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How typical do you imagine the pack from the beginning story from Lodges: the Faithful is? For those who don't know, the pack in question is a bunch of know nothings (understandably) who are completely out of their depth and have no where to go in order to fix that problem. All except for one who is just using them for sex and money.
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I mean, a lot is going to depend on the area.
In an area where there's not a lot of werewolf presence, or there's a lack of strong and wise werewolf leaders, it might be common. Especially with a pack that eschews its spirit side.
It also seemed like the 'alpha,' Bill, was taking advantage of the naivety of the others for his own personal whims. But even without that, the perspective character is clearly wanting more. She senses something is wrong with what Bill's doing, even though she doesn't know enough about being a werewolf to explain why. I wouldn't go so far as to say they have no where to go to fix the problem, if anyone was going to make it out, she would. And of course since it seemed like Bill knocked up the other werewolf she should try to make it out fast before the unihar killed them all.
But if there was a lot of werewolves, look at something like the Rockies, or Chicago, you have packs that even outside of a protectorate see it as their duty to sort of set an example. And in an area like that you would have someone stepping in to slap the shit out of Bill and show him the right way to do things.
I'd like to say in second edition it would be less common, as there is the instinct and need for a hunt, so there is a more definitive answer to Zee's wondering of what she's supposed to do. But you still have families like Mary's, from Night Horrors, where they're isolated and kept under the thumb of one person who wants it to stay that way. The specific circumstances are probably less likely, but a pack led by a self-interested werewolf taking advantage of naive werewolves is probably common enough, again in less populated areas or places they wouldn't be interfered with.
Mind there's an entire Forsaken tribe that might see it as their duty to kill werewolves like Bill. And the Pure have advanced to sort of boogeyman status, going from 'just' hating the Forsaken to setting some of the lousier examples of the Forsaken as their sacred prey.
Last edited by nofather; 05-01-2017, 03:23 PM.
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was curious about their general level of ignorance. Bill and his....habits is rather secondary.
Thanks for the answer though.
Originally posted by Ghost View Post
Oh gotcha. Yeah that's going to happen regardless. Both sides are always on the look out for potential changes to educate them about what's going to happen, but it happens at random all over the world, some are going to slip under the radar. I think there'd be a lot more Ghost Wolves in second editions, between people deciding not to join up or just never being found.
That said, and this is back to Bill's habits, I think there'd be more of a normalization. They know what they're about. The fiction bit in the Ghost Wolf section of second edition's core did a good job of depicting it. He wasn't about to join some cult or romp around in a magic world but he was hearing about some serial killer on the news and felt an urge to hunt.
Originally posted by nofather View Post
(Sorry, I've been busy) Especially considering that someone could be made into Wolf-blooded just from being around spirits. Perhaps starting completely new "tribes" that have nothing to do with the Forsaken, the Pure, Father Wolf, etc. Honestly, that seems like it would be the norm for most local areas.
(Sorry, I've been busy)
No problem, it happens
Especially considering that someone could be made into Wolf-blooded just from being around spirits.
Well, not just from being around spirits. Regular Breaking Points from them. Wolf-Blooded can be from Lunacy but you need a werewolf to inflict that. And of course Luna can do it but doesn't need to be particularly nearby.
Perhaps starting completely new "tribes" that have nothing to do with the Forsaken, the Pure, Father Wolf, etc. Honestly, that seems like it would be the norm for most local areas.
They might start a pack or lodge, but you need higher patronship for a tribe. So far the only tribes are patroned by the Firstborn, children of Father Wolf himself. And once that group gets big enough they're going to attract some attention from other werewolves. First contact can go pretty badly if they encounter the Pure.
And despite the territorialism, there are a lot of werewolves who remain nomadic, traveling while listening to personal totems and lunes or getting dreams from Luna, Rabid Wolf or one of the other Firstborn to find wolf-blooded who are about to change or who changed recently. Others go the old fashioned way through detective work, hunting down bloodlines and strange occurrences.
Could you point out the book for that part? I just have the core for 2nd Edition and all it says "On occasion, Luna or Father Wolf adopts a perfectly normal person. A run-in with the world of the Forsaken or the spirit changes a perfectly mundane human being, turning her into a Wolf-Blooded." p 296. I'm probably missing a part though.
Possible example that I just made up.
Those weird wolves from up north? Yea, stay away from them. The story as I hear it is that in 1650ish the Canadians got themselves their first werewolf. This little pup named Gráinne went though the Change in Nova Scotia. Lo and behold she was alone. No other Family for thousands of miles. Just her and the Spirits. Well she starts asking herself the Big Questions, What am I? What should I do? etc. Over time others Changed in that area and she brought them the big package of ready made "answers" that she thought up while being probably the most lonely I can imagine. Probably lost part of her damned mind too, but don't let them hear you say that. Well, her little Catholic/Native mix spread west as the colonization continued leaving them as the biggest "tribe" in the area. Yea their Ghost Wolves but they call it a tribe, crazy stupid bastards. Nowadays, British Columbia is the only real place where you'll find either Forsaken or Pure. Careful around them, they'll try to convert you to the Virgin Mary/Luna with silver crucifixes.
Last edited by Ghost; 05-10-2017, 02:45 PM.
Which part specifically? The Lunacy thing would be under the Lunacy section. A Dramatic Failure on a Lunacy roll turns you into a Wolf-Blooded. Obliged to point out it's not a controllable thing. I suspect when it means 'the spirit' it's referring to either Luna or some vestige of Father Wolf, like his Firstborn. Before they're a wolf-blooded, you're going to be human, and in the core Chronicles of Darkness book p74, if a character witnesses 'something traumatic, terrifying, or that rattles his understanding of the world,' or 'is the victim of a supernatural attack, whether physical, emotional, or mental,' you get a Breaking Point.
Yeah that's a thing. I mean, obviously in the setting there were werewolves in Canada before then, they came over with people over the ice bridge long, long ago. But misunderstandings big and small like that happen, as do large groups of Ghost Wolves and you could just as easily decide no werewolves came over until the colonists or, for whatever reason, never Changed at all in the Americas or some other area. There's just a tendency to be taken advantage of since they aren't getting the direction of the Firstborn and most spirits, Claimed and even hosts or stranger things are going to take advantage of it all they can. It's how you get things like the Temple of Apollo lodge, with a bunch of werewolves brainwashed by a weird thing that may not even be a spirit. It can lead to Bale Hounds, too.
Basically since the Tribal thing is taught, it's not always going to find everyone. But the tribes have people working on that. In the meantime there's other supernaturals trying to take advantage of the naivety and power of freshly changed werewolves, and some werewolves are just going to slip through the cracks either way. There's a bunch of examples of these in the texts. The aforementioned Temple of Apollo from the Pack book, the werewolves of Australia from the before-times and those from the Poland hunting ground in the core book.
The requirement for regular Breaking Points to become a wolf-blood. I personally read the spirit part as "A run-in with the world of the Forsaken" or "A run-in with the world of the spirit". So being around a spirit of say, bowling may turn you wolf-blooded. Yes, that sound really dumb, but that's the quote.
The only way I think a direct connection would lead to it is through Luna's position as Queen of the Shadow Realm. Through one of them, even a spirit of bowling, she may gain notice.
But anything's possible. Being used as a sock puppet for some spirit may lead to gaining the Horse Tell. Or a spirit could decide to latch onto your soul and get your the Familiar Tell, or an entire pack to get the Phantom Pack one.
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I would only point out that Forsaken by Rome Dark Era posits that in barbarian nations Moon Tribes are spread by familiar lines, so particular human tribe/village can have only one Uratha Tribe. This way, in Canada, Native Americans human tribe each can have only one Tribe they follow. There is no need for all Moon and Pure Tribes there - just stick with the Tribe working most closely with culture of the human populations.
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Originally posted by wyrdhamster View Post
I would only point out that Forsaken by Rome Dark Era posits that in barbarian nations Moon Tribes are spread by familiar lines, so particular human tribe/village can have only one Uratha Tribe. This way, in Canada, Native Americans human tribe each can have only one Tribe they follow.
Well, specifically what it says is that in 9 CE, no monolithic tribal cultures exist. Things can be very different a thousand plus years later. And even at that time it's possible for other beings to take up different mantles. What Ghost is describing, for instance, is a lodge, and there's plenty of reasons people in the same area, even family, can have different lodges.
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Q: How do i visualize a connection Matrix with Matplotlib? I am trying to visualize a connection matrix of an bi-partite set problem. How do i do this in a way that demonstrates best?
I have started with this using a graphics program yed:

The circles describe a certain kind of connection between red and blue and the squares another. Both red and blue squares will have some kind of text on them.
However it would be nicer to generate this grafic with matplotlib, since i would like to generate this on the fly with data attached. How would i proceed to do that?
My data looks kinda like this:
Data:
name_blue name_red Connection Type
bluepart1 redpart1 1
bluepart1 redpart2 1
bluepart1 redpart3 1
bluepart3 redpart2 2
bluepart4 redpart2 2
...

and so on. I would like to write the nametags onto the blue/red squares, so that the user knows which is which.
Followup question:
How can i generate a graph from this with the nodes partly marked blue/red? Kind of like this:

But with the nodes reflecting their bipartite nature. I am still a bit in the dark on this, mainly because i don't know how to tackle this with matplotlib. I am hoping for a few good suggestions on how to visualize this and maybe an example implementation that shows me the way.

A: Try using networkx. You can use it to display the graph with specific colors on the nodes and links to match your data.
Here's an example:
import itertools
import networkx as nx
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
edgelist = [(u,v,(u+v)%2) for u,v in itertools.product(range(3),range(3,6))]
G = nx.Graph()
for u,v,t in edgelist:
    G.add_edge(u,v,attr_dict={'t':t})
ecolors = tuple('g' if G[u][v]['t'] == 1 else 'm' for u,v in G.edges())
nx.draw_networkx(G,node_color='rrrccc',edge_color=ecolors)
plt.show()

A: Here is another NetworkX/Matplotlib idea
import random
import networkx as nx
from networkx.algorithms.bipartite import biadjacency_matrix
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# generate random bipartite graph, part 1: nodes 0-9, part 2: nodes 10-29
B = nx.bipartite_random_graph(10,20,0.25)
# add some random weights
for u,v in B.edges():
    B[u][v]['weight']=random.randint(0,4)

# spring graphy layout
plt.figure(1)
pos = nx.spring_layout(B)
colors = [d['weight'] for (u,v,d) in B.edges(data=True)]
nx.draw(B,pos,node_color='#A0CBE2',edge_color=colors,width=4,edge_cmap=plt.cm.Blues,with_labels=False)
plt.savefig('one.png')

# simple bipartite layout
plt.figure(2)
pos = {}
for n in range(10):
    pos[n]=(n*2,1)
for n in range(10,30):
    pos[n]=(n-10,0)
nx.draw(B,pos,node_color='#A0CBE2',edge_color=colors,width=4,edge_cmap=plt.cm.Blues,with_labels=False)
plt.savefig('two.png')

# biadjacency matrix colormap
M = biadjacency_matrix(B,row_order=range(10),column_order=range(10,30))
plt.matshow(M,cmap=plt.cm.Blues)
plt.savefig('three.png')
plt.show()

A: What about doing a bipartite representation with color edges like this?

Following is the code that generated the image.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

def addconnection(i,j,c):
  return [((-1,1),(i-1,j-1),c)]

def drawnodes(s,i):
  global ax
  if(i==1):
    color='r'
    posx=1
  else:
    color='b'
    posx=-1

  posy=0
  for n in s:
    plt.gca().add_patch( plt.Circle((posx,posy),radius=0.05,fc=color))
    if posx==1:
      ax.annotate(n,xy=(posx,posy+0.1))
    else:
      ax.annotate(n,xy=(posx-len(n)*0.1,posy+0.1))
    posy+=1

ax=plt.figure().add_subplot(111)
set1=['Man1','Man2','Man3','Man4']
set2=['Woman1','Woman2','Woman3','Woman4','Woman5']
plt.axis([-2,2,-1,max(len(set1),len(set2))+1])
frame=plt.gca()
frame.axes.get_xaxis().set_ticks([])
frame.axes.get_yaxis().set_ticks([])

drawnodes(set1,1)
drawnodes(set2,2)

connections=[]
connections+=addconnection(1,2,'g')
connections+=addconnection(1,3,'y')
connections+=addconnection(1,4,'g')
connections+=addconnection(2,1,'g')
connections+=addconnection(4,1,'y')
connections+=addconnection(4,3,'g')
connections+=addconnection(5,4,'y')

for c in connections:
  plt.plot(c[0],c[1],c[2])

plt.show()

To get something like what your are drawing in yEd

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

COLOR1='r'
COLOR2='b'

def addconnection(i,j,c):
  if(c==1):
    plt.gca().add_patch( plt.Rectangle((j-0.1,-i-0.1),0.2,0.2,fc='y'))
  if(c==2):
    plt.gca().add_patch( plt.Circle((j,-i),radius=0.1,fc='y'))

def drawnodes(s,i):
  global ax
  if(i==1):
    color=COLOR1
    vx=1
    vy=0
  else:
    color=COLOR2
    vx=0
    vy=1

  step=1
  for n in s:
    posx=step*vx
    posy=step*vy

    plt.gca().add_patch( plt.Circle((posx,-posy),radius=0.1,fc=color))
    ax.annotate(n,xy=(posx-len(n)*0.1,-posy+0.15))
    step+=1

f=open('input.txt')
t=f.readlines()
t=map(lambda x: x.replace('(',' ').replace(')',' ').split(':'),t)

set1=set([])
set2=set([])

for x in t:
  s=x[1].split()
  set1.add(s[0])
  set2.add(s[1])

set1=list(set1)
set2=list(set2)

dic={}
for e in zip(set1,xrange(1,len(set1)+1)): dic[(e[0],1)]=e[1]
for e in zip(set2,xrange(1,len(set2)+1)): dic[(e[0],2)]=e[1]

ax=plt.figure(figsize=(max(len(set1),len(set2))+1,max(len(set1),len(set2))+1)).add_subplot(111)
plt.axis([-1,max(len(set1),len(set2))+1,-max(len(set1),len(set2))-1,1])
frame=plt.gca()
frame.axes.get_xaxis().set_ticks([])
frame.axes.get_yaxis().set_ticks([])

drawnodes(set1,1)
drawnodes(set2,2)

for x in t:
  s=x[1].split()
  addconnection(dic[(s[0],1)],dic[(s[1],2)],int(x[2]))

plt.show()

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"It was definitely emotional, but at the end of the day it's a game, so we have to come out and win," senior Jasmine Johnson said.
"Give credit to the seniors. They kept us focused. That's a big deal because that doesn't always happen on senior night," head coach Bryan Blitz said following the 2-1 victory over Vanderbilt.
"The seniors are a great group of leaders. I came in last semester and they welcomed me and made my transition so easy. I'm glad we got to win on this night to honor them because they are a great group of girls," freshman Sarah Luebbert said.
The Tigers (5-2-1, 10-4-1) relied on another outstanding defensive effort and the athleticism of Luebbert in the win, who provided both goals.. It didn't take long, as she raced up the sideline and scored in the 30th minute of the first half.
"I took the header and the space that they gave me and finished it [the way we do] in practice. On the second one, Kait[lyn Clark] gave me a great diagonal and I was just the right place at the right time" Luebbert said of her scores, the second coming in the 38th minute of the second half. After her second goal of the night, and ninth of the year, Luebbert tied for the most points in a single season (21) since Alysha Bonnick ('10) did it in 2006.
"I think we are in a really good place. We are starting to peak with our style of play. That's what you want going towards the end of the season. We're getting ready for the postseason," Luebbert said.
"I think we're starting to play our best soccer at the end of the year. We're obviously getting better but we're going to be tested by the best," Coach Blitz added. The Tigers travel to #12 Arkansas, who is in third place in the SEC, next Thursday.


Not a card, but autograph of one of the veterans.
Al Barker played in one major league game in 1871. Scott Hastings had a longer career from 1871-1877. Both were Civil War veterans and appear on this 1870 Rockford Forest City's cdv.
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This is tremendous history. One of my favorite threads in a long time. Thanks everyone for sharing!
Thanks the all the information. Hope to see a few more "cards" etc.
Anything with Nicholas Young ?
Abner fired the first shot at Gettysburg but he had nothing to do with baseball.
Doubleday Field is in Cooperstown. Maybe not an official baseball presence but certainly a historical one.
I believe Dave Birdsall is another Civil War veteran. He is bottom left in this photograph.
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It is too bad that Seymour Studley didn't have a card made. That name plus an OJ card would be a recipe for collectability.
Last edited by Jason; 10-11-2018 at 05:09 PM.
Jason — the SABR document I provided a link to gives the details of where each of these guys served, to the extent that it's known.
If you find a confederate who went on to play organized baseball, then you've really got a rarity.
Did "haymakers" mean the same thing back then as it does now? If so, that's an awesome team name.
One I used to own before someone who wanted it more than I did saw it. My understanding is this kid was in the civil war....a few years later.


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Milo Yiannopoulos // Editor at Large // 11.21.18
There's no positive way to spin this. The bad guys won this round.
The Proud Boys are not racist. It's a club with gays, blacks, Jews—even girls!—that believes Western civilization is awesome and which strongly approves of Donald Trump. But now it looks like it will be destroyed by the lies of journalists. Want to know why? Because it was the only organization Antifa, the beloved violent terrorists of the establishment Left, actually feared.
The Proud Boys were prepared to respond to the violence, harassment and terroristic tactics of far-Left activists with self-defensive measures. Mostly, the Proud Boys just drank beer. But they punched back when attacked, and they were unapologetic about what they called their "western chauvinism." And that's what made them such a big target, because if the rest of America catches on to the fact that Antifa is a load of spoilt rich white kids who crumble when challenged, the Left's attack dogs might no longer be feared.
GAVIN McINNES QUITS THE PROUD BOYS
As of today, November 21st, 2018, I am officially disassociating myself from the Proud Boys, in all capacities, forever. I quit. I was told to use the term "stepping down" but I refused because that makes no sense. I was never the leader, only the founder.
I have in the past attended Proud Boys meet-ups, which are full of people of color, homosexuals and others. I consider several members to be friends. But lies about the Proud Boys have now reached federal law enforcement agencies, imperilling the lives and livelihoods of anyone the press considers associated with the group, which they have smeared, slandered and lied about at every possible opportunity.
So I have been instructed by my lawyers today to add my voice to that of Gavin McInnes, the founder of the fraternal men's organization, and announce that I am publicly dissociating myself with the club. It's fucked up, and I wish to God I didn't have to do it, but this is America in 2018, a country gripped by moral panic about a "white supremacy" outbreak that simply doesn't exist.
The great white supremacy hoax will come to be seen in retrospect as just another elite panic, alongside acid rain and satanic ritual child abuse–something journalists and university professors are absolutely convinced of, but for which there is simply no evidence. Yet this fiction is now risking lives–including, most ludicrously in this case, the lives of black children.
The press makes constant excuses for Antifa, which uses violence to suppress political ideas it doesn't like. These Soros-funded black bloc protesters are regarded as heroes by the establishment Left. Meanwhile, conservatives who dare to respond in kind to the violent instigations from the Left are called "extremists," "white nationalists" and even terrorists.
Left-wing politicians, the media and now even law enforcement are united in their determination to crush anyone who dares to respond to the Left's violent attacks on free speech. The so-called "New York 9" Proud Boys are about to have their lives ruined, all because they, in their own words: "Don't start fights, but finish them."
Two of the five Proud Boys arrested after a recent brawl in New York–which they did not start–have black children. These are the men the press would like you to believe are "white supremacists." They have both lost their jobs, and now face losing their freedom and being saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
So there are now black children who have a father out of work and facing prison because New York governor Andrew Cuomo decided to make an example out of Right-wingers who dare to fight back when they are physically assaulted by Antifa.
If you're wondering how this insane state of affairs came to be, remember that conservatives aren't demonized and censored based on how Right-wing they are. They are targeted according to how effective they become. That's why Richard Spencer and David Duke are still on Twitter, while Gavin, Laura Loomer, Roger Stone and I–some of the most popular and persuasive people in the Trump movement, none of us remotely racist–are all banned.
Another sad dimension to this is what a powerful tonic this club was to the often lonely and disaffected men who joined it. The Proud Boys was and remains a men's club of the type rapidly disappearing in the West as feminists force women into fraternities and golf clubs. Men desperately need clubs and societies in which they can enjoy the company of other men. It isn't healthy for men to have no spaces of their own.
My friend Gavin has children, and a wife–of color, by the way–to protect. I have a black husband, and although my husband is an American, I am not yet a citizen. Gavin's statement today is both understandable and necessary. It saddens me to have to join him in saying good-bye to the Proud Boys, because I know, from my own personal experience, how terribly wronged they have been.
There's no positive way to spin this. The bad guys won this round. You can support the Proud Boys financially by visiting fundthewest.org, so the black children of these terrible white supremacists have a chance of seeing their father on Christmas morning. Happy fucking Thanksgiving, I guess.


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Q: Button Visibility in WPF at startup I have some button that I want them to be hidden when the wpf loads up.
I use this:
public MainWindow()
    {
        mySendButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
        myReceiveButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
        InitializeComponent();
    }

But the above generating an error. i think I wrote them not at the right place.
Can I get a help please?

A: InitializeComponent Method initializes the components, in your case buttons. Your buttons before InitializeComponent call is null because they are not initialized and setting its visibility throws the exception.
That's why in some languages it is written
//Add any code after the InitializeComponent() call.

You need to do
public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    mySendButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
    myReceiveButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
}

BTW, you can set the visibility in XAML like this.
<Button name="mySendButton" Content"Send" Visibiity="Collapsed" />

A: The problem is, you are trying to access the button before it is initialized. This happens in the InitializeComponent() method. Either place the lines below that method:
public MainWindow()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    mySendButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
    myReceiveButton.Visibility = Visibility.Hidden;
}

or just use the appropriate property in the visual designer.


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Hibiscadelphus wilderianus (Engels: Auwahi hibiscadelphus, Hawaïaans: Maui hau kuahiwi) was een plant die endemisch was op het Hawaïaanse Maui. De plant was slechts bekend van één exemplaar dat in 1910 door Joseph Rock werd ontdekt in een droog lavabos in Auwahi op 800 m hoogte op de zuidkant van de vulkaan Haleakala op Maui.

Het was een tot 5 m hoge boom. De steunbladeren waren 1,2 mm lang en de bladstelen waren 5-7 cm lang. De bladeren waren breed-ovaal tot dwars-ovaal, soms driehoekig, bijna gaafrandig tot gekarteld-gegolfd, 7-11 cm lang. Aan beide zijden was het blad spaarzaam bedekt met sterharen. Aan de onderkant zaten bosjes haren in de oksels van de hoofdnerven.

De bloemen groeiden solitair in de bladoksels aan 1-3 cm lange bloemstelen. Het involucrum bestond uit vijf tot zes lintvormige tot spatelvormige, 1,1-1,8 × 0,11-0,2 cm grote schutbladeren die alleen aan de basis waren vergroeid. De bloemkelk was een zakvormig verwijde, 2,3-2,5 cm lange buis en bestond uit vijf lobben of was onregelmatig gespleten. De bloemkroon was geelachtig groen, gegolfd en 3,5 – 5 cm lang. De bloemen leken enigszins op die van Hibiscus. Ze produceerden vermoedelijk grote hoeveelheden nectar. Mogelijk werden de bloemen bestoven door nectaretende vogels. De vruchten waren houtige, breed-ovaalvormige, aan de top ingesneden, circa 3,5 cm lange doosvruchten, waarvan de zaden onbekend zijn gebleven.

De enkele plant die was ontdekt door Joseph Rock, werd in 1912 voor het laatst levend waargenomen. De soort werd mogelijk uitgeroeid door het omzetten van zijn habitat in graslanden met ingevoerde grassen en ingevoerde dieren als rundvee, geiten en ratten. Ondanks zoektochten werden er nooit meer exemplaren van deze plant aangetroffen.

Malvaceae
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Endemische plant uit Hawaï
IUCN-status uitgestorven

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Trundling through Instagram late at night, I saw something that resonated with me. Someone has taken on a one mile swim challenge. They're saying how it's how ever many lengths of a 25m pool (sixty something lengths?!) and they just swam four and THAT was tough. But it's a comment below that resonates with me.
Not ten minutes before that, an email dropped into my inbox telling me there are just 4 months to go until I'm running into Dorney Lake to take part in my first ever triathlon. Windsor Triathlon.
It's Saturday night. I last hit the pool on Friday for my lesson and had a breakthrough. I breathed through my nose.
This is gonna sound like nothing to those of you who swim autonomously but for me it was huge. It meant my breathing wasn't forced. It meant I was more relaxed and not panicking. It meant I was breathing under water and not having to tell myself to breathe.
It means that things may start to click.
I need to remember how far I've come and not get frustrated. Just a couple weeks ago, I couldn't even lift my head up to breathe in just once (using a kickboard). Now I can do that comfortably 3 or 4 times in succession. Just 8 weeks ago, I'd never even attempted to swim freestyle.
I'm on a timeline though. I want to aim to be ready for the Triathlon 6 week course (Novice) with Strictly Swimming by 10th March. After that, the next course in 21st April finishing just two or three weeks before the main event. Swimming is the game changer for February. Swimming is my FOCUS.
I've stuck to my word though, and in Januarys memory, I've been living in INTEGRITY. For the last two weeks I've been in the pool outside of my swimming lesson; something I really needed to do if I wanted to see progress. But it comes down to CONFIDENCE (my word for 2015).
I went to the pool with Jen around Christmas and was practising some drills with my kickboard when the lifeguard came over and asked "can you swim?". I told her I could and her response was "show me". I was a little taken back, and refused. How are learners supposed to gain confidence when they are approached like that?! It was a new pool for me so I was a little tentative while I got to know how deep the deep end was and also just getting a feel for the water.
So here's the deal. For the Windsor Triathlon, I need to swim 750m. That's 37.5 lengths of the 20m pool I learn in at City Point Gym & Spa.
For Eton Super Sprint, I need to swim 400m. That's 20 lengths of the 20m pool.
My next big breakthrough will be swimming one (non stop) length of breaststroke & freestyle BREATHING.
My next breakthrough is to have the CONFIDENCE to hit the pool by myself. Take my kickboard and do my drills. Get a feel for the water. Nail my breathing. Learn to relax.
I love that your word is confidence – and you are right about swimming being humbling! I started back swimming 2 years ago and always thought I was "good swimmer". Then i realized I was just a completely average swimmer. I'm doing Masters Swimming workouts and I'm in the "slow lane" but we are plugging away! I love that I can actually see improvements now. You are doing fabulously and I'm so excited to see how things go!!!
I scoffed when I read the works swimming is humbling, yep, not going to deny it. then I thought about it. And it is. You've got this. Good luck.


The Penguins clinched a playoff spot last year on the penultimate day of the regular season. They were a bubble team. The only reason that bubble didn't pop is because of how damn good their power play was. Last years PP was the best in franchise history. Hard to believe given the talent that has traipsed through Pittsburgh over the last 30 years. They clicked at 26.2 percent. En fuego.
This year, the Penguins power play has the 6th best percentage in hockey. They've scored the 10th most power play goals in the game with 36. But, those numbers are misleading. The Penguins have given up 12(!!) shorthanded goals. So their net power play goals number is actually 24. Really, it's like they've scored 24 goals this year on the man-advantage. That would put them 29th in the league.
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This article is not written to aggravate or exacerbate the rural/urban disconnect. Like all issues or divides in society, the best chances for coping or ameliorating them is by putting them in context. This doesn't pass judgement on the current situation, but it does provide a base for decisions, including doing nothing.
It is not clear who said civilization is a thin veneer, but I know that it is built on a very thin veneer of soil. Figure 1 shows the bedrock exposed and a soil layer of one to three feet.
Before Christmas of December 2017, I received a wonderful 1804 first edition of a book titled, "The Soil and Climate of the United States of America," by C. F. Volney. The author was a Frenchman who liked what the American Revolution was about and spent three years touring the US to determine its viability. His work parallels and is as perceptive as that of Alexis de Tocqueville 's "Democracy in America." Unlike most commentators today, Volney understood that an adequate agriculture base was essentially for any economy and that depended on the soil and climate potential. Those who drew boundaries to create Canadian provinces understood it. For example, the northern boundary of the Prairie Provinces was set at 60°N because it was determined that agriculture was not possible north of that latitude. Hay River was established as the first capitol of the Northwest Territories because it was the only small region with a sliver of soil that was not permafrost (permanently frozen).
President Trump proves in so many ways why he is not a politician. I use the word politician in the way it has become defined, that is a person who does not listen or care about the people except at election time. The professional politicians and their lackeys the mainstream media confirm this definition by sneeringly calling him a populist. This is a person who listens to and acts on the will of the majority of the people. How outrageous! Luckily it is to Trump's advantage that the professional politicians and the mainstream media in the cities continue to judge his actions as if they were political. We had another example when he spoke to the American Farm Bureau Federation Convention in Nashville on January 8th 2018. He knew what denizens of the urban swamp don't know, that the entire basis and strength of any economy is the ability to feed the citizens. His views, expressed at the Convention were barely heard from any US leader after Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson also said something that most politicians studiously avoid today.
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Ironically, Lenin was forced to recognize this reality when in 1924 he introduced the New Economic Policy. Just seven years after the revolution and creation of massive state-owned farms he was forced to allow every peasant to own a small plot of land. When the Soviet Union collapsed these plots were producing over 50 percent of all available foodstuffs.
The ability to produce surplus food produces surplus time and, in that time, you can create any monopoly game economy you want. This is the simple pattern of history and civilizations. A climate change, usually related to increased rainfall allows greater food production. The word civilization comes from the process of forming cities. That is why the first cities appeared in what we call the fertile crescent (Figure 2). The cities became the store houses of agricultural products and began to control the society. Meanwhile, they began to forget that without agriculture they could not exist. They became detached from the problems developing on the land.
The Fertile Crescent was much cooler and wetter 10,000 years ago. It was ideal conditions for crops and animals that are at the centre of western agriculture today. People gradually settled and switched from hunting and gathering to sedentary agriculture. Anthropologists and historians count this as a major advance in human evolution. This is a legitimate argument from all but a nutritional perspective.
A hunter/gatherer diet had a wide variety of foodstuffs, which when supplemented with small game provided what Dieticians today tell us is the ideal diet. If the food supply was limited for any reason, including bad weather, people simply moved. We gave that up to sit in one place, be at the mercy of the weather, and depend on about five basic foodstuffs. I think the reason for the change was for security of supply. But if you have a surplus supply, you cannot drag it around with you. It requires storage facilities, and they require construction, maintenance, and management – in short, a city. Gradually, the cities grew in size and power but became increasingly detached from the basis of their existence. They also became detached from the problems created by and threatening that basis.
These include a gradual change in climate, in the case of the Crescent toward increasing aridity, increasing salinity in the soils, and increasing rates of soil erosion. We do not think of the Fertile Crescent as a major agricultural region today and most, especially in the cities, can't understand why it was so different in the past.
Increased productivity and better soil management through crop rotation.
"Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds. As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them into mariners, artisans, or anything else.
Jefferson also said things that introduce the underlying battle for the minds of society that is central to the urban/rural disconnect today. It speaks to the drift away from what creates and sustains a society.
We have reached a point in North America where the "industrious farmer" is a victim of his/her own success. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, never in the history of mankind have so few produced so much for so many at so low a price. They are victims because they have lost their voice in society. A few years ago, I was a speaker at a farm conference in Lloydminster with about 1000 in attendance. The concern was acute because a drought gripped the region and prices for farm products were low. I spoke to them about the historical pattern of droughts and projected the end of the current situation. I was asked what the farm community could do to get the attention of urban dwellers and politicians to their problems.
the population disparity means urban voters outnumber you and therefore get political attention.
Approximately 30 years ago most people in a city had come from the rural area or still knew people in the countryside.
30 years ago, most major newspapers had a section on agriculture.
Probably 60% of Torontonians were not even born in Canada.
Probably a higher percentage of Canadians take holidays overseas rather than in Canada.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King said Canada has too much geography and not enough history. He was wrong. Yes, we have lots of both, the problem is few Canadians know very little about either one.
A majority of politicians at the Federal and Provincial level are from urban areas.
Then you need to understand that the characteristics that make you different and successful cause you to lose political clout. To be a successful business person or farmer, you must be a risk taker, someone willing to operate independently, to take responsibility for success and cope with failure. These are exactly the opposite characteristics required for party politics. They are why a former President of the Canadian Conservative Party said that when an election is called conservatives circle the wagons and shoot inwards. To get the attention of the urban dwellers and the politicians who court their vote, the farmers have to get together one year and say we are not going to produce anything this year. It won't happen, but maybe just talking about the idea will identify the problem and lead to action.
When global warming due to human production of CO2 was gaining political momentum, a major report identified soil erosion as a problem of equal magnitude. I disagree because human-caused global warming was never a problem. However, the erosion requires attention because there is so little fertile soil in the world. But more of that in future articles. Meanwhile, hydroponics (growing plants without soil Figure 3) has possibilities, though the scale of production to equal what we produce in soil is not feasible. Besides, you can wonder what happens when rural values are lost, and the thin veneer of civilization becomes a thick, insensitive skin.
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In translating into English the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas, you undertake a work which will bring profit to the Church and honour to the Dominican Order, and which, I hope, will be acceptable even to the laity; for what was said of the great doctor by his contemporaries is true for all time�that everybody can gather fruit from his writings, which are within the grasp of all. As a matter... Summa Theologica, by St. Thomas Aquinas, , at sacred-texts.com OF THE ESSENCE OF LAW (FOUR ARTICLES) We have now to consider the extrinsic principles of acts.
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Q: Creating shapefile layer from points added using Go To XY tool of ArcMap? How do you create a shapefile from points created using the Go To XY tool?

A: Plot your X,Y points with the "Go To XY" tool, as you've stated. For each X,Y that you plot, use the "Add Point" button so that ArcMap drops a graphic "point" at each location you're interested in. When you have them all plotted and you're ready to convert them to a shapefile, go to the "Drawing" toolbar's drop-down menu and choose "Convert Graphics to Features".
As others have stated, this isn't the most efficient way to create a featureclass out of X,Y coordinates, but if it's the process/workflow that works best for you, so be it! Good luck!


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The Sarah Lawrence College Library invites applications for a Research and Instruction Librarian. Reporting to the Head of Research Services, the candidate must have a strong commitment to public service and act as a highly motivated research support and education professional who enjoys providing both personalized and group library instruction to undergraduate and graduate students in a small academic library.
Working within the Research Services Department, the candidate will participate in the reference and instruction programs we provide for students and faculty. These programs include, but are not limited to: provision of information literacy instruction to classes and groups; provision of general public reference assistance at the Information Desk and during individual research consultations; creation of instructional materials utilizing current technologies; participation in collection development.
Offer information literacy instruction sessions and provide research assistance to undergraduate and graduate students.
Perform collection development and maintenance duties including purchasing, collection analysis, and weeding.
Collaborate on research guides and social media presence.
Contribute to the Library Newsletter.
Participate in rotation at the Information Desk.
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Creativity, flexibility, and the ability to work cooperatively in a team-based, user-centered environment.
Strong interpersonal skills, mature, and the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
Must be detailed-oriented, congenial, patient, and reliable.
Three years of experience working in an academic library setting.
Mid $50,000's, commensurate with qualifications and experience. Competitive benefits package.
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SONDORS Metacycle unveiled as low-cost 80 MPH electric motorcycle
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: sustainability, transportation
SONDORS has just pulled up the curtain on its first-ever electric motorcycle, the SONDORS Metacycle. The new commuter electric motorcycle may just be the first truly low-cost electric motorcycle capable of both city and highway riding.
Of course terms like "affordable" and "low-cost" will always be relative.
But to put things in perspective, we live in a world where the $29799 Harley-Davidson LiveWire is considered largely a commuter electric motorcycle, though with enough power for some impressive drag races as well.
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Inspired by kombucha tea, engineers create 'living materials'
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biological, sustainability
Engineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the "kombucha mother" used to ferment tea.
Using this mixture, also called a SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast), the researchers were able to produce cellulose embedded with enzymes that can perform a variety of functions, such as sensing environmental pollutants. They also showed that they could incorporate yeast directly into the material, creating "living materials" that could be used to purify water or to make "smart" packaging materials that can detect damage.
"We foresee a future where diverse materials could be grown at home or in local production facilities, using biology rather than resource-intensive centralized manufacturing," says Timothy Lu, an MIT associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of biological engineering.
Fiat Chrysler plans to mass produce flying cars by 2023
One of electric aviation's greatest challenges (beyond safety certification) is mass production. Designing a working prototype is now table stakes in this industry. As Tesla found out, heavy manufacturing at scale can easily bankrupt even the most well-funded companies.
To solve this problem, Archer turned to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), which produces about 4 million cars per year at its 100 manufacturing facilities and 40 R&D centers. FCA described it as a mutually beneficial arrangement: It gains experience electrifying vehicles (where it lags behind), and Archer gains access to low-cost manufacturing expertise. FCA already helped design the aircraft's cockpit and will allow the production of "thousands of aircraft" per year, according to a company spokesperson. The first aircraft is scheduled to be revealed in early 2021 with the first public flights in 2024.
Delays are likely given the complexity of launching, literally, a new vehicle. But the announcement fulfills the initial prediction made last year by John Hansman, director of MIT's International Center for Air Transportation: "You've seen some shakeup in electric aviation, but also see it get closer to reality" in 2020, he said. "It's clear there will be the emergence of a new class of electric airplanes. In 2021, you'll see hybrid and battery aircraft in service or close to being in service."
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: chemistry, solar power, sustainability
Scientists in China and Sweden have determined that a pinch of capsaicin, the chemical compound that gives chili peppers their spicy sting, may be a secret ingredient for more stable and efficient perovskite solar cells. The research, published January 13 in the journal Joule, determined that sprinkling capsaicin into the precursor of methylammonium lead triiodide (MAPbI3) perovskite during the manufacturing process led to a greater abundance of electrons (instead of empty placeholders) to conduct current at the semiconductor's surface. The addition resulted in polycrystalline MAPbI3 solar cells with the most efficient charge transport to date.
"In the future, green and sustainable forest-based biomaterial additive technology will be a clear trend in non-toxic lead-free perovskite materials," says Qinye Bao, a senior author of the study from East China Normal University. "We hope this will eventually yield a fully green perovskite solar cell for a clean energy source."
While metal halide perovskite semiconductors represent a promising component for state-of-the-art solar cell technologies, they are plagued by nonradiative recombination, an undesirable electron-level process that reduces efficiency and exacerbates heat losses. Bao and colleagues sought out a natural, forest-based, inexpensive additive to overcome this limitation and enhance solar cell performance.
China Builds The World's Largest Electric Cruise Ship
Meet the "Yangtze River Three Gorges 1", an electric cruise ship, announced in December, that is poised to become the world's largest of its kind (among EVs).
According to the brief info, it will be launched in July and enter service in November of 2021, on popular tourist routes: the Two Dams and One Gorge, the Yichang Yangtze River Night Cruise, and the Three Gorges Shiplift.
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Artificial Flesh
Posted by Harry J. Bentham in categories: biological, biotech/medical, ethics, food, futurism, health, innovation, science, sustainability
Review: Meat Planet (2019) by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
In the words of the book's author, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food (2019) is "not an attempt at prediction but rather a study of cultured meat as a special case of speculation on the future of food, and as a lens through which to view the predictions we make about how technology changes the world." While not serving as some crystal ball to tell us the future of food, Wurgaft's book certainly does serve as a kind of lens.
Our very appetites are questioned quite a bit in the book. Wondering about the ever-changing history of food, the author asks, "Will it be an effort to reproduce the industrial meat forms we know, albeit on a novel, and more ethical and sustainable, foundation?" Questioning why hamburgers are automatically the default goal, he points out cultured meat advocates should carefully consider "the question of which human appetite for meat, in historical terms, they wish to satisfy."
Wurgaft's question of "which human appetite" – past, present, or future – is an excellent one. If we use his book as a lens to observe other emerging technologies, the question extends well beyond our choices of food. It could even have direct implications for such endeavours as radical life extension. Will we, if we extend our lifetimes, be satisfactory to future people? We already know the kind of clash that persists between different generations, and the blame we often place on previous generations for current social ills, without there also being a group of people who simply refuse to die. We should be wary of basing our future on the present – of attempting to preserve present tastes as somehow immutable and deserving immortality. This may be a problem such futurists as Ray Kurzweil, author of The Singularity is Near (2005) need to respond to.
If we are to justify the singularity at which we or our appetites are immortalized, we should remember technology changes "morality's horizon", as Wurgaft observes. If, for example, a new technology arises that can entirely eliminate suffering, our choice to allow suffering is an immoral one. If further technologies then emerge that can eliminate not just suffering but death, it will become immoral on that day to permit someone's natural death – at least to the extent it is like the crime of manslaughter. I argued in my own book that it will be immoral to withhold novel biotechnologies from impoverished countries, if we know such direct action will increase their economic independence or improve their health. Put simply, our inaction in a situation can become an immoral deed if we have the necessary tools to stop suffering.
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Tags: book review, Food Innovation, the Singularity
Making The Future Better Together
Posted by Mark Parkins in categories: employment, food, sustainability
The future is someone else's problem. Tomorrow is just another day.
This is all well and good to think, but if we want to live a long, healthy life, then we ALL need to work to make tomorrow a better day…
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2020 Harley-Davidson LiveWire Electric Motorcycle Test Ride And Review: H-D 2.0
The first electric Harley is finally ready – but who is it for?
GM shares hit record high as automaker reveals electric van and delves into flying cars
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
The potential foray into "personal air mobility" was announced as part of Cadillac's portfolio of luxury and EV vehicles. It included an autonomous shuttle and an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, or more commonly known as a flying car or air taxi.
Michael Simcoe, vice president of GM global design, said each concept reflected "the needs and wants of the passengers at a particular moment in time and GM's vision of the future of transportation."
"This is a special moment for General Motors as we reimagine the future of personal transportation for the next five years and beyond," Simcoe said.
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The new 'gold rush' for green lithium
Posted by Alexandros El in categories: climatology, computing, mobile phones, solar power, sustainability
All the clean technologies that we need to combat climate change – whether that's wind turbines, solar panels or batteries, they're all really, really mineral intensive.
Cornwall, 1864. A hot spring is discovered nearly 450m (1485ft) below ground in the Wheal Clifford, a copper mine just outside the mining town of Redruth. Glass bottles are immersed to their necks in its bubbling waters, carefully sealed and sent off for testing. The result is the discovery of so great a quantity of lithium – eight or 10 times as much per gallon as had been found in any hot spring previously analysed – that scientists suspect "it may prove of great commercial value".
But 19th-Century England had little need for the element, and this 50C (122F) lithium-rich water continued steaming away in the dark for more than 150 years.
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Disney+ Movies/Films/Television Press Release
Disney+ Program Listing for August 2022
July 19, 2022 September 1, 2022 Jason @disneygeek.com
Below is the program listing for August 2022 on Disney+
New Library Titles
Alice's Wonderland Bakery (S1, 5 episodes)
The Ghost and Molly McGee (S1, 5 episodes)
Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Ms. Marvel
This installment of ASSEMBLED takes us on the journey of bringing a long-awaited global phenomenon to life. Go behind-the-scenes every step of the way with immersive footage from the making of the series, along with insightful interviews on set from the cast and crew of Ms. Marvel as we watch Iman Vellani and her character, Kamala Khan, become the fan-favorite superhero right before our eyes.
Episode 302 "Into the Unknown"
A reluctant E.J. takes the reins in a surprisingly new role on "Frozen." New campers bring surprising vocal chops — and competition — to the auditions for "Frozen," while in Los Angeles, Nini makes a potentially life-changing discovery of her own.
The Lion King (2019) (Sing-Along Version)
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (Sing-Along Version)
LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation
Finn has arranged a surprise vacation for his friends aboard the Galactic Starcruiser, The Halcyon! But Finn's plan quickly goes awry when he's separated from the group. Alone on board the Halcyon, Finn encounters three Force Spirits — Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and Princess Leia, who each share their own unexpected stories of vacations gone wrong.
Bluey (S3, 25 episodes)
Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge (S1)
All Shorts Streaming
There's no guarding the galaxy from this mischievous toddler! So get ready as Baby Groot takes center stage in his very own collection of shorts, exploring his glory days growing up—and getting into trouble—among the stars.
"I Am Groot," five original shorts featuring several new and unusual characters, stars everyone's favorite little tree, Baby Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel who voices Groot in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise.
Episode 303 "The Woman In The Woods"
After the cast list is revealed, the campers pack up and embark on Maddox's favorite camp tradition: Newbie Initiation Night! Ghost stories and s'mores abound, but the true centerpiece of the night is "The Legend of the Woman in the Woods," a spooky tale that sends Gina and Ricky on an adventurous quest… into the unknown.
Disney Summer Magic Quest
Father of the Bride Part II
Meet Spidey and His Amazing Friends (S2)
Episode 304 "No Drama"
After a spooktacular night in the woods, the cast assembles for "Frozen's" first read-through. But the return of Corbin Bleu and his intimidating documentary crew and the sudden disappearance of a core camper leave the Wildcats in disarray.
In Marvel Studios' "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law," Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany)—an attorney specializing in superhuman-oriented legal cases—must navigate the complicated life of a single, 30-something who also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk. The nine-episode comedy series welcomes a host of MCU vets, including Mark Ruffalo as Smart Hulk, Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/the Abomination, and Benedict Wong as Wong, as well as Jameela Jamil, Josh Segarra, Ginger Gonzaga, Jon Bass and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Directed by Kat Coiro (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9) and Anu Valia (Episodes 5, 6, 7) with Jessica Gao as head writer, "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" streams exclusively on Disney+ beginning August 17, 2022.
Beauty and the Beast (1991) (Sing-Along Version)
Tangled (Sing-Along Version)
Blackish (S8)
Chibi Tiny Tales (Shorts) (S2)
Episode 305 "The Real Campers of Shallow Lake"
After promising juicy drama for the "Frozen" documentary, E.J., Carlos and Val come with a Real Housewives-inspired plan: to turn rehearsals into "The Real Campers of Shallow Lake," complete with fabricated storylines and staged vignettes. But when the fake drama pushes some very real buttons, E.J. realizes that he may have gone too far.
Doc McStuffins: The Doc is 10!
America's National Parks (S1)
Europe From Above (S2)
Secrets of the Zoo: Down Under (S3)
2-Episode Premiere
Episodes 1-2
The "Andor" series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor's journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It's an era filled with danger, deception and intrigue where Cassian will embark on the path that is destined to turn him into a rebel hero.
Episode 306 "Color War"
After an explosive rehearsal, the Wildcats are launched into battle: Color War, an annual all-camp competition where rivalries are not only formed but encouraged. The stakes are higher than the rock-climbing wall… but with so many games to be played, will the Wildcats ever feel like "one team" again?
← Lightyear Streaming on Disney+ August 3, 2022
Shanghai Disney Resort Summer Festivities July 22 – August 31 →


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Review: Where the Night Rooks Go by Philip G. Horey
Posted by Miss_Jessel in Book reviews, General, Ghosts, History, Legends and Folklore, Reviews
British tales, folklore, Frogman Publishing, legends, Monsters, Philip G Horey, UFOs, Where the night rooks go
Frogman Publishing, 2019, 267 pages.
Philip G. Horey is from the North East of England. He is a Commercial Diver and Photographer. For 30 years he lived on the West Coast of Scotland after having sailed there in an old ship's lifeboat in 1985. He now lives on the outskirts of Newcastle. 'Where the Night Rooks Go' is his first writing foray into the legends and folklore of the British Isles having previously published two pictorial books '3rd Hung Kuen Championships 2018, 70-75 kg: Full Contact' and 'Islands of the Blue Men', a pictorial voyage to the Shiant Islands.
Horey is fascinated by the unknown and in his new book, 'Where the Night Rooks Go' delves into the mysterious legends which envelope some of the most fascinating places and locations in Scotland and England.
The book is divided into twenty-two chapters with each chapter concentrating on one specific location or theme, exploring both the history and legends which surround it. The book covers a range of topics from spirits to the undead to UFO sightings. The book includes poetry written by well-known writers, as well as stories and legends from oral tradition and is illustrated with the author's own photographs. All of this adds to the sense of otherworldliness which permeates through the pages.
Sandwood Bay by Philip G Horey
The book opens up with the poem 'The Haunter' by Thomas Hardy. A wonderfully atmospheric poem which was written by Hardy, himself a firm believer in ghosts, after the death of his wife, Emma, in 1912. The poem is written from the perspective of his deceased wife, whose increasing frustration at her inability to communicate with her grieving husband, is powerfully conveyed in the last stanza of the poem. The poem itself is the perfect introduction to the book and sets the tone for what follows.
Some of the stories Horley recounts are already well known such as the Loch Ness Monster, Culloden and Chillingham Castle with its multitude of ghosts and grisly stories. Others, less familiar such as 'The Mermaid of Sennor', 'Windhouse' on Shetland, 'Sandwood Bay' and 'The Cloutie Tree' are just as fascinating. Even with those legends that have been told and retold countless times, the author with his own unique style manages to resurrect them, making the reader feel that they are being introduced to the stories for the very first time. One particular chapter, 'Bomber County' was particularly moving. The loss of so many young men in horrific circumstances is in itself, heart-breaking but Horey in his description of the many hauntings associated with the airfields and crash sites stirs both our compassion as well as our dread. In a very different tone, Horey gives a detailed description of a 'ghost hunt' which he participated in, at Castle Menzies in Scotland. The ensuing account is hilarious, as he describes both the other participants and the various scenes he witnessed, revealing here, as elsewhere, both his self-deprecating sense of humour as well as his sympathy for the stories of those individuals he is recounting.
Throughout the book, Horey uses his photographs to illustrate the tales, capturing their spirit and enhancing their effectiveness. Horey is a skilled and clever photographer and I was particularly impressed with the powerful imagery of his black and white photographs.
Castle Menzies by Philip G Horey
Whilst describing the creaking door of an aircraft hangar at night, which had caught his attention and stirred his imagination, Horey ponders whether it is this that is the reason "why ghosts are more associated with the night, when one's senses can more easily focus on something so subtle and vague, something easily overlooked with the distractions of the day?". This sentiment for me sums up the feeling of the book; which is one of mystery, wonder and eeriness, with an author who believes that sometimes we are better off not really knowing the answers to our many questions.
I would strongly recommend 'Where the Night Rooks Go' for all who are interested in the supernatural, history and folklore. The book veers from achingly sad to amusing and back again but it is always informative and fascinating. It is well-written and on the whole, a thoroughly enjoyable read.
Where the Night Rooks Go by Philip G Horey is available at Frogman Publishing at http://www.spanglefish.com/frogmanpublishing/index.asp
Culloden by Philip G Horey


The Mercy Urgent Care in Fenton, MO is open in the South County area. Our urgent care clinic provides healthcare for adults and children. It offers extended hours to meet a patient's busy schedule - from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days a week on a walk-in basis.
A special After-Hours Pediatric Clinic is part of this Mercy Urgent Care, staffed by pediatric nurse practitioners, for families who can't get to their pediatrician's office during regular business hours.
At this location, we also offer immunizations and preventive screenings.


Ingrid is a world traveler and loves taking pictures where ever she goes. These photographs show a sampling of some of the places she's been in the last few years. The beauty of nature and its magnificent colors are one of her biggest inspirations.


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Floods Along the Evros (Meric) River
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March 20, 2006 (8.25 MB)
March 3, 2006 (6.33 MB)
Rain and melting snow combined to push the Evros (Meric) River over its banks in March 2006. The river, which forms the border between Turkey and Greece, is lined by fertile agricultural land, much of which was inundated in the floods. Though springtime flooding is common along the river, the floods of 2006 have been the worst in 15 years, reported Reuters.
The floods had receded somewhat when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite captured the top image on March 20, but flooding is still evident in contrast to March 3, lower image. One of the reasons for the flooding is also evident in the comparison between the two images. On March 3, snow (pale blue in this image) covered the area around the river, but by March 20, the snow had disappeared.
According to news reports, the flooding began with heavy rainfall in mid-March, and snowmelt added to the rising waters of the Evros and its tributaries, particularly the Arda River in Bulgaria. Several artificial lakes along the Arda overflowed, and more than 75,000 acres of land have been flooded. In some cases, the military had to be called in to evacuate people from flooded towns. In northern Bulgaria, the Danube River also flooded in mid-March, forcing the evacuation of riverside towns. The Danube is visible in the large version of the images; it is the large river flowing across the top of the scene.
NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC.
Image of the Day Land Floods
Floods in Southeastern Europe
Melting snow and rain combined to inundate Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey in March 2006.
Flooding in Siberia
Lingering Floods along the James River
Floods in Central California
Floods on the Lena River


The term "mission critical" applies to any activity, system, or equipment whose failure can result in the failure of an organization's operations. Depending on the organization, the consequences of failure can be very wide ranging.
At one extreme, the failure of an online vendor's website can result in a loss of sales. Although this could be disastrous to the business concerned, the impact is limited in scope, and recovery may not be difficult. Most of us, for instance, have experienced problems accessing Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. These outages may make the news and can result in a significant financial impact for the business concerned, but operations are usually returned promptly, and there are few, if any, lasting consequences.
At the other extreme, the failure of control systems in a petrochemical operation could result in injury and loss of life to personnel and the public, as well as harm to the environment from which recovery may be extremely time consuming, expensive, and difficult. Consider, for example, the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010, which caused the largest oil spill ever in U.S. waters. Eleven people lost their lives the day of the accident. The harm to the environment is still being experienced in the Gulf region of the U.S. and will be for many years to come. Currently, the costs arising from the accident, including financial settlements and fines, exceeds $42 billion.
One factor making the news regularly is cyberattack. High-profile incidents have affected household names, such as Sony, Target, eBay, P.F. Changs, and Domino's Pizza. In these cases, confidential information was stolen, resulting in the need for major disaster-recovery activities. On 25 December 2014, a group known as Lizard Squad successfully brought down the Xbox Live and PlayStation networks. Approximately 48 million Xbox Live subscribers and 110 million PlayStation users were unable to access their respective networks, causing major disruption on one of the biggest access demand days in the year.
In the industrial space, reports indicate a tenfold increase in the number of successful cyberattacks on infrastructure control systems since 2000. This is partly a consequence of advances in control systems, enabling them to be integrated into the business environment. Although this has proven to be a huge benefit for businesses, allowing better visibility of process information in near real time, the increased connectivity has exposed new vulnerabilities that attackers can target. The connection between industrial (or operational technology) and information technology (IT) systems has created problems for both types of systems. For instance, the Target incident was originated through the HVAC control system. In Germany in December 2014, a steel mill was attacked, and the blast furnace suffered major damage. The origin of the attack was the business network; the attackers navigated through the business network to the control system network and disrupted the emergency shutdown systems that are designed to prevent major damage to the plant.
There are many potential cyberattackers: hackers seeking to prove their capabilities, criminals seeking financial gain, and state-funded operations attempting to damage another state's operations. As a result, mission-critical systems must be designed and operated to cope with accidental and deliberate incidents. In addition, the management of such systems requires an enhanced level of diligence, as the nature and source of threats is always changing.
There is a need for mission-critical operations specialists. These specialists understand the threats, risks, and consequences of failure. They may focus on specific areas, such as robust IT network design, control system security, control room operations, and alarm handling, but they will normally have a broad understanding of all key aspects of mission-critical systems.


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Q: Reference to ndarray rows in ndarray is it possible to store references of specific rows of an numpy array in another numpy array?
I have an array of 2D nodes, e.g.
nodes = np.array([[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5], [5, 6]])

Now I want to select only a few of them and store a reference in another numpy array:
nn = np.array([nodes[0], nodes[3]])

If I modify a entry in nn the array nodes remains unchanged. Is there a way to store a reference to nodes in the ndarray nn?

A: If the reference can be created with basic indexing/slicing, then you get a view (an array that does not own its data, but refers to another array's data instead) of the initial array where changes propagate:
>>> nn = nodes[0:4:3] # reference array for rows 0 and 3
>>> nn[0][0] = 0
>>> nodes
array([[0, 2],
       [2, 3],
       [3, 4],
       [4, 5],
       [5, 6]])

Otherwise, you get a copy from the original array as in your code, and updates do not propagate to the initial array.

A: You can store an index to the rows you want in a numpy array:
ref = np.array([0, 3])

You can use the reference in an indexing expression to access the nodes you want:
>>> nn = nodes[ref]
>>> nn
array([[1, 2],
       [4, 5]])

nn will be a deep copy with no connection to the original in this case. While nn[foo] = bar won't affect the original array, you can use ref directly:
>>> nodes[ref, 1] = [17, 18]
>>> nodes
array([[ 1, 17],
       [ 2,  3],
       [ 3,  4],
       [ 4, 18],
       [ 5,  6]])

Alternatively, you can use a mask for ref:
>>> ref2 = np.zeros(nodes.shape[0], dtype=np.bool)
>>> ref2[ref] = True
>>> ref2
array([ True, False, False,  True, False], dtype=bool)

You can do almost all the same operations:
>>> nn2 = nodes[ref2]
>>> nn2
array([[1, 2],
       [4, 5]])

Modifications work too:
>>> nodes[ref2, 1] = [19, 23]
>>> nodes
array([[ 1, 19],
       [ 2,  3],
       [ 3,  4],
       [ 4, 23],
       [ 5,  6]])

The only thing that is more convenient with an array of indices is selecting a particular node from within the selection:
 >>> nodes[ref[0], 0]
 1

A: Method 1
First, initialize a Numpy array of None with dtype=object. (It don't have to be None. My guess it that you just cannot put references at initialization as Numpy somehow just creates an deep copy of it.)
Then, put the reference into the array.
nodes = np.array([[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5], [5, 6]])
# nn = np.array([nodes[0], nodes[1]],dtype=object) would not work
nn = np.array([None, None], dtype=object)
nn[0] = nodes[0]
nn[1] = nodes[3]
# Now do some modification.
nn[0][1] = 100

Output of nodes:
array([[  1, 100],
       [  2,   3],
       [  3,   4],
       [  4,   5],
       [  5,   6]])

# make it a function
def make_ref(old_array, indeces):
    ret = np.array([None for _ in range(len(indeces))])
    for i in range(len(indeces)):
        ret[i] = old_array[indeces[i]]
    return ret

nn = make_ref(nodes, [0, 3])

Method 2
If you don't need to put it in Numpy arrays, just use a list to host the references.
nn = [nodes[0], nodes[1]]

A: In Numpy, you can get a view of an array that can be edited. In your example, you can do this:
import numpy as np
nodes = np.array([[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5], [5, 6]])
node_idx = np.array([0, 3])
nodes[node_idx] = np.array([[1, 5], [2, 5]])
nodes

Output:
array([[1, 5],
       [2, 3],
       [3, 4],
       [2, 5],
       [5, 6]])

You can also replace it with boolean arrays:
import numpy as np
nodes = np.array([[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5], [5, 6]])
node_mask = np.array([True, False, False, True, False])
nodes[node_mask] = np.array([[1, 5], [2, 5]])
nodes

Which produces the same result. Of course, this means you can do magic like this:
import numpy as np
nodes = np.array([[1, 2], [2, 3], [3, 4], [4, 5], [5, 6]])
nodes[nodes[:, 0] == 3] = [1, 5]
nodes

Which replaces all rows with the first element equal to 3 with [1, 5]. Output:
array([[1, 2],
       [2, 3],
       [1, 5],
       [4, 5],
       [5, 6]])