Hi, My name is Lisa Cummins, from Dublin Ireland. I've Crohn's disease, a form of Inflammatory bowel disease. I was diagnosed in 2004 at just 18 years old. I've been a Montessori teacher the last 5 years and been working in childcare since my diagnosis. But because of my illness, I've been in and out of jobs, as I've either been too sick to hold down a job, had surgery or I've been let go. I love what I do for a living and at times having this illness makes working hard.
May 2015 I had my worst flare up imaginable. I developed a perianal abscess and a rectal vaginal fistula. I had lost 2 stone in six months. I knew something wasn't right, my toilet trips were so often.
I had a check up with my gastroenterologist and I was admitted. I had numerous blood tests and scopes done to work out what was wrong with me. I was given an NG tube as my body wasn't absorbing the nutrients from the food I was eating, Hence the dramatic weight loss. Now I love my food but to look at me you wouldn't think that. Little did I know I was given this, as few weeks later one of the biggest events of my life so far was about to happen.
Fast forward 3 weeks, it's now June. I'm still in hospital and no news of what is happening, until a few days later my doctor and the team came to see me and tell me they want me to see a colorectal surgeon – and that I may need a stoma bag.
My heart sank and tears ran down my face. I couldn't believe it, I was going to have an operation and given a bag.
All that ran through my head was 'Why?' 'Why me?' I was blaming myself for all of this. I was always good at taking my medicine and watching what I ate as certain foods would upset my stomach. 'What has happened? Why is this happening to me?' For 11 years I avoided all of this. Not in a million years did I think I'd end up having a bag.
I was told this wasn't any of my fault and that these things do happen. I didn't want anyone else to know, I couldn't tell my friends as I felt if I told them I was having one then it would make it more real. I didn't want to admit it, but this was happening and there was no way to stop it.
I was marked for my bag by a stoma nurse a few days later and brought down for surgery the next day. I cried as I was wheeled down to theatre and gave my parents hugs and kisses. Since day one from when I was diagnosed both my parents have been so amazing and supportive.
When I got my bag my Mam was the first one to look at it as I was too upset and scared to see it. I'm very close to my parents and I am so so grateful for all they've done for me and continue to do. They listened to my team and learned along with me how to live with my stoma. Mam loves to help any way she can and likes to learn stuff about my Crohn's disease and my stoma, as does my dad. She also helps me change it when I'm too fatigued or when my bag leaks. I dunno how I'd cope the first year if I hadn't got them.
I woke up back on the ward a few hours later. After you wake up and look down and see this thing stuck to you, your heart just sinks and you can't stop the tears. Stomas aren't the prettiest of things, I know. But I think if you look long enough they can look like a rosebud or a tomato.
It does help naming them too if you want, I've called mine Sheldon (huge Big Bang Theory fan). I was in hospital for 10 days after surgery. But a total of 5 weeks over all.
I was so nervous when I got home, it took me a while to get used to changing my bag how to dress with it and learning different things about it. Oddly enough I adapted really quickly to it. I think from the support from family and friends, and friends who had bags too, I didn't feel so alone.
It was hard, emotionally and physically as I tried to come to terms with living with a bag. But over time I've learned to adapt to it and yes there's bad days and I get upset. But it's second nature to me now, I've learned to dress with it, change some of my eating habits as I've learned not all food agrees with me eg mushrooms, popcorn, salad etc. (Now some people maybe different and their stoma be ok). I forget half the time I have it and night time used to be hard to sleep with it at the start but now I sleep great.
I'm now 2 years post op, but A few weeks ago I hit another bump in the road. I was badly dehydrated to the point of nearly passing out, vomiting too. My electrolytes where on the floor and had everything via IV drip including steroids. I had a pelvic MRI of small bowel. My Crohn's had spread all the way around my large bowel and I had lost a stone in 6 weeks.
My surgeons have said it's only a matter of time before I have to have my large bowel out along with my rectal stump and have bum stitched up. But I knew from day one I wanted keep it. I know it's a huge step, I won't lie I am scared of more surgery, but I can't keep going back and forth to hospital and going round in circles of being well and then sick again. It's so draining on my body, both mentally and physically. I know I can do this, I've a great support network around me along with my surgeons and IBD team, they are amazing so I know I'm in good hands.
For me the pros outweigh the cons, for others it may be different. I know there will be leaks along the way and sore skin, but I'd take that over soiling myself everyday to the point my backside is burning.
I'm keeping my bag for my sanity and for a better quality of life. I'm doing this for my future. I don't want to spend the next 10 years locked in the bathroom.
I want to be able to enjoy my life with my partner, who I met 2 years ago, He also has Crohn's disease and he's been my rock throughout all of this. Even though having this illness is hard, it's the only positive thing to come out of it. I met my soul mate. We both know how each other feels and have gone through the same things.
I just want you all to know that you're not alone in this. The idea of surgery is scary, but life isn't over after it. There will be good and bad days I won't lie, I've been there and came out the other side.
I feel more confident in myself now than I did before my operation. I've had bad anxiety for years and spent much of those years always looking for bathrooms. I used to avoid going out, I always soiled myself too. I don't want to go back to all that again.
I'm a part of a few support groups on Facebook called #IBDSuperhereos and also another called #GetYourBellyOut. They are an amazing campaign, that helps raise awareness about this illness and helps people like me.
It's given me a place to talk to others going through the same thing. I no longer feel alone or ashamed of my illness. My life has changed so much for the better since having my bag.
Looking back on how things have changed over the years since being diagnosed and having my bag I never thought my life would be this way. It's all made me the woman I am today. I'm strong and brave, even at times where I think, how am I doing this and I want to give up. So tired of hospital visits, check ups, needles, medicine, surgeries, life in the bathroom, I was too afraid to leave my house and mix with my friends, (I've a few close friends who've been very supportive throughout all of this) too scared of crowds incase of a leak or if people could see it. My home was my safety blanket.
But I'm now a proud ostomate, It's given me my life back. I'm more outgoing and wanting to, hopefully travel more and see the world with my partner, (I've yet to go abroad and swimming, I've bikinis I want to wear so that will be a big thing for me but I know I can do it). Finally I also want to learn to drive. I can do all of this just one step at a time, now I have my bag, anything is possible!!


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Q: Google maps- Add new markers without initializing map each time This is what I want to do: I ask the user to type a latitude+longitude into an input box and I want to show a marker on the map for that location, without having to initialize the map every time.
I have initialized a map as follows:

No jazz till now, this is the normal way of defining a map. Now, I have an input box, where I ask the user to type an address:
<input type="text" size=30 name="lat" id="lat">
<input type="text" size=30 name="lon" id="lon">
<button type="button" id="address_submit">Search</button>

I want to show the marker for that address. I defined a function, shown below, but am not getting how to show get the map object:
    $("#address_submit").live("click", function() {
    lat = $("#lat").val();
    lon = $("#lon").val();
    var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
          position: new google.maps.LatLng(lat, lon),
          map: map, //HOW DO I GET THIS MAP OBJECT??
          title:"Hello World!"
      });
}

A: I've tried your code in a jsfiddle => http://jsfiddle.net/HaDbR/ and all seems to work as expected (I've reduced a bit the zoom factor just to see inserted markers): I've inserted some coordinates in the form (near to the map center coords) and the markers appeared correctly.
The only real differences is the visibility of map variable so that the click handler applied to the button can see it, and the .on() method instead of .live()
I've inserted the googlemap API script, calling a callback function createMap() and in that function I've initialized the map and I've associated the handler, so by closure it can have access to your map

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There are few figures in high fashion who part the seas at Paris boutiques the way Ikram Goldman does. And she's—gasp—from Chicago, not a fashion "capital" like Milan or New York. This month, Chicago profiles the owner of the world-renowned lacquer-red Huron Street boutique, a woman who singlehandedly made our city a must-go destination in the fashion world.
Lovely (lovelybride.com) will open its first Chicago store at 1657 North Wells in October. With 10 national locations, the chain operates as a franchise—so the Chicago outpost, owned by former corporate marketing pro Heather Hyman, will have unique characteristics.
At Elements (741 N. Wells St., elementschicago.com), select accessories are on sale. Items include a star necklace in champagne diamonds (reduced from $1,450 to $1,087) and a leather and ridged-chain bracelet (reduced from $550 to $275).
Love Emme (loveemme.com) a gift site specializing in apparel and accessories, will host a grand opening for its pop-up shop at 1529 West Armitage Avenue on October 1. Running from 4 to 9 p.m., the event will offer cocktails, catered snacks, and specialty gifts with purchase.
Aligned Modern Health (215 W. Superior St., alignedmodernhealth.com) has opened a new location in River North. Housed in a former gallery, the airy, chandelier-studded space offers acupuncture, chiropractic services, and counseling in functional medicine and clinical nutrition.
Spa@TheWit (201 N. State St., thewithotel.com) is raising breast cancer awareness in October with special "pink" services. The limited-time treatments include a 50-minute massage, a body treatment and a manicure/pedicure; 10 percent of each service's cost will be donated to the Lynn Sage Foundation.
Local designer Sky Cubacub specializes in "gender-affirming" garments. Read more.
The styling service Trunk Club has added a $25 "try-on" fee. Read more.
Merz Apothecary now offers delivery service on its beauty items through Amazon's Prime. Read more.


Top Kitchen Renovations In Blacktown For Remodel.
Everybody values a beautiful kitchen. It's one of the most items when someone's taking a look at investing in a apartment.
Whether the kitchen is the heart of your home, or if you're thinking about putting your home up for sale or on the market as a rental property, nothing says 'deal breaker' comparable to a tired old kitchen.
Easy kitchen area remodelling ideas.
If a complete overhaul is out of the question, here are some fast renovation suggestions that will quickly improve your kitchen and add value.
A sparkling completely new cook top, dishwasher, sink or fridge not only looks amazing but they will be a joy to use. If the remodelling is for a rental property you may claim the depreciation on permanent fixtures.
If the kitchen joinery is in reasonable condition, replace the counter tops. They are probably the most visible and most used features in any kitchen and offer the opportunity to create a great design statement. Textured natural materials like white granite have become popular.
Consider replacing the cupboard doors and drawer fronts to have an immediate visual improvement. Updating the lighting will modernize your kitchen and may be used as a design feature. Joinery that is in good condition may gain from a new paint job but its advisable to replace worn or damaged joinery rather than re-covering or painting.
It's about having a comfortable amount of space in right places. You have to have a set-down space on each side of the cooking area and you'll need ample preparation space.
If you're chopping up vegetables then a bin should be handy and be close to the sink in order to wash the fruit and vegetables. When you open up the dishwasher, make sure you close off half of your kitchen in order to step around it.
Your kitchen's aesthetic and floor plan will probably be determined by where the kitchen is positioned in your home and the size of your apartment. If it's centrally located versus being tucked in a a corner, that determines how you design the kitchen.
In the event that you've got a nice sized three-bedroom home or apartment, then you don't want to be viewing the kitchen from the living room.But if own a studio apartment you may be required to integrate the kitchen in the living room.
Best Kitchen Renovations In Coogee For Remodel.
A kitchen island is usually a great area to gravitate to and depending on how it's designed, it could possibly look less like a kitchen and much more like a beautiful design feature of your new kitchen, rather than a separate space.
When choosing kitchen appliances you'll want to decide on functionality as well as quality. There is a trend towards the big-name suppliers that provide longer-term guarantees and follow-up services. If you are buying a quantity of appliances at once, it's worth considering buying all the same manufacturer. In this way all of the appliances will match, details such as knobs, railings and overall designs will likely be consistent, and you may be able to obtain a discount.
A important remodelling suggestion when it comes to kitchen flooring is consistency. The choice in the flooring materials depends on the bigger design concept, not just because it's in the kitchen. It's important to see the flow of the flooring through out the kitchen so it's all connected, rather than it being a separate flooring surface just in that area .
Make sure you allow at least four weeks for the reno of your kitchen, excluding the planning and the design time.
Top Kitchen Renovations In Brookvale For Remodel.


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LeanIX Appoints New Vice President of Marketing
3rd executive hire in 2018 supports company's explosive growth and plans for EA tools market disruption
Bonn - June 20, 2018 - LeanIX, the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions in Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), today announced that Fabian Henzler has joined the organization as Vice President of Global Marketing. With more than 10 years of experience in product marketing and product management, Henzler will lead the Bonn-based startup's go-to-market strategy including branding, positioning, sales enablement, customer experience, and end-to-end marketing campaigns. He will report to LeanIX, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, André Christ.
Prior to LeanIX, Henzler served as Director of Product Marketing at Matrix42, where he led business process management and product pipelines. Prior to that, he acted as Solution Architect and Head of Product Management at Consulting4IT GmbH. Previously, he held technical account management positions at egoSecure GmbH and Softbroker GmbH.
"Fabian is joining us in his new role as VP of Marketing during one of the most exciting times at LeanIX," said André Christ, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, LeanIX. "His leadership and experience is a tremendous asset to our team and our customers, and we are excited to welcome him as we continue down our global growth path."
Henzler will be LeanIX's third executive-level hire in 2018 as it continues to scale the business for rapid growth and product development. Most recently, the company announced its integration with ServiceNow, as well as two new platform features -- flexible dashboards and a fully supported microservices add-on -- to improve IT landscape management, foster collaboration between business and IT, and speed time to value.
"The IT management market is ripe for disruption, with many organizations relying on outdated, clunky modeling approaches that foster siloes and poor communication, not to mention compliance issues," said Fabian Henzler, Vice President of Marketing, LeanIX. "LeanIX's SaaS-based platform is the future of enterprise architecture. The team has developed a truly unique offering and we're ideally positioned to become the de facto standard for IT organizations around the world. I'm excited to join this team of talented, passionate, and experienced IT professionals and look forward to helping shape our future."
LeanIX offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for Enterprise Architecture (EA), enabling organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions. Hundreds of global brands such as Adidas, DHL, Merck, Vodafone or Zalando use the LeanIX platform to increase transparency and visibility and drive real-time efficiencies. LeanIX addresses IT's critical need to ensure high quality, real-time data is accessible to the people who need it. Use cases include application rationalization, technology risk management and the shift from monolithic architectures to microservices. LeanIX was founded in 2012 by Jörg Beyer and André Christ. The company's headquarter is in Bonn, Germany, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts and Houston, Texas.
To learn more about LeanIX, visit www.leanix.net or @leanix_net on Twitter.

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Learn how Yodle helped immigration lawyer Lemuel Carlos develop a strong local online presence that brings him the right kind of clients.
Traffic defense attorney Mark Matney developed his new practice and grew his client base, all with a little help from Yodle.
Find out how David Kaufman went from being skeptical about marketing to becoming a true believer after finding Yodle.
Roslyn Grant of The Grant Group knew Yodle was different from other marketing companies when she saw a quarter of her calls turning into new clients.
Now that lawyer John Hoffer sees 80% of Yodle leads turning into appointments, he can worry less about marketing and focus on serving his clients.


How can a country like Mexico that is run by the cartel, that publicly executes everyone,and anyone who they have grudge with, be country that is against the DP???
They only executing over 1000 people in Cuad-Juarez in a year! But Mexicon prisons are like dying a slow death from what I hear!


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No. 2 women's volleyball faces No. 1 Nebraska in championship rematch
Led by Kathryn Plummer (jumping) and her 5.50 kills per set, the Stanford offense produces 15.14 kills per set, which is fourth best in the nation. On the other side of the net, Nebraska is holding opponents to just .138 hitting, which also ranks fourth in the country. (MIKE RASAY.isiphotos.com)
By James Hemker on September 17, 2019
In what may be the match of the season, No. 2 women's volleyball (5-1, 0-0 Pac-12) will travel to Lincoln to face No. 1 Nebraska (7-0, 0-0 Big Ten) on Wednesday night. The last time these two teams faced, the Cardinal prevailed in five sets and took home the 2018 NCAA Championship.
For the first time in 37 matches, Stanford comes into the game without a win streak. No. 7 Minnesota surprised the Cardinal last Saturday with a convincing 3-1 win over the defending national champs. Stanford played the whole match just a step behind the Golden Gophers, looking slow and unfocused.
Ultimately, the loss may have been beneficial for the Cardinal, as it exposed weaknesses in the team's passing and blocking. With three full days of rest and practice, expect Stanford to enter Devaney Center, one of the toughest road sites in college volleyball, with its usual confidence and swagger.
Stanford enters the game led by the arm of senior outside hitter Kathryn Plummer. The two-time American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) National Player of the Year ranks fourth in the nation in kills per set (5.50) and 17th in hitting percentage (.350) among all outside hitters.
Enabling Plummer is senior setter Jenna Gray, whose 11.77 assists per set is tied for fourth-best in the country. After last weekend's matches, Gray now has the fifth-most career assists (4,350) of any player in Stanford history. She also leads this year's team with eight aces from the service line.
While Stanford is returning six of its seven starters from last year's squad, the Huskers no longer have their ace, outside hitter Mikaela Foecke, who graduated last year. One of the best players in Nebraska's history, Foecke rained fire on the Cardinal in the title game, racking up a match-high 27 kills.
Even without Foecke, Nebraska has a couple big time players who can cause trouble for Stanford. Outside hitter Lexi Sun has stepped up as the go-to attacker, evidenced by her team-leading 101 kills this year, but the Nebraska player to watch will be middle blocker Lauren Stivrens.
Concluding her freshman season last year, Stivrens posted 19 kills in the title match against a better Stanford defense. This year, the Cardinal have already been exposed by quick sets to middles, as Penn State's star middle Kaitlin Hord owned the net with 16 kills on .516 hitting. Expect Stivrens, a First Team All-American, to try and replicate that performance.
Stanford has never lost two matches in a row under head coach Kevin Hambly. With a veteran lineup, the Cardinal should be able to rally from Saturday's loss and play a competitive if not dominant game.
First serve is set for Wednesday night in the Delaney Center at 5 p.m. PT.
Contact James Hemker at jahemker 'at' stanford.edu.
James Hemker
James Hemker '21 is a Managing Editor of Sports. A computer science major, he has made the cross-country journey to the Farm from Baltimore, MD. After being tortured for years by the Redskins, Browns, and Orioles, the wide successes of the Cardinal have shown him that the teams you root for can in fact win championships. Contact James at jahemker 'at' stanford.edu.


'Hannah Montana' star Mitchel Musso is out with the music video to his new single 'The In Crowd', a cover of a John Hampson song featured on 'Radio Disney Jams, Vol. 11', out now on Walt Disney Records. Watch it below.


Agricultural systems in Australia can be detrimental to the environment. In his highly acclaimed book Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe argues that reintroducing native plants and animals to Australian farms can contribute to a more resilient and sustainable agricultural future.
'Soil (not salt)' draws from two branches of visual communication — editorial illustration and information visualisation — to visualise insights from Dark Emu. These visualisations endeavour to mobilise interest and momentum for native food production from a grassroots level.
The project contributes to a broader dialogue about innovative approaches to engaging and provocative communication about climate change.
Agriculture in Australia is one of the greatest causes of pollution, carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, dry land salinity and drought. And with the compounding challenges of climate change, these issues are only predicted to amplify. In Dark Emu, Bruce Pascoe explores the multitude of environmental benefits that could be gained from farming the native plants and animals that were farmed by The First Australians for thousands of years. Soil (not salt) endeavours to visualise key insights from Dark Emu, making them accessible and engaging to everyday Australians at a time when innovation is critical to the future resilience of Australia's environment.
Soil (not salt) was developed through an iterative process of experimentation and user testing. Through this iterative process, I explored both information visualisation and editorial illustration as methods of communicating scientific information independently, eventually coming to experiment with a hybrid form of visualisation drawing from both.


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Kermit Davis Admitting He Saw Ole Miss' Loss To North Alabama Coming Paints Grim Picture For The Future
by Mark Harris December 21, 2022, 3:12 pm updated December 21, 2022, 3:22 pm
Everyone was shocked to see Ole Miss lose at home to North Alabama 66-65 on Tuesday afternoon. Everyone except for Ole Miss head coach Kermit Davis, that is.
After what was his team's most embarrassing loss since he arrived in Oxford in 2018, Davis said the writing was on the wall for the Rebels to lose to the Lions.
"We had really told our guys to be very tough and physical in practice the last two days. Not a good game day practice today. You could see it coming. We did everything in our power, but I take full responsibility," Davis said after the loss.
"Give them credit. Their team played. Even when we had the game up one with a chance to close it out, we couldn't. It won't be as Merry Christmas as we'd like going into the break."
While you can respect Davis' honesty, his admission that he saw a loss coming to a North Alabama team ranked outside the Top 300 in KenPom heading into the matchup is extremely telling.
UNA has only had a Division I basketball program since 2018 and was 0-19 against the SEC heading into Tuesday's contest at Ole Miss.
Davis saying he couldn't get his team to match the physicality and intensity of a woeful North Alabama team paints a very clear, and ugly picture of where the Ole Miss basketball team currently stands.
Matthew Murrell has been good for Ole Miss this season averaging just shy of 16 points per game. (Photo by James Gilbert/Getty Images)
A Critical & Concerning Time For Ole Miss Basketball
Davis' seat was warm heading into the season, but it has to be engulfed in flames at this point with the Rebels sitting at 8-4 on the year heading into conference play.
Kermit Davis led Ole Miss to the NCAA Tournament in his first season at the helm but didn't even sniff a March Madness bid the following three seasons. The 63-year-old has posted a record of 52-52 after winning 20 games in his debut campaign in Oxford.
Davis is signed through the 2025 season and is being paid, on average, $3 million per year since signing his last extension last November.
It doesn't take an accountant or college basketball savant to realize Ole Miss could be paying another coach a tenth of that to post a .500 record over three and a half seasons.
It could be time for Ole Miss basketball to part ways with Kermit Davis. (Photo by Kevin Langley/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
What Should, Or Better Yet Can, Ole Miss Hoops Do In The Future?
What has to be most frustrating for Ole Miss basketball fans is that nobody is expecting Davis – or any other coach – to make the Rebels a powerhouse. Ole Miss is a football school first, a baseball school second, and then there's a large gap between baseball and men's basketball.
All Ole Miss basketball needs, and what fans crave, is for the program to be consistently on the bubble and not be completely irrelevant before Christmas each year. It would help if Ole Miss played an attractive style of basketball, too, but Davis hasn't been able to produce that either.
While men's hoops are in a ridiculously bad spot at the moment, money plays a major factor here as well, especially in this new NIL world.
Boosters and donors are giving their money to the football program, just like they are at every other SEC school not named Kentucky. No NIL money makes it impossible to recruit top-tier talent.
It doesn't matter who is coaching Ole Miss basketball, if there is no NIL money to give players then the product on the floor is going to reflect it.
Most of Ole Miss' funds are going into the pocket of Lane Kiffin, and rightfully so. (Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images)
Ole Miss is also paying head football coach Lane Kiffin around $9 million a year and that number will increase each offseason as long as he remains in Oxford.
This leaves the Ole Miss athletics department with a difficult decision to make.
If Ole Miss parts ways with Davis before his contract expires he'll be owed millions. Then the athletics department has to decide just how much it's willing to invest in the basketball program, which at that point wouldn't be an attractive job for any coach in the country with an above-average resume.
The fact that Ole Miss stuck with Davis after he posted a combined record of 29-31 overall and 14-22 in the SEC over the last two seasons sends a pretty clear message about where priorities lie in the athletics department in Oxford.
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Last month, news broke of a new GeForce Partner Program, put in place by Nvidia to corner the market on high-end GPUs by requiring GPU manufacturers to "align" their brands with Nvidia if they wanted to receive GPU allocations or be considered for various marketing funds. GPUs manufactured by AMD were effectively kicked out of the NV-aligned tiers — something we factually saw evidence of when we investigated the impact of the GPP on partner brands, though the details of how the program was implemented remained contested. Nvidia insisted that the entire affair was a helpful program to assist manufacturers. Now, Nvidia has announced that it has canceled the program altogether.
GPP had a simple goal – ensuring that gamers know what they are buying and can make a clear choice… With GPP, we asked our partners to brand their products in a way that would be crystal clear. The choice of GPU greatly defines a gaming platform. So, the GPU brand should be clearly transparent – no substitute GPUs hidden behind a pile of techno-jargon.
As explanations go, this one explains nothing. There are no "substitute GPUs hidden behind a pile of technojargon." There never have been. Nvidia does not allow you to brand a GTX 1080 Ti as a GTX 1080, and brand names from companies follow regular naming conventions that haven't changed in decades. But part of what makes this entire affair odd is the fact that Nvidia is killing the program in the first place.
Nvidia is no particular stranger to controversy, nor one to back away from a fight. Its GameWorks program, for example, has been controversial since its inception. Nvidia didn't back away from it. Patrick Moorehead, writing for Forbes, makes the point that he thinks NV killed the program for the right reason, because the negativity around the program constituted a distraction. He states, however, that he had absolutely no reason to believe that Nvidia had engaged in any kind of illegal activity. This may be true. But it doesn't explain the difference between Nvidia's typically pugnacious attitude and willingness to engage in behaviors the community finds controversial (GameWorks) and its willingness to cancel the GPP after a much smaller period of time.
It's possible that the GPU manufacturers themselves were sensitive to appearing to prioritize Nvidia over AMD, based on the way companies like MSI and Asus had stripped AMD cards of prominent branding and relegated them to second-class brands instead. But right now, Nvidia likely does dominate the high end of the market, which also makes this a bit less potent as far as an explanation.
I don't like ending on a lame note, but as of right now, that's where we are. Nvidia has never been a company to back down from a fight. It's never been one to shy away from strong competition or from aggressively positioning its products. It's not prima facie evident that any such arrangement with GPU manufacturers was illegal (what strikes someone as playing dirty and what's actually illegal aren't the same thing), and the idea that it just kinda quit a program it undoubtedly spent months designing and deploying seems an incomplete explanation at best. Nonetheless, for now, that's what we've got.


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Tom Cruise – Height, Weight, Age, Biography, Career, Lifestyle & More
Taara Kumar October 2, 2020
Tom Cruise – Height, Weight, Age, Biography, Career, Lifestyle. Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, also known as Tom Cruise, TC is an well known American/Hollywood Actor and Producer. Who entered the industry in the 1980s and became one of Hollywood's most popular leading men, known for his clean-cut good looks and versatility. Tom Cruise has established himself as one of the most popular and highest paid actor in the world.
Real Name Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
Nickname TC
Age (as of 2021)
Date of Birth July 3, 1962
Birthplace Syracuse, New York 55 Years
Currently Living In Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Profession Actor and Filmmaker,
Religion Scientology
Career started Film Debut – Endless Love
Zodiac / Star sign Cancer
Height (approx.) 170 cm 1.70 m or 5 foot 7 inch
Weight 68 kg or 150 lbs
Eye Color Dark Brown
Parents Thomas Mapother III
(Electrical engineer)
and Mary Lee Pfeiffer
Career and Lifestyle Info:
Tom Cruise was began his acting career at very young age of 19 with the English movie Endless Love released in 1981. After which Tom came into the spot light for starring in Top Gun as Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a role he will reprise in the upcoming sequel Top Gun: Maverick. Since 1996, Cruise has also been well known for his role as IMF agent Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible film series, whose sixth and latest installment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is scheduled for release on July 27th, 2018. In 2012, Cruise was Hollywood's highest-paid actor, with Cruise's films have grossed more than $3.7 billion at U.S. and Canadian box offices and more than $9.0 billion worldwide. Tom Cruise Net Worth is estimated to be in the region of $470 million. Cruise has nominated three times for the Academy Awards, and three times for the Golden Globe Awards.
Girlfriends Diane Cox (1980-1981)
Melissa Gilbert, Actress (1982)
Heather Locklear, Actress (1982)
Rebecca De Mornay, Actress
Patti Scialfa, Singer (1985)
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Star Talk: The Algonquin Pulsar Project
"The Algonquin Pulsar Project", with Professor Ue-Li Pen
Abstract: The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO), built in 1965, along with the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) are the first to achieve long baseline interferometry (VLBI), whereby two single-dish telescopes are combined to provide the same resolution as a telescope the size of Canada.
CITA, the Dunlap Institute, and the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics collectively have continued the Canadian VLBI tradition with a new program to conduct transnational interferometric observations of pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs). The former has been named "scintillometry," whose purpose is to utilize VLBI on earth in combination with scattering in the interstellar medium (ISM) to create an effective telescope size of ~astronomical unit to study pulsars and the intervening matter between us and them. The latter could provide the first ever spatial localization of FRBs.
Pulsar VLBI is located at the Algonquin Radio Observatory, which is visited frequently for data collection. The Crab pulsar will be studied using scintillometry techniques and VLBI. To obtain better images, one would need a telescope with a larger diameter. An easy way to increase diameter was to combine the signals from multiple telescopes using them as an interferometer thus creating VLBI. The data collected at Algonquin are synced up to data collected with other telescopes across the world. The radio waves that is emitted from the pulses propagate to telescopes on earth directly and indirectly via deflections on a scattering screen in the interstellar medium in space. The different paths interfere thus causing scintillation. By observing the scintillation with multiple telescopes on Earth, it is possible to estimate the pulsar's position with extremely high precision.
About the Speaker: Prof. Ue-Li Pen is a theoretical astrophysicist with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at U of T. He studies systems in which basic physical effects can be isolated from astronomical complexities. Current projects include the non-linear dynamics of the cosmic neutrino background, 21cm intensity mapping, pulsar VLBI scintillometry.
Prof. Pen strives to answer questions such as: What are the initial conditions for the universe? And how can we improve astrophysics measurement techniques by orders of magnitude to answer precise questions, e.g. neutrino mass, gravitational waves, pulsar emission?
He is deeply involved in Algonquin Radio Observatory VLBI, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, and the Murchison Widefield Array.
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Q: Como pasar una matriz de tamaño dinamico por argumento a otra funcion estoy haciendo una funcion que suma los elementos de la columna de una matriz, el problema es que en un menu ingreso la matriz y luego tengo que llamar a la funcion, así :
void matrix(){
    char** opciones = new char*[4];
    opciones[0] = "Sumar dos matrices";
    opciones[1] = "Multiplicar dos matrices";
    opciones[2] = "Sumar columna";
    opciones[3] = "Sumar fila";
    int opc;
    int f1;
    int c1;
    cout<<"Ingrese las filas de la matriz 1: ";
    cin>>f1;
    cout<<"Ingrese las columnas de la matriz 1: ";
    cin>>c1;
    int matrix1[f1][c1];
    for(int i=0;i<f1;i++){
        for(int j=0;j<c1;j++){
            cout<<"["<<i+1<<"],["<<j+1<<"] => ";
            cin>>matrix1[i][j];
        };
    };

    do{
        opc = menu(opciones, 4);
        switch( opc ){
            case 1: sumatrix(); break;
            case 2: multimatrix(matrix1); break;
            case 3: sumacolumna(); break;
            case 4: sumafila(); break;
        };
    }while(opc!=0);
};

En la parte de la opcion case 1, se supone deberia pasar el argumento asi:
case 1: sumatrix(matrix1); break;

Y en la funcion recibir el argumento asi:
    int** sumatrix(int** matrix1){
};

Pero me da varios errores y no me deja trabajar con esta, como hago, y tambien para pasar los valores f1 y c1 que los voy a necesitar dentro de la funcion
La matriz es de tamaño dinamico.

A: En C y en C++ las formaciones1 son convertibles implícitamente a punteros, el nombre de la formación será el puntero al primer elemento de la misma.
Así pues el nombre una formación de una dimensión tendrá como tipo "puntero al dato almacenado en la formación". En el caso de formaciones de dos dimensiones el tipo será doble puntero, es decir: "puntero a puntero al dato almacenado en la formación".
Si tu función sumatrix tiene esta firma:
int** sumatrix(int**)

Entonces tu variable matrix1, que es una formación de dos dimensiones, puede ser pasada a dicha función pues su nombre es un puntero a puntero a int.
Las formaciones requieren un tamaño conocido en tiempo de compilación.
Estás declarando matrix1 con dos tamaños que son recogidos en tiempo de ejecución:
int f1;
int c1;
cout<<"Ingrese las filas de la matriz 1: ";
cin>>f1;
cout<<"Ingrese las columnas de la matriz 1: ";
cin>>c1;
int matrix1[f1][c1];

Esto está prohibido en C y en C++ (¿tal vez son esos los errores que recibes?), si tu compilador lo acepta será por disponer de una extensión que hace que este código sea legal, pero no sería código estándar al ser una extensión de compilador y en consecuencia podría no funcionar en otros compiladores, no tener un comportamiento homogéneo en otros compiladores o dejar de funcionar en otra versión de tu mismo compilador. Lee estas preguntas para más información.
C++ no dispone de un mecanismo para crear formaciones 2D con memoria dinámica.
No es posible pedir una formación de dos dimensiones con memoria dinámica (new) y tu formación de dos dimensiones necesita alojarse en memoria dinámica porque su tamaño sólo es conocido en tiempo de ejecución, así que tu única opción es la siguiente:
int f1;
int c1;
cout<<"Ingrese las filas de la matriz 1: ";
cin>>f1;
cout<<"Ingrese las columnas de la matriz 1: ";
cin>>c1;
int *matrix1 = new int[f1 * c1];

Ésta es la manera correcta de crear una formación cuyo tamaño es conocido en tiempo de ejecución. Para obtener el elemento de la fila y y columna x deberíamos calcular su posición de la siguiente manera:

Índice del elemento = (y * lado) + x

Una función auxiliar puede ser útil:
int &elemento(int *&matrix, int ancho, int x, int y) {
    return matrix[(y * ancho) + x];
}

Entonces, todas las funciones que vayan a tratar con tus formaciones bidimensionales deberían recibir como parámetro el ancho (y según el caso también el alto) de la formación bidimensional.

*

*También conocidas como "arreglos", o en inglés "arrays".


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TV legends Gloria Hunniford and Jackie Fullerton on BBC licence fee controversy
This week's shock announcement has dealt a blow to many older people who reply on their TVs as a vital companion. Gloria Hunniford, Jackie Fullerton and Myra Vennard tell Stephanie Bell about their viewing over the years and how they feel about the controversial decision
Looking back: people gathered round watching TV from the street
Jackie Fullerton
Gloria Hunniford
Myra Vennard
By Stephanie Bell
The BBC's announcement that it is to make most over-75s pay the TV licence fee has caused a furious backlash this week with many of its own stars turning on the corporation.
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One presenter, Ben Fogle, has announced he is donating his entire year's salary from the BBC series Animal Park to Age UK which is campaigning against the changes.
Fogle said it is wrong to "penalise" the over-75s in this way. A petition against the proposals has also been launched on social media in Northern Ireland.
The BBC claims that it is the only way to avoid closing channels and making substantial cutbacks.
Millions of households will have to start paying £154.50 a year from June 2020 for the right to watch live television and access the BBC iPlayer service.
The BBC intends to continue to provide TV licences to over-75s who can provide evidence that they claim Pension Credit, a means-tested benefit designed to help older people.
Charities including Age UK, however, claim that some elderly viewers will be pushed into relative poverty by the decision, with concerns over whether older viewers will be able or willing to prove they are receiving benefits.
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It is also feared that it could result in the criminal prosecution of elderly people who do not pay or are not able to pay.
As the furore continues, some of our best-known over-75s talk about what TV means to them and share fond memories of their early years when not everyone was blessed to have a TV in their home.
'It is very shabby treatment of vulnerable people'
Retired BBC NI sports editor, Jackie Fullerton (76) lives in Ballymena with wife Linda (74), a retired school teacher. A former Irish league footballer, Jackie played for Ballymena United, Cliftonville, Derry City and Crusaders before starting his career in TV sports reporting in 1973.
Like most people Jackie is outraged at the news that free TV licences are to be taken from the over-75s.
He says: "I think it is a very poor decision and a very hurtful one. Elderly people have paid their dues with their taxes and national insurance throughout their lives. It is very shabby treatment of people who are vulnerable and it will hit so many people financially.
"Television is a boost for elderly people and I think it is nonsense and cruel to take the licence away.
"The government has made such a mess of Brexit and it makes you wonder what our politicians are doing and if they have any thought at all about the people they represent."
Perhaps unsurprisingly one of Jackie's biggest memories of TV from his childhood is watching Northern Ireland qualify for the World Cup in Sweden in 1958.
Jackie, who still commentates for the BBC, says TV has always - and still does - play a big part in his life. He estimates he watches between five and six hours of TV a day, adding up to around 35 to 40 hours a week.
He recalls: "I grew up at a time when the BBC had all the big sporting contracts and now the whole landscape has changed with Sky Sport and BT Sport.
"Television was invaluable over the years and I will never forget watching Northern Ireland qualify for the next round of the World Cup. We watched it on a grainy 14-inch black and white TV and we were all so proud of being able to do so.
"I grew up in a housing estate in Ballymena. My dad was a postman and my mum worked in Gallagher's factory and I remember cutting ads out of the newspapers for renting TVs and showing it to them.
"It cost around 2 (old shillings) and 11 pence a week for our 14-inch screen - or 3 and 6 pence for a 17-inch which was a gigantic screen back then as most were 12 or 14 inches. They couldn't afford it but they did eventually get one and of course your next step after that was to get a colour TV."
As well as watching all the sports, among his fondest memories as a child are old western movies and in particular, The Lone Ranger.
He says: "All the entertainment programmes we had were a joy and British people of my vintage were brought up with a superb service of sport, current affairs and entertainment and we have now got used to that.
"I loved and still do love old westerns and black and white movies, there is still a real charm about them."
Like many people, Jackie's evenings revolve around his favourite TV programmes.
He and his wife are not big daytime viewers, but enjoy settling down before the teatime news to watch the game show Tipping Point and quiz show The Chase.
Jackie watches the local teatime news on UTV and then catches it again on the BBC at 6.30pm.
He is also a big fan of comedy, but detests reality TV.
"I love Frasier, which is about an American psychiatrist, and would try and catch the old westerns as well as, of course, a good diet of sport.
"My wife loves factual programmes like The Yorkshire Vet which I have been watching with her and it's very good. She also loves GPs Behind Closed Doors.
"She doesn't watch soaps or stuff like that, she likes real TV.
"I don't really watch local political shows as, like a lot of people in Northern Ireland, I am fed up with local politics. We still like our news though and most evenings will watch Tipping Point and The Chase before the news.
"I usually sit down between seven and eight and watch Mash, the comedy about an American army hospital, and that gives me a belly laugh.
"I then have a break for an hour and from 9pm until 10.30pm I will watch Taggart, a police detective series and from 10.30pm to midnight I might watch another Taggart."
'Where poverty begins and ends is not BBC's decision'
Broadcast journalist and presenter Gloria Hunniford (79) spends most of her time making TV, but when at home in Kent with husband Stephen Way, she enjoys watching a mix of news, entertainment and documentaries.
Gloria's very first memory of TV was watching the Queen's Coronation in 1953 in a neighbour's house in Portadown.
She recalls: "The first TV I ever saw was in a neighbour's house on the Armagh Road in Portadown. Her name was Mrs McCracken and she was the first person I knew who owned a TV.
"I remember asking her if I could be there to see the coronation and I was first in the line as everyone wanted to go. On a Saturday night I would tap on her door and ask if I could come in and watch Come Dancing.
"I was a singer in those days and it wasn't so much about the show as the dresses. I couldn't believe the dresses with their thousands of diamantes and sequins and all I could afford at the time was about a dozen of them round the neckline of my dresses."
Gloria, who grew up in a two-up two-down terrace house, was around 13 when her parents got their first TV.
She remembers it vividly: "It was this tiny little TV but it was the best thing ever. To have our own TV was just amazing. I remember I loved watching Little Women every Sunday as a young girl and I used to cry at it and tell everyone in the family to stop looking at me. I still love the book.
"We all watched the London Palladium on a Saturday night. I remember my dad loved it and the formation of all the dancers and how high they could kick their legs. It left such an impression.
"We liked entertainment programmes as my dad was a magician at nights but now, because of my job, I mainly watch the news."
As a panellist on the popular daytime show Loose Women, which regularly has guest stars from the soaps, Gloria likes to keep abreast of the plots by dipping in and out of Coronation Street and EastEnders.
Her schedule doesn't allow for watching much TV though as her days can be long and busy with early 4.30am starts to get to the studio in London for Loose Women, usually not returning home until 7pm.
She says: "I love Strictly Come Dancing on a Saturday night and I enjoyed Britain's Got Talent - it was very amusing and I loved the pensioner from Chelsea who won it, and can't wait to see him on the Royal Variety Show."
One routine that she does stick to is watching the 10 o'clock news every night and, when she can, she enjoys watching breakfast TV, again to catch up on current affairs.
She reckons that she watches around two hours of TV every day and when at home enjoys sitting down with her husband to watch The Chase quiz show. "We like playing along although I don't get to watch it all the time," she says.
Gloria has been vocal this week about the proposals to scrap the free TV licence for over-75s.
"All I want to say is that I don't believe it is the BBC's job to decide where poverty begins and ends, it is the government's job."
'Many pensioners are poor but not on pension credits'
Myra Vennard (89), from Ballycastle, is the author of three poetry books, Easter Saturday, Blind Angel and Soul Station. A winner of a Belfast Telegraph Women in the Arts award, Myra has two children, Deirdre (62) and Paul (54) as well as five grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She lost her husband, Norman, in 1979 and has lived alone ever since.
Even though she doesn't watch a lot of TV she feels the new proposals to stop giving free licences to the over-75s is unfair.
She will herself be exempt because she is on pensions credit but she knows that a lot of pensioners who are entitled don't claim credits - an issue raised by charities this week.
She says: "It is quite bad they are going to take the licence away. A lot of pensioners are poor and not even claiming pension credits and I think that's a shame and something that needs to be addressed."
Televisions were unheard of when Myra was growing up and her very first TV was bought after she got married in 1953 so that she and her husband could watch live coverage of the Queen's Coronation.
She says: "I remember televisions were very expensive and it wasn't until I got married that I got my first TV when Norman and I bought one for the coronation. It was one of those little TVs with the thick front and big back. Growing up there was no such thing as TVs but I do remember in my teens my father making one. He was an electrician and apparently it was possible for electricians to do this and he made one and I can't remember what it looks like but I do remember bragging about it.
"The Queen's Coronation was a big thing and people met in each other's houses to watch it and have a party.
"I don't remember the names of TV shows that I would have watched back then but I do recall watching Val Doonican, who was an Irish crooner, and some quiz shows.
"Looking back now it was a bit of a novelty but there was a lot of rubbish on too - that's not to say that there is no rubbish on now!"
When her daughter, Deirdre, came along in 1955 and her son, Paul, nine years later, Myra recalls that what little children's programmes were on at the time proved a great relief for her as a busy mum. She says: "I remember the children's programmes Andy Pandy and The Wooden Tops. There weren't many programmes for children but they were a Godsend, just being able to set the children down in front of them. My daughter in particular really liked the children's programmes."
Myra still writes most days and never switches her television on during the day, preferring to listen to BBC Radio 3 instead.
Some days she will tune in early afternoon to watch Escape to the Country but most days she switches her TV on at 6pm for the evening news.
After that she will tune in to her favourite channel, BBC4, to see what historical programmes are on. She says: "I don't watch any TV in the morning or any of the afternoon quiz shows. I like factual programmes and I love catching old black and white movies from the 50s on Talking Pictures.
"My favourite channel is BBC4 because it has historical programmes and I also like anything to do with art.
"I like programmes that you get a message from, something that fires the imagination and I love music, mostly classical.
"I go to bed most nights around 9.30 and read for an hour."
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Early on the third morning of the programme, we set out for whatever venue we are visiting. These venues include Kaingaroa Forest Village, Te Whaiti and Minginui, Ruatahuna, Ruatoria, Ranana, all across the central North Island. Our visits to Waitaruke and Pawarenga in the far North mean that we meet in Auckland and travel from there. Fr David Gledhill sm has been instrumental in introducing us to most of these communities, and he continues to provide valuable support and instruction to our groups.
We chose these communities because first and foremost they provide us with a cross-cultural experience. Most of them are materially poor, but our students soon find out that material poverty does not necessarily mean poverty of spirit. However, our students also experience, first hand, the dysfunction, and sometimes violence, that accompanies systemic poverty. They see the lack of opportunity for on-going education, the lack of jobs, the dependence on benefits, and all the social difficulties that these conditions foster. Almost without exception, the students and teachers are shocked that these conditions exist at our own back door.
Our earliest intentions for Young Marist Neighbours were that we go to these places and offer some sort of material service by way of some project or other, but it soon became clear that what the people in the villages craved was someone from outside to spend quality time with their young people. We call it 'the ministry of being,' and most of our time in the villages is spent interacting in a variety of ways with the children and adolescents, sometimes at the school, sometimes at the likes of the local swimming hole, and sometimes on excursions around the local area. Even though we take different students from our schools every time, relationships with the local communities have gradually become very strong. Many of our students who have been on Young Marist Neighbours maintain the contacts they make by return visits to the villages, and by social media.
There are enormous mutual benefits from Young Marist Neighbours. The people in the small and isolated communities value our visits, and the fact that we keep coming back. The visits are a highlight for their young people. Our own students come away changed. For most of them, their experience leads to a much more reflective approach to their own privilege, to their own use of money and resources, and to the difference between "want" and "need." For a significant number of students, the Young Marist Neighbours experience has helped chart courses of tertiary study, and even, for some, the future direction of their lives.
Through the generosity of our Network schools, we have been able to respond to requests from some communities to help children from the villages to attend boarding schools and further their secondary education with the intention of moving on to university. Many of the groups who have participated in Young Marist Neighbours have raised money to help the village schools purchase computers, sports equipment, art resources and the like.
A network of Young Leaders has helped with the presentation of this programme from the beginning. They are university students and they volunteer their holiday time, placing huge value on the experience of leading our school students, as well as forming lasting realtionships with the village families. Some of these Young Leaders, now young professionals, have formed a charitable trust, called The Young Neighbours Trust, which is able to provide further scholarship help for children from the villages to attend secondary boarding schools. The Young Neighbours Trust is also supporting volunteers on a Mission Year experience, living at Te Whaiti and working with the school students at Te Whaiti, Minginui, Murupara and Kaingaroa Forest.
The final night of Young Marist Neighbours is spent back at Hato Paora College. The students reflect on their experience, write a summary of it in response to some questions, and then share their responses with the whole group. This process underlines the fact that the Young Marist Neighbours experience is firmly rooted in reflection and prayer. It has helped many students reignite the practice of their faith, and we have all experienced, time and again, the Holy Spirit speaking loudly and clearly through the people we have met and the events we have encountered.


Let me try to sum it up simply, in two words.
Yes, the characters do belong to you, but just wait. Soon they'll start developing their own brains. Their own personalities. Their own way of doing things.
And sometimes, you may just be wondering if you're even the author at all.
Your main male protagonist, who had been perfectly well behaved up until chapter 22, may just start rebelling. "Yes, you remember me? You amputated my leg in chapter 10! I'll never forgive you for that!" Soon the other characters will join in, waving signs of protest and going on strike.
This, I think, is what is more formally known as writer's block.
Characters simply won't obey. This point has been proven to me time and time again. The other night was the most recent evidence of this, when a character showed up in my brain waving a rather large sign. "HELLO! My name is Beckett! I will be appearing in your next story, so just deal with it."
Yep, you guessed it. He is now in my story.
I've been thinking... maybe it isn't a bad thing when characters don't obey. Maybe it's a good thing.
And maybe, it just means that we're doing a good job with them.
On a more personal note, I have now decided to take a break from my NaNo novel, Silver Tears. It's not that I don't like the novel anymore, and I fully intend to finish it. I'm just having a hard time connecting, and my inspiration has completely run dry.
So, I have a new novel. This one started itself and I really need to find its plot. And yes, Beckett is in said novel. Now it's just a matter of finding out where this novel is taking me.
Oh, I can totally relate. I was just wondering today what I could do to coax my unmanageable characters into doing what I wanted...needless to say I check blogger and started to read you post. They just laughed at me in victory...they win. All the time.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and give my best regards to Beckett.
OH MY WORD; this is exactly how I feel! I try and tell my Mom, but she doesn't quite get it. I must now print this out and show it to her. This is just - so - YES!!!
Yet again, I know exactly how you feel! Characters can by tricksy, unmanageable, and...uncontrollable in more ways than one. I used to think it was my plot, but no. My characters just don't want to suffer what I ha(d) in store for them!
P.S. I love your blog, especially the name. And--look--I think I can claim the prize of 100th follower! Special, aye?


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Q: convolution operation The convolution operation is stated below

and is equivalent to

Now, lets say we have 2 functions namely x(t) and u1(t). If we  convolve the x(t) with u1(t) where u1(t) is the unit doublet function, the behavior of the output becomes
x'(t) = x(t)  ※ u1(t)
we can seee that everytime we convolve an input function (which is x(t)) with the unit doublet, the output is the derivative of the input function which is x'(t).
Now, according here

The question remains, why is that the integrals above are equated to -g'(t) and not g'(-t)
Reference: http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic133182.files/5-singular_func.pdf page 4, number 2

A: The integrals should be equal to $-g'(-t)$, which does not change the next results when setting $t=0$.
$$
    \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}x(t-\tau)u_1(\tau)\mathrm{d}\tau=(x*u_1)(t)=x'(t)=-g'(-t)
$$


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Q: git bisect says Bisecting: a merge base must be tested I did a git bisect and got the result
Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
[bbdaf1111eea5365c0c94d6045d6263aab718925] Fix display bug with main-stage

How can I proceed?

A: Let it run, it's normal if there are merges on the path that has to be bisected.

A: This will happen if the given good and bad revision are not direct descendants of each other.
Let's assume a repository like this (using exemplary names for the commits):
* dffa2 good-commit
* b38f4 a2
* cc19f a1
| * d1f17 bad-commit
| * fbd1f b2
| * f66cc b1
|/
* 09f66 merge-base-commit

What "merge base" means
As the message uses the term "merge base", it might be helpful to understand that term to understand the message. A "merge base" of two or more commits is the latest commit which is a parent of all of those commits.
Therefore if those commits would be merged, all changes between the "merge base" and those commits will be merged together. Every commit which is a parent of "merge base" is not relevant to the merge, it already is a parent of all involved commits.
Understanding the bisect
The described message will happen in a case like this:
$ git bisect start
$ git bisect good good-commit
$ git bisect bad bad-commit
Bisecting: a merge base must be tested
[09f66] merge-base-commit

What bisecting does is to find the commit which introduced a problem (leading to a bad state), which in this case could lead to a problem:
Bug was not introduced between good-commit and bad-commit
Assume that the error existed in merge-base-commit. In this case it will not be possible to find the commit that introduced the bug in the difference between good-commit and bad-commit. Instead one of the commits a1, a2 and good-commit solves the problem, which is exactly what will happen if you decide the merge base to be bad:
$ git bisect bad
The merge base merge-base-commit is bad.
This means the bug has been fixed between 09f66 and [dffa2].

Problem was introduced between merge-base-commit and bad-commit
On the other hand if the merge base is good, the problem was introduced in b1, b2 or bad-commit. bisect will then continue between merge-base-commit and bad-commit, picking the commit in the middle between those commits and testing if that one is good:
$ git bisect good
Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 1 step)
[fbd1f] b2

A: You just need to tell git bisect if this is a good commit or a bad commit - the "test" in question is you testing your code for the bug/feature you are trying to find.
You can do
git bisect good

or
git bisect bad

to continue.


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If you're getting older and creakier -- which will pretty much be the case for all of us at some point -- you may be wondering what you can do to stave off the joint pain and reduced mobility that seem to be nearly inevitable byproducts of aging. Someone -- a friend, an infomercial -- might have mentioned a pill called MSM.
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Tech Money Is Gradually Destroying San Francisco's Black Community
Max Cherney,
The oldest independent black bookstore in the US, which was located in San Francisco's Fillmore District, has become the latest collateral damage of the tech boom and is said to be the latest symbol of the black community's decline in the Bay Area.
Marcus Books' eviction from its Fillmore Street location — designated a historical landmark — was a devastating blow to an already decimated black community in San Francisco, which has been "displaced and dislocated" by government redevelopment projects and the high cost of housing, according to Reverend Amon Brown, president of the NAACP's San Francisco chapter.
"It's death in slow motion of the black community, the Reverend told VICE News over the phone. "Marcus Bookstore was one of the premier cultural and political institutions."
While Silicon Valley's billionaires aren't directly responsible for evicting Marcus Books — the property on which the bookstore sat is owned by local realtors Nishan and Suhaila Sweis — skyrocketing real estate prices are largely due to the immense amount of new wealth created for some by the boom.
"In the last 18 months to two years, there's been an enormous amount of high tech money coming in [to purchase property] — Facebook, Twitter, and Google, among others," according to real estate agent Bob Wheeler.
Tech companies have also made it more desirable to own property in San Francisco, according to Wheeler, by providing free shuttle service to and from Silicon Valley — long a symbol of the industry's hubris.
If you look at the economics of it, Airbnb is ruining your life. Or, at least, your chances at a lasting life in the city. Read more here.
The current owners of the building, the Sweis family, originally asked for $3.6 million when Marcus Books' ownership tried purchase it.
While the Sweis family eventually buckled to pressure from city officials and community organizations to help the black institution survive, they were only willing drop the price to $2.6 million — well above the $1.85 million in financing Marcus Books organized.
Ultimately the bookstore was evicted after it missed a "couple" of rent payments.
"Materialism rules the day," the bookstore's owners wrote in an open letter following the eviction, "That is not news. More often than not, we take it for granted that the 'bottom line' is the only line worth respecting, though it respects no one. This is a common conception, but not right."
The Sweis family bought the building for $1.59 million in 2013 after PLM Lender, a bank, foreclosed on the property. The Fillmore Street location was never listed as "for sale" in a large, commonly used national realtor's database called Multiple Listing Services, according to Wheeler.
The bookstore owners said there was only one bidder in the "auction."
A similar property a few doors up the street from Marcus Books sold for $1.486 million back in 2004, when the market was considerably more depressed than it is now, Wheeler said. "Now is a great time to be a seller."
The Sweis family and PLM Lender did not return repeated phone calls from VICE News requesting comment.
Reverend Brown and other African-Americans VICE News spoke with said that they don't blame the tech industry outright — or its staggering lack of workplace diversity — for black flight from San Francisco that's been underway for years. But Brown and others see the industry as yet another example of wealth with no moral and social responsibility to the community.
"[The tech industry] ignores us, we're an invisible people," the Reverend said.
The decline in the black population in San Francisco has been gradual and drastic — mirroring what has been happening in other urban black communities, said documentary filmmaker and San Francisco native Kevin Epps. Back in 1970, 13.4 percent of San Francisco was black, and in 2010 that number has dropped to 3.9 percent, according to US Census data.
"People of color are just not wanted in this city," said Epps.
Since the so-called "urban renewal" projects in the 1950s and 1960s, which resulted in thousands of blacks loosing their homes, other factors for black flight include high crime rates in black neighborhoods, substandard public housing, and dissatisfaction with public schools, a USA Today report concluded.
Marcus Books itself opened in 1960 at another location, and was lifted off its foundation and moved to Fillmore Street by members of the community, which wished to save it from demolition by the city's redevelopment agency, according to city documents.
Since its opening, the bookstore has hosted events and readings involving some of the world's most notable black personalities, artists and leaders such as Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Earth Wind and Fire, and Oprah Winfrey.
"Marcus Books was an institution," said Hugh Gregory also known as HughEMC said. "They were always open to community gatherings… I would just spend time in there, it was like going to the library full of books about my heritage and history that no one else did."
The bookstore's Oakland location remains open, but as an elderly Fillmore resident remarked while sitting outside the shop, "How am I going to go to Oakland?"
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Selena Gomez Says She 'Personally' Reached Out to Demi Lovato After Her Apparent Overdose
By Rachel McRady 6:27 AM PDT, September 4, 2018
Selena Gomez is finally breaking her silence on her friend, Demi Lovato.
In the October issue of Elle, Gomez talks briefly about Lovato, who was briefly hospitalized and is now in a treatment facility following an apparent overdose in July. The interview took place just six days after the news broke, and Elle contributor Mickey Rapkin notes that Gomez was visibly choked up when speaking about her friend.
"All I'm saying is, I reached out to her personally," Gomez tells the magazine. "I didn't do a public thing. I didn't want to. I… I love her. I've know her since I was seven. So… it's… that's what I'll say."
Lovato and Gomez, both 26, grew up together on Barney and Friends before transitioning into teen Disney stars. Though they've had their ups and downs, they reunited last October at the InStyle Awards after publicly praising each other on social media.
Gomez recently took a step back from the spotlight to focus on herself and prepare for her next album, which will be out later this year.
Mariano Vivanco/Elle
"Right now, I feel very sure of where I am. I don't feel erratic or emotionally unstable," she says. "Or, like, I can't handle my emotions like I used to. It's kind of understanding myself a little more. By all means I don't have myself figured out. But it feels good."
Gomez goes on to play Rapkin a few songs off her upcoming album, and fans are sure to speculate the tracks are about her ex, Justin Bieber, who recently got engaged to Hailey Baldwin.
Ripkin reports the first song she plays for him is about cutting a man out of her life after "1,460 days" and "cleaning my slate."
"Without you,I don't overthink it," she croons. "I'm drunk and I might as well tell you. Get you ooh ooh ooh out of my head now."
She then describes another song on the album, "Flawless," as "meaning through all of your imperfections, you're flawless."
"You're not striving. It's me encouraging a younger version of myself," she continues. "Even when you're imperfect, even when you're feeling worthless, you are flawless. It's a song I'm going to sing for the rest of my life."
Gomez wows in the stunning outdoor shoot for Elle, showing a new confidence. The October issue of the magazine hits newsstands on Sept. 25.
For more on Gomez's focus, check out this video:
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'Queer Eye' Star Karamo Brown Offers Best Advice for Demi Lovato's Recovery
Demi Lovato's Sister Madison De La Garza Shares Emotional Birthday Post to Singer Following Apparent Overdose
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Gipsum History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Gipsum is one of the names derived from the families of the ancient Dalriadan clans of Scotland. It is derived from the given name Gibb, which is a diminutive form of the name Gilbert. [1]
Early Origins of the Gipsum family
The surname Gipsum was first found in Galloway (Gaelic: Gall-ghaidhealaibh), an area of southwestern Scotland, now part of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway, that formerly consisted of the counties of Wigtown (West Galloway) and Kirkcudbright (East Galloway), where they held a family seat from very early times.
Descended from a chieftain, Gilbert, probably Gilbert, Lord of Galloway, the Gibsons settled first at Lennox in Scotland, and in those early times was a formidable force to be encountered. The first official mention was when John Gibson surrendered the Castle of Rothesay in 1335. A few years later, Thomas Gibbeson was charged with breaking parole in 1358; and John Gybbessone was listed as a servitor of William Douglas when he was held hostage by Henry Vi in 1425.[1]
Later a branch of the family were well established in the sea-port and ancient burgh of barony of Levin in Fifeshire. "This place, which is agreeably situated on the sea-shore at the mouth of the river whence it takes its name, was erected into a burgh of barony by charter of the proprietor of the lands of Durie, now belonging to the Christies, but once in the possession of the family of Gibson, whose descendants, the lords Durie, are distinguished in Scottish history." [2]
Important Dates for the Gipsum family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Gipsum research. Another 153 words (11 lines of text) covering the years 1603, 1600, 1615, 1690, 1637, 1717, 1696, 1698, 1702 and are included under the topic Early Gipsum History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Gipsum Spelling Variations
Spelling in the medieval era was a highly imprecise process. Translation, particularly from Gaelic to English, was little better. For these reasons, early Scottish names are rife with spelling variations. In various documents Gipsum has been spelled Gibson, Gibsone, Gibsons, Gipson, Gibsoun, Gipsone, Gibbson, Gibbsone, Gippson and many more.
Early Notables of the Gipsum family (pre 1700)
Notable amongst the Clan from early times was Richard Gibson (1615-1690), known as "Dwarf Gibson", a painter of portrait miniatures and a court dwarf in England during the reigns of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, Charles II...
Another 36 words (3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Gipsum Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Migration of the Gipsum family to Ireland
Some of the Gipsum family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Migration of the Gipsum family
The hardy Scots who made the crossing settled all along the east coast of North America and in the great west that was just then opening up. At the time of the American War of Independence, many United Empire Loyalists moved north from the American colonies to Canada. Scottish national heritage became better known in North America in the 20th century through highland games and other patriotic events. An examination of immigration records and passenger ship lists revealed that people bearing the name Gipsum arrived in North America very early: Ann Gibson who settled in New England in 1635; Edward Gibson settled in Virginia in 1637; they also settled in Pennsylvania, New York, and Maryland in the 19th century. George Gibson settled in Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia in 1774. In Newfoundland, Thomas Gibson settled in Tilton Harbour in 1823.
^ Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
^ Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Gipsum (Scottish)