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Eileen Rizo-Patron, Edward S. Casey, Jason M. Wirth (Eds.): Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard
Dylan Trigg
Title: Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard
Series: SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
Author: Eileen Rizo-Patron, Edward S. Casey, Jason M. Wirth (Eds.)
Publisher: SUNY Press
Format: Hardcover $90.00
Reviewed by: Dylan Trigg (University of Vienna)
In Anglo-American philosophy, Gaston Bachelard has never assumed the influence of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, or Levinas, much less Heidegger. Where his work has been addressed, it has tended to be outside of philosophy, especially in literary studies, human geography, and branches of psychology. Monographs devoted to his work from a philosophical perspective tend to be rare while research on his philosophy together with the proliferation of this thought tend also to emerge from a handful of scholars and institutes, not least the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, which has championed the translation of Bachelard for several decades. There was also a brief surge of interest in Bachelard in the UK via Clinamen Press who published several key texts before they went out of business.
Beyond these contingent circumstances, quite why Bachelard has been neglected in this fashion is a contentious matter. In part, it may be because of the idiosyncrasy not only of his work, but also of the course of his thought. Although he is more commonly known for his work on the philosophy of imagination, Bachelard started out as a philosopher of science, working extensively on the epistemology of science. This disparity in the course of his philosophical research tends to generate the impression of a thinker on the margins, neither fitting entirely into the traditional context of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and so forth, but nor fully belonging to the philosophy of science, at least in a traditional sense. In part, this is true. Although he lived through the era, Bachelard was never part of the ethos of existentialism, much less a political philosopher in the manner that Sartre would eventually become. Yet the notion that there are two distinct trajectories in Bachelard's thought may be one-sided. Much like Merleau-Ponty, there are strands of thought in the early Bachelard, which, far from being left behind, are returned to in his late work, only now from an enriched perspective (one thinks of his striking discussion of Baudelaire's notion of "smiling regret" in the 1932 text Intuition of Instant and its subsequent reappearance in his 1960 book The Poetics of Reverie).
The neglect of Bachelard is regrettable, not least because the gap between the sciences and humanities is one such area where he can assume a pivotal role. Furthermore, where philosophers have engaged with Bachelard, it has tended to be in a dismissive if polite fashion (to think here of Foucault's comments on Bachelard's in the former's essay "Of Other Spaces). Because of this dismissal, an entire area of research on Bachelard remains underdeveloped (not least his relation to other thinkers within the tradition, especially Merleau-Ponty).
In spite—or because—of the peculiarities of his thought, over the last ten years or so, we are beginning to witness something like a slow revival in the thought of Gaston Bachelard. Beginning with author such as Roch C. Smith, Mary McAllester, and Mary Tiles in the 1980s, after a latency period, a new generation of thinkers resumed scholarly work on Bachelard either by tackling specific thematic and conceptual strands of his thought (as in Miles Kennedy's book on the role of home in Bachelard) or through employing Bachelard in a dialogical fashion to develop an applied analysis of a certain phenomenon (as in Ed Casey's work on place or Richard Kearney's work on imagination). Eileen Rizo-Patron is another key figure in the contemporary revival of Bachelard, translating his important early book Intuition of the Instant (2013) as well as being the lead editor on the present volume under review, Adventures in Phenomenology: Gaston Bachelard.
This is an impressive, wide-reaching, and important volume in several respects. Over the course of sixteen chapters, the collection covers topics as varied as Bachelard's philosophy of time, his place within the phenomenological tradition, his analysis of language, and the usage of his philosophy in issues such as environmental politics and theories of space and place. These issues are tackled by many if not all of the key players in Bachelard studies, including notable figures such as Ed Casey, Richard Kearney, and Mary McAllester Jones. It would be impossible to review the book as a whole given its complexity and range, but in what follows I will critically survey some of the book's salient themes, addressing to what extent the volume as a whole develops Bachelard studies for contemporary research in phenomenology.
Eileen Rizo-Patron's introduction to the volume establishes the aims and context of the collection clearly and coherently. From the outset, the aim is established of positioning Bachelard in dialogue with contemporary continental thought (1). In the first instance, this requires a historical context, which Rizo-Patron provides. The "cavalier attitude toward Bachelard" by his contemporaries is conceived in both institutional and conceptual terms (4). Bachelard's appointment as chair of History and Philosophy of Science at the Sorbonne was contentious when set against his wide-ranging—and autodidactic—interests, not only in the philosophy of science but also of his then burgeoning interest in Jungian psychology, alchemy, and the philosophy of imagination. Yet this methodological stance, far from a weakness, emerges as a strength insofar as Bachelard can be read as a "subversive" figure both within the history of philosophy but also in terms of his broader thought. Bachelardian concepts such as reverie and oneirism anticipate the ways in which Merleau-Ponty's late thought sought to undermine binary divisions and address the ways in which experience and thought appear for us long before those same thoughts have been culturally and intellectually sedimented into habitual patterns.
Such is the theme of the first chapter of the volume, a provocative exploration of Bachelard's account of temporal duration by Ed Casey. At the heart of this chapter is a question that is central to both Bachelard and contemporary continental philosophy; namely, is time continuous or disruptive? (19). Indeed, the question forms a leitmotif in Bachelard, evident from the outset to the end of his life, either appearing explicitly in temporal terms or through a series of different guises (be it spatiality in The Poetics of Space or animality in Lautréamont). From the outset the question is posed against a critical reading of Bergson. What Bachelard finds problematic in Bergson is the assumption that duration can involve continuous change. For Bachelard, this paradox can only be resolved through the introduction of a dialectical model of time that recognises how discontinuous and disorders of time are consolidated into the appearance of continuity. As Bachelard writes in the 1936 book Dialectics of Duration, there is a "time which is ineffective, scattered in a cloud of disparate instants and on other [hand] time which is cohered, organised, and consolidated into duration."[1] In a word, time is that which is to be worked on, formed, reformed, consolidated, reconsolidated, renewed, and returned to. Duration is never given to experience as a unitary field, but instead becomes in Bachelard an achievement of sorts.
It is in the 1932 book Intuition of the Instant—thus written during Bachelard's "scientific" phase—where these issues are first explored at length, and it is this formative text that Casey attends to in his contribution. As Casey makes clear, Bachelard's motivation for introducing the notion of the instant is to undercut the dichotomy between thinking of time as either continuous or discontinuous. Casey contextualizes this claim through applying Bachelard's notion of the instant to an analysis of the distinction between the sudden and the surprising, with the two terms being "coeval if not precisely coextensive" (22-23). Both occur instantaneously, and, moreover, "all of a sudden," even if the result of a sustained process of rumination. Both moreover, are taken up in the overarching theme of newness, which Casey offers a threefold taxonomy, from the new as "utterly unprecedented" to that which is already but renewed in its newness upon each contact (as in engaging with a great work of art that generates new perspectives), and then finally to the cases of what is new in relation to what is familiar (as when we are presented with something novel that is situated with an already established context).
What is important about these reflections is that they enrich Bachelard's idea of the instant and what he will enigmatically call "verticality," a key concept that several of the chapters explore, and one that I will return to. Bachelard's own remarks on this concept consist of several sketches and some incisive though underdeveloped passages. An appendix in the English translation of Intuition of the Instant includes Bachelard's short essay "Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant," written in 1939, which unpacks his notion of vertical or poetical time. But much remains to be said on what implications Bachelard's philosophy of the instant and his analysis of time more generally have for contemporary research. In extending Bachelard beyond his own remit, Casey's elaboration of these ideas positions us in a much better place to grasp the "unthought thoughts" within Bachelard.
Alongside Casey, Richard Kearney also tackles Bachelard's concept of the instant, giving more specific attention to the enigmatic essay "Poetic Instant and Metaphysical Instant" and its adjoining notion of vertical time. Some words on Bachelard's usage of poetics and poesies is needed here. By "poetic," Bachelard refers not only to sensuous experience and that alone, but rather insofar as it involves poesies, the act of creation that is as much concerned with the composition of time in the present as it is that of the past. Such is the task of poesies, to shatter "the simple continuity of shackled time," revealing therein an "element of suspended time, meterless time—a time we shall call vertical in order to distinguish it from everyday time."[2] With his idea of vertical time, Bachelard offers a rejoinder to Bergsonian durée, which he finds unconvincing on both a conceptual and phenomenological level, not least because it fails to account for how paradoxes and contradictions are central to the creative act of time. It is, Bachelard writes, "astonishing and familiar…a harmonic relationship between opposites [which] compels us to value or devalue" (59). More than a detached aesthetic pleasure, the poetic instant confers upon the reader an imperative to assess our understanding of time itself and to recognise that within that understanding there lies an enduring ambivalence that is fundamentally "androgynous" in nature (59).
Bachelard explores these rich concepts through literary illustrations, Baudelaire's motif of "smiling regret" being one such articulation of the androgyny of the poetic instant. As mentioned above, Bachelard was so taken with this image that he would return to it at the final stages of his life, in The Poetics of Reverie, a book that expands and to some extent fulfils the promise of the earlier sketch of vertical time. In speaking of a smile that regrets, the question is not of trying to resolve this contradictory image, but of preserving it. Through this preservation of two apparently disjoined states entering the same affective orb, time, Bachelard insists, comes to a standstill.
Both Bachelard and Kearney distance this temporal structure from that of nostalgia, even though Bachelard will speak of the poetic instant as allowing us to "experience, belatedly, those instances which should have been lived" (60). I would question to what extent this distancing from nostalgia is tenable, given the direction Bachelard's philosophy will proceed, with its eventual veneration of childhood as a model of the cosmos. But for Kearney the movement toward polarised time is less a question of nostalgia and more of a fascination with the "poetic conjunction of opposites," which derives from Bachelard's broader intellectual landscape, especially that of depth psychology and alchemy, where the conjunction of opposites assumes a vital role. Such influences are traceable in Bachelard's notion of vertical time, where we find a plurality of timescales inhabiting the same sphere.
Naming this movement of time standing still an "epiphanic instant," Kearney broadens Bachelard's privileging of poetry over fiction, locating the movement of vertical time within Proust and Joyce, as Kearny puts it, "these novels are narratives constructed around certain vertical moments of 'epiphany' which cut through the linear plot line and liberate the story into a series of circular reprises … chronological time is upended and reversed, as past and future are reinscribed in a timeless moment" (52). Kearny notes in a footnote that there is a striking rapport here between Bachelard's notion of vertical time and that of Benjamin's concept of the "Messianic instant," with Benjamin employ a metaphorical figure of flashing lightning and Bachelard invoking the figure of a "phoenix poetic flash" (56). While there is no evidence of a mutual influence between Benjamin and Bachelard (indeed, Benjamin would write a critical letter on Bachelard's book, Lautréamont, toward the end of his life), untapped connections of this sort (not least between Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard) litter the work of Bachelard and remain to be developed. There is much more to be said on Kearney's paper, which is exemplary in not only unpacking but also situating Bachelard's critical (and overlooked) account of the poetic instant within his work as a whole.
Moving on from time, the middle parts of Adventures in Phenomenology deal with Bachelard's methodology and his concept of language. Of these parts, Anton Vydra's chapter is especially notable for critically assessing Bachelard's place within the phenomenological landscape. Despite his avowed passion for phenomenology, especially in the later works, Bachelard's relationship to the method is ambiguous. Vydra's chapter explores these points of ambiguity, situating Bachelard's methodology in relation to the concepts of phenomenon and noumena, his evolving concept of a "non-phenomenology," his perspective on the phenomenological attitude, and how these dimensions contribute to an authentic formulation of phenomenology. Of note here is the phenomenological pathway Bachelard was developing and its potential relation to Merleau-Ponty. As with Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard calls into a question a phenomenology that centralises explicit modes of act intentionality. What this prioritizing omits is the way in which intentional relations are structured in the first place. In a word, it confines itself to things rather than what Bachelard terms "elemental matter" that has yet to assume a static quality. The rapport here not only with Merleau-Ponty's concept of flesh, but also of his own development of "non-phenomenology" (of course, long before its formulation in Laruelle) is a rich area of research that is currently under-investigated. Vydra is exemplary in negotiating with the trajectory of Bachelard's thought, but it would have been enriching to read a more sustained analysis of the relation between Merleau-Ponty and Bachelard, especially in their joint understanding of the term "element." In addition, while Vydra ends his rich chapter with an inclusion of Bachelard's "turn" toward poetics, there remains much here to say on the ontological and conceptual significance of concepts such as reverie, ontological amplification, and oneirism, which are touched upon but only in passing.
Both of Eileen Rizo-Patron's contributions to this volume are noteworthy by dint of their incisiveness and lucidity. In her first chapter, Rizo-Patron picks up where Vydra left through tackling Bachelard's relation to psychoanalysis. This relation is situated within Bachelard's "psychotherapeutic period" in the 1940s, and the beginning of his concern the value of repose in response to what he will term in The Dialectic of Duration "ill-made durations" (108). By this, Bachelard seems to have in mind something like a Freudian complex, a dysfunctional "affective knot" that binds humans to impoverished ways of being, dwelling, and thinking. Rizo-Patron's first chapter is especially helpful in teasing out these complex strands through identifying the central role alchemy plays in Bachelard's intellectual background. Rizo-Patron maintains that Bachelard's hermeneutics frames poetic texts as "proverbial 'philosopher's stones' capable of drawing out the latent energies in other 'stones' (readers' souls) while assisting in their distillation and transmutation" (114). This language may appear ornate, but I think it is more than a whimsy on behalf of Bachelard and Rizo-Patron. Bachelard's hermeneutics is alchemical insofar as it revolves around themes of change and transformation, both within the texts and within the reader. Alchemy forms the allegorical counterpart to Bachelard's insistence on the value of opposites, the significance of elemental images, and the centrality of reverie, and marks the way of attending to phenomena that implicates the reader as an active constituent in the formation of the world.
The volume's middle section on language offers more detailed studies of the role language plays in the formation of Bachelard's thought. Essays here concern the relation between Bachelard and Henry Corbin; and Bachelard's relation to Nancy as well as his relation to Gadamer. Roch C. Smith's chapter on Bachelard and the logosphere, although published in another form in 1985, is a welcome inclusion here for its astute analysis of a lesser known essay, "Reverie and Radio" in which Bachelard makes a plea to nothing less than a global logos (157).
The final part of the volume considers various applications of Bachelardian phenomenology as understood through the theme of alterity. The theme is pertinent, given that much of Bachelard's thought prima facie invokes a solitary world sealed off from otherness and others. It is true that in The Poetics of Space, he devotes a chapter to the dialectical relationship between inside and outside, and suggests that this relation can always be reversed. It is also true that he emphasizes temporal discontinuity over a pregiven durée. But in all this, the overarching sentiment seems to be establishing a quiet space far from the hum of urban life, in which individual memories and dreams are protected by drawn curtains (to think of Bachelard's discussion of the house in the snow in The Poetics of Space). While this part of the volume intends to confront whether Bachelard's philosophy is receptive to the other, I think it only partly succeeds in this task.
Both Edward Kaplan's chapter on Buber and Bachelard and Madeleine Preclaire's contribution on solitude deal in some part with the question of alterity in Bachelard, both of whom argue passionately for Bachelard's commitment to the other. Preclaire's chapter is especially notable for its insistence on this point. Despite the impression of Bachelard as a philosopher of solitude, Preclaire claims that solitude is but a first step toward a shared world, a "call" of sorts that leads us out of ourselves and toward the other. The theme is taken up here through Bachelard's discussion of the flame, love, and reading. In each case, a gesture is made toward drawing the other into contact with the self through a paradoxical deepening of solitude. "[Solitude] alone," Preclaire writes, "enables the discovery of deep being, that which in the midst of the din and stress of the world reserves its secret, but which is therefore the source and springboard of dialogue and sympathy" (261). We are certainly rather removed from the ethical demands Levinas places upon the reader to recognise the primacy placed on the alterity of the Other. Bachelard's intersubjective world, in sharp contrast, is described as "solitudes filled with company" (267).
While there is no doubt that Bachelard as a human being was receptive to other people, a fuller defense of whether Bachelard's philosophy is welcoming to the other would require a more sustained look at his writings on dwelling. Yet for a philosopher most commonly associated with his work on spatiality, the theme itself in Bachelard is surprisingly underplayed in this volume. Ed Casey's contribution on the topic of "missing land" is the exception; though alterity is not a central theme despite being placed in this section (a section on spatiality may have been more judicious). In short, while the section on alterity is welcome, to my mind, a critical assessment of Bachelard's account of intersubjectivity, his openness on the other, to say nothing of his account of gender, remains to be undertaken.
Despite this shortcoming, this is an excellent volume, which will be of immense benefit not only to Bachelard scholars but also to the contemporary continental philosophy community more generally. As a whole, the volume is edited with care, though several unfortunate typos were found, including blank empty page citations ("000") that were presumably pending actual page numbers. This is a minor point in what is otherwise a necessary and welcome collection.
[1] Bachelard 2016, 81.
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It has been a number of months since my trip to Gaia Sagrada. I made the decision to go as I had exhausted all other options. Ordinarily I would be quite cautious about such retreats so I came with a fair amount of uncertainty about it all. What I experienced there was an amazing experience, not an easy one for me by any means but one which I would never undo.
At Gaia I found a group of people ready and willing to provide love and a huge amount of support for my journey.
Christine who was present throughout all the ceremonies. I was so grateful to have her there. Some of the ceremonies were a challenge for me but having her there meant I got through the hard times by just feeling reassured and safe by her presence. All of the shamans were amazing. Salvador and his wife and Santiago. Having had no prior experience of plant medicine and having read negative stories online I felt confident in their ability and their intentions toward the group were nothing but full of warmth and sincerity. The amount of energy they put into the ceremonies is tremendous. I am very privileged to have met them and also very grateful for Christine and the shamans to have come to together at Gaia to provide people with such an experience.
Not to be forgotten are the volunteers. Whether they were assisting in the ceremonies, cooking delicious food in the kitchen, tending to the beautiful grounds at Gaia or simply sitting having a chat. Amazing generosity and support from all of them. thank you!
Lastly the place itself is a little bubble of calm on the side of a hill top. The accommodation is modern, very comfortable and well maintained. There are a variety of spaces on the grounds from which one can choose to sit, chat, meditate, practice yoga or just be. Its hard to leave.
Overall I couldn't have asked for more from this place I am very thankful for this place and experience. I will be forever grateful.


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Really liking this! I've heard about street artists who use this way of leaving their mark but to connect it with environmentalism makes it even more appealing.
Now I just wonder if this type of "graffiti" also has legal implications... ?


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Q: SystemServerCAMSecurityRequired error when authenticating using Cognos I am using the Cognos TM1 10.1 API to connect to a server. The server uses Cognos for authentication which in turn uses integrated login to authenticate users against our instance of Active Directory. I've tried using TM1SystemServerConnect and TM1SystemServerConnectIntegratedLogin, but they both produce an error.
(note that I've used pseduo-code for simplicity - yes, I've verified all the handles, inputs, etc, are correct and accurate)
// Standard login
TM1V pLogin = TM1ValuePool( hUser );
TM1V hServerName = TM1ValString( pLogin, "server", 0 );
TM1V hUser = TM1ValString( pLogin, "userid", 0 );
TM1V hPassword = TM1ValString( pLogin, "password", 0 );
TM1SystemServerConnect( pLogin, hServerName, hUser, hPassword )

// Integrated Login
TM1V pLogin = TM1ValuePool( hUser );
TM1V hServerName = TM1ValString( pLogin, "server", 0 );
TM1V hServer = TM1SystemServerConnectIntegratedLogin( pLogin, hServerName );

The handle I get back from both (hServer) points to an error with code 199 and the message SystemServerCAMSecurityRequired. I've search through IBM's TM1 API Guide and I can't find a solution (or any documentation for this error message)... what's going on? The logs on the server show failed login attemtps, but provide no additional information.

A: The error is because the two documented login functions used above are specificaly for IntegratedSecurityMode 1, 2 and 3.
You've indicated that you are using Cognos to handle user authentication, which is either mode 4 or 5. There are two more-or-less "undocumented" functions for logging in to the server using Cognos authentication:

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*TM1SystemServerConnectWithCAMNamespace

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Here's a sample, written in C++ (copied from here) which you can use a reference for connecting using Cognos authentication:
TM1V voServerName = TM1ValStringW( hPool, (TM1_UTF16_T *)pszServerName, 0 );

TM1V voPasswd = TM1ValStringEncryptW( hPool, (TM1_UTF16_T*)pszPassword, 0 );

TM1V vArray[3];
vArray[0] = TM1ValStringW( hPool, (TM1_UTF16_T*)szCAMNamespace, 0 );
vArray[1] = TM1ValStringW( hPool, (TM1_UTF16_T*)admin_login_name, 0 );
vArray[2] = voPasswd;

TM1V vCAMArgArr = TM1ValArray(hPool, vArray, 3);
TM1V vTmpServer =
    TM1SystemServerConnectWithCAMNamespace(hPool, voServerName, vCAMArgArr);

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Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf is a golf-simulation video game developed by Sculptured Software, and published by Accolade beginning in 1988. It was released for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64 (C64), MS-DOS, Macintosh, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), PC-88, and Sharp X68000.

During 1990 and 1991, the game was released in HuCard cartridge and CD-ROM formats for the U.S TurboGrafx-16 and its foreign counterpart, PC Engine. The TurboGrafx-16 versions of the game were titled Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf, while the PC Engine version was titled Jack Nicklaus World Golf Tour for the CD-ROM format. A Game Boy version was released as Jack Nicklaus Golf in 1992.

It was the first in a series of golf games named after golfer Jack Nicklaus, and was followed by Jack Nicklaus' Unlimited Golf & Course Design (1990).

Gameplay
The game features Jack Nicklaus' favorite 18 golf holes, all put together in a single course, which includes holes from Augusta National Golf Club, Muirfield, Pebble Beach Golf Links, Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, and Old Course at St Andrews. Two courses designed by Nicklaus are also featured in the game: Castle Pines (Colorado) and Desert Mountain (Arizona). Additionally, the Game Boy version includes Muirfield Village as a course. Several add-on disks were released for the computer versions to add additional courses.

The game features two game modes: Stroke Play and Skins. A multiplayer option allows for a maximum total of four players being able to play. The player can also compete against a selection of eight different CPU players that includes Jack Nicklaus. An image of Nicklaus also appears in between holes as he gives tips to the player.

Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf, for the TurboGrafx-16, differs from the other versions. In CD-ROM format, the game has five courses, including Castle Pines. The other courses were previously featured in the game's early add-on disks: The Australian Golf Club, Royal Troon Golf Club, Kemper Lakes Golf Club, and St. Creek Golf Club. The CD-ROM version allows the player to take a 360-degree look around any of the courses, and Nicklaus appears in between courses to give advice about each hole. The HuCard cartridge version of Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf includes only one course, The Australian Golf Club, and includes eight golfer rivals, as well as Jack Nicklaus.

Release
Accolade began publishing Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf in 1988. It had the longest title of any software product at the time of its release. By August 1989, versions had been released in the United Kingdom for the Commodore 64 and PC, while other versions for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST were scheduled for release that autumn. An Apple II version had been released by late 1989. As of 1990, a Macintosh version had been published by Accolade. The NES version, published by Konami, was released in the United States in March 1990, while a United Kingdom release came in August 1991. Versions were also released for the MSX, PC-88, and Sharp X68000.

For the U.S. TurboGrafx-16, the game was released as Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf, in HuCard and CD-ROM formats. The game was also released for the TurboGrafx-16's foreign counterpart, the PC Engine. In the CD-ROM format, the PC Engine version was published under the title Jack Nicklaus' World Golf Tour, while the game in HuCard format retained the original Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf title. Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf and its foreign counterparts were released in 1990 and 1991.

The Game Boy version, Jack Nicklaus Golf, was released in the United States in May 1992; it was published by Tradewest, along with an unrelated game with the same title for the Super NES.

Reception
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Computer versions
The computer versions of the game received criticism for the slow load times in generating each new screen. Some criticized the computer version for including an off-disc copy protection scheme, which was deemed as difficult to use. Some critics favorably compared the game with the Leader Board golfing game series. Some praise was given for the graphics of the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 versions.Amstrad Action called the CPC version, "Beyond a shadow of a doubt the best golf sim ever on a CPC." However, the magazine also wrote that the game would "only immediately appeal" to golf fans and people who have played computer golf games, while stating, "These limitations will unfairly cripple the game's popularity – a crime, because it's an entertaining and well-programmed sports sim." CU Amiga-64 praised the Amiga version's gameplay but was critical of the minimal sounds, the putting, and the "agonisingly slow" computer golfer opponent. Zzap!64 reviewed the Commodore 64 version and criticized the sound effects, as well as the blocky scenery and its unusual color schemes. The Games Machine, reviewing the CPC and ST versions, criticized the blocky scenery and its murky colors, as well as simple sound effects and poorly animated golfer sprites. Reviewing the Amiga version, the magazine praised the digitized image of Jack Nicklaus that appears in between holes, but criticized the rest of the graphics.

Tom Malcom of .info reviewed the Commodore 64 version; he called the graphics adequate and the sound "abominable," and concluded that the game, overall, was a good choice. Malcom subsequently reviewed the Amiga version; he praised the gameplay but felt the graphics were "not what they could, and should, be." He also wished there had been an option to turn off Jack Nicklaus' advice before each hole, stating that it slowed down the gameplay considerably.

Bob Wade of Amiga Format praised the sound. Tony Hetherington of Your Amiga criticized bad putting controls. He called the game "perfectly playable and competently programmed," but still considered it bland. Amiga Action praised the game and recommended it, but considered Leader Board to be superior. Amiga User International recommended the game for people who had not already purchased Mean 18, a similar golf game also by Accolade.

Dan Muse of inCider praised the Apple II version as "a new standard in computer golf games" and "the best sports game, period." Regarding the image of Nicklaus that appears in between holes, Muse wrote, "Okay, it's a little corny, but I like it." Michael Dashe of Macworld praised the Macintosh version for its graphics, realistic gameplay, and variety of courses.

Mike Siggins reviewed Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf for Games International magazine, and gave it 4 stars out of 5, and stated that "In the end, this is an excellent game that is badly let down by one feature: the painfully slow screen updates."

Mike Siggins reviewed Jack Nicklaus Golf – Additional Courses Vol II for Games International magazine, and gave it a rating of 7 out of 10, and stated that "It is good to see Accolade supporting the program with these high quality course disks but their assumption seems to be that there is nothing wrong with the product. This I find hard to understand and would suggest, unless you aren't bothered by round of computer golf taking a couple of hours, that you don't bother buying any more add-on disks until the problem is attended to."

Other versions

The NES and TurboGrafx-16 versions were also criticized for slow reanimation. Raze reviewed the NES version and stated that because of its easy gameplay, it was more fun to play it with other people rather than alone. Mean Machines criticized the NES version for its blocky scenery, stating that it hampered gameplay. The magazine also criticized the golfer sprite, the "average" sound effects, and the lack of music, and concluded that it was a "very tedious golf sim, which only die-hard fans of the genre should take a chance on." The Chicago Sun-Times, reviewing one of the game's versions, wrote, "Great for golfing enthusiasts and good for those who are new to golf."

Chip and Jonathan Carter, writing for the Philadelphia Daily News, reviewed the TurboGrafx-16 cartridge version and stated that additional courses would have been nice, although they praised the gameplay and graphics. GamePro reviewed the TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM version and recommended the game for golf fans, but criticized the slow reanimation and stated that the game did not offer much to distinguish it from other golf games.

See also
 Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf''

References

External links
 Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf at MobyGames

1988 video games
Accolade (company) games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple IIGS games
Atari ST games
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
Cultural depictions of Jack Nicklaus
DOS games
Golf video games
MSX2 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
NEC PC-8801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sports video games set in the United States
X68000 games
TurboGrafx-16 games
TurboGrafx-CD games
Victor Entertainment games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Barry Leitch

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A pyrene based amphiphilic receptor has been utilized in the nanomolar detection of uric acid at physiological pH in water. The compound shows a unique concentration-dependent modulation in optical response toward uric acid. In intramolecular/static excimer form (low concentration range), it displays a ratiometric response, while a ``turn-off' sensing is observed specifically in the presence of intermolecular/dynamic excimer (high concentration range). The present protocol is then employed for the estimation of uric acid in blood serum samples of healthy individuals. Bland-Altman analysis in comparison to clinically approved uricase assay indicated the high accuracy of the present method. Additionally, the extent of insect infestation in stored grain samples was determined by measuring the uric acid content of their aqueous extracts. Low-cost color strips were developed for on-site detection of uric acid without involving any sophisticated instrument or trained personnel.


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California wildfire death toll revised to 85 — down from 88, due to DNA tests
By Rich McKay	Reuters
Posted December 4, 2018 2:17 am
Updated December 11, 2018 4:53 am
1:06 Total number of deaths in California's Camp Fire is 88, officials say
Nov. 26: Officials in California said Monday that the total number of deaths in the Camp wildfire in the state has reached 88.
The death toll in California's deadliest wildfire was revised downward to 85 and the number of people believed missing dropped again to 11, down from a high of more than 1,200 about two weeks ago, officials said Monday.
The number of dead was revised from 88 after DNA tests on remains by the coroner's office, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said late Monday in a televised press conference.
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If residents find remains, they are asked to call the sheriff's department.
The so-called Camp Fire, which started Nov. 8, has all but obliterated the mountain community of Paradise, home to more than 27,000 people about 175 miles north of San Francisco.
The fire was fully contained Nov. 25, but the cause is still being investigated. The electric utility PG&E Corp reported equipment problems near the origin of the fire around the time it began.
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Editor's Choice The New Poker Face Barely Shaves
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By J. Michael Kennedy, Los Angeles Times — Aug 2nd, 2005
Phil Laak is one of the new young guns on the poker circuit. Gary Friedman | Los Angeles Times
The young guns of poker elbowed their way onto most every table in the Mirage Hotel and Casino.
On this day, their fresh faces and average-Joe looks stood out in the crowd of high-mileage regulars playing in a warm-up tournament before the World Series of Poker in July.
Raised on electronic games, this generation of the young and the ruthless has discovered America's oldest game and mastered it with almost frightening speed. Because of the Internet, they have crammed years of playing time into months. Some have eschewed mainstream careers and college educations for the lure of quick money. Casinos nationwide have added poker tables to keep up with demand.
"It's a whole new clientele for us, and they take their games very seriously; it's a very intelligent crowd," said Tim Gustin, manager of the Commerce Casino, south of downtown Los Angeles.
"There are many very young players today," said longtime poker pro Linda Johnson, who arranges gambling cruises. "In fact, of all new players entering poker rooms these days for the first time, I would say 60 percent of them are under 28."
The young guns include David Williams, 25, who dropped out of Southern Methodist University two semesters shy of a degree in economics, with a minor in math. There is Tuan Le, the 26-year-old son of Vietnamese immigrants, who dropped out of college before the end of his first semester.
Phil Laak, known as the "Unabomber" for his sweatshirt hood and aviator glasses that evoke the wanted sketch for convicted mail bomber Theodore Kaczynski, gave up mechanical engineering and tossed a high-risk Wall Street trading gig before opting for Texas Hold 'em.
Antonio Esfandiari was 25 when he became the youngest person to win more than $1 million on the tour.
All make their living at the poker tables and have become cult figures on the televised gambling circuit.
The poker craze is attributable to several factors, perhaps none more prominent than the televised World Poker Tour, broadcast on the Travel Channel.
Now in its fourth season, the tour took a game that was about as interesting as watching paint dry and turned it into a showbiz success by allowing audiences a peek at the pair of "down" or "pocket" cards players are holding.
"Our television shows really play like 'The Young and the Restless': It has great, intelligent, good-looking men and women. You can't rig that," said Steve Lipscomb, a Los Angeles lawyer who created the concept.
The Mirage tournament in May was one of the last qualifiers for the World Series. It had some old lessons in store for the youngsters.
Slim and handsome, Williams walked in listening to an MP3 player. The college dropout is considered one of the game's young comers, earning more than $4 million in tournament play in the past two years.
Williams was carrying a 4.0 grade-point average at SMU when he dropped out after coming in second in the World Series of Poker last year. Before poker, he won thousands of dollars playing "Magic, the Gathering," a sword and sorcery card game.
Le, wearing a conservative striped shirt and dark glasses, already was seated in front of his $10,000 stacks of chips, the initial buy-in for all 317 players.
The 26-year-old, who has won more than $4 million on the tour, was in his first semester at California State University-Northridge when he began playing poker in the student union between classes. He almost always dominated the players, who included his economics professor.
Poker has changed his living habits, which often means sleeping through the day and playing at card clubs until dawn and beyond.
Laak, 33, is one of the most recognizable players on the tour, though far from being among its big-money winners. His official earnings stand at roughly $150,000, but that does not include endorsements and nontour games, where thousands can be won or lost on a single hand.
Laak graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a mechanical engineering degree, spending most of his spare time reading books, including all of Ayn Rand's works. He calculated the minimum coursework needed to make it over the 2.0 minimum grade-point average, and hit a 2.1.
When he graduated, Laak spent time as a repo man and stock speculator, but neither career seemed to offer good odds for getting rich fast.
For about five years, he played backgammon, traveling the world looking for the big-money games. He based himself in New York, where he went from game to game through the night on his bicycle. During the cold months, he wore the now famous hooded sweatshirt.
When he switched from backgammon to poker five years ago, he kept on wearing it. The Unabomber persona was born.
Killer instinct notwithstanding, Laak is an offbeat character who plays well to the crowd and cameras. At one point, he did push-ups and shadow-boxed during a tournament, to the annoyance of others at the table. Laak couldn't have cared less.
Several hours into the first day of the Mirage tournament, Williams and others at his table became irritated at the cramped playing space. The problem would not last long. When the first round ended at 8 p.m., only 170 players remained. Le was not one of them. He'd gone bust, beaten by a pair of kings.
He chalked up his loss to luck; there was no flaw in his betting strategy, he insisted. "It's glamorous and it's easy, but there is a bad side," Le said.
Williams and Laak were back the next day, as was Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. With his long hair, dark glasses and cowboy hat, he is one of the most recognizable faces on the televised World Poker Tour circuit. With a doctorate in computer science from UCLA, Ferguson is considered one of the game's finer players — calculating his odds deliberately, studying his opponents methodically behind dark glasses.
Ferguson cautioned that the game is demanding over the long haul, and that playing on the Internet is a far cry from facing down real opponents.
"If you want to make money, professional poker is almost certainly the wrong field," he said. "Professional poker players are all brilliant. Almost all of them could make money doing other things."
As if to underscore the fickleness of the game, Ferguson did not make it through the day and neither did Williams, who immediately boarded a plane for another poker competition in New Orleans.
"For every dollar won, there has to be a dollar lost," Williams said. "Everyone can't be a winner."
Then Laak had a run of bad luck on Day 3. Dealt a pair of aces, he had great odds for a winning hand. He went "all in," betting his entire stack, to call another all-in bet. He beat the pair of kings held by Richard Tatalovich, and what looked like a weak eight and 10 of clubs for Jean Paul Bellande, who also called. Laak even got another ace on the flop — the three cards flipped over by the dealer and shared by all players. But the next two shared cards dealt killed him, filling a longshot 10-ace straight for Bellande.
Gavin Smith, a 36-year-old father of two who once made his living as a golf course groundskeeper outside Toronto, eventually won the tournament. He took home $1.1 million.
As many as 5 million people continue to play poker, two-thirds of them online, according to World Poker Tour founder Lipscomb.
"We've managed to create the new American dream," he said. "But whatever you do, don't quit your day job."
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The Pro Late Pile Up in Nashville
What Made Saturday's 'Big One' Significant
Nashville, TN (Wednesday, September 16, 2020) – During Saturday night's Pro Late Model portion of Local Racing at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, one of the biggest crashes of the 2020 season across the county unfolded just 13 laps into the 100 lap main event. While no drivers were injured in the incident, there were many things that will keep the multicar pileup at the forefront of numerous people's minds.
The race was one you would expect to see at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, with plenty of close racing, hard-driving, and battle for position all over the race track. Something about the 'feel' of this race was a little different though, as the final feature of the night following and extended rain delay earlier in the afternoon. The entire tone of the first half of the race may have been set when the field came around to complete lap number one, and the leaders – rookie Hunter Wright and points leader at the time Dylan Fetcho – slammed doors at the finish line. While that battle was able to continue without further incident, races furth back in the pack would not be so fortunate.
Exiting turn two on the 13th lap of the race, apparent contact was made which sent Billy Sisco spinning in his number 16. Then, Dylan Jones' number 41 tried to avoid, sending him toward the outside wall; in the process, he collected Micheal House's number 1 machine, three other drivers were also collected. Mike Murray, Bennie Hamlett and Garrett Dies became the next immediate victims of the incident, filing into the crash in a straight line.
Murray became the car with the most attention in a hurry as he slammed the back of House's car in a way that sent him up on top of House and Jones. After which, Hamlett and Dies stuffed their machines under Murray and subsequently into House and Jones as well. As the cars came to a stop,fans and officials alike wondered just how bad the crash was.
"I've seen a lot of scary wrecks in 40 seasons at Nashville," remarked announcer Joe Williams. "But only three or four really had me worried. Saturday night, with two cars on top of two more, so many things can go wrong so quickly," Williams said.
In stepped the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway Safety Team to do what they are prepared to do at a moment's notice. In just a matter of seconds from the time the caution was displayed, Safety 1 was on the scene ensuring that all drivers involved were unharmed. From there, it became about cleaning up the mess in a safe and timely manner so that racing could resume.
NFS Safety Director, Jake Steele said that everything played out exactly how it was supposed to. "The wreck presented several challenges for our team, but we were able to respond and resolve them without further issues," remarked Steele. "Overall, the entire scene was handled just the way we train for – from communications and resources made available, to removing the cars without causing further damage," Steele finished.
Williams says the performance from the Safety Team on Saturday was unmatched, and he isn't the only one who was impressed. "We witnessed one of the greatest performances by a safety crew at Nashville," offered Williams. "In a 30-minute red flag, the crew moved five cars from on top of each other, made sure every driver walked away and got us a clean track to race on," Williams said.
Murray, recalls the incident remarking how quickly the Safety Team responded. "By the time my spotter asked me if I was okay, there was someone in my window," Murray says. "Those guys need to be acknowledged for that. That could have been a really bad situation had we had just one fuel line or fuel system rupture," finished Murray.
Despite the damage, Murray says he does plan to be back at the track on October 3rd, the next night of racing at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway presented by Ford Lincoln of Franklin. Tickets are available online at www.nashvillefairgroundsspeedway.racing or by calling the Box Office at (615) 254-1986. Search Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway on Facebook and follow on Twitter @RaceFairgrounds.
Story by – Zach Hiser, Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway
Photos – Paradigm Multimedia Marketing, Middle Tennessee Racing News
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Brentwood taxpayers will no longer subsidize fire protection services for all of far East County residents.
The City Council on Tuesday night unanimously voted to cancel its 3-year-old contract with the East Contra Costa Fire Protection District, which had Brentwood paying an extra $650,000 annually for six additional firefighters at the city's two stations.
Those firefighters serve the entire district, which covers Brentwood, Oakley, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, Bethel Island, Byron and Marsh Creek-Morgan Territory.
The contract will end in 30 days, according to the city manager.
Council members say it is time for the district or the county to shoulder the cost of those firefighters. The district, which is funded through property taxes, is governed by the County Board of Supervisors.
Fire Chief Bill Weisgerber said that the contract cancellation will not affect fire services. The district will absorb those positions and possibly redeploy those firefighters to areas where there is the highest calls for service, including Oakley and Discovery Bay.
The contract cancellation comes at a time when the district is struggling to boost fire protection services in Far East County, with three firefighters and a paramedic on every engine.
Reach Erin Sherbert at 925-779-7139 or esherbert@cctimes.com.


Cathy Braasch is an assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University and the founding principal of Braasch Architecture. At Penn State, she has taught undergraduate and graduate architectural design studios, visual communications, and collaborative master planning. Her research interests include duration and creative production in the built environment; the relationship between memory, ideation, and drawing; and intersections of architectural design and urban landscape.
Braasch Architecture's work is comprised of commercial and residential projects that provide flexibility for the evolving needs of families and businesses.
Previously, she was an associate at Stoss, working on urban landscape projects such as the Plaza at Harvard University and CityDeck in Green Bay, Wisconsin. As a project architect at Stephen Yablon Architect and Della Valle Bernheimer, she designed numerous projects including a hotel in Soho, a residential amenity space in Brooklyn, and a condominium building in Chelsea.
She also previously taught architectural design studios with a focus on landscape and urban design at Northeastern University and the Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Braasch received a Master in Architecture degree at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and her B.A. from Yale University. Before pursuing architecture, Braasch designed scenery, lighting, and projections for theatrical productions.
"Daily Drawings: Accumulation of Memory and Form." Borland Project Space. State College, PA.
Braasch, Cathy. "Spaces For Creative Production: Experimental Theatre, Adaptive Re-use, and Institutional Identity." Persona, vol. 4, expected 2017, pp. tbd.


Over the course of 2017 into 2018 I have been able to interview a variety of different women for my blog, Word of Mouth. All of my interviewees have been women, this was not something I did on purpose nor did I plan the content to be that way, it just happened. Want to know why? It is because when I was coming up with ideas for interesting content I found that my biggest inspirers are female.
I have found such strength and confidence in women across the United States from a variety of different content areas; from fitness, to health and wellness, to photography, and travel. Recently I was able to interview a woman who is a fitness coach and bikini competitor in San Diego, California. Her name is Dominique Meyers! Her & her husband have a fitness program that people enroll in to get their personalized coaching for training as well as eating.
I was lucky to get some great tips and even dive into some of her motivation for staying confident throughout her training process.
Q: What made you decide to commit to your fitness lifestyle?
A: After college I was in a really low place with my health. I felt defeated and it had got to the point where enough was enough and I knew I had to make a change. Before that point I had tried a number of different diet and "quick fixes" and nothing was working. Once I accepted that it would take time and work, I made the decision to make a lifestyle change that would be sustainable and in a healthy way.
Q: Have you personally struggled with the progress of your physique?
A: YES!!! This is something that I struggle with every single day. Whether it was when I was at the lowest point with my health or when I was at my "fittest", I thought I should be better and I just wasn't ever good enough.
A: Honestly it's something I'm still challenged with, it's an ongoing process and journey that I'm learning to love. There was a book I read that really helped me out called "You Are a Badass" by Jen Sincero that helped fill my mind with thoughts and ideas that would empower me. Also, sharing my journey and doing my best to inspire others through my social media posts each day reminds me of those very principles and helps me.
Q: When do you feel your best?
A: When I'm able to find the balance between working out & eating healthy while still enjoying life and eating yummy foods.
I love that her confidence stems from balance in her life! It isn't a number on the scale or an outfit that looked good! I have struggled with feeling my best while also finding balance but I think she is totally right and once you find it, it's important that you stick with it!
Q: What advice would you give to people (women in particular) struggling with their overall health?
A: Stop looking for quick fixes and shortcuts. It's not easy and isn't supposed to be. It's going to take work but it's worth it. Remember that you don't have to give up all fun and good fun to enjoy a healthy lifestyle; you can have both when you embrace the 80/20 Rule. Everyone has a starting point and it's important to NEVER compare yourself to others because this is your journey and no one else's.
Q: How important is confidence and mental health when it comes to your training?
A: 100 percent for both my training and coaching. It all starts with mindset and having the right attitude. You can have the best plan to follow or Coach to look up to, but if you aren't ready, willing, and committed to it then you won't follow through.
Q: Do you think everyone is capable of building a body they're confident in?
A: Absolutely. Before I started my journey, I never thought that was possible until my mindset about it all changed. What has helped me out is realizing that there's no "one-size-fits-all" when it comes to your health. Being healthy and confident means something different for every single person so figure out what that is for you and then work on building the habits that will lead you to that goal.
I have been really inspired this past month from people I have met & interviewed to recently celebrating International Women's Day. I feel so lucky to have found & followed some amazing women through social media! Especially with Dom! Her captions & daily Instagram stories get people excited about health and wellness; As well as overall confidence - especially for women. When I was brainstorming new people to interview she immediately came to mind and honestly I don't know why I didn't think of it sooner! I loved the answers she provided because I know people struggle with their fitness journey all the time! I myself have been working on building sustainable habits, which is why I'm so glad she mentioned that (maybe i'm doing something right! hehe). It also helped me to see that she has struggled with her physique & not everyone is perfect! It makes you feel like you're not alone. When you see so many fitness influencers it looks like they have it together every single second; that isn't always the case. It's important to gain a real and healthy perspective for what goes into overall health and wellness. It all starts with a positive mindset and fearless attitude.
After that, the sky is the limit – especially for us women.


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Q: Inserting data into a column using switch case in SQL Server I need to use switch case in order to insert data into a column in database!
here is my code but its not working!
insert into fr(q)
values((select
            case
               when totalDue > 1000 then 'high'
               else 'Low'
            end as q
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A: To make that a valid insert statement, take out the values () part of your code:
insert into fr (q)
  select
    case
      when totalDue > 1000
        then 'high'
      else 'Low'
      end as q
    from fr

Although I think you're probably trying to update the table instead of insert rows into it.
update fr
  set q = case
      when totalDue > 1000
        then 'high'
      else 'Low'
      end;


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    if (__DEV__) {
        global.webpackIsomorphicTools.refresh();
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            log.error(error);
        } else if (redirectLocation) {
            log.debug('status: 302');
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        } else if (renderProps) {
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            );

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                ctx.response.body = renderHtmlPage(serverRender);
            } catch (error) {
                log.error(error);
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Yet another great band out of Brisbane, 12 piece garage pop act Velociraptor are heading to Melbourne soon as part of their only tour of the year. First though, have a listen to latest single 'In The Springtime', which has been getting a lot of love from pretty much everyone lately, and for a very good reason.
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In the Midst of Winter shares ways to cope for those suffering from misunderstood chronic illnesses, and a glimpse into our daily lives for those who wish to understand. It also testifies of the Savior's ability to reach into each heart and bring hope and renewal.
At age fourteen, Danice Hope started having troubles functioning during the winter months. Each year, the fatigue and depression grew worse. During the summers, her health would improve, and she learned to fit as much joy into life as possible before winter returned. After six years, she was finally diagnosed with seasonal affective disorder. Over time, she realized that there was also beauty in winter. She found a poster with flowers growing out of the snow that said, "In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
In the mid 1990's, Danice moved south to Arizona with the hope of improving her health enough to have a better life. While the SAD improved, she found herself developing new health problems. The biggest surprise was that she could be sitting slumped over in a wheelchair in the emergency room, barely able to speak or move, and doctor after doctor told her that she wasn't ill, or that it was "just anxiety". After going to twenty-four different doctors in the next year, she was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. Stunned at the loss of her hopes and dreams, she gradually learned to see in new ways, to balance her health, to reshape her dreams, and to look to Christ. She learned that flowers can grow not only in the snow, but also in the desert sun.


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Donald Trump brags about the ratings for his daily briefings on a deadly pandemic
I spent the weekend in a haze of my Saving Grace re-watch and barely paid any attention to the news. I know, that's horrible, but the news is horrible and I can't spend all of my waking moments panicking about all of this. From what I gather, Donald Trump was particularly unhinged this weekend? Did his golf course shut down because of the pandemic, and so Trump actually had to do some meetings or something? One thing he did: bragged about the ratings for his bonkers daily press conferences.
Imagine for a moment the sick mind of this man. He brags about ratings during a pandemic. He brags about how people are scared and worried and searching for any kind of leadership. He spends an hour every day holding his Nazi rallies behind the White House podium. It's disgusting. Meanwhile, there was one big piece of news: Trump has now given up on his whole "we'll be open for business by Easter" idea:
President Donald Trump has extended social distancing guidelines to April 30 to "slow the spread" of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
"The modeling estimates that the peak in death rate is likely to hit in two weeks. I will say it again. The peak, the highest point of death rates, remember this, is likely to hit in two weeks," he said during Sunday's press briefing.
"Therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to April 30 to slow the spread," Trump, 73, said. The president had previously expressed a desire to reopen the country by Easter. However, he told reporters on Sunday, "it was just an aspiration," adding that he hopes the country will "be well on our way to recovery" by June 1.
Also during the briefing, PBS News Hour's Yamiche Alcindor asked Trump about his recent comment regarding filling federal orders for medical equipment. "Be nice. Don't be threatening," he said in response to Alcindor, who accurately recited the president's quotes from a recent Sean Hannity interview about New York governor Andrew Cuomo's need for more ventilators to aid victims of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Yeah, not only has Trump been extremely jealous of Cuomo's soaring popularity and Cuomo's daily briefings full of compassion and humanity, but Trump also got into a massive beef with Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is a woman and a Democrat. Trump basically said that the federal government wouldn't help out Michigan unless Gov. Whitmer was nice to him and stroked his bloated ego. Which is not how federal aid works. That's not how any of this works.
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IIIT
NAME: International Institute of Islamic Thought
Budget: More than $3 million, in 2010; nearly $15.4 million since 2006
Funding sources: Mostly, unspecified grants and other unspecified contributions
Goals: Promotion of "revival and reform of Islamic thought and its methodology," in short, to disseminate Islamic supremacist goals.
Suspicious and/or Hostile Activities: Long suspected of terror funding through SAAR Foundation (Safa Trust), and its numerous for-profit business affiliates;
Eritrean IIIT associate Abdurahman Alamoudi, now imprisoned for terror-support and immigration fraud, helped funnel $1 million to al Qaeda and from 1991 through 1998 "volunteered" to appoint Muslim U.S. military chaplains, including James Yee, arrested in 2003 for supporting jihadis at Guantanamo Bay.
When arrested, Alamoudi had $340,000 in cash to pay assassins of Arabia's crown prince.
Alamoudi's former Shirlington Auto Mart in Arlington, Va. participated in a car dealer ring of subsequently convicted terror-financier Sami al-Arian. To fund terror, the ring shipped disassembled, stolen cars to Dubai and Jeddah for reassembly and resale at astronomical prices.
D. Hibba Abugideri, an un-indicted co-conspirator in the HLF case, from 2004 through 2005 traveled globally for the U.S. State Department (to Italy, Aberzaijan and Tanzania, at least) at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of at least $50,000.
In 1991 and 1992 alone, IIIT gave at least $50,000 to Sami al-Arian's Florida Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) WISE front and in Nov. 2001 $10,000 to another terror front, the Tampa Bay Coalition for Peace and Justice.
In 1998, the Hamas-owned halal Georgia Mar-Jac poultry firm granted nearly $1 million to IIIT, which from 1997 to 2000 IIIT used over 70% gross receipts to fund free books and pamphlets largely comprised of hate literature.
Tarik Hamdi, a named defendant in the 9/11 families lawsuit, corresponded with his former Palestinian Islamic Jihad employer Sami al-Arian, served as U.S. "contact" to a bin Laden front, in 1998 provided a satellite phone battery for bin Laden's personal phone and later arranged an ABC bin Laden interview before he fled the U.S. to escape immigration fraud charges.
Key Leaders: Co-founder, the late "intellectual" jihadist Ismail al-Faruqi (1921-1986); co-founder ex-Malaysia finance minister Anwar Ibrahim; co-founder "exiled Iraqi leader Dr. Ahmad Totonjie"; co-founderYaqub Mirza; chairman Abdulhamid Abu Sulayman; Jamal Barzinji, MB spiritual chief Yusuf Qaradawi, Abdurahman Alamoudi; Iqbal Unus (now head of IIIT's Fairfax Institute teaching arm); AMCE president Abubaker al Shingieti; Taha Jabir Alwalani; vice president Hisham al-Talib; Louay Safi; Sayyid Syeed; former AMC executive director Aly Abuzaakouk; D. Hibba Abugideri; Ishaq Ahmad Farhan.
Connection to MB and MB organizations: Through founders, current leaders and activities, connected to virtually every other Muslim Brotherhood organization in North America, including ISNA, CAIR, MSA, MAS, ICNA and of course the global Muslim Brotherhood.
Projects: Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID); Fairfax Institute; Association of Muslim Social Scientists; American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS); SAAR Foundation (aka Safa Trust) as well as innumerable for-profit businesses at same Herndon, Va. location.
Complete Documentation For: IIIT
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Q: Passing value from JS to HTML and then using that value to pass back to JS I am running a JS function and at the end of the function I want to send a value through to my HTML to keep a memory of the last value used. I then want to call the JS function again and send the value that I passed to it last back through.
The reason I want to do this is so that I can make sure when the user clicks "New Card" that it won't be repeated. Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong here?
I have found items that show how to pass from one way to the other but that's it.

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    <input type="hidden" name="currentCardNumber" id="currentCardNumber" />
    <button onclick="newCard(currentCardNumber)">New Card</button>

function newCard(currentCardNumber = 0) {
  const randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 4);
  console.log(currentCardNumber);
  if (randomNumber == currentCardNumber) {
    newCard(currentCardNumber);
  } else {
    document.getElementById("currentCardNumber").value = randomNumber;
    document.getElementById("cardImage").src = Object.values(
      cards[randomNumber]
    )[1];
    document.getElementById("cardName").innerHTML = Object.values(
      cards[randomNumber]
    )[0];
  }
}

A: I was able to figure out another way (probably a better option) to do what I was trying to do. I was able to get JS to get the value of what was in the HTML code by getting the .innerHTML attribute.
By doing this, I was able to compare the current value on the screen with the value that would be posted from the random draw. Then I had my function check to see if they matched and if so it would run the function again. My code is below (including the array of objects). Maybe there is a more efficient way to do this but It's definitely working out now.
HTML

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    <button onclick="newCard()">New Card</button>

JS
const cards = [
  { blackSesame: "Black Sesame", image: "images/blacksesame.jpg" },
  { carrots: "Carrots", image: "images/carrots.jpg" },
  { cilantro: "Cilantro", image: "images/cilantro.jpg" },
  { papaya: "Papaya", image: "images/papaya.jpg" },
  { rosemary: "Rosemary", image: "images/rosemary.jpg" },
];

function newCard() {
  const randomNumber = Math.floor(Math.random() * 5);
  const currentCard = document.getElementById("cardName").innerHTML;

  if (currentCard == Object.values(cards[randomNumber])[0]) {
    newCard();
  } else {
    document.getElementById("cardImage").src = Object.values(
      cards[randomNumber]
    )[1];
    document.getElementById("cardName").innerHTML = Object.values(
      cards[randomNumber]
    )[0];
  }
}


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Aristotle's Bench Press in Editorials, News September 14, 2016 September 15, 2016 445 Words
On The Wrong Side.
From the European migrant crisis, to Brexit and into the current U.S. election campaign, there's a war being waged between the forces of Nationalism & Globalism, and many people have been manipulated into supporting the wrong side.
These theatres have provided the battlefield for a conspiracy of elites seeking to coerce their globalist top-down borderless societal model onto a growing grass roots nationalist resistance.
What is so bad about wanting to create the perfect borderless global society? You ask. Other than the fact that they by definition cannot be representative and therefore tyrannical, whenever governments have embarked upon utopian societal projects, the eventual cost in human life has been appalling.
The European Union is facing existential threat, thanks to the "forces of populism", Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said in his State of the Union address. But he said the threat could be overcome by doubling down on the European project. Read More
And now those on the progressive left in the U.S. are angry because they realize that their only hope is a morally bankrupt dying criminal of dynastic proportions. HuPo Hate
Just as their hope for Europe was an unaccountable federalist elite who operate on an ideological level with little or no recourse to the hundreds of millions of Europeans they 'represent', stripped down behind the coercive narrative, this is a war between people and power; between David & Goliath; the forces of tyranny and freedom. How could anyone get this wrong?
So it must be a sickening feeling, that moment of realization that you are on the same side as tech giants Google, George Soros, Saudi Arabia, Oprah Winfrey, the Clinton crime dynasty and the Warfare State with its shopping list of regime change.
Hillary Clinton is a bigger criminal seeking office, than Richard Nixon was leaving it.
Hillary Clinton has been given every possible help she can be afforded, from FBI complicity in their investigation of her email scandal (no charges – careless rather than criminal), to the tech giant Google omitting 'Hillary's Health' from their top search results…
despite the stories regarding her health going from suppressed by mainstream media outlets, to managed in the space of a week. These are the people literally propping up a dead candidate unfit for office. What more evidence do you require?
So it seems a tadge rich to say the least that Hillary should brand half of Thump supporters 'a basket of deplorables' when the people who prop her up, like the battalions of the shills that Hollywood seems to be able to produce, are a walking catalogue of justifiable contempt.
Pat Condell: Europe's Last Chance
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I was recently in the market for new makeup and spent some time playing around with Sephora's Visual Artist app that allows me to experiment with different looks and products through augmented reality. The app recommended products based on my purchase history, skin type and beauty preferences. It made for a great experience and was a lot of fun! The root of the app is predictive analytics. By knowing my demographics and what I had purchased in the past, Sephora could predict what I would want in the future.
It used to be that data analytics could only look backwards at what had already happened. But with new predictive analytics, brands can use their huge amounts of data to predict what will happen next.
Data is no longer a level playing field. Companies that leverage AI and machine learning software have a leg up over competitors who are still only using data to look backwards. Research shows that 77% of high-performing customer service teams rate their ability to leverage artificial intelligence as excellent or above average. Companies that get predictive analytics right can greatly improve their customer experiences.
There are seven types of analytics we can pay attention to when it comes to customer experience. Each type helps gain better understanding of customers and improve the overall brand experience.
The most basic, but perhaps the most important, type of analytics is predicting customer needs. This is largely what makes the Sephora app so successful. By using data of when I purchased certain products, the brand knows when I'll need to purchase them again and when I'll be looking for something new. Similarly, L'Occitane uses AI and predictive analytics to ensure every section of its site meets individual customers' needs.
Predictive analytics move so quickly that they can help tailor a customer's experience as it happens. This feature is built into the algorithms of services like Netflix and Spotify. A customer's actions, such as watching a certain show or skipping certain songs, impacts the next recommendations they'll receive. Things change quickly based on customer feedback and preferences so brands can capture what customers want at that exact moment.
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Many companies used to change their pricing models based on age or gender, but they can now do it with predictive analytics. This is especially common with insurance companies. Progressive uses a telematics program called Snapshot and in-car sensors to gauge how well and how often customers drive. That data personalizes the rates for each individual person based on their likelihood of getting in an accident. Someone who drives less often and stays close to home will have a lower rate than someone who is always in the car and likes to speed.
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Personalized marketing can be effective, but it has to be based in data. Predictive analytics can run through data nearly instantly to help companies make real-time marketing bets. Caesar's Palace and other hotels and casinos regularly use this application. Analytics can predict what it will take for customers to stay at the casino. The data can suggest if a customer gets things like a free room, food or slot credit based on their history and preferences. Marketing bets can pay off by personalizing an offer the customer will enjoy without offering more than it will take the customer to stay. Not every customer needs a free night's stay, so Caesar's has to balance offering enough without losing money.
Predictive analytics helps brands look towards the future and improve their customer experiences. These seven types of predictive analytics show just how much new data can do when used correctly and strategically.
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Q: joining results after making parallel calls using spring async I'm using spring @Async to make parallel calls to the same method/backend. Is there a clean way to join their results in a list? This is the pseudo code i came up with to make the calls/merge the result, but I'm not sure it's the cleanest way.
List<Future<String>> futureStringList = new ArrayList<Future<String>>();
for(each backend call){
           Future<String> futureString = backend.retrieve();
           futureStringList.add(futureString);
}

List<String> actualStringList = new ArrayList<String>();

    while(!futureStringList.isEmpty()){
           for(Future<String> futureString: futureStringList){
                          if(futureString.isDone()){
                                         actualStringList.add(futureString.get());
                                         futureStringList.remove(futureString);
                          }
           }
    }

A: Future.get() is a blocking call, so you can actually loop over your Future list and you know that, at the end of the loop, all your futures are finished.
List<Future<String>> futureStringList = new ArrayList<Future<String>>();
for(each backend call){
    Future<String> futureString = backend.retrieve();
    futureStringList.add(futureString);
}

List<String> actualStringList = new ArrayList<String>();
for (Future<String> stringFuture : futureStringList) {
  actualStringList.add(stringFuture.get()); // blocking call
}

// all your Strings are retrieved at this point


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Q: Why assigning a delegate to a local copy thread safe in C#, any code can prove it? I have been told that multicast delegate in C# is immutable.But this code below seems to prove it is not.
Action a = () => { };
Action b = a;
Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(a, b));

It will display True instead of False. Here is another example:
public delegate void MyHandler();
public class Klass
{
    public event MyHandler onCreate;

    public void Create()
    {
        MyHandler handler = onCreate;
        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler();
        }

        Console.WriteLine(ReferenceEquals(handler, onCreate));
    }
}

This class will be invoked as below:
Klass k = new Klass();
k.onCreate += () => { };

k.Create();

Same as above it will display True,so how could it be thread safe if the local copy is the same reference as the orignal one?

A:
How could it be thread safe if the local copy is the same reference as the orignal one?

I think you may have misunderstood the meaning of immutability. This is how wikipedia defines it:

In object-oriented and functional programming, an immutable object is an object whose state cannot be modified after it is created. This is in contrast to a mutable object, which can be modified after it is created.

A reference assigment from variable a to b does not change the state of the delegate. Hence, multiple threads invoking the same delegate are guaranteed to be invoking the same constructed delegate. Note, this does not mean the underlying method referenced by that delegate is thread safe. Remember, delegates in C# are reference types and they are copied by value, which in their case is the address to the object held by in the GC heap, not the copy of the value itself. More on delegate thread safety in Are C# delegates thread-safe?

A: There are two concepts that make this pattern thread-safe.

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*The delegate is immutable. Once it is created it will never change. That means you can use it in code and not have to worry about another thread changing it.

*Reference assignments are atomic. Copying the reference to a local variable prevents a race condition between one thread clearing out the multicast chain and the current thread assuming it will reference something other than null.

One possible confusion here is that an event works similar to a variables in that it holds a reference to the multicast delegate. When you do += or -= on it will construct a new multicast delegate and assign the newly created object to the event "variable". The delegate is still immutable so it will never change. It is the event that is not and can be changed by another thread.


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Marriage with non-Muslims
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By Dr Khalid Zaheer	 Last updated Oct 5, 2019 3,478
1) If a Muslim man gets married to a Christian girl without converting her to islam, and this marriage is conducted according to Christian ceremony without the nikah ceremony taking place, would the marriage still be valid?
2) Can a Muslim female get married to a non-Muslim male?
1) Nikah has two essential components: willingness of the bride and bridegroom and an announcement before a group of people that it is taking place. If Mahr (dowry to be given by the bridegroom to the bride) has not been decided, it will be implied that a reasonable Mahr has been decided. It is always advisable to decide about it before marriage. The rest of it has to do with either certain things that make the ceremony more Islamic in spirit (like khutba) or with the customs of the society. However, nothing else is mandatory. In my opinion, therefore, if some formal process was followed to get the marriage formalized even though not exactly the way we normally do as Muslims, the marriage is valid from an Islamic point of view.
The Almighty has allowed Muslim men to get married to Jew and Christian women. The Quran says: "… marriage with chaste free believing women and also chaste women among the People who were given the Book before you is made lawful for you, provided that you give them their dowries and desire chastity, neither committing fornication nor taking them as mistresses." (5:5)
2) Muslim women cannot get married to non-Muslim men.
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