At the beginning of the year I was looking for a new way to challenge myself. With the help of Hike Like a Woman I learned of the 365 Mile Challenge. When reading the requirements of this challenge I thought it would be easy to get in 365 miles within the year. I walk and hike a lot, and when we have snow I cross country ski. The requirements of the challenge is do to 365 self propelled miles either walking, hiking, running, bike riding, paddling, snowshoeing or cross country skiing. My daughter, eight at the time, wanted join the challenge with me. We printed off two of the tracking sheets and off we went.
I was also able to convinced some of my friends to join the challenge with me for extra support and motivation. My husband would join us when we could, but he did not do the challenge, maybe next year. My daughter and I started out strong hiking, walking and skiing whenever we could. Excited when we could fill in another bubble. The challenge pushed us to find more trails to explore so we would not get bored easy.
In the winter months we cross country skied when we had enough snow. A couple times we had to jump on the treadmill as the below zero temps were too much to be outside. If you have to do indoor miles you can, but the true goal of the challenge is to get people moving outside more.
During the spring our hiking was put on hold a little due to spring sports and tasks around the house, but were still able to get in some miles.
Summer rolled around and even though we went on a lot of adventures with some beautiful views, they did not add up to a lot of miles like I thought they would. We were at least able to continue to fill in the circles.
Towards the end of the summer I started a new job that allowed me to be home earlier during day. Many days after school we would get on our sneakers and go for a couple mile walk. This has become on of my favorite times of day because this is when my daughter and I would talk about all various things. As my daughter gets older I worry that she will not want to continue to talk to me. Thanks to this challenge it has pushed us to get outside after school and work given us some much needed mother daughter time.
We were able to have some friends join us on the trail, which is always fun.
Now we are in the last week of December and we have about 10 miles to go. We are both motivated to finish strong and continue our afternoon and weekend hikes. Almost all of our miles have been from hiking and walking and in the winter cross country skiing when we had snow. A few of them have been from bike riding, which you get your miles faster if you ride bike more, note to self for next year.
If you are looking for a challenge for yourself, you and a friend or your family this is such a great challenge. If you are not sure you can do the full 365 Mile Challenge there are several mini challenges throughout the year that you can try. Even though I love being outside and explore new trails, the best part of the challenge was the time that my daughter and I have spent together. I hope we can continue doing these type of challenges together with years to come or at least through her teenage years.
Update: On December 31st my daughter, a friend and I finished the 365 Mile Challenge. We were very excited to fill in those last circles.


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Farmington és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Utah. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 12.081 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Farmington tenia 12.081 habitants, 4.087 habitatges, i 2.769 famílies. La densitat de població era de 601,1 habitants per km².

Dels 4.087 habitatges en un 56,6% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 80,8% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 6,8% dones solteres, i en un 10,3% no eren unitats familiars. En el 8,3% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 2,8% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 3,72 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,97.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 37% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 11,4% entre 18 i 24, un 27,1% entre 25 i 44, un 19% de 45 a 60 i un 5,4% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 26 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 109,4 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 74.250 $ i la renda mediana per família de 78.492 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 56.847 $ mentre que les dones 30.464 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 24.407 $. Entorn de l'1,6% de les famílies i el 2,4% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

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Entitats de població de Utah

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Medalla de plata en Tokio 2020

Matías Rey (Buenos Aires, 1 de diciembre de 1984) es un jugador argentino de hockey sobre césped. Forma parte de la Selección nacional. Se formó en el Club San Fernando, con el que fue campeón metropolitano en 2003 y 2006.

Es hermano del también exjugador de hockey Lucas Rey.

Carrera deportiva

Matías Rey se formó en las categorías inferiores del Club San Fernando. En 2000 comenzó a jugar en mayores en su club y en 2002, con 20 años, debutó en la selección nacional.

 2005: integró la Selección juvenil argentina que fue campeona panamericana en Cuba y campeona mundial en Róterdam, primer título mundial de una Selección masculina de hockey.
 2006: campeón metropolitano.
 2007: campeón del Champions Challenge.
 2014: medalla de bronce en el Campeonato Mundial.
 2016: medalla de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016.

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Enlaces externos

Los Leones
Jugadores de hockey sobre césped de Argentina
Jugadores de hockey sobre césped en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012
Jugadores de hockey sobre césped en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro de 2016
Deportistas de la provincia de Buenos Aires
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de hockey sobre hierba
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de Argentina
Medallistas olímpicos de oro de Río de Janeiro 2016
Deportistas de Argentina en los Juegos Olímpicos de Río de Janeiro 2016
Jugadores de hockey sobre césped de Argentina en los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020


More than 6,000 animals live in natural habitat areas constructed to resemble bluffs, pampas, lakes, and woods. Visit the Children's Zoo, "Big Cat Country," with lions, tigers, jaguars and leopards, or the "Penguin and Puffin Coast." Ride the Zooline Railroad around the park's beautifully landscaped grounds. There's also a bird house and gardens, and primate house with apes, monkeys, and lemurs, as well as a chimpanzee and orangutans refuge. Take in a show or special attraction like the sea lion high-diving act, a stingray petting tank, or the 4-D motion simulator show with wildlife-themed programs. A number of concessions are available throughout the zoo.
Best Attractions & Activities: "Special behind-the-scenes tours can be arranged if scheduled three weeks in advance."
Recommended as Best Attractions & Activities Because: The St. Louis Zoo is consistently ranked as one of the top zoos in the country.


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GMOs cause brain fog and other dumb nutrition studies we're happy to debunk for you
11.13.2017, 8:30am
OK, I confess. I've been reading the nutrition news again. I know I shouldn't. But sometimes the headlines are just too much for me. Like last week: Soy protein isn't actually good for your heart! Blueberries improve children's reaction time by 9 percent!! And a peer-reviewed study finds that GMOs are responsible for a shocking array of ailments!!!
Who could resist?
But what happens when you check out the actual studies the headlines are referring to? You learn a little something about nutrition, but a lot more about the state of the news business. We're not talking fake news. Mostly we're talking dumb news.
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If you're like most of us, the soy health claim never told you anything you particularly wanted to know
Take the soy protein story, which is the one based on the best science and was reported fairly well by at least some outlets. Here's the deal: Since 1999, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed manufacturers of food products containing at least 25 milligrams per serving of soy protein to make health claims about preventing coronary heart disease (CHD). Earlier this month, the agency announced its intention to rescind the claim. (The notice in the Federal Register is here. It's both readable and fascinating.)
Why? Well, it seems that the agency had been reviewing the scientific literature on soy protein and heart health: a total of 709 articles, government documents, published letters, book chapters, what have you. When you do a big review like this, you spend a fair amount of time throwing out publications that won't be useful. For instance, to qualify, a study had to look exclusively at soy protein—and not the other things found in soybeans (such as soy isoflavones, which are used as dietary supplements, and are thought to control cholesterol). It had to use one of FDA's official "surrogate endpoints" for heart health: total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, or blood pressure and not other markers like triglycerides, endothelial function, and oxidized low-density lipoprotein.
If FDA eventually takes it away, it might anger the manufacturers, but it means pretty much nothing to you.
(A word about surrogate endpoints: What scientist in these studies want to do is figure out the impact of soy protein on getting heart disease. That means that what you'd like to do is sit back and wait until people die, then figure out which ones had CHD. It's not practical. So researchers turn to measures like cholesterol and blood pressure, which are statistically related to heart disease. It speeds things up, but you get funny anomalies. We've long known, for instance, that statins—cholesterol-lowering drugs—have benefits that aren't explained just by cholesterol. That means that it might be possible to create a drug far more effective than statins at preventing cardiac disease: But how would you test them in a world where the patent clock is always ticking?)
By the time they got done, FDA's reviewers were down to 212 studies, most of which had serious flaws. The final count: 58 studies of controlled experiments on soy protein and an official, FDA-acknowledged surrogate endpoint. And while a few showed a strong association between heart health and soy protein, most showed no significant relation.
Which doesn't mean, as a number of news stories pointed out, that soy isn't good for you. It shows that no one has produced enough evidence yet.
But here's the interesting part: Remember how we said the studies could only look at soy protein? That meant in part that FDA excluded any study in which soy protein was used to replace something else. Soy milk replacing cow milk? Out. Soy protein replacing meat? Out. The studies were useless to the question at hand because they made it impossible to tell whether the results came from adding soy or replacing, for instance, saturated fat.
Which is, of course, exactly the way most people seem to use the stuff. If you're like most of us, the soy health claim never told you anything you particularly wanted to know, and if FDA eventually takes it away, it might anger the manufacturers, but it means pretty much nothing to you. Enjoy your Tofurkey. It's just as good (or not) for you as it ever was.
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Scientists weren't trying to make a recommendation about your child's diet. They were trying to fill in some gaps in our understanding of flavonoids
The soy story points out something that comes up over and over again in looking at scientific and regulatory stories: The people doing the science and making the rules are not necessarily thinking about what we eaters want to know. That point was made abundantly clear in the second story of the week, the amazing brain-enhancing blueberry.
I've seen this story reprinted in hundreds of venues (like this), all of them gaga over the astonishing mental improvements brought about by a single dose of blueberries—a 9 percent improvement in reaction time in young children.
Again, the reality is less dramatic. The scientists weren't trying to make a recommendation about your child's diet. They were trying to fill in some gaps in our understanding of flavonoids, which are found not just in blueberries, but in a host of foods—tree fruits, nuts, and beans, for example. Flavonoids seem to have all sorts of interesting functions in the body, including mental effects, but the research was unclear about whether they operated the same way on young children, and exactly which mental functions they affected and whether their effect was greater when cognitive demands increased. A team led by Claire Williams of the University of Reading in England set out to find out with a pretty simple experiment.
Unless you have a flavonoid-starved child around the house, it's not something you need to pay much attention to.
They got together 21 seven- to ten-year-olds, put them on a low-flavonoid diet for 24 hours, and split them into two groups. One group was fed an orange drink, the other, a drink loaded with frozen blueberry powder. Then they made them play a little video game thought to be linked to the so-called executive function in the brain. They varied the difficulty of the game, threw in some variables like noisy environment versus quiet, and ran the results through several statistical analyses. They concluded that yes, children reacted to flavonoids in about the way they had predicted.
This is all interesting and useful in setting the research agenda, I suppose. But unless you have a flavonoid-starved child around the house, it's not something you need to pay much attention to, because one question it didn't answer was the one you probably were curious about: Could you improve the reaction time of a child with normal flavonoid level by feeding them a bunch of blueberries? Maybe you don't care about that, but the kid does. Super Mario Odyssey is a bear.
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When I received a press release this week announcing, "Peer Reviewed Survey Shows Avoiding GMO's Improves Health," I had to take a look
We all know that peer-reviewed scientific studies are the gold standard. But when you get down to it, if you've got leanings toward bad science, there's every chance that your true peers lean the same way.
When I received a press release this week announcing, "Peer Reviewed Survey Shows Avoiding GMO's Improves Health," I had to take a look. The results included some big numbers: More than 85 percent of people surveyed who had stopped eating foods containing genetically modified organisms said they had seen an improvement in digestive problems, 55 percent said their obesity improved, more than half reported relief from "brain fog." Twenty-eight conditions made the list. And it was peer-reviewed.
OK, I believe that. But read the study, and what do you find:
Are we sure that the change was caused by dropping GMOs? Well, no.
First, it's not a study where actual scientists look at actual physical conditions. It's a survey—and a really bad one. They started with a database of people who had joined an anti-GMO organization, and sent them a questionnaire asking more or less "How much better are you since quitting GMOs?" (There might be a more biased way to ask that question, but I can't think of one right now.) So you start with a biased universe (the anti-GMO group) and get the ones who agree with you to self-select by the way you ask the question. Then, ignoring everything we know about placebo effects, confirmation bias, and general wishful thinking, you believe what these people had to say about themselves.
Let's assume that these people actually got healthier. Are we sure that the change was caused by dropping GMOs? Well, no. To begin with, there's the question of how they knew they were avoiding GMOs, which are generally unlabeled. Then there are alternative explanations: Three-quarters of respondents said they'd switched to an organic diet. Two-thirds said they reduced processed foods. Almost half gave up sugar-sweetened drinks. The author, to his credit, acknowledges this fact, but doesn't seem to think it's a problem. It is.
In case you were wondering, the journal where the piece was published, the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, is not the New England Journal of Medicine by a long shot. Other recent articles include (presumably peer-reviewed) pieces about chemtrails and why microcephaly in Latin America is caused by Monsanto rather than Zika. The organization behind it, the College of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine, seems to exist mostly to put on conferences and sell continuing medical education courses. That's not necessarily an unethical business, but the group's website doesn't show any of the hallmarks of a serious journal or professional association.
In short, no responsible publication should pass this story on to its readers as if it's real science. Not many have to date (it's only been out of embargo for a couple of days). Most of the pickups so far have been true-believer sites, but I've already spotted it on the Shape website, written up by a "digital editorial assistant." She may be too inexperienced to know better, but she just gave credibility to something that's basically horseshit. We'll see if she lures in other overworked, under-edited writers at mainstream sites.
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At way too many news sites, nutrition stories are garbage stories, assigned to the least experienced writers, written off the press release, basically unedited
Let's forget about science and scientists, who mostly know how to assess what they read. The rest of us depend on what we read in newspapers and magazines and online. And it's often not quite right. This week's batch of near misses included one case of bad science, the GMO survey, which isn't likely to make it to the New York Times, but could help confirm some irrational GMO opponents in their beliefs. The soy story was probably the best reported and based on the best science, but it was easy to read the coverage and not realize that the health claim never meant quite what most of us thought it meant, and that FDA's new analysis answered a question we weren't asking. The blueberry story was actually the one that bothered me the most. It inspired coverage filled with the wide-eyed (and totally inappropriate) wonder that gets in the way of any kind of reasonable discussion of nutrition. The scientists may not have been hunting for a superfood, but if you only read about their work in the media pickups, you might well come away persuaded that they found one. That doesn't help.
Look at the evidence for yourself.
So what do we do? The best thing, I suppose, would be to dig in a bit. If you see a bit of food news that moves you, hunt down the study and read it. You may not be able to work through all the numbers without help, but at least you can figure out what the researchers were trying to prove. And you can look for signs of sleaze in the site where the research is housed. On a good day—as with FDA's notice on soy, you can learn a lot about how decisions get made, and what the evidence really says.
Let's be realistic: At way too many news sites, nutrition stories are garbage stories, assigned to the least experienced writers, written off the press release, basically unedited. If you're reading this, you're obviously already better qualified to assess the original research than most of them are. (It's easy to tell when you hit one who rises above the crowd.) So look at the evidence for yourself.
Or do what I try to do. Don't read the nutrition news. You'll save tons of time, and you can spend it cooking something nice. I bet it will even be good for you.
Patrick Clinton is The Counter's contributing editor. He's also a long-time journalist and educator. He edited the Chicago Reader during the politically exciting years that surrounded the election of the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington; University Business during the early days of for-profit universities and online instruction; and Pharmaceutical Executive during a period that saw the Vioxx scandal and the ascendancy of biotech. He has written and worked as a staff editor for a variety of publications, including Chicago, Men's Journal, and Outside (for which he ran down the answer to everyone's most burning question about porcupines). For seven years, he taught magazine writing and editing at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Q: Windows Server 2008 R2 Maximum Processor Limit Confusion As I was looking through the Windows Server 2008 R2 specifications, I saw that the maximum supported processors is 64 sockets for Datacenter addition. This puts the maximum number or cores at 256 (if all sockets are quad cores), which I think it's just silly, but whatever.
And now the questions:

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*How does one set something like that up? (Obviously not for me, but humor me)

*Are there multiple dual socket motherboards running in a giant case with a ton of memory?

*How does the OS see all of the CPUs if they're on different boards?

*What would be a real world example of a need to have 64 sockets attached to one operating system vs 32 2 socket servers?

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*HP Superdome.  IBM has some hardware which will scale that large as well, don't remember the hardware model though.

*Nope.

*N/A

*SQL Server, Oracle, DB2.  That's pretty much it.

The SQLCat team has documented some customers using systems this large.  Here is one example and here is another.

A: In the IBM world, they are actually in seperate chassis, with 4 sockets per chassis. They support 6-core, with a max of 4 chassis, for a total of 96 cores. The x3950 M2 is the top of the line, you can start with one chassis, and add more if needed. The chassis are linked together with a special cable. This line is due to be revamped using the Intel Nehalem processors probably later this year.

A: RedHat 6 support 4096 CPUs...
Windows 2008 is a child compare to that...
how does one set something like that up?
think about data warehouse for enterprise level corporations.
64sockets are normal for handling reporting and analyzing on 20 TB of data, all the time...

A: Datacenter edition is not available for general purchase. You don't buy datacentre and then choose hardware and how to configure it. If you have strayed into the teritory where Datacentre has become relevant (and this is probably going to be at the very least a $50,000+ computer if not more), you chose specialist (OEM) hardware under the guidance of you manufacturer's representative, and this is only going to be from one of the very large vendors. They will supply\install the Datacenter OS for you including hardware specific drivers and tuning when they come and install the hardware for you in your datacentre. The conclusion is you don't have to worry about Datacenter - when you have eneogh money to buy this kit - someone else will be doing the all configuration and decisions for you :¬)

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The topic today on the show is affording college. Some of you are about to send your little kiddos off to college… can you believe it? They're already 18 or 19 years old. Or some of you might have graduated and still are grappling with your student loans from college 10 years ago. We will be talking about all things affordability… How to afford college while you're in college? How to afford college while you're done with school because you've got student loans?
Joining us for this conversation is a special guest, Joe DePaulo, CEO and co-founder of College Ave Student Loans. They're currently the leading fin-tech next generation student loan marketplace lender.
More about our guest Joe… he is a financial services veteran having previously worked as CFO and executive vice president of banking and was a member of the board of directors at Sallie Mae. Before Sallie Mae, he was CEO and co-founder of Credit One Financial Solutions, which is a company focused on debt consolidation.
Joe and I talk about how we can better educate students to borrow just enough, not too much but just enough, so that they can instead focus their efforts on finishing school, getting that great job and not making their debt a burden. How do you make sure college is a return on investment?
As a partner and brand collaborator with College Ave Student Loans, I'm really excited to bring you this special episode of So Money.
If you'd like to learn more about Joe and College Ave Student Loans visit the College Ave Corner blog and follow them on Twitter @CollegeAveLoans.


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Q: How to avoid uploading all log files using .gitignore I am trying to avoid pushing appLog to git,
Here's my appLogs.

and I am using bellow list on .gitignore file,
appLog.log
appLog.log.*.gz

still github desktop is showing me the files in the list.

Can anyone pls help me to fix this.
Thanks in advance.

A: A pattern like *.log* in your .gitignore should work here.


This is the Droid you've been looking for! NEW from littleBits, the Droid Inventor Kit!
We were provided a littleBits Droid Inventor Kit to review! All opinions are own.
We have some really exciting news! For the first time ever, kids can create their own and bring it to life! Oh yes, my friends, you have heard me right. You can create your own custom Droid!
Using littleBits electronic blocks and the free Droid Inventor app, kids (and, let's face it, parents) can teach their R2 Unit new tricks and take it on 16+ missions. Then kids can level-up their inventor expertise and reconfigure their Droid to give it new skills, or design any Droid they can dream up.
The kit comes with everything kids need to create and customize their R2 Unit straight out of the box. Initial assembly is easy with step-by-step instructions to create their Droid, and control it in Drive Mode, Self-Nav, Force™ Mode, and more. After mastering their Droid Inventor skills, kids continue on to challenges that spark creativity and get them inventing brand-new Droids.
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MINDFULNESS IN ABSTRACTION
Mindfulness in Abstraction presents a collection of work curated with the intention of exploring the notion that, for the sake of sanity, we might break from thoughts of our current global predicament and find a moment of repose. There is a great deal of power in the act of simply observing and absorbing; slowing down and shifting from rapid patterns of thought to a more focused and streamlined state. Engaging with the works in this collection requires the ability to be still in the act of seeing; to consume line, space, colour and texture and to consider shape and form, allowing the underlying quality or feeling to be taken in like breath. This is a moment without politics, data, logistics or preoccupations, but rather one of simplicity, harmony, emotion and beauty. A moment of freedom from the incessant barrage of information and a chance to recalibrate and find some space and clarity.
Featuring work by Julian Martin, Christopher Sahyoun, Jacob Cartelli, Phillip Truett, Robin Warren, Sam Forster, Rebecca Scibilia, Fulli Andrinopoulos, Alvaro Alvarez and Kaye McDonald.
Scroll through the exhibition below or, alternatively, you can view or download a PDF here.
This exhibition coincides with Samraing Chea's solo show Spot Exhibition.
Produced by Jo Salt, Gallery Administrator at Arts Project Australia
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Q: How to map dlsym to a non-static C++ member function in a manner similar to a C function? I studied and tested the following URLS closely, Calling function in shared library (Linux) get Segmentation Fault
as well as https://git.xeserv.us/Quora/dlsym-example/src/master/testprog.c.
  My question is how to map dlsym to a non-static C++ member function similar to this C function example. If I substitute C function syntax for a non-static C++ member function , I get a no-op.
   void *lib;              /* void pointer named lib */
   void (*sayHello)(void); /* void pointer named sayHello */
   lib = dlopen("helloWorld.so", RTLD_NOW);

   *(void **) (&sayHello) = dlsym(lib,"_ZN19CDataTransferServer10InitializeEi13CC_SAMPLETYPEjjj");

Any help is appreciated.

A: Consider loading a method by its mangled name extracted with
readelf -Ws libmy.so

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Mercedes-Benz outsells local carmakers in Jan.
Mercedes-Benz outsold local carmakers to finish fourth in domestic sales in January, industry data showed on Feb. 11.
The Korean unit of the German automaker sold 5,796 vehicles last month, equal to 4 percent of the total 114,632 vehicles. The sum places it fourth after Hyundai Motor (31.2 percent), Kia Motors (22.8 percent) and SsangYong Motor (6.1 percent).
January sales for Mercedes-Benz Korea shrank 22.8 percent compared with the month before, but they were still higher than the monthly sales by Renault Samsung Motors (3.5 percent) and GM Korea (3.1 percent).
The last time that the German brand reached No. 4 in monthly sales was back in April last year, a ranking that followed the closure of a local assembly plant by GM Korea two months before.
Mercedes-Benz defended the ranking for three months before slipping to No. 6 in May last year.
In yearly sales, Mercedes-Benz Korea sold 70,798 units for a market share of 4.5 percent last year, behind Renault Samsung (5.7 percent) and GM Korea (5.5 percent).
Industry watchers attribute the sales increase to the success of the E-class. January sales of the lineup were the 12th highest at 3,392 units, a number meaning that one E-class vehicle was sold for every three Grandeur autos from Hyundai Motor being purchased.


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Discussion in 'Miniature Horse Forum' started by Yvonne, Dec 28, 2018.
I got two miniature horses and during the winter things often get cold and wet. Perfect for wool blankets since wool won't get cold when it gets wet. Perfect to put on a sweaty horse too.
The problem is that I can't find any wool blankets in mini sizes in my country Norway.
Does anyone know where there are wool blankets for sale for minis and who also ships to Norway?
As far as finding wool blankets, there is a tack shop called "Just for Ponies" in Maryland. They might have wool or wool blend or maybe could point you in the right direction.
That's interesting about how the soaked wool could cause skin issues. I'd always heard it was somewhat rain resistant, but didn't think about when it gets soaked.
Hi Yvonne neat that you are in Norway. I hope you find the blankets for your horses.
A thought, do you know anyone that weaves and makes blankets that may be able to make one the size you need?
I would hate to wear a wet wool blanket if I were a horse. I have wool liners (homemade) for my new born foals--i use them under other blankets and only use them in dry weather or as stable blankets. A good waterproof blanket will absolutely keep a horse dry and can be put on a sweaty or wet horse.
. hand sew strips of fleece to tie chest closed and around belly make wider strips, to secure cover in place. sewing skills not needed to make it very easily. I am on mobile now, but can send diagram when at home computer. I have also found synthetic wool pulls the water out of the coat very well always used coolers made of that to dry wet horses for years.


A. Well, I live in a joint family and there are almost 20 family members in this family. My grandpa, grandma, my parents, sisters, my uncles and their children are living in a joint family and that makes it a large family. My grandpa was a teacher and he is now around 70 years old. My father owns a small business and two of my uncle work there. My mother is a house wife and she takes care of me, my sisters and cousins. I have two sisters who are younger than me are in school. My father mostly takes care of the financial part of our family and he is the main earning member of our family. The house we live in quite big and it has more than 15 rooms in total.
Finally, if you want to enjoy your foods and have some refreshment like music, you should better go to WestInn and as far as I know it is quite expensive. To taste cheap fast foods you can visit the small restaurants nearby the New Market area. In fact, I often go there and I enjoy their foods.
A. It serves only fast foods and quick meals including the burger, sandwich, pizza, fried chicken, fried rice with vegetables, all type of soft drinks and lassi. If you want to have lunch or dinner, you can order the set menu that includes: fried rice, vegetable, chicken, curry and other local items. Lassi and pizza are my two favourite foods of this restaurants and I often have these two items.
A. I would suggest you to order a small California Pizza, one glass of Lassi and a mixed vegetable item. I am quite fond of this menu and enjoy eating it a lot. I am quite sure if you are not a pizza hater, you would also like it.
A. The new-market area is a well-known place so you don't have to worry much. From here you can take a public bus to reach the new market area. After reaching there you need to take a turn to the north and you will see the large banner ads of this restaurants. If you take your private car, you need to reach the City fountain first and then you should turn left. After 5 minutes you will see a large auditorium and then you should turn to your right. Go straight for a couple of more minutes and you are bound to notice the New Market. In case you are not sure about the route at any moment, you should ask any passerby about the location and anyone would be able to tell you the direction.
Q. After you have taken the lELTS, what are you planning to study?
A. I always wanted to study in an oversea university as it would ensure a better educational environment and quality education compared to the universities of my country. Apart from that, the opportunity to learn about the diverse cultures and people in a foreign university is something I don't want to miss. Finally, a foreign degree, especially a degree from a reputed USA or UK university is helpful for better career prospect in our country. Considering all of the above-mentioned reasons, I have decided to continue my study at an overseas university.
What you learned from this course?
A. Studying in a foreign country is far different than studying in the home country. First of all, a student would have to leave his family, relatives, friends and stay in a different country to continue his/ her study in a foreign university. In home country s/he has the option to either attend classes from home or to stay in the university residence halls. In the second case, s/he can meet family and relatives frequently and can make new friends very quickly. While studying in a foreign university, students often suffer from homesickness and have to get enrolled in part-time jobs to support his/ her expenses. While studying overseas universities students can learn about different custom, culture and tradition. Overseas universities are often better in quality than home universities and thus overseas universities offer quality education and this has a better prospect in the future career. Among other differences, the language, communication and exam systems might be different. Finally, an overseas university offers latest and up to date curriculum while home universities, especially in less developed countries, might lack the proper study environment and proper syllabus.
Another problem that might arrive is loneliness. This is going to be a new country and I won't have any friends and relatives. So the first few days would be lonely I guess. Traveling and not knowing the route and bus number would be another problem. The different kinds of foods in this country might be a problem as I am habituated to eat common types of foods available in my country. It might happen that I won't find foods of my preference near my living place.
A. I guess it would not be much difficult for me to adapt to a new culture as I am already exposed to diverse customs and cultures in my home country. But of course, it is a bit tough to adapt a new culture very, especially when the culture and tradition are quite different from my home country. But I have the confidence that I won't face many difficulties there, especially related to the new culture, as I already did my research on common customs and traditions of this new country. So nothing would be completely new and shocking for me, I hope.
The courses change very frequently and many new algorithms are introduced to make the computing and software development more efficient. For instance, the data security, search mechanism, encryptions are very core subjects of Computer Science and they are changing very fast. It is not unlikely that new computing concept would emerge and that would be included in my field of study.
In my country, a foreign degree is given a priority in case of a job interview. Many local and international organizations even mention that a foreign degree from a reputed university would be a plus for the candidate. So I am sure having a foreign degree would open more opportunity for me in my professional life.
The foreign universities, especially universities of first world countries, are renowned for their professionalism, study environment and facilities to learn better skills. I am sure I would be able to take advantages of these facilities and would be able to learn more. The top notch universities of a first world country are often renowned for their research and I will put every effort to get involved in such research facilities to enhance my skills.
A. Umm, predicting what I will be doing after 10 years is bit tricky! But if everything goes according to my plan and the Almighty drives me to the right track, I will own my own E-commerce business after 10 years. I will be able to quit my day job at that time and would be able to fully concentrate on my own business. E-commerce would not be the only thing where I would be working then. At that time I will own some of the prominent and large software nationally and internationally. I have a plan to establish a night school in my hometown and hopefully in ten years that would be renowned one and a role model for the people of my locality.


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StartupBus 3: Wednesday
by StartUp
The Story Every day this week we're following StartupBus, a hackathon on wheels, where a bunch of strangers come together to launch companies in one week, all while on a bus. If you haven't heard Monday's episode, start
there. It's Wednesday, day three on StartupBus. Teams have just 24 hours left to refine their pitches before the competition begins. And reporter Eric Mennel sits down with some of the bus riders to learn more about why they signed up for this unusual hackathon in the first place.
The Facts Andrew Dunn and Mark Wilkening mixed the episode. Mark Phillips wrote and performed our original theme song. Bobby Lord wrote the special StartupBus theme song. Build Buildings wrote and performed our special ad music. Additional music by Legs, Graham Barton, Trimountaine, Golden Gram, Get Better, Michael Charles Smith, Jeffrey Lewis and Bobby Lord.
LISA CHOW: Before we get started, a quick warning: there's some swearing in this episode.
ERIC MENNEL: OK we are entering the house, leaving the bedroom...
ERIC: It's about eight in the morning on Wednesday, and I'm making my way through Providence Lodge—the big cabin we stayed in last night.
ERIC: All the lights are out.
ERIC: I'm trying my best to be quiet, but it's the kind of home that creaks no matter how light you step.
ERIC: People asleep on all the couches out here. It's kinda cute.
ERIC: When I went to bed last night, most of the riders were still awake. They worked late, some of them just setting their laptops on the ground and drifting off to sleep on the furniture. Team Denari, however, was having a frank discussion about some concerns they had with one of their teammates, Ash. Ash has been at the center of a lot of Denari's problems—there was the argument about being a dysfunctional team on Monday, and later that conversation about choosing a CEO. And late last night the other members of Denari talked about whether he should even be allowed to stay on the team. From what I've gathered, a lot of this centers around a conflict with Anne-Gail, the sophomore from Mount Holyoke. This tape is from when we talked on Monday.
ANNE-GAIL MORELAND: With tech, I have no idea where the hell i'm going. I have no idea where I'm going to be in ten years, I have no idea where I'm going to be in a year. I have no idea where I'll be in five days.
ERIC: Apparently Ash said something about how Anne-Gail was expressing opinions.something to the effect of: 'You're really young, and you don't have enough experience to make big decisions for the team.' Anne-Gail saw this as a personal attack. But Ash saw it as feedback, nothing more. Team Denari wanted to talk with Ash in private last night. So this morning, when Ash wakes up, I pull him aside to ask about the meeting. He still seems pretty tired.
ERIC: So I noticed last night that the team was having a meeting and they woke you up for that meeting.
MOHAMED "ASH" ASHMAWY: Yeah.
ERIC: You want to talk about it at all? What happened there?
ASH: No, I mean they just wanted to make sure that everyone is on the same page. They wanted to resolve as many conflicts as possible. So I think they voiced some concerns and I heard them loud and clear. So to avoid like lack of productivity we should really try to put our differences aside, so...
ERIC: And you feel like whatever was said in that meeting you feel like you heard them like you're working how to process the problem?
ASH: Yeah, I mean obviously there are things that I did disagree with and I will keep on disagreeing with. If I said something then I believe in it.
ERIC: Ash doesn't seem to think this interaction with Anne-Gail was particularly serious, more that, other people made it serious. But he also knows he doesn't have much choice but to make things work with his teammates.
ASH: There are usually many options. Not in this case. One of us can't just leave. That's not what I'm planning to do for sure. I'm gonna work through this. We'll just see what happens.
ERIC: Having fun still?
ASH: Relatively, relatively.
ERIC: Relative to what?
ASH: Relative to the situation like that we're in. So, relatively.
ERIC: This is StartUp, from Gimlet Media. I'm Eric Mennel. We are on day three of our five-day series on StartupBus—StartupBus, the competition where teams have just a few days to start companies from scratch. While on a bus. We are on our way from New York to New Orleans, and this is the last day on the bus. It is the last day to actually build the companies before the pitch competition tomorrow. Now, every day has brought new challenges for these teams. The same challenges faced by lots of people when they start a company. These challenges can be professional. They can also be intensely personal. And today we'll see how the bus forces people to confront these challenges head on—even if they'd rather avoid them.
ERIC: Back on the bus. Everybody loves the bus.
COLLEEN LAVIN: Don't be mean, Eric.
ERIC: I love the bus. I am one with the bus.
COLLEEN LAVIN: Stockholm Syndrome.
ERIC: So here we are, Wednesday. We get on the road at about 9am, leaving from the mountains of Western North Carolina, heading South, toward Atlanta. The bus itself is starting to look and smell more and more like a college dorm room. There are junk food wrappers in the aisle, discarded Red Bull cans in the crevices between the seats. People have been in the same chairs long enough that if you sit in the wrong place the cushion doesn't quite conform to the shape your butt.
BUS RIDER: Nothing I drink will ever fit in the damn cupholders.
ERIC: Once we hit the highway, I make the rounds, to see how the different teams are doing heading into the day. Team Phishly, the email phishing app—they've actually got a working product now, that other people can test out. They launched an ad campaign on Facebook yesterday to try and attract users, and I ask how it went, how many people clicked through. Here's Alex Romero, the developer who came up with Phishly.
ALEX ROMERO: The Facebook campaign was a $65 mistake. We were looking at the traffic and we had 65 clicks from Facebook and I was excited and then we look at our Google Analytics and it was zero. I was like, "What just happened?"
ERIC: Apparently, when Alex set up the ad, he directed it to the wrong URL. He set it https://Phishly.io. The problem is, they'd registered a different address—http:... without the "s"...
ALEX: which meant that all the traffic went to a page that doesn't exist.
PHISHLY TEAM MEMBER: They click on the link but they go nowhere.
ALEX: Yes. $65 typo, man. No other way of saying it, man.
ERIC: Across the aisle, Daisy is quietly plugging away. The window by their table is covered with a curtain of post-it notes, outlining the different tasks for the day.
CAL COSTANZO: What do you need from us to help you get your job done? The design stuff?
COLLEEN LAVIN: The design stuff? I'll probably incorporate the design stuff later rather than sooner...
ERIC: And toward the front of the bus is Denari. Last night, on top of working through the situation with Ash, they also decided to elect a CEO. They asked Colleen Wong to do it. She agreed. And today she's really settling into the role. Right now she's helping Adam, the dad from Cleveland, focus the team's pitch. They want to show that Denari is not just about blockchain technology. It's also about helping people and NGOs.
COLLEEN WONG: When we do get to the pitching, I just want to clarify the stuff with the NGO...part.
ADAM GALL: Yeah. I get way too, like, "fuck everything else except blockchains" but you're right.
COLLEEN WONG: Alright. Well, we'll talk about it, but keep coding. Don't want to distract you guys.
ERIC: Over the last couple of days I've spent a lot of time with the competitors on StartupBus, getting to know them, and why they're here. But there was someone else on the bus I wanted to talk with. Someone who's competed on StartupBus before, and so has a little more perspective on the competition. She's also the person who planned the New York route this year—Madelena Mak—she's the conductor you've heard making announcements over the last couple of days.
MADELENA MAK: The number one rule on StartupBus is there's no number two on the bus.
ERIC: Three years ago, on the bus, Madalena started a company called "MiniMap." It's an app that tells you what events are going on nearby, and the best way to get there. She made it all the way to the finals, and lost. But she's still working on the idea. It's actually in beta right now. And when we talk about her relationship to StartupBus, it becomes clear: Madelena was made for StartupBus. And StartupBus was made for her.
MADELENA: Yeah, it's like StartupBus is like a weird childhood dream become true, almost.
ERIC: Madelena grew up in Hong Kong, where she went to a Catholic school. And it was there, during recess, that she got her first taste of mass transit.
MADELENA: I literally would organize and do these fake subway lines. Everybody, like, put their hands on each other's shoulder, you know, and form a train, and just run across the playground. It's fun to be, like, the train conductor, you know, and now we're bus conductor doing the same thing.
ERIC: Now, if you were to look at a map of this trip on StartupBus, you'd realize it's a pretty insane route. It jogs and meanders. It's nowhere near the quickest path to New Orleans. I mean, we spent a full 24 hours just in North Carolina. But Madelena says this was all very intentional. She wanted to take the riders to places they may never visit otherwise.
MADELENA: We definitely took some risks in terms of planning the route. I was pretty scared to go down south.
ERIC: Really?
MADELENA: Yeah, like, this whole trip I was kind of worried.
ERIC: Why?
MADELENA: I mean, you know, the current political climate, you never know if things would break out. You know.
ERIC: I should say, I know how this sounds. I grew up in the South, I've worked in the South, when people from New York say they're scared of the south, it can be kind of annoying. But Madelena has a reason to feel this way. She identifies as transgender. She started transitioning when she moved to the U.S. for college. And leading up to this trip, the trip she was planning, she was reading these headlines that made her wonder: is it even safe for a person like me to be going to places like this?
MADELENA: I mean like, the day we departed, you know. July 31st, a trans woman got murdered in Atlanta. In New Orleans there were already...like in the Louisiana area already three people died, just because they're trans.
ERIC: This year?
MADELENA: This year. Personally, I don't want to stop by North Carolina because of all the bathroom bills that happened.
MADELENA: So that was pretty scary to me.
ERIC: It's like a real thing.
MADELENA: It's a real thing.
ERIC: Given this fear, you might wonder why Madelena even signed up to do this. To answer that, you need understand how deeply StartupBus runs in her veins, how important it is to her. She started going to hackathons about 4 years ago. At first, it was an isolating experience—she wound up making projects by herself, instead of with a team.
MADELENA: It was very difficult, like just me going by myself to Techcrunch Disrupt. You know the first hour, you're in this giant hall, you know, everybody talking to each other. Mostly guys very excited about their ideas. And I'm just standing there and just being ignored because I don't look like anybody. So I felt very left out and excluded.
ERIC: But as crummy as some of those hackathons were, Madelena did notice one thing that kept popping up.
MADELENA: From the hackathons that I went to before the bus, I learned that quite a few winners were teams formed with people wearing shirts that says, "StartupBus." Like, what the heck is StartupBus? Like why are these people winning hackathons?
ERIC: They all knew each other from this thing. And like, oh this might be the trick.
MADELENA: Yeah.
ERIC: And this realization came at a really pivotal time for Madelena.
MADELENA: The startup that I was working for, they only have a few months left and they're probably going to go bankrupt, my romantic relationship was failing very badly, and my immigration visa was going to expire in three months. I mean when I come on the bus, I felt like that ,that might be my my hope. It cost $300. I didn't have any money left at that time, so I made a deal with my employer. If he can give me $1000, so that I can go on StartupBus. And he agreed. So thanks Kevin.
ERIC: Yeah, thanks, Kevin. Anyway, with all the visa stuff looming in the background, Madelena was really feeling the pressure to make StartupBus work.
MADELENA: I think I took it way too seriously. I definitely felt that that's my chance to stay in the United States, you know. Like I have to form a company on the bus. If I don't, I don't know who's going to sponsor me for another three years.
ERIC: You have to form a company because then you'll have a company to sponsor you.
MADELENA: Exactly. It's like literally that's my survival.
ERIC: Did you tell anybody that?
MADELENA: Nope.
ERIC: Because why would you?
MADELENA: Yeah. That's way too much, man.
ERIC: So she gets to the finals, and loses. But after the competition, Madelena was able to find a visa sponsor and stay in the U.S. She got about a half dozen letters of support from the StartupBus community. The whole thing changed her life in this really tangible way. And it helped her understand why people sign up for StartupBus.
ERIC: What is the point of StartupBus to you?
MADELENA: What is the point of StartupBus? I mean, what is the point of life?
ERIC: Alright.
MADELENA: StartupBus was appealing to me because it sort of was a wildcard. And I know that I need to break out of my mold but I don't know how to. I think, like, to throw a wildcard at yourself is one of the many ways to do that. One of the most effective ways of doing that. I mean, I think like lot of people who join the bus have that same feeling I felt, like that they want to be dealt a wildcard. That they want to be pushed to the limits so they can break out of their own old molds. Like they want to be something more than who they think they can be. It's not about the bus. It's about learning something about yourself.
ERIC: When Madelena said this, I thought of Adam, the dad from Cleveland, who was working a dead end insurance job, but now feels like blockchain is his chance to leave a lasting impact on the world. I thought about Colleen Wong, who had just quit her job, and is now leading a team of unruly developers to build a massively complicated project. I thought about Anne-Gail who had thought their life was set in stone, med school or bust, until they got involved in tech. And I thought about myself, and why I was starting to feel so connected to these people. When I first heard about StartupBus, I thought the idea was insane—a recipe for total disaster. But I'd also just spent the better part of a year trying to get my own projects off the ground, and they'd largely gone nowhere. I was in a long term relationship that was starting to fade. I was unhappy. And I couldn't figure out what to do to change any of that. I needed a wild card. So a week on a bus, with a bunch of strangers with big ideas? I mean, why not? If you don't like the direction your life is taking, why not set out on a journey where you're totally blind? Who knows what you'll bump into.
MADELENA: So we are going to be in Atlanta in 50 minutes.
ERIC: After the break, the teams get a harsh reality check from some business owners down South. And I check back in with Ash, to see where things stand with him and the rest of Denari.
MADELENA: Welcome to Atlanta, Georgia.
ERIC: It's almost noon by the time we make our last major stop of the trip: downtown Atlanta. We're at another co-working space. And the teams are about to pitch to some local founders. On the face of it, it's not so different from our stops in D.C. or Charlotte, but this stop will actually be much more challenging for the teams. It's their last chance to practice the pitches with actual founders—founders who, it turns out, will give them crucial feedback. The space is called digitalundivided. It's an incubator program specifically for black and Latina women. It was founded in 2012 and has helped launch more than 50 companies founded by women of color. Inside the building, the walls are lined with Shepard Fairey-style prints of women from diverse backgrounds. There's a giant poster from Shirley Chisholm's 1972 Presidential campaign. People settle in as Madelena gives a welcome.
MADELENA: Thank you so much for being here everybody and thank you so much to digitalundivided. Let's have our pitching begin. The first team is Daisy!
COLLEEN LAVIN: Hi! I'm Colleen. And I'm here to talk about everyone's favorite topic. Death!
ERIC: Colleen Lavin's pitch for Daisy is feeling really tight. It's like you're watching your comedian cousin do her fourth or fifth open mic night with the same material, and finally all the jokes are starting to land.
COLLEEN LAVIN: With no major competitors in the market, Daisy is poised… to kill it.
ERIC: Colleen takes some questions. The first one comes from a woman who goes by the name X. She works for Microsoft. And she asks if Daisy is only going to deal with the funeral event itself, or if it'll be helping with all the other stuff that happens when someone dies, all the paperwork...
X: Cause I'm thinking like how do I get their death certificate, how do I get…like there's so many things when a person dies when you start thinking about it.
DARLENE GILLARD JONES: Yeah, because I actually did go through a family member dying and having to have death certificates.
ERIC: This other voice is Darlene Gillard Jones. She's one of the directors of digitalundivided.
DARLENE: For like the insurance people, like all these different people, so I think adding that component to it could be interesting.
ERIC: This idea, of helping people get their loved one's death certificate, it hadn't really come up during the pitches in the other cities. People had been asking questions about monetization and marketing—pretty standard stuff. But this death certificate idea felt different. And Daisy wound up adding it to their platform that day. When Denari steps up, it feels like this might actually the best audience for their company so far. X, the woman who's been asking questions, is a co-founder of a blockchain company. So she understands the technology and its value.
COLLEEN WONG: People want to help people, and right now the platforms that exist to allow people to give money, they're flawed systems.
ERIC: Colleen Wong starts by outlining the problem. GoFundMe only exists in 19 countries, she says That means 177 countries don't have access to that kind of fundraising.
COLLEEN WONG: There are people everywhere who need money, want money to live their lives, to help other people.
ERIC: It's more pulled together than their other pitches so far. But the questions they get from the panel are tough. X, the judge, she raises a point that hasn't really come up at the previous stops: What about financial regulation?
X: You are talking about now securities exchange over multiple countries. Maybe there are reasons GoFundMe only deals with 19. Which I haven't heard you guys say. Is it cause they don't want to? Because that's kind of what it comes off as. It's like, "GoFundMe is the largest one, they're only in 19 countries." Why is that?
MADELENA: All right. Great pitch.
ERIC: This stop in Atlanta is a stark reminder: these teams are trying to build working companies, and there are things that still aren't working. The pitch competition starts tomorrow. And there is still a lot to do. We leave digitalundivided and people scatter for lunch downtown. A small group heads to a cheap Greek place around the corner, and I find Alex Romero there, from team Phishly. Phishly's made a lot of progress—they actually have a working prototype now, and Alex is starting to do that thing where you visualize your victory.
ALEX: It's like the A-Team, right? I just want to be there tomorrow on stage, completely destroy the audience. Just wow them. And then just tell them, "I love it when a plan comes together." I just want to say that. Like, if you come to me and tomorrow I get to say that. Oooo. Isn't that the A-Team? I love it when a plan comes together?
DEVON VINCENT: I don't know.
ALEX: No one watched the A-Team?
ERIC: After lunch comes together we make our way back to the bus. It's then that I notice Ash, from Denari. He's been quiet most of the day, clearly taking a step back, not interacting with his team much. But here, in Atlanta, he pulls Anne-Gail aside. Remember, they hadn't been getting along since Ash implied Anne-Gail was too young and inexperienced to make big decisions for the team. While we're waiting to get on the bus—I see the two of them talking by a light pole, maybe 10 yards away. I can't tell what they're saying, but it looks calm, professional. I eventually had a chance to sit down and talk with Ash about it. And about this question of what makes something a personal attack rather than professional feedback. I asked him how he determines where that line is.
ASH: Yeah, so I like being true to myself. Because I could have easily you know, just like, 'Oh yeah but I'm sorry I guess I crossed the line. I was like personally attacking her.' But admitting that would just be a lie. There is no second that I believed that at any given point that I was personally attacking anyone anywhere.
ERIC: But what's important is that like they felt like it was personal and like--
ASH: And it's OK, and it's OK I guess, like I mean, honestly. Anne-Gail can feel like, she has the right to feel whatever she wants to feel, right, because she is the opposite party.
ERIC: A quick note here: while Anne-Gail asked me to use they/them pronouns, this is not something they brought up with everyone on the bus, that's why Ash is using "she" and "her."
ASH: They heard her story but no one ever got a chance to hear my story directly. And it's very easy to like take sides with someone who's like saying that they're being attacked by someone who seemed to be intimidating in the beginning. The narrative, you know, flows. It flows. It'S not really like Ash was receptive and no, I mean it flows. It's plausible.
ERIC: The thing about StartupBus is that it really is like a reality TV show. It's so intense that every interaction, every personality can feel like a caricature of real life. And when you become the outsider, like Ash has, you feel that in a serious way. I imagine this caught Ash off-guard. Cause in his own life he's grown comfortable being the outsider. In fact, that's where he thrives. Ash was born in Cairo. He says he comes from a long line of contractors and business owners, largely in construction. Which in Egypt can mean you're pretty well off financially. But that also meant there were expectations, and a very particular road he could follow for his future—the road to running his own construction business in Cairo. He didn't want that. He remembers sitting in grade school, hearing the name Mark Zuckerberg for the first time. Facebook had just become a billion dollar company, with influence all over the world. And Ash was angry. He wanted that for himself. Not the money, but the impact, the scope. He wanted to be attached to something bigger than himself and his family. And he knew how difficult it would be to get that in Egypt. So at 17, he packed his bags and flew to America. First it was Ohio. Then Nebraska, then Minnesota. He'd be in college somewhere for a year and then transfer, a sort of pioneer's trek across the Midwest in search of some key that would unlock his future. He did all this alone, leaving much of his family back in Cairo puzzled.
ASH: I didn't really have anyone to help or like pull strings. So I was more and more conditioned to keep emotions aside and really you know just try to force the other to like respect to you.
ERIC: I imagine those are strange places to move from Egypt too.
ASH: Absolutely, absolutely. No one knows what Nebraska is. I like the unknown, I like being thrown with no floaters. To see if you can just swim, just swim.
ERIC: This was the moment I really started to understand why Ash is the way he is. I think there are usually two ways to respond to being alone in a place: you can put a lot of trust in the strangers around you, assuming they'll look out for you, or you can put that trust in yourself, and go it alone. Ash seems like the latter to me. He likes being thrown into the unknown as a way of pushing his own limits, to see what he is capable of. I asked him about that moment in Atlanta, when I saw him talking with Anne-Gail by the light pole.
ASH: In Atlanta, I did take Anne-Gail aside, and I did give her a quick idea about how I rethought everything. And then I, I think perhaps I might have been a little bit rough in giving that feedback. and perhaps that's where the misunderstanding came in. But I also made very clear that my feedback is not different. Maybe the delivery. I failed the delivery right there. But I guess that calmed things a little bit down. Like, she thanked me for you know at least revisiting that and trying to reflect, I guess.
ERIC: I talked with Anne-Gail about this. And they said things did get much better after the talk with Ash. The two of them started joking, they were sending memes to each other. Anne-Gail also felt like the questions Ash raised about age and experience were just less relevant by day three. At this point, Anne-Gail had designed a beautiful front-end for Denari, and the rest of the team loved it. Before we wrapped up, I asked Ash if he learned anything going through all this stuff with Denari.
ASH: I think it's really just more of a reinforcing of a concept that I've always believed in. The people who choose to work with it, this is what will make or break anything. It's not the idea, it's not the technology, it's not, you know, the business solution that you've came up with, it's not the revenue model. It's none of that. It's the people you choose to work with, and if that is not 100 percent working out, nothing will.
ERIC: Can I ask how old you are?
ASH: Yeah sure. I'm 23. I'm actually, I'm turning 24 in a week.
ERIC: What things do you feel like you still have left to learn?
ASH: A lot. Everything. Everything. I know I might come off like giving a strong opinions about things. But no, I am truly self-aware of my shortcomings, which are a lot. There's so much out there still to learn. Really, the more you know the more you realize I don't know shit.
MADELENA: In two hours you'll reach your final destination in New Orleans.
MADELENA: Alright? Alright.
ERIC: The last two hours on the bus before New Orleans are a whirlwind. People are giddy, like they're cramming in every last ounce of goofiness while they still can. Over on Denari, Ash and Colleen Wong are joking. They're sitting across from Adam and Anne-Gail, who are losing their minds, pretending to pitch blockchain.
ADAM: Put it on the blockchain
ANNE-GAIL: Put it on the blockchain. It's the ledger, it's public.
ADAM: Yes, it's backed by people.
ANNE-GAIL: By people. Not by government.
ADAM: Us. It's about us.
ERIC: Up at the front of the bus Colleen Lavin tries to pitch Daisy one last time. But everybody's heard it so much, they can't help but heckle her.
COLLEEN LAVIN: Can you hear me in the back?
BUS RIDER: We can hear you in the front.
COLLEEN LAVIN: Oh good. I don't care if you can hear me.
ERIC: We're just a few miles from New Orleans, now. You can see the lights in the distance, and then we pass another bus.
AMY HUA: Look guys it's another StartupBus!
MADELENA: Now we are racing! Now the two buses are racing!
ERIC: Despite all their troubles—the personal dramas, the failed ad campaigns, the miscommunications—the teams all feel really good. They've overcome a lot. And they've built actual working products. In three days. On a bus.
MADELENA: Welcome to New Orleans, everybody. Congratulations! You made it to Louisiana.
ERIC: It's late, after 10pm. Everyone is wiped and walking around with whatever the bus equivalent of sea legs are. People head to their rooms, planning to work through the night—to put the finishing touches together. Along the way we pass the teams from Ohio, San Francisco, Florida. It all feels very real again, like walking blurry eyed out of a theater after a long movie. Tomorrow, teams will start being eliminated. Everything they've been working toward comes to a head in the morning. The forecast calls for rain. The first pitch is in about 12 hours.
StartUp's regular host is Lisa Chow. This episode was produced by Bruce Wallace, Luke Malone, Simone Polanen, Amy Standen and Max Gibson. Our senior producer is Molly Messick. We are edited by Annie-Rose Strasser. I'm Eric Mennel. Our theme song is by Bobby Lord. Build Buildings wrote and performed our special ad music. "Roll Bus Roll" is by Jeffrey Lewis. For full music credits, visit our website. GimletMedia.com/startup. Andrew Dunn and Mark Wilkening mixed the episode. Special thanks to Alex Blumberg and Emanuele Berry. To subscribe to StartUp, go to Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. And leave us a rating! Five stars! Six stars! 10 stars!
MADELENA: Yeah, that's way too much man.
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You take care of your car to keep it looking good year round, but don't forget to clean the inside and do deeper cleanings of the underside or engine of the car — especially if you live in a four-season area or drive over dirty and dusty roads frequently. Regularly cleaning your car can prevent corrosion, rust, and even mold buildup inside the vehicle. Consider hiring someone to clean the car regularly or make a cleaning schedule for yourself so you don't miss the chance to clear out all the debris and buildup.
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Q: Applying different Jackson filter for different Jersey REST service calls I am using Jersey to implement JAX-RS REST-style services along with Jackson 2.0.2 for the JSON mapping. One of these REST services returns a List<EntityA> (let's call it indexA) where EntityA contains another List<EntityB> whereas another service just returns a List<EntityB> (let's call it indexB):
@Entity
@JsonAutoDetect
public class EntityA {
  @Id
  private String id;

  @OneToMany
  private List<EntityB> b;

  ...
}

@Entity
@JsonAutoDetect
@JsonFilter("bFilter")
public class EntityB {
  @Id
  private String id;

  private String some;
  private String other;
  private String attributes;

  ...
}

@Path("/a")
public class AResource {

  @GET
  @Path("/")
  public List<EntityA> indexA() {
    ...
  }
}

@Path("/b")
public class BResource {

  @GET
  @Path("/")
  public List<EntityB> indexB() {
    ...
  }
}

What I'd like to achieve is to apply a Jackson filter to the indexA invocation so that not all attributes of the child EntityB elements are serialized. OTOH, indexB should return EntityB in its completeness.
I am aware of the existence of a ContextResolver<ObjectMapper>, which I am already using for other purposes. Unfortunately, for the ContextResolver it seems to be impossible to distinguish both service invocations as the Class supplied to ContextResolver.getContext(Class) is ArrayList in both cases (and thanks to type erasure I cannot figure out the generic type parameters).
Are there any hooks better suited at configuring an ObjectMapper/FilterProvider depending on the entity type that is being mapped?
I could use the approach proposed in How to return a partial JSON response using Java?: Manually mapping to a String, but that kills the whole beauty of a declarative annotation-based approach, so I'd like to avoid this.

A: I was in the same situation, after tons of research, I figured it out, the solution is to use @JsonView and Spring which can inject an ObjectMapper into the JSON Writer without killing the beauty of Jersey.
I am working on a set of REST APIs, I want to get a list of instances of SystemObject and the detail a specific instance of SystemObject, just like you I just want very limited of number of properties of each instance in the list and some additional properties in the detail, I just define Views for them, and add annotation in the SystemObject class. but by default, all properties with no @JsonView annotation will be output to the JSON, but there is a configuration item(SerializationConfig.Feature.DEFAULT_VIEW_INCLUSION) I can use to exclude them.
The problem is that I have to set it to true to meet my need. but I can not change the ObjectMapper which does the magic to convert the object to JSON, by reading the 3 articles below, I got the idea that the only way I can do is to inject a Modified ObjectMapper to Jersey.
Now I got what I want.
It is like you create multiple views against a database table.
These 3 links will help you in different ways:
How to create a ObjectMapperProvider which can be used by Spring to inject
Jersey, Jackson, Spring and JSON
Jersey + Spring integration example
REST resource:
package com.john.rest.resource;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.HeaderParam;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Context;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Request;
import javax.ws.rs.core.UriInfo;

import org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonView;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.midtronics.esp.common.EspException;
import com.midtronics.esp.common.SystemObject;
import com.midtronics.esp.mobile.model.SystemObjectView;
import com.midtronics.esp.model.accesscontrol.AccessControlBean;
import com.midtronics.esp.model.site.SiteBean;

@Component
@Path("/hierarchy")
public class Hierarchy {

    // Allows to insert contextual objects into the class,
    // e.g. ServletContext, Request, Response, UriInfo
    @Context
    UriInfo uriInfo;

    @Context
    Request request;

    // Return the list of sites
    @GET
    @Path("sites")
    @Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
    @JsonView({SystemObjectView.ObjectList.class})
    public List<SystemObject> listSite(
            @HeaderParam("userId") String userId,
            @HeaderParam("password") String password) {
        ArrayList<SystemObject> sites= new ArrayList<SystemObject>();

        try{
            if(!AccessControlBean.CheckUser(userId, password)){
                throw new WebApplicationException(401);
            }
            SystemObject.GetSiteListByPage(sites, 2, 3);

            return sites;
        } catch(EspException e){
            throw new WebApplicationException(401);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new WebApplicationException(500);
        }
    }

    // Return the number of sites
    @GET
    @Path("sites/total")
    @Produces(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)
    public String getSiteNumber(@HeaderParam("userId") String userId,
            @HeaderParam("password") String password) {
        try{
            return Integer.toString(SiteBean.GetSiteTotal());
        } catch(EspException e){
            throw new WebApplicationException(401);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new WebApplicationException(500);
        }
    }

}

REST model:
package com.john.rest.model;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnore;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonProperty;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonView;

import com.midtronics.esp.mobile.model.SystemObjectView;
import com.midtronics.esp.model.common.ICommonDAO;

@XmlRootElement
public class SystemObject implements Serializable
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 3989499187492868996L;

    @JsonProperty("id")
    @JsonView({SystemObjectView.ObjectList.class, SystemObjectView.ObjectDetail.class})
    protected String objectID = "";

    @JsonProperty("parentId")
    protected String parentID = "";

    @JsonProperty("name")
    @JsonView({SystemObjectView.ObjectList.class, SystemObjectView.ObjectDetail.class})
    protected String objectName = "";

    //getters...
    //setters...

}

REST model view:
package com.john.rest.model;

public class SystemObjectView {
    public static class ObjectList { };

    public static class ObjectDetail extends ObjectList { }
}


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The Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research
Faculty and Fellows
The Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research specializes in mineral metabolism diseases such as osteoporosis, osteomalacia, Paget's disease, hyperparathyroidism, acid base bone metabolism, nephrolithiasis, kidney stone disease and prevention, and calcium disorders.
Clinic Faculty
Khashayar Sakhaee, M.D., Clinic Director
FLEX Board Certified. UT Southwestern faculty member since 1979.
Bridget Sinnott, M.D., Assistant Professor
Board certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Lipidology. UT Southwestern faculty member since 2009.
Naim Maalouf, M.D., Associate Professor
Board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. UT Southwestern faculty since 2004.
Margaret S. Pearle, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Urology and Internal Medicine. UT Southwestern faculty member since 1994.
Orson Moe, M.D., Professor
Director of the Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research.
Board certified in Nephrology and Internal Medicine. UT Southwestern faculty member since 1990.
Clinic and Bone Densitometry Staff
From left: Ruth Gwyn, L.V.N., Leila Reinert, R.N., Randy Boykin, Technician (Bone Densitometry), Diana Trujillo, Medical Office Assistant, Beverly Kemp, Clinic Staff Supervisor (Bone Densitometry), Shelia Moss, R.N., Jennifer Dye, Clinical Staff Assistant II
Monday–Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Closed Noon–1 p.m. for lunch
Bone Density hours
Monday–Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (last appointment 3:30 p.m.)
Outside physician referral orders please fax to 214-645-2871
Patients are seen on a referral basis only. Please have your primary care physician contact our clinic at 214-645-2870. You may also contact the Patient and Physician Referral Service at 214-645-8300.


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Q: Не удается запарсить xlsx в архив JSON объектов вот с чем столкнулся, используя библиотеку xlsx в ноде смогу запарсить документ в архив с объектами. Но так получилось, что сейчас нужно сделать тоже самое только без Ноды... и вот тут у меня затык ( не хочет парсить, такое ощущение, что вообще не видит файл.
Это работающий фрагмент кода.
if(typeof require !== 'undefined') XLSX = require('xlsx');
let workbook = XLSX.readFile('users.xlsx', {
    type: "buffer",
    sheetRows: 10000,
});
let sheet_name = workbook.SheetNames[0];
let parsedUsersListArr = XLSX.utils.sheet_to_json(workbook.Sheets[sheet_name], {
    blankrows: true,
    defval: null
});
console.log(parsedUsersListArr.length);

А вот это не работает :(
let book = XLSX.read('users.xlsx', {
    type: "buffer",
    sheetRows: 10000,
});
let sheet_name = book.SheetNames[0];

let parsedUsersListArr = XLSX.utils.sheet_to_json(book.Sheets[sheet_name]);
console.log(parsedUsersListArr.length);

Помогите пожалуйста разобраться, что именно я делаю не так.
Или подскажите, каким образом можно спарсить файл в массив JSON объектов.


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The full heartbreaking story of the bedsit murders which shook Tunbridge Wells
David Fuller has been charged with causing the deaths of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987 and will face crown court
Wendy Knell parents, Bill and Pam Knell from Tonbridge pictured back in 2012 (Image: Lewis Durham)
A 66-year-old man has been charged with the unsolved murders of two women in Tunbridge Wells more than 30 years ago.
David Fuller appeared before Medway Magistrates Court today (December 5) speaking only to confirm his name, address and date of birth during a hearing which lasted less than five minutes.
He will remain in custody until his hearing at Maidstone Crown Court on Tuesday (December 8).
He is charged with the murders of Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in 1987.
The investigation is being led by the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate and has been many years in the making.
Assistant Chief Constable Tracey Harman said today: "Whilst more than three decades have passed since these murders took place, I would urge anyone who has any information, no matter how minor or insignificant it may appear to be, to contact us."
Wendy Knell was found dead 33 years ago (Image: PA)
Wendy Knell's body was discovered in her bedsit in Guildford Road on June 23, 1987.
Caroline Pierce, 20, who lived in a bedsit in Grosvenor Park was murdered five months later.
Both cases were connected by police due to their similarities and dubbed 'The Bedsit Murders' by the public but despite significant advances in forensic science and DNA analysis, no killer has been brought to justice.
The day before her murder Wendy had left her job at SupaSnaps on Camden Road at about 5pm.
After going to the bank she went home. Police believe the back window was insecure because it could not be locked as the latch was painted over.
During initial enquiries police thought the murderer had broken into Wendy's bedsit via a faulty back window.
But when investigating her room, officers said there were no clear signs of forced entry and no one had heard anything from the flat.
Later that evening Wendy went to her boyfriend's house, where she spent the evening with him and his mother watching television.
At about 11pm, he dropped her off at her ground-floor bedsit. He kissed her goodbye on the doorstep and never saw her again.
She was wearing black cords, a black leather jacket and carrying a crash helmet.
The investigation also established that Wendy's distinctive keyring and diary were missing.
The keyring, which was a souvenir from Austria, had a small brass cowbell attached to a multi-coloured key fob, a brass plate with 'Woman Of The Year' engraved on it, and two keys. These possessions have never been found.
Sometime that night Wendy was sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled.
She was left naked on her bed, covered by a duvet.
Her mother Pam previously told us: "Losing a child is the worst thing. When she died, part of me died too."
The second murder
Caroline Pierce was found dead five months after Wendy Knell (Image: PA)
Meanwhile Caroline lived in a flat in Grosvenor Park and worked at Buster Browns restaurant in Camden Road.
She was attacked outside her flat around five months after Wendy's murder. Her body was dumped 40 miles away in a field on the Romney Marsh.
Caroline was last seen at about midnight when she was dropped off by a taxi at her home after a night out with friends.
She was wearing a long black skirt and a red jumper.
Initial investigators concluded Caroline was attacked outside her home with several neighbours reportedly hearing screams.
Caroline's keys, with the Buster Browns restaurant fob where she worked, have never been found
Her naked body was discovered 40 miles away by a farm worker in a dyke in a remote field near St Mary in the Marsh on Romney Marsh three weeks later.
She had also been sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled.
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Police investigation after postman robbed delivering letters in Gravesend
Bill Knell's last wish
Bill and Pam Knell pictured at their home in Tonbridge in 2017 (Image: Kent Live)
The father of Wendy Knell previously told KentLive his biggest fear was going to his grave not knowing who killed his beloved daughter.
Tragically Bill Knell had spent the rest of his life wanting answers about Wendy's brutal death.
Bill and wife Pam's lives had been torn apart that day in June, 1987, when she died.
But 30 years after her death and with inoperable cancer, Bill knew time was running out to see anyone brought to justice.
He sadly died in May 2017 in Hospice in the Weald, with Pam, his other children and grandchildren around him.
He was a well-known figure, not only for the terrible death of his daughter, but because he had worked on the buses for what is now Arriva for more than 20 years, as a driver and inspector, had been a milkman in Tonbridge and an active bowls player at Angel Indoor Bowls Club.


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Q: KeyError: "['green_picture', 'yellow_green_picture', 'yellow_picture'] not in index" That my code
#Select your X variables based on your hypothesis : mainvariables + control variables

# Add your main x variables here - based on your hypothesis
main_x_names = ['Green_color','Yellow_green_color','Yellow_color']

# Add your control variables here. Default value is empty. You can leave it empty.
control_x_names = ['length_description','Valence_overall', 'ocr_Valence_overall', 'ocr_length_description']

# Your control variables should be your selected variables + time variables + brand variables
# e.g., datetime_features.columns.to_list() helps to get the column names of datetime_features and put them in a list
control_x_names = control_x_names + datetime_features.columns.to_list()

# Decide your X variables : main X variables + control variables
x_names = main_x_names + control_x_names

That my error.I don't know if the formatting is wrong or what, only this column is not recognized. When I printed it I got this.
Y=np.log(test_data1['likeCount']+1)
X =test_data1[x_names]
X=sm.add_constant(X)
model=sm.OLS(Y,X)
results=model.fit()

KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-93-a5ec2e24ee54> in <module>()
      1 Y=np.log(test_data1['likeCount']+1)
----> 2 X =test_data1[x_names]
      3 X=sm.add_constant(X)
      4 model=sm.OLS(Y,X)
      5 results=model.fit()

2 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _validate_read_indexer(self, key, indexer, axis)
   1375
   1376             not_found = list(ensure_index(key)[missing_mask.nonzero()[0]].unique())
-> 1377             raise KeyError(f"{not_found} not in index")
   1378
   1379

This was my mistake, I did not copy the key error into the code box.The final key error should be:KeyError: "['Green_color', 'Yellow_green_color', 'Yellow_color'] not in index"
I don't know what the problem is.


stop press: 28 February 2012 – Slaughtering Chickens For "Art" Cancelled in Lawrence, Kansas! read more if you follow this link.
Killing nonhuman animals as "art". Yet another patho… case doing just that. No comment, yet again it speaks for its own state of pathology.
I read with interest that your museum is planning an exhibition called, "The Story of Chickens: A Revolution." As a scholar of modern art, and historian of the image of animals in art (the subject of my forthcoming book), I must tell you that there is nothing "revolutionary" about your exhibition or its subject.
The depiction in words and images of the killing or exploitation of animals for the purpose of encouraging kindness extends back more than two hundred years. Such works — and John Lawrence's profusely illustrated treatises circa 1800 come to mind — always supported the most conventional of beliefs: that humans are the crown of creation (the pinnacle of the "Great Chain of Being") and possess the God-given right to own, exploit and kill any animal, so long as the slaughter is done humanely. This line of reasoning — sometimes called "welfarist" — has sanctioned the killing of billions upon billions of animals every year, usually in the cruelest manner imaginable.
What is avant-garde, even "revolutionary" today — because it refutes the cruel, old stereotypes — is the view that animals are sentient creatures who possess a right to life and autonomy. This perspective is embraced by many scientists, (such as the pioneering ethologist Donald Griffin) philosophers (such as Bruno Latour) artists, (including Sue Coe), and writers (for example J.M. Coetzee).
In the interests of a progressive museology and simple humanity, I ask you to cancel the planned exhibition, "The Story of Chickens" and to renounce any killing of animals for the sake of art-making.
Last night I received the following news regarding an upcoming event at the Spencer, and I must say that it causes me deep concern. Although I recognize the SMA's desire to engage our community in provocative and meaningful discussions (and I must assume that this is the visiting artist's intention as well), I am nonetheless distressed by the Spencer's decision to endorse and encourage a project which sponsors the actual (not figurative) deaths of five animals.
It is disturbing to me that the Spencer would be associated with the slaughter of these animals, especially after they had been well and even lovingly cared for within the museum for a month. Certainly, the project forces viewers and participants to consider the inhumane treatment of millions of animals in slaughterhouses throughout the US and the world and the disjuncture that is made between the living animal and the consumption of meat. I question, however, whether the Spencer needs to enact the final part–the chickens' slaughter–of Amber Hansen's project in order to make these points. I feel strongly that the entire project demonstrates human power over and control of animals (the androcentric position, perspective), which is crucial for us to acknowledge, but that its culmination in their planned deaths and a gourmet meal is cynical and fascistic. Although the deaths would occur off site (away from the museum), I feel that the museum would be tainted, blood-splattered forever.
This project would be more aptly named, "The Story of Chickens: A Betrayal." The description of Hansen's proposed 'art installation' is a sanctimonious crock, exceeded only by her alarming lack of consciousness and clarity of intention within the project itself. If volunteers and community members became true guardians of these birds, and came to see and care for them as the sentient individuals they are, they would not in good faith then turn on their friends, watch their murder, and shamelessly eat them the next day. I would personally view that as a form of cannibalism. Children are naturally keyed in to the natural world, sensitive to their true connection with non-human animals; they haven't yet been desensitized by society to put on their blinders and to accept the false proposition that certain animals are our food and other animals, our companions. They also get the inherent betrayal of trust when animals they've cared for and raised are then slaughtered.


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Ledgestone to host PDGA Pro Worlds in 2024 in Lynchburg, VA
Ledgestone CEO Nate Heinold, in conjunction with the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA), is happy to announce that the 2024 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships have been awarded to the Ledgestone Group. The Tournament Director for the event will be Nate Heinold, who will TD the event for the 2nd time and will TD his 7th PDGA Major by hosting this event. The event will be hosted in and around Lynchburg, VA and Bedford County. This will be the first PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championship to be held in the Commonwealth of Virginia. "The Ledgestone team is thrilled to be hosting the 2024 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships. The team put in a lot of effort to make this bid happen and we couldn't be more excited to bring the grandest stage of our sport to Lynchburg," said Heinold. Hosting this event in 2024 will see a five year gap from the last time the Ledgestone team hosted Pro Worlds in Peoria, IL in 2019.
Former Lynchburg, VA resident Paul McBeth was the initial inspiration for the event. "One day I called up Heinold and told him that Lynchburg could host Pro Worlds. I told him that Lynchburg had a lot to offer for activities and courses, and he quickly flew out to Lynchburg. I told him that Bedford County and Lynchburg were ready to host this event," said McBeth. Heinold spent 3 days in Lynchburg visiting courses, inspecting hotels and venues and laying out a design for the showcase course, Ivy Hill Golf Club. Ivy Hill Golf Club will be a new course that is owned by the Runk & Pratt group, one of the event partners. "This bid would not have happened without the significant support of Chris Runk and the Runk & Pratt group. We are excited to be working closely with them to execute this event. In my opinion, the Ivy Hill Golf Club is the most beautiful golf club that's ever been used for a disc golf event," finished Heinold.
Photo credit: UDisc
In addition to Ivy Hill Golf Club, the event will also feature the New London Tech Disc Golf Course. The New London Tech Course is heavily wooded and has been featured at the Battle of Bedford B Tier the last few years. Similar to course schedules used at past Pro Worlds events in 2018, 2019 and 2021, this Pro Worlds will feature one wooded course (New London Tech) and one open course (Ivy Hill). Both courses will play to around 11,500' from the MPO tees, while the FPO tees will play to around 8,300' at New London and 9,500 at Ivy Hill. Ivy Hill will be the location for the finals for both the MPO and FPO divisions. Competitors will play three rounds at Ivy Hill and two rounds on the wooded track at New London. The Ivy Hill course will finish with a remarkable stretch of four holes, with three par 5's in the last four holes that offer plenty of scoring separation, including the 1200' par 5, uphill finishing hole. Hole 17 is an island green tucked in between two willow trees over a small pond, with OB long of the basket. This four hole stretch has a stadium like finish and will provide a memorable Championship moment and a wonderful spectator experience.
"The City of Lynchburg is thrilled to partner with the Professional Disc Golf Association and the Ledgestone Group to host the 2024 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships," said Marjette Upshur, Director of Economic Development & Tourism for the City of Lynchburg. "We are proud to work with the PDGA and Ledgestone on this multi-day sporting event and even more proud to be selected to host more than 300 athletes from 15 different countries. We expect that this event will attract nearly 20,000 spectators throughout the course of the competition, generating direct business spending of $6.4 million in the City of Lynchburg. Sports tourism is a critical economic driver and we are excited to be on the world stage to showcase the City of Lynchburg and drive spending in our hotels, attractions, restaurants and retailers," finished Upshur.
"Bedford County has rapidly emerged as one of the premier disc golf destinations on the East Coast due to the efforts of Bedford County Parks & Recreation. It's very exciting to know that one of our courses will be featured on the world stage. Less than a year ago, it was our hope that the PDGA would include us on the tour. Bedford County is happy to partner with Ledgestone, the PDGA and our neighboring city of Lynchburg, VA to bring this event to our area," said Nicole Johnson, Director of Tourism for Bedford County and Destination Bedford.
"The PDGA is thrilled to bring the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships to Lynchburg, Virginia and Bedford County in 2024. The local community has been building something very special and we are excited to partner with them to host the first-ever PDGA Pro Worlds in the Old Dominion State. We have no doubt that Nate Heinold and his team of disc golf event organizers will work tirelessly with the local organizing committee to produce a memorable experience for all involved," said Michael Downes, PDGA Director of Operations.
Stay tuned to the PDGA's website for more information about the event!