Motorcycle Accident Injuries: Motorcycle Injuries in a Claim | Jason R. Schultz P.C.
The lack of protection on a motorcycle can cause serious injuries, even in a low-impact collision. So when speed, slippery road conditions, intoxication or other elements come into play, the likelihood of sustaining severe physical harm increases. However, when it comes to these types of accidents, there still tends to be common injuries sustained.
Occupants inside a motor vehicle typically won't be ejected, unless they aren't belted and it's a high-speed collision. But this is a common problem for motorcyclists, who upon getting thrown from a bike could strike another object (vehicle, building, pole, fence, etc.) or the pavement. The impact of being ejected from a bike can cause fractures.
Often a motorcyclist sustains multiple broken bones when thrown from his or her bike. They may affect the hips, pelvis, legs and arms. Neck and back injuries are also common. If the spinal cord is damaged, there is the potential to be temporarily or permanently paralyzed.
Head injuries are another common type of motorcycle accident injury. Even those who wear a helmet are at risk. But of course head injuries increase when the rider doesn't wear one. As a result, the person could sustain a skull fracture or a brain injury (TBI, swelling, blood clot). If there is a gash in the motorcyclist's head, it could lead to a life-threatening infection.
Another common injury occurs when a limb gets crushed or pinned in the accident. This could result in a traumatic amputation. The arm(s) or leg(s) may be partially or completely severed. In some cases it can be reattached, but not always. As a result, the person may have to use an assistive device, such as a wheelchair or get fitted with a prosthesis.
Road rash is an injury unique to motorcyclists and is the result of the rider's skin scraping against the ground. It commonly happens when the motorcyclist skids with the bike. The severity depends on whether or not protective gear (such as a jacket, long pants and boots) is worn.
This type of injury can tear away at the skin, causing surface wounds or much deeper, damaging tissue and bone. As with any other open wound, the susceptibility of infection is high. Road rash is similar to a burn injury, in that it may have to be treated with skin grafts if severe.
With the potential to face long-term or permanent disability from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash, it's important to address their impact in a claim. The medical bills can be significant. And the motorcyclist may need to undergo additional medical care in the future.
During the time of healing and recovery, the individual may be unable to work. That loss of income will only add to the financial burden. But it's also possible the motorcyclist cannot return to his or her job. These losses should be addressed adequately in a claim.
An attorney at the Law Office of Jason R. Schultz in Peachtree City understands the implications of a serious motorcycle crash and can guide you on accident cases in Georgia. With the help of legal counsel, a claim will consider how pain and suffering, disfigurement, mental anguish, and other losses factor in.


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A.J. Finberg recognised this sketch as the basis for Turner's watercolour, Inverness circa 1833 (Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, The Highland Council),1 which was engraved as the frontispiece to Sir Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, volume 26 of his collected Prose Works.2 Despite this early identification, subsequent publications have sometimes referred to folio 5 (D27052) as the basis for the watercolour,3 although that sketch (despite depicting the two spires seen in the watercolour) is of a different viewpoint. The present sketch, by contrast, is very similar in its viewpoint, composition and detail to the finished watercolour. The view is from the west bank of the River Ness. From here we look across the water to the Ness Bridge (swept away by flood in 1849) in the foreground and Inverness beyond. Dominating the skyline at the right of the sketch is the spire of the Tollbooth on Bridge Street. The more modest spire to the left belongs to the Old High Church (or Kirk).
Turner used these details in his watercolour design along with the buildings surrounding the Tollbooth. He also worked up from memory the few lines denoting part of a wall and the crow-step gables of the building at the far left of the sketch, and the square at the left of the bridge which emerges in the watercolour as a small building with a tall chimney. Two other sketches provided details for the watercolour: from folio 5 he took the boat in the foreground with the figure of a woman on the shore, and he used two boats from folio 7 verso (D27057). Further figures in the foreground were introduced from his memory or imagination. The only significant departure from the present composition is that in the watercolour Turner shifted the viewpoint lower to bring the bridge arches in more extreme perspective, making them larger in the foreground to balance the steeple behind.
Turner stopped at Inverness on his way north to Evanton, where he visited Hugh Munro of Novar House. Perhaps he showed his sketch to Munro, as it was bought by him after the watercolour had been lent to the engraver. Apart from the local interest of the scene, Munro may have been taken by the prominence in the picture of the Tollbooth steeple, which had been partially paid for by his uncle, Sir Hector Munro (1726–1805), who had been Member of Parliament for Inverness Burghs and had built the Novar estate.
Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner: His Life and Work, Fribourg 1979, pp.433–4 no.1128.
Finberg 1909, II, p.882.
Wilton 1979, p.434, and Francesca Irwin, Andrew Wilton, Gerald Finley and others, Turner in Scotland, exhibition catalogue, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum 1982, p.57 under cat.77.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketches of Edinburgh: St Andrew's Church, Melville Monument, Calton Gaol
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Discussion in 'Z3 Roadster & Coupé' started by Freds Dad, Jul 2, 2013.
I'm looking for a new rear window for the Zed and as rain stopped play on car cleaning I had a search of the interweb and came across http://www.trimmtech.co.uk/ who are down the road in Sandbach.
There is a comment off Peter Glynn who had a new Z3 window fitted. Is it someone off here or has anyone had any dealings with Trimmtech?


Maps, costs, and information on when you can park in the Bower Ashton residents' parking scheme (RPS).
This scheme started on Monday 29 September 2014.
When you'll need a permit or a ticket to park depends on the area you're trying to park in.
The parking permit area (PPA) covers almost all of the roads in the Bower Ashton RPS.
You'll need a permit to park in the PPA at all times of day, every day except Christmas Day.
There is one shared use area, located on Kennel Lodge Road.
Between 9am and 9pm, Monday to Saturday, you'll need a permit or pay and display ticket to park in this area.
Outside of these times you can park in this area without a permit or pay and display ticket.
You need a permit to park in the PPA at all times except Christmas Day.
For the shared use area on Kennel Lodge Road, on public holidays you don't need a permit or a pay and display ticket to park.
See a detailed map of the Bower Ashton (BA) RPS area (pdf, 437k) (opens new window) .
You can also see the area boundary on our Pinpoint map.
If you got your permits after 7 December 2015, you can renew online.
If you got your permits before 7 December 2015, renew using a renewals form (pdf, 277k) (opens new window) .
Each household can apply for up to 140 visitors' permits each year.
The first 70 permits are free; the next 70 cost £1 each.
You don't have to apply for all of your visitors' permits in one go. You can apply for more permits, up to the annual limit of 140, at any time during the year.
If you're getting short-term or long-term care in your own home you might be able to get a free Essential Visitors' Permit.


Nat O'Connor: A technical, evidence-based analysis has led to the calculation of a Living Wage for Ireland of €11.45 per hour. This is based on a single person working full-time (defined as 39 hours/week). The calculation is based on detailed data from the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice's budgeting.ie work, which describes each item required for a person to have a Minimum Essential Standard of Living or MESL.
The MESL standard is based on focus groups done with people living on low incomes, to agree a minimum standard of living, sufficient to meet someone's needs (not wants). It is not a poverty standard, but a minimum for a dignified life. Once the standard of living is agreed, researchers from the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice look annually at the cheapest possible goods and services available in the market.
The categories of cost can be seen in the summary of the Living Wage (page 2). Some commentators have suggested that €11.45/hour (€446/week or just over €23,000/year) is 'too high' or includes unreasonable 'needs'. Let's look at that.
It might be argued that more frugal living is possible than described by the Living Wage. Well, core expenditure can be seen in detail here for the example of an Urban dwelling adult living alone. (Other detailed budgets can be seen here).
For a single man living alone in an urban area, a Living Wage will allow €57 per week for food along the following lines. Grocery shopping in a chain supermarket (typically a German discounter) including fresh fruit and vegetables for a healthy diet and a limited quantity of luxuries. For example, there is sufficient budget to allow three eggs per week, two litres of milk per week, one packet of biscuits per week, one jar of instant coffee every six weeks, one jar of jam every eight weeks, and so on. The budget does allow for one Deli lunch per week (€5.60), one Chinese takeaway every four weeks (€11.20) and a Sunday lunch out every six weeks (€10.00).
In terms of clothing, the Living Wage allows just over €10.00 per week. For a man (pages 9-11 of the same document), this would typically include: six pairs of socks/year, a pair of slippers every three years, a heavy jacket (€45) every year, a casual shirt every year (€15), a suit every three years (€144), a pair of shoes/year (€30), and so on. Obviously, these are the cheapest available goods. If someone wants a more expensive piece of clothing, he or she will have to make it last longer.
There is similar detail available for personal care items (e.g. shaving cream) and health care (e.g. dental visits). Energy bills are expected to be covered by €9.99/week. The household goods section is instructive. The scenario assumes that a single male lives in furnished rental accommodation and so does not own any furniture. A basic television is owned (€119.95) and is expected to last for ten years, likewise a toaster, iron, and so on. A wooden spoon (€1.99) is expected to last twenty years.
This budget allows someone to send 20 Christmas cards and four other greeting cards per year, with a total allowance of 30 stamps (55 cents each). The cost of stamps was calculated before the recent nearly 10 per cent rise in the cost of a stamp, to 60 cent - which means yet another €1.50 will have to be squeezed out of an annual budget that is already insufficient. This follows a pattern of publicly-regulated costs going up, such as Dublin Bus fares up 15-25 per cent in 2013.
Some commentators have criticised the allowance of spending for 'social inclusion'. Let's explore that. Under communications, the budget allows for a basic mobile phone (€59.99) and €5 of credit per week. It allows for a laptop (€479) meant to last for five years - i.e. costing €1.84/week. A printer is allowed for (€59.99/ten years), as well as 500 sheets of A4 paper every year (€4.99).
A person on this basic budget has €2 per week to make a donation to charity and is assumed to save €5 per week.
An annual holiday is included, which is illustrated as a week-long trip to Galway from Dublin, with seven nights accommodation (€25/night) and €299 in spending money.
Purchase of one newspaper per week is allowed for (€2.20) and a DVD rental four times a year (€4.60). A trip to the cinema is allowed for every two months (€8.50). Two swims a month are allowed for (€5 each) as well as a weekly football match (€5/week for 9 months/year).
There is a €15/week allowance for socialising/entertainment. This might allow three or four pints of beer per week, or a cup of tea/coffee every day.
The LivingWage.ie website has a new note outlining the allowances for social inclusion and participation under the Living Wage calculation, available here.
There is much more detail in the background data and reports, all available for scrutiny. While there may be quibbles about line items, what any serious examination of the data will show is that the Living Wage is based on a very modest, simple lifestyle. There is very little room for emergencies or special occasions. And the Living Wage is not meant to describe a poverty line, but it is a description of what the focus group participants believe is the minimum required for a dignified life, underneath which no one should be expected to fall. If anything, the Living Wage is too frugal - and of course the reality is that many people on such an income could still experience material deprivation. Not everyone lives beside a supermarket and disability or the needs of extended family members can put further pressure on people's budgets.
The details of the budgets merits serious attention, for many reasons.
It makes it clear that many people in Ireland go without many essential goods and services. This is bad for them, but it is also bad for local shops and immoral for Irish society because such deprivation would be unnecessary if national income was distributed more fairly.
It shows that every small increase in costs under public control or regulation matters - including energy, postage, telecoms and public transport, as well as the effect of VAT and other indirect taxes on prices in the market.
Raising people's incomes up to an evidence-based Living Wage would boost local spending power and benefit many small enterprises across Ireland. It would boost VAT income for the state and lower pressure on supplemental and special needs social welfare payments.
Like with the minimum wage, businesses that genuinely cannot afford to pay a Living Wage could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis. The Living Wage also provides an evidence base to interrogate why some goods and services are more expensive in Ireland than elsewhere, and what could be done to boost competition or regulate costs to lower the cost of living.
At the heart of the Living Wage argument is the proposition that everyone who works full-time should be entitled to a very basic, minimum standard of living sufficient to for a dignified life. But even the modest suggestion of paying at least €11.45 per hour won't happen unless people and organisations demand it.


Has The College Basketball Recruiting Landscape Leveled Out?
Read more about Has The College Basketball Recruiting Landscape Leveled Out?
The college basketball recruiting landscape is leveling the playing field.
With only a few unsigned prospects left in the 2015 class, recruiting analysts can begin to evaluate the top classes. But this year might make it a little more difficult than in years past. The top prospects of this class have not chosen the national powerhouses as in previous years, instead opting to sign with the underdogs. So with that, could the college basketball recruiting landscape finally be leveling out enough to provide more contenders for this year's national championship?
Georgia native Jaylen Brown, one of the nation's top incoming freshman, has committed to play basketball next season at the University of California.
The fifth-ranked and top-seeded Arizona Wildcats will kick off Pac-12 Conference Tournament action on Thursday, as the Wildcats take on the eighth-seeded California Golden Bears in the first quarterfinal matchup at MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The fifth-ranked Arizona Wildcats take aim at their second straight outright Pac-12 championship, as they play host to the California Golden Bears on Thursday evening at the McKale Center.
Arizona clinched its second straight outright Pac-12 title in a most convincing fashion, with the fifth-ranked Wildcats dominating California in all facets in a 99-60 rout at the McKale Center.
The 11th-ranked Utah Runnin' Utes aim to keep their unblemished home record intact on Sunday, as they host the California Golden Bears in Pac-12 Conference action at the Huntsman Center.
The California Golden Bears will have a tough time trying to end a five-game losing streak Saturday as they play host to the seventh-ranked Arizona Wildcats in a Pac-12 Conference contest at Haas Pavilion.
The 21st-ranked Washington Huskies will try to bounce back from their first loss of the 2014-15 season as they open up Pac-12 Conference play against the California Golden Bears at Haas Pavilion.
The California Golden Bears continue an extended seven-game homestand on Monday, as they play host to the Wisconsin Badgers at Haas Pavilion.


Vidya Balan is now a radio jockey with a show called Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho. "When I was offered the show to be a radio jockey, I wondered what can I do on radio. The jokes are really good but the idea Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho was phenomenal. I won't give a chance for anyone to talk because I love talking. When you keep talking to people, you understand issues, relationships and oneself better. We have not come to change the world. We need to change oneself," says Vidya.
One of the issues that Vidya will be talking about is on the perfect shape that girls want to attain. "I have experienced it throughout my life. Call it the judgement of the body or body shaming because I am not the perfect body type that heroines normally are. Growing up I was not even the perfect body type that boys would fall for. I always felt that I was happy with myself but then I used to be called moti (fat) in school. And, when I would walk with a thin friend of mine, we were called Laurel and Hardy. When I went to do films, people looked at me and asked 'you want to be an actor? It breaks your confidence. Body confidence is extremely important," says Vidya and adds, "But I felt that people, though not consciously, were making me feel less than what I thought of myself in my body.
Apart from talking about issues like child sexual abuse and adoption, Vidya also wants to have some fun on the radio. "Why should only youngsters romance? Why is it so difficult for us to understand that there is more than the romance between our parents? Else we wouldn't have been born. On a personal note, I will make sure that I will keep the romance in my marriage burning till the end. I don't know what my husband Siddharth (Roy Kapur) thinks about it, lekin woh phas gaye hain!" Vidya Balan laughs.
The actress had recently refused a fake offer to promote a political party through the Cobrapost sting. But she says it was her prerogative. "I cannot pass judgement about anyone else. I am uncomfortable doing it so I didn't do," she says.
Vidya Balan is now a radio jockey with a show called Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho. "When I was offered the show to be a radio jockey, I wondered what can I do on radio. The jokes are really good but the idea Dhun Badal Ke Toh Dekho was phenomenal.
I won't give a chance for anyone to talk because I love talking. When you keep talking to people, you understand issues, relationships and oneself better. We have not come to change the world. We need to change oneself," says Vidya.


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The chalet offers an inviting living room with spectacular water views, and comfortable beachy decor. The updated kitchen features solid surface counter tops and comfortable breakfast bar. The lanai also offers a bisto table for two overlooking the expansive views.
The master bedroom located on the first floor is decorated in subtle hues, with tile floors, and offers a king size bed. The sea cannot be missed with the wall of windows to look out through as you watch the waves roll by.
Stroll a short distance through the natural vegetation and out onto the shores of Boca Grande where you can fully enjoy the sun, sea, and sand. Boca Grande Club is an exclusive gated community on Gasparilla Island, only minutes to the historic village of Boca Grande. The club offer guests a community pool overlooking the gulf waters with Tiki bar for lite dining and drinks, spa, fitness center, library, playground, tennis, club house and a fine dining restaurant right on site.
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Q: Printing elements from Nth index onward in an array I'm trying to find a way to take an array of five integers and print the last three. What's the best way to do this?

A: If you are using Java-8, you can do this :
Arrays.stream(array).skip(2).forEach(System.out::println);

There won't be any exceptions thrown even if you pass a value to skip that is greater than the length of the array. You will simply get no output in such a case.
If you are not using Java-8, I don't see any challenge. Just loop through index 3 to n and print the elements.

A: check the following code snippet
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    int[] inputArray= {1,2,3,4,5};
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Deltec Bank, Bahamas says Blockchain will have Positive effect on Reconciliation, KYC, and surely Payments
If you have been wondering, "What is blockchain and how can it change banking?" it's time to find out. This post will answer those questions.
Blockchain technology is being embraced by:
Banks;
Business Owners;
Regulatory Agencies;
Technologists;
And other types of organizations, industries, and professionals.
Blockchain offers potential benefits that are generating excitement, such as increased efficiency, reduced costs, and greater security.
But how does this innovative technology actually work? We need to begin by describing what it is.
Basically, it's a digital database that is accessible by multiple parties from all over the world. The data is accessed via APIs and torrent sites. The information that gets stored on the blockchain is kept up to date and can never be deleted.
The blockchain system is known for being highly secure. Here's why:
The entire system is a transparent record of every transaction that occurs.
Cryptography protects this data from alterations.
The blockchain can only be modified with private keys that allow editing.
How Blockchain Will Change Banking
Although likely to transform the entire financial industry, blockchain technology might not replace banks. Instead, it could be used to decrease costs and increase net profit. Listed below are some specific examples of this.
Assists with Reconciliation
Reconciliation is a fundamental component of many different types of organizations, including financial institutions. At this point, individual companies have their own, internal database, which slows down the rate at which transactions are completed. This is because each business that is involved in the transaction must ensure their records are in agreement with each other.
According to Deltec Bank, Bahamas- "Blockchain can make the entire reconciliation process more efficient by using a single, shared database that can be accessed by multiple organizations. This would automate reconciliation and speed up the transaction process."
Mitigates Fraud
According to Nelito, about, "45% of financial intermediaries like stock exchanges and money transfer services are prone to financial crimes routinely." Blockchain could decrease that percentage.
The current banking system relies on a centralized database. Unfortunately, that type of database allows hackers to gain access to an entire system. A blockchain-based system would eliminate that risk, making data far less susceptible to a cyberattack.
Reduces KYC Costs
Nelito also cites the Thomas Reuter survey, which reveals that, "Financial institutions spend anywhere from $60 million up to $500 million per year to keep up with Know your Customer (KYC) and customer due diligence regulations."
Such regulations are intended to fight against money laundering and terrorism, but the costs to comply are extremely high. However, blockchain could decrease those costs by granting access to a client's verification details.
This would make KYC procedures easier and quicker because the process would not have to be duplicated by various organizations for one client.
Disrupts the Payment System
We can't talk about blockchain without mentioning how it could disrupt our current payment system. Using blockchain to make payments would eradicate the need for intermediaries while increasing security and decreasing costs.
Improves Trading Platforms
Blockchain technology has the potential to reduce risks associated with fraud and operational blunders on trading platforms. Furthermore, blockchain could reduce costs and promote greater efficiency on these platforms.
Creates Smart Contracts
Information that gets stored digitally can be used to compose smart contracts. The contracts are generated by computer code that is set to perform when the correct keys are entered by participating parties.
What Banks Need to Do Now
There are many possibilities that exist for organizations that are open to the implementation of blockchain technology. For banks, this will require making some major changes to their systems and operations.
These banks will need to reevaluate:
What role they have to play if blockchain becomes a prominent part of our future;
How they can continue to survive despite competitors that are popping up;
What unique benefits they can offer to consumers;
How they will attract new customers and keep current customers;
How to improve current systems, operations, and security by using new technology;
Banks that address these issues head-on will have a much better chance of thriving in the face of blockchain's disruptions. The sooner these banks begin to consider how to handle those disruptions, the better.
Disclaimer: The author of this text, Robin Trehan, has an Undergraduate degree in economics, Masters in international business and finance and MBA in electronic business. Trehan is Senior VP at Deltec International www.deltecbank.com. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this text are solely the views of the author, and not necessarily reflecting the views of Deltec International Group, its subsidiaries and/or employees.
About Deltec Bank
Headquartered in The Bahamas, Deltec is an independent financial services group that delivers bespoke solutions to meet clients' unique needs. The Deltec group of companies includes Deltec Bank & Trust Limited, Deltec Fund Services Limited, and Deltec Investment Advisers Limited, Deltec Securities Ltd. and Long Cay Captive Management.
Company Name: Deltec International Group
Contact Person: Media Manager
Country: Bahamas
Website: https://www.deltecbank.com/
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Rostislaw Jerastowitsch Chugajew (; ; * 17. Dezember 1951 in Mirtgadschin, Rajon Dsau, Südossetisches Autonomes Gebiet) ist ein südossetischer Politiker und Unternehmer. Vom 15. Mai 2012 bis zum 20. Januar 2014 war er Premierminister seines Landes.

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Rostislaw Chugajew wurde 1951 im heutigen Südossetien geboren, das damals zur Sowjetunion gehörte. Mit 20 Jahren ging er nach Kuibyschew (dem heutigen Samara), wo er ein Ingenieursstudium an der dortigen Architektur und Bauuniversität begann. Dieses Studium schloss er 1976 ab, anschließend begann er in diesem Beruf zu arbeiten und betätigte sich als Unternehmer, daneben gründete er auch ein ossetisches Kulturzentrum in Samara.

Später kehrte er in seine südossetische Heimat zurück. Nach der Wahl 2012 wurde er durch den neugewählten südossetischen Präsidenten Leonid Tibilow am 15. Mai 2012 zum Premierminister ernannt.

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Learning to listen to the First Peoples and what they want from reconciliation was an important theme of the all-day Inter-school Social Justice Forum held at 130 Lt Collins St, which was attended by 55 students mostly from years 9 and 10.
A highlight of proceedings was the interaction with Indigenous artist sisters Karen and Rosie Bird, from the eastern Anmatyerre community 200km north-east of Alice Springs.
The sisters have been spending a week at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School (PEGS) conducting art classes and interacting with the students.
They are aunties to the school's chaplain David Hall, whose sister has been a long-time teacher in the region.
Mr Hall said the students had been "super-engaged" by having the visitors.
"Just spending time with Aboriginal people is very important," he said.
"Reconciliation becomes real when you have a relationship. These two are very dear to my heart as is the whole Bird clan, the more I time spend with them the more important it gets.
PEGS Year 10 student Charlie Worsfold echoed this sentiment and said that the day at Lt Collins St had been important in helping him see things from the point of view of Aboriginal people.
"It's given me a better education and knowledge of their culture and what the First Peoples actually want from us," he said.
Charlie said he had learnt in one session how a government's attempt to improve Aboriginal people's life through various programs had failed because they hadn't listened to what they actually wanted.
"It's better to talk to the Aboriginal people than make your own assumptions," he said.
The Inter-school Social Justice Forum is organised in a partnership between the Justice & International Mission unit and Uniting Church schools.
The schools taking part are Scots Albury, Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School, Methodist Ladies' College, Kingswood College, Wesley College and Cornish College.
Each sends a maximum of 10 students to take part in the forum, which will have a follow-up day in August.
JIM campaigns and communications manager Cath James said the forum has different themes each year.
"We look at the structural injustices that underlie a lot of these issues and help the students feel empowered to make a difference," she said.
"We always do some sort of role-playing game where students can immerse themselves in the experience of being disadvantaged or discriminated against or some form of injustice. It's a very experiential learning program.
Ms James said the students themselves will lead the next reconciliation Forum day to be held in August.


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«Politically Inept, With Homer Simpson» —titulado Políticamente inepto, con Homero Simpson en Hispanoamérica y Políticamente inepto, con Homer Simpson en España— es el décimo episodio de la vigesimotercera temporada de la serie de animación Los Simpson. En el episodio, Bart sube un vídeo a YouTube en el que Homer despotrica sobre el terrible tratamiento de aerolíneas de pasajeros. Rápidamente se vuelve popular y Homer finalmente recibe su propio programa de noticias de cable político. Gana apoyo entre los estadounidenses promedio y es elegido por los republicanos para elegir a su candidato para las próximas elecciones presidenciales. Elige a Ted Nugent, pero al final se da cuenta de que había tomado la decisión equivocada y que todo lo que ha dicho en su programa no tenía sentido, por lo que en la televisión, confiesa que está «lleno de mierda».

El músico y activista político conservador Ted Nugent hizo su segunda aparición en Los Simpson en este episodio, en donde se burla de su punto de vista sobre la caza y la tenencia de armas. El episodio recibió reseñas generalmente positivas de los críticos de televisión y ha sido elogiado especialmente por su sátira de la política y los comentaristas de las noticias por cable. La cadena Fox emitió «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» en los Estados Unidos el 8 de enero de 2012 y obtuvo una audiencia de 5 070 000 personas. Recibió un índice de audiencia de Nielsen de 2.3.

Sinopsis
Después de una serie de humillantes procedimientos de verificación, la familia Simpson aborda un avión de Air Springfield para su viaje a la boda de un pariente en Montana. El piloto anuncia que debido a una fuga imprevista, se retrasará el viaje. Él les dice a los viajeros que debido a que el avión está todavía en el suelo, se apagará el sistema de ventilación. Sin embargo, todos los pasajeros a bordo étnicos todavía se les permiten comer su comida con olor extraño y después de varias horas el resto de los pasajeros se sientan enfermos. El piloto hace otro anuncio de que el avión va a rodar de nuevo a la puerta y permanecerán allí por una cantidad desconocida de tiempo y que los pasajeros no pueden bajar. Cuando Homer tiene prohibido usar el baño, su ira hierve y despotrica sobre el terrible tratamiento de la aerolínea a sus pasajeros. Bart graba un vídeo de Homer corriendo frenéticamente y escapando del avión a través del ala. Sube el vídeo a YouTube y rápidamente se vuelve popular.

Homer es invitado a decir lo que piensa en un popular programa de noticias por cable llamado Butt-Head, donde el anfitrión Nash Castor y la comentarista Adriatica Vel Johnson sostienen que él pronto se olvidará. Sin embargo, Homer hace una queja convincente en el que le dice a los espectadores que a diferencia de los fanfarrones de la televisión como Nash y Adriatica, habla del hombre común. Cuando culmina, los ejecutivos de la red de cable dan a Homer su propio programa de televisión llamada Gut Check with Homer Simpson, donde ofrece una mezcla de ideas conservadoras y populistas. Durante un episodio, derrama la «salsa de la libertad» sobre un filete que tiene la forma de los Estados Unidos; el aderezo es una metáfora que representa las cosas que hacen grande el país. Luego, alienta a sus lectores a «subirse al barco» para protestar por las cosas malas de la sociedad, y coloca un barco de aderezo sobre su cabeza. Esta acción hace que los estadounidenses promedio lo apoyen en gran medida y pronto el «movimiento del barco de aderezo» se populariza a lo ancho del país.

Cuando Homer es elegido por los republicanos para elegir a su candidato para las próximas elecciones presidenciales, su falta de interés en los actuales candidatos lo lleva a elegir a Ted Nugent. Invita a Nugent para una visita a casa de los Simpson, donde Lisa se queja de que Homer ha realizado la elección equivocada, ya que Nugent está «fuera de su mente». Más tarde ese día, Homer tiene un sueño en el que James Madison le muestra cómo los últimos presidentes estadounidenses están avergonzados de él. Cuando se despierta, le dice a Lisa que ya no apoyará a Nugent como presidente. A continuación, ve un folleto sobre su vestidor con un hombre haciéndose pasar por un presidente y ofrecer ayuda con sueños falsos. Homer se da cuenta de que la familia fingió su sueño para convencerlo de no votar a Nugent. Como resultado, enfadado, decide ir a la televisión y expresar su apoyo a Nugent. Sin embargo, cuando trata de usar su capacidad de llorar cada vez que comenta algo por televisión, descubre que no puede aflorar esas emociones porque no cree por completo en lo que está diciendo. Homer anuncia por televisión que es un mentiroso y se reconcilia con Lisa. Como resultado, Nugent pierde su posición como candidato presidencial del partido republicano. El episodio termina cuando Nugent canta una canción sobre cómo habría sido su presidencia.

Producción

John Frink y Mark Kirkland escribieron y dirigieron «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson», respectivamente. El músico y activista político conservador Ted Nugent fue la estrella invitada en el episodio interpretándose a sí mismo, siempre y cuando su voz para tanto hablar y partes de canto. Su canción al final del episodio es similar a su sencillo «Cat Scratch Fever». De acuerdo con Kenneth Partridge de Noisecreep, el episodio se burla de Nugent «descaradamente a favor de las armas, a favor de la caza y la lucha contra todo lo que nos hace ser persona». Las características del episodio, entre otras cosas, Nugent tira un alce muerto a la mesa de la cena en casa de los Simpson, así como el uso de algunos de los amigos de la escuela de Bart como flechas para su arco. Nugent había hecho un cameo menor en el episodio de la decimonovena temporada «I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings» (2007). En ese episodio, su voz se escucha en una llamada telefónica e insta a la gente a no votar en una propuesta que haría ballestas ilegales en las escuelas públicas. Comenta: «Si proscribimos ballestas, ¿quién va a proteger a nuestros niños de la carga de alce?».

«Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» satiriza la industria de la televisión. Parodia programas políticos de televisión de los canales de noticias de cable como MSNBC, CNN y Fox News que son similares a Gut Check with Homer Simpson. En un artículo, James Crugnale de Mediaite comentó que la personalidad de Homer, como es el anfitrión de su programa, es una referencia al político conservador y comentarista Glenn Beck, una «persona excesiva», y escribió que «en una parodia inabarcable, descarada de Beck, Homer ostentosamente solloza lágrimas de cocodrilo mientras se lamenta que una escuela secundaria de Nebraska reemplaza el fútbol americano con el fútbol como un deporte de equipo». Adriatica Vel Johnson, la comentarista en el programa político que Homer aparece por primera vez en él, es una parodia a la comentarista Arianna Huffington.

Además, satiriza la política estadounidense e incluye varias referencias a las Primarias presidenciales del Partido Republicano de 2012. Por ejemplo, cuando Homer aparece en Butt-Head, el ticker de noticias cuenta con titulares como «Gingrich espera ganar su cuarta esposa...», «Rick Perry erróneamente firma orden de ejecutarse» y «Satanás apoya tweets de Santorum». En un momento del episodio, el personaje Ned Flanders comenta que apoya a Nugent, «siempre y cuando no sea un Mormón», que es una referencia a Mitt Romney. Hayden Childs de The A.V. Club escribió en una reseña que el movimiento político de Homer «es claramente una parodia al Partido del té», y señaló que «al igual que con las bolsitas de té del movimiento teabagger, gente de todas partes se mueven a llevar salseras en la cabeza [en el episodio]». Childs señaló también que un seguidor de Homer sostiene un cartel que hace referencia al movimiento Ocupar, el cual creía que era «un símbolo del deseo de la demostración de ser un delincuente de igualdad de oportunidades».

Lanzamiento
El episodio se transmitió originalmente en la cadena Fox en los Estados Unidos el 8 de enero de 2012. Obtuvo una audiencia de 5 070 000 personas y recibió una cuota de Nielsen de 2.3 dentro de la franja demográfica de 18 a 49. La clasificación fue una disminución del 23% desde el episodio anterior «Holidays of Future Passed», sin embargo, gran parte de «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» enfrentó fuerte competencia desde el final de un partido de eliminación directa de la CBS, National Football League playoffs. El episodio se convirtió en la segunda emisión de mayor audiencia en alineación dentro del grupo de Fox Animation Domination para la noche de ambos espectadores totales y adultos mayores, y tuvo más espectadores que los nuevos episodios de American Dad y The Cleveland Show pero menos que el nuevo episodio de Padre de familia.

Recepción

Desde su emisión, «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» recibió reseñas positivas por parte de los críticos. Steve Newton de The Georgia Straight lo llamó «uno de los más divertidos episodios de Los Simpson que he visto en un rato». En un artículo sobre el episodio, James Crugnale de Mediaite comentó que «los escritores de Los Simpson se han superado ellos mismos esta noche, con estas parodias sin restricciones exageradas y traviesas de algunas personalidades de noticias por cable». Hayden Childs de The A.V. Club pensó que era un «episodio sólido» que alcanzó su punto máximo en el medio con la sátira de la política. Tenía sentimientos encontrados sobre la primera parte del episodio que gira en torno a viajes de la aerolínea, y criticó la fluctuante calidad de las bromas. Escribió que «el guionista John Frink es capaz de extraer algunos gags moderadamente divertidos entre unos pocos apestosos». Childs además criticó la aparición de Nugent en el tercer acto, y señaló que «cae plano cuando el espectáculo no puede decidir cómo burlarse [Nugent] sin ofenderle realmente» y la secuencia del sueño falso, que describió como «triste y sin comedia». Llegó a la conclusión de que «Los Simpson ha hecho abundante sátira de la política en los últimos años y todavía no puede mejorar con respecto al episodio de la temporada seis, "Sideshow Bob Roberts"». Aunque la sección central del episodio tuvo momentos en los que se encontraban en la misma liga. En febrero de 2012, Matt Zoller Seitz de la revista New York catalogó «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» como uno de los «nueve episodios de Los Simpson que lucha por los principios clásicos».

Véase también
 Política en Los Simpson

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 «Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson» en Internet Movie Database (en inglés)

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Situated on the Oslo fjord, Oslo, Norway, is what I call the perfect little city. Because of its compact size, you can walk from the waterfront to the city center in just 20 minutes. With my hotel, the Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel, just a few blocks off the water, I found this to be the perfect starting point for my explorations. As I explored, I encountered several not-to-be-missed stops for every visitor to this Scandinavian capital.
During your stay, take time to explore the city and stroll Karl Johans gate, Oslo's main street. Along the way, I enjoyed the antics of street performers, took a respite in one of the area's small parks and strolled through the grounds of the Royal Palace. You'll also find shops, boutiques and cafes, all hawking quite a selection of wares. All in all, it's a wonderful place to spend a few hours enjoying the great outdoors.
In addition, you must check out Oslo's museums that chronicle much of the country's history on and around the water. For example, at the Viking Ship Museum, you'll see three of the best preserved Viking ships around, along with a wealth of unique and interesting finds that give a glimpse into the lives of the folks of this era. Also amazing is the Kon-Tiki Museum, where you'll learn about Thor Heyerdahal's famous expeditions on such boats as the Kon-Tiki (a balsa raft), Ra (a papyrus vessel) and Tigris (a reed boat). Reading the stories of this scientist and adventurer was not only interesting, but also mind-boggling.
When planning a trip to Europe, consider a visit to Copenhagen, Denmark. Water is a major player in Copenhagen, where you'll find a wonderful blend of ancient city streets and lively canals, all intertwined to create this capital. And although 1.7 million live in the greater Copenhagen area, this city is actually quite an intimate locale, making it fun and easy to discover.
A great way to see this city is via a canal tour. Lasting about an hour, my tour with DFDS Canal Tours took me throughout the city, with the guide pointing out many of the city's attractions and historical sites. One such site is The Little Mermaid. Touted as Denmark's most popular tourist attraction, The Little Mermaid is the subject of one of Hans Christian Andersen's most famous fairy tales (long before Disney romanticized it for children). Presented to Copenhagen in 1913 by the Carlsberg Brewery, she sits forlornly, overlooking the water as she mourns her lost love.
For more entertainment, head to Tivoli Gardens, an amusement park opened in 1843 that contains 25 rides, several performance venues and a number of restaurants. One such ride, The Flying Trunk, examines Andersen's fairy tales in an amusing way. Similar to Disney's "It's a Small World" ride, The Flying Trunk takes riders on a journey through 32 of Andersen's fairy tales. The fun part was seeing which ones I recognized and trying to figure out those I did not.
A Scandinavian capital getaway is just the starting point for exploring these countries. If you have the time to explore further, I definitely recommend going beyond the city limits to see what adventures you will discover.


What are the best Eco-friendly promotional products for Natural and Organic brands?
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Fagonia pachyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name sticky fagonbush. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico in Sonora and the Lower Colorado River Valley area at the California and Arizona border.

Description
Fagonia pachyacantha is a spreading perennial herb not more than  in height with very glandular stems and foliage. Each leaf is divided into three flat, green leaflets and there are straight, pointed, spine-like stipules at the base of each set.

Flowers, each about 1.5 centimeters wide, appear in the axils of the sparse leaves. The flower has five purplish pink petals with bases narrowed to thin claws. The fruit is a rounded capsule about half a centimeter long.

References

External links
Jepson Manual Treatment — Fagonia pachyacantha
Fagonia pachyacantha — U.C. Photo gallery

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Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of Sonora
Flora of Arizona
Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Natural history of the Lower Colorado River Valley
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This National School was built in 1846. The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor supported the building of National Schools on behalf of the Church of England. The original toilets were earth closets built against one of the walls. It is now run by Cornwall County Council.


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Cornet Island () is an island  northeast of Milnes Island along the west side of the Grandidier Channel, in the Biscoe Islands. It was first charted by the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–37 under John Rymill. The name, given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1959, is descriptive of the island's shape when seen from the air.

See also
 List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References

Islands of the Biscoe Islands


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Q: PyTorch 0.40 optimization issue I'm trying to optimize the following parameters by keeping the L param always lower triangular with a positive diagonal and the noise param always with just positive diagonal during optimization, but they are not correctly updating in the forward pass. I guess I'm doing something wrong with the autograd mechanism. Any help appreciated. Here is a sample snippet illustrating the problem -using fictional calculation- using PyTorch 0.40.
import torch
from torch.autograd import Variable
from torch.nn.parameter import Parameter
from torch.nn import ParameterList

class Model(torch.nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, dim):
        """
        Constructor.
        """
        super(Model, self).__init__()

        self.noise_vector = Parameter(torch.tensor(torch.zeros(D).cuda(), requires_grad=True))
        self.noise = Parameter(torch.tensor(torch.diag(torch.exp(self.noise_vector.data)).cuda(), requires_grad=True))

        self.L_chol_cov_theta = Parameter(torch.tensor(torch.randn(dim, dim).cuda(), requires_grad=True))
        self.log_diag_L_chol_cov_theta = Parameter(torch.tensor(torch.randn(dim).cuda(), requires_grad=True))
        self.L = Parameter(torch.tensor(torch.randn(dim, dim).cuda(), requires_grad=True))
        self.L_chol_cov_theta.data = torch.tril(self.L_chol_cov_theta.data)
        self.L_chol_cov_theta.data -= torch.diag(torch.diag(self.L_chol_cov_theta.data))
        self.L.data = self.L_chol_cov_theta.data + torch.diag(torch.exp(self.log_diag_L_chol_cov_theta.data))

    def forward(self):
        # update parameters
        self.L_chol_cov_theta.data -= torch.diag(torch.diag(self.L_chol_cov_theta.data))
        self.L.data = self.L_chol_cov_theta.data + torch.diag(torch.exp(self.log_diag_L_chol_cov_theta.data))

        self.noise.data = torch.diag(torch.exp(self.noise_vector.data))

        return torch.mm(self.L, self.noise_vector.view(-1,-1))

 model = Model(5)
 optimizer = torch.optim.SGD(filter(lambda p: p.requires_grad, model.parameters()), lr=1e-3)

for epoch in range(10):
   optimizer.zero_grad()
   forward_pass_something = model()
   loss = calc_likelihood(samples, a_ground_truth) # calc a custom loss
   loss.backward()
   optimizer.step()


Posted by kishosingh in Google AdWords.
Google launched AdWords in October 2002. AdWords is a service by Google to advertise online products or services on Google. It offers Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising for text and image both. It distribute advertisement local, national, and international on Google.
Now, Google has increased searches on local based also. You can go through language searches also on Google like – Hindi, Bengali, English, Spanish etc. Like these you can search your product on geographical basis also like – .co.uk., .com, .co.in, .de etc.
Advertisement with AdWords is a part of online marketing now. People regularly comes on web to search a products or buy a products similarly the products owner in the competitive market want a higher position on the search engines (especially in Google) by the targeted keywords. In this situation AdWords are needed to popularizes or advertise the product on Google.
Online Marketing is related to search engines and web sites. No doubt most popular search engine is Google and people want their site in the search engine in #1 ranking by the targeted keywords but it is not easy. In this context we can discuss that Google produce two types of searches (however, Yahoo and MSN or other search engines also produce two types of searches) – Sponserd listing and Organic Listing.
Sponsered listing is the AdWords campaign while Organic listing is SEO campaign. SEO activity takes time to get #1 ranking in search engines while Sponsered listing takes no time if you have money to invest in Adwords programme.
Here we have to discuss only Adwords so, I can not elaborate more about SEO. Now, I am going to write step by step by AdWords.
AdWords Programme run by business companies mainly to advertise business and services on the Google. I have already explain that to run AdWords campaign there is need of money. But the AdWords guide learn you how to invest your money properly to get more sales and more leads.
You can say AdWords is the campaign of generating more sales and more leads. The campaign run on ROI (Return On Investment) and you have to decide what is your CTR (Click Through Ratio). If you have a business and want to run an AdWords campaign then what you will think? I think you need more return whatever you invest.
I think AdWords is not only a programme of earning sales but also it is a programme of popularizing a products and services to the customer and users. You have to run the programme in effective to create trust within people to your site. It is the campaign for new users and customers to let them aware towards your services and site. If you once do that your ROI will be high and investment will be low. But the practice will take time.
For example – if you advertise a site by AdWords campaign. A user come to your site by clicking on that but second time when he come to your site not click on the AdWords adsens, he comes by typing your websites name. It is the right advertisement.
It is the general thought but you need more advertisement and more money then what should you have to do. You can choose Yahoo, MSN or others way to advertise your site. But I am talking here about Google AdWords because I have found that more sales and more lead generation done by Google advertising. So, no doubt I will go with Adwords.
If you don't derive targeted traffic by AdWords campaign, it means your investment is high and return is low.
You need to research your market 1st.
You need place that URL what products you are advertising not home page.
You need to know about keywords what the customers are searching.
You can use Google keywords tools to analyze keywords for your site or products.
It is not important that you are including always high traffic keywords in your adwords programme. Important thing is what keywords are deriving sales.
With the Google AdWords you have to work as sales man. You need to focus Title, Landing page, Keywords and ad writing.


Kyle and Eric sit down with Beth Breger, Executive Director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA), to talk about how LEDA is helping more diverse students attend our nation's most selective colleges. Also joining us in swampED studios is LEDA Scholar and Georgetown University student, Jarian Lee. As always we end with our Moment of Hope.


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You can skip this section if you are not interested in **automated
testing**.

By writing unit test, we can test **PersonAppService.GetPeople** method
without creating a user interface. We write unit test in .**Tests**
project in the solution.

## MultiTenancy In Tests

Since we disabled multitenancy, we should disable it for unit tests too.
Open **PhoneBookDemoConsts** class in the Acme.PhoneBook.Core project
and set "**MultiTenancyEnabled**" to false. After a rebuild and run unit
tests, you will see that some tests are skipped (those are related to
multitenancy).

Let's create first test to verify getting people without any filter:

```csharp
using Acme.PhoneBookDemo.People;
using Acme.PhoneBookDemo.People.Dtos;
using Shouldly;
using Xunit;

namespace Acme.PhoneBookDemo.Tests.People
{
    public class PersonAppService_Tests : AppTestBase
    {
        private readonly IPersonAppService _personAppService;

        public PersonAppService_Tests()
        {
            _personAppService = Resolve<IPersonAppService>();
        }

        [Fact]
        public void Should_Get_All_People_Without_Any_Filter()
        {
            //Act
            var persons = _personAppService.GetPeople(new GetPeopleInput());

            //Assert
            persons.Items.Count.ShouldBe(2);
        }
    }
}
```

We derived test class from **AppTestBase**. AppTestBase class
initializes all system, creates an in-memory fake database, seeds
initial data (that we created before) to database and logins to
application as admin. So, this is actually an **integration test** since
it tests all server-side code from entity framework mapping to
application services, validation and authorization.

In constructor, we get (resolve) an **IPersonAppService** from
**dependency injection** container. It creates the **PersonAppService**
class with all dependencies. Then we can use it in test methods.

Since we're using [xUnit](http://xunit.github.io/), we add **Fact**
attribute to each test method. In the test method, we called
**GetPeople** method and checked if there are **two people** in the
returned list as we know that there were 2 people in **initial**
database.

Let's run the **all unit tests** in Test Explorer and see if it works:

<img src="images/phone-book-unit-test-success-2.png" alt="xUnit unit test success" class="img-thumbnail" />

As you see, it worked **successfully**. Now, we know that
PersonAppService works properly without any filter. Let's add a new unit
test to get filtered people:

```csharp
[Fact]
public void Should_Get_People_With_Filter()
{
    //Act
    var persons = _personAppService.GetPeople(
        new GetPeopleInput
        {
            Filter = "adams"
        });

    //Assert
    persons.Items.Count.ShouldBe(1);
    persons.Items[0].Name.ShouldBe("Douglas");
    persons.Items[0].Surname.ShouldBe("Adams");
}
```

Again, since we know initial database, we can check returned results
easily. Here, initial test data is important. When we change initial
data, our test may fail even if our services are correct. So, it's
better to write unit tests independent of initial data as much as
possible. We could check incoming data to see if every people contains
"adams" in his/her name, surname or email. Thus, if we add new people to
initial data, our tests remain working.

There are many techniques on unit testing, I kept it simple here. But
ASP.NET Zero template makes very easy to write unit and integration
tests by base classes and pre-build test codes.

## Next

- [Creating Person Application Service](Developing-Step-By-Step-Angular-Creating-Person-Application-Service)


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5 Ways The World Undermines Teen Girls' Confidence
Lydia Bugg ·
A survey recently found that the average teenage girl is far less confident than the average teenage boy. (If you want to put a number on it, they're about 30% less confident.) But it's not that way from birth. That drop in confidence begins around the age of 12, when they officially cross the threshold from girl to the dreaded tween. As for why self-doubt suddenly arrives along with the hormones, maybe it's because ...
They're Taught That Their Job Is To Please Other People
Our school system is designed to reward children who obey, because when a teacher tells a child to get in line, we need them to say "OK," and not "It's all love, but I'm going to follow my own truth and try to crawl out this window instead." But it seems like there's less tolerance for girls who rebel than boys, as if the latter are expected to be back-talking scamps every now and then. Girls, meanwhile, are all supposed to be sensible Hermiones.
That's at least partly because we're trained to be caregivers. Sure, you might find a pink dirtbike in the girls toy section, but there are still going to be a lot more kitchen sets and toy sewing machines. I once had a beloved toy vacuum. All the fun of real vacuuming -- which is to say, none!
Socializing girls to be caregivers, to cook and clean and raise plastic baby dolls to grow into plastic disappointing adults, means teaching them to care what other people think. There's less room to mess up because, it's implied, the stakes are higher. Everyone is depending on you!
So once a girl hits puberty, society suddenly has a bunch of opinions about what we should wear, who we should socialize with, what our aspirations should be. And above all else, we're taught to worry constantly about what other people think, even if that's going to have our head spinning in every direction trying to decide what version of a teenage girl we should be to make the least amount of people hate us. As we're about to find out, it's impossible to win that game.
'Celebrity Book Curator' Is A Job, Because Rich People Suck
They're Trained To Ruthlessly Scrutinize, And Compete With, Each Other
I saw a recent headline in Psychology Today that read "Teenage Girls Are Exposed To More Stressors That Increase Depression," and thought that the most stressful thing teenage girls encounter is probably other teenage girls, which it turns out was the crux of the article. It said that research found that teenage girls are more likely to encounter "stressful interpersonal events" (aka fights).
When I was in high school, there was a ponytail cold war. One girl, we'll call her Madison, added a french braid into the top of her ponytail. Not to be outdone, her friend Kendra adds two french braids. Madison did a third french braid at the back of her head. Kendra curled her ponytail. Madison added glitter spray. Kendra did glitter spray and butterfly clips. Soon, all the girls in my class were getting up an hour earlier every day to wrench their hair into french braid supremacy. You know how in The Good Place, Michael's big innovation in torture is to get the humans to torture each other? That's essentially what this was.
Why were we mentally and physically exhausting each other with complicated and frankly hideous hair requirements? Because we want to be the best -- not the strongest or the toughest, but the prettiest and coolest. Everything, even fashion, became a competition. We were going to hair the fuck out of each other. We knew we weren't supposed to outwardly show aggression (everyone instead talks about how girls are "catty" to each other), so this was our method of punching one another in the gut.
5 Really Specific Things Movies Are Stealing From Each Other
They're Told They Need To Win The Approval Of Boys
I know what you're probably thinking. "No, we tell teenage girls to stay far away from teenage boys, with their boy smells and boy boners. They are gross. Our sweet daughters must avoid them at all costs." Except every young girl wants to be Eleven in Stranger Things, Hermione in Harry Potter, Sandy in SpongeBob SquarePants, or Wonder Woman. When I was growing up, if the story I was watching wasn't exclusively about female friendship, it was probably going to have exactly one female character in it. Her role in the group was "girl," and her personality would be "plucky."
In a world that is changing in a very scary and chaotic way that is hard to explain if you're on the outside, it sure would be nice to have someone your own age going through the same changes you are. Instead, girls often isolate themselves from other girls. There's a couple of good reasons for that (like avoiding the ruthless competition mentioned before), but one is that they're busy trying to prove that they're worthy of attention and friendship from literally anyone but another teenage girl.
They want to be better than the average teenage girl, which society has decided is the most annoying demographic in the species. The average teenage girl, we're told, is a squealing, shallow, selfish dork who likes frivolous nonsense. You, then, want be the cool girl who isn't like the others ... while also continuing to excel at all of the things demanded of the girls you're trying not to be like.
You Don't Need Scorsese's Approval To Like Superhero Movies
They're Terrified Of Failure
Have you ever seen a girl get a B+ on a test and burst into tears? You could dismiss this as hormones or say that boys don't express disappointment that way for manly reasons, but it definitely feels like girls just have less room for error. There's a thing called stereotype threat, whereby a person from a certain group doesn't want to confirm a negative stereotype about that group. Less than a hundred years ago, women were still being told that our brains were too tiny and pink and cute for college. Hell, we're still being told that today -- just type "women are naturally dumber than men" into YouTube. (I'm kidding, please don't.)
If you beat yourself up enough about your shortcomings, you can become so terrified of failure that you become risk-adverse. That's a problem, because the thing about being afraid to fail is that you have to fail a lot before you can succeed. This fear of risk/failure as a teenager carries over into adulthood, and I think it's a big contributing factor to why we don't see more women in typically male-dominated fields.
I see other female writers do this to themselves all the time. Hell, I did this to myself for 28 years. That's why I only recently started writing professionally. I took every little criticism as a sign I just wasn't talented enough, and quit trying for long periods of time. It's much easier to do that than accept that you need to work more on something, and that for at least a while, you will be bad at it.
But that means giving yourself permission to fail and even disappoint other people, which means believing that you have worth regardless of how others judge your performance. And that, of course, goes against everything you've been taught about the importance of pleasing others. It also doesn't help that ...
Related: 6 Ways Society Is Designed To Screw Teenagers Every Day
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The "Inspirational" Stories We Feed Them Are Actually Pretty Depressing
There are all these books now for young girls that are called things like Rebel Girls Kicking Society In The Dick Since 1300 BC. They're supposed to be full of inspirational stories of real women who changed the world, but it turns out that stories of women who changed the world end very differently from similar stories about men.
Every famous woman from history you read about has a story like "She started painting at age six and made 800 paintings before she died at 21, because after having nine babies, the doctor told her she was fine, but then one day her whole uterus just fell out." Or "She was brilliant, but her husband found her snoring mildly annoying, so he had her institutionalized and they cut out part of her brain, and then she didn't write much anymore." Meanwhile, famous men from history wrote three poems and died peacefully at the age of 80 from a really cool sex disease.
So at an age when society is trying to feed girls examples of what they can accomplish, they learn that Joan of Arc was inspiring, but also burned at the stake, and then burned a second and third time just to make sure no parts of her survived. "And if you're brave and smart and good, that can be you!"
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Alberto Guani Carrara (14 June 1877 – 26 November 1956) was a Uruguayan jurist, diplomat and the Vice President and President of the Senate from 1943 to 1947.

Alberto Guani was born in Montevideo on 14 June 1877. He studied law, and became a well-known lawyer specializing in International Law.
He studied law in Montevideo and, after obtaining a doctorate in law, he taught at the University of Montevideo. Early in his career Dr. Guani wrote about political and economic issues at El Siglo and El Tiempo newspapers, as well as writing for other publications. After becoming a lawyer, Dr. Guani partnered with Dr. Eduardo Acevedo and established his law firm, taking the first divorce cases in the country since divorce had just been legalised by the progressive José Batlle y Ordóñez presidency.

Career
In Uruguayan politics, Guani was a member of the Colorado Party. As a member of the Colorado Party, Guani began his parliamentary career in 1907. He was elected as State Representative in 1907–1910 periods, and became a member of the Chamber of Deputies or State Representative equivalent throughout 1910.

Guani became the first Delegate of Uruguay to the League of Nations and was subsequently elected by his peers to the presidency of the Council Assembly in 1927. He was the first Uruguayan to dictate a course on International Law at the Academy in The Hague. Earlier in 1920 when the nations of the world met at the San Remo Conference, the Uruguayan representative, Dr. Alberto Guani, expressed himself in favor of Jewish aspirations in Palestine and fervently supported the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, milestone fundamental in the creation of the Israeli state.

Guani entered the diplomatic service, and served as Uruguay's Plenipotentiary Minister in Austria-Hungary and Switzerland (1911), in Belgium and the Netherlands (1913), in France (1925–1926), and in the United Kingdom (1936–1938). Additionally, he served as Uruguay's representative at the League of Nations.

Dr. Guani was appointed Foreign Minister by Alfredo Baldomir, and served in that office from 1938 to 1943.
Guani fought against fascism at the Pan American Conference (1938), at the Third Consultation Meeting (1941), he established the basis for the fulfillment of inter-American military agreements, through the statutes declared on the "Guani Doctrine".
Between 1939 and 1943 Guani was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. As Chancellor of the Republic of Uruguay during the presidency of Alfredo Baldomir, Guani was instrumental in the diplomatic battle that arose with the German battleship Graf Spee. The German battleship sought refuge at the shores of Uruguay in what came to be known as the Battle of the River Plate on Dec 13, 1939.

In the November 1942 elections, Guani was selected as the running-mate of Juan José de Amézaga when they won the primary of the Colorado Party. Duly elected, he was Uruguay's Vice President from 1943 to 1947, succeeding Alfredo Navarro in that office. He was himself succeeded in 1947 by Luis Batlle Berres in the office of Vice President of Uruguay.

Guani was the author of several texts among them; The Italian Homeland and The Budget of the Republic and several important Conferences and Courses.

Death and legacy
Alberto Guani died in Montevideo on November 26, 1956.

Guani was the third person to hold the office of Vice President of Uruguay. The office dates from 1934. Among the various holders of the historically intermittent office of Vice President of Uruguay, Guani arguably stands apart from most other holders in that he is chiefly remembered for his achievements (in his case, distinguished diplomacy) prior to taking the office. Unlike some other prominent office-holders, he has also relatively escaped criticism for having served the Administration of Gabriel Terra, who ruled by decree.

References

External links

 Biography of Dr. Alberto Guani

See also
 Politics of Uruguay
 Colorado Party (Uruguay)
 Vice President of Uruguay

1877 births
1956 deaths
People from Montevideo
Foreign ministers of Uruguay
Vice presidents of Uruguay
Presidents of the Senate of Uruguay
Uruguayan vice-presidential candidates
Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians
Ambassadors of Uruguay to Austria-Hungary
Ambassadors of Uruguay to Switzerland
Ambassadors of Uruguay to Belgium
Ambassadors of Uruguay to the Netherlands
Ambassadors of Uruguay to France
Ambassadors of Uruguay to the United Kingdom
Uruguay in World War II
Politicians from Montevideo
Academic staff of the University of Montevideo


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times when distraction was more needed than advice.
at a time when it would have been useless to lash it.
noon Lectures on Literature and Art.
had come from Macedonia of the death of Euripides.
town the news of the overthrow on the Hellespont.
them, the best poet that could be found below.
never be so shown forth again.
dead, having come down just after Euripides.
him ; and ^schylus yielded the throne to him.
of a real critic, pointed out his place as a poet.
called his irony, and his art of drawing character.
heroes implied enfeeblement of belief in the gods.
Christ this belief in the heroes was real and living.
had been with their fathers at Troy.
genuinely historical inspiration felt by a Greek.
the drama of the collision between East and West.
of the age acted on the belief in the heroic legends.
For Herodotus himself, the heroes are still godlike.
common pride of the Greek race are true demigods.
line. But the essential reason appears to be another.
is even as Prometheus facing Zeus.
far as it failed, has not always been accurately stated.
that this theory is either false or doubtful.
still remains generic, a type rather than a portrait.
of the drama are ever under the directly manifested.
immediately felt control of the gods and of fate.
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Five thoughts after Dallas falls on the road to a feisty Pacers team 106-93
Dallas failed to match the home team's energy all night.
By Matt Lyle Dec 10, 2021, 8:53pm CST
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Domantis Sabonis was a handful under the basket.
The Dallas Mavericks suffered another disappointing loss, falling 103 to 96 Friday night to the Indiana Pacers in Indiana. The Mavericks only occasionally matched the Pacer's energy and the home team was able to pull away in the last five minutes of the game. Luka Doncic scored 27 points and Kristaps Porzingis had 22 in the losing effort while Caris Lavert had 26 and Domantis Sabonis dominated the paint with 24 points and ten rebounds to lead the Pacers.
The Mavericks started the game strong behind their two stars. Kristaps Porzingis was hitting 3's, Luka Doncic was finishing at the basket and hitting free throws(!), and the team was scrambling on defense.
A couple of live ball turnovers by the Mavericks bench early in the 2nd quarter led to easy fast break points and got Indiana going from the field. The Pacers hit their first 9 shots in the period to push ahead of Dallas and led by as many as 9 in the frame.
Luka checked back into the game and helped right the ship by repeatedly bullying Pacers defenders in the post and passing to teammates for dunks. Dallas briefly took the lead back at the end of the period before Myles Turner's rainbow 3 gave Indiana a two point lead 56-54 at the half.
The 3rd quarter followed a similar script. Indiana came out hot again to start and threatened to extend their lead but the Dallas bench closed strong to give the Mavs a lead until a Caris Lavert 3 pointer put Indiana up by 2 with a second left on the clock.
The beginning of the final quarter proved trouble for the Mavs again. The Mavericks desperately needed to match the Pacers energy who were pounding them on the offensive glass. Indiana pushed their lead up to 7 points before Kidd called a timeout and reset the teams' focus. The Mavs answered with a run of their own to tie the game at 87.
The Mavericks went cold from the field for the rest of the game and Indiana pulled away for the comfortable final score.
Our observations on the game:
What is a shooting rhythm?
The Mavs aren't sure. It's been a while since they've had one. We'd like to stop talking about 3 point shooting right? KP hit the Mavs first 2 three point attempts early in the game and Dallas didn't hit another 3 the rest of the half. They went 2 for 13 from deep in the first half. The Mavs shot 13.8% for the game.
Could Reggie Bullock carry over the rhythm he had in Wednesday's victory over the Memphis Grizzlies? He went 0-2 in this one. Tim Hardaway Jr. went 1-9. Luka was 1-8. KP was 2 for 6.
The Mavericks were able to keep pace early by attacking the basket but when that wasn't there late in the game, their jump shots couldn't save them. Again.
The Starting Lineup
A Maverick starter not named Luka or Kristaps didn't score a single point until 7:42 in the 3rd quarter when Dorian Finney-Smith hit a floater in the lane. That's zero points from three starters in more than an half. The trio of Dorian, Dwight Powell, and Reggie Bullock went 2 for 6 for the game. Meanwhile the Pacers had four starters in double figures and the fifth starter Chris Duarte only fell 2 points shy.
This team clearly has lost confidence in their shot. And tonight it looked like Luka only had confidence in himself and KP. The Mavs simply need to get more from the rest of the starters one way or another.
The bench duo of Jalen Brunson and Tim Hardaway took up some of the slack by combining for 29 points as Dallas' bench outscored Indiana's bench 38 to 19 but it wasn't enough tonight.
No Rick Reunion
A case of COVID-19 kept us from seeing Rick Carlisle (get well, soon!) roaming the sidelines for what would have been his first game coaching against his former team since his unexpected departure this summer. Whether you were fascinated by the matchup against an old friend, or if you're a 7' 3" Latvian who was going to try to drop 50 on him, you're sorely disappointed at his absence. His new team played with great energy throughout the game.
Favorite play of the night
It seems like Dallas has to work SO hard to get good shots and they struggle to score in transition. That's why the occasional easy transition bucket is such a breath of fresh air. As the Mavericks were making their run in the 2nd quarter, Luka rebounded an Indiana miss and immediately fired a chest pass the length of the court to a streaking Tim Hardaway Jr. who finished with the easy slam. Not only are plays like that an easy 2 points, but the energy it provides the bench and the crowd if you're at home can't be overstated. For one possession the Mavs looked fast and athletic!
Least favorite play of the night
With Dallas trailing by 3 with 5 minutes to go in the game Jalen Brunson drove to the lane, stopped, and found a well-covered Dorian who dribbled poorly, kind of towards the basket, nearly lost it, and passed it to a well-covered Powell who nearly lost it be was able to get it back to a well-covered Dorian again who immediately travelled. Indiana scored on their next three trips down the court.


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Гра́йи, Граи, Форкиады ( «старухи») — три сестры, одна из нескольких троиц архаичных богинь древнегреческой мифологии, Форкиды (дочери Форкия и Кето, сёстры горгон и гесперид).

По «Теогонии» Гесиода, их только две: Пемфредо и Энио.

По Псевдо-Аполлодору, три :
 Дейно, Дино = Оса () — дрожь. Гесиод её не упоминает. По версии, она родила от Сперхея офрийских нимф.
 Пемфредо, иногда Пефредо или Порфредо = Буря () — тревога.
 Энио Злоба () — ужас, имела также эпитет «разорительница городов», упоминается как спутница Ареса.

По некоторым авторам, одну из грай звали Персидой (дочь Форкия и Кето) либо Персо.

Грайи были древними старухами, олицетворением старости, хотя Гесиод эвфемистически именовал их «прекрасноланитными». Эсхил в «Прометее прикованном» говорит о них: «на вид как лебеди, но с общим глазом, и один-единственный у каждой зуб. Лучами никогда на них не смотрит солнце, месяц не глядит в ночи». Грайи имели один глаз и один зуб на троих, а также с рождения обладали седыми волосами. Их посетила Ио.

Персей похитил у них глаз (и, по некоторым источникам, зуб), Согласно Эсхилу, Персей выследил их в миг передачи глаза и забросил его в Тритоново болото. Грайи вынуждены были указать ему дорогу к Медузе Горгоне (или, в другом варианте мифа, к нимфам , у которых Персей добыл крылатые сандалии, мешок и волшебный шлем-невидимку Аида; в ещё одном варианте все эти магические предметы Персей забрал у граий как выкуп за их глаз).

По рационалистической интерпретации мифа, у царя Форка был друг по имени Глаз (Офталм), которому доверяли сестры. По другим, три ослепшие женщины, у которых был один поводырь.

В литературе и искусстве
Действующие лица трагедий Эсхила «Форкиды» (фр.261 Радт, всё действие в Аиде), Тимокла и неизвестного автора «Форкиды».

Под именем «Форкиады» Грайи появляются в «Фаусте» Гёте; Мефистофель принимает облик одной из них.

Грайи также имеют место в компьютерной игре «Titan Quest», в дополнении «Immortal Throne». Герой игрока должен убить Грай, забрать их единственный глаз и отдать его волшебнице Медее, чтобы она открыла герою дорогу в царство Аида.

Цитаты
Граий прекрасноланитных от Форкия Кето родила.
Прямо седыми они родились. Потому и зовут их
Граями боги и люди. Их двое, — одета в изящный
Пеплос одна, Пемфредо, Энио же, другая, — в шафранный.

Персей, руководимый Гермесом и Афиной, прибыл к дочерям Форка — Энио, Пефредо и Дино. Они происходили от Кето и Форка, были сестрами Горгон и старухами от рождения. На всех трех они имели один зуб и один глаз и обменивались ими поочередно. Персей овладел этим зубом и глазом и, когда те стали просить его, чтобы он отдал похищенное, пообещал, если они укажут ему дорогу, ведущую к нимфам. Эти нимфы имели крылатые сандалии и заплечную сумку под названием κιβισις; была у них и шапка. Когда дочери Форка привели его к нимфам, он отдал им глаз и зуб, а от нимф получил то, ради чего старался к ним проникнуть.

Трагический поэт Эсхил рассказывает в «Форкидах», что Грайи были стражницами Горгон; об этом мы говорили в I книге «Генеалогий». Считают, что на всех у них был только один глаз и что они, поочередно обмениваясь им, несли стражу. Персей выхватил этот глаз, когда они передавали его друг другу, и забросил в Тритоново болото. Поэтому, ослепив стражниц, он легко убил спящую Горгону Медузу.

И повествует Персей, что лежит под холодным Атлантом
Место одно, а его защищает скалистая глыба,
И что в проходе к нему обитают тройничные сестры,
Форка дочери, глаз же один им служит, всем общий.
Как он, хитро, изловчась, при его передаче, тихонько
Руку подсунул свою, овладел тем глазом; и скалы,
Скрытые, смело пройдя с их страшным лесом трескучим,
К дому Горгон подступил…

Примечания

Литература

 Роберт Грейвс. Мифы древней Греции.

Мифические существа в древнегреческой мифологии


I usually take a studio every month, I like to play and I enjoy a challenge… so I shouted on all our models and MUA's and photographers and we got busy. 6 Wedding Dresses (you'll see them later), some weapons (you'll see these later too) and a whole lot of fun.
I took a couple of sheets in with me and this is what we did, this is sheet day in the studio!


We are Handcrafted Night Out. We believe that everyone can DIY with the proper tools and a little moral support. We stage low-key events in Raleigh-area bars, restaurants, and other small, local businesses that focus on making one or two crafts each night. We provide the tools, the supplies, the expert instruction and even buy your first drink. You bring your can-do spirit. Fly solo or bring friends!


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Q: ffmpeg: Generate video's thumbnail in original orientation in php I am trying to generate thumbnail from a video. My command is working fine but it is generating thumbnail in wrong orientation.
I want to keep same orientation of the video I am using.
Here is my command:
exec("ffmpeg  -i  567293a3a6b48.mp4 -ss   01:00  -vframes 1  thumbnail.jpg");

Also thumbnail does not contain any orientation info in exif data.

A: Having a similar issue and I found these commands:
ffmpeg -i input -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=0 -c copy output

or
ffmpeg -i input -metadata rotate=0 -c copy output

Found here: http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1293#p3523
This wasn't a fix for my project, maybe it will help you?  Additionally, I don't think this includes logic to determine if you need to rotate the image in the first place.