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Q: Populate Foreign Key values automatically in SNOWFLAKE I have two tables as per the below structure in SNOWFLAKE database and I am trying to merge data from the staging table onto the below two tables.
Primary key of DIM_PRODUCTS table below is PRODUCTID

Primary Key of PRODUCTSDETAIL table is PRODUCTSDETAILID and the CUSTOMERID is generated in the stagingtbale using nextval

My understanding is if I create a table with referencing the foreign key, then the values should populate automatically for that column if the corresponding names are found but in my case it shows NULL values.
Below is the syntax I used to create the DIM_PRODUCT table and the PRODUCTSDETAIL table
create or replace TABLE DIM_PRODUCT cluster by (PRODUCTID)(
    PRODUCTID NUMBER(38,0) NOT NULL autoincrement,
    PRODUCTName VARCHAR(),
    primary key (PRODUCTID)
);

Create table PRODUCTSDETAIL(
ProductsdetailID NUMBER(38,0) NOT NULL autoincrement,
CUSTOMERID NUMBER(38,0),
PRODUCTID NUMBER(38, 0),
PRODUCTunit varchar(255),
PRODUCTname varchar(255),
PRODUCTcode varchar(255),
PRODUCTquantity varchar(255),
PURCHASEdate TIMESTAMP_NTZ(9),
foreign key (PRODUCTID) references test."manufacturer".dim_product(PRODUCTID))

Below is the merge statement I used to load data into details table and got NULL values for PRODUCTID
merge into PRODUCTDETAILS as a using (
                        select
                        CUSTOMERID,
                        f.value as Productunit,
                        Productname[f.index]::Varchar as Productname,
                        Productcode [f.index]::Varchar as Productcode,
                        Productquantity [f.index]::Varchar as Productquantity,
                        PURCHASEDate [f.index]::Timestamp as PURCHASEDate
                        from staging_json b

                        LATERAL FLATTEN(Productunit, RECURSIVE=>true)f) as b on a.PURCHASEDate = b.PURCHASEDate
                                                                                and a.Productcode = b.Productcode and a.CUSTOMERID = b.CUSTOMERID
                                                                                and a.Productquantity = b.Productquantity
                        when not matched then insert (CUSTOMERID, PRODUCTID, Productunit, Productname, Productcode,Productquantity, PURCHASEDate)
                        values (CUSTOMERID, PRODUCTID, Productunit, Productname, Productcode,Productquantity, PURCHASEDate)

I have also created sequences to autoincrement for ProductID and ProductdetailID
I also tried a Join approach to populate the ProductID but it did not work out and the code for that is as below
merge into PRODUCTDETAILS as a using (
                        select
                        CUSTOMERID,
                        f.value as Productunit,
                        Productname[f.index]::Varchar as Productname,
                        Productcode [f.index]::Varchar as Productcode,
                        Productquantity [f.index]::Varchar as Productquantity,
                        PURCHASEDate [f.index]::Timestamp as PURCHASEDate
                        from staging_json b
                        LEFT JOIN DIM_PRODUCTS c ON c.PRODUCTNAME =  a.PRODUCTNAME,
                        LATERAL FLATTEN(Productunit, RECURSIVE=>true)f) as b on a.PURCHASEDate = b.PURCHASEDate
                                                                                and a.Productcode = b.Productcode and a.CUSTOMERID = b.CUSTOMERID
                                                                                and a.Productquantity = b.Productquantity
                        when not matched then insert (CUSTOMERID, PRODUCTID, Productunit, Productname, Productcode,Productquantity, PURCHASEDate)
                        values (CUSTOMERID, PRODUCTID, Productunit, Productname, Productcode,Productquantity, PURCHASEDate)

I am trying to find the good practice to load the PRODUCTID into the PRODUCTSDETAIL table and make it consistent for querying. Could someone please help me?


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Swapped 6 x 50w GU10 halogens in my kitchen for 35w leds today. They work fine with a normal switch. Thought I would swap the 2 x 35w 240v GU10s in the bedroom. Bought 50w dimmable led ones but you put one in and it works and dims but buzzes. Put 2 in and they stay on and won't turn off. The dimmer I have is suitable for dimming leds because I have 2 main led lights that work fine. This is using a gen 1 2 gang dimmer. Any ideas?
It won't be a GU10 50W LED. It might have light output equivalent to a 50W halogen but its power usage will be much less, maybe 6W. What make/model is it?
Two of these might not really meet minimum load requirement for the dimmer.
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Dr. Unützer is an internationally recognized psychiatrist and health services researcher. His work focuses on innovative models of care that integrate mental health and general medical services and on translating research on evidence-based mental health care into effective clinical and public health practice. He has more than 300 scholarly publications and is the recipient of numerous federal and foundation grants and awards for his research to improve the health and mental health of populations through patient-centered integrated mental health services.
Dr. Unützer is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He also holds adjunct appointments as Professor in the School of Public Health (in the departments of Health Services and Global Health) and as Affiliate Investigator at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, WA.
Dr. Unützer founded the AIMS Center (http://aims.uw.edu) which is dedicated to 'Advancing Integrated Mental Health Solutions.' He led the development and testing of IMPACT, an evidence-based model of depression care that has been implemented in more than 1,000 primary care clinics in the United States and abroad. IMPACT has been shown in randomized controlled trials to double the effectiveness of usual care for depression while lowering long-term health care costs. In recent years, Dr. Unützer's work has focused on developing local, regional, national, and global partnerships that support workforce development and capacity building in primary and behavioral health care.
Dr. Unützer has served as Senior Scientific Advisor to the World Health Organization and as an advisor to the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. He works with national and international organizations to improve behavioral health care for diverse populations. His awards include the Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars Award from the American Foundation for Aging Research, the Klerman Junior and Senior Investigator Awards from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry, the Research Award from the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, the Senior Health Services Scholar Award from the American Psychiatric Association, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medicine and Psychiatry.
Dr. Unützer trained in Medicine (MD, Vanderbilt University), Public Policy (MA, University of Chicago), and Public Health / Health Services (MPH, University of Washington). He completed fellowships in Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA and in Primary Care Psychiatry at the University of Washington.
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Improving the care of adults with common mental disorders such as depression and comorbid medical disorders
Unutzer J, Chan YF, Hafer E, Shields A, Powers D, Veith RC: Quality improvement with pay-for-performance incentives in integrated behavioral health care. Am J Public Health 2012 Jun; 102(6): e41-5. Epub 2012 Apr 19.
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Patel V, Belkin G, Chokalingam A, Cooper J, Saxena S, Unützer J Integrating Mental Health Services into Priority Health Care Programs: addressing a Grand Challenge in Global Mental Health. PLOS Medicine 2013; Epub May 28; 10(5):e1001448.doi.
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Spring2014Vol.100No.2
How Educational Innovations Will Make—or Break—America's Global Future
This issue presents highlights of the 2014 AAC&U annual meeting. Also included are articles on the second iteration of the Degree Qualifications Profile, the relationship between witness and service, divergent traditions of democracy in relation to higher education, and recent Supreme Court rulings affecting diversity efforts.
One Hundred Years!
By Carol Geary Schneider
From 1818 R Street NW
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The Future of Scholarship
By Edward L. Ayers
The threads of scholarship, teaching, and community can be woven together more tightly than even Ernest Boyer could have imagined if we encourage our faculty, chairs, and deans, our librarians and our technology leaders—and ourselves, whatever role we may play—to take advantage of the new opportunities all around us.
Accreditation's Alchemy Hour: Riding the Wave of Innovation
By Paul L. Gaston
Accreditation can continue to ride the wave of innovation, and by doing so it may be able to avoid the undertow of ill-advised "reforms," but its "alchemy hour," that part of a surfer's day when the waves have the most to offer, will not last for long.
The Teaching Naked Cycle: Technology Is a Tool, but Psychology Is the New Pedagogy
By José Antonio Bowen
At a very basic level, new technologies can increase student preparation and engagement between classes and create more time for the (naked) in-class dialogue that makes the campus experience worth the extra money it will always cost to deliver.
Cross-Cultural Mentoring: A Pathway to Making Excellence Inclusive
By Betty Neal Crutcher
Cross-cultural mentoring involves an ongoing, intentional, and mutually enriching relationship with someone of a different race, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, or nationality. Generally more experienced, the cross-cultural mentor guides the intellectual and personal development of the mentee over time.Cross-cultural mentoring involves an ongoing, intentional, and mutually enriching relationship with someone of a different race, gender, ethnicity, religion, cultural background, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, or nationality. Generally more experienced, the cross-cultural mentor guides the intellectual and personal development of the mentee over time.
The Degree Qualifications Profile 2.0: Defining US Degrees through Demonstration and Documentation of College Learning
By Clifford Adelman, Peter T. Ewell, Paul L. Gaston, and Carol Geary Schneider
In its second iteration, Lumina Foundation's Degree Qualifications Profile continues to provide a baseline set of reference points for what students should know and be able to do in order to merit the award of associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees, regardless of their field of study.
Bearing Witness: Seeing as a Form of Service
By Deborah Dunn
We want students to feel compassion, to serve others, to enact certain civic virtues. We require service learning and community engagement courses, as well as international travel programs, in order to cultivate these values and rhythms. As important as these efforts are, however, we would do well to help our students truly to see others.
Three Traditions of Democracy in Relation to American Higher Education
By Robert J. Sternberg
The type of college or university one values most depends, at least in part, upon which of three distinct traditions of democracy in relation to American higher education one espouses.
Behind the Headlines: Remembering the Fundamentals about Diversity
By Arthur L. Coleman
In two recent cases, the US Supreme Court has again spoken on issues of race and ethnicity in higher education. The immediate and operational questions raised by the decisions in these cases—What does this mean for me? What do I need to do differently? How should I proceed in light of these decisions?—should not distract us from the fundamentals associated with educational diversity.


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"It's Time To Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them": Urgently Needs To Become A Rhetorical And Conceptual Possibility
Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don't sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known—as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.
I used to refer to my position on this issue as being in favor of gun control. Which is true, except that "gun control" at its most radical still tends to refer to bans on certain weapons and closing loopholes. The recent New York Times front-page editorial, as much as it infuriated some, was still too tentative. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the paper argued, making the case for "reasonable regulation," nothing more. Even the rare ban-guns arguments involve prefacing and hedging and disclaimers. "We shouldn't 'take them away' from people who currently own them, necessarily," writes Hollis Phelps in Salon. Oh, but we should.
I say this not to win some sort of ideological purity contest, but because banning guns urgently needs to become a rhetorical and conceptual possibility. The national conversation needs to shift from one extreme—an acceptance, ranging from complacent to enthusiastic, of an individual right to own guns—to another, which requires people who are not politicians to speak their minds. And this will only happen if the Americans who are quietly convinced that guns are terrible speak out.
Their wariness, as far as I can tell, comes from two issues: a readiness to accept the Second Amendment as a refutation, and a reluctance to impose "elite" culture on parts of the country where guns are popular. (There are other reasons as well, not least a fear of getting shot.) And there's the extent to which it's just so ingrained that banning guns is impossible, legislatively and pragmatically, which dramatically weakens the anti-gun position.
The first issue shouldn't be so complicated. It doesn't take specialized expertise in constitutional law to understand that current U.S. gun law gets its parameters from Supreme Court interpretations of the Second Amendment. But it's right there in the First Amendment that we don't have to simply nod along with what follows. That the Second Amendment has been liberally interpreted doesn't prevent any of us from saying it's been misinterpreted, or that it should be repealed.
When you find yourself assuming that everyone who has a more nuanced (or just pro-gun) argument is simply better read on the topic, remember that opponents of abortion aren't wondering whether they should have a more nuanced view of abortion because of Roe v. Wade. They're not keeping their opinions to themselves until they've got a term paper's worth of material proving that they've studied the relevant case law.
Then there is the privilege argument. If you grew up somewhere in America where gun culture wasn't a thing (as is my situation; I'm an American living in Canada), or even just in a family that would have never considered gun ownership, you'll probably be accused of looking down your nose at gun culture. As if gun ownership were simply a cultural tradition to be respected, and not, you know, about owning guns. Guns… I mean, must it really be spelled out what's different? It's absurd to reduce an anti-gun position to a snooty aesthetic preference.
There's also a more progressive version of this argument, and a more contrarian one, which involves suggesting that an anti-gun position is racist, because crackdowns on guns are criminal-justice interventions. Progressives who might have been able to brush off accusations of anti-rural-white classism may have a tougher time confronting arguments about the disparate impact gun control policies can have on marginalized communities.
These, however, are criticisms of certain tentative, insufficient gun control measures—the ones that would leave small-town white families with legally-acquired guns well enough alone, allowing them to shoot themselves or one another and to let their guns enter the general population.
Ban Guns, meanwhile, is not discriminatory in this way. It's not about dividing society into "good" and "bad" gun owners. It's about placing gun ownership itself in the "bad" category. It's worth adding that the anti-gun position is ultimately about police not carrying guns, either. That could never happen, right? Well, certainly not if we keep on insisting on its impossibility.
Ask yourself this: Is the pro-gun side concerned with how it comes across? More to the point: Does the fact that someone opposes gun control demonstrate that they're culturally sensitive to the concerns of small-town whites, as well as deeply committed to fighting police brutality against blacks nationwide? I'm going to go with no and no on these. (The NRA exists!)
On the pro-gun-control side of things, there's far too much timidity. What's needed to stop all gun violence is a vocal ban guns contingent. Getting bogged down in discussions of what's feasible is keeps what needs to happen—no more guns—from entering the realm of possibility. Public opinion needs to shift. The no-guns stance needs to be an identifiable place on the spectrum, embraced unapologetically, if it's to be reckoned with.
By: Phoebe Maltz Bovy, The New Republic, December 10, 2015
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"Terrorism Truths No Politician Will Admit": Republicans Are Uniquely Immune To Learning From History
Here's a truth that no politician, Democrat or Republican, is going to tell you: There is absolutely nothing that our government could have done to prevent the attack that took 14 lives in San Bernardino last week. If you're looking for a lesson we can learn from it, that's the one you ought to take. Universal background checks for gun purchases is a good idea, but it wouldn't have stopped that couple from killing those people. Starting a new war in the Middle East is a terrible idea, but it also wouldn't have stopped it.
We can't stop an attack like the one in San Bernardino before it happens because our ability to do that is dependent on the plot coming to the government's attention. In order for that to happen, knowledge of the plan has to leak out in some way—to someone who overhears the planning and tells the authorities, to an informant whom the attackers bring into their confidence, over an electronic medium like email or telephone that is being monitored. But what if all you have is a husband and wife working out the details over their kitchen table, and buying their tools of mayhem the same way a hundred million other Americans do, down at the local gun shop? There is no way to stop that.
Which brings us to another truth you won't see politicians admit: terrorism will never be defeated or vanquished or eliminated or banished. It's a technique, attractive to those with limited power precisely because it's relatively easy to use.
Actually, there was a politician who once acknowledged that reality. In 2004, John Kerry said, "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance." He cited organized crime as a comparison of what we ought to seek: "It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life." His opponent was positively gleeful that Kerry would say something so weak and defeatist. "I couldn't disagree more," said George W. Bush. "Our goal is not to reduce terror to some acceptable level of nuisance, our goal is to defeat terror by staying on the offensive, destroying terrorist networks, and spreading freedom and liberty around the world." His campaign rushed to make a television ad based on Kerry's quote, and four years later, when he left office, Bush's strength and resolve had ended the threat of terrorism for all time.
Just kidding—for some inexplicable reason, George Bush didn't manage to "defeat terror." But now the members of his party say they've got the plan that will take care of it. Donald Trump, who already promised to start torturing prisoners again (not that we have any Islamic State prisoners to torture, but whatever), now says if you want to defeat terrorism, "You have to take out their families." Sure, it's a war crime, but just think of the satisfaction we'll get from killing a bunch of children! Ted Cruz is talkin' the tough-guy talk too. "If I am elected president, we will utterly destroy ISIS," he said on Saturday. "We won't weaken them. We won't degrade them. We will utterly destroy them. We will carpet bomb them into oblivion. I don't know if sand can glow in the dark, but we're going to find out." Yeehaw.
Republicans are uniquely immune to learning from history, and at the moment they've convinced themselves that once we crush the Islamic State, terrorism will no longer be much of a problem. But of course that's just what we thought about Al Qaeda, and it's what we'll think about the terror group spawned by our next Middle East war. Let's just kill these guys, and then the problem will be solved.
How many Americans actually believe that? It's hard to know. But there's no question the San Bernardino attack has ratcheted up Americans' fear. The apparent futility of any practical solution to a threat like this one seems only to drive people into the arms of a hateful demagogue like Trump and the demi-demagogues who scuttle after him. Maybe people actually buy the absurd idea that if we just go after this one terrorist group with enough ruthlessness, no other terrorist group will ever emerge. Maybe people actually believe that if we subject American Muslims to enough suspicion and harassment, no American Muslim will become angry enough to want to kill his or her fellow citizens.
But let's be honest: what the Republicans are selling isn't a practical plan to solve a practical problem, because the problem defined that way—can we stop an attack just like this one?—has no real solution. So what they promise is an amplification of all the poisonous emotions swirling inside you. Are you afraid? I will validate your fears and shout that things are even worse than you think. Do you hate? I will give your hatred voice, point it outward, translate it into pledges of rage and violence visited upon the guilty and innocent alike.
In his Oval Office address Sunday night, President Obama tried to make a different argument, that "Our success won't depend on tough talk, or abandoning our values or giving into fear. That's what groups like ISIL are hoping for." But he too insisted that "The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it." It's what any president would have to say, I suppose, to reassure and comfort and give hope. The truth—that no matter what we do there will always be the possibility of terrorist attacks, and some of them will inevitably succeed—isn't something presidents are supposed to say.
The more important truth, also out of bounds for politicians, is that as horrifying as any one attack is, terrorism is a threat we can live with, just like we live with the threat of natural disasters or crime or the flu, all of which take many more lives than terrorism does. Somehow we manage to accommodate ourselves to those threats without losing our damn minds. Surely there's a lesson there.
By: Paul Waldman, Senior Writer, The American Prospect, December 7, 2015
December 9, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Donald Trump, Mass Shootings, Politicians, Terrorism	| American Muslims, Fearmongering, George W. Bush, Gun culture, John Kerry, Organized Crime, San Bernardino Shootings, Ted Cruz, Torture, War Crimes | 5 Comments
"Down In The NRA Bunker": NRA TV; A Day In The Life Of An American Gun Nut
Wayne LaPierre stood in front of an artificial backdrop the color of a cartoon midnight sky. He was dressed like a funeral conductor, in a black suit, white shirt and dark purple tie, but he looked like the corpse. Beneath his rimless glasses and permanently-furrowed brow, his face was hollow and his skin was gray, perhaps an effect of the grim topic he was preparing to broach.
"You and I didn't choose to be targets in the age of terror," he said.
"But innocents like us will continue to be slaughtered in concert halls, sports stadiums, restaurants and airplanes. No amount of bloodshed will ever satisfy the demons among us."
As he spoke, an aria fit for a horror movie played in the background, making his message feel all the more dire, like an end-of-days commercial you might see on some far-flung channel in the middle of the night in between ads for Snuggies and home gyms.
"When evil knocks on our doors, Americans have a power no other people on the planet share: the full-throated right to defend our families and ourselves with our Second Amendment," he said. "Let fate decide if mercy is offered to the demons at our door."
LaPierre is the chief executive of the National Rifle Association, and this one-minute ad, released on November 30, after the Paris terror attacks, is part of the NRA's effort to attract more members with commonsense fear-mongering as mass shootings—two in the last few weeks alone, in Colorado and California—and one-off, viral gun deaths—like the case of a 9 year old girl who accidentally shot her instructor in the head with an Uzi—threaten to tar the group's reputation in the eyes of a incessantly-shaken public.
In 2014, the NRA unveiled plans to launch its own television network of sorts—a series of programs available "anytime and anywhere on your computer, tablet or mobile phone, or web-connected TV via browser, YouTube or Roku streaming player" that would allow people to see how empowering, fun and not-murderous gun culture can be.
NRA News, as it's called, bills itself as "the most comprehensive video coverage of Second Amendment issues, events and culture anywhere in the world," but it doesn't feel of this world at all. It feels like how TV might be in a dystopian future where citizens hoard weapons inside their chrome hover-trailers, which they leave only to restock on Soylent and return to with a sunburn.
The network is broken up into different categories:
Commentary, from a varied cast including LaPierre, right-wing radio host Dana Loesch and Colion Noir (not his real name), a young black man who wears baseball hats, hates "political correctness and dishonesty" and, before being discovered by NRA News, had achieved minor YouTube fame with his pro-gun rants.
Investigative, which has a familiar-sounding show called "Frontlines" that covers things like how America's energy infrastructure is vulnerable to terror attacks or, in the frantic words of NRA News, "The Fight For Light: The Coming Catastrophe."
Lifestyle, which houses a vaguely-porny series called "Love At First Shot" that follows youngish women as they learn to shoot firearms for the first time with the instruction of other youngish women (sample description: "Julie Golob is about to show 21-year-old Kaytlin that with the proper instruction and safety in place, she can shoot large calibers with ease).
Profiles, home of "Armed & Fabulous" which, in episode 4, documented the life of Sandra Sadler, who looks like your average grandma except when she's holding a dead animal by the antlers. She has, the narrator said, "a deep appreciation for the outdoors."
Campaigns, another channel for the ads like LaPierre's.
And History, which airs "The Treasure Collection," the "Antiques Roadshow" of NRA News.
The videos are beautiful and slick, in the style of modern presidential campaign commercials or global warming documentaries. On YouTube, where over 200 of them are posted, they accumulate thousands of views. The clip of LaPierre has over 100,000. (The number of viewers for the shows on the NRA News website is not available, and the NRA did not immediately reply to a request for that information).
Aesthetics aside, the videos are attractive because in life inside NRA News, there are Good Guys and Bad Guys, Cops and Robbers, Freedom-Lovers Like Us and the godforsaken Them. Things are, apparently, simple when you are packing heat.
To the NRA, everything is black and white—but mostly white. Almost everyone featured on NRA News is white, except for Noir, David A. Clarke, a sheriff in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin who became a minor right-wing celebrity by attacking President Obama and Al Sharpton after the Ferguson protests and was featured in a video the NRA posted on 9/11 called "My Honor" (oddly, the NRA didn't include Clarke's name in the video, leaving it up to YouTube commenters to identify him), and an elderly woman whose name the NRA also did not include who, in a video titled "My Rights," said she needed a gun because she lived in government housing where "gang-bangers walk down our halls every day."
But it's up against the NRA's alternative universe of gun-slinging girls and mostly-white patriots in suits who want to preserve your rights that a different narrative is fighting competitively.
On Sunday night, from the Oval Office, Obama used an address about terrorism to condemn gun culture. "We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons like the ones that were used in San Bernardino," he said. "I know there are some who reject any gun safety measures. But the fact is that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies—no matter how effective they are—cannot identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual is motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology. What we can do—and must do—is make it harder for them to kill."
Obama's speech came a day after The New York Times ran an editorial on its front page, titled "End the Gun Epidemic in America," which called for the "outlawing" of "certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition."
Conservatives reacted in fury. Erick Erickson, the right-wing radio host, sprayed his copy of The Times with 7 bullets and posted a photo of the remains on Twitter, where it currently has over 1,000 retweets.
The Times editorial came a day after The New York Daily News ran a cover with a photo of Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters, above a row of white men: 4 of them mass shooters, one of them LaPierre. Farook was a terrorist, the News conceded, "(But so are these guys…AND this guy)."
On NRA TV on Monday, Cam Edwards, the burly red-headed, bearded host of Cam & Co (sponsored by Nosler, the ammunition manufacturer) nearly filled 3 hours of airtime with talk of the anti-gun elites in the media.
With the Times op-Ed, Edwards said, "they've let the mask slip. They've let their intentions be known."
Behind Edwards, there was a sign which read, "KEEP CALM AND EAT BACON."
Only in the universe of NRA TV does such serenity—punctuated by bouts of paranoia—seem possible.
By: Olivia Nuzzi, The Daily Beast, December 8, 2015
December 9, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | 2nd Amendment, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, NRA News, Wayne LaPierre	| Assault Weapons, Conservatives, Dana Loesch, David A. Clark, Gun culture, Gun Deaths, Mass Shootings, San Bernardino | Leave a comment
"Who Owns Most Of The Guns? 'The Base!": Overlapping Circles Of A Hard Core Of Dangerous Folks
It's a research finding that is startling but not really surprising (per a report from NBC's Maggie Fox):
A new study aimed at figuring out who owns gun in the United States and why suggests that about a third of Americans have at least one.
Most are white males over the age of 55, and a "gun culture" is closely linked with ownership, the team at Columbia University reports.
The study, published in the journal Injury Prevention, is one of several trying to pin down the number of gun owners in the United States. No agency keeps statistics on gun ownership and many pro-gun activists advocate keeping gun ownership private because of fears about potential future laws that might take guns away.
Yeah, well, if you really buy into the idea that good people like us need to stockpile weapons in case we need to overthrow a tyrannical socialist regime supported by those people, then I guess you want to present a moving target, eh? But I digress. The study also even less surprisingly shows a geographical gulf in gun ownership:
[Gun ownership percentages ranged] from 5.2 percent in Delaware to 61.7 percent in Alaska," they wrote in their report. "Gun ownership was 2.25 times greater among those reporting social gun culture than those who did not," they added.
In the Northeast, gun ownership rates ranged from 5.8 percent in Rhode Island to 28.8 percent in Vermont.
In the Midwest, rates ranged from 19.6 percent in Ohio to 47.9 percent in North Dakota. In the South and mid-Atlantic, rates ranged from 5.2 percent in Delaware to 57.9 percent in Arkansas. And in the West, California had the lowest rate of gun ownership at 20 percent, while nearly 62 percent of Alaskans said they had a gun.
Now this rural habit of disproportionate gun ownership is often related to the opportunity for and interest in hunting, and of a "gun culture" (to use the Columbia report's terminology) in which social life revolves around gun-related activities. Both these factors are undoubtedly important. But there is something more basic than that: isolation. The first time in my life I really thought about owning a gun was one night when I was awakened at 2:00 AM in my central Virginia home at the end of a two-mile dirt road by approaching–and then extinguished–headlights. At that moment, I wasn't real confident in the safety offered by a baseball bat, a Bichon Frise, and police officers who were at least 30 minutes away.
On the other hand, even then I didn't really want an assault rifle, and I would have probably regretted firing hundreds of rounds at that parked car which in the end probably contained teenagers messing around or smoking pot.
Putting aside for a moment geography or the objective advisability of owning some sort of gun for self-protection, there is something fundamentally disquieting about the fact that the Americans most likely to own guns are also the Americans most likely to embrace a political rationale for gun ownership and most likely to believe they're getting outvoted by people who don't share their values. Somewhere in these overlapping circles is a hard core of dangerous folks who are being told constantly by Republican politicians that they are losing or have already lost their most fundamental rights. And this is why political extremism is a bad thing even if its devotees lose most elections.
By: Ed Kilgore, Contributing Writer, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, June 30, 2015
July 3, 2015 Posted by raemd95 | Gun Control, Gun Ownership, Public Safety	| Gun culture, Political Extremism, Public Health, Republicans, White Males | 1 Comment
"Nothing Short Of Horrifying": Here A Gun, There A Gun, Everywhere A Gun
As Jaime and I noted yesterday, many Democratic politicians feel the need to preface any discussion of guns with an assurance that they, too, own guns and love to shoot, as though that were the price of admission to a debate on the topic. But what you seldom hear is anyone, politician or otherwise, say, "I don't own a gun and I don't ever intend to" as a statement of identity, defining a perspective that carries moral weight equal to that of gun owners. So it was good to see Josh Marshall, in a thoughtful post, say, "Well, I want to be part of this debate too. I'm not a gun owner and, as I think as is the case for the more than half the people in the country who also aren't gun owners, that means that for me guns are alien. And I have my own set of rights not to have gun culture run roughshod over me." Let me tell you my perspective on this, and offer some thoughts on the question of what sort of a society we want to have when it comes to the question of guns. Because there are two radically different visions that are clashing here.
For the record, I, too, am not a gun owner (you're shocked to learn this, I know). I took riflery at camp as a kid, shooting a .22 at paper targets (and when you achieved each new level of marksmanship, you got a certificate from the NRA!), and I've held unloaded guns a few times. I understand the attraction of guns. They give you a feeling of power and potency, and they're fun to shoot, which is why every little boy loves playing with toy guns. But in the town where I grew up, you never saw a gun that wasn't in a cop's holster. If any of my classmates' parents had them (and I'm sure some did), they never mentioned it, and my own parents would sooner have adopted a pack of hyenas than brought a gun into our home. As far as that community was concerned, the relative absence of guns was one of the things that made it a nice place to live. It wasn't because everyone got together and took a vote on it, but that absence was nevertheless an expression of the community's collective will.
I'm sure that many gun advocates would hear that and say, "Don't you realize how vulnerable you all were? You should have been armed!" But the truth is we weren't vulnerable (crime was low; I have a vague memory of one murder that happened during my entire childhood but I could be imagining it), and although as kids we always complained that the town was boring, everyone seemed pretty happy with the security situation. And if one day, a few of the town's citizens started letting everyone know that they were now carrying firearms when they were down at the drugstore or the bank, it wouldn't have made anyone feel safer. Just the opposite, in fact. It would have changed everything for the worse.
What I'm getting at is that one of the things that makes a society work is that people have rights that are protected in the law, but they also exercise those rights with consideration for the society's other members. For instance, we have a strong commitment to freedom of expression, such that many things that would be deemed obscene and get you tossed in jail in other countries are tolerated here. So if I want do a performance art piece that involves lots of cursing and tossing about bodily fluids, I can do it. But I'm not going to do it on the sidewalk in front of your house during dinner time, not because I don't have the right, but because that would make me an asshole. In the exercising of my rights, I'd be changing the conditions of your existence, even for a brief time, in a way that you'd find unpleasant. So because I value having a society where we all live together, I'll choose to find a theater to put on my performance, and you can choose to come see it or not. In the same way, if you choose to have a gun in your home because you think it protects you, that's your right. I'm going to choose not to let my kid come play with your kid at your house, and we can all get along.
According to the Constitution, you have a right to own a gun. I'll be honest and say that I wish it weren't so; the fantasies the most extreme gun advocates notwithstanding, our liberty is protected by our laws and institutions, not by our ability to wage war on our government. Canadians and Britons and French people aren't any less free than we are because they are less able to start killing cops and soldiers when they decide the time for insurrection has come. Nevertheless, that basic right exists and it isn't going to be taken away. But the rest of us should also be able to say that there are limits to how far your exercising that right should be allowed to change the rest of our lives, and if necessary the law should enforce those limits.
As I've written before, the goal of many gun advocates, particularly those who promote concealed carry, is that we make it so as many people as possible take as many guns as possible into as many places as possible. That's been the focus of their legislative efforts in recent years, not only passing concealed carry laws nearly everywhere, but also passing laws to make you able to take guns into bars, schools, government buildings, houses of worship, and so on, and also advocating for laws that would let you take your guns to communities where it would be otherwise illegal to carry them. Which would mean that your right to carry your gun trumps the right of everyone else to say, this is a place where we've decided we don't want people bringing guns.
Is it possible that on my next visit to the local coffee place, a madman might come and shoot the place up? Yes, it's possible. And is it possible that if half the patrons were armed, one of them might be able to take him down and limit the number of people he killed? Yes, it's possible. It's also possible that I'll win the next Powerball. But if holding out that infinitesimal possibility means that every time I go down for a coffee, I'm entering a place full of guns, it's not a price I'm willing to pay. That's the decision I've made, and it's the decision that the other people in my community have made as well.
But gun advocates want to create a society governed by fear, or at the very least, make sure that everyone feels the same fear they feel. "An armed society is a polite society," they like to say, and it's polite because we're all terrified of each other. They genuinely believe that that the price of safety is that there should be no place where guns, and the fear and violence they embody, are not present. Not your home, not your kids' school, not your supermarket, not your church, no place. But for many of us—probably for most of us—that vision of society is nothing short of horrifying.
By: Paul Waldman, Contributing Editor, The American Prospect, January 18, 2013
January 20, 2013 Posted by raemd95 | Gun Violence, Guns	| Concealed Carry Laws, Constitution, Gun Control, Gun culture, Gun Owners, Liberty, NRA | 1 Comment


Great to check into your blog this morning and see this travel report. Have been thinking about what a great time you must be having….and you are!
How wonderful to know that you are starting out your trip so wonderfully! I've been watching and waiting and was so glad to find something this morning. Italy – dogs – knitting – children – what's not to like? You are going to have such a great record of your trip. We'll all traveling with you!!
Oh so many memories you are bringing back to me! I want to go right now! Thank you for your beautiful words and pictures that we can all enjoy. And please tell Terry I am totally impressed from afar with whatever he is presenting!
I am so enjoying your trip, from afar! Brings back so many memories of my times in Italy. I love Italy. Love the photos you've shared and everything you've told us. Oh and I totally understand the not wanting to come back! I felt the same way each time I was able to go! The only other place that ever made me feel like that was the Bahamas, but that was just for the relaxation. Italy was so much more!
Continue to enjoy. Can't wait to see your next posting.


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*Lakin Industrial School for Colored Boys
The Lakin Industrial School for Colored Boys was founded by T.G. Nutter, Harry Capehart and T.J. Coleman, three African American legislators that created several state-funded reform institutions for blacks between 1919 and 1921. This led to several structures being constructed west of WV 62 in rural Mason county. It lies just north of Lakin State Hospital. The familiar red brick building, built in 1924, was constructed of fireproof materials and is very sturdy, was the first building to be erected. A gymnasium was built in the 1940's; several smaller structures followed soon after.
The Lakin Industrial School closed in 1956, only two years after the Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision that led to the gradual desegregation of many public schools and colleges in West Virginia. Those who remained before its closure were transfered to the Industrial School at Pruntytown.
It was owned by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, the same owners of Lakin State Hospital across the state road that slides between the two. The school property was deeded over to the West Virginia Department of Agriculture in 1976.
A fire in 2000 did very little damage to the main building; it is a testament to the brute strength of the building, even after 50 years of abandonment.
In November 2006, Lakin Industrial School for Colored Boys was demolished. The property is expected to become part of American Electric Power's River Operations.
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It is hard to believe that another week is coming to a close. I do not know about you, but I am thoroughly enjoying this study. I have been really challenged this week with the topic of God's provision. How about you? I did not receive any specific questions from you, so I am going to start unpacking what I gathered from Chapter 2 of The Shelter of God's Promises. I would love to hear from you. Be sure to comment on the blog and/or facebook page.
I will start out by talking about our key verse this week, "And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). Too often, we read this verse an immediately think God will simply give us everything we deem as a "need". However, delving into the context of this passage, you will see that Paul is giving us the secret to a contented life. We need to be willing and open to freely give to others and then out of His glorious riches, God will provide for our needs. This is our needs and not our wants. A great truth throughout this chapter is that God is the Source for meeting our needs. Sometimes it is helpful to sit down and write out our needs and then prioritize them. After doing this, then bring it before God and ask for His provision.
Asking for God's provision leads to a major key point this week – prayer. I loved the way Sheila described prayer in The Shelter of God's Promises DVD "Prayer is when we partner with God to bring about His will for our lives and when we are honest and say, I cannot do this alone, and what I have isn't enough. Please provide." I love the idea of prayer partnering with God. How awesome is it that we are able to freely come into the throne room of God, the Creator of the universe, and talk with Him. Prayer is also about humbling ourselves an admitting that we cannot do it on our own. God desires to not only meet our needs, but also provide us help and strength along our journey. We simply need to ask for it. What is the greatest challenge for you with regards to prayer? Is it having the faith to believe God is not only listening, but that He will do what He promises? Is it just taking the time to meet with Him daily? As a parent, I know how difficult it is when our children do not trust that we will provide for them. Imagine how God grieves over our lack of faith in Him.
Sometimes it is easy to confuse our wants with our needs. A verse that comes to mind is Psalm 37:4, "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." Many Christians read this verse and think this grants us the ability to take our wish list to God and He will grant them like some type of genie. However, if we examine the scripture carefully, we will see that our desires are fulfilled in our delight of Him. This is the only way our deepest longing will ever be satisfied. At times it is hard to let go of our desires and seek God will and purpose for our life. What are you currently holding on to and need to let go of in light of God's will for your life?
God longs to pour out His provision and love to us, not grudgingly but extravagantly. Christ's sacrifice for each of us is a beautiful picture of God's extravagant love for us. God gives us more than we can even imagine or dream of; we only need with His will and purpose in mind.
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import tensorflow as tf

# ==============================================================================

FLAGS = tf.app.flags.FLAGS

# ==============================================================================

# -------------------------------- DIRECTORIOS --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('summary_dir_eval', './summary_eval', "Logs de proceso de evaluación")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('summary_dir_train', './summary_train', "Logs de proceso de entrenamiento")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('checkpoint_dir', './checkpoints', "Resguardo del modelo a utilizar")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('datasets_dir', './datasets', 'Directorio donde esttán las imagenes a utilizar')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('img_dir', './imagenes_jpg', 'Directorio donde esttán las imagenes a utilizar')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('manual_test_folder', './manual_test_img/', 'Directorio con imagenes a evaluar manualmente')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('data_split_dir', './split_jpg', 'Directorio donde estan las imagenes divididas a utilizar')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('train_folder', 'train', 'Nombre directorio con las imagenes de entrenamiento')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('validation_folder', 'validation', 'Nombre Directorio con las imagenes de validation')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('test_folder', 'test', 'Nombre Directorio con las imagenes de test')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('labels_file_name', 'labels.txt', 'Labels file')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('export_model_dir', './export_model/', 'Carpeta donde se exporta el modelo')

# -------------------------------- DATASET --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('porcentaje_img_validation', 20, 'Porcentaje de imagenes que van al set de validation')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('cantidad_clases', 20, 'Cantidad de clases a reconocer')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('modo_procesar', False, 'Al ejecutar analize_jpg realizar emparejamiento')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('img_por_captura', 110, 'Cantidad de imagenes a conservar por captura')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('capturas_id', 'A,B,C,D,E,F', 'Ids de todas las capturas realizadas')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('capturasEntrenamiento_id', 'A,C,D,E,F', 'Ids de todas las capturas para entrenar')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('capturasTest_id', 'B', 'Ids de todas las capturas para test')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('train_shards', 1, 'Numero de particiones del dataset de entrenamiento')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('validation_shards', 1, 'Numero de particiones del dataset de validación')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('test_shards', 1, 'Numero de particiones del dataset de entrenamiento')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('dataset_num_threads', 1, 'Numero de hilos de ejecución para armar el dataset')

# -------------------------------- INPUT --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('input_num_preprocess_threads', 2, 'Numero de hilos que hacen el preprocesado')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('input_num_readers', 2, 'Numero de readers')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('image_height', 40, 'Alto imagen')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('image_width', 40, 'Ancho imagen')

# -------------------------------- MODELO --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('model_cant_kernels1', 30, 'Cantidad de kernels de convolución en la capa 1')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('model_cant_kernels2', 60, 'Cantidad de kernels de convolución en la capa 2')
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('model_cant_fc1', 125, 'Cantidad de neurolas full conected en capa 3')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('model_version', 1, 'Versión del modelo')

# -------------------------------- ENTRENAMIENTO --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("moving_average_decay", 0.9999, "The decay to use for the moving average.")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("initial_learning_rate", 0.09, "Initial learning rate.")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("decay_steps", 1000, "Epochs after which learning rate decays.")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("decay_rate", 0.95, "Learning rate decay factor.")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('log_device_placement', False, "Si logea la ubicación de variables al inciar la ejecución")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('allow_soft_placement', True, "Si permite una asignación de variables flexible")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('train_distort', True, "Distorcionar imagenes al evaluar")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('train_crop', True, "Distorcionar imagenes al evaluar")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('train_max_steps', 1000000, "Number of batches to run.")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("train_batch_size", 256, "Cantidad de imagenes que se procesan por batch")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("steps_to_imprimir_avance", 50, "Cantidad de pasos cada los cuales se imprimer por consola")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("steps_to_guardar_summary", 50, "Cantidad de pasos cada los cuales se guarda summary")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("steps_to_guardar_checkpoint", 500, "Cantidad de pasos cada los cuales se guarda checkpoint")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("saver_max_to_keep", 50, "Cantidad de checkouts a concervar")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_dropout_1', False, "Si usa drop out en capa 1")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_dropout_2', False, "Si usa drop out en capa 2")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_dropout_3', False, "Si usa drop out en capa 3")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('use_dropout_4', False, "Si usa drop out en capa 4")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("keep_drop_prob", 0.5, "probabilidad de quedar en el drop out")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("initializer_stddev", 0.004, "desviación estandar con la que se inician los variables")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("variable_wd", 0.0004, "weigth decay de las variables, regularización")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('optimezer', 'GradientDescentOptimizer', 'Optimizador a usar: '
                                                                    'GradientDescentOptimizer, '
                                                                    'AdamOptimizer, '
                                                                    'AdadeltaOptimizer, '
                                                                    'RMSPropOptimizer, '
                                                                    'ProximalGradientDescentOptimizer')

# -------------------------------- EVALUACION --------------------------------
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('eval_unique', False, "Ejecutar revisión imagen por imagen")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('eval_unique_from_dataset', True, "Evaluar imagen por imagen desde dataset")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('eval_unique_cantidad_img', 3, "Cantidad de imagenes a evaluar si eval_unique = true")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('eval_dataset', 'validation', 'Data set usado para validacion (train, validation o test')

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('eval_distort', False, "Distorcionar imagenes al evaluar")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('eval_crop', False, "Distorcionar imagenes al evaluar")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('eval_num_examples', 2200, "Número de imagenes a evaluar")
tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer('eval_num_examples_mini', 1000, "Número de imagenes a evaluar durante el entrenamiento")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_integer("top_k_prediction", 1, "La predicción correcta si esta entre los k primeros resultados")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_boolean('visualice_conv1_kernels', True, "Hacer Summary de kernels")

titulosStr = ("Fisica universita,"
              "Patrones de diseño,"
              "Introducción a Mineria de datos,"
              "Mineria de datos a traves de ejemplos,"
              "Sistemas expertos,"
              "Sistemas inteligentes,"
              "Big data,"
              "Analisis matematico (vol 3 / Azul),"
              "Einstein,"
              "Analisis matematico (vol 2 / Amarillo),"
              "Teoria de control,"
              "Empresas de consultoría,"
              "Legislación,"
              "En cambio,"
              "Liderazgo Guardiola,"
              "Constitución Argentina,"
              "El arte de conversar,"
              "El señor de las moscas,"
              "Revista: Epigenetica,"
              "Revista: Lado oscuro del cosmos")

tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('titulos', titulosStr, 'Titulos de los libros')

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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List of Interesting Real Estate Facts and Building Construction Trivia
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Following is a list of interesting real estate facts and building construction facts, compiled from a variety of sources.
The list of interesting real estate includes data, information, and trivia on any type of property from residential real estate to commercial real estate. It also includes facts and information related to land ownership.
List of Interesting Real Estate Facts
At one time, Sears sold entire houses in a Do It Yourself building kit.
The Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge is the world's longest bridge. It is a 102.4 mile-long viaduct on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway in China.
NASA researchers are currently working on figuring out how to bring 3D printing technology to space. The idea is to send robots ahead of astronauts to construct buildings and infrastructure on lunar surfaces
The sixty story John Hancock Tower in Boston is haunted by a mysterious problem: it's windows, huge 4′ X 11′ panes of glass, pop out unexpectedly and shatter on the street below. Construction of the building was completed in 1972. When it was less than a month old, dozens of its windows began popping for no discernible reason. Determined to remedy the situation, the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company replaced all 10,334 windows with 400-pound sections of half-inch tempered glass. The windows kept popping out. Today the mystery remains unsolved, and windows occasionally still pop. To protect people on the street John Hancock hired two permanent guards who do nothing but peer up and spot the cracked panes before they tumble to the sidewalk.
There is enough concrete in the Hoover dam to build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York.
The world's largest office building by floor size is the Pentagon in Virginia, USA, with over half of its 6,500,000 square foot floor area used as offices.
A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed with the whites of 10,000 eggs. The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today.
The longest town name in the world is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob
wlllantysiliogogogoch. The name is frequently shortened to Llanfair PG. It is located on the island of Anglesey, on the Menai Strait, in Wales.
A Japanese company developed a residential earthquake-proofing system that raises a house off of its foundation as far as 3 cm using just air pressure. When an earthquake hits, compressors activate, forcing an immense amount of air under the home. The house will levitate until the earthquake ends and is then gently placed back on the foundation.
With 6.6 billion acres, Queen Elizabeth II is the world's largest landowner, with King Abdullah as the closest runner-up, holding control over 547 million acres. Media mogul John Malone is the largest landowner in the United States.
Hotelier and real estate magnate Leona Helmsley left $12 million to her dog, Trouble.
In 2010, the computer company Apple wanted to buy an acre of land in North Carolina, on which they planned to build a data center for the iTunes Cloud. An elderly couple owned, who owned the land for more than 30 years, originally bought it for just $6000. At first, they resisted selling, but Apple gave them a blank check and said to name their price. The family decided to sell the property for $1.7 million.
A life-sized, fully-furnished Simpsons' house replica was constructed in Henderson, Nevada, as the main prize for a Fox and Pepsi-sponsored competition in 1997. However, the winner forwent the 2,200 sq ft, four-bedroom house for the cash prize of $75,000 instead. The house was eventually stripped and sold in 2001, without its Simpson's colors.
More Interesting Real Estate Facts
Before central heating existed, housewarming parties were held as a way to get firewood from neighbors. Guests brought firewood for fireplaces as a gift.
In the United States, there are five times as many vacant houses as there are homeless people.
There are more than 50 streets in the greater Atlanta area which include the word Peachtree.
Monica's apartment from "Friends" is estimated to cost $3,500,000.
The difference between an On-Broadway show and an Off-Broadway show has nothing to do with location, but rather the seating capacity. Broadway shows must have seating of 500 or more, while Off-Broadway falls under any seating capacity that falls in the 100-499 range.
The number 4 is considered an unlucky number in China because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (pinyin sǐ). In a study of five years' worth of real estate sales in the greater Vancouver area, researchers found that houses in Chinese neighborhoods with an address containing a 4 sold for an average of $8,000 less than their luckier counterparts.
Rather than building up, millionaires in central London are building down, creating mega-basements. Nicknamed "iceberg homes" because there's more square footage under the ground than above.
Don't be so quick to change your brass to brushed nickel. Brass doorknobs disinfect themselves. It's called the oligodynamic effect: the ions in the metal have a toxic effect on spores, fungi, viruses, and other germs.
There was a woman named Edith Macefeild who would not sell her house to make way for a commercial development project in Seattle. When she died, she willed the house to the leader of the construction project "in gratitude for the friendship he had shown her during the construction."
India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors for a capacity of up to 168 cars. A staff of 600 maintains the home.
In Scotland, homeowners paint their front door red when they pay off their mortgage.
The Seattle Kingdome was so expensive, that is wasn't paid off until 2015, a full 15 years after it was demolished.
In 2009, there were more foreclosures in the United States than marriages.
Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald bartered his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year.
The famous Las Vegas strip is, for the most part, not located in the city of Las Vegas. To avoid tax, it is in a city known as Paradise, which is completely surrounded by Las Vegas.
The White House has been valued at $110,000 Million
Using prefabricated modules, some builders in China are able to build a 30-story skyscraper in as little as 15 days.
The average house generates more pollution than the average car.
The most common street name in the United States is "Second Street"
The Taj Mahal, located in Agra, India took 20,000 people more than 20 years to build
Continue reading below for more interesting real estate facts about NYC.
New York Real Estate Facts
New York City has more skyscrapers than any other city in the world, so we compiled a list of interesting real estate facts and building construction trivia specifically related to New York.
In a competition to build the world's tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125-foot long spire inside the building's frame. After cont his competitor's building was completed, the spire was push up through the building, making it taller by 119 feet.
The World Trade Center towers had their own zip codes 10047 and 10048
The New York Stock Exchange was originally a coffee shop
In 1945, a B-25 Bomber pilot crashed his plane into the Empire State Building in New York City. The impact of the crash snapped the cable of the building's elevator shaft. By the time the elevator reached the bottom, a thousand feet of cable had piled up beneath it, acting like a spring. The cushion effect of the spring allowed the elevator's lone occupant to escape, injured but alive.
In 1994, Howard Stern made headlines by running for Governor of New York on the platform of promising to limit road work to nighttime hours. He withdrew from the race, but the Howard Stern Bill was signed into law later that year, taking construction off the streets during the daytime hours.
When Philippe Petit walked 61 meters between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on a tightrope nearly 1,300 feet above the street in 1975, he not only broke records, but he also broke the law. The stunt was called the "artistic crime of the century." He planned the tightrope stunt for months. He conducted research on the buildings by dressing up like a construction worker and office employee, forging ID cards to get through security. He and his team used a bow and arrow to pass large ropes across the divide of the buildings so they could string the steel cable used for the walk. Petit was offered to be cleared of all charges in exchange for doing a public performance for children in Central Park. He performed a high-wire walk over Turtle Pond.
Commonly referred to as the "Ghostbusters ruling", the case of Stambovsky vs Ackley legally requires New York property sellers to disclose information on beliefs that their property could be haunted.
As of 2015, there were roughly 76,000 elevator devices in New York. There are about 1,570 miles of elevator shafts (assuming a reasonable average floor height, etc.) compared to 840 miles of subway tracks. Across the city, New Yorkers take elevators on roughly 4 million rides on average every day.
There are actually so many businesses in the Empire State Building that the building was assigned its own zip code, 10118.
During the construction of New York's Citicorp Center in 1977, the builders bolted joints together instead of welding them as originally specified. A year after completion, the building's chief engineer discovered the change. Then, he realized the joints would be too weak to withstand hurricane-force winds, potentially leading to the building's collapse in a dense urban neighborhood. To correct the problem, a team of workers was hired to weld two-inch-thick steel plates over each of the 200 bolted joints. Six weeks into the repair job, Hurricane Ella was off the coast of North Carolina, headed for New York. Just hours before New York City was to face emergency evacuation, the hurricane veered out to sea. The crisis was kept secret from the public for almost 20 years
At one time, New York City had more skyscrapers (buildings that are more than 40 floors high) than any other city in the world. However, in recent years, Hong Kong, China became the city with the most skyscrapers. Dubai is a distant third.
NYC has almost one billion square feet of rooftops. That's more than 16,000 football fields of space.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have any suggestions to add to our list of interesting real estate facts or construction trivia facts, please leave a comment below. We're always looking for new and interesting real estate facts.
Also, view more Lists of Lists and other trivia.


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This directed studies course is intended for undergraduate and graduate students wishing to learn more about EEG and ERP research.
Week One: What is EEG?
2. How is EEG generated?
3. What is happening in the brain that results in changes in the continuous observed EEG voltage over time?
To Do: Ensure you on PEER using a MUSE that you play with the Raw EEG display so you can see not only the continuous EEG but also activity in the different frequency bands.
1. How is EEG data recorded?
2. What issues must be considered when recording EEG data?
3. What is EEG power?
4. What are the delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma bands? What does activity in these ranges reflect?
Watch: What is Ohm's Law?
To Do: Using PEER Analytics and a MUSE, play with the electrode positions and look at how the waveform lines change colour. These colour changes reflect changes in electrical impedance.
1. What is voltage, current, and resistance?
2. What is the difference between resistance and impedance?
3. Review all of the readings to date. What things can be done in an EEG laboratory to reduce impedance?
To Do: Watch a big system testing session.
1. What is the difference between a digital and an analog signal?
2. What is meant by sampling? Think of EEG - how do the electrodes work?
3. Consider what sampling your heart rate via a stethoscope versus EEG looks like. Draw this out.
4. Look at the waveform of an audio file. How can you relate this to sampling?
To Do: Help with a big system testing session.
To Do: Play the Oddball Task using PEER Analytics and a MUSE. Afterwards, review the data and select N200 and P300 to see your own P300 ERP component!
1. What is an event-related brain potential (ERP)?
2. How are ERPs related to EEG?
3. The P300 is an example of an event related brain potential. What is it and what does it reflect?
1. What is EEG? What is an ERP? Be careful to explain how they are similar and how they differ.
2. Explain a typical ERP system setup (Figure 1.1A). Do not memorize all of the electrode positions, but you should know what the letters and numbers mean and their relationship to head position.
3. How are ERPs created from a continuous EEG signal? (Figure 1C to 1F).
4. What are basic naming conventions of ERP components? (Page 8).
2. What is the principle of post-synaptic summation? (Page 40) What role does volume conduction play in generating ERP components?
3. What is an equivalent current dipole and how does it create ERP components? (Page 43, be able to explain Figure 2.2).
4. Explain Figures 2.3 and 2.5. What is the difference between an underlying component and a waveform peak?
5. What are difference waveforms and why do we use them?
6. How is ERP component amplitude affected by differences in latency within subjects and between subjects?
1. What are the P1 and N1?
2. What is the N2?
3. What is the P3?
4. What are the ERN and FRN?
1. What are meant by antecedents to ERP component generation?
2. What is a functional theory of an ERP component?
3. Summarize why functional theories of physiological measures difficult to test.
4. What is the problem of forward inference and why is it an issue when studying ERP components?
1. Why is it important to collect clean data?
2. What is a potential difference?
3. What does the reference electrode do?
4. What does the ground electrode do?
5. What do active electrodes do?
6. Why do we re-reference EEG data offline? What types of references are used for this process?
7. What is impedance and why is it an issue when we record EEG data?
8. Briefly describe how an EEG amplifier works.
1. How many electrodes do you actually need to collect ERP data? Why do we use 64 electrodes in the Krigolson Laboratory?
2. What are skin potentials and how do they impact experimental results?