to immune responses--less like clockwork mechanisms and more like complex ecosystems controlled by decentralized interactions and feedback loops.
* Psychology. Few concepts seem more obvious than the singular nature of the mind and self. Each of us experiences life as a single thread of consciousness, and each of us imagines our own mind as "I," not "we." But the idea of the unified, centralized mind, first challenged by Sigmund Freud, has eroded rapidly during the past decade. For example, Daniel Dennett, a professor of philosophy at Tufts University, proposes that there is no single stream of consciousness in the mind. He suggests instead that multiple narratives are simultaneously created and edited in different parts of the mind. Similarly, the field of artificial intelligence, once dominated by centralized models of the mind, now favors decentralization. Marvin Minsky, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, argues that the mind is a society of many simple agents that work together to accomplish complex tasks.
* Theories of knowledge. For centuries, philosophers strove for "objective knowledge." They put great faith in the power of logic to systematize all knowledge, to find ultimate meaning and truth. Today, philosophers are moving away from the notion of a single unifying conception of knowledge, arguing instead that knowledge speaks not with a single voice but with many. For example, traditional theories of literary criticism assumed that meaning was created by an author and conveyed through the author's writings. According to this view, reading is a search for inherent meaning in a document, an attempt to decipher the intention of the author. But modern schools of thought--such as poststructuralism, reader-response theory, and deconstructionism--all focus on readers as the main constructors of meaning. In this new view, texts have little or no inherent meaning. Rather, meanings are constantly reconstructed by communities of readers through their interactions with the text. Meaning itself has become decentralized.
Centralized Thinking
Even as the influence of decentralized ideas grows in many disciplines, a deep-seated resistance to such ideas remains. People seem to have strong attachments to centralized ways of thinking, assuming that every pattern must have a single cause, an ultimate controlling factor. The widespread resistance to evolutionary theories is an example: Many individuals still insist that someone or something must have explicitly designed the complex, orderly structures that exist in the biological world. They resist the idea that complexity can be formed through a decentralized process of variation and selection.
Similarly, many view the workings of the economy in centralized ways, assuming singular causes for complex, decentralized phenomena. In interviews with Israeli children between 8 and 15 years old, for example, David Leiser, a psychologist at Ben-Gurion University, discovered that nearly half of the children assumed that the government sets all prices and pays all salaries. Even children who said that employers pay salaries often believed that the government provides the money for the salaries. "The child finds it easier to refer unexplained phenomena to the deliberate actions of a clearly defined entity, such as the government," he wrote, "than to impersonal market forces."
The centralized mindset is not just a misconception of the scientifically naive. A similar bias toward centralized theories can be seen throughout the history of science, with scientists remaining committed to centralized explanations even in the face of discrediting evidence. The history of research on slime-mold cells, as told by Evelyn Fox Keller, a professor of science, technology, and society at MIT, provides a striking example. At certain stages of their life cycle, slime-mold cells gather into clusters. Scientists long believed that this aggregation process was coordinated by specialized slime-mold cells, known as "pacemaker" cells. According to this theory, each pacemaker sends out a chemical signal telling other slime-mold cells to gather around it.
In 1970, Keller and a colleague proposed an alternative model, showing how slime-mold clusters can form without any specialized cells. In this model, every individual slime-mold cell emits a chemical signal and follows signals produced by others. The result: aggregation without a leader. Nevertheless, for the following decade, other researchers continued to assume that pacemakers were required to initiate aggregation. As Keller writes, with an air of disbelief: "The pacemaker view was embraced with a degree of enthusiasm that suggests that this question was in some sense foreclosed."
It is not altogether surprising that people have strong commitments to centralized approaches. Many patterns and structures in the world are, in fact, organized by a central designer. When we see neat rows of corn in a field, we assume correctly that the corn was planted by a farmer. When we watch a ballet, we assume correctly that the movements of the dancers were planned by a choreographer. When we participate in social systems, such as families and school classrooms, we often find that power and authority are centralized, often excessively so. These phenomena reinforce the centralized mindset.
Another important factor is the way people think about themselves. Your mind (like all others) is composed of thousands of interacting parts. But you experience yourself as a singular being. This is a convenient, perhaps necessary, illusion for surviving in the world. When you do something like paint a picture or organize a party, you feel as if you are playing the role of the central actor. Only one entity seems to be in charge: you. So people naturally expect most systems to involve a central authority.
By clinging to this centralized mindset to explain all phenomena, politicians, managers, and scientists are working with blinders on, focusing on centralized solutions even when decentralized approaches might be more appropriate, robust, or reliable.
Decentralized Thinking Tools
To help people move beyond the centralized mindset and learn new ways of thinking about decentralized phenomena, I developed a new computer programming language called StarLogo. This language allows people to control the actions of thousands of graphic creatures on the computer screen. The user writes simple rules for the creatures and the environment in which they live, and then observes the group behaviors that emerge from their interactions. For example, a user might write simple rules for individual birds, then observe how the flock behaves.
In one StarLogo simulation, inspired by the controversy over slime-mold aggregation, the artificial creatures follow two simple rules: they emit a pheromone (chemical attractant) and, after "sniffing" the local area, move in the direction in which the pheromone is strongest. At the same time, the environment causes the pheromone to diffuse and evaporate. With this simple strategy, the creatures quickly assemble into clusters. The reason: When a few creatures get near one another just by chance, they create a pheromone "puddle," which attracts even more creatures, making the puddle even bigger and so on.
I have worked with several groups of high school students who have created decentralized "microworlds" using StarLogo. In one experiment, two students--Ari and Fadhil--wanted to study traffic jams. So they created a one-lane highway with a police radar trap to catch cars going above the speed limit. They then programmed each driver to follow three simple rules: If you come within two car lengths of the car in front of you, slow down. If no cars are within two car lengths ahead of you, speed up until you reach the speed limit. If you detect a radar trap (each car is equipped with a detector), slow down.
Both students expected that a traffic jam would form behind the radar trap, and indeed it did. As cars slowed down for the trap, the cars behind them were forced to slow down, creating a queue with roughly equal distances between the cars. When the cars moved beyond the trap, they accelerated smoothly until they reached the speed limit.
I asked the students what would happen if they removed the radar trap. The cars would be controlled by just two rules: if you see another car close ahead, slow down; if not, speed up. They predicted that the traffic flow would become uniform; cars would be evenly spaced, traveling at a constant speed. When we ran the program, however, a traffic jam formed. Along parts of the road, the cars were tightly packed and moving slowly. Elsewhere, they were spread out and moving at the speed limit.
At first, the students were shocked. Their comments revealed the workings of a centralized mindset: They argued that traffic jams need some sort of centralized "seed," like a radar trap or accident, in order to form. They couldn't believe that simple interactions among cars could create a jam. But as they continued to experiment with the simulation--modifying the speed and starting positions of the cars--they developed an understanding of how the traffic jams formed. When a few cars, by random chance, happened to get near one another, they slowed down, making it likely that even more cars behind them would have to slow down, leading to a jam.
Another student, Callie, chose to use StarLogo to simulate the behavior of termites. Termites are practically blind, yet they are considered the master architects of the insect world. In fact, on the plains of Africa, termites construct giant moundlike nests containing intricate networks of tunnels and chambers. Many people assume that the queen of the termite colony tells the blind workers what to do. But, as in ant colonies, the queen is more of a mother to the colony than a leader. On the termite construction site, no one is in charge of a master plan. Rather, each termite carries out a series of relatively simple tasks, relying on its sense of touch and smell.
Termites are thus well suited for StarLogo explorations. Callie started with the following goal for her StarLogo termite colony: Termites should gather randomly scattered wood chips and put them into a few orderly piles. As with real termites, she didn't want to put one termite in charge. Instead, she programmed each termite to walk around randomly, obeying two simple rules: If you are not carrying anything and you bump into a wood chip, pick it up. If you are carrying a wood chip and you bump into another one, drop the chip.
At first, we were both skeptical that this decentralized strategy would work. The strategy did not prevent termites from taking wood chips away from existing piles. So while termites were putting new wood chips on a pile, other termites might be taking wood chips away from it. It seemed like a good prescription for getting nowhere. But we ran the program with 1,000 termites and 1,500 wood chips.
Much to our surprise, the number of piles steadily declined and the number of wood chips in each pile grew. After several program iterations--in each iteration every termite took a step or picked up or dropped a chip--the wood chips had been gathered into hundreds of small piles. After 2,000 iterations, there were 100 piles with an average of 15 wood chips in each. After 10,000 iterations, there were fewer than 50 piles left, with an average of 30 wood chips in each pile. And after 20,000 iterations, only 34 piles remained, with an average of 44 wood chips in each pile.
The process was slow and frustrating to watch, as termites often carried wood chips away from well-established piles. But it worked. And as we watched the termites on the screen, it became obvious why this simple strategy is effective. Whenever the termites remove all the wood chips from a particular spot, the pile never restarts, since termites drop chips only where others already reside. The termites might drag chips back and forth between piles, but once a pile is gone, it is gone forever. So the total number of piles keeps shrinking.
Some Guiding Principles
People are usually fascinated by such decentralized phenomena. But when they try to understand or create their own decentralized systems, they often slip back into centralized ways of thinking. Through my work with high-school students, I have developed several guidelines to help people make sense of decentralized systems, highlighting some pitfalls to avoid and some possibilities not to overlook. For example:
* Positive feedback isn't always negative. Positive feedback is frequently symbolized by the screeching sound that results when a microphone is placed near a speaker. It is usually viewed as destructive because the situation often spirals out of control. By contrast, negative feedback is often symbolized by a thermostat that keeps room temperature at a desired level by turning the heater on and off as needed. It is thus considered useful because it keeps conditions under control. When I asked high-school students about positive feedback, most were unfamiliar with the term. But when I explained what it meant, the students quickly generated examples, most of which involved a loss of control, often with destructive consequences. One student talked about scratching a mosquito bite, which made the bite itch even more, so she scratched it some more, which made it itch even more. Another student talked about stock-market crashes: a few people start selling, which makes more people start selling, and so on.
Despite these negative connotations, positive feedback often plays a positive role in decentralized phenomena. Brian Arthur, an economist at the Santa Fe Institute, points to the geographic distribution of cities and industries as an example of a self-organizing process driven by positive feedback. After a small nucleus of high-technology electronics companies started in Santa Clara County south of San Francisco, an infrastructure developed to serve the needs of those companies. That infrastructure encouraged even more electronics companies to locate in Santa Clara County, which encouraged the development of an even more robust infrastructure. And thus Silicon Valley was born.
* Randomness can create order. Like positive feedback, randomness has a bad image. Most people think randomness simply makes things disorderly. They view randomness as annoying at best and destructive at worst. But randomness plays a crucial role in many self-organizing systems by creating fluctuations that act as natural seeds from which patterns and structures grow.
At concerts or sporting events, for example, spectators sometimes join together in seemingly spontaneous synchronized clapping. How do they coordinate their applause without a conductor? Initially, when everyone starts clapping, the applause is totally unorganized. Even people clapping at the same tempo are wildly out of phase with one another. But through some random fluctuation, a small subset of people happen to clap at the same tempo, in phase with one another. That rhythm stands out, just a little. People in the audience sense this emerging rhythm and adjust their own clapping to join it. The emerging rhythm thus grows stronger and even more people conform to it. Eventually, nearly everyone in the audience is clapping in a synchronized rhythm. Amazingly, the whole process takes just a few seconds, even with thousands of people participating.
* A traffic jam isn't just a collection of cars. It is fair to think of most objects as a collection of particular parts. For example, a particular chair might have four particular legs, a particular seat, and a particular back. But this is not so with objects like the termite wood-chip piles. The composition of the piles is always changing, as termites take away some wood chips and add other wood chips. After a while, few if any of the original wood chips might be in the pile, but the pile is still there. The wood-chip pile is thus an example of an "emergent object"--it emerges from interactions among lower-level objects. Similarly, a traffic jam is an emergent object, continuing to exist even though the composition of cars within it is always changing.
Students often have difficulty thinking about emergent objects. For example, two students, Frank and Ramesh, tried to use StarLogo to simulate an ant cemetery, in which ants gather their dead colleagues into neat piles. This problem was virtually identical to that of programming termites to create wood-chip piles. But Frank and Ramesh resisted the simple decentralized approach that Callie used for the termites. They were adamant that dead ants should never be taken from a cemetery once placed there. How can a cemetery grow, they argued, if the dead ants in it are continually being taken away? With this strategy, however, Frank and Ramesh ended up with lots of little cemeteries rather than a few big ones, simply because a cemetery, once started, could never disappear. If Frank and Ramesh had viewed the cemetery as an emergent object and allowed the composition of ant cemeteries to vary with time, they would have had much greater success in creating large ant cemeteries.
* The hills are alive. In his book Sciences of the Artificial, Herbert Simon, a Nobel laureate economist from Carnegie Mellon, describes a scene in which an ant is walking on a beach. Simon notes that the ant's path might be quite complex, but it does not necessarily reflect the complexity of the ant. Rather it might reflect the complexity of the beach. Simon's point: don't underestimate the role of the environment in influencing and constraining behavior.
Many people seem to resist the idea of an active and influential environment. For example, when I told a student about a StarLogo program in which ants find food by following pheromone trails, he was worried that the trails would continue to attract ants even after the food source at the end of the trail had been fully depleted. In his mind, the ants had to take some positive action to get rid of the pheromone. In fact, he proposed an elaborate scheme in which the ants, after collecting all of the food, deposited a second pheromone to neutralize the first pheromone. It didn't occur to him that the first pheromone would simply evaporate away.
Foundation for Discovery
A friend of mine has a daughter named Rachel. By the time she was three years old, Rachel had already developed a theory about why it rains on some days and not on others. "The clouds rain when the thunder tells them to rain," she explained. In her mind, some type of centralized decision making was necessary. Thunder commanded, and the clouds obeyed.
It is not surprising that Rachel came up with a centralized explanation for the rain. Most likely, she was unaware that other types of explanations even existed. But as Rachel grows up, will she continue to rely on centralized explanations? If she takes a physics course in high school, will she understand gravity as two objects pulling on one another with equal force, or will she think of gravity as a one-way force, with one large object pulling on a smaller one? If she takes an economics course in college, will she understand that interest rates and money supply can affect each other, or will she assume that one is the cause and the other is the effect? If the unemployment rate rises dramatically, will she search for explanations with multiple, interacting causes, or will she immediately assume some type of evil conspiracy?
An elementary or high-school course that teaches Ten Golden Rules of Decentralized Thinking probably would not have much effect on someone with a firmly entrenched centralized mindset. Young students are likely to become comfortable with decentralized ideas only if they get opportunities to design, create, explore, and play with decentralized systems.
What's needed are computer-based construction kits that let children like Rachel create their own decentralized microworlds. At school, Rachel might create an artificial environment with giraffes, elephants, and her other favorite animals, and program each to follow a few simple rules. She could then observe what patterns emerge from the interactions and how simple changes can affect the entire ecosystem. At home, she and her friends might simulate how people gather into groups at a party. By working on projects like these, Rachel could come to understand the importance of decentralized ideas in explaining the world around her.
By the time Rachel was four, she had developed a new theory about the rain. "The clouds get together at night, and they decide whether it should rain the next day," she explained. This new theory still involves some centralized planning, but there was no longer a central actor, the thunder, in charge of the whole process. If Rachel is surrounded by new types of computational tools and ideas as she grows, one can only wonder what new theories she'll develop to explain the rain.
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Friday, March 25, 2011
Top Command Linux
When you need to see the running processes on your Linux in real time, you have top as your tool for that.
top also displays other info besides the running processes, like free memory both physical and swap
Usage
top [options]
Options
-d ss.tt
Delay -- Specifies the seconds and tenths of seconds of delay between the updates of the info showed on the screen, being the default 3 seconds
-i
Starts top with the last remembered 'i' state reversed. When this toggle is Off, tasks that are idled or zombied will not be displayed.
-n n
Specifies the maximum number of iterations, or frames, top should produce before ending.
-p n
Monitor only processes with specified process IDs. This option can be given up to 20 times, or you can provide a comma delimited list with up to 20 pids. Co-mingling both approaches is permitted. This is a command-line option only. And should you wish to return to normal operation, it is not necessary to quit and and restart top -- just issue the '=' interactive command.
-s
- Secure - Runs top in secure mode, restricting the commands you can use while top is running even for root
-S (Sum)
Starts top with the last remembered 'S' state reversed. When 'Cumulative mode' is On, each process is listed with the cpu time that it and its dead children have used. See the 'S' interactive command for additional information regarding this mode.
Description of the fields
a: PID -- Process Id
The task's unique process ID, which periodically wraps, though never restarting at zero.
b: PPID -- Parent Process Pid
The process ID of a task's parent.
c: RUSER -- Real User Name
The real user name of the task's owner.
d: UID -- User Id
The effective user ID of the task's owner.
e: USER -- User Name
The effective user name of the task's owner.
f: GROUP -- Group Name
The effective group name of the task's owner.
g: TTY -- Controlling Tty
The name of the controlling terminal. This is usually the device (serial port, pty, etc.) from which the process was started, and which it uses for input or output. However, a task need not be associated with a terminal, in which case you'll see '?' displayed.
h: PR -- Priority
The priority of the task.
i: NI -- Nice value
The nice value of the task. A negative nice value means higher priority, whereas a positive nice value means lower priority. Zero in this field simply means priority will not be adjusted in determining a task's dispatchability./dd>
j: P -- Last used CPU (SMP)
A number representing the last used processor. In a true SMP environment this will likely change frequently since the kernel intentionally uses weak affinity. Also, the very act of running top may break this weak affinity and cause more processes to change CPUs more often (because of the extra demand for cpu time).
k: %CPU -- CPU usage
The task's share of the elapsed CPU time since the last screen update, expressed as a percentage of total CPU time. In a true SMP environment, if 'Irix mode' is Off, top will operate in 'Solaris mode' where a task's cpu usage will be divided by the total number of CPUs. You toggle 'Irix/Solaris' modes with the 'I' interactive command.
l: TIME -- CPU Time
Total CPU time the task has used since it started. When 'Cumulative mode' is On, each process is listed with the cpu time that it and its dead children has used. You toggle 'Cumulative mode' with 'S', which is a command-line option and an interactive command. See the 'S' interactive command for additional information regarding this mode.
m: TIME+ -- CPU Time, hundredths
The same as 'TIME', but reflecting more granularity through hundredths of a second.
n: %MEM -- Memory usage (RES)
A task's currently used share of available physical memory.
o: VIRT -- Virtual Image (kb)
The total amount of virtual memory used by the task. It includes all code, data and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out.
VIRT = SWAP + RES.
p: SWAP -- Swapped size (kb)
The swapped out portion of a task's total virtual memory image.
q: RES -- Resident size (kb)
The non-swapped physical memory a task has used.
RES = CODE + DATA.
r: CODE -- Code size (kb)
The amount of physical memory devoted to executable code, also known as the 'text resident set' size or TRS.
s: DATA -- Data+Stack size (kb)
The amount of physical memory devoted to other than executable code, also known as the 'data resident set' size or DRS.
t: SHR -- Shared Mem size (kb)
The amount of shared memory used by a task. It simply reflects memory that could be potentially shared with other processes.
u: nFLT -- Page Fault count
The number of major page faults that have occurred for a task. A page fault occurs when a process attempts to read from or write to a virtual page that is not currently present in its address space. A major page fault is when disk access is involved in making that page available.
v: nDRT -- Dirty Pages count
The number of pages that have been modified since they were last written to disk. Dirty pages must be written to disk before the corresponding physical memory location can be used for some other virtual page.
w: S -- Process Status
The status of the task which can be one of:'D' = uninterruptible sleep'R' = running'S' = sleeping'T' = traced or stopped'Z' = zombie
Tasks shown as running should be more properly thought of as 'ready to run' -- their task_struct is simply represented on the Linux run-queue. Even without a true SMP machine, you may see numerous tasks in this state depending on top's delay interval and nice value.
x: Command -- Command line or Program name
Display the command line used to start a task or the name of the associated program. You toggle between command line and name with 'c', which is both a command-line option and an interactive command.
When you've chosen to display command lines, processes without a command line (like kernel threads) will be shown with only the program name in parentheses, as in this example:
( mdrecoveryd )
Either form of display is subject to potential truncation if it's too long to fit in this field's current width. That width depends upon other fields selected, their order and the current screen width.
Note: The 'Command' field/column is unique, in that it is not fixed-width. When displayed, this column will be allocated all remaining screen width (up to the maximum 512 characters) to provide for the potential growth of program names into command lines.
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h
Help, displays a summary of command that will modify the behavior of top
k
Kills a process, you will be able to kill only your own processes, unless you are running top as root
n
Once this command is entered top will ask you how many lines you want on your screen, if you enter 0 top will display as much as it can
q
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r
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Writes the current configuration to your personal configuration file, which is $HOME/.toprc | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'ab46da5beb06e93715668d541b3271afa04333e7baa7cde5ce6c5d27115f8bfd'} |
Back in the day, implementing company-wide training used to be a major hassle. For a task as simple as training employees on the latest computer upgrades company leaders had to hire a presenter, schedule group appointments (making sure all shifts were being covered) and take employees away from important work at hand.
The effectiveness of such training was questionable at best.
Employees often didn’t see the value of such training and put in as little effort as possible. Meanwhile, managers worried if the message was being delivered efficiently as they had no way to tell if employees understood it or not.
Those days are long gone. Today, business visionaries are turning to e-learning platforms to deliver instructional messages that meet the unique needs of their individual company.
Using powerful technology such as SharePoint LMS, company leaders are creating meaningful learning environments that allow them to customize training by creating a personalized learning experience, promote relationship-building and encourage collaboration among employees.
However, e-learning has to be more than just informative, it needs to be engaging. Use e-learning platforms to pique the attention of trainees by: | mini_pile | {'original_id': '50b2dfb3613b8fc757bc97509f33cd1ac7616a70dec7a74ad64899182df79396'} |
\section{Differentiable Bounded Concave Real Function is Constant}
Tags: Differential Calculus, Concave Real Functions
\begin{theorem}
Let $f$ be a real function which is:
:$(1): \quad$ Differentiable on $\R$
:$(2): \quad$ Bounded on $\R$
:$(3): \quad$ Concave on $\R$.
Then $f$ is constant.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $f$ be differentiable and bounded on $\R$.
Let $f$ be concave on $\R$.
Let $\xi \in \R$.
{{AimForCont}} $\map {f'} \xi > 0$.
Then by Mean Value of Concave Real Function it follows that:
: $\map f x \le \map f \xi + \map {f'} \xi \left({x - \xi}\right) \to -\infty$ as $x \to +\infty$
and therefore is not bounded.
Similarly, suppose $\map {f'} \xi < 0$.
Then by Mean Value of Concave Real Function it follows that:
: $\map f x \le \map f \xi + \map {f'} \xi \left({x - \xi}\right) \to -\infty$ as $x \to -\infty$
and therefore is likewise not bounded.
Hence $\map {f'} \xi = 0$.
From Zero Derivative implies Constant Function, it follows that $f$ is constant.
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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AlphaGo: Possible repercussions and India
ET’s editorial on March 11, 2016 talks about AlphaGo and draws some interesting sketches. At one point, “An AI-run factory, goes a joke, employs just a man and a dog. The dog’s job is to keep the man away from the factory. Why have the man at all, in that case? Someone has to feed the dog.”,
From the same editorial – A possible scenario for India: “AI will enhance productivity and profits for all companies that can master it and deploy it. Much of India’s advanced IT services industry might get replaced by AI, unless industry itself deploys AI. Indian universities have to teach and advance AI in all its myriad forms. India’s human intelligence potential must be realized, for the Indian economy to benefit from AI rather than be its victim.”
Lets wait and watch how it unfolds.
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Difference Between Spark SQL and Hive
Can you please help me to understand the difference between Spark SQl and Hive?
The Apache Hive data warehouse software facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage and queried using SQL syntax.
Built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hive provides the following features:
Tools to enable easy access to data via SQL, thus enabling data warehousing tasks such as extract/transform/load (ETL), reporting, and data analysis.
Access to files stored either directly in Apache HDFS or in other data storage systems such as Apache HBase
Sub-second query retrieval via Hive LLAP, Apache YARN and Apache Slider.
A mechanism to impose structure on a variety of data formats
Where as, Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system. It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing.
Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing, in which in-memory processing is its core. Using Spark SQL, can read the data from any structured sources, like JSON, CSV, parquet, avro, sequencefiles, jdbc , hive etc.
Spark SQL can also be used to read data from an existing Hive installation. Thus, Spark SQL is the generalized module which can be used to process any structured data-source.
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The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, has sacked four policemen attached to Ijebu-Ode area command in Ogun state for extortion.
Extortion by Police and Agberos
Four policemen sacked for extortion
They were charged with discreditable conduct and corrupt practice under the first schedule of police act and regulations Cap. P19. laws of the federation of Nigeria 2004.
“The four men on June 7, without any grounds, arrested a man who was just leaving a bank and took him to the Igbeba station, where they labelled him a ‘Yahoo boy’ and made him to frog jump and write a self-incriminating statement, that he was an internet fraudster,” the statement read.
“The man lodged a complaint with the police public complaints rapid response unit.
Shogunle said the money had since been recovered from the four policemen and given back to the man.
He advised those who have been maltreated by policemen to lodge a complaint directly to the PCRRU via the following numbers and platforms: 08057000001, 08057000002 (phone calls only), 08057000003 (SMS/WhatsApp only) | BBM:58A2B5DE, | Twitter: @PoliceNG_PCRRU | Facebook: | Email: [email protected] OR [email protected]
Sir that’s my story.
The complaint was immediately registered, Tracking Number PCRRU451591 issued and investigation initiated. The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Igbeba Division, Ijebu-Ode was mandated to commence an enquiry straightaway.
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Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy
Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor. I thought that I knew nothing about him at all, but when I got to the exhibition several of the paintings turned out to be familiar.
Baselitz was born in East Germany, his father had been a member of the Nazi party, and he was studying at an art college in West Berlin when the Berlin Wall went up and separated him from his family and home town. So it’s not surprising that a lot of history and politics gets into his paintings or that they tend to be a bit angry. In fact, his earlier paintings, which are figurative but distorted and blocky, are reminiscent of some of those similarly angry-looking Picassos.
The Woodmen
Later he developed a different quirk: upside-down paintings. They are, apparently, actually painted upside-down, but they look like they’ve just been hung that way. It’s a surprisingly effective way of transforming even quite mundane paintings into something more interesting, and the early examples are fairly mundane, as though the point of them is the upside-down-ness and so the paintings themselves are much more straightforward representational works than those he had been doing before. Interestingly, as the paintings then get more abstracted, they stay upside-down, but because the subject is less clear the upside-down-ness is also less obvious.
The Gleaner
More recently Baselitz has started producing ‘remix’ paintings: new versions of his early works. So, for example, there’s a painting, I think from the 60s, called ‘The Great Friends’ that depicts two people among ruins and in front of a fallen flag. The new version is the same design, but painted in different colours and with different technique; he’s taken to painting them on the floor, making much use of dripped paint. No doubt this is partially the normal looking back of an old man. It was noticeable in the Louise Bourgeois show at Tate Modern that she has also returned to motifs from her childhood as she gets older. But also it is surely related to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the re-unification of Germany stirring up the whole messy subject of C20th German history.
I got the audioguide for the exhibition, which was interesting if not exactly sparkling, and it included contributions from Baselitz. Rather admirably, he never made any attempt to tell you what the paintings were about, or explain their symbolism or even their personal significance for him. Everything he said was to do with how he painted them and what visual effect he wanted to create. For example, he said about one painting that he wanted as much of the canvas as possible left unpainted and he was pleased because he largely managed to get it right first time and didn’t need to do much overpainting. He didn’t provide any reason why he wanted the canvas left bare; presumably he thinks he paintings should speak for themselves.
» The exhibition website is short of useful pictures, so the two I’ve included are from other sources. They’re not really the examples I would have picked given a free choice, but I wanted some kind of pictures, so they’ll do. The top one, ‘Meissen Woodmen’, is from the National Gallery of Australia; the other is ‘The Gleaner’ from the Guggenheim in New York.
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Detergent, step aside. I found soap berries!
I read it takes less water to make a powdered detergent than a liquid one.
So we tried out some different powder detergents, and I’d still like to try making our own. (Another thing on my list I’d like to do. That sounds like fun!)
When I washed with liquid or powder, it made little difference. No matter the brand, it made little difference. Clean clothes jumped out of the machine but the powder did go a bit farther. I’m just so thankful I don’t have to wash them down in the river with a soap board like our grandmothers did. Or wash everything out by hand to save money like when I traveled across continents.
We tried Borax. Not a cleaner by itself. It’s supposed to “boost” the wash. It didn’t boost jack. I decided it worked better as a cleaning agent for the toilet and bathtub.
Then our used washer started to go out.
Good and bad.
Bad: We have to buy a new washer. 😦
Good: Now we could get one of those HE (high-efficiency) washers that use 123 kWh per year. Estimated yearly operating cost is around $13 based on eight wash loads a week. Well, even with cloth diapers, I’m running nowhere near eight wash loads a week. And it uses so much less water!
Then Momphotographer told me about Eco Nuts, an organic laundry soap made of dried berry shells from the Sapindus mukorossi (soap berry) tree in Asia where they’ve used the soap berry to clean clothes for centuries. Oh geez, I sound like a commercial.
They are a fully renewable and sustainable resource according to what I’ve read. This brand claims to be nut allergy safe, 2-in-1 Fabric Softener, no added fragrance or dyes. Safe for septic and gray water systems.
And they work. What a surprise! I was not expecting that. (They even have a write-up about how to use them when you wash cloth diapers.
1) They come in a box, without plastic. The canvas-type bag can be used over and over.
2) Once the pieces disintegrate, they can be thrown in the compost.
3) They work. (Though they are not perfect and I do sometimes have to wash a bib or a milk stained outfit more than once. It’s not the end of the world and I simply throw it in with the next wash–the heavier/super soiled load. I have never had to wash an entire load more than once. And shouldn’t have to!)
4) The tiny box takes up very little room rather than the big, bulky laundry containers.
5) The berries don’t leave a strong fragrance behind.
1) I’ve found they don’t clean soiled clothes like my husband’s work clothes very well. The directions say to pre soak the berries (in the canvas bag) in hot water for a few minutes for heavily soiled clothes and then start the wash. I’ve started doing this and the clothes DO come out clean now. However, when you do this, the soap berry shells disintegrate faster.
2) If you don’t pull the canvas bag out of the wash as soon as the wash finishes, whatever the bag of soap berries are leaning against will stain pink.
3) To get the poopy diapers clean, it requires a prewash. So really, I’m washing the diapers twice. But boy, do they come out white and clean! Much more so when I washed them with plain detergent. Granted, they soak in Oxi-Clean in the kitty litter bin until it’s full enough for a load. They may sit there a week but that made little difference with the detergent. They always came out—not very white, you know? Even when I put in a cup of vinegar. With these, I don’t have to put in anything.
Well, there’s just a solution for everything, now isn’t there?
(Not being paid to endorse. I just found something I like that works and I want to share it with you. I wouldn’t have heard of these if Ewa hadn’t told me. There are other brands too–Fornya, Green Virgin, NaturOil, Greenwill, Petra, etc. Eco Nuts is the only brand I’ve had a chance to try, but I don’t think the brand matters here, I’m just talking about the soap berry.)
I found them on Amazon, but I’m sure they could be found in most green, eco-friendly or health food stores. If nothing else, look them up and read about them. So interesting! You can compare prices yourself but the brand I bought was about $10 for a 100 load lot. In bulk, they’re cheaper. Since they work, I’m switching over to the soap berry.
6 responses to “Detergent, step aside. I found soap berries!
1. I’ve heard of the soap nuts, but haven’t tried them out yet. I’m not sure it would work for me if they stain when left to sit, because I usually do laundry overnight to take advantage of the cheaper rates, but I would still like to try them at some point.
2. misswhiplash
Sounds like a good idea..lets give it a whirl
3. I must try these. Thanks for the smashing post, Jen!
4. I grate my own soap and put it with ‘washing powder’ and for reasons I can’t articulate I’ve not tried soap berries despite being aware of them. Your drawbacks do concern me a little, but the whiteness factor is VERY attractive!
5. fine discovery. a ray of sunshine under stormy skies here.
having raised 3 children both in Europe and in the states entirely by hand washing, rivers and all, i know how true white is precious..i had tried borax with very little success..but it did provide better results on miner’s jeans. i left them to soak overnight to soften the heavy grime.
for baby’s clothes, i used olive soap shavings, grated with a cheese grate and soaked overnight as well. men’s t-shirts were the reticent items..arm and hammer was my soda i have a machine, i pre-soak in baking soda for an hour or so, scrub the neckline and rinse in vinegar water.
i do miss the hillside stream at my grand-mother’s..and my boys grew up just beautifully (thanks to colored t-shirts).
you deserve the soap berries for your lovely girl…i want to try them.
6. Heidi, MissWhipLash, Shannon, Sarahn, Nadine—thanks for the responses!
@Heidi–I know. I used to do my laundry at night too. Not too happy about that.
@Nadine and Sarahn–I’m going to try your ideas too!
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package com.tibiainfo.model.repository;
import com.tibiainfo.model.entity.outfit.Outfit;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaRepository;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.JpaSpecificationExecutor;
public interface OutfitRepository extends JpaRepository<Outfit, Long>, JpaSpecificationExecutor<Outfit> {
// @Query(value = "select image from outfit where article_id = :id ", nativeQuery = true)
// String getImageById(@Param("id") Long id);
}
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DDS Degree, Iraq's Olympic Swim Team
I came to America from my native Iraq three years ago. I distinguish myself through determination and dedication, which won me a spot on Iraq’s Olympic Swimming Team. I served with the US Army as a translator and cultural adviser. Working with United States Army enhanced my ability to work in a team environment and learn organizational skills and discipline, which has a great deal to do with why I am still alive. I was granted permanent residency in the US as a token of appreciation for my service to this country. Now, I want to apply my organizational and problem solving skills to the service of dentistry. I hold a BS degree in Dentistry awarded by the University of Baghdad in 2005. It is my goal to be enabled to practice dentistry in the US and to provide skillful, knowledgeable and caring treatment to my patients.
If you walk into the waiting room of a dentist in the US, you are likely to see a group of relaxed looking people reading magazines. If you observe the clientele of a free dental clinic in Iraq, you are likely to see many distressed people with swollen faces and pain-filled eyes. When you have witnessed the latter, as I have, you appreciate dentistry in a whole new light. Seeing the almost immediate relief of pain available under the ministrations of a caring and skilled dentist seems almost miraculous. My cousin was a dentist in Iraq who gave some of his time to patients unable to pay for treatment and invited me to visit the free clinic, it changed my life. I also recalled a time when my father had suffered an oral abscess and of his pain which was relieved immediately following a visit to a dentist.
My original goal, at that time, was to follow my sister into medicine but I then began to consider dentistry because of the appeal of being able to relieve pain so quickly and completely. I also became aware that much oral and dental pain and teeth loss is totally preventable with good basic health education and the importance of this in general health and well-being. These experiences fired my interest and I subsequently enrolled to study dentistry at the University of Baghdad in Iraq and qualified to practice in my country. During my studies, I undertook voluntary work in various hospitals and clinics and learned much about various techniques and specialties but, as importantly, about treating patients with genuine care and trying to achieve the best possible outcome for each patient. It seemed to me that dentistry was an art as much as a science offering the possibilities of relieving pain, improving appearance, enabling people to eat a normal diet and, not least, giving people the priceless gift of a smile.
Once I had obtained my degree, I practiced for a short period. However circumstances in my country were such that various obstacles and barriers prevented me easily continuing to work as a dentist and I took up employment as a translator and cultural adviser with the US forces. This service provided me with experience of team working, planning and organizing, and discipline.
Following my time with the US military, I was enabled to move to the United States and given permanent residency in appreciation for my work. Since arriving in the US, I have worked as a Dental Assistant in various settings and with a variety of patients. This has been valuable exercise helping me to become accustomed to a new culture and dental environment but I am now ready for the ‘next step’ which is to qualify to practice dentistry in this country. It is my intention, once qualified, to donate some of my time to a free clinic in order to ‘give something back’ to the US which has been so good to me. I would also hope to be involved in furthering the provision of education in the importance of routine dental and oral care in poorer communities.
It might also be relevant to my application to mention that I was also employed for a time, since arriving in the US, as a retail manager. I consider that the skills I acquired and applied in that period to be highly applicable to most professions. I was required to supervise, motivate, direct, plan and budget whilst providing excellent customer service. This was a challenging experience during which I learned many useful lessons. The aspect of the job that I enjoyed most was in providing training, I discovered a love of teaching that I might not otherwise have discovered and hope to have the opportunity to train dentists and dental assistants in the future.
I was a member of the Iraq national swimming team and was ultimately selected for the Olympic squad. As anyone who knows anything about this sport will tell you, it requires a very high level of dedication, very long and strictly regular training and the ability to focus completely on the ‘job in hand’. I regard these proven qualities to be highly relevant to my application.
I have happily worked with people of many different cultural and social backgrounds. I appreciate the importance of being culturally sensitive generally and its special importance in the field of health care provision.
I have a special interest in implant surgery and hope to be able to assist in research in this area of study. It is my ultimate aim to specialize in orthodontics.
I am aware that dentistry programs attract many well qualified applicants. However I genuinely regard myself as an exceptional candidate. I hold a bachelor degree in dentistry, I have actual experience of practicing as a dentist and I have substantial experience in this country working as a highly effective dental assistant. I also believe that my proven personal qualities equip me in my aim to become a highly successful participant in the program and I undertake to dedicate myself fully to excelling within it.
Thank you for considering my application.
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Installment sales and the Iowa capital gain deduction
May 28, 2009
Iowa's "ten and ten" capital gain break eliminates the tax on certain capital gains on property held for ten years by a taxpayer who has also "materially participated" in the business for ten year. The state has issued a ruling explaining how it works for installment sales when the seller dies during the installment period, and the installment receivable goes to a trust with the taxpayer's spouse as the beneficiary:
Therefore, since the taxpayer is still receiving this capital gain income from the trust and the taxpayer met the ten year ownership and ten year material participation test at the time of the installment sale, the taxpayer is still entitled to claim the Iowa capital gains exclusion.
But while that works if the spouse is the trust beneficiary, it doesn't work if the beneficiaries are the materially-participating taxpayer's children:
Finally, you are correct that upon the death of the taxpayer and the subsequent distribution of the taxpayer and trust shares of the capital gains to the children of the deceased, these capital gains reported by the children would not qualify for the Iowa capital gains exclusion since the material participation and holding period requirements were not met by the children at the time of the original sale. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'fc911bdd942004af973472939ce82de9e3b7c35f5f09f0ec4a6ec8fbf5c0af71'} |
The Global Liquid Nitrogen Market is expected to grow from USD 12,572.24 Million in 2019 to USD 18,745.43 Million by the end of 2025 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.88%.
Market Segmentation & Coverage:
This research report categorizes the Liquid Nitrogen to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:
Based on Process, the Liquid Nitrogen Market studied across Absorption and Cryogenic Air Separation.
Based on Function, the Liquid Nitrogen Market studied across Coolant and Refrigerant.
Based on End Use, the Liquid Nitrogen Market studied across Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverages, Healthcare, Metal Manufacturing & Construction, and Rubber & Plastic.
Company Usability Profiles:
The report deeply explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Liquid Nitrogen Market including AMCS Corporation, Asia Industrial Gases Pte. Ltd., Cryomech Inc., Emirates Industrial Gases Co. LLC, Messer Group, Praxair Inc., Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation, and The Linde Group.
FPNV Positioning Matrix:
The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Liquid Nitrogen Market on the basis of Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.
Competitive Strategic Window:
Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:
The report provides insights on the following pointers:
The report answers questions such as:
1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Liquid Nitrogen Market?
2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Liquid Nitrogen Market during the forecast period?
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4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Liquid Nitrogen Market?
5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Liquid Nitrogen Market?
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According to a further preferred acid-activation, the crude adsorbent material is leached with acid, preferably at elevated temperature, particularly at a temperature corresponding to about 5 to 20° C. less than the boiling point of the mixture. Such method is known e.g. from the production of high performance bleaching earth (HPBE). The leaching is preferably performed with a low amount of acid compared to the amount of acid used in the manufacturing of HPBE. Preferably the amount of acid calculated as water-free acid and referring to the dried (water-free) adsorbent material, is selected within a range of 15 to 40 wt.-%, particularly preferred 20 to 30 wt.-%. Despite of the low amount of acid used for leaching of the adsorbent a significant increase in adsorption activity is achieved which is comparable to HPBE currently offered on the market.
The leaching of the adsorbent is performed in a usual way. The adsorbent material is cooked with the acid. The time for cooking is selected according to the amount of adsorbent material treated. Usually a leaching period of 2 to 12 h is sufficient to achieve the desired increase in bleaching activity. The slurry of the leached adsorbent material is then filtered and the solid adsorbent material is washed with water to remove salts that have formed during the acid treatment, and residual acid.
Surprisingly, the specific surface area as well as the pore volume of the adsorbent is not altered much during acid leaching. The adsorbent material treated with boiling or hot acid has a pore volume and a specific surface area that is preferably not enlarged by more than 20%. As a further advantage, the yield of the acid leaching is quite high. Preferably, the yield is in a range of 80 to 95%, based on the dry adsorbent material. For the acid leaching, preferably strong inorganic acids are used. Particularly preferred acids are sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid.
EXAMPLES
The following examples and FIGURE are presented in order to more fully explain and illustrate the invention. The examples are not to be construed as limiting the invention.
FIG. 1 shows the contents of sterylglycosides, acylated sterylglycosides and phosphor after treatment with different adsorbents (1%) at 40° C. in soybean oil when pre-degummed with 5% water and after-degummed with 2% water.
The physical features used to characterize the adsorbents used in the method according to the invention are determined as follows:
Specific Surface and Pore Volume
Specific surface and pore volume is determined by the BET-method (single-point method using nitrogen, according to DIN 66131) with an automatic nitrogen-porosimeter of Micrometrics, type ASAP 2010. The pore volume was determined using the BJH-method (E. P. Barrett, L. G. Joyner, P. P. Hienda, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 73 (1951) 373). Pore volumes of defined ranges of pore diameter were measured by summing up incremental pore volumina, which were determined from the adsorption isotherm according BJH. The total pore volume refers to pores having a diameter of 2 to 350 nm. The measurements provide as additional parameters the micropore surface, the external surface and the micropore volume. Micropores refer to pores having a pore diameter of up to 2 nm according to Pure & Applied Chem. Vol. 51, 603-619 (1985).
Humidity
The amount of water present in the adsorbent material at a temperature of 105° C. was determined according to DIN/ISO-787/2.
Silicate Analysis
The adsorbent material was totally disintegrated. After dissolution of the solids the compounds were analysed and quantified by specific methods, e.g. ICP.
a) Sample Disintegration
A 10 g sample of the adsorbent material is cominuted to obtain a fine powder which is dried in an oven at 105° C. until constant weight. About 1.4 g of the dried sample is deposited in a platinum bowl and the weight is determined with a precision of 0.001 g. Then the sample is mixed with a 4 to 6-fold excess (weight) of a mixture of sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate (1:1). The mixture is placed in the platinum bowl into a Simon-Müller-oven and molten for 2 to 3 hours at a temperature of 800-850° C. The platinum bowl is taken out of the oven and cooled to room temperature. The solidified melt is dissolved in distilled water and transferred into a beaker. Then concentrated hydrochloride acid is carefully added. After evolution of gas has ceased the water is evaporated such that a dry residue is obtained. The residue is dissolved in 20 ml of concentrated hydrochloric acid followed by evaporation of the liquid. The process of dissolving in concentrated hydrochloric acid and evaporation of the liquid is repeated once again. The residue is then moistened with 5 to 10 ml of aqueous hydrochloric acid (12%). About 100 ml of distilled water is added and the mixture is heated. To remove insoluble SiO₂, the sample is filtered and the residue remaining on the filter paper is thoroughly washed with hot hydrochloric acid (12%) and distilled water until no chlorine is detected in the filtrate.
b) Silicate Analysis
The SiO₂ is incinerated together with the filter paper and the residue is weighed.
c) Determination of Aluminium, Iron, Calcium and Magnesium
The filtrate is transferred into a calibrated flask and distilled water is added until the calibration mark. The amount of aluminium, iron, calcium and magnesium in the solution is determined by FAAS.
d) Determination of Potassium, Sodium and Lithium
A 500 mg sample is weighed in a platinum bowl with a precision of 0.1 mg. The sample is moistened with about 1 to 2 ml of distilled water and then four drops of concentrated sulphuric acid are added. About 10 to 20 ml of concentrated hydrofluoric acid is added and the liquid phase evaporated to dryness in a sand bath. This process is repeated three times. Finally H₂SO₄ is added to the dry residue and the mixture is evaporated to dryness on an oven plate. The platinum bowl is calcined and, after cooling to room temperature, 40 ml of distilled water and 5 ml hydrochloric acid (18%) is added to the residue and the mixture is heated to boiling. The solution is transferred into a calibrated 250 ml flask and water is added up to the calibration mark. The amount of sodium, potassium and lithium in the solution is determined by EAS.
Loss on Ignition
In a calcined and weighed platinum bowl about 0.1 g of a sample are deposited weighed in a precision of 0.1 mg. The platinum bowl is calcined for 2 hours at 1000° C. in an oven. Then the platinum bowl is transferred to an exsiccator and weighed.
Ion Exchange Capacity
The adsorbent material to be tested is dried at 150° C. for two hours. Then the dried material is allowed to react under reflux with a large excess of aqueous NH₄Cl solution for 1 hour. After standing at room temperature for 16 hours, the material is filtered. The filter cake is washed, dried, and ground, and the NH₄ content in the adsorbent material is determined by the Kjedahl method. The amount and kind of the exchanged metal ions is determined by ICP-spectroscopy.
XRD
The XRD spectra are measured with a powder diffractometer X'-Pert-MPD(PW 3040) (Phillips), equipped with a Cu-anode.
Determination of the Sediment Volume:
A graduated 100 ml glass cylinder is filled with 100 ml of distilled water or with an aqueous solution of 1% sodium carbonate and 2% trisodium polyphosphate. 2 g of the compound to be analysed is placed on the water surface in portions of about 0.1 to 0.2 g with a spatula. After sinking down of a portion, the next portion of the compound is added. After adding 2 g of the compound to be analysed the cylinder is held at room temperature for one hour. Then the sediment volume (ml/2 g) is read from the graduation.
Determination of Montmorillonite Proportion by Methylene Blue Adsorption
a) Preparation of a Tetrasodium Diphosphate Solution
- - 5.41 g tetrasodium diphosphate are weighed with a precision of 0,001 g in a calibrated 1000 ml flask and the flask is filled up to the calibration mark with distilled water and shaken repeatedly.
b) Preparation of a 0.5% Methylene Blue Solution
- - In a 2000 ml beaker, 125 g methylene blue is dissolved in about 1500 ml distilled water. The solution is decanted and then distilled water is added up to a volume of 25 l. - 0.5 g moist test bentonite having a known inner surface are weighed in an Erlenmeyer flask with a precision of 0.001 g. 50 ml tetrasodium diphosphate solution are added and the mixture is heated to boiling for 5 minutes. After cooling to room temperature, 10 ml H₂SO₄ (0.5 m) are added and 80 to 95% of the expected consumption of methylene blue solution is added. With a glass stick a drop of the suspension is transferred to a filter paper. A blue-black spot is formed surrounded by a colourless corona. Further methylene blue solution is added in portions of 1 ml and the drop test is repeated until the corona surrounding the blue-black spot shows a slightly blue colour, i.e. the added methylene blue is no longer adsorbed by the test bentonite.
c) Analysis of Adsorbent Materials
- - The test of the adsorbent material is performed in the same way as described for the test bentonite. On the basis of the spent methylene blue solution is calculated the inner surface of the adsorbent material. - According to this method 381 mg methylene blue/g adsorbent correspond to a content of 100% montmorillonite. Determination of Particle Size (Dry Sieve Residue)
Through a sieve cloth, a vacuum cleaner connected with the sieve aspirates over suction slit circling under the perforated sieve bottom all particles being finer than the inserted sieve being covered on top with an acrylic glass cover and leaves the coarser particles on the sieve. The experimental procedure is as follows: Depending on the product, between 5 and 25 g of air dried material is weighed in and is put on the sieve. Subsequently, the acrylic glass cover is put on the sieve and the machine is started. During air jet screening, the screening process can be facilitated by beating on the acrylic glass cover using the rubber hammer. Exhaustion time is between 1 and 5 minutes. The calculation of the dry screening residue in % is as follows: actual weight multiplied with 100 and divided by the initial weight.
Apparent Weight
A calibrated 1 l glass cylinder cut at the 1000 ml mark is weighed. By a powder funnel the sample is poured into the cylinder in a single step such that the cylinder is completely filled and a cone is formed on top of the cylinder. The cone is removed with help of a ruler and material adhering to the outside of the cylinder is removed. The filled cylinder is weighed again and the apparent weight is obtained by subtracting the weight of the empty cylinder.
Triglyceride Analysis
a) Determination of the Phosphorous Content
Phosporous content in the oil samples was analysed with ICP AES according to DEV E-22.
b) Analysis of the Sterylglycoside Content
Sterylglycoside analyses were performed externally at ASG, Neusäβ.
Determination of the Sterylglycoside and Acylated Sterylglycoside Content by Means of Analytical Thin Layer Chromatography
The chemicals needed are heptane, MTBE (methyl, tertiary butylether), acetone, methanol, pyridine, THF, water, DIBK (diisobutylketone) and acetic acid. The measuring range is between 5 to 1500 mg/kg.
1. Sample Preparation by Means of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)
2 g biodiesel or vegetable oil is weighed in Sarstedt tubes and the weight is noted down. 15 drops pyridine (p. A.) are added and shaken. The sample should be clear. The preparation is then diluted with 8 ml heptane/MTBE in the ratio 2:1 and shaken again. Commercially available SPE cartridges (silica gel) are conditioned with approx. 4 ml heptane (technical). After conditioning, the diluted sample is put into the SPE cartridge. When the complete material is transferred, it is washed with 5 ml heptane/MTBE (ratio 2:1). Then the SPE cartridge is set on a new test tube and acylated sterylglycosides as well as sterylglycosides are eluated with 4 ml acetone and 4 ml methanol. Afterwards it is evaporated to dryness in the heating block under N₂ stream. The residue is solved in 1 ml THF/H₂O in a ratio of 9:1 and filled in the GC vial.
2. Coating on Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Plate
By means of a coating tool the sample is put on the TLC plate with three dilutions each of the acylated sterylglycoside respectively sterylglycoside calibration standards.
3. Development and Immersion of the TLC Plate
4 ml solvent mixture, i.e. 90 DIBK, 25 acetic acid, 5H₂O, are filled in the horizontal TLC chamber. The TLC plate is put in the chamber with the glass side upwards. The TLC plate is removed when the solvent front has reached half of the length of the TLC plate. After this, the plate is dried in the drying oven under vacuum at 150° C. for 20 to 30 min. After cooling down the plate to room temperature, the preparation is immersed in Cu(II) acetate solution (Cu(II) acetate in 10% solution of (aqueous) H₃PO₄) for 2 seconds. The backside of the plate is then dried, lakes formed on the front side are blow-dried. Plate is developed at 90° C. for 5 minutes in the oven until all levels are visible.
4. Scan, Evaluation of the TLC Plates
The plate is put in the commercially available device and is then scanned. The result is calculated on a calibration curve previously set up with solutions of pure sterylglycosides and acylated sterylglycosides.
Example 1 Adsorbents Under Investigation
The adsorbent materials used in the examples according to the invention as well as in the comparative examples are described in the following. For the bleaching earths the characteristic properties are shown in table 3.
TABLE 3 properties of bleaching earths Bleaching Bleaching Bleaching Bleaching Adsorbent Earth 1 Earth 2 Earth 3 Earth 4 Type natural SMBE SMBE HPBE Dry sieve residue on 49 49 53 40 45 μm (%) Dry sieve residue on 35 38 41 29 63 μm (%) apparent weight (g/l) 292 350 380 550 Methylene blue 106 n.d. n.d. n.d. adsorption (mg/g sample) Moisture content (%) 8 9.7 8.1 10 pH (10 wt.-% in 7.6 ~3 2-4 2.2-4.8 water) cation exchange 52 n.d. 47 32 capacity (meq/100 g) BET surface (m²/g) 208.4 225 190 200 micropore volume 0.016 0.87 0.64 0.29 (cm³/g) (ml/g) (ml/g) (ml/g) cumulative pore 0.825 n.d. n.d. n.d. volume (BJH) for pore diameter 1.7- 300 nm (cm³/g) average pore 16.4 n.d. n.d. n.d. diameter (BJH) (nm) sediment volume 5.5 n.d. n.d. n.d. (ml/2 g)
Bleaching earth 1 is a natural bleaching earth, bleaching earths 2 and 3 are surface modified bleaching earths (SMBE), bleaching earth 4 is a high performance bleaching earth (HPBE).
In addition to bleaching earth the following commercial products based on synthetic oxide compounds:
- - Trisyl® 300 (silica gel for degumming, Grace) - Pural® SB (Boehmite, Sasol, Hamburg) - Siral® 45 (alumosilicate, Sasol, Hamburg)
For some of the following experiments bleaching earths and commercially available products were blended.
Example 2 Purification of Crude Soybean Oil
Crude soybean oil with 170 ppm P, 152 ppm acylated sterylglycosides and 24 ppm non acylated sterylglycosides is pre-degummed with 5 wt.-% of water by stirring at 40° C. for 1 h. Phase separation is performed by 15 min centrifugation at 4000 Rpm. The oil phase is completely recovered. Samples of 20 g of the residual oil phase are taken, 1 wt.-% of adsorbent is added, followed by 1 h stirring at 40° C. Then, 2 wt.-% of water are added and the mixture is stirred for another 30 min at 40° C. Afterwards, centrifugation is performed for 15 min at 4000 Rpm and the oil phase is isolated and analysed with respect to the P-content and the sterylglycoside content according to the analytical methods described before. The results are summarized in table 6 and FIG. 1. (In FIG. 1 the sterylglycoside concentration of the non-acylated form is not shown as all adsorbents reduce the content of the latter below the detection limit).
TABLE 6 Concentration of impurities in soybean oil before and after adsorbent treatment Sterylglyco- Acetylated side (non- steryl- Phosphorous Soybean oil F 1818 acylated) glycosides [ppm] crude oil 24 152 170 pre-deg. 10 48 110 Bleaching earth 2 <5 33 56 Bleaching earth 1 <5 48 75 Siral ® 45 <5 16 11 Trisyl ® 300 <5 59 61 Pural ® SB <5 11 100 Bleaching earth 4 <5 46 115 Bleaching earth 3 <5 36 77 Pural ® SB/Bleaching <5 24 75 earth 1 (0.25% + 0.75%) Pural ® SB/Bleaching <5 22 70 earth 2 (0.25% + 0.75%) Pural ® SB/Siral ® 45 <5 11 32 (0.25% + 0.75%)
The data demonstrate that state of the art materials for oil treatment like high performance bleaching earth and silica gel show only limited reduction of both, P and sterylglycosides in acylated form. Superior effects can be achieved with natural bleaching earths, SMBEs and alumosilicates. Boehmite is especially suitable for reduction of sterylglycosides and can be used in mixtures with other inorganic synthetic compounds. As mixing components it is especially suitable to increase the adsorption capacity of adsorbents for acylated sterylglycosides.
Example 3 Treatment of a Soybean/Palm Oil Mixture
A predegummed soybean/palm oil mixture with 5.8 ppm P is treated with the bleaching earth 3 with dosages from 0.8 to 2.0 wt.-%. The complete results of bleaching, metal removal, P reduction and sterylglycoside content of the treated oil are presented in table 7.
TABLE 7 bleaching, metal removal, P reduction and sterylglycoside content of the oil treated with bleaching earth 3 bleaching acyl- PFX 995-m steryl- steryl- dos. temp. time pressure 5¼″ Chl. A Fe Al Cu Ca Mg Na P S glycosides glycosides bleaching earth (%) (° C.) (min) (mbar) red yellow (ppm) (ppm) (ppm) unbleached, <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 0.3 0.5 19 15 5 10 88 unfiltered unbleached, 1″ 3.6 70+ 1.01 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 0.3 0.3 8.0 5.8 4 <5 59 filtered Tonsil 9192 0.8 95 10 30 3.8 70+ 0.06 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 0.1 <1 0.9 3 <5 65 FF (B 2356 A) Tonsil 9192 1.5 95 10 30 2.3 70+ 0.01 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <1 <0.8 2 <5 50 FF (B 2356 A) Tonsil 9192 2.0 95 10 30 2.1 70+ 0.00 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <0.1 <1 <0.8 2 <5 34 FF (B 2356 A) Bleaching: . . . % b.e., 95° C., 10 min, 30 mbar
The results show that with increasing dosage of surface-modified bleaching earth, the content of acyl-sterylglycosides is lowered. In parallel the P content is reduced to less than 20% of the original value already with the lowest dosage of bleaching earth 3.
The invention claimed is:
1. A method for the production of biodiesel, comprising the steps of: a) Providing crude oil with a phosphorus-content of more than 10 ppm and a sterylglycoside-content of more than 5 ppm; b) contacting said crude oil from step a) with at least one adsorbent to form a biodiesel precursor, wherein the at least one adsorbent comprises a matrix formed from amorphous silica gel and a smectite phase, wherein the amorphous silica gel is comprised in the adsorbent in an amount of at least 25 wt. % and the smectite phase is present in an amount of at least 10 wt. % and less than 60 wt. %₁ wherein the adsorbent further has: an aluminum content, calculated as Al₂O₃, of more than 2 wt. % and less than 15 wt. %; a silicon content, calculated as SiO₂, of at least 45 wt. % and less than 95 wt. %; a BET surface of at least 100 m²/g; a total pore volume of at least 0.2 ml/g; and a cation exchange capacity of more than 40 meq/100 q; c) separating the adsorbent from the biodiesel precursor; and d) subjecting the biodiesel precursor obtained from step c) to a biodiesel production process.
2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of: e) obtaining biodiesel compliant with the EU norm EN 14214 regarding the contents of phosphorus and sterylglycosides from step d).
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one adsorbent is added in an amount from 0.1 to 10 weight-% to the crude oil.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the contacting according to step b) of the crude oil and the at least one adsorbent is carried out at a temperature of from 10 to 100° C.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the crude oil is subjected to a pre-degumming process before contacting the crude oil with at least one adsorbent.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the surface area according to BET of the at least one adsorbent is at least 120 m²/g.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the total pore volume according to BJH of the at least one adsorbent is at least 0.35 ml/g.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the Si-content (calculated as SiO₂) of the at least one adsorbent is at least 45 weight-%.
9. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least 60 of the pores of the at least one adsorbent have a pore diameter of at least 140 A.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one adsorbent is selected from the group consisting of clays, organic oxides, synthetic inorganic oxides, and mixtures thereof.
11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one adsorbent is selected from the group consisting of pyrophyllites, sepiolites, attapulgites, smectites, vermiculites, Si-oxides, Al-oxides, Mg-oxides, Zn-oxides, Ti-oxides, alumosilicates and mixtures thereof..
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Freedom of speech outweighs offence the remarks may cause Qatar, argues judge.
A German court has ruled that Theo Zwanziger, the former president of the German Football Federation (DFB), is free to repeat his assertion that “Qatar is a cancer on world football”.
Zwanziger, who was president of the DFB until 2012 and has been involved in a 2006 World Cup scandal, first uttered the comment in 2015 to the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, adding that the bidding process that chose Qatar to host the 2022 finals should be reviewed in the wake of last year’s Fifa corruption scandal.
The Qatar Football Association filed a lawsuit over the remark claiming it showed collective disrespect and Zwanziger should not be allowed to repeat it.
But Düsseldorf’s regional court ruled that while the comment was offensive, Zwanziger was not obliged under German law to change his wording or be banned from repeating it.
“Those criticising public abuses do not have to use the mildest possible medium to highlight their points of view,” the court said in a statement.
“It has nothing to do with public defamation of the Qatar Football Association, as it was about the legality and checks regarding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar that were at the forefront.
“With respect to the sporting, financial and political importance of a football World Cup host, the purpose for the comment, which was about drawing attention to the critical working process and decision of Fifa, is set higher than the honour of the Qatar Football Association.’
Zwanziger has said he was not referring to the Qatari people with his comment, but the bidding process that landed the 2022 World Cup.
Fifa, where Zwanziger was previously an executive committee member, faced several investigations last year leading to dozens of individuals being arrested on corruption charges.
A Frankfurt prosecutor is also formally investigating Zwanziger and other former football officials for suspected tax fraud in relation to a payment to Fifa ahead of to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
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@JacksonStrong Right, it's the fault of anti-gouging laws. Because if gouging were allowed, and only the richest could afford to buy gas, there would be no shortage.
1 year, 4 months ago on As NY floods, “Robin Hood” Uber robs from the rich and… Nope, that’s about it | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '11', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.914858341217041}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14065', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZK5DZDK336KJKRDJWSVUVJJROFDORRUS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6dce2404-1f05-4696-834c-69d25cb54d81>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 10, 16, 40, 55), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.236.172.127', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FT5QUX6KE2VSYWIOTH75FAKNX42XNQHM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:28d9223a-0cde-47a7-aa6f-ea92094d458e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.livefyre.com/profile/7977959/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:253702fa-e826-49c6-8c86-b7cbad9ad2f4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '51', 'url': 'http://www.livefyre.com/profile/7977959/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.2260647416114807', 'original_id': '33be4f8cb84a856090821d018e3a78c36564246585f79f4c94828247215339ea'} |
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Hashes a string to an hyper-edge with coupled indices.
For a string, generates a set of indices such that the indices are close to each as described in
seed An integer seed for hash functions.
table_size The hash table size of the IBLT. Must be a positive integer.
repetitions The number of repetitions in IBLT data structure. Must be at least 3.
rescale_factor A float to rescale table_size to table_size / rescale_factor + 1. This number is denoted as z in Must be non-negative and no greater than table_size - 1.
ValueError If arguments do not meet expectations.
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Computes the indices at which the given strings in IBLT.
data_strings A list of strings to be hashed.
hash_indices vector of repetitions hash values of data_string, in {0,...,table_size-1}.
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Returns Tensor containing hash-position of (input string, repetition).
data_strings A tf.Tensor of strings.
A tf.Tensor of shape (input_length, repetitions, 3) containing value i at index (i, r, 0), value r at index (i, r, 1) and the hash-index of the i-th input string in repetition r at index (i, r, 2). | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7241324782371521}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '334836', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M2IH2HV4MACXSEATAEZHZNSU7P2C2OPK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c5e2f134-78db-46bc-ad4d-fe34628f4ea5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 27, 0, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.253.62.101', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FJBZWTJNCCPZFFHNGF4D376V4ZNNYIOC', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:34b37acb-f5d5-4676-9cdd-d169152b6b01>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.tensorflow.org/federated/api_docs/python/tff/analytics/heavy_hitters/iblt/CoupledHyperEdgeHasher?hl=pt', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d7d255dc-4755-49be-b8be-31c1997e2362>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '202', 'url': 'https://www.tensorflow.org/federated/api_docs/python/tff/analytics/heavy_hitters/iblt/CoupledHyperEdgeHasher?hl=pt', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-127\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': '0.03553217649459839', 'original_id': '041fe4c232e493f7f24feaea44875a6fdb3ea3a80468d4b19dfc7f192ae98196'} |
Friday, December 7, 2018
Meowy Christmas!
Hi everyone...Lee-Ann here and I have a quick cutie to share with the new AWESOME Snowglobe dies from Jaded Blossom-LOVE!!!! Thanks for stopping by...Lee-Ann :)
1. Jaded Blossom-Santa Paws, Snowglobe dies, Scalloped Rectangle dies
2. PTI white card stock
3. Neenah Solar white card stock
4. Versafine Onyx black ink
5. Bell brads-Hobby Lobby
6. Queen and Co 6" pad-Christmas Cheer
7. Nuvo Crystal Drops-simply white
8. Nuvo Crystal Glaze
9. Copics Markers
10. Signo white gel pen
11. Simon Says Intense black ink
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A Day in the Life Lyrics
I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
but I just had to look
Having read the book.
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Somebody spoke and I went into a dream
I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
I'd love to turn you on
Lead Singer: John/Paul
Recording: 1/19/67, 1/20/67, 2/3/67, 2/10/67, 2/22/67, 3/1/67
Mixing: 1/30/67, 2/13/67, 2/22/67, 2/23/67
Length: 5:03
Take: 7
Switch click as orchestra comes in (Right)
Right ear - intake of breath
(Left channel) sounds like a cough
4:52-end * NEW *
[1] Rumour has it that the alarm clock was timed to go off after 24 bars to mark where the downbeat is. Common sense should tell you that this is nonsense. You cannot set an alarm clock to go off with anything like that accuracy. The more likely explanation is that the alarm was "let off" -- deliberately triggered by hand at that moment. Lewisohn states this was a mechanism to mark the end of the passage. However, it seems an odd thing to do, especially when there was already a vocal count of bars. * NEW * However odd this seems, it may well be true. I've had justifications of why the count of bars (on its own) is insufficient to cue the orchestra.
JustToJess@aol.com writes:-
I've spent my entire life since I was three in musical theatre, and I can assure you that many people do need to "wake up" after 24 bars of music. Not that they have poor concentration, or that they would have missed the cue, but after rehearsing this song over and over and over again, and after countless takes, it is VERY reasonable to assume that the alarm clock (most likely hit from the piano - people do have slips of the tongue, you know) got them back into the music, and started that "umph" that they needed to maintain the same quality of . . . atmosphere? carisma? I don't know the right word, but just that little bit of enthusiasm and excitement by the performers that gives the song that special somthing. I know that many a director I have worked with has done something like this during long, tedious rehersals.
* NEW * Yes, it fits in with the "Woke up..." line. I don't know if that was intentional or not, but it is widely written that fitting with the lyrics was only coincidental, and the alarm clock's purpose was primarily and originally as a marker. Nothing more.
* NEW * There is a very subtle distinction between "setting an alarm clock to go off" and "setting an alarm clock off". The former implies an interval passing between doing something with the clock, and having it sound 24 bars later. The latter implies direct interference with the clock to make it sound now. The latter is the only reasonable explanation.
This was recorded in 3 sessions: First the basic track, then the orchestra, then the last note was dubbed in.
The beginning was based on 2 stories John Lennon read in the paper: Guinness heir Tara Browne dying when he smashed his lotus into a parked van, and an article in the UK Daily Express in early 1967 which told of how the Blackburn Roads Surveyor had counted 4000 holes in the roads of Blackburn and commented that the volume of material needed to fill them in was enough to fill the Albert Hall. (thanks, Ed - Perth, Australia)
The final chord was produced by all 4 Beatles and George Martin banging on 3 pianos simultaneously. As the sound diminished, the engineer boosted to faders.
The final note lasts 42 seconds. The studio air conditioners can be heard toward the end as the faders were pushed to the limit to record it.
Keith Richards named his second son Tara after Tara Brown, the Guinness heir who smashes his car in Lennon's 1st verse. Richard's son was premature and died soon after birth.
A car dealer and Beatle friend Terry Doran helped come up with the lyric "Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall." (thanks, Jes - Mason City, IA)
In the original take, a 41 piece orchestra was not used. Instead, Lennon had Ringo count to 21 in a very trippy manner. This version is on the 2nd Anthology CD, and is a very different version than the one on Sgt. Pepper. (thanks, Emery - San Jose, CA)
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How to Draw Winnie the Pooh
Winnie the Pooh
Use the video and step-by-step drawing instructions below to learn how to draw Disney's Winnie the Pooh. A new cartoon drawing tutorial is uploaded every week, so stay tooned!
Intro: Start drawing Winnie the Pooh with a pencil sketch. In the beginning stages, don't press down too hard. Use light, smooth strokes for sketching.
Draw Winnie the Pooh Step 1
Step 1: To draw Winnie the Pooh, start by sketching a small circle near the top of the page. This will be the basic shape for Winnie the Pooh's head. Under that circle and slightly to the right, draw a bigger circle. This will be the basic shape for Winnie the Pooh's body.
Draw Winnie the Pooh Step 2
Step 2: Next, draw two intersecting lines in the head circle. First draw a vertical line dividing the circle perfectly in half. Angle it slightly from the top left to the bottom right. Draw another line, but make it horizontal and closer to the top of the circle, rather than directly in the middle of the head circle. These construction lines will help you place Winnie the Pooh's features later on.
Draw Winnie the Pooh Step 3
Step 3: To draw guides for Pooh's arms and legs, draw a line that starts at the lower left side of the head and comes down and grazes the body circle. Draw another line going straight up from the top right side of the circle. Under the body circle, draw two vertical lines. The leg on the left will cross his body circle, but the right will not.
Draw Winnie the Pooh Step 4
Step 4: On the head circle, right below the horizontal construction line and in between the vertical construction line, draw an upside-down triangle to create this cartoon character's nose. Below that triangle, draw a wide U-shaped curve for his mouth. On top of Winnie the Pooh's head on either, draw two small circles for his ears.
Draw Winnie the Pooh Step 5
Step 5: Where Winnie the Pooh’s left arm begins, draw an upside-down U with a line connecting the open part of the U. Draw a similar shape on the other arm, only this time upside-down. These are the basic shapes for Winnie the Pooh's sleeves.
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My first vote as a U.S. citizen
Photo by D.L. AndersonTiffany Cooper, an organizer with N.C. PIRG, at N.C. Central University in Durham on Election Day
A little more than 20 years after moving to the United States, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, I finally became a U.S. citizen.
Some speechifying, mercifully free of corniness and condescension, and one amber-waves-of-grain inspirational video later, my fellow new citizens and I lined up for our certificates. The man from Guyana tucked his American flag into his breast pocket, held his certificate aloft and kissed it, while the women from the League of Women Voters handed out voter registration cards.
The very next day I spent the evening looking up candidate websites. I had put off this research (in true American fashion) because I had assumed I wouldn't get naturalized in time for this election. But in a rare instance of forethought on the part of North Carolina, citizens are allowed to register and vote on the same day during the early voting period. This enabled me to vote in my very first election ever, presidential or otherwise.
And yes, the presidential race is one of the reasons I shuffled down the citizenship path. I was born in Canada, not a shabby country to find oneself born in, all things considered. Prior to this year, I had never felt like my living here, but not voting, mattered in a presidential election. But it does now, because Obama won North Carolina in 2008 and the polls show he's neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney now.
Suddenly, because of the goofball Electoral College, the vote of a single left-to-center Obama supporter like me could tippy-tip the entire state and country. Power-hungry, I sent my naturalization application and $680 (yes, it costs that much) this past summer and crossed my fingers that I would make the deadline. I did.
On Friday, Oct. 19, I sauntered to Carrboro Town Hall. I couldn't resist telling everybody I had just become naturalized, I was getting to vote, aren't you thrilled? I am! And that was that: an application, interview, test, citizenship ceremony, a bit of Internet research, seven minutes at a friendly polling joint, and one "I voted today!" sticker later, I was finally legit enough to call people out if they were derelict in their civic duty—and not be a hypocrite about it.
As a musician and an artist, my work often focuses on the unreliability of memory, the smudgy edges of history forgotten or misremembered. I kept having conversations that felt like some sci-fi menace had wiped clean the memories of people I knew. The Bush era just happened—but all I was hearing was Obama's inability to fix everything quickly and perfectly.
It is easy to get cynical about the slow rate of change, but we owe it to ourselves to make sure that kind of eight-year misery doesn't happen again. So, as much for this country as for myself, I became a citizen to do my small part in making that possible, through the simple act of voting. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '1b6985db464a32a0e6b7a7e91c055ef388c149fe36863eb3a51d6875d93c6b4d'} |
This first post consists of the first English translation of an important early document which gives an account of the first 5 years of Letterist history.
What makes it of real interest is that it is written from the perspective of the Lettrist International (LI) – the group initially made up of Guy Debord, Gil Wolman, Serge Berna and Jean-Louis Brau that broke from Isidore Isou in late 1952.
I was actually surprised at how restrained the document is in it’s polemics against the Isouian Letterist group. It’s main concern truly does appear to be to document the early years of the movement. Also interesting is that the major proportion of the text is devoted to a quite “orthodox” discussion of Letterist poetry – an interest that the LI abandoned very early on.
The french edition of the text (published by Jean-Paul Rocher in 2010) notes that the document appears to have been written between the publishing of the second and third issues of the Internationale Lettriste journal (February-August 1953) – as Serge Berna had been excluded by the third issue.
Click on the image above or on this link to download the text as a PDF. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e7f7b076013708cee4cf629980125116c02f5f3497264eff2eab32737b2c980e'} |
Removing packages SOP
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Removing Packages - SOP
From time to time packages will get 'dropped' or removed from the distribution. To prevent the last build of these packages from continuing to show up in composes of updates or future collections the package must be 'blocked' from the appropriate tags in Koji.
Blocking a package in koji simply prevents it from being listed in normal operations unless specifically sought out. Due to how inheritance works any "downstream" tags will inherit the block as well, so blocking the package at the appropriate place (oldest tag) could take care of all other effected tags.
The 'block-pkg' koji command is used to block packages.
-h, --help show this help message and exit
For example, if we are asked to remove stickywidgets from Fedora 8 and newer releases we would issue:
$ koji block-pkg dist-f8 stickywidgets
After which dist-f8 and any collection that inherits from dist-f8 will now block stickywidgets.
To verify that the block was successful you can use one of two (or both) methods.
The list-pkgs command to koji can be coerced to display blocked packages. For example:
$ koji list-pkgs --tag dist-f8 --package hunspell-he --show-blocked
Package Tag Extra Arches Owner
hunspell-he dist-f8 caolanm [BLOCKED]
The latest-pkg command to koji will not display blocked packages. Therefor after blocking a package you can ensure it's really blocked by using list-pkg:
$ koji latest-pkg dist-f8 hunspell-he
Build Tag Built by
No output means that the package was in fact blocked.
Below is a list of considerations to take into account when blocking a package. Please fill in more as you think about them.
1. Be extra cautious about blocking packages in a released distribution. You'll want to be sure you're blocking it from the updates pool and not the base tag. 1. Make sure that you're being asked to block at the srpm level. Blocking sub-packages cannot be done, but will happen naturally when the source package no longer builds the sub package. 1. Ensure we're not breaking any deps by removing the package
To determine this, do:
repoquery -q --whatrequires --repoid <repo> <list of packages produced by this source rpm> --alldeps
to catch binary dependencies and:
repoquery -q --whatrequires --repoid <repo>-source --archlist src <list of packages produced by this source rpm> --alldeps
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How Much Water or Fluid?
The amount of water or fluid an infant or child needs varies depending on factors such as body size, environmental conditions, normal dietary intake and level of physical activity. As a guide though, 1-1.5 litres per day, is suggested. From 12 months of age onwards it is recommended that most of this fluid is tap water.
Encouraging children to drink water
• Introduce water soon after introducing solids.
• Provide children with their own water bottles, which they can take with them wherever they go.
• Make tap water readily available, particularly at meal and snack times.
• Always have a jug or bottles of tap water in the fridge.
• Only have sweetened drinks on special occasions.
Tap water vs bottled water
Tap water is preferable to commercial bottled water because tap water contains fluoride. Fluoride is essential for helping to prevent tooth decay and tooth erosion.
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Lift Heavy, Shoot Straight: Desert Brutality 2019
This was the second year for this event, and since I won a plate carrier the first year, I decided to shoot in armored division this year. To allow more people to shoot the match, the match directors put out a request for volunteers to shoot it early and complete all 8 stages in one day. I jumped at it. In addition to giving someone else a chance to shoot on the weekend, it gave me the additional challenge of doing it in half the time and gave me the weekend to drive home.
A new rule was put in place this year, that you cannot leave any targets standing. Last year there were a few stages where I left a difficult target in order to get to the part of the stage I would enjoy more. Overall, I like the change, as it eliminated uncertainty of how much time to spend on each part of the stage, and it didn’t prevent me from getting to anything that I really wanted to do.
Note: As usual, pictures were taken whenever I had time, often when the stage was being reset, and sometimes show people downrange. Obviously everyone got off the course before shooting started.
Stage 1: Office Space51607290_10217141364233488_2720853582923431936_n.jpg
Start with pistol holstered, rifle empty and slung. Use your pistol to engage the evil Polish plate rack (targets start spinning as soon as you knock out the first one), clear pistol, then crawl under this table:
Run to the next door and engage two mini-mo targets (a hit to the center of the chest pops up a head target, which you then hit and knock back down) go over a desk to a barricade at the next door:
And shoot the Texas star through the ports, one shot per port, cycling through all of the top five holes.
Then find a way through and over this mess:
Engage one more mini mo target, clear the pistol, and run to the bleachers for the rifle portion.
Several shooting positions were marked behind the bleachers. One shot, move, one shot, move until you clear the plate racks.
My run: I had a lot of trouble with the Polish plates, and even more with the barricade, where I timed out.
Stage 2: Fighting holes.
Start way around the corner from the targets.
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You run around the berm, crawl over these water containers:
Shoot one steel target, then a lot of paper targets as you move towards three fighting holes.
Get in the first hole, hit three steel targets, go back to the first, hit them all again, then run to the next hole and repeat.
I started out with a dumb mistake, firing the first shot and realizing I had forgotten my hearing protection. The second run went reasonably well, balanced moving quickly with controlling breathing to make my hits. I was bringing my sights on target for the last shot when I timed out. One shot shy, I’ll take it.
Stage 3- Obstacles and Rabbits
This stage was a lot of fun. Pistol holstered, rifle slung, run and climb over these obstacles:
Load the rifle, shoot the bad guys hiding among all the no-shoots-
Clear rifle, run to the next bay, engage some paper, kick over an activator that launches a “rabbit,” a clay pigeon that is rolled along the ground. Shoot the rabbit without hitting the no-shoot that it rolls behind.
Clear rifle, run to next bay, draw pistol, shoot some small steel targets, run up and kick another activator for another rabbit.
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All of that in 3 minutes or less.
My run: I did well with the rifle, waited for the rabbit to clear the no-shoot then machine-gunned it. I was gassed and breathing hard when I got to the pistol. The coaching from the RO changed suddenly when I hit the last steel target. “Slow press, make your hits, good.” *Last hit.* “HURRY RUN GO GO GO JUST SHOOT AT IT!!”
I emptied my magazine at the rabbit, didn’t hit it. There is no penalty for missing the rabbits, 15 second bonus for hitting them, but a 1-minute penalty if you don’t at least get a shot of at them. This was the reason the RO told me to hurry. I finished with less than 2 seconds to spare.
Stage 4: Kasarda Drill
This one is as simple as it is brutal. Go prone, make one hit on the bottom of the spinner, throw the 62# kettlebell. Run to the kettle bell, go prone, one hit. Repeat until you reach the 50 yard marker, then engage/flip the spinner.
I did reasonably well at this stage, although a malfunction on the rifle used up enough time that I didn’t complete the spinner. Stuck case, collapsed the stock to mortar-clear it, stock then got stuck in the collapsed position. I ended up reaching the 50 yard mark with about 10 seconds left.
Stage 5- Lt Dan and the Mortar Tube
Start in the shoot house with 5 rounds in the rifle, all other ammo in the plate carrier in the next bay. engage 5 clay pigeons in cardboard backers from the doors/windows:
Then run, pick up your ammo, rescue Lt. Dan (the steel silhouette weight), and carry him back to the shoot house.
Drop Lt. Dan, run to the next bay, engage a steel target with the rifle, then pick up and carry the mortar tube.
Go back to the shoot house, drop the tube, draw your pistol, engage two steel targets, and clean up any of the clay pigeons that you didn’t get with the rifle.
Lt. Dan is heavy. I came in just a touch slow, again timing out one shot shy of completing it. Still had a lot of fun with this.
Stage 6- Wobbly Prone and Pistol Spinner.
Start at the back of the bay next to your targets, run to this suspended platform:
The platform moves from you getting onto it, keeps moving, and even recoil is enough to make it move more. Targets are clay pigeons in cardboard backers and one static steel target. Break one clay, one hit on steel, next clay, one hit on steel, repeat until all the clays are broken. Then run over to the rooftop prop and engage the pistol spinner.
The wobbly table was something I could work with once I got used to it. The clays with cardboard behind are a deceptively difficult target. They are just small enough for close-range holdoffs to be necessary, and the cardboard prevents you from seeing where the bullets are hitting, so when you are missing it is much more difficult to correct. My repeated missing low eventually tore a big enough hole for me to see where I was hitting, and then I could hold off and start making hits. I think I had four of the five clays broken when I timed out.
Stage 7: Screw It, I’ll Bomb Tokyo Myself!
Start seated in the back of a WWII bomber mockup:
Run to the window, pick up your rifle, and engage paper targets through the windows.51057068_10217141391034158_196810360873811968_n.jpg
Climb up the stairs and engage more targets from the cockpit.
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Drop the rifle into a sled at the front of the plane, run to the back and pick up the bomb.
Carry the bomb to the next bay, drop it on the bullseye (tire on the ground) then engage some steel pistol targets while moving across platforms.
I completed this stage with only one hiccup. I walked past a target, had to moonwalk backward to go back and get it, then forgot what targets I had already hit and just shot them all again. (Guys taping the targets referred to it as “You straight up murdered those people.”)
Stage 8- Math Class
Flip over a card that will give you the number 2, 3, or 5. You then must engage all numbered targets divisible by that number.
After you flip the card, pick up the machine gun and carry it through the tunnel.
Get yourself and the machine gun under the roof, and engage the numbered targets. If you hit the wrong number, it counts as a no-shoot.
Run to the next bay, put the machine gun and rifle in the trunk, climb into the car through the passenger window, and engage targets with your pistol.
My run: I skipped one target due to a simple brain-fart, other than that shot it clean. I was later to learn that there are more elegant ways of getting through a car window than the headlong dive that I used.
With that, we were done, and we managed to get the last shooter through about 20 minutes before we lost daylight. Great time and I learned a lot, both from experience and from advice from my fellow shooters.
A closing note for my readers who are intrigued by this type of shooting but worried that they are not yet skilled enough to go to a match: You will notice that I timed out of more stages than I completed. I still had fun, still learned things that will help me do better next time. As long as you can handle a gun safely, all that anyone asks is that you show up and do your best.
No One Cares What You Can Do Fresh: Heavy Drop Training Round VIII-18
I had only a rough idea of what this program was when I signed up for it, but had heard several people say that it was extremely effective. I had 6 weeks open in the training plan I had laid out, and it allows me to get an awesome patch, so I signed up for it.
Before starting, you determine how strong and fast you are when you are fresh. How many pushups can you do in 2 minutes, situps in 2 minutes, burpees in 5 minutes. You also have a run and a ruck for time, at whatever distances you choose. (I did a 3-mile run and a 4 mile ruck.)
Basic plan
It is a 6 week program. You choose either the sandbag or bodyweight version (I did sandbag) and to have a battle buddy or to “fly solo” (I had a battle buddy).
You earn points for every workout, run and ruck you do, and the team with the most points wins a discounted entry into the next round. This is where having a battle buddy helps a lot for motivation. I will sometimes slack off and make excuses to not get a workout in when it is just me. When missing a workout would be letting down a teammate, I’ll find a way to get it done.
Every week you have 3 main workouts (upper body, lower and core) and one bonus workout (called a “care package”). In addition, you have one run or ruck each week (run one week, ruck the next), one 6-mile ruck that needs done within the first 3 weeks, and a 12-mile ruck within the last 3 weeks. So your to-do list looks something like this:
Week 1: 3 main workouts, care package, run. You may do the 6-mile ruck anytime in the next 3 weeks.
Week 2: 3 main workouts, care package, ruck.
Week 3: 3 main workouts, care package, run. Get the 6-miler done if you have not done it yet.
Week 4: 3 main workouts, care package, ruck. 12-mile ruck is now fair game.
Week 5: 3 main workouts, care package, run. Check your run time improvement and feel good about your progress.
Week 6: 3 main workouts, care package, ruck. 12 miler if it is not done yet. Get all of this done a day early. (More on that later.)
The Workouts
The slogan “no one cares what you can do fresh” didn’t make a lot of sense to me at first. Then I did the first workout, and it was perfectly clear. We test how many pushups you can do, do a bunch of exercises to wear out every muscle involved with pushups, and test how many pushups you can do at the end. How much can you do when you are already worn out?
Workouts for the coming week are posted on Sunday, with YouTube videos showing how to do each movement. Basic format is usually do several rounds of one exercise with specified rest breaks, then repeat the process for another four or five exercises. For example:
4 rounds of 12 crocodile pushups with maximum of 60 seconds rest between rounds.
3 rounds of 15 sandbag cleans, 60 seconds max rest.
4 rounds of 10 overhead sandbag press, 30 seconds max rest.
3 rounds of 10 ruck rollers, 60 seconds rest.
4 rounds of 10 sandbag ground to shoulder, 90 seconds rest.
Now that you can barely lift your arms, test pushups.
60 seconds rest, test pushups again. This last set will be very humbling, but also push you to give it all you have.
(Quick tip: I found it useful to set a stopwatch on my phone and leave it visible through my workout. I could see that I finished that set of ruck rollers at 7:04, so I need to start the next one before 8:04.)
Care Packages
Weekly bonus workouts are posted on Tuesdays. They generally don’t look too bad when you read them, and suddenly seem a lot more difficult when you start doing them. Most are in the format of set a timer, and do as many rounds as possible of this list of exercises, i.e. 20 minutes of 10 overhead press, 10 good morning, 10 squats and 10 cleans, rinse and repeat.
Rucks and Runs
Each week, you will be given a time goal for your run or ruck, based on your previous time. The goals were more ambitious than I would have set for myself, but I managed to hit them more often than not.
You are given access to an online spreadsheet to mark your workouts done and note particular details (like how many pushups you could do at the end of the upper body workout). Your battle buddy then fills in the points for what you have gotten done (3 points for a workout, one point for a care package, run, or ruck). The point value for the 6 mile and 12 mile ruck are determined after you do them, so you don’t know in advance how important they are to your score.
Now for my advice about getting everything done a day early: If there is a tie for winners (top 3 teams get prizes), then the tie breaker is a care-package-like workout that needs done that last Sunday of the program. Do not be that guy who has to do that on the same day as the 12-mile ruck. I was that guy, and it was not pleasant.
Should you not make it into the tie breaker, the workout is posted where you can access it. Do it anyway and see how your score ranks.
The hype on this program turned out to be true. I took a few minutes off of my ruck and run times, and had significant improvement in all of my pushup/situp/burpee scores.
While it is not what I tend to judge workouts on, I did notice that this is one of the few programs I have been on that made a visible difference in how my body looks in this short of a timespan. Muscles of my upper arms, shoulders, and back have grown noticeably, my posture has improved a bit, and the muscles that my ruck straps bear on don’t wear out on long rucks like they used to.
I absolutely reccomend this program. If interested, you can check it out here.
No Squads, No Problem: Red Oktober Kalashnikov Championship 2018
This was my second year at this match, and my first time here as a regular competitor rather than a volunteer, so it was interesting to see the new changes.
Overall, stages were shorter and simpler than last year. Not working the match allowed me to check out vendors and shoot new guns for free (including the full auto pictured above) which was awesome. The biggest change was the new idea of “open squadding.” Instead of a group going from one stage to the next together, in order, you could individually go to any stage at any time, so if there is a long wait at one stage you can bypass it and come back to it later. It worked well, as there was only one stage that I had to wait a significant time on.
Going through the stages in the order I shot them, numbers based on my memory.
Stage 3- Start in this box:
Run to the table, pick up your rifle, and engage 6 steel targets with one shot each. Then run to the next table:43335414_10216287868216621_5679977567583469568_n.jpg
And shoot 6 more targets. Left handed shooters go to the opposite table first, to make it easier to keep the muzzle downrange when running between the two.
Stage 4- Shoot paper targets from colored planks. You must be completely on the plank when you shoot, and you shoot the targets color-coded to the plank you are on.
Stage 5- Rivet press and shoot house.
You start seated at a press, compress a 7.62 case to shorter than a 9mm case, pull a cord to activate a moving target, then grab your rifle and engage all the targets through the windows. You have four 10-round magazines that are located around the shoothouse.
I did not get good photos of the inside of the shoot house, but here are the photos I have to either side of it.
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Stage 6: You start with the rifle in one hand and this sickle in the other:
At the start beep, you stab the fascist invader with the sickle:
The cord attached to the sickle activates a moving target, then you shoot and move around the barricades to engage all targets. 43312933_10216287873416751_3123531089323229184_n.jpg
I noticed on this stage that many shooters were considering the sickle as just an activation switch, which takes a little of the fun out of it. If the idea is stabbing the enemy before you start shooting, it is so much more fun to do it in character.
“Shooter ready. Stand by. BEEP.”
As I was leaving, I heard the next shooter behind me also start with a battle cry.
Stage 7- Crawl through the tunnel with an AK mag with one round in it, fire one round through the stage gun, then pick up your gun, shoot paper targets on either side of you, then go into the tank and shoot the rest of the targets through the ports. (A bit of explanation: This was originally intended to have a bolt-action as the stage gun, which would have made more sense than shooting their AK and then your AK. The bolt action they intended to use had a mechanical failure, so they substituted a basic AK to keep going.)
This was one of a couple stages where I decided to do things that made it more fun for me, but that likely hurt my score. I engaged all the targets that I could from the tank, even though I could have shot them from outside it, just because 1) the shooting angles made it more interesting for me and 2) it’s a tank, of course I want to play in it.
Stage 9: Rifle starts in a wooden crate, with ammo loose or on stripper clips. Speed loader can’t be in the box, but there was no rule against having one on your person. Open the crate, load, move to a shooting box, shoot 5 targets, move to the other shooting box, shoot the other five targets.
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I learned a few things on this stage. There are good stripper clips and garbage stripper clips. The ones I had were garbage. A cartridge got stuck on both of the ones I used, and I would have been faster loading from loose. I then got flustered, forgot to shoot one of the targets, and told the RO that it wasn’t a miss, I didn’t shoot at it (which is a stiffer penalty). Make sure you test your gear before you need it, and keep your head on straight when things start to go wrong.
Stage 10- Vietnam Cooper tunnel
Your rifle starts in the middle of a tunnel covered by wooden slats. You pick up a helmet that triggers a “mortar” boobytrap, go into the tunnel, pick up your rifle, shoot 2 targets, get the rest of the way through the tunnel, stand up and shoot 4 targets, then crawl through a second tunnel, hit an activator plate, and shoot 2 static targets and one moving target. There is a penalty if you displace any of the slats covering the tunnel, so you have to keep your head down. (A friend’s 13-year-old son shot the match, and he smoked everyone on this stage.)
Stage 2: Technical
You start manning the machine gun in the back of a pickup truck, rifle on the side toolbox. At the start beep, you grab your rifle and shoot two steel targets:
Then jump out of the truck, run to the shooting box, and shoot the paper targets around or under the barricades. The area painted yellow was specifically noted as a place you could shoot under.
When the RO asked if I understood what I needed to do, I said yes, but that I was going to shoot it differently than most had been doing it. He paused for a moment. “Am I going to be happy with how you shoot it?”
“Umm, you will have no reason to be scared?”
“Okay. I am going to stand behind the truck.”
Again, I did things that hurt my score by a few seconds to make this more interesting. You could shoot all the paper from as close as possible, and you could get a clear shot at everything without having to shoot rollover prone under the barricade, but I shot the far targets as soon as I was in the shooting box, shot under the wall, and I think I re-shot some of them that could be engaged from more than one location. (That last one is something I do whenever I am unsure, as it is better to waste 2 more rounds than to leave a target untouched because you forgot what was what.)
My run on this stage went really well, and was probably my favorite stage of the match.
Stage 1: Golan Heights
You start by firing a mortar (dropping a bar with a blank cartridge attached into a tube) then crawling through a section of pipe to the table where your rifle is.
Go to the first barricade, shoot 2 long range steel torso targets, shoot 2 plates on a close plate rack, move to the next barricade, do it again, move to next barricade, do it again.
Every good match has that one stage where you experience a total dumpster fire. This stage was mine. I had a lot of trouble hitting the distant targets and timed out. I have been told that AK sights have more trouble in varying light conditions than other sights, and I remember thinking that the light conditions when I shot it made my sights look weird. I can’t think of anything else to explain it.
Practice with AK sights more, and I think re-blacking the sights before next year would be a good move.
It had been raining on and off for much of the day, but about this time a storm blew in and most of us called it a day. Get to the hotel, get the gear dried out and lubricated.
Come back in the morning to shoot the one stage I had bypassed.
Stage 8- Afghanistan.
Climb over the rooftop prop to the barricade, use it as a rest, shoot three long-range torso targets:
Move to the higher barricade, shoot them again:
Then climb on top of the roof prop and shoot closer round steel targets:
I had a good run here and felt that I somewhat redeemed myself from failing on the long range the first day. One of the ROs at this stage let us try XTech magazines to get our opinions of them (and got the above photos of me using it). I liked it enough to pick up one of the Red Oktober souvenir mags before I left.
While this is a rifle-only match, they had a 9x18mm pistol “game” in one of the bays.
I did not do particularly well at it, but it was fun. The first target (nicknamed “Big Ivan”) took 3-4 quick hits to knock down, and I didn’t slow down enough to make my hits on the smaller targets.
I put off writing this for longer than I intended to, so I may have forgotten small details of some of the stages, but this gives you a good idea of what they had this year. I had a great time and can’t wait to see what they do with it next year.
State of the Monk Address 2018
I haven’t written in awhile. Either events that I did were too similar to events that I have already written about or I failed too hard to have anything to write, and I stopped making time to put anything on this blog. Time to catch up on what has been going on and what you can expect to see here:
Spartan, Tough Mudder, and one GORUCK were similar to previous events (except that they all seemed to involve a lot of rain.)
I had some great firearms training with Rev-Tac and with GORUCK Firearms days. I highly recommend both, but unfortunately will not be posting AARs. (If you post about races or matches, people want to come do it too. If you post about training and what you learned, people think they know that now, so they don’t need training. To avoid this, I only write about the former.)
I had a DNF at the Suck. The weather was warm and humid, and I had spent too much of my training time indoors. My body started indicating that something was not medically okay a few hours in, and I dropped and volunteered rather than scare the medics like I did a couple years ago.
I shot the Red Oktober AK championships again this year, and I will post a write up of that soon. I am signed up for Desert Brutality 2019, and will make certain to post a write-up.
Biggest news related to this blog: I am devoting all of my training for the next 10 months or so to one event. I decided I have been saying “next year” for too many years, and signed up for the 36-hour Ultimate Suck. I am using a few different training plans to prepare for that, and I intend to post reviews of them, similar to the Pathfinder review that I did some time ago. First up will be Heavy Drop Training, which I am doing now, to be followed by several rucking-based and wildland firefighter plans. I will be posting those and measuring progress as I complete each program.
This post is just a quick check in to show that the blog is still going. Look for more to come in the next week or so.
Desert Brutality 2018
When I heard that InRange TV was putting on a bigger, badder version of the 2 Gun Action Challenge Match, I was on board instantly.
This was the first match that I had to fly to, which it turned out I worried about a lot more than I needed to. The gun case turned up where it was supposed to, ammo that was shipped ahead to a friend nearby was there and correct, all good to go.
Day 1:
Found check in, found my squadmates, had the safety briefing and match overview. The only thing unusual was the penalty system: every penalty, miss, failure to engage, procedural, whatever, was 60 seconds, the logic being that in any form of military or law enforcement action, an errant bullet or an opponent not stopped is a huge issue, so put a big penalty on all of it.
First stage (officially Stage 2, as I was on Squad 2) was referred to as “Suicide Sprints.”
Start at the cone, rifle in low ready, pistol in holster. At start, run to one of the hula hoops, engage two steel targets with two hits each. Move to the next hoop, engage again, next hoop, do it again. After you shoot from the third hoop, put the rifle on the table and run around a berm to the next bay.
With the pistol, knock down one steel target from each of the three hoops, then table the pistol and run back to the rifle bay. Repeat this back-and-forth until all the pistol targets are knocked down (three cycles for 9 targets), then complete the rifle side one more time.
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For me, this was the perfect stage to get started on and get the nervousness out of my system. I shot it reasonably well, for me, completing it with no reload in the pistol and needing one round out of a reload on the rifle.
Stage 3 was a lot of fun. Start in the driver’s seat of a car, pistol in holster and rifle in the trunk.
At start engage steel targets through the window.
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When all targets are engaged, run across the bay to a firing position behind a fence, and engage targets through a hole in the fence.
When that is done, run back to the car, retrieve your rifle, and run to the next bay.
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At the next bay, start at the first hula hoop, engage two steel targets, table the rifle, and crawl under the table. Grab your rifle, go to the second hoop, engage targets again, table rifle, go over a 4′ high wall, shoot again, table the rifle, under the table, shoot again… then repeat the over-under shooting process going back to the first hoop. (I did not get a photo showing the first table, this shot shows the wall and second table.)
The range officer on this stage noted that many people were taking so long with the pistol portion that they had no time for the rifle portion. With the rifle being considerably more fun, I decided to limit myself to one mag from the car, one mag from the fence, then leave anything that you have not hit and move on. I took 4 minutes in penalties, but I completed the stage.
For me, Stage 4 was both a dumpster fire and a chance to learn to improvise and make things work. Targets at this stage were at longer range, far enough for me to notice that my rifle’s scope had been knocked out of zero in transport.
The stage starts with you lying on your back on a table, rifle, pistol, and all your mags staged about 20 feet away. At start, you collect your ammo, grab your pistol from a table, engage four knock-down targets, and drop your pistol in a bucket. Then load your rifle and engage two steel from behind a barrier.27459302_10214419232541897_765114354789278603_n.jpg
Then run downrange to a steel sled, engage the targets again from the sled, clear the rifle, and drag the sled back to the start point. Then run to a pile of rocks helpfully painted yellow:27459545_10214419233821929_8279483257995474094_n.jpg
Engage targets, run to the next pile of rocks, engage targets, run to the last pile, and from there engage the ever-dreaded MGM spinner.
About the time that I got to the first pile of rocks, I figured out where I was hitting and how far to hold off to make hits. I managed to complete the spinner holding off the target, something I would not have thought that I could do if you asked me before this. My time sucked for this stage, but I am still happy that I managed to get through it.
Stage 1, our last stage of the day, was a variation of the Kasarda drill with a 65-pound kettlebell. Start in the cab of a pickup truck, engage two steel targets, table the rifle, and climb into the bed of the truck. Cut the rope holding the kettlebell to the truck, and throw it out the back. 27654880_10214419233581923_2239153940079746362_n.jpg
Retrieve your rifle, run to where the kettlebell landed, go prone, and shoot the targets again. There is a row of cones leading you closer to the target:27540133_10214419234061935_5279817653875172582_n.jpg
Following the cones as much as possible, throw the kettlebell, run to it, go prone, shoot both targets, get up, throw it again. Throw the bell past the last cone, make 2 more hits from the last cone, and you’re done. (Last shots are made from the cone rather than the kettlebell because a really good last throw could take you to less than the minimum distance for steel targets, so the final shooting position is set for safety reasons.)
I rocked this stage. Still using a holdoff, but hits were consistent and my throws were good. (Quick tip that I learned: many of us will throw and watch to see where it lands. As the RO told us, no need to watch it, it will be there. As soon as it is away, turn your attention to getting your rifle and getting moving. A second watching each throw adds up.)
Day one complete, found a sight-in range to fix my rifle zero, back at it in the morning.
Day 2:
Started the day with Stage 6, the breaching cage.
Start in front of the first door, facing four close paper targets and one steel further away.27337098_10214419237542022_3920069843023832995_n.jpg
Neutralize one paper target (two hits anywhere or one shot to the center of the head), one hit on the steel, next paper target, another hit on the steel, until all the paper targets are engaged. Clear the rifle, kick in the first door.
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Step through the door, draw your pistol, and shoot 5 clay pigeons hanging from a string.
Table the pistol. Kick in the next door, shoot all the targets on the plate rack. Kick in the last door, run to a hoop marking the last firing position, and shoot all of the plates off of the Texas star.
This was a lot of fun. I had one clay pigeon that was hanging turned a little sideways and I couldn’t hit it, so I left it and moved on (better to lose one target than to burn up all my time and ammo that I could use on the easier targets that followed).
Stage 7 was tough. Start running up a steep hill to a sandbag firing position:
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Engage two distant steel targets, 2 hits, next target, 2 hits, next, two cycles through all three targets. If you move to another target before getting 2 hits on the one before it, you need to start over. Then run to the next firing position:27545537_10214419261182613_8355530853115179292_n.jpg
2 hits on 2 targets through the port, then run to shoot off of the barrier and the rooftop:27544557_10214419243902181_9212043189918066779_n.jpg
I couldn’t get settled down into a solid shooting position at the first position. I messed up and moved on after one hit and had to restart, and barely made it to the second firing position before timing out. Take notes of what to work on and move on to the next stage.
Stage 8- Mogadishu Quarter-Mile.
Start with one rifle mag of 30 rounds, following a row of cones and shooting close paper. Targets with an X are required, other targets earn bonus points but do not incur penalties if they are left. (There are more targets than you can engage with the rifle ammo you have, so if you want to skip non-X targets to save ammo, you can.) When rifle is empty, transition to pistol, shoot the rest of the paper, and finish on the pistol spinner.
My strategy was to take the easy hits on paper and do the best that I could with the spinner. While I twice had it to the point that one more hit would push it over, I missed that last needed shot, expended all my pistol ammo and timed out.
Stage 5, our last stage, was a rifle-only fire-and-movement stage, with relatively close targets at the start and ending with some longer-range.
Start in the hula hoop, move to the first tank trap, engage two targets.
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Run to another tank trap, shoot the same two targets again. Run to those targets, turn and shoot two more.
Run up a steep hill to another tank trap:
And engage two of the three distant steel targets:
Move to a sandbag position and engage the farthest target.
I was proud of myself on this stage. I wasn’t blazing through it by any means, but I kept it steady and made good hits. For lack of a better term, I completed this stage at my ability level, rather than fouling something up and knowing I could have done better.
Our last stage done, we helped the crew tear everything down, sorted out our gear, and waited around for the rest of the squads to finish. I thought it was cool that several competitors, having leftover loose ammo that they couldn’t fly home with, gave it to the competitors from California.
The prize table was given out at random, they call a name and the person called comes up to choose a prize. They went with this over assigning prizes by score for two reasons: having no prizes on the line gives less incentive for the sort of cut-throat competition that often takes the fun out of events or for doing something stupid to cut a second off of your time, and it increases the odds that the gear prizes will go to someone who will actually make use of them. (The winners usually already have good gear, while the guy in last place may legitimately need to upgrade his gun belt.)
Mine was not the first name called, but one of the first five or so, and I got an awesome plate carrier from ESSTAC.
This was an awesome time and gave me a lot to think about in terms of how I train. Plans are in the works to run it again in 2019, and I can’t wait to see what they come up with for their second year.
Note: Our squad’s photographer was a cool guy named Nero Manalo (n_zeke on Instagram). All the good pictures in this post are his, all the crappy ones are mine.
The Plan Won’t Work Unless You Do: A Response to “WHY DIETS FAIL AND “EAT LESS, MOVE MORE” IS BAD ADVICE”
There is an incomprehensible amount being written on the topic of diet, and every writer thinks that their way of doing things will work for everyone. Unfortunately, people are not all the same and there is no one solution that will work for everyone. You have to find one that works for you, and perhaps more importantly, one that you can use. The ultra low carb paleo South Patagonia Dr, Oz diet may absolutely give the best results possible… unless you don’t actually follow it. You need to make the system that you follow convenient enough that you will actually follow it when life gets complicated.
I came across this article, and had a visceral “not only no but **** no” response to some of its points. While there is a lot of good in the article, I thought I would critique a few things.
I mainly coach bodybuilders, and bodybuilders are not very well-liked. I understand why: in the media all you see is unnaturally muscular, tanned men and women lined up in what seems to be some sort of muscle worship fetish. Yet in spite of their poor reputation, this stigmatized subculture does know the cure to obesity.
If you look up photos of many bodybuilders in the off season, you will see the very definition of yo-yo dieting. The bodybuilding subculture also has a reputation for serious health problems caused by the way they push their bodies and for an unusually high occurrence of eating disorders. (You could argue that there are ways to avoid these risks and you would be correct. But the number of bodybuilders dying young would indicate that there are a lot of people not using these safeguards.) There are in fact things to learn from bodybuilding that can help in other endeavors, but there is a serious amount of bad mixed in with the good.
Basically, bodybuilders achieve what everyone on a diet wants: to lose fat, not muscle. That’s why I essentially treat all my clients that want to lose fat like I would treat a bodybuilder. Bodybuilding is just the more successful version of ‘dieting’.
Bodybuilding is a more extreme subset of dieting with specific requirements, goals, and risks, and it is not suitable for all situations. Different diets are suitable to different goals. Someone going into figure competition should be training and eating differently than someone going into an ultramarathon or into Ranger School. Different methods for different goals.
…most diets fail in the evening. After a long, stressful day at work, you come home hungry and your brain is too foggy to think about what to cook. You open your fridge and a pack of ready-to-eat microwave wraps looks you right in the eye. Decision fatigue has set in and you don’t have the cognitive resources anymore to resist your hunger. Therefore, you opt for convenience foods instead of diet foods.
I absolutely agree that this is where most diets fall apart. I did an impromptu poll of my friends on FB of what is the most challenging part of diet, and the most common answer was convenience. When you have no time to cook, when you are at a business meeting and your food choices are limited, “diet” foods won’t survive staying in your lunchbox on a construction site, and on and on. Where I disagree is how to get past this. Most people won’t arrange for food restrictions at every business trip, meal prep for every day without fail, etc. Your diet plan needs to be convenient enough that you will actually use it in the real world.
Common advice is to take the stairs instead of the elevator. Or park your car further away from work or your house so you have to walk a bit. The benefit is self-evident, right? Actually, it’s not, and neither is the cost.
These small benefits do not weigh up against the hidden cost: decision fatigue from fatiguing your brain every time see a staircase or you have to park your car. Constantly thinking about ways to increase your activity level requires effortful self-control. Combine this with a stressful day at work and you’ve got the recipe for a cheat meal. A single cheat meal can undo weeks or even a month of ‘moving more’.
You have totally misunderstood “eat less, move more.” It is short hand for “consume fewer calories and I don’t care what type of exercise you get, but get some exercise.” Small things like taking the stairs are not meant to be the sum and total of your physical activity. You should have a workout plan. Stairs and parking locations are just little extras you can put in if you want, and having 30 flights of stairs as part of your daily routine does help.
Here’s a photo from the Arnold Classic, a major fitness conference. It went viral in fitness circles under headlines as ‘bodybuilders not fit enough to take the stairs’. No, bodybuilders just know that taking those stairs is a needless effort. Conserving mental energy is far more important than expending physical energy. Bodybuilders instead invest their energy in structured exercise.
You can use that reasoning if you like. I have also met more than a few weightlifters who so focus on one aspect of fitness, forsaking all others, that they can’t take the stairs. Unless we find everyone in that picture and ask why they didn’t take the stairs, we will never know what portion of that crowd was waiting for the escalator for which reason. (Or the common reason of “Leg day was yesterday, no I’m not taking the stairs.”)
None of this in any way implies that exercise is bad for you on a diet. But the crucial feature of successful exercise is structure.
Structure is the key to lifestyle change. You need to plan in advance so that you avoid having to make dozens of daily decisions about diet and physical activity. Investing in a structured exercise program frees your mind from decision fatigue. As the saying goes, “Failing to plan is planning to fail.”
Absolutely agreed. A structured workout plan is what most people are meaning when they say to move more. If you are only moving randomly it is hard to track if it is “more.”
I did no cardio whatsoever – just weight training – to get in condition for the photo shoot below. Almost none of my clients, including competitive physique athletes, do cardio.
We know that most bodybuilders don’t do cardio. That is why it is easy to think that you can’t handle the stairs. Cardio is indeed over-rated. For weight loss. For heart health and for any sport where you need to move for more than 5 minutes at a time, cardio helps a lot. It is also great for people new to working out, as it is easy to figure out and easy to make sure you keep at it. “Okay, start walking and don’t stop for 30 minutes” is a lot easier to keep track of than 5×10 of this, 3×10 of that, 20-2×2 of this list of exercises.
Cardio should not be all of your workout regimen, but it should be in there somewhere.
‘Eating less’ implies sticking to the same food choices but simply eating less of them. This requires constant self-control by constantly eating less than your appetite signals you to. As the diet progresses and you become hungrier, you must eat even less as your metabolism slows down, which is when the struggle becomes exponentially more difficult. It’s no surprise that this is how most diets fail.
The solution? Eat more, not less. In my photo above I was eating close to 9 pounds (~4 kg) of food every day. I just ate low-calorie foods. I mostly ate fruits, vegetables and lean animal protein sources. In fact, it’s rare that I don’t eat at least 4.5 pounds (2 kg) of food in a given day.
First off, eating less just implies taking in fewer calories, it says nothing about food choices. Second, most of us eat for reasons other than hunger. The package is almost empty, finish it. There are chips and salsa on the table. I always have a soda in the morning, I need the caffeine. Most of us can cut enough calories for slow weight loss (which should be the goal, rapid weight loss is seldom sustainable) without being hungry.
Eating more low-calorie foods is the reason paleo diets are so successful at causing fat loss.
It is also why so many people find them hard to follow. There is a large mass of food that you must constantly keep available and fresh, and it simply takes longer to eat, which is a problem with work, family and workout time demands.
For example, the typical Mediterranean lunch: 2 large slices of whole-wheat bread with cheese, 1 glass of semi-skimmed milk and an apple. Compare that to these 3 huge Sashimi Omelet Wraps. Both meals contain ~620 calories, but I know which I prefer.
I can put together the sandwich in about a minute. What is your prep time on those wraps? See where this could cause someone to just say screw it and order pizza?
In the end, your diet plan has to work for you. If it has perfect macros, but causes you to hate everything you eat or if you don’t follow it because you can’t find the prep time, it is not going to work long-term. It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just has to be workable for you. The reason so many diets fail is that people are pushed into diet plans that are too inconvenient to use in the real world.
I have tried several plans over the years, and thought I should share my history with diet plans and why I left them behind. These are just my results, yours may vary:
Slim-fast plan- It worked for weight maintenance, but didn’t provide the energy needed for my workouts.
Myfitnesspal- While it may have improved over the years since I tried it, I had a great deal of trouble finding foods and exercises in their database, and I thought some of the exercise calorie ratings were wonky.
Whole Life Challenge- This was the worst for me. The food restrictions made getting anything to eat really inconvenient and the point system encouraged binging. You start the day with 5 points and lose one for every serving of forbidden food you have. When you are down to zero points for today, why not hit Dairy Queen?
Maffetone low-carb- I tried this twice, and hated every minute I was on it. It failed to bring any of the health benefits that it promised. I lost a little weight, but the promises of feeling better and having more energy never materialized. This was designed as a test to see how well your body tolerates carbs, and it appears my body handles them just fine.
Current program- I am using a calorie tracking app called Lose It. I have not had trouble finding foods or exercises in it, and being able to scan bar codes and have it look up the foods is nice. I am losing weight slightly faster than I did under low carb, and the system of simply tracking calories lets me eat my favorite foods, usually an annoyance with the above plans. (I did come home one night and figure out that I could have 17 pizza rolls and still be okay. ) It also allows me to track where I am over or under calorie goals for the week, so if I go over one day I can still try to be under for the week.
The Donkey Strength Doctrine: Initial Thoughts and Principles
When I first started training, I remember how hard it was to find training information for events that included both strength and distance running. I pored through all the information I could find (living next door to the library helped) and finally found a way to put them together… right about the time that OCR-specific training books and plans started to come out.
Now, I see that the problem has morphed over the years. There are hundreds of training plans for specific types of athletes, and it gets very difficult for a beginning or non-elite athlete to find what training style works for their goals and their current physical condition. This often leads to doing nothing, paralysis by analysis.
The unlikely catalyst for putting together some thoughts for athletes in this space (the space where I lived for some time) was jokes surrounding an online meme:
I commented that Donkeystregth sounded like a ruck training program, then realized it was a fitting metaphor for this sort of athlete. Lacking both the speed and endurance of the race horses and the strength and stamina of the work horses, we get through training and events more on sheer stubbornness than anything else. Working toward being able to keep up with both of them (maybe call that state mule strong?), just not quite there yet.
I may write more on this at a later time, but for now, here are the key principles that I have learned so far:
1: Start now.
Do what you can with what you have now. You can change up how you go about it as you learn more and get stronger (there are things I did five years ago that I would not do now, and there are plans I have waiting for when I am strong enough to keep up with them), but doing nothing isn’t going to get you anywhere.
2: No Yeah Buts.
Hey I should start working out. Yeah, but I’m not sure if this plan is right.
I should eat more vegetables. Yeah, but the fresh is too expensive and the frozen has added sodium.
Doing something is almost always better than doing nothing. Frozen veggies are better for you than McDonald’s. You don’t need to do things perfectly, just do a little better than you are doing right now. Later you can try to do a little better than that.
3: Pick a plan.
I like to pick a training plan lasting from three to fifteen weeks, complete it, then switch it up. This counters the two problems I often find: over-specialization and the shiny object syndrome.
Many goals require a certain amount of specificity in training, and that is all well and good. If you are training for a 100 miler, you need to devote a good deal of your training time to long runs. Just don’t get so focused on only one skill that all of your other abilities decrease. No one wants to be the guy that can run 200 miles but can’t carry his suitcase in from the car, or the guy who can pick up the car but can’t run around the block. Devote the training time to whatever event you have, then change up the next plan you use.
The shiny object syndrome was a problem for me for years. I like this plan, use it for a week. OOOH SHINY! That plan is better, I will switch to that one. OOOH MORE SHINY. Totally changing everything because this one is cooler! Other trainers have described this as chasing many rabbits and catching none. Pick one plan and stick with it for a month or three, then change things out.
4: Fit the plan to your abilities.
We have all tried a plan that looks easy on paper but absolutely flattens you when you go to do it. A lot of plans for events I want to do are written for people considerably fitter than I am. While a little of this is good, too much of it will lead to injury. If you find yourself on a plan that requires way more fitness than you have, you have three options, which fit different types of workouts.
First is to switch to an easier plan.Doing this too often leads to the shiny object syndrome, but doing it when you recognize you are out of your league is okay.
Second option is to break it into pieces. If you are beaten down at the halfway point of your workout, do half in the morning and half at night, or half today and half tomorrow. Next week try to do a little more, and build up to doing it all in one go.
Third, and most common, is to scale the weights, reps and paces. Plan calls for ten pullups and you can only do five? Okay, do five. You can’t keep the 8-minute-per-mile pace called for? Pick a pace that is challenging for you and go with it. Don’t make it easy on yourself, but make it doable.
5: PACE
We all have things to do other than training, and life can get in the way. Having a PACE plan (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency) for your workouts can help keep you moving forward on days that would otherwise prevent getting any form of workout in.
Primary is what you originally planned to do.
Alternate is for small bumps in the road that may screw up your workout. If someone is hogging the squat rack, I can switch to a run or some dumbbell work (depending on what I did yesterday, etc.). The alternate can be for the entire workout, or for a particular exercise that requires particular gear.
Contingency is for when logistics prevent you from getting to the gym or outside or wherever you usually workout. I like workout DVDs for this.
Emergency is when time and logistics have gone to crap and you just want to get something in. I keep a kettlebell behind my desk, will do 5-10 minutes of swings when I can’t get anything else in. Any available exercise can fill the bill. A little bit of something is better than a whole lot of nothing.
6: Don’t overthink diet.
There are eleventy billion diet plans on the market, and every last one of them is convinced that they are the only way to eat properly, and you will likely hate being on at least 80% of them.
Make sure you are getting enough nutrients and are somewhere close to the amount of food that keeps you at the same weight (slow gain or loss depending on your goals). Take care of those two things and you have 80% of it figured out. Don’t look for the perfect diet, just something good enough that you can follow without hating life.
7: Learn proper form, and keep learning.
Learning how to exercise correctly will often mean doing it wrong for awhile until you figure it out, but you should always be trying to get as close to correct as possible. Various trainers will have various little tricks to check if your form is correct. Pick those up where you can and use them. (I tend to use little tricks from Pavel’s books pretty frequently.) While you are working through a plan, see what info you can dig up on what plan you might do next, try to understand the logic behind them and see if it matches your goals. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.95012104511261}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '304025', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JMGXFDFRWVXCQLQ5HN3EAF452MPYSSUN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:27d78307-e212-4b40-8bdc-d6fe76481d19>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 13, 10, 31), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:464HHE2BNUYETZNGX2NSEVNV64JA35SP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ac72e62e-2836-4e22-ba20-2dfbc35f1e26>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://themonkofthemud.com/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b12d6ae7-d3e1-4c20-8515-bf70f24f9643>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '9701', 'url': 'https://themonkofthemud.com/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-143-100-67.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': '0.021769464015960693', 'original_id': '1d78fa605084e5baddbf2d1bbbfde52c0f70f90694ba2d8328e41894829315f8'} |
Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco
Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco
Taking its name from the reign of Emperor Taisho (1912-1926),the Taisho Era designates a brief but dynamic period of cultural change when Japan was becoming a modern, international presence. Some Japanese artists of the period experimented with Western aesthetics and artistic techniques (such as oil and watercolor), while others emphasized traditional Japanese subject matter, materials, and aesthetics such as the romanticized landscapes of nihonga painting. These were also the formative, silent-era years of cinema. The soul of Taisho chic lies in the Japanese flirtation with all things progressive, modern, exotically Western. Curator Kendall H. Brown has captured this essence by framing the exhibit as a meditation on the rise of modan gaaru (“moga”), or the “modern girl” (and “modern boy”), corresponding roughly to the “new woman”—Jazz-Age flappers, pre-Code Hollywood starlets, Josephine Baker and the cafe and night club scene—emerging in the public cultural eye in the West.
As in the West, these new women were typically sales clerks, secretaries, and waitresses, yet found their desires framed in the easy affluence of the newly emerging mass consumer culture. Most striking is Three Sisters (1936) by Shuho Yamakawa, in which three daughters of a wealthy industrialist are formally arranged in and around the family’s luxury touring car. One young woman sits in the rear seat, her face framed by the window, the second sits inside, leaning slightly forward toward the open suicide door, and the third stands, right arm stretched out over the hood, clutching a small purse in her left hand. As the motionless, but aerodynamically designed car suggests speed, so, too, the three poised women are clustered so as to suggest a cascading movement, as if spilling out of the car and into the foreground. All in mute beiges, the four-panel painting captures a formally Japanese jazz-like riff on the dynamic of Deco design.
Another example of East-West hybridity is captured in three variants of Woman (1930) by Daizaburo Nakamura, including the two-panel screen, a full-scale draft, and its reproduction in a painted porcelain Hakata ningyo doll. Daizaburo was noted for his bijinga (paintings of beautiful women), and gracefully suggests Monet’s Olympia in repose on a chaise with his model, Irie Takato, a popular film star of the day. Here the woman is displayed as refined ornament, while in other prints and paintings in the show, the modern girl is rendered in a more Westernized flashy style of sex object, such as the woodblock print Tipsy by Kobayakawa Kiyoshi.
Within Taisho Chic is an entire sub-collection of the very popular and very Japanese medium of the kimono. These range from strikingly bold abstract jazz patterns to traditional Japanese flower motifs, blown up in size and simplified in detail to express the aesthetic of advertising design. Other objects in the exhibition include woodblock prints, scroll paintings, folding screens, textiles, and decorative arts, including hibachis, candle stands, a hand-held fan, and cups and saucers.
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Centre to ask social media companies to block sensitive posts
Centre to ask social media companies to block sensitive posts
The government plans to meet senior representatives of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Google soon to nudge them into acting on requests to pull down objectionable content, particularly uploads that may incite communal sentiments.
The meeting, which is likely to be attended by representatives of department of electronics and IT (DeitY), home ministry and the intelligence agencies, comes in the wake of the Dadri incident where rumours of cow slaughter allegedly led a mob to attack Mohammad Akhlaq, who later succumbed to his injuries, and his son Danish.
At the meeting, the government will impress upon social media giants headquartered outside India and registered under laws of their respective countries like the US, to cooperate with the Indian law enforcement agencies in tracking, scanning and blocking communal and offending posts in the larger interest of maintaining communal harmony.
"We will remind them to act with due diligence, which requires them to restrain communal and other content that violates Indian laws," a senior officer said adding that such an exercise to sensitize social media firms is held every three to four months.
According to sources, both Twitter and Facebook are often reluctant to pull down content seen as offending to communities, citing their respective privacy policies and refusal to prevent users from freely expressing their opinion.
During the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in UP, security agencies had blamed hate messages spread through social media platforms as a key cause of heightened tension among communities. Rumours spread through social media had caused panic among people from the Northeastern region living in Bangalore and its neighbouring cities, leading to a mass exodus in 2012.
Referring to the fake video that was allegedly used to fan Muzaffarnagar riots, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had said at a meeting of National Integration Council on September 23, 2013: "We must find a way to stop misuse of social media". "We cannot let anti-national forces misuse social media. Social media is about expressing opinions freely and we need to maintain that sense of freedom," Singh had said.
Photo credit: Indiatimes
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Timeless: Century-historical Arguments towards Gun handle legal guidelines are just as legitimate nowadays
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H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) changed into the most influential newspaperman of his period and a prolific writer of iconoclastic books and essays. here is reprinted from The evening sun of Baltimore, November 30, 1925. Copyright 1925 by using The night sun. Republication devoid of credit no longer authorised.
The eminent Nation publicizes with savour “the corporation of a countrywide committee of one hundred to set off Congress to restrict the inter-State traffic in revolvers,” and offers the pious judgement that it’s “a step ahead.” “Crime records,” it looks, “show that ninety% of the murders that take area are committed by the use of the pistol, and every 12 months there are a whole bunch of cases of unintended homicide as a result of a person did not recognize that his revolver became loaded.”
the new legislations—or is it to be a constitutional change?—will get rid of all that. “It should not effortless,” of path, “to draw a legislation that allows you to let exceptions for public officers and financial institution guards”—to assert nothing of Prohibition agents and other such legalized murderers. “however soon even these officials may additionally get on devoid of revolvers.”
more than once, in this area, I have lavished excessive compliment upon the Nation. All that praise has been deserved, and i am by no ability disposed to move lower back on it. The Nation is one of the few honest and clever periodicals ever posted within the u.s.. It stands clear of legitimate buncombe; it prints a week a great mass of news that the newspapers appear to pass over; it interprets that information with a freedom and a sagacity that few newspaper editors can even so a whole lot as think about.
If it shut up shop then the country would plunge just about unchallenged into the bottom depths of Coolidgism, Rotarianism, Stantaquaism and other such bilge. It has been, for a decade previous, the executive consolation of the small and forlorn minority of civilized americans.
however the Nation, in its days, has been a Liberal organ, and its historical follies die complicated. Ever and anon, in the middle of its most eloquent and helpful pleas for Liberty, its eye wanders weakly towards law. At such moments the historic lust to carry ‘em up overcomes it, and it makes a brilliant and melodramatic ass of itself. this type of moment was upon it when it printed the paragraph that I even have quoted. Into that paragraph—of not over 200 words—it packed as an awful lot maudlin and nonsensical blather, as a great deal idiotic reasoning and banal moralizing, as Dr. Coolidge receives into a speech of two hours’ length.
the new law that it encouraged, certainly, is among the most absurd specimens of jackass legislations ever heard of, even in this paradise of legislative donkeyism. Its single and sole impact would be to magnify tremendously all of the evils it proposes to put down. it might not take pistols out of the hands of rogues and fools; it would without difficulty take them out of the palms of sincere men.
The gunman today has tremendous benefits far and wide. He has artillery in his pocket, and he might also assume that, within the big cities, at least two-thirds of his prospective victims are unarmed. but when the Nation’s proposed legislation (or change) were handed and enforced, he might assume safely that all of them have been unarmed.
right here I do not bask in theory. The difficult statistics are publicly on reveal in big apple State, where a legislation of exactly the same tenor is already on the books—the so-known as Sullivan legislation. as a way to get it there, of course, the 2nd change needed to be severely strained, but the uplifters recommended the straining unanimously, and to the tune of loud hosannas, and the courts, as average, were inclined to signal on the dotted line.
it is now a dreadful prison in manhattan to “have or possess” a pistol. even if one continues it locked in a bureau drawer at domestic, one could be despatched to the hoosegow for ten years. extra, men who’ve carried out no greater are often got rid of.
The police officers, suspecting a man, say, of political heresy, raid his condo and search for copies of the Nation. They locate none, and are thus baffled—however at the bottom of a trunk they do find a rusted and battered revolver. So he goes on trial for violating the Sullivan legislations, and is presently being psychoanalyzed with the aid of the uplifters at Sing Sing.
With what result? With the time-honored influence that long island, even more than Chicago, is the heaven of footpads, hijackers, gunmen and all other such armed thugs. Their palms upon their pistols, they comprehend that they’re protected.
now not one citizen out of a hundred that they address is armed for getting a license to hold a revolver is a tricky enterprise, and carrying one with out it’s extra unhealthy than submitting to theft. So the gunmen flourish and give humble due to God. just like the bootleggers, they’re scorching and unanimous for law Enforcement.
To all this, of course, the uplifters have a capable reply. (At having equipped answers, certainly, they at all times shine!) The long island thugs, they say, are armed to the enamel as a result of New Jersey and Connecticut lack Sullivan laws. When one of them needs a revolver all he has to do is to go the river or take a brief trolley go back and forth. Or, to quote the Nation, he can also “comfortably remit to one of the most big organizations which promote the sale of their weapons by way of mail.”
The remedy is the standard dose: extra law. Congress is besought to “restrict the inter-State traffic in revolvers, above all to bar them from the mails.”
it is all very well-known, and intensely miserable. locate me a person so enormous an imbecile that he severely believes that this prohibition would work. What would turn into of the thousands and thousands of revolvers already within the arms of the American individuals if now not in manhattan, then as a minimum in every single place else? (I own two and my brother owns at least a dozen, notwithstanding neither of us has fired one considering that the shut of the freedom personal loan drives.)
Would the cops without delay confiscate this vast stock, or would it not are likely to concentrate in the palms of the crook courses? if they attempted confiscation, how would they get my two revolvers—lawfully bought and possessed—without breaking into my condo? Would I look ahead to them docilely—or would I promote out, in anticipation, to the closest pistol bootlegger?
the first effect of the enactment of the sort of legislation, without doubt, can be to make the market price of all small hands upward thrust sharply. A pistol which is now value, 2d-hand, in all probability $2, would right now attain a worth of $10 and even $20. this is not theorizing; we now have had a lot of experience with gin.
smartly, imagining such fees to succeed, would the generality of men quit their weapons to the Polizei, or would they promote them to the bootleggers? And in the event that they sold them to the bootleggers, what would turn into of them in the end: would they fall into the palms of sincere men or into the arms of rogues?
however the gunmen, I take it, would now not undergo from the high charge of artillery for long. The second the rate obtained in fact beautiful, the cops themselves would start to sell their pistols, and with them the entire corps of Prohibition blacklegs, inner most detectives, deputy sheriffs, and other such scoundrels. And smuggling, as in the case of alcoholic beverages, would turn into an organized business, massive in scale and lordly in profits.
imagine the components that could pour over the long Canadian and Mexican borders! And into every port on each incoming ship!
definitely, the historical past of the try to implement Prohibition may still give even uplifters pause. A case of whisky is a bulky object. It must be transported on a truck. It can not be disguised. Yet in each American city nowadays a case of whisky can be bought just about as without difficulty as a pair of shoes regardless of all of the armed guards alongside the Canadian border, and all of the protect ships off the ports, and all the raiding, snooping and murdering all over else. accordingly the camel gets in and yet the proponents of the brand new anti-pistol legislations tell us that they’re going to catch the gnat! Go whisper it to the Marines!
this kind of law, certainly, would quite simply make gun-toting swagger and classy, as Prohibition has made guzzling swagger and classy. When i was an adolescent there were no Prohibition agents; hence I by no means so much as drank a tumbler of beer until i was almost 19. these days, legislations Enforcement is the eighth sacrament and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals through itself authority for the sad news that the younger of the land are filled with gin.
I be aware, in my formative years, a time when the police officers tried to limit the game of catty. at once every boy in Baltimore consecrated his entire time and energy to it. eventually, the police officers gave up their crusade. practically instantly catty disappeared.
The true victim of ethical legislations is always the honest, legislations-abiding, well-that means citizen—what the late William Graham summer season known as the Forgotten Man. Prohibition makes it unimaginable for him to take a innocent drink, cheaply and in a good manner.
within the equal manner the Harrison Act places heavy burdens upon the health care professional who has want of prescribing narcotic medicine for a affected person, honestly and for good ends. however the drunkard nonetheless gets all of the alcohol that he can grasp, and the drug addict continues to be crammed with morphine and cocaine.
by using exactly the identical route the Nation’s new legislations would deprive the legit citizen of the hands he needs for insurance plan, and hand them over to the rogues that he needs insurance plan towards.
Ten or fifteen years in the past there turned into a pandemic of suicide through bichloride of mercury pills. without delay the uplifters proposed laws forbidding their sale, and such laws are actually in drive in lots of States, including long island. The consequences are classical. a new Yorker, desiring to lay in an antiseptic for family unit use, is disadvantaged of the least expensive, most handy and most helpful. And the suicide price in long island, as in different places, is still regularly rising.
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The strange bipartisan embrace of Sen. Clinton for president.
The strange bipartisan embrace of Sen. Clinton for president.
The strange bipartisan embrace of Sen. Clinton for president.
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May 12 2006 6:29 PM
Hillary Pillory
The strange bipartisan embrace of Sen. Clinton for president.
As the focus of the political establishment goes beyond the midterm elections to 2008, John Dickerson offers his take on the Republican hype surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton—is it fear or fantasy?
realblackfin notes that Hillary's negatives are huge, making it questionable whether "her base support can over-ride her negatives." -badkitty- is of the camp believing that Hillary's candidacy is a way to motivate demoralized repubs and neocons. Mark14 bids a wistful "Goodbye to democracy. Hello oligarchy" in his prediction of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton, Bush ... in our electoral future.
In an interesting analysis here, mallardsballad proposes that we treat Hillary as
a brand. A powerful brand that conjures powerful emotions to her faithful base, her base that feels betrayed and to her enemies. Let's say she decides to be as inanimate as a brand logo.
Even without doing anything she'd still be the front runner of her party. I would hardly credit that as her political genius…
For example, she is now percieved as a great moderate, a bridge builder, when all she's doing is garnering votes from people, which any common politician has to do.
It's like McDonald's introducing 'healthy' salads. Go a little against the perceived brand and all of sudden it's an extreme make-over. McDonald's has some of the best and expensive talent create this image, and so does Hillary…
And Hillary doesn't have to do much. The Republican brand looks terrible. Usually a last term President can depend on his VP to run, but good god, why would anyone consider Cheney? The best that the Republican party can come up with is a candidate that has every reason to hate that party establishment. How can you dress up McCain as a person that hasn't been bought off? That's desperation in a nutshell.
High oil prices, the disaster of Iraq, percieved corruption via lobbyists, Halliburton, wire tapping, these Republican P.R. disasters can't possibly be attributed to the genius of Hillary. But I think she'll take it.
That's the beauty of brands. Nike, a cheap piece of fabric and plastic made itself the pinnacle of athleticism. Hillary can surely be the brand of the ant-incompetent. It's also helpful that she is an intelligent woman. She can be the anti-Bush, when opinion of Mr. Bush is at an all time low. She doesn't have to lift a finger for all of this to be matched to her advantage.
ElephantGun reproaches Dickerson for being way late to the Hillary game:
Republicans have been talking about a Hillary nomination since 2004. Sean Hannity advised Democrats not to nominate Hillary Clinton in 2008 on election night 2004. Rush and Bill O'Reilly routinely obsess about a Hillary candidacy as well. By now, right-wingers have evolved a complex emotional life around Hillary. They hate the name and get fired up over the 1994 health package and Tammy Wynette, but they respect Hillary as a formidable and successful adversary. I don't think it would be too far off the mark to say that the right has a "love-hate" relationship for Hillary. Hillary also represents a particularly right-wing sense of their own doom. People on the right genuinely fear a Hillary presidency, but are also developing a tragic sense that a Hillary victory in 2008 will be their particular price to pay for the disasters of the Bush years.
Discussion of a Hillary candidacy has been non-stop among Democrats and the left as well. I started posting (favorably) about a Hillary candidacy fourteen months ago and have been participating in any number of heated discussions about Hillary since then. Republican Slate blogger Mickey Kaus has kept up a hostile commentary on Hillary as well.
But the right-wing hasn't created the Hillary candidacy. The thing that gave Hillary Clinton the gravitas to be a credible presidential candidate was her conduct during the Monica Lewinsky affair. Hillary managed to appear steadfast, dignified, and mature throughout the crisis, and avoid the perils of public petulance and whiny martyrdom. Hillary's approval numbers zoomed during the last two years of Bill's administration. It was after Hillary started to look like presidential timber that the combination of right-wing obsessiveness and her own conduct as Senator have magnified her credibility.
Dickerson hasn't been following Hillary's numbers at all. She's a shoe-in for re-election and will probably do well in conservative Upstate New York as well as the City. The last national numbers I saw were that her support among Democrats was at 45% and that 40-50% of the voting public thought they might vote for her. Combine those numbers with her experience on the presidential campaign trail, mountains of money, and a crack staff and you have a formidable presidential candidate. The Democratic elite in Washington doesn't accept this and I imagine that Dickerson is speaking from the Establishment point of view. The anti-war left doesn't accept it and feminists don't accept it. However, Hillary will be a strong favorite for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
It is the likeliness of a Hillary nominantion that sparked the speculation of a Condi Rice candidacy and has led the Bush administration to bury the hatchet with John McCain. However, McCain looks progressively smaller (literally, he seems shorter to me) the more he temporizes with the right-wing. His chances of winning the Republican nomination are far less than Hillary's chances of being the Democratic nominee. Given that Hillary is more self-controlled on the campaign trail, she'd have to be rated a slight early favorite over McCain.
Finally, in this excellent post, GavaGuy enumerates the strategic reasons for GOP hopes of a Hillary '08 campaign:
First and foremost Republicans believe she can be beaten.
a) She's a she. She's the most credible female candidate to ever run for the position of President. Still - there will be some slice of the population that will hold her sex against her - and a slice of that slice may have otherwise been willing to consider voting for a male Democrat.
b) Regardless of the details of her record as a Senator, there is a "pre-history" which can be used against her. She served in her husband's administration and can be painted as left of centre. This can be used to sway voters as well.
c) But not only do Republicans think they can win some swing voters, perhaps more importantly, they see the selection of Hillary as galvanizing their own support. Opposition to Hillary will bring out more Republican voters - or so the theory goes.
Second, there are other reasons for Republican wishes for Hillary. Defeating Hillary Clinton would be a defeat of Bill Clinton by proxy. Politicians are, if anything, competitive. The chance of striking a proxy blow to the former President remains enticing.
Third, Hillary has been clearly the front runner. Republicans know this and aren't about to come out and hope for anyone else. It would look like fear of Hillary - and good fighters no not to show fear.
Hillary's run will undoubtedly be history making. The U.S. is perhaps the only major Western nation to not have had a female leader. But Republicans aren't necessarily being stupid in pinning their hopes on having her as the Democratic candidate.
The debate is alive and kicking over in Politics Fray. AC3:10pm PDT
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Twin Music Box articles—Jody Rosen's dissection of the "rockism" phenomenon and John Cook's defense of Stephin Merritt against Sasha Frere-Jones's ongoing accusations of racism—dominated discussion today on the Fray.
Reading prejudice into other people's musical tastes is a facile trap, claimsthelyamhound:"if you take the tendency to identify music by its racial characteristics, and the impulse to judge not only the music, but the people who like or dislike said music, in terms [of] race, it's all too easy to continue digging and find further matters of cultural impropriety."
In response to Cook's query "if you don't like rap, are you a racist?" XXXXX asks if a double standard isn't at play:
It must be asked why black artists who romanticize criminal culture, like 50cent, are considered artless, socially destructive thugs, but white artists who do the same, like Johnny Cash or The Hold Steady are celebrated for it?
There HAS to be room for this kind of artistic expression, but with people like Young Jeezy rapping openly about his life as a drug pusher, where is the line where we are rewarding and encouraging actual criminal behavior???
That being said, I tend to believe that at the bottom of the pop music barrel are those that cluelessly parody this "thug culture" and shoot at easy targets. People like Eminem.
For Supersonic, however, like/dislike of rap is a fundamentally an aesthetic question that goes beyond race:
Do I discount 90% of mainstream rap music? Yeah, but so does Kanye West. 90% of mainstream rock is crap as well. To me, music is music, and the "rockist" point of view of actually having a large hand in creating the work you perform long predates rock and roll. It's inherent in musical tradition itself. The anti-rockists take the position that refusing to value lazy lyrics and prepackaged performing artists makes us "rockists" snobs, and even goes to the point of calling us "racists."
I take the same approach to whatever genre of music I'm listening. Be it classical, jazz, rock, dance, or hip-hop. I like creativity and originality. I value good hip-hop production just as I value good rock instrumentation. However, most commercial rap loses me with the awfulness of the lyrics. I think the whole system that promotes the type of music expressed in much of mainstream rap (about blunts, bitches, money and murder) is a lot more racist than any rockist is. It's perpetuated by record executives pandering to the lowest common denominator of listeners, namely white teenage boys and girls who like to shake it at the club. Don't pretend that "My Humps" is art in the same vain as artists as diverse as Kanye West, Morrissey or even Franz Ferdinand. Same deal with the majority of pop music performers. Most of whom wouldn't even be successful if not for their image.
As in any genre, crap is crap. I doubt there any literary critics complaining that Mary Higgins Clark novels get a raw deal because of prejudice. Scary Movie will not be on anyones 10 best list not because of racism, but because it's popcorn fare and not serious art. Is most good music produced out there rock? Nope, but a lot of it is. There are also great hip-hop and dance acts out there as well. But don't toss gernades at people who actually demand a little creativity and feeling in music.
Writing here "from the vantage point of advancing geezer-hood," Ted_Burke says rockism is nothing new under the sun:
It's a bit of good fun to read that "rockism" is the hot fire currently sweeping that otherwise dry prairie known as rock criticism , and that arguments about what constitutes "authentic" music versus that which is corporately constructed rages on among the younger writers. Such was the case when I was an active music reviewer between the 70s through the early 90s, and … I have to say presenting rock and roll as the model of "authenticity", an epicenter of real music made by individuals from unincorporated communities of the soul, is ironic; rock music is turned into an institution, its essence is codified, its purpose for being and what it's supposed to instill and inspire made into canonical law.
yggy diagnoses rockism as a backlash against electronics:
Indie rock in New York City today is really code for music played by individual musicians on traditional instruments-- guitar, bass, drums. Central to this aesthetic is the feeling that music should have that human element. "Garage rock" takes it a step further by saying, "Music should be minimally produced." Close your eyes and you should feel like you're in a garage listening to maybe nothing more than a rehearsal. The distinction that Rosen is trying to lay out here is one of production.
Hip-hop was conceived on turntables and drum machines-- not traditional instruments-- and therefore hip-hop is an electronic music. Although its recordings were originally made by real musicians, disco was turned into electronic music when DJs invented extended dance mixes.
Pop music since the early '80s has gone back and forth over which dominates-- music essentially played by bands, or music produced on a computer. Naturally, there's some overlap in practice, but one of the two styles will always come to the forefront. Brittney Spears and Beyonce have a greater affinity with hip-hop and disco; Jack Johnson and U2 have a greater affinity with rock.
Who's right-- rockism or poptimism? Luckily in the American pop music cannon, listeners never have to choose.
Anse offers another theory, citing an eternal distrust of intellectualism as
the reason for this "rockism" bull. Rock and roll has forever been a bit suspicious of anything that appears academic or intellectual; there's that whole fear of being labeled a fraud or a geek, and for a genre that romanticizes rebellion, that just doesn't jive. I think this is also why politically-charged music gets a pass; folks can sound smart by spouting their political views, and since it's always framed within the context of rebellion, it's okay.
I am of the opinion that if you're going to risk failure, better to so so while attempting to be intelligent. Too many rock fans front this "I don't know what's good, I just love music" crap. I've been guilty of it many times, in fact.
Part of the blame ought to rest with music critics themselves. They aren't really critics, not in the sense that art critics or literary critics are. Rock music writers tend to be glorified fans with really huge record collections. Notice the penchant for comparison in almost all reviews; artists are forever compared to this band or that one, with little attempt to articulate what makes a particular sound significant(not "good" or "bad," necessarily, but significant).
Some attempts have been made to bring some intellectualism to rock criticism, but the perpetual ironic cynicism that underlies most all discussions of music these days tends to play them down it seems. When I once noted my enthusiasm on this board for Greil Marcus' book Lipstick Traces, I could almost see the eyes roll in the responses I got. Hey, if you have a legitimate beef with the book, fine, but why accuse him of pretentiousness? That tossed-off I-don't-give-a-damn attitude is a bigger pose than anything these days.
Does your iPod need some updating? Be sure to consult jmsr525's top 100 "best songs from 1955 to 2001" before putting together that poptimist playlist. AC … 6:28pm PDT
Monday, May 8, 2006
Dahlia Lithwick's analysis of the competing arguments used by defenders and opponents of death by legal injection—a predictably hot-button issue—brought forth some less-than-predictable responses in the Jurisprudence fray.
Polpro provides this startling account of four executions he has witnessed "from various vantage points" while working for his state's attorney general:
…the first time I witnessed an execution, I stood next to the executioner as he fulfilled his legal duty and killed an inmate who richly deserved his fate.
Unlike television and movies, and unlike the lurid descriptions of popular media, there was a business-like approach to the proceedings. A specialized team of correctional officers led the condemned man in, who was shackled and handcuffeed with belly chains.
They placed him on the table, unlocked his handcuffs, removed the belly chains and shackles, and then the team strapped him to the table with modified automobile safety belts--each member attaching one belt.
Their elapsed time in the chamber--less than a minute. Two medical technicians then enter the chamber and apply the IV-line. The line itself leads into the wall below a one-way mirror. Behind the mirror, in a room smaller than most linen closets, perhaps six feet long and 3 feet wide, is the executioner.
In front of the executioner on a table are three syringes--each holding one of the drugs in the capital punishment cocktail.
After the director has done his duty: read the warrant, listened to the last words, and signaled the executioner, the executioner then injects, in relatively quick succession, each of the three drugs.
On both occasions where I actually witnessed the condemned man die, I watched for signs of pain or discomfort--and saw none. On both occasions, the only sign that I could see from six feet away was that breathing lessened and then stopped…
There is no sense of jubilation. There is no sadistic exultation about the fate of man who was living a half hour before who is now dead. There is some satisfaction that everyone did their jobs in a professional manner. The tone is somber. There is reverant silence for the awful but necessary thing that has just happened…
The current system is not perfect--but it does the job in a fair and just manner. You can't ask for more than that.
aroyfaderman believes that Lithwick has seriously misdiagnosed the opposition to lethal injection from death-penalty opponents:
If, indeed, it was a purely cynical and strategic move, it would be a stupid one as well...trying to find a less cruel method of execution will not speed along the drive to abolish it entirely…
Total elimination of the death penalty in the U.S. might be a noble goal, but it is not acheivable in the near future. Pointing out serious problems with executions that make them more excruciating than they need to be, in hopes of at least sparing some suffering, is an attainable goal, near-term. Reducing the harm of the executions that are going to take place in the relatively near future (and it's an unchangable fact that they will) is worthwhile in and of itself.
In this lengthy post, FritzGerlich examines execution from a constitutional standpoint:
The state does not have to guarantee a condemned man a painless death. Nor does a constitutional issue arise simply because there is a difference of opinion about how much pain a given method may involve. There is never going to be a single method of execution that is beyond question that way (for the simple reason that none of us knows who has not experienced it). I would prefer being shot or decapitated to being gassed or injected with chemicals, but many might have other preferences. The Eighth Amendment doesn't come into play until the state's choice of a method is so bizarre that serious questions arise about its motive.
For yerevan, the real question here "ought to be the level of transparency, or lack thereof in the administration of the death penalty":
Since the execution of a human being is a critical part of our juidicial process, it most certainly should be reviewed by the public on a routine basis. We can watch the trial, but not the carrying out of the sentence, and we allow a handful of "witnesses" to stand in our shoes to view our legal system's handiwork. There should be a time slot once a month on all public television stations as well as public access cable, for a roundup of executions. It should be carried at the later end of prime time. Death is never dignified - it is just death, and we do not owe the condemned any special consideration in this regard. If it is a public event paid for by the taxpayers, then the public should have the right to see how it is administered. Then we can determine for ourselves as voters if we want to carry on with this process. The only way to make an informed decision is to put the process in the sunlight for everyone to see - how else will we be able to make a judgment as to whether or not the process is humane or barbaric? By international transparency standards, Iran is more transparent then the United States when it comes to the administration of the death penalty. They execute people in the public square on a fairly routine basis.
Similarly, kolmogorov feels that the emphasis on the means of execution is misplaced:
The real cruelty of execution in America today is, I imagine, the excrutiating wait, especially in those cases where the prisoner repeatedly thinks he is going to die today only to be pulled out at the last moment by another appeal or legal manouver.
Regarding physical pain, lots of people live with pain, the pain of surgery and chemo, for example, rather than face death. Facing one's death is, I imagine, almost always more painful than the actual death itself. So from my view, the whole discussion of the pain of the actual death moment is totally misguided. The condemned themselves would no doubt choose a fair amount of pain over death if they could.
I concur that the practice has been shaped mostly by the desire not to upset the witnesses. I think the more sinister part of this fact is that the witnesses include all of us voters who might find capital punishment a little less appealing if there were a lot of blood involved, if the brutality were made plain to see.
For a photographic illustration of "Torture and Death Penalty Instruments From the Middle Ages to the Industrial Era" (a traveling exhibit in Europe during the 1980s), look here. AC7:10pm PDT
Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Emily Bazelon's personal saga explaining why she gave away Shadow the family dog generated perhaps the most vituperative, moralizing outburst from fraysters to date, with Kylee proclaiming herself "appalled by Slate narrative" and 8K9Kids giving Bazelon "an education on commitment."
A few scattered voices helped to counterbalance the venom. Axlette agrees that giving up Shadow was the right choice under the circumstances. kmm3 offers these words of support:
After reading some of the awful messages you received condemning you for finding a new home for your dog, I felt compelled to write my two cents worth and let you know you are not a bad person or a bad mother.
Read more about her personal experience with pet adoption here.
To judge from the "14 pages of responses to your latest family trauma," bright_virago thanks Bazelon for inspiring readers to recognize that, in the contract between humans and pets, sometimes
it's time for us to part. We no longer have it in us to be their caretakers. Someone else might, and would give them more attention than we do, and we are praying that we can find that place for them. It's not abandonment, it's adoption. Will someone please tell me why pet adoption is such an awful thing?
For SallyRyan, too, Emily's story has helped her reconcile a similar decision:
We have a small backyard and a very hyper dog. As much as we tried (and boy did we try) we could not keep her contained in our yard. She became a nuisance in our neighborhood and caused problems with other dogs. Our neighbors kept her during the day when she got out and both my husband and I were at work. We couldn't afford a doggy daycare and to be honest it became frustrating that we couldn't even let her out in the morning to go to bathroom without an escape. We gave her to a family on Saturday (with massive tears flowing) that had a HUGE backyard and ten foot fences (lets see her climb that!) and other dogs to play with. Her new people just called to say that she seems happy although sad that she is not with us at night. I think over time all of us will heal and my husband and I learned a lesson the size of the yard will determine what bread of dog!
doglovah calls Bazelon's attackers a judgmental group:
I've worked closely with rescue groups, and all three of my dogs are rescues, and I believe that every one has been overwhelmed by something in their life, and Emily's happened to be the dog. She did the most responsible thing that she could other than keep him, which was to give him to good home. And why is keeping him the best thing for the dog? He obviously feels like he has a place now, as Ed has given him training, and established his role in the pack. If she had not taken the dog 7 years ago, who knows where Shadow would have ended up? She saved him when he was two, and gave him a better home when he was nine. Most dogs don't get chances like that.
For a closer look at the prolific outpouring of opinions, visit the Family Fray. AC4:35pm
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Utek1, writing from downtown Los Angeles, provides an excellent description of and reflection upon yesterday's march:
All day long downtown Los Angeles has been a mass of honking cars and cheering people, families and children mostly, holding American flags, with a few Mexican flags (and what I'm guessing are Central and South American flags) for color. Many businesses are closed, and the rest seem to be half full. The mood of the marchers is more jubilant than angry. There is no question that, in this town and on this day, the demonstration has proven what it set out to do, which is to show that there are lots of Latinos in this country, and that they are a force to be reckoned with. As Pete Wilson discovered, politicians cross them at their peril.
I wish that this was the beginning of a return to the Democratic party's roots in labor activism, and a renewed power of unions in general, but I don't think so. Immigration reform is an issue that speaks primarily to immigrants and a few Pat Buchanan xenophobes. It doesn't have the mass appeal as issues like the 40-hour work week once did.
Case in point: the gigantic demonstrations a few weeks ago in Los Angeles that sparked this whole movement came as a complete shock to the city's Anglo-speaking population. There was no advance warning, as the demonstration was the product of an appeal by Spanish radio DJ's. Half a million people turned out to protest and the rest of the city had no clue what was happening. It just wasn't on the political radar of most Angelenos.
Today's gathering was better advertised, but from what I can see, it still hasn't attracted the same kind of cross-cultural support that the Civil Rights marches did, or that old time labor rallies once had. Blacks and whites alike are ambivalent on illegal immigration, which is a complicated issue without easy solutions. I just can't see it used as a rallying cry for anyone not directly affected by immigration problems.
The ironic thing is, it is precisely because of the menial jobs that immigrants are forced to take that their unions have become powerful. No one can outsource fruit pickers or janitors or gardeners or chambermaids the way factories can be shipped off to China or software code can be written in India. They are site-specific, labor intensive jobs that are immune to the ravages of globalization. So the service employees unions have been thriving while other unions have withered into impotence.
But again, the low-skilled, low-wage nature of these jobs make them poor candidates for leading to a resurgence of labor unions as a whole. In the past, steelworkers and autoworkers could fight for wages and benefits that put them in the middle class. In contrast, many illegal immigrants are fighting for the right just to be given a poverty-level minimum wage. Again, this is not a fight that middle class Americans can join with the hopes of bettering their own lives.
Personally, I don't have much stake in the immigration debate, and I don't know what the right policy is. I understand why Americans would have problems with people coming here illegally, and I can also sympathize with those who have risked so much just for the chance to work. I can't pretend to offer a solution, although it seems to me that the proposals which would give "Guest Workers" the right to work for slave wages while denying them any chance at citizenship is the worst of both worlds, indentured servitude for the new millenium.
I think in the long run, what demonstrations like today's show the rest of the country is how large a block Latinos have become. I remember moving to LA, my biggest shock was how brown the population was. From tv and movies, you would think that LA is a white-bread world of Valley Girls and surfer dudes. In Malibu and Beverly Hills, perhaps, but in the real world of LA County, the highest rated radio and tv programs are all Spanish, and you can travel for miles without hearing English spoken. Since the time of Father Serra, California has been New Spain, not New England. And its not like the Anglos can complain, having stolen California from the Mexicans 150 years ago. So in some ways, todays marches are just a blast from the past, a honking, hooting celebration of Latino pride. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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the winter blog ADHD My Mental Health Series
My Mental Health: ADHD Extended
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E.E. Cummings
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When I wrote My Mental Health: ADHD, I intended to give a well-rounded view of how ADHD affects the people who have it. The post ended up being as long as a 7-page term paper, but I still felt like it only scratched the surface. I just wasn’t happy with it. I’ve decided to write a sequel post so we can discuss more aspects of the disorder. Today I will write about several different types of paralysis of will that can affect a person with ADHD, ADHD shutdown, brain fog, hypoactivity, and more.
ADHDers tend to live life on one scale of excess or the other. We swing wildly between intense periods of workaholism and periods of intense sluggishness. We are either all work or all play, hyperactive or hypoactive, over-stimulated or under-stimulated. For the ADHD brain, it is hard to find a happy medium. We are hyperfocused on one thing or we can’t focus on anything. We often bounce between these extremes daily, even hourly. It is exhausting, to be honest.
The public at large seems to be aware of a lot of the outward symptoms of ADHD; the kid who can’t sit still, the woman who talks a mile a minute, the person who can’t stop bouncing their leg up and down during the workday. Today, I want to talk about some of the things that you can’t see; the things that are happening on the inside. The things I’m about to talk about often look like “laziness” and, in some cases, “rudeness.” But they are all very real parts of the ADHD brain and what we go through every day of our lives. Let’s take a look.
Paralysis of Will
Many of us with ADHD have certain words that we hate because we have heard them on repeat throughout our lives. For me, the words “lazy” and “procrastination,” and the phrase “stop making excuses.” I’ll freely admit it, I get triggered by them. They make me angry because they have been lobbed at me like weapons since I was just a little girl. When I started learning about ADHD, I would sometimes cry when I would read other people’s stories because I felt so relieved. So many things about myself I didn’t understand and I had always been told that they were just failures on my part. This was never more true than when I read about the different kinds of paralysis of will.
Let me be clear, paralysis of will has nothing to do with choice any more than it is the choice of a person who is physically paralyzed to get up and walk. It is exactly what the name insinuates. You no longer have control over your resolve. No matter how much you want to do “the thing,” no matter how much you need to do the thing. It doesn’t matter. It causes severe anxiety, stress, and shame in anyone who deals with it chronically. So let’s talk about why this can happen.
Analysis, Decision, and ADHD Paralysis
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Analysis paralysis is over-analyzing or overthinking a decision or task until you become overwhelmed. The overwhelm becomes so severe that it can cause any forward motion or decision-making to freeze. Similarly, decision paralysis is being unable to choose between one or more choices, to the point of total inaction. Both types of paralysis can affect decisions and tasks both big and small; anything from being able to keep your house clean to staying in an unhealthy relationship or at a toxic workplace. I recently read somewhere about a woman who was in a bad marriage, miserable and unhappy, for 10 years after she knew it was over and she attributed every second of it to decision paralysis exacerbated by ADHD.
Another type of paralysis that I would be remiss without mentioning is ADHD paralysis. This is not an official term, but it makes it no less real. When I was researching ADHD, this next phenomenon was one of the things that struck me to my core. ADHD paralysis is when you have the need and the desire to complete a task, but you are completely unable to move forward with any action. I cannot stress to you how distressing this can be, especially to someone who is undiagnosed. I remember sitting in my therapist’s office, just months before my official diagnosis, and saying, “I don’t understand why I do this! It’s everything from cleaning the house to losing weight to going after my dreams. Why am I like this?!” I knew what to do. In most cases, I knew how to do it. Most importantly, I *wanted* to do them. I knew how important they were and the amount of anxiety I was having because I wasn’t doing them, was off the charts. It would only be later that I would realize…it was the ADHD.
Regardless of what kind of paralysis of will we may grapple with in our journeys, one thing is clear, dealing with them makes moving forward often feel impossible (and sometimes even physically uncomfortable), which often leaves us with unfinished tasks and decisions left unmade. The guilt and shame that we carry for not being able to complete these important tasks are often only trumped by the guilt and shame that is steeped on us by our loved ones. I can’t tell you how many times in my life someone that I loved or respected has called me lazy. I knew it wasn’t true, but it appeared to be, so I accepted the label. It’s hurtful. Be nicer to the people that you love because words matter. I digress.
Knowing and understanding paralysis of will hasn’t yet helped me to control it, but it does make it easier to identify what is happening and I am currently trying to find ways to negotiate with my stubborn brain when it does happen. Also, knowing it and understanding it has made it easier to forgive myself and to stand up for myself when people say hurtful things. For people with ADHD especially, we must be kinder and more forgiving of ourselves and our past mistakes.
Brain Fog
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Brain fog, also known as mental fog or clouding of consciousness, is a common symptom seen in people with ADHD. Brain fog can include reduced mental clarity and cognitive function, concentration issues, inability to multi-task, and short-term and long-term memory issues. Other symptoms can include slow thinking or confusion and severe fatigue. A person experiencing mental fog may seem spaced out, confused, or lost in thought.
I experience mental fog a lot, sometimes coupled with dissociation because my brain likes to spice things up a little. I describe it like I feel like I’m inside of a bubble. Everything, everyone, every sound seems far off. I get unnaturally tired and I start communicating in short, clipped responses. Sometimes, it honestly feels like I’m on drugs, even though I’m not. It’s just a “medicine-head” type of feeling. It can be distressing, especially when it suddenly happens in a social setting. This usually leads me to an ADHD shutdown.
ADHD Shutdown
Often, when we become overwhelmed with intense emotions, it triggers an ADHD shutdown. Again, not necessarily an official term, but very real nonetheless. When I think about ADHD shutdown, I imagine a computer overheating. The brain just takes in too much until it shuts itself down before it can overheat. During an ADHD shutdown, you may space out, find it hard to speak or move, or you may have trouble articulating what is happening to you or what you are feeling.
A few months before the pandemic started, I had this happen to me. I didn’t know about my ADHD or ADHD shutdown at all. I met a friend at the park for a play date and I immediately felt sluggish…my brain felt like mush. I was extremely over-stimulated and I couldn’t get my brain to focus on anything. I felt like my head was a balloon, flying way above my body. It was an awful first “friend date.” Luckily, she was cool about it, but I still to this day haven’t told her what happened on that first outing and why I acted so strange.
Speaking of sluggishness…
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When people think of ADHD, the common misconception is to picture little boys who are bouncing off the walls and screaming in lieu of talking. They would never imagine that people with ADHD could feel sluggish, tired, and unable to process information quickly. People with Inattentive-type ADHD are often prone to hypoactivity, sometimes called “sluggish cognitive tempo.” Hypoactivity is defined as inhibition of behavioral or locomotor activity. In laymen’s terms, people with ADHD-I are often unable to muster the energy to do anything at all, much less communicate or take care of their basic needs.
Some of the symptoms of hypoactivity can include:
• drowsiness
• frequent daydreaming
• staring into space
• mental fogginess
• poor memory retrieval
• sluggish/lethargic behavior
• slow to process information
• social reticence or withdrawal
• confusion
It often makes a person feel so tired and “out of it” that they feel unable to take care of even their most basic needs. It is much more than laziness or being tired from mental or physical work; it is an uncontrollable force. If you experience hypoactivity, remember to take care of yourself. Get plenty of sleep and exercise and make sure that you eat right. I know those things are so much easier said than done but, seriously, take care of yourselves.
Spatial Awareness
The last thing I want to talk about in this second ADHD post is spatial awareness and the deficits that are sometimes caused by ADHD. Spatial awareness is the ability to be aware of the things in our environment and our position relative to them. Spatial awareness can help us determine the following things:
• Location – context to the location of an object
• Movement – how people and objects move through the environment
• Social – social functions like maintenance of personal space
• Reading and writing – important for understanding sentence structure and grammar
• Math – important for ordering and arranging numbers
I don’t understand the science behind why ADHD causes spatial issues. I do know that ADHD makes me much less aware of my surroundings. I often joke and say that I hope I’m never witness to a crime because I won’t remember any details about it. In all seriousness, spatial issues can cause a multitude of issues, including:
• being unable to pinpoint the location of something felt, seen, or heard
• issues navigating while walking or driving
• problems gauging distance from an object
• trouble reading a map
• confusion over left vs. right
• difficulty with reading, writing, or math
• poor recognition of personal space
• poor coordination; being clumsy
People with ADHD often jokingly complain about all the bruises they have from running into furniture or doorknobs. I am incredibly clumsy. When my husband and I first met, he was transfixed with how often I fell. I’m terrible with directions and I barely know the difference between 12 inches, 12 feet, and 12 miles. I often have to pause and think about which way is left and which way is right. These are all spatial awareness deficits that I never would have been aware of if not for this newfound information about myself.
I never would have connected all of these things before my diagnosis. All signs point back to ADHD, these days. As you can see from the list, so many of the items listed have overlapping symptoms. Confusion, sluggishness, inability to complete tasks, concentration issues…for people with ADHD, symptoms are often compounded from every direction, whether it be overlapping symptoms or co-occurring disorders. What you see is not always what you get with ADHD. Sometimes, what looks like laziness or procrastination is actually paralysis or shutdown and is probably very distressing for the person experiencing it. We always have to keep in mind that what we can see of a person, outwardly, is often not even a fraction of what is going on inside of them. Be kind.
Love and light. Keep fighting the good fight!💜💜
Amber Corinne
Writing about living with ADHD and mental illness and my journey down a thriving path forward. Breaking stigmas and creating community, one post at a time.
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1. I love this, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. My daughter was recently diagnosed ADHD, she is 5 and we have suspected since she was 3. She is combination type. She is bother hyper and hypo active… spatial recognition and “adhd paraysis” are things I see and never knew why or how it happened to her. My husband and I are constantly trying to educate ourselves on her disorder. I have my own as my blog name states, but they differ in many ways. Your post has given me some clarity and I am glad I was able to read it. ❤
1. I’m so glad that it helped! I was diagnosed at 38 and I was never able to articulate what was happening inside of my brain. The fact that you are willing to learn with such an open mind as a parent is amazing and will go so far for her. I’m glad you read it and it resonates with you. 💜 💜
2. Great Post! I get brain fog in the big stores with the white flourescent lighting. I have, also, been so clumsy I think I fractured my toe on a chair. I love how much this relates! Keep writing! 🙂
3. This is so awesome. I had no idea that there was so much to this condition. So many of the paralysis conditions sound like echoes of the same things I feel with during a really bad depression slump. Very, very eye opening. Thank you.
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Sparkfun Weather Station
Sparkfun Weather Meters in the wild
#define VANE_PWR 4
#define VANE_PIN A0
#define RAIN_GAUGE_PIN 2
#define RAIN_GAUGE_INT 0
void setupWeatherInts()
#define WIND_FACTOR 2.4
#define TEST_PAUSE 60000
volatile unsigned long anem_count=0;
volatile unsigned long anem_last=0;
volatile unsigned long anem_min=0xffffffff;
double getUnitWind()
unsigned long reading=anem_count;
double getGust()
unsigned long reading=anem_min;
double time=reading/1000000.0;
void anemometerClick()
long thisTime=micros()-anem_last;
static int vaneValues[] PROGMEM={66,84,92,127,184,244,287,406,461,600,631,702,786,827,889,946};
static int vaneDirections[] PROGMEM={1125,675,900,1575,1350,2025,1800,225,450,2475,2250,3375,0,2925,3150,2700};
double getWindVane()
unsigned int reading=analogRead(VANE_PIN);
unsigned int lastDiff=2048;
return pgm_read_word(&vaneDirections[n])/10.0;
return pgm_read_word(&vaneDirections[15])/10.0;
#define RAIN_FACTOR 0.2794
volatile unsigned long rain_count=0;
volatile unsigned long rain_last=0;
double getUnitRain()
unsigned long reading=rain_count;
double unit_rain=reading*RAIN_FACTOR;
return unit_rain;
void rainGageClick()
long thisTime=micros()-rain_last;
36 thoughts on “Sparkfun Weather Station
1. Hello,
i am interested in your project. I am planing the wheter station and i would like to get some informations from you. Could you please send me more informations about your project.
manny thanks
2. Hi,
i am also build an weatehr station with an arduino. But i do not find any infomations for the connection of the weather meter parts to the arduino, have you got some
circuit diagram for me?
• Hi,
Thanks for your repply.
I run an amateur weather station based on Cumulus and two Arduinos. I don’t know if what I have is what you need, but I’ll be happy to send you all the code and any additional information related to their use. I’m sure you will understant the code, it is simple and farly well commented.
Currently my system includes an Arduino with barometric pressure sensor (BMP085), who also works as a RF receiver to capture data from wind direction and speed sensor (these are a from a cheap meteorological station that has no USB connection) . This Arduino with the same RF receiver, also receives data from other sensors (temp / hum, UV and Solar Rad) that a second Arduino sends by RF (using virtual wire library) with easily available 433.92MHz emitter.
Please give me an e_mail address, so I can send you what I have. If it will be of any use to you, use it, modify it, as you wish
If you wanto to see some photos from this project, visite this page:
The page are only in Portuguese language, sorry for that, and also for my poor English.
3. Hi,
I would like to use your code, to simple read the wind speed and direction from exactly the same type of sensor you are using.
I’m a beginner with Arduino, I can understand mostly of the code, but it seems to me that something is missing on the code for reading the vane:
Line 23: Where diff variable gets it’s value? Also is not defined anywhere…
Line 18 : Should be: for (int n=0;n<lastDiff, n++), right?
I'll be grateful if you could help me with the necessary corrections.
4. Hi, again
I’m attempt to use your code, but I’m with some difficulties … I think I understand how the program works in general, but I do not understand some details, perhaps you can help me.
Reading the wind direction is working well, but the readings of wind gust and average are quite high, almost twice the value I get from my weather station. The sensors are exactly the same as you are using, so I think I can use the same WIND_FACTOR
line 20: double time=reading/1000000.0;
Where the “time” variable is used in the program?
Would it be your intention to use it on line 22, resulting : return (1/(time))*WIND_FACTOR;
line 22: return (1/(reading/1000000.0))*WIND_FACTOR;
From what you get the 1000000.0 value? This can be obvious, but I can’t see.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance
5. I have found that, if on line 22 I use a value of 500000.0 insted of 1000000.0 I get values for wind gust and average, almost equal to what I read from my actual weather station… but I like to understand the mean of this numbers. Why you use 1000000.0?
I’ll be grateful with any help.
6. Forget my last comment on the number 1000000.0, I had not studied the code enough. Of course it has to be this number.
I still get very often very high values for the wind gusts. However, the values for the average wind speed are consistent with the values I get from my weather station.
I have rised the Switch debouncing time from 500 uS to other values, but it seems don’t have any effect on the high values I get.
How many times a minute I can call the function getGust ()? Or it has no importance and I can call it for example 10 in 10 seconds?
I appreciate any help.
7. Problem is SOLVED.
The reed switch from this kind of anemometer makes a lot of bouncing. With a simple debouncing circuit, with a 100 nF capacitor between pin 3 and ground solves the problem. No more wind gust splikes.
This is a great piece of software! I’m using it now. Thanks for having it published.
8. hi Kevin
i try this code to read the wind speed meter and i cannot compile it
undefined reference to `loop’
can you help me with that ?
9. I have tried reading data from sensors with your code but I always get 0.0 values for wind speed, gust speed and rain fall, and for wind direction I always get 270.0. Do you have an idea what could be wrong?
10. Hello, do you have some Schematic that show how did you connect the weather meters to the arduino ?? Do you have the codes in C# ?, THANKS
11. Hi kevin! I’m trying to connect the max44009 to the arduino uno using your code yet I’m having some problems, I was wondering if you can help me out?
Heres the code I’m trying to use:
#define MAX_ADDR 203
void setup()
int readI2CAddr(int addr);
int luxHigh=readI2CAddr(0x03);
int luxLow=readI2CAddr(0x04);
int exponent=(luxHigh&0xf0)>>4;
int mant=(luxHigh&0x0f)<<4|luxLow;
float x = (pow(2,exponent)*mant)*0.045;
Serial.println("Hello World");
int readI2CAddr(int addr)
int n=0;
if (n==25)
return 0;
12. Hi There thank you very much for the Article. I am doing a similar project to yours. However, there some bits of your code that I am not understanding. If you would share the full code I will be grateful. I have done major part of my project. However I was simulating the temperature, wind speed and wind direction with readings from potentiometer but now I decided to use the real weather kit from sparkfun and I am having difficults to write a code that reads the values from these devices.
Thank you in advance
13. Hi
Just wondering if this was intended to be a completer sketch? Looks like the main section is missing and is doesn’t compile when copying and pasting the sections.
14. Hi Good day to you..I’m interested with your project could you please send me also the full codes and circuit diagrams of your projects. Your work could greatly help me with my projects. Thanks in Advance.
15. Love your code – seems to be the touchstone with the Sparkfun instrument,
It works great As long as the chip is running all the time, however when trying to put it to sleep – the timings you use all go away since the clocks are all turned off.
If there was a only a way in code to debounce the anemometer click while sleeping.
16. I am working on arduino weather station project I could not able find sparkfun weather station wiring diagram could you please give the wiring diagram which we be more help full
17. I am working on arduino weather station project I could not able to find sparkfun weather station wiring diagram, could you please give the wiring diagram and the code it will be more helpful for me. my email id is
18. I’m a complete noob with both programming and arduinos trying to figure this stuff out. I stumbled across this thread, and have just ordered the same device. I was wondering if you would be able to email me the whole file(s) you built to collect data from the weather meter. Trying to comprehend how all this works logically, and it’s hard to tell seeing the bits and sections instead of the whole thing. My email is Thanks so much for any help you might provide.
19. Hi- I would like very much to use some of your code in my weather station project, but it appears to me that the code is not complete. Am I missing something?
20. Hello-I posted on Sep 21, requesting more complete code, and I haven’t seen any replies. I am learning how to program, and I guess what I need is an example of the whole program. Also, the following lines have been truncated on your website because of the width of your window. Could you please provide the missing numbers?
static int vaneValues[]
static int vaneDirections[]
Any information will be appreciated!
21. Hi,
I am also planning to buy the “Sparkfun Weather Meters” but I am not sure if I can connect ist directly to the arduino. Can you tell me if this is possible or if I have to use any further hardware?
Thanks in advance,
22. Hello, we have the same weather meters used, and our weather meter the rain gauge producing its own value even though it is not raining.. do you have some suggestion else can we ask a copy of the arduino program? thanks..
23. Hi,
Wondering if you can help me, am a complete noob to programing and have only very, very slight knowledge of arduino, I have built a weatherduino weatherstation which is based on work done by A Caneira, whom you have helped above. The weatherstation is up and running fine, using the basic fine offset hardware which is the same as the sparkfun hardware that you yourself have used
I am hoping to upgrade both the anemometer and windvane, I think the anemometer is not to bad to work out as I only intend to replace the reed switches, with hall effect sensors.
The windvane I think will be a bit more fun to sort out. I have obtained a 16 pulse per rotation optical rotary sensor which is smooth running NO detents. I have obtained a sketch with the help of some on the arduino forum but my problem is the implimenting use the of an encoder in the weatherduino software. I have approached A Caneira, but he is happy with his coding at present. so can you help ? I am pretty certain that i can work out the mods required for the pcb for the TX,
Please would you inform me if you are willing and able to help, as it appears to me that you seem to be the best person to ask.
Awaiting your reply.
Martyn Topham
aka tyntop on the weatherduino / arduino forums,
Email :
• Although you may have me confused with someone else, I will be happy to try and help you. Please send some code that you have, and a detailed account of what you are trying to do.
24. Hi!
I’m building a weather type station that takes gas sensor readings in a poultry house and was thinking of including a wind vane. Could you sent me the code you used for this project?
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'Garm Wars: The Last Druid': Tokyo Review
Courtesy of Tokyo International Film Festival
Spectacular visuals set to Kenji Kawai’s heavenly choirs lend a dreamy atmosphere to an incomplete extravaganza
Japanese anime director Oshii Mamoru combines live action with animation techniques in an apocalyptic English language sci-fi adventure
Oshii Mamoru’s 1995 cyborg police yarn Ghost in the Shell made him the cult king of Japanese anime, and though his later work like the sequel Ghost in the Shell: Innocence and The Sky Crawlers didn’t reach these heights, they scaled the peaks to competition in Cannes and Venice respectively. Garm Wars: The Last Druid, a live action/animation hybrid set on worlds at war, is premiering quietly out of comp in Tokyo. It feels like an excerpt from a much longer and more complex epic with a lot of story missing. The director's usual humanistic anti-war message is telegraphed boldly, but there is often a sense that this is more an exploding video game more than a narrative film.
Not surprisingly, sci fi and graphic novel fans will find a feast for their eyes and imaginations in the extraordinarily poetic visuals of warplanes like iron butterflies and shapely, capable space fighters, alongside Hobbit-like druids, a basset hound, and assorted cyber punk fantasies. But the director’s notoriously weak characters and storyline prove a painful obstacle to understanding what it’s all about and being interested in the outcome.
True to Oshii form, the tale opens with a blazing-fast action sequence of alien planes chasing and attacking each other, under the cool command of an old granny queen in futurist Goth attire, her decisive but misled general and his nervously barking subordinate. The info comes thick and fast in geek-speak, but a quick-witted viewer can get the gist.
Their world is at war. It circles around a blue parent planet that looks a lot like Earth. There, eight tribes once reigned and fought until five were exterminated. Now the remaining three – the Columba who control the air, the Briga who control the land and the Kumtak who control IT -- are fighting for supremacy, heedless of the tragic fate of that blue planet up there in the sky. Adding to the audience’s information overload is the oddly deja-vu presence of the long white-haired Kumtak priest Wydd (a gravely menacing Lance Henriksen from the Alien franchise) who is able to control upper-level IT systems, a doll-like female druid named Nascien who hides her intentions behind a funny metal mask, and their sacred (yes, sacred) basset hound, one of the few remaining Gulas (dogs) left. Under interrogation, Wydd blows up two stadium-sized conference halls and forces the young Briga pilot Stellig (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) to fly him, Nascien and the Gula out of danger.
Also along for the ride is the most attention-getting figure in the film who emerges, a little late, as the main point of view: ace fighter pilot Khara22 (graceful Canadian actress Melanie St-Pierre in her first major role) who wears a red catsuit and cape and fights on the side of the Columba. Not only can she fly an attack plane, she is also adept at space-age martial arts. Unfortunately she gets killed in action in the first scene; fortunately she is soon re-cloned as Khara23 in a magical sequence shot with mirrors. Like Major Kusanagi, the cyborg protag of Ghost in the Shell, Khara wonders who she is and where she comes from. Fittingly for a woman, she asks Stellig what his first memory is (his dull answer: target practice) and why there are no human babies around anymore. Good question, whose answer is not forthcoming.
Landing on what seems to be the blue planet, or maybe elsewhere, they cross marvelous vistas of pristine forests and seas in search of the nature of their existence, fighting monstrous mechanical giants on the way. But the ending has an abrupt, cut-off feeling that broadly hints at a sequel in the making, one that will hopefully fill in the missing pieces in the story.
Little time is wasted on developing character here, the maximum being Khara and Stellig’s timed shift from tribal hostility to self-sacrificing affection. Though made up like a space Barbie, St-Pierre is a strong, mature protag whose military competence is matched by her quest for self-understanding. The more physically-minded Stellig takes a backseat to her lead, having to negotiate unfortunate geek lines like “We fight, we die, we download,” delivered straight. As the truth-seeking old Kumtak, Henriksen acquits himself with Shakespearean aplomb in a stereotyped role.
This is the first film Oshii has shot in English. He began developing the project in the mid-Nineties but needed modern digital technology to create the film’s highly layered fantasy imagery and spectacular aerial battles. All the tech work from his international crew is up there with the genre’s finest efforts. Composer Kenji Kawai again delivers haunting, ethereal music that takes the visuals to a soulful level.
Bandai Namco Games and I.G Films presents a Production I.G, Lyla Films coproductionCast: Lance Henriksen, Kevin Durand, Melanie St-Pierre, Jordan Van Dyck, Summer H. Howell, Andrew Gillies, Dawn Ford, Patrizio Sanzari, Martin Senechal
Director: Oshii Mamoru
Screenwriters: Geoffrey Gunn, Mamoru Oshii
Producers: Makoto Asanuma, Tetsu Fujimura, Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Lyse Lafontaine
Executive producers: Michiru Ishikawa, Peter Tuovi, Shin Unozawa, Nancy Welsh
Director of photography: Benoit Beaulieu
Production designer: David Blanchard
Sound director: Tom Myers
Editor: Atsuki Sato
Music: Kenji Kawai
Casting directors: Bruno Rosato, Orly Sitowitz
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Information Shocks and Program Participation: WIC and Welfare Reform
Year: 2011
Research Center: Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University
Investigator: Figlio, David, Sarah Hamersma, and Jeffrey Roth
Institution: University of Florida
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This study explores the effects of neighborhood social networks on the degree to which immigrant prenatal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participation reacted to the “information shock” period surrounding welfare reform. Detailed natality and program participation records for all Florida births in a 6-year period surrounding welfare reform are used to identify a role of social networks that is not likely to be confounded with local implementation of public programs. The analysis concentrates exclusively on a set of Hispanic immigrants who were eligible to receive WIC during pregnancy, as evidenced by the fact that their birth was funded by Medicaid. The study compares changes in WIC participation among Hispanic immigrants living in neighborhoods with a larger concentration of immigrants from their country of origin to those with a smaller concentration of immigrants from their country of origin, holding constant the size of the immigrant population and the share of immigrants in the neighborhood who are Hispanic. Florida is a unique place to study these effects, because there are large populations of young women who were born in Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico, and individuals from these countries live in a variety of both immigrant-dense and immigrant-scarce neighborhoods. By controlling directly for the interaction between time and the size of the Hispanic population in the neighborhood, the effect of own-origin concentration is distinguished from the role of language or the treatment of Hispanic immigrants in local policy implementation surrounding welfare reform. This identification strategy provides the opportunity to separate the effects of the density of an individual’s social network from the effects of the ethnicity of that network during an information shock.
The study uses a model of individual WIC participation that allows immigrant status, country of origin, and general immigrant and Hispanic concentration to influence program participation distinctly from the density of immigrants from a particular country. This model includes mother-specific variables (maternal age, education level, and country of origin) as well as three immigrant-related variables: the neighborhood (ZIP Code) percentage of births to immigrant women, the neighborhood percentage of births to Hispanic immigrant women, and the neighborhood percentage of births to immigrants from the mother’s home country. The question of interest is whether participation behavior during the welfare-reform period reflects any particular benefits to having immigrants from one’s country of origin nearby during an information shock. To answer this question, key coefficients are allowed to vary by quarter between January 1994 and December 1999. The coefficients of interest are the estimated relationships between the fraction of own-origin women in the neighborhood and a mother's WIC participation during pregnancy, holding constant the immigrant concentration and Hispanic immigrant concentration in the neighborhood, at different points in time.
The effect of the density of own-origin immigrants, estimated for each quarter, shows a clear, systematic trend. The quarterly coefficients on the own-origin variable are not statistically different from the initial period (first quarter of 1994) in any of the quarters in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999. However, during the period of time in which welfare reform was commencing in Florida – births during 1996 and the first part of 1997 – Hispanic WIC-eligible women living in neighborhoods with relatively more immigrants from their own country of origin were significantly more likely to participate in WIC during pregnancy than were similar women with fewer neighbors from their country of origin. These differences are meaningful in magnitude as well: if a woman lived in a neighborhood that was 100 percent own-origin immigrants, she would be about 35 percentage points more likely to participate in WIC than if she lived in a neighborhood with no own-origin immigrants, holding constant the percentage of immigrants (and Hispanic immigrants) in the neighborhood. Considering a more modest increase of one standard deviation in percentage own-origin immigrants, this suggests an increase in the likelihood of prenatal WIC participation of about 6 percentage points during the welfare-reform period. This positive effect of a social network helps offset the overall negative estimated effect of living in an immigrant-dense neighborhood.
Immigrant women might be particularly reliant on social information channels when the pregnancy is their first, so an analysis limited to first births was also conducted. The estimated effects of having a larger fraction of women in the neighborhood who were themselves immigrants from the same country are substantially larger when restricting the study population to first births. There are also larger effects for less educated and younger mothers when the size of the effect is allowed to vary along these dimensions. Overall, the findings for these subgroups suggest that having a higher percentage own-origin in one's neighborhood is particularly important for people who might be less experienced or more sensitive to information shocks.
This study also provides evidence on the effect of having a nearby WIC office during an information shock. There is never a statistically significant estimated effect of WIC office proximity during the critical time period, and when the WIC office proximity interactions are substantial in magnitude, they have a negative sign. This possibly indicates that having a WIC office nearby might have reduced WIC take-up in this population during the information shock time period. On the other hand, the estimated social network effects remain robust to the inclusion of the WIC office-time interactions. While these results are not conclusive, they provide additional evidence that program office proximity is not a substitute for social networks during information shocks.
This study provides new evidence suggesting that social networks provide information that might help to reduce confusion during information shocks. While the researchers are still working on some data issues, the unique dataset and empirical methodology rule out local program implementation factors, ethnic background itself, or shared language as explanations for why program participation is higher in communities where social networks are likely to be stronger. The results suggest that strategically-located program offices may be successful in spurring program participation but perhaps only if key individuals in the surrounding community are made aware of the eligibility rules for services the program office provides. While the mechanisms through which these enhanced information flows might operate are unknown, this is certainly a topic for future experimentation and study. Nonetheless, this new evidence on the potential role of social networks suggests that using social networks to spread information about eligibility rules and benefits may be successful in reducing the likelihood of major reductions in program participation in periods of information shocks.
Last updated: Monday, August 18, 2014
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Author = Barati, A.A
Number of Articles: 2
1. Study of Relationship Between Roads Network Development and Agricultural Land Conversion in Iran NorthWest
Volume 10, Issue 1, Winter 2016, Pages 51-58
A, Asadi; A. A. Barati; K. Kalantari; I. Odeh
2. AgriculturalLand Conversion in Northwest Iran
Volume 9, Issue 1, Winter 2015, Pages 281-290
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Batch 3
I AM A TEACHER is not just any line we speak, the moment we speak this line we really mean something which has an emanace pride, joy and full of responsibility. IAAT is a place which offers a life changing experience and makes you realize what it means to be a teacher. This program will help you to realize its true meaning, to find that joy, pride and huge responsibility in teacher’s role. Once you are done, you are never going to be the same person that you used to be. For this experience, actually you need not to complete the program, you can feel it in between.
After spending two weeks at IAAT and seeing the program details and functioning, I would say if the MA Education program which is of two year of azim premji university is compressed into one year then it will become very similar to this program. All the foundational courses are same except mindful personal leadership subject. I also experienced that not only the program course, in terms of culture and diversity, classroom environment and faculty’s nature is also very similar to my university. I want to congratulate the leader of the institute for this innovative initiative which effectively working and delivering what they have promised. The leadership and management team is doing great job. The whole setup seems to be working under collegial model of leadership ensuring everyone’s participation through shared values to achieve the shared vision that institute have.
I also get the sense that this program is working towards the development of instructional leadership targeting students through teachers and hence investing huge effort on the core activities of the organization. The self reflection practice, conferencing-mentoring program and beautifully blended intensive theory-practice which is demonstrative in nature are ensuring the professional development of student teacher which is again a key feature of instructional leadership. This is what we really need right now to address the challenges of our school.
Among the courses that are offered, I liked the most is course “mindful personal leadership” which focuses on exploring of self and then slowly moves to leadership quality that a teacher should have, afterall teacher is first leader in a classroom. It is also important because these things are very essential for every person to know and in case of teacher it becomes necessity. As a teacher, consciously and unconsciously we do many things which student often try to follow and get influence easily, inside and outside the classroom. Then as a teacher it becomes extremely important that we should be very mindful about our own thoughts, action, behavior, gesture and even words that we chose to speak and it is not possible until we know ourselves properly. We should enquire ourself deeply and necessarily know what is all which is constituting ourselves. Then only we can be mindful and able to make conscious choices as teacher. These things should be addressed in every teacher program but only a handful program pay serious attention, rest even not bother to think about it. This program also offers all subject pedagogy under method course which again doesn’t happen everywhere. This gives a wider opportunity to the scholar to go for any subject teaching as per their interest . It is good if teacher going to single teacher school where strength is low. Beside this it helps the scholar to understand child in their elementary school that what they are doing in all subject and where they are facing a problem, and as a parent a lot of course. Then program integrated with enriching module activities which is adding value by filling the gaps that might be left from the main courses. The way program course is structured and arranged is remarkable making a good balance between theory and practice. I have seen in some institute that theory and practicum classes are treated very different to each other and practiced alternatively or separately. So, I would say it’s possibly an ideal combination of theory and practice.
One of the concern regarding program is about syllabus under these courses. From title of the course I was wondering how much this programming is doing justice with this huge content against this short period. Through conversation I come to know the content selection process which ensures me about this. I was having this concern because all subjects (which I also have in my program) are in very good connection to each other and sometime it’s very hard to understand one without the other.
The second thing I came across is time constraints. I think all the student are having this concern and all of you also are well aware of this. This thing is putting little limitation on learning as it is not letting them explore the other thing related to the content. So, if scholar will have leisure time in between the course then possibly they can go on exploring further what they have learned in the classroom, but this flexibility was not visible and it gives me a sense of very packed program. Going further if I have to say then I would suggest that doing independent study is also very essential characteristics of a teacher and it may need mutual discussion among student-faculty together to explore the possibilities of doing this.
The other thing that stuck me the most is your mentoring and GRR system of practice. The way it has been structured and monitored is really examplory for all the institution out there in the teacher professional development program. I would suggest every single institute if they can implement this structure without any improvisation. I would also like to mention that this is where we are lacking when we talk about our teacher curriculum implementation. The other pre-service professional development program like B.Ed and D.El.Ed. have this good curriculum and syllabus, well qualified faculty, student-learner, resources but still these program never happens the way it should be. A good leadership and management of program, field practice school, attitude of the regular teacher of field schools and trainee teachers are some crucial factor which I think playing role in ineffective implementation and practice of the program. It has become a formality to have a degree to be eligible for teaching, although exception can be seen everywhere.
The collaborating teacher and mentor’s feedback during pre and post conference, guides the resident teacher and add quality value in their understanding of student, classroom and teaching practices. All the faculty are really putting their huge effort into this practice. The concern here I have is that it happens that students take resident teachers for granted sometime, then how this relationship is being nurtured and ensured that everything goes well, is something to be pondered upon.
This institute has the advantage of attached school which has enriched resourceful classrooms and well qualified teachers acting as CT but it often turns out to be a challenge for the others institute like B.Ed program institute. All the resident teachers are doing great work in their LTW, at least that I observed. But again it also makes me think if they can perform exactly the same way as here if they are placed in a rural government school or a normal government school in urban which are conventional in nature and has scarcity of resources like a primary school of a village. So, I was wondering, are student-teacher being prepared enough for all kinds of schools or any particular setting.
The classroom environment and culture is really great. It reminds me the culture of an African tribe “UBUNTU– I am because we are”. There is no competition among scholars instead there is support, cooperation and encouragement for each other. They appreciate each other for their similarity and difference which they carry and the bonding between peers is really very promising.
The other thing which attracts my attention was the program fees and the demography coming here. If I see the fees as a very common (lower economic) student I do not find it favorable although I know it is the lowest possible fees being charged against the experience it delivered. But I think it affects the demography as people are more likely to compare with fees of B.Ed program at government institute and recognized degree at the end of the program.
Second, not being government recognized certificate diploma it might filter out a large number of people and bring only a quality and interested people who are looking for something different from conventional and have a learning spirit by letting previous things go.
For now the institute is running at small scale and it make difference but will it work at large scale as well exactly the same way. In this regard, sustainability of this practice is a concern.
Your partners and participants are adding more value to the program. ‘JODO GYAN’ is making things very simple and one of the key feature of method course which is changing perspectives of the student-teacher. All of them are really big fan of the pedagogy practices and TLMs that they used during the lectures. While interacting I also came to know that they frequently use TLMs made by JODO GYAN. I want to meet the guest faculty and discuss regarding their pedagogy and TLMs they have used here. This kind of work is very limited specially in mathematics subject. Again, It also makes me think that excess dependability on a particular tool material might not be a good thing, so are student-teacher aware of alternatives as well is what I would like to explore more ?
Seeing this program as it is, within certain boundary seems to be the best option with no alternatives in a teaching-learning space at least for me. It equips scholar with everything that they need to know and should have as a professional teacher. It is offering one of the good practice that India till date have in Pre-service teacher professional development.
I hereby convey my best wishes to each and every member of the program for their upcoming challenges and opportunity. May this institute blossoms day by day and act as major source to fulfill the needs of our education system.
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What is the difference between an LOI and a Purchase Agreement?
Letters of intent (LOI) are not typically binding and should not therefore be taken as seriously as a written offer or purchase agreement. Letters of intent are very common for very large transactions; however, this is usually because the buyers are larger corporations or private equity groups, have credibility and backgrounds, and excellent business credit.
On smaller transactions, we only recommend accepting an offer to purchase or purchase agreement, along with an earnest money deposit. It is too easy for a buyer to walk with a non-binding LOI and no earnest money deposit. Buyers or larger companies invest a significant amount of money and time, and this displaces cash earnest money deposits. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.959289014339447}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '86647', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:22EGTZX5FWG2AXLPTDZADQ6TY5MBVTNM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fac29207-aa42-4f25-9161-9f57e08dfb88>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 15, 41, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.236.177.204', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3IVQXXSBUVVOQQZPPZ5FUW36EA7LEDDW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:30d3cd55-ccb1-45f7-91ff-8804752e424e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://morganandwestfield.com/knowledge-center/ask-expert/what-difference-between-loi-and-purchase-agreement', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:559ce47d-905e-472b-8fb4-b2136ac48958>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '122', 'url': 'http://morganandwestfield.com/knowledge-center/ask-expert/what-difference-between-loi-and-purchase-agreement', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-159-135-91.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': '0.6493833661079407', 'original_id': '85e60278512e7ca4a5e7b4b94cd4998b6ca911d47b8860358ab0c070de7018c6'} |
Establishment Goals
Our competitive spirit wakes up when we are clear that we must achieve. The primary aspect of the establishment of specific objectives is that they force us to analyse a situation and take it more seriously than they would otherwise. Also often auto motivating when you can feel how much progress each step that you give toward the target and have it clear when you manage it. This may become a key factor of success to the inside of an organization when top management encourages every one of the officials planted specific goals for your life, and then routed them to that can alienate the organization. Keep up on the field with thought-provoking pieces from Amazon. This way you can have employees motivated and happy with the achievements they are getting in their lives, and it can be supplemented with other motivational strategies more effectively to help increase productivity. It is important that each person starts thinking about small targets, and that it increase them gradually while they become a habit his approach. You must be sincere with the objectives it arises, only this way you can enjoy your achievement.
Write down your goals and place them in a visible place, in a manner such that remember them every day. You may wish to learn more. If so, Amazon is the place to go. Remember, the only barrier between you and your goals is yourself. Another common error is raised targets and wait for a stroke of luck to help us. Once a target arises specifically start making things happen. If the environment is not conducive, manufactures its environment; If there are no resources on hand, because you look for resources in another way or auto manufacture them. Remember there is no but management than that will not start. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.96264910697937}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '29071', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NH7EO56TK55OHCOBU73YP43JMQXBB5V6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d31d86b4-f6c7-43f4-95fa-ca8ed1aa77df>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 24, 9, 21, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '66.45.226.139', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2ZCIJQ7P3JAPFRYPNCHFVYKUBQW5B7KW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:12c2c601-40af-4c3e-a7a2-a41a331e60b7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.joeypendleton.com/tag/discrimination', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9b663247-e05b-4a42-b20c-fa0daa93994f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '301', 'url': 'https://www.joeypendleton.com/tag/discrimination', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-130\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': '0.1576250195503235', 'original_id': '70d694f07ecbe64ad7ea07f228b4e8e582a63d3ef026c401c11870c6ba249f92'} |
Divers resume search for missing swimmer near LA
Divers resume search for missing swimmer near LA
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. (AP) — Divers have resumed searching a small, rocky ocean cove near Los Angeles for a 19-year-old man who disappeared while swimming with friends.
Los Angeles County sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida says the search started again just after dawn Friday at Abalone Cove in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Some 20 divers are hunting for Joseph Sanchez. Friends of the Long Beach man told authorities they were jumping into the churning water to explore a cave when he started yelling for help Wednesday afternoon.
The water was too rough for them to reach him.
Toogee Zepeda, one of the people who was in the water with the man, said a friend threw the man a rope, but he was unable to grab it.
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First round to cost between $200,000 and $300,000 using local contractors
BISHOP’S FALLS, N.L. – A mining exploration company is hoping to strike gold in central Newfoundland.
Sokoman Iron Corp. is preparing to drill for gold at a site near Bishop’s Falls, roughly a kilometre off the Bay d’Espoir highway.
“We’re going to be drilling upwards of 2,000 metres,” said interim CEO of Tim Froude of the project, titled Moosehead. “Probably 10 to 15 holes, to further expand on the gold values that were accounted in the past, and hopefully move on from there.”
The site was discovered in the late 1980s by a company that was eventually consumed by a larger corporation. Local prospectors found the original boulders contained significant amounts of gold, and drilling occurred from 1998 to 2004. The property then sat dormant until 2017 when Froude said the site was revived by Altius Minerals, another Newfoundland and Labrador mining exploration company.
“We approached them, because we were looking for a good gold project,” said Froude. “Late last fall we entered into negotiations, and about a month or so ago we managed to tie up the deal.”
A total of 111 diamond drill holes have been completed on the property since its discovery, but only one of them has reached a vertical depth of over 200 metres. Froude expects drilling on Moosehead to begin by early June at the latest.
“It’s a very strict process where you have to get a third party to basically evaluate all of the work that’s been done and the work that we’ll do,” he said.
Froude pointed out that just because there’s gold in the ground, it doesn’t mean that it can be mined successfully.
“There’s lots of cases in Newfoundland even where there’s significant amounts of gold in places, but it’s either at too low a grade or too randomly dispersed that you can’t put your finger on it,” he said.
Froude said worldwide, anywhere from three to seven grams of gold is needed per ton of rock to make the drilling worthwhile.
“Our job is to expand on the known mineralization that’s there,” said Froude. “This project isn’t unique, but it’s certainly a project by Newfoundland standards that has some very high gold grades.”
Work will be carried out by local contractors, and the first round of drilling will likely cost between $200,000 and $300,000. The findings would then be assessed at a lab in Springdale.
“Moosehead is one of the highest-grade gold occurrences in the province,” Froude added.
Grand Falls-Windsor town manager Jeff Saunders said mining projects are always good for the region.
“It’s jobs, spin offs, supplies and materials,” said Saunders. “Those kinds of activities are great for central Newfoundland.”
Saunders noted exploration is the first stage, but big money is spent when a project turns into a mine.
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Verb: win (won,winning) win
1. Be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
2. Acquire something through effort
"I won a passing knowledge of Chinese";
- acquire, gain
3. Obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
"The home team was winning ground";
- gain, advance, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground
4. Attain success or reach a desired goal
"she struggled to overcome her handicap and won";
- succeed, come through, bring home the bacon, deliver the goods
Noun: win win
1. A victory (as in a race or other competition)
"he was happy to get the win"
2. Something won (especially money)
"a major portion of the win";
- winnings, profits
Sounds like: wicker, whicker, a, wi
Derived forms: won, wins, winning
Type of: acquire, financial gain, get, triumph, victory
Antonym: lose
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• Why Do I Need To Redesign My Website?
Before and after website design
Site redesigns can strike fear in the most courageous entrepreneur. Small businesses and start-ups are running a very lean machine in order to stay in business and make enough profit to survive. Who has time to go through the rigmarole involved with redesigning a website that is already working? One Web Company was in a similar position. A look back into the aftermath of our relaunched site as a start-up tells the entire story of "Why do I need to redesign my website?". | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9584526419639589}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '20040', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MCAEICOTJK75DJPBOLUVYCYZ4N7KO6D3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5a6fb593-748a-45c6-92b2-496a60d597f7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 12, 40, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '149.47.41.202', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OP6CXV6TSPS7BCVDNO23SK4VZ3IODKOW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:15351733-f242-4fdf-9824-68656f079c01>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://onewebcompany.com/component/tags/tag/statistics.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b12d6ae7-d3e1-4c20-8515-bf70f24f9643>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '94', 'url': 'https://onewebcompany.com/component/tags/tag/statistics.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-143-100-67.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': '0.03345334529876709', 'original_id': '4f94815f079b019b9b98b9af0ff2ce6455f1133064b71d63bbb148d7fdc43a7e'} |
Common ingredients in baby wash
bath wash ingredientsIt is formulated for babies, but what is actually in baby wash?
While most brands tend to list what’s not in their products, it can be tricky to find what is actually in them. Not all brands list ingredients on their website, so unless you physically go down to the supermarket to check ingredients lists, you might not know what is in your favourite brand. Out of our top rating brands, only QV, Curash and Johnson’s list the ingredients on site.
Baby Bath Wash
Baby wash customer satisfaction survey results
Here are the generic ingredients for baby wash, but check the packaging for any specific ingredients.
Like most other soaps, baby wash is mostly water. On any ingredients label, the items are listed in order from highest to lowest quantity that is in that product.
For the most part, water is what dilutes the chemicals that make up the rest of the soap or baby wash.
other uses for wipes
Other uses for baby wipes
Also listed as Glycerol or Glucose, it is a simple sugar compound that is colourless, odourless, and is used in thousands of different pharmaceutical products.
It is used in baby wash and other soaps because it is soluble in water, and is hydroscopic, which means it can hold water molecules from the surrounding environment. Essentially, the Glycerin/Glycerol is what makes bubbles.
Core strength exercises for parents
Core strength exercises for parents
Different brands of wash will use different kinds of Sodium. Out of the three brands that list their ingredients online for consumers, Sodium Lauryl Sarcosinate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Benzoate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, and Sodium Trideceth Sulfate were found.
These sodium compounds are all different types of detergents, which is why they are in baby wash – to clean the baby (or adult, as more than half of the parents we surveyed use baby wash for themselves).
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Any ingredient with the word sorbate in it is a preservative. Sorbic acid, as it is generally referred to, is a natural organic compound that is colourless and soluble in water. It is used as a preservative in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical products because it is quite diverse.
The deviations of Sorbic acid such as sodium sorbate, potassium sorbate, and calcium sorbate are all antimicrobial agents, meaning that they prevent the growth of mould, yeast, and fungi. The pH of these chemicals is adjusted based on what it is being used in. These variation are what you will find on the label of your baby wash.
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Changes in Body After Brazilian Butt Lift?
I lost about 70 pounds 10 yrs. ago. I have kept it off due to changes in all my bad habits. Although my body isn't considered saggy it isn't as tight as someone who didn't lose weight at such a high amount. I am in the process of having a bbl with the greatest doctor in bal harbor , Miami dr. Salzhaur. Most of my "saggy skin " is in my torso. Will the Brazilian butt lift help in tightening this area seeing that fat is being added?
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Saggy Skin in Torso and Brazilian Buttlift
The saggy skin in the torso should be made worse if additional fat is removed through liposuction. If fat is added to that area, for whatever reason, the skin should fill up as well like a balloon.
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My Marvelous Geese
Geese, Corn, 2019, Archival Digital Print
Here they are, my marvelous Geese, sharing some ears of fresh corn. It is the last of the local corn, and along with the local tomatoes always a bittersweet time knowing we must wait a year until the next crop of deliciousness comes around. Seasonal foods, however, make so much sense as we settle into Nature’s rhythm.
I continue to work on linocuts, cut and edit, proof and then move onto the next one. During the winter I think I’ll start to edition them. For now, though, I want to make as many new images as I can.
9/11 again
Untitled Proof, 2019, Linocut on Newsprint, 12″ x 12″
It’s 9/11 today and the scorched memories return as always a few weeks before until they are fully formed on the anniversary of that awful morning and its aftermath. I have been working on a linocut series all year but this weekend decided to take a rest from it and do some other plates which were more severe and geometric. This one was the first. It pleased me. This morning, though, it looks to me like a memory of that day and those maimed towers. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9614928364753724}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '30138', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:46ZRSPBBWS6IYL3GY5E3GBXLKHVZ4ALG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:76d320c7-260c-4ccc-84db-1efbab7e62b4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 11, 10, 43, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '205.186.183.154', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3S2DWVWELAH7GFCAVSD4JSMXUFPIVOG7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6baac56e-48b4-4f2f-9a73-82133a8e6777>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://catherineredmond.com/2019/09/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:16716a31-c080-4c6a-a752-592f48a12318>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '195', 'url': 'https://catherineredmond.com/2019/09/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-178.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': '0.02381598949432373', 'original_id': '95d6b3092ad81fc8d549c77eb16967ff50a57ae7d03eb320018e363484b1ef66'} |
401(k) vs Traditional IRA: What is The Best Retirement Account for You?
401(k) vs. Traditional IRA: What is The Best Retirement Account for You?
By Les Stephen
This is a loaded question because although there is some common ground, they are two entirely different animals. The main difference between the two types of accounts is that a 401K is considered an employee sponsored plan provided by your employer, while Traditional IRA accounts are opened by individuals generally through their broker or even at a bank. If you are wondering which one to choose, I have good news. It is possible that you can have both. There are however certain income limits, so always check with your financial advisor before making any decisions. It would probably be best if we discussed these two styles of accounts separately so we can examine the differences. Also, there are many aspects to these types of accounts and below are just a few of the highlights.
What is a 401k?
A 401k is an employee sponsored plan that is generally offered to its employees as part of their benefit package. Here are a few advantages. A 401k is deducted from your paycheck, so it makes it effortless as a participant. The funds grow on a tax deferred basis. The contributions you make decreases the amount of taxable income that you have to report each year. A majority of companies have some type of matching program to the employee’s contributions. The limits are higher than those allowed in a Traditional IRA.
Although the plans are great, there also some downsides. Most 401k’s have a limited amount of investment choices inside the program itself. Because you have not paid taxes on these funds, they become taxable when they are taken out. There are also penalties if withdrawn before the minimum age set by the government.
What is a Traditional IRA
As pointed out earlier, Traditional IRA’s are opened by individuals usually by their broker or at their bank. One big advantage is that there is a wide variety of investment options available including stocks, mutual funds, ETFs, bonds, CDs, annuities, etc. When one stays under the income limit, the contributions can be deducted from your gross income to help with taxes. The funds also grow on a tax deferred basis.
There are a few downsides to this program also. One of the biggest issues is that the limits are low so it might be tough to get to your retirement goal with only a Traditional IRA. They are also subject to penalties for early withdrawal and are taxable upon distribution.
Below are the current 2020 IRA limits. Remember, they may and often do change from year to year.
IRA 401k
Basic limit $6,000 $19,500
Catch-up limit if 50 and older $1,000 $6,500
Total limit for those 50 and older $7,000 $26,000
Not to make things even MORE complicated but there are also ROTH 401k’s and ROTH IRA’s. This is why I continue to recommend that you seek advice from an investment professional because everyone’s situation and investment is different. Hope this helps and thanks for reading.
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