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How kelp forests off California are responding to an urchin takeover
95 percent of northern coast forests have been lost, but sea otters are helping farther south
Proliferating urchin barrens, such has this one off northern California, have destroyed kelp forest all along the state's coast.
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By Anushree Dave
Joshua Smith has been diving in kelp forests in Monterey Bay along the central coast of California since 2012. Back then, he says, things looked very different. Being underwater was like being in a redwood forest, where the kelp was like "towering tall cathedrals," says Smith, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Their tops were so lush that it was hard to maneuver a boat across them.
No longer. The once expansive kelp forests are now a mosaic of thinner thickets interspersed with barrens colonized by sea urchins. And those sea urchins have so little to eat, they aren't even worth the effort of hungry sea otters — which usually keep urchins in check and help keep kelp forests healthy, Smith and his colleagues report March 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
A similar scene is playing out farther north. A thick kelp forest once stretched 350 kilometers along the northern California coast. More than 95 percent of it has vanished since 2014, satellite imagery shows. Once covering about 210 hectares on average, those forests have been reduced to a mere 10 hectares scattered among a few small patches, Meredith McPherson, a marine biologist also at UC Santa Cruz, and her colleagues report March 5 in Communications Biology. Like the barrens farther south, the remaining forests are now covered by purple sea urchins.
Satellite images in 2008 (left) and 2019 (right) of a section of the northern California coastline reveal a 95 percent reduction in the area covered by underwater kelp forests (yellow).Meredith McPherson
Together, the two studies reveal the devastation of these once resilient ecosystems. But a deeper dive into the cascading effects of this loss may also provide clues to how at least some of these forests can bounce back.
California's kelp forests, which provide a rich habitat for marine organisms, got hit by a double whammy of ecological disasters in the past decade, says UC Santa Cruz ecologist Mark Carr. He is a coauthor on the Communications Biology paper who has mentored both McPherson and Smith.
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First, sea star wasting syndrome wiped out local populations of sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides), which typically feed on urchins (SN: 1/20/21). Without sea stars, purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) proliferated.
The second wallop was a marine heat wave so big and persistent it was nicknamed "The Blob" (SN: 12/14/17). While kelp forests have been resilient to warming events before, this one was so extreme it spiked temperatures in many parts of the Pacific to 2 to 3 degrees Celsius above normal (SN: 1/15/20).
Kelp thrives in cold and nutrient rich water. As its growth slowed in the warmer water, less kelp drifted into the crevices of the reefs where sea urchins typically lurk. With a key predator gone and a newfound need to forage for food rather than waiting for it to come to them, urchins emerged and turned the remaining kelp into a giant buffet.
For the northern California kelp forests, the shift could spell doom for two reasons. The dominant species growing there is bull kelp (Nereocystis leutkeana). It dies each winter to return again in the spring, and the changes are making it more difficult to bounce back year after year. In comparison, one of the main kelp species in Monterey Bay is giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), which lives for many years, making it a bit more resilient.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis leutkeana), seen here growing at Pescadero Point near Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif., becomes the dominant species of kelp growing along the northern California coast. A marine heat wave and loss of a sea urchin predator has led to a massive loss of bull kelp in that region.Steve Lonhart/NOAA, MBNMS
The kelp forests in the north also lack an urchin predator common farther south: sea otters. Those sea otters are what's providing a glimmer of hope in Monterey Bay. Smith and his colleagues wondered how the bonanza of sea urchins was affecting the otters. They found that sea otters were eating three times as many sea urchins as they were before 2014, but they were being picky. They avoided the more populous urchin barrens, instead feasting only on urchins in the remaining patches of kelp. That's because the barrens offer only a poor diet of scraps, leaving the urchins there essentially hollow on the inside. "Zombies," Smith calls them.
The nutrient-rich urchins in the healthy kelp make a far better sea otter snack. And by zeroing in on those urchins, the otters keep the population in check, preventing urchins from scarfing up the remaining kelp.
Simply transplanting sea otters to new locations may create new challenges. That's what happened off the Pacific Coast of Canada. Kelp forests there rebounded, but the otters competed with humans, especially Indigenous communities, that rely on the same food sources (SN: 6/11/20).
"The community on the North Coast is a very natural resource–dependent community, and this will impact them," says Marissa Baskett, an ecologist at the University of California, Davis.
And there's a lot of work to do to figure out how to bring back sunflower sea stars, now a critically endangered species. Nailing down the cause of the wasting syndrome, which is still unknown, will be crucial to recovery efforts.
Even so, understanding these interactions can provide clues to how to help restore the lost kelp forests, Baskett says. "These findings can inform restoration efforts aimed at recovering kelp forests and anticipating the effects of future marine heat waves."
A version of this article appears in the April 24, 2021 issue of Science News.
M.L. McPherson et al. Large-scale shift in the structure of a kelp forest ecosystem co-occurs with an epizootic and marine heatwave. Communications Biology. March 5, 2021. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-01827-6.
J.G. Smith et al. Behavioral responses across a mosaic of ecosystem states restructure a sea otter–urchin trophic cascade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Published online March 8, 2021. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2012493118.
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' Brazil B2C E-Commerce report 2012' by yStats.com the new Brazil B2C E-Commerce report 2012 by yStats.com, the Hamburg-based secondary market research company, informed about current trends and turnover in the B2C E-commerce in Brazil. To do this, shares of online trading on the total retail, successful product categories, Internet users and online shoppers, as well as important competitors are also represented. First of all, it should be noted that Brazil the highest B2C E-Commerce revenues in all Latin America. A further increase of online sales in Brazil are expected in the future, however, it is predicted that this will be not as strong as in previous years. Group shopping in Brazil very popular more than a third of all Internet users in Brazil makes online purchases, with the number of online shoppers is increasing but slower than in previous years.
Overall, about half of all online shoppers in Brazil shopping in 2012 at least once per month. Household goods and Electronics"and The most frequently purchased product categories, were here followed by books and magazines"household appliances". Group-shopping was very popular with online shoppers in Brazil in 2011. Almost half of them on group shopping so bought pages, of which more than three quarters planned to repeat this. Generalist longest of Internet users visited the leading online retailer in Brazil was in relation to the time spent by Internet users in December 2011 the generalist Mercado Libre, followed by Lojas Americanas and Magazine Luiza, also generalists. For Mercado Libre is Brazil the most important of the Latin American markets, because there is almost as high sales are generated, as in all other countries.
Magazine Luiza is also amongst the leading betting Berber. The generalist was able to increase its online sales between 2011 and 2012 to more than a quarter. Also Amazon would like to go into the emerging Brazilian online trading and is considering, the E-commerce platform of the Brazilian Bookseller to buy Saraiva.


I have found that it's best for me not to post anything here when I can't be positive. There is a lot to be positive about, but, you know how it is, some folks, especially we menopausal ones, find it hard to think about anything but the negative at times. So, I'll spare my little Interwebs tract of land the whine fest. There are people in Ethiopia, after all.
I leave for New York City tomorrow. As I say it aloud in my head as I type, I can't not sound like the salsa guy. I'm happy but in the middle of my normal nervous phase right before any trip involving airports. It's not the plane, just the airport. Once I'm on the plane, I'll be fine, so there is that.
Let me try another tack to be positive here: I just know my personal space won't be violated while touring the city like a Japanese person. Besides, it can't be any more violated than sitting in a cubicle surrounded by folks from Plainfield, Indiana. Damn. Do you see my struggle? This little skirmish between good thoughts and bad can be serious. But, luckily, I could be in a whole different frame of mind in an hour.
Unrelated thought - The Goodbye Girl was on cable this weekend and it's a personal favorite. I googled Quinn Cummings and found that she has a blog called the QC Report and a new book coming out in July. Her blog is quite funny – she blogged yesterday (the day after the movie aired) about an increase in traffic and the google search terms people used to find her. Cute.
There it was. Positive. For a minute anyway. 'Cause there are things like the cubicle and the airport to think about.


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Q: WinPCap setup giving "unresolved external symbol" linker errors I'm working with a project made professionally by someone else, so the code should be bug-free. The problems I'm having with it is most likely to do with the project configurations.
The project I'm trying to compile has C and C++ source files kept within the following folders, all within the project directory: Hardware, Header Files, Source Files, TCP/IP, uTasker and WinSim. When I attempt to compile, it returns the following build log:
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1>LPC17XX.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _fnOpenDefaultHostAdapter referenced in function _fnConfigEthernet
1>WinSim.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _iWinPcapSending
1>WinSim.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _fnWinPcapSendPkt referenced in function _fnSimulateEthTx
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl fnDoEthereal(int,char *)" (?fnDoEthereal@@YAXHPAD@Z) referenced in function _WinMain@16
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int iTxActivity" (?iTxActivity@@3HA)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int iRxActivity" (?iRxActivity@@3HA)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl fnWinPcapStopLink(struct HWND__ *)" (?fnWinPcapStopLink@@YAXPAUHWND__@@@Z) referenced in function "long __stdcall WndProc(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" (?WndProc@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl fnWinPcapSelectLAN(int)" (?fnWinPcapSelectLAN@@YAXH@Z) referenced in function "long __stdcall WndProc(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" (?WndProc@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl fnWinPcapOpenAdapter(void)" (?fnWinPcapOpenAdapter@@YAXXZ) referenced in function "long __stdcall SetNIC(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" (?SetNIC@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl fnWinPcapClose(void)" (?fnWinPcapClose@@YAXXZ) referenced in function "long __stdcall SetNIC(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" (?SetNIC@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)
1>WinSimMain.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "int __cdecl fnShowNICs(struct HWND__ *)" (?fnShowNICs@@YAHPAUHWND__@@@Z) referenced in function "long __stdcall SetNIC(struct HWND__ *,unsigned int,unsigned int,long)" (?SetNIC@@YGJPAUHWND__@@IIJ@Z)
1>.\Debug\uTasker.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 11 unresolved externals

LPC17XX.c is kept within the Hardware/LPC17XX folder.
WinSim.c and WinSimMain.cpp are kept within the WinSim folder.
I'm not sure how to configure my linker to fix these problems, any help would be appreciated.
Edit: I'm using Visual Studio 2010 to build the project.

A: The documentation on WinPCap is a little out of date from what I've been able to find, but there are some pretty important setup instructions, particularly the pre-processor macros that should be defined to get things properly setup for a good link.
The latest setup docs I could find are here. I hope they help get you going.

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Dancing on the bars, shots that are downed as frequently as beers and cocktails and people from all over the planet who go there basically for one single-minded purpose are all factors that combine to make Mykonos in the Greek Islands a mecca for nightlife.
This Greek Islands paradise has a lot to offer hard-core partiers.
For instance, it has Paradise Beach, where the party starts in the late afternoon. A DJ blasts music from three different bars on the sand and you either join the party or leave the beach. And with people jumping up on the bar to dance, you don't leave until after sunset.
Later that night – but not before 11 p.m. – all party roads lead to the Skandinavian Bar, an indoor-outdoor party mecca that has a poster board on the walls listing more than a dozen shots with names like the Mind Eraser. It is appropriately named, I can assure you.
From there you branch out to the other bars – or just stay there and party all night.
The crowd is mid-20s to early-50s with the "sweet spot" being in the late 20s to mid-30s and they are from all over the globe: Australia, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, the USA and more. This international scene led to the tagline of PubClub.com: Where The World Goes To Party.
Everyone is friendly and meeting someone is as easy as saying hello.
There are no days of the week on Mykonos, so every day is a weekend and every night is Saturday night.
The key factor Mykonos has over some other top party islands in the world – Ibiza in particular – is the cost. Few bars have cover charges; in Ibiza it costs the equivalent of $50 USD and up to get into many clubs. In Mykonos, you just walk inside the place.
Sometimes, you'll encounter someone standing at the door who charges you $5 or so, but you get a pice of paper that you can then give to the bartender to get a drink.
Beers are a very reasonable 6-8 Euros – go for the large Greek beer, Mythos – and so are all those shots. Cocktails are more, especially at higher-end places but you won't be paying a fortune at Paradise Beach or even the Skandinavian Bar.
For the price, the people and the party scene, you can't beat Mykonos in the Greek Islands for awesome nightlife. It's one of the top party places in the world.


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Watchdog saves consumers millions of dollars from scammers
Western Australian consumers have been protected from losing millions of dollars in scams thanks to the Gallop Government's WAScamNet initiative, Acting Consumer and Employment Protection Minister Sheila McHale said today.
Ms McHale said while it was impossible to define exactly how much money had been saved by WAScamNet, a conservative estimate of saving $150 per scam reported by a consumer would mean scammers had missed out on more than $3.6million in 2005.
The Acting Minister said that in 2005, thanks to calls from members of the public exposing the scams of psychics and clairvoyants alone, people were saved more than $75,000.
During the year there had been 24,000 scams reported to WAScamNet at the Department of Consumer and Employment Protection (DOCEP) - a big increase on 2004, when 20,900 dodgy deals were reported.
The worst 10 scams for 2005 were:
David Rhodes chain letter (pyramid scheme): The fictitious 'David Rhodes' claims you can turn $218 into $77,760 in the first 60 days of operating the 'business plan' outlined in the letter. A five cent coin is often attached to the letter to get your attention. The chain letter attracted 4,500 responses in WA.
El Gordo/Lotteria Primitiva (prizes): Recipients are told they have won money in a lottery and asked to provide their personal financial details to collect. They are drawn in to send money to the scammer as 'government taxes' before receiving their winnings.
UK Lottery (prizes and lotteries): Email notification tells of a major lottery win, or secondary prize, in a large European sweepstakes. This scam is like the El Gordo Spanish Lottery scam that has been circulating for many years. It works similarly to the Nigerian-style scam, requiring victims to pay fees and charges before their alleged winnings can be released.
Maria Rosa (psychic): Maria Rosa is a typical psychic scam, which uses threats and the promises of money to get you to hand over your dollars. She claims a dark force is directing you down a bad path and stopping you from winning $30,000. She claims her 'tree of wonders' in crystal and precious stones, plus her ritual, will drive away the dark force. It will cost you $62.
Opportunities Unlimited (prizes): This company has been bombarding consumers for the past few years with letters claiming they have received a 'cash prize notification' of up to $40,000. You have not won the money, just an opportunity to enter their prize draw by answering a series of 'tests of skill' - but you have to pay to enter ($22 upwards) and it typically takes two years or more before winners receive any money. Not that WA ScamNet or any of its contributors have heard of anyone receiving the major prize.
North American Award Centre (prizes): Affiliated with Opportunities Unlimited. Same ploy, same request for payment.
Blanche Calmette (psychics): Classic psychic scam, where Blanche Calmette claims something very strange is happening and she is anxious to do your astrological chart. The only thing she is anxious about is getting your money ($79.95 in total) and confirming your address so it can be passed on to other mail sharks.
National Awards Commission (prizes): Personally addressed letters tell you that you have won big money. An amount is nominated from USD$5,000 to USD$1,000,000. Again it is a sweepstake. You can also get a bonus piece of jewellery for a fee. Depending on which letter you get, you can pay $68 for a 14kt 'gold-tone' locket or $24.95 for a 'high fashion star crystal' pendant on a 'gold-tone' chain. WAScamNet have told DOCEP people have never won money in the sweepstake and the jewellery they received was junk jewellery. The only thing you can be guaranteed of is receiving more and more of these offers.
International Awards Treasury (prizes): This scam sends consumers a letter advising they are the holder of a unique $100,000 cash payment number. No money is actually won, just the chance to enter a sweepstake to win $100,000 if you send your details. As a bonus, you receive a 'diamond' necklace for the unbelievably low price of just $29.97.
Employment emails: This scam asks people to apply for fictitious job placements, where their bank accounts are used to launder money illegally gained from credit card scams and bank accounts, effectively hiding the transfer and using the consumer as a 'money mule'.
"Despite being found out and the public notified, some scammers continue their fraud in a slightly different way," Ms McHale said.
"What we are seeing is that these scammers re-invent their ploy and give it a new name - the Nigerian scam became the El Gordo scam, which has been reinvented as the 'Princess Diana Universal Promo' and the 'Sir Dennis Thatcher' bequest.
"However, now we have WAScamNet in place, many of these fraudsters are quickly found out by vigilant consumers who contact DOCEP and warn them of the latest scam.
"This year, we have had more than 2,000 voluntary contributors from across the State and even Eastern States and overseas, emailing WAScamNet for information and advice and to inform us of the scams circulating in their country."
Ms McHale said if matters related to Australian scams, WAScamNet always referred the material to the relevant home authority. Internationally-based scams (which were by far the most common) were often referred to the ACCC's international liaison service.
"The strategy of WAScamNet is to alert consumers quickly to the dangers of new scams circulating and give them advice on how to deal with fraudsters," the Acting Minister said.
Minister's office: 9222 9211

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2:31AM - A woman in the 500 block of Aldine tells police that she was sleeping in her her car with the windows down when a man reached into the vehicle and stuck his hands down her pants. The woman goes on to say that she was able to get out of the car and walk to her nearby home, but the man followed her the entire way. Recorded as a criminal sexual abuse.
2:39AM — Man calls police from a pizza shop in the 3700 block of Clark to report that he had been jumped on and had his phone stolen. Robbery case HY309691.
2:48AM — Witness report that a man ran out of Big City Tap, 1010 W Belmont, in pursuit of another man who'd just pick pocketed his wallet. The alleged offender escapes.
4:07AM — A hearing impaired Boystown resident tells police that a man had just pushed him and robbed him of his iPhone 6 near Halsted and Clark. Offender description: Male, black, thin, in his 20's, long dreads, red shirt, blue jeans. He fled westbound from Halsted. Robbery case #HY308522.


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Miss England contestant becomes first in pageant's 94-year history to compete makeup free
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'It was quite a daunting experience but so amazing to win this way'
A Miss England contestant has become the first woman to compete makeup-free in the pageant's 94-year history, dubbing it a "daunting experience."
Politics student Melisa Raouf, 20, appeared at the semi-finals of the Miss England pageant this week where she competed without any makeup. The risk worked out in the end, and Raouf is now off to the finals.
Taking to Instagram to share her thoughts, she wrote: "It was quite a daunting experience but so amazing to win this way.
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"It means a lot to me as I feel many girls of different ages wear makeup because they feel pressured to do so.
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"Our flaws make us who we are and that's what makes every individual unique," she added.
The King's College student said she has been flooded with positive messages from "so many girls" thanking her for making "them feel more confident in themselves."
She continued: "With mental health being such a big topic, I want to make all girls feel good. I just want to remove all the beauty standards. I feel like all girls are beautiful in their own way.
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"I feel like I've done it for all girls."
She will now appear in the finals on October 17 where she also intends to go bare-faced.
The 20-year-old revealed that she also intends to compete in the finals "bare faced." The event, which is being held at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre in Coventry, will see 40 women compete for the crown.
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Hope is a choice and often it is a choice that may not seem sensible in the face of facts. But when we choose hope, things change. Open doors appear where only walls had been. It may not be that the facts or circumstances have changed so much as our perspective has. Possibilities exist which wouldn't if we used only our logic to see.
Today, let's dare to hope and see what becomes possible. Yes, what we hope for may not manifest, especially if we are hoping to win the lottery or if we're hoping for some other very narrow or specific thing. But the universe (or it's architect?) will deliver something good into our path if we are walking in hopefulness.
And of course, the only way you can know if I'm right or not will be to walk in hopefulness and see! I hope you have a beaYOUtiful day!


But wasn't Amy (briefly) already a presidential campaign manager for Selina? How could being one for Jonah be any kind of upgrade? Especially with Selina actually doing kind of well lately, if in fits and starts (with her pulling off the campaign announcement and winning the debate)? She just seemed so excited that she even temporarily forgot how much pain she was in, Dan seemed psyched too, and I just don't understand, lol. On another note, I truly hope Richard quitting both campaigns doesn't mean we're going to see less of him!
Did I miss something? (Easily might have since I watched on my phone on the train this morning...) Why is Amy so super-excited to go work for Jonah? Why is she even available to work for Jonah?
Funniest quote to me... ;) JESUS!!! Not the most erudite, but I seriously, honestly laugh to myself just thinking about it.
I do think the introduction of a black, female president of MACUSA is a new/recent element that is problematic within US history. I do think some of what Rowling has tried to say in the years since the release of the books and the original movies about Hogwarts and the magical world has been new information that in some cases is difficult to deal with. I completely agree that in fantasy like Harry Potter, that is meant to take place in our world/with our history, there is always some suspension of disbelief required and some things aren't going to make real-world sense. I just feel there's a complete disregard of certain major issues that is increasingly problematic. I understand that there isn't going to be a U.S. where, say, any notable portion of slaves were freed by a black wizard or witch. The X-Men, in the movies, didn't radically change the course of history either. But there is a recognition of how is it that these very powerful people, who grew up "normally" until their powers manifested themselves in various stages of adolescence, dealt with being subjected to prejudices and oppression. The X-Men is also more of an allegory generally about prejudice, which HP certainly was never intended to be. But I think the frustration with JKR is that someone who always took care with all the very unique and creative ways she built her fictional world is seeming to show less care on some major points. She wants to add diversity (and I'd agree she's doing so with good intent) - great! But that doesn't make it reasonable to simply say that the magical community in the U.S. was so racially ahead of the curve (gender-wise too!) that they can elect that president at that time. It makes it hard to understand the social history of the magical community in the U.S. Were magical people coming to the U.S. from Europe back in the day just without any racial/gender prejudices? How is that possible? It's not like they were coming from diverse countries or communities. They arrived in what became a diverse country that overran the racially different native population, enslaved another race, did not officially give women the vote and other rights until way later, etc. And again, aside from the majority population, it truly complicates things for muggle-born minorities. It didn't need to be dealt with in the original books, because it was the 90s-00s, and there's no real issue with the magic world reflecting the diversity of the UK/Europe at that time (even bettering it in some ways). Now, though, we're in different countries, in different time periods. I know the social history of the U.S. is not the point of the books. But this is the direction JKR has chosen to go in. I'd like to see some acknowledgment of that - can totally be basic/brief/throwaway - in how the world continues to be constructed.
Okay. Sort of. But my question is, not what were all the so not-prejudiced white people doing "not interfering" throughout American and European history (at least) -- what in the actual, living hell are the BLACK WIZARDS AND WITCHES DOING. (And any other minority group.) I mean, am I just supposed to accept that throughout the magical community in the U.S., they are so completely, thoroughly, utterly isolated, that they can become the magical president by the time of FB1, but never thought to lift a finger to help their "No-Mag" brothers and sisters. Really? The MUGGLE-BORN black wizards and witches, who would have lived with the exact discrimination and oppression that black people faced at whatever point in U.S. history, eventually got told they had magic and -- forgot? Didn't care? Were so happy to be accepted by the magical society that they just didn't worry about it? Didn't want to help their own family members? Really? Forever? What? That to me is where it is clear that there was no real thought process about U.S. (and European) magical history. Think of all the things so many black people had to do and to sacrifice and to suffer. And not ONE magical black person ever decided to get or stay involved. Not one muggle-born slave, not one muggle-born in the Jim Crow south. No collective concern from black or Native or any other wizards and witches. Not one muggle-born Jew in occupied Europe raised a ruckus. Hermione, as a muggle-born, is ride-or-die to free the elves, but not worried at all about the society she was raised in. That's about as impossible as it is for the ENTIRE U.S. to only have one magical school, lol. X-Men (the movies, as I'm not a comics reader) at least throws some bones in this direction. Eric/Magneto didn't just go quietly to the camps. And he tries to intervene in U.S. politics at the highest levels. I just...come on!
I very rarely catch episodes of the original show on the one channel that airs them (that I always forget), but the last two I remember seeing were a Christmas episode where the gang decides not to buy gifts for each other, they all lie and do, and hilarity ensues, and one where Frank is introducing Murphy to a new girlfriend he might be serious about. The major political themes have always been part of the show, yes, but they were never front and center for every single episode. There were entire episodes where the politics were limited to quick asides and throw-away jokes (in maybe the Frank's girlfriend episode, Phil names his food items on the menu after celebrities/politicians, but realizes it's a bad idea pretty quickly, because so many people hate some of folks with foods named after them -- "I can't get anyone to order an Orrin Hatch!"). There were just sitcom-y episodes that were enjoyable because the writing was funny, and it was in a unique setting with good characters. I'm curious as to whether the current continuation feels like they could or should do those types of episodes? Or, does the fact that the show was brought back almost entirely because of the 2016 election mean that they don't want to be a "normal" sitcom at all any more? I guess we'll see the rest of this first season. I do hope a little balance comes back into things here.
Dear lord, I'm just watching that episode now, and made a BEELINE here because of this. There's no way he's 22, right? Like...NO WAY IN HELL. I would have thought he was lying if he said he was 42. How can any 22 year old have a FACE like that? Or hair? Or glasses? Or clothes? Impossible! Ok, now, I'll pay attention to the case, and read the other comments, lol. Geezus!
Damn, this is a great goddamn show. Lol!
The Hallmark Channel is the king of this for me...hours of Golden Girls, Frasier, and Cheers around the time I'm going to sleep and well into the night. Wake up the next morning and it's I Love Lucy. It's big for me not to wake up to some obnxious informercial or game show (hello Baggage!), whether I sleep through until morning or get up a some point in the middle of the night. I don't really watch Lucy, but it doesn't have me lunging for the remote as soon as I am alert, lol.
Is TNT still showing L&O? For the last few weeks, it hasn't been on the times I usually watch - 5 & 6 AM Mon-Fri, mornings until maybe noon or 1 on Saturday and Sunday. I miss it!
All the applause for Viola. Keep telling it, girl!
Good for Viola! (And Ava Duvernay.) https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b99196ce4b0162f4732d131 The Help INFURIATED me. What foolish, insulting, history-rewriting schlock. Never begrudged Viola or Octavia any success they had or leveraged from it, of course. But it's good to hear her say this. Here's to POCs (especially WOCs) not being limited to these kind of roles, for real.
I saw this episode of Golden Girls over the weekend...if I've seen it before I've forgotten, and was struck by how completely obvious it is from about the 1:10 mark on that Bea Arthur and Rue Mc have just lost it laughing. Kudos to Betty White though, she plays it straight long enough to let them get back on track for the scene. Hilarious!
Why did Kim go to the courthouse? Poor Nacho!


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Q: How could I transform some keypresses into other keypresses? I have a great idea about cheating on exams. My school uses very old IDE's ( think Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++ , and other 80's ones ), and the thing I'd like to do is this :

*

*start my program in the background

*intercept the keypresses, and instead of sending them directly to the screen, I'd like to read a character from a pre-configured text-file, and send that as the pressed key. This way, no matter what you'll write, the text from that file will get written on the screen.
I found Stephen Toub's article about logging keys, and I think it will serve as a good start on building this "tool". Is there a better alternative to intercepting all the keys pressed in the system than SetWindowsHookEx? Will the code be flagged by the antivirus as a suspicious program? If so, is there anything else I can use to accomplish  this without being flagged by the antivirus? Will administrator priviledges be required ?
I know some of you guys will say that If I'd put as much interest in learning as I do in avoiding learning, I'd do great, but I'd like to try this out.
EDIT: I've added a bounty, I'm interested in some techniques for capturing keystrokes ( I'm not interested in low-level hooking or advanced stuff - basic ones are fine ), mainly method names and some links to documentation. I'd also like to know if they would appear as malware to an antivirus.

A: SetWindowsHookEx is the best option. I've been told that some antivirus programs will flag it, but I created a little app once using it and scanned it with AVG which returned no virus alerts.

A: Not that I'm saying cheating is good, but we understand your plea. I dont' think it's possible without getting into API hooks, since .Net wraps WIN32 API's I don't think they have wrapped methods for what you want.
For completeness, let's just add some details:
Unfortunately you have to get into the WIN32 API's: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645530(VS.85).aspx
The WM_SYSKEYDOWN notification can be used to get the key strokes, but it takes the handle of the window to watch, so it would involve the *GetWindow** API's to get the handle of the window you want to monitor.
Try the SendInput or keybd_event [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646304(VS.85).aspx] functions to simulate keystrokes.
Google "WIN API Viewer" for a utility to easily search for and view said API's, there is a version for .Net code too.
It's one of those things that will take a lot of trial and error, and I wish I had a more definitive answer for you.

A: GOD! I've just found the perfect class for this the other day.. took me a while to find the original source:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/globalhook.aspx
I used this (and SendKeys) alone exactly for what you need, you'll need to use Handle=true to block the original key message.
SendKeys is a bit ugly... you can look for a replacement if you'd like.. but SendKeys will work for you.
With SendKeys it's something like:
    private void HookManager_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.KeyCode == Keys.D){
            e.Handled = true;
            SendKeys.Send("F");
        }
    }

I actually also use this method to determined what prccess' window is in focus, so the app will do nothing if you are on another application:
    /// <summary>
    /// The GetForegroundWindow function returns a handle to the foreground window.
    /// </summary>
    [DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern IntPtr GetForegroundWindow();

    static bool IsProcessFocused(string processname)
    {
        if (processname == null || processname.Length == 0)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("processname");
        }

        Process[] runninProcesses = Process.GetProcessesByName(processname);
        IntPtr activeWindowHandle = GetForegroundWindow();

        foreach (Process process in runninProcesses)
        {
            if (process.MainWindowHandle.Equals(activeWindowHandle))
            {
                return true;
            }
        }

        // Process was not found or didn't had the focus.
        return false;
    }

A: As far as I can say, the most reliable way to keylog is to set up a system wide interrupt (I think INT17h?), but that's pretty low level, considering that your post is tagged C#. Go search for a relevant tool... you'll find many...


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Q: Assigning an int to a bool for ternary operation I'm new to c++ and trying to understand how the conditional (ternary) operator works.  I'm familiar with its use in java, but very confused about an example that I've seen in c++
int main()
{
   bool three = 3;
   int x = three ? 3 : 0;
   cout << x << "\n";
   return 0;
}

First, how can a bool data type accept an int?  Second, int x = three, isn't this an assignment and not a conditional test for x == 3?  Or is it saying, "create an int called x and assign it 3 if three == 3 else 0?"

A: bool three = 3; implicitly converts 3 to a bool, so three will have the value of true. (Any non-zero number will convert to true, zero converts to false.)
Also note that the ternary conditional has higher precedence than assignment (in C++ and Java).
So int x = three ? 3 : 0; is equivalent to int x = (three ? 3 : 0);.
int x = (three ? 3 : 0); is therefore equivalent to int x = (true ? 3 : 0); which is equivalent to int x = 3;


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We spotted the room Nancy designed for her future niece or nephew in our gallery and asked her if she wouldn't mind sharing a little tutorial. Since the project was already completed, Nancy had to improvise a little to share with us. Thanks, Nancy!
Over a decade ago, my mother bought a storage unit in the "As Is" section at Ikea. Three houses later, it was still sitting in the garage. As soon as I spotted it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, and as luck would have it, it fit perfectly into the newly open closet of my sister and brother-in-law's nursery. Sometimes my mom's garage is better than a thrift shop!
First I removed the existing plastic handles, then I used wood filler to fill in the screws on the top of the unit, nicks on the edges and holes from the old handles. This was my first time working with wood filler, and it worked great! After the wood filler dried, I sanded the unit down and gave it a new coat of white paint—the paint I used already had primer added to it.
I lucked out at a local variety store that had these plastic placemats. They were the perfect size, not to mention only $2 for a pack of four! I just had to trim the leaves to make it a perfect circle.
Next I used two coats of Rustoleum spray paint in Winter Gray on the placemats (I should have primed them first because the paint didn't adhere well to the plastic). Once dry, I used 3M Spray Adhesive to adhere the circles to the center of the doors. I used to buy wooden letters from Michaels until I found them at The Dollar Giant! All they needed was a little sanding, and then they were ready to be spray painted yellow. I used velcro to adhere the letters to the grey circles so they can be interchangeable. You can go from A B C to 1 2 3 or even the baby's initials!
There you have it—as easy as ABC! Total cost of this DIY project: ~$30!
BONUS PROJECT: Since there was one placemat left, I used it in the same application for a monogram framed picture. I found the frame at the Salvation Army for $5 and spray painted it in the same gray. The birdcage pattern is left over fabric from cushions I made. The glass that came with the frame was damaged, so I just got some clear mylar at an art store and glued the letter on top of it for a 3-dimensional quality. The C is perfect as it reflects both mom and dad's last name. Once the baby is born, I'll change it to the baby's initial.
What a great idea to put velcro on the letters so you can change them to numbers and the baby's initials. This is a great DIY project. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for sharing Nancy! We love your creativity in this room.
Thanks for ALL the great and creative tips Nancy.
I love those cabinets. What a great way to incorporate letters in your child's room.
Cool DIY project. I hope I have some cabinets lying around in my attic. Or that I had a mom with a garage full of items I could steal and refurbish.
Keep the DIY tutorials coming. I so so so love them!


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What's new - Jul 2004
We've re-worked the way we display the references and comments at the bottom of the size comparison charts. We have merged the reference list and comments tables into one more readable table.
Another temporal entry, this time "Past Tense".
A few new temporal entries are coming; today, Deep Space Nine's "Little Green Men"
Farewell...
Jerry Goldsmith, the academy award winning composer who created some of Star Trek's most famous music, has died in his sleep aged 75. He will be sorely missed.
Thanks to Franz Hansen, who pointed out that the Xindi-Arboreal character was actually called Jannar.
Thanks to Daniel Butler who pointed out broken links on the Lineage page. These are now fixed.
I've added twenty or so new items to the timeline.
And a new one, the Mercury Redstone rocket. I drew this one myself, I'm quite proud of it!
As part of my recent urge to add real life stuff to the size comp section, I've added the Bell X1. Excuse this time is that it's seen in the Enterprise title sequence. If anybody has drawings of the other stuff in that sequence, by the way, I'd be highly grateful to get them. But photographs are no good for this, it has to be a perfectly side on artist's (or CGI) rendering akin to the other stuff in the size comp section.
I've expanded the Klingon entry somewhat to give a much more comprehensive account of the legends surrounding their origins.
The Scitech section has now been referenced, apart from two entries (Medical Technology and Navigational Deflectors) which are still to be done. This completes the referencing on all major parts of the site. It has taken us the best part of a year to do this but I think you'll agree that it has been well worth the effort.
I've added the Titanic to the size comp section. My excuse is that it was mentioned in Voyager once, though admittedly not seen.
A smattering of people from Voyager season 2 have been added to the Other Personnel pages. A few of the Delta Quadrant species entries have been modified to use the new images as well.
Also, Phil N. told me a long time ago that I was using the same picture for two of the Ferengi. I promised to fix it then forgot all about it until I was looking through some old emails, so a belated thanks to Phil for this one.
New pics for the tri-cobalt device from "Caretaker".
Epguides
Any Epguides page that lists a year for an episode will now link to a timeline for that year.
A new battles page about "Basics". We've included the first part only for now until we get the third season DVD set. Lots of nice pics here, including many shots of Voyager firing multiple phaser beams, Voyager sitting on a planet and other such unusual stuff.
We've spring cleaned the links page and reformatted it in the site table style.
Timeline / Personnel pages
We have now merged the Timeline and events from the Personnel pages into one consistent timeline. This means there are now over 1000 entries in our timeline database. It also means that the personnel pages have a fuller events list for each character. We've also modified the layout of the timeline entries to match the events list on the personnel pages.
And thanks to Stefan Krimmer, who was the first to notice that I'd written "HMS Botany Bay" instead of "HMS Bounty" for the name of Kirk's stolen Bird of Prey.
Several people have pointed out that I had two eps down as the first time Picard orders earl grey from his replicator; Peter Holmqvist was the most recent. Corv2k2000 pointed out that I didn't have Jake Sisko listed in the DS9 cast, Captain Toroca pointed out a mistake in the references on the Regency class page, and Rémi Maloney pointed out a YATI for Trials and Tribble-ations.
70 or so items have been added to the timeline; most are from Enterprise and cover the earlier sections. A further 80 items have had missing references added; the remainder are coming soon.
The alternate timeline ships, listed on the temporal menu, have now been pulled into the database. This means that they now have references like other ships on the site.
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Census Bureau proposes to count incarcerated people in the wrong place once again in 2020 Census, continues to distort democracy
Advocates should make their voices heard to demand a more accurate count
UPDATE: Comment deadline extended to September 1.
The Census Bureau has extended the deadline to submit comments to September 1, 2016, explaining: "Because of the scope of the proposed criteria, and in response to individuals and organizations who have requested more time to review the proposed criteria, the Census Bureau has decided to extend the comment period for an additional 31 days."
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released its proposal on how to implement residence guidelines for the 2020 Census. Ignoring overwhelming public input supporting a change in how incarcerated persons are counted in the Census, the Bureau announced it is leaving in place the inaccurate and outdated practice of counting incarcerated persons as "residents" of the prison location instead of their home communities. Interested stakeholders have until August 1 to submit further comments before this proposal becomes final. In response to this development the Prison Policy Initiative and Demos released the following statement:
Our organizations, and hundreds of allies around the country, are profoundly disappointed by the Census Bureau proposal to again count nearly 2 million people in the wrong place on Census day. Continuing this outdated practice will ensure an inaccurate 2020 Census and another decade of prison gerrymandering.
Counting incarcerated people as if they were "residents" of the correctional facility makes the Census less accurate for everyone: rural and urban communities; incarcerated persons and their families; governmental authorities trying to draw accurate redistricting plans; researchers trying to understand the demographics of local communities.
Peter Wagner, Executive Director of the Prison Policy Initiative, said "The Census Bureau blatantly ignored the overwhelming consensus urging a change in the Census count for incarcerated persons. When the Bureau asked for public comment on its residence rules last year, 96% of the comments regarding residence rules for incarcerated persons urged the Bureau to count incarcerated persons at their home address, which is almost always their legal address. By proposing to once again count incarcerated people as if they were residents of correctional facilities, the Census Bureau has simply disregarded input from the public, redistricting experts, and legislators."
Demos and the Prison Policy Initiative, along with many other civil rights and criminal justice advocates, have long urged the Bureau to update its rules on incarcerated persons. According to Brenda Wright, Vice President of Policy and Legal Strategies at Demos, "The Bureau's proposed rules will perpetuate the distortion of democracy that results from padding the population counts of communities with prisons."
"When state and local officials use the Census Bureau's prison count data attributing 'residence' to the prison," Wright continued, "they give extra representation to the communities that host the prisons and dilute the representation of everyone else. This is harmful to rural communities that contain large prisons, because it seriously distorts redistricting at the local level of county commissions, city councils, and school boards. It also harms urban communities by not crediting them with the incarcerated population whose legal residence never changed."
The Census Bureau defines "usual residence" as the place where a person "eats and sleeps most of the time", but fails to follow that rule when counting incarcerated people. The majority of people incarcerated in Rhode Island, for example, spend less than 100 days in the state's correctional facilities. If the same people were instead spending 100 days in their summer residence, the Bureau would count them at their regular home address. The Census Bureau continues to carve out an unexplained exception for incarcerated people in order to count them in the wrong place.
The Bureau's failure to update its rules regarding incarcerated persons is particularly misguided given that the Bureau decided that other populations – deployed overseas military, and juveniles staying in residential treatment centers – should be counted in their home location even if they are sleeping elsewhere on Census Day. It made these changes even though there were far fewer public comments identifying these issues as causing the magnitude of problems that the public commentary on the prison miscount highlighted.
Counting incarcerated people at the location of the facility reduces the accuracy of Census data about communities of color. For example, because African-Americans and Latinos are disproportionately incarcerated, counting incarcerated people in the wrong location is particularly bad for proper representation of African-American and Latino communities. "The Bureau's counting method means that counties in upstate New York show up as wonderfully diverse in population – solely because there is a large prison in the county," observed Wright. "It is truly disappointing that the Bureau has proposed to sacrifice the accuracy of the Census in a way that so clearly harms communities of color."
The Bureau's failure to update its residence rules is also creating legal problems because federal courts have started to recognize that the Bureau's prison count can result in constitutional violations of one person, one vote requirements. There have already been successful Equal Protection challenges to prison gerrymandering in federal district courts in Jefferson County Florida and Cranston Rhode Island. The Bureau's failure to change the way it counts incarcerated populations will ensure that these constitutional challenges continue into the coming decade.
The sole positive outcome in the Bureau's proposal regarding incarcerated persons is to allow states to request individualized Census counts that reallocate incarcerated populations to their home addresses. This will make it somewhat easier for states to adopt their own legislation to count incarcerated persons in the right location. Four states (California, Delaware, Maryland and New York) have already adopted such reforms, and more should consider doing so now. Wagner pointed out that, "by making this option available, the Bureau is really acknowledging that its own counting rules do not work well for many states – a reality that should have prompted a full overhaul of the current rules on allocating incarcerated population. And people across the country will continue to be at the mercy of an ad hoc approach to equal representation."
Stakeholders interested in a fair and accurate Census count in 2020 should make sure to submit comments to the Bureau by August 1 to explain why it must revise this proposal and count incarcerated persons at home in the 2020 Census.
Related briefings:
Census Bureau will count incarcerated people in the wrong place once again in 2020 Census, continues to distort democracy +
13 United States Senators ask Census Bureau to count incarcerated people at home +
Census Bureau counts Minnesota's incarcerated population in the wrong place; access to democracy distorted +
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Stephan's wanted to be an engineer since he first heard the word.
Creating mechanical designs that fit a client's needs; designing small, tight tolerance assemblies; and working out a product's manufacturing details are his bread and butter. Every day he abides by the credo: Make it simple, make it work.
He learned that philosophy from Otto Henze, founder of Penn Reels, the brand of high-quality fishing reels and tackle where Stephan worked his first job as an engineer. More recently, he designed spinal orthopedic products at Globus Medical, and his experience there enhances our medical design expertise.
Stephan holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. His favorite product is the Brompton folding bicycle, so it should come as no surprise that he likes to spend his spare time bicycling between cafes, bakeries, and home, where he likes to cook, brew, and make things work.
What's your favorite all-time product? Brompton folding bicycle And your second-choice occupation? Smithsonian Institution Security Guard Finish this sentence: Design is ... ... inanimate personality.


A deliciously fragrant curry shared with us by Tenina Holder from Cooking with Tenina. Umami paste can be a difficult ingredient to find, so here is a link to Tenina's recipe so you can make your own. The flavour that umami paste gives this dish makes that recipe worth keeping handy.
Add the cumin seeds (1 tsp), fennel seeds (1 tsp), mustard seeds (1 tsp), mustard powder (1 tsp), paprika (1 tsp), turmeric (2 Tbsp) and sea salt (2 tsp) into a dry frying pan and toast on a high heat until smoking and fragrant. Allow to cool slightly.
Add the spices from Step 1 to the mixer bowl. Program 1 minute / Speed 10.
Add the chopped onion (200g), extra virgin olive oil (20g) and chopped chilli (1) to the bowl. Chop Speed 5 / 5 seconds. Scrape down sides.
Program 8 minutes / Steaming Temperature / Speed 1, measuring cap off.
Add the umami paste (25g) and boiling water (200g) to the bowl. Program 8 minutes / 100C / Speed 3. Set the internal steaming basket on the lid to avoid spatters.
Blend Speed 6 / 30 seconds, measuring cap on.
Add the cubed salmon (500g) to the bowl. Program 2-3 minutes / 100C / Reverse+Stirring Speed, measuring cap on.
*Make your own umami paste with this recipe from Cooking with Tenina.


This Saturday, Coach Bobby Petrino will face his former mentor, Mike Price, who is now the Head Coach of the Texas-El Paso Miners who the Hogs will face on Senior Night in Fayetteville.
Although Coach Bobby Petrino is known for throwing the ball, don't be surprised to see Knile Davis with 200 yards on the ground. The Miners are allowing 163 yards on the ground and 210 through the air.
Two interesting stats for the Miners, in total offense they have only out gained opponents 373.4 to 373 yards per game. The Miners have been out scored 73-50 in the fourth quarter this year.
The Hogs head into this week's game averaging 35.7 points per game and 482.4 yards per game. And with Ryan Mallett averaging 305.7 yards passing per game, you can certainly look for him to eclipse the 3000 yards passing mark, as he sits with 2,752 currently.
Many might wonder about the consistency of the Hogs defense, my suggestion is to look for this game to be well in hand quickly. UTEP has been able to move the ball effectively this season, but not against the likes of a solid SEC defense.
In my opinion, UTEP will struggle to move the ball on the ground against Arkansas' defense, which ranks 26th in the nation. The Miners will in turn have trouble stopping the Hogs 10th ranked offense.
As far as UTEP's running game, the Hogs ranked 68th nationally, have allowed 156.7 yards per game on the ground, that's 8 yards more than UTEP's season average gained, against lesser opponents.
Arkansas currently ranks 11th nationally in pass defense, giving up only 170.2 yards passing per game, which many fans might find shocking based on the Hogs defensive secondary in years past.
I see nothing to suggest that the Hogs will slow down the recent destruction of opponents. Many members of the media, as always, have chalked the Hogs 41-20 thrashing of South Carolina to the fact that South Carolina was looking ahead to the SEC East game with Florida. Surely the Arkansas Razorbacks couldn't come out strong, punch a team in the chops and impose their will on a SEC team.
But if you look back over the past three weeks, you will see a Razorback team that has been building steam, the 38-24 win over Ole Miss, the 49-14 thumping on Vanderbilt and most recently the 41-20 whipping, which was far worse than the score indicated against the SEC East leading South Carolina Gamecocks, these games have shown the Hogs doing pretty much anything they wanted.
In last week's game, the Hogs punted one time. ONE TIME against an SEC team. That punt came with :18 left in the game.
To all the national media members, say what you will, this Arkansas Razorbacks team is accustomed to the lack of respect. With a fan base as great as Hog Nation, the team doesn't need your respect.
The month of November has generally been a time of discontent for Hog fans. Many remember the 2006 team that reeled off 10 wins before the LSU game, lost the next three and ended 10-4 after the Capital One bowl loss to Wisconsin.
This team has a different feel to them. This team has been consistent all year, the only losses were to teams ranked No. 1 at the time. And the Hogs very well could have won against both.
Speaking of No. 1, the No. 1 story in college football right now is the Cam Newton saga.
Did he or Didn't he ?
If any decision is made during the season, it could very well affect the Hogs. How you might ask, simple, if Cam Newton is suspended or ruled ineligible by the NCAA, the Auburn Tigers will definitely take a hit in offensive production. An area that has allowed them to win. Newton easily accounts for 65 percent of the Tigers offense, and if that is taken away, a loss will certainly be looming. For the Hogs to reach a BCS bowl, ideally the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Arkansas needs Auburn to win out.
Arkansas obviously has no hand in this ordeal, all the Hogs can do is keep winning, the legal and NCAA recognized way.


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School of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Social Anthropology
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit Project Collections
Documentation of Kalmyk Cultural Heritage
Dordzhi Nandyshev, About Witches and Other Malevolent Beings
dordzhi_nandyshev_about_witches_and_other_malevolent_beings.mp4 (MPEG-4 video, 647Mb)
Terbish, Baasanjav
Churyumova, Elvira
Babaev, Andrei
Kovaeva, Bair
Terbish, B., & Churyumova, E. (2018). Dordzhi Nandyshev, About Witches and Other Malevolent Beings [Video file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.24017
Dordzhi relays two stories about malevolent beings. Here are his stories: In our clan we had a man who always fought with malevolent forces. We had a kolkhoz in our land. At lunch break that man used to say to his colleagues: 'Hey, men, go out. Something is coming towards me'. Since they all knew about him, they would leave him alone. That man then would make movements as if he was fighting with something invisible. I do not know whether it is true or not, but people say that he fought with a witch. My parents told me that that man beat the witch by pulling off her hair. It turns out that if you pull off hair from the head of a witch and comb it, the witch loses her power. She follows you in order to get her hair back. In the past, not far from Ketchenery there was a Buddhist academy on a hill. My mother said to me that the academy was built in the wrong place. The builders did not listen to a lama who showed them the right place. Because it was in the wrong place, the academy was haunted by malevolent forces that knocked on its walls and produced various sounds. Although lamas read prayers, nothing helped. One day a lama arrived from Tibet. He sat down and started to read prayers. As he was reading, all the evil that had been hiding there crawled out one by one. After a while the same Tibetan lama was again invited to perform a ritual. He said: 'On that road dig 3 triangular holes'. When the holes were ready he sat down nearby and started to read prayers. Evil beings also have their hierarchy, some are inferior, others superior. So, the evil beings came out and started to throw each other into the holes according to seniority. The most powerful evil being threw itself into the hole the last. After that, evil beings did not return.
Ghost stories, witches, malevolent beings, temple, lamas
Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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Multilingual reminders used in COVID tests
NINE Chinese dialects and foreign languages were used to inform residents of Vanke City to take the COVID-19 test at Bantian Subdistrict in Longgang District, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
Multilingual audio reminders in Mandarin, Chinese, Hokkien, Teochew, English, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish provide convenience to residents with diverse backgrounds to participate in the local anti-pandemic work.
As one of Shenzhen's first batch of international blocks and Longgang's only pilot block. Bantian has been home to an increasing number of expats, with about 90 expats currently residing in Vanke City.
In accordance with the latest pandemic prevention and control requirements, all Bantian residents are required to undergo COVID tests for seven consecutive days.
Vanke City thus recruited multilingual volunteers to record audio reminders in different languages and played these recordings via loudspeakers to guide the residents to get tested.
A 45-year-old Japanese resident named Miura Kishin volunteered to record a more accurate version of the Japanese reminder when he took a nucleic acid test at Vanke City on Tuesday. His voice was soon used and heard in every corner of the community.
Kishin, who has been living in Vanke City for six years, said that "I have affection for the place. As a member of the community, I am glad that my voice can pitch in to help fight against COVID-19."
Kishin also gave the thumbs up to Bantian's services to its residents in recent years. "China did the best amid the global combat against the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past two years, I feel safe living here and recently, I take the test every day. Frontline workers and residents are working together throughout the pandemic, which reflects a strong sense of team spirit," he said.
In Dafapu, another community in Bantian, foreign residents also made their contributions. A Serbian family purchased fruits and drinks for medical staffers and volunteers to show their gratitude. "Taking a test every day isn't troublesome. It is the frontliners working from morning till night that are feeling exhausted."
Wan Li, a Vanke City community service worker, thanked residents for understanding and supporting the community and expressed her confidence in Shenzhen citizens' capabilities to win the pandemic battle together.
(Xia Yuanjie)


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Афана́сий Семёнович Бараба́ш (а — ) — советский офицер, участник Великой Отечественной войны, командир 22-го гвардейского отдельного танкового полка 51-й армии 4-го Украинского фронта, гвардии подполковник.

Герой Советского Союза (), полковник запаса (с 1957 года).

Биография
Родился а в селе Процовка, ныне в черте города Ромны Сумской области (Украина), в семье рабочего. Украинец. Член ВКП(б)/КПСС с 1930 года. Рано потеряв отца, подростком пошёл работать, одновременно учился. Окончил школу ФЗУ. В 1929 году, как лучшего работника одного из роменских предприятий, его послали учиться в Москву. В 1932 году окончил индустриальный техникум.

В 1932 году призван в ряды Красной Армии. В 1934 году окончил бронетанковую школу. Затем стал кадровым военным. Сначала был командиром взвода, затем — танковой роты, начальником полковой школы. В 1939 году А. С. Барабаш зачислен слушателем инженерного факультета военно-хозяйственной академии в Харькове.

Участник Великой Отечественной войны с 22 июня 1941 года. Воевал на Западном, Брянском, Сталинградском, Южном, 4-м Украинском, 3-м Прибалтийском, 1-м Белорусском фронтах. Был контужен.

22-й гвардейский отдельный танковый полк (51-я армия, 4-й Украинский фронт) под командованием гвардии подполковника А. С. Барабаша 9 апреля 1944 года, действуя с сивашского плацдарма в Крыму, атаковал позиции гитлеровцев на высоте и во взаимодействии со стрелковыми подразделениями захватил её. За 3 дня боёв прорвал оборону противника на глубину до 80 км. В боях за освобождение Севастополя в мае 1944 года танк командира одним из первых ворвался в город.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 16 мая 1944 года за мужество и отвагу, умелое руководство танковым полком в боях за Крым, гвардии подполковнику Барабашу Афанасию Семёновичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали «Золотая Звезда» (№ 2290).

После войны продолжал службу в Вооруженных Силах. В 1955 году окончил Высшие академические курсы при Военной академии бронетанковых войск. С 1957 года полковник А. Ф. Барабаш — в запасе.

Жил в Киеве (Украина). Работал старшим инженером в одном из научно-исследовательских институтов Киева. Умер 8 сентября 1996 года.

Награды
 Медаль «Золотая Звезда» Героя Советского Союза (№ 2290, 16.05.1944)
 Два ордена Ленина (16.05.1944; 5.11.1954)
 Четыре ордена Красного Знамени (29.06.1943; 6.08.1943; 14.06.1945; 15.11.1950)
 Орден Суворова III степени (8.03.1945)
 Орден Александра Невского (6.10.1943)
 Два ордена Отечественной войны I степени (21.05.1944; 11.03.1985)
 Два ордена Красной Звезды (20.06.1948; …)
 Медали, в том числе:
 Медаль «За боевые заслуги»
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Юбилейная медаль «Двадцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Юбилейная медаль «Тридцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Юбилейная медаль «Сорок лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»

 Польский орден «Крест Храбрых»

Память

 Похоронен на Берковецком кладбище в Киеве.
 В городе Ромны Сумской области (Украина) на Аллее Героев установлен памятный стенд А. С. Барабаша.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

Танкисты Великой Отечественной войны
Похороненные на Берковецком кладбище
Полковники (СССР)

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Activities: 2 hours workshop will be divided into 2 halves, figure drawing tutor Philippe Charmes will lead the drawing, experienced model Linwah will be the host and guest lecturer for the second half of the event. In depth dialogue will be conducted with the models.
活動名額有限,登記後我們會於稍後時間以電郵與你確認結果及付款方法。Places are very limited, We will be in contact through email to confirm your registration status. The payment method please refer to the confirmation email.
*四節被邀請的模特兒嘉賓將不會重覆。 Each session will have a different model.
**活動將不設翻譯,遊走廣東話與英語之間進行。 Event will be conducted in Cantonese and English, no translation.
***活動過程之影像記錄將用於稍後變成展覽接觸更多公眾人士, 以支持及協助480.0性別x藝術空間的性別議題倡議工作。 參加者須同時同意其肖像會出現在展覽上。 Video documentation of the event will be presented as an exhibition in order to reach out for the public audience, and to support 480.0 Gender and Art Space for facilitate work on gender issues. Participant agree their image might be shown in the exhibition by participating this event.


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HACC Celebrates 10th Anniversary with iTunes U
Students across the world have conducted 13,299,400 downloads of HACC's iTunes classes since 2012
HARRISBURG, Pa. – More than a decade ago, HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, joined Apple®'s iTunes U and forever changed the teaching philosophy of Pauline Chow, senior professor of mathematics, and other College faculty pioneers who embraced reaching beyond the classroom to engage learners on a world stage.
From a pioneer in educational podcasts in early 2007 to the launch of full courses and collections in 2012 and the launch of six iOS-device required courses in fall 2015, HACC has been a forerunner in online education in partnership with Apple®'s iTunes U.
HACC offers 28 complete iTunes U courses and 76 academic collections that cover subjects like math, biology, psychology, history, English, astronomy and accounting.
HACC has reached learners across the world in 155 countries including Mexico, Italy, Australia, Russia and India through iTunes U. "English schools are very expensive in Mexico," said Georgina, who took one of HACC's iTunes U courses from her home in Mexico City. "I could not afford school, so when I saw this course, I was excited because I saw an opportunity to learn and practice this incredible language."
A student in California recently emailed Chow with her gratitude: "…I just want to thank you for your materials and videos! I use your course constantly to get a better understanding of calculus. My calculus teacher is an older man (in 70s) [and] his teaching style is very dry. It's basically up to the students to figure out the material; he just reads his notes and even does problems from the book. So, Mrs. Chow, you have been my teacher this whole time! If it wasn't for your videos I'd probably be failing the class. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much."
Dozens of HACC Faculty Embraced Apple®'s iTunes U App Early On
"I personally and repeatedly thank Qiquan (Wang) for his vision in bringing the iTunes U to the faculty in 2007 and his patience in educating and training us," said Chow, who joined HACC in 1984 and now is an adjunct professor in the Virtual Learning program.
Chow and Wang, now the College's coordinator of mobile learning, are among the dozens of HACC faculty who have embraced Apple®'s iTunes U app to provide free online programs and courses to learners around the globe.
A new generation of HACC faculty continue the College's stellar tradition of regularly appearing on the cover of the iTunes U page, which lists the current top downloads.
On Nov. 20, 2017, four of HACC's iTunes courses were among the top 20 listed on the main page of Apple® iTunes U, including Alfred Shia's three English Essentials series of courses and Rob Swatski's new course, "A-Plus Anatomy: The Life of a Cell."
Siha's "English Essentials" series were selected by Apple® as one of the best courses three years in a row:
Best of 2014— English Essentials: Writing
Best of 2015 — English Essentials: Grammar
Best of 2016 — English Essentials: Composition
Siha, assistant professor of English at the York Campus, was named a 2015 HACC President's Award recipient for his efforts in enhancing the College's reputation through his successful creation and pairing of an iTunes U course and iBook, "English Essentials: Writing." Siha's course, which was selected as one of the Top 10 iTunes U courses for 2014, resulted in worldwide course subscription and recognition of the College.
Siha and Swatski are the only community college educators in Pennsylvania to be named Apple® Distinguished Educators. Siha was selected as a member of the Apple® Distinguished Educator Class of 2015, the first time in College history that a HACC faculty member was presented with this honor. Swatski, a science professor at the York Campus, joined the ranks as Apple® Distinguished Educator this year.
Additionally, Siha attended and presented at the 2016 Apple® Distinguished Educator Worldwide Institute in Berlin, Germany, and the 2017 Apple® Distinguished Educator Academy in Houston, Texas.
Content Promotes HACC's Mission
"HACC's iTunes U content promotes the true mission of a community college," said Amy Withrow, associate provost of virtual learning. "It provides access to education for all who seek it."
HACC added iOS-device required classes in fall 2015. Such a class requires each student to have an iPhone and/or iPad that meets the minimum tech specs. HACC currently offers seven such classes that include both face-to-face and online iOS classes.
"To my knowledge, no institution anywhere has an iOS-device required class in which students use their instructors' iTunes U course/collection and iBooks textbooks," said Wang.
"I am passionate about teaching and care about student success in my classroom. Knowing a college student in Iceland or a high school student in Korea can access my course material and succeed in their classes, the thought just gave me goose bumps. Now they can access a complete course, follow the timelines, listen to or watch the lectures, do the homework and take assessments, without setting foot on a physical campus. They can watch the lectures in their pajamas without leaving their home. How cool is that?" Chow wrote in 2012.
Earlier this year, she reflected, "I still remember the day that we were given the iPod for the iTunes U project. … I still remember the morning (in January 2012) that I sat in the car reading the Patriot News with the picture of HACC and five (other) top universities above my first article as a guest columnist. … I am so proud to be the original six HACC faculty who braved the whole new world of podcasting!"
In addition to Chow, the podcasting pioneers were math professors Linda Buckwalter (now retired), Susan Cooper-Nguyen, Jason Rosenberry and Pam Watkins (now retired) and science professor Robert Wagner.
Fact facts:
Qiquan Wang, the records-keeper of HACC's iTunes U stellar accomplishments, notes these milestones:
On Jan. 25, 2007, 32 HACC employees, most of whom were faculty members, started "HACC on iTunes U" pilot that allowed users to download the content for free. Five months later, on June 29, 2007, Apple® introduced the first iPhone.
The number of downloads of HACC's educational podcasts reached 6.5 million in 2011 with 64 podcast available and included subjects like astronomy, mathematics and literature.
On Jan. 19, 2012, Apple® launched its iTunes U Course Manager, iTunes U App and iBooks. HACC is one of the six pilot members to help launch it. The innovation meant that complete programs can be downloaded or viewed with Apple®'s mobile devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) for free. Each noncredit course comes with the instructor bio, catalog description, learning outcomes, table of contents, assessments and timelines for the assigned work at the users' pace. The collections can be downloaded from the iTunes Store in the iTunes app on a Mac or Windows computer. Downloads are free but students do not get college credit for completing them.
On Oct 7, 2013, HACC's Mobile Learning Project kicked off with 23 faculty members working on 20 various projects. This introduced a new cohort of faculty to the iTunes U world and notably broaden the diversity of HACC iTunes U offerings from math and science only to nursing, composition, gerontology, library research, accounting and computer software instruction.
In fall 2015, HACC launched iOS-device required courses. These classes require students to have an iPhone and/or iPad that meets the minimum tech specs for the course. As of spring 2017, HACC has six iOS-device required courses. These courses include both face-to-face and online iOS classes. Students use their own instructors' iTunes U course or collection and the required iBook. HACC is the only known institution in the world to launch iOS-device required classes.
In January 2017, HACC opened the HawkTech Store, an Apple®-authorized repair center, in the Harrisburg Campus Bookstore and online for students at all HACC campuses.
In September 2017, HACC joined a handful of community colleges in the country in partnership with Apple® to offer a new coding curriculum for students. The course is based on Apple®'s "App Development with Swift" program and will make it easy for individuals to learn how to design, code, test and deploy apps. Students who enroll in and successfully complete the program will have marketable skills that can be applied in a variety of job settings.
HACC's iTunes U courses and collections have grown tremendously with 13,299,400 downloads since 2012. The College's iTunes U reach has also grown to include 3,761,662 streams, 6,265,479 visitors and 2,104,009 subscriptions since 2012.
So far in 2017, the number of downloads of HACC's education podcasts has reached a total of 13,299,400 with 76 podcast collections and 28 full courses.
HACC offers seven iOS device (iPhone or iPad) required classes. The subjects cover algebra, astronomy, anatomy and physiology, business writing, college writing, composition and geology.
To view HACC's lists of iTunes U courses and collections, please visit http://www.hacc.edu/iTunesU.cfm
For more information about iTunes U at HACC, please contact Qiquan Wang at 717-780-2592 or qqwang@hacc.edu.
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