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package controller;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
import database.DBClinReason;
import database.DBList;
import beans.list.*;
import util.*;

/**
 * We import a Mesh ACSII file into the database
 * TODO: exclude similar synonyma already upon import, exclude synonyma containing a |, include mechanism
 * to assign unique ids to synonyma.
 *
 * use ids > 240.000 - 240.500 to add new entries manually.
 * @author ingahege
 *
 */
public class MeshImporter {
	//change for new import:
	//static String file = "/Users/ingahege/ownCloud/documents/Inga/marie_curie/WP2_concept/mesh/d2016.bin";
	static String fileToImport = "/Users/ingahege/ownCloud/documents/Inga/Forschung/ToolTranslation/fredesc2020.xml"; //"/Users/ingahege/ownCloud/documents/Inga/marie_curie/WP2_concept/mesh/deutsch/MeSH-2016.xml";
	//static String file_campus = "/Users/ingahege/ownCloud/Shared/instruct (2)/CASUS/CampusCasus/campus_list_items_not_in_crt_list.txt";
	private static final String lang = "fr"; //Change for other lists....

	public static void main(String[] lang){
		//if(lang.equals("en")) createRecord();
		//if(lang.equals("de")) importMeshDE();
		//importMesh();
		//ScriptCopyController.main(null);
	}

	public static void importMesh(){

		try{
			LineNumberReader lbr = new LineNumberReader(new FileReader(fileToImport));
			String line;
			List<String[]> l = new ArrayList<String[]>();
			String[] str = new String[3];
			boolean readNextLine1 = false;
			boolean readNextLine2 = false;
			while((line=lbr.readLine())!=null){

				if(line.contains("<DescriptorUI>")){
					if(str[0]==null || str[0].equals("")) str[0] = StringUtils.substringBetween(line, "<DescriptorUI>", "</DescriptorUI>");
				}
				if(line.contains("<TreeNumberList>"))readNextLine1 = true;
				if(readNextLine1 && line.contains("<TreeNumber>")){
					str[1] = StringUtils.substringBetween(line, "<TreeNumber>", "</TreeNumber>");
					readNextLine1 = false;
				}

				//if(line.contains("<TermUI>ger"))readNextLine2 = true; //de import
				if(line.contains("<TermUI>fre"))readNextLine2 = true;
				if(readNextLine2 && line.contains("<String>")){
					str[2] = StringUtils.substringBetween(line, "<String>", "</String>");
					readNextLine2 = false;
					//CRTLogger.out(str[0]+", " + str[1] + ", " + str[2], CRTLogger.LEVEL_TEST);
					l.add(str);
					str = new String[3];
				}
			}
			importListItem(l);
			lbr.close();
		}
		catch (Exception e){
			CRTLogger.out("MeshImporter_de: Exception= " + StringUtilities.stackTraceToString(e), CRTLogger.LEVEL_PROD);

		}
	}

	/**
	 * str[0] = meshID
	 * str[1] = <TreeNumber>
	 * str[2] = german Term
	 * @param strList
	 */
	private static void importListItem(List<String[]> strList){
		DBList dbcr = new DBList();
		List<ListItem> deItems = new ArrayList<ListItem>();
		ListItem deItem = null;
		//List<Synonym> deSynonyma = new ArrayList<Synonym>();
		String currentId="";
		for(int i=0; i<strList.size(); i++){
			String[] str = strList.get(i);
			if(str[0]!=null){ //then it a new ListItem
				currentId = str[0];
				deItem = new ListItem(lang, "MESH", str[2]); //dbcr.selectListItemByMeshId(str[0]);
				deItem.setLevel(StringUtils.countMatches(str[1], ".")+1);
				deItem.setItemType(StringUtils.substring(str[1], 0, 1));
				deItem.setMesh_id(str[0]);
				//we get the English ItemId to set the ignore flag and use the old code:
				ListItem liEn = dbcr.selectListItemByMeshIdAndLang(str[0], "en");
				if(liEn!=null){
					deItem.setFirstCode(liEn.getFirstCode());
					deItem.setIgnored(liEn.isIgnored());
				}
				else{
					deItem.setFirstCode(str[1]);
					CRTLogger.out(str[1] + "is new", CRTLogger.LEVEL_TEST);
				}
				deItems.add(deItem);
				dbcr.saveAndCommit(deItem);
			}
			else{
				Synonym syn = new Synonym(new Locale(lang), str[2]);
				syn.setListItemId(deItem.getItem_id());
				dbcr.saveAndCommit(syn);
			}
		}
	}

	private static void importLine(String line, Map m){
		if(line!=null && !line.equals("") && line.contains("=")){
			int idx = line.indexOf("=");
			String key = line.substring(0,idx).trim();
			String value = line.substring(idx+1).trim();
			//if(m==null) m = new TreeMap<String, List<String>>();
			if(m.get(key)==null){
				List<String> valList = new ArrayList<String>();
				valList.add(value);
				m.put(key, valList);
			}
			else{
				List<String> valList = (List<String>)m.get(key);
				valList.add(value);
				m.put(key, valList);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * We create an ItemList object to store it in the database
	 * @param m
	 */
	private static ListItem createListItem(Map<String, List<String>> m){
		ListItem li = new ListItem();
		li.setName(m.get("MH").get(0));
		li.setMesh_id(m.get("UI").get(0));
		String firstCode = "";
		if(m.get("MN")!=null && m.get("MN").get(0)!=null) firstCode = m.get("MN").get(0);
		if(m.get("MN")!=null && m.get("MN").size()>1){ //other codes:
			Set mns = new TreeSet();
			for(int i=1; i<m.get("MN").size(); i++){
				mns.add(m.get("MN").get(i));
			}
			li.setOtherCodes(mns);
		}
		int level = StringUtilities.countInString(firstCode,".")+1;
		if(firstCode.equals("")) level = 0;
		li.setFirstCode(firstCode);
		li.setLevel(level);
		if(firstCode!=null && !firstCode.trim().equals("")) li.setItemType(String.valueOf(firstCode.charAt(0)));
		List<String> cats = m.get("PA");
		if(cats!=null){
			String catString="";
			for(int i=0; i<cats.size(); i++){
				if(i<cats.size()-1) catString += cats.get(i)+",";
				else catString += cats.get(i);
			}
			li.setCategory(catString);
		}
		if(m.get("MS")!=null && m.get("MS").get(0)!=null) li.setNote(m.get("MS").get(0));
		if(m.get("AN")!=null && m.get("AN").get(0)!=null) li.setItem_description(m.get("AN").get(0));
		if(m.get("EC")!=null && m.get("EC").get(0)!=null) li.setMesh_ec(m.get("EC").get(0));

		li.setSource("MESH");
		li.setLanguage(new Locale("en"));
		if(m.get("ENTRY")!=null){ //synonyma:
			Set entries = new TreeSet();
			for(int i=0; i<m.get("ENTRY").size(); i++){
				entries.add(m.get("ENTRY").get(i));
			}
			li.setSynonyma(entries);
		}
		return li;
	}

	private static void saveListItem(ListItem li){
		new DBClinReason().saveAndCommit(li);
	}
}

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Q: Currently creating a datapack for a custom recipe but i dont know how to name my result after the items have been put in So I'm using a JSON editor to create my crafting recipe and at the moment I can't seem to figure out how to name my result item.
Any help?
Code:
{

    "type": "minecraft:crafting_shaped",
    "pattern": [
        "#W#",
        "DED",
        "L L"
    ],
    "key": {
        "#": {
            "item": "minecraft:lapis_block"
        },
        "W": {
            "item": "minecraft:water_bucket"
        },
        "D": {
            "item": "minecraft:diamond_block"
        },
        "E": {
            "item": "minecraft:diamond_leggings"
        },
        "L": {
            "item": "minecraft:lily_pad"
        }
    },
    "result": {
        "item": "minecraft:diamond_leggings",
        "count": 1
    },
    "group": "Armour"
}

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One of the most important goals in kitchen design is to make the most of the space available.
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After studying kitchen use around the globe Austrian hardware manufacturer Blum puts its understanding of kitchens to work in developing its lift, hinge, drawer and inner dividing systems.
Kitchen zones or tasks are the first key consideration on your kitchen planning journey. We demand a lot from our contemporary kitchens, so breaking a kitchen down into five key zones will really give you an insight into if each zone has the right type and volume of storage. Consumables, non-consumables, cleaning, preparation and cooking – which zones in your current kitchen work and don't work for you?
Think about where you will place items, especially tall or heavy items such as appliances, oils and bottles. A narrow cabinet pull-out by your oven or preparation zone can give you spices and oils on hand.
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These are International Infant Abandonment Resources.
Report from Human Rights Watch, January 1996.
The Karna Prayag Trust was established in 1992 to care for abandoned infants in India until adoptive families are located.


Neurogenic Yoga™ is a sister method of TRE® that combines yoga postures (asana) and breathing exercises (pranayama) with the body's natural, therapeutic shaking response called Self Induced Therapeutic Tremors (SITT). Neurogenic Yoga™ is a simple, gentle and profound practice that facilities the lengthening and relaxation of the psoas muscle and the release of physical and emotional stress and tension. During a Neurogenic Yoga™ practice, we safely self-induce therapeutic vibration using yoga postures and breath. Often vibration begins in the legs and may spread throughout the entire body.
Participants will now be certified in both Neurogenic Yoga and TRE in one integrated training. This dual certification is only open to experienced yoga teachers.
Who can benefit from Neurogenic Yoga?
If you have ever gotten up to speak in front of an audience and gotten "knocking knees", been in a car accident and found yourself shaking afterwards, or found yourself angry and had shaking in your belly or other body parts, then you have experienced this type of vibration. Since this shaking mechanism in the muscles is part of our natural behavior as humans, everyone can benefit. These self-induced therapeutic tremors increase the resiliency of the body because they cause deep relaxation that naturally reduce stress levels and muscle contraction. These vibrations can release emotions ranging from mild upset to severe anxiety whether it is caused by work stress, excessive worry, conflict in relationships, physical stress, or traumas from accidents. Additionally, tremoring has been reported to reduce and eliminate pain, increase mobility, and aid healing of recent and past injuries.


.NET ans ASP.NET interview Question - What are different types of assemblies?
In .NET there are basically three different types of assemblies as follows.
1.Private assemblies:-A private assembly is normally used by a single application and is stored in the application's directory.
2.Public/shared assemblies:- A shared assembly is normally stored in the global assembly cache which is a repository of assemblies maintained by the .NET runtime.
3.satellite assemblies:-Satellite assemblies are often used to deploy language-specific resources for an application. These language-specific assemblies work in side-by-side execution because the application has a separate product ID for each language and installs satellite assemblies in a language-specific subdirectory for each language.
You will be also interested in watching the below video, which are also asked in most of the interviews and favourable question of interviewers.
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La especie Briza maxima conocida por nombres vulgares como lágrimas, pendientes, tembladera o bolitas de toro, es una especie del género de hierbas  anuales de la familia de las poáceas, es nativa de las zonas templadas del hemisferio norte.

Descripción

La B. maxima es una hierba anual de amplia distribución, de hasta 70 cm, que presenta hojas envainantes con lígula membranosa.

La inflorescencia se encuentra en panícula laxa, sus espiguillas de 9 a 26 mm, con 8 hasta 20 flores, con 2 glumas subiguales, menores que las flores. Sus espiguillas cuelgan y tiemblan con cualquier leve brisa de aire. Las espiguillas son muy anchas, tienen textura membranosa y recuerdan vagamente a pequeños insectos. Las flores con lema cordada en la base, múticas y con 3 estambres.

Localización

Nativa del hemisferio norte Europa, se encuentra como planta invasora en la Patagonia Argentina.

Propiedades

Usada en la Terapia floral californiana.

Taxonomía
Briza maxima fue descrita por Carlos Linneo y publicado en Species Plantarum 1: 70. 1753.
Etimología

Briza: nombre genérico que se refiere a que las más leves brisas de aire mueven sus inflorescencias con un temblor.

maxima: epíteto que procede del latín maximus, que significa más grande, aludiendo al mayor tamaño de las espiguillas respecto a otras especies del género.
Sinonimia
 Briza capensis Schrank
 Briza dalmatica Gand.
 Briza gracilescens Gand.
 Briza grandis Salisb.
 Briza major C.Presl
 Briza microclada Gand.
 Briza monspessulana Gouan
 Briza montana Brouss.
 Briza portenschlagii Gand.
 Briza pulchella Kunth
 Briza pulchella Kunth ex Steud.
 Briza rubens Poir.
 Briza rubra Lam.
 Macrobriza maxima (L.) Tzvelev
 Poa maxima (L.) Cav.

Nombres comunes
Castellano: bailarinas, briza, cabecilla, caracolillos, cascabel, cascabelitos, corazoncillos, corazones, cupidillos grandes, estanca-sangre, lágrimas, lágrimas de la Virgen, pendientes, pendientes de la Reina, tembladera, tembladeras, trembladera, zarcillitos, zarcillos, zarzillitos.

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Adams, C. D. 1972. Fl. Pl. Jamaica 1–848. University of the West Indies, Mona.
 AFPD. 2008. African Flowering Plants Database - Base de Donnees des Plantes a Fleurs D'Afrique.
 Baeza, C. M., T. F. Stuessy & C. Marticorena. 2002. Notes on the Poaceae of the Robinson Crusoe (Juan Fernández) Islands, Chile. Brittonia 54(3): 154–163.
 Bor, N. L. 1960. Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India & Pakistan i–xviii, 1–767. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
 Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A. O. Chater. (eds.) 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: i–xvi, 1–543.
 Edgar, E. & H. E. Connor. 2000. Gramineae. Fl. New Zealand 5: 1–650.
 Fernald, M. 1950. Manual (ed. 8) i–lxiv, 1–1632. American Book Co., New York.
 Forzza, R. C. & et al. 2010. 2010 Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.
 Gibbs Russell, G. E., W. G. Welman, E. Reitief, K. L. Immelman, G. Germishuizen, B. J. Pienaar, M. v. Wyk & A. Nicholas. 1987. List of species of southern African plants. Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa 2(1–2): 1–152(pt. 1), 1–270(pt. 2).
 Gleason, H. A. & A. J. Cronquist. 1968. The Pteridophytoa, Gymnospermae and Monocotyledoneae. 1: 1–482. In H. A. Gleason Ill. Fl. N. U.S. (ed. 3). New York Botanical Garden, New York.
 Gleason, H. A. & A. J. Cronquist. 1991. Man. Vasc. Pl. N.E. U.S. (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.

Enlaces externos
Briza maxima en el unex

maxima
Plantas invasoras
Plantas medicinales
Flora de Europa
Plantas herbáceas
Plantas descritas en 1753
Plantas descritas por Linnaeus

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Sudan PM accuses US of undermining democratic transition
October 13, 2020 at 10:35 am | Published in: Africa, Asia & Americas, Israel, Middle East, News, Sudan, US
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok holds a press conference at Khartoum International Airport in Khartoum, Sudan on December 08, 2019 [Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency]
Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has accused the US of undermining the country's democratic transition through its economic sanctions, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
In an interview with the paper, Hamdok said the US' designation of Sudan as state sponsor of terrorism jeopardises its democratic transition.
Due to the US sanctions, Hamdok said: "We are isolated from the world." He added that it was unjust to treat Sudan as a pariah state more than 20 years after it expelled Osama Bin Laden, and a year after it overthrew the regime that harboured him.
"Sudanese people have never been terrorists," he said. "This was the deeds of the former regime" led by the ousted President Omar Al-Bashir.
READ: Sudan celebrates government, rebels peace deal
Regarding the normalisation of ties with Israel in return for lifting US sanctions, Hamdok said: "We would like to see these two tracks addressed separately. We believe we have ticked boxes for us to be removed."
Hamdok expected that making peace with rebel groups would help relieve Sudan's economy because this would also save money through reducing the budget of the army from 80 per cent to between 10 and 15 per cent as Sudan is no longer a "war economy".
The Financial Times reported Hamdok saying that he had discussed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) the possibility of it trying Al-Bashir, possibly in a "hybrid court" in Sudan.
He stressed that the best option was to reform the Sudanese judiciary so that it could prosecute the ousted president itself.
The ICC has accused Al-Bashir, who is being sued in Khartoum over the 1989 coup which made him president, of genocide in relation to the conflict in Darfur in the 2000s.
READ: Protest leader says normalising ties with Israel will not pay off Sudan's debts
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Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven é o álbum de estreia da banda Love and Rockets, lançado em 1985 pela gravadora Beggars Banquet Records. O álbum foi gravado nos estúdios Woodbine St. Studios.

Este álbum de estreia, embora inclua algumas sonoridades góticas da anterior banda dos seus seus músicos, os Bauhaus, marca uma separação ao incluir glam rock e psicadelismo.

Faixas

LP original de 1985
 "If There's a Heaven Above" – 4:57
 "A Private Future" – 5:06
 "The Dog-End of a Day Gone By" – 7:38
 "The Game" – 5:09
 "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" – 6:37
 "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" – 8:03
 "Saudade" – 5:00

CD de 1985 da RCA
 "God & Mr. Smith" - 4:48
 "A Private Future" - 5:05
 "Dog-End of a Day Gone By" (Remix)* - 7:16
 "The Game" - 5:02
 "If There's a Heaven Above" - 4:55
 "Inside the Outside" - 4:25
 "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" - 6:35
 "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" - 7:59
 "Saudade" - 4:55

CD de 2001
 "If There's a Heaven Above" – 4:57
 "A Private Future" – 5:06
 "The Dog-End of a Day Gone By" – 7:38
 "The Game" – 5:09
 "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" – 6:37
 "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" – 8:03
 "Saudade" – 5:00
 "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" (12" UK Mix) – 7:20
 "Inside the Outside" – 4:22
 "If There's a Heaven Above" (12" UK Mix) – 7:00
 "God and Mr. Smith" – 4:49
 "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" (USA Mix) – 4:32
 "If There's a Heaven Above" (Canada Mix) – 4:26

Intérpretes
 Daniel Ash — vocais, guitarra e teclado
 David J — vocais, baixo, guitarra (em Saudade) e teclado
 Kevin Haskins — bateria e teclado
 John A. Rivers — teclado e cordas em Saudade

Álbuns de Love and Rockets
Álbuns de estreia de 1985
Álbuns de rock alternativo


The object of this research is to develop a towing rope tension control system. It is based on a process of identifying a family of plants, designing controller, conducting and evaluating experiments. Several rope dynamic models are obtained by changing the rope length to consider real application conditions. Among them, a representative model is selected and the others are considered as uncertain models which are considered in control system design. The authors design a μ-synthesis based two degree-of-freedom (2DOF) robust control system to cope with strong uncertainty and nonlinear property included in the real plant. An experimental comparison is made between the proposed control method and existing proportional–integral–derivative control (PID control) method and the results indicate that the proposed method is more efficient and useful than the conventional method.


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The weekend before the holidays begin is the best time to sit down and plan exactly what you want your break to look like. The April School Holidays are 2 weeks long, and this will give you more than enough time to revise and have some down-time with friends and family before school starts up again for Term 2.
Bullet journals are a great way to map out your break and generally keep yourself organised throughout the term since they're so customisable. We recommend creating a daily schedule which accounts for your time, leaving in enough space for study, rest and relaxation.
If you're feeling stuck on a particular topic in one of your subjects, now is the best time to ask your teachers for some additional assistance. Don't leave it until the last minute – start asking them now if they're free to catch up during the April School Holidays since it is also the Easter break. You might be able to arrange a Skype meeting if they're unable to meet at school, or simply have something clarified over email.
Before school ends for the break, don't be afraid to also ask for more exercises and practice exams which you can revise over the April School Holidays.
Just as you might not want to over-study during the holidays, it's important not to over-commit to social obligations which might end up burning you out. Don't over-exert yourself, make time for the crucial things and don't forget to pencil in some rest and relaxation into your schedule.
Just because you intend to study everyday during the break, doesn't mean that this will happen!
You should see how much time you can devote to studying and accept that sometimes unplanned events will happen and you need to rest!
Having a study buddy is a great option for the holidays because you will be more likely to commit to your study sessions, and you can also bounce ideas off of each other. Be selective about the types of subjects you will use with a study buddy: we recommend mathematics, history and languages where you can help each other understand the concepts and ideas without leaving the table with the same exact way of expressing an idea in an essay. Try it and see which subjects work for you!
If you prefer solo study, take it outside or to a new location where you can make the most of the school holidays. Find a quiet café, a park, or simply visit another library that's out of your area which will make the day a little more exciting.
Don't forget to nourish your body from the inside out and get plenty of rest. Not only is this good for your overall health, but keeping a healthy diet will allow you to focus more and make the most out of your study sessions. Allowing you to study wiser, and not waste precious time over the holidays. Need some ideas on what to eat? Click here for our blog post here for some tips and tricks which work for our Talent 100 students.
The Fast Forward program allows students to do the bulk of their learning in the holidays and learn a Full Course Module before your school. The Fast Forward Program allows capable students to accelerate their learning, so they have greater time flexibility and are revising rather than learning content during the Term.
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Hypnosis is a capital instrument for relaxation and alleviating stress.
It helps calm down both the brain and body, giving a useful 'rest'.
This book will show you how to achieve self hypnosis as well as the benefits to you and your business.
This is a very useful tool, when an individual has gone through a very traumatic experience and is unable to get over it. It also helps to separate and change perceptions of things and people, while separating the memory from the information linked to it.
This is then replaced with healthier thoughts and feelings as opposed to the original damaging ones.


Shockingly Pinecone Research was my best earner but I can tell you not all months are as giving for surveys. My total for the month, well my real total including currency conversions was $85.56. Back when I had more going on I could make more online but right now things just seem slow.
Even though these earnings are not that great I am going to keep working and hopefully increase my earnings for June. Around the start of May I was busy helping my parents plant the seeds for the greenhouse it was just 2 days though of work.
I am hoping with waking up earlier and having more time to work online that I met be able to increase my earnings for June, I guess time will tell though. I wanted to share this though for you guys could see how I am doing and for some inspiration in regards to earning online being legit.


Hello everybody! Happy Monday and start of spring! It's nice to see some sun and warm weather, even if it's supposedly temporary.
I've kind of got a lot going on in my life right now. I'm finishing up my last class before I get my BS and start working on my MBA. My dad is wrapping stuff up in NC and is headed here shortly to help us finish the house in the next month. We're going to be moving back home to NC, so I've started the first stages of packing. I've also got the wedding planning almost done, with some hiccups along the way (including my dress ordered in the wrong size grrr).
I just want to let you guys know that I still love all of you, still love the blog, the blogging community, etc. but please understand if I'm not as active in the next few weeks with my posting and commenting.
I weighed myself mid-week and had gained, but weighed myself now and am 1 pound less than last week's weight. Phew! That's stil a -2lb. weight loss from the start. Enough with this yo-yoing!!! Still holding strong on the "no soda challenge."
She's down ANOTHER 2 pounds! A grand total of 8.8, and only .2 lbs from her 5% weight loss award from WW!!
She is staying the same, but would like to lose something next week. Her total weight loss is still around 7 lbs!
I'm going to take a hiatus from the menu plan in the meantime. I want to work our way through the freezer and pantry before the move, so I'm going to be more in a "throw meals together" mode instead of planning and purchasing specific menu items.
There are some really great food documentaries out there. If you have Netflix, quite a few are on streaming, otherwise you can rent them.
Health wise I've watched Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest Threat and Food Matters. Both of these really wake you up about some of the goings on in our bad health, FDA rules, food production, etc. Some obvious shock and awe bits, but for the most part they are really informative and compelling.
Entertainment wise I've also watched Kings of Pastry and Pressure Cooker. These are really awesome if you're into food and competitions. Kings of Pastry follows french pastry chefs fighting for the highest honor in France and Pressure Cooker follows a Philadelphia high school culinary class as the students compete for culinary scholarships to go to college.
There is a HSN Spring Weekend Event being hosted by Bon Appetit March 26-27th. Click here to check out the schedule, which features some well-known chefs, and some of the great products they're offering.
*Disclaimer - I'm receiving a $10 HSN card for posting the above notice and link. I'm going to be selfish and keep it for myself since we have the upcoming move and wedding which require tons of purchases.
Good luck with everything else in the coming months!
You take care of yourself while life is so busy, ok? And check in with us when you can!!!
We'll be here when you get back Christina - no worries! You do have so much on your plate!!
Christina - all your plans are exciting stuff!!!
I almost forgot you are moving back to NC!!!!
Ha Christina, the last thing you should be worrying about is commenting! So long as you keep stuffing boxes, and keeping me up to date with how you're doing, bitching to me occasionally...haha!
I'm hoping to be able to watch King of Pastries sometime! It's funny that I JUST saved it to my Netflix! Haha!


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RIM CEO says company is open to licensing new OS
After Research in Motion's CEO told a German newspaper the company may be considering big changes, the company's stock shot up on the Toronto Stock Exchange, ending Monday more than 10 percent up, at CAN$17.41 ($17.41).
In an interview with Die Welt (The World), Thorsten Heins, the German-born executive, suggested that the company could sell the company's hardware division, or license its upcoming operating system, known as BlackBerry 10—as part of the company's "comprehensive review."
"The main thing for now is to successfully introduce Blackberry 10. Then we'll see," he told the German paper (Google Translate).
Given the company's struggles in recent years—against the iPhone and Android—it seems likely that licensing the OS would be one way of shoring up the company's finances.
In a hands-on with the new OS at CES earlier this month, Ars editor Florence Ion found it to be very gestures-heavy, noting that "upon first use, we had a difficult time understanding which gestures to use and how to swipe between screens without bringing up something we weren't trying to."
That said, Canadian financial analysts seemed to be relatively bullish on the company and its pending launch of BlackBerry 10 on January 30.
"There are several emerging datapoints that suggest this may be a more successful product cycle than many expected," Tom Astle of Byron Capital, wrote in an investor's note, raising his price target from CAN$14 to CAN$18.
A slew of BB 10 OS screenshots makes its way online
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This Level of Corruption is Unprecedented in the Modern History of the Presidency (tags)
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Veterans Laments Slow Processing of Lump Sum Checks: US Playing Politics (tags)
Filipino World War II veteran based both in the United States and the Philippines laments and criticizes the long wait and slow processing of the lump sum benefits. JFAV reported that more than 2,000 veterans in the Philippines and in the United States have received their one-time lump sum checks. It was reported that the Filipino veterans were given priority in processing while the US veterans will receive theirs later. JFAV pointed out that the US government is playing politics by giving benefits to Filipinos first to for political reasons. This especially that several amendments to the proposed charter change of the Arroyo administration will benefits the United States.
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OEHHA released a draft version of the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Guidance Manual for the Preparation of Risk Assessments for public comment, and held accompanying workshops.
OEHHA announced its revised Reference Exposure Levels for nickel and nickel compounds following its approval by the Scientific Review Panel.
OEHHA released revised draft Reference Exposure Levels for Caprolactam and Nickel for review by the Scientific Review Panel.
The Scientific Review Panel for Toxic Air Contaminants met to review OEHHA's revised Technical Support Document for Cancer Potency Factors.
List of Toxic Air Contaminants as of July 2008. Links to the complete staff reports are provided.
OEHHA adopted a unit risk value and an inhalation cancer potency value for ethylbenzene, for estimating cancer risk associated with inhalation exposures.


Elbit will supply six Skylark Systems for use by the Australian armed forces in Iraq.
Defense electronics supplier Elbit Systems Ltd. said Sunday its US subsidiary EFW Inc has won a $70 million contract from the US Marine Corps Systems Command to supply equipment for use in its vehicles. EFW will develop, design, integrate, test, produce and install the equipment during 2006. In a separate deal, Elbit received an order for the "rapid deployment" of six of its Skylark mini-UAV (unmanned airborne vehicles) from the Australian army, the company announced Friday. Industry sources estimated the contract's value at approximately $5m. The Australian press quoted the country's defense minister Robert Hill as saying the system would be deployed immediately by Australian forces in Iraq. The Skylark system includes three air vehicles, a ground control station and day and night payloads. The deals follow a number of contract wins received by the company over the past week. Earlier, subsidiary Vision Systems received a $100m. order from Boeing Co. for 500 of its joint helmet mounted cueing system while Elbit company El-Op signed an agreement "worth several millions of dollars" with the French Space Agency for its electro space camera Venus. Elbit Systems has subsidiaries in the US, South America, Israel, and Europe, operating in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, advanced electro-optic, and space technologies. Shares in Elbit rose 0.3 percent to NIS 109.1 in Tel Aviv on Sunday.


Students at the Presidential Inauguration and ViCE's Beirut show are the cover stories for tomorrow's Misc, the first issue of the semester.
There are also articles on the English department semi-compromise and budget cuts.
check out that awesome new layout!
The new layout is really great, looks more like a newspaper and less like a magazine. Yay.


Days 15 & 16: Hong Kong | If This, Then What?
Last time I was in Hong Kong, the airport was in the middle of the city, and you could look into people's apartments when you landed. With the aiport having been moved, it's less nerve-wracking, but far less exciting. Still, we found the hotel easily enough. It was raining when we arrived, a steady drizzle that blurred out the passing skyline, but it didn't last long.
We had dinner, a couple of drinks, and watched the Tour de F.
The next day, we just walked around. Not far from the hotel, we came upon some fashion thing: lots of models traipsing around on the stage. We watched for a bit – how could we not? – before heading off. Malls, malls, malls. Even for a person who enjoys shopping, it's slightly overwhelming. And Hong Kong is so compact, it makes everything seem more intense.
We took the monorail up to Victoria Peak, where Stig encountered his nemesis from the flight. "That's the fucker who kept putting his seat in my lap," he hissed.
After failing to push said nemesis off of the Peak, we decided to put some distance between him and ourselves instead; we headed down to the dock and grabbed the ferry to out Cowloon. We had no particular plan, and there wasn't much to see but more stores and counterfeit goods, but the guidebook says you get a good view of the skyline, and you do.
The next day, it's off home. After checking out of the hotel, we headed to the train terminal; we'd noticed earlier that there was a movie theatre there, so instead of heading to the airport right away, we watched the latest Harry Potter movie first. It helped pass the time that would otherwise have been spent being bored at the airport.
And then, just like that, we were home.


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Q: How to refactor this POST code from MySQL to PostgreSQL? I have this todo_list app built using:

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*Node.js

*Express.js

*EJS

*MySQL

Choosing a database by following instructions from this Express website:
https://expressjs.com/en/guide/database-integration.html#mysql
https://expressjs.com/en/guide/database-integration.html#postgresql
I managed to make MySQL work with my todo_list app. But I'm having trouble refactoring the same CRUD (create) code for PostgreSQL use. Below is the working MySQL CRUD code and the unfinished PostgreSQL CRUD code for comparison. What am I doing wrong?
MySQL CRUD (create) code = works!
const express = require("express");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");

const app = express();

app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.use(express.static("public"));

// _____________________________________________________________________________
// Add new list item - MySQL

let mysql = require('mysql');

let connection = mysql.createConnection({
  host: 'localhost',
  user: 'dbuser1',
  password: '12345',
  database: 'testdb1',
});

app.post("/", function(req, res) {

  const itemName = req.body.newItem;
  let data = { name: itemName };
  let sql = "INSERT INTO `todo_list` SET ?";

  let query = connection.query(sql, data, function(err, results) {
    if (err) throw err;
    res.redirect('/');
  });

});

PostgreSQL CRUD (create) code = doesn't work!
// .............................................................................
// Add new list item - PostgreSQL

// Loading and initializing the library without Initialization Options.
const pgp = require('pg-promise')();

const connection = {
  user     : 'pig1',
  password : '12345',
  host     : 'localhost',
  port     : '5432',
  database : 'todo_list'
};

// Database instance
const db = pgp(connection);

app.post("/", function(req, res) {

  const itemName = req.body.newItem;
  let data = { name: itemName };
  let sql = "INSERT INTO todo_list SET ?";

  db.any(sql, data)
  .then(results => {
    console.log(`Inserted data into database!`);
    console.log('DATA:', results);

    res.redirect('/');
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log('ERROR:', error);
  })
  .finally(db.$pool.end);
});

A: Thanks for the pointers! @vitaly-t @rabhi-salim
I managed to make the CRUD (create) code work with PostgreSQL now.
app.post("/", function(req, res) {

  const itemName = req.body.newItem;
  let data = { name: itemName };

  async function askStackOverflow() {
    try {
          await db.none('INSERT INTO todo_list(${this:name}) VALUES (${this:csv})', data);

          // --- SUCCESS ---
          console.log(``);
          console.log(`Inserted data into database!`);
          console.log(`DATA:`, insertedItem);

          res.redirect('/');
    } catch(error) {
         // --- ERROR ---
         console.log('ERROR:', error);
    }
  }

  (async () => {
    await askStackOverflow();
  })();

});

Extra reading material:
Promises, Callback Hell, Async Await (ES7)
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/javascript-promises-for-dummies
https://github.com/vitaly-t/pg-promise/wiki/Learn-by-Example#insert-with-result
https://www.npmjs.com/package/pg-promise#named-parameters


Many people mistakenly characterize camping as an activity for the younger generations. There are plenty of ideas for activities for young adults and families with children. However, camping is a fantastic activity for people of all ages, and it is even better when you enjoy some multi-generational camping. The next time you plan a camping trip try to bring together as many generations of your family as possible.
Camping | Something for Everyone - a little advance planning makes camping a great option for every age.
Every generation involved in your camping experience will bring a different perspective and set of experiences and knowledge. This means that not only can you learn a lot from having multiple generations camping together, but you will also have the opportunity to try new activities that you may have never tried before.
Small children can sometimes be a trial to travel with, they have a harder time being patient on the way to the destination. They also have a somewhat shorter attention span. Despite these small difficulties, camping with children can be an immensely rewarding experience. If you do not have small children of your own, you can invite along friends or family members that have small children.
When you camp with small children be prepared to have lots of activities lined up, but they cannot be beyond their abilities for an activity. You will want to try activities that will keep the children busy and tire them out during the day. They experience wonder at the smallest things, so camping can renew your sense of wonder at the world, and they have the opportunity to learn all about new aspects of the world from you.
On the other end of the age spectrum, older generations are also lots of fun to camp with. One way to enjoy this is to invite grandparents and great grandparents on camping trips. The age range of grandparents can be middle age to elderly. If you are camping with elderly grandparents, you may have to make different living arrangements during your stay, depending on the health and physical needs of your elderly travelers. Perhaps RVing would be more comfortable for some travelers as opposed to sleeping on the small pad in a tent.
You may also need to take into consideration the abilities your elderly travelers when planning activities. Perhaps shorter day hikes would be better instead of long backpacking trips. Grandparents and older travelers have a wide range of knowledge and experience. Going on a camping trip with them is a wonderful opportunity to hear their stories and learn from them.
Sit back, relax and enjoy - camping is magical.
Each age has it's own unique attributes and every generation has a different set of knowledge. Multi-generational camping allows all of this knowledge and perspective to come together. The whole group will be enriched just by being together for a period of time. Campfires are a great place for campers to share their stories. You can make your multi-generational camping trip a sort of family reunion, or instead you can invite along friends of all different age groups.


In Pursuit of Double Unders: Update!
Lately, I haven't posted very much about CrossFit, primarily because I have not been getting to the box nearly as often as I should due to an injury, as I wrote about a few weeks ago in my post on Dealing With Injury. I'd venture to say that I've probably spent about as much time hanging out with my fabulous chiropractor and my ridiculously amazing massage therapist trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again as I have with my coaches and CrossFit On Track friends. Fortunately, I am now at a point where I'm cutting my chiro and massage time in half, which leaves me able to start scaling my workouts back up – huzzah!
Last Monday, I was able to get to CrossFit for the first time in over a week. The workout in question looked pretty good to me when I read it on my box's facebook page – mostly because it didn't involve sprinting or a ton of overhead lifting, which I still have to be very cautious about. The main things I was worried about were just generally having the endurance to do CrossFit class since my attendance has been irregular and working on double unders, because I had never achieved one and honestly, the past few weeks I've been in such a slump that my ability to do single unders hasn't been up to snuff either.
For those of you unfamiliar with double unders, they are a jump rope trick in which you pass the rope under your feet not once, but twice before landing back on the ground. When you run across someone who can do them properly, it is almost mesmerizing to watch them. I wrote about my desire to learn double unders a few months back right here, during a period when I had been doing very well with single unders and with progressing in CrossFit in general. Shortly after that post, a combination of the 100 Day Pushup Challenge, the holidays, and Life In General intervened, and I stopped working on my double under practice.
On the fateful day in question, we weren't just tasked with doing some double unders as part of our WOD. Instead, this work was woven all throughout out entire class. The class plan as posted involved 6 minutes of double under practice during warm up time, a skills/strength session on double under technique, and then a WOD that included double unders. Given that I hadn't attempted double unders for about 6 weeks prior to last Monday's workout so I was expecting this to be a bust at best, and an embarrassment at worst.
First, the warm up. The class was full, and I don't have my own speed jump rope because I keep forgetting to buy one so the first project was snagging a rope that would work. Since the first step in working on double unders is to get in your groove for single unders, I started doing just that. Unfortunately, I discovered that I was going to have one of those dadgum days where I couldn't even get a single under write. It was awful – I get 10 single unders in a row to save my life. It felt like one of those situations when you go to the office to do your corporate blue collar job, only to find that for whatever reason you should have stayed in bed because you can't remember how to type properly that day. Seriously, any 7 year old girl in America who saw how crappy I was doing on those single-unders would have been embarrassed to acknowledge that I am a fellow female, it was that bad. I did my best, though – meaning I suffered through 6 minutes of horrible single under practice and didn't even attempt any double unders. To add insult to injury, people all around me who were much newer to CrossFit than I were doing just fine getting some double unders thankyouverymuch.
When the six minutes were over, I moved on to the other components of my warm up – six minutes of rowing and six minutes of kettlebell swings, pushups, and ring rows. I enjoyed the twelve-ish minutes of reprieve from embarrassment enormously, but all too soon, I was summoned to double under skills practice.
1) Get your single unders. Well, I don't have the 60-100 single unders in a row that I used to but even on a crappy day I definitely have this skill. Yay!
2) Do your single unders FAST. This is a piece of advice that I struggle with. I *can* do my single unders pretty fast but I have to really focus on it, and I can't do them for very long. But this is something I am at least somewhat comfortable with, so I gave it a whirl and fortunately did a little better than I did during my warm up. Yay, again!
3) Do your single unders HIGH. In other words, take a taller jump while practicing single unders. Note that I didn't say high and fast at the same time just yet. You have to be able to go fast, then you have to be able to go high separately. During this period of instruction, I was watching my coach and other classmates who I know can double under well in between my own attempts, and learned that people who have mastered double unders only go a little higher on their doubles than they do on their singles because it's more efficient. This was an interesting revelation.
4) Do your single unders FAST and HIGH, and shoot for a double under! This is where I figured I would fail, mostly because on my double under attempts in the past I'd been going too high and also because I hadn't figured out how to be super fast with the turning the rope – the rope turns is all in the wrist and hand, and if you get any shoulder into it you've already lost. But since I had done OK – not great, but OK – on the rest of the progression I decided to really give it a shot.
I did it. I actually got a double under for the very first time!
I was so stunned by the fact that I did it that a freaked out a little and dropped the rope. It was a bit of a surreal moment, honestly – there are so many CrossFit skills that I am not even strong enough to begin to attempt, but I finally successfully hit a skill that stumps a lot of people. That's pretty dadgum exciting. If I were in elementary school, I'm pretty sure this achievement would have warranted a gold star or a sticker of some sort.
During the rest of double under practice, I didn't get any more double unders, which was a little disappointing, but OK since we only had about 3 more minutes to work on this before we had to start the next thing. And during the WOD, I actually chose not to attempt double unders because my coach suggested that anyone who couldn't do at least 5-6 double unders in a row should do tuck jumps and single unders instead of the double unders. But that's OK with me – in CrossFit, scaling is the name of the game and we don't do CrossFit because it's all expected to come easily to us – we do it because it's a challenge.
It may sound silly to a lot of people to be excited about doing something like a double under exactly one time, but to me it's more than just a single successful attempt. It's proof that even little old me, who is heavier and less athletic than average CrossFit athlete, and who is currently out of her routine, can beat my own expectations if I give it the old college try.
And that, my friends, is worth a million double unders in a row.
Bravo on your double-under. You have every right to feel great about it. Give it time, and you'll get multiple double-unders.


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Perez has Flashes on a roll
Led by a 'fearsome foursome' and a no-nonsense coach, St. Joseph has won 15 of 17 games
Will Brown
wbrown@staugustine.com
DJ Blancas believes his job is simple: Get the ball to the playmakers around him and the St. Joseph offense will continue to purr.
And when the Flashes are making shots, it allows them to harass opponents with defensive pressing and trapping long enough to make them uncomfortable. The recipe has been an appetizing one for a program that is finding its footing under second-year coach Marcus Perez.
Heading into tonight's home game against Nease, St. Joseph has a record of 15-2.
"When we are playing at our peak potential, our execution is flawless, our defense is phenomenal," Blancas explained. "My contribution to that is defense and distribution."
The senior point guard leads the Flashes in steals, deflections and assists.
"The way we find success is inside and out," Blancas said. "We have a slasher like (Ty'Vorus Lawton) and he opens up others outside for me and Luke (Magri)."
Lawton leads the team in scoring with 16.9 points per game. Magri is a four-year starter. Those three along with senior post Dylan Rydell have been dubbed the "Fearsome Foursome" by Perez.
Together they average 50.2 of St. Joseph's 58.5 points per game.
"When you can put five guys on the floor (who) can pass, catch and shoot, that's what happened," Perez said last week after St. Joseph throttled Deltona Trinity Christian 64-36. "That's what we try to do, put five guys on the floor who are relatively interchangeable and then share the ball. When you do that, good things happen."
No boys basketball team in St. Johns County has won more games than the Flashes this season.
If St. Joseph is able to beat Nease for a second time this season and then win out, it would achieve its first 20-win season in more than a decade.
Blancas and Rydell knew St. Joseph had the potential to be a good team. But neither thought the Flashes were capable of this.
"It makes me really appreciate this year," said Rydell who is in his third year on varsity. "I am super thankful to be at this point. We have a system. We follow it and we get results. I'm thankful for it. It's nice to win."
St. Joseph pulled out of District 2-4A this season and entered the Sunshine State Athletic Conference.
That meant the Flashes, who have won one playoff game in the last 30 years (in 2015), was no longer in a district where one school has produced multiple NBA players (Providence), another has made the playoffs 21 times (University Christian) and a third has one of the top prospects in the Class of 2020 (Corey Walker of Bishop Snyder).
Perez said the move was designed to find teams St. Joseph could compete with. West Palm Beach Berean Christian, Vero Beach St. Edwards, Orlando Faith Christian are all new additions to a schedule that is comprised of small private schools that don't have uber-recruits and a smattering of public schools.
Joining the Sunshine State Athletic Conference meant the Flashes could no longer compete in the North Florida Conference, despite winning the 2018 tournament, because both conferences held their tournaments last weekend.
The quest for a SSAC title ended in Vero Beach last Saturday with a 71-58 loss to Jupiter Christian in the conference semifinals. But, the Flashes have no regrets.
"It's been the right thing for us," Perez said.
The Flashes have a revolving door for the fifth starting position. Matchups determine whether sophomore Gabe Wolff or juniors Ethan Senderling and Daniel Morrell join the Fearsome Foursome in the starting lineup.
Wolff, a stringbean who is still growing, can take advantage of smaller lineups as another ball-handler and perimeter defender. Senderling brings the toughness and physicality of a football player against more physical teams. Morrell can play inside or on the perimeter.
During the Flashes' most recent home game, Senderling's teammates on the football team were in the front row leading a student section that produced a volume that would belie the fact St. Joseph has fewer than 350 students.
The support has made the 6 a.m. preseason workouts and the adjustment to Perez's philosophies worthwhile for Rydell, who is the son of a Navy veteran and said he enjoys being led by a West Point graduate.
"He just wants you to work your butt off and as long as you work your butt off, everything else will come into play," Rydell said of his coach. "I could see the winning was coming based on how he ran things."
St. Joseph Key Players
Ty'Vorus Lawton: 16.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.1 assists
DJ Blancas: 13.2 points, 2.2 assists, 2.5 steals, 41.3 3-point field goal percentage
Luke Magri: 10.4 points, 4.2 rebounds
Dylan Rydell: 9.7 points, 7.6 rebounds, 65.7 field goal percentage


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Q: Merge two-columns files into one file I have a bunch of files (file1, file2,file3, ...) with two columns. For example, file1 looks like:
0.12 0
0.32 0
0.42 1
0.23 0

and file2 looks like:
0.34 1
0.55 1
0.31 1
0.99 0

I wonder how to properly merge these files to one file with only first columns. The output file should be like:
0.12 0.34
0.32 0.55
0.42 0.31
0.23 0.99

My initial (unsuccessful) attempt is here:
pr -t -s ',' -m <(< file1 | cut -d ' ' -f 1) <(< file2 | cut -d ' ' -f 1)

A: Since the number of files is large, awk sounds like a good choice:
awk '
    {line[FNR] = line[FNR] $1 OFS}
    END {for (i=1; i<=FNR; i++) print line[i]}
' file1 file2 file3 ...

A: Simple approach:
$ cat file1
0.12 0
0.32 0
0.42 1
0.23 0
$ cat file2
0.92 0
0.92 0
0.92 1
0.93 0
$ cat file1 file2 | cut -f1 -d" "
0.12
0.32
0.42
0.23
0.92
0.92
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Canadian Men's Amateur Championship
Defending champion Zach Bauchou shoots 67 to lead Canadian Men's Amateur by two strokes
Zach Bauchou (Golf Canada)
DUNCAN, B.C. – American Zach Bauchou fought the heat with a 4-under-par 67 in Wednesday's third round of the 114th Canadian Men's Amateur Championship to hold a two-stroke lead at Duncan Meadows.
The 22-year-old Forest, Va., product sits at 13 under par for the tournament and has held the lead through the first three rounds. Bauchou, a junior at Oklahoma State, felt he left a lot of strokes on the course today.
"I didn't really feel like I played that great today. I just didn't hit it close to the hole so I didn't have many great birdie looks," said Bauchou, who was on his way to the practice range. "I was fortunate to only make one bogey which minimizes the damage a lot—I just need to play better tomorrow."
American Zach Baochou finishes his third round with a 4-under 67 to maintain his lead at the #CDNAm
Scores ➡ https://t.co/A1XR0wKkKT pic.twitter.com/dTiplhJLWq
— Golf Canada (@TheGolfCanada) August 8, 2018
Bauchou's motivation comes from many sources, one of which included Oklahoma State teammate Sam Stevens, who now sits in a tie for third at 8 under. The pair shared a short exchange at the 17th tee to compare scores.
"I was asking Sam what he was at and he was 6 under," smiled Bauchou. "So I was really gearing up to birdie the last two holes but I didn't do that so that was disappointing. You know, I think I'm in a really good frame of mind to have a good day tomorrow."
Trailing Bauchou is fellow American Philip Knowles, who shot a 64 to tie the course record (set this week by Australian Justin Warren). The Jacksonville, Fla., native sits at 11 under in solo second, narrowing Bauchou's 36-hole lead by one stroke.
A trio of golfers sit tied for third place at 8 under par: Canadian Kaleb Gorbahn (Smithers, B.C.), Sam Stevens (Wichita, Kans.) and Cameron Young (Scarborough, N.Y.).
In 2017, Bauchou rallied from behind in the final round to win the title. On Thursday, he looks to close it out playing with lead. He tees off at 9:31 a.m. PT alongside Knowles and Gorbahn, the current low Canadian.
Team Canada graduate and NHL referee Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont., sits in 6th place at 7 under for the tournament.
In addition to claiming the title of 2018 Canadian Men's Amateur champion, the winner will earn exemptions into the 2018 U.S. Amateur at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif., and the 2019 RBC Canadian Open at Hamilton Golf & Country Club in Hamilton, Ont. from June 3-9.
The champion will also be eligible to receive an exemption into the U.S. Junior Amateur, the U.S. Mid-Amateur or the U.S. Senior Amateur, if applicable.
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MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin x re:publica 21
As the main partner of re:publica 2021, MEDIA CONVENTION Berlin will kick off the event on 20 May 2021 with a day dedicated to the media world, highlighting trends in media, discussing developments and backgrounds in the film, TV and streaming business as well as political and social developments in the media market.
With the tagline "In the Mean Stream" we will take a look at changing audience habits and content before and during the lockdown. We discuss diversity in the film industry and what is happening in terms of diversity in front of and behind the camera in German television. Private television is practising a surprising quality improvement and is adopting an attitude in many places. Flash in the pan or paradigm shift? And what is the current situation in public broadcasting?
We look at "games and immersive storytelling", explore the question of how local journalism is currently doing in Germany and what sustainable support can look like in this area. What about the new State Media Treaty, journalistic due diligence and regulation in action? And how and why do disinformation and "hate speech" actually spread on the net?
These and many other topics will be discussed with many exciting speakers including Katja Bäuerle, Creative Responsibility Manager at UFA, Annabel Yeomans, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis, Hendrike Bake, Managing Director of INDIEKINO Berlin and operator of the streaming platform INDIEKINO CLUB, Daniel Rosemann, Head of Broadcasting at ProSieben and ProSieben MAXX, Raquel Kishori Dukpa, Street and Community Caster, author (e.g. Druck) and part of the JÜNGLINGE collective, Philip Pratt, Director Deutsche Originals at Amazon Studios, Eva Flecken, Director of the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg, Torben Klausa, journalist and doctoral student at the University of Bielefeld, Benjamin Grimm, State Secretary in the State Chancellery of Brandenburg, Commissioner for Media and Digitalisation, Tobias Schmid, Director of the Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, Wolfgang Kreißig, Chairman of the Conference of Directors of the State Media Authorities, Andreas Trunschke of webfischerei, Mona Rübsamen, co-founder and managing partner of the Berlin broadcasting network Flux FM / FluxMusic, Nina Morschhäuser, Head of Public Policy, Government & Philanthropy, Twitter Deutschland), Dietmar SchiffermüllerHead of Editorial, STRG_F and many more.
Leading through the programme will be Louis Klamroth and Sven Oswald.
Full programme to follow shortly.
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Loving God: WITH ALL OF YOUR MIND
on Friday, January 15, 2021
Step off the stairs onto the second floor of NOBTS' Hardin Student Center and head towards the display cases in the building's northeastern corner. There, the journey back in time begins.
The past comes alive at the Museum of the Bible and Archaeology where displays that span centuries tell the story of the Bible and the dedicated scholarship that preserved it. Artifacts such as a 15th Century Gutenberg Bible or a 1617 King James Version, third edition, take the viewer back in time to see the text as earlier, faithful followers read it.
But that is only part of the story.
Behind the scenes, NOBTS faculty and students are at work laying down a legacy for future generations through their research with the Michael and Sara Moskau Institute of Archaeology, the Center for Archaeological Research, and the Haggard Center for New Testament Studies (CNTTS), all of which share a commitment to faithfully handle and preserve God's word.
The scholarship and dedication to God's word represented by those in the various fields of biblical studies testify to what it means to "Love the Lord your God … with all your mind."
JOURNEY BACK
For more than 50 years, NOBTS professors have served as directors and field supervisors of several archaeological digs in Israel, working alongside students and international leaders in cutting-edge research.
Today, travel and site accessibility along with digital reproductions of manuscripts make opportunities for research abound, especially, perhaps, in the field of New Testament textual study.
"It's an area that's expanding," said Dr. William "Bill" Warren, professor of New Testament and Greek, and CNTTS director. "We keep finding more manuscripts. We've got more and more work to be done."
As students come, study, and work beside professors who have extensive experience visiting and working in Israel, they encounter the biblical world in new and exciting ways.
The journey to loving God "with the mind" includes learning the biblical languages, and there, NOBTS has much to offer.
A LOVE OF GREEK
When Dr. Bill Warren came to NOBTS as a student years ago, his Greek professor, Dr. Carlton Winbery, brought Greek manuscript facsimiles into class for students to hold and examine. That's when Warren's love of the Greek text began.
"It's amazing to read the text in English but it's not like studying the Bible in the original languages," Warren said. "It just comes to life in a different way."
Today, Warren invites his students to "handle" the fragile manuscripts digitally as they experience what it means to access, study, and research the bountiful storehouse of Greek New Testament manuscripts available for translation.
At the CNTTS, doctoral and masters-level students work alongside Warren in projects – some international – that are impacting the field of textual studies. One project, the world's first comprehensive, searchable, electronic database of textual variants now included in the Accordance Bible Software, was produced by the CNTTS.
The CNTTS team is among the textual centers – if not the leading center – for studying Greek New Testament manuscripts in North America. The CNTTS at times collaborates with other settings such as the International Greek New Testament Project and the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, founded and directed by renowned New Testament scholar, Dr. Dan Wallace.
"We have become one of the major settings for people to be trained in the area of Greek manuscript studies for all of North America," Warren said.
A former missionary to Colombia, pastor of a local church, and mission trip leader to Cuba yearly, Warren knows the tools students will need in ministry.
"That's the joy of teaching," Warren said. "It's not just a light bulb coming on. All of a sudden a new door opens and they realize there's more to this journey, there's something more God can do in my life, and I've got another tool to help."
FROM THE TEXT TO THE PULPIT
Dr. Archie England walked out of second-year Hebrew class one day knowing something special had happened. It was the kind of class every professor lives for – that moment when study crosses over to worship.
England called it "a theological moment of worship."
"It's so fantastic to see the words that are used, and the order they are in, and the significance of the stems," England said. "The students and I were having this grand time and they left class saying, 'I want to go preach this today.'"
Ruth's question to Boaz in Ruth 2:10 came sharply into focus that day when England explained that the language could be better understood as, "How can you possibly like me?"
"I was able to break down the theology of biblical womanhood and biblical manhood in Old Testament Israel," England explained. "And I was able to talk about the five classes of women in that culture, from prostitute to Israelite wife."
Whether the class is master's level or doctoral, first-year Hebrew or hermeneutics, England sees each as an opportunity to prepare students to carry the Gospel forward.
"What have we learned in class that's become preachable to you?" England asks at the end of class. "What have we done that you can communicate through a Bible study?"
While students often describe England's Hebrew classes as "demanding," England pledges to work as hard as they do. England, who has 36 years of ministry experience and extensive study and tour time in Israel, knows this is what makes teaching a joy.
"It's not how much Hebrew you have to do, but how much Hebrew you could do to be a better proclaimer of God's word," England said.
While loving God with all of one's mind leads to scholarship, England knows ministry is what is important.
"God put me here because this school has missions and evangelism for its heart," England said. "I have always appreciated the school's challenge to be engaged in evangelism and sharing the Gospel with a lost and dying world."
- This series originally appeared in Vision magazine. To read the full issue online, visit https://issuu.com/neworleansseminary/docs/visionwinter2020-21.


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Psoriasis is a life-long, non-contagious skin disease that causes dry, red, scaly patches (called lesions) on the skin. These lesions can make the skin itch, burn, flake, or bleed. The most common form, plaque psoriasis, involves patches of raised, red skin covered with a silvery, white, flaky scale.
What Causes Psoriasis?
Psoriasis can appear at any age, can be unpredictable, and can vary in severity. This skin condition not only affects people physically, but emotionally as well. There is no known cure for psoriasis.
We now understand that psoriasis is a condition caused by a misdirection of the immune system. Like a combination lock, three things must occur in order to unlock the psoriasis lurking within our bodies. First, you must have the genes for psoriasis. Second, you must be exposed to a trigger and there are two possibilities: injury to the skin or an infection. Finally, the immune system must be in a particular way that permits the psoriasis to develop and to persist.
Why Did I Get Psoriasis?
What appears to happen is the immune system becomes confused. The immune system is programmed to react to something in or on the skin. The confusion occurs very early in the immune system's process. After the injury, antigen presenting cells (APC) take debris from the wound to a local lymph node. Once it is in the lymph node, the APC interacts with naive T-cells. If the signals are just right, the APC and naive T-cells make direct contact and transform the naive T-cells to be activated and proliferate, dividing rapidly to make many more, identical, activated T-cells.
Activated T-cells will make an extraordinary journey. They leave the lymph node and enter the blood circulatory system. Directed by cytokines, activated T-cells leave the circulatory system and enter the skin - but only when the cytokine signals tell them. Activated T-cells, in the skin, release new cytokines. These new cytokines direct the skin cells to grow faster and thicker. These new cytokines cause more blood to flow through the skin and new blood vessels to form.
Now you have psoriasis - red plaques because of the increased blood to the skin, thick and scaly because the skin is growing faster than normal.
It is because of genetics that the immune system engaged the APC to respond to the antigens. It is because of genetics that the naive T-cells were bombarded, proliferated, and surrounded. And it is because of genetics that the T-cells migrate to the skin, release the cytokine messengers that increase blood flow and cause the skin cells to increase the rate of growth.
The state of the immune system where the APC activates the T-cells will determine how and where psoriasis will occur. Psoriasis may be a few small spots on one area of skin or scattered over the whole body. Psoriasis might be a little patch on the skull or thick plaque with oyster like scale covering 80% of the body. Or anything between.
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Nevertheless, I have requested to do this, because I do have something I want to say. In this degenerate time, the glory of the Buddha is dim. The weight of the Dharma is not felt. I know that the Buddha said one should not depend on the person but on the truth. But the actual realization of the Dharma is extremely rare for most of us. The words of the Dharma are too vast and deep, and most of us are too lazy to pursue them, let alone to comprehend them. So even though we know we should not rely on a person, we human beings have the habit of looking up to something tangible in human form as a role model.
As the Buddha said, only an enlightened being can judge whether another person is enlightened or not. So I cannot really say who is a perfect being and who is not. But at least, even in this age, we do still have interest in Dharma practice, and so naturally the expounder of the Dharma becomes important.
Even though, as I said, my lifestyle is colorful and I cannot make judgements on others, there is probably one good thing about which I can boast —that at least I do know that I should worry about the survival of the Dharma. And there is good reason to be concerned, good reason to be worried. In fact we should be panicked.
That I have this deep concern, of course, is solely the blessing of my own masters, who themselves spent so much time and energy worrying about the survival of the Dharma. Through their blessing and guidance, I have learned not to just worry about the Dharma in my own backyard – Tibetan Buddhism – but I have learned to worry about Shingon Buddhism in Japan, Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka, and more. My worry may not be constant, but at least at times, I do worry.
I also worry that there are not many who worry. Even the aging lamas with gray hair and wrinkled skin don't seem to worry. Well, they may worry somewhat, but generally only in relation to their own temples, or at best, to their own lineage.
I have not received any teaching from Khen Rinpoche. I did try to listen to some recordings, though I gave up because his dialect is too strong for me, and I have flipped through some of his books. But these are not the real reasons for my respect. I feel that Khen Rinpoche is not just a teacher, but he is actually a model. As we know, every teacher needs a teacher for himself. And Khen Rinpoche was groomed for many years by one of the greatest beings, Jigme Phunstok Rinpoche, and he manifests that extraordinary tutelage today in his work and in his life.
As many of you know, Khen Rinpoche is also the administrative Khenpo of one of the most important seats, Serthar Larung. And here my impression of Serthar Larung has nothing to do with there being so many monks and nuns. Rather, I have observed what they do and what they have achieved. I have also observed how they spend their money and where they spend their money. And I have observed whether this institute is only producing empty-headed scholars or whether it has genuinely practising practitioners. In all these dimensions, Serthar Larung excels.
I also want to note that the Khenpo in front of us is not the son of some rich, high, prestigious family. He is not the cousin or brother of some very important lama, and he doesn't have HH in front of his name. Who he is and what he has accomplished is through his own merit and genuine dedication and practice, and this is inspiring for so many practitioners.
I especially want to single out how precious it is for the Chinese-speaking world, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, that Khen Rinpoche speaks your language. Even though Buddhism is growing in the West, in my lifetime I don't see the Buddhadharma being adopted and practised by a sizeable percentage of Americans and Europeans. And we know that the Buddhadharma is far from flourishing in the very birthplace of Buddhism, in India. By contrast, Buddhism has contributed so much to Chinese civilization in the past and has a major resurgent role to play in Chinese society today. So for the Chinese-speaking world, it is such a priceless opportunity for you to have a direct link with Rinpoche.
This is the transcription of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche's introductory speech at the public talk given by Khenpo Tsultrim Lodro in Taipei, Taiwan on January 22, 2015.