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Category Archives: Precognition / Prophecy
Moses contemplating a human skull
I dreamed that I was reading a book by a New Age author who claimed to have telepathically received a series of striking images. The book consisted of reproductions of those images — pen-and-ink drawings done in a style reminiscent of Tom Baxa's — each with an accompanying paragraph giving the author's interpretation of its meaning. (As the introduction of the book made clear, the images themselves were "received" but the interpretations were the author's own.)
One of these images — the only one I spent any time looking at in the dream — showed a young Egyptian man looking at a human skull which he held in his hand. (The Egyptian's hand was not visible in the picture, but it was understood that he was holding the skull.) The scene was shown from such a perspective that the skull loomed huge in the foreground, grinning at the reader, occupying almost the entire right half of the picture. The Egyptian was in the background, on the left side of the picture. The skull faced directly out towards the reader — so the Egyptian was apparently looking at the back of the skull. Every detail of the skull was clearly visible, and it appeared to have a strange texture, almost as if it were made of tiny Legos.
The author had given this picture the title "Moses contemplating a human skull" and written the following commentary: "He asked himself, 'Did you, O Moses, come from yon human skull?' — and he concluded that he had, and that only he had." (Yes, I know that's an incorrect use of "yon." The New Age guy in the dream wrote it, not me.)
In the hypnopompic reverie following this dream, I interpreted this as follows: The skull young Moses was contemplating was that of a Hebrew slave, and he noticed that he — and he alone, of all the people in the pharaonic court — had a similarly shaped skull. This was when Moses realized for the first time that he was of Hebrew, not Egyptian, parentage; and this realization marked the starting point of the trajectory that would lead to his role as liberator of the Hebrews. (Once I had fully woken up, though, I no longer thought that interpretation made sense. It seems unlikely that two closely related Middle Eastern peoples would have any noticeable craniometric differences; and if they did, those differences would surely have been accompanied by outwardly visible differences which Moses would have noticed long before, without having to look at a skull.)
The dream was on Wednesday night, and it's clear where many of its elements came from. On Wednesday nights I lead a conversation group for students of English, and our topic that night was "Africa." We talked about various historical figures from Africa, including Moses, and there was also some discussion of hominid evolution in Africa, including Leakey's discoveries in the Olduvai Gorge. So that's obviously why my dream featured Moses (and specifically Moses qua Egyptian), as well as someone contemplating a skull and considering whether he had "come from" it.
The Friday morning following the dream, I was browsing an online discussion board, and someone had posted an inspirational quote incongruously illustrated with a picture of "He-Man" cartoon villain Skeletor.
Clicking on the picture out of curiosity, I found that it came from a blog featuring dozens and dozens of such "Skeletor Affirmations." The third one on the page caught my eye.
This is exactly the same layout as the picture I saw in my dream: a huge skull, staring directly at the viewer, occupying the whole right half of the picture; and in the background, a man staring at the skull. The ghost guy in the Skeletor picture is not an Egyptian, but the shape of his helmet, together with the horizontal stripes below his chin, does suggest the stereotypical Egyptian headdress seen, for example, on King Tut's mummy case. (I am not entirely sure that the Egyptian in my dream was wearing such a headdress; I just know that he looked obviously Egyptian.) Skeletor himself, with his hood and his blue-and-yellow color scheme, reinforces the King Tut image. And while the Skeletor picture is not black-and-white, it is a cartoon line-drawing with extensive areas filled in with black, and to that extent it is similar in style to the picture in my dream.
This, like my other recent precognitive dream (of a beast with many eyes), demonstrates the following points:
Dreams mix elements from past and future, combining them in such a way that they are impossible to separate out except in hindsight. (Dunne mentions this as well in An Experiment with Time.)
So far, all of my strong precognitions have been of images, not ideas, and the meaning associated with the image in the dream is generally completely unrelated to the meaning of the image when it appears in waking life. (This most recent dream seems almost to make that point explicitly; the author of the book of images explains that, while the images themselves were revealed to him, the interpretations are his own.)
None of my precognitions so far have been of anything that could even remotely be considered important or meaningful. The dreaming mind (my dreaming mind, anyway) appears to draw on experience (past and future) quite indiscriminately, without regard to whether or not it means anything.
Filed under Dreams, Precognition / Prophecy
Tagged as Moses, Skeletor
A beast with many eyes
On Friday night (actually, very early Saturday morning), I dreamed that I was watching TV and saw an image of what I interpreted as being a whale with many eyes, though I only saw its face. It was blue in color, with a row of eyes on the left and a row of eyes on the right — perhaps eight eyes in all. It also had feelers on the sides of its mouth like a catfish. I dreamed that, after seeing this, I got on Wikipedia to do some research, trying to find out if whales with many eyes actually existed. I found information about a particular gene (with a Latin-sounding name which I no longer remember), rare but not unheard of (comparable to albinism), which manifests sometimes in whales and other animals and causes them to have several pairs of eyes. Now that I knew the name of the gene, I ran a Google image search on it and found several pictures of animals with it — several blue whales, killer whales, and other cetaceans, as well as a couple of tigers. As I did this online research, I had the feeling that I had learned about this gene once before but had forgotten about it. My reaction was, "Oh, yeah, that's right. That gene."
So much for the dream.
On Saturday evening, I watched the DVD of the film "47 Ronin" — a fantasified version of the Japanese historical incident, with monsters, demons, a fox-spirit "witch," and Keanu Reeves thrown in.
In an early scene in the movie, Reeves and a group of samurai are chasing down some sort of giant beast — think qilin-meets-gigantelope. For most of the sequence we don't get a clear view of its face, but then it stops, turns to face Reeves, and opens its eyes — of which we now discover for the first time that it has six. Here is a screenshot:
This image jolted me with a shock of recognition. Aside from the fur, horns, and nostrils, it looks exactly like the many-eyed "whale" I saw in my dream.
This is one of the clearest instances of apparent dream-precognition I've experienced yet. The dream even correctly portrayed the beast as being something I saw on TV. And after watching the movie, I did go online (using Wikipedia and Google image search, among other resources) to try to find out whether the beast was based on some actual Japanese legend — but that's something I chose to do after experiencing both the dream and the movie and recognizing the connection between them, so it can't really be counted as a "fulfillment" of the dream.
I enjoyed "47 Ronin," by the way, despite the uniformly negative reviews it has been getting from critics. It undeniably has its awful aspects, the most obvious of which is the concept itself. Imagine if a Chinese studio made a King Arthur movie in which Lancelot had some made-up Chinese sidekick who was actually Guinevere's true love and the greatest knight of them all — and in which the rest of the cast, all British, had to speak their lines in Chinese — and you'll get some idea of how ridiculous and even insulting this movie must seem to the Japanese. (Also, the 47 ronin actually lived in the 18th century — more Queen Anne than King Arthur — far too recent for monsters, demons, and other fantasy elements to be appropriate.) I also admit to groaning when the fox-spirit unaccountably transformed into a dragon — which looked like the seraphic Chinese/Japanese variety but behaved like the evil fire-breathing Western version.
I'm not Japanese, though, and have no particular attachment to the original story they were butchering, so I was able to enjoy the movie on its own terms. It was visually engaging, and I thought it did a good job of communicating the stern, stoical samurai spirit (or, at any rate, what this relatively uninformed Westerner imagines to have been the stern, stoical samurai spirit).
One of the most provocative aspects of the movie, to me, was the portrayal of the tengu — forest-dwelling bird-demons of Japanese folklore — as Buddhists. Not as bird-demons who also happen to be Buddhists, mind you, but as Buddhists plain and simple. Although they do look very slightly different from humans (no ears, strange nostrils), their religion is their chief distinguishing characteristic. They're still demons, to be sure — cold, cruel, nihilistic, and possessed of magical powers — but their demonic nature is portrayed as being part and parcel of their Buddhism. I thought it was a pretty gutsy move to literally demonize a major world religion other than Christianity, but oddly the filmmakers don't seem to be getting any flak for it. Although Buddhism obviously has its good aspects like any other religion, it does certainly have a very strong current of inhuman/anti-human "demonic" nihilism running through it — something that becomes more obvious to me the more practicing Buddhists I meet — and I thought the portrayal of the tengu was brilliant and rang true. Since the samurai ethos can also seem superficially cold and inhuman, the tengu provided a very effective contrast which helped bring out the essentially human, noble nature of bushido.
Filed under Anecdotes, Buddhism, Coincidence / Synchronicity, Dreams, Movies, Precognition / Prophecy
Minor precognitive dream
A couple of days ago, my morning alarm interrupted a very vivid dream in which I had taken a small bucket of water and splashed it out onto the dining room floor. Muddy cat footprints had appeared in the water, though no cats were visible.
Upon awakening from the dream, I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth and that sort of thing, and while I was in there I heard a loud clattering sound downstairs. When I went downstairs, I found that one of my cats had upset his water dish and spilled water all over the dining room floor. There were muddy pawprints, but the cats, presumably having been spooked by the sudden noise, were nowhere to be seen.
The noise made it clear that the water was spilled a few minutes after my dream, ruling out the explanation that the dream had been inspired by sounds I heard while sleeping. (I suppose it's conceivable that cats knocked down the dish while I was sleeping and then later bumped it again and made another sound. However, I don't think this is likely. The clatter I heard was very loud and was clearly the sound of the dish falling from its stand to the floor, not just moving around on the floor.)
I've been keeping cats for about four years now, but they'd never knocked over their water dish before.
Filed under Anecdotes, Coincidence / Synchronicity, Dreams, Precognition / Prophecy
Waking precognition experiments: postmortem
I've now completed five experiments in waking precognition. In each experiment I tried to foresee the contents of a randomly selected book before reading it, and for each book I came up with 10 potentially precognitive images. The five books I used were:
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi. Translated by Frederick Townsend.
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton. Vol. II.
Edward Stewart White. The Westerners.
Laura Lee Hope. The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms.
Max Pemberton. The Man Who Drove the Car.
The table below shows the results for each of these 50 images. The number 0 indicates a miss; 1 indicates a weak similarity to something in the book or in my life during the book-reading period; 2 indicates a moderate similarity; 3 would have been used to indicate a perfect hit if there had been any. One of the images is marked N/A because it was fulfilled by my seeing something which I had seen many times before and can therefore not be considered specifically precognitive.
Nel.
Pem.
1. 0 0 1 0 0
6. N/A 0 2 0 0
10. 0 0 0 0 0
So 84% of the images are complete misses, without even the slightest resemblance to anything in the books; and there is not a single instance of clear and unambiguous precognition. As for the smattering of ones and twos, it's impossible to evaluate them in any statistically rigorous manner, since there is no control group and no way of determining how many such results ought to be expected to occur by chance under the null hypothesis that there is no such thing as precognition. However, my common-sense interpretation is that I have not demonstrated any precognitive abilities and that I have failed to replicate Dunne's results.
I will not be doing any more of these book experiments, since my results thus far give me no reason to expect anything interesting to result from them.
Filed under Precognition / Prophecy, Statistics
Fourth experiment in waking precognition: The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms
I've just completed another precognition experiment, in which I tried to obtain precognitive images of what I would read in the novel The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms, by Laura Lee Hope (selected at random using Gutenberg's random book feature).
I got my precogs on May 15 and finished the novel on May 20. Not a single one of the ten precogs "came true" either in the novel or in my extraliterary life.
The closest thing to a hit — and it's not really very close at all — was the 9th item on my precog list, "plaid skirt blowing up — shoe stuck in the mud, coming off foot." There is a scene in the novel in which one of the male characters gets stuck in quicksand, and the titular moving picture girls tear their skirts into strips in order to make a rope to pull him out. Aside from the juxtaposition of a skirt being destroyed and something being stuck in wet earth, all the details are different. The skirts in the novel are not plaid but khaki, and the man does not lose his shoe.
Filed under Precognition / Prophecy
Tagged as Laura Lee Hope
Third experiment in waking precognition: The Westerners
I've just finished reading Stuart Edward White's novel The Westerners, chosen via Gutenberg.org's random book feature. (It actually turned out to be a pretty good story.)
On May 5, just before beginning the novel, I looked at the title page, concentrated on the title, and tried to pick up precognitive images of what the book would contain. I did this until I had a list of ten such "precogs," all reasonably detailed. I finished the novel on May 15. Of the ten precogs, eight were complete misses, and neither of the remaining two was fulfilled very precisely.
My first precog, as recorded in my notebook on May 5, is "man smiling & scratching left side of black mustache." The novel contains the following sentence: "Jack Graham, his hat on his knees, twisted his little moustache and smiled amusedly." It refers to a man touching his mustache and smiling, but the other details (color, scratching, left side) are absent. I suppose there are a quite a lot of books that mention someone touching his mustache and smiling, so this match isn't worth much.
The sixth item on my precog list is "a woman (in a white sun hat?) lowering her face (eyes still up) & covering her mouth w/ one hand to hide a smile." The novel has this: "The little woman's cheeks burned, and she lowered her head until the sunbonnet hid her face. . . . And she suddenly looked up into Jim's honest eyes with an imploring gesture." A few lines later, "She looked up suddenly with a blinding smile." This match is slightly better than the first one — woman, sun hat, face down, eyes up, smile — but the bit about her covering her mouth with one hand is a miss.
So, still nothing terribly impressive or conclusive. I'll try this with a few more books just for the sake of thoroughness and then call it quits.
Second experiment in waking precognition
I've just finished my second experiment in waking precognition, following the same method as the first one. The book I used was The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With a Supplement of Interesting [sic] Letters by Distinguished Characters — and I got no positive results whatsoever.
Before reading, I made a point of getting only high-quality images which would be of value as evidence. I rejected several because they were too vague; and several others because they were too obviously nautical or military in nature, and it would have taken no special precognitive ability to predict that they might appear in a book about Nelson. I got a list of ten "good" images, each with a sufficient degree of detail to make coincidental matches unlikely. But none of them turned up in the book — not even the "obvious" naval-themed ones I had rejected!
The fact is, Nelson's letters to his partner in crime are stupendously dull, with virtually no concrete details. Security concerns naturally precluded his describing his military activities in any detail, and he never describes scenery, relates amusing anecdotes, or anything of that nature. Even love, which has been known to bring out the poet in even the most prosaic of characters, did not move him to say anything figurative or otherwise visualizable. The other "interesting letters by distinguished characters" aren't much better. About the only vivid, concrete image which a person precognitive faculties might have foreseen is Lord Hamilton's account of hunting with the king and slaying vast numbers of wild boars. If I had foreseen that, that would have been evidence of precognition; but aside from that, there just wasn't anything to work with.
Aside from the lack of visualizable details, the very boring nature of the letters may have worked against effective precognition. Events which arouse powerful emotions are the ones that stick in the memory, and we might speculate that something similar would be true for the postulated "pre-memories" which these experiments are dealing with.
Nor did any of my potentially precognitive images (or "precogs") come true in my life outside of the book, though one did find a very faint echo in another book I was reading at the time. The third item in my list of precogs is "a stack of rough gray stones, one atop another." This was written down on May 1, and then on May 3 I read the following in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: "It was a great grim slab of grey stone supported on four upright stones." The details are sufficiently different that I can't consider this a hit, and in any case I had read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe before.
I intend to do five more of these experiments, but I will have to modify my method of selecting books slightly. Fiction and poetry are, I think, the only acceptable genres, since only they can be relied on to contain a sufficient number of concrete, visualizable images. Since I've just discovered that Gutenberg has a random book feature, I will obtain my titles that way, rather than using the more convoluted procedure described previously. All non-fiction books will be excluded, as will all books, authors, and subjects with which I have any familiarity.
Here, then, are the five books I will be using:
Stewart Edward White. The Westerners.
Sir Max Pemberton. The Man Who Drove the Car.
Sir William Magnay. The Hunt Ball Mystery.
Rupert Hughes. What Will People Say?
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In this exciting competition, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to create a multi-disciplinary team to build a planetary rover prototype and demonstrate its capabilities to perform a series of competitive tasks in field tests at the NASA Johnson Space Centers Rock Yard in June 2013.
Can you tell us a bit about your team, how you recruited, how you organized and how you are working together?
The RASC-AL RoboOps team at the University of Utah is part of the RoboUtes club. The club is an interdisciplinary student organization open to all University of Utah students, regardless of class or experience. RoboOps is the main competition that the RoboUtes attend although other competitions and secondary projects are considered each year. Members are recruited through social, educational and other outreach events hosted by either the University of Utah or by other well known institutions. Students who take interest in the club are invited to attend the scheduled club meetings where they are briefed on the tasks at hand. The students then choose to work on the tasks that most interests them. This allows for students of all disciplines and levels to work together, giving students an opportunity to learn all aspects of build.
Now at the midway point for the Robo-Ops competition how is your project coming along?
We currently have our finalized rover chassis which is being controlled through the Verizon wireless dongle using an Xbox controller. We have a single video feed that sends telemetry data wirelessly. Our sample collection system has undergone multiple physical iterations and is nearing the final build. The buggy system hardware is nearing the first full prototype. Current system testing has exceeded initial expectations and we feel comfortable with our progress.
What adjustments or changes have you made from the original plan you submitted back in December?
We have made lot of iterations to our preliminary proposal design. There have been revisions brought to the arm, chassis, software architecture and implementation strategy for both the robot and the buggy. Additional strength simulations were done at the beginning of the build season which revealed the option for windows in our chassis structures. The arm system had a complete redesign. It now uses a lead screw to actuate the elbow joint. Additional redundancy has been added to the wireless communication systems allowing mission control to remotely reset systems in case of component failure.
What were some of the challenges you have come across on the build thus far and how have you overcome them.?
One of the main goals of the group is interdisciplinary learning and cooperation. To accomplish this we try to have our members get involved with all aspects of the design, fabrication, and implementation regardless of skill level or discipline. With this strategy we ultimately end up with parts that need to be remachined, fried electronics that need to be reordered, and software that needs serious debugging. While this can be frustrating at times we feel that this is one of the best ways to learn.
How many man hours do you estimate your team has invested in the project so far?
Our team has invested over two thousand hours so far. Each person has been putting in about six hours a day, six days a week and we have a core team of four people that consistently show up and stay for the six hours. Other members of the team contribute when time allows and have contributed over two hundred hours to the project.
What are some of major tasks still yet to come over the next couple months?
We have a solid foundation for all the systems on the robot and for the next couple months we aim to build upon the foundation to add durability and software redundancy. Within the next few weeks we hope to finalize the Buggy wireless communication, vision for multiple cameras, rangefinder mount and calibration hardware , boom mechanism, sample collection box, gripper implementation, and mission control operation hardware.
What facilities and equipment do you have at your disposal for the project?
This year the College of Engineering has provided us with our own working lab which we call the RoboUtes Lair. The Lair is located right next to the Mechanical Engineering Machine shop where we have access to a waterjet, high end 3D printers, lathes, mills, grinders, sanders, and band-saws. The WiESEL lab has been kind to provide us with access to their Laser Cutter. This year the RoboUtes have acquired a hobby grade 3D printer that is located in the Lair. These machines have played a great role in manufacturing and altering our structures and prototypes.
Do you have any advice for future contenders in this type of competition?
The idea behind this competition is to bring new designs and ideas to the field of planetary exploration robotics. As such to be successful in this competition it is important that the ideas are original and are in the spirit of the competition. If a team puts up a proposal with ideas that have been seen or used before chances are they will be rejected by the committee. Secondly, it is necessary that much time is devoted for this competition. This competition cannot be achieved overnight. Its a journey of six months from design table to actual physical rover. A significant portion of this time needs to be spent in testing and iteration of your system. Lastly we feel that one of the most rewarding parts of this competition is interacting with the community. EPO activities compose a quarter of the total points, make sure to take every available opportunity and have fun.


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Here's why Elon Musk wants Tesla to go private – Roadshow
It's not set in stone just yet, but a new blog post at least helps explain where this idea came from.
Facebook needs 'safe harbor' for public interest journalism, say researchers – CNET
The Knight Institute has requested a response by early next month.
Coinbase adds instant trading and increases daily limits
Coinbase just announced two new perks that should please regular cryptocurrency traders. Starting on Tuesday, new Coinbase users will no longer have to wait out for five days to trade after signing up for the exchange.
As the company explained in a blog post:
… When someone makes the decision to sign up, they don't want to wait days before they can start buying cryptocurrency. While we do support instant transfers via wire transfer and debit cards, purchases via direct debits from your bank account can take days to appear.
With this update, customers will receive an immediate credit for the funds being sent from their bank account. They can then buy and sell crypto to and from their USD wallet right away, but cannot send their funds off the Coinbase platform until the funds coming from their bank have settled.
With the new trading restriction lifted, Coinbase is also raising the daily purchase limit for its tier of verified users to $25,000, up from the previous $25,000 weekly limit.
New users chomping at the bit to start swapping for digital currencies or current high-rollers looking to push the daily limits should note that completing Coinbase's identity verification, which requires uploading a driver's license for U.S. users, is a pre-requisite for either new perk.
"Customers who have not yet completed this process will be required to do so before having access to instant purchases, new trading limits and the ability to withdraw or send coins off-platform," Coinbase explains in the blog post.
Both changes will be available first for U.S. customers who have completed Coinbase's ID verification requirements. Coinbase users around the globe should expect to wait a little longer for the features to become available.
Snapchat shrinks by 3M users to 188M despite Q2 earnings beat
The Stories War has officially killed Snapchat's growth. In Q2 2018 earnings today, Snapchat's user count shrank 1.5 pecent percent to 188 million this quarter, down from 191 million and positive 2.9 percent user growth last quarter.
However, Snapchat beat on earnings per share with $262.3 million in revenue and a loss of $0.14 while Wall Street estimated an EPS loss of $0.17 with $249.8 million in revenue. Despite its shrinking user count this quarter, the improvement to revenue, up 44 percent year-over-year, led Wall Street to boost Snap's share price 10 percent in after-hours trading to around $14.40 after it closed at $13.12
Snapchat is coming off of a disatrous Q1 earnings with its slowest ever user growth rate that led to a 24 percent plunge in its share price in May. But the company has been highly volatile, seeing a 37 percent boost in its share price after surprisingly positive Q4 2017 earnings. Now it's proving that Facebook isn't the only social network with growth troubles.
The quarter saw Snapchat escape much of the scrutiny facing other social networks regarding fake news and election interference. Snapchat started running unskippable ads in its Shows that could be a big money maker if extended to Stories. It began experimenting with ecommerce in earnest, allowing brands to sell things people can buy without leaving the app. It also opened self-serve buying of its augmented reality lens ads that people not only post, but play with for extended periods of time. And it launched its privacy-safe Snap Kit developer platform in hopes that alliances and referral traffic would help revive its user growth.
But problematically, its competitors like Instagram Stories continued to surge, with it now having 400 million daily Stories users and WhatsApp Status now having 450 million. Combined, Facebook has over 1.1 billion daily (duplicated) Stories users across its family of apps. That reach could make it tough for Snap to compete for ad dollars.
Elon Musk 'considering' taking Tesla private, trading resumed – Roadshow
At his target of $420 per share, that move would be worth some $70 billion.
All the different Android versions through the years – CNET
From Cupcake to Pie, Android has acquired many tastes since its launch.
Oracle launches autonomous database for online transaction processing
Oracle executive chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison, first introduced the company's autonomous database at Oracle Open World last year. The company later launched an autonomous data warehouse. Today, it announced the next step with the launch of the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) service.
This latest autonomous database tool promises the same level of autonomy — self-repairing, automated updates and security patches and minutes or less of downtime a month. Juan Loaiza SVP for Oracle Systems at the database giant says the ATP cloud service is a modernized extension of the online transaction processing databases (OLTP) they have been creating for decades. It has machine learning and automation underpinnings, but it should feel familiar to customers, he says.
"Most of the major companies in the world are running thousands of Oracle databases today. So one simple differentiation for us is that you can just pick up your on-premises database that you've had for however many years, and you can easily move it to an autonomous database in the cloud," Loaiza told TechCrunch.
He says that companies already running OLTP databases are ones like airlines, big banks and financial services companies, online retailers and other mega companies who can't afford even a half hour of downtime a month. He claims that with Oracle's autonomous database, the high end of downtime is 2.5 minutes per month and the goal is to get much lower, basically nothing.
Carl Olofson, an IDC analyst who manages IDC's database management practice says the product promises much lower operational costs and could give Oracle a leg up in the Database as a Service market. "What Oracle offers that is most significant here is the fact that patches are applied without any operational disruption, and that the database is self-tuning and, to a large degree, self-healing. Given the highly variable nature of OLTP database issues that can arise, that's quite something," he said.
Adam Ronthal, an analyst at Gartner who focuses on the database market, says the autonomous database product set will be an important part of Oracle's push to the cloud moving forward. "These announcements are more cloud announcements than database announcements. They are Oracle coming out to the world with products that are built and architected for cloud and everything that implies — scalability, elasticity and a low operational footprint. Make no mistake, Oracle still has to prove themselves in the cloud. They are behind AWS and Azure and even GCP in breadth and scope of offerings. ATP helps close that gap, at least in the data management space," he said.
Oracle certainly needs a cloud win as its cloud business has been heading in the wrong direction the last couple of earnings report to the point they stopped breaking out the cloud numbers in the June report.
Ronthal says Oracle needs to gain some traction quickly with existing customers if it's going to be successful here. "Oracle needs to build some solid early successes in their cloud, and these successes are going to come from the existing customer base who are already strategically committed to Oracle databases and are not interested in moving. (This is not all of the customer base, of course.) Once they demonstrate solid successes there, they will be able to expand to net new customers," he says.
Regardless how it works out for Oracle, the ATP database service will be available as of today.
Elon Musk explains why taking Tesla private is 'the best path forward'
Earlier today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted about how he's considering taking Tesla private. Now, Tesla has published an email Musk sent to employees today that describes his rationale. However, no decision has been made yet, Musk wrote in the email.
Musk says it's "the best path forward" because taking Tesla private would help minimize some of the distractions that come as a result of "wild swings in our stock price." Going private would also enable Tesla to make decisions that are best for the long-term, rather than the short-term, he said.
"Finally, as the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market, being public means that there are large numbers of people who have the incentive to attack the company," Musk wrote in the email.
He later adds, "This proposal to go private would ultimately be finalized through a vote of our shareholders. If the process ends the way I expect it will, a private Tesla would ultimately be an enormous opportunity for all of us."
Following Musk's tweet announcing his desire to take Tesla private, Tesla shares jumped before getting halted on the stock exchange. Tesla shares have since reopened.
You can read the full email below.
Earlier today, I announced that I'm considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420/share. I wanted to let you know my rationale for this, and why I think this is the best path forward.
First, a final decision has not yet been made, but the reason for doing this is all about creating the environment for Tesla to operate best. As a public company, we are subject to wild swings in our stock price that can be a major distraction for everyone working at Tesla, all of whom are shareholders. Being public also subjects us to the quarterly earnings cycle that puts enormous pressure on Tesla to make decisions that may be right for a given quarter, but not necessarily right for the long-term. Finally, as the most shorted stock in the history of the stock market, being public means that there are large numbers of people who have the incentive to attack the company.
I fundamentally believe that we are at our best when everyone is focused on executing, when we can remain focused on our long-term mission, and when there are not perverse incentives for people to try to harm what we're all trying to achieve.
This is especially true for a company like Tesla that has a long-term, forward-looking mission. SpaceX is a perfect example: it is far more operationally efficient, and that is largely due to the fact that it is privately held. This is not to say that it will make sense for Tesla to be private over the long-term. In the future, once Tesla enters a phase of slower, more predictable growth, it will likely make sense to return to the public markets.
Here's what I envision being private would mean for all shareholders, including all of our employees.
First, I would like to structure this so that all shareholders have a choice. Either they can stay investors in a private Tesla or they can be bought out at $420 per share, which is a 20% premium over the stock price following our Q2 earnings call (which had already increased by 16%). My hope is for all shareholders to remain, but if they prefer to be bought out, then this would enable that to happen at a nice premium.
Second, my intention is for all Tesla employees to remain shareholders of the company, just as is the case at SpaceX. If we were to go private, employees would still be able to periodically sell their shares and exercise their options. This would enable you to still share in the growing value of the company that you have all worked so hard to build over time.
Third, the intention is not to merge SpaceX and Tesla. They would continue to have separate ownership and governance structures. However, the structure envisioned for Tesla is similar in many ways to the SpaceX structure: external shareholders and employee shareholders have an opportunity to sell or buy approximately every six months.
Finally, this has nothing to do with accumulating control for myself. I own about 20% of the company now, and I don't envision that being substantially different after any deal is completed.
Basically, I'm trying to accomplish an outcome where Tesla can operate at its best, free from as much distraction and short-term thinking as possible, and where there is as little change for all of our investors, including all of our employees, as possible.
This proposal to go private would ultimately be finalized through a vote of our shareholders. If the process ends the way I expect it will, a private Tesla would ultimately be an enormous opportunity for all of us. Either way, the future is very bright and we'll keep fighting to achieve our mission.
Net neutrality activists, not hackers, crashed the FCC's comment system
An unprecedented flood of citizens concerned about net neutrality is what took down the FCC's comment system last May, not a coordinated attack, a report from the agency's Office of the Inspector General concluded. The report unambiguously describes the "voluminous viral traffic" resulting from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the topic, along with some poor site design, as the cause of the system's collapse.
Here's the critical part:
The May 7-8, 2016 degradation of the FCC's ECFS was not, as reported to the public and to Congress, the result of a DDoS attack. At best, the published reports were the result of a rush to judgment and the failure to conduct analyses needed to identify the true cause of the disruption to system availability. Rather than engaging in a concerted effort to understand better the systematic reasons for the incident, certain managers and staff at the Commission mischaracterized the event to the Office of the Chairman as resulting from a criminal act, rather than apparent shortcomings in the system.
Although FCC leadership preemptively responded to the report yesterday, the report itself was not published until today. The OIG sent it to TechCrunch this morning, and you can find the full document here.
The approximately 25 pages of analysis (and 75 more of related documents, some of which are already public) relate specifically to the "Event" of May 7-8 last year and its characterization by the office of the Chief Information Officer, at the time David Bray. The investigation was started on June 21, 2017. The subsequent handling of the event under public and Congressional inquiry is not included in the scope of this investigation.
FCC admits it was never actually hacked
As the report notes, Bray shortly after the event issued a press release describing the system's failure as "multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks." A variation on this was the line going forward, even well after Bray left in October 2017.
However, internal email conversations and analysis of the traffic logs reveal that this characterization of the event was severely mistaken.
Here it ought to be said that in the chaos of the moment and with incomplete time and information, an accurate diagnosis of a major systematic failure is generally going to be an educated guess at first — so we mustn't judge Bray and his office too harshly for its mistake, at least in the immediate aftermath.
But what becomes clear from the OIG's investigation is that the DDoS narrative first advanced by Bray is not backed up by the evidence. Their own analysis of the logs clearly shows that the spikes in traffic correlate directly with activity from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, which that evening and the following morning posted tweets and videos that garnered an immense amount of traffic and directed it at the FCC's comment system.
Chart showing traffic spikes correlating with John Oliver (JO) related events.
"These spikes in traffic are singular rather than sustained, that is, the unique IP addresses that visited the FCC domain and ECFS did not do so over a sustained period of time, at regular intervals (as would be expected during a DDoS)," the report explains in the caption for the graph above.
"The traffic observed during the incident was a combination of "flash crowd" activity and increased traffic volume resulting from [redacted] site design issues," reads the report. I've asked for more detail on these design issues and how they contributed to the system's failure.
Interestingly, it appears some at the FCC were aware that Oliver was planning a segment on net neutrality for that time period, but no one thought to brace for it. According to a colleague interviewed for the report, "Bray was furious that he had not been informed about the John Oliver episode."
Email excerpts from the time of the event, collected by the FCC's OIG.
In fact, however, even confronted with the fact that Oliver's segment was likely directly driving traffic, Bray suggested that "trolls" and 4chan were the more likely culprit.
We're 99.9% confident this was external folks deliberately trying to tie-up the server to prevent others from commenting and/or create a spectacle.
Jon Oliver invited the "trolls" – to include 4Chan (which is a group affiliated with Anonymous and the hacking community).
His video triggered the trolls. Normal folks cannot manually file a comment in less than a millisecond over and over and over again, so this was definitely high traffic targeting ECFS to make it appear unresponsive to others.
All this, and the description put in the press release and some subsequent communications, is "not accurate," as the OIG put it.
As a result, "we determined the FCC, relying on Bray's explanation of the events, misrepresented facts and provided misleading responses to Congressional inquiries related to this incident."
It's worth noting that this has already been looked at by federal prosecutors:
Because of the possible criminal ramifications associated with false statements to Congress, FCC OIG formally referred this matter to the Fraud and Public Corruption Section of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia…On June 7, 2018, after reviewing additional information and interviews, USAO-DC declined prosecution."
In a way, as Chairman Ajit Pai wrote yesterday, this does somewhat exonerate his office for its year-long campaign of stalling, half-truths, and outright refusals to answer questions. If they took Bray's characterization as gospel, they had to stick to that analysis. Furthermore, with an investigation ongoing, what they could and couldn't say was likely limited at the request of the OIG.
But that's only a partial pardon. In the year and change since the event there has been ample time for reflection and revisiting of the data. Bray left in October; why did the new CIO not use the occasion to take a fresh look at a report that was plainly doubted by many in the agency?
The CIO's office, as the report notes, never actually issued a substantive report showing that its DDoS narrative was true. And shortly after the event, it was, as one staffer put it, "common knowledge" that the analysis was flawed. This knowledge was arrived at through "further research" after the fact — but then it turned out no "further research" was conducted.
What kind of operation is this? Why was FCC leadership not foaming at the mouth asking for better information? The Chairman was under fire from all sides — no one bought the story he was selling — why not walk over to the CIO's office, now rid of its Obama administration–tainted head (Pai mentioned this association twice in his statement yesterday), and demand answers?
FCC says its cybersecurity measures to prevent DDoS attacks must remain secret
Pai denies that he or his office was aware of these shortcomings and opted not to rectify them because they were advantageous to his plan to reverse 2015's net neutrality rules. But how could such a demonstrably shoddy and undocumented analysis persist for so long, under such close scrutiny? This wasn't a minor technical glitch unworthy of leadership's attention. It was national news.
The optics of a confusing and incomplete DDoS report aren't good. But the report, if it was wrong, as everyone seemed to consider it even day-of, could always be disavowed and its author blamed on Obama.
What's worse are the optics of a wave of public opposition to a controversial proposal, so strong that it literally took down the system created — and recently upgraded! — to handle that kind of feedback. This narrative, of a flood of pro-net-neutrality commenters so large that not only did it break the system, but many of their comments were arguably unable to be posted and (notionally) included in the FCC's analysis — that, my friends, is a bad look.
Remember when @iamjohnoliver told Americans to write the @FCC to tell Washington why #NetNeutrality matters? They overwhelmed @FCC comment systems. The @FCC called it a DDoS attack. This bogus claim was never credible–and now this investigation proves it. https://t.co/HS2n6nWoh6
— Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel) August 7, 2018
Although this investigation has concluded, another by the Government Accountability Office is ongoing and may have a wider scope. If not, however, it seems unthinkable that the FCC and its current leadership can walk away from this unscathed. Ultimately this entire debacle took place under Ajit Pai's watch, and his handling of it is at best dubious. Citizens and no doubt elected officials are almost certain to ask hard questions — and this time, the Chairman might actually have to answer them.
BenQ's curvy new QHD display for gamers supports AMD's FreeSync 2 tech
Gamers looking for a new monitor supporting AMD's FreeSync 2 tech now have a freshly-baked option from BenQ. Available for $700, it's a 32-inch curved display with a QHD resolution, an 1800R curvature and a 144Hz refresh rate.
The post BenQ's curvy new QHD display for gamers supports AMD's FreeSync 2 tech appeared first on Digital Trends.

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Pulav are always a welcome addition to any meal. A pulav can often make a complete meal by itself. The soya chunks added to this aromatic pulao are easily available in the market and are a rich source of fiber, protein and vitamin B12 - a vitamin which is otherwise lacking in vegetarian diets.
We enjoy this particular pulav with Masala Papad with makes the best combination meal.
Wash the rice and soak them for 30 minutes.
In a large pot, add 2 cups of water and bring it to boil.
Once the water starts to boil,add soya chunks and pinch of salt. Cook them uncovered for 20 minutes.
Finely chop the onion and tomato.
Grind cloves,cinnamom stick,black peppercons and cardamom to the fine powder.
Place the cooker on medium flame and add oil into it.
When oil heats up, add cumin seeds. Fry for 20 seconds.
Add grounded whole spices powder, ginger paste and green chilly paste.Fry till you get nice aroma.
Then add chopped onion and fry till onion becomes soft and transparent.
Now add tomato and boiled soyachunks. Mix well and fry for 2 minutes.
Drain the water from the soaked rice and add it into the mixture.Fry gently for 3 minutes.
Then add 2 cups of water, lemon and salt .Mix well and wait for 2 whistles.
Turn off the flame.Let the steam escape out completely,open the lid of the cooker and let the pulav cool down a little.
Soya chunk pulav is ready to serve.
Before you add soyachunks,slightly squeeze the water from soyachunks.
You can also add tumeric powder for the colour.I did not add because I wanted my pulav to be plain in colour.
For more flavour, add pinch of garam masala powder.
I'm quite nostalgic looking at the pilaf..My mom used to make this for us very frequently, the soya chunks used to be called 'Meal Maker' I guess it should be the brand name.
A very tasty one-dish meal !
Very yummy n delicious looking pulao.
Very nice pulav..looks so yummy .!


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Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda
Herman, Edward S
Edward Herman's book should be required reading for all news rooms and journalism students. In this book he examines through essays, cartoons and a dictionary of "doublespeak" the terms used in the l...
The Caribbean Left's Legacy: Against The Current vol. 112
Abraham, Sara
Sara Abraham interviews Eusi Kwayana of The Working People's Alliance (WPA) in Guyana. The WPA continued to organize and build its ranks through a democratic socialist multi racial agenda, but has con...
The CIA's Greatest Hits
Zepezauer, Mark
Brief case studies of the CIA's greatest 'triumphs'.
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Grenada: Island of Conflict: From Amerindians to People's Revolution, 1498-1979
Brizan, George
This history of the island of Grenada is a timely account of the frequently violent transitions through which Grenadians have lived since even before the arrival of European colonialists. The author p...
In Nobody's Backyard: Maurice Bishop's Speeches 1979-1983: A Memorial Volume
Bishop, Maurice
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Blum, William
Is the United States a force for democracy? William Blum serves up a forensic overview of U.S. foreign policy spanning sixty years. For those who want the details on the U.S.'s most famous actions (Ch...
Overthrowing other people's governments: The Master List
Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War.
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Z, Mickey
As I'm sure everyone knows, we're fast approaching the 31st anniversary of a truly momentous American victory — a crucial military operation that not only warmed Ronald Raygun's cold, cold heart but w...
What Uncle Sam Really Wants
Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and pain...
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Searle, Chris
The Grenada Revolution proved to be the most sustained anti-imperialist process as yet to have taken place in an English-speaking country, and it made a significant impression on the struggles and hop...
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Q: How to get client IP address when the python code is running inside a kubernetes pod? import uvicorn

app = FastAPI()

@app.get("/items/{item_id}")

def read_root(item_id: str, request: Request):

    client_host = request.client.host
    f= open("ipadress.txt","a+")
    f.write(client_host+"\n")
    f.close()

    return {"client_host": client_host, "item_id": item_id}

if __name__ == "__main__":
    uvicorn.run(app, host="0.0.0.0", forwarded_allow_ips="*")

The above is the python code which is hosted using uvicorn. When I run the code inside a docker container, it returns the correct client IP. But, when I host the same code on Kubernetes cluster using minikube the IP address which is returned is the localhost IP (127.0.0.1)
The docker command used to run the above code image is
docker run -it -p 8080:8000 <image-name>
I have exposed port 8080 to reach to the service from Virtual Machine
The kubernetes command used to expose the service is
kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 services/sample-deploy 8080:80
The service.yaml for kubernetes is
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: sample-deploy
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - port: 80
  selector:
    app: sample-deploy

I also tried to access the service using LoadBalancer where the service can be accessed using an External IP yet I am not able to get the real client IP address.
I think the IP address is masked in the kubernetes cluster.

A: When you do a port-forward you create a tunnel from your local machine to the container. So, the connection is seen in the container as if it is coming from the local machine (hence the 127.0.0.1). Port forwarding is usually just used for debugging purposes.
The typical way to access your application would be via a service of type LoadBalancer or via the Kubernetes ingress concept. In both cases you should get the correct client IP address. For the ingress the client IP is usually provided via a HTTP header (by the ingress load balancer/reverse proxy). Most ingress controllers use X-Forwarded-For. This header is usually picked up by the web app frameworks when checking for the client IP.

A: In the service YAML file, the externalTrafficPolicy should be set to Local so that the IP address is retained.
The externalTrafficPolicy can be used only with NodePort or LoadBalancer types.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: sample-deploy
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  externalTrafficPolicy: Local
  ports:
  - port: 80
  selector:
    app: sample-deploy

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In actuality, are Cory and Topanga married?
By Himanshu Last updated Dec 5, 2022
Want to know if Cory and Topanga actually got married? Who exactly are they? In any case, we are discussing Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel. On Boy Meets World, they portrayed the specified roles. Fans speculated that they were dating in real life due to their connection on-screen.
Ben Savage portrayed Cornelius "Cory" Matthews from the ground up not just in the 1993 sitcom but also in its sequel, Girl Meets World. Even though he originally looked to be somewhat smart and caustic, it didn't take long for his actual personality to become apparent. Later, we discovered that Cory always put his family, Topanga, and closest buddy Shawn first.
Read More: Outside of 'The Challenge,' Jay and Michele Continue to Fuel Dating Rumours
Topanga Lawrence, played by Danielle Fishel, was Cory's romantic interest. We witnessed her determination to become a lawyer, and she ultimately succeeded.
Riley and Auggie were joint children of Cory and Topanga. Observing the Boy Meets World couple's devotion, affection, and concern for one another, others speculated that they are in fact in love behind the camera. Additionally, some were persuaded that Ben and Danielle were married.
Here are the answers to the question of whether or not Cory and Topanga married in actuality. What are the actors doing off-screen?
Are Cory and Topanga actually married?
No. In reality, Cory and Topanga are not married to one another. Ben and Danielle maintain great friendships despite working together on the comedies Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World. Behind the camera, however, there is no love relationship between them.
Are you disappointed? Indeed, this is the brutal reality. In addition, Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel have never been the subject of romance rumors while working together and spending long hours on set. Therefore, it is puzzling how some fans were convinced of their marriage based only on their on-screen connection.
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Well, there is something more that contributed to their relationship rumors. What happened? Danielle went on a date with Ben when she was just 15 years old. But it failed, and they never became romantically involved but remained friends. It was the journalists that went too far. In short, we may argue that Cory and Topanga's romance in real life did not occur.
What are Cory and Topanga doing in real life? We are referring to Ben Savage and Danielle Fishel
Beginning with Ben Savage, the actor has been in many films and television series. Little Monsters, Criminal Minds, An Open Secret, Phil of the Future, Homeland, Bones, and Chuck are a few examples.
Ben Savage, often known as Cory, has never married in his lifetime. Ben, who was born in 1980, is now 42 years old. Surprisingly, the actor has never been the subject of any relationship rumors. He is quite diligent and focused on his task. Also, it does not appear that Ben Savage will wed anytime soon.
The notable works of Danielle Fishel include Boiling Pot, The Dish, The Chosen One, Rocket's Red Glare, Kirk, The Villains of Valley View, and Raven's Home, among others.
Danielle Fishel, often known as Topanga, is presently married to the love of her life, Jensen Karp. The couple looks to be both committed and affectionate since they have two children. Each is a son. This is actually Danielle's second marriage. She was formerly married to Tim Belusko. However, that failed and lasted over three years.
Best wishes to Ben and Danielle for the forthcoming days of their lives. Follow the Boy Meets World couple's Instagram pages for further information. We would love for Topanga Topanga to collaborate. I'm wondering if it will occur soon!
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Filename: CWE194_Unexpected_Sign_Extension__fgets_malloc_82_bad.cpp
Label Definition File: CWE194_Unexpected_Sign_Extension.label.xml
Template File: sources-sink-82_bad.tmpl.cpp
*/
/*
 * @description
 * CWE: 194 Unexpected Sign Extension
 * BadSource: fgets Read data from the console using fgets()
 * GoodSource: Positive integer
 * Sinks: malloc
 *    BadSink : Allocate memory using malloc() with the size of data
 * Flow Variant: 82 Data flow: data passed in a parameter to an virtual method called via a pointer
 *
 * */
#ifndef OMITBAD

#include "std_testcase.h"
#include "CWE194_Unexpected_Sign_Extension__fgets_malloc_82.h"

namespace CWE194_Unexpected_Sign_Extension__fgets_malloc_82
{

void CWE194_Unexpected_Sign_Extension__fgets_malloc_82_bad::action(short data)
{
    /* Assume we want to allocate a relatively small buffer */
    if (data < 100)
    {
        /* POTENTIAL FLAW: malloc() takes a size_t (unsigned int) as input and therefore if it is negative,
         * the conversion will cause malloc() to allocate a very large amount of data or fail */
        char * dataBuffer = (char *)malloc(data);
        /* Do something with dataBuffer */
        memset(dataBuffer, 'A', data-1);
        dataBuffer[data-1] = '\0';
        printLine(dataBuffer);
        free(dataBuffer);
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}

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Q: scala polymorphic type for return value How would I make this pattern work?  func() fails to compile.  I understand the problem with this setup, but what's a pattern that could accomplish basically this?
class A() {
  val a: Int = 123
  val b: String = "xxx"
}

def func[T](key: String, a: A): T = {
  if      (key == "a") a.a     // would make T an Int
  else if (key == "b") a.b     // would make T a String
}

val a = new A()
func[Int]("a", a)
func[String]("b", a)

A: I'm not quite sure what you are going for, but a few possibilities.
class A() {
  val a: Int = 123
  val b: String = "xxx"
}

def func[T : Manifest](a: A) = implictly[Manifest[T]] match {
  case implicitly[Manifest[Int]]) => a.a
  case implicitly[Manifest[String]) => a.b
}

val a = new A()
func[Int](a)
func[String](a)

or
class A() {
  val a: Int = 123
  val b: String = "xxx"
}

val aKey = (_: A).a
val bKey = (_: A).b

def func[T](key: A => T, a: A) = key(a)

val a = new A()
func(aKey, a)
func(bKey, a)

or even with Shapeless,
import shapeless._
import syntax.singleton._
import record._

val a = ("a" ->> 123) :: ("b"  ->> "xxx") :: HNil

a("a") // typed as an Int
b("b") // typed as a String

A: Maybe this is close to what you're after?
class A() {
  val a: Int = 123
  val b: String = "xxx"
}

def func(key: String, a: A): Either[Int,String] = {
  if (key == "a") Left(a.a)
  else            Right(a.b)
}

val a = new A()
func("a", a)  // Left(123)
func("b", a)  // Right("xxx")


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This blog is about women trying new things and building their own self confidence. So when I read this article I thought how great it would be for this blog. Please enjoy.
Your self confidence affects just about everything in your life. How well you get along with people, your relationships with friends and family, as well as your job opportunities are all directly affected by how confident you feel about yourself. In fact, how confident you feel affects how well you enjoy your life!
People that don't feel good about themselves, people that lack self confidence, can find the prospect of a job interview terrifying. They experience poor relationships, if they have any real relationships at all. They find themselves in constant fear of losing their jobs because they aren't able to express themselves in front of their boss of in group situations.
Socially these people also struggle. How can they find someone to go out with when the mere idea of meeting new people petrifies them? Social events and encounters are painful illustrations of their lack of confidence.
Life doesn't have to be like this. With a change in perspective, a little help and some work, you can have the self confidence you desire. Here are seven simple steps to help you develop more self confidence.
Once they've decided, nearly everyone finds making a change easier. Every change I've ever made, from getting in shape to learning how to be more personable, has been a result of deciding to make that change. All changes are relatively easy once you've decided to make them. So if you think you'd like to be more confident, make the decision to be more confident today. That leads us to step number two.
2. Why is it Important to You?
Once you've made a decision to change, in this case deciding to become more confident, its time to figure out why it's important to you. Why specifically do you want more confidence? Is it so that you can speak up in meetings at work? Is it so that you'll be able to meet someone to go out with? Is it so you'll be able to learn better at school or play a sport better? Whatever it is you need to understand and define it so that you can motivate yourself with it. This leads to step three.
Here's where the rubber meets the road. Many people know they need to change and decide to change. They know what result they want out of the change but they don't make it a goal. They wish their life would change, they think their life should change but they don't take the steps needed to make the change. When you make a goal you not only decide what you want your outcome to be but you also figure out the steps you will need to do to achieve it.
Now this can't be merely a mental exercise. In order to make your goal achievable you need to write down your outcome. Once you've written down your outcome you need to write down the steps you need to do to achieve it. Writing down your goal and the steps you need to achieve it does two things for you. First it makes your goal a real tangible thing instead of merely a dream. Second, writing down the steps gives you the ability to make corrections as necessary to help you stay on track.
1. Prepare for meetings and know what topics are going to be discussed.
3. Prepare a one-line comment on one of the topics.
5. Express your comment at the meeting.
Now you have a goal that is achievable you might need some help. So that leads us to step 4.
From the time we are babies we model other people's actions and behaviors. Have you ever done something and after noticing what you've done said to yourself, "That is exactly what my mother/father would have done?" That is a form of modeling, just at an unconscious level.
A more empowering form of modeling is when you find someone that has the characteristic(s) you want to have and purposefully model it. If you want to be able to speak well in front of groups, find someone who is good at speaking in front of groups and model her behavior. See how she stands, how she holds her head, how she speaks and uses her hands. If you are a man looking for a way to meet women, find a man who is already good at meeting women and model his behavior. What does he say? How does he dress? What are his mannerisms?
Whatever it is, there are lots of models to choose from. They include friends, acquaintances, family members, professional coaches, training videos and just about anyone else on the planet. An important point to remember is that the best model is one you like and you are able to adapt your own personality to.
Once you have someone to model its time for step five.
From master pianists to NASCAR drivers, all people who are good at something have one thing in common, they practice. If you want to be good at talking in front of people you have to practice. If you want to be good at conversing in social situations you have to practice. Of course if you go about whatever you want to do without rehearsing it can be quite nerve wracking. In fact if you try something that you are not good at yet and fail completely it is possible your progress might be set back indefinitely.
So how can you prepare for a successful outcome? You can visualize your success in the theater of your mind. Let's say you want to be able to speak up at business meetings. Find a place where you can sit or lie down comfortably without being disturbed. Now relax. Use some progressive muscle relation or just tell yourself I am relaxed and calm, relaxed and calm, over and over again until you are relaxed and calm.
Now play a movie in your mind of how you would like for the events to transpire. Make the movie as vivid and clear as possible. Use your imagination to see the details, hear the voices and other sounds in the room. Feel how you would sit. Then in your mind address the group as if you already had the confidence you are striving to develop. Notice how you appear, how your heart beats, how you breathe. Make the adjustments necessary to achieve the outcome you desire. If you are having problems seeing yourself accomplishing the task(s) well, focus on the why, the potential benefits you'll get from achieving your goal. Practice over and over again until you have that image etched firmly in your mind.
Once you've practiced with visualization it's time for step six.
You've decided to change. You know the reason(s) you want to change. You know your motivation. You have a model and you've prepared in the theater of your mind. Now its time to give it a try. If what you want to do is speak in your business meetings at work, give it a try. Even if it's only a few words or to comment on someone else's comments, as long as you are doing something that is moving you toward your goal, just do it. If you are looking to meet more people you might start by smiling at people you meet and saying "hi". You will become more confident through the process of stretching yourself. This will move you toward your goals.
Now that you've actually done what you set out to accomplish its time for the final seventh step.
When we start new things, from playing a new sport to meeting new people, we are not going to be excellent at it from the very start. Everything takes practice. When you do something you are not good at (yet) you are stretching yourself, you feel uncomfortable and you will make some mistakes.
Developing confidence in whatever it is you want to develop it in will also take practice. And just like learning anything, you will sometimes do things that you may not have preferred to do if you were "perfect" at it. You will make some mistakes.
When that happens remind yourself that mistakes are the way we all learn. A mistake is not failure, it is merely feedback. By calling it feedback you have re-framed or redefined your results.
So from now on instead of thinking of having "failed" when things don't work out "right" merely observe what happens and call them "results". Understand the feedback you have been given by your results and apply it to approaching your task differently the next time. The key is to remember that no matter what results you achieve, when you define them as feedback, they become either actions you want to do again or actions you don't want to do again. You now are experiencing feedback instead of failure.
Once you start seeing your results as feedback you'll begin adjusting your actions to match what you want to achieve. This will help you persist until you achieve your desired outcome. If you are committed to this process you will be able to build life long confidence in any area of your life.
So let's review the seven steps.
That's it, seven simple steps that can move you toward confidence in any area of you life. Seven easy steps toward achieving more out of life. So what are you waiting for? Why not start on your life long confidence journey today?
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We are visiting Beijing in Nov '07 and would like to view the construction underway at the Olympic stadium and Nautatorium (Bubble Building)- not just to view from the street but to tour the interior of these incredible structures. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has actually been in the neighborhood - is there any access to the interiors? are tours available?
Also, thanks to the many contributors to this forum - your sharing has made planning a joy!
Good luck! I found the bird's nest so closely guarded that even photographing it from the OUTSIDE was prohibited. But perhaps you'll have better luck. Keep us posted!
That is interesting. And ironic. The 2008 Olympics is China's coming out party to the world, and they won't let you photograph the iconic structures without permission?!
We did mange to get some shots of the birds nest but only from inside our coach. We were told that it is not possible to get any closer. Fair enough really...it is a construction site! A link here shows the closest we could get.
There are about 12 photos on Panoramio that you can find using Google Earth.
When I was in Beijing this summer, I asked a friend who is there working in an Olympics capacity if we could get onto the site. She said it was basically impossible even for her (her client is one of the biggest sponsors), and she holds her meetings in the parking lot!
We did find the small exhibit at the top of the tv tower to be fairly interesting. Maquettes of the buildings, lots of incarnations of the mascots, a large scroll you can sign for the athletes that they hope to get into the Guiness Book of Records, etc. I think it was RMB50 to get in, and it includes the viewing platforms and some other small galleries; best time to go is when the sky is not too hazy, and at the end of day when the sun sets and city lights come on. The tv tower visit is set up so that everone first goes to the viewing platform, then to the Olympics exhibit, then to the (CCTV version) Chinese history in photographs floor.
Lastly, I would recommend a visit to the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall not far from Tienamen Square, if only to see the room-sized model of the city of Beijing. The model is very current, and includes the Olympic structures and buildings under construction in the center of the city.
Both the tv tower on a clear day and the Planning Exhibition hall give you a good understanding of the scale of the city!
Many thanks for the info and encouragement. The rationale for restrictions at the Olympic sites is puzzling given the successes at marketing the 3 Gorges Dam throughout its construction - I had the impression that it was possible to walk on the dam, but maybe the dam construction also has been viewed only at a distance. Anyone have comments on the experience at the dam site?
Also, having heard so much about the Chinese preparations for the Olympics, we would like to view the hotels and new construction. Any comments on spectacular modern buildings in Beijing that are worth visiting?
Definitely check out the model at the Planning Hall. As I mentioned, it shows new construction - and buildings only in the planning stages are identified by white placeholders. The model is very impressive!


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NBA mourns loss of Gregg Popovich's spouse, a star' that is'real. Ginobili needed to include rips during the shootaround.
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Such is the respect that a lot of, from a lot of walks of life, have actually for San Antonio Spurs mentor Gregg Popovich, whoever 67-year-old spouse, Erin, passed away Wednesday after an extended fight with a breathing problem.
Spurs celebrity Manu Ginobili claims the group is "devastated, we all have been hurting. " Nevertheless the players will there"go out and compete" and respect Popovich's philosophy of having fun with "fire" and "determination. "
Added San Antonio's Tony Parker: "It puts every thing in viewpoint. It's means larger than baseball. "
The Spurs trail the Golden State Warriors 3-0 into the very first round after losing in San Antonio 110-97 on Thursday evening. The 69-year-old mentor went training Wednesday but had not been regarding the sideline when it comes to game. Assistant Ettore Messina coached the group.
Clinton reached away on Twitter towards the mentor and their daughters: "I join the NBA household and countless fans across the nation who are considering you, Jill, and Micky tonight while you mourn the increased loss of your Erin. "
The Spurs asked the news to respect the household's privacy. General supervisor RC Buford stated at Thursday's shootaround he talked to Popovich, that is "overwhelmed because of the support" but "wants our focus become concerning the game. "
"Erin and Gregg had been close friends who had been together for 40 years, and Erin's effect and impact on our company, on our families, on our players and their own families are going to be thought for a long time in the future, " Buford said.
Popovich was a mentor to countless players and coaches, never ever afraid to talk away on social dilemmas or rebuff a reporter. His humor is razor- razor- sharp, and simply one other he was the one within the movie space who shouted "Go Warriors! Day"
Warriors advisor Steve Kerr is certainly one of those mentored by Popovich, and then he knows your family well, having played for the Spurs into the 1990s that are late being exchanged by Popovich.
"Erin was sort of this stability that Pop needed, " Kerr said having a laugh. "She had been the main family members, but she's handled a whole lot over the past several years health-wise and it has been very courageous. "
Warriors star Stephen Curry tweeted that he's "lifting up prayers" for the advisor along with his household.
Ginobili had to include rips during the shootaround.
"We all understand the variety of man Pop is, " he stated. "Not lots of people understand the kind of gal that Erin ended up being. It's painful and achieving to endure this will be constantly tough. There clearly was never a time that is good.
Today"We want to be next to Pop, we want to support him, but we've got to go out there and compete. But, without a doubt, we're toiling. It is perhaps perhaps not a day that is easy be around. "
After Popovich went training Wednesday, Ginobili and Parker invested time using the coach that night.
"She had been a great woman, " Parker said. "i usually looked at them like a dad and a mother, everyone knows that. He had been constantly extremely personal, but I'd a way to see him in another way. "
Kacy Sager had been heartsick due to the relationship her father that is late shared the mentor. As soon as the longtime broadcaster gone back to their TNT task in 2015 after treatment plan for the leukemia that ultimately took their life, Popovich granted a sugar daddy meet sign in job interview if for no other explanation than to welcome Sager back.
"Pop went away from their option to ensure us knew we had their help whenever my dad passed. I am hoping the Popovich household can also find power in every for the love this grouped community needs to offer, " Sager published on Twitter.
James had been visibly upset by the news that is"devastating after Game 2 of this Cavaliers-Pacers show.
"The NBA household, all of us stick together, " James told TNT. "we know we compete each night. But something such as this occurs, it sets every thing in viewpoint. "
Popovich has coached San Antonio since 1996, leading the Spurs to five NBA games. He is also the U.S. Olympic group advisor.
James calls him a "mastermind associated with the game" and contains said he'd start thinking about playing for the U.S. Under Popovich in the 2020 Tokyo Games after skipping the Rio Olympics.
Other NBA greats indicated their grief on Twitter — Bill Russell, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant included in this. Steve Nash had written: "Knowing Pop, it is reasonable to assume Erin Popovich had been a complete legend. "
Popovich came across their spouse in the Air Force Academy into the 1970s when he had been an assistant advisor for the Falcons. Erin's daddy, Jim Conboy, ended up being Air Force's mind athletic trainer.
Previous Spurs assistant and present Philadelphia advisor Brett Brown said he's known Erin a time that is long.
"Their family members is extremely type to my family, " he said. "And she had been a celebrity, such as a genuine celebrity. A really woman that is strong and somebody that'll be missed. "
AP freelancer Raul Dominguez contributed for this report.
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When I was in high school, I remember my mother would make these Baked Texas Style Chili Dogs sometimes on Friday nights just before we went to the football game. This was a quick way to serve chili dogs without having to set out all of the fixings, and clean up is quick. What I like most about them is when they come out of the oven, the bun is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside along with the hot dog and chili. They are so yummy good!
I made these with some of my Blue Ribbon 8-Hour Chili and served them for a quick Sunday lunch. We had some leftover, and I cut them in half and served them as mini chili dogs at our Life Group Meeting Sunday evening. They were a great hit with the children.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. In a large oblong baking dish, arrange the hot dog buns in a row.
Spoon a tablespoon of mayonnaise and mustard on the inside of the bun.
Place a hot dog in the inside of the bun. Sprinkle a teaspoon of onions and pickle relish on the top of the hot dog.
Cut American cheese in half and arrange on tope of the onions and pickle relish.
Spoon chili on top of the the cheese slices.
Place in the oven for 20 to 30 minutes or until the cheese is melted and bubbly.
Take out the oven and top with a tablespoon of cheese or more over chili. Garnish with diced Jalapeños.
Your recipe sounds great! I have never tried fixing chili dogs in the oven, sounds good!
Thank you Joy…they are super good!
These look great, and I love the idea of baking them. Thanks for sharing!
WOW my husband saw this and has to have it now. I never thought about baking them in the bun. I bet it makes the bun nice and crispy! Love this!
I often make chili dogs with leftover chili, but had never heard of baking the whole thing! I LOVE it!! Definitely trying this next time. Also love this "loaded" version for the hubs and I, and I can still make the ones for the kiddos a little more plain.
Found you through the In and Out of the Kitchen link up!
Oh my, these look soooo good! I'll be making these this week. Just pinned this! Thanks for sharing!
What a great recipe, thanks for sharing on Tuesdays With a Twist.


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How I Did It #6: The Ocean of the Blind
"The Ocean of the Blind" is a long story about a group of scientists in a station on the bottom of the ice-covered sea of a moon called Ilmatar, in a distant star system. They mean well but get into trouble.
The main character is Rob Freeman, a young technician who gets recruited by the boorish celebrity scientist Henri Kerlerec to help with a secret project. Henri has a Russian Navy stealth diving suit, and wants to use it to get a close look at the lobster-like intelligent inhabitants of Ilmatar. Contact with the natives is forbidden, but since they sense the world by sonar, Henri thinks he can get close in the stealth suit and record videos without being detected.
Meanwhile, an Ilmataran scientist named Broadtail is nervously presenting his discoveries about ancient stone carvings to a learned society run by the wealthy aristocrat Longpincer. His work is well received, and Broadtail is accepted into the group. Longpincer invites all of them to investigate a nearby vent, where they may find some interesting specimens.
They do: they find Henri. His stealth suit makes him sonar-absorbent, but the Ilmatarans can perceive him because there's a big blank silent spot in the middle of their echo-filled world. Feeling invulnerable, he boldly swims right into the middle of the group and they capture him. Rob tries to distract them with noisemakers but it doesn't work. The Ilmatarans are more curious than frightened.
The Ilmatarans haul their new specimen back to Longpincer's home and are amazed at how odd it is when they dissect it. Rob returns to the station alone, horrified and tormented by guilt at leaving Henri behind.
The story had an odd genesis. Back when I was living in Ithaca during the late 1990s I got an idea for a novel which I called A Darkling Sea. It was about a three-way conflict among humans, Ilmatarans, and another spacefaring species called the Sholen. The Sholen follow a kind of Star Trek style "Prime Directive" which forbids contact with non-starfaring species, but the humans argue that since the Ilmatarans live at the bottom of an ocean under a couple of miles of ice they're never going to venture into space on their own. Eventually the Sholen invade Ilmatar to shut down the human research station, and some of the humans take refuge with the Ilmatarans and wage a guerilla campaign against the Sholen.
(Anyone who has ever spent a year in Ithaca may understand where I got the idea of people deep in an icy abyss, dealing with strange alien creatures motivated by fanatical ideology.)
When I took my synopsis and sample chapters of A Darkling Sea to the acerbic and perceptive Cambridge Science Fiction Workshop, I got a lot of comments and suggestions. One idea for improvement was to add a chapter at the beginning, showing more of the life of the scientists on the station and depicting a "triggering incident" to set the plot in motion.
I did, and because I wanted to get some money for my work, I wrote the chapter as a stand-alone story . . . called "The Ocean of the Blind." So this story is also the first chapter of a novel.
So far I haven't been able to sell Darkling Sea, but the completed manuscript is sitting on my hard drive in case any publishers are reading this.
In "Ocean" I killed off Henri in a fairly horrible way (the Ilmatarans vivisect him), so I did as much as possible to make him a thoroughly unlikeable character before that. At his first introduction he barges into a conversation the other researchers are having, in which they're trading methods of murdering Henri. He doesn't know who they're talking about and butts in, suggesting a murder method lifted whole and entire from Roald Dahl's story "Lamb to the Slaughter."
That was actually based on a real incident at college. Some people I knew in another dormitory had a much-disliked fellow resident who absolutely would not shut up and insisted on forcing his way into every conversation he encountered. Their dislike of him reached the point that they were happily discussing ways to murder him, when of course the jerk happened by and insisted on joining in.
Because I intended for the humans and Ilmatarans to wind up allied against the invading Sholen meant that this story could have no villains. Everyone -- even that ass Henri -- is well-intentioned. Indeed, their goals are exactly the same, since they're all motivated by a desire to learn. It's the off-stage Sholen and their draconian rules against contact who are ultimately responsible for what happens.
Did I mention I think the Star Trek "Prime Directive" is a stupid idea? I do. I know Gene Roddenberry wanted to get away from the raygun-toting empire-builders of the pulp science fiction era, but the idea of a rigid ban on any contact with "less advanced" civilizations is still foolish. It assumes that cultures without advanced technology are somehow naive or innocent, and that the process of leaving that low-tech life is a step down somehow -- a Fall from Eden. That's simply not true. When Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay, he brought change to Japan; incredible, neck-snappingly rapid change. But Japan remained Japan. Its people were no better or worse morally than before.
"The Ocean of the Blind" ran in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in the April 2004 issue. People must have liked it because it was collected in Year's Best Science Fiction in 2005, and the story made it as far as the preliminary Nebula award ballot. I still like it a lot, and if I don't manage to sell A Darkling Sea I may see if I can carve any more short stories out of the carcass.
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It's something I am feeling quite passionate about today! I don't like telling people HOW to help – I think everyone has different resources and priorities. But I'm beyond frustrated and into "irked" when those closest 'help' in ways that increase a need rather than address a need. Do you ever feel like that?
Today's #1linewed theme on Twitter is "humble" … I created a couple of new poetry memes for it. Join me for the fun?
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Jamaica Inn's accommodations are spacious, impeccable and very tasteful. Beds are always freshly made, even after an afternoon nap. There are no TVs, radios or clocks to intrude between guest and rest.Each suite has a private balustrade balcony or large verandah overlooking the water. Balconies and verandahs come complete with a full sized sofa, wing chair, breakfast table, writing desk & coffee table. The property's suites are equipped with air-conditioning, ceiling fans and your choice of king or twin beds.Jamaica Inn offers a breakfast menu with a wide variety of choices including local delights. Breakfast may be had on the Restaurant Terrace overlooking the bay or on the verandah of each suite overlooking the Blue Caribbean. The lunch menu boasts an extraordinary offering from freshly made soups, salads & breads to light bites, sandwiches & burgers. Lunch is served at the Seaside Restaurant, on the Beach or in your Suite. Start the evening with hors d'oeuvres then have a 6-Course Flavourful Gourmet Dinner under the Stars while listening to a live band. The Dinner menu at Jamaica Inn changes every night. Every Saturday night is the infamous Lobster night. Dinner is served on the Dinner Terrace. For dinner, a collared shirt with long trousers is required for gentlemen & ladies should dress accordingly.For an extraordinarily relaxing experience get pampered at the KiYara Ocean Spa that is located on the seaside cliffs at Jamaica Inn. The KiYara offers a wide range of holistic & blissful treatments.On-property croquet, swimming pool, snorkeling, kayaks & sunfish sailing are complimentary. Windsurfing, sailing & diving facilities available nearby at an additional charge. Other amenities include: an exercise room including a stair climber, stationary bicycle, treadmill and free weights; room service, laundry service and guests can play tennis nearby.
The food was great, the services for most part was fine and the entertainment was excellent.
The rooms were less than impressive and in desperate need of refurbishment.
Dirty moldy rooms and terrible service...Our room was terribly nasty.
Outside the resort the locals are more friendly, great location and thats about it.
good food, great location, fab.
All in all this was the best vacation spot I have been to and am looking forward to going back.
Did not feel this was good value at all.
I found the spa to be a bit too expensive.
The property outside of the rooms was nice.
overall it was a lovely holiday resort but it needs to be advertised as a 3x hotel.
the rooms were dirty and not cleaned in a timely manner.
From the moment I enter the service was good.
The staff were friendly yet very professional, we were treated like royalty.


I'm sorry, could you just look at me and no one else for now?
kyou dattara bikkuri ashita yori mo saki da yo... shiranai!
If it happened today I'd be shocked, but anything after tomorrow... I don't know!
who tells me of their love in sweet words?
Ah! In just a little longer, I'll be able to say "I want to be like this"


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Weird World: Thief robs a bank a day before his wedding to cater for expenses
A thief burgled a bank a day before his wedding.
Heath Bumpous from Texas was so desperate to get a ring for his future wife ahead of their big day that he raided a bank – and even told the staff why he was doing it.
The 36-year-old told staff he had a gun and demanded they hand over the cash, but was later convinced to hand himself in by his fiancée, Sky News reports.
Sheriff Woody Wallace said: "He basically stated that he was getting married tomorrow so he didn't have enough money for a wedding ring that he wanted to buy and he needed to pay for the wedding venue. His fiancée, who he was supposed to marry, was able to get in touch with him on the phone when she saw our post on Facebook. She knew it was him. She contacted him and asked him if he robbed a bank … she convinced him that she knew it was him."
According to The Washington Post, "Bumpous allegedly drove across the county line into Groveton, an East Texas town of about 1,000 people. Around 11:30 a.m., police said he strolled through the entrance to the Citizens State Bank, a one-story, green-roofed building in the center of town. Without a mask or any other kind of disguise, Bumpous demanded that the two bank tellers empty their drawers, threatening that he had a gun."
Reports revealed he confessed to the crime and was arrested about two hours after the robbery.
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