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"Segne den Becher, welcher überfließen will, daß das Wasser golden aus ihm fließe und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage!" – Nietzsche
Unreason in an Age of Reason
The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau
Sigmund Freud famously called dreams "the royal road to the unconscious," as they often reveal our inner lives with a frankness and immediacy of which we are incapable during our normal waking experience. In his view, our sexual and aggressive instincts constantly pull us in directions that we can't face or acknowledge, as they squarely contradict the dictates of our socially-trained moral intuitions. And so, some subset of our fears and desires are pushed off the stage of our daylight consciousness, to come popping out and night as we sleep. There's a kind of law of conservation of psychic energies – they can be redirected or displaced, but never destroyed.
We collectively process and share unconscious images through myths, which have a dream-like character and, as Carl Jung elucidated, display recurrent patterns or symbols which are found the world over, which he called archetypes of the collective unconscious. This does not refer to Platonic forms or any kind of mystical ground of all consciousness, it is simply a way of talking about the fact that many unconscious symbols seem to be part of the shared human heritage.
This idea was taken over from the pioneering anthropologist Adolph Bastian, who discovered in his comparative analysis of many traditions what he called "elementary ideas," or Elementargedanken. So the gods send a world-ending flood to terminate a bungled mankind not just in the Gilgamesh Epic and Flood Story of Genesis, but in the Mayan Popol Vuh as well. Trickster figures of remarkably similar character are found the world over – compare the Norse troublemaker Loki with the Tlingit and Haida Raven, or the Siberian Rabbit. And so on.
Dreams and myths speak in a common language which directly render aspects of experience in images suffused with the energies of instinct, connecting the world of consciousness to the biological facts of the body, and coordinating those two planes of our being. By definition, these symbols fascinate, disturb, and thrill. This is why Independence Day sold a lot of tickets, but Star Wars created a following that persists to this day. When the voice of Obi Wan Kenobi tells Luke to put aside his targeting computer and use the Force, he is saying something that audiences instinctively recognize. We may think that our tools and our intellects are piloting the vessels of our lives, but deeper instincts and energies are the real driver. That's why this scene provides exultation, release, and delight – the manifest content of the film is a trivial space opera, but its message is profound.
What we need to fully appreciate is that myth and dream are not light entertainments, or a fanciful diversion from the rationally-ordered scientific and economical world in which we really live. This is an age of science, and the great discoveries made possible by the scientific method endanger our groundedness in our manifold human nature by prompting many people to over-identify with our rational centers, and to view the worlds of dream, feeling, and instinct as trivial asides. It is as though we would lop off the second term in our age-old definition of man as "rational animal."
We do so at our peril, because we are animals, and we are moved by the unconscious. Deciding that the unconscious is of no value or interest does not make it go away – on the contrary. To ignore it is to leave it dangerously unintegrated, and unchecked.
Joseph Campbell expressed the matter succinctly in his Masks of God series:
Clearly mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible forms of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. There is a real danger, therefore, in the incongruity of focus that has brought the latest findings of technological research into the foreground of modern life, joining the world a single community, while leaving the anthropological and psychological discoveries from which a commensurable moral system might have been developed in the learned publications where they first appeared. For surely it is folly to preach to children who will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and cosmology based on concepts of the Good Society and of man's place in nature that were coined before the harnessing of the horse! And the world is now too small, and men's stake in sanity too great, for any of those old games of Chosen Folk (whether of Jehovah, Allah, Wotan, Manu, or the Devil) by which tribesmen were sustained against their enemies in the days when the serpent still could talk.
Solar and Lunar Energies in Conflict
Just as individuals have stages of greater or lesser degrees of mental integration, coherence, and health, so, too, do societies. I was first alerted to the critical importance of this fact reading Jung in my early 20s. He was not a political man, and was reticent to comment on even the most serious social issues, but he nonetheless observed first-hand that the rise of the Nazi ideology was a direct illustration of the dangers posed by the unconscious. As the archetype of the eternal swastika rolling forever like a cosmic wheel swept like wildfire across German-speaking lands, great masses of people were galvanized by archetypes of the collective unconscious. In a short essay, he argued disturbingly and persuasively that the principle silent mover of the Nazi ideology was none other than Wotan or Odin, the repressed shadow-opposite of Germany's Christian self-identity. Wotan is a truly awful war god who sets armies on the move in the Period of Migrations and Viking Age, and he demands human sacrifice.
Jung's follower Erich Neumann took up the social analysis of the unconscious as thematic for his work. In his monumental study The Origins and History of Consciousness, he tracks out the development of mythology as the collective working-out of the conscious parameters of individual development. For example, when the possibility first emerged in history that the individual might carve out their own autonomous destiny in contradistinction to the role assigned to them by the tribe or society, we saw the emergence and rapid spread of myths showing hero figures overthrowing a primordial god or goddess that threatened to swallow and overwhelm the individual in its matrix, such as we find in the Babylonian Enuma Elish, in which the hero Marduk slays Tiamat, a quintessential expression of the "devouring mother" archetype.
In Neumann's view, social change and social revolution require a concordant adaptation by the collective unconscious, which is comprised by the shared set of guiding symbols that organize and direct our instinctual patterns of belief and activity. These are generally articulated through myth and mythological symbol, and the study of myth – and of art, literature, poetry, and related fields – is therefore a royal road to the collective unconscious, which can alert us to the contours of this landscape, and the pitfalls and the promises of our historical situation.
The twentieth century was the great period of discovery of the unconscious by Europe, but what we worked so hard to learn, we have now largely forgotten. Our artists are regarded as entertainers, by and large, and our arts increasingly become entertainments. And the techno-Utopian character of our age regards social problems as best analyzed and best solved by scientists, as though technical skills provide a general tool kit for understanding and dealing with any problem in any domain. This much is clear from our New York Times best sellers.
Carl Jung warned that what remains unconscious returns as fate, and I daresay that history will remind us of what we have chosen to forget. This has been a dark year in world history, and still-darker clouds gather on the horizon. Our public discourse has, in the main, virtually no sensitivity to or appreciation of the facts of the unconscious, and social turmoil is exclusively articulated and processed as a matter of competing positions. The more this limited framework strangles the life out of the real human energies driving historical conflict, the more shrill, polarizing, and ineffectual public discussion will become.
To me it seems perfectly obvious that you cannot understand the ability of putatively-rational people to ignore the overwhelming evidence for anthropogenic climate change without considering the role of repression. Nor can you adequately explain why the Catholic church actively concealed the systematic sexual abuse of children for decades. Nor can you understand why the dark specter of Islamic terrorism elicits a horror that is fantastically disproportionate to the actual threat that it represents without understanding something of the Jungian archetype of the Shadow.
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Nor, for that matter, can you come to an elementary understanding of what Islam is, if you regard it exclusively as a historical set of positions and views, and utterly neglect it as an aesthetic, psychological, and spiritual force – and that understanding can only be won by going into it, and letting its forms and symbols speak to you.
As Joseph Campbell warned us, the world is too small for that kind of neglect. More than one billion Muslims are here on this Earth, sharing it with non-Muslims, and national boundaries are porous. The United States and Europe are in deadly peril of allowing the image of the Muslim as the shadowy other – an archetype that elicits our own repressed shadow-nature – to drive policies that are as inhuman as they are doomed to failure. And no amount of rational analysis and debate is going to solve that problem. We must enlarge our psychic horizons, we must have a broader understanding of culture and history, or we may not survive.
Whatever that image of the Other is for you, you must find your way to enter it, whether it's the Qu'ran, Rumi, Attar, Saint Francis, Picasso, the Buddha or Einstein. Find your way in, and make it part of your own story.
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"..whether it's the Qu'ran, Rumi, Attar, Saint Francis, Picasso, the Buddha or Einstein. Find your way in, and make it part of your own story."
Bingo. I think there is a "story" that underlines through all positive experience. I am currently employing meditative techniques that originally have a Buddhist basis yet seem quite similar to the Hindu Advaita meditation ideas. It also seems that, once you get past the cultural "baggage" of the many religious and philosophic traditions, the conclusions reached, which can vary wildly, seem to all be describing the same (or at least similar) basis/result.
Watching the world's violence is rather like watching people use the mind, something that could be used for positive results, for completely selfish, negative actions. My experience meditating leads me to think that the thoughts of the "gross (or outer) mind" are nearly exclusively selfish with ultimately disastrous results for the thinker of the thought. Watching the gross thought stream (in meditation, prayer, etc.) can lead to a lessening and sometimes an extinction of that thought stream. There seems to be subtle and "more subtle" thought streams which seem to be less selfish (less "I"-based, so to speak). Tibetan Buddhist meditation techniques such as Dzogchen and Mahamudra seem to work to lessen the gross and subtle mind streams with the goal of extinction of all that is "adventitious" to the "natural mind", or Buddha-nature.
Hindu Advaita meditation techniques are very similar, though using seeming completely different definitions. I have read that Christianity has had a rich hermetic and monastic tradition. I have heard of a Sufi meditation tradition, but have not explored that tradition. All the above traditions have had their good and bad days, so to speak, but all seem to have a basis for positive results for those who truly wish for peace within. (I am not aware of other techniques, but I am sure they exist. )
Last but not least, meeting a person who operates from within the clear natural mind is a very interesting experience. Even reading of conversations with people like Sri Ramana, Sri Nisargadatta, Tony Parsons, Lama Surya Das, Jaggi Vasudev (the sadhguru) and so many more, is (or was for me, at least) very interesting. While there is much violence in our world, I think there is also positive/spiritual "evolution" happening in this world for all who wish for peace.
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Undo Accidentally Dismissed Notifications with Unnotification for Android Oreo
In recent years, Android has gotten a lot of highly requested features. Split-screen multitasking, native support for notification dots on the launcher, and the ability to perform web searches from highlighted text are just a few examples. But while Google has done a lot of work to improve the smartphone user experience, there's one big feature that's still missing: A way to undo notifications that have been swiped away.
It's happened to the best of us: You see a notification you'd like to be reminded of later, but you accidentally dismiss it from the notification shade. Normally, there's no way to bring back a swiped-away reminder or alert, but Android Oreo introduces new APIs that let third-party applications to do just that. And a new app called Unnotification takes full advantage of those APIs.
Source: Unnotification
Unnotification works by detecting when a notification has been swiped away. As long as the application that sent the notification isn't blacklisted, the app populates the notification shade with a new notification immediately after you're dismissed one. The notification shows you which app or service the swiped-away notification came from, and presents you with three buttons: "Undo", "ignore", and a shortcut to the notification log.
Unnotification lets you fine-tune its behavior. In the settings menu, you'll find options that let you increase or decrease the auto-dismiss timeout for the app's follow-up notification, and there's a setting that, when enabled, limits Unnotification's "undo" notifications to the app's Quick Settings tile.
Unnotification is available from the Play Store. It's free to use, but has an in-app purchase option for those who want to donate to the developer. As of right now, it doesn't unlock any additional features.
Unnotification
Developer: Nasah Apps
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NY federal district court holds NBA preempts application of state usury law to securitized credit card receivables
By Jeremy T. Rosenblum on September 24, 2020
Posted in Litigation and Court Decisions, Preemption, Usury
A New York federal district court in Petersen v. Chase Card Funding, LLC held that the National Bank Act (NBA) preempted the plaintiff's claims that the interest charged on his credit card account violated New York usury law.
The named plaintiff was the holder of a credit card issued by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (JPMCB). He filed a putative class action against Chase Card Funding, LLC (Card Funding), a non-bank entity that purchased credit card receivables from JPMCB, Chase Issuance Trust (Trust), a special purpose entity that purchased the receivables from the Trust and securitized them, and the Trust's trustee. Relying on the Second Circuit's Madden decision, the plaintiff claimed that, although the NBA preempted the application of New York usury law to credit card accounts issued by JPMCB, that preemption ceased once the credit card receivables were sold to Card Funding and the Trust. In Madden, the Second Circuit held that NBA preemption of New York usury law did not apply to charged-off credit card receivables sold by a national bank to a non-bank.
Card Funding and the other defendants filed a motion to dismiss asserting that the plaintiff's usury claims were preempted by the NBA. The magistrate judge hearing the motion found that while Madden was helpful to the plaintiff's claim, it did not "unequivocally answer the question of whether Petersen's usury claims are preempted." Applying preemption principles, he determined that New York usury law was preempted because its application would significantly interfere with JPMCB's power to sell or assign the receivables generated by its credit card accounts and recommended that the lawsuit be dismissed. The plaintiff filed objections with the district court to the magistrate judge's recommendation.
The district court ruled that the plaintiff's state law usury claims should be dismissed because they were expressly preempted by the NBA due to JPMCB having "retain[ed] a substantial interest in [the plaintiff's] account." Under the securitization process used by JPMCB, JPMCB no longer owned the receivables generated by the underlying credit card accounts but remained the owner of the accounts and continued to have the right to change the account terms, including periodic interest charges. The district court distinguished Madden as involving "materially different facts—a loan that had been sold 'outright,' not one that remained in at least some legal sense with the national bank." In the court's view, JPMCB was "akin to the national bank in Krispin [v. May Department Stores, 218 F.3d 919 (8th Cir. 2000)]," which the Second Circuit distinguished in Madden based on the Krispin bank having "'retained substantial interests in the credit card accounts.'" (In Krispin, the Eighth Circuit held that the NBA preempted the application of Missouri late charge limits to credit card accounts funded by a national bank where the receivables were sold to an affiliated department store.) Moreover, according to the district court, even if JPMCB did not retain a "substantial interest" in the plaintiff's account, "it retains, at the very least, more than "'[no] further interest.'"
The district court expressly stated that in finding that the plaintiff's claims were expressly preempted by the NBA, it was not relying on the OCC's "Madden fix" final rule (which had not yet been issued when the magistrate judge made his recommendation). The Madden fix codified the OCC's position under Section 85 of the NBA that the assignee of a loan made by a national bank can charge the same interest rate that the bank is authorized to charge under federal law. According to the district court, instead of the Madden fix, its preemption finding "is premised on the Second Circuit's reasoning in Madden."
The district court's preemption ruling is a welcome but unsurprising development, particularly for securitizations. However, it is mildly disappointing that the court did not take the opportunity to simultaneously approve the OCC's Madden fix. Had the court done so, the decision would have had even broader precedential value for the industry.
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Solstice - "Death's Crown Is Victory"
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Re: Solstice - "Death's Crown Is Victory"
Just listened to this due to the band's reputation and I have to say that it's pure Heavy Metal in my book. I can't possibly imagine how this could fit in with my conception of Doom. Especially the second track has driving uptempo rhythms throughout. Good melodies and vocals, though, I'll give them that.
Sidetrack Walker - Underdog Pop for the faint of heart.
yeah, I kind of agree; it's slow enough to touch upon the shores of doom metal though.
If you want to try some full epic doom bands, try Forsaken from Malta and the more obvious Solitude Aeternus.
I wasn't too fond of this ep; it's, well, nothing new and a tad boring I must say. I think the same of all Solctice albums mind you.
'The horror... the horror...'
Every man is an abyss
It's Solitude Aeturnus, isn't it? Anyway, they're an okay band, of course, but nothing I could ever get excited about. But back to Solstice, the third track is the only one which has somewhat slower rhythms and might be considered vaguely doomy if you take the term very broadly...
d.mimøsa wrote:
It's Solitude Aeturnus, isn't it?
and two more good bands in the style:
and then, because I'm justing thinking of them right now, this excellent, quite excentric band mixing over-the-top agressive vocals with growls (it's between vicking and epic doom) - it's not the best track from that album, but that's all youtube wants to let your hear:
baphomet wrote:
Nice to hear them get a mention, so here's one from the second Living Fields album. Highly excellent, imho:
Merchant of Doom
still boring...
It's not Doom...
I'm with Merch here - to me, those bands all sound the same! Apart from The Living Fields, of course, whom I happen to know (though I don't remember how). The track from their second album sounds really good, indeed, though I don't really see the connection to Solstice and the likes...
...but at least you enjoyed Procession live!
I like The Living Fields too!
endemoniada_88 wrote:
Yep, at least the slow sections. Less so the pure Heavy Metal parts - I used the time to go to the toilet.
I used the time to go to the toilet.
ah, ah, nice one!


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Column: Some of the best Olympic stories are at the back
By PAUL NEWBERRY - Aug. 04, 2021 09:44 AM EDT
Officials applaud as Souad Nefissa Cherouati, of Algeria, finishes last in the women's marathon swimming event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
TOKYO (AP) — As the world's greatest open water swimmers jostled for the lead, their eyes on an Olympic gold, my eyes kept drifting to the tiny figure falling further and further behind everyone else at Tokyo Bay.
Much of the attention at any Summer Games is focused on who finishes first, second and third.
That's fine.
But the stories that really make it special are often found at the back of the pack.
Meet Souad Nefissa Cherouati.
The 32-year-old Algerian, who lives in Portugal and has a degree in chemical engineering, knew before she dived in the water that she had no chance of winning Wednesday's 10-kilometer race.
She simply wanted to finish.
"I never give up," she said. "To give up means I've got a big problem."
Cherouati managed to stay close to the tightly bunched pack on the opening lap, but she quickly surmised the pace was much faster than she could handle. The other 24 swimmers included Olympic medalists and world champions. She had to let them go.
"I know that my level is not the same as them," Cherouati said. "I just want to manage to my level. Sure, I try to swim with the best. But when I see the rhythm is too high for me, I wanted to swim on my rhythm."
So began that loneliest of pursuits: a marathon with no one else around, other than a lifeguard on a paddle board who was assigned to keep an eye on her.
"Swimming alone is hard. Trying to see where the others are is hard," Cherouati said. "It's easier to swim with someone else. You have a better rhythm. I was swimming alone, so it's hard mentally — and physically, too. But I didn't give up."
On each of the seven trips around the rectangular layout, the Tokyo skyscrapers and towering Rainbow Bridge providing a spectacular backdrop, the margin from Cherouati to everyone else grew and grew.
Before long, most of the other swimmers were on one side, she was on the other. It seemed a real possibility that she might get lapped, which at least would have provided some company.
But her arms kept churning, her legs kept kicking — all of it a seemingly futile exercise in self-inflicted torture that only she could understand.
Every part of Cherouati's body was searing with pain as she churned through the choppy waters, counting down the laps on an increasingly sweltering morning.
Six to go. Five to go. Four to go. Three to go. Two to go. Finally, that beautiful bell, ringing in her ear to signal just one lap remained.
Each stroke was pure agony.
But Cherouati knew one thing would hurt even more.
Quitting.
"For me, giving up is the worst that can happen to me," she said.
It never crossed her mind?
"No, no, no, no," she replied adamantly. "I feel bad, but not as bad as I would feel if I stop."
Cherouati only took up open water — or marathon swimming, as it's officially known — four years ago. Until then, she had been focused on her studies, her only competitive swimming coming in a pool.
But something about this most maniacal of sports drew her in. Cherouati couldn't resist the challenge of swimming mind-numbing distances (some races are as long as 25 kilometers, or 15 1/2 miles) in rivers, lakes and oceans, where the threat of aquatic wildlife and ever-changing weather conditions only adds to the physical and mental toll.
The Olympic race began at 6:30 in the morning in an effort to mitigate the brutal Tokyo heat. It helped some, but it was still in the mid-80s Fahrenheit (about 29 degrees Celsius) with stifling humidity and water heated up to roughly the temperature of a nice, soothing bath.
That may be good for soaking, but it's hardly ideal for distance swimming. Cherouati had never competed in waters this warm.
"A very tough race for me," she said. "The conditions were very hard. The water was very hot. The humidity was very high."
For good measure, the bronze medalist got hit by a large fish leaping out of the water, so that was another thing to keep an eye on.
The easy way out was stopping. Just stop. Others have done it in this grueling event. There's no shame in admitting that the sport got the best of you on this day, especially since Cherouati has been battling a sore left shoulder.
But she steeled herself to get to the end, no matter how long it took.
The others swimmers had long since climbed from the water by the time she caught a glimpse of the finishing pad above the water. As she crossed the line, she reached up with her right hand to slap the pad and make sure her time was recorded.
Two hours, 17 minutes, 21.6 seconds.
A handful of workers still lingering on the finishing dock applauded and bowed in appreciation.
Never mind that Cherouati was nearly 18 minutes behind the gold medalist, Brazil's Ana Marcela Cunha — or, for that matter, had touched almost 9 minutes behind the next-to-last finisher.
Cherouati had matched them all in one respect.
She had finished, too.
"I did my best," she said. "I fight all the time."
Later, after changing from her skintight suit into much more comfortable attire — a green T-shirt and shorts — Cherouati chatted amiably about the experience for almost 10 minutes.
She was clearly proud of the tenaciousness and grit she had shown.
She had dug deep, real deep, maybe down to a level that even she didn't know she had.
She wants to give it another shot at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
"This is my first big step," Cherouati said. "I did what I came to do. I finished the race."
She didn't capture an Olympic gold.
Not even close.
But she was a winner in every sense.
Paul Newberry is an Atlanta-based national writer and sports columnist covering his 14th Olympics. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/pnewberry1963 and his work can be found at https://apnews.com/search/paulnewberry
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Gone are the days when age was a huge factor in determining your life partner or the person you date. In today's world, the point is 'age no bar'! There are so many such instances where you see older women looking for younger men and older men looking for younger women. From the likes of Edith Piaf, Elizabeth Taylor to Audrey Hepburn, Jennifer Lopez and Courtney Cox! People do not mind dating with an age difference. After all, why should they? Age is just a number! It all depends on the sync of likeminded people who decide to be together. Which twenty something girl doesn't want a George Clooney after all?
-"I'd do it again? Definitely, no question. Oh yeah, and once you've done it, you definitely look at older women in another way, says 33 year old Nick who is more attracted to woman above 40.
But have you wondered why this sudden surge of dating with an age difference? Yes this is awesome and we will tell you why!
Maturity: The maturity that you get when you are with an older person cannot be described in a few words. This is especially true when older women date younger men because women are said to be more matured than men at the same age! This maturity brings a certain amount of comfort that is very essential in any relationship! This means you not only have fun and live in amusement but have a lot of seriousness in the whole relationship.
Charm: There is a certain charm in dating an older man. Every girl wants a partner in her life like her father. Be it taking him to her friends or family, an older man is charming. This is much like the story of Richard from the popular sitcom Friends where he dated the twenty- something year old Monica Geller! How we all drooled at the charming moustache of the 58 year old!
Family: If you are looking to settle down and have a family, an older partner will be the best option here. He or she will be more likely to get married and start a family together. Who knows the age difference will never be an issue in your marital life together. He or she is settled in life and you will be the only important thing happening at present.
Experience: Can you imagine how much of the world your partner might have seen before you met him or her? This brings in experience. Be it experience in personal or professional life or the social life in general. He is full of knowledge and will give you important lessons in every step of life! You can travel the world with him or her and enjoy the relationship together!
Stability and protection: Older men will bring a certain protection in the relationship. It is true that men like to pamper their women and always are protective of them. This characteristic gets further enhanced when there is a significant age difference between the two of you. This is the same case for an older woman. It is difficult to imagine the protectiveness and stability an older woman can impart to the relationship.
Chivalry: This is something every woman is fond of, no matter how successful she is and how independent she is. Chivalry is what gives them the goose bumps. A matured age heightens the whole concept of chivalry. He stands up every time you enter a room, holds the door open for you and the likes. This is indeed a very exciting trait to have.
Security: Be it an older woman or an older man, he or she is done playing the field. You will not have fears or insecurities in your relationship. He or she is secure with you and so are you with your partner. He can go out with his friends or yours and there will be nothing bothering you about the whole thing! The same goes for older women.
Adventure: You have had a series of relationships which were exciting in the beginning but eventually the spark faded out. You want to get rid of that mundane tone in your life and have some fun! Can you imagine the whole adventure of dating someone much older than you? It's an adventure, it's a challenge! You get to have a view of life from a whole different perspective. Life is different from another age group and you get to experience that!
Fun: Mature women looking for younger men have a reason to do this. They know how much fun it is to be in the company of someone senior. The same is the case of older men looking for younger women. He is smart, intelligent, charming and man does he know the tricks in bed! Because of all the maturity that exists in the relationship, you will be done with the mundane life you had been living. Go travelling; try out new things and what not, all in this relationship!
Celebrities: To prove how awesome it is to date someone who is older than you, you have a line of celebrities flaunting this activity! Remember Katie Holmes' marriage with Tom Cruise? Or that of Shania Twain and Robert Lange! Celebrities and motion pictures have glorified the concept of dating with an age difference. Age is no more an issue and it shouldn't be!
There is no doubt that dating with an age difference is an exciting idea now. More and more people are taking up to it and why not! Age is hardly an issue. What matters in a relationship is the love and emotions that are prevalent. It is not necessarily true that you can find love only with someone your age. It might be the swooning looks or the chivalry, the maturity and stability or even just the adventure and rush of it all!


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On the 11th may, dior celebrated their historical links with venice through a gorgeous masked ball at the palazzo labia alongside the venetian heritage foundation chaired by the architect peter marino. the guests arrived in vaporetto where they could attend a magical spectacle created by the artist, parolabianca featuring dancers dressed in sculptural dresses designed by the artist pietro ruffo and dior's artistic director maria grazia chiuri. for this occasion, dior worked with venetian manufacturers and asked fortuny to decorate the tables with precious materials.interview with maria grazia chiuri:we are really proud because we are in palazzo labia that is so important for dior house because in 1951 mr. dior came here for the first time with his model but also with dali and i made the costume for this important ball that was the "ball of the century".in some ways, we tried to work on this idea of heritage because it's very close with dior. dior is a couture house and this case one idea was to make a collaboration with some house in venice that has a long heritage in craftsmanship.interview with monica bellucci: this magnificent evening reunites people from all over the world, and venice excellently represents magic.interview with tilda swinton:i'm so impressed, everybody has dug deep, everybody has thrown themselves at it and it feels, you know, the strange thing is, it doesn't feel remotely decadent. it feels completely like resistance and it's all in aid of venetian heritage which is this extraordinary organisation which is to do with the preservation of the culture of venice.interview with amira casar:it's a juxtaposition between two cultures from two countries with dior expertise and the welcome from italy.interview with peter marino:we are small, we are quick and we restore the works that have remained here. it's very very important because so much was taken away from venice in the 19th century, you know the palaces were stripped and it's, what's here needs to be preserved.interview with pietro ruffo:venice is not just a masked ball, it's a magical inspiration. if you imagine walking down venetian streets at midnight when all the tourists have left, the venetian magic comes out and this was our inspiration for the ball especially the marvellous tiepolo murals on the walls.
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By Gail Repsher Emery
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego won a five year, $23 million contract to perform software independent verification and validation for NASA's Goddard Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, W.Va., the company announced today. The work will be performed by SAIC's applied technology systems group.
IV&V is a systems engineering discipline that seeks to reduce risk in software programs. Approximately 70 percent of the work will be done in Fairmont. The rest will be done at SAIC facilities in Arlington, Va.
"This award resulted from the strong effort put forth over the years by SAIC personnel involved in IV&V projects to date, which included our long-standing commitment to the Tomahawk cruise missile program for the Navy," said Christopher Stoddard, manager of SAIC's IV&V and software assurance division.
Awarded under the General Services Administration information technology schedule, the contract covers designated space science missions managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Several missions will receive IV&V support during 2001, including the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, which will probe the causes of star formation.
The mission of the Goddard Space Flight Center is to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system and the universe through observations from space. SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company.


Preamble The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it.
By contrast, the GIMPSHOP General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software–to make sure the software is free for all its users. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you". Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program (independent of having been made by running the Program).
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable. If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
Appendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it free software which everyone can redistribute and change under these terms.
To do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest to attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively convey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least the "copyright" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found. <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> Copyright (C) 20yy <name of author> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Gimpshop General Public License as published by Gimpshop.com. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GIMPSHOP General Public License for more details. Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.
If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode: XXXXXX version ##, Copyright (C) 20yy name of author XXXXXX comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c' for details. The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the commands you use may be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items–whatever suits your program. You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your school, if any, to sign a "copyright disclaimer" for the program, if necessary. Here is a sample; alter the names: Acme, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program `xxxxxxx' (which makes passes at compilers) written by John Doe. <signature of John Doe>, 1 April 2011 John Doe, President of Vice This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library.If this is what you want to do, use the GIMPSHOP Library General Public License instead of this License.


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I've written about this before, I know, but it makes me a little crazy when I see a Starbucks in a European country, like here in Germany.
How is it that an American coffee institution that built its business around ersatz European coffee drinks with coffee that is almost always overroasted, gains any popularity whatsoever in the actual Europe?
It is hugely popular. Always crowded. I do avoid Starbucks if I can, so I'm not entirely clear if it just draws American visitors. I think it likely attracts locals as well.
So, when we were a little early for a lunch right inside the Brandenburg Gate in Eastern Berlin, we found ourselves in search of a cup of coffee. The only place at that particular location we could find was, yes I am sure you guessed it, a dreaded Starbucks. I dragged my feet as we neared the crowded establishment when lo and behold — immediately next door sat a German bakery and coffee establishment.
There, I got a simple and delicious cappuccino. My friend got a hot chocolate with whipped cream on the top. And to top it off — a big ol' pretzel with mustard.
I am sitting in a Seattle-like San Fran coffee shop in Chelsea — enjoying my cup of coffee (with a name i cannot even pronounce) pondering why 5 oz of coffee beans would cost $25 — other than their name Geisha.
You have to laugh to think of us, children of the percolator generation, getting all gaga over "drip" coffee. Hey, kids behind the counter, we used to call that Melitta!
I can find the Pantheon in Rome practically in my sleep. That is, until I want to visit. I wander and wander and wander, and still no Pantheon. That's often my experience when I travel: I hit upon my favorite places merely by happenstance.
Several hours after my tortelloni lunch and a visit to another exquisite Caravaggio (Madonna of Loreto at the Church of Sant'Agostino), I figured it was time for the day's dessert (likely instead of gelato — though maybe not. The day is, after all, only half done).
Anyhoo — the dolce di giorno was granita di caffé — from the Tazza d'Oro near the Pantheon. It is a sweetened coffee icey confection, layered with unsweetened whipped cream. I'm pretty sure when you read about the ambrosia of the Gods: this is It!
I would go so far to say that if you had to choose (only under threat of death) between gelato and this heavenly iced dessert, you'd be better to choose the granita. You can always find good gelato in the States, but you have to come to Rome for the granita di caffé.
That makes it a pretty expensive treat (air fare included).


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Catch These Special Walt Disney World Resort Experiences this Summer Before Time Runs Out
Summer is here, and now, more than ever, is the time to visit Walt Disney World Resort before the clock strikes midnight on limited-time magical moments across all four theme parks.
Or maybe fall is the fairest time of all for you? Never fear – several recently opened experiences will extend their stays. Here's a look at what's happening over the next few months across the Walt Disney World theme parks:
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye …
Mickey & Minnie's Surprise Celebration at Magic Kingdom Park
Drop by Town Square Theater to meet Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse together – in special celebratory outfits – as part of Mickey & Minnie's Surprise Celebration. (Ends Sept. 30)
Discover seldom-seen Disney friends at the flagpole in Town Square. (Ends Sept. 30)
Entertainment at Epcot
Bid a fond farewell to "IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth," as the nighttime spectacular's nearly 20-year run at World Showcase Lagoon draws to a close. (Ends Sept. 30)
Take a musical journey through the cosmos with Star-Lord and Gamora during Guardians of the Galaxy – Awesome Mix Live! at the America Gardens Theatre. (Ends Aug. 18)
An Incredible Celebration at Disney's Hollywood Studios
Leap into action at Pixar Place during "The Super Shindig" dance party with Mr. Incredible, Mrs. Incredible and Frozone. (Ends Sept. 30)
"Hakuna Matata Time Dance Party" at Disney's Animal Kingdom
Walk on the wild side during this raucous celebration where young adventurers let their inner animals roam free on the dance floor along with their pals Timon and Rafiki. (Ends Sept. 30)
… And There's Still Plenty of New Magic in Our World
Several special experiences new to Walt Disney World in 2019 will continue into the fall and beyond, including:
Dance with favorite Disney pals in front of Cinderella Castle during "Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party" at Magic Kingdom.
Become a rookie racer and learn the rules of the road during Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Also at Disney's Hollywood Studios, step into the world of Disney and Pixar's "Monsters, Inc.," or meet Edna Mode from Disney and Pixar's "The Incredibles."
Take in the grandeur of the Tree of Life at Disney's Animal Kingdom as it awakens anew each night with scenes inspired by "The Lion King," or snap a photo in front of special "Lion King" backdrops perfect for sharing on social media.
Also at Disney's Animal Kingdom, see the nighttime show "Rivers of Light: We Are One," now featuring additional imagery and familiar animal characters.
Immersive Themed Lands Take You Inside Favorite Stories
Pandora – The World of Avatar at Disney's Animal Kingdom immerses you in a mystical world of massive floating mountains, bioluminescent rainforests and breathtaking new experiences.
Toy Story Land at Disney's Hollywood Studios makes you feel like an "honorary toy" as you play alongside Woody, Buzz Lightyear and other favorite Toy Story characters. While in Andy's backyard, take a ride on Slinky Dog Dash or grab a bite to eat at Woody's Lunch Box.
Special Ticket Offers Available this Summer
The Summer One World Ticket is a great way to experience all this excitement at Walt Disney World, available for purchase now through Aug. 23, 2019. For only $74 per admission (plus tax) – a total price of $444 (plus tax) – you receive one admission to each of the resort's four theme parks and two water parks.*
Florida residents can purchase Get Your Ears On Tickets now through Aug. 25, 2019, for as low as $55 per day (plus tax). The 3-Day Get Your Ears On Ticket is $199 (plus tax, while the 4-Day Get Your Ears On Ticket is $219 (plus tax).**
* Summer One World Ticket valid 6/4/19 – 8/28/19 for one admission to Magic Kingdom® Park, one admission to Epcot®, one admission to Disney's Animal Kingdom® Theme Park, one admission to Disney's Hollywood Studios®, one admission to Disney's Typhoon Lagoon water park, and one admission to Disney's Blizzard Beach water park. Each park may be visited only once. Tickets are nonrefundable, nontransferable and exclude activities/events separately priced. Admission is subject to capacity closures and other restrictions. Water parks are subject to rehabilitation, seasonal and weather closures. After expiration date, the price paid for a wholly unused ticket can be applied to the purchase of a new ticket with an equal or higher price.
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I am happy Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party will continue. I love this show. I disliked the prior Move It! Shake It! Dance and Play It! Street Party and the current version was a major upgrade.
I loved the flagpole characters, especially the characters from Robin Hood and Pinocchio villains. Please bring back the rare characters more often!
Robert on July 22, 2019 at 9:14 pm
Happy the "Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party" will continue! Love seeing Clarabelle and Horace! 🙂
Susan on July 22, 2019 at 2:56 pm
#DisneyCreators: 'Stories from the Parks' at the Taste of EPCOT International Festival of the Arts
by Courtnee Collier, Influencer Communications Manager
#DisneyFamilia: Vibrante & Vívido! New Food Studio Inspired by Nuestra Comida at the Taste of EPCOT International Festival of the Arts
by Sarah Domenech, Public Relations Manager
Fri, January 15, 2021 Disneyland Resort
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I've used this recipe from the PRFA 50th 1935-1985 Cookbook for more than 20 yrs.
It's moist, delicious and colorful.
Green skinned zucchini makes a cake with green flecks, while yellow or gold skinned zucchini shows a delicate yellow flecked cake.
These aren't my photos, but they are a very good representation of what this version looks like when baked in a bundt pan.
Grease and flour a 10" Bundt or tube pan. Heat oven to 350F deg.
In a separate large bowl, beat eggs until thick and light colored. Gradually add the sugar ¼ cup at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the oil and the almond extract.
Blend in the dry ingredients, mixing it all together until smooth.
Stir in the zucchini and ground almonds.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake in 350F deg oven for 1 hr and 15 mins.
In a small bowl, stir together the icing sugar, milk and almond extract until smooth.
Spread over the top of the cooled cake allowing the glaze to run down the sides.


Have you ever cleaned up your desk, your inbox, your vehicle or garage and come across things that cost you time and grief? Perhaps a great discount that expired? Forgetting an important opportunity that has now passed? Something you bought but discovered you already had?
Missing investment income from cash you should be holding.
When you get behind, you inevitably fail to code and bill some percent of procedures.
All your work then becomes done under pressure.
So, the number of mistakes increase.
A/R follow-up work consumes more time and effort.
Attitudes deteriorate productivity and performance.
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If nothing else compels you to take action, consider the fact that if you're losing this much, just in coding, you are probably losing even more than this in inadequate A/R follow-up, effectively managing denied claims, not validating that all exams have made it to the billing system, and many other areas where leakage can occur.
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Q: Change parameter value in script tag using JS/jQuery so I am trying to change a value of a parameter using JS or jQuery. I have a url that looks like this:
www.exampleurl.com/somepage?foo=test

I already have the code for getting the value coming after foo which is:
function getParameterByName(name, url) {
    if (!url) url = window.location.href;
    name = name.replace(/[\[\]]/g, '\\$&');
    var regex = new RegExp('[?&]' + name + '(=([^&#]*)|&|#|$)'),
        results = regex.exec(url);
    if (!results) return null;
    if (!results[2]) return '';
    return decodeURIComponent(results[2].replace(/\+/g, ' '));
}

var foo = getParameterByName('foo');

I now have a page where the HTML-Code looks like this:

What I want to do is replace t_mc=kwk with t_mc=value.of.foo. In this example it would mean

So far I have not found something I could really use or that works. Do you guys have any suggestions what I could use, e.g. replace didn't work.

A: Use document.querySelector to get the script tag and using getAttribute get the src from the script. In the string obtained using split and join replace the value and set the src again using setAttribute

var a = document.querySelector('.bonus-button > script').getAttribute('src')
document.querySelector('div > script').setAttribute('src', a.split('t_mc=kwk').join('t_mc=value.of.foo'))

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The Advanced Therapies Unit at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra has been created to provide an exclusive approach to cellular therapies against cancer and other diseases of the immune system, favouring their administration and seeking to increase the safety of these treatments.
The unit centralises, in a transversal manner, the professional career of a multidisciplinary team of highly specialised nurses together with doctors from all the specialities involved in the approach to those treatments that depend on advanced therapy drugs and immunotherapy.
Its facilities include a hospitalisation area with 15 individual rooms, equipped with the most advanced technology in the treatment of these diseases
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Bone marrow or haematopoietic progenitor transplantation is indicated for patients with blood cancer or alterations in bone marrow function.
Among these, at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra we treat multiple myeloma, some leukaemias, certain lymphomas, myelodysplastic syndromes and some childhood tumours (neuroblastoma, germinal tumours), other serious blood diseases (such as thalassaemia, Falconi's or aplastic anaemia and sickle cell anaemia) and some diseases of the immune system.
This procedure aims to restore normal bone marrow function by replacing defective stem cells. When these are transplanted, the bone marrow is repopulated with healthy cells and the correct production of blood cells and platelets is resumed.
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Within the field of immunotherapy, adoptive cell therapy, a type of advanced therapy that allows the cells of the patient's immune system to attack the cancer, is emerging strongly.
It involves the extraction and use of a patient's own immune system cells to treat their tumor in a personalized way.
Among the forms of adoptive cell therapy, perhaps the most widespread clinically today would be the use of TIL cells and CAR-T cells.
CAR-T cell treatment is a new immunotherapy strategy that combines two forms of advanced therapy: cell therapy and gene therapy. It consists of extracting T cells from the patient with cancer (autologous if they are the patient's own, or allogeneic if they are from a donor) and, in the laboratory, introducing genetic material that enables them to recognize the tumor again and to activate its destruction machinery.
The Clínica Universidad de Navarra designs vaccines with the objective of delaying or stopping the progression of the cancer, reducing the tumor, preventing its reappearance, and eliminating possible cells that have not been eliminated with other treatments.
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The Clínica Universidad de Navarra is carrying out various treatment studies using immunotherapy based on dendritic cells in advanced neoplasms, such as metastatic colon cancer, breast cancer or glioblastoma multiforme, which consistently show that it is possible to achieve a specific immune reaction against the tumor.
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The Clínica Universidad de Navarra is a pioneer in cancer research and in addressing other diseases related to the immune system.
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In women's hoops, we suddenly have a real Mississippi rivalry
by Rick Cleveland January 11, 2021 January 11, 2021
Don't look now, but we suddenly have a competitive Ole Miss-Mississippi State women's basketball rivalry. At last.
They've been playing one another for 45 years now, ever since Title IX compelled colleges and universities – most reluctantly – to field women's basketball teams. The Ole Miss-State rivalry just never has been really competitive. One or the other has dominated. That appears to have changed, what with 14th ranked Mississippi State's hard-earned 60-56 victory over Ole Miss on the Bulldogs' home floor Sunday. The Lady Rebels had two chances to tie the score in the final 90 seconds.
"That is what a rivalry game should look like," Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said afterward.
In women's basketball, Ole Miss-Mississippi State has rarely, if ever, looked like this before.
Mississippi State, 8-2, now has won the last 14 meetings, most by decisive margins. Ole Miss, which dropped to 7-2, has not defeated State since Jan. 25, 2014 – and even then the Rebels needed an overtime to achieve it.
Before Sunday, State had won the previous eight meetings by an average of nearly 20 points per.
If that sounds one-sided, you've heard nothing yet. Of the first 51 times the two teams played, Ole Miss won 50. That's right, the Lady Rebels were 50-1. Rivalry? More like complete and utter dominance.
Van Chancellor raves about Nikki McCray-Penson. Credit: Rick Cleveland
Interestingly, Van Chancellor, the architect of most of that Ole Miss dominance, is a proud graduate of Mississippi State. He won 37 of 38 games against his alma mater while at Ole Miss
Chancellor, a Naismith Hall of Famer, lives in Texas now, but he watched Sunday's game with keen interest. "I went to one school, coached for a long time at the other. You bet I'm interested," Chancellor said in a Monday phone conversation.
His take on Sunday's game?
"Ole Miss has made unbelievable improvement from last season to this," Chancellor said. "They are so much more talented. Coach Yo finally has her players playing her way. Now, it's a matter of learning how to win, and that sometimes is the hardest part. They are good enough to be in every game. Now they have to learn how to win."
Chancellor will get no argument from State coach Nikki McRay-Penson about the vast improvement at Ole Miss. "They are better in all aspects," McRay-Penson said postgame. "Coach Yo has done a great job of recruiting talented players."
And here's the deal: One of those highly recruited and talented players, 6-foot-5 Shakira Austin, a Maryland transfer, was in foul trouble for much of the game, missed 15 minutes of playing time and scored only six points. Another, Madison Scott, a freshman and the first McDonald's All American in Ole Miss history, did not play.
Nevertheless, Ole Miss was able to claw back from 12 behind and take the game into the final seconds. Donnetta Johnson, a sophomore transfer from Georgia, was outstanding in defeat, leading both teams in scoring with 23 points. Valerie Nesbit, displaying much grit, added 18.
Junior Jessika Carter led the way for State with 19 points and nine rebounds, and the Bulldogs got a huge boost off the bench from Aliyah Matharu, who scored 16 points in 27 minutes, including four 3-pointers. The Bulldogs won despite a rare off-night from talented Rickea Jackson, who scored just nine points on 3-of-13 shooting. The Bulldogs, as a team, shot just 38 percent.
McRay-Penson used the word "ugly" to describe the victory. She said her team lacked energy.
Part of that came from Ole Miss's dogged defense. In fact, both teams played hard and well defensively. That brand of defense bodes well for both teams.
"I think both teams are headed in the right direction," Chancellor said. "Both are well-coached. Both play hard. Both have a lot of talented players. There's no doubt in my mind this rivalry is about to go to a different level. It's great for women's basketball in the state of Mississippi. Think about what the crowds are going to be like for these games when we finally get through this pandemic.
"I told Coach Yo one thing when she got the job. I told her you have to find a way to beat Mississippi State. That's just the way it is in Mississippi. You have to win your share against the other school."
The Lady Rebels get their next chance at State on Valentine's Day at The Pavilion in Oxford.

In women's hoops, we suddenly have a real Mississippi rivalry

by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today
January 11, 2021

Don't look now, but we suddenly have a competitive Ole Miss-Mississippi State women's basketball rivalry. At last.

They've been playing one another for 45 years now, ever since Title IX compelled colleges and universities – most reluctantly – to field women's basketball teams. The Ole Miss-State rivalry just never has been really competitive. One or the other has dominated. That appears to have changed, what with 14th ranked Mississippi State's hard-earned 60-56 victory over Ole Miss on the Bulldogs' home floor Sunday. The Lady Rebels had two chances to tie the score in the final 90 seconds.

"That is what a rivalry game should look like," Ole Miss coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said afterward.

In women's basketball, Ole Miss-Mississippi State has rarely, if ever, looked like this before.

Mississippi State, 8-2, now has won the last 14 meetings, most by decisive margins. Ole Miss, which dropped to 7-2, has not defeated State since Jan. 25, 2014 – and even then the Rebels needed an overtime to achieve it.

Before Sunday, State had won the previous eight meetings by an average of nearly 20 points per.

If that sounds one-sided, you've heard nothing yet. Of the first 51 times the two teams played, Ole Miss won 50. That's right, the Lady Rebels were 50-1. Rivalry? More like complete and utter dominance.

Van Chancellor raves about Nikki McCray-Penson.

Interestingly, Van Chancellor, the architect of most of that Ole Miss dominance, is a proud graduate of Mississippi State. He won 37 of 38 games against his alma mater while at Ole Miss

Chancellor, a Naismith Hall of Famer, lives in Texas now, but he watched Sunday's game with keen interest. "I went to one school, coached for a long time at the other. You bet I'm interested," Chancellor said in a Monday phone conversation.

His take on Sunday's game?

"Ole Miss has made unbelievable improvement from last season to this," Chancellor said. "They are so much more talented. Coach Yo finally has her players playing her way. Now, it's a matter of learning how to win, and that sometimes is the hardest part. They are good enough to be in every game. Now they have to learn how to win."

Chancellor will get no argument from State coach Nikki McRay-Penson about the vast improvement at Ole Miss. "They are better in all aspects," McRay-Penson said postgame. "Coach Yo has done a great job of recruiting talented players."

And here's the deal: One of those highly recruited and talented players, 6-foot-5 Shakira Austin, a Maryland transfer, was in foul trouble for much of the game, missed 15 minutes of playing time and scored only six points. Another, Madison Scott, a freshman and the first McDonald's All American in Ole Miss history, did not play.

Nevertheless, Ole Miss was able to claw back from 12 behind and take the game into the final seconds. Donnetta Johnson, a sophomore transfer from Georgia, was outstanding in defeat, leading both teams in scoring with 23 points. Valerie Nesbit, displaying much grit, added 18.

Junior Jessika Carter led the way for State with 19 points and nine rebounds, and the Bulldogs got a huge boost off the bench from Aliyah Matharu, who scored 16 points in 27 minutes, including four 3-pointers. The Bulldogs won despite a rare off-night from talented Rickea Jackson, who scored just nine points on 3-of-13 shooting. The Bulldogs, as a team, shot just 38 percent.

McRay-Penson used the word "ugly" to describe the victory. She said her team lacked energy.

Part of that came from Ole Miss's dogged defense. In fact, both teams played hard and well defensively. That brand of defense bodes well for both teams.

"I think both teams are headed in the right direction," Chancellor said. "Both are well-coached. Both play hard. Both have a lot of talented players. There's no doubt in my mind this rivalry is about to go to a different level. It's great for women's basketball in the state of Mississippi. Think about what the crowds are going to be like for these games when we finally get through this pandemic.

"I told Coach Yo one thing when she got the job. I told her you have to find a way to beat Mississippi State. That's just the way it is in Mississippi. You have to win your share against the other school."

The Lady Rebels get their next chance at State on Valentine's Day at The Pavilion in Oxford.

This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Aug. 14, 2019 10:41AM EST
18 of the best jokes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Why are the Marvel movies so damn popular? Well, that might be the wrong question, because the more important question should be: how did the Marvel movies get to be so damn funny? What are the best jokes in the funniest Marvel movies?
From "Iron Man" in 2008 to "Avengers: Endgame" in 2019, one thing moviegoers have always been able to count on from these films is a one-liner quip machine even in the bleakest of installments. Figuring out all the funniest moments in all 22 installments of the official Marvel Cinematic Universe might seem like a task better suited to one of Tony Stark's supercomputers, but since Jarvis and Friday aren't real, you'll have to deal with human bias. So, with that in mind, here are 18 of the best jokes from the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. And to avoid saying any of these jokes are better or worse than others, we're just listing these jokes in chronological order.
Warning: Joke spoilers for all Marvel movies ahead!
1. "Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing."
When Pepper Potts walks in on Tony messing with his Iron Man suit, this classic Stark comeback cannot be beaten.
2. "We have a Hulk."
From the 2012 "Avengers," Tony Stark's rebuttal to Loki's boast "I have an army" is "We have a Hulk." This is made all the sweeter when you consider Loki himself says "We have a Hulk" when he stands-up to Thanos in "Infinity War."
3. "Better clench up, Legolas."
Tony Stark's pop culture references are an artform. If you don't know who Legolas is and why this is funny, I'm sorry that I have to explain this to you: Legolas is an elf archer from "Lord of the Rings." Hawkeye is an archer. Okay. enough explaining.
4. "I'm a huge fan of the way you lose control and turn into an enormous green rage monster."
This Tony Stark quip is preceded by him complimenting Bruce Banner on his scientific achievements, which of course, is totally overshadowed by his ability to Hulk-out.
5. "No hard feelings, Point Break."
I'm not going to explain this reference. I'll explain "Lord of the Rings" references, but not this one. Either you get it, or you don't. (If you're reading this website and you're a dad, I'm guessing you get this.)
6. "I understood that reference!"
Steve Rogers is great when he gets super-earnest in subsequent Avengers flicks, but he's pretty much the best when he's struggling with 21st-century pop culture references. In the first "Avengers," when Steve actually understands one of Nick Fury's references to "The Wizard of Oz," his reaction is pure gold.
7. "The city is flying. We're fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. None of this makes sense."
One of the funniest meta-fictional lines in any Marvel movie. Hawkeye knows nothing about his role in these movies makes sense.
8. "Why would I put my finger on his throat?"
You could, in theory, do an entire list of just great jokes and funny moments from both "Guardians of the Galaxy" movies and their appearances in "Infinity War" and "Endgame." I've tried to prevent too many "Guardians" jokes from dominating this list. But still, when Star-Lord is trying to reason with Drax in that prison, this visual gag where Drax doesn't understand the pantomime for killing someone is hilarious.
9. "If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting"
A crass joke that flies over the head of kids and into the ears of knowing adults. Nice. Totally on-brand from Chris Pratt's Star-Lord. Also, fun fact, this line was ad-libbed by Chris Pratt on the spot.
10. "He says he's an a-hole, and I'm quoting him here, but he's not 100 percent…a dick"
John C. Reilly's small role in "Guardians of the Galaxy" is underrated. It just is.
11. "If you say one more word, I'll feed you to my children! I'm kidding. We're vegetarians."
M'baku might not be as famous as T'Challa in the kingdom of Wakanda, but he's pretty much the funniest person in "Black Panther."
12. "He's a friend from work!"
When Thor realizes he's supposed to fight the Hulk in "Ragnarok," he's thrilled and relieved. This line is fantastic because it's so relatable, but it's made ten times sweeter when you know that a Make-A-Wish kid actually suggested the line in the first place. True story!
13. "Dude, you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards."
Tony Stark and Bruce Banner's reunion in "Infinity War" is full of a lot of great moments, but this joke is easily the best.
14. "OH! we're using our made-up names!"
The lovable innocence of Tom Holland's Peter Parker is always great and when he understandably doesn't understand that Dr. Strange's real name is Dr. Strange, it's one of the funniest moments in the entire series.
15. "Kick names. Take ass"
Mantis' mangling of a pretty common cliche turns it into something very different thanks to her naivite — and impeccable timing.
16. "I get emails from a raccoon, so nothing sounds crazy."
Black Widow is super tired in this "Avengers: Endgame" one-liner, but her workplace emails are certainly a little different than yours. Or are they?
17. "What's up, regular-sized man?"
Rhodey gets in on the one-liner action, in one of the best jokes for "Endgame." Picking on Ant-Man might not be nice, but it is hilarious.
18. "As far as I'm concerned, that is America's ass."
Paul Rudd, an actual comedic actor who found his way into the Marvel universe as Ant-Man, gets what is probably the very best line in "Avengers: Endgame." This joke is so good, it gets repeated by Steve Rogers as he's staring at former-him's ass.
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Q: What does the "0-cloud" mirror stands for in R? What does 0-cloud mirror stands for in R 3.x.x ? Just after installation R 3.0.1 I spotted that there is new mirror called "0-cloud" what is it ? I can't google it, I suppose that appeared just in 3.0.1 version.

A: It is a content-delivery network (CDN) created by RStudio to provide "local" CRAN mirrors.  CDNs essentially bring mirroring to "the edge of your network".  Think Akamai hosted by or near your particular ISP. The Wikipedia article I linked to has more.
I always presumed the name was mostly chosen to sort highest...