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Triumph Overpaid Carlyle Group for Vought Aircraft
Philly.com reported:
Triumph reported an $88 million fourth-quarter loss after writing off $229 million of the $1.4 billion it paid Carlyle Group for Boeing supplier Vought Aircraft Industries in 2010.
Triumph wrote off 16.4% of Vought's purchase price. Besides paying too much for Vought Triumph inherited the company's promise to create 3,000 new jobs and employ 6,000 total in Texas through 2019.
Governor Rick Perry, intent on pushing public money to corporate friends and supporters, gave Vought $35 million without the company formally applying for funds. Attorney General Greg Abbott, now Texas Governor, prevented the public from knowing the most basic information about his boss' corporate slush fund. Yes, neither party is in jail for being an abysmal shepherd of public funds.
Carlyle owned Vought took the $35 million in 2004 and by 2005 knew it wouldn't come close to reaching their Texas job promise. South Carolina won Vought's Boeing Dreamliner production. Vought's CEO under Carlyle told Dallas Business Journal in 2007 that the job promise was worthless, yet no one pursued repayment.
By the time Carlyle sold Vought in 2010 it paid back a mere $900,000 to Texas taxpayers. Triumph paid back $9.2 million since paying too much for Vought.
PEUReport began covering Vought's employment promises and abject failures in 2008.
There are numerous posts on this blog that detail aspects of Vought's operations and hollow employment promises. Yet, they still hold $25 million in public money a mere four years from the end of the agreement.
Toshiba Could Compound Cultural Dysfunction with PEU Sale
Toshiba Corporation, lured by the siren song of executive rewards, falsified profits from 2009-2014. WSJ reported;
Three consecutive Toshiba chief executives fueled the accounting irregularities by setting unrealistic profit targets and demanding that subordinates meet them, an independent panel hired by the company said Monday.
Now the company wants to rectify longstanding accounting fraud by partnering with a private equity underwriter (PEU) on its medical imaging business. Apparently Toshiba executives haven't learned how PEUs pressure affiliates to perform financially such that executives commit bribes or fudge profit numbers.
Toshiba knows its internal failings: Japan Times reported in July 2015.
It emerged this year that from fiscal 2009 to 2014 the firm manipulated its accounting to produce a ¥152 billion net profit.
Toshiba Corp. will forgo bonuses to all 33 executive officers for the current business year as managers take responsibility for an accounting scandal, company officials said Thursday.
The move is aimed at restoring trust in the company as soon as possible, the officials said.
The performance-linked payment (is) usually paid in July,
The falsified profit numbers produced performance payments from July 2010 to July 2014. Japan once widely embraced the leadership teachings of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who encouraged management to drive out practices that encouraged the falsification of numbers. Fear is one cause and greed is another.
He also spoke about constancy of purpose, which is greatly harmed by the buying and selling of companies and PEU profit maximization machinations. Having made one great sin by driving in fear and greed, Toshiba looks to compound it by partnering with a PEU on Toshiba Medical Systems.
Toshiba need only look at The Carlyle Group's decimation of Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc.
Ortho-Clinical missed a deadline last year for reporting its third-quarter 2014 earnings and disclosed them late, citing accounting complexities
Carlyle loaded Ortho up with debt. Bloomberg reported:
Carlyle acquired the unit, which provides medical tests and equipment for disease screening, from J&J with more than 80 percent of the deal financed using credit.
Profits for the third quarter declined in each of the last two years under Carlyle's ownership.
The company's $1.3 billion of 6.625 percent bonds sunk to 68.1 cents
Leveraged buyouts can kill a company's culture. I'd love to hear from Ortho-Clinical employees on their culture with The Carlyle Group as their "sponsor."
Toshiba's case of cultural sickness will go from bad to worse with a majority PEU owner. They can't see it.
Davos Men Push Back Against Angry Voters with Job Threats
Fortune reported:
One of the main themes of this year's World Economic Forum is how technology could shrink the workforce, cutting as many as 5 million jobs worldwide in the next few years.
Gary Cohn, the chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, says that many of the companies he works with are looking to "optimize" their workforce. He says that will result in the redistribution of more U.S. employees to lower cost areas, like Bangladesh, India, or Warsaw.
Clearly American jobs will be lost to optimize executive compensation, pure and simple.
Update 1-24-16: On one estimate, 47% of US jobs are at risk from automation.
PEU Schwarzman Shows Davos to be Insular Crowd
Blackstone Group co-founder Stephen Schwarzman expressed surprise at American voters finally reacting to the economic raw deal both political parties served up in the new millennium. His ear comments came at the annual meeting of global tamperers in Davos, Switzerland, known as the World Economic Forum.
Treasury Chief Jack Lew, a product of Wall Street, stood front and center this morning at Davos. He is but one in a long line of public servants with a storied investment banking career.
Many returned to Wall Street or joined private equity firms, formerly known as leveraged buyout organizations. Private equity underwriters (PEU) became ubiquitous during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama Presidencies.
America's Red and Blue political teams sucked up to the greed and leverage boys, giving them fundraising titles like "pioneer" and "super bundler." In return PEUs got to keep their preferred carried interest tax treatment, something the general public has opposed for nearly a decade.
Private equity mavens started the "debt for dividend" strategy that public company CEOs twisted to "debt for shared buyback," borrowing to reduce the number of shares in public float. This move manipulates income per share numbers by making it higher. Companies, public and private, have loaded up on covenant lite cheap debt, facilitated by an extremely low interest rate environment.
Employees know the deal they've gotten from management this past decade. They've seen co-workers tossed aside and valued benefits cut. Some had their company bought and sold numerous times. With each management iteration the gap between executive words and actions often grew to canyon spanning dimensions. The people at the top got rich while worker pay stagnated.
Voters know the system is rigged when nearly every ex-politicians and public servant is now a senior advisor for a Wall Street or private equity firm. We know who's deal has gotten better and better the last ten to fifteen years. It's the PEU crowd, the Wall Streeter, the Davos Man. It's not us.
Many thought President Obama's campaign rhetoric would begin to turn this tide. After inauguration his language quickly changed and he steered his boat to the sweet spot in the current and rode it. Voters are grateful there is anyone speaking to our pain, our needs, to our hearts. The Schwarzman's of the world don't see us, much less hear or speak to us.
Asking Bloomberg to investigate the cause of voter anger, as if it's a sudden surprise, is laughable. I started PEU Report in 2007 because I didn't see anyone writing about the seismic shifts in how business is done. Someone noticed.
Readership varies, but that's not why I write. A record must be kept. The Schwarzman's can't be the only ones leaving their take for the world to digest or regurgitate.
Davos Opens
The World Economic Forum officially kicked off two days after Oxfam released their report on the impacts of the global economy.
During the period 2010-2015, the total wealth of the world's poorer half went down from $2.5 trillion to $1.8 trillion, while the total wealth of the world's 62 richest people went up from $1.2 trillion (not counting undeclared wealth) to $1.8 trillion (also not counting secret wealth).
Davos featured income inequality in 2015.
"The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to hide $7.6 trillion."
And that's what Davos was engineered to do, serve the captains of industry. Private equity underwriters are the captains of captains in an industry all their own.
Power Africa to Follow Davos
After the greed and leverage boys meet for deal making in Davos, Switzerland January 20-23rd they can fly to Washington, D.C. for the Power Africa Summit which runs January 27-29.
The Powering Africa: Summit is a meeting place to enable dialogue between public and private sector decision-makers across the US and Africa, promoting the investment opportunities in Africa's power sector. Those attending will include Ministers of Energy from Africa, heads of African utilities and regulatory bodies, US-based private equity houses and wealth management establishments.
The most notable of these are Blackstone, KKR, the Abraaj Group and the Carlyle Group, who have invested billions of dollars in pursuit of cornerstone energy projects that will draw directly on the spending power of the consumer.
January looks like a busy month for global tampering for the PEU boys.
Carlyle Monetizes Mountain Water: Thumbs Missoula, Montana PSC
The Carlyle Group took the bold step of selling Missoula's Mountain Water, a division of Carlyle's Park Water holdings. The sale occurred after a court condemned Mountain Water, giving the City of Missoula the right to buy their local water company for just under $90 million.
Apparently, The Carlyle Group is bigger than local governments or state public utility commissions. The billionaire boys are used to steering government, not the other way around..
Citizen Hillary Mined PEU Speaking Fees: Davos Nearing
The Clinton's millions in speaking fees have been reported by WaPo and The Intercept. Three private equity firms hired Hillary Clinton to speak since she stepped down as Secretary of State. Leon Black's Apollo Global Management, David Rubenstein's Carlyle Group and Henry Kravis' KKR each paid Mrs. Clinton hundred of thousands of dollars.
It's worth remembering this fact as the World Economic Forum nears. The meeting of global tamperes clearly has a bias towards the financial sector. Only months ago the WEF released two reports on Alternative Investments 2020. Alternative investments include private equity underwriters and hedge funds.
One report is on regulatory reform and the other on the future of alternative investments.
Private equity underwriters rode decades of financial engineering and their preferred tax status to become financial behemoths. Their spectacular ascent occurred under Red and Blue Presidents. Bill Clinton privatized government background checks to The Carlyle Group's profitability. George Bush's two terms in office saw Carlyle grow from $3 billion under assets to over $90 billion. Carlyle more than doubled again under Obama. How big might they get under Hillary Clinton's shepherding?
The PEU ground may become fertile under the Fourth Industrial Age, the theme of this year's World Economic Forum:
The speed of current breakthroughs has no historical precedent. When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace. Moreover, it is disrupting almost every industry in every country.
PEUs love disruption. It's the field in which billionaires are made. They need politicians to socialize their Third Wave losses as they privatize their Fourth Wave gains. I believe Hillary is up to the task.
Davos Masters: Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The power, greed and leverage class will once again convene in Davos, Switzerland at the 46th World Economic Forum annual meeting.
"There are many challenges in the world today, and I feel that one of the most intense and impactful will be shaping the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' – driven by the speed, the breadth and the complete 'systems innovation' of technological change underway. The challenges are as daunting as the opportunities are compelling. We must have a comprehensive and globally shared understanding of how technology is changing our lives and that of future generations, transforming the economic, social, ecological and cultural contexts in which we live.
Central questions that will be asked of the Fourth Industrial Revolution include:
1) How will it transform industry sectors, including health, mobility, financial services and education?
2) How can technology be deployed in ways that contribute to inclusive growth rather than exacerbate unemployment and income inequality?
3) How can breakthroughs in science and technology help in solving problems of the global commons from climate change to public health?
4) How will emerging technologies transform the global security landscape?
5) How can governments build institutions capable of making decisions when the challenges they face are more complex, fast-moving and interconnected than ever before?
I recognize a few PEU underlying themes. The answer to unemployment and income equality is technology, which the government must purchase from the private sector. It's not making America's billionaire class pay a higher tax rate than their secretaries or taxing their investment packaging which now get the treatment of local, safety net hospital..
Governments are responsible for global security and thus must foot the bill for intrusive spying, tracking and monitoring of all citizens. Nearly every private equity underwriter is in the defense and homeland security space, often monetizing their affiliates by selling to fellow PEUs.
Government has been reduced to the simple task of decision making. There's no discussion on the central role of government to ensure people are treated fairly. PPACA, otherwise known as health reform, resulted in the deterioration of health benefits such that many people cannot afford to see their doctor or get prescriptions as they haven't met their absurd annual deductible and don't have the cash to pay for care. Health reform has turned our nation into one of underinsureds. Many employers have chosen to drop coverage levels to the point people are insured on paper. There's no substance to the plan when it comes time for needed care."
Candidate Obama wrote to potential donors in 2008:
"If you're concerned about fairness in our economy, they (Republicans) won't do much to reward work and the workers who create it."
How have you fared under Obama's eight years in office? My employer provided health insurance turned to junk over the last five years. Pay has been stagnant, interrupted only by an occasional pittance of a raise
Ironically last year's World Economic Forum had lots of talk about inequality, which grew by leaps and bounds in America under President Obama.
It's hard to believe this crew will do anything other than further their own nests. It's been their practice for 46 years. If they were doing such a great job why would security need to increase tenfold this year? The Swiss Army will protect the billionaire class with 5,000 troops.
The :BO-PEU portion arose in the 1970's so their contribution to winning the global economy by having workers lose has been a mere thirty to thirty five years.
Enjoy the show of Davos masters adding to their personal pots. If they have their way we'll be lucky to have one left to piss in.
Fortress Investment Group's Ghoul-like Returns
32 Advisors website shamelessly reveals the ways politicians and public servants cash in after leaving government. They profile how the big money boys hire political insiders, who subtly direct them to industries experiencing major disruption. In this case 32 Advisors highlights Austan Goolsbee's turn at the till.
Through a contract with New York City-based consultancy 32 Advisors, Austan Goolsbee has held conference calls most Fridays since February 2013 with employees of large hedge fund firms Fortress Investment Group, York Capital Management, Perella Weinberg Partners, SkyBridge Capital and others.
Fortress Investment Group is the only publicly traded company in the group. How has Fortress' stock performed since Goolsbee began advising them? Fortress (symbol FIG) closed Friday at $4.65 per share. The size of the loss depends on which Friday Austan started.
February 1 - Close on 2-4 of $5.53, loss of 88 cents per share or a 16% decline
February 8 - Close on 2-11 of $6.32, loss of $1.67 or a 26% drop
February 15 -Close on 2-18 of $6.15, loss of $1.50 per share or 24% loss
February 22 - Close on 2-25 of $6.39, loss of $1.74 per share or 27% decline
Austan Goolsbee helped Fortress achieve ghoulish returns.
The big money boys are happy to pay retired political ghouls for insider connections, because that's the way work gets done in Washington. Note that Goolsbee is advising Perella Weinberg, once cited by President Obama as speculators holding up efforts to save Chrysler. Yet Obama reformed the healthcare landscape for those very same speculators.
CNBC's Annual PEU Review Omits Carlyle Group
CNBC reported on 2015 stock performance for a number of publicly traded private equity underwriters (PEU). Reporters used a number of terms besides private equity to describe the companies, LBO, public deal makers, and hedge fund asset class. They highlighted the beating most took in their annual stock performance.
I found it interesting the report omitted The Carlyle Group, especially given Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein is a frequent guest speaker on CNBC. Carlyle also values its good name. I offer the following chart on Carlyle's 2015 stock performance.
The reported closed the story with "the hedge fund asset class is losing public favor." That should help private equity keep its good name. Blame it on the hedgies.
Update 1-8-16: CG is down to $13.88 per share, nearly two dollars per share from 12-31.
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Chiropractic is a philosophy and healing art concerned with normalizing the condition of the nervous system by removing nerve flow blockages and disruptions caused by misplaced vertebra in the spine or any other joint in the body. Chiropractic may be used for treatment not only of the neck pain and back pain, but for prevention of disease and enhancement of our body's natural, inborn ability to heal itself.
Back pain, neck pain, pain in the knee and shoulder, carpal tunnel syndrome – these are common and sometimes debilitating conditions that may arise from car accidents, sport or any kind of injury, muscle overuse, incorrect posture and negative thinking, or long standing stress situations .Do you know that 68% of the population suffers from back pain and 85% of Americans will suffer incapacitating low back pain in their lifetime?
Today chiropractic is the most effective method of treatment for back conditions and the satisfaction rate with chiropractic is 95%!
The Koren Specific Technique is a low force directional adjusting protocol. In simpler terms it means there are no heavy manipulations, no 'cracking sounds' and no discomfort whatsoever. This new method is ideal to work with all ages, from newborns to the elderly, even people with Osteoporosis or other degenerative spinal conditions. The key to successful use of the KST method is the Arthrostim adjusting tool.
This hand held device delivers precise low force adjustments with a frequency of 12-14 light taps per second. This frequency is also known as the Schumann resonance. The Schumann resonance is often referred to as the earth's background base frequency, or "heartbeat". To optimize healing within your body a harmonization and rhythm must be established, it has been found that the Schumann resonance is just such a healing frequency. All this must sound a bit complicated but the main thing to remember is that Chiropractors have been getting fantastic results working with patients with all types of different conditions using a very light, very safe and most importantly a very effective technique.
Consult a Minnesota Chiropractor to learn more about the Koren Specific Technique.
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Анн-Катрин Линзенхофф (; ) — немецкая наездница (выездка), олимпийская чемпионка, двукратная чемпионка мира, трёхкратная чемпионка Европы в командной выездке. Посол доброй воли ЮНИСЕФ.

Биография
Анн-Катрин родилась в 1960 году в Дюссельдорфе в семье наездницы и будущей двукратной олимпийской чемпионки Лизелотт Линзенхофф, урождённой Шиндлинг, и Фрица Линзенхоффа. Она с детства занималась конным спортом. В 1981 году Анн-Катрин завоевала серебряную медаль на юношеском чемпионате Германии по выездке. На юношеском чемпионате Европы в Роттердаме в том же году она заняла первое место в командной выездке и третье место в личном зачёте.

Линзенхофф окончила ветеринарное образование в Гисенском университете в 1987 году. Тогда же на чемпионате Европы по выездке Линзенхофф победила в командной выездке в составе сборной ФРГ и заняла второе место в личной выездке, уступив француженке Маргит Отто-Крепен. Команда ФРГ вновь победила на летних Олимпийских играх 1988 года в Сеуле.

На чемпионате Европы по выездке 1989 года в Мондорф-ле-Бене Линзенхофф победила в командной выездке в составе сборной ФРГ и завоевала бронзовую медаль в личной выездке. Как представительница Германии она побеждала в командной выездке на чемпионате мира по выездке 1990 и 2002 годов и чемпионате Европы 2005 года. В 2007 году Линзенхофф объявила о завершении спортивной карьеры из-за проблем со здоровьем.

С 2002 года Линзенхофф стала послом доброй воли ЮНИСЕФ. Она основала фонд Ann-Kathrin-Linsenhoff-Stiftung-für-UNICEF, который поддерживает образовательные и медицинские проекты в Сирии, Ливане, Камбодже и Южном Судане. В 2007 году она пожертвовала ХДС в общей сложности 65 000 евро, что стало одним из крупнейших пожертвований того года от частного лица.

1 января 2008 года Анн Катрин Линзенхофф стала председателем фонда Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation, однако ушла в отставку в сентябре из-за разногласий с Наблюдательным советом. С апреля 2008 года она является заместителем председателя ЮНИСЕФ в Германии.

В 1989 году Анн-Катрин вышла замуж за Михаэля Крота, брак распался в 1999 году. С 2000 года она работала с инструктором по верховой езде у Клауса Мартина Рата, отца конника . Они поженились в 2004 году. У Анн-Катрин двое детей.

В 1988 году Линзенхофф была награждена Серебряным лавровым листом. В 2011 году она была удостоена креста заслуг на ленте ордена «За заслуги перед Федеративной Республикой Германия».

Примечания

Конники Германии
Олимпийские чемпионы по конному спорту
Олимпийские чемпионы от Германии
Чемпионы летних Олимпийских игр 1988 года
Конники на летних Олимпийских играх 1988 года
Чемпионы мира по конному спорту
Чемпионы Европы по конному спорту
Послы доброй воли ЮНИСЕФ
Выпускники Гиссенского университета

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Linear Treasure Maps
Alvin Arnold
While I was doing some remodeling work in the old brownstone I live in, I came across this treasure map. In order to unlock all the doors at the location of the treasure, I need to start at the starting point, and then travel in order from the first point to the fourth, gathering codes that will help me when I reach the final destination. Can you find equations of lines that will get me where I need to go?
Find the equation of a line that goes through the starting point to the point labelled first. Here is where I will find the first piece of the puzzle. What is it's slope, how do you know? What is it's y intercept? Put it in y=mx+b form. Find the equation of the line that goes through the first point and the second point. I will find the second piece here. What is it's slope, how do you know? What is it's y intercept? Put it in y=mx+b form. Find the equation of the line that goes through the second and third points. What is it's slope, how do you know? What is it's y intercept? Put it in y=mx+b form. Find the equation of the line that goes through the third and fourth points. What is it's slope, how do you know? What is it's y intercept? Put it in y=mx+b form. Finally, find the equation of the line that will take me to the treasure's location. What is it's slope, how do you know? What is it's y intercept? Put it in y=mx+b form.
Make Your Own Level!
Show/Hide Object tool
Coin flip preference
A. algebra
Definition of Conic Terminology
SunL Shapes Project
Problem 8F
Bar Chart or Bar Graph
Hypergeometric Distribution
Linear Programming or Linear Optimization

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Our class teacher is Miss Ford and our teaching assistants are Mrs Cowling and Ms Wilson.
Our P.E. days are Wednesday and Friday so please make sure you have your P.E. kit in on those days.
Our library day is Thursday. During this time you will be able to read a book of your choice and check out books from the Library. If you already have a book checked out please remember to bring it back in on a Thursday.
Throughout this year we will be working really hard to learn all of our times tables so if you would like to practice these at home why don't you have a go at the hit the button game.
Throughout the year spellings will be sent home weekly with the homework. Could you please learn these each week in preparation for a test on Friday.
Below is the statutory spelling list that all year 4 children should know by the end of the year. Please could you practice these alongside the weekly spellings.


Welcome to 411 Tierra Place. This contemporary home is situated on lovely manicured grounds with wooded lot behind for privacy. Enjoy the spacious open living room and dining room with cathedral ceilings, gas log fireplace, rich hardwood floors. New kitchen with cherry wood cabinetry, granite countertops, stainless appliances. Master suite with office/sitting room. Trek deck. One floor living with three bedrooms.


It sounds like your family is on a wonderful journey, adjusting quite nicely to your new home and surroundings. I'm sad to hear that Junior has regressed since you saw him last. I hope there is something that can be done to help him and get him back to where he once was.


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This theme may make you think of time spent in traffic, but for little ones, various types of construction can be quite fun. They will enjoy exploring various materials, big trucks, and blocks.
Display pictures of construction workers and equipment, highways, traffic and construction signs, etc. on the walls of your daycare.
To introduce your theme, simply set a large pile of blocks on the floor, in the centre of your daycare. Let babies and toddlers explore them as they wish when they arrive in the morning.
With older toddlers, set three large bins filled with sand, dirt, and rocks in a corner of your yard. Encourage them to manipulate the bin contents with their hands. After a while, hand them small shovels and invite them to use these tools to make small piles of sand, dirt, and rocks.
You will need one very big toy dump truck or several small ones. Wash them thoroughly and place children's snacks in the truck boxes. Roll the trucks to the table and use them to distribute snacks.
Find a construction zone close to your daycare. If you can do so safely, bring babies and toddlers to the site to provide them with the opportunity to watch the workers. Take pictures of the big construction trucks and various tools. Print and laminate the pictures. Have fun admiring the pictures to help them remember a past experience.
You will need clean empty milk cartons. Wrap the milk cartons with construction paper or paint them. Invite children to decorate them. Hang the birdhouses within your daycare or from tree branches, in your yard.
Purchase plastic construction hats for the children in your group. Have fun depositing a hat on each child's head and encouraging children to look at their reflection in the mirror. Take a group picture. Use adhesive paper to stick the picture on a mirror. Help children make a connection between their reflection in the mirror when they are wearing their construction hats and the picture.
Babies and toddlers love this activity that provides them with the opportunity to explore cause and effect. Select one type of blocks and set them on the floor. Encourage children to pile the blocks one on top of the other. They will enjoy making their constructions fall down and starting all over again and again.
Purchase tiny orange cones. Arrange them in the grass in your yard. Allow babies and toddlers to manipulate the cones and move them around as they see fit. After a while, add balls and invite older toddlers to throw, roll, and push them between the cones.
Take all the dump trucks you have out. Throughout the theme, offer different types of materials children can explore with the trucks. Babies and toddlers will like to fill and empty the trucks and push them around. Select materials that can safely be manipulated by young children and supervise them closely. This activity can be done indoors or outdoors.
Listen to the Bob the Builder theme song on the Internet. With your group, have fun looking at Bob the Builder books as well as other books that will make it possible for them to explore the construction theme.


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PS Vita sells 28 units in Japan
BUSINESS • PS VITA
Written by: MARCUS LAI
Sony Corp.'s PS Vita ranked as the No. 5 video game hardware in Japan in the latest retail data from the region.
Famitsu this week said the PS Vita sold 28 units between Sept. 16 and Sept. 22 rank as the No. 5 hardware for the week.
The hardware sold 42 units the week prior.
The Game and Network Services division, which includes the PlayStation business, recorded revenue of $4.52 billion in Q4. It held a operating income of $579 million.
Nintendo Switch Lite launch sales strong in Japan
PSN holds Sept. Flash Sale


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Equal Rights, NGO & Charities, Philanthropy, SDG Series
Educate to Lead: Leaving No Girl or Woman Behind
by Soroptimist International
Education is a patient investment, and we live in an impatient world.
–Former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard
Along with other NGOs and civil society organizations, Soroptimist International (SI) participated in the consultative processes that led to the creation of the 2030 Agenda. Through grassroots project work that empowers women, girls, and their communities, SI actively contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With almost 100 years of experience, SI is working to promote gender equality across a wide spectrum of issues where discrimination disables women and girls, preventing them from playing a full part in their communities.
NGOs can effectively build the capacities for sustainable development and as accountable organisations, can integrate perspectives of vulnerable groups into sustainable development programmes, enhancing its legitimacy. Simply put, the SDGs will not be achieved without the better inclusion of NGOs and civil society, especially when there is wide co-operation and mutual support.
In the Photo: A project in Nepal, SI Presidents Appeal 2015 – 2017 Photo Credit: Soroptimist International
SI has been working with the underlying theme of 'Educate to Lead', demonstrating with grassroots projects how education can play a cross-cutting role in achieving sustainable development and gender equality.
Educate to Lead: Nepal
SI has been working with a variety of partners in Nepal, following the devastation caused by earthquakes and their aftermath, and now floods. Fundraising by Soroptimists has taken place as a result of the International President's Appeal 2015 – 2017, Educate to Lead: Nepal. Take the case of Rupa: at just 17 years old, Rupa has already endured significant hardship in her life. When she was a little girl living in the village of Hetauda outside of Kathmandu, her mother fell very ill and passed away. With no other immediate family who could take care of her, Rupa was sent to live with an uncle in Kathmandu. Before Rupa's mother died, she asked her to promise that she would go to school and study hard, and Rupa has taken this to heart. She understands the value of education, and every one of her teachers has remarked that she is creative and intelligent beyond her years. "Given the right opportunity," her class teacher said, "Rupa could be Prime Minister of Nepal".
Soroptimist International President's Appeal support Rupa through the Nepali Children's Education Project (NCEP) scholarship project in Kathmandu. The NCEP vision is based on the belief that education is key to the empowerment of children living in poverty; for tens of thousands of Nepali children, access to this basic level of education is denied. Funds from the SI President's Appeal 2015-2017 will facilitate six months of tuition, textbooks and school uniform for Rupa to ensure that she can complete her education, graduate from high school and realize her dream to study law. The project will be on-going until Rupa is finished her education and becomes independent. Rupa now blossoms and with the support of the SI President's Appeal 2015-2017, is continuing to take strides to realize her dreams.
'Given the right opportunity,' her class teacher said, 'Rupa could be Prime Minister of Nepal.'
Education and sustainable development are interrelated and mutually reinforcing; education is central to sustainable development approaches. Access to quality education for women and girls of all ages is a fundamental human right and underpins their empowerment as individuals and members of their communities. Gender-based discrimination in education is both a cause and a consequence of broader forms of gender inequality in society, and must be overcome to achieve sustainable development for all. Discrimination, gender stereotypes, economic and time poverty, inadequate facilities, and violence at schools all create environments that prevent women and girls from achieving their fullest potential. To improve women's and girls' access to quality education, policies and actions must directly tackle situations that contribute to unequal outcomes.
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Girls' education is a critical lever to reaching other development objectives. Providing girls with an education helps break the cycle of poverty: educated women are less likely to marry early and against their will; less likely to die in childbirth; more likely to have healthy babies, and are more likely to send their children to school. When all children have access to a quality education rooted in human rights and gender equality, it creates a ripple effect of opportunity that influences generations to come.
Live Your Dream Award
For many girls' the education experience may not be a positive one and it is necessary to ensure that education can be resumed at all stages of life. Soroptimist International of the Americas facilitates a programme providing finance to women who have faced many challenges in life and been unable to complete their education. The Live Your Dream Award provides a second chance for women seeking economic security for themselves and their families.
Access to quality education for women and girls of all ages is a fundamental human right and underpins their empowerment as individuals and members of their communities.
Like many indigenous children in Canada, Terriea Wadud was adopted at a young age. Physically and emotionally abused by her adoptive mother, Terriea was placed back into the child welfare system at the age of 12. "I seemed to take on the role of the hero amongst the girls," Terriea recalls. "If a girl was getting picked on, I would 'protect' her by any means, including being abusive with my language and physically threatening the instigator. When this became too much, I would run away to the streets of Toronto." A pretty girl with low self-esteem alone on the streets, Terriea was an ideal target for sex traffickers and was trafficked in the sex trade across Ontario. Police searched relentlessly for her, and after a brutal beating by her pimp, Terriea was discovered in a hospital and asked whether she was ready to charge him. Terriea, who had just learned she was pregnant, agreed. At just 16 years old and 8 months pregnant, she testified against her pimp. Portrayed viciously by his lawyer, Terriea's calm and honest testimony paid off and her pimp received six and a half years of jail time.
When her daughter was born, Terriea vowed not to be anything like her adoptive mother, but her traumatic past made being a good mother difficult. She admits checking out emotionally, and sometimes physically as a parent, feeling suicidal and turning to drugs and alcohol to numb her pain. With no formal education, she was unable to secure employment, and so remained in the sex industry as a dancer.
In the Photo: Live Your Dream Awards Photo Credit: Soroptimist International of the Americas
At age 24, Terriea says she just could not feel her worth, but then an opportunity presented itself and became the first step in turning her life around. She completed a university-entrance programme called the Transitional Year at the University of Toronto. She continued with a life-changing volunteer training programme at Battered Women's Support Services, where she was eventually hired as an outreach counselor and then the manager of a women's safety and outreach programme. Supporting women and girls with similar traumatic histories and experiences of violence and abuse has helped Terriea heal her own traumatic past. Her ability to create and hold a safe space for women to share, counsel and explore problem-solving solutions has ignited her passion to pursue formal counselor training.
When things seemed to be getting on track, the programme lost funding and Terriea was let go. At the same time, she went through a painful personal tragedy and she and her children found themselves homeless. Rather than letting these obstacles send her into a downward spiral, she took up meditation and chanting to move through her feelings. She also reconnected with her birth mother, which has helped her learn about her indigenous culture and spirituality and brings her great comfort. Now staying with friends, Terriea says she is determined to heal this cycle and has accepted a temporary position with her previous employer.
The Live Your Dream Awards programme means stability for Terriea and her family. She is using the awards to pay for her tuition so that no matter what the future has in store, she will not have to put her schooling on hold for financial reasons. Terriea's dream is to eventually start her own counseling/life coaching business. "My prayers look a lot different today than when I was a little girl. There were many times being exploited on the streets or in my addiction I thought I was going to die and I didn't care," she said. "Now I have a purpose. I will continue to create a safe space for others to do their healing and transformational work. I will use my voice to share my story to inspire others to do the same. The Live Your Dream Awards will help me to further my growth, accountability, and commitment to be a transformational agent and end this cycle for my family!"
SEEED Jobs for Life
Malaysia has more than 200,000 unemployed graduates and almost one million school dropouts and jobless young people under the age of thirty. Crime, trafficking, prostitution and drug-related offenses have reached alarming levels. Soroptimist International Petaling Jaya competed with 300 NGOs in Malaysia to win the Berbudi Berganda: Social Impact Innovation Challenge with a Government grant of RM25,000 and Overall Grand Prize money of RM30,000 from Credit Suisse Bank. This challenge was sponsored by Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), an organization under the Prime Minister's Department to tackle youth unemployment and reduce social ills, substance abuse, crime, prostitution, poverty, and destitution. SI Petaling Jaya member Dato Anusha Santhirasthipam pioneered and created a social impact innovation youth transformation and job placement programme that is carried out over ten weeks, the programme included training on Mindset Change and Personality Development, Vision and Goal Setting, Communication Skills and Public Speaking.
In the Photo: SEEED Jobs For Life, Malaysia. Photo Credit: Soroptimist International
The programme, which commenced in February 2015 and is aimed primarily at the 18-25 age group, has inspired and motivated young people to achieve mental, emotional and physical fitness and built confidence and self-esteem, values, work ethics and readiness for employment or to start a small business. Participants attained visible improvements in soft skills and core competencies not addressed by the Malaysian education system at either secondary or tertiary level. The programme matched graduates with potential employers and were placed in jobs that best fit their personality, goals, skills, and capabilities.
SI Petaling Jaya has since expanded this programme to Klang district to the communities of Pandamaran and Kapar that have alarming official statistics for crime, social ills, and youth unemployment. SEEED Jobs For Life has been awarded National Blue Ocean Strategy (Social PPP) status and secured additional sponsorship of RM125,000 (GBP20,000) from Malaysian Collaborative Impact Initiative (MCII) and AIM / Prime Minister's Office to carry out this transformational training programme in Klang during 2016.
Many efforts to improve education access have focused on children and young people. Whilst it is critical that equal access and participation is achieved in this age group, it is also clear that education is a vital sustainable development and empowerment tool across all age groups. Mature and older women often have reduced access to educational services that combat illiteracy, and provide training that promotes social and economic empowerment. A life-course approach to education must remain a prominent issue in any new development agenda. Poverty and economic disenfranchisement are not only outcomes of a lack of education, they are also significant factors in preventing women and girls accessing education. Policies and actions taken to improve educational access for women and girls must also address economic barriers to education at all levels.
In the Photo: Awards Ceremony for SEEED Jobs For Life, Malaysia. Photo Credit: Soroptimist International
Education and training policies must be based on human rights and anti-discrimination policies, and must be recognized as a universal goal that is essential for individuals and communities to access other rights and benefits, including sustainable development. Education contributes to the independence, autonomy, self-sustainability, and economic and social empowerment of women and girls, and is one of the most effective tools for alleviating poverty for individuals and communities.
To achieve the transformative aims of the 2030 Agenda, future efforts should focus on the challenges faced by women and girls who suffer multiple discrimination and live in vulnerable circumstances, which include (but is not limited to) the time-poor, working women, rural women, ethnic minorities, mothers, older women, the girl child, migrants and refugees, those with disabilities, women living in sheltered housing and those living in conflict situations. Achieving gender equality through and in education is not only an outcome of sustainable development, it is a key implementation strategy that will positively benefit all three pillars of sustainable development – social, economic and environmental.
For current and future strategic objectives on the education and training of girls and women of all ages to be most effectively achieved, all relevant policies must build upon existing UN international conventions and agreements. Furthermore, inclusive interventions to provide education that encompasses all groups, especially marginalized, vulnerable and discriminated-against groups, is critical. Without further commitment and action to ensure that all women and girls have full and equal access to education, neither sustainable development nor gender equality will be achieved.
Based on grassroots projects and programmes, Soroptimist International offers the following recommendations for actions and strategies implemented to achieve SDG 4, and in consideration of education in achieving SDG 5:
Ensure women and girls access to education and training throughout the life cycle;
Promote and ensure the use of available technologies to increase access to quality education;
Establish effective, accountable and gender-sensitive monitoring systems and;
Promote capacity building
It is essential that the focus of future policies and mechanisms that contribute to the achievement of empowerment and equality for girls and women of all ages must have a gender-sensitive, human rights-based approach and address the specific needs of vulnerable groups. Further concerted, sustained and accountable actions must be taken to close the gender gap and achieve the full realization of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs.
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Cape officer resigns in wake of problem with GED documentation
A Cape Coral police officer recently resigned after officials discovered that he had provided the city with a forged GED document when hired in 2005.
A couple of months ago, Cape Officer Stephen B. Chase applied at the Lee County Sheriff's Office. During Chase's application process, the background investigator for the sheriff's office came across a document for his GED.
"When they were looking at the document, it didn't look quite right," Maj. Gene Sims, head of the LCSO's Special Operations Bureau, said Wednesday.
He said the name and completion date looked like they had been added on.
The investigator contacted the school district for the state and obtained a copy of the record to compare the documents and confirm Chase's GED.
"The document he did supply us was a forgery, so to speak," Sims said.
Chase had apparently found the GED of someone with the same name and input his own information, like Social Security number, on the document.
"We stopped processing him as an applicant," Sims said of the discovery.
The LCSO notified the Cape Coral Police Department of the problem, which then conducted its own investigation, according to Cape police officials.
"He resigned before he got fired," spokesman Lt. Tony Sizemore said.
He added that Chase quit about four to five weeks ago.
According to Sizemore, Chase was hired in 2005 during one of the Cape department's mass hirings. Processing more than 1,100 applications, the CCPD hired approximately 100 new officers within the 18-month period.
A military veteran, Chase provided a copy of the fake GED at that time.
"That's one of the problems with mass hirings," Sizemore said.
Chase did not have any college credits or a college degree when hired.
"It was during a time when we didn't require that," Sizemore said, noting that the department now requires a degree. "It's kind of a mute point now."
He added that Chase's work as an officer for the CCPD will remain valid. Chase attended the police academy and is a certified officer with the state.
"His actual work product was good," Sizemore said. "He did deliver on his service."
The issue that the department has was the lack of truthfulness.
"It's concerning that the guy would lie about having it," Sizemore said.
Chase will not face any criminal charges in connection to the GED forgery. Officials confirmed with the State Attorney's Office that it did not qualify as identity theft, and the real GED owner was not harmed – was not a victim.
"We're talking about something that happened six years ago," Sizemore said. "The actual harm was done to his own reputation and name.
Chase was a patrol officer at the time of his resignation.
His annual salary was about $46,093, according to city records.


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Formosa es una variedad cultivar de ciruelo (Prunus salicina), de las denominadas ciruelas japonesas (aunque las ciruelas japonesas en realidad se originaron en China, fueron llevadas a los EE. UU. a través de Japón en el siglo XIX).
Una variedad que crio y desarrolló a finales del  Luther Burbank en Santa Rosa (California), siendo un híbrido del cruce de Prunus salicina x polen que incluye probablemente de quince a dieciocho variedades como parental padre.

Fruta de tamaño grande a muy grande, siendo el color de su piel amarillo intenso con pruina ligera que se vuelve rojo claro en la madurez, y su pulpa de color amarillo pálido, firme, dulce, rica, sabor a albaricoque, bueno. Tolera las zonas de rusticidad según el departamento USDA, de nivel 4 a 10.

Sinonimia

 "Formosa Plum",
 "Formosa Japanese Plum",
 "Formosa Burbank Plum".

Historia

'Formosa' variedad de ciruela, de las denominadas ciruelas japonesas con base de Prunus salicina, que fue desarrollada y cultivada por primera vez en el jardín del famoso horticultor Luther Burbank en Santa Rosa (California) quien afirma que es de origen mixto, mediante una hibridación de la flor de Prunus salicina como parental madre con polen que incluye probablemente de quince a dieciocho variedades como parental padre. Burbank realizaba investigaciones en su jardín personal y era considerado un artista del fitomejoramiento, que intentaba muchos cruces diferentes pero registraba poca información sobre cada experimento.

Las ciruelas 'Formosa' se desarrollaron a finales del  en Santa Rosa, una ciudad en el condado de Sonoma en el norte de California. Fueron introducidas en los circuitos comerciales en 1907, siendo particularmente notable por su importancia para la industria del transporte de frutas de California.

'Formosa' está descrita: 1. Fancher Creek Nur. Cat. 7. 1907-8. 2. Fancher Creek Nur. Cat., Burbank's Late Introductions, fig. 1909.

Características

'Formosa' árbol medio y vigoroso, siendo su fuerte crecimiento erguido una característica notable de la variedad, extendido, bastante productivo. Flor blanca, parcialmente autocompatible en su polinización, buenos polinizadores son 'Golden Japan', 'Friar', 'Santa Rosa' y 'Laroda', está considerada buena polinizadora para otras variedades, y puede tener una floración tardía según las condiciones climáticas, que tiene un tiempo de floración que comienza a partir del 18 de abril con el 10% de floración, para el 21 de abril tiene una floración completa (80%), y para el 8 de mayo tiene un 90% de caída de pétalos.

'Formosa' tiene una talla de fruto grande a muy grande, de forma elíptica redondeada o cordada (en corazón), más o menos apuntada, asimétrica, siendo la sutura variable, a veces rojiza destacando sobre el color de fondo, en los frutos más coloreados sólo se aprecia por estar en una zona estrecha libre de punteado, en depresión ligera, más acentuada en la cavidad peduncular y completamente superficial en el polo pistilar; Epidermis muy fuerte, poco pruinosa, sin pubescencia, siendo el color de la piel rojo fuego claro o carmín, no uniforme, en general dejando entrever el fondo amarillo verdoso o dorado,  punteado abundante sobre todo en zona pistilar, dejando casi libre la zona peduncular y ventral, muy menudo, generalmente sin aureola,
aisladamente algunos puntos con aureola más oscura que la chapa; Pedúnculo corto, insertado en una cavidad peduncular muy amplia, estrechándose bruscamente, formando embudo, muy profunda, suavemente rebajada en la sutura y nada en el lado opuesto; pulpa de color amarilla o amarillo crema, textura carnosa, semi blanda, jugosa, y sabor dulce aromático, refrescante, estupendo si se le quita la piel que es ácida.

Hueso muy adherente, medio o grande, elíptico redondeado, aplastado, zona ventral y surcos en general mal delimitados, caras laterales fina y abundantemente esculpidas, con surcos en la zona peduncular y otros surcos y orificios en sustitución de los surcos laterales y en el borde dorsal.

Su tiempo de recogida de cosecha se inicia en la tercera decena de junio, primera de julio.

Usos
La fruta no solo es grande con pulpa jugosa, pegajosa y dulce, sino que también es perfecta para enlatar, comer fresca del árbol a la mesa, y si se desea cocinar con ellas, son excelentes para tartas y pasteles.

Véase también

Referencias

Bibliografía

 Herrero, J. et al. (1964) Cartografía de Frutales de Hueso y Pepita. Capítulo IV: Apéndice de variedades: CIRUELO

 Walter Hartmann (Hrsg.): Farbatlas alte Obstsorten, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-8001-3173-0.
 Martin Stangl (Hrsg.): Obst aus dem eigenen Garten, München 4. Auflage 2000, ISBN 3-405-15046-9.
 Rivera Núñez, Diego; Obón de Castro, Concepción. Frutos secos, oleaginosos, frutales de hueso, almendros y frutales de pepita . Volum 1. Editum, 1997, p.152–153. ISBN 8476847440 [Consulta: 19 de febrero de 2012].
 Henri Kessler, Pomologie romande illustrée. Les 50 meilleures variétés de fruits pour la culture avec reproduction en couleurs d'après échantillons cultivés au pays, 1949.
 André Leroy, Dictionnaire pomologique, tomes 3 et 4, 1867.
 Les deux tomes de « Le Verger Français », 1947, 1948.
 Robert Silbereisen: Malus. In: Hans. J. Conert u. a. (Hrsg.): Gustav Hegi. Illustrierte Flora von Mitteleuropa. Band 4 Teil 2B: Spermatophyta: Angiospermae: Dicotyledones 2 (3). Rosaceae 2. Blackwell 1995. ISBN 3-8263-2533-8.
 Gerhard Friedrich und Herbert Petzold: Handbuch Obstsorten, Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4853-6.

Enlaces externos

 Herrero, J. et al. (1964) Cartografía de Frutales de Hueso y Pepita. Capítulo IV: Apéndice de variedades: CIRUELO
 Catálogo de frutos de pepita y hueso en Aula Dei.
 Jirivyslouzil.cz/ovoce/Plums-Ciruelas en la República Checa.
 Jirivyslouzil.cz/ovoce/Plums-Frutas en la República Checa.
 Chathamapples.com/Plums in New York/MajorPlums
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There was an issue on Plume, issue 149, about adding some search capabilities to Plume. I've never worked on something like that, never touched ElasticSearch or anything, so I through it would be cool to discover how such things worked.
The first think to do was to go on crates.io to see what crates (libraries) could help me.
Doing some quick sorting, I could already eliminate most of the result. Some because they're tied to a database back-end we might not provide, other because they're not documented enough. In the end, I choosed Tantivy because it was the only one which was well documented, not a client library for another software, and actually feats to our need.
facet, which is a bit like a path, and can be useful to store categories and subcategories. See this link for more information, as I won't talk about them again.
With each field came some options, allowing us to tell Tantivy how to store and index things. The first option is it being stored. A stored field can be retrieved after searching for a document. Plume already store it's content in a database, so we mostly needs to get the id of a post, we don't want to store every post in double, that would be a wast of space. Then, the question is it indexed? Most fields are, because we want to search through those index, but post_id is not, because no one want to search for a post they already found. Edit: after all post_id need to be indexed as this is the key we use when we try to delete or edit a post.
With strings come some more options, what should the index contain about them? Only what words are contained, or also their frequency and position? Storing position for hashtag is not of much use, we don't put them in a nice order. Nor is frequency as there is usually no hashtag twice in a post. On another hand, searching for an expression is quite useful in a title or a full post. Then how do we tokenize our text? The simple, but not most efficient way, to tokenize text would be to simply split each word apart. This could be enough, but we could do better, and I actually want to play a bit with Tantivy, so I searched what I could do more. For licenses, their are single words, so we could index the the easy way and it would be enough, but I wanted someone who search for Creative Commons content to also find CC-0, CC-BY... so I used the n-gram tokenizer, which transform a word in every n-gram it is composed of. "CC-0" would therefore become ["CC", "CC-", "CC-0", "C-", "C-0", "-0"] if we consider 2-grams, and would then be matched by "CC". We then lowercase the result so "CC" and "cc" are equivalent.
For post content, being able to search any n-gram would however generate a lot of data to store, we need to use something else. The something I found is called stemming. The idea is to extract the stem of each word, so that "random" would match "randomly". Without stemming both a considered totally different tokens, and wont match each other. However stemming rules are very language dependent (the same in french would be "aléatoire" and "aléatoirement" for instance, the suffix is "ment" instead of "ly"). Tantivy provide a built in stemmer for English, but not for other languages, so I decided to not use this yet. Maybe latter. Another feature is stopwords, it stop some words from being indexed, because they are of no use. For example "the" is a very common word in English, searching for it has not use. But stopwords can cause some issues. Maybe a very common word in a language is also a very rare one in another. To make the mater worse, sometime common words mean something special. Think "The Who", a famous rock band, using stop words, it's likely both "the" and "who" would get stopped, and no one would ever find that band again.
So now that we know a bit about Tantivy, it's time to actually write some code. First as it's the first time I use this crate, I'll do some tests, with the above configuration, but outside of Plume, just to discover how everything works.
After playing a bit with Tantivy, I've already learnt some interesting things about it's internals. I started with the basic_search example, that I modified to my needs. First to used my own schema that I defined above, and tested a bit how query worked. Then as I was really interested in stemming, I searched how to implement a TokenFilter, and basically copied LowerCaser, and added some println to understand how it was called.
The struct we create ourselves is, well, created only one time by ourselves. It's transform function is called on each document we add, and create a new TokenStream. This TokenStream then iterate over each token in the document, modifying or removing the ones it want. For queries, the TokenStream see one token per word, or one token for multiple words if they are quoted. So it could be possible to put a sort of header to each document indicating it's language, and to stem differently based on that. For queries, we would then have to either test each language or find the language of a query. Although it won't be included in the first try, it's good to know. Also, according to the documentation, the QueryParser is bad at running queries which are not properly formatted. This will be fixed soon as there is a pull request trying to add a lenient mode to the parser. But for now we will need to make some sort of adapter, getting a query from a user and transforming it to a Query by our-self, or into a query string that Tantivy will understand every-time.
So now that we have explored a bit how it works, lets start playing with it inside Plume. As a public interface for the module, we will need some kind of builder, something to add, edit and remove documents, and obviously something to do searches. We also want some way to regenerate the whole index via a new plm sub-command.
The first thing to do is to create the module, it's what I've done in this commit. There is nothing really fancy, adding Tantivy to the dependencies, also adding whatlang to extract language from content, and also itertools because it make life easier when doing certain things with iterators. I've made two function to create an index, one only reading an existing one, and the other creating it. Plume should only open en existing index, and plm, once implemented, will be used to create it beforehand. Well actually there is a thing a bit fancy. Date storage. Tantivy allow for int storage, which is obviously what I went to. But I did not store date as seconds since 1970, the famous Unix time, because Tantivy's documentation state that RangeQuery, which we need to search for document created between two dates, iterate over the whole range. Iterating over millions of seconds is definitely slower than iterating over the 30 days of a month. So I decided date would be stored as number of days since a particular point, to be more efficient. I also made the choice to commit to Tantivy's store on every post creation/deletion, which turned out to be quite slow. Tantivy seems to prefers large batch jobs over single document ones.
Then in another commit, I added the command search to plm, with two sub-command, one to create a new index, and the other to read all posts from Plume database and copy them in the index. I also added calls to the function I created in the last commit, so that creating a new post, or deleting a blog, reflect accordingly into Tantivy's result. This required me to change the prototype of many functions, but wasn't actually a big work. Rust compiler just kept yelling at me "I don't have enough argument for this function", but once it shutted up, indexing seemed to be working. I also added a commit() function to my Searcher, which would simply call Tantivy's one and removed commit on each edition. That way I could just commit regularly, with a thread waking up half an hour or so. Changing prototypes of function broke tests as I forgot to update theme, but this was quickly fixed.
So now I needed to call commit() regularly, but our current thread pool only allowed to run task as soon as possible, and could not schedule one. I didn't feel like running a new dedicated thread to auto commiting, so I decided to move to a more advanced threadpool.
Next thing was to finally do some search. At this point it looked like it was working, doing some computation, writing result to disc... but I haven't done a single search yet. So I made a basic front-end with the base minimum, and used Tantivy's QueryParser to make my first queries. And hooray all seems to be working. Even paginated search. At this point this is working, doing advanced queries is a bit of pain, but it work.
However there is still at least one big problem, Rocket (the web framework we use in Plume) does not support clean shutdown. Tantivy's index writer get a lock on the index directory, and is supposed to release it when it get dropped, but with Rocket State owning it, this drop never happen. Leading to an error every time you start Plume after having killing it, even with ctrl-c. This was fixed in the next commit, where I added a drop_writer function to Searcher. After calling it, any try to write to the index will panic. So this is called on process termination, just before calling exit. There might be a race condition where one could edit a document after the writer got dropped, but before Plume exited, however this would only mean it's post won't be indexed, and as I see no easy way to fix it I will leave it that way.
The next commit is quite big. It contain some refactoring to avoid code duplication, some field where changed of type because after reflection, indexing the instance name into Tantivy is easier than indexing the id, and going to an SQL query to map one to the other. I also created my own tokenizer, which is a copy of SimpleTokenizer, but which don't cut token on punctuation, as instance domain contains dot, and user name can contain underscores or other non alphanumeric characters. This commit also contain a query parser, that is useful mainly because it never fail. Which don't mean it's better than Tantivy's one, it's just way less generic, so it can make assumption Tantivy can't. It also convert date range from the string a browser send (YYYY-MM-DD) to our own internal representation. I also modified the front-end to match with the back-end, having a basic search field, and many advanced field hidden if you don't open the spoiler. This is pretty much the final template, it's not exactly beautiful, but it's functional.
Before merging I decided to split searcher.rs into multiple sub-modules as the code is quite dense. There is not that much lines, but I used macros a lot to reduce duplication, and that does not help with readability. I also added tests to the parser, fixed some issues with it, and made it more intelligent when you search for post from an author of another instance, and that's it.
To conclude I'd say this was very interesting. Tantivy is a very powerful crate, having took a quick look at it's internal, this is also a complex software, but the interface it give is not that hard to use. Most difficulties I encountered were because I decided I wanted to write a query parser matching our needs, but one of Tantivy's example manage to do most I've done (with a smaller schema and using Tantivy build-in QueryParser) in like 70 lines of actual code. Thanks a lot to Fulmicoton for this library, this was a pleasure to discover full text search with it.


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It has often been said, if you don't know where you're going, that's where you'll end up — No Where.
Over the years, I took many workshops, read many books, listened to so many speakers, telling us we needed to define our purpose, our values, our mission and ultimately, our Vision In Life. If we did not, we would not achieve what we wanted in life.
So, as that sounded like great insight and advice, I set out to discover and list my Vision, my Purpose, my Values, and my Mission in life. I expanded it a bit to include a Vocational (professional) Mission, as well as an Avocational (non-professional) Mission.
After a number of years and rewritings, when the same thing showed up repeatedly for a few years and rewrites, I figured I had it down.
So below are presented my own versions of my Vision Of Life, my Purpose for Being Here, my Personal & Social Values for Living Life, and my Professional and non-Professional Missions in Life.
Hopefully, this will give you a better idea of who I am, of what "makes me tick," what motivates me to do what I do. In turn, you will hopefully have a better idea of whether I'm a person whom can Provide Value for You in YOUR Life.
… based on Whole Health Living and Physical, Mental & Relational Yoga — from a Western Perspective, informed by Essential Insights from the East.
1. Physical / Mental Yoga, Myo-Structural BodyWork, Medical Massage, Wholistic Medicine / Natural Healing, and Health in General.
2. The Integration of Mindful Feeling & Action, Meditative Awareness, Effective / Reflective Thinking, and Conation (what makes us take action), as well as Global Self-Awareness in General.
3. Politics, Economics & Law from a Wholistic Perspective, including the Philosophical, Historical and Sociological background, especially as applied to Current Events.
4. The Fundamentals of Relationships, including Communication Skills and Emotional Process; with Personal, Interpersonal & Transpersonal Growth in General.
*Transparadigm: The philosopher, historian and widely published author Ken Wilber and his Integral Institute delve deeply into the ideas of states & stages of human development & progress. I rely in part on several of their concepts, such as the AQAL map and the Spiral of Life, to describe many of the potentials and developments of Being Human.
1. To Develop, Promote & Teach the Premiere Yoga / BodyWork / Whole Health Therapists & Educators Training Program on Earth (via DSL Edgework).
3. To promote DSL Edgework to the General Public via writings, Internet, public speaking, marketing, and public relations.
4. If there is time, provide further Training to DSL Edgework students on Whole Health Coaching & Doctor / Patient Interface Consulting.
IF I discover I can fulfill my Personal Purpose, make a living, build my asset value, and secure a retirement program via publishing on the Internet and print media (and possibly public speaking), I will make that (online business) my primary vehicle to teach DSL Edgework. … If there is sufficient demand, I will provide Intensive workshops every two to three months for the most committed students I find on the internet.
To Create the Premiere Online Educational & Live Training System for Practitioners of Yoga/Bodywork/Whole Health Therapeutics & Consulting … Including a Sound Scientific Basis from Medical, Chiropractic, Osteopathic, Neuromuscular, Myofascial & Yogic Perspectives.
C.E.M.&.N.T. — Excessive, Chronic Muscle & Nerve Tension & Stress … Produces numerous symptoms, conditions & dis-ease processes, producing insufficiently integrated and/or DE-Sensitized body-mind connectivity.
with a Focus on Prevention & Performance.
GET CONTROL, by LETTING GO … The Client Learns How to Feel, Relax, Lengthen, Balance & Coordinate their Psycho-Neuro-Musculo-Fascial System.
By Mastering the Principles & Sciences behind how Postural Yoga Therapy, Myo-Structural Balancing & Yoga-based, Hands-on Bodywork function, you'll be far more skilled & competent in educating, coaching and helping your Students, Clients and/or Patients in a wide range of their challenges. You will vastly increase your Value & Worth to them.
In each Weekly Lesson, you'll receive insights you can use IMMEDIATELY in your private or group sessions.
To bring Clinical & Medical Massage — and successful outcomes — into far wider usage by far more people.
This is the over-arching Trend, Content & Reason for Your Life. This is what keeps you going, and keeps you going on the correct path. It's what gives your life meaning.
In the great & excellent book, 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management, by Hyrum W. Smith *, he stresses the sometimes life-changing importance of how valuable it is to have your Values, Morals & Ethics well established well before you NEED them.
That way, when suddenly confronted with circumstances in life that need to be acted upon immediately, you already KNOW what they are, and what your proper actions should or should not be.
If you don't know where you're going, that's where you'll end up!
To contribute in a significant and positive way to the political, economic, legal, an social discourse in America; primarily via writing, seminars and lectures on the Nature of the Principles of the American Experiment, of the Freedom Philosophy.
If it were to become feasible to achieve my Personal Purpose and Financial Goals via turning this Avocation into my Primary Profession, I would do so. I believe that it is far more critical to the survival of Humanity than the Health Care issues at this time. At the same time, a significant change in this area would, in turn, allow for great and positive changes in the Health Care industry.
Thank You for Visiting and Learning about DSL's Purpose, Mission, Values, Objectives.


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A Winning Pedigree:
Tom Brady is more than an athlete, he is an American icon. Through the support of his loving family and his own will and determination, Brady won an unprecedented three Super Bowls before the age of 30. More importantly, he's done it with a touch of class. ℘℘℘ It is a nondescript fall morningRead more..
First Word: Seeds of Hope
I can still see the collection box with its picture of a black child and an Irish missionary priest. I can't remember if we were saving their souls from damnation or their bodies from starvation. One sister says she remembers it as starvation, another says it was definitely souls. Growing up in Ireland, Africa wasRead more..
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Recent news pieces of Irish and Irish American interest. ℘℘℘ Sean Óg Is a Winner The captain of the Cork hurling team, Sean Óg ÓhAilpín, is an inspiration in more ways than one. Captain Sean Óg ÓhAilpín's Cork hurling team defended its All-Ireland crown on September 11, after an enthralling encounter with Galway. After dustingRead more..
Auction Brings Rare Kennedy Collection to New York
Forty-two years after his public assassination, Americans continue their love affair with one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time, John F. Kennedy. Since his death and the death of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, there have been countless auctions of Kennedy memorabilia. An auction starting on December 15 in the Seventh Regiment Armory inRead more..
Pub Moves to Reagan Library
The Ronald Reagan Pub of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary opened at its new location, The Ronald Reagan Library in Simi, California on October 22. President Reagan's great-grandfather emigrated from Ballyporeen during the 1800s, and on his 1984 trip to Ireland the President visited the area, stopping in at the pub. The President not only enjoyed aRead more..
IRA Scrapbook Sold on E-Bay
One never knows what you are going to find at a car boot sale, as was the case with one particular sale in Reno, Nevada late September, when a collector came across a scrapbook of pictures and letters commemorating the life of IRA soldier Frank Ryan. Ryan was born in County Limerick, Ireland in 1902.Read more..
Bono and Sachs at NYU
Glucksman Ireland House — New York University (NYU), presented its inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Lecture on October 5. Musician and political activist U2's Bono introduced Columbia University's Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the author of the bestselling book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Bono, whose intensive lobbying of politicians all over the worldRead more..
John O'Hurley: Artiste Extraordinaire
John O'Hurley, one of America's most versatile actors, businessman, musician and even show host, is probably best known for his portrayal of the eccentric and humorous J. Peterman on Seinfield, one of America's best known and loved sitcoms of the 1990's. Even though O'Hurley is best known for acting in sitcoms, feature films and lendingRead more..
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Survivor Winner
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Irish Author Wins Booker Prize
Irish author John Banville was the surprise winner of the Man Booker Prize this year for his novel The Sea. The Booker Prize for Fiction was originally set up by Booker plc. in 1969 to raise the public profile of authors, reward writing excellence and increase interest in modern fiction writing. The annual competition isRead more..


Fans of The Replacements were disappointed last weekend, when the band's reunion tour abruptly ended. It was a refreshing reminder of their unpredictability and volatility, which got us thinking about one of the band's seminal moments: their 1986 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Always known for being loud, sloppy, and not particularly sober, they lived up to that reputation on the SNL stage. They were drunk, forgot the verses to their songs, and guitarist Bob Stinson dropped an f-bomb. They were then promptly banned from the show — although Paul Westerberg did return as a solo artist in 1993. Of course, the Replacements were not the only musical guest to be kicked off the SNL stage. With that in mind, let's look at six other artists who were banned from Saturday Night Live.


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A pioneer in the art of rug-making for two decades, Sarawagi has gained the reputation of a versatile designer, innovative manufacturer, and a leading exporter of hand-knotted Nepalese rugs. Learn more
The DreamWeavers Program aims to empower marginalised women by training them in the art of carpet weaving. Sarawagi runs this program in association with local organisations working to rescue and rehabilitate women who have been victims of bonded labor, domestic violence, and other forms of abuse.
At Sarawagi, we believe that education is the most effective tool to drive social and economic progress in the community. With this belief, we launched the Sarawagi Scholars program- a scholarship that funds the Primary and Secondary school of all of our weavers' children at an English medium school in Kathmandu.
Since its inception in 2002, over 150 children have graduated from the program and 95 are currently enrolled. Our relationship with our scholars does not end when they graduate from school. We work closely with our older scholars (Class 8-12) and conduct mentoring, leadership, and career counselling workshops for them. We help educate them about available scholarship opportunities for college, and help them apply and practice for interviews.
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The power of Google: Tech giant-leased office building sells for $191M
Google won a bidding war to lease the 151K sf spec office in January
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Preylock Real Estate Holdings CEO Brett Lipman and 620 National Avenue (Credit: Bisnow and Google Maps)
In January, Google won a bidding war with WeWork and leased a 150,000-square-foot office building near the tech giant's Mountain View headquarters.
Now, Preylock Real Estate Holdings acquired the office building at 620 National Avenue for $190 million, according to the Mercury News. The deal works out to $1,260 per square foot.
Google's lease runs through 2029, and the property is a few miles from its Googleplex. It also has offices a short walk from Century City-based Preylock's new building.
Properties leased by top tech firms — especially long-term deals — command high prices, and are a top target for institutional investors. In Miami, a logistics firm this week sold an Amazon-leased, 117,000-square-foot warehouse to JPMorgan Asset Management.
For the Preylock deal, the seller is Delaware-based National Avenue Partners LLC, led by developer Victor R. Fracaro, records show. The firm began assembling parcels for the office building in 2012 and in 2015. It secured $71.8 million in construction financing from Regency Capital Partners and TDA investment Group for the spec office development.
Preylock owns four other properties in the Silicon Valley region and two office buildings in Southern California, including a 158,000-square-foot office in Torrance it bought from Sares-Regis last July for $26.2 million. [The Mercury News] — Dennis Lynch
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GEXSI is a Berlin based impact investing advisory and think tank, which evolved from an initiative that had been launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos back in 2001: The Global Exchange for Social Investment. The founding parties, which include the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Bain & Company, Deutsche Bank, PwC, The Open Society Institute, a German family office as well as the German Development Organization GIZ, had recognized the need of more mechanisms to bridge the funding gap for social enterprises. The idea to build a global marketplace for social investments, however, had proven to be over-ambitious for GEXSI, which lacked sufficient resources to step by step build the infrastructure and systems, once the pilot phase ran out.
Not losing sight of its mission, the GEXSI team focused on supporting selected social enterprises in low-income regions around the globe on an individual, tailor-made basis, by connecting them with suitable partners, impact investors or development agencies after having reviewed or revised the respective business plans. In Sub-Saharan Africa, GEXSI also engaged in designing and managing for an interim phase innovative social business start-up companies.


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CDC rolls out new round of powerful anti-smoking PSAs
KEYWORDS cigarette smoking cessation / COPD / heart disease / smoking health effects / tobacco use
A brand-new series of emotionally powerful ads kick off the fifth year of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" campaign. The new ads tell moving, personal stories of Americans suffering from smoking-related illnesses, including heart disease, tooth loss, depression, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Beginning January 25, the ads will run consecutively for 20 weeks on television, radio, billboards, online, and in magazines and newspapers.
A huge response
In 2015, Tips ads had an immediate and strong impact, showing the campaign's sustained success since its launch in 2012. When the ads were on the air, about 62 percent more people called the national quitline, 1-800-QUIT-NOW, for free help. Since 2012, Tips ads have generated more than 600,000 additional calls to the toll-free quitline number.
"More than 30 courageous people have shared their stories through the Tips campaign since 2012," said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. "These real-life stories show, in a way that statistics can't, the suffering and disability smoking causes. Most Americans who have ever smoked have already quit, and most people who still smoke want to quit – this campaign will help them try and help them succeed."
Tethered to an oxygen tank
One of this year's new ad participants is Becky, 54, an attorney from Ohio, who started smoking at 16. By the time she was 45, Becky was a mother of two and had her dream job as a child-advocate attorney. Then Becky was diagnosed with COPD. She had to quit her job and suffered a collapsed lung. She managed to quit smoking at age 52, but now has end-stage COPD and is tethered to an oxygen tank at all times.
The Tips ads encourage smokers to call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or to visit www.cdc.gov/tips to view the personal stories from the campaign. The website includes detailed assistance developed by the National Cancer Institute to support smokers trying to quit. For more information on the Tips campaign, including profiles of the former smokers, other campaign resources and links to the ads, visit www.cdc.gov/tips.
TV PSAs prompt huge increase in calls to CDC smoking quitline
CDC: 100,000 quit smoking due to hard-hitting PSAs
Smoking cessation PSAs wildly successful, says CDC
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Bad Bunny caps week of awards and Grammy-noms with new album
by: SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS, Associated Press
FILE – Bad Bunny performs a medley at the Billboard Latin Music Awards in Las Vegas on April 25, 2019. Bad Bunny, who has nine nominations at the 2020 Latin Grammys, will also perform at the awards show on Nov. 19. (Photo by Eric Jamison/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Fans of Bad Bunny are used to expecting something different each time he releases new music.
He's done it since his first studio album, 2018's "X 100pre" ("Forever"); then with "Oasis", his collaboration with J Balvin in 2019, and last February with his award-winning "YHLQMDLG," a 20-track project which explored love and loss through a combination of trap and reggaetón.
Now he is surprising fans with "El Último Tour del Mundo" ("The Last Tour of the World"), a 16-song collection written during the pandemic and released Friday in which he plays with alternative music, punk, pop and even rock 'n' roll.
"I am not a fan of repeating the same formula," the singer says. "Each album that I've made has it's own identity."
"El Último Tour del Mundo" was mostly written by Bad Bunny and features collaborations with American singer-songwriter Abra, Spanish sensation Rosalía and Puerto Rican Jhay Cortez.
The album arrives only a few days after Bad Bunny received a Latin Grammy, two American Music Awards and two new Grammy nominations, including for best pop duo/group performance for "Un Día (One Day)" with Balvin, Dua Lipa and Tainy.
While recovering from COVID-19, the 26 year-old musician, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, spoke to The Associated Press from his home in Puerto Rico. Answers have been edited for clarity and brevity.
AP: You had to cancel your planned performance at the American Music Awards after testing positive for the coronavirus. How are you feeling?
Bad Bunny: I am well, thank God. I am feeling better. There were days where I felt a little bad, but I feel that I'm almost totally recovered.
AP: You have plenty of reasons to celebrate: A Latin Grammy, two American Music Awards, two new nominations to the Grammys, a new album. This has been an important week.
Bad Bunny: I am very happy. Many things are happening. Despite being a difficult year for many, myself included, 2020 has also given me many things to be grateful for thanks to the music. We are very happy, enjoying the blessings and the good things that may come.
AP: In "El Último Tour del Mundo" you play with new rhythms and elements. Tell us a bit about this production.
Bad Bunny: I've always said that albums are for making new, different things and to discover yourself as an artist. I am not a fan of repeating the same formula… This new album is meant to be listened while relaxing at home, in your room, in your car, at night with some friends, with a glass (of wine) or a beer. It has many songs that are fun and it has a lot of emotion. It has a lot of me. More than a Bad Bunny album, this is a Benito album.
AP: Besides the mood of your music, how do you feel that the pandemic has affected you as an artist?
Bad Bunny: It forced me to be even more productive because I was alone at home doing nothing. At times I felt like writing songs that had to do with everything that was happening, but at the same time I told myself 'No' because I want people to forget reality when they listen to my music. But reality always touches your music: there are a few songs where you can feel that the muse was everything that is going on, like "Antes Que Se Acabe" ("Before It Ends"). That's a very special song that comes from that sensation that the world seems to be coming to an end, but before that happens we need to give love and share with one another.
AP: Would you call it a more introspective album?
Bad Bunny: You could say that, although it also has some songs about heartbreak, which people always love to hear and I do love to write… and other themes like "Maldita Pobreza" ("Damn Poverty"), which is very fun, one of my favorites. It starts with this boy that wants to give everything to a girl and he can't because he's poor, and then the song takes a turn and becomes a little social. There's also "Yo visto así", which is my story and the story of many people always criticized for the way they dress, and it's like saying "If you don't like it, well…" (laughs.)
AP: Why "The Last Tour of the World"?
Bad Bunny: When I released "YHLQMDLG," this whole quarantine thing started and I wrote most of the songs during those first weeks. The only thing that gave me life was working on the album. At that moment, the images that we were seeing on TV and social media were apocalyptic, like the world was coming to an end. I think that had an influence in the album's title and it doesn't imply that this is going to be my last tour, but the last tour of the world, literally: No one will be able to go on tour. No one. Neither Maluma nor Lady Gaga. It's like me moving forward a tour from 2032 to 2020, before the world comes to an end.
Follow Sigal Ratner-Arias on Twitter at https://twitter.com/sigalratner.
The Rock shares another fanny pack throwback, taken after wrestling for just $40
(NEXSTAR) – Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson posted a photo Thursday from early in his wrestling career when he was "broke as hell."
The Polaroid photo shows The Rock shirtless sporting a fanny pack that his fans may remember from another beloved throwback post, posing with a young fan named Mitchell.
Netflix promises a new movie every week in 2021 — here is the list
(NEXSTAR) -- Netflix announced Tuesday that it will release a new movie every week during 2021.
This is the first time Netflix has released a list of films all at once. The list released Tuesday is not complete.
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There are many common molecular substances you're already familiar with which contain no carbon.
Salt, for example (NaCl) contains only sodium and chlorine. (Technically, most salt that you'd eat also has some impurities, many of which might contain carbon, but salt itself is inorganic, and it's entirely possible that salt you eat has no carbon impurities.)
Water (H2O) contains only hydrogen and oxygen. And again, water you drink may contain other things, but water itself is inorganic.
The air you breathe is mostly a combination of inorganic gases -- molecular nitrogen, molecular oxygen, argon -- with trace amounts of carbon dioxide (which is considered inorganic despite containing carbon), neon, helium, and methane, plus some portion of water vapour. Though any given breath you take probably includes some organic material, the main molecular composition of air is inorganic.
Most of what you consume, however, will be organic, because your body can requires organic materials for food. But your food will often contain large amounts of inorganic molecular compounds such as salt and water.
You might be trying to understand exactly what makes one compound containing carbon 'inorganic' while most others are, and it may comfort you to know that the reason is historic rather than strictly scientific, and that not all chemists agree on which should be so excluded.
Unless you're a chemist or talking to one, you can be pretty solid in assuming that anything containing carbon is organic.
The reason the distinction between organic and inorganic is important is that so far as we've seen on our own planet, all life relies on organic compounds. That doesn't mean that everything living things use or produce is organic, however. Merely that vital body tissues and life functions consist mostly of organic compounds, and we don't have any special reason to assume that life would exist anywhere without them. This is why it was so exciting to find organic compounds on Mars. We assume that anything that ever lived there would have to have organic compounds to exist in the first place, and would also leave them behind. Their existence there doesn't prove that, but it does improve the odds of eventually proving it.
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