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Totalitarianism: A Modern Curse
Totalitarianism is a modern phenomenon. It is stronger and more intrusive than dictatorship or autocracy. Totalitarian regimes control not only the state, the military, the judicial system and the press, but also reach into people's minds, to dictate what they should say, think and feel. Hannah Arendt has argued in The Origins of Totalitarianism that one of the key features of the totalitarian state is its system of indoctrination, propaganda, isolation, intimidation and brainwashing—instigated and supervised by the Secret Police—which transforms classes, or thoughtful individuals able to make relatively sound political decisions, into masses, or people who have been so beaten down that they become apathetic and give their unconditional loyalty to the totalitarian regime. Although scholars such as Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest and Vladimir Tismaneanu have elegantly explained the rise (and fall) of communist governments in Eastern Europe, it's the vivid descriptions we find in the fiction and memoirs of the epoch–George Orwell's 1984, Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Natalia Ginsburg's Journey into the Whirlwind and Lena Constante's The Silent Escape—that take readers into the daily horrors, the dramatic Kafkaesque show trials, the physical and psychological torture and the general sense of hopelessness that characterizes life under totalitarian regimes. The writers I have just mentioned tend to focus mostly on the Stalinist period, during which the state governed through arbitrary displays of power and terror, sending millions of people to their deaths in labor and concentration camps. Yet as many who lived under totalitarian rule in Eastern Europe during the post-Stalinist era would claim, the milder, "velvet" form of totalitarianism was depressing and depleting in its own way, killing people's hope and humanity even though it did not physically claim as many lives.
My own novel, Velvet Totalitarianism, introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction. First I provide information about the Ceausescu regime: its feared Securitate (or Secret Police); the human rights abuses and outrageous domestic policies which left the Romanian people hungry and demoralized; the dictator's narcissistic personality cult; the infamous orphanages, which were a direct result of the regime's inhumane and irrational birth control policies, and the events that led to the Romanian revolution, first in the Timisoara uprising and then in Bucharest, where the dictator and his wife were deposed, put on their own show trial and executed in December, 1989. To do so, I synthesize information presented by other scholarly works, memoirs and textbooks on the subject, including Vladimir Tismaneanu's Stalinism for all Seasons (2003), Peter Cipokowski's Revolution in Eastern Europe (1991), Andrei Codrescu's A Hole in the Flag (1991) and Ion Pacepa's Red Horizons (1987).
Then I translate these events into fiction, to give readers a more palpable sense of what it felt like to live in Romania under the Ceausescu regime. I also attempt to capture the mixture of cynicism and hope that characterized one of the most bloody anti-communist revolutions in Eastern Europe. My novel depicts the experiences of a family living under the Ceausescu regime whose son gets entangled in a web set up by the Securitate. The story then traces the family's difficult process of immigrating to the United States as well as the sometimes comical cultural challenges of adapting to America. The main characters arrive in Eastern Europe on vacation during the period of revolutionary upheavals in both Czechoslovakia and Romania, whose events they witness first-hand.
The parts of the novel that focus specifically on Romania constitute more of a fictionalized autobiography or a memoir in that they're partly based on my family's personal experience of communism. I say "fictionalized" since having left Romania at the age of eleven, my memories are undoubtedly skewed by a childlike perspective as well as by the passage of time. The factual information about the Securitate, Ceausescu's policies and the Romanian revolution I depict here, however, is also based on research rather than just on memories and anecdotal accounts. The fiction inspired by real life helps individuate a mass phenomenon. In a post-Cold War era where totalitarian communism has become just another page in history books, fact and fiction are complimentary rather than opposites. Fiction can make what may now seem like a long-gone, dead epoch, and the anonymous suffering of millions of people, seem vivid, significant and real again.
Yet whichever perspective one chooses, fact or fiction, what is being described here is essentially the same reality: conditions in Romania during the so-called "Epoch of Light" were notoriously miserable. People had to wait in long lines for meager supplies of food, clothing and household goods. There was limited heat and hot water. By the late 1970's, the Secret Police had installed microphones in virtually every home and apartment. The whole population lived in fear. As a Romanian citizen said to a French journalist following the fall of the Ceausescu regime, "It was a system that didn't destroy people physically—not many were actually killed; but it was a system that condemned us to a fight for the lowest possible level of physical and spiritual nourishment. Under Ceausescu, some people died violently, but an entire population was dying."
Although this book focuses mostly on Romania, hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans led similar lives to the ones I describe, struggling daily against poverty, hunger, state indoctrination, surveillance, censorship and oppression in post-Stalinist communist regimes. In actuality, "velvet" totalitarianism was insidious rather than soft and gentle, killing your spirit even when it spared your life.
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The Role of Cultural Memory: Writing Velvet Totalitarianism
My first novel, Velvet Totalitarianism, took me about ten years to write. It took me so long partly because I wrote this book while also teaching literature and philosophy, writing scholarly books and raising a family. It took me a long time to write it also because I had to do a lot of historical research for it. When one works for so long on one book, the interrelated questions of motivation and intended audience become all the more relevant. As I was writing Velvet Totalitarianism, I asked myself often: why write historical fiction about the Cold War, an era which is now relegated mostly to history books? Why is the history of Romanian communism so important to me and whom do I hope to touch in writing fiction about it? An anecdote brought these questions into sharper focus.
Friends of my parents, who have a son who's not much younger than myself, told us that their son recalls only one thing about life under the Ceausescu regime in the mid 1980's, when he was not yet a teenager. Now in his thirties, the young man remembers that as a child he frequently had to go to bed wearing his hat and coat during the winter, because there was no heat or hot water in their apartment. But he can't recall much else about the hardships the Romanian people endured during the Ceausescu dictatorship. He knows only indirectly, from older family members and from history books, the childhood memories which I can still recall quite vividly, and which I wanted to depict for others in my writing. Conditions in Romania during the so-called "Epoch of Light" were notoriously miserable. People had to wait in long lines for meager supplies of food, clothing and household goods. There was limited heat and hot water. By the late 1970's, the Secret Police had installed microphones in virtually every home and apartment. The whole population lived in fear. As a Romanian citizen said to a French journalist following the fall of the Ceausescu regime, "It was a system that didn't destroy people physically — not many were actually killed; but it was a system that condemned us to a fight for the lowest possible level of physical and spiritual nourishment. Under Ceausescu, some people died violently, but an entire population was dying." Although Velvet Totalitarianism focuses mostly on Romania, hundreds of millions of Eastern Europeans led similar lives to the ones I describe, struggling daily against poverty, hunger, state indoctrination, surveillance, censorship and oppression in post-Stalinist communist regimes. In actuality, "velvet" totalitarianism was insidious rather than soft and gentle, killing your spirit even when it spared your life.
It's one thing to read about the institutions and events that characterized life in totalitarian Romania and quite another to have lived through them. For my family and I, the events I describe in this novel are real. Like everyone else, we were subject to constant state indoctrination. Like practically everyone else except for the very privileged, we waited in long lines for meager supplies of food and consumer goods. Since my father traveled abroad, our apartment was bugged — we discovered hidden microphones underneath his desk and inside the heating units — and the Securitate followed my parents' movements. My father worked at the Mathematics Institute. His boss was Nicolae Ceausescu's daughter, Zoe Ceausescu, who actually went against some of her father's policies by allowing him to go to scholarly conferences abroad. This rare privilege was essential to a mathematician's — or, for that matter, any intellectual's — career. Nobody can thrive intellectually without a free exchange of information and an awareness of the latest international discoveries in one's field. In spite of Zoe Ceausescu's umbrage, however, my father was accused by the Securitate of being an Israeli spy upon his return from a conference in Jerusalem. He was told that he'd no longer be allowed out of the country.
No doubt this individual decision was not really personal. It coincided with Ceausescu's national policy of closing the Iron Curtain, to further isolate and control the Romanian people. Fortunately, my father obtained permission to attend one last conference, at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies. He decided to take a chance and defect to the United States. Since my mother and I were still in Romania, my family struggled to reunite in the United States for nearly two years. Although there were precedents for similar immigrations, we lived under the rational fear that we might never see each other again. My mother was subject to demoralizing Securitate interrogations similar to the ones I describe in Velvet Totalitarianism. Yet, as I also depict in the novel, we never gave up or lost hope. Several congressmen and human rights organizations intervened on our behalf. When I was a few weeks shy of my twelfth birthday, we finally joined my father in the United States. "Velvet totalitarianism" is a term that has been used to describe the constraints imposed upon the expression of liberal values in the Canadian and American academia. Just as, conversely, the term "political correctness" has been used to indicate that there's no real freedom of expression of conservative values in the academia.
Indeed, whether or not America has turned out to be the country of plentitude and freedom that I dreamed about as a child back in Romania is another story. But what remains clear to me is that the systematic state repression we lived through in Romania makes whatever's being criticized in Western institutions today, by both the right and the left, pale by comparison. The United States certainly lacks the absolute freedom that some of its ideologues may rhapsodize about, but what Romanians experienced was an absolute lack of freedom, which is far worse.
In Velvet Totalitarianism I wanted to leave a trace of the scale of comparison, of the difference I experienced between the lack of absolute freedom here and the lack of any freedom there. As the narrator of my novel states at the end, I'm hoping that this description of daily life in Romania under the Ceausescu regime will convey to my children and to my children's children — as well as all readers interested in this subject — the lost traces of an era in which ordinary people were forced to lead extraordinary lives.
The anecdote my parents told me about the young Romanian who couldn't recall much about the Ceausescu era helped convince me that these traces could, indeed, be lost. Due to the (largely positive) political and economic developments during the past 20 years in Eastern Europe and the internationalization of American pop culture, today's children and young adults in Romania and other former East Bloc countries probably have more in common with their Western counterparts than they do with the family members who endured the hardships of communist regimes. Many of them know more about Facebook and Lady Gaga than about the Ceausescu era or the infamous Romanian orphanages. In writing about the communist epoch in Eastern Europe, both historians and writers of historical fiction are therefore helping preserve cultural memory for future generations of Eastern Europeans as well as for Western readers, both of whom are relatively detached from these experiences. They have not lived through them. They have no recollections that emotionally bond them to this difficult past. In many respects, the stark reality of Communist totalitarianism is as foreign to new generations of Eastern Europeans as it is to most Westerners.
To offer one noteworthy example, if one looks at what's being published and read about Romania in the U.S., one is immediately struck by the fact that it's Vlad Tepes's reign and the horrid yet tantalizing legend of Dracula that readers find most intriguing. Few Americans have heard of Nicolae Ceausescu and yet fewer know about Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. Yet there's hardly a teenager in America who hasn't heard of the Twilight series; there's hardly a bookstore in the country that doesn't sell Anne Rice's vampire novels or Elizabeth Kostova's erudite rendition of the Dracula myth, the international best-seller The Historian. Why the Dracula legend has far more international appeal in the West than practically anything else related to Romania is a complex enough question to warrant numerous Ph.D. students, plus the Romanian tourism industry, working on it. Whatever the answers to this question might be, what's become clear to me is this: for any author who writes about any OTHER aspect of Romanian history than the Vlad Tepes/Dracula legend, the challenge becomes, above all, how to make them matter to those who haven't lived through those historical events and thus who have no a priori emotional investment in them.
To begin addressing the question of relevance, I'd like to turn first to the nonfiction book that has inspired my novel most: Vladimir Tismaneanu's Stalinism for All Seasons. For anyone interested in Romania's political history during the twentieth-century, Professor Tismaneanu's book is the seminal work on the subject. Clearly written, solidly researched, informative and engaging, Stalinism For All Seasons can be included among the best works of political history, alongside Richard Pipes' works on Lenin, Robert Conquest's books on Stalin and Allan Bullock's studies of Hitler. It covers the evolution of Romanian communism from the early twentieth-century, through Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's Stalinist dictatorship and the latter's strategic detachment from Moscow following Stalin's death, to the dreary Ceausescu years of dynastic communism. Without this book, and others like it, younger generations of Romanians would grow increasingly disconnected from the past that deeply affected their families' lives, and therefore, indirectly, their lives as well.
To write about the history of totalitarianism, be it through nonfiction or fiction, means to undertake the task of preserving for future generations a cultural memory of social change, of trials and tribulations and of unspeakable human suffering. It means to take on the challenge of bringing this past to the attention of those who may not have lived through it, and who will not find it automatically relevant to their lives. It means to somehow make this strange and alien past matter to them, at least enough to awaken their curiosity and open their hearts. It means to pay homage to those who sacrificed, or were sacrificed, by the totalitarian machine. Writing the history of totalitarianism is therefore simultaneously a discovery of the suppressed truth; a eulogy to a difficult cultural past and its countless victims; an homage to the people who endured it and to those who had the courage to fight against it and a cautionary tale to all those who never want to experience it, or to live through it again. In this respect, political history and historical fiction serve similar goals and face similar challenges. They induce people to care about something that is either already behind them and that they may prefer to forget, or about something that they've never lived through at all.
By way of contrast to political history, however, historical fiction isn't as closely bound to accuracy or to any kind of objectivity. Of course, to write my book I consulted literally dozens of scholarly sources. But Velvet totalitarianism is also, above all, a work of mainstream literary fiction, to use one of the labels publishers rely on in this country. By this I mean that, by way of contrast to pulp fiction, the narrative style and the characterizations are as important as the plot and other structural elements of the novel. To make the main characters more multi-dimensional and believable, I relied for inspiration upon memories of my childhood and people in my life, especially my parents. But all the real-life elements of the novel served the function of enhancing and anchoring the fiction. The fictional elements, in my mind, were always primary.
As a work of fiction rather than historiography, Velvet Totalitarianism also faces the principal challenge of entertaining potential readers. When I was writing this novel, I kept in mind the problem of how to present such dreary and disheartening historical information in a way that is informative without becoming didactic, and entertaining without trivializing the difficult past I'm trying to describe. I relied in part upon a literary precedent, a contemporary American novel I love: Jeffrey's Eugenides' Middlesex. Eugenides called his novel "a comic epic" (of his Greek-American cultural heritage). He went far beyond (and deeper than) ethnic humor, since his novel relies upon social and historical research, a traditional Aristotelian plot with tragic tension and an interesting twist, and characterizations that are plausible, endearing and humorous (also inspired in part by his family members). That's what I tried to do in Velvet Totalitarianism as well, only for my Romanian-American heritage, of course.
My novel has been described by critics as historical fiction, a spy thriller and a love story. All three descriptions apply equally well, but if I had to choose only one label, I'd say that Velvet Totalitarianism is a triple love story. First of all, love for two countries: Romania, my country of origin and its people, who have suffered a series of terrible governments and are struggling to emerge from them and establish a tradition of democracy. Simultaneously, love for my host country, the United States, the proverbial melting pot with a distinct identity that offers so many generations of immigrants the opportunity to flourish. Second, love for family, which gives the main characters the resourcefulness and strength to survive totalitarian repression. Third, the romantic love stories of fallible yet endearing characters who show that it's our combination of faults, neuroses and loyalty to those important to us that make us fully human and enable us to enjoy the beauty of life, to survive its hardships and to overcome its challenges.
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Oprah, RuPaul and more A-listers among Webby Award nominees
Voting for the annual internet awards is now open, with winners set to be announced April 24.
Oprah, Beyoncé and Lin-Manuel Miranda are among the A-list names that dot this year's Webby Award nominations.
The 22nd edition of the annual awards features — as always — an eclectic roundup of the internet's finest, with gripping podcasts and especially snarky fast food social accounts recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
RuPaul, Oprah and The Roots' Questlove will compete for the title of best host, alongside Phoebe Judge of the "Criminal" podcast and "Intercepted" host Jeremy Scahill. On the corporate side, Xbox, Denny's, and the Museum of Ice Cream will battle it out for best overall social presence.
Lin Manuel-Miranda is nominated in the public service & activism category for "Rise Up For Good," his million-dollar fundraising partnership with the Charity Network. The "Hamilton" mastermind got the nod next to online activism causes like the @lgbt_history Instagram account and the Black Lives Matter movement's provocative web app, Unsafety Check.
The best writing category is a who's who of addictive podcasts, including This American Life's tragic slice-of-life "S-Town" and HowStuffWork's wildly educational "Stuff You Missed In History Class." "The Simpsons" is nominated for the long-running comedy's online short "Donald Trump's First 100 Days In Office," while Kourtney Kardashian and Elton John — a dream matchup if we've ever seen one — will duke it out in the celebrity/fan category, along with Ellen DeGeneres' ellentube and the 8-bit Beyoncé game "Lemonade Rage."
All nominees are eligible for both the People's Voice Award — with online voting open through April 19 — and the academy judge-selected Webby Award. This year's judges include Jimmy Kimmel and Instagram executive Eva Chen. The winners will be announced April 24. To see all the nominees, and to vote, head to webbyawards.com.
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from functools import reduce

def find_largest_prime_factor(target):
    """
    Finds the largest prime factor of the target number.

    @param target The number to find the largest prime factor of.

    @return The largest prime factor of the target.
    """

    primes = []
    largest = 0

    #Search and add prime numbers.
    for num in range(1, target):
        if (target % num) == 0:
            primes.append(num)

            #Test to see if the largest prime factor has been found.
            product = reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, primes)
            if product == target:
                largest = num
                break

    return largest

# Test
target = 600851475143
largest = find_largest_prime_factor(target)

print(largest)

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Be careful what you wish for. Will it still be popular when there's a two year waiting list to get in the class you need ? Free tuition programs mostly benefit the middle class because you still have to buy books and pay living expenses.
1. How much money will need to be drawn from the GVI General Fund annually?
2. Has anyone considered what will need to happen to the infrastructure to accommodate this unknown # of new students? Who pays for that? Is there even a plan?
3. Why does the UVI publish only a single financial page – with the last one shared from 2017? What is really going on behind that curtain? They already receive $20+ million annually from the GVI. Public funds, the public has a right to know.
4. Are students ready for college? What accounts for the 36% graduation rate? Are we setting these freshmen/kids up to fail? What happens to the students who are "prepared"? Will course studies slow down to accommodate everyone?
5. Is money really the barrier to completing a college education? Or would it of been better to wait until the rest of the education system caught up to truly prepare kids for the riggers of college?
Bottom line, this is an ill-conceived takeover (acting as the check writer of last resort) by the government – what happens when they can't write the check? Are professors laid off? Do they get in line behind GERS, WAPA and the hospitals? Or the vendors who are already owed hundreds of millions of dollars? I fear a train wreck is about to unfold…..


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Interview by Christine Lamborn in 1988 with Elsie Ball about her family history and growing up at Jerry's Plains in the the Upper Hunter Valley. (audio recording very poor) The Margaret Henry Oral History Archive is a collection of audio tapes, transcripts, summaries and essays that were part of the Oral Histories Open Foundation Course (1986-1989). Margaret Henry was a history lecturer at the UON in the 1980s. The oral history tapes have been digitised by Cultural Collections, UON Library and made freely available to the wider global research community thanks to the generosity of The Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. The wider collection of Margaret Henry Oral History Archive – over 220 in total and with many stories of Newcastle, the Hunter Valley and its surrounds and records voices describing the Regions cultural, intellectual and social life. It is an incredible legacy to Margaret Henry. The original audio tapes and written sources are held in Cultural Collections at the Auchmuty Library, University of Newcastle (Australia). You are welcome to use the sources for study and personal research purposes. Please acknowledge as Courtesy of the "Margaret Henry Oral History Archive, University of Newcastle (Australia)" For commercial requests you must obtain permission by contacting Cultural Collections. If you are the subject of the stories, or know the subject of the stories, and have cultural or other reservations about the stories available on this website and would like to discuss this with us please contact Cultural Collections at archives@newcastle.edu.au If you have any further information on the audio files, please leave a comment. These sources are provided free of charge to the global community thanks to the generosity of the Vera Deacon Regional History Fund. Information about the Vera Deacon History Fund is here https://uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/ And you can directly donate here: https://dotnet.newcastle.edu.au/donations/
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Do you believe in rumors?
Should you believe in rumors?
You could throw a counter at me asking how you even distinguish a rumor from one which is not. Truth is, in today's world especially, there's no telling where a piece of new erupts from or what the true motive behind that actually is. Well, wisdom still dictates you ignore gossip to focus on the here and now, the truth supported by facts. Like half-baked knowledge, scarcity of intellect or framed notoriety often leads to smokes of speculation from non-existent fires of unsubstantiated reports. No, I'm not talking about politics here but keep reading.
Now, I don't come from a planet far-far away, so like many of you out there, I too have fallen prey to hear-says. In fact, I have even reacted to some at times. But I'd like to believe, in fact I know that I have never fed the grapevine against someone. Unfortunately though, I have myself been at the receiving end of such scuttlebutts at several times. Destiny's favorite child, I guess.
Tell me have there been rumors about you as well?
There must have been, maybe in school or college, perhaps even later?
I fail to understand the need which persuades folks to do this. Don't people know that not all have the strength to refute rumors head on? They have been known to go absolutely wrong at times, causing irreparable damages. Not something to be toyed with, I'd say.
What have some of the strangest rumors about you been?
When S and I started going out in college our batch mates, for some strange reason, found it amusing to propagate rumors about us. To this day the inanity of some of those crack me up. But at that point, the humor wasn't as clearly visible as probably today.
Remember that couple in college everyone loved to hate? Well, we were that couple. Truth be told, even today we don't quite know the reason why. But I'm not here to analyze the whys of someone else's irrationality. I'd like to believe they were envious to the point of loathing us because they lacked something, not us. We must have been doing something right, something different which begged their repugnance.
Why don't I share some of those silly rumors with you?
If not anything else, you could at least spend some time laughing at their absurdity. So, here goes.
· Rumor was: S and Naba are just faking it. They won't even last a week.
Me: 9 years down the line we seem to be faking it quite well, don't you think?
· Rumor was: S and Naba are disciplined and reprimanded by the Principal at every student fest but they never learn.
Me: Getting caught has never been our style my friend.
· Rumor was: S and Naba go to the private magazine section at the library but never read books there.
Me: Really? You couldn't stoop any lower than that, could you?
· Rumor was: S and Naba have finally split.
Me: Really? Nobody told us that?
I know it's pointless to even write about these things but I just wanted to get it out of my system. I don't know why they disliked us so much or what made them dislike us so much. We are not bad people, really.
What was ridiculous was they even had bets as to when we would split. Maybe S and I should have wagered on never and made some money out of it!
How do you react to rumors?
You might take it lightly at first, maybe even get angry at times but one day it starts to sting. And that's not a great feeling at all.
S and I being together even now seems to have shut them up for good. What also helped was cutting most of them out of our lives. Yes, deciding to not have anything to do with them has helped us stay unaffected and happy. Why unnecessarily keep people who don't think well of you in your lives? Though S still is in contact with some folks from college (he's kind that way), I have completely shut them off. Forgiving just doesn't seem to be my style, at least for unprovoked nastiness.
These sporadic episodes of rumors against us has taught me how you can be targeted for no apparent reason at all. It just depends on the whims and fancies of a few people. The rest just latch on and follow the herd.
Another thing to remember is you may not be judged by the same standards as others, so don't be surprised when that happens. We were an unlikely couple in the eyes of my batch mates so maybe that pushed them to detest us. But then another so called unusual pairing was celebrated by the same bunch of people within the same span of time. So, bottom line is you can never really know. But if it happens, just remind yourself you don't need to justify your choices to anyone, as long as you are not killing anyone that is! No, seriously, you don't need permission to live your life the way you want to.
Before you go though, tell me, do you believe in rumors?
Or, will you believe in rumors now?


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Wow, the eyeshadows look pretty great! I love the slight shimmer, how pretty!
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Unscrew the two little screws that hold the extruder in the carriage, You will need a Hex Key for this. Above is a picture of the set I use. There is only two of them, one on each side of the Hot End. They are not hard to find.
Once you have undone the screws that hold the Extruder in the carriage place it on a safe working space so you can take it apart safely.
To Start taking apart the Extruder first remove the screws that hold the fan to the extruder. By taking these two screws out you have just Disassembled the extruder as far as we need to in this tutorial. Once you undo those screws and remove the parts that are not held in place anymore. your extruder will look like the one pictured above.
Seprate the Stepper motor from the rest of the Extruder also.
Once you have the stepper motor all by its self, find a can of compressed air or simply try and blow the plastic out with your mouth. What ever you prefer.
Once you have cleared all the plastic away from the stepper motor you are done.
Since this guide is designed to be "Fast" guide I will not show how to clear the "hot end". One of the common ways of doing this by cleaning it with guitar string. If you wish to clean your Hot End also just Google the guitar string method and that will allow you to do a thorough clean of your extruder.
Edit : I have since made an instructable on the "Guitar String" method.
Start Piecing the extruder back together, It is the same process as taking it apart but just backwards. If you cant remember what goes where, look at the pictures above that will help you.
Put the extruder back on carriage by pacing it on the carriage then inserting the two screws back where they were. Make sure it is seated securely and does not wiggle once the screws are tightened.
You have done a basic clean, Hopefully this helps you a little. If you are still having problems I Highly Recommend using the Guitar String method. It has worked wonders for me in the past, It does take a while to do which is why it is not included in this Fast Guide.
Great guide, thank you for sharing this!


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 Широкова, Надежда Сергеевна (род. 1938) — советский и российский историк, антиковед, кельтолог, профессор СПбГУ.
 Широкова, Надежда Степановна (род. 1939) — советская фигуристка, тренер. Примечания

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Those regular Booksquawk readers will know that I have battled with 3 of Mieville's previous 7 novels and always lost. I implored him on these very web pages to write a disciplined, grown-up novel. Not ones chock-full of fantastic, imaginative creations thrown onto the book's canvas like Jackson Pollock paint drips. And blow me down, but in his eighth novel "Embassytown" I do believe he has finally delivered. This is a fabulous novel that still retains his breathtaking ability to enthral through the power of image and idea alone.
Embassytown is a fully-realised world within a well-drawn solar system. It's his most coherent piece of world-building since "The City And The City", a book that otherwise fell down on its narrative aspects. The Ariekei are a biped race of insects with immense strength and advanced bio-technology, who host their human and other Exot(ic) races on their planet in peace and tranquility. They have a complex language which demands it is spoken simultaneously by two human voices. Hence the humans have bred special twin-headed Ambassadors who are the only representatives of our species who can communicate with the Hosts. The problem arises when a new Ambassador arrives on the planet, whose twin voice has an alarming effect on the Hosts. Language as virus, just as William Burroughs wrote of.
It is a fascinating treatise offered throughout the pages of the book. Its heroine Avice was offered up as a child to the Hosts to serve as a simile. That is she demonstrated certain actions for them, which they continued to pore over trying to debate the finer synecdoches of what she represented. For the Arikei cannot tell lies, therefore they have no symbolic or representative language. Actual human bodies have to stand for figures of speech as close as they can get to shades of meaning. Once the Arikei become addicted to the sound of the new Ambassador's voice, the tantalising prospect of a rebellion through discovering symbolic language offers them a possible cure.
The book is politically astute too. It offers a cogent portrayal of an empire and colonial relations. Of potential rebellions being pre-empted and successfully cut off at the head. Of civil war and factions, within both the human and the Arikei communities. The infected Hosts have a chilling way of trying to go cold turkey, to snap off the addictive effect of the Ambassador's voice on their bodies, akin to voluntary eunuchs.
The book skillfully interweaves its political and linguistic analysis with a narrative and character interaction and intrigue that stands up in its own right. The ending might have a touch of deus ex machina at Avice's hand about it, but I can forgive it that. This truly was a fascinating and stimulating book of ideas, with language itself at the very heart. Language is shown to be both the problem and the key to its own solution: "Language is the continuation of coercion by other means". Mieville has finally delivered.


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Analysis of IPC classification codes frequency in patents concerning "in situ" soil remediation technologies (CPC code B09C2101)
Published: 11 January 2023| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/y3jk3twbgn.1
Riccardo Priore
As already explained in our previous publication (Analysis of IPC classification codes frequency in patents concerning "in situ" remediation technologies), our Patlib Centre is involved in the context of Horizon2020 funded projects aimed at soil remediation. Therefore, we are especially interested in identifying the trends of the relevant soil remediation technologies that score the highest frequency of citation within the patent dataset. By means of an iterative procedure based on the t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (tSNE) algorithm, the patent families can be included in clusters depending on presence/absence of IPC subgroups or main groups or subclasses, chosen among those most abundant in the dataset. Therefore, following three rounds of clustering, about 90% of the initial 'dataset 1' (including 1632 simple families - as defined by the European Patent Office) become "unpacked" and clustered. Further assessments based on the patent bibliographic data can be performed, the essential advantage being that the technical content of each cluster is homogeneous, so that the results are aggregated depending on the pattern of specific IPC codes common to each cluster. Within the abovementioned 1632 simple families of the 'dataset 1' initially analyzed, there is evidence of 290 simple families, each one being characterized by the assignment of the CPC classification code B09C2101, specifically dealing with "in situ" remediation of soil. Apart from these 290 simple families, a specific search query made on Patstat online, aimed at selecting those patent documents to whom the CPC code B09C2101 has been assigned, has revealed the presence of additional 2521 simple patent families (included in the 'dataset 2' and not included in 'dataset 1') that underwent a substantially similar analysis focusing on the IPC classification codes' distribution already described as far as 'dataset 1' is concerned. From the observation that in 'dataset 1' IPC classification codes such as B09C1/08 and B09C1/10 are among those most frequently assigned to the patent families, further analysis of the patent families of 'dataset 2' has been focused on these two IPC classification codes. In fact, these are the most representative also in 'dataset 2'. Therefore, the analysis based on codes different from the IPC B09C1/00 (reclamation of contaminated soil), which is significantly represented in both datasets although not referring to a specific soil decontamination technique, reveals that for the time being soil decontamination often entails methodologies based on electrochemical remediation as well as microbiological techniques, for example based on the use of enzymes. The information that can be gathered from both datasets is comprehensive being based on data arguable from 4153 patent families.
The procedure aimed at retrieving the relevant patent documents dealing with "IN SITU" reclamation techniques specifically dedicated to contaminated soils is extensively explained in the Methodology section. The reproducibility implicates the availability of patent databases such as Patstat online (managed by the European Patent Office - https://www.epo.org/searching-for-patents/business/patstat.html) and Orbit Intelligence (provided by Questel: https://www.questel.com/orbit-software-suite/orbit-intelligence/). Further elaboration with the tSNE algorithm is based on elaboration of the data by means of the Python programming language. Scripts that allow for clustering of the patent families can be retrieved from an earlier publication (Python elaboration of Patstat and Orbit data, Published: 11 March 2021|Version 1|DOI:10.17632/gfnhp8r52y.1). Upon following the instructions written in the Methodology section and using the datasets' information included in the Data files' section, the reproducibility of our results is straightforward. The main conclusion of the whole analysis of the dataset specifically dealing with "in situ" remediation of soil is that the frequency of assignment of IPC classification codes such as B09C1/00, B09C1/08 and B09C1/10 is prevalent. This finding confirms the trend already detectable when analyzing the "in situ" remediation information arguable from a dataset analyzed earlier (Analysis of IPC classification codes frequency in patents concerning "in situ" remediation technologies), although not specifically referring to soil decontamination, as instead occurs in the case of the present analysis. Although the B09C1/00 IPC code is not much informative as far as the specific remediation technique is concerned, the specificity of B09C1/08 and B09C1/10 is on the other hand meaningful, the former code specifically referring to electrochemical based remediation, the latter specifically referring to microbiological remediation.
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Artificial Intelligence, Patent, Business Intelligence, Patent Management, Patent Valuation, Patent Classification, European Patent Office
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In March, a couple dozen people who were charged in a college admissions scandal (nothing involving Detroit Mercy, of course).
Basically, wealthy people bought their kids admission into prestigious schools, including Harvard, Yale and UCLA.
They allegedly paid a college admissions counselor, William Rick Singer, more than $25 million total within the course of a couple of years.
During this time, he used the money to bribe college officials and to boost student test scores.
The money was paid to him through the Key Worldwide Foundation, authorities allege.
This benefited the people who were paying as well because they could write it off as donations.
Singer said he used bribes to get the kids into schools with fake athletic credentials.
She bought her daughter admission into USC.
Her daughter made a YouTube video where she said she was only in college for the parties and once the media got this information, companies such as TRESemme and Sephora started to retract their brand deals with her.
I feel as though the person who allowed this to happen should be punished the most.
Being an admissions counselor, he should know what struggles other kids face, whether it be academic or financial.
Not every parent is wealthy and has money to pay to get their kids into school.
It is not fair to other students or parents who may be denied a spot in a college only for someone who paid and doesn't have the grades to get in.
It is sad that this world revolves around money and only the wealthy are able to get what they desire..
There was also cheating on standardized tests.
They would pay a third party to go and take the exam for the kids in order to have higher test scores when attempting to get admitted into the college.
Some teenagers spend hours upon hours trying to perfect their essays or studying for the ACT/SAT just to get a chance at being accepted – only to be edged out by people with a large sum of money who pay their way in.
This takes away the opportunity from other kids, kids who from when they started school have been working hard to get into an elite college.
Many universities are reevaluating their admissions systems as a result of this scandal.
Hopefully they will come to a reasonable sentence or punishment.
Maybe they will pay the tuition of a couple deserving students, as well.


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A rare oak tree, once thought to be extinct, was found at Big Bend National Park
News // Local
Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News
Researchers pose with the lone Quercus Tardifolia tree found in Big Bend National Park.
U.S. Botanic Garden
Scientists recently found a tree species in Big Ben National Park that was believed to have gone extinct in 2011.
The tree, known as Quercus Tardifolia, was found by researchers on May 25, standing about 30 feet tall but in poor condition. In a news release, scientists said the tree's trunk was "scarred by fire" and showing signs of "severe fungal infection."
A coalition of more than 10 institutions led by the Morton Arboretum and the United States Botanic Garden in the park are studying the tree.
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"If we ignore the decline of Q. tardifolia and other rare, endangered trees, we could see countless domino effects with the loss of other living entities in the ecosystems supported by those trees," Murphy Westwood, vice president of science and conservation at the Morton Arboretum, said in a statement.
The tree is considered the rarest oak in the world. A drought or a fire has the potential to end the life of the tree, scientists wrote, with climate change making this outcome more likely every year. Conservationists will return to search for acorns and attempt propagation, a process of breeding specimens from a parent plant.
Molecular analysis is underway to determine whether the DNA of the discovered tree matches previous samples of Q. tardifolia, as oaks tend to crossbreed, allowing them to adapt more quickly to changing climate conditions such as extreme heat and new diseases.
On ExpressNews.com: Record high temperature set Sunday in S.A.
Researchers who found the tree are concerned that it is not producing acorns, and oaks are exceptional among tree species in that acorns cannot be traditionally seed banked for conservation purposes, needing to be preserved in the wild or in living collections like those at botanical gardens. Other methods of propagation like grafting are being pursued to ensure the oak's survival, the news release said.
"Across the planet, oaks serve as an ecological anchor, cleaning air, filtering water, sequestering carbon dioxide and supporting countless fungi, insects, birds and mammals," Westwood said in the news release. "When one is lost, we don't know what else we might permanently lose in its wake."
shepard.price@express-news.net | @shepardgprice
Shepard Price has a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Texas. They have been in journalism for more than four years.


Automated Content: Is it social?
As a social media marketer, I utilize (and happen to love) the tools and programs that allow me to schedule posts and tweets in advance. The ease of being able to compose 10 updates within a short hour to be posted on multiple social networks over the course of a week is a huge time saver. There is no question that these tools have greatly improved the quality of work-life balance for small business owners and social media marketers alike. But when I see a business that posts the exact same 140 character or less message not only on Twitter, but across all channels at the exact same time, it makes me wonder: Is this really, truly social?
Aside from the obvious rule of not posting carbon copy phrasing/wording/content across all channels, let alone at the same time, there is often little to no conversations happening on these brand/business pages. It's all one big ad space. And, believe me, your customers are soon to realize this and will unlike your page or ignore your brand all together.
BUT don't despair small business owners and entrepreneurs, there IS a way to use social media scheduling tools without sounding like a robot. Here are a few tips to keep the ease and convenience, while not missing out on the true meaning of SOCIAL media.
Leave some content for real time. There are certain live events or relevant news that can arise that could relate to your brand in some way. Don't miss out on these opportunities because they weren't waiting around in your scheduler for the past few days. One of the best examples of using real time news to engage is Oreo's response to the Super Bowl power outage.
Check in on your pages. Don't just rely on viewing your platforms through your scheduling tool of choice's dashboard. There are many interactions you could miss and you also want to periodically see what your followers see. Not to mention certain things like a Twitter cover photo, updating profile images, or organizing a Facebook album can only be completed on those actual sites.
When using a scheduler like Hootsuite, Buffer, Klout, or IFTTT, remember to switch up your wording, posted image, or even the call to action depending on the social network you are posting to. You must tailor your post to the network. For instance, aside from adhering to length requirements of each platform, knowing which ones support hashtags is pretty important.
Automate your go-to, filler, and non-urgent content first. Leave the latest campaign, news, promotion, or special event for live posting and interaction. As such, it will receive more detail and therefore more likely higher engagement than a scheduled post.
While this definitely is NOT something you should do with every post you've ever drafted, it is OK to let these tools help you in repeating your own content. You need to be very selective when doing so, but sometimes scheduling multiple tweets (spread out over the course of days/weeks/months) of a popular post on your company's blog is great for driving traffic to your website. Just be selective and use a bit of discretion.
Let automation work for you. Use the content suggestion tools. Take advantage of great analytic reports. Be sure to have your calendar filled for when you are away from the office, your computer or smartphone, or a wifi connection. Scheduling software is ideal for filling up time slots during weekends, evenings, holidays, vacations.
Last, but not least, by all means, be sure that your settings allow for notifications of ANY interactions on your platforms, sent directly to your smartphone. This way you are quick to answer, comment and respond. The very definition of being SOCIAL!


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Illegal Apparel's Frank Augustine On The Beginnings Of Building His Brand
Ryan Formica
We sat down a few weeks ago to catch up with Illegal Apparel's Founder Frank Augustine on the beginnings of building his brand and where he plans on going with it.
What was your first job/how did you get your current role?
As a kid, I was always into building stuff, snowboarding, and creating things. When I was 9 or 10 I created a fake skateboard company called Everyone. I remember writing on a blank skateboard wheel Everyone with a sharpie. I never sold anything, it was kind of just a fake company... then I'm not sure what sparked it. I'm not sure what triggered it if I could go back. Just over a couple weeks, it came together.
What were you doing before illegal-at the age of 20 you're running a full clothing store?
I worked; I've been working since I was 12. So I started as a caddie at a country club, actually, Saint Claire Country Club every Saturday and Sunday just to have money I guess. I have an older brother and two younger sisters so it was obviously hard for my parents to get me everything I wanted; though they did their best...No I had to work...I definitely worked since I was 12. When I turned 16 I got my first restaurant job, I think I was a senior in high school when I started busting tables at a restaurant, that sucked, then I moved to another restaurant, like a nicer more upscale one, made a little more money, but I was still busting tables. I did that for about 6 months, then got in an argument with the chef and left there. The last place I worked prior to going full time with Illegal was Mindful Brewing as a bartender and eventually ended up taking over their social media for a few months. I feel like I still want to have that, it feels weird being like I have to be here at a certain time, but I've definitely had a lot of things going on.
While you were there, did you start illegal, or was it started before that?
I started Illegal when I was 15 while working at a snowboard shop.
Did you start it online?
For the first year, it was just a website, but I wasn't making sales, I didn't really know how. Obviously, I threw product on there, whether it was legit who knows, or if people trusted my site, I don't know [laughs] but I basically just sold t-shirts at school. Every class I'd talk to kids at my table and show them my stuff. I was pretty much selling something every day for a whole month at school, so I was slanging it for sure. I got my first online order about six months after setting it up online.
We're you bootstrapping at this time/how'd you build this up?
It's been self-funded through me working, there's no way we could have this store unless I put my money into it. The number I put into it is pretty absurd, it's crazy, but it's not a thing to me, I don't look at it as I'm spending money, I look at it as I'm doing this because I love Illegal and I see potential in it. But yea it's self-funded by me working...Some people don't think you should work when you own a business, but that's so false.
Why the name Illegal?
We thought of it randomly first, it was me and my brother, one of my best friends, and another buddy. We had an idea of a clothing brand because we all skied and snowboarded so my brother and I were thinking of a name. Originally we thought of it and I wasn't about it because it could mean so many things. Originally it was just illegal outerwear, I thought that sounded perfect, but then brother said we should change it so we changed it to illegal apparel, then we changed it to just illegal. During that winter I caddied in the summer, and I asked them if they still wanted to do it and no one budged so I ordered my first t-shirts from there...This was illegal so I decided to come up with something and asked: "what's illegal?" " be illegal" "hustle for your happiness" the name drawls you in but the message is what attaches to people.
Why did you decide to not go to college, not go the traditional route at age 18?
It didn't make sense at all. The status quo of where we grew up, it's really an image that people wanted to obtain. I was one of 5 or 10 out of a class of over 376 that didn't go to college. The majority of those kids stopped going. They were forced into it, half of the kids weren't ready for it, I wasn't ready for college, I was like nah that's not me at all I can't do it. I just said screw it, I can do it without it and for the first couple of months, I thought school sounded cool but I haven't thought about it in a while.
I remember my guidance counselor told me she was like "oh you're not going to go to school but you want to own a business, you know accounting is one of the first classes you need to learn?
When was your first "Show-out Saturday's" concert?
Crash rarri, an artist from Ohio in July as a meet and great show. After that one of my friends, I forget who it was, but mentioned that we should do this every weekend. There are so many young and new artists coming out of Pittsburgh right now that it's been great and its fun because we provide a platform and something we can bring the city here to highlight new talent. We knew that guy and sent him some gear and that sort of sparked it
How did logic get hooked up with your gear?
One of his artists Damien Lamar Hudson artist's that is associated with him came to our booth during a festival and was curious about the hoodie. We ended up hooking him up with some stuff and we ended up giving him some gear to give to Logic.
What are some apps that you use daily for business?
Obviously Instagram and social media, and making to-do list every day. Something about the physical thing or put it on a whiteboard. I heard this from Andy Frisella and it's called the power list. You have five things, and you make one every single day and you cross them off as you go.
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Q: ld: library not found for -lDoubleConversion React Native 0.59 I have this error
❌  ld: library not found for -lDoubleConversion

❌  clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

error Failed to build iOS project. We ran "xcodebuild" command but it exited with error code 65. To debug build logs further, consider building your app with Xcode.app, by opening App.xcworkspace

** BUILD FAILED **

The following build commands failed:
    Ld /Users/mohamedelmi/workspace/elmi/food-frontend/ios/build/App/Build/Intermediates.noindex/App.build/Release-iphonesimulator/App.build/Objects-normal/x86_64/App normal x86_64
(1 failure)

here is what i did

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*I clean and rebuild still have the error

*rm -f ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/ModuleCach

A: First of all, make sure that Libraries -> React.xcodeproj -> ThirdParty -> double-conversion exists and a static library is being produced from it, like this:

Then, if are you're using cocoapods, make sure to add DoubleConversion to your Podfile:
target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'React', :path => "../node_modules/react-native", :subspecs => [
    'Core',
    'CxxBridge',
    'DevSupport',
    # the following ones are the ones taken from "Libraries" in Xcode:
    'RCTAnimation',
    'RCTActionSheet',
    'RCTBlob',
    'RCTGeolocation',
    'RCTImage',
    'RCTLinkingIOS',
    'RCTNetwork',
    'RCTSettings',
    'RCTText',
    'RCTVibration',
    'RCTWebSocket'
  ]
  pod 'yoga', :path => "../node_modules/react-native/ReactCommon/yoga"

  # Here it goes
  pod 'DoubleConversion', :podspec => "../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/DoubleConversion.podspec"

  pod 'glog', :podspec => "../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/glog.podspec"
  pod 'Folly', :podspec => "../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/Folly.podspec"
end

And finally, if none of this worked so far, there's a script you can manually run
in order to resolve React's third-party dependencies.
Just go to node_modules/react-native and type:
$ ./scripts/ios-install-third-party.sh

Important: Always run it inside node_modules/react-native. Because, as far as I know, the script uses relative paths in order to store third-party's source code and react native will always look for it at node_modules/react-native/third-party. So just make sure to run it in the right place.
Note: This script is, probably, already running as a build phase on your project.

A: I followed the answers on Why linker link static libraries with errors? iOS but nothing worked for me since I was combining the answers.
I got it to work by ONLY doing the "create new Swift-file"-trick. So remove everything, do a fresh install and only add a new Swift-file that will create the Bridging Header (dont delete the Swift-file).

A: This is what finally worked for me. (Before proceeding, make sure pod 'DoubleConversion', :podspec => '../node_modules/react-native/third-party-podspecs/DoubleConversion.podspec' is included in your podfiles
1. cd ios
2. Delete Podfile.lock
3. pod deintegrate
4. pod install
5. cd ..
6. rm -rf node_modules && yarn
7. Add use_frameworks! to your Podfile

Run react-native-run-ios or Build with Xcode by opening the xcworkspace file in your ios directory.

A: This is what finally worked for me.
pod deintegrate
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The hotel decor is inspired by the 1889 and 1900 World's Fairs in Paris.
These two separate rooms can be closed off from the others and converted into one large, family-friendly room!
The first room is big and bright, with light streaming in from two large windows overlooking the street. The upholstered headboard, sophisticated and subtly shimmering, as well as the black designer lamps to either side of it, are dramatically complemented by a large, spectacular photo of the Petit Palais, the Paris art museum inaugurated during the 1900 World's Fair.
The second room, quiet and intimate, is elegantly decorated with dark designer furniture accented by splashes of turquoise in the carpet and curtains. Stretch out on the bed and enjoy the familiar view on your ceiling... You're at the base of the Eiffel Tower! The sublime black-and-white photo will color your Parisian dreams... Magical! Window overlooking the street.
Each of the two rooms has a spacious, minimalist bathroom with a large rain shower tiled in white, a white sink, and luxurious Fragonard toiletry products. Water closet in the bathroom.
If you're looking for French cuisine, you can't go wrong with this friendly restaurant in the heart of the 15th arrondissement! The food is delicious, and it's made with quality products purchased fresh daily. The menu features refined dishes with a Mediterranean inspiration, all creations of chef Denis Dujour, like the pumpkin velouté with gorgonzola mousse, or the lacquered salmon tapenade. Cheerful, colorful decor. Bon appétit !


Eggless banana nut muffin is prepared with nicely ripped banana and nuts. First time i am trying muffins at home and I can say the outcome was perfect. Texture and taste was really awesome, we all enjoyed it.
Peel skin and mash banana well using your hand or grind them to smooth paste. Add butter, vanilla essence, brown sugar and mix well until brown sugar completely dissolves.
Take a mixing bowl, add all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and mix well. Now add banana mixture to this and mix well until a creamy texture is formed. Finally add chopped almonds except few for topping (at least 2 tbsp).
Preheat oven to 350 F or 180 C. Meanwhile take muffin tray and place muffin cups in it if using one. Fill muffin cups with 3/4 full of batter; then top it with few chopped almonds and continue the same process with the rest of the batter.
Bake it for 20-25mins or until slightly golden brown on top. You can check it by inserting tooth pick, it should come out clean. For me it took 23 mins to cook. Allow muffins to cool in the pan at least 10 minutes before removing them. Eggless banana nut muffin is ready.
Do not over bake muffins it will become stiff and you lose it flavor.
You can replace brown sugar with our regular sugar.
You can use walnut instead of almonds. Since I didn't have walnuts I used almonds.
Batter should be stiff enough to hold a spoon upright; if it seems runny, gently fold in a few extra tablespoons of flour.
Lovely blog you have and good guide to various recipes!
Super fluffy and extremely inviting muffins.
Muffins have come out perfectly.. Nice clicks..
Delicious and perfect muffins Santhi,love it.
Wow, nice blog, what an illustration !
Wow what a blog, very nice illustrations, feel like trying all these recipes. Keep it up!
Hi.. i did this muffin yesterday it was outstanding and delicious. thanks for ur recipes.
i like most of ur baking recipes. great going.. may i know where r u now?
I have never tried it with condensed milk. But you can give a try and let me know the result.


Our beloved father and brother Ray passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends. You will be greatly missed and forever loved, Dad.
During Raymond's life, he enjoyed being a mechanic, from working years at Kennecott Copper to helping family and friends with their cars and bikes. Since he was a young boy, he had always been a free spirit, always on the go. If you knew him, you would know his sense of humor and sarcasm. He had a way with people, always making them laugh. Raymond went through a lot of ups and downs, but was strong and always bounced back stronger every time. He enjoyed spending time with his love, Patricia Ortega, and spending time driving her crazy.
He is survived by his children, Shonty, Shauntay and Alicia (Ryan Laird); grandchildren, Jessika Brooke, Shandell Natalia, Shennell Alicia, Jennessa Sierra, Brody Alexander, Elvis Mateo, Charly Carolina, Dylan Brayden, Mindy Maraysia, Johnleah Samaya, Paxton Ty, Mark Devon, Donovan Jack; and great-granddaughter, Alyvia Jordyn; brothers Tony (Carol), Ted (Ana), Jerry (Yvonne) and Thomas (Lisa); sisters Elaine (Alex), Lucy (Andy) and Debbie (Tony); sisters-in-law Terri, Dian and Tina; and lots of nieces and nephews, cousins and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Malaquias and Tiofila Martinez; brothers Paul (Terri), Gilbert (Dian) and Joe (Tina); and brother-in-law Tony Freestone.
A funeral Mass was celebrated Nov. 13 at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, with graveside services at Redwood Memorial Estates.
Dear Lord, please accept Raymond; he has lived a hard life. Raymond did his best here in this cruel world to make up for all his wrongs. In the end, he was a savior to many. Please accept him as your new angel. Allow him to guide his family, as they need him as their guardian angel. Until they meet again, allow our father to rest in paradise. Amen.


has anyone who lives in the world of fandom ever argued over whether one of either star trek or star wars is superior to the other? i have seen the notion frequently in mainstream portrayal of audiovisual enthusiasts e.g. nerds/geeks but never in real life. i'll assume it never happens or either i am lucky enough to have friends like y'all fellow SDFers among whom such a topic would be nonsense.


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There are a whole bunch of different types of investing one could experiment with. They vary in risk and should typically match your personal investing style. Bonds are great because they provide investors with a stable and consistent income. Learn about the pros and cons of bonds and how they actually work.
What is a bond?
A bond is a debt investment in which an investor loans money to a corporate entity or government. The funds are borrowed for a defined period of time at either a variable or fixed interest rate. If you want a guaranteed money-maker, bonds are a much safer option than most. There are many times of bonds, however, and each type has a different risk level.
Unlike stocks, which are equity instruments, bonds are debt instruments. When bonds are first issued by the company, the investor/lender typically gives the company $1,000 and the company promises to pay the investor/lender a certain interest rate every year (called the Coupon Rate), AND, repay the $1,000 loan when the bond matures (called the Maturity Date). For example, GE could issue a 30 year bond with a 5% coupon.
The investor/lender gives GE $1,000 and every year the lender receives $50 from GE, and at the end of 30 years the investor/ lender gets his $1,000 back. Bonds differ from stocks in that they have a stated earnings rate and will provide a regular cash flow, in the form of the coupon payments to the bondholders.
This cash flow contributes to the value and price of the bond and affects the true yield (earnings rate) bondholders receive. There are no such promises associated with common stock ownership.
After a bond has been issued directly by the company, the bond then trades on the exchanges. As supply and demand forces start to take effect the price of the bond changes from its initial $1,000 face value. On the date the GE bond was issued, a 5% return was acceptable given the risk of GE. But if interest rates go up and that 5% return becomes unacceptable, the price of the GE bond will drop below $1,000 so that the effective yield will be higher than the 5% Coupon Rate. Conversely, if interest rates in general go down, then that 5% GE Coupon Rate starts looking attractive and investors will bid the price of the bond back above $1,000. When a bond trades above its face value it is said to be trading at a premium; when a bond trades below its face value it is said to be trading at a discount. Understanding the difference between your coupon payments and the true yield of a bond is critical if you ever trade bonds.
Pros and Cons of Bonds
As with (almost) all things, there exist both pros and cons when it comes to investing in bonds.
Bonds are a fairly safe investment and are created to give you, the investor, regularly pre-scheduled payments
In case the company fails to pay the promised payments, you have them by the um, tail. You'll be one of the first to receive compensation for the loss if the company's assets are liquidated
Even if interest rates go down, you're still guaranteed (by law) to receive the higher rate
Even though selling a bond is not as easy and fast as selling stocks on the stock market, there is a market where you can sell it if you really want to (old school – like calling up your broker and asking him or her to find you a buyer)
Tax, Tax, Tax. Interest payments from bonds are taxed higher than any other investment income. It's based on the tax rate that you pay on your regular income, it does have the potential to be quite high based on your earnings
If interest rates go up, you'll be tied to the lower interest rates. This means that if you're currently receiving 4%, and the market interest rates go up to 6%, you are still locked into the pre-arranged 4%
While the return is fixed, it is limited. You could make much more money if you invested in something riskier, like stocks or ETFs
Most bonds pay interest semi annually (twice a year), and some bonds don't pay any interest until the end (zero-coupon bonds). This isn't a good thing if you're looking for something that pays you money more frequently.
How do bonds work?
Companies often issue bonds directly to investors when they're looking to finance new projects or refinance existing debts instead of obtaining loans from a bank. A bond is issued along with a contract that states the interest rate and when the loaned funds are to be returned.
There are two ways to make money on bonds:
Interest payments
In most cases, you'll get regular fixed interest payments while you hold the bond. Some bonds do have floating rates fluctuate over time. On the bond's maturity date, you'll get back the face value.
Selling a bond for more than you paid
Bond prices tend to go up as interest payments go down. Should this happen, money can still be made by selling your bond before it matures. You'll get more than you paid for it, and you'll keep the interest you've made up until the time you sell it.
Who should invest in bonds?
Investing in bonds isn't for everybody. While many experts agree that at least some of your portfolio should be made up of bonds, there are certain types of investors who fit the mold a little better.
You would be more likely to invest in bonds:
If you are a relatively conservative investor.
Bonds are considered to be a safer alternative to stocks in the short term. They are less volatile, meaning there will be less swings.
If you feel the stock market is too risky and you want to make sure all your eggs aren't in the same basket
Stocks tend to outperform bonds over time. Though in the short-term, bear markets could cause your stock investments to lose value. However, as the graph below indicates, Bonds have typically been more stable than any other asset.
If you cared more about generating income from your investments rather than appreciation.
Bonds pay a regular interest rate (income) but usually do not go up in value as much as stocks, ETFs or mutual funds do.
If you are a retiree
Investors in retirement have a shorter investment horizon. Therefore, you will care more about income generation and safety.
All of this stuff on stocks and bonds can be overwhelming. Although they're technically lower risk, it's still really important that you understand absolutely everything about how bonds work before getting involved with them. Our Investing in Different Markets course covers all of it and more.
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