I have played Hidden on and off for the last 3 years and I would first like to thank the Devs for the amazing work put into this mod. Not only is it fun to play, but it is a beautiful interpretation of the uses of the Source Engine. Also, thank you new players who have played and continue to play. Last, and certainly not least, thank you to the dedicated veterans players who continue to support this mod.
Now, to the good part. I have decided recently that I am going to try my hand at creating some exciting new maps for Hidden. I mapped a few times in the past with dismal results, but have been working on things for other source engine games and I think I can manage this time. I would like to be using my free time to come up with some new favorites for old players and new players. Please, I would like to get any suggestions or starting points from the people that play this game. Afterall, you are what makes this game. Why not get your input?
I would say please avoid the usual industrial warehouse locale.. but.. well they're just so darned crate-friendly.
Well, the devs ( I'm looking at you paegus) need to make more hidden themed props to throw.
i.e.: Why doesn't the hidden just run away? Why are there IR-props i.e.: on a trainstation?
How does the IRIS find the Hidden and know that he won'T run away, why is the Hiddenknife invisble but nothing else he holds?
I made the map as realistic as possible but as there are no places that are handy for both sides to play.
I.e: Most apartments can't be used; to narrow.
I'm thinking that maybe trying something like an abandoned mineshaft or hospital would be good.
Paegus, how does one become a Hiddenite Beta Tester?
I didn't mean to cause you any trouble if I did, I didn't know ._.
Firstly, it was a joke. Secondly, your excuse is pathetic and techincly stealing..?
My first point is no longer a joke.
It's not an excuse Bravo, I literally had no idea they weren't public, nether did the guy who sent them to me, as I said they weren't under a protection like a Username or Password to access them, it was ether broken or just messed up, but to Ging, I truly am sorry about it.
This is a mapping thread, if you want to chit chat, do it somewhere else.


It means do not tag somebody with a big unfair label. For example, here in China, a man bought a Nissan. His friends can say (possibly half-jokingly) that he is "not patriotic" for doing so, since that car is Japanese. This accusation "not patriotic" is 大帽子 in this case.
扣大帽子 is originated from the cultural revolution, during which time, people were put on big tall hats and paraded on the streets to demonstrate their so-called crimes. Nowadays, this phrase is usually used to refer to something not good.


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Blog | The Carter Center, a Global Health Pioneer for 35 years, Steps into Saporta Report Lineup
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter visit Nigeria's Nasarawa state in 2007 to celebrate progress against the neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis. Photo: The Carter Center/Emily Staub)
The Carter Center is honored to join The Saporta Report's Global Health Thought Leaders rotation. For readers who may not be familiar with our work, allow us to introduce ourselves.
The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in partnership with Emory University. The Carters originally envisioned the Center as a trusted, neutral place where international leaders could turn to resolve disputes.
The mission soon expanded to include impartial international election observation, support for human rights defenders, and many other programs and initiatives that continue to grow.
The Carter Center is a pioneer in eliminating and eradicating neglected tropical diseases, most prominently as the lead organization in the global effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease. When the Center took leadership of the campaign in 1986, an estimated 3.5 million people per year were infected with this painful disease in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. In 2020, just 27 human cases were reported in isolated areas in six countries. We're aiming for zero, and we expect to get there.
Besides Guinea worm, the Center has robust programs to control the infectious eye disease trachoma and the damaging parasitic disease schistosomiasis and to eliminate the parasitic diseases river blindness (onchocerciasis) and lymphatic filariasis (aka LF or elephantiasis) in targeted locales. Through our Hispaniola Initiative, we are working with the governments of the Dominican Republic and Haiti to eliminate LF and malaria from their shared home island. In addition, The Center houses a public health training initiative as well as the one-of-a-kind International Task Force for Disease Eradication.
As you may know, Mrs. Carter long has been a recognized leader in promoting mental health in Georgia, the United States, and abroad. For many years she has provided vision for the Center's Mental Health Program, and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism have trained and equipped hundreds of journalists to improve understanding and pave the way for solutions.
All of these efforts are carried out in cooperation with partner countries' ministries of health and communities at the village level, along with members of the global health community, some of the most important of which are our neighbors here in the Atlanta area. We're looking forward to sharing more about the progress, impact, and innovation our programs and initiatives are contributing to reduce disease and improve lives, as well as addressing other issues, in this space in the months ahead.
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I am not typically one to rock the graphic tee, but this one in particular resonates fully with my current mentality. Of all the things I have learned so far this year, one of the most significant is to move forward. The past is something to be learned from, not dwelled upon. While I haven't yet mastered this idea, my dreams for the future are a constant reminder that the best is still to come. It's time to hustle.


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Thought i would change this up a bit.
From Valentine's Steampunk to Shabby Chic Medieval Steampunk!
Try to match an element from your image to put on your card.
so it's a cue to add some feathers to my card!


A gene on chromosome 10q26.11 that encodes a protein thought to regulate translation of specific mRNAs by forming a complex with PUM2 at the 3'-UTR of mRNA targets. NANOS1 interacts with CTNNB1, CTNND1, PUM2 and SNAPIN; it interferes with the proadhesive and anti-invasive functions of E-cadherin, and is downregulated by E-cadherin. It is primarily expressed in the testes during germline development; in adults, it is expressed in spermatogonia, the male germline stem cells. It is also expressed in foetal ovaries and possibly also in premeiotic female germ cells.
NANOS1 upregulates the production of MMP14 to promote tumour cell invasion. It is highly expressed in lung cancer, especially in invasive tumour cells; its expression correlates with tumour aggressiveness.


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Ryan, owner and visionary of Bahn Camper Works, was just 14 when he needed a superior, all-composite whitewater slalom canoe to race in the Junior World Championships. Instead of buying one, he built it himself in his parent's garage to ensure it fit his size and performance needs. As time went on, Ryan continued to chase his Olympic dreams, but when he wasn't training, he was working with composites, rebuilding old Land Cruisers, and pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
After his racing days were over, Ryan married his training partner and love-of-his-life, Sarah, and took a job as an engineer in the unmanned aircraft industry. Two kids later, Ryan realized he needed a camper and gear hauler to support his growing family and their collective passion for adventure. But when he couldn't find a high quality, seamless, light slide-in or flatbed truck camper—he did what he always does, he built one himself.
What Makes Us Unique: All Custom Campers
With over 30 years of experience in composites, design, and development and testing, Ryan has produced a true 100% custom truck camper. Starting with the Bahn Shell that only weighs 700 pounds, customers are then free to pick the interior layout and components of their dreams. "I build custom campers that don't lock my clients into any standard floor plan," says Ryan. "I'm excited to design for every need my customer has." With only building one camper at a time, Ryan can work closely with each customer to ensure we are producing the highest quality camper on the market. Contact us to start building your custom camper.
Ryan Bahn
Owner & Chief Engineer
Alternate to the US Olympic Team in the sport of Whitewater Slalom and a previous engineer in the unmanned aircraft industry. Ryan brings to Bahn Camper Works an extremely unique skill set in design and composites. If Ryan is not slaving away in the shop or on the phone talking to customers, he's guiding his two little boys on great adventures. Ryan holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from George Washington University.
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Alternate to the US Olympic Team, World Championship Silver Medalist in the sport of Whitewater Slalom, and a former investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington DC. Sarah brings her financial knowledge and competitive spirit to Bahn Camper Works. If she's not chasing after her two young sons, she's in the office crunching numbers. Sarah graduated Summa Cum Laude from American University with a B.S. in Accounting.
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This happy group has put the Bahn Camper Works lightweight custom camper to the test. From loading with bikes to bouncing on beds, changing out of wetsuits to enjoying sunsets from the back deck, this tough group of testers has pushed the camper to its limits. Taste tested and approved, the efficient kitchen passed muster by both the cook and the eaters. Many more challenging off-road destinations await this quality assurance team.
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VARGO® promotes team member to senior project coordinator
November 27, 2018 - Press Release
HILLIARD, Ohio (November 20, 2018) — VARGO®, a leading provider of material-handling systems integration, warehouse execution software and equipment solutions for major fulfillment and distribution centers, has promoted Vicki Rosemeier to senior project coordinator.
In her new role, Rosemeier, who has worked at VARGO® since May 2008 as a project coordinator, will oversee systems project financials and provide support to the engineering and project management teams.
"We're extraordinarily thrilled to offer Vicki the role of senior project coordinator at VARGO®," said Bart Cera, CFO and COO. "The leadership and organization she showed in her previous role will undoubtedly propel her into success in this new role."
Rosemeier's background also includes working as a store manager at Global Living Furniture and an executive assistant to the director of programming at Online Computer Library Center. Rosemeier originally worked at VARGO® in the late 1970s as an administrative assistant.,
Rosemeier grew up in Ecorse, Mich., and Hilliard, Ohio. Rosemeier currently lives in Hilliard (ZIP Code 43026).


Will be held at St. Anna's School gym for grades K-6. Grades K-3 will be from 1-3pm and grades 5 & 6 will be from 3-5pm. Grade 4 can attend either session. Snacks and water will be provided. Please RSVP to Jessica by February 20th if you plan to attend.


Washington, D.C.- IMF spokesperson Bill Murray indicated today that the Fund may not allow the de facto government of Honduras to have access to $164 million dollars that it was allocated on August 28.
Rebeca Santos, Finance Minister for the constitutional government of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, told CEPR that their government had received assurances from the IMF that the de facto government would not be allowed access to these funds.
When asked if he could confirm this, Mr. Murray indicated that he could not officially do so, but also said "you should go with what you were told" by the Finance Minister.
"If this happens, it would be the most important economic sanction to date leveled against the de facto government that seized power in a military coup on June 28," said Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of CEPR.
The funds are part of an allocation approved by the IMF for all member countries. The IMF decided in August to make $283 billion available in order to counteract the world recession. The money would be allocated to the IMF's 186 member countries according to their quota at the Fund.
The money would be particularly important for the Honduran de facto regime for two reasons: First, the country has been losing reserves since the coup. The net international reserves of the Honduran Central Bank have shrunk by over $300 million, from $2.4 billion to $2.1 billion in the two months since the coup. This could be a problem for the de facto government and its management of the economy, which has been hard hit by the uncertainty and international isolation since the coup.
Second, the U.S. State Department announced yesterday that it would terminate some $30 million in aid to the Honduran government. This move would have very little impact if the de facto government had access to $164 million of new funding from the IMF.


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Q: SSL client and server certificates used to restrict server access to specific machines I am investigating the use of SSL to ensure security when performing remote software updates to embedded systems. This means that I would like to ensure that only specific client machines may communicate with the embedded server system.
I understand that server certificates authenticate the identity of the server and client certificates authenticate the identity of the client and this prevents man in the middle attacks.
What I would like to know is if client certificates can be used in such a way that only clients with specific certificates, compatible with the server, can communicate with the server.
My interpretation so far from reading up on this is that that certificates are used to ensure that either client or server are who they say they are. Not to restrict access to specific clients. Is this correct?
If someone could help clarify this, and provide some pointers, I'd be grateful.
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Game 74: Hollywood Nights
A.J. Burnett and Hiroki Kuroda square off on Derek Jeter's birthday. Burnett has been amazingly shittastic of late while Kuroda has given up just two runs in his last 19 innings (over three starts).
Kuroda is in his third season in the MLB at age 35 and so far it has been his best one yet. He's got an ERA of 3.06 backed up with an FIP and xFIP in the mid-3.00s. He's a fastball and slider guy with the former coming in in the low 90's and the latter in the mid-80's. His heater has a bit of sink on it too, as his ground ball rate is at a strong 50%.
Recent performances would indicate that this match up is leaning heavily towards the Dodgers, but perhaps a trip to California will do Burnett good.
He'd headed west 'cause he felt that a change would do him good,
See some old friends, good for the soul,
She had been born with a face that would let her get her way,
He saw that face and he lost all control,
He had lost all control.
And those Hollywood nights,
In those Hollywood hills,
It was looking so right,
It was giving him chills,
In those big city nights,
In those high rolling hills,
Above all the lights,
With a passion that kills.
[Song Notes: There was one summer during college when my buddies and I would ironically listen to this tune when we were partying and, well, that's probably as much detail as I should go into about that summer.]
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Labels: aj burnett, bob seger, cop out, hiroki kuroda, jay, los angeles dodgers
Game 73 Recap
[WE data via FanGraphs]
A few random thoughts:
The star of last night's game was the 55 mph breaking pitch that Vincente Padilla was throwing. He first broke it out on Curtis Granderson in the first inning and used it 9 or 10 more times, including back to back against Brett Gardner in the second and Robinson Cano in the sixth. I loved it. The announcers were talking about how dangerous of a pitch it was for him to throw but he used it relatively sparingly, threw it mostly for strikes and the Yankees never squared up on it.
Okay, if the star of the game has to be a person as opposed to a pitch, it was CC Sabathia. After giving up a manufactured run in the first, he shut the Dodgers down through the eighth innings and gave up just three hits and two walks from there on in while striking out eight. Those totals on the night were four, three and ten, respectively.
Padilla did something I'd never seen before in the third. With Granderson at the plate and Jeter on second, the ball just dropped out of his hand when he was on the rubber for a balk.
Speaking of dropping balls, Manny, playing his typically stellar left field dropped an easy fly ball off the bat of Robinson Cano in the 8th.
With the game tied in the fourth, Padilla hit Cano right on the hip with a fastball. When Vincente's spot come up in the 5th, Sabathia threw a first pitch heater at his knees which evidently hit him, but it wasn't too serious. Padilla stared out of the mound as he slowly made his way to first with CC gazing right back at him as if to say "Make like Johnny Walker and keep walking, motherfucker".
Mark Teixeira was due up in the top of the sixth and give the history between the two, it felt like there might be a plunkstravaganza about to go down, but Teix popped out to short. The next batter, however, was A-Rod and he ripped a no doubt shot to left field that put the Yankees ahead for good.
Mariano Rivera came out for the 9th inning and with the aid of some close called strikes on the lower lefthand side of the plate (from the batter's perspective) struck out the side. James Loney was the third K victim and he threw a hissy fit and was ejected from the game after it had already ended. Joe Torre and Don Mattingly started jawing at the ump from the dugout and it was a rather ugly ending to the game.
For them, anyway. Suckas!
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Александр Сергеевич Богданов (16 ноября 1993 года) — российский игрок в мини-футбол. Защитник команды «Ухта».

Начал карьеру в городе Санкт-Петербурге. Юрий Руднев заметил его и пригласил в «Ухту». Играет в чемпионате России. В настоящее время работает тренером на отделении спорта глухих (футбол) в спортивной школе "Невские Звезды", Санкт-Петербург.

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Evelyn Hofer
Early Color Photography
exhibition gallery
From June 17 to July 22, 2015, Galerie m Bochum is featuring early color photographs by Evelyn Hofer (b. 1922 in Marburg an der Lahn, d. 2009 in Mexico City), made in connection with her famous photobooks about New York, Washington and Dublin. On view are also pictures of Paris that were not published at that time. The exhibition coincides with a major retrospective of Evelyn Hofer's work at Villa Stuck in Munich, the first comprehensive showing of the oeuvre of the "most famous 'unknown' photographer in America." (Hilton Kramer). A new monograph is being published for the survey show.
In the 1950s, color photography began to gain in importance as an artistic medium, finally enjoying a true breakthrough in the 1970s. Evelyn Hofer, who lived and worked in New York City starting in the late 1940s, where she began to receive her first commissions from prestigious magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, experienced the boom in color photography up close on the local scene. She was one of the early adopters of the new technology – most of the images she made for books or magazines in the 1960s are color shots. From that point forward, Hofer increasingly focused on cities and countries as subjects for her photobook projects. Her intense interest in the cultural and social fabric of specific places is reflected in her working methods. In some cases, she lived for several months in the cities she photographed: "I always try to immerse myself in cities I don't know, just as if I were in fact living there, integrating myself as far as possible into the normal rhythm of life [...]."
In this way, Hofer not only managed to gain the trust of the locals, allowing her to create particularly intimate portraits; she also carefully studied the light, everyday life, architecture and atmosphere in the settings she portrayed, resulting in meticulously composed tableaux. The works merge to generate contexts bespeaking the special features of each place, but are also more than capable of asserting themselves as individual images in which the use of color is a key ingredient in creating a one-of-a-kind impression. To name but two examples, the footballers in "Phoenix Park on a Sunday, Dublin" and the "Girl with Bicycle, Dublin" (both from 1966) both attest to Hofer's extraordinary eye for the aesthetic qualities of color and are considered icons within her oeuvre.
The dye transfer technique she used still fascinates today with its exceptional intensity. This sophisticated printing process, in which the colors are applied directly to the paper with the help of matrices, has become increasingly rare: the Pan Matrix Film required was developed by Kodak in 1947 and produced only until 1994.
Phoenix Park on a Sunday, Dublin, 1966
Dye Transfer
Girl with Bicycle, Dublin, 1966
Four Young Men, Washington, 1975
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Drones For Hire speaking and exhibiting at the 2019 Avalon International Air Show which attracted over 170,0000 visitors. Welcome to the DFH team page. A bit about us and what we like to do: Between us we have won a sourdough competition, completed 6 university degrees 2 Masters degrees and 2 PhDs, worked at Google head office London, worked for the Australian Defence Force, developed and sold a #1 industry platform in the sports sector, founded a business in the BRW (Fin. review) fastest 50, and held a world record in rowing.
Nick is a techpreneur and owner of multiple start-ups. He has appeared various times in major nationwide business and news publications and has a degree in Business Marketing.
Ron is a techpreneur and holds a Masters in IT and a PHD in Multimedia. He owns and manages multiple tech startups.
With a Bachelor of Design Computing, Sophie is our head of creative strategy and customer experience. Sophie is an enthusiastic and invaluable member of the team.
Max is an outstanding customer service officer and is responsible for optimising and managing customer accounts on an ongoing basis.
Jeff is a director of multiple successful companies and helps us to test our assumptions on a regular basis and provides valuable objective advice.
With a Bachelor of Engineering Honours in Commerce, background in financial management at CBA, Leo brings sound financial skills and best-practise operations management methods to DFH.
Extensive experience working in small business analysis and start-up valuation. An unyielding eye for detail and a creative mind for optimal technical design. Will brings a well-developed customer-centric approach to problem solving.
Jonathan Marsh spent over 10 years in Google's AdWords advertising teams. Supporting client's online growth in both the UK and APAC markets. He brings significant knowledge and direction to our online strategy.


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The Killing Times
Dissecting the best crime drama on television and radio from around the world
Category: Podcasts
PODCAST: Episode 12, The Killing Times Podcast – Episode 12, Sian Reese-Williams and Sion Alun Davies, Craith
The Cymru Noir is back.
PODCAST: Episode 11, Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, The Flatey Enigma
Examining Icelandic lore and a murder mystery in remote Flatey.
PODCAST: Sigurjón Kjartansson and Ilmur Kristjánsdóttir, Trapped
Going deep into Icelandic crime drama with Trapped.
The Killing Times Podcast, episode nine: 35 Awr's Fflur Dafydd
Episode nine of our podcasts features 35 Awr's Fflur Dafydd. A novelist, teacher and screenwriter, Fflur is the person behind S4C's 35 Awr – a twisty-turny, Welsh-language thriller based around 12 jurors and the murder case they have to grapple with. Add jurors each with their own agenda (and secrets if their own), it's an…
The Killing Times Podcast: Episode 8, Olivia Williams
In this episode, we're delighted to say that Paul is joined by the brilliant British actress, Olivia Williams. In a long a varied career, Olivia has played all sorts of characters and appeared in all sorts of different projects throughout the years, including Shakespeare, sci-fi, period drama and comedy. Currently, she appears in STARZPlay's Counterpart….
The Killing Times Podcast: Episode 7, Lilja Sigurðardóttir & Quentin Bates
In this Iceland Noir special, we're joined by Lilja Sigurðardóttir and Quentin Bates. Lilja Sigurðardóttir was born in Iceland in 1972, and has written six books, two of which – Snare and Trap – have been translated into English by Quentin Bates and have been released in the UK by Orenda books. Lilja is also an award-winning…
The Killing Times Podcast: Episode 6, SJI Holliday and Halloween
S.J.I. (Susi) Holliday grew up in East Lothian. A life-long fan of crime and horror, her short stories have been published in various places, and she was shortlisted for the CWA Margery Allingham competition in 2013. Susi's debut psychological crime novel Black Wood was published by Black & White in March 2015, her second, Willow Walk, was released in May 2016, and The Damselfly followed in February…
The Killing Times Podcast – Episode 5, The Cry's Helen FitzGerald
Australian-born novelist and screenwriter, Helen FitzGerald, has written 12 novels, including the best-selling The Cry, which is currently half-way through its run on BBC One. We managed to catch up with Helen, who talked about The Cry, and her fascination with stories that incorporate modern technology, superior thriller elements and deep, human characterisation. TO READ…
The Killing Times Podcast – Episode 3, Ivy Pochoda
Born and raised in Brooklyn and now living in Los Angeles, Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley and Visitation Street, published in the UK by The Indigo Press. Wonder Valley won The Strand Magazine Critics Award for Best Novel and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as…
The very best names in crime drama and crime fiction.
The Killing Times Podcast – Episode 2, Lee Child
It's said that Coventry-born author Lee Child sells a Jack Reacher book every nine seconds, so it's safe to say that he's one of the world's most popular and best-loved crime authors. His main protagonist has embedded himself into the global consciousness, and Reacher has gone on to become a successful movie franchise, with a…
The Killing Times Podcast – Episode 1, Denise Mina
The very first episode of The Killing Times Podcast features one of the UK's most award-laden and talented crime writers. Born in East Kilbride, Scotland, Denise Mina has gone on to write 13 crime novels (some award-winning), plays and stories for graphic novels. Her latest story, The Long Drop, features a unique take on…
Australian Crime Drama
Belgian Crime Drama
British Crime Drama
Canadian crime drama
Euro 2016 Of Crime Drama
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French crime drama
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Icelandic Crime Drama
Radio Crime Drama
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REVIEW: White House Farm (S1 E3/6)
Four new Beck film in production
BBC renews Baptiste for a second series
ITV orders new true crime dramatisation The Pembrokeshire Murders
Channel 4 releases first trailer for Baghdad Central
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Film Noir Foundation
It's A Crime
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Everyday Utilitarian
Conversation with Michael Bitton about EA Marketing
10 May 2014 • Peter Hurford
Michael Bitton is a graduate student in Media Production in Toronto. For his thesis paper, he's been researching effective uses of media for doing good in the world. He currently sees the most potential in health communication and social marketing in the developing world. You can find out about his writings at his blog, A Nice Place to Live. I had this conversation with him on 26 Feb via .impact, but thought it would be good to cross-post the conversation here. I've added a bit more from the comments I've received from others.
Note: These notes are a quick summary of our conversation and may not be all that coherent. They miss a lot of nuance and may not reflect statements that both people agree to.
What is the goal of marketing EA?
Move more existing donations to more effective charities
Create more donations
Get more people to think of "doing good" as a consideration for choosing their career
Create more people who will identify as effective altruists?
Create more vegetarians / vegans?
Who could the target audience be?
Generally Speaking…
Right now, it seems like people either get EA immediately or not, as seen in currently unpublished GWWC marketing surveys. Though, as Ben Kuhn points out, this could be confabulation. He wouldn't be surprised if people edited their memories so that they "got it" immediately. Ben used to think that he "got it immediately", but now says in retrospect he doesn't think that's true. I personally think I got it immediately, even in retrospect.
Pablo Stafforini says that this could be tested by considering the lag between exposure to EA material and affiliation to an EA org, as it's much harder to confabulate dates than about thought processes. Anecdotally, Pablo says he knows of many people who decided to contact GWWC and even sign the pledge after a few days of reading The Life You Can Save.
Michael Bitton thinks that equating "EA" with "signing GWWC's pledge" is setting the bar way too high and that the bulk of the untapped population would only be persuaded to give "part-way."
Fine Tuning the Message
If it's true that there is a core group of people that will get it, reaching them is all that is important ("spray and pray" method), though we should check o make sure this isn't misguided. It's also possible that if we fine-tune our message, we can reach more people.
GWWC is a really big ask, and people might be receptive to smaller asks, like The Life You Can Save – comparing asking people to pledge at different rates would be informative.
The core EAs in Switzerland think that getting interested in science/rationality first may be more effective than pitching altruism. This works better for them and is their new strategy. Adriano Mannino knows more about this.
Potential Target Group: Secularist / Atheist / Skeptic community
Interested in secular morality
Friendly to consequentialism
Friendly to applying skepticism to charity
Friendly to thinking rationally / hearing arguments
Niel Bowerman thinks this would be a great group to tap into more heavily. His intuition is that many of them would "get" effectiveness and convincing them of the altruism component wouldn't be all that difficult. He would be interested in hearing from anyone who has tried approaching these communities in more detail.
Potential Target Group: Devoutly religious
Pre-existing drive toward altruism
Willing to tithe their income / donate lots
May not identify with EA directly, but maybe a church could be persuaded to donate to Against Malaria Foundation or Give Directly, though it may be hard to persuade them away from religious / local causes.
Downside: the religious tend to be unfriendly to consequentialism
Niel knows a few very dedicated EA pursuing earning-to-give that have come through this route. Like other groups such as campaigners that are already heavily bought into the idea of altruism, my experience is that a much lower fraction are interested, but for the very few who 'get' EA they can become very dedicated.
What is our pitch?
Emphasize an "excited altruism" approach. While lots of current EAs found the moral-imperative approach compelling, the intuition is that a message of "self-sacrifice" might not be catchy for the mainstream. But it would be good to test further. Michael Bitton think people are driven mostly by low motives and thus their decisions will come down to factors besides merely identifying the morally right action. Plenty of people think vegetarianism is the morally superior option and yet eat meat anyway. Furthermore, the existence of current moral-imperative-EAs is much evidence that that pitch would persuade more people. It could be that the moral-imperative-people would naturally be the first ones to join, for some reason.
Gather more stories of people who are EAs. Emphasizing a human element might make it more appealing.
Concern that EA as community might backfire. Bitton says that people don't like joining communities that have a value system. Furthermore, other things in the ea community could be a turn-off to some people. While the connection to utilitarianism is ok, things like cryonics, transhumanism, insect suffering, AGI, eugenics, whole brain emulation, suffering subroutines, the cost-effectiveness of having kids, polyamory, intelligence-enhancing drugs, the ethics of terraforming, bioterrorism, nanotechnology, synthetic biology, mindhacking, etc. might not appeal well. There's a chance that people might accept the more mainstream global poverty angle, but be turned off by other aspects of EA. Bitton is unsure whether this is meant to be a reason for de-emphasizing these other aspects of the movement. Obviously, we want to attract more people, but also people that are more EA. He doesn't have a good sense of how to approach decisions that involve trade-offs between these two desiderata.
Consider the fanbase analogy. As a start, Bitton thinks the above concern should be treated as analogous to a corporation deciding whether to appease its core fan base or the (more numerous) casual fans. I'm more interested in gaining "casual fans" (ordinary people that start to give a bit more or decide a bit better) than in further uniting the "core fan base" (the people that currently post in EA Facebook groups, on LessWrong, identify as EAs, read EA blogs, work on EA projects, etc.).
Concern the EA community is too homogonous. Even if EA is not a value system or ideology, it's still a somewhat clear identity category (white, atheist, background in STEM, rationalist, "nerdy," introverted, familiar with philosophy, dislike of continental philosophy, "innocent" in the sense of low rates of tattoos, piercings, smoking, heavy drinking, radical physical appearance, etc.)
Need more on-the-ground research to figure out how normal people think of charity (e.g., people donate to cancer charities because their parents died of cancer). Perhaps it would be immediately obvious that saving lives is more important than the arts, but people haven't realized the things are in tension…
Need to learn more about what pitches work through A-B testing, focus groups, talk with marketers, etc., to create actionable findings that are generally useful for the whole movement.
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MS-PS4-2 Develop and use a model to describe that waves are reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials.
MS-ESS2-2 Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
HS-ESS2-5 Plan and conduct an investigation of the properties of water and its effects on Earth materials and surface processes.
The content and activities in this topic will work towards building an understanding wave patterns in water and how water wave action affects and is affected by nearshore and coastal features.
Where Water Meets Land
The coastline is the boundary between the ocean and the land. Approximately half of the world's population lives within 200 km of a coastline. Eight of the ten largest cities on Earth are located on the coast. Cities were built along the coast and waterways because people rely on the ocean to feed themselves and transport goods. In addition, for many the ocean is a source of inspiration, recreation, rejuvenation, and discovery.
Surf Zone
The surf zone is the area near the coastline where waves break (Fig. 5.2). Surf is characterized by lines of foam formed by breaking waves and a distinctive, often rhythmic sound that many people find peaceful. Surf zones are found along the shores of the ocean as well as the shores of many large lakes. The location of breaking waves at a particular location depends on the depth of the water and wave characteristics like wave height, wavelength, and direction of wave movement. How a wave breaks depends not only on the steepness of the bottom slope but also on whether the bottom slope is smooth or irregular, whether the bottom is composed of shifting sands or solid rock, and even whether the water on the bottom is calm or moving.
Surf usually contains a mixture of several types of breaking waves. As waves move into shallower water, they contact the bottom and begin to move slower (see the Wave Energy and Wave Changes with Depth topic in the Waves unit). As waves slow down, they get closer together; their wave period shortens. This process is called shoaling, and it causes the height of waves to increase (Fig. 5.3). The steeper the bottom slope, the greater the increase in wave height.
As a wave moves into increasingly shallow water, it continues to grow in height. Eventually, the wave will reach a height that causes it to break, or fall over onto itself. A wave may break more than once, and in different ways, as it advances to shore. As a wave advances, and each time it breaks, it loses energy. Larger waves tend to break in deeper water, farther from shore. Smaller waves tend to break in shallower water, closer to shore.
Voice of the Sea
Types of Breaking Waves
There are three types of breaking waves: plunging breakers, spilling breakers, and surging breakers. These three wave types are shown in Fig. 5.4. Combinations of each type of wave often occur in a surf zone.
Plunging breakers (Fig. 5.4 A) form where there is a moderately steep, sloping bottom. Plunging waves form tubes or barrels that cascade water in a circular motion downward into the trough and break with a forceful crash, rapidly releasing energy. Air trapped inside the barrel of the wave may explode or spit out of the barrel as the wave races along. Water from colliding waves can also explode, forming geysers of white water as the wave breaks. If the bottom is very steep, a plunging wave becomes a collapsing wave, when the top of the wave breaks onto the lower part of the wave.
Spilling breakers (Fig. 5.4 B) form when the bottom slopes gradually. Spilling breakers form when fast-moving water at the top of a wave spills over slower-moving water at the bottom. Spilling waves advance to shore with a line of foam tumbling steadily down the front of the wave face. Unlike plunging waves, spilling waves break slowly over considerable distances. Spilling waves can offer long distance rides for surfers as the wave breaks toward shore.
Surging breakers (Fig. 5.4 C) form when large waves suddenly hit bottom in shallow water. Tsunami waves and tidal bores are examples of surging breakers. Tsunamis look like walls of white water advancing toward shore and can cause great damage when they run up the beach and onto land.
Surf Around the World
People can be found watching and riding waves worldwide, from Japan to Spain to Africa to the great lakes of North America. In general, a good surf spot is one that breaks fairly often and in a manner that offers rideable waves. Well known surf spots tend to have consistent waves, favorable weather, beneficial geographic orientation, and tidal fluctuations conducive to their geography. The map below shows some popular surf spots.
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Waves are required in order to have surf. Wind speed, direction, and fetch all contribute to creating waves and swell. The consistency of surf is dependent on the consistency of global weather patterns. Popular surf destinations tend to be located in geographic regions that are in a position to be regularly impacted by swells.
Local weather does not often produce great surf because swells need time and space (fetch) to become organized. However, local weather does determine the conditions of waves that are produced by far-away storms. Locations with wind that typically blows offshore or side-shore are usually preferable to on-shore winds. This is because offshore winds help to hold the face of the wave up and open, to provide a smooth, surfable surface.
A surf spot needs to be exposed to waves in order to have surf, so exposure to predominant swell direction is important. In addition, the bottom contour has a dramatic effect on the shape of breaking waves. In general, if the bottom is very sloped, the resulting wave will be spilling. If the bottom is very steep, the resulting waves will be plunging. People like to surf both types of waves.
Four common types of surfing breaks include beach, point, reef, and river mouth:
Beach Break: where the waves break on a sandy bottom.
Point Break: where waves begin breaking at a point of land, rocks, reef, pier, or jetty and transition to breaking over a beach or reef.
Reef Break: where waves break over a coral reef or a rock seabed.
River mouth: where waves break into a river mouth, which can be located over sand or rock.
Tides can dramatically affect the quality of surf because they influence both water motion and the relative depth of the bottom contour.
There are surf breaks all over the Pacific ocean basin. Using your knowledge of breaking waves and wave properties, investigate why certain surf breaks are good for surfing.
Patterns of Waves Approaching the Shoreline
Water waves exhibit the same behaviors as other waves, including electromagnetic and sound waves, when they encounter a boundary, such as an object. As water waves approach boundaries, their properties, including direction of propagation, speed, frequency, period, and energy, can change.
Reflection occurs when a water wave bounces off of a hard surface, such as a seawall or a seacliff, changing the direction of the wave. For reflected waves, the angle of incidence, the angle at which the wave approaches the surface, equals the angle of reflection. Both the angle of incidence and the angle of reflection are measured from a normal line, which is a hypothetical line perpendicular to the shoreline. For example, if a wave approaches a seawall at a 45 degree angle of incidence, the wave direction propagates away from the wall at a 45 degree angle of reflection (Fig. 5.6). The angle of incidence ranges from zero degrees, which is like a wave approaching a wall head on, to slightly greater than 90 degrees, which is like a wave approaching parallel to the wall. In general, the speed, frequency, period, and energy of a wave are not affected by reflection.
Refraction is the change in direction of waves as they move between materials with different properties. Water waves are refracted as they move from deep water to shallow water. Water waves travel faster in deep water than in shallow water. As water gets shallower and waves travel more slowly, their wavelength decreases. In Figure 5.7, L1 is the wavelength of the incoming waves and L2 is the wavelength of the refracted waves. As waves move from deep to shallow water, the wavelength decreases (L1 > L2). When this happens, waves change direction, moving toward the normal line, which is the line perpendicular to the boundary.
Waves come into shore and break parallel to the coast because ocean floor topography is generally similar to the shape of the beach. As waves approach the coast, they refract in shapes that mirror the coastline.
Diffraction occurs when waves pass through an opening or around a barrier and change direction (Fig. 5.8). The larger the wavelength and the smaller the barrier opening, the greater the waves will appear to bend around the barrier.
An aerial view of the coastline in Kihei, Hawai'i, shows reflection, refraction, and diffraction of water waves (Fig. 5.9 A). Wave sets coming from deeper waters refract as they come into shore, changing direction to match the shape of the coastline. A closer look at the Hawaiian fishpond, Ko'ie'ie Loko I'a, shows diffraction, as the water moves through small openings in the pond, and reflection, as the waves bounce off of the retaining wall (Fig. 5.9 B). These and additional wave patterns are listed in Table 5.2.
Table 5.2. Wave patterns
Converging waves
The higher waves formed when the crests of two waves merge; a wave interference pattern.
Diffracted waves
Wave crests in a wave train that change direction, bending when going around a barrier or through an opening.
Parallel waves
Sets of waves traveling together in the same direction with crests about equally distant from each other.
Radiating waves
Sets of waves that move outward in concentric rings away from the generating source.
Reflected waves
Waves that have bounced off an object.
Refracted waves
Waves that change direction as they pass through different media, such as water of varying depths.
Refraction and diffraction affect the amount of wave energy reaching a coastline. For example, in bays, waves diverge due to refraction, reducing the relative amount of energy compared to a straight coastline. On the other hand, waves approaching a headland converge and concentrate energy, also due to refraction (Fig. 5.10). These differences in energy can affect the shape of the coastline. In general, bays will have more sedimentation, because they have less wave energy, and headlands will have more erosion, due to the higher amount of wave energy reaching them.
Use a ripple tank to observe various properties of propagating waves including interference, reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
Coastal Features
The energy of waves help to shape coastal features. Other physical processes, such as wind, tides, and storms can also shape the features of a beach. Coastal features are constantly changing; the same beach can look different over the span of a season or even a day. Common beach features are shown in Fig. 5.12 and described in Table 5.3.
Table 5.3. Common beach features with capital letters referring to the labels in Fig. 5.12. Not all beaches will have all of these features.
Backshore
The beach area between the foreshore and the foot of the dunes. This zone is between the shoreline and coastline. Normally the backshore is dry; waves only reach this area during storms. (H)
Bar (Sandbar)
An embankment of sand, gravel, or other particles deposited in shallow water by waves and currents that are parallel to the shore. Bars may be submerged or emerged. There can be several rows of bars. (M)
Beach (Shore)
Zone of loose sand, gravel, and other material that extends landward from the low tide waterline to the coastline. (B)
Beach Berm
Long wedge of sand parallel to the shoreline that is normally in the backshore of the beach. Berms have different slopes on their seaward and landward sides; the steep side of a berm faces the ocean, the side that faces land has a more gentle slope or is flat. Beach berms are formed by waves depositing material. Berms can resemble terraces, with several beach berms on a beach. Or, a beach may have no berms. (J)
Breaker Zone
Area where deep-water waves touch bottom and become shallow-water waves, changing from rounded swells to unstable, peaked waves that start to break. (K)
A strip of land of indefinite width (up to several miles) extending from the coastline inland toward the first major change in land features that are not influenced by coastal processes. (A)
The line that forms the boundary between the coast (land) and the beach (shore). It is marked by the start of permanent vegetation or where there is a marked change in substrate or landform morphology (shape), for example, from a relatively flat beach to hilly dunes. (E)
Ridges or mounds of loose, windblown material, usually sand. Dunes are often vegetated, that is, they have plants growing on them. (G)
That part of the beach (shore) between the water level at low tide and the upper limit of the wave wash at high tide (the shoreline). (I)
The highest water level of each rising tide. (L)
The lowest water level of each falling tide. (N)
The zone extending seaward from the water level at low tide (the foreshore) to beyond the breaker zone. This area is indefinite and is affected by nearshore currents. (C)
The direction seaward of the nearshore zone. (D)
The line formed when the water touches the beach at high tide. The shoreline divides the beach into the foreshore and backshore. (F)
Make a beach profile, or side view, showing the shape of the beach. You can use the same procedure to make a profile of the area outside your classroom.
Practices of Science
Investigate the influence of waves along a coastline.
Nearshore Currents
Landforms and beach slope can be affected by waves. Landforms and beach slope can also affect waves, currents, and the movement of water. Longshore currents flow roughly parallel to the beach (Fig. 5.18). Rip currents are narrow, river-like currents that flow perpendicular to the coast, heading out to sea (Fig. 5.19). At the beach, a rip current usually begins where longshore currents collide and then flow together out to sea. A rip current can also form when water from an incoming high tide or from large waves flows over a bar or reef; the water then flows in a rip current back to sea through a gap or deep area in the bar or reef. Waves do not break as often in the gap where the rip current forms because the gap is deeper than the surrounding areas.
A rip current is strongest at its neck, where the currents merge and flow back to sea through a deeper channel (Fig. 5.19). The strength and speed of a rip current dissipates as it heads out to sea, where the channel becomes wider or shallower. Waves are usually smaller, but choppier, in the area of a rip current. Because a rip current carries sediment out to sea, water in the rip current may appear a different color than the surrounding water (Fig. 5.20).
The speed and energy of water in rip currents can be very dangerous. Over 100 people die each year in the U.S. in rip currents and they account for over 80% of rescues performed by surf beach lifeguards. In addition to observing and obeying signs and flags that warn about rip currents, and swimming at beaches with lifeguards, learn what a rip current looks like so you can avoid them (Fig. 5.21). If caught in a rip current, it is best to swim parallel to shore, until you are out of the rip current, before swimming toward shore.
An eddy is a circular, whirlpool-like, movement of water (Fig. 5.22). Eddies typically spin off of larger ocean current systems; they can stretch for hundreds of miles and last for months. The interaction of longshore currents and eddy currents with coastal features produces stable, nearshore circulation patterns. Eddies can transport nutrients onshore, offshore, or from deep water, helping to maintain populations of plankton.


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Q: why do repe and repne do the same before movsb? I have an assembly test soon, and while preparing, I noticed something strange.
repe movsb was repeating while ZF=0, and I was teached that repe should repeat while CX not equal to zero and while ZF=1.
I did some testing and discovered that before movsb, the rep, repe, and repne instructions work the same.
What is the explanation for this?
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here is the code:
.model small
    .data
    A db   '   This     is    a    test '
    N  db  27
    .stack 10h
    .code
    mov ax,@data
    mov ds,ax
    mov es,ax
    cld
    mov al,' '
    mov cl,N
    xor ch,ch
    mov di,offset  A
    next:  repe scasb
    jcxz cont        ; jump if cx=0
    dec di
    inc cx
    xchg  si,di      ; swap between si and di
    push  cx
    push  di
    repe  movsb
    pop   di
    pop   cx
    repne scasb
    mov si,di
    jmp next
    cont: .exit
    end

A: In the machine code, there are actually only two different prefix bytes.

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*0xF3 is called REP when used with MOVS/LODS/STOS/INS/OUTS (instructions which don't affect flags)

*0xF3 is called REPE or REPZ when used with CMPS/SCAS

*0xF2 is called REPNE or REPNZ when used with CMPS/SCAS, and is not documented for other instructions.

Intel's insn reference manual REP entry only documents F3 REP for MOVS, not the F2 prefix.  Congratulations, you've found an undocumented encoding for REP MOVSB, at least on whatever CPU you tested this on. :)
See also this appendix of the NASM manual which includes other undocumented opcodes, but not this F2 A4 REPNE MOVSB.  (linked from the x86 tag wiki).

Normally, prefixes which don't affect an instruction are ignored, so I would have expected REPNE MOVSB to run identically to just MOVSB.  e.g. TZCNT is encoded as REP BSF, and on CPUs which don't support BMI1, it simple executes as BSF.  (Doing the same thing except when the source is zero.)
Similarly, REP RET is a common trick to introduce padding to work around a limitation of AMD K8/K10 branch predictors, and runs the same as RET.
But Intel cautions that this behaviour is not guaranteed, because new instructions can use an encoding that used to be a different instruction with an ignored prefix.  e.g. LZCNT (encoded as REP BSR) produces the opposite result to BSR, so old code that included a REP BSR for some reason would stop working on new CPUs.
Note that on original 8086, rep mul/imul negates the result!!  So historically it hasn't always been completely ignored, and that's probably why Intel only ever documents the ignoring for specific cases when the backwards-compatibility is actually useful (like rep nop = pause, stuff like HLE and BND prefixes, as well as TZCNT = BSF for non-zero inputs.)  See also my and other answers on a retrocomputing Q&A.

A: rep and repe have the same opcode; rep is valid for the INS, OUTS, MOVS, LODS, and STOS instructions; repe/repne is valid for CMPS and SCAS instructions (which do affect the zero flag).
Because their opcodes are the same, repe is just the same as rep naturally; technically, you can't use repne in front of MOVS instructions, though it seems like the processor just treats it the same as rep (at least on the processor you tried).
TL;DR: repne movsb is an invalid/undocumented instruction and all bets are off. You shouldn't rely on it. repe movsb is technically invalid but your assembler encodes it exactly as rep movsb.
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Badhaai Ho (2018) – Movie Review
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Badhaai Ho (Congratulations – in English) is a comedy-drama film directed by Amit Ravindernath Sharma. The film stars Ayushmann Khurrana in a lead role. After the huge success of Andhaadhun (2018), in this film as well Ayushmann is just unstoppable. Like his debut film Vicky Donor (2012) and last year's released film Shubh Mangal Saavdhan (2017), this one also talks about very unconventional (sexually-implicit and less talked but important) and fresh topics with the apt flavor of comedy to convey it nicely.
The film revolves around the middle-class Kaushik family consisting Nakul (Ayushmann Khurrana), a 25-year-old working professional, his father Jeetender Kaushik (Gajraj Rao), a middle-aged man working in the Railways, his mom Priyamvada (Neena Gupta), a middle-aged typical housewife, his younger brother Gullar (Shardul Rana), and his Grandmother (Surekha Sikri). Without wasting much time, the film gets into its central topic and things go embarrassing for everyone when Nakul's mother Priyamvada gets pregnant accidentally (it is embarrassing to be a middle-aged parent in the Indian society). Without a second thought, as being a mother, irrespective of what people are going to think and say, Priyamvada decides to have this child. What follows next is the fun and drama filled ride of Kaushik family as they deal with this awkward and difficult situation and how they all are able to get over it.
This film is a perfect recipe for a family drama with a loud laughter and convincing performances. The story of the film explores the moments of fun and confusion when characters are thrown in an awkward situation which they haven't asked for. All the performances are compelling, in particular, Gajrao Rao, Neena Gupta, Surekha Sikri, and Ayushmann Khurrana impersonates the day-to-day characters with their exceptional acting skills. Sanya Malhotra, who had made her debut in Dangal (2016), who is playing the role of Renee, Nakul's colleague plus love interest is worth mentioning, and by looking at her performance, a long inning can be expected from her in Bollywood. The film is deliberately kept short, sweet, and simple, and the audience will definitely enjoy every bit of it. The screenplay and dialogues are written beautifully and lands perfectly at every moment. Music of the film is also good and complimentary but seems overdone at some places.
Verdict : A perfect movie treat for this weekend.
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Total renovation of home and garden. By lowering the ground floor by one meter, an 85 m/sq space was converted to a 4 bedroom 140m/sq home. The living room maintains the grand 5 meter height in the whole public area, and is connected to a large outdoor patio which contains the Weingrod signature "Sinai Corner" amidst flowering plants and herbs.


The Lamotte plant micronutrients kit performs plant tissue color spot tests for boron, copper, ferrous and ferric iron, manganese, and zinc from sap expressed from freshly cut plant tissue and collected onto filter paper. Indicates presence/absence only. 50 tests/factor.


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Disney Helps 'Reverse the Decline' of Great Apes
Posted by Mickey News | Dec 28, 2016 | Walt Disney World Resort News | 0 |
Gorillas are one of our closest cousins in the animal world. They have 32 teeth, opposable thumbs and live in close-knit family groups with complex social relationships. They are impressively intelligent, and they depend greatly on social learning from their mothers.
All four gorilla subspecies are critically endangered. They are threatened by poaching, habitat loss and disease. Mining for minerals like coltan used in electronics has intensified these threats.
Illegal wildlife trade also poses grave dangers for gorillas in the wild. The Disney Conservation Fund and Disney's Animals, Science and Environment teams are supporting the Jane Goodall Institute, the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE) Center, and more than a dozen local organizations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to "Reverse the Decline" of great apes and their habitat, including Grauer's gorillas, the largest and arguably most-threatened gorilla. They are found exclusively in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and are considered one of the world's 25 most-endangered primates, given that their population has declined by almost 80 percent in only 20 years.
The GRACE Center, the only sanctuary for Grauer's gorillas, cares for young gorillas rescued after their families were poached. Amani, whose name means "peace" in Swahili, is one of these orphans. She was rescued in 2009 and was intercepted while being illegally sold as a pet. She was found dehydrated at the bottom of a plastic bag with a bullet in her leg. She was treated, and although she will always have lingering effects from her wound, she will be able to live her life in the gorilla group at GRACE.
Today, Amani loves to play with the other gorilla orphans, make peace after conflicts between group members and climb trees inside GRACE's large forested habitat. GRACE's ultimate goal is to return rehabilitated gorillas back into the wild to help the struggling wild population.
Here at Disney's Animal Kingdom, you can see two troops, or groups, of western lowland gorillas, a bachelor troop and a family troop. Wilderness Explorers can even earn a gorilla observation badge for watching the gorillas' behavior! While visiting Gorilla Falls, you may have a chance to meet some of the cast members who have visited GRACE or hear the stories of how Disney is helping protect gorillas.
Everyone can help "Reverse the Decline" of great apes by taking action:
You can reduce the need for coltan by recycling old electronics like cellphones, laptops, tablets, and video game systems. You can donate them to GRACE or the Jane Goodall Institute to help raise money for great apes in need of protection.
Purchase wood and paper products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. (Look for the FSC logo.)
Take notice of where your products come from and purchase forest-friendly products like shade-grown coffee and items made from sustainable bamboo.
Visit DisneyAnimals.com to learn more about gorillas and share the information you learn with friends and family!
To learn more about GRACE or the Jane Goodall Institute, visit www.gracegorillas.org or www.janegoodall.org
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Singapore Football
AFC Cup draw: Warriors FC have it tough with 3 away games
COHESION: Warriors coach Alex Weaver (above) has retained all five of his imports, to maintain stability, ahead of the upcoming S.League season.TNP FILE PHOTO
Sports Correspondent
It may be a long shot for his team to overcome three away play-off hurdles to qualify for the main draw of the AFC Champions League, but Warriors FC coach Alex Weaver is not about to throw in the towel just yet.
After yesterday's draw, the Great Eastern-Yeo's S.League champions will take on Myanmar's Yadanarbon in the first play-off round on Feb 4.
If the Warriors prevail, they will then take on China's Guangzhou R&F on Feb 10, before a third opponent, Australia's Central Coast Mariners, await on Feb 17.
"To be honest, we don't know much about our opponents from Myanmar, and we have got to start studying them now," said Weaver.
"We want to make sure they are worried about us. With the players and spirit we have got, we hope to do well in the AFC Champions League, even if we have a tough challenge ahead of us with these clubs from Myanmar, China and Australia."
VAR could be used at future Suzuki Cup tournaments
Sportradar to monitor S.League
Balestier qualify for AFC Cup after RHB Singapore Cup triumph
The Warriors last tasted AFC Champions League action in 2010, when they collected their first-ever win in the competition with a 2-1 victory over China's Henan Jianye en route to finishing third in their group, the best finish by any Singaporean side.
Should the Warriors fall at any point in the AFC Champions League play-offs, they will then play in the AFC Cup, where they are drawn with Indonesia's Persipura Jayapura in Group E, along with India's Bengaluru or Maziya from the Maldives or Ceres from the Philippines - only two out of the three latter three teams will make up the rest of the group.
To maintain stability, Weaver has retained all five of his imports - Marin Vidosevic, Thomas Beattie, Kevin McCann, Miroslav Pejic and Nicolas Velez - from last season, while adding local players such as Syaqir Sulaiman, Fazli Jaffar, Emmeric Ong, Marcus Wheeler and Daniel Ong.
But Weaver's immediate priority is to look for a first-choice goalkeeper after losing Singapore No. 1 Hassan Sunny to Tampines Rovers.
"Trying to retain our S.League title will be paramount and anything in the AFC competitions will be a bonus, but my players will be up to the challenge." said the Englishman.
"If we end up in the AFC Cup, we want to do one better than the local teams in the previous editions and aim to progress from the group stage."
Last season, Tampines and Home United both crashed out of the group stages.
Meanwhile, RHB Singapore Cup winners Balestier Khalsa find themselves drawn with Hong Kong's Kitchee or Sun Pegasus, Malaysia's Johor Darul Ta'zim or Selangor and India's East Bengal.
Balestier coach Marko Kraljevic said: "It's a tough draw. I was very impressed with Kitchee, who beat Tampines twice earlier this year.
"I'm not sure about the team from India, but the football there has improved a lot. And there's really nothing more to talk about JDT because they are a great team.
"But we are professionals and we will go into this competition trying to win.
"These are exciting times for the club because it's the first time we are playing in the AFC Cup and we want to give a good account of ourselves."
Lee to learn from coaches in England
Aspiring coach Gavin Lee will be living the dream as he embarks on a three-week trip to the United Kingdom on Monday to observe top coaches from Cardiff City, Crewe Alexandra and Liverpool.
The final-year Nanyang Technological University sports science undergraduate has a C licence in coaching and worked as an intern under S.League champions Warriors FC coach Alex Weaver last season.
"Coach Alex Weaver passed me his contacts and I arranged for the trip," said the 24-year-old.
"I want to observe and learn from the coaching practices, in terms of styles and technology, from these top clubs and improve as a coach.
"I was from the National Football Academy until the Under-16s and stopped playing because of studies. But I still love the sport and the interaction with players I get from coaching."
Weaver said on his Facebook page: "The lad has worked hard and saved up to pay for the trip himself. Bright and driven enough to learn, he's studying the world's game and he's thinking like a 'globally aware' coach."
- DAVID LEE
AFCWarriors FCdrawSingapore
davidlee@sph.com.sg
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Since the return to democracy in 1999, Plateau State has remained a theatre of some sort, where a number of bizarre and extreme political measures have experimented; churning outcome in an unusual proportion which has continued to threaten and shaking it right to its rocky crust.
The unrest ranges from the declaration of emergency rule in 2004 on the State by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration to the lingering ethnoreligious crisis that has further marked the State out for several years.
As the presidential election beckons, the dynamics in the state are not short of a case study for any political analysis.
In the first sixteen years of democratic rule, the PDP had governed the State, from the days of Senator Joshua Dariye, to that of now Senator representing Plateau North, Jonah Jang. The PDP held sway in Plateau politics and efforts by other parties to challenge them had always failed.
For the sixteen years of PDP in the State, the opposition presidential candidate has never won an election in the State, even when the then opposition and now ruling APC won the governorship poll in the state in 2015, the incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, still lost the elections with a margin of over a hundred thousand votes (Buhari got over 420, 000 votes, while Jonathan got over 520, 000 votes) to the then incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan. But that was the closest he has come since he started contesting in 2003, and one of the major factors that made him to get those votes then was the protest against the then incumbent Governor.
However, in 2019, the scenario looks different, as the APC is now at the helm of affairs in the state and the presidency, hence the incumbency factor may count for Buhari in the state.
The incumbent Governor, Simon Lalong, has campaigned for Buhari, hinging that his presidency has impacted positively on the state, especially in providing funds for the payment of inherited backlog of salaries of civil servants, completion of uncompleted projects by his predecessor, intervention in the agricultural sector and creation of jobs through the social intervention scheme of the federal government to thousands of youths in the state.
However, most people in the state, especially natives feel that the president has not stood by them in their moment of grief, because several communities in Bassa, Bokkos, Barkin Ladi, Jos South, Riyom, Mangu LGA among others, have suffered monumental loses both in human and property; where thousands have been displaced from their ancestral homes, especially the June, 23 and 24, 2018, attacks which claimed over 200 lives.
In 2015, most PDP chieftains and supporters in the state worked against their party, because they were angry with Goodluck Jonathan, who couldn't stop the then incumbent Governor of the State, Jonah Jang, from presenting a candidate from his own constituency despite outcry by various stakeholders that it was the turn of Plateau South.
With the aforementioned, among other issues, the main opposition candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar may win the state, but it might not be a landslide victory.


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X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound: Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson, Victor J. Hruby, Nathan Collins, Clifford George, Bob Cudney
D-Pen2, D-Pen5]enkephalin (DPDPE), a cyclic, constrained, highly potent, and δ opioid receptor-selective analogue of enkephalin, has been obtained from an aqueous solution in a crystalline form suitable for X-ray analysis. It crystallizes in the triclinic space group P1. The unit cell contains three conformationally distinct molecules of DPDPE which are located with approximate 3-fold symmetry about a water channel made up of approximately 24 disordered and one ordered water molecules. There are also 13 ordered water molecules which form an intricate network of hydrogen bonds which hold the peptide molecules together in the crystal. The conformation of the 14-membered ring is essentially identical for all three molecules; however, the Tyr-1 residue is conformationally different in each case. Comparison of the conformations found in the crystal with those previously determined by NMR methods in conjunction with energy calculations indicates that the most favorable conformation of the 14-membered ring in aqueous solution is similar to that in the crystal. This was interpreted to be due to the cyclic constraint in DPDPE and the high degree of solvation in the crystal structure. In addition, low-energy conformations previously determined by computational methods in attempts to determine the binding conformations of DPDPE gave conformations of the 14-membered rings which were generally similar to those found in the crystal structure. These results and previous structure-activity relationships suggest that the solid-state conformations are a useful starting point for understanding the bioactive conformation important for biological activity and S receptor selectivity of cyclic enkephalin analogues.
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Flippen-Anderson, J. L., Hruby, V. J., Collins, N., George, C., & Cudney, B. (1994). X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound: Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 116(17), 7523-7531. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00096a008
X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound : Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations. / Flippen-Anderson, Judith L.; Hruby, Victor J.; Collins, Nathan et al.
In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 116, No. 17, 01.08.1994, p. 7523-7531.
Flippen-Anderson, JL, Hruby, VJ, Collins, N, George, C & Cudney, B 1994, 'X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound: Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 116, no. 17, pp. 7523-7531. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00096a008
Flippen-Anderson JL, Hruby VJ, Collins N, George C, Cudney B. X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound: Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1994 Aug 1;116(17):7523-7531. doi: 10.1021/ja00096a008
Flippen-Anderson, Judith L. ; Hruby, Victor J. ; Collins, Nathan et al. / X-ray Structure of [D-Pen2,D-Pen5]enkephalin, a Highly Potent, δ Opioid Receptor-Selective Compound : Comparisons with Proposed Solution Conformations. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1994 ; Vol. 116, No. 17. pp. 7523-7531.
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I hope you enjoyed the last lesson where we recruited participants for a focus group.
get the right participants to show up for your focus group.
I came out with a list of people who were willing to participate.
However, a verbal agreement doesn't ensure that they're actually going to show up.
and that is what we are going to discuss in this lesson.
participants to increase the likelihood of participation in your focus group.
and I'll show you what I mean.
you will need to write a good confirmation letter.
and participate in your focus group.
you should assume they will not show up.
If they are vague using phrases like, "Oh I'll try".
I think I can make it".
Chances are that they will not show up.
You need definites, so it's best to face that reality.
people who agree to participate in your focus group.
over the phone, or in an email, or text exchange.
expect them to show up at the appointed time and place.
the confirmation letter to those who agreed to participate in the focus group.
You can find it in the resources for this course.
and the notice needed if the person is going to cancel their participation in the group.
and remind them that they met you.
all the details that were covered in the interview or focus group.
and might lead them about their answers.
a representative of UC Davis with her title and contact information.
contact us if they have any questions or hesitations.
show up is to make a phone call to remind them, reminder calls.
your call will serve its purpose.
you are and how friendly you were when you recruited them.
That personal connection of your voice can remind them more of the date and time.
It can remind them that they made a commitment to a specific person.
plan ahead to keep it brief and friendly.
say what you need to say for each call. It is simple.
and to contact you if they have any questions.
Make sure to get that they are going to come to the group.
That's all there is to planning your reminder calls and writing talking points.
with and messages you left, if you left any.
Only leave a message if you have to.
normally, people do not call back.
You want to hear the response in person.
Your reminder call might sound something like this.
Be sure to address them by their name to make it personal.
"This is Susan Berman of Impact Research.
Thank you for agreeing to participate in my focus group about cell phones.
Remember I recruited you on the quad at UC Davis.
Your participation is very important to the research.
Besides it's going to be really fun.
the UC Davis International Center in room such and such.
It will be on Tuesday May 16th at 7:00 p.m. and we will meet for 90 minutes.
As promised you will receive a $20 Starbucks gift card and dinner.
If you have any questions please call me at and then give your cell phone number.
Thanks again. I look forward to seeing you on Tuesday night."
If you're nervous about making phone calls, that's normal.
But that's no reason to avoid them.
It's a very important part of the process.
People forget about things right away and have busy lives.
You want to remind them and get their confirmation.
and you are helping them by providing this reminder.
and to rehearse it so that you sound friendly and personal.
these action steps to follow after recruiting.
Doing so will increase the level of participation and the quality of your focus group.


If I try the request again, the issue is corrected. This has been happening for the past 3 or 4 days, and I've also gotten a bunch of reports from my users about this.
Any ETA on a fix? Thanks!
Any progress on this issue? Still getting reports of this happening from users.
With the weird high/low temperatures, it looks like the incorrect low temp is a result of the Celsius temperature being returned for the Fahrenheit data point.
Already posted this in https://apicommunity.wunderground.com/weatherapi/topics/api-servers-sending-bogus-data but this seems to be the exactly same issue.
It's not bogus data or mixed up Celsius/Fahrenheit in my case, but the forecast data actually comes from January this year.
I've been seeing this same thing for about a month on some of our digital displays. The data is from January 3rd of this year. I'm getting numerous calls every day about it. It'd be real nice if WU could get around to fixing this.
Thanks, Paul. This seems like an effective work around.
A workaround like this is OK for now, but our clients expect the weather to be correct and update in the interval that was promised. Sadly i still got no reply from help@wunderground.com (which is unusual, it mostly took some days at max), and as usual also no reply in this forum.
100% correct, Thomas. We are preparing to migrate to a new weather service provider. I have been all over the forums, sent an email and submitted a support ticket. No answer, or even acknowledgement they received my inquiry.
"To improve our services and enhance our relationship with our users, we will no longer provide free weather API keys as part of our program."
A: They could improve relations by responding to email and support tickets, or by having someone respond to forum users.
B: I'm paying for my API key, so what's the excuse for it being broken for a month?
The world's most accurate, precise and trusted weather data? Not quite.
I saw it once this morning. We have about a hundred presentations running, so I'm not gonna check them all, but I'll look through some of the usual suspects and see if any are experiencing the glitch.
Yep, got at least one more showing the glitch right now.
Or it was until a minute ago. Sigh. Intermittent problems are the best.
Our clients are still experiencing this issue with January data. It's very intermittent but still exists. Any update on this?
Hi there, any progress on solving this critical issue? We are still facing "Jan 3rd error" on lots of queries. this is very serious!
Finally realized that I'm in this boat, too. I thought there was a coding problem in the way we were handling the API results... turns out, the raw data is bad. Continues to happen even after the fix was reported a week ago. Any updates?
Since help@wunderground.com seems to be dead, I had partial success by forwarding this issue to the parent company of WU. TWCDigitalSupport@us.ibm.com is the contact i used. They replied pretty quickly and had me confirm that the issue was already fixed. Sadly we still experience the same issue, so it's not fixed completely yet. They're aware of it. I will post any news I receive in here.
anybody knows if this issue is solved and what was the problem ?
Rania, anything that is broken at this point on the Weather Underground API is going to stay broken. We have already started closing down large numbers of keys for the API's end of life.
The PWS gateway for keys will be open soon. We hit a snag in the test version, and the programmers are working on fixing it now.
If you're having difficulty with something API related, please feel free to contact me directly.