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Little White Lies by JC Piech.
June 12, 2011 Jason Michel Leave a comment
The small waiting room on platform 2 is full of a non-specific stink – kind of stale smelling, and a little bit toiletly. On an orange plastic chair that is screwed into the dirty, brown-tiled floor I wait for the 15:26 train to Liverpool Street, which is fifteen minutes away. The door opens and while a man with a walking stick hobbles in I try to fill my lungs with some fresh air before the door swings shut again, sealing me back in with the stench. The man with the stick sits down directly opposite me.
He's got a large head and a small skinny body, and he looks at me when I look up from the job page of today's Gazette and smiles – a friendly, child-like smile. He says hello and I say hi back.
Then he asks, "Are you an Essex girl?"
I smile and reply, "Yeah, I am." Yet quickly add, as I always feel the need to, "But not a typical Essex girl!"
He has an accent that I can't place. He assures me that there's nothing wrong with being an Essex girl. I ask him where he's from and he says he's from Jordan. Then he says, leaning in closer to me whispering, although we are alone in the waiting room, "Do you like ghost stories?"
I lean in to meet him and find myself whispering back, "Yes."
For a moment he looks very pleased with himself and then he sits back in his seat, placing his clasped hands in his lap.
"One evening," he begins in a clear voice, "a young man went for a walk." I close my paper. "It was the end of summer and the fields of corn had been harvested. The young man walked across the cut fields with a spring in his step, sometimes running, enjoying the freedom and speed his body was blessed with, and then he'd slow down again and take in the beauty of the rolling English fields stretching out before him in the low light of the evening. When he came to the edge of the field he was faced with a ditch and a large black dead field of some crop he didn't know of beyond that. He stopped to look at it, never seeing anything like it before. The crop must have been tall when it was alive, and he thought maybe it had been sweetcorn?" He looks at me for confirmation. I shrug and nod. "Anyway, it looked like it had been long dead, and in the dwindling light the black field sloped up into a small hill, creating a wide black shape against the sky. All of a sudden, he hears a sound. There is something in the dead crop, rustling, moving the blackened stalks of corn. The young man is startled by the sudden noise and then feels stupid, knowing that it must only be a bird or perhaps a fox – nothing dangerous! But if only he had known the true peril he was about to face!"
He stops and takes a pack of Marlboros from his jacket pocket. He offers me one and I lamely point at the no-smoking sign on the wall near his head. He turns to look at it then waves his hand dismissively, saying "Pah!" and holds out the open pack to me. I smile and take one and he hands me his lighter.
"So, he's staring into the dark field," he continues, a cigarette between his lips, taking back his lighter. "And a tall shape appears out of the crop… Now that's good," he says, after his first drag. "Lebanese. Uh… a tall shape appears and he stands back, astounded, as a horse leaps from the corn and over the ditch, coming to a halt right in front of him."
"Wow," I say, checking my watch and wondering when this is going to turn into a ghost story.
"The horse is beautiful," he says, "tall, and chestnut brown. Steam rises off of his muscular body. He makes that sound horses make, out of his nose, and stomps the ground a little with his front hoof. The young man stares at him, bewildered but enthralled. My English is very good, no?"
I choke slightly on my cigarette and nod in agreement. "It's very good!" I say.
"Hesitantly, the young man approaches the horse, holding his hand out to stroke its head. The horse is very friendly and soon the man is patting it and talking to it gently. It gets dark very quickly and the young man realises that he must make his way home. He bids farewell to the horse and starts to walk away, but the horse begins to follow. The young man tries to persuade the horse to stay; he doesn't know who owns it and he doesn't want to lead it away from its home. But the horse is insistent and so the young man walks across the field, heading home, with the horse trailing closely at his side. When is your train due?" he asks, lifting the cigarette up to his mouth.
"Oh, um…" I look at my watch. "Seven minutes."
He nods, takes a drag, then breathes the smoke out of his nose. "The young man reaches a country lane at the end of the field and stops. He looks at the horse and says, uselessly I suppose, "Stay!" But the horse is very cool; he knows he can't be bossed about by a scrawny little man, so when the man starts walking down the country lane, towards the main road, the horse of course follows. By the time they reach the main road the man is feeling very self-conscious. There is a huge horse following closely by his side! He walks down the street, the horses' hooves clip clip on the pavement and he's anxious about what people are going to say! He passes an Indian restaurant and sees a waiter standing outside, smoking. The waiter looks at the man, raises his hand and says, "Good evening!" The man nervously looks at the horse and then back at the waiter and then back at the horse. The waiter gives the man a funny look and says, "You okay, my friend?" The waiter isn't looking at the horse; he's just staring at the man, looking concerned.
"I'm fine," says the man, almost asking if it's true, still turning his gaze back and forth between the horse and the Indian waiter. He carries on down the street and passes a couple walking their dog. They look at him, but not at the horse and walk right on by."
He leans forward again and says in a hushed voice, "No one else can see the horse!" He chuckles. "It's a ghost horse. Have you ever heard of such a thing?"
"Never," I say, honestly.
"The horse follows the man home, squeezing itself through the door into the tiny flat. It stands there in the living room, its tail swings every now and then and it makes that horsey noise through its nose. When the man goes into the bathroom to splash some cold water on his face to wake himself up from this bizarre dream, the horse follows him in, cramming into the room behind him. He turns on the cold tap and lets it run until its icy cold, he bends down, his arse pressing against the horse's side, and splashes his face with the water. He hopes that when he looks up the horse will be gone, but he can still feel the horse behind him and when he stands up the horses face is reflected along with his own in the bathroom cabinet mirror. It is at this moment that the horse tells the man his name, "Little White Lies." He was a race horse," he adds. I nod.
"The next day Little White Lies tells the young man to bet £5 on 'A Token Gesture' who stands at 6-1 in the race at 2:30pm. The young man, who is at this point trying not to have a nervous breakdown because he thinks he is hallucinating a talking dead race horse, doesn't do any such thing. But he watches the race on TV and the winner is…"
"A Token Gesture?" I say, taking one last drag from my cigarette and stubbing it out on the dirty floor.
He nods, smiling. "So, when Little White Lies says bet £5 on a 12-1 called 'Dream Lover' at 3:30pm, the young man hops into his car, with the horse cramming into the back seat, his face squashed up against the window, and drives into Clacton to place his bet. He wins £60. He stays at the bookies for an hour and wins on two more races. The next day he spends all day betting. Little White Lies predicts right every single time. He says things like, "'A Fighting Chance', I know him, he's a good chap, but he won't win this one, it'll be 'Shelley's House'." It doesn't take long before the young man is winning a fortune. He bets more and more on each race and wins every time. After a week he leaves his job. He has to find new betting shops every day so no one gets too suspicious. The young man has never had so much money before in his life, he's going out on spending sprees, buying designer clothes, fancy shoes, he takes his friends out and buys all the rounds when once he was forced to be a scrounger and bought none! He's having the time of his life." His smile looks reminiscent as he takes a long pause.
I look at my watch. "My train is due any minute…" I fold my paper and stuff it into my handbag.
"Yes, yes. One day Little White Lies says to bet everything on 'Witchy Poo'. But 'Alfred's Gun' wins instead. The young man is left with nothing. Not a penny. The next day Little White Lies has vanished, and the man never sees him again. The young man can't pay that months rent because he doesn't have a job anymore, so he borrows some money from a shady Turkish guy who is a friend of a friend. Big mistake. So then he takes out a credit card. He gets into a lot of trouble. He can't pay back the Turkish guy… You don't have a credit card, do you?" He asks warningly.
"No," I shake my head.
My train pulls into the station and I sling my handbag over my shoulder. As I head for the door he's nodding gently as I'm saying, "I'm so sorry, I've got to run! Great story though!"
I open the door and notice the walking stick propped up against the seat next to him. I look back; I just have to ask him, "What did the Turkish man do when the man couldn't pay back the money?"
The man from Jordan smiles, raising his eyebrows high above his large child-like eyes, and gestures down at his lap.
"They broke his legs, of course!"
JC Piech lives in south-east England with her lovely and patient husband. There arent many things she prefers to do than staying in her pyjamas and writing all day. Her writing tends to fall into one of two categories – light and spiritual, or dark and strange. Perhaps its because she's a Gemini? Or maybe she's just a weirdo. You can follow her juxtaposed mind mumblings at http://jcpiech.tumblr.com
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The 1980–81 Midland Football League was the 81st in the history of the Midland Football League, a football competition in England.

Premier Division

The Premier Division featured 17 clubs which competed in the previous season, along with one new club:
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How can it be a bad thing that a child is reaching out for help? Great question.
Let me be clear. Partner work is crucial. I want kids to talk, to collaborate and to lean on each other for help. But if we are not careful, kids will ask others before they try something on their own.
Consider the following scenario. A third grade student is writing and does not feel confident about his ability to spell conventionally. He gets to a word and is unsure whether or not it is spelled correctly. He wants to ask the teacher but he remembers that he is supposed to ask three students before he approaches the teacher. He takes a moment and thinks about which kids in the class are the best spellers and he approaches one of them.
The student that is asked is interrupted from his writing. The child who asked for the help STILL doesn't feel confident about his ability to spell and has not taken any steps to change that.
What would I do instead? When kids run into trouble (and they will) I would encourage them to ask the question to themselves first before they ask others for help. What they will discover is when they try it themselves first they are often able to figure it out. Imagine what a confidence booster this is. It will also help students become more independent (and don't we all want that especially at the start of the year).
I would love to hear your experiences with this strategy in the comments below. If you have any questions or concerns, please write those as well and feel free to contact me for a free fifteen-minute consultation.
I have 4 children, 4K, 2nd, 4th, and 5th grades. My 2 oldest had a teacher uses the "3 before me" policy. It has had negative affects on both of my students. They would rather not ask anyone and guess, then ask 3 kids and "look stupid" or get the wrong answer. I have big concerns about this strategy. I understand the theory behind it, but comparing it to how adults ask co-workers before asking their boss is completely different – we are adults and get paid to get along with and help co-workers! Kids are not so nice – I think there is more harm than good using this strategy with school age children. It makes the kid 1) afraid to ask the teacher a question 2) afraid of the other students thinking they are stupid 3) high probability of getting the wrong answer. Also, in my opinion, this is a strategy to avoid teaching.
I would like to confront the teacher and principal about this strategy but would really appreciate some feedback before I do that. Am I way off base here? Has it been too long since I was in elementary school and not remember accurately how kids act?
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MANILA — Denzel Bowles rescued B-Meg as time stood still in the very last second and did the damage in overtime as the all-conquering Llamados sent the Talk N Text Tropang Texters to their knees in an amazing turnaround and sealed a 90-84 win and the PBA Commisioner's Cup crown at the full-packed Smart Araneta Coliseum on May 6.
Bowles buried two free throws with 1.2 ticks left to force the extra period and then carried the Llamados all the way in overtime to give them their first title in three years.
B-Meg soared back to the pinnacle of glory as it ended the reign of Talk n Text and gained a chance to be the first team in 12 years to win four crowns over five conferences.
Tearing apart the Texters following Donnell Harvey's exit on fouls with over three minutes left in regulation, Bowles finished with a PBA career high of 39 points that went with 21 rebounds, three blocks, two assists and one steal.
James Yap made some crucial plays, wound up with 12 points and eight rebounds, and was later named the Excelroof Finals MVP.
"It looked that we lost that game so many times. I had no idea what happened. We won the game and it was really amazing," said coach Tim Cone, notching a first championship outside of Alaska Milk that put him a win shy of the all-time best record of legendary coach Baby Dalupan (15 with Crispa, Presto and Purefoods).
"I don't feel deserving but I take it. We're very fortunate to be here so quickly," said Cone, emerging a champion coach in his second conference with B-Meg.
Cone heaped praises on Bowles for making it happen.
"We realized Harvey getting into foul trouble, and so we spread the floor and kept on dumping the ball on Denzel. He showed his ability to take punishment and have the legs to take jump shots and make them. He was phenomenal," said Cone.
The tournament Best Import saved his best for last, scoring all of his team's last 16 points, including the charities that sent the game into OT.
"The first one, I had a doubt. The second one, I could feel it going in," said the young but talented 6-foot-10 player.
"I didn't want to miss it. I didn't want to mess up the game. That's big and I overcame that," added Bowles of the free throws forcing OT at 76-all.
Talk n Text had appeared to have wrapped up the crown in getting up 74-68 with two minutes left to play.
The Llamados, however, refused to give up, and the Texters suffered in missing crucial charities of their own.
Ali Peek went 2-of-2 from the line in the last 39 seconds, with his second missed freebie giving the Llamados the chance to tie with 13.3 ticks left.
Yap took matters into his hands, attacking the paint for a looping layup off Peek and missed.
The Llamados, however, grabbed the loose ball, and then Yap found Bowles underneath for a shot where he drew a foul from Kelly Williams.
A 68-percent free throw shooter, Bowles obviously felt the pressure but survived, keeping the Llamados' hopes alive in the process.
And his heroics didn't end there.
He piled up nine points in overtime and found his teammates piling up on him on the floor as the buzzer sounded, signaling B-Meg's return to the top.
It was B-Meg's ninth championship in all, tying Toyota at fourth in the all-time ladder behind San Miguel/Petron (19) and Crispa and Alaska with 13 each.
Jimmy Alapag came out of his shell, sizzling with seven three-pointers and a total of 29 points, leading Talk n Text's effort that went in vain.
As expected, both teams came out strong and tried hard to impose one's will over the other as they fought through four deadlocks and nine lead changes before the Texters edged the Llamados, 35-34, at the half.
Alapag, the 2011 MVP who averaged only 7.5 points in the first six games of the series, hit his strides early in this contest, going 3-of-5 from beyond the arc and burying 2-of-2 free throws for 11 points in the opening half.
Alapag failed to finish the game, cramping out with in the dying seconds of regulation play.
Ryan Reyes also went out with over four minutes left in the fourth after a bad fall.
B-Meg also had a player checking out a personal slump in PJ Simon who also made 11 first-half points on 3-of-4 clips from the field and from the stripe.
The Llamados had a better start, enjoying an eight-point lead at 19-11, but Jarred Dillinger, Larry Fonacier and Ranidel de Ocampo came off the bench firing, enabling TnT to race ahead at 30-25.
Notes: Even with the official tally not yet done, PBA officials said it's safe to say they drew new all-time highs in both gate attendance and gate receipts for the finals in this Texters-Llamados playoff.
With a crowd of 21,046 watching Game 7, the series drew a remarkable average of 16,403.


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by Dan | Nov 6, 2009 | Uncategorized | 4 comments
Away from all the Roma controversy, here's a revealing interview with Chris Baird. We've talked before about the raw deal Baird's received from some quarters at Fulham and how he has become one of the most valuable members of the squad, but the Northern Ireland international is searingly honest about his two years at Craven Cottage. All the more endearing is the fact that Baird wants to commit to the club long-term.
For all his versatility, Baird says he knows he's not a right back or a central midfielder. That spell at full-back under Sanchez must have been soul destroying. Some of our 'fans' got on his back and he looked utterly spent as wingers roared past him. With Hughes and Hangeland forming such a steady partnership at the heart of the defence, Baird knew it would be difficult to get a go in his natural position. The tide began to turn when he stepped in for Hangeland at Tottenham last season and gave an assured performance. With injuries reducing Hodgson's options, Baird has been a revealation in central midfield this year.
It was good at the start. But I wasn't playing in the right position at right-back – and I had a tough time with the fans – everyone knows that.
It's been hard because Brede and Aaron have been solid. I've been patient I know I'm not a right-back or a centre mid – but at the moment I'm just enjoying getting in the team.
Before this, I'd not being playing much in the league – so the Europa Cup for me has been fantastic. If you train all week, but you're on the bench at the weekend, it's bound to be frustrating.
Never once did I think I'd made a big mistake. I know my best position is centre-back – and I've just had to be patient. In regards to a new contract, it's up to the club if they want to approach me – if they do, then we should sit down and talk about it.
Baird also reckons Wigan will be keen to make up for their hammering at Portsmouth last weekend.
Wigan lost heavily to Portsmouth last weekend – and that's always difficult for the next team to face them, because they'll want to bounce back.
Paul Warburton on November 6, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Acknowledging from where you lifted the quotes would be welcome…
Dan on November 6, 2009 at 3:36 pm
What form of attribution would work for you Paul? After all, I've already linked to the website where I found them and commended your 'revealing interview'. Yourself, the Gazette or the Chronicle have never had a problem before with me doing this.
Bad Andy on November 6, 2009 at 4:20 pm
In fairness, I looked at the link to find out where the interview was originally from. Not sure what the problem is.
Should it have said "..a revealing interview with Chris Baird in the Ealing Gazette?"
That's the thing though Andy. These stories don't just appear in the Ealing Gazette – they feature in all the titles that are owned by that newspaper group so if I was to list them all I'd end up with a very long sentence. I'm happy to put in whatever attribution would satisfy the author, but linking to the website is usual internet ettiquete unless you've been alerted to the story by another source.

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CIRI Elects Three New Directors
Adam Borgatti, CFA, CPIR, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations, Aecon Group Inc.; Mariem Elsayed, MBA, CFA, CAIA, Director, Investor Relations & Public Affairs, Fiera Capital Corporation; and Ryder McRitchie, Vice President, Capital Markets & Public Relations, Jupiter Resources Ltd. were elected to the CIRI Board of Directors.Business Wire
TORONTO — The Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI), Canada's national association representing investor relations professionals, announced the election of three new Directors: Adam Borgatti, CFA, CPIR, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Investor Relations, Aecon Group Inc.; Mariem Elsayed, MBA, CFA, CAIA, Director, Investor Relations & Public Affairs, Fiera Capital Corporation; and Ryder McRitchie, Vice President, Capital Markets & Public Relations, Jupiter Resources Ltd.
"It gives me great pleasure to announce that these accomplished individuals – Adam, Mariem and Ryder – will be joining the CIRI Board. They bring extensive investor relations and capital markets expertise that will be an asset to the organization as we work together to advance the investor relations profession," commented Denis Jasmin, Chair, CIRI Board.
Mr. Borgatti is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Aecon Group Inc. where he is responsible for leading the investor relations program and supporting the leadership team with developing long-term business plans, evaluating strategic initiatives and leading the assessment and execution of acquisition opportunities. He brings a depth of experience and knowledge of both capital markets and infrastructure development. Prior to joining Aecon in 2009, Mr. Borgatti held leadership roles in the financial services industry, including Vice President, RBC Capital Markets, and Vice President, National Bank Financial. From 2017-18, he served as Vice President of Investor Relations at Scotiabank. Mr. Borgatti holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from McGill University as well as the CFA and CPIR designations. Mr. Borgatti is joining the CIRI Board as Audit Committee Chair.
Ms. Elsayed is the Director of Investor Relations and Public Affairs at Fiera Capital. Previously, she was Senior Advisor of Investor Relations with Énergir. Ms. Elsayed has held various positions over the course of her career including roles in investment banking, treasury operations, project management and investor relations. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montréal, an MBA from McGill University and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder. She joined the Board of the CFA Montreal Society in 2015 and is joining the CIRI Board as CIRI Quebec Chapter Chair.
Mr. McRitchie is the Vice President of Capital Markets and Public Relations for Jupiter Resources, a privately held natural gas producer. He possesses over 25 years of experience in the energy industry. Before joining Jupiter, Mr. McRitchie was with Encana Corporation for 18 years where he was on the executive team providing strategic leadership of functions across investor relations, communications, government relations, community involvement and corporate social responsibility. Mr. McRitchie graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering. He also has an MBA from the Haskayne School of Business. Mr. McRitchie is joining the CIRI Board as CIRI Alberta Chapter Chair.
Greg Dilworth, Vice President, Investor Relations, Sun Life Financial Inc.; Brian Ector, Senior Vice President, Capital Markets & Public Affairs, Baytex Energy Corp.; Arne Gulstene, Regional Head, TMX Group Limited; Helen Kelly, Director, Investor Relations, MEG Energy Corp.; and Mathieu Richard, Director, Investor Relations, CGI Group Inc. are retiring from the Board. All of these individuals have dedicated their time volunteering for the organization and have made tremendous contributions.
"Greg, Brian, Arne, Helen and Mathieu have been actively engaged with CIRI's Board, making significant contributions to the organization and the investor relations community in general. We owe them a debt of gratitude for their dedication, commitment and efforts," said Denis Jasmin, Chair, CIRI Board.
About CIRICIRI is a professional, not-for-profit association of executives responsible for communication between public corporations, investors and the financial community. CIRI contributes to the transparency and integrity of the Canadian capital markets by advancing the practice of investor relations, the professional competency of its members and the stature of the profession. With close to 500 members and four Chapters across the country, CIRI is the voice of IR in Canada. For further information, please visit CIRI.org.
Yvette Lokker
Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI)
ylokker@ciri.org


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PHP 7.3.4 "is not supported"
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Q: read_pdf error from tabule for read the pdf files..? I use the tabula package for pdf reading ,but here i got these error
df = tabula.read_pdf("/tmp/university_exam_results.pdf", output_format="json", pages="all")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'read_pdf'

what can i do for this error .please fix my issue..

A: For Python2, I think you're searching for
pip2 install tabula-py

And as an example,
>>> import tabula
>>> df2 = tabula.read_pdf("https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java/raw/master/src/test/resources/technology/tabula/arabic.pdf")
>>> df2
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0  انا من ولاية كارولينا الشمال                من اين انت؟
1                          1234                عندي 47 قطط
2                  هل انت شباك؟  اسمي Jeremy في الانجليزية
3      Jeremy is جرمي in Arabic                        NaN

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Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
After years of travel for leisure and work, and sharing rooms with colleagues and friends, I have discovered that even preferences in beds come down to a matter of taste. In cases like this, taste relies hugely on quality of sleep. So in searching for the bed that's right for you, it can't be as simple as taking just anyone's word on which ones are good and which ones aren't. You'll have to think about your size, your weight, your build, what position you sleep in, and whether you share a bed with a partner, a child, a pet, or some laundry.
I've rounded up three of the cheaper but highly rated mattresses that are currently on the market. In my view, the DreamCloud defeats them in convenience, luxury, and relaxation; though I reiterate the value of personal taste.
I'll begin by describing the DreamCloud, then detail its similarities and differences with 3 other brands afterward.
DreamCloud Description Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
The DreamCloud is among the first beds-in-boxes, compressed and delivered to your doorstep. It's a 15-inch hybrid mattress, with 5 layers of mixed memory coils and materials. Its Euro Top cover is a blend of cashmere and polyester, quilted and reinforced at the edges, giving the bed a comfortable, seamless, and lavish quality. The gel swirl in its memory foam gives a cooling sensation, even as your body sinks into the surface. The memory technology provides pressure relief by contouring to the parts of the body that protrude into the mattress, especially the shoulders and hips. The poly foam beneath it acts as the supporting layer, allowing more stability and adequate spinal alignment. Its next layer is 8 inches of coils that give a bouncy response to touch, increasing mobility for repositioning the body on the surface. The coils are individually wrapped, allowing independent movement. This greatly reduces motion transfer, or the disruption of separate areas of the bed. At the very bottom is a firm foam that serves as a sturdy foundation for the entire mattress.
Both the DreamCloud and Saatva are hybrid mattresses that are extremely similar in characteristics, but differ in subtle ways. For starters, Saatva, though also available online, isn't a bed in a box, and isn't compressed when delivered. They've coils and memory substances in their composition, but their ratios and assembly produce some variance.
Composition Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
The Saatva is also a hybrid mattress, with a blend of foams and coils. They have 2 variants: an 11.5-inch and a 14.5-inch mattress; but for the purpose of making comparisons with the DreamCloud, I will explain the latter, which is a approximate.
Its anti-bacterial, cotton Euro Top covers a mix of memory materials and wires, to promote lumbar support and spinal alignment. The next 4 inches of the mattress is made from foam-wrapped coils, which compress or spring back based on the pressure exerted. An additional layer of steel coils make up another 7 inches, further stabilizing the upper layers and encouraging durability. All edges of the bed are reinforced by a foam, to enhance edge support throughout the sleep surface.
The biggest differences of this Saatva mattress are the overall height of its coils, and the foam perimeter. Their stability is similar, with DreamCloud allowing a bit more sinkage into its Euro Top and memory layers, and Saatva at a slightly firmer medium.
Both have responsive materials that provide good mobility to repositioning sleepers. But if we take note of the composition, bear in mind that Saatva has more coil and less foam. The DreamCloud's thicker foam layers can suck up more energy, and may therefore muffle individual movements better. This is an important consideration for light sleepers, and those that share beds. Saatva's advantage lies in its solid perimeter support, maximizing every bit of the bed, with no collapsing at the sides.
Saatva's prices are at least $100 cheaper, from their Twin to Queen dimensions; but even out with DreamCloud for its King and California Kings. They range between from $799-$1599, with DreamCloud offering discounts on their site more frequently.
Key Takeaways Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
The DreamCloud has a more luxurious feel, thanks to its plush, cashmere blend Euro Top, and upper memory layers. The gel-infused memory technology enables you to sleep cooler through the night. The combination of foam gives it more sinkage, which is ideal for back and side sleepers; the latter is granted excellent pressure relief for shoulders and hips. It has a perfect balance of comfort and support, and excellent reduction of motion for co-sleepers.
Saatva is a firmer medium mattress, and naturally boasts of greater lumbar alignment. Its firmness is also great for those who sleep on their stomachs, as the top keeps you on the mattress without stifling your face. Its edge support, thanks to its all-foam perimeter, has better stability. This is good for people who use their beds to double as sitting spaces, or often dangle over the sides when sleeping.
Contrary to DreamCloud, Nectar is a multi-layer, all-foam mattress. Its design includes several kinds of foam to serve an assortment of functions. At 11 inches tall, its foundation layer is its thickest element, made of 6 inches of firm but breathable foam. Above that is 3 inches of an adaptive memory foam, made for contouring to the sleeper's body and alleviating pressure from certain areas. An inch of what Nectar describes as "semi-open lush foam" is sandwiched between the latter and the upper layer, made of a quilted gel memory foam. The mattress is encased in long-staple cotton and Tencel fabric, which are light and airy materials.
Based on the disparity of the composition, you would expect very distinctive features from each mattress. However, that is not the case with these two. Both have been classified as medium firm, with Nectar being only a notch firmer; despite that, they both have a reasonable amount of sinkage and pressure relief.
The main difference is DreamCloud's amount of bounce, giving sleepers more mobility when repositioning. This is thanks to the existence of coils, which is absent from Nectar. That said, Nectar's product gives its sleepers a deeper hug as the assortment of foams shape to their bodies. This same quality translates to slightly superior motion isolation, attributable to the pure foam design.
Just about all of Nectar's prices are nearly half DreamCloud's, save for the King and California King, whose prices are still a good $500 cheaper. This may be due to the quantity and quality of materials used. Remember that the Nectar is just 11 inches tall, while the DreamCloud is a full 4 inches taller. What you don't pay for in Nectar's mattress is the feel of DreamCloud's plush cashmere blend, which sets it apart as a cheap luxury mattress.
Off the bat, you can make a choice based on whether you enjoy the feeling of being "in" the bed or "on" the mattress. Sleepers who like to sleep tight and cozy in their beds would love Nectar's foams, while those who want a milder cradle, whilst keeping to the surface should choose the DreamCloud. Those who sleep in a combination of positions during the night may also benefit more from DreamCloud's responsive materials. Both dissipate heat, thanks to their gel components, so hot sleepers will enjoy the breathability of both mattresses as well.
DreamCloud VS Casper Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
Much like the Nectar, Casper is an all-foam mattress. At just 10 inches, Casper is made of 4 inches of a mixed range of foams. The 1st 3 layers are equally 1.5 inches thick. Its top layer is a bouncy, perforated poly foam that they refer to as "open cell," which increases breathability. The next layer has the memory material that provides compression and pressure relief. The last 2 layers are poly foams of increasing density toward the bottom, giving the mattress a foundation and stability.
Though made of different materials and constructed quite differently, both have a medium firm feel, with Casper on the firmer end of this scale. It follows that Casper gives a feels more supportive when lying on the back, but the DreamCloud gives better pressure relief for both back and side sleepers.
Though both mattresses are elastic, the DreamCloud notably returns to its shape quicker than Casper. This same characteristic, with the addition of DreamCloud's coils, make it easier for combination sleepers to move about at night. Despite Casper's layout for a breathable top foam, DreamCloud wicks the heat better, which may be attributed to its gel cooling technology.
Casper's prices range from $595-$1295, while DreamCloud begins at $899 for the Twin and up to $1599 for the California King. Casper has a free trial of 100 days, while DreamCloud grants a full 365 days. Respectively, the former offers a 10-year warranty, while the latter promises a lifetime.
DreamCloud is the clear winner between these two, in terms of comfort and luxury. However, their price gap is also notable, so based upon your budget, Casper's not a bad option.
Recommendations Dreamcloud Vs Serta Hybrid Mattress
Buying a mattress isn't something that can be done on a whim; it's a very important decision. There are plenty of things to consider, and most important are your personal preferences and requirements. In fact, a long and healthy life depends on it. The amount of money that goes into these is not any small object either, so review and identify prior to making a decision. You'll sleep better at night.


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Civil Society and Global Poverty: Hegemony, Inclusivity, Legitimacy
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Summary: The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world. This book seeks to explore GCAP's power and its embodiment of emancipatory change. It develops a framework that assesses its external power as an actor by exploring how power works in it, and the relationship between the two. Gabay demonstrates that GCAP, and actors like it, may transcend some of the obstructions they face in navigating and proposing alternatives to dominant codes and practices of neo-liberal globalisation. Thematically, the book explores GCAP's constitutive powers along three axes: hegemony, inclusion and legitimacy. It draws on a wide range of social and political theory, including Liberalism, Anarchism and postcolonial theory and featuring case studies on Malawi and India. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, international development, global governance, social movements and civil society.
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The Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) is world's largest civil society movement fighting against poverty and inequality, incorporating over 100 affiliated country-level coalitions. It has become a significant global actor and its annual days of mobilisation now attract over 175 million people around the world. This book seeks to explore GCAP's power and its embodiment of emancipatory change. It develops a framework that assesses its external power as an actor by exploring how power works in it, and the relationship between the two. Gabay demonstrates that GCAP, and actors like it, may transcend some of the obstructions they face in navigating and proposing alternatives to dominant codes and practices of neo-liberal globalisation. Thematically, the book explores GCAP's constitutive powers along three axes: hegemony, inclusion and legitimacy. It draws on a wide range of social and political theory, including Liberalism, Anarchism and postcolonial theory and featuring case studies on Malawi and India. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, international development, global governance, social movements and civil society.


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Identity politics undermines Western civilization – part 5
When feminists say: "Science must fall"
In public discussions, I sometimes posit that there are considerable groups of people who aim at destroying Western civilization as such. It gives me problems to say so, because ordinary people do not believe it. Most people believe that student protesters, radical feminists etc. enjoy all the benefits of living in a prosperous, Western society, and all they want is to correct certain injustices and cases of discrimination. But one should take statements by radical feminists seriously, statements about what they want to destroy.
In 1980, an academic feminist, Adrienne Rich, wrote an influential and widely cited paper about compulsory heterosexuality and concluded her paper by stating that feminists need "to undo the power men everywhere wield over women, power which has become a model for every other form of exploitation and illegitimate control". This shows that once feminists come into opposition to the sexual moral of the establishment, they may get motivated to see all cases of unequal status everywhere in society as something to revolt against. As the feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote in 1974: "We want to destroy patriarchal power at its source, the family, in its most hideous form, the nation-state. We want to destroy the structure of culture as we know it, its art, its churches, its laws . . . " (cited from here).
Although such opinions at that time were expressed by radical extremists, they have since then gradually slipped into mainstream thinking of the politically correct left. For instance, the paper by Adrienne Rich referred to above is endorsed by professor Sylvia Walby, who is coordinator of the Gender Equality Research Network International and the UNESCO Chair in Gender Research.
A recent academic paper from 2016 said: "Given the tremendous potential to produce emotional responses in others, to directly impact student lives, and to elicit emotion in the course content, what, then, are the pedagogical priorities of women´s studies? We posit that one future pedagogical goal of women´s studies is the creation of students as symbolic "viruses", capable of infecting and unsettling the academic spaces around them."
We can see that such counter-movements from the radical left have indeed grown so much in strength recently that some of society´s core values are being eroded. Especially the integrity of science is being eroded.
Student organizations everywhere on Western university campuses protest against the dominance of white men. A girl may for instance protest that her curriculum in philosophy is full of "dead white men" with whom she cannot identify. She wants to study female philosophers (although this would not remedy her situation). The problem is that all, or almost all, of the most important philosophers have been men; if the male philosophers are excluded from the curriculum, very few important philosophers are left. If such a girl should have her demands met, it would mean that what is important is not what philosophers say, but who they are. The person becomes everything, the academic content nothing. To subscribe to that idea is to discard the whole purpose of science and universities.
A protest against too many "dead white men" in university curricula started in California a few years ago and has created a wave of uprising against the "whiteness", Eurocentric domination and lack of diversity, for instance at the British universities in Bristol, Birmingham, and Manchester.
In the US, students at Yale University have been calling for the English department to abandon a course requirement to study authors such as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton. They argue: "It is unacceptable that a Yale student considering studying English literature might read only white male authors." So they want to be educated in English literature without knowing some of the most famous English authors. As for the natural sciences, nearly all contributors to the major knowledge of modern science were middle-class men of European descent – for reasons explained in part 2; the protesting students fail to recognize that the knowledge that these men uncovered transcends their identity group. That the advances made by the likes of Newton, Einstein, Darwin and Faraday are not culturally specific is evidenced by the number of people around the world who daily board airplanes, drive cars, undergo surgery and use computers.
When universities cave to demands for greater diversity, this may damage science. At Swedish universities, it is now mandatory to include at least 40 % female authors. This has caused absurd problems. The Swedish term for the new policy means "equality integration" – that is, gender equality must be integrated into all activities. This includes also university courses and research projects. To ensure "equality integration", scientific projects have to document that they include the gender perspective. For instance, a biologist wanted financing of a project comparing wild and captive trout. He was not given any grants before he had explained how he would put a gender perspective into this study.
Equality integration covers not only student courses and scientific studies, but also management, budgets and recruitment. Recruitment on the basis of merit has been overruled by recruitment on the basis of gender. So science in Sweden is no longer free, but governed by a small, but strong group of feminist bureaucrats. The same interference hits the government, the military defense, and other institutions.
A new worldwide trend for university courses is decolonization. The motivation is the shared experiences of colonialism across the globe. Decolonizing education addresses "in particular the colonization of the mind, of knowledge, language, and culture, and the impacts of colonization at personal and collective levels of physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological, and intellectual experience". Student activists are raising these questions at many universities, e.g. in Scandinavia. What decolonization may mean in practice is evident from a video of a student gathering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. A black woman lectures the audience that Western knowledge is totalizing – for instance, the only way to explain gravity is through Newton – you cannot avoid him. So science must fall. As an alternative, she says, "we are going to decolonize by having knowledge that is produced by us . . . so decolonizing the science will mean to do away with it entirely and start all over again" (e.g. by including African knowledge on voodoo).
These examples must suffice to illustrate that the increasing animosity or hatred against men, especially "dead white men", is a threat to science as such. If you disregard all science produced by men of European descent, you disregard practically all science. As the black female student activist says: "The only way to explain gravity is through Newton." So what is underway is more or less discarding all scientific progress made during the last centuries. And some influential feminists, like Sandra Harding, the "grand lady" of the field (mentioned in part 4), do indeed want to do away with Newton and with the entire Enlightenment and with all science made during the last 350 years. Harding has written this explicitly. She has even written that Newton´s laws might better be renamed "Newton´s rape manual." And what is the reaction to this from the university system? To promote her to professor. It is as if though Western men have lost all their backbone and are just letting the ongoing corruption of science happen.
Another prerequisite for science is to have free exchange of ideas – an exchange that may stimulate people to think in new ways. This prerequisite is also under stress.
The freedom of speech is currently being severely curtailed by feminists and social justice activists. They act along the line laid down by Herbert Marcuse. In their own opinion, these groups know for certain what is right and good. Therefore any opponent must necessarily be a bad person, and it is OK to prevent bad persons from having any influence. This way of thinking typically leads to a totalitarian, oppressive system, and indeed what is gaining ground is what has been called "velvet totalitarianism", a mild form of totalitarianism – people are not killed, they only lose their job, their income, or their possibility to speak.
This is, of course, fundamentally at variance with the principle behind much of the political and scientific progress in the West – the principle that you admit the possibility that your opponent may know better or has an important objection.
Assaults on free speech are seen in the many cases when invited speakers, e.g. at universities, have been shouted down by activists, or even been stopped by the instigation of violent riots. Such cases are known especially from North America, but also from Europe, for instance Germany.
After their final exam, the cohorts of young people that have followed women´s courses at the universities can be found in all kinds of jobs in society at large. They are the product of "the long march through the institutions" – for each new generation, universities become more and more taken over by feminists and social justice activists, who then are able to indoctrinate ever larger cohorts of young people to fight men´s influence. Some of them then get jobs in the media – electronic media, newspapers, and publishing companies. Here they are able to prevent men from expressing their opinions on feminism. There is a widespread feminist censorship throughout the Western world so that it is very difficult, bordering on impossible, for men to publish books that oppose feminism.
Other contingents of people educated at women´s studies departments have entered the Silicon Valley tech industries. Companies like Google, Mozilla, YouTube and PayPal have established "diversity policies" or "diversity programs" that aim at increasing the proportion of underrepresented groups of people, such as women and people of color. Thereby these companies have become permeated by the way of thinking that is taught by "politically correct" teachers at the universities. A politically correct monoculture has arisen. Not only has this led to intolerance of non-politically correct persons such as James Damore at Google. The politically correct environment may also have led Google to manipulate search results. A former Google engineer says he personally witnessed efforts from leftists within Google to bias YouTube's algorithms to push anti-PC content off the platform's "related videos" recommendations. He also says: "I know there are efforts to demote anything non-PC, anti-communist and anti-Islamic terror from search results. To what extent that has been successful, I don't know." We don´t know to what extent this former employee speaks the truth, but in the light of recent events, it has become more likely.
The recent events are that more and more politically incorrect persons are becoming de-platformed. Companies that channel crowdfunding money to internet personalities have removed the accounts of people that they don´t like, and a dominant company in this field has declared that it doesn´t ascribe to the ideal of free speech. It also seems that the major credit card companies are now exerting pressure to have censorship of what videos can be paid for, with the intent to ban politically incorrect videos.
I think that such intolerance and censorship is a direct consequence of what is taught at women´s studies in universities. My reason for believing this is that women´s studies have been organized in different ways in different places. Back in the 1970s in the USA, there were heavy debates in the National Organization of Women about how to organize women´s studies. One point of view was that women´s studies should be a mainstream strategy and should be integrated into the general curriculum; another point of view was that women´s studies should be an autonomous subject, separate from the mainstream. The latter point of view won, and separate women´s studies departments were established at the universities. This has led to many such departments becoming breeding grounds for radical feminism or echo chambers where women rile each other up and develop an ever-increasing hatred towards men. In such an echo chamber they become convinced that their own ideas are unequivocally right, and anybody out there in society with widely diverging ideas is considered a bad person.
The same formation of autonomous women´s studies departments was made in Sweden and in many British universities, with the same effect. Today, precisely these countries see a widespread dissemination into the greater society of quite radical feminist and social constructionist attitudes, and it is just in these countries that we see a large impact of these attitudes in many sectors of society. In my own country, Denmark, and some other countries, women´s studies have generally been integrated into larger departments and in the general education. And here we have much less of a trend for cadres of radical feminists invading all sectors of society. This implies to me that radicalized spaces of women´s studies do produce cadres of brainwashed students that are unable to cope with other people having differing opinions.
Summing up, I find evidence that there are indeed groups of people in Western societies who want to undermine and destroy these same societies. Unlike the revolutionary Marxists a hundred years ago, they do not try to do this by violent revolt. Instead they are cultural Marxists who aim at changing people´s minds in order to make a gradual and nearly imperceptible cultural revolution. These radical cultural Marxists have many followers that do not at all subscribe to such revolutionary thinking, but who nevertheless have been persuaded to support the radicals.
Up to now, science is one of those elements of modern Western culture that is most threatened by such radicals. They encroach on one chunk after another of scientific integrity. This is most severe in the humanities and social science departments that have been taken over to a large extent by left-leaning academics that subscribe to the ideas of postmodernism and social constructionism. As mentioned in part 3, these ideas have no solid evidence to support them and much evidence to contradict them. But that does not bother postmodernist "scientists". They just ignore such evidence that speaks against their tenets, and by the way, they think that there is no objective truth, so it does not matter if they do not contribute to discovering any truths. They accept or even welcome that science is becoming gradually more strictly controlled by ideologically flawed censorship. They accept or even welcome that free speech becomes more and more restricted to such an extent that free exchange of ideas in scientific debates is no longer possible.
One of the reasons that this erosion and undermining of science is possible is that women constitute a larger share of academics than ever before. Although many women are clever scientists and understand fundamental principles of how science should be carried out, more women than men do not have such understanding, which means that the undermining and decline of science is facilitated the most in those areas where the proportion of women is the highest. It is more common for women than for men to focus on persons rather than abstract principles, that is, they tend to abandon focus on merit and on rational reasoning; instead, they tend to focus more on who says something than on what they say. This opens up for identity politics and it violates the basic principle that scientific results should not depend on who produces the results. When scientific results depend on who advances them, then we, as a society, can no longer have trust in these results, and science has ceased to be science.
The way I see it, you can only make objective science if you are able to look at yourself from the outside. You must have the capacity for self-deprecation and for laughing at yourself. And you must also be able to stand firmly on what you believe to be the truth. Giordano Bruno did that, and we know today that his claims were indeed the truth – the Earth does indeed circle around the Sun. On the other hand, his opponents – the inquisition – acted like a mob, like people who are more focused on moralizing and on having the same correct opinion as all others that are in power. That conflict is popping up again today. We have on one side persons with a strong self who rely on their own investigation of what is the truth, and on the other side a moralizing mob that acts as a great impediment to scientific progress.
When science ceases to be science and turns into moralizing and mobbing, the motor that has brought our civilization to such impressive progress stops working. When science becomes subjective and depends on the involved persons, then it is transformed into identity politics. This will in many ways bring a halt to our advanced civilization – precisely that which certain groups hope for.
Part 1: When gary tones disappear
Part 2: Science in different cultures
Part 3: When science is hampered by more feminine ways of thinking
Part 4: Origins of the movements that want to undermine Western culture
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