First of all; I'll assume that if your reading this post that you already know what Chef is and how it can benefit your organization. If not, then you can read all about it over here. To the cloud! …err class, I mean.
I was lucky enough to take part in the Chef fundamentals 2-day training in NYC as part of a company-sponsored training event. It consisted of two 8 hour days –in my case, the training took place on a Thursday and Friday with a separate Chef hack-day on Saturday…ok so maybe three days if you count the hack day where we got to work on our own projects. In this post, I'll attempt to answer some basic questions others might have about the chef training.
How was it presented? – The classes were largely instructor lead with a class size of about 15-20 people (your mileage may vary) and two instructors. Each class consisted of instructor-student review/lecture of course materials presented via power point, as well as a hands-on lab portion to accompany each section. We were provided with PDFs of the course material (so we could follow along) and a lab guide (also in PDF) which covered the in-class exercises. We were told what was required to set up our own chef workstation environment before attending the training. However, at the time of this post both virtual workstations and virtual server instances were provided to us for the purpose of completing the lab exercises.
What did it cover? – The lecture started with the very basics about what chef truly is and how it can be used in staging and production environments. Imagine a concise yet interactive version of the chef wiki being streamed directly to your brain over the course of a couple days. It started with the basics and steadily progressed to more complicated topics. Make no mistake, the opscode guys are thorough and at times it might feel like you are experiencing information overload. What do you expect? These classes are condensed cram sessions.
Who would benefit? – The short answer –just about anyone who is interested in system automation. Though I already had some basic working knowledge of chef, I found it pretty valuable to be able to bring my questions directly to the pros. Reviewing the course materials also forced me to go over some areas I had skipped over during my own research and practice.


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"The important thing is not take on the role of the victim and to live while you are alive." / Vardine Grigoryan
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At the age of ten, after losing her mother, Vardine was forced to fight alone for her rights and convince society that she had the right to live like any other, . Looking back at her childhood, Vardine realizes that she came out as a winner, admitting that she has fulfilled the most ambitious dreams of her childhood, reaching higher heights.
"In reality, there was quite a lot of negativity in my childhood. In Armenia, the attitude towards someone with disabilities is terribly wrong; children are not told how to treat people with disabilities, and this stems from the perception of adults themselves," says Vardine Grigoryan, 32.
She was born and raised in Vanadzor. In early childhood, the girl was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder that she inherited from her mother. Marfan syndrome is a connective tissue disorder which can be manifested in different ways and to a varying extent. Vardine's mom did not have any visible symptoms of Marfan, that is why her disease and particularly aortic dilation were never identified.
"My mother wanted to have a childvery much, so she got formally married at the age of 34and divorced some three or four months later. When I was born, my parents were already divorced. I know that scandals preceded my birth; they accused my mother for burdening her family with the birth of a child, especially when it turned out that the child was going to have health problems. Despite all this, my mother decided to give birth and keep me."
Vardine's mother, Seda, died 22 years ago,but her daughter keeps the memories of her unconditional love and affection alive. Since then, Vardine has been living with her grandmother Varduhi.
"I remember how I used to sit on my mom's lap even when I was already 10. She loved and cared for me very much. She gave me a unique name — "Vardine" and thought that I was the only Vardine in the world. Unlike my mother, my grandma did not like encouraging. Her general approach is very stereotypical and she looked at me through the prism of society. My grandma was ashamed of my appearance. I remember, when I was still a child, she used to walk very quickly on the street, so that I could never catch up with her. She feared that people would see us together and start asking if I was her granddaughter," Vardine recalls. "At the same time, she would never let anyone offend or be rude to me. Her protective instinct was an interesting one. She wanted to protect me from the entire world, but couldn't do it in a way that I wouldn't perceive it as pressure or an attempt to hide me."
Unlike many children with disabilities, Vardine was able to receive education at a regular. However, she still remembers the terrible psychological pressure she had to experience during her daily journey to school.
"Working that road to school every day was terrifying, because the kids living in the next street door laughed and threw stones at me… All this grew into such a huge phobia that even now, when passing by that neighborhood, I become alert. I do realize that all this is in the past, but it is still among the worst traumatic experiences of my life."
Vardine had almost all visible symptoms of Marfan syndrome At the age of 13, she was was diagnosed with spinal curvature.
"I had to undergo three surgeries at the Masis orthopedic hospital, and the post-surgery period was terribly painful. I had to stand during the classes at school. When the pain was particularly unbearable, it was impossible to sit, I had to stand up or walk," says Vardine who has already undergone six such surgeries.
Despite the society's stereotypical thinking, negative perceptions and discrimination, Vardine found the key to moving forward: she tried to be as helpful to people as possible.
"I thought that if I failed to do anything useful even one day: my very existence would become meaningless. People would notice that and think that I have taken up someone else's place. I thought I had to justify my existence."
Vardine's love for education helped her overcome the difficulties that she encountered in her life. She acquired good friends at school.
"The love and positive attitude toward me were not an act of pity, but were rather based on respect. There was a general opinion at school that I was very smart, so everyone was really kind to me there. I went to school when I was only five, and they say that I used to ask my mother to take me to school even earlier. I woke up every morning and started reading my fairy tale books. They say I learned to read before actually going to school. I wanted to be an honor roll student. I always had to work better and harder, I could not afford an average performance," she recalls with a smile.
After finishing school, Vardine entered the Vanadzor Technological College and since she could not afford a private tutor to prepare for entrance exams, she started learning English on her own and was admitted to the Vanadzor State Pedagogical Institute, Department of Foreign Languages.
Her hard work and eagerness for knowledge helped her realize her dream and travel to the US as an exchange student. In 2005, she entered Williams College in Massachusetts and became a one-year non-degree student at the Sociology Department.
"My grandma, of course, always opposed my plans related to studying and thought very poorly of all my initiatives concerning education. She was raised in a society where children with disabilities were hidden away or given up. While there were never been any doubts about keeping me, she never believed that society's attitude toward me would good. she thought learning was a waste of time for me, because no one was going to hire me anyway. Her approach was so surprising; no one I knew had achieved as much as I did. But still, she did not accept that and just wanted me to stay at home, doing nothing, she was always afraid that someone would offend me. Once, years ago, I was hanging out with some friends of mine who were dating. When they left, she said she didn't want them to visit as again. I asked why and she said I don't want to you to see them and suffer that you won't anyone to love in your life." says Vardine.
But realizing herself and getting good education were what she found important.Despite all this, due to her hard work, persistence and extreme willpower, Vardine managed to finish studying in the US, then returned to Armenia and worked at Capacity and Development for Civil Society NGO for a year.
"The time spent in America was the most peaceful period of my life. Even when I just walked on the streets, I felt like my spine was straighter. I forgot about my health problems. The social perception and the general approach of people show you that you are an ordinary human being. But here, people pay a lot of attention to your physical appearance and that constantly reminds you about your disabilities and that you fail to fit in the frames set by society," says Vardine.
In 2009, she applied for a graduate program and traveled to the US for two years to study Public Administration at the Ohio University, .
"I've had a very interesting and active student life in Ohio."
"When I came back to Armenia, I worked at Helsinki Citizens' Assembly — Vanadzor as a translator for a short period.
Then I became office manager, worked on institutional development programs and finally became Democracy Monitoring and Reporting Coordinator. I've been part of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly for six years already," says Vardine with a happy smile.
Vardine is devoted to her work, but she admits that her happiness would be incomplete without her caring and good friends.
People with disabilities often try to embrace the situation, they almost perceive it as a punishment they deserved. But Vardine decided for herself that if you cannot put up with something you have to change it or at least try. She decided to replace the dreams and prayers for a miraculous decrease of scoliosis with more practical actions. Two years ago Vardine met with Karapet Momjyan, the head of spinal services at Erebuni Hospital and was able to convince him that she could survive a most difficult surgery at the age of 30. Within a few weeks Vardine was able to borrow the money she need for the surgery. The surgery went better than expected and another one followed as well.
Spinal curvature and other health issues have not fully disappeared but Vardine is convinced that this experience helped get back her strength to fight. Within two years Vardine was able to return all the money she had borrowed and she gave the money that was donated to her to those who were in need of it.
Lara Aharonian, director of Women's Resource Center, describes Vardine as someone with a strong personality and a role model for many. She also underlines Vardine's unparalleled sense of humor that she never loses even in worst moments.
"Vardine is a positive thinker and is always full of hope. I was amazed at that open-minded and resilient girl and thought how brave she was to get through so many difficulties and continuously work on herself to achieve her aspirations, in spite of all the challenges and obstacles encountered at workplace and in her life," says Lara Aharonian.
Vardine in turn, says whatever she does in her life, she keeps her mother in mind.
"I don't know, whether subconsciously or consciously, but it turned out that my life is what my mother wished for but was unable to accomplish in her life. The greatest compliment I receive is when somebody calls me Seda by mistake. That's when I know that everything is right."
Vardine is convinced that everyone decides for themselves how to live their life , no matter what advice others give.
"The important thing is to not take on the role of the victim and to live while you are alive."
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Melt chocolate by microwaving for 1 minute on medium. Stir and continue microwaving and stirring every 20 seconds until melted (or use double boiler).
Coat banana pieces with melted chocolate using a rubber spatula.
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As the world moves to an increasingly more digitized and interconnected footing, tech skills are becoming ever more in demand. If you're involved in or looking to enter an area such as web development or coding, then the necessity for tech-based skills seems pretty obvious. Even outside the field of IT, however, digital and other related tech skills are becoming more of a prerequisite.
A recent study by Burning Glass Technologies found that jobs requiring a higher level than high school education but less than a bachelor's degree and that also require digital skills are now outpacing those "middle-skill" jobs that do not. A large majority (78 percent) of middle-skill jobs now require at least a basic level of skills, such as the ability to use spreadsheets and word processing. Digitally intensive middle-skill jobs are growing much faster than other middle-skill occupations, and pay is typically 18 percent higher for these positions.
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By sgodin@m5.ca	January 1, 2019 November 15th, 2019 hall of fame
Inducted October 18, 2003
Kathy Noseworthy is one of the finest female volleyballers ever produced in Newfoundland and Labrador and she backed up her international volleyball career with outstanding achievements in soccer and track and field. Overall she is among the very best female athletes ever from this Province. A strong, enduring athlete who was blessed with speed as well as quickness, Kathy continuously demonstrated exceptional determination and was always willing to make the personal sacrifices necessary to accomplish her goals. While she performed at a very high level as an individual, her track and field achievements are prime examples, she enjoyed great success in the team sports of volleyball and soccer because of her great ability to work well with teammates. In addition, Kathy was a very smart athlete and the manner in which she quickly became aware of competitive knowledge, detail aspects of a game and the level at which she was performing are clearly demonstrated by the exceptional success she enjoyed at international and national levels of volleyball. Simply, she was immediately able to adjust to competition conditions and take full advantage of her skill, strength and speed for rewarding results. In 1978 Kathy was selected to the National Volleyball Junior Team after a tryout camp and trained with the team in Calgary as the team's starting setter and outside hitter. She played a major role in winning the silver medal at the NORCECA Junior Championships in Mexico and she was a member of the national junior team that won bronze in the Pacific Rim Tournament in Hawaii against China, Australia, Korea, Japan and the United States. In 1979, 1980 and 1981 she was selected to the national senior team and competed in many international games; in 1978 Kathy was captain of the Canada Games prospects team that represented NL in the Atlantic senior championship in PEI where she was selected an all-star, led same team to second place at an open tournament in Montreal and was a member of the team that represented NL in the national juvenile championships in Fredericton and the national junior championships in Montreal. In 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982 she was a member of the MUN Varsity team. In 1979 the team reached the semi-finals in the Quebec Open Junior Tournament and played in the Oland Open Junior in Antigonish. The MUN team was the first NL team to be ranked in the national top ten and the first team to win an AU Volleyball championship. The team represented the Atlantic region at the CIAU championships and placed seventh, won the Atlantic senior "AA" title, placed fourth at the national junior championships in Edmonton, won the Dalhousie-Acadia Invitational Tournament, won the University of Moncton Invitational Tournament with Kathy selected to the All-Star Team. Because Kathy was a national carded athlete, she was not eligible to play for Newfoundland and Labrador at Canada Games. She was cited as "one of the top three junior players in Canada" by national coach Brad Kilb. In 1980 the MUN team competed in the University of Waterloo international tournament, finished second in the AU championships where Kathy was selected to the AUAA Conference All-Star Team, she played in the Canadian Volleyball Association's senior championship with a sixth place team placing, was a member of the team that won the silver medal for second place at the Canadian Volleyball Association's junior championship and she was named to Canada's national senior team. In 1981 the MUN varsity team won the AU championship and finished fifth in the CIAU championship, won the Atlantic senior championship and represented the Atlantic region at the Canadian Volleyball Senior Championship in Montreal. Kathy also played with Canada's National Senior Team against the Cuban National Team. In 1982 MUN finished second in the AU championship and she was selected as an Atlantic All-Star. In 1979 Kathy was voted St. John's Athlete of the Year, Newfoundland and Labrador Female Athlete of the Year and she was awarded the Richard Perry Memorial Award as top athlete at MUN � the first female to win the award since its inception in 1966. In 1980 and 1981 she was the winner of the female section of Supersports; in 1982 she was named to the MUN Athletic Honour Society. In 2002 Kathy was made a member of the Volleyball Newfoundland Hall of Fame.
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Holy Cross Athletic Association (1991)
Doug House (1999)
William F. Howell Family (2003)
Roger Howse (1988)
William "Bill" J. Hryniw (2005)
Andrea Nicole Hutchens (2009)
Gerald Hutchings (1991) *
Fred Jackson (2005) *
Arthur Johnson (1977) *
Donald Johnson (1982) *
Dr. David Cecil Johnston B.A. – M.D. – C.M. (1977) *
Michael D. Kelly (2007) *
Norman Kelly (2003)
Patrick Kelly (1981) *
Patrick G. Kelly (2010)
Paula Kelly (1993)
Max Kirby (2014)
Benjamin "Ben" Lake (1989)
Chester Lawrence (1975) *
George LeFeuvre (2012)
Dr. Yves LeGal (1990)
Walter LeMessurier (1988)
Gerald Lomond (2017)
Joseph "Joe" Lundrigan (2002)
Edward Manning (1987) *
Albert Mortimer Martin (1974) *
William Martin (1998)
Judy May (2011)
Paul McCloy (2012)
Joanne McDonald (1993)
John McGrath (2018)
James McNamara (2000) *
Winifred "Win" McNamara (1983) *
Howie Meeker (2016)
Ford Metcalfe (1997)
Adrian Miller (2003)
Wilson "Wils" Molloy (1989)
Rev. Brother G.I. Moore (1983) *
Adam Morgan (2011)
Ben Munden (1995)
Brian Murphy (1999)
Denis "Dee" Murphy (1985)
Edward Murphy (2002)
Hon. A. J. "Ank" Murphy (1978) *
James Joseph Aloysius Murphy (1973) *
Glenn Normore (2011)
Kathy Noseworthy (2003)
Trevor O'Brien (2015)
Ronald O'Toole (1974) *
Alex Oakley (1988) *
Alfred F. Parsons (2005)
Cathie Parsons (1996)
George Parsons (2005)
J.C. "Plus" Parsons (1979) *
Edmund J. Phelan, QC, LL.D., K.S.G. (1980) *
William "Bill" Piercey (1990) *
John T. Pike (1980) *
Vi Pike (1986) *
Patricia Polych (2002)
Cyril G. Power (1989)
Debby Power (2012)
Gregory Power (1983) *
Norbert "Dick" Power (2005) *
Charles "Charlie" Quick (1975) *
John V. Rabbitts (1979) *
Jack Reardigan (1987)
Bill Redden (1997)
Charles Riddle (1991) *
Cluny Macpherson "Mac" Rideout (2008)
Gerry Rideout (2014)
Levi "Shotty" Rogers (1973) *
Alan Ross (2013)
Wayne Russell (2013)
Michael Shallow (1976) *
Robert H. Simms (1978) *
Harvey M. Skirving (1990) *
John Slaney (2018)
Graham S. Snow (1990) *
Rod Snow (2017)
T.A. "Gus" Soper (1981) *
Douglas Squires (2000)
St. Bon's Athletic Association (1991)
Harold J. St. Croix (2009)
St. Pat's Athletic Association (1991)
Glenn Stanford (2017)
Clifford Stone (1975) *
Andy Sullivan (2014)
Henry (Hank) Summers (1998)
Elizabeth Swan (1986) *
Colleen Tapper (2001)
Tom Tarrant (2007)
Keith Taylor (1992)
Iain R. Tennent (2009)
Frederick M. Tessier, OC (1980) *
A. Harvey Thomas (1980) *
John M. Tobin (1977) *
Ron Tobin (2011)
Terry Trainor (1988) *
James I. Vinicombe (1973) *
Nicholas J. "Nix" Vinicombe (1980) *
Hugh Wadden (1983)
Joseph Wadden (1982) *
Joseph C. Wadden (2009)
Brian Wakelin (1994)
Nicholas J. "Nick" Wall (1979) *
Kathy Wells (2008)
Nicola Will (2013)
Raymond Will (2014)
Thomas Williams (1982) *
Williams Brothers Rowing Team (1989)
Tommy Henson Winter (1973) *
E. C. (Ted) Withers (1986) *
Jack Withers (1987)
Vince Withers (1995)
Henry J. Wyatt (2004) *
Donald R. Yetman (2009)
Pamela Yetman (2004) *
Terry Young (1995)
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Still no change outside, a few frosty mornings but nothing to add on the weather report. So we are still holding on to jobs outside the cottage. This week I decided to finally have a crack at the A3S trailer parked up in the field, after all we would like you to come and stay in it in the summer! So far the work on it has been painless and smooth, ripping up an old floor and sanding what has been revealed underneath. The accumulation of unwanted items we have for the second hand shop in the town (a room full!) have been dispatched from the trailer to a new location to make space for all this work. These include an ironing board, a frog soap dispenser and a couple of machetes..all unneeded of course. What is needed now is another piece of homemade chocolate brownie.


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Средняя — деревня в Еловском районе Пермского края России.

Географическое положение
Деревня расположена на расстоянии примерно 20 километров по прямой на юго-запад от села Елово.

История
Известна с 1835 года. Название соответствует местной речке Средняя (Средняя Пизь). С 2006 по 2019 год входила в состав ныне упразднённого Брюховского сельского поселения Еловского района.

Климат
Климат континентальный. Зима с ноября по март холодная. Устойчивый снежный покров образуется в середине ноября, высота его в марте 50-70 см. Среднемесячная температура января −15…−16 °C. Весна с апреля по май прохладная, погода неустойчивая. Снежный покров сходит полностью в середине-конце апреля. Ночные заморозки возможны до начала июня. Лето тёплое, среднемесячная температура июля 18—19 °C. Осень (сентябрь-октябрь) прохладная, пасмурная.

Население
Постоянное население составляло 20 человека (90 % русские) в 2002 году, 11 человек в 2010 году.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Еловского района

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Technologies originally designed for entertainment, such as electronic games, gesture recognition sensors and virtual reality (VR) goggles, can make rehabilitation sessions more enjoyable and effective as well as help patients with motor limitations recover at least part of their autonomy.
Two projects with this aim were presented at the end of March during the 4th BRAINN Congress, held at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State by the Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), one of theResearch, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs) funded by FAPESP.
In a pre-conference symposium called "Virtual Reality and Neurofunctional Recovery," BRAINN researcher Alexandre Brandão presented examples of VR software for motor and neurofunctional rehabilitation. The goal is to make the technology more affordable for stroke patients and others who need medium- to long-term physical rehabilitation treatment.
"Two VR smartphone apps are in the development stage: e-Street, which lets the user virtually explore an urban environment and situations like crossing a street, and e-House, which lets the user walk around the outside of a house to train in fall prevention while virtually going up and down stairs. It will soon be possible to go into and out of rooms inside the house, simulating everyday activities like opening drawers or closets. In addition to constantly developing the application interface, we're investigating the best way to interact with certain objects in a virtual environment," said Brandão, who designed the programs and is a postdoctoral fellow at UNICAMP's Physics Institute, supervised by Professor Gabriela Castellano.
According to Brandão, conventional VR software for smartphones merely takes users on a predefined virtual tour. They can steer by looking in one direction or another but cannot genuinely control the virtual environment. The programs developed at UNICAMP withFAPESP's support allow users to move through the virtual environment by moving their legs while standing in one spot.
In addition to software, Brandão and his group are developing hardware with the aid of 3D printing. In e-Street, for example, ultrasound sensors worn on the ankles to enable users to walk through a city operate like a sonar, detecting gait cycles and communicating via cables with a small Arduino controller board attached to the user's waist. The Arduino communicates via Bluetooth with a smartphone inserted into the VR goggles. During e-Street navigation, the direction while exploring the streets of the virtual city is determined by head movements and body rotation.
According to Brandão, the first tests with stroke patients began in March. Although these patients are the main target for the project, and the most challenging, he believes the technology may also benefit older people who suffer from spatial disorientation (frequent in many kinds of cognitive disorders), help prevent falls, and possibly inhibit the pain caused by motor activity.
Moreover, people with fibromyalgia and individuals of all ages with motor limitations due to fracture, surgery, spinal cord injury or any other type of trauma will benefit from more enjoyable and stimulating physical and occupational therapy sessions despite the repetitive tasks involved.
However, not all patients are able to cope with a highly immersive virtual environment such as that created by the use of VR goggles and a smartphone, Brandão noted. Some may have headaches and feel dizzy or even experience motion sickness while using the equipment.
In these cases, it is possible to use a different series of apps, called GestureCollection, which Brandão began developing in 2012 during his PhD research at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in São Paulo State.
One of these apps is GestureMaps, which lets users navigate from the perspective of Google Street View, walking through many of the world's cities without leaving home or the rehab clinic.
Another app, GestureChess, lets the user control a chess game with hand movements. GesturePuzzle is a jigsaw puzzle game that lets the user drag virtual pieces from one side of the screen to the other, and GestureChair is a game in which the player must find a way through a maze and collect balls using arm movements.
Finally, RehabGesture is designed for use by health workers in rehabilitation therapy, such as physical or occupational therapists. The program measures shoulder and elbow movements in real time during interaction with a virtual environment. It records the data for analysis and assessment of a patient's difficulties and serves as a database for gauging progress.
"GestureCollection programs can be installed on any computer coupled to Kinect-type sensors [used in the Xbox videogame console], which cost about 100 dollars each," Brandão said.
The patient must be placed in front of the sensor, while the health worker controls the computer and establishes the exercises to be performed and the degree of difficulty. The images can be watched on a monitor or TV screen, or projected onto a wall.
Preliminary tests of the apps are in progress at UNICAMP's teaching hospital, Hospital de Clinicas, under the supervision of neurologistLi Li Min, and at the Mogi Mirim unit of Rede Lucy Montoro, a rehab center in São Paulo for patients with incapacitating physical, motor and sensorimotor disabilities. Thus far, the software has been used only by specialists to test its usability and determine how it can be improved.
Initial tests in a school environment have also been conducted via collaboration with the degree course in special education at UFSCar and three other departments of the same university: Gerontology, Occupational Therapy, and Physical Therapy. Projects are also being developed at UNICAMP's Physical Education School (FEF).
Part of the research also benefits from collaboration with Diego Roberto Colombo Dias, currently an assistant professor at the Federal University of São João Del Rei (UFSJ) in Minas Gerais. Patent applications for five of the programs have been filed with INPI, Brazil's patent office. According to Brandão, INPI granted a patent for e-House in 2016.
Also during the 4th BRAINN Congress, Glauco Caurin, a researcher at the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Engineering School (EESC-USP), presented work on electronic games and robotic members that serve as auxiliary tools for physical therapy.
The physical therapist or physiatrist responsible for the treatment can modulate the amount of help the robot provides, Caurin explained. The idea is that its assistance should diminish as the treatment progresses. There may be a point at which the robot even starts opposing a movement in order to increase muscle tone.
"Patients have full control over their actions. The robot knows in advance what movement needs to be performed to win the game, but if the patient doesn't intend to perform this movement, nothing happens. They can lose deliberately if they wish. Our concern is to develop the robot so that it can't hurt anyone. In one of our lab tests we showed that the machine has sufficient sensitivity to get out of the way if pushed with something fragile, like a potato chip," Caurin said.
The project being developed at EESC-USP focuses on wrist and ankle rehabilitation, although the group has also created robots to assist shoulder movements and even an exoskeleton capable of assisting lower-body movements.
International studies have demonstrated that robot-assisted physical therapy is more effective than classical rehab, he added, especially for the upper body.
"With a robot, it's possible to perform almost ten times more movements in a session than with assistance from a physical therapist, as human beings also get tired. Furthermore, videogames make the exercises more stimulating. We're still working on ways of making the games less static and repetitive, so that patients can advance to the next level," Caurin said.
Far from losing importance in the rehabilitation process, health workers become supervisors of the entire treatment. To assist them, the group at EESC-USP is developing computer programs that can objectively measure variables such as movement amplitude, acceleration and force. The information is collected while the patient is performing an exercise and stored throughout the treatment to demonstrate the patient's progress.
Prototype robot members at more advanced stages of development are already being tested in patients through a collaboration with researchers at the University of São Paulo's Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP).


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Even as states like Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have gone ahead with legal options to curb "love Jihad" and with others mulling over taking the same course of action, the judiciary has in the last few days reinforced an individual's freedom and fundamental right to choose a partner. Here are some of the recent judgments by courts across India.
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court recently disposed of a habeas corpus petition filed by one Wajeed Khan seeking the release of his lover Ramya from confinement. In its judgment, the bench said: "It is well settled that a right of any major individual to marry the person of his/her choice is a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution of India and the said liberty relating to the personal relationships of two individuals cannot be encroached by anybody irrespective of caste or religion."
The Allahabad High Court recently gave a verdict stating that "Right to live with a person of his/her choice irrespective of religion professed by them, is intrinsic to right to life and personal liberty. Neither any individual nor a family nor even the state can have an objection to the relationship of two major individuals who out of their own free will are living together."
"To disregard the choice of a person who is an adult would not only be antithetic to freedom of choice of a grown-up individual, but would also be a threat to concept of unity in diversity. An individual on attaining majority is statutorily conferred with the right to choose a partner, which if denied would not only affect his/her human right, but also his/her right to life and personal liberty, guaranteed under Article 21 of Constitution," the court further observed.
Last month, the Delhi High Court too observed that an adult woman is free to reside wherever she wants and with whoever she wishes. The court passed the order while hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by a girl's parents.
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DUBNER: I think that's a real paradox.
DUCKWORTH: I'm Angela Duckworth.
DUBNER: I'm Stephen Dubner.
DUCKWORTH + DUBNER: And you're listening to No Stupid Questions.
Today on the show: Is there a formula for good advice?
DUCKWORTH: Hey, this is excellent advice. Why aren't people taking it?
DUCKWORTH: Stephen, I wonder what the very best piece of advice you've ever received was.
DUBNER: Oh, that's so easy. I can't believe you're even asking me that, Angela.
DUCKWORTH: Now I really want to know.
DUBNER: The best advice I've ever received was approximately 1.5 years ago, when an angel from heaven visited me and said, "Stephen, life is short, and if you know what's good for you, you will ask Angela Duckworth to make a podcast with you and call it No Stupid Questions."
DUCKWORTH: That was not the best piece of advice you've ever received.
DUBNER: I think it was an angel from heaven. It might actually just have been our executive producer.
DUCKWORTH: Okay, you will have to tell me the second-best piece of advice you've ever received, then.
DUBNER: The advice that comes to mind is something that happened when I was quite young. I was maybe 11, 12 years old. I grew up in upstate New York, kind of middle-of-nowhere. And our dad had died when I was about 10. And so, it was rural, but people really did look out for each other. There came to emerge a pattern where men who were not my father would contact my mom and say, "Hey, would you like me to take little Stevie out for an adventure of some kind?" And it was almost always fishing, because that's what people did. So, there was this one guy — his name was Bernie Duszkiewicz. He was the barber in the town. And Bernie took me out on a boat in this lake one day. We were trying to catch, you know, the big fish. And we were getting nothing. We were getting no bites. And this went on for, like, an hour or two. And I was bored. But I was also very polite and obedient, so I didn't say, like, "This sucks. I'm bored." I just sat there, kept fishing. Then it started to rain really hard. And Bernie Duszkiewicz drove the boat in toward the shore under some trees to be protected from the rain. And, all of a sudden, we started catching all these fish. But they were little fish — too little to keep. But I was having a blast. Then the sun comes out, and Bernie Duszkiewicz pulls up anchor and drives right back out into the middle of the lake. And even though I was kind of quiet, and shy, and obedient, I said, "Hey, what are we doing? This is the best fishing spot ever!" And he said, "Eh, these are just the little fish. We don't want to keep catching them. That's not really worth the time. Let's go catch a real fish." So, we went back out. We never caught a real fish! We literally sat there for another two hours catching nothing. But the lesson I took away, after much rumination, was that sometimes it is really a good idea to go for the big fish — to not be satisfied with the little, easy target in front of you, even if you spend a lot of your time pursuing the big goal and it doesn't work out. And that's something that, I don't know, for some reason, that day stuck with me long enough that I was able to process it and as an adult, think about that all the time. It's one of the reasons I really fell in love with economics. One of the central tenets of economics is opportunity cost: if you spend all your time catching the little fish, you won't have time or develop the technique or the patience to ever catch the big ones. I think it's the best single piece of advice that's ever been sent my way — even though it wasn't really meant to be advice.
DUCKWORTH: Do you know what? I asked you this question today, but I asked Jason this question recently. I think he, more or less, gave the same exact answer.
DUBNER: Bernie Duszkiewicz took Jason fishing, also? He was a promiscuous fisher.
DUCKWORTH: You are so literal, Stephen. Very odd coincidence. I don't remember who the person was who gave him the advice. It was just, essentially, like, "take a risk." Apply for the job that you don't think you're going to get. Send a note to someone who you don't think is going to reply. And, around the same time, I was reading the collected writings of, um — who's the guy who started Singapore? Like, Lee something? But anyway, he said that one way to run a country and to create a culture is to avoid risk and to therefore avoid failure. And then he said, "But the motto of Singapore should be, 'Who dares, wins.'" This was apparently the motto of the British Special Forces. And I think that's the moral of the fish story, right?
DUBNER: Yeah, I think opportunity cost is this notion that, until you acknowledge it head-on, we don't necessarily think about very much. Because it's easier to measure the things that you've done rather than not done — whereas we're not very good at measuring the options that you didn't pursue, for whatever reason. And I think that's a central blind spot. For me, it certainly was when I was younger, because when we make decisions, we often are informed by what's right in front of us — what our friends, or family, or peer group are doing — as opposed to think about a variety of options. If I'm spending five hours doing X, that's five hours I can't spend doing Y. Years and years later, I heard advice from a friend who became a real mentor to me. He was an acting teacher, of all things. And I wasn't an actor, so the circumstances were a little bit odd. And this was advice that came from Stella Adler, the acting teacher, and she had gotten it from Stanislavski before her. And this advice that was passed down from generation to generation, was that talent is not just overrated, but we think about it the wrong way, and that, really, your biggest talent is your choice — your ability to make a good choice, a good decision. This was in the realm of acting, but I've always found that to be an incredibly powerful way to think about pursuing something intellectual, career-wise, personal relationships, and so on, because you really do control your choices, to a large degree. And how you make those choices adds up to how talented you are in a certain arena. So, I've told you my fish story. We've heard about Jason's inspiration as a younger person. What about you? What's the best advice you ever got?
DUCKWORTH: The first thing that leaps to mind is: I was about 19 or 20 years old. There was a professor named Kay Merseth, who I'm still in touch with. And I remember being unhappy, and going to Kay for advice. I can't exactly remember whether it was another romantic breakup — because I had a lot of them, so that's statistically likely that that's why I went to Kay — or more that I was struggling with a career decision, like: Should I go into education — which I really want to do, but my dad wouldn't speak to me after that? Or should I become a doctor, like he does want me to? And I remember she said this: "Angela, it sounds to me like you really want to make the right decision, the best decision." And I nodded. And she said, "But life's not like that. Life is a story. And your job is not to tell the 'right' story or even the 'best' story. It's just to tell a story that you can be proud of." And I went away from that day thinking, like, "What the hell did Kay mean? This is too deep for me." But I have actually used that advice when I talk to undergraduates in my own course. Now they're the 19- or 20-year-old, and I'm the professor. And I do think the reason why Kay gave that advice to me, and why I pass it along, is that I think I was a little bit paralyzed by, like, "What's the absolutely correct or best decision?" And we can't know. I mean, life is just mostly uncertainty. All we can do is act in a way where we can use the intuition we have. There are many, many paths in life, and who knows how this is going to turn out, but: Am I doing something that, at the end of the story, will I look back and say, "I'm proud of that"?
DUBNER: You know, having this conversation about the best advice we've ever gotten, it makes me think about the difference between solicited and unsolicited advice, because we do live in a world where a lot of people tell a lot of other people what they should do. So, do we know anything about the difference between advice that is sought and advice that is unsolicited?
DUCKWORTH: We do. Lauren Eskreis-Winkler was my graduate student, and then she grew up to be a postdoctoral fellow who was advised by me, but also by Ayelet Fishbach at University of Chicago and by Katy Milkman, who's at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. So, Lauren asks the question: Why is it that we typically don't use the advice that other people give to us? And she was, in particular, thinking of when it was unsolicited.
DUBNER: Is that true, that we typically don't follow advice? Do we know that?
DUCKWORTH: I think that what Lauren was thinking about is that many, many interventions don't work. For example, the Food and Drug Administration, or whoever, is trying to get you to eat more vegetables or to exercise more. Or you do an intervention — as Lauren and I had done — with teenagers, trying to get them to sleep more, because: "Did you know that if you slept even an hour extra, because you're so sleep deprived, that you're going to feel better, you're going to be more energetic?" We had done interventions like this for years, and sometimes they worked, but so often they didn't. And I think that gave her the question, like, "Hey, this is excellent advice. Why aren't people taking it?" And upon some reflection, she realized that it was unsolicited So, she said, "Look, I think what's going on is that there is an unintended consequence of advice in that, when we receive it unsolicited, we can feel kind of stigmatized. Like, 'Why are you giving me advice? You must think I need advice.'"
DUBNER: Right.
DUCKWORTH: And she decided that she would turn this on its head by, instead of giving advice to teenagers — whom we were trying to help do better, academically — she would ask them for their best advice. Like, what you just did with me is essentially what we did with these teenagers. Like, "What's the best advice you can think of to give another teenager?"
DUBNER: And are they giving this advice to the adult academic researchers, or are they giving advice to their peers?
DUCKWORTH: We had students give advice to a slightly younger person.
DUBNER: Ah, okay.
DUCKWORTH: So, that tends to set a very nice dynamic, because that's something that's kind of normal. For example, in both of our stories, the person giving us advice was older. So, we were trying to elicit from these high-school students what their intuitions were about how to get homework done instead of procrastinating, about how to respond to a failing grade on a test without crumbling into never-ending despair. And so, we randomly assigned about 1,000 high school students to the condition where they had to give advice to other students. They did this by just taking a very short survey. They answered some multiple-choice questions. You know: "Where's the best place to study?" "Which of the following do you think is the most encouraging thing to remember when you're not doing well?" And then some open-ended questions, as well. And then, there was a control condition. And what we found was that giving advice can be extremely motivating. And, in fact, the following marking period, the report-card grades were higher in the class that the students most wanted to improve in — as well as math. We picked math because everyone in America seems to hate math.
DUBNER: That's wonderful, and kind of amazing. But how do we know that the advice is any good? Or does it not matter? I mean, that's not what you were going after in this case, right? In this case, you're going after whether the people who gave advice did better themselves, correct?
DUCKWORTH: That's right. In this case, the outcome was not, "Oh, who receives the advice? What happens to them?" but that these students themselves, the advice-givers, were going to do better. But let me tell you what else we did. We just read everything that the students said. And they gave shockingly awesome advice, Stephen.
DUBNER: For instance?
DUCKWORTH: Oh, you know: "Cellphones! Here's the thing: Put it on mute, hide it in another room, give it to another person." And I literally had studied that as a self-control researcher as something that absolutely you should do, and I knew the reasons why you should do it. And here we had 15-year-olds sounding like the sagest of sages — saying things like that. Or, you know, "When you fail something, it's not you as a person. It's just that this thing happened, and you should always look for something that you can learn from it." And I think what this advice-giving experiment taught me is that we don't always do what we know is best. Sometimes, you get advice from somebody, and you had never thought of it before. You're like, "Oh, my goodness, you are right. We should always go for the bigger fish." But I think sometimes we are just reminded of things that we knew in some way, shape, or form. And I think there is a lot of unused wisdom lying around inside of ourselves.
Still to come on No Stupid Questions: Stephen and Angela discuss when to ignore other people's guidance and follow your gut instead.
DUCKWORTH: I sometimes do reject the advice, and sometimes I don't. Maybe it's half and half.
Now, back to Stephen and Angela's conversation about giving and receiving advice.
DUBNER: I could imagine that, especially considering how much many people like to give advice, that a lot of advice that we might receive could be really bad for at least two obvious reasons. One is: You know, there's no quality control of advice, per se. It's basically a bunch of people telling other people what they should do. And the other thing is that every piece of advice has a situational relevance — either the circumstances or the person receiving the advice. So, I can imagine that giving good advice is much harder than it would appear. You know, Oscar Wilde once said, "I always pass along good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It's never of any use to oneself." So, I think there are good reasons why people are skeptical of receiving advice from other people, especially because — and this is a gross overgeneralization, but I'm curious if you agree a little bit — the kind of people who seem to want to give advice frequently are the kind of people that I think have incentives that make me think they aren't the best person to give advice.
DUCKWORTH: I agree that there may be an inverse correlation between somebody's desire to give advice and anyone else's desire to take it. Since advice can either fall on deaf ears or, actually, inadvertently stigmatize or just make the other person feel bad, or oppositional, or whatever, that's yet another reason to reduce the overall level of unsolicited advice-giving. I think, in the case that you go to someone, and you ask, "Hey, I really want your opinion here." That's a completely different case.
DUBNER: You know, related to this conversation we're having, we got a question from a listener not long ago. Her name is Jo. She wrote to say: "I'm a veterinary technician who would really love to go back to school and study to become a veterinarian. However, almost all the veterinarians I've ever worked with have advised against going back to school because of the high volume of debt that comes with it." And I actually did go and look, and it is true that veterinarian school leaves a huge debt. On average, it's more than $180,000. Which is not much less—
DUCKWORTH: Whoa!
DUBNER: —than medical school, although dental school debt is even higher. It's almost 300,000.
DUCKWORTH: Oh, my goodness.
DUBNER: But the difference is that veterinarians' salary is typically well below, as far as I can tell, either dentist or a medical doctor. So, I think this is the background from which Jo is coming. But her question is, "At what point, if any, do you ignore the advice of other people and listen to your gut?" So, I think that's a real paradox. People give you advice that they swear is good advice. Your gut tells you something different. So, Angela, how do you answer that question? When to ignore advice that may or may not be good?
DUCKWORTH: I have thought about this a lot, because I'm trying to teach my graduate students how to write. What typically happens is: They get feedback on something they're writing, which is basically advice. Like, "I think this needs a shorter sentence. This is the sentence I think it should be." And they just accept all of it. Right? And I tell them: Sometimes your gut and the adviser's gut instinct is the same. You look at it, and you think, "Damn! That should be a shorter sentence! That's great advice!" And, actually, I think that's like 90 percent of good advice. I think you have this 10 percent where your gut and the adviser's gut instinct, they disagree. In that case, it's difficult, and I don't know that there's any rule about how to handle it. I would say to my students, if I reflect on it, and it's not just gut, I sometimes do reject the advice, and sometimes I don't. Maybe it's half-and-half.
DUBNER: But I think what's tricky is that often when we get advice, or maybe when we give advice, it's an N of one. It's a person giving advice to another person. And so, there's no comparison. I'm thinking back to my graduate school. I went to grad school for writing. You would have these workshops where there'd be roughly 12 students and a professor. And you might submit a short story, or a chapter of a novel you were working on, or whatnot. Everybody would read it ahead of time, and then you would discuss it in class. Now, their advice would often be wildly contradictory. So, one person might say, "I liked this story a lot, but I think this character really needs to be a little bit more mysterious." And then another person would say, "You know, I liked this story a lot, but I think that same character really needs to be more transparent." A lot of people responded to that environment by getting essentially paralyzed, and then rewriting in a style in which everything read the same as everything else. And so, I would argue, when you have access to multiple streams of advice, A) it can get confusing, but B) that's when you really have to sharpen your own ability to say, "Okay, I'm going to throw out 80 percent of that, and go with what I think resonates." But I think that's a really hard thing to do. Obviously, it's domain-dependent. Writing and reading fiction is more subjective than doing bench work if you're studying to be a chemist or biologist, let's say.
DUCKWORTH: Well, you could have this rule: If it's true that, a lot of the time, we get advice where, when we hear it, we think, "Yeah, that's absolutely right." Just do it! And then the rule could say: If you don't agree, ignore it. Even if you just did that, which is probably not the optimal way to handle advice, you would still benefit a lot, because it would say you'd still be getting a lot of information from other people. I remember listening to Reid Hoffman, the venture capitalist. He created LinkedIn. And he said that, when there's an investment that's going to be wildly successful, what often happens is that venture capitalists are bimodal in their response — some hate it, some love it. And I think it's because the ones who love it see something that the other people can't see. And the fact that it's an unusual thing means that it's very high-return. Because, you know, it's not so obvious that everyone's already doing it, or has done it.
DUBNER: That's a great point. So, Angela, my advice in this moment is that we should end this conversation. Are you willing to take that advice?
DUCKWORTH: My gut says we should absolutely do that.
No Stupid Questions is part of the Freakonomics Radio Network, which also includes Freakonomics Radio, People I (Mostly) Admire, and Freakonomics, M.D. This episode was produced by me, Rebecca Lee Douglas. And now here is a fact-check of today's conversations.
Angela shares that she's reading the collective writings of, quote, "the guy who started Singapore," but she can't remember his full name. Angela was thinking of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister. In 1958, Lee helped to negotiate Singapore's status as a self-governing state within the British Commonwealth, and ran for office on an anti-colonialist, anticommunist platform. He was elected prime minister in 1959 and held office for just over 30 years.
Later, when describing why many interventions don't work, Angela references the Food and Drug Administration's attempt to get Americans to eat more fruits and vegetables. An initiative like this would more likely be the purview of the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, which, like the FDA, is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The office focuses on creating programs, services, and educational initiatives to reach national public health objectives, whereas the FDA is responsible for ensuring the safety of drugs, cosmetics, and our nation's food supply.
Also, Angela says that everyone in America seems to hate math. It's true that the average American student isn't great at math. The 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress reports that only 34 percent of eighth-graders tested proficient in math at grade level, but that number takes on new meaning when you consider that the percentage of eighth-graders proficient in reading was also just 34 percent. And just because most students aren't great at math doesn't mean that they all hate the subject. According to a 2018 survey from the Pew Research Center, 58 percent of Americans say they actually liked studying math in grades K through 12!
That's it for the fact-check.
Coming up next week on No Stupid Questions: Why is Angie stepping down as C.E.O. from the nonprofit she founded.
DUCKWORTH: I am not someone who wants to lead. I want everyone to use my ideas and pay attention to me, but I don't want to do the hard work of leadership.
That's next week on No Stupid Questions.
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Stella Adler, actor, teacher, and founder of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Konstantin Stanislavski, actor, director, and creator of "Stanislavski's system."
Katherine K. "Kay" Merseth, senior lecturer on education and director of the Teacher Education Program at Harvard University.
Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University.
Ayelet Fishbach, professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago.
Katy Milkman, professor of behavioral science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Oscar Wilde, author.
Reid Hoffman, entrepreneur and co-founder of LinkedIn.
"See How U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students Performed in Mathematics" (The Nation's Report Card, 2020).
"Employment, Starting Salaries, and Educational Indebtedness of Year-2019 Graduates of US Veterinary Medical Colleges," by Bridgette Bain (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 2020).
"Many Americans Say They Liked Math and Science in School, Thought About a STEM Career," by Cary Funk and Kim Parker (The Pew Research Center, 2018).
"Dear Abby: Should I Give Advice or Receive It?" by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, and Angela L. Duckworth (Psychological Science, 2018).
"The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice," by David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis (Harvard Business Review, 2018).
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, by Lee Kuan Yew (1998).
"What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge? (Ep. 3)," by Freakonomics Radio (2010).


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Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire, penninerved, acarodomatiiferous, gland-dotted beneath.
Male inflorescences often precocious, axillary, solitary or paucifasciculate, spicate or subpaniculate, densely flowered; bracts minute.
Male flowers: calyx cupular, 4–6(8)-lobed, lobes imbricate; petals absent; disk absent; stamens 4–6, opposite the sepals, filaments short, elongating and spreading at anthesis, free or connate at the base, glandular at the apex, anthers 2-locular, dorsifixed, introrse then extrorse (due to bending of filaments), thecae parallel, distinct, longitudinally dehiscent; pistillode cylindric, entire or 2-lobed. Female flowers axillary, solitary or paired, or in few-flowered terminal racemes; pedicels slender; sepals 4–6(9), usually free, open or imbricate, narrow, caducous; petals absent; disk absent; ovary 2-locular, compressed perpendicularly to the septum, with 2 apical pendulous anatropous ovules per locule; styles 2, free, elongate, simple with smooth or papillose stigmas.
Fruit stipitate or not, 2-coccous, flattened, winged, septifragally dehiscent or not; pericarp somewhat crustaceous; endocarp thinly membranous; columella persistent.
Seeds usually 1 per coccus, flat, winged or not; testa thin, striate, shiny; endosperm sparse; cotyledons broad, flat, thin; radicle elongate.
Hymenocardia heudelotii Planch. ex Müll.Arg.
Hymenocardia punctata Wall. ex Lindl.
Pax & K. Hoffm. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Euph. 15: 72–78 (1922).
Fl. Afr. Cent. (Hymenocardiaceae): 2 (1985), nom. conserv.
Müller Argoviensis in De Candolle, Prodr. 15, 2: 476 (1866).
Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2, 441 (1836).


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UNC academic scandal deepens, staffer says some Tar Heel athletes she oversaw had never read a book
By Daniel MartinNov 18, 2012, 9:47 AM EST
University of North Carolina reading specialist Mary Willingham has worked with Tar Heel athletes who, she says, told her they had never read a book and could not identify what a paragraph was, the News & Observer is reporting.
It's the latest chapter in the academic fraud scandal at UNC that, despite objections from Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams, seems to ensnare members of his men's basketball program.
According to the report, "members of the men's basketball team took no-show classes until the fall semester of 2009, when the team was assigned a new academic counselor. The new counselor was appalled to learn of the classes, and wanted no part of them." At that time, enrollment of basketball players in those classes stopped, but enrollment for football players continued.
Also among the assertions made by Willingham are that "numerous football and basketball players came to the university with academic histories that showed them incapable of doing college-level work, especially at one of the nation's top public universities."
Tests and evaluations of the athletes confirmed this and even revealed learning disabilities that would require extensive help to treat.
Before the academic happenings at North Carolina became major news in recent months, the News & Observer reports that senior associate dean Bobbi Owens worked to rein in independent study classes that were popular with football and basketball players.
Since that move five years ago, enrollment in those courses has sharply declined.
To read the entire report, click here.
Daniel Martin is a writer and editor at JohnnyJungle.com, covering St. John's. You can find him on Twitter:@DanielJMartin_


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Discover History Lecture: Antiquity of toponymic history of Cyprus
Lecture: Antiquity of toponymic history of Cyprus
The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and the Association of Cypriot Archaeologists present a lecture on "Herbert Horatio Kitchener and the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus"
The Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation and the Association of Cypriot Archaeologists are hosting a lecture by Maria Iacovou, Professor of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. On the occasion of the lecture, which is entitled, "An unintentional colonial gift: Herbert Horatio Kitchener and the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus", the Cultural Foundation will put on display a set of relevant maps from the Foundation's Map Collection.
Herbert Horatio Kitchener, a young lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, came to Cyprus in 1878. He had been sent to the newly acquired British possession in order to do a quick and rough survey for revenue needs; or at least this is what Sir Garnet Wolseley, the first High Commissioner, had in mind. Instead, working against all odds, and certainly against the High Commissioner's wishes, Kitchener produced an unsurpassed and quite unexpected geospatial and cultural record of the island's identity.
According to Professor Iacovou, "The correct geographical coordinates of each place name are as significant as the effort invested in recording the indigenous toponyms of every micro-region, whether of Greek, Italian, French or Ottoman linguistic provenance." Hence, "the antiquity of the toponymic history of Cyprus was not only respected and preserved by this zealous colonial servant; it was also made into an official cartographic record, in use to this day, which acknowledges the historical depth of the island's landscape."
The lecture was originally delivered on 17 October 2019 at the National Archives, Kew Gardens in London; it was jointly organised by the High Commission of the Republic of Cyprus in the United Kingdom and the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
The lecture will be in English. Entrance is free.
Thursday, February 13 at 7pm
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation,
86-90 Faneromenis Street, Nicosia
For more information please call 22 128175.
By Angelica Azadyants
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We are on the West Cambridge Site, just south of Madingley Road, between the M11 and Cambridge city centre.
From the M11 heading north: come off at junction 13 and turn right into Madingley Road (A1303).
From the A14 heading west: come off onto the B1049 (sign post: Cambridge), drive down this road (Histon Road) until the end where you will need to navigate through three closely spaced sets of traffic lights: you need to turn right onto Victoria Road, then immediately left onto Huntingdon Road, then immediately right into the A1134 (sign post: Ring Road; takes you down Mt Pleasant, Shelly Row, Albion Row). At the bottom of Albion Row, turn right onto Madingley Road (A1303).
From Madingley Road turn into J J Thomson Avenue (signpost: West Cambridge Site). The Computer Laboratory is the three storey brick building on your left. There is a large white tent-like structure (the cycle park) in front of the building.
The Computer Laboratory's visitors' car park is the second turn on the left after you have entered JJ Thomson Avenue.
Our reception (phone 01223 763500) will get you in touch with your host when you arrive. You should let them know if you have used the car park. Contact them if you have any problems.


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Q: Swift AVAudioPlayer's playing status always be true? Here's my code:
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        guard let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "Snote6", withExtension: "wav") else { return }
        do {
            try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(AVAudioSessionCategoryPlayback)
            try AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true)
            player = try AVAudioPlayer(contentsOf: url, fileTypeHint: AVFileType.wav.rawValue)
            guard let player = player else { return }
            while (true) {
                player.play()
                player.enableRate = true;
                player.rate = playrate
                if !player.isPlaying {
                    break
                }
            }
        } catch let error {
            print(error.localizedDescription)
        }
    }

I found player.isPlaying properties always be true, so sometimes a tone will be play for 2 or 3 times. How to fix this bug? Thanks a lot!

A: First: Don't use while(true) for checking because it blocks the main thread!
You should add KVO observer to check this property asynchronously e.g.:
class YourController : UIViewController {
    var player: AVAudioPlayer?
    //...

    deinit {
        player?.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: #keyPath(AVAudioPlayer.isPlaying))
    }

    func play() {
        //...
        player?.addObserver(self,
            forKeyPath: #keyPath(AVAudioPlayer.isPlaying),
            options: .new,
            context: nil)
        player?.play()
    }

    override func observeValue(forKeyPath keyPath: String?, of object: Any?, change: [NSKeyValueChangeKey : Any]?, context: UnsafeMutableRawPointer?) {
        if keyPath == #keyPath(AVAudioPlayer.isPlaying) {
            if let isPlaying = player?.isPlaying {
                print(isPlaying)
            }
        }
        else {
            self.observeValue(forKeyPath: keyPath, of: object, change: change, context: context)
        }
    }
}


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Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again is a non-fiction book by businessman and 45th president of the United States Donald Trump and a ghostwriter, first published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 2015. A revised edition was subsequently republished eight months later in trade paperback format under the title Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America during Trump's 2016 election campaign. Like his previous work Time to Get Tough (2011) did for the U.S. presidential election in 2012, Crippled America outlined Trump's political agenda as he ran in the 2016 election on a conservative platform.
Trump makes his case for why he would be an effective leader of the United States, and reassures Republicans that he upholds conservative values. He criticizes the media's coverage of him while defending his decisions on the campaign trail. Crippled America stresses that the United States needs to start "winning again"; Trump asserts his business expertise can be translated into governmental success, that his "outsider" status can be utilized to negotiate agreements. On domestic policy issues, Trump recommends stricter border security and repealing the Affordable Care Act. As for foreign policy, he critically analyzes the impact of China on free trade.
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دیدگاه‌های کتاب الکترونیکی Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again


CNBC | The Financial Crisis: Mistake Not To Prosecute?
CNBC | The Financial Crisis: Mistake Not To Prosecute? April 2016 –Phil Angelides, former California state treasurer and commissioner of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, discusses the investigation into the 2009financial crisis and the Commission's referral for potential prosecution of some of the big names like Robert Rubin, Charles Prince and Stanley O'Neal.


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Google has released latest penguin update which impacts 0.3 % of English Language queries. Google Mat Cutts announced this news through his twitter account.
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Google maps is a easy way to promote and attract geographical based traffic. But some time it would be difficult to find out our listing in google maps.


As European explorers expanded their quest for the riches of the far east, Baja California became an integral part of sea travel. Merchant ships, dominated mostly by Spanish Galleons, sailed from European ports traveling to and from the Philippines and Far East. Ships laden with treasures sailed to Baja, the Sea of Cortez and the western shores of Mexico when returning from their journey to the South Pacific. It didn't take long for others to challenge the security of these Spanish ships. Naturally, privateers sought to profit from these expeditions as thieves lying in wait to exploit the vessels' bounty. Racing up and down the Pacific coastline, the pirates had a field day. When these pirates were not plying their trade they moored in Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo and La Paz.
One of the most famous pirate stories remains the treasure of the Santa Ana.
Legend has it in 1587, the English buccaneer Thomas Cavandish doubled-down and took on the heavily armed galleon theSanta Ana at the Cape of San Lucas. On November 14th, Cavandish and his two ships, the Content and Desire gave chase and engaged theSanta Ana. The battle raged for 3 days with reports describing a swashbuckling scene straight out of Hollywood. Finally, the Santa Anasurrendered and its loot was loaded aboard the Content and Desire. The two English ships quickly set sail and soon separated. The Desirearrived in Plymouth, England months later but the Content was never seen again. The treasure from the Content was never found. Indian legend claim it remains in a cove on the Pacific side of Baja north of Cabo San Lucas. The treasure of the Santa Ana still remains a mystery today.
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With the Merlion – a creature with a lion's head and a fish's tail – presiding over the city, Singapore has become one of the most prominent metropolises leading the charge in international business and sustainable urban development in the world. Singapore is not only the capital city's namesake, but also the name of this island. Located off of the Malaysian coast, where it is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Malacca, Singapore is about the size of the metropolitan area of London and has embraced an urban development plan of bringing greeneries to the skies.
Singapore's history can be traced back as far as the 8th century, where the city was used as a major trading outpost for the Srivijaya Empire of Sumatra. The city was referred to as "Tumasik", meaning "sea town" in Malay. By the mid- 11th century, Singapore underwent various power transitions with many different empires trying to lay claim to the region due to its strategic trading location. While the origins of the name of Singapore are debated, at some point during this time, the city's name changed to "Singapura", or "Lion City". One of the leading stories is based on the Malay legend of a Sumatran prince – the story recounts a prince who visited the island and mistook a tiger for a lion, creating an epic that would eventually name the merlion as the city's symbol.
A British Colony
By 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles of the English East India Company, in search of a new port to develop in the Southeast Asian region, found Singapore as a perfect fit for new trading routes. He attempted to come to an agreement with native leadership, however at this time, the Dutch had territorial claims to the island. It wasn't until 1824 that Singapore was ceded to British control with the signing of the Anglo-Dutch Treaty, where the British gained control of Malaya and Singapore with the hopes that the region would become a primary trading port for the British. Singapore would then become a crown colony in 1867, linking British and Western markets.
In the early 20th century, Singapore became not only a stronghold in the ways of international trade, but also in military strategy as well. In the aftermath of World War I, British forces decided to establish the city of Singapore as a naval base. The island would eventually become a battleground during World War II and would even be surrendered by the British to Japanese forces until the end of the war in 1945. In 1959, Britain would grant self-government to the country of Singapore; however, it would remain a British crown colony. Singapore's independence from Britain was largely due to the rise of the People's Action Party (PAP), which embraced the goal of independence and would spearhead the movement to have Singapore join the Federation of Malaysia in 1963, effectively ending British rule. The Federation was intended to unite the region (largely due to rising ethnic tensions in the area), however not even two years after joining the Federation, the island of Singapore would be asked to secede due to pro-communist forces in the PAP-led government. Modern-day Singapore's government relations continue to emulate strong trade priorities, with Singapore as a founding member of ASEAN and named the best city for doing business by the World Bank in 2012.
Singapore has become an absolute must for foodies around the world. Throughout the city, open-air food markets called hawker centres include a wide variety of stalls and food options and are the go-to place for anyone looking for affordable cuisine at any time of day. Some of the most popular centres are found at Maxwell Road Hawker Centre, Old Airport Road Centre, and Chinatown Complex Food Centre.
Overall, dishes tend to reflect a mélange of culinary inspiration from neighboring countries and cultures, but most dishes include a few key ingredients: noodles; rice; and seafood. Noodles are often served in soups or over rice and generally include regional spices for a strong flavor profile. Lovers of seafood will find some of the freshest seafood in the world and find that much of the dishes found in Singapore serve their seafood whole – whole fish head curries and full prawns will become your every-day snack during your trip. Rice meals tend to be reminiscent of Indian cuisines, resembling curries of the region.
The most popular savory dishes tend to incorporate more than one of these key ingredients. From the rich minced meat noodles of bok chor mee to the rice vermicelli seafood soup, laksa, to the national dish of chili crab, you are sure to find your new favorite dish at your local hawker centre. For dessert, popular dishes include kueh ubi kayu – a steamed tapioca cake – and kaya toast served with coconut jam. Tropical fruits also often make appearances in Singaporean dessert platters, most notably the infamously pungent durian fruit often being blended into juices and shaved ice. Fun fact: while beloved by many, Singapore actually had to ban durians on all forms of public transportation because of how strong its smell is!
While a small island nation, the capital city of Singapore is a vibrant epicenter of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity that reflects its long history of internationalism. The capital is a hub for business leaders, making Singapore one of the wealthiest nations in Asia. The city's demographic composition primarily includes folks of Chinese, Malay, and Indian descent. However, there is also a growing Western influence within the city due to its rise in the international business sector so there is a growing ex-pat population as well. Walking through the streets of Singapore, you may hear a variety of languages being spoken, with four languages – Mandarin Chinese, Malay, English, and Tamil – being recognized as the country's official languages.
Singapore's trade scene is not the only thing that it has to offer – it has also become a popular tourist destination in recent decades with activities and sites that will interest all types of travelers. We may not think of an airport as a tourist attraction, but Singapore's Jewel Changi Airport welcomes travelers in style! In addition to being an airport, Jewel Changi also houses a large, nature-themed retail center with gardens and waterfalls throughout – it is even home to the tallest indoor waterfall called the Rain Vortex! After a visit to the airport, the city has even more to offer, with festivals, shows, and sporting events such as Formula 1 racing being hosted in the city all year long. To end your trip, if you aren't afraid of heights, Marina Bay Sands casino resort and Skypark features rooftop gardens, trails, and an infinity-edge pool – the Skypark is modeled in the shape of a boat resting atop three hotel towers below and gives an incredible view of the bay!
Nicknamed "The Garden City", Singapore is also on a mission to become the greenest city in the world and has been identified by local and international conservation groups as a model for sustainable urban development. Led in large part by Cheong Koon Hean, the head of the urban development agency, Singapore is working to redefine its skyline by implementing green initiatives that work to preserve greenery in the city. All new construction projects must implement a green replacement strategy, meaning that much of the city's skyline is covered with countless beautiful vertical gardens and parks. In fact, nearly 50% of the city's land area is covered with greenery. These sustainable strategies are also used as a form of flood control for the island. As a result, many of the most popular tourist destinations in the city of Singapore are urban parks – must-sees for new visitors are East Coast park featuring sandy beaches, Bishan park for sprawling hills, and Gardens by the Bay with their Supertree vertical biomes and solar-powered evening light show!
If you would like to learn more about this incredible city, its history, and cuisine, check out these sites:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore/History
https://www.visitsingapore.com/travel-guide-tips/about-singapore/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/green-urban-landscape-cities-Singapore
https://www.visitsingapore.com/editorials/amazing-things-you-never-knew-about-singapore/
https://www.seriouseats.com/2012/07/an-introduction-to-singaporean-food-cuisine.html
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Q: android layout - scale image to fit custom view I was wandering if anyone could help me with a little image scaling problem that I have while creating custom view (customized button)?
 So, I created a custom view class with custom constructor and few methods:
public class GamesButton extends View {
public int imageID;
public Bitmap image;
public GamesButton(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}
public GamesButton(Context context, int resImage) {
    super(context);
    this.imageID = resImage;
    this.image = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(context.getResources(),imageID);
    setFocusable(true);
    setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // do something
        }
    });
    setClickable(true);
}
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    Paint textPaint = new Paint();
    textPaint.setColor(Color.BLACK);
    canvas.drawBitmap(image,0 , 0,null);

}
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I've also overridden onMeaure() and others, but my custom view size is not the issue here.
The problem is the Bitmap image that I use as a button or as a surface that you click on. I can't scale it so that you can see the whole image on screen.
Is there a way to deal with this?
Thank you!

A: You can create a custom button by setting the background of the button to a 9patch image file. You can also use a selector, and have different 9patch image files for different states of the button. That's a lot simpler than overriding onDraw().


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Once again this year the Connecticut Law Enforcement Community will come together and participate in the 30th annual Special Olympics Torch Run.
More than 3,000 people in blue will be a part of this three-day event which kicked off on Wednesday morning in Old Lyme.
According to New Milford Police, the Torch Run will get underway around 7:30 AM The route starts at the New Milford Town Hall on the town green, goes west on Bridge Street and then heads south on Danbury Road (Route 7) to the Brookfield town line.
WFSB,com reports that In Connecticut, the run will cover over 500 miles and go through more than 100 cities and towns. The goal was to raise $500,000.
The three-day event will culminate Friday night on the campus of Southern Connecticut State University.