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Huawei and China Mobile stick a 5G base station on Mount Everest
01 May 2020 @ 13:22
Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and China Mobile have chosen the highest mountain in the world to make some kind of point about how great they are at 5G.
They put a base station 6,500 meters up Mount Everest, from which they reckon people will be able to access 5G at the summit. We've all been there, haven't we? You get to the top of the world and fancy streaming the footie while you're up there. Until now bored climbers were forced to talk to each other at the summit, but no longer.
There's a distinctly nationalistic flavour to the stunt too. "It comes on the 60th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest from the northern slope and the 45th anniversary of China's first official accurate measurement of Mount Everest," declared the press release. "Significantly, the 5G network on Mount Everest will provide communication services for the 2020 Mount Everest re-measurement."
Maybe that measurement 45 years ago wasn't so accurate after all then. The border of China (specifically the Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal goes through the peak of Mount Everest, with China claiming the northern half, which is presumably where this base station has been placed. The announcement features the usual chest-beating about the technological and commercial prowess this demonstrates on the part of the companies involved, but we'll spare you the gory details.
"Huawei strongly believes that technology means to make the world better," concluded the press release. "The beauty of Mount Everest can be displayed via 5G high-definition video and VR experience, which also provides further insights for mountaineers, scientists and other specialists into the nature. The ground-breaking establishment on Mount Everest once again proves that 5G technology connect mankind and the Earth harmoniously."
Whether the growing legions of 5G conspiracy theorists will agree is distinctly uncertain. After all, what better way to control the minds of the world than to beam malevolent radiation from the top of it? Having said that, if any of them manage to vandalize this 5G base station they at least deserve top marks for effort. Here's a diagram to explain why they may be mistaken.
Tags: 5G, Base Station, China Mobile, featured, Huawei
Nav Gatre	02/05/2020 @ 1:47 pm
Great way to stop people going there – Fry em (suffocate their respiratory system) and the oxygen canisters won't save you!
ADFGHV
Mirbaz Karim	02/05/2020 @ 6:30 pm
Love Chinese scinetist and agreed their theory
I love Chinese people that they have take action at Mount Averest before US ….
Xnx	03/05/2020 @ 5:02 pm
Well that is impressive.
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This is my absolute favorite wedding ever! Having a Bride that trusts your instincts as well as her own is so rewarding! Beautiful and precious!! The adorable little children in this photo were so captivated by the moment that they too were cought up in the tender moment of a wedding kiss............so cute!!


Press photo by Linda RothrockMadison Hicks looks to make a pass after being surrounded by three Pen Argyl players.
The Pen Argyl Green Knights brought their 3-1 record to Catasauqua High School for a varsity girls basketball game between Colonial League foes.
The Roughs entered the game at 1-4 looking to halt a three-game skid. Unfortunately for the home crowd, Pen Argyl won, 50-35.
Catty got off to a strong start in the first quarter and led at the break 17-15. Senior guard Julia Lacey scored 6 of her game total 9 points in the period as the Roughs showed good offensive balance in building the lead.
Sophomore point guard Alexis Rushatz scored the first basket of the second quarter to extend the Roughs lead to four. However, Catty wouldn't score again in the period and Pen Argyl's 6 points were enough to stake the Knights to a two-point lead at the half.
Rushatz and Lacey each knocked down a three early in the second half to reestablish Catty's lead at four. Once again, the Knights went on a run, outscoring the Roughs 12-0 before the horn sounded and took a 33-25 lead into the final quarter.
Rushatz cut the lead to 5 with a shot from beyond the arc, but the following 10-point Knight run put the game out of reach.
Head coach Mark Seremula felt that the Roughs got worn down by the superior size of their opponents.
Rushatz led Catty with 20, going 6 of 13 from 3-point distance. The rest of the Roughs were 2 of 12 from deep. The team also struggled at the charity stripe, converting only 3 of 9.
Catasauqua travels to Colonial League power Southern Lehigh for their next game, on Friday. That will be the last game of 2018 for the Roughs.


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'Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp' episode 5 review: The real Jonas … or the real Gene?
First Day of Camp review, Wet Hot American Summer	 August 5, 2015
We come out of the fifth episode of "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" feeling somewhat mixed, mostly because we spent a good several minutes of the episode on a Jonas / Viktor escape gag that may have been too much of something from the original movie, and with so much time there, we didn't perhaps get enough elsewhere. Take, for example, the wonderfully awkward scenes between Coop and Donna as he continues to realize that he is second place in just about everything to Yaron.
Can we say again how much we love that both Michael Showalter and David Wain are still game for great stuff both on and off-screen with this prequel? These are some of our favorite scenes so far, mostly because their chemistry is super-fun and it's different than any dynamic we had in the film.
In going back to Jonas (who officially later became Gene), his transformation was mostly hysterical in how it came about. As it turns out, it was not Gail learning about his true self that was the problem that ultimately ended their relationship; instead, it was more along the lines of her deciding to give things a shot with Jeff (middle name Jeff), the records guy played by the amazing Randall Park. This reckless manner of romance for Gail really does help to explain how she ends up where she does at the end of the movie.
While the Susie stuff was fun largely thanks to both Amy Poehler and John Slattery trading comments, the other major highlight of episode 5 was ironically one we didn't love weeks ago. The thing is, seeing Michael Cera play the Camp Firewood version of Saul Goodman was worthy of some great laughs, especially since he is convinced of his own incompetence. Still, he is really the only hero they have at a time when The Falcon is fastly approaching.
As for everything else in episode 5, it was fine. There was a nice appearance by Chris Pine as Eric, the former rock star now living alone in the creepy cabin, and Lindsay continues to be one of the surprising highlights of the show. We're only watching a single episode a day, and we find that an interesting experience where we're left constantly wanting more since we're only getting such bite-sized morsels of each story. We wonder if that would change in the event we were getting more of them. Grade: B+.
To check out some of our other "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" reviews, head over to this link now! Also, you can sign up here to get some more TV updates on all we cover via our CarterMatt Newsletter. (Photo: Netflix.)

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For the third consective year I was asked by Kraken Rum to design and create the makeup & costume for their new immersive experience in London over the Halloween period. This time however, the brand invested heavily in a higher media profile by bringing in WORLD-RENOWNED FILM DIRECTOR NEIL MARSHALL to create and direct the experience. Neil, an English film director, editor and screenwriter began his career in editing; the 2002 horror film Dog Soldiers was his directorial debut, which became a cult film. He followed up with the critically acclaimed horror film The Descent in 2005. He also directed Doomsday in 2008, and wrote and directed Centurion in 2010. He has also directed two prominent episodes of US television series GAME OF THRONES, "Blackwater" and "The Watchers on the Wall", with particular acclaim for his direction on both occasions, as well as a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for "The Watchers on the Wall".
I was given Neil's script and ideas for the 2019 KRAKEN SCREAMFEST: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT and designed and created the makeup for the 15 actors, the key "creaturers" being seamen and women who had emerged from the River Thames after being drowned at sea hundreds of years ago. I made head pieces to simulate growths covered in barnacles, shells and seaweed, prosthetics for their faces and dark veins running with Kraken Rum. I designed, sourced and costumed all 15 actors, the lead "Saviour" styled similarly to Lara Croft, from my studio in Kent then transported everything to London for the event with my team of assistants to bring the whole experience together.
After the event I received this great feedback from Neil :
For Halloween 2019 I was asked to create my first interactive horror event by Kraken Rum. Screamfest Directors Cut, the first of its kind, took place over two nights in a very creepy basement in London. The event proved to be huge success and scared the pants of those brave enough to give it a go. This is all thanks to the exemplary team of creatives that brought the project to life. Special thanks must go to Kate Griffiths who provided the special make-up effects for the Risen, they looked absolutely amazing and utterly terrifying!!! The attention to detail and visceral aquatic nature of the creatures was truly remarkable. Excellent work. — NEIL MARSHALL
It's always a pleasure to work with KRAKEN RUM and this last one, working with such an internationally acclaimed film director was a dream!


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A Step In The Write Direction
The best writers and authors, before they were big.
About me and contact info
Bestselling author AJ Jacobs's short story at age 10 "The Gerbil Caper"
September 6, 2015 December 11, 2015 / A Step in the Write Direction
AJ Jacobs is a New York Times bestselling author and editor at large for Esquire Magazine, but perhaps a more accurate job description would be that he does whatever the heck he wants and writes about it for millions of readers. Most known for his "stunt journalism," his most notable experiences have included:
Spending 12 months living according to every rule of the Bible — yes, every rule, including not shaving — in The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible.
Attempting to become the world's healthiest person — in his mid-40s, no less — in Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection.
Trying to become the smartest person in the world by reading all 44 million words of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica in The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World.
Dozens of Esquire Magazine articles, including spending a week telling nothing but the uncensored truth in a report called I Think You're Fat and his week outsourcing literally every aspect of his existence — even getting a man from India to read his son bedtime stories via speakerphone — in My Outsourced Life.
His next book slated for 2016 publication is called It's All Relative about his attempt to construct the world's largest family tree. Using an online tool called WikiTree, over the last several years he's proven familial connections to more than 7.1 million people. (Including me — AJ and I are 29 degrees of separation apart, through a common ancestor born 1605 in Norway named Anneke Jans. Seriously.)
AJ has graciously agreed to provide the first-ever contribution to A Step In The Write Direction, with a short story he wrote at age 10 titled The Gerbil Caper. The tale centers on an engineer assigned to design a super fast engine for the world famous auto racer AJ Destroyer. Despite the project's three billion dollar budget, the engineer Charles Goodham comes up with a better idea: using his daughter's pet gerbils to run fast inside the car's wheels. But will it work?
Here is what AJ wrote about his story from back then:
When I found this story in my mom's attic a year ago, it was a surprise. I had no memory of writing it. I had no memory of the plot, in which race car driver puts super-strong gerbils inside his car tires, and the gerbils run so fast he wins the big race.
Reading it made me wish I could go back and give the 10-year-old A.J. some feedback. For instance: Your story sucks ass.
I'd probably be a little more nuanced with my younger self. Let's start with the good news.
The penmanship is awesome. I wish I could write that neatly now.
The story has a lot of dialogue, which keeps it moving at a nice pace.
The bulleted list in the middle is a nice touch. Always good to break up the format, I think. (As you can see, I still enjoy the bulleted list.)
There's some good dramatic tension as we wait to see if the gerbil car will be ready in time for the race.
The not-as-good news:
The first line is about the weather "It was a gloomy day," which is never a good strategy, as the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction contest shows us every year. You lost me right there.
The prose gets quite purple. "The alarm clock ticket in its usual menacing way." (And even then, did alarm clocks still tick? I think I had a digital alarm clock.)
The main character Mr. Goodham is kind of a dick. He yells at his daughter, he repeatedly calls his partner "stupid." He shows a stubborn lack of emotional growth. He learns no lessons. He's a dick start to finish. The race car driver is also a jerk – he wins by intentionally causing his opponents to crash into each other.
The character names are a little on the nose. A.J. Destroyer. Dave Rubbish.
There is no discussion of the profound consequences of discovering super-strong gerbils. This is a massive breakthrough. Why doesn't it occur to Goodham to bring it to the attention of scientists and the NIH? Maybe develop drugs to stop muscular deterioration and slow down aging. Instead, just wants to win his little car race.
But again, nice work with the handwriting. You should have kept that up.
Below is a PDF scanned version of AJ's original handwritten story from 1978, which you can read by clicking on the title below, or below that you can read the text:
The Gerbil Caper
It was a gloomy day, Charles Goodham was walking home after failing to invent a superfast motor. The world-famous auto racer, A.J. Destroyer, has asked the Brile Motor company to make him a race car. In exchange he agreed to give the company 3 billion dollars. Charles Goodham has been assigned to design a motor within a week of the race; Tomorrow it would be 8 days till the race.
He reached his house and entered, he was soon in bed, tired. But he couldn't get to sleep. The alarm clock ticked in its usual menacing way. Time went by quickly. Still Mr. Goodham couldn't get to sleep. His thoughts were on the motor when a crash sounded in Jenny's (his daughter's) room. Mr. Goodham jerked up as Jenny half flew, half ran to her father.
"Th- th- the ger-ge- I- I- I-, th- they–"
"I can't understand a word you are saying!" said Mr. Goodham impatiently, for it was 3:00 A.M.
Jenny paused for a minute, "Y- you know th- the gerbils I got today at- at that tiny little shop owned by that crazy little man?"
"Yes, go on," said Mr. Goodham in a dull tone.
"Well, they just broke through the wall of the cage, and then they picked up my bookshelf and threw it across the room. They are weird! My gerbils are superstrong!"
The next morning Mr. Goodham was arguing with his boss, "But I tell you boss, my daughter has superstrong gerbils!"
"So, what of it," yelled his boss.
"Well, maybe we could think of something to use them for. They are kind of an important discovery," said Mr. Goodham timidly.
"Do you want your million dollar raise," asked his boss in a menacing tone.
"Yes," was the small reply.
"Then get to work! And invent a superfast motor for Mr. Destroyer!!" he actually screamed. "You're already late and after that you can fool around with hamsters."
"No, gerbils," said Mr. Goodham.
"Shut up!!" Mr. Goodham's boss was obviously very nervous about the race and about the fact that the motor wasn't built yet.
The days went by quickly. Mr. Goodham had not made the motor yet and his boss was threatening to fire him.
"You've got yourself in big trouble, Goodham," it was Mr. Goodham's partner, Dave Rubbish. Mr. Goodham called him 'Stupid.'
"Be quiet," said Mr. Goodham. He glanced into the corner of the room. A mouse scurried into the hole. "Oh, God! I forgot all about the gerbils. Lucky that mouse reminded me… Now, what can I do with gerbils that are superstrong? Hmmmm." Mr. Goodham was dissolved in thought.
Dave Rubbish broke in, "The only thing that gerbils do is eat, and run in a little exercise wheel and make it go around. Anyway, why are we talking about ger–"
"That's it! That's it! Run, wheel, make it go, wow! You're a genius, Rubbish! Stupid Rubbish is a real genius!"
"Huh, wha–"
"Listen, Stupid. You said that gerbils run in wheels and make them go. So we put gerbils in the wheels of a car and make the car go!"
"But, Mr. Goodham, gerbils aren't big enough to make a car go!" 'Stupid' seemed almost proud of his observation.
"Look, I've got that all figured out. My daughter's got superstrong gerbils, so they can run in the wheel and make the race car move at 120 m.p.h.!"
"Wow, neato, cool!"
"Shut up, and go tell Steve the manufacturer to make a car like this." Mr. Goodham made a list:
Light frame
Hollow wheels so my daughter's superstrong gerbils can run inside
Button which gives food to the gerbils so Mr. Destroyer doesn't have to make pit stops to feed them.
No engine. Not needed because the gerbils make the car go. 'Stupid' ran out forgetting the list.
He was back in 30 seconds. "Where's the list! Where's the list!" Mr. Goodham handed him the list and 'Stupid' was off again.
When he was back Mr. Goodham questioned him, "How long did Steve say it would take him to make the car?"
"Soon," answered 'Stupid.'
"How soon?"
"Very soon."
"What day?!" Mr. Goodham yelled.
"I think he said something about Sunday, at noon," answered 'Stupid.'
"Oh, no! The race starts at 11:45!" cried Mr. Goodham as he dialed Steve's phone number. "Hello, Steve. This is Mr. Goodham. I just wanted to make sure you couldn't get the car in by 11:45 on Sunday."
"I get it in as soon as I can," replied Steve and hung up. Never was a talkative guy, thought Mr. Goodham.
It was soon Sunday morning. Everyone was excited. Banners were up everywhere.
Mr. Destoryer and a man in a suit were walking towards Mr. Goodham and his boss.
"Hello," said Mr. Destoryer, "this is Mr. Willow, my lawyer."
"Now, Mr. Destroyer," explained Mr. Goodham. "The car is a real winner!"
"How does it run?" asked Destroyer.
"Superstrong gerbils run inside the wheel. No pit stops needed. Just press a button and that gives them food!" exclaimed Mr. Goodham.
"Mr. Willow," asked Mr. Destroyer, "give them the details."
The lawyer started up, "Well, first of all if Mr. Destroyer gets the car after the race has started and he has that your car company will be sued 10 million dollars. Also if–"
"Now, now," interrupted Mr. Goodham's boss. "I know that if Goodham says this car is good, it's good. Right, Goodham," he said allowing Mr. Goodham.
"And now," the announcer started and everyone fell silent, "before the race begins, I'd like to introduce to you the contestants…. Al Munster who drives a red Porsche. Fred Schirk who drives the lavender Pontiac. Mortimer Lazi, who drives the…"
"Get me my car and I'll be happy!" yelled A.J. Destroyer.
"It's gonna come," assured Mr. Goodham.
"And to begin the race we have Robert Pumpkin singing our national anthem." Robert Pumpkin was on the fourth line when there was a flash and some smoke rose from one of the cars. "It seems we have had some difficulty with Mortimer Lazi's motor and he will not be able to race," said the announcer.
"Hey, I wasn't finished!" yelled Robert Pumpkin and he continued.
"And 10 seconds till the race. 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… and they're off!" yelled the announcer. The cars zoomed by.
"Where's my car!" yelled A.J. Destroyer.
"Where's his car?" repeated his lawyer.
"It's coming!" yelled Mr. Goodham's boss. The cars zoomed around again. 5 minutes passed by when finally a short car pulled up alongside them.
"Is this it?" asked A.J. Destroyer.
"Yip," answered Mr. Goodham. "Remember, no pit stops needed. Just press this button every 50 laps."
A.J. started up. He was way behind every other car. The car in first place was trying to lap him. Luckily A.J. was a good driver. He wouldn't let him by. This made the first place driver very tense. The first place driver put on a burst of speed and crashed against A.J.'s rear. This didn't bother A.J. for he didn't have a motor to blow up.
On about the 50th lap the first car still hadn't lapped him. Then the second place driver started to gain on the first place driver who was still trying to lap A.J. A.J. made a short stop. The second place car skidded and crashed into the first place car. They both got out and shook their fists at A.J. A.J. pushed the button that fed the gerbils and took off. All of the cars were running low on gas and made a pit stop. This was when A.J. took the lead.
It was the final stretch. A.J. was in the lead. He had no worries because he had an easy win. A fan jumped out on the track. A.J. screeched out of the way and skidded over the finish line. The gerbils had won for A.J. and Mr. Goodham would get a million dollar raise!
AJ and his wife Julie have three sons, 11-year-old Jasper and twin 9-year-olds Lucas and Zane. You can find more AJ at his official website AJJacobs.com, on Facebook with over 165 thousand followers at AJJacobs, and on Twitter at @AJJacobs.
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Q: How to call web service as part of uiviewcontroller in unit test? I have a custom view controller, on it I have a button when tapped calls a web service asynchronously using AFHTTPRequestOperation and if request return success , I push a uitableviewcontroller. This work perfectly on device and simulator. Now I want to write unit test. I am running sample unit test that xcode generates.  In the unit test, I managed to get the reference to my custom uiviewcontroller via sharedapplication.delegate.window.rootviewcontroller. I can call button tapped function using performSelectorOnMainThread but success or error function of my web service request does not get fired. I call  thread sleep after calling button tap event to wait still nothing fired. I suspect this is a threading issue. How can I debug this  ?

A: Tim's post is the general idea behind what you need to do, but it deadlocks the main thread, which can cause havoc with some APIs.
A better way to do it is to wait but keep the main thread running. There is a great example here:
IOS -NSRunLoop in XCTest: How Do I Get A Run Loop to Work in A Unit Test?
Have some sort of condition that's set when you've handled your async's completion and set up your loop that spins the run loop to end and move on when this condition is met.
Note that you might want to have a maximum time that you wait on the async test. If your async test never completes (maybe there is an error in the underlying code), you'll deadlock on the test, and that would be bad. So note the starting time of the test, and if you've been waiting longer than a certain length of time past the start time, fail the test and move on.

A: You're right that it's a threading issue. You pretty much have to keep your test "alive" until it either succeeds or fails.
Here's an example from my unit tests for my networking library.
SomeUnitTest.m
- (void)signalFinished:(NSCondition *)condition
{
    [condition lock];
    [condition signal];
    [condition unlock];
}

#pragma mark - GET

- (void)testGet
{
    __block NSCondition *completed = NSCondition.new;
    [completed lock];
    __weak typeof (self) weakSelf = self;

    TSNetworkSuccessBlock successBlock = ^(NSObject *resultObject, NSMutableURLRequest *request, NSURLResponse *response) {
        XCTAssertNotNil(resultObject, @"nil result obj");
        [weakSelf signalFinished:completed]; //this
    };

    TSNetworkErrorBlock errorBlock = ^(NSObject *resultObject, NSError *error, NSMutableURLRequest *request, NSURLResponse *response) {
        XCTAssertNotNil(error, @"nil error obj");
        [weakSelf signalFinished:completed]; //or this will end the test
    };

    [[TSNetworking sharedSession] setBaseURLString:kNoAuthNeeded];
    [[TSNetworking sharedSession] performDataTaskWithRelativePath:@"something"
                                                       withMethod:HTTP_METHOD_GET
                                                   withParameters:nil
                                             withAddtionalHeaders:nil
                                                      withSuccess:successBlock
                                                        withError:errorBlock];
    [completed waitUntilDate:[NSDate distantFuture]];
    [completed unlock];
}

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Klemen Lorbek (born June 26, 1988) is a Slovenian professional basketball player and younger brother of Erazem Lorbek and Domen Lorbek. He is 198 cm tall.

Pro career
Lorbek has played with Union Olimpija, Triglav Kranj, Helios Domžale, Postojna and Hopsi Polzela.

Slovenian national team
He was member of the Slovenian Junior national team; played at the 2005 Junior European Championship in Belgrade; played at the 2006 Junior European Championship in Greece; was member of the Slovenian Cadets National team; played at the 2004 Cadets European Championship in Bulgaria.

References
Basketball Association Of Slovenia

1988 births
Living people
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.....to have watched the premiere of Game Of Thrones. I'll miss the show when it's over. Bran was creepy with all his staring.
....to have thought it was funny that so many people posted that "they had a secret and that people should sit down for it...that they have never seen an episode of Game Of Thrones." My snarky self wanted to post, "And?" with a Gif of the cranky chick from Brooklyn 99.
.....to need to pick up eggs so we can dye some over the weekend. I totally forgot until my daughter asked when we were going to do it. I just hate dyeing eggs.
....to be going to my mom and dad's house for Easter dinner. Nothing fancy. No one in my family really cares to be in the kitchen longer than we have to.
....to have found a pretty spot in our neighborhood. My daughter is super proud of her Vans. She wants the rainbow checkered version next.
What a great idea! I really love link parties!
my parents always throw a great easter dinner and its nothign fancy but comforting bc its all our favorites ha :) enjoy!
Never watched Game of Thrones here either.
Haven't had time to watch Game of Thrones yet. I really like her vans and totally think she needs the rainbow pair now.
Oh my gosh I wish it was that green and flowery where I am. We still have SNOW!
I can't wait to see the new series of GOT which stats tonight where I live. I agree I don't get why so many are going on about not seeing it, it's great, they're missing out!!!!
We are not doing anything fancy for Easter this year ourselves. A lot of times we go camping but this year we are just going to have hamburgers on the grill.
Those Vans are too cute...I still haven't watched Game of Thrones yet. I'm really looking forward to it though.
I too hate dying the eggs as it is always a big mess. So I make my kids color the eggs outside.
We watched the GoT premiere too. It was good and we're thinking about rewatching some older episodes after the finale.
we are off to my parents for Easter Dinner I think this year, I completely forgot it was this weekend till earlier today! Whoops!
Those Vans are super cute. I love the checkered design and the yellow is super bold.
I adore those Vans! We are a proud Vans-loving family. My husband has the most. His favorites are a pair of black and white Snoopy dogs.
I love your posts. No GOT for me but your girl Vans are extremely cool!
Those Vans are great! I really enjoy GOT. I guess I'm hosting Easter dinner and inviting my sisters and my mom, but I'm not really too concerned about it. They are easy guests.
I love this idea, I watched the GOT premiere and I too will miss it once it's over. Your daughters Vans are super cute, the rainbow colored ones sounds nice as well.
Ok, don't laugh but I have not watched this show yet! I so want to!
Yay for link parties! Also, I belong to the population of "never seen a GOT episode" haha! But I don't make a big deal out of it. And each time I tell someone I know that, I get like an eyebrow raise... excuse me?
That is a really pretty spot. All the photos will look good with it. I also love her Vans!
I love that first picture you took of Natalie. She's a natural model, so pretty. I dunno what games of thrones is lol.
I love this feature. It is ok that I am not cooking Easter dinner this year and we made reservations to go out instead. Thanks for giving me this post to know that I don't have to feel guilty over that decision.
It's OK. It's OK to bow out of dinner with your family and take some ME time. It's OK to see a therapist if you need to. It's OK to do whatever you need to do to be healthy, happy, and content - so long as it's not at the expense of someone else. And yet, we say this over and over and over again to the ones that we love and don't apply it to ourselves. It's OK people.
I tuned in for Game of Thrones too! Bring on the White Walkers!
Really like the overall feel of this post and your blog. Thanks for making me smile!
Sometimes it's not necessary to go all out for holidays. It honestly can ruin them more than add to them.
why do i feel like i'm the only person in the world who doesn't watch this show?
We dyed our eggs last minute this year too! I hate doing it because of the smell of the vinegar. I saw some cute alternatives such as with shaving cream or cool whip. I'll have to give those a try next year. Thanks for sharing!


Getting people to related info isn't difficult, when you put the right work into figuring out how.
This is a project story about the importance of visual web site navigation and the techniques I used to empathize with my audience, find the problems, and design solutions.
In the spring of 2017 I was asked to help experiment with what paid traffic could bring to a cosmetic treatment review and connection website.
Why a mental model of the product can be critical.
An existing web-based account manager and online help manual was in use for the Aro (called Kiha at the time) beta users, which needed various enhancements in order to streamline the on-boarding process. I was asked to help make the interface friendlier and more suitable for a future Android/iOS version.
How a new interface for enterprise cloud recovery started big and ended up very focused.
Innovation during a platform port and re-skin.
An app that makes apps!
Hoby is more than a talented agile designer. He's someone who sets a higher standard for a team. At RealSelf Hoby was willing and inclined to ask me the big questions about the business and push for new thoughts on how to super-serve the needs of our web community and audience. He pushed for ethical standards and operating principles that are essential to "walking the talk." Overall, these speak to Hoby's creativity, self-confidence, customer centricity, and passion for building products that exceed customer expectations. They also happen to be key ingredients to making a direct impact at an organization, like he did at ours.
Hoby is one of the best user interface and user experience designers that I have ever had the pleasure of working with. At our firm, he played a dual role of Product Owner and Experience Architect with adherence to agile principles and collaborative tools to support our application development process. He was astute at understanding the needs of the client as well as the technical capabilities and limitations of the applications that we built. He was an invaluable member of the team and someone that I respected highly to accomplish the work within budget and on time. In addition, Hoby was an incredible employee. I would highly, highly recommend him to any company. He has my full endorsement.
Hoby is a creative UX designer who is also technically savvy. He is eager to jump into projects, thinking through strategy, seeking research insights, and working hard to educate himself on the details of a problem. He stays positive and focused through ambiguity and change and takes feedback very well. Hoby is also a great mentor to other designers, sharing what he has learned patiently and generously. He has impressed me by taking the initiative to tackle larger problems that needed an owner, seeking out partnerships to drive change and develop shared solutions. Hoby will help make your product more delightful to use, is a pleasure to work with, and would be a great asset to any team.
Hoby is a fantastic designer who is very motivated to create the best experience for the user - which he often does with his research and attention to detail. While working with Hoby I witnessed his growth, willingness to push the boundaries with new ideas and offer support to his fellow designers. Hoby was a joy to work with and would be an asset for any team.
I worked with Hoby during our times at Bloom and Inviso. His nuanced approach to leadership is very effective at steering the team towards a successful outcome. He has both focus on lightweight, agile process improvement and a keen eye for user interface design and data visualization. These skills compliment each other extremely well and make him an invaluable member the team. I really can't recommend Hoby enough, and hope to work with him again.
Hoby is the kind of person who grounds a team and a project in quality. Not only does he have great design/UX skills and knowledge, but he is also able to manage a team as the product owner and lead it to an on-time, on-budget successful conclusion. I unequivocally recommend Hoby as a skilled professional as well as a positive company influence.
I had the pleasure of working with Hoby for a little over a year. Though we were not in the same business group, we worked together on projects that required collaboration between Inviso's Business Intelligence and Creative groups. Hoby is a thoughtful, adaptive, and talented designer. On one particularly challenging project, Hoby provided leadership and direction well in excess of what was required by his job description simply because it was what the project needed at the time. This same project involved significant and seemingly constant changes to business requirements. Hoby had to re-do or even scrap hours of his work in order to adapt to these new requirements, which he did with tremendous grace. Hoby was always happy to lend a hand whenever he was needed and consistently did whatever was required to complete a job. Hoby was a delight to work with and I would absolutely work with him again in the future if the opportunity arose.
In my experience, there are two kinds of experience designers: the flashy ones, and the ones who deliver real value. Hoby's the second kind. He listens to you, actually figures out what you need, and proceeds to design something that's at once simple and highly functional, be it desktop, web or mobile applications. I look forward to tapping into his experience design skills on other projects in the near future.
Hoby has a rare and interesting blend of skill set for a UI designer. He brings both well thought out user experience designs and also a vey good understanding of the technical aspects of implementation. This is makes his very successful in his ability to not only conceive minimalistic, elegant user experiences but also structure it in a fashion that is efficient for delivery. He can think both broad and deep and enjoys having end-to-end ownership of the UI experience. Hoby is a hard worker and can be relied on to get the job done. He is very highly respected by his developer peers and a strong addition to the engineering team.


I love to cook and bake with chocolate. I like to eat chocolate. I am the only one in the house that eats chocolate. Knowing this, hopefully, you understand that I don't dare make too much chocolate. When school starts, I bake for my class and then I can again open the door to chocolate. They don't leave a crumb for me to be concerned about.
I use a cream filled cookie like Oreos but a different brand. For the sake of ease, I will call it Oreo, for this recipe.
I melted the margarine in the Pyrex pie plate in my microwave. I added the cookie crumbs, in the pan and pressed them in to form the crust.
Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla.
Place this carefully on top of pie crust.
I warmed up 1/3 cup of peanut butter and spread it in the middle over the cream.
Top peanut butter which should cover 3/4 of surface with a sprinkling of chocolate chips.
Mix one package of instant chocolate pudding with 1 cup of milk. This will be thick.
When it is mixed well, mix in remaining whipped topping (I think it is 6 ounces) I am referring to something like Cool Whip which comes in a tub, not the kind you have to beat although I see no reason for not doing the work ourselves. Spread on top of the pie.
Take extra cookie crumbs and sprinkle on top of pie. You can use chocolate chip (miniature) or chocolate sprinkles or anything that appeals to you.


text:
namespace Falkor.Application
{
  public interface IHandle<in TMessage>
  {
    void Handle(TMessage message);
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
<?php

/**
 * Filter to generate the eduPersonTargetedID attribute.
 *
 * By default, this filter will generate the ID based on the UserID of the current user.
 * This is by default generated from the attribute configured in 'userid.attribute' in the
 * metadata. If this attribute isn't present, the userid will be generated from the
 * eduPersonPrincipalName attribute, if it is present.
 *
 * It is possible to generate this attribute from another attribute by specifying this attribute
 * in this configuration.
 *
 * Example - generate from user ID:
 *
 * 'authproc' => array(
 *   50 => 'core:TargetedID',
 * )
 *
 *
 * Example - generate from mail-attribute:
 *
 * 'authproc' => array(
 *   50 => array('class' => 'core:TargetedID' , 'attributename' => 'mail'),
 * ),
 *
 *
 * @author Olav Morken, UNINETT AS.
 * @package simpleSAMLphp
 * @version $Id$
 */
class sspmod_core_Auth_Process_TargetedID extends SimpleSAML_Auth_ProcessingFilter {

	/**
	 * The attribute we should generate the targeted id from, or NULL if we should use the
	 * UserID.
	 */
	private $attribute = NULL;

	/**
	 * Whether the attribute should be generated as a NameID value, or as a simple string.
	 *
	 * @var boolean
	 */
	private $generateNameId = FALSE;

	/**
	 * Initialize this filter.
	 *
	 * @param array $config  Configuration information about this filter.
	 * @param mixed $reserved  For future use.
	 */
	public function __construct($config, $reserved) {
		parent::__construct($config, $reserved);

		assert('is_array($config)');

		if (array_key_exists('attributename', $config)) {
			$this->attribute = $config['attributename'];
			if (!is_string($this->attribute)) {
				throw new Exception('Invalid attribute name given to core:TargetedID filter.');
			}
		}

		if (array_key_exists('nameId', $config)) {
			$this->generateNameId = $config['nameId'];
			if (!is_bool($this->generateNameId)) {
				throw new Exception('Invalid value of \'nameId\'-option to core:TargetedID filter.');
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Apply filter to add the targeted ID.
	 *
	 * @param array &$state  The current state.
	 */
	public function process(&$state) {
		assert('is_array($state)');
		assert('array_key_exists("Attributes", $state)');

		if ($this->attribute === NULL) {
			if (!array_key_exists('UserID', $state)) {
				throw new Exception('core:TargetedID: Missing UserID for this user. Please' .
					' check the \'userid.attribute\' option in the metadata against the' .
					' attributes provided by the authentication source.');
			}

			$userID = $state['UserID'];
		} else {
			if (!array_key_exists($this->attribute, $state['Attributes'])) {
				throw new Exception('core:TargetedID: Missing attribute \'' . $this->attribute .
					'\', which is needed to generate the targeted ID.');
			}

			$userID = $state['Attributes'][$this->attribute][0];
		}

		$secretSalt = SimpleSAML_Utilities::getSecretSalt();

		if (array_key_exists('Source', $state)) {
			$srcID = self::getEntityId($state['Source']);
		} else {
			$srcID = '';
		}

		if (array_key_exists('Destination', $state)) {
			$dstID = self::getEntityId($state['Destination']);
		} else {
			$dstID = '';
		}

		$uidData = 'uidhashbase' . $secretSalt;
		$uidData .= strlen($srcID) . ':' . $srcID;
		$uidData .= strlen($dstID) . ':' . $dstID;
		$uidData .= strlen($userID) . ':' . $userID;
		$uidData .= $secretSalt;

		$uid = hash('sha1', $uidData);

		if ($this->generateNameId) {
			/* Convert the targeted ID to a SAML 2.0 name identifier element. */
			$nameId = array(
				'Format' => SAML2_Const::NAMEID_PERSISTENT,
				'Value' => $uid,
			);

			if (isset($state['Source']['entityid'])) {
				$nameId['NameQualifier'] = $state['Source']['entityid'];
			}
			if (isset($state['Destination']['entityid'])) {
				$nameId['SPNameQualifier'] = $state['Destination']['entityid'];
			}

			$doc = new DOMDocument();
			$root = $doc->createElement('root');
			$doc->appendChild($root);

			SAML2_Utils::addNameId($root, $nameId);
			$uid = $doc->saveXML($root->firstChild);
		}

		$state['Attributes']['eduPersonTargetedID'] = array($uid);
	}

	/**
	 * Generate ID from entity metadata.
	 *
	 * This function takes in the metadata of an entity, and attempts to generate
	 * an unique identifier based on that.
	 *
	 * @param array $metadata  The metadata of the entity.
	 * @return string  The unique identifier for the entity.
	 */
	private static function getEntityId($metadata) {
		assert('is_array($metadata)');

		$id = '';

		if (array_key_exists('metadata-set', $metadata)) {
			$set = $metadata['metadata-set'];
			$id .= 'set' . strlen($set) . ':' . $set;
		}

		if (array_key_exists('entityid', $metadata)) {
			$entityid = $metadata['entityid'];
			$id .= 'set' . strlen($entityid) . ':' . $entityid;
		}

		return $id;
	}

}

?>


Gabriele Wohl is an experienced litigator who focuses her practice on business litigation and appeals, complex civil litigation and white collar defense. A member of the Bowles Rice Labor and Employment Group, she practices from the firm's Charleston, West Virginia office.
Before joining Bowles Rice, Gabe served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia. There, she gained first-chair experience in drug trafficking and public corruption trials and served as the office's District Elections Officer and Computer Hacking and Internet Prosecution Coordinator. At the U.S. Attorneys Office, she participated in complex white collar investigations and prosecutions involving a variety of federal offenses, including fraud, identity theft, worker safety violations and civil rights violations. She also provided civil rights training for the West Virginia State Police Academy.
From 2013 to 2014, Gabe served as Deputy General Counsel to former West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, where she advised on legal and public policy matters, drafted legislation and assisted in emergency response efforts.


How To Turn Regular Walks Into Calorie-Burning Workouts . . .
Jay has one goal in life right now – to see his abs before he turns 42 in January.
And he's well on his way.
He stopped crash dieting and says he's finally getting serious about his fitness.
And in this quick audio, you'll hear how he plans to make Weighted Hands a big part of that routine.
He just received his weights so we go over some good starting exercises and a plan to up his calorie burn and muscle density, so he can have the look he's always wanted.
He'd rather exercise a little more instead of be the guy at the table who has to order the salad while everyone else gets to gulp down juicy burgers.
And in this audio, you'll hear how he's started using Weighted Hands to do that, so he's turning his regular walks into calorie-burning workouts.


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Partial left ventriculectomy and mitral valve repair for end-stage congestive heart failure
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1998 Apr;13(4):337-43. doi: 10.1016/s1010-7940(98)00013-x.
J F McCarthy 1 , P M McCarthy, R C Starling, N G Smedira, G M Scalia, J Wong, V Kasirajan, M Goormastic, J B Young
1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA.
DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(98)00013-x
Objective: Partial left ventriculectomy (PLV), pioneered by Batista, has been proposed as an alternative treatment strategy in patients with refractory congestive heart failure. In order to analyze the midterm outcome of PLV and mitral valve (MV) repair and stratify patients according to risk, we prospectively studied 57 consecutive patients who underwent this procedure at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF).
Methods: Patients had a mean age of 53 years and were predominantly males (74%). In 95% the etiology of heart failure was idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. All patients had a left ventricular end diastolic diameter of >7cm and were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classes III and IV. A total of 54 patients (95%) were awaiting heart transplantation. Preoperatively, requirements included inotropes in 23 (40%), intraaortic balloon pump counterpulsation in 3 (5.3%), and left ventricular assist device placement (LVAD) in 1 (1.8%). Concomitant procedures included MV repair (55 patients), MV replacement (2), tricuspid valve repair (34 patients), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) (5), and aortic valve repair or replacement (1 patient each).
Results: Measurements preoperatively and at 3 months demonstrated improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (14.4 +/- 7.7-23.2 +/- 10.7%, P < 0.001), left ventricular end diastolic volume (254 +/- 85-179 +/- 73 ml, P < 0.001) and left ventricular end diastolic diameter (8.4 +/- 1.1-6.3 +/- 0.9 cm, P < 0.001). Peak oxygen consumption (MVO2) increased from 10.6 +/- 3.9 to 15.3 +/- 4.5 ml/kg per min (P < 0.001). Cardiac index did not change (2.2 l/min per m2), although 40% had been on inotropes preoperatively and none were on inotropes at 3 months. NYHA functional class improved from 3.6 +/- 0.5 preoperatively to 2.2 +/- 0.9 at 3 months (P < 0.001). LVAD support was required as rescue therapy in 11 patients (17%). Actuarial freedom from procedure failure, defined as death or relisting for transplant, was 58% at 1 year. Hospital mortality was 3.5% (n = 2). On follow-up, there were 7 late deaths (including 3 sudden deaths) giving an actuarial survival of 82% at 1 year. Multivariate risk factor analysis revealed that age less than 40 years was associated with failure (P = 0.02).
Conclusions: Although PLV with MV repair is now a surgical option in the treatment of end-stage congestive heart failure, caution is advised as early failures are unpredictable and mechanical support may be required as rescue therapy. Better risk stratification and patient selection may improve outcome. Further study is required to determine the procedure's exact role in the treatment of congestive heart failure.
Heart Failure / mortality
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / surgery*
Heart Ventricles / surgery*
Hemodynamics
Mitral Valve / surgery*
Proportional Hazards Models


Learning card games are an indispensable part of growing up, and they're an activity that can be enjoyed for the rest of your life. Whether it's poker night at your place, or you're teaching your kids to play snap, why not enjoy a slice of Arsenal history whilst you're at it? Each card in this full set features a different Arsenal legend from past to present - you could even test each other to see who's the biggest fan at the table!


From product development to nal production, Itena ensures a constant quality control based on European standards of manufacture of medical devices, having more than 15 years of experience in this eld.
DIOPTEX was founded in 2003, and it focuses on research, development, and marketing of new and innovative technologies for eye surgery.
SheerVision® Inc. designs advanced proprietary surgical loupes the Original FireFly and FireFly In nity LED head light systems, and o ers them at an exceptional value.
Lumineers are extremely thin veneers made out of cerinate porcelain. The newness of the Lumineers is often compared to the thinness of contact lenses for the eyes.
The medical device that monitors the osseointegration process and allows reducing treatment times and treating patients at risk.
Well-known reliability in a new look: Even in a new style and with a new company name, Kulzer remains a reliable partner for all dental professionals – with more than 80 years of expertise.
I&D o ers products and services at universal quality and standards while eternally prioritizing their customers' satisfaction. I&D's vision always aims to earn the trust and appreciation of all health workers.
IQ-Dent o ers high quality diamond and carbide dental rotary instruments manufactured in Poland.
Ever since its foundation in 2003, and in the search for continuous improvements, Maquira Dental Products gathered a team of qualified and trained professionals in order to bring quality, technology, and development to the dental market.
The importance of mobile phones in our everyday life and activities is undeniably unending. This is so because there is ongoing tremendous transformation in that mobile phones are no longer the ordinary communication device it used to be. It has become the colossal point of attention for individuals and businesses alike, courtesy of the various incredible features and opportunities that mobile phones offer. The cumulative progress of mobile technology, the availability and access to high speed internet and the remarkable communicative interface in these devices results into a whole level of new and innovative experience mobile computing. This is made possible through the development of mobile applications (mobile apps).
We, at MedicAID, are always assiduous to go for the extra mile in our business domain, and because we believe that we should always be close to our clients, we developed our own mobile application on our 12th anniversary to keep our clients up-to-date regarding new medical technology and products. This application is the core for a more advanced version with more features and benefits.


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Q: Page refresh (F5) always causing form to submit a bit new to CI, googled and overflowed alot and still got no answer

*

*User enters site.

*After succesful auth got redirected to main page

*Link on the url stays the same with class/method

*If u refresh page on a main - u always got question about repopulate form (chrome/firefox 100%)

the solution may be: after success redirect to another class or method
but i don't know how to do it, documentation seems more like reference to me
code is here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/696751/ line 28 - how to do redirect to another class or method with a redirection to another view too?

A: Well an example in CodeIgniter may be:
class login extends CI_Controller
{
    function index ()
    {
        $this->load->library('form_validation');
        $this->load->helper('url');
        //Set form validation rules here: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/form_validation.html
        if ($this->form_validation->run() == TRUE)
        {
            //login user here

            redirect('login/sucLogin'); // or just redirect to '/' if you want to send them to your home page
        }
        else
            $this->load->view('loginForm'); //make form
    }
    function sucLogin ()
    {
        echo 'Successfully logged in';
        echo anchor('/', 'Go Home');
    }
}

A: *

*Check to see if the user submitted the form

*Validate the login credentials

*Redirect on success
public function login()
{
    if ($_POST)
    {
        $login = $this->input->post('login');
        $password = md5($this->input->post('password'));
    $q = $this->db
        ->where('login', $login)
        ->where('password', $password)
        ->limit(1)
        ->get('userbase');

    if ($q->num_rows > 0 )
    {
        redirect('enter/main');
    }
}

$returnlogin['login'] = $login;
$this->load->helpers('form');
$this->load->view('login_form',$returnlogin);

}
public function main()
{
    $this->load->view('main');
}


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Q: Is it not necessary to define a class member function? The following code compiles and runs perfectly,
#include <iostream>

class sam {
    public:
        void func1();
        int func2();
};

int main() {
    sam s;
}

Should it not produce a error for the lack of class member definition?

A: If you don't call the member functions, they don't have to be defined. Even if you call them, the compiler won't complain since they could be defined in some other compilation unit. Only the linker will complain. Not defining functions is accepted and common to force an error for undesired behavior (e.g. for preventing copying).

A: Yes it is perfectly valid to not define a class member function if it is not used. That is also true for non-member functions. A definition is required for virtual functions, though. But pure virtuals can omit definitions if they aren't used.
"Used", btw, does not include refering to the function within sizeof. In other words, this is still valid:
sizeof (s.func2()); // still not used!

A: You can define it elsewhere (like another file)
void Sam::func1()
{
    // do stuff here
}

A: From MSDN Linker Error LNK2019

A: You did define declared it. You just didn't add implementation provided a function prototype. The linker may display a warning if you do not have a function definition (for instance, Borland C++ Builder 5 does not).


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Q: pentaho column level validation I am new in Pentaho project. Need to know about some validation rules whether these can be handled by PDI or not.
My input data is CSV format and target is ORACLE table. Suppose total number of column is 50.
Validation Rules :

*

*if any less number of columns coming from input file (like 48) we
should inform via email

*if any more number of columns coming from input file (like 54) we
should inform via email

*if there are any duplicate columns coming in input file we should
inform via email

*if there a missing order in input file with respect to target table
layout we should inform via email

*if there any columns started with a number we should inform via email

*if there any columns more than 30 characters in length we should
inform via email

Any help is appreciated.
If anything required from me kindly reply.

A: After lots of R&D it can be done by adding "Metadata Structure" under Utility in Transformation and load all column list into a text file.
Then create a Job and compare this text file with lookup text file (containing all target column list) by "File Compare" under File Management. Make a check option if true then invoke the final Transformation or if False send email notification.

A: Yes. There are steps that will allow you to identify all of these things.
More generally, if you want to do something in Kettle and don't see a step available that makes it easy to do, you can always write custom steps or steps with custom Java or JavaScript code in them to do it.


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The Art of Line Editing.
February 7, 2019 by languagehat 29 Comments
Nick Ripatrazone describes the fine art of line editing for LitHub (but are those editor's changes rather than Orwell's in the image of the MS for 1984?):
Anyone in the business knows books are not solo acts. Toni Morrison, who was also edited by [Robert] Gottlieb, said she never wrote "with Bob in mind; that would be very bad for me. He isn't the ideal reader for the product, but he is the ideal editor for it." Line editors are not readers in the public sense; they are private practitioners, whose profession operates on a sense of both trust and authority. Gottlieb calls the receipt of a writer's manuscript as an action of "emotional transference." The days and weeks before hearing back are fraught, but writers know line edits are worth the wait—and the emotional weight.
Line editors are often mistaken for copyeditors. Copyeditors tend to polish and perfect work at a later stage, but the confusion is telling. George Witte, editor-in-chief at St. Martin's Press, has said "many copyeditors do the work that line editors should have done." Often copyediting is done from a distance, but as with Erskine and Ellison, Gottlieb and Heller, line editors have a direct relationship with the writer. They are a book's "ideal reader," according to Witte, and because they have often been the writer's acquiring editor, are also the writer's "source of money, the point of contact, the guide through the publishing process, the cheerleader, the writer's advocate, the person to cry to, or, perhaps, to complain about, the lunch or drinks companion, sometimes the friend, and above all the most attentive and most honest reader of an author's work."
Line editors tighten sentences when tension and clarity is missing, but they also give sentences breath when constrained. Beyond removing clichés, they excise a writer's pet words and mannered constructions. Line editors help sentences build into paragraphs, and paragraphs flow into pages.
There are good stories and quotes in there, and my copyeditor's heart warmed when I read "many copyeditors do the work that line editors should have done." Very true. (Thanks, Trevor!)
Bathrobe says
To tell the truth, I'd never heard of line editing. It sounds excruciating, though.
It's very difficult to edit one's own work, even if it is not 'fine literature'. When I write (I don't think I'm totally exceptional, although I seem to be worse than some of the excellent commenters on this blog), the product on the page is often a groping attempt to put jumbled thoughts into words, filtered through a miscellany of habits and mannerisms. No matter how you try, the faults of the original attempt remain. Months, even years later I read what I've written and cringe. How could I have missed that jarring, tortured phrasing, those completely repetitious statements? How could I not have seen that what I wrote is hard to make sense of? How could I not have seen the illogicalities and gaps in my thinking? How could I not have seen the topsy-turvy organisation of arguments, the less than seamless transitions between sections?
It takes a third perspective to see what you have written through completely fresh eyes. Yes, line-editing sounds wonderful but excruciating.
D.O. says
Bathrobe, past is a foreign country. Writing in the moment captures your mood and interests and they will not persist. Treat your own writing as somebody else's and try to understand the stranger. Sergey Dovlatov ones wrote to his editor or publisher that some parts of his Zone* were lost when he tried to smuggle them out of Soviet Union and that he cannot rewrite them because the crucial thing was he himself at the point of life when he wrote it, the person that no longer existed and the one he cannot recreate.
That said, writers of yore, lacking the benefit of a line editor and if they were not working under a deadline, used to let they work stay in the drawer for some time before editing and correcting it. At least, that's what I remember reading about Gogol.
* In English translation the full title is The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story. Couldn't they come up with something less clunky, like The Prison Camp: A Guard's Story
David Eddyshaw says
When it comes to this blog, I generally notice my non sequiturs, fatal ambiguities and unaccountably omitted negatives three seconds before the editing timeout.
Five minutes later I notice that John Cowan has already made the point I was trying for, about forty-five minutes earlier and with exemplary clarity.
John Cowan says
You're not the only one, nor is that notice one-sided.
AJP Crown says
I agree with Bathrobe. Why, years later, can you immediately see the mistakes in construction or in thinking that weren't apparent at the time you wrote the sentence? It's similar in the visual arts; now I shudder when I see where I went wrong in a drawing or a design I made thirty years ago. It wasn't evident at the time and not for want of looking.
David Marjanović says
Bathrobe, past is a foreign country. Writing in the moment captures your mood and interests and they will not persist. Treat your own writing as somebody else's and try to understand the stranger.
It's interesting how widely people differ in this. I've known someone who occasionally wakes up and is a whole new person – he can't empathize with his past decisions at all; he remembers them, but it all feels like everything happened to someone else. At the other extreme, I often read an old thread here, find something to comment, and then find I made that exact comment years ago, sometimes down to the wording.
three seconds before the editing timeout
For me it's between when I hit "post" and when the page actually refreshes… but that can happen twice in a row when I edit.
SFReader says
he remembers them, but it all feels like everything happened to someone else
When I find some comment online written by me many years ago, I am usually amazed at how smart I was back then (and how stupid I must have gotten over the years)
Years ago I discovered some psychology essays I wrote in my first year at university. They seemed surprisingly good, though it was difficult to be sure, because the knowledge I apparently possessed at that time had vanished like dew in the morning as if it had never been. The subject matter was utterly unfamiliar.
The handwriting was also remarkably legible. Perhaps they were somebody else's essays.
Ah, knowledge is another matter, where my comments here keep surprising me.
January First-of-May says
Why, years later, can you immediately see the mistakes in construction or in thinking that weren't apparent at the time you wrote the sentence?
It's worse for me, because as much as I thought my English was fluent, or even close to fluent, in the late 2000s, it was a lot worse than it is now (I won't be surprised if it's still not fluent, but that's another question). So when I find comments I wrote in English in the late 2000s, I end up cringing at the terrible English quality.
Fortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the oldest English comment by me that survives online is from February January 2008 (on the Wikipediholism test's discussion page). I know that I've posted some in 2007 and even 2006 (and possibly even earlier than that), but as far as I'm aware, none are still extant.
January, you should be happy to have proof you're getting better at something.
Well, to be fair, that 2008 comment is so ridiculously bad, that if I was any better at grammar (or whatever is actually applicable), I would have seriously been thinking about what those errors mean, and whether they're just the influence of my native Russian or something else entirely.
(In fact, I'm already wondering about that, I just don't have the knowledge to do it properly, and the comment itself is so short, and so full of quotations, that it doesn't make for much of a case study anyway.)
To be honest, some of the phrasings there sound more like pidgins/creoles than anything else to me… and they don't appear to make much more sense in Russian grammar, anyway.
But maybe I'm just thinking of wrong parts of Russian grammar, and/or don't have enough of a grasp on English grammar to figure out exactly what went wrong in the first place. (And it's not like I know that much about pidgins or creoles, either.)
Athel Cornish-Bowden says
No matter how careful your proofreading, no matter how many other people have proofread the same book or article, no matter how many times you have done it, you will find an error that escaped correction within the first few minutes of seeing the final printed result.
Evan Hess says
The chances of this happening are in direct proportion to the size of the print run.
Bloix says
"you will find an error"
And it will cut you, and you will bleed.
When I bleed it is blood, when you bleed it is tomato sauce.
Stu Clayton says
I have patented a method for avoiding edit stress on longer comments. It involves composing the text in a different editor, and copying it to the edit box here only when I am finished. Details on request.
That would spoil the excitement.
Sure, there wants fire where there are no lively sparks of roughness.
I would rather roast my interlocutors than toast my typos.
Rough Duchesses are hard to please:
Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes
composing the text in a different editor
I find that that doesn't help. It is only when I see the text exactly as it will appear to others that the glaring fnord right there in the third graf becomes apparent to my horrified eye.
Is it the copy editor's responsibility to re-word
sentences to get rid of orphans, the word at the
end of a piece of text that takes up a whole new
line?
Y says
LL just wrote about a new book in the works, Because Internet, by Gretchen McCulloch. She writes in her website on the progress of the book: "I'm moving from developmental edits into line edits (aka, from battling a horse-sized duck to battling a hundred duck-sized horses)".
I'm imagining that I get it.
Horse-sized duck.
Duck-sized horse.
A horse-sized duck walks into a bar, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.
If what you don't get is the horse/duck thing, this may provide helpful context. (If it's the nature of developmental vs line edits, it won't be of any help.)
Brett says
The correct answer to giant duck questions is always given by "From Gustible's Planet."
– via "Linebarger-In-Jokes Hat"
Ran says
I wonder if translators ever get line editors?
I suspect it would be a difficult process. Any English-language line-editing without a knowledge of the original could turn out to be frustrating.
LE: "I think it reads better this way."
T: "But that's not what the original says."
LE: "But my edit means exactly what you wrote, only it reads better."
T: "@%&*. Let me go back and see if I could translate it differently / if that's what the original author wants to say."
LE: "Ok, on to the next line…"
This is not to deny that it wouldn't be a useful exercise, but the translator could end up tearing his/her hair out. One partial solution, of course, is to team up with a native speaker to make sure the translation accords with the original, which might iron out some problems before the line-editing stage. Still, there are complexities involved in the very nature of translation that could make line-editing a difficult process.
At any rate, my suspicion is that most translators don't use either solution, that is, they don't team up with native speakers, nor do they use target-language line editors, except in an informal way (that is, they ask someone to read it through).
J.W. Brewer on Precipitation Verbs.
D.O. on Permafrost Words.


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The Commission for Social Justice: A History of Its Realization 2003-2010
sj Miller, PhD
In 2003, I was looking for an academic home in the National Council Teachers of English (NCTE). An academic home to me meant finding like-minded people who cared about centering social justice in K-12 classrooms. I first found my way to CEE, which is the university-level section for teacher educators and graduate students in English education. CEE, home to many commissions, included the "Commission for Race, Gender, and Class," which seemed on par with social justice. However, I was concerned that the Commission's focus was relegated only to race, class and gender and did not address other identities or intersectionalities of oppression in K-12 schools. Many stressful but open-hearted conversations ensued with the then co-chairs, and the commission agreed to change its name to the Commission on Social Justice at the NCTE convention in November 17th, 2006.
This name change now plays a special role within CEE and NCTE. Not only is it an identity marker for social justice as an affinity group that lets new and veteran scholars and teachers know there is a rich and vital presence and commitment toward social justice within NCTE, but it also signifies to the nation that social justice is fundamental to the ever growing and changing K-12 English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum. Currently, the Commission supports scholars, practitioners, and graduate students in their efforts to realize scholarly research and set political agendas in school districts and universities as it relates to social justice.
At NCTE in 2007 David Kirkland, Laura Bolf-Beliveau, Pete Williamson, and Peggy Rice, and Gina DeBlase joined the Commission and David and I became co-chairs through 2009 and then Laura and I shared co-chairs in 2009-2010. Over the next several years many people started to join. Those earlier members included Nelson Graff, Paula Ressler, Todd DeStigter, Myrrh Domingo, Deb Bieler, Summer McLin, Jennifer King, Gina DeBlase, and Tara Star Johnson. The group was hard-working, focused, and driven, and started presenting in teams at NCTE and AERA.
In 2009, nineteen members of the Commission convened at the CEE Summit at Elmhurst College and created two key documents that formalized the working beliefs, values, and positions for Social Justice in CEE. Documents included a mission statement, which details the vision and mission of the Commission, and The Beliefs Statement about Social Justice in English Education (CEE, 2009), which provides a framework for embedding theory, pedagogy, and applying social justice in ELA classrooms.
In 2010, The Commission decided to elect co-chairs for three years, with a 1-year lag to enable current chairs to mentor incoming leaders. We also decided that the secretary would be in-line to become the next co-chair, which helps to build on the efforts put forth by the secretary and demonstrated longitudinal membership to the commission. A member could become co-chair again after s/he/per has sat out for at least one rotation or unless no one wants to become chair.
The group then rapidly began to grow in membership from those original five to almost fifty people over the next several years and has become one of the largest and most active and activist commissions in CEE Members include university and college faculty, independent researchers, and doctoral students. Some members have served or are on the CEE Executive Committee. Some have won prestigious writing and research awards, mentoring awards, and some are sought-after speakers and authorities on working in social justice education, critical pedagogy, multicultural education, critical race theory, diversity in education, urban education, education policy, and more. Members have authored books, articles, research presentations, scientific research housed by the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE), and several other major documents which have now been instantiated and embedded within CEE. It was during this same time period that NCTE vetted the Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education (CEE, 2010), a resolution that delineates NCTE's affirmative position on social justice in K-12 classrooms (for more see Miller, Bolf-Beliveau, Charest, George, King, & Williamson, 2011).
Today, members of the Commission come from different educational homes and backgrounds from across the United States. Some come from Colleges of Education (e.g., Curriculum and Instruction, Literacy, Urban Education), others from English Education programs in English Departments, and still others from programs that lack traditional pathways to English education. Such diversity of institutional identities enriches our dialogues, friendships and growing networks, and has led to active and ongoing research projects with deep and sustained foci. Though many collaborate from a distance opportunities for continued face-to-face meetings typically occur during the annual Commission meeting at NCTE, at the CEE summer Summit every three years, at AERA, and LRA.
While outcomes of the work related to the Commission have and will continue to create more equitable contexts for teaching and learning, there is one outcome that most of us are proud to have been part of creating—and it is truly resultant of the collective effort of every person who was ever part of the Commission: Standard VI.
A Brief History of Standard VI
While NCTE has long expressed strong values for supporting diverse learners in education (1996, 2006), the expression of this value as a project of social justice is still relatively new. The detailed timeline of the removal of "social justice" as a performance indicator for teacher candidates in national policies and its return and successful vetting is detailed in the research of Alsup and Miller (2014, see figure 1). The role of the Commission within this sequencing, advocating for social justice in K-12 ELA classrooms, has been instrumental in pivoting the field toward the conception of Standard VI (see 2009, 2010 in figure 1). Combined, these histories provide a critical context to understand the studies that have occurred and emerged in simultaneity, and which have informed the discussions within the NCTE Task Force for National Standards that ultimately created Standard VI. A full history of the Standard is described below.
Iterations of Social justice in English Teacher Education, 1973-2013
Inception- 1973, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) issued a policy statement calling for teacher preparation programs to consider the importance of diversity. NCATE developed standards that focused on diversity in all areas of teacher education (focus was on tolerance).
In 2000, NCATE mandated adoption of Standards 2000 that said teacher candidates in NCATE accredited programs must develop professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to help all students learn.
In 2002, Teacher education programs were charged with defining and creating their own performance-based methods. NCATE's value-driven definition for a disposition was: "The values, commitments, and professional ethics that influence behaviors toward students, families, colleagues, and communities that affect student learning, motivation, and development as well as the educator's own personal growth. Dispositions are guided by beliefs and attitudes related to values such as caring, fairness, honesty, responsibility, and social justice." (NCATE, 2002, p. 53)
In 2006, NCATE suggested that "social justice" was merely an illustrative example for a professional disposition and that institutions (Wasley, 2006) could require that teachers embody it (contrary to popular belief, it was never a standard of measurement). Social justice was removed from NCATE's definition of professional dispositions altogether.
In 2009, CEE adopted a position statement on social justice in English education that included the following definition: "Thus it means that in schools and university classrooms, we educators must teach about injustice and discrimination in all its forms with regard to differences in: race, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, age, appearance, ability, [disability], national origin, language, spiritual belief, size [height and/or weight], sexual orientation, social class, economic circumstance, environment, ecology, culture, and the treatment of animals." (CEE, "Beliefs about Social Justice in English Education," http://www.ncte.org/cee/positions/socialjustice).
In 2010, members of the CEE's Commission on Social Justice proposed the Resolution on Social Justice in Literacy Education, which was adopted by NCTE (http: www.ncte.org/positions/statements/socialjustice)
In 2012, NCATE approved the revised NCTE-NCATE standards for initial teacher preparation in ELA, which contain a social justice standard.
In 2013, CAEP accepted the newly vetted Standard VI from NCTE and it will be used to assess dispositions.
Alsup, J., & Miller, s. (2014). Reclaiming English education: Rooting social justice in dispositions. English Education, 46(3),195-215.
Commission for Social Justice. (2009). Commission for social justice mission statement.
Conference on English Education Commission on Social Justice. (2009). CEE position statement: Beliefs about social justice in English education. First Biennial CEE Conference. Chicago: CEE. Retrieved from http://www.ncte.org/cee/positions/socialjustice
Miller, s., Bieler, D., Bolf-Beliveau, L., Charest, B., George, M.A., King, J., & Williamson, P. (2011). Applying the CEE position statement Beliefs about Social Justice in English Education to Classroom Praxis. English Education, 44(1), 63-82.
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). (2002). Standards, procedures, and policies for the accreditation of professional educational units. Washington DC: Author.
Wasley, P. (2006, June 16). Accreditor of education schools drops controversial 'social justice' language. Chronicle of Higher Education, 52(41), A13.


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BANNED REFEREE APOLOGIES FOR UNPARDONABLE MISTAKE AFTER ACCEPTING BAN
by Franklin - March 21, 2018
Fifa Referee Reginald Lathbridge who was given a life time ban by the Ghana Football Association has apologized to Bechem United and Elmina Sharks, as well as football lovers, following his error which delayed the start of the 2017-18 Ghana Premier League season.
The banned referee has spoken about his match report error and insists it was not intentional but pure mistake which is unpardonable.
The Kumasi based Match Official was found guilty by Ghana FA's disciplinary committee on Tuesday after he mistakenly transferred a caution meant for Sharks striker Felix Addo to Bechem midfielder Joseph Amoah in his match report, leading to a legal battle since Great Olympics almost capitalized on it to win a protest.
Although Ghana FA didn't budge to Olympics' protest, the latter placed two separate injunctions on the start of the new season. A ruling in their favour would've saved them from relegation.
"I apologize to the clubs that almost suffered relegation because of my errors. I have been very honest in this brouhaha and I'm happy with that," Lathbridge told Angel FM.
"Let us always be honest in our dealings in this world. To err is human, I made a mistake and after I realized that it was creating problems in the football cycles, I corrected it and have asked for forgiveness from God.
"Although I've been banned for life, I'm unperturbed because from now onwards, I will walk as a free man for telling the truth in spite of the repercussions. When was the last time I was banned or suspended for an error in the league, so this clearly tells the world that the mistake wasn't intentional," he said?
He continued: "If it is possible for a doctor to operate a patient and leave a scissor or another material in his stomach and later realize what he has done, there is a possibility that I can also do the same even if it took me a year or two to realize."
According to some media outlets sources, the referee initially planned to appeal the ruling, but he has been advised by his family to let it slide, since he had only four years left to proceed on retirement.
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The high-profile murder investigation has England both horrified and fascinated. Billy Dead Mates bestows a small notebook to his intended victims, the pages blank except for one verse of poetry. Then they die.
Because most of the victims are women, feminist journalist Sondra "Misogyny Kills" Halliday ramps up the tension with accusations that detectives appear to ignore Billy being a sexist woman-killer. A police task force, including husband and wife duo Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer (from the Zailer and Waterhouse mystery series), work to unravel the riddles while trying to prevent Kim's murder. But will they be able to solve the mystery before the killer strikes again?
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In the novel, Hannah also depicts some quirky facets of human behavior—what normal people might do going through extreme situations. Tribbeck expressing her isolation growing up as an adopted "good will project" also rang true to personal experience.
In addition to her multitude of mysteries and thrillers, Hannah has taken over authoring Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot series.
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Hannah is also a self-proclaimed self-help addict and decided to write her own unique self-help book, How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment—The Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life.
"Then I remembered that, often, when I'd read self-help books, I'd thought, 'This theory is wonderful, but there's no hope of me following it—I'd have to give up my grudges, and I'm not doing that.' I realized that my grudges were a wholly positive force in my life—they protected and inspired me, and made me feel nothing but happy. I started looking into the thinking around grudges and definitions of the word, and I found that my definition was totally different, and that all the received wisdom about grudges was totally, and provably, wrong. So, I thought: I'm going to do it. I'm going to write a self-help book about how to hold grudges in the right way, so that they enhance your life.
As if those projects haven't kept her busy enough, Hannah is hard at work on her next books.
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And as it turns out, writing books and poetry are not Hannah's only talents.