You could call me as many things, but I promise you "tall" is not one of them. At five foot three (with my very best posture!), it's safe to say pro basketball was never in my future. When I became a mother, I'd often look at my son and wonder if he was destined to be short like me or if he would take on more of his enviously tall father's stature. Now, no one can predict the future, of course, and while there will always be anomalies, there ARE some ways to make an educated guess about how tall – or not – you can expect your children to be.
Add the mother's height and the father's height in either inches or centimeters.
Add 5 inches (13 centimeters) for boys or subtract 5 inches (13 centimeters) for girls.
For boys, double the height at age two.
For girls, double the height at 18 months.
Using the child's height at age two calculator, my son is predicted to be pretty close to dad. He's eleven now and already at my eye level, so I suspect this calculator is pretty spot on in his case. What do you think? If you've tried these calculators in the past, how close to accurate were they? Did they accurately predict how tall your children would be?
If your kids are anything like mine, your house is covered in Legos. My son has been obsessed with Legos since he was a toddler and I've got the "agh! was that a Lego buried in the carpet?!" bruises on my feet to prove it. As much as he enjoys following the instructions on sets, he also loves going rogue and building his own Lego creations. One of his favorite things to create is Lego boats – and then test their ability to float in the sink.
So naturally, when our friends at the Legoland Discovery Center sent me this infographic about using LEGO® bricks to create float or sink experiments, I had to share it. It's a fun, hands-on approach to get kids involved in the scientific process of trial and error using a toy they already love to play with. Brilliant.
Drink water before a party. Before that office event or family gathering, drink a big glass of water (two, if you can!). Many of us think we're hungry when in fact what we're feeling is thirst, and we overeat as a result. Keep dehydration at bay by consuming water before you're tempted by food. The more hydrated you are, the better you'll be able to make conscious choices over what you eat. Helpful when you're inundated by trays of hors d'oeuvres.
Eat before a party. Don't starve yourself before a big party where you know there'll be lots of rich food. People have a tendency to eat very little before an event thinking they will "save" the calories for later. But this tactic almost always backfires. The hungrier you are when the food arrives, the more likely you are to ravenously overeat. Instead, make sure you eat fiber and protein rich foods throughout the day so your hunger stays in check.
Drink water during a party. I'm not going to tell you to skip the wine (what fun is that?). What I am going to tell you to do is alternate glasses of wine with glasses of water. Not only will it slow your alcohol consumption – alcohol triggers overeating – but it will also fill your stomach so you'll feel fuller on fewer calories.
Eat the good stuff – but not too much. Don't try to deny yourself at an event filled with delicious food. Instead, allow yourself a small taste of everything you want. Research has shown that the first bite of something is the most enjoyable. That's because anticipation plays a huge part in our cravings for food. So instead of eating that entire piece of chocolate cake, have a bite or two. Chances are, you'll enjoy it just as much.
Play outside. Too snowy to get to the gym? Turn your backyard into your own personal fitness arena. There are lots of fun things you can do (with your kids!) to stay active. Did you know that building a snow man burns 349 calories an hour? Sledding burns 407 – that's almost as much as running! Chances are, when you're out there having fun, you're not even thinking about how much exercise you're getting.
Dance! There will be plenty of opportunities this season. Dancing is a great calorie buster (450 an hour) and overall toner (getting low works those quads!). Plus, if you work out at the party, you don't need to work out before the party.
Boost your mood. Even if you don't suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, chances are the shorter days are bringing you down. And negative moods lead to lethargy and emotional eating. Take advantage of sunny days and go for a walk to maximize Vitamin D consumption. Can't get outdoors? Buy an electronic blue light – it mimics the sun's mood-boosting effects. Another quick (and even easier) mood brightener? Smile. Even if you don't feel like smiling, the act itself has been shown to actually make people happier.
Okay, so I am a tiny bit interested in (read: fascinated by) genetics. I love how knowing just a little bit about mom and dad can, with startling accuracy, predict what baby will look like even before baby is born. One of the easier traits to predict is eye color. "What color eyes will my baby have?" is a question that can be answered just by knowing what eye color the parents have.
Want to know what eye color your baby might have? I created the simple chart below to help.
Note that this chart only takes into account parents' eye colors. Because it only factors in the phenotype (i.e. what color the eyes appear) and not the genes themselves, it is not going to be 100% accurate in every case. However, if you know grandparents' eye colors, too, you can tell with even more accuracy what color eyes your kids will have. To factor grandparents' eye colors into the equation, checkout TheTech's baby eye color predictor here.
One of the topics I get asked about most frequently is how to handle nighttime sits. Night sits seem like a tricky situation at first glance (whose house do they happen at? do you bring your own kids along, too?) but with a little planning, night sits can be just as easy and convenient as day sits.
Do you agree with our recommendations? What has worked well for your coop?
Lately, I've found myself growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of support our society provides working moms. People ask me all the time how I do it — work, kids, home, etc. and I will tell you: I am the exception, not the rule. I happen to have an incredibly flexible schedule, a mellow-tempered kid, and the ability to work wherever I choose. And, even with all that, it's not easy per se. It's just possible.
My recent bout of frustration was triggered by a Bostinno piece which posited the question "Do parents have more right to work-life balance than non-parents?" Admittedly, I was upset before I even started reading. What kind of question is that? It's not about whose rights trump whose; it's about giving all people the opportunity to have both career and life (and not lose their minds in the process). The article lamented the plight of the childless, forced to occassionally pick up extra hours to cover for parents who needed to leave the office to be with their kids.
Look, I don't think being childless means you shouldn't enjoy work-life balance, too. However, the article, written by a childless 20-something, misses the opportunity to tackle the bigger and more important issue: why this tension even exists in the first place.
We tend to look at the issues facing working parents as impacting only those who are working parents. But, as the Bostinno piece indirectly points out, the problems go far beyond the individuals and, parent or not, impact us all. And until we solve the root cause of the problem (i.e. the lack of support for working parents), we will all continue to suffer the resulting pain.
Extend the school day to align with the work day. I know this takes money (and a lot of it). But we should view it as an investment in our future. We're falling behind the rest of the world and experts have recommended increasing the number of hours children spend in school as a way to give children – especially those from lower income families – a leg up. An added bonus? Fewer harried moms ducking out of work early to get their kids or scrambling to coordinate schedules.
Provide federally-funded paid parental leave. It's well-known that the US is the only developed nation in the world without paid maternity leave. The impact of this being that many mothers, unable to subsist without an income, are forced back to work far earlier than they are ready. These women are tired, recuperating from giving birth, and not very productive workers. Babies suffer, women suffer, and the business world suffers when we don't give new moms the parental leave they need.
Shut up about breastfeeding. No, really. We should not even cede the premise that breastfeeding could be inappropriate. If a mom needs to feed her baby (yes, needs – not wants; it's not some pleasurable exhibitionist fantasy she is living out), she should feed her baby, regardless of where she is at the moment her baby needs to eat. And we should applaud her for making the best health and financial decision for her family. Breasts can be both sexual and maternal and our society needs to laud both purposes. Or, at least stop denigrating them.
I do not deny that there will always be some tension between work and home responsibilities, nor do I think we have clear answers to the problems. But I strongly believe it is time to stop simply talking about the issues and start working seriously to address them. We need to pay more than just lip-service to the challenges working parents, especially working moms, face. Because, by doing so, we all stand to benefit.
Write it down. Lists are a parent's best friend. Seriously. Think about all the to-do's you're constantly managing. When you write it down on paper, you no longer have the stress of keeping it in your head. Pro tip: Divide your to-do list into categories (e.g. work, kids, financial, personal, etc.) and review/revise it first thing each morning.
Purge your space. As the saying goes, a cluttered desk (or office, or house, or car) creates a cluttered mind. Fall is a great time to take stock of what you have and throw away (or donate) what you don't need. Then, to keep clutter at bay going forward, organize the things that remain.
Make extra when you cook. To save your sanity during busy weeknights, plan ahead when you cook and make a double batch of each meal. One batch is served that night; the other goes straight into the freezer. This method is a lifesaver and a major stress reducer for those extra-crazy evenings when you simply don't have time or energy to cook.
Bang out those pesky maintenance tasks. Getting the car serviced, renewing your insurance policy, taking the kids to the dentist. You know, the things you need to do but often put off? Do them now. Not only will you get them off your to-do list, you'll also position yourself for less stress down the road. Preventive care and maintenance leads to fewer spontaneous problems over the long term (and fewer headaches for you).
Take care of you. Eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep. And that's just for starters. How can you be at your best if you aren't giving your body the fuel it needs? Just like your car, your body needs to be maintained in order to perform at its best. Also think about your mental health, too. What makes you feel calm and happy? Carve out time for those activities. An investment in yourself is an investment in everything else you do.
How do you stay balanced? Leave your tips in the comments and let us know!


The box is exactly the same as Sabers. I like this transparent box, it makes a change from the normal cardboard ones. It reminds me of Alter's 1/8 KOS-MOS.
And the back. The same postcard is included with this one too, showing the original artwork they were based on.
The base. It doesn't actually have any method of attachment to the figure, she just sits on top. This base has a nice feature that allows it to interlock with Saber's base, which I'll show later. If you just want to display her on her own though, it appears just like a normal base.
Now we get to Rin herself. The quality is spot on so I'll just let the pictures do the talking for this one.
Here's the base feature I mentioned earlier. A section gets removed from the bottom. It's designed pretty well so that the top is still one piece, so you can't tell that it comes apart when looking at it from the top.
And here is the way the bases can fit together. I pretty much have the same verdict as I did for Saber; it's a great figure for the price with the usual quality you'd expect from Alter, and the two look great together. Recommended for any Rin fans!


A new Nextel cell site located next to the power substation above Village Green Parkway and Pinebluff Trail was recently constructed and place in-service. The cell site provides improved coverage in the upper Caughlin Ranch Parkway area and northwest Reno.
Thanks to 2 dogs who like to go for walks for the pictures.


Attorney General Eric Holder personally signed off on the search warrant that labeled Fox News reporter James Rosen a "possible co-conspirator" and resulted in the unknowing seizure of his private emails. The story was broken by National Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff of NBC News who used to be with Newsweek magazine so you know he's a liberal.
While it seems odd that the liberal press would come to the aid of Fox News who some don't even consider a news source, it is probably frightening to the media in general to have this level of spying by the government going on. It remains to be seen the exact details of the seizure of emails from Fox reporter James Rosen and his involvement in so-called espionage he was involved in.
It is ironic though that the same day it was revealed Holder had signed off on seizing Rosen's emails, President Obama, in a speech on counterterrorism said, "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs." Maybe the President should have checked to see what Holder was up to before he made such an embarrassing statement.
Let's see how Obama and company get out of this one now that the liberal press is starting to turn against them.
"I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said. "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs."
A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Department of Justice later issued a statement about the review of media guidelines: "This review is consistent with Attorney General Holder's long-standing belief that freedom of the press is essential to our democracy," it said. "At the same time, the attorney general believes that leaks of classified information damage our national security and must be investigated using appropriate law enforcement tools. We remain steadfast in our commitment to following all laws and regulations intended to safeguard national security as well as the First Amendment interests of the press in reporting the news and the public in receiving it."
We can spy, we can drop drones, we can spend, spend, spend. We can give off the appearance of competency, we can befuddle the people, we can confuse the uniformed. We can lie like a rug, we can party hardy on your dime, we can vacation with the best of them. Yet nowhere do we lead, there is no where that we inspire confidence, no where that we lift up the people, you see it all about us, it is not about the dream that is America. It is about a bunch of Chicago politicians who have not a clue on what made this nation great, and because of this, greatness will elude them. You see in order to be elevated, you must elevate. In order for the best to come from you, you must bring the best forth from others. Great men are humble, they allow others to rise to their potential. When Washington was offered to be made King, he refused. When he could have been President for life he took two terms, and retired. His quiet resolve during the Constitutional Convention gave us our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. We are in need of such leaders today, who believe in something more than themselves. Leaders who will govern, rather than rule, inspire our young for the future, give our seniors the ability to live out their lives in hope for their families future. If today's leaders want to have a monument to themselves than they can restore the rule of law, restore the Constitution, The Bill of Rights. In two hundred years the man or woman who restores the Constitution of this nation will be remembered like Washington and Jefferson, the ones who tried to dismantle it will not even be a footnote in history.
He can sick his dogs on a Fox reporter but, he can't answer questions as to why he sicked them or who told him to? That sounds to much like an obama policy.
With three scandals facing him Obummer will create a diversion (AKA crisis) to draw attention away from his sordid performance.
Obongo the A s s Clown is a Communist Christian hating Jewish hating Muslim and the liberal Media knew from day one what he was all about.. They knew his politics was all about shredding or Constitution and that was just fine with them until obama put his next faze of politics into line which is stopping freedom of speech and stopping a free press from reporting but oh now they see.. Wake up Obama want's to be Dictator he feels we should have no rights. Save America IMPEACH HIM NOW along with his henchman.
This is the beginning of Obama's new detention law. Seize anyone on suspicion and hold indefinitely without charges.
I guess Eric Holder will say that someone signed his name to the document, Obama weill back him up. They have to realize they are not in Chicago, but I guess once a crook always a crook and liar.
Holder is much smarter than barry, and is whispering instructions in his ear. holder needs to go first, and then barry, as w/out holder, barry's defenseless, and everybody will step forward.
I was a reporter in a past life. And believe me, they're outraged. Most are quietly outraged, because they're afraid their cult leader is going down. But they treasure their first amendment right.
This is what happens when We the People let greedy politicians do whatever the hell they want too. The founding fathers of this nation warned about this over 230 years ago..And we don't listen to their wisdom.
If you loved Hitler, you will love this AG. Something is wrong in America …. hope it can be fixed in time.
What hypocrites in the liberal news media.. You all ignored or denied the truth of this animal for 4+ years.. But when a "journalist" gets raided and your rights infringed, you get upset. But say nothing of the rights of citizens.. To hell with you hypocrites. You deserve it for supporting a communist in the first place and you give no mention of our troops getting killed defending your rights, but don't have them when they come home.
IS IT 2016 YET? OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS TERRORISM.
impeach, obama already gave him a pass on fast and furious.
Nothing but dirtbags running our government, this needs to fall hard on Obsmas head. And with it the entire Democratic Party needs to be brought to its knees. Our government has proven how corrupt it can get when the wrong people have too much power and nothing to keep it in check. It's way past time that we take back Washington and reign in the corruption.
Dare I say @chucktodd @msnbc may have started to see what we PATRIOTS have seen all along.
This man in the white house is dangerous.
Seems a little odd that a reporter is investigated but Biden and OB are not for disclosing classified info on Seal Team 6 in the O Sama Binladin takedown [sic].
Odd is not the right word.
Secret info? Oh you mean he was trying to find the TRUTH!
Rosen is doing his job! How about investigate the people working for this administration that are leaking the information!
Get ready folks, Obama is about to throw people down the stairs, under the bus and into the Chicago river to protect his presidency. Mark my words, he'll sacrifice anyone to stay there.
right on u r so right scary!!!!!!!!!!
You're absolutely right! I was a reporter in another life. And believe me, all reporters are outraged. Most are in shock and don't want to sa anything about their cult figure. But they feel it.
He's got control, lots of money to throw away and no one to stop him.
When will obummer be held responsible for HIS cohorts breaking the laws that govern the rest of us?
Imagine if anybody could get away with what those in The Obama administration have pulled off. Peter Guild, Quincy, MA.
Pray for the truth Pray for justice.
I prayed one day I would get to say this. "Bye bye Holder". I'll stick with the prayers; maybe next time it will be his boss.
It's been more than 2 weeks Eric. What are you still doing here? Your boss won't fire you and you don't have the cajones to do what's right for the country; is that it?
When you turn on the, light the rats to run for cover.


Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria, (CS-SUNN), a coalition of nongovernmental organizations pushing for nutritional security of Nigerian children, has raised alarm over the rising malnutrition among children aged under five in Kano.
The survey report presented by the organization revealed that 58 in every 100 malnourished children are at risk of stunting as a result of imbalance in their dietary intake.
Stunting, which is a health condition in which a child is too short for their age, is said to be accompanied with poor brain development.
The executive Secretary of CS-SUNN, Beatrice Eluaka said stunting has increased in Kano by more than 5% in the last four years in spite of the efforts of the state government to addressing the plight of malnourished children in the state.
It could be recalled that the state government had in 2017 released about N294m as counterpart fund for the purchase of Ready-to-Use therapeutic food for the management and treatment of severely malnourished children.
Eluaka identified malnutrition as the key contributor to infant and maternal mortality and morbidity, thereby urging the Kano state government to intensify efforts with a view to addressing the growing phenomenon of stunting among its young population.
"Available statistics indicate an alarming rising trend in the state's malnutrition burden which continues to be key contributor to infant and maternal mortality and morbidity, poor cognitive development and increased severity of diseases adversely affecting under-5 children in the state.
"It is particularly worrisome to note that the latest Multiple Cluster Indicator Survey (MICS) shows an alarming increase stunting and underweight rates for the state. Data from MICS 2017 puts the stunting rate at 58%, underweight 40.3%" Eluaka said.
She described stunting as direct measure of the country's level of development, urging the Kano state government and other development partner agencies to increase funding allocation to nutrition so as to curb the menace of malnutrition in the state.
She further emphasized the need for women of child-bearing age to embrace exclusive breastfeeding for their children, describing breast milk as the best immunity supplement for the new-born.


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Speech signals originate as a sequence of linguistic units selected by speakers, but these units are necessarily realised in the suprasegmental dimensions of time, frequency and amplitude. For this reason prosodic structure has been viewed as a mandatory target of language processing by both speakers and listeners. In apparent contradiction, however, prosody has also been argued to be ancillary rather than core linguistic structure, making processing of prosodic structure essentially optional. In the present tribute to one of the luminaries of prosodic research for the past quarter century, we review evidence from studies of the processing of lexical stress and focal accent which reconciles these views and shows that both claims are, each in their own way, fully true.
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Speech production is constrained at all levels by the demands of speech perception. The speaker's primary aim is successful communication, and to this end semantic, syntactic and lexical choices are directed by the needs of the listener. Even at the articulatory level, some aspects of production appear to be perceptually constrained, for example the blocking of phonological distortions under certain conditions. An apparent exception to this pattern is word boundary information, which ought to be extremely useful to listeners, but which is not reliably coded in speech. It is argued that the solution to this apparent problem lies in rethinking the concept of the boundary of the lexical access unit. Speech rhythm provides clear information about the location of stressed syllables, and listeners do make use of this information. If stressed syllables can serve as the determinants of word lexical access codes, then once again speakers are providing precisely the necessary form of speech information to facilitate perception.

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As you could see in the previous post I was super motivated to start doing something. The reality is, unfortunately, a little bit different.
I didn't do almost anything in past weeks. Every day I write down some project ideas (inspired by James Altucher and his Idea machine process) but still, I didn't move any of my ideas further.
I think I have some promising one, but I am not sure with the execution.
A similar project to one of my most doable and kinda an idea I wanted to start my making-shaking career was recently launched on Product Hunt so I did step back (maybe I will get back to it later).
The idea was to make a web where you could upload your ideas and kinda get some feedback before you start even working on it, just prevalidate your idea, so you wouldn't waste your time on stupid and nonsense ideas but the @elijahmurray was faster and made http://www.shouldimakethis.com.
I wanted to do it slightly different but still I will try to do something else I hope.
Anyway, back to the point. Excuses, excuses and excuses. Emil you are the best in it.
Too much work, not enough time, not enough skills, I always find something to avoid working and executing my ideas. It's my daily bread.
I think there is already the breaking point where I must to start doing something otherwise I will not fullfil my dream path.
I wanna be my own boss and follow just my orders. I mentioned in the make and shake post. I am lazy if I must working for clients, so I must stop being a bad employee and start being a good self shaker (haha I don't really know why I decided for this word but let's just go with the flow).
I just did a little update of this website. I add the apps page where you can find the phone apps or websites I use regularly with small description why. I think it could be interesting for someone.
I am thinking to redesign the worktravelenjoy.com completely but I didn't find the right template yet. I think the new start deserves a refreshed design.
OK this post should serve as a statement and public comitment. Stop hanging around and kick off for the right path of my life.
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There is an application (uTorrent) that I have installed on my PC. I can see it in "Start" menu and I can launch it successfully. However, from "user" account this application is invisible and, moreover, it does not offer to be launched when my wife clicks on .torrent file.
I guess I have installed uTorrent "for me only" or whatsoever. However, I want it to be accessible from "user account". How do I achieve it?

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Home News Hill Reveals After Some 15 Months He's Still Not Fully Fit After Bizarre Portugal Masters Infection
Hill Reveals After Some 15 Months He's Still Not Fully Fit After Bizarre Portugal Masters Infection
1 week ago by Bernie McGuire 0
... Yas Links, Abu Dhabi
Among all those I observed in heading to the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship practice range for a first time on Tuesday was the delight in seeing Scot Calum Hill.
Golf fans will recall Hill was bitten by mosquitoes while contesting the 2021 late season Portugal Masters, withdrawing after the first round with a 76.
A fortnight later, Hill teed-up in season-ending DP World Tour Championship but after one round, and walking for the most part noticeably uncomfortable, he signed his card and headed straight to the Tour's medical unit where he was advised to seek immediate expert advice as to why the infected insect bites were draining his energy.
Scotland's Calum Hill standing proud after posting a 68 on the opening day of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship
Season 2022 got underway and Hill seemed to feel good enough in March to travel to Qatar for the CB Qatar Masters but that also proved frustrating in having to withdraw from yet another DP World Tour event.
Arriving home, Hill underwent more treatment, more assessment so much so he was then side-lined for a further seven months, returning in October to play three rounds in missing the cut on home soil at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
There surely must have been some trepidation a few weeks later when he headed back to the Algarve to tee-up in the 2022 edition of the Portugal Masters, no doubt with bitter and bizarre memories of the events a year earlier. He played just two rounds, missing the cut.
All the time between just three events in 2022, Hill was being attended to by specialists before being advised his continuing aches and pains were nerve-related issues.
It's why it was good to see Hill here in Abu Dhabi and to be on hand when he signed for an opening round of a four-under 68 of the $US 9m championship.
"It was nice and I felt more comfortable than I thought I would be and it's just that the competitive juices are gone a little bit as it's been so long since a year-and-a-half ago and what happened in Portugal," Hill said.
"It's meant that the lack of competition makes it tough and I noticed that when I went back to Portugal at the end of last year when I was last out here on Tour
"I did a lot of this winter break including playing a lot of games in Phoenix, so I've got a lot of golf under my belt and the scoring has been a lot better. So, it's a nice surprise to go out there today and feel so comfortable",
However, Hill revealed he's still not back to 100% fitness.
"The nerve-related issues that resulted from what happened in Portugal causes muscle spasms and cramping, and the muscles don't relax, so it feels a bit uncomfortable," he said.
"Though I'm working with the right people, doing the right things and I've been told it will be normal eventually (smiling). I was informed I would be okay in September and then I'd be okay by January though I've been assured it's not forever.
"Saying that, I am planning to play these four events in succession, up to and including the Singapore Classic, but we'll just see how I go after this week and next week's Desert Classic.
Looking back to 2021 the Gleneagles attached Hill produced some stunning results including 4th at the Hero Open and a week later on August 15 Hill capturing the Cazoo Classic and backed-up that result in his very next event with a share of seventh in the Omega European Masters.
That was a win for either side of two other top-10s that surely must have had Hill thinking, could life not be brighter for the now 28-year old?
Sadly not and with Hill arriving in Abu Dhabi having played only seven rounds since October 2021.
If there is golfing plus for Hill it is his sponsors have stood by him and he's also playing under Category 4a DP World Tour medical exemption, so he has the full support of the Tour in teeing-up in 2023.


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Labs around the world produce tremendous amount of plastic waste
Scientists around the world are calling for action to battle pollution and other environmental issues. However, how much of environmental issues can be attributed to science itself?
Although not all plastic in labs can be re-used, because of contamination or biological hazards, scientists should seek reduction of plastic waste of the labs. Image credit: Cjp24 via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
In a new study, scientists from the University of Exeter have estimated that laboratories from around the globe are responsible for 1.8 % of total global plastic production, waste which weighs the equivalent of 67 cruise ships a year. Now scientists are calling for reduction of this plastic waste.
At first, group of scientists focused on their own university. It turns out that the 280 scientists in their own bioscience department at the University of Exeter generated roughly 267 tonnes of plastic waste last year.
Labs around the world are not more environmentally friendly, which means that globally 20,543 biologically-oriented research institutions are producing 5.5 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. This is because budgets of researches are limited. Scientists have to use cheaper equipment, which means that plastic is disposable and not bio-degradable. Bio-degradable plastic cannot be used in some cases because it can alter research results. All of this means that a lot of this plastic ends up in landfills.
Researchers are calling labs from around the world and research community as such to prioritise the potential environmental impact of plastics over the cost of research and to reduce plastic waste.
Erin Reardon, member of the research team, said: "When we started doing the calculations for this exercise, using data provided by the University of Exeter Sustainability Office, I expected the contribution of research to the global plastic problem to be almost negligible – but we were surprised at how high the estimate is. At a time when governments are imposing charges for single use plastic bags and bottles, we think the scientific research community could be working towards reducing its dependency on plastic, and could be doing so without sacrificing scientific standards".
Surely, transition to more environmentally friendly equipment is not going to be easy. However, scientists note that science should not be cheap. Instead, it has to be responsible. It is impossible to remove all plastic equipment from the labs, but at least some of the items used have to be re-usable. This research is supposed to start discussions and in the future green factor of the research may be one of the arguments to get the financial grants.
Source: exeter.ac.uk
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Józef Kopicera (ur. 16 lutego 1951 w Gliwicach) – piłkarz grający na pozycji napastnika i pomocnika, reprezentant Polski, trener piłkarski.

Był wychowankiem Piasta Gliwice i grał w tym klubie w latach 1963-1971, następnie przeszedł do Ruchu Chorzów, gdzie grał w latach 1971–1977. W barwach Ruchu wystąpił w 125 meczach zdobywając 25 goli. Dwukrotnie zdobył z Ruchem Mistrzostwo Polski (1974 i 1975 rok) i raz Puchar Polski (1974 rok).

W latach 1977-1979 był graczem BKS Bielsko Biała, Polonii Bytom (lata 1979-1981 i francuskim Arras (lata 1981-1984).

Po zakończeniu kariery został szkoleniowcem, trenował Czarnych Pyskowice.

Reprezentacja Polski
W reprezentacji narodowej rozegrał 2 mecze. Członek szerokiej kadry (tzw "40") na Mistrzostwa Świata 1974 roku.

Bibliografia
 http://www.ruchchorzow.com.pl/?page=articles-news&article_id=5167&article_category=5

Urodzeni w 1951
Piłkarze BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała
Piłkarze Ruchu Chorzów
Piłkarze Piasta Gliwice
Piłkarze Polonii Bytom
Reprezentanci Polski w piłce nożnej
Ludzie urodzeni w Gliwicach

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package org.apache.pulsar.functions.source;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.Consumer;
import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.ToString;
import org.apache.pulsar.client.api.Message;
import org.apache.pulsar.client.api.MessageId;
import org.apache.pulsar.client.api.Schema;
import org.apache.pulsar.common.api.EncryptionContext;
import org.apache.pulsar.functions.utils.FunctionCommon;

@Builder
@Getter
@ToString
@EqualsAndHashCode
public class PulsarRecord<T> implements RecordWithEncryptionContext<T> {

    private final String topicName;
    private final int partition;

    private final Message<T> message;
    private final Schema<T> schema;

    private final Runnable failFunction;
    private final Runnable ackFunction;
    private final Consumer<Boolean> customAckFunction;

    @Override
    public Optional<String> getKey() {
        if (message.hasKey()) {
            return Optional.of(message.getKey());
        } else {
            return Optional.empty();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> getTopicName() {
        return Optional.of(topicName);
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Integer> getPartitionIndex() {
        return Optional.of(partition);
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> getPartitionId() {
        return Optional.of(String.format("%s-%s", topicName, partition));
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Long> getRecordSequence() {
        return Optional.of(FunctionCommon.getSequenceId(message.getMessageId()));
    }

    @Override
    public T getValue() {
        return message.getValue();
    }

    @Override
    public Schema<T> getSchema() {
        return schema;
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Long> getEventTime() {
        if (message.getEventTime() != 0) {
            return Optional.of(message.getEventTime());
        } else {
            return Optional.empty();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Some sink sometimes wants to control the ack type.
     */
    public void cumulativeAck() {
        this.customAckFunction.accept(true);
    }

    /**
     * Some sink sometimes wants to control the ack type.
     */
    public void individualAck() {
        this.customAckFunction.accept(false);
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<EncryptionContext> getEncryptionCtx() {
        return message.getEncryptionCtx();
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, String> getProperties() {
        return message.getProperties();
    }

    public MessageId getMessageId() {
        return message.getMessageId();
    }

    @Override
    public void ack() {
        this.ackFunction.run();
    }

    @Override
    public void fail() {
        this.failFunction.run();
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Message<T>> getMessage() {
        return Optional.of(message);
    }

}

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When the iPhone 6 was announced in September 2014, I knew I wanted to order one.
The 6 Plus didn't appeal to me; it was too big. I couldn't be swayed with longer battery life as I carry around a Mophie in my bag wherever I go and I have a charger in my home and my office.
In fact, in the 5 years I've had an iPhone, it's only died on me once. Once! So I went after the 6.
In November, I decided on a 16GB iPhone 6. I was due for the upgrade thanks to T-Mobile's JUMP plan, and since I'm no longer on the family plan, making the switch was surprisingly easy!
I didn't have to call my parents for the last 4 digits of their social security numbers or answer their parental demands of why I needed a new phone; didn't I have other, more important things to spend my money on? Was I saving enough? Had I signed up for my 401K yet, by the way? And hey, what was wrong with the phone I had now?
So why 16GB? I'm not a big app user, I use Spotify but my phone isn't loaded with music, and I don't download movies and TV shows.
16GB, at the time of purchase, seemed like the perfect amount of space.
Your phone is full, your phone is full, your phone is full. That message will haunt me forever, even now that I've upgraded to 64GB.
It seemed that within weeks of purchasing the 16GB iPhone 6, I was constantly making concessions in order to get everything I wanted on the phone.
"Oh, you want to take 50 photos? You can only take 37 because you have too many photos already," my phone would tell me.
I scrambled to delete Facebook more than once in the time I had the 16GB phone in order to free up space. Often it was a good method, but sometimes it wasn't enough. Why was I paying so much for this phone if I wasn't even able to use it without having a panic attack?
I made my bed, so I decided to lie in it.
I realized pretty early on I had screwed up, but I wanted to be an adult about it and live with my terrible choice. I dusted off my old iPhone 4S and loaded Spotify on that phone instead, making all of my music available offline so that I wouldn't need to be connected to wifi to tune in.
This worked for a little while, but people on the subway often made faces at me when I would pull out my iPhone 6 to browse offline articles or emails but keep my iPhone 4S on my lap and plugged into my ears so I could listen to music. I was literally holding two phones, stacked on top of one another. I looked like an idiot.
You pay somewhere between $120-200 as a down payment for the new phone, and T-Mobile buys back your current phone, as long as it's in good shape. Then, you pay between $20-30 a month as part of your phone bill to pay down the full-price cost of the phone.
I got the iPhone 6 in the middle of November, so I would have to wait until May to be able to upgrade, or, in my case, get the same phone with more storage.
May wasn't too far away, I figured.
I went to Oaxaca, Mexico several weeks ago, and left my Nikon DSLR at home because the iPhone 6 camera is just that good.
I was snapping photos of everything!
Then, as I was trying to take a selfie standing in front of some Zapotec ruins (as one does), my phone, of course, told me there was no more room to take photos.
The internet in Mexico is sub-par, so I couldn't just push 280 photos through Dropbox while standing on top of a mountain full of historical stone ruins and go about my day.
So, first world problems alert, I was forced to take photos with my iPhone 4S for the remainder of my 2-week trip.
And those photos were fine, but they would have been better on an iPhone 6. Much better.
As I paid my $130 phone bill in mid-February, I realized I was throwing money away every month to have a phone I could barely use without giving myself a headache.
I marched over to my T-Mobile store and explained the situation. I figured they were going to tell me I was SOL and I had to wait until May for my JUMP upgrade when they alerted me I actually hadn't used my upgrade when going from the 5S to the 6.
Their mistake, not mine, they promised, so I was able to use my upgrade and buy a new phone.
"I want the 64GB iPhone 6," I told the sales associate.
"But you already have the 6," she said.
She thought I was crazy, essentially paying double for the phone I should have purchased in the first place, but she set me up.
Now, I'm using a 64GB iPhone, and I get a cheap thrill every time I download an app and check to see how much storage I'm using. Currently, with my phone loaded with music, apps, and photos, I'm at 11 GB of storage.
I doubt I'll ever get to 64GB. I doubt I'll ever hit 40 or even 30GB of storage. This was the rationale I used when I purchased the 16GB; why purchase all of this storage I will never, ever, utilize.
Because in order to enjoy your iPhone to its fullest capacity, in order to get what you're being told you're paying for, you have to.


THERE were a 'lorra lorra' laughs as dozens of hopeful lads and lasses grabbed at the chance of fun and fame in the TV spotlights.
glamorous gals flocked to Reading's Holiday Inn on Monday to audition for the nation's favourite dating show, Blind Date.
personalities were put on trial to see who had the winning combination to sit on those stools with Blind Date's star host, Cilla Black.
Julia Engleman, for Granada Content which makes Blind Date for ITV, refused to reveal how many of Reading's finest passed the test.
She said: "We had a very good response from Reading but we're still screening contestants throughout the country. We'll see about 20,000 people and just 208 will make it through to the show."
She added: "Candidates enjoyed their preliminary interview and filled in application forms and if they're lucky enough they will be invited to a second interview up in London."
In each show the chance of true love - or hate - make it must-see TV. Over the years the show has had 2,700 contestants, more than 750 dates and three couples have ended up walking down the aisle.


Just six weeks ago, spring planting was underway in this same area of rural Minnesota. Minnesota Prairie Roots file photo May 2018.
DURING MY LAST TRIP to southwestern Minnesota in mid May, farmers worked the land. Tilling. Planting crops. Rushing to get seeds into the soil after a late spring start.
Now, some six weeks later, acres and acres of that same cropland lie under water, corn and soybean fields flooded by torrential rains. Flash floods that turned farm land into lakes early last week.
On our route west of Redwood Falls then north to Belview then later east of Belview along county roads back to Redwood, Randy and I observed lots of standing water. Massive lakes where crops should now thrive. It was disheartening to see the efforts and hopes of so many farmers gone. Flash, just like that. Weather is always the gamble of farming. I would never have the mental fortitude to farm. I admire those who do.
As we drove, I noted the wash of debris along shoulders, evidence that floodwaters overtook the county road. We drove a narrow ribbon of asphalt, water edging both sides of the roadway. Orange cones and orange flags flagged danger. An orange snow fence blocked a gravel road.
I understood that, days after the flash flood, we had not seen the worst of this devastating storm. But it was enough for me to gauge the significant loss to the farmers of my native Redwood County.
NOTE: My apologies for the lack of flood images. But I am under strict orders from my ortho surgeon not to use my left hand as I recover from surgery on my broken left wrist. "Use it," he said, "and you will be back in the OR." I'll listen, thank you.


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Q: Draw arrows between two circles using svg I am using svg to draw several arcs with arcs on the end between 2 circles with the help of Bezier quadratic path.
Here is the final effect I want to achieve.
http://www.apcjones.com/arrows/
I already had some idea about how to draw several arcs(without arrows) between two circles.
But when I tried to draw several arcs(with arrows on the end) between 2 circles, something weird happened.
I am using  here and I set refX to "radius" of the circle to offset the line inside the circle. But I soon realized that simply using refX does not solve the problem, the angle of the marker should also be adjusted(I do not know how).
current effect
Thanks for the help!

A: In this case you may need to use markers.

<svg width="200" height="100" viewBox="0 0 200 100">
  <defs>
    <desc>Define the marker</desc>
    <marker id="arrow" refX="4" refY="3" markerWidth="6" markerHeight="6" orient="auto" stroke="black">
      <path d="M 0 0 L 4 3 L 0 6 Z"></path>
    </marker>
  </defs>
  <desc>Use the markers</desc>
  <circle cx="160" cy="50" r="20" />
  <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="20" />

  <line x1="70" y1="50" x2="140" y2="50" fill="none" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" marker-end="url(#arrow)"></line>

</svg>

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The 21st Show
The Cost Of Student Housing; Hepatitis A Outbreak; New EpiPen Law; Selling Beer At College Sporting Events
By Ryan Denham, Alan Montecillo and Anna Casey
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Students have been paying more and more for room and board—and that cost often gets left out of conversations about lowering tuition and debt. Plus, what's behind an uptick in Hepatitis A cases in Illinois. We also talk with the lawmaker behind Illinois's new requirement that insurers cover EpiPens, and learn why colleges are turning to alcohol sales as one strategy to boost attendance at sporting events.
Even when tuition is covered or highly subsidized, there's still another huge cost to attending a university: the cost of actually living on, or near campus. The estimated price of on- and off-campus room and board at public universities climbed more than 82%, adjusted for inflation, between 1989 and 2017. That's according to numbers from the College Board.
Ali Breland recently wrote about student housing costs for Bloomberg Businessweek. His article is called "If The Cost of Tuition Doesn't Get You, The Cost of Student Housing Will." We also speak with Andy Netzer, general manager and managing broker at Young America Realty, the largest student landlord in Normal, and Kristin Blagg, a research associate in the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute, which has researched the cost of student housing.
We also hear from a student: Samiat Solebo, a junior majoring in political science and president of the Student Government Association at Illinois State.
How does this play out at @Illinois_Alma, which will offer free tuition to students admitted from households that make <$61,000?
Here's 21st Show producer @annakcasey's story about this issue -- for @willpublicmedia:https://t.co/2HXM86sfRY /3
— The 21st (@21stShow) August 21, 2019
Plus -
Late last year, the Illinois Department of Public Health declared a statewide outbreak of Hepatitis A. It's a disease that's preventable through a vaccine. And from 2006 to 2014, the number of cases dropped by more than half according to the CDC.
But in the last few years, that number has been creeping back up - including here in Illinois. In the last 12 months there have been 150 cases throughout the state, according to the latest numbers from the state.
And it turns out McLean County has the third most number of cases of any county in the whole state.
Melissa Graven is the communiable disease supervisor for the McLean County Health Department.
.@McLeanHealth's Melissa Graven: the Hep A virus spreads through coming into contact w/ it in food and water, through sharing needles, or through sex/intimate contact. Those at greatest risk are people who use illicit drugs, people who are homeless, and men who have sex with men.
And -
Millions of Americans rely on auto injectors that deliver epinephrine, usually to stave off reactions to life-threatening allergies. These are of course better known as Epipens.
But they've gotten more and more expensive over the years. A pair of injectors that cost $100 in 2009 - without insurance - went for as much as $600 by 2016.
Earlier this month Governor JB Pritzker signed a bill that requires health insurers to cover epipens for patients 18 and younger. The law takes effect Jan. 1 and it will make Illinois the first state in the nation to have this kind of requirement.
Representative Jonathan Carroll was the lawmaker who first brought this bill to the floor. He's a Democrat from Illinois' 57th House district, which includes some of Chicago's north and northwest suburbs. He joins us now from Northbrook.
"The outpouring that I've received from people across the state has been tremendous... an overwhelming outpouring of 'thank you do doing this.'" -@repjcarroll on new state law requiring insurers cover EpiPens in IL for kids 18 & under.
Then -
Fewer people are actually going to college football games - and college sporting events more generally. Average attendance is actually the lowest it's been in 22 years.
Attendance is one reason that the U of I and Illinois State University - along with more and more schools across the country - are going to start allowing beer and wine sales at athletic events.
Cheryl Raye Stout is a sports contributor for WBEZ Chicago. She joins me now on the line from Chicago. And Matt Blaszka is an assistant professor of sports management at Indiana State University.


OČENÁŠEK Pavel. Towards Security Issues in ZigBee Architecture. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Designing Information Environments. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009, s. 587-593. ISBN 978-3-642-02555-6.
Sensor Networks, ZigBee, Security, Attack, Security Protocol.
Tento článek diskutuje vybrané bezpečnostní problémy standardu ZigBee/802.15.4.


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Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care hosts fall fundraiser
Local | October 18, 2017
For the first time in its 39-year history, Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care will have a fall culinary event to raise funds for its mission to care for injured and orphaned animals.
On Thursday, Oct. 19, The Lake House hosts the nonprofit's first-ever autumn fundraising dinner — called "Wild & Free" — with a four-course menu that includes passed appetizers, first and second courses, and a dessert buffet.
"Several board members have said the food is fantastic, and [The Lake House] has a special menu prepared for us," said LTWC co-founder Tom Millham. "We have trout, New York strip steak, chicken marsala and tofu for the vegetarians."
Tickets for the event are $150 and are all-inclusive, offering attendees the chance to enjoy The Lake House's wine and beer in addition to the meal.
Apart from enjoying an extensive menu from one of South Shore's newest restaurants, guests will also hear an update from LTWC.
"We'll be showing a PowerPoint presentation with pictures of animals, a flyover of the new property and what we've done over the last 40 years, as well as where we're going, and give an idea of why we need financial support," Millham noted.
The dinner starts at 5:30 p.m. and reservations are required. The fundraiser has a maximum capacity of 40 people, and only 10 seats remain as of publication deadline: Millham said those who wish to attend must call him at 530-577-2273 and reserve a spot prior to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
Learn more about Wild & Free and view the full menu online at http://www.ltwc.org, or on LTWC's Facebook page (@laketahoewildlifecare).
The Lake House is located at 1181 Emerald Bay Road.


Dairymaster, a world leader in dairy equipment manufacturing, has come on board as sponsor of two student awards for the final year of the BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Science degree.
The awards, which will be presented to the students with the best final year project presentation, will be judged by a panel of experts from Dairymaster, Teagasc and WIT.
"This is an exciting development for both the students and the agricultural science programme here in WIT. Having a world leader in agriculture like Dairymaster as one of our external stakeholders is extremely exciting and gives our students the opportunity to excel academically and enhance their future career prospects," said course leader Dr Michael Breen.
"The BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Science was again one of our most popular undergraduate science courses amongst CAO applicants," he said.
There are approx. 180 students across all four years of the Ag Science programme, with students travelling from beyond key catchment counties of Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny and Tipperary from all parts of Ireland to study Agricultural Science at WIT.
Dairymaster have won numerous Innovation Awards worldwide including at the three largest agricultural exhibitions in the world for products such as the MooMonitor+, the Swiftflo Revolver Goat Rotary milking parlour and the latest Swiftflo Commander which is like an iPad for cows.
Dairymaster's innovative product range encompasses five key areas: Milking Equipment; Automated Feeding Systems; Manure Scrapers; Cow Health & Fertility Monitors and Milk Cooling Tanks. Technology is a big focus throughout. It has customers in more than 40 countries.
"The Dairymaster Ag Science Student Award process will help students realise the relevance of their final year projects to a world beyond college. The bursary is very welcome in helping our students make the transition to the workplace following their studies," added Dr Breen.
The BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Science course is a four-year full-time level 8 course which prepares students for a career in the areas of agricultural science and agri-business.
The programme is delivered in conjunction with Teagasc at Kildalton College of Agriculture. Transport is provided to Kildalton.
Self-management, team working, business awareness, problem solving, land management and communication are all areas which are strongly incorporated into the main core of this level 8 programme.
In the second semester of year 3, students can choose between a farm placement or an industrial placement. The Farm placement is designed to give the student experience of practical farming on a high quality farm. The Industrial Placement will allow learners to apply and develop their skills in the agri-food industry.
Graduates have a strong background in the areas of science, food, agriculture, the environment, business and quality assurance. Graduates from this course can expect to find employment in agri-food industries, sales and marketing departments of agri-businesses, consultancy and advisory services.


Human evolution is one thing but shaping their bodies and faces in search of some dummy models is another thing. In the society that we live in, people are constantly setting fake benchmarks and fake standards for staying miserable. It's the trap that's been set for humans to attain perfection that doesn't exist. Perfection is in your imperfections.
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Brain Power is using augmented reality to help those with autism to better connect to the world around them. This "Electronic Life Coach," has already helped hundreds of people with autism.
This story was written in partnership with NBC Boston, which produced video for this feature.
Sitting a few feet across from his mother in a Cambridge office, Ryan King Jr. looked at his mother's smiling face and nodded his head to the left.
"How can you make others feel happy?" Zuleka Queen-Postell, Ryan's mother, said.
"To make you feel so very happy," the 10-year-old initially responded. His mother pushed Ryan further on the question, looking for a more satisfactory answer. "What can you do to make mommy happy?" Zuleka asked.
"A hug," Ryan said. Then, with the touch of Zuleka's smartphone, a gem appeared on a tiny screen in front of Ryan's right eye. A reward for correctly recognizing a specific emotion and giving an example of what could provoke such a feeling.
This was no ordinary game. Indeed, not many children would normally have access to a $1,500 pair of augmented reality glasses from Google. Instead, this game was meant to help Ryan, who has autism, better understand social interactions and connect with the world.
This game is part of a suite of software from Brain Power, a Cambridge-based startup that is currently raising money for the launch of its Google Glass-based product for children and adults with autism. With four days left on its Indiegogo campaign, the company has far surpassed its $10,000 crowdfunding goal, raising more than $85,000 from over 200 backers.
Dr. Ned Sahin, founder of Brain Power. Photo provided.
Founded in 2013 by neuroscientist Dr. Ned Sahin, Brain Power draws upon Sahin's years of research at Harvard University and other schools to build wearable artificial intelligence-based software for people with brain-related challenges. Empower Me, the name of the company's product suite for people on the autism spectrum, is the company's first focus.
According to the Mayo Clinic, autism spectrum disorder is "condition related to brain development that impacts how a person perceives and socializes with others." This results in challenges related to social interaction and communication, which is where Brain Power aims to help and make life easier for people with autism and their families.
Empower Me comes with around 10 games and modules, including the emotion recognition game played by Ryan King Jr. and his mother. There's also a game that trains players to maintain eye contact with another person by overlaying a cartoon animal's face on that person. The longer the player maintains eye contact, the more points they get, which eventually comes with new animal faces as rewards. Over time, the cartoon face fades away.
There's another module that addresses the difficulty people with autism sometimes have with entering new spaces. Before someone enters a space, such as a new classroom, a 360-image is taken of the space, which is then viewable through the AR glasses. The module can also tell if there are certain objects in a space that can create distress.
Director of Research Dr. Neha Keshav giving Ryan King Jr. a pair of Google Glass. Photo by Dylan Martin.
Ryan King Jr. exploring the surroundings of a virtual space using Google Glass. Photo by Dylan Martin.
Director of Software Development Dr. Joey Salisbury showing Empower Me's backend software.
Empower Me can also help with language development, conversation skills, meltdown prevention and self-confidence. The product suite also comes with a cloud-based web portal that proves ongoing progress reports for each user.
While the list price for Empower Me's product suite is $2,770, it's available to pre-order on the Indiegogo campaign for a deep discount, including one option that brings the cost down to $1,110. There is an option for a payment plan, and the company also encourages people to make donations to help those who can't afford the product. Sahin said Brain Power has been able to subsidize the $1,500 cost of Google Glass thanks to a partnership with X, the name of Google parent company Alphabet's "moonshot" technology incubator.
Sahin said Empower Me has been tested with about 200 people, including in clinical trials, and the Indiegogo campaign will mark the first time the AR glasses will be available to the public. Sahin said the product has shown to improve and accelerate the rate at which people with autism achieve goals, including ones on their individualized education program, a document created in public schools for children with special education needs.
Brain Power has at least four people with autism working on the team, which Sahin said comes with multiple benefits. For one, it helps the company receive daily input from people who are the targeted end user. It also supports the company's mission of helping make people with autism self-reliant and self-sufficient.
"There's nothing that contributes more to that than having a job, so we want to be part of those forward-thinking companies giving people real jobs," Sahin said.
On a broader level, Sahin said it's crucial for companies to think about neurodiversity on their teams because the of lack of said diversity can lead to blind spots in product development that could create problems for people with neurological challenges.
"You will not generate a design that is universal for your customers if you don't have people on your team who think differently," he said.


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### [1816\. Truncate Sentence](https://leetcode.com/problems/truncate-sentence/)

Difficulty: **Easy**

Related Topics: [String](https://leetcode.com/tag/string/)

A **sentence** is a list of words that are separated by a single space with no leading or trailing spaces. Each of the words consists of **only** uppercase and lowercase English letters (no punctuation).

*   For example, `"Hello World"`, `"HELLO"`, and `"hello world hello world"` are all sentences.

You are given a sentence `s` and an integer `k`. You want to **truncate** `s` such that it contains only the **first** `k` words. Return `s`_ after **truncating** it._

**Example 1:**

```
Input: s = "Hello how are you Contestant", k = 4
Output: "Hello how are you"
Explanation:
The words in s are ["Hello", "how" "are", "you", "Contestant"].
The first 4 words are ["Hello", "how", "are", "you"].
Hence, you should return "Hello how are you".
```

**Example 2:**

```
Input: s = "What is the solution to this problem", k = 4
Output: "What is the solution"
Explanation:
The words in s are ["What", "is" "the", "solution", "to", "this", "problem"].
The first 4 words are ["What", "is", "the", "solution"].
Hence, you should return "What is the solution".
```

**Example 3:**

```
Input: s = "chopper is not a tanuki", k = 5
Output: "chopper is not a tanuki"
```

**Constraints:**

*   `1 <= s.length <= 500`
*   `k` is in the range `[1, the number of words in s]`.
*   `s` consist of only lowercase and uppercase English letters and spaces.
*   The words in `s` are separated by a single space.
*   There are no leading or trailing spaces.

#### Solution

Language: **JavaScript**

```javascript
/**
 * @param {string} s
 * @param {number} k
 * @return {string}
 */
var truncateSentence = function(s, k) {
  return s.split(' ').slice(0, k).join(' ')
};
```


Frequently when I think of politics, I think there are many smart people out there that do things politically, more like a performance than real politics. Elections are shows for the masses. The campaign trail is performance art. With 24 hour news channels and blogs out the wazoo, people need to have something to talk about. To feel they're a part of the process, even if they're not, really.
While I watched the American 2012 Republican debates, starting with a big crowd of over 10 contenders, it occurs to me that this is a process. They're starting early and getting more TV coverage before the election than they ever will after it. I'm sure it happens every four years, but we're all four years older each time too, and our values and memories and opinions change. I pay way more attention to politics now, than I did four or 8 or 12 years ago.
Although, to be fair, I still get my news from the comedy side of politics, not the actual news stations. I learn what I need to from Howard Stern, Jon Stewart and Jimmy Kimmels – although with Saturday Night Live. Since I am Liberal, and of the belief that most of the people I respect in life are too, this is actually adequate for me to feel somewhat educated.
When I see the row of clowns in the debates, and both sides are making fun of some of them, I realize exactly why we have idiots running for President. Why it is important to rule out the fools, in order to make us all believe we are choosing the right man (or woman, if that ever happens).
We need fools to make fun of, because it is vital, in the 20+ months of time we have to fill before the actual election, that we not make fun of the one we're going to choose – at least too much. We need the late night talk shows to have fodder, and be able to mock and attack and joke about the losers. If we had 10 actual good contenders up in the row in front of a crowd, we'd not only be confused, but we'd have to find out the dirt and bad things about the good guys too. We'd be talking for 28 months about Mit Romney, and that can't be good.
Without the idiot contestants, we might have to laugh at the real contestants. Just like other realty TV shows like Survivor, the winners have to think about who they want to take to the end. Who can they beat in the final tribal council. We need losers we know can't win to the end beside us.
Herman Caine was just a rodeo clown that lets the cowboy get away unnoticed by the media bull.
His job was to show America that a black man, or a small business man, or a crazy person – depending on which demographic you most identify with, CAN make it to the Presidential race. His close positioning served multiple purposes to give hope to everyone that in the USA, anyone can make it to the President campaign trail, even if only rich Harvard educated men actually win. He was close.
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MacArthur winner to perform Oct. 13 at EMPAC
Oct. 5, 2018 Updated: Oct. 5, 2018 1:18 p.m.
Wu Tsang, a filmmaker and performance artist due to appear at EMPAC next weekend, has been announced as a MacArthur Fellowship winner.
Tsang is among the artists participating in "Sudden Rise," an ensemble performance mixing image, voice and movement scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, as part of EMPAC's 10th anniversary festival.
Also named as a MacArthur Winner: pianist-composer Matthew Aucoin, whose "Soft Power" premiered last April in a performance by the Brentano Quartet in the Union College Concert Series – its first commission. A second Aucoin commission will be premiered by the Brentano at Union next October.
Aucion, according to his MacArthur bio, "melds sound and language to create musical works that vividly communicate the nuances, ambiguities, and multiple meanings." Tsang's work, meanwhile, "combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary."
1of2"Sudden Rise," featuring MacArthur winner Wu Tsang (image from empac.rpi.edu)
2of2Union College will present a commissioned work by 28-year-old Matthew Aucoin on Sunday, April 22. (Provided, photo by Social Palates)
Presented annually, the MacArthur awards allot $625,000 over five years to each of its recipients, who are nominated and chosen for "exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future."
This year's 25 recipients also include violinist Vijay Gupta, poet Natalie Diaz, economist Amy Finkelstein, painter Titus Kaphar, playwright Dominique Morisseau and civil rights activist Rev. William J. Barber II. For the full list, see macfound.org.


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Q: Ms Access Relink to 2 separate backends from 1 frontend Programmatically I use two access databases.  1 Rolodex (Client Info and related jobs, etc) - 2 is Timeclock (Employee timesheets with hours, rates etc and all necessary info for creating the various forms and reports for distribution). From time to time I have to take the above home to make changes to the frontend.  I use the built in Linked Table Manager and would like to be able to use vba to automate the process.
All frontend and backends are located in the same folder at Office (on the server) or my Desktop when I'm at home so I'm only dealing with a total of 2 locations, 2 frontend and 2 backends.  (Right now, I'm just testing my home usage (C) not the server in the office (G) as I don't know what the path is yet.
I created a table that contains 4 records:
'C:\users\bobbye\desktop\rolodex_be
'C:\users\bobbye\desktop\timeclock_be
'G:\ rolodex_be
'G:\timeclock_be
The Rolodex uses one backend called Rolodex_be.  I created a form to select a file and run a relink function that I found online and it works fine.
The Timeclock uses both the Timeclock_be and the Rolodex_be backends.  I copied the same function, table and form to Timeclock.  I selected the timeclock_be on the form thinking it would run through the function and connect to the timeclock_be (It didn't) and then I could run it again to connect the Rolodex_be.  But it never even got that far.
So how do I get Timeclock FE to connect to both backends?
I'm not a programmer so please keep your response as simple as possible please.  Thanks
Here is the function I called onclick event on the form:
(I made LnkDataBase Public so that I could change the name of the backend as needed)
Sub Relinktables()
    Dim dbs As DAO.Database
    Dim tdf As DAO.TableDef
    Dim strTable As String
    Set dbs = CurrentDb()
    For Each tdf In dbs.TableDefs
        If Len(tdf.Connect) > 1 Then 'Only relink linked tables
            If tdf.Connect <> ";DATABASE=" & LnkDataBase Then 'only relink tables if the are not linked right
            If Left(tdf.Connect, 4) <> "ODBC" Then 'Don't want to relink any ODBC tables
                strTable = tdf.Name
                dbs.TableDefs(strTable).Connect = ";DATABASE=" & LnkDataBase
                dbs.TableDefs(strTable).RefreshLink
            End If
        End If
    End If
   Next tdf
End Sub

A: Use UNC path for office server connection and drive mapping is irrelevant. Can even use it for home PC path.
Could replace just part of connection string that changes and since both backends are in same folder on your PC, it's simple. Here is procedure I use:
Sub FixLinks()
Dim td As tableDef
Dim db As DAO.Database
Dim strOld As String
Dim strNew As String

'replace the following strings as needed
strNew = "C:\path\"
strOld = "\\unc path\"

Set db = CurrentDb
For Each td In db.TableDefs
    If td.Connect <> "" Then
        If InStr(td.Connect, strOld) > 0 Then
            Debug.Print td.Name
            Debug.Print "Old Link: " & td.Connect
            td.Connect = Replace(td.Connect, strOld, strNew)
            td.RefreshLink
            Debug.Print "New Link: " & td.Connect
        End If
    End If
Next td
db.TableDefs.Refresh
End Sub

I don't run this from a form. Code is in general module so I open VBA editor, adjust path strings and Run from ribbon. You could modify it to take arguments and call from a form.


See resolution below for details.
Purpose. Santa Clara City is host to numerous recreation and artistic events sponsored by both Santa Clara City and private entities. Santa Clara City also has a thriving parks and trail system that is in need of expansion to meet the public's demand for such services in a growing community. In order to pay for some of the costs associated with recreation, arts, and parks within Santa Clara City, the purpose of this Resolution is to provide a structure for the distribution of the RAP tax revenues received by Santa Clara City and to minimize conflicts between funding requests.
Allocation. The Santa Clara City Council has determined that all RAP tax revenue received by Santa Clara City shall be divided as follows: 80% distributed to parks and trails and 20% distributed to arts. All funds not used from the previous fiscal year shall rollover to the following fiscal year.
Distribution by Agreement. Santa Clara City has already entered an agreement to contribute to the Tuacahn Center for the Arts, for a number of years, a portion of RAP tax revenue from the 20% share for the arts. The Santa Clara City Council may at any time during the term of the RAP tax determine that certain other amounts from the above apportioned shares are to be allocated to a specific entity for a specific purpose. Before entering into such an agreement, however, the City shall receive and consider all of the information required of any other applicant as set forth in paragraph (4) below. If the agreement is not used to obtain a bond, then the agreement shall contain an escape clause where the City can terminate the agreement if the City is not satisfied with the annual accounting or there has been a change in the applicant's status. If the agreement is to be used for obtaining/paying for a bond, then the application process for distributions by agreement shall require, in addition to the basic application requirements for annual applications, at least 3 years of tax returns, at least 3 years of reviewed/audited financial statements, and copies/description of financial policies, including a policy/strategic plan for maintenance/replacement of capital improvements.
Applicant's name, mailing & physical address, phone number, fax number and email address.
Proof of applicant's non-profit status.
An attachment showing applicant's other sources of funding for the project for which RAP tax revenue is requested.
A statement of how long applicant has been in existence and a financial statement for applicant's prior year of operation.
Proposed qualifying expenses to be paid with RAP tax funds.
Detailed cost estimates for the proposed project.
If applicant has received RAP tax funds within the past three (3) years, an accounting showing how the prior RAP funds were spent.
Any other information that is reasonably related to determining how RAP tax funds would be spent by the applicant.
Review of Requests for Funds & Awarding of Funds.
By June 30th of that fiscal year in which RAP tax revenue was received by Santa Clara City, the Santa Clara City Council shall meet to determine the recipients for that year's RAP tax funds and the amount to be distributed to each recipient.
Due to the limited amount of RAP tax revenue that will be allotted to Santa Clara City, the funds awarded by the Santa Clara City Council shall be limited to activities located within Santa Clara City or which provide significant tax revenue to Santa Clara City. All other projects outside of Santa Clara City have the ability to petition Washington County or other cities for funding.
Effective Date. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon adoption by the City Council, recording and posting in the manner prescribed by law.
ADOPTED by a duly constituted quorum of the Santa Clara City Council this 13th day of July, 2016.
Project will take approximately 3 years to fund.


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Home Department of Energy
DOE Office of Management
The Office of Management supports many leadership responsibilities for the Department of Energy (DOE), providing support for project and contract management and other administrative functions. The office is also responsible for the day-to-day management of the Department's Headquarters facilities and has been a leader in various energy reduction and recycling initiatives.
DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's vision is a strong and prosperous America that is powered by clean, affordable, and secure energy. In the context of this vision, EERE's mission is to create and sustain American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy. This mission requires that EERE perform its work at the intersection of national energy, economic, and environmental systems, as well as across industry and other stakeholder organizations.
DOE Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP)
The Federal Energy Management Program works with key individuals to accomplish energy change within organizations by bringing expertise from all levels of project and policy implementation to enable federal agencies to meet energy-related goals and provide energy leadership to the country. FEMP provides agencies and organizations with the information, tools, training, and assistance they need to meet and track their energy-related requirements and goals.
DOE Office of Science
The Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for energy and the Nation's largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences. The Office of Science portfolio has two principal thrusts: direct support of scientific research and direct support of the development, construction, and operation of unique, open-access scientific user facilities. The Office of Science supports research in all 50 States and the District of Columbia, at DOE laboratories and more than 300 universities and institutions of higher learning nationwide.
DOE Criteria 7
DOE Directives 5
DOE Standards 1
National Laboratory Criteria 2


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Marie-Philip Poulin has 'no intention' of joining ECHL team: agents
Sat., Feb. 19, 2022timer1 min. read
Marie-Philip Poulin has no plans to join the ECHL after leading Canada's women's hockey team to a gold medal in Beijing.
Poulin had two goals, including the game-winner, Thursday as Canada beat the United States in the championship game.
Marc-Andre Bergeron, general manager of the ECHL's Trois-Rivières Lions, told the newspaper Le Nouvelliste on Friday that he was interested in signing Canada's captain.
Momentum Hockey, the agency that represents Poulin, quickly shot down the idea, releasing a statement in French on Saturday that said Poulin has no intentions of joining the team.
The statement says the 30-year-old from Beauceville, Que., has dedicated her career to advancing and developing women's hockey, and will continue working toward creating a women's league.
It thanked the Lions for recognizing Poulin's "exceptional talent" and invited the team to join her and hundreds of other players who are working to promote women's hockey in Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 19, 2022.


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This post is for the fellas and females that enjoy the alternative lifestyle (I aint mad at cha!). You know how there are specific movies when that hottie looks extra fine. Here are the ones that always come to mind for me. These will always be the "it" movies whenever someone mentions a particular actress.
I'm trying to think of some classics, so feel free to throw out your faves. Maybe Carmen can do a post for the ladies. I'll give her a one for a primer, Matthew McConaughey in Two for the Money.
Great list until I got to Cameron Diaz - How gross is that toothpick of a lady.
I don't normally think of Cameron as a hottie, but for some reason, I thought she looked great in that movie.
Reece has never really done it for me. I think it's her big forehead that bothers me, lol.
This is the part I was looking forward to. I'm curious who other people think should be here and for what movies. I'm sure there will be some varied tastes and we'll vote later for the #1.
I have no problem voting Elizabeth Hurley - Bedazzled #1 /Weird Science (DANG!).
That's the kind of classic thinking I was looking for....of course Kelly LeBrock in Weird Science is going on the list, she is after all, "the perfect woman."
Salma Hayak in From Dusk to Dawn...holy smokes!
Good call Kat. Stripper scenes / outfits usually highlight the ladies the most. I think of Vivica Fox in Independance Day, Helen Hunt in Pay It Forward, and Demi Moore in Striptease.
If that's the case, Rose McGowan in Planet Terror.
Denise. Richards. Wild Things. Need cold shower.


1) The protests in Iran: The long awaited counterrevolution has not yet occurred, but the preconditions for it did.-- Turbans off to the brave men and women who have continued to flock to the streets, defying death and prison, to protest the theft of yet another election and the suppression of democracy in Iran.
2) The inauguration of the first African-American (which he literally is) president of the United States, who finally gave the speech in Oslo that he should have given in Cairo and at West Point. The essential bookend of his engagement strategy.
3) A surprising recovery of the global markets and the U.S. market upswing: the NASDAQ, S&P 500 markets have soar almost 60 percent since the mid-March lows despite the depressing jobless recovery. Let's put the surge in context of what didn't happen: the very real risk of a world financial meltdown.
4) Over-the-knee boots: Fashion finally acknowledges that at least half of American women live in cold climates. Being chic and warm at last is great.
5) Meryl Streep as a-60-year-old Hollywood star has changed the entertainment paradigm and pilot cool Sully Sullenberger. What endures are talent and character, not just looks and hype. Cougars rock!
1) The ongoing decline of great American newspapers.
3) Iran's nuclear program churns along while the world watches in pathetic paralysis, endangering us all along with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which has helped stem the spread of WMD.
5) The jobless recovery, which for far too many Americans, is no recovery at all.


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JNNP 100
Depression and anxiety related subtypes in Parkinson's disease
Richard G Brown1,2,
Sabine Landau3,
John V Hindle4,
Jeremy Playfer5,
Michael Samuel6,7,
Kenneth C Wilson8,
Catherine S Hurt2,
Rachel J Anderson2,
Joanna Carnell9,
Lucy Dickinson9,
Grant Gibson8,
Rachel van Schaick8,
Katie Sellwood2,
Bonnita A Thomas2,
David J Burn9,
for the PROMS-PD Study Group*
1MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
2Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
3Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, UK
4Department of Care of the Elderly, Betsi Cadwaladar University Health Board, Llandudno Hospital, Llandudno, UK, and University of Bangor, School of Medical Sciences, UK
5Department of Geriatric Medicine, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital Trust, Liverpool, UK, and Department of Clinical Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
6Department of Neurology, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
7East Kent Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Ashford, Kent, UK
8University of Liverpool, EMI Academic Unit, St Catherine's Hospital, Wirral, UK
9Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Clinical Ageing Research Unit, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Correspondence to R G Brown, King's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Department of Psychology (PO77), De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK: richard.g.brown{at}kcl.ac.uk
Background Depression and anxiety are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and although clinically important remain poorly understood and managed. To date, research has tended to treat depression and anxiety as distinct phenomena. There is growing evidence for heterogeneity in PD in the motor and cognitive domains, with implications for pathophysiology and outcome. Similar heterogeneity may exist in the domain of depression and anxiety.
Objective To identify the main anxiety and depression related subtype(s) in PD and their associated demographic and clinical features.
Methods A sample of 513 patients with PD received a detailed assessment of depression and anxiety related symptomatology. Latent Class Analysis (LCA) was used to identify putative depression and anxiety related subtypes.
Results LCA identified four classes, two interpretable as 'anxiety related': one anxiety alone (22.0%) and the other anxiety coexisting with prominent depressive symptoms (8.6%). A third subtype (9%) showed a prominent depressive profile only without significant anxiety. The final class (60.4%) showed a low probability of prominent affective symptoms. The validity of the four classes was supported by distinct patterns of association with important demographic and clinical variables.
Conclusion Depression in PD may manifest in two clinical phenotypes, one 'anxious–depressed' and the other 'depressed'. However, a further large proportion of patients can have relatively isolated anxiety. Further study of these putative phenotypes may identify important differences in pathophysiology and other aetiologically important factors and focus research on developing more targeted and effective treatment.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2010.213652
↵* Members of the PROM-PD Study Group are listed in the Acknowledgements section.
Funding The study was funded by Parkinson's UK (previously Parkinson's Disease Society).
Competing interests None.
Ethics approval This study was conducted with the approval of the South East Research Ethics Committee.
Online: ISSN 1468-330XPrint: ISSN 0022-3050


If you see the 'Please download the PUBG mobile client again' message, chances are you're using a cracked or modified copy and not the original or are using an unsupported mobile emulator instead of Tencent Gaming Buddy. The message appears when the PUBG server detects the client version does not match the profile it expects to see and shows the message before allowing you to play.
We don't judge here at TechJunkie but if you want to get around the 'Please download the PUBG mobile client again' message you will either have to buy the original game, remove any hacks you're using or use the Tencent Gaming Buddy.
If you're using another emulator and a cracked APK of PUBG then you need to use the original. If you're using hacks such as wall hacks, aimbots or other annoyances, you will need to remove them, reinstall the original app and go from there.
The good news is that PUBG is not expensive and the Tencent Gaming Buddy is free to use. The bad news is that your account may have been banned and all your progress to date has been lost. The PUBG app is actually free but does contain in-app purchases so in theory, you don't have to spend a dime to play the game. That never happens of course as there are lots of things to buy and we want them all, but in theory the game is not P2W.
Tencent uses the banhammer very freely and has apparently banned upwards of 13 million accounts so far. Yours may or may not be one of them if you're seeing the 'Please download the PUBG mobile client again' message. You won't know until you start playing using the legit app or legit emulator.
You can get the genuine PUBG app from the Google Store or the App Store. You can download the Tencent Gaming Buddy from here.
Install the game on your phone or install Tencent Gaming Buddy onto your PC and then install the game. Run an update of it just in case, log in and begin playing. It's a simple setup that reflects other games.
If you are using the genuine app or the genuine emulator and still see 'Please download the PUBG mobile client again' errors, something is wrong. The best way to handle it is to do a full uninstall and reinstall of the app and try again. If you're lucky your account won't have been flagged. If you're not so lucky, you're starting again.
Perform a full uninstall of the PUBG app and/or Tencent Gaming Buddy from your phone or computer.
Select to wipe all data if prompted for a full reset. All your progress is recorded server-side so you won't lose your characters.
Download a fresh copy of the app and Tencent Gaming Buddy if you use it and install them.
Log into the new PUBG app and hope your account has not been banned.
A lot of the banning seems automated but there is not enough data available to say whether you get a second chance or whether your account is banned the minute you try to log in and unauthorized changes or versions are detected. Unfortunately, this is one of those things you have to try to see what happens and by then it may be too late.
It may seem a harsh system but with a game as cutthroat as PUBG, any hacking at all will annoy the player base. The game is hard enough as it is without having someone headshot you from across the map or shoot you through a wall!
Have you seen the 'Please download the PUBG mobile client again' message while using legit copies of the game or emulator? Know of any other reason why it appears? Tell us about it below if you do!


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Unconstitutional gerrymandering
Statistics / gerrymandering
Alan Blinder and Michael Wines reporting for The New York Times:
A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina's congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a political advantage.
The ruling was the first time that a federal court had blocked a congressional map because of a partisan gerrymander, and it instantly endangered Republican seats in the coming elections.
Go math.
Charts, maps, and statistics helped stop gerrymandering in Pennsylvania
Troubling pick for Census Bureau deputy director
Senate and House races are on
Chart-Topping Songs as Graphs and Diagrams
Dreams, hope, and most importantly, love, mixed with some parties and dranking.
Shift Your Point of View to When America Was "Better"
How good or bad something is depends on what you compare against.
Most Common Jobs, By State
Instead of looking at only the most common job in each state, I found the top five for a slightly wider view.
Chances it's a Friend's Birthday Every Single Day of the Year
If it seems like every day you log in to Facebook, it's someone's birthday, you're probably not that far off.


Shwenandaw Monastery, or as it is better know, the Teak temple is an amazingly building, intricately carved and originally totally gilded in gold leaf. Originally part of the royal palaces, it was moved outside of the palace grounds as it was thought to be haunted by a dead king. Luckily for us this happened as its the only part of the palace to survive.
Across the way is the imposing Atumashi Monastery, spectacular in its own way.


LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (Reuters) - Gym teacher Francisco Sanchez relaxed under an umbrella in his blue-and-white Speedo, as the light blue surf of the Caribbean sea crashed over a beach just outside Caracas.
Usually, 59-year-old Sanchez would be at a parochial school in chaotic Caracas - but the government closed schools from Tuesday to use many of them as voting centers in Sunday's presidential election.
Leftist President Nicolas Maduro is widely expected to be re-elected for a six-year term despite a crushing economic crisis, as the opposition coalition is boycotting the vote and the electoral council is pro-government.
So, depressed about their prospects, some opposition supporters sought reprieve from Venezuela's politics and economic hardships on its palm-fringed beaches this week.
On a sandy stretch at the coastal town of La Guaira just an hour's drive from Caracas, young men gulped down beer while kids splashed in the surf, delighted to be given extra days out of class.
"Here one can escape a little bit the craziness of Caracas. Not forget, because one can never forget, but here at least there is a little bit of calm," said Sanchez, who plans not to vote.
Maduro's two most popular rivals are barred from standing, and his candidacy benefits from food handouts.
"To me, these are not elections," added Sanchez.
Many of those sunning themselves were Maduro supporters pleased to have unexpected time with family.
"We're taking advantage! We came to relax before going out on Sunday to vote for President Maduro," said school kitchen worker Ginner Sequera, 39, as she snacked on chips with her two kids under an umbrella.
Maduro's opponent, Henri Falcon, has broken with the opposition to run for the presidency, but many in the opposition view the former ally of late leader Hugo Chavez with suspicion.
"Falcon is a 'Chavista' in disguise," said university music professor Edwin Arellano, as he watched his seven-year-old daughter frolic in the water.