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Lambrusco is definitly the top quality wine in southern Mantuan Po. Here it finds its greatest expression thanks to clavey grounds, rich in moisture. From Ruberti to Maestri, getting through Salamino and Marani, every current Lambrusco variety is controlled by a set of rules careful to terroir, for the benefit of unique and prestigious wines. In 1987 Lambrusco got the registered designation of origin (DOC), thanks to passion and professionalismof Mantuan vine-dressers.
Mantua is the cradle of these vineyards and age-old traditions: find out here our origins and some news about Mantuan recipes and customs.
This traditional Mantuan cake, also known as "torta con l'uva" or cake with grapes, is made in autumn during the period of the grape harvest.
In fact, the preparation of the Buffetta cake requires both the red and white grapes that are picked in the Mantuan countryside between September and October.
A traditional recipe of the Mantuan Oltrepò area that consists of pressed grapes and filtered grape must mixed with white flour and boiled until becoming a sort of custard that melts in your mouth. It is delicious to eat both hot, freshly made, and cold, to serve as an alternative dessert at the end of the meal.
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Оста́п Іва́нович Каратни́цький (псевдо «Морський»; 30 серпня 1908, с. Явче, нині Рогатинський район, Івано-Франківська область — 1945, біля села Танява, Болехівська міська рада, Івано-Франківська область) — заступник командира Воєнної округи УПА «Маківка».

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Народився 30 серпня 1908 року в селі Явче (тепер Рогатинський район, Івано-Франківська область).

Пластун стрийського 5 куреня ім. князя Ярослава Осмомисла, 2 куреня УСП загону «Червона Калина».

У 1927 році закінчив Стрийську гімназію, з того ж року в складі 2-го куреню старших пластунів «Червона калина», тоді ж до куреню вступили Степан Бандера, Ярослав Падох — «Босняк», Ярослав Рак — «Мортик», Осип Тюшка — «Пінка», Богдан Чехут — «Марко», Роман Щуровський — «Щур», Степан Янів — «Комар».

Член ОУН з початку 1930-х; член обласного проводу ОУН Дрогобиччини.

У вересні 1933 року був арештований польською владою за «шкільну акцію» на Стрийщині, тоді ж були арештовані Олександр Гасин, Петро Мірчук, Володимир Тимчій, Микита Опришко.

Чотовий старшинської школи «Олені» − 1944, заступник командира Воєнної Округи УПА «Маківка», керівниками відділів були Олександр Андрусейко-«Аркадій», Юрко Гасин-«Строюк» та Адам Куровицький-«Сірий».

Станом на осінь 1944 року був організаційним референтом Стрийського надрайонового проводу ОУН — про це зазначала Козак-Савицька Ірина.

В протоколі допиту Тетяни Сидоренко, датованому 17 грудня 1945 року відзначається, що станом на серпень 1945-го Дрогобицьким обласним провідником був підпільник «Морський», в партійних документах того часу він зазначається Стрийським окружним провідником.

Після його загибелі окружним провідником Дрогобиччини був Іван Лаврів-«Нечай», «Мирон».

Посилання
 Пластовий портал
 Кадрове наповнення Дрогобицького окружного проводу ОУН, 1945—1952
 Ув'язнення і засуди 1933—1934

Уродженці Явчого
Пластуни
Діячі ОУН
Випускники Стрийської гімназії
Вояки Української повстанської армії
Персоналії:Стрий
Персоналії:Дрогобич
Померли 1945

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Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who flirted with a presidential run briefly last year, is getting active in supporting Florida Republicans running for re-election this year.
Bolton announced today his political action committee, known as the John Bolton PAC, is contributing $10,000 to Marco Rubio's Senate campaign, and $5,000 to Congressman Ron Desantis' bid for re-election to Florida's 6th Congressional District. He endorsed them both last month.
With these contributions, Bolton's PAC has now contributed $377,000 and endorsed 50 candidates in the 2016 cycle. He created the PAC in 2014 to help more hawkish candidates who emphasize national security in their campaign platforms.
Both candidates are running in contested GOP primaries next month. though Rubio is crushing his lone GOP opponent — Carlos Beruff — in every poll taken since that race was reduced to two candidates.


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Facebook's new Oversight Board is a wild new experiment in platform governance
November 8, 2020 November 5, 2020 myfmstationcom
Two and a half years after Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea on a podcast, and several months after organizers said it would be ready to hear cases, Facebook's independent Oversight Board is now up and running. In a call with reporters today, the board's co-chairs said that they are now prepared to hear appeals from the billions of people who use Facebook and Instagram each day. The ability to appeal to the board will roll out gradually around the world over the next several weeks. And when it's complete, one of the bolder experiments in platform governance will have finally begun.
Let's begin by taking a step back. One of the more striking things about our social networks, I have argued, is how terrible they are at customer service. If your post is taken down in error, or your account is suspended for unclear reasons, or you are banned and lose access to all of your data, historically you have had almost no recourse whatsoever. You fill out a form, you send it in, you pray. Maybe your prayer will be answered; more likely it will not be. Tech journalists might be more sensitive to this problem than almost anyone else: each day, our inboxes fill up with anguished requests from users of YouTube and Twitter and Instagram who find their posts blocked or their accounts banned. We can almost never help them.
In the early days of social networks, this did not seem to be of particular concern to the tech companies themselves. Good customer service eats away at profit margins, and executives were convinced that most of it could be effectively automated anyway. But as the platforms grew into monoliths, to the point that even the slightest change to the user interface draws angry Congressional inquiries, the question of tech power has come to feel more urgent.
The questions of power have come to feel particularly acute on questions of speech. This is especially true at Facebook, where the founder CEO has majority control of voting shares and lacks any real check on his power. When a high-profile and thorny issue of speech arises — as it did several times this summer — it lands at Zuckerberg's feet, for him to make the final call. Given Facebook's vast size, this setup has ensured that at any given time, millions of people are angry at him and at Facebook for deciding against them. It has also ensured that, aside from complain, they can't do anything about it.
What the Oversight Board now promises is — well, what if they could?
When it's fully operational, you will have the ability to appeal a Facebook content moderation decision to an independent body, with the company honor-bound (if not legally required) to accept its decisions. For starters, you will only be able to appeal when you believe your post has been wrongfully removed; eventually, you'll be able to appeal when you believe a post has wrongfully been allowed to stand. And starting now — ahead of the November 3 US presidential election — Facebook will also be able to refer policy issues to the board and receive advisory opinions on what to do.
All of this has been a significant undertaking. Facebook placed $130 million into an irrevocable trust to fund the board's operations, and for its initial members recruited a former prime minister, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, constitutional law scholars and human rights advocates.
There has also been the technical work. Facebook built software that will let it transfer cases to the board in a way that protects users' privacy, and a case management tool that lets board members choose cases to review, examine outside opinions on the cases and other supplementary materials, and to deliberate with their peers. (The board will eventually have 40 members, but individual cases will be heard by a small panel.)
It has taken more time than Facebook once hoped. And the pandemic hasn't helped — Facebook had to scrap plans to get board members together for in-person training on the new system. But Brent Harris, Facebook's head of governance, told me in an interview yesterday that the company had moved a quickly as it could.
"From January 1, we have been in institution-building mode," he said. "I'm not sure how many institutions in 10 months have actually gotten to a spot where they were then ready to take on a responsibility like this — to take appeals from 2 billion people around the world. So we actually think that we've moved pretty fast on this one."
At the same time, Facebook and the board have come in for criticism for failing to get to work before voting began in the US election. In September, a group of vocal Facebook critics announced they were forming a rival organization, confusingly titled the Real Oversight Board, to begin issuing immediate opinions on what Facebook ought to do. (The gist was that Facebook should take a lot of things down.)
In any case: the board is here, and I'm glad. But it can all feel a little anticlimactic, mostly because so many of my big questions about the board remain unanswered.
On a call with the board's co-chairs this morning, I asked how many cases it expects to hear. Will it select a handful each year, like the US Supreme Court, or will it be set up to process more? (It has more than four times as many "justices" as the Supreme Court, but is serving more than 10 times as many "citizens.")
"It's a good question — and one that I think we will be developing over time as we see what the volume of cases that are appealed might be, and as we further develop and refine our case selection procedures," said Jamal Greene, the board's co-chairman.
Board members made it clear that, while the board can move quickly should it choose to do so, for the most part it won't. Facebook will continue to moderate the vast majority of all content on its platform, and to hear the first round of user appeals itself. The Oversight Board will hear only a small fraction of cases beyond that. But if the company or the board have any idea how many appeals they'll get, they're not saying. (I asked people at both.)
"Facebook was always criticized for moving fast and breaking things," said Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the former prime minister of Denmark and board co-chairwoman. "I think we are looking at the opposite — we want to look at quality, and look at how we are here for the long term, rather than to move quickly and be under a lot of time pressure."
The idea is that the board will pick representative cases — ones that will set precedents and cause Facebook to update its policies. If the board had existed when photos of breastfeeding were a big controversy, you can imagine it taking one case in which a user's photo had been removed and making the case that Facebook should be more permissive, causing it to relax its policies around the world.
Embedded in the Oversight Board is the idea that an entity as large as Facebook ought to have something resembling a justice system. I'm pressing it on how many cases it might hear because I want to know how much justice we can expect from it.
I'm confident that Facebook will use it as a kind of release valve for some of the trickiest policy decisions that it faces. And I'm sure the board will provide thoughtful guidance on a wide range of issues and individual cases where Facebook has erred. I'm less confident that the board can make Facebook feel more just to the average person — the one who logs on to find that their business's page has been removed, or account has been suspended, or post has been put behind a warning screen. Customer service issues are on some level about justice, but that's not the kind of justice that the board is set up to provide.
Still: I'm optimistic. For all its faults, the board still represents an unprecedented move to devolve some of a tech giant's power back to the people that, on some level, it represents. Yes, it will serve to give Facebook public-relations cover during controversies. But it also enshrines the principle that citizens of a platform have a right to redress their grievances. However much justice the board offers them in the future will likely be more than they are getting today.
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The Top 5 Best NFT Memes Which Sold for Thousands of Dollars
By Christopher Fowler
Viral memes have been forever immortalized on the internet. The good news is that gone are the days when their heartwarming, funny, or sarcastic content took over the interwebs without being consummately rewarded. In 2022, blockchain technology is behind the sharp rise of NFT memes, where viral memes and videos have been sold in leading marketplaces for tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. The trend will only continue rising. As more NFT memes are sold for big money, artists will be inspired to release even more viral memes in a virtuous circle as a more robust NFT meme marketplace is built. The foundation has already been set with these top five NFT memes:
Charlie Bit My Finger
"Charlie Bit My Finger" is a short funny video of a young toddler, Charlie Davies-Carr, nibbling on his brother's finger, Harry, and laughing. It was a homemade clip uploaded on YouTube in 2007, growing to be one of the first truly viral memes garnering over 900 million views. The video was sold for $760,999 as an NFT in May 2021 and afterward pulled down by YouTube. However, the original copies of the video are still in circulation.
Success Kid
When a professional photographer took a picture of her then 11-month-old baby, Sammy Grinner, in August 2007, clenching his fist full of sand with a determined face of triumph, and uploaded it to Flickr, she didn't know that the picture would be an internet sensation. Sammy's photo went viral, rebranded as the "Success Kid" meme. Later on, CNN described the boy as likely the internet's most famous baby. In April 2021, Success Kid was sold as an NFT on OpenSea for 15 ETH.
Grumpy Cat NFT Meme
The origin of the Grumpy Cat, a cat named Tardar Sauce, is in 2012 when her owner's brother, Bryan, posted it on Reddit. It dominated Reddit's front page within the first 24 hours, receiving over 24k upvotes. For the cat's unimpressed and annoyed look, "Grumpy Cat" became an internet sensation and cultural icon. Grumpy Cat has its waxwork at Madame Tussaud—becoming the first cat to receive such an honor. In March 2021, the Grumpy Cat NFT was sold for 44.20 ETH.
Disaster Girl
In the meme world, the Disaster Girl is a meme of a young girl with her eyes fixed on the camera, flashing a devilish smirk while a house burns in her background. The then four-year-old innocent girl in the picture is Zoe Roth. The picture was taken in 2005 as the local fire department carried out a drill. It was a controlled fire, and she was among many other children asked to direct the water hose to the burning house. The picture was taken by her father, Dave Roth, and the meme of her daughter has been repurposed innumerable times in various disasters in history like the sinking titanic or the catastrophic meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. In 2021, the "Disaster Girl" NFT was sold for a whopping 180 ETH. Zoe said the proceeds from the sale went towards clearing her college loans. The Roth family retains the image's copyright and will receive 10 percent of all future sales.
"Bad Luck Brian" NFT
"Bad Luck Brian" meme first appeared in 2012 when it was posted on Reddit by Ian Davies as a joke about his friend, Kyle Craven, with a funny caption— "Takes driving test…gets first DUI." In the picture, Kyle had posed awkwardly in a 2005-06 yearbook photo. Captions of "Bad Luck Brian" describe unfortunate and even tragic events. Millions across the world have used it to laugh at their misfortunes. Kyle sold his meme in 2021 for 20 ETH, or around $20k, at the Foundation—an NFT marketplace.
Art, memes, and NFTs complement each other. The creators of viral memes don't know how their creations will be received. However, if they become an internet sensation, NFTs can be used as a means of monetization, changing their fortunes.
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PAST funds help verify new Kilombe localities
PAST funding has played a vital role in allowing researchers to verify a fossil and early archaeological locality in Kenya.
A palaeoanthropological group is currently working on the extinct volcano of Kilombe on the equator following a renewed survey by the British Academy links programme with National Museums of Kenya that showed the potential of new localities high up in the caldera of the volcano.
PAST gave funds which allowed the researchers to verify the early Pleistocene occurrences, successfully laying the foundations for a long-term project. The group includes John Gowlett (archaeology), Stephen Rucina, Sally Hoare, Rosa Albert and Caroline Komboh (palaeoenvironments), and Ian Stanistreet and Harald Stollhofen (geology).
"It now seems that the volcano formed around 2.5 million years ago, and that soon afterwards a lake developed in its caldera, becoming attractive to animals and also early human," explained Gowlett. "Later a deep gorge formed, draining the lake away, and eventually exposing columns of sediments that run through long periods of the early Pleistocene."
According to Gowlett, an exciting aspect is the high elevation of the finds—around 2000 metres, some 500 metres higher than other early occurrences in Kenya. The area in the central Rift Valley where the group is working was previously best known for its major Acheulean hand-axe site.
The funding for the palaeoanthropological group working in Kilombe is part of PAST's broader support for field and lab research spanning the entire palaeontological and Stone Age archaeological records, in all parts of Africa.


Miranda is currently signed with Next model agency (2007).
Miranda has previously had modeling contracts with Melbourne's Chadwick agency and Sydney's Chic agency.
Miranda has modeled for numerous brands, including L.A.M.B, Levi's, Baby Phat, Lisa Ho, Jets, Voodoo Dolls, Bettina Liano, Heatherette, Nicola Finetti, Seafolly, Betsey Johnson, Trelise Cooper, John Richmond, Blumarine Swimwear, Anna Molinari, Roberto Cavalli, Arden B, Enrico Coveri, Cia Maritima and Amuleti J.
Miranda has blue eyes. Her hair colour is brown. Her dimples are considered to be her model trademarks.
Miranda's height is 5'9" or 175cm. Her measurements are 34-24-34 (US), 86-61-86 (EU). Her dress size is 6 (US), 36(EU). Her shoe size is 8 (US), 39 (EU).
In 2006 Miranda moved from Sydney to New York and lives there with a Yorkshire Terrier named Frankie.
Miranda's favourite vintage store is The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, on Broadway in Soho.
Miranda has said that if she wasn't doing modeling she would have liked to do something with nutrition or psychology because she wants to help people.
Miranda was the first Australian model to ever appear in a Victoria's Secrets fashion show.
Miranda is the face of the company Portmans and has appeared in numerous commercials for them.
Since the year 2000, Miranda has practiced a type of Nichiren Buddhism, as well as Kundalini and Hatha yoga.
Miranda appears in Kanye West and Pharrell's video clip "Number 1".
Miranda is of Australian, French, Italian and Japanese ancestry.
Miranda has a younger brother named Matthew.


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Washburn Biology Department Welcomes Two New Professors
Michelle Boltz / Washburn Review
The Washburn Biology department welcomes Jason Emry, who comes to Washburn from Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln, Neb., where he received his bachelor's degree in 1994.
Emry received his masters in Plant Ecology at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb., in 1999 and his PhD in Evolution and Biology in 2008 at the University of Kansas.
Emry's early career path involved physical therapy. After taking a required course in botany, he found that plant life was much more interesting. For the Spring 2012 semester, Emry will be teaching Introduction to Biology.
Emry teaches in the botany lab, working on research projects with biology majors.
Before coming to Washburn, Emry worked part-time at KU in the botany labs on campus.
Emry designed a computer model that helps conduct research on invasive species of plant life that is hard to do by nature but can be simulated on screen. He works with biology students with seed biology, which is the dormancy of seeds and what signals they give in order to germinate.
"It shows how plants can produce seeds and how that happens," said Emry.
Emry also works with a fellow faculty member, Rodrigo Mercader, who teaches Evolution and Ecology. Mercader's focus is more on insects and how they relate with plants.
Mercader comes to Washburn from Michigan State University where he got his masters degree and PhD with dual degrees in Entomology and Evolution Ecology and Behavior. Mercader received his bachelor's in Ecology at University of California at Davis.
While getting his post doctorate at Michigan State, Mercader did research on the spread of the emerald ash borer, which is a pest of considerable ecological and economic importance. Other research of Mercader's includes environmental change and species interactions, evolution of ecological interactions and plant responses to inject injury.
He taught a course for a quarter in entomology (specializing in insects) at Kalamazoo College in Michigan before coming to Washburn.
"The opportunity was there at Washburn and was a perfect fit," said Mercader.
Mercader spends a lot of time outdoors and appreciates what there is to offer.
"On a personal level, I enjoy bugs that eat plants," said Mercader.
His favorite insect is the Canadian tiger swallowtail.
Mercader currently teaches in the Ecology Lab, and will be teaching a wide variety of courses in the Biology department such as Evolution and Zoology Lab. Other courses he will be teaching will be Evolutionary Biology and Zoology Lecture in Fall 2012. In Fall 2012 or 2013, he will teach Entomology and Field Biology Seminar, as well.
Mercader also collaborates with Emry on plant and insect interactions.
"We're interested in how organisms evolve and what traits they have to interact with one another," said Mercader.
For more information on Mercader's research studies, feel free to visit his website at https://sites.google.com/site/rjmercader.


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More Global IT Consultancies Pave their Way into Nearshore Through Partnerships. Is it a Good Thing?
As the drive towards greater agility and velocity continues, global IT consultancies are looking to the nearshore to help them compete. Beyondsoft recently announced its partnership with Mexico-based nearshore provider iTexico, which is both emblematic of the trend and likely a precursor of more to come.
The success of such partnerships seems in large part to hinge on the overall alignment between the two parties. What is the frequency and quality of communications between the main principles in the relationship? Does the IT consultancy have sufficient awareness and sensitivity to the unique conditions present in markets like Mexico? These and other questions are some of the most salient matters that often influence long-term durability.
Anurag Kumar, Founder and CEO of iTexico, says: "It's a growing trend. Lately, a lot of services companies are starting to partner with nearshore companies like ours, to compete more effectively, to get access to talent. Many are opening their own delivery capabilities in Mexico and other nearshore destinations, starting with Accenture, Infosys, TTS, Cognizant, Deloitte. Cognizant even has a significant presence nearshore."
iTexico CEO and founder Anurag Kumar says partnerships with large IT services companies can help nearshore providers expand into new verticals.
Client demand has also encouraged these sorts of partnerships. But while larger services companies have built a footprint in the nearshore, Kumar says mid-market IT consultancies are still trying to get there. "Some of them are adding their own teams like Luxoft and EPAM, some of them are partnering with companies like iTexico, to service US clients with more agility, with more effectiveness and get some capacity, capability and cost into the equation." he says.
For the US, Mexico is the most convenient destination for such partnerships, Kumar believes, because of its proximity and cultural alignment. It is a popular destination with IT consultancies. Luxoft launched its Guadalajara offices in 2014 and EPAM expanded its operations to Mexico in 2017.
While these expansions create a presence in the geography, partnerships like the iTexico-Beyondsoft one provide other opportunities. The potential for collaborative working in teams across geographies is appealing and combines the benefits of traditional outsourcing with local delivery.
The value for nearshore providers lies in the expanded capability – iTexico does not have a huge team in the US and most technical talent is in the two innovation centers in Mexico; Beyondsoft has extensive capabilities in the US. iTexico's partnership with Beyondsoft is also helping it to expand into more markets in the US and into new verticals, because of Beyondsoft's established focused on sectors such as automotive, which iTexico has not traditionally targeted.
Such partnerships are not without risks, and while collaboration is key to all such ventures, Kumar warns that there is the potential to compete for the same clients. He believes such overlap is less likely when the partners focus on different strengths. "BeyondSoft focuses on larger clients, many of them in the automotive sector – we don't play there, so less of an issue," he says.
Another potential pitfall is in cultural issues where teams comprised of talent from different companies may come into conflict with each other. "It takes time to ensure that the teams work together smoothly," he says, adding that the two companies are still in the beginning phase of the partnership and so have not encountered these difficulties yet.
From an operational perspective, the nature of the partnership needs to be fully fleshed out. iTexico and Beyondsoft will work closely together in terms of sales, but will still function as separate entities and as such marketing will be run separately. "When an opportunity comes, we will do joint webinars and events and depending on the specific project, one of us will take the lead. But operationally I don't think it will make any major differences."
"We see possibilities to work together on other things, leveraging our expertise in design, mobile, process automation, AI and Cloud to work on projects in Latin America or perhaps even in Europe," Kumar says.
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the eric update – day 13: a mostly lazy day
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today was a very boring day with not a single, solitary alarm; well maybe this is not quite true actually, as the nurses will typically induce apnea during some of their procedures, but nobody counts those. except maybe for eric.
he's still on the vent, but they are continuing to gradually reduce the settings and suspect that perhaps over the next few days he might be able to go back to the less abusive CPAP regime. this is surprisingly good news, because the staff has been suggesting for the past few days that he could possibly be on the vent for a couple of weeks.
and his infection seems to be getting better. there's still no definitive results to indicate what sort of infection he might have, but all of his differential blood counts are looking more positive and his blood sugar is normalizing.
during a quiet moment, i catch kris holding eric's hand/arm. he just had a few procedures done that he didn't care for and she's using a technique that the nicu staff taught us to calm him down – i.e. he feels more secure when you firmly hold his arms and legs against his body. it gives him a sense of boundary that he got used to in the womb.
so, with a lack of white-knuckle events to pass the time, we found ourselves enjoying just sitting around his bed, reading more from winnie-the-pooh, talking with the always informative and mostly cheery nicu staff and just generally having what passes for a lazy saturday these days.
it's amazing how much his skin changes from day to day, depending on whether or not he's received a transfusion or how much fluid he's retaining.
today he seems particularly wrinkled.
every so often he'd open his eyes and watch me taking pictures, but he didn't seem to want to keep them open for long.
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wongblog: why smart people are better off with fewer friends
i'm not sure how to square these findings with the fact that i've long said that in a parallel universe very close to our own i live alone in cabin in the middle of nowhere writing manifestos: "The effect of population density on life satisfaction was therefore more than twice as large for low-IQ individuals than for high-IQ individuals," they found. And "more intelligent individuals were actually less satisfied with life if they socialized with their friends more frequently."
everything you think you know about thanksgiving is wrong.
the heart warming fable of thanksgiving, unsurprisingly, ends up being a whole lot more complicated than some of us were taught and answers the nagging question of how squanto spoke perfect english when the pilgrims arrived and what was happening during the 100 year interim between columbus and the pilgrims ( spoiler: it involves human trafficking, enslavement and villages being wiped out ). and if you're a stickler for tradition, you should put ditch the turkey and cranberry sauce for salted pork and olives since the spanyiards were the first to celebrate thanksgiving 50 years before the pilgrims.
i, for one, welcome our herbicide-free giant weed punching robot overlords.
"…researchers from a Bosch startup called Deepfield Robotics presented a paper on "Vision-Based High-Speed Manipulation for Robotic Ultra-Precise Weed Control," which has like four distinct exciting-sounding phrases in it." IEEE Spectrum
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"We learned that, if we're not the father of ISIS, the United States is at least some sort of uncle." cracked
i'm suuuuuuure it's an honest mistake on apple's part.
after updating to iOS 9 and el capitan i've been having troubles synching photos from my iphone to my macbook air. the mac would recognize the iphone but no photos would show up in the photos application or image capture. it was driving me nuts. turns out, if you have non-apple services like dropbox running that sync your photos to non-icloud services you have to turn them off.
Penn Live: Leroy Stolzfus clocks a 3:05 at Harrisburg Marathon in full Amish garb.
having run a half a dozen marathons, i can't imagine finishing in 3:05. even more unimaginable in full amish garb so kudos to leroy stolzfus. the whole article is great read but now i want to know more of the backstory on why he started to run: "A few years ago, Stolzfus got "involved with some stuff" he said he shouldn't have. His brother-in-law suggested he start running instead when he was tempted. He took the suggestion to heart, and went out for a run."
some of you will be deciphering cuneiform tweets this christmas
i think i know what some of you will be getting for christmas! dumb cuneiform creates clay tablets of tweets. you'll have big fun guessing if you got a trump tweet or a neal degrease tyson tweet. [ via Waxy links ]
nyt: Viewfinder: Hogpen Hill Farm
huh, who knew edward tufte has a farm with 234-acres of landscape sculpture fields that he opens to the public once a year. i'd love to make a trip. and i also love the article's description of tufte, "[he] is also known as a genius of data visualization, professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale, an author of books on information design, and a hater of PowerPoint.
the new yorker: what we think about when we run.
so very, very true. "To run five or ten or twenty-six miles is, as much as anything else, to engage in a sustained way with the deep strangeness that is the human mind."
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Leonardo DiCaprio trolled over Camila Morrone's breakup
He looks like a total Morrone.
The internet was set on fire when news broke on Tuesday that Leonardo DiCaprio and his much younger girlfriend, Camila Morrone, are allegedly break up after four years of relationship.
Twitter users have accused Leonardo DiCaprio of breaking up with Camila Morrone just after he turned 25.
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Twitter users immediately followed DiCaprio, 47, who he is said to only date women under 25 — on his inevitable breakup with the model, who just turned 25 in June.
"Maybe Leonardo Dicaprio hated 9/11 so much he can't even date women who remember it. Did that even cross your mind," a Twitter user wildly joked.
"maybe leonardo dicaprio feels bad for all the women who can't rent a car until they're 25 and he's actually a really good guy. has that ever occurred to you", a second suggested.
"Leonardo Dicaprio when his girlfriends turn 25", another Twitter user captioned a clip of a woman throwing a baby into a fire.
"The girl Leonardo DiCaprio will drop when he turns 72 was born today," said fourth shot.
"there is no phenomenon on this planet more reliable than leonardo dicaprio breaking up with his girlfriend at 25, the statistics are breathtaking," someone else wrote.
"Leonardo DiCaprio once his girlfriend's brain has finished developing," another troll posted alongside a clip of Miley Cyrus blowing a goodbye kiss in "Hannah Montana."
"3 things are certain in life: – death – taxes – leonardo dicaprio breaks up with his girlfriend before his prefrontal cortex is fully developed", another person accepted.
"the idea that leonardo dicaprio could date someone born in the 2000s is actually terrifying", another internet user share.
DiCaprio and Morrone started together in 2017.
"Two years from now, when Variety announces that Leonardo DiCaprio and Olivia Rodrigo have started dating, it's going to be a tough day," a joker tweetedreferring to the 19-year-old singer.
"I need to know how leonardo dicaprio leads these breakups. do they start looking for fights months before they turn 25 to be less visible? do they wake up on their birthday with a note that says "sorry i can't not hate myself", someone please inquire" someone else beggedreferencing the note Carrie Bradshaw received from Burger in an episode "Sex and the City".
"White smoke billowed from the chimney atop the North Hollywood High School, signaling that Leonardo Dicaprio has chosen a new girlfriend," another wrotemaking a comparison to how the Vatican signals the election of a new pope.
"Titanic turns 25 this year, and I guess Leonardo Dicaprio won't want to be a part of it anymore," another joked.
"Did you ever think that Leonardo Dicaprio is so proud of his work in Titanic, he only dates women who weren't old enough to have seen him when he premiered so HE could share the special time watching it with them for the first time. time? did that even cross your mind, someone else shaved.
This photo is from the future. It's a picture of Leonardo DiCaprio with his girlfriend. Future sources say he broke up with her when he was 25. pic.twitter.com/5aK5da461h
— Whyischeesepink🍥 (@mdiab9) August 31, 2022
Persons reported On Tuesday the Oscar-winning actor split from the 'Daisy Jones & The Six' star.
The news came after the duo were spotted having a tense conversation in May as DiCaprio Morrone comforted at the beach in Malibu.
The actor further fueled speculation that he and the actress were dunzo after being seen gallanting in Europe solo this summer.
DiCaprio dated Gisele Bündchen from 2000 to 2005.
DiCaprio and Morrone started dating in 2017 when she was only 20 years old. They made their debut at the awards show at the 2020 Oscars.
Morrone has defended their 23-year age difference in the past, tell the Los Angeles Times in 2019, "There are so many relationships in Hollywood — and in the history of the world — where people have big age gaps. I just think anyone should be able to date whoever they want to date.
Kate Moss, Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Bar Refaeli, Nina Agdal and Gisele Bündchen, the latter of whom he dated for six years until 2005.
Apparently age matters after all.
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Purchase by inspection: advice from Lawgistics
Lawgistics had a recent case go to a court hearing and was successful in defending it on behalf of one of its members.
The customer bought a VW Transporter from the member for £20,000. The advert was created by inputting the registration number into a website and all of the information about the vehicle was pulled through from a database into the advert that appeared.
The member did not notice the advert stated the vehicle had air conditioning, when in fact, it did not. It did not even have an air conditioning system button.
The customer viewed the vehicle on three occasions, including a lengthy test drive when temperatures were in the 20 degrees range, and at no point noticed there was no air conditioning.
The customer collected the vehicle at a time when temperatures were averaging 27 degrees, and yet it was two weeks before he notified Lawgistics' member that there was no air conditioning system.
The member immediately offered an apology for not noticing the missing air conditioning, and to refund the cost of the vehicle in full, but the customer decided that he wanted a retrofit air conditioning system at a cost of £2,200.
The member was sensitive to the customer's issues but was not willing to fund the retrofitting of an air condition system as it was disproportionate to do so plus the dangers of inherent future issues that might arise if the system was not working correctly. A full refund was offered on numerous occasions, but the customer was fixated on the air conditioning being installed and issued proceedings for the cost of the retrofitting.
At trial, the member's barrister, fully briefed by Lawgistics, systematically stripped away the customer's arguments until the judge could only find that the customer had fully inspected the vehicle, on more than one occasion, and had never asked about air conditioning, so therefore in accordance with section 9(4)(b) of the Consumer Rights Act:
(4) The term mentioned in subsection (1) does not cover anything which makes the quality of the goods unsatisfactory—
(b) where the consumer examines the goods before the contract is made, which that examination ought to reveal
The inspection by the customer should have identified the lack of air conditioning, as this was deemed by the court to be a purchase by inspection. The lack of air conditioning did not inhibit the performance of the vehicle, and as the Claimant did not ask about air conditioning, or notice for two weeks that there wasn't an air conditioning facility, this shows that it was not an important factor in the purchase.
The judge agreed with Lawgistics that a retrofit of an air conditioning system was disproportionate given that it would make very little difference to the value of the vehicle and would have cost more than 10% of the sale price.
The judge gave the Claimant the option of returning the vehicle to the member for a refund, less a deduction of usage of 35p per mile for the 4,500 miles travelled, or he could keep the vehicle. He chose to keep the vehicle and no costs or legal fees were awarded.
The customer went from the offer of a full refund so he could purchase a different van with air conditioning, to keeping the van which would be worth less as a part exchange or as a sale than he originally paid for it.
Membership of IAAF brings about some excellent networking opportunities and we work closely with the association to ensure the work it does is known throughout the supply chain
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"Cesarean" art quilt, basted and ready to be art-i-fied.
My son was born by an unplanned (and probably unnecessary) cesarean section nearly 16 months ago. This quilt is my way of releasing and expressing some of the emotional and spiritual damage I have from it. I've been planning on some type of art form to express what I feel, and about a week ago it dawned on me to "quilt it out."
I dreamt up this quilt one night as I was falling asleep. The image, the colors, and how it would come together fit perfectly in my mind. The next day I did a bunch of google image searches to see what other cesarean-inspired art I could find. Almost all of it was dark, sad and disturbing. And I was able to relate to all of it, though none it felt like what I have planned for this quilt. So I'm glad I have this blog to share it with the world...certainly there are other women that feel the way I do? I guess I haven't exactly express how I feel...but I'm taking baby steps, and plan to get to it as I progress through this quilt.
I finished up quilting the log cabin baby quilt, and am stuck at binding and labeling it, so it was a good time to start another quilt. For the Cesarean quilt, I chose some white muslin for the top, some thrifted polyester batting, and a red sheet for the back.
I've already sketched what I want on this quilt, and as soon as I'm done writing up this post I plan to go draw it on my basted fabric. Then I'll start cutting up scraps and other appropriately colored fabric, and pin it to the quilt. Ever since I came across Crazy Mom Quilt's ticker tape quilt I've wanted to make one, and it will (hopefully) work perfectly for this project.
I'm excited! Post more pics!


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APPC General News
APPC Welcomes 19 Distinguished Research Fellows
Over the past year, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) has welcomed 19 new distinguished research fellows to its ranks, bringing the group to a total of 58 eminent scholars whose work complements the research and engagement being conducted by the policy center.
This latest group of distinguished research fellows is largely based within the Penn community and exemplifies the cross-campus outreach and collaborative spirit that have been hallmarks of the policy center's nearly three decades of research. Under the guidance of director and founder Kathleen Hall Jamieson; Dan Romer, the center's research director; and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Dolores Albarracín, who directs APPC's science of science communication division, the center's scholars address communication's role in advancing public understanding of political, science, and health issues at local, state, and national levels.
The newest group of APPC distinguished research fellows are:
Coren Apicella
Jonathan Baron
José A. Bauermeister
Ezekiel Emanuel
Martha J. Farah
Coren Apicella, an associate professor of psychology and director of the Human Behavior and Origins Laboratory in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, conducts research investigating how biology and culture work jointly, and separately, to shape individual and social behavior, from mate choice to cooperation to competition. In addition to more conventional laboratory studies, a significant portion of her time is devoted to fieldwork with the Hadza, a population of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania.
Jonathan Baron is a retired professor of psychology at Penn, founding editor of the journal Judgment and Decision Making, and the author of the textbook "Thinking and Deciding." His current research examines citizens' thinking about public issues, with a view to understanding the failures of democracy in terms of the cognitive style of citizens and their moral judgment.
José A. Bauermeister is the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Health in Penn's School of Nursing. His research integrates perspectives from public health, social science, medicine, and human sexuality to create interdisciplinary strategies to curtail health disparities among sexual and gender minority adolescents and young adults.
Ezekiel Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and co-director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at Penn. He has published over 300 articles, mainly on health care reform, research ethics, and end-of-life care, and has authored or edited 15 books. He was a special advisor on health policy to the director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council from 2009 to 2011.
Martha J. Farah is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology at Penn, founding director of Penn's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and current director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society. Her research in cognitive neuroscience has ranged from vision at the back of the brain to executive function at the front. She now focuses on the intersection of neuroscience and "the real world."
Robert Gross
John H. Holmes
Sara Jaffee
Kevin B. Johnson
Joseph Kable
Robert Gross is a professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and epidemiology, co-director of the Penn Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), director of the Penn CFAR International Core in Botswana, and co-director of the Clinical Assessment Core of the Penn Mental Health AIDS Research Center. His research has focused on HIV outcomes, with a particular emphasis on the continuum of care and prevention in the developed and developing worlds in both adults and adolescents.
John H. Holmes is a professor of medical informatics in epidemiology, the associate director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, director of the master's program in Biomedical Informatics, and former chair of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology, all at Penn. He leads studies of novel analytic methods informed by statistics and artificial intelligence as they apply to interactions between people and environments in space and time.
Sara Jaffee, a professor of psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn, is a developmental psychopathologist who conducts research on at-risk families and children. She is interested in how stressful environments exacerbate underlying genetic vulnerabilities to affect children's development, with a special interest in children's antisocial behavior. She directs the Risk and Resilience Lab, which studies the interplay between biology and social context in children's development.
Kevin B. Johnson is the David L. Cohen Professor of Pediatrics, Informatics, Engineering and Communication at Penn. A PIK professor, he holds appointments in the Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, with secondary appointments including the Annenberg School for Communication. His research has been related to developing and encouraging the adoption of clinical information systems to improve patient safety and compliance with practice guidelines.
Joseph Kable is the Baird Term Professor of Psychology at Penn and Director of MindCORE, Penn's hub for the integrative study of the mind. He is interested in understanding how people make decisions and in tracing out the underlying psychological and neural mechanisms of choice. Research in his lab employs an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on methods and ideas from social and cognitive neuroscience, experimental economics, and personality psychology.
Michael E. Mann
Barbara Mellers
Katy Milkman
Yotam Ophir
Michael E. Mann is a climate scientist who will join the Penn faculty in 2022 as Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He will be the inaugural director of a new Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media. Now a distinguished professor at Penn State, he is co-founder of RealClimate.org and author of over 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications and five books, including "The New Climate War."
Barbara Mellers is the George I. Heyman University Professor at Penn, with cross-appointments in School of Arts & Sciences and at Wharton. She studies how people make judgments and decisions, and models how people make decisions when their choices deviate from normative principles. A co-Principal Investigator of the Good Judgment Project, which demonstrated how "superforecasters" could learn to make extraordinarily accurate predictions, Mellers has focused recently on how to improve judgments and decisions in individuals and groups.
Katy Milkman is the James G. Dinan Professor at the Wharton School, host of Charles Schwab's behavioral economics podcast Choiceology, and former president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative, a research center with the mission of advancing the science of lasting behavior change, and has worked with or advised dozens of organizations on how to spur positive change.
Yotam Ophir, an assistant professor of communication at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, studies political and science communication, misinformation and extremism, persuasion, and media effects. His research combines novel computational tools for automated content analysis such as machine learning, topic modeling, and network analysis with experiments, surveys, and in-depth qualitative analysis to study media content and its effects on audiences.
Josh Pasek
Martin E.P. Seligman
Antonia M. Villarruel
Dror Walter
Josh Pasek is an associate professor of communication and media and faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan. His research explores how new media and psychological processes shape political attitudes, public opinion, and political behaviors, as well as examining issues in the measurement of public opinion, including techniques for reducing measurement error and improving population inferences.
Martin E.P. Seligman is the director of the Penn Positive Psychology Center and Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology in the Penn Department of Psychology, as well as director of the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. He is a leading authority in the fields of positive psychology, resilience, learned helplessness, depression, optimism and pessimism, as well as on interventions that prevent depression and build strengths and well-being.
Philip E. Tetlock holds the Annenberg University Professor chair at the University of Pennsylvania, with cross-appointments at Wharton and the School of Arts & Sciences. His work crosses the boundaries of social, organizational, and political psychology on topics such as accountability, value conflict, counterfactual reasoning and taboo trade-offs. His recent work focuses on forecasting tournaments and their potential to improve intelligence analysis and depolarize unnecessarily polarized debates.
Antonia M. Villarruel is the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. As a bilingual, bicultural researcher, Villarruel has extensive experience working with Latino populations, health promotion, and disparities. She co-leads the NIH-funded Philadelphia Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL), which seeks to optimize the rollout and real-time evaluation of interventions focused on Covid-19 disparities across diverse populations.
Dror Walter is an assistant professor of digital communication at Georgia State University. His research, centered on the intersection between traditional media effects theories and novel computational social science methods, addresses the ways computational methods such as network analysis, unsupervised machine learning, and supervised machine learning can aid our understanding of two interrelated domains: extremist political communication, and health-related misinformation.


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Q: compare the message body with string I am getting confusion in sending the message to the current mobile and then i want to compare the text message body with string,is it possible to fetch the message details in iOS,
please let me know
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    can any one please help me how i wii verify my mobile number
thank you

A: If you set a delegate on MFMessageComposeViewController, you can detect when the user clicks "send" on it by overriding messageComposeViewController: didFinishWithResult:
And the parameter that's sent in that function includes the view controller, so you can examine various pieces of it, including the message body and the recipients.
As for verifying your mobile number, you need to rely on the user being honest and typing it in correctly. You can not do it programatically.

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Town at home in Checkatrade Trophy
Oldham or Leicester will visit the Montgomery Waters Meadow
Shrewsbury Town have been handed a home draw in the Quarter-Final of the CheckaTrade Trophy after they beat Blackpool on penalties on Wednesday evening.
The draw took place on Sky Football and Town will host the winners of the Oldham against Leicester U21s game. The original tie fell foul of the weather and will be replayed on Wednesday 17th January.
The game is set to take place on the week commencing 22nd January, but details will be announced in due course.
Town manager Paul Hurst is happy to be drawn at home and expects a tough game from either side.
"It's always good to be drawn at home so we have to be happy with the draw.", said Paul.
"The game will be a tough test whichever side gets through and both teams will offer a different type of challenge.
"It is another game to play this month and the fixtures are starting to build up but hopefully the supporters can see we are getting closer to the final and will come out for the game."
The full draw is-
Lincoln City v Peterborough United
Shrewsbury Town v Oldham Athletic or Leicester City U21s
Chelsea U21 v Oxford United
Yeovil Town v Fleetwood Town