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ICESMART - 2015 (Volume 3 - Issue 19)
Leveraging SPOON
Vijayakumar C, Shalini S, 2015, Leveraging SPOON, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (IJERT) ICESMART – 2015 (Volume 3 – Issue 19),
Authors : Vijayakumar C, Shalini S
Volume & Issue : ICESMART – 2015 (Volume 3 – Issue 19)
Vijayakumar C Mtech student, Department of CSE,
AMC Engineering college, Bangalore
Shalini S Assistant Professor, Department of CSE
Abstract: Current distributed (P2P) file sharing methods in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) can be arranged into three gatherings: flooding-based, advertisement based, and social contact-based. In flooding-based methods, 7DS is one of the first approaches to port P2P technology to mobile environments. It exploits the mobility of nodes within a geographic area to disseminate web content among neighbors. Passive distributed indexing (PDI) is a general-purpose distributed file searching algorithm. It uses local broadcasting for content searching and sets up content indexes on nodes along the reply path to guide subsequent searching. In advertisement based methods, the has to inform their requirements to its neighbor nodes, it leads to high overhead.therefor the initial two gatherings of routines can be easily have high overhead and low adaptability. They are essentially produced for connected MANETs, in which end-to- end network among nodes is guaranteed. The third gathering of techniques are mainly for disconnected MANETs however it fails to consider the social interests of mobile hubs, which can be misused to improve the file searching efficiency. In this paper, we propose a P2P content based document imparting framework, in particular SPOON, for disconnected MANETs. The framework utilizes an interest extraction calculation to get a nodes advantage from its records for content based file searching. For efficient file searching, SPOON bunches regular interesting nodes and groups the frequently visiting nodes. It exploits node versatility by assigning stable nodes, which have the most regular contact with group individuals, as group facilitators for intercommunity looking, and the nodes that visit other communities are called ambassadors for intercommunity seeking. An interest-oriented scheme is proposed to improve file searching efficiency. File searching efficiency. Additional improvements like file prefetching, querying-completion, and loop- prevention are the consideration for further enhancement.
KEYWORDS: MANETS, CONTENT-BASED FILE SHARING, SOCIAL NETWORKS.
From past few years, cell phones, for example, laptops, PDAs, and cell phones have been playing an important role. In reality, the quantity of cell phone clients expanded by 118 million over the world in 2007 [1], and is relied upon to stretch around 300 million by 2013 [2]. The unbelievably fast development of versatile clients is prompting a promising
future, in which they can uninhibitedly impart records between one another at whatever point and wherever. The quantity of versatile seeking clients (through cell phones, highlight telephones, tablets, and so forth.) is evaluated to achieve 901.1 million in 2013 [3]. Presently, versatile clients associate with one another and offer documents by means of a base structured by geologically circulated base stations. Notwithstanding, clients may end up in a range without remote administration (e.g., mountain ranges and provincial territories). Also, clients may plan to decrease the expense on the costly foundation system information.
The P2P document imparting model makes extensive scale arranges a gift rather than a condemnation, in which hubs offer documents specifically with one another without an incorporated server.
In MANETs consisting of digital devices, nodes are constantly moving, forming disconnected MANETs with opportunistic node encountering. Such transient network connections have posed a challenge for the development of P2P MANETs. Traditional methods supporting P2P MANETs are flooding-based [6], [7], [8], [9] or
advertisement-based [10], [11], [12].
The former methods rely on flooding for file searching. However, they lead to High overhead in broadcast. In the latter methods, nodes advertise their available files, build content tables, and forward files according to these tables.
Some researchers [13], [14], [15], [16], [17] further proposed to utilize cache/replication to enhance data dissemination/access efficiency in disconnected MANETs. However, nodes in these methods passively wait for contents that they are interested in rather than actively search files, which may lead to a high search delay.
Recently, social networks are exploited to facilitate content dissemination/publishing in disconnected MANETs [18], [19], [20], [21]. These methods exploit below property to improve the efficiency of message forwarding:
(P1) nodes (i.e., people) usually exhibit certain movement patterns (e.g., local gathering, diverse centralities, and skewed visiting preferences).
However, these methods are only for the dissemination of information to subscribers. They are not specifically designed for file searching. Also, they fail to take into account other properties of social networks revealed by recent studies to facilitate content sharing:
(P2) Users usually have a few file interests that they visit frequently [22] and a users file visit pattern follows a power- law distribution [23].
(P3) Users with common interests tend to meet with each other more often than with others [24].
By leveraging these properties of social networks, we propose social network-based P2P content-based file sharing in disconnected mobile ad hoc Networks (SPOON) with four components as shown in Fig. 1:
Based on P2, we propose an interest extraction algorithm to derive a nodes interests from its files. The interest facilitates queries in content-based file sharing and other components of SPOON.
We refer to a collective of nodes that share common interests and meet frequently as a community. According to P3, a node has high probability to find interested files in its community. If this fails, based on P1, the node can rely on nodes that frequently travel to other communities for file searching. Thus, we propose the community construction algorithm to build communities to enable efficient file retrieval.
According to P1, we propose a node role assignment algorithm that takes advantage of node mobility for efficient file searching. The algorithm designates a stable node that has the tightest connections with others in its community as the community coordinator to guide intercommunity searching. For each known foreign community, a node that frequently travels to it is designated as the community ambassador for intercommunity searching.
We propose an interest-oriented file searching and retrieval scheme that utilizes an interest-oriented routing algorithm (IRA) and above three components. Based on P3, IRA selects forwarding node by considering the probability of meeting interest keywords rather than nodes. The file searching scheme has two phases: Intra- and intercommunity searching. In the former, a node first queries nearby nodes, then relies on coordinator to search the entire home community. If it
fails, the intercommunity searching uses an ambassador to send the query to a matched foreign community. A discovered file is sent back through the search path or the IRA if the path breaks.
SPOON is novel in that it influences informal organization properties of both hub investment and development design. Initially, it arranges basic investment and oftentimes experienced hubs into social groups. Second, it considers the recurrence at which a hub meets distinctive hobbies instead of diverse hubs in document seeking. Third, it picks stable hubs in a grou as facilitators and exceptionally portable hubs that travel regularly to outside groups as envoys. Such a structure guarantees, to the point that an inquiry can be sent to the group of the questioned document rapidly. SPOON likewise fuses extra methodologies for record prefetching, questioning fruition and circle aversion, and hub beat thought to further improve document seeking effectiveness.
Whatever is left of the paper is masterminded as takes after: Section 2 gives a review of related works. Area 3 exhibits the configuration of the parts of SPOON. In Section 4, the execution of SPOON is assessed in correlation with different frameworks. The last segment presents closing comments and future work.
P2P File Sharing in MANETs
We first introduce the P2P file sharing algorithms designed in MANETs.
Flooding-Based Methods
In flooding-based methods, 7DS [6] is one of the first approaches to port P2P technology to mobile environments. It exploits the mobility of nodes within a geographic area to disseminate web content among neighbors. Passive distributed indexing (PDI) [8] is a general-purpose distributed file searching algorithm. It uses local broadcasting for content searching and sets up content indexes on nodes along the reply path to guide subsequent searching. Klemm et al. [7] proposed a special-purpose on-demand file searching and transferring algorithm based on an application layer overlay network. The algorithm transparently aggregates query results from other peers to eliminate redundant routing paths.
Hayes [9] extended the Gnutella system to mobile environments and proposed the use of a set of keywords to represent user interests.
However, these flooding-based methods produce high overhead due to broadcasting.
Advertisement-Based Methods
Tchakarov and Vaidya [10] proposed GCLP for efficient content discovery in location-aware ad hoc networks. It disseminates contents and requests in crossed directions to ensure their encountering. P2PSI [11] combines both advertisement (push) and discovery (pull) processes. It adopts the idea of swarm intelligence by regarding shared files as food sources and routing tables as pheromone. Each file holder regularly broadcasts an advertisement message to inform surrounding nodes about its files. The discovery process locates the desired file and also leaves pheromone to help subsequent search requests. Repantis and Kalogeraki
[12] proposed a file sharing mechanism in which nodes use the Bloom filter to build content synopses of their data and adaptively disseminate them to other nodes to guide queries. Though the advertisement-based methods reduce the overhead of flooding-based methods, they still generate high overhead for advertising and cannot guarantee the success of file searching due to node mobility.
P2P File Sharing in Disconnected MANETs
The disconnected MANETs are featured by sparse node density and intermittent node connection, which makes previously introduced methods infeasible in such networks. We then further introduce two categories of P2P file sharing methods for disconnected MANETs.
Cache/Replication-Based Methods
Huang et al. [13] proposed a method that considers multiple factors (e.g., node mobility, file popularity, and file server topology) in creating file replicas in file servers to realize optimal file availability in content distribution community. Gao et al. [14] proposed cooperative caching in disruption tolerant networks. It replicas each file to network central locations, which are frequently visited by nodes in the system, to ensure efficient data access. QCR [15] uses file caching to realize effective multimedia content dissemination in opportunistic networks. In addition to node mobility and file popularity, it also considers the impatience of users when creating replicas. Lenders et al. [16] investigated wireless ad hoc podcasting, in which nodes store contents from their neighbors that are interested by themselves or the nodes they have met. Chen and Shen [17] deduced the optimal file replication strategy in MANETs by further considering nodes ability to meet nodes as a resource because replicas on these nodes can meet more requesters and, thus, have higher availability. Though these methods improve file availability,
nodes in these methods passively wait for contents they are interested in rather than actively search files, which may lead to search delay.
Social Network-Based Methods
As of late, informal organizations have been used in substance distributed/dispersal calculations [18], [19], [20],
[21] in deft systems. MOPS [18] gives substance based sub/pub benefit by using the long haul neighboring relationship between hubs. It aggregates hubs with incessant contacts and chooses hubs that interface diverse gatherings as representatives, which are in charge of intercommunity correspondence. At that point, substance and memberships are handed-off through intermediaries to reach diverse groups. Cleans just considers hub portability, while SPOON is more profitable by considering both hub investment and versatility as portrayed already. In addition, not at all like MOPS that just relies on upon the meeting of agents for intercommunity inquiry, SPOON upgrades the proficiency of intercommunity hunt by 1) allocating one representative for every known remote group, which serves to forward a question specifically to the destination group, and 2) using stable hubs (facilitator) to get messages from representatives.
3. THE DESIGN OF SPOON
In this section, we first present trace data analysis to verify the social network properties in a real MANET. A P2P MANET file sharing system usually consists of 1) a method to represent contents, 2) a node management structure, and 3) a file searching method based on steps 1 and 2. Accordingly, SPOON has three main components: 1) interest extraction, 2) structure construction including community structure and node role assignment, and 3) interest-oriented file searching and retrieval based on components 1 and 2.
We then present each component of SPOON.
Trace Data Analysis
To accept the relationship between hub investments and their contact frequencies, we examined the follow from the Haggle venture [26], which contains the experiencing records among
98 cell phones conveyed by researchers going to the Infocom'06 meeting.
TABLE 1: Average Number of Shared Interested Tracks .
TABLE 2: Notations in Interest Extraction
From the table, we see that for every group, hubs have higher normal number of imparted intrigued tracks to same group hubs than with hubs from different groups. Note that we utilized a generally detached group creation prerequisite that every hub just needs to have a high contact recurrence with 50% of hubs in a group. With a stricter prerequisite and a more advanced bunching system, hubs in the same group would impart more intrigued tracks. Above follows confirm the already watched social properties and backing the premise for SPOON that hubs with regular diversions have a tendency to meet oftentimes.
Interest Extraction
Without loss of generality, we assume that node contents can be classified to different interest categories. It was found that users usually have a few file categories that they query for files frequently in a file sharing system. Specifically, for the majority of users, 80 percent of their shared files fall into only 20 percent of total file categories [22]. Like other file sharing systems [27], [28], we consider that a nodes stored files can reflect its file interests. Thus, SPOON derives the interests of a node from its files. Table 2 lists the notations used in this section.
Community Construction
Interpersonal organization hypothesis uncovers that individuals with the same investment have a tendency to meet oftntimes [24]. By abusing this property, SPOON orders hubs with regular diversions and incessant contacts into a group to encourage investment based document seeking, as presented recent in Section 3.5. Hubs with different diversions fit in with various groups. The group development can undoubtedly be led in a unified way by gathering hub investments and contact frequencies from all hubs to a focal hub. Nonetheless, considering that the proposed framework is for conveyed detached MANETs, in which opportune data gathering and circulation is nontrivial, we further propose a decentralized strategy to guarantee the adaptivity of SPOON in genuine environment.
Node Role Assignment
A past study has demonstrated that in an interpersonal organization comprising of versatile clients, just a some piece
of hubs have high degrees [20]. We can regularly discover a vital or prevalent individual who coordinates individuals in a group in our every day life. For instance, the school senior member directions distinctive divisions in the school and the division head unites with employees in the office. Consequently, we exploit diverse sorts of hub versatility for record offering.
We characterize group organizer and envoy hubs in the perspective of an interpersonal organization. A group facilitator is an imperative and prevalent hub in the group. It keeps lists of all documents in its group. Every group has one representative for every known outside group, which serves as the scaffold to the group. The organizer in a group keeps up the vC of remote groups and relating envoys to guide questions to representatives for intercommunity looking. The quantity of diplomats and facilitators can be balanced in view of the system size and workload to abstain from over- burdening these hubs. Since ministers and organizers assume more liability, we can likewise receive part revolution and additional motivations for reasonableness thought.
Because of page point of confinement, we leave this as our future work.
Community Coordinator Node Selection
We define a stable node that has tight contact frequency with other community members as the community coordinator. In network analysis, centrality is often used to determine the relative importance of a vertex within the network. We then adopt the improved degree centrality [32], which assigns weight to each link based on the contact frequency, for coordinator selection because it reflects the tightness of a node with other community members. In the initial phase of coordinator discovery.
Community Ambassador Node Selection
An ambassador is used to bridge the coordinator in its home community and a foreign community. We use the product of a nodes contact frequency with its coordinator and that with the foreign community for ambassador selection.
Interest-Oriented File Searching and Retrieval
In informal communities, individuals more often than not have a couple record engages [22] and their document visit design by and large takes after a certain circulation [23]. Likewise, individuals with the same investment have a tendency to contact one another oftentimes [24]. Therefore, diversions can be a decent direction for record seeking. Considering the connection among hub development design [33], people's basic investments, and their contact
frequencies, we can course record appeals to document holders in view of hubs' frequencies of meeting distinctive premiums.
Intercommunity File Searching and Retrieval
In the intercommunity looking calculation, a facilitator maps a solicitation to the outside group that is destined to contain the questioned document. Like the intercommunity hunt step, the organizer additionally utilizes the multicopy sending procedure. After getting the appeal, the facilitator in the outside group checks its record file to check whether its group has the document. If not, the organizer rehashes the intercommunity record looking by gazing upward its envoys to check for further sending open doors. In the event that the document exists, the facilitator requests the record from the record holder when meeting it and sends the record back to the requester's group through the relating minister. The organizer of the requester's group will further forward the document to the requester.
Fig. 2 portrays the procedure of document looking, in which a requester (hub R) in group C1 creates a record demand. Since its neighbors inside number bounces don't have the document, the solicitation is then sent to the group organizer NC1. NC1 checks the group document lists yet can't discover the record.
It then asks the group minister NA1 to forward the appeal to the remote group coordinating the questioned document. Utilizing the same route as NC1, the group organizer NC2 discovers the record and sends it back to the requester's group by means of diplomat NA2. The document is first sent to NC1, and after that sent to the requester. Calculation 2 demonstrates the pseudo code of the intercommunity looking calculation.
In this paper, we propose an informal community based P2P content record imparting framework in detached mobile Networks. SPOON considers both hub investment and contact recurrence for proficient document imparting. We present four primary segments of SPOON: Interest extraction distinguishes hubs' hobbies; Community development assembles normal investment hubs with incessant contacts into groups. The hub part task segment misuses hubs with tight association with group individuals for intra-community record looking and exceedingly portable hubs that visit outer groups every now and again for intercommunity document seeking; The investment arranged document scanning plan chooses sending hubs for questions in light of premium similitudes. SPOON likewise joins extra techniques for record prefetching, questioning consummation, and circle avoidance, and hub stir thought to further upgrade document seeking effectiveness
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VijayaKumar C received BE degree in Computer Science Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University of Belgaum in 2013. Currently pursuing M.Tech degree in Visvesvaraya Technological University of Belgaum. His research interests include wireless sensor networks.
Shalini S received M.Tech degree in CNE from Visvesvaraya Technological University of Belgaum. She is currently working as Assistant professor in AMC Engineering College, Bangalore. Her areas of interests are wireless sensor networks.
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November's auction is the 2nd in a row where future vintage allowances have sold out, demonstrating that market participants have high confidence in the program post-2020.
Earlier this month, CARB released 2017 data from businesses required to report and verify their greenhouse gas emissions in California (known as the MRR report), which shows that GHG emissions continued to drop in 2017.
Between 2016 and 2017, total reported emissions (both those covered and not covered by cap and trade) fell by about 3.5 million metric tons, or 1.4%. Though not as large as the drop reported for 2016, this represents the fifth consecutive year of emissions reductions (7.5% since 2012), and is a strong indicator that California can keep emissions declining below the 2020 emissions reduction goal.
In every year since 2012, the electricity sector is responsible for the bulk of overall reductions. According to a CARB analysis, this reflects statewide trends including a 22% increase in solar electricity and a 50% increase in hydroelectricity, and a simultaneous decrease in electricity imports, especially from fossil fuels.
California is showing that with ambitious climate policies in place, the state can grow faster while making relatively deeper cuts in emissions compared to the U.S. as a whole.
The 2017 MRR report also suggests sectors that regularly increase emissions may be approaching a turning point. Transportation fuel suppliers, responsible for the largest share of emissions in the MRR, have reported a decreasing growth rate since 2013. Between 2016 and 2017 emissions from this sector increased by just 1.3 MMt CO2e, the first time emissions increased less than 1 percent. Cement plants, another group of facilities which consistently increase emissions, also appear to be successfully ratcheting down their emissions growth rate.
These trends are consistent with expectations that there would be more near-term reduction opportunities in the electricity sector while it might take longer to bend the curve of emissions downward in the transportation and energy intensive manufacturing sectors. They also give hope that in time, all sectors of California's economy can transition to a clean future.
California in 2017 outpaced the US on population, GDP, and employment growth. Over the same period, California continued to reduce emissions at least as much as energy-related CO2 emissions fell in the U.S. as a whole. California is demonstrating for another year that emission reductions and a thriving economy can go hand-in-hand. California is showing that with ambitious climate policies in place, the state can grow faster while making relatively deeper cuts in emissions compared to the U.S. as a whole.
To maintain California's robust market and stay on the path of reduced emissions and a thriving economy, CARB is in the process of updating the cap-and-trade regulations for 2021-2030. They are expected to adopt changes in the next couple of months. EDF will continue to watch this process closely and provide input to encourage the greatest possible climate ambition and maintain the environmental integrity of the program.


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Rajat Bhatia Height, Weight, Age, Family, Affairs, Wife, Biography & More
Real Name Rajat Bhatia
Nickname Chhotu
Profession Indian Cricketer (All-rounder)
in Feet Inches- 5' 7"
Body Measurements - Chest: 39 Inches
- Waist: 32 Inches
- Biceps: 13 Inches
International Debut Test- N/A
ODI- N/A
T20- N/A
Coach/Mentor Not Known
Jersey Number #22 (Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders)
#29 (Rising Pune Supergiants)
Domestic/State Teams Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, Rising Pune Supergiants, Abahani Limited
Batting Style Right Handed Bat
Bowling Style Right-arm fast-medium
Nature on field Aggressive
Records/Achievements (main ones) • In the 4 Under-19 matches he has played, he scored 152 runs at an average of 50.67 and bowled 8 wickets out.
• Bhatia, with his 512 runs in 7 matches, contributed to the Delhi's 2007-08 Ranji Trophy victory.
• While playing against Somerset in 2011 Champions League T20, Bhatia bowled 3.4 overs with the figures of 2 for 27 and stood out to be the best bowler for KKR in the match as well as the whole season.
• He had a remarkable first-class career where he scored nearly 4000 runs averaging about 50 and bowled 76 wickets out at 29.21.
Career Turning Point Consistency with both the bat and the ball in domestic cricket made it possible for Bhatia to play in the Indian Premier League.
Date of Birth 22 October 1979
Birth Place Delhi, India
Zodiac sign/Sun sign Libra
Hometown Delhi, India
Family Father- Not Known
Mother- Not Known
Hobbies Listening to music
Favourite Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar
Favourite Footballer Pelé
Favourite Actor Shahrukh Khan
Girls, Family & More
Affairs/Girlfriends Neha
Wife Neha
Children Daughter- 1 (born 2013)
Son- N/A
Some Lesser Known Facts About Rajat Bhatia
Does Rajat Bhatia smoke: Not Known
Does Rajat Bhatia drink alcohol: Not Known
He played domestic cricket for over 15 years. Though he hailed from Delhi, Bhatia went on to represent Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy. After some time, he came back to play for Delhi, but had to, because of administrative chaos, move to Rajasthan.
Bhatia is a medium fast bowler but usually bowls at slower speeds for which, he often gets mocked on social media for his pace at which he bowls.
Looking at his previous figures and performances, Rajasthan Royals bought him at the 2014 IPL auction for INR 1.7 crore.
Rising Pune Supergiants, a new team in the IPL 2016, bought him for INR 60 Lakh. Despite his not so good performance in the season, the franchise retained him for the 10th season of the tournament.
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A University of Saskatchewan project led by Canada Research Chair Monique Dubé will receive $1.142 million from the Saskatchewan government's Go Green Fund. The project known as THREATS (The Healthy River Ecosystem Assessment Tool System) will create a database of information to track changes in and help manage Canadian watersheds, including those in Saskatchewan.
Dr. Westbrook from Centre for Hydrology is part of this project.


Polygon area always returning same result.
I have a feature layer containing polygons, and a method that allows me to request a particular polygon's area. The code seems straight forward to me, but I always get the same value regardless of the polygon.
Here is the ATL/C++ code I am using. Does anything immediately wrong stand out to anyone?


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Thanks! I did not mean physical pain Just painful progress, that's it. And no motivation somehow... Maybe I'll post smth in November as I'm going to be off my guitar for ~10 days soon.
My submission for the Sor's piece. I tend to struggle with pieces that do not have a clear melody line such as this one.
Thank you for your kind comment. I made quite a few mistakes as pointed out by Dave and that was after probably 50+ takes!
The Differencias piece is painful for me too, still struggle after a week of practice, especially on the 3rd variation.
For me the physical pain has become a problem. It was triggered by the barres and extensions in the second half of Melodía de Sor attribué à Fernando Sor and made worse by a weekend of carving. I'm taking a complete break from playing for at least 2 weeks, then I'll see if I can get back on track.
Colin, recover soon! Hopefully, it'll get much better in no time.
My best effort for the Luy de narvaez's piece. My playing gets progressively worse after each variation. I need another week to get some consistency on this piece.
Sounds pretty good to me Chu, This is not an easy piece and the dfferencias get progressively more difficult as you go through. I'm still struggling to get it mistake free while using alternating fingers.
Thank you for the comments. My main problem with this piece is losing focus and fretting the wrong notes on the 3rd string. I probably played many wrong notes and didn't even notice. Below is my second attempt. There are still many errors, but less obvious than the first attempt. It seems easier to play the passages using free strokes so that's what I did. However, I have problems with simultaneous rest strokes and with dynamic when switching between rest and free strokes.
Well done Chu, I spent a great deal of time on this one and at times felt I was getting nowhere - At first this piece seems not to follow any logical pattern as the scales and chords are unfamiliar to our 21st century ears. In fact I think it was this piece that made me give up on D05 last year. It certainly sounds as if Andrei is having a similar problem.
Definitely an improvement though, and now lesson 3 is out. .....Keep up the good work!
Here is my version of the Sor Opus 60.
Sounds very good to me. There were a few weak notes here and there, but considering you played at the posted tempo, very well done.
Things have been a bit quiet round here just lately. I've made a start on lesson 3 now - hope things are going well for you.


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Die 16. Eiskunstlauf-Weltmeisterschaften fanden für die Damen- und Paarkonkurrenz am 22. Januar 1911 in Wien (Cisleithanien) und für die Herrenkonkurrenz am 3. Februar 1911 in Berlin (Deutsches Kaiserreich) statt.

Ulrich Salchow gewann seinen zehnten und letzten Weltmeistertitel.

Ergebnisse

Herren

Punktrichter waren:
 Eugen Dreyer
 E. Minich
 L. Panek
 Max Rendschmidt
 F. Schwarz
 M. Strasilla
 I. Westengrén

Damen

Punktrichter waren:
 F. Schwarz
 Josef Fellner
 Fr. Schwarz
 Martin Gordan
 Walter Müller
 G. Zsigmondy
 G. Feix

Paare

Punktrichter waren:
 F. Schwarz
 Josef Fellner
 Fr. Schwarz
 Martin Gordan
 Walter Müller
 G. Zsigmondy
 G. Feix

Medaillenspiegel

Quellen

1911
Sportveranstaltung 1911
Weltmeisterschaften 1911
Weltmeisterschaften 1911
Weltmeisterschaften 1911
Sport (Cisleithanien)

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Being alone for extended periods can have odd effects on the human mind. So, what does that mean for the long-term space travel involved in Morgondag's RymdResa? Mainly, it has produced this odd beauty in the way the protagonist thinks, turning his every thought to poetry as he narrates his experience in the stars. It can be strangely wonderful to watch the pilot's mind corrode, spewing out dreamy, abstract thoughts as he travels the procedurally-generated cosmos, adding a human touch to the cold duties of gathering supplies for a dead planet.
RymdResa isn't just an open poetry night on a starship, though. You have the vastness of space to explore, with over three hundred different planets and landmarks to find. Will you find resources, hostilities, or new technologies on that celestial body looming in the distance? The only way to know is to fly there, hopefully with your shields in place. The game focuses on exploration, aiming to be passive and relaxing, but that doesn't mean every race or being you come across intends to wave and smile at you. There are dangerous forces out in the galaxy, and your ship is one of discovery, not combat. You'll need to upgrade that ship with resources if you don't want to join the various derelict ships and wreckage that are floating in the void.
Procedural generation aims to make the galaxy different on every playthrough, as does the game's various ships. Each has different specs, but as an added bonus, each also has its own unique soundtrack that adds a little something more to every new journey. With its emphasis on flowing language, peaceful exploration, and soothing sounds, RymdResa hopes to capture the lonely spirit of long-term space travel along with the thrill of discovery when the game releases on August 20.
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It seems that in the summer, everyone is on the go, all the time. A busy schedule then turns into eating unhealthy, and considering that the number of fast food restaurants in our nation has more than doubled since the 1970s, it is all too easy to grab something on the fly.
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Shingles serious risk for senior Australians1 year, 7 months ago
Shingles serious risk for senior Australians
Eileen wood 26 Jun 2018, midnight
A free vaccine is available for Australians aged 70 with a catch-up program for people aged 71 to 79 until October 2021.
National Seniors is ramping up a campaign to raise awareness of the condition and the vaccine to prevent shingles.
SHINGLES is a painful condition caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the same virus that causes chickenpox.
It can occur at any age, but it usually affects older adults. About one in three people will develop shingles at some stage during their lifetime.
Now one of Australia's leading advocacy groups for older people, National Seniors, is ramping up a campaign to raise awareness of the condition and the vaccine to prevent it.
People aged over 70 are often most at risk of contracting the painful, blistering rash which develops into itchy blisters, usually on one side of the body, either on the face, chest, back, abdomen or pelvis, but can affect other parts of the body. They can take several weeks to settle.
A free vaccine is available for people aged 70, with a five?year catch-up program for those aged 71-79 until October 31, 2021. The vaccine normally costs about $250.
National Seniors research has shown 90 per cent of people aged over 50 would have the vaccine if it was government-funded.
"Shingles often has a devastating impact on older Australians, particularly those over the age of 70, but a $250 bill too often puts it out of reach of many older people, particularly those on low and fixed incomes," said interim chief executive John McCallum.
The organisation has sent a letter and information kit to all federal members of parliament urging them to spread the word among doctors, health professionals and older people in their electorates about the availability of a vaccine.
"We know that seniors are among the groups most at risk and that shingles can have a physical and emotional impact on them, with long-term complications," Professor McCallum said.
"Post herpetic neuralgia, or nerve pain, is one complication of shingles that can last months or even years."
Shingles may also increase the risk of stroke in the six months after onset of the rash. Half of those who have experienced shingles said it affected their social life and daily household chores, while a third said it affected their ability to work.
Almost everyone has had chickenpox by the time they turn 40 (unless they have been previously vaccinated against it).
If you have had chickenpox in the past, the virus stays in the nerve cells near your spine but will not be active. Shingles occurs when the virus becomes active again.
Usually, people only get shingles once in their lives. But those with weakened immune systems might get repeated infections.


With approximately 2700 members and affiliates we are the largest region in Zone 3 and the 7th largest of all PCA regions.
Additionally, the Carolinas Region is the largest geographical region in the PCA. Our region covers most of North and South Carolina. Because of our size, we are broken up into six 'Areas' to better accommodate our size and geographic diversity. Each area is led by an Area Director and hosts a monthly meeting. View the Officers & Board page to identify your Area Director and the Region Map.
The Carolinas Region is extremely active. Each year we host multiple Drivers Education events, driving tours, SommerFest (a 3 day multi-event weekend), an Autocross Series, People Choice Concours, Area Holiday Parties and a Regional Membership Appreciation party. Our areas hold many local events such as Chili Cook-Offs, Wine Tours, Dinner Drives, Rallies, etc.
Check out our Calendar for events that may interest you.


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Essential Oils enter the body through skin (via massage or bath) or the olfactory system (via aroma diffuser or oil burners). Essential Oils can be used to enhance mood, to relieve symptoms such as pain, fatigue or inflammation, or be used to kill germs.
Bergamot佛手柑 - Relieves anxiety, nervous tension, treats skin problem like eczema and shingles.缓解焦虑,神经紧张,治疗湿疹和带状疱疹等皮肤问题.
Geranium天竺葵 - Helps balance the mind, emotions, and hormonal system.有助于平衡心灵,平衡心灵,情绪和荷尔蒙系统.
Lemon柠檬 - Improves sluggish circulation, treats obesity and reduces cellulite through改善血液循环,治疗肥胖,通过排毒减少脂肪团 detoxification.
Calming镇静 -Mixture of Eucalyptus桉树, Lavender薰衣草, Peppermint薄荷.
Depression抑郁 -Mixture of Bergamot佛手柑, Grapefruit, Jasmine茉莉花, Lavender薰衣草, and Orange橙子.
Destress减压 -Mixture of Bergamot佛手柑, Lavender薰衣草, Petitgrain苦橙叶, and Rosemary迷迭香.
Mind Peace心灵和平 -Mixture of Jasmine茉莉花, Lavender薰衣草, and Sandalwood檀香.
Nervous Tension神经紧张 -Mixture of Eucalyptus桉树, Lemon柠檬, Peppermint薄荷, Rosemary迷迭香, and Ylang-Ylang依兰.
Relaxing放松 -Mixture of Geranium天竺葵, Lavender薰衣草, Lemongrass柠檬草, Orange橙子, and Patchouli广藿香.
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Review : Peppermint oil is one of my go to oils. I diffuse it, make homemade cold chest rub when my family is sick and use it in a bug spray.
Review : I love you Zensuous Essential oils, not only do they make my house smell good but they have a lot of healthful benefits especially now that it's cold and flu season. I have a couple of different oil diffusers in my home and everyday I choose a scent and drop a couple of drops in the water and turn them on and let them go.
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Review : I love Patchouli and have been wearing it since i was a teen and Healing Solutions Patchouli Oil is fantastic. I have been wearing it everyday since i bought it and i will definitely buy it again. Shipping was fast and packaging was excellent.
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Review : I love jasmine essential oils I use them often. This is a good set it has a nice variety of scents. I do think they smell nice I like all of them they are all very pleasant but they are strong. I would recommend starting with only a couple of drops at first I used five and it was way too much. These should last a very long time the bottle is a good size and the price is great! In my opinion they are a bit strong but others may love that. Once I got the right amount of drops right for my liking I enjoyed the aroma it filled the room with. Lemongrass also is my favourite!
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Review : My fave zensuous oil! Love the smell and love the calming effect it has at the end of a long day.
Review : Jasmine is my choice . It's really bring lots of benefit .
Review : I have found my new favorite oil. Because I work outside, I got this to keep the gnats and mosquitos from attacking me, and I fell in love after my first sniff.
Review : I bought just the 15ml and ran out within a month. I am back to order a larger size. I love this oil. I think its smell fits my personality. If my stress has caused aches and pains, then I use other ones, and I have a personal combo for most of my needs. But, this is my favorite everyday stress one now. I like to also where it with the jasmine that comes in the roll on. I just feel so happy and relaxed with that combination. I like it so much.
Review : Lavender I love the most!!!


Common-sense strategies for ensuring your safety at 30,000 feet.
In the wake of the uncontained engine failure on Southwest's flight 1380 earlier this week, we feel a responsibility to remind our audience, in no uncertain terms, that you already know the best way to ensure your safety on a plane: It is vital that you learn how a plane's oxygen masks work, listen and watch the crew's safety demonstration, and understand the layout of the plane every time you fly.
Southwest flight 1380 experienced engine failure that appears to have caused pieces of the engine to pierce the exterior of the plane, killing one passenger and injuring others and triggering a decompression that required the flight crew to rapidly descend to an altitude where oxygen was adequate. Of course we hope you'll never face a situation anywhere near as harrowing as the one that passengers on that flight endured, and Patrick Smith, a Delta pilot and author of Ask the Pilot (askthepilot.com) reminds readers that prior to the tragic events on flight 1380 week, U.S. air carriers had not had a fatality since 2005.
You think you've seen and heard it all before - and the flight crew may even joke a bit about how difficult it is to hold your attention as they demonstrate how to buckle and unbuckle a seatbelt - but the fact is most passengers zone out and miss vital information about the plane's exits, proper use of oxygen masks, and the importance of wearing seatbelts even when not absolutely required.
There's evidence that most passengers don't know how to deploy oxygen masks properly, meaning that in a serious emergency, on top of the anxiety of cabin depressurization and the plane descending tens of thousands of feet in a matter of seconds, unprepared passengers find themselves gasping for air. Surprised? Well, do you know how to use a plane's oxygen mask? The simple solution? Watch the safety demonstration to see how the oxygen mask should cover your face.
Sure, seatbelts on a plane sometimes seem like an unnecessary pain. You know what else is an unnecessary pain? Getting tossed around by major turbulence or an emergency descent. Wearing your seatbelt even when its not required, especially if you plan to fall asleep for the flight, is always a good idea.
This is simply a matter of listening to the safety demonstration and watching when the crew directs your attention to the exits. Memorizing the exits when you're relaxed and settling in for your flight is a lot easier than scrambling to figure out where they are during an emergency.
Movies and TV, urban myth, and frantic social media posts have taught us all to believe the cabin decompression is a disaster on an epic scale. Not so, says Smith in his recent post on Ask the Pilot. "Essentially, the pilots don their oxygen masks and initiate a rapid descent to a safer altitude (normally ten-thousand feet). Passengers, meanwhile, have ample supplemental oxygen if need be. An emergency descent might feel very abrupt, but it will be well within the capabilities of the airplane," Smith notes.
Smith also points out that, in the wake of air emergencies, first-hand accounts from passengers via social media and the news media can sometimes be less than reliable. "Claims that the jet was in 'free fall,' was 'diving toward the ground,' or was in any way out of control are simply untrue," he reminds readers.


This book app is a great bedtime treat. The story has some very small animations and several hidden sound effects that enhance the story nicely without overstimulating a child or getting in the way of reading comprehension. The pages have an interesting style, where you can scroll to see more of the picture. Page turns are by arrow at the top corner or by swiping after scrolling to the end of the scene.
I enjoyed the extra large pages but found this feature a little touchy at times, causing inadvertent page turns before we were done reading. My only real complaint, though, is the layout of the text. The easy to read font is unfortunately very small. It's also in a translucent box with the illustrations showing through, making it very difficult to read over certain scenes (like the one with the bicycle). There seems to be ample white space on the scrolling pages, so hopefully the developer will improve this in a future update.
With delightful illustrations and well-crafted storytelling, this is a sure hit for bedtime. The sound effects and narration are also well done and amusing. Aside from a couple technical issues, this book is one I'd highly recommend.
In this story, a little boy named Brian needs to pee really badly when his dad picks him up from school. His dad asks him if he can 'hold it' for just a moment when he runs an errand. Then their bike tire gets a flat and they have to walk the rest of the way home. Brian runs into the house and finds the downstairs bathroom is locked with his brother on the other side refusing to open the door. So he runs upstairs to find his mom taking a bath in the upstairs bathroom.
In a panic, Brian runs to the neighbors, but her piano playing drowns out his knock. The other neighbor he tries doesn't see him and pours water out the window thinking a dog's trying to get in. By now Brian is really desperate. So he just looks for a spot outdoors and ends up peeing against a tree in the park. While peeing, he is startled by a parade going by ... even peeing right into a Tuba. Brian blushes and tries to explain while the adults in the parade look on with various emotions from mirth to outrage.
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In the last month, the quiet sun has been broken, not by sunspots from cycle 24 (current) but with spots from cycle 25 starting to ramp up. Live Science has the story:
The two new sunspots, designated as NOAA 2753 and 2754, were seen on Dec. 24 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory — a satellite that monitors the exterior and interior of the sun from a geosynchronous orbit more than 22,000 miles (more than 35,000 kilometers) above the Earth's surface.
Those two spots were gone the next day. Switching to the ARRL Propagation Bulletin for this week:
A single new Solar Cycle 25 sunspot appeared over the past week, January 1 through January 8. NOAA did not record or number the new spot until January 2, but Spaceweather.com indicated it (sunspot region 2755) began on January 1.
Then another new Solar Cycle 25 spot emerged on Thursday, January 9 with a daily sunspot number of 14. I was excited to see Spaceweather.com post "Solar Cycle 25 Continues to Intensify."
Today's sunspot number is still 14 - the leading 1 means one group. The first two spots, from Dec. 24th, are shown here circled in visual and what appears to be Hydrogen Alpha light (infrared):
The instruments onboard NASA's orbiting Solar Dynamics Observatory captured imagery of the two sunspots from the new sunspot cycle on Dec. 24 — one in the sun's northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere, shown here circled in red. (Image credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory)
How do we know they're not from cycle 24? Two ways: first, as the solar cycle progresses, spots converge on the equator and nothing shows up as far north or south as these two. Second, the magnetic polarity of the spots can be measured from the earth (yes, we're in the sun's magnetic field and can measure that from here, 93 million miles away).
This diagram illustrates the polarization.
This image illustrates the old cycle spots being clustered near the solar equator and the new cycle spots being farther out in latitude. Black and white represent the magnetic poles being flipped in each hemisphere from the older cycle spots. (Image credit: Jan Janssens/STCE)
If you're an optimist, you're likely to say, "wow, four new cycle sunspots just since December 24th - this new cycle is really cranking up!" The other view point is "gee, those are really pretty weak, and the first two were there one day - very short-lived - we've got a long way to go." Think of this as solar weather, and just as we differentiate between weather and climate here, whenever it's unusually hot or cold, my tendency is to think it doesn't tell us very much at all other than that we're in the interim between cycle 24 and 25.
These were weak spots, with very little spread on the disk and no complexity. Solar Flux measured at 2800 MHz has been at nearly quiet sun levels, a few points better than during the quiet sun last month. Radio propagation has been largely unaffected so far. There's nothing here to say the sun is going wild or shutting down. It's just the time when both cycles can be seen.
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A friend sends me those bulletins and it was nice to see we have the beginnings of Cycle 25. Hopefully propagation will pick up in the next year to 18 months. Been pretty quiet here and while I can hear DX, the signals are usually "S-nothing" to S-2. Thankfully my noise level is very low here compared to SoCal. I can actually use 75 Meters here!
I hate to admit it, but I have not been on HF for a long time. First, because of the fact that financially, I have not been in a position to be able to be involved with it, but partly due to the poor band conditions that we have had to deal with as well.
I am looking at getting back into CW again, perhaps via QRP. Of course, you can spend as little or as much on that mode. As a high school student, I remember making a tackle in football, and my ham radio teacher was the announcer and mentioned the fact that I was a ham radio operator, when announcing the tackle. That was back in 1977, and I have been a ham since 1972, with a gap of a couple of years, when first married in 1979.
The days of building your own gear are mostly gone, but I did build a transmitter for CW back then. A 25 watt model using a 6L6 tube, with plug in coils and xtals, and a 600 volt, center tap transformer. I think the plans came from an old QST magazine.
I have a kit of a QRP transceiver sitting around somewhere, I might have to find and build, in preparation for the coming cycle 25.
First licensed in 1972? I was first licensed in 1976 so you got me beaten.
Building your own rig is still available and possible. For sure, tons of guys build little QRP rigs, CW or SSB. Then there are tons of cheap and dirty software defined radios (SDRs). It's more a question of what you're after. My last total homebrew job was a 2m transverter to get on 2m SSB with an HF transceiver. Worked great. Still in the closet back there.
The thing to remember about HF is that at any minute of any day, some HF band is open to somewhere. The only exception is when there's a major solar storm that cause an ionospheric blackout, but those are more common when the sun is at peak activity. Think of 30m and down as nighttime bands with 20 and up as daytime bands. This is all approximate; 30m is open from hours before sunset until hours after sunrise, longer than 40m in both cases.
These days, I pretty much operate HF through 6m. We're coming up on sporadic E season and possible 6m openings into south America - at least from here in Florida.
bryanb January 16, 2020 at 4:10 PM
do y'all ever get contact to the NE?
check out http://www.ranv.org/vtqso.html
you might get one of us.


Hi, how much do you sell for the Avent bottles?
All are new and in pack. Helping friend to sell off. Original item.
Selling at cheap price compare to the store. Hurry, only 4 boxes left for each item.
sorry, item sold out already.
meiteoh, please close this thread. thank you.
Hi Anor, the preseed still available. I tried to PM you but unsuccessful. However, I think I managed to send an e-mail to you. Please check your inbox. Thanks.
I tried preseed to conceive and I am pregnant first cycle using it. There are 3 applicators left and I want to let go since I am pregnant now. Before using preseed, I tried to conceive but not successful for 4 cycles. I am not sure whether preseed really done the job or just co-incidence. Anyway, if anyone is interested to try, I want to let go these 3 applicators (free 1 pregnancy test strip). Please PM me if interested. Thanks!
you have deal with so many clinics :P. At the beginning I went to private hospital for my check up, then go to DBKL clinic, tomorrow I will go to PPUM for the first time.
How to get the nurse service from DBKL clinic? I just need to call them and said I delivered already?
my husband also mentioned to me about PPUM. What is the difference between PPUM and general hospital in term of facilities in doctor? is it better?
I am a government servant, can I entitle for free delivery at PPUM? What is the procedure to deliver at PPUM? as far as I know, if I go general hospital, I only need to bring the red book with me when I want to deliver. No need referral letter or anything.
PPUM have a lot of training students??
I ended up checking at metro maternity hospital in klang last saturday. the doc did ultrasound scanning both abdominal and vaginal. It costs rm100 (with medication). I think it is quite reasonable. Government hospital is also good as far as I concern. Since my hubby can't take leave on weekdays to accompany me to the clinic, i have to choose private hospital.
thanks for your info. I thought i can go HKL as an out patient or something like that...Don't know that I must go to DBKL clinic.
hi all, i am currently 7 weeks pregnant. I am planning to go for my first check up next week. This is my first pregnancy and I really not sure where I suppose to go. I heard of many bad things on private hospital too. I am staying at KL area. If i intend to go government hospital, should I go to HKL? HKL under which section? which day I should go? what document I should bring? One more thing is, besides breast check, do they do pap smear or pelvic exam test in HKL?
Anyone had experience in HKL please let me know...thanks!
which gynaes in KL can you suggest?
I am recently tested BFP with home pregnancy test :) This is my first pregnancy. I am planning to go for my first prenatal visit but not sure which hospital i is good. Initially i was thinking of tung shin hospital but I understand that both gynaes are males hehe...i am more comfortable if the gynae is a female. Anyone can suggest any good gynae in KL area? how about chinese maternity hospital?


On the Internet, it is assumed people are in business to sell out, not to build something they can pass along to their grandkids.
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.
The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.
Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.
The Chinese government tried to keep a lid on the SARS crisis, but there were 160 million text messages in three days sent by Chinese citizens. These are early indications that it's going to be difficult for people who used to have control over the news to maintain that level of control.
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.
Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.
People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.
We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.
The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.
Soon the digital divide will not be between the haves and the have-nots. It will be between the know-hows and the non-know-hows.
Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Journalists don't have audiences – they have publics who can respond instantly and globally, positively or negatively, with a great deal more power than the traditional letters to the editor could wield.
The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past. Is that good or bad? Will that make for better marriages or worse marriages? I don't know.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
Attention is the fundamental instrument we use for learning, thinking, communicating, deciding, yet neither parents nor schools spend any time helping young people learn how to manage information streams and control the ways they deploy their attention.
There's a direct relationship between how difficult it is to send a message and how strongly it is received.
We are moving rapidly into a world in which the spying machinery is built into every object we encounter.
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.
People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.
A phone tree isn't an ancient form of political organizing, but you have to call every person.
Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.


Anger management is a term loaded with baggage. All across the western world men are forced, usually by family courts, to attend anger management training. Many of the men who are coerced into the classes don't need to be there. Often, the ones that do need it get more shame than service.
It is a classic symptom of a world which easily embraces the idea of "The Angry Man" as the identified problem; the boogeyman of PSAs and campaigns to save women — who never have anger problems of their own. It is a purely ideological problem that now expresses itself through our courts and our mental health industry.
Without ideology in the way, the path to looking at true anger management problems is both simple and challenging. Generally speaking people, including men, are angry for reasons. There could be any number of things at the root of the problem. Childhood abuse, relationship abuse, employment difficulties or none of the above.
The key to helping people with anger is found in helping them first figure out what it is they are angry about. The next step is in helping them view those circumstances in a different light, in keeping with a different narrative of their life.
Those who want to help men don't shame them, they help them identify why they are angry and assist them in coming to terms with it.


"MASI Island. You won't find it on any map. It doesn't show up on any satellite images on the internet. You saw the buoys warning boats away from the area."
Jack Handey used to say "If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone." The same logic can apply to data left behind on an island full of monsters. The latter is offered by Zenescope in Escape from Monster Island #1. The issue is written by Joe Tyler, illustrated by Carlos Granda, colored by Jorge Cortes and lettered by Fabio Amelia.
Years ago, unbeknownst to the public, the U.S. government began to capture more and more various creatures, building a walled city and setting up an experimental testing facility on an abandoned island in the Pacific Ocean. Within a few years the island was filled with hundreds of different creatures, and government scientists worked to understand them. But in 2012 disaster struck and the island was evacuated. Now the inmates have taken over and gangs of different species fight for control within the city walls. But something was left behind on Monster Island, something the government desperately needs. And the only way to recover it is to send an elite unit into the most dangerous place in the world: Monster Island.
Deviating from their more tried and true Grimm Fairy Tales stories, Tyler is offering up a new corner of the Zenescope universe in Escape from Monster Island #1. The first issue does a pretty good job of setting up the stakes going forward, yet doesn't delve too deeply into the history of the island itself. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, as it's clear Tyler wants to slowly reveal secrets of the island to the reader through the characters' exploration of it. MASI is being billed as a pretty horrific place where science was abused and perverted and that primes it to be the perfect setting for such a story. The script is pretty straightforward otherwise and works at moving things along at a decent clip.
Granda's style is big on filling the panels with characters, most of whom are of the Blackwater mercenary variety. The presence of the team adds some weight to the magnitude of the story and makes the concept that there's an island full of monsters more credible. Character designs fit with this narrative as well, even if the main character does manage to bounce from panel to panel in an outfit that's reminiscent of something Lara Croft would wear. There's an abundance of panel layouts that work together to tell the story, with Granda relying on primarily insets and overlays. Cortes' coloring predominantly lives in the realm of blues--fitting for a book about an island full of monsters.
Escape from Monster Island #1 is an interesting first issue that doesn't really reinvent the wheel as far as monster stories go, but it does show promise. The crew making their way to MASI is doing so in the interest of recovering lost research for reasons yet unknown. Tyler's script is easy to follow and offers dialogue that feels like banter, adding a sense of levity to the otherwise perilous story. Cortes' illustrations help give the reader a sense of the danger the characters are rushing into by offering glimpses of some of the island's more interesting experiments. Escape from Monster Island #1 is a pretty straightforward first issue that effectively presents the stakes and gives the series a clear direction.
Escape from Monster Island #1 is in stores February 3.


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Discarded Morrissey albums 'a greater environmental catastrophe' than plastic bottles
by Gary Stanton 5 years ago
Morrissey records thrown out in disgust by the general public are posing a greater hazard to the marine ecosystem than empty bottles of Fanta, it has emerged.
Following the singer's latest far-right utterances, albums and CDs are being either flushed down toilets or are tossed frisbee-like from nearby cliff-tops.
The warnings come after a majestic blue whale was found lifeless and adrift off the Azores with Morrissey's entire back catalogue lodged in its gullet.
One-time Morrissey fan and whale enthusiast, Simon Williams, said, "The sad thing is that the Morrissey I recall would once have championed this sublime creature. These days, however, he'd probably call it a fucking blue bastard."
Williams maintains that it has become inconceivable to perambulate a canal towpath or similar inland waterway without stumbling upon a Limited Edition Queen is Dead vinyl box set stuffed into a reed bed.
Meanwhile, the world's oceans are known to be suffering under the sheer burden of Morrissey's solo output, much of which is contaminated with nascent xenophobic bleatings.
Scientists estimate that if a further one million copies of Vauxhall and I plus associated merchandise are routinely chucked into the Atlantic, global sea levels could rise by up to two millimetres.
Williams went on, "So much Smiths-related black vinyl gets washed up onshore that iconic British geological features like the White Cliffs of Dover have started to turn grey. Somehow, I can't see Morrissey being happy about that.
"The situation is so much worse down-under and the Great Barrier Reef is not expected to survive another National Front Disco."
Greenland-based walrus, Peter Singleton, added, "I awoke this morning to discover three of my offspring had choked to death on the same copy of Viva Hate, but I don't mind because it's an absolute classic."
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Largest Snake Rattles Paleontology
In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers announced the finding of the fossil remains of the largest snake that ever lived--possibly reaching 45 feet and 2,500 pounds. Steve Mirsky reports
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Indiana Jones ("I hate snakes—I hate 'em!") would have totally despised a snake that lived some 60 million years ago. Because researchers working in Colombia have found the fossil remains of a snake that would have been up to 45 feet long, weighing in at perhaps 2,500 pounds. That makes it the biggest snake ever to have slithered across the Earth. The announcement appears in the February 5th issue of the journal Nature. The creature has been dubbed Titanoboa.
The fossil snake bones were found in an open-pit coal mine, along with its prey, which included turtles and crocodiles. Now, a snake this big could only live where the average temperature was between 30 and 34 degrees Celsius. So we gain info also about the climate at the time. Study leader Jason Head from the Smithsonian said, "The discovery of Titanoboa challenges our understanding of past climates and environments, as well as the biological limitations on the evolution of giant snakes. This shows how much more information about the history of Earth there is to glean from a resource like the reptile fossil record."
—Steve Mirsky
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