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Melancholy is a temperament synonymous to desolation, sadness and sorrow. It can easily be said to be a pensive sadness with no obvious reason, therefore differentiating melancholy from depression, which is a mental response to external stress inducing factors. Melancholy comes from inside and the causes are inherent. The causes are most biological, ranging from chemical imbalances in the brain, to genetics. It has also been associated with bipolar disorder 1 & 2.
A melancholic person is most likely to find difficulties reacting to pleasant events. He/She may also experience unusually obvious peak in depression, with no logical reason. You should also look out for occasional thoughts of suicide as it's also a symptom of melancholy.
Although, as mentioned earlier melancholy is mostly caused by biological factors, the social treatment is quite effective at containing it. Having an active social life gives a reasonable head-start for the containment and can help combat the adverse effects of melancholy. For the records, when I say "active social life", I don't me having an active presence on social media, as improper use of social media can induce/heighten depression, contrary to its purpose.
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Pursuing your interests and learning new things for the sole purpose of self-development can also combat melancholy by instilling a mindset of positivity, and optimism. Learn to ride a bike, read a book you've always wanted to read. Set short-term goal and meet them. As your achievements pile up, you'll have no option but to love yourself seeing all you've been able to do all by yourself. Increasing your drive level.
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As you begin conversation with a woman you start out at a short distance from one another. As you continue your conversation, you want to move closer to her. But it's important she initiates the closeness. Because coming aggressive will only make her put up her defenses. And trust me, there's 0% chance you'll like it.
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The Disappearance of Brenda Byman
By Stories of the Unsolved	in Missing Persons, Unsolved	on May 29, 2021 July 1, 2021
Brenda Byman was born on March 10, 1949 to parents Hilda and Ingvar Byman. A shy and sweet girl, she and her family lived in the Invermere area of British Columbia, new Dry Gulch Provincial Park.
Those who knew Brenda describe her as being incredibly close with her family, especially her siblings: Albert, Audrey, Verna and Doreen. She was especially dotting of Albert, always volunteering to look after him when he was an infant and washing his diapers with a scrub board in her own small washbasin.
Brenda was last seen by her family on May 6, 1961. She was spending the weekend at her grandmother's house in Wilmer, located in the southeastern portion of British Columbia. While there, she'd received a call from a neighbour named Vivian Barett, who asked if she could come over and play a game with her and her friends. Brenda's grandmother allowed her to go over, thinking it would be nice for the 12-year-old to spend some time with children her own age.
Vivian called again later that night to ask if Brenda could sleep over – her first time ever. Brenda's grandmother agreed to the arrangement.
The details surrounding the day of Brenda's disappearance are largely uncertain, given the amount of stories told by those who were with her. The following is what investigators are able to confirm.
On the morning of May 7, 1961, Brenda and Vivian walked toward Lake Enid, approximately 5km from Wilmer, with three other youths named Edward Carson, John Carson and Eldwood Godlien. The group went hiking and had a picnic, and there are reports they even swam in the lake, despite it's likely cold temperature. At around 2:30pm, Vivian and Edward split from the group, leaving Brenda alone with John and Elwood.
Brenda was expected back at her grandmother's house by 3:00pm that afternoon. When she didn't return, her uncle went out to search for her. During his search, he ran into a group of local boys – many suspect them to have been Elwood, Edward and John – who said she'd left the area.
Hundreds of searchers searched the area surrounding Lake Enid for two weeks, the largest search in the valley's history, but Brenda's body was never located. Farmers, labourers, businessmen and workers from a local saw mill were involved in the approximately 500-large group. They searched the woods, the dredging of Lake Enid and Moon Lake, and the nearby Columbia River with the aid of search helicopters, 70 riders on horses and rescue dogs.
The wetlands and their tributaries were searched monthly well into 1962, along with Horsethief Canyon and Toby Creek Canyon. While the remains of a man missing since the 1930s were located, nothing related to Brenda's case was uncovered.
The group with Brenda on the day she disappeared gave conflicting accounts about what happened. According to Hilda, one of them admitted to her that he'd seduced Brenda, but no one believed her when she recounted this to the authorities, and he declined to admit to it in later interrogations.
According to John and Elwood, Brenda had decided to walk up the hill toward home at around 4:30pm that afternoon. Despite them telling her she was going in the wrong direction, she allegedly yelled at them to "shut up" and continued hiking up the hill. Her sister, Audrey, has difficulty believing this story. Given Brenda's shyness, she finds it unlikely she would have felt confident telling anyone to "shut up", let alone a group of older boys.
Vivian was the only one in the group not interviewed. When approached by investigators, she produced a doctor's note declaring she could not be questioned regarding the case.
Years later, John admitted to having sex with Brenda twice on the day she went missing, and he claimed to have asked if Elwood could have sex with her too. Brenda refused and ran away, while the two boys chased her. She went into the wooded area up Strawberry Draw, just east of Lake Enid, where the pair lost sight of her. John claimed they heard a car engine in the distance.
According to John, the intercourse between them had been consensual, despite there being a 5-year age gap between them. Investigators share they have difficulty believing this.
John, Edward and Elwood were administered polygraph tests 30 years later. All three passed, but police say it's hard to determine the accuracy of the results, given the amount of time that's passed since Brenda's disappearance. It was noted Elwood was the only one to show any remorse over the case. According to Elwood's brother, Vivian was also given a polygraph test and passed.
Investigators have dealt with numerous sightings in the years since Brenda's disappearance from across Canada.
In the 1970s, three 10-year-old boys came across a set of bones in a wooded area, which resembled the shape of a small and intact human skeleton. The location was approximately 5km from where Brenda disappeared, and the grave appeared to have been disturbed. At the time, they didn't reveal their discovery out of fear they'd get in trouble for disobeying orders not to leave their grandmother's property that day.
It would be decades later, in 2001, that the story would come to the attention of the authorities, after rumours of the discovery spread through Invermere and the surrounding area. Given the amount of time that had passed, one of the boys, now a grown man, was only able to provide the general area of the discovery. Police wish to speak with the other two in order to help pinpoint the exact location of the remains, and they hope to eventually compare them to Brenda's dental records, which are on file.
On the 40th anniversary of her disappearance, a local man who'd been involved in the initial search contacted the family to say he believed they'd been looking in the wrong area. He believed Brenda had never been in the Strawberry Draw. This was corroborated by one of the original trackers, who was in contact with investigators and said there'd been no tracks on the Draw.
This tracker recounted a story from 1961. He'd seen one of the Carson boys with their mother at the staging area at Munn Lake. By 8:00am, the shake and sawdust pile in Barbour's Farm was alight with flames. The tracker and his partner went to the pile and noted several shoe and bootprints around the 16′ circumference pile, while also spotting another area burning on the hillside, about halfway up. Two hours later, he'd returned to the pile, but found it too hot to approach.
This had never sat well with him, especially given it was located approximately 250m from the shack Carson admitted to having had sex with Brenda in. Investigators were intrigued by this new information, finding the tracker to be credible. They hope to one day do an archaeological dig at the site.
On June 15, 2006, a resident found a human skull in the water near the shoreline just north of the Bayshore Condominiums in Invermere. No other remains were found when the area was searched by the Columbia Valley Search and Rescue team. The skull was sent to a forensic anthropologist in Cranbrook, British Columbia for analysis, so that its age, race, sex and date of death could be determined. It's currently unknown if the skull washed ashore or was buried and later uncovered when the lake bank eroded, but it's noted the only open missing person's case at the time was Brenda's.
Two areas of interest have been identified as potentially being the resting place of Brenda's remains – the field near Barbour's farm and unnamed area that is currently being evaluated.
In a letter posted to the Columbia Valley Pioneer on May 6, 2011, a woman named Margaret Porcina claimed Brenda's relatives had contacted her to say Brenda had actually gone hiking at Munn Lake, not Lake Enid, and she was meant to be home by 4:00pm, not 3:00pm like originally stated. She also referenced an article from the The Valley Echo, which stated Vivian had actually been questioned by investigators and had said that Brenda had run off around the time a hailstorm began, around 2:00pm on the day she went missing.
It should be said these are claims that have not been confirmed by investigators.
Police believe Brenda met with foul play and is deceased. Her familial DNA and dental records have been added to a national database, should her body be found.
In 2012, Corporal Brent Ayers took over the investigation. He revealed that most of the statements currently in the case file are from decades after Brenda's disappearance, around the time a renewed focus was placed on the investigation. He's interested in having a university research team utilize modern technology, such as ground-penetrating radar, to review the area near Barbour's Farm. He's also wishes to look at an old well site that was filled in after Brenda's disappearance. His aim is to obtain an aerial map of Lake Enid from around the 1950s/1960s and compare it to more recent ones to see how the area has changed over the years.
1) Some suspect John Carson and Elwood Godlien are responsible for Brenda's disappearance, given they were likely the last ones to see her alive on the day she went missing. Many are suspicious of their changing stories and John's claims about the consensual intercourse. They feel their version of events, wherein Brenda ran away, was created to hide their own involvement.
It should be reminded that both Elwood and John passed polygraph tests that were administered to them later in the investigation. However, investigators themselves question the authenticity of the results, given 30 years had passed since Brenda's disappearance.
2) The theory brought up by those with Brenda on the day she went missing was that she was abducted by a passerby in a vehicle. According to John, Brenda had run into the woods, after which the two youths heard the sound of a vehicle in the distance.
There is not much information available regarding the possibility of a stranger abduction in the case.
3) Some simply believe Brenda got lost in the woods. However, many don't give this much credence, given the extensive search that was conducted in the immediate aftermath of her disappearance. It's believed Brenda would have been found – either alive or deceased – if she had simply gotten lost in the bush.
As aforementioned, nothing related to the case was found during the initial two-week search. The remains later found by the three boys, if Brenda's, were found buried in an unmarked grave, meaning if they were hers then she likely met with foul play and was buried by her killer.
4) One theory that was quickly discounted states Brenda was sent to Ontario and returned to the area years later under a new name. There is no evidence to support she left the area, nor that she was in Ontario or other areas of British Columbia, aside from a few unsubstantiated sightings.
Brenda's father passed away in 1981 at the age of 59, after suffering four heart attacks and undergoing a battle with lung cancer. According to the family, he never got over his daughter's disappearance and often spent his free time searching for her.
Hilda passed away in 2016.
Albert suffers from anxiety as a result of his sister's disappearance. While he was unsure of what he was dealing with initially, therapy has helped him to understand his feelings and better work through them.
Elwood has since passed away. His brother, Russell Godlien, has criticized the scrutiny he was placed under, writing in a letter to The Invermere Valley Echo that Elwood, who was just 13 years old at the time, had been treated unfairly by investigators. He says the RCMP and Game Wardens had interrogated him without an adult present and that he was, at times, denied water and food and threatened with physical violence.
Russell has also claimed that a tracking canine lost Brenda's scent near the location where Elwood and John said they lost sight of her, and that Elwood was only left alone after passing a polygraph test.
Brenda Byman went missing from Wilmer, British Columbia, Canada on May 7, 1961. She was 12 years old, and was last seen wearing a white blouse; a dark blue sweater; a pair of grey and faded blue checkered slacks; a faded royal blue parka with a fur-lined pink hood; a yellow scarf with a flowered 4″ border; and size 6 blue and white saddle-type shoes. At the time of her disappearance, she stood at 4'8″ and weighed approximately 90 pounds. She had strawberry blonde hair and brown eyes.
Currently, the case is classified as a missing persons investigation, with foul play suspected. If alive, she would be 72 years old.
Those with information are asked to contact the Columbia Valley detachment of the RCMP at 250-342-9292. Those wishing to remain anonymous can submit tips via Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Tags: Brenda Byman, Canada, Disappearance, Missing Person, True Crime, Unsolved
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Mage Company published a new edition of Reiner Knizia's trading game; Res Publica: 2230AD. It has been re-themed and the rules are revised.
Res Publica is a trading game from Dr. Reiner Knizia and it was first published in 1991 by Hexagames and later, in 1998, by Queen Games, who also published a second edition in 2000 and a revised third edition in 2011.
This means that the game is basically twenty-five years old. That's boardgaming centuries ago!
So what did Mage Company change to make it appeal to today's gamers? Well, slow down, let's begin with explaining how basic Res Publica works.
Res Publica has two basic elements: trading and set collection. There are two types of cards that you can collect, namely People cards (5 different 'races') and Civilizations cards (5 different 'technologies)' . Every players starts with four random People cards and in your turn you can do two things. Firstly, you can offer or ask for up to two types of cards. 'I want a Hun or a Viking' or 'I want one Goth and two Shipbuilding'. Then in clockwise order player, depending on if you offered or asked for something, tell you what they want from you in return or what they have to offer in return. So maybe someone has one Goth card and two Shipbuilding card, then he can say: 'I want three Vikings in return'. Then the active player whose decides if he or she wants to accept that offer. You can't negotiate. It's one offer and one offer only.
The second thing you can do is display a group of five identical cards, five Huns for instance. When you display five People cards, you can buy a Settlement. This gives you three points. When you display five Civilization cards, you can buy a city. Cities have a descending point value, which means the player who builds the first city gets more points than the last city builder.
At the end of your turn you draw one People card from the draw deck and, for every settlement you have built, you draw one Civilization card. You can never draw more than three cards.
The last round is initiated when the Civilization card deck is empty. Players get points for their settlements and cities and for every pair of identical cards they have in their hand. The player with the most points is the winner.
There, I gave you a quick overview of the first edition rules. However, it does not end there. Queen, when they published the later editions, have added some cards and rules to the game. First, they added a new type of People card; the Monks. There are five of them and they can only be used to build one of the two available Churches, which gives you seven points. Secondly, they have added a set of five new Civilization card, Books, and they can only be used to build one of the two available Libraries. They allow the placement of only four instead of five civilisation cards when you build a city.
Now there's another version.
You probably have already guessed it, looking at the box cover, but the early European civilizations theme is gone. We're in space now with six different alien races and six different technologies.
There are no Huns or Vikings to be seen. We have to deal with the Galeash, Terrans or Ornopeans now. And Trade and Metalworking are changed in Bionic Implants or Warp Speed for instance. A City is still a City, but the Settlements or converted into Space Stations to fit the theme.
The five Books from the third edition became six Cloning Facilities and Library turned into a University, costing three Cloning Facilities instead of two. Similarly, the five Monks became the Aturian race and the Church card is converted to a Resort card, costing three Aturians. These card kept the same function as they had in the third edition.
So, you can still play the game with the earlier rules if you want to, the cards just have other names and another appearance.
Whether you like the new space theme or not is a matter of taste. I'm not opposed to it, but you can't deny that Huns or Goths are easier to pronounce and remember than Damarkos or Skythris. However, maybe you just need to get used them. The artwork looks good. That's a plus.
OK, what did they add to the game then?
Well, to begin with, they have added a new race and a new technology. The six new Pilot 'race' can be used as a wild card for the five basic races, so it can't be used as an Aturian. The six new Trooper cards are added to the Technology deck and they can be used to block the ability of an opponent's building for a turn. So you can, for instance, block an opponent's Space Station, so she can draw fewer Technology cards next turn.
There one new building, a New Colony, that you can build for three identical Race and three identical Technology cards. From now on, once during every turn, this card gives you the option to give one card from your hand to another player and discard another card to your own discard pile (In this edition, every player discards their cards when they display them to their own Technology and Race discard pile) and then look through and pick one card from a discard pile from another player.
The biggest change from the earlier editions is the addition of the Planets. The planets, one for every player, are separated into four districts and every district has its own mission. If you complete a mission, you get bonus points. The missions are: build two Space Station and get seven points, display five different Technologies and get five points, make three trades during the game in your own turn and get three points, build two cities and get five extra points.
That's it. The new edition is a reality.
What do I think of this new edition? Let me first say that if you didn't like the old editions, you are not going to be convinced by this one. They've added a couple of features, but the basic game is exactly the same.
I don't think the game becomes more difficult with the new Planets and the new Races and Technologies. The enjoyability of the game totally depend on the ability and willingness of your group to trade. Otherwise it's just a game of drawing cards and hoping you draw the right ones. That results in a luck-fest and that's not desirable. The Planet mission that gives you an extra three points if you trade successfully helps to guide the game in the right direction.
This and the other Planet missions are a good thing to focus on and they are more difficult to complete than you might think, even the 'trade three times' one isn't that easy. So, yes, I do think the Narkh-Aduul Planets are nice addition to the game.
The Pilot is just OK, a bit redundant maybe, because you mostly acquire them only by drawing them and not by trading. So, it doesn't add a lot to the game. The Troopers make the game even more interactive and add a 'take that!' element to the game. So it depends on whether you are a fan of direct confrontation whether you like them or not.
The New Colony card wasn't very popular in the games I've played, because it seems only worthwhile when you get it very early and you also want to use your technologies early to buy the cities that are worth more point, so there's a conflict there.
Well, that's it. Res Publica 2230AD; an older game with a new theme and some new features. It's OK. A bit more interesting than the original, but it's still not mind blowing.
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Aroosa () is a 1994 Pakistani television series that aired on PTV written by Fatima Surayya Bajia based on the novel Aroosa which was written by Zubaida Khatoon and directed by Qasim Jalali. It was the debut serial of Adnan Siddiqui and Mishi Khan.

Synopsis
The (Shakeel) father is a barrister and shares a close bond with his younger (Neelofar) and (Ishrat) older sisters but neglects his wife. His second marriage with a refined, educated woman creates complications as his sisters find her hard to tolerate. The father divorces (Ghazala) Anjum when Uroosa is just a baby.

Cast
 Ghazala Kaifee as Anjum (Uroosa's mother)
 Shakeel as Tofique (Uroosa's father)
 Mishi Khan as Uroosa (Anjum and Tofique's daughter)
 Adnan Siddiqui as Shehryar (Uroosa's husband)
 Neelofar Abbasi as Choti Aapa (Tofique's younger sister)
 Ishrat Hashmi as Naeema (Tofique's older sister)
 Rizwan Wasti as Rafi
 Sultana Zafar as Atiya (Uroosa's aunt)
 Mazhar Ali as Aftab
 Zaheen Tahira as Khala Jee
 Humayun Mehboob as Munir
 Ayesha Khan as Shireen
 Shama Junejo as Arifa
 Zafar Ali as Zawar

Production

Casting
The lead role of Shehryar was offered to Aijaz Aslam but he refused due to his studies and then the role was given to Adnan Siddiqui. It was the second on-screen appearance of Ghazala and Shakeel after drama Ana.

References

External links

1990s Pakistani television series
Pakistani television dramas based on novels
Pakistan Television Corporation original programming
Pakistani drama television series
Pakistani family television dramas
Urdu-language television shows

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Tebwangetua (auch: Tebangetua) ist ein Ort am Nordende des Maiana-Atolls in den Gilbertinseln des Inselstaats Kiribati im Pazifischen Ozean. 2017 hatte der Ort ca. 118 Einwohner.

Geographie
Tebwangetua liegt im Osten des Haupt-Motu von Maiana bei Teitai und südwestlich von Toora. Beim Ort gibt es auf der Meerseite im Osten eine Canoe Passage.

Klima
Das Klima ist tropisch heiß, wird jedoch von ständig wehenden Winden gemäßigt. Ebenso wie die anderen Orte des Maiana-Atolls wird Tebwangetua gelegentlich von Zyklonen heimgesucht.

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Kiribati
Maiana


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Not so on Long Island. A hotbed of Tea Party activism, neighboring Nassau County first sounded the alarm in 2009 in the election for County Executive, with Republican Ed Mangano narrowly defeating heavily-favored Democrat Tom Suozzi. Needless to say, the Suffolk County race for County Executive is being closely watched as a possible early indication of how the chips will fall nationwide in 2012.
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The Astros likely aren't done this offseason.
"Because there are so many free agents still out there and because there are still a lot of teams talking trade, there is a decent likelihood that something will happen, but I can't tell you what ... nor do we absolutely have to have it," Luhnow said.
The top three spots in the Astros' rotation are likely set with Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and Collin McHugh, but the final two spots are up for grabs with Josh James, Framber Valdez and Brad Peacock all likely candidates to be Houston's No. 4 and No. 5 starters. Lance McCullers Jr. is out for the season with Tommy John surgery.
The Astros also reportedly had interest in Diamondbacks lefty Robbie Ray near the end of December, and he would be a possibility in a trade if Houston hasn't been scared off by Arizona's price tag.
According to MLB.com, it's also not out of the realm of possibility Houston brings back 2015 Cy Young award winner Dallas Keuchel who is still a free agent.


I know that I said that I am going to write every day in December but as I often quote Jon Bon Jovi when he said "Map out your future – but do it in pencil.
Be kind, be good, and tell the people that you love that you love them.
I am proud of these values and I work every day on them. Family and Friends are the most important for me as these are the people who make every success that I have in life even bigger, every laugh I have even more fun, I can say that my family and friends give the rhythm to the song I call life. My family and people that I call my Friends are truly my treasures. Each individual is a strong, amazing, warm, kind and unique. I am grateful every day to have them in my life and I have to remind myself every day to not take them for granted and to show each and every one how much I appreciate them and how much they mean to me.
My value is also to be kind to others and to teach others how to be kind to one and other. Somehow I am kind of sad when I look around as people generally do not show kindness to each other. And this is Christmas time, time to truly be kind so If you are reading this be kind to people you love, be kind to people who you meet, even to the lady that works in supermarket as she is not with her family so you can get bread, wine, meat to bring it to your family. And think that maybe she has not had a good life but she puts the smile on her face every day so you feel welcome in the store.
Being kind is the present that does not cost anything but it shore is priceless.
Helping others is also one of the things people often forget. We are selfish and we often think what we need, what we wish, what we would if we could. But it is a holiday season so help me and make something good. Try to think what others need, others wish, what others would if they could. Try to set up your mind frame like this for a week. As you will reward your self with a completely new insight in your own soul. I believe that helping others is like helping yourself You never know when you will be on the other side looking and needing help.


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package com.google.cloud.genomics.utils;

import com.google.api.services.genomics.Genomics;
import com.google.api.services.genomics.model.ReferenceBound;
import com.google.api.services.genomics.model.SearchReadsRequest;
import com.google.api.services.genomics.model.SearchVariantsRequest;
import com.google.api.services.genomics.model.VariantSet;
import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import static com.google.common.base.Objects.equal;
import static com.google.common.collect.Lists.newArrayList;
import static java.util.Objects.hash;
import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

public class Contig implements Serializable {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = -1730387112193404207L;

  public static final long DEFAULT_NUMBER_OF_BASES_PER_SHARD = 1000000;

  public enum SexChromosomeFilter { INCLUDE_XY, EXCLUDE_XY }

  // If not running all contigs, we default to BRCA1
  public static final String BRCA1 = "17:41196311:41277499";

  public final String referenceName;
  public final long start;
  public final long end;

  public Contig(String referenceName, long start, long end) {
    this.referenceName = requireNonNull(referenceName);
    this.start = start;
    this.end = end;
  }
  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return hash(referenceName, start, end);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object obj) {
    if (!(obj instanceof Contig)) {
      return false;
    }
    Contig c = (Contig) obj;
    return equal(referenceName, c.referenceName) && equal(start, c.start) && equal(end, c.end);
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    return referenceName + ':' + start + ':' + end;
  }

  public List<Contig> getShards(long numberOfBasesPerShard) {
    double shardCount = Math.ceil(end - start) / (double) numberOfBasesPerShard;
    List<Contig> shards = Lists.newArrayList();
    for (int i = 0; i < shardCount; i++) {
      long shardStart = start + (i * numberOfBasesPerShard);
      long shardEnd = Math.min(end, shardStart + numberOfBasesPerShard);

      shards.add(new Contig(referenceName, shardStart, shardEnd));
    }
    Collections.shuffle(shards); // Shuffle shards for better backend performance
    return shards;
  }

  public List<Contig> getShards() {
    return getShards(DEFAULT_NUMBER_OF_BASES_PER_SHARD);
  }

  public SearchVariantsRequest getVariantsRequest(String variantSetId) {
    return new SearchVariantsRequest()
        .setVariantSetIds(Collections.singletonList(variantSetId))
        .setReferenceName(referenceName)
        .setStart(start)
        .setEnd(end);
  }

  public SearchReadsRequest getReadsRequest(String readGroupSetId) {
    return new SearchReadsRequest()
        .setReadGroupSetIds(Collections.singletonList(readGroupSetId))
        .setReferenceName(referenceName)
        .setStart(start)
        .setEnd(end);
  }

  public static Iterable<Contig> parseContigsFromCommandLine(String contigsArgument) {
    return Iterables.transform(Splitter.on(",").split(contigsArgument),
        new Function<String, Contig>() {
          @Override
          public Contig apply(String contigString) {
            ArrayList<String> contigInfo = newArrayList(Splitter.on(":").split(contigString));
            return new Contig(contigInfo.get(0), Long.valueOf(contigInfo.get(1)), Long
                .valueOf(contigInfo.get(2)));
          }
        });
  }

  /**
   * Retrieve the list of all the reference names and their start/end positions for the variant set.
   *
   * @param genomics - The {@link Genomics} stub.
   * @param variantSetId - The id of the variant set to query.
   * @param sexChromosomeFilter - An enum value indicating how sex chromosomes should be
   *        handled in the result.
   * @return The list of all references in the variant set.
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public static List<Contig> getContigsInVariantSet(Genomics genomics, String variantSetId,
      SexChromosomeFilter sexChromosomeFilter) throws IOException {
    List<Contig> contigs = Lists.newArrayList();

    VariantSet variantSet = genomics.variantsets().get(variantSetId).execute();
    for (ReferenceBound bound : variantSet.getReferenceBounds()) {
      String contig = bound.getReferenceName().toLowerCase();
      if (sexChromosomeFilter == SexChromosomeFilter.EXCLUDE_XY
          && (contig.contains("x") || contig.contains("y"))) {
        // X and Y can skew some analysis results
        continue;
      }

      contigs.add(new Contig(bound.getReferenceName(), 0, bound.getUpperBound()));
    }

    return contigs;
  }
}


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Continue to our hotel in northern Italy for an overnight stay.
Head to Verona, forever famed as the city of Romeo and Juliet. Enjoy free time, or alternatively, discover the many charms of this ancient city by joining our included guided walking tour.
Verona boasts an abundance of fine palaces, churches and monuments, which adorn its alleyways and squares and, of course, the famous 1st century arena, now home to the prestigious Opera Festival.
Our informative guide will reveal many of the fascinating stories behind the history of the buildings and personalities. Continue to our hotel in Lido di Jesolo for four nights.
Veneto region, Venice has no roads, just canals, including the impressive Grand Canal, lined with stunning Gothic and Renaissance palaces.
Accompanied by a local guide we will discover the secrets of the city's incredible architecture, the splendour of the Doge's Palace (entrance at extra cost) and the majestic St. Mark's Square.
Today we enjoy an included excursion, as we experience the cosmopolitan flair of Trieste on our full-day guided tour, where neoclassical and elegant art nouveau buildings stand side by side.
We start at the Piazza dell'Unità, in the heart of the city, which was formed on the earthen mounds of the old Roman harbour, before continuing on to San Giusto hill, where the Roman city was first settled.
This afternoon we continue to Miramare Castle (entrance included). This romantic castle, built on a rocky cliff, was built from 1860-1865 by the Austrian Archduke Maximilian of the Habsburgs. Maximilian and his wife Charlotte, experienced only a short period of happiness there, but they left behind for posterity their testimony of true love and melancholy.
The castle park is filled with rare and precious trees, which the archduke, handpicked to be planted there.
We head to the charming town of Udine on our included excursion with a local guide. Remnants of almost 400 years of Venetian rule are still present today.
The 'Piazza della Libertà' with its unique architectural ambience, is also influenced by its proximity to Slovenia.
See the sights of Udine, including its impressive cathedral and enjoy some free time, before the tour continues on to San Daniele which is well known for its ham.
We will find out how this delicacy is produced during a tour of a ham factory and a tasting is, of course, also included.
We leave our hotel and head to Treviso with its compact walled centre and narrow cobbled streets criss-crossed by waterways.
We meet our guide in the Piazza dei Signori with its impressive palaces, and then explore the rest of the city before heading out along the Prosecco Wine Road. From Conegliano we follow the gentle hills and lush vineyards, passing through the villages of Foletto, Piave and Valdobbiadene.
During the day we will visit a local winery where we will learn how this light sparkling wine is produced before enjoying a tasting with local snacks. We continue to our hotel in the Vipiteno area.
You will stay for four nights at the 4-star Hotel Salus in Lido di Jesolo (or similar). Overlooking the famous and lovely beach of Jesolo, the Hotel Salus is located in the centre of Lido Ovest near Piazza Marina. Hotel Salus has an outdoor pool, private beach and restaurant terrace.
Overnight stays in northern France, northern Italy and Belgium are in city-style hotels.


Network-attached storage devices, or NAS for short, have been growing in popularity. While they're primarily designed for storing files on your local network, they can also do so much more.
From keeping your files and even your home safe to act as an entertainment hub for your local network, a NAS can be used in many different ways. This is all possible because it's more than just a box with a few hard drives. It's a small computer that uses very little power and has plenty of storage space.
Let's take a look at what a NAS can really do.
These days, the average person who owns a computer doesn't have a full desktop PC. Most people will have devices like laptops and smartphones. Thanks to the progress made by technology, you no longer need a big and bulky computer for most tasks. And that's great!
However, if you have a lot of large files like a library of digital photos, music, and videos, storage space can be an issue. Most notebook PCs and smartphones don't come with easily expandable storage. If you need more space, you can either get an external hard drive or get a NAS and move your files over to those devices.
Both can get the job done but a NAS gives you more options on what you can do with those files later.
Like it says in the name, a NAS is network-attached. That means any device connected to the local network can also access what's in the NAS.
If you have more than one PC, you know what a chore it is to transfer files from one device to another. One way is to plug in a USB drive on one PC, copy the files you need to it, carry the drive to the other PC, plug it in again then copy it again there. Another option is to use simply copy the files over the network which requires both computers to be turned on at the same time.
What if the files were stored in a NAS instead? You'll free up space on your devices and you won't have to run around swapping USB drives. The files can still be accessed by the network but a NAS doesn't consume as much power as a full-fledged PC so you can leave it turned on all the time.
Take the network storage solution even further by setting up backups with your NAS. Instead of just moving them over to the NAS, you create copies of important files that you don't want to lose.
Back up pictures and videos from a family vacation or other important life events. Keep important files safe in case of a hardware failure or theft by copying them to the NAS. You can even set scheduled backups so that these files are automatically copied. And because a NAS will usually have terabytes of space available, you can back up the entire drive of a computer if you wanted to.
Since everyone has a smartphone these days, cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Apple's iCloud have become ubiquitous. But with growing privacy concerns, more and more people are becoming uncomfortable with letting someone else handle their data.
If you're worried about privacy but you don't want to give up convenience, you can create your own personal cloud using a NAS.
Just like those services, you can set up file syncing but you'll have more control over your data. The best part is that you don't have to pay a monthly fee while having tons of storage space available.
Not everyone has access to fast internet. If you need to download large files, leaving the computer turned on overnight may be the only option. But if you have a NAS, you can use it to complete your downloads more efficiently.
Most people don't turn off a NAS anyway so this is a great way to make the most of the device. Let it take care of downloads while you're sleeping or while you're out. Queue up downloads, limit the bandwidth it uses, and even create a schedule automatic downloads.
Letting a NAS handle download duty is especially useful to avoid interruptions by something like an unexpected Windows update. There's nothing more frustrating than getting a large file to 99% only to start again from scratch because your computer had to restart.
Do you have lots of TV shows or movies stored in your NAS? Then you have the makings of an excellent media server.
Using an app like Plex will make it easy to set one up. Once it's ready, you can share the content throughout your home. You'll be able to watch movies on a computer, phone, or even a smart TV as long as it's connected to your network. And if your NAS is powerful enough, you can use transcoding to convert unsupported media formats on the fly so that you can watch it on any device.
Here's a more specialized use case. If you're interested in setting up a surveillance system, there's no need to hire a security company. You can get a couple of IP cameras and configure them to work with your NAS.
Whether you want to check in on the house while you're off on a vacation or just want to keep track of your pets while you're at work, you can use the NAS to store the footage. There are even hard drives made specifically for surveillance purposes so keep that in mind when choosing which ones to install in your NAS.
Is your home network ready?
These days, it's not just the workplace where you can find multiple computers. PCs, smartphones, smart TVs have turned homes into sophisticated networks of they're own. They need a similar network infrastructure without the complications of an enterprise-level server.
A NAS isn't just a box to dump all your files. It's a tool to simplify and maximize your digital life.


Taste of Kala Pani – Andaman & Nicobar islands: These group of Islands in the Bay of Bengal, may not sound so exciting to a tourist, but they have the best beaches, many with exciting water adventures, beautiful coral reefs and a chance to feel like 'Tarzan' as you may get to see some indigenous tribes as you drive through jungles and sail through mangrove and tropical rainforests.
There is no dearth of places to visit on a weekend trip, ex-Pune. But instead of doing the usual Mumbai / Lonavala getaways, we decided to feed our souls with a short spiritual-historical sojourn — first a visit to the holy abode of Sai Baba at Shirdi followed by a day at the Raigad Fort. Both mind-blowing!
Ahoy, Goa! The ideal travel getaway with your gang of girls is Goa. This small State in the Western side of India is a paradise for just chilling or going crazy in trance parties. Once this was home to hippies from all over the world but is now very tourist friendly. A perfectly safe place for women travelling alone, Goa is all about peace and love.


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An English Woman Imprisoned for Criticizing and "Harassing" Muslims can Receive Mail and Letters From People in the United States, Including me, and all other Countries, but not Abigail Simon
Posted by Michael Kuehl in "anarcho-tyranny", Abigail Simon, Abigail Simon sentence, Kathryn Ronk, prisoner rights, mail, censorship, Uncategorized
"anarcho-tyranny", Abigail Simon, Kathryn Ronk
"Grooming" in the United Kingdom: for decades, in Rotherham, Telford, Oxford, and other UK cities, Pakistani Muslim predators, savages, and monsters have abducted, enslaved, drugged, raped, gang-raped, forced into prostitution, tortured, brutalized, and terrorized myriads of poor and working-class English girls, overwhelming adolescents but also prepubescent girls, some as young as 10 and 11. The police knew about these atrocities but did nothing lest they be vilified as "racist" and "Islamophobic" by the ruling-elites and governing-classes. And the media was complicit in it's anti-"racist"/"Islamophobic" mendacity, fanaticism, and righteousness, suppressing and ignoring and denying the truth for decades.
Finally, a few of these sadists and savages are on trial for their heinous and horrendous crimes. And just recently, Tommy Robinson was sentenced to a year in prison for protesting these atrocities outside a courthouse where some of these monsters and subhuman beasts are being tried for "grooming."
Many others have been punished, and imprisoned, for telling the truth about Islam, opposing massive Muslim immigration, and criticizing and "harassing" Muslims, including Jayda Fransen, a Britain First deputy leader jailed after being found guilty of four counts of "religiously aggravated harassment." writes Patrick Cloutier at vdare.com (3/23/2018):
Jayda Fransen, the Britain First leader whose videos about Muslim atrocities were retweeted by President Trump in November of last year, is in jail in the UK for "religiously aggravated harassment," i.e., free speech, and protesting Muslim rapists. I learned that she can receive mail and letters in prison. Her address in prison:
Prison NO: A7921EDFRANSEN, HMP Bronzefield, Woodthorpe RD, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 3JZ, United Kingdom
The UK is no longer a free county for those who criticize and tell the truth about Islam and Muslims, including terrorists, murderers, and gang-rapists of English girls, and oppose Muslim immigration. The country that invented freedom of speech and other basic rights and liberties now arrests, prosecutes, and imprisons men and women for exercising what should be their right to freedom of speech.
In contrast, Muslims are free to hate, vilify, and demonize "infidels," i.e. native UK citizens, to provoke violence against "infidels, to defend acts of terrorism, an epidemic of assaults with knives in London resulting in murders and serious injuries, sexual outrages against English girls, and "religiously harass" generally. I doubt if a single Muslim has been convicted of much less sentenced to prison for "religiously aggravated harassment." Or even arrested and prosecuted?
But, surprisingly, those imprisoned for criticizing and telling the truth about Islam and Muslims have the right to receive and read mail and letters from not only friends and family but also strangers in the UK and US and many other countries. But Abigail Simon, Kathryn Ronk, and other inmates have no such right in Michigan.
So from west-central Wisconsin, I could have mailed a letter that would have been flown all the way to New York, Boston, or wherever, and then flown across the Atlantic Ocean to London, I assume, and then by road to a prison in Ashford, Middlesex, and Jayda Fransen would have received and read it as she has with who knows how many other letters of support and sympathy from people in the UK and who knows how many other countries. And so, too, with Tommy Robinson, I assume. But Abigail Simon and Kathryn Ronk were prohibited from receiving and reading articles and letters I sent them from a neighboring state.
Finally, to contrast the evil and insanity of the U.S. with that of the United KIngdom: if a few of these monsters and savages are convicted of "grooming" -i.e., abducting, enslaving, drugging, raping, gang-raping, beating, torturing, brutalizing, and terrorizing poor and working-class English girls- I'm almost certain that none of them -not even the worst of the worst and the ring-leaders- will serve as many years in prison as Abigail Simon and Mary Kay Letourneau, or even Kathryn Ronk, to say nothing of the Georgia teacher who was sentenced to 40-years in prison for having sex with a student or the Nevada woman who was sentenced to life in prison for allegedly "forcing" a teenage male to touch her breast.
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The cucumber is an easy-to-grow and much-loved summer vegetable. It prefers warm temperatures, needs plenty of room to grow and can be grown in small garden spaces when trellised. Cucumbers are used fresh in salads, eaten plain and often pickled. With so many varieties, it may be surprising to learn that the life cycle of all cucumbers is remarkably similar.
Like many vegetables, cucumbers carry their seeds inside the vegetable itself. Seeds can be removed from the cucumbers and saved for the next year as long as they go through stratification. Stratification is the process whereby the seeds are subjected to cold temperatures for weeks as they would be in nature during winter. Once they have completed this process, they can be planted the following spring after the danger of frost is over. Seeds are viable for several years.
If seedlings were started indoors, they can be transferred outside when they are 3 to 4 weeks old and after the last frost date has passed. Whether thinning outdoor-grown plants or transplanting indoor starts, the seedlings do best when spaced 1 to 2 feet apart with rows spaced approximately 5 feet apart. As they grow, blossoms will begin to form. Cucumbers have both male and female blossoms on each plant. Female blossoms have what resembles a tiny cucumber just below the flower; these are what develop into cucumbers.
Cucumber plants are vines that sprawl and roam as they grow. Vines left to grow this way will develop cucumbers that lie on the ground. As long as the ground does not puddle during rain or watering, this should not impede growth. In damp, poorly drained areas or small gardens, trellises can be added to support the vines and the weight of the cucumbers.
Because of the different types of cucumbers, their harvest time varies. Pickling types begin to be ready for harvest about 48 days after planting. Slicing varieties take 60 to 70 days before harvesting can begin. Both will continue to produce throughout the warm growing season. Cucumbers grow rapidly and should be checked daily for harvest. Left too long, the cucumber can become too large and overripe, which makes it full of seeds and not as tasty.
Overripe cucumbers, while they don't taste very good, are perfect for seed harvesting. Because of their size, they have more seeds than smaller cucumbers. Left to nature, they would fall to the ground and decompose, letting their seeds become part of the landscape or be eaten by animals and have their seeds distributed to other areas when they pass through the animals' digestive system. For collection purposes, remove the seeds from the cucumber and allow them to air dry. Store the seeds in a cool, dry place like the refrigerator and you will have seeds for next year's planting.


A small naturist club founded in 1974, this corner of paradise is located about fifteen kilometres from Saint-Etienne (42 Loire). The members are the volunteers who manage the maintenance of this 6 hectare site.
You can enjoy a collective room that has all the equipment to cook, a microwave, coffee makers (classic or pod coffee), a television with a small lounge area, a library. The little ones also have their own place with dinettes, small cars etc. without forgetting the table football which enchants all generations! Refrigerators are also at your disposal as well as a freezer for ice packs.
5 caravans are available for rent, fully equipped, with bed linen and electricity, as well as 10 wooded pitches with electrical terminal.
A petanque ground, with competitions organised in July and August, is very lively as soon as the sun reappears.
The swimming pool, a small jewel in its green setting, from where you will have a magnificent view of the Loire, welcomes you with its deckchairs that invite you to relax and sunbathe. Behind the two gates, you can rest in the shade if the sun is too strong!
Activities are organised in summer, petanque competitions, aquagym, archery, meals around the wood-burning oven, karaoke, ball, short hikes (dressed) to make you discover the surroundings of the campsite, everything to make you want to join us !


After a year of organizing to create this novel community micro-funding event, the team that gathered has agreed that we are not yet ready to launch. We had ALMOST enough support to make this event begin. It is clear that we could find food, a location, and applications (all the elements necessary!). . . but lacked the team to do the behind-the-scenes work that would make it function well and repeatedly.
So we are stopping. For some reason, though many voiced support for this type of event, there wasn't enough actual action to get it going. Perhaps, under other leadership, or at another time, or with some other change . . . this marvelous idea will be able to show our power to step up and make our community better.


We all know that special someone in our lives, someone we might've grown up with, someone who still stands out in our minds – someone who is an overrated con artist, a braggart and a deceiver.
You see them for who they are, all talk and no results. No one ever sets them straight. The results that they talk about are just an illusion — the product of manipulating others. They know how to get what they want from people, without ever serving anybody. They were once called spoiled brats; now they know how to con people out of their money and energy, so they can live however they want. Just by bragging and making people feel sympathetic toward their cause, they know how to make a big deal out of their self and absorb glory that they didn't honorably achieve.
Is this the kind of guy Elon Musk is?
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak essentially believes Elon Musk is a con artist. "I don't believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says." At a recent conference in Sweden, Wozniak revealed his deep mistrust toward the overhyped Tesla and why he isn't jumping on Elon Musk's bandwagon charade.
Wozniak once said that there is "way too much hype" around Tesla, a venture primarily funded by taxpayers. In fact, Tesla Motors Inc., SolarCity Corp. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, were funded by an estimated $4.9 billion in government support (taxpayer-funded). Every taxpayer in the U.S. is essentially working for Musk, whose visions are lifted onto a pedestal and "entitled" to taxpayer support.
At the Q&A conference with Wozniak, listeners got the inside scoop on the faulty side of Tesla's self-driving cars. Wozniak said he still loves the car, but recounted one incident at Lake Tahoe, where his Tesla skidded off an icy road and descended into a snow bank. Musk convinced Wozniak to cough up more money to upgrade to a newer model.
Wozniak also said Musk makes promises he can't keep. Wozniak said he was conned into believing that the new Tesla would be fully-equipped to drive across the United States by the end of 2017. The Israeli company that develops sensors for Tesla broke ties with Musk, damaging all trust that Musk could deliver on his promises. "I'm sure the next car will come out and Elon's promise will be that (this is the car that delivers)," said Wozniak, speaking to the audience in Sweden.
Wozniak enlightened the audience that Musk is all talk, offering no real results, citing Tesla's poor state of technology that is far behind the self-driving technology currently used by car manufacturers Audi and BMW. Wozniak also commented on some of the more frightening aspects of Tesla's self-driving technology.
"When a Tesla runs in any condition on a highway that is a little unusual — a cone in the middle of a lane — you have to move over," said Wozniak. "A dumb human or a smart human can easily do it, but the Tesla can't. Man, you've got to be on your toes all the time with it." Wozniak says he doesn't normally drive his Tesla; rather, he prefers to drive his Chevy Bolt EV.
See more coverage of Elon Musk at ElonMuskWatch.com.


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We look at the big picture – we take the time to understand a business and its target customers, and we carefully consider whether that business is genuinely a good fit for Google Ads and PPC before starting any campaigns. If its not right for a client, we advise against it.
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How Green Are Boron-Based Household Cleaners?
Because boron needs to be mined to produce these cleaners, they still have a large environmental impact
Dear EarthTalk: I've heard so much about using Borax for green housecleaning. But if this mineral has to be mined, doesn't that negate some of its "green-ness?"
-- Elsa, Lincoln, Nebraska
Mining for minerals such as boron (the key ingredient in the "Borax" we use for cleaning, pest control and other household tasks) is an activity that typically leaves behind a big environmental footprint. Mining degrades the local landscape and destroys wildlife habitat, while polluting both air and water. It also usually consumes large amounts of water, which can be taxing in already arid regions, such as the Mojave Desert, one of two regions of the world (along with parts of Turkey) with large boron deposits.
Typically, boron is extracted in open-pit mines by drilling, blasting, crushing and hauling—all activities fueled by petrochemicals. The refining process then uses a significant amount of water. Finally, the waste product—known in the industry as "tailings"—is deposited in man-made ponds where further refining is done before the water is then discharged into the local watershed.
The mining industry has long been criticized as an environmental baddie, but the leading company that mines Borax, Rio Tinto, has actually been given high marks for environmental stewardship. Jared Diamond's 2005 book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" called the British mining giant the exception in its industry. Due to "a strongly supportive CEO and British stockholders," he wrote, the company moved forward with the 2002 environmental recommendations of the mining industry's Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development project that were for the most part ignored by the rest of the industry. "Rio Tinto foresaw business advantages to being seen as an industry leader in social responsibility," said Diamond. "Its Borax mine in Death Valley, California is now perhaps the most cleanly operated mine in the U.S."
Boron, oxygen and sodium make up sodium tetraborate, which is sold as "20 Mule Team Borax" (the name comes from the teams of 18 mules and two horses that would haul large wagons of processed borax from mines in the late 1800s to the nearest railroad spur). The powdered detergent is considered a least-toxic recipe as a natural disinfectant and household cleaner. Beyond cleaning formulations, boron is also used in a wide variety of other products, including the manufacture of fiberglass and Pyrex.
Pest control is another use. One boron compound is used to treat wood to prevent fungal decay and repel carpenter ants, roaches and termites. Boric acid is included on the national list of allowed substances for structural pest control in organic food production (as long as there is no direct contact with food or crops). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined that pesticide products containing boric acid and its salts are of low toxicity. (However, ingesting it or applying large amounts to the skin can cause acute poisoning, so parents should be vigilant about where they store and use products containing Borax.)
Emerging uses of boron, and new ways to recycle its waste, may make this mineral even more valuable. A Turkish researcher notes that borax waste added to red bricks and cement products increases strength and lifespan. And at the National Boron Research Institute in Turkey, it is being studied as an element to produce fuel cells and to aid in cancer treatment.
CONTACTS: Rio Tinto, www.riotinto.com, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, www.epa.gov; Turkey's National Boron Research Institute, www.boren.gov.tr/en.
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I have just read the other comments, I don't know nothing about horse training, but to me I can't see any fear by the horse, and plenty of love and kindness by the Professor.. Even the horse looks like it is conveying love back in return. I'm probably wrong but all I can see is a lovely interaction between the two of them.
This is the best training I've seen on YouTube. A real credit to your method, you are a very kind person.
At 2.32 he leads the horse by the beard……. Rookie mistake………..and you would NEVER EVER tie a young unstarted horse up to a paling and introduce it to a girth! Absolutely dangerous.
what breed is this horse? how many hands?
This is a very good video, i notice you whistled after the horse responded positively, is this your cue? Are you using operant conditioning?
I see quite a lot of aversive stimulation here and considerable use of flooding with non-contingent use of food. The use of the bridge (whistle) and food reinforcement is often not related to the behaviour he has been teaching. For instance, Professor McGreevy floods the horse to having ears and feet handled (she is restrained, and he specifically says not to let go of the ear or foot if the horse tries to pull it away) and negative reinforcement when she stops struggling, but then actually bridges and gives the horse food AFTER the foot is back on the ground. If he wanted to positively reinforce the horse for holding her foot up calmly then he should bridge and reward when he is holding the foot relaxed in his hand. Otherwise he is marking and using an appetitive (the food) for the horse having her feet on the ground standing still and she will be more likely to pull her foot away in future to get that reward, because the behaviour that is positively reinforced is where the horse has her feet on the floor. To my mind this is very much like all the methods of natural horsemanship you might see – Parelli for instance – with food thrown in, often non-contingently. What he does with the bit is exactly how Linda Parelli shows people how to bit a horse. All in all a lot of aversive stimuli being used, quite a bit of flooding, and rather haphazard use of food. He also does not comment on some of the signs of stress shown by the horse. At times the horse is licking and chewing – which can be a sign of stress.
Clear introduction to quietly starting a horse, with good explanation of some crucial elements of successful desensitisation. Good to see the importance of timing and consistency mentioned, and consistently demonstrated. Glad mention was made to the whip as an aid, not a punishment, like at least one high profile 'liberty' trainer teaches. I hope to see more from Professor McGreevy.
Of course there are a few things to put in the "I would never do bin": that horrible thin cord halter, knots designed to coincide with the holes in the skull and apply pressure to those delicate, vulnerable areas beneath and, that short line to longe with, a young horse needs to work straight and after one circle as tight as that move forwards in a straight line again. Never ever work a horse of any age or ability for more than one circle on a single line, they can't balance at trot and canter, use two long lines, with the added bonus that you can change direction after a few circles and actually teach the feel of the reins — still on a suitable pressure halter of course.


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Snow Day (2000)
When an entire town in upstate New York is closed down by an unexpected snowfall, a "snow day" begins when a group of elementary school kids, led by Natalie Brandston, try to ensure that the schools stay closed by stopping a mechanical snowplow driver by trying to hijack his plow truck. Meanwhile, Natalie's big brother Hal is using this day to try to win the affections of Claire Bonner, the most popular girl in his high school, while Hal and Natalie's father Tom, a TV meteorologist, faces off against a rival meteorologist
Страна: United States
Genre: Family, Comedy, Adventures
Translation: Professional (multi-voice)
Premiere: 29 January 2000
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Big Monster on Campus (2000)
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.
Premiere: 25 February 2000
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They Nest (2000)
A Maine island becomes infested with lethal insects that root inside their victims, while a local doctor battles the bugs and incorrigible locals that don't believe him.
Страна: United States, Canada
Premiere: 25 July 2000
Drowning Mona (2000)
Mona Dearly, a spiteful, loud-mouthed, unpopular woman, dies when the car she is driving plunges off a cliff and into a river near the small upstate New York town where she lives. Wyatt Rash, the local police chief, investigates and suspects foul play in Mona's death. The whole town is suspect, including Wyatt's daughter Ellen, who is about to marry landscape artist Bobby Calzone, whose business suffers from his lazy business partner, Jeff, Mona's slow-witted son, as well as waitress Rona Mace, who was having an affair with
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Premiere: 2 January 2000
The Three Stooges (2000)
A biography of the Three Stooges, in which their careers and rise to fame is shown throughout the eyes of their leader, Moe Howard.
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Dramas
Premiere: 24 April 2000