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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Passport Scandal Reinforces Case Against ID Cards It really is quite astonishing that Home Office Ministers are using the scandal of 10,000 passports being issued illegally to say that this reinforces the needs for ID cards. Surely anyone with any sense of logic could see that it means exactly the opposite? Anonymous said... The U-turn from the Tories is incredible. Richard said... It seems "The Day of The Jackal" has a lot to answer for, for making everyone aware of the easiest way to blag a fake passport. I wonder if Freddie Forsyth will find room in his Express column to discuss this issue? If there's anyone left who's actually able to make it through to page 12 of that "paper" then let me know. daf said... The only difference with ID cards is that they will be (a) much more expensive; and (b) much more widely trusted and so more dangerous. Anonymous said... I recently needed a new passport and because I've had three bank cards stolen in the post I didn't want to risk the hassle of losing my passport and decided to apply in person. I was astonished to discovered that the Passport and ID section of the Home Office in London is run entirely by Nigerians. There was not a single white person in the entire building at any level. Not only that, but their English language skills were absolutely dire, or possibly non-existent in some cases where they didn't respond when spoken to. I would't be at all surprised if the Passport Office is found to be run by illegal immigrants. Anonymous said... The ID card is at the centre of the EU plan to secure its external borders. They have been trying to implement it in other coountries outside EU who are the source of illegal immigration Anonymous said... You obviously know David Davis well. Having championed the Tories 'libertarian' stance in opposing ID cards, why does he not oppose the heart of the scheme, the NIR and plans for black box trackers in cars too? How can you oppose ID cards but not the NIR and car trackers too? I emailed David, and asked a straight question, but no reply. Can you please confirm the Tory position on the NIR and in-car trackers as the silence is deafening at the moment? Anonymous said... Anonymous, what U-turn? With credit to David Davis, the Conservatives have opposed ID cards at every stage, voting against them from the first reading of the bill. If the Liberal Democrats had bothered to show up, the measure would have been killed. Chad, I agree. The Conservatives need to make their position clear on these issues, and speak out. Anonymous said... usual new labour rubbish. Anonymous said... Nigerians are in general corrupt, it is just their way of doing things. A few years ago i was discussing welfare fraud with a person who was employed as a consultant for a london inner city council, trying to trace housing benefit fraud. Well, I might get prosecuted for repeating the things she was saying about the nigerian staff. My wife is Nigerian, and she wont have anything to do with them either. SimonW said... Ponder on this "An estimated 10,000 passports were issued to fraudulent applicants in 12 months, the Home Office has said." and "Home Office minister Joan Ryan said the IPS had 16,500 fraudulent applications during the 12 month period, 10,000 of which went undetected." Then ask yourself. "How do they know that figure?" "How do you count an undetected fraudulent application?" All these figures must be estimates so the real figure could be higher or lower. So the government are saying we think we may have given 10,000 people false identities last year who can use these identities to defraud the rest of you! Anonymous said... Anonymous, what U-turn? I think that comes from the likes of Hague who agree with ID cards in principle but oppose the current costings. Obviously, this leaves the Tories room to then support the scheme again if in power, when they are in charge of the costings. That is why the silence on the NIR and in-car trackers is so worrying and needs urgent, unequivocal clarification because as it stands, it would appear that the Tories support the NIR and in-car trackers, and amongst some senior Shadow Cabinet members, only oppose ID cards on current costings. If Davis is not prepared to clearly state that the Tories will tear up the NIR and in-car tracker scheme, then it is fair to say they'll introduce them just as Labour plans. Unsworth said... Since when did logic come into this? For that matter, since when has this 'Government' done anything logical? Anonymous said... I have worked in Nigeria since 1981. I know the country and its people. I know what I'm talking about. Nigerians are the most corrupt people on Earth. Nothing in this country works because money, goods or equipment is stolen. Systems that are run by expats do function. There is no rail system working anymore. Chinese are trying to reinstate that. No land line telephone system works. Expat-run cell phones allow comms. The oil industry is run by a back bone of expats. The electricity network is dire. Cable is stolen and illegal taps steal the electricity. You can obtain anything here by paying someone off. Passports,tickets, jobs, anything. So one might ask the question. Why employ people to run your country's affairs when they so blatantly ruin their own country's affairs and infra-structure? Anonymous said... Check out Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. You'll find Nigeria near the bottom. Anonymous said... Yeah and the only reason they're not right at the bottom is because they bribed someone. Chris Paul said... NO. They are also saying interviews for all applicants. I'm again it. But this story is wrong. Anonymous said... Iain is right. That is exactly how I saw this issue, as condemnation of the ID scheme. Trust the fools in government to reverse the logic. I had a girlfriend who was from Africa. What she pointed out is that the corruption in Nigeria is cultural. In this country corrupt people are looked down on by most people as crooks. Nigerian culture looks positively on people who get as much as possible with as little work as possible. So do you think that corruption amongst Nigerians is protected in "multicultural" Britain, as their cultural right? Little Black Sambo said... Chad: you are the only person I have come across to raise the question of the Conservatives and whether they will scrap their inheritance of socialist surveillance - the NIR, etc, etc. ID cards are just a detail. But if you are not on the NIR you will not get a passport. The Govt should be put against a wall and shot while the Tory Govt-in-waiting look on. Roger Thornhill said... I think the HO is pushing the issue of biometric verification vs the "photo signed by a JP" quaintness that I for one sorely miss. Frankly we should be able to use a multiplicity of ID providers - our banks pretty much do that now. p.s. if the passport office is entirely Nigerian, then surely it should be investigated for Racism and lack of diversity, with individuals hiring based on racial bias disqualified from State Employment. The Military Wing Of The BBC said... What's desperately needed is a centralised Death Certificate registrar. This will prevent the "Day of the Jackal"-type passport fraud that no doubt is still going. If it could be extended internationally it would also prevent the UK's national and private pension schemes slowly going bust. People can live for ever if you don't report the death of a family member when he's abroad. This fraud will slowly bust YOUR pension scheme long before any of us get any money from them! Happy times. Anonymous said... Our rulers are not being illogical, they are being Orwellian and have been so for a long time. 1984 is their Bible. The Military Wing Of The BBC said... This figure of 10,000 is an ESTIMATE of successful fake applications for passports. The passport office believe that they receive a total of 16,500 fake applications each year. This means that 100,000 fraudulently obtained UK passports are in circulation. More if previous fraudulently obtained passports have been successfully renewed. Anonymous said... errm, if the Passport Office really is "entirely Nigerian" (which seems a little unlikely, but...) then shouldn't every letter, fax and email sent by it be checked out for the telltale phrase "Urgent & Confidential Business Proposal"? Anonymous said... The logic comes into it, Iain, when those thieving bastards who stole the 10,000 passports come to exchange them for the new ID Cards. Then we'll catch 'em! BTW, 20,000 of the new ID Cards have already gone missing, you wouldn't like to help me in locating them would you? Anonymous said... I've got them 30,00 missing ID cards. Fell orf of the back of a 'Ome Office lorry, didn't they? I can do you one cheap, squire. Can't tell 'em from the real thing, honest. Anonymous said... I am having a multiple identity crisis...do you think I can get a passport for each one ? Anonymous said... What's desperately needed is a centralised Death Certificate registrar. Why - most Death Records are now computerised and the ONS Central records certainly are........but how are you going to match ? Currently the Passport Office shares photgraph data with DVLA and supposedly uses Credit Agencies to check addresses.....but no other country issues Centralised Drivers Licenses or Passports and then has open borders. The British State has collapsed and is nothing more than a Potemkin Village Anonymous said... that is what makes you suspect they went to an ILEA Comprehensive.......oh Diversity..... uk-events said... Pardon my language here but its shit like this that really pisses me off. We're relentlessly lectured by these New Labour cretins they they know best. We tell them they don't know jack but on they go. They force through legislation with their huge electoral mandate (sic) and insist we owe them our private information. Then? Then they send thousands of passports out to criminals. I really wish they'd line up every single Nu-Labourite and shoot them. For the love of god and the good of us all, get rid of these useless vermin! jailhouselawyer said... UKevents: I take it that you are not a New Labour supporter then? uk-events said... Jailhouselawyer: Is anyone?! jailhouselawyer said... Pass. Or, the jury's still out on this one... Take Your Pick. uk-events said... All in good time! If not in the cash for honours affair, there's always the Hague - uk-events said... I'll try that link again! The Military Wing Of The BBC said... Voyager said: What's desperately needed is a centralised Death Certificate registrar Have you read/seen the film "Day of the Jackal"? A false, but legit passport is obtained by 1. finding the grave of somebody roughly your age 2. make a note of his/her details 3. apply for a copy of said persons birth certificate 4. use said copy to apply for passport 5.rely on fact that passport office does not check death register (there isn't one) Not sure what the ONS has to do with id fraud. Indeed I'm not sure what the ONS has to do with accurate population stats anymore: the ONS believes that the population of the UK has just gone above 60 million (a figure that relies on Census questions being answered honestly/at all). However, one UK supermarket believes that the population of the UK may now be as much as 80 million. (This would explain high house prices and odd store trading patterns that do not "fit" ONS figures) Andrew Ian Dodge said... Yes, if the ID card people are filled with people willing to give out fake ones for cash then the system will be just as currupt as the passport system. Methinks a good start would be better background checks on whomever is working in the passport office. The Remittance Man said... Anon @ 1:17 I wouldn't get too worried about being persecuted for your opinion of Nigerians. You should hear what black South Africans say about the buggers. Nad other West Africans too for that matter. 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Saturday, February 28, 2015 Fighting a lazy day So Chris went on another hike that wasn't ideal for me or Koda (he's hiking some of the hardest mountains in the Adirondacks right now as he pursues being a winter 46er... I did many of the more moderate winter hikes with him, but 17 miles on one of the most rugged mountains in the state? Not my idea of a nice time! I'm not as passionate about winter hiking as he is.). He left in the wee hours of the morning and I slept in (hahaha, if you can call 7:30 AM sleeping in!). I went downstairs to this sight, a very sleepy puppy: And since he wasn't begging to go for a walk, I decided to enjoy a very lazy morning. I drink water and played Lumosity, then slowly sipped on my mostly flax milk and a little bit of coffee drink (cutting back on caffeine), did some easy yoga stretches, ate breakfast and watched Chopped. It was heavenly compared to my rush rush rush mornings this week I could've luxuriated in the laziness all day long. Not leaving the house for even a second appealed to me briefly. But I knew I couldn't just chill out all day :-) I went to Target and then the grocery store to pick up some needed items/food. Then I took Koda on his walk. The weather was gorgeous!! I wasn't freezing, the sun was shining and the snow was melting (finally!). I can feel spring around the corner! Aren't I stylish??? ;) We went to the pond today. We don't spend much time there in the winter, because they don't clear the trails, but the snow was packed down enough for us to take a loop around today. I'm glad I got out! It's important not to give into my laziness, and I do have a very lazy aspect of my personality. It's a characteristic of mine of had to fight in the past decade, realizing I'll never be healthy or successful if I give in to the laziness too much. But a few hours to enjoy a slow weekend morning and be lazy?? Perfect! But the morning is over and my errands are done, now it's time for schoolwork :) I've been staying really active this week, utilizing my breaks at work to get my steps in: Now, I am debating what to do tomorrow. A friend of mine is having a get together for lunch for his birthday, but it is at a barbecue restaurant where there is absolutely not one single choice that is appropriate for me. It is a place that is about indulgence- salty meats, fried foods, cheese, etc. I really don't want to go and not eat, I don't want to go and eat something that isn't good for me, and I don't want to snub my friend. Haven't decided what to do yet - I'll work out some sort of situation. They do have ONE menu item (a small salad meant as a side dish with lettuce and tomatoes .. Haha not something I want to pay for) that isn't fried/drenched in oil and salt/covered in cheese. I might end up going and not eating, even if it makes me a weirdo! I'll see :) Edited to update: the decision was made for me - my cousin asked me to go help clear out some things of my Grandmother's right when the birthday lunch would be. I do have to prioritize helping family over a meal out with friends, in the end. Thursday, February 26, 2015 Are you eating enough vegetables?? I happened across this website: Pictures of Your Recommended Servings of Vegetables Per Day Have a good Friday, everyone <3 Wednesday, February 25, 2015 Maintaining health while working extended hours Well, my mood is holding out pretty well despite the overtime hours at work! I'm not AS high energy/bubbly as I was on Monday, but hey - it's "hump day," right? Give me a break ;) I'm leaving the house around 6:30 in the morning and not getting back till after 6 PM... and I am trying to fit in my schoolwork, so I will admit to letting my usual stretching/yoga practice slide a little bit this week. I've also let my push-ups slide, too (I've been trying to get in a set or two of pushups everyday for a couple of weeks now to maintain my arm/core strength!). I'm giving myself the night off from the dissertation tonight, though, because we are getting together with friends to watch Survivor. I plan to get in a yoga practice before I head over to my friend's house, though. Cannot underestimate the benefits of mindful movement! I am hitting 10,000 steps per day for the past week, which is great. I get an extra break at work when I do overtime, so throwing on the extra 15 minute walk really helps me hit that goal. Food is going well, too - Chris is helping a ton by getting dinners ready (and leftovers that easily turn into lunch the next day). If he wasn't around this week, I think I would have had to make a huge veggie-filled chili in the crockpot, roasted 4-5 sweet potatoes, and just live off of that for the week. But I'm glad I'm getting more variety than that! Sleep is a little less than usual, too, because of the early wake up. So, yeah, it's not been easy to be as healthy as when I am working my normal schedule. And some things are slipping to the wayside as I have to prioritize other things. Since this is just for this week, I'm okay with that. If this was for a prolonged period of time, I would need to do some serious life organizing to make sure I got in purposeful exercise (not just walking) and went to bed earlier. Right now my priorities are: - getting at least 6 hours of sleep (ideally 7-8.. but 6 is necessary for immediate sanity) - staying hydrated - making sure I don't have to rely on outside-the-house food purchases even though I am gone for 12 hours a day! - take my vitamins and make sure my food is well-rounded nutritious for the day - making sure I have enough energy to get schoolwork done when I come home! My weight is the same as its been for a few weeks now - no updates there! Just looking forward to this week being over AND the nice paycheck from this week :) We have a little bit in the budget every month for small house-hold goods purchases. This month we decided to get a little art for our bedroom. I found a new-to-me artist that I absolutely LOVE: Franz Marc who is a German expressionist painter and has some really great, bright, abstract nature pieces that I think are really awesome. I found this painting in a print (Deer in Woods II, 1914) and ordered it: There are actually several other pieces of his I love, it's really fun to explore an artist I hadn't seen before, look through his works, and get inspired :) I never really was into expressionism as a style, so I don't know a ton about it or the art the was created during that time. It was nice to spend a little while looking into it online. Just wanted to share a little beauty with you today :) Take care of yourselves today <3 Monday, February 23, 2015 Starting the week right Happy start to the week, everyone! I am in an inexplicably good mood - which is nice, since nothing in my life has changed, necessarily. Job is still unsatisfying, finances are a struggle, my car needs a bunch of repairs, I'm working 12.5 hours of overtime this week (going to be tired!), my dissertation is frustrating, my weight remains up, and it is just plain old hard to get everything done. And, yet? I feel pretty good! Some level of acceptance for all the hard stuff? Natural ups and downs of mood? Who knows, but I am enjoying it while I can :) I went to my niece's first birthday party yesterday in Providence, which was awesome. I cannot believe it had been a year already! She's such an awesome little person (generally very happy but can be very serious and intent about things... also has a pretty good sense of humor for a one year old :) ) and I was really happy to make the trip to see her. Chris' mom actually drove from a more eastern New York town to drive down to Providence with us, then stayed the night. It was good to have some quality time with her, too. I'm pretty focused on getting through this week, with all the extra work hours. We are super, super prepped on awesome food. The fridge is full to bursting with vegetables! Chris is around this week and will doing a lot of the cooking, which is helpful. I'll be getting most of my activity in on my work breaks, then head home to try and get some words down on paper for school. Planning is the key to my success here - making sure I have enough time to get everything done that NEEDS to be done and carving out a little time for relaxation at the end of the night. Making sure I am calm right before bed so I have a good night of sleep. I will not be relying on cafeteria food or coffee to get me through this week :) Just a little update on me, I will catch up on blogs I missed this weekend over the next day! Saturday, February 21, 2015 The Unwavering Scale Well, I no longer feel a little twinge in the pit of my stomach, where my vanity and superficiality lie, when I step on the scale, because it is said 125 or 126 for so many days in a row that it is becoming my new normal! I'm just not willing to cut back too much on my normal food (though obviously I'm being moderate and staying paleo/primal with a focus on overall nutrition) or go crazy with exercise right now. I'm not sure how it would affect my fertility, so I'm just trying to keep my body in a stable state! Going to a friend's birthday gathering this evening. It'll be my dinner (they'll have chili!) but I made myself a promise if no grains whatsoever. That'll just send me down a bad path - especially because I have my niece's birthday party tomorrow, too. I don't need to start another month-long off plan cycle where I think cupcakes and chips are normal food for me! Here's a selfie, since it's been a while :-) I know the extra 3 to 4 pounds are not noticeable to anyone else, but I do feel a little bit thicker in the middle which results in less of a defined waistline, which I don't really love, but I'll get over it. My focus is on building a family and staying healthy :) Hope everyone has a great weekend! Friday, February 20, 2015 Making Dinner for Others - and overall wellness Dinner last night went well! We brought a shepherd's pie (with mashed sweet potatoes, you've seen me make this several times on the blog!), a loaf of bread from a local bakery, and strawberries and pineapples with a yogurt dip for dessert. When we make dinner for others, who obviously don't eat primal/paleo in their day to day lives, we try to make little compromises. We want the bulk of the meal to be primal/paleo (so that we have lots of options that we feel good about!), but we also sometimes add things that are more "standard" in the American diet, like bread. Often times, we actually do manage to get a completely grain-free meal made when we make dinner for others. We like to do it in such a way that they don't even notice! We'll make beautiful salads, have a great protein, lots of veggies, and serve a side of roasted or mashed sweet potatoes that is the starch. Sometimes we'll choose quinoa (I know it's not paleo, but I think it's a really great, nutritious seed grain with lots of protein... we don't keep it in the house, but it is something I eat once in a while) as the side. But, always, when I make dinner for others - my main goal is provide them with a nutritious meal. I like to know that I am not adding to the problems of the SAD diet. I try to have the bulk of the foods I serve those I love chemical-free, preservative-free, whole, fresh foods. Just like I do for myself :) I want them to be healthy for the long haul, so we can all be around till we're old people, gray and laughing about old memories, and still able to make new ones! I don't force my beliefs on others, I don't shame anyone for what they choose to eat or what their lifestyle is. All I do is create an example by how I live. I discuss how and why I do what I do when asked. And, when faced with social situations, I try to incorporate activity, steer away from creating events that are focused around food, and when I can have a hand in the food - I bring a nutritious (and still delicious!) option! So that's my input on sharing food and making meals with others. I also wanted to briefly address Katie's comment on my last post - that I should not focus so much on the physical and worry more about my emotional/mental state. Well, the truth of the matter is that this is a weight maintenance/physical health blog. That's what I started it, to help me work through the reasons why I gained weight and why I was having trouble maintaining the loss! But I am more than aware that physical health, mental health and spiritual health are intimately entwined. I do not ignore any facet of the whole picture. I want to be healthy and happy in ALL ways! And I think I am very honest about my struggles with all three of those aspects of health. And while I try to make progress with all of them, the physical aspect is the most VISIBLE and, for me, the easiest one to succeed at right now. But that doesn't mean I am ignoring the rest of me :) I bring this up because I don't want anyone who does read this blog to think I am obsessed with the physical... because I don't want to set that example. Being physically healthy is a key part of overall wellness, but it is not the only part. In fact, when we are truly sick in any of the three areas (physical, emotional, spiritual), it seems inordinately hard to keep wellness in the others. They are so intertwined, that we must pursue progress in all three at the same time! Just a thought I had, because if I have any influence over any person ever... I don't want them to think I think it is okay to focus solely on your physical body. We are much more than that. Namaste <3 Thursday, February 19, 2015 Dealing with stress: Finances, Insurance So it's not a secret that I don't have a lot of money, and I'm not financially stable or comfortable... I'm always working to BE that way (finishing my PhD, looking for jobs) but that's where we are right now. It's almost a full time job managing my stress about it! I do ok, I remind myself that as long as I have my family/pets and we all have good and shelter, that's all that really matters (of course I'm always terrified that some small link in the chain - like the car - will break, causing a reaction where I can't get to work, we can't pay our bills, lose the ability to have food and shelter... I'm an anxious person). So when I get a letter in the mail that my insurance company won't cover a $1400 doctors bill, I panic. Now, I'm taking care of it everyway I can (calling insurance and the doctors, trying to get it rebilled/recoded, having the doc write a letter of medical necessity)... But I'm also stressed out... A lot. I can't seem to relax the tension in my neck and shoulders and I want to cry! It's an exaggerated response to this situation. I know that. But that "knowing" never seems enough to reduce my stress/anxiety. I keep thinking about almost a month's wages lost, how that will affect us. Ugh. I'm hopeful this will get straightened out -- I just tell you this to let you know what's been going on in my life (it's been the foremost thought in my head the last 3 days) and try to relate this to the purpose of my blog ... The finding health in all ways. Body, mind and spirit. It's a much longer process to heal my mind and spirit from the sicknesses that have plagued me my whole life than it was to heal my body. Even now- my physical health remains good. Just got my BP read, the nurse laughed and said "well, you'll never have to worry about hypertension, huh? Perfect BP!"... They weighed me in at 125. Everything checks out. Amidst the stress, I'm eating well, sleeping, taking care. Because if I fail my physical body, the rest of me doesn't have much of a chance! I've been working on the anxiety... But this situation showed me I have a long ways to go, still. I can reduce my anxiety in day to day life, but when a "blip" happens (especially regarding money/jobs/etc), I revert really quickly to old patterns. So I tell you this because I'm far from perfect and have this whole living thing far from figured out. I'm not turning to food/alcohol to mitigate my stress (which is great!), but my stress is out of control. I know I don't have to feel like this. What I've been turning to recently: - husband cuddles - dog/cat snuggles - bubble baths - terrible but entertaining TV And tonight, we are going over to a friends house, and making her dinner because she recently had knee surgery that is keeping her immobile. So I get the benefit of having a good time with my friend, doing something really nice for someone, and eating a healthy dinner that I cooked! I'm still a work in process -- this anxiety, that was probably one of the main reasons I got obese in the first place, is still something that plagues me. My weight was a symptom, and though I fixed that symptom, there's still a lot to be done. I'll do it :) Tuesday, February 17, 2015 "Healthy" salad?! ^.^ Rant to follow... I was watching the Food Network recently. I don't usually watch cooking shows (except for Chopped, which I find to be really fun! I like trying to think of what I would make with the ingredients and to see what really good chefs come up with) but I also am a weirdo who doesn't like silence, so I like to always have the TV on, even if I am not watching it. I flipped to some sort of Farmhouse cooking show and it seemed to have a nice vibe, so I left it. I started to pay attention when the lady said she was going to make a healthy salad as an addition to her meal (which was delicious sounding and made with awesome fresh ingredients... but pretty much soaked in butter and an incredibly decadent, calorie rich meal). I was like, Oh! Good, a salad would be a great, light addition to the heavy meal. Ah, well... here is the ingredients in her HEALTHY salad: romaine lettuce, potatoes roasted in oil and garlic, cheese (forget what kind, maybe cheddar), and BUTTERMILK dressing. That's it. The only vegetable was the lettuce. Ok, guess we have different ideas of healthy. Now, technically, it was a dish with whole, fresh ingredients (I think also everything was sourced locally?), everything homemade. That's a plus. I'll always be an advocate of making your food at home from great, fresh, seasonal ingredients. It's a great way to eat - for the environment and for our bodies. No chemicals, no packaging? Awesome! But, come on! If you wanted to make that salad, that's fine. It's your meal. But don't call it a healthy addition. It's just another part of an indulgent meal, that's all. It's not giving people a chance to fill up on tons of fresh vegetables prior to big meal, it's just another fat-laden side dish. I think it just struck me in the moment, because it was clear the lady truly thought it was healthy. And I think a lot of other Americans would think so, too. Because, salad = healthy, right? This society has gotten so turned upside down and backwards when it comes to understanding nutrition. And I think the country, as a whole, has really messed up their taste buds and physiological responses to food. Not everything has to be drenched in butter or cream or oil to taste good. Food in it's natural form, well cooked and lightly seasoned can be amazing (I'm thinking broccoli roasted with garlic and black pepper or a really nice pork chop sauteed in a minimal amount of oil with rosemary, stuff like that)! And I am all for having a few items or meals a week that ARE pretty decadent - being able to really taste the butter or whatever. But when I have a more decadent main meal, my salad sure isn't going to be covered in cheese and buttermilk dressing. The balance is missing, and it's painfully obvious everywhere you look. People want all the pleasure all the time, all the desserts, all the tasty snacks, all the convenient dinners, every day. The reality of my life is lots of time spent buying fresh food, a lot of time spent preparing it, and it IS delicious (though not in the way lots of people would desire... I love the taste of my favorite vegetables, raw or lightly cooked, we don't use a lot of oils or butters, and only sparingly use salt). I know everyone is free to do as they wish, I am not the food police! However, I think it just gets my goat a little when I see someone on TV call that salad healthy. You're free to make and eat anything you desire, but let's not fool ourselves. And let's not propagate ridiculous notions of what healthy is. I've watched Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and I never get annoyed at that type of show - because they never try to come across as healthy! They know the food they are making is basically entertainment, it's not about eating well. So I think I just like honesty and a little self-awareness, haha! Last night, Chris got to splurge and get a really nice grass-fed steak from the co-op. I am not a big beef/steak lover (though I eat ground beef a few times a month) so I made my own tasty dinner. I had a turkey burger in a lettuce "bun" with an egg and turkey bacon on top, served with roasted sweet potatoes and a veggie mix: It was super tasty and I was super satisfied. We had our Paleo banana ice cream afterwards (blended up frozen banana with frozen blueberries to make a great dessert!). So, sorry for the rant today... it is just frustrating to see people living in denial about what healthy really means and pushing that agenda forward. I think it's important to be educated and to make educated choices (and if you still choose the buttermilk cheese potato salad, that's fine... but just be honest about what it really is!). That's it for me today ;) Monday, February 16, 2015 Sleeping in, Freezing temps, Stubborn pounds! FINALLY! I slept in!! I slept till 7:45 after falling asleep around 10:30. Ahhhh, more than 8 hours of sleep. I feel incredible!! I knew it would take a couple of days for my body to relax and get off it's very strict schedule, so only on a 3 day weekend will I probably get the sweet sleep in morning :) That's ok with me though - my schedule works really well for me, because I naturally get up early and I'm not in a bad mood because of that when I go to work. I'm rested and have had an easy morning before work, it's key for maintaining sanity at work! Anyway, take a look at this: I still won't let the weather keep me down... We are going to head out with the dog around 2PM when it is at least 9°. Below zero temps are NOT my idea of a nice time! I'm going to do an extended yoga practice at home today to make up for being sedentary for the better part of the day. It's important to my health to keep this body moving and strong! My weight is stubbornly the same ~126. Whatever! I know I'm feeding my body well and treating it right in all other ways. I can be at peace with my weight when it is still a healthy weight to be and I know for sure that I am: 1. Eating moderately - healthy portions, only when I'm hungry. I'm not calorie counting, but the past obsessive calorie counter in me knows I'm eating between 1700-2000ish calories a day, depending on activity level. 2. Eating WELL- most of my diet is vegetables, the other parts are primal/paleo: lots of good proteins (poultry and eggs mostly), seeds and nuts (flax, chia, almonds, etc), coconut or olive oil for cooking, and limited fruit because of the season (apples and cantaloupe and frozen blueberries are the usual suspects in the house right now). 3. NOT cheating myself .. Not lying to myself about what I'm eating. There has been no SAD junk food in my life for weeks. I'm eating from my (paleo and clean food-stocked) home only l, except for Valentines Day brunch (where my one non-paleo indulgence was 3 pieces of gluten free toast)! 4. Sleeping enough, walking enough, stretching enough, drinking enough water, etc, etc. When I know, in my heart, I'm doing everything I can for my health, I cannot logically be displeased that I weigh 126 rather than 123. The 3 lb gain IS strange, since I'd been maintaining 122-123 for the better part of a year. I'm definitely keeping an eye on my weight to make sure it doesn't continue to climb (if I all of a sudden started putting on weight despite maintaining my current lifestyle, I'd bring it up to my GP). A thought I had: I might have really disrupted my body's systems when I had my really off-plan January. It might take another whole month for my digestive system to completely heal. So I'm giving my body that time and treating it well. I'm getting over the mental struggle, the disordered thoughts, and back to focusing on what's important: a healthy body that can carry me through this life! I have to do work for a healthy body and a healthy spirit... I'm closer than I was last year or the year before. Progress is good :) Namaste <3 Sunday, February 15, 2015 Neither rain nor sleet nor snow... No weather is going to prevent me from getting my steps in! Especially when I have an energetic German Shepherd who loves the snow :) We've been getting out there a lot, especially considering how much snow has been dumped on our city and how extremely cold it has been (around 10°, with lows in the negatives almost every day): The snow is over Koda's head in places! But I've been making the effort to stay active - I have also been making sure to get in stretching and yoga in the morning! I've also been challenging myself to remember to do some push-ups every day, to keep my arm strength up :) But walking is still my main exercise, keeping my steps around 10k as best I can: Now to get some school work done and, I think, to enjoy a bubble bath <3 <3 Saturday, February 14, 2015 Valentine's Celebration Chris and I always do a little something for Valentine's Day... Sometimes we ski or hike, sometimes we take a day trip somewhere, sometimes have a dinner out. But we always get each other cards and small gifts. We're not big into over-celebrating holidays, but it's a nice time of year to sort of celebrate being in love :-) Hehe... I'm tickled by the card I got him: He got me a pretty card, flowers, a cute Adirondacks bear and chocolate covered strawberries! I love chocolate covered strawberries, one of the better flavor combinations in this world!! It's a nice indulgence to have 2-3 and not over-do it, too. He knows me, that I like treats but NOT ones that are worth a whole day's calories! Yesterday at work, my supervisor brought in cupcakes. I didn't have any. Our managers put cookies on everyone's desk, three beautiful cookies all wrapped up, as a gift for doing so well last month. It was harder to resist the cookies, because they were right in front of my face on my desk. At first, I put them in my drawer, thinking I would bring them home to Chris. But every time I opened my drawer, the temptation got more and more intense. I ended up putting the cookies on the shared food table with the cupcakes, for someone else to take them if they wanted. I knew I would be having a sweet on Valentine's Day. I'm really dedicating myself to the idea that treats are not treats if you have them all the time. I have a new goal of not eating anything sweet at least four days a week. It's a good starting point to truly shake myself out of The habit of having dessert every day. It's not necessary. Our meal out was breakfast (breakfast and lunch, for me. I never eat that much food for breakfast so I'm still pretty full even though it is well after my lunch time) at a cafe that serves local, organic, fresh foods. I got a veggie omelet, gluten free toast, and shared a veggie hash with Chris: Today was my first real "off Paleo" meal in weeks. It was a really tasty meal, too! It still was the quality of food that is important to me... Not processed, no chemicals/preservatives, and fresh! I enjoyed the bread and cheese, but it was one meal. Back to Paleo for the rest of the day and all the foreseeable days :) My weight is still hanging around 125/126... My new normal? I don't want to try too hard to cut back on calories or up my exercise routine too much as I am more focused on just maintaining a fertile body right now. If I can have kids, I'd really like to! So I'm just keeping my actions focused on maintaining a healthy, strong body that is free of toxins. Weight has to be a less important priority. Finished a morning off with a four mile city walk with Koda! Next on the agenda after reading some blogs in bed is cleaning the fridge and working in my dissertation. A nice Valentine's Day!! Thursday, February 12, 2015 Where I Am At I wanted to post just so that no one who reads me regularly thinks anything is wrong! Things are fine in my neck of the woods - routine is back in place: nice morning to set me up for the day, work day, home for school work, dinner and family cuddle time and bad TV :) I will say that I have hesitated to blog for a couple of days because I am wrestling with those disordered demons in my head. My weight continues to stay up (around 125/126) despite my food and activity and general taking-care-of-myself being BETTER than they have in months. The normalized thoughts in my head, the thoughts of the healthy-living blogger who has done a lot of self discovery are this: - This is normal and okay. - Your health is good and that's the major reason you do ANY of this! - A few pounds is not reflective of your self-worth. - The effort you are putting into your health right now (sleeping, eating well, stay active, drinking water, etc) is reflected in your strong, healthy body and it is something to be proud of. The disordered part of me, that still lingers somewhere in the recesses of my mind, that part of me that really had a hold of me for many years during my obesity and following my initial weight loss... well, that part of me is hard to make go away completely, it's voice is loud, the patterns are deeply ingrained in me (I think it will take years of constant work till those patterns are totally broken). It says: - You should really start restricting your food, this weight gain is going to continue until you are obese again. - You should double your workouts, you are being lazy and it is reflected in your body. - You don't look good and it's obvious. - Obsess about this till your weight drops!!! - Feel guilty about everything you eat, you shouldn't be eating, you're gaining weight. So... it's those tendencies that might keep me from blogging as much as I usually do. I don't want to indulge those thoughts, I don't want to get wrapped up in them. I have to focus on doing the work to consciously think positive, self-loving, proactive thoughts. I know the disordered thoughts are just that... DISORDERED. They are not the truth, they are part of a sickness I had for a long time, a result of self-hatred and a low sense of self-worth. I know the rational truth. But, as many of you know, knowing the truth is different from feeling it, deeply believing it. I will never let myself get to a disordered state again. But, sometimes that takes a lot of self-reflection and a lot of self-work. I want to rid myself of negative feelings about my body and weight. I started this blog because I knew I had a LOT of work to do, to achieve health in mind, body and spirit. It is a whole package deal. So I might blog tomorrow, or the next day, I might not. I sometimes need to focus on my life when I get too wrapped up in thoughts about my body.... focus on my husband, my animals, my friends, my home, my school work, the real things that matter in this world. Wasting time with negative energy and thoughts about my weight is ridiculous and I do know that, but it takes work to escape it. So that's where I am. Namaste <3 Tuesday, February 10, 2015 First, a little update as far as my health and weight goes. I am at 125 pounds as of this moment, nothing new there! But there has been the slightest of downward trends for the last few mornings, as I was a little bit higher before. So, I'm doing what I can to keep that downward trend going! And, I officially don't have pregnancy to blame on my weight fluctuations this month. It's strange that that is a possibility now. I'm keeping an eye on my body in a very different way than I have ever before. Weight gain is now a possible sign of something in my body changing. So I was wondering if hormones were affecting me this month. But they weren't! So I'm just gonna continue taking care of myself and see what happens as far as my weight goes. I'm also taking my temperature every morning, to get a good read on that pattern. It's strange, my temperature has read 96.1°! It seems quite low, but I'm healthy, so I'll just take that as my body being my quirky human body. Everything else is going well. I'm getting my steps in every day, as usual. I'm still getting outside every day, as well :-) If it's actively snowing or raining, I stay in the parking garage, but the cold isn't going to keep me cooped up, no way. I love fresh air. Food has been spot on, super nutritious! I haven't gone off plan in a long time now, February is going to be awesome, I can just feel it! Which brings me to my thought of the day, momentum. It is so much easier for me to wake up, drink a big glass of water, take my vitamins, do my yoga, and get my food set up for a healthy, clean, Paleo day, etc IF I did it the day before. Every healthy action, every good day spurs another one. Right now I have a couple weeks of great momentum behind me, which gives me a great sense of pride, believe in myself, and the desire to keep moving forward. Here is a cool post about how momentum can be a really powerful force in our lives: This is an excerpt that spoke to me: "Let momentum move you Take that first step in a direction of your own choosing, then with each bold statement, each strong stride, each clear-thinking choice let momentum joyously lift you higher and farther. Exceed your own expectations and strengthen your resolve to be who you were meant to be and nothing less. Don’t strive and stress – instead simplify and find success on your terms. Let momentum ignite you Once you feel it growing, let momentum fan the fire inside you – a fire that may have been burnt out or smoldering under the surface for a long time. Let yourself feel love and passion towards yourself, your life and everything you do then begin to recover, uncover or discover your true potential. If often leaps out of the flames." I have to remember this feeling of momentum... because at times when maintaining my healthy habits feels too hard and I seem to be bogged down and completely unable to change? I just have to know that if I can make it one day where I return to my good, healthy habits, then the next day will be easier... and the next even easier. I can push my own self forward and I can get myself out of an unhealthy rut. Till next time, friends... Namaste <3 Saturday, February 7, 2015 How Saturday Went Started the morning off with another no-sleep in (6:50 this time!) but made up for it by laying around in bed while Chris left, reading blogs on my phone :-) No jumping out of bed to start my day before 7 AM! We eventually got motivated, and made ourselves a really lovely breakfast: And, after a lot of exasperated sighs from Koda, hit a local hike around 10 AM (he is used to either being walked by 7 AM or going for a big weekend hike for Chris around 4 AM, hahaha, he is not used to lazing around). It was a nice hike- it was softly snowing the entire time, was very quiet, and we got to enjoy pretty winter woods. Snowshoes were required, as the trail was not very well broken out. The views where obscured by the small snowstorm, so I don't have any big pretty pictures to show :-) The rest of the afternoon was spent cleaning the house for Chris and working on my dissertation for me. It was actually pretty relaxing. We had a party to attend that we were invited to in the evening. A lot of people we hadn't seen in a while we're going to be there, so I really wanted to go. However, it was a fondue party. Absurd amounts of things to dip in them. Our strategy? 1. Eat a great, nutritious dinner before going (sausage, rutabaga and salad) 2. Bring decaf tea to keep my hands busy (no alcohol for me!!) 3. Arrive slightly late so as to miss the initial excitement of party food that inevitably happens shortly after things like that get set up How did it go? Really well! I didn't have any grains or cheese! I ate the veggies (cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts) for dipping with no dip :) I did eat some strawberries and marshmallows dipped in chocolate, and apples dipped in caramel, though... It was awesome! Really tasty, and not a bad end to the day since we ate really well and kind of light earlier. But without focusing on food, I was able to enjoy the party and had a lot of fun catching up with my friends. Someone brought cardboard cutout accessories, so we obviously had a bunch of fun with those: Haha :) I woke up early again today, sigh, is sleeping in not going to happen for me ever again?? Ah well, got our grocery shopping for the week done by 9 AM and now we're about to take the dog for a nice long walk. Weight is stubbornly stuck over my goal of 123ish.. Anywhere from 2-4 lbs over (it fluctuates). Just going to keep on doing what I'm doing, focus on good nutrition, listening to hunger cues, staying active, etc! Things will be as they are meant to. Type 3 Diabetes? I've been seeing more and more in health news the past 2+ years, indicating Alzheimer's is not simply a degenerative brain disease, but linked to the overall body system. I can't find the article I read over a year ago, but the gist was that they were having incredible success treating Alzheimer's with a multidisciplinary approach that included a really specific anti-inflammatory diet. I just saw this video today, of a man who is making a documentary about the link between lifestyle and Alzheimer's, calling it type 3 diabetes: I'm interested to see where this research goes in the medical community, as it is scary how high the numbers are in our population of Alzeheimer's sufferers. Just a little Saturday morning web surfing going on. I'm about to cook up a nice egg breakfast and hit a local snowshoe hike with Chris and Koda :) Enjoy your weekend <3 Thursday, February 5, 2015 Paleo Pumpkin Spice Bread It seems like a switch has flipped in the past couple weeks with my eating. I'm right back to where I was before the holidays/winter gatherings/funeral food insanity that I let take over in December/January. Back to simple foods, simple cooking, paleo/primal focused, and NO grains (especially those white flours!), processed sugars, chemicals, preservatives, or anything of that sort. And I would have to say, because of my mindset, the cravings just aren't really there. I felt really sick by the end of January, and my mindset definitely got shifted back to "Let food be thy medicine" instead of "you aren't allowed to have that food." I'm allowed to have any food I choose, but I am choosing not to eat foods that damage my health and well being. It's a small attitude difference but is huge for me. It's a lot easier to make good decisions when I look at it, not as deprivation, but as enhancing my life. Keeping it clean and simple the last two weeks has made me feel worlds better. My systems are starting to get back to normal (and my face has cleared up, yay!). Tonight, we were feeling hungry after dinner, which was pretty light (porkchops, roasted cauliflower, and peas and carrots). We have nothing in the house other than the basic staples (meat, eggs, veggies, fruits, nuts, seeds, oil, etc) because I didn't want to be tempted. But, after two weeks or so strong, I wanted to treat us a little! I've taken to heart the idea that you can't call something a "treat" if you have it all the time- I stopped buying chocolates or anything sweet for the house (and haven't bought anything "on the go" as that's not my style... I'm cheap, so house food is my food!). I wanted to stay Paleo, though, and work with what we did have in the house (no running out for a store bought snack!). I had happened to just have all the ingredients for this recipe on hand: It was super easy to put together (I did not add extra sweetener as suggested, in fact, I even reduced the honey in the recipe just a little... It ended up being a little more savory, which is what I was looking for), took about 40 minutes to bake and came out nice with a slight crust on the outside and very moist inside. I love all the spices, they gave the bread a terrific flavor. I ate about 1/10th of the loaf and felt really satisfied, and not tempted to reach for more. Chris was really grateful for the warm baked treat! It doesn't look pretty, but I'll share these photos: It was fun to bake, too :) I really enjoy baking, but it's obviously not an activity that goes well with my ideal life. I seem to bake a Paleo-fied treat about 5-6 times a year and will occasionally bake a standard cake for a friend's birthday. That's enough to satisfy my baking jones :) Weight isn't really budging, I'll update tomorrow if anything changes with my weigh in. Namaste <3 Wednesday, February 4, 2015 Call for Blogs Ok - I've accepted that blogger deleted my listed of blogs I read, so I don't see them on my homepage anymore. Unfortunately, the list of blogs I read now vs. the list on the sidebar of MY blog didn't match anymore (list on my blog is kind of old, lots of those blogs went inactive). So I'm doing a clean wipe. Starting fresh! So if you read here and have a blog (or read a really great blog you think I should be reading), leave me the full URL in my comments, and I will add it to feedly! (some of my dear blogging friends like Kelly and Gwen need not do this, I know your URLs by heart!) And as a side note, since I am publishing this anyway, I am down a pound today, finally! I'm at 125 though, but that's still closer to my goal than yesterday. Not counting calories, getting obsessive or restrictive, just fueling my body with great stuff and staying active (hitting 10k steps a day, yoga in the mornings :) ). Tuesday, February 3, 2015 Zucchini Latkes and Chia Pudding I finally tried out a few recipes I've been seeing around blog-land tonight: zucchini latkes and chia seed pudding! Neither turned out pretty enough to photograph, so there's no photos to show you - I really like pretty food pics, not weird mushy piles of stuff that you wouldn't know what it is at first glance! The winner of the night was the chia seed pudding. This is the recipe I used, putting together ideas from other blogs (like and 1/2 cup chia seeds 2 cans organic coconut milk (the thick kind) 1 tablespoon maple syrup I put this in a tall, cylindrical Tupperware, shook it up REALLY well and refrigerated. In two hours, it became a gorgeous, nutrient dense (and calorie dense!) pudding!! It cost about $7 and made about 8-9 servings (around 220 cal each)... You'd have to pay over $25 for the same amount of chia pudding at my co-op! Big win! It's cool to watch the seeds expand, too, and they will fully soak up the milk by tomorrow morning. The latkes, eh! I winged this recipe and made a few mistakes (I didn't squeeze/drain the shredded zucchini for one!). I shredded 3 zucchinis, chopped some red onion. Separately I combined 3 eggs, spices and coconut flour.. I added too much coconut flour, so had to add a fourth egg to make it wet again. This was a mistake, the latkes turned out way to eggy, almost like little quiches. Well, anyway, I combined the wet mixture with the veggies, sautéed them in a pan with olive oil. They tasted fine, but they weren't what I was looking for, I was looking for more veggie and less egg mix! Still a filling and nutritious dinner, so not a total fail :) We ate them with some bacon for our local butcher (might have saved the meal, haha). We have leftover latkes for lunch tomorrow, too. My weight has remained the same - I'm feeling really off lately! My food has been real clean (whole, unprocessed, chemical free!) and paleo, too. But my body isn't cooperating. I'll see what happens tomorrow on the scale - I'm feeling healthy and strong otherwise! Monday, February 2, 2015 Stuffed Red Peppers - half fail, half win! We made a really nice dinner for ourselves last night, after skiing (and I am proud that we went to the effort, even though we were pretty tired, we didn't just grab something to-go!). We made roasted, stuffed red peppers and it was my first time making stuffed peppers :) We actually don't often buy peppers, for a couple of reasons - they are decently expensive, especially the organic ones (and they are one of those thin-skinned veggies that are more important to buy organic!), and are not terribly nutrient dense. I'd rather spend my money on a vegetable that has more nutrients and calories than a pepper, and one that is less likely to soak up pesticides (so something like broccoli)! That's the frugal lady in me :) But I kind of had a craving for peppers AND they were on sale. Perfect. The recipe was pretty simple. I looked up a few how-to's for stuffed peppers and got the basic idea. Cut and clean the pepper, boil it for a couple of minutes in water, cook up the stuffing separately, stuff the pepper and then roast them at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Obviously my stuffed peppers were not your typical because I wanted to stay paleo, so no cheese or bread crumbs :) So, compared to the kind my dad used to make, they were pretty dry! I'll have to figure out something to add to the recipe that is still grain/dairy free, but not as dry >.< My stuffing was ground turkey, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, leftover red peppers, and lots of chili powder and cumin. Very delicious! But, since it was dry, it wasn't easy to eat the pepper and stuffing together - stuff kept falling out. So delicious, but a technique fail :) It happens! My weight is down a half pound, which is nice, still not back in my goal range, but I know that will take time. The off-plan January really made a big impression on me... I am back to being dedicated to my health, above all, and being grain-free is a big part of that. I guess I just needed a reminder of how crappy, fatigued, bloated and rashy I get when I don't stay mostly grain-free. The snow is coming down HARD here by me... but work made us come in, boo. Definitely not a safe drive in (you could not see the lane lines on the highway, yikes). Hope we end up at home tonight, warm and safe!! Have a good one, friends <3 Sunday, February 1, 2015 Skiing- all day exercise! (Weight/food update too) Now, skiing is not a great exercise for losing weight (too many prolonged rests on the lift to keep the heart rate up, and other than your quads, not a significant strength workout), but for getting overall strong and fit with good endurance? It's a great addition to my rotation of activities! I love how my quads feel after a full day on the mountain (especially doing challenging trails) and how awesome it is to use my entire body to get safely down. A strong core and good balance are key... And every run strengthens both! My biceps end up getting a great workout from the traverses across flat parts, too! My pedometer registered 6,000 steps from my day, too, because of all the walking from the lot, the lodge, etc. So that's nice! Anyway- a great day (about 7 hours straight!) of activity with my husband on a GORGEOUS winter day. Definitely my idea of a lovely date <3 and quality time. Over the course if our relationship, he's gotten to see me learn to ski and become pretty decent at it! It's been fun and he's been a good partner for it. Some pics from the day (we went to Bromley Mountain in Vermont, a smaller and more affordable family type mountain with a great vibe!): Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! We might be getting hit with a bunch of snow this week, so we'll see how many steps I can get in this week. 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Lung Association Poll: Another Attempt to Influence Public Opinion in the Guise of Reporting It by Marlo Lewis on December 3, 2012 in Blog, Features Post image for Lung Association Poll: Another Attempt to Influence Public Opinion in the Guise of Reporting It The American Lung Association (ALA) is hawking the results of an opinion poll that supposedly shows “American voters support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) setting stronger fine particle (soot) standards to protect public health.” ALA spokesperson Peter Iwanowicz says the poll “affirms that the public is sick of soot and wants EPA to set more protective standards.” Missy Egelsky of pollster Greenberg Quinlan Rosner says the survey “clearly indicates that Americans strongly back the EPA taking action now to limit the amount of soot released by oil refineries, power plants and other industrial facilities” (Greenwire, Nov. 29, 2012). This is all spin. Most Americans probably have opinions about President Obama’s overall record and many have opinions about the Stimulus, Obamacare, the Keystone XL Pipeline, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the auto industry bailout, and whether Congress should cut spending and/or raise taxes. But how many even know the EPA is revising the national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for fine particles (PM2.5)? So the first thing I notice in the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll is the absence of an appropriate first question: Please name or describe any major air quality rules the U.S. EPA is expected to complete in the near future? Starting with that question would likely show most people are unaware of the pending NAAQS revision. From which it follows they don’t have an opinion about it (though of course anyone can have an off-the-cuff reaction to anything). The survey asks a bunch of demographic questions about respondents’ party affiliation, age, gender, and the like, but only two substantive questions. The first is as follows: As you may know, the EPA is proposing to update air pollution standards by placing stricter limits on the amount of fine particles, also called “soot,” that power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities can release. Do you favor or oppose the EPA setting stricter limits on fine particles, also called “soot?” Of total respondents, 63% were in favor, 30% were opposed. So according to the ALA, the public supports tougher standards by 2 to 1. But since most respondents have probably never heard or thought about the issue until that moment, the results simply confirm what everybody already knows: Most people think air pollution is a bad thing and would prefer to have less of it. Since what the question elicits from most respondents is their general attitude about air pollution, it is remarkable that 30% answered in the negative. Note too that most of what the public hears about air pollution comes from organizations like the EPA and the ALA, which relentlessly exaggerate air pollution levels and the associated health risks. The second substantive question in the poll asks respondents to state their opinion after hearing two statements “some people on both sides of the issue might make”: Permit me to translate: Studies indicate that “soot” kills tens of thousands of people and harms children the most. Others say that preventing widespread death, heart attacks, cancer, and asthma will cost a lot of money. Which do you think is more important, saving lives or saving money? Note also the first statement claims the revised NAAQS “will be easy for polluters to comply with at a minimal cost,” thereby rebutting the central thesis of the second statement in advance. In contrast, the second statement does not dispute the first statement’s main thesis that “soot is one of the most deadly forms of pollution.” The poll thus give the impression that even the EPA’s critics accept the agency’s interpretation of the relevant science. Given this loaded and asymmetric framing of the issue, the remarkable thing is that after hearing the pro and con statements, the percentage of respondents favoring the EPA’s proposal actually decreased, falling from 63% to 56%. One can only wonder what the breakdown would have been had the con statement gone something like this: (Some/other) people say: The EPA cherry picked among an extensive literature to support its health assessment, ignoring studies that find no correlation between lower soot levels and improved health. The health benefits of the EPA’s proposal are biologically implausible, because fine particles from coal power plants are mostly ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate, and neither is harmful to humans at levels even 10 times higher than the air Americans breathe. This economy-chilling rule will likely do more harm than good to public health, because poverty and unemployment increase the risk of illness and death. A quibble perhaps, but Ms. Egelsky of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner claims “Americans strongly back” the EPA’s proposal. She should read her own poll! Only 39% of respondents said they “strongly favor” the EPA setting a more stringent soot standard in response to the first substantive question, and only 33% said they “strongly favor” the EPA doing so after hearing the pro and con statements. What we have here is another attempt to influence public opinion in the guise of reporting it. More voters are likely to support the ALA agenda if they believe (however mistakenly) that most of their neighbors “strongly back” it too. The ALA’s press release on the poll urges the public to send President Obama an email asking that he direct the EPA to set a more stringent standard “to protect the public from this dangerous pollutant.” By law, however, it is the EPA administrator’s “judgment” alone that is to determine the stringency of the standard. Legally, the President has no say in the determination. So the ALA email campaign is a call for political interference in an allegedly scientific process. In reality, of course, political calculation and ideological agenda permeate EPA rulemakings. Nonetheless, at this late date, President Obama likely plays no part in shaping the EPA’s final rule, which is due to be released Dec. 14. Clearly, the point of the email campaign — and the poll — is to provide talking points Obama can use later this month to defend regulatory decisions his administration has already made. The ALA’s email campaign exploits the naivety of simple folk by pretending they can influence the EPA’s decision. But hey, if you’re going to hype air pollution risks and rig opinion polls to favor your agenda, then why not also mislead people about how the sausage is made? The ALA presents itself as an honest broker of public health information. In reality, the ALA’s advocacy on behalf of the EPA is tainted by a massive conflict of interest. In the words of Junk Science blogger Steve Milloy, “the American Lung Association is bought-and-paid-for by the EPA.” In the past 10 years, the ALA received $24,750,250 from the EPA, according to the agency’s records. The EPA uses our tax dollars to fund groups like the ALA who then demand that the EPA wield more power and get more of our tax dollars. Maybe one of these days the media will pay attention to such facts when covering polls sponsored by green advocacy groups. It’s also high time journalists started wondering why NAAQS revisions seldom (or never) lead to decreased stringency. At the EPA, new science always seems to find that air pollution is harmful at lower concentrations than the agency previously believed. That’s an odd result if each review is genuinely free of bias — kind of like flipping a balanced coin 10 times and always getting “heads.” There is a pervasive problem with the entire Administrative State, yet I’ve never seen a journalist address it: Agencies are judges in their own cause. The EPA, for example, both develops, adopts, and enforces emission controls and standards and conducts the analyses authorizing or mandating such regulation. That obvious (though seldom acknowledged) conflict of interest inevitably biases agency analyses in favor of ever-increasing regulatory stringency. 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December 11, 2007 Cry Me A River Does anyone else think New York judges are being a little whiny here? So their raises are tied up in hoo. They knew what the job paid when they took it. They wanted the cushy life of being a judge but now they are DEMANDING more taxpayer money or else they will sue. Glad to see it's about public service. Here's an idea...go back to the private sector where you can earn the big bucks if money is what drives you. NY's chief judge says she may sue over judicial pay raises The state's chief judge says she may file a lawsuit next month if state lawmakers end a planned December session without voting to give raises to New York's judges. Judge Judith Kaye said she expects lawmakers to return to Albany in mid-December. If they fail then to hike New York's judicial salaries, which are the 48th lowest in the nation, the judge said she may sue the state. "I so don't want to do that," Kaye told The Associated Press. "I've been a lawyer for 45 years, and I know the pluses and minuses of litigation. To me it is a last resort, but I've come just about to the end of my patience." "If they don't do it now, they'll come back in an election year, and nobody wants to talk about raises in an election year," she added. The sticking point has been that legislators want a raise, too, their first since 1999. So they tied a raise for judges to a raise for themselves. But that proposal got hung up amid a dispute with Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer spokesman Errol Cockfield said, "The state's judges are long overdue for a pay raise. We fully agree they deserve one, and the governor has introduced a bill that does not tie an increase to any other conditions." At the very least, the judge said, she wants the current average salary of $136,700 raised to $165,200. As chief judge, Kaye earns $156,000 a year. She noted that first-year lawyers in some large Manhattan firms earn more than she does. Kaye said most law school deans and top assistant district attorneys, people who constitute a pool from which many new judges are expected to be drawn, would have to take a pay cut if they accepted a job on the bench. "I am ashamed to face colleagues in other states," the judge said in reference to salaries for New York's judges. Kaye said lawmakers' failure to vote on a pay hike during the past nine years is effectively, given the rate of inflation, a pay cut and an intrusion on judicial independence, and therefore illegal. It is rare, but not unprecedented, for the state's top judge to sue the state. Larry S said... This is absurd. How on earth can judges sue because they have not gotten a raise? I would love to try that with my boss. "Hey boss, can I have a raise?" Nope. "Well, I'm going to sue you". You're fired. End of conversation. And $136,000 isn't quite at the poverty level. Greed. Pure, unadulterated greed. Frank DeGeorge said... This is simply outrageous and don't give me b.s. about not getting qualified people to sit on the bench. Lawyers love to finish their careers as a judge, earn a big fat pension and then retire. And no one says these guys are exactly breaking their backs. But what really gets me is the fact that they will sue. Think about this. A state judge who wants a raise will hear the case brought by another judge suing the state for that raise...anyone got a guess as to how this verdict will come down? Johnny Walker said... I love Judith Kaye's quote, "I am ashamed to face colleagues in other states". Because of her pay? My God, how about your performance on the bench? Maybe THAT is something you should be proud of, not your damn paycheck! Johnny Paycheck said... Hey, Judy, if you're so enraged, why not walk into Spitzer's office and tell him: "Take this job and shove it. I ain't workin here no more." Then you can head to NYC and join a nice white shoe law firm and make real money and not feel so ashamed that you make $100,000 more than the average working stiff in New York State. cg466 said... Hey Judy shut your pie hole. clemenza said... This could be the first issue on which we have universal agreement. No one twisted your arm to be a judge, Judy. Judge that's funny. Turk 182 said... Saying she's ashamed to face judges in other states has got to be one of the most stupid things I have ever heard. Imagine that conversation at a judges convention: Judge Kaye: "Hi, Marty good to see you, how are the courts doing in Ohio." Judge Marty: "Ohio is fine. But you should be embarassed with how poorly you and the other New York judges are paid." 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Let X and Y be metric spaces and let aX be a limit pointPlanetmathPlanetmath of X. Suppose that f:X{a}Y is a function defined everywhere except at a. For LY, we say the limit of f(x) as x approaches a is equal to L, or if, for every real number ε>0, there exists a real number δ>0 such that, whenever xX with 0<dX(x,a)<δ, then dY(f(x),L)<ε. The formal definition of limit as given above has a well–deserved reputation for being notoriously hard for inexperienced students to master. There is no easy fix for this problem, since the concept of a limit is inherently difficult to state precisely (and indeed wasn’t even accomplished historically until the 1800’s by Cauchy, well after the development of calculus in the 1600’s by Newton and Leibniz). However, there are number of related definitions, which, taken together, may shed some light on the nature of the concept. • The notion of a limit can be generalized to mappings between arbitrary topological spacesMathworldPlanetmath, under some mild restrictionsPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmathPlanetmath. In this context we say that limxaf(x)=L if a is a limit point of X and, for every neighborhoodMathworldPlanetmathPlanetmath V of L (in Y), there is a deleted neighborhood U of a (in X) which is mapped into V by f. One also requires that the range Y be HausdorffPlanetmathPlanetmath (or at least T1) in order to ensure that limits, when they exist, are unique. • Let an,n be a sequence of elements in a metric space X. We say that LX is the limit of the sequence, if for every ε>0 there exists a natural numberMathworldPlanetmath N such that d(an,L)<ε for all natural numbers n>N. • The definition of the limit of a mapping can be based on the limit of a sequence. To wit, limxaf(x)=L if and only if, for every sequence of points xn in X converging to a (that is, xna, xna), the sequence of points f(xn) in Y converges to L. In calculus, X and Y are frequently taken to be Euclidean spaces n and m, in which case the distance functions dX and dY cited above are just Euclidean distance. Title limit Canonical name Limit Date of creation 2013-03-22 12:28:25 Last modified on 2013-03-22 12:28:25 Owner djao (24) Last modified by djao (24) Numerical id 12 Author djao (24) Entry type Definition Classification msc 26A06 Classification msc 26B12 Classification msc 54E35 Related topic ContinuousPlanetmathPlanetmath	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8716174364089966}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '19600', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KAIQGD2UYJ3UELDIZN52R7TQHCPAWAPH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:30637bd2-b227-418d-a932-521b30c557dd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 57, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '129.97.206.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:M2HVHJQ4SSFH4KERKFYVCHJZY7OAUA2E', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:4d14dcd5-8aa5-4a75-b5ca-3e4ad2a29278>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://planetmath.org/Limit', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:0ee97c01-24d9-4cf8-a5e3-0a6c47397673>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '389', 'url': 'http://planetmath.org/Limit', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-236-64-221.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.025536775588989258', 'original_id': '384d46af67df0dae95ebf2ea55a4668bd64870c1c30ab5c87c4d618eb7fc42a3'}
Cell Science & Report Mini Review Volume 3 Issue 4 - 2016 Monocarboxylate Transporters (MCTs) and their Role in Hypothalamic Glucosensing Roberto Elizondo-Vega, Magdiel Salgado and María de los Ángeles García-Robles* Department of Cell Biology, University of Concepción, Chile Received: May 27, 2016 \| Published: August 10, 2016 *Corresponding author: María de los Ángeles García-Robles, Department of Cell BiologyLaboratory of Cell Biology, Faulted of Biological Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Tel: 564-1 22-038-05; Fax: 56 41 2239687; Email: Citation: Elizondo-Vega R, Salgado M, García-Robles MA (2016) Monocarboxylate Transporters (MCTs) and their Role in Hypothalamic Glucosensing. MOJ Cell Sci Rep 3(4): 00066. DOI: 10.15406/mojcsr.2016.03.00066 Monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) are a family of transporters, which participate in the facilitated diffusion of lactate as well as the incorporation and release of several other metabolically important monocarboxylates, such as Pyruvate and ketone bodies. It has been established that lactate and ketone bodies have a role in energy balance. In the brain, lactate is an important oxidative energy substrate, and its intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration decreases food intake in rats. An opposite effect is produced by the ketone bodies. Several studies have suggested that the glucosensing mechanism is governed by a metabolic interaction between neurons and glial cells via lactate flux through MCTs. Hypothalamic glial cells (tanycytes) release lactate through MCT1 and MCT4. Moreover, orexigenic and anorexigenic neurons of the arcuate nucleus (AN) have high membrane immunoreactivity for MCT2, which is involved in lactate influx, suggesting that tanycytes indirectly control neuronal activity via glucose. This review will focus on MCT expression in the hypothalamus, a master regulation center for glucose homeostasis, and the evidence for a metabolic interaction between tanycytes and neuroendocrine neurons using monocarboxylates. Keywords: Monocarboxylate; Tanycytes; Neuroendocrine neurons; Glucose; Hypothalamus; Glial cells MCT1: Monocarboxylate Transporter; AgRP: Agouti-Related Peptide; NPY: Neuropeptide Y; POMC: Pro-Opiomelanocortin; ICV: Intracerebroventricular; 3V: Third Ventricle; AN: Arcuate Nucleus Monocarboxylate transporters (MCTs) have a high capacity to transport short-chain monocarboxylates, such as lactate, Pyruvate and the ketone bodies (KB), α-hydroxybutyrate and acetoacetate, which have a role in energy balance. In the brain, lactate is an important oxidative energy substrate [1], and its intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration decreases both food intake and blood glucose levels in rats [2]. Ketone bodies also affect food intake [3,4] and body weight in an opposing manner [5]. In the hypothalamus, a brain region involved in energy balance, it has been shown that MCTs have a particular cellular distribution, which supports the transfer of monocarboxylates between glia and neurons. MCT1 and MCT4 are expressed in the main glial cells (tanycytes) in the basal hypothalamus. α and β-tanycytes are specialized ependymal cells that bridge the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and neuroendocrine neurons localized in the arcuate nucleus (AN) [6] (Figure 1). Specifically, tanycyte processes that are MCT1- and MCT4-positive are in direct contact with MCT2 positives neurons that synthesize and release neuropeptides that control food intake, such as neuropeptide Y (NPY)-, agouti-related protein (AgRP)-, and proopiomelanocortin (POMC)- [7,8]. MCTs comprise a family of fourteen members (MCT1-14) distributed in a wide variety of tissues [9-11]; they use the electrochemical gradient of protons to translocate monocarboxylates and protons at a 1:1 ratio in the same direction [12,13]. MCT1 has the widest selectivity, and may transport several short chain fatty acids, such as acetate, butyrate, lactate or Pyruvate [14]. Brain localization studies using immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization and Immunoblotting have determined that MCT1 is predominantly a glial transporter, expressed in cortical astrocytes [15-22], hippocampal astrocytes [23,24], astrocytes of the supraoptic nucleus [21], choroid plexus, ependymal ciliated cells, [22,25], endothelial cells and pericytes [17,20]. In vitro neuronal expression of MCT1 has also been reported and recently in NPY-expressing neurons in situ [3]. MCT2 has a much higher affinity for Pyruvate although it also transports lactate and ketone bodies [14] . MCT2 localization is mainly at the neuronal level in the cortical neurons [26], and cerebellar Purkinje cells [27], in the postsynaptic density of the asymmetrical excitatory synapses of the hippocampus [28] Purkinje neuron cell bodies [27]. In addition, MCT2 was detected in marginal glia, ependymal cells [18] and the vascular processes of astrocytes [18,22]. Recently, we have identified MCT2 localization in anorexigenic and orexigenic neurons of the AN [7]. In accordance with a participation in energy balance, it has been reported that insulin stimulates the expression of MCT2 in cultured neurons [29]. MCT3 expression has only been characterized using Northern blot and immunohistochemistry studies and found in the basolateral membrane of the choroid plexus [30]. MCT4, which transports lactate and ketone bodies and has a very low affinity for Pyruvate, was detected exclusively in glial cells, particularly in the Bergmann glia and astrocytes of the molecular and granular layers of the cerebellum [21,24,27,31]. In addition, MCT4 expression was detected in astrocytes of the hippocampus, corpus callosum and cerebral cortex [24] as well as in ciliated ependymal cells of the paraventricular nucleus [22]. We have described the localization of MCT4 in tanycyte processes that contact distal neurons in the AN [6]. Therefore, the presence of MCT1 and MCT4 in tanycytic basal processes and MCT2 expression in AN neurons suggest that lactate could be transferred between both cellular types as a signal derived from glucose for regulating energy balance and food intake. In support of this model, it has been demonstrated that glucose increases intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) in cultured tanycytes, a response that is oxidative phosphorylation-independent but can be diminished through the inhibition of glucokinase, a critical glucosensor enzyme expressed in tanycytes [32-34]. Interestingly, this mechanism involves the opening of hemi channels (HC), and pharmacological inhibitors of HC abolish the response to glucose, but do not affect the efflux of lactate [6,33,35]. Several studies have shown that ICV administration of lactate decreases food intake and stimulates pancreatic insulin secretion [36,37]. Moreover, recent studies demonstrate that glial connexins are required for hypothalamic glucosensing, suggesting that glial glucose metabolism is needed for centrally mediated glucose-induced insulin secretion as well as suppression of food intake [36]. Brain use of ketone bodies in normoglycemia is very low, however in fasting or high-fat diets this increases considerably [4]. Ketone bodies, mainly produced in liver, are incorporated into the brain by MCT1, which is expressed in endothelial cells of cerebral blood vessels [38-40]. Interestingly, the hypothalamus, which is a key player in brain sensing of metabolic signals, presents higher ketone body metabolism than other brain areas [41] (Figure 2). Furthermore, it has been shown that astrocytes in culture could release ketone bodies, generated by the catabolism of fatty acids [42]. It is also possible that ketone bodies can be generated by glial cells of the hypothalamus (astrocytes or tanycytes). In support of this notion, the presence of numerous lipid droplets and the expression of enzymes involved in lipid metabolism have been demonstrated in tanycytes using histological and immunohistochemical analyses [43]. Therefore ketone bodies release could be realised by glial cells and/or peripheral by hepatocytes. Alternatively, the neuronal effects of ketone bodies could be mediated by MCTs or through hydroxy-carboxylic acid receptors, which have been located in several brain regions [44] and which are Gi-coupled receptors [45-47]. The mechanisms that allow to ketone bodies to modulate the activity of neurons that control food intake still remain to be elucidated. Figure 1: Schematic representation of the hypothalamus (A) Frontal view of the hypothalamus. 1. Ciliated Ependymocytes; 2. α1 and α2-tanycytes contacting neurons of the AN, VMN and blood vessels; 3. β1-tanycytes line the infundibular recess, and their basal projections reach the lateral regions of the ME and the AN; 4. β2-tanycytes cover the floor of the III-V and extend their projections inside the ME. (B-E) Immunohistochemical analysis of the hypothalamic tanycytes. Representative confocal images of frontal hypothalamic sections immunostained with anti-vimentin antibody. Ependymocyte cells (B), a (C), β1 (D) β2-tanycytes (E) are positive for the expression of vimentin. (F-H) Immunohistochemical analysis of hypothalamic glial cells. The hypothalamic sections were incubated with anti-GFAP and the immunoreaction was developed using the PAP method. Astrocytes, localized under the ependimary cells (F) and α-tanycytes (G) are positive for GFAP. A weaker reaction was found in β1-Tanycytes (H). AN: Arcuate Nucleus; VMN: Ventromedial Nucleus; Ep: Ependymocytes; 3-V: Third Ventricle. Modificated from Elizondo-Vega et al. [8]. Figure 2: Model of cerebral glucose sensing based on the metabolic interaction between β1d-tanycytes or β1v-tanycytes and neurons. (A) Schematic representation of the location of MCT4 (yellow) in β1d-tanycytes processes (purple), MCT1 (blue) in β1v-tanycytes processes (light blue), and MCT2 (light green) in orexigenic (green) and anorexigenic (red) neurons of the AN. (B) Schematic overview of the model of glial-neuronal interaction based on the transfer of lactate proposed for cerebral glucose sensing between GE neurons and tanycytes. (C) Scheme based on proposed interaction between β1v-tanycytes and orexigenic neurons compared to the increase in glucose concentration in the CSF. 3-V: Third Ventricle; Β1d and Β1v: Tanycytes; CSF: Cerebral Spinal Fluid; GK: Glucokinase; LDH: Lactate Dehydrogenase. Modificated from Elizondo-Vega et al. [8] MCTs mediate the release of lactate from tanycytes and its incorporation into neurons, which could generate satiety when glucose concentrations rise. In contrast, fasting could favor the incorporation of ketone bodies through the blood-brain barrier or their release from glial cells, activating neurons that induce hunger or inhibiting satiety neurons. Current literature supports the participation of MCTs in food intake, which is relevant under low- and high-glucose conditions. 1. Magistretti PJ, Pellerin L (1999) Cellular mechanisms of brain energy metabolism and their relevance to functional brain imaging. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 354(1387): 1155-1163. 2. Lam CK, Chari M, Wang PY, Lam TK (2008) Central lactate metabolism regulates food intake. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 295(2): E491-E496. 3. Carneiro L, Geller S, Fioramonti X, Hebert A, Repond C, et al. 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A former child soldier pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges, averting the awkward prospect of being the first to stand trial before a commission under Obama. The defendant, Omar Khadr, 24, a Canadian, admitted to a military judge that he threw a grenade that killed an American soldier during a 2002 firefight and that he had planted 10 roadside bombs for Al Qaeda. Mr. Khadr, born in Toronto, was 15 when he was captured in Afghanistan. By avoiding the need for a trial of Mr. Khadr, the deal represents a breakthrough for the Obama administration’s legal team, which had been dismayed that his case was to become the inaugural run of a new-look commissions system — undermining their efforts to rebrand the tribunals as a fair and just venue for prosecuting terrorism suspects. Mr. Khadr’s decision to plead guilty was a turnabout from his vow to never accept such an arrangement lest it allow the United States to save face. He contended that he was coerced by older relatives into working with Al Qaeda and was not at fault. In exchange for pleading guilty to five charges — including murder in violation of the law of war, supporting terrorism and spying — Mr. Khadr was spared the risk of a life sentence. A panel of seven military officers will decide the length of his prison sentence. But his plea agreement is believed to cap the potential time at eight years, on top of the eight he has been in custody. The deal followed a complex flurry of negotiations, including a side deal reached on Saturday between the United States and Canada allowing Mr. Khadr, after a year, to apply for transfer to Canadian custody to serve out the remainder of his sentence. The commission system, set up by President George W. Bush in November 2001, has been contentious. The Supreme Court struck down one version in 2006, and it has produced only a handful of convictions. President Obama campaigned for the White House as a critic of the Bush administration’s version of military commissions. One of his first acts after taking office was halting all tribunal prosecutions then in process — including the case against Mr. Khadr. But Mr. Obama and his advisers later decided that it was necessary to keep a form of the tribunals if some detainees were to receive any trial. The commission rules provided greater flexibility than civilian court about the admission of evidence like hearsay and material gathered from the battlefield. The administration spent months working with Congress to set up new rules providing greater defendant protections. It restarted the tribunals in November 2009, hoping that the overhaul would change their global image as a second-class justice system. Some allies have refused to provide evidence or witnesses for use in the tribunals. No one intended Mr. Khadr’s case to become the first trial under the revamped system, complicating efforts to showcase the reforms. But in August, a 50-year-old Sudanese detainee pleaded guilty, and Mr. Khadr’s case was already well developed and next in line. In July 2002, Mr. Khadr, who comes from a Qaeda-linked family, was found wounded at a Qaeda compound in Afghanistan that had been attacked by United States troops. A grenade blast in that firefight killed an Army sergeant, Christopher Speer. Investigators concluded that Mr. Khadr probably threw the grenade. A videotape found at the compound was said to show Mr. Khadr making and planting roadside bombs. Several factors made prosecuting Mr. Khadr for war crimes unusual. The uniform issue also led to a scramble by the Obama legal team to rewrite commission rules on the eve of a hearing for Mr. Khadr. Because Central Intelligence Agency drone operators also kill while not wearing uniforms, the team rewrote the rules to downgrade “murder in violation of the laws of war” to a domestic law offense from a war crime to avoid seeming to implicitly concede that the C.I.A. is committing war crimes. Moreover, child soldiers are almost never prosecuted for war crimes. That meant that the world coverage of Mr. Khadr’s case was dominated by questions about whether the case was appropriate. On Monday, for example, Human Rights Watch said the United States “should never have pursued the case” because convicting someone of war crimes for actions taken as a juvenile for the first time since World War II “sets a terrible precedent.” In an e-mail to The New York Times, Mr. Khadr’s military lawyer, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, said he planned to tell the sentencing panel that his client is a “decent young man” who “deserves a first chance at a meaningful life.” In a phone interview, Capt. John F. 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You are here AT^SMONP returns empty response at times \| Thales IoT Developer Community August 28, 2017 - 4:09pm, 2276 views We're using the AT^SMONP command for cell triangulation. What we regularly see (not only during startup of the BGS5 but also at runtime) is that we get a response The documentation states that During a CS connection or in Airplane **** the response is empty and displayed as follows: It is unclear to us when the BGS5 gives that response (what is the definition of a CS connection) or what to wait for when that response is received (what precondition must exist to make the AT^SMONP succesfull). Could some-one enlighten us?	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8379467129707336}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39586', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:H655CYBY3ZB7YVTKR5GDPQ5VVRSQAD4W', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:551e5583-e7b4-4fc8-b059-b8266eaae58e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 2, 3, 37, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '5.35.251.48', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LFQQ3LOLCN664S77SNZZ32NYBA4KGNHB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3edb6853-73ae-4f89-9047-a94a06fab248>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://iot-developer.thalesgroup.com/threads/atsmonp-returns-empty-response-times', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c258b853-a733-4a09-8549-387955ee1860>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '119', 'url': 'https://iot-developer.thalesgroup.com/threads/atsmonp-returns-empty-response-times', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-251\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': '0.5718446969985962', 'original_id': 'a4f26e10931e285658cdf6cead52d6b6256a813293419737904d376edf23f9fc'}
Feel free to read it as much as you please. Insect Users, sometimes also called Insect Tamers, are a special tribe of people that can fuse Insects into their own body and use them as weapons for combat. The process fuses the Soul of the User with the Insect that is introduced, allowing the latter to develop a personality and emotions as if it had a Soul of its own. They are typically very versatile due to the skills they can borrow from many different insects can be used for different purposes, in and out of combat. Cricket is apparently a very common family name for an Insect Tamer. Because of the unappealing nature of the tribe, they're generally seen negatively by other people, as they're considered dirty or even disgusting. This prejudiced thinking also brings a lot of misconceptions about them, as it is believed that they're prone to carry diseases or to be insanitary. This is actually extremely false as they're very attentive to their own personal hygiene and they infact develop stronger immune systems that even makes them resistant to many poisons. In order to be considered a fully fledged Insect User, you need to have at least 4 Insects kept within your body. However, Insect Users must know their own limits. If they absorb far too many insects their mind will be dominated by the will of the insects and they will lose their sense of self, becoming not too different from mindless monsters. In addition to that, an Insect User must eat to sustain not only himself, but all the other Insects kept within his body, developing an abnormal appetite as a result. Most Insect Users can house four inside their body, but there have been particularly rare and powerful insect users that could host over 10 but this is generally impossible to achieve. A legendary Insect User from the past managed to carry over 20 Insects inside his body. Insect Users also have the tradition of inscribing tattoos all over their bodies. These might look as nothing more than simple lines and circles to outsiders but they all carry a different meaning to them and they show great pride in showcasing them. Because of it, they usually wear an established set of robes that exposes some of their most important sections. Their lifestyle is rather humble and simplistic, living in simple tents with only basic necessities or even replacing human commodities with their own abilities, like sleeping in a cocoon instead of a regular bed. Their tribe lived in the Kingdom of Zeth in their own village where they could all live, following their own customs and traditions. After getting an approval by an Elder of the Village, they undergo a ritual where they introduce an Insect inside their bodies. The more experienced Elders could tell the limits of each User and/or determine if they were ready to host a new insect inside them, and their approval was required to formally carry out the ritual. It takes place in the Alter in the center of the village, where an Insect Egg is selected from one of the pots and introduced somewhere on the body after a small incision. The process is initially painful and can last several days before the Insect becomes settled inside and becomes under its host's control. Sometimes there can be problems of incompatibility between Insects, as certain species are prone to developing certain personalities and might not get along with the other Insects inhabiting the body of the User. This often maniphests as an intense physical pain for the User, and can bring severe consequences if the compatibility is not somehow solved. The skill is extremely rare in the current times due to the fact that most of them were purged in Zeth years ago. However, the personalities of the Insects can develop differently depending on its host so species that are considered incompatible might work well together depending on the personality of the User or their own talent as a Tamer. At present, Insect Users are extremely uncommon on The Continent due to the "Extermination of Foreign Cultures" that took place in Zeth in the year GI1011, where their village was destroyed and all the Insect Users were persecuted and killed. Because of this, there is only a selected few remaining Insect Users who have managed to run away from the massacre. 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Here are the various aspects that you should have in mind when planning to purchase a real estate and for this case, a house. To begin with, you need to careful with the surroundings of the home to ensure that they are favourable for your survival even with the activities you do. Therefore, you need to analyze the land to establish if it is enough to suit your operations and if it does not satisfy you, you can decide to avoid buying the house because it might not help you. It is good to target achieving more in the new home you transfer to, and therefore you should purpose to see to it that you go to the home that can expound on your development agenda. Checking at the quality of the inside of the house is important but you also need to be considerate of the outside features, and the most important thing is the roof. As you know, the roof is one of the most important features in a house because it ensures that the home dwellers are safe from any natural effects thereby having a comfortable stay in the house. You should also check at the lighting of the house to determine that it is the perfect one to ensure security and interior comfort. You need to ascertain that the washrooms and the kitchen are modelled in the perfect manner such that they suit your operations in the house. Closets are good because they ensure that the clothes are safely stored, and therefore the house looks orderly. For the sake of continuity of operations, you should ensure that the water in the house is well-operated. 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DHTML Tutorial JavaScript EditorFree JavaScript Editor DHTML Editor Main Page Previous Section Next Section 1.7 Searching and Replacing Substrings NN 4, IE 4 1.7.1 Problem You want to perform a global search-and-replace operation on a text string. 1.7.2 Solution The most efficient way (for NN 4 or later and IE 4 or later) is to use a regular expression with the replace( ) method of the String object: var re = /a string literal/g; var result = mainString.replace(re, replacementString); Invoking the replace( ) method on a string does not change the source string. Capture the changed string returned by the method, and apply the result where needed in your scripts or page. If no replacements are made, the original string is returned by the method. Be sure to specify the g modifier for the regular expression to force the replace( ) method to operate globally on the original string; otherwise, only the first instance is replaced. 1.7.3 Discussion To work this regular expression mechanism into a practical function, you need some helpful surrounding code. If the string you are looking for is in the form of a string variable, you can't use the literal syntax for creating a regular expression as just shown. Instead, use the constructor function: var searchStr = "F2"; var replaceStr = "Framistan 2000"; var re = new RegExp(searchStr , "g"); var result = longString.replace(re, replaceStr); In working with a text-based form control or an element's text node, you can perform the replace( ) operation on the value of the existing text, and immediately assign the results back to the original container. For example, if a div element contains one text node with scattered place holders in the form of (ph), and the job of the replace( ) method is to insert a user's entry from a text box (called myName), the sequence is as follows: var searchStr = "\$ph\$"; var replaceStr = document.myForm.myName.value; var div = document.getElementById("boilerplate"); div.firstChild.nodeValue = div.firstChild.nodeValue.replace(re, replaceStr); The double backslashes are needed to escape the escape character before the parentheses characters, which are otherwise meaningful symbols in the regular expression pattern language. It is also possible to implement a search-and-replace feature without regular expressions but it's a cumbersome exercise. The technique involves substantial text parsing using the indexOf( ) method to find the starting location of text to be replaced. You need to copy preceding text into a variable and strip away that text from the original string; keep repeating this find-strip-accumulate tactic until the entire string is accounted for, and you have inserted the replacement string in place of each found search string. It was necessary in the early browsers, but regular expressions are implemented in almost all scriptable browsers that are now in use. 1.7.4 See Also Section 1.0.2 in the introduction to this chapter; Recipe 14.14 for additional body text replacement techniques in modern browsers. Main Page Previous Section Next Section JavaScript EditorJavaScript Checker DHTML Editor	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8063573837280273}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '7371', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:72IIRWHHMGR7XDXJR2OULATSZGHKIIYV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4f0be67c-4d1b-489b-a4f3-aaa6c5193f49>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 2, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.3.138.153', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:E2LDRHZJLUU6T5H4HX7WIB3FMWILNAVI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:24e9aa14-43f4-4ca3-a15e-5bca03c9665d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.yaldex.com/dhtml-tutorial/0596004672_jvdhtmlckbk-chp-1-sect-8.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:00c7abd9-45cc-4f32-acd7-a291186054a9>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '464', 'url': 'http://www.yaldex.com/dhtml-tutorial/0596004672_jvdhtmlckbk-chp-1-sect-8.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-39-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.2204667329788208', 'original_id': '0c29deccce806f5be2df843989631d78d488fa29875a9aef234c74063db466e7'}
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Monday, April 13, 2009 From my heart I'm beyond struggling. I spent my weekend failing. I'm embarrassed, ashamed, disgusted, and disappointed. How did I get back to this place? Why? I had this fantastic goal & plan for the month of March. It started off great. I exercised everyday in the beginning. I even managed to drag my lazy ass out of bed at 4:30AM one morning to walk 2 miles before heading out to work. I felt awesome the whole day and slept like a log that night. Somewhere in the middle of March it all went to hell. I stopped exercising, updated the blog, checking in with other bloggers, and not being careful with my food choices. I don't know what set me back. I wish I had kept a journal or blogged to see where things started to shift in a negative direction. As far as April goes - let's just say it's the 13th and I'm doing even worse. I love Easter candy. More than regular candy. Don't know where it stems from - my mom didn't really go crazy with candy in our baskets growing up, don't have any fond memories of an affair with Easter candy, I just love the stuff. Dove eggs are a weakness. I gave in and had some. And I also had Reece's Eggs, Milky Way eggs, Snicker Eggs, and jelly beans. Not all of this was inhaled in one sitting. I'm not sure that really matters because it was all inhaled at some point during the last two weeks. All of the things I practiced in previous months was put on the back burner and I numbed all my pain (what pain you ask? I'm still trying to figure that out) and shame with chocolate and sugar. Easter dinner was ham, steamed broccoli (who was I kidding with that), mashed potatoes, and rolls. I ate until I was sick. I notice that when I'm eating healthy and have a piece of chocolate, I enjoy it. I savor every bite because I know I'm only having that one piece. When I'm using chocolate as my drug to numb - I don't taste anything - I just shovel it all in. I don't want all of the previous work I've done to go to waste. I worked hard for every pound and I can't let my fears get the best of me. I've played this game my whole life - that's shitty to say - it's not a game it's my fucking life. Maybe that's part of the problem. I just don't get it. Anyway, I know that I was making progress because I was able to buy some clothes I actually liked. I don't want to spiral backwards and end up where I was a few months ago. Basically, it's the same shit different day with me. Every post sounds exactly the same. I'm just going round in circles. I don't have any weight loss plans to finish out the month of April. I just want to hang on - keep trying to do better every day and hopefully end up with some loss for the month. Thanks for checking in on me. I'll be visiting everyone tomorrow! Stormy Vawn Bradley said... First and foremost, the past is over. Just move in forward from here. I have also been less than stellar, but we can move forward and do better. Just take it one day at a time. Check my blog out sometime. By the way...Grease is one of my favorite movies also. HopeFool said... You're not the only one in a bad place. We can turn it around though. justjuliebean said... I think when you're gaining, it's more helpful to get yourself eating healthy and doing exercise again before you get all diet-y and start trying to lose weight immediately. Stabilize first. bbubblyb said... It is about moving forward from here, forget about the past, can't change it so why feel guilty over it. Sometimes it is just about treading water, staying afloat. That's not a bad place, a bad place is letting yourself slip into the black hole and not coming out till you're back where you started. So right now from this moment can be your fresh start. YOU CAN DO THIS!!! YOU ARE WORTH IT!!! hugs carla said... same shit different day can STOP today if you choose for it to. How can we, the blogworld, help you to take even the smallest of steps forward? small. set yourself up for success today! Crystal said... I agree with what everyone has to say. This can stop. The past is over. I do understand what you are going through though. I would say most dieters do understand. It's like we know how to do why can't we just do it? I agree it's important to stabilize..just get back to where you were. Even if it takes a week or two. foolsfitness said... I'm pretty sure the Easter Bunny secretly works for the dark side. Moreover marshmellow peeps are Evil creations! I had a plan, then I got up this morning... I had a plan tonight, then I scarfed down double what I should of. But our battles don't end here, in fact they will go on for the rest of our lives, to try to make better choices- or adapt, or move on. Think about what you've done in the past you can be proud about. maybe learn from a mistake, but this in now. I always ask myself: OK what am I going to do right now? Being in the now is the foolsfitness way! - Alan jo said... That was then, this is now. New goal: Follow your plan with each bite. Don't set anything big yet, just each bite. Then expand a bit. If you break it down into small chunks, you can get yourself back to where you want to be. wildfluffysheep said... hugs I completely relate to this post this week. Same boat. This week has been a disaster, complete collapse. I really don't know what else to say. I feel like I actually wrote this post. Losing Waist! said... Yeah. I have trouble when I fuck up because my first instinct is to throw all of my progress away, and then add failure on top of failure. Pretty sure it is why I have lost 20 pounds 20 times and yet still ended up at 365. So I would say... don't throw it away (I know you won't). I loved this post. You REALLY do have great things to say, and reflections that are deep and meaningful. 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Morgan Stanley: Tipping point nears for going off grid Print Friendly, PDF & Email Addressable distributed solar market in US could be 415GW But first, back to the original report. There were a couple of major takeaways in this: One, the addressable solar market in the US is way bigger than anyone had previously imagined; and two, the Tesla gigawatt battery manufacturing facility could bring down the cost of storage quicker than anyone had imagined. Even without the continuation of the 30 per cent investment tax credit – and taking into account the fact that many homes are unsuitable for solar – Morgan Stanley says its “base case” addressable market for distributed solar in the US is 240GW within five years. morgan solar market In its bull case – where a 10% tax credit remains and there are lower grid charges, it estimates the addressable solar market at 415GW. That compares to just 6.2GW of residential and commercial solar installed to date. Another takeaway – and one that might be of interest to the policy makers and utility economists in Australia and elsewhere – is Morgan Stanley’s assessment that, the higher the fixed grid charge required of distributed generation customers, the more likely they are to buy batteries and go off the grid. And this is where Tesla, and its new “gigafactory” for battery storage manufacturing, will play a critical role. “There may be a “tipping point” that causes customers to seek an off-grid approach,” Morgan Stanley writes. “The more customers move to solar, the remaining utility customer bill will rise, creating even further “headroom” for Tesla’s off-grid approach.” It says that for every $25/kWh reduction in the cost of Tesla’s batteries, it estimates the all-in cost of power to customers will fall by $.01-$.02/kWh, or 15-30 per cent of the residential customer price for grid charges in some US states. “Tesla’s off-grid, battery-based option will, post-construction of its Gigafactory, be in our view at approximate parity with the cost of the utility grid in higher-cost states, and over time we believe this will move in Tesla’s favor.” Morgan Stanley expects customers to take one of three potential approaches – and they are remarkably similar to the scenarios painted by the CSIRO, in its Future Grid publication on Australia. The first is solar customers staying on the grid, but net zero grid power usage. In this scenario, a customer produces more power than needed during the day, but draws from the grid at night time. That leads to the third approach – Fully off the grid. Customers choose this approach because to have any grid access would require a large non-bypassable, fixed-grid charge. The key variable in this approach is the cost of power storage; Tesla’s Gigafactory for battery production, given it could reduce the cost of batteries to levels significantly below other storage options, would have a significant impact on the extent to which customers pursue this “off grid” approach. Tesla could provide emergency power service by monitoring the power levels in home batteries and delivering replacement batteries in the event home batteries run out of power. (Read more about that here). morgan off gridBut it is not just solar that is providing off-grid options. Morgan Stanley notes that the Stirling engine product being developed by NRG (these provide power from natural gas) could be cost competitive with solar, particularly in those states with less favourable solar conditions. Morgan Stanley’s short and medium term distributed generation scenarios Over the next three to four years, solar penetration will continue at a rapid rate in Hawaii, the West and Southwest and solar service providers such as SolarCity will continue to expand their scale and geographic scope, and solar installed costs will come down. Utilities will react by imposing fixed grid fees on distributed generation customers, but these fees will not significantly slow down the adoption of solar in the “sun rich, rate high” areas of the US. Tesla will build its Gigafactory and reduce the cost of storage further, and Tesla and Solar City will integrate storage into a complete home/office energy management system to allow customers to go off-grid, building off their existing joint venture. Hawaii, currently at 10 per cent solar penetration, may experience levels of solar penetration that begin to substantially impact remaining utility customer bills, and impact grid functionality. As a result, the “rate headroom” for remaining customers to go off-grid will rise, and customers might choose a “solar + batteries” off-grid approach. Utility bills will continue to rise, as utilities continue significant capex levels, driven among other things by changes to the grid from the increase in renewables and gas-fired generation and coal plant retirements Morgan Stanley’s scenario for five to eight years from now: California and other Southwestern states will reach solar penetration levels above the 10% level currently experienced by Hawaii. Solar and storage costs continue to fall, but at a lower rate. There may be an economic “tipping point” for solar in “sun rich, rate high” states, driven by the confluence of increasing utility bills, greater grid charges borne by remaining grid customers, falling costs of storage and solar, and greater sophistication regarding off-grid solutions. “Given the incentive for customers to move to solar, more customers in the West/Southwest will in our view seek to do so,” it says. “If it becomes challenging for solar customers to secure utility approval to interconnect to the grid, we believe customers would likely pursue an off-grid approach offered by companies such as Tesla and SolarCity.” However, under a “changing utilities scenario”, utilities take steps to enhance the ability to integrate large amounts of renewables onto the grid. The idea would be to ensure solar customers stay on the grid and contribute to the cost of maintaining the grid, rather than lose solar customers to off-grid business models. This might work in states where grid charges are relatively low and sun conditions are not as favorable as in the West/Southwest, but in the sun-rich, higher rate Western and Southwest states, this approach will likely not succeed – “because, as per the prior bullet point, the penetration level of solar could grow to be extremely high and a “tipping point” would be reached in which remaining grid customers would have very high bills relative to solar customers, and the customer incentives to go fully off-grid could be high.” One wonders what Morgan Stanley make of Australia. It has all the ingredients of the US south-west, but with even higher retail electricity costs, and higher network charges, and with distributors looking to increase their grid fixed fees. All it needs is a Tesla Gigafactory. • howardpatr Imagine the day when homes might be built with solar storage contained on a pallet and holding up to 18KWhs. Have a look at a company called Aquion to get an idea of the many possibilities that will emerge. The Mad Monk and his friends will do all they can to work with the fossil fuel interests against renewable energy technologies but in not that many years down the track their ignorance will be further revealed – to their children and children’s children. • jarryd All scenarios are suggesting that if large amounts of people go “off-grid” or install storage, bills will rise for remaining users. What happens to the remaining customers that cant be serviced via solar? (can be quite a significant amount)… This doesnt exactly sound like a good outcome at all… • chris marcocci thats why solar will grow rapidly, because no one will want to pay the higher cost of utilities, thus solar growth is inevitable. • patb2009 I’m not a battery engineer, but does Li-Ion make sense for household energy storage? Would Iron batteries be better? • chris marcocci li-ion last longer and hold more of a charge. • martinwinlow They are all ‘Li-Ion’ cells i.e. they all use lithium ion transfer between battery electrodes when charging and discharging to take and make (respectively) a useful current. LiFePO4 (lithium IRON phosphate) Li-ion cells have a lower specific energy (i.e. energy for weight) than Tesla’s cells which use a similar but significantly different chemistry. Tesla keeps it’s chemistry pretty secret but it is probably an ‘NCA’ (Lithium Nickel Cobalt Aluminum Oxide or LiNiCoAlO2) type cell which has a good 25% or more specific energy than LiFePO4 and other advantages, but cost (at the moment) isn’t one of them. 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The Black Rod Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Thursday, March 26, 2015 Winnipeg Police issue false news release on the Tina Fontaine case Winnipeg Police issued a false news release Wednesday that was designed to mislead the public while simultaneously making two serving officers into scapegoats for Chief Devon Clunis. Here's how most relevant portion of the news release read: Winnipeg Police Professional Standards Investigation The Winnipeg Police Homicide Unit has been actively investigating the murder of Tina Fontaine since August, 2014. This investigation is on-going. Numerous people have been interviewed, and a number of forensic tests have been conducted. During the course of the investigation, Homicide investigators discovered that Tina Fontaine was reported as a missing person on July 31st, 2014. Investigators also discovered that two members of the Winnipeg Police Service had contact with Ms. Fontaine on August 8th, 2014, approximately 24 hours before her disappearance. Chief Clunis was informed of these events on September 3rd, 2014, and immediately directed the Professional Standards Unit to commence an investigation. The officers were removed from active duty in October and placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of that investigation. The release implies that the two police officers had "contact" with Tina Fontaine on Aug. 8 while she was "reported as a missing person." That's false and the police service knows it. While Tina Fontaine was, indeed, reported as a missing person on July 31st, 2014, she was NOT MISSING when the paths of her and the police crossed. She had been located Aug. 5th and had been in CFS care from that date until she was again apparently reported missing 18 hours AFTER the "contact" with the unnamed officers. We reported these facts exclusively five months ago. That report is being reposted today (with updates). But in the meantime we unearthed further confirmation from contemporary news reports that Tina Fontaine was NOT MISSING when the police spoke with her in the early morning of Aug. 8, 2014. * The strongest evidence comes from an acquaintance of Tina Fontaine who was interviewed by CBC. She was only identified by the pseudonym Katrina. Katrina later contacted The Black Rod and helped fill in some of the blanks regarding Tina's movements before she disappeared. In her CBC interview she said: "We were just hanging out and then some guy flagged her from a truck," Katrina recalled. "I thought she knew him or something, I don't know. But she went to go get in. "The cops happened to be driving by, so I pointed right away," she added. "Then they went and chased the truck down and they told her to, like, walk away." Katrina said she lost track of Fontaine for some time after the police incident but ran into her again at around 8 p.m. on Aug. 8. "She just told me that, like, she ended up in the hospital, she was supposed to be at the Best Western placement, and she said that they were going to report her missing if she wasn't back at a certain time," Katrina said. "I looked at my phone. I was like, 'Oh shit, you're going to be missing in, like, two hours.'" * Tina Fontaine said she "they were going to report her missing" if she missed curfew. * And curfew, according to Katrina, was "in...two hours", 10 p.m. * This conversation took place 16 hours AFTER 2 police officers spoke with Tina. * Further confirmation comes from none other than Thelma Favel, Tina's great-aunt, in this story from CBC: "Paramedics had picked the teen up from an alley, where she was passed out. Fontaine was transported to the Winnipeg Children's Hospital and then released to a CFS worker. The worker didn't know where to take her, Favel said. The worker stopped at an office and went in to get the address and left Fontaine in the car. She was later taken to a hotel and went missing from there." The known sequence of events is: 1) Police saw her about 3 a.m. Aug. 8th, 2) Then she met up with friends and got drunk, 3) She was found in an alley and she was taken to hospital where she sobered up, 4) Tina was turned over to CFS and she was lodged in a hotel. 5) She "went missing from there." The police spokesmen have never acknowledged these facts. Instead, they falsely imply that the two officers did something wrong by not apprehending Tina Fontaine when she was "reported missing." Why are they vilifying these two police officers? Especially since, by all appearances, they were only following the directives of the chief. Throughout 2014 the police were very vocal about their new policy on handling public prostitution. Take this story from CBC one year ago (emphasis ours, the officer's name has been redacted): Winnipeg police unit talks to sex-trade workers, targets johns CBC News Posted: Mar 26, 2014 Police in Winnipeg are changing the way they deal with the city's sex trade — building the trust of women who are selling sex, while going after their customers. Since it was launched in November, the Winnipeg Police Service's Counter-Exploitation Unit has been reaching out to sex-trade workers and identifying cases of exploitation and human trafficking. "We knew these women were being victimized to begin with. With us arresting them, we were just re-victimizing them and it … made it difficult for them to talk to the police and actually get the help that they need," says D, who heads up the unit. Rather than arresting the sex-trade workers, D said officers are talking to them and finding out more about their situations. "They'll ask, like, 'Are you out here on your own? Is anybody forcing you to be here?'" he told CBC News during an exclusive ride-along. The officer on the ride-along was then the Supervisor of the Counter Exploitation Unit. Late last year police identified the two officers under investigation as a supervisor and a trainee, but it's unknown if the supervisor is the same person, so we've redacted his name from the CBC story. Either way, the police who spoke with Tina Fontaine were following Clunis' new orders -- talk to hookers, don't arrest them. The fact that police announced publicly that they were investigating whether to lay criminal charges against the officers shows that Clunis had politicized the case, allowing public pressure to influence his judgement. It came as no surprise that the Crown rejected any charges. The announcement that the police department has "commenced disciplinary proceedings" is disturbing. Given the secrecy adopted by the police force, there is always the possibility that the internal proceedings stem from an attempt to hide the contact with Tina Fontaine, with the destruction or altering of notes or records. Tina Fontaine's body wasn't discovered until Aug. 17 and Clunis announced he didn't know police had spoken to her until Sept. 3. But other than that, it appears that the two officers are being made the scapegoats for following the policy set down by Chief Clunis with, ultimately, disastrous results for Tina Fontaine. They are being served up as sacrificial lambs to placate the mob sentiment that somebody has to be blamed for not saving the young girl. WPD Chief Clunis knows the REAL reason police failed to detain Tina Fontaine Winnipeg Police Chief Devon "Mack Daddy" Clunis is a big believer in prayer, and right now he's praying you don't find out that he might have been responsible for why teen runaway Tina Fontaine wasn't picked up by police the day before she was last seen alive. By now everyone knows that two officers spoke with 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in the wee hours of August 8 after stopping a vehicle in which she was a passenger. They took down her name, we're told, then sent her on her way. But at the time, so the story goes, she had been reported to police as missing, and should have been apprehended. The police department revealed the contact with Tina last month and announced an internal investigation of the circumstances. Friday, Clunis said the resulting report would be sent to the Crown Attorney's office for review, implying that charges could be laid against the two police officers. What he failed to say is that Tina Fontaine was probably released by the officers because they were following the policy introduced by none other than Clunis himself on dealing with street prostitutes. Clunis, you see, wants police to be more social worker than law enforcer. Nine months before Fontaine was killed, Clunis announced the creation of an anti-exploitation unit to build relationships with prostitutes rather than arrest them. Police would, henceforth, harass the johns but not the hookers, who were to be treated with kid gloves. They were, after all, victims in their own right. The incident where police spoke with Fontaine has all the elements of a roust. Police just happened to be around when Fontaine, who was known to prostitute herself in the area, got into a truck with an unknown male driver in the middle of the night. They stopped the truck and questioned the two occupants. The latest information is that there were four occupants. The identities, indeed the sex of the others has neve been made public. Fontaine was released to go on her way; the driver, who was, allegedly, intoxicated, was taken to the drunk tank. If he was drunk, why wasn't he charged with drunk driving? Because the officers didn't want to spend time waiting for a breathalyzer test. They wanted to get back on their "beat" asap. It's also possible that the allegations of intoxication were part of a harassment policy against alleged johns. Why wasn't Fontaine held in custody and returned to CFS care? Here's where the story goes off the rails. Tina Fontaine was a chronic runaway. After running away from her aunt's care in Sagkeeng in November and being returned, she went missing again in July. RCMP in Powerview reported on July 11 that they had received a missing persons report regarding Tina Fontaine on July 10. She was last seen, they said, on July 1 in Winnipeg. Then, on July 17, they issued a news release saying she had been found safe and sound. Her great-aunt Thelma Favel, who lives on Sagkeeng, had been unable to reach Tina in Winnipeg for over a week and had therefore reported her missing July 10. Tina's mother Tina Duck later (after Tina's body was discovered) told reporters that she had spent "the better part of the week" with Tina, obviously unbeknownst to Favel. Follow, so far? Media reports say she was missing again on July 31, only two weeks later. Thelma Favel says Tina had been gone since about July 26, according to what she learned from a child care worker. Tina's aunt, Lana Fontaine, told CBC that the girl stayed with her over the August long weekend, Aug. 1 to 5. She added that Tina phoned CFS on Aug. 5 and was taken back into their care. Neither Winnipeg police nor Powerview RCMP issued a missing persons alert regarding the July 31 disappearance of Tina Fontaine. According to the best evidence, she was back under CFS care as of Aug.5. That means that when she was questioned by two Winnipeg police officers, in the early hours of Aug. 8, SHE WAS NOT MISSING. Again ... if what Tina's aunt Lana Fontaine told CBC is the truth, then 15-year-old Tina Fontaine WAS NOT A MISSING PERSON when she came into contact with two policemen on Aug. 8, contrary to everything you have been told or have read since the revelation that police spoke to her and failed to take her into custody 24 hours before her final disappearance! She was reported missing Aug. 9, police issued a news release Aug. 13 "requesting the publics assistance" in locating her, and her body was found in the Red River Aug. 17. When the officers spoke with her that night she was NOT a missing person; she was a hooker with a john. The officers were just following the policy laid down by Mack Daddy Clunis when they questioned Tina and let her go. Mack Daddy Clunis prefers his hookers to stay on the street rather than in jail or on bail. But why he's letting false information stand without contradiction to let it poison relations between police and the native community is a question the Winnipeg police commission needs to answer -- and fast. Amen. 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Pro AV Catalog Bringing the North Pole to Sacramento Submitted By Bringing the North Pole to Sacramento Contact Us Featured Products Additional Providers Christmas is a special time of year, full of joy and spectacle. One of the most iconic aspects of this celebration is the Christmas light display. While many enjoy setting their own lights up around the house, others take the passion to an entirely different level. The Challenge Bayside Church is one of the largest churches in the Sacramento area, with multiple campuses in the region. Four years ago, the church was inspired to provide an unparalleled Christmas light show to the community. Taking advantage of the outdoor space afforded by its Adventure Campus in Roseville, the church has set up a multi-zone, drive-thru Christmas light display that has attracted massive crowds every year since it opened. The display consists of multiple zoned areas, and includes a display for the fill area while cars queue for entry, a 300-foot tunnel, a forest of trees, and a North Pole toy land. The entire drive through the display is approximately three-quarters of a mile long and can take 30 minutes to cruise through. The event was so popular on its grand opening that it backed up traffic for five miles. From the moment we open, there’s no such thing as waiting for a car to come through,” said Jud Boies, Executive Pastor of Operations at Bayside Church. “The amount of interest is higher than we expected. Ever since the first day, we’ve implemented a free ticket system so that we can control the flow.” The toy land area features a particularly impressive scene. Bayside Church wanted to project a large image onto an adjacent building, approximately 20 feet tall and 80 feet wide, to give the illusion of Santa’s workshop, complete with a cutaway to show what was happening inside the building. Recognizing the success of previous years and that the event would likely evolve into a longstanding tradition, Bayside Church notified its AV provider Alive Media that this year it wished to purchase its projectors instead of renting them. The location of the installation was subject to high winds and rain, so the hardware needed to be small enough to fit into an enclosure, and provide high enough brightness while still meeting the project budget. The Technology In previous years, Alive Media had outfitted Bayside Church with NP-PA672W and NPPA853W projectors, but since Bayside was purchasing the projectors, they recommended using the brighter NP-PA853W projectors with the standard 41ZL lenses. “With all of the other lights in the area, the projectors for this application really need to have the highest light output that we can get for the budget,” said Mark Sexton, System Designer for Alive Media. “NEC Display is the only projector manufacturer offering this kind of brightness at this price point.” The size of the building also meant that multiple projectors had to be used to achieve the desired coverage area. The projectors’ ability to use network LAN access aided in connecting and configuring all four units to work in harmony. NEC’s Geometric Correction Tool was instrumental to the installation. The Installation The projectors needed to be set up across the parking lot from the building, approximately 40 feet away, and mounted about 16 feet off the ground to allow vehicles, including buses, to drive underneath. In order to conceal the projectors to fit the aesthetic of the display, as well as to protect the projectors from the elements, Alive Media coordinated with a local craftsman to build doghouse shaped enclosures. The dimensions of the NP-PA853W were particularly critical here, as the unit had to be small enough to fit into the doghouses, and allow sufficient space for cooling, while also being powerful enough to deliver the desired light output. The building itself is segmented into two halves, so the projectors were mounted in a two-and-two configuration to provide the necessary coverage. Additionally, the building is not perfectly flat, so Alive Media had to use projection mapping to account for arches and columns with approximately 8 inches of depth to provide a clean image. This was facilitated with NEC Display’s Geometric Correction Tool. “NEC was great to deal with,” said Sexton. “Once Bayside decided that they wanted to purchase projectors this year, NEC was able to get units in our hands in very little time.” The operation of the installation is also highly automated. Several computers control the entire light display, including the Santa’s workshop projection. The system fires itself up at 5 p.m., turns the projectors on, initiates the content loop, and will run until about 30 minutes after the event closes. Additionally, Alive can monitor the status of the system remotely and perform any necessary maintenance without having to send someone onsite. The Results This year, the projection tells a short story about Santa’s workshop. As drivers approach the building, the projectors change the appearance of the building so that the exterior looks more like something that might be found at the North Pole. Then the walls of the exterior peel upward, revealing the interior of the workshop. On one side, the audience can see Santa sitting inside, with elves working on building toys. On the other side, the audience sees elves transporting toys from a conveyor belt and loading them into Santa’s sled. The whole scene plays out on a 15 second loop. “People love the animation on our building,” said Boies. “You can tell because they start going really slow as they pass it so they can see all the aspects of it. We have to have people along the route to tell people to keep moving.” Boies says the popularity of the displays are also apparent from the engagement that Bayside Church sees across social media and its related online content. This year’s display opened on December 1st. 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Tuesday, January 19, 2016 Signs You are a Writer I should be preparing for a presentation tomorrow, so of course, I'm stalling...Enjoy! Signs That You Are a Writer You covet office supplies. Sticky notes, pens, notebooks, pencils-your hands itch to touch them. The stationery aisle in the office supply store is a wonderful place. You regularly eavesdrop on conversations in the park, in coffee shops, in lines…and store away bits of dialogue and expressions like a squirrel gathering nuts for winter. You stop in mid-sentence when an interesting character crosses your sightline so you can memorize the details for later. If you can get away with it, you scribble it down in the ever-present notebook. You get distracted by poor spelling and grammar on a menu or a sign. On more than one occasion, you have offered to fix a presenter’s slides because misplaced apostrophes were driving you batty. You not only have an opinion on the Oxford comma, you have held a spirited debate about it on more than one occasion. You own more than one dictionary and use them regularly for their intended purpose. You prefer an actual thesaurus to the online version because there’s a satisfying feeling to turning the pages and running your finger over the lines of words to find the right one. At least once in your writing career, your characters have taken over the story and refused to do what you wanted them to do according to your outline. You also talk to your characters when they are refusing to toe the line. You can clearly articulate the difference between your and you’re, its and it's and there, they’re and their. You judge people who cannot. You use proper grammar and spelling in text messages and tweets. Your speed might be slower, but you are rarely misunderstood although the 140 character thing is challenging. Your google search history would raise eyebrows and cause law enforcement to look at you more closely. Brilliant writing makes you catch your breath, and then cry with longing at being able to craft a sentence like that one day. You express yourself with words on the page, rather than speaking. You are much more witty on paper and rather a disappointment in person. It's okay though, you would rather stay home! Sunday, November 2, 2014 The Truth Will Out Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Changing Expectations I was an A student. I made honour roll, I attended a private school in Montreal that required an entrance exam. 75 was a fail and if you had 85+ in the course going into exams, you were exempted from writing the final. I wrote 1 final (in Math) in my 2 years there, and I had an 83...I completed my Masters in 8 months. I've taken a number of courses since, and I'd go back to school in a heart beat. I'm not bragging. I'm framing my background. I had one C+ in my life, and that was in 2nd year Stats. Since I had a B in first term, my overall mark was a B-. And then we adopted my daughter. She's been diagnosed with ARND-Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder, due to her birth mom's alcohol and crack use during pregnancy. My daughter doesn't have the visual facial clues, but she certainly has the aftermath. And since she started school, her mother has had to shift academic expectations, which has been a tougher lesson than expected. My parents had very high academic expectations. My father could find the typos in an A+ paper (and did). I would have to explain where the other 8 marks went if I brought home a 92. I missed an academic scholarship in university by .2% because the prof chose to round down rather than up and my GPA was .2 too low for the scholarship cut off. I had visions of my daughter following in my academic path. My daughter is smart. She's visual-if she sees something, she can do it. If she can find the pattern in things, she can do it. She makes Rainbow Loom creations by the dozen by watching YouTube videos. She has trouble processing auditory information and misses most of the instructions given verbally because by the time she has processed the instruction, she's forgotten the beginning. She has anxiety that is exasperated by stress, and trying to learn new things in a "loud" classroom is stressful. She was always the last kid out of the school. There was an inverse relationship between how cold it was outside, how much of a human popsicle her mother had become and how long it took her to get ready. After speaking with a FASD expert, I now understand that she can't process what to do if too many people are doing it at the same time so she waits. She was getting overwhelmed trying to remember what to do to get ready-put her lunchbag in her backpack, bring her homework, change her shoes etc. So now I go later and neither one of us are as stressed or cranky. Our school is doing its best to help her and we've been blessed with good teachers, for the most part. The very nature of the learning environment is not conducive to my daughter's challenges. We often have a massive meltdown right after she gets home. She's held it together all day, and now she's in a safe place and it all comes out. She tries hard, and once she grasps a concept, she's okay, but it can take a LONG TIME for that to happen and when she forgets to bring home her homework, or write it down then I'm flying blind trying to help her.That happens often and she's just finished Grade 3. How that translates is that her academic marks do not reflect her actual abilities and talents. She freezes on tests or rushes through them, making silly errors. Her report cards do not reflect her actual abilities, but some of the marks have had me biting my tongue because I have to keep reminding myself that she is doing her best, and deals with unbelievable challenges every day because of the damage to her brain that her birth mom inflicted on her. Just as you wouldn't yell at a blind child for not reading from a printed text held up to their eyes, I have to remember that in my daughter's case, with rare exceptions, it's not a won't it's a can't. It's been a tough lesson for me, and I have to keep reminding myself that she is doing her best. They may not have been the marks that I would have received, but as she said to me one day last year, "Mommy, I'm not like you or Hermione (because we were in a Harry Potter phase)...I don't like school." We work together to help her understand, and she's doing her best. On Mother's Day, she wrote a list of things she loved about me. "Helps me with my homework" was mentioned twice. It's a painful period for both of us, but it's making a difference, and at the end of the day, that's all that matters. So the expectation is my problem to deal with, not hers. She's trying her best, and that's all that matters. If the school can't teach how she learns, then maybe the school should change how they teach...and I'll fill in the gaps in the meantime. Sunday, April 13, 2014 Sometimes in life, you just have to say "screw it." Whether that means ordering the egg McMuffin and double hash browns, ignoring the dust bunnies in favour of a favourite show, ordering the $10 dessert or giving up and going to bed, knowing you will be up at the crack of stupid the next day. And sometimes, it means giving up a fight, taking your marbles and going home. I don't talk much about my faith. I believe that faith is deeply personal, and it is possible to be a deeply spiritual person without being a member of an organized religion. I also believe the God of my understanding doesn't care what building you are sitting in, what clothes you are wearing, what words you use or what book you reference, as long as you live a life that is loving to each other, peaceful in nature and which leaves your little corner of the world more loving. As it happens, however, I have been a member of the Catholic church all of my life. Recent events have shaken my membership in that institution, and in some ways, also shaken the bedrock of my faith. I grew up in an alcoholic home, and especially when I was a teen, the only constant I had every week was the ritual of mass. I knew that I could walk into any Catholic church anywhere in the world, and it would be the same, consistent, reassuring and constant. It was the faith that I grew up in, and for more years than I can remember, it was the faith that I have practiced through my singing, by being a choir member, a cantor, a funeral cantor, a wedding cantor...Singing is how I have always prayed because music breaks through barriers that everything else resists. When my daughter arrived, she started attending church with us. I would sit in the side pew of the choir loft and I often fed her a bottle while simultaneously singing the offertory hymn with the aid of a music stand. When she got older, she sat in the back pew with my husband while I did my choir cantor thing at the front. Until she was in school full-time, if I had to sing at a funeral, she would go and spend time with my mom. When that option was no longer available, she would come to church with me and sit in the side pew. She was used to funerals and behaved reasonably well for the most part. My daughter has recently been diagnosed with ARND-Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. It is a form of Fetal Alcohol, and is a legacy of her birth mom, along with the crack. What it means, is that while she does not have the facial cues, alcohol caused permanent brain damage. Her left and right sides didn't develop equally, developed partially and parts didn't develop at all. She has trouble with transitions, she has trouble with too much noise, light and sound, and has a myriad of other challenges that we are dealing with and determining. And it is all internal, so the meltdown and movement looks like misbehaving rather than overload, and it is often judged as lenient parenting rather than understanding what my daughter needs to deal with an impending overload. My daughter misbehaved at church. There's a lot more to it, but that encapsulates it. I made some poor decisions trying to give her responsibility...and I was informed that unless someone was with her 100% of the time from now on, she couldn't attend mass. Choir members had complained. If I brought her alone, my only job was to "sit in the corner and make her behave." The message was delivered by someone that I would have called a friend, and more insult to injury, the mother of two special needs adults. And the message had been sent from the priest. To say that I was shocked, hurt and stunned is an understatement. The message was delivered in front of some of the choir members. The institution that preaches acceptance and tolerance had just turned its back on one of its young members, and one with special needs. Nowhere in any of my bibles does it say "let the little children come to me, but only if they sit down and behave..." Pope Francis speaks of acceptance, didn't seem at all worried that a little fellow wandered up, sat in his chair and gave him a hug. Pope Francis patted his head and kept going. The message was clear-I was welcome. My daughter was banned. This has rocked me on a fundamental level. I know that my daughter is going to have a rough go, but of all places, church should have been the safe, welcome place. After a week of agonizing, praying, crying, trying to take the emotion out of it and figuring out what my daughter would learn if I stayed, and what she would learn if I left, I chose to leave. I kept coming back to "screw it." While I don't know for certain, I have a strong idea of who complained, and since it worked once, they will do it again, because let's face it, some of the least Christian people in the church are usually part of the organization and some of the least tolerant may be standing at the pulpit. At the end of the day, if my daughter isn't welcome, then neither am I because she needs to know with 100% certainty that I have her back, even when she screws up. There will be enough people knocking her down and judging her. I need to be her safe place to fall, even when it's a crash landing. So the first time in I have no idea how many years-25-30? I am just a parishioner. I am no longer tied to a certain mass on a certain day and time. We church surfed for a couple of months, and I think we have settled on a new place. The priest is on a personal mission to get my daughter to smile, and upon hearing some of the reason why we changed churches (because he had been trying to encourage me to join that church for awhile) promptly turned and invited her to become an altar server. He wasn't at all concerned with her challenges, he was willing to work around them. It was very disconcerting to sit in the congregation during Palm Sunday. Easter is the liturgical time of year that spoke to me the most. I suspect that Good Friday and Easter Sunday will be equally disconcerting. Having my child rejected by the place that was my anchor has likewise pulled my sense of belonging out of its foundation. I attend church now, but my sense of connectedness is gone. I no longer feel a part of the institution that was my safe place all of my life. In much of my life, I have felt like an outlier, a square peg in a world of round holes, a misfit...but I never expected to feel that way in church. And the fact that my daughter was rejected takes things to a whole new level, since her challenges were well known. I don't feel a part of the Catholic Church any more. I'm just going through the motions and hoping that equilibrium will return. Solace and spiritual comfort are gone for me. I guess I'll have to find a way to make my own. Monday, August 12, 2013 Rant about email subscriptions Dear company: It's not you, it's me. Okay, technically, it's my spouse, but anyway, I have to leave you. I don't want to, I'd like to change, but you aren't making it possible. You won't adapt, you won't meet me halfway, so I have to walk away. I'm in email update Hades right now. My husband decided we are going to change web service providers, which is necessitating a change in email address. I've had that email address for a long time, it's tied to my business, it's a part of my communications platform, and shortly, poof, it will be gone. And the transition is becoming a giant pain in the server. Hey, companies, it's 2013. You have Facebook and Twitter and Linked In and RSS and Pinterest and blogs and e-communications and you want me to subscribe to get all the latest updates and coupons and deals and whatever...so why do you make it so freaking complicated to KEEP doing that? If I had a dollar for every time the last few days that I have had to unsubscribe and resubscribe rather than just update my email, I could take my family out to dinner, and I'm not talking McDonalds. We're getting into Red Lobster territory, here. Many blogs, companies and other places now have an "update preferences" option on their e-communications. Make it easy for me to stay with you, why don't you? Every time I have unsubscribe and turn around a second later and resubscribe, somewhere, a computer chip cries. It CAN'T be that complicated to add the feature-other companies have managed just fine. A couple of companies insisted that I couldn't just update, I had to start over with a new profile. I quit those companies. If they are that hinky about an email, what would their return policy or defective merchandise policy be like? I grudgingly subscribed to one retailer because, although it's beyond me why, my 8 year old daughter adores their over priced, oversexed $50 for a pair of jeans with rips and holes in them clothing, and I was hoping for a coupon or discount once in a while. According to the chirpy little customer service rep at the end of an email, I had to set up a whole new profile to update my email because they "didn't have the functionality to just update." Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Nope, I don't think so. Just take me off the list. I have a quizillion things tied to my current email address. It's a sign on, a communications channel, a way for clients and editors and friends and colleagues to reach me...and I'm trying to remember all of them and update them. I also have listserves and newsletters and blogs and a bunch of other things that I receive email from. I know I won't capture all the changes, but hopefully I'll hit the important ones. I have every loyalty card known to creation...but don't push me. So, really, it IS you, company. Get with the program, use the freaking technology or I'll move on. 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Visitors : Please place a pin on the guestmap to show where you come from. Free Guestmap from Bravenet.com Many thanks for all your encouraging messages. Guestmap information Follow us on Facebook Facebook icon Custom Search English Idioms & Idiomatic Expressions (Idioms page 1 : against the clock → in the long run) They are working against the clock to have the presentation ready for Monday. on the cusp On the cusp refers to a point in time that marks a transition or the beginning of a change. Some people think the world is on the cusp of a new era. all along If something has existed or been somewhere all along, it has been there all the time, from the beginning. I had been looking for my keys for some time before I realized they had been in my pocket all along. better late than never When someone does something late, this remark means that it is better to do it late than not do it at all. Do you know what time it is? You promised you'd come early to help me - but better late than never I suppose! The pickpocket disappeared in the blink of an eye. by degrees If something happens or develops by degrees, it happens gradually or little by little as time goes by. By degrees their business relationship grew into friendship. clock in/out When you clock in or out, you record the time you arrive or leave your job by punching a time clock to the show the number of hours you have worked. I'm going to clock out early today. I've got a dental appointment. cut it/things fine If you cut it/cut things fine, you leave barely enough time to do something. You're counting just an hour between the airport and the train station - isn't that cutting things a bit fine? date late and a dollar short If something is a day late and a dollar short, it comes too late and is not good enough. They offered me an internship when I had already found a job - a day late and a dollar short! donkey's years If someone has been doing something for donkey's years, they have been doing it for a very long time. He knows the town inside out. He's been living here for donkey's years. down to the wire If something such as project or a match goes down to the wire, the situation can change up until the last possible moment. There's nothing as exciting as watching a game that goes down to the wire. at the eleventh hour If something happens at the eleventh hour, it happens when it is almost too late, or at the last possible moment. Our team won after they scored a goal at the eleventh hour. five o'clock shadow This expression refers to a patch of stubble on the face of a man who hasn't shaved for at least a day. He looked tired and had a five o'clock shadow. in the interim Something that happens in the interim takes place during a period of time between two events. I won't have the apartment until next month. In the interim I'm staying at a local hotel. in the long run This term refers to something that will have effect over or after a long period of time. Learning Chinese is going to be difficult, but it'll be worth it in the long run because it will help me to get a better job. Alphabetical lists :	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '36', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9532560110092164}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22511', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EENDQHNWWPILZRB63HF3RPU5XTGZZPY7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3c3fc80f-0f86-45e0-941c-1e0d61b7b006>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 48, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.20.112.34', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7SAIQXUUKBUYMYBCNPRJIA4WTM5KCKWI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2f1b1d4d-22a1-4807-8931-62de7e11b9a6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idiom-categories/time/time1-clock-long.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9731eba0-ede2-4bc9-a1b6-bcd21c4e4bba>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '650', 'url': 'https://www.learn-english-today.com/idioms/idiom-categories/time/time1-clock-long.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-148-11-10.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.27305489778518677', 'original_id': '1726213d1c32b789217ceb258490a690d6d8bceca1242a17ea93c47ed81ed13f'}
Can classical music make you happier? Sort of. Jun 17, 2013 Credit Credit: University of Missouri An MU report found that listening to music with the intention enhancing your mood might just work. MU Department of Psychological Studies faculty member Ken Sheldon and his former student Yuna Ferguson have backgrounds in happiness research. They were curious about what happens when you tell yourself “I am going to be happier.” They added certain classical musical selections and then documented the mood changes. In an interview, Ken Sheldon said: We were trying to address this question that is out there in the literature of “Can it work to try to boost your own mood or happiness or is it almost bound to backfire?” If you go into an activity saying “I am going to use this to feel happier” does it create a sort of an “Am-I-there-yet-am-I-there-yet?” feeling that prevents you from attaining the pleasure that’s intrinsically available in the activity? Ferguson and Sheldon created two groups of study subjects. One group was told that they were to actively try to be happier. No such request was made of the second group. Both groups were exposed to classical music selections thought to be generally happy or sad. You can try the experiment yourself: First, determine your mood. Consider your overall state. Rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 with a score of 1 being total despair and 10 being complete transcendence. If you are like me you are probably hovering somewhere near a six. Now regardless of what else is happening in life tell yourself “I am going to work to feel happier.” Go ahead, say it to yourself. The first piece of classical music that MU researchers played for their subjects was a selection from Aaron Copland’s work Rodeo: How did that affect your mood? Now take a dose of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring: How’s your mood now? Rite of Spring is clearly a very different slice of 20th century American classical music from Aaron Copland’s upbeat work as heard earlier. Sheldon’s research found that subjects told to work at feeling happier were more successful when assigned to listen to the Copland composition. Ken Sheldon summed up what this might mean for the average person: Maybe sometimes people want to pick music that matches a state such as if they are feeling confused and maybe angry and frustrated. Recent research suggested that if people are feeling angry they might prefer discordant music or they might prefer sad music if they have experienced a recent loss. That can certainly be true but for the average person in an okay state who would like to feel better it might be a good idea to find some happier music to listen to. Does this suggest an all-Copland diet for those working to feel better? Should Stravinsky be avoided by those with mood swings? Probably not. It does mean that music can affect our moods. As a music programmer here at KBIA armed with the results of Dr. Sheldon’s research, I feel an even greater responsibility now for sharing the right music with listeners at the right time. If you still feel bad after your week-day dose of classical music on KBIA, well, please don’t blame me. You can choose to feel better, right?	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '70', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.96472829580307}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '63668', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:57BD2DNUKPGQTTFFVY3IVC73VBIHCDGO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:933980e9-c955-4f4e-acde-acd0b576483c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 51, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.125.77.80', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LIAY762OI5H43Y5H3YNTWQY4IAWZBF4W', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c98f2883-c79f-4dcc-b475-ff86da362d2f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://kbia.org/post/can-classical-music-make-you-happier-sort', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:56688140-d7b6-46ea-b40a-da4f6667f740>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '633', 'url': 'http://kbia.org/post/can-classical-music-make-you-happier-sort', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-152-23-81.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03985941410064697', 'original_id': 'ded61f4a11200b1892f9e54e112deb03d9f849b77993367f2bd070baff90e57f'}
draco season with the bookbag lyrics Draco Season With the Bookbag does not have any special meaning but is a song that was released in 2017 by Future. With no special meaning behind the song, it looks like people have been using a short snippet of it just to bring back the famous song back for attention. As per Distractify, the trending song was made by a user named @SimplySaturnn. While some have just been using the song as background music This trend is quite similar to the song lyric text prank that several people had been trying last year. In it, people would choose a song they would like, for instance, Perfect by Ed Sheeran.. The prank starts with posting a line from the lyrics and then waiting for a response. Once you have a reply, you have to continue to the text by following it with the second line Most often than not, people are not able to catch up with the music and assume the sender is sending random text messages and that’s where the entire joke lies. A couple of people have also tried the trend on celebrities and some of them have been lucky enough to get replies. TikTok is filled with several trends and below are some of them that you can try: 1. The ADULT SWIM trend 2. The beer poster trend 3. Nightmare challenge 4. Alabama Rush trend	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9827765822410583}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '60343', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:APD26NUEECW7F4QRUQYXIEDH2WL5OZOR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9ed1e4d5-295c-45d1-b6ac-a5dc11ef9120>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 29, 10, 31, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '159.89.174.209', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RSQUN6MHZNWNBGY2KQDMWCBBKR5PWRVG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:224eb22e-852f-41c8-b1d3-3fc0d10b823e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://lyricspost.net/web-stories/draco-season-with-the-bookbag-lyrics/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6d83ab0a-3f88-4cf0-8274-c11ff3dae346>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '233', 'url': 'https://lyricspost.net/web-stories/draco-season-with-the-bookbag-lyrics/', '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 ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-193\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': '0.9745500683784485', 'original_id': '8408a897c00de798e3f0dd45d56f47ef9c825b30d23aa40fdd6bcd2862e25dbe'}
S2E3: Confined Spaces In which the party boards an train, meets a Spaniard, and dispenses with a number of ruffians. The Copper Tube Line is the exclusive property of the Gnomekind Tinkerage, a Feywild mirror kingdom with significant outposts in it’s mortal side counterpart, Switzerland. It is the fastest means of land travel in the mortal world and, as such is exclusive and expensive. The party has secured tickets on the 4:13AM train and Colonel Eckhardt wakes them at 2:00 and offers them a number of ways to travel, they choose a stately coach and four. Arriving at the train depot (a stop along a residential street) Malagar sees a group of what appear to be monks moving slowly down the street along with a hurried merchant, his wife and daughter who rush past the party and nearly the whole of the Brovast militia lead by the half-orc Prussian agent Bolg. The latter group is lying in wait though not, it seems, for the adventurers. This does not stop Bolg from ordering an attack on the party when he sees his brother’s killer and even going so far as to reveal the presence of the fire giant in their midst. The party manages to escape the militia and the giant and Bolg, having attacked (and damaged) the Gnomish train is hit by a volley of rifle fire from gnomish guns and thrown onto the train, near death, by Olivander. Later he will be thrown off the train (while en route) by the gnomes at the behest of Edmond and Olivander. The train’s itinerary has the party on day long trip to Laipzig where they will take on water (for 8 hours) then pass through, but not stop at, the township of Kassel then stop at customs on the Prussian border then a 2 hour stop at Cologne to take on food and more water then across the border again to the final destination in Brussels. While en route, Ylmatera takes up a conversation with the Monk-like figure of Mataô Abedul. He lets the party know that hs has recently escaped escaped from Constantinople as it was being attacked by rebels and legions of mechanical creatures. The attack itself was preceded by a maddening, omnipresent, irregular drum beat. Mateo carries a papyrus box that contains a cutting of a perfect grape vine from the Ottoman Empire. He is traveling to his home in Spain and imparts to the Eldarin the importance of his reaching his homeland with the cutting intact. Ylmatera agrees and when they stop at their first layover at Laipzig the party takes every precaution to ensure a it’s safety as they exit the train, travel through a town market and take up rooms at the Sprungender Knurrera local inn. There the party is attacked by goblin pirates who drive the party from their rooms and ambush them in the halls. The adventurers make short work of them though, in the process, the party is separated, the Goblin’s leader escaped and part of the building is set on fire. Outside the once crowded streets are nearly deserted, the last few market goers fleeing as the goblin hoard makes itself known and prepares for the siege. In the throngs of well entranched assailants can be seen multiple Hobgoblin Captains several Bugbears and a number of curious, extendable brass cylinders pointed at the inn. Additional info (gnome facts) • Gnomish trains run on proprietary steam/tube technology and are expandable • They have a way of avoiding oncoming trains • Gnomish guns shoot twice without reloading • Gnomes have little to no sense of humor 700 ea for the game 137 ea for killing 22 Goblins 175 ea for defeating the Hobgolblin 280 ea for assist in the defeat and likely death of Bolg. TOTAL: 1,292 ea 4x copper train tickets worth 10cp in raw metal, far more on the collector's market. S2E2: The middle passage In which the party meets with an Archduke, a killer with a sweet tooth, books passage to the Netherlands and performs a skit in a children's park. Recovering from the battle with the Fire giant, the party retreats to their place of residence only to find it closed up, sheets over the furniture an the windows boarded. All of their belongings have been expertly packed and the butler, with equal expertise, shows them the door. The party then travels to where Malagar is to meet the Draw emissary in a small private club called The Pangolin. Here he meets Causette Lacienne who has murdered everyone who entered the club while she waited for Malagar to arrive. In a brief tête-à-tête she lets him know that the Sisterhood’s plans, though delayed by the party’s actions will go forward. Russia will fall and the world will go to war and open the way for the Sisterhood and their forces. She tells Malagar he is falling irreversibly under the sway of the artifact but there is still hope for salvation. She offers him a way back to himself — join the sisterhood. As an act of good faith, gives him a map to the location to a lost outpost of Vhaeraun in northern France that is about to fall, a place where, she claims he can still make a connection to his God. Later the party has an audience with the Archduke who is seated at the end of a hall of mirrors behind a small moat of water that runs across the floor. He is there with his court magician Otto, his captain of the guard Nicolai Eckhart, now a Colonel and his wife the Princess Sophie who, once again looks sickly and pale. He gives them permission to leave Prague on two conditions, they see his Magician safely to Paris and they find out “Why Prague was targeted”. Additional highlights • The party has clothes for their audience with the Duke made by the Dwarf Ranata Fuentes, the proprietor of Olangands, a hight end tailor shop • Edmond books passage on the Gnomish express train from Winfred Engel a 78 year old travel agent • The train will take them as far as Brussels where they will have to book alternate passage as there are no working train lines in France. • The party secures supplies for the journey 500 ea for the game 800 ea for some really nice roleplay 100 ea for the interlude at the playground TOTAL: 1400 ea S2E1: Circle of Pain In which the party waits on a Duke, defeats a half orc, makes some appointments and eats some questionable bread. Note: this encompasses the latter 5th of the first session (where we played the pre-gens) of the new season and the whole of session 2) The has been living in Prague waiting on the audience with the Duke. Their declining fortunes are evident as Olivander is fighting for money in a bar called the Tick Tock tavern and establishment frequented by the nobility who bet on the fights that happen in the taverns great ventral ring. Here Olivander fights Holg who is assisted by his brother Bolg while Olivander in turn is assisted by (and bet on by) the party. Though touch and go, the fight ends with Holg near death and the onlookers fleeing the obvious use of magic by Edmond and Ylmaterä. During the fight the exit, the party notice they were observed by an emissary of the Sisterhood and a fire giant in disguise, — an emissary of the House of Nylund. The Drow leaves leaves a note for Malagar to meet her along with similar summons from the Archduke and Madam Gerber. Additional highlights: • Madam Gerber turns out to be a powerful practitioner of magic and, in some what attached to the Lord of the White tower. She offers aid in France at the white tower. • The party eats wet, fleshy bread cooked by Madam Gerber and gains vitality (XPS) from it. • The party is attacked at Madam Gerbers’ by the fire giant and Prussian soldiers lead by Holg and Bolg. • Holg is killed by Olivander and, from a distance his brother swears revenge. • The party decides to book passage to France by train. • The Gypsy information network is revealed and a note is delivered to Edmond from M.Holmes “Meet my agent Prof. Moriarty at N.Cathedral" 500 ea for the game 200 ea for good roleplay 400 ea for fighting/escaping the fire giant 100 ea for Prussian soldiers 350 ea for Holg TOTAL: 1550ea S2 prologue: The Fall of Locronan Wherein we see an investigation force from the church of Rome, following a trail of lots and abandoned towns, approach the small hamlet of Locronan in Brittany where they find a gypsy camp who warns them not to enter the town. The warning unheeded they advance and find the populace all dead yet animated by swarms of unholy worms. The entire populace has been set to excavating a previously unseen white marble foundation under their church by the woman who will be popularized in song as the Crimson Lady and The Turbaned Queen Only one of the investigative force remains who saw the event and could tell more of the tale. XPS (for the main characters) 500 ea for the game 300 ea for great roleplay 350 ea for the combat TOTAL: 1150 each. INTERLUDE: In Another World Sympathy, a Shadowrun short story King's Doughnuts is an all-hours doughnut shop with a full liquor license. That alone would make it a place of note but add to that fact that it is situated in the middle of a haunted junkyard where strange people gather and strange things happen on a regular basis and you have a local legend. Those who know the street know King’s is a safe zone, a place where local freelance police look for work mixing in with factions of all kinds both legal and illegal and no one seems to say boo about it. For those that know magic, Kings is situated at the crossroads of two very active ley lines and the less that balance is interfered with the better. As such the local government, law enforcement and even the gangs give Kings owner and main bartender The Chancellor a wide berth even though he has manifested no martial or magical ability beyond an uncanny ability to know someone favorite doughnut and when they need it adorned with his (literally) patented ChromaSprinkles™. The players had gathered at this iconic setting (at 2AM) for various reasons. • “Casper” had been called by his “Mr. Johnson” Vicky O’Malley • “Sparky”, also called by the same “Mr. Johnson”, just happened to be there escorting his friend and connection “Reza” • “Reza” was there to meet his connection Shouts at the Sun – a tribal leader who arrived personally, without the stash, to tell deliver an enigmatic warning to “watch his back” from his Shaman. • “Cutter”, who knows The Chancellor well, was there seeking work. While the Shadowrunners are gathering at Kings for different reasons, a car is pulled from the waters of Lake Washington, a car filled with the bodies of six Orks, all young, all gang members and all missing their hearts. Sam “The Sham” has been tied to the team of beat cops investigating the murders which were discovered mere yards away from Kings, at the same time the other players are gathering. At King's, Vicky O’Malley is gathering a group of Shadwrunners for a hyper quick run (with the money to match). The players are drawn into the scheme including Sam who substitutes for Neil Tyrel who Vicky originally called. The gig is explained as a simple B&E breaking into a “Local Government” facility on behalf of a client who’s name is Roger Bacon. Having accepted the job which included a ¥10,000 fee up front (just for listening) and ¥80,000 for completion the party uses it’s contacts to gather materials, a ride and lightly investigate Roger Bacon. The latter turns out to be a former VP of research for Stoner Ares Weapon Systems and also a mage with a particular genius for sympathetic magic, Roger was also caught in the middle of a four-way, sustained firefight in a parking lot between a group of shadow runners, Lone Star, a gang and Ares Security. The fight lasted seven minutes and cost him the lives of his wife and his young son whom he failed to protect. After that he disappeared from the public eye, re-emerging recently in Seattle where his sister lives in Capital Hill. Roger settled in the Barrens – a decidedly unlikely place for a human (non-ork) to pick to live. While the players secure, a ride and some information, Reza travels down to help the investigation. His astral projection reveals the ghosts of the 6 Orks, floating 100 yards off shore above where the car was found. Further astral-investigation reveals what looks like magically impregnated wood in the wounds of the victims. At the same time the other player’s contacts confirm that the dead Orks are members of the Coffin Chasers – an all-Ork gang out of the Barrens, the same area where they are to meet their contact. The party sets off and, after a brief interaction with the 405 Hellhounds, enter the section of the Barrens known as The Cave – a neighborhood that is 94% Ork and controlled/protected by the 'Chasers. It takes almost no time for the combat van full of Humans to attract the attention of the gang and here the players almost fall afoul of the very jumpy CC gangers, Pretty Boy, Johny Sausage and FUBAR a monstrous cyber-enhanced Sasquatch. Some quick talking gives the players a chance to meet 4Stroke, n older grizzled Ork who is the leader, and potentially, progenitor of some if not most of the ‘Chasers. Calmer heads prevail and he agrees to give the players passage to see Roger Bacon on two conditions 1) they help him investigate the murders of his men (a plot the players already seem embroiled in) and 2) no harm comes to Roger Bacon who seems to be helping the local Ork populace and is, perhaps the one Human the Chasers trust. 4Stroke’s calm-headedness is only in contrast to the hot-headedness of his rank and file as anyone with an ounce of street knowledge knows his reputation for pure, remorseless menace is well earned. Passing by the impromptu check point, the players take their van down the street ending in a peculiar brownstone. The narrow, 3-story building has been separated from the other densely packed buildings by having had it’s closet neighbors demolished, leaving just enough room for the six foliage-overgrown pillars that surround it. The early December air is wet and bitterly cold but the air around the house and the clear area is oppressively hot and sticky — like a tropical green house gone amok. The exterior of the house itself is completely overgrown just like the pillars and a quick check by Reza in astral space confirms Sparky’s suspicions, the house sits on the nexus point of three active ley lines. Still, the light from the windows and doors is warm and inviting and, when Casper knocks on the door, the players are welcomed cheerfully by a small boy made of wood who introduces himself as Andy and by an equally cheerful (adult) voice further in the house who invites them in. As Andy welcomes the runners in the narrow hallway they step into is charming if oppressively warm. From floor to ceiling are books, papers, knick knacks and plants, some of whom the runners can see come from dozens of pots and others who’s origins are more mysterious, tendrils vines snaking from the other rooms. The air is thick with insects and as the players brush aside butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the sounds of crickets is ever present and, not altogether unpleasant. As Andy leads them down the hall, other “Andy’s” can be seen, when the first Andy takes a turn into room another Any takes his place emerging from a side door and continuing the sentence mid-stream as if they were a single creature. The runners emerge into a small sitting room where Roger Bacon, who sits next to past a stack of thaumaturgy books (standard magician tomes) that are particularly overgrown and long since used, greets them warmly. Reza notices that, likewise, the books on the shelves are magician’s tomes in the same state of disrepair. It is unlikely that Roger has performed any traditional magic in years. Roger himself is an affable man in his late 40s’. He is friendly toward the players and asks Andy to fetch the party some refreshments which he does cheerily. As Andy returns with lemonades Roger explains his plot and the players part in it. As the runners have been able to discover Roger, a genius in sympathetic magic and former VP for Ares, and his family were caught in a fire fight where Roger’s magic was unable to protect his wife and son from the relentless, indiscriminate gunfire of the combatants. Relocating to Seattle to “start fresh with Andy”, Roger tells the players he is seeking revenge against his former friend and partner Alexander Wolfe, EVP of weapons development for Ares technology — he blames Wolfe for the violent death of his wife and, in payment, seeks to embarrass him by stealing three of his prized possessions: • A painting entitled “The Death of General Wolfe” depicting one of Wolfe’s ancestors • The head of a 10th century Chinese “fire lance” which is heralded as the worlds first true gun and • The SAWS Hachiman IV powered armor a pet project concept developed by Stoner Ares to combine razor’s edge physical augmentation, protection and versatility. For the latter, the helmet contains the full technical specs and is all Edward requires the players to steal. Bacon lets the party know that the items are currently on display in the Arts of War exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum in fact, the entire collection of paintings, and artifacts around warfare both ancient and modern is owned by Wolfe and protected by the Ghost Matrix, a security system that, the party later learns is a mixture of tech and magic, a way to “project” ghosts into specific areas at specific times. The party has been able to at least roughly map out these areas. The runners need only bring the items to Bacon before the next night ends to fulfill the contract. Just before the party leaves Sparky offers his condolences on the loss of Bacon’s wife and son. While the mage thanks him for his kind words on his wife he is completely confused by the notion that his son was lost in the onslaught. Andy shows the party out and, as they drive away they see there is an Andy in every window of the old brownstone. Though a day of research and infiltration, including some light kidnapping of a security guard and the less than light stabbing of a temp receptionist, the party is ready to act. The museum is closing, the ghosts are coming on line and the party is in place with Casper jacked into the net and and physically in the unemployment agency above the museum, Cutter impersonating a guard and Reza and Sparky waiting in a side alley to enter and Edward Bacon waiting for the items to be delivered to him at his brownstone. The museum closes, the lights go down and the ghosts come on line. Outside the museum the streets are crowded for a parade celebrating the anniversary of the ghost dance which took place on this very night. Inside the museum, a single guard patrols with Cutter who is pretending to be a replacement guard for the one the party kidnapped and left incapacitated in his underwater apartment building. While Cutters performance is well scripted, his delivery lacks nuance and it isn’t long before the guard realizes the deception. Rather than sound the alarm the M.A.L. (Minimal Assault Logistical) Cop – The lowest paid run in the Lonestar Security Hierarchy merely begs for his life and plausible deniability. Between Cutters intimidation of the quickly departing guard and Casper’s hacking the primary security of the Seattle Art museum, from drones to door locks is soon under the party’s control, leaving only the Ghost Matrix. While Cutter lets the rest of the party into the museum, Casper is in the net where each node is represented as a floating platform room room housed by icons of art history. The party moves to the second floor where the Arts of War exhibit is housed guarded by the ghosts of long dead soldiers. Room by room the party the Shadowrunners search for the artifacts they have come to steal aided by stealth, caution and the magical sight of Reza who has discovered that the ghost projectors are only focusing the spectral energy, that each spirit is actually tied to this world by a single magical rune disk attached to objects from the ghosts past. Removing this hockey puck sized magical objects breaks the connection and the ghosts fail to appear. Thus it is that the party makes it through the exhibit unharmed, having gathered all but the last object– the helmet of the Hachiman armor, on display at the back of the exhibit hall. It looked like smooth sailing until, the armor itself activated and, without a pilot attacked the group. The armor jet packed into the high ceiling in the hall and let loose a flurry of bullets from it’s Ares asset rifle, knocking Reza out of the fight in a single volley. Meanwhile, in the net, Casper had found out that Alexander Wolfe himself was online and connected to the exhibits servers. With some skillful decking Casper managed to ghost himself into Wolfe’s systems and there learn that, unlike they were told by their employer himself, Roger Bacon was not seeking revenge. In fact he held no ill will toward his former boss at Ares, and forgave him fully for the death of his family — instead feeling it was the weapons themselves the were to blame. After learning this information, the Runners, with a bit of help from Casper who had infiltrated the suit’s systems manage to deactivate the Hachiman IV helmet and escape to their waiting get away van. Driving to the barrens they see scenes of a neighborhood in terror. Doors and windows barred and locked, no one in the streets save the bodies of of the Coffin Chasers gang. All lay dead, their hearts ripped out of their chests. In the distance light pours into the sky from the the ley line nexus that is Roger Bacon’s house and, as they approach, Sparky is forced to use the windshield wipers to clear the thick cloud of insects that surround the house. Once at the door the Runners are greeted by a host of Andys, all moving independently, all finishing each other’s thoughts and sentences. Many of them quite new, the wood of their constructions still wet and raw. Inside Roger Bacon has knocked down many walls to make way for a ritual. As the players enter the night is reaching it’s zenith — the same night of the Ghost Dance that changed the history of the world. Inside Roger Bacon, bedraggled, worn, mad with sorrow and pain, manic with laughter, cheerfully accepts the artifacts and casts them all aside all save one, his true goal, the Chinese fire lance — the world’s first gun — the object that originated and defined all firearms after it. As the party tries to leave, the Andys insists that they stay. They love their father and would have an audience for his triumph. Roger, an artist in sympathetic magic, a genius in linking a physical anchor to a magical effect explains his plan. He will use the power of this night, of the ley lines in this place, of the obvious (at least to Reza) Insect spirits that have granted him their shamanic power, that he will use all that, the world’s first gun and his own ancestral ties to the first known maker of modern gunpowder, to quite simply end all firearms, to cast a great work that will keep all guns from functioning– forever. The party had a choice to make — stand by and see the end of all guns or stop Roger, and a growing mass of insect spirits from completing their own ghost dance. The fight is brief. Though the Andy’s swarm the Shadowrunners iin their dozens, they need only put down a single unarmed and unarmored wizard. Reza sets the room (and the Andy’s) on fire and, as Cutter and Casper clear a path Sparky takes a single shot. Roger Bacon, still casting his spell, oblivious to the flames that were already consuming him, falls. Though the Shaman dies and the spell fails, the Andy’s do not. They stop fighting and silently gather around their father. As the party leaves, the last of the Andy’s silently enter the burning house and close the blinds. The Runners drive away. S1E16: Hunter's end In which the party confronts the Vampire Mina Jaeger, her thrall the baron, attempts to save an Archduke and prevent a world war orchestrated by the Sisterhood. As the mists continue to swirl, the Raven and Malagar square off against the Baron Jaeger, his teeth bared and his movements like flashes of lighting in and out of the mists. Meanwhile, in the Dukes luxurious field tent, Olivander, witnesses the Archduke’s wife, the Princess Sophie of Bavaria in her death throes, sick and pale seemingly from disease — but the players know better as she is attended by one of the Baroness’ handmaidens, a vampire thrall , whom the party had destroyed in an alternate past. Meanwhile, Alphonse is in a battle of wills with the Baroness herself. In her thrall, his natural gnomish evasiveness proves an apt foil as she questions him but gains no direct answers to her questions. This buys the rest of the party valuable time but leaves the Baroness increasingly frustrated. In her anger she resorts to more base methods drawing what first appears to be a sword but in reality is a gigantic set of ornate scissors that, on their own, appear to seek out Alphonses’ neck. Meanwhile Edmond and Ylmaterä have also moved into camp, stealthily moving between tents and advancing on the forces of the house of Jaeger. Meanwhile, the plague tents begin to erupt in flames – the work of Philipe attempting to set the should infected to rest. In the mists outside the camp the combined efforts of Malagars enchanted sword and Raven’s other-worldly magic prove to be more than a match for the Baron. He is destroyed in a short, vicious series of volleys. At the same time Olivander squares off against the remaining vampire thrall and defeats her — the truth of the situation rouses the Dukes fury and he calls his men to arms. With her deception at an and, the Baroness Baroness emerges prepared for war summoning the men at arms from her own house as well as the dead that have not succumbed to the purifying flames. In addition to the dead and the living, far off can be heard the howling of wolves. The Duke, Olivander and Alphonse, now free of the distracted Mina’s influence, rally the loyalist troops while Ylmaterä sets fire to the Jaeger tents, distracting the forces of the living and Edmond confronts the Baroness herself, calling the artifact to him in an attempt too wrestle control of the undead from their mistress. As she feels her control slipping from the undead, Mina turns her attention on Edmond and he falls under her spell. She bids him command her forces against his own allies and the battle begins in Ernest. The combat is hard fought and though the League has the advantage of sunlight and Raven’s spells keep the vampire from regenerating still the outcome is never certain. During the battle Edmond is at last freed from the vampires forces, free to use the artifact’s full power against her. The martialed forces of the living fight the dead to a standstill buying the party just enough time to bring the battle straight to the Baroness. In the end with dire wolves in their dozen just entering the fray the party at last manages to put the vampire on the run and with a wild gambit by Ylamterä that quite nearly costs him his life, they hold the vampire and, at last, bring her low. The undead collapse, the wolves retreat and, though the soldiers of the house of Jaeger throw down their weapons and surrender, they are slaughtered by a vengeful Duke who orders his men to fire on them where they stand. The mists depart and the battle is, at last, ended, war is averted and a begrudgingly grateful Duke offers the party safe haven in Prague and medallions bearing his seal. Game itself: 500 ea Mina Jaeger: 2,900 ea The baron Jaeger: 360 ea Vampire thrall: 360 ea Wolves: 100 ea Zombies/Skeletons: 100 ea House Jaeger’s Men at arms: 75 ea Total: 4395 ea. S1E15: Veil of evil In which the characters encounter an unexpected fog, an expected enemy and a lost teammate. Pushing their horses through the night Edmond, Ylmatera, Malagar, Olivander, Alphonse and Phillipe charge into an uncertain fate. And they ride. Long into the night, long after the place where the forces of the Archduke should have met them on the road, long after the rise of the sun. Just as their horses tire the players reach a steep rise in the road by a steep hillside that dips into a steep valley, a valley covered in an unnatural mist. Looking down into the valley the party sees the Archdukes camp surrounded by a circle of swirling mist — a mist apparently held back by a near exhausted court wizard. The camp is still, stiller than it should be and the tents of the archduke and those of his five attending houses are flanked by a long row of hastily erected tents – each flying the yellow and black flag of plague . The entire camp has the aura of death about it and only the forces of the house of Jaeger seem unaffected by the calamity. With dozens of The Baron Jaegers men roughly equaling the remaining forces, who are presumably loyal to the Archdukes the party decides on a riisky gambit – sending their two stealthiest, the Gnome Alphonse and the Monk Olivander, to talk to the Duke and reveal the true nature of the Baroness Mina Jaeger. As the two descend to sneak into the camp, the rest of the party is drawn by a large flock of abnormally large ravens to a rise in the hills beside the path. The rise is revealed to be the very top of a long buried and truly ancient pyramid. As the players approach the top opens and Raven emerges from a cloud of antediluvian dust. But the party had no time for explanations Olivander and Alphonse had made it through the mists and the light guards who were in it and were working their way to the Archduke’s tent when Mina Jaeger herself emerged and asked Alphonse to join her in her tent for a conversation. At the same time Olivander is stopped by the Captain of the Austrian royal guard and brought before the Archduke who is in deep grief over his wife who is in her bed with the plague that has struck his entourage – his wife who is attended by one of the Baroness Jaeger’s personal handmaidens. Back on the hill the rest of the party solidify their plan and descend into the mists. As they approach the duke’s camp their carefully laid plan is immediately altered when Raven recognizes in the mist the form of the man who betrayed his company and left him for dead – the Baron Jaeger himself. He moved to confront him with Malagar in support. In the distance the plague tents catch on fire, the work of Philipe who went to see to the Christian souls who were suffering there. The stage was set for mayhem, for violence for revenge and, most certainly for a final conflict with the House of Jaeger. S1E14: A second downpour Where the league gets some exercise on the train, accepts new member, makes a decision and starts a midnight ride. Convalescing from their wounds and losses, the party has a chance to examine the dispatches captured from the Sisterhood (see appendix II) learning many things. Edmond is returned to the party, escorted by a Fire Giant guard. They board the train for the Faerie Market and the Eldarin outpost. Along the way they fend off an assassination attempt by a band of Prussian spies with the help of a mysterious elf who goes by the name of Ylmaterä. Exiting the train, Malagar sells one of the assassins to a merchant. Arriving at the outpost, the adventurers inform Fingolin that Baba Yaga has ceased her assault on the Shifting Zones and tell him the reason why – thus fulfilling their part of the bargain. Fingolan leads them to a set of stairs which spirals deep into the shifting zones. The stair leads to s single room with two doors — The WHERE door, which will send them anywhere they want to go and the WHEN door which will send them anywhere along their shared timeline. The party is left to choose. After some debate it is decided to go back to before the sacking of Prague, try to thwart the assassination of the Archduke and forestall the start of the war. The party walks through the door. The rain pours down on their heads, they stand amidst the Brevard Militia, haggard, worn but with their memories, equipment and newfound abilities in tact from their adventure on the other side of the mirror. They stand in the exact same places they stood mere (days?) before, outside the Old New Synagog, in a standoff with the community that has come to defend it. Looking to his side Edmond sees Kerstas, the back of her head a cavernous hole. She puts her finger to her lips and disappears into black mist. The pounding on the door of the synagogue ceases abruptly as the Golem within reverts to simple clay – the slip of parchment with the name that gives it power now in the party’s possession. As he did once before Edmond charms his uncle, who leaves. He then disperses the militia — sending them away with Holg and Bolg, the half-orc brothers, now alive again. Back at the inn, Madam Gerber has Alphonse’s belongings packed and gives him exact directions to catch up with the party. Ylmaterä, who was also curiously in Prague at the time, meets them as well. The party uses a mixture of coin and Braddock/Brevard influence to wake a stable master, procure horses and, in the middle of the night, they speeds toward where the Archduke, Baron Jaeger and the Vampiress Mina Jaeger await. S1E13: Storm of loss Where the party confronts the sisterhood and says goodbye to a friend. A storm forms over all of Diaspora an angry living thing that lets the party know they have little time. The party tracks the sisterhood to The Diaspora Grand hotel where they are awaiting their train. The hotel itself reveals Lord Nylund’s (Centuries long?) fetishizing of the human world. It’s style is pure European opulence designed to impress Giantkind and intimidate “human” sized visitors. As such it is built on a precipice — jutting out from a sheer drop not he mountain city’s edge. As Diaspora is a major trade city it is set up to accommodate all sizes and tastes and is located directly across from the North end train station. It’s lobby and halls are opulent and the former is well serviced with Hill Giant lobby boys and bell hops Stone Giant receptionists and a Cloud Giant Concierge. Using Alphonse’s glamor ability the party alternately walks through the front door and sneaks around the side all the side with Quincy acting as both sniper and look out. Confronting what they later learned was the last remnants of a once larger delegation, the party defeats the sisterhoods minions including a Drow warrior and an Illithid. The party had prevailed but at a terrible price. As Kerstas falls Ollie discovers a room where two once-human clockwork automatons are somehow transmitting and deciphering messages from the sisterhood. After exacting his revenge on the remaining Drow Warrior Malagar recovers lady Asstrid’s contract and a second small chest, identical to the one they had just won from Lord Nylund. Pursued by the cloud Giant concierge and his staff the party flees into the presence of the Lord of Storms, a massive Storm Giant monarch with Lady Astrid and a penitent Lord Nylund by his side. He examines the contract, destroys it and deems that the party has done his kin a service, a service he repays by allowing the party to leave Diaspora unharmed on the next train. S1E12: Vitreous Humor Where the party gains an ally defeats a misshapen fool, and tracks down a band of insurrectionists. “Why is a candle maker likely to come to a bad end? Because all his works are wicked and sure to come to light” The contest begins with … a joke. It seems Chambord is more than a misshapen giant, the stare from his bulging eye is deadly and his fool’s staff had magical abilities of its own. He presses his advantage in both size and performance keeping the team off guard and even trapping Edmund into an irresistible dance before he can cast a spell. The sudden appearance of the pugilist Ollie Harris aids the party and slowly the tide turns. Attacks from every direction divided Chambord’s attention keeping him from leveling his full magical and physical might on any one party member. Soon the outcome of the battle was no longer in dispute, no longer a matter of sport. Chambord pleads with his master to intercede. Lord Nylund, once jovial, now, his pride wounded, turns from his faithful servant in disgust. Wounded, beaten and on fire, Chambord finally falls when Malagar cuts his ankle and Ollie delivers the coup de gras with a blow to the head. “Why is a dog like a tree? Because they both lose their bark once they are dead.” The contest over, Lord Nylund hands over the locket around his neck and prepares to destroy he party himself but Lady Astrid, perhaps spurred to action by the Giant floating castle that has just made landfall with Diaspora assumed her full height and power and stops him. She makes a bargain with the party – she will see them safely from the castle if they retrieve the contract that binds her, a contract she was coerced into signing by the sisterhood. 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Is Europe Worth the Effort? PARIS – When the United Kingdom joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, it was at the rearguard of European integration. The question raised by the UK’s upcoming referendum on continued European Union membership is whether Britain is now at the forefront of Europe’s disintegration. The issue has little to do with the insignificant accord that Prime Minister David Cameron recently reached with his EU colleagues. Indeed, it is hard to believe that this agreement will determine Britain’s fateful choice in June. The fundamental issue is whether EU membership still yields large enough benefits to outweigh the loss of sovereignty that it entails. This is not a matter for discussion in Britain only. For many in the EU, however, it is a very difficult question to ask, because Europe remains emotionally loaded. Only in Britain could a cabinet minister from the same party that brought the country into the EU call for exiting it. No mainstream German, French, or Spanish politician would dare discuss the matter openly, let alone advocate divorce. But the question cannot be ignored. In most EU countries, large segments of public opinion are dissatisfied with the Union and increasingly sympathetic to nationalistic appeals. In response, many politicians pay lip service to Europe while emphasizing purely national solutions. This inconsistent – and often simply cynical – stance has mired Europe in an unhappy equilibrium: It cannot move backward, it cannot move forward, and it satisfies no one. One hopes that the fierce EU membership debate, now that it has begun, will be honest enough for everyone to learn from it. In particular, the economic benefits of EU membership are a matter for serious discussion. Economists describe regional integration as a tradeoff between economies of scale and the diversity of preferences. By joining, countries gain efficiency and influence, at the cost of having to settle on policies that do not exactly match their choices. For example, businesses get access to a larger market, and consumers benefit from lower prices, but regulations are less attuned to their liking. It is like sharing an apartment: you reduce your costs, but you have to adapt to your roommates’ habits. In Europe, preferences today are arguably much less dissimilar than they were a few decades ago. Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former French President François Mitterrand were much further apart ideologically than their current successors. True, the British are still more inclined toward free markets than the French, but the gap between them has become much narrower. There is no factual basis for claiming that we have become unhappier roommates since the 1980s. Nor has the EU ventured into domains where it produces no value added. The first Cameron government launched a review of EU competences in 2012 to determine which lie with the EU and which with the UK. A comprehensive public consultation and 32 thorough reports later, the audit has not resulted in any request for significant competence repatriation. Perhaps for this reason, Brexit advocates often focus on the diminishing benefits of regional integration and claim that Britain would be much better off playing its cards alone. Why bother negotiating with continental partners, when the UK can trade with the whole world? Aren’t small, open economies like Singapore thriving? There are serious objections to this argument. For starters, free trade suffices for selling shirts, but trade in services requires detailed legislation and institutions (such as sector-specific authorities) to enforce it. Absent a comprehensive regulatory apparatus, financial or health-care services, among others, cannot be traded. So the notion that all that is needed is to eliminate tariffs and bureaucratic red tape is pure fiction. The UK, which is strong in services, needs the institutional framework of the EU single market much more than, say, Poland, which is stronger in goods. Second, the global trading framework is itself in serious trouble. The Uruguay Round, the latest global trade agreement, was completed in 1994. Its putative successor, the Doha Development Round, has not been completed and probably never will be. Global trade increasingly relies on bilateral or regional arrangements. According to the World Trade Organization, 267 such agreements are in force, including 49 involving the EU. Contrary to popular perception, globalization has not made regional arrangements irrelevant; on the contrary, it largely relies on them. Furthermore, globalization is in fact fragile – and increasingly so. American leadership buttressed it in the decades after World War II; but the United States no longer regards itself as the guardian of multilateral rules. The US effort to create two mega-regional free-trade zones – the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, neither of which includes China – is indicative of America’s priorities. And the other big players, from China to the commodity producers, are not shy about wielding their economic power. For all its weaknesses, the EU is a big economic player that participates in shaping the world around it. As a standard-setter, a negotiator, and a rule enforcer, it has considerably more influence than its opponents recognize. Because it is itself based on rules, it is the strongest champion of rules-based economic interdependence. For these reasons alone, to dispense with it would be an adventurous gamble. If rational arguments do not support leaving the EU, why has the question arisen? In part, it is because the EU has disappointed. But this is an argument for reforming it, rather than leaving it. In part, it is because transnational democracy has not delivered. But the answer is not to give up on it, but to make it work. In part, it is because the emotional glue binding Europe together has dried up. But this a reason to make change, not to pander to parochialism. 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Day 338 5/29/14: 10 Fascinating Facts about Overpopulation Tonight I was lucky to attend a talk by Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and most recently Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Here’s a few illuminating things I learned: 1. The world’s most effective form of contraception is the education of women. 2. Every four days we add one million people to the planet. 3. 40% of the non-frozen land on this planet is devoted to feeding one species: humans. 4. Debunking the myth that a decreasing population means a withering economy, Weisman cited Japan as the country that can teach the world how to “shrink and prosper.” 5. Japan is also the world’s largest producer of robots, some of which are designed to fill in gaps in the labor force and care for the country’s elderly population. Some of these robots are able to help elderly people into wheelchairs or into bed, but dealing with bathroom-related issues remains a challenge. 6. Some of these robots resemble giant teddy bears. 7. To provide and disseminate universal contraception care would cost about $8 billion dollars annually, the same amount we spent daily in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 8. In Pakistan, abortion is punishable by death. Every year, 400, 000 women in Pakistan undergo dangerous, illegal abortions. 9. If universal contraception were available, the number of worldwide abortions each year would drop from 40 million to 14 million. 10. While “There’s no condom for consumption,”* lowering the number of people who consume is within our power. *Weisman attributed this snappy saying to Paul Ehrlich, author of the controversial 1968 book “The Population Bomb.” One thought on “Day 338 5/29/14: 10 Fascinating Facts about Overpopulation 1. Pingback: Overpopulation \| Where Has America Gone? Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '8', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.884724497795105}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '70353', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PRTFUTR6DTHBJ2SXAKNB6YAJ2XYJ5NHD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3ec84a36-594c-446a-bac9-8300a1040029>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 27, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Y2DTNYVNJGAN6CMCYBSLCIA2CM5JMUM6', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bb4aef99-36df-441a-b52b-a15813260f97>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://sharkdreams.net/2014/05/30/day-338-52914-10-fascinating-facts-about-overpopulation/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4dedddc3-1a0c-4002-85f0-58ef91e95a32>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '344', 'url': 'https://sharkdreams.net/2014/05/30/day-338-52914-10-fascinating-facts-about-overpopulation/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-7-230-53.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.034911513328552246', 'original_id': '332fa00c71a0c7045c24eca64f5fc76bded7fcb186629721f67ab25453259afc'}
Start a new topic DCM any Cookie Reach: metrics show as invalid I get the below error with any of the Cookie Reach metrics: Query failed: Metric name 'dfa:impressionReach' is not valid. Is that a bug? Hi George, Thank you for contacting us. This happens as a result of an update in DCM and it may take some time to get it on our systems. But we are currently working on it and we appreciate your patience. Best regards, -Supermetrics Team Can you quantify "can take some time" please? We paid for a super pro licence specifically for a campaign that's gone live yesterday - not being able to report those metrics is less than ideal. Hi George, We apologize for any conveniences this may have caused you. Since this is a big change, it needs a thorough testing before the update. So to give you an ETA at this point, it may take around two weeks. Best regards, -Supermetrics Team Hi Nebiat, Thanks for the estimate - this is helpful. However, as I said we paid for the super pro licence for specifically for a campaign that would be finished in 4 weeks (we already had the super licence). We now have to pull the data manually until the issue is fixed. Is there a way to get a refund and cancel the licence since we won't be using it in that case? Login or Signup to post a comment	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9360345005989076}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '29560', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:443WLOZWBKMKJW5JO7AG4AV5PI4ZAVVP', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d02161e0-04cf-4d33-975a-7ef9df082504>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 30, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.2.19.184', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YD5DRN2YBDCC74LHOANCXLPXRV6LBOH2', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:68a33044-397f-48d7-86bf-1fe0eef8fee8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://support.supermetrics.com/support/discussions/topics/19000022457', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:77d83a5b-6c27-444e-a2c0-1c216802a14d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '233', 'url': 'https://support.supermetrics.com/support/discussions/topics/19000022457', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-35-148-49.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02012389898300171', 'original_id': '1cb394c071212c3faecf6679dd841df42c61e1bfc32557979f8914856f1a1ed9'}
Beetroot is an ingredient that is usually added to soups, salads, and pickles. Beets are also used as coloring agents. It is considered a seasonal type of vegetable. They are an excellent source of sucrose, and this makes the suitable for replacing sugar cane when making refined sugar. Beetroots contain a lot of nutrients like dietary fiber, vitamins, carotenoids, zeaxanthin, betaine, iron, manganese and phosphorous. Uses and benefits of beets Prevents cataractscatarctsvasghdjfkghlj;lhkgjfhdgsfgdhfjgkhljl Beet contains beta-carotene, a form of A vitamin which helps to prevent blindness associated with age. It solves cataracts and reduces macular degeneration which is common as you grow old. Besides vitamin A works as a powerful antioxidant and is essential for many body activities. For a long time beets have been considered a sexual booster. This is based on the fact that it contains boron element in significant amounts. Boron is known to boost sexual hormones production. Beets also boost your libido, improves sperm mobility, increase fertility and reduces frigidity in bed. Your sex life will get a push towards the right direction if you consider adding beets to your daily diet. Boosts energy levels Beets contain carbohydrates in significant amounts which are good in fueling energy for prolonged sports activities. They provide essential energy metabolism building blocks without any side effects like other carbohydrates-heavy foods. Beets, therefore, help the body to carry out necessary body functions. Potassium deficiency is a risk factor for strokes. Beetroot being a potassium rich food will boost your heart health and prevent strokes. Potassium is a vasodilator hence relaxes your blood vessels thus reducing your blood pressure in the body. Reducing this pressure means the arteries and vessels will not contract thus not blood clots will form. Blood clots lead to strokes and heart attacks. Prevents cancer Cancers of lung, colon and skin cancer can be prevented using beets. This is because they contain betacyanins pigments that counteract growth of cancerous cells. Juice made from beetroot inhibits cell mutations caused by some compounds like nitrates found in meat that can be a cause of various types of cancer. Reduces birth problems Beets are rich in vitamin B fobrithproblemsscdfghyjukljhgjfhdgsdfghjlate that helps in the infant’s spinal column development. Deficiency of folate can lead to neural tube defects in the infant. Beetroot is, therefore, good for pregnant women as well as the child they will bear. Beets are beneficial to your body in these and many other ways hence it should be made part of your diet. Also take note that beetroot contains oxalates which can be a cause of kidney problems if taken in excess.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9174275994300842}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '54697', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UFDRUAA762T3TRKWJGBAKXHJJHWZ5STA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e1859d42-f174-4146-8a80-6816301d0207>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 8, 23), 'WARC-IP-Address': '143.95.32.47', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:AOQYHFWJ5J422JTDKFDZLPP67LC7OCWS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2bd78667-9fb2-49f1-be6b-bc13248001fd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.du-createur.com/?p=44', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7a79ce1a-967e-4f36-a23b-0edc55ee0bc2>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '433', 'url': 'http://www.du-createur.com/?p=44', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-142-73-130.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5650984048843384', 'original_id': 'c447fc13a527da325cc4ab56bc6f7c48654c8a2bd749cdf862431297f96f395f'}
We Can Make a Difference Date Posted: 1/11/2018 By: Sherri Gragg This past autumn, Lufkin First UMC had unexpected guests in their chapel. A colony of Bats. Suddenly, the timetable for the church’s renovation turned into an unavoidable and immediate investment. It was time for that dreaded undertaking of so many pastors and lay leaders- The Stewardship Campaign. A Family Effort But the bats were not the only thing stirring in the eaves of Lufkin First UMC. A spirit of community, the belief that ministry belongs to the entire church family instead of the pastor alone, was taking hold. The members of Lufkin First UMC began to embrace the conviction that since the church is the hope of the world, it was up to them to make a difference through their service, through their leadership, and through their giving. The congregational led “We Can Make a Difference” stewardship campaign was born. Associate Pastor Rev. Laura Campbell has encouraged her congregation to embrace a spirit of communal ministry in all areas. “If there is only one person handing out hope, we won’t reach everyone,” she said. As the members of Lufkin First UMC have committed to “We Can Make a Difference,” Campbell has led them with a model of ministry and stewardship she learned from a former colleague, Rev. Charles Anderson, now at Clearlake UMC. Anderson taught Campbell that we become the best version of ourselves as our lives are impacted by those around us. He believed we actually lead each other. Anderson also taught Campbell that there were four ways to prompt stewardship: inspiration, invitation, appreciation, information. Since an individual’s receptivity to a particular method of motivation is influenced by his or her personality type, Lufkin First UMC is striving to regularly communicate the importance of stewardship to the congregation in each of these four areas. Members Lead the Way The lay leaders have undertaken a letter writing campaign to encourage each member of the church to be partners in stewardship. The pastors are reinforcing the effort through a “We Can Make a Difference” sermon series. Several members of the church have also have offered their stewardship testimony by video. Members and faithful volunteers, Tony and Rachel Dale, were among those to share their stewardship journey. Although the Dales have always given to God, this past year marked their first commitment to the discipline of tithing. A year peppered with unexpected expenses tested their resolve, but they remain steadfastly faithful to their commitment. As the parents of young children, they began to dream about taking their kids to Disney World. Squeezing the money for the expensive vacation out of an already tight budget took planning, sacrifice, and fundraising. As the Dales neared the end of the year, it seemed they had just enough to treat their children to the trip. Then, several unplanned expenses once again put the trip out of heartbreakingly out of reach. One day just before Christmas, they walked outside to find an anonymous note attached to the windshield of their car. Inside, was a check written for almost the exact amount they needed to make it to the happiest place on earth. It was a faith-building moment. “We just need to trust God, and be grateful for what we have,” Rachel said, “Throughout the whole year we saw so many blessings in even the little things. Stewardship helped us be more aware of those blessings, and more deeply grateful.”	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.976493775844574}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22214', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:L6UGOHCN3LIRHWG5ROXRU4BI5VHULG3T', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4eb000ba-5b2e-48af-a4e0-71fa6c546cb5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 47, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '70.37.80.239', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UZDQVWJWSE5N7BW5M4R7NG3XJ53URJHV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7c67a2ea-934e-4880-ba94-cafdf0f4bd0c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.txcumc.org/newsdetail/we-can-make-a-difference-10626843', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a4b043ea-75a9-45ce-ba9d-1c961719f4e6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '567', 'url': 'https://www.txcumc.org/newsdetail/we-can-make-a-difference-10626843', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-228-121.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04749155044555664', 'original_id': '589c3b21a889c1b813dcbc433b2dc5573f499a6f372c9cc0b71e32dfedcfc957'}
Coming Soon: Total Pageviews Thursday, April 30, 2015 One of the great texts of the early days of the discipline of Sociology is the essay, The Metropolis and Modern Life, by the great nineteenth century German sociologist, Georg Simmel. I was reminded of it during the trip Susie and I took on Monday to Washington D.C. to see my sister and my son, Tobias, who was in town for the Tuesday Supreme Court hearing on same-sex marriage cases. An odd conjuncture, you might think. The connection is this: Tobias was eager to introduce us to one of his favorite restaurants, Rose's Luxury, which is on 8th street SE in the Capitol District of DC. The restaurant is very popular, and does not take reservations, so it was agreed that Tobias would drive down from Philadelphia as soon as his teaching duties for the day were done at UPenn Law School, arriving in time to get on line outside the restaurant at about 4:30 p.m. Barbara, Susie, and I would show up at about that time and have a drink in a nearby bistro while Tobias [and a lawyer friend] stood in line. A minute or two before 5:30, when the restaurant opens, we would join him and go in together. All this went swimmingly, and we had a delicious dinner. While driving to the restaurant from Barbara's apartment, which is in the NW area of the city, we passed the Supreme Court building. There was a long line of people camped out, prepared to spend the night in order to get into the hearing at ten the next morning. The room in which the High Court meets is small -- maybe six hundred seats -- and there are no reserved seats, not even for someone like my son who has been admitted to the Supreme Court Bar and had written the lead amicus brief in the second case to be heard that day, on the question of whether the "full faith and credit" clause requires states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. For a case of this historic importance, there would be many, many more people eager to listen to the oral arguments than the room could possibly hold. How could Tobias possibly hope to get in, when people were already in line eighteen hours before the doors were due to open? A trifle embarrassed, he admitted that he had paid a professional line-standing company to supply a line-stander, who had in fact been on line since Sunday! Apparently, professional line-standing is a recognized métier, with enough demand to make it profitable for a company to hire line-standers and make them available when needed. It was at this point that Georg Simmel came to mind. In his classic essay, Simmel gives, as an example of the extreme division of labor in modern [i.e., nineteenth century] Paris, les quatorzièmes. It seems that ladies hosting formal dinner parties were superstitiously averse to having thirteen at table. Enough dinner parties were arranged each evening, and the unlucky number came up sufficiently often, to make it worthwhile for a number of socially presentable men to dress in full formal evening clothes at the dinner hour and hire themselves out as "fourteenth at table" to hostesses in need. classtruggle said... If I remember correctly, Simmel espoused certain aspects of reformist socialism in the 1890s but his relationship to Marxism was weak or non existent. For example, he rejected historical materialism and critiqued the labour theory of value in the Philosophy of Money. As an aside, there was probably nothing unique or original about Simmel's critiques or his interest in the conditions permitting the rise of capitalism --it stemmed directly from Marx and was shared by many scholars in Germany at the time. Marxists as well as the economists of the Historical School discussed it at great length. It was part of the revolt against the increasing dominance of the economic factor in social theory which was common during Simmel's day, particularly among German thinkers in the Historical School of Economics such as Schmoller, Sombart, Toennies, and others. But if he rejected or was not very interested in Marx/Marxism then how was it possible for someone like Lukacs to comment that he saw Marx 'through the spectacles tinged by Simmel' or for him to maintain that his 'knowledge of Marx was influenced by Simmel.' Walter Benjamin also commented that he was taken back by Simmel's critique of Marx's theory of value. The Austro-Marxist Max Adler also praised Simmel in his 1919 work 'Simmel's Significance for Intellectual History' which contains an evaluation of Simmel's work as a whole. So what attracted these men (as well as our dear Marxist blogger) to Simmel's work? Well, you all seem to share an interest in the subtlety and sensitivity of Simmel's writings on culture and his attempt to relate culture to society. However, if we want to learn more about the rationality of people's behaviour, it is Marx's important contribution to the formation of historical sociology (by calling attention to the relationship between social conditions and the nonmaterial manifestations of human activity in the form of ideas and values) that teaches us that it always a sort of rationality within the framework set by commodity production. What was significant about Marx's thought was that he linked two distinct and previously unrelated concepts, the theory that all history was the history of class struggles with the theory that material conditions gave rise to certain institutional and ideological forms. classtruggle said... Throughout history, we are told, classes have maintained themselves in different ways. In ancient Greece, slaves existed opposite to slave owners, in the Middle Ages serfs existed opposite to landlords, and under capitalism, wage-labourers exist opposite to the capitalist/corporate class. What was important for Marx, however, was how class domination and exploitation work in different societies. Under capitalism, Marx observed, wage labourers are formally free and so a personal relationship of direct force does not exist, at least not to the same extent to which pre capitalist societies were governed. For many theorists of society, however, including Simmel, Weber and Durkheim bourgeois society appears to be the opposite of feudal society of the Middle Ages with its caste privileges and personal relations of domination. But Marx realised how the status quo is preserved through ideology in capitalist society, that is, how domination and exploitation are realised precisely by means of this formal freedom and alleged equality between owners of commodities: “The Roman slave was held by chains; the wage-labourer is bound to his owner by invisible threads. 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Special Advertiser Content Just how dangerous is texting and driving? While we may be able to convince ourselves we are in control when we text and drive, the reality is that driving distracted is extremely dangerous and can be a deadly choice for us and the people around us. We've all been there: The urgent text comes in while you're driving home from work, school or the gym. For a split second, you think, "I shouldn't respond while driving," but the urge is too strong, or maybe you feel confident you can handle driving distracted. You pick up the phone with one hand, frantically looking up and down to read the text and respond, all while cruising at high speeds or navigating stop-and-go traffic. You finish and click send, dropping the phone and feeling both relieved and perhaps a little overconfident. You may even feel like you're in control. A deadly choice While we may be able to convince ourselves we are in control when we text and drive, the reality is that driving distracted is extremely dangerous and can be a deadly choice both for us and the people around us. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 3,477 people died from distracted driving in the U.S. in 2015, and an additional 391,000 were injured. These sobering statistics equate to about nine deaths and 1,000 injuries per day from distracted driving, which includes talking, texting, eating or drinking, and fiddling with the stereo or navigation. Why is texting so dangerous? So what is it about texting and driving that is so dangerous? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are three main types of distraction while driving. These include visual distractions, which take our eyes off the road; manual distractions, which take our hands off the steering wheel; and cognitive distractions, which take our mind off driving. Texting while driving is particularly dangerous because it combines all three types of distractions. Perhaps you take your hands off the wheel to scroll in search of the perfect emoji, or are simply thinking carefully about the right way to respond in a tricky conversation. Either way, it's very easy to become distracted. Convincing yourself it's okay to respond because it "only takes five seconds" is not a valid excuse. For example, taking your eyes off the road to read or respond to a text for only five seconds, while driving at highways speeds (~55 mph), is like driving the length of a football field with your eyes closed. A lot can happen in five seconds, and your eyes, hands and mind should all be 100 percent engaged in driving to reach your destination safely. Talking about texting and driving with your teen If your 15-year-old has a hard time doing anything without his or her smartphone in hand, chances are they will struggle to put the phone away when they get a driver's license. According to the NHTSA, teens were the largest age group reported as distracted at the time of fatal crashes. So, what can you do if you're a concerned parent of a teenager? Before your teenager receives his or her driver's license, have a serious conversation about distracted driving and each driver's responsibility to drive safely. Help them understand that choosing to take eyes off the road, even for a few seconds, can be a matter of life and death for them, a friend or a stranger. The Federal Communications Commission recommends giving simple and clear instructions to new drivers to not use their phones or wireless devices while driving. Sign the pledge Take this opportunity to have all the drivers in your household sign the "Stop Distracted Driving - Stay Focused on the Road" pledge (listed on this page). Finally, remember the power of leading by a good example. Encourage your teen to be a messenger to their peers by never texting and driving and by encouraging their friends to avoid the deadly choice of driving distracted. Be sure to also remember that you as a parent can lead by example, too. 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These 7 Illustrations Defy Everything That Isaac Newton Outlined As Gravity Vidal's mind-bending paintings, quite simply, aren't bound by gravity. In fact, they completely defy the laws of physics. And hurt our heads to look at. But the message Vidal is trying to convey with her "un-gravity constructions" is worth contemplating even more. The artist explains that each piece delves into how each person’s internal perspective is unique, and that often times, it doesn’t match up with the reality around them or the perspectives of others. We all live in the same world, but we each have a very different view of it. Vidal, in an interview with Hi-Fructose, says, "With these un-gravity constructions, I want to show that we live in one world, but we live in it in very different ways…" Indeed, while we inhabit the same world, we live in it in our own unique way, with our own equally unique realities. And while Vidal knows that can be incredibly difficult, it's certainly worth being reminded of when we forget there's more to the world than just ours. Which means that in order to understand different people better, you have to first understand different perspectives.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '66', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9484158158302308}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '55851', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TAVBIE3GNLDZRXLRSDGAYVM56S4GEMVH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:cc5a9c8b-5228-4c32-a25f-ee386ddd51cd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 12, 46, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.35.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TBPYWGPSZDPTUP4P7JYX3YADUKJHGGLL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2cc74b22-a491-401d-a21e-33a54c401559>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://viralpie.net/these-7-illustrations-defy-everything-that-isaac-newton-outlined-as-gravity/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:220c038f-4bea-4d92-96e8-849fd41a3194>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '256', 'url': 'http://viralpie.net/these-7-illustrations-defy-everything-that-isaac-newton-outlined-as-gravity/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-130-109.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.17812395095825195', 'original_id': 'ceb9e1b7f6beef628915e71d867f6a0850649ca05111f4ebdc895ba3213ddc0b'}
WATCH: Brussels blasted in savage attack by Austrian minister over botched border policy THE AUSTRIAN Foreign Minister lambasted Brussels' migrant rescue operation saying it does not help solve the migrant crisis and only increases the pressure on single states. Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz called out the European Union for continuing to pursue a rescue operation in the Mediterranean sea. "Rescue in the Mediterranean Sea cannot mean a ticket to the heart of Europe because as long as rescue at sea leads to people being able to come to Austria, Germany or Sweden more and more will set out." "Worst of all more and more will drown making the dangerous journey." Migrant Crisis - Sebastian Kunz blast EU rescue operation, calls for stop to immigrationEPP/Getty Sebastian Kunz said the EU rescue operation only meant more people "will set out" towards Europe Kurz was recently involved in a harsh exchange with Italian representatives after he suggested the border between the Southern European country and Austria should be closed to stop the migrant flow. 'We demand the transfer of illegal immigrants between islands like Lampedusa and the mainland be stopped." His Italian counterpart, Minister Angelino Alfano, quickly responded by hinting that Kurz's suggestion was merely "inspired by the current Austrian electoral campaign." Speaking to the European People's Party Youtube channel, Kurz remarked that he believes in an EU "without internal borders" but that the only way to sustain free movement was by ensuring the external ones are "functioning." "I believe in a Europe without internal borders. But this only works when we manage to have functioning external borders." Since January 2017 Italy has seen the arrival of 93.417, 7.621 of which have been relocated to other EU member states according to the emergency relocation system created by the European Union to address the increasing crisis. The current President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, said to Italian show Unomattina that the migrant crisis was a challenge that "needs to be faced together with great determination." Comments Unavailable	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '23', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9542073607444764}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '176202', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:F74I3PRJZIIJPALDS6ZZXOKHWTWJ32HO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b96a7235-265e-4be3-84b0-ac40c93dbc55>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 26, 43), 'WARC-IP-Address': '52.85.131.213', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6BJUBUINOHLAMP3JDS3W4SATJ7SNLZ6Y', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e3af5ce3-e396-48d1-a0ca-48274cb5e34d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/835631/Austria-EU-Sebastian-Kurz-migrant-crisis-policy-immigration-European-Union-coasts-Italy', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9731eba0-ede2-4bc9-a1b6-bcd21c4e4bba>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '355', 'url': 'https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/835631/Austria-EU-Sebastian-Kurz-migrant-crisis-policy-immigration-European-Union-coasts-Italy', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-148-11-10.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.022436201572418213', 'original_id': 'd1363e4d9c82c56583cd3839f7e500b10a2c939e5a63346965116af5005de8f7'}
Thursday, June 23, 2011 Classic Quote, Bergson -- Henri Bergson 1. I just read Tribal Leadership. I know go figure. One of the premises of the book that all perception is based on screens or filters. If a green light is being lit but you have a red filter all you see if red light. 2. Jake, I had about five examples of this happen to me of late - and realized it because of this quote and your comment theron	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9486485123634338}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '130633', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7HWYLOBA7J4RESUWDUSBJOB6627VF2U4', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f107a24b-b9c1-4745-a034-a71009804fd7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 16, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '216.58.218.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WPBLKNTMUSQ3K7P2CKHQLWIKYQ7GD5KD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b20be70a-4459-4f02-abed-0967aea8915a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://apolloswabbie.blogspot.com/2011/06/classic-quote-bergson.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:00c7abd9-45cc-4f32-acd7-a291186054a9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '93', 'url': 'http://apolloswabbie.blogspot.com/2011/06/classic-quote-bergson.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-39-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1130443811416626', 'original_id': '638f9c2ce0ab1e192c6131c45aedb1f4a9cd0060979cdea8e0dcac0c9aaa7961'}
Friday, February 15, 2008 One year ago today..... I was still in a sling 24 hrs/day. My shoulder was 100% immobile. I was unable to write, to put on my own clothes, to wash my face effetively, and I couldn't begin to put my hair up in a pony tail. My poor husband had to do it!! When we weren't irritated by it, it was pretty funny really. And picture a 5 year old Boy trying to snap his mother's bra after everyone else was off at work and school. Yes, it's true. My little son used to dress me. I would lay on the floor or couch, suck in my stomach and he would button my pants. I could not open the peanut butter jar unless I used my knees, I couldn't fold laundry (darn!) and sadly, I couldn't pick up my little 2 year old. It was winter. Imagine getting 3 kids dressed to play in the snow with 1 arm! Not pretty. Oh, and I couldn't drive. That was a royal pain. What I am remembering today isn't just the fact that daily life was so hard but the fact that I could not swim! I couldn't run! For 6 weeks I couldn't run. That wasn't too too bad. I did sit on the bike but it was a joke. I couldn't hold the bars and I didn't want the sling to get sweaty. This wasn't just an lightweight sleeve sling. It was a heavy thing that had a big firm pillow attached under to keep my arm out away from my body. So, biking was not much of an option either. I was pretty much a slug for 6 weeks. While I started running on March 1st, the day I was freed from my black sling, I wouldn't be allowed to even think about swimming until May. MAY??? Real hard core physical therapy started March 1st or a bit later really. You see, even though I was now allowed to move my shoulder a little, I couldn't. It was as if it belonged to someone else. I felt like the signals from my brain to my shoulder were short circuiting. For ex, I could barely lift my hand to my mouth with a fork. If I stood and tried to lift my arm up, it went to the level of my stomach. I had a long road ahead. There was lots of pain and discouraging times. I wondered if I would Ever Really be able to fly down the pool again. I was a bit scared. I am smiling as I remember these times because I am cured. I had an amazing physical therapist and my surgeon did his job well. I worked hard and lifted my small 1lb weights and stretch bands Every Single Day of the summer. EVERY Day. I'm not kidding. I am smiling because I swam 3000 yards yesterday, 2000 today, and plan on 4000 tomorrow. With no pain. And most notably, I am joining my brother's Master's team next Wednesday for a crazy 7000 yard workout. I had to stop and recall the agony of last winter and spring as I found myself getting more and more nervous about next week's big swim. It will be far. It will be hard. And it will be fast. One of the women on the team was in the Olympic trials! There are a bunch of fast guys there and their intervals are tough. I have my work cut out for me. But, this is a workout to improve my fitness and to have fun by swimming With some other people. I get a little tired of trying to push myself though fast 200s while some ladies are bobbing up and down in the next lane on green and orange noodles. I just have to stop and remember, one year ago today, I was sitting around the house feeling frustrated by all that I could not do. I am feeling lucky today. 1 comment: IronMatron said... The reason you are a 100% better today is because of sheer determination. It's inspiring. I can't believe you had N. snap your bra! Hysterical! FYI, I just tagged you. 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For Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, ‘Oh, Hello’ Is Just the Beginning Broadway on the small screen is generally limited to a Billy Crystal one-man show on HBO or those videos your high school English teacher would put on when they just couldn’t deal anymore. And it makes sense — the theatrical experience is hard to capture, and long-running shows are wary of cutting into ticket profits. But for a limited-run show, particularly one starring comedians with a fanbase that extends far beyond the typical New York theater crowd, a wide release makes perfect sense. In May, Chris Gethard brought his off-Broadway show Career Suicide to HBO, and today one of the biggest draws of the past Broadway season, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney’s Oh, Hello, comes to Netflix. Yesterday, I joined a roundtable discussion with the stars to talk about the evolution of the show, what’s next for Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, and, of course, tuna. Journalist 1: We were talking about how we’ve each seen the show in various forms, either seeing it off-Broadway, I saw it when it was traveling in Boston, and then seeing what it’s turned into and the version on Netflix. What decisions went into how it was going to change at each stage that you’ve done it? John Mulaney: There were more observations and trial and error. One of the biggest things was going from only off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, which was what? 200 seats? Nick Kroll: Yeah. Mulaney: Or less. Our first tour stop was in San Diego at the Balboa Theater, which is 1,000 seats and it’s San Diego. That was like, “Oh shit.” It had been this intimate New York, we thought, sometimes New York-specific show, and then it was in San Diego and it was more kind of like a rock concert feel. Except it was Steely Dan. And so that was the biggest thing where we were like, “We can scale this up and up and up.” So when you saw it in Boston at the Wilbur, that’s like a 1,000 seater. And we were like, “This is working on this level and certain things about New York are universal.” People just know what New York is from Seinfeld and Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. In one interview today I said Nancy Meyers and Nick jumped down my throat. Kroll: You know, if you know the great New York films like Woody Allen, Nancy Meyers. Mulaney: When I said that, I think all her movies are filmed in Santa Barbara, but there’s like a Nancy Meyers quality to films like The Out-of-Towners. Kroll: I don’t want to do this in front of all of these… Mulaney: Let’s do it on NY1. Kroll: Let’s do it on NY1 tomorrow. Mulaney: My biggest thing was, this is scalable upwards, and that to me was the biggest thing. The question of, “Can you go to Broadway?” first is, “Can you validate that many people watching you?” Kroll: The play that it started as and then evolved into was constantly changing. As much as we were trying to get the funniest jokes we could, it was also, “What’s the story that makes the most sense?” or “What is the most cogent version of this?” That evolved. It was like Groundhog Day, where every day you’re getting a shot at trying to sleep with Andie McDowell. By the time we shot the special, that was at the end of 138 shows, like the 135th we’d done on Broadway. Mulaney: Plus, maybe another 100 from off-Broadway touring. Kroll: We just kept trying to make the story work, and there’s stuff we improvised on stage on Broadway over the run. I don’t want to ruin this. It’s not a spoiler, but Gil does develop an emotional and physical relationship with a raccoon named Lisa. Mulaney: That was fully improvised on Broadway, from like September to January. It kept getting longer and filthier. Kroll: Now it’s considered one of the greatest love stories ever told on stage. Mulaney: Absolutely. It’s like the revelation of adultery in Death of a Salesman. Kroll: What? Mulaney: Yeah, Willy Loman. Journalist 2: In the New York Times review of the actual live show, they had a warning that said, “Just so you know, there are lots of bad puns on tuna.” I was wondering, in your minds, how you balanced doing the old jokes that people already knew from the sketch with obviously adapting it to people who might not know anything about there being all these tuna jokes. Was there too much tuna for the audience? Mulaney: Never. I think there were two things happening at once. One, Nick and I were saying the same material sometimes every night and there were one or two jokes that dated back to like 2005, so in one sense, we were performing material that we had done before, but like Nick was saying, you kind of get to perfect it and there’s a real joy in that repetition that I didn’t expect. But also, Gil and George, if they wrote or said something funny, they would repeat it for the rest of their lives. Each time making it worse or setting it up with like, “We like to joke…” Kroll: That “There’s too much tuna in your tuna-tini, but my mar-tuna needs more tuna…” Mulaney: That’s 2005. That’s a 10-year-old joke when we premiered off-Broadway. But it’s like, well they would. My dad always tells stories of something funny he said and then he goes, “And everyone was laughing hysterically.” Kroll: But also tuna weirdly outside of the puns or wordplay stuff. There’s just something about tuna that has this weird universal quality. Mulaney: It’s like the second chicken, but it’s, like, gross. It’s so weird, its popularity. Same with Oh, Hello. That like, I’ll take some gross ass fish from a can and mix it up with mayonnaise and put it on white bread and everyone would be like, “I’d like that.” Kroll: I’d like that smell as I carry it around and then on my breath for the rest of the day. Mulaney: It’s not something that should have worked, but it did, this tuna sandwich. Journalist 3: Over the course of doing this, did you you guys grow sick of tuna? Mulaney: Only one time. I grew sick of it when I had food poisoning. Matthew Broderick was the guest and the sandwich came down and it had been under the lights for 45 minutes and it hit the table and I was like, “This is not a funny prank.” Kroll: He was literally on the verge of puking. Mulaney: And then Nick discovered during the run… Kroll: Yeah, I am genuinely allergic to tuna. I had too much tuna and now I have an allergy to it. Splitsider: I’m interested in how you approached filming it for Netflix. How did you decide that this was the right venue for the show as opposed to turning it into a movie or something? Mulaney: They had the most money. Kroll: And I think the reason we chose Netflix was it’s where we thought the most people would end up watching it. We shot two shows and we shot a bunch during the day as well. A lot of time when you watch plays on TV they feel really flat. Mulaney: Most are filmed by Lincoln Center Studios and they’re really flat so you get the whole stage. Kroll: Right, which makes sense, but it’s just different when you’re watching something. So we did our best to film it in a way that feels both like the play but also a little more cinematic. The stuff growing up that you watched, the teleplays that were shot on stages, that you’d have moments of that, to make it feel more dynamic. The weird thing is, it’s not a standup special. Most people are used to seeing on Netflix a standup special and we’ve done something that’s not a standup special and yet not a classic play either. It’s this hybrid of stuff. Mulaney: It’s like the Hamilton documentary. I’m kidding but I’m also not kidding. Kroll: What we’re trying to say is we are as good or more than Hamilton. Mulaney: We’re more current. We opened more recently. Journalist 4: One of the things that stood out to me, knowing the characters from the Kroll Show skits and everything before, in those earlier skits you see them as such good friends and you think they hate everyone else but they’re always with each other. Mulaney: I had a big problem with that. I didn’t like it at first. There was Largo when we decided they would fight. It was a Largo show in LA and I was like, “Nah, nah, it’s them against the world. We shouldn’t do this.” And I remember the first time we ran it I was like, “I don’t like yelling at Gil.” By the end of Broadway, I loved yelling at Gil. And I would stomp my feet and I loved screaming and being mad so much. At first I was like, “It should be them against the world. They prank other people. They don’t get pranked.” Kroll: Every night when George starts reprimanding Gil for the show breaking the fourth wall, every night right by the staircase, when you’re like, “You think if you OD’ed anyone would give a shit?” Stuff like that. Mulaney: You are God’s bottom. Kroll: Every night it was a different thing. Mulaney: “You don’t want to blow this like CBS,” I’d say. And then it would get a big groan and George doesn’t realize the audience can hear him and then says, “Do you think if you OD’ed anyone would give a shit?’ That white hot meanness was so fun. There was a point where you and I really dialed into the arc, the emotional arc of Oh, Hello—and it has one—of being like, at a certain point, it’s so fun to do but when you’re doing it 138 times, you’re like, “Tonight I’m just going to be like, ‘I’m George and I’m mean.’” Kroll: Or when we had Edie Falco or someone in the crowd who is a really super talented actor, you want that person to be like, “I know they’re joking around, but that guy’s a pretty good actor.” Mulaney: I remember Wolf Blitzer was in the third row one night and I walked out and was like “Oh my God, Wolf Blitzer’s here.” And then I was like, “I don’t care about Wolf Blitzer.” Kroll: And then I went out into the crowd — I would say my goodnights at the end of the show — and went out knowing Wolf Blitzer was there, and I was like, “My last little bit will be to Wolf.” And I turned in the aisle and he was not in his seat anymore. I thought he had walked out or something, and he was in the bathroom. Journalist 1: So when the decision came to have that conflict with one another, how did you decide who was going to be the instigator of it? And I say that because one of my friends was like, “Can you ask Nick Kroll why he always plays a douche bag?” I was interested in the idea of then how did it then be that John, who doesn’t typically have that reputation, is the one to take on that role? Mulaney: Because George was always a little meaner to people during the prankings, and a little blissfully unaware of how cruel he was and how misogynistic he was. But he does have a daughter, so he’s a good guy. He’s a good dad like Louie. So that might have been it. I always was a little meaner to guests. But what became evident was because I never yell at anyone in real life I have so much saved up. So it was always there. Kroll: I think it’s a chance for both of us to exercise different things. Someone at some point described the show to us as “George is an asshole and Gil is a baby.” Underneath all of it. There’s a thing where John doesn’t get to be an asshole, so playing George was really fun and I’m sure a release. Mulaney: Such a release. And then when the show was over, I would go to the gym for hours and get in physical therapy because I got this thing out of my system every night. Kroll: For me, you know, I like to have fun, but Gil is a true child who likes to be led around. Mulaney: Nick is very sharp and Gil gets rat fucked every night. Kroll: And that’s fun. So I would argue Gil is not a douche. I wouldn’t say he’s a douche like the other guys. Mulaney: I think what he’s saying is that we switched, where I got to be the asshole. Journalist 2: Both of your careers have risen so much over the course of the “too much tuna” joke and I was wondering if there was a point where you got to stop making your own huge tuna sandwiches or if you got good at it. Kroll: We get pranked with tuna pretty often when we go to delis, and we do like going to delis. Mulaney: We were at Canter’s Deli together and the waiter put down a tuna sandwich and we said “No, we didn’t order this,” and he went, “Read the note.” And it said “You’ve been pranked.” We have some devoted fans, which is very nice. And so to look over and be like, “Well that must have been fun that we’re, like, at a tuna diner sitting there having a serious conversation like two marks.” Kroll: We’ve been to Russ & Daughters a bunch of times. We are putting ourselves in harm’s way. Mulaney: We go to places that have so much tuna fish and we sit there talking and we’re like, “What is this? What are you doing to us?” Journalist 2: But in terms of the prop, did you ever have to make it yourself? That giant mountain? Mulaney: We’ve definitely made it ourselves, because when we were on tour sometimes we had to. Kroll: It was interesting in different cities as other people would make it, you’re like, “This is not…” Mulaney: That was a harder thing to convey to people than I thought. It needs to be so big that it would be a lot. Kroll: And it made a props person crazy because you want that bread, like, teetering on the top. Mulaney: And you want a small piece, like a yarmulke piece on top, like the heel. And they’d be like, “Don’t you want bread wide enough for the sandwich?” No, you don’t. Kroll: In the tuna, there was panko, as a way to keep the shape, and John did not know what panko was. People would be ready to bite and he’d be like, “Don’t don’t don’t don’t.” Mulaney: I thought it was an industrial filler. Powdered sawdust or concrete. I did not know it was breadcrumbs. Kroll: He thought when our guests were eating the tuna for a while…. Mulaney: Here’s what I actually pictured, that it was in the center, so they could eat around the edge, but I was always like, “Don’t get too close to the panko!” Kroll: And we had huge toothpicks to help keep the shape, and Mo Rocca… Mulaney: They were like, “Only thing, guys, is these toothpicks are in here so don’t ever push down on it or have someone push down on it.” And we were like, “Got it.” And he was one of our early guests and he was out there and he was like, “Can I push on this?” And I went, “Push away, baby!” And I was like, “Oh fuck. The one thing they warned us about.” He was like “Ow! Shit!” And I was like, “We’re going to be sued. All of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! is going to use us.” Kroll: We did get to tell Mo Rocca a joke that we wrote for our first screenplay many years ago. Mulaney: It was a college movie and the coffee stand on campus was called Mo Rocca’s Rocking Mochas. Journalist 3: Does the special feel like a culmination or the end point for these characters? Or is this just one more stop? Mulaney: We were just debating that. Kroll: I think for them it’s just the beginning. Mulaney: They would say this is only the beginning. Kroll: Truly for them it is. They’ve never achieved this level of success before. Mulaney: They’ve been ketchup packets their whole lives and now they finally have something. Kroll: Now they’re a whole bottle. Mulaney: Now they’re bottle ketchup. And Hunt’s. But we want to do something else with them, and we’re going to. We were just thinking out loud, “Well, that’s about as big as it gets for these two.” We’re going to keep doing it even if it suffers. Kroll: They’re going to go do The Amazing Race. Mulaney: George and Gil are going to do it with Dr. Ben Carson and Gene Simmons. It’s a foursome. Journalist 3: I could definitely see them giving tours of Manhattan, like their own bus tours. Mulaney: That’s not a bad idea. Kroll: They’re not allowed on busses. Mulaney: Not top decks, no. 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The local high school alumni softball tournament was more than an occasion for watching my own family play. I enjoyed some pleasing reunions with young men and women whom I taught across the years. So this is a good time to revisit that occasional topic this blog treats, the “humble rewards of the profession.” None of the weekend reunions was happier than finding Colette and Tonya, members of the first English class I ever taught at Eunice Junior High in 1986-87, sitting with one another watching Colette’s Dad play against my wife’s team. The girls were enjoying their own reunion, since their lives and careers have led them on divergent paths since Eunice days, both leading to success with adorable kids and professional careers. Why are Colette and Tonya so striking in the annals of my career? I believe it’s because they’re not just “former students.” I explained it to them like this Saturday afternoon: After teaching 21+ years, if I had to make a list of all time Top Ten students of David Pulling from all of those classes, Tonya and Colette would be tied for first. Sure, I would spend a long time searching my memory and debating back and forth to complete the list with the next eight in the Top Ten list, because the competition would be fierce. I’ve taught some incredibly sharp students over the years who have risen to notable heights of academic and professional success. But without hesitation or deliberation, those two names from year one of teaching, Colette and Tonya, would go right at the top, side by side. How exceptional can it be that my top two students of all time came from fourth hour English in the first year of my career? That was a year-long indoctrination to the craft wherein an idealistic but naive novitiate surely learned a lot more from his charges than he imparted to them. And from that amazing year when I learned so much because I knew so little (about teaching), I’m at least a little astonished that, after teaching rising grade levels over the next twenty years all the way up to college freshmen and sophomores, no former student’s intellect surpasses the intellect of those two little eighth grade girls. Yep, that’s pretty amazing. Predictably, the ladies have done well since Eunice Junior High. Tonya has grown up to be a college math teacher and Colette a physical therapist. Best of all, though, as adults, they’re the same bright, striking, engaging characters I remember from Eunice Junior High. They weren’t just smart, you see–They were great kids! And they still are!	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9611600637435912}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '65799', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:K4HHQM25JWJWPOSMA2KWHIHGMMP7UYEB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4a20127f-c3d1-4e6f-aada-59526cc44548>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 28, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KUFA7XJ6UFNIDTYG5OY2YSX6UXMNP5TL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c6d1387e-379e-478a-b313-0ce585814fb6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://dpulling.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/more-of-the-humble-rewards-colette-and-tonya/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:249aa85a-162f-44da-869b-654e3d71aaf3>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '435', 'url': 'https://dpulling.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/more-of-the-humble-rewards-colette-and-tonya/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-34-165.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.031083524227142334', 'original_id': 'a6e897aa8f1eb21694e138e46df2e5383d5248fe5dd133a91f19c44ad19e2024'}
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The Episode: Community- Remedial Chaos Theory Community is a show that couldn’t exist without over 50 years of pop culture references to make and movies/television shows to nod to. Part of what made the show special was the cast’s chemistry. All the performers fit into their specific roles so well that as more left, the show seemed to lose a part of its soul. Even though seasons five and six had their satisfying moments, they in some ways could never match what Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Allison Brie, Donald Glover, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, and Chevy Chase were able to create in the first three seasons. “Remedial Chaos Theory” is perhaps the show’s comedic height. It is not only a bottle episode but also a “What If.” Bottle episodes are about putting all the characters in a room and letting hijinks ensue. In this case, the study group meets up at Danny and Abed’s brand new apartment for a night of pizza and boozing. In this case the “What If” is a series of vignettes showing what would happen if each character ended up going downstairs and getting the delivered pizza. Abed warns Jeff about starting six different timelines, but naturally Jeff doesn’t listen. Things start normal enough when Annie goes to the delivery person, but things slowly descend into madness as tensions rise. Certain gags such as Pierce mentioning having sex with Eartha Kitt come up every time. Various sexual tensions are brought up in one timeline and then more directly addressed in the next. Dan Harmon shows reward audience members who pay attention and don’t dick around on their phone. Britta’s timeline is where things turn around as Pierce teases Troy with a housewarming gift and Britta decides to marry the pizza guy. Perhaps the most famous moment takes place during Troy’s timeline as things go completely insane. Annie breaks a table. Pierce is shot. Britta starts a fire. Then Troy walks in and sees the awful looking troll that was Pierce’s housewarming gift. Jeff and Annie kiss during Abed’s timeline while Pierce tries to hide the troll from Troy; basically, when Abed leaves, all of the other character relationships break down quickly. Jeff’s timeline is where everyone else in the study group decides to have fun and break out of their shackles. He’s also the seventh person even though he’s rolling a six sided dice. While a show like Cheers gets credit for its understated quality, Community gets credit for creating six different characters and not being afraid to getting meta. The theme of the show and specifically this episode was Jeff being the one to both hold the group together and perhaps be the one who held them back. The end of the episode used the term “darkest timeline,” something that came up again and again on the show and other aspects of pop culture. This 20 minutes will tell a viewer everything they need to know about the characters while also providing some genuine laughs at a breakneck piece. It’s amazing that NBC allowed a show like this to run at all let alone for five seasons before Yahoo allowed it one final season. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Google+ photo Connecting to %s	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9393624663352966}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '52903', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2TXDHBYSKZTQEXUZQQKJDMIBCHTHPEAY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:edda4881-5327-41ad-850a-c941d27c3fc8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 56, 58), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.12', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:AMSD4ZK5J2NTK6GMB7E6S3ANXWMV7X3G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7d59f28f-6997-4f0b-9773-16ec66ec3d7e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://jeromereviewsstuff.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/the-episode-community-remedial-chaos-theory/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f3651267-a023-4984-b328-f7b3192e5a05>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '581', 'url': 'https://jeromereviewsstuff.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/the-episode-community-remedial-chaos-theory/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-179-198-159.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.29999053478240967', 'original_id': '5512fda1eac8c0d0a45bde5549d8138a9fc6ecc962ac851b08cb997e42e557d9'}
Tuesday, August 1, 2000 ========August 3, 2000======== Weekly Portal Owner's Diary  Don't Sell Anything  Affiliate Contest Update  Anyone Interested in Working With Me to Make a Buck?  Bob's Sales Tip of the Week Help Wanted Well, last week I asked for testimonials and I didn't set the world on fire but I did get a couple that I feel I should share with everyone. Before I do, I would like to point something out. I CAN HELP YOU MAKE MONEY! I know that if you've been on the web for more than a week, you've already seen hundreds of ads from people claiming to be able to do what I just claimed. The difference is I'm telling you the truth and I can prove it. My background has been in sales and marketing for the vast majority of my life. I've been able to provide myself and my family with a good living since the age of 16, (yes, I got married a little young even for Oklahoma and no, not to my cousin.), based on my sales and marketing skills. I've owned a lot of small businesses and almost all were started with absolutely no money. I have a lot of experience in manufacturing, retail furniture, the restaurant business, quick printing, rent-to-own and now internet marketing. I understand human nature, I understand sales and I'm not a bad teacher. If you'll let me, I can help you make money. I'm a member of a very popular forum for people trying to learn about search engines and how to use them to their advantage. I'm talking about Virtual Promote and the Search Engine Forums. They have some 45,000 registered members all who come there to either teach or learn or both. This past week I got involved in a discussion about Alta Vista's so-called new policy of determining relevancy based on the "theme" of a site. This has been a fairly controversial issue that, as usual, has been made much more difficult and confusing than it really is simply because some people just don't get it, some people enjoy talking to hear the sound of their own voice and some people just have a natural tendency to pick something to death. After some 50 posts in this particular thread, I decided to try to help and of course stirred up as many questions as I supplied answers for. Finally after some time, there was a post from someone I could not identify. I don't know who this person is by their handle. If I knew their name I'm sure I would probably recognize them but I don't. Anyway, I'll show that person's post here. TheDirector Member Posts: 42 Registered: Feb 2000  posted 07-31-2000 11:21 PM Bob, I thought you retired for good. Looks like your back to give away the farm. Everyone in here (this forum) should feel lucky. There was a day when no less than $250 a half hour would get much less info from him. What I have learned from Bob has bought me a 6 bdrm house on 2 acres and a life I never would have had financially had I not come across him by sheer luck. Themes are not some new concept, he taught me about them over a year ago. All I can say is Bob please be quiet and go back into hiding. Hiding is what all real masters do as I will go back to now. Bye all. Here's a letter I received this past week after asking for some testimonials from our portal partners: Hey Bob, Just thought I'd let you know that my main portal is at #5 on Google and I have one of my other sites at #2 on the Google web directory both under "(keyword removed)" I am kicking ass with the portal and it is bringing in almost as many hits and leads off Google as my site brings in off Yahoo. Also the portal is at #12 on Google/Yahoo which brings in more hits. Most of what I have learned I have learned from you and John so I just wanted to let you know that I am a happy Magic-city customer.  Thanks, Here's another. This one from a partner who took advantage of the 10 banners for a year for $200 deal. (I bet some of you guys wish now you'd have taken that one more seriously): Hi, Bob, My banners at SearchKing have been up about two weeks so I wanted to let you know some results. You may recall I submitted ten using this pattern:  banner:" target=_new link: My results so far:  ad click thrus sk1 13 sk2 9 sk3 2 sk4 9 sk5 16 sk6 6 sk7 7 sk8 5 sk9 3 sk10 6 Approximately one half of the clicks have come from MSIE 5.0 and about 80% have been thru MSIE in all versions. I am pleased with the results and wanted to thank you for all you are doing! I also spoke to another partner just yesterday and she informed me that she has made over $25,000 just from helping people build their portals using the exact same program all of you have now. She has built a very nice client base including one in the works that alone will double that $25,000 figure! In addition, one of her clients has a portal that she helped build and now she is generating well over a grand a month selling ads on her own portal. I'm not taking anything away from anyone. I only provided the tools. As I said in the forums, I can give you advice, I can give you tools, I can even give you authority, but power is the one thing I can't give anyone. Power you have to take! It's power, the power to make things happen, that is the key to success. These people are people just like you that allowed me to help in one way or another and then took the power to make something happen. As I said last week, I'm going to be changing the "tone" of the PPP from me just telling you all the problems I run into as a portal owner myself, to more of a "Let's stop whining and make a buck here" kind of thing. Now for those of you who are not afraid of taking the power, I'm going to try to help. I'm going to suggest some things to you that I guarantee will allow you to use this program to quit your day job, put your kids through college, take that dream vacation, build that house you've always wanted, just about anything you want to do can be done if you simply open your mind, let me help and take the power. In over 30 years in the old sales game, the one statement I hear more than anything else is "oh I'm not a salesman". Fine, you don't have to be. I'm, going to show you a way now that you don't have to "sell" anything and still make money. Real money! First, use this portal program for one of the main things it was intended for. A hometown portal. From the very beginning, Searchking's goal with the portal program was to bring the internet to main street. After 5 years on the net, I still can not order a pizza and get it delivered using the internet. It is very hard to find a local doctor, a local mechanic, a local clothing store that is having a sale. Go ahead, go to Yahoo and type in clothing sale and see what you get back for results. HAH! This is coming. If you don't do it, rest assured, someone else will! This program was built to allow the person with a limited knowledge of the technical side of the net, but with a desire for success, to build a portal about their own hometown. To make this work, you need a search engine, a forum, a classifieds program, an e-mail program and a chat program. This program has all those components. It has everything you need right now to go out and start building your own hometown portal. Ok, get your portal plus. If you live in a big town, then focus on specific topics that relate to your hometown, such as or If you're in a town of about 25,000 people and up then an all-purpose portal about that town will work just fine. If your in a town with less than 25,000, then a county specific portal may be best as long as there are enough towns in your driving area to bring the total of all the small towns up to about 25,000. A portal pro with it's own domain name would be best, but a portal plus for $29 will work just as well. Remember that the programs are identical except the pro has more space, it's own domain name and you get to keep all the advertising, but the plus will do all the things a pro will do AND you can always upgrade later, so the objection of "I can't afford it right now" is not a factor. You can tell me you don't have the time, you can tell me you don't like the idea, you can even tell me you hate my picture, but don't tell me you can't afford to invest $29 in your own business. Now, build your site. Choose any subject you have an interest in as a focus. It could be local sports. It could be local business. It could be local churches, schools, recreation, entertainment, just about anything. Once you have your content started, go to a local print shop and order 1,000 flyers 2-up. This means they will print 1,000 8 and 1/2 x 11 flyers cut in half to make 2,000 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 flyers. You can make your own master to run the copies for off your own computer. Say anything you like about your portal as long as you make sure the url is on the flyer. Don't make it too wordy. Keep it short and simple with your url very prominent. Now pass these flyers out at laundry mats, dry cleaners, convenience stores, grocery store bulletin boards, church bulletin boards, car shows, state fairs, local merchants' counters. Pass them out as people walk by at the mall. Tape them to bathroom walls. Stick them on telephone poles. Hire cub scouts to pass them out door-to-door. Do any and all of these things until the 2,000 flyers are gone. Now you have traffic! Have that same printshop print you up some business cards at the same time. Make sure your url and phone number at least are on those cards. All together with the flyers and the cards, for one color printing you're looking at less than $50. Here comes the part about don't sell anything. You're asking yourself, " fine I've done a lot of work but how does that make me money?" One of the links you are going to put on your front page is something about eating out in your hometown. This link should take your local visitors to a page where they are encouraged to use your search engine to find websites about local restaurants. Now walk into any pizza joint or any restaurant for that matter and ask whoever comes to the counter one question, "Can I have permission to link my local portal to your website?" That's it. Now the person at the counter is going to do one of two things. They are going to go get the manager, (the person you want to hear this one question), or they are going to ask you to repeat what you just said. Everyone knows what the internet is, yet few people, especially small businesses, understand the value of it. If the manager of this establishment knows enough about the internet to have a website, he is going to tell you of course you can link to my website. If he doesn't have a website, he is either going to tell you he's not interested, or he is going to ask you something like, "how do I get a website?" If he says, "I'm not interested", ask if it's all right if you leave some flyers on the counter or in the window. If he says yes do it. If he says no, thank him and leave a business card. Remember, no matter what you do, you'll never not sell everybody, at least not the first time. If he says, "how do I get a website?", Don't sell him anything, just tell him what you charge to build a site and to host it. If you tell him about $250 for set up of a basic website and $39 a month for hosting and maintenance, about 1 out of three people will sign up right then and there. Another one of out of three will ask for your card and call you later. Now, you didn't sell anything. You just didn't say no when he asked for something. Once you get a few restaurants, add a link from your hometown portals' front page that says something like: Hometown After Dark or What to do in our hometown and then use the exact same approach on dinner clubs, taverns and bars. A link that says: hometown doctors. Same approach. don't sell anything to the doctors, just don't say no. Hometown mechanics, hometown clothing stores, video stores. lawyers, accountants, etc. etc. etc. I was explaining this process to a partner last week and he said, why wouldn't someone just use the yellow pages? Good question. The answer - people don't pay $2,000 for a phone book. People that buy computers WANT to use them! They want to justify the expense and they want to feel comfortable doing it. You can't do much more to feel comfortable than hanging out with people you have something in common with. People in your own hometown. If you would take this approach, in about 10 hours a week for two weeks, you will have brought in a minimum of over a thousand dollars in set up fees and over $150 a month in hosting fees. Now, next week we'll start talking about how to not sell advertising using some really neat little scripts that Searchking is developing for the sole purpose of making not selling advertising easy for you. Some of you may be saying, "that sounds good but I'm handicapped, I'm too tired to go outside, I'm not comfortable talking to people". No problem. If you don't want to not sell internet stuff, somebody in your town would love to! Simply print some copies off your computer saying, "help wanted in my new internet business. Make up to $500 per week" and put your phone number on it. Place these flyers on the bulletin board of your local college, tech school or high school. When the calls come in, (and they will), tell them how to not sell and just not say no and tell them they get $100 for each set up and $10 a month for every hosting account and hire the first kid that says ok. Hire the first 10 if you like. In fact the more you hire, the more money the faster you'll make. So, whether you do it, or whether you have it done, just remember, Don't sell anything, just don't say no! I will go one step even further. I am so positive that anyone that follows this step-by-step process of making money with a hometown portal WILL make money, that I'll put my money where my mouth is. If any one of you tries this system out for just 30 days and will tell me that they followed the steps and it did NOT work, I'll pay for your printing, I'll refund whatever you paid for the portal AND I'll pay you $100 for your trouble! Portal partners, if any of you can find anything on the world wide web that comes even close to this deal, you better take it! By the same token, if any of you do try this process and see that it really works just as easy as I said it does, then TELL ME! I want something in writing from you saying "Wow Bob, you were right. I hired a high school kid that only works two hours a day three days a week and he brought in 6 new clients in the first week"! If any of you have any other suggestions or questions, I want to hear them. Send them to me at and I'll be happy to publish them in the PPP for group discussion. Congratulations! Mike Rotter, You're a Winner! Mike Rotter won the affiliate contest for the month of July with a total of 3 sign ups. Too easy! Now he's $100 richer. I've already asked Mike to make a post in the forums about his secrets of success and what he did to get that many sign ups. :-) We will be running this contest again in the near future but I think I'll wait and add a little more value to the Searchking portal program. Look for the contest to come back around again about September or October. Last week I spoke to all you partners about the fact that I get approached on almost a daily basis with people wanting me to promote their product or service through some type of affiliate deal. As a matter of fact, I just got off the phone with This is a search engine that pays you $10 cpm for using their results. Now this is not something that Searchking would be interested in, however, I could see where some of you might. In SK's case, if we get 10,000 searches a day that would come out to a little over 3 grand a month. So while this may be contradictory to SK's goals, it may not be to all portal partners. Here are a couple of feedbacks I got last week in response to that article. Bob, you said: ...if you would be interested in setting up some type of system where I could try to finagle some kind of a deal for us as a community of portals as opposed to me just blowing them all off? If anyone has some opinions on this, why not send me an email. If I get a few and it makes me think there is an opportunity here, I'll start running this "make a buck" thing as a weekly column and we could all discuss it, figure it out and implement it. ... I think this would be an excellent idea. Would it be possible or practical or even worth it to consider a sort of 'Commission Junction' type arrangement for portal owners. This would do several things-- 1. It would be an added benefit to sell portals. 2. An added incentive to vendors to make their products and programs available. 3. The accumulation of commissions into one monthly check would be an incentive to portal partners to participate. I'm sure there would be other advantages, too, and SK could charge either or both an override commission on every sale or a lump sum fee from vendors to join the program. Name: SK Junction Dear Bob, I'm a YES for making a buck! If we were to pursue this kind of thing, we would need a review board. Someone or some group to take a look at each proposal and either approve or reject each one. We would also need someone to take charge of a program like this and not only encourage, train and motivate the partners but be able to handle tech problems as well. It appears to me that we would need a little more discussion in this area to help develop the policies and procedures for such an undertaking. Anyone interested in further discussion? Anyone interested in volunteering? Last week I focused on Feature, Benefit and Action. This week I'll focus on another key element to closing a sale on a website. Just like in the real world, objections are the single biggest reason you don't have a higher sales to visitors ratio. In the real world a salesman has the opportunity to hear the objection and then overcome those objections. On a website, you're deprived of that opportunity. Have you ever wondered why you can get 100 visits to your order form, (for those of you that even track that), but only get 10 actual orders? Well, that's why. They had an objection that you did not overcome. In the real world the most common objections are things like: • I need to talk it over with my spouse • I'm not sure it is going to fit • I'm not sure it's going to go with everything else I've got • I can't afford it right now On a website, these all apply just as much BUT there is a new one thrown in here. "How do I know I can trust you to actually send me what I think I'm ordering?" This is by far the biggest online objection. There are as many ways to overcome objections as there are objections themselves, which makes it impossible for me to be able to tell you the perfect answer for every situation. My best advice however, is to cover as many bases as you can and be creative. Since the web is bringing in new objections, we need to be able to come with new ways to overcome them. What I did was develop the try it before you buy it and our sales have gone up dramatically. Answer as many questions as you can think of up front. How big it is, what color it is, how it looks, how it feels, how it tastes, etc. and then look for creative ways to make that visitor know that they can trust you to actually send them what they THINK they are getting. Most of us get into trouble with the what they "think" they are getting part. Most of us falsely assume that everyone knows what it is we're offering. The most common mistake I see on commercial sites is overselling. Statements like "it's great" "the hottest thing on the net" "make your sales explode". When you look at those statements honestly, you can easily see why I may see it as one thing while HE may see it as something else. Don't oversell, be descriptive and factual and most importantly try to overcome their objections. I realize this PPP has gotten a little long. I'm sorry, but there's some really good stuff in this one. I'll wrap up this week's issue with a little help wanted notice. Whether you realize it or not, I'm giving away a lot. I'm doing everything I can think of to help YOU be successful. I know that my success lies in yours but the fact remains that I am giving away a lot. The truth is I can't do it all by myself. I need your help too and there are some things that you could do that would help me a lot and at the same time help you also because just as my success lies in you, so does yours lie in mine. What I'm going to ask you for won't take up more than a few minutes of your time and it won't cost you a dime. There is post going on in the Virtual Promote forum about Searchking. Virtual Promote is the forums that I mentioned earlier in the PPP. It is a very large community that is comprised mostly of webmasters and they are important to me and to all of us. Please take a minute to visit, register as a new member, (it's fast and painless), and post in the forums that relate to Searchking. Here is the url of the forums: The particular thread I'm referring to is in the topic "Other Engines" and the title of the thread is "anyone know anything about Searchking". Don't post an ad or oversell us. Just post your honest opinions about SK and let them know you're a portal partner. In addition, most of you belong to at least some forums. Don't spam them or anything but when you get the chance, tell them you're a portal partner and tell them about Searchking. OK, I'll shut up now. C Ya next week. This Bob's for you ! Publisher -- Bob Massa ========August 11, 2000======== How to get that "killer" domain name for your hometown portal  Why your local newspaper isn't your friend  What people are saying about the hometown portals  Banner ad sale Being in the guaranteed search engine placement business gives me the opportunity to become a little more familiar with the problem of domain name selection than the average webmaster. With my placement company,, one of the first challenges we have to overcome is finding the "perfect" domain name. We try to get the targeted keywords in the name as well as make it easy to remember and easy to spell and type into a browser. I have heard several statements around the net that all the good names are taken. This is simply not true. What is true is that a large majority of the obvious ones are taken but the obvious ones are not the same thing as all the good ones. Now in regards to the subject we have been focused on this last issue or two of the Portal Partner Press, which is of course, making money by bringing the internet to your main street with a hometown portal, the challenge isn't nearly as hard as you might think. Being in Oklahoma, and in Oklahoma City specifically, Oklahoma City is a little long, so I'm going to use the town of Tulsa for the purpose of illustration. So, every time you see me reference Tulsa, just replace it in your mind with the name of your town. Here is the easiest little trick to securing a killer domain name. Naturally, we would all think our first choice would be to get This name, of course, is taken. is not. or could both be VERY effective for the purpose of making money with a hometown portal. At the time of this publication being prepared, both of those names were available, (hint hint to anyone living in Tulsa!). My guess is not long after some 2,000 read this PPP, (assuming of course that anyone actually reads them), one or both of those names will be gone. My advice to anyone reading this that likes this idea and finds the name available, don't wait! Don't call a friend, don't do it after dinner, don't wait until you finish reading this. GO GET IT NOW! You can register a domain name at for $15 a year. For $15 bucks and if you want this name --- GO GET IT NOW! Okay, let's say doesn't float your boat, don't ring your bell, doesn't blow up your skirt, and doesn't torque your rod. Here is another killer domain name trick. Newspaper names. The The The The and of course my personal favorite, or even just or I urge a little caution in this area of strategy as I am not an attorney and I wouldn't want any of you to get into a legal dispute with anyone that may claim you are trying to trade off of their good names by way of copyright infringement. To my knowledge though, as long as your intent was not to capitalize on the fact that some business in New Orleans also used the name Picayune, and if you don't pick the exact name of your own local newspaper, I think you'll be all right. Did I mention that I'm not a lawyer? Finally, specific areas of interest in local portals. Let's assume you live in a very large metropolitan area like Dallas or Los Angeles. This doesn't mean that the opportunity for you to be successful is not there because you can't dominate the market as someone in a much smaller town could. It may just mean that you need to approach it differently. You can bet your bottom dollar that, are gone! So are going to be a lot more BUT, simply pick a more specific area to focus on and a whole world of names become available. How about,,, (which reminds me of a kind of funny I had imparted to me by one of our partners, Lynne Scott, in chat last night. She recounted the story of the problems the man had who wanted a good name for his art site. He wanted something that described his business and yet was easy to remember, so he picked then was confused when he started getting e-mails and calls expecting answer to questions of a gastronomic expulsion nature. I myself can relate. I registered the name Portal only to have a call very quickly asking if I was the one who ran Poor Talking, ( Of course I told him no and I had no idea of what he was talking about. I've wondered many times since just how much money I threw out the window that day). One little tip, be careful when you select the name that it looks the same to you as it does to everyone else, especially if you have an interest in the arts field. I've had several partners mention to me that they had considered using their local paper as a source of promotion either by nature of paid advertisements or by publishing a "news" story about them or their site. My advice is always to avoid the local paper like the plague. Now this is a generality and there may be exceptions that would make my advice some of the worst. Of course if your local paper is willing to show your hometown portal support, the benefit could be immense and far-reaching. I still say though that unless you're sleeping with the publisher or editor, or you happen to have in your possession photos of the editor or publisher in the nude and in the company of someone other than their spouse, I feel it unreasonable to expect any help at all from you local paper. You need to remember that once you hit the street selling ads, either classifieds or display, either online or off, you become a direct competitor of your local newspaper. Most local papers are family owned and have been owned by the same family for several generations. They typically wield a lot of power in the community. It would be against their better judgment and good business sense to help you sell more ads in any fashion. My advice to you portal partners who get into the hometown portal business is to realize that your involvement with your local paper should probably be about the same as if you were in the furniture business and getting involved with the furniture dealer down the street. Of course you would watch out for him as a competitor to stay abreast of anything he might do that would have an effect on your business, but you certainly wouldn't expect him to put your flyer in his front window, which is basically the same thing you would be expecting your local paper to do by expecting them to run a story on you. The best I feel you could hope for is that they would take your money and run an ad you placed just like any body else's. I think expecting any recognition from you or your hometown portal borders on ludicrous. Of course there is always a possibility that you or your site may do something that is newsworthy enough to justify having your name in print, but even in that event, remember the paper has the power to CHOOSE what is newsworthy or not and my guess is that, to the paper, there is little you could do short of throwing your body in front of a bullet intended for the President, that would make them consider your efforts newsworthy enough to justify promoting you or your site and helping you sell more ads. The worst you could expect would be they take your money for the ad and misspell your url. Make a mistake on your phone number or simply find a "special" spot to place your ad which brings minimal response at best. There exists the possibility of the them running an editorial about how many people have lost money dealing with internet companies and at least off-handedly referring to you or someone like you. Remember the last time you saw an article in your local paper about anyone local having a web business? Microsoft stories, of course. The stock market fluctuating over tech stocks? Yes. Seen anything positive about local web stuff lately? Last week if you recall, I made a plea for feedback. I invited all of you to send me your ideas and questions and input about the whole "making money with a hometown portal" concept. Well, I won't run them all because there were too many of them but I will run what I think is pertinent. Remember also, that I usually remove the names and urls to protect the privacy and the idea of what the partners are telling me. I wouldn't want to share what was the intellectual property of someone only to have someone else think it was a great idea and then go do it with giving proper credit and/or compensation for the person actually responsible for the idea. Dear Bob, Great articles. I just have one question-how can I approach a business owner and tell him that he needs to spend 250 dollars for the development of a website? I guess the real question is I am not a professional website developer, I mean I have developed my own, but not anyone else's. How can I show him that it would be to his advantage to hire me, vice going to the local computer store and having them develop his web page? And would this work for the Power Portal or was this just for the Pro Portal owners? I have been toying with this ideal for some time and feel very inept in designing webpages. I never suggested you approach a business and tell them they NEEDED anything. All I suggested was to ask them if you could link your portal to their site and IF they asked you if you could help them with a site, just don't tell them no. Just tell them what you charge. If you have built your own website and don't consider yourself a professional, it is for one reason only. You haven't charged anyone yet. You are free to charge whatever you like of course, but I can assure you that the time you took to learn to build your own justifies the expense of at LEAST $250. That business owner doesn't have time to learn how to do it or it would already be done! Having you do it for him is worth the money I'm suggesting! All you have to do to let me prove it to you is just don't tell someone no! Tell them Ok, for $250. Finally, no the Power portal will not work for the hometown portal application. The power portal does not have it's own search engine and that is a must! Hello Bob, Reading your previous newsletter a couple days ago - focusing on local information services and your challenge to follow and succeed is truly inspiring! I am planning to take that challenge - still not sure about the level we are going to do this at - City or County! I had signed up for a portal plus about a week ago, have spent several days testing, making mistakes, etc., - that I have playing with- that is not what I am writing about although I will be canceling out on this one.... especially since reading your newsletter - the state of PA is general......... County level may be also. Question - If I go with a different Portal Plus option to set up our site and decide to go to the Portal Pro at a later date, is there any problem transferring my links; site; and maintaining what we build? I already own the domain name and would need to transfer that to your server I know - until that would be done I can always redirect to either of the portals. Looking forward to the next newsletter...... Thank you for the letter John. I feel like I have finally found a way to show a lot of our partners the power this program has. Not power to show cute little links or the power to install cgi this and cgi that, but the power to change our lives. To generate income from our online efforts and to build successful online businesses! I've had about 15 letters so far this week much like yours. DO IT! I will help all I absolutely can and I will not let you down. As for your question about transferring from a portal plus to a portal pro. Yes. It is done by using a .tar file to copy your database and then uploading it to another directory. If you aren't familiar with the process, we can help. Of course we would have to charge a nominal fee for our time, (remember I have to pay these tech people what they think they're worth), and it would just depend on how big your database was, but I can assure you you'd be looking at 10's of dollars as opposed to hundreds. The biggest drawback to switching though is not in moving the database, it's in how much time and effort you have in promoting the site. is a far cry from for example and you may find that there is much more expense involved in promoting the new url than there is in having us move the database. As you said when you mentioned re-directing, there is always more than one way to "skin a cat", and in bob world, anything is possible, it's just that there is something to be said for making people feel like they know you and the site which is where the value of branding comes in. One thing I'd like to mention is that the process I spoke about in the "Don't sell anything" part of the Portal Partner Press would work just fine without even having a site! Just by contacting a few potential sponsors and asking if you can link to them from your "soon to be launched" local portal would very likely bring the same results as if the site was already up. Just by telling people about the concept will establish you as somewhat of an expert on the internet, web site building and e-commerce. Those people are going to want to capitalize on your experience and insight. Few people will fail to see the possible rewards from such an endeavor. You could easily make only a few "don't sell anything" calls and get commitments and web design jobs to easily cover the expense of a portal pro before it ever went online and before you ever had to commit to a dime! I don't mean to make you feel like I'm pushing you. You do what you want to do when you want to do it, but we all have a little pressure on us from competition. I'm not the smartest guy in the world and I know others are starting to realize the advantages of hometown portals just like we do. Searchking alone is projecting 10,000 portal partners over the next 12 months. Right now, statistics show that less than one third of your local businesses even have websites, while those same statistics show that over 80% have shown an interest in developing an online presence. We both know that the internet is not going to get any smaller and the simple fact is that if you "don't sell anything" to them, it won't be long before someone else will. Good Luck Bob Massa Searchking, Inc. Some of you may remember that a while back I made you all an offer. The offer was 10 targeted keyword graphic banner ads for one year for $200. In other words, give me your banner and pick 10 keywords or phrases you want that ad to display under and I would run it for a full year for $200. Well, we have finally gotten our new admin panel and ad network running. We can now install these banner ads much easier and faster, and just like I said last time, space I got, advertisers I want! I will make that offer once again only to my portal partners. This could come in handy for some of you new hometown portal owners. You could pick generic keywords that relate to your hometown and then resell them. At $200 a year for 10, that puts your cost at $1.60 per keyword per month. You could sell them to your new advertisers for $3.20 a month and double your money. Or offer them a special. Let you build their website and throw in a banner ad! Now, in an effort to hit your "hot button", maybe 10 keywords aren't enough. I'll give you 20 for $300 and I'll give you 50 for $600 which puts your cost at $1 per month for each keyword! Maybe your not in a position to spend $200 or $300 or $600. Okay, how about 10 keywords for 6 months for $120. 5 keywords for 6 months for $60 There is no order form for this offer. You will just have to e-mail and tell me you want them. I need the url to find the banner, the url you want me to link the banner to, the deal you want and the payment info. I can have your ad running usually the same day. Send the e-mail to I want to make it clear that this is NOT for the keyword text banners above the search results. I won't sell those that cheap again. I am talking about the graphic banners that display at the top of the page. Finally, we now offer the bottom of the page results as well. These would be the same ad you would expect to see at the top of the page, only these would be at the bottom. I'll give you the exact same deal as above for HALF PRICE. Any deal you want. The 20 keywords, the 10 the 50, one year or 6 months, bottom spot half price. That'll wrap it up for another week. By the way, anyone noticing the numbers in the forums? That tells you one thing, we're getting more portal partners! Thank all of you that have been helping in keeping the forums so active and of such high quality. This Bob's for you! Publisher -- Bob Massa ========August 18, 2000========  What People are Saying About Hometown Portals  OK, Now I'm Building 15 Websites a Week, What Do I Do With the Money?  Any Questions Let's start off this week's issue with a little feedback from one of our partners who has been bitten by the hometown portal bug. Hi Bob, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for the great service that you provide. I always assumed that owning a search engine would be out of my league. Now I own three search engines - http://www.********.com, http://***** and http://* I will soon be upgrading the custom products search engine to a portal pro. I have already purchased the domain name (**.com). My main focus right now is on the local Portal. I have been reading your PPP and taken your advice. I have just launched the "try it before you buy it" idea for advertising. I know I should have it set up to accept credit cards so that I would have an almost definite sale but that cost $400 and I can't really afford that right now. When their 30-day free trial is over I will email them with their stats and convince them to start paying for their advertisement. I have also implemented some of my own ideas. I have just launched the "free business web page" this is similar to a xoom free page, but I am providing it for my hometown based businesses only. It is set up in a framed page where the bottom portion is advertising my portal and the rest of the page is used for the business. http://www.****.com/template.htm There are almost 10,000 businesses in my town but only 2,000 have web sites. Unbelievable!! If just 20% of the other 8,000 businesses sign up for a free web page that will be a lot of great exposure for The Hometown portal. The reason I am writing to you today is for some advice. I am trying to figure out the best way to market these new free pages on a tight budget. I thought of sending out flyers or advertising in the local paper but I am not sure if these are effective enough. I have also thought of taking out a loan and gaining a lot of exposure for the portal and the free web pages by advertising on local radio, newspapers and tourist magazines, I could also hire some sales staff to call local businesses. What is your advice, Bob? I thank you in advance, Keep up the good work! Only 20% of the businesses having websites, THERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY! Two weeks ago in the portal partner press, I wrote an article about "don't sell anything". You are in a perfect position to take EXTREME advantage of that approach. Simply hit the street. Start with pizza joints and small family owned restaurants because they are the ones that are usually desperate for more cheap advertising. Just walk in with your business card or flyer and ask for permission to link your portal to their website. Tell them a little about how your portal is to serve the needs of the community and you don't feel it would be of as much value to the community without providing a link to a well-established restaurant like theirs. When they tell you they don't have a website, act surprised and tell them that they really should since it's the wave of the future and having a professional website is so inexpensive. The restaurant is going to do one of two things. #1 He is going to blow you off and show no interest, in which case you leave him a flyer and ask him to call if he changes his mind and then go to the next one on your list. #2. He is going to ask how much a website costs, at which point you tell him you charge $250 to set it up and $39 a month to host it once he approves it.  See, you don't sell anything -- you just don't say no. Tell him it includes something. A free banner for a month, his restaurant listed on your flyer for a month, his coupons available on line, something. Keep in mind, this guy is not familiar with the internet, so telling him stuff about top placement or buying ads on your portal is pointless at this time, (that comes later after you've educated him to the value of those ads). Simply pull out your pad and write down what he thinks he wants on his website, pull out your receipt book and write him a receipt for the $289, (set up and first month hosting), and then don't stop that day until you have at least two others. That's $867 for the day in income. That night start building these sites. Tomorrow go do it again. Another $867. After a 5 day week that's $4,335 now next week find you a high school student as a contract laborer to do EXACTLY what you did last week. Pay him a guarantee of say $150 a week BUT he gets a $50 commission on each website deal he brings you. Let him/her handle the website "don't sell anythings" because you are building the websites. Now if you can hold your numbers at 3 a day for 5 days each week, you're grossing $4335 a week and paying your little high school kid $750 a week, (my guess is he's a happy camper and turning into one hell of a Don't sell anything kind of guy), leaving you $3585 profit. Now you have other competing businesses calling YOU. Now it's time to hire another high school kid, (or several for that matter), to build these 3 or 4 page websites for you, (again as contract labor) and pay them say $50 for each one. It shouldn't take much more than about 3 to 4 hours per site, so the kid that does 5 a week is making $250 a week in about 15 to 20 hours a week. (Another happy camper who has all of his friends with a computer calling you asking for a job!). Once you have this done, you PROMOTE. Keep in mind that you now have about $2500 a week to play with. Hold tri-cycle races with a grand prize of $100 at local bars and restaurants. Have a movie day where you pay the tickets of say 200 underprivileged kids to go to the movie. Donate money to the homeless. With each and every one of these promos, get a co-sponsor. It probably won't be the local paper, (see last weeks PPP), but it can certainly be radio and TV stations, large restaurants, auto dealers, hospitals, law firms, churches and on and on. Of course with each promotion, new advertsing sales opportunities are there as well. Best of all, you start associating your portal with other local well-established, well-respected businesses in your hometown building invaluable, instant credibility, (not to mention advertising), for your portal! There are a million ways to make this thing work, but this is DEFINTELY one way it will work! Keep this in mind. There will always be things that you could use as an excuse not to act. You mentioned not having a merchant account. DON'T LET THAT STOP YOU! If you wait for everything to be perfect, you'll never be done waiting. Do it! Do it NOW! After just one day of working up the guts to just get out of your chair and ask a few business owners if you can link your portal to their site, I guarantee you will have a whole new attitude and an internet business off the ground. Bob Massa As illustrated by the correspondence above, with not a lot of effort, you can now be generating over $10,000 per month in profit, so the question comes to mind, what are you going to do with that much extra money? Keeping in mind that this income is in addition to whatever income you had last week, what do we want? Are we through? Are we ready to have that new car, that vacation home, that new big screen? Of course the money you make is yours and you can do whatever you like with it, but I would like to make a couple of observations based on my own experience. An additional $120,000 a year may SOUND like the answer to all your problems. It may SEEM like, if you could ever find a way to generate that much additional income, life would be like heaven on earth. Well, in my experience, no doubt, it is pretty darn good, but the bottom line is, it ain't enough. No matter how much of an increase in income you have, trust me, your lifestyle and the bills that lifestyle will generate, will increase in direct relation to the amount of increase in your income. The more we make, the more we spend. Your business also has a lifestyle. If your business doesn't continue to grow, you can't expect to stay abreast of the competition. There never comes a point that your business does not require more capital to be able to grow. In many ways growth = expense. So if you take the attitude that all the money you bring in can be spent entirely on personal self-gratification with little or no regard to your business lifestyle, even in light of the fact that it is the business which afforded you the money to alter your lifestyle in the first place, it is very likely, and maybe even inevitable, that the income will soon no longer be available and the pain of losing something you had is far greater than the pain of simply wishing you had something you never had before. My advice, with the assumption that you want an increased level of lifestyle to continue, is to realize that your business deserves some of that money so that it can continue to generate more income for you. You are going to need certain things for that business to enable you to offer more and better services. More and better services mean more traffic. More traffic means more page views and more page views mean more inventory for you to generate more income with through sponsorships and ad sales. Assuming further that ad sales is a primary function of your hometown portal, (and it definitely should be), then setting aside money for the purpose of improving and adding services makes a lot of sense. So, when it comes to setting a budget for such growth, where do we put our focus? In the beginning, at least, we need to focus on putting the least amount of resources into the things with the most potential return. From here we could all go into long, heated debates about what things that relate to a hometown portal provide the greatest potential of return. Software immediately comes to mind and not to downplay the importance of software, I do want to mention there is, or at least can be, considerable strain on resources other than money. For example, with every software addition to your portal, tech support can be a real problem. Any software you add has to impress the user NOT you. If you think it is just the coolest thing since sliced bread, BUT, even a small portion of your overall users can not understand it, see the value in it, or be able to figure it out, they start e-mailing you with questions that pertain to tech support. The time you spend on answering these questions and dealing with trying to resolve problems, is time that could have been spent on things like promoting your portal, selling ads and increasing your client base. Choose your software upgrades VERY carefully. Software is so appealing to us all as portal owners because we realize the extreme value of creating an interactive experience with our users. We know that users expect a certain degree of technology to be able to justify the purchase of their computers in the first place, and in providing a certain amount of technology which they can fully understand, use and see the value of, increases the value of our portal, causes bookmarks and causes people to spread the word to their friends and families, which of course, ultimately increases traffic which increases ad sales which increases income. From this postulate, we could then assume that the things that would generate the most potential growth, are the things that offer easy to understand, easy to use technology that offers interactivity with your portal and the user. Following the line of thinking we have started here, which is to put the least amount of resources into the things which generate the most potential return, our objective is to find those things that people will love and yet cost us little to provide. Ever heard the phrase, "a picture is worth a thousand words"? In the case of our hometown portals, little could be said with more impact to the objective of providing the most with the least expense. Digital photography. You can buy a digital camera for under $300. A really good one for under $1,000. Once the photograph is taken it is a simple and very inexpensive process to upload the photo as a gif or jpeg file. Once done, these are very easy for anyone to open by simply clicking a link. Without even getting into a discussion of a digital camcorder and the minute cost of setting up streaming video, and the extreme benefit this would provide to an advertiser and the opportunity of greatly enhanced revenue, (what would a business owner be willing to pay for a top placement in your search engine? Would he be willing to pay more if he could have a link to a video of his product or service as well as a link to a webpage?), in terms of increased hosting and increased set up fees. For the purpose of our discussion here, taking into consideration our obvious time constraints, let's simply explore the possibilities of a digital camera. what would a digital camera do for me and my hometown portal? The possibilities are endless, but I will point out a few that have become obvious to me. Make your hometown portal come alive with pictures. As I have been searching for other hometown portals, (there are getting to be a few which is why I keep harping on everyone to take advantage of this now!), the one thing that comes to my mind is that these portals look like little more than a fancy way to sell advertising. There is nothing wrong with that except that they are missing the boat. Most of these sites look "dead". Which is to say, they don't look alive. The best way to make the site look alive is to give people the pictures of a living community. Take photos of sports events, parades, community award ceremonies, political figures. You could even go so far as posting photos of buildings going up, pictures of gas stations signs involved in a price war, and ESPECIALLY look for humor such as signs the letters have fallen off of leaving a different message than the one that was intended. Pictures of kids playing in the park. Pictures of people playing golf, and people doing deeds in service of their fellow man within your community. A word of warning before you go out and start taking pictures of individuals and trademarked institutions. There are laws assigning rights to individuals and businesses that could make you liable for publishing pictures or images of them without their permission. So don't be foolish. If you photograph someone, get their permission to use their likeness on your website before you put it there. A really nice little strategy would be to do a "man in the street" feature. Once a month or once a week, you could go to your local mall or to the corner of main and 1st street and simply ask the people walking by their opinion of a specific topic that you think would be of interest to a certain segment of your visitors. Get their statements, take their picture and post it on your site. It would be a lot of fun, it would give you a lot of exposure, it wouldn't cost much and it would attract a certain amount of visitors to come back each week or month as the page was updated. If I took your picture and asked your opinion of something and told you it was going to be on my hometown portal, do you think you might tell your Mom? Your friends? Your co-workers? This is one way you start building traffic to your site. Next week, we'll talk more about some of the possibilities that streaming video would give you. Specifically, I'd like to bring to your attention just how much money is spent on political ads and how easy it would be for a hometown portal to become accepted as "press" without having to have a degree in journalism. How would you like to be able to make an extra $120,000 a year AND get in free to local plays, trade shows, movies, restaurants and political meetings as a member of the "press" doing an interview or review? It would be TOO easy! As always, I want to hear your ideas and opinions too. My philosophy is, what I do doesn't matter, it's only what YOU do that is important. I've brought up some things here that have GOT to have piqued your interest. Do you agree with me? Do you think I'm nuts, and most importantly, do you see something I don't? We have had almost 30 people in the last two weeks sign up now for what they obviously intend to make into hometown portals. Well, I'm talkin' the talk, but you kids are walking the walk. Tell us about it. Are you having fun yet? Is it working just like I said it would? Are you making an impact in your community? Inquiring portal minds want to know. Well kids, that's enough for this week. Remember, This Bob's for you. Publisher -- Bob Massa ========August 25, 2000======== What Our Portal Partners are Saying  Lights, Camera, Action!  What should We Say on Those Flyers Bob? We've had several interesting letters from portal partners this past week, (I think the hometown portal idea has struck pay dirt), including the idea about putting webcams in daycare centers for parents to be able to check on their children during the workday and the lady who has figured out a way to charge for classifieds on her portal only AFTER an item has been sold, (both EXCELLENT ideas by the way), but there is not enough room in the PPP for all the letters I've been getting. I can't run all the letters I get of course, so if I don't publish yours, don't take it to mean your idea doesn't have merit. It simply means that I had to make a decision on which ones to run THIS week. I may very well run yours later, but even if I don't, it doesn't mean I don't appreciate them or that I don't consider each one carefully. I'd like to start this week off with one I have from an ex-portal partner. This does not show me in the most favorable light and I'm sure many of you will wonder why I would even publish such a letter. My objective here is to show each of you that even though you may be trying your best, you will have some people who just don't appreciate your efforts. The point is to remember that you can not make everybody happy and that the important thing is not to let negative things change your positive attitude. Mr. King Please remove me from all your databases and mailing list. I cancelled my account long before my 30 day trial was expired. Still I was billed. We are adding your site to the "Rip-Off Web 100", this is a list of the top 100 web sites that will likely rip you off. P.S. we have notified VISA with a formal complaint about your business practices. Again congradulations!! Dave ** CEO The *** Here is my reply: Dave, from the tone of your letter, I assume there is nothing I can say to convince you that we simply made a mistake and would have not charged you had we received your cancellation notice. The internet being what it is, the fact that we maintain and support over 2000 portal partners, and the fact that we're human makes it very likely that once in a while we may "drop the ball". I tried to pull up the site and it is not available, which indicates to me that you did send notification and it's a matter of someone on my staff did not follow procedure. For that I apologize. Of course, with the actions you have already taken, there is not much I can do that I'm aware of to get your refund quicker. Had I been notified of the circumstances BEFORE you contacted Visa, I would have simply had accounting reverse the charge. THAT is our business practice. I certainly did not do all the work and spend all the money I have to build Searchking and the portal program just to be able to "steal" your or anyone else's $29. However, that is not the reason for the letter. The main reason I'm writing you is to ask you please to re-send the cancellation notice for our files. I honestly have no record of ever getting one. It is important to me to be able to avoid situations like this in the future and without knowing who got the notice, it makes it difficult for me to know where to focus on improving. Please send the notice to either this address or to Finally, I can appreciate your concern for wanting to "let the internet know" who is and who is not a rip-off, however, in this case, you are making a mistake. There are a lot of people who do make a living by trying to cheat people out of small amounts of money, but I am not one of them. A mistake has been made, but all in all, I work VERY hard to provide an honest and fair atmosphere for all of our partners to do business in. The internet needs people like you and myself who are willing to do what it takes to do the right thing, and by putting my name on a list such as you mentioned is doing a dis-service to all concerned. Had you have been with us a little longer and spent any amount of time in the forums, you would see that I could not have built a community with as much respect for me, my company and for each other by trying to cheat anyone. We have portal partners cancel all the time and that does not concern me, not everyone is into building portals with a program as complicated as the one Searchking offers, I do mind you leaving thinking there is the slightest possibility that my objective in offering this program was to steal your $29. If you are a professional, I think you will be able to understand my concerns and give me the benefit of the doubt here and tell me what you would like me to do to prove to you that you are over-reacting and making a mistake, not as bad as the one that we made, but a mistake nonetheless. Also, if you are a professional, then I already know that you too have made mistakes and did not want people you had dealt with in good faith feeling like they had been cheated. If you are not a professional and just a person who likes to threaten people when something doesn't go your way, then there is nothing I can do to convince you to change your mind, and I won't expect any response. Furthermore, if you develop a practice of posting negative things about people publicly without giving them the chance to rectify problems, then your business will suffer and after a period of time, no one will be listening to what you are trying to say anyway. So, what can I do to make this situation work out where we can part company with mutual respect? Bob Massa Searchking, Inc. I had everybody in our office search through every file we could find on this partner and this portal and nowhere did we find any reference to his cancellation notice. Also, I never received a response back from him. As I told Dave, I don't work this hard and I haven't invested as much as I have with the objective of cheating someone every now and then out of $29. In my mind, for anyone to assume such a ridiculous thing is nothing short of absurd. So keep in mind that not everyone in this world is a nice person and sometimes we are forced to deal with these people, but we are not forced to let their problems become our own. On a lighter note, here's a little ditty that brighten my day almost as old Dave darkened it. Hello, I am a Portal Partner, but I must confess I am clueless, I want to start with your hometown portal idea, we have maybe 2 local sites that kind of sort of have other businesses, but none of them are a true portal, like your idea. I know how to build webpages and I have about 4 or 5 neat webpage maker programs my problem is I do not know how to make it work at the portal site, and also I want to change the name of my portal or either get another one for the hometown idea. I am going to go and check it out again and try and get started, because I really want to do this. also one more question when we build a page for someone, should we get a free site or is their a way to build it at our portal??? If you understand what I mean, please help!!!!! ASAP Thank you, preciate it honest ;-) My reply: As far as hosting pages, we are in the process of securing a suitable free homepage program now that we will offer to the hometown portals. Once this program is available, either a portal plus or pro will enable the portal partner to build and host individual pages. However, this solution is still not the optimum for building income based on webpage or web site construction and hosting. The optimum solution is to take a portal pro with 100 megs of space. 100 megs of space, and you controlling all the advertising, could hold a LOT of pages. At a fee of $39 per month per website and a cost of $49 for the entire portal pro, you can do the math as well as I can and see that the income potential is VERY good. Now, couple this with a free homepage program for your hometown, (which generates traffic = page views), and the vanity e-mail which will be available within the next few days, and you have a way of generating traffic, supplying page views for advertisers and hosting websites for clients, and you have a web business that can change the life of you and your family for many, many years to come. You will become a respected member of your community and your circle of influence will be determined only by your own level of desire. Want to be mayor someday? A site like we're talking about could easily increase your chances of doing just that! Now as far as getting started with the tech end. I run Searchking, I don't actually run a portal. I'm not the one to give you much help in regards to using the program. Use the forums! There is not a single question that you could ask that someone will not be able to answer for you. The forums are invaluable. Not to mention the fact that the whole idea of the Searchking community is to help you so that you in turn can help the next person coming in behind you until we have an army of people who are intelligent, aggressive, well trained, honest and possess a genuine desire to see things change for the better for themselves, their community and for all mankind in general. I WANT you to be a part of that and will do everything in my power to help every step of the way. While you may be in business for yourself, you are not in business by yourself. You have the support and the best wishes of hundreds of people who all want to see you succeed. Bob Massa Searchking, Inc. And this is the reply that made my day! Thank You so much!!!! I will start searching thru the help forums and yes hopefully find some answers there. I am so glad that you did not just blow me off, so many people on-line are claiming to want to help you but really only want money and then they can care less. So Thank you so much, I know it will be some work involved. I have already called a few businesses and offered to build webpages for them and some are afraid because they do not understand that they do not need to have a computer themselves. I really think that this will be a better approach, I plan to offer it from the standpoint of like a listing in the phonebook, because they understand that better, That it is just a way for people to be able to look them up locally, but this way they can be represented in many more ways. I am really excited now!!!! because the businesses that have webpages are just floating around and this way I can link them and also add all of the hundreds or probably thousands that do not. No I do not really want to run for Mayor but who knows :-) Thank You so much sending you a big virtual Hug!!! I will keep you posted on progress, or just let you know when I have my first customers!!! Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You!!! Last week we talked about making your hometown portal, (actually any portal for that matter), come to life using photos from a digital camera. This week I'd like to expand on that concept a little and try to alleviate some fears you may have about streaming video. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video could be worth libraries! First I'd like to open your mind to a few possibilities with a camcorder. Interviews. Imagine wearing a tag on the front of your shirt or dress that says "WEB PRESS", while your partner holds a camera in their hands. Now imagine walking into the mayor's office and asking his opinion on some recent controversial issue. Chances are he's going to respond to you the same as he would any other press person. You get that on video and add it to your site and you've just added extreme value to your portal! In some larger communities, it may not be so easy to gain access directly to the mayor. Go bursting into the mayor's office in San Francisco and you may find yourself quickly hand cuffed and thrown to the floor! However, in smaller communities something like this is not only likely to get results but can be very easy! If you are in a large town, or even in a smaller town but run into resistance from the mayor, fear not, for the mayor can be got. Simply start at the top and work your way down. If you can't get the mayor, what about the sheriff? If you can't get the sheriff, what about the chief of police? What about the school superintendent? What about a local judge? These people are politicians, they LIKE getting their face before the public. They like hearing themselves talk and I can promise you, you won't have to go down very far before one of these elected officials will very likely give you not only what you ask them for, but probably a whole lot more. My guess is it will be much harder getting them to shut up than it will be getting them to talk into the camera. Once you get just a couple of people in local positions of elected power, the mayor isn't going to want to be left out. Another little trick is if the mayor doesn't want to talk to you, I bet his upcoming opponent most certainly will. Once this person starts shooting his mouth off, the mayor will have little or no choice to have his side of the story heard. This is actually a very good strategy. You may wish to interview the opponent first, and then simply tell the mayor, (with the camera running of course), that his opponent said this and how would he respond? Neat little trick huh? Now your site and ONLY your site is running a little "he said - she said" spot. Think that won't get the locals coming? Advertising Value Some of your advertisers whose websites you should have built for them, would be more than happy to pay extra to have a streaming video of their store, their happy customers, their workers completing a job, etc. linked from their websites. Remember a picture is worth a thousand words. Well this is one of the things that you should be telling your client! After all why not enjoy a camcorder and let someone else pay the expense. Events Bring Your Portal to Life Car races, football games, a local convention, all these things in streaming video can pull traffic to your site. Anything that pulls traffic to your site offers you the opportunity to find paying sponsors for the page! People like seeing themselves, their friends, their families on TV and this is kind of the same thing. If you tape a football game for example and some kid scores a touchdown, you think he's not going to call Grandma and tell her to go look at the video? If you tape a parade, you think people won't want to see their little girl twirling the baton? Don't Be Scared Of Streaming Video For almost 5 years now I have not understood how the whole real player thing worked. As a consequence, I've never taken advantage of streaming video and I'm afraid it's been at my own expense, for the simple fact that I didn't understand it and I was afraid. Well, partly due to my diligence in believing there was value in this medium and wanting to learn how to use it, and partly because I got lucky and found a guy who was willing to help me, Searchking will take care of any tech problems you may have with streaming video. The basic problem with video on the net, is that you need to pay a fee to Real Player according to how many users you expect to have viewing the video at one time. Don't look to me for all your video question because I have a VERY limited understanding of the whole thing, but I do know that this fellow I mentioned has a 50,000 user license. That means that 50,000 people could be looking at the same video at the same time, or 50,000 people could be looking at 50,000 videos at the same time. Either way you look at it, that's a lot of people watching a lot of videos at the same time. By making an arrangement with Dave Galyond, (the "guy" I keep referring to), we will edit and host up to a 30 minute video for about $25 a month with a one-time editing fee of $49. You can have a lot of stuff on a 30-minute video, but since there is a cost involved, choose your subject matter carefully. I recommend going out and securing a sponsor BEFORE doing any taping if your going to be doing things like parades and football games. The interviewing the mayor kind of stuff should be much cheaper and I think it would be great to be able to let the mayor really get rolling with his interview and then tell him, "I'm sorry that's all the time we have". Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't pay for it! By the way, last week I had four e-mails asking me where to get a digital camera. I don't sell them, (I probably should be selling them now), I don't know any technical stats on them, I don't know who has the best deal on them and so on. If you want the privileges of getting back stage at concerts and getting in the back door of city council meetings, you'll have to take the responsibility of getting your own camera on your own. I should mention though that while a digital camera is best for photos on the net, any VHS camcorder will do just fine for video. Of course a digital would be better, but a VHS will do just fine. Here is one more letter I got from one of our partners last week and I thought it to be an excellent question. Bob, In your previous PPPs, you have described a process of 'not selling' websites and hosting, which I found very exciting. This involves printing up fliers about the hometown portal for public consumption. My suggestion is to give us the wording for these fliers, or some tips to come up with the right wording ourselves - what to include, what not to include. No doubt your experience has given you an insight into the words that will encourage the man-or-woman-in-the-street, who doesn't really know what a portal is, to visit and use the information they find there. You can guess that I'm at that point where I must get these fliers printed and handed out. The thing to remember when deciding on your wording for your fliers, is to talk to your target and not to yourself. If you print 2,000 fliers telling the public about your portal, then it is not likely to get many people. Most people think a portal = Yahoo. Talk to them in terms they can quickly understand and see the value to them. If you put things like: You are not going to be impressing anyone but yourself. Tell them things they can relate to easily without having to learn something new or having to work to understand. Getting them to understand is your job and not theirs. Above all else, tell them the VALUE to them. Those kinds of things will get you much more response than all the info in the world about html and T-3's. Keep it simple and honest and remember, your goal is not to get them there once, your goal is to keep them coming there for a long time to come, so do not oversell. If it's not on your site, don't tell them it is. There are as many features to sell as there are people running a portal, so I can't tell you what to say. I can only make a few suggestions to get the "concept" across, but the final decision has got to be yours. If it were me running a hometown portal, I would focus on my forums and my classifieds and of course my advertisers. My flyer would read something like:   Your hometown doorway to the internet. See what the internet is doing to our own hometown. See your friends, family and local merchants online. Get a FREE e-mail account just for stopping by. Get FREE Internet coupons from the stores you shop at the most! SELL your unwanted items in our INTERNET GARAGE SALE SEE what your neighbors are saying about the things that affect YOU! For info call 405-386-4806  Well that wraps up another week for the old PPP. I hope that someone out there has more sense than I do and is keeping these articles in some kind of archive. You can find all kinds of stuff on the web about software, about search engines, about computer programs, BUT, I don't know of anywhere you can find the kind of information we are discussing in the Portal Partner Press. There will come a time when the world is going to realize that we are way ahead of our time here. That we are blazing a trail that doesn't talk about technology per se, but how to use the technology to actually make a topic specific portal WORK. Where are the people going to go that come behind us to find the information that we have already discussed, learned to put to good use? This Bob's for you! Publisher -- Bob Massa ========August 31, 2000======== E-Mail Hell  A Labor Day Gift from Bob Finally, after almost two years and literally thousands of dollars I could ill afford, I am out of e-mail hell. We have recently bought and installed a mail program that I am very happy with. It works and we are getting support! The support is the biggie. This is going to be permanent, or at least as permanent as the internet allows. It is simple to use and easy to set up. I was not concerned so much about having all the latest gizmos as I was about having a mail program that simply sent and received mail and was easy enough for all of our portal partners to be able to offer it to their visitors. This one does that. I truly apologize to all of you who have had to suffer through mail hell with me, but I believe we're finally rolling now and the problems are behind us. Every portal partner needs to go sign up for their e-mail account as soon as possible. At least get the one account for your domain name at Just go to the main page at and click the link that says "free e-mail". That will take you to a page where you can sign up. You can sign up for as many accounts as you want but you have to sign up for each name you want as a new account. For those of you that haven't been with us from the beginning, let me tell you why this mail thing has been such a headache. From the planning stages of the portal program we knew that e-mail, free web based e-mail to be specific, was one of the main components to any successful portal. I'm not talking about just Searchking offering free e-mail, I'm talking about my portal partners being able to offer their own free e-mail program. The hometown portals have always been one of the main focuses for Searchking and without giving the public the opportunity to sign up for their own e-mail account with through the hometown portal and not through Searchking would limit the potential in traffic and advertising sales to our partners. We had to have e-mail to offer to our partners. This meant that all of these services on the net that "pay" you 50% of the ads they sell would not work for us. It had to be a custom program that we could allow full use of the admin panel to our clients. Also, if the free service took half and the partner took half, there would be nothing there for Searchking. So, you can see how our own custom program was the only real answer all the way around. We are finally in business. Ok, here's the deal. Every portal plus and every portal pro will be able to have free vanity web based e-mail that you can offer to your visitors. This is of extreme value to any portal. Let's say you have a portal plus devoted to scuba diving and the url is There will be some people who will WANT an e-mail address that identifies them as someone who is interested in scuba. Their e-mail address could be Studies show that the average internet user will check their e-mail three times a day. So, if you have a hundred users, that's 300 more uniques a day to your portal. Not only to your portal but the other pages as well. To check their mail they go to, click on the check mail link and then a login page comes up. They sign in and come to their e-mail page. There are three page views right there so that gives you 900 page views a day. Now if they have 10 messages, each time they open the mail they're looking at one page!, then the mail comes up, there's another page, hit their back button, another page, open the next mail, another page and so on and so on. With each new page, advertising banners are rotated. This could add up to thousands of page views a day! You're probably thinking, "Wow, what a nice guy Bob is". Well hold on to your horses 'cause we're talking about a considerable amount of money here. E-mail costs money. The cost of the program is minor when you factor in all the space it takes, the server, the bandwidth and the maintenance. I'm not such a nice guy that I just throw that in. This stuff has to be paid for but the idea here is to set this up so that you can make money, I can make money and Searchking can make money. That's the only way it's going to work. So here is the system: Each portal plus can get their e-mail free, up to 100 users. Each portal pro can get up to 250 users. Of course when it's free, I get the ads. Searchking will require the header and a footer which will include the Searchking search box on the free accounts. This leaves a lot of space for portal partners to place their ads all over the pages. Where you place those ads is up to you as long as Searchking has the header and the footer. The idea here is to get you rolling and show you the value of the free e-mail. Some partners will never need more than their allotted free accounts and it wouldn't be fair to make them pay for something they don't need. So what we do is offer upgrades. When you exceed the free accounts, (or any time you want more accounts or want to control all the ads), you can simply go to the upgrade page from your EZ Builder and you will be able to purchase a paid version which will allow you more users and complete control over the ads. Once you take any paid version of the email program, Searchking will not run any ads on your mail program. They will all be yours. Of course even with the paid version, we will still keep the search box for the simple reason that we will not allow our partners to promote any other search engines using this mail program. The bottom line is that either we generate income from ads or we generate income from monthly fees and then let the partner keep the ad revenue. All you have to do is decide which way makes you the most money. We are just getting the free mail and the upgrade pages put together and they will be available within the next few days. Once it is up, simply sign up for the account you want and we will get it installed for you. Watch the forums and next weeks Portal Partner Press for more info and details. In America, we celebrate a holiday known as Labor Day. If all of our global partners don't have a holiday such as this one for Americans, I highly recommend you contact your government and encourage them to make one. It's one of my favorite holidays. Anyway, as a personal gift to all of you in celebration of Labor Day, I will not make you read a long Portal Partner Press as usual. This one is going to be short and sweet so we can all get busy relaxing. I've been accused on more than one occasion of talking a lot and saying little. I realize I have a tendency to be long-winded when I write, especially when I get a little excited about something, (and I'm usually excited about SOMETHING), so for once --- I won't. I'm actually going to shut up, believe it or not! Have a great week and all of our American partners, have a great holiday, drive safely and enjoy yourselves. This Bob's for you! 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Friday, November 12, 2010 Results for DOD183 to DOD196 posted (Updated) If you have not participated, read about the current 48-hour submission opportunity. If you have submitted your sample, you can add (voluntarily) any information you want to reveal about your ancestry and origins in this thread. NOTE: DOD194 is related to DOD191, DOD192, and DOD193, but this was not communicated to me; therefore, I am scrapping the results of this run, and repeating it. Check back this post to see when updated results are posted. Most participants will probably not get radically different results, but DOD193 and DOD194's very high "Northern European" score is spurious. I urge all project participants not to send me samples of relatives, but if they insist on doing so, to clearly indicate the relationship. This not only saves me time, but also ensures that the results are valid not only for yourself, but for all project participants in your run. Results have been Updated: Admixture proportions can be found in the spreadsheet All populations: Individual bars: 1. It would be interesting to know the ethnic background as well as the geographic origin of DODO193 and DODO194 (interestingly both have east Asian rather than NE asian[charachteristic of the Uralic speaking Finns]and one of them do have some Arabian admixture[I think Arabian is more accurate than southwesteren Asia since southeastern asian populations such as Jordanians seem rather mixed whereas amongst Arabian Saudis there was many individuals who ended up 100% southwestern Asian]) Indeed, the non presence of the south european and west asian component amongst both could be a clue about north European component being connected with old north european language that only survived as a substratum of words (with no known/attested language phylum's etymology) please see below "according to Sammallahti(1998: 125) about 550 proto-saami word stems i.e more than 30% of the total number of the approximately 1500 reconstructed proto-saami stems, are with uncertain origin. Lehtiranta (1989: 8) gives the number of 43%. These words have neither a loan etymology nor cognates in other Uralic languages. Some scholars have assumed that these words originate from an unknown northern European substrate language (among others Saarikvi 2004; Aikio 2004,2006)" 2. DOD188 is 50% Sicilian (Palermo area)/50% Polish (Poznan area) 3. pconroy, you might want to write that in the dedicated thread ashraf, see updated post 4. I stay with my previous thought that spaniards have too much african admixture to be considered only an ancestral heritage of past times, otherwise many other S.Europeans should have the same amount. 5. Artu', you seem to have ignored Southern Italians/Sicilians It may like be ancestral hertiage of past times, or it may not be, but both areas are close to North Africa and it 's worth considering. 6. What do you mean? You should be to the point. From what I see of Dienekes' results for the Spanish group, they do have much African admixture, and I mean sub Saharan African which Dienekes labels as West and East African. Now if you mean North African, you should know but I will tell you, the North Africans are overwhelmingly Caucasoid and have been for thousands of years. Now looking at the French, I see three have North African admixture and 7 South Asian admixture. Now most modern day South Asians in most dna tests come out Caucasoid, but they too today are mixed with non Caucasoid admixture, Mongoloid mostly but with some sub Saharan African. So who is the most Colored, Spanish or French? Not much difference from what I see. I am not French or Spanish, and frankly do not like either of those nationalities. 7. It's hardly "much" at average, at this point, of 0.2 West African and 0.5 East African. I don't think there is one individual that passes 2% when you combine the two. East African comes in with the North African, I suspect, because Southern Italians/Sicilians have 0.3% East African. The West African, which effects a few individuals, most likely comes from the Atlantic Slave trade. 8. I don't know why you get that like a personal insult. France as a longer tradition of colonies than Spain has and self reported ancestry in France is more problematic than Spain is. Then i don't get why you say that S.Asians are mixed with non-caucasoid and sub-saharan, when east african and west african is basically absent from the french samples in the rar to download so it's make no sense talking about those very samples. The northafrican-caucasoid or not- admixture in french is not even comparable to the spanish samples as well. Anyway i still don't get why all this mess about my comment, if we are here to understand admixtures from a genetic point of view what's the deal to reply with "yes but you have more south Asian" as if it was a bad thing? Maybe you are too sensitive about some matters. 9. Dostoyevsky, South Italy and Sicily are not a country, are parts of Italy who show more N.African admixture(with virtually no east and west african admixture)wich is almost absent in the rest of Italians and that is comparable only with Spain. The Spanish samples for what i know are from all over Spain, so i would like to know where this admixture come from. That's all; If everytime we speak about african admixture somebody has to whine about, we will never know the real path and source of the various african admixture in Europe. 10. Artu', I'm quite aware that southern Italy and Sicily are not a country. However, we're speaking of African admixture, are we not? The Italians are broken up into three groups in these runs, are they not? The Southern Italian and Sicilian population in Dienekes run shows slightly more North African admixture than Spaniards and almost the same amount of East African among Southern Italian/Sicily. The West African is a blank for that group. This contradicts your claim that no southern European population has much of this African admixture. It's obvious the Italian population, from north to South, can be differentiated by all except you, apparently. I was simply correcting you claim, which was not correct, and leaves open a possibility that it's older than the Moorish expansion. Personally, I think most of that admixture came during the Moorish period but I keep an open mind. It's not "whining" to correct an obvious error on your part and it certainly isn't hard to notice that there are only two possible reasons for this African admixture. Both of which I noted. 11. The spanish african admixture is very small, less than 1% together. What I find surprising is the South Asian component in other europeans and the Northeast asian in Northern europeans. I have noticed also the absence of North African component in the Catalan samples. 12. Artu', I should have mentioned this before: I just find your language strange. You say Southern Italy and Sicily show "virtually no East and West African." The difference is 0.3% to 0.5% on average and with regards to West Africa it's 0% to 0.2% on average. I already on the mostly likely reasons why this would be the case. 13. Dostoyevsky, can you read or not by any chance? Who has ever said that Italy can't be differentiated? Tuscans and N.Italians are there to testify that african admixture there is almost absent. Southern Italy and Sicily have more,Spain too, and if you mind to dowload the rar kindly offered by Dienekes you will see that between the southern italians\sicilians samples only one has some east african admixture, the rest is N.african and more or less at the same % of Spain. All the rest of your posts don't say anything that i didn't already know. 14. Spaniards Southern Italians/Sicilians I would like to know what i have said so weird and where the sicilian\southern italian samples show more west and east african than Spain's samples. African admixture is larger in the spaniash samples, want it or not and sincerely i could care less if people make an issue of it. This is genetic not a pure race championship. 15. Artu', I was being sarcastic since it was clear you didn't both to differentiate when you made your initial comment. I have downloaded the RAR file. That speaks of individuals. However, I've asked you take a look at averages, which you, for whatever reason, refuse to do. It's a a question of wanting or not wanting but of correcting you on your initial claim. I already addressed it and you simply reply that I'm telling you something you already know. I find that questionable since in your own response you stated there was "virtually no east and west african admixture" in Southern Italian and Sicilian population. I find it odd that 0.3% is not worth mentioning in contrast to the Spanish 0.5% and only a few Spaniards show West Africa (0.2% on average). If we are going to whine whenever we are corrected tehn we will never find the right path on how African admixture arrived in particular areas of Europe. 16. Artu', No one is denying African admixture in Spaniards or "whining" about it. You seem to have gone down that road regardless of what has been said by me. I personally don't care, although not for the same reason as Ponto. I have a preference for people speaking correctly about a situation and your claim was flawed, in particular by ignoring the North African influence. You quickly tried to distance yourself from that by focusing on East and West African admixture. Ironically you fall into the same trap you accused others of falling into. That being said, I wonder about that East African admixture. The West African is too obvious. You're correct that only one Southern Italian/Sicilian in the sample has it in excess. I think this undermines my belief, at this point, that the East African comes through with the North African expansion into southern Europe. Although I'd like to see more samples. So it is rather strange. I'm not here to fight with you, Artu', and nor am I hear to be accused of anything when I attack someone's claim. 17. Artu' The 0.2% african in spaniards is just noise, the same way the 0.2 % South Indian in Orcadians is noise, or you are just picking up what should be real and what not ? Are you saying Orcadians have Indian ancestry ? Because the percentages are exactly the same. 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RealTime IT News Virtualization Comes to the Fore... Again As major systems vendors are lining up to declare utility computing strategies, smaller infrastructure providers are shaping their product portfolios around the current trend for rendering computing resources as pay-as-you-go options. Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware is one such concern who stands to benefit from the explosion in on-demand services, which help corporations cut back on the manpower they need to manage their data centers, and by extension, cut costs. VMware specializes in virtualization -- the practice of making resources from disparate devices accessible via one location -- for Intel-based servers. The company Monday unveiled the VMware VirtualCenter as a key piece to help those interested in laying a utility computing foundation manage their infrastructure. 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There is also a VirtualCenter software development kit so that events can be triggered by external systems. VMware VirtualCenter includes the VirtualCenter Management Server and VirtualCenter Management Packs. The VirtualCenter Management Server is $5,000. VirtualCenter Management Packs are $600 per 2-CPU. VMotion is an optional add-on and is $1,400 per 2-CPU. Microsoft says virtualize it Microsoft entered the Intel virtualization fray last February when it purchased Connectix. Monday the software giant took its Virtual PC 2004, a desktop virtual machine solution to help customers migrate legacy applications to Windows XP, to manufacturing before its formal launch. Microsoft Virtual 2004 is a tool enterprise customers can use to run multiple operating systems on one PC, so employees can run critical legacy applications on an interim basis while developers proceed with the migration to Windows XP Professional. Like the VMware VirtualCenter, Virtual PC 2004 provides rapid configuration, enabling desk or call center employees to switch among operating systems without logging in and out between calls. Also like the VMware solution, Virtual PC 2004 allows developers to test their software for bugs across multiple platforms. New features of Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 include support for as many as four network adapters per virtual machine; XML file-based configuration of virtual machines to make the copying of a virtual machine to another computer easier ; and 4 GB of memory support. The software will retain Virtual Machine Additions, which provides a high level of integration between host and guest operating systems, including mouse, time synchronization, cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop, and folder sharing. 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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Somebody Put Baby In a Corner Alright, blogoverse...I need your help. My beloved is stranded on a desert island. Ok, so not a desert island. But it is deserted. And an island. So there are 2 flights a week, and if the flight in can't land, it can't take off. And that's what happened on Sunday. And may very well happen again tomorrow, if we don't all pitch in and think "STILLNESS and VISIBILITY." Thanks! I am positive this will work, because the power of positive thinking MUST be stronger than the power of 75 mile an hour winds off the Bering Sea. Right? Maybe until he returns I should wear mourning colors and pace about? Sounds like a plan, if only I could find time in my busy day to pace! Maybe during a conference call... Dress, Hanna Anderssonn (how many Ns and Esses?); blouse, Loft, thrifted!; Bangles, Grandma; boots, the great state of Texas; necklance, Pink, Saranac Lake; hair, in need of a trim! 1 comment: 1. I hope your loved one is with you soon!In any case black color can also be classy,profesional,versatile, serious we cannot really live without it(stylisticly speaking!) Comments? Yes, please!	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9146296977996826}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '60415', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4AMHNMHYKEGYG46XKKMACO6SKQXQ63UY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:575fdc6e-583c-4e4a-9b53-9b6e9dec2e1f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 12, 44, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.12.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ABY5BRJYIUN7IH5XNV4IKVIHJU432IYH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6253a79c-06bd-4d4a-a12b-b6333c1e02ba>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://efforeffort.blogspot.com/2011/01/somebody-put-baby-in-corner.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae39579e-3195-48f3-9476-53b99e91397c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '189', 'url': 'http://efforeffort.blogspot.com/2011/01/somebody-put-baby-in-corner.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-229-203-126.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04337441921234131', 'original_id': '71bc60c3a257480b5d21708ffaf3c240da4ee05e208a42c6c941d753fd413056'}
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• The boxes are placed 30 feet apart from the center of the hole to the center of the other hole. Game Rules: • Each team has 4 bags to throw. • When 4 players are playing, one member from each team stands at both ends of the boxes. • Each player must throw from behind the front of the box. This is the foul line. The player must not pass the foul line or the player’s throw does not count and the bag is removed. • Each team alternates shots beginning with the team that scored the last point. • Points are scored when a player has a bag on the board or in the hole. • Only one team can score points per round because points cancel each other out. • A bag put on the board = 1 point • A bag put in the hole = 3 points • The maximum amount of points scored in a single round is 12 points. (4 bags from the same team in the hole) An example of cancellation of points is if one team has 1 bag in the hole and 3 bags on the board and the other team has 2 bags in the hole and none on the board. 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 + 3 + 0 + 0. If this were to happen in a game the resulting round would be called a wash and the first team to throw in the last round would throw again in the next round. • The game is over when one team scores 21 points, but the winning team must win by 2 points. • A bag that hits another players bag or any other bag is legal and still in play. If a player throws a bag and the result is that it hits the other players bag in the hole, the bag in the hole counts as such. If a player knocks another players bag off of the board, that bag stays off of the board. • A bag that hits the ground for any reason is considered dead. If a bag bounces and lands on the board it is dead and must be removed from the board before play may continue. Credit: http://www.americansale.com/bean_bag_rules.aspx	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '6', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9656111598014832}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '24144', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DCARIA3UHCZCK4UXVMAML6WNFFEHC6FW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:881ea711-d832-4d7d-a4e7-2aa806f38f40>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 37, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '107.180.48.116', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3STIHV6MVDYX3D6ZWFTNBGJTESVWFR6N', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dee13b48-36f2-405c-aa94-7378357a8d0b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://mcardleleisuregames.com/events/backyard-games/bags/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9731eba0-ede2-4bc9-a1b6-bcd21c4e4bba>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '371', 'url': 'http://mcardleleisuregames.com/events/backyard-games/bags/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-148-11-10.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06916940212249756', 'original_id': '607e6b42e32e9508b728ba9bc17ec17661c46c34d969599707c6b6237f515bcf'}
5 Performance Testing Considerations for Application Integrations Performance Testing Image via Flickr Enterprise integrations are complex, both functionally, due to implementation of a business process; and technically, due to introduction of one or more runtime layers between applications. Since these integrations typically represent end-to-end business flows, developers need to ensure that the performance meets the business need. Here are some considerations when planning for performance testing of service oriented architecture (SOA) projects that integrate enterprise applications, such as Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture (AIA). Update April 21, 2011: AIA specific tuning details can be found in Chapter 28 of the Developer’s Guide for AIA 11gR1 (E17364-02). 1. Define the End Goal. Clearly. It may sound obvious, but it is the main cause of performance testing efforts going awry – lack of a clear end goal. Note: “make it run faster” does not count as a clear goal! Quantify desired metrics in an objective manner by setting Key Performance Indicators (KPI). Here are some KPIs you may want to check for: • Throughput of the end-to-end business flow by users, payload size, volume • Response Time for the end-to-end business flow by users, payload size, volume • Throughput of integration layer only (legacy application interactions stubbed out) • Response of integration layer only (legacy application interactions stubbed out) 2. Use Metrics Relevant to the Business System performance KPI should be derived from business metrics so that it involves both business and IT. This results in a more realistic goal than arbitrary benchmarks set by developers or vendors. For example, the throughput KPI could be derived based on a formula that uses software cost and peak order volume to result in a “minimum orders per CPU core per minute” indicator that satisfies the business needs. When looking at transactions, always consider “peak” spikes vs the average. For example, orders coming in usually have peak periods (e.g. holiday season sales), wherein the system will be subject to transaction load that is a magnitude higher than on non-peak times. Defining KPIs based on peak transaction volumes will not only help in setting realistic goals, but ensures true success of the project when it actually handles the load when it is most needed by the business. Finally, don’t try to boil the ocean – identify a subset of the integration use cases which are prone to performance bottlenecks and meet all the KPIs before attempting other ones. 3. Do you REALLY Need Production Grade Hardware for Testing? Using dedicated hardware is always better than sharing existing development or QA environments. However, every business has different needs with their enterprise applications and even this changes by business process. For example, an order-to-cash process may have a need for consistently high target performance metrics with medium-high load; as compared to the financial close process, which may need it once every quarter with high load. Instead of buying or configuring hardware that necessarily matches every possible target scenario, consider the use of commodity hardware with matching “normalized” KPIs that are downsized from the target business scenario. For example, say the production hardware uses a given compute unit (CPU/memory/cache specification); and the commodity hardware is determined to be one-fourth the compute unit. If the business KPI target is 40 orders/CPU core/minute on the production grade hardware, then the internal, normalized KPI would be one-fourth of that i.e. performance testing would need to achieve 10 orders/CPU core/minute on the commodity hardware to be considered successful. Of course, the benchmark may not scale as linearly, but this can be easily factored into the equation, providing a good educated estimate of the integration performance. Compared to the alternative of not testing due to hardware unavailability and discovering issues in production, use of commodity hardware and normalized KPIs can be a very viable performance testing approach. 4. Choose a Consistent Testing Strategy For integration scenarios, a bottoms up testing strategy may be useful to consider, i.e. optimize a single use case fully (to reach desired KPIs) before introducing additional artifacts or flows. Plan on the sequencing of the use cases appropriately, which can save some cycles e.g. between a Query and an Insert use case, the Query may look simpler, but it needs data which can anyway be seeded by the Insert use case, so it may make sense to proceed with Insert first. Also, identify the “data profiles” for the use cases and create representative sample data e.g. B2B orders may have 50-100 lines per order whereas B2C orders may only have 4-5 lines/order. For each use case, once KPIs are met with for a particular number of users, payload size etc., run longevity tests for at least 24 hours to ensure that the flow does not have memory leaks or other issues. Check the desired metrics e.g. JVM garbage collection, database AWR reports etc. and purge data after each run to ensure consistency between tests. When the above passes, gradually increase number of users and increase payload on the same use case to identify system limitations when under load. Once the specific use case is optimized to KPI for concurrent users / payload, add new flows to the mix and tune. While the above may again seem obvious, the temptation to “switch gears” when one use case is not fully working can cause a lot of overhead in switching context by the project teams and setting up data for the new use case etc. It is better to complete one full use case successfully before targeting others. 5. What about Standalone Testing for Integrations? Standalone testing – stubbing out enterprise applications – is useful strategy to identify integration hotspots and remove the unknowns of the enterprise application performance from the integration scenario. However, be aware that it will not identify all performance issues. Developing stubs requires substantial investment to emulate the edge applications and may be non-trivial for enterprise applications that typically have complex setups. Furthermore, some integration settings on the SOA server will typically change when the applications are introduced, so avoid over-tuning the solution when performing standalone integration testing. Performance testing and tuning is still somewhat of an art that requires a good understanding of the technologies, its limitations, and all the available tuning “knobs” in each technology to achieve the KPI requirements of the integration flow. 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Nitroglycerine and nitro- cellulose rocket fuel Nitroglycerine and nitro- cellulose rocket fuel A705/0041 Rights Managed Request low-res file 530 pixels on longest edge, unwatermarked Request/Download high-res file Uncompressed file size: 24.0MB Downloadable file size: 1.1MB Price image Pricing Please login to use the price calculator Caption: Rocket fuel. Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of crystals of solid rocket fuel, also called rocket propellant. These crystals are of a double based- type of solid rocket fuel made of a nitrocellulose-type of gunpowder dissolved in nitroglycerine. Both these ingredients are explosives and extremely hazardous to handle and store. Rocket propellant ingredients have particular functions such as fuel, oxidiser, binder and these two ingredients fulfil these requirements. Magnification: x3000 at 8x10 inch size. Keywords: chemical, chemistry, compound, compounds, crystal, crystals, double base, fuel, hydrocarbon, hydrocarbons, nitrocellulose, nitroglycerine, organic, propellant, rocket, rocket fuel, rocket propellant, scanning electron micrograph, sem, solid, solid rocket fuel	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '14', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.7782665491104126}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '13522', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Q2TWH35M2XUALBGKZC5GSQLYZPWL5BR5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:40df6802-f39f-4a9c-b5f3-959a49347d9f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 53, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '217.138.0.102', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VEIOHJWVCCAHAV5Q52GJU5H24MUWT3XX', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6e6ebad1-70b0-48af-b5d8-b364c5cfd776>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/9633/view', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:00c7abd9-45cc-4f32-acd7-a291186054a9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '181', 'url': 'http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/9633/view', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-39-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.2639250159263611', 'original_id': 'c6272ab68683812a7ea8642df1416413914b5b015a2847cac4c920314f1a10ab'}
Using scripts Xem 1-20 trên 529 kết quả Using scripts • After completing this appendix, you should be able to do the following: Log in to SQLPlus Edit SQL commands Format output using SQLPlus commands Interact with script files ppt16p trinh02 28-01-2013 28 7 Download • After completing this appendix, you should be able to do the following: Describe the types of problems that are solved by using SQL to generate SQL Write a script that generates a script of DROP TABLE statements Write a script that generates a script of INSERT INTO statements ppt14p trinh02 28-01-2013 30 5 Download pdf380p ringphone 07-05-2013 45 3 Download • (BQ) Part 1 book "MATLAB an introduction with applications" has contents: Starting with MATLAB, creating array, mathematical operations with arrays, using script files and managing data, two dimensional plots, programming in MATLAB. pdf170p bautroibinhyen18 21-02-2017 6 1 Download pdf46p tamhnd 19-05-2009 538 160 Download pdf470p tranvietson1983 23-03-2010 162 46 Download pdf528p phungnguyet_123 20-02-2013 57 23 Download • Using Windows Script Host to Modify the Registry In Chapter 10 we already touched on the problem of using Windows Script Host (WSH) and even provided a small code excerpt pdf8p kisiheo 26-07-2010 99 17 Download pdf723p caucaphung 04-02-2013 49 16 Download • This book is about programming. So, what is programming? The term programming means to create (or develop) software, which is also called a program. In basic terms, software contains the instructions that tell a computer—or a computerized device—what to do. Software is all around you, even in devices that you might not think would need it. Of course, you expect to find and use software on a personal computer, but software also plays a role in running airplanes, cars, cell phones, and even toasters. pdf582p hellvn 03-05-2013 73 10 Download pdf843p caucaphung 02-02-2013 37 9 Download • The primary purpose of this book is to help scientists and engineers working intensively with computers to become more productive, have more fun, and increase the reliability of their investigations. Scripting in the Python programming language can be a key tool for reaching these goals [27,29]. The term scripting means diﬀerent things to diﬀerent people. 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arrow Register here Forgotten password? New Europe Day Sixty-one: Sighisoara to Bucharest The Transylvanian countryside click to enlarge file size The Transylvanian countryside is some of the least spoilt in Europe. Chemicals and agribusiness haven't made much of an impact here. Michael Palin - New Europe'Transylvania had its high Middle Ages... its Baroque, its Enlightenment, all the historical ages that made Europe... that did not exist in Russia or in Romania, ... Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Thrace, Greece and the Ukraine.' These are the words of historian John Lukacs, quoted in Robert D. Kaplan's book Balkan Ghosts, and they neatly answer a few questions, like why the loss of Transylvania to Romania hurt the Hungarians and Germans so much, and still hurts. It also must explain the frustration of those who see Transylvania becoming synonymous not so much with enlightenment but with one of the world's most exportable fantasies. When Bram Stoker created Count Dracula he created not just a monster but a monster people wanted to believe in. Dracula emerged, not just from death into life, but from fiction to reality. Bran Castle, 17 miles south-west of the city of Brasov, soars dramatically from an unassailable crag. Red-tiled hipped roofs, a towering crenellated keep pierced by stone chimney stacks, all framed in golden autumn colours. Though there is no evidence that Bran Castle had anything to do with Vlad the Impaler, apart possibly from a bit of besieging in 1460, people want to believe that these were the real walls he clambered round, and these were the actual lamp-lit windows he entered. So, around us, beside the car park, the Dracula industry is in full swing. For the drinkers, Vampire Pinot Noir or Dracula's Blood, for the parents, T-shirts and mugs, for the kiddies, severed hands, and for the clubbers, a Prince of Darkness disco, complete with twitching skeletons. And it could have been much worse. 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Issue Navigator Volume 12 No. 11 Earn CME Accepted Papers Scientific Investigations Does Subjective Sleep Affect Bone Mineral Density in Older People with Minimal Health Disorders? The PROOF Cohort Magali Saint Martin, PhD1,3; Pierre Labeix, MSc1; Martin Garet, PhD1; Thomas Thierry, MD2; Jean-Claude Barthélémy, MD, PhD1; Philippe Collet, MD2; Frédéric Roche, MD, PhD1; Emilia Sforza, MD, PhD1 1Service de Physiologie Clinique et de l'Exercice, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, Faculté de Médecine Jacques Lisfranc, PRES de Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France; 2Service de Rhumatologie, CHU Saint-Etienne, Faculté de Médecine Jacques Lisfranc, Inserm U1059 LBTO, UJM, PRES de Lyon, Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France; 3Service de Neurologie, réhabilitation cognitive, centre Hélio Marin, Hyères, France Study Objectives: Clinical and epidemiological studies suggest a relation between bone mineral density (BMD) and self-assessment of sleep with an effect on bone formation and osteoporosis (OS) risk in short and long sleepers. This study explores this association in a large sample of older subjects. We examined 500 participants without insomnia complaints aged 65.7 ± 0.8 y. Each participant had a full evaluation including anthropometric measurement, clinical examination and measurements of BMD at the lumbar spine and femoral sites by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The daily energy expenditure (DEE) was measured by the Population Physical Activity Questionnaire. Sleep duration and quality were evaluated by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. The subjects were stratified into three groups according to sleep duration, i.e., short (< 6 h), normal (6–8 h), and long (≥ 8 h) sleepers. Osteopenia was found in 40% of the subjects at the femoral level and 43% at the vertebral level. The prevalence of OS was lower both at femoral (8%) and vertebral (12%) levels. Short, normal, and long sleepers accounted for 29%, 40%, and 31% of subjects, respectively. After adjustments for metabolic, anthropometric, and DEE, multinomial logistic regression analysis indicated that long sleepers were more likely to have femoral neck OS with a slight effect of DEE at vertebral spine. In a sample of older subjects, self-reported long sleep was the best predictor of OS risk at the femoral level. This finding suggests an association between OS and self-reported sleep duration in older subjects. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT 00759304 and NCT 00766584 Saint Martin M, Labeix P, Garet M, Thierry T, Barthélémy JC, Collet P, Roche F, Sforza E. Does subjective sleep affect bone mineral density in older people with minimal health disorders? The PROOF cohort. J Clin Sleep Med 2016;12(11):1461–1469. Osteoporosis (OS) is a bone disorder characterized by reduced bone mass density and microarchitectural deterioration of bone tissue resulting in skeletal fragility and fracture susceptibility, both considered as significant risk factors for morbidity and mortality among elderly.1 There is growing evidence suggesting that not only anthropometric factors, hypertension,2 diabetes,3 obesity,4 and physical activity5 but also sleep duration6,7,8 are implicated in decreased bone mineral density (BMD) in elderly. The association between sleep duration and osteoporosis has been recently studied with conflicting results,9,10 with some studies stressing the independent risk of short sleep for OS and others reporting an independent risk in long sleepers. In an epidemiological study of a population aged between 46–86 y, Tian et al.11 found that self-reported habitual sleep duration of 9 h or longer was associated with an increased prevalence of OS. However, in the NHANES12 study of 5,288 adults aged 50 y and older, a sleep duration < 6 h per night was associated with a significantly increased risk of OS, but only in the older age group (> 65 y). The discrepancies among studies stem from important limitations concerning the large range of age, the limited evaluation of sleep duration using just a single question, the incomplete assessment of BMD without strict criteria to define osteopenia (OP) and OS, and the lack of data concerning an individual's lifestyle and physical activity (Table 1). Current Knowledge/Study Rationale: Osteoporosis is a risk factor for fracture in the elderly. The role of short or long sleep time may affect the risk of osteoporosis. Study Impact: In older people, long sleep duration might be a major factor of osteoporosis risk. Clinicians should consider the role of sleep on bone metabolism in order to educate patients to have not only an increased physical activity but also reduced sleep duration. Reported literature studies on sleep duration and bone mineral density (BMD) or osteoporosis. table icon Table 1 (more ...) The Prognostic Indicator of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events (PROOF) study13 provides an opportunity to examine the association between OS and self-reported sleep quality and duration in a larger sample of community-dwelling elderly with homogenous age, without insomnia complaints, and with no report of major health disease or previous diagnosis or treatment for OS. Sleep duration was assessed using a validated sleep questionnaire for self-reported sleep, i.e., the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI),14 that assesses more accurately not only sleep duration but also sleep quality, which represents a somewhat novel approach to evaluate the effect of sleep on BMD. The aims of the current study were two-fold: (1) to determine whether sleep duration and sleep quality play a role on bone mineral density and on the presence of OP/OS in an older population with minimal health diseases; and (2) to assess whether in addition to physical activity sleep duration increase the OS risk in older people. The participants consisted of a subset of individuals enrolled in a prospective study (the PROOF study) to investigate the influence of autonomic nervous system activity on cognitive functioning and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity. The details of the PROOF study have been previously described.13 Briefly, the subjects were recruited from Saint-Etienne, France, from 2001 to 2003 and were eligible if they were 65 y old at the inclusion date. The exclusion criteria were defined as follows: previous myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, cardiac pacemaker, stroke, neurological or psychiatric disease, insulin-dependent diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cerebral magnetic resonance results suggesting neurological diseases or initial dementia, and current residence in institutions. Of the 3,983 eligible participants, the final study included 1,011 volunteers. Two ancillary studies addressing the association between OSA and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events (SYNAPSE study) and the change in cognitive function (SIEMPRE study) over time were proposed to the participants. Subjects under anti-OS medication (15%) and subjects without complete PSQI questionnaires were excluded from the analysis. The final sample consisted of 500 subjects, aged 65.7 ± 0.8 y (58% women). The PROOF study was approved by the University Hospital and the local Ethics Committee (CCPRB Rhone-Alpes Loire). The National Committee for Information and Liberty (CNIL) gave consent for data collection. All subjects gave their written consent prior to participation in the study. Clinical Assessment Detailed self-reported clinical assessment was focused on cardiac and cerebrovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, and respiratory, neurological and psychiatric disorders, alcohol consumption and smoking. Current medication was both self-reported by the subjects and confirmed by medical prescription with regard to antihypertensive, antidiabetic, antilipemic and hypnotic, anxiolytic and/or antidepressant therapy. None of the subjects had diagnosis of other sleep disorders except sleep disordered breathing, 42% of the sample having an apnea-hypopnea index > 15. For ethical reasons, subjects did not discontinue hypolipidemic, diabetic or hypertensive medication for the study. During the clinical evaluation, the height in stocking feet and weight in light clothing were measured, and the body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight/height squared (kg/m2). Physical activity was assessed using the validated Population Physical Activity questionnaire (POPAQ).15 This questionnaire included a set of 82 questions investigating all items of physical activity over the previous week. The data collected allowed calculation of the daily energy expenditure (DEE, kJ/24 h). Measurement of Body Composition by Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) The subjects were referred to the Rheumatologic Research Group of the University Hospital of Saint-Etienne (France) for evaluation of bone metabolism. This was measured with a whole body DXA scanner (Hologic QDR-2000, software version V5.67A, Hologic Inc., Bedford, MA, USA). The standard procedures described in the literature for DXA measurement were applied.16 BMD was measured for all subjects at the proximal femur and lumbar spine (L1-L4) with a coefficient of variation of 0.8% and < 1.2%, respectively. It was expressed in g/cm2 and as peak bone mass percentage in normal subjects (T-score). BMD results for the femoral neck and lumbar spine were classified into 3 groups according to World Health Organization criteria: normal (T-score > −1.0 SD), OP (T-score −1.0 to −2.5 SD) and OS (T-score < −2.5 SD).17 Self-Assessment of Sleep Subjective sleep quality and duration were assessed by PSQI, which has been proven to have an excellent sensitivity and reliability in middle-aged subjects14 and in the elderly.18 The questionnaire assessed subjective sleep quality and quantitative sleep-wake parameters, i.e., sleep latency, sleep duration and sleep efficiency over the preceding month. A global PSQI score ranging from 0 to 21 is calculated, with higher scores indicating worse sleep. The responses to the 19 questions in the questionnaire were scaled into 7 component scores (subjective sleep quality [C1], sleep onset latency in minutes [C2], sleep duration in hours [C3], percentage sleep efficiency [time spent asleep divided by the time spent in bed; C4], sleep disturbances [such as awakenings from sleep due to discomfort or bad dreams; C5], use of sleep medication [C6], and daytime dysfunction [C7]). These 7 components were weighted equally on an ordinal scale of 0–3. Sleep duration was analyzed as a categorical variable and based on the reported sleep duration, three groups were defined: short sleepers, who slept < 6 h; normal sleepers, who slept between 6–8 h; and long sleepers, who slept ≥ 8 h.19 The cutoff values for sleep duration were chosen on the basis of previous studies showing that a sleep duration < 6 h20 indicated short sleep and a sleep duration of approximately 7 h conferred a low risk for cardiovascular consequences.21,22,23 The sleep duration in hours, the subjective sleep quality and the percentage of sleep efficiency were quantified on the basis of the 4 possibilities for answers to items C1, C3 and C4. At-Home Respiratory Recording All subjects underwent a full night ambulatory polygraphic recording using a polygraphic system (HypnoPTT, Tyco Health-care, Puritan Bennett, US). The following parameters were included: sound measurement, electrocardiography, pulse transit time, R-R timing, nasal pressure, respiratory effort and body position. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) was measured by pulse oximetry. To minimize potential overestimation of sleep duration, subjects completed the St. Mary's Hospital questionnaire, while wakefulness before lights-off was excluded by the analysis. All examinations were visually validated and manually scored for respiratory events and nocturnal SpO2 according to the Chicago criteria24 by a single scorer (F.R.), with an intra-scorer reliability of 87%. Hypopnea was defined as ≥ 50%reduction in airflow from the baseline value lasting ≥ 10 s and associated with ≥ 3% oxygen desaturation. Apnea was defined as the absence of airflow in the nasal cannula lasting for ≥ 10 s. The absence of rib cage movements associated with apnea defined the event as central, while a progressive increase in pulse transit time and respiratory efforts allowed definition of the episode as obstructive. Apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was defined as the ratio of the number of obstructive apneas and hypopneas per hour of reported sleeping time. The indices of nocturnal hypoxemia were as follows: mean SpO2; percentage of recording time with a SpO2 90%; minimum SpO2 value recorded during sleep (minimum SpO2); and oxygen desaturation index (ODI), i.e., the number of episodes of oxyhemoglobin desaturation per hour of reported sleep time during which blood oxygen level fell by 3% or more. Pulse transit time was continuously monitored, and the autonomic respiratory-related and total autonomic arousal indices were calculated after visual correction.25 According to recent data in elderly subjects,26 an AHI ≥ 15 with at least 50% of events scored as obstructive was considered diagnostic of OSA. Statistical Analyses The characteristics of the subjects were summarized as the mean ± standard deviation (SD) for the continuous variables and as the frequency and percentages of the sample for the categorical variables. We examined the gaussian distribution of self-reported sleep quality and BMD using skew, kurtosis, and the Levene test for the equality of variances. Study population characteristics are reported as means ± SD. The differences between the men and the women, were analyzed using parametric tests (t test, univariate analysis of variance [ANOVA]) or nonparametric tests (the Mann-Whitney U test) for the continuous variables. The χ2 test was assessed for the categorical variables. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to establish the association of BMD and clinical, anthropometric and self-reported sleep data. Concerning the bone mineral data, we focused the analyses into 3 groups according to World Health Organization criteria: normal (T-score > −1.0 SD), OP (T-score −1.0 to −2.5 SD) and OS (T-score < −2.5 SD). First, differences between the subjects with normal BMD, with OP or OS were assessed by using the χ2 test for categorical variables and with Kruskall-Wallis test for continuous variables. Second, in order to identify predictors of individual class of the dependent variable (the group of the subjects considered (with OS or OP), we conducted multinomial logistic regressions analysis according for clustering at the reported sleep duration. The reference group was the normal group. The final models were adjusted for demographic and clinical data (gender, BMI, dyslipidemia, the DEE, the AHI and the ODI) according to the differences between the 3 groups. All statistical analyses were conducted using the SPSS statistical software package (SPSS for Windows, version 17.0, SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). All reported p values are two-tailed, with significance set at p ≤ 0.05. The participants were mostly women (58%), with a mean age of 65.7 ± 0.8 y, a mean BMI of 25.3 ± 3.6 kg/m2 and a mean DEE of 10335.7 ± 1911 kJ/24 h. The mean AHI was 21.0 ± 14.4, with 42% of subjects having abnormal respiratory events. The means ± SD of the indices of nocturnal hypoxemia were 8.6 ± 9.0 for the ODI, 95.4% ± 1.8% for the mean SpO2 value, 89.9% ± 4.1% for the minimal SpO2 value, and 1.7 ± 5.1 for the SpO2 < 90%. As reported in Table 2 we found gender differences for BMI (p = 0.05), alcohol use (p < 0.001), smoking habits (p < 0.001), DEE (p < 0.001), sleep efficiency (p = 0.01), AHI (p < 0.001), ODI (p < 0.001), lumbar BMD (p < 0.001), and vertebral BMD (p < 0.001) greater in men than women. Women had higher PSQI score (p < 0.001) than men. Clinical, anthropometric, polygraphic, self-reported sleep data and DXA measurements for the study population (mean ± SD). table icon Table 2 (more ...) The mean sleep duration was 6.9 ± 1.2 h; 29 % of the subjects were “short sleepers”, 40% “normal sleepers” and 31% “long sleepers”. Mean sleep efficiency was 81% ± 13% and mean sleep quality 1.01 ± 0.6, suggesting normal sleep quality. According to previously described threshold values,18 femoral neck OP was found in 42% of cases mostly in women (76%) while OS was found in 9% of the population without gender differences. When we considered the lumbar spine site, OP was found in 40% of subjects mostly in women (57%) and OS in 12% significantly higher in women (72%). Table 3 and Figure 1 show the percentage of subjects with normal BMD, OP, and OS. Femoral neck OP was found in 42% of cases mostly in women (76%), while OS was found in 9% of the population without gender differences. When we considered the lumbar spine site, OP was found in 40% of subjects, mostly in women (57%), and OS in 12%, significantly higher in women (72%). Clinical, anthropometric and polygraphic data of subjects with normal BMD and subjects with osteopenia or osteoporosis at the femoral and vertebral levels (mean ± SD). table icon Table 3 (more ...) Percentage of subjects with normal BMD and subjects with osteopenia or osteoporosis at the femoral and vertebral levels. **p < 0.01 Figure 1 (more ...) Table 3 reports the clinical and anthropometric data for subjects having normal BMD, OP and OS. At both sites, subjects with OS differ for lower BMI (p < 0.001) and DDE (p < 0001) and greater dyslipidemia. Considering subjective sleep data (Table 4), subjects with OS at the femoral level had a greater self-reported sleep duration (p = 0.03) and were more frequently long sleepers (p = 0.004) without differences for sleep quality (p = 0.34) and sleep efficiency (p = 0.80). No sleep data differences between groups were found at the lumbar spine. Subjective sleep data in the total group and in subjects with normal BMD and osteopenia or osteoporosis at the femoral and vertebral levels (mean ± SD). table icon Table 4 (more ...) With correlation analysis, the only factors both at femoral and lumbar levels affecting BMD were BMI (femoral: r = 0.26, p < 0.001; lumbar spine: r = 0.24, p < 0.001) and DEE (femoral: r = 0.38, p < 0.001, lumbar spine: r = 0.33, p < 0.001), and dyslipidemia at the femoral level. No correlations were noted between BMD and other clinical, metabolic and subjective sleep data. Multiple logistic regression models (Table 5) were created to evaluate the risk of having OS or OP according to the presence of a normal, short or long sleep. After adjustment for gender, BMI, presence or absence of dyslipidemia and mean DEE, the long sleepers were 3.75 times more likely to have femoral neck OS (odds ratio [OR]: 6.26; 95% CI: 1.51–15.92; p = 0.011). Similar results were found for lumbar spine long sleepers having increased risk to have OS (OR: 1.83; 95% CI: 0.91–4.14; p = 0.10) without however, statistical significance. Multinomial logistic regression showing the association between osteopenia and osteoporosis at the two levels and explicative sleep, anthropometric and biological data. table icon Table 5 (more ...) The aims of this study were to analyze if outside physical activity known to affect OS self-perceived sleep duration and quality might affect BMD in older subjects with minimal health disorders and if long sleep duration might increase the risk of the OS in an older sample. The first and most important finding of this study was that subjects with long sleep duration were at risk to develop OS compared to short and normal sleepers without interference of sleep quality. This association was lacking in the subjects with OP. The second finding was the lack of strong significant interference of DEE and anthropometric and metabolic factors, commonly considered as key factors implicated in OS risk at the femoral level. We can suggest that in older subjects without major health diseases and previous diagnosis of OS, long sleep duration increases OS and fracture risk, stressing the need to consider this effect on the diagnosis and follow-up of subjects with OS. BMD reaches a peak at approximately 40 y of age and then gradually decreases27 with a sharper drop-off after menopause and at more than 60 y of age, which would explain the reported increase of OS in elderly. Previous epidemiological data in elderly reported OS prevalence in 13–18% in the USA28 and 21% in Sweden.29 In contrast, in our sample OS was present only in 9% of cases, with a greater prevalence of subjects with OP. Although speculative, we can propose that diagnosis of OS based only on clinical self-report might induce an overestimation of the real prevalence of OS, with OP subjects probably included in the OS group. As shown in Table 1, differences in methodology surrounds the results of the association between sleep duration and quality and OS. In the primary studies done between 2006–2012, criteria to define OS were self-reported; and when assessed by DXA analysis, only two authors11,30 made assessments of T-score that allowed distinction between OP and OS. Moreover, the authors considered large populations from middle-aged to older subjects more frequently in women, with definition of sleep duration and sleep quality based on just one question, “how many hours you sleep,” without specific assessment by a validated questionnaire. Finally, the majority of studies did not assess specific factors such as metabolic variables and DEE, which are known to affect BMD and consequently OS. In our population with homogenous age, we have more objective data on sleep quality and duration using PSQI, and a more detailed definition by DXA on OS and BMD at two levels, allowing a better definition of bone dysfunction. On the basis of these observations, we noted that subjects with long sleep duration were 3.75 times more likely to have femoral neck OS without significant association at the lumbar level. Interestingly, DEE and obesity did not affect OS risk, two factors considered as important factors in bone metabolism. Despite methodological differences, our results are in line with the results of Chen and coworkers,25 who examined 8,688 participants and found an increased OS risk in subjects sleeping more than 7 h. Similar data where obtained by Kobayashi et al.8 in a large population of 19,321 healthy individuals, which found that individuals with a sleep duration > 8 h had a high risk of OS. Finally, in a recent study,11 Tian and coworkers examined 31,769 participants aged 45–86 y and they found that participants having long sleep duration (> 9 h) and early sleep timing were independently associated with an increased risk of OS in older subjects. The mechanisms of the association between sleep duration and increased risk of OS in elderly are still not clearly defined. The association between short sleep and OS31 may be explained by the bad sleep quality related to associated disorders such as depression,32 rheumatism/arthritis/arthroses, changes in cortisol26 and estrogen levels related to bad sleep and menopause,33 and to over activity of inflammatory processes,34 all factors favoring bone resorption. Considering associated sleep disorders, controversy surrounds the association between sleep apnea and OS. This effect could be excluded in this sample in that, as previously reported,35 any association between OS and apnea severity was found. When we consider the link between self-reported long sleep and OS, the mechanisms are still obscure. It is unclear whether this association is causal or reflecting the role of some factors that influence sleep. Depression, physical inactivity, low socioeconomic status, poor health status, chronic disease7,36 and diabetes37 may contribute to increased OS risk. In contrast to this hypothesis, our population was free of chronic health diseases such as depression or severe diabetes. An alternative hypothesis is that long sleep reduces the wake time, which may induce a reduction of exercise time that is the most important factor to maintain a good bone metabolism.38 However, even though in our subjects with OS had lower energy expenditure, this effect acts only at the vertebral level. A second hypothesis is the role of obesity, which is considered as a preventive factor of OS. As depicted in Table 3, individuals with OS had a significantly low BMI, suggesting a reduced gravitational and mechanical load in these subjects.39,40,41 Strengths and Limitation The strengths of our study are the following: (1) the analysis of a sample of older subjects with similar age and without chronic disease; (2) the inclusion of a near homogenous group of women and men with similar age for whom no significant differences were found; and (3) the use of validated sleep and physical activity questionnaires. Some limitations, however, need to be considered. Firstly, the cross-sectional nature of our study is unable to assess the causative relationship between sleep duration and BMD. Secondly, since we analyzed a homogenous group of older subjects, with minimal health disease, that precludes the application of these results to clinical populations or to very old subjects. The present study on older people reveals that reported long sleep time may increase OS risk. Despite reduced physical activity and body mass which might contribute to OS, the greater factor affecting OS was the reported sleep duration. Further epidemiological and clinical prospective studies are necessary to confirm our findings in order to educate patients to have a reduced sleep time and increased physical activity. apnea-hypopnea index bone mineral density body mass index daily energy expenditure dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry oxygen desaturation index Population Physical Activity questionnaire Prognostic Indicator of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovas cular Events study Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index The authors would like to thank all the subjects included in the study as well as Mr. Olivier Grataloup, Dr. Stéphane Chomienne (CHU Saint-Etienne, France), and Dr. Georges Liénard (IHLCA, Hyères, France) for their expert help in data acquisition and analysis. Consensus development conference: prophylaxis and treatment of osteoporosis. Am J Med. 1991;90:107–10. 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5 Tips to Improve Your Relationship With Your Micromanaging Boss These Tips Will Help You Make This Most Important Relationship Successful ••• Digital Vision/Photoisc/Getty Images Ideally, your boss would give you general guidance when you needed it, answer questions when you have them, and give you a nice year-end bonus. But, unfortunately, that's not how many managers operate. Sometimes you can end up with a micromanaging boss who is constantly looking over your shoulder, driving you nuts. Most micromanaging bosses aren't bad people, just misguided managers. You can use these five tips to improve your relationship with your boss. Evaluate if the constant corrections are necessary. While being constantly corrected and painstakingly instructed can seem ridiculous, sometimes you need it. Does your boss constantly ask you what you're doing because you're frequently surfing your social media accounts? Does she ask you to explain your plans for the day, because you have a tendency to chat with your co-workers more than you should? The honest truth is some employees need to be tightly managed because they don't stay on task, don't do quality work, and don't perform up to the level their paychecks would suggest. If your boss is constantly on your case, evaluate our own work habits and see if you need to make some corrections. If you're missing deadlines or forgetting to respond to emails, your boss is justifiably micromanaging you. Figure out what is most important to your boss. Often, a micromanager focuses on things that you don't think are important — and, in reality, may not be important. A boss might criticize the width of the lines on your spreadsheet, or want you to put your office supplies in a certain order on your desk. These things are utterly unimportant to you, but they are extremely important to your boss. You can fight these things and remain miserable, or you can say, “You know what? It doesn't matter how this table is formatted, so I'll just do it the way the boss wants.” It may be ugly, but in things that don't really matter, you defer to the boss. Some bosses have weird quirks, and the sooner you can figure them out, the easier your life will be. You may be loathed to do this—after all, it takes away from your individuality, but the reality is you were hired to do a job, not to be yourself. Now, for super important things, pushing back makes sense, but for the little things, just give in. Don't just ask “what” but “how.” Micromanagers often care about how things get done, not just that they do get done. Save yourself a boatload of pain by asking “how” at the beginning of the project. It may be extremely clear to you that the proper steps are A, B, C, and D, but if you ask your micromanager, she might reply, “A, C, D, B.” Now, of course, you should push back (gently) if that's ridiculous, but if it's just different than what you would normally do, go ahead and do it her way. After you've proven your success, you can try one of the steps above to ask if you can manage the how on your own. Ask for a bit more freedom. Sometimes micromanagers supervise work closely because they are absolutely convinced that if they stop directing everything you do, you'll stop working. They often prove this because employees become so disheartened while working under them, that they do just give up and sit there when no one is giving step by step instructions. Managers can often be convinced if you can demonstrate competence, so ask. Start with something like this: “Jane, I really appreciate the mentoring you've given me since I started, but I think I'm ready for a bit more responsibility. Instead of meeting with you every day to discuss my project, can we have a weekly meeting? If I run into problems, I'll come to you straight away, but I think I'm ready to fly on my own.” Notice that you're not just saying, “Get off my back, you crazy control freak!” You're thanking your boss for mentoring you, which makes your boss think it's her good management skills that have brought you to this point. Yes, this is sucking up. Yes, it works. If your boss agrees, you need to work harder than you've ever worked before in your life. Don't mess up; you only get one chance. Pay special attention to the annoying little quirks that your boss thinks are important. Be honest. Sometimes your micromanaging boss is unaware that she's being too overbearing. This is especially the case with new managers who aren't comfortable in a management role. The one thing a new manager knows she's supposed to do is to tell employees what to do and then follow up with them. Such a boss may be inadvertently micromanaging you. So speak up! “Jane, I'm a pretty independent worker. For instance, I did [successful project A] and [successful project B] largely on my own. It's one of the main reasons I was promoted into this role. "I'm starting to feel a bit smothered when I have to copy you on all of my emails and provide you with frequent updates. I work a lot better when I have a bit of freedom.” Your boss may say, “Oh, okay. Thanks for letting me know.” Don't ever frame your desire for less supervision as you're bad, but rather as, “this is a unique need that I have.” Bosses are often interested in doing what will bring about the best results and this area is no exception. Overall, don't just give up when you meet a micromanager. 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blog and portfolio of Tyler Omichinski Stories from History: Androgynous and Crossdressing Superspy Pictured here: one awesome hat, one awesome spy. Pictured here: one awesome hat, one awesome spy. This is a real story from history, so much as anything is. Pronouns are a tricky business at some times, and it is unclear how the Chevalier would map into the modern conception of sexuality, and many . Throughout this piece, the Chevalier will be presented as "he" during the periods where he presented publicly as male, and "she" during the periods where she presented publicly as female. The infamous Chevalier D'Éon was known by this shorthand name probably to save time. The full name is so long and complex that I'm not even going to bother writing it, instead I'm just going to copy-paste and call him/her Chevalier for the rest of the article. The full name was Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont. Quite the mouthful eh? Active during the late 1700s and early 1800s, the Chevalier was one of the deepest cover spies of an era. For 49 years, he appeared as male in public, though during that time he successfully infiltrated the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia by posing as a woman. However, from 1777 for the remaining 33 years of his life, (s)he presented as a woman and claimed that she had been a woman since birth. After death, doctors examined the body and declared that the Chevalier was male at birth due to "perfectly formed genitalia", though they also commented on well formed breasts. So, talking about gender aside, we have an individual who is one of the most bad ass spies in history. In 1756, Chevalier joined a secret society of spies that worked for the French King, unbeknownst to the rest of the French government. After a series of early missions against the Hapsburgs (according to the Chevalier; there's a lack of corroborating evidence), off to Russia he went. Within the Russian court, D'Éon navigated with aplomb and became the maid of honour for the Queen of Russia, serving as a powerful source for the French. With time, D'Éon became the French ambassador to Russia, continuing to develop those connections and intelligence. After the death of Elizabeth of Russia, however, D'Éon was recalled to France. After a brief stint of serving as a dragoon in the French military. Eventually sent to London to serve as a part of the representatives there, he was quickly embroiled in scandal. The Madam de Pompadour and the comte de Broglie represented two different groups who had an interest in these operations. Trapped between them, D'Éon was demoted and humiliated in his operations. It was also during this period that the speculation began that D'Éon was a woman. At one point, there was a bet on the London Stock Exchange about the sexual status of the Chevalier. When invited to answer the question once and for all, D'Éon declined. By 1774, when the King died and the spy ring was abolished, D'Éon tried to negotiate a return to France. This begins much of the conversation and speculation about D'Éon's status in terms of gender. Some observers in the era suggested that D'Éon only claimed to be a woman in 1777 for the purpose of being able to return to France, as women of the era could be forgiven for any number of things. The claim was made that D'Éon was born as a woman and raised as a man, though whether this was solely to return to France or not is questionable. The new King allowed D'Éon's return, but only under the condition that clothing be worn in accordance with the gender being claimed. There was a negotiation about who would pay for this, and eventually the King agreed that he would, and D'Éon would be able to wear the award that had been previously bestowed for service. The French revolution led to an ignominious end for the amazing D'Éon. The pension was revoked, and ultimately she was forced to live in poverty after selling off her remaining belongings. She made a living as a fencer until she was wounded and unable to continue. During this shining period, however, she was known to undertake a number of public events and an image was made in her honour, portraying her as Minerva. She would go on to be sent to debtors prison, then live with a widow. 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Tag Archives: She Helpless She a poem by Alok Mishra They laid motionless, sans breath, Sans soul in their dead corpses, Their hearts denied too… ah Misery! One branch falling upon other From the same root, same tree, Both bleeding fell, kissed the earth, Mistook as theirs, some other’s territory! Now She, Mother earth, over the mirth Of her infants, laughs, weeps and contemplates…	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8286296129226685}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '46556', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZDWWRLDJWGNF2EULOSYCCXG2KKRCBCMR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9a128d2b-d0b3-4e5c-b6c3-4f519a8c6af6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 31, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '59.160.116.195', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JSZ3IKB57ETMJ2QHLZAU3VNTZG32QHGY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1443b858-d4b4-47ec-9efa-c4da1b1b7d38>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://poetsindia.com/tag/she/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:169d4f35-8a4c-4437-b58d-d3ef5c03cbce>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '64', 'url': 'http://poetsindia.com/tag/she/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-217-249.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7104222774505615', 'original_id': 'a67030d1cf9c6da701be20a0463816420dd92db238ee365f542713a8b59b3737'}
Carmilla’s Cupcakes Daily Prompt ” So what are we supposed to do now?” Rowan Ready asked his friend Hadley Hanson. They were sitting against the wall on a broken wooden bench- down the wall from where the operating theatre used to be. Abandoned Hospital or not, The Van Blomgren Institution for the Criminaly Insane still smelled slightly antiseptic and when the breeze from the outside whispered down the halls- of which there were many in Van Blomgren you could still smell bleach too. Hadley said. ” Wait I guess. I don’t know. I’ve never been on one of these things before. Want a cupcake? My wife made them for me. She’s not a bad baker you know.” Hadley showed the plastic container to Rowan. ” They’ve got black icing.” Rowan said cautiously. ” I think the frosting is cherry flavored. Go on. Take one.” ” Will it turn my teeth black?” ” Nope. Green. Don’t ask me why.” Rowan took a cake, peeled the wrapper off popped it into his mouth and dropped the wrapper on the floor. Mid-chew he pointed at his mouth, nodded and gave Hadley a ‘thumbs up’. ” So this is what Ghost Hunters do- ” Rowan said after he swallowed Carmilla’s – pretty darn good cupcake-. Not a bad gig. You just show up, take a few pictures yell into a bunch of empty rooms and call it a day.” ” Yep. ” ” I’ll be. Here. Give me another one of those. So what’s up with the Operating Theatre then? Why all the interest in that?” Hadley leaned over and whispered into his friend’s ear, ” Unnecessary surgery. Lots and lots of unnecessary surgeries.” ” Jesus.” ” Poor bastards. It had been a mercy if they had died, but the Doc and his wife knew their stuff. And on they went.” All of the sudden the Surgery doors flew open, Rowan and Hadley each took another cupcake and they watched as a youngish man in a tight red t-shirt screamed into the hallway around him, ” Where are you, you bitch? Where are you Carmilla? Poisoning more people like you did to your husband and his friend? The neighbors children?” ‘ She didn’t do that one.” Hadley said to Rowan. She was meaner then a snake but she was no child killer.” ” It’s justice you evil vicious bitch…justice that you ended up in Doctor Benini’s Operating room getting your brain cut up. Can you hear me?” Hadley was transfixed, he chewed slowly his eyes were open wide. ” Hell. I could listen to this guy go on all day.” ‘ Really. The Doc cut up her brain?” Rowan asked ” Nah. He cut her head off and tried to sew it back on again. Close though. Hey. She came around for a minute after. So it almost worked” Hadley stood up looked into the empty plastic container and said, ” Those were good. Let’s go to the kitchen and ask Carmilla to whip us up another batch.” ” Minus the poison would be nice.” Rowan said. ” Doesn’t make any difference to us now does it? Plus, it’ makes her happy you know. Doing what she loved doing before. We all need to remember we had that.” They walked passed the youngish man in the tight t-shirt, around a woman holding a video camera that didn’t even have a battery in it and around the camera man with the camera that worked who was filming them all. It was the woman with the dummy camera who asked her fellow Ghost Hunters, ” Can you smell that? I smell cherries.” ” Hey Verna, could you say something like, can you smell that? What is that god awful blah, blah, blah.” Rowan and Hadley, shrouded in the deeping darkness of The Van Blomgren Institution for the Criminaly Insane , made their down the hall and to the cafeteria and the smell of freshly baked cupcakes. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. 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phoebe residence the house built for ms phoebe chan and mr. terence wong is now finally complete, and also nearly at the same time as lantern hotel, both small scale, medium to high budget projects, with very intense design development phases, strewn with timeline challenges and restraints on costs. the 1600 m2 residence is perched on a hill slope, overlooking a river, unkempt but clean by local standards, blocking some not so pretty architecture beyond. the material geneology remains the same, at the very least they are organic, natural and warm. a new composition is made out by placing coloured concrete close to steel work coated in micaceous oxide paint, the rest is timber and selected aggregate, some are insitu and some precast off site. the living room offers the most accurate interpretation, demonstrating the careful use of daylight throughout the scheme. wherever necessary ventilation is introduced but this is largely a naturally ventilated house. it is also one project completed after nearly three years in which zlg as an office didnt have anything built after point92. in theory this was a building that was intimately conceived with time as the essence, we had a great contractor who was sympathetic to the entire process. ultimately the client together with her partner gave us complete trust and was always encouraging, supportive and totally generous with their own time and money. the pool relocation which was earlier at the same level as the entrance was magic. it did all the things we hadnt thought about. colin okashimo who had also worked on the concept came up with some suggestions, incorporating within the house a externalised experience. the pool gave this project a very strong connection to the landform and the site elements. the double volume library is another part of the house that characterises the unique design. it does get a little too warm facing the afternoon sun, but visually from inside the house it gave a fantastic view out to the poolside, also bringing in a lot of daylight into the centre of the house. 1 comment:	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '19', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.977433145046234}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '151628', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PRDRJSUQYLL3Q67L6IXB37LUTI5VYULT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:31c4246b-6afe-44af-90a9-3a93aca819ed>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 55, 27), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.13.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:747YWRRTKQOVFJC4YSQF4K6DV46OC6MM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b7d05416-b3d7-4c1b-b49d-fea8a5d1b78e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://zlgdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/phoebe-house-is-it-really-completed.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c1093212-2927-427b-a585-ebda62da5886>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '376', 'url': 'http://zlgdesign.blogspot.com/2015/10/phoebe-house-is-it-really-completed.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-151-161-17.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.018177807331085205', 'original_id': '38d99e2394c16f8861de8c09319334c7c9b3c315be868fe6c4726177b6bf5300'}
Friday, 11 December 2015 When it comes to weight loss products, a company that immediately click into my mind is evolution slimming! The company, through its superior quality products has managed to win millions of hearts. Recently, it introduced a tea intended for weight reduction purpose, called EvoRea teatox! The product took the market by storm, and soon marked it presence in the list of effective weight loss tea present in the market! Slimming teas are normally regarded as the practical solution for weight reduction purpose. There are a number of reasons behind this fact. For example, some people find slimming teas easy on their pocket, others prefer natural means to reduce their weight, while others believe they are good for our overall health. Whatever the reason may be, the fact that all fitness experts would agree is that generally, slimming teas are effective for weight loss purpose. It is a slimming tea that works naturally to lose weight. It intends to detoxify the body in no less than 30 days! It has an excellent user review and has become the top rated weight loss product in no time! Users who actually used the product found it highly effective and beneficial for their overall health. Some users also added that while they changed their lifestyle, they noted the results to be fast and improved. Generally, evotea teatox benefits the users in the following manner: • It regulates macronutrient metabolism. • It improves mental sharpness and stamina. • It improves metabolism that is significant for regular torching of fats and calories. • It improves digestion. Interestingly, even vegetarians can use the product! Evotea teatox works in a natural manner, as all the ingredients used to formulate it are organic. All these ingredients are highly potent and are wisely chosen after great research work in the field. Few of these ingredients are vitamin B6, lactose, menthe piperita, traxacum officinale and caffeine. Let me be more specific about how effective each of its ingredients is: ü Peppermint: peppermint is extremely essential for weight reduction purpose. There are a number of reasons that supports this statement. Number one, it suppresses hunger, number two, it improves digestion that is significant for regular and smooth bowel movement, and number three, it eases stress. By this, your body makes slight cortisol that results in high metabolism, saving you from unnecessary cravings. ü Biotin: biotin aids in breaking down food. This is beneficial as sooner the food breaks; it transforms into energy, instead of being stocked up as fats. ü Caffeine: it improves metabolism, and of course, an improved metabolism ensures your body torches calories and fats faster than the normal circumstances. Apart from this, an improved metabolism also helps to boost energy. ü Horsetail and dandelion: these aids in removing toxins from the body. So these were the brief descriptions regarding some of its ingredients. What benefits these contain and how useful these are. As mentioned earlier, its organic ingredients are highly potent are best known for their efficacy in respect of weight loss. The product on a whole improves your metabolism. An improved metabolism helps accelerate the process of torching calories, whilst ensures the burning occurs on regular basis. Besides, this can also increase your energy levels, you would need for your workout sessions. The product also enhances mental sharpness, mood and focus. Even though, the product is free from any possible risks, yet few ingredients such as green tea and caffeine tends to act as stimulants, thus, there a slight chance of minor side effects do tend to exist. Though, these may settle on their own once your body accepts the change. Few people are sensitive to caffeine, however such individuals may experience nausea, vomiting or some other manageable and bearable effects. If you are expected, a nurturing mother or suffering from some serious illness or disease, do not use the product unless being permitted by your physician. The best thing about evotea teatox is its usage. You can simply enjoy the tea, and its innumerable benefits afterwards. In order to use the product, add a bad in boiling water and keep it in for at least 3 minutes. By this time, the formula will infuse in the water and your tea will be ready to consume. According to its makers, the recommended dosage is 2 cups every day. However it is more suitable if the product is taken between the meals. More specifically, a particular cup can be taken when the user wakes up, while the other can be taken in between the lunch and dinner time. In addition to this, you can drink the tea regardless of its being cold or hot! 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How to make a difference to your tourism business in 4 steps By on There are many millions of written words on how to and not too when it comes to guests staying with you and how to treat them the right location, food, bedding, wine the list goes on. When it comes to providing the best hosting, we believe there are four key points that make the difference. 1. Personality - if you're relaxed and comfortable in your own skin and like what you do it shines through and your guests will relish in your glow. 2. Passion - if you love the thought of having people to stay and engaging them in good conversation then your 50% there. However, on the reverse if you don't feel the love for your guests, no stunning house, amazing location or 800 thread Egyptian cotton sheets are going to make it happen. Your passion drives the business - if you ain't got it it's all over rover. 3. Resilience - Realize that guests will come and go, but when they leave they will talk to their friends, their travel agent, their bank manager and they will remember those places that made them feel welcome and cherished. If you can keep up the great work to get over the quiet times and just keep on providing great service without reservation then the numbers will grow and guests will come back (and bring their friends) again and again. 4. Marketing - GET YOUR PROPERTY OUT THERE, get inventive, contact a specialist who can get you in front of the right markets and give you good, honest, helpful advice. Measure and assess what you're doing so you know what you're doing wrong, throw it away and put your energy into what you're doing right. The above four points can be broadened, but the message is clear - be passionate and inventive, and always step back so you can see what you've done and what you're doing right. Read more articles Tourism Marketing with Videos: Make that Emotional Connection By \| Tomahawk at TRENZ 2017 By \| Tell Us Your Marketing Pains	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '61', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9452600479125975}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31547', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2SLMPZ3EQARCQJOXOBQVUFKK7ZTDSNVO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1bdbacc7-dc77-4314-a753-60637159ea5e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 38, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.95.81', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YTBSQNWBZVQDWU5U5ZLDZ3TCCBWWDU6M', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:620eaa3d-1d3f-4e81-9b90-21d23622bbed>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.tomahawk.co.nz/blog/how-to-make-a-difference-to-your-tourism-business-in-4-steps', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:56688140-d7b6-46ea-b40a-da4f6667f740>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '417', 'url': 'https://www.tomahawk.co.nz/blog/how-to-make-a-difference-to-your-tourism-business-in-4-steps', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-152-23-81.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.036427080631256104', 'original_id': '425220ea474eb9020fb1ba90b50bc79d99539b81f60e3d6411f440854b8f7e1f'}
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado Springs Police are investigating a shooting that left two men in the hospital Monday night. According to KXRM, police say three suspects broke into a home located on the 2400 block of E. St Vrain St. around 10 p.m. Monday. A male resident who was in the house at the time of the break in confronted the suspects, reached for a firearm and shot two of the three men. All three suspects attempted to escape on foot. The two suspects suffering from gunshot wounds were only able to run one block before their injuries forced them to stop. Police then took them into custody and transported them to a nearby hospital. Both were still receiving treatment Tuesday morning. One is in stable condition, and the second one remains in critical condition. The third male suspect was able to escape. Police continue to search for him but they did not have a description as of Tuesday morning.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9853481650352478}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '55596', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5QMO7PQDBTNMB7OYEJVZQUZU34SSKLNY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0ccddc87-fd97-49ae-855b-c62136a0567a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 40, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.116.77.247', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CPEMHW3OEALZINUUXW4LC4BP7U4L46G5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1eaebb48-edea-4c5b-95ba-71a85850d6e7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://gunpermitcenter.com/latest-news/2-colorado-springs-home-invasion-suspects-shot/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4dedddc3-1a0c-4002-85f0-58ef91e95a32>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '161', 'url': 'http://gunpermitcenter.com/latest-news/2-colorado-springs-home-invasion-suspects-shot/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-7-230-53.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04958230257034302', 'original_id': '33165e295b6e479acdb6aca20334fc0a067c1e6653848aeb5f9f481c3e166048'}
Death of the Garage Tinkerer By Patrick Lencioni It seems that every week more and more high tech CEOs are creating millions of dollars of personal wealth for themselves and their employees. This is not news to anyone who reads the business section from time to time. However, what may be news is the extent to which many of today's pre-IPO start-ups are struggling. To put it mildly, they are disillusioned. Tired and impatient, today's young companies are hitting levels of disappointment that even the most cynical among them did not anticipate. What they've got is a new strain of the start-up blues. Why has this happened? A new breed of entrepreneur populates today's startup Gone are the techy product maniacs who wanted nothing more than to prove that their ideas were valid and have others acknowledge as much. Today, startups too often look like smaller versions of the big companies where their employees used to work. A telltale sign of this is the physical look and feel of many startup offices. In the old days, entrepreneurial ventures began in garages or spare bedrooms, which was fine with the people who ran them. Moving into a real office, even a shabby one, seemed like a luxury that was earned only with initial success. Now, more and more new companies are shopping for prime real estate and funky office furniture before they've even completed their first round of financing. And perks like medical benefits, free sodas and quarterly bonuses are becoming common in companies that have no idea how they will ever turn a profit. The leaders of these companies justifiably defend all of this by explaining that they will not be able to lure talented employees to their enterprises. More than ever, startup employees are people with mortgages, families, and most important of all, expectations of comfort and security. Given today's shortage of educated employees, it is unrealistic to expect employees to reduce their demands any time soon. Certainly, this early drive for perks and amenities makes some sense in today's business climate when the sheer speed of ramping up a new company, and the quick rewards that exist for doing so, makes it necessary for companies to move quicker than any time in the past. However, all too often the motivation is about comfort, not necessity. But it's not just the employees who have high expectations. Another characteristic of the new culture is a profile of executives who have little sense of the hardships that their predecessors faced in the eighties. When members of this new generation hit their inevitable first big obstacle, many of them experience disproportionate levels of anxiety and frustration. This happens because their eyes are too often fixed on the financial rewards of their work, rather than on the work itself. They sometimes seem more passionate about the post-IPO net worth of their stock rather than the features of their products or the needs of their customers. Ironically, they are often surprisingly disappointed with their generation x employees who "just don't seem to care about their work". As a result, today's employees resemble mercenaries rather than missionaries, and their leaders seem more like Las Vegas gamblers than pioneering entrepreneurs trying to change the world. At a time where venture capital seems as available as stock advice, and where every potential employee has multiple job offers, what is a well-intentioned executive to do? First, make sure you like what you're doing. While that may sound like advice from mom, it is actually an insurance policy against the startup blues. Passion for a cause will ensure that the journey toward entrepreneurial success is as rewarding as the accomplishment itself. Just as importantly, it will carry an entrepreneur much further than the desire for financial gains alone. And when the possibility of hitting the IPO jack-pot slips into the improbably category, as it most certainly will from time to time, there is nothing like a sense of passion and purpose to get you through the day. That and a little bridge financing. Second, recruit employees who buy into your purpose. This is advantageous not only because they are more likely to hang with you during difficult times, but because you'll have an effective and unique lever for attracting good people, even if you're offering a few less stock options than the startup down the street. Third, live below your means. Even if you've raised enough funds to afford it, resist the temptation to upgrade your facilities until customer needs and space requirements make it necessary. A nice office will not keep employees loyal and motivated if the organization is not a healthy one. More importantly, giving employees perks and comforts before they are necessary can destroy the sense of accountability, sacrifice and commitment that any great startup needs. Can a company pull off a rocketship IPO or a profitable sale without following this advice? In some cases, yes. But without a strong sense of passion, purpose and sacrifice, you run the risk of letting simple problems do extraordinary damage to your venture. 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Donation for BeginnersXianxia Martial Void King BeginnersXianxia: For the school year, there will be one chapter a week released Friday-Sunday. For every 10$ there will be an additional chapter released within a two week period of the donation. $0/ $10 Bruce September 8, 2016: 20$ WoI Teaser Wharton finally made his move! Just at this time, the duration of the Sealed God light screen was over. This was a flawless trap. All of them was for this single blade attack! An almost transparent jade-like knife seemed to have pierced through the space and time. It was only as big as a thumb, and as long as a finger. The nip in the air gave rise to a bone-chilling fear. The pricking murderous aura actually assaulted Xiao Chen’s entire body from every direction. The tiny yet resplendent blade was about to make contact with his chest, unless he was a god, it was already impossible to avoid it! Death was only a few inch apart from Xiao Chen, although he felt unwilling, he already didn’t have the strength to reverse the situation. He was unable to change the end result at this moment, he could only wait for his impending death. Tips to Make Your Life Easier Table of Content 1. Copy a Post 2. Remove underlined links 3. Shortlink and Ping 4. Donation Bar 5. Copy/Paste Formatting 1. Copy a Post I know the posting format might be a little hard to get used to at first, and it is very annoying to select the appropriate Categories and enter the tags every time, so here I have a tips that can make those process seems much less cumbersome. 1. Go to the WP Admin, you can access the WP Admin by clicking the “Site Admin” under the MEMBER LOGIN: 2. Once you are in the Dashboard, hover your mouse over “Post” and select “Copy a Post”: Image and video hosting by TinyPic 3. Once that is done, just search for “Post Format” and copy it: Image and video hosting by TinyPic 4. After that, just follow the instruction in post format, select the Categories, and enter the appropriate tags. 5. The next time you want to publish a new chapter, just use the same function to Copy Your Latest Chapter. That way, it will copy all your contents, as well as the categories and tags, so you don’t need to worry about anything else and just edit your content, and links to the previous and next chapters. (And also the tag once you change from one volume to another) 2. Remove Underlined Links Don’t you find… having an underline under your text sometimes can be annoying? Don’t you ever feel like removing those underlines? But how to do it? Simple, as long as you know a little bit of HTML, it can be done! 1. First, go edit your post, either from the new dashboard or WP Admin, and use the “Text” or “HTML” tab: 2. After that, search for the link, HTML code for links always starts with <a href=”URL-LINK-HERE”> and ends with </a> 3. To remove the underline, just add this code style=”text-decoration: none;” in between the “<a” and “href=”URL-LINK-HERE”> 4. Optional Tips: To make your life easier, I advice you not to edit or remove the links to the next chapter. The post format I set already have the link formats properly set up, so all you need to do is drag your mouse over it and edit the link: • What happens if I accidentally added a link? Do I simply edit it and leave the URL blank instead? The answer is NO. If you do that, the link will be removed, what you need to do is go to “Text” or “HTML” and remove the link by adding a space in between the quotation mark like this: 3. Shortlink and Ping Have you ever noticed how every time you publish a new post, you’d get a notification or ping? Don’t you ever find those annoying? I know I was rather annoyed by those pings. But how to stop the posts from pinging every time you publish a new chapter? Easy, shortlink is the answer! Shortlink will never change, so even if you change your permalink, or when the site domain changed for some reason, you will never need to go back to edit your navigation links due to Invalid URL. You can get the shortlink by either copying it directly from the post itself, or from the WP Admin: Figure 1: Copy Shortlink from Posts Figure 2: Copy Shortlink from WP Admin 4. Donation Bar Don’t you feel like having a donation bar of your own like every other cool translation site out there? Unfortunately, I cannot give you the ability to edit the widgets without moving to So I’ll give you two option: 1. Link your donation widget directly to Paypal. 2. Link your donation widget to a page where you can edit freely. Image and video hosting by TinyPic If you choose option two, the donor will have to waste a few extra seconds for 1 more click, but that’s no big deal right? You will be able to edit the donation page as you see fit. But the default code is like this: Image and video hosting by TinyPic You see the highlighted part? That’s the code for the donation bar. Edit the Progress Bar You can edit the progress bar by using Ctrl+F to find width:20%. By changing the percentage of the width, you will be able to extend or shorten the progress bar. But remember to leave at least 20% or 30% minimum width so that the text within the bar have some space. The maximum width is 100%, if you go more than that, the progress bar will spill out of the box. Changing the Color of the Bar If you want to change the color of the progress bar, simply use Ctrl+F to find anything “color” related. For the color code, simply Google “Hex Color HTML“. Edit the Text Value To edit the text within the bar, just simply switch back to “Visual” view instead of “HTML” view, and edit the text as you usually do. 5. Copy/Paste Formatting Some of you might have already noticed how sometimes when you tried to use Referral or Footnote shortcode (e.g. [^1], [^2], etc), it doesn’t work. Though I can’t be sure, but I believe the reason is due to the weird formatting when you copy and paste the HTML rich text from other sources (Such as Microsoft Word) The text might look normal in “Visual” mode, but once you change to “Text/HTML” mode, you’d see lots of weird formatting, such as <p class=”p1″> </p> for example; Those formatting may seem harmless, but they can mess you up when you try to add a Reference/Footnote later. What I suggest you to do when you are copy/pasting material from other sources is to paste them in “Text/HTML” mode, or right click and “Paste as Plain Text” while in “Visual” mode. Donation for Devine_Exodus God of Destruction Devine_Exodus: I plan to release anywhere from 2 to 4 chapters a week. 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St. Francis of Assisi Francis of Assisi – The Story Behind the Saint Francesco di Bernardone lived from 1182 to francis of assisi While his father was away on business he was actually baptized Giovanni after St. John the Baptist. But later his father, wanting not a “holy man” but a “business man”, and wanting to strengthen business ties with France, named him Francesco – which literary means Frenchman. He grew up in wealth and lived a life of prosperity as a youth. He sought fame and power and nobility. When the city state of Perugia was at war with the city state of Assisi, Francis became a soldier to fight against the enemy. Later, wanting to be a knight, he was on his way to fight in the fourth Crusade but strangely felt called by God to return to Assisi. Thus, began his process of conversion. One day, while he was praying enthusiastically to the Lord, Francis received this response: “Francis, everything you loved carnally and desired to have, you must despise and hate, if you wish to know my will. Because once you begin doing this, what before seemed delightful and sweet will be unbearable and bitter; and what before made you shudder will offer you great sweetness and enormous delight.” He was overjoyed at this and was comforted by the Lord. One day Francis was riding his horse near Assisi, when he met a leper. And, even though he usually shuddered at lepers, he made himself dismount, gave him a coin, and kissed his hand. After he accepted a kiss of peace from him, Francis remounted and continued on his way. He then began to consider himself less and less, until, by God’s grace, he came to complete victory over himself. san_damianoFrancis often prayed in the Church of San Damiano and while doing so on one occasion he heard Christ on the Crucifix speak to him and say: “Francis, repair my Church!” Francis assumed it was church with a small “c” and began selling material from his father’s fabric shop (unbeknownst to his father) to pay for the rebuilding of the Church building of San Damiano. This enraged his father who brought him before the bishop to get him to confess to theft and to repay the loss. Francis renounced all his possessions, even taking off his very clothing and presented it to his Father. Francis said: “Pietro Bernardone is no longer my father. From now on I can say with complete freedom, ‘Our Father who art in heaven’.” Francis went back to what he considered God’s call. He begged for stones and rebuilt the San Damiano church with his own hands, not realizing that it was the Church with a capital C (the people of God) that God wanted repaired. Scandal and avarice were working on the Church from the inside, while outside heresies flourished by appealing to those longing for something different or adventurous. He read: “… If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me…” Matthew 19:16-22 “… He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics…” Mark 6:7-13 The community went to Rome to seek permission from Pope Innocent III to found a new religious order. Though Pope Innocent initially had his doubts, after a vision he decided to endorse Francis’ order, and on April 12, 1210 the Franciscan Order was officially founded. Prayers from St. Francis of Assisi Prayer of St. Francis Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, St. Francis’ Vocation Prayer St. Francis’ Meditation Prayer My God and My All! St. Francis’ Prayer in Praise of God Given to Brother Leo You are strong. You are great. You are the Most High. You are Almighty. You, Holy Father are King of heaven and earth. You are Three and One, Lord God, all Good. You are love. You are wisdom. You are humility. You are endurance. You are rest. You are peace. You are joy and gladness. You are justice and moderation. You are all our riches, and You suffice for us. You are beauty. You are gentleness. You are our protector. You are our guardian and defender. You are our courage. You are our haven and our hope. You are our faith, our great consolation. Prayer of St. Francis Before the Blessed Sacrament We adore You, O Lord Jesus Christ, in this Church and all the Churches of the world, and we bless You, because, by Your holy Cross You have redeemed the world. St. Francis’ Prayer Praising Mary the Mother of Jesus On you descended and still remains all the fullness of grace and every good. Hail, His Palace. Hail His Tabernacle. Hail His Robe. Hail His Handmaid. Hail, His Mother. And Hail, all holy Virtues, who, by grace and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, are poured into the hearts of the faithful so that from their faithless state, they may be made faithful servants of God through you. Canticle of Brother Sun and Sister Moon And he is beautiful and radiant with great splendour, Of You Most High, he bears the likeness. Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars, in the heavens you have made them bright, precious and fair. Praised be You, my Lord, through Brothers Wind and Air, and fair and stormy, all weather’s moods, by which You cherish all that You have made. Praised be You my Lord through Sister Water, so useful, humble, precious and pure. Praised be You my Lord through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. Praised be You my Lord through our Sister, Mother Earth who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs. Praised be You, my Lord through Sister Death, from whom no-one living can escape. Woe to those who die in mortal sin! Blessed are they She finds doing Your Will. No second death can do them harm. 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Sunwise is a new company set up to provide UVA clothing for adults and children. All the designs are unique to Sunwise UVA Ltd and are made to the highest standards. A couple of years ago my wife developed a condition which we now know as polymorphus Light Erruption. [PLE]. It looks like prickly heat rash but PLE is caused by the UVA rays of the sun. PLE stopped Alison from going out in the sunshine unless she sprayed herself all over with suncream. This is not always practical and many creams are greasy and a number have questionable qualities in terms of their sun protection ability and level. Most people dont think twice about enjoying the sun but my wifes condition meant she couldnt just go outside without thinking about how she was protected. We started looking around for clothing that could block the harmful rays of the sun and found very little around apart from childrens beach wear. What was available was either expensive or designed for children in the sea and surf. There were no reasonably priced clothes that were meant for everyday wear that could be at home on the beach or just out and about in the sun. I started to think about whether it was possible to develop a range of clothes myself that could be worn on the beach, on holiday or simply out and about in the sunshine at home without having to worry about the harmful rays of the sun. I wanted to create a range that was smart yet casual which could be worn walking down the street just as much as in the countryside or on the beach, Climate change is here to stay which means the effects of the sun are geting stronger each year including the harmful UVA rays that cause melanoma. Originally the idea was to help my wife enjoy the sunshine as much as anyone else but I realised that there were probably thousands of people who would like to stay safe whilst getting out in the sun including children. Such people may also have skin reactions caused by the suns harmful rays and need clothing that is light and summery yet protects at the same time. Gone are the days of factor 5 sun cream so Sunwise UVA clothing has been designed to have a UVF rating of around 50%. This means it prevents over 95% of all UVA and UVB almost total blocking of the suns harmful rays. The result of my desire to help my wife and all those people who want to stay safe but still get out and enjoy the sun at home, at work or on holiday is Sunwise UVA Ltd.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '3', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.96666818857193}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '26032', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RLJNFAJLEAPIJOCW425VJU6QKV6YAQR2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e21b7e05-d00c-4ec6-979c-f89f225651e6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 8, 52, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '5.77.60.142', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VBJKWMRCD7BW2VPH3RYHHMNYA55WM4CU', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:2e6d391b-da2a-48b5-b38e-04dc3b2b76f8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.sunwiseuva.co.uk/content/4-about-us', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ff534188-e439-4524-9f46-c3853bbdb50b>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '441', 'url': 'http://www.sunwiseuva.co.uk/content/4-about-us', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-151-161-17.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0913284420967102', 'original_id': '674549848a8b4089ab82c8213c46f48b70f69436fd220145854655bf59631f2e'}
Craig Collins's blog Beware the Ides of Grey Market Nikon D810 and a Taste of Moiré Much has been said and speculated about sensor moiré in high-resolution cameras like the Nikon D800E and D810. It's an unavoidable artifact of the digital capture world, due to the interaction between finely-detailed repeating patterns in subject matter and the raster rows of modern camera sensors. It's typically an issue in architectural and fashion photography, where fabric and fine details trigger the effect. In the endless quest for maximum resolution, Nikon has removed the anti-aliasing filter in these cameras, which helped control moiré at some loss of sharpness. Sensor moiré can't be accurately seen in preview, as the display will create its own moiré that may not actually be in the image file. And this type of moiré is different from that occurring with 4Color process images, in either scanning or prepress. So: how big a problem is it? Here's an example of just how extreme moiré can be, in the 36 Megapixel Nikon D810. These screen grabs are a section of an image of the outdoor display panels at the beautiful new American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial, in Washington, D.C. The site features strong horizontal black bands of varying width embedded in glass, to create tonality in the very large panels. Look what resulted once I opened up my photos on the computer: Nikon D810 moire sample 1 Large glass panels with embedded horizontal lines create both color and luminance moiré. Here's a closer view from the original file. You can see the bands of color. How bad are they? Nikon D810 moire sample 2 Nikon D810 moire sample 3 Yikes! They're that bad, and a powerful creator of eyestrain to even work with such an image! You see the the beginning of efforts to isolate and remove the effect in Photoshop, by building paths and tight selections. Moiré is even present in the very sharp type layer. What a nightmare! Nikon D810 moire sample 4 Low-res preview is even more horrifying! Can such an extreme case be fixed, or even prevented? Some suggest twisting the camera at a slight angle to minimize such moiré, but that's not always practical in tight compositions and the pressure of photo assignments--especially when the effect is not visible in camera. To repair, there's many helpful tips available online, but in the end, it's a lot of work, and a compromise between maintaining detail and residual moiré. On this set of images, many such techniques were necessary; too extensive for this blog post. I'll post some useful resources in a followup. Here's a small piece of the near-final result. Bands of color are completely eliminated, and residual moiré (slight diagonal banding in the fabric) is not objectionable across the entire image. Note the sharp text with no moiré or signs of blurring. Nikon D810 moire sample 5 In the days of film, there would have been no such problem, at the price of considerably less image sharpness, ease of color enhancement, and with greater detail-robbing grain. But in this case, film would have saved a huge amount of post-production time and effort. Indeed, all that terrific sharpness and resolution we are now capable of capturing can be both a blessing and a curse....	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '484', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9493962526321412}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25248', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:X6YY5SHOOFOOGEBE74MJVGMRZX36YJ4N', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f9aa08c3-c55d-4312-9ef8-4c3f0b206c1c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 57, 45), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.204.248.101', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Q4JG3Q6RMLGD2KC6UYCZYOLYZPZYGSD4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:24ca16e1-7712-49bb-8e60-a9be3d518927>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.nikonblog.net/blogs/craig-collins', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f3651267-a023-4984-b328-f7b3192e5a05>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '1048', 'url': 'http://www.nikonblog.net/blogs/craig-collins', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-179-198-159.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.038718581199645996', 'original_id': '1010a145a047bcf7bd2e16408a0e53fa4f3a7f6f2370f9d304cd2d3563aa6a63'}
China - Public DomainIn terms of purchasing power, China now has the largest economy on the entire planet, but that is not the only area where China has surpassed the United States. China also accounts for more total global trade than the U.S. does, China consumes more energy than the U.S. does, and China now manufactures more goods than the U.S. does. In other words, the era of American economic dominance is rapidly ending. Global economic power is making a dramatic shift to the east, and that is going to have huge implications for our future. We already owe the Chinese well over a trillion dollars, and as our economic infrastructure crumbles we are feverishly borrowing even more money in a desperate attempt to prop up our falling standard of living. We can’t seem to match the work ethic, inventiveness and determination of China and other Asian nations and it is showing. If we continue down this path, what will the future look like for future generations of Americans? In terms of raw GDP, the U.S. is still number one, at least for now. But according to the IMF, China is now the number one economy on the entire planet in terms of purchasing power… The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt will cost you less in Shanghai than San Francisco, so it’s not entirely reasonable to compare countries without taking this into account. Though a typical person in China earns a lot less than the typical person in the US, simply converting a Chinese salary into dollars underestimates how much purchasing power that individual, and therefore that country, might have. The Economist’s Big Mac Index is a great example of these disparities. So the IMF measures both GDP in market exchange terms, and in terms of purchasing power. On the purchasing power basis, China is overtaking the US right about now and becoming the world’s biggest economy. When I first learned about this, I was quite stunned. I knew that China’s economy had been roaring, but like most Americans I just assumed that the U.S. would continue to remain head and shoulders above everyone else. Unfortunately, things are changing at a pace that is much faster than most people ever thought possible. The following are 26 other ways that China has surpassed America… #1 When you add up all imports and exports, China now accounts for more total global trade than the United States does. #2 There is now more total corporate debt in China than there is in the United States. #3 During 2013, we sold about 121 billion dollars worth of stuff to the Chinese, but they sold about 440 billion dollars worth of stuff to us. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world. #4 China is now the leading manufacturer of goods in the entire world. #6 The United States had been the leading consumer of energy in the world for about 100 years, but during the summer of 2010 China took over the number one spot. #7 China now has the largest new car market in the entire world. #8 China has more foreign currency reserves than anyone else on the planet. #9 China is the number one gold producer in the world. #12 China is also expected to soon become the global leader in patent filings. #13 China awards more doctoral degrees in engineering each year than the United States does. #14 China has the world’s fastest train and the world’s most extensive high-speed rail network. #15 China uses more cement than the rest of the world combined. #16 Today, China produces nearly twice as much beer as the United States does. #17 85 percent of all artificial Christmas trees are made in China. #19 China is now the number one producer of wind and solar power on the entire globe. #20 China produces more than twice as much cotton as the United States does. #21 China produces more than three times as much coal as the United States does. #23 China controls over 90 percent of the total global supply of rare earth elements. #25 According to author Clyde Prestowitz, China’s number one export to the U.S. is computer equipment. According to an article in U.S. News & World Report, the number one U.S. export to China is “scrap and trash”. The Chinese are using some of their new wealth to buy up land, properties and businesses here in the United States. In fact, just the other day we learned that a group from China is buying New York City’s Waldorf Astoria hotel. For much, much more on this trend, please see some of my previous articles… -“45 Signs That China Is Colonizing America And most Americans don’t realize this, but Chinese-made cars will soon be sold in the United States. The following is from a recent WND article Chinese-made cars will be making their way to the U.S. next year, and guess which company is going to start exporting them to our shores? A Chinese company, of course. Chinese-owned Volvo’s parent company, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, will begin exporting its S60L from China to the United States as early as next year, according to a Reuters report which quoted a senior Volvo executive. Volvo is trying to take advantage of two new Chinese factories that will make up an export hub to send vehicles to the U.S. and Russia. Everywhere you look, China is dominating and America is in decline. If this was a sporting event for little kids, the “mercy rule” would have been invoked by now. Unfortunately, there is no “mercy rule” on the global economic stage. The United States is going to have to get things together if it wants to have any hope of competing with the Chinese in the future. The Chinese are kicking our tails and they know it. One survey found found that 75 percent of those living in China believe that their country is on the right track. On the other hand, Americans are not nearly as optimistic. According to one average of recent surveys, only 28 percent of Americans believe that the United States is on the right track. I think that those numbers say a lot. We have been in decline for quite some time, but we can never seem to get the ship righted. 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Architecture: Concepts that play a role in cohousing design Reposted from News from The Cohousing Company: McCamant & Durrett Architects. To continue this conversation, please join us in Nashville for the National Cohousing Conference, where Charles Durrett will be presenting several sessions, including: If it Doesn't Work Socially, Why Bother? Architecture plays a key role in the long-term success of cohousing, once the honeymoon phase is over. The activity around the common house is a key indicator of this. Some common houses, for example, have 100 people-hours (number of collective hours that people spend in a certain place) per week, some have 450. In each case, it cost the group $400K to build it. For a group that hardly spends time in their common house, that is a lot of humanity left on the table and a lot of lost value. As an architect who has designed over 50 communities, I feel it's important to understand why either scenario happens and how to set a community up for success beyond move-in. Hygge (pronounced hue-gah), is a Danish word that Katie and I became very familiar with when we studied architecture in Denmark in the early 1980s. It's a concept that describes when an experience is just right, the acoustics are just right, the combination of lighting (the ambient glow, the sparkle of brilliance, maybe a candle, and the specific task lighting) is just right. The warmth of the place, the quality and the geniality of the conversation - even the quality of the sustenance - constitute hygge. The hustle and bustle feels far away. The feeling is calm and warm. That's hygge, a nearly untranslatable word. It's the entire concept of place, people, and air that are consumed by the appreciation for the here and now. Hygge is often instituted in Danish cohousing design, especially for the common house. The result is a gravitation towards that place. Hygge is about getting the feel just right, making a place that draws you in and makes you want to stay. In the future, I'll be discussing hygge, specifically how it relates to the sustainability of cohousing communities across the U.S., but also how this life concept can be better embraced. Join me in the conversation. When have you experienced hygge? Are there specific elements of that experience that you remember? Charles Durrett Visit The Cohousing Company website	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.95927757024765}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31997', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:N6IL32KZQD3LZZTQPJTLBGVJKCRSBITQ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f41985e3-69d6-44c0-bfd5-cc9ff9645d8a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 44, 59), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.111.107.10', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:D4E566OQ7UQJQJSAYNEZQMIJQ3LLKJCQ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e8aa8875-2ed9-4a83-805a-cc0f38017b4d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://cohousing.org/node/4800', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a4b043ea-75a9-45ce-ba9d-1c961719f4e6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '390', 'url': 'http://cohousing.org/node/4800', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-228-121.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.9640262722969055', 'original_id': '1739d4e0ae8f640e0a5252b1cab7bc6d303be29db69111c6b4054dce37264c43'}
What's your question? Ask Q.What Is Eating My Zinnia Seedlings? What Can I Do To Stop It? Zone 84523 \| angeladoria added on July 11, 2020 \| Answered I planted zinnia seeds under a row cover after the first batch of about 100 new seedlings just disappeared overnight in the same bed. One night they were fine and the next morning they were gone, stem and all. The first batch was planted in open air without a row cover. Now the second batch of seedlings under the row cover are having their leaves eaten off by something. I have probably a couple hundred growing and at least a hundred that only have a stem sticking up with no leaves. What could be eating them under the cover and how do I kill it? A.Answers to this queston: Add Answer Certified GKH Gardening Expert Answered on July 15, 2020 Unfortunately, unless you see signs of what could be eating them it can be very hard to tell what will be the culprit. Insects, gophers, moles, and voles may still be able to get into the row covers, as can slugs and snails. Many of these creatures can leave signs of being there. In the meantime, these articles can help you to keep out some common pests: Was this answer useful? Log in or sign up to help answer this question. Did you find this helpful? Share it with your friends! You must be logged into your account to answer a question. Looking for more? here are more questions about... Do you know a lot about gardening? Become a GKH Gardening Expert	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.945265531539917}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '176004', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NJXAXACA6LVBFEUZ7INRL7TE3VRJE7PV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bbd2deb4-f1a3-4170-b0fe-eedbadef258f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 29, 13, 56, 35), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.185.0.3', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:XQFSHMHFYLC72A26KTYNLF4RJFLCFPMZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:34d8be8c-11b5-4623-9898-586729927143>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://questions.gardeningknowhow.com/what-is-eating-my-zinnia-seedlings-what-can-i-do-to-stop-it/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:66a6c945-80ad-43b7-bc9b-a2cf8bb591ae>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '300', 'url': 'https://questions.gardeningknowhow.com/what-is-eating-my-zinnia-seedlings-what-can-i-do-to-stop-it/', '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 ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-16\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': '0.021058380603790283', 'original_id': '9d01f4e5dda88493b94172d7c7f4ff0e6e87e0855b6aa3102b59c194b7277700'}
Skip to main content Now, a new chip ‘to make desktop computers 20 times faster’ In what could be called a major technological innovation, scientists have unveiled an ultra-fast chip which they claim could make desktop computers 20 times faster than the current ones. Modern computers have a processor with two, four or sometimes 16 cores to carry out tasks. Now, a team, led by the University of Glasgow, has developed a central processing unit, which effectively has 1,000 cores on a single microchip. The developments could usher in a new age of high-speed computing in the next few years for home users frustrated with slow—running systems; the new “super” computer is also much greener than modern machines, despite its high speed, say its developers. The scientists used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) which like all microchips contains millions of transistors —— tiny on—off switches that are the foundation of any electronic circuit, the Daily Mail reported. By creating more than 1,000 mini-circuits within the FPGA chip, the scientists effectively turned the chip into a 1,000-core processor —— each core working on its own instructions. Popular posts from this blog Top 5 Women Who Impacted Technology in 2010 AT&T MiFi 2372 review facebook vs google+	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '388', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9554601311683656}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '140743', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VBOV7OZHK5EEKJZV4BM26FKH2Q574DT2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:75f8a70d-5128-4e2d-ad21-d367cbe0c306>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 58, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.85.201.132', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CNNLQPZCZYH6HQRDFHBKFOGXPIDRMKIV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:43298bf0-d714-4f1d-a169-3c9e27d1fcdd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://technologyeffect.blogspot.com/2010/12/now-new-chip-to-make-desktop-computers.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:75ad1221-961b-47cb-9c81-19db4b21d6e7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '587', 'url': 'http://technologyeffect.blogspot.com/2010/12/now-new-chip-to-make-desktop-computers.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-99-181-180.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08336961269378662', 'original_id': 'ffb17a201ecced3a60a52cbd6e34bf51b676f3de6df66fa0d539b6fd85d570e1'}
Tuesday, 18 January 2011 Shrinking Linux virtual disks on OSX VMWare fusion So your virtual disk is taking up tonnes of space - despite the fact it's not that big when you check its size in the Virtual machine. It's annoying that VMWare images don't do better auto shrinking... Anyway I tried to run the vmware-tools which I installed (after a bit of jiggery-pokery) and it comes up with a 'Shrink' tab but no disks appear in the list to shrink?! Any suggestion as to how to get disks to show up there are welcome but I couldn't find much on the web about it... So instead I looked about and the best way is to take the following steps: 1. Start your VM OS up and optionally remove any cruft. At least run: sudo apt-get autoclean 2. To prepare for the shrinking process run: sudo cat /dev/zero > zero;sync;sleep 1;sudo rm zero This fills all remaining space on your virtual disk with a file full of zeros so the space can be reclaimed in the shrinking step. Note: Your hard disk WILL NOT fill up as the vmdk images do actually optimise the storage of files containing zeros 3. Shutdown VM OS and delete any snapshots available then Quit VMWare Fusion 4. To start the shrinking process in OSX run (Replacing path_to_your/disk with something like '/Users/username/Documents/Virtual Machines/Ubuntu/Ubuntu.vmdk'): cd '/Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library' ./vmware-vdiskmanager -d path_to_your/disc.vmdk ./vmware-vdiskmanager -k path_to_your/disc.vmdk The first command defragments the disk, whilst the second actually does the shrinking. (Note: The directory for 'cd' for 3.X of VMware Fusion was: /Library/Application Support/VMware Fusion/) [27jan12: Updated for VMware Fusion 4.X] 1. This worked perfectly for me (Fusion 3.1.3 and Fedora 14). I am very grateful for this procedure! 2. I would just add 'delete any snapshots available' as an additional step before step 3, since this is a requirement for the 'vmware-vdiskmanager' defragment command to work. 3. On my version of VMWare Fusion (4.1.1), the 'vmware-vdiskmanager' program is inside /Applications/VMware Fusion.app/Contents/Library (instead of /Library/Application Support/VMWare Fusion). 4. Thanks for the comments - added to post.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8572869896888733}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '122048', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NHLGDRS6MJWFIQFNAA63MA4CY5OON3XE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c5f35e7e-c065-4ed7-acc1-088521731754>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 30, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.12.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6L3RSSXA3XR4AFTSQANQXJB2DR75XRVP', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:be0c8154-0548-44fb-b8a5-af89fa0d7060>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://timesinker.blogspot.be/2011/01/shrinking-linux-virtual-disks-on-osx.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c7b8be08-0d9d-4c31-9db0-0fa6d2464bb4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '326', 'url': 'http://timesinker.blogspot.be/2011/01/shrinking-linux-virtual-disks-on-osx.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-34-165.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.20310360193252563', 'original_id': '032803f95928cfc2b69a1d05e0a985af15a2d1a229d6ffc95ca34f2a410b06c3'}
For emergency service please contact our Service Department. (562) 495-7766 ex. 100 If you have any questions not found on this page please feel free to contact us. What is a water softener used for? A water softener (also called water conditioner) is a system that reduces hardness minerals in the water. Hardness minerals (calcium and magnesium) deposits are found in laundry washers, dish machines, coffee equipment, kitchen sprayers, and on other elements where hot water is used. Results can be damaging to these machines and produce a spotty or stained finish. How does a softener work? A water softener is a device that treats incoming water, converting it from "hard" to "soft." This process begins with magnesium and calcium rich water entering the water softener, where it encounters beads (resin) that have a negative charge. The positively charged magnesium and calcium ions cling to these beads as the water travels through them. They are then replaced with sodium ions, which "soften" the water. The water is then transferred into the facility. Once the beads are saturated with high amounts of magnesium and calcium ions, a timer or computer triggers a process called regeneration. In this stage, the softener injects a high concentration of sodium ions (known as brine, generally from standard salt) that, with their positive charge, attach to the negatively charged beads and force the magnesium and calcium ions off. The magnesium and calcium ions are then flushed out of the water softener along with any excess sodium ions. Will a water softener change the taste of my water? No, the taste is not affected in any way. Although a water softener uses salt during the regeneration process only, the system is flushed out before the softener is back on line. Traces of salt are so minimal that they cannot be detected by taste, nor do they pose a health threat to persons on a low sodium diet. This has been evaluated by the Water Quality Association www.wqa.org/sitelogic.cfm?id=1085 My area is restricted from installing water softeners. What are my options? During softener regeneration, water is flushed and drained through city plumbing. Some areas prohibit this, therefore, do not allow automatic water softener units to be installed. Eversoft provides portable water softener exchange tanks that are available for delivery on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule. The regeneration process occurs at our plant and is in full operation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to ensure our commercial and industrial customers are continuously provided with soft water. *Service available for commercial and industrial only How do I know if I’m located in a restricted area? Restricted areas are scattered nationwide, however, you may call your local water department to find out if your area is banned from automatic water softener installation. How can I determine if the water is hard? Contact your local water department as ask what the hardness is for your area. Water hardness fluctuates, so you may want to purchase a test kit to monitor this. It is simple to use and is available through Eversoft for purchase. You may receive a reading in PPM (parts per million). Divide this figure by 17.1 and you will get the GPG (hardness grains per gallon) figure, which is commonly used in the industry. Below is the standard water hardness chart: Less than 1.0 GPG = Soft 1.0– 3.5 = Slightly Hard 3.5 – 7.0 = Moderately Hard 7.0 – 10.5 = Hard 10.5 and higher = Very Hard What is a filter? Filters control the taste and odors in your ice, water, and beverages. They are normally mounted to a wall or can sometimes be installed in a cabinet or under a sink. There are 4 types of filtration commonly used in the industry: • Sediment – Traps dirt and removes larger particles from the water • Carbon – Removes foul odors and improves taste • Siliphos- Protects ice machines from clogging (not recommended for beverages) • UV – Neutralizes bacteria formation in the water How often should my filters be changed out? Industry standards recommend that filters are to be changed out every 6 months. If you are experiencing low water pressure (or clogging) before 6 months, you may need a filter with more capacity or change them out every 3 months. What is a carbon backwash system/filter? This system looks and operates similar to the softener, but does not require salt. Rather than placing filters at each beverage station, this system feeds your main potable cold water line to remove foul taste, odors and improves the taste of potable water throughout your operation. How often should my carbon backwash system be serviced? Carbon backwash systems, when sized correctly, should be serviced once a year. The carbon media inside the tank should then be discarded and replaced. Can you recommend a service company in my area? Eversoft provides service nationwide. Give us a call and we’ll handle all your water quality equipment service needs. Service Problem Questions: Problem: Spotty dishes First, make sure your softener is plugged in. If not, plug it in and reset the timer. If you cannot reset your timer, call our service department to request service. Watch video on how to reset a timer Next, check your brine tank and make sure there is salt in it. If not, pour some in. The softener will regenerate automatically (within 24 hours) and this should fix the problem. If neither applies, then call our service department to request service. Problem: Hot water pressure is low Your resin (the filter media inside the softener tank) may need to be replaced. Place the unit into bypass and monitor your water flow. If the water flow resumes, it may be bad resin. Call your local water softening company and place a service call. The Resin may need replacing. Problem: Low water pressure at water and/or beverage station Place your filters and/or carbon backwash system into bypass and observe pressure. If it returns normal, it is likely your filter cartridges need to be changed out. Contact your local water softener company for service. Problem: Leaking equipment Place your equipment into bypass immediately and call your water softening company. Failure to do so may result in damages that you will be responsible for! Placing the equipment in bypass will stop the leak temporarily until a technician arrives. You will still receive incoming water, however it will be city water only. Problem: There are gold or black particles in my water Gold/Brownish – May be an indication of water softener resin in your lines. Place your softener equipment into bypass immediately and call your water softening company. Failure to do so may result in damages. Black Particles or Grey Water – May be found after your filter was just changed out/serviced. It is a possible indication of carbon in the water line. Flush the application until water or beverages run clear. If there are still black particles after a couple of minutes, call (the company who changed your filter) for service. Problem: My softener/central filtration system keeps running or draining If the system stops after a while, the timer is off and needs to be reset. (See the instructional video on how to reset your timer.) If it continues to run, this indicates your system is stuck in regeneration mode. Place the unit in bypass and call for service. Problem: My water tastes salty Place the water softener in bypass and call for service. Problem: My beverages have a foul taste or odor It is industry standard that filters cartridges are changed out every 6 months. Central filtration systems (a tank that sits on the ground rather than mounted to a wall) should be serviced every 12 months. Call your local filtration company to replace your cartridges. Problem: My filter was just changed out/serviced, and now my water flow has spurts of air coming out This is normal. Continue to run water or beverages from the application until all air bubbles are gone. This should only take a minute or so. Cloudy / Milky water Indication of air in the lines, often noticed after filter service . Draw a glass of water and let it set. 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Arraignment and Plea Section 1. - It means for bringing the accused into court and informing him of the nature and cause of the accusation against him. How Arraignment is made: 1. In open court where the complaint or information has been filed or assigned for trial. 2. By the judge or clerk of court 3. By furnishing the accused with a copy of the complaint or information 4. Reading it in a language or dialect known to the accused 5. Asking accused whether he pleads guilty or not guilty When Arraignment Should be Held - Accused should be arraigned within 30 days from the date the court acquires jurisdiction over his person, unless a shorter period is provided for by law. The time of the pendency of a motion to quash or a bill of particulars or other causes justifying suspension of arraignment shall be excluded in computing the period. When Arraignment Is Held Within A Shorter Period: 1. When an accused is under preventive detention, his case should be raffled within 3 days from filing and accused shall be arraigned within 10 days from receipt by the judge of the records of the case (RA 8493 Speedy Trial Act) 2. Where the complainant is about to depart from the Philippines with no definite date of return, the accused should be arraigned without delay (RA 4908) 3. Cases under RA 7610 (Child Abuse Act), the trial shall be commenced within 3 days from arraignment 4. Cases under the Dangerous Drugs Act 5. Cases under SC AO 104-96, i.e., heinous crimes, violations of the Intellectual Property Rights Law, these cases must be tried continuously until terminated within 60 days from commencement of the trial and to be decided within 30 days from the submission of the case. Notes on Arraignment: Trial in absentia may be conducted only after valid arraignment. Accused must personally appear during arraignment and enter his plea (counsel cannot enter plea for accused) Accused is presumed to have been validly arraigned in the absence of proof to the contrary. Generally, judgment is void if accused has not been validly arraigned If accused went into trial without being arraigned, subsequent arraignment will cure the error provided that the accused was able to present evidence and cross-examine the witnesses of the prosecution during trial. When A Plea Of “Not Guilty” Should Be Entered: 1. When accused so pleaded 2. When he refuses to plead 3. When he makes a conditional or qualified plea of guilt (Ex. Accused pleads guilty but adds “pero hindi ko sinasadya”) 4. When the plea is indefinite or ambiguous 5. When he pleads guilty but presents exculpatory evidence (ex. Evidence to prove complete self-defense) NOTE: if the accused who pleaded guilty presents exculpatory evidence, his plea of guilty is withdrawn. The judge must order the accused to plead again or at least direct that a new plea of “not guilty” be entered for him, otherwise there shall be no standing plea for the accused. This is significant because if there is no standing plea, the accused cannot invoke double jeopardy later on. Presence of Offended Party - The private offended party is required to appear in the arraignment for the purpose of plea bargaining, determination of civil liability and other matters requiring his presence. In case the offended party fails to appear despite due notice, the trial court may allow the accused to plead guilty to a lesser offense necessarily included in the offense charged with the conformity of the trial prosecutor alone. 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Basic Sorting Algorithms Implemented In Python This post includes Python based implementation of some of the classic basic sorting algorithms. Although Python already includes the excellent Timsort algorithm implementation, this was done more as an academic exercise to not forget the basic principles of sorting. Setup and Driver Program Each sorting algorithm is implemented as a Python function, which will sort the list in-place. I used the following piece of code to test all the algorithms. Bubble Sort Bubble sort is one of the most basic sorting algorithm that is the simplest to understand. It’s basic idea is to bubble up the largest(or smallest), then the 2nd largest and the the 3rd and so on to the end of the list. Each bubble up takes a full sweep through the list. Insertion Sort Insertion sort works by taking elements from the unsorted list and inserting them at the right place in a new sorted list. The sorted list is empty in the beginning. Since the total number of elements in the new and old list stays the same, we can use the same list to represent the sorted and the unsorted sections. Merge Sort Merge sort works by subdividing the the list into two sub-lists, sorting them using Merge sort and then merging them back up. As the recursive call is made to subdivide each list into a sublist, they will eventually reach the size of 1, which is technically a sorted list. Quick Sort Quick sort works by first selecting a pivot element from the list. It then creates two lists, one containing elements less than the pivot and the other containing elements higher than the pivot. It then sorts the two lists and join them with the pivot in between. Just like the Merge sort, when the lists are subdivided to lists of size 1, they are considered as already sorted. Heap Sort This implementation uses the built in heap data structures in Python. To truly understand haepsort, one must implement the heapify() function themselves. This is certainly one obvious area of improvement in this implementation.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9233359694480896}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '89289', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HTX6HZVA7PMXMIK5JRXA4AA2HRYGYHIV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:18491c44-7d5d-427b-8cee-7ebe77c254a8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 47), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.197.254.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:K5FXEA3TE7JU2O5I2GTCHAXOZRMDNEDB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6da2dada-0a02-47a3-9fa2-50f8e0dc9af9>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://danishmujeeb.com/blog/2014/01/basic-sorting-algorithms-implemented-in-python/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:75ad1221-961b-47cb-9c81-19db4b21d6e7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '348', 'url': 'http://danishmujeeb.com/blog/2014/01/basic-sorting-algorithms-implemented-in-python/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-99-181-180.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.44241970777511597', 'original_id': '1bb1f13836200bcae3961d6d2a007c22385bc611be3fd4971ee3c72820203a3d'}
There are few kitchen nightmares that are worse than finding a recipe that sounds ah-mazing, then seeing an ingredient section longer than your phone’s contact list. We share your pain. That’s why these 27 recipes will become your new dinnertime manual: Each includes just five ingredients so you can focus on flavor, not on grocery shopping. 1. Grilled Chicken With Tomato, Soy, and Sesame Seeds This recipe is so simple yet doesn’t skimp on flavor in the slightest. Combine four marinade ingredients, then pour it over the chicken. Bake. Serve. Done!Pair it with brown rice, serve it over a salad, or shove it inside lettuce wraps. 2. Chicken Enchilada Casserole Say hello to your new favorite no-stress Tex-Mex enchilada recipe. It uses shortcuts like leftover chicken and canned enchilada sauce so you can literally throw dinner together in minutes. Serve with a side salad and (lots of) avocados for a complete meal. 3. White Bean Chicken Chili You don’t need many ingredients to turn boring chicken breasts into a dish you’ll want to make on a weekly basis. This brothy and super-filling stew can be made quickly with leftover chicken or completely from scratch with a slow cooker. 4. Lemon Chicken With Asparagus Looks like takeout but can be made in less than 20 minutes? Yes, please! Simply dredge chicken breasts in flour, brown them in a pan, and then sauté the asparagus and lemon to layer on top. 5. Breaded Lemon Chicken The secret to getting crunchy, perfectly breaded chicken? Use lemon juice in place of an egg wash to keep the breadcrumbs intact. Lemon juice’s acids will keep the chicken super juicy while it pan-fries, adding a whole new flavor dimension. 6. Slow Cooker Maple-Dijon Ham Slice the ham almost all the way through to let the maple syrup, Dijon mustard, brown sugar, and clove mixture seep into every nook and cranny. For serving, get creative: Eat it as a main dish, use it in sandwiches, dice it into your scrambled eggs, add it to a stir-fry. The world is your… ham? 7. Baked Fajita Chicken Get dinner on the table with minimal prep by adding a new spin to fajitas: Bake them! Smothered in salsa, peppers, and onions, the dish spends most of its time in the oven, giving you time to de-stress after a long day. Serve in a whole-wheat tortilla, on a salad, or with a side of rice. 8. Pineapple Salsa Chicken Ready to upgrade your tacos? This pineapple salsa chicken is so simple it basically cooks itself. Dump the protein, pineapple chunks (and juice), and favorite salsa in the slow cooker and let time do the work. 9. Pesto Chicken Stuffed Peppers Roast sweet bell peppers first, then fill with shredded chicken, quinoa, pesto, and mozzarella cheese. Bake again, then serve. If you like a firmer pepper, skip the pre-roasting step and just bake them with the other ingredients. 10. Bourbon Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin Five ingredients and one of them is bourbon? Sign us up. This easy pork marinates for a few hours or overnight—it’s easily whisked together in the morning—and then is grilled or baked in less than 20 minutes. And why not enjoy any leftover bourbon while it cooks? 11. Sticky Stovetop Balsamic Drumsticks These simple drumsticks are a dream on busy weeknights or lazy Sundays. Just place all the ingredients in a pan, bring to a boil, and let the sauce do its thing. 12. Creamy Greek Yogurt Mac and Cheese Ditch that box! You can make your own healthier mac and cheese in about the same time as the boxed stuff. Greek yogurt adds creaminess and protein, while two cups of spinach provide vitamins A and K, plus almost a quarter of your day’s calcium needs. 13. Eggroll in a Bowl This inside-out eggroll keeps the fillings you love, like shredded cabbage and carrots, and nixes the deep-fried wrapper. Add ground sausage (or chicken, turkey, or shrimp!), soy sauce, ginger, and green onions for a low-carb, high-flavor dish that’s way better than takeout. 14. Kale Caesar Pasta Salad Roast cherry tomatoes to add sweetness and a subtle charred flavor, and crunchy kale to add antioxidants and iron to the mix. Use your favorite bottled creamy dressing to speed things up—we won’t tell. 15. Butternut Squash, Arugula, and Goat Cheese Pasta Roasted butternut squash and fresh arugula transform what could be just another pasta dish into something spectacular. With the goat cheese serving as the “sauce” and a sprinkle of toasted pine nuts, this is a dinner that’s awesome when you’re dining solo yet good enough to serve guests. 16. One-Pot Asian Peanut Noodles One pot of deliciousness coming right up. A simple peanut sauce with soy sauce and sriracha, chicken, and chopped peanuts, this noodle bowl is comfort food at its finest. Feel free to add sauteed veggies like mushrooms, broccoli, and peppers for added flavor. 17. Miso Soup No need to call in an entire sushi order just to get a bowl of miso soup. With just five ingredients, you can make it right at home in five minutes—seriously. Plus, it’s easily made vegan by subbing mushroom broth for Dashi. 18. Spinach Parmesan Pasta Remember how good plain buttered noodles were when you were a kid? It’s time for an adult version. Angel hair is the perfect pasta, since it cooks up super fast. Add in sautéed spinach, grated Parmesan cheese, and freshly ground salt and pepper—tastes just as good as the simple pasta of your youth. 19. Spinach Quinoa Vegetarian Patty Keep on walking past the frozen food aisle: You can make your own veggie patties with only five ingredients, thank you very much. Eat them as burgers, load them into a wrap, or crumble them into a salad topping. So versatile, and so tasty. 20. Cheesy Portabella Pizzas If you’re craving pizza every night, change up the flavor instead of ordering another takeout pie. In this recipe, portobella mushroom caps serve as your “dough.” Pile on all the sauce and cheese you can eat, and add pepperoni and veggies too. 21. Thai Pumpkin Soup This pumpkin-based soup has all the flavors of your favorite Thai curry, but is easily prepared at home. Add your favorite protein, such as shrimp, chicken, or tofu, to make it a full meal. 22. Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili Tired of your usual chili recipe? Try this vegetarian version. Smoky and sweet, it’s ready in under an hour (no more waiting all day for this dish). Serve with lots of extra toppings, like guacamole, sour cream, and cilantro. Pro tip: Freeze individual servings for a ready-made dinner or lunch. 23. Honey Mustard Salmon If you’re nervous about cooking fish, this recipe will ease your fears. Simply brush grainy mustard over superfood salmon, then give it a quick pan sear. Coat with honey mustard, then transfer the fish to the oven. This sweet-and-spicy dish is delicious over a salad or with your favorite greens and brown rice. 24. Baked Coconut Curry Cod Coconut milk and curry paste create a creamy, spicy sauce sans dairy in this super-fast dish. Finish it off with lots of freshly chopped cilantro (or parsley, if you’re one of those folks who can’t stand cilantro!). 25. Spicy Shrimp With Chilies Spicy, garlicky, lemony, this shrimp is begging to be part of your next summer dinner. Plus, it’s gluten-free and Paleo-friendly. Serve with French bread (to soak up all that tasty sauce if you’re not Paleo) and a side salad. 26. Almond-Crusted Tilapia Packed with healthy fats, this almond-crusted fish cooks in just five minutes. With every biteof this rich and crispy dish, former fish-haters will regret all they’ve been missing. 27. Tuscan Baked Fish Sauté onions, tomatoes, and capers; then add in your favorite boneless, skinless fish. Toss it into the oven and bake until tender and flakey. The best part? 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Explore BrainMass Compound Formula Write the formula for these compounds: a) potassium sulfide b) iodine heptafluride c) iron(III)chromate Solution Preview Hello and thank you for using BrainMass! Sulfide is a a combination of Sulfur atom(s) with oxidation number -2 with other elements. Potassium is an alkali metal with one electron in the outer shell, Thus it has an oxidation number +1 (it is very happy to donate this electron) To balance the compound (having total oxidation number 0) we need one sulfur (-2) and two potassiums (+1) Thus (underscore denotes a subscript): potassium sulfide is K_2S (metal first). Iodine and Fluor are ... Solution Summary The solution includes explanation and chemical formula. The solution is 285 words.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.78753662109375}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '98654', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HG6XA3GTLEC3Y7QEZKKBF57K4J3ANEON', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a93fb832-f8c8-49e2-89f9-debcc04a6578>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 51, 32), 'WARC-IP-Address': '65.39.198.123', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:A7FBEJUCANBTVB56TSNXJFTJYS6HTAHO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6d62db9f-f678-4bad-88f0-8cf60cc816f8>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://brainmass.com/chemistry/oxidation-reduction-and-electrochemistry/compound-formula-32677', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:77d83a5b-6c27-444e-a2c0-1c216802a14d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '109', 'url': 'https://brainmass.com/chemistry/oxidation-reduction-and-electrochemistry/compound-formula-32677', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-35-148-49.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7150774002075195', 'original_id': '9c9879868dcd3c35ae6b0ab7da14608046f04b1445c7edf41fd538baf4d849da'}
How Do We See? Seeing involves more than opening our eyes. Through simple and fun experimentation the class will learn how the interaction of light, the eyes and the brain create the world we see. How Do We See? Our eyes are constantly feeding information to us. When we are born our eyes need time to get used to seeing and understanding what exactly it is that you are seeing. Given time and experience the eyes learn to take in light, focus it and send information to our brain. All that you have experienced to this point has involved seeing and gaining an understanding of all that goes on around you. Most of what you see involves a knowing of it from previous experiences. We perceive things. We build perception. Perception is not determined simply by looking at something but by our brain searching for the best conclusion of all the available information. When perception is wrong we are confused. Sometimes the eyes and brain come to the wrong conclusion and we get an illusion or hallucinate. When you look at something your eyes are sending information about color, shape, movement, depth and distance to your brain. Then the brain puts it all together so that you can identify the whole object. Seeing The first thing one need understand about seeing is that if there is no light one cannot see. We are all able to see because light is bouncing off just about everything. There is more to seeing than meets the eye. When you look at an object you are seeing light that is bouncing or reflecting off of that object. Our eyes can take in light directly from a source, like looking at a light bulb, or indirectly after light bounces off of things like the moon. When light bounces off of the surface of an object some light is absorbed and some light is reflected. We see only the light that is reflected or bounces off the object, so if you look at something that is blue that something you are looking at is absorbing all of the other colors and bouncing the color blue back at you. The second thing to understand about seeing is the eye and brain connection. The eyes are one of the most important tools we have to gather information for our brain. The Eyes Light passes through a transparent part of the eye called the cornea. The cornea is a lens which bends light inward. It also slows down the speed of light and provides an adjustable focus. Light is bent further as it passes through a liquid behind the cornea. Next, light passes through the black opening in the middle of the eye. This opening is called the pupil. The Iris is the colorful part of the eye. It is also a muscle that makes the pupil change size depending on the amount of light coming into the eye. When there is too much light the Iris closes the pupil. Low light or night time, the pupil will expand to allow as much light in as possible. Next, Light travels through a jello-like substance filling the eye called, Vitreous Humor. This clear gel provides a constant pressure to maintain the shape of the eye. Finally, the light forms an upside-down picture on the back part of the inside wall. This wall is called the retina. The retina is made up of millions of tiny cones and rods called photoreceptors. Rods allow us to see in black and white like animals do. Rods also help us to see where there is little light like night time. Cones come in three different sizes. (S) Short blue, (M) medium green, and (L) long red. These cones allow us to see in color. Cones and rods encode everything we see and translate the image into a chemical electric message. The message travels along the optic nerve through the thalamus to the back of the brain to the visual cortex. 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I saw a Flickr group called Project 365 recently--you take a picture a day and post it online. It sounded fun, so I've been doing that since the start of the year. It usually ends up going something like this: BARBARA: I'm tired. Let's go to sleep. TYLER: OK. Wait! I need to take a picture today. BARBARA: [Groaning sound.] TYLER: Hold still. [Shutter click.] BARBARA: You're not using that picture. Then I stay up another hour or two and Barbara goes to bed. Here are a few I actually managed to take during the day. twenty-one of three hundred sixty-five E in chair thirteen of three hundred sixty-five I got lazy and embedded these pictures from Flickr. You can see the other Project 365 photos here. 1 comment: Brett and Ciara said... Awesome idea! love the photos especially the second one. His trousers are awesome.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.932738482952118}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '75230', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:UOTKV4HBVMLFJSPX2UBZFLLJNHTLMN7T', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fa61f677-bccd-4f35-85d0-6237b08107c8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 10, 49, 3), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.15.65', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:AUOLMHNQ6LGS25TULITTH732LHIPCEAW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8efc4936-57bb-481d-aebc-144d0433dd22>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://tylerandbarbara.blogspot.com/2011/01/365.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4dedddc3-1a0c-4002-85f0-58ef91e95a32>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '146', 'url': 'http://tylerandbarbara.blogspot.com/2011/01/365.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-7-230-53.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.14402645826339722', 'original_id': 'd91b8e13270d2056f94a06e9bdf039697d1b1bc2a095d5212ed5a3584e06bd77'}
Игра на андроид tako kitchen 2 by Emil Protalinski Tweet — 29 Jan '13, 05:17pm in Apps This essentially means Firefox will soon only load third-party plugins when users click to interact with the plugin. Currently, Firefox automatically loads any plugin requested by a website, unless Mozilla has blocked it for security reasons (which it has for old versions of Java, Silverlight, and Flash). Going forward, Mozilla will essentially be blocking all plugins except the very latest version of Flash. The company won’t say why it is exempting Adobe’s plugin, but it’s most likely because users expect their videos to play automatically (and advertisers expect their ads to load automatically). Firefox will thus only load plugins when you take the action of clicking to make a particular plugin play. Alternatively, you can also configure Click to Play so that it always run plugins on a particular website . To implement this change, Mozilla still has to do the following: 1. Set Click to Play for old versions of Flash (versions Update: This is done now, see below). 2. Complete final UI work. 3. Set Click to Play for current versions of Silverlight, Java, and Acrobat Reader and all versions of all other Plugins. Mozilla says this new stance will help increase Firefox performance and stability, which is understandable as plugins often bog down a browser (when they are loaded and unloaded or just lead to high memory usage while browsing) or render it unusable (poorly designed third-party plugins are the number one cause of crashes in Firefox). The company is looking to significantly cut down on all of these by only loading plugins that the user wants to load. At the same time, Mozilla says it will be providing more control over plugins to users. This is technically true (users will be able to fine-tune the behavior of each plugin per site) but it’s also a bit of a stretch (most users won’t do this). The real reason is lumped in with all the rest: “provide significant security benefits.” After all, that’s exactly what Mozilla used Click to Play for last time; when Java exploits got out of hand earlier this month, it added all recent versions to Firefox’s blocklist . Игра на андроид tako kitchen 2 kitchen Click to Play is very useful as a prevention mechanism against drive-by attacks (such as urging users to click on a video link that is almost never what it claims to be or hiding in ads on a legitimate website) targeting plugins that are known to be vulnerable. Mozilla’s explanation of these scenarios is worth quoting in full: One of the most common exploitation vectors against users is drive by exploitation of vulnerable plugins. In this kind of attack, a user with outdated or vulnerable plugins installed in their browser can be infected with malware simply by browsing to any site that contains a plugin exploit kit. We’ve observed plugin exploit kits to be present on both malicious websites and also otherwise completely legitimate websites that have been compromised and are unknowingly infecting visitors with malware. In these situations the website doesn’t have any legitimate use of the plugin other than exploiting the user’s vulnerable plugin to install malware on the their machine. The Click to Play feature protects users in these scenarios since plugins are not automatically loaded simply by visiting a website. Игра на андроид tako kitchen 2 tako For those who are unaware, Click to Play has been available in Mozilla’s browser as of Firefox 17. Here’s what it looks like in action: Currently, the prompt tells you that the plugin is vulnerable and thus Firefox has stopped it from loading automatically. This message will likely be updated with something more generic given that Mozilla is essentially looking to block almost all plugins from loading by default. If there is an update available, you will be prompted to update the plugin. Either way, you will be able to use the plugin by clicking on the blocked grey box if you want to, but many will find this to be a bit of a hassle. Mozilla would not reveal when this change will come into effect, but we can assume it will be made in the next few weeks or so. We’ll see soon enough how Firefox users react to it. Update at 2:50PM EST. Mozilla has completed step one outlined above. The company has enabled Click to Play on old versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin; for versions 10.2.* and lower, whenever you load a page that uses the plugin, you will see the prompt shown above. If you want to avoid this, update your Adobe Flash plugin. Does Bad Behavior Cause You to Avoid Online Games? Most of us are pretty comfortable with the idea that video games can provide arenas for transgressive play that allows people to explore taboos and societal no-no’s with impunity. I can mow down pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto, get the delicious thrill of doing something I would never, ever do in real life and then go back to my usual existence of not even being able to kill ants in my kitchen without feeling guilty about it. There are even those that suggest that these types of activities fill an important psychological need: in most animals play is preparation for real life. I even wrote a paper about this recently – I summarize some thinking on play and its role in human development: To overlook play as a critical component of the human experience is to miss an opportunity to leverage an inherent human capability for learning that is also a drive rooted in basic survival strategies. Play, as a state, is simply an opportunity for unfocused, open-ended experimentation, often in an environment that has been designed to allow for a range of experiences, some prescribed, but some almost entirely emergent… With respect to this alternative framing, rather than to say that one is ‘at play’ it would be more descriptive to say that one is ‘in play’, that is, one is carving out a space in which experimentation is safe and possible – this state is non-linear, unfocused on a particular end result, and allows for creative thinking, innovative problem solving, and shifts in perspective… Play also serves as a motivating force, but it is most powerfully an apparatus for allowing experimentation outside of limitations of physical practicality or other opportunity barriers, e.g. the difficulty of training for natural disasters, that arise from needing to develop competency in an area that is highly dependent on experiences that are not frequently encountered. Okay, so here’s an opportunity barrier: how often do we get to see what happens when we are jerks to others? (Unless we spend all of time being jerks, which I suppose some people do). One of my hypotheses is that there is not so much a griefer archetype, so much as there are people who play at griefing just to see what happens when they do. Wreaking havoc in the real world just carries too high a cost. For some people, the temptation to be a little bit evil is overshadowed by a more pragmatic drive to conform to societal norms. But games let us play at being evil! And that means a lot more than picking the bad faction. For many there is a larger game of general obnoxiousness and seeing how people respond to our barbs. We can argue all day long about whether there are people who are inherently evil, but the truth is that most people aren’t. It doesn’t make evolutionary sense to be mean to others when our survival is so often rooted in the cooperation and fitness of the group. But (warning: I’m going all post-modern here) this sort of play is just as integral to the development of identity in a complex society as play-fighting is for lion cubs. How do people respond if I do something? What can I get away with? What behaviors subject me to a penalty of some sort? This is especially important for young people who are in the process of identity formation. There are billions of options for how to be. Which ways work best, make one feel the best, allow for maximum success? Which contribute to Shirky’s advantages of youth. Is it good for the doormat to learn a thing or two about steamrolling their way through life? Or maybe, as Conor Murphy suggested in a recent article. there is a cathartic effect at work? Isn’t it better to take out my aggressions in some PvP rather than beating my wife or kids, or pulling someone out of their car and beating the bejeezus out of them when they cut me off in traffic? The world is a horrible, frustrating place. Where else is that anger going to go? In Killing Monsters. Gerard Jones notes that catharsis comes from the Greek word ‘katharsis’, meaning ‘a release of dangerous emotions’ (Artistotle was apparently a fan; Karl Lorenz made it a theory), and requires that ‘emotions be stimulated before they can be released’. And yes, this thinking has been generally applied as a justification (controversially, to say the least) that violent videogames aren’t so bad after all. So let’s say there’s something to it. Could it also be applied to these nasty social interactions? Or does allowing them to happen perpetuate more of the same, a game of hateful, desensitizing one-upsmanship? Is there any rationale for applying what Jones says about violence to social transgression as well? Anthropologists and psychologists who study play, however, have shown that there are many other functions, as well — one of which is to enable children to be just what they know they will never be… Playing with rage is a valuable way to reduce its power. Being evil and destructive in imagination is a vital compensation for the wildness we all have to surrender on the way to being good people. (p. 11) Игра на андроид tako kitchen 2 андроид I agree with momgamer that it sucks that well-meaning people get driven away from environments overrun by nasty people who have no qualms about ruining everyone’s fun. A new sheriff (and lots of deputies) might be just the thing. Cultures are mutable. They are a collective creation of the individuals who contribute to them: their beliefs and other patterns that emerge over time. Change can be effected, but to do so requires speaking up. You want a voice of non-bigoted reason in the Barrens chat? Then speak up. Find facing the Warthog repulsive? Go ahead and say so. Silence is sanction to continue. Model some positive behavior. But let’s also accept that every game culture doesn’t need to be palatable to everyone. I’m sure that none of us really think that stealing police cars and running over innocent people is okay, but is there perhaps a place for it in certain digital spaces? Instead of knee-jerk reactions to transgression, how about asking why we do it? That’s much more interesting. Genre Shift Wait a minute, wasn't this supposed to be a harem comedy? I-is that the same little boy. (a montage of people driving in cars) Narrator: I am your permit, your license, your permission to drive. I am a privilege, and an obligation. Your obligation to drive skillfully, carefully, and legally. (Someone suddenly gets into a car crash, with quick cuts to up-close shots of innocent bystanders reacting, before settling on a long shot of a traffic light in a fog of smoke.) Josh Way: Suddenly, Fritz Lang 's directing. (sigh) It's no time to get arty, movie. The weird cousin of Executive Meddling. except it can be planned in advance by the writers. Controversial or extremely different ideas are very hard to get past sponsors and audiences suspicious of anything new and unfamiliar. An easy if sneaky way around this is merely to present the beginning of the story as something familiar. However, once the main plot kicks in, your audience is hopefully loyal enough not to notice the quick shift in tone and pacing. If you did it well, in hindsight they might notice little hints you dropped about what was to come. As a side effect, the story will probably also undergo Mood Whiplash. Genre Shifts are sometimes used in Sequel stories. Genre Shifts sometimes occur at the ends of a series when the writers finally get around to soapboxing their opinions. Many fluffy, over-the-top comedies will suddenly find their last episode making an attempt at drama. On the other hand, some cutesy or romance-based stories can experience Genre Shift simply because they start running so long the writer figured if they have to derail the original plot, they might as well do it with something creative. It is possible for this to work, as long as the creators know what they're doing, and it can pay off quite well at times. Usually, however, this requires planning it from the start, allowing the writers to set up the genre shift ahead of time so it doesn't feel like it comes out of nowhere. Because of their sudden onset, Genre Shifts motivated by Executive Meddling are likely doomed. Even worse is if a genre shift is used as the solution to a plot point. which just feels tacky. If this happens one time only in a series before reverting back to the main genre, it's an Out-of-Genre Experience. If it happens before the work is released to the public, it's a case of Mid-Development Genre Shift. If an Eldritch Abomination suddenly appear without much foreshadowing, its Cosmic Horror Reveal. Рекомендуем также прочитать Gravity Guy на Windows Phone Описание игры 2048 (2048) : Очень простая, но невероятно затягивающая головоломка, в которой предстоит немного пошевелить мозгами. Обзор игры Love Live! School Idol Festival Разместил: Cap Рубрики: Игры Дата: 3 января 2014, 22:12 Talking Ben the Dog [на Андроид] 13 февраля 2015 Категория: Игры Жанр: Детские. 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My Football Failure Aug. 22, 2005 Aug. 22, 2005 Table of Contents Aug. 22, 2005 Sports Illustrated Bonus Section: Golf Plus SI Players: Life On and Off the Field Track and Field College Football • Inside 70 The Week In Sports Inside the NFL Inside Baseball My Football Failure I have a shameful secret to confess: I don't love the NFL. In a country in which "Are you ready for some football?" is presumed to be a rhetorical question, I'm coming out of the closet--I'm flushing myself out of the pocket--as the last American male who has never bet on a game, joined the office pool, belonged to a fantasy league, played the Madden video game or owned a TV larger than my garage door. This is an article from the Aug. 22, 2005 issue Original Layout Jevon Kearse isn't the Freak; I am, because loving the NFL is now a compulsory American activity, like jury duty. When the name of a Detroit defensive back was announced last Friday night during the Jets-Lions preseason game, a woman in my row at Giants Stadium said, "Is his name really R.W. McQuarters? I thought that was a McDonald's character." Why would someone who can't tell an eight-year NFL veteran from the Hamburglar's accountant want to pay $70 to attend an exhibition game? Yet there we all were, chanting "J-E-T-S Jets Jets Jets" and giddily sliding into D-E-B-T Debt Debt Debt. Consider that more than 10,000 fans pay $50 a year, every year, for the privilege of keeping their names on the Jets' season-ticket waiting list. But the in-stadium experience, during five-minute television timeouts, is even less exciting than watching grass grow. (It's FieldTurf.) Don't get me wrong: I do follow the NFL. Or more accurately, it follows me, like a missionary through an airport. So I can't help but know Drew Brees's quarterback rating and how to pronounce Laveranues and a whole glossary of NFL terminology. Hash marks: What you might find on Ricky Williams's couch. Dime package: What you might find under Ricky Williams's couch. Quarterback: What you get after forking over $7 for a beer at Giants Stadium. (Yes, they're $6.75 a bottle.) Encroachment is what the league keeps doing on our summers. The Hall of Fame game seems to sneak into our homes earlier every year. "Like a burglar climbing through the window," as a startled colleague put it. "I turned around, and it was there." If I have to watch the Cardinals and the Giants play in August, Albert Pujols better be batting third. And please don't talk about the "preseason." Preseason is what you do to a steak before grilling it. George Carlin points out that you can't really "preheat" an oven or "preboard" an airplane: You can only heat an oven or board an airplane. Likewise, you're in season or you're not. So I paid $85 (with parking) to see the Jets and the Lions combine for 13 points in a scrimmage. It was a facsimile of fun. It was pre-fun. I prefer college football. But that's just me, more Rose Bowl than Pro Bowl, more 'Noles-Gators than Whizzinators. Golden Dome? Love it. Edward Jones Dome? Not so much. But evidently I'm a minority of one. The Cowboys are America's Team. The NFL is America's Game. The league's logo--in essence, a football on a flag on a shield--is an American holy trinity, its appeal universal. On Friday, I watched a man alight from a helicopter outside Giants Stadium, then board a limousine for the final 200 yards to the gate. And I watched another man alight from a van, with flames climbing up from his rear end. (I pray to God that was a tattoo.) As for that vast America in between these two men: Where do I fit into it? We NFL agnostics have become the sports equivalent of blue staters, made to feel vaguely un-American for not sufficiently loving America's Game. If only that game weren't quite so self-important, so humorless, so needlessly complicated. Quarterbacks wear tiny speakers in their helmets, have the Dead Sea Scrolls laminated to their wristbands and study more film (to less purpose) than Ebert & Roeper. Owners wear French cuffs and starched collars on Sundays. Coaches, fearing lip readers, cover their mouths with manila folders, so that they all appear to suffer, self-consciously, from chronic halitosis (when surely only some of them do). Commissioner Paul Tagliabue recently asked those coaches, in a leaguewide memo, to loosen up. The Giants' Tom Coughlin tried to smile. But his face cracked and fell away like wall plaster. Exiting the Jets game on Friday night, amid a smattering of fans in Joe Namath jerseys, I began to compose a series of cheap and uncharitable Carnac the Magnificent jokes: A: Throwback jersey. Q: What would a fisherman do after catching the Garden State? But I quickly realized that resistance is futile. Calling, as it does, every Monday night (and thrice on Sundays), the NFL will inevitably wear me down, like the diabolical telemarketer that it is, and I'll one day switch my official allegiance from NCAA to NFL. 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GDP and Inflation Money Matters, Monumentally Monday January 29, 2018 Konrad Hurren Part three: Funny munny or foney money? In our previous articles part 1 and part 2 we’ve briefly covered monetary history in NZ and how money obtains its value. Now, we get rather serious and identify the machinations of “fractional reserve banking”. What is a bank? A bank is actually really similar to a warehouse. Viz, you may pay a warehouse owner to store your commodities (maybe, although few of us really do this now), you can also pay a bank to store your commodities (your money, the most marketable commodity). In return the warehouse gives you a note that entitles the bearer to the goods upon redemption, banks do the same and we can call these notes “notes of promise”. Further, you might say to someone with whom you wish to trade that you’d like to settle the trade using the warehouse note instead of writing a cheque or shipping gold/silver/salt to her. In this way warehouse receipts can become money substitutes. In the same way, you may write someone a cheque that states essentially “pay the bearer some amount of gold/silver/salt.” We’re going to refer to money in terms of $ from now on for expediency. Or, you may just use the “notes of promise” the bank creates for you to settle any liabilities. Just as you might with a “normal” warehouse note. As a concrete example consider a new bank opening. Some people get together and pool their money and make a bank (let’s ignore capital and equipment). Then, luckily, they get some customers who want to deposit $3,000. In return the bank issues “notes of promise” to the money owners that entitle the owner to withdraw his money at any time (these equal $3,000). So, in accounting terms the bank has: Debit (asset) side: $3,000 cash Credit (liability) side: $3,000 “notes of promise” Nothing nefarious to see here. You might be wondering how this bank might make money. There will be fees associated with storage of the cash, additionally the bank can contract with people to borrow their money (so they cannot withdraw until a specified date) and then lend this out. Thus earning a differential interest amount. In the real world of hampered markets and central banking Same story as above, except this time the bank knows it can create money “from thin air”. Customers deposit $3,000 to this bank and receive “notes of promise” in return. The bank then is approached by some other customer who wants to borrow $500. The bank issues “notes of promise” to the customer for $500. Note that these go on the credit side as in the last example, so the accounts now read: Debit (asset): $3,000 cash Credit (liability): $3,500 “notes of promise” How to make this balance? The bankers think for a second, then with a twinkle in their eye they say to the borrower “just give us an IOU”. And it is so. The bank’s accounts now have $3,500 on the debit side ($3,000 cash and $500 IOU) and $3,500 worth of “notes of promise” on the credit side. The banks here have created $500 “out of thin air” there is no reserves of cash to back this up, just an IOU. In the real world these “notes of promise” are issued by Treasury and have pictures of famous New Zealanders (and birds) on them. We emphasise that anyone trading with the bank’s customers only sees the “notes of promise”. There is no way to tell if these are from the stock of “real” money or are “out of thin air”. How does a bank work? Well, in our world there exists a Reserve bank – backed by the power and the will of The State and legislation. The Reserve bank is there as a “lender of last resort”. When time comes for banks to clear the cheques of depositors they may will need to sell assets or borrow from other banks, this will put pressure on money market interest rates. Without the existence of a Reserve bank lending money at the Official Cash Rate. Banks would need to borrow at ever higher rates from each other (or sell ever more of their assets) if they were to engage in large scale Fractional Reserve Banking. This implies potentially large losses. In the unhampered market (no central bank) this is enough to make the practise pretty much non-existent. However, in our world, the Reserve bank has an interest rate target (the tool it uses to “target inflation”) and so is obligated to pump money to relieve the pressure on the money market rates. That the reserve bank’s role is to target inflation using… inflation is an irony lost to the misuse of the word “inflation”. In effect the reserve bank acts to cartelize all the banks in the market and force them to act as one in the expansion of the money supply. We’ve so far shown some neat data on the deterioration of purchasing power in New Zealand; identifying that it is increases in the money supply (inflation) which cause this deterioration. This inflation is brought about through fractional reserve banking, made possible only by the existence of a reserve bank. Next, we describe how this inflation acts as a transfer of wealth from the rest of us to those who receive the “new money” first. This series serves as a primer for the penultimate article about what is over the horizon.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9367513060569764}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '28778', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Z437KP75WSBQ4NM3LVKS4DY5COF5SAR5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:052cf91a-88a6-46a3-b369-9611afe04814>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 10, 4), 'WARC-IP-Address': '103.6.212.140', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ZFTW37VVBEZ244EFUF75FFRMTR556WTH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1b800a11-ead1-4265-8c68-4899c3357d42>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://berl.co.nz/economic-insights/macro-picture/gdp-and-inflation/money-matters-monumentally-3/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c7b8be08-0d9d-4c31-9db0-0fa6d2464bb4>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '861', 'url': 'http://berl.co.nz/economic-insights/macro-picture/gdp-and-inflation/money-matters-monumentally-3/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-34-165.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.4900779128074646', 'original_id': 'e1ca80faa0b08ce64ceddebeb42a2173560944d8a1667d4fab6fc99fcd1f2001'}
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Their society and government was collectively shaped by the magical chants, canticles, arias, and madrigals sung by generations of practitioners of the Taseki magical tradition. In time they came to be guided first by the leading Song Magi, and then by the Chantors of the Forty Cities. The island thrived, the people were content, the Song Magi grew prosperous… and divided. As far as Taseki historians, arcanists and antiquarians have been able to piece together from sparse written evidence and the fragments of magical divination from the time before the curse, out, the Taseki magi-musical tradition (or Song Magic as it is commonly known) was based on the magical principle of the Harmony of Voices Unified. In essence, this principle held that by acting in magical concert, the magic of the song was amplified, and the different parts and harmonies of the singers would exert a cohesive influence on the whole spell. The particular styles and expressions of individual singers would weave together to form a stronger magical harmony. The Taseki Empire Murwata Island is over 3000 miles from end to end. As long as the Chantors of the Forty Cities maintained their commitment to the Harmony of Taseki-Kadi, the Empire remained strong, but local divergence in tradition inevitably drew the attention of some Chantors away from the Harmony and it weakened. At least, this is the prevailing theory among the historians in what remains of the Taseki Empire. What is not debated is the Day of the Curse. 290 years ago, on the day of the Festival of Lights in Sogado, the 34th city, the Harmony failed and Taseki-Kadi ripped apart. Waves of magical energy resonated throughout the island, sundering the magical communications networks that kept the Forty Cities harmonized. Civilization as they knew it was destroyed. From the ashes emerged the Murwata Island they now know: the rebel republic of Wisgo, the poisoned lands of Malo (formerly Sogado and its neighbours), the lee-lands now called Chrysom, overrun by barbarians. Now the Forty Cities exist in the archaic name of the Harmony only. The Song Magi of Taseki are divided under the yoke of the curse. Choral singing attracts demonic forces so the magi sing alone. The Harmony is broken. Factions within the remaining Thirteen Cities pursue their own goals. The Reunifiers plan to recover Taseki-Kadi by conquest. The Reharmonizers hope to resettle the Lost Cities and re-sing the Harmony. The Seekers focus their individual energies on discovering the origin and workings of the Curse and reversing it. For the Arians are united only in their belief that the Curse arose because the Harmony was too heavy; the way forward for each of the remaining cities lies in local variations of the Taseki traditions. The various factions use, abuse, and collaborate with the peoples and groups of Malo, Chrysom, Wisgo and beyond to serve their own vision for the cities of the former Taseki-Kadi, and their interpretation of the Harmony of Voices Unified. Play to find out… • What exactly happens when Song Mages sing together? • How does the Curse affect mages from other traditions? • How did certain Song Magi know to hide on the eve of the Day of the Curse? • What gives the Songgrove the power to amplify the Harmonies? • Were the volcanoes of the Lavaspine mountains active when the ruined cities in its foothills were built? • Secretive cults from before the Curse still tend to the ancient mounds that dot the plains and jungles. What lore do they preserve? 1 ping 1. Phin So, I found my way here from Twitter, and I was just wandering through. Lovely stuff! And the map is great. How did you make it? 1. Hamish Cameron You’d have to ask Wes that. 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Why is Mike D'Antoni, the coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team successful, and how should 'success' be measured? Expert Answers pohnpei397 eNotes educator\| Certified Educator Success should be measured in different ways in different contexts. In the case of Mike D’Antoni or any other basketball coach, success is measured by wins and losses and, to some degree, in how far up the professional ladder one climbs. This tells us whether D'Antoni is successful professionally. Of course, there are other aspects to success. A person’s professional life is only one aspect of their entire life. It is just as important to be a success as a person as it is to be a professional success. However, without knowing D’Antoni personally, there is no way we can say whether he is a personal success. Professionally, we would have to say that D’Antoni is a success, though not a complete one. Anyone who becomes a coach in the NBA, the best basketball league in the world, has reached the pinnacle of the profession. D’Antoni has not only reached the NBA but has managed to coach parts of 11 seasons in the league. He is clearly a success in this sense. However, if we define “success” rigidly enough, D’Antoni has not been a complete success. He has not made it to the NBA Finals, and therefore has not won a championship. He is not the most respected coach in the game, with many saying that he can’t coach defense and that he can’t adjust his offense to fit the players he has. Professionally, then, D’Antoni has clearly been a success. He is a long-term NBA coach with a winning record. He has not won a title and is not seen as one of the elite coaches in the league, but he has been successful.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9722060561180116}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41982', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7BB6T6QFVCLNQUKJVH3ZQF7PUNEPZF2V', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0cdc6917-04eb-4af9-8b67-e7250955ba81>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 13, 18, 50), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.236.193.239', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Z4UY55MJ4TVKEFQH6JJQFPWAOKPZMGNK', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b6855207-cf27-42d6-b3b2-cb068d1ac15c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-mike-dantoni-coach-lakers-basketball-team-452764', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae39579e-3195-48f3-9476-53b99e91397c>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '300', 'url': 'https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/why-mike-dantoni-coach-lakers-basketball-team-452764', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-229-203-126.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.018646538257598877', 'original_id': '229a30af84edf05e6e2c1d80a013f6c126ac4ad02243f612dcb9984aa7f529f1'}
Dataset Information Integrated Analysis of Dysregulated miRNA-gene Expression in HMGA2-silenced Retinoblastoma Cells. ABSTRACT: Retinoblastoma (RB) is a primary childhood eye cancer. HMGA2 shows promise as a molecule for targeted therapy. The involvement of miRNAs in genome-level molecular dys-regulation in HMGA2-silenced RB cells is poorly understood. Through miRNA expression microarray profiling, and an integrated array analysis of the HMGA2-silenced RB cells, the dysregulated miRNAs and the miRNA-target relationships were modelled. Loop network analysis revealed a regulatory association between the transcription factor (SOX5) and the deregulated miRNAs (miR-29a, miR-9*, miR-9-3). Silencing of HMGA2 deregulated the vital oncomirs (miR-7, miR-331, miR-26a, miR-221, miR-17~92 and miR-106b?25) in RB cells. From this list, the role of the miR-106b?25 cluster was examined further for its expression in primary RB tumor tissues (n = 20). The regulatory targets of miR-106b?25 cluster namely p21 (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor) and BIM (pro-apoptotic gene) were elevated, and apoptotic cell death was observed, in RB tumor cells treated with the specific antagomirs of the miR-106b?25 cluster. Thus, suppression of miR-106b?25 cluster controls RB tumor growth. Taken together, HMGA2 mediated anti-tumor effect present in RB is, in part, mediated through the miR-106b?25 cluster. PROVIDER: S-EPMC4159370 \| BioStudies \| REPOSITORIES: biostudies Similar Datasets \| S-EPMC3472926 \| BioStudies \| E-GEOD-51696 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC3446970 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC4978973 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC2529070 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC3342483 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC3530025 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC3388242 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC5400605 \| BioStudies \| S-EPMC4142865 \| BioStudies	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.798998236656189}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '144854', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2GGJ5FND4K3EQPITICX75JTGY3OENMHG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9eb1cd5c-5119-484f-95fb-1fdda8e1a7d2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 2, 0, 51, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '193.62.193.83', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PN35VO7XHBX2OOAYUZILPIPE5F363WDZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1890e462-2479-4d58-bdee-092d0c0e71ef>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.omicsdi.org/dataset/biostudies/S-EPMC4159370', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5c3a93c3-e1d6-4943-9e61-69539a12d0e6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '211', 'url': 'https://www.omicsdi.org/dataset/biostudies/S-EPMC4159370', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-88\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09515374898910522', 'original_id': '0cdbb5aec7855167f046f7def7982e4c5c3db4f43bcd1ad8b46b3b59235adf8f'}
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US media steps up espionage slander against Edward Snowden By Barry Grey 13 May 2014 As the one-year anniversary of the publication of the first of Edward Snowden’s revelations of massive and illegal government spying on the American and world population approaches, the campaign of vilification and character assassination against the former National Security Agency contractor is being stepped up. A particularly filthy example is a column published Saturday in the Wall Street Journal by author Edward Jay Epstein, entitled “Was Snowden’s Heist a Foreign Espionage Operation?” The author does not advance a shred of actual evidence to back up his accusation, which may explain why the headline is in the form of a question. The charge is stated more plainly in a blowout that accompanies the piece: “Those who know the files he stole think he was working for a foreign power, perhaps Russia, where he now lives.” This is but one of thousands of propaganda pieces being pumped out that have nothing to do with legitimate journalism. It is witch-hunting and frame-up either commissioned by the state intelligence agencies or tailored to their specifications. Its modus operandi is distortion, innuendo and falsification. Epstein is the author of a series of books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, including Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, and works on US intelligence operations, including Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB & the CIA. He is well connected to the NSA, the CIA and the American intelligence complex. He begins by attacking the notion that Snowden is a whistle-blower, attributing that view—held by the vast majority of the American and world public—to a “narrative designed by Mr. Snowden himself.” Epstein snidely dismisses the notion that “Snowden, acting alone … heroically exposed the evils of government surveillance beginning in 2013.” He cites as witnesses against Snowden military, intelligence and political figures such as Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers; Chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee Dianne Feinstein; Rick Ledgett, an NSA executive; and recently retired NSA Director Keith Alexander. Both Rogers and Feinstein are on record calling Snowden a traitor and demanding that he be sent back to the US and prosecuted for espionage. The evidence? The fact that only a small portion of the documents Snowden downloaded deal directly with mass spying programs against civilians. That is it, except for the following supposedly damning fact: “The suspicions that whistle-blowing was a cover for espionage by Mr. Snowden are further heightened by his winding up under the protection of the Russian security service, the FSB, in Moscow.” Play fast and loose with the truth, Mr. Epstein, but give the public credit for at least a smattering of intelligence! Anyone familiar with the Snowden story knows that he ended up in Russia not by choice, but because of the actions of the United States government. Last June 23, Snowden flew to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport with a ticket for an onward flight to Latin America via Cuba. The Obama administration, which had already accused Snowden of violating the Espionage Act and stealing government property, and had lifted his passport, announced that it would have him arrested and deported to the US if he stepped out of the airport transit zone. After being stranded in the airport for more than a month, he accepted the offer of the Russian government for a one-year temporary renewable asylum. So much for his sinister decision to “live in Russia”! Epstein then goes on to argue that Snowden’s state enemies are a more reliable source of information than Snowden or the media outlets that have published his revelations. He writes: “His detractors are the people who know enough about what happened to conclude that far from being a whistle-blower, Mr. Snowden was a participant in an espionage operation…” Of course, they are also complicit in the massive crimes against the US Constitution and the democratic rights of the people that Snowden has exposed, and therefore have a huge vested interest in demonizing and silencing the whistle-blower—including the possibility that they could be criminally prosecuted in the future. That Epstein’s article is part of a broader campaign is demonstrated by the inclusion in Sunday’s edition of ABC News’ “This Week” interview program of a segment introduced with the question: “Is Edward Snowden a spy?” ABC News correspondent Pierre Thomas states: “Edward Snowden is a traitor and could be a spy recruited by Russia to target the US. That’s the suspicion of the man who was running the NSA when the breach happened last year.” Asked, “Is he a spy?” former NSA Director Alexander replies with innuendo to the effect that he is, stating: “I don’t know the answer to that. I am concerned that where he is now, he is at least influenced by Russia. The real question—and we don’t know an answer to—is how far back did that go?” The implication is that the US government must get its hands on Snowden to extract the information from him. Alexander goes on to repeat the official smear that Snowden is aiding and abetting terrorists, declaring: “We’re losing capabilities to track terrorists. This is a huge impact.” Next, moderator Martha Raddatz brings in former White House counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke to pile on against Snowden. Asked by Raddatz, “Do you think that Edward Snowden damaged national security?” Clarke replies, “I know he did.” This is a scurrilous operation, directed in the first instance against an individual who heroically sacrificed his career, and possibly his life, to expose to the people of America and the world a secret police state operation that tracks virtually every communication of a large proportion of the earth’s inhabitants. More fundamentally, the witch-hunt of Snowden is directed against the democratic rights of the working class. 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December 2, 2010 Burger Lounge CEO says chain's success won't bring complacency Dean Loring is CEO of Burger Lounge. Q: Burger Lounge is on its fifth and sixth locations in San Diego. Do you think the burger market will soon be saturated in San Diego? A: It is possible the entire restaurant business is saturated. That said, brands that execute through best practices and a commitment to their guests will find success in our industry. Q: What has made Burger Lounge such a local success, allowing it to grow to six locations within three years? A: Timing is helpful and our concept is easy to understand. Our mantra is to "do a common thing uncommonly well." We work tirelessly at improving our products and service. We cannot afford to rest on our laurels. Success can bring complacency and the belief that you are better than you really are. It's best not to believe your own press. It forces you to be better every day. Q: Do you think the San Diego consumer is now more conscientious of green-certified restaurants, such as Burger Lounge, and the impact restaurants have on the environment? If so, why? A: The carbon footprint of restaurants per square foot is huge. We move a lot of matter and create a lot of waste. The public gets it but another way to look at it is to ask yourself, "why not do it?" The conspicuous absence of good environmental practices in many businesses surprises me more. Our certification process is positive because it forces us to implement new environmental strategies in order to remain certified. It's like we have an environmental mom around to make sure we brush our teeth and make our bed. Q: The Burger Lounge food philosophy is simple. There aren't a lot of menu items. How did you know that would work so well when the consumer today is so familiar with having countless menu options? A: People's lives are complicated enough. I think the simplicity of Burger Lounge is refreshing to people. On the other hand, executing our menu and service is not as simple as it looks. People don't complain about spending $12 for a martini, but give them an $8 hamburger and they will find a million things wrong with it. It takes a lot of components to make that product right and when you commit to using whole food and sustainable ingredients, the margin for error increases even more. The nuances matter and getting it right every time is a big challenge. Although our menu is small, our goal is to satisfy many different appetites. That is why we offer a proprietary Quinoa-based vegetarian hamburger and fine dining quality salads. Not everyone wants a hamburger. A: When I look into my crystal ball I see images of Kimchi Bars on every corner? I'm kidding. Since I don't have a crystal ball, I will offer this: special occasion restaurants that offer traditional appetizer, main course, dessert are becoming an endangered species. It takes a big investment and you cannot make money on three busy nights per week. What we're missing in San Diego is a three meal a day restaurant that offers value and authenticity. A place you can go every day and expect great service and interesting food made from real ingredients. I live downtown and I want someone to open that place. I also want more "grab and go" places that do just a few things very well. Q: How do you stay fresh in the minds of your customers? A: Staying relevant is a challenge for every operator. The key in my opinion is to continually improve and reinvest in your concept. We view every capital expense as an investment in our brand. Whether it is creating a positive environment for employees or remodeling a dining room, it all adds up to paying attention to the details and continually viewing your business through the eyes of the guest. It sounds like a simple formula. I wish it were. Chat with Dean at Jeff Pinkley, senior event manager at the San Diego Convention Center, was recently recognized for his professional achievements by being named 2010 Distinguished Convention Services Manager of the Year by the Professional Convention Management Association. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of convention services. Pinkley was acknowledged for his professionalism, as well as his dedication to his clients and the students he mentors from SDSU's Hospitality and Tourism Management Program. Southern-style restaurant, Big John's Rhythm City Grill, recently opened at San Marcos' historic Old California Restaurant Row. The restaurant is owned by North Carolina native John Johnson and Manager George Qualls from Louisiana. The restaurant also features live Jazz or Blues on the Patio each Friday, Saturday and Sunday. 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[ ᴃᴚiפʜᴌ ᵴᴌᴗᴆiᴏ ]: Listen Saturday, October 11, 2008 All along, i have always 'envied' pastors and leaders who could read one verse from the bible and could explain from it. I mean, when i read the bible, most of the time, it doesn't make sense in the natural, and some of them are like stories, a long list of name, or events. i'll write an example: Nehemiah 1 1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: Okay, tell me what do read from these verses? Most of the time, we would read it as a story, but there's where it gets wrong! It not a mere story but itself, it was what really happened during that period of time. Seriously, tell me, when you read it, what does it tell you? i'll let you ponder upon it first So yea, one day i asked God, why those pastors and leaders could understand the verse from another point of view? what is the key of understanding the meaning behind those Words of Your? How can i achieve that? a moment of silence And i heard the word, "listen", it was a still small voice. And i understood what 'listen' actually meant... Many times, when we 'spend' time with God, many times it was out of a 'duty' or 'habit', but thats the thing that makes us blind. Each time we draw close to Him, we need and should have the desire to learn, to understand and to hear the heartbeat of God. Listen, i tell you, listen... what do we listen to everyday? Jokes? Complains? Swear words? "Rubbish in, rubbish out"... ring does it ring a bell? Seriously, we need to start listening encouragements, words of peace, of sound mind, of love, of grace, all in all, of God. Now back to where i started. So the key of interpreting words of God is to listen, listen to what you may ask.. dear readers, listen to that still small voice. God's voice. You could be in your class, but there you can still talk to God, listen to Him, and He'll guide you. Provided that you so desire it la... God is a gentleman, He would give it to you only if you'd ask. He wouldn't force it down your throat. Okay, now, from the verses i qoute-ed from Nehemiah 1, what have you heard from God? Please, do not read it merely as a story, from the verses, learn to apply it into your life. Ask that you'll be changed more and more to be a person who is after God's heart, a person who hears His heartbeat, a person who cares for what God cares about. Lastly, i pray that whoever who reads these would be blessed and would be able to start a new journey, which is more exciting, alongside with God. Post a Comment	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '97', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.97071772813797}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '68645', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:F7DPL5DKCOL5RRGJGT3BWXPWC2VJ5O6X', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c07a0654-fc99-4898-ba96-7fe4f1e85cdb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 3, 19, 12, 36, 6), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.7.161', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Y32SSNNMQVVYBTVGIPNGYFM3QDHEVSBJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c0d9f986-2a63-46c1-b9ed-1021e7d8481e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://bright-studio.blogspot.com/2008/10/listen.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:220c038f-4bea-4d92-96e8-849fd41a3194>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '593', 'url': 'http://bright-studio.blogspot.com/2008/10/listen.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-130-109.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-13\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06993550062179565', 'original_id': 'b639924b38843daceb1e620f8f26f9d53e2d2056a7ebf852d12bf1811bf6509d'}
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They nonetheless must be recognized after meeting a set standards by a central regulatory authority called Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) in Islamabad There are nearly equal number of authorities and private medical colleges and universities, with their number exceeding 50. Admission to a government medical school is very aggressive. Coaching will take place on the American University of Beirut Medical heart (AUBMC) in Beirut. 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Social Class and Equality by Stephen Fluin 2004.01.04 Inequality can be seen genetically between differing people in many ways, including intelligence. The question that has risen, and defines much of the division between liberal and conservative, republican and democrat are whether the masses will do what is right, or whether elitist groups should be left with all of the power. Sadly, the masses can and do make poor decisions (about things like economic controls). Because of this, we must place our faith in a representative body, but only so long as this body serves everyone.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.95016211271286}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '11577', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VBPI2MPVJU3BYZZB3NUZYWLCFK6ZBYU6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5beeac45-4dd0-4c08-83ea-67eb4e1579ea>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 35, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '146.148.49.212', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HQODQVP7S5Z34POTQSETMQ2AUQFSZW3Z', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f6b41b2-d918-4630-ad08-2c372201ea81>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://mortalpowers.com/news/social-class-and-equality', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:a4b043ea-75a9-45ce-ba9d-1c961719f4e6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '95', 'url': 'https://mortalpowers.com/news/social-class-and-equality', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-140-228-121.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.2383766770362854', 'original_id': '0579b166eaa406839cb612c779bc7fa5fa896a68704447898f31b45099206a6c'}
From Carnarvon, my trip has settled into a reliable pattern. Carnarvon to Kilbarri, a few hundred km, was pretty unremarkable- just a lot more outback. At least it was the last bit of real desert on my West Coast leg. Thank goodness, because I was jonesin’ for some scenery. While vast stretches of red dirt and scrub bush are beautiful in their own way, they’re really not. I had my anti-inflammatory meds from my stop in Carnarvon, and dutifully popped them twice a day. In the afternoon, my left knee would tell me when to stop, and I became much better at stretching during my rest breaks. Here’s the schedule that I’ve adjusted to: 5:30am. wake up. It’s pitch black and all the stars are out. I lie in my sleeping bag and watch the billions of stars above me, the quiet interrupted only by the occasional road train roaring past on the nearby road. 6:15am. The sky begins to lighten. I shrug out of my sleeping bag, get dressed, and busy myself with packing up my bags and tent. 6:45am. Dawn. I’m on the road, pedaling. 7:30am. Half hour break by the side of the road to heat up some water for coffee and oatmeal. Mmmmm brekky. 8:00am-noon. Ride, take pictures, snack on a lot of scotch fingers. Noon. Hour break to make my lunch of lentils, dried mushrooms, and instant noodles. 1pm-5pm: Ride, take pictures, snack on a lot of banana chips. 5pm. Find a place to sleep and begin setting up camp. Must be sufficiently hidden from view of the road, far enough away from rest areas and roadhouses, and flat. Any one of these requirements is flexible if I’m tired enough. 6pm. Nightfall. I stretch and roll out my legs, then cozy up in my sleeping bag. I have a quick, uncooked dinner (sandwiches, usually), and read\write for as long as I can before passing out. 8pm (at the latest). I’m fast asleep. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9303207397460938}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '186470', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ULAXQ6FHHRXRXZ2PSCYHLEKW3STNMABR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6c5d4290-5f49-4672-9a72-0299393cb88d>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 10, 2, 0, 17, 53), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VWJIAXROL3TW2NH7GMJWGSSNRKPQVGIV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6e7b6168-389d-4116-807d-50efb21c9b55>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://inmutualweirdness.com/2016/06/13/carnarvon-to-kalbarri/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:860e80d8-d0b7-4ff5-aa82-b4cf05ee0eb0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '376', 'url': 'https://inmutualweirdness.com/2016/06/13/carnarvon-to-kalbarri/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-120\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': '0.020887315273284912', 'original_id': '84afe19560ed7891123be34ac2c6708b381b30ee4133eaa74b8f78ded49afc3f'}
Friday, May 25, 2018 Ebbtide’s Revenge S6E12 Synopsis: Dorothy’s brother Phil dies and a conflict between Sophia and Phil’s wife comes to a head. 90s Flashback Dorothy: “Father Salerno, Angela was worried that my mother might have given you the wrong idea about what kind of man my brother Phil was.” Father Salerno : “Not to worry. The good Lord has given me a sixth sense, so to speak. I can tell a lot about a person just by looking at them… [Looks at Phil] What can I say about Philip Petrillo? He was… special. Very special. Yeah, a man doesn't get any more special than this. Wait a minute, is this one of those hidden video things??” Crazy Continuity If Dorothy was a real friend she would know if Rose had ever given a eulogy. You'll recall from “Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself” that Rose proclaims speaking to crowds is her biggest fear and had to eulogize her Aunt Gretchen. Then again Dorothy was drunk on champagne at the time so her memory is likely foggy and Rose did once give a eulogy to Lenny Linderflot so that’s all irrelevant. Also, in "A Little Romance" Sophia visits Phil and says that "my son married a welder." Something tells me that Angela has never welded anything before. Zbornak Zingers Dorothy: “I'm so nervous. Have you ever given a eulogy?” Rose: “You mean at a funeral?” Dorothy: “No Rose, at a pie-eating contest.” Insult Watch Sophia: “I'm OK. I'm fine. I don't wanna talk about it.” Rose: “You know, I saw a lot of this when I worked at the grief center. You're angry about Phil's death and that's normal. But you shouldn't be angry with Angela. You know, I think you haven't cried because you haven't accepted his death yet.” Sophia: “Thank you. I've never been psychoanalyzed by a dipstick before.” Product Placement Dorothy: “Angela, I wish you wouldn't rush right back to Newark after the funeral. Why don’t you stay at the house for a couple of days?” Angela: “I gotta get back to work. I was just promoted. Chief make-over artist in the cosmetic department at Bamberger's.” Back in St. Olaf Rose: “I was asked to say a few words at Lenny Linderflot's funeral once. Everybody thought we were good friends, 'cause all through school, he sat right in front of me because we were in alphabetical order. But in reality, all I knew about Lenny was what the back of his head looked like.” Dorothy: “So, uh, what did you say?” Rose: “I loved the back of Lenny Linderflot's head. He had the back of the head of an honest man. And after seeing him face-up in the casket today, not a bad-looking guy either.” Rose: “Now, I know no one wants to hear one of my stories right now.” Dorothy: “That's usually a pretty safe bet, Rose.” Rose: “But you need to know about my cousin Ingmar. Ingmar was different. He used to do bird imitations.” Blanche: “What's wrong with that?” Rose: “Well, let's just say you didn't want to park your car under their oak tree. No, Ingmar was different. His mother used to say he brought shame to the house of Hausenfeffershtuledunker. Anyway, you're all wondering where this story is going, so I'll skip the part where he ran up the stairs and down the stairs and up the stairs and down the stairs and up the stairs—” Dorothy: “Rose, you're not skipping!!” Rose: “Sorry. The point is, it was shame that kept Aunt Katrina from loving slow Ingmar. And it ruined her life. Oh, don't let that happen to you, Sophia. Let go of the shame. So what if he was different? It's OK that you loved him.” Best of B.E.D. Blanche: “Well, isn't it obvious? Veiled, shapely creatures, unknown to the family, coming to say one last secret goodbye to their special friend.” Dorothy: “You mean??” Blanche: “That's right. Sluts.” Sweet, Single-Digit-IQ Rose Rose: “You know what I think?” Blanche: “That reindeer really know how to fly?” Lesbian. Lesbian? LESBIAN?? Sophia: “Dorothy, I never understood why your brother wore women's clothes, unless he was queer.” Blanche: “Sophia, people don't say queer anymore. They say gay.” Sophia: “They say gay if a guy can sing the entire score of ‘Gigi.’ But a six-foot-three, 200-pound married man with kids who likes to dress up like Dorothy Lamour? I think you have to go with queer.” From Feud to Food Dorothy: “Oh, Ma, don't you think this feud between you and Angela has gone on long enough?” Sophia: “It's 26 years. In Sicily that's not a feud. In Sicily people scream at each other for centuries, and they throw pasta at each other. Pasta and sauce. Rich sauce with delicious seafood. Mussels, shrimp…Wait a minute. I think I switched from feud to food.” Dorothy Zbornak is My Spirit Animal Dorothy: “All right, the little witch is ready to apologize for everything.” Angela: “She said that?” Dorothy: “In her own old-world way, yes.” What, We Can’t Learn From History? Dorothy: “I just wanna say a few words to give the man some dignity and show him a little respect.” Blanche [in a bright red dress]: “Ready?” Dorothy: “To run with the bulls in Pamplona??” What Do I Look Like, a Cross-Dresser? Dorothy: “I mean, a man goes out to buy himself an evening gown, you don't expect anything unusual, do you?” Blanche & Rose: “No.” Dorothy: “Heart attack at his age. You know, I spoke to him just a couple weeks ago, he was fine. He said he'd put on some weight, but to die trying on knockoffs at Big Gals Pay Less. It's just all so sad.” Sophia: “What's with Satan's secretary?” Blanche: “Sophia, I believe Phil would have liked this dress.” Sophia: “Liked it? He would have looked great in it.” Literary Intelligentsia Dorothy [eulogizing Phil]: “If he'd had that wisdom, he could have shared it with me and I would have known the hundreds of memories I have of just the two of us - eating ice cream on the stoop of our building, or going through the drawers at Grandma's house, or dressing up like the Bronte sisters. How those memories fill me with joy.” The Boob Tube Blanche: “He looks very peaceful and natural.” Dorothy: “As natural as a man can look wearing a black teddy.” Rose: “It's a beautiful teddy. I think more men should be buried in teddies.” Dorothy: “I've got to remember, it's not the clothes that make the man, it's the man that makes the clothes. Oh God, he looks like he died in a Benny Hill sketch!” Golden Quotes Angela: “I can't believe they came all the way from Newark.” Dorothy: “You know them?” Angela: “Phil tried to keep them a secret, but I knew he was spending his Thursday nights with them.” Blanche: “Oh, I know it's hard, but try not to hate 'em, my dear. They're just lonely creatures who were reaching out to another person for a little warmth.” Angela: “These are the guys from Phil's poker game.” Blanche: “This is too funny. I have to get my camera from the car.” Angela: “OK. I'll come. Maybe I could show Blanche how to correctly apply her makeup.” Dorothy: “I'd like that.” Angela: “Although she might be offended if I bring it up.” Dorothy: “Yeah, that's the part I like.” Dorothy: “Oh, look. Here's one of Phil when he was 17.” Angela: “Oh! He looks so handsome. Oh, I don't think I ever saw him in a tuxedo. When was this, his prom?” Dorothy: “Halloween.” Dorothy: “Hi, Ma. Did you have a nice walk?” Sophia: “Yeah.” Dorothy: “Ma, where'd you get the skateboard??” Sophia: “Oh, yeah. I guess there's some kid at the park with an umbrella.” Sophia: “Your dowry check bounced.” Angela: “What dowry check??” Sophia: “Your father gave us a check for two million when we agreed to let you marry Phil.” Blanche: “Two million dollars for Phil? Wasn't exactly a buyer's market, was it?” Rose: “My father offered a dowry, and Charlie wouldn't take it.” Blanche: “Oh, maybe that's because he knew eventually those beans would stop jumpin'.” What can I say about Philip Petrillo? Except that he’s one of The GG’s most mysterious characters. We never get to see Phil but that’s part of the joke because they always refer to him as being a heterosexual married man who likes to cross dress. I guess it was the show’s decent attempt at inclusion and progressiveness and even though it mostly functioned as a punchline it was handled rather well. He was certainly one of the most popular characters heard about but never seen (I’d argue the other would be Rose’s dead husband Charlie). This is a standout Season 6 episode. The show has always had fun playing with comedy in dramatic situations, none more so than at a funeral the dourest of places. But this episode is FUNNY. The jokes about Phil, even though he’s dead, come fast and loose and everyone is in top form especially the script which is filled with zinger after zinger. Sure it makes no real sense that Phil, who was raised in New York and lived in New Jersey would ever be buried in Miami but that’s not even the series’ worst burning question. While extremely funny, this is the only other episode besides the finale that can actually bring a tear to my eye. When Sophia stands up to give her monologue about Phil that ends with her crying out “My baby is gone,” it’s water works time. It’s arguably Estelle Getty’s best piece of acting in the entire series. Fun fact, the department store Bambergers, headquartered in New Jersey, officially changed its name to Macy’s in 1986, so I don’t know where Angela thinks she got a promotion… GRADE: A Monday, May 14, 2018 Stand By Your Man S6E11 Synopsis: Blanche hesitantly dates a man in a wheelchair; Rose keeps one of Dreyfuss’ puppies. 80s Flashback Blanche: “Girls, I just don't know what I am gonna do about Mr. Ted Tanner.” Sophia: “If the man wants to colorize movies, let him colorize movies. It's show business, for God's sake.” Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Stanley Blanche: “You're a sports agent? Hey I bet we know some of the same people. I was one of the first women ever allowed in the Miami Dolphins' locker room.” Ted: “Reporter?” Blanche: “Photographer.” …Until the Buffalo Pooped Rose: “You like having them over too, don't you, Sophia?” Sophia: “Yeah, I like 'em.” Dorothy: “That's because it temporarily shifts the blame if we find a puddle on the floor.” Sophia: “Once, Nurse Ratched, once.” Animal Alert Sophia: “Oh, great, we gotta live with a sad-eyed, hyperactive nuisance with the intelligence of a squeaky toy. And now she's got a dog.” Shady Pines, Ma Dorothy: “Oh, by the way Ma, when I was at the library, they said your library card had expired five years ago.” Sophia: “Really? Where could I have been? Oh yeah, locked in an old-age home.” Lewd Ladies Sophia: “Andy took me home in the limo, and boy did we have fun. I figured out why they call it a moon roof.” Blanche: “I just don't want that dog making a big mess. He's already been into my personal things.” Rose: “Well maybe we should get him some rubber toys.” Blanche: “They do seem to be his preference.” Picture It Blanche: “We Southern families stick together.” Sophia: “We sho' do.” Ted: “Well, I suppose it's been nice having someone look after you since you were young.” Sophia: “I had to. When she was 15, I caught her under a pile of hillbillies. Picture it - me with a crowbar prying cousins off left and right.” Sophia: “Please! Just because a man's in a wheelchair doesn't mean he can't satisfy a woman.” Dorothy: “What do you know about this, Ma?” Sophia: “Picture it - Sicily, 1914. A man in a wheelchair satisfies a woman. It's a short story, but I think it makes my point.” Brooklyn: A Fairy Land Dorothy: “Of course I had a pet. Remember, Ma? I was six years old, and I wanted a pony?” Sophia: “Not the pony thing again.” Dorothy: “She promised me a pony. She swore I'd get a pony. She brings me a little paper bird on a stick from the circus. You know the kind that you have to twirl around your head to get them to tweet.” Rose: “And that was your pet?” Sophia: “They're very clean.” Dorothy: “Then she tells me if I'm a good girl, a really good girl, God will turn that paper bird into a real one, which I believed, because why would a mother lie? So every day, I'm being very good and praying and looking for any sign of life and becoming very attached to that ridiculous paper bird. So you can imagine my heartbreak when one morning I find it dead.” Rose: “How does a paper bird die?” Dorothy: “Good question. Someone used it to restart the pilot light.” Zbornak Zingers Blanche: “Well, I do not believe it. Saturday, and I don't have a date. Do you fathom what this means?” Dorothy: “That the jailbreak is off?” Insult Watch Blanche: “Dorothy, you could be my chaperone.” Dorothy: “Oh, please.” Blanche: “No, I'm serious. You're the perfect third wheel. I don't mean that in a negative way. I just mean you make men uncomfortable. It's a gift. Don't waste it.” Tales from the Old South Blanche: “I've loved books since I was a child. Although I certainly did grow up around some ignorant people. Do you know what horrible thing the folks in my neck of the woods did once when I was a young’un?” Dorothy: “You mean, besides using phrases like neck of the woods and young’un” Blanche: “They burned books. The townspeople made a big pile of 'em out in front of the library and they threw a torch on top. Only Big Daddy was outraged. He fought his way through that crowd, clawed his way to the top of that pile, grabbed that lit torch and turned to that crowd and said, ‘What are you people doing? This is lunacy! You start a fire from the bottom!’” Blanche: “Growing up in the South—” Dorothy: “Oh God, here it comes! The honeysuckle, mint juleps, three-legged dogs, you and Opie and Floyd and the barbershop. Blanche, get to the point!” Sassy Sophia Sophia: [seeing Ted and Blanche kiss]: “Well, mercy me! Looks like my little magnolia just turned into a big ho’.” Back in St. Olaf Rose: “Oh Bingo, much as I love you, little guy, we've gotta do what's best for you. Wish I knew what to say to make leaving easier. You know, I used to have a little dog just like you back in St. Olaf.” Sophia: “She said St. Olaf, Bingo. I told you, that's the attack command!” Best of B.E.D. Rose: “Well that’s not fair. Last week you got to keep the box boy who followed you home.” Blanche: “There, you see? You don't need a dog. If you're lonely, get yourself a man. Rose: “I don't want a man. I just wanna come home from work and have someone jump up on my lap, lick my face, and fetch a ball when I throw it.” Blanche: “You can get a man to do that.” Ted: “I do hate hotels.” Blanche: “Oh yeah, I know. The way they charge you for the whole night when you're only there for a few hours. My roommate Dorothy told me that. She's a slut.” Blanche: “Blanche Devereaux never goes out with another woman's husband. Oh, except for that one time. But now that was not my fault. She was pronounced dead. Those paramedics never give up.” From Feud to Food Ted: “I hope you like champagne and caviar.” Blanche: “I love it.” Sophia: “Hey, look who's not po'.” Dorothy: “Ma, you did feed the puppy today, didn't you?” Sophia: “I think we both had one of those international coffees - mocha minty or something - I don't know. We both threw up a little.” Dorothy Zbornak is My Spirit Animal Dorothy: “I'll put the book on my card, and I want you to know that my card is always current. I come to the library at least three times a week, and my books are always returned promptly during regular library hours, rain or shine. Who are you to JUDGE ME?!” Dorothy: “A little risk only heightens the thrill. It's like, it’s like making love in an airplane lavatory, where you know it's wrong because the guy you're with really should be at the controls. Well, it was just an example. WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE ME?” What, We Can’t Learn From History? Blanche: “Why don't we go someplace romantic for a few days?” Ted: “I have to go back home tomorrow.” Blanche: “Oh. Well, take me with you. Show me the wonders of Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell. The… cream cheese.” Literary Intelligentsia Blanche: “Whatcha reading? Oh, you must be a passionate man. ‘Females to Fondle?’” Ted: “Well, it's volume seven of the encyclopedia.” Dorothy: “My mother talked me into getting her the new Stephen King.” Librarian: “Well, we do have the one that came out last Tuesday.” Dorothy: “Well as long as it's not about some little creature who finds new and inventive ways of terrorizing a household. It's for my mother. I don't wanna give her any ideas.” Golden Quotes Dorothy: “Oh, come on, Blanche, do what I do when I don't have a date. I curl up with a good book, and I'm satisfied.” Sophia: “It's my fault. I read to her as a child.” Blanche: “Well, but it isn't fair. He should've told me he was disabled.” Sophia: “Yeah, what a great icebreaker.” Blanche: “Now, do I have to call in all the favors you owe me?” Sophia: “I don't owe you any favors.” Blanche: “Oh, really? ‘But, officer, the little old lady was with me. She couldn't possibly have put that banana in your tailpipe.’” Sophia: “It'll be an honor to serve.” Dorothy: “Oh come on, Rose. We've talked about pets. Now there's no one home during the day to take care of it.” Sophia: “I'm home during the day.” Dorothy: “No one lucid is home during the day.” Blanche: “Having a chaperone is an old Southern tradition. Grammy here brought me up since I was a child. She's the one who taught me how to put up peach preserves and make my own clothes.” Sophia: “We was po.’” Blanche: “My goodness, with a view like that, why I bet you look out the window a lot.” Ted: “Blanche, are you a little nervous?” Blanche: “Nervous? Me? Wheelchair.” Sophia: “Boy, you should see this bedroom. A giant-screen TV, a big round bed, and lights that go on when you clap. My hands are raw.” Ted: “That Southern accent of yours really comes and goes.” Sophia: “Grits. Alright?” Dorothy: “Blanche, tell us about your date last night.” Blanche: “All I can tell you is Mr. Ted Tanner is quite a man. Quite a man. He suits me to a G.” Rose: "You mean to a T.” Dorothy: "No, I don't think so, Rose.” Dorothy: “As long as Blanche isn't here, she won't find out you brought a dog into the house. Rose: “What do I care if she finds out? I'm not afraid. I'm within my rights. There is nothing in my lease that says I can't have a pet.” Blanche: “All right, who or what ate the heel off one my new red pumps?” Rose: “I did.” Sophia: “Hurry up. Get dressed. We're gonna be late for temple.” Dorothy: “Ma, it's Tuesday, and we're Catholic.” Sophia: “In that case, bacon and eggs!” Blanche: “I don't know what to do.” Rose: “Well I'm here if you wanna pick my brain.” Dorothy: “Rose, I think we should leave it alone and let it heal.” They really went through all the various handicaps with Blanche didn’t they? Wheelchair. Check. Blind. Check. Gay brother. Check. Frankly, I’m surprised it was Rose that ended up with the impotent guy. But I digress. Let’s be honest. We all want to see Sophia stand up in the limo mooning half of Miami. Am I alone here? Ok ok, I digress agin. This episode is real good. Sorry that was bad English, I meant wheely good. Perfect episode with pizzazz. Ok, so honestly, the story itself is somewhat dull because we’ve seen Blanche paired up with men who challenge her way of thinking countless times, yawn. At least the guy turns out to be a jerk in a wheelchair. So wait I guess the point that's being made is that even handicap people can be jerks. Uhhh let's change the subject shall we? There’s so much great, classic dialogue found here. Everything from Dorothy’s “Who are you to judge me??” to Sophia in her classic, mocking Southern accent, “We was po.’” This is something we won’t get to see again until the finale when Dorothy marries Blanche’s uncle. The B plot involves Empty Nest’s Dreyfuss showing up again, with his puppies, because at this point the network was thoroughly shoving its GG shared universe down everyone’s throats. But that’s fine. I don’t mind when the Empty Nesters show up. But was Dreyfuss really able to wrangle all those puppies back to the Weston house? Ah, life’s big mysteries. Note: I'm adding a new category called "Brooklyn: A Fairyland" for all of Dorothy and Sophia's Brooklyn stories. 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Category Archives: Overdrive Excess Packaging Look around your own home to find items that have been marketed with excess packaging. Use your research for the basis of a post on household waste. You may include specific product references to excess packaging. Select one of the products you identified above. Write a letter to the manufacturer expressing your concerns about the excess packaging used to market this item. In your letter, offer suggestions on how the manufacturer might use environmentally friendly packaging. Remember, business letters should be polite, economical, and firm. Print Friendly, PDF & Email	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9146177768707277}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '59235', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:WBS32UUSGYOOLN2YT7RJS5JM4AVYU5SH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1f01f938-fa13-40fb-b032-cd86a3a01db5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 13, 14, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '162.247.77.239', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FF64SW24YCTKVXFFF2OEXOHHFOCTUC4F', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d1ee3c5e-f359-429c-b04d-68413bfe9145>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://iblog.stjschool.org/snowflake/category/overdrive', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:249aa85a-162f-44da-869b-654e3d71aaf3>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '94', 'url': 'http://iblog.stjschool.org/snowflake/category/overdrive', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-146-34-165.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04121053218841553', 'original_id': 'ac3cf53ae24ca89a829484123244cc9c87652e6f5d832e90ad1c0b276a990ea9'}
Nonsensical Programming When it comes to development there is a programming language for every situation. Languages are optimized for metrics like speed and usability while doing their best to minimize the tradeoffs. New languages are built from their predecessors, correcting past mistakes and inventing new paradigms. While these noble languages have produced many solutions in a wide variety of fields, not all languages are created equal. Some languages shouldn’t be used for any projects. Esoteric Programming Languages are known to be incredibly complex, unusable and nonsensical. At the same time, many of these languages are Turing Complete, meaning they can solve any computer problem a regular programming language can. Let’s look at a few of these impractical monstrosities. Befunge is a stack based language where the goal was to be as difficult to compile as possible. The code uses arrows to control the program flow where the characters < ^ v > point in the direction of the next command to execute. The code can also modify itself, meaning the app may perform completely differently by the time it terminates. Here is an example that computes a factorial: The program starts with user input with the “&” character. It pushed numbers 5 thru 1 in onto the stack using a “loop”. Then it loops through the stack again multiplying the values together until it outputs the factorial. Though the goal of this language was to be as hard as possible to compile, developers like a challenge and several working compilers have been created. In fact, this language has been extended further in a child language called Funge. The largest difference is you are no longer limited to a 2-dimensional plane to write your code. If this code wasn’t already difficult to understand you can now write the directional code in 3 or more dimensions! Developers have a wide range of preferences when it comes to formatting code. Many discussions have devolved to vicious arguments over using tabs vs space and how to indent your code. Most languages will ignore formatting to accommodate personal tastes. The next language, Whitespace, completely reverses this concept. The Whitespace programming language ignores everything but spaces, tabs and new lines. Different combinations of whitespace characters perform different actions in this stack and heap based language. Below is the classic “Hello World!” function in Whitespace: It’s impossible to read without syntax highlighting and comments, takes many lines to do anything, and extremely difficult to debug. I wish you the best of luck if you ever attempt to use it. As you can see these languages tend to be very difficult to read. It seems like readability is an important and necessary trait for a “real” programming language. However, every problem is different and sometimes being unreadable can be advantageous. There is a popular developer game called “Code Golf.” The object is to write a function to solve a problem as concise as using the fewest amount of characters. Typically, people would write functions in popular languages like C, JavaScript and Python and took advantage of little-known tricks in the language to produce short code. However, Code Golf presented an interesting problem and eventually developers created concise programming languages to get better and better scores. GolfScript is one of these languages, and though esoteric, it has a valid use case. By using a combination of overloaded operators and very extensive built in functionality, GolfScript creates very concise, hard to read code that is great for Code Golf. The following prints out the first 1000 digits of PI: Programming languages come in all shapes and sizes. Unorthodox languages provide an interesting look at what programming paradigms are possible. It is fun to mess around with Esoteric Programming Languages to see what unique solutions can be created for simple problems. Don’t forget, the code might look different but in the end it is all 1s and 0s. 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Thoth's Library Cat Let library cat read with you ... 2. And his body was white as snow and red as the blooming of a rose, and the hair of his head †and his long locks were white as wool, and his eyes beautiful†. And when he opened his eyes, he lighted up the whole house like the sun, and the whole house was very bright. 3. And thereupon he arose in the hands of the midwife, opened his mouth, and †conversed with† the Lord of righteousness. 8. And when Methuselah heard the words of his son, he came to me to the ends of the earth; for he had heard that I was there, and he cried aloud, and I heard his voice and I came to him. And 1 said unto him: ‘Behold, here am I, my son, wherefore hast thou come to me?’ 9. And he answered and said: ‘Because of a great cause of anxiety have I come to thee, and because of a disturbing vision have I approached. 13. And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: ‘The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. 15. Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year. 16. And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die [he and his sons shall be saved]. 1. And I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it. 2. And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.’ 3. And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch–for he had shown to him everything in secret–he returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '601', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.984276533126831}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '23943', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KVPJYNSGBGVFZ6OPLHCM5Y664HBALYM7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b1183659-7f95-438f-ab74-dc7913a4a628>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 21, 15, 41, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '165.227.5.120', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GWLGK5BUZ7FUYFIU2LFAV6455WLVBXW3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bb00dda3-3abd-4152-b12c-dc5205c89e07>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://blackdragoninn.com/library/book-enoch-r-h-charles-1917/fragment-book-noah/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:00c7abd9-45cc-4f32-acd7-a291186054a9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '920', 'url': 'http://blackdragoninn.com/library/book-enoch-r-h-charles-1917/fragment-book-noah/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-141-39-188.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09539139270782471', 'original_id': 'a9a0f7a8d33c52f8894d22986a18c9fe5b2168c8c5b59a6dc04611deecd8baf3'}

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