I was about to post about Daniel Shiffman's new MPE (Most Pixels Ever) Library, when what should appear in my Processing Blogs subscription, but an extended video showing more of the ITP lab, and The Shiff (first ever rockstar processing nickname? I hope so) himself talking about the project.
Preface: If you love Processing – as we do here at CDMo – then you should already be subscribed to ProcessingBlogs, and have probably already seen this. However it's too cool not to add to our Processing.org tag page. Hence this post.
"Most Pixels Ever" (not to be confused with "Best Pixels Ever") is an open source Java framework for spanning real-time graphics applets/applications across multiple screens. The above video is a quick demonstration of the first prototype. Three client applications on three Mac Pros connect to six 32 inch LCD displays (each Mac has a dual video card, but this could just have easily work with 6 client machines). One of the Macs is also running a server application. The server tells each client about the master pixel dimensions of all the screens combined (here 8160×768). The client keeps track of its own location dimensions (say 2720×768) as well as its location with in master dimensions (say 5040,0). The server keeps everyone in line, making sure that frames are rendered in sync.
We've had a couple of people in the CDM Forums asking about multi-screen projections and video installations. It's a logical progression for advanced projects – there aren't many things which won't look considerably more awesome if spread over multiple screens – but hasn't really been an option thus far in Processing, unless you were to go the hardware multiple-monitor route.
To the video: Tech Trek: Inside ITP (episode 2) (3 minutes).


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Der Europapokal der Landesmeister 1970/71 war die 16. Auflage des Wettbewerbs. 33 Klubmannschaften nahmen teil, darunter 32 Landesmeister der vorangegangenen Saison und mit Feyenoord Rotterdam der Titelverteidiger.

Die Teilnehmer spielten im reinen Pokalmodus mit (bis auf das Finale) Hin- und Rückspielen um die Krone des europäischen Vereinsfußballs. Bei Torgleichstand zählte zunächst die größere Zahl der auswärts erzielten Tore; gab es auch hierbei einen Gleichstand, wurde das Rückspiel verlängert und gegebenenfalls sofort anschließend ein Elfmeterschießen zur Entscheidung ausgetragen. Das Elfmeterschießen wurde in diesem Jahr zum ersten Mal als Entscheidungsbringer ausgewählt und ersetzte den unglücklichen Münzwurf. Ebenso wurde verändert, dass die Auswärtstorregel in allen Runden, und nicht wie bisher nur in den ersten beiden, gelten soll.

Das Finale fand am 2. Juni 1971 im Wembley-Stadion von London vor 83.179 Zuschauern statt.

Vorrunde
Das Hinspiel fand am 18. August, das Rückspiel am 2. September 1970 statt.

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1. Runde
Die Hinspiele fanden am 16. September, die Rückspiele am 22.(Mönchengladbach vs. Larnaka)/30. September 1970 statt.

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2. Runde
Die Hinspiele fanden am 21. Oktober, die Rückspiele am 4./5. November 1970 statt.

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Viertelfinale
Die Hinspiele fanden am 9./10. März, die Rückspiele am 24. März 1971 statt.

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Halbfinale
Die Hinspiele fanden am 14. April, die Rückspiele am 28. April 1971 statt.

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Finale

Beste Torschützen

Eingesetzte Spieler Ajax Amsterdam

Siehe auch
 Europapokal der Pokalsieger 1970/71
 Messestädte-Pokal 1970/71

Weblinks

 Offizielle UEFA-Seite zum Europapokal der Landesmeister 1970/71
 Spieldetails zur Saison 1970/71 bei rsssf.com

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Fußballsaison 1970/71

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In November 2018, Mr Eazi launched his emPawa project to sponsor the videos and music projects of emerging African artistes.
The Nigerian star had said 100 upcoming artistes would receive $3000 each.
J.Derobie, a Ghanaian artiste who is one of the beneficiaries, has released his debut song titled 'Poverty'.


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Andrew Noble, the new British ambassador to Bucharest, who started his assignment in Romania on Tuesday, August 28, announced he adopted a bear from the bear sanctuary in Zarnesti. He named the animal Hansel.
"Although I've been in Romania for a short period, I have already adopted Hansel, a bear from the Zarnesti reserve. I can assure you that when my children return to school in the UK, the fact that a family member lives only in Romania will represent a depth of their relationship," Noble said, local News.ro reported.
After spending three years in Romania, as a member of the British Embassy team in Bucharest between 1983 and 1986, Andrew Noble returned to the country a month ago. First in Iasi, where he improved his Romanian, and then in Bucharest to take over the ambassador position.
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Jordi Gemist Pletó, (en llatí Georgius Gemistus, en grec antic Γεώργιος ὁ Γεμιστός), o també Jordi Pletó (Georgius Pletho, ὁ Πλήθων) va ser un escriptor romà d'Orient que va viure durant una part del  i a la primera meitat del .

Segurament va néixer a Constantinoble però va viure la major part de la seva vida al Peloponès i va tenir un alt càrrec sota l'emperador Manuel II Paleòleg. Li van donar el seu nom (Γεμιστός, o Πλήθων 'ple' o 'abundant') pels grans coneixements que tenia en diverses branques de la ciència. Va ser diputat al concili de Florència de l'any 1438 per part de l'església grega, i va acceptar la unió de les esglésies tal com volia l'emperador, tot i que la unió mai no es va fer efectiva.

Quan va ser a Florència va dirigir l'escola platònica a Occident, escola a la que va atreure diversos deixebles entre ells al cardenal Bessarió i a Cosimo de Mèdici, però no gaire temps després el platonisme va desaparèixer. L'any 1441 exercia altre cop un alt càrrec al Peloponès. La data real de la seva mort és desconeguda, però hom diu que viure uns 100 anys.

Va escriure un nombre sorprenent d'obres científiques, dissertacions, tractats, compilacions sobre diversos temes. Els principals són:
 Ἐκ τῶν Διοδώρου καὶ Πλουτάρχου, περὶ τῶν μετὰ τὴν ἐν Μαντινείᾳ μάχην, ἐν κεφαλαίοις διάληψις, o De Gestis Graecorum post pugnam ad Mantineam Duobus Libris Digesta, diversos extractes d'obres de Diodor de Sicília i de Plutarc.
 Περὶ Εἱμαρμένης, De Fato.
 Περὶ Ἀρετῶν, De Virtutibus.
 Orationes duae de Rebus Peloponnesiacis constituendis, una dirigida a Manuel II Paleòleg i l'altra a Teodor II Paleòleg.
 Περὶ ὧν Ἀριστοτέλης πρὸς Πλάτωνα διαφέρεται, De Platonicae atque Aristotelicae Philosophiae Diferentia.
 Μαγικὰ λογία τῶν ἀπὸ Ζωροάστρου ἐξηγηθέντα. Oracula Magica Zoroastris, un assaig sobre la religió dels antics perses.

A més d'aquestes obres, Gemist va fer extractes de la Ῥωμαϊκά (Ro̱maïká, Història de Roma) d'Apià, sobretot de la part referida a Síria, ja que volia explicar la història dels reis macedonis d'aquell territori. Va resumir la περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία (De historia plantarum, Història de les plantes), de Teofrast i va extractar també la Història dels animals d'Aristòtil. Va fer resums d'obres de Diodor de Sicília sobre els regnes de Mèdia i d'Assíria, de Xenofont, de Dionís d'Halicarnàs, i d'altres autors. Algunes de les obres resumides s'han perdut i només en queden aquests extractes. També va escriure obres sobre retòrica, oracions fúnebres, llibres sobre teoria musical, sobre geografia, com ara una descripció del Peloponès, una geografia de Tessàlia, una obra sobre alguns errors geogràfics d'Estrabó i una traducció llatina de la Geographia de Claudi Ptolemeu.

Referències

Bibliografia
 Enciclopèdia Filosòfica symploke

Filòsofs romans d'Orient
Morts a Grècia
Neoplatònics medievals
Filòsofs constantinopolitans
Escriptors constantinopolitans


Clergy shirts are clothing that priests, pastors or ministers wear as street clothing. These are called "clericals," as opposed to "vestments," which are the clothing worn while conducting an official church ceremony or worship service. Clergy shirts are often thought of as Catholic, but they are Protestant in origin and can be found in many denominations.
In Christianity, priests or pastors wore common clothing in the earliest times. As the Catholic church developed, black was often worn as a symbol of formality and seriousness. When Protestantism started, some groups continued the practice of priestly attire, while others wore the same clothing as everyone else. The clergy shirt itself is Protestant in origin, invented by The Rev. Dr. Donald McLeod of Scotland in the late 1800s. The Catholic church adopted this later.
The clergy shirt is a Clerical, which refers to street clothing worn by members of the clergy. There are two types of clergy shirts: the neckband shirt and the tab-collar shirt. A neckband shirt has no colour, but has a band of cloth around the neck. The clergy collar is attached. The tab-collar shirt has a folded down collar with an opening in front, above the throat, which is where the clergy collar is seen.
Black is the most common colour among Catholics, and is the colour most associated with clergy shirts. In the tropics, some Catholic priests wear white shirts. In Protestant circles, various colours may be worn, and each denomination may have specific rules. The United Methodists, for example, have black as the standard colour and purple or maroon is reserved for bishops. Other colours may be used for street wear, but black is still the most recognisable.
Colours are used to mark various seasons in the church calendar. Clergy shirts may be worn at times instead of the official priestly robe and attire. In general, white is used for baptisms, weddings, funerals and secular holidays. Red is used to commemorate a martyred saint, as well as for ordinations and installation of pastors. Purple is used for services of repentance.
The Craw Blog: Are Clergy Shirts Protestant?
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How to Tell A Startup Story
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A good story attracts customers, talent, and capital. Here's how to write one that works.
If you need a better story for your startup, I promise you'll know exactly how to create one by the end of this post.
Quick background… I spent my first act in big New York ad agencies, and my second in venture-funded startups. The startups needed better tools to tell their stories, and I adapted those from the agencies to help.
The framework evolved, getting simpler as I learned what worked. I've since helped hundreds with this approach, and while not all succeeded, none failed for the reason so many startups do: an inability to communicate their customer value hypothesis in a way that attracts customers, talent, and capital. I've used it at MassChallenge and TechStars for nearly a decade, and taught it at both Harvard and MIT in the past month.
It works. But you know what? I'm sick of doing the workshop.
Instead, I've written this. The rest is up to you (though I'll even tell you toward the end how to get my help.)
Ready? Let's go.
Why a story?
"The best arguments in the world won't change someone's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story." Richard Powers
To be human is to tell stories, and to want them.
What makes human beings special — the primary reason we stand astride the world, lording over the beasts of land, sea, and air — is our ability to tell stories.
If you think that's wrong, read this (it's a book.) If you're just not sure about it, read this (it's short:)
A good story of how your startup helps customers is fundamental to your success. The customers, employees, and investors you need to survive (let alone win) are busy, distracted human beings just like you; caught up in their responsibilities, ailments, grievances, wants, desires, obligations, and imagined victory narratives. To cut through all that you need a well honed machete, and the edge of that machete is a quick story that moves people from where they are to where you need them to be.
Most entrepreneurs figure this out eventually, but even those that do often struggle to create one. One reason is they don't understand what makes a good startup story.
What makes a good startup story?
You need to tell the story of your startup in the form of a simple sentence — sometimes called a Positioning Statement — that explains why it matters in both rational and emotional terms.
Let me explain each of these criteria, so you can keep them in mind as we approach the exercise.
A good startup story starts with Why
Most startup positioning statement are crammed with all manner of marketing cliché ("robust technical platform…"), MBA jargon ("value-added blah blah blah…"), and Silicon Valley bullshit ("mission-driven paradigm shift.") Product-focused founders like to lead with the "What," and technology-focused founders tend to get lost in the "How."
This despite the almost supernatural power of leading with "Why," as explained below in the seminal TED Talk by the brilliant Simon Sinek.
If you've seen it (and if not, please watch it, it's totally worth it) here's my crude distillation for purposes of positioning:
Nobody cares what you're doing, or how you're doing it, until they know why it matters to them.
Again, it's basic human nature. We've evolved to pay attention to what matters, and ignore what doesn't. When two protohumans were walking the savannah 200,000 years ago, one was focused on a butterfly, and the other on a tiger with 14-inch fangs. The former died horribly, and the latter is your very distant relative.
Today, the people whose decisions matter to the survival of your startup are surrounded by butterflies. They're drowning in marketing messages, confronted everywhere by suspect claims of transformative benefit, and buried in requests for what other people need. Relevance is the currency of the realm when it comes to capturing their attention. Leading with Why is like a life hack that makes you the tiger. It communicates that paying attention *is important to them — *not just to you *— *and it's critically important to cutting through the noise being created by everyone else.
Leading with Why draws the attention of exactly the people you can help. Once you have that attention, the challenge is hanging on long enough for them to understand the What and the How as well, and the thing that will keep you from meeting that challenge is complexity.
A good startup story is simple
Complexity creates friction in the absorption of new ideas. To start the flywheel of startup success, you need to minimize that friction with a message simple enough to easily grasp, get excited about, and share. That's harder in some startups than in others, and that's ok. The secret is bringing people along step-by-step, building understanding and interest as you go by being thoughtful about which ideas you share when, and how deep you go at each stage.
Here's a visual to help illustrate the point:
Moving from left to right on this wedge represents a single person's journey in understanding your startup.
The tip is the briefest possible expression of your startup story, and it's where great positioning begins. From there you can go a little deeper, expounding on the story, adding new ideas and information. It make take 15 minutes for your prospect to fully grasp what you're doing, and what makes it so exciting. But you only get there from left to right… not by driving people into the wall of information from right to left.
How do you know if the tip is sharp, if your startup story is simple enough to succeed? One way is to limit yourself (and your team, eventually) to a story you can tell from memory in a few seconds, without notes or needing to refer to slide 17 on your pitch deck. Think of it this way:
You have more riding on your startup than anyone. If you can't hold its story in your head, then no one else will be able to either.
For most people that means a sentence, or maybe even a few words. Doubt you can tell a story in just a few words? Ernest Hemingway was asked about this once at a table of reporters, and said he could tell a story that could make you cry in 6 words. "Nonsense!" they said, and bets were placed.
Hemingway stood, and said:
"Baby shoes for sale. Never used."
Eyes welled, and he drank for free that night.
While you're not going to come up with anything that good, you don't need to. You just need to find a sentence that works to get the right people interested, and Papa already shared the another secret to doing so.
A good startup story is emotional
The third and last thing good startup stories have in common is they operate on the listener in both an emotional and a rational way.
Startup positioning is not an academic exercise. For your story to be effective, it needs to drive the listener to action, to change what they do and not merely what they think. The key to that is changing what they feel, for reasons that are — once again — entirely biological:
Consider reading that one again. I promise it will help.
Back? OK, let's recap…
If you've tried to write that sentence from a blank page, you've probably failed. Even I can't do that, and I've been doing this a long time.
There has to be a better way. And there is.
How do you write your startup story?
The secret to producing a positioning statement that works is breaking it down to its essential elements first. Once you know what those are, you can haggle over each in your own head (or with your own team,) put them down on paper, and then focus on putting the puzzle together from pieces already on the table.
There are other frameworks out there, but this is the one I use, and it's easy. The 6 essential elements of positioning are as follows:
TARGET — actionable universe of buyers
SEGMENT — key, predisposing attribute
BRAND — the name of your company
CATEGORY — a competitive frame for the buyer
DISTINCTION — what makes you unique
PROOF — perceived evidence of truth
Pro Tip #1: If you're doing this exercise as a team, tackle these separately at first, then come together to compare notes. It will surface differences of opinion you can discuss and get aligned on, saving you frustration and grief down the line.
Here's an explanation of each element, and my "Top Ten" tips on how to get them right:
TARGET — An actionable universe of buyers. "Actionable" here means possessing of some externally observable attribute, something that can be identified and targeted by your marketing demand gen program. Examples: Small business owners, C-level executives, Boat owners, Busy women, Students, Travelers.
Pro Tip #2: We're looking for one or two words MAX here. Remember this whole thing needs to be sentence you can hold in your head. If it's hard to do that with just the first step, you're not going to make it.
SEGMENT — A subset of your target possessing of some key, predisposing attribute. Not everyone in the customer target is equally likely to buy what you're selling. What separates those that are from those that aren't? Examples: …focused on saving money, …concerned about growth, …looking to upgrade, …trying to be healthier, …unsure about their major, …afraid of motion sickness.
Pro Tip #3: If you're struggling with this, imagine you were in sales mode, working a cocktail party full of people in your target audience. What question would you be asking guests to determine who was the best person to spend time with, the one most likely to buy? The answer to that question usually points the way to the segment you should focus on, and often evolves to become the focus of the "Discovery" phase in the sales qualification effort.
Pro Tip #4: Remember to think in emotional and not merely rational terms here. Does a likely buyer feel something an unlikely one doesn't? If so, that's PURE GOLD when it comes to positioning.
BRAND — The name of your company. Don't have a name? That's fine. It's rarely a value driver, and always better to come up with one based on the positioning you're working on right now. Example of a great name: Pets.com (epic fail.) Example of a shitty name: Chewy (triple deca-corn.)
CATEGORY — A competitive frame that makes it easier for a buyer to understand what you do. You should pick a category people already understand, then use the same language they use to describe it. Examples: direct-to-consumer clothing brand, online pet supple store, disaster recovery solution, sourcing automation tool.
Pro Tip #5: "But I'm creating a totally new category!" said the first time entrepreneur. "Sucks for you," said smart money.
The role of Category in the flow of positioning is to attach to something the customer already understands, to shortcut the time, effort, and money it takes to put something entirely new in someone else's head. Faster, easier and cheaper to just take something already in there and start with that, THEN focus on how, exactly, you're different (stay tuned.)
Sometimes you need to create a whole new category, and you can. But it's really, really hard:
DISTINCTION — What makes you unique in the eyes of the customer. What sets you apart from category alternatives? If you're doing something fundamentally new, here's the place to claim it. Examples: …lets you recover instantly, …saves you time and money, …that delivers every time.
Pro Tip #6: If there are many customer-relevant things that set you apart from the competition, good for you. If you're selling to a human being and not a housefly, you're going to need to communicate those things one at time, and it's best to do so sequentially from the most important to the least. So which one goes first? That's what you want here, the rest can come once we've secured the target's attention, and (most likely) know more about how they might be relevant (or not) to them. Great positioning is often an exercise in prioritization, more than invention.
Pro Tip #7: Check the web sites of competitors and category alternatives before you pick something as your distinction. If anyone claims the same, keep thinking. If more than one claim some version of it, it's probably table stakes, and customers will discount it immediately.
Remember you can't launch a laundry detergent with "stain fighting power." Everybody claims that, which makes it invisible to people standing in the grocery aisle, trying to figure out which detergent to buy.
PROOF — Last up is proof, which I'll define as perceived evidence of truth your claim of distinction is legitimate. What should you say first to the key segment of your target to get the benefit of the doubt about your distinction in the category they already understand? That's probably the right place to start. Examples: …uses proprietary AI technology, …based on next generation neuroscience, …driven by data and not intuition.
Pro Tip #8: The key word here is "perceived," not "empirical." If likely buyers are convinced enough to keep going, then it's proof for purposes of positioning. If they're not — no matter how big the White Paper you can deliver to prove them wrong — then it's not.
So… the first step in building a good positioning statement is getting agreement on its 6 essential elements:
BRAND — a name you call yourself
Worth noting here that effective positioning is built from the target, back rather than from the product, forward. If you have a product and you're not sure who's going to buy it and why, then you have a science fair project, not a startup.
The cold draft positioning statement
Once you're at this point, it's time to combine the elements, into a sentence that looks like this:
For [TARGET] who are [SEGMENT], [BRAND] provides the [CATEGORY] with [DISTINCTION] because of [PROOF].
You can communicate the value proposition of anything that has one using this simple formula. Example:
For [DRIVERS] [WHO VALUE PERFORMANCE], [BMW] provides [LUXURY VEHICLES] that [DELIVER JOY] through [GERMAN ENGINEERING].
BMW is talking to drivers. The drivers they're interested in are those who rate automotive performance as more important than other qualities (like quality, value, safety, sustainability…) The brand is BMW (shitty name, made powerful through decades of consistent product execution and messaging), and the category is luxury vehicles, meaning cars and SUVs that have stuff you want but don't really need. What separates a BMW from the "luxury vehicles" from Mercedes and Lexus? JOY, actually, specifically the joy of driving, and what makes that possible is German engineering.
Really? German engineering, as the source of joy? In the mind of the marketplace, you bet. Say what you want about those Germans, but people see them as precise people who show up on time and make very good machines (all true,) and that's what makes this proof.
Pro Tip #9: Great positioning doesn't just shape your marketing, it shapes your product. Every aspect of the BMW driving experience is about putting the driver in control, from the buttons on the steering wheel to the sound of the engine. A BMW does whatever its driver tells it do, period. In a Lexus, you can't change the destination on the nav without being in park, or turn off the traction control when you want to. Some people see that as a safety feature, but BMW drivers (like me) see it as a joy bug.
Another example:
For people around the world, Coca-Cola is the soft drink that is the real thing since 1886.
Coke is talking to pretty much everyone, so the core of their positioning is really just two words: real thing. Coke is the real thing, the Mack Daddy, the OG. Pepsi is black sugar water too, almost chemically identical, but it's the choice of a new generation. Totally different.
That's how Coke and Pepsi do battle, decade after decade, in the brand marketplace… as The Real Thing, and The Choice of a New Generation. If you think it's bullshit, I would remind you it's the basis of hundreds of billions in hard dollar market cap, and the reason people around the world decide every day to pay more for Coke than any other soft drink. Who are we to judge?
It's not just consumer brands, it works for "business-to-business" too:
For industrial manufacturers who are challenged to differentiate, BASF is the raw materials supplier that makes products better through engineering depth.
BASF (another terrible name, another massive business) was a chemical company that sold the same molecules and compounds as everyone else, and was facing down big pricing pressure as a result. To differentiate themselves they decided to focus on talking to manufacturers who were also struggling to stand out from competition, those "challenged to differentiate." BASF built a stable of some of the best chemical engineers on the planet, and then set out to help those customers create a sustainable advantage. In time they built a reputation for doing exactly that, and a global behemoth was born.
Pro Tip #10: I hate the "B2C / B2B" distinction. Remember companies don't buy anything. People inside companies decide to buy things, and those people are influenced by the same biological forces at work as they are when they get home.
Here again, BASF's positioning came to life in decades of brilliant and consistent creative execution, some of which you've likely seen:
What's important to understand here is you don't come up with "the creative" (the ad, the tagline, the clever turn of phrase…) first. You start with thinking hard about the elements, THEN assemble a cold draft positioning statement, THEN refine, polish, test, adjust, learn, refine again… executing consistently over time until you find something that really works hard for you.
Sound like a lot of work?
It is. The good news is you'll get value from the effort all along that journey. Creating it will surface important strategic questions, and get your team on the same page. Using it consistently will make your marketing more effective and shape the priorities of your product, reducing friction in attracting capital, talent, and customers. Refining it will mark your progress from what you think you're selling today to what the world actually wants to buy.
In my experience, those are often very different things. Steve Blank sometimes talks about the startup journey as "a process of corrupting your vision with external reality." You can't do that without getting other people to pay attention. And you can't do that without a good story.
Now you know how to tell one. Follow this model, do the work, make your best effort. If you get stuck, ping me for help here, and I'll do my best to get back to you.
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Effect of pulmonary arterial hypertension-specific therapies on health-related quality of life: a systematic review
Chest. 2014 Sep;146(3):686-708. doi: 10.1378/chest.13-2634.
Gilles Rival 1 , Yves Lacasse 2 , Sylvie Martin 2 , Sébastien Bonnet 2 , Steeve Provencher 3
1 Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, QC, Canada; Service de Pneumologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon, Besançon, France.
2 Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, QC, Canada.
3 Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec, QC, Canada. Electronic address: Steve.provencher@criucpq.ulaval.ca.
DOI: 10.1378/chest.13-2634
Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is severely impaired in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We aimed to assess the effect of PAH-specific therapies on HRQoL.
Methods: A literature search was performed in MEDLINE and Embase databases (January 1990 to September 2013) to retrieve prospective placebo-controlled randomized trials of at least 6 weeks duration reporting the effect of PAH-specific therapies on HRQoL in adult patients with PAH. The articles were independently reviewed, and the validity of the trials was assessed using the Cochrane's Risk of Bias Tool.
Results: The literature search identified 1,172 titles. Seventeen articles reporting on 14 trials were retrieved, all of which were associated with a low risk of bias. The median study duration of the different trials was 12 weeks. Most patients had idiopathic PAH or PAH associated with connective tissue disease. A variety of HRQoL questionnaires were used in these trials, and most were generic. HRQoL results were most commonly minimally detailed, and some pivotal trials did not even assess HRQoL. Nevertheless, these trials consistently demonstrated statistically significant improvements in HRQoL with PAH-specific therapies, especially for the physical domains. In most cases, however, these improvements were smaller than the minimal important difference in HRQoL previously reported in PAH.
Conclusion: This review shows that PAH-specific therapies improve HRQoL in PAH. However, it remains difficult to draw any firm conclusion about the clinical significance of these improvements. Further work is mandatory to validate PAH-specific questionnaires that are responsive to clinical changes as well as to establish their interpretability.
Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension / drug therapy*
Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension / psychology*
Quality of Life / psychology*


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allow sysop to grant and remove "flood flag" from users.
Moreover, just like what has been done for zh.wikipedia, please allow the user with flood flag to remove the flood flag by themselves. Thank you.
I sent email to Urbanecm because I sent a patch before self assigned to this task.
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More info on New France
New France: Map
Categories: New France > Colonization of the Americas > 1763 disestablishments > States and territories established in 1663
New France ( ) was the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River , by Jacques Cartier in 1534, to the cession of New France to Spain and Britain in 1763. At its peak in 1712 (before the Treaty of Utrecht), the territory of New France extended from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico . The territory was then divided in five colonies, each with its own administration: Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay , Newfoundland , and Louisiana. The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland colonies, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) as the successor to Acadia.
New France circa.
1750 with provinces marked in shades of green.
Pastel green: Lower Louisiana, Light green:Upper Louisiana, Luminous green, Upper Country of Louisiana, Olive:Acadia, Dark green:Canada
Around 1523, the Italian navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano convinced the king, Francis I, to commission an expedition to find a western route to Cathay (China). Late that year, Verrazzano set sail in Dieppe , crossing the Atlantic on a small caravel with 53 men. After exploring the coast of the present-day Carolinas early the following year, he headed north along the coast, eventually anchoring in the Narrows of New York Bay. The first European to discover the site of present-day New York, he named it Nouvelle-Angoulême in honour of the king, the former count of Angoulême . Verrazzano's voyage convinced the king to seek to establish a colony in the newly discovered land. Verrazzano gave the names Francesca and Nova Gallia to that land between New Spain (Mexico) and English Newfoundland.
In 1534, Jacques Cartier planted a cross in the Gaspé Peninsula and claimed the land in the name of King Francis I. It was the first province of New France. However, initial French attempts at settling the region met with failure. French fishing fleets, however, continued to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, making alliances with First Nations that would become important once France began to occupy the land. French merchants soon realized the St. Lawrence region was full of valuable fur-bearing animals, especially the beaver, which was becoming rare in Europe. Eventually, the French crown decided to colonize the territory to secure and expand its influence in America.
Another early French attempt at settlement in North America was Fort Caroline , established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida , in 1564. Intended as a haven for Huguenots, Caroline was founded under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière and Jean Ribault. It was sacked by the Spanish led by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés which then established the settlement of St. Augustine on September 20, 1565.
Acadia and Canada were inhabited by indigenous nomadic Algonquin peoples and sedentary Iroquoian peoples. These lands were full of unexploited and valuable natural riches which attracted all of Europe. By the 1580s, French trading companies had been set up, and ships were contracted to bring back furs. Much of what has transpired between the natives and their European visitors around that time is not known for lack of historical records.
Early attempts at establishing permanent settlements were failures. In 1598, a trading post was established on Sable Island , off the coast of Acadia, but was unsuccessful. In 1600, a trading post was established at Tadoussac , but only five settlers survived the winter. In 1604, a settlement was founded at Île-Saint-Croix on Baie François (Bay of Fundy ) which was moved to Port-Royal in 1605. It was abandoned in 1607, reestablished in 1610, and destroyed in 1613, after which settlers moved to other nearby locations, creating settlements that would collectively be known as Acadia, and the settlers as Acadians.
Map of New France made by Samuel de Champlain in 1612.
In 1608, sponsored by Henry IV, Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec with 28 men, the second permanent French settlement in the colony of Canada. Colonization was slow and difficult. Many settlers died early, because of harsh weather and diseases. In 1630, there were only 103 colonists living in the settlement, but by 1640, the population had reached 355.
Champlain quickly allied himself with the Algonquin and Montagnais peoples in the area, who were at war with the Iroquois. In 1609, Champlain, along with two other French companions, accompanied by his Algonquin, Montagnais and Huron allies, travelled south from the St. Lawrence valley to Lake Champlain , where he participated decisively in a battle against the Iroquois, killing two Iroquois chiefs with the first shot of his harquebus. This military engagement against the Iroquois solidified the position of Champlain with New France's Huron and Algonquin allies, bonds vital to New France in order to keep the fur trade alive. However, for the better part of a century the Iroquois and French would clash in a series of attacks and reprisals. He also arranged to have young French men live with the natives, to learn their language and customs and help the French adapt to life in North America. These men, known as coureurs des bois (such as Étienne Brûlé), extended French influence south and west to the Great Lakes and among the Huron tribes who lived there.
For the first few decades of the colony's existence, the French population numbered only a few hundred, while the English colonies to the south were much more populous and wealthy. Cardinal Richelieu, adviser to Louis XIII, wished to make New France as significant as the English colonies. In 1627, Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates to invest in New France, promising land parcels to hundreds of new settlers and to turn Canada into an important mercantile and farming colony. Champlain was named Governor of New France. Richelieu then forbade non-Roman Catholics from living there. Protestants were required to renounce their faith to establish themselves in New France; many chose instead to move to the English colonies. The Roman Catholic Church, and missionaries such as the Recollets and the Jesuits, became firmly established in the territory. Richelieu also introduced the seigneurial system, a semi-feudal system of farming that remained a characteristic feature of the St. Lawrence valley until the 19th century.
At the same time, however, the English colonies to the south began to raid the St. Lawrence valley, and, in 1629, Quebec itself was captured and held by the British until 1632. Champlain returned to Canada that year, and requested that Sieur de Laviolette found another trading post at Trois-Rivières , which he did in 1634. Champlain died in 1635.
Jesuit missions
The French Catholic Church, which after Champlain's death was the most dominant force in New France, wanted to establish a utopian Christian community in the colony. In 1642, they sponsored a group of settlers, led by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, who founded Ville-Marie, precursor to present-day Montreal , farther up the St. Lawrence. Throughout the 1640s, Jesuit missionaries penetrated the Great Lakes region and converted many of the Huron natives. The missionaries came into conflict with the Iroquois, who frequently attacked Montreal. By 1649, both the Jesuit mission and the Huron society were almost completely destroyed by Iroquois invasions (see Canadian Martyrs).
The transport infrastructure in New France was all but nonexistent, with few roads and canals.The canals would be up to 3 miles long at times and boats were thin and simple. Thus people used the waterways, especially the St. Lawrence River , as the main form of transportation, by canoes. In the winter, when the lakes froze, both the poor and the rich travelled by sleds pulled by dogs or horses. A land transportation system was not developed in the region until the 1830s, when stretches of road were built along the river, and the Rideau Canal project was not completed until 1840.
Royal takeover and attempts to settle
Great Seal of King Louis XIV used in New France after the colony was reformed as a province of France in 1663.
In the 1650s, Montreal still had only a few dozen settlers and a severely underpopulated New France almost fell completely to hostile Iroquois forces. In 1660, settler Adam Dollard des Ormeaux led a Canadian and Huron militia against a much larger Iroquois force; none of the Canadians survived, but they succeeded in turning back the Iroquois invasion. In 1663, New France finally became more secure when Louis XIV made it a royal province. In 1665, he sent a French garrison, the Carignan-Salières Regiment, to Quebec. The government of the colony was reformed along the lines of the government of France, with the Governor General and Intendant subordinate to the Minister of the Marine in France. In 1665, Jean Talon was sent by Minister of the Marine Jean-Baptiste Colbert to New France as the first Intendant. These reforms limited the power of the Bishop of Quebec, who had held the greatest amount of power after the death of Champlain.
Political organization of New France, circa.
The 1666 census of New France was conducted by France's intendant, Jean Talon, in the winter of 1665-1666. It showed a population of 3,215 habitants in New France, many more than there had been only a few decades earlier. But the census showed a great difference in the number of men (2,034) and women (1,181). To strengthen the colony and make it the centre of France's colonial empire, Louis XIV decided to dispatch more than 700 single women, aged between 15 and 30 (known as les filles du roi) to New France. At the same time, marriages with the natives were encouraged and indentured servants, known as engagés, were also sent to New France. One such engagé, Etienne Trudeau, was the ancestor of Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Talon also tried to reform the seigneurial system, forcing the seigneurs to actually reside on their land, and limiting the size of the seigneuries, in an attempt to make more land available to new settlers. These schemes were ultimately unsuccessful. Very few settlers arrived, and the various industries established by Talon did not surpass the importance of the fur trade.
Military conflicts
Map of North America in 1681
Since Henry Hudson had claimed Hudson Bay , and the surrounding lands for England, English colonists had begun expanding their boundaries across what is now the Canadian north beyond the French-held territory of New France. In 1670, with the help of French coureurs des bois, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, the Hudson's Bay Company was established to control the fur trade in all the land that drained into Hudson Bay . This ended the French monopoly on the Canadian fur trade. To compensate, the French extended their territory to the south, and to the west of the American colonies. In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico . He named this territory Louisiana. La Salle attempted to establish the first colony in the new territory in 1685, but inaccurate maps and navigational issues led him to instead establish his colony, Fort Saint Louis, in what is now Texas . The colony was exterminated by disease and Indian attack in 1688.
Map of the New France at its apogee, about 1750.
Although little colonization took place in this part of New France, many strategic forts were built there, under the orders of Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac. Forts were also built in the older portions of New France that had not yet been settled. Many of these forts were garrisoned by the Troupes de la Marine, the only regular soldiers in New France between 1682 and 1755.
In 1689, the English and Iroquois launched a major assault on New France, after many years of small skirmishes throughout the English and French territories. This war, known as King William's War, ended in 1697, but a second war (Queen Anne's War) broke out in 1702. Quebec survived the English invasions of both these wars, and during the wars France seized many of the English Hudson's Bay Company fur trading centres on Hudson Bay including York Factory , which the French renamed Fort Bourbon. However, despite these French military successes, Port Royal and Acadia fell in 1690. In 1713, peace came to New France with the Treaty of Utrecht. Although the treaty turned Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and part of Acadia (peninsular Nova Scotia ) over to Great Britain, France remained in control of Île Royale (Cape Breton Island ), as well as Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island ) and the northern part of Acadia, what is today New Brunswick . Construction of Fortress Louisbourg on Île Royale, a French military stronghold intended to protect the approaches to the St. Lawrence River setttlements, began in 1719.
After the Treaty of Utrecht, New France began to prosper. Industries, such as fishing and farming, that had failed under Talon began to flourish. A "King's Highway" (Chemin du Roy) was built between Montreal and Quebec to encourage faster trade. The shipping industry also flourished as new ports were built and old ones were upgraded. The number of colonists greatly increased, and, by 1720, Canada had become a self-sufficient colony with a population of 24,594 people. The Church, although now less powerful than it had originally been, controlled education and social welfare. These years of peace are often referred to by French Canadians as New France's "Golden Age".
Peace lasted until 1744, when William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts , led an attack on Louisbourg. Both France and New France were unable to relieve the siege, and Louisbourg fell. France attempted to retake the fortress in 1746 but failed. It was returned to France under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, but this did not stop the warfare between the British and French in North America.
Fort Duquesne, located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, guarded the most important strategic location in the west at the time of the Seven Years' War. It was built to insure that the Ohio River valley remained under French control. A small colonial force from Virginia began a fort here but a French force under Sieur de Contrecoeur drove them off in April 1754. New France claimed this as part of their colony and the French were anxious to keep the English from encroaching on it. The French built Fort Duquesne here to serve as a military stronghold and as a base for developing trade and strengthening military alliances with the Aboriginal peoples of the area.
The fight for control over Ohio Country, led to the French and Indian War, begun as the North American phase of the Seven Years' War (which did not technically begin in Europe until 1756). It began with the defeat of a Virginia militia contingent led by Colonel George Washington by the French troupes de la marine in the Ohio valley. As a result of that defeat, the British decided to prepare the conquest of Quebec City, the capital of New France.
In the meantime the French continued to explore westwards and expand their trade alliances with indigenous peoples. Fort de la Corne was built in 1753 by Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne just east of the Saskatchewan River Forks in what is today the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . This was the furthest westward outpost of the French Empire in North America to be established before its fall.
Legal Issues of New France
The principal law of New France was the Coutume de Paris.
Lower Courts or Royal Courts were located in Quebec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal
The chief legal officer of the Royal Courts was the civil and criminal lieutenant general or royal judge
other courts consisted of:
Amirauté - Marine Courts
Officialité - Bishops' Court (civil and criminal)
Court of Appeals were made to the Sovereign Council of New France and Soverign Council of Louisbourg (after 1713)
seigneuries heard minor legal issues
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Province of Acadia
Upper Country Division of Louisiana
Lower Louisiana
Upper Louisiana
Fall and British rule
New France now had over 70,000 inhabitants, a massive increase from earlier in the century, but the British American colonies greatly outnumbered them, with over one million people (including a substantial number of French Huguenots). It was much easier for the British colonists to organize attacks on New France than it was for the French to attack the British. In 1755, General Edward Braddock led an expedition against the French Fort Duquesne , and although they were numerically superior to the French militia and their Indian allies, Braddock's army was routed and Braddock was killed.
In 1758, British forces again captured Louisbourg, allowing them to blockade the entrance to the St. Lawrence River. This proved decisive in the war. In 1759, the British besieged Quebec by sea, and an army under General James Wolfe defeated the French under General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in September. The garrison in Quebec surrendered on September 18, and by the next year New France had been completely conquered by the British after the successful attack on Montreal , which had refused to acknowledge the fall of Canada. The last French governor-general of New France, Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal, surrendered to British Major General Jeffrey Amherst on September 8 1760. France formally ceded Canada to the British in the Treaty of Paris, signed on February 10, 1763.
French culture and religion remained dominant in most of the former territory of New France, until the arrival of British settlers led to the later creation of Upper Canada (today Ontario ) and New Brunswick . The Louisiana Territory, under Spanish control since the end of the Seven Year's War, remained off-limits to settlement from the thirteen American colonies.
Twelve years after the British defeated the French, the American Revolution broke out in Britain's lower thirteen colonies. Many Quebeckers would take part in the war, including Major Clément Gosselin and Admiral Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil. After the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, the Treaty of Versailles in 1783 gave all former British claims in New France below the Great Lakes into the possession of the nascent United States . A Franco-Spanish alliance treaty returned Louisiana to France in 1801, allowing Napoleon Bonaparte to sell it to the United States in 1803. This sale represented the end of the French colonial empire in North America, except for the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon , which are still controlled by France today.
The portions of the former New France that remained under British rule were administered as Upper Canada and Lower Canada, from 1791-1841, and then as the Province of Canada from 1841-1867, when the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 instituted home rule for most of British North America and established French-speaking Quebec (the former Lower Canada) as one of the original provinces of the Confederation of Canada.
The only remnant of the former colonial territory of New France that remains under French control to this day is the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French: Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon), consisting of a group of small islands 25 kilometres (13 nmi) off the coast of Newfoundland , Canada.
New Netherland
Giovanni da Verrazzano
Jean Talon
New France Sovereign Council
A few acres of snow
French colonization of the Americas
French colonial empire
History of Canada
History of Quebec
Codex canadiensis
Illinois Country
French in the United States
Timeline of New France history
List of North American cities founded in chronological order
New Spain
Control and Order in French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758, Andrew John Bayly Johnston, 2001, MSU Press pp. 8-9[2]
http://www.verrazzano.org/en/index2.php?c=viaggioscoperte
Douglas Hunter, God's Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery, Random House of Canada Limited, 2000, pp. 240-242
Choquette, Leslie. Frenchmen into peasants : modernity and tradition in the peopling of French Canada. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-674-32315-7. Translated into French as: De Français à paysans : modernité et tradition dans le peuplement du Canada français. Sillery, Québec : Septentrion, 2001. ISBN 2894481969
Dechêne, Louise. Habitants and merchants in seventeenth-century Montreal. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Translated from French by Liana Vardi.
Eccles, William John. The French in North America 1500-1763. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-87013-484-1.
Greer, Allan. The people of New France. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1997. ISBN 0802078168.
Havard, Gilles et Vidal, Cécile. Histoire de l'Amérique française. Paris : Flammarion, 2003. ISBN 2-08-210045-6.
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Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle-France : the making of French Canada : a cultural history. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-87013-528-7.
Trigger, Bruce. The Children of Aataentsic. A history of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 1976.
Trudel, Marcel. Histoire de la Nouvelle-France. 10 vol., Paris and Montréal, Fides, 1963 to 1999.
Twatio, Bill. Battles Without Borders: Rise and Fall of New France. Ottawa: Esprit de Corps, 2005. ISBN 1895896282
The Virtual Museum of New France, Canadian Museum of Civilization
France In America Bibliothèque nationale de France / Library of Congress site (click on Themes) - text and maps
Chronologie de l'histoire du Québec (French) (List of Governors, Intendants, and Bishops)
New France: 1524-1763
Archives Canada-France. Digitisation project of the national archives of Canada and France
Seven Years War timeline


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It's nice to see confirmation that Cait and Sam are still a unit when it comes to OL (despite the gossip from a certain segment of the fandom). From "in this together" and same pay at the beginning to talking about the writers/keeping the story/characters on point to directing & the niceness of having time off … it certainly seems like they spend their time talking these issues and have the same goals. It's nice to see 5 years in. And often happen with co-leads.
Yes, everything of importance about the show growth and continuity she used WE. And even with what other things they would like to do, she used WE.
It does often happen with co-leads in terms of their protection of the show. But it also happens with co-leads who are co-leads in real life too.
Always the … grateful, kind.
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The HFPA certainly DID let Sam down as Jenny said. What a pity they couldn't give him a nod for his stellar performance. He certainly deserves recognition and accolades.
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I agree with you on your Outlander opinions. I've only just started reading Drums, and it's so frustrating! Bree's rape in these eps has been hard to watch too. Thanks for being a breath of fresh air! I explained Outlander to a friend today… "It's trash…but I still read/watch? At least I know it's trash??"
Outlander brings together Brianna, Jamie, and Claire for a complex reunion
Outlander brings together Brianna, Jamie, and Claire for a complex reunion:
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Outlander over-relies on sexual assault as a plot device. I say that as someone who has praised its depictions of trauma aftermath many times before and as someone who's about to praise its depiction of trauma aftermath in this very episode. Yes, "The Birds & The Bees" does technically portray the psychological effects of Brianna's assault with depth, empathy, and attention to detail. But that doesn't negate the fact that the way this rape unfolded in the first place is frustrating storytelling. It speaks volumes that this episode is the most in-depth character work that has ever been done with Brianna, so her arc hasn't just been affected by the assault; it hinges on it.
Especially now that it turns out Brianna is pregnant and her rapist Stephen Bonnet is likely the father, this character and her narrative on the show seems largely forged by this horrific event. Even without showing the assault last week, Outlander seems guilty of the kind of trauma porn that often infests fantasy series (Game Of Thrones being one of the biggest offenders).
Brianna talking to Claire about the assault is devastating, and Skelton and Caitriona Balfe are powerful in their performances. Claire's conversation with Jamie about it is moving, too, especially knowing that Jamie is a survivor of rape as well. Still, to define Brianna's arc so much by this assault is a troubling story choice and one that makes it hard to believe "The Birds & The Bees" could ever really work. There's good stuff in here, but the reason we're here in the first place is frustrating.
And it's made even more frustrating at episode's end when Lizzie pulls an Atonement and mistakenly identifies Roger, who has made it to the mountains of North Carolina in search of Fraser's Ridge, as Brianna's attacker to Jamie. Without hesitation and without any kind of communication with Brianna, he takes justice into his own hands and beats the crap out of Roger before throwing him over a horse and sending him off into the woods to rot. It only reiterates that this sexual assault is being exploited as plot device, creating more conflict like an issue of mistaken identity. Is this really about Brianna and her recovery from trauma? Or is it conflict for the sake of conflict? A lot more thoughtful character work needs to go into the writing of Brianna for Outlander to really overcome this.
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Ok maybe I'm a bit bit crazy but let's be honest, being wrapped up in a tortilla is hands down the coolest thing you can do in 2019. Move over sliced bread, this tortilla has a bigger purpose.
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On Asian "accents"
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It started when I was in kindergarten, and I was so proud I did not have to go to Bingo class, unlike my friends, because I could speak good English -
although I had no idea what a yellow dog that could spell had anything to do with Chinese.
(I figure out now that it was probably called Bilingual class)
I am lucky. I speak the fluent, accentless English of newscasters, the dialect spoken by the children of immigrants, that we learned not from our parents but rather from watching Sesame Street and other things on tv.
Last year, a white facebook friend of mine posted, "In order to celebrate Chinese New Year, me talk rike chinese man arr day."
And then told me that she was "sorry I was offended" and "she didn't mean anything by it" when I (nicely, sweetly) told her that that shit was not okay. She said that she saw it the same as doing an accent, like Irish. Or British. Or Italian. (for bonus points, she even said that she has lots of Asian co-workers and friends, and LOVES Asian people, and so is not a racist.)
And when one of my white friends gets drunk, he thinks his "Asian accent" is hilarious.
And I was told by a coworker about the time my Asian coworker mispronounced "Barroway" as "Bwawwoway" and how hilarious it was.
Here's the thing - can you guess how many Asian people I know who actually say
me rikey
me from _____
me so solly
(or, if you like, the fetishized versions: me so horny, me love you long time)
if you said ZERO, then ding ding ding! Congratulations, you have working brain cells.
No, my misguided fb friend, the "Asian accent" is not an actual imitation of an accent, comparable to your bad British/Irish/Italian - but rather a mockery of Asian people and their supposed inability to speak English. It is the perpetuation of the image of Asian people as perpetual foreigners in America.
Like that time when my family was at an Italian restaurant, and we were speaking to my father in Cantonese, and a drunken white lady said very loudly, "GOD when you come to this country at least learn the language!"
Or when my father was pulled over for speeding, and although he said "what's the problem, officer?" the first thing the state trooper said was, "Do you speak English?"
Your fake "Asian accents" are not harmless and silly, because at the root of the joke, it says - you, you are stupid. You cannot speak English. You are Other. You do not belong.
my parents have been in this country for 30 years. They have been American citizens for 30 years.
And they are very self-conscious of their imperfect English, afraid that it makes them look ignorant, knowing that it marks them as immigrants. That, after 30 years, you can still be told (in not so many words) that you do not belong.
The Cultural Revolution started in China when my father was 13. He was pulled out of school and, later, sent to work in the fields. (He escaped to Hong Kong when he was 18, but that is another story for another time.)
When my father came to this country, he had a middle school education and did not speak a lick of English. He worked as a busboy at a Chinese restaurant, the evening shift that ran until 3 or 4 in the morning, and went to school during the day.
It took my father ten years to earn his bachelor's degree. He is now an engineer.
Is this not your "American Dream?"
When my mother came to this country, she spoke very little English. She got a job as an entry level clerk. Over the years she earned one promotion after another. She is now management at a large federal agency, and manages funds for the whole state.
And my father didn't understand why his coworkers said, "flied lice, flied lice!" to him over and over and laughed.
And my father is still afraid to speak in a professional setting, even when he has ideas.
And my mother still checks and double checks her professional e-mails with me, for fear of mockery from the same people she manages.
And people don't understand why I can't take a harmless joke. Why I don't think that shit is funny.
No, I don't "rikey."
No, I won't "love you long time."
And no, I'm not sorry.
So, please, kindly - FUCK OFF.
Reblogging this for, like, the fiftieth time because it has never stopped being relevant to my life and it always, always breaks my heart.
It's not funny. It's not okay. It's not harmless. It's alienating and hurtful.
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Scriptura sacra je golemi kodeks pisan na pergamentu veličine 37×53,8 cm karolinškom minuskulom u dva stupca, dok su rubrike pisane kapitalom. Kodeks je nekada imao 372 lista, a danas je sačuvan samo 91 list. Pisao ga je fra Dominicus de Tragurio. U kodeksu ima manjih inicijala, pažljivo crtanih crvenom bojom što se ne bi moglo reći za veće inicijale koji nisu tako pažljivo izvedeni. Čuva se u Šibeniku, u samostanu Svetog Frane.

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See by Chloe wins for style & quality. I like the cork foot bed. Both the plain & metallic leathers look gorgeous. The shine on the BR version is more muted, but the strap looks more ankle friendly. And of course BR wins for price.
Thank you for posting GiGi! I tried both and actually preferred the more muted BR version. The cork footbed of the Chloe is cool but once you wear it you can't really tell and I don't know if the cork is more comfortable on the foot than the leather. I just thought that the BR was a great alternative for the same look.
I like the colors in these sandals. I wish I could wear sandals everywhere. They are perfect for me in most situations. The only time I don't like wearing them is when it's rainy or I'm going hiking.
In those situations it just isn't practical. That's when I rely on a trusty pair of sneakers to protect my feet from the elements and give them the right support.


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Q: How do I got back to my original Git clone? So I git cloned a repo and wasn't thinking at the time so I didn't make a git branch. I made a lot of changes and don't really need to keep them and at this point I just want the latest stuff from the remote repo. Is there a way I can git merge and now have to deal with the diffs that will show up between the latest remote repo and the changes I've made to master? I just want the latest remote repo master and nothing else.

A: git checkout master
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master

You can also use git branch -D <branch name> to delete any extra branches you don't need.

A: You could delete and changes not committed
git reset --hard

And then pull the new stuff
git pull

A: It depends on whether you've committed them:
Yes, I committed my changes
You can simply pull using the --rebase argument, which will apply all commits from the remote before your own commits (or try to at least):
git pull --rebase origin master

No, I haven't committed my changes yet
In this case you'd want to utilize the stash command, which takes your unstaged changes and saves them away from the working directory. You can apply them again afterwards:
git stash
git pull origin master
git stash pop
# merge any conflicts

I don't care about my changes
Your question suggests two approached - one: save my local changes and apply them over the updated master (see above), two: don't care about my local changes and just reset to origin. In this case, a simple reset will do:
git fetch
git reset --hard origin/master

A: If you already committed those undesired changes you should check for the last commit from the upstream using git log and continue by resetting to this point with git reset --hard <HASH>.
In case you did not already fetch the latest from the upstream git reset --hard origin/master would be even easier.
An even quicker (and dirtier) solution would be so simply delete your directory and clone again - yet not recommended.

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Old Dominion Vegas Memories
This week's countdown with Old Dominion was recorded in Las Vegas during ACM weekend. The band won their second straight ACM Group of the Year Award. While there, they each had some fun. Trevor did some gambling, Brad played golf. Matt had roast duck at an Asian restaurant.
But Geoff told Lon he has a rather unique custom: "I have a tradition where every time I'm in Vegas, I get a bubble bath." Then Matt quizzed Geoff on his methods: "Here's the thing. Where does he get the bubbles? Do you have Mr. Bubble? Walk us through. If I walked in on you, would you feel the need to cover up? Because if you do, it's not a bubble bath," "Alright. I'll up my bubble bath game for you."
Rodney Atkins has a song in the Top 30, and Matt & Geoff recalled they once made a brief appearance in one of Rodney's videos: "He has this song called 'It's America,' and they were looking for someone to play a rock band, and I was working with his manager. I even made one of the props for the video. Our whole part lasted 4 seconds. It didn't pay a lot, but whatever it was, it was a big deal at the time."
Drummer Whit Sellers told Lon a story about Randy Houser: "My first Nashville job was playing drums for Randy Houser. I told them when I accepted the job that I had a vacation scheduled while the band was on a run. They told me it was OK. So I go to Montana, in an area where there was bad cell service. At some point, they tried to call me to say I was fired, but they couldn't get a hold of me. Until one day, I clim
bed up on top of a mountain, and my phone came to life. I get a bunch of messages from his tour manager, and they're getting progressively less nice, until finally, they say, 'We have to make a change, we gotta let you go, bye.' I took it pretty well."
"Make It Sweet" is the first single from the band's third album. Lon asked if it's done yet. Matt answered: "Just finished it. This week we got the masters back and turned it in to the label." When will we hear it? "I'd like you to hear it now. But I can say for sure by the end of the year, we'll have the album out."
This week's #1 song is "One That Got Away" by Michael Ray. The song was written by OD's Matt & Trevor, who told Lon, "Awesome, we wrote it years ago, we almost cut it for our second album, and then gave it to Michael." Michael & the band got together Saturday night before the awards show to celebrate the #1 song.
Old Dominion also has great stories this week about Kenny Chesney, Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett, Maren Morris, and Mitchell Tenpenny.
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If, like me, your knowledge on the subject of ambergris could sit neatly on the head of a pin, then molecular biologist and scientific columnist Christopher Kemp may have written the book just for you. 'Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris' offers a comprehensive guide to one of perfumery's most rare and mysterious materials. A material that, unlike any other, must take a long voyage across wide oceans before the chance and pure luck of discovery allows its secrets to be unlocked.
Christopher Kemp presents an ode to ambergris and covers in rich detail the history and purpose of a material so unassuming in appearance that one could overlook it as nothing more than your average beach debris. But Floating Gold isn't just about the history of ambergris, it is about the search, the hunt for something so rare that for thousands of years human beings have gone to extraordinary lengths to obtain it.
This search dates back thousands of years to the times where ocean voyage was awash with danger and plagued by violent sea-hardened criminals who plundered the ocean waves for the substance that was worth as much as, and perhaps even three times more than gold. Kemp also acts as tour-guide on his personal and somewhat less historic search for ambergris, a search that has him trawling untidy beaches and looking to the ocean for unusual, out of place areas of calm water.
US born Kemp, who lived temporarily in New Zealand, began his own search as the result of an incident that took place in 2008, that sparked his curiosity.
"On Saturday, September 20, 2008, the excitement was beginning to grow on Breaker Bay, near Wellington, New Zealand...a crowd had gathered to investigate a strange object that had washed up ashore during the night. It was large...and weighed and estimated thousand pounds or more. No one had seen it arrive. It was just there on the sand." As more and more people arrived to see the curiosity, news channels started appearing.
"As a scientist, I'm used to being able to access information when I want it. From my desk I can download millions of scientific articles with the click of a mouse. When I first heard about the mysterious object on Breaker bay, I went online and immediately, thinking I'd learn everything I needed to know about ambergris in a few minutes. But I failed. In fact to begin with I found almost no useful information at all – just a handful of esoteric scientific papers and medical textbooks, most of them published in the 18th century. They were full of contradictions and inconsistencies." It was obviously the scientist in Kemp that decided to put this right.
The story of ambergris starts with the Sperm Whale, a beast that is as mysterious as the precious amber that it emits. This humble creature with its four stomachs feeds on thousands of squid, digesting everything but their mouthparts or 'beaks', eye lenses and pens (a hard "quill like" internal organ). Kemp dispels the myth that ambergris is nothing more than whale vomit, for there are a number of "complex pathologies" required for ambergris to form, he explains: "occasionally, the mass of squid beaks and pens make its way through each of the whale's four cavernous stomachs and into its looping convoluted intestines. Once there, it can become ambergris." The rarity of such a process contributes to the myth of ambergris.
But the Sperm Whale is only half of the ambergris story, for once it is unleashed into the ocean the "black and viscous" material must make a voyage across a vast body of ocean before it fully develops into the substance that we know to be ambergris. As Kemp puts it "this journey cannot be substituted" for the years rolling around in the surf and baking in the sun are essential for developing the odour, an odour that canlast for up to 300 years.
Left: Anton van Helden, marine mammals collection manager at Te Papa, with a large piece of ambergris in the museum collection. Right: Mike Hilton, in his office, with several pieces of Stewart Island ambergris.
Coming in at low tide to land on Doughboy Bay, on the remote west coast of Stewart Island.
A piece of ambergris, in Department of Conservation ranger Simon Taylor's hand, which had washed ashore on Doughboy Bay.
A piece of ambergris weighing almost two-and-a-half pounds in the Auckland War Memorial Museum collection, found at Ruapuke Beach, near Raglan in February, 1992.
Ambergris collected by J. Henry Blake and donated to the Department of Mammalogy, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The history and science of ambergris aren't the only key themes in the book, Kemp's personal search for ambergris plays a predominant part and it takes him across miles and miles of beach, leads him to finders, traders, beach mafias and key players within the international perfume industry. His struggle to find ambergris is evenly matched with his struggle to get information from people involved with ambergris, the trade of which is still very much a secretive world and the citizens of this world know the importance of keeping silent. You cannot help but root for him along the way.
The answers found by Kemp seem to be - 'it depends who you ask'. Chandler Burr will tell you 'no', but one international trader will tell you that the big houses, including Guerlain and Chanel, still buy and use the top notch grade of ambergris and are "very selective". The contradiction of information relating to the subject can be staggering at times but Kemp does well to inform the reader in a clear and totally matter-of-fact way that leaves no room for confusion.
Floating Gold details all you ever need to know about ambergris and more. It is an insightful and incredibly factual piece that covers the history, value and use of one of the most mythical substances known to man. As informative as it is, it can make for quite dry read and the author's passion can sometimes be stifled by the sheer heft of the facts, but that is a minor niggle in what can be considered a fascinating and comprehensive guide.
Despite the occasional pitfall, 'Floating Gold' is a worthwhile read and will appeal to those who have a keen interest in the ingredients that go into the perfumes that they love and wear. It will also make essential reading for any would-be perfumer or anyone with a keen interest in the natural (and unnatural) materials that make up the perfumers palette. Let's hope that 'Floating Gold' inspires others to put pen to paper and write about other key perfume materials.
I whole-heartedly agree with you Thomas; this book was fascinating to anyone interested in this mysterious substance, either due to perfumery, gastronomy, history or biology. I loved every minute of reading it, and Mr. Kemp's honest attempts to search out the truth of it all was completely compelling. This is a real gem of a book and long awaited by many.
Interesting article. Would like to read the book, love ambergris.
I cuddled up with this book in bed and fell in love, or obsession, with ambergris. I dream about it now.
It took me on a journey, and balanced personal story with history and science, perfectly.
It will continue to live on my ipad/kindle app so that I can bring up the pictures while strolling on every beach for the rest of my life. I long to smell the real thing now more than ever. Lovely book.
Will wait to read this until I buy this the week after next! Can't wait for it, and also to meet Mr. Kemp at his book release!
Wow. KarmaLee and Nymphaea, those reviews are too kind. Having said that, if any of you have read the book and enjoyed it, and bought it from our evil overlord Amazon, be sure to post a review. I'm sure it helps!
very interesting article. i was sure before this that natural ambergris is not being used anymore by any of the big perfume houses or independent perfumiers due to restrictions and/or price.
I've had this on my Wish List for a while, but I totally forgot about it. Thanks for the nudge; I must order it now.
And thanks also for an enjoyable review!
I will go do that! I did buy mine from Amazon!
I am going to buy this book!
Have just received my copy and can't wait to dive in! [Edit] And dive in I did! I had a chance to read the first few pages, and am hooked. If I didn't have to put the book down to meet various deadlines, I would still be reading. I really like your personal yet deeply informed approach, your style, your voice. I look forward to reading the whole thing.
Did you eventually pry open that strong door? Well, if not, I can't imagine you'd fit it, anyway. Considering the clearly-magical orb was only football-sized.
I don't know about y'all, but I want some of that Nicolai whale perfume.
Great review. I bought my copy a couple of weeks ago (from The Book Depository rather than the evil overlord . . .) and it's been waiting until I get to the end of Charles Sell's The Chemistry of Fragrances to be read: I'm now even more impatient to get to it! Thanks.


The first thing that happened was Matthew's doctor appointment. I've talked about his dentist and how much we love her before. We still do.
Matthew needed to have a tooth fixed and the dentist wanted to get some good xrays. In the past anything beyond a gentle cleaning involved general anesthesia. She wanted to try a less involved sedation so we arrived early in the morning and she gave him some concoction that would relax him. It relaxed him, but not enough so a second dose was given. After more wait time we took Matthew into the room. He was relaxed but fear is mighty powerful and the poor guy used all his strength to keep from lying back in the chair. I was sure the dentist would call it quits but with four of us talking and holding his octopus-like arms, legs, and head we persevered. Matthew now has a shiny new tooth that he'll gladly show you (he doesn't remember being scared–thankfully). But as I was laying across his legs gripping his arms with the bright dentist light shining in the general direction of his face I thought, at that moment, Matthew was the center of my universe.
The second interesting thing happened on Friday when I went in for chemo. In the chair next to me was a younger woman and in the chair next to her was her sister. Each was diagnosed with a different kind of cancer one day apart last year. Both had metastasized and spread already. The sister who was closest to me leaned over and whispered how her sis nearly died several times last year. This woman, while undergoing her own surgery and therapy, managed to become caregiver for her sibling. They talked to me and assured me that all tests showed they were both beating their cancers. And as they talked I was struck by how each talked about the other, holding each other up. They were too busy worrying about and taking care of each other to become self-centered.
My own detours in the road seem minor today. Both of these incidents reminded me how much easier life's challenges are when you focus on the needs of others. Today I'm going to make a list of how I can help someone else and then go forward.