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How can it bee: an existential dilemma
From time to time I have attempted to upload pictures of our bees to the internet, though not with much success. This has caused something of an existential dilemma on my part: if a picture of something doesn't appear on the net, does it actually exist? What would humans be if you took all the selfies away from them? Well, the same thing happens with bees. So people would be forgiven for being justifiably suspicious of our claims to have bees. This, then, is an attempt to rectify that dilemma.
Here is an unconvincing picture of a guard bee that was hanging around the kitchen window and which you probably won't notice anyway because of the cow in the background. For short, let's just call it 'Unconvincing picture of a bee'.
Unconvincing picture of a bee
As if that wasn't convincing enough, this one time, I got stung in the forehead, and it was totally from our own bees and not from some other bee or wasp or anything like that. Here is a picture of what I looked like after I got stung although it doesn't actually have any bee in it. For short, I call it 'Picture that doesn't actually have a bee in it'.
Picture that doesn't actually have a bee in it
And, to wrap things up, here is a generic stock photo image of a a bee hive that no-one uses anymore. I call it 'Skep', because that's what it is. We certainly don't use skeps at our house, but I've just thrown it in there anyway to make my case more thorough and logically consistent. Also, it looks nice.
The daily grump, or, a finely detailed discussion of all the things I am grumpy about, part #1,000,000,001
Public art: I have decided that I do not like it very much, and, what's worse, I find that I am having more and more opportunities for not liking it very much, at great length, everywhere I turn, which makes me like it even less.
Politicians, at the best of times, are the sort of people who get excited about paving footpaths deep into the heart of the majestic wilderness, setting fences up, and generally plonking gigantic roadways and tollways and bridges here, there, and everywhere. So much so that it is getting that we can't see the footpaths for the fences for the roadways for the tollways for the bridges, much less the majestic wilderness that is allegedly there in the first place. This would all be quite quaint and charming in its own way, and after all, if you don't find a place in politics for these sort of people, where would they go?
Unfortunately, lately politicians seem to have developed taste and culture; and now, instead of getting excited about slabs of concrete or chunks of asphalt, they are developing an alarming amount of enthusiasm for paying excessive amounts of money for art. Not their own art, of course, and nor is it their own money, naturally: that would encourage unnecessary feelings of frugality and thriftiness, which are highly disadvantageous to a political career.
And what sort of art do they like to spend excessive amounts of money on, these people who previously exercised their talents in spending excessive amounts of money on slabs of concrete and chunks of asphalt? Huge art, horrible art, art both hugely horrible and horribly huge so that you can't help but notice it being horribly huge wherever you turn. Oh look, it's a gigantic fucking silver gnome. Oh yeah, there's that arse ugly fake hotel. How about that! And what is most infuriating about all of this is not the expense, or the ugliness, or the cheap attention-grabbing nature of it all, or even the hugeness, it is the inescapable impression that one is being imposed upon, that your own artistic tastes don't matter, that it has all been settled and decided for you by people with more - well, not more taste than your own, certainly, and not necessarily more intelligence than you, either, but certainly more money than you. Oh, they've got bucketloads of that last one. And look, here's some culture, so you don't have to worry about it. There you go, you slobs, have as much culture as you can take!
It is all of a piece with that other common view about people who inhabit the suburbs, that they are an undiscerning mass who generally will do everything they can to avoid culture. But that was never true, not really, since every occasion a person in the suburbs spends not going out to a night in the theatre or visiting the local art gallery or looking fashionable in the company of other fashionable people on Brunswick Street or Sydney Road, they might just be spending quietly at home reading a book or watching the telly or having a party with friends. But no, the assumption seems to be that these people must have culture, the right sort of culture, whether they like it or not, and, oh look, there's another vomit-coloured and turd-shaped statue of Brobdingnagian proportions being erected in the oval behind your house, obstructing your view, grabbing your attention, just when you thought they really were going to let you get away with standing around idly in the backyard admiring clouds.... Will anyone save us from this sudden discovery of taste and culture on the part of politicians?
Thanks to a rather surprising coincidence of events and happenstance, I recently, in the course of two days, came into the possession of three (or possibly four*) student journals from two separate universities (Melbourne and La Trobe). As you may know, I am frequently in the habit of reading such literature in my ongoing quest for more things to be grumpy about, so I eagerly leapt upon these latest publications.
The results were lamentably free of poor writing, reprehensibly well written; barely a howler here or a mistake there to get outraged about. I was thrown into such desperate straits that The Grump had almost decided to get grumpy about a lack of things to get grumpy about (it's been known to happen before). It was only at the last minute that I was saved from this by noticing the apparently ubiquitous label above articles: "Trigger warning" - often substituting any actual introduction or editorial note. "Trigger warnings" were common to both publications from Melbourne and La Trobe. suggesting that it's not only in these two publications that one might find such stuff.
It is curious to observe how infantile trends that seem to begin in student culture in the United States make their way rapidly to Australia. Just why we should feel compelled to imitate this latest catchphrase (there've been a few come and go since I was at uni) is beyond me. Australian students, take a stand, be patriotic - let us independently come up with our own twaddle, free of this American nonsense! Trust me, I'm a grump!
*There is a certain amount of quantum uncertainty about such things in my universe.
Notes towards a doughnut re-education camp
- Geometry: the holes in doughnuts - ideal dimensions of - taste compared to holes in Cheezels - advanced geometry - whether you can fit a camel through - Mobius doughnuts.
- The inferiority of Krispy Kreme and Woolworths doughnuts - being fed boxes of said doughnuts while tied down in a chair and Beethoven's ninth is played to you repeatedly.
- The Sisyphus test - can you roll a gigantic doughnuts up a hill before eating it? - catching doughnuts in your mouth.
- spelling - doughnuts or donuts? - kronuts or kroughnuts? - the inferiority of Nutella to jam - the inferiority of icing to cinnamon sugar.
- variants - Cheezels: savoury doughnuts or chips? - what to do with Spanish doughnuts - ideal heat of doughnut - various taste testings.
- more taste testings.
- more taste testings just to be sure.
Because food is evil and must be punished
Doctors' kitchen knives ban call
A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing. A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase - and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings...The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.
They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.
Put down the knife, sir, and step slowly away from the onion
I know this article is a decade old, but the pursuit of truth and outrage and scandal is timeless. So, in the spirit of freedom and all things good and pure, I'd like to take a nostalgic look back at all the other items the nanny state (accursed be its putrid ways!) has banned us from using in the kitchen.
Gone are the days when you could just rocket blast a piece of steak or a delicate bit of blanc monge into submission. Sure, there are egg beaters and such like, but the results are just not the same without that beautiful smell of metal and military explosives, are they?
No no, boys, the souffle is that way!
Thanks, nanny state!
Demonic-slaying axe
There once was a time when you could cheerfully spend a hard day's work spifflicating demons on your sturdy axe before returning home and hewing some honest lumps of bread off with the same axe to have yourself a soothing peanut butter sandwich. Not any more. "Demonic-slaying axes should only be used by approved and licensed slaying authorities", they say. I ask you. Where are we going to find someone like that when we want a sandwich?
"Make me a sandwich! Please?"
And sure, the bench would usually get hewn into splinters when you did cut another chunk of bread, but it was worth it!
Medieval mace
Oh, I can't even prepare the salad dressing with a medieval mace anymore, can I? This is just too much! Actually, I kind of agree with this one: it's much to difficult to whip a mayonnaise into shape with a medieval ball-and-chain concoction: the Luger is so much more efficient for the modern chef.
What do you prefer? This traditional kitchen implement or the more modern-style Luger? Write in, please, enclosing a cheque for $1 million to the usual address!
A spring song
Grey clouds and mizzle -
An appropriately sober
Dose of springtime drizzle
I hope lasts through October.
Enough that bees and flowers
Enjoy their youthful fling -
But without springtime showers,
They will not bear a thing.
We'll have more weeks of boggy
Sodden gloom to trudge through yet:
So thank God for the soggy
And for the rain and wet.
My first tweet
Why join Twitter when you can do it in the more traditional manner?
This is a true story dude it happened to a friend of a friend of a friend of mine in a 7/11 far far away
I was Jason on a city corner one morning - at least, people assumed I was, and who am I to deny them? "You Jason?" they asked. "You Jason? You Jason? You Jason?"
"Nah," I said. "Emma Chisett!"
"You've had a sex change?" said one of them. "That's alright, a lot of us have. You see Mike Hunt over there?"
Of course, I had to look. I find Mike Hunt in the strangest of places. Anyway, things were going along like this for a while, when who should come around the corner but Laura Norder?
"Laura!" we all said. "Long time no see! We haven't done anything, honest!"
"There's no time for that now!" said Laura. "I'm looking for Wayne Kerr - he's pretty big, you know. Looking for a big, gigantic, large Wayne Kerr. You seen him?"
"Is he with Mr Bates?" someone suggested.
Just then, I heard a Russell in the trees. I don't know why, it's just that Russell is always climbing the fucking things. "Get out of the bloody tree, Russell!" I shouted.
"Fuck you!" said Russell, which is just like him.
Laura explained, turned out Wayne had been a Robin up and down the neighbourhood. He drove Alexis round the bend, and then got involved in a big con job stealing people's credit card details.
"Con job?" said Mike. "Con Staralambous?"
"Nope," said Laura. "Even worse. Con Clusion."
The daily grump, or, a finely detailed discussion ...
This is a true story dude it happened to a friend ...


The Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) is expanding its Finance Section. The School wants to invest in strengthening education and research with the appointment of a new Chair in Corporate Finance and a new Chair Banking & Finance. The chair holders are expected to make an essential contribution to research and education in the field of Finance.
In terms of research, the Full Professor in Corporate Finance should preferably have connections to areas such as corporate finance, corporate governance, financial reporting, entrepreneurial finance, bankruptcy, and fintech. Even though the research focus of the Chair needs to be on corporate finance, connections to other research themes at U.S.E. (future of work, behavioural insights for policy making, entrepreneurship, and sustainability and economic development) and to the Utrecht University Strategic Themes Institutions for Open Societies and/or Pathways to Sustainability are highly appreciated. There are also opportunities to contribute to the Sustainable Finance Lab and the European Center for Alternative Finance, both hosted by U.S.E. In terms of teaching expertise, the Chair is expected to cover the full domain of Corporate Finance. This includes courses in the academic Master's programme Financial Management. Teaching is in English.
In terms of research, the Full Professor in Banking & Finance should preferably have connections to areas such as asset pricing, international finance, investment management, financial markets, fintech, banking, and sustainable finance. Even though the research focus of the Chair needs to be on banking and finance, connections to other research themes at U.S.E. (future of work, behavioural insights for policy making, entrepreneurship, and sustainability and economic development) and to the Utrecht University Strategic Themes Institutions for Open Societies and/or Pathways to Sustainability are highly appreciated. There are also opportunities to contribute to the Sustainable Finance Lab and the European Center for Alternative Finance, both hosted by U.S.E. In terms of teaching expertise, the Chair is expected to cover the full domain of Banking & Finance. This includes courses in the academic Master's programme Banking & Finance. Teaching is in English.
U.S.E. offers an appointment as Full Professor. The gross salary – depending on previous qualifications and experience - ranges between €5,582 and €9,812 (scale HL2-HL1 according to the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities) per month for a full-time employment. Salaries are supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% per year. We offer a pension scheme, collective insurance schemes and flexible employment conditions (multiple choice model). Favourable tax conditions may apply for non-Dutch applicants. Here you'll find more information about working at Utrecht University.
The candidate will become a member of the Finance Section at the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). U.S.E. is part of the Law, Economics, and Governance Faculty of Utrecht University. U.S.E. contributes to an economy where people flourish, by taking a broad view on welfare and its causes. We aspire to be an internationally renowned school of economics, with scientifically rigorous and societally relevant research and education. We enrich economics with other disciplines to better solve problems and identify opportunities, from a business and government point of view: the real-world perspective. Well-being, cooperation, innovation and curiosity are our core values.
U.S.E. maintains an excellent international network of academic relationships and is continuously working on extending this network. It teaches its curricula fully in English. U.S.E. is also an important contributor to the European Center for Alternative Finance, the Sustainable Finance Lab and the Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Further information can be obtained – under strict confidentiality – from Prof. Erik Stam, Head of the Department E.Stam@uu.nl, phone +31 30 253 78 94.
A first evaluation round will consider applications received before May 20th, 2019. The position will remain open until filled.
the names and email addresses of three academic referees.
Please do not contact U.S.E. with services or other commercial interest.


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1-Mar-1982 Underground Research Laboratory experimental program Baumgartner, P.; Betcher, R. N.; Bird, G. W.; Dormuth, K. W.; Kurfurst, P. J.; Larocque, G. E.; Lee, C. F.; McConnell, D. B.; Pearson, R.; Sargent, F. P.; Simmons, G. R.; Soonawala, N. M.; Tsui, K. K.
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#include "webrtc/modules/video_render/linux/video_x11_channel.h"

#include "webrtc/system_wrappers/interface/critical_section_wrapper.h"
#include "webrtc/system_wrappers/interface/trace.h"

namespace webrtc {

#define DISP_MAX 128

static Display *dispArray[DISP_MAX];
static int dispCount = 0;

VideoX11Channel::VideoX11Channel(int32_t id) :
    _crit(*CriticalSectionWrapper::CreateCriticalSection()), _display(NULL),
          _shminfo(), _image(NULL), _window(0L), _gc(NULL),
          _width(DEFAULT_RENDER_FRAME_WIDTH),
          _height(DEFAULT_RENDER_FRAME_HEIGHT), _outWidth(0), _outHeight(0),
          _xPos(0), _yPos(0), _prepared(false), _dispCount(0), _buffer(NULL),
          _top(0.0), _left(0.0), _right(0.0), _bottom(0.0),
          _Id(id)
{
}

VideoX11Channel::~VideoX11Channel()
{
    if (_prepared)
    {
        _crit.Enter();
        ReleaseWindow();
        _crit.Leave();
    }
    delete &_crit;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::RenderFrame(const uint32_t streamId,
                                     I420VideoFrame& videoFrame) {
  CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);
  if (_width != videoFrame.width() || _height
      != videoFrame.height()) {
      if (FrameSizeChange(videoFrame.width(), videoFrame.height(), 1) == -1) {
        return -1;
    }
  }
  return DeliverFrame(videoFrame);
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::FrameSizeChange(int32_t width,
                                         int32_t height,
                                         int32_t /*numberOfStreams */)
{
    CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);
    if (_prepared)
    {
        RemoveRenderer();
    }
    if (CreateLocalRenderer(width, height) == -1)
    {
        return -1;
    }

    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::DeliverFrame(const I420VideoFrame& videoFrame) {
  CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);
  if (!_prepared) {
    return 0;
  }

  if (!dispArray[_dispCount]) {
    return -1;
  }

  ConvertFromI420(videoFrame, kARGB, 0, _buffer);

  // Put image in window.
  XShmPutImage(_display, _window, _gc, _image, 0, 0, _xPos, _yPos, _width,
               _height, True);

  // Very important for the image to update properly!
  XSync(_display, False);
  return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::GetFrameSize(int32_t& width, int32_t& height)
{
    width = _width;
    height = _height;

    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::Init(Window window, float left, float top,
                              float right, float bottom)
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);
    CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);

    _window = window;
    _left = left;
    _right = right;
    _top = top;
    _bottom = bottom;

    _display = XOpenDisplay(NULL); // Use default display
    if (!_window || !_display)
    {
        return -1;
    }

    if (dispCount < DISP_MAX)
    {
        dispArray[dispCount] = _display;
        _dispCount = dispCount;
        dispCount++;
    }
    else
    {
        return -1;
    }

    if ((1 < left || left < 0) || (1 < top || top < 0) || (1 < right || right
            < 0) || (1 < bottom || bottom < 0))
    {
        return -1;
    }

    // calculate position and size of rendered video
    int x, y;
    unsigned int winWidth, winHeight, borderwidth, depth;
    Window rootret;
    if (XGetGeometry(_display, _window, &rootret, &x, &y, &winWidth,
                     &winHeight, &borderwidth, &depth) == 0)
    {
        return -1;
    }

    _xPos = (int32_t) (winWidth * left);
    _yPos = (int32_t) (winHeight * top);
    _outWidth = (int32_t) (winWidth * (right - left));
    _outHeight = (int32_t) (winHeight * (bottom - top));
    if (_outWidth % 2)
        _outWidth++; // the renderer want's sizes that are multiples of two
    if (_outHeight % 2)
        _outHeight++;

    _gc = XCreateGC(_display, _window, 0, 0);
    if (!_gc) {
      // Failed to create the graphics context.
      assert(false);
      return -1;
    }

    if (CreateLocalRenderer(winWidth, winHeight) == -1)
    {
        return -1;
    }
    return 0;

}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::ChangeWindow(Window window)
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);
    CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);

    // Stop the rendering, if we are rendering...
    RemoveRenderer();
    _window = window;

    // calculate position and size of rendered video
    int x, y;
    unsigned int winWidth, winHeight, borderwidth, depth;
    Window rootret;
    if (XGetGeometry(_display, _window, &rootret, &x, &y, &winWidth,
                     &winHeight, &borderwidth, &depth) == -1)
    {
        return -1;
    }
    _xPos = (int) (winWidth * _left);
    _yPos = (int) (winHeight * _top);
    _outWidth = (int) (winWidth * (_right - _left));
    _outHeight = (int) (winHeight * (_bottom - _top));
    if (_outWidth % 2)
        _outWidth++; // the renderer want's sizes that are multiples of two
    if (_outHeight % 2)
        _outHeight++;

    // Prepare rendering using the
    if (CreateLocalRenderer(_width, _height) == -1)
    {
        return -1;
    }
    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::ReleaseWindow()
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);
    CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);

    RemoveRenderer();
    if (_gc) {
      XFreeGC(_display, _gc);
      _gc = NULL;
    }
    if (_display)
    {
        XCloseDisplay(_display);
        _display = NULL;
    }
    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::CreateLocalRenderer(int32_t width, int32_t height)
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);
    CriticalSectionScoped cs(&_crit);

    if (!_window || !_display)
    {
        return -1;
    }

    if (_prepared)
    {
        WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceWarning, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id,
                     "Renderer already prepared, exits.");
        return -1;
    }

    _width = width;
    _height = height;

    // create shared memory image
    _image = XShmCreateImage(_display, CopyFromParent, 24, ZPixmap, NULL,
                             &_shminfo, _width, _height); // this parameter needs to be the same for some reason.
    _shminfo.shmid = shmget(IPC_PRIVATE, (_image->bytes_per_line
            * _image->height), IPC_CREAT | 0777);
    _shminfo.shmaddr = _image->data = (char*) shmat(_shminfo.shmid, 0, 0);
    if (_image->data == reinterpret_cast<char*>(-1))
    {
        return -1;
    }
    _buffer = (unsigned char*) _image->data;
    _shminfo.readOnly = False;

    // attach image to display
    if (!XShmAttach(_display, &_shminfo))
    {
        //printf("XShmAttach failed !\n");
        return -1;
    }
    XSync(_display, False);

    _prepared = true;
    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::RemoveRenderer()
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);

    if (!_prepared)
    {
        return 0;
    }
    _prepared = false;

    // Free the memory.
    XShmDetach(_display, &_shminfo);
    XDestroyImage( _image );
    _image = NULL;
    shmdt(_shminfo.shmaddr);
    _shminfo.shmaddr = NULL;
    _buffer = NULL;
    shmctl(_shminfo.shmid, IPC_RMID, 0);
    _shminfo.shmid = 0;
    return 0;
}

int32_t VideoX11Channel::GetStreamProperties(uint32_t& zOrder,
                                             float& left, float& top,
                                             float& right, float& bottom) const
{
    WEBRTC_TRACE(kTraceInfo, kTraceVideoRenderer, _Id, "%s",
                 __FUNCTION__);

    zOrder = 0; // no z-order support yet
    left = _left;
    top = _top;
    right = _right;
    bottom = _bottom;

    return 0;
}

}  // namespace webrtc

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March 16, 2017 March 16, 2017 Libbybody love, body positivity, bopo, fat, fatshion, instagram
A few years ago I introduced a friend of mine to a larger group of friends. She could have just said, "Nice to meet you all" and left it at that but the first thing she said to the group was, "Libby helped me to love my body and I'm forever thankful for that." I was brought to tears immediately. Not just because that was such a touching and disarming thing to hear–something I'd love to be remembered for. But because sometimes (and at that moment in particular), I am just not loving this body of mine. But I want to–so I work hard at it.
If there's anything in this life that's worth having, it's worth working for. You're never just going to wake up one day having dismantled all that your upbringing, culture, and expectations have constructed around you. I don't care who you are–what your gender is, what your age is, what your body looks like, you have been told that some aspect of you is not good enough. It's as inevitable as death and taxes. Some of you have had it whispered to you in a sliver of doubt in your mind–some of you have faced humiliation, discrimination and even violence because of it. But no one escapes it. Would you believe it if I told you that social media has been one of the key ingredients in building my confidence?
Body-love starts with body-acceptance and body-acceptance starts at normalizing normal bodies. Now, body positivity is very trendy right now and on one very, very large hand that's awesome. But on another hand, when important things become very popular, they can become diluted. Lots of brands are out there advertising diversity and body love while still showing images of all the same types of people. And the reason that this doesn't help is because it just creates a new normal–a new ideal. Just a different thing to strive for. But I don't want a new normal. I want what exists right now to be normal.
Look, I'm not going to change the media and the way that they keep giving us new ideals to strive for. But I can change the media that I consume. So rather than waiting for Glamour to serve me up images of the types of people that I know and love, I'm going to seek them out for my own self and flood my own media channels with what I'm looking for. It's 2017. You're in control of a lot more than you ever were before.
I want to be more loving and accepting of my own body and I want to be more loving and accepting of other peoples' bodies. So I flood my social media channels with images of people who look like me and people who do not at all look like (or maybe even live like, or think like) me and this has made such a huge difference in how I see myself and how I love others well, too. The following is a list of people that I follow to one degree or another. These are Instagram accounts but don't forget to find these people on YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Tumblr, etc to make sure that you don't leave a gap. I hope you have so much fun finding new accounts to follow, finding new voices and perspectives to hear from, and finding new ways to see yourself as honorable.
Women who look like me (at least in one way or another):
@fatgirlflow (I especially like watching Corissa on YouTube because she often films videos with messy hair and a makeup free face and that makes me feel so much more acceptable in my greasy hair and pimply face), @meghantonjes, @hellabellafabulous, @allisonkimmey, @margotmeanie, @tessholiday
WOC Instagrammers:
@lizzobeeating, @douxsarah (plus-size, hijab fashion? I'm so here for this.), @ihartericka
Trans Instagrammers:
@shadeyshay, @ryancassata, @janetmock
Disabled Instagrammers:
@sitting_pretty, @rvbyallegra, @curvesbecomeher
Male Instagrammers:
@fatboyflow (yeah, so Nate is married to @fatgirlflow and they're both broadening my horizons and cracking me up), @mattjosephdiaz, @titusssawthis
Etc. Body Positive Instagram Accounts:
@bodyposipanda, @bebody_positive, @cheyennegil, @themilitantbaker, @slaygirlsociety, @nolatrees, @donthatetheshake and a gazillion more who are ready and waiting to serve you up some sweet, sweet body normalization.
Are there any accounts that you'd like to add to this list? What about categories? Is there anything you'd like to see but are having trouble finding? I'll look for it!
I think you're great.
XOXO, Lib.
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Emilie and Aaron went got the supplies and came over after one hour Aaron had the frame done.
They came back last night and finished... Check out Em and all her bling, ring, necklace, manicured nails, and cute clothes hammering chicken wire to the frame, she truly is the most glamorous chicken coop builder I have ever seen!
Aaron installing the "egg door"
Here is the finished Coop Couture!!
I can't believe you are REALLY gonna raise a chicken!!!!! Maybe you can leave a chicken feed trail to lure her in!
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The Great Pyramid of Giza: Last Remaining Wonder of the Ancient World
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The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest monument on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is also the only one left standing. It is a marvel of human engineering and construction, and its sheer size and scale rivals any structure built within the last few hundred years. It's construction, though, has always been the subject of much debate among scholars, because of its massive size and near perfect proportions.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza was built for the Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh Khufu (or Cheops), and was completed around 2560 BCE. It is part of a complex of 3 large pyramids in the Giza Necropolis located in modern Cairo, Egypt. The Great Pyramid is the largest of the three pyramids, and it is part of its own smaller complex that also contain 3 small pyramids that were built for Khufu's wives.
It took approximately 20 years to complete, and several theories are debated by scholars as to how it was built and by whom. Some theories point to slave labor, but it seems more plausible that Egyptians themselves lent their efforts, working during the times of year when the Nile was flooded and their farm work would not have been possible. It would have been a sort of civil service.
Some evidence & theories suggest that 20,000 workers over the course of 20 years built The GREAT Pyramid
How the pyramid was constructed has always been the subject of very passionate debate by scholars. Some evidence and theories suggest that 20,000 workers over the course of 20 years built it, and were even paid to do so. This would have required a great deal of organization and manpower in the way of accounting and record keeping. The Egyptians were known for their excellent documentation.
The pyramid was constructed out of stone blocks, each weighing at least 2 tons. There are theories suggesting that multiple men together maneuvered each block over a ramp that encircled the structure as it rose, or that they moved each stone up long ramps that got higher and longer as the pyramid got taller, or even that scaffolding was used. Many eschew each of these theories for different reasons, including the idea that wood that could have been used for scaffolding or ramps would have been at a premium, and using mud brick for those purposes would not have held under the enormous weight of each massive block. And, of course, there are the ideas that aliens built the pyramids. However the pyramid was constructed, it is a marvelous feat, and should be awed and respected, especially because it is standing today with relatively minor damage.
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The Great Pyramid, when completed, was faced in the gleeming white Tura limestone, which must have presented quite the spectacular appearance in the Egyptian desert. It was 481 feet high (it has since lost its top and is currently 25 feet less tall) and covers 13.1 acres. It is estimated that 2.3 million stone blocks were used, weighing between 2 and 15 tons each. The pyramid itself is filled with internal passages and chambers that would have housed the Pharaoh's granite sarcophagus and all the necessary goods for a fruitful journey to the afterlife. This would have included a great deal of precious metals and stones, food products, and hand-carved furnishings.
There is no wonder why the Great Pyramid of Giza was on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is a testament to human ingenuity and strength, and its size and near-perfect proportions must have been awe-inspiring to behold.
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Assisted dying in hospital
Assisted dying has now been legalized in some form in five European countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg), six US states (Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, California, and Colorado), Colombia, and most recently Canada. If the day comes when the wishes of the majority in the UK are respected by legislators, it will become legal here too. This very clear and practical article describes how it is being implemented in hospitals in Canada. In fact this is quite a rich week for those interested in this topic. There is a Viewpoint article in JAMA IM which discusses the difficulties encountered from conscientious objection by clinicians in California, and The BMJ contains a discussion about extending assisted dying to old people who are not terminally ill in the Netherlands. For those who want to reach an informed view of what should happen here, these are all required reading.
Getting in fast for sepsis
In medicine, what seems obvious is not always true, but in the case of antibiotics for sepsis, the obvious is indeed likely to be true: get them in as soon as possible. Since nobody is going to do a randomised trial of delayed antibiotics for sepsis, this observational study from New York is as close as we will get to proof. The mandated intervention consisted of a 3-hour bundle of care for patients with sepsis that involved obtaining blood cultures, administering broad-spectrum antibiotic agents, and lactate measurement—all to be performed within 3 hours. This was achieved in 82.5% of patients across 149 hospitals. They were given a bolus of fluid too, but the timing of this made no difference to outcomes, whereas those who were given their antibiotics more quickly showed a small reduction in risk-adjusted mortality.
Angiotensin II for shock
Vasodilatory shock is the name given to the most common type of shock, in which there is peripheral vasodilation and a large drop in blood pressure despite preserved cardiac output. To an old doc like me this seems counterintuitive, as we tend to think of patients in shock as "shut down," cold, and clammy. Anyway, the kind of doctors who look after such patients are principally concerned with preventing irreversible organ damage by keeping blood pressure up, using adrenaline/epinephrine. Physiologically, you could also do this with angiotensin II, and this is what was tried here in shocked patients who were not responding to maximal doses of high-dose vasopressors. In this industry-funded trial, angiotensin proved better at maintaining blood pressure in this group than placebo. This often allowed doses of catecholamines to be reduced, but the trial was not powered to measure effects on mortality or organ failure.
Benralizumab for asthma requiring oral steroids
Some people have terrible asthma with lots of eosinophils in their airways, and cannot get by without continuous oral steroids. Benralizumab is an antibody designed to kill eosinophils, or, to put it more amply, a humanized, afucosylated (engineered to eliminate fucose sugars from the oligosaccharides in the Fc region) monoclonal antibody directed against the alpha subunit of the interleukin-5 receptor that induces direct, rapid, and nearly complete depletion of eosinophils by means of natural killer cell–mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxic effects. In this Astra Zeneca funded trial, most of these severely affected patients who were given benralizumab rather than placebo were able to reduce their oral steroids without any loss of lung function at 28 weeks—but without any gain either. It's hard to know how this drug may or may not fit into the future treatment of people with severe eosinophilic asthma: you could call it an example of uncertain benralizability.
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Combining antibiotics for cellulitis
Between-country variations in drug availability are a complete mystery to me. In the UK we use flucloxacillin as first-line treatment for most skin infections, but when I mentioned this agent to US doctor friends, they looked blankly. It isn't available there. There as here, most non-purulent cellulitis is caused by streptococci which remain sensitive to most beta-lactam antibiotics, but in contrast with British practice, it seems that cefalexin is a popular choice in America. This randomised controlled trial of adding trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole to cefalexin for uncomplicated cellulitis seems to be predicated on the idea that some of the infections are caused by meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. But within the limits of the trial, this combination did not seem to make any difference to cure rates. To be honest, I can't quite understand the rationale of this study.
Teaching hospitals: the difference shows
Teaching hospitals took to calling themselves "centres of excellence" in the 1990s and the term seems to have persisted. Sadly for those of us who like to prick such bubbles of self-congratulation, it seems that teaching hospitals actually are better than other hospitals in the USA. In this survey, the primary outcome was 30-day mortality rate for all hospitalizations and for 15 common medical and 6 surgical conditions. Teaching hospitals had significantly better results across the board, albeit not by huge margins.
JAMA Intern Med May 2017 Vol 177
Looking at the elderly in a statin trial
Post-hoc subgroup analysis is always a sin, but some sins are more excusable than others. Here we have a post-hoc analysis of the effects of pravastatin in people over 65 included in ALLHAT-LLT. This is so large a group that no real excuses are needed, and I think we can accept the conclusion that pravastatin had no effect when given for primary prevention to over-65s with moderately elevated lipids and blood pressure. But in discussing actual mortality increases in over-75s given statins, I think we need to be a bit more circumspect. This would require individual participant data meta-analysis of greater scale and sophistication: an urgently necessary task which some trialists are arguing against even attempting, despite its huge implications for clinical practice.
Ann Intern Med 23 May 2017 Vol 166
MR CLEAN stroke treatment and extra cranial atheroma
I consider it my job to be sceptical in these reviews, but even I have been convinced by the growing evidence that intra-arterial procedures to retrieve clots from the cerebral circulation represent a real advance in stroke management. One key trial was MR CLEAN, which included a prespecified subgroup of stroke patients with a >50% occlusion of the carotid artery in the neck. It might be supposed that those with external carotid stenosis would benefit less from clot retrieval within the brain arteries, but this was not the case. Here is a procedure which can help a lot of disparate stroke patients.
The Lancet 27 May 2017 Vol 389
Helping children detect unreliable health claims
Last Monday I spent a joyful and fascinating afternoon listening to the work of a team from Uganda and Norway who had worked for years on ways to teach African children to detect unreliable health claims. The twin aspects of their work are described in two papers on The Lancet website. One was a cluster-randomised trial of a teaching package which had been carefully designed over 6 years. "The results show that it is possible to teach primary school children to think critically in schools with large student to teacher ratios and few resources." They certainly do, and it's only a pity that readers can't share the wonderful video clips which the researchers used in their presentation, especially a girl of about ten summarising the essence of shared decision-making with a broad smile: "Health choices are mine. They are mine. Nobody else's." The second study involved a podcast given to parents which led to a large improvement in the ability of parents to assess claims about the effects of treatments. "Future studies should assess the long-term effects of use of the podcast, the effects on actual health choices and outcomes, and how transferable our findings are to other countries." Congratulations.
Excluding pulmonary embolism with the YEARS rule
The trouble with decision tools is that they are erratically used, and when they are tested, they often add nothing to clinical judgement. When a diagnosis carries serious implications for management (not to mention the possibility of litigation) the temptation is to skip both rules and judgement and go straight to a "definitive" investigation. In the case of pulmonary embolism, this is computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA). A new decision tool for suspected PE called YEARS was developed and tested in 12 Dutch hospitals. If you are used to relying on Wells' rule and D-dimer, then you will carry out 14% more unnecessary CTPAs than if you use YEARS, the authors conclude.
Post-mortem CT angiography for sudden death
The reason for avoiding CTPA on people who are alive is that it exposes them to quite high doses of ionizing radiation. But CT scanning can be freely used on the dead, and here is a single-centre study which shows that post-mortem CT (PMCT), enhanced with targeted coronary angiography (PMCTA) provided a cause of death in 92% of coroner-referred cases.
I was surprised to learn from the introduction of this article that England and Wales have one of the highest frequencies of autopsy in the world. It had always seemed to me that there were too few, and that doctors by and large continue to bury their mistakes.
The BMJ 27 May 2017 Vol 357
Antibiotics and cough complications
For the last 40 years, I must have read hundreds of articles about antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections in general practice. This is the gift which keeps on giving. Here is a study of 28 779 adult patients with lower respiratory tract infections.
Subsequent hospital admission or death occurred in 26/7332 (0.3%) after no antibiotic prescription, 156/17 628 (0.9%) after prescription for immediate antibiotics, and 14/3819 (0.4%) after a prescription for delayed antibiotics. These raw data are quite interesting: they show that the patients given immediate antibiotics by GPs really are sicker, because the difference disappears with multivariable analysis. In fact with this adjustment all the group differences become non-significant. I cannot say what this implies for practice. Last year I was worried to read a study of my own locality (Oxfordshire) in Thorax showing a rapid increase in admissions for community-acquired pneumonia since 1998, especially from 2008-2014. Oxfordshire GPs are of course the best in the world, and prescribe fewer antibiotics than most. I left their ranks in 2010, further reducing the antibiotic prescribing rate.
In his terrific book, The Science of the Art of Medicine, John Brush comments that most people find it impossible to conceptualise risk and probability. But if we are to share decisions with patients, we need not only to learn how to do it ourselves, but also to impart understanding simply to patients. Measuring CV risk is important, and Julia Hippisley-Cox's QRISK scores are widely recognised as the best there are for the UK. The latest, QRISK3, incorporates new clinical variables and improves on the predictive value of earlier versions. But in the end, we are trying to apply this knowledge to millions of free-living individuals, each with their own cluster of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. In a desperately undermanned NHS, we are going to have to find ways of converting our understanding into helpful advice and support for each of them. The alternative—to be decided next week—is to let the devil take the hindmost.
Plant of the Week: Rosa "Gloire de Dijon"
In 1926, at the age of 17, Graham Stuart Thomas became an assistant gardener at Cambridge University Botanic Garden. He had to buy his own boots, which cost more than a week's salary. So he took good care of his boots. He went on to become the greatest scholar of garden plants that England has produced, writing to the age of 90 and travelling around National Trust Gardens as their chief adviser. His books cover every class of hardy garden plant, but his greatest work of scholarship consisted of three books about roses, collected together later as the Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book, in which his own watercolours appear together with an abundance of other beautiful illustrations.
Ironically, his work was a leading inspiration to David Austin, whose modern English hybrids now dominate the rose trade to the exclusion of many of the lovely old roses that Thomas describes. One of Austin's first big successes was a scented buff yellow rose which he named Graham Thomas, and which you can find in every garden centre. Meanwhile, the marvellous and versatile old French climber called "Gloire de Dijon", which used to be common, is getting seriously hard to find. But it's very much worth the effort if you are looking for a tough but elegant rose for a north wall or fence. Here is Thomas on the subject: note the mixture of precise scholarship with telling description and authoritative advice:
'Gloire de Dijon' Jacotot, France, 1853. Far removed from the original Noisettes, and as near to a Tea Rose as 'Lamarque': it was the result of crossing a vigorous tea rose with the Bourbon 'Souvenir de la Malmaison'… It is the most popular and satisfactory of all old climbing roses; in constant flower in sun and shade, admirable for wall training, and the giver of a rich fragrance from its deep buff-yellow flowers suffused in warm weather with pink and apricot. It is rather leggy in growth, but this can be dealt with by planting with a small-growing Clematis, or growing it between two shrubs on the wall: it certainly needs support…(It) is in many respects the best yellow climber still.
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Q: Spring WebFlux: block() method return null in Spring Data Reactive MongoDB i'm trying to learn project Reactor and have the problem.
@Test
@DisplayName("check that standaloneUser fields are correct")
void validateUserFields() {
    userService.save(standaloneUser).subscribe();
    assertEquals(userService.count().block(), Long.valueOf(1));
    User user = userService.findByEmail("test@gmail.com").block();
    assertNotNull(user);
    assertNotNull(user.getId());
    assertEquals(user.getFirstName(), "test");
    assertEquals(user.getLastName(), "test");
    assertNotEquals(user.getPassword(), "test");
    assertEquals(user.getRole(), Role.CANDIDATE);
    assertNotNull(user.getCreatedDate());
    assertNull(user.getStoppedDate());
    assertEquals(user.getEmail(), "test@gmail.com");
}

Sometimes block() method returns null.
Who can explain me this?
Thanks

A: block() can return null, it means the Mono completed empty, which in this case means the user wasn't found.
Could it be that it wasn't properly saved? (although you assert the user count)
Note that you do userService.save(standaloneUser).subscribe(). This form is often not ideal, as it is "async fire-and-forget":

*

*async -> it might complete after the subsequent asserts

*fire and forget -> no error handler means that it could terminate with an error and hide it from you.

Make an habit of at least setting onNext and onError handler lambdas when calling subscribe.

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Why Hyper-Independence Isn't Necessarily a Good Thing
Mental health experts break down how to tell the difference between healthy self-sufficiency and risky hyper-independence.
By Zara Hanawalt
What Is Hyper-Independence?
Is Hyper-Independence a Trauma Response?
Negative Effects of Hyper-Independence
What to Do If You Believe You're Hyper-Independent
There's a lot of cultural celebration around the concept of independence, particularly in the United States. People who can take care of themselves receive praise, and the terms "self-made" and "single-handedly" are markers of true, hard-won success. And whether it's a young adult who accepts financial assistance from parents, a parent who hires domestic help, or a romantic partner who is deemed "needy," societal distaste for any type of dependence is real.
Being self-sufficient is one thing, but when this notion is taken too far and you're unable to accept any kind of help or support, it can become unhealthy. The phenomenon is called "hyper-independence," and it can have real negative impacts on a person's relationships, career, mental health, and more. Here, experts weigh in on what hyper-independence looks like, whether or not it's actually a trauma response, and how to address the issue in your own life.
As the name suggests, hyper-independence is "an over-investment in autonomy and self-reliance," according to Terri Bacow, Ph.D., a cognitive-behavioral psychologist and author of Goodbye, Anxiety: A Guided Journal for Overcoming Worry.
"A healthy degree of independence is [characterized by] self-confidence, in the sense of 'I feel good about my autonomy, I feel good about the things I can do by myself without help — and I can also rely on people when I need help,'" adds Bacow. "I think healthy independence is a blend of knowing when you can do it on your own, and when you need to loop in some other people."
On the other hand, "those who are hyper-independent typically have a fear or extreme discomfort with allowing others to support or assist them, even if it is to their detriment," says Simone Saunders, M.S.W., a trauma therapist.
As for what hyper-independence can look like? It might make someone unwilling to lean on their romantic partner for emotional support at a time when they're "really struggling with the compounded stress of work and extended family crises," says Saunders. Or, a parent of two might feel the need to "do it all," and try "tirelessly to fulfill [their] work, parenting, household, and relationship obligations," while rarely asking their partner or extended family for support, she says.
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"Hyper-independence itself isn't a personality trait, rather a survival trait developed through intergenerational, childhood, or adult adverse experiences," says Saunders. "Some of the childhood experiences that result in hyper-independence are childhood emotional or physical neglect — emotional neglect is when a parent does not respond enough to a child's emotional needs during the brain development period — and parentification, when children assume responsibilities that are developmentally inappropriate, [e.g.,] being a mediator for the family, being involved in financial decisions. These experiences teach the child that their caregivers are an unreliable source of stability and safety and that they need to provide it for themselves".
Living in a culture that praises and promotes independence at all costs may play a role as well, adds Bacow. "I think that if you're raised in an environment where independence is valued, this can be transmitted," she says. "It's a message that can be passed down." A need for control and perfectionist tendencies can be wrapped up in hyper-independence, says Bacow. There's a sense of "If I don't include anyone else, I can have total control over the outcome," she says.
Being excessively independent can affect many parts of a person's life. In the workplace, a hyper-independent person may reject help, which could lead to mistakes or taking on responsibilities beyond their capacity, according to Bacow.
In interpersonal relationships, hyper-independence can weaken bonds. "Let's say a friend offers to help and [you] reject that offer," says Bacow. "It can damage the bond and relationship. If you double down on an identity of independence, then you don't engage in supportive relationships with friends and family." Hyper-independent people may build their identities around being single as well, she adds.
The ramifications of hyper-independence can be internal as well. "There can be a lot of emotional exhaustion and burnout associated with being hyper-independent," says Saunders. "Hyper-independence can be very isolating, so loneliness is a common complaint of those who struggle with this."
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"Hyper-independence can both be the cause and result of mental health difficulties," says Saunders. "At some point in time, it developed as a survival strategy to assist in keeping you safe. However, after the danger is gone, the strategy still exists and persists. Therefore, it creates a negative feedback loop."
Hyper-independence can contribute to mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, says Bacow. For example, a hyper-independent person may experience burnout, and burnout can be a risk factor for developing depression or anxiety. At the same time, people who have the conditions — particularly high-functioning anxiety — may also have higher odds of becoming hyper-independent, according to Bacow. For instance, someone with high-functioning anxiety could be hyper-productive or perfectionistic. This may make them take on too much at work without adequate support for fear of failing to please their boss.
Both Bacow and Saunders recommend taking small, manageable steps toward allowing others to help or support you.
"I would think of it almost as a phobia — you're afraid to relinquish control and you're afraid to enlist help," says Bacow. "Can you maybe [for example] ask the grandparent to watch your child for one hour and just see how that goes?" From there, you can ask if they can watch your child for a few hours, to give you enough time to run a few errands. Or perhaps you delegate a task to a partner, suggests Bacow. Let them take over the weekly grocery run or meal prep so that you can carve out time for self-care.
"Get comfortable with being uncomfortable," advises Saunders. "When [you] can acknowledge that the process of unlearning hyper-independence will produce discomfort, it can be instrumental in reducing fear. Start small and with close and safe relationships. Ask yourself, 'How can I practice relying on individuals in my support system?' The more that [you] allow [yourself] to experience vulnerability and support, the easier it can get over time."
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Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II
By Joseph Wheelan
Read by George Newbern
Joseph Wheelan Hachette Books, Da Capo Press, Hachette Book Group 9780306903229
A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last of its kind. On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945. Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. Waves of Japanese kamikaze and conventional warplanes sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others, and killed nearly 5,000 US seamen. When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more than 125,000 enemy soldiers lay dead--along with 7,500 US ground troops. Tragically, more than 100,000 Okinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The brutal campaign persuaded US leaders to drop the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan. Utilizing accounts by US combatants and Japanese sources, author Joseph Wheelan endows this riveting story of the war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension.
A stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last of its kind.
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, more than 184,000 US troops began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. Just 350 miles from mainland Japan, Okinawa was to serve as a forward base for Japan's invasion in the fall of 1945.
Nearly 140,000 Japanese and auxiliary soldiers fought with suicidal tenacity from hollowed-out, fortified hills and ridges. Under constant fire and in the rain and mud, the Americans battered the defenders with artillery, aerial bombing, naval gunfire, and every infantry tool. Waves of Japanese kamikaze and conventional warplanes sank 36 warships, damaged 368 others, and killed nearly 5,000 US seamen.
When the slugfest ended after 82 days, more than 125,000 enemy soldiers lay dead--along with 7,500 US ground troops. Tragically, more than 100,000 Okinawa civilians perished while trapped between the armies. The brutal campaign persuaded US leaders to drop the atomic bomb instead of invading Japan.
Utilizing accounts by US combatants and Japanese sources, author Joseph Wheelan endows this riveting story of the war's last great battle with a compelling human dimension.
Author Bio: Joseph Wheelan
Joseph Wheelan, a graduate of the University of Wyoming and University of Colorado at Denver, is the author of several books, including the highly acclaimed Terrible Swift Sword and Jefferson's War. Before turning to writing books full time, he was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press for twenty-four years, where he also wrote about the Korean War.
Category: Nonfiction/History
Publisher: Hachette Books Publisher: Da Capo Press


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package com.fannie.day4;

public class ImplBankLoan {

	public static void showLoanDetails(BankLoan[] loans){
		int totalAmount = 0;
		for(BankLoan temp : loans){
			// to get loan amount repay of only mortgage amount
			if(temp instanceof Mortagage)
				totalAmount += temp.getAmount();
		}

		System.out.println("Total Amount to be paid is " + totalAmount);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		BankLoan loans[] = new BankLoan[3];

		loans[0] = new Mortagage();
		loans[1] = new Personal();
		loans[2] = new Mortagage();

		loans[0].loanAmount(1000);
		loans[1].loanAmount(2000);
		loans[2].loanAmount(3000);

		showLoanDetails(loans);
		loans[0].repay(100);
		showLoanDetails(loans);
	}
}


Security is very crucial both at home as well as in various commercial places. It is always important to make sure that the levels of security especially in your home are highly promoted for the purposes of leading a stress free life. There are however a lot of ways that can help you to enhance security in your premises starting from installation of surveillance cameras, employing security guards as well as installing the right types of door entry systems. Door entry systems are the subject of discussion in this case. Door entry systems can also be referred to as door control systems which have been so much helpful to a large number of people across the globe.
To various businesses, door entry systems are very important. They greatly help to make sure that the business owner easily manages his or her properties as well as controlling the movement of people within the workplaces. Door entry systems are generally the best measures that have helped to highly promote restrictions of various people in different businesses across the world. Door entry systems are not only important in various homes but also in different learning institutions, in various hotels and many other places. There are however a lot of benefits and advantages that come with employment of door entry systems from Barry Bros in both commercial and residential places. The following are some of the major reasons why door entry systems are very important to our homes, businesses as well as in various institutions.
The first common benefit of door entry systems is the high level of security they promote. With a good door entry system, you do not have to worry about loss of the locks or keys and other problems there is no usage of the locks and keys. All that one needs are electronic card, PIN, or a fob. The other reason why door entry systems are also very important is because of the smooth management of the place especially the firm. The other great advantage of door entry systems is that they greatly help to cut various costs. Insurance is one of the things that forces one to incur a lot of costs especially by payment of monthly premiums to the insurance company. by the help of a good door entry system especially in your hotel, company building or even in your residential places, you do not have to be subjected to too much insurance premiums. Some of the most common and recommended door entry systems include stand-alone locks, proximity readers as well as biometric systems. Get more info here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/lucinda-watrous/protect-your-property-wit_b_10005620.html.


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Q: setting default working directory to project folder in R studio When I open my R project from the project folder, the default working directory is not my project folder.
I thought it should, by default, set the working directory to the project folder. I know how to set the working directory but I need to setup r studio so that my R projects open with the project folder as the default working directory.

A: I have found that creating an .Rprofile file for each project and store it in the same folder as the Rprojfile works. Thanks to this
https://csgillespie.github.io/efficientR/
website about efficient R programming. Only that it means I have to create the .Rprofile file myself every time I create a new project. This is however better than having to set the working directory manually making my projects non-portable.


Drake got candid in his Fader interview about his Meek Mill diss tracks and the beef that started it all. Plus, he explains why he won't clarify things around those ghost-writer rumors. Click on the audio player to hear more details in this edition of Hip-Hop Spot!


Glad to be here. What's next?
Next, it would be a good idea to copy / paste all important posts of your's from the other forum here. Of course in the meanwhile if you have any suggests, the The forum and website life section is available for requests related to the forum.
Next, it would be a good idea to copy / paste all important posts of your's from the other forum here.
Yes, this is much work, but I think this is worth it, this is why I have already done it for the tips and tricks in French and in English which I had posted, and I will encourage you and Taco.22 principally to do the same, because you both wrote a bunch of them. If the ones who posted most do this before the other members start to be invited, with a general announcement, it will ease the move : the xooit forums have been under heavy load (their message said they were under attack, but I think rather many other forums are doing the same, some might try to attack to get their db back... ) so if we do with some kind of order it could allow us to not leave the work we have done already.
Yes, the emoticons need to be configured somewhere. I'll check that.
Well, I guess I never really "presented" myself. I've been using Linux off and on since about 2000. PCLinuxOS ease and simplicity struck a chord with me and I ditched WindowsXP and began using PCLOS version p91 exclusively in 2005. A recent change in management made me rethink my position with that community. I had tried and used other distros, as well as BSDs. Debian seems to offer the most choice in packages and customization. Debian is the only other distribution I feel as comfortable with. It is sometimes said that "if Debian doesn't have it, it doesn't exist".
I'm still running one last PCLinuxOS holdover because I have installed it on a few client computers. That one holdover will soon be converted to Debian, and I'll be running PCLOS only in VirtualBox so that I can keep up with the changes, such as the very recent changeover in repository sources (again).
KDE3 was my goto desktop environment for a very long time. When KDE4 came out, I just could not grok the new "social desktop" paradigm. Still can't, it seems. Ever since, I've been using LXDE and e17. Melodie's remasters introduced me to Openbox and I'm beginning to prefer its simplicity over that of LXDE. So, for me, it's now Openbox, e17 and soon-to-be XFCE on the next Debian installation.
Re : Re : Hello!
Darrel, welcome at New LinuxVillage!
And welcome to all as well!
Re : Re : Re : Hello!
Why 7? Because it's one more than 6.


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James Dolena (1888-1978) was a Russian-born American architect. He designed many houses in Los Angeles, California.
James Dolena was born in Russia on May 17, 1888. He emigrated to the United States in 1905. He was trained as an architect and a painter.
Dolena first moved to Los Angeles to install a mural with Hubert Valentine Fanshaw, and spent the rest of his career there.
In 1926, Dolena designed the private residence of silent actor Hobart Bosworth, a 3.2-acre mansion located at 809 North Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California. The interiors were designed by William Haines and the landscape by Benjamin Martin Purdy. In 1933, it was purchased by William Powell and Carole Lombard, and the following year, Dolena redesigned it. In 1969, it became the home of producer Albert R. Broccoli. Since 2005, it has been owned by interior designer Kelly Wearstler.
In 1931, Dolena designed the Garden Apartment and Retail Shop, an apartment house in Westwood, Los Angeles. The following year, in 1932, he designed the private residence of film director Richard Wallace in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Later in 1932, he designed the private residence of actress Constance Bennett in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. In 1936, he designed the home of Ingle Barr, a renowned book collector, in Beverly Hills, California. From 1934 to 1937, he designed the Farmers Market in the Fairfax District, Los Angeles.
From 1937 to 1939, Dolena designed Casa Encantada located at 10644 Bellagio Road in Bel Air, Los Angeles for Hilda Boldt Weber, heiress to the Charles Boldt Glass Co.. The interiors and furniture were designed by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings. It spans 8.4 acres and has sixty-four rooms. In 1950, hotelier Conrad Hilton purchased it for $225,000. He sold it to David H. Murdock for $12.4 million in 1979. Later, Gary Winnick, the current owner, purchased it for $94 million.
From 1937 to 1940, Dolena designed the Boddy House for Manchester Boddy on the grounds of Descanso Gardens in La Cañada Flintridge, California. In 1939, he designed the private residence of George Cukor. William Haines was the interior designer. The same year, he designed the house of Col. David L. Reeves in Santa Barbara, California. In 1940, he designed the B.T. Gate House in Brentwood, Los Angeles.
In 1949, Dolena designed the Walt Disney Estate, a 5,669-square-foot, seventeen-room mansion, for Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Disney in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.
Dolena lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles, in a house he designed in 1935.
Dolena died on June 12, 1978 in Los Angeles County, California.
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Following releases on labels like Elevate or Phobiq, which gained support by the likes of Ben Klock, Rodhad, Sam Paganini, Matrixxman and many others, Konrad makes his OFF Recordings debut.
The EP kicks off with 'Made In Detroit', a bigroom chord-techno anthem. 'Acid House' delivers what the name promises, a stripped back beat is topped by a massive acid line and eponymous vocals. 'Temptation' follows a similar vein as 'Made In Detroit' adding a memorable vocal and massive pads in its break. Berlin's techno stalwart DJ Emerson delivers a deadly functional stripped back remix, taking things to an even more straightforward direction.


The Age Verification Card is exclusively used as an anonymous verification method by AVSecure and allows face-to-face age verification to be completed at the point of sale.
The Age Verification Card can be obtained at up to 60,000 retail stores across the UK including major supermarket chains.
The card bears a unique, single use number that the consumer will use as proof of age for registration with AVSecure.
For consumers unwilling or unable to enter any personal data, this allows them to easily and privately verify their age, without any associated information.
This adds significant advantages for protecting consumer privacy and identity and enables websites requiring age verification to offer the most comprehensive choice for all their users.


At the full performance GS-12 level, the incumbent serves as the Region's water quality expert, representative, and advocate in water quality issues of interest and joint responsibility with other Federal, State, and local agencies, and private interests.
Provides technical support to the Region in water quality policy development and implementation.
Reviews proposals involving extremely complex and politically sensitive water quality responsibilities, problems and issues to determine the feasibility of solutions and projects.
Develops broad guidelines for applying state-of-the-science to resolution of water quality issues within the Region.
Conducts water quality studies for the Region, analyzing water quality impacts on Regional capital improvement projects and regulatory impacts on Regional operations.
Represents the Region in meetings or correspondence with State and Federal agencies, Central Valley Project contractors, and other agencies and private entities with controversial water quality issues related to the Region's interests.
Occasional travel - Travel is required approximately 10% of the time.
B. Combination of education and experience - education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above, that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience of additional education.
GS-12: One year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-11 level in the Federal service.
This position has a mandatory education requirement; you must furnish a copy of your transcript of college work completed (unofficial copy is acceptable). Transcripts must include the name of the college or university and date the degree was conferred. Non-submission may result in you being rated not qualified for the position.
Relocation: Travel and relocation expenses are not authorized and are the responsibility of the selectee.
Telework: Reclamation has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval. This is not a virtual position.
This position requires completion of a one-year probationary period.
Travel is required approximately 10% of the time.
Successful adjudication of personnel security investigation required.
Operation of a government vehicle is required; therefore, you must possess and maintain a valid State's driver's license.
All Federal employees are required by PL 104-134 to have federal payments made by direct deposit.
Required to obtain and use a government-issued credit card for business travel.
This position is included in the bargaining unit represented by NFFE, Local 951.
Best Qualified candidates are those who meet minimum qualifications, are highly proficient in the major requirement(s) of the position, and proficient in most of the remaining aspects of the position.
Well Qualified candidates are those who meet minimum qualifications and are proficient in most aspects of the position.
Qualified candidates are those who meet minimum qualifications and possess only a few aspects of the position.
Extensive knowledge of physical sciences sufficient to conduct complex water quality studies and investigations and to develop creative and balanced solutions to comprehensive ecosystem issues in California, Oregon, and Nevada.
Professional knowledge of the theories, principles, practices, and techniques of hydrology and hydraulics and/or hydraulic engineering involved in river systems.
Knowledge of complex, multi-purpose water storage, diversion, and distribution facilities.
Thorough knowledge of regulatory criteria related to historic preservation and the environment.
For 0-point sole survivorship preference, submit a copy of your DD-214 (Member 4 copy); the family member's DD-214 (Member 4 copy) and documentation to support the family member was killed, died as a result of wounds, accident, or disease, is in a captured or missing in action status, or is permanently 100 percent disabled or hospitalized on a continuing basis (and is not employed gainfully because of the disability or hospitalization).
Options for submitting supporting documentation include Auto Requested Fax or uploading from a USAJOBS profile (instructions are provided during the online application process.) In addition, applicants may e-mail their supporting documentation to , fax directly to the HR Office at 916-978-5563, or mail or hand-deliver to USBR/ATTN: HR, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825. Include your name and the vacancy number on the supporting document(s).