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/*////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// The main script binding functions
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////*/

#ifndef BINDINGS_ROOT_H
#define BINDINGS_ROOT_H

class asIScriptEngine;

namespace Ogitors
{
    static CBaseEditor *CreateEditorObjectImpl(CBaseEditor *parent, const Ogre::String& objecttypestring, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        OgitorsPropertyValueMap params;
        params["init"] = EMPTY_PROPERTY_VALUE;
        return root->CreateEditorObject(parent, objecttypestring, params, true, false);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static CBaseEditor *CreateEntityObjectImpl(CBaseEditor *parent, const Ogre::String& meshfile, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        OgitorsPropertyValueMap params;
        params["init"] = EMPTY_PROPERTY_VALUE;
        params["meshfile"] = Ogitors::OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING , Ogre::Any(meshfile));
        return root->CreateEditorObject(parent, "Entity Object", params, true, false);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static CTerrainPageEditor *CreateTerrainPageImpl(int X, int Y, const Ogre::String& diffuse, const Ogre::String& normal, Ogre::Real worldSize, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        CTerrainGroupEditor *terGroup = static_cast<CTerrainGroupEditor *>(OgitorsRoot::getSingletonPtr()->FindObject("Terrain Group"));
        if(!terGroup)
            return 0;

        OgitorsPropertyValueMap params;

        Ogre::String pagename = terGroup->getPageNamePrefix();
        pagename += Ogre::StringConverter::toString(X);
        pagename += "x";
        pagename += Ogre::StringConverter::toString(Y);

        params["init"] = EMPTY_PROPERTY_VALUE;
        params["name"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING, Ogre::Any(pagename));
        params["position"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_VECTOR3, Ogre::Any(terGroup->getPagePosition(X, Y)));
        params["pagex"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_INT, Ogre::Any(X));
        params["pagey"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_INT, Ogre::Any(Y));
        if(diffuse.empty())
            params["layer0::diffusespecular"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING, Ogre::Any(Ogre::String("dirt_grayrocky_diffusespecular.dds")));
        else
            params["layer0::diffusespecular"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING, Ogre::Any(diffuse));
        if(normal.empty())
            params["layer0::normalheight"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING, Ogre::Any(Ogre::String("dirt_grayrocky_normalheight.dds")));
        else
            params["layer0::normalheight"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_STRING, Ogre::Any(normal));
        if(worldSize == 0.0f)
            params["layer0::worldsize"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_REAL, Ogre::Any((Ogre::Real)25.0f));
        else
            params["layer0::worldsize"] = OgitorsPropertyValue(PROP_REAL, Ogre::Any(worldSize));

        return (CTerrainPageEditor*)OgitorsRoot::getSingletonPtr()->CreateEditorObject(terGroup,"Terrain Page Object", params, true, true);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetTerrainDiffuseTextureNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetTerrainDiffuseTextureNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 1;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetTerrainNormalTextureNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetTerrainNormalTextureNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 1;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetTerrainPlantMaterialNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetTerrainPlantMaterialNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 0;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetScriptNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetScriptNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 0;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetMaterialNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetMaterialNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 0;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetModelNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetModelNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 1;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetSkyboxMaterials(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetSkyboxMaterials();
        for(unsigned int i = 1;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    static void GetLayerNames(Ogre::StringVector& list, OgitorsRoot* root)
    {
        list.clear();
        PropertyOptionsVector *source = OgitorsRoot::GetLayerNames();
        for(unsigned int i = 0;i < source->size();i++)
            list.push_back((*source)[i].mKey);
    }
    //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    void RegisterRootBindings(asIScriptEngine *engine)
    {
        int r;
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getObjectList(const string &in, EditorVector &out)", asMETHODPR(OgitorsRoot, GetObjectList, (const Ogre::String&, ObjectVector&),void), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getObjectList(EditorType, EditorVector &out)", asMETHODPR(OgitorsRoot, GetObjectList, (unsigned int, ObjectVector&),void), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getObjectListByName(EditorType, const string &in, bool, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetObjectListByName), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getObjectListByProperty(EditorType, const string &in, bool, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetObjectListByProperty), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getObjectListByCustomProperty(EditorType, const string &in, bool, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetObjectListByCustomProperty), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void regexpByName(const string &in, bool, EditorVector &in, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, RegExpByName), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void regexpByProperty(const string &in, bool, EditorVector &in, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, RegExpByProperty), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void regexpByCustomProperty(const string &in, bool, EditorVector &in, EditorVector &out)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, RegExpByCustomProperty), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool terminateScene()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, TerminateScene), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool isSceneLoaded()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, IsSceneLoaded), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool isSceneModified()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, IsSceneModified), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool setSceneModified(bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, SetSceneModified), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool changeSceneModified(bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, ChangeSceneModified), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void update(float)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, Update), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool saveScene(bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, SaveScene), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "int loadScene(string)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, LoadScene), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "bool getWorldSpaceGizmoOrientation(bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetWorldSpaceGizmoOrientation), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void setWorldSpaceGizmoOrientation(bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, SetWorldSpaceGizmoOrientation), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "BaseEditor@ findObject(string, uint)", asMETHODPR(OgitorsRoot, FindObject, (Ogre::String, unsigned int), CBaseEditor*), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "ViewportEditor@ getViewport()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetViewport), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "MultiSelection@ getSelection()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetSelection), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "TerrainGroupEditor@ getTerrainEditor()", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, GetTerrainEditorObject), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void destroyObject(BaseEditor@, bool, bool)", asMETHOD(OgitorsRoot, DestroyEditorObject), asCALL_THISCALL);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "BaseEditor@ createObject(BaseEditor@, const string &in)", asFUNCTION(CreateEditorObjectImpl), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "EntityEditor@ createEntityObject(BaseEditor@, const string &in)", asFUNCTION(CreateEntityObjectImpl), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "TerrainPageEditor@ createTerrainPage(int, int, const string &in, const string &in, float)", asFUNCTION(CreateTerrainPageImpl), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getMaterialNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetMaterialNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getSkyboxMaterialNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetSkyboxMaterials), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getModelNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetModelNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getLayerNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetLayerNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getScriptNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetScriptNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getTerrainDiffuseTextureNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetTerrainDiffuseTextureNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getTerrainNormalTextureNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetTerrainNormalTextureNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
        r = engine->RegisterObjectMethod("OgitorsRoot", "void getTerrainPlantMaterialNames(StringVector &out)", asFUNCTION(GetTerrainPlantMaterialNames), asCALL_CDECL_OBJLAST);assert(r >= 0);
    }

};

#endif


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Q: Problem with the Bitmap to take screenshots
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*I have this line of code for taking screenshots I take the screenshot but somethimes the image only show a white backgroud and doesn't show the full color of the image how can I solve this?

*Postdata I have other question with the fullcode Problem with taking screenshots with the media projection android studio and I discover that the problem happened with this line of code.

bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(mWidth+rowPadding/pixelStride, mHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
bitmap.copyPixelsFromBuffer(buffer);
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, fos);

A: The problem is in the compression of your image.
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
using System.Text;

namespace ConferenceDTO
{
  public class Session
  {
    public int Id { get; set; }

    [Required]
    [StringLength(200)]
    public string Title { get; set; }

    [StringLength(4000)]
    public virtual string Abstract { get; set; }

    public virtual DateTimeOffset? StartTime { get; set; }

    public virtual DateTimeOffset? EndTime { get; set; }

    // Bonus points to those who can figure out why this is written this way
    public TimeSpan Duration => EndTime?.Subtract(StartTime ?? EndTime ?? DateTimeOffset.MinValue) ?? TimeSpan.Zero;

    public int? TrackId { get; set; }
  }

}

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"Written on our Hearts" by Deborah Sokolove
October 20, 2013 November 13, 2020 Deborah Sokolove Sermons
Recommitment Sunday, October 20, 2013
The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
As I encountered the last three verses in today's reading from Jeremiah, I was reminded of an ongoing conversation among Stewards about spiritual disciplines. The conversation started with tithing, but soon grew to encompass other practices, as well. As it turns out, most of us confessed that we often fall short of the standards set out in the "Disciplines of Stewards" section of The Guide to Seekers Church. So the question started to sound something like this: are the spiritual disciplines qualifications for becoming a Steward, barriers or hurdles that are hard to pass? Or are they aspirational, a mark or target at which to aim? Are they laws, branding us as sinners when we fail to live up to their exacting criteria; or are they external guides, helping us to become more sensitive to the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit as we move towards an ever-deepening love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves?
Let's look again at what Jeremiah says:
The days are surely coming, says the Holy One, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Holy One. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Holy One: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the Holy One," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Holy One; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more. [Jer 31:31-34]
The prophet Jeremiah lived about six hundred years before the birth of Jesus. As we have been reading in the lectionary for the past few weeks, he lamented that his people persisted in worshipping false gods. Jeremiah understood the approaching Babylonian army as God's judgment against the Israelites for breaking the covenant of justice and mercy, for forgetting God's repeated instruction to care for and protect single mothers, fatherless children, foreigners living in their midst, and all others who are in need. As certain defeat and exile neared, he offered hope to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, buying his cousin's field as a sign that God would, one day, allow them to return to their own country. Following the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple, Jeremiah went with the exiles to Babylon, to comfort and remind them that God would be with them even in a foreign land. God's word to those who were taken to Babylon was, "Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Holy One on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare."[Jer 29:7]
About fifty years later, Babylon fell to Persia, and the Persian king, Cyrus, sent the captive Israelites back to their homeland. In today's reading, Jeremiah tells the people that God wants to have a new kind of relationship with them when they return. This new relationship, he says, is not one of rules and regulations, of overbearing authority, but rather a reciprocal relationship of love and mutual forgiveness. In this new covenant, each person will come to know God in a natural way, without being told what to believe or how to act.
What saves this new covenant from being individualistic, or, worse, sheer anarchy, is God's transcendent, transpersonal reality. God's promise to write the same thing on every heart means that God's own self is the true heart of the communal body, whose purpose is to show forth God's compassionate justice and love.
The word that Jeremiah uses when he talks about what God will inscribe on our hearts is torah (תורה), the same word that is used most often to refer to the first five books of the Bible. The usual English translation for this word is "law," but scholars tell us that it is actually derived from a root that was used in the realm of archery, yareh (ירה), meaning to shoot an arrow in order to hit a target. While it is tempting to give a long explanation of how Hebrew develops a variety of words from a relatively limited number of 3-letter roots, I will simply tell you that the familiar word, torah, is one of the nouns derived from this root, yareh. So, the original meaning of torah is something like "an arrow that is aimed at a target." Once the arrow is loosed from the bow, it flies in the direction that it is aimed, gradually releasing the potential energy that guides its path towards the target. If we understand the target as love of God, self, and neighbor, then the arrow that aims at the target is not so much a law as a teaching, an instruction, a direction.
So when Jeremiah tells us that God will write the torah within us, inscribing it on our hearts, it is not that we will have strict rules and regulations that we must obey or live up to, but rather that we will be led by an inner sense of direction, a true aim, guiding us towards the target. And what is that target? It is an ever-deepening spiritual life of loving God, and loving our neighbors as ourselves.
A little while ago, most of us stood to affirm our commitment to pursue our spiritual lives in Seekers Church for the coming year. For some of us, it was the first time we have said, "I am a Seeker. I come today to affirm my relationship with this Christian community in the tradition of the Church of the Saviour, linked with the people of God through the ages." Others have been saying these words, or something like them, for many years. Being a member of Seekers Church, especially if one is in a mission group or taking classes in the School of Christian Living, can be deeply challenging as well as satisfying, inviting us into an ever-deeper exploration of what it means to belong to a community that takes both the inward journey of self-discovery and the outward journey of service to others seriously.
Some of us made another statement, one that affirms that we are not only Members of this congregation, but Stewards, charged to take responsibility for the organizational health of Seekers Church. Although anyone who wants to can become a Steward, the path to get there can be daunting. It involves taking at least one course in each of Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, Christian Teachings, and Christian Growth in the School of Christian Living; participation in a mission group for at least six months; and working with a sponsor who is already a Steward in reflecting on the commitments and spiritual disciplines of Stewards as well as preparing a spiritual autobiography that will be shared with the mission group and with all current Stewards. All of this preparation takes at least a year, and often much longer, as being a Steward requires a certain spiritual maturity and understanding of Seekers workings that cannot be rushed. It is a serious responsibility. As the Guide to Seekers Church puts it,
the commitment to membership as a Steward is an ordination to ministry that carries a commitment to support the faith journey of the community. Stewards are responsible for establishing policies for how Seekers Church uses its time, talent and financial resources. The Stewards serve many of the functions expected of trustees, elders, wardens or deacons in other Christian churches. In addition to participating in the life of the community, Stewards meet monthly to address organizational issues and the spiritual health of the community. These extended evening meetings include worship, prayer, sharing and decision making. Most questions are resolved through discussion, prayer and consensus, although there is an occasional vote.
Recently, someone asked me why anyone needs to be a Steward. I no longer recall exactly what I said, but as I think I said something about gratitude, about giving back what I had been so freely given, about keeping Seekers vital and alive so that each new person who comes to us will find the kind of loving, open welcome and support that I was offered so long ago, and continue to be offered as I face various challenges in my life.
When I first came to Seekers, my entire life had turned upside down. After ten years of living as a single mother struggling to keep it all together while I went to college and then graduate school, piecing together a living from an assortment of part-time jobs, student loans, and a little help from various friends and family, I finally had my shiny, new MFA degree. I also had a new husband, and my first, full-time job teaching art at a university. I was simultaneously filled with hope for a glorious future, and terrified of life in a strange city, three thousand miles away from all my friends.
With all these changes, the most important one was that I had finally accepted Christ's invitation to follow him, thirty years after first hearing his call. I was looking for a church in which to learn how to do that, and Seekers welcomed me with open arms. Mary Carol and Alan invited us to dinner; Sonya invited me to lunch; everyone at coffee hour asked about my story, and listened to the answer as if they really cared. It was amazing! I spent a lot of time weeping with joy, wonder, and relief. After many years of wandering in exile, I had finally come home.
As it happened, Glen and I arrived in late January, just as the spring term of the School of Christian Living was about to start. Peter was leading a class called "Introduction to Seekers," so we signed up immediately. There, I learned about mission groups and membership; about odd ideas like "authority at the point of your gift" and "shared leadership"; and about various disciplines that Seekers and other Christians practice as a way to undergird a vital spiritual life.
A little less than two years after I came to Seekers, I became a Steward, and have recommitted as a Steward every third Sunday in October since then. Some years, it has been almost automatic. "Sure, of course, I am still called to be a Steward. What else would I do?" Other years, I have had to think and pray long and hard, wondering if I really fit in, wondering if all the time and energy was worth anything to me or to anyone else. One year, shortly after we moved to this building, there was a lot of contention in the congregation and I was feeling that no one cared about me or even liked me very much. I came very close to not recommitting, but my spiritual guide and other Stewards helped me through that dark time, assuring me of their love.
All the while, I – like many other Stewards — have struggled with some of the spiritual disciplines, while finding others not only easy, but life-giving. Here are the common disciplines of Stewards:
Attending Sunday worship, usually with Seekers Church;
Observing daily quiet time—prayer, scripture reading, and reflection or journaling. Scripture reading is usually guided by the ecumenical lectionary, also used for our Sunday worship.
* Giving proportionately of income to Seekers Church, beginning at ten percent;
* Making a silent retreat once a year, if possible with Seekers;
* Participating in an ongoing mission group with two or more Stewards, for living out the person's chosen ministry, for building the Church, and for accountability in spiritual growth;
* Being accountable for the spiritual journey in a regular written report to the spiritual guide of the group;
* Attending Stewards' meetings regularly;
* Expressing commitment to discovery and use of gifts, to education and growth in the faith, and to the pastoring and support of the community as a whole in the ongoing life of the Seekers Church;
* Reviewing the Stewards' commitment with one's group or another Steward and spending an hour in meditation prior to Recommitment Sunday in October.
Some of them, like attending Sunday worship or making spiritual reports, may be what you already do, especially if you are in a mission group. Others, like tithing or even being in a mission group, might be more of a stretch. While I pray throughout each day and read scripture pretty regularly, I don't journal as much as I used to, I have trouble setting aside a specific time in my day for quiet reflection, and I wasn't able to clear my calendar to go on Silent Retreat at all this fall.
Which brings me back to the original question: are the spiritual disciplines we describe in the Guide to Seekers qualifications for becoming a Steward, or are they aspirational, a mark or target at which to aim? Are they laws, branding us as sinners when we fail to live up to their exacting criteria; or are they external guides, helping us to become more sensitive to the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit as we move towards an ever-deepening love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves?
I suppose some of that depends on your definition of the word "sin." In the New Testament, the Greek word that we translate at "sin" is hamartia (ἁμαρτία). In other Greek writings, this word is generally understood as "mistake" or "error" rather than a wilful refusal to follow the rules. I was bemused to discover that, just as torah is derived from the vocabularly of archery, so, too is hamartia. It means "to miss the mark", "to fall short of the target." And I'm guessing that Paul would have been familiar with both of these derivations, so I don't think it is coincidental that he uses hamartia rather than some other Greek term to talk about our inherent inability to live up to the standards of God's torah. After all, as an educated Jew, he would have been very familiar with the puns that are so prevalent in Hebrew Scripture, yet obscured in translation. But if the torah is an arrow that is flying towards the target, what does it mean to say that I have fallen short or gone astray?
One answer is that if I have lost touch with my internal sense of God's instruction, I need some external guidance. That is what spiritual disciplines do for us – they help to keep us moving towards our goal, to find our way when we are lost. Today's epistle reading from 2 Timothy reminds us to continue in what we have learned, to follow the guidance found in our sacred writings. When we worship together, when we pray, reflect, and are accountable for our journey, we become open to the instruction that God wants to write on our hearts, that inner sense of direction, the true aim, that guides us ever closer to the heart of God.
… this is the covenant that I will make … says the Holy One: I will put my guidance within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people… they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest … for I will … remember that they missed the mark no more.
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Q: Preventing object from getting stuck on walls and rapidly bouncing between two points I currently have objects populating the screen randomly and bouncing around the stage. The problem is, some of the objects are getting stuck and bouncing back and forth rapidly between two points. How can I prevent this?
Here's how I have the EnterFrame setup:
var ballT = e.target
ballT.x +=  ballT.vx;
ballT.y +=  ballT.vy;

if (ballT.x + ballT.width / 2 >= sWidth || ballT.x - ballT.width / 2 <= 0) {
    ballT.vx =  -  ballT.vx;
} else if (ballT.y + ballT.height / 2 >= sHeight || ballT.y - ballT.height / 2 <= 0) {
    ballT.vy =  -  ballT.vy;
}

Any ideas or any good reads worth checking out?

A: Most likely, your objects are going a bit "too much out of bounds", so that when you turn them around, they don't make it inside the bounds before you turn them around again. You may want to change the code to be a bit more clear on when to turn things around;
var ballT = e.target
ballT.x +=  ballT.vx;
ballT.y +=  ballT.vy;

// Outside to the right and heading right - turn around
if ( ballT.x + ballT.width / 2 >= sWidth && ballT.vx > 0 )
    ballT.vx = -ballT.vx;

// Outside to the left and heading left - turn around
if ( ballT.x - ballT.width / 2 <= 0 && ballT.vx < 0 )
    ballT.vx = -ballT.vx;

// Outside at the bottom and heading down - turn around
if ( ballT.y + ballT.height / 2 >= sHeight && ballT.vy > 0 )
    ballT.vy = -ballT.vy;

// Outside at the top and heading up - turn around
if ( ballT.y - ballT.height / 2 <= 0 && ballT.vy < 0 )
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Why don't you know what you'll get paid?
The first piece of writing I was ever paid for was an essay I wrote for the fourth issue of Kill Your Darlings journal. I remember vividly the moment I received the email that the work was accepted, and when they told me what I would be paid. I cherished that money because it was, […]
The first piece of writing I was ever paid for was an essay I wrote for the fourth issue of Kill Your Darlings journal. I remember vividly the moment I received the email that the work was accepted, and when they told me what I would be paid. I cherished that money because it was, in many ways, a validation – what I love doing is worth something to people. Perhaps only in a small way, compared to what I could earn working a Sunday shift in my retail job, but it was worth something. The pay, it turned out, was a very reasonable rate for a literary journal, but before I submitted the essay I had no idea what I would be paid, and I never asked.
In The Emerging Writer, Bhakthi Puvanenthiran has an essay titled 'The Awkward Silence.' It's a great piece on the silence that exists between writers and the people who commission their work on the dollar value they will receive for their writing. She argues that a public conversation about payment in our industry is long overdue and that we need to break this 'awkward silence' before we've written a word.
You're drafting one last email to the editor. Your copy is self-proofed and the final version attached…You know it would be easier to attach an invoice with this final missive, but neither you nor the editor have discussed a dollar value yet. Why don't you know what you'll get paid?
That final sentence stood out to me: Why didn't I know?
This experience is, I think, how it begins for many freelance writers (and I distinguish here from freelance journalists, who are perhaps better educated about the word rates they could expect to receive – you can read a great investigation Margaret Simons conducted for Crikey a few years ago here). We write our works, feel thrilled that they're accepted, wonder vaguely to ourselves what we might receive – maybe we'll ask some friends who may have written for that publication before. But then that's it, until the editor brings it up – if indeed they do at all. Why don't we know? Or, perhaps more importantly, why don't we ask?
As a way around this awkward silence, the Emerging Writers' Festival has begun compiling a comprehensive list of payment rates from Australian publications, everything from magazines, street press, literary journals, online opinion, and websites – requesting information from the publications directly. The results will be available soon as a searchable database, but you can view their current tabulated results here. At the top end, writers can expect to be paid 70 cents to $1. Many pay nothing, or around 10-20 cents per word. The average is roughly 20-40 cents per word, based on these tables, but more fall at the lower end of that scale. The best payers are those you would expect: The Monthly, Australian Book Review, Meanjin.
But even from these initial results it is clear how difficult it is to make a living as a freelancer. As Elmo Keep humorously put it at the Emerging Writers' Festival event Get Money, Get Paid last week: 'If you define yourself as a writer only if you earn your living from writing, then – are you an idiot?' Most have to supplement their income with copywriting, advertising, postgraduate scholarships, grants – anything that pays well and leaves sufficient time for other writing on the side. The most successful freelancers, according to Keep, work seven days per week and earn, on average for their writing, $35,000 per year. Freelancers have no safety net, and, like small business owners, the quote they give is supposed to cover superannuation, overheads, petrol, tax. But of course, if such costs were truly factored into every single piece, the price might be closer to $3 per word – a rather unrealistic goal for most writers, especially those at the beginning of their careers.
At the q&a part of the event, an audience member asked, 'Why do writers work for free?' To me, it seemed like a naive question – but for anyone working in any other industry it might indeed seem baffling. As Director Lisa Dempster wrote of her reasoning for the initiative,
There is a lack of understanding among new writers about how much they could or should expect to get paid for their work. To assist in bridging this knowledge gap, we are undergoing a documentation process to collate freelance submission rates for writers. Our goal is to inform emerging writers about pay rates and hopefully assist in connecting good writers with publication opportunities. Knowledge is, after all, power.
Certainly, for most emerging writers it is about the lack of power – being published is more important than getting paid, so they won't push the issue. Or the websites and journals they are able to be published in simply don't have a budget to pay their writers.
Ultimately, as was mentioned by the EWF panelists, it comes down to a question of value versus profit. (Sam Van Zweden has an interesting post on this also.) At the early stage of their careers, having a strong folio of published work, building up a profile, creating contacts is often more important to writers than money. Cold pitching, no matter how brilliant a writer you are, no matter how wonderful your ideas and prose, is very difficult to do with the larger (usually higher paying) organisations. They often have their pet writers and are reluctant to commission anyone else. So building up your profile is the best way into writing for these publications. The unfortunate paradox of freelancing is that you usually need to work for free in order to put yourself in a position to get paid.
In discussions such as these I think it's also important also to warn against the sort of 'me-ism' that can come from an obsessive focus on pitching – where it's all about simply 'getting your name out there,' with little regard for which publication you appear in, or indeed, what you want to say. I'm wary of writers who are more concerned with having an extensive bio that says they have been published in x, y and z. The idea and the writing should be the first consideration, then the publication that is best suited to it. The danger with tables such as these is that it becomes a shopping list for the best price, rather than picking a publication most appropriate to the work you have written. It also tends to disadvantage smaller journals who perhaps don't pay as well but might have a team who can provide wonderful editorial support, and who need strong writers to stay alive.
These are the conflicting considerations we must weigh.
Writing, as many of us joke to ourselves, is not something you get into for the money. But it is, certainly, possible to earn a living from. However, the outdated view that writing for money is vulgar, crass, and somehow devaluing the art, is something we should work against — by asking those awkward questions and by educating ourselves.
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United States Hotel, Cape Island, N. J. Lithograph by P. S. Duval, 1851, after P. Nunan.
Sherman House. Lithograph by Chicago Lithographing Co. in James W. Sheahan, Chicago illustrated , 1866.
Fifth Avenue Hotel Polka Brilliant. ( Music cover). Lithograph by J. H. Bufford, 1859.
Park Hotel (Astor House). On Broadway, Barclay & Vesey St's., New York. Lithograph by Endicott, 1834.
Interior view of the Hoffman House Bar. Lithograph by Thomas & Wylie, 1890.
A fine view of the mammoth St. Nicholas Hotel, Broadway, New York. Wood engraving in Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion , Mar. 12, 1853.
Bathroom Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Photograph by Geo. C. Boldt, 1902.
Laundry, Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Photograph by Geo. C. Boldt, 1902.
Main office, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City. Photograph by Geo. C. Boldt, 1902.
Washington Hotel, Broadway, New York. Lithograph by Endicott & Swett, 1833.
Interior of the Ponce De Leon hotel, St. Augustine, Florida. Photograph by Geo. Barker, 1888.
Brown's Indian Queen Hotel, Washington City. Lithograph by Endicott & Swett, 1832 (?).
Gallant conduct of Ellsworth's Zouaves, in their successful attempt to save Willard's Hotel, Wash. Wood engraving in The New York Illustrated News , May 25, 1861, after Alfred Waud.
Fire next door to Willard's hotel Washington, D. C. Ellsworth's New York Fire Zouaves extinguishing the flames. Wood engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper , May 18, 1861.
Willard's Hotel, Washington, saved by the New York Fire Zouaves. Wood engraving in Harper's Weekly , May 25, 1861.
The inn on the road. Lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., 1872.
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I use essential oils a lot for the emotional impact it has, and because of the science of belief. Emotions, and for moms those of blame are very likely to encompass several other emotions including guilt, shame, fear and anger. Another one is fear, and fear often is associated with big areas we can shift really quickly with aromatherapy.
When we connect aroma to our inner reaction then those emotions can release rather than causing us to hold on deeply to that which we don't need. Are you hanging onto things you don't need to? Are you refusing to release this?
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Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai is back in the country after months of medical trip to the United Kingdom.
He returned to Abuja on Saturday night after which he spoke to reporters at Gen. Theophilus Danjuma' s guest house in Asokoro in the Federal Capital Territory.
He said: "I just arrived in Nigeria after my treatment abroad at Whalton Hospital in London.
Sources said acting Governor Garba Umar was prevented from seeing Suntai.
Suntai was received by Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs Darius Ishaku, who hails from the state, former Governor Rev. Jolly Nyame and Senator Emmanuel Bwacha Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, among others.
Ishaku told reporters that the governor was in good health, adding that he could now take over the responsibility of governing the state.
"Taraba State will heave a sigh of relief following the return of the governor.
"I am excited; he just addressed us and expressed his joy to be back home. I will like to add that his health is a miracle,'' Ishaku said.
Nyame said Suntai's mental alertness indicated that he was capable of taking over the affairs of the state.
"It is obvious that the governor can recognise everyone here, which shows that he is mentally alert and lucid.
"He just addressed the press, but the last time he didn't, which shows that he can take over as the governor,'' Nyame said.
The plane Suntai piloted crashed on October 25, 2012 near Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
He was transferred from a hospital in Yola to the National Hospital, Abuja, on October 26, 2012, and later flown to Germany and the United States for treatment.
He returned to the country on August 23, 2013 after 10 months of medical treatment overseas.
After some controversies on the status of his health, he was flown to London for further medical treatment.
President Goodluck Jonathan visited him about one hour after the governor was admitted into the intensive care unit of the National Hospital.
Jonathan had said that Suntai's condition was stable, and urged Nigerians to pray for his speedy recovery.
His return is already causing ripples in the political set-up of the state.
Last week, the state executive council meeting presided over by acting Governor Garba Umar, voted to authorise the House of Assembly to raise a medical team that would include Suntai's doctors to medically examine him and declare his true state of health.
This is with a view to determining whether he is fit to return to office.
While the move has been applauded by Umar's supporters, the governor's supporters see it as a way to get rid of him so that Umar could become the substantive governor and thereby influence the primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to his advantage.


What does cocaine do in the brain?
Not all drugs can completely change who we are. Cocaine is one of the few with this power. Like many other psychoactive drugs, cocaine was first used as an anesthetic, but its potential effect on one's mind and will was soon discovered and overshadowed its original usage. Cocaine's power does not lie within the molecule itself, but rather in its interaction with the brain's reward system (see a previous TBT post for the discovery of this system).
The winter blues: Is it all in your head?
"February is my favorite month." said no one living in Boston ever. The short days, cold temperatures, and repetitive snow really throw a dagger (presumably made of ice) into good times. I tend to think of Dec-Feb as my hibernating months; I am more lethargic, less motivated, and my fiancé and labmates can vouch for the fact that I am slightly more irritable than the good natured loving person I always am in better weather. I've come to attribute my noticeable seasonal downswing to Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD (an acronym that ironically makes me quite happy), a self-diagnosis I probably made from seeing a commercial. Being the curious graduate student that I am I decided to do a little research on the subject and see what I could learn—really trying to go above and beyond what pharmaceutical advertising taught me.
Zika virus: from mosquito bites to locating centrosomes?
Since the beginning of this year, pregnant women are advised not to travel to Brazil or a long list of other Central and South American countries. The reason is a dramatic increase in the number of Brazilian newborns with microcephaly.
On October 1st of 2015 the Human Genome Project (HGP) celebrated its 25th birthday. Six long years of planning and debating preceded its birth (1990), and at the young age of 10 the HGP fulfilled its potential by providing us with a 'rough draft' of the genome. In 2012, 692 collaborators published in Nature the sequence of 1092 human genomes1. All of this happened a mere 50 years after Watson and Crick first described the double stranded helix of DNA. In retrospect genomics had a surprisingly quick history, but by the numbers it was an effort of epic proportions, and a highly debated one. The promise of a complete sequence of the human genome was thrilling, but many were concerned. Some argued that the methods were unreliable and even unfeasible, others were concerned that a single genome couldn't possibly represent the spectrum of human diversity, and yet others thought the task was overly ambitious and too time and money consuming.
Nevertheless, in the early 2000s genomics was taking over the scientific world and in its trail support was growing for the other –omics: proteomics, metabolomics, and last but not least connectomics. The connectome is a precise high definition map of the brain, its cells and the connections between them. While human connectomics uses fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and EEG (electroencephalography) to define neural connections, electron microscopy (EM) is leading the way in generating detailed 3D images of the brain of model organisms (C. Elegans, drosophila, and mouse) with nanometer resolution. Connectomics divided the scientific community into supporters and skeptics, and many of the same arguments were used as in the debate on the HGP in the late 1980s.
In 2013, Josh Morgan and Jeff Lichtman addressed head-on the main criticisms against connectomics in mouse2, arguing that obtaining a complete map of the brain would provide information about the structure of circuits that would be otherwise unattainable. Several labs embarked on an odyssey to fulfill the potential of 3D EM in the mouse brain. The last few years have seen a rapid succession in the latest improvements on optimizing the complex and multistep method. Put simply the procedure consists of fixing a piece of tissue, slicing it (at 29 nm thickness), imaging the sequence of sections, combining all the high resolution images into tiled stacks. This process has been sped up to take approximately 100 days for 2000 slices of a square millimeter. At this point the digital representation of the cube of tissue still needs to be segmented and cells within it traced, before analysis can be done on this dataset.
A monumental amount of work, yet a flurry of studies presenting reconstructed cubes of tissue from mouse brain have already been published. Most notable this year is the work from the Max Planck Institute for neurobiology4 on retinal tissue, and from the lab of Jeff Lichtman at Harvard University3, that published the complete reconstruction of a small (1500 μm3) volume of neocortex. Once obtaining such a large high-resolution dataset is no longer a limiting factor, what can this dataset tell us about brain connectivity?
I had the pleasure of seeing the potential of 3D EM during a talk that Josh Morgan (a postdoctoral fellow in the Lichtman lab) gave at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. He showed his work on scanning, segmenting and analyzing a piece of tissue from the mouse dLGN (dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus). Afterwards he answered some questions about his work in the growing field of connectomics.
Can you briefly list your findings in the dLGN that you think are most representative of the kind of unique discoveries 3D EM allows us to make?
The big advantage of large scale EM is that you can look at many interconnected neurons in the same piece of tissue. At the local level, we could use that ability to find out which properties of retinal ganglion cell synapses were determined by the presynaptic neurons vs. which were determined by the post synaptic cell. At the network level, we found that the dLGN was not a simple relay of parallel channels of visual information. Rather, channels could mix together and split apart. My favorite result from the LGN project so far was seeing a cohort of axons innervate the dendrite of one thalamocortical cell and then jump together onto a dendrite of a second thalamocortical cell to form synapses. It is that sort of coordination between neurons that I think is critical to understanding the nervous system and that is extremely difficult to discover without imaging many cells in the same tissue.
You showed some really nice analyses that are starting to chop at the vast dataset you created. Is it becoming more challenging to identify overarching patterns, or to synthesize findings? When datasets will expand to include tissue from multiple animals, will it be more challenging to do statistical analyses on them?
There was a critical point in my analysis, after I had traced a network of hundreds of neurons, where it was no longer possible for me to clearly see the organization of the network I had mapped. In that case, it was using a spring force model to organize all the cells into a 2D space that made the network interpretable again. I think visualization tools that make complex data transparent to the biologist studying them are essential to the process. As cellular network data becomes more common, I hope that some [visualization tools] for standard quantitative measures of synaptic network organization will emerge. For now, I think the main goal is giving neuroscientists as complete a view as possible of the circuits that they are studying.
For comparison between individuals, it would be convenient if each neural circuit could be divided into finer and finer gradations of cell types until each grouping was completely homogenous. In that case, comparing individuals just means identifying the same homogeneous groups of neurons in each animal. However, the dLGN data suggests that the brain has not been that considerate and instead can mix and match connectivity and cellular properties in complicated ways. To some extent, it might be possible to replace the list of stereotyped cell subtypes with a list of behaviors that cells of broad classes can perform under various conditions. However, I don't think you can get around the fact that studying a less predictable system is going to be more difficult and doesn't lend itself to statistical shortcuts. In particular, if everything is connected to everything, at least by weak connections, then relying on P values will tend to generate lots of false positives. That is, if your test is sensitive enough and you check enough times, wiggling any part of the network will give you a statistically significant effect in any other part of the network.
Technically speaking, you and your colleagues have been working for years on optimizing the method published this summer in Cell3. Can you foresee ways to improve it/speed it up? What remain as the main challenges/drawbacks?
Basically, we would like to acquire larger volumes (intact circuits) and trace more of the volumes that we acquire (more cells). My current dataset was acquired about an order of magnitude faster than the previous dataset that was published in Cell and we have a microscope now that can acquire images more than an order of magnitude faster than the scope I used. That leaves us with the growing problem of large data management and segmentation. It isn't necessary to analyze every voxel of a dataset in order to get interesting biology (I have only used 1% of my voxels for my first LGN project). However, we all have the goal of eventually automatically segmenting every cell, synapse, and bit of ultrastructure in our 3D volumes. The people in Hanspeter Pfister's lab have made significant progress in improving automated segmentation algorithms, but generating fast error free automatic segmentations is going to be a long-term computer vision challenge.
A paper came out this summer5 discussing the artifacts seen with EM in chemically fixed tissue, as opposed to cryo fixed. Will these findings impact the method of the Licthman lab, and do you think they are relevant to the value of your dataset?
The critical piece of data for us is connectivity so, to the extent that cryo fixation makes connectivity easier to trace, cryo fixation is a better technique. However, it is difficult to perform cryo fixation on large tissue volumes (>200 um). The alternative is to use cryo fixation as a guide to improving our chemical fixation techniques. For instance, preservation of extracellular space, one of the major benefits of cryo fixation, can also be achieved in some chemical fixation protocols.
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Morgan JL & Lichtman JW (2013) Why not connectomics?, Nature Methods, 10(6), p 494-500.
Kasthuri N et al. (2015) Saturated reconstruction of a Volume of Neocrotex, Cell, 162(3), p 648-661.
Berning et al. (2015) SegEM: Efficient image analysis for high-resolution connectomics, Neuron, 87(6), p 1193-1206.
Korogod et al. (2015) Ultrastructural analysis of adult mouse neocortex comparing aldehyde perfusion with cryo fixation, eLife, 4:e05793.
Brain Celebrities - Remember H.M?
This series of articles will talk about brains that have had major influences on the advancement of neuroscience, not because they belonged to very smart people, but because they told us something new about the functioning of our brain.
What other brain could this series start with than that of H.M.? H.M was probably on the first slide of the first class I took in my neuroscience career. His brain taught us many things at once, but most importantly: where our memory is located in the brain.
H.M., whose real name is Henry Gustav Molaison, was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1926. When he was about 7 years old, he started developing severe epilepsy, possibly as the result of a bicycle accident. His seizures and convulsions became so severe and frequent that he became unable to live a normal life and work his mechanic job.
At the age of 27, he was referred to doctor William Beecher Scoville, a neurologist at the local hospital who tried all possible treatments and decided that brain surgery was the only solution left. In the 1950s, little was known about the structure and morphology of the brain. People did not yet associate specific brain areas with specific functions like we do now. Dr. Scoville therefore knew nothing more than that the seizures seemed to come from the "left and right medial temporal lobes." In the summer of 1953, he thus decided to cut these away, and removed two finger shaped pieces of tissue from H.M.'s brain.
The surgery turned out to be successful: H.M.'s seizures almost completely disappeared. A new problem had taken its place though, one that would make H.M. the biggest celebrity in neuroscience. By removing the medial temporal lobes on both sides, Dr. Scoville had completely abolished H.M's ability to form new memories. He could tell you about the 1929 stock market crash, or World War II, but he didn't know that he had told you that 10 minutes ago already, or what he had had for lunch that day. Everyone he met after the surgery would forever be a stranger to him, even if he would see them every single day.
For the neuroscience community this was an incredible finding. Who would have thought that all of memory formation happened in this one little area that we now call the hippocampus (Latin for seahorse)? Many scientists studied H.M. for years, among whom Dr. Brenda Milner and Dr. Suzanne Corkin. They found that H.M. was still able to learn new motor skills, such as drawing a picture when looking at it through a mirror. Another example that is especially relevant to this series is that H.M. was able to remember the names of celebrities just as well as anyone else. This suggested that only "explicit" memories (conscious memories such as stories), but not "implicit" memories (unconscious memories such as motor skills), were formed and stored in the hippocampus. It suddenly dawned on the scientists that the brain has multiple memory systems that work in parallel with each other. Thanks to H.M., scientists have started to search for locations of other memory systems and found very different parts of the brain that support different types of learning.
One last important finding was that, apart from the memory loss, H.M. remained completely himself. He was just as kind, soft-spoken and funny of a man as he was before the surgery and his IQ remained above average, despite his severe amnesia. This again shows that the brain is, at least to a certain extent, "modular": specific brain areas are responsible for specific things. Damaging one area does not necessarily affect the other areas. This was a very important concept for the neuroscience world at that time, and is still the basis for much current neuroscience research.
H.M. lived with his mother and later with a relative until the 1980's when he was moved to a nursing home. In 2008 he died of respiratory failure at the age of 82. His brain was moved to the University of San Diego where it was sliced one year later. The corresponding data were made publicly available to scientists by the brain observatory at http://www.thebrainobservatory.org/patient-hm-a-case-study/.
With his amnesia H.M. advanced the field of neuroscience dramatically. He will forever be stored in young neuroscientist's hippocampi, and later –if they study hard enough- in their long-term memory systems. He will be remembered, H.M.


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GUATEMALA CITY The discovery of a tomb that experts believe might be that of a great Maya queen could redefine the understanding of women's political roles during the Classic Maya period, experts said Thursday.
A team of U.S. and Guatemalan experts led by anthropologist David Freidel found a stone jar at a burial chamber in northern Guatemala that led them to believe it is the burial site of Lady K'abel, considered the military governor of an ancient Maya city during the 7th century.
"Lady K'abel was buried 11 meters down from the surface in a temple near a stairway," Freidel said. "K'abel was not a regular person. To put her in that location means that it was important; it means that people continued to worship her after the fall of the dynasty."
The team working in the royal Maya city of El Peru-Waka also found other evidence, such as ceramic vessels, jade jewelry, thousands of obsidian blades and a large stone with carvings referring to Lady K'abel.
The alabaster jar showed the head and arm of an aged woman emerging from the opening and glyphs pointing to the name of the queen, Guatemala's cultural ministry said in a statement Thursday.
"The royal tomb shows that women have been leaders in the past and we must now assume and exercise political participation to strengthen the role of women in the new era," Rosa Maria Chan, deputy minister for cultural and natural heritage, said in the statement.
K'abel, considered the greatest ruler of the Late Classic period, ruled with her husband, K'inich Bahlam, for at least 20 years in the 7th century, Freidel said. She was the military governor of the Waka kingdom for her family, the imperial house of the Snake King, and she carried the title "Kaloomte" — translated as "Supreme Warrior," higher in authority than her husband, the king.
Freidel, who is from Washington University in St. Louis, said the findings at the ruins of El Peru-Waka were "serendipitous."
"In retrospect, it makes a lot of sense that the people of Waka buried her in this particularly prominent place in their city," Freidel said.
For Marcello A. Canuto, director of the Research Center of Central Tulane University in Louisiana, the alabaster identifies the tomb as that of the "Lady of Kaan" and noted there is a stela erected in her honor at the archaeological site.
"She has been given all the honors a male king would have been given," Canuto said. "It's not the first such tomb discovered, but it gives an idea of the important role women played in forging dynastic alliances, and the status they enjoyed."
Traci Ardren, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Miami and a Mayan archaeologist specializing in gender relations, said the traditional belief that Maya men occupied a more important place than women has to do with the amount of images in Mayan art that show men in positions of authority.
"People like Lady K'abel show there were examples of extraordinary women who occupied powerful positions than men, which were successful and which were accepted by society," Ardren said.


GB513-1: Illustrate business situations through graphs and tables.
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million. Using Excel, construct a pie chart and a bar graph to depict this information.
leading states in nonfuel mineral production in the United States in 2008.
a) Using the appropriate tool in the data analysis toolpak in Excel, calculate the descriptive statistics. Include the summary statistics table in your report.
b) Briefly define the meaning of each of the metrics in the summary report you get.
c) Comment on all of the figures in the report. What do you learn from these metrics? What are they telling you about this data set? Is it symmetrical, flat, or skewed? Does it have outliers?
over 1-year (in no particular order).
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Q: Comparing two arrays Ruby and sort I have two arrays, I want the first one to apply the order of the second one so they look exactly the same.
Example
array1 = [{name: "grape"}, {name: "apple", {name: "pear"}, {name: "carrot"}]
array2 = [{name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "grape"}, {name: "carrot"}]

Wanted result
array1 = [{name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "grape"}, {name: "carrot"}]
array2 = [{name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "grape"}, {name: "carrot"}]

Any help would be appreciated.I can not copy the array because I am comparing one array in my Database to another that is in a file.

A: array1 = [{name: "grape"}, {name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "carrot"}]
array2 = [{name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "grape"}, {name: "carrot"}]
array1.sort_by { |element| array2.index(element) }
  #=> [{:name=>"apple"}, {:name=>"pear"}, {:name=>"grape"}, {:name=>"carrot"}]

A: Let's suppose the problem is more interesting than your example. Say we have:
array1 = [{name: "grape"}, {name: "fig"}, {name: "apple"},
          {name: "pear"}, {name: "carrot"}]

array2 = [{name: "apple"}, {name: "pear"}, {name: "grape"},
          {name: "kumquat"}, {name: "carrot"}]

and want to reorder this array1 so that all of its elements that are also in array2 will be ordered as they are in array2; that is, array1 will be converted to:
[{name: "apple"}, {name: "fig"}, {name: "pear"},
 {name: "grape"}, {name: "carrot"}]

We can do that as follows:
arr = array2 & array1
  #=> [{:name=>"apple"}, {:name=>"pear"}, {:name=>"grape"}, {:name=>"carrot"}]
array1.each_with_index { |h,i| arr.insert(i,h) unless array2.include?(h) }
arr
  #=> [{:name=>"apple"}, {:name=>"fig"}, {:name=>"pear"},
  #    {:name=>"grape"}, {:name=>"carrot"}]

Note that the method Array#& is guaranteed to return the elements of:
arr = array2 & array1

in the order in which they appear in array2.
To improve efficiency, one could replace:
array1.each_with_index { |h,i| arr.insert(i,h) unless array2.include?(h) }

with:
require 'set'
s2 = array2.to_set
array1.each_with_index { |h,i| arr.insert(i,h) unless s2.include?(h) }


British director Danny Boyle, known for Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire, said he would stage the 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony on Lake Baikal.
Boyle was presenting his new movie T2 Trainspotting in Moscow. A reporter asked him if he has any ideas on staging an opening ceremony of FIFA 2018 in Moscow. In 2012, Boyle directed the opening of the Summer Olympics in London.
Boyle said he would do it on Lake Baikal. He travelled to Russia five times, rode the Transsiberian railway and stopped at Baikal, spenign "four days of joy" there.
FIFA 2018's opening will take place in Moscow on June 14, 2018. The Russian national team will play against a yet-to-be-determined rival.


There are almost as many reasons why popular myths about dinosaurs appear as there are myths. Just about all knowledge that can be gained from dinosaurs comes from fossil records and this to some extent leads to speculation about how dinosaurs lived and interacted. However, there are some established facts and these should not be obscured with popular myths about dinosaurs.
The fossil record has brought to light many species from all periods of the planets history. It is the skeletal characteristics that separate the dinosaur fossils from other species such as plesiosaurs and pterosaurs. For instance the skeletons in many dinosaurs were designed to allow them to stand erect whilst their front legs were adapted for either supporting their weight or for slashing or grasping prey.
The skulls of dinosaurs were designed for maximum strength and minimum weight, and in carnivores for holding and tearing prey.
Although small mammals, including a shrew sized primate existed alongside dinosaurs, humans did not evolve until 65 million years after dinosaurs were extinct. The first genus of primitive apes appeared 23 million years ago and Homo erectus around 1.6 million years ago. Modern humans or Homo sapiens did not exist until 130,000 years ago.
Apart from some questionable evidence such as the Icas stones which appear to depict images of large dinosaurs and humans coexisting, there is no reason to believe humans have encountered dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs existed during the Mesozoic Era which lasted for 186 million years and ended 65 million years ago, and is further divided into the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Eras. At the beginning of the Mesozoic Era Earth consisted of one large land mass called Pangea, and many dinosaur species ranged across it.
As Pangea broke up to form continents dinosaurs became scattered and separated, and each geographical area evolved its own dinosaur species over millions of years. Different species lived in different eras and in different geographical locations.
Tyrannosaurus rex was 12.8 metres long and weighed around 7.2 tons. Its teeth were 16 centimetres long which is twice the size of a lion's canines. Tyrannosaurus was not however the largest carnivorous dinosaur.
and was named Gigantosaurus. It was about 13.2 metres long and weighed around 8 tons. Although it was bigger it was probably not as powerful as Tyrannosaurus. Its head was larger but it had a smaller brain and a less powerful jaw.
The largest known carnivore species was Spinosaurus discovered in North Africa. It reached up to eighteen metres in length and weighed about nine tons. It had a spiny sail on its back and was more slender than Tyrannosaurus with a crocodile like head.
Although some Palaeontologists believe dinosaurs might have had a high metabolic rate and were therefore warm blooded, this point is not entirely settled.
It is thought dinosaurs could have had a similar respiratory system to birds allowing them to circulate air twice through their lungs. A consequence of this system is that it creates a high metabolic rate.
If dinosaurs were warm blooded they would have needed more prey biomass (needed to eat more meat) than a cold blooded animal. The fossil records show there was a ratio of 50 tons of prey biomass per ton of predator biomass, which is the expected ratio if dinosaurs were warm blooded.
The estimated speeds of dinosaurs vary depending on the methods used to calculate them, but possibly the most reliable studies were carried out at Manchester University in the UK using computer simulations. The simulations were based on the skeletal and muscle structure of five carnivore species, and to ensure accuracy of the data it was run tens of millions of times.
The results showed that a Tyrannosaurus had a running speed of 29 kph, a Velociraptor 38kph and a Compsognathus, a smaller dinosaur could reach 60 kph. By comparison a human sprinter can reach speeds of up to 40 kph whilst the fastest living bipedal species, an ostrich can run about 50 kph.
During the end of the Cretaceous Era a mass extinction event killed off up to 70% of all life on the planet. The cause of this mass extinction is still widely debated but the two most accepted theories are that an asteroid hit the Earth changing the climate and making life impossible for the dinosaurs. The other leading theory suggests an increase in volcanic activity forced large amounts of ash into the atmosphere cutting out sunlight and causing acid rain. This would have disrupted the food chain, and as one species died out another would have followed.
Some species did manage to survive this extinction event however, and as there is growing evidence that birds are related to dinosaurs it can be said that dinosaurs did not become extinct and are still with us in the form of avian dinosaurs.
Although fossils give no indication of skin colour it is thought dinosaurs may have made use of colouration in a number of ways. For instance a pale underside would have reduced shadowing, and an irregular colour patterning would have been useful camouflage. The larger armoured plated dinosaurs might not have needed camouflage but could have used colour as a warning to other dinosaurs, or as species recognition. Colour could also have been used for in mating rituals.
Amongst fossil finds skin impressions have been found showing different sized scales indicating striping or other skin markings. This could be a sign that dinosaurs did make use of colour in just the same way modern reptiles.
The largest known dinosaur egg was about the size of a football. The size of a dinosaur egg was naturally restricted because if it was too large the shell would have to be thick, preventing the young dinosaur from breaking out. A thick shell would also have suffocated the inhabitant as it would not have allowed air to filter in.
In 2005 an Oviraptor fossil was found with two unlaid eggs which suggested to palaeontologists that eggs were laid two at a time with at least one day in between further eggs. This is similar to birds with one day intervals between egg laying.
Dinosaur names are usually made up from two parts, the genus and the species name. The names often contain Greek or Latin words, or a mixture of both. A dinosaur is usually named after a distinctive body part, the person who discovered it, or the place it was found. For instance, dinosaur means "terrible lizard" and Tyrannosaurus rex means "king of the lizards".


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Archive for 3 September 2012
A delay to asset sales – thank gods for Te Tiriti!
3 September 2012 Frank Macskasy	2 comments
John Key has said that "no one owns water". The inference being that water is collectively the property of all New Zealanders.
That's a very socialist principle.
In which case, we should be asking him; does the same apply to state owned enterprises? Maori certainly want to know the answer to this question.
The Waitangi Tribunal's interim recommendation to National was to delay asset sales until the issue of water rights, share allocations, etc, could be addressed, and good-faith negotiations undertaken.
Today was D-Day for National and it's planned asset sales agenda,
Basically, it had three options available to it;
Ignore the Waitangi Tribunal's recommendations to delay asset sales, and Maori would head straight to Court for litigation. A High Court would most likely injunct National from proceeding with the sale.
Voluntarily postpone asset sales and engage in good-faith negotiation with Maori,
Legislate away any potential Maori water-rights – and the consequence would be a political upheaval similar to what Labour experienced over the Foreshore & Seabeds issue.
Option # 1 would mean little difference to Option #2; both would result in an inevitable delay.
At least Option #2 allowed a measure of good-faith bargaining and maintaining a reasonably relationship with the Maori Party.
Issue #3 was unthinkable. Aside from resulting in mass angry protest from Maori and losing it's Maori Party coalition partner, the resultant social instability would make the next two and half years a political nightmare for any government.
When Maori Council Co-chair, Maanu Paul, said,
"This issue is such a big issue for Maoridom that we had to go all the way in terms of seeking redress and if that means going to the Supreme Court, that's where we'll end up."
… he wasn't making idle chit-chat. Maori are playing hard-ball on this issue and are not about to fold their hand. They have too many aces, and have little hesitation in playing them.
As it was, National blinked first,
We now have breathing space until June next year.
In that time, opposition to asset sales will harden even further and come up with new strategies to fight National's agenda.
National will have found that, bereft of allies, it's privatisation agenda will not have become any easier. In fact, it may well face new challenges and barriers to it's very unpopular policy.
One such challenge is that it still has only a one-seat majority in the House.
John Key must be praying every night before going to bed that he wakes up the next day with the same number of MPs that he had the previous day.
All it would take is a scandal; a resignation; and a by-election…
Or a heart attack…
Or a road crash…
A lot can happen in nine months.
Addendum 1
AOTEAROA IS NOT FOR SALE CELEBRATES DELAY IN ASSET SALES
– Monday 3 September
Aotearoa Is Not For Sale is delighted that the Waitangi Tribunal has been successful in its recommendation to the Government that the sale of Mighty River power shares be delayed until iwi claims over water rights and guardianship are negotiated.
This delay is a victory for all those who have worked tirelessly in the campaign against the Government's policies to sell our state-owned assets under the mixed ownership model, and ANFS will continue to support Tangata Whenua in their struggle to have their rights and responsibilities as kaitiaki recognized and upheld. Respect for te Tiriti o Waitangi is a reminder of the need for the government to protect the rights of Maori and all other New Zealanders, who built these assets together, and who together assert that the government cannot sell them."When Maori and the agreement they entered into with the Crown in 1840 is undermined, all New Zealanders are undermined. The decision today can therefore be celebrated by everyone," says Miriam Pierard, ANFS spokesperson. "The Government is clearly reluctant to back down completely on its very unpopular policy, so although we can take heart today, we must remember that we still have a battle ahead of us."Aotearoa Is Not For Sale will continue to build a national, direct action movement against asset sales, while supporting Maori in their principled negotiation for recognition of water rights as an issue in it's own right. We will also continue to boycott Mercury Energy as a subsidiary of Mighty River Power and promote the Keep Our Assets petition for a public referendum on the issue.
Aotearoa Is Not For Sale stands for the retention of all SOEs by all New Zealanders. No special deals. No special shares. No special payments. No asset sales means no asset sales at all, to anyone.
We will not be divided like our assets. We will be united, we will not be silenced, we will resist this together.
ANFS Spokesperson
Miriam Pierard
aotearoaisnotforsale@gmail.com
http://aotearoaisnotforsale.com/
Winston Peters was "on form" today (3 September) on Radio New Zealand's "Morning Report", when he make the pertinent observation that,
"...I think this has now beome a bloody minded push for an ideological outcome, that has got a number of people behind the National Party arguing for it, against the national interest."
Listen: Radio NZ – Morning Report interview with Winston Peters
Peters is correct. This has indeed become little more than an exercise in bloody-mindedness. With public opposition; conflict with Maori; questions as to how much a share float will raise; a loss in revenue for the State; and other questionable aspects to National's agenda, there seems very little benefit to the country for asset sales.
Even the majority of business-people oppose asset sales on the basis that it would have been cheaper to borrow money from offshore, rather than losing revenue from fully-owned SOEs.
See: Selling state assets: it's a crappy commercial decision – The Voice of Business
Key's final argument for asset sales is that his Party won a mandate at last year's election.
Once the petition is submitted to the Clerk of the House and a Referendum is held, even that proposition will vanish.
What will Key do when a referendum delivers an over-whelming "No" vote?
What can he do?
Sale of Mighty River Power delayed
Government delays SOE sale
Mighty River sale on hold
Government delays Mighty River Power share float
Mighty River sale to be delayed
RNZ: Listen to Donna Hall on Morning Report
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Author Editor - October 25, 2021 - 6 minute read
Continuing a long tradition of collaborating with up-and-coming artists and talent, FCUK is thrilled to announce its latest campaign featuring W.A.F.F.L.E Crew – the artist collective of LiteFeet dancers keeping New York City's underground culture alive.
W.A.F.F.L.E Crew, an acronym that stands for "We Are Family For Life Entertainment," is composed of 12 young dancers born and raised in New York City's 5 boroughs. The members first met in their mid-teens while competing at weekly LiteFeet battle events, but soon realised that they were stronger when they performed as a unit. After banding together, the group has gone viral for their incredible moves and uplifting attitude, and have set a life goal to be a positive influence on their community and everyone around the world.
Since we relaunched the brand in the US, they've become a part of our FCUK community over the years and are big supporters of the brand. From dance battle events to charity workshops, they bring that energy, the unexpected and spread positivity to inspire change in their local community.
We've been inspired to share their story so we caught up with the crew on set to learn more about their beginnings and their hopes for the future. Scroll to read more.
How did W.A.F.F.L.E get started?
W.A.F.F.L.E started from dancing on the subway. We used to go to these dance events called Center of Lite, Dark Wards, Friday Night Lights. It used to be like $10 to get into the event and our parents would give us $20, $30 so we had to get money for the event, money to buy food afterwards, and that wasn't enough so we started dancing on the subways. Then we accumulated a lot of cash so we decided to turn it into a side business. When you're making 50-100$ on the subway dancing, people don't even make that in a week. After we did that my friend Andrew started making business cards, and with business cards came opportunities so we started getting calls for parties, etc. And it's a team of elite dancers right here.
How do you guys feel when you're performing?
Exuberant. When the W.A.F.F.L.E Crew performs, I feel like the best performance that comes from us is when we're all together, so as many as the crew as possible. And when we perform it's like the energy is at an all-time high, we feed off of each other, we don't know what's expected, we leave that room for us to perform and just be ourselves and do what each individual does best, so that way we feed off of each other and those energies transfer and it creates one big energy for the people to feel and understand.
When we know we are all together as the W.A.F.F.L.E Crew to perform, we know we're bringing that energy, bringing that high level intensity, the unexpected, the things that people never saw before so it always feels good to be able to bring that energy at the highest level when most of us are together. That's what you can expect and it's fun because you look at people's faces and you watch people be like, WOW, even on the subways they didn't expect us to do a great show, they think it's the same old and that our crew is just different.
How do you use your platform to inspire change?
We look to inspire change around us by just doing what we didn't see as we were growing up. We are still growing up but we have all these opportunities to figure out ways to give back and do things that we weren't able to do or people didn't do for us when we were coming up, when we first started dancing. So now 10+ years in, we look for any and every opportunity to be able to go "oh, they never did that for us", let's do that for the younger generation, let's do that for the younger dancers that are inspired by us.
We use our platform to inspire change by putting out positive content. We put out great videos that just put a smile on your face. If I know you're having a bad day and I put out a good video with the guys and that makes you smile, that might change your day and how everything is going for you. I see people comment that all the time: "wow you guys are amazing, you made me smile, you changed my day, you guys made my day". That's what we do it for.
What impact do you want to have on your community?
The type of impact I want on my community is change. We do positive things by dancing and coming out and giving back. I want to inspire the younger generation to do the same, because people didn't do that for me. When we used to go to these dance events, we would just go to get our name up. Now W.A.F.F.L.E makes a big enough name that when we throw dance events, we have the opportunity to give young kids, for example, some shoes. We just want to bring positivity and spread that light to everybody that's coming up.
We want to inspire change because growing up we all didn't have the same leadership or the same guidance that some people had so we just want to give back and show people that there's more than one route that you can take to achieve your dreams. No one believed in entrepreneurship when I was growing up. So now, coming from where we came from, dance and this journey has been an amazing view of the world where we get to express ourselves and show people that this is what we do. We get to show the world and now we get to enjoy our life over something that was just a hobby to us growing up, so we just want to show the world that if you want to do it, you can chase your dreams, you can become someone important in the lane that you want to be in - it doesn't have to be corporate, it doesn't have to be medical. Just follow your heart and you will find happiness.
What do you mean to each other?
These are my brothers, it's all in the name: We Are Family For Life.
W.A.F.F.L.E is one big family. We've been through everything together. Everybody here, we've known each other since we were kids. We grew up together. We've been through it all together. We've been through thick and thin. We argue, we fight, but at the end of the day everybody knows it's all love.
I think we learn a lot from each other. We learn from our mistakes and that just means we have our head straight, we're all on the right path, and we all want better for each other not just for ourselves. And this is a great example of what that's like, cause we've all been through the worst situations, we've had ups and downs, we fought each other, we smile, we laugh together, and it's just about embracing each other as human beings because, you know, we are all strong individuals, we all come with strong personalities, and we can bump heads, that's all part of being human. There's rights and wrongs and it's always about how you correct your wrongs at the end of the day. We've been together 10+ years, we're all on the right path and I love these idiots.
W.A.F.F.L.E means exactly what it says, We Are Family For Life Entertainment, plus, a little bit of drama. But you know, it's all good on this side, we move like family for real. It's like real siblings here, like real brothers.
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