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What Our Leaders Wrought: Boehner Cries and Obama Lies
John Ransom | Feb 24, 2013
Sweden's Prime Minister in a Scandal Brad Slager
twfox wrote: Jan. 24,2013 - Bobby Jindal urges the GOP to "stop being the stupid party"---hmmmm. And now you knuckle draggers want to call the Presidents supporters stupid? Good luck with that! - The Big, Big Government Push
Dear Comrade Fox,
You apparently don't know the context in which Jindal was talking about "stop being the stupid party."
What Jindal is referring to are the candidates who made bizarre comments during the election, like Todd Akin the Missouri Republican, who said this about the odds of getting pregnant from rape: "From what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
Ok, whatever Todd.
But it's not like the GOP has monopoly on: 1) Supporters saying stupid things about the other side on message boards; or 2) Elected officials or candidates who make dumb comments.
Witness for example Colorado State Rep Joe Salazar who said that women shouldn't be allowed to carry guns on college campuses because they might shoot someone in the confusion about whether they were being raped or not: "And you don't know if you feel like you're gonna be raped," said Salazar in a debate in the House on restricting a woman's right to choose to be armed, "or if you feel like someone's been following you around or if you feel like you're in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop ... pop a round at somebody."
Or let's take Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. who just admitted that he lived for years off of his campaign money despite the fact that he and his wife make over $250,000 a year.
"For years I lived off my campaign," Jackson said at his sentencing for fraud, according to a report by the New York Times. "I used money I shouldn't have used for personal purposes."
I'd rather be Todd Akin than Jesse Jackson Jr.
bitoubush wrote: So why aren't Repubs all over the sequester wanting to take credit for it. It is a big part of their wet dreams. They should be all over it like fleas on a dog. - Unemployment Claims Up, but it's Sunshine for Maddow Blogger-Producer
Dear Comrade It's-All-Bush's-Fault,
Most Republicans are OK with sequester. Just because John Boehner choose to shed tears about it in the Wall Street Journal, doesn't mean the rest of us are all broken up over it. Boehner cries about everything.
The point is that it's not the smartest way to cut spending, but at least it's a cut in spending.
Better to be a crier than a liar.
Because it still was Obama's idea to use sequester.
Obama can't even take responsibility for stuff even he acknowledges that he proposed. He spent most of the last two years saying we had to cut spending, but now…um…oops…never mind.
Like most things in his life, Obama wants to be able to make up the rules as he goes along. And now that he's done campaigning, he can go back to being the bumbling, arrogant, Barney Fife president that he was before GOP Speaker John Boehner gave Obama the winning lotto ticket to tax the heck out of us in November.
Reginald10 wrote: Can we stop referring to "The Great Depression"? We don't call it "The Great War" anymore. We call it World War 1, because there was a World War 2. We should start talking about The First Depression, (and by implication, The Second Depression).
Dear Reginald,
I wouldn't call the current economic conditions an economic depression, nor would I use the term on the conditions that happened shortly after the fall of 2008. Neither qualifies under the traditional definition as explained by Investopedia: "In economics, a depression is commonly defined as an extreme recession that lasts two or more years. A depression is characterized by economic factors such as substantial increases in unemployment, a drop in available credit, diminishing output, bankruptcies and sovereign debt defaults, reduced trade and commerce, and sustained volatility in currency values."
I would however stop short of really calling it a recovery, either.
Instead, I'd refer to is as the Slight Depression.
I'm not sure who coined the term, but it's commonly attributed to Niall Ferguson.
Truth001 wrote: Mr. Ransom, Since you were so quick to discredit Steve Benen I thought I would do a little background check on your resume. I'm not sure the relevance of once being a sports writer to become the Town Hall guru on finance. I could not find any degrees you hold in business or finance. I looked for something in your background that would lead me to believe you came up through the school of hard knocks. I found nothing. I realize you're a conservative opinions guy and not an expert on the subject of Business and Finance. So if you're going to sound credible stick to the facts. The U6 trend line has never been a line used by any administration. The real U6 numbers average 14% in 2012 not 23% By the way 2003 it was 10%. - Unemployment Claims Up, but it's Sunshine for Maddow Blogger-Producer
Dear Comrade Pravada,
Like any true liberal I see that your idea of "research" consisted mostly of- only?- consulting Wikipedia.
True, I was a sportswriter- that's how I broke into writing- and I'm still proud to be a member of the Football Writers Association. But had you consulted a host of biographical data available-like this website- you would know a few other things about me.
As I told another reader, genetically speaking, I'm an exact copy of both Koch Brothers. We wouldn't want that to get around. So I'm keeping those records in the same fireproof box that the Obama administration keeps his original birth certificate and his college transcripts.
Before joining Townhall, I was both a political consultant and a writer. I wrote mostly about the stock market. My father was a banker. His father was a banker.
Starting in 1994, I followed in my family's tradition and I worked as an investment executive to several NYSE-member investment firms. I was also a recruiter for one of the largest independent contractor broker-dealers in the country. I co-founded a small boutique investment firm, which was sold eventually for a nice profit- and I worked for a merchant banker.
I've filed 10Ks and 10Qs for public companies, and conducted a hostile takeover of a bank; I rescued a federally-insured financial institution- using NO taxpayer money- by helping to raise private money.
For years, I've worked as a consultant to a number of businesses in Colorado on business plans, marketing, and acquisitions.
I don't have an advanced degree in anything. I studied Russian Language and Literature at the University of Maryland and am, somewhat, working on a Master's degree in Writing- when I have time, which I have had rarely in a few years.
I also like camping in the mountains, horses, cognac and fishing. I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer Dos Equis.
Your point about U6 not being used by any other administration would be salient if Obama didn't own the record for the worst jobs record of ANY "recovery," since World War II. But as I mentioned in the article, Obama has dragged out his non-job creation plan so long that the normal methods by which one would measure economic recovery don't apply anymore.
You either didn't read what I wrote or you didn't understand it.
U6, as I said, has been stuck around 14.5ish this year. When you add in the people who have dropped out of the workforce to U6 you get unemployment of about 23 percent.
Nice try though.
bitoubush wrote: About this growth model that Ransom relies on. Seems to me, an economy that has to rely on growth year after year (compounding no less) may have some fatal flaws. In fifty, sixty, seventy years what does GDP need to be to support our economy. GDP today stands at roughly 16 trillion, with an annual growth rate of just 3%, in fifty years we would need to have GDP of somewhere in the vicinity of 70,000 trillion in today's dollars, adding inflation at 2% per year would add another 110 trillion, rounding it out to a whopping 180,000 trillion. - Obama's "Really Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Sequester"
Dear Comrade What-About-Bush,
Ha! That's really one of the funniest things I ever read.
Is that YOU Mr. Obama?
EVERY economy relies on a "growth model." Duh.
That's why the Bureau of Economic Analysis releases quarterly reports on GDP growth rates and why economic recession, depression and expansion are expressed in GDP growth.
Geez. You're so dumb you could work for Obama.
"About this growth model that Ransom relies on. Seems to me, an economy that has to rely on growth year after year (compounding no less) may have some fatal flaws."
Ha, ha, ha.
Actually, you might be Obama.
Here's the math for you: At a 1.5 percent GDP growth rate, our GDP will grow from an estimated $15.2 trillion (in 2000 dollars) in 2012 to $42.5 trillion in 70 years. At 3.5 percent growth the GDP would grow to $163.2 trillion.
In nominal dollars our GDP in 1950 was $293.7 billion versus an estimated $15.2 trillion today.
OK, so what did you want to know about economic growth?
Flubadub wrote: The only problem with the title of this article is that it is too long and has one too many words. You need to remove "sequester." - Obama's "Really Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Sequester"
Dear Flub,
The only problem with your criticism is that it's too long. It's has 26 too many words.
Carlos7 wrote: There is only one question Mr. Ransom ... when will the next Market Crash come? - Obama's "Really Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Sequester"
Fall, 2013.
Sherwood wrote: I am too remote to tune in...Do you have an RSS or podcast for your radio show? Thanks Sherwood
Go to the tab that says Ransom Radio at finance.townhall.com.
The page has a listing of stations. Plus we just started posting each day's show on the site were you'd find columnists under Ransom Notes Radio.
Claire wrote: Most loopholes that could give us revenue came afer Pres. Regan worked to balance our economy with reducing taxed for the wealth from a lot higher. We have the lowest taxes in 40 years. Revenue could come in getting rid of tax deductions - i.e No deductions for real estate taxes or mortgage for those who buy a vacation home(second) - or no deduction for Nascar buildings. - The Permanent Bully From Above
Dear Comrade Claire,
I'm all for tax reform. And getting rid of deductions. But that's not what Obama is talking about. He's talking about raising taxes on people so that the government can spend more money.
His idea of tax reform is that the government needs to spend more. My idea is that everyone should pay lower taxes and the government should spend less.
Taxes as a percentage of GDP are low it's true. But that says tons about our economy not about tax rates. Government spending as a percentage of our GDP is at all time highs.
xjnyc_2013 wrote: Porky Johnny as ignorant as you are I never thought you'd go so far as this. This is hilarious-- you're drooling out the dumbest thing ever said about climate change - that one snowstorm in midwinter proves it doesn't exist. Now you're at the bottom of the tub of morons leading the pack. And then you go further into Moronville by declaring that since RR dyes his hair, his work on cli change is nullified. - Robert Redford's Head is Full of Oil
Dear Comrade X,
I've picked out the meatiest part of your intellectual argument and highlighted below:
"Porky, ignorant, hilarious, drooling, dumbest, morons, Moronville, blah, blah, blah."
Actually, the argument isn't about climate change. Like usual, you are so busy refining your language that you missed the point. The argument is about the hypocrisy of guys like Redford who preach to the rest of us, "Do as I say, not as I do."
Nice work if you can get it.
Isabella wrote: If Robert Redford is 105 years old, you must be 205 years old---you ignoramus piece of human that is an insult to humanity. - Robert Redford's Head is Full of Oil
Dear Comrade Isabella,
Hey, wait. Are you trying to insult me?
One thing is clear kiddies: Don't mess with Robert Redford.
The fangs come out.
Myer2 wrote Its an easy target to run against a group that represents only 11% of workers and it keeps the Koch brothers happy and keeps your money flowing in but like all your half baked ideological positions it is full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Even if your numbers regarding hourly pay were correct (which they are not) lets look at the economic result of this 29 dollar difference. Since labor cost represents 10% of the cost of a car this $29 dollars would add a whopping 5% to the cost of a car. - Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet
Dear Comrade Myer,
The additional cost for labor from UAW shops is about $2,000 per car. The labor costs are actually around 7 percent per car according to a Steven Rattner, a private equity investor who advised Obama with the auto bailout. But that doesn't seem to include benefits.
Either way, if you think that a car that costs "a whopping" 5 percent more isn't at a competitive disadvantage to other cars then you don't know how economics works.
But of course if you did know, you'd be a conservative, you'd approve of the Keystone Pipeline, you'd support the 2nd Amendment, so on, so forth.
Latebloomer wrote: John (or possibly the editors here)- I know you've got a lot on your plate. If you have insufficient time for a new column every day, why not just skip a day instead of slapping a new headline on one from last week? I love John's work- but if columns are going to be recycled, I'd much rather it were Thomas Sowell's. - Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet
Dear Bloomer,
Got ya, but….
My job is to garner pageviews and there are some people who, like on Wednesday, are so busy reading Sowell and Malkin and Coulter that they miss my column.
I almost always get more pageviews the second time around AND if I don't publish something I get hate mail about that too.
Plus, you want me nice and fresh so I can write the six-page memo to Comrades once a week, right?
Oh and by the way, I'd rather read Phillup Space's comments than yours, but what am I going to do?
Colonial Girl wrote: There were "unions" [in the old Soviet Union] BUT they were government controlled and danced to the tune the government called. In a word, just government puppets. - Unions Slump on Bad Obama Bet
Dear Girl,
And this is different today in the US exactly how?
That's it for this week,
V/r,


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Q: How can I test for the detected language via Bing's Translation API to be equal to "EN"? $language = file_get_contents('http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Ajax.svc/Detect?appid=APPID&text=hello');

$language = str_replace('"', '', $language);

if($language != 'en')
{
    echo 'not english';
}
{
    echo 'english';
}

So, what happens in the code above is file_get_contents will output "en", I then remove the quotation marks and compare if it is equal to en. But the problem with the code above is that it will output not english even though 'en' != 'en'.
Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I also tried to convert $language to a string (string)$language, but that didn't fix it either.

A: The result you're getting from Bing contains a BOM, or a byte order mark, which is invisible when echoed.
To remove the BOM, try this function:
function removeBOM($str = "") {
    if (substr($str, 0, 3) == pack("CCC",0xef,0xbb,0xbf)) {
        $str=substr($str, 3);
    }
    return $str;
}

So line 3 of your code would be:
$language = removeBOM(str_replace('"', '', $language));

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Release of Lauren Redhead's 'the octopus' digital opera
On December 1st, Lauren Redhead released her online album: the octopus, on the net label: pan y rosas discos. In the description, Lauren describes her piece as a digital opera written and imagined from the underwater perspective of the octopus. The initial inspiration comes from Victor Hugo's novel les travailleurs de la mer (1866) and includes the imagined expressions, experience and sound of the changing ocean environment. There is an 8-page graphic score for instrumentalists, there is sound poetry written by both Lauren and by poet Kat Peddie. Nowhere in these scores are there theatrical indications, nor is there a simple narrative or story line. Instead the recording, heard as a piece of fixed media rather than of a performance, is a version (of a potentially infinite number) of the recordings of the interpretations and text readings made according to the composer's plan.
The many-layered quality of this music comes partly as a result of the collaborative process with poet, singer (Rebecca Hardwick), and the ensemble of musicians (Paul Cheneour, Maureen Wolloshin, and myself). During the summer I was sent all 8 pages of the graphic score to record my reactions/responses and interpretations on the violin. I was allowed to do this as freely as I felt necessary. By doing this this kind of work becomes a kind of miniature project, and becomes as important to me as I make it, the quality of my interpretation was therefore wholly my responsibility. The instructions were to interpret the graphic score as I saw fit, and that there were no limitations or prescriptions on how I should do this. One of the scores presents the performer with a grid of boxes, each of which is filled with a set of pitches on a five-line system. I addressed this particular score by placing an acetate sheet on top of the score and drew arrows to show me which box to interpret next, documentary images of this can be seen here. This comprised the initial round of working and recording the material for this piece
A second round took place during a recording session in Faversham, with Trio CZW. Here I was joined by Paul Cheneour (flutes), and Maureen Wolloshin (oboe) to go through the graphic scores and interpret and improvise from the 8 pages of graphic score. During this recording, Lauren made a short video that partly documents this album release.
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Hohensee said the $1.6 million project would not have been possible without the Southwest Louisiana delegation's assistance in securing the grant monies.
The replacement of bulkhead infrastructure is underway this week at the West Calcasieu Port, courtesy of $1,305,000 in capital outlay grant monies from the state.
In April, the port awarded the job contract to Orion Marine Group. Engineering support was provided by Sulphur-based Meyer & Associates. Hohensee said it took several months to order and receive necessary supplies before work could begin in August. Completion is expected in early fall, barring weather delays.
Hohensee said that in addition to Devall Towing fleeting operations of more than 100 barges per day, the port's waterfront is also home to marine construction operations, wet barge cleaning and stripping operations and dry-barge cleaning and repair facilities. He said that Devall Towing anticipates that by 2020, Southwest Louisiana will see its regional demand for barge fleeting space expand to more than 200 barges per day.
"At the West Cal Port, we are doing all we can to help meet that growing demand — not only to provide a place to 'park' barges, but also to service them," said Hohensee. He said the new infrastructure will play another very important role critical to the region's welfare in enhancing the port's ability to serve as a "safe harbor" for shallow-water maritime vessels during times of violent tropical weather conditions, including hurricanes.


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Q: How do I get an IConfiguration instance in my DbContext? I've seen a number of tutorials that explain .NET core + EF configuration, but none of them explain how to get a Configuration instance in the DbContext.
The reason I need this is to get the db connection string:
namespace Models
{
    public class BlogContext : DbContext
    {

        public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }
        public DbSet<Post> Posts { get; set; }

        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder options)
            => options.UseSqlite(Configuration.GetConnectionString("BlogDb"));

    }
}

My connection string is in an appsettings.json file:
{
    "ConnectionStrings": {
        "BlogDB": "Data Source=blogging.db"
    }
}

Most tutorials show an instance of IConfiguration in the db context. I suspect that it happens through the constructor:
private readonly IConfiguration Configuration;
public BlogContext(IConfiguration config) {
    Configuration = config;
}

But, how does this actually get injected?
This is how I'm using the context:
public class Seed
    {
        public static void SeedDatabase()
        {
            using var db = new BlogContext();
            ... stuff ...
        }
    }

How do I actually get the connection string from the settings file? It seems very confusing and a lot of work to do something very simple...
UPDATE
I'm using Seed like so:
public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Seed.SeedDatabase();
        }
    }

How do I actually get an instance of DbContext into SeedDatabase?

A: Based on the code above, it looks like there might be some mixing and matching on dependency injected and static code that's giving you a headache. Your middle example expects the configuration to come in through constructor injection, but then you're newing up an instance in your static method that can't use it.
Ideally, during your service registration, you'd do something like:
services.AddDbContext<BlogContext>(options =>
    options.UseSqlite(Configuration.GetConnectionString("BlogDb")));

This is registering the DB context into the service container with the options delegate set up to use the connection string from the appsettings, so your context would just look like:
public BlogContext(DbContextOptions<BlogContext> options)
   : base(options)
{
// ...
}

And your context is no longer directly taking the dependency on the IConfiguration object. There's an example of that in Microsoft's docs here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/miscellaneous/configuring-dbcontext#using-dbcontext-with-dependency-injection
With either route, though, you'd need to have the DbContext injected by the DI container in order to resolve the dependency tree, so trying to new up a context in the static method isn't working -- you have to get that dependency there somehow (hence your question). There's a bit of an XY problem here if I'm reading it right, so I'll try to cover both.
If you really need to maintain the code as written, you could inject the IConfiguration into the Seed class (or whatever other class you're calling from) and then pass it down to the static method via method injection. The Seed class itself (or whatever other instantiated class) would have to be registered to the DI container in order to get the IConfiguration passed into its own constructor and then injected where you're using it:
public class Seed
{
    private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;

    // The Seed instance itself could have the IConfiguration injected and be available to pass to the static method...
    public Seed(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        _configuration = configuration;
    }

    // ... but either way, when you call this, you have to pass in the dependency yourself, either from this class's instance, or from another one
    public static void SeedDatabase(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        using (var db = new BlogContext(configuration))
        {
            //...
        }
    }

}
More realistically, it looks like you're trying to seed the database (duh). If that's the case, take a look at EF Core's mechanisms for seeding : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/data-seeding
UPDATE
Adding some further information based on the additional code you posted. In your example, you're trying to hit your static seed function right at the program's entry point. Still hard to tell from the code whether you're building a host and service container, so I'll assume not for now. You can try something like the following:
using System;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var configuration = new ConfigurationBuilder()
            .AddJsonFile(Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, "appsettings.json")) // Grabs the appsettings JSON as the configuration source
            .Build();

        var dbOptions = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<BlogContext>()
            .UseSqlite(configuration.GetConnectionString("BlogDb"));

        Seed.SeedDatabase(new BlogContext(dbOptions)); // Pass in your prepared DbContext via method injection
        //...
    }
}

The EF Core seed capabilities will still probably help get you something more robust.

A: You should be using the DbContext with injection too. Note that anything to be injected needs to be added as a service. You can generally add a class as a service from the Startup class. In the case of a DbContext, you would use the extension method AddDbContext inside the ConfigureServices method.
services.AddDbContext<BlogContext>();

Once you use this code above, you will be able to inject IConfiguration the way you tried.
However this is not the best practice when setting up a web app. The IConfiguration is generally just used in the startup class. In this case, you can pass a parameter into the AddDbContext function to add a configuration.
services.AddDbContext<BloggingContext>(options => options.UseSqlite(Configuration.GetConnectionString("BlogDb"));

If you use this method, you should also remember to use the following constructor:
public class BlogContext : DbContext
{
    public BlogContext(DbContextOptions<BlogContext> options)
    :base(options)
    { }

    public DbSet<Blog> Blogs { get; set; }
}

For the full documentation on this process, check this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/miscellaneous/configuring-dbcontext.
Data seeding is also build into EF Core. You can check this:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/data-seeding

A: Somewhere in your Seed class:
var config = new ConfigurationBuilder()
                 .SetBasePath(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory())
                 .AddEnvironmentVariables()
                 .Build();
var dbContext = new DbContext(config);


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Rosalind Cash
Rosalind Cash (December 31, 1938 – October 31, 1995) was an American singer and actress, whose best known film role was as Charlton Heston's character's love interest Lisa, in the 1971 science fiction cult classic, The Omega Man. To soap audiences, she is probably best remembered as Mary Mae Ward on General Hospital from 1994–1995. Cash was the second of four children. Her siblings were John (1936–1998), Robert, and Helen. All were born and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Her older brother, Col. John A. Cash, enjoyed a long illustrious career with the United States Army. He died in 1998 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Rosalind Cash graduated with honours from Atlantic City High School in 1956. She attended City College of New York and was an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company founded in 1968. Her career extended to stage, screen, and television. Her films included Klute (1971), The New Centurions (1972) with George C. Scott, Uptown Saturday Night (1974) with Sydney Poitier, and Wrong Is Right (1982). In 1995, she appeared in Tales from the Hood which marks her last film appearance before her untimely death.
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June 25, 2018Earth, Environment, Health & Medical, Psychological
Polluted Air Can Cloud Your Morality, Lead To Unethical Behavior
by Ben Renner
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NEW YORK — Polluted air doesn't just affect our physical health, but it can disturb our psychological health too. The findings of a recent study show that exposure to air pollution, or even just the belief that you've been exposed to toxic air whether you have or not, can compromise a person's sense of morality.
Researchers from Columbia University conducted experimental studies and surveys of past data to find indications of air pollution exposure affecting crime and deviant behavior. The results showed a link between pollutants and a person's likelihood of committing a criminal act or cheating. The authors believe the connection has to do with increased anxiety that people experience in areas with greater levels of pollution.
The findings of a recent study show that exposure to air pollution, or even just the belief that you've been exposed to toxic air whether you have or not, can compromise a person's sense of morality.
"Our findings suggest that air pollution not only corrupts people's health, but also can contaminate their morality," says first author Jackson G. Lu, a behavioral scientist at Columbia Business School, in a release by the Association for Psychological Science.
Previous research has associated elevated levels of air pollution to heightened anxiety in individuals, which has long been correlated with unethical behaviors.
One study compared crime statistics with air pollution levels of over 9,000 cities in the United States over a period of nine years. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation contributed data to the study. Cities with higher levels of air pollution also had higher levels of crime, especially violent crime, such as robbery, assault, and murder.
In order to show a direct, positive correlation, the researchers gave 256 study participants pictures of a polluted scene or a clean scene. The participants were then asked to imagine themselves living in or inhabiting that space, specifically how it would feel to breathe the air. They were then asked to complete a word association test on a computer in which they were told a "glitch" made the answers available to them if they hovered the mouse over the answer box. What they didn't realize was the answers were purposefully made available to them.
Researchers specifically asked the individuals not to cheat. Participants earned $0.50 for every correct answer, but were not aware that the researchers could monitor how often they'd take advantage of the glitch.
The results showed participants who imagined themselves inhabiting a more polluted space "cheated" on the test more often.
Another experiment sought to verify the link between anxiety and air pollution. Participants were shown photos from Beijing, with some images depicting notably smoggier scenes and others showing much cleaner views of the same area. The individuals were tasked with writing essays about what they thought it would be like to live there. Later, specialists measured the essays for anxiety. Sure enough, those who imagined themselves living in the cleaner areas displayed lower levels of anxiety in their essays compared to people who wrote about living in polluted areas.
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Those same participants also took part in experiments that again gave them the opportunity to cheat in order to win. One experiment involved predicting a die-roll and another involved negotiation strategies. Those who wrote about polluted areas were also more likely to cheat in the die-roll game or use unethical strategies to succeed in their negotiations.
"This research reveals that air pollution may have potential ethical costs that go beyond its well-known toll on health and the environment," concludes Lu. "This is important because air pollution is a serious global issue that affects billions of people—even in the United States, about 142 million people still reside in counties with dangerously polluted air."
The study was published Feb. 7, 2018 in the journal Psychological Science.
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This morning I weighed myself. 151.8 pounds. The heaviest I have ever weighed while not growing a human inside me. I guess that explains why I can no longer button my pants.
I'm heavier than my husband now, for the first time in 25 years. The son of a jockey, he was bred to be lean. He drinks soda all day. Did I mention that? His blood type is corn syrup and caramel coloring, but he can button his pants just fine.
I don't typically keep score like that. I don't care what the number is. I care how I feel in my own skin. My skin feels stretched.
My lowest weight as an adult came after my surgery. A surgery that came after the norovirus. A couple of weeks prior to having a desmoid tumor and part of my leg muscle surgically removed I was hospitalized for three days after the norovirus swept through our home.
It hit everybody in my family to a certain degree, but the only one taken away in an ambulance was me. I spent a few days in the hospital hooked up to IVs, swallowing two kinds of antibiotics twice a day, and undergoing a battery of tests before the mystery was solved.
It was just days before my surgery when I began to feel human. Then, as you could imagine, the wind left my sails quickly again. After my surgery I weighed less than 120 pounds. And that was with the cane. For me, that was practically skeletal.
"You look great!" They'd say.
Thank you, but I'm not well.
It was strange to be oohed and aahed in a body that had never been before. This body, my body had always been average, quite plain. To be congratulated for a frame born of affliction and distress felt vile. I'm thin, but I'm not well. Don't you see?
As you've now deduced I've settled back into my weight. Settled a little too comfortably, perhaps. If I knock ten pounds off I'll be happy, but I'll settle for five. Just enough to button my pants again. Just enough to be one under my spouse.
It's not about a number. It's about my skin. Fitting into it, being able to breathe. I have to keep an eye on it. I don't have the luxury of letting the pounds stack up. I have less leg to haul myself around. And I'm older, so much older, than I used to be.
Our bodies are our homes, our castles. They house our organs and protect our souls. They bleed and ache and break to remind us that we're human. They heal. They bring forth life. They let us touch and feel, taste, smell and hear. They make us believe we can fly. They connect me to you and me to I.
I live in this body, but it is not a house. This is not some temporary dwelling to move in of and out. This is my home. My forever home. The only one I've got. My castle. My sanctuary. My gift, for all its flaws.
I can't button my pants now, but I will. Eventually. I'll get out there, do what it takes. I need to. I have to. This body gave me no luxuries. My body is my home. It is neither perfect nor pleasant. It is not simple. It's rarely kind. It is where I live, though. And only for now it is mine.
What a fantastic response to "Home." I love this! So much to think about here. Growing up a student of ballet, thin was not just good-looking but the only way to be successful. My mom was always "hippy" (as in full of hips) like I am now. But when she became sick, she thinned out a lot; eventually her skin hung from her bones–and thinness was no longer pretty, but it was how her body failed (or a symptom of that failing). Today, my boys are so happy in their little bodies that work so well and so un-bogged-down by body image crap. It's been freeing to let that stuff go by watching them. Anyway, what a lovely post you wrote, as always. Can't wait for the book that comes from all this wonderful writing you're doing. Back to NaNo for me!
Girl, I have been rocking the elastic waistband alllllll day!
It's a delicate dance to be healthy but not get wrapped up in thinness.
I loved this response Christine. Our bodies are our homes, whether we like them or not.
Listen up: you're young enough to be my daughter, so I wanna share something with you: my whole life, my weight has been up and down like a roller coaster – making me just as sick to my stomach BTW, especially the times it's at the high end… like now. Actually I'm down almost 10 lbs. from my highest – and that's about 10 lbs. more than my 46-year-old son weighs. At my smallest ever I was 103, way back when I was newly pregnant with my daughter and was ultra-nauseous. And now, 160. Shh, don't tell anyone. I'm trying to get lower via logging my food on my phone app, to at least *try* to keep myself accountable… to me. My point is, our weight fluctuates; also we tend to be heavier the older we get: sad but true.


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How To Think Like A Strategist? Be Like Ike.
Ongoing planning beats static plans every time. Now's the time to learn the practice of real strategic thinking.
Chris Howard
What is a strategist? What is strategy?
I'd suggest the concept has become the buzziest of business terms. Everybody has to have one or several but no one really knows what they've got. Strategy now seems to cover everything from multi-year,enterprise planning to the smallest task. In other words, from real strategy to its own trivialization.
Back in the '90s, management consultants decided there should be strategies for everything and every well-run company should have several. They laid out a structure where every major objective would have its own strategy, every strategywould have its own measurable goals, every goal would have a set of tactics to reach it, and sometimes every tactic would have its own set of strategies in turn.
Chris Howard, Senior Vice President, Callahan & Associates
Today, that approach produces Seven Strategies to Reduce Drive-Thru Traffic Jams and Thank You Note Strategies that Work. It's not that these are bad things, or unimportant, it's that they are operations, not strategy.Likewise, the structure above works very well, but the component parts important as they are to enabling strategy are not themselves strategy.
To be fair, there's a traditional view of strategy that's just as troublesome: A detailed set of specific plans that ends up compiled, bound, and last seen gathering dust on a shelf. Even today, too many credit union leaders believe strategicplans limit vision, impede agility, and guarantee missed opportunities and suboptimal outcomes. As a result, strategic planning is often nothing more than a fancy name for basic business planning and budgeting, or worse, just an event for the boardof directors.
Managing day-to-day operations effectively requires a strategic mindset, but making time to talk about strategy is difficult. Learn how Callahan can help your team focus on the most important topics for your credit union based on long-term goals and member environment.
In this difficult time, when credit unions are under attack from every corner, that's not good enough. To survive and thrive, credit unions need real strategy big picture, long-term, and grounded in mission.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, perhaps the greatest strategist of the 20th century, depending on how you feel about winning World War II and driving on interstates, famously observed that plans are useless but planning is everything. That nicely frames the approachcredit union strategists need to take to ensure viability and prosperity, not just next year but next decade and longer.
They need to understand the real value of strategy is in the process of developing it Eisenhower's planning not in the details. To be useful, strategy must be flexible and adaptable so it can enable the agilitycritical for credit unions to seize opportunities as they arise and respond to challenges before they threaten survival.
So back to the initial question, What is strategy?
In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School legend and dean of business strategists, says strategy is deciding what not to do. Not a bad rule of thumb in a world where no company can be or should even want to try to be all thingsto all people.
In practical terms, this means setting the critical path from where your credit union is today to a vision of where you want it to be at some point in the future. Strategy sets direction to get you there, enables detailed business planning to keep youadvancing, and serves as a guide to keep you headed along the right course with every big decision you make.
Good strategy has five basic characteristics:
It is fundamentally cultural, starting with mission, aligning with priorities and values, and reflecting your distinct characteristics as a cooperative.
It is visionary, looking over the horizon to frame your long-term future, five to 20 years or more out.
It is big picture, covering your entire organization, your operating environment, and how you interact, internally among employees and externally with member-owners, partners, your community, and competitors.
It is condition-limited, reflecting your focus, circumstances, operating environment, and your understanding of what your credit union can and cannot accomplish.
It is conceptual, designed and used as a guide, not a roadmap, as a test for initiatives, investments, and other major choices, and as a source of inspiration for employees, member-owners, and the communities you serve.
Strategy is a robust tool that supports business planning, operations, marketing, community engagement, and yes, even budgeting, but its greatest value is in its constant use and refinement. Real strategy is never static because nothing today remainsthe same for long.
In these times of uncertainty, things are changing in ways we struggle to imagine, and the very viability of our business model might be at risk. Strategy real strategy is a key survival factor. Today, we all need to be thinkinglike strategists.
Chris Howard is senior vice president at Callahan & Associates. Among other engagements, he is the facilitator of Strategy Lab, a new Callahan program featuring onsite, interactive discussions that spark strategic thinking among credit union management teams. Find out more at Callahan.com/executive-education-strategy-lab.
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Kashan is one of the most ancient cities in the world. And being proud of its rich history, it boasts many amazing tourist attractions among which Fin Garden (Bagh-e Fin) is the most famous and the most popular with both locals and the foreign tourists. Fin Garden in Kashan is located in the village of Fin, 9 km to the southwest of the city. This garden is on the list of World Heritage Sights and is known to fully epitomize ancient Persian gardens.
The garden was first designed and established as a recreational facility for the powerful Safavid Shah, Abbas I in early 17th century and was expanded during the reigns of the rest of Safavid kings. When the Qajar King, Fat'h Ali Shah took the throne, Fin Garden gained even more popularity with the royal family and its architecture got richer and richer. However, despite all its beauty, Fin Garden in Kashan came to be the setting of one of the ugliest events in the history of Iran. It was during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar(1848-1896) whose very popular Prime Minister, Mirza Taqi Khan Amir Kabir was envied by the royal family and later on was assassinated in Fin Garden's bathhouse. Amir Kabir had caused a lot of systematic improvements in Iran in fields of education and is known to be Iran's first reformer and modernizer. It is commonly believed that Naser al-Din Shah Qajar himself had consented to Amir Kabir's assassination and that the Shah was encouraged to do so by his mother.
Pleasantly shaded by its tall, ancient cypress trees, Fin Garden occupies a 2.3 hectare piece of land. All around the garden, there are a lot of fountains and pools whose water comes from a natural spring called Soleimanieh Spring. The abundant water from the spring and the highly technical architecture of the pools and fountains have made the use of any water pumping system unnecessary.
How to Go to Fin Garden?
Fin Garden is located at the end of Amir Kabir Street and there are frequent shuttle taxis going to the garden from Kamal-ol-Molk Sq. You can also go there on buses that stop at the corner of Ayatollah Kashani and Baba Afzani Streets in the center of the city. Make sure you have the bus ticket card as you get on these buses. You can buy these cards at major bus stops in Kashan.


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Based out of CHU Sainte-Justine's Research Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Venture Lab features an international roster of scientists conducting a number of important research projects with a key focus on personality, building resilience and early intervention. Dr. Conrod's brainchild, the PreVenture Program, is also hosted at the VentureLab, where PreVenture experts are trained, and provide training and supervision to health and educational professionals from around the world.
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New Manor Camp Centre to provide quality facilities for families of Royal Marines
A grant of over £30,000 has been awarded for the Royal Marines Families and Welfare Centre in Taunton by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity (RNRMC).
The grant, which has been distributed by the national charity of the Royal Navy, will enable the centre to complete the interior with comfortable furnishings and equipment.
Set to be officially opened later this year, the Norton Manor Camp Families Centre will provide a high quality facility for the Royal Marines service families within the Taunton area.
Originally built in 1939, the quality of the current families centre has deteriorated significantly and has now been deemed 'beyond economic repair'. The proposed site for the new centre is a disused medical centre that will be structurally repaired and appropriately modified.
Funding for the centre's major structural repair is to be provided by both The Royal Marines Charity (TRMC) and the Chancellor using LIBOR funds. Additional financial support for the interior is being provided by the RNRMC.
Over 1000 serving personnel and their families will benefit from the new family and welfare facilities at the Norton Manor Camp Families Centre. Users of the centre will enjoy from access to; a chaplaincy support worker, a Families Liaison Officer, Community Beat Officer and HIVE.
The space at the centre will also play host to children's activity clubs, exercise classes and educational or creative classes.
Most importantly, the centre will be a vital line of support that families and dependants can use when their loved one is away on deployments. Equally, those who serve will now know that the families that they leave behind now have a dedicated support network.
Discussing the impact that the RNRMC funding will have on those using the Families Centre, RNRMW Specialist Case Worker, WO2 Darren Joyce, said:
"The new families centre at Norton Manor Camp will combine Welfare support, Community development and provide Short Term Families Accommodation under one roof. This will enhance community spirit, lifelong friendship opportunities and build resilience, all of which are vital ingredients to both new and established service personnel and their families.
"The RNRMC funding will significantly improve the quality of support for all serving personnel within 40 Cdo RM and the Taunton Service Community and will provide a much wider and long-term affect than the building itself."
For over ten years, the RNRMC has recognised that while one person joins, the whole family serves. The charity has distributed in excess of £55 million to help ensure that all sailors, marines, veterans and families remain as well supported as possible.
Director of Relationships and Funding at the RNRMC, Mandy Lindley, said:
"The Norton Manor Families Centre will become a vital hub for the whole Royal Marines family.
"We're delighted that the grant awarded will help make the facilities at the centre as warm and welcoming as it needs to be for families to fully enjoy it. This centre will become an integral part of the Marines community for many years to come."
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A3C Hip-Hop Music Festival 2016 Atlanta Dates lineup Schedule Events SHOWCASE
Nappy Roots, Skyzoo, J-Live and more to perform "ATLiens"
A year after Andre 3000 declared "The south got something to say" at the Source Awards, Outkast dropped ATLiens and changed the trajectory of the Atlanta and hip-hop culture. ATLiens is the unofficial soundtrack of Atlanta.
We are celebrating the 20 year anniversary of ATLiens with a tribute show as part of our 1996 show with Mass Appeal. Mr. DJ (DJ/Producer for Outkast) on the turntables, an all-star band and a collection of artist influenced by Outkast will perform ATLiens from front to back.
The artists performing ATLiens include: Nappy Roots, Nick Grant, Kelechi, Skyzoo, Chase N Cashe, J-Live, Deante' Hitchcock, Izzy Jone$, Chilly Chills, Michael Aristotle, 3D Na'Tee, Forte Bowie, Phay, Goldyard, Yani Mo, Apollo Ali, Jaye Newton, Jack Preston and special guests.
This show will take place on Saturday, Oct 7th as part of the 1996 Show with Bone Thugs, Too Short, Redman with Def Squad and Bun B... all of whom released classic albums in 1996.
Ashley Reid, pictured with her Manager JAG (Loud Pack Tour Creator), and brother Aaron Reid are locked in for A3C 2016 Panels
A3C Pro-Audio Center takes place at SAE Institute of Atlanta from Friday, Oct 7th through Saturday, Oct 8th
Featured speakers include: Jerry Wonda, Mr. DJ, DJ Toomp, Bryan-Michael Cox, Bad Boy's Hitmen (Sean C & LV, D-Dot, Nashiem Myrick, and Younglord), Streetrunner, Focus…, Needlz, M16, The Olympicks, Robert Glasper, Rico Brooks, Dow Jones, Sound Oracle, KY Engineerin, The Frontrunnaz, DJ Burn One, Black Metaphor, Fuse of 808 Mafia, Ray Daniels, WLPWR, Versatile Traxx, Major Seven, DJ Jelly, DJ Jaycee and Mark Byrd.
2016 Featured Speakers: Master P, Troy Carter (Spotify/SMASHD Ventures), Too $hort, Bad Boy's The Hitmen, Ryan Leslie, Marc Lamont Hill, Robert Glasper, Organized Noize, Anthony Saleh (Freebandz), Jonathan Mannion (Photographer), Tunji Balogun (RCA), Vanessa Satten (XXL), Fab 5 Freddy, Reggie 'Combat Jack' Osse (The Combat Jack Show), Jeff Carvalho (Highsnobiety), Azae (Azae Production), Justin Boland (Pandora), Justin Hunte (HipHopDX), Mike McGarry (Fitzgerald & Co.), Yomi Desalu (BET), Brian Young (The Shade Room), Jason M. Peterson (Havas), DJ Jelly, Corey Smith (MLB), Tuma Basa (Spotify), Daddy-O (MC/Producer), James Cuthbert (Sprite), Aaron Reid (Epic Records), Dan Resnick (Complex Magazine), Dante Ross (Warner Music Group), Mr. DJ, James Andrews (SMASHD Ventures), David Wall Rice (Morehouse College), Demont Callender (AM Only), Dina Marto (Twelve Music Group), DJ Toomp, Kwanza Hall (Atlanta City Council), Finis "KY" White (Audio Engineer), Walter Kimbrough (Dillard University), Focus…, Fuse of 808 Mafia, Greggory Smith (SESAC), Hurricane Dave (Radio One), Javier Sang (Worldstar Hip-Hop), Jeff Sledge (Atlantic Records), Jose Cuello (TuneCore), Joshua "M16" Banks, Joy Young (Wondaland), Julia Beverly (Agency Twelve), Keinon Johnson (Interscope Records), Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua (A&R), Marlon Nichols (Cross Culture Ventures), Maurice Garland (Hip-Hop Wired), Shanti Das (Press Reset Ent.), Smitti Boi, Sound Oracle, Steve DiCecco (Reebok), The Olympicks and William Warren Jr. (Mitchell & Ness)
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Canon PIXMA MX376 Driver Free and Review – The PIXMA MX376 is actually an economical solution for the office to print, duplicate, browse, as well as fax. Rapid publishing at around 8.7 ipm in black as well as 5.0 ipm in colour. Simple and easy duplicating, checking and faxing that the completely integrated ADF. High settlement and also minuscule ink dots guarantee you produce top quality papers as well as photographes. Check sharp pictures as well as documents at up to 1200 x 2400 visual dpi.
The Canon PIXMA MX376 Driver is actually a home office printer with looks to match. This's not the shiniest all-in-one printer, as well as compared to a little even more slick-looking Canon models, such as the MG6150, this is actually a bit on the simple side. Gone is actually the touchscreen display of those recent designs, substituted according to a 4×4 network of switches that brighten to reveal certain functionalities. That's certainly not as elegantly presented as the touchscreen alternative, yet that probably plays a part in the MX376's inquiring cost.
The remarkable thing about the AU$ 269 MX376 is how many tiny workplace components Canon's providing within it. It's a total multifunction, meaning those companies that simply can not free on their own from their facsimile substance addiction can be happy. The check scalp is actually rated at 2400x4800dpi, that sustains total automatic duplexing for scans, faxes and copies, and assists USB, Ethernet and 802.11 n Wi-Fi for connectivity to Personal Computer and Mac platforms.
Canon doesn't utilize the webpage per minute (ppm) score that suppliers usually tend to, instead expressing print velocities in graphic every minute (ipm) amounts. We've generally discovered that your speeds in real-world utilization will definitely usually be actually a little bit of below the supplier's "best instance" situations, however Canon's ipm numbers often be actually a lot closer compared to the over-inflated ppm amounts made use of in other places. Regardless, the MX376 really isn't measured as a velocity daemon at a stated 12.5 ipm for dark pages and 9.3 ipm for colour. Image publishing speed is recommended at TWENTY secs for a basic 10x15cm image.
Canon MX376 Driver Free and Review – In usable terms, the MX376 utilizes five ink containers. There are 2 dark tanks (dye as well as pigment) and cyan, magenta and yellow colour containers. Checking out online, we discovered each from the cartridges online for around AU$ 23 each, suggesting a total refill run will definitely establish you back around AU$ 115. Canon states assumed yields in a rather uncommon way, to some extent because of the numerous black storage tanks.
Setup of the MB885 was reasonably soft and also basic. Like many of Canon's current Wi-Fi-enabled styles, getting into surveillance information for encrypted systems is actually a little bit of a chore, but it's a chore you'll only have to perform when.
If you're predominantly imprinting that management off a Personal Computer you most likely will not observe that, however the MX376's button assortment carries out experience instead economical as well as clicky in restarted usage. The style is actually great, but making use of lightings underneath buttons doesn't permit quite the exact same soft process that our team really loved in the MG6150.
Canon performs certainly not price the MX376 as a specifically quick record printer, and this was actually played out in our screening. Sending out a solitary page record to the MX376 over Wi-Fi saw it surface a tired 21.6 secs later on. This did hasten afterwards first web page, nonetheless, and multi-page print has saw it hit about 10ppm, only somewhat below Canon's own 12.5 ipm number. Once more, we are actually hit according to just how Canon's numbers seem to be extra reliable in comparison to those from various other suppliers, even if they are actually not especially lively. A 10x15cm image print took on common 35 secs, which once again isn't really world-beating.
Canon MX376 Driver Free and Review – Publish quality performed the entire satisfactory without being actually excellent. We discovered simple newspaper records usuallied come out a little bit of moist, and also photo prints were actually just a touch dark in many cases, yet at that point this really isn't a dedicated photograph laser printer.
The MX376 exemplifies great market value for the SOHO multifunction customer. Our company might wish that was much faster, which the exact per-page rates was simpler to discern exactly, but those quirks apart, it's an outstanding overall ink-jet printer offering.


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Host: Miriam Liedvogel and Miriam Linnenbrink
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "Topics in mathematical modeling of language: evolution, eavesdropping, and colors" - Natalia Komarova
Speaker: Natalia Komarova from the University of California, USA
http://www.math.uci.edu/~komarova/
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of vocal learning" - Erich Jarvis
Speaker: Erich Jarvis from the Duke University, North Carolina, USA
http://jarvislab.net/
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "Deep linguistic time, ultra-conserved words and the linguistic universals that make them possible" - Mark Pagel
Speaker: Mark Pagel from the Reading University, UK
http://www.evolution.rdg.ac.uk/
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "Extra-linguistic factors nudge language evolution (but language is not passive and fights back!)" - Dan Dediu
Speaker: Dan Dediu from the MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
http://www.mpi.nl/people/dediu-dan
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "The origins and evolution of syntactic language" - Maggie Tallerman
Speaker: Maggie Tallerman from the Newcastle University, UK
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/maggie.tallerman
seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": "The Biology and Evolution of Language: A Comparative Approach" - Tecumseh Fitch
Speaker: Tecumseh Fitch from the University of Vienna, Austria
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tecumseh.fitch/
CANCELLED: seminar series "Darwin's Tongues – Evolution of Language": talk by Simone Pika
Speaker: Simone Pika from the MPI for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany
http://www.orn.mpg.de/2658/Research_Group_Pika
Abstract: "As a feature of life on earth, language is one of science's great remaining mysteries" 1:1. From early childhood on, human children produce a rich array of sounds, a manifestation of their potent urge to engage in communicative activities, obtain objects, and affect the thinking and behaviour of other people. Speech consists of over 100 acoustically unique phones, commonly combined into rapid sequences, which serve as the main carriers of meaning. These two characteristics—a rich acoustic portfolio and the predisposition to combine basic units into more complex acoustic strings—appear to be unique to the human species, and call for an evolutionary investigation 1,2. However, only recently has the topic of language origins returned to respectability after a long exile, including scholars from a wide variety of scientific disciplines such as Anthropology, Comparative Psychology, Computational Biology, Primatology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience for a recent overview see 3. Additionally, scholars have been focusing more and more on different components of language, for each of which a different evolutionary story is appropriate 4. A crucial component are gestures, which are used to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking and are integral parts of speech and thinking in language 3. Moreover, human children go through a gesture phase before they use their first spoken words to interact and direct the attention of their caretakers 5. It thus has been hypothesized that this brief period in human ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, with gestures being the launching pad out of which human speech may have blossomed e.g. 6,7. This so called gesture-first hypothesis especially inspired comparative researchers to search for evolutionary precursors to human language in nonhuman primate gesturing 7. Here, I will present an overview of the state of the art and focus in detail on recent findings concerning similarities and differences in gestural abilities of great apes and humans. In addition, I will introduce recent findings 8 on gestural abilities of the corvid family, ravens (Corvus corax), to evaluate the question whether comparable communicative behaviours reflect comparable cognitive abilities. 1 Knight, C., Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Hurford, J. R. in The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form (eds Chris Knight, Michael Studdert-Kennedy, & James R. Hurford) 1-15 (Cambridge University Press, 2000). 2 Hauser, M. D., Chomsky, N. & Fitch, W. T. The faculty of language: What is it, who has it, and how did it evolve? Science 298, 1568-1579 (2002). 3 McNeill, D. How Language Began. Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution. 278 (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 4 Hurford, J. R. Recent developments in the evolution of language. Cognitive Systems 7, 23-32 (2006). 5 Bates, E., Benigni, L., Bretherton, I., Camaioni, L. & Volterra, V. The Emergence of Symbols: Cognition and Communication in Infancy. (Academic Press, 1979). 6 Hewes, G. W. Primate communication and the gestural origin of language. Current Anthropology 12, 5-24 (1973). 7 Tomasello, M. Origins of Human Communications. 268 (MIT Press, 2008). 8 Pika, S. & Bugnyar, T. The use of referential gestures in ravens (Corvus corax) in the wild. Nature Communications 2, 1-5, doi:10.1038/ncomms1567 (2011). [more]


Home > Community > Birth Month > June 2017 Babies > 11 weeks old- still wakes every 2 hours to eat.
11 weeks old- still wakes every 2 hours to eat.
Is it normal that my 11 week old boy is still waking to nurse every 2 hours? He was born exactly 2 weeks early, so really he's like a 9 week old baby. He's healthy, and gaining weight well. Pees and poos fine. But I'm exhausted! My longest stretch of sleep is literally 2 hours on the dot!
Hmmmthat seems a bit much to me. I still feed my baby every two hours during the day but go 5 hours between feedings at night (my baby is 10 weeks and born a week early). My pediatrician said cramming as many calories into her during the day as possible helps her go longer at night.
Talk to your pediatrician about ways to stretch out feedings at night!
It reads in about an hour, if you take your time. It is an absolute GOD send. It will take some time to prepare, if you are breastfeeding, I found that pumping was an absolute must for me to really monitor the amount of food given. I have to be honest, I am supplementing now, but my kids are so happy and healthy, and I fully attribute it to the fact that their mommy and daddy are happy and healthy, because we are all getting sleep.
Nursing on demand is normal for breastfed babies. It's possible he is going through a growth spurt. My son has really bad reflux and for awhile there feeding him more frequently helped with that. Babies can also nurse for a variety of reasons like comfort, etc. My oldest nursed every hour and half through the night until he was almost a year old.
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Still eating every 2 hours?
baby still needs night feeding?


A one-night stay at the Andaz Maui.
A six-night stay at the Andaz Maui.
A five-night stay at the Andaz Maui.
Clearly the Andaz Maui is applying a minimum-stay requirement only to this base room type, since even the very next category can be booked for a single night. If the base room isn't available for sale, then it can't be booked with points. I called the hotel to confirm my findings, and a reservations agent acknowledged the policy. The agent explained that as the Andaz Maui is a "boutique hotel" (in that it has only 297 rooms, plus some villas), it's often fully booked.
The agent explained that minimum stay requirements range from two to six nights, depending on your dates. Theoretically, the shorter requirements should apply outside of peak dates (which seem to include December through April travel), but conferences, weddings and other special events can throw a wrench in the works there. The hotel does allow you to skirt this requirement in a way by booking some nights with points and others with cash — a reservations agent will process this booking manually — but otherwise you're stuck with the minimum-stay requirements, and exceptions are very rarely made, even for Diamond elites.
At Andaz Maui, the standard guest room is the garden view room. Consistent with our policy, the length of stay requirements at this hotel for a paid room are consistent with the length of stay requirements for redemption. Award space will be available at this hotel if standard room space is available.
Unfortunately the same requirements apply to suites. The hotel's "Pool Side Suites" are available for 40,000 points per night, but there are only three available at the property, and a minimum stay applies there as well, although there do appear to be a few dates where suites are available for stays as short as one night.
If you manage to book a suite award, you'll have a view of this pool.
What's a bit confusing about this policy is that Hyatt generally reimburses hotels for award redemptions. So, in theory, if the hotel is fully booked, it'll receive the same amount of revenue from an award booking as it would when a guest pays cash, in which case the property isn't really at a disadvantage by letting guests use points to book whenever they'd like.
Of course, a guest with hundreds of thousands of points to spare may be more willing to book a longer stay than someone paying $500 for each night, so award customers are (in theory, at least) less price sensitive. By setting these minimum-stay requirements, the hotel can sell more room nights, even if that means a frequent guest ends up "throwing away" points by booking their stay for a few extra nights, to end a day or two after they've already checked out.
Have you noticed a similar practice at any other properties?
Featured image courtesy of the Andaz Maui.


Arab 'Jambiya' Custom-Made Dagger Knife w/Sheath, Old.
Seller: travis... (25,743) 99.8%, Location: Denver, Colorado, Ships to: US, Item: 323764595931 Custom Knife Vintage Arab "Jambiya" combat knife with a 6" blade, 11.2" overall with ebony wood handle. With original engraved metal belt sheath. No visible markings on knife or sheath. Knife is in very good condition, lightly used. Straight and tight. TERMS: ---- All forms of payment are accepted and shipping can be combined on multiple items. If you don't have a PayPal account, other credit cards may be used via the eBay 'Pay Now' button, which will automatically direct you to a secure credit card checkout. If foreign shipping is offered, the foreign shipping fee will be listed and this shipping fee is NOT negotiable and do not ask us to falsify customs forms. International Buyers – Please Note: Import duties, taxes and charges are not included in the item price or shipping charges. These charges are the buyer's responsibility. Please check with your country's customs office to determine what these additional costs will be prior to bidding/buying. If payment is by Paypal, items are shipped to your Paypal address, otherwise to your eBay address, please make sure your address is correct. If you request delivery to an address that is different than your confirmed address, we will assume no responsibility. Payment details are emailed to high bidder shortly after auction end and payment is expected within 7 days. All items are mailed via US Post Office, buyer pick-ups are not available. Do not ask for a "buy it now" on auction items and also we will not end auctions early for a emailed offer. Items are described as accurately and honestly as possible and photos are of actual item at auction. Returns will be accepted only if the item is materially different from that described in the auction listing. Buyer must contact us within 3 days of receiving the item and buyer is responsible for return shipping charges. We include all the information we have about this item and if it's not shown in the photos, then it's not included. Please do not assume that we are experts on this item simply because we have it at auction. If you have any questions, please ask before you bid and please read the entire listing description thoroughly.
Popularity - 157 views, 9.2 views per day, 17 days on eBay. Very high amount of views. 1 sold, 0 available. High amount of bids.
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Seller - 25,743+ items sold. 0.2% negative feedback. Great seller with very good positive feedback and over 50 ratings.
25,743+ items sold. 0.2% negative feedback. Great seller with very good positive feedback and over 50 ratings.


Jose Mourinho had joked he has to push Ander Herrera away because the Manchester United midfielder always wants a chat with his manager.
Herrera irked Mourinho last month when the Spaniard admitted he and his team-mates lacked desire in the shock 2-1 loss.
Mourinho roasted his players publicly after the loss and reports claimed he was giving the cold shoulder to a few first-team stars.
But, the United boss rubbished those stories ahead of his side's game against Chelsea and says he only pushes Herrera away because he is always pestering him with questions.
'I am happy here – and I love my players,' said Mourinho.
'You try to create a story because of my words after defeat at Huddersfield – but there is no story.
'I was not speaking with Ander Herrera any more? Ander Herrera is the kind of player I have to push him away because he wants to speak with me all the time!
'I don't know where they get these kinds of stories. So yes, I am happy.
Mourinho takes his side to Stamford Bridge on Sunday afternoon in a massive game against Chelsea.
The Red Devils could cut the gap at the top of the table to two points should they beat the defending Premier League champions.
Chelsea are in desperate need of a boost on the back of a humiliating 3-0 defeat to Roma.
Antonio Conte's side cannot afford to fall further behind in the title race with nine points currently separating them and the leaders, Manchester City.
Mourinho has a point to prove at his old club after Conte won the the title in his first season as Chelsea boss.


The reality of the driverless tractor just got one step closer for Autonomous Tractor Corporation (ATC), the Minnesota-based company that's transforming tractors into efficient farm bots.
The company is finalizing tests and making refinements on the machine at its facility in Minnesota and will be imminently delivering it to its first customer FamilyFarms Group, a family farming organization in the Midwest, according to Schulz. The company gave AgFunderNews a sneak peak of the machine as it finalizes testing. Check out a video of the tractor here.
eDrive is sold as a kit which can be installed onto existing machinery as an after-market product. With eDrive, ATC aims to create a dual-purpose machine: one that offers the benefits of a manually driven electric vehicle with the promise of becoming an autonomous vehicle in the coming months. And by focusing on after-market products, the company strategically sidesteps many commercial issues that ag tech start-ups face, including the cost of having to build entirely new equipment from the ground up as well as access to distribution.
Farmer responses to eDrive, which offers 25 percent greater fuel efficiency, lower cost, and significantly simpler repairs, have been overwhelmingly positive, evidenced by the company's current log of back orders for the kits. "Different farmers like different things about it — simplicity, fuel efficiency, price, durability — and the increased freedom around maintenance and repairs it gives them," explains Schulz.
Farmers like the concept so much that ATC has won a Farm Industry News FinOvation Award twice, most recently last month. These awards are based on reader interest in certain technologies and previosu awardees include Precision Planting, which was really acquired by John Deere from Monsanto, the publication's FinOvation Awards.
ATC has so far entered into agreements with four dealers in the US and Canada as distributors globally are anxious to get their hands on eDrive kits.
"Without really any marketing, we have a list of over 60 individuals and dealers who are asking us for units," says Schulz. "I get calls from new prospects almost every day. No one doubts the market potential. It's all about execution on the technology and scaling up from here." According to ATC, the potential market value for eDrive retrofit kits is around $29 billion.
Second, it opens up distribution channels that would not be available to the company if they were producing a complete tractor.
With eDrive's debut successfully underway, ATC will now focus on building the autonomous capabilities on top of it. And its autonomous hardware technology, AutoDrive, is set for release later this year.
AutoDrive seeks to overcome some of the challenges that today's technology presents, including positioning data that simply isn't reliable, accurate or repeatable enough for truly driverless operations. The lack of security in GPS communications could allow hackers to take control of a GPS-based vehicle. Designed for tractors retrofitted with the eDrive, the new product will do this using laser and radio navigation technology.
Achieving true autonomy will take time, and a number of different steps as tractors gradually take over more and more of a farmer's activities in the cab. Modifying tractors with electronic drives through eDrive represents a first and foundational step in ATC's journey toward autonomy.
So what does a fully autonomous vehicle require? To assess this quandary, Schulz looks at all the functions that the driver performs and considers the feasibility of turning over those tasks to a computer.
ATC is turning to artificial intelligence to overcome these challenges, researching and developing ways to teach a computer to learn what a farmer is doing as he or she is doing it. This is another benefit of the step-by-step approach as it allows the technology to learn directly from the farmer as he is performing key tasks while also having the added benefit of easing farmers into a new way of operation.
Some companies have already marketed tractors as autonomous devices, but Schulz suggests that moniker may be misapplied. "If you still have to have someone in the cab to provide for safety, occasional steering and implement control, it doesn't really seem to meet the test of autonomous operations. That's like calling cruise control in a car autonomous," he says.
While farmers may have to wait a bit longer for a completely autonomous tractor, Schulz sees plenty of market demand for the individual technologies it will take to get there.
To find out more about ATC, go to the company's profile on AgFunder.


During the final Post-2015 Thematic Consultation on Governance in Midrand, South Africa (read article above), the group's second Working Paper was presented. Commissioned by the DeLoG secretariat and written by Nicolas Awortwi, 'Making the Case for Decentralisation and Local Governance' constitutes the first contribution of the Development Partners Working Group on Decentralisation & Local Governance to the on-going debate around the Post-2015 development agenda. Based on lessons from the implementation of the MDGs, and taking persistent but also new development challenges into account, the paper shows the relevance of a functioning multi-level-governance system for any future development agenda in six key thematic areas. These areas are: (1) basic service delivery; (2) growth and employment creation; (3) inequalities; (4) environmental sustainability and climate change; (5) food security and (6) fragility, conflict and post-conflict situations. The paper also argues that once there is consensus around the thematic areas of Post-2015, the indicators and the monitoring of progress will need to follow a multi-level approach. The latter is essential for development interventions to be tailored to specific sub-national needs and contexts, while retaining the MDGs' well-tried merits in the shape of regional and national assessments. The paper closes by sketching out the role development partners need to play in order to successfully implement decentralisation and local governance reforms.


Peachy's Mom snapped this photo of Peachy (red hair) running the mile in 1974. 40 years later she ran darn near the same pace for 6.2 miles.
Many of my clients have been busy tearing up the roads and trails this winter. I'm a big fan of using 5 and 10km races over the winter as a way of staying in the game.
Susan "Smooh" Hayden rocked the hills of St. Francisville, LA (yes, there are hills in south Louisiana – big suckers, actually). She placed second in the 10 mile Wilderness challenge.
Stacey "Stud Woman" Finerman continues to roll. SW placed second overall in the aptly named Polar Prowl 5km in Boulder, CO.
Ken Miller set a 40 second PR for the 5km distance at the SoCal Half Marathon and 5km. Impressive!
Lisa "Rockfish" Ribes ran to a second overall in the Tucson Sun Run 10km, with a quick early season time of 36:53. Keep an eye out for Rockfish this year!
Sharon Peachy "her actual maiden name" Sheremeta ran an unbelievable 10km in the Tucson Sun Run. At the ripe young age of 54, Peachy smashed her all-time best for the 6.2 mile distance – by a longshot.
Words can't describe how fortunate I am to have friends and clients who continually impress and motivate me with their passion for fitness and their dedication to balance and hard work.
Congrats on a great start to 2014!


MA Bands: MA period 9, Osma 3, Dist 20, Deviation 0.4, Bperiod 20.
When appears the buy arrow alert of the Ma Bands wait the buy arrow of the IBS, RSI CCI indicator and entry long at the open of the next bar.
When appears the sell arrow alert of the Ma Bands wait the sell arrow of the IBS, RSI CCI indicator and entry short at the open of the next bar.
Exit position with predetermined profit target that depends by currency pair and the time frame o at the opposite bands.
Time fram 5 min or higher.
When appears buy arrow of the IBS, RSI CCI indicator, entry long at the open of the next bar.
When appears sell arrow of the IBS, RSI CCI indicator, entry short at the open of the next bar.
This indicator makes the great entries trend following.
Exit position with predetermined profit target that depends by currency pair.
In the pictures Rainbow with IBS, RSI, CCI in action.


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Intense lessons offered to pupils outwith school hours
Pupils across West Dunbartonshire will be given access to additional lessons as part of an initiative to ensure no child is disadvantaged by the Coronavirus pandemic.
Pupils in schools across West Dunbartonshire will be offered additional lessons as part of the recovery strategy to raise attainment .
A programme of intense lessons for individuals and small groups will be provided after school, at the weekends and during school holidays. Funding to support 4,300 hours of lessons split equally between both primary and secondary pupils will be delivered by teachers, support staff and officers from the Working 4U learning team.
Evidence from the Education Endowments Foundation confirms that one-to-one tuition is effective in delivering approximately five additional months' progress in pupils and short, regular sessions three to five times a week over a period of six to twelve weeks, can offer the best results.
Councillor Karen Conaghan, Convener of Educational Services, said: "This funding will be a great benefit to both primary and secondary pupils. We know through the engagement figures of Remote Learning that our children and young people worked hard and were engaged with their learning.
For some pupils, additional hours of learning will support any loss of learning during this time due to the pandemic.
Our pupils have a great appetite for learning and through our dedicated staff we will ensure pupils benefit from these additional hours of support."
Councillor Ian Dickson, Vice Convener of Educational Services, said: "I am really pleased to see this additional funding to support intense lessons for our pupils. This intensive support can be really effective in supporting pupils who are struggling and will make a real difference to their learning. I'm sure our schools and pupils will make good use of this additional resource and I would like to thank the teachers and support staff both from education and Working 4U in helping to ensure no pupil is left behind due to the Coronavirus pandemic."
Elected Members gather to mark Holocaust Memorial Day
Council's Employee Recognition Awards now open for nominations!
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Renovation work complete at Alexandria Library
Council's Cost of Living Crisis Fund is boosted by an extra £1m investment.
£3million savings agreed as first phase of Council budget process