Plus Steam Trading Cards, if you're into that.
Gotten your deranged first person face punching fix lately? The free update for Zeno Clash 2 offers two new challenge modes that will let you punch things until you're all tuckered out.
Cards, wireframe models, and endless battles pretty much sums up the latest Zeno Clash 2 update. The Steam version of the game is now part of the Trading Card system, meaning you can fill your Steam inventory with tons of little pictures you'll probably never look at again. Or sell them in the marketplace, whatever. On the slightly more useful side are two brand new challenge modes to lose yourself in: Framerate and Colosseum.
In the Framerate Challenge, bits of the internet are apparently leaking into the world of Zeno Clash 2. You spawn in an arena and must fight hordes of wireframe enemies, the number of which is determined by your PC's performance. A better computer means more things to fight, and the goal is to keep the wireframe baddies to a minimum so you can hold a steady framerate.
Colosseum Challenge is a little more traditional. Face off against 50 waves of enemies, each more difficult than the last. You'll have to put the game's combo system to good use if you want to survive, as there's minimal time between rounds to purchase weapons and power-ups.
Zeno Clash 2 is currently available on PC, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network. Note that the update currently only applies to the PC version. Co-op supports two players online.


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Fictional Journal FJ.
ISSUE 03. Uncanny
Sjoerd ter Borg
Aesthetics of Exclusion
Navigating through 'street view' in Seoul, the extinction of objects symbolising informal economies are identified through machine vision.
Today, digital mapping, street view and machine learning technologies enable us to navigate cities over time, making self-evident the aesthetic change cities are subject to. Since 2005 several companies, such as Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Kakao (Daum), started to develop systems to digitally map urban and rural areas across the world, using various types of vehicles and cameras to create 360° views, creating a growing visual urban archive. Wandering through a city in these 'street view' environments, users can explore through the years different visual documentation1.
As these urban archives get more extensive each year, new technologies also enable us to do more than just 'look back'. Computer vision, a field that is concerned with using computers to gain a high-level understanding of images, is rapidly becoming more and more sophisticated2. Alongside this, developing technologies such as generative adversarial networks (GAN's), are able to generate new images based on existing datasets, making it possible to speculate on, and visualize, the future of urban growth or decline.
Aesthetics of Exclusion is an ongoing research project that looks into the aesthetics of gentrification in cities through digital and physical wandering. From July to August 2018, we walked through Seoul in South Korea physically and with Daum street view, computer vision and GPS tracking. Here we present an insight into our findings thought Blindspot, Beach Umbrella, and Bias.
Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul, South Korea in 2008 (top) and in 2018 (bottom). Image: Daum Maps.←
2 Hern, Alex. Computers now better than humans at recognising and sorting images. 13 May 2015. The Guardian ←
When walking or navigating through a digital street view archive of Seoul, street vendors, markets and pojangmacha's (temporary food carts) fill the streets, creating an indispensable part of the urban fabric. These specific typologies are linked to the informal economy, which has decreased significantly during the last decade and will continue to grow smaller in the future. Several socio-economic processes, such as gentrification3, strict law enforcement and rapid cultural change, make it hard for vendors to survive. Many foresee a bleak future as it seems only those who have the capital to invest in government issued street vending units or approved food trucks will survive. In the future, will we only be able to remember Seoul's informal economy through the lens of visual archives?
3 Nicolay Boyadjiev in On Reverbations of Feedback Loops in User Agent: If everything is so smooth, why am I so sad?, ed. Anastasia Kubrak. 2018. Netherlands: Self Published. ←
While in Seoul, we physically and digitally zoomed into a neighbourhood that proved the rapid shift in urban infrastructure, 익선동 / Ikseon-dong. The neighbourhood is small and mainly built from traditional Hanok houses4 which used to be inhabited by working class residents5. We found that Daum street view images of the neighbourhood were recorded for the last time in 2013, just before the start of the gentrification process, creating a blindspot in the virtual city. Visiting in 2018 felt like wandering through a live instagram feed: shoppers looked for glitzy necklaces, while Rihanna blasted from speakers and foodies roamed searching for the perfect latte macchiato. By experimenting with combining different datasets visually (hashtags from instagram, with street view images of 2013 and recordings of 2018) we hoped to established new insights into the neighbourhood.
4 Park, Eun-Seon. Cheonggyecheon, Dongdaemun Gentrification: Artist's Note. 29 August, 2017. Medium. ←
Hanok houses in an area west of Bukchon Hanok Village in Seoul, South Korea, 2012. Image: Wikipedia creative commons.←
"…This population of objects… is no other, when we come to think about it… than that observed in countless natural species, species which man has successfully inventoried…"
파라솔 Beach Umbrella
Beach umbrella's provide shelter from rain, create shadow in Seoul's humid climate and also create temporary spaces of exchange. We found them to be an interesting symbol of Seoul's informal economy, and a phenomenon often overlooked. We trained object recognition software to detect umbrella's across Seoul through images and street view, making it possible to experience their movement and evolution through time. By tracing beach umbrella's with object recognition, could computer vision become a kind of fortune teller, predicting the future of urban growth in the city?
"We live by object time: by this I mean that we live at the pace of objects, live to the rhythm of their ceaseless succession. Today, it is we who watch them as they are born, grow to maturity and die (…)"
It is always important to analyse the creator of an algorithm and how they research6. While walking through Seoul, all the data from my mobile GPS location was collected, then all street view images that correspond with the coordinates visited in the city were automatically downloaded through an API and, using computer vision, sorted by visual similarity.
Researcher Sjoerd ter Borg's exploration of Seoul in August 2018, as seen through GPS tracking.
6 "…data-driven technologies do not just represent identity, they shift and supplant logics of governance to racialize and re-insert power over certain individuals". Amaro, Ramon. Decolonising Design II. 5 January, 2017. Thursday Night Live! Het Nieuwe Instituut ←
This process raised some interesting open-ended questions. Could we start to see the 'filter bubbles'7 that are described within an online context, also existing in the way that we move through a city? Do these 'clouds' of streets and the interiors we consume as foreigners, completely differ for various groups of people who inhabit the same city? The data also shows an absence of movement in a large part of Seoul. Are designers equipped to train algorithms to look at a city when their view and experience is limited?__
7 Pariser, Eli. 2011. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You. United Kingdom: Penguin Press ←
Aesthetics of Exclusion is an ongoing design research project by Sjoerd ter Borg, researcher Thomas Smits, visual researcher Mark Jan van Tellingen and Dr Melvin Wevers, PhD at Royal Academy of Sciences, Digital Humanities Lab. The works in this visual essay were developed in seven weeks, during the Summer Sessions at Art Center Nabi in Seoul, South Korea, in collaboration with V2_ in Rotterdam and supported by the Creative Industries Fund (NL).
파라솔 Beach Umbrella directed by Sjoerd ter Borg & Mark Jan van Tellingen. Computer vision programming by Jorrit Schaap. Sound design by Mark IJzerman, with a narration by #I5IMQ4O, based on two books by Jean Baudrillard The System of Objects and The Consumer Society written in 1968 and Myths and Structures in 1970. Blindspot programmed by Jorrit Schaap. Bias programmed by Dr Melvin Wevers and Jorrit Schaap.
파라솔 Beach Umbrella will be screened at the Frankenstein Exhibition at Baltan Laboratories during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, Netherlands, from the 20 – 28 October, 2018.
Sjoerd ter Borg is an artist and designer based in Amsterdam, whose research focuses on the transformations of cities. Through the use of design, fiction and technology he uncovers hidden layers within an urban context, showing forgotten histories, societal developments or even alternate realities. He holds a Bachelor in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and Masters from the Sandberg Instituut (Vacant NL).
Maximilian Heitsch
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Designers are becoming engineers, and makers a machine. How will AI slide into the design process and what would a future automated design practice look like?
Possible Bodies
Explore a mutant inventory interrogating the consequences of Euclidean perspective of digital tools used to generate 'bodies.'
Jason Scott Robert
Uncanny Love
Do humans have the capacity to love their more-than-human creations? Jason Robert questions how humans relate to their creations in the uncanny world of biotechnology.
Penny Webb
Misplacing Values in the Age of AI
Could artificial intelligence replace human creativity entirely? Designer Penny Webb muses on the current status of artificial intelligence as part of the creative process.
Google Hom.., Crying Wom.., Man Crying, ASMR MOUTH..,
Visual Essay
Legrand Jäger
Internet of Ears: The Sniffer Series
Sounds of the intimate and private dialogue of the home, collected by machines 'sniffing' for data from which to 'learn,' create new national anthems for a digital Britain.
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Paul van Herk, Liudmila Savelieva, Thomas Grogan & Ivan Puzyrev
Tuda Syuda
Food has always terraformed, and landscapes have always created recipes. Two endlessly negotiating AI's create bespoke dishes, while constructing the landscapes the ingredients come from.
Fictional Collective interviews Lil Miquela and Blawko
Yeah Damn.
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Fictional Journal interviews Simone C. Niquille
(…I Contain Multitudes)
The futures of our identities are interlaced with the construction of our digital selves. Fictional Journal discusses with designer and researcher Simone C. Niquille.
Everyday Facial Yoga
Train with an Emoji avatar to manipulate facial expressions and thwart the controlling potential of emotional recognition devices.
Design Responses
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from panda3d.core import *
from panda3d.direct import *
from direct.fsm import StateData
from direct.gui.DirectGui import *
from panda3d.core import *
from panda3d.direct import *
from toontown.toonbase import TTLocalizer

class TownBattleSOSPetSearchPanel(StateData.StateData):

    def __init__(self, doneEvent):
        StateData.StateData.__init__(self, doneEvent)

    def load(self):
        if settings['newGui'] == True:
            gui = loader.loadModel('phase_3.5/models/gui/battle_gui_new')
        else:
            gui = loader.loadModel('phase_3.5/models/gui/battle_gui_old')
        self.frame = DirectFrame(relief=None, image=gui.find('**/Waiting4Others'), text_align=TextNode.ALeft, pos=(0, 0, 0), scale=0.65)
        self.frame.hide()
        self.backButton = DirectButton(parent=self.frame, relief=None, image=(gui.find('**/PckMn_BackBtn'), gui.find('**/PckMn_BackBtn_Dn'), gui.find('**/PckMn_BackBtn_Rlvr')), pos=(-0.647, 0, -0.011), scale=1.05, text=TTLocalizer.TownBattleWaitBack, text_scale=0.05, text_pos=(0.01, -0.012), text_fg=Vec4(0, 0, 0.8, 1), command=self.__handleBack)
        gui.removeNode()
        return

    def unload(self):
        self.frame.destroy()
        del self.frame
        del self.backButton

    def enter(self, petId, petName):
        self.petId = petId
        self.petName = petName
        self.frame['text'] = TTLocalizer.TownBattleSOSPetSearchTitle % petName
        self.frame['text_pos'] = (0, 0.01, 0)
        self.frame['text_scale'] = TTLocalizer.TBSOSPSPenter
        self.frame.show()

    def exit(self):
        self.frame.hide()

    def __handleBack(self):
        doneStatus = {'mode': 'Back'}
        messenger.send(self.doneEvent, [doneStatus])

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void Particle::update()
{
    // Update the velocity based on the acceleration.
    velocity += acceleration;

    // Update the position based on the velocity.
    position += velocity;

}

void Particle::draw()
{
    ofDrawCircle(position, radius);
}


Once among the game's elite pitchers, former Mariners ace Felix Hernandez has reached a point where he's so ineffective that he may not continue to keep his spot in the team's rotation. Hernandez allowed 11 runs (seven earned) on eight hits, including three home runs, in six innings in a loss to lowly Texas on Tuesday, and after the game, manager Scott Servais wasn't willing to guarantee the 32-year-old would make his scheduled start Sunday in Houston. "We'll see," Servais said (via ESPN.com). "You have to take a look at where we're at going forward here. The next time that spot [in the rotation] comes around, we'll be over in Houston. They've also got a good club." Hernandez, who's in the penultimate guaranteed season of a seven-year, $175MM contract, has thrown 124 innings (23 starts) in 2018 and logged a career-worst ERA (5.73), FIP (5.03) and xFIP (4.71).
While the Mariners don't seem sure if Hernandez will make his next start, it's fair to say fellow righty Erasmo Ramirez won't serve as an immediate replacement. Ramirez, who has missed most of the season with lat and shoulder injuries, isn't quite ready to return, Servais told Greg Johns of MLB.com and other reporters. According to Servais, Ramirez "wasn't that sharp" and "was off a little mechanically" in his latest Triple-A rehab outing Sunday, in which he gave up four runs (three earned) in as many innings. With Ramirez still not ready to rejoin the club, it could turn to Robert Whalen, Casey Lawrence or Christian Bergman if it doesn't want to start Hernandez against the Astros, Johns notes.
One more Mariners note: The club has laid off 10 scouts – five on the amateur side, five in the professional ranks – Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweets.
O's fan here (for whatever that's worth these days) but both Oak and Sea would be feel good stories.
Lot of miles on that arm from a young age.
I've been saying that for years. Another of a loooooong list of reasons the Mariners are simply the most disgusting organization in all of baseball. I do think Felix is to blame as well though, dude didn't always keep himself in the best shape. Either way, it's sad to see it end this way for him, he's a really good dude and in his prime, was an absolute blast to watch.
Poster could mean they just have historically made some really, really bad deals and started off on the wrong path from the start when Toronto went the youth way and Seattle attempted to compete somewhat and it didn't work out.
It's no offense to the fan base. Have always liked them.
At least the Mariners haven't gone out and acquired guys with domestic violence records….
But they do have 3 admitted juicers!
Not that I have to justify my statement but it's pretty clear you didn't read what I said. I said that "Felix" was a blast to watch, not the Mariners. And yeah, dudes that don't keep themselves in shape break down sooner physically more often than not.
It's also sad to see Seattle waste the best years of Felix and Cano all for nothing. Wasted Ichiro's best years too.
This team is so unbelievably poorly managed it's a miracle that they've won the amount of games that they have. The upper management needs to seriously reconsider hiring a new manager regardless of the fact that they just extended their current manager Servais.
Dee Gordon in the lead off has walked 6 times all year, Haniger is hitting something like .220 in the 3 hole. pulling leblanc after 2 hits and a walk on Monday to bring in a reliever who couldn't throw a strike then leaves him in for 3 more hitters who all get in base. Servais had zero managerial experience before he got hired and it clearly shows.
Hire Joe Girardi. He'll get everyone's act together.
Yes please, I would be very pleased with that hire.
Man what's up with Felix, I haven't watched him in a long time. I always expected some regression but I didn't expect him to get this bad.
Huge drop in velo, and his FB is getting destroyed. His curve is his only above avg pitch at this point.
He'll need to add movement to his 89 mph fastball if he wants to survive.
Atlanta won't ever do it. Too much money.
As Seattle sinks slowly in the west….
Hernandez does have a lot of mileage on his arm, but let's keep in mind that many a pitcher has had their retirement article written up in their early 30s after some rough years before finding new ways to win. Verlander and Sabathia are two recent examples.
Except felix has yet to realize that a 2mph difference between his fastball and his change up won't get the job done. Not to mention that more than half of his pitches are up in the zone and they just get crushed.
Most pitchers don't initially. Guys like Sabathia, Verlander, and my favorite pitcher, Mike Mussina, go a few years trying to prove Father Time wrong until they realize they need to go to new methods.
I wonder if DiPoto tried trading the scouts first lol.
The Pirates got Trevor Williams for an assistant pitching coach. It's worth a shot.
His last 3 years have been down years.
Longevity … it's harder than it looks.
What do you mean by "lowly Texas" the Rangers are top 5 in runs scored so their record is irrelevant to Felix facing "lowly Texas".


We all know the admonition immortalized by Tom Hanks character, Jimmy Dugan, in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
We all know the admonition immortalized by Tom Hanks' character, Jimmy Dugan, in the 1992 film A League of Their Own. But there's another great scene I'd like to point to as we approach this year's World Series.


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Legal & General homes acquires prime Oxfordshire housing site
Legal & General announces that it has acquired a 78-acre site in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire. With outline planning for 515 new homes, it represents the third major site being brought forward by Legal & General's housebuilding arm.
Construction for the first phase of new homes is due to start at the end of next year. The site is large enough to provide a full range of housing options, from one-bed apartments to four-bed detached family homes.
180 of the homes will be much-needed affordable housing and Legal & General will look to use modular construction from its factory in Leeds for this element of the site. By using traditional building techniques alongside modular construction, the team will be able to accelerate delivery on the ground.
Shrivenham is located in a prime residential location in Oxfordshire, within commuter distance from both Oxford and Swindon. It is also just a short walk from the sought-after village centre, which boasts a host of local amenities including a primary school and a range of local shops and pubs.
Helping to address the UK's chronic housing shortage, Legal & General Homes already has two large consented schemes, which are located in Berkshire where its head office is based. It is now on site building 1,000 new homes on its 250 acre site in Crowthorne and will also begin on site on 1,500 new homes at its 272 acre site in Finchampstead (near Arborfield) at the end of 2018.
James Lidgate, CEO of Legal & General Homes, commented: "As well as addressing the chronic shortfall of housing in the UK, Legal & General Homes is looking to regenerate the UK's landscape for the better and build vibrant communities where people want to live, such as this sought after location in Oxfordshire. Using Legal & General's long term capital, we are seeking to create a legacy that we are proud of. To do this, we want to challenge public perceptions of new homes by delivering a product that surpasses buildings of the past in terms of quality, efficiency and comfort, while ensuring the homes are carefully integrated into the community, providing much enhanced public realm, facilities and infrastructure."
Alistair Watson, Senior Partner of Welbeck Strategic Land commented: "We are delighted to have secured a planning consent on behalf of the landowners and to have concluded a sale to Legal and General Homes and jointly with Legal and General Homes to have contributed towards delivering homes to alleviate the current housing shortage."
WebbPaton advised the landowners through the planning and sale process.
Establishing housing capabilities across all tenures, Legal & General is delivering Build to Sell housing alongside Build to Rent, later living, student accommodation and affordable housing. It is also revolutionising construction methods through its modular factory in Leeds. Legal & General has been involved in housing activities for nearly 20 years. It is committed to addressing the UK's chronic housing shortage through delivering high-quality sustainable and enduring homes with plans in place to build more than 80,000 new homes over the next five to ten years.
Legal & General in Housing
A natural evolution and fit for its multi-tenure housing investment strategy, Legal & General has been involved in
supply side housing activities for nearly 20 years. These include:
Bringing housing back to the centre of the UK's cities through large scale regeneration, such as Salford, Plymouth, Liverpool, Bracknell, Newcastle and Canning Town
Its stake in house builder CALA Homes, which announced an annual revenue of £747.9m as at 30 June 2017 (versus £241m revenue in 2013). CALA remains on course to deliver an annual capacity of up to 2,500 units within four years, resulting in revenue of around £1bn
Legal & General's total investment capability for the Build to Rent (BTR) sector currently stands at circa £1 billion. It has secured over a 1,700 homes under construction or in planning, with sites in Bristol, Edinburgh, Salford, Bath, Leeds and Walthamstow, with the aim to have 6,000 in planning, development or operation by the end of 2019
Delivering its first new housing communities at two sites in Berkshire. It is now on site building 1,000 new homes on its 250 acre site in Crowthorne and will begin on site on 1,500 new homes at its 272 acre site in Finchampstead (near Arborfield) at the end of 2017
Revolutionising the construction industry through its modular housing factory in Leeds, it will deliver highly-sustainable precision-engineered homes. The homes are built using modern techniques of construction, in a precision engineering manufacturing environment, on a moving assembly line, which will be constructed and fitted out in the factory before delivery to site
Providing later living accommodation through Inspired Villages Group, a best in class operator and developer of later living accommodation, which Legal & General acquired in August this year. Inspired Villages Group's development portfolio currently has around 1,000 homes
It is also a significant investor in social housing, care homes and student accommodation. This holistic approach provides Legal & General with the mechanisms to deliver high quality returns throughout market cycles by pivoting investment to where the need is greatest.
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About Legal & General Capital (LGC)
Legal & General Capital (LGC) is Legal & General Group's alternative asset platform, creating assets for Legal & General Retirement and third-party clients in order to achieve improved risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders. LGC has built its capabilities in a range of alternative sectors, including in residential property; specialist commercial real estate; clean energy; alternative credit; and venture capital, which are all supported by long-term structural growth drivers, meet a financing gap and respond to a scarcity of supply that is underpinned by enduring societal needs.
Its purpose is to invest society's capital for society's benefit. Investing in the real economy and supporting the Group's focus on climate and inclusive capitalism, LGC's investments create jobs, change lives and contribute towards a net zero carbon future.
Legal & General has invested over £29bn in levelling-up regional economies, including through major UK-wide regeneration schemes and has recently made a commitment to enable all its new homes to operate at net zero carbon emissions from 2030.


REHAU has announced the launch of its 'Build Your Legacy' campaign for Mechanical and Electrical contractors.
Total builders' merchant value sales to builders and contractors rose by 4.0% in February, compared to the same month twelve months previous (BMBI).
ASSA ABLOY UK's exclusive evening reception for architects, contractors and end users will discuss the partnership between design and performance.


In one of my earliest memories, I was probably 3 years old — maybe barely 4 — and I had woken up before my family, went down to the kitchen and decided I wanted my maple and brown sugar oatmeal right then. Being an independent, spirited young person, I found the oatmeal box and grabbed a packet, trying to figure out what came next.
Fortunately, my grandmother came downstairs and intervened.
Another early memory? Bellying up to the counter with my aunt to make potato pancakes and applesauce for the whole family on Sunday morning. The scent (and flavor) of warm cinnamon-laced applesauce takes me right back to those moments every time.
When I was 11, I first attempted to cook a meal — I roasted veggies and mixed them with marinara sauce to create a sauce for pasta that I served with store-bought garlic bread. That was in the time before roasted veggies were starring on restaurant menus and headlining cookbooks, and I was just looking to do something different … and meatless.
But that's about where my cooking interest stopped. Sure, I dabbled in baking and created unusual sandwich fillings with alfalfa sprouts, tuna and olives in high school. And I even played with a slow cooker in college (though everything that came out of it tasted remarkably similar, regardless of ingredients). But I never really learned to cook. Cookbooks were overwhelming. I didn't understand terms like "saute" and "braise," and couldn't tell a rimmed baking sheet from a roaster pan.
At the time, I didn't care. I was young and happy to eat things from boxes or just get takeout. However, when I reached my mid-20s, the ability to feed others became more important to me. It was time to learn to cook.
So I did — through experimentation, finding cookbooks that spoke to me and lots of trial and error. There may have been a cooking class or two in there, too, but ultimately I learned through doing.
When I look at my kids, I hope they won't face the kitchen with the apprehension and disinterest I did. Someday, I want them to be the ones in the college suite who can confidently scramble eggs, saute veggies and roast chickens. I want them to not rely on packaged food and takeout to stay nourished.
That's why I've made teaching them to cook — in as low-pressure a way as possible — a priority. While they, like me, spent many an hour bellied up to the counter when they were very little, that just isn't enough. The memories we created are invaluable but they need more than a warm fuzzy feeling when they smell cookies baking.
They need to know how to turn asparagus into an easy, tender side dish and how to combine ingredients to make a salad worth making again. They need to know why "perfectly cooked" varies based on what you're cooking — and why it really, really matters, especially when it comes to chicken, fish and beef.
When a note came from my kids' after-school program announcing once-a-week cooking classes, I signed them up immediately.
While my son was initially uninterested, he quickly discovered that he enjoys the hands-on classes. Since then, I've given both my kids light cooking duties at home, too — and they love it. And it also means that we've slid into a new era of kitchen memories — ones where we cook dinner together.
Now, more than six weeks later, my daughter is coming home with recipes to re-create and my son is voicing ideas for what he wants to make as their contribution to dinner.
And that's where this recipe — or a version of it — came from. Is it simple? For sure. But when learning to cook, simple lessons are necessary building blocks for greater ones. In this case, my kids learned how to layer ingredients to create different pizzas. They also learned about safely using an oven (with supervision, of course) and how a few minutes of baking can turn those ingredients into a toasty, warm dish.
Next week? They're going to learn how to brown meat for tacos, and season it with my homemade taco seasoning. After that? Who knows.
When my kids came home the day they had made English muffin pizzas at their cooking class, Paige handed me the recipe and suggested that I should use it for Maine Course. So here we are. Enjoy.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place the English muffin halves on a baking sheet.
Divide the tomatoes evenly among them. Top with cheese and desired toppings.
Bake for 7-10 minutes, until the cheese is melted.


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The Toolbox is a source for ideas that may help you, the referrals practitioner, to improve your effectiveness and efficiency in responding to Crown land referrals. The Toolbox is not, however, a substitute for a referrals response strategy developed with community leaders in consultation with community members and, where appropriate, legal counsel. Nor is it a substitute for a comprehensive claim of Aboriginal Rights and Title. Ideally, particular referral responses build on a platform of general information already provided to the Crown as formal notice of your asserted Aboriginal Rights and Title within your traditional territory.
A detailed response to every referral that comes in the door may not be the most effective way for your Nation to achieve its goals and protect your Nation's Aboriginal Rights and Title. Consider the value of developing protocols, agreements or procedures that allow government or development interests to fulfill their duty to consult with your Nation on mutually acceptable terms.
Only your Nation can decide what the best approach is for your Nation.
The Toolbox is NOT intended to provide legal advice. It is prudent to seek advice on any particular matters that are of concern to you, especially in cases where a development proposal is significant and has potential to impact your Aboriginal rights and title claims. To minimize legal fees, consider drafting referral responses yourself, and having them reviewed by a lawyer to ensure your legal interests are protected. Wherever possible, seek advice of lawyers who work in the field of aboriginal law. Not all referrals will require you to rally the troops in developing a response – choose your battles. Focus on the issues that matter most to your community.
Don't use the guide for developing a response as a template. This may sound contradictory. However, the response letter guide is provided to be more of a check-list, to offer suggestions on language and to help you reflect on possible content for your own responses. Please don't use it as a "fill in the blank" letter for all your responses – in so doing, you may weaken your position.
Network to build on what has worked elsewhere. This includes talking with neighbouring Nations, networking through existing alliances, and developing a dialogue with other referrals practitioners throughout the province to help leverage the success of other people's work.
On key issues which may end up going to court, provide as much information to the governments as possible to show evidence of your rights or title. Be strategic and do not send out confidential information, but provide enough information to allow the courts to conclude the governments should have known the area was important to your Nation and could be the subject of a rights and title claim.
On key issues consider asking the governments to respond in writing as to whether or not they accept your Nation has evidence of rights and title. The more decisions the governments put in writing, the more opportunities there are to challenge these decisions in court.
Track all correspondence and communications and maintain a good filing system. You may need documentation to resolve disputes later or as evidence in court.
Every referral is unique, requiring a unique approach in responding. However, consistency in your position is important. Develop similar responses to similar issues.
Develop the skills and capacity in your community to be able to effectively evaluate development proposals. Where necessary seek expertise outside of your community.
Continually work to develop a good information base to help in decision making. This may include gathering traditional use and occupation evidence, oral histories or baseline wildlife and resource data.
Realistically assess and plan for the human resources required to properly respond to referrals. For an average-sized First Nation, this may be a full time position. In all forums, request capacity funding from the Crown to support your participation in consultations.
Consider developing protocol agreements with the licensees operating in your territory. These agreements may include a financial contribution agreement to help cover your costs in responding to referrals.
Don't get discouraged. It can be a frustrating exercise to work in this field. Yet it still provides a good opportunity to make your First Nation's voice and concerns heard.


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THE MISKATONIC INSTITUTE…
THE MISKATONIC INSTITUTE OF HORROR STUDIES – LONDON ANNOUNCES ITS SPRING 2019 LINEUP
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The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies, the world's longest-running educational organization devoted to the study of horror history, theory and production, is pleased to announce the Spring 2019 lineup of classes for our London branch, led by some of the genre world's most renowned critical, literary and filmmaking luminaries and taking place at London's epicenter of underground culture, The Horse Hospital.
We begin with a genre-hopping exploration of what unlicensed international remakes can tell us about processes of cultural globalization; a history of the French Grand Guignol Theatre; a study of the 1940s 'Paranoid Woman's Film' and its relationship to other horror trends by one of the genre's preeminent scholars; a journey into the undiscovered realm of African literary horror; and we close the season with a study of the dark art of writer, painter and filmmaker Clive Barker.
Students can buy full semester passes, available via our registration page HERE, or tickets to individual classes. Students who complete both fall and spring semesters in a given year will receive a 2019 diploma and graduation gift in May.
The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies – London Venue: Horse Hospital Address: Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD https://www.thehorsehospital.com/
FULL CLASS DESCRIPTIONS FOLLOW BELOW.
January 10: INTERNATIONAL REMAKESPLOITATION: THE HORROR MEME FROM THE TURKISH EXORCIST TO DRACULA IN PAKISTAN
with instructor Iain Robert Smith
This lecture will introduce students to the world of horror 'remakesploitation' – international exploitation remakes of successful horror films that were often unlicensed and aimed primarily at the domestic market. For example, in 1974 the celebrated Turkish filmmaker Metin Erksan directed ?eytan, a near shot-for-shot remake of The Exorcist (1973), albeit with the Catholic iconography replaced with equivalents from Islam. This was part of a global trend for producing unlicensed reworkings of William Friedkin's film including the blaxploitation film Abby (1974), the Italian-American rip-off Beyond the Door (1974) and the re-release of Mario Bava's Lisa and the Devil with additional scenes under the title The House of Exorcism (1974). Similarly, in 1967 the Pakistani director Khwaja Sarfraz produced a loose remake of Dracula (1958) titled Zinda Laash that recreated many elements from the Terence Fisher Hammer film but with the notable addition of 'item girl' dance sequences – thereby creating one of the most unique adaptations of Bram Stoker's novel.
Surveying a range of examples of horror remakesploitation from around the world, this lecture uses Richard Dawkins' concept of the 'meme' – a cultural equivalent of the biological gene that spreads and mutates in a manner analogous to evolution – to explore what these films can tell us about processes of cultural globalization. What changes were required, for example, when the Ramsay Brothers reworked Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) in their Bollywood film Mahakaal (1993)? Or when filmmaker Mehmet Aslan directed a Turkish remake of Sergio Martino's classic giallo The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)? Or when Sanjay Gupta produced an Indian remake of Oldboy (2003)? Illustrated with numerous clips and posters from this international phenomenon, this class will investigate these processes of cross-pollination to explore how the horror genre adapts and mutates as it travels around the globe.
February 7: HORROR AND HILARITY: THE LEGACY OF THE GRAND-GUIGNOL
with instructor Richard J. Hand
Hidden at the end of cobblestoned alley in Pigalle lurked a little theatre which was home to the smallest stage in Paris. This was the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (1897-1962), the legendary 'Theatre of Horror'. In a district famous for its brothels, streetwalkers and gangsters, the unique Grand-Guignol had a loyal local fanbase and drew in many nervous visitors from further afield. Originally, its repertoire was slice-of-life realism, but it soon discovered what its audience really wanted: a little slice-of-death and a delirious mixture of sang, sperme et sueur (blood, sperm and sweat). Sure enough, the Grand-Guignol's intense evenings of short plays, interspersing horror with comedy, took its spectators on a journey into the depths of depravation and graphic reality as they watched dramas frequently based on true stories which showed them the effects of sulphuric acid thrown in a face… Or a prostitute skinned alive as her client watches in ecstasy… Or a man cleave off his own hand and hand it to his triumphant wife… Or a suicide bomber who decides to self-detonate… Or brain surgery going gruesomely wrong… Or nipples cut off with scissors… Members of the audience might vomit or lose consciousness requiring the theatre's very own doctor to revive them… At the same time, other spectators roared with laughter or found their private pleasures in the grilled booths at the back of the auditorium…
Such is the legend of the Grand-Guignol and it masks the brilliant sophistication of its craft: the writers, actors and technicians who with exquisite finesse co-created this extraordinary, salacious and thrilling theatre. The original Grand-Guignol is long gone now, nothing but a ghost. But the phantom of this unique theatre casts a long shadow with an incalculable influence over subsequent popular horror in film, television, radio, comic books and, of course, theatre. The Grand-Guignol remains an essential antecedent to live horror performance of all kinds, from immersive experiences and Halloween shows to the work of contemporary companies such as Molotov Theatre Group (Washington DC) which continue to keep the classic Grand-Guignol repertoire alive.
In this talk, the academic and theatre director Richard Hand will take you on an intimate journey into a night at the Grand-Guignol, recounting the shocking stories, vivid personalities and ingenious tricks of the original theatre before exploring the theatre's profound legacy and abiding influence over subsequent horror culture.
March 7: THE PARANOID WOMAN'S FILM
with instructor Mark Jancovich
This class will introduce students to the horror films of the 1940s through those films often described as examples of the paranoid (or Gothic) woman's film. These films, which emerged in response to the phenomenal success of Hitchcock's Rebecca, feature a woman in love with a potential murderous lover. Although the cycle begins before the war, its key period of productivity was during the war years, and it can therefore also be seen as a key genre associated with changes in the audience during this period. With many men away fighting the war, women were encouraged to disassociate with domesticity in favour of war work and this changed the nature of the cinematic audience. Rather than simply going to the cinema as part of a couple or a family, Hollywood was overwhelmed by the new audience of women that were going to the cinema in groups or alone, and these changed circumstances encouraged these female audiences to play with new forms of femininity. The films therefore exhibit these ambivalent relationship to both the home and the world beyond in both of which require their female leads to turn detective.
We will therefore begin with a discussion of Rebecca as a key text within this cycle. It will examine the ways in which these film plays with their heroines' struggle to make sense of their husbands; and the ways in which these women find themselves unable to tell whether these husbands love or hate them, a uncertain which motivates their investigative narratives.
We will then move onto other examples of the genre, such as another Joan Fontaine classic, the 1944 adaptation of Jane Eyre, which was (like Rebecca) explicitly understood as a horror film at the time. This will also be used to illustrate another key feature of the period, that these were not low budget horror films but major prestige studio productions, and ones that sought to acquire associations with legitimate culture. We will also look at Gaslight in this context, a film that sweep the academy awards in the 1945.
The class will then move on to explore the ways in which these materials were linked to another key feature of the period, film noir, which is often seen as distinct from the paranoid woman's film, although neither of these terms existed at the time, and the films that are now associated with these two categories were usually identified with being part of the same category in the 1940s: the horror film. The class will therefore look at Phantom Lady (1944), a film often seen as a classic of film noir but one which was produced by a woman, Joan Harrison, who had also been one of Hitchcock's key collaborators. Although often seen as a film noir, this film features a female, rather than a male, detective (film noir is often distinguished from the paranoid woman's film on the basis that the former is supposed to be male centred and the latter female centred), and one that features another key aspect of these films, a focus on psychological horror: the heroine's antagonist is a psychologically deranged killer.
Finally, the class will end with a consideration of Val Lewton's films. Lewton is often read as both a low budget filmmaker and as one of the key contributors to the horror film in the period. However, through an examination of his first film, Cat People (1942), the class will explore how Lewton's films feature many of the elements discussed above: a female detective, psychological horror, and an attempt to acquire associations with legitimate culture. We will therefore examine its associations with Rebecca and Jane Eyre, on which Lewton had been a script editor before being hired to produce films for RKO.
April 11: AFRICAN HORROR: SHADES OF SUPERSTITION
with instructor Nuzo Onoh
This lecture aims to introduce students to the African Horror literary genre. While African Horror films have made great strides in recent years, thanks to the Nollywood film industry and the South African Horror Film Festival, African horror literary fiction is still to take its rightful place in the commercial horror market. We shall examine the term "African Horror", and how it is portrayed by the popular media before discussing its place as a bona-fide literary genre, similar to other regional horror genres and its classification by distributors. We shall also discuss what constitutes African horror, and what makes it different from horror fiction written by people of African descent.
With over 4000 African tribes and counting, it would be impossible to study African Horror under one uniform blanket as each tribe has its own unique culture and lore. Therefore, I shall focus on the West African (specifically, Nigerian) region in discussing the evolution of African Horror from folk tales under the moonlight to early written works such as Amos Tutuolas's The Palmwine Drinkard (1952), Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa's Indaba, My Children: African Folktale (1964), to later African Horror works such as Ben Okri's The Famished Road (1993) and Nuzo Onoh's The Sleepless (2016). We shall also examine the mythos of African Horror, the lore, the superstitions that surround death, burial rites and the afterlife in African communities and the role colonialism, Christianity, politics, poverty and globalisation have played in creating situations that give rise to evils such as the harvesting of Albino body parts, the killing of child witches and the kidnapping of humans for witchcraft or political motives. These true-life horrors have all been bred by superstition, and these superstitions form the ethos behind most African Horror literature.
We shall discuss the relevance of African horror to the genre pool, especially as relates issues of negative stereotyping of the continent and the prevalence of poverty and other true-life horror situations in the continent which has led some critics to question the relevance of African Horror genre amidst these real life problems. I shall illustrate with video clips, images and press articles in an interactive session with the students. It is my hope that the students will accompany me on this unique journey into the deep mysteries of African culture and understand this emerging horror genre and the various shades of superstition that drive the African Horror narrative.
May 9: HELLBOUND HEARTS: THE DARK ART OF CLIVE BARKER
with instructor Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
A polymath of considerable artistic importance in the horror genre, Clive Barker has been a mainstay in horror culture since the mid-1980s, and has won critical and fan appreciation for his various strange and often beautiful creations, which have been curiously overlooked outside of horror circles. This class will examine his uniquely abject and original artistry, beginning with the splatterpunk delights of Books of Blood (1984-5), The Damnation Game(1985), and The Hellbound Heart (1986) through to his fusions with the dark fantastic and YA fiction in Weaveworld (1987), The Great and Secret Show(1989), and Abarat series(2002 -), among other popular titles. Barker's own films, as a writer and director, in the 1980s and 1990s will also be examined to analyse their familiar Barkerian elements (sex, death, religion, belonging, selling one's soul) alongside themes and motifs on monstrosity, cultural rejection, secret desires and appetites, torment and the limits of excess and power. With the aid of clips, sketches, posters, and archive material, in this lecture I will trace and present core themes and ideas that run riot throughout his fiction and film, and invite you to (re)discover Barker's enduring legacy and unique contribution to horror culture.
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GeekBeacon: 2021 Review
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Happy New Year everyone, wishing all of you fellow nerds and nerdettes out there a wonderful year. As we end the year, we at GeekBeacon wanted to take a look back at 2021 and highlight some of the rosier accomplishments that stood out this past year.
This year we want to try to do a better job of sharing all that GeekBeacon is about and share with the community at large. Not everyone is always aware of everything we do. Whether you're a community member and actively participating in our events, attending our study groups, or just interacting with the community, we are thankful for your participation in spreading geekiness and the values of OSS wherever you are.
This year has been quite an interesting year for GeekBeacon. We've had many accomplishments the past year, despite the struggles of the pandemic. With the vast majority of our community being on Discord, we have had many changes, such as BeaconBot, our own custom-build Discord Bot, introducing a leveling and leaderboard system. Be sure to join and check out the community events channel to keep up-to-date with all the happenings constantly being rolled out.
Structural Changes and Supporting Tools.
Though much of the effort was spearheaded by our community manager, Kankuro, over the past year we're created our own custom Discord Bot. For better or worse much of our community has been growing around our discord server and having the right tooling to help us manage events, moderation, and other facets has become more and more critical. Thanks to the efforts of Kankuro and other community members, we are able to run the various events we have at the scale that we have. Keeping with the OSS mentality our bot is naturally open source. We wouldn't have it any other way.
GeekBeacon Foundation
In keeping with the spirit of Open Source we've also been struggling to find our identity and a structure that will allow us to run events, raise funds, and have the transparency that we all appreciate in an OSS community. We would like to thank the Open Collective Foundation for hosting our small organization. If you haven't heard of them before, Open Collective is an organization that takes on the burden of liability, accounting, and a variety of other services and allows smaller organizations like us to establish themselves as a hosted entity. We'll start using the foundation more and more in the upcoming year. OCF grants us a 501c(3) status which makes us a non-profit, any donations that we receive will be tax deductible. It will also enable us to raise money for future events like GeekBeacon Fest (more details further down) to bring geeks together in a celebration of Open Culture and Open Source.
Events In Review
Video Game Event Highlights
Nixie has always had a love and appreciation of IndieGames. As such in 2021 GeekBeacon and NixiePixel have hosted several independent games as part of streams, premieres or simply a game play introduction to unique games that don't get nearly the attention they deserve.
Moduwar
Earlier in 2021, Nixie Pixel premiered the amazing and unique RTS game Moduwar from indie developer Biohex Games. The gameplay livestream also featured a real time Q&A session with the developers!
Moduwar takes on a very unique approach to RTS. You play an alien creature with the ability to grow different organs, split, and merge them, depending on your personal playstyle. It allows for an extremely flexible gameplay that is adaptable to your own personal style and personality.
Longest Road On Earth
Nixie also showcased "The Longest Road on Earth" in another indie adventure, an ultra-chill game experience with a winding story and lofi-style soundtrack from developers Brainwash Games and TLR Games.
Minecraft Competition
We also hosted a Minecraft competition for valentines day. Giving everyone the opportunity to exercise their creative juices and impress us with their 8-bit and 16-bit mastery. GeekBeacon and Nixie Pixel judged a Minecraft building competition and giveaway in collaboration with Linux Cafe (A collective of Linux and open-source software users, tech lovers, and privacy enthusiasts working together to create a welcoming environment and give a comfortable space for all Linux and tech enthusiasts to come together.)
Panels and Fundraising Events
Boys and Girls Club Fundraiser
If you're not familiar with them, The Boys & Girls Club is a national nonprofit organization with chapters all across the country to run after school programs for young people. It was founded in 1860 by three women and now is still going strong serving more than 4 million boys and girls.
Our founder, NixiePixel, collaborated with LanFest to help bring out a successful fundraiser for this great organization. The event featured stars such as Katy Perry and Terry Crews and had a focus on gaming and education.
During the event Nixie interviewed Carlos Ferro, video to be released soon! Carlos' resume includes Dom from Gears of War, DaVinci from Assassin's Creed, Dern (red shirt) from Star Trek the Next Generation, and many more! See the instagram story of the event here!
Panels, Panels and more Panels!!
Women's Tech & Gaming Industry Expert Panel
During The Boys & Girls Club Nixie also hosted a Tech & Gaming Industry Expert Panel - LanFest LIVE Charity Festival. Keep an eye out for it. Video will be released soon. Our little llama editors are working on the final cut. Here's a teaser.
Seen above are: WidowOnTwitch, JadeValkyrie, NixiePixel
Techlore Privacy Panel
Techlore hosted a privacy panel to discuss issues impacting the #privacy world. Thank you to Techlore for inviting our very own NixiePixel to share her thoughts on the segment! Please join NixiePixel, Sean O'Brien, SwitchedToLinux, Nike from privacytoolsIO. Teaser, bloopers, and full panel discussion can be found below.
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It is very hard for a government to take away a "right" already granted.
When you look at Revolutions in Third World countries, you find some common themes. The Governments of those dictatorships or quasi-dictatorships are controlled by a group representing the interests of a small minority of the population, typically the wealthy. The Government uses increasingly Draconian measures to force the population's compliance. Here in America, Republicans are doing just that. Examples of those measures to suppress dissent include laws in several state which allow Chumph supporters to run down and murder protesters, and an attempt by Republicans in some states (including DC, which the Republican majority House now controls) to criminalize dissent though the abuse of felony laws to punish protesters for nonviolent protest.
When you start locking up your detractors in prisons…you have paved the way for violent revolution. When facing a felony conviction or death for waiving a sign on the public streets – there is very little difference in the punishment for blowing up buildings. The white-wing Republican government in America isn't far from that line.
The Trump(don't)care legislation is another example of abuse of the majority for the benefit of the rich. A lot of those folks who will be getting abused voted Republican. While the Second Amendment whackos are too consumed by racism to care…There are a lot of poor Republican Soccer Moms and caretakers of the sick and elderly out there who do.
Democrats have one chance to get this right. They need to do smething to stop this steamroller besides pretty speches.
Elizabeth Warren has proposed a bill to force full financial disclosure from Trump, and to force him to divest his financial interests while President.
Ouch! If the Senate takes a hard line on this (which I doubt with a Republican majority) it could also mean the the Trump children would also have to comply.
The reason Republicans despise Elizabeth Warren (and thus the "Hiawatha" jab) is she is effective at demanding accountability for the biggest thieves, liars, and crooks in the country. Wll Street, and heads of the major banks.
Here – she lights a fire under Wells Fargo President Stumph for crooked dealing, and profiteering.
I hope like hell for a change, the DOJ prosecutes and sends this sucker to jail where he belongs. Folks are getting real tired of this "special justice" for "special people." crap.
Elizabeth Warren…Gets it. This is really straightforward.
Why is the right wing so deeply embedded in denial?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Sunday forcefully called for a renewed focus on the fight for racial justice, arguing that "we have not made enough progress" since the civil rights movement of the 1960s and outlining three main policy areas in which black people continue to face discrimination, including her signature issue of economic inequality.
Speaking at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston, established by her late predecessor, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Warren's speech was tied to the legacy of the monumental 1960s civil rights laws that Kennedy championed.
"These laws made three powerful declarations: Black lives matter. Black citizens matter. Black families matter," she said, according to her prepared remarks.
But she said it is clear that "we have not made enough progress," organizing the speech around three major areas in which black people still face injustice: police violence, voting restrictions and economic inequality.
Linking her long-standing fight for the middle class to the fight for racial justice, Warren conceded that "economic justice is not and has never been sufficient to ensure racial justice." However, Warren pivoted back to her signature issue throughout her speech, noting that African-Americans continue to face diminished economic prospects and discrimination in housing, education and employment.
She also reminded the audience that the March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 was as much about economic justice as it was about racial justice.
Warren acknowledged that economic reforms are not enough to combat the racism that still persists in America. "Owning a home won't stop someone from burning a cross on the front lawn. Admission to a school won't prevent a beating on the sidewalk outside," she said.
Citing the recent deaths of African-Americans in police custody, such as Michael Brown, Sandra Bland and Freddie Gray, as well as the aggressive tactics police used during the protests against these deaths, she lamented that black people continue to experience disproportionately unfair treatment from police. In proposing solutions, she echoed the recent calls for police reforms, including the need to create more diverse police forces that "look like, and come from, the neighborhoods they serve" and the demilitarization of police.
"This is America, not a war zone, and policing practices in all cities, not just some, need to reflect that," she said.
Warren also railed against the continued assault against voting rights for minorities, particularly in the South, where lawmakers have resorted to more subtle tactics for keeping voters off the rolls, such as gerrymandering, voter ID laws and more complicated voting procedures. She scolded congressional Republicans for holding out on legislation to restore the Voting Rights Act, parts of which were struck down by the Supreme Court in a 2013 ruling. She also called on states to implement automatic voter registration to reduce the procedural hurdles of voting.
She tied the central argument of her speech back to her message of economic inequality, citing persistent housing discrimination against blacks, the high black unemployment rate, and how the housing bubble and economic recession disproportionately gutted economic opportunities for the black middle class. Warren hailed what is perhaps her most famous policy achievement, the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as the first step in curtailing discriminatory mortgage and banking policies.
"It's time to come down hard on predatory practices that allow financial institutions to systematically strip wealth out of communities of color. One of the ugly consequences of bank deregulation was that there was no cop on the beat when too many financial institutions figured out that they could make great money by tricking, trapping and defrauding targeted families," she said.
Warren acknowledged that as a white politician, "I speak today with the full knowledge that I have not personally experienced and can never truly understand the fear, the oppression, and the pain that confronts African-Americans every day," she said. "But none of us can ignore what is happening in this country. Not when our black friends, family, neighbors literally fear dying in the streets.
The speech drew praise from Black Lives Matter activists, like DeRay Mckesson, who has prominently called for lawmakers to make direct policy proposals that address police violence.
"Warren, better than any political leader I've yet heard, understands the protests as a matter of life or death — that the American dream has been sustained by an intentional violence and that the uprisings have been the result of years of lived trauma," Mckesson told The Washington Post.
One of the massive Catch 22's post economic meltdown in the 00's has been the FICA Score System. With the housing meltdown, millions of people went into either foreclosure or credit crisis. As jobs shrunk and people lost jobs, they were unable to pay their bills. Trying to get a job? In a go-round reminiscent of Ray Charles' Song line "If you have to have something, before you can get something, How you get the first is still a mystery to me!" NOPE! Our HR Department has determined your credit is bad.
So if you got laid off, and can't pay your bills, you can't get a new job to pay your bills on time…Because you were laid off and can't pay your bills.
Credit reporting companies that sell Americans' personal data to potential employers have pushed the narrative that a credit history somehow provides insight into someone's character. But, as even a representative from the TransUnion credit bureau admitted, they "don't have any research to show any statistical correlation between what's in somebody's credit report and their job performance." In fact, research has shown that an individual's credit has little to no correlation with his or her ability to succeed in the workplace. Credit reports are not a way to screen out bad potential employees; they are just a way to discriminate against people who have fallen on hard times.
Not only are credit reports poor indicators of job performance, but in many cases they aren't even accurate. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported in 2013 that as many as 1 in 5 consumers could identify at least one error in their credit reports. That's compounded by the difficulty in correcting errors—not only are consumers often unaware an error exists in the first place, but credit reporting agencies can be frustratingly slow to respond when it comes to fixing those mistakes.
For hardworking people struggling to make ends meet, the only way to get back on their feet is to find a good job and earn a paycheck. But even when they are able to sell their homes—often at a loss—or after they are forced to close their business' doors or find temporary work, that bad credit history continues to haunt them.
And despite the often-desperate effort to find a job, many employers are unfairly shutting the door on applicants with less-than-stellar credit. We should call this what it is: discrimination.
Elizabeth Warren was brought in by the Obama Administration to develop the Consumer Protection Agency. Once it was set up – Republicans went to war to keep her from running it.


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Q: Why didn't the example here use "too"? I was reading about excess  and in one of the examples I found this,

They both eat to excess.

Why didn't this use 'too' instead of 'to'? It does not make sense to me, I don't know why.

A: "To" is correct because "excess" is a noun.
Here, "to" is a preposition that indicates the extent. This is from Merriam-Webster:

to preposition
d (2) —used as a function word to indicate the limit of extent
// stripped to the waist

In your example sentence, it means they ate so much that it was excessive.
"Too" is incorrect because it can only modify gradable words, like certain adjectives and adverbs. "Too" is sometimes used before a noun, but it means the noun is being used as an adjective or adverb:

This painting is beautiful, but too Warhol for my living room.

In this example, "Warhol" is understood to mean "Warhol-like" or "similar to Warhol's art".

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Terah (în ebraică: תֶּרַח / תָּרַח, Modern Terah / Tarah Tiberian Terah / Tarah, "Ibex, capra sălbatică", sau "Hoinar") este o figură biblică din Cartea Genezei, fiul lui Nahor, fiul lui Serug și Tatăl Patriarhul Avraam, dar și al lui Nahor și Haran. Terah este menționat în Biblia ebraică și în Noul Testament.

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REMI Network: Net Zero Project is Building Industry Milestone
Written by : on Sep 17, 2015
We have been proud to have been able to be involved in the Net Zero Housing Project from its initiation and now that the homes are starting to be completed, we are grateful for the positive responses to the results. Thank you REMI Network for the recognizing us in the article below:
Net zero project is building industry milestone
Canadian initiative sets out to prove energy efficiency is consumer-friendly and accessible
Rebecca Melnyk
A calm, suburban neighbourhood in the south end of Guelph, Ontario, buzzes as people from various building organizations gather at 197 Goodwin Drive. They're all standing around a new home that blends well into the Westminster Woods community aesthetic, but was built with a much different intention as the 33 solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on the back roof might indicate.
Unlike other net zero energy (NZE) homes that have been constructed across the country, this one, the first of 25 to be completed as part of a national demonstration project, uses consumer-friendly technology and products geared to the mainstream public.
"This shows a net zero home is not only possible, but also possible on the consumer scale where it can be available to everybody," Guelph Mayor Cam Guthrie said before a ribbon cutting ceremony. "The home doesn't just demonstrate new and exciting technologies; it changes the way homes are actually built."
Rather than viewing the project as a one-off, the builder, Reid's Heritage Homes, used its standard construction plans in order to replicate the build in a production setting, as well as complete a home others can duplicate.
Reid Heritage Homes was selected to be part of the ecoENERGY Initiative (ecoEII) to build a total of five homes in Guelph. Other building companies—Minto, Mattamy Homes, Provident and Construction Voyer—will each build five NZE residences to be located in Ottawa, Alberta, Nova Scotia and Quebec, respectively. Each builder is working with a technical consultant. In this case, Reid's Heritage Homes has been working alongside Building Knowledge. Upon overall project completion in 2016, the amount of NZE homes in Canada is expected to double.
Andy Goyda, Canadian builder lead and marketing development manager for Owens Corning Canada, a leader in the project, was also on hand to promote the technologies that make the net zero home healthier, affordable and comfortable. One key feature lies beneath the façade, in the form of the Owens Corning CodeBord air barrier system that helps achieve high levels of air tightness to meet net zero performance standards.
"Net zero starts with the envelope," said Goyda. "If it isn't super-insulated, we don't go anywhere; if it is, everything falls into place."
This "everything" extends to the installation of high-efficiency water heaters, air source heat pumps, triple-pane, low-e glass windows and market-ready renewables like solar PV and electrical storage capacity.
As for the air barrier system, which insulates the exterior of the building preventing thermal bridging from occurring and increasing wall insulation to R-38, a consequential reduction in condensation adds for more comfort and efficiency.
All of these efficient measures will be closely examined. Jennifer Weatherston, director of innovation for Reid's Heritage Homes, says the home will be monitored for a two-year period as data is collected and analyzed. She also intends to observe how the technology influences owners.
"Do you take the energy device and throw it in the drawer after six months or do you keep learning and moving forward, changing behaviour?" Weatherston questions. "It will be interesting to see how people live in these homes."
And with the first build set for listing on September 19, the homebuilders will also get a better feel for how many consumers are willing to pay a little more than the average home.
"Guelph is a greener area and more receptive to this type of thing and the location is ideal," added Weatherston. "But, at the end of the day, what is going to sell these homes is the innovation, home comfort, the improved air quality and better design with the insulation."
The project has come a long way since 2013 when the Natural Resources Canada first issued an announcement that it had $262 million to promote research and development in demo projects to improve energy efficiency across Canada. BuildABILITY, project manager and lead consultant for the ecoEII project, worked with Owens Corning Canada to develop a proposal that would take net zero to an affordable community production housing platform. And, Voila.
The remaining 24 homes will be complete by the end of 2016, while the initiative aims to leave an everlasting impression on the state of NZE. That's not only in the residential sector, but other sectors as well.
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"As electricity prices go up (and they are and they will) and as PV prices go down (and they have and they will) businesses and the public will increasingly adopt these measures," adds Luck. "Our project promises to debug the adoption process so future measures can be adopted seamlessly."
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Q: pack expansion used as argument for non-pack parameter of concept template<typename T>    concept A = true;
template<typename... T> concept B = A<T...>;

Clang and gcc complains 'pack expansion used as argument for non-pack parameter of concept' at the 2nd line. MSVC compiles. Are the code well-formed or not?

Here is a more concrete example showing why the question matters. Say we want to define a concept with parameter pack called single_integral_or_all_floating_point. It is true if the pack has single integral type or all floating point types. It is false otherwise.
template<typename... T>
concept single_integral_or_all_floating_point =
    std::is_integral<T...>::value ||
    (... && std::is_floating_point<T>::value);

If sizeof...(T) is not 1, there is a substitution failure on std::is_integral and the 1st constraint is not satisfied.
Let's say we want to get rid of the old type traits and switch to concepts. Clang and gcc do not compile with a drop-in replacement like below because of 'pack expansion used as argument for non-pack parameter of concept'. MSVC compiles.
template<typename... T>
concept single_integral_or_all_floating_point =
    std::integral<T...> || // error: pack expansion used as argument for non-pack parameter of concept
    (... && std::floating_point<T>);

We have to come up a workaround for clang/gcc.
template<typename... T>
struct only {};

template<typename T>
struct only<T> {
    using type = T;
};

template<typename... T>
concept single_integral_or_all_floating_point =
    std::integral<typename only<T...>::type> ||
    (... && std::floating_point<T>);

So if clang and gcc are correct, it is pretty awkward to use concepts in the similar cases.

A: The main issue with your first snippet is that concepts must be able to be normalized, and normalization requires a parameter mapping of each template parameter of an atomic constraint. The fact that the prototype parameter of A is not used in its constraint seems to be irrelevant to GCC/Clang; they apparently attempt to create some kind of temporary mapping anyway, which fails since a non-pack cannot map to a pack. Which makes sense IMO, because that would be incompatible in whatever internal system normal forms are expressed in.
Regarding your broader use case, there are certainly more sensible ways to express your constraint, e.g. explicitly checking sizeof.... You could also use a variable template, whose template-id would be an atomic constraint and thus not prone to the same problem:
template<typename... T>
concept single_integral_or_all_floating_point =
    std::is_integral_v<T...> ||
    (... && std::floating_point<T>);

Demo.


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Did 9/11 lead to many deaths due to car accidents "dwarfing" the attacks themselves?
Well-renowned security expert Bruce Schneier claims that
In the months after 9/11, so many people chose to drive instead of fly that the resulting deaths dwarfed the deaths from the terrorist attack itself, because cars are much more dangerous than airplanes.
—Our Newfound Fear of Risk
Is this backed up by hard data anywhere?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort It's much more risky to travel by car than by plane. 1 micromort is 340 miles with car, and 1000 miles with plane. I can maybe dig up statistics on dying per trip too, plane vs car. – Wertilq Sep 3 '13 at 16:58
@Wertilq That Wikipedia page lists 230 miles in a car per micromort. – Ladadadada Sep 3 '13 at 17:16
Hm. How uncharacteristic for Bruce to not back up a substantial claim like this. I've sent him a tweet asking for clarifications. – Konrad Rudolph Sep 4 '13 at 7:14
He clarified now that it should have been years instead of months (schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automobi.html). He also added some sources for the claim in this later post. – Mad Scientist Sep 9 '13 at 12:58
According to a 2005 report from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA):
The number of billions of miles driven and the number of fatalities on US roads increased slowly [data from Table 1 and Table 2]:
2000: 41,945 fatalities over 2,747 billion miles.
Even if the entire increase in fatalities could be attributed to increased driving due to the fear/unavailability of flying, and the entire increase in 2001 was September or later, that is "only" an increase of 1,311 fatalities over a period of 15 months.
Compare that to the number of casualties in the 9/11 attacks which is generally placed just shy of 3,000.
Examining the graph, the trend for increasing fatalities extends further back than 2001. Even as fatality rates per mile travelled has improved, the distances travelled has increased.
To convince myself there wasn't a spike in the distance travelled data that i wasn't seeing in the column of numbers, I plotted it:
I didn't perform any advanced statistical analysis on this - it was sufficient to persuade me that there was no noticeable spike after 2001.
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Its probably impossible to measure how many would have not driven had 9/11 not happened, so there's no real baseline. The original claim is getting into the question of driver motive which is pretty murky. – Mark Rogers Sep 3 '13 at 18:54
Another potential problem with this data: Bruce mentions that the increase happened in the months after 9/11, so maybe this data representation isn't fine-grained enough. I personally don't think so though. – Konrad Rudolph Sep 4 '13 at 7:17
@Konrad: If there was a spike in early 2002 that was subsumed by an equivalent dip in late 2002, your suggestion would make sense, but seems highly unlikely. – Oddthinking♦ Sep 4 '13 at 9:15
Bruce has now written a blog entry about this statement: schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automobi.html – Perseids Sep 9 '13 at 12:33
Great to see Schneier defending his position with references. I note that no less than Gigerenzer has drawn the opposite conclusion from me, which drastically reduces my faith in my answer. I haven't had a chance to go through the details though. I encourage someone to put up a counter-argument based on Schneier's references, ripping my argument to shreds. Seriously, (politely) show me I am wrong, and I will delete this answer both cheerfully and contritely (if that is a possible combination). – Oddthinking♦ Sep 9 '13 at 13:22
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