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Alhadeff-Jones M. (2008) Promoting scientific dialogue as a lifelong learning process. In: F. Darbellay, M. Cockell, J. Billotte & F. Waldvogel (ed.) A vision of transdisciplinarity; Laying foundations for a world knowledge dialogue. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Press / CRC Press, Lausanne: 94–102.
The aim of this paper is to reconsider some of the stakes involved in the dialogue between sciences and between scientists, considering it as a complex and critical learning process. Dialogue – as conversation, expression, performance and negotiation – can be conceived in several ways. It carries both an epistemic and an experiential side. It involves simultaneously heterogeneous theories and identities. Because it involves fragmented scientific languages, it also requires a shared vision. But above all, what seems critical to acknowledge is that dialogue is a matter of transformation. And because transformation is also a matter of learning, the promotion of dialogue between sciences should be perceived as a virtuous spiral involving: instrumental learning (to dialogue), communicational learning (what we mean by dialoguing) and emancipatory learning (to challenge our core assumptions about dialogue and sciences). Considering the evolution of sciences as a double process embedded in the production of knowledge and the self-development of researchers raises the question of how to conceive simultaneously the relationships between these two major stakes. From a practical point of view, considering scientific dialogue as a lifelong learning process would finally suggest the management of forums like the World Knowledge Dialogue (WKD) as a privileged educational opportunity to be designed following what is known about science as a social practice and about researchers as adult learners. Based on the first edition of this forum, four suggestions are finally considered: favoring heterogeneity; valorizing formal knowledge as well as lived experience; acknowledging the learning dimension involved in the process of sharing; and confronting professional experience with knowledge produced about sciences. Inspired by Edgar Morin's constructivist and non-dualistic position, this paper explores its practical stakes by revisiting the practice of transdisciplinary research and by considering the relationships between the process of knowledge construction and researchers' self-development as a lifelong learning process.
Ataria Y. (2017) Varela as the Uncanny. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 153–154. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4066
Open peer commentary on the article "Enaction as a Lived Experience: Towards a Radical Neurophenomenology" by Claire Petitmengin. Upshot: Why has the neurophenomenological approach not been adopted as a common and even obligatory tool in the study of consciousness? I suggest that the problem with the neurophenomenological approach is its effectiveness on the one hand and its almost impossible demands from the scientist on the other: One cannot accept the neurophenomenological approach without rejecting not only the paradigm of cognitive science, but the scientific paradigm as a whole.
Ataria Y., Dor-Ziderman Y. & Berkovich-Ohana A. (2015) How does it feel to lack a sense of boundaries? A case study of a long-term mindfulness meditator. Consciousness and Cognition 37: 133–147.
This paper discusses the phenomenological nature of the sense of boundaries (SB), based on the case of S, who has practiced mindfulness in the Satipathana and Theravada Vipassana traditions for about 40years and accumulated around 20,000h of meditative practice. S's unique abilities enable him to describe his inner lived experience with great precision and clarity. S was asked to shift between three different stages: (a) the default state, (b) the dissolving of the SB, and (c) the disappearance of the SB. Based on his descriptions, we identified seven categories (with some overlap) that alter during the shifts between these stages, including the senses of: (1) internal versus external, (2) time, (3) location, (4) self, (5) agency (control), (6) ownership, and (7) center (first-person-egocentric-bodily perspective). Two other categories, the touching/touched structure and one's bodily feelings, do not fade away completely even when the sense-of-boundaries disappears.
Baron P. (2016) A Cybernetic Approach to Contextual Teaching and Learning. Constructivist Foundations 12(1): 91–100. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/3819
Context: Public universities in South Africa are currently facing the challenge of decolonising knowledge. This change requires a review of curriculums, as well as teaching and learning with the goal of embracing the epistemology of the learners, addressing issues such as social justice and transformation. Problem: Human communication is subject to several perceptual errors in both listening and seeing, which challenges the success of the communication in the education system. The ability of the teacher and the learners to effectively communicate with one another is a factor for the success of each reaching their goals. The teacher imparts her knowledge in the classroom, but according to von Foerster, "[i]t is the listener, not the speaker, who determines the meaning of an utterance," for the listener contextualises this information based on her own past lived experience. Thus, the student's epistemology and her expression of her understanding is integral in the classroom context and should be actively included into the education system. Method: I present a cybernetic approach to the teacher-learner system, challenging traditional ideas about the role of each actor within the system, with special attention given to Pask's conversation theory. Results: Early empirical findings suggest that a conversational contextual approach results in higher student involvement and better memory retention among the learners. Conversational approaches that are epistemologically inclusive diffuse social problems where the student groups require their individual worldviews to be reflected within the curriculum. This reduces the friction of competing epistemologies within the education system, moving toward a co-created contextually-driven knowledge system. Implications: Many educators would like deeper engagement from their learners but have not found a way to successfully engage the student group. A cybernetic approach is one method that can be adopted to remedy this. This is particularly useful in contexts where there is cultural diversity and impending social change. Constructivist content: I address von Glasersfeld's points on human cognition, linking it to Austin's speech acts.
Key words: Contextual approach, conversation theory, decolonisation of knowledge, education, epistemology, teaching and learning.
Berkovich-Ohana A. (2017) Radical Neurophenomenology: We Cannot Solve the Problems Using the Same Kind of Thinking We Used When We Created Them. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 156–159. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4068
Open peer commentary on the article "Enaction as a Lived Experience: Towards a Radical Neurophenomenology" by Claire Petitmengin. Upshot: The neurophenomenological project is too ambitious technically, but highly appealing on the philosophical level, as can be learned from the extremely high ratio between theoretical and empirical work concerning neurophenomenology accumulated thus far. While "radical" neurophenomenology could possibly create, in highly unique projects, "mutual generative constraints," will the hard problem be dissolved? I argue that although using micro phenomenology, as long as experimental designs inspired by front-loading phenomenological insights are reviewed by the regular scientific mind, the question of validating the phenomenology with objective measures remains, and will keep blocking the outbreak in this promising field. Since "we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them," it is timely for the scientific community to practice an attitude shift.
Bitbol M. (2017) Phenoneurology. Constructivist Foundations 12(2): 150–153. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4065
Open peer commentary on the article "Enaction as a Lived Experience: Towards a Radical Neurophenomenology" by Claire Petitmengin. Upshot: Petitmengin's strategy of dissolution of the "hard problem" of consciousness is shown to rely on some radical phenomenological premises that are listed and analyzed. It presupposes a starting point of research in a state of epoché (or suspension of judgment); it unfolds into a participatory conception of truth; and it ends in a quest for non-dual pristine experience. Each one of these moves is endorsed and amplified.
Bitbol M. & Petitmengin C. (2017) Neurophenomenology and the micro-phenomenological interview. In: Schneider S. & Velmans M. (eds.) The Blackwell companion to consciousness. Second edition. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ: 726–739. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4120
Summary: In its most radical version, Neurophenomenology asks researchers to suspend the quest of an objective solution to the problem of the origin of subjectivity, and clarify instead how objectification can be obtained out of the coordination of subjective experiences. It therefore invites researchers to develop their inquiry about subjective experience with the same determination as their objective inquiry. However, accessing lived experience raises the question of the investigation method, and of the reliability of its results. Here, we present an accurate method of exploration of lived experience: the elicitation (or microphenomenological) interview. In the course of this interview, one first triggers a form of "phenomenological reduction," then assists the subject in retrieving or "evoking" past experiences, and finally helps the subject to perform acts of attention about this evoked experience, to describe it faithfully. It is shown that this method addresses a set of traditional objections against introspection Relevance: Elicitation interview, first-person, introspection, lived experience, microdynamics, micro-phenomenological interview, neurophenomenology, pre-reflective experience.
Key words: Elicitation interview, first-person, introspection, lived experience, microdynamics, micro-phenomenological interview, neurophenomenology, pre-reflective experience.
Cowley S. J. & Gahrn-Andersen R. (2015) Deflating autonomy: Human interactivity in the emerging social world. Intellectica 62: 49–63. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/4772
This article critiques recent enactivist attempts to bridge an epistemological divide between the individual and the social (i.e. to fill in the posited macro-micro gap) Its central claim is that an inflated view of 'autonomy' leads to error. Scrutinising two contributions, we find that methodological solipsism taints Varela's model: It induces De Jaegher & Di Paolo to ascribe social knowledge to perturbances – contingencies whose logic arises from the closed organization of an individual (De Jaegher & Di Paolo, 2007) and Steiner & Stewart to posit that the pre-dispositions of an organizationally closed world prompt individuals to "receive" shared norms (Steiner & Stewart, 2009) On our deflated view, neither organizational closure nor participatory sense making apply to most human cognition. Rather, we invoke a developmental process based on the recursive self-maintenance that is found in all organism-environment systems (including bacteria) Humans differ in that infants discover ways of making skilled use of phenomenal experience: they learn to predicate something of lived experience. As observers, they connect impersonal resources of culture (artifacts, institutions, languages etc.) with on-going social and environmental activity. This human kind of heteronomy links social processes to agent-environment systems that sustain – and are sustained by – historically positioned modes of life. Far from being organisationally closed, human subjects depend on using sensorimotoric prompts to connect the phenomenal with the impersonal and open up a partly shared, partly lived, reality.
De Jesus P. (2016) Sweeping Anthropomorphism Under the MAT. Constructivist Foundations 11(2): 216–218. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/2544
Open peer commentary on the article "Lived Experience and Cognitive Science Reappraising Enactivism's Jonasian Turn" by Mario Villalobos & Dave Ward. Upshot: Villalobos and Ward reappraise enactivism's "Jonasian turn" and discover an untenable anthropomorphism at its core. As a corrective to this, the authors propose a Maturanian-inspired account of experience (MAT) that could accommodate central enactive insights while avoiding anthropomorphism. In this commentary, I will delve a bit deeper into Villalobos and Ward's treatment of anthropomorphism. In so doing, I will show that the notion of anthropomorphism (a) trades on an ambiguity that leaves the authors' own position open to accusations of anthropomorphism and that (b) it needs further justification for why it is at odds with science. I conclude with a few words on why the authors' assessment of a similar proposal by myself is unfounded.
Depraz N. (2013) An Experiential Phenomenology of Novelty: The Dynamic Antinomy of Attention and Surprise. Constructivist Foundations 8(3): 280-287. Fulltext at https://cepa.info/905
Context: In earlier joint work with Varela and Vermersch, we began the elaboration of a methodological and epistemological framework for a practical experiential phenomenology. Problem: I here wish to update and further develop that earlier work. Method: I present the framework of a practical, as distinct from a conceptual-theoretical, phenomenology. I update that framework, arguing for a shift in emphasis from consciousness to vigilant attention. I offer a still preliminary investigation of the important phenomenon of surprise. I link these results with ongoing scientific research conducted by myself and others. Results: Attention-as-vigilance is a key operator of experience. Attention has an antinomic dynamic with surprise. Implications: Attention and surprise are key participants in the generative process of the experience of novelty. Elaboration of this thesis enables the further development of practical, first-person methodologies. Constructivist content: This paper outlines certain key features of first-person, lived experience, and elaborates a method for linking these results directly to ongoing scientific research.
Key words: Practical phenomenology, attention, vigilance, surprise, experience, novelty
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Cola is a type of soft drink that has become arguably the most recognizable and favored drink since it was invented. Since its creation in the United States back in 1886, it has spread to even some of the more remote places of the world. Interestingly, it is made with the same plant that is an ingredient for the addictive drug cocaine. Similar to the addiction to cocaine, some people are addicted to the taste of cola as to drink it everyday. One of the reasons contributing to its rise may be that in the early days, cola drinks contained cocaine. Although taste was an important aspect of its popularity, was the rise of cola purely due to that? There may additionally be other factors most people overlook that have been crucial to its popularity. This paper will address one such factor: the logos of cola drink brands. It will explore one major cola drink brand that has been prevalent since the dawn of cola.The logo of the Coca-Cola company, that everyone knows has been through many changes in the past. However, none of those changes were major. The official logo of Coca-Cola in the beginning was a black stylized script font of the word "Coca-Cola" with the word "trade mark" inside the "C" in the "Coca-Cola." In the 1950s, Coca-Cola placed their logo inside a red circle, with a portrait of the now iconic Coca-Cola bottle behind it. While keeping with the script font logo, the company also added the visualization of actual cola in the background of the logo, thus further emboldening the image of the brand to those who saw this image. The fishtail logo was first introduced in 1958 so that the many stores and restaurants as the display signs and it has become popular with the businesses due to the usage of sign increasing the traffic and business. Between 1969 and 1985, the logo was changed to a design with a red square that had the white wave line and the word "Enjoy" at the top of the script logo. 1985 through 1987 was a bad time for the Coca-Cola company because for the first time in history, they were out-sold by Pepsi, their number-one competitor. Because of this, they had to take drastic measures to remake their image in order to appeal to the crowd once again. The initial Coke logos mentioned all have been similar with the black, stylized script font. To change their old image, they rebranded themselves as the well-known "Coke," which was written in a thick slab of serif font. However, the new branding was met with resistance as many decided to boycott the brand until the old Coca-Cola was restored. It is interesting to note that even though it had failed to bring the company back to the days of "glory," the name "Coke" has stuck with many people still today. In a way, it was a successful way to change the consumers' minds about a product that had been selling for over half-decade with just one change in design. In 1987, due to failures of the prior design, they went back to the traditional script logo Coca-Cola design. Only time time the white wave line was more integrated with the word Coca Cola in the logo. Because cola is a popular, addictive drink, it is no surprise that the Coca-Cola company is revered today as one of the more famous brands. As one of the most iconic features of the company, Coca-Cola's logo has undergone changes throughout the years. Overall, the logo
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She is predeceased by her husband of 49 years, Donald R Reel. She has two daughters, Nancy A. Livingston of Gilbert, Arizona, and Cynthia L. Hendricks of Scottsdale, Arizona.
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The royal family has kept pretty mum when it comes to how they feel about Harry and Meghan's docuseries, and that might be part of King Charles' plan. "What I think Charles is doing is actually playing a rather clever long game," royal historian David Starkey said on GB News, via The Mirror. "He's just letting events take their course, which I think is a very wise thing to do."
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Carl Gustaf Ericsson von Rosen (* 19. August 1909 in Helgesta, (Gemeinde Flen); † 13. Juli 1977 in Gode (Äthiopien)) war ein schwedischer Pilot, humanitärer Aktivist und Söldner.

Er besuchte das schwedische Eliteinternat Lundsberg. Nach seinem Hinauswurf kaufte er sich im Alter von 19 Jahren eine Sopwith Camel und begann sein Leben als Flieger und Abenteurer. Während des Abessinienkriegs flog er humanitäre Hilfseinsätze und war dabei der erste Pilot eines Rot-Kreuz-Flugzeuges. Nach Kriegsende hielt er mit seinem Flugzeug die Verbindung zwischen dem geflohenen Haile Selassie und äthiopischen Partisanen an der Grenze zum Sudan aufrecht.

Im Jahr 1939 arbeitete er bei der niederländischen Fluggesellschaft KLM. Nach Ausbruch des sowjetisch-finnischen Winterkriegs stahl von Rosen von KLM eine Douglas DC-2 und flog sie nach Finnland, wo er sie zum Bomber umbaute und damit die sowjetischen Stellungen angriff. Es war der einzige Bomber Finnlands. Von Rosen plante einen Angriff auf den Kreml, den ihm der finnische Oberbefehlshaber Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim persönlich verbot.

Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurde von Rosen als Spion von der Gestapo verhaftet. Weil er über seine Tante Carin Göring mit Hermann Göring verwandt war, wurde er auf dessen Intervention wieder freigelassen.

Bei Kriegsende brachte Carl-Gustav von Rosen KZ-Überlebende zur Pflege nach Schweden. Danach lebte von Rosen zehn Jahre lang in Äthiopien und baute dort für Haile Selassie sowohl die nationalen Luftstreitkräfte als auch die nationale Fluggesellschaft auf. Zur Belohnung erhielt er eine Kaffeeplantage geschenkt.

In den fünfziger Jahren war er persönlicher Pilot des UN-Generalsekretärs Dag Hammarskjöld. Bei dessen tödlichem Flugunfall 1961 war von Rosen aber wegen Krankheit nicht an Bord. Da es zahlreiche Zweifel am Ergebnis der Untersuchungskommission gab, die als Ursache einen Pilotenfehler angab, flog er die Route nach und bestätigte den Kommissionsbericht.

Von 1960 bis 1962 flog er Hilfseinsätze für die Uno im Kongo. Während des Biafra-Krieges arbeitete er im Sommer 1968 als Pilot für eine schwedische Chartergesellschaft und brachte im Auftrag kirchlicher Wohlfahrtsorganisationen von São Tomé und Príncipe aus Hilfsgüter in den neugegründeten Staat. Dabei durchbrach er im Tiefflug mit einer Douglas DC-7 die Blockade der nigerianischen Luftstreitkräfte. Seiner späteren Aussage zufolge konnte er es nicht zulassen, dass die dank seiner Lebensmittel geretteten Einwohner Biafras später von den nigerianischen Streitkräften massakriert würden, und schmuggelte deshalb Waffen in seinem Flugzeug. Daraufhin wurde er entlassen und begann am Aufbau der Luftstreitkräfte der Streitkräfte Biafras zu arbeiten.

Er bildete 1969 die Staffel Biafra Babies. Diese Einheit aus fünf mit Raketen bewaffneten Leichtflugzeugen vom Typ MFI-9 flog spektakuläre Kampfeinsätze gegen nigerianische Flugplätze, Truppenansammlungen und Ölfördereinrichtungen, so beispielsweise am 22. Mai 1969 auf einen Flugplatz bei Port Harcourt. Von Rosen bildete in Gabun die Piloten aus Biafra aus und führte persönlich fünf der Einsätze an, bevor er sich erschöpft nach Schweden zurückzog.

Danach kehrt er auf seine Plantage in Äthiopien zurück. Am 12. Juli 1977 besuchte er Bekannte in Gode. In der Nacht wurde das Haus von somalischen Guerilleros überfallen. Zu den acht Bewohnern, die sie töteten, gehörte auch von Rosen.

Literatur
 Michael I. Draper: Shadows. Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria, 1967–1970. Hikoki Publications, 1999, ISBN 1-902109-63-5, S. 217–230
 Anthony Mockler: The new mercenaries. Corgi Books, London 1986, ISBN 0-552-12558-X, pp. 175, 182–189, 198–199
 Gösta von Uexküll: Pilot für die Menschlichkeit, in: Die Zeit 34/1968, S. 2 hier:, abgerufen am 20. April 2014

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 Der Luftkrieg zwischen Nigeria und Biafra, abgerufen am 30. Dezember 2012
 Seitenriss der MFI-9-Flugzeuge in den Markierungen der Luftstreitkräfte von Biafra, abgerufen am 20. April 2014

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"""This will retrieve a PDBs "fingerprint" from it's corresponding executable
image (.dll or .exe).  This is used when retrieving the PDB from the symbol
server.  The .pdb (or cab compressed .pd_) is expected at a path like:
 foo.pdb/FINGERPRINT/foo.pdb

We can retrieve the same information from the .PDB file itself, but this file
format is much more difficult and undocumented.  Instead, we can look at the
DLL's reference to the PDB, and use that to retrieve the information."""

import sys
import pefile

__CV_INFO_PDB70_format__ = ('CV_INFO_PDB70',
  ('4s,CvSignature', '16s,Signature', 'L,Age'))

__GUID_format__ = ('GUID',
  ('L,Data1', 'H,Data2', 'H,Data3', '8s,Data4'))

def GetPDBInfoFromImg(filename):
  """Returns the PDB fingerprint and the pdb filename given an image file"""

  pe = pefile.PE(filename)

  for dbg in pe.DIRECTORY_ENTRY_DEBUG:
    if dbg.struct.Type == 2:  # IMAGE_DEBUG_TYPE_CODEVIEW
      off = dbg.struct.AddressOfRawData
      size = dbg.struct.SizeOfData
      data = pe.get_memory_mapped_image()[off:off+size]

      cv = pefile.Structure(__CV_INFO_PDB70_format__)
      cv.__unpack__(data)
      cv.PdbFileName = data[cv.sizeof():]
      guid = pefile.Structure(__GUID_format__)
      guid.__unpack__(cv.Signature)
      guid.Data4_0 = ''.join("%02X" % ord(x) for x in guid.Data4[0:2])
      guid.Data4_1 = ''.join("%02X" % ord(x) for x in guid.Data4[2:])

      return ("%08X%04X%04X%s%s%d" % (
          guid.Data1, guid.Data2, guid.Data3,
          guid.Data4_0, guid.Data4_1, cv.Age),
          cv.PdbFileName.split('\x00', 1)[0])

    break

if __name__ == '__main__':
  if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print "usage: file.dll"
    sys.exit(1)

  (fingerprint, file) = GetPDBInfoFromImg(sys.argv[1])
  print "%s %s" % (fingerprint, file)

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On a navigation link I'm using a hash to point to a div, so when clicked it scrolls, changes the background color, and then fades back to normal. This should be simple but it's not working?
I'm using jQuery 1.4.2, the jQuery Color plugin, and window.location.hash for the highlighting.


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More Than a Think Tank
Discovery Institute Celebrates 25 Years
Steven J. Buri
I remember a Seattle Weekly article circa 2000 — around the time that I was hired as Executive Director — that described Discovery Institute as a think tank where people "sit around a big table and think really hard." Needless to say, the article was neither friendly, nor indicative of the role that think tanks really play in policy development. It missed a bigger point, too. Discovery Institute is more than a think tank. While we still maintain an interest in public policy, we are increasingly a cultural institution — one that examines and challenges the worldview assumptions and cultural influences that drive public policy. If policies and the culture flow like a river, we work at the headwaters. Other think tanks do admirable work in the rivers and tributaries. This unique approach is one that has developed over our twenty-five year history. For those of you who are not familiar, here is a brief retelling of that story.
Discovery Institute was conceived in the mind of our founder, Bruce Chapman, long before he and George Gilder established the organization in 1991. Bruce first envisioned a Seattle-based think tank in the 1970s, inspired in part by the formation of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. Think tanks were a new concept then, but he saw the potential to influence public policy through sound research and communication with decision-makers, opinion leaders and the general public. The realization of his vision would be forestalled, however, by his appointment and subsequent election as Washington's Secretary of State in 1976. His service in the 1980s as the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, as an advisor to President Ronald Reagan, and as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mission in Vienna, Austria, would delay his dream once more. Bruce returned to the United States in 1988, where he began work as a Senior Fellow at the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute.
It's official. IRS approval of the Institute on October 11, 1991
The fulfillment of Bruce's vision — Discovery Institute — was born shortly thereafter, first as a Seattle branch of the Hudson Institute, and later as an independent entity. Joined in its formation by his longtime friend and Harvard roommate George Gilder, Discovery set a course to "make a positive vision of the future practical." That early mission statement guided several research programs — technology, transportation, trade, and tourism — each reflecting our home in the Pacific Northwest. Later program additions, such as the Center for Science and Culture and the Center for Human Exceptionalism, address fundamental worldview questions. These programs present a challenge to status quo thinking, and have helped thrust Discovery into the national spotlight. Today, Discovery Institute is home to a variety of programs — economics, bioethics, education, civics, technology, science and culture — that reflect our history and guide our future. They are united by our new mission to "advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation."
This unique mission separates the work of Discovery Institute from other think tanks. Generally speaking, we are less interested in a particular piece of legislation than we are in the creative power of the mind that crafted it; we see intelligent design not as a threat to scientific order but as an avenue to new discoveries; we view deference to human dignity as foundational to liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and we see challenging the status quo as a requirement of human progress. In short, we see Discovery Institute as more than a think tank. I am grateful that you do as well.
Thank you for standing with us through the years. I hope to see you at one of the many events we have planned in celebration of our Silver Anniversary!
If you would like to make a donation to Discovery Institute in honor of our Anniversary and in support of these Anniversary events, visit our online giving page.
President, Discovery Institute
Steven J. Buri was appointed President of Discovery Institute in December 2011. He joined the Institute in April 2000 as Executive Director and was named Vice President in 2005. Mr. Buri has served in various capacities in government at the local, state and federal levels. Steve was born and raised in the small farming community of Colfax, Washington and is a 1994 graduate of Washington State University (Double Major-Political Science, Criminal Justice). He lives on Mercer Island with his wife Angelica, a daughter, Caitlin, and a son, J.D.
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Q: Flot plot horizontal regression line I'm using Flot to plot a horizontal line in a linear regression application, the points I entered was (1,1) (2,1) (3,1) (4,1) and for the regression line, I'm only plotting 2 points, the Y intercept at (1,1) and the last point at (4,1). I have autoscale ON, for some reason flot doesn't plot (1,1) but rather (1,0.99999999) instead? My regression line is on top of the X-axis and the Y intercept says 0.999999, while the points are on top of the graph. I want the plot to show a horizontal line across a Y-axis scale from 0 to 2, how do I do that?
My regression line is plotted as follows:
this.regLine.push([this.min, this.theta[0] + this.theta[1] * norm_x1]);
this.regLine.push([this.max, this.theta[0] + this.theta[1] * norm_x2]);

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Dalits and caste discrimination have frequently been subjects in Indian cinema, from Achhut Kanya (1936) to Sairat (2016), and the general consensus about these films is positive, that they are courageous attempts to deal with a burning issue that has stubbornly refused to be resolved, and will probably continue to resist resolution for a long time to come.
Still, it would be useful to look at the representation of Dalits in Indian film, as it could tell us something about dominant perspectives on social victimhood in the country that could well stretch beyond film, perhaps into every aspect of culture.
If one were to consider international films dealing with social conflict and victimhood, one could place them under several political categories, like colonialism (Battle of Algiers), fascism (The Great Dictator), capitalism (Wall Street, Erin Brockovich), Stalinism (Man of Marble), Maoism (To Live), patriarchy (The Life of Oharu), the films coming usually from countries (or set in countries) where the particular form of political oppression is pertinent.
An aspect common to the aforementioned films is that while they all deal with victims, they try to present well-rounded pictures of the situations they engage with.
Much of The Great Dictator is taken up by life before the spectre of fascism gains ground, with the barber's dealings in the ghetto.
They pursue mimesis in that they try to base their political discourses on social observation and the victimhood of the protagonists by forces without is only an aspect in their lives, although an extremely important one.


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Q: query to get the records have some_id and some_flag such that all same some_id must have all some_flag ='Y' in oracle I am a beginner to sql and have tried to write the query but didn't get the desired result
select r1.some_id, count(r1.some_id) as ca   from (select r.some_id,
               r.some_flag,
               count(r.some_id),
               count(r.some_flag)
          from table1 r
         group by r.some_id, r.some_flag) r1  group by r1.some_id

my reqirement is like: whose some_flag is 'Y' for all the some_ids present in table, if one is Y and other is N then that some_id shouldn't come in result.
actual data is as:

and want result like below:

A: You can avoid having to query the table twice by using MIN in combination with an analytic function.
SELECT id, some_id, some_flag
  FROM (SELECT t.*, MIN (some_flag) OVER (PARTITION BY some_id) AS should_return
          FROM table1 t)
 WHERE should_return = 'Y'

A: Here's one option: per some_id MIN flag has to be equal to MAX flag, and it has to be Y:
select *
from table1 a
where a.some_id in (select b.some_id
                    from table1 b
                    group by b.some_id
                    having min(b.some_flag) = max(b.some_flag)
                       and min(b.some_flag) = 'Y'
                   )

A: Here is an option to get you the results..
select *
  from table1 r
where r.some_flag='Y'
  and not exists (select 1
                    from table1 r2
                   where r.some_id=r2.some_id
                     and r2.some_flag <> 'Y')


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Q: LiveSDK onedrive - How to read an album I am trying to follow a sample on MSDN to read the properties of a folder on onedrive, but I am running into some errors.
Here is the tutorial I am following: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh826522.aspx#reading_albums
The error I get when I run the code says:
"Error  1   'testRun.MainPage' does not contain a definition for 'session' and no extension method 'session' accepting a first argument of type 'testRun.MainPage' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) C:\Users\me\Desktop\project"
Am I missing something I have to run before I click the button? The only thing that fails is the "this.session" parameter. I am barely learning the LiveSDK so I'm not sure if I'm missing a reference or what. Thanks for any and all help :)
My Code:
private async void Button_logIn_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                LiveConnectClient liveClient = new LiveConnectClient(this.session);
                LiveOperationResult operationResult =
                    await liveClient.GetAsync("path/to/folder");
                dynamic result = operationResult.Result;
                this.Textblock_status.Text = string.Join(" ", "Album name:", result.name, "ID:", result.id);
            }
            catch (LiveConnectException exception)
            {
                this.Textblock_status.Text = "Error getting album info: " + exception.Message;
            }
        }

A: The session object is stored in the LiveAuthClient object when the user is logged in: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.live.liveauthclient.session.aspx
From the error, it looks like session is not a method of the current page, which also makes it inaccessible from this method.  You'll want to store the session object somewhere that the methods can access it after the user logs in.


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#define SCM_H__

#include <utility>
#include "common.h"
#include "automata.h"

namespace fold {

  // Variant class that describes either a number, or index of a symbolic value;
  class Constant {
  public:
    explicit Constant(bool is_symbolic,
		      int num,
		      uint sym_id)
    : is_symbolic_ {is_symbolic}
    , num_ {num}
    , sym_id_ {sym_id}
    {};

    ~Constant()		     	{}

    bool is_symbolic() const	{ return is_symbolic_; }
    int num() const		{ return num_; }
    uint sym_id() const		{ return sym_id_; }
    bool operator<(const Constant& o) const;
    bool operator>(const Constant& o) const;
    bool operator==(const Constant& o) const;
    bool operator!=(const Constant& o) const;

  private:
    bool is_symbolic_;
    int num_;
    uint sym_id_;
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
				    const Constant& cons);
  };

  class SCounterConstraint {
  public:
    explicit SCounterConstraint(uint ctr_id,
				Operator op,
				const Constant& cons)
    : ctr_id_ {ctr_id}
    , op_ {op}
    , cons_ {cons}
    {}

    ~SCounterConstraint() 		{}

    uint ctr_id() const 		{ return ctr_id_; }
    Operator op() const 		{ return op_; }
    const Constant& cons() const	{ return cons_; }
    bool operator<(const SCounterConstraint& o) const;

  private:
    uint ctr_id_;
    Operator op_;
    Constant cons_;
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
				    const SCounterConstraint& cc);
  };

  std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
			   const std::set<SCounterConstraint>& ccs);

  class SymbolConstraint {
  public:
    explicit SymbolConstraint(Operator op,
			      const Constant& cons)
    : op_ {op}
    , cons_{cons}
    {};

    ~SymbolConstraint() 		{}

    Operator op() const 		{ return op_; }
    const Constant& cons() const      	{ return cons_; }
    bool operator<(const SymbolConstraint& o) const;

  private:
    Operator op_;
    Constant cons_;
    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
				    const SymbolConstraint& sc);
  };

  typedef std::set<SymbolConstraint> SymbolFrm;

  std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
			   const SymbolFrm& sc);

  // A transition in a CM.
  class CmAction {
  public:
  CmAction(const uint letter_id,
	   const std::set<SCounterConstraint>& ccs,
	   state_t succ,
	   const std::vector<int>& addition,
	   const std::vector<bool>& add_element)
    : letter_id_ {letter_id}
    , ccs_ {ccs}
    , succ_{succ}
    , addition_{addition}
    , add_element_{add_element}
    {}

    ~CmAction()					{}

    uint letter_id() const 			{ return letter_id_; }
    const std::set<SCounterConstraint> counter_constraints() const
    { return ccs_; }
    state_t succ() const 			{ return succ_; }
    const std::vector<int>& addition() const 	{ return addition_; }
    const std::vector<bool>& add_element() const 	{ return add_element_; }
  private:
    uint letter_id_;		// position in the alphabet
    std::set<SCounterConstraint> ccs_;
    state_t succ_;
    std::vector<int> addition_;	// constants to add
    std::vector<bool> add_element_; // add array element value

    friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
				    const CmAction& cma);
  };

  // Counter machine with an alphabet of type T.
  template <typename T> class SCM {
  public:
  SCM(uint states_no,
      uint counters_no,
      uint scons_no,
      state_t init_state,
      const std::vector<T>& alphabet,
      const std::vector<std::deque<CmAction>>& tr,
      const std::set<state_t>& acc)
    : states_no_{states_no}
    , counters_no_{counters_no}
    , scons_no_{scons_no}
    , init_state_{init_state}
    , alphabet_{alphabet}
    , tr_{tr}
    , acc_{acc}
    {}

    virtual ~SCM() 			       			{ }

    uint states_no() const 					{ return states_no_;    }
    uint counters_no() const					{ return counters_no_;  }
    uint sym_constants_no() const 			      	{ return scons_no_; }
    state_t init_state() const		      			{ return init_state_; }
    const std::vector<T>& alphabet() const 			{ return alphabet_;  }
    const std::vector<std::deque<CmAction>>& tr() const 	{ return tr_;  }
    const std::set<state_t>& accepting() const			{ return acc_; }

    void check() const;

  private:
    uint states_no_;
    uint counters_no_;
    uint scons_no_;
    state_t init_state_;
    std::vector<T> alphabet_;
    std::vector<std::deque<CmAction>> tr_;
    std::set<state_t> acc_;

    template <typename U>
      friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
				      const SCM<U>& cm);
  };

  template <typename U>
    std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os,
			     const SCM<U>& cm);

  // Computes parallel composition of two CM's defined over the same alphabet.
  SCM<SymbolFrm> parallel(const SCM<SymbolFrm>& cm1,
			  const SCM<SymbolFrm>& cm2,
			  bool doSfSat);

  // Collection of information about a SCM.
  class SCMInfo {
  public:
  SCMInfo(uint tr_size,
	  const std::vector<std::set<uint>>& cmp_const,
	  const std::vector<std::set<uint>>& cmp_symid,
	  const std::vector<std::set<SCounterConstraint>>& ccs_vector,
	  const std::set<std::pair<uint, int>>& update_set)
    : tr_size_ {tr_size}
    , cmp_const_ {cmp_const}
    , cmp_symid_ {cmp_symid}
    , ccs_vector_ {ccs_vector}
    , update_set_ {update_set}
    {}

    virtual ~SCMInfo()	{}

    uint tr_size_;
    std::vector<std::set<uint>> cmp_const_;			// constants in comparison for each counter
    std::vector<std::set<uint>> cmp_symid_;			// ids of unsorted symbolic constant in comparison for each counter
    std::vector<std::set<SCounterConstraint>> ccs_vector_;	// actions constraints
    std::set<std::pair<uint, int>> update_set_;			// counter updates
  };

  // TODO move to .cc
  template <typename T>
    SCMInfo getSCMInfo(const SCM<T>& scm);

}

#endif


Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have built a superconducting switch that mimics the behavior of a synapse between neurons. This artificial synapse could help advance the development of computing systems that behave and learn like the human brain.
They say that neurons that fire together wire together, which is a nice, rhyming way to say that neurons that actively signal in a group tend to develop stronger connections with each other. Indeed, from an evolutionary stand point, this makes a lot of sense because it facilitates learning. During new experiences like learning to walk or speak a language or making mental maps of the way home, neurons make new connections. The more an activity is repeated, or the more learning involved, the stronger those connections become. Zoom in and you'll see that these neurons don't actually physically touch, but instead right at the junction where two neurons meet is a tiny gap called a synapse.
And by tiny, we are talking in the ball park of around 40 nanometers.
In order for information to flow from one neuron to the other, neurotransmitters are released at the end of the long tail-like axon of one neuron. They flow across the gap and are picked up by receptors on the other neuron. This, in turn, can trigger an electrical signal that will be transmitted along this second neuron.
Of course, if the signal from the first neuron isn't very strong, the second neuron won't become activated in response. After all, not every new connection is going to be useful and it's not in the brain's best interest for every connection to be hypersensitive and easily activated.
And yet, neurons that frequently signal together do become much more in tune with one another, so much so that threshold for activation becomes lower. With repeated interaction, the second neuron becomes much more sensitive to signals coming from the first neuron.
Consequently, well used neuronal pathways that involve such mutually sensitive neurons fire much more quickly. You become better at walking, at speaking that new language, and finding your way home.
Neuron pathways are able to adapt this way because synapses can, for lack of a better term, learn. As firing becomes more frequent, the first neuron can increase the number of neurotransmitters it sends, and/or the second neuron can become more sensitive to those neurotransmitters. This involves changes in the way certain genes are regulated in response to regular use.
Researchers are working on building computers that function much like the brain, and to do that they want to mimic the way neurons behave and respond to one another. Adaptable connections are important for this. The problem then, is how do you achieve this same kind of learning mechanism in an artificial synapse, so that the threshold for activation is lower for connections that are used frequently, but higher for those used less often? In other words, how do you get an artificial synapse to 'learn' without the benefit of finely tuned genetic and biochemical feedback mechanisms?
To address this, researchers at NIST used something called a Josephson junction. Instead of two electrically active neurons meeting at a synapse, this junction involves two superconductors separated by an insulator. The junction they built is extremely small, only 10 micrometers in diameter.
When a sufficient current runs through the junction, it produces low voltage spikes, in an analogous way to how a sufficient electrical signal in the first neuron can trigger a spike of electrical activity in the second neuron.
That was the first step in mimicking a neuronal connection. But what about the synapse learning effect?
Here's where it gets really interesting. The researchers filled the insulating gap with magnetic nanoclusters to the tune of 20,000 per square micrometer. Each of these nanoclusters behaves like a tiny bar magnet polarized along an axis.
Filling the gap between the two superconductors, this multitude of tiny magnets begin in a disordered jumble, with their magnetic 'spins' pointing all over the place.
When they are in this magnetically disordered state, they tend to put a damper on any current trying to cross the gap between the superconductors. Consequently the amount of current needed to trigger a voltage spike is quite high.
However, in the presence of a magnetic field, repeated pulses of current will cause all the nanoclusters to align in the same magnetic direction. The more aligned they become, the more current friendly they are, lowering the amount of current needed to trigger a voltage spike. In other words, frequent electrical activity at this junction leads to a more sensitive interaction between the two superconductors. Sound familiar?
How does it compare to a real neuron-neuron interaction in terms of energy and speed?
If you have a 100 watt lightbulb in your lamp and turn it on for one second, you've just used 100 joules. A neuron is so energy efficient that it would have to fire around 100,000,000,000,000,000 times to match that amount of energy use.
This is because a single synaptic event only uses around 10 femtojoules of energy.
By comparison, the amount of energy needed for the artificial synapse to function was always less than 1 attojoule. This about 10,000 times higher than the energy used by a natural synapse, but it's still pretty impressive.
In terms of speed, though, the artificial synapse wins by a long shot.
A neuronal synapse may fire a few times to a few hundred times per second, but these artificial synapses were able to fire faster at a rate of 100 billion times per second. This, coupled with the small size and a design enabling 3D stacking of these junctions, suggests that a significant amount of computational complexity could be achieved in a very small amount of space.
A person could easily burn a lot of femtojoules just thinking about such a possibility.
"Ultralow power artificial synapses using nanotextured magnetic Josephson junctions"


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package net.happybrackets.documentation;

import net.happybrackets.core.HBAction;
import net.happybrackets.core.control.ControlScope;
import net.happybrackets.core.control.IntegerControl;
import net.happybrackets.device.HB;

import java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles;

public class ControlScopeExample implements HBAction {
    @Override
    public void action(HB hb) {
        hb.reset(); //Clears any running code on the device

        IntegerControl control1 = new IntegerControl(this, "ControlName", 0);
        control1.setControlScope(ControlScope.TARGET);
        control1.addControlTarget("HB-123456", "HB-654321");
        control1.addControlTarget( "192.168.0.2");

        IntegerControl control2 = new IntegerControl(this, "ControlName", 0) {
            @Override
            public void valueChanged(int control_val) {// Write your DynamicControl code below this line
                System.out.println("Read " + control_val);
                // Write your DynamicControl code above this line
            }
        };// End DynamicControl control2 code
        control2.setControlScope(ControlScope.TARGET);

        control1.setValue(2); // This will not be seen by control2 unless control1 has this device as one of it's targets

        // This is on device "HB-654321"
        IntegerControl control3 = new IntegerControl(this, "ControlName", 0) {
            @Override
            public void valueChanged(int control_val) {// Write your DynamicControl code below this line
                System.out.println("Read " + control_val);
                // Write your DynamicControl code above this line
            }
        };// End DynamicControl receiver code
        control3.setControlScope(ControlScope.TARGET);

        // write your code above this line
    }

    //<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Debug Start">

    /**
     * This function is used when running sketch in IntelliJ IDE for debugging or testing
     *
     * @param args standard args required
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        try {
            HB.runDebug(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    //</editor-fold>
}


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When we think of pest control in London, we often think of one of the most common pests found in the city. The rat! Stories have been told for centuries of rats swarming the country's capital, and rats are still a very serious problem.
Having a moth problem in your wardrobe or house can be super distressing.
When ants find a great food source, they will swarm indoors into your business or home. Ants live in a colony, so if there is a source of food nearby the word spreads quickly around the ant colony and they will follow the scent trail into your home.
Should You Do DIY Bed Bug Control?
Bed bugs are a hugely stressful pest infestation to have. The thought of having bed bugs in your home is enough to keep you up at night. Because bed bugs are so hardy, bed bug control is very difficult to do using DIY methods.
Now that we're getting to the end of summer, wasp numbers will start to decrease. Their favourite food turns from sugars to proteins. So you will most likely only see them when there's food around outside.
Wasps will only try to sting you when they are disturbed, feel threatened or they're harmed. When they do sting though they are incredibly aggressive and may sting more than once.
In Britain, there are around 250 different species of bees. Even with so many different species of bees that love our UK flowers, they can actually be broken down into two groups – the social bee and the solitary bee. Here is a guide on what each of these groups are.
What Does A Rats Nest Look Like?
Living in a city like London, rats are very common. Rats love urban areas where they have access to plenty of food, water and shelter. So it's no wonder we here at Pest Exterminators have a lot of experience with London rat control.


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Punjab's Brother-Sister Ties Knot To Get Immigration Of Australia, Seems They Took GOT Seriously
It is quite obvious that many people are obsessed with the famous web series and now it seems they are taking some 'eww' inspiration from the show also. For the world, a relation of brother-sister is full of sweet clashes and love, however, this bro-sis has taken their relationship to next level by getting married for immigration. Sounds weird? It is…
Hailing from Punjab, a brother and sister married each other with a properly planned agenda. The officials have found out they did it so they could make their ways to Australia.
We have seen many cases related to immigration but this is the only one which left us shocked. They registered their marriage in a Punjab court where the sister used the cousin brother's documents who have an Australian visa.
The two traveled to Australia on fake documents and passports where they con the immigration department in granting the sister a spouse visa.
"According to our investigation, we have come to know so far that the brother was already a permanent resident of Australia and documents were forged to give his sister the identity of their cousin and they first got a marriage certificate from a gurdwara and it was registered in the sub-registrar's office," Inspector Jai Singh revealed.
"They have cheated the social system, legal system and religious systems, all for the craze, wish and desire to go abroad. We are conducting raids but they are on the run and we have not been able to arrest anyone", he said.
Singh added that he had heard of "scams happening by people who want to go abroad, but something like this, a brother and sister marrying, is a first, and now it has come in front of our eyes we are all surprised and shocked".
Now, we have seen everything!
Published by Soniya Kaur on 31 Jan 2019


As her magic powers grow, Kila draws the attention of powerful allies and even more powerful enemies.
In the ancient city of Starside, the mysterious seer known as The Hargothe has felt Kila Sigh awaken to her magical powers. He desires nothing more than to possess both her and her bonded telepathic cat, Nax.
But other forces have felt her, too. Some hoping to protect her, some wanting to kill her. As Kila and her family of thieves and cats search for the missing Finta Sahng—the only person who makes the medicine Kila's brother needs—they stumble on a city beneath the city of Starside. When Kila faces the loss of everything she cares for, she must dig deep for the power to destroy all who stand against her.
Fans of fantasy will fall in love with the magical world of thieves and their telepathic cats. But your copy today.


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A mental event is any event that happens within the mind of a conscious individual. Examples include thoughts, feelings, decisions, dreams, and realizations. These events often make up the conscious life that are associated with cognitive function.

Some believe that mental events are not limited to human thought but can be associated with animals and artificial intelligence as well. Whether mental events are identical to complex physical events, or whether such an identity even makes sense, is central to the mind-body problem.

Relation to mind-body problem
Some state that the mental and the physical are the very same property which cause any event(s). This view is known as substance monism. An opposing view is substance dualism, which claims that the mental and physical are fundamentally different and can exist independently. A third approach is Donald Davidson's anomalous monism. The Philosophy of Action states that every action is caused by prior thoughts or feelings, and understanding those mental events would in turn explain behavior.

Physicalism, a form of substance monism, states that everything that exists is either physical or depends on that which is physical. The existence of mental events has been used by philosophers as an argument against physicalism. For example, in his 1974 paper What Is it Like to Be a Bat?, Thomas Nagel argues that physicalist theories of mind cannot explain an organism's subjective experience because they cannot account for its mental events.

Epiphenomenalism, according to Stanford, "Is the view that mental events are caused by physical events in the brain, but have no effect upon any physical events." This stance then brings up the idea of introspection. According to David Lieberman, introspection is the ability for a person to observe his or her own mental state or events. Mental events can happen consciously and subconsciously at any given point. All mental events take place due to external stimuli. Which then must be processed via working memory.

Mental Events and Working Memory
Mental events must occur in the working memory of short term-store. Both working memory and short-term memory are essential to mental events and cognition. According to Lieberman (2021), Baddeley and Hitch (1974) proposed that working memory consists of three distinct subsystems: what are called a phonological loop, a visuo-spatial sketchpad, and central executive.

The phenological loop is responsible for holding speech-based sounds while the visuo-spatial sketchpad holds visual concepts in the mind. Both work independent of each other. Whereas the central executive is responsible for controlling both systems. The central executive is also responsible for aiding in tasks such as reasoning and understanding language.

In order for mental events to occur, in Homo sapiens, situations and events must be processed through working memory in order to be perceived as a mental event. Without this system of memory, situations cannot be stored as mental events. All thoughts, feelings, decisions, dreams, and realizations must cycle through this process indefinitely.

Examples
 Mary is walking through a park and she sees and recognizes City Hall. This instance of seeing and recognizing City Hall is an instance of perception—something that happens in Mary's mind. That instance of perception is a mental event. It is an event because it is something that happens, and it is mental because it happens in Mary's mind.
 Mary feels happy after doing well on an exam and she smiles. This thought is a mental event. The smile is a physical event.
 An orca recognized a feeling of hunger. It eats a fish. The recognition of the feeling of hunger is a mental event. Eating the fish is the physical event.
 Mary is listening to her friend talk while admiring a painting she is looking at. Her visuo-spatial sketchpad is allowing her to think about the painting she likes, creating a mental event. Simultaneously, her phonological loop is allowing her to understand the conversation. Both systems are being operated by the central executive.

See also
 Mental function
 Mental operations
 Mental rotation
 Functional neuroimaging
 Noumenon
 Psychedelic experience
 Synchronicity
 Working memory
 Vertiginous question

Further reading
The Mental Life of Plants and Worms, Among Others Oliver Sacks April 24, 2014 issue New York Review of Books

References

Consciousness studies
Philosophy of mind
Terms in science and technology


Mighty Trucks tells you everything you want to know about trucks, from mining trucks to dumper trucks, lorries that can carry houses, fire engines ready with lots of water and so much more.
Mighty Trucks is part of a great new collectible series called It's all about... It is packed with facts and stats, and there are eight amazing collector cards to tear out and keep. You can access a free downloadable audio of Mighty Trucks by logging onto the special URL address on page 3.
Mighty Trucks has a Contents page as well as a Glossary and Index. You can check out the other titles in the series at the back of the book.


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Phytomyza soenderupiella este o specie de muște din genul Phytomyza, familia Agromyzidae, descrisă de Spencer în anul 1976.

Este endemică în Denmark. Conform Catalogue of Life specia Phytomyza soenderupiella nu are subspecii cunoscute.

Referințe

Phytomyza


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Ups and Downs – August 26
By: Steve Ulrich
Here are PoliticsPA's Ups and Downs for the week ending August 25.
Hollidaysburg Little League. The Little Leaguers from Blair County gave us all a memorable ride in Williamsport. Paraphrasing Neil Rudel with the Altoona Mirror, the run may be done but the memories will last a lifetime.
Chris Deluzio. The pundits at Inside Elections moved the PA-17 race from Lean Democrat to Toss-Up in his race against Republican Jeremy Shaffer.
Jeremy Shaffer. See above.
Brian Fitzpatrick. The same Inside Elections prognosticators moved the PA-01 race from "Likely Republican" to "Solid Republican" in the GOP incumbent's race against Ashley Ehasz.
Doug Mastriano. The GOP gubernatorial candidate was pranked by a "pollster" who used the name, Carleton Polling, to tweet out a poll showing the Franklin County state senator moved into the lead against Democrat Josh Shapiro. The poll was a fake.
Larry Krasner. Embattled Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner will not comply with a subpoena issued by a Pennsylvania House of Representatives committee investigating him. In an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, Krasner called the investigation "illegal," anti-democratic," and politically motivated.
Matt Cartwright. The PA-08 Democratic congressman got caught up in a donor's ad that put his comments on the Camp Lejeune Act in a commercial. Cartwright quickly put out a cease-and-desist order and the ad was pulled.
Thomas Hicks. The chair of the U.S. Election Commission helped organize the Help America Vote Day and the poll worker recruitment effort drew more than 1,100 applicants for 58 of the Commonwealth's 67 counties.
Rachel Tripp. Eat your vegetables. "If John Fetterman had ever eaten a vegetable in his life, then maybe he wouldn't have had a major stroke and wouldn't be in the position of having to lie about it constantly," said Oz's senior communications adviser.
Mary Gay Scanlon. U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-5 of Swarthmore, recently violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012 by filing a late financial disclosure form revealing her husband sold five stocks in 2021 worth up to $110,000, though she has attributed it to a mistake made by her financial advisor.
Jason Moorehead. The Allentown teacher who claims he was fired for attending the "Stop the Steal" rally that preceded the storming of the Capitol has sued the school district, saying it violated his constitutional rights and opened him and his family to death threats.
Butler, Fayette, Lancaster Counties. A Pennsylvania judge has ordered three Republican-controlled counties to add about 800 contested mail-in ballots to the results of the May election, ruling in a legal dispute that stalled statewide certification of the primary results for governor and U.S. Senate


Clients have a finite level of self-control and ability to retain extra knowledge. Explain things as simply as you need to. I have had some clients who enjoy knowing more so I go into more depth and others who could not care less about why they did certain things. Use phrasing that your clients will understand. Unless your name is Dolph Ziggler – nobody needs to see or hear you showing off. Know your stuff and cater it towards your clientele.
7) Tell them one story at a time – stick to the story line; good stories are clear logical and consistent.
When programming make sure you have attainable goals and you aren't trying to do 5 things at once. Pick 1-2 qualities and improve them. Trying to solve all of your clients' problems and goals in one cycle will get you nowhere. Have a clear plan and figure out what the problems are. Program (write your story) through one obstacle and solve it. If your client's goal is to add 50 pounds to his/her deadlift or to lose 20 pounds you need to pick one storyline and effectively progress towards their goals.
Once you start the search, you don't stop the search.
This builds off of #6 and #7 – you need to guide your clients intelligently. You know more than them and there is no need to carpet-bomb them with information every time you read and learn something. Provide them with consistent information that will improve their knowledge base for what they need to do. Find a couple good sources that will reinforce what you teach them but make sure the message is consistent and catered towards what they need.
It doesn't become more of a Disney-ism than that. Enjoyment is vital. Make sure people are enjoying what they do. Can't be all fun because you have a job to do however it is easy to determine exercises that clients like. Ask them and get their input.
Probably the coolest book ever.
Disney puts everything into their products. They check everything daily. The parks are structured so that you never see an employee out of place. Everything works, everything is clean and their top product is always put on display. Training is no different. Put your heart into your programming and make sure that each program is the best that it can be. Everything should work and clients should only receive the best you can give them. Try to match Disney's attention to detail and your clients will stay happy.


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/*
 * IDK Game Server by Steve Winfield
 * https://github.com/WinfieldSteve
 */
package org.stevewinfield.suja.idk.communication.room.settings.writers;

import org.stevewinfield.suja.idk.Bootloader;
import org.stevewinfield.suja.idk.communication.MessageWriter;
import org.stevewinfield.suja.idk.communication.OperationCodes;
import org.stevewinfield.suja.idk.game.rooms.RoomInstance;

public class RoomEditInfoWriter extends MessageWriter {

    public RoomEditInfoWriter(final RoomInstance room) {
        super(OperationCodes.getOutgoingOpCode("RoomEditInfo"));
        super.push(room.getInformation().getId());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getName());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getDescription());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getAccessType());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getCategoryId());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getMaxPlayers());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getModel().getMaxPlayers());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getRoomTags().length);
        for (final String tag : room.getInformation().getRoomTags()) {
            super.push(tag);
        }
        final int size = room.getRights().size();
        super.push(size);
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            final int playerId = room.getRights().get(i);
            super.push(playerId);
            super.push(Bootloader.getStorage().readString("SELECT nickname FROM players WHERE id=" + playerId));
        }
        super.push(size);
        super.push(room.getInformation().petsAreAllowed());
        super.push(room.getInformation().petsEatingAllowed());
        super.push(room.getInformation().blockingDisabled()); // room blocking
        // disabled
        super.push(room.getInformation().wallsHidden());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getWallThickness());
        super.push(room.getInformation().getFloorThickness());
    }

}