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Our understanding of addiction is full of misconceptions.
The Psychologist, Dr Gabor Maté, and the Sociologist, Bruce K. Alexander explore the causes of addiction in "Embraced By The Needle," and "The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society." Maté and Alexander may be from different academic fields, yet they both believe that drugs are not inherently addictive, and that addiction is a way for people to cope with a negative past. Despite the similarities, Alexander believe that capitalism causes people to be dislocated from their own culture and traditions, while Maté believes that addiction is caused by a lack of stress-free, nurturing moments in childhood -- resulting in a chemical imbalance in the adult brain. Dislocation occurs when an individual is not fully integrated into a family, group, culture or society (Alexander 4). Both men seem to have a similar understanding of addiction; however, they each offer different answers to the question -- why are people who are addicted to drugs, addicted to drugs?
Alexander claims that addiction is caused by the overarching capitalist society and ideological change is needed to curb the prevalence of addiction. He argues in favour of the existence of "causal links between (1) emergence of free market society and dislocation, and (2) dislocation and addiction of all sorts" (9). His thesis is twofold; capitalism causes cultural dislocation, and dislocation causes addiction. By claiming the existence of a causal relationship between capitalism and addiction, Alexander goes against the grain and turns a typically medical issue into an ideological or political one. This causal relationship exists because there is no room for "cultural traditions (9)" in the capitalist ideology as they "distort the free play of the laws of supply and demand, they must be suppressed to establish a free market society (Alexander 9)." By suggesting that disassociation from traditional culture is an essential part of the capitalist system, Alexander is claiming that a complete ideological overall is required to limit the prevalence of addiction.
Maté and Alexander offer opposing theories as to why people fill emotional voids with an addiction. Alexander believes the dislocation is caused by the free market society of capitalism. In contrast, Maté believes addiction is a more of a personal problem, than a deep societal issue. He believes that previous traumatic experiences result in permanent neurological damage. Maté believes that narcotics allow people who are addicted to a substance to make up for a childhood low in "emotionally rewarding, endorphin-liberating interaction [s]." Endorphins are a neurotransmitter associated with controlling mood and pain, and they are "released in the infant's brain when there are warm, non-stressed, calm interactions with the parenting figures (Maté)". Naturally, Maté's clients who experienced prolonged childhood trauma describe each high as a "warm, soft hug (Maté)." By making this connection between addiction and past childhood trauma, Maté is empathetic to those who are addicted to a substance. He tries to break down some of the stigma surrounding addiction, because those who are addicted to substances are simply self-medicating. If this stigma is broken, it would be easier for individuals to reach out for help.
The Academics come from different backgrounds and attribute different circumstances to the formation of an addiction; however, they believe in common root causes. Firstly, the pair make an assertion that most people would find quite bizarre: Maté believes that "no drug is, in itself, addictive." This sentiment carries over to Alexander's work because he believes "crack is not, in any important sense, the cause of a crack addiction. (18)" By providing a counter argument to the conventional knowledge that certain substances or behaviours are dangerously -- or even fatally -- more addictive than others, Maté and Alexander stress society's ignorance and intolerance towards addiction. In addition, Alexander takes this one step further by arguing that many socially unacceptable forms of addiction are "equally tragic (6)" when compared to conventional socially unacceptable form of addiction. This rationale also supports the aforementioned counter argument by debunking the belief that certain addictions are more catastrophic than others. Secondly, both men believe that addicts are not addictive by nature. They view addiction as making up for past negative emotional experiences. Alexander argues that "only people who are chronically and severely dislocated are vulnerable to addiction (13)." People who have been dislocated from their community are missing something, so people use addiction to cope with dislocation. Like Alexander, Maté believes that addictions serve to fill an emotional void. However, his rational is based in physiology and psychology. He believes a negative relationship with your immediate connections as a child can have long lasting effects on adult brain chemistry. Adults become addicted to fill a metaphorical void created by "childhood memories of serial abandonment or sever physical and psychological abuse (Maté)." This theory is a more personal version of Alexander's theory that dislocation causes addiction. Drugs or activities are not the root problem of any addiction. Instead, people are addicted to fill and emotional void.
In summary, both Academics provide different -- yet similar -- explanations of addiction based on disciplinary theories. Maté believes that children who experiences severe and relentless negative emotions as a child are more likely to have underdeveloped neurotransmitter receptors, which could be a precursor to addiction. In comparison, Alexander argues that capitalism is a major source of dislocation, and dislocation results in addiction. He stresses the need for ideological change in order to control addiction in a capitalistic society. Both Maté and Alexander see a common root cause of addiction. They go against the status quo by stating that drugs are not the cause of addiction, because addiction is born in some kind of loss.
Alexander, Bruce K. The Roots of Addiction in Free Market Society. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2001.
Maté, Gabor. "Embraced By The Needle." Dr. Gabor Maté, 15 May 2017. www.gabormate.com/embraced-by-the-needle/.
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Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 1st, 2006.
Chris Hedges, a veteran war correspondent now at _The New York Times_, has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in the Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. In this podcast, Chris Hedges joins in conversation with Amy Goodman, host of the daily radio program, Democracy Now!.
This entry was posted in Audio, Cultural Freedom and tagged Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges, lannan foundation, lensic, new mexico, santa fe on March 4, 2006 by Lannan Foundation.
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About a third of the population in the world currently utilizes messaging apps. That's why it's critical that your mobile ad campaign includes these apps. We've put together a complete guide of how to advertise on the top messaging platforms so you can build revenue today.
Apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat are changing the way we communicate and live. We use them to share news, shop, order take out, sign up for local events, check the weather, book appointments, organize events, purchase tickets and play games. The possibilities are endless.
As these messaging apps continue to grow in presence, marketers need to get on board and use them to their advantage. Knowing that you need to do something and actually doing it are two different things. How does someone start an ad campaign in the messaging apps if they don't know where to start?
That's precisely why we created this guide on how to use the most popular messaging apps for your ad campaigns.
Facebook Messenger (1.3 Billion Active Monthly Users)
Back in 2017, Facebook Messenger ads started making an appearance. Messenger ads work similarly to Facebook's advertising, but there were several differences.
To start, Facebook Messenger's ad format focus on creating conversations which lead to conversions. Messenger units aim to turn a message into action, such as offering a coupon which engages customers. The ads are placed in the feed or offered from Instagram and Facebook.
Advertisers looking to utilize Messenger would move forward the same way as advertising on Facebook. The only difference is that the tone would feel conversational so it fits Messenger's advertising plan.
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A brand creates a lens that includes the company name and then younger people brand their selfies with the info. Once this goes viral, your name gets all over the platform with ease.
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If you want to set up a Snapchat ad, you will go to the Snapchat Ads Manager.
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You know that WeChat operates mainly within China, but it's become a top communication tool worth mentioning. You can do far more with WeChat than with other messaging apps. It's possible to pay bills, order a taxi and play games with your friends around the world. That's why it's a hot advertising opportunity if you want to reach the Chinese market.
There are two forms of advertising available. Banner ads and moments are similar to Facebook ads. The ad appears on the banner or timeline of WeChat for everyone to see.
Chinese companies simply log into the WeChat Official Accounts to apply for advertising rights. If you are a foreign company, you must submit your application to the advertising team. Sometimes, this takes a while, so plan your strategy in advance.
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WhatsApp became the most popular worldwide messaging app. It was once ad-free, but not any longer. Finally, brands have the chance to market their products and services through the platform. Many users became worried that ads would begin showing up in private chats, but WhatsApp has bigger plans. The goal is to put the ads in the Status sections instead.
This works like Instagram Stories or Snapchat. The ad replaces the "away" message. While you might think this isn't a good location at first, it's essential to realize that 175 million users utilize the statuses. That's a lot of opportunities.
We don't have a lot of details regarding the ad options in WhatsApp yet, but we will have more information as it becomes available.
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In Taiwan and Japan, LINE is the top choice for messaging. It's a lot like WeChat and includes features such as games, manga, wallet, news and a timeline.
The timeline ads can be placed as images or videos which promote your apps, website and product.
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At first, Instagram wasn't meant to be a messaging platform. Then, Facebook acquired it and changed the plan. Now, messaging has grown and more people choose to use it for communication.
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The opportunity in messaging app advertising is endless. Users continue to move away from advertising in feeds to messaging apps. It provides an excellent way to engage with more consumers across the world.
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For this question I am not getting any start .
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A: Let $\omega=\dfrac{1+i}{2}$
\begin{align*}
  \omega^2 &= \frac{1+2i-1}{4} \\
  &= \frac{i}{2} \\
  1+\omega &= \frac{1-\omega^2}{1-\omega} \\
  (1+\omega)(1+\omega^2) &= \frac{1-\omega^4}{1-\omega} \\
  (1+\omega)(1+\omega^2) \ldots (1+\omega^{2^n}) &=
  \frac{1-\omega^{2^{n+1}}}{1-\omega} \\
  &= \left[1-\left( \frac{i}{2} \right)^{2^n} \right]
     \times \frac{1}{1-\omega} \\
  &= \left[ 1-\frac{(-1)^{2^{n-1}}}{2^{2^n}} \right]
     \times \frac{2}{1-i} \\
  &= \left( 1-\frac{1}{2^{2^n}}\right)\times \frac{2(1+i)}{1-i^2} \tag{$n\ge 2$} \\
  &= \left( 1-\frac{1}{2^{2^n}}\right)(1+i)
\end{align*}

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Missile defense continues to play a major role in Taiwan's defense plans, and getting it right as the threat matrix evolves will be a great challenge for defense planners here.
Beijing's reaction to the deployment of a U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea, North Korean missile tests, and the recently confirmed addition of Dong Feng 16 (DF-16) medium-range ballistic missile to the already existing arsenal aimed at Taiwan have put the general public on notice about one of the defining features of East and Southeast Asia's military developments.
For all the impressive modernization of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), it is the deployment of ballistic missiles by the PLA Rocket Force (formerly the Second Artillery Corps) that epitomizes China's military threat to Taiwan. Thus, it is no wonder that the option of acquiring new missile defense capabilities has been on the minds of Taiwanese defense planners for some time.
Efforts to develop a capability to counter missiles have been in place for as long as the missile threat itself. In the final years of World War II, the United Kingdom employed a set of passive and active counter-measures against the threat of V-1 missiles, the predecessor to modern cruise missiles. Active measures involved shooting down the missile, either by anti-aircraft artillery (using analog computers for fire prediction) or through interception by fighter planes, a challenging task given the relatively high speed at low altitude, the small size of V-1s, and the lack of vulnerable kill points on the missile. Passive counter-measures included a barrage of balloons. However, with another type of Nazi missiles, the V-2, none of this was possible. The V-2 was too fast, and as soon as it was in the air, there was no way of stopping it. The V-2 was also a disaster because it was very expensive to produce; each V-2 that often fell miles away from an intended target cost as much as one fighter plane, sorely needed on the frontline.
The high-intensity terror campaign of cheaply made V-1s proved at the early stage that missile defense is a costly endeavor. To defend London, the British had to establish special anti-aircraft defense zones and divert some of their most advanced fighter planes away from the frontlines. However, Nazi Germany also paid a high price by investing a great amount of its scarce resources (money and material) into a program that, in the end, could not make a difference and had subpar results. Unlike their modern successors, V-weapons also had atrocious accuracy (compounded by British disinformation on accuracy and damage assessment fed back to Germany via double agents).
Seventy years have passed, and defenders' options are better than what the Allies had at their disposal in 1944. Far from achieving the goal of total defensive coverage of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (known colloquially as "Star Wars"), modern missile defense systems (or perhaps more precisely air defense systems with missile defense capability) are, however, capable of shooting down ballistic and cruise missiles. The THAAD has the ability to intercept missiles at the apex of its descending path. If interception at that altitude fails, the defender still has time for a second shot, and also to intercept incoming missiles with low-tier systems like the Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3). In the case of South Korea, Japan, and the U.S., to name countries facing a missile threat from either China or North Korea (or both), they can also deploy SM-3 BMD aboard Aegis destroyers. Taken together, THAAD, PAC-3, and interceptors aboard Aegis vessels constitute theater missile defense (TMD). Having a multi-layered TMD is therefore the ideal option.
A PAC-2 launcher is on display at CKS Memorial Hall Square in Taipei in July 2014 (Wikipedia).
Despite the increasing capabilities that a defender can field, offensive missiles have also become more formidable. Modern cruise missiles are capable of skimming the surface to evade air defenses or perform evasive maneuvers, which is also true for the latest versions of ballistic missiles warheads. However, this is not the greatest headache for BMD advocates. The doctrine for engagement of an incoming missile by the PAC-3 system is to "ripple fire" two interceptors to increase the probability kill (pK) to an acceptable level (generally 90%). That means two costly interceptors against one missile. A limited number of interceptors is not the only problem, however. Should the PLA manage to launch hundreds of missiles against Taiwan, command and control (C2) systems could struggle to effectively deal with the incoming threat even if a sufficient number of interceptors is available. In short, it is easier to assemble a large arsenal of ballistic and cruise missiles and overwhelm an adversary's defenses than to mount a corresponding defense.
The challenge that China would face is the number of transporter erector launchers (TEL) it can deploy, thus limiting the number of missiles that can be fired in one large salvo, as well as the distribution and proper guidance of missiles to their targets. This is where a scenario involving a Chinese missile attack on Taiwan enters uncharted waters. Due partly to the fear of an escalation resulting in a nuclear exchange, never before has one state launched a massive coordinated ballistic missile strike against another with a developed network of missile defense systems. All of this, moreover, under conditions of integrated electronic and information warfare that would render the reliability of sensors and guidance systems used by both Taiwan and China questionable.
China's missile threat to Taiwan is a test case for almost every possible aspect of the missile defense dilemma. The Chinese military has fielded large numbers of short-range ballistic missiles of the Dong Feng variety; most relevant are the short-range DF-11 and DF-15, most of which underwent upgrade from the 1990s for increased accuracy. Moreover, China began fielding new models like the short-range DF-12, short-to-medium-range DF-16, which is considered an eventual successor to older DF-11s and DF-15s, and the medium-range DF-26. The number of ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan is estimated to be at least 1,500. This number is further augmented by hundreds of land- and ship-based cruise-missiles.
To counter this formidable threat, Taiwan has fielded nine batteries of PAC-3 systems, with one held in reserve (some of them are older PAC-2 GEM systems upgraded to PAC-3 standard). The PAC-3 was specifically developed for BMD purposes at the expense of other capabilities. Currently, Patriots in service in Taiwan use a mix of PAC-3 and PAC-2 GEM interceptors, partly because there is not a sufficient number of PAC-3 interceptors yet; the 444 MIM-104F interceptors acquired in 2008 and 2010 have all been placed within their respective launchers with no reserve for rearming for another salvo. However, Taiwan's BMD does not rest just on Patriots. The National Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST), the country's premier defense research institution, has also developed its own system, the Tien Kung 3 (TK-3).
The ROCAF Air Defense Missile Command is planning to deploy a total of 12 companies (1 company consists of 1 battery) of TK-3 by 2024 at the cost of NT$74.8 billion (US$2.47 billion) on top of the roughly NT$180 billion it paid for the PAC-3. Currently, the 611th and 612th battalion, deployed in the north and south respectively, each consists of three companies. Plans are to replace the MIM-23 Hawk batteries with TK-3s; the current composition of Hawk batteries consists of three battalions, the 621st (5 companies) in the north, the 623rd (4 companies) in the south, and the 625th (3 companies) in the east coast. Together with the already fielded PAC-3 systems, Taiwan will therefore have in place a total of 21 (+1) batteries.
Approximately NT$240 billion (to compare: the current annual defense budget is roughly NT$300 billion) may seem like a high price for a low-tier system with limited efficiency; after all, many incoming missiles will still make it through. How many missiles would be intercepted is, to a considerable extent, guesswork. The easy way is to take the number of available interceptors and divide it by two, though in reality this could be further complicated as Taiwan's air and missile defenses would come under sustained electronic and information attack. Regardless, even if attempts to jam Taiwan's targeting sensors were thwarted, it is still a challenging task to engage a large number of targets in the most efficient way. All that being said, if missile defenses can take out hundreds of incoming missiles, it seems worth the hefty bill. When the Chinese missiles start to fly, the economics of missile defense would arguably not be the primary concern.
The proper combination of active and passive defenses will increase the overall cost of a saturation attack or increase the survivability of individual targets by forcing China to scatter its ballistic missiles in an initial salvo.
As noted above, a multi-layered BMD increases the chances for the defender. But is this an option for Taiwan? A THAAD system could be one option to augment the current and planned BMD deployment with the capability to intercept incoming missiles at their highest point in their descent. However, the effectiveness of an intercept at terminal high altitude must be balanced against the exorbitant price of the THAAD system (estimated NT$30 billion for nine launchers, 48 missiles, and support), and political backlash from the PRC that would certainly follow a THAAD sale to Taiwan. As to the sea-borne element of TMD, Taiwan's Navy intends to add a missile defense component with development of an Aegis-like system, but under current plans these are to support fleet operations and thus will not be available for augmenting land-based defenses. Thus, Taiwan will need to rely in the foreseeable future on a low-tier missile defense only.
The primary mission of BMD defense for Taiwan is twofold: to sustain civilian morale and protect vital infrastructure such as runways, bridges, or communication nodes during a first strike. The current deployment of Patriots and TK-3s favors the former, which given the political situation is a logical choice. However, provisions should be made to mobilize the units around key infrastructure should PLA intentions, either terror bombing or first strike in preparation for an invasion, be known in advance.
An efficient deployment and mobilization of Taiwan's existing BMD assets could increase the strategic initiative for Taiwan's defenders by introducing an element of uncertainty on how heavily defended Taiwan's key infrastructure is. This needs to be done in conjunction with hardening of passive defensive measures such as underground communication centers, penetration-resistant bunkers, and reinforced hangars, among other passive counter-measures. The proper combination of active and passive defenses will increase the overall cost of a saturation attack or increase the survivability of individual targets by forcing China to scatter its ballistic missiles in an initial salvo. Moreover, although the overall material cost of the BMD system would well exceed the cost of the incoming salvo of ballistic missiles, it is well justified should the systems ensure the survival of Taiwan's C4ISR and Air Defense capabilities, and deny the PLA the window it would attempt to create and exploit.
Ultimately, the asymmetry between the cost of a ballistic missile and cost of missile defense is not the only, and ultimately not a very useful, metric. The proper deployment of BMD systems could provide Taiwan a measure of initiative in the case of all-out attack. It is also an effective deterrent against missile attacks short of all-out war. Missile defense therefore continues to play a major role in Taiwan's defense plans, and getting it right will be a priority of defense planners here.
Michal Thim is a Fellow at the Metropolitan Society for International Affairs (U.S.) and Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (Czech Republic).
Liao (Kitsch) Yen-fan is a Taipei-based analyst for the Cyber Security firm Team T5, specializing in cyber security, air power, and the Taiwanese military.


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10 Best Colleges for Extroverts
September 7, 2017 // by Molly Snelling
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Call them teacher's pets, know-it-alls, try-hards or whatever else you'd like. Now get over it. Extroverts bring more to the table than an insatiable desire to meet new people and make more friends than they can realistically keep up with daily. That chatty extrovert in your project group? He networks better than anyone and will likely secure his full-time job through his strong social and communication skills. With small class sizes, strong career service offices and a diverse range of students and activities, these schools help extroverts shine brighter than the sun.
These 10 schools serve as an extrovert's home away from home.
10. Davidson College
Don't let Davidson's small undergraduate population of less than 2,000 make you run for more populated pastures. "If anything, I think Davidson's small student body cultivates an environment for extroverts. It's easy to feel like you are suffocating, because you have the same routine and see the same people day after day. Branching out and meeting new people can help you feel less in a bubble," junior Fenan Debesai said. Research on extroverts shows they are more likely to succeed in small classrooms where they demonstrate their knowledge through active participation—which Davidson offers through a 10:1 faculty-student ratio. Beyond that, their small population creates a close-knit community that takes great pride in its academic prestige, its Honor Code and off campus programs in 17 locations worldwide, including India and China. Extroverts can travel around the globe, meeting new friends in every country.
9. Florida State University
Head down South to Tallahassee, where the sun shines as brightly as those endlessly cheerful extroverts. Extroverts will feel right at home in the middle of 30,000 of their closest undergraduate friends. They'll also have enough energy to take part in all 700 of FSU's clubs, such as the Anhelo Tango Club, in between coffee dates and lunch breaks with their wide circle. Though Seminoles take pride in this big sports university, FSU provides its students the chance to see beyond the shores of Florida and into the rest of the world through 50 study abroad programs worldwide, including Panama and Italy. Closer to home, students gear up in garnet and gold to prove that they are cooler than long-time rival, the University of Florida. This classic Florida rivalry gives FSU extroverts a chance to let their loud, attention-seeking personalities a chance to steal the show.
8. American University
Can you think of anything more exciting than going to school in our nation's capital? American University, located in the heart of Washington D.C., calls all extroverts looking to sprinkle some politics, policy and history into an environment of art, food, shopping and general pride for America. These natural born orators will take advantage of the politically involved atmosphere of AU by voicing their always-correct opinions. This private college also offers eight schools to its undergraduate population of over 7,000 students, giving extroverts many avenues to explore until they find the right fit. Club sports such as ice hockey, Greek life and student government represent three of the most popular student organizations. Obviously, extroverts make great members of student government, as their leadership skills and desire to control things make them impactful AF. Quirky clubs exist at AU as well, such as the Community Garden club and the Gospel Choir club, where never-shy extroverts can take center stage. You can bet they won't turn red, white and blue in the face with stage fright.
7. University of Virginia
UVA has become a hub for aspiring CEOs, engineers, academics, international students and anyone looking to compete for UVA's title of biggest try-hard. Speaking of competition, extroverts love any chance they can get to rise to the top. Due to "the overwhelming sense of community," extroverts thrive at UVA, according to senior Mallory Leidinger. "I've made friends in dining halls, on the Lawn and even in the library." If you could possibly get bored with the 700+ clubs that UVA offers, check out the surrounding Charlottesville breweries, vineyards, concert venues and restaurants. "As a self-described foodie, exploring new places to eat in Charlottesville is my favorite go-to for shaking up my routine!" Leidinger said. Wahoowa.
6. University of Chicago
Students at UChicago live like Harry Potter in houses throughout their four years at the school, giving extroverts the perfect opportunity to form close friendships. With a faculty-student ratio of 6:1, they get plenty of chances to make themselves the center of attention in the classroom. Diversity also reigns since 50 percent of undergrads are students of color. The best part about this university? Its proximity to Chicago. "UChicago doesn't really feel like a big city school. It's in Hyde Park, which feels more like a mid-sized city environment. Hyde Park is a solid 30 minutes from downtown Chicago. That's actually pretty great, because you can go downtown whenever you feel like experiencing the big city life, but you can take it a little slower when you're actually on campus," sophomore Ruth Selipsky said. "[Even] though 5,000 undergrads is small compared to many universities, it's still more than any one [person] could realistically get to know. There's always someone new to meet."
5. Arizona State University
Extroverts down for the challenge of balancing their academic life with their natural inclination to socialize will fit right in at ASU. Think massive school, Tempe beer culture, year-round pool parties and a deep rivalry against the University of Arizona. These partiers don't fall short of success, however. Eighty-seven percent of graduates secure employment within six months of graduation. With over 1,000 clubs and close to 50 percent undergraduates of color, ASU offers a diverse setting for extroverts to expand their already wide circle of friends. "I do believe the climate or overall vibe [of ASU] is really geared toward extroverts. With an assortment of students from all across the world, it motivates us to reach out and meet new people," junior Matt Lucero said. "The school does a great job of holding events that are there to bring people together so that they can break out of their shells and have fun at the same time."
4. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
More than just its 2017 national championship basketball title, UNC boasts over 800 clubs, diversity and a lively college town full of bars, restaurants and music. Extroverts succeed here, proven through the 90 percent of graduates with job offers or plans to pursue graduate school after graduation. They excel not only in the classroom, but in their extracurriculars, too. "My favorite club I've joined is Carolina Challenge. It's a start-up competition for aspiring entrepreneurs, and it gives people a space to share their ideas and pursue interests that may not be academically related, which I think is unique," senior Grace Baldridge said. Beyond that, Baldrige explained the undergraduate population of 18,000 as beneficial for extroverts. "You see a new face every day at Carolina—in class, on campus or really anywhere you go. It's nice to always be meeting people and forming new relationships."
3. University of California at Davis
Frequent biking through this scenic campus poses no challenge to extroverts and their limitless energy. "The campus population is big, but Davis is actually a pretty small college town, so you'll run into the same people all the time. There's also a ton of international students here, which is great because it allows you to meet people from so many diverse cultural backgrounds," senior Austin Huynh said. UC Davis's 70 percent diversity rate makes it an ideal school for extroverts. When asked his favorite club, Huynh mentioned Circle K, a community service-oriented club. "They've given me the opportunity to get involved and get to know the community [of Davis] on a personal level. It's a close-knit town, and you can see a lot of older community members and students coming together," said Huynh. The Aggies have it figured out—big school, big time love for their extracurriculars and their community.
2. Columbia University
Good thing you'll never find an extrovert in a bad mood or out of energy, because sleep does not exist in New York City. "Columbia gives you a home base in the city. When you walk through the gates on 116th, you're surrounded by a classic college campus. You can hang out inside the border of Columbia all day and completely forget that you're in New York City. Or, you can go out with friends and explore," junior Liv Kiely said. Extroverts interested in fast paced lifestyles will prosper in NYC, between Broadway shows, incredible food, trendy nightlife, art, culture and more. "Extroverts are drawn to each other in the city, I think, because introverts have a millions corners of New York to hide away in and do their thing," Kiely said. Don't worry about finding a job post-grad either, because according to Columbia's Center for Career Education, 98.2 percent of reported undergraduates would recommend Columbia's career services to a friend.
1. Boston University
With over 150,000 students at Boston's many institutes of higher learning, a community of education and knowledge surrounds the city. "BU is surrounded by other universities and is located in a busy and evolving city. There is always something going on, whether it's on campus or downtown Boston, which makes it a great place for extroverts," senior Abbey Weis said. This mid-sized university with an undergraduate population close to 18,000 prides itself on its tight faculty-student ratio of 12:1, allowing all students to reap the benefits of building close relationships with professors. What about after graduation? Worry not. BU produces immensely successful graduates, as 94 percent found employment or placement in graduate programs, military service and fellowships within six months of graduation. Paul Revere, the original extrovert, won't be the last to yell through the streets of Boston.
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The much awaited 14th Annual Athletic Meet 2017 was held at LNCPE, Kariyavattom amidst great mirth, verve and camaraderie. Shri. RishiRaj Singh IPS, Excise Commissioner Of Kerala was the Chief Guest. Other guests of honour were our Chairman, Sri. K.S.Premachandra Kurup, Vice Chairman, Dr. Unnikrishnan Nayar, Kendra Committee members, Sri. S.K.Nair, Sri. Sivasankara Pillai, Principal, BVB, Kodunganoor, Sri. Sunil Chacko. Colourful and vibrant dances preceeded the March Past and track and field events. Valedictory function was graced by Ranji Trophy player Sri. Jagadeesh. The day was filled with exciting victories and near misses for all the houses.


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Bridge pulling down stirs trouble in Ukhrul
By R. Lester Makang
UKHRUL, January 9: The long standing dispute over construction of an Inter Village Road (IVR) to connect five villages of Veikhang area in Ukhrul district took a shocking turn when a certain village in a bid to force its choice of road alignment upon the other opposing villages Tuesday tried to pull down a minor bridge which is currently connecting all the villages of the area to the district headquarters.
Around 9:30 am on January 7, a group of villagers from Khangkhui Khullen village led by the headman went to a spot where Thoubal river runs in between Choithar village and the rest of the Veikhang area villages, and began to destroy the minor bridge over the river.
Acting on the alarm raised by passers-by, villagers of Khangkhui Khunou rushed to the spot to stop them but by the time they reached the place, the bridge had been already damaged beyond repair. A heated argument had then ensued between the two groups of villagers before they finally dispersed.
Meanwhile, due to the destruction of the only connecting bridge at the present, the people of the area are facing a lot of hardships, especially while transporting the sick and goods from the village and vice versa.
Incidentally, the headman of Khangkhui Khunou identified as AS Samatai has been boycotted by his own villagers for being a part of the act of destruction and the villagers have unanimously chosen one KS Joseph to act as caretaker in his place with immediate effect.
Peeved with the latest development, villagers of Khangkhui Khunou/Phungdhar led by VA caretaker KS Joseph and secy AC Warson informed a team of Media persons who visited the spot today that destruction of the bridge was done with ulterior motive to nullify the previous road alignment and to coerce the people of the area into bowing down to the pressure for new road alignment which is not feasible for road construction at all.
According to AC Warson, the construction of link road connecting Choithar village, Khangkhui Khunou, Khangkhui Khullen, Nungshong Khunou and Nungshong Khullen village had already begun under the erstwhile Basic Minimum Service (BMS) way back in 1988 during the chief ministership of Shri Rishang Keishing.
He said that with the collective consent and approval of the people of Veikhang area because of its topographical viability, construction of the previous link road from NH-150 to Khangkhui Khunou via Choithar had been undertaken under sixth phase and another road from Nungshong Khunou junction to Khangkhui Khunou had been taken up under eight phase respectively. However, due to certain disturbances by vested interests the work had been halted abruptly, he added.
"It was undertaken under MBS and now the scheme has been converted into Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) but because of this the road construction cannot be shifted to the new alignment at any cost. It is still the same thing under different head"
Warson said that there have been IVR cutting and four suspension bridges already constructed along the previous road alignment, while adding that the same has received approval from the Central Inspection team apart from recommendations from Shri Rishang Keishing Hon'ble MP and various Tangkhul Frontal Organizations after spot verification.
Meanwhile, KS Joseph said that considering all the aspects of construction of the road which is for the benefit of the whole district, we would never allow the work to be realigned at the new site as pressurized by certain vested interests but we will see to it that the previous road alignment is put to proper use and for which we are ready to face any eventuality.
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William M. Searby was born in 1835 in Lincolnshire, England, and showed an early interest in the practice of pharmacy. He passed the apprentices' examination at age fifteen and earned his registration certificate as "Pharmaceutical Chemist" by the time he was twenty-one. After four years in the pharmacy business with his brother, he immigrated to British Columbia in 1860, settling briefly in Vancouver, and marrying Marie E. Pidwell.
By 1865 Searby arrived in San Francisco and took a position in the Wakelee Pharmacy in downtown San Francisco. Within a year he went into business for himself, starting a string of popular downtown pharmacies under the name of the Union Drug Company. All of these stores were destroyed in the post-earthquake fire of 1906. During his career as an inventive businessman, William Searby remained well acquainted with physicians and their medical needs, and successfully marketed hair tonic, bitterless cascara preparations, and a well-designed bedpan.
Throughout his business career William Searby also invested a large portion of his time and commitment to professional development in his chosen state of California, and became a leading figure in the development of the field of pharmacy in the western United States. He is credited as a major force in founding the California Pharmaceutical Society in 1869, and the California College of Pharmacy in 1872. He served on the first faculty as professor of materia medica, and by 1897 he was made professor of pharmacy, a position he held for the rest of his career. Colleagues described him as a "teacher of rare ability and great power," whose teaching style "caused… dry and recondite studies to become of vital interest." He also was dean of the college for many of the California College of Pharmacy's early years, (1883-1885 and 1891 to 1909), and served continuously as secretary of the board of directors of the college, where he was a consistent advocate for raising requirements for admission and graduation.
Throughout his influential career in California, William Searby promoted the "advancement of ethical pharmacy", acting as an outspoken member of the State Board of Pharmacy, and he frequently addressed the state legislature on pharmaceutical legislation. In 1892 he became editor of the San Francisco and Pacific Coast Druggist, and in 1907 he served as editor in chief of the Pacific Pharmacist, a journal dedicated to the "cause of the higher and better in pharmacy...opposed to fakirs and fake remedies of all kinds." He published widely in pharmacy journals, commenting on "Changes that I have Witnessed in the Drug Business during the last Forty Years," and lending perspective on the transition from "old" to "modern" pharmacy.
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One of the exercises I often give my students is to track how many people they interact with in a single day.
This came out of a series of exercises supposedly set in cities that lacked any sense of the teeming life that is so much part of a city. Like the apocalypse happened, and I didn't get the memo. If you set a scene in Times Square, I want to know, where are the people? It's full of them, twenty-four hours a day. Even if your scene is an intimate one between two characters, someone is going to bump into them as they chat on a cell phone or laugh with their friends. Without other people, you lose the sense of place.
In the exercise, each person takes a small pad and a pen and makes a hatch mark for each person encountered in the course of the day. Whether you say anything to them or just pass them on the street.
The last time I did the exercise, I was staying in a suburb of New York, took the train in to Grand Central, attended an event at the New York Public Library, worked on a Broadway show, went out to a restaurant, and took the train home.
Interaction count for the day: 587.
Five Hundred and Eighty-Seven people in the course of a single day in New York City. And I probably missed a few.
I don't ever want to read a scene set in that city that doesn't have an awareness of the sheer amount of humanity in a small space again.
What does that have to do with friendliness, our topic of the month?
Try this: Pick a day this week or next week, but sometime sooner, rather than later.
Make the effort to smile at every person you pass in the course of your day. Even if you're an introvert.
Jot down notes during the day.
What kind of difference did it make in your day?
Take a moment to think about what kind of difference it made in other people's days.
Now, again for writers, think about how you can translate any details of any of those interactions to your writing.
How does that change the life of the piece? How does that change your characters' experience?
How did meeting everyone you encountered with friendliness for one day change your experience?
Build on that. In fiction, and in life.
Feel free to post the results of the experiment here, or in response to any of the Ink posts.


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Permanent Astonishment – By Tomson Highway – Positive and Universal
The temptation in reviewing the wonderfully rich and intensely human book, Permanent Astonishment, (Doubleday Canada, 2021), by Canadian Cree writer Tomson Highway, is to first list the current tropes about the allegedly cruel and oppressive Indigenous experience in Canada, and in particular residential schools, that Canadians have had mercilessly drilled into them in recent years, and then to describe how Permanent Astonishment convincingly demonstrates how shallow, nuance-free, decontextualized, often just plain false, and in any event, how largely irrelevant to Mr. Highway's experience of and outlook on life these negative tropes are.
The better course of action is to try to follow the example Tomson Highway sets in his book. Don't be thrown off by them. They are not primarily relevant to the author, so why dwell on them in the review? Focus, as Mr. Highway does in this book about his happy early life, including his happy experiences at the Guy Hill Residential School near The Pas, Manitoba, on the amazing, the beautiful and the positive in life- on the perpetually astonishing freakish, miraculous reality of all our singular existences as living, thinking, loving and creating human beings.
After a press interview several years ago Mr. Highway found himself sidelined by Indigenous and media power elites for his apostacy in saying in essence that some good things came out of residential schools. He said:
"Nine of the happiest years of my life were spent at that school…You may have heard stories from 7000 witnesses that were negative. But what you haven't heard are the 7000 stories that were positive stories. There are very many successful people today that went to those schools and have brilliant careers and are very functional people like myself. I have a thriving international career, and it wouldn't have happened without that school. You have to remember that I came from so far north and there were no schools there."
Mr. Highway's expressed view was shamefully ignored as being inconvenient by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its Summary, (the only part of the Report anyone ever reads), politicians and the media And Mr. Highway himself, a talented, humane, brilliant, and disciplined aesthete, (in the best sense of the word) has been forsaken by the Indian grievance industry generally for being a human being first and an Indigenous Canadian second, and thus a discomforting embarrassment and of no use to them. For Mr. Highway, but not for these people, the beautiful in life must never be subordinated to the mere, grim, guilt-based, race-based, pursuit of money and power.
Permanent Astonishment puts hopeful and inspiring flesh on Mr. Highway's strong but bare-boned 7000 positive stories assertion and, in its loving portrait of his parents, his family, his friends, his classmates and teachers at his residential school, of meeting the challenges of the harsh but beautiful wilderness he grew up in, and generally, its portrait of everybody and everything that made him who he is today, Permanent Astonishment is a work of transcendental, universalist power that, like all great works of art, if only during the startling, "astonishing" moments when the reader is in the near-ecstatic grip of it, dissolves superficial boundaries that divide us as humans and that dangerously separate us from nature. It acknowledges failings and wrongs, (one priest fondled young boys in their dormitory beds), but, by way of the author's example, urges that they should not be life-defining.
Permanent Astonishment is too capacious to be fairly described in a book review. It's too overflowing with stories and anecdotes about diverse human characters humorously and generously portrayed, botanical, zoological, geographic and even astronomical details of the natural world, Indigenous food and recipe descriptions- too overflowing with the infinite complexity and variety of all human and natural-world life itself- to fairly encapsulate in a book review.
This book lifts you out of your dragged-down, "here and now", getting and spending reality and takes you to a better intellectual, emotional and spiritual place. For me that better place is the world of universalist art and the transcendental, inspiring, humanity-as-an-interconnected-whole thoughts and feelings experienced when in the presence of it.
Mr. Tomson is joyfully gay- "two-spirited"- and he sensed it from very early in his life. He says that he only had one godparent, a woman, "one reason for the pronounced femininity of my persona." He writes:
"I am a two-spirit. Like Charles Darwin's animals, plants and even minerals and ancient Greece's god/goddess Hermaphrodite-son/daughter of gods Hermes and Aphrodite-I was born a hybrid of both male and female…two spiritedness is a biological normality…"
He writes of his father's total acceptance of this:
"When I think back to it, even the fact that I am a "girl" does not faze Dad. He sees me playing "girlie" games- putting on Mom's apron for example, and pretending it's a skirt- but to him, it makes no difference…Where too many men would beat the woman out of their effeminate boys to turn them into "men", thus destroying the lives of those boys, the lives of their families, and most blindly, their own, the world's most athletic , most masculine man, world-champion dogsled racer Joe Lapstan Highway, loves me even more.
This passage brought to my mind a beautiful and true passage from Vasily Grossman's brilliant Life and Fate, the Russian War and Peace of the 20th century, a passage all the more poignant and compelling because it was written during Russia's era of cruel and inhuman Stalinist State terror:
"Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone's right to be different, to be special, to think, feel, and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities."
Joe Highway- fisherman, bushman, dogsled champion, devout Catholic, tireless laborer, faithful husband to Balazee, with no formal schooling and unable to read and write, father of twelve children, of which Tomson was the eleventh, gave this remarkable gift of unequivocal love and acceptance to this son of his, and allowed him to be the individual– the sometimes "modestly peculiar" individual- he was born to be: classical pianist, playwright, author, two-spirited, transcendentalist trickster funny man, and to me, a prime example of the undisputed fact that an Indigenous Canadian, without the burden of the Indian Act and reserves and all the life limitations they entail, can assimilate with and integrate into 21st century Canadian society while still celebrating, retaining and even strengthening his or her core Indigenous identity. Permanent Astonishment confirms that.
Transcending but not losing one's personal cultural of origin- to live the reality that individual humans have feet, in addition to roots- is one of the underlying themes of Permanent Astonishment.
Joe and Balazee Highway were remarkable in this regard as well. They could see that cultural change, represented only in part by the bush plane, the transistor radio and the outboard motor, was unavoidably upon them. Joe Highway's world "is on the cusp of leaping five generations in one…his people have to be ready." To Joe and Balazee that means education. And, by the time Tomson and his beloved younger brother Rene are born, "Mom and Dad have seen so much death among their progeny that they are willing to give their lives to save their last two, in particular from dying." (He describes as "brutal" the infant mortality rate at the time on remote reserves.)
Tomson and his siblings must be sent to residential school. And so unfolds an affecting, beautifully written scene of the author and two of his siblings, along with nine other kids from the reserve, their families at the dock to "bid their children a fond farewell", on September 1, 1958, being handed by their fathers one by one to the pilot standing on the pontoon of his silver Norseman, who lifts them and their suitcases up into the plane, in which they are flown south, to, as Tomson imagines his father thinking, "accomplish marvels." Ever faithful to his father, he does. Nine years later he graduates at the top of his class from the Guy Hill Residential School, a school which he describes as pulsating "with pride, a sense of accomplishment, a sense of self-worth."
Humanity's unhealthy and dangerous break from nature is a growing threat to our existence. Permanent Astonishment, with its chapters alternating between descriptions of the author increasingly being happily gripped by non-Indigenous "civilization" at his residential school, on the one hand, and his vivid descriptions of his soul-defining experiences in the wilderness during the summers of his youth, exemplify this dichotomy. In a beautiful passage reminiscent of a similar hallucinatory, infinity-revelatory passage in Moby Dick, the reader experiences the reality, always forgotten during the days of our getting and spending, that we are basically still living in and totally dependent upon the life-sustaining womb of nature, that we are an inextricable part of it, and that we must find our way back to a state of equilibrium with it.
Tomson, four of his siblings and his parents are crossing Reindeer Lake at night. The motor conks out. His Dad can't fix it. His parents start paddling. Tomson is lying on the bottom of the boat, all covered up, looking at the stars:
"What catches my eye hangs high above me. There, ten trillion miles into that night sky shine ten trillion stars, the arc of the dome they hang from flawless in its roundness, the only sound a ripple-paddles dipping in Reindeer Lake, water swirling in response to their movement, then sliding back out, dipping, swirling, sliding back out…As by a magnet, the silver light that is the sky reaches down for me, grabs my heart, and, by such means, pulls me up to a sitting position. And there in the water all around the drifting canoe and stretching out into infinity is the exact same dome of ten trillion stars, a perfect reflection of the sky above.
But for that moment when I, in essence, am still half-sleeping, still half-dreaming, we are floating, my family and I, through the heart of this gigantic sphere made exclusively of the purest, most perfect of lights, Wynken, Blynken and Nod sailing off in a wooden shoe to some far country, as a song I learned in grade one last spring goes. And I know then, at age seven, that no matter what happens to me in life, I will float through the "orb" of that privileged life, float, that is, through the heart of the universe in a little magic boat illuminated by achaag-wak a trillion strong. (Achaag-wak has two meanings: "stars" and "spirits"."
Lying in his dormitory at residential school he has another panoptic dream/vision- shards of his present life and of his life to come- of he and Rene flying high on the backs of eagles:
"…We look down at the earth with eyes semi-paralysed with permanent astonishment. There the thirty green islands of Seeseep Lake with their golden beaches, there the sandy eskers winding their way to Inuit country, there the Cochrane River long, blue and sinuous winding its way south to Brochet, the bays, the beaches, and the five thousand islands of Reindeer Lake, the bears, the moose, the skeins of geese, the schools of fish, the beaver dams,…the great herds of caribou, the Arctic, the North Pole, Norway, France, Italy, the Vatican, the African desert and the African jungle, the Indian Ocean, the elephants of India…Antarctica… the South Pole, the human heart, its complex network of veins and blood, its million molecules, its pulse, its rhythm, we see it all…"
Here the author channels the finest of universal human spiritualism. Through meditation his ego is diminished to the extent that he is only dimly aware of the boundaries between himself and the infinite, external world around him. He feels the reality of race-free human commonality and unity. He feels the reality that he and nature are one and the same. He time travels. He feels the cosmic truths expressed in Oglala Sioux visionary and healer Black Elk's mountaintop dream/vision of the unity of humanity and Earth:
"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the centre grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy."
(From Black Elk Speaks, John G. Reinhardt, University of Nebraska Press, First printing 1932.)
Another strong manifestation of Mr. Highway's pan-cultural spiritualism that permeates Permanent Astonishment are the virtues of gentleness, forgiveness, kindness and gratitude.
The brilliant trans-gender, two-spirited Welsh writer, Jan Morris, born James Morris, who experienced all manner of human dysfunction and intolerance in his/her long life, summed up the situation in one of her last books, Thinking Again, this way:
"Worst of all (the problems of the world) though, has been the way humanity has turned upon itself…We have no certainties anymore, no heroes to trust, no Way (in mystic capital letters) and no Destination. But perhaps you will forgive me, if I propagate an old thesis of my own once more. It is this: that the simplest and easiest of virtues, Kindness, can offer all of us not only a Way through the imbroglio, but a Destination too."
This is Tomson Highway's Way throughout Permanent Astonishment.
He thanks Sister St. Aramaa for giving him the gift of the piano. He thanks his 200 classmates "for all they have given me all these years- companionship, laughter, and yes, love, in all its richness. I love them to death. I love them to pieces." He forgives his classmate Stanley Blackbird who punched him on the side of the head because he was a "sissy". He compliments his staff and teachers, "kind" Mrs. Rasmussen, "kind" Mr. Bouchard, and thanks them all.
Several times during the reading of this rich book I was reminded of Margarite Yourcenar's brilliant and transcendental Memoirs of Hadrian.
With the advance and ultimate dominance of European civilization in Canada the distant forefathers of today's Indigenous Canadians lost their old way of life forever. Their generation, like Joe Highway's, "leaped five generations in one." The reserve system and the Indian Act, the establishment of which has to be seen in hindsight as a big mistake, set up a system designed to ensure the failure of Indigenous Canadians to adapt to the new reality that had tragically overwhelmed them. This state of general failure continues today.
Rebecca West, a brilliant author who, like Tomson Highway, did not allow her writings to be predetermined or markedly influenced by her gender, wrote in her classic 1941 book about the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, about the negative psychological effects on the descendants of a once proud and independent people- now diminished but still basically intact- of nursing old grievances, which words unfortunately apply, with some modifications due to context, to Canadian Indigenous leaders today, who abjure the message and example of Tomson Highway, and generally, in all ways, stubbornly and tragically (for their peoples) resist joining the rest of Canada as equals:
"A proud people acquire a habit of resistance to foreign oppression, and by the time they have driven out their oppressors they have forgotten that agreement is a pleasure and that a society which has attained tranquillity will be able to pursue many delightful ends. There they continue to wrangle, finding abundant material in the odds and ends of injustices that are left over from the period of tyranny and need to be tied up in one way or another. Such politics are a leak in the community. Generous passion, pure art, abstract thought, run through it and are lost. There remain only the obstinate solids which cannot be dissolved by argument or love, the rubble of hate and prejudice and malice, which are of no price. The process is never absolute, since in all lands some people are born with the inherent sweetness which closes that leak, but it can exist to a degree that alarms by the threat of privation affecting all the most essential goods of life."
Tomson Highway and Permanent Astonishment possess the inherent sweetness to stop the poisonous leak of the "obstinate solids" of useless bitterness, impossible demands and divisive accusations against their fellow Canadians that continually emanate from Canada's Indigenous elites, and which are shamefully acquiesced in by our non-Indigenous elites.
Mr. Highway writes that he is dedicating his life to dismantling "that hateful, destructive two-gender structure that arrived on our continent in 1492".
But if the old social rigidities around sex and gender identification should be loosened, shouldn't the old social, political, and legal rigidities around race be loosened as well? Shouldn't "race" become equally irrelevant?
Tomson Highway and Permanent Astonishment show that race can and should be irrelevant.
The kind, tolerant, forgiving, forward-looking, and celebratory Permanent Astonishment shows not only the Way through this Indigenous-non-Indigenous imbroglio bedevilling Canada today, but it shows the united, race-free Destination.
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I am implementing a hash class for integers using the double hashing method. The input will be random integers that can be either positive or negative.
My question is how will I compute the hash value of negative integers?
After computing h(k), if there is no collision, it will be inserted in its position. If there is collision, I will compute (h(k) + s(k)) mod p and will store the key in the resulting value of the computation.
So my question is if the key is a negative integer, should I take its absolute value (make it positive) before hashing it? Or is there any other method?
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The Inland Valley Bucs (16-9, 5-7) won their fourth straight game Tuesday night at Cal Poly Pomona in a key league contest against the So Cal Bombers. The Bucs won 8-3.
Erik Trask pitched six outstanding innings and earned the victory, while only giving up four hits and allowing no runs.
Inland Valley jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the first on an RBI sacrifice fly by Andrew Alvarez.
The Bucs plated two more in the third. Brad Lewis had a sacrifice fly and Alvarez scored on a wild pitch.
Another run scored in the sixth when Jordan Hernandez belted an RBI double to the gap in right field as the Bucs extended their lead to 4-0.
Inland Valley doubled up the score in the seventh to make it 8-0. Lewis cranked an RBI double and Johnny Juarez blasted a three-run home run.
The Bucs don't play again until Saturday when they travel to San Diego to play the Invaders in a double header at Madison High School.
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2B: J.Hernandez 2 (9), N.Hernandez 2 (2), B.Lewis (8), S.Borson (4).
HR: J.Juarez (1).
RBI: J.Hernandez (5), A.Alvarez (4), B.Lewis 2 (14), J.Juarez 3 (3).
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Is Virtual Reality Really the Future?
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Every few years or so, some new technology arrives on the market which changes our lifestyle forever. In recent years, Virtual Reality, better known as VR, has been touted to be the next big thing in technology, especially with regards to content consumption.
The technology surrounding VR has been hyped up so much. However, is it all it has been made out to be? Let's take a look at the future of Virtual Reality, and whether VR is our future.
Short Intro about Virtual Reality
The best way to understand Virtual Reality is by thinking of it as a simulation that mixes our reality with the virtual world.
VR replaces the world around us in our field of view, with virtual content, giving us an immersive experience. Think of it like this – you are surrounded by nothing but screens displaying the virtual world, with which you can interact as if it were real.
Virtual Reality requires specialized hardware. Hence, the only way of getting into mainstream VR right now is to buy a VR headset. As of now, we have VR films/videos, games, and apps, which we also refer to as experiences.
Just like every new hardware-based technology, it is content that will determine the adaption rate, as well as the future of virtual reality.
Here's a quick chart showing exactly how content is expected to develop:
That's just consumer content. With regards to all content, we also see VR experiences being potentially game-changing. Especially in education, medicine, defense, architecture and design, marketing, and other indirect content consumption services.
Future of VR Gaming
With Virtual Reality, as of now, gaming seems to have the most significant lead. That's a no-brainer, given the fact that gaming is virtual reality experience, to begin with.
To bring gaming to the realm of the conventionally defined VR, it requires the games to be programmed with the personal field of view in an even greater focus, and hardware designed to run and consume it.
Currently, we have several VR headsets available on the market. The most prominent of these are Oculus Rift, and its cheaper variant, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Microsoft HoloLens, Playstation VR, and Samsung Gear VR.
There's a sizable cost barrier to enter VR, as these headsets cost hundreds of dollars. Additionally, you need to have hardware that is capable enough of running the supported games in VR, which can cost up to thousands of dollars. The hardware end isn't stagnant, however, and better hardware is slated to release soon, like the Oculus Rift 2, and PSVR 2.
On the content end, we already have hundreds of VR games available, with some big names like Fallout & Skyrim joining in. The content library while not huge, it is fast growing. To get gaming enthusiasts in on virtual reality, however, is tricky. It has been a long time since a new class of hardware has been accepted by the community. Virtual reality is far from perfect, so adaption rates are quite slow.
As of now, we have a decent roster of games and hardware available. However, unless the industry leaders tackle the barrier to entry, most importantly the high initial cost, it will not become mainstream.
A lot of people felt that since gamers were likely to be the first people to experience VR that gaming would be the largest segment of VR consumption, but so far other experiences are proving most compelling.
— Jesse Joudrey, Chief Executive Officer at VRChat (Source: Arkanea)
The revenue, however, is on the rise, which means that VR gaming is here to stay. If the adaption starts picking pace, we could see VR gaming expanded beyond headsets, with hardware implementations that put more reality in virtual reality. Imagine playing a game in a room where the walls are all made of giant screens, populating the game's environment around you. Wouldn't it be cool to play a game like that?
Future of VR Movies
Again, with VR movies, we have a similar dilemma. The available content is limited and isn't growing at an ideal pace. With VR movies, the scenario is different compared to VR gaming.
Going to the movies is a physically social activity most of the times, as compared to gaming, which has been virtually social at best. This probably is why VR movies have an even slower adoption rate. A few good titles are available to be watched on virtual reality headsets already, and even Netflix has begun its work towards a VR future.
However, when it comes to the future of virtual reality movies, it likely will rely on upgrading equipment in cinema halls. Virtual reality movie theatres have already started popping up in some locations. For obvious reasons, they aren't quite the same as the normal cinema halls yet. However, this experience is expected to streamline in the future.
All these things should ideally mean that VR movies have a bright future, but there's one big flaw:
Movies are story-driven, which means that there's very little scope or need for virtual reality to step in. So instead the VR films we will have in the future will probably be not just films, but rather experiences.
I love VR. I'm not sure I love VR as a medium for telling a story but I do love VR […] I'm not yet certain how I could make a movie in VR because I don't have as much control over where the audience is looking. I would have to really be clever to get them to pay attention to where I want them to pay attention, on what I want them to pay attention to, which is the story and the characters. They might be looking all around the world and taking their eye off the bouncing story ball.
— Stephen Spielberg, Hollywood Director (Source: Haaretz)
The biggest advantage that the future of VR movies holds over the future of VR gaming is the cost barrier. VR film experiences are expected to be shared. This means one will not have to spend nearly as much to watch a VR film as one does to play a VR Game.
Not to forget, VR movies will be easily deployable to mobile phones, which means you can use cheap mobile phone VR headset converters, like Google Cardboard to watch VR movies on your phone.
Future of VR in Education
Virtual Reality has been pushed for entertainment mostly, but the future of VR is most likely to be with experiences and services, and this facade of the technology is shaping up.
The future of VR in education looks bright. Ever since the dawn of the age of the internet, there have been attempts to bring the classrooms up to speed.
With VR, learning can be made much more immersive. Educational institutions invest in computer systems as it is so it will not be too much of a stretch to invest in VR hardware. Edtech companies have already started developing educational content in VR:
Kids love to engage with [VR] lessons […] We see a direct correlation between VR usage and increased engagement by students. Added engagement boosts learning outcomes.
— Guido Kovalskys, chief executive and co-founder of US-based ed-tech company Nearpod (Source: CNN)
In the same report by CNN, Jeremy Bailenson, a communications professor at Stanford University, and founding director of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab commented that it is all about "stepping away from the mundane stuff and experiencing something."
The future of VR in Education can be predicted by the same principle – it will be about supplementing available resources, rather than replacing them.
Future of VR in Medicine
When it comes to Medicine, we have VR being extensively used in psychiatry, helping people deal with emotional trauma, PTSD, and anxiety disorder, like the Medical Virtual Reality unit at USC Institute for Creative Technologies.
Virtual reality can be potentially used to better analyse a lot of medical situations. The future of VR in medicine is closely linked to education, as well.
Studying something as complex as the nervous system, the human heart, or practicing the process of surgery can be offloaded to a VR system. We already have VR educational/analytical medical content available, and the content library is growing every day.
As a paediatric cardiologist, you have to be able to visualize this organ, because people's lives depend on it. But visualizing a complex three-dimensional organ on paper, really doesn't give you the full picture, which is why we decided that there has to be a better way.
— David Axelrod. Co-Lead, CVICU Simulation Training Program
The future of VR in medicine looks pretty solid as of now, and even without major revolutions stepping in, the technology will still continue to assist medicine and treatment.
So, is VR really the future?
Most definitely so. With the obvious advancements in fields like design and military, where the technology brings in a new level of simulation, VR has practical applications in fields that rely on more.
The entry barrier of cost is a major concern, but as more and more content releases and hardware manufacturers working to put out cheaper models, it seems like the VR industry is moving closer to minimizing its biggest hurdle. In addition, there are cheap applications available, like Google Cardboard, turning your smartphone into a VR headset in seconds.
VR might not become the hyped up replacement that we have been made to believe by sci-fi movies, but it sure will become an integral part of our lives as we move towards a more technological world.
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Of course, paradise and reality must co-exist, and Hilton Head Island makes that combination a reality. With an abundance of outstanding medical facilities, excellent public and private schools, ample shops to meet all your daily needs, nearly unlimited opportunities for outdoor and indoor recreation, and much more, many folks find they rarely need to leave the Island. When you do need or want to leave, Hilton Head even has its own commercial airport. What more could you ask for?
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