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Homo ludens (lat. hrající si člověk) je pojem popisující člověka, jenž vyvíjí své schopnosti a možnosti prostřednictvím hry. Objevuje své schopnosti a sám se skrze ně vyvíjí. Jeho hravost je založena na svobodě rozhodování a jednání a předpokládá vlastní myšlení. Vyvíjí se také prostřednictvím zkušeností, které připojuje k těm, jež již vlastní.

V evropském prostředí byl prvním, kdo zdůraznil důležitost hry a vyslovil se proti specializaci a mechanizaci naplnění života, už Jan Amos Komenský ve své knize Orbis pictus z roku 1658. Ten také již v roce 1654 sestavil soubor dramat nazvaný Schola ludus (celý název je Schola ludus seu Encyclopaedia viva, hoc est Januae lingvarum praxis scenica, res omnes nomenclatura vestitas et vestiendas sensibus ad vivum repraesentandi artificium exhibens amoenum, česky tedy Škola jako hra neboli Živá encyklopedie, to jest Jevištní ztvárnění Dvéří jazyků, ukazující půvabnou zručnost předvádět smyslům podle živé skutečnosti všechny věci, jež jsou nebo mají být oděny do názvosloví), a pokusil se tak oživit výuku latiny hrou – vystupováním žáků na jevišti.

Podobnou myšlenku pak použil až Friedrich Schiller ve svém spisku Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen. Podle Schillera je hra činností člověka, která jediná je schopná vytvářet lidské schopnosti. Sám Schiller je pak autorem tvrzení, že "člověk je člověkem pouze tam, kde si hraje".

Podobně kritizuje redukci životního stylu člověka Herbert Marcuse ve své knize Jednorozměrný člověk (Der eindimensionale Mensch, 1964). Kritizuje zde nadvládu "instrumentálního rozumu" v průmyslové společnosti, která omezuje životní styl a kulturu člověka, který se již nemůže vyvíjet ve své celosti a autonomii sebenaplňování svého života.

Koncept hrajícího si člověka se proslavil dílem Johana Huizingy Homo ludens. Ve své knize se snaží ukázat, že se naše kulturní systémy (politika, věda, náboženství, právo atd.) původně samy vyvinuly z hravého způsobu chování, které se časem pomocí rituálů institucionalizovalo. Ze hry se tak stalo vážné jednání a když se pravidla správně "zaběhla", není je potřeba již měnit a začínají tak nabývat povahy samotného smyslu a účelu.

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 HUIZINGA, J. Homo ludens. Vom Ursprung der Kultur im Spiel. [1939]. Rowohlt Verlag, 1994. .
 RAHNER, H. Der spielende Mensch. Einsiedeln : Johannes, 1990. .
 Caillois, R., Hry a lidé. Praha 1999
 Fink, E., Oáza štěstí. Praha 1992
 Fink, E., Hra jako symbol světa. Praha 1993
 Huizinga, J., Homo ludens. Praha 1971

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Discussion in 'iMac' started by Bloch, Feb 1, 2013.
I have a folder containing about 15GB of data which I like to backup. I know that I can use e.g. Toast Titanium to burn to multiple discs. TT will automatically ask for the next disc until all data has been burned.
My question is: Is there a way I can perform the same backup but instead of burning the data to multiple discs I like to "burn" to multiple disc images?
I know I can use diskUtility to "burn" all data to one disc image, however, I like to "burn" the data to multiple disc images each 4GB in size.
Not sure how functional it is but that's all that I could muster up in my Google search.
Just out of curiosity, why do you want to create multiple disk images for backup purposes? Does cloning/copying to other HDDs not work for your routine?


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Instant Pot Turkey Breast Recipe – juicy turkey breast cooked in pressure cooker in just 35 minutes! The best way to save time preparing Thanksgiving dinner.
When I said, that the Instant Pot digital pressure cooker can change your life, I meant it. It's been saving me time in the kitchen since I got it. But this Instant Pot Turkey Breast is a game-changer on a whole new level. I can cook a whole bone-in skin-on turkey breast in my pressure cooker in 1/3 of the time I would take me to roast it in the oven. I can bake side dishes in the oven in the meantime.
The turkey comes out juicy and flavorful, the pan drippings are perfect to make the gravy and if the crispy skin is your favorite part, place the turkey breast under the broiler for a few minutes. I also have a recipe for a boneless turkey breast that cooks from frozen to juicy!
HOW TO COOK TURKEY BREAST IN INSTANT POT?
You won't believe how easy it is to cook a turkey breast in the digital pressure cooker. I still can't!
Add two cups of broth or stock to the bottom of the Instant Pot insert. Add sliced onion, garlic and celery.
Set the turkey breast side up in the trivet ( it came with your pressure cooker ) and brush it with herbed and spiced olive oil. It's a simple mixture of oil, paprika, salt, pepper and poultry herb mix ( thyme, rosemary and sage ).
Place lid on the Instant Pot, set valve to sealing position. Press "manual" and set it the timer.
When the IP is done, let the pressure release naturally. It will keep the turkey moist. Once the pressure pin is down, carefully open the lid away from your face. Check the temperature of the turkey in it's thickest part, not touching the bone. It should be at least 165 degrees F.
Remove turkey from Instant Pot and broil for a crispy skin, if desired. For a low fat option, remove the skin and slice the meat.
Make gravy with liquid remaining in the Instant Pot.
HOW LONG DO YOU COOK TURKEY BREAST IN INSTANT POT?
My turkey breast weighs about 7 lbs and the 35 minutes was perfect. You should check the turkey with a digital thermometer once done to make sure the temperature is at minimum 165 degrees F in the thickest part of the breast. This size of the turkey breast also fit perfectly in my 6 qt Instant Pot. After the timer beeps, let the pressure release naturally. It will keep the turkey juicy. If you do a quick pressure release, all of the juices will escape the meat. Set turkey on cutting board and let cool. Remove skin and slice the meat.
If the crispy skin is your favorite part of the Thanksgiving bird, place the cooked turkey breast on a baking pan or dish and set under the broiler for a few minutes. I set my broiler to 440 degrees F and watched the turkey the whole time.
HOW TO MAKE TURKEY GRAVY IN INSTANT POT?
To make the gravy, drain the pan drippings through a sieve to catch the onions and garlic. You can also press them through it to get all the flavor into the gravy. Measure out two cups of the liquid and place back in the Instant Pot insert. Add a mixture of 2 tablespoons or cornstarch with 1/4 cup of cold water and whisk well. Saute until thickens. You can use the rest of the liquid from cooking the turkey for soups later. I simply place it in ziploc bag once it completely cools. It's a very flavorful broth and perfect for making soups during winter.
– mashed potatoes: If you are lucky and have two Instant Pots, I highly recommend making my IP Mashed Potatoes as a side dish. It's the only way I cook them now. Perfect every time!
– roasted Brussels sprouts: my Garlic Parmesan Roasted Brussels Sprouts are perfect for Thanksgiving! Even the kids will love them.
– carrots: my Brown Sugar Roasted Carrots are a family favorite here. So easy and so delicious!
– green beans: my classic Green Bean Casserole made entirely from scratch yet still super easy and accidentally gluten free ( completely if you use GF fried onions ) is a must for a family holiday dinner.
– hashbrowns: this Hashbrown Casserole makes for a perfect side dish in place of mashed potatoes. It's cheesy and creamy and everyone loves it!
– stuffing: my Slow Cooker Sausage Stuffing is another time and work saver in the kitchen during the holidays. It's perfect for this Instant Pot Turkey Breast!
HOW TO USE LEFTOVER TURKEY?
After cooking up the big feast, you won't feel like spending much time in the kitchen on the following days. Save the turkey meat, dice it and use in my One Pot Turkey Tetrazzini recipe. It's perfect to use the leftover turkey meat!
Instant Pot Chicken Noodle Soup – use turkey in place of chicken for a perfect soul-comforting soup.
To see how to cook BONELESS turkey breast (from frozen) in the pressure cooker, check out my new recipe and video for Instant Pot Boneless Turkey Breast with Gravy.
If you want to learn more about the Instant Pot, check out my Guide for Beginners! Also, if you experienced the "burn" message, check out my Instant Pot Burn Message post to learn how to fix it and prevent it in the first place.
Juicy turkey breast cooked in the pressure cooker in just 35 minutes! The best way to save time preparing Thanksgiving dinner.
Add chicken broth to Instant Pot insert. Place trivet inside. Arrange onions, garlic and celery.
In a small bowl or measuring cup, mix oil, paprika, herb mix, salt and pepper.
Wash the turkey breast, remove gravy pocket. Wash and pat dry. Brush turkey breast with olive oil mixture. Place in the trivet, breast side up.
Place lid on Instant Pot. Set valve the sealing. Press "manual", set timer to 35 minutes High Pressure.
When the IP beeps, press "cancel/off" and let the pressure release naturally. It will keep the turkey juicy.
When pressure is released, open lid carefully, away from your face.
Using large fork, remove turkey from pressure cooker. Set on a cutting board, serving platter or if desired on a baking pan, to crisp up the skin in the oven. To do so: place cooked turkey breast in the oven under broiler set to 440 degrees F. Broil until skin is golden and crispy, watching the turkey the whole time. You may have to rotate the pan during broiling.
To make the gravy, drain the pan drippings through a sieve to catch the onions and garlic. You can also press them through it to get all the flavor into the gravy. Measure out two cups of the liquid and place back in the Instant Pot insert. Add a mixture of 2 tablespoons or cornstarch with 1/4 cup of cold water and whisk well. Saute until thickens.
The cook time does not include the time it takes for the Instant Pot to come to pressure.
My turkey breast weighs about 7 lbs and the 35 minutes was perfect. You should check the turkey with a digital thermometer once done to make sure the temperature is at minimum 165 degrees F in the thickest part of the breast. This size of the turkey breast also fit perfectly in my 6 qt Instant Pot Duo60.
You can use the rest of the liquid from cooking the turkey for soups later. I simply place it in ziploc bag once it completely cools. It's a very flavorful broth and perfect for making soups during winter.
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. If you use my link and make a purchase on Amazon, I will make a small commission, without any extra cost to you.
I have a 6.5 lb. turkey breast that is thawing in the fridge. I am going to use your recipe tomorrow in my 8 qt. Crock Pot Express Pot. I also have a 8.5 lb. turkey breast. I know the 6.5 lb. will fit but wondering if you think the 8.5 lb. would work in my 8 qt. pot.
I just made it and it is the best turkey breast I have ever eaten. It was so moist and flavorful. I usually don't care for turkey breasts but this recipe won me over,. I will only make it this way from now on.
Hands down the best turkey I've ever made! It was such a hit with everyone! Thank you for the recipe!
Amazing!' I used a 5lb turkey because it was all I could find and cooked as directed for 32 minutes. This was my very first turkey and "the pressure was on" because my in-laws were coming for Christmas dinner. My in-laws LOVED it, and my husband went to bed talking about it! Thank you so much for this recipe! It will now be a staple on our home!
Hi Nicole! YAY! That's a huge win! I am so happy to know it was such a success. Amazing! Thank you so much for trying my recipe and for leaving this sweet comment!
How would I adjust this to a boneless, skinless turkey breast?
I just got a Strata brand electric pressure cooker, and all the buttons are different from the insta pot, so having problems figuring out the cooking times. Can you help please. Thank you.
Hi Nancy! I am not familiar with Strata but if it's a digital pressure cooker (not stove-top), the cooking times stay the same. I hope this helps! Let me know if there is anything else I can help with!
Five stars! I made this tonight and it came out great. The weight tag on my bird was torn off, so I wasn't exactly sure of the weight. To be safe I cooked it for 38 minutes and did a 10 minute NR. I probably didn't need quite that long, the internal temp was closer to 180 degrees. BUT! Boy was this bird delicious! I didn't bother to broil. The meat was super tender and juicy. I used some fresh sage, rosemary, and dried thyme, plus tons of black pepper and garlic powder in addition to the other seasonings. I made more of the seasoning rub since I ran out on the first side of the bird. Also, I cooked mine breast-side down and stuffed the cavity with a head of garlic, onion, carrots, and celery. I stacked the bird on more veggies and didn't bother with the trivet. Perfect result. Thanks for this super fast and easy recipe for a quick Thanksgiving dinner.
Hi Lori! Yay! That's fantastic! I am so glad I was able to help. Thank you!
Hi Faith! I would set the timer for 38 minutes. Make sure the turkey is at least 165 degrees F when done. Hope this helps!
How long for a fresh 4.4 lb turkey breast?
Hi Diane! I would set it for 23 minutes. Hope this helps!
Good luck! Let me know how it goes, Diane!
Anna I made your turkey. Omg big hit. I wish I could and you a pic.
Hi Sylvia! Woohoo! That's wonderful! Thank you so much!
Not a dumb question at all! Gently pull the leaves off and chop on a cutting board. Hope this helps!
This sounds so tasty. My first time making dinner on thanksgiving. Weee but nervous. Old school cooks have made dinners previous.
So, with that said, I'm feeding traditional people. Who want traditional turkey. Sooo would you say this flavoring and way of cooking will be approved by my guests?!? 😂 I've only used IP a handful of times and I'm not confident with times. I need to make sure this is DONE. I read turkey is 6 min per pound plus 10 min NPR. Which would be 55 total. Would that be way too long?
Hi! I've made many turkeys in the oven and the ones I've made in my Instant Pot are always the best. The turkey will be juicy and delicious. You can pop it under the broiler to get the skin crispy. In my experience, bone-in turkey breast needs 5 minutes per pound. The natural release takes about 12 minutes for me. Always check the temperature to make sure it's at least 165 degrees F. I hope this helps! If you have any questions, feel free to email me anytime. I am always happy to help! Good luck! You got this!
I'm so excited to make this for Thanksgiving this year! I have an 8 lb bone in turkey breast. I am planning on cooking it for 40 minutes and doing a natural release. How long should I plan for the natural release to take? I'm just trying to plan accordingly! Thanks!
Hi Emily! The natural release for me takes about 12 minutes. I hope this helps! Let me know how it goes. Thank you!
I am planning to make this turkey breast ( size 8.61 lbs.) this Thanksgiving. I have an 8 quart InstaPot . How many minutes should I set it for and how long will it take the pressure to release naturally? Thank you very much for your help. I am cooking this year for my new husbands family.
Hi Pamela! For that size turkey, I would set the timer to 43 minutes. Pressure release takes about 12 minutes for me. Check the temperature of the turkey after you open the IP. It should be 165 degrees F. I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Feel free to email me anytime. Good luck!
Oh my. I forgot to ask you about how long it takes for the pressure to rise before starting to cook? Hope I'm not too late in asking. Thank you so much.
At least 10 minutes. I believe mine took 12. Good luck! Let me know how it goes! I am always happy to help.
How long do you cook if frozen?
You dont. Must thaw before this type of cooking.
Hi Sonya! I recommend thawing the turkey breast. Frozen will take at least 50 minutes but I did not test this recipe using frozen bone-in breast so I can't say for sure. I do have a boneless turkey breast recipe that was around 3lbs. It's linked in my post!
Am I seeing correctly that it is OK to go above the max line? I have never gone above the max line but your turkey looks absolutely delicious and it seems to be above that line. Please let me know! Thank you!
The "above the max line" rule goes more for liquidy dishes, like soups, as well as beans, grains, rice. This recipe works, even if your turkey breast is above the max line in the insert. Let me know if you make it!
Hi Ericka! I did not try that but I would love to know if it works. Sorry I am no help.
Well I have cooked over 45 years and my gravy never turned out this good!! Thank you! Loved the turkey breast and my Instant Pot!!
Hi Kathy! I am so happy to know you love this recipe! Thank you so much for making it and for letting me know!
Made this tonight with a wild turkey breast. out great. When my husband dressed out the turkey he cut the breast in half, so mine was only 3.5# and I cooked it for 20 min. Turned out great. Was really moist, wuild turkey can be dry but this wasn't. Will use this recipe again.
Your 3/5# for 20 minutes, was it frozen or thawed?
Fast, easy and delish! Thanks for a new go-to dish.
I followed the recipe except the frozen part. I cooked mine for 40 minutes and it turned out PERFECT!!
Hi Mary! That's awesome! I am so happy to know you made it and love it! Thank you!!
Hi Anna… thank you for sharing your turkey recipe, I made it yesterday. I followed your recipe almost exactly… I didn't have fresh herbs so I used dry, I let them soak in the olive oil for about 20 minuets before covering the breast. It came out wonderful! I did a 100% n/r, when I checked the internal temperature it was well over 200* but still moist and yummy. Normally I never cook just the breast but I wanted to try your recipe and something other than a pasta recipe in my IP… I would like to add a word of CAUTION: please be very careful when slicing and serving. Due to the process of removing the breast from the rest of the turkey, I've found numerous small-very small bone fragments!
The 5 mins per pound didn't work for me, the turkey was slightly underdone. I'm new to the whole instant pot thing. I let the steam naturally escape and then checked the temp. What should I have done? Put it back on for 5 more mins? I was hesitant to because I know it takes a bit of time to rebuild up the steam. Any advice would be great as I'm thinking the same could happen with potatoes as well (check them after natural escape and them being underdone). Thanks so much.
Hi Alexa! I am so sorry you had trouble with this recipe. Anytime the food is underdone after cooking in the Instant Pot, it is recommended to set it back for a few minutes. It will have to build up pressure again so make sure there is enough liquid at the bottom. Potatoes are actually easy to be overdone unless you are making baked potatoes. I hope this helps!
Hi! I noticed a couple people asked similar questions as the one I have back in January and last November so I'm wondering if, since then, anyone has made this recipe with a boneless frozen turkey breast and if so did you need to make any adjustments on cooking time??
Hi Sara! I know your question was posted in May but I just shared my new recipe for boneless frozen turkey breast. Here is the link: https://www.crunchycreamysweet.com/2018/11/09/instant-pot-boneless-turkey-breast/ I hope this helps!
Great recipe! Best turkey breast ever ! I set the time for 5 minutes per pound , 40 minutes for the 9 lb turkey breast.
Hi Denise! Yay! That's wonderful! Thank you so much for the comment!
Is your turkey breast frozen or thawed?
I don't often review recipes, but this time I felt compelled to do so. This recipe was FANTASTIC. I followed the directions pretty much to a T, and the turkey was, by far, the best I've ever eaten… juicy and flavorful. The gravy was out of this world. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this great recipe! I can't wait to make it again.
Hi Suzzanna! THANK YOU! Your comment just made my day! I am so happy to know you love this recipe and the turkey was perfect. Thank you for giving my recipe a try!
I am struggling with figuring out how much time to allow so that I can serve dinner with other dishes. How do I determine how long it will take to get to temperature?


If you're dealing with stiffness, pain and swelling in any of your joints, you may well be dealing with arthritis. But depending on a variety of factors, you may be experiencing one of more than 100 different arthritis conditions. Simply put, arthritis is not a single condition.
If you're dealing with stiffness, pain and swelling in any of your joints, you may well be dealing with arthritis. But depending on a variety of factors, you may be experiencing one of more than 100 different arthritis conditions. Simply put, arthritis is not a single condition.
"Arthritis is a very global term that implies there's some inflammation involving a joint," says Dr. Esther Lipstein-Kresch, chief of rheumatology at ProHEALTH Care in New York.
Under the umbrella of arthritis, the two most common conditions are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Although they have some overlap in symptoms, osteoarthritis and RA are two very different diseases.
The most common arthritis condition is osteoarthritis — this is the so-called wear-and-tear arthritis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 30 million Americans have osteoarthritis.
In osteoarthritis, joint cartilage breaks down over time. Dr. David Pugliese, a rheumatologist at Geisinger in Danville, Pennsylvania, says that because it's a simple function of time and wear, everyone will eventually develop some degree of arthritis. When and how severe the symptoms will be depends on several factors, including how heavily a joint has been used, whether an injury has occurred in that joint and genetics.
That said, "osteoarthritis is a disease of mainly weight bearing joints," Lipstein-Kresch says, and it can cause significant disability. For instance when it develops in the hips and knees of obese patients, this can lead to intense pain when walking. Although it's common in the lower limbs, it's uncommon for osteoarthritis to develop in the ankles, and Lipstein-Kresch says science isn't sure why it tends to skip those joints.
Because osteoarthritis develops from the use of a joint over time, it's more common among older adults. Women are at greater risk for it, but men are more likely to develop it prior to age 45. "Osteoarthritis is a chronic, degenerative disease that typically develops in people in their fifth or sixth decade of life and is generally not seen in a very young population," Madhoun says.
On the other hand, rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the body. The Arthritis Foundation reports that rheumatoid arthritis affects an estimated 1.5 million U.S. adults.
Rheumatoid arthritis starts by affecting the lining of the joints, but can move on to damage bone, cartilage, muscles and ligaments around the joints.
This is essentially what happens when people develop rheumatoid arthritis. "Their immune system becomes activated and treats their joints as if they have infections. In the absence of any trigger or trauma, the joint becomes inflamed and irritated." Fluid builds up and an inflammatory reaction is triggered. That's what causes the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, Pugliese says.
RA often starts in the small joints of the hands and then progresses to involve other, larger joints, such as the shoulders, hips, knees and ankles. "It doesn't affect the lower spine, but it does affect the cervical spine," which is the neck, Lipstein-Kresch says.
Other symptoms include morning stiffness that lasts about an hour but tends to improve with movement. Volar subluxation, a type of deformity, can develop in the hands of people with RA.
Symptoms can range from mild to severe, and while some patients alternate flares with remissions, active disease is continuous for others. Fatigue is often a problem. In some cases, the effects go far beyond the joints and can involve major organs and other body systems such as the blood vessels, nervous system, lungs and bone marrow.
Early on, treatments for both arthritis types start the same way, with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. These mild pain medications such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and naproxen sodium (Aleve) can reduce pain, swelling and inflammation and are often available over-the-counter. Your doctor may prescribe a higher dose.
With rheumatoid arthritis, "early diagnosis and aggressive treatment is critical. Slowing disease activity can help minimize or even prevent permanent joint damage," the Arthritis Foundation reports. This may require the use of more aggressive treatment, known as disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs. These DMARDs, used to slow the progression of joint damage, include methotrexate (Trexall). DMARDs have long been considered the gold-standard for treating rheumatoid arthritis and have been around for a long time.
Some patients may also benefit from the use of corticosteroids to bring down inflammation quickly. These powerful drugs, such as prednisone, can also help relieve pain in more acute cases and may slow the progression of joint damage, but may have side effects — increased risk of developing diabetes or osteoporosis are two — that prevent long-term use.
A newer group of drugs, called biologics, has been developed over the past two decades. These powerful immunosuppressant drugs, which are cultivated from living cells, are usually administered as an injection or intravenous infusion. They offer many patients an improved outlook and better management of rheumatoid arthritis. Various drugs on the market target different molecules in the body to help control inflammation. Examples include adalimumab (Humira), secukinumab (Cosentyx) and abatacept (Orencia).
For most rheumatoid arthritis patients, surgical intervention is a distant option, but may come into play when deformities impede function. Joint fusion procedures may alleviate pain, but can significantly reduce the range of motion a patient has in the affected joint.
On the other hand, the pharmacological options for treating osteoarthritis are few. "For osteoarthritis, there really isn't much of anything," Madhoun says. "We typically rely on acetaminophen (Tylenol) or anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin) and naproxen sodium (Aleve). These may be administered as oral medications or topical creams rubbed on the site of pain to relieve inflammation.
If those medications don't do the trick, "the next step typically tends to be more pain management, such as opioids," Madhoun says. Then, of course, comes the necessary discussion of risks versus benefits because use of opioid pain medications can quickly lead to dependence. Some patients may receive steroid injections into the joint to reduce pain and inflammation, Madhoun says.
For some patients with advanced osteoarthritis, surgery may become an option. "If the degenerative arthritis progresses enough, we recommend joint replacements," Madhoun says.
— Physical therapy and exercise. A physical therapist may be able to help you regain function in an affected joint through the use of targeted and progressive exercises. Beyond physical therapy, being as active as possible and focusing on developing the muscles around an affected joint may significantly improve your function and pain levels. "A lot of times people ask us whether exercise is good, and the answer is always yes," Madhoun says. "You just have to find the exercise that suits you best. Not everybody can run or swim or bike. You have to find an exercise that makes you feel good and that you are able to do." Finding an exercise you enjoy means you're more likely to stick with it over the long-run, which will impart more benefits.
— Weight reduction. If you're overweight and have arthritis symptoms in any weight-bearing joints, such as the hips or knees, dropping even just a few pounds may make a world of difference in your pain levels. "Every pound of weight a person carries translates into 4 or 5 pounds of pressure on the joint," Pugliese says, so if you were to lose 20 pounds, that would take "up to 100 pounds of pressure off each of your weight-bearing joints." This can be particularly helpful for people with osteoarthritis.
— Diet. Many rheumatologists advise their patients to follow a diet protocol that reduces inflammation throughout the body. So far, omega-3 fatty acids are the only dietary compound that has proven to be effective in reducing inflammation. Seafood, flaxseed and canola oil, beans, nuts and seeds are all high in omega-3s. If you notice a flare-up in symptoms when you eat a certain food, consider trying to reduce or eliminate that item from your diet. "There are a million and one diets you could find online, and some people come in and tell me every time they have something fried, their arthritis flares up or they give up gluten even though there's no indication that they actually have a gluten sensitivity," Lipstein-Kresch says. "It's difficult to assess the placebo effect in that type of situation," but if you notice an increase in symptoms when you ingest a certain food, it might be time to consider skipping it.


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The Qualitative Transparency Deliberations (QTD) platform provides fora for discussion of the meaning, costs, benefits, and practicalities of research transparency for a broad range of qualitative empirical approaches in Political Science. It is an initiative of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (QMMR), generously supported by the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University.
Background to QTD Process
Objectives of QTD Process
At its 2015 business meeting, the APSA's QMMR Section unanimously passed a motion to initiate a process of deliberation over transparency in qualitative research. The motion tasked Tim Büthe and Alan Jacobs, building on the symposium they edited in the Spring 2015 issue of the QMMR Newsletter, with drawing up and putting before the section membership a proposal for a deliberative process about the meaning and practicalities of research transparency for the many research traditions represented in the QMMR section.
Efforts to enhance research transparency have gained increasing prominence across the natural and social sciences. As a "meta-standard," research transparency is broadly valued among political scientists for a variety of reasons, including: aiding the understanding and assessment of researchers' findings and interpretations; easing the communication of ideas across diverse scholarly communities; facilitating the accumulation of knowledge; and enhancing the credibility and usefulness of empirical social research to policy practitioners.
However, the meaning of research transparency and how it ought to be operationalized is not self-evident and is likely to vary widely across different forms of research. The meaning, the costs and benefits, and the practicalities of transparency will be different for students of politics than for scholars of other subject matters. They may also be different for qualitative and interpretive, as compared to quantitative and algorithmic, forms of analysis; and different for different types of qualitative and interpretive inquiry.
Open and careful deliberation over the value, costs, risks, and practicalities of research openness for specific forms of qualitative political-science scholarship is necessary to help ensure that evolving expectations and practices of transparency in the discipline reflect the distinctive features of different approaches to social inquiry: their distinctive intellectual premises, the differing research contexts in which scholars operate, the diverse types of observation and evidence on which they draw, and the multiple forms of analysis in which researchers engage.
Büthe and Jacobs proposed that the QMMR Organized Section lead a deliberative process, called the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations, over the meaning, value, and practice of transparency for different forms of qualitative empirical research in political science. In December 2015/January 2016, the proposal went to an online vote of all QMMR section members. The proposal passed by a vote of 98% in favor and 2% opposed, with turnout of 303 out of 645 members. The QTD platform implements this proposal.
The QTD deliberations will be organized by forms of qualitative inquiry or types of issues that arise in qualitative research. The organizing principles for the differentiated substantive discussions are to be defined during a first stage of the deliberative process. The deliberations might be organized, for example, around distinct forms of qualitative analysis, different types of qualitative evidence, and differing contexts of field research. Disaggregating the deliberations will allow discussion of particular forms of inquiry to be undertaken by scholars who regular engage in those kinds of research. Thus, for instance, deliberations over transparency in interpretive ethnography would be undertaken by interpretive ethnographers, deliberations over fieldwork in contexts of political violence would be held among those conducting fieldwork in contexts of political violence, and so on.
Each set of deliberations will culminate in the production of a text—a Community Transparency Statement (CTS)—that reflects current understandings of transparency within a particular research community.
The Community Transparency Statements will likely vary in their degree of prescriptiveness and in the degree of consensus that they reflect. Yet all documents will (a) provide one or more conceptualizations of research transparency appropriate to the form of research being considered; (b) identify common and best practices of transparency for this form of research; and (c) identify costs and benefits of these transparency practices for researchers and research audiences. While some Community Transparency Statements might articulate relatively clear transparency norms or standards around which the working group has identified broad consensus, other Community Transparency Statements might identify a range of perspectives current among relevant research communities and identify both areas of convergence and areas of divergence across those perspectives.
Differentiated, bottom-up articulations of the meaning and practices of research transparency for various forms of qualitative research will simultaneously advance several important objectives:
Informing editorial policies and practices: Over the last several months, many political scientists have expressed deep concern about the implementation of DA-RT (Data Access and Research Transparency) principles, as articulated in the October 2014 Journal Editors' Transparency Statement (JETS, previously known as "the DA-RT Statement"). A key concern is that journals might implement new data access and transparency requirements that are not compatible with the diversity of epistemological assumptions and logics of inquiry that are at work in the discipline and/or with the ethical, legal, and practical constraints under which many qualitative researchers operate.
Such a development would be undesirable because it would disadvantage qualitative as compared to quantitative work in the publication process (and, possibly, disadvantage some forms of qualitative work more than others) and thus create a disincentive for political scientists to undertake (some forms of) qualitative research.
Moreover, there are numerous open questions about how to achieve transparency in various forms of qualitative inquiry. Key questions include: what analytic transparency entails for non-statistical forms of analysis; how to achieve transparency while meeting ethical and legal obligations to protect human subjects; how to take into account the costs associated with archiving some forms of qualitative evidence; and what "data access" means for research communities that understand empirical social research as an intrinsically relational and intersubjective (rather than data-extractive) activity.
As the output of an inclusive deliberative process among qualitative researchers, the envisioned Community Transparency Statements (CTSs) can provide crucial guidance to journal editors and editorial boards seeking to articulate guidelines for authors and reviewers that are appropriate to diverse forms of qualitative inquiry, and that are viewed as relevant and reasonable by those research communities. Such guidance will be valuable not only to editors who have committed themselves to DA-RT implementation, but also to editors who have declined to commit to DA-RT yet nonetheless seek to promote research transparency in a manner consistent with the discipline's intellectual pluralism.
Informing research design and practices: A carefully differentiated discussion of the value, meaning, and practice of research transparency in different forms of qualitative research should be beneficial for professional activities well beyond journal publication. The envisioned Community Transparency Statements will become a valuable collective resource for researchers seeking to navigate the challenges of making their research as transparent as possible as they design and carry out their research projects. The envisioned Community Transparency Statements will, for instance, provide analyses of both the costs and the benefits of different ways of realizing research transparency, allowing researchers to make more informed choices. In addition to raising awareness of the context-specific risks of some transparency practices, the CTSs will also identify innovative and effective ways of minimizing those risks or reducing the costs of research transparency. Further, the Statements addressing research with human subjects will provide important guidance to scholars seeking to engage with study participants with maximal respect and openness.
Training in qualitative methods: Community Transparency Statements – in identifying and evaluating transparency practices in various forms of qualitative research, and in discussing the choices and dilemmas that researchers face in pursuing openness – will serve as valuable pedagogical resources for the training of graduate students in research design and methods. The CTSs should also prove useful for more advanced scholars seeking to learn new qualitative research tools or methods.


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Q: Using property on many class attributes I have two classes that have many attributes, and all but one should have similar property functions. I prefer to avoid writing these properties manually for all the attributes, as this will be tedious and will force me to follow it up on each attribute that I add to the class. Also, I need to do it for more than one class.
I will use this after the object in my_container is generated.
Below is a simplified example of the case I want to solve.
def my_class:

  @property
  def a1(self):
    return self.my_container._a1
    ...
  @property
  def a10(self):
    return self.my_container._a10

A: For a series of properties that follow a specific pattern, I'd use a __getattr__ hook:
def __getattr__(self, name):
    # translate a\d names into _a\d
    if name.startswith('a') and name[1:].isdigit():
        return getattr(self, '_' + name)

This presumes that it isn't easier to just set those attributes directly (so adding a0 instead of _a0), e.g. when you also have a corresponding __setattr__ that handles gating or transformations on setting those same attributes.

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Statements of support from Government of India
Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi in Auroville
Visit to Auroville on its 50th anniversary and Statement of Support from the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on 25 February 2018
https://www.auroville.org/contents/4419
Message from President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, January 2018
Original message from President of India consigned by Dr.Anirban Ganguly. to Hemant of AV Working Committee
Message of Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi, January 2003
http://www.thehindu.com/2003/01/02/stories/2003010202780300.htm
Indira Gandhi on 25th March 1969
Indira Gandhi, (late) Prime Minister of India, on 25th March 1969:
"Pondicherry was Sri Aurobindo's place of political exile and spiritual unfolding. His effulgent message radiated to different parts of the world from Pondicherry. It is appropriate that seekers of enlightenment from various lands should found a new city there bearing Sri Aurobindo's name. It is an exciting project for bringing about harmony among different cultures and for understanding the environmental needs for man's spiritual growth. May Auroville truly become a city of light and of peace."
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam November 1st 2004
The President of India, His Excellency Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam visited Auroville on Monday, November 1st 2004 .
The President started his speech saying,
"Friends, I have come as a pilgrim to this place, Auroville, and why I say pilgrim is because you have a mission bigger than mine; the mission you are having is larger than that of any individual. It is a vision which came from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and naturally it is a very big mission." He also said, "Most of you in Auroville, you are shaped as better human beings." When asked by a child earlier in the day, "How do you consider yourself? As a scientist? As a Muslim? As a Tamilian? " he replied to the kid that what matters most in life is to be a better human being.
P.V. Narasimha Rao on 23rd August 1986
P.V. Narasimha Rao, then Minister for Human Resource Development, and ex-Prime Minister of India, during his visit to Auroville on 23rd August 1986:
"I don't know why we are calling Auroville an experiment; it is life, it is a part of life, it ought to be a part of life, but now that we have gone back and started calling it an experiment, let's make it a success."
Message from Dr.Kireet Joshi
who was Chairman of Auroville Foundation and Advisor to Shri Narendra Modi and earlier to Smt.Indira Gandhi. At time of this article he was Special Secretary in Ministry of Human Resource Development. in New Delhi.
"Auroville: International Township of Research in Education"
By Dr. Kireet Joshi, Auroville Voice (Winter issue 1979, pp. 13-15)
How fascinating it is to look freely into the future and to attempt what has been most cherished and yet declared to be most impossible! To have philosophers or seers as 'kings', to have administrators not as rulers but as brothers, to obtain justice by assigning to each one his right place and function, to live in the Family of Man, to be constantly teased by the most distant moons and suns, to have inexhaustible possibility of exploration and search, to have endless education: these most cherished things are being proposed for Auroville; and because they are impossible, they are certain.
Auroville is a dream, a concept, a symbol of a new way of life, a new way of perpetual education. It is conceived to be a sanctuary of learning and research and the entire population will consist of teachers who will be pupils and of pupils who will be teachers. The aim of education here will be growth which will have no necessary relation with arbitrary time-limits. The craze for degrees and diplomas will have been abolished from this realm where there will be instead a spontaneous enthusiasm for Truth, Beauty and Goodness. Education will not be a process of 'teaching' but of helping and guiding. It will enable each one to organize not merely classrooms, but life itself so that life and education would be an identical process. In this organised life, each one will be helped to open oneself to the vast and challenging world, its secrets, and underlying truths. It will enable each one to acquire a capacity for a continuous freshness and competence to deal with one's own life and the life of the world at large. It will strive to break all narrowness, partiality and natural or acquired limitations. There will be a powerful stimulation inspiring each one to become comprehensive, unified and integrated. This education will aim at creating and effectuating the maximum possible vibrations of unifying harmonies in the world.
The whole of Auroville is conceived as a University, a Centre of Education, an integrated system of education. In this vast University, schools and colleges will be well-equipped playgrounds, and the system of education will be truly the Free Progress System which is being experimented upon and developed at the International Centre of Education of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
The equipment of this educational system will consist not only of electronic machines, radio and television sets, films, tape recording, etc., but also of mobile museums, theatres, international pavilions, and attractive homes for a variety of subjects. All this equipment and environmental stimulation will be so located as to be easily accessible to students and teachers. The methods will use mechanical devices, but will not permit mechanisation; machines will serve but not replace the freedom of the spirit. Each individual will be permitted to progress at his own pace and on the lines of his own inner development. Progress of the students will be assured, not by mechanical uniform syllabi or examinations, but by the inner guiding principle secret within each individual. "Free Progress", in the words of the Mother, "is progress guided by the soul and not enslaved by habits, conventions, and preconceived ideas."
It is to be noted that mere physical, vital and mental education is not enough. Indeed those parts of our being have to be cultivated and cultivated to their maximum capacity; the vital must be made dynamic, disciplined, obedient and effective; the mind must be trained to be intelligent, observant, concentrated, rich and complex. In Auroville, this will be aimed at. But much more – and centrally. For we are standing today at the head of a new psychological revolution, unprecedented in the history of mankind. The Modem Man is said to be in search of himself. This search has just begun, but it promises to be a long and arduous adventure. Already, we have several revolutions inaugurated by depth psychology. Freud is already out of date. Jung is being overpassed. Psychical research is bringing to the fore the striking phenomenon of telepathy, foreknowledge, etc. Even wild experiments are being launched to discover the mysteries that lie hidden within Man. Already questions have been raised as to whether this inner search of Man will not produce even more dangerous results than what his external search has brought to him, notably the production of the Atom Bomb. It is evident that Mind has reached its own vanishing-point of development; the problems of man are difficult even for the richest and most synthetic minds. A new will and a new knowledge are needed to solve them. There is an incessant pressure now upon us to break our mental limitations and to seek a new way of knowing and acting. An exploration of Consciousness hitherto hardly undertaken by mankind is the call of today and it is likely to become more and more imperative with the passing of years. And the pace of progress is so accelerated that it will be no wonder if by the time Auroville begins to take some shape, this exploration will come to be a matter of a modem fashion. While planning for the Auroville system of education, we must take this future possibility into account and be open to all its implications.
The Sri Aurobindo Ashram and its International Centre of Education have been doing research into this field for several decades, and Auroville will have the advantage of their research work and its results. One of the important conclusions of this research work is contained in the affirmation that there are golden and supramental reaches of our consciousness, and from them and from the reaches intermediate between them and our ordinary mental consciousness, there have descended forces and forms which have become embodied in literature, philosophy, science, in music, dance, art, architecture, sculpture, in great and heroic deeds and in all that is wonderful and precious in the different organised or as yet unorganised aspects of life. These reaches, it is further affirmed, can be firmly established upon earth, so that this earth can be radically changed and can be home for ever-new progress from knowledge to knowledge and from delight to delight.
To put the students in contact with these golden reaches of consciousness would be to provide them with the air and atmosphere in which they can breathe and inspiration to reach those peaks of consciousness and to create still newer forms and forces which would bring the golden day nearer for humanity.
We speak today of education for international understanding and for the world. But the unity of mankind cannot be lasting if it is based upon the compulsions of economic, social or political needs. It must be based upon a sounder foundation of the deeper psychological needs of man. The knowledge that is needed for the realisation of the psychological unity has been glimpsed by some advances minds, but we have as yet no solid and sound science regarding the psychology of human unity. The Auroville system of education will address itself to the development of this new science.
If world unity is to be realised, it will be only as a result of the fulfilment of the inmost truth of Man. It is only because the individual can attain to his fullest development by becoming universal that the ideal of the Universal Man becomes practicable and relevant to education. This is the essence of the education for one world, and we can hold to this essence only by an adventure and revolution of our consciousness. It is by this adventure that we discover that man is not the ego or the body-life-mind complex, but a soul, a psychic being. We discover further that the truth of the soul is a true individuality that recognises a single soul in humanity of which each man and each people is a soul-form or manifestation.
The Auroville system of education will then be a radical system; not satisfied with outward mechanical formulas for world unity, it will set itself to the most essential and difficult research into these inner truths of Man and the world by which the world-harmony can be rightly and effectively realised.
But even this will be only the base of its work; its frontiers will be ever-widening, and it is not possible for us to forecast today what lies in store for us in this great adventure. We know that there are millions and billions of light years both in the external and internal space; and we are also eager to know the Spaceless and the Timeless; and we should also like to know the equations of the Spaceless and Space and the Timeless and Time.
P. Shiv Shanker in September 1988
P. Shiv Shanker, former Minister for Human Resource Development, while introducing the Auroville Foundation Bill in September 1988 in Parliament:
"Auroville is to be looked upon as a vision which has a great potentiality, and this can be of tremendous service to our country and the world at large. The aim of Auroville is to discover a new life, deeper and more complete, and to show the world that tomorrow will be better than today. The Government is determined to help the process of development of Auroville in such a way that its aims and goals are made more and more realisable."
Dr. Karan Singh on 28th February 1991
Dr. Karan Singh, appointed by the Central Government as Chairman of the first Governing Board of the Auroville Foundation, in his speech to the residents of Auroville on 28th February 1991:
"Auroville was envisaged by the Mother as a concrete manifestation of the new consciousness, as an arrow pointed towards the future of evolution. And that is why Auroville is so extremely significant for the future of the human race. Never forget it is not only important to those who happen to live here. Certainly you are important, because it is you Aurovilians who are doing the work and making the experiment, but your work far transcends barriers of space and nationality and even of time. Because what is sought to be done here is nothing less than the transmutation of consciousness."
S.K. Tripathi on 10th April 2003
Address by Mr.S.K. Tripathi, Education Secretary, Government of India, at the 35th Anniversary Celebrations of Auroville, Paris 10th April '03.
Director General,
President of the General conference,
Members of the Executive Board,
Members of the Indian community,
Ladies and Gentlemen
At the outset, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to UNESCO, & in particular to the Director General, for organizing this event to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Auroville. It is indeed a befitting tribute to the vision & ideals of Auroville as a World Centre for Human Unity. Auroville, in its essence, attempts to bridge the past & the future, by taking advantage of all discoveries from without & from within, to develop an enlightened society for the world of tomorrow.
In this context, I would like to quote a verse from one of our ancient scriptures, the Atharva Veda:-
"Born on the same planet
Covered by the same skies
Gazing at the same stars
Breathing the same air
We must learn to happily progress together
Or miserably perish together
For Man can live individually
But can survive only collectively".
In consonance with this Vedic thought, Auroville was founded by "The Mother", a French disciple of Sri Aurobindo, on 28th February, 1968, when youth from 121 countries & 23 Indian States placed a handful of earth from their homelands in the lotus-shaped urn, symbolizing the creation of a city that was conceived as "a site of material & spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity."
One of the aims of Auroville is to bring together in close juxtaposition the values and ideals of different civilizations and cultures and these are in close alignment with UNESCO's ideals. The General Assembly of UNESCO has unanimously passed in 1966, 1968, 1970 and 1983 resolutions of support to Auroville, inviting member states and international non-governmental organizations to participate in the development of Auroville as an International Cultural Township designed to bring together the values of different cultures and civilizations in a harmonious environment with integrated living standards which correspond to man's physical and spiritual needs. Auroville has been lauded as one of the special places on earth where people are trying to return to a spiritual basis of life and to provide a model for appropriate planetary consciousness.
The Government of India took over Auroville in 1980 and in the year 1988, the Parliament of India passed the Auroville Foundation Act. 1988 for better management and further development of Auroville in accordance with its original charter, and the Department of Secondary & Higher Education, is the nodal administrative department, providing assistance to Auroville.
Auroville has made steady progress over these years in accordance with the ideals of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and presently is home to 1671 persons, of whom more than 1100 are nationals from 35 countries other than India. Apart from these, more than 4000 persons from neighbouring villages are employed by various commercial units, schools, offices, farms, forests, construction sites and homes in Auroville.
The Auroville Universal Township envisaged by the Mother is one of the unique examples of manifestation of human unity in diversity. The township, founded on a barren plateau devoid of even a blade of grass in 1968, has become a green area shaded with a variety of trees and plants. The architectural designs, appropriate building technologies, conservation approach, rainwater harvesting, re-use and recycling of water resources, solid waste management, land re-generation, community participation are some of the areas where innovative models and techniques have been developed and adapted in the township.
I am happy to share with you the fact that we have increased the Plan outlay for Auroville under the 10th Five Year Plan by adding a new Component for Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Educational Research, (SAIIER) to the already existing activities for which we were giving support. The 9th Plan outlay was Rupees twenty-five million and this has been increased to Rupees One hundred and fifty million now, denoting a six-fold increase. The Government is also funding Auroville through its other programmes.
We envisage that the Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Educational Research (SAIIER), which is being now supported by us, would bring about a change in the educational system in India through the implementation of Sri Aurobindo's vision of integral education. This involves a change in the aims of education, a new perception in the role of the teacher, experiments with evolving new curriculum & new methods of teaching & learning, thus, serving as a real life laboratory for the country's education system.
Auroville has already brought a transformation in the areas surrounding it by adopting people friendly technologies. Eco-friendly farms which do not destroy the Mother earth, income generating industrial units which do not pollute the air and many such innovations which point towards an India of the future, which is prosperous, in-tune with nature, does not sacrifice its collective goals and which acts as an inspiration for the new generation.
Towards this aim, we are here to support Auroville as partners in progress, as facilitators rather than as mere administrators, and would like to contribute towards the progress of Auroville to serve as a beacon of hope, not only for the future of India, but also for Humanity as a whole.
List of Funding Agencies
Statements of Support
Meeting the German Consul in Chennai
India's PM Modi visits Auroville on 25 February 2018
Ecuador Consul visits Auroville
Sri Lanka's SUNFO award for Auroville
India PM Narendra Modi in Paris UNESCO pays homage to Sri Aurobindo
Earth Institute, Low Carbon Award - Marrakech
Visit of the honorable President of India to Auroville
Statements of Support from International Advisory Council Members
Suhasini gets award at Glasgow
Aster Patel: "Inwardly, Auroville is blossoming"
Director-General of UNESCO visits Auroville
Interacting with UNESCO during the Mother's Years
Make better society with your designs: Mona Pingel


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Q: A particular text tagging system in Vim Amongst other things I use Vim for my work reports. Not exactly reports but I cannot find a better word for it now.
Those are of a form similar to
20-01-2015 14:43h
<bop> <modular system> <iva>
Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report.

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<pob> <some other tag> <some other tag 2>
Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report. Text of report.

Date and time. Tags in second row, and the description that goes describing what was done.
Now this can get lengthy, since these entries are added several times a day, and the text can be significantly longer than two or three lines.
Several people read these, not all of them knowledgeable on the subject in hand. Often progress on some subject is tracked by tracking a certain tag, through the file.
Since I often have other things on my mind as well, I sometimes make a mistake and instead of <modular system> tag write <system modular> tag which makes keeping history very difficult.
So I am wondering, is there a way to use Vim's autocompletion to show a list of all tags (one or more words & numbers in < > brackets) so when adding those I can just pick them off the list, therefore avoiding the problem of mistyping them or mixing them up?

A: Here's my approach. It uses a separate tags file, so you can edit multiple report files and be able to use any tag in any file. It scans the files for tags and saves them as keys in a dict, so autocomplete should be quite fast. Save this as autoload/tagHelper.vim in your runtimepath, then call tagHelper#AddAutocmds() in your .vimrc. You'll have to set up global variables for the location of a tags file and the pattern to recognize these report files.
let tags = {}

if exists('g:tagFile')
    let tagFile = glob(g:tagFile)
else
    let tagFile = glob('~/tags.txt')
endif

if exists('g:reportPattern')
    let reportPattern = g:reportPattern
else
    let reportPattern = 'reports/*'
endif

function! tagHelper#LoadTags()
    try
        let taglist = readfile(tagFile)
    catch
        let taglist = []
    endtry
    for tag in taglist
        let tags[tag] = 1
    endfor
endfunction

function! tagHelper#AddMappings()
    inoremap <buffer> > ><Esc>:call tagHelper#AddTagsFromLine(getline('.'))<CR>a
    inoremap <buffer> < <<C-x><C-o>
    setlocal omnifunc=tagHelper#CompleteTag
endfunction

function! tagHelper#AddTagsFromLine(line)
    let matchStart = 0
    while matchStart != 0
        let nextMatchStart = match(a:line, '<[^>]\+>', matchStart)
        let tag = matchstr(a:line, '<[^>]\+>', matchStart)
        let tags[tag] = 1
        let matchStart = nextMatchStart + strlen(tag)
    endwhile
endfunction

function! tagHelper#AddAllTagsInBuffer()
    for line in getline(1, '$')
        call tagHelper#AddTagsFromLine(line)
    endfor
endfunction

function! tagHelper#CompleteTag(findstart, base)
    if a:findstart
        let line = getline('.')
        let col = col('.')
        let start = strridx(line, '<', col) + 1
        return start
    endif
    let matches = []
    for tag in keys(tags)
        if stridx(tolower(tag), tolower(a:base)) == 0
            call add(matches, tag)
        endif
    endfor
    return matches
endfunction

function! tagHelper#SaveTags()
    call writefile(keys(tags), tagFile)
endfunction

function! tagHelper#AddAutocmds()
    autocmd VimLeave call tagHelper#SaveTags()
    exe 'autocmd BufEnter ' . reportPattern . ' call tagHelper#AddAllTagsInBuffer()'
    exe 'autocmd BufEnter ' . reportPattern . ' call tagHelper#AddMappings()'
endfunction

A: My CompleteHelper library makes it easy to build custom completions (and I've already written quite some); you'd need one to match any tag name inside <...>. But even though the library does the hard work of building the list of matches, you'd still have to write the boilerplate code to define the pattern, and assign this to a completion key.
So, prompted by your use case, I've written the SpecialLocationComplete plugin that utilizes the CompleteHelper library and allows the definition of a custom completion via a simple configuration object. And best (for you), it even ships with a CTRL-X CTRL-X T completion for complete tags, just what you asked for (and what I imagine could be more generally useful for XML tags, too)!


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Almost all modern wood fireplaces are factory built, with masonry giving way to metal fireboxes and chimneys. The majority of these were designed to be strictly decorative with very little regard to efficiency and heat loss. With a growing trend back to heating with wood, fireplace designs have again, evolved and now incorporate features that make them incredibly efficient and clean burning. These high efficiency wood fireplaces are extremely clean burning fireplaces, provide more heat and longer burn times on a single load of wood, and with systems that keep the glass doors clean, so you can still enjoy the mesmerizing ambiance of the flickering flame. Some high efficiency wood burning fireplaces provide a perfect combination of beauty, form and function, incorporating heat distribution options that can duct the heat throughout your home, reducing or even eliminating the need for a conventional furnace. High Efficiency Wood Burning Fireplaces are tested by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S.A,. EPA Certified Wood Burning Fireplaces must meet strict efficiency and emmisions standards. These standards and EPA ratings are also used in Canada.
Wood burning fireplaces of today, come in many styles, from more conventional to contemporary linear units. Outdoor wood burning fireplaces can enhance your outdoor space, providing a warm and cozy patio space, or in a three season room. Prefabricated chimneys mean a wood fireplace installation can be done just about anywhere in your home or outside, with no need for complicated masonry work.
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O rio Missinaibi localiza-se no norte da província de Ontário, Canadá. Estende-se desde o Lago Missinaibi, ao norte de Chapleau, e deságua no Rio Moose, o qual desagua na Baía de James. Tem aproximadamente 713 km de extensão.

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The grass is always greener on the other side…but yours is color-changing.
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Q: Does PIL resize() hold the GIL? Example:
image = Image.open('foo.png')
# releases the GIL?
resized = image.resize((800, 600), Image.ANTIALIAS)
# reacquires the GIL?

Obviously the variable assignment needs to hold the GIL, but it's difficult to break that up into two lines. :)
If there are two threads doing image resizes, can those resizes run on two different cores?

A: Looking at the source of 1.1.7, it doesn't appear to release the GIL for _resize.
The functions that release the GIL seem to be:
PyImaging_CreateWindowWin32 (createwindow on Win32)
PyImaging_EventLoopWin32 (eventloop on Win32)
pyCMSdoTransform (apply)
_buildTransform (buildTransform)
_buildProofTransform (buildProofTransform)
_encode_to_file (encode_to_file)

A: From the Python wiki on the GIL:

Note that potentially blocking or long-running operations, such as
  I/O, image processing, and NumPy number crunching, happen outside the
  GIL. Therefore it is only in multithreaded programs that spend a lot
  of time inside the GIL, interpreting CPython bytecode, that the GIL
  becomes a bottleneck.

PIL uses C extensions to do most of its heavy lifting.  So the actual image resizing should take advantage of multi-threads if applicable.
If you are asking about resizing multiple images concurrently, I recommend looking into using Python's native multiprocessing library.  This should achieve the desired effect of using multiple cores.


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Decades that already gradually, more or less, also being referred as retro times.
I start the thread with a lovely memory of the Swiss Expo '64 held in Lausanne.
Aerial view of Z�rich with the Limmat river.
Hard to be dated. Can be from the 70's or 80's.
Postal bus on the road to Val d'Anniviers, the alpine valley in Switzerland.
I think, it is of the 60's.
The Baltschieder Hut, a mountain hut of the Swiss Alpine Club, located near the Bietschhorn mountain.
Issued in the early 70's.
Grand-Pont and Tour de Bel-Air - Lausanne.
Postcard from about the 60's.
The Bel-Air tower built by architect Alphonse Laverri�re in 1931, is considered as the first skyscraper in Switzerland.
View of Zeneggen village, Switzerland, with Balfrin mountain, part of the Mischabel massif in the Alps.
The Sertig Valley, Switzerland, with the massifs of the Mittaghorn, the Plattenfluh and the Hoch Ducan in the Alps.
The Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva nearby Montreux.


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Q: Trying to get LogicSigAccount from algodClient.compile(sig) Using the JavaScript SDK for Algorand.
Does anyone know how to go from algodClient.compile(sig) to a LogicSigAccount?
I can do it using the Python SDK, but I can't seem to translate it to JS. Here's the python in case that's useful: lsig = LogicSigAccount(base64.decodebytes(response["result"].encode()))

A: Try something like this:
const lsig = new algosdk.LogicSigAccount(
        new Uint8Array(Buffer.from(compiledSig.result, "base64"))
      );


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Compile a comprehensive on-line searchable database of airborne digital photogrammetric sensor systems.
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Titan Enterprises' 800, 900 and 1000 series flowmeters can now be fitted with a pre-scaler which is programmable to suit customer requirements. This new flowmeter mounted electronic package gives a scaled frequency output proportional to flow. The pre-scaler board fits inside the flowmeter housing and receives the pulses directly from the sensor. After flow calibration the current 'K' factor and the desired 'K' factor are entered. This output value can be the same for all flowmeters in a batch enabling total interchangeability without recalibrating the associated instrumentation. Any K factor less than the meters calibrated value can be used, if required Titan can re-program the meter at any time. Beneficially the pulse width of the output pulse on the pre-scaler is also fully programmable.
The pre-scaler circuit board is supplied encapsulated in the flowmeter housing thereby ensuring that the sensor assembly is fully protected from the surrounding environment. The meter uses a four wire system with the same flying lead being used for both programming and customer connections. This simplified approach ensures the integrity of the encapsulation and terminations.
The 800-, 900- and 1000-series flow turbine meters are designed to give reliable, high performance with up to 7 flow ranges from 0.05 to 30 litres per minute. Incorporating chemically resistant components make these meters fitted with pre-scaler the right choice for the metering of a wide range of fluids from 0°C to +50°C.


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The Oil and the Glory: How global warming may shake up the World Cup and the NBA How global warming may shake ...
How global warming may shake up the World Cup and the NBA
Starbucks is worried about its coffee-making future, leading to its potential expansion into the juice bar business. Experts warn chocolate lovers that cocoa is endangered. To top it off, competitive balance in both the World Cup and international basketball may be turned on its head, suggests a report that says people are shrinking. In recent ...
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Starbucks is worried about its coffee-making future, leading to its potential expansion into the juice bar business. Experts warn chocolate lovers that cocoa is endangered. To top it off, competitive balance in both the World Cup and international basketball may be turned on its head, suggests a report that says people are shrinking.
In recent days, we have been subject to lifestyle forecasts that for some people will be the most worrisome yet regarding the impact of climate change. Yet we also are getting the usual diet of more standard reflection, including a report from the New York Times' Elizabeth Rosenthal on global warming's swift transformation in the United States from a Nobel Prize-winning avocation to "a four-letter word."
The rise of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere from the burning of CO2 is a definitive geopolitical issue, as it will eventually make some nations richer and some poorer, some stronger and some weaker. U.S. military leaders have issued repeated reports — here and here for instance — that climate change poses a national security threat.
China — which a few years ago was the most important outlier in the climate-change debate — now takes the issue seriously, though its economic expansion may eclipse its efforts to reduce emissions, writes Reuters. Around the world, industrial nations are moving to reduce CO2 emissions. But Rosenthal writes that American politics have whipsawed, and complicated, the reduction of emissions.
U.S. ambivalence on the issue is not new — in the 1990s, then-President Bill Clinton knew he would not get the Kyoto Accords through Senate ratification, so he never submitted the agreement to the process. Yet one wonders whether, if the prospect of rising seas and the loss of national wealth and geopolitical power did not grab attention, the specter of losing a world sports title will.
According to a report in Nature Climate Change, two researchers at the National University of Singapore have found that species are shrinking with the march of climate change — including humans. "Reduced food supplies are likely to mean that animals at the top of their food chains — including humans — will grow to smaller sizes, have fewer offspring, and be more vulnerable to disease," writes the Daily Telegraph, reporting on the study.
Studies have shown that global warming will affect regions of the Earth differently — some countries will see stark affects, and others won't. Applying that concept, one over time could find soccer or basketball players who grow up in drought-stricken regions — say, the state of Texas (the Dallas Mavericks's current crop is pictured above) — outclassed by athletes from currently underrated, rain-drenched locales such as the Indian state of Assam. Scouts pay attention.
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DENMARK & NORWAY: ROYALLY RICH IN BREATHTAKING BEAUTY, FROM CASTLES TO FJORDS
September 15, 2017 /0 Comments/in • DESTINATIONS, Hotels and Resorts, Scandinavia /by Karen Kuzsel
PART 4: THE TROLL'S DAUGHTER DANCES, WATERFALLS PLUNGE, AND THERE'S SALMON… LOTS AND LOTS OF SALMON!
In PART 3: STEPPING INTO THE FAIRY TALE WORLD THAT IS NORWAY–GOAT FARMS, SKI RESORTS, FJORDS AND WHITE-KNUCKLE MOUNTAIN ROADS, we visited one of Norway's most dramatic fjords, dined at a goat farm, and mellowed to the music of Composer Edvard Grieg.
The pastoral elegance of Lofthus
We leave Bergen, the second largest city in Norway, for the serene pastoral elegance of Lofthus, a city in Norway's Fjord District. Small farms and villages tuck onto mountainsides. Slopes embrace sparkling fjords. Wild flowers grow haphazardly, creating a landscape of emotionally-charged blues, whites, greens, yellows and pinks. This is the Norway of picture postcards, of a place where time has paused to let one breathe crisp clean air and soak in the relentless natural beauty.
Lofthus
Where we stayed:
Over the bridge and to the water-surrounded decking at Hotel Ullensvang
Hotel Ullensvang may be one of the most beautiful resorts at which my husband Russ and I have ever stayed. From the moment we enter the lobby and spot glass display cases of full-sized mannequins in regional costuming, I know this place will be singularly impressive. And that's before I hone in on something that looks like a coat rack bearing large sculpted wooden apples. Each apple once held a telephone. We drop our belongings in our room and beeline to the hotel's backyard that faces the Hardanger Fjord, which fronts steep rocky walls. A small white fenced bridge juts from near the shore to a walkway leading to a small deck bearing only a round cocktail table and four patio chairs. With friends and wine, we toast our incredible fortune to be sitting in this place of tranquil beauty. Between the shore and the hotel is a building no bigger than a toolshed that Edvard Grieg used for composing during his frequent stays. Hotel Ullensvang is frequented by Norway's Queen Sonja, who has hiked the area so often that her path is now referred to as Queen Sonja's Hiking Trail.
just one of the beautiful rooms at Hotel Ullensvang
Strolling through this 172-room 150-year-old hotel is like visiting an arts and history museum. One of my favorite rooms could only be admired from behind ironwork doors. The Monastery Wine Cellar, built in 1865, was part of the original hotel and is in use today for special events.
What we saw:
Enroute to Hotel Ullensvang, our Odysseys Unlimited Norwegian Splendor with Copenhagen tour group made two stops that each represent a facet of Norway's claim to fame: salmon and orchards.
Hardanger Akvasenter, a floating salmon farm
First stop was Hardanger Akvasenter, a floating salmon farm. Two enormous vats each contain about 50,000 fish that are caught in fresh water when they're about one-and-a-half years old. They're kept in the vats about another year-and-a-half, feeding on 70% plants and 30% remnants of fish parts the salmon farmers wouldn't want, either bony or filet leftovers. The farm we're visiting is considered small. Larger farms might have 100,000 fish per vat. Once the salmon are of age, they are slaughtered and within 12-24 hours, reach markets or restaurants. Eighty-percent of Norway's farmed salmon are exported.
Looking over the Steinstø Fruit Farm
Ninety minutes from Bergen along the Hardanger Fjord sits the Steinstø Fruit Farm, owned by the same family since 1650. Now managed by the ninth generation's brother and sister team of Ola and Heidi, the farm's reputation doesn't rest just on what it grows. It's what is done with the 25 varieties of applies, 15 varieties of plum, and other fruits, including cherries, raspberries, and strawberries. Steinstø, which means Little House by the Stone, encompasses acres as far as the eye can see up the mountain on which the farmhouse and orchards reside, and down to the fjord, where they have a café and small grocery that sells their homemade jams, pastries and baskets of fruit. Before Tour Director Karin Hansen led us to the grocery, where I bought sweet black cherries and a jar of strawberry preserves, we were invited into the farmhouse's 70-seat restaurant for a piece of Heidi's famous apple cake and fresh apple juice.
You can have lunch and admire the Hardangerfjord from Steinstom Fruit Farm
When Heidi's grandfather challenged her to find something useful to do to bring in money, she used her grandmother's recipe to make the cake, hoping to sell enough to make the effort worthwhile. The first year, with a growing season for the apples she prefers (similar to Gravensteins) from April to October, she sold 1,000. Now she averages 7,000. The cake is a not-too-sweet dense apple-textured treat that she says begins with crushing the apples, cooking them with sugar and cinnamon as if making applesauce, and then freezing that mixture, which is later the foundation of the batter. Ola then guided us on a tour of the farm, something he is often hired to do for groups. Ola echoes a concern we've heard from other farmers. Who will take over the farm when he, Heidi and their spouses are unable. He said Norwegian teens are too lazy, so like other farmers, he brings in Eastern European "interns."
The day following our salmon and fruit farm visits, we head off for what Odysseys and other Norwegian companies refer to as the "Norway in a nutshell" tour. Odysseys refers to it a day of "extreme beauty and diverse transportation." It most definitely is.
a visit during the Norway in a Nutshell tour
Vidar, our calm and steady driver, guided us through the Hardanger five-mile tunnel, noted for roundabouts that are lit up by a circle of bright blue lights. From the tunnel over a suspension bridge, we took a two-hour ferry ride to Flåm. For Russ, the ferry ride was mesmerizing, capturing the essence of Norway's fjords, villages and the dramatic scale of the jutting mountains and cascading waterfalls. The day was drizzly. Fog appeared like a surreal cloud, shrouding the landscape in a hazy mist.
At Flåm, we boarded a one-hour train ride up 2,900 feet and past dazzling waterfalls, such as Kjosfossen. A popular attraction unto itself, it drops 738 feet. Atop the waterfall is a small power station used to power the Flåm Railway. Cruise passengers often take the train for an excursion, receiving Norwegian cake and coffee afterwards.
Village along the Hardanger Fjord
The train, built in 1893, passes through 20 tunnels and navigates 21 hairpin turns on its 20-kilometer (nearly 13 miles) track. We're warned not to delay taking photos because there may be only a 20-second intervals before the next turn or tunnels, many of which were excavated manually. Suddenly, the train stops at a long platform. We hear ethereal music coming from the mountain as a platinum long–haired dancer in a flowing red dress glides, circles and spins across the rocks and onto the ruins of a long-ago fortress. The summer season actress and student of the local ballet school is portraying Huldra, the legendary daughter of the Troll King. Like the legend of The Little Mermaid, she has a tail and falls for a man. In this story though, if he fails to marry her within a limited time, she dies. He doesn't. She does.
Huldra, the legendary daughter of the Troll King dances
Coming into a port
The Hardanger Nature Center Eidfjord is a three-story museum exhibiting the best of Norwegian nature. We walked through the exhibition and watched a 20-minute immersive 225-degree wide screen movie that took us on a tour of Norway through steep canyons, between mountains, and over waterfalls and glaciers.
An exhibit at the Hardanger Nature Center Eidfjord
We're on our way to the last city of our two-week tour, but before we reach Oslo, capital of Norway, there are more sights to see, including one of the highest waterfalls in Norway. Vøringfossen has a vertical drop of nearly 600 feet. It lies at the top of Måbødalen in the municipality of Eidfjord, which connects Oslo with Bergen.
Vøringfossen has a vertical drop of 600 feet
After the roaring beauty of Vøringfossen, we head next across Europe's largest mountain plateau, Hardangervidda. We pass through the cross country and alpine ski resort town of Geilo, noting we see few power lines. Karin Hansen says Norway has extremely tight environmental protections. They bury the power lines so as not to impede scenic views, which is why tourism increases roughly six percent a year, according to Visit Norway.
Hardangervidda, Europe's largest mountain plateau
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PART 5: OSLO, A CULTURAL METROPOLIS FOR MUSEUMS, ARTS, FABULOUS FOOD, THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, AND SO MUCH MORE!
Photos by Russ Wagner (except for any photos of us)
Karen Kuzsel is a writer-editor based in the Orlando area who specializes in the hospitality, entertainment, meetings & events industries. She is an active member of ILEA and MPI and is now serving on the 2016 – 2017 MPI Global Advisory Board for The Meeting Professional Magazine for the second consecutive year. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. Karen writes about food & wine, spas, destinations, venues, meetings & events. A career journalist, she has owned magazines, written for newspapers, trade publications, radio and TV. As her alter-ego, Natasha, The Psychic Lady, she is a featured entertainer for corporate and social events. karenkuzsel@earthlink.net; www.ThePsychicLady.com; @karenkuzsel; @thepsychiclady.
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