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#Alibaba #Singapore #DAMO#AI #Jeff Zhang #smart homes #research & development #Nanyang Technological University
Alibaba to open first joint research centre in Singapore with Nanyang Technological University
|Mar 1| 6 min read
Alibaba is opening a research centre in Singapore in partnership with Nanyang Technological University.
This will be Alibaba's first research facility in Singapore. The tech giant signed a memorandum of understanding at the university campus this week.
The amount of funding used for the research facility has not been disclosed but it will form part of the $15bn DAMO R&D fund Alibaba set up last year, and Alibaba has confirmed the partnership will be worth millions of dollars.
The facility will aim to research and develop AI technology to apply to transport and city planning, healthcare and smart homes.
It will initially involve 50 researchers from Alibaba and the university.
Alibaba has also expressed it wants to open its own DAMO facility independently in Sinfapore in the future.
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The DAMO fund is a new research institute developed by Alibaba called the "Academy for Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook" which is set to include seven new research labs and involved $15bn R&D spending over the next seven years. Aside from Singapore, DAMO plans to develop labs in China, the US, Russia and Israel.
This has marked a huge increase of spending on R&D for Alibaba, which in 2017 spend a total of $2.6bn on product development.
This is not Alibaba's only planned partnership with a university and it already has an academic advisory board including professors from Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Washington, Beijing Institute of Technology and Peking University.
Jeff Zhang, Alibaba's CTO, has said according to Straits Times that the lab will more specifically look into the diagnosis and prevention of diseased like arthritis and tuberculosis, investigating the possibility to analyse people's daily activities using AI in order to detect problems.
Zhang has added that Singapore is a "natural base" as it is Alibaba's regional base for Southeast Asia, and also has a multilingual population and strong research tradition.

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WARSAW, Ind. (WNDU) - Young minds and fast robots are hard at work at Sacred Heart School in Warsaw.
"I do like to build the robots, because it's very fun and it does help me with my engineering skills a lot," sixth-grader Daniel Quezada said.
Thanks to a new curriculum, there are all kinds of new engineering options to learn.
"The teachers were really fortunate to have a workshop to learn how to teach engineering late fall, but we don't have the physical materials to be able to carry that out," resource teacher Andrea Komorowski said.
Thanks to Martin's Super Markets' One School at a Time $1,000 grant, the school will be able to buy project kits for the engineering classes.
It's also a big deal for the community. After all, Warsaw is known for its bio-medical engineering industry.
"Now, we're starting to teach our students with these engineering units with how to be a productive member of our local community," Komorowski said.
"It's very exciting when we get a big donation like this," Quezada said.
Other students are looking forward to hands-on projects.
"I don't like it like school work-like school, but I like it in ways that it's fun," sixth-grader Alex Pfefferkorn said.
If you want to nominate your school for a One School at a Time grant from Martin's Super Markets, you can find a registration form by clicking this link.


There's a lot of story to tell, too much to try to share tonight.
But before I post a few sketches, I will share quickly some memories: my exhilarating polar swim in the Irish Sea on New Year's Day; seeing the Quadrantid Meteor showers on my birthday night while wrapped in many layers and sitting on the front lawn of our cottage on Whitesands Bay; with the help of a traveling professional astronomer on the same birthday night, seeing nebulae, a galaxy, the Milky Way in bright form, many constellations, the fuzzy green comet 46P/Wirtanen; at Evensong of the first Sunday of Christmas at St Davids Cathedral sitting in the choir stalls with choir and clergy, hearing hymns and the liturgy in both Welsh and English.
I walked and walked and walked and walked some more until my heart was overspilling. My husband and I slept deeply in that quiet, safe, numinous place.
It's been another rough re-entry to real life (like the one from Norway last year) but I have several paintings going, a few from before the trip, but several newly started ones, all inspired by Wales. This circular and multi-pronged approach has me nudging each one along until I finish one, then another, then two more, etc. I'm happy in the studio.
So, sketches, just a few. I spent more time being, being outside, walking, resting, being with my husband, taking it all in.
Looking out over the Irish Sea to Ramsey Island and beyond, from the warmth of our cottage by the sea. This is white marker and pencil on brown paper. In real life, the sketch goes across the gutter of the sketchbook, making a double spread. I will add the other side later.
Brush pen sketch made on site at Whitesands Bay, color added later. These rocks and the ones below are old friends. They figured in the 12' long concertina sketchbook I made in May 2017, part of my Caledonian Orogeny project!
The first thing I bought on New Year's Eve day were two votive candles and holders. With these and the wood fire burning in our cottage living room, we had light and warmth.
After the polar swim on New Year's Day, I was cold and starving, so David and I repaired to our favorite St Davids café at Oriel y Parc and had lunch. I drew the family at the next table.
Sketch of St Davids Head, made standing on Whitesands Beach in the cold and wind. This and the one above are roughly and quickly drawn (the cold! the wind!), with color added later.
I'll be staying at home more this year, finishing paintings, being with family and friends, walking and trying to get more sleep! Wales spoiled me in that way and in so many others.
A tardy, but very Happy New Year's greeting to you!
Summer heat has cast a pernicious spell on me, it's clear, but the winds are changing, the light is changing, and, finally unwilting, so am I. Weather aside, reentry to normal life has been very difficult after such an exalted and inspiring time in Norway.
My chief reason for going on this trip was in pursuit of my Places Project, to see and draw another vestige from the Caledonian Orogeny, circa 450-250 MYA. I had fewer days to do this than I had for my first two drawings, made in Wales, one in Pembrokeshire, one on Anglesey.
The accordion sketchbook I drew in here was custom made for me by book artist friend Josh Hockensmith. It is 10 1/2' long when stretched to its full length and each page is bigger than those in the Seawhite of Brighton concertina books I used in my first two drawings. The paper is ivory and slightly toothed, not white and smooth, and so the resulting drawing has a slightly different look from the first two.
The rocks I drew were very different, too. The rocks in Wales were faceted, sharp, angular, with mostly smooth surfaces. The rocks in Norway were flowing, textured, and multi-colored in shades of grays, ochres, some siennas and subtle blues. These outcrops will lend themselves to later studio pieces, some collages, some linocuts, perhaps, and I am looking forward to seeing what will emerge!
In between my days of Caledonian Orogeny drawing, I sketched, as you will have seen in my last post. Here are some miscellaneous moments, caught in my sketchbook. On a remote island in the Barents Sea, magenta saxifrage grew improbably and brashly between rocks in the tundra.
Later, in the Lofotens, I drew another view of the majestic Olstind mountain, seen from our cabin near Reine.
My husband and I love Bergen and it was in Bergen that I had this delicious vitello tonnato dish for lunch at a café near the Kode Museums. Note the candle, lit in the middle of the day in sunny, summery Bergen. This is one of the things I love about Scandinavia, the use of candles, a profound celebration of light, at all times of the year, at all times of the day, in the Polar Night or in the time of the Midnight Sun. I have taken this to my heart and I do the same thing in our home in North Carolina.
The second is an example of What I Did for Love, a snowy owl painting requested by my four-year-old grandson Miles. I have two more requested owlish pieces to finish, but I am returning to Norway in the studio in the next days, too.
I won't wait so long to post again. Soon I am taking a shortish trip with two dear friends to Yorkshire, not on the trail of the Caledonian Orogeny. The main focus will be to spend time with my friends in the birthplace and childhood region of one of them. Though I have lived and traveled widely in the UK, I have never been to Yorkshire. It turns out that my long-ago ancestors from Norway, settled in Yorkshire (coincidentally near where we will be), before much later emigrating to the US, so I will be, in some small way, returning home. Who knew??? See you soon!
Well, those were three glorious weeks! My Inner Adventurer emerged big time, much to my delight! i'm still crowing with pleasure and pride over kayaking in polar waters! We went just beyond the 80th parallel, as I mentioned we would and it was all that I had dreamed of! It was celestial. It was never to be forgotten.
More later about all of that. For now, a scattering of sketches, quiet glimpses of things we saw and did when we weren't being swept away by magnificence.
A large carved wooden sculpture called Kongetorsk, (cod is one of the traditional mainstays of Norwegian cuisine, commerce, and culture) located in a small square in Bergen, is a favorite subject of mine. David and I woke up early so I could draw it before clumps of view-obscuring tourists arrived.
I had *drawn this one December a few years ago, so it was fun to revisit and draw it again! See below for earlier drawing.
Oh, man, trying to capture the splendor of that scenery in a little sketchbook seemed futile, but I made what I call little mnemonic devices... images that endlessly reopen to me the moments of being there.
We visited a toy museum at the tiny village we stayed in near Reine, in the Lofoten Islands. I made friends with Dagmar Gylseth, the owner of Sakrisøy rorbuer (fishing cabins and cottages) there and drew this little scene from her marvelous museum. What a moving experience to be surrounded by her collection of hundreds of artifacts of Norwegian childhood. Their stories and their meaning were palpable in the atmosphere there.
While in the Lofotens, David and I had our evening meals at Underhuset, the fabulous restaurant which is owned and run by Dagmar and her son Michael. Fresh seafood was offered in abundance! In fact, I ate seafood and fish three times a day most days throughout the trip. I expect gills, fins, and shells to sprout on my person at any moment! And I'll put my current Omega 3 count up against yours any day!
We went to a lecture on the geology of Svalbard given by a French geologist on board our ship and while I listened, I drew. Geology! Svalbard! Caledonian Orogeny! All my favorite subjects!
Rounding out this miscellany of moments on our Norwegian trip is a sketch I made in Bergen, at one of the city's art museums, during the last days of our visit. Shiny, compelling objects that here, too, arrested my eye and my imagination.
I have several more sketches as well as the accordion sketchbook I made of Caledonian Orogenic outcrops and will share those in the next days. I have begun some studio pieces as well, deriving from the images I lived and breathed and stored in my mind's eye.
Balancing my accordion sketchbook... Laura on the rocks! More to come! Come back soon!!
*Here's the same cod sculpture pictured above, but drawn on an earlier, winter trip.
That's where we'll be the first part our trip! Far, far, far northern Norway, off the mainland. I am going to try to get some sort of memento with that latitude engraved on it! I'm a north-going spirit, that's for sure.
This being such a once-in-a-lifetime trip, I vow to document it fully in writing and sketches, in addition to the separate group of drawings I'll do for my Caledonian Orogeny project.
But what supplies to take with me?? I travel only with a carryon and that has to contain clothes for winter weather (still there in May and early June in Svalbard) as well as for cool spring days, which I hope we will find in the other parts of Norway we are going to. Yikes!
Wakeful at 2am today (and you can understand why!), I looked at past sketches of similar atmospheric situations. Here are my tentative choices. If you have any suggestions, by the way, please do make them!
More Iceland. Here there's a wash of Daniel Smith Lunar Black with the crayons. I'll take that and Lunar Blue and those will be my only watercolors. Right? I can add more washes later. if I want to.
Mt Hood, Oregon. Unlike my previous trips to Norway, which all took place in the Arctic Twilight, this trip will be, as I mentioned, under the Midnight Sun!
2. Pentel pocket brush pen. These are practically extensions of my hands. I use them everywhere.
In E.Lansing, Michigan, with watercolor crayons! Two for the price of one!
3. Inktense pencils? When you must have bursts of juicy color!
Don't you love how a mere spritz of water makes inktense sketches ebullient!
5. Sketchbooks: I'll have a couple of custom handmade concertina sketchbooks for the rock drawings and then two Stillman & Birn softcover 8 x10s, one in gray, one in white.
6. Blue and red colored pencils, not watercolor ones. Oh, let's add orange and green, too. I just like to draw with these and they come in handy if you want quick, dry color.
Oh, I've given myself a headache now.
I'm serious... if you have any suggestions, any new products you like for travel sketches, or old favorites of yours (not watercolors, though, or fountain pens for this trip, unfortunately,) I'd love to have them!
I've been in a long new moon phase, hidden from sight, but very here. Just recently I've begun to see the 15 or so (!) paintings I've been making start to gel a bit. Of these, how many will eventually be finished, I have no idea. The ones that need to be finished will make themselves known and I will just keep at it until I know which they are.
This process is very slow but it appears to be mine for now, so I accept it. Deadlines and rushing can come later.
Here's a detail of one of these in progress. This is one of what I call 'portal paintings,' small at 12" x12", but big enough for me to squeeze through to the next incarnation. All of the pieces I'm working on are inspired by my numinous places, this one in particular is inspired by a bay in northern Wales.
I've also been learning to make linocuts and I love that medium! After a semester long ago spent learning etching and aquatint, and workshops in lithography, and silkscreen, I've finally found the printmaking method that calls to me. I feel it lends itself very well to my Caledonian Orogeny project, as a way of working back in the studio, after making my on-site drawings.
Here's another. I beg your indulgence...I LOVE learning this art form and I love tweaking for color and texture changes! I will force myself to stop at posting two here.
My garden will be on view this weekend to at least 1300 visitors, so I have had garden prep very much in my life these past months. I am sharing, therefore, two garden images, one from my journal documenting two recent plant acquisitions and one sketch I made a couple of years ago at J C Raulston Arboretum, a sketch I recently rediscovered under a pile of other work.
My trip to VERY northern Norway is coming up in May! To say I'm excited is an egregious understatement. I have lots more to tell before I go and I will!
I've had a good beginning of the year so far, a combination of studio time (feeling my way with matte acrylic paint, which I love) and drawing and sketching, some examples of which follow!
Here's a shift in mood! Just returned from a whirlwind trip to New York to see the David Hockney show at the Met, and made some sketches while there. I was delighted by several marble portrait busts of men with cascades of curls (wigs, of course) and wish I'd had days to sketch more of them! Drawn on site, red and blue gouache added later.
Finally, my illustration for the Winter 2018 issue of Charleston Style & Design Magazine, accompanying a lovely essay by Patrice Gopo, writing of her travel and fulfillment dreams for her young daughter. This will be my last CS & D illustration until summer when I look forward to getting back on board with that lovely magazine. For the next months travel and other work will be on my front burners.
And the straight way was lost.
Adapted from a translation of Dante's "Inferno," Canto I.
Not exactly lost, and the chronology is off, but it's just that a new, indirect, and wavy way seems to be taking over here. I believe it comes from that life force, the c'hi, that I sense so palpably in my numinous places, and which inspires me in my art life.
Well, I can't be in my numinous places (Norway, Wales, Iceland, Scotland, etc) every minute of the day, so I'm figuring out how to find charged experiences here, at home, in my daily life. And now, at the beginning of a new year, I've started following this barely-intuited way, this wavy, meandering way, in my journal/sketchbook.
I feel a huge burden of guilt over unfinished paintings from the past year and more and this guilt has made it ever harder to return to that unfinished work. So, I'm going back, via this new way, to basics and to joy.
I read the message in these lines and now I draw, paint, make marks, collecting my own images, from what I see around me, not just anything my eye happens upon, but scenes and objects that seem charged with a special energy, for whatever reason... and record them in my journal, to find out who... and where... I am. Again.
I'm not making huge pronouncements or plans for now, just going step by wavy step. And I'm developing an awareness for presence of the c'hi in, say, a plate of apples.
My new challenge is to be open to charged places and objects and settings near to home. Then, when I get back to Norway this May, I'll be more than ready to receive it!
Happy New Year! May we be filled with energy and joy.
A late-breaking illustration job meant I had to press Pause on my painting series, but I've finished the illustrations and am turning my thoughts towards my upcoming trip to North Wales! I will share the illustrations I've done this summer once they are published this October. They are colorful and fun!
Before anything else, I want to tell you about a new book on sketching landscapes by my good friend and excellent American artist Virginia Hein. Her book 5-Minute Sketching: Landscapes is one of the best out there on the topic of sketching. And since there is a vast flotilla of books out there on that topic, that is saying a lot!
Virginia teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, was for many years a toy designer, and is a prolific urban sketcher with a worldwide reputation and following. Her book is thoughtfully and gracefully written and is brimming with tips and suggestions and many, many illustrations of her own and of artists around the world. I am extremely proud to be one of her contributing artists.
I sincerely recommend this book for anyone interested in rendering landscapes of all kinds. Virginia has a fresh, energetic, and inspiring way of thinking and teaching. No matter how many landscape drawing and sketching and painting books you might have in your personal library, you will love this one, I promise you!
See those little tubes of Winsor Newton paint? I have a hankering to try gouache. We'll see what happens.
Finally, two quick and happy recent drawings, using my Koh-i-noor Magic Pencil with multi-colored lead. Hmm, I think I'd better pack that one for Wales, too!
Help! I'm working on illustrations to go along with the essay on my garden that I wrote for Charleston Style & Design's upcoming fall issue. Deadline: NOW or a time very much like it.
What to do??!! Last night, I thought, "brush pen, why not?" I love working with my Pentel pocket brush pen. It feels almost like an extension of my drawing hand. I've used it for lots of sketch subjects and some illustrations over the years. I looked back at my Flickr account to remind myself of the ways I had done this and was waylaid by memories.
May I share some of these rediscovered images and memories with you?
Below: In Pasadena,a cactus garden, part of the larger Huntington Gardens, that I visited with my friend and brilliant artist Virginia Hein on a sketching jaunt fall before last. This brings back such wonderful memories of our time together.
I had hesitated to try brush pen with my current assignment because I wasn't sure I could get the nuances I want with it. But this sketch managed nuance!
Next a scene from Oakland Bay from 2015. I was visiting my daughter Cecelia. Looking at this, I am instantly back in that day, in that place. And I miss my daughter so much. Some nuance here, too!
In another vein, a portrait sketch of Sir Walter Raleigh for the cover of Walter Magazine in 2013. I submitted several images. They chose another one for the cover, but I have always loved this Sir Walter's sassy and flourishy attitude.
Jumping again to a quite different topic, here's a pretty atmospheric, nuancy sketch of a scene in Iceland. Drawing in the twilight, especially the Northern twilight.. aahhh. Heaven.
Finally, speaking of being overtaken by memories, I saw this pen and ink and crayon drawing of our Miles three or so years ago and, though it's not a brush pen drawing, it IS a drawing of a beloved baby, so that counts for a lot, doesn't it? Memories.
Back to work now, keeping my fingers crossed that my brush pen and I will get this done!


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How an on-call addiction specialist at a hospital saved a life
By Martha Bebinger
Published October 9, 2022 at 4:50 AM MST
AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
The U.S. set a disturbing record last year - 107,000 lives lost to drug overdose. Hospitals often see people at risk who come in to be treated for other conditions, but very few hospitals have someone who specializes in addiction medicine. But that may be changing as WBUR's Martha Bebinger reports.
MARTHA BEBINGER, BYLINE: Just after Christmas last year, Marie opened her eyes one morning and realized she was gasping for air. She managed to call 911.
MARIE: I woke up, and I, like, couldn't breathe. I, like - I thought - I was so scared. I - like, hurry, hurry, like, you're going to die.
BEBINGER: At Salem Hospital, just north of Boston, the staff treated Marie's chronic lung disease. We're not including Marie's last name here because she, like about 1 in 9 hospitalized patients, has a history of addiction to drugs or alcohol. So the next day, when a doctor told Marie her oxygen levels looked good, Marie said, wait. There's something else the doctor needed to know.
MARIE: He said I could be released. And I said, I have to tell you something. I'm a heroin addict, and I think I'm starting to be into, like, heavy withdrawal. I literally can't move. Please don't make me go.
BEBINGER: Most hospitals in Massachusetts and across the country do not have anyone on call trained to treat addiction. So every day, patients like Marie stumble out of the hospital while in painful withdrawal.
LIZ TADIE: They're left on their own to figure it out, which unfortunately usually means resuming use 'cause that's the only way to feel better.
BEBINGER: This is Liz Tadie. She helped launch a different approach for Marie and other patients at Salem Hospital. That day, when Marie said, please don't make me go, her doctor called Tadie, a nurse practitioner certified in addiction medicine. Tadie prescribed buprenorphine, a medication that's helping Marie manage her addiction to opioids. After leaving the hospital, Marie continued to see Tadie for treatment and support.
MARIE: That I wasn't going to be left alone, like, that I wasn't going to have to call a dealer ever again, like, that I could delete the number. And I want to get back to my life. I just feel, like, grateful.
BEBINGER: Tadie has used success stories like Marie's to unravel decades-old stereotypes about addiction and explain treatment options. That means Tadie, a nurse, is often teaching physicians who get very little addiction training in medical school. They aren't always receptive.
TADIE: Sometimes I would recommend a dose and somebody would give pushback. Initially, I got to know the hospital medicine doctors here, and they, over time, were like, OK, we can trust you.
BEBINGER: When a hospital like Salem recognizes that addiction medicine is a specialty, as they do with cardiology or pulmonology, it can change the hospital's culture. Jean Monahan-Doherty is a social worker at Salem.
JEAN MONAHAN-DOHERTY: There was finally some recognition across the entire institution that this was a complex medical disease that needed the attention of a specialist. People are dying. This is a terminal illness unless it's treated.
BEBINGER: But Monahan-Doherty has colleagues who still dismiss patients with an addiction.
MONAHAN-DOHERTY: Sometimes you hear an attitude of, why are you putting all this effort into this patient? They're not going to get better. Well, how do we know? If a patient comes in with diabetes, we don't say, OK, they've been taught once and it didn't work, so we're not going to offer them support again.
BEBINGER: Still, at Salem Hospital, there are often more daily referrals for addiction care than one specialist can handle. And yet now, when overdose deaths have reached a record high, most hospitals are not offering addiction care, says Honora Englander, a national leader in addiction specialty programs.
HONORA ENGLANDER: People with substance use disorder are coming to our hospitals now. We can't wait. We have to do better. And this is the time.
BEBINGER: Englander says federal financial incentives for hospitals would help. Salem Hospital used a grant to start its addiction specialty service. But now that's ended, and the specialist, Liz Tadie, just left for a new job. Some Salem Hospital employees say they're worried about their program, but hospital leaders say it will continue.
For NPR News, I'm Martha Bebinger in Salem, Mass.
RASCOE: This story comes from NPR's partnership with WBUR and Kaiser Health News.
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The Watson and McComas Reunion was held Aug. 13 at the Raccoon Creek park with 85 in attendance.
Both sides had their only living aunt in attendance, Loretta McComas, 86. She was also the oldest family member there. The youngest was Bentley Moore who is the son of Matthew and Brittany (Cox) Moore. His birth made the fifth generation for Patsy Stanley (great-great grandmother), Joyce McDonald (great-grandmother), Kim Cox-Brumfield (grandmother) and Brittany Cox (mother).
Cecil Wise gave the blessing over the food. Several photos were taken of the family.
Those in attendance on the McComas side were: Loretta, Kenny, Carolyn, Jessie and Chelsey McComas. Stephany, Hunter, Peyton, Komer, Karmen, Jackson Eplin. Barry, Brenda Bowman. Michael, Bridget, Korey, Dillon Conrad. April. Shirly, Brian, Connie, Cody, Koyle, Kelsey Goodpasture.
On the Watson side: Neil, Karen, Bob, Donovan, Gloris, Tim, Nancy, Maralene Watson. Braxton Payne, Patsy Stanley, Doyle, Joyce McDonald. Karlee Cox, Brittany (Cox), Matthew, Bentley Moore. Kimberly, Goble Brumfield. Dorothy Hun. Kaitlyn Meade. Megan Fields, AnnaBell, Abby, Travis McDonald. Mike, Nikki Nance. Amanda, Mooch, Jada, Kaylee Chapman. Donna, Elizabeth, David, Phillip, Owen, Boston, Bristol Massie. Celeste Harrington. Diane Harless. Ayvah Hurlow. Cecil, Sue Wise. Robert (Tony) Walters. Jeffrey Garnes. David, Lizzy (Watson) Walters. Brenda, Kelly Haner. Amanda Mowery. Terry Cline. Missy, Tim, Brittany Hanna Davis. Dottie Wiley, Ashton Ansel.
The 2018 reunion will be held Aug. 12, 2018 at shelter 2.


This one was in the category of "fantastic, yet coulda happened," you know the kind.
This dream seemed so real that when I woke up I was going to ask my husband, Jeff, if he had gotten a program at the wedding we had attended. I was so hoping that he had brought one home with us. I remembered that I unfortunately left mine in the beautiful red folder that we were handed. I've never seen such an elegant folder at a wedding. It was a hardback cover holding the wedding program and a detailed map of how to get to the reception, etc.
The important thing was the wedding party, the list of attendants and honored guests. Of course, first on the list were the two terrific people we came to see get married. Next up, well to me anyway, were the names of the performers at the wedding reception. None other than Ann and Nancy Wilson and, their friend, Sue Ennis. Keep in mind, I did say this was a "fantastic, yet coulda happened" dream.
I could not believe my own eyes. A sighting. A real, up close sighting. I so wanted to hop out and meet them, yet, I don't know why I did not. I seemed to have been frozen to the car seat. May be that I had figured that screaming had accosted them enough. Besides, at this point I'd be lucky to say anything intelligent. I would have told them that they were my idols and I was one of their biggest fans…. someone who had followed their musical career since 1974. Someone who had listened to and lived their music for all this time. Someone who even fashioned a coat for herself that was similar to one that Ann wore onstage. Someone who had found Mushroom Records while on a vacation to Vancouver, B.C., just because Heart had been there.
Then, to my amazement, these women with the magical voices and beautiful music were going to perform at the wedding reception.
Upon awakening, I don't really remember much of the wedding, except that it was beautiful with love all around. Nor do I remember the wedding reception and seeing and hearing the much-anticipated performance of Ann, Nancy and Sue. You'd think my dream would have allowed that. After all, I did SEE and HEAR them at the gas station!!!!
Dreams like this appear to me every so often. This one reminds me of how much I've enjoyed their music over the years and how much Mom knew I enjoyed their music. She knew of all the performers I enjoyed. She was such a good mom that she'd tape concerts and appearances from the television and give them to me to watch as often as I wanted. She'd listened to their music with me. These dreams keep Mom close to me. Her influence in my life is so vivid much like the dreams she appears in and the ones she conjures up for me.
Let me rephrase that….. OUR Reception shoes.
OUR 'Converse All-Star Chuck Taylor Specially Designed' Wedding Reception Shoes.
During our wedding we would wear borrowed and rented shoes. The elegant and the dapper shoes.
So, we did. We went to the Converse.com site and designed our own shoes, OUR 'Converse All-Star Chuck Taylor Specially Designed' Wedding Reception Shoes online. We designed them, placed the order and then waited for them to arrive.
Jeff and I saved "OUR 'Converse All-Star Chuck Taylor Specially Designed' Wedding Reception Shoes," for a special reveal at our reception.
Our guests saw the fun we had wearing and showing off OUR wedding shoes.
We had a great time thinking up the concept, thinking ahead to the day we'd wear them. My soon-t0-be husband and I had a great time designing the shoes online, thinking of our wedding reception and the reaction of our guests when they would see our shoes.
Mom would have loved the entire escapade. It was such a fun idea – and let me tell you – she would have encouraged the fun and creativity. She would have loved our shoes.
I certainly did not remember seeing them before.
Yet, I KNEW what they were.
No matter if I never had the chance to use them, I was not going to give away the shoes Mom wore during her wedding.
I saved the shoes. I stored them away at my house. Some day, some one would be lucky enough to have the pleasure of using them.
Seasons passed. Mom's wedding shoes were still safe in my closet.
In October of 2008, I met Jeff. We seemed to have a lot in common and yet enough differences to make things interesting. We established a friendship that became a wonderful relationship. Soon I realized I had fallen in love with Jeff. And, Jeff felt the same about me.
February 14, 2010 we became engaged. I KNEW what shoes I'd be wearing sooner than some day.
Mom's photo, Mom's wedding shoes, my wedding bouquet….photo taken shortly before my wedding to Jeff on 9.10.11. Notice the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" in the arch of that shoe.
I wore my Mom's wedding shoes, the ones she wore in 1956 when she walked down the aisle to marry Dad. I was honored to have Mom walk with me at my wedding, as well as walking with Dad. I love them both. Those shoes must have some magic in them, Mom and Dad were married for 47 years and blessed with a great relationship. Jeff and I are looking forward to many wonderful years together.
Mom walked me through my wedding ceremony. I wore the same shoes she wore at her wedding. We showed them off at the start of our wedding ceremony, so that all our family and friends would know I was walking in her shoes.


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Q: Redirect automatically from one component to another one after few seconds - react I try to redirect the user from one component to another after a few seconds.
The user lands on a page and after few second he is automatically redirect to another page.
I thought to redirect in an action but I am not sure if it is the best idea (if you have easier way to do it I am interested).
My code so far:
a basic component:
import React, { Component } from "react";
import { connect } from "react-redux";
import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";
import { redirectToProfile } from "../../actions/searchActions";

class Search extends Component {
  componentDidMount() {
    setTimeout(this.props.redirectToProfile(this.props.history), 3000);
  }
  render() {
    return (

search page

    );
  }
}

export default connect(
  null,
  { redirectToProfile }
)(withRouter(Search));

and the action:
export const redirectToProfile = history => {
  history.push("/");
};

So far I have an error message:

Actions must be plain objects. Use custom middleware for async actions.

After some research I see that some people resolve the problem with the middleware thunk but I am already using it so I don't know what to do.
Thank you for your help.

A: state = {
    redirect: false // add a redirect flag
};

componentDidMount() {
    // only change the redirect flag after 5 seconds if user is not logged in
    if (!auth) {
        this.timeout = setTimeout(() => this.setState({ redirect: true }), 5000);
    }
}

componentWillUnmount() {
    // clear the timeer just in case
    clearTimeout(this.timeout);
}

render() {
    // this is the key:
    // 1. when this is first invoked, redirect flag isn't set to true until 5 seconds later
    // 2. so it will step into the first else block
    // 3. display content based on auth status, NOT based on redirect flag
    // 4. 5 seconds later, redirect flag is set to true, this is invoked again
    // 5. this time, it will get into the redirect block to go to the sign in page
    if (this.state.redirect) {
        return <Redirect to="/signin" />;
    } else {
        if (!auth) {
            return (

You need to login first to register a course

            );
        } else {
            return
Registration Page
;
        }
    }
}

A: Why not use the <Redirect/> component that react-router provides? I think that's clearer and more in keeping with React's declarative model, rather than hiding away the logic in an imperative thunk/action.
class Foo extends Component {
  state = {
    redirect: false
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    this.id = setTimeout(() => this.setState({ redirect: true }), 1000)
  }

  componentWillUnmount() {
    clearTimeout(this.id)
  }

  render() {
    return this.state.redirect
      ? <Redirect to="/bar" />
      :
Content

  }
}

A: If you are already using redux thunk and it's included in your project, you can create the action as following.

export const redirectToProfile = history => {
  return (dispatch, setState) => {
    history.push('/');
  }
};

// shorter like this.
export const redirectToProfile = history => () => {
  history.push('/');
}

// and even shorter...
export const redirectToProfile = history => () => history.push('/');

Alternative:
You can also call history.push('/'); right in the component if you adjust you default export of the Search component. This is preferred as you don't have overhead of creating an additional action and dispatching it through redux.
Change your export to...
export default withRouter(connect(mapStateToProps)(Search));

Then in your component use it as following...
componentDidMount() {
  setTimeout(this.props.history.push('/'), 3000);
}

A: //This is an example with functional commponent.

import React, {useEffect, useState} from 'react'
import { useNavigate } from "react-router-dom";

function Splash() {
    let navigate = useNavigate();
    const [time, setTime] = useState(false);
    useEffect(() => {
        setTimeout(() => {
            setTime(true)
        }, 2000)
        setTime(false);
    }, []);
    return time ? navigate('/dashboard') : navigate('/account');
}
export default Splash;

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There were many worthy contenders for this title and Shane McMahon has made his contributions to the wrestling business but this was shocking and undeserving to say the least. Thankfully, WWE seems to have dropped the whole idea of late and have themselves taken multiple jabs at it.
If you have played the career mode in WWE 2K19 then you might be familiar of the part where your character hijacks WWE shows. Enzo tried to emulate that in real life but it didn't quite have the same effect. If anything, him standing up on his chair in the second row and trying to get people to say his catchphrase fell flat and the only thing he gained was more embarrassment.
When we learnt that Rousey's initial program was going to involve Stephanie McMahon, we were miffed but it gave us this awesome moment where Rousey proved without a shadow of doubt that she is one of the baddest women on earth. Seeing her cleanly lift Triple H and slamming him through a table was one of the eye-popping moments of 2018.


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Re-Blog: Ancient Spaceports In Iraq? Ya Don't Say?!
Well, the gringa's at it again… de-bunking UFO conspiracies. Sorry to spoil everyone's fun. But, I assure you that there is no ancient alien connection inspiring countries like the US to embark on military strategies in order to gain control of Iraq. A review of the "evidence" will prove this to be so.
We've all heard of the stories of how Iraq's antiquities have been looted because of the long, on-going conflict in that country. The nation is a wealth of history and artifacts. Iraq was once the famed Babylon of old. It was the heart of education, art, religion and science.
A diverse, cosmopolitan population was comprised of the brightest minds invited to come and enrich the academic world of ancient Babylon. Artists, composers, and every other creative mind once longed for those dreamy deserts and never-ending horizons of the Middle East. But the knowledge and the scientific and cultural advancements that accompanied higher thinking is not to be credited to space alien influence.
Ancient alien theorists and UFOlogists are attributing ancient spaceship launches to a speech recently delivered by Iraq's Transport Minister. What, exactly, did this man say? Was there something misunderstood in translation? Was he speaking in satire rather than literally? Let's examine the words of Minister Kadhem Finjan Al-Hamami when he spoke at the opening ceremony of a new airport in Dhi Qar of southern Iraq:
"It's a long story, maybe you don't know about it. Maybe even people from Dhi Qar don't know – the first airports that were built on planet Earth were built in the 5th Millenium BC in Dhi Qar. There were Sumerians who launched spaceships and headed to other worlds."
Al-Hamami's remarks were met with confusion by the panel behind him as well as the people in the audience. It also turns out that he has a reputation for making outrageous statements. He once claimed that he was so old that he had also ridden on Noah's Ark. Needless to say, the gringa doubts he really believes this Sumerian spaceship nonsense. What he more likely believes is political strategy.
What would be politically strategic about making such an outrageous claim? Why risk your political integrity and credibility? Well, one reason would be to normalize a fringe belief on behalf of a benefactor that has a vested interest in normalizing something otherwise considered crazy.
The theory that Sumerians were more than scientists, architects and astronomers as well as space travelers is the work of Russian professor Samuel Kramer. Russia has a desire to gain influence in Iraq in order to protect its big oil interests more effectively. And what better way to stroke the national ego of a country than to provide historical information that proves that country had once been superior to every other country on the planet?
But why the space alien angle? Because it can neither be proven or disproven, for one thing. But Russia has been working to normalize space alien theories for decades. Why? For Russia, it would mean opportunity. In fact, many opportunities.
Who are the nations that represent the largest threat to Russian dominance? The US and allied western European nations. The discovery of space alien life would throw such nations into an existential crisis. For countries structured around Judeo-Christianity, their societies would suddenly be in cultural upheaval. Everything they believed would become falsehood. And in such chaos is opportunity to then re-form an entire society's thinking.
And if those society's learned that their governments had been keeping such a secret, those governments would no longer be trusted. There would be political revolution. And before that revolution stabilized into a new national version based on new knowledge, there would be years and years of factional division and chaos.
If this past year's political chaos has not made a believer out of a person that Russia thrives when other nations are in chaos, then you have been sleeping straight through history being made. And Russia is wholly committed to the space alien angle as just one more way to keep everyone else knocked off balance and distracted from what Russia is really doing.
Over and over Russian operatives seed explosive space alien related stories. In 2010 they claimed to have discovered alien micro-organisms in comet space dust. 2014 brought an announcement from Russia's International Space Station mission chief, Vladimir Solovyev, that space sea plankton had been found. NASA denied the reports but no such denial ever was issued from Rocosmos, Russia's space agency. And about one month later, Germany's space agency, The German Aerospace Center (DLR), called the material "bacterial DNA" rather than sea plankton.
So, when it comes to what may seem very credible reports because they link with what seems to be a legitimate organization, the gringa says, "Beware!" Although, so far, Americans have been lucky enough to have our own NASA unblemished by political agendas and ambitions, the same is not true for Rocosmos. That being said, trace back to the source any UFO or space alien claims. If they originate from Russia, consider the political motive. Then consider the scientific credibility as dubious.
The gringa does not deny the possibility that space aliens exist. I also don't deny the possibility of ancient Earth civilizations that were highly advanced. But, thus far, I have yet to find any confirmation through credible evidence. I simply keep an open mind and I keep reading! And I always READ SMART!
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Posted on October 24, 2017 October 20, 2017 Categories archaeology, Astronaut, Education, extra terrestrial, History, Homeschool, iraq, school, Science, Space, Space Exploration, spacecraft, ufo, UncategorizedTags alien, conspiracy, Education, gringa, iraq, school, science, space, sumeria, ufo1 Comment on Re-Blog: Ancient Spaceports In Iraq? Ya Don't Say?!
A Summary of Sumerians
So what does mankind really know about the ancient civilization of Sumeria? Around 4000 B.C. it was located in a geographical region known as Mesopotamia covering the area we know today as Iraq and Kuwait. The Sumerians called themselves the "black headed people" and they had a written language, cuneiform. They didn't call their country anything other than "the land" but the people around them called their country Shinar or Sumer. The language they spoke is called Akkadian and means "land of the civilized kings". It seems Sumeria had a reputation as having some very sophisticated leadership. Who were these kings and what made them so civilized compared to the nations around them?
Eridu is the first Sumerian city to be ruled by a king according to Sumerian religious mythology. Uruk is the oldest city to be established by historians and is also the oldest city in the world that is known to mankind. The "black headed people" who settled here are believed to be the Ubaid people who had evolved from a hunter-gatherer society into an agricultural society. Archaeologists have found remnants of tools and artifacts leading them to this conclusion.
The first record of a king is one named Etana of Kish. He is attributed with creating stability. He is featured in ancient mythology as ascending to heaven on an eagle. Utu-Hegal is next in line and created a document called the "King List", basically a summary of Sumerian Kings. King Utu-Hegal felt it was an important responsibility to document human accomplishments because they were accountable to the gods who had created them. The manuscript contains names and kingdoms spanning hundreds of thousands of years. An English translation can be read here. Copies of the list have been found by archaeologists in numerous regions remote from Sumeria and recorded in different languages.
One of the reasons their kings may have had such acclaim as founders of civilization is that one of their cities was home to more than 80,000 people. The city rose out of the desert floor, constructed as a massive ziggurat with civilians living in a tiered, pyramid like structure. There were irrigation canals and a sophisticated plumbing network that delivered a water supply from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. At the time, it would have been the largest city in the world.
Amongst all of those notable kings there was a single woman. With humble beginnings as a tavern-keeper, she rose to monarch status. The King List credits her with firmly establishing the foundations of Kish and creating a dynastic legacy that lasted a century.
More recently, Sumeria's King List has made the news with some historians speculating on the longevity of the kings. Well, the gringa should say eight kings in particular. They believe the manuscripts and tablets reveal a tale of eight kings who ruled for more than 240,000 years, only meeting their end in what is popularly known as the Great Flood. Archaeology does establish a devastating deluge which is recounted in the mythology of many religions. Historians wonder if these kings were even human, since the King List records that their "kingship was lowered from heaven".
If they survived for hundreds of thousands of years, only dying because of the catastrophic flood, could they have been considered immortal? Or, were they just long-lived space aliens? Were some of their descendants the result of inter-marriage with shorter lived humans, producing children with long life-spans that inspired tales of characters like Methuselah? You know, the descendant of Adam and Eve who was Noah's grandfather and lived almost one thousand years? Was Methuselah a space alien? Were all the pre-flood people space aliens or alien/human hybrids? Was the flood's purpose, then, not to kill all of mankind but only to purge the space alien element?
That would explain the seeming contradiction of how life survived a catastrophe created by a god for the purpose of destroying mankind. It was actually only supposed to destroy the aliens posing as men. I mean, think about it. If these aliens established their kingdoms in desert locales, chances are it's because they didn't like water. Maybe the waters of the sea, saltwater, was deadly to them. Maybe a catastrophic flood that would mingle the water of the Earth's oceans with the freshwater these aliens could tolerate would result in a toxic combination they could not survive. Maybe that's the nugget of truth behind the legends of water killing witches, like depicted in the "Wizard of Oz". Like the gringa says, stranger things have happened.
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Posted on November 9, 2016 November 8, 2016 Categories archaeology, Education, History, homeschool, mythology, UncategorizedTags akkadian, barrio, gringa, iraq, kuwait, mesopotamia, sumer, sumeria1 Comment on A Summary of Sumerians


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New Monopoly Has A Voice Controlled Banker To Stop Cheating
By Mel Ramsay | @melramsay_ | | June 21, 2019
If you love Monopoly, but hate all those dirty, rotten cheaters that dare to call themselves your 'friends' or 'family', then you're going to love their new game.
They've brought out a voice controlled banker version of the game, which pretty much eliminates the cheaters.
In Monopoly Voice Banking, there's a little electronic black top hat in the middle of the board. It's kind of like an Amazon Alexa, because you can ask it questions, and it will manage your money, handle real estate transactions, pay rent, draw Chance cards and more.
The one bad point is that this game doesn't include physical notes. It's all digital, baby. But I have to say, I will miss those colourful notes of paper.
The product description reads: "The Monopoly voice banking game features lights and sounds, and comes with an interactive Mr. Monopoly banking unit.
"The iconic Monopoly top hat is voice-activated and the personality of Mr. Monopoly really shines as he handles all of the transactions. He keeps tabs on players' money and properties so there's no cash or cards to think about. Talk to Mr. Monopoly and he responds.
"For instance, press your TOKEN's button and say, 'Buy St. James place.' Mr. Monopoly will track The transaction, keeping the game moving.
"With the Monopoly voice game, players travel around the board aiming to be the person with the most money and highest property value to win!"
Suitable for players over eight, you can pre-order the game from Walmart for around $30.
It's also available via Amazon.com, if you're not based in the US.
This comes after a fully-immersive game of Monopoly was announced.
The Hong Kong-based attraction allows players to walk through themed rooms, with interactive technology and holograms helping to create a Bank, Water Works, Electric Company, Train Station, Title Deeds and Chance cards. I want to go NOW.
If you get chucked in jail, there is actually a real-life cell.
Monopoly Dreams
Not only will you be playing normal Monopoly (but IRL), there's also a 'murder mystery-style' thing going on, and you have to figure out who's behind it.
Casey Collins, General Manager of Entertainment & Licensing at Hasbro, said: "Our exciting partnership with Monopoly Dreams allows Hasbro to further extend the reach of Monopoly to location based entertainment sector and provide families and tourists with wonderfully memorable and highly immersive entertainment experiences by stepping into the first, fully immersive Monopoly-themed entertainment attraction."
Gary Chan, the Chief Operations Officer of Monopoly Dreams, added: "Having invested a significant amount of resources to design and create Monopoly Dreams, we highly treasure the establishment of this project. We target to accommodate over 700,000 visitors.
"Not only are we dedicated to bringing immersive interactive experience for all generations of local Hong Kong, we are also endeavoured to offer a new destination for tourists."
It should be open later on this year.
Featured image credit: Hasbro
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Dave Chappelle coming to Broadway. Hide your phone.
AP Photo, Dave Chappelle,FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2018 file photo, Dave Chappelle speaks at the press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. Chappelle will make his Broadway debut this summer but a word of warning: Ditch the cellphone. He will perform five shows at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, from July 9, 2019 through July 13. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Dave Chappelle will make his Broadway debut this summer but a word of warning: Ditch the cellphone.
Chappelle will perform five shows at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, from July 9 through July 13. The theater has this spring become home for music acts like Morrissey, Yanni and Regina Spektor making their Broadway debuts.
Producers issued an unusually blunt warning about anyone trying to film the performance on their phones: All phones will be put in a locked pouch during the show and anyone smuggling one in will be ejected.
Chappelle received Grammy Awards for best comedy album in 2018 and 2019. He won his second Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special with "Equanimity" in 2018


The Blues Under 18 squad are heading down to Hamilton today to play the Chiefs U18 team in a two-match test for the young squad.
Our Under 18 players are coming off the Blues U18 Development Squad Camp – a five-day training and teaching opportunity for some of our region's promising talent.
The players were given role-specific coaching from Blues and regional coaches, so will be looking to use many of these skills in today's match against our Waikato neighbours.
The games will be played at St. Paul's Collegiate School in Hamilton, the first kick-off at 12.30pm and the second at 2pm.


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Hilda Oropeza leads her students through a series of stretches at the Mindful Yoga Studio in Tucson. She said she concurs with studies showing that yoga can help mitigate depression.
Experts say one factor in yoga that could help with depression is its emphasis on breathing practices.
Experts caution that yoga may not be an effective treatment for everyone with depression. They also say it should complement traditional therapy.
Anxiety and depression are about the future and the past, so, "be present," Tucson yoga instructor Hilda Oropeza urged her class on a recent Thursday night.
Oropeza, the owner of Mindful Yoga Studio, said she has long known what several recent scientific studies have concluded — that in addition to offering physical and spiritual benefits, yoga may help mitigate depression.
Five different papers presented at the American Psychological Association's annual convention in Washington, D.C., in August found that people who suffer from depression may want to look to yoga as a complement to traditional therapies.
And earlier this year, a study by Harvard and Columbia researchers published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine found that people with major depressive disorder had a significant reduction in symptoms during a 12-week intervention that included Iyengar yoga classes. The study looked at 30 participants who ranged in age from 18 to 64.
Some medical experts say the results are promising but merit further study to determine, among other things, how much yoga one needs to reduce depressive symptoms.
"What makes yoga different from exercise in general is, for one thing, the focus on the breathing practices, which really can make a difference," said Amy Weintraub, a Tucson resident, a longtime expert in yoga and mental health, and founder of the LifeForce Yoga Healing Institute.
The therapeutic effect of yoga on depression was a little-researched concept when Weintraub first published her book, "Yoga for Depression" in 2004. Weintraub's own struggle with depression prompted her interest.
During a year of daily yoga in 1989, she was able to tolerate an increasingly lower dosage of antidepressants, eventually going off them altogether. She did that while under the supervision of a psychiatrist, she stressed.
"When I first wrote the book, I got some pushback. I'm not a clinician, I'm not a psychotherapist," Weintraub said.
But that pushback quickly turned into interest from clinicians and others curious about integrating yoga with traditional medicine, she said.
Now there is a whole new generation of researchers more open to alternative therapies — often they are yoga practitioners themselves, she said.
Similarly, leaders at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine have found that an increasing number of health providers who train in the center's fellowship program are yoga practitioners themselves, said Dr. Hilary McClafferty, a pediatrician and center fellowship co-director.
The fellowship includes instruction in yoga to encourage its use in medical settings, she said.
"Yoga can be defined as a synergy of mindfulness, breathwork and movement, and the breath is a very potent part of it," she said. "Physiologically, working with the breath is one of the few ways people can voluntarily tap into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and help themselves modulate their stress.
Weintraub, who gives workshops on yoga and mental health around the world, founded the Lifeforce Yoga Healing Institute in Tucson and also developed the LifeForce Yoga Practitioner training for yoga and health professionals.
The instructor training certifies professionals, including social workers and physicians, as yoga teachers to those suffering from depression, anxiety, chronic pain and a history of trauma.
Weintraub tracks evidence-based research on yoga's mental-health benefits through a LifeForce newsletter and said the research is not merely validating — it also informs LifeForce training, which is constantly evolving, she explained.
Being anxious and depressed is not anyone's true nature, she stressed. A simple breathing practice can bring us more clarity, she explained.
McClafferty, of the UA's Center for Integrative Medicine, said yoga is being used in pediatric hospitals around the country for children with challenging medical conditions.
Indeed, yoga is safe and probably more accessible than some other alternative treatments because it can be taught and practiced in groups, said Dr. Ole Thienhaus, who is chair of the University of Arizona's psychiatry department.
Depression is not a unitary concept, he emphasizes. It's a manifestation of widely differing, underlying problems. Thus, there is never going to be a one-size-fits-all cure for it, he said.
Studies and increased acceptance of yoga's positive effect on depression should not be considered medical advice, Weintraub stressed.
One thing the studies have yet to conclude is exactly how much yoga one needs, though the evidence suggests the more the better. Weintraub estimates the positive effects of yoga wear off after 72 hours.
At the American Psychological Association convention, researchers from the Center for Integrative Psychiatry in the Netherlands presented data on the potential for yoga to address chronic or treatment-resistant depression.
In one study of 12 patients who had experienced depression for an average of 11 years, Dutch researchers found weekly yoga sessions of 2.5 hours each over nine weeks resulted in lower scores for depression, anxiety and stress throughout the program. The study also found that benefit persisted four months after the training.
Oropeza, of Mindful Yoga, purposefully created a yoga studio where classes are gentle and slow, "to give people an opportunity to connect with what is important to them," she explained. Such classes can be more difficult for students because it pushes them to see the busyness of the mind, she said.
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Information about Divorce, Dissolution of Marriage, Legal separation, and Annulment in California
Going through a divorce is arguably one of the worst things you'll have to go through in your life. Emotionally, going through a divorce is analogous to go into a death in the family. The proper term for a divorce in the state of California is "dissolution of marriage."
The difference between a divorce and legal separation, is that in a divorce, formal dissolution of marriage paperwork has been filed with the court to terminate the marriage, whereas a legal separation can occur either by filing papers for legal separation with the court, or by one of the parties in a marriage deciding to separate with the intent to permanently end the marriage. It should be noted that a legal separation can occur even if the parties still live together.
The difference between a divorce and an annulment is that in the case of an annulment, the marriage is void, voidable, or not legal from its inception. In most cases it's much more difficult to obtain an annulment, then a divorce.
A divorce involves the legal termination of a marriage by court order. A divorce is not final in California until a court of competent jurisdiction issues an order stating that the marriage has been terminated.
In California, there are two types of dissolution of marriage proceedings are available; (1) Summary dissolution of marriage, and (2) Standard dissolution of marriage. Most marriages will not qualify for the summary dissolution of marriage procedure that is available in California.
Marriages can be contested proceedings, uncontested, or by way of a default judgment when one of the parties cannot be located, or refuses to participate in the proceeding.
California is one of the so-called "no-fault" divorce states. The most common ground for requesting a divorce in the state of California is irreconcilable differences. A party can also request a divorce on the grounds of death, or insanity.
The most common issues involved in a divorce case in the state a California are: dissolution of marriage, child custody, child visitation, child support, alimony which is actually known as spousal support in California, family support, the division of community property, determination of separate property, the division and/or allocation of community businesses, and the division and/or allocation of retirement plans.
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For The First Time Ever, Shell Signs $10B Emissions Linked Financing
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Royal Dutch Shell has signed a US$10-billion revolving credit facility, and the interest and fees paid on it will be linked to the company's targets to reduce its carbon footprint, in a first for Shell, the oil and gas supermajor said on Friday.
The new financing replaces the current US$8.84 billion revolving credit facility and is provided by a syndicate of 25 banks.
"This is an innovative deal which also demonstrates Shell's broad-based commitment to reducing the Net Carbon Footprint of the energy products we sell. We appreciate the strong support and commitment from our relationship banks," Russell O'Brien, Group Treasurer at Shell, said in a statement.
In recent years, Big Oil has faced increased investor pressure to start addressing climate change risks and set emission reduction targets if the world is ever to achieve the Paris Agreement targets. In this regard, Shell has recently made some pledges for emissions reductions.
The supermajor aims to cut the net carbon footprint of the energy products it sells by 50 percent by 2050 and by 20 percent by 2035.
In March this year, Shell set its first-ever short-term goals to cut the carbon footprint of its operations and product sales as the oil and gas industry is under intense investor and shareholder pressure to address climate change. Shell set a Net Carbon Footprint target for 2021 to lower its carbon footprint by 2-3 percent compared to 2016 levels. Related: The Fastest Growing Energy Sectors Of 2019
In December last year, in an industry first, Shell said that it plans to set short-term targets for reducing the net carbon footprint of the energy products it sells, and to link those targets with executive remuneration.
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Unterthingau (Dialekt: Tiŋgɘ) ist ein Markt im schwäbischen Landkreis Ostallgäu (Bayern).

Geographie

Lage
Der Markt liegt im Allgäu und wird von der Kirnach durchflossen. Durch den Ort verläuft der Allgäu-Radweg. Die Höhenlage des Gemeindegebiets beträgt am tiefsten Punkt  an der Wertach bei Eschenau und am höchsten Punkt  im Schottener Wald.

Gemeindegliederung
Die Gemeinde hat 21 Gemeindeteile (in Klammern ist der Siedlungstyp angegeben):

Es gibt die Gemarkungen Oberthingau, Reinhardsried und Unterthingau.

Geschichte

Bis zur Gemeindegründung
Die erste urkundliche Erwähnung findet sich in einer Schenkung von Otto dem Großen als "Tiuoningouvue", der den Ort an das Kloster Kempten schenkte, welches in der Folgezeit die Rodung auf diesem Gebiet vorantrieb. Bischof Ulrich von Augsburg schenkte 950 einen Hof in Thingau an das Kemptener Kloster und soll im Jahr 963 hier einen Kirchenbau geweiht haben. Als erster Pfarrer ist um 1100 ein Odalrich de Tonego überliefert. Der Ortsname Thingau wird auf den Personennamen Tuono zurückgeführt, eine Differenzierung in Unter- und Oberthingau ist ab 1357 nachweisbar.
Unterthingau war seit 1465 Sitz eines Dorfgerichts des Fürststiftes Kempten. Unterthingau bekam 1485 von Kaiser Friedrich III. das Marktrecht mit wichtigen Eigenrechten zugesprochen. Mit dem Reichsdeputationshauptschluss von 1803 kam der Ort mit dem Pflegamt Thingau zu Bayern. Im Zuge der Verwaltungsreformen im Königreich Bayern entstand mit dem Gemeindeedikt von 1818 die Gemeinde Unterthingau.

Verwaltungszugehörigkeit
Im Jahr 1873 gliedert sich Unterthingau dem Bezirksamt Markt Oberdorf und dem Amtsgericht Obergünzburg ein.
Im Rahmen der Gebietsreform wurde der Landkreis Marktoberdorf aufgelöst, Unterthingau gehört seitdem zum neu entstandenen Landkreis Ostallgäu.

Religionen
Die katholischen Gemeindemitglieder des Marktes gehören zu den katholischen Pfarreien St. Nikolaus für die Gemeindeteile Unterthingau und Reinhardsried und St. Stephan für Oberthingau. Die Pfarrkirche St. Martin Kraftisried ist eine Filialkirche von St. Nikolaus. Die Pfarrei St. Nikolaus Unterthingau besteht aus den politischen Gemeinden Unterthingau und Kraftisried.

Seit September 2011 bilden diese Pfarreien und Filialen zusammen mit der Pfarrei St. Oswald Görisried eine Pfarreiengemeinschaft. Leiter ist Pfarrer Edward Wastag. Diakon Andreas Fischer ist pastoraler Mitarbeiter der Pfarreiengemeinschaft.

Die evangelisch-lutherischen Gemeindemitglieder in den Gemeindeteilen Unterthingau und Reinhardsried gehören der ca. 1.350 Personen umfassenden Kirchengemeinde Obergünzburg an, bestehend aus den politischen Gemeinden Obergünzburg, Günzach, Ronsberg, Untrasried, Hopferbach, Reinhardsried, Kraftisried und Unterthingau. Im Ortsteil Oberthingau gehören die evangelischen Bewohner der Kirchengemeinde Marktoberdorf an.

Ferner existieren Mitglieder sonstiger christlicher Gruppen, ebenso Muslime.

Eingemeindungen
Am 1. Januar 1978 erfolgte im Zuge der Gebietsreform die Eingemeindung der Gemeinden Reinhardsried und Oberthingau in den Markt Unterthingau.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Unterthingau wuchs von 1988 bis 2008 um 347 Einwohner bzw. ca. 15 %. Zwischen 1988 und 2018 wuchs die Gemeinde von 2381 auf 2881 um 500 Einwohner bzw. um 21 %.

Politik

Gemeinderat
Die Gemeinderatswahl am 15. März 2020 führte bei einer Wahlbeteiligung von 64,21 % zu folgendem Ergebnis:

Bürgermeister
Erster Bürgermeister ist seit April 2013 Bernhard Dolp (Wahlgemeinschaft "Gewerbe und Arbeitnehmer"). Er wurde bei der Kommunalwahl 2020 mit 89,75 Prozent der gültigen Stimmen erneut gewählt. Sein Vorgänger war Wolfgang Schramm.

Gemeindefinanzen
Im Jahr 2020 betrugen die Gemeindesteuereinnahmen 3.064 Mio. €, davon waren 837.000 € (netto) Gewerbesteuereinnahmen.

Wappen

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Baudenkmäler

 Häringer-Heimathaus

Unterthingau
 Schloss Unterthingau aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, beherbergt die Gemeindeverwaltung, die Gemeinde- und Pfarrbücherei und verschiedene Vereine.
 Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, aus dem 14. Jahrhundert
 Kapelle Maria Trost

Oberthingau
 Wallfahrtskirche St. Stephan

Reinhardsried
 Filialkirche St. Anna

Ried
 Kapelle Maria Patrona Bavariä in Ried

Weitere Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Seelenkapelle auf dem Seelenberg

Bodendenkmäler

Im Umkreis der Gemeindeteile finden sich einige Bodendenkmäler, die von Fliehburgen und anderen mittelalterlichen Bauwerken zeugen.

Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur

Wirtschaft
2020 gab es nach der amtlichen Statistik im Bereich der Land- und Forstwirtschaft 13, im produzierenden Gewerbe 273 und im Bereich Handel, Verkehr, Gastgewerbe 111 sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigte am Arbeitsort. In sonstigen Wirtschaftsbereichen waren am Arbeitsort 203 Personen sozialversicherungspflichtig beschäftigt. Sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigte am Wohnort gab es 1205. Im verarbeitenden Gewerbe gab es drei, im Bauhauptgewerbe ebenfalls drei Betriebe. Im Jahr 2016 bestanden zudem 79 landwirtschaftliche Betriebe mit einer landwirtschaftlich genutzten Fläche von insgesamt 2446 ha, davon waren 2422 ha Dauergrünfläche.

Verkehr
Unterthingau liegt an der Bundesstraße 12, die heute etwas abseits des Ortes vorbeiführt.

Bildung
 2021 gab es zwei Kindertageseinrichtungen mit 186 genehmigten Plätzen, die von 145 Kindern belegt waren.
 Im Schuljahr 2020/21 gab es eine Grund- und eine Mittelschule mit insgesamt 19 Lehrern und 288 Schülern.

Wasserversorgung
Der Hauptort wird über den Brunnen der Gemeinde Kraftisried im Tal der Kirnach nördlich von Unterthingau versorgt. Das Wasserschutzgebiet umfasst ca. 56 ha. Der Markt Unterthingau versorgt mit dem Brunnen Reinhardsried die Ortsteile Reinhardsried, Kipfenberg, Lippenhalde, Schotten und den Ortsteil Westerried der Gemeinde Kraftisried. Eigene Wasserversorgungen bestehen für Oberthingau, Riedles, Beilstein.

Bilder

Persönlichkeiten

In Unterthingau geboren
 Castolus Reichlin von Meldegg (1743–1804), letzter Fürstabt des Fürststifts Kempten (1793–1803)
 Remigius Vogel (1792–1867), römisch-katholischer Theologe, Pfarrer und Politiker
 Andreas Mayr (1820–1893), Kirchen- und Historienmaler
 Gaby Schuster (* 1948), Schriftstellerin

Sonstige Persönlichkeiten mit Bezug zu Unterthingau
 Johann Mühlegg (* 1970), ehemaliger deutscher Skilangläufer; lebte einige Jahre in Unterthingau.
 Joseph Kiermeier-Debre (* 1946), deutscher Literatur-, Theater- und Kunstwissenschaftler, Hochschullehrer, Museumsleiter, Kurator, Programmmacher und Autor; lebt seit 1989 in Unterthingau.

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Ort im Landkreis Ostallgäu
Ort in Oberschwaben
Markt in Schwaben
Gemeindegründung 1818

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Q: Dealing with int arrays in c++ I was looking at some c++ code as I am trying to learn it and came across something strange and I have no clue what is going on.
int A[100000];

int main()
{
    int N;
    scanf("%d", &N);

    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
    {
        scanf("%d", A + i);
    }

I understand everything that is happening except for the scanf("%d", A + i); line
what is happening to the array here? is it just adding the integer read in from the console to the array? I have a good understanding of Java.
So if someone would be able to translate that to Java. I would most likely be able to understand what is happening.

A: A + i is the same as &A[i], or in other words, A[i] is the same as *(A + i). So A + i is the address of the ith element (count starting at zero).

A: Unfortunately, this doesn't translate very well to Java. It is an example of pointer arithmetic, which only makes sense when you understand that pointers and arrays are numbers just like any others. A + i stands for "the memory address i units beyond A". (In this case, the units are ints, which are 4 bytes. So you could also write it as "the memory address i * 4 bytes beyond A".)


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Interview with a (one man) Wolfpack: N.C. State Q&A
Steven of Backing the Pack drops by to give us a preview of the Wolfpack before the B1G/ACC Challenge matchup Wednesday night.
By Drew Hamm@drewhamm5 Dec 4, 2019, 11:01am CST
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The ACC/B1G Challenge is in full swing and the two conferences are tied 4-4 after two days of competition. This year, the Wisconsin Badgers (4-3 overall) travel to Raleigh, N.C. to take on the North Carolina State Wolfpack (5-2 overall, 0-1 ACC) in a return game after the Badgers won last season's matchup.
Wisconsin has lost two straight games and will be trying to get off the schneid in a tough road environment. Steven from Backing the Pack, our N.C. State SB Nation cousins, was nice enough to answer our questions.
Wisconsin basketball: North Carolina State Wolfpack 2019-20 preview
1) Give us a quick recap of N.C. State's season so far. Best win, team MVP so far, things of that nature.
NC State has won the games it was supposed to, with the exception of Georgia Tech to begin the season. But the Wolfpack also was without its best player (Markell Johnson) and its best big man (DJ Funderburk) in that contest. The team's best win of the season probably was its 16-point victory over Little Rock, which gave Memphis a tough game earlier in the year.
Senior wing C.J. Bryce has had the best start offensively and has been a consistently effective scorer inside the arc. Most likely, Johnson will end up being the MVP--or at least he had better be if this team is going to get back to the NCAAs.
2) Will Brad Davison, taker of game-winning charges, need a security detail when he steps off the plane in Raleigh?
That wouldn't be the worst idea. And no doubt he can expect to be booed every time he touches the ball on Wednesday night. If he draws a charge during the game, it might be the officials who need the security.
3) Who is an under-the-radar player for the Wolfpack that Badgers fans can bring up at the bar to sound smart on Wednesday?
Freshman forward Manny Bates is off to a nice start after missing all of last season with injury. He's a role player in the offense but has been good on the offensive boards, and he's proving to be a good shot blocker as well. He's not going to lead the scoring but definitely can have an impact in those other areas.
4) Who has taken over for Torin Dorn as leading scorer/reboudner?
Bryce, who I mentioned above, is a similar player, though not quite as good on the glass. He'll continue to be an important piece because he can bring that type of versatility--I won't be surprised if he leads the team in rebounding all year.
Bryce has been the leading scorer thus far, but I expect he'll give way to Markell Johnson once Johnson gets over his slow start to the season. That's partly been due to an ankle injury that he suffered in the preseason. So far, Johnson's outside shooting has been off, but once that comes around, he'll be the leader at that end of the floor.
5) Where do you think Wisconsin can take advantage of N.C. State?
NC State lacks front-court depth and in general isn't too great at defending twos, and that's probably going to be a lingering concern throughout the year. Wisconsin is maybe not quite as well-positioned to take advantage of that as it was last season, but the Badgers definitely can have success in the paint.
6) Final score prediction and leading scorer for the game?
Give me, oh, let's say, NC State 70-65. Markell Johnson scores 18 to lead the way