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Critical reading and writing in the digital age : an introductory coursebook
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Critical Reading and Writing is a fully introductory, interactive textbook that explores the power relations at work in and behind the texts we encounter in our everyday lives. Using examples from numerous genres - such as popular fiction, advertisements and newspapers - this textbook examines the language choices a writer must make in structuring texts, representing the world and positioning the reader. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, Critical Reading and Writing offers guidance on how to read texts critically and how to develop effective writing skills. Features include: activities in analysis, writing and rewriting; an appendix of comments on activities; further reading sections at the end of each unit; a glossary of linguistics terms; suggestions for five extended writing projects. Written by an experienced teacher, Critical Reading and Writing has multidisciplinary appeal but will be particularly relevant for use on introductory English and Communications courses.
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Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape
Hypervisor software is all the rage, and Microsoft plans to enter the market with its own product in 2007.
Mike Ricciuti
June 8, 2005 8:36 AM PDT
ORLANDO, Fla.--Microsoft gave more details Tuesday on its plans to launch Windows-based "hypervisor" software for running multiple operating systems.
Bob Muglia, senior vice president in the Windows Server Division, said at Microsoft's TechEd conference here that the software will be "built directly in Windows and will allow companies to virtualize multiple operating systems."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first mentioned the hypervisor plans in April at the company's Management Summit conference. Such software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, a feature that's useful for consolidating servers in order to save money, and for extracting as much work as possible from a single system.
Muglia said the hypervisor software will be delivered in 2007, following the debut of Longhorn Server. The new software will take advantage of virtualization technology coming from chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices next year, Muglia said.
The software will differ from Microsoft's existing Virtual Server product, Muglia said. That product runs on top of Windows and can run multiple Windows sessions. A recent update to Virtual Server allows companies to run Linux and other operating systems as well.
The new software will instead be built directly into Windows. "We will build a thin hypervisor that sits on top of the hardware and virtualizes resources like CPU and memory, so it has the ability to create OS sessions," Muglia said.
"One of those sessions will have the virtualization stack built into it to do device assignment and start and stop virtual sessions," he said. "It will have a version of Windows but will typically be a stripped-down version. That will control the other sessions, which can be Windows, Linux and anything that runs on x86 hardware such as Solaris or Linux."
And what about the Mac OS, now that Apple Computer has said it will begin using Intel chips? "It's impossible to say," Muglia said. Apple CEO "Steve Jobs does not intend to allow the Mac OS to run on non-Mac hardware, so I don't even know what that would mean at this point."
Microsoft hasn't decided how to package and sell the software. It could come in a service pack release after the debut of Longhorn Server, Muglia said.
Microsoft's rival in this area is an open-source software package called Xen, which has rapidly gained the support of Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Novell, Red Hat, Intel, AMD and IBM. Those companies have offered Xen support in the form of endorsements, programming help and software contributions. Xen doesn't yet support Windows, however.
In addition, VMWare recently expanded the capabilities of its existing virtualization software. And IBM in February released the source code for a project called Research Hypervisor, or rHype.
Muglia said virtualization software is relatively new, so the competitive picture isn't yet complete. "It will grow in importance, but we're in the early stages of use," he said.
Discuss: Microsoft 'hypervisor' plan takes shape

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To paint her beautiful, kind face I need a new vocabulary, new words which speak from the deepest part of my heart. If I had those words I could use them now as I write about the greatest woman in my life. Yes, I am talking about my mother. I have a deep love for my mother. But I respect all mothers. I know they are breathing one air; the same air of kindness— motherhood.
During my childhood I learned everything from my mother: love, generosity, kindness, honesty. I also learned bravery and survival. During difficult times she opened the box of her heart and told me the stories of her past life. She was the first girl in her family and wanted desperately to go to school, but girls were not permitted. They could learn only Quran basics from the mosque. But when she was six years old and her father was sick she came to Kabul with him for treatments. One day, she left the hospital and went to the nearest school to register her name as a student.
She was the best mother. But even though we were close in many ways there was also a distance in our relationship. She was a serious, angry teacher. "If you don't study your subjects you will fail!" she would admonish me. She wanted me to obey her always because she was my mother. I didn't agree with her but I didn't want to hurt her heart. I believe parents are honorable, but they can be wrong and make mistakes.
She was right. It has been three years since I last saw my mother. I miss her madly. She built a world in my heart, raised me, taught me lessons, and now my world is empty without her. My heart is like a deserted city after a storm.
I love my country and I respect the traditions, but I want to be a different kind of mother. I want my child to think of me as a friend. I don't want to be like a judge in his life. I think I will just let him know what is right and what is wrong. I will tell him about the beautiful and strange ways of human beings. As a mother, I will always pray for him. I wish that my child will never meet sadness in any aspect of his life, and I know in this way I am not different because that is the wish of every mother.
Dear readers: Thanks for reading some chapters of my heart. I wrote this for you. I wish my mother was with me so that I could thank her, but this is our life. We are never with our parents. I congratulate all mothers and, from the language of sparrows, I congratulate myself! I am a lucky mother.
That was a wonderful story to write about your mom. I love how she stood up for herself and went to school so she could get an education.
I think you will be a great mom as your children grow.
Your piece really resonated with me because, as a mom, I know the pain of being separated from my child, and sometimes I make mistakes because I want her close, even when I know she needs room to grow as a person. Your insight will make you a fabulous mom. I hope to hear more stories about your as a mother raising your child.
it is so difficult to tread that fine line between educating our children and ensuring that they grow up to be good citizens, and becoming an overbearing parent who monitors everything our children do and leaving our children no room to grow on their own.
All I can say is, I'm not a parent and even I know how difficult it is to be one. I imagine that the difficulties I know is merely a fraction of the reality for parents. Good luck!


Gevo to Acquire Agri-Energy Ethanol Production Facility to Produce Isobutanol | Gevo, Inc.
DENVER, CO (August 9, 2010) – Gevo, a privately held renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company, today announced it has signed definitive agreements to acquire Agri-Energy's ethanol production facility in Luverne, Minn.
"This transaction is another important step in achieving our goal of bringing commercial volumes of renewable isobutanol to the market as soon as possible," said Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo. "The Luverne plant is a very well run facility with a strong operating team. It is a great place to begin our commercialization effort. We expect the facility will be the first among many and want it to be a model project for the future."
Mechanical retrofitting of the plant will begin upon closing the transaction. Isobutanol production is expected to begin by the first quarter of 2012. During most of the retrofit process, it is expected that the facility will continue to produce ethanol.
Gevo has developed a proprietary process designed to fit into current ethanol production facilities. The process also enables the production of isobutanol from numerous renewable feedstocks including corn, wheat, sorghum, barley, sugar cane and cellulosic feedstocks when biomass conversion becomes commercially available. Gevo's integrated fermentation technology (GIFT™) platform consists of two components: a yeast biocatalyst and a separations technology unit that bolts into existing ethanol plants.
"Since its founding in 1998, Agri-Energy has been dedicated to advancing the technology and best practices of the ethanol industry," said Agri-Energy founding member and Co-op Coordinator David Kolsrud. "We see biobutanol as the next logical step in the industry's development. We believe isobutanol can be sold into many markets and has product attributes that make it a compelling product for current ethanol producers."
Isobutanol is a naturally occurring, four-carbon alcohol found in food and some alcoholic beverages. It is also a "drop-in" platform chemical with broad applications in the product of approximately 40 percent of petrochemicals and 100 percent of hydrocarbon fuels. It can be used directly for a solvent and converted to isobutylene, the raw material for plastics and fibers. Gevo believes its isobutanol will provide a route to the renewable production of rubber, polypropylene, polystyrene, and PET. Isobutanol can also be used directly as a gasoline blendstock and as a building block in the production of hydrocarbons found in petroleum-derived gasoline, jet and diesel fuels.
Gevo is developing capital efficient biorefinery systems to provide renewable, cost-effective building block products to the fuel and chemical industries. Gevo seeks to convert renewable raw materials into isobutanol and renewable hydrocarbons that can be directly integrated into existing fuel and chemical products to deliver environmental and economic benefits. Gevo is committed to a sustainable biobased economy that meets society's needs for plentiful food and clean air and water.


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CRA welcomes Timothy M. Pinkston as a new Board Member. Pinkston replaces Mark D. Hill as an academic member on the Board. Hill recently moved into industry with a position at Microsoft as Partner Hardware Architect with Azure, requiring him to step down from the Board. We would like to thank Hill for his term of service on the CRA Board.
Timothy M. Pinkston
Timothy M. Pinkston is holder of the George Pfleger Chair in Electrical Engineering, former holder of the Louise L. Dunn Endowed Professorship in Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He also is the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from The Ohio State University in 1985, and he earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1986 and 1993, respectively.
Prior to joining USC in 1993, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, a Hughes Doctoral Fellow at Hughes Research Laboratory, and a visiting researcher at IBM T. J. Watson Research Laboratory. He founded the SMART Interconnects Group at USC where he conducts research on computer systems architecture. With over a hundred peer-reviewed technical publications, he has made key research contributions to deadlock-free adaptive routing, router microarchitecture and interconnection networks (both distributed and on-chip networks) that achieve high-performance and energy-efficient data movement in multicore and multiprocessor computer systems–from embedded processors to compute servers to large-scale datacenters.
He has received prominent national awards, including the NSF Minority Research Initiation Award and NSF CAREER Award, and is the proud recipient of a Distinguished Alumnus Award from The Ohio State University's College of Engineering and Minority Engineering Program. He served three years (2005-2008) as an NSF Program Director in the CISE Directorate, serving the last year of his stint as the inaugural Lead Program Director for the newly established Expeditions in Computing Program. He has contributed other significant service to the profession as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), as a member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA), and in several key leadership roles and on many technical program committees for top, flagship conferences in the field, including serving as General Co-Chair for the 45th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA'18), Program Chair of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'09), and General Chair of the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'07). He also co-organizes the CMD-IT Annual Academic Workshop for Underrepresented Ethnic Minorities and Persons with Disabilities and engages in many other efforts to broaden the participation and development of minorities in engineering. Dr. Pinkston is a member of AAAS, Fellow of the ACM, and Fellow of the IEEE.
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Lauterbourg (Municipality, Bas-Rhin, France)
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Flag and gonfanon of Lauterbourg - Images by Ivan Sache, 1 March 2010
Presentation of Lauterbourg
Flag of Lauterbourg
Bas-Rhin (Department, France)
The municipality of Lauterbourg (2,191 inhabitants in 2006; 1,125 ha), located near the border with Germany, on the confluency of rivers Lauter and Rhine. The easternmost municipality of continental France, Lauterbourg also forms the north-eastern corner of France.
Lauterbourg was probably in the Roman times the place of a castella, a small fortification used to house the legions in campaign; some say the place was named Tribunci.
The settlement reemerged in the 9th century as a domain of the German Empire ran by a Burgrave (Count) on behalf of the Hohenstaufen Emperors. Markedo of Lauterbourg took in 1234 the party of Henry, Duke of Swabia and Alsace, revolted against his father Frederick II. Markedo was killed the next year in the battle that ended the revolt, and Lauterbourg was reincorporated to the Imperial domain. After the fall of the Hohenstaufen, Lauterbourg was transfered in 1254 to the Bishop of Speyer; the town was made the capital of a big bailiwick, encompassing three towns, sixty villages, and its walls were increased.
Lauterbourg was looted several times during the Thirty Years' War. In 1648, the town kept only 200 out of its 1,500 inhabitants. The town was allocated to the Kingdom of France and the Bishop of Speyer plead allegiance to King Louis XIV. Lauterbourg was burned down to ashes and its castle was suppressed during the War of Holland (1672-1679); the remains of the town were looted again during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).
After the fall of the French Empire, the Congress of Vienna set up the river Lauter as the border of the restored Kingdom of France.
Source: Website of the Association Châteaux Forts et Villes Fortifiées d'Alsace
Ivan Sache, 1 March 2010
The flag of Lauterbourg (photo) is white with the municipal coat of arms in the middle.
A forked, vertical banner of the same design is shown on a photo in the Dictionnaire d'Amboise (1993).
The arms of Lauterbourg are D'azur à un château de trois tours d'or ("Azure a castle triple towered or"). According to Brian Timms, these arms, based on ancient seals, are shown in the Armorial Général.
On the flag, the windows of the castle are white.
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Chicago's unreported race war
Tribune argues it's irrelevant in news
By Colin Flaherty
Published June 19, 2012 at 9:05pm
According to a statement in the Chicago Tribune, reporting on the race of individuals involved in news events, such as mobs attacking, robbing and vandalizing, is irrelevant.
A news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Chicago goes even further: Anyone who reads or writes about the epidemic of racial violence in Chicago is an "idiot" who engages in "meaningless ... race baiting," says Ravi Baichwal.
City officials and the media might be the only two places left where people still deny Chicago is under assault from more than 50 episodes of black mobs attacking, beating, robbing and vandalizing over the last three years in and around downtown. Many of them are on display at YouTube.
Some call it the "Chicago Intifada."
Over just the last two weeks, black mobs are under investigation in at least five new violent incidents in downtown Chicago.
And according to the award-winning police blog Second City Cop, there may be 25 more incidents of mob violence and lawlessness in that weekend alone that were never reported.
"As someone who worked in downtown Chicago for many years, I am horrified that residents are not only not being protected by the police, but that the city and media are actively denying the public the facts they need to fulfill the most basic of human rights; protecting themselves," said Michelle Jacobsen. "The police and media have three basic purposes; serve, protect, inform. Their purposely miserable failure is putting lives in danger."
The latest epidemic of violence was centered around the Blues Festival on June 9. Shortly after a concert ended at 9:30 p.m., a mob attacked an out-of-town visitor and left him with a broken jaw. Six juveniles and one adult – all black – have been charged in connection with the assault.
Thirty minutes later, another mob in a nearby subway attacked a man trying to protect his wife from theft and assault. The Chicago Tribune said he suffered a "concussion, a fractured orbital bone under his left eye, two cracked teeth and a cut over his left eye that required six stitches."
The paper published pictures of the assailants, none of whom has been arrested or identified.
The next night, a doctor at Chicago's Northwestern hospital was beaten by a mob, the second attack on a doctor in that area in 10 days, says the CBS affiliate in Chicago. All the suspects are black.
Meanwhile, the Second City Cop web site says mob violence in the downtown precincts is massively under-reported:
"And for the record, the 'three' 'muggings' that are being 'investigated?' Add a zero to that for incidents occurring last night in 018 (the downtown precinct.) Crime is down and if no one reports it or the media doesn't get a hold of it? It never happened."
The Chicago New Report provides details of similar assaults for the following weekend: "Saturday, Chicago police officers were kept busy trying to control huge crowds of unruly, young African Americans in the city's increasingly violent downtown area. Separate groups, of nearly two hundred people, were responsible for several disturbances and at least one robbery in the area."
Over the last three years, Chicago has been Ground Zero for an epidemic of racial violence and denial – with dozens of attacks against women, "gays," seniors, Asians and others from black mobs. Few, if any, were reported as racial violence.
The beat reporters may not be connecting the dots, but three Chicago columnists are. If only to deny the dots are connected – or even exist.
Last July, Tribune columnist Mary Schmich recounted the latest example of black mob violence, and said "there's another fact that you also know, but it's one you haven't read in the Tribune or seen explicitly stated by most of the official media: The young men were black."
Which has nothing to do with anything, she says. And besides, she and her friends worry how reporting the race of the criminals "will reflect on all the good black kids."
Schmich's comments echo a policy statement from Tribune editorial page member Steve Chapman.
"There are good reasons not to identify the attackers by race. It's the newspaper's sound general policy not to mention race in a story, whether about crime or anything else, unless it has some clear relevance to the topic. My question to readers accusing us of political correctness is: Why do you care so much about the attackers' race? If you fear or dislike blacks, I suppose it would confirm your prejudice. But otherwise, it tells you nothing useful."
But posters to Tribune news sites and callers to talk radio wonder why the media has so much invested in refusing to report a unifying factor in many of these violent crimes.
City officials sometimes even deny the violence exists – let alone has a racial component. Last year, the city closed North Avenue Beach for Memorial Day after a crowd of 1,000 black people attacked beachgoers, knocked some off bikes and created other mayhem.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said the beach was closed because it was too hot. No one told him about wide-spread racial violence at the beach, he said. Other city beaches remained open. Callers to talk radio and leaks from the police department revealed the true extent of the violence – and who was responsible for it.
Also during the summer on at least five occasions, mobs of black people swept through the "gay" district of Boys Town, beating, assaulting, destroying, even knifing. Some of it is on YouTube.
According the local ABC affiliate: "It was an obvious mob mentality. You saw people cheering it on. People running in to give one quick jab or kick and the then back out and cheering them on. It's scary,' said Rob Sall.
"Residents say the problems are due to large groups of people from outside the neighborhood loitering in the area. Alderman Tom Tunney, 44th Ward, said Monday night that this is a subject that has been coming up for the last couple of years. There tends to be large groups of minority youths on Halsted."
There's been a stream of headlines:
Random attacks cause concern in Chicago – Chicago Tribune
Police Supt. Garry McCarthy vows to hunt down 'flash mob' suspects – Chicago Sun-Times
Officials: Flash Mobs Already Plague South Side – CBS Chicago
Four robbed, attacked by mob of young men in Streeterville – Chicago Sun-Times
Teen mobs suspected in downtown assaults – chicagotribune.com
The list go on and on. So does the list of universities, sports teams, retail associations, hospitals and others that have warned their employees and customers that downtown Chicago is now a dangerous place.
Tribune columnist Mary Mitchell grudgingly acknowledges all the mob attackers are black. Mitchell doesn't much like that, but she insists race has nothing to do with it. She says the attackers are from the suburbs, so don't blame Chicago. She does however, worry that her grandchild goes to school with too many white children.
Back in the city, Congressman (and former Black Panther leader) Bobby Rush said black mob violence has been around for a long time: "You know as well as I – shootings, killings, and flash mobs. This is a new one now. Flash mobs, pepper spray assaults by young men have dominated this weekend's news. I'm disturbed because it happens on the South Side on a regular basis. It seems as though when it happens on the North Side, then it's newsworthy."
Over the Memorial Day weekend, 10 people were killed and 40 shot, largely in Chicago's black neighborhoods. The next weekend, the numbers were 8 dead and 40 wounded. And the weekend after that, five dead and 28 wounded.
The Superintendent of Police Gary McCarthy said crime is down and he is frustrated that people do not know it.
Last year, just a few days after denying there was any problem with violence from the 1,000 black people who were rioting at North Avenue Beach, McCarthy said he knew who was responsible for all the violence: Sarah Palin. Because she supports the right to bear arms.
While city officials and the Chicago media stumble over each other to deny the racial violence, at least one black Chicago alderman figures if you can't beat 'em, join 'em: Earlier this month, Alderman Anthony Beale said if Metra, the city transit agency, does not hire more minorities, "people are going to get hurt."
Even the Sun-Times could not ignore that: Its headline said: "Beale predicts violence if Metra doesn't hire more minorities for rail project."
Previous reports:
Black Expo 'inescapably tied' to race violence
Black-on-white link in Minneapolis violence
Is it racist to say 'blacks attacking whites'?
'Boredom' proves to be trigger for flash mobs'
Call for crackdown on black-on-white terror
Read all about the "undue and inordinate affinity for blacks that has been promoted by activists, politicans and the establishment press for the past 40 years," in Erik Rush's "Negrophilia."
Colin Flaherty is the author of "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How The Media Ignore It," @ColinFlaherty.
Colin Flaherty is an award-winning reporter and author of "White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it." Follow him on Twitter.
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Roving black mobs too many to ignore
10-day bloodbath for 'nonexistent' Knockout Game
Sting! Corrupt politicians all happen to be ...
Chick-Fil-A targeted by black mob
Another 'tough to watch' black-on-white beating


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April 21, 2018 Spanish football, English football, Italian football
Football matches to watch this weekend
The sun is out in Europe, so I think a lot of football fans go outside and enjoy the sun. I personally go to watch a match of one of the local teams over here. For the fans who don't like to go out there is of course a lot of football on the telly. In this post I give you an overview with the football matches you should be watching this weekend.
Football matches to watch
#FA Cup semi-finals
This is mainly a cup weekend, starting with the FA Cup semi-finals. Especially the first semi-final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur is one to watch. The FA Cup is the only remaining chance on silverware for both teams, so they will play with their strongest teams. The Sunday semi-final is between Chelsea and Southampton. The Blues are of course favourites in this match, but the Saints proved to be true cup fighters this season.
Copa del Rey final
Another cup match, but this time a real final. The Copa del Rey final is the one between Fc Barcelona and Sevilla. Barcelona won the last three editions of this tournament so it's up to Sevilla to breakthrough this run. Barca has a clear advantage in La Liga, so they will bring all the big guns to go for the double this season. For Sevilla this is a perfect chance to win a trophy. It's going to be an interesting edition between two good teams.
Juventus versus Napoli
No cup match, but an important match in the Serie A title race. There is a gap of 4 points between Juventus and Napoli on the Serie A table. After this match both teams have four more matches to play. If Napoli can decrease to gap to one point, it's going to be the most exciting season final in recent years in the Serie A.


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Rokoko and Autodesk
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Imagine being able to drag and drop an animation file created by the motion-capture studio behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That is now possible for users of Autodesk Maya who gain access to Rokoko's Motion Library; thousands of character animations created by professional motion capture studios, now made available for $3 or $6 per asset.
"Autodesk is a huge player in the high-end 3D space and with the Motion Library as a native part of Maya, we are right at the doorstep of the world's top animators. Particularly in the early phases of production, they can save crucial time and money by not having to create their animations from scratch," says Jakob Balslev CEO and Co-Founder of Rokoko.
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Autodesk is one of the largest companies in the 3D software market, catering to architects, engineers and the artists and animators of the media and entertainment industries.
The Motion Library was launched in September 2018 as a native part of game development giant Unity's engine and has since grown rapidly in terms of active users and asset numbers, according to Rokoko.
The assets are created and uploaded by motion-capture studios such as U.K.-based Audiomotion, behind animations in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Ready Player One, Horizon Zero Dawn and Dying Light; and Centroid, behind Assassin's Creed, Godzilla and Doctor Strange. These partners have used professional actors and million-dollar motion-capture systems to create assets that are now available in the Motion Library for as little as $3.
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The following image is the layout diagram for the Slink OmniHUD version 3.
This HUD is more streamlined and simple than V2. All the options are on one single page, no more tabs and different pages.
the RGB button to obtain the current RGB value of your feet for safekeeping or transfer into another HUD.
the space between the skin textures and the logo will contain style specific options where they exist.
the resize slider. Click towards the large end to make the feet bigger, towards the small end to make them smaller. Reset sets them back at the default 100% that they are packed with.
the favourites section. There are 4 positions for you to save favourite options in this HUD. Press "save" to save a colour (NOT the dollop above save), and then press the coloured dollop to retrieve your saved colour. Make sure you note what skin texture you used, so you can retrieve that in the future.
The nailpolish buttons – there are 15 natural tones, and 15 polish tones to choose from. Extra nail HUDs can be bought separately from the Slink store.
The following image is the layout diagram for the SLink OmniHUD version 2.
Saved colours. Press the green SAVE button to save your current foot colour to the favourites. Press the coloured square to tint your feet with that colour.
The resizer bar. Click to the left of the green dot to make your feet smaller, click to the right to make them bigger.
The reset button. Resets your feet to factory default size. Does not effect colour, texture, or toenails.
The get RGB button. Displays the current RGB value of your feet. Handy for easy tinting of non-SLink feet.
The help button. Press this to open the Slink Help Pages where you can browse the FAQ's, and learn more about SLink products.
The options page. Here you will always find the toggle buttons to turn off the invisiprims, as well as other options that may be available with the style you are wearing, such as closed toe boots, toggle buttons for fullbright, shiny, pawpads, socks and stockings where available.
The navigation tabs. The active tab is black. To navigate to any other area, simply press one of the grey tabs to activate that page of the HUD.
Can you enter an RGB value directly? My viewer shows me the RGB of my skin – is there anyway to enter those values into the HUD?
I have the beige lulu stilettos and i'm clicking yes to turn on invisiprims since something I'm wearing needs an alpha. The invisiprims aren't coming on as I still see my regular avatar feet. Any advice?
Please contact me inworld for an update of this product.
I keep getting these messages in local chat when trying to change my RGB: SLink Jolie Nails Tinting HUD v1.0: Changing your skin to the RGB values you specified.
[15:04] SLink Jolie Pied OmniHUD V 3 Lulu (WEAR ME): Changing your skin to the RGB values you specified.
[15:04] SLink Jolie Nails Tinting HUD v1.0: ERROR: Was asked to change chat_input but can't find how to. Please let the creator of this item know they forgot to tell me!. I have tried using the suggested method of: /13 skin 230,175,137 after inserting my skin's RGB in it's place. I bought the chubby pack and am getting peeved. Help, please.
Hi Sookey, I have contacted you inworld about this, but incase anyone else is reading with the same issue – the message is coming from your Nails HUD which doesn't understand the command.. "SLink Jolie Nails Tinting HUD v1.0: ERROR" The instructions for listening to the /13 command are not included in the nails HUD script. You can either ignore the error, or detatch the nails tinting HUD before using the /13 skin command.
No, there is only one script per foot that controls the functionality and one that controls the ankle animation which would mean that the ankles would break and you would never be able to change the toenails on the completed set. The scripts are not resource heavy, they are only active when the HUD sends them a command.
hi, i have bought the SLink Jolie Pied Barefeet Low omnihud v2.1 a few years back, i like them alot but i never could get the color right for my ava.
these days i see that in other footstores they give a socks with the package that is called 'ankle blender'.
my question is if you have such a thing for my feet, or maybe an update of the whole package!?


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It was a scant 1:36 shift for Jonny Williams, but it summed up last night's stirring and lovable 72-60 victory over George Mason.
VCU had played four gritty minutes without an injured Treveon Graham, and had wrestled a Mason lead that threatened double figures back to 32-28 with a smidgen less than two minutes to play in the first half. JeQuan Lewis picked up his second foul and headed to the bench, and Williams replaced him. In my mind, this was a big moment.
If Williams plays loose and Mason closes on, say, an 8-2 run primarily due to poor point guard play, the Rams hit the locker room sullen and Mason feels as if they absorbed, and survived, a punch.
On his first live possession, Williams grabbed a rebound, rocketshipped down the floor, and fed Justin Tillman for a layup. After a missed free throw Williams again exploited the lane and fed Tillman to tie the game at 32-32. Two offensive possessions, two assists.
Mason did score to lead 34-32 at the break, but momentum was clearly on the side of the visiting team whose fans were responsible for the energy in the cavernous Patriot Center.
The second half saw the VCU defense tighten up–Mason scored six points in the first 8:30 of the half–and the offense begin to work smoothly. The Rams committed just two second half turnovers. Lewis finished with 13 points, four assists, and two steals against just two turnovers. He was 7-7 from the line. Yeah.
Doug Brooks, who looks like his arms and legs could fall off his body at any moment, was everywhere. Brooks doesn't have a nose for the ball like Briante Weber, but he has a nose for action.
I see you, Mike Gilmore. He didn't play until the second half but was ready. Swish. Swish.
Mo Alie Cox proving once again that if you're to go after Mo Alie Cox, you'd better bring help. An open court steal and dunk, followed by a that-ball-is-mine rip from Shevon Thompson, were the highlights. However Cox used his mobility and physicality to limit Thompson to four field goal attempts (one make).
Speaking of men, Jordan Burgess pulled down three Man Rebounds in the second half (and three regular rebounds elsewhere) that were very important.
The Melvin with The 17 Points.
And the man who impressed me most, Justin Tillman. The Fro has taken small steps forward all season long, but last night was a big step.
But here's the thing you didn't expect me to write: I'd say the Rams took a step forward last night, but be wary of fool's gold. It isn't linear. Sometimes you take steps sideways, and sometimes you take steps backwards. The coaching staff knows the players need to continue to mature along their arc of improvement to March.


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PROVIDED BY SAINT REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE
APRIL 18, 2022 – AKWESASNE: The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe's COVID-19 Response Team reported 15 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the southern portion of Akwesasne over a four (4) day period — from April 14, 2022 to April 18, 2022. Eight (8)
cases have completed their five-day isolation period however, there remain seven (7) active cases under the Tribe's jurisdiction. The active cases include two (2) children between the ages of 5 to 11-years old, and 13 community members over the age of 18.
The rise in COVID-19 cases is an indication that the virus has not gone away and remains an ongoing threat to public health. As a result, we continue to encourage individuals
who remain unvaccinated to please choose to protect yourself and those you love by getting the COVID-19 Vaccine.
We kindly ask that you continue to respect an individual's decision to wear a mask or not. Individuals may need to wear a mask due to an underlying medical condition or
their personal vaccination status. There are also some locations that continue to require masks due to federal or tribal regulations.
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COVID-19 PCR Testing is available on Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Health Service's testing garage located at 404 State Route 37. Please use the gravel road across from McGee Road.
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Barry Lyndon*
August 25, 2016 edwardbindlossBarry Lyndon, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Stanley Kubrick 2 Comments
What is luck? The dictionary definition is "success brought about by chance rather than by ones own actions". To the religious mind nothing can be occasioned by luck because all is within the compass of a providential God. In Christianity what others call 'luck' is instead called 'grace'. The Greeks believed in the randomness and pointlessness of luck, but they ascribed it to the capricious will of the Goddess Fortuna. Fortune was experienced as capriciousness but lay ultimately in the lap of the gods. To the secular mind the possibility of chance is an affront. To surrender to the idea that life is underscored by meaningless, pointless contingency is, for some, too brutal to be contemplated. Therefore instead, for the secular mind, providence is smuggled back in and called behavioural determinism or karma or destiny or fate or some such retrospective self-deceiving comfort. Let us steel ourselves and remain with the definition of luck as nothing more than pure mundane chance.
One way of reading Stanley Kubrick's cinematic masterpiece Barry Lyndon (1975) is as an examination of luck. His screenplay is based on the novel by William Thackeray, published in 1844, The Luck of Barry Lyndon about an Irish adventurer in eighteenth century Europe.
Barry experiences good and bad fortune in relentless episodic sequences of success and failure:
Born into a loving Irish family/ his father dies in a duel when Barry is very young.
Barry falls in love with his cousin/ she jilts him with Captain Quinn.
Given 20 guineas to start his life in Dublin/ Barry is robbed of it on the road into town
Enlists is a good English regiment/ forcibly dragooned into a brutish Prussian regiment
Makes a fortune at cards in Weimar/ loses it all
Marries Lady Lyndon and her £30,000 a year and Castle Hackton/ squanders the money and estate trying to buy a title for their beloved son Bryan
Bryan is set to inherit the castle and estate/ Bryan dies in a riding accident
Barry granted a pension of £500 a year/ he declines into poverty
Kubrick's plotting of the narrative is unusual. He concentrates on minutiae: for example four duels where the camera lingers lovingly over each pistol prepared, each duellist's unsteady hand, the anxiety of a Second as he explains elaborately in minute detail the rule of a contest. Kubrick has the same level of detail for the scenes set at the gaming tables of fashionable spas. A studied concentration on each card carefully laid, on each beauty spot on every be-wigged player, on each coin counted and transferred from loser to winner. In these scenes everything is left to chance. Fortunes are made or dissipated on the mundane but devastatingly arbitrary turn of a playing card. Lives are lost or ruined from the chance outcome of a misfiring pistol or gust of wind blowing a shot off course or a nervously unsteady arm.
Disconcertingly, major story developments occur offscreen. Marisa Berenson (Lady Lyndon) speaks no more than about ten short lines while her character commits adultery, is widowed, falls in love, marries again, has a son and is made jealous by her new husband's infidelity. The characters spend more time riding horses, or travelling within carriages, between events whilst an urbane, doleful narrater (the lugubrious voice of Michael Horden) tells us what just happened or what is about to happen – neither of which Kubrick films. The inner life of characters is not illuminated by verbal explanations of intent or desire and they appear inert within their own stories. The whole film has a melancholy, enigmatic, subdued air.
It is one of the most beautiful films ever made. Kubrick poured over reproductions of eighteenth century paintings by Watteau, Reynolds, Hogarth and Gainsborough to help create his meticulously composed images. Tiny human figures in ruffed shirts are set against vast magnificent backdrops of visual splendour. The action is either kept at arms length or bypassed in microscopic scrupulous clarity.
Barry is a rogue among aristocrats but he is not unfavourably compared with the well bred, blue blooded nobles. We see aristocrats and officers cheating at cards, refusing to pay their debts, lobbying for money the monarch to grant titles, selling paintings at ludicrous prices to take advantage of the unwary, cavorting with prostitutes. Lord Ludd, Lord Bullingdon, and for that matter Captain Quinn, are revealed in close up to be terrified before their duels with Barry, who alone retains a calm sang-froid. There is nothing noble about this nobility.
Kubrick sabotaged any suspense by having the narrator tell us well in advance what the outcome of the film will be. The film ends abruptly with Barry, aged about 35, being forced to emigrate from England after losing a duel. If the ending seems arbitrary, it's because it is. Given his age much of Barry's life is still left to run. There is a sense that had the film lasted another 15 minutes we could have witnessed another of his rises in fortune – it just so happened that when the music stopped he was on one of his downward trajectories. It seems not to matter how the film ends: the only point is the earlier unwinding of the capricious process. There is no pattern to this reality, merely a series of accidents.
The days of filming were notoriously difficult. The shoot lasted 350 days (between 1973 and 1974) and went six times over budget for Warner Bros. Ryan O'Neal (Barry) was supposed to be on set for 18 weeks and stayed for 52. Marisa Berenson spent the first three months in costume and make-up every day without being used ("I might need you tomorrow" was Kubrick's refrain). A day would often involve 300 takes of the same short scene, "Do it again". Murray Melvin (Reverend Runt) contracted for 3 weeks stayed for 6 months. Kubrick insisted on shooting all scenes in natural light. This included the candle-lit interiors where a highly sensitive low-light camera produced by NASA was procured by Kubrick for the job. In one scene 1000 triple-wick candles were used – the shot took a week to set up. Berenson said afterwards that the use of the NASA camera required all actors to stay still or they would be out of focus. No wonder the indoor gambling candle-lit scenes seem particularly static.
On its release in 1975 the film bombed with audiences and critics (only admired for its technical excellence) and Warner Bros. made a huge loss. One reason for this could be a negative reaction to Kubrick's presentation of life as something subject to luck and contingency. This is not what art is supposed to be. People want art to correct the blunders of an unsatisfactory reality: to provide the illusion that life has purpose and is subject to a plan, and an ending that gives meaning to what has gone before. Like many Kubrick films it has had to grow its reputation over the years. Marisa Berenson (who was in two of my other favourite films Cabaret and Death in Venice) said earlier this year "Not a day goes by without someone talking to me about Barry Lyndon. It puts a spell on people. I think it will last forever". I regard it as a masterpiece. It has just been re-released in cinemas and I watched it (again) at York City Screen last week. Can I propose that it is time for people to stop worrying and learn to love Barry Lyndon?
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Francis FitzGibbon QC says:
This interview is full of SK's insights into the film: http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.bl.html
You're so right about luck, and Barry is a chancer of the 1st order. He sleeps and cheats his way to the top, is uncovered, and gets his comeuppance. The ruling class get their way, as usual.
Among my top 5 films (not in order: Les Enfants du Paradis; Jules & Jim; BL; The Third Man; La Règle du Jeu).
edwardbindloss says:
Thanks Francis. Kubrick on form in that interview. We'll just have to continue to disagree about Les Enfants du P.


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In Israeli High Court Case, CNS Scholar Urges Change to Nuclear Oversight
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – A report by Avner Cohen, a professor of nonproliferation studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a CNS senior fellow, played an important role in a recent Israeli High Court of Justice case. Cohen, who has spent much of his career advocating for increased openness in regulation and oversight of Israel's secretive nuclear program, was one of the petitioners seeking a legislative solution to nuclear oversight.
Cohen directed the comparative study, "Nuclear Legislation and Governance in Four Nuclear Weapons Democracies," which was researched and written by CNS/Davis United World College Fellow Brandon Mok.
The report presents a set of comparative raw data on the question of how four Western democratic nuclear-weapon states— the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Israel—handle the essential tension between nuclear weapons (which require secrecy) and liberal democracy.
The report was used to assist Cohen in preparing for the September 6 hearing. The petition before the court called for legislating a process to develop regulation and oversight of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.
Although the court rejected the petition in its September 14 ruling—on grounds that the court lacks the authority to force the Knesset to draft laws on specific issues—Cohen says the ruling represented a breakthrough because the court validated the idea of changes to the country's nuclear regulatory oversight. In its ruling, the court broke with the state's official position, writing that the call for nuclear legislation "is a worthy issue for public debate."
"The fact that the court was willing to effectively reject the State position speaks volumes," said Cohen. "One must recall that nuclear affairs in Israel are wrapped with layers of secrecy, taboo and silence."
In particular, the study looks at the comprehensiveness of the legislative, regulatory, scientific, and policy mechanisms that each of the four democratic states have created to govern nuclear affairs. The report was cited in news coverage by the Jerusalem Post just prior to the hearing.
"Such material has never before been publicly available in a condensed form in one location, making this study of use to anyone interested in the problem of governing the atom," said Cohen. "It will be updated as structures and policy change."


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Backcountry Staples Founder JC Coughlin wasn't always health conscious. While studying abroad in News Zealand, his go-to backpacking fare consisted of thin spaghetti, instant mashed potatoes, and a packet of gravy.
Needless to say, a lot has changed since his college days. For starters, JC's long-time partner Anya started hiking and backpacking with him. "She expected a little more refined culinary approach," JC laughed.
More importantly, once JC and Anya relocated to Seattle, he experienced a number of health issues, including a bout with eczema, which later pushed him into a gluten and dairy-free diet. Limiting these inflammatory triggers helped JC immensely, and he was encouraged to pursue a gluten-free lifestyle indefinitely.
While backpacking, mountain biking and packrafting all over the Pacific Northwest, JC always seemed to be the one organizing the food, often making meals himself.
Back in 2015, JC and Anya were taking a break in the Olympic National Forest, sitting lakeside, enjoying their homemade quick-cooking soups. Together, they wondered, "why is it so difficult to go into a store and find what we're eating?"
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So JC decided to tackle it himself. Backcountry Staples officially launched in June of 2019.
Still in its infancy, Backcountry Staples' first offerings are entirely breakfast meals made of creamy oats and buckwheat porridge. Inspired by indulgent treats like cobblers, crisps, and scones, JC prepares all the brand's products by himself in a commercial kitchen in Bellingham, WA.
Using transparent packaging, so you can see the product inside, was important to JC. "I want customers to feel that sense of transparency and feel connected to the food they are buying. I want them to know Backcountry Staples is something they can rely on," he said.
While some of the brand's breakfasts can be cold-soaked, Backcountry Staples meals are specifically designed for thermos-cooking. "It's the most convenient, efficient, easy, and portable way to prepare food for life on the go," JC said.
All of Backcountry Staples' breakfasts are infused with an awareness of food allergies and their impact on health. "From an allergy standpoint, we're striving to make meals that are as considerate as possible, so they're available to more people," he said.
Every meal the brand cooks up is gluten and dairy-free, with sugar-free and nut-free options available too. "We've gone a step further to source the best, least-processed ingredients we can." JC admits he can't satisfy every condition, "but we're trying to be thoughtful."
Eventually, Backcountry Staples plans to build beyond breakfast by adding more savory items to the menu (think soups and spreads).
Just a few months into their launch, Backcountry Staples is already giving back.
"In the U.S. we have a lot of access to these amazing playgrounds for adventures. They exist because of public lands," JC said. "I feel as a company operating with the identity of being an outdoor recreation company, it's important to support those places that make those trips possible."
To this end, Backcountry Staples donates 3% of sales to non-profit organizations that care for and protect these lands.
As the brand's sole chef (who also has a day job as a product engineer), JC stays busy experimenting in the kitchen. Once a recipe is "half-way decent," he collaborates with Anya. Eventually, meals get passed on to friends and family for field-testing.
All of the positive feedback from both product testers and customers encourages JC to keep moving forward. "When it really has a direct utility in their life, it's really motivating," he said.
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Chocolate Cake for Breakfast? And Other 2017 Trend Predictions
Malted Chocolate CakePeter Frank Edwards
#FoodReads
A conversation between Epi's David Tamarkin and Sam Worley on some 2017 food prognostications.
By David Tamarkin and Sam Worley
Sam Worley: So this is the season for trend forecasting and the most encouraging headline I've seen was the one about how we're all going to be eating chocolate cake for breakfast in 2017, which comes to us via Liz Moskow, who works for the ad agency Sterling-Rice Group. Usually I tend to think of this stuff as so much marketing, but this year I'm taking a different approach. The planet is dying, politics is depressing chaos, winter is coming. I don't care if it's a big capitalist put-on. If nothing else matters, why not eat chocolate cake for breakfast?
I know you have opinions about both cake and breakfast.
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David Tamarkin: I think it's hilarious that cake for breakfast would be a trend. This, to me, ignores the existence of muffins, which ceased being true muffins a long time ago and are now simply muffin-shaped cake. And these cake-muffins are everywhere! I can't walk to work in the morning without passing, I don't know, at least 50 muffins. Sometimes I break down and buy one of these muffins, and they are usually horrible.
SW: Muffins are almost always bad. A lot of breakfast offerings, particularly grab-and-go-type stuff, are already super sweet. I guess all the cake thing does is add frosting. (Assuming they're talking about frosted cakes.)
DT: Oh. Well, yeah. Frosting does seem intense before work.
SW: Why not cheesecake, though? It's got a lot of protein. If we're taking it there.
DT: Epicurious has gone on record as getting behind ricotta as a substitute for yogurt. Ricotta cheesecake is not so different. Still. Cheesecake for breakfast sounds gross. As does a slice of iced cake. So, so far, the trends of 2017 are making me feel sick. What's next?
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SW: You'll be pleased to learn that a growing popular interest in the problem of food waste has been forecast for 2017! At least by Liz Moskow, who says, "This is driven by millennials' desire to make the earth a better place."
DT: Go millennials!
SW: And it's true that we're simultaneously seeing a lot of movement in this regard: apps to help people and restaurants not throw their dinner away, campaigns by nonprofits (like the Natural Resources Defense Council) and government agencies (like the Environmental Protection Agency). I was at the James Beard Conference last week and food waste was a big topic of conversation—I think people were surprised at how much traction it's gotten.
DT: This is a good trend, not just for the earth, but for cooking in general. In order to not waste food, you have to cook it. And that's encouraging to me, because if I am not mistaken, cooking—true cooking—is on the decline.
SW: I've been happy to think more about food waste because it adds to a sense of challenge in the kitchen—what do I do with this broccoli stem?
DT: Exactly. That was really the justification for Epi doing food waste coverage in the first place. You have to get creative to use all those stems. When Kat Sacks blended kale stems into a creamy salad dressing, I was pretty psyched. Because one can only eat sauteed kale stems so much, you know?
Broccoli stems, on the other hand—I can eat those all day. Better than the florets, IMHO.
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SW: Oh my god, really? I hold this exact same opinion.
DT: They're so meaty and delicious, and I love the shape, which is often a little geometric when I prep them because I've taken a peeler to it. It's like…I don't know…an English pound. Made out of broccoli.
SW: Let's switch to another prognosticator: this recent Wall Street Journal article on what food experts say we'll be eating next. It mentions jackfruit, which we know all about. It mentions spirulina, which figured into that fascinating recent Times magazine story on scientists trying to find a natural way to dye blue M&Ms. The unifying theme to the trends mentioned here is that they're all about conscious consumption—healthier, less earth-intensive. A whole slate of new kales.
DT: Spirulina sounds like a character Jane Fonda would have played. I don't know that I'll be eating it. Or jackfruit. Can I buy jackfruit at Whole Foods?
SW: Hell yeah.
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DT: Fresh? Or in some sort of edible pouch?
SW: "In some sort of edible pouch." There's a line of jackfruit meals made by a company called the Jackfruit Company. Barbecue, etc. You can get it fresh in Chinatown, I think.
DT:I don't mean to sound cynical about this! I think it sounds like a great trend. Conscious eating. Love it.
Just to get a bit more Oberlin here (class of 2000 HOLLA!)
SW: GO ON.
DT: The truly conscious eater knows that the answer is not to focus on one fruit, or one vegetable, or one nutrient. The very unsexy truth—I think, anyway—is, um, variety? Or, just, you know, not going in on something so hard that we deplete it, like we have with, um, the planet? But I guess jackfruit is part of the planet so we're already screwed.
SW: YES, that too. The boom-and-bust-style craze for specific ingredients can wreak havoc on the planet and also the various economies that a product comes from. There was this recent piece in the Times wondering whether teff is "the new super grain," which contained this sort of dark aside about how the government in Ethiopia, where teff was first domesticated, has banned its export—they're worried that a craze for teff will make it unaffordable for Ethiopians, as the craze for quinoa may have in Peru. (Apparently whether quinoa actually had that is up for debate, but it still seems worth thinking about.)
DT: Well, at least the world is wising up to the fact that American food hipsters will destroy economies in the name of being on-trend. Man, we are monsters.
Do you have any trends to forecast for next year?
SW: I've only ever successfully forecast one trend. It was the height of the cupcake craze, and I thought that doughnuts would be next. And I was right! I should've invested in something.
DT: I think 2017 is going to be the year things get real for the cooking kits. There are going to be winners, and there are going to be losers. The recent report that most customers only stick with the kits for—what was it? Six weeks? That was very telling.
Consumers don't seem to be sticking with meal kits.
Photo by David Cicconi
SW: Only 10 percent of subscribers stuck with the kits six months later.
DT: I think some of these companies are going to finally give up.
SW: Do you think people find them too expensive?
DT: I wonder if people are dropping out because they don't like to cook, and the cooking kits didn't change that? I'm thinking about that article that came out a couple years ago—"The Joy of Cooking?"—about how plenty of people just don't like to cook. And why should they? There's no law. But I can imagine a situation where people who don't like to cook get approached by one of the meal kit salespeople on the street, like I have.
SW: Like people who don't like to cook are ordering the meal kits because they think they'll be somehow fun and enjoyable, but it turns out that, in the end, it still requires cooking?
DT: They think, maybe this will spark my interest. And it doesn't. Because it's just too damn similar to actual cooking. If that were me, I would cancel those boxes so fast.
SW: I saw somebody on Twitter speculating that the kits made people empowered to just cook by themselves at home, no meal kits required, so they stopped subscribing, but … that seems dubious.
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DT: I saw that tweet, too. That conclusion is starry-eyed at best, completely insane at worst. What I think is really happening is that people are going back to their old habits. Be it cooking what they know, or not cooking at all. Because the truth is that cooking is a chore for a lot of people. And while the meal kits are exciting and new and fun at first, they keep coming…and coming. I imagine that might start to freak people out. "The box is coming! I have to cook it!"
SW: One article about that meal-kit analysis noted that while most people aren't sticking to meal kits, the meal kit industry has grown something like 500 percent since 2014. Smells like a meal-kit bubble!
DT: Now if one of these kits could actually arrive in a real bubble...that just sort of hovers gently near your kitchen window...that company will be the one that wins.
SW: Meal kit by drone. It's the obvious next step.
DT: Coming in 2018. Let's invest now.
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package tp1.exercises;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.lang.Integer;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.TreeSet;

public class Ronda{
    public int sumaDistancias;
    public int amigaMasLejana;

    public ArrayList<Character> ronda;
    public static String[] mejoresAmigas;

    public Ronda(){}

    public Ronda(ArrayList<Character> ronda){
            this.ronda = ronda;
            calcularDistancias();
    }

    public void swap(int i, int j){
        Character aux;
        aux = ronda.get(i);
        ronda.set(i, ronda.get(j));
        ronda.set(j, aux);
    }

    public int obtenerPos(Character ni){
        int posicion = 0;
        while (this.ronda.get(posicion) != ni) {
            posicion++;
        }
        return posicion;
    }

    public void calcularDistancias(){
        amigaMasLejana = 0;
        sumaDistancias = 0;
        for (String mejoresAmiga : mejoresAmigas) {
            int posNina = obtenerPos(mejoresAmiga.charAt(0));
            for (int j = 2; j < mejoresAmiga.length(); j++) {
                //Calcula la menor distancia entre amigas
                int posicionAmiga = obtenerPos(mejoresAmiga.charAt(j));
                int distancia       = Math.abs(posNina - posicionAmiga);
                int distanciaMinima = Math.min(distancia, ronda.size() - distancia);
                //Calcuala las dos distancias
                sumaDistancias += distanciaMinima;
                if(distanciaMinima > amigaMasLejana) amigaMasLejana = distanciaMinima;
            }
        }
    }

    public static int minimoInt(int a, int b) {
        if (a < b) {
            return a;
        } else {
            return b;
        }
    }

    static void completarRonda(ArrayList<Character> ronda){
        Set<Character> grupo = new TreeSet<>();

        for (String amigas : Ronda.mejoresAmigas) {
            for (int i = 0; i < amigas.length(); i++) {
                char actual = amigas.charAt(i);
                if (actual != ' ') {
                    grupo.add(actual);
                }
            }
        }

        for (Character persona : grupo) {
            ronda.add(persona);
        }
    }

    public String toString() {
		String string = "";
		string += amigaMasLejana + " ";

		for (int i = 0; i < ronda.size(); i++) {
			string += ronda.get(i);
		}
		return string;
    }
}

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Those who revel in the winter season delight in visions of family-filled holidays, ice skating and snowball fights as soon as the weather starts to turn cold. But for those who suffer from the winter blues, the winter season brings with it a promise of long, dark weeks, dreary skies and weather that keeps you indoors.
Simply existing in a season with so many dark, cloudy days -- this is particularly true in certain U.S. regions like the Midwest, the Northwest and the Northeast -- is enough to bring down a person's mood from a purely emotional perspective, but there are very real, physical reasons why an estimated 25 million Americans suffer from the winter blues each year.
* Fatigued or feeling "stir-crazy"
It's likely that you're suffering from a case of the winter blues. The winter blues should not be confused with the more serious condition known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, that affects some 10 million Americans. People with SAD feel depressed and fatigued to the point that their relationships and work life are beginning to suffer. The winter blues are a "step down" from SAD, and while they may cause you to feel moody, tired and cranky, it is not to the same extent as the effects of SAD.
The good news is that there are ways to turn your winter blues around in no time at all.
The fact that the winter blues occur when the days begin to darken and sunlight is scarce is not a coincidence. Sunlight is crucial to human health, and when we don't get enough exposure to it our moods and physical health will suffer. More specifically, your serotonin levels (the hormone associated with elevating your mood) rise when you're exposed to bright light. You may have experienced this "high" feeling after spending some time on a sunny beach, for example.
It is because sunlight affects the melatonin-serotonin system that it works so well to alleviate the symptoms of the winter blues and elevates mood. In fact, studies have even found that light therapy or phototherapy, which is the practice of using full-spectrum light therapeutically, works to relieve the symptoms of the winter blues and SAD better than antidepressant drugs.
Interestingly, vitamin D, which requires sun exposure to be produced in your body, is also linked to higher levels of serotonin, and it has been suggested that getting plenty of sunlight over the summer helps your body to maintain higher vitamin D levels in the winter, and therefore higher levels of serotonin as well.
Unfortunately, most of us do not get enough sunlight during the summer, due in part to the large amounts of time we now spend indoors and partly to the fact that the public has been scared unnecessarily into avoiding the sun.
So in the wintertime, if you can take a trip to a sunny location and spend some time in the sun, your mood is likely to improve immediately (this means sensible sun exposure -- staying in the sun until you are burned is NOT healthy).
For those of you who cannot get away, though, there is another option that is widely accepted as the best treatment for SAD and the winter blues: Full-spectrum lighting. Natural sunlight is full spectrum, and the full-spectrum light box I recommend replicates the same healthy "ingredients" in natural sunlight. This includes the full spectrum of color (imagine the colors of the rainbow), as well as infrared and the three ultraviolet wavelengths. No other type of lighting source -- not "regular" or even "natural" light bulbs or fluorescent light bulbs -- contains these requirements.
I highly recommend and now offer you BioPure light bulbs, which contain the necessary full spectrum of color as well as infrared and the three ultra violet wavelengths to most closely match natural daylight. One of the most accurate natural full spectrum light bulbs on the market today, BioPure Light Bulbs have a color temperature of 5500 Kelvin degrees and Color Rendition Index (C.R.I.) of 93, making this bulb comparable to mid-day sun, the time of day when the sun has its highest photobiotic activity.
What's more is that those with the winter blues and SAD report a very marked improvement with the use of full-spectrum light boxes. In as little as two or three days people tend to feel a profound increase in energy and improvement in mood and sense of well being with the Bio Pure BP-12 and Bio-Pure BP-12 Jr. light boxes. And, all it takes is 15 minutes a day.
Exercise is widely known as a natural mood booster, and has also been found to work better than antidepressant drugs to alleviate depressive symptoms. Simply getting out for a brisk walk or heading to the gym for 30-minute workout can do wonders for your mood, and your body will benefit too. Don't feel that you have to stick with a certain routine if you're someone who gets bored easily. Exercise works best when it's something you look forward to, so choose something that fits your personality and fitness level. Dancing, kickboxing, yoga and brisk walking are all great ideas.
Exercise will also help to boost your immune system, which means you're less likely to come down with a cold or flu -- another reason why many people don't look forward to the winter season.
As the weather turns colder you may mentally feel like you're getting ready to "hibernate" for the winter, and as such start to crave "comfort" foods. Unfortunately, traditional comfort foods tend to be less than ideal from a nutritional standpoint (you know those cookies and instant mashed potatoes aren't healthy!). Stock your pantry with healthy food choices like meats, raw cheeses and fresh vegetables that will leave you feeling satisfied and well-nourished, rather than on a sugar-high (with the inevitable "sugar crash" soon to come).
If you find your cravings are too strong to resist, consider trying the energy psychology tool, Emotional Freedom Technique to address any underlying emotional challenges that might be blocking your progress.
If you feel tired when the sun sets (this is the natural way our bodies were programmed to feel), listen to your body! It's telling you that it's time to rest. Most of us, however, stay up much later than our bodies would like, sometimes six or more hours later than the sun set, which tends to impair the adrenal glands and the immune system. A sound night's sleep [http://www.mercola.com/article/sleep.htm] can do wonders for you mood and will help you to feel ready to take on a new day in the morning.
There are a number of studies that show that omega-3 fatty acids in fish oils are associated with decreased depression. If this subject interests you, I highly recommend Dr. Stoll's book The Omega-3 Connection. He is a Harvard psychiatrist who has done a great job of compiling the evidence supporting the use of fish oils for depression.
One of the best sources of high-quality fish oil and cod liver oil that I have come across is the Carlson's brand. You can find it in our Web site store or in your local health food store.


The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 and the First World War led to the collapse and partition of the Ottoman Empire, the establishment of League of Nations Mandates for Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria, and the creation of the state system of the twentieth century Middle East. This conference will consider these topics, with particular focus on the mandates system – their place within the post-war international world order, the transition of Middle Eastern territory from Ottoman to British and French governance, the practices of the mandates "on the ground," and the formation of mandatory political identities, both ephemeral and durable.
Pre-registration is required and may be completed via the conference web site: https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2018/11/conference-on-balfour-declaration.


Our Admissions Coffee Chats provide prospective families with the opportunity to learn more about each program and tour our state-of-the-art facilities. These informal information sessions help interested families become acquainted with our community and offer the chance to ask our faculty, administration, and current parents questions about the school. A morning at the Academy includes basic information on our programming, Montessori pedagogy and history, and the admissions process.
RSVP is required. Please send an email to admissions@montessoriacademychicago.org. Adults only, please.


30 Tips for Being Organized with ADHD ...REALLY?
On one popular web page for those with ADHD there is an article called 30 Tips for Organizing Your ADHD Life. 30 tips! That seems, well, excessive. It reminds me of the many ADHD books people come in to my office with that have 3-4-5 hundred pages. And they are just lost. Now while some of these tips are interesting and sound simple (like getting a wallet that's red or another bright colour so it's harder to lose). But tip after tip after tip.... This leaves someone with ADHD even more confused and in the end feeling even more like a failure.
If you have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, sometimes called ADD) you most likely already have 30 tips ...if not more. The problem is implementing the right ones. No one, with or without ADHD can implement 30 plus changes, no matter how small, into their daily life successfully. An ADHD coach - usually a psychologist or other licensed or registered mental health professional with experience working with children, adolescents and adults with ADHD- can help you by figuring out where to start and what to start with. (There are a number of individuals in Vancouver and the greater Vancouver area calling themselves ADHD coaches, but few are actually licensed or registered professionals. Find a good ADHD coach by calling the British Columbia Psychological Association and asking for someone in your area who has expertise in ADHD and they will provide you with a list of three or more registered -that means regulated by the government - professionals.
A good place to start is with an assessment of your strengths and weaknesses. Some individuals with ADHD have weaknesses in visual memory, some auditory memory (what they hear versus what they see). Some, both. some have weaknesses that only show up when things become complicated or they become anxious (many individuals with ADHD have co-morbid disorders of anxiety, depression and specific learning disabilities, and only a registered or licensed professional can help you determine if this is the case with you).
Other may have difficult switching mental sets, moving from one topic to another - sometimes people call this "transitioning." This may very well be the case with some individuals who suffer from procrastination. Procrastination, for instance, may be caused by this issue of difficulty with switching sets- moving from one activity to another, or it may be cause by anxiety, or depression or due to thoughts and scripts running in your head about what is going on. These individuals often benefit from cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Working memory issues can also be a real issue for someone with ADHD. Working memory is the process of storing something in your head for a short time, like a phone number, while you do something with it...like dial a phone. And some of us are much more susceptible to visual or auditory distractions.
ADHD is complicated, it can manifest itself in many different ways, and understanding your neurological strengths and weaknesses are critical to making good choices in picking out which "tips" to use. Reading several Vancouver ADHD coaching webpages I see links to these "Tip" articles. Most of my patients tell me how they have tried these, and tried them again, and "nothing works." A well trained professional coach or therapist can help you figure out which 1, 2 or 3 tipis might actually work for you. He or she can keep you on track, modify the procedure based upon your neurological strengths and weaknesses, and help you to understand why this particular skill or tool works when others don't. After a while you will learn to recognize common factors in the tools you use, and instead or trying to memorize 30 tips to do you will learn how to approach situations that have given you difficulty in the past in a new way.
A good place to start for almost everyone is to try and figure out what is salient -important. Picking out the critical issues from the many many issues you are confronted with every day. Rather than a complex schedule and planner having a simple list of 3 things I need to do. Because most important is know what IS important.
I'd avoid the 16 tips, 30 tips and the "book of tips." Find a professional by calling the British Columbia Psychological Association, they can provide the name of a professional in Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam ....anywhere in BC. Then get a reasonable evaluation completed by that person. Know exactly where your strengths and weaknesses are because all ADHD is not the same. And then start to find out what would be salient for you to do. 1-2-3. That's it.
In "ADHD Coaching", "ADHD", "Vancouver"


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