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Hope in the Midst of Despair: End-of-Year Reflections on 2014
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December 28, 2014 by Hope Ferdowsian
Recently, I was in the Democratic Republic of Congo with a team of colleagues working to end impunity for sexual violence in conflict zones. We train doctors, nurses, lawyers, and judges on how to collect, document, and evaluate forensic evidence of sexual assault, with the aim of increasing the number of successful prosecutions of sexual violence perpetrators. This is especially important in Congo, where dozens of women are victimized every hour.
As I reflect on the past year, all that is happening in the world, and the promise of a new year, I've been thinking a lot about our time in Congo.
During this visit, my American colleagues and I spent time with our Congolese colleagues on the front lines of evaluating and caring for rape survivors. Like so many other parts of the world, Congo is full of contradictions – immense wealth (natural resources like gems, metals, oil) and abject poverty (many people do not have basic necessities like clean water, food, or shelter); joy and sadness; justice and injustice.
It is incredibly difficult to see so many women and children victimized every day, in a fractured country with a fragmented justice system, and maintain hope that life will get better.
At the end of our time there, just like in other trips, we made time to talk with our colleagues about burnout and vicarious traumatization – when empathic health care workers, journalists, first responders, activists, and others on the front lines develop symptoms like social withdrawal, constant worry, problems with sleep, intrusive memories and nightmares, and hopelessness.
As we talked about what we each do to make it through the day, doctors and nurses molded clay into works of art demonstrating the emotional burden they bear. Some shapes emerged as flattened pieces of clay meant to represent the pressure weighing on caretakers; others were elaborate canoes in the middle of the ocean.
After we shared works of art, we talked about resilience and how to hold on to optimism about the future. Sometimes it is incredibly difficult to see hope in the midst of despair. But it is there. And when we feel broken, grasping for hope, even the smallest glimpses of compassion can keep us going. I was reminded of this through the actions of one of my colleagues.
One day, my colleague and I spent time with a mother of six children who was raped and became pregnant as a result of the rape. Her husband threatened to throw her out of the house, and she worried that she would be left homeless with seven young children. My colleague had the opportunity to visit with her again later, and during that time, she gave the woman her intricate ring designed in the shape of an elaborate lace pattern, with the hope that the woman could sell it if her situation worsened. It was a small act of kindness, and a huge act of love. And it gave me hope, if even a small bit.
Acts of kindness are everywhere – even in some of the darkest places. James Foley reminded us of that possibility when he organized Secret Santa games for other Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hostages who, like him, were tortured before being killed.
I've held on to those and other small acts of kindness, as I recall images of Ferguson, Missouri and New York City; ongoing, often ignored conflicts in parts of Africa; Taliban attacks on school children; the Senate report on CIA torture tactics; Tommy and others held in lonely concrete cells; and federally funded maternal deprivation experiments subjecting monkeys to a "pit of despair." I am overwhelmed by the question of will it end, and, if so, when?
It can't be soon enough.
I am a firm believer in seeing reality for what it is – in all its harsh ugliness and beauty – while maintaining a sometimes unrealistic hope and faith that things will get better. After all, isn't this the only way activists have forced the arc of the moral universe to bend toward justice?
And there are signs everywhere that life is getting better, or soon to get better, for many.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of Africa, there is evidence that tolerance for sexual violence is relenting, and women are on the front lines of that movement.
This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken a stand against torture.
Nations across the world have enacted bans on using wild animals in circuses and an orangutan in Argentina was granted basic legal rights. Meanwhile, members of Congress have launched an inquiry into the use of monkeys in maternal deprivation experiments, at the urging of activists.
And the list goes on…
Our ongoing challenge is commit to being solutionaries – even in the midst of despair – to expand the list of solutions so that they flood the list of problems they are meant to solve. As we push for a tidal wave of change, I try to remember that it is the things we do every day that add up, ripple after ripple.
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In the exhibition Family Stories, GW recreates herself at different ages by using masks. In Self-portrait 3 years old, a little girl looks at the viewer. She looks a little creepy. But there is also something else wrong. It's an adult's eye who looks at us through a baby mask. Gillian Wearing's portrait of the girl is a portrait of herself as both children and adults.
My brief research shows that William S. Burroughs is a key figure when it comes to working with cut-up poem.
His sentence "when you cut into the present the future leaks out" takes my attention. I'll have some similar experiences while I worked with my listed words.
My experiences were that words in a random constellation evoke unknown/forgot memories, in some cases like a coded personal information – information which is already there, but not yet exposed.
Together with cinemaphotography Antony Balch, William S. Burroughs made the video below. In this one, they are experimenting with voice replacement.
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Table of Contents

States and density

Acceptance condition

Determinism

Output formats

Generating a stream of automata

The randaut tool generates random (connected) automata.

By default, it will generate a random automaton with 10 states, no
acceptance sets, and using a set of atomic propositions you have to
supply.

randaut a b --dot

As for randltl, you can supply a number of atomic propositions
instead of giving a list of atomic propositions.

States and density

The numbers of states can be controlled using the -Q option.  This
option will accept a range as argument, so for instance -Q3..6 will
generate an automaton with 3 to 6 states.

The number of edges can be controlled using the -e (or
--density) option.  The argument should be a number between 0 and 1.
In an automaton with \(Q\) states and density \(e\), the degree of each
state will follow a normal distribution with mean \(1+(Q-1)d\) and
variance \((Q-1)e(1-e)\).

In particular -e0 will cause all states to have 1 successors, and
-e1 will cause all states to be interconnected.

randaut -Q3 -e0 2 --dot

randaut -Q3 -e1 2 --dot

Acceptance condition

The generation of the acceptance sets abn is controlled with the following four parameters:

-A ACCEPTANCE (or --acceptance=ACCEPTANCE) controls both the acceptance condition,
and the number of associated acceptance sets.  The ACCEPTANCE argument is documented
in --help as follows:

RANGE may have one of the following forms: 'INT', 'INT..INT', or '..INT'.
In the latter case, the missing number is assumed to be 1.

ACCEPTANCE may be either a RANGE (in which case generalized Büchi is
assumed), or an arbitrary acceptance formula such as 'Fin(0)|Inf(1)&Fin(2)' in
the same syntax as in the HOA format, or one of the following patterns:
  none
  all
  Buchi
  co-Buchi
  generalized-Buchi RANGE
  generalized-co-Buchi RANGE
  Rabin RANGE
  Streett RANGE
  generalized-Rabin INT RANGE RANGE ... RANGE
  parity (min|max|rand) (odd|even|rand) RANGE
  random RANGE
  random RANGE PROBABILITY
The random acceptance condition uses each set only once, unless a probability
(to reuse the set again every time it is used) is given.

When a range of the form \(i..j\) is used, the actual value is taken as randomly
between \(i\) and \(j\) (included).

-a (or --acc-probability) controls the probability that any
transition belong to a given acceptance set.

-S (or --state-based-acceptance) requests that the automaton
use state-based acceptance.  In this case, -a is the probability
that a state belong to the acceptance set.  (Because Spot only
deals with transition-based acceptance internally, this options
force all transitions leaving a state to belong to the same
acceptance sets.  But if the output format allows state-based
acceptance, it will be used.)

--colored requests that each transition (of state if combined with -S)
in the generated automaton should belong to exactly one set (in that
case -a is ignored, and -A must be used to specify an acceptance
condition with at least one set).

In addition, -B (or --ba) is a shorthand for -A1 -S,
ans -s (or --spin) implies -B.

randaut -Q3 -e0.5 -A3 -a0.5 2 --dot

randaut -Q3 -e0.4 -B -a0.7 2 --dot

randaut -Q6 -e0.4 -S -a.2 -A 'Streett 1..3' 2 --dot=.a

For generating random parity automata you should use the option
--colored to make sure each transition (or state in the following
example) belong to exactly one acceptance set.  Note that you can
specify a precise parity acceptance such as parity min even 3, or
give randaut some freedom, as in this example.

randaut -Q10 -S --colored -A 'parity rand rand 3..4' 2 --dot=.a

Determinism

The output can only contain a single edge between two given states.
By default, the label of this edge is a random assignment of all
atomic propositions.  Two edges leaving the same state may therefore
have the same label.

If the -D (or --deterministic) option is supplied, the labels
are generated differently: once the degree \(m\) of a state has been
decided, the algorithm will compute a set of \(m\) disjoint
Boolean formulas over the given atomic propositions, such that the
sum of all these formulas is \(\top\).  The resulting automaton is
therefore deterministic and complete.

randaut -D -Q3 -e0.6 -A2 -a0.5 2 --dot

Note that in a deterministic automaton with \(a\) atomic propositions,
it is not possible to have states with more than \(2^a\) successors.  If
the combination of -e and -Q allows the situation where a state
can have more than \(2^a\) successors, the degree will be clipped to
\(2^a\).  When working with random deterministic automata over \(a\)
atomic propositions, we suggest you always request more than \(2^a\)
states.

Output formats

The output format can be controlled using the common output options
like --hoaf, --dot=, --lbtt, and --spin.  Note that --spin
automatically implies --ba.

Automata are send to standard output by default, by you can use -o
to give a filename, or even a pattern for filenames.  For instance the
following generates 20 automatas, but store them in different files
according to the acceptance condition.  The format %g represent the
formula for the acceptance condition and would not make a nice
filename, but %[s]g is a short name for that acceptance condition
(its is replaced by "other" if Spot does not know better).

randaut -n20 -Q10 -A 'random 3' 2 -o 'randaut-%[s]g.hoa'
wc -l randaut-*.hoa

 53 randaut-Fin-less.hoa
222 randaut-Rabin-like.hoa
380 randaut-Streett-like.hoa
100 randaut-generalized-Buchi.hoa
196 randaut-other.hoa
951 total

Generating a stream of automata

Use option -n to specify a number of automata to build.  A negative
value will cause an infinite number of automata to be produced.  This
generation of multiple automata is useful when piped to another tool
that can process automata in batches.

Here is an example were we use autfilt to scan an infinite stream
(-n -1) of random parity automata for the first automaton (-n 1)
that have exactly 5 SCCs of particular natures: we want 1 trivial SCC
(i.e. an SCC with no cycle), 1 rejecting SCC (an SCC without any
accepting SCCs), 2 inherently weak SCCs (SCCs contains only rejecting
cycles) among which one should be weak (all transitions should belong
to the same sets).  This leaves us with one extra SCC that should
necessarily mix accepting and rejecting cycles.

(Note: the '.' argument passed to --dot below hides default
options discussed on another page, while 'a' causes the acceptance
condition to be displayed and's' shows SCCs.)

randaut -n -1 --colored -A'parity min odd 4' a b |
autfilt --sccs=5 --trivial-sccs=1 --rejecting-sccs=1 \
        --inherently-weak-sccs=2 --weak-sccs=1 -n 1 --dot=.as

You should be able to find each of the expected type of SCCs in the above picture.
The green rectangles mark the three SCCs that contain some accepting cycles.

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I have vocal trouble from time to time associated with sleep or wine! Or from sleeping in a bunk the size of a coffin and breathing in bus air conditioning all day.
At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house correspondingly turns inward, away from whatever corresponds beyond its four walls.At the same time, the television is the families chief connection to the world. The physical envelope of the house itself no longer connects their lives to the outside in any active way; rather it seals them from it.The outside world has become an abstraction filtered through television, just as the weather is an abstraction filtered through air conditioning.
After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.


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Batwoman 'Who Are You?' Recap: More than just a cape and a cowl
October 27, 2019, 10:56 PM ET
By Tricia Ennis
Credit: The CW
Batwoman is back for its fourth episode this week and it's keeping things simple along the way. Last week, Kate finally got over herself a little and decided to take up the Batwoman mantle for real. This week, she's finding out that being the Bat isn't as simple as putting on the costume and looking menacing.
Warning: From here on out, spoilers abound for Season 1, Episode 4 of Batwoman.
Before we get to the lean meat of this week's episode, I think we need to address the elephant in the room, even though it doesn't appear until the end: I was wrong. I know! I'm just as shocked and horrified as you are.
A few weeks ago, I said that Jake lied to Kate all those years ago when he told her the search teams had found skull fragments while looking for Beth's body following the accident that killed their mother. This week, however, we have now discovered that Jake was the one being lied to by none other than Catherine Hamilton-Kane (though she was not a Kane yet). Turns out, Catherine's role in Gotham is as the head of a defense company which for some reason Jake was working with to search for Beth. When Catherine saw how much the search was hurting Jake and Kate, she paid the medical examiner to lie and say that deer bones found by her men were skull fragments in order to stop them from continuing with this fruitless endeavor.
While this revelation — spurred on by threats from Alice who is apparently aware of a number of machinations one would not expect — does serve to add a bit of tension to Jake and Catherine's relationship and makes it nearly impossible for Jake to continue denying that Alice and Beth are one and the same, it's also somehow less interesting than what I originally thought. Maybe it's because I don't yet care about Catherine or her relationship to Jake the way I care about Jake's relationship with Kate, but having her be the one who lied to protect them doesn't carry the same weight as a father willingly giving up the search for one daughter to spare the one he has left.
SIDENOTE: Hamilton Dynamics also apparently is the parent company of The Crows and I'll be honest I'm currently a little iffy on how the Kanes and the Hamiltons came to know and work together outside of both families being very very wealthy Gothamites.
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Speaking of rich people, this week delved a little more into the extreme divide between the rich and poor in Gotham, both through Batwoman's attempts to stop a notorious thief and Kate's attempts to date the cute bartender, Reagan, who we met last week. She is successful in only one of these endeavors, and here's a hint, it's not her personal life. Despite starting the episode off by waking up in bed with her very first love interest, Kate spends the rest of the runtime learning why Bruce Wayne was a famous playboy: it was easier to lie about who you were when you weren't doing it to someone you cared about.
If the specter of Batman is going to loom as heavily as it seems to be, at least they're sticking with the theme of how Kate's approach will necessarily differ from her cousin's. Unlike Bruce, Kate isn't so compartmentalized. She struggles with the idea of hiding a huge part of her identity and it's not so easy to, well, step back in the Batcloset, so to speak. I have to say I'm glad Kate's queerness is informing more of her character than just who she sleeps with, especially as a vigilante, a person who must, by design, hide their true self from everyone they do not trust explicitly for fear of dangerous or deadly repercussions. How is that unlike hiding your sexuality out of fear that you will be ridiculed, hated, or even killed because of who you are? One of the things that makes Kate Kane such a wonderful and heroic figure, especially for queer women, is the fact that she lives her life loudly and honestly without regard for whether it makes those around her uncomfortable. It's why she refused to deny herself at the academy even though it meant giving up something that mattered to her (and giving up someone that mattered). It's also why she apparently came out of the closet by punching a kid at school who accused her of being gay while agreeing with his statement, simultaneously living her truth and refusing to let a bully take away her power despite his best efforts.
But for all that she is fierce, Kate is also sensible and kind. She knows that the symbol she is forcing herself to become is more important than her own temporary happiness or comfort which is why she chooses to once again hide a piece of herself away, sacrificing to protect someone else.
In this case, that someone else is Gotham as a whole and the less well-off citizens of Gotham more specifically. In one of her failed dates with Reagan, the bartender points out a high-rise in the center of the city and talks about how it used to be a sensible building that housed regular working people before predatory developers swept in and gentrified the area. Meanwhile, Batwoman attempts to track down Magpie, a woman who is stealing priceless objects from Gotham's rich and famous to, as she says herself, put food on the table and a roof over her head. Stealing from the rich to give to herself isn't quite as valiant as a modern-day Robin Hood, but her point remains. After Batwoman manages to apprehend and unmask the thief, Magpie explains — to an equally unmasked Kate — that the wealthy elite of Gotham's protected class don't see those who struggle to make ends meet.
The show has been setting up this idea of the two Gothams little by little in each episode since the premiere, with Mary largely serving as the bridge between them. It was nice to deal with it a little more directly this week, as Kate starts to peel back some of those layers and eventually decides that her public persona will be working with Luke to create a little more housing security for those who might otherwise find themselves forced out of their homes. That said, man was it on the nose. Here's hoping they smooth out the dialogue as Kate and Batwoman venture further into the less protected parts of the city going forward.
The rest of the episode, while generally solid, was really quite simple and straightforward, choosing to focus on the mechanics of being the new Bat in town. While that meant very little time with most of the well-established cast this week, it did mean spending a lot more of that time with Luke who finally got a turn to stretch, even if his story remains a little shrouded in mystery (just how closely did he work with Batman after all?). He's learning more about the Batcave and the various toys at his and Kate's disposal, while they both learn how to trust each other and work together just a little bit more. It's nice to see him warming up to the idea of helping her out, but I'm also hoping he gets over his need to compare her to Bruce all the time very soon. He does realize she's doing that to herself already, right?
And speaking of trust and partnership, Mary finds herself assisting Batwoman as well this week as she is forced to attend to Alice's right-hand man who has been festering away in Kate's basement lair. While she's attempting to keep him from succumbing to septic shock, Mary decides a little morphine-induced interrogation is completely within the realm of ethics for a man who previously stabbed her and ruined her favorite plaid shirt in the process. Pretending to be Alice, Mary manages to learn that the villain's plan has something to do with a Mouse, though his drug-induced ramblings aren't terribly helpful beyond that. Batwoman, however, decides the only way to learn more is to implant a tracking device in hopes that he will lead her to him.
Next Week: Looks like we're set to fill in a few of the Beth-related blanks between the car accident and the arrival of Alice as she and Kate come face to face for a little sisterly bonding.
Miscellaneous Musings:
- It will not surprise you to know that Mouse seems to be the mousy looking guy that Kate spotted at the museum benefit, though his true role in the Wonderland Gang is still very much up in the air. There are a few comic book characters who bear the moniker but none of them jive with the way this Mouse is being set up.
- We got official confirmation that the Kane's are, in fact, Jewish. Both Beth and their mother's headstones include a Star of David. Can't recall if we'd seen them in Episode 2 but if we did and you missed it then there's no denying it this time.
- One of the fascinating blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments this week was the fact that there is a Crow District, which means they don't protect the entire city. What determines where those lines are drawn? Does the city pay them or are they paid by the citizens? There's so much to unpack surrounding the inner workings of this mess of a city and I hope the show really dives deep in the future.
- Sophie definitely knows Kate is Batwoman even if she doesn't really know, you know? Kate has to tell someone before the end of the season, so will Sophie or Mary be the first to find out?
- Speaking of Mary, she must be protected at all costs.
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Michael Phelps was the first exposure to cupping for many Americans. The purple, circular spots that appeared on his body brought forth a slew of questions.
Although Michael Phelps used cupping for sports recovery, cupping addresses many different remedies. Cupping can eliminate a cold, clear the lungs, reduce pain, strengthen the immune system, and improve digestive function and much more.
Cupping uses small cups that are most commonly made out of polycarbonate, glass, or bamboo. These cups are applied to the body through the use of a vacuum suction. The most common methods of creating a vacuum is with a small device that applies the polycarbonate cups or fire to apply the glass and bamboo cups.
After application of the cups, they are allowed to rest and then removed.
Cups are most commonly used in the US to release muscles. Cupping can get in much deeper than most massage, and for really tight muscles, cups might be the only thing that gives relief. Although the cups can be a bit painful the first couple times, the muscles will be much more pliable by the third treatment and then it is seventh heaven.
One symptom that I like to use with cupping is digestive issues. Needling, eating right, stretching, and supplements sometimes just doesn't make a difference. Cupping can actually help remove the bloating, tightness, and discomfort from the abdominal area and improve your digestive function. The sensation is subtle and over time becomes more pronounced.
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A week that not only involved walking but also catching up with old friends and family.
I have been very lucky to have been hosted by several, old and new, friends as I have made my way down the NW coast (including the IOM). Staying with friends makes a huge difference to my trip, both in terms of admin (e.g. getting washing done) and, more importantly, my emotional well-being. It can get lonely on my own and seeing friends is a huge fillip.
The Wales Coastal Path seems to be well signposted so far. It is 870 miles long so it's unlikely I'll get to the end before Christmas.
I woke to another grey day; the theme of N Wales so far. It was only a short hop to Colwyn Bay, where I had arranged to be picked up tomorrow for a family gathering in N Wales. I strolled through Rhyl and across a relatively new pedestrian bridge over the mouth of the River Clwyd. A lot of effort was being made to smarten up the sea front and make it more attractive to tourists.
At Pen-Sarn, just across the Clwyd and sea-side of Abergele, I came across my first static caravan park for a while. There seemed to be hundreds, or even thousands, of caravans all squashed in. The railway line ran through the site and the hills were the backdrop. There was no beach to speak of, just a concrete promenade, some shingle and brown sea.
The coast path was now running directly alongside the A55 and the railway line so the walk was no longer so peaceful. It was also a cycle path and I was passed by lots of cyclists.
The hill to my left was scarred by mining; half cut away and a huge conveyor belt that crossed the road and rail line to end at a pier.
Just on the outskirts of Colwyn Bay I stopped for a coffee at a smart-looking new venue that was both a restaurant and a cafe, and had a grass roof that one could walk over. It was owned by a Welsh celebrity chef: Bryn Williams. I wasn't very impressed by the service. However, this is Porth Eirias, a new development at the heart of Colwyn Bay's promenade improvements and efforts to create a sandy beach.
I walked through Colwyn Bay town centre to my B&B and had a leisurely evening. I ate at The Station, a nice little restaurant in the centre of town with several local ales.
I was late getting up after a very late night spent catching up with my family news. It was lovely to see my Aunt and Uncle, and they looked after me very well. They even drove me across the border into Wales so I could start my walk from Flint, thus missing out walking past all the industry and power stations around the River Dee.
The drive along the A55 to get to Flint was lovely; the Autumn colours of the trees was wonderful. We passed Broughton, where the A380 wings are made and then shipped along the Dee by barge to Mostyn before being loaded onto a ship and taken to the South of France.
Flint has a castle that was built by King Edward I after he began his invasion of Wales in 1277.
My walk took me mostly along the banks of the estuary as far as Mostyn and then I headed across the main A55 and walked through a couple of the small towns. The small, terraced housing and cramped villages surrounded by beautiful hills was a marked contrast to England.
Talacre looks like a holiday village with a power station attached and is right on the corner at the mouth of the Dee estuary, opposite Hoylake in Wirral. There are big sand dunes that protect the beach facing the Irish Sea and an old lighthouse that looks abandoned on the beach.
The sky had gone very dark as I walked through the dunes to Prestatyn. Fortunately the cloud passed over me before it rained. Prestatyn was pretty deserted and looked rather soulless and sad.
I carried on past on the promenade and headed for Rhyl, which also looked closed for the winter. The fairground and promenade attractions were all boarded up or fenced off.
It had been a long day and I arrived at my hotel in Rhyl just as the daylight was fading.


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Computer, Gadget Geeks Take to Red Carpet (and Jessica Alba) at Sci/Tech Oscars
Ron Fedkiw stood there, far away from the glitz and glamour of Oscar night, following every geek's annual routine for his brief encounter with the Scientific and Technological Academy Awards: stare at the gorgeous host. Only Fedkiw, an associate professor at Stanford University and a senior software engineer for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), was actually accepting an award from Jessica Alba—not watching the montage you'll see on ABC later this month.
"They said I got 60 seconds, so I might just spend the last 15 realizing I'm 10 ft. away from the most beautiful woman on the planet," Fedkiw told the underappreciated gurus of digital F/X gathered in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Saturday, according to the Associate Press, before glancing at the actress-turned-MC and adding, "No restraining order this time."
Nothing was holding back the industry praise for fluid simulation, the breakthrough reproduction for the screen of calamitous forces of nature that netted an award for Fedkiw and his ILM team—but also six of the night's 10 overall honors (Science and Technical Awards go to proven on-screen innovations rather than work on an individual film). By combining two popular CG practices—the complex but sometimes unrealistic "particle" method and the smoother but simpler "level" method—Fedkiw and others made 2008 the year of the crashing wave, from Pirates of the Caribbean to Evan Almighty.
Such dynamic representations of Mother Nature's power mean fluid simulation should only grow into more complex storms and even explosions come the next round of blockbusters. And with recent CG breakthroughs in Transformers and The Golden Compass—both nominated in the visual effects category of the "real" Oscars on Feb. 24—this weekend's recognition can only help. "What it tells the research community is to work really heard on the next big technology, and if you make an impact it will be recognized," Fedkiw tells PM.
But it wasn't only computer nerds doing the reveling. Sebastian Cramer and Andreas Dasser's SKATER dolly won for its high mechanical maneuverability; its Roller Blade-like wheels offer filmmakers the same effect that a much heavier, more expensive industry-standard dolly would. Christien Tinsley, whose fake tattoos have been making Hollywood's finest look their grittiest for close to a decade, was awarded for creating easy-to-apply 2D makeup (bruises, cuts, etc.) as well as the 3D prosthetics seen recently on the stone-dead face of Javier Bardem's character in No Country For Old Men.
Stay tuned to PopularMechanics.com's Digital Hollywood for more coverage of the high-tech Oscars later this month. —Brian Lisi
(Lead photograph by Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S.)
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Games under development at MSG now on GMT's P-500 list.
Over the past several months four games that have seen heavy development activity at Metro Seattle Gamers have now reached the P-500 list for GMT Games.
The Seven Years War: Frederick's Gamble. In adapting GMT's multi-award-winning The Napoleonic Wars game system by Mark McLaughlin, Designer Greg Ticer, aided by Developer Fred Schachter, create a furiously paced, card-driven, and battle/siege-intensive strategic/operational game which can be concluded by two, three, or four experienced players in an evening or an afternoon. Players represent the Coalition of Britain and Prussia or their nemesis, the Imperial Camp of Austria (with its Holy Roman Empire Pact Ally) and France (with its powerful Russian Pact Ally). The four main Powers never change Camps. Neutral Sweden and Denmark wait to possibly be swayed into one of the antagonist's fold. Britain and France not only contend against each other on the continent, but upon the game's colonial mini-maps and through an abstract naval war.
MSG's lead playtester for this game is Stephen Graham. Veteran game designer and developer Fred Shachter is a frequent attendee to these sessions.
Frequent MSG attendee Fred Schacter is the developer of this game.
Illusions of Glory The Great War on the Eastern Front is the latest Card Driven Game to simulate the Great War in Europe. First came the award-winning legendary Paths of Glory by Ted Raicer, which simulates the entire war in Europe and the Middle East which is now a convention favorite. It was followed by the well-received Pursuit of Glory, designed by Brad and Brian Stock, which focuses on the war in the Near East. Illusions of Glory takes this proven game system to a new and exciting level by applying its focus to the Eastern Front.
The MSG playtest lead for this game is Luther Harris. Fred Schacter is the developer.
Metro Seattle Gamers will be closed from August 5th to 6 pm August 10th for the Dragonflight Annual Convention, which will be held Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 9th at the Bellevue Hilton Hotel, Bellevue, Washington.
We hope to see you at the convention!
Metro Seattle Gamers' Annual Membership Meeting is coming up.
Once a year, the club membership holds their annual meeting to elect officers for the upcoming year and to discuss various matters before the membership.
This year's annual meeting is scheduled for 10:30 am, Saturday, September 27th.
All active members of Metro Seattle Gamers are encouraged to participate in this meeting. While others may attend this meeting, the club membership reserves the right to exclude non-club members from this meeting. During this meeting the club will be closed to other activities.
As a reminder this meeting is for the members of MSG, not the members of Dragonflight. Dragonflight's membership meeting is generally held on the first day of the Dragonflihgt annual convention. Metro Seattle Gamers operates autonomously under the supervision of Dragonflight. All decisions by the MSG membership and officers are subject to the final discretion of Dragonfllight.
Metro Seattle Gamers new website has gone live!
The Yahoo! Group, Dragonflight-MSG, will continue to operate as before and it will serve as the public email discussion group for the club; for the time being we will also maintain a duplicate event calendar in this group. Metro Seattle Gamers has plans to maintain its presence on other services in the near future; we will announce them when they are set up. NOTE: This new system covers Metro Seattle Gamers only, not the Dragonflight Annual Convention nor the Dragonflight parent organization; links for these other functions can be found on the new MSG website or at the next hyperlink below.
Metro Seattle Gamers' new website is one step closer to going live!
This new website will become our primary communications point to the public. This site provides a number of advantages for our members.
1) A functional website for the club that doesn't have to be managed by a web programmer.
2) It allows our members to set up their own user profiles on this website.
3) A central public event schedule that is not hidden by Yahoo! Groups current policy.
4) Members can make payment and adjust their membership status from this website.
5) As we get used to using the new event system we can layer in daily visitor registrations there as well.
There are more options with this system that will be brought up to our membership in the near future, but for now we are attempting to duplicate club procedures rather than build new ones.
Metro Seattle Gamers' space has been repainted, reorganized, and (a little bit) remodeled!
This is somewhat older news that happened last fall but it bears repeating. Our club members, and some of their families, pitched in to repaint and reorganize the club's physical space.
The space in the main gaming area has been reorganized with all game storage now taking place against one wall. The whiteboards have been moved to more useful locations and a new suspended lighting system has been put into the rear gaming room. That room now provides a more pleasant and private gaming experience.
This contribution was a spontaneous contribution: many of our members contributed in their time to make this happen. It was a wonderful morale boost to boot. We thank all of the members who pitched in to improve our club. We also extend a special thanks to Erin Marshall, who inspired and contributed much labor to this effort. Erin also painted the sign shown above.
Below is a shot of the rear gaming room.


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George Haffner is a former American football player and coach.

Born in Chicago, Haffner prepped at football powerhouse Mount Carmel High School. While at the University of Notre Dame in 1960, Haffner was awarded the starting quarterback job by head coach Joe Kuharich. His first game was an impressive 21–17 victory over California.  However, the team finished the season with 2–8 record, and after losing the starting job to Daryle Lamonica, Haffner transferred to McNeese State University.

Following his graduation, Haffner was selected by the Baltimore Colts with the final pick in the 1965 NFL Draft. His professional career ended with the Norfolk Neptunes of the Continental Football League, after which he returned to the college ranks as a coach.

Haffner spent 31 years on various coaching staffs at NCAA Division I schools including 22 years as an offensive coordinator under such renowned head coaches as Bobby Bowden, Johnny Majors and Vince Dooley. While at the University of Georgia, he won a national championship and three conference championships and coached Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker. During his career, he coached at Iowa State University, the University of Pittsburgh, Florida State University, Texas A&M University, Georgia, Louisiana State University (LSU), the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), and the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor.  He retired as the offensive coordinator  Mary Hardin–Baylor on February 1, 2006.

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Home » Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Treasures of American History: National Challenges
Grade Range: 5-12
Resource Type(s): Reference Materials
In this section of the online exhibition Treasures of American History, students will learn that by understanding the challenges of the past, they can draw lessons and inspiration for confronting new challenges in the present and future. The topics discussed in this section are: the American Revolution; slavery; westward expansion; the Civil War, women's suffrage, the Great Depression and World War II, the Civil Rights movement and AIDS. A Spanish version of the exhibition is available on the exhibition's homepage.
Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s)
1: The causes of the American Revolution, the ideas and interests involved in forging the revolutionary movement, and the reasons for the American victory
2: The impact of the American Revolution on politics, economy, and society
3: The institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
1: United States territorial expansion between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans
2: How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions
3: The extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800
4: The sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period
Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
1: The causes of the Civil War
2: The course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people
3: How various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed
Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
4: Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War
Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)
3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression
Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)
1: The causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society
2: How the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state
3: The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs
Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
2: Economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States
Era 7: An Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914
1: The causes and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
2: The causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, 1700-1850
4: Patterns of nationalism, state-building, and social reform in Europe and the Americas, 1830-1914
Era 8: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945
3: The search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s
4: The causes and global consequences of World War II
5: Major global trends from 1900 to the end of World War II
Historical Thinking Standards (Grades 5-12)
Historical Thinking Standard 1: Chronological Thinking
1G: Compare alternative models for periodization.
Historical Thinking Standard 2: Historical Comprehension
2I: Draw upon the visual, literary, and musical sources.
Historical Thinking Standard 3: Historical Analysis and Interpretation
3C: Analyze cause-and-effect relationships.
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5A: Identify problems and dilemmas in the past.
5B: Marshal evidence of antecedent circumstances.
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The guy i like hasnt texted me in a couple a days, and when i see him at work he doesn't really acknowledge me. We've hooked up a couple of times before and talked about us but when I'm not with him he doesnt really text me or calls me. I have to put the effort in us going out on the weekend because he's too tired or busy (playing his games) on the weekdays. I understand that because guys are guys. His excuse for this is the fact he hasnt had a girlfriend for 2-3 years now and doesn't know on how to be a boyfriend. Should I text him or approach him at work? or should i wait for him??
I'm that person that would confront the situation. I say go for it, that way you know whether or not you're wasting your time.
you said "he doesn't know how to be a boyfriend," which is just an excuse and something to say to not be in a relationship at the moment. I would proceed with caution.
I would ask him if he is really interested in you or not. Wasting time in someone who doesn't like you will not be good for either of you. Guys being guys is not an excuse to me. If he likes you, he should be making an effort, even if it is just talking to you. If he has time for video games and not you, he obviously is not interested and I would move along.
It sounds like he isn't really interested in a relationship right now but he might like you more than he realises, if it was me I would make him come to me, so don't text him or go out of your way to talk to him, if he comes up to you then talk to him but basically play hard to get. you will be able to see how much he likes you by how much he tries to talk to you or to meet up with you.
Oh gosh, I totally know how you feel. I realize it's hard, but I'd wait for him to come to you or have a very blunt conversation with him about where things are going. It's not fair to you if he knows now it's going no where. Better to get out now, than later when you're more invested.
When a guy is interested or really likes you, he will go out of this way to spend time with you and contact you. Unless you are willing to do the chasing and willing to deal with him being distant all the time, I would say kiss it goodbye. Think about how you would really want a guy to court you and how you would want a relationship to go. Does this guy live up to the standards that you see in a potential mate? If not, then stop fooling yourself and move on. As much as we all do not want to play games, dating can be like a game. Any sense of desperation or a guy knowing that he can walk all over you, he will. So don't contact him, and if he contacts you to hang (especially if it is last minute) then say you are busy and take a raincheck. Act as though he isn't even there, and if he comes around and court you in a way that you want then cool…if not, then move on. I do agree with the others, him stating that he doesn't know how to act like a boyfriend is bs.


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Stela Grigoraș (born 15 August 1968) is a Moldovan politician. She served as Minister of Labour, Social Protection and Family from January 2016 and July 2017 and Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection from July to December 2017, both in the cabinet of Prime Minister Pavel Filip.

Early life and education
Grigoraș was born in Chişinău on 15 August 1968. She graduated from the Nicolae Testemițanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, with a degree in pediatrics. In 1998, she was awarded a diploma in postgraduate medicine in Tel Aviv University of medicine. In 2002, she took a course in social work at the University of Östersund in Sweden. Later, she studied social policies, obtaining the title of Doctor of Sociology, at the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, at the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Professional and political career
Prior to entering the political arena, Grigoraș worked in the medical field, having the qualification of pediatrician and in the social field, being the president of the public association "Partnerships for every child". Within this organization, it has implemented numerous projects focused on reforming the social protection system by reorganizing the residential childcare system, developing social services and promoting the right of every child to grow up in the family. In November 2015, she was elected President of the International Foster Care Organization.

Grigoraș was appointed Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family in January 2016. In July 2017, she was appointed Minister of Health, Labour and Social Protection.

Awards and recognition
Grigoraș is a doctor in sociology and the holder of the "Civic Merit" medal for the active promotion of children's rights. She is the only woman in Moldova who has been invited to speak at the House of Lords in the United Kingdom to raise awareness among British lawmakers about the need to support disadvantaged children in Moldova and their families.

Personal life
Grigoraș is married and has 3 children.

References

1968 births
Living people
Politicians from Chișinău
21st-century Moldovan politicians
Women government ministers of Moldova
21st-century Moldovan women politicians
Moldovan Ministers of Health


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Once consumers start using smart speakers, more than half of them don't want to go back to life without them, according to research conducted by National Public Radio (NPR) and Edison Research. Meg Goldthwaite, CMO at NPR, and Gina Garrubbo, CEO of National Public Media, spoke with eMarketer's Sean Creamer about how brands can creatively advertise to the voice-addicted population without disrupting the user experience. Goldthwaite and Garrubbo were interviewed as part of eMarketer's July report, "Marketing Beyond the Screen: Using Voice Technology to Boost Brand Engagement."
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I'm a very pathetic newbie at cooking… when you say you brown the chicken beforehand…do you mean on the stove (outside of the instant pot)? How?
It just seals in the juices better. After I made them several different ways, it was my favorite because it tasted the best. Of course, you can make them without searing too.
Ha! Not a bad idea. I always throw a dish towel over the release before I release the steam. I haven't had any issues with that, and it keeps the steak off my cabinets.
So sorry to hear that Carolyn! Sounds like it overcooked. If you end up trying it again, I would suggest reducing cook time a little.
Hi Julie! I am sorry they didn't turn out well for you. If you end up trying it again, I'd suggest reducing cook time. Sounds like they overcooked if they were tough.
What if you use frozen chicken breasts? Add more time?
i dont know if my instapot has natural release…. what does that mean? lol or how do i do that?
Awesome videos! Thanks for the recipes!
I have had mixed results with frozen ones. 🤔 So I can't recommend using frozen ones for this recipe, although some others have been successful.
Hi Hannah! I wish I could say yes, but I have had inconsistent results with frozen chicken. I do know for sure that they have to be un-frozen enough to separate out into individual pieces…not as a big huge frozen block of several stuck together.
What trivet are you talking about? My Instant Pot came with a basket. I just covered my two rather thick chicken breasts with the broth, cooked about 13 min. Cooling now. Not shredding too easily. Does that mean I overcooked or undercooked? I'm struggling with the times on Instant Pot recipes. I don't know how to adjust for thicker cuts.
Hi Neal! If they were tough, I would recommend reducing cook time a little, and also you can season them and let them marinate first. Overnight would be perfect, but even a couple hours would get those flavors to soak in a bit more. If you end up butterflying them, that would reduce the cook time by a lot more (not sure how much, since I haven't done that myself). Hope that helps! Better luck next time.
If I have a 3 qt Instant Pot, would the instructions be different?
Do the chicken breast need to be unthawed or can they be cooked from frozen?
Could I use an electric pressure cooker to get this same result?
You can, and any electric pressure cooker should be pretty similar to the Instant Pot (also an electric pressure cooker).
My Instant Pot arrived yesterday, and this chicken recipe was the first thing I made. It turned out Perfect!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Yay!👏🏻 I am so glad you enjoyed it!
Oh My Goodness. Just followed your recipe exactly and this chicken is fork tender with great flavor. This is the first dish I've cooked with my Instant Pot and so very happy it came out this well. Thanks, I'll be following you for more.
Got a question about using this system. My wife is concerned about the steam release and causing molding in the kitchen. By natural releasing (read down on what that means), does that cut down the steam? Any problems with the kitchen walls with the steam?
Hi Mike! I haven't had any issues. I do throw a kitchen towel over the nozzle before I quick release it. That keeps the steam under control. Hope that helps!
What do you mean by natural release? Also, I have the 8 quart pot. I buy chicken breast that come 2 to a package. Just weighed them frozen and come to 2 lbs 6 oz.
Hi Mike! Natural release refers to when you don't use the "quick release" lever to release this pressure. In this particular recipe, I do not let it naturally release all the way, but only for a few minutes, and then I use the lever to quick release the remaining pressure. A FULL natural release would not use the lever at all, but you would just wait until the pressure indicator pin drops down on its own without using the lever. Hope this helps!
Hi Ali! Some people swear by it, but I have had mixed results with frozen – some turned out good, and some bad. Fresh ones give more consistent results, in my opinion.
THANK YOU!!! This chicken breast technique is perfection!! Best method I've found in over a year of instant pot chickening, thank you!!!
Made this tonight. Even my picky eater enjoyed this recipe. I did have to put it back in for an additional minute but my chicken breasts were very plump.
Yay, so glad you enjoyed it Laura!