As Singapore's first housing estate, Toa Payoh holds more than 60 years of pioneering spirit and is now a microcosm of landmarks, public spaces and various demographic groups. Gem Residences was designed with a sensitivity to these layers that hold the rich history and culture of the town. "It was this multi-faceted nature of the Toa Payoh estate that became one of the main drivers in the design of this development," says Yuen Yi-May, who was singled out by Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore's 15 great architects and engineers aged 40 and younger last year. This means carrying out living spaces for a contemporary lifestyle while retaining basic creature comforts which led to a triadic focus on facilities, activities and personalized concierge services. Multiple facilities from outdoor teppanyaki and grill pavilions to a spacious clubhouse with cooking facilities, and a 50m swimming pool to unparalleled views from rooftop spaces, cater for the multiple facets of living. Communal spaces such as urban farming plots and a pet area also foster organic interaction as a nod towards the original kampong spirit of the town.
To be a home of the future also calls for the consideration of sustainability. The architecture is designed to respond to nature, such that sun rays falls as light but not heat, and ventilation comes with maximized views. Lush greenery lines the journey from entrance to doorstep for a welcoming boulevard that leads you home. More than just another building that just blends into the landscape, Gem Residences carries forth the constant renewal of the town as a contemporary and the next cut in its urban tapestry.
Singapore is small. It is also a densely populated city, making proximity to amenities all the more essential. Time is a commodity too valuable to be wasted on traveling an hour just for groceries. Also key is location to prime areas, both for work and play — not only does a short commute preserve sanity, there's just so many things more worth the time stuck in transit. Toa Payoh ticks all the right boxes: besides being a 14-minute drive away from CBD, a mere four train stops from the Orchard shopping belt and located near various recreational parks and educational institutes, the town is also a well-established public transport node that connects residents to other parts of Singapore with ease. Still, there's little reason to get out of town with its myriad of amenities and facilities. Just minutes away from the interchange is a library, a 3900-seat stadium, swimming complex, gymnasium, and a vibrant mix of both modern and traditional stores. The size of the town is also thankfully not relative to the considerable number of infamous hawker and cafe joints dotted along the lorongs, making it possible to walk to good food. After all, while the "heartware" is what differentiates a town, it has to be partnered with the right "hardware" — transport, facilities, and well-planned infrastructure just to name a few. One can hardly ignore the essential role of smart technology and the recognition that while the forecast for future mobility is green, the outlook isn't — the importance of sustainable transportation is certainly not to be ignored, especially for cities. Traveling green may not seem as viable right now with the great need for convenience and speed, but with initiatives such as the building of the 36-km Central Urban Loop, which brings Singapore's Park Connector Network (PCN) to a total distance of 300km, it may soon be. Meanwhile, consider this: living with electric car charging pods, car-sharing initiatives and concierge services can be quick steps forward in saving the future without a lifestyle overhaul.


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By Dave Lucas, 11/13 (audio at link)
It was a long road to the first legal medical marijuana harvest in New York this week.
Democratic Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, chair of the Assembly Health Committee, first sponsored the medical marijuana bill in 1997. A clause that would have allowed "home production" of the drug was taken out of the measure early on. But the notion of patients obtaining the drug through licensed dispensaries stuck.
By 2010, a Quinnipiac Poll revealed 71 percent of New York voters expressed support for legalizing medical marijuana. In July 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature enacted the Compassionate Care Act to provide what was described as "a comprehensive, safe and effective medical marijuana program that meets the needs of New Yorkers."
By the time the state posted final regulations for the state medical marijuana program last April, Gottfried called them "needlessly restrictive and gratuitously cruel." "I don't know how anyone would get a license to produce and dispense medical marijuana in New York."
Nonetheless, the fledgling program is on track to be fully operational at the beginning of 2016.
Medical marijuana hit two milestones this week: Governor Cuomo signed legislation to speed up early access to the drug for critically ill people. The state will work with regulated producers who can provide marijuana to patients as soon as possible. And New York saw its first legal marijuana harvest in a century. Vireo is one of five companies picked by the state to grow and dispense medical marijuana, reaping its first crop Thursday at its Fulton County plant. Vireo CEO Dr. Kyle Kingsley: "These plants, as we speak, are being converted to medications, and we're working on the testing regimen with the state of New York to make sure we're on track to get patients medications in January."
The turnover time from seedling to finished product is surprisingly short. "It's about four to five months, generally speaking. Five to six months is more normal, but we're actually going to accelerate the process in New York to fit the timeline."
Dr. Stephen Dahmer is Vireo's Chief Medical Officer. He says its was common knowledge for centuries that cannabis has medicinal value. "And I think the hard part, in medicine, a lot of times is sorting risks versus benefits. What we were trying to decide is do the benefits of any type of pharmaceutical herbal medicine, any type of therapy, do the benefits outweigh the risks? And I think there came a time in our history when we really felt the risks outweighed the benefits and that created a huge shift in the tide which made cannabis illegal for years. That was such a strong shift that it's taken a lot of momentum to overcome that. And a large part of that shift was labeling cannabis as a schedule one. And so that limits the amount of studying and the amount of investigation that can be done to try to prove any possible benefit it might have."
Some believe that legalizing marijuana for recreational use is a possible next step. Kinsgley disagrees. "Using cannabis recreationally is something very different than what we're doing. We're making precisely formulated medications that you know, they're only liquids, oils and capsules, but very different than just smoking the undifferentiated plant material."
There are some concerns about non-smokable forms of cannabis that will be addressed; questions that will be answered in the weeks to come. Those include the cost of the drug, which may be out of reach for seniors, social services recipients and those subsisting on low-paying jobs. Dahmer suggests checking the numbers from other states. "As of right now, it seems that the state is going to have a major role in determining that cost, so we don't know."
The Health Cost Helper website, last updated in 2012, says cannabis concentrates are typically sold in half-gram and gram quantities and generally cost $20-$60 per gram.
Other sites suggest that when taxes, regulatory and processing fees are added in, patients can expect to pay much more than the so-called "street value" of any particular quantity of marijuana.
The New York State Health Department will have final say on pricing. Medical Marijuana Program administrators did not respond to a request for comment in time for broadcast.
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Peter Allen and Eugene Wu selected for Google Faculty Research Awards
Peter Allen and Eugene Wu of Columbia's Computer Science Department are each recipients of a Google Faculty Research Award. This highly competitive award (15% acceptance rate) recognizes and financially supports university faculty working on research in fields of interest to Google. The award amount, given as an unrestricted gift, is designed to support the cost of one graduate student for one year. The intent is for projects funded through this award to be made openly available to the research community.
Peter Allen: Visual-Tactile Integration for Reinforcement Learning of Robotic Grasping
To incorporate a visual-tactile learning component into a robotic grasping and manipulation system, Peter Allen will receive $71K. A Professor of Computer Science at Columbia, Allen heads the Columbia University Robotics Group.
In grasping objects, robots for the most part rely on visual feedback to locate an object and guide the grasping movements. But visual information by itself is not sufficient to achieve a stable grasp: it cannot measure how much force or pressure to apply and is of limited value when an object is partially occluded or hidden at the bottom of a gym bag. Humans rely as much or more on touch, easily grasping objects sight unseen and feeling an object to deduce its shape, apply the right amount of pressure and force, and detect when it begins to slip from grasp.
With funding provided by Google, Allen will add simulated rich tactile sensor data (both capacitive and piezoelectric) to robotic hand simulators, capturing and transforming low-level sensor data into high-level information useful for grasping and manipulation. This high-level information can then be used to build reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that enable an agent to find stable grasps of complex objects using multi-fingered hands. The RL system can learn a grasping control policy and an ability to reason about 3D geometry from both raw depth and tactile sensory observations.
This project builds on previous work by Allen's group on shape completion—also with a Google research grant—where an occluded object's complete 3D shape is inferred by comparing it to hundreds of thousands of models contained within a data set. The shape completion work used machine learning with a convolutional neural network (CNN), with simulated 3D vision data on models of hundreds of thousands of views of everyday objects. This allowed the CNN to generalize a full 3D model from a single limited view. With this project, the CNN will now be trained on both visual and tactile information to produce more realistic simulation environments that can be used by Google and others (the project code and datasets will be open source) for more accurate robot grasping.
Eugene Wu: NeuroFlash: System to Inspect, Check, and Monitor Deep Neural Networks
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For NeuroFlash, a system to explain, check, and monitor deep neural networks, Eugene Wu will receive $69K. An Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia, Wu heads the WuLab research group and is a member of the Data Science Institute, where he co-chairs the Center for Data, Media and Society.
Deep neural networks, consisting of many layers of interacting neurons, are famously difficult to debug. Unlike traditional software programs, which are structured into modular functions that can be separately interpreted and debugged, deep neural networks are more akin to a single, massive block of code, often described as a black box, where logic is smeared throughout the behavior of thousands of neurons with no clear way of disentangling interactions among neurons. Without an ability to reason about how neural networks make decisions, it is not possible to understand if and how they can fail, for example, when used for self-driving cars or managing critical infrastructure.
To bring modularity to deep neural networks, NeuroFlash aims to identify functional logic components within the network. Using a method similar to MRI in medical diagnosis, which looks for brain neuron activations when humans perform specific tasks, NeuroFlash observes the behavior of neural network neurons to identify which ones are mimicking a user-provided high-level function (e.g., identify sentiment, detect vertical line, parse verb). To verify that the neurons are indeed following the function's behavior and not spurious, NeuroFlash alters the neural network in systematic ways to examine and compare its behavior with the function.
The ability to attribute high-level logic to portions of a deep neural network forms the basis for being able to introduce "modules" into neural networks; test and debug these modules in isolation in order to ensure they work when deployed; and develop monitoring tools for machine learning pipelines.
Work on the project is driven by Thibault Sellam, Kevin Lin, Ian Huang, and Carl Vondrick and complements recent work from Google on model attribution, where neuron output is attributed to specific input features. With a focus on scalability, NeuroFlash generalizes this idea by attributing logical functions.
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In 1986, I visited elementary schools to talk about the importance of paying taxes. To introduce the topic, I would write 5,000,000,000 (five billion) in large numbers. Everybody was surprised to learn that was the number of people living on the planet at the time.
Last October 2011, we reached the figure of 7 billion human beings. Two billion more in less than 30 years. Incredible! Humanity has never known such explosive growth in so short a period.
This means that now we all face much more competition for jobs, water, resources, for everything. So, if you are starting a family or if you think you already have enough children, you may consider it a good idea to talk to your partner about this; decide together how many children you would like to have, look for guidance and safe birth control methods in keeping with your health and beliefs. Nowadays, health clinics provide plenty of information on the topic.
If you already have a family, hopefully, you will help your children to get the right information so that they can start a family when they are better prepared.


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Most of the comments on the FM site by folks discussing Austrian economics showlittle understanding of Austrian economics. Here is an anecdote by a famous economist who met one of the great founders of Austrian theory. A telling anecdote, revealing much about the difference between the Keynesian and Austrian schools of economics — and why Keynesians dominate in public policy decision-making. And yes, the title is relevant to the post.
This post gives and excerpt from "The embarrassment of economics", Robert L. Heilbroner, Challenge, Volume: 39-6, 1996 — Based on remarks made at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
Is economics free of ideology? No, says this eminent economist and historian of economic thought. And it would be best if economists acknowledged it.
I am approaching an age that can be called venerable, a process over which I have no control but which allows me certain privileges, among them saying outrageous things. This, I must warn you, is an outrageous speech, all the more so because it is delivered in dead earnest, despite a certain flippancy that may intrude from time to time. The subject is the degeneration – I am tempted to say "degeneracy" – of economics, a social discipline I hold, or rather wish I could hold, in the highest regard.
Let me describe my own introduction to economics. I entered Harvard in 1936 (hence venerable) and took my first course in economics the following year. Our textbook was Principles of Economics, by Frederick Garver and Alvin Hansen (one of America's best-regarded economists). I should add that, although the Depression raged outside the classroom, it did not within the pages of this book. Published that year, only once did it mention the Depression. Without using the term "depression," the text states that national income was estimated at $80 billion in 1929 but had fallen to about $40 billion by 1932. There is no further mention of these facts, their cause, significance, or cure.
The following year I took a more advanced course in economics taught by Wassily Leontieff. Our textbook was by Alfred Marshall – not, alas, the appendices but the text. The following year my most important course was Business Cycles, given by Hansen himself, who turned out to be a remarkable man. Although Hansen had disagreed with John Maynard Keynes's General Theory when it was first published in the 1930s, he reconsidered, becoming Keynes's foremost disciple in the United States. In his Harvard course, we heard from a wide range of instructors, such as the Marxist Paul Sweezy and Edward Chamberlain (who invented monopolistic competition).
This course was where I first encountered Joseph Alois Schumpeter, who plays a major role in what I am about to say.
That was enough to put Schumpeter in my head, where he stayed for a long time.
That's right, the problem with the economy in 1929 was that it was dirty. It was dirty because it had too many useless people clinging to it. It needed to go into the shower, turn on the water, and soak all those useless laborers cluttering the system. Soon, the soaking would wash them off of the economy's body, and they would swirl down the drain. No muss-no fuss. Such a simple, healthy way to get rid of people, er, redundant elements in our wonderful system!
Fabius Maximus replies: The idea is that the comment should be relevant to the post. Writting it about the title is borderline. esp when the comment does not exactly grip the subject of the post. In fact, the subject of the post is the opposite of what this comment describes.
If it was intended as humor, the humor-appreication module of the WordPress software is not enabled on this site!
Still, the statement does not seem in line with the Austrian theory of business cycles. Perhaps Schumpeter disagreed with his colleagues on this point? Or perhaps "depression" was as much of a mistranslation as "douche"?
If you're goal is to demonstrate that Austrians = depressions, you take the time to find a little more substantial than a single sentence of hearsay.
Fabius Maximus replies: Perhaps you should re-read the excerpt more carefully. it is absurd to day that "Austrians = depressions." The point is that Austrians have few recommendations for "treating" depressions; Keynesians do. Hence policy-makers will choose Keynesian recommendations almost everytime (no matter what their effectiveness).
This behavior is also seen in medicine. Doctors exist in almost every society throughout history, despite the fact that most of their treatments were at best neutral (the wonder-herbs of Hollywood lore are largely fictional). We generally prefer to do something and hope it works rather than wait and hope.
Fabius, you're right that I meant my comment humorously, sarcastically. I also meant it as a satire of Schumpeter's economic views, and the reasoning which I percieve behind his utterance: "Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche [shower]." I wished to examine and describe the "ideology" I see in Schumpeter's statement, if you will.
I had the impression that your post was also something of a satire of Schumpeter's views, or at least an invitation to think about the reasoning behind Schumpeter's statement, and what it says about the "Austrian School's" ideology. As Heilbronner says, economics is not free of ideology. Was my comment too opaque, or too sarcastic?
Fabius Maximus replies: Your comment was clear; I have a weak sense of humor.
I've found Austrian Economics highly moral, its like the bible class for economists. Thats a lot to do with its appeal.
I've always had a lot of time for Jim Rodgers and Marc Faber, two Austrian leaning investors, they have always been on the money, and pretty much consistent in there analysis of where this is all heading. And over the last couple of years they have not been far wrong either. Plus there genuine concern for the people who have saved and actually tried to be prudent during the boom has been refreshing.
Has Keynesism ever been proven totally right? it did'ent really work in Japan during the 90's or during the depression, although the argument was not enough was done, or the stimulus was ended to quickly is usually deployed, but this is usually unprovable, The fact of the matter is no one really knows. At the moment all we have is educated guess work. Keynesian stimulus is great in theory, but in practice we are relying on the goverment to get the stimulus package right. I believe they will go into this with the best intentions, but the road to hell ect ect. If the Package is perfectly pitched, moral hazard is not increased too much, the unsavable are not turned into zombie companies, the industries that will lead us to our future growth are supported, our future debt burdens are acknowledged and a plan put in place to start repayment, we dont engadge in printing money, and our creditors actully give us the money, well and good.
But make no mistake Keynesian economic in the current climate is a high wire act, does anyone actually believe they are going to get it right?
Surely I'm missing something here. You reject Austrian theory not on the basis of any specific argument that you cite then refute, but because one Austrian once said something vaguely risque (and probably mistranslated) as an analogy? I expected better from you FM. If this was instead an attempt to be subtle, subtlety works much more effectively in person where non-verbal cues can convey the real meaning.
Fabius Maximus replies: You are misreading the post. Please see comment #2 above.
I'm pretty sure FM meant the quote from Schumpeter to be taken seriously. It capsulizes one his firm convictions, that the only way out the current crisis is a vast deleveraging of inflated wealth.
I dont know whether the world's bankers and wealth holders realize this too – they didnt accumulate all that wealth without being smart — but I'm pretty sure that politicians, whatever they believe in their heart of hearts (a bold metaphor!) will never admit the true gravity of the moment. They will embrace stimulus packages, liquidity measures, money printing, mortgage relief — whatever it takes — in order to appear to be doing something to help the beleaguered citizen, while so constructing their efforts that they also help their financial supporters on the side.
Fabius Maximus replies: I do not know of any economist who does not agree that the only way out of this crisis is deleveraging. Note deleveraging means reduced debt. That probably means reduced asset prices as a side-effect. The disagreements are over the magnitude of the necessary deverlaging, the path by which it occurs, the duration of the process, and the appropriate public policy response.
Deleveraging does involve reducing debt, but that is not all. A certain amount of debt is manageable even in downturns. Derivatives leveraged at 30-1 of other derivatives themselves leveraged at 30-1 are not. So what we have here is a problem that involves far more debt speculation than debt per se, even though the debt levels are also too high in the first place. But that's inevitable with any debt-based economy over time.
These upper-level derivatives need to be eradicated ASAP so that the derivative tail stops wagging the 'real' economy dog. Without these instruments, the current housing downturn would not have threatened to bring down the world financial system. Nothing has yet been done to address this officially (I read one report recently saying that new CDS volume was increasing) although the major investment banks have either folded or morphed into 'normal' banks again. Until this is properly changed, it will be very hard to see what is actually going on and to what degree 'normal' debt is problematic.
Unfortunately, if the downdraft gets truly destructive next year as looks likely, it might be very hard to see anything at all for all the dust in the air from pulverised economic bricks and mortar.
Keynes was provably correct in one instance: "In the long run we are all dead." Other than that, he is just good enough to sound impressive to poseurs and politicians. Balance the debt of the world on a razor's edge and hope for the best. What rubbish!
And by the way, you were not to be commenting on comments any longer.
Fabius Maximus replies: Do you have a similarly simple-minded dismissal of Einstein? Keynes' work has been the basis for macroeconomic management in almost every nation for decades, after generations of economists have built on his work. Nice to know that you even understand his work well enough to dismiss it. Any comments on his work on probability and uncertainty? Or capital heterogeneity and aggregate demand?
Should you have a powerful rebuttal to Keynes, which I doubt, publish! Fame awaits you.
If you read the comments on the Comments' post, they advocated continuing to post comments on a more selective basis. So I have.
That's only true if you don't consider preventative medicine to be a "treatment". It's certainly a harder sell, but if politicians steadfastly communicated the idea that government intervention is the cause of the drastic business cycle — as Austrians assert –, it's just as doable as the status quo.
Once again, you refer to our economy as if it is a single individual capable of dying. That's an invalid analogy and you know it. If Austrians are correct, their proposed rememedies will result in short-term pain and long-term stability.
The disagreements are over the magnitude of the necessary deverlaging, the path by which it occurs, the duration of the process, and the appropriate public policy response.
this isn't a matter of black or white, life or death; it's a matter of degree. If there's a course of action which increases short-term pain and decreases long-term pain, you'd better believe I'd expect my doctor to present that option. I'm certainly not alone on that point: chemo-therapy, gastric-banding, molar extraction, etc, etc.
Keynsianism didn't really work great till WWII. Keynes never analyzed how a mobilization for war functions other than it's generic attribute of being a fiscal stimulus. Hence the logic; massive war mobilization =massive fiscal stimulus,massive fiscal stimulus =Keynesian policy writ large, ergo Keynes was right especially whole hog Keynes. But while all publicly funded wars are fiscal stimuli, all fiscal stimuli are not wars. Wars have many other economic consequences and exhibit far more transformative powers than anything posited by Keynes. I hope his theories are right for our sakes, but if WWII is the big vindication for Keynsian policy, how do we know the only thing that might work isn't another huge war?
Fabius Maximus replies: Both Keynesian policy and analysis have been used moderately successfully for 70 years, convincing academics and policy-makers (if not you). I find the disagreement with it in these comments quite odd, esp as the comments display little actual knowledge of Keynesian theory or economic history.
BTW — the fiscal stimulus of the New Deal was small and intermitent compared with that of WWII, which accounts for its limited success. In the 1930's FDR sougth to balance the budget, hence the tax increases and spending cuts (8%) which led to the 1937-38 downturn. Note Keynes gentle criticism of FDR's economic othodoxy in this 1 February 1938 letter.
One of your earlier posts noted that many intellectual giants were subsequently revealed to be dysfunctional irredeemable assholes. From this letter, Keynes is a stand out, an outlier data point, in this regard. A real man by any standard. I hope B.O. reads the part about care and feeding of avaricious businessmen.
The only problem that we have to deal is greed and greed is a part of human nature, since no matter how well off we are we always want and strive for more. It's our personal selfish best interest that is responsible for the destruction of the capitalist system and the world economic crisis.
Fabius Maximus replies: All biological systems must generate a surplus over energy consumed in order to survive. In free market systems this is called "profit." As for the rest, always nice to see a pure expression of religious belief in the FM site's comments. It adds a note of both class and diversity.
But what is this "destruction of the capitalist system" to which you refer? These cycles are part of the normal operation of free market systems. Some theorists say that they are an inherent aspect of the system.


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NorthEast United FC continued their unbeaten start in Hero Indian Super League (Hero ISL) 2020-21 with a 1-1 draw against FC Goa at the Fatorda Stadium on Monday. After the match, the Highlanders' head coach Gerard Nus showered praise on his skipper Lalengmawia, who led NorthEast against Goa to become the youngest ever captain in league history.
The youngster seemed unfazed by the added responsibility of being skipper, putting in a Hero of the Match display and Nus admitted that handing him the captain's armband was a sign of the trust that he has in Lalengmawia.
"It is amazing to have one of the most talented Indian players with us. He has been part of the U-19 national team for India and I am sure he will be in the first team sooner or later. Giving him the captaincy shows that he has my full trust," he said in the post-match press conference.
The Spaniard was content with the work rate shown by his players to keep Goa's attackers at bay. "I am satisfied with the work rate of my team. We wanted to win and we came here with that mentality. But at the same time, we knew that we were facing a team that topped the league table last season. It was a big test, and I am grateful with what I have seen from my players," Nus said.
Nus made several changes to his team ahead of the match with the likes of Provat Lakra, Idrissa Sylla and Britto PM getting their first starts for the Highlanders this season. And NorthEast's head coach was happy with the performance of these players, especially full-back Lakra.
"It was not a risk at all because Lakra is a player with huge experience. I am happy with what I saw from him in the training sessions. This is one player I am lucky to have in the squad and that is why he played in the game. We saw some new players in action, which is very positive. It was not just 11 players who made the squad… I am pleased to see my players performing well," Nus said.
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Meanwhile, FC Goa head coach Juan Ferrando believes that his side need to show more aggression in the final third of the pitch. "We are still trying to get an idea about how to play in the final third of the pitch. We have to be more intense and aggressive in the final third," he opined.
The Gaurs are winless this season with two draws and one loss, but Ferrando didn't seem overly concerned. "The team is working hard. We are trying to find the best XI to help the players. They have grown in some way, but it is necessary to change the details," he said.
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From a Depressed Girl To An Inspiring Model with Dr. Nick Slenkovich
With each tick of the clock, millions of new users join the internet. The increased traffic towards the internet disperses into users across social media. This increasing trend of people towards social media has made people conscious of their bodies. Like for example, Instagram which is overcrowded with the celebrities having perfect bodies. These perfectionists are idealized by countrymen. People look up to them and consider them the best possible version of the human body. The desire to replicate such bodies bolsters when exposed to such an environment for a long time.
This incident revolves around a teenager – Nora. She's living in Las Vegas since her birth and she aspires to be a model. Her obsession with her dream could remove anything that could stop her from reaching that point.
We got to be open about that as adult sites have a role to play in such cases. Idealizing models on such sites is common, the adult site usage has doubled over the years. The same features are demanded as seen on the internet. To fulfill her dream, she had to make choices not many people make. Apart from her looks, she wanted to add size to her buttocks. She always wanted her booty to look round and perfect. With her flat butt, most of the guys never really showed interest in her. The element of lack of appreciation was always there.
She was advised by one of her friends to join the gym and perform squats to give her buttocks the shape. Impressed with those round butts, she bought a membership of a gym. It didn't go for her as planned. Even after working out for half a year, her butt looked the same as before. There wasn't any change, she developed some strength but she lacked the actual thing she came for. The depressing nights she spent caused her even more harm. She tried different motivational quotes to boost her up but nothing worked out well. She knew the actual reason but like everyone, she was too shy to talk about that with her parents.
Finally, she opened up and told her mom about her dreams and discussed the obstacles ahead of her.
Her mother had a conversation with her like a discussion on any normal topic they would have. Her mother assured her of her support to achieve her ambition.
She had been through breast augmentation treatment herself and knew of a surgeon who could efficiently perform the required surgery.
The date was appointed by the doctor and the meeting was held. The doctor consoled her and briefed her about the process. They had to implant silicone in her butt or the other choice was to do the grafting. She went with the silicone implant in her buttocks. Unlike anybody, she wasn't nervous at all but on the contrary, she was excited to take a step forward towards her aim in life.
Entering the hospital, none could notice any sign of nervousness on her face but the staff in there made her more comfortable and relaxed. She was asked about her preferences regarding her size and roundness factor. This discussion went on for 15 minutes and later, Nora entered the Operation theatre. The typical aroma of the hospital never really mesmerized her as it did now, with each step she took on that marble floor, her blood pressure kept roaring up.
As with every organ transplant, it helped her to regain the confidence she had lost somewhere. Having a round look had been her fantasy for a long time and achieving that boosted her mood up. She was cognizant of the infections she could possibly develop with the time. But it's been 2 years since her treatment, there isn't any sign of infection at all.
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Michael Eisen in his office at U.C. Berkeley. Photo: Kristen V. Brown/Gizmodo.
Michael Eisen would like to teach Washington a thing or two about the scientific method.
Last month Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at U.C. Berkeley, announced plans to run for a seat in the Senate in 2018. As a Republican-controlled Washington has waged war against as basic truths and evidence-based reasoning, it has inspired a political awakening among a scientific community that often resists political engagement. With their work under attack, scientists like Eisen have concluded they can no longer sit idly by.
He's not alone: more than 2,500 scientists have expressed interest in running for office through new group called 314 Action, prompting the group to plan an event in D.C. next month to give scientists a crash course in politics. Over the weekend, hundreds of scientists convened at a political rally "to stand up for science" in Boston's Copley Square. At least one other scientist besides Eisen—Tracy Van Houten, a rocket scientist in Los Angeles—has already committed to run.
"I'm not exaggerating, the response from scientists has been pretty incredible," Ted Bordelon, communications director for 314 Action, told Gizmodo. He said that 314 Action has received more interest from scientists than it ever expected.
For those familiar with the wheeling and dealing of Washington politics, Eisen's focus on making facts and reason the center of policy debate on the Senate floor sounds idealistic. Good science may rely upon establishing truth and facts based on accumulated evidence, but it would take a reversal of centuries of political convention to get Washington to work that way.
Eisen is up front that his run for office may be an ill-fated exercise in the quixotic. Win or lose, his main goal is to prove a point about what he sees as a fatal flaw in the political process.
In January, he registered the Twitter handle @SenatorPhD and effectively launched his campaign with a tweet.
At present, in all of Congress, there is only one person with a science Ph.D., Bill Foster of Illinois. America is unique in its lack of scientists in public office. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a Ph.D. in quantum chemistry. Most of China's top government officials trained as engineers.
Eisen would run for the seat presently occupied by Democrat Dianne Feinstein, a former mayor of San Francisco who has served in the Senate since 1992. Even if she decides not to run again, his chance of winning her spot is a long shot. Many other high-profile state politicians are already clamoring to fill her slot.
He plans to run as an independent, a move that may hurt his chances of winning, but he views as a necessary stand against partisan politics. While he plans to focus his platform on reforming the decision-making process, he does have a few key issues he hopes to bolster, including climate change adaptation, food production and agriculture policy, and geo-engineering, the controversial idea that we can hack Earth's climate system to cool the planet back down.
"Either we're going to really rapidly as a species change our ways to stop climate change—and I am skeptical that's going to happen—or we're going to engineer our way out of this," he said. "I realize it's a slightly esoteric agenda," he added.
Eisen is clear about being a rookie, and still in the early days of putting together a campaign. He has still yet to hire any staff or begin fundraising. He hopes to do both by summer. A long-time advocate for the politically fraught open-access movement in research, he hopes his involvement in academic politics will lend him an edge in politics outside the Ivory Tower.
He recently learned that announcing he would run so early was a misstep—to avoid rigorous scrutiny of the Federal Election Commission so early on, most politicians say instead that they are "considering" a run until closer to an election. But long odds and early stumbles don't seem to discourage him.


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West Ham United – Norwich City. Łukasz Fabiański with a clean slate. Premier League
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The Hammers are doing really great this Premier League season. Before the game against the last one in the Norwich table, Fabiański's team was fifth in the league table, just one point behind the fourth Gunners. The Polish goalkeeper played in all 20 previous meetings of his team in the Premier League, he gave 27 goals in them and kept a clean sheet four times.
In the match against the outsiders from Norwich, David Moyes' team should take the lead in the second minute of the game. Jarrod Bowen was in the perfect position to beat Tim Krul, but he shot straight at the Dutch goalkeeper.
West Ham played football, dominating, but had obvious problems in creating clear goals in the first half. Norwich was virtually non-existent – as was the case with most of the team's Premier League matches. At the end of the first half of his strength, Przemysław Płatheta tried, but Łukasz Fabiański probably caught his shot.
When it seemed certain that the players of both teams would come to the dressing room with a goalless draw, Jarrod Bowen finally got his way. The British winger ran from behind the Norwich defenders and showed a very nice "head".
Shortly after switching sides to 2-0 he could have raised Michail Antonio, who received a great pass by Pablo Fornals. His shot, however, only hit the crossbar of Tim Krul's goal.
Five minutes later, the extremely active Jarrod Bowen had another opportunity in this match, but this time he only hit the goal post of Norwich. After the break, David Moyes' players were clearly on the move and scoring their second goal seemed to be only a matter of time.
In the 67th minute of the game Łukasz Fabiański had the opportunity to show his extraordinary skills. The Polish goalkeeper perfectly matched the ball to the post after a strong hit from outside the penalty area by Adam Idah.
Seven minutes before the end of regulation time, Jarrod Bowen was downing Norwich. The best player of the Wednesday game confidently threw his leg to the ball that was crossed into the penalty area by Arthur Masuaku.
The match in London ended with the score 2: 0, and thanks to beating Norwich, West Ham moved up to fourth place in the Premier League table. Its leader remains the extremely accelerated Manchester City.
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Home Electronic There are many automobile "cores". How important is the acquisition of Xingang by Anshi?
There are many automobile "cores". How important is the acquisition of Xingang by Anshi?
On July 5, Wingtech's wholly-owned subsidiary Anshi Semiconductor announced that it has completed the signing of a transaction agreement for the acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab in the United Kingdom. In the context of the global automotive industry facing a "chip shortage", this acquisition can help Nexperia achieve growth goals and investment, and further increase global production capacity. In order to resolve the issue of automotive "core", IDM and fabs, including Nexperia, are actively increasing production capacity and seeking more agile and effective synergistic interactions between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Expand the market share of automotive-grade products
Automotive-regulated semiconductors are one of the fastest-growing market segments in the world, and they have increasingly become a point of struggle for international semiconductor companies. According to statistics from IHS Markit, Nexperia's automotive power MOSFET shipments rank second in the world. The acquisition of the Xingang fab will enhance Nexperia's ability to supply products that meet vehicle-level standards and expand its market share.
It is reported that the Xingang Semiconductor production plant has a monthly production capacity of more than 35,000 8-inch wafers, and can provide MOSFETs and trench IGBTs using wafer thinning methods, as well as products such as CMOS, analog and compound semiconductors.
Zhang Xuezheng, Chairman of Wingtech Technology and Chairman and CEO of Nexperia Semiconductor, stated that Nexperia will increase its investment in the Xingang fab and continue to maintain its important position in the local semiconductor ecosystem. The addition of Xingang fab will effectively enhance Nexperia's IDM capabilities in automotive-grade IGBT, MOSFET, Analog and compound semiconductor products.
Achim Kempe, chief operating officer of Nexperia Semiconductor, said that the addition of Xingang fab will help meet the growing global market demand for semiconductors. The Xingang plant has a skilled operations team that will play an important role in ensuring the continuity of supply.
International manufacturers actively expand production to cope with the tide of automotive core shortage
"Lack of cores" has become a lingering haze in the development of the automobile industry. In the fourth quarter of last year, the production of some Volkswagen models was affected due to chip shortages, which also brought the core shortage problem into the public's field of vision. After more than half a year of adjustment, the core shortage problem has not been effectively alleviated. Last Friday, BMW said that the global shortage of automotive chips has not yet eased, and the supply will continue to be tight in the second half of this year, which will also affect the output of automakers.
In this situation, "expansion" has become a key word for IDM and major wafer suppliers.
Before announcing the acquisition of the Newport fab, Anshi Semiconductor launched a new 8-inch wafer production line in Manchester, UK last month to achieve rapid expansion of production capacity.
"In the context of a global semiconductor shortage, Anshi actively invests in global manufacturing plants to increase production capacity, including MOSFET production equipment in Manchester and the Philippines. This is good news for buyers. The performance of the new MOSFET also excites designers. These MOSFET is very suitable for a variety of switching applications, and can also replace other suppliers' products." Anshi product manager Mike Becker pointed out.
At the beginning of this year, Anshi Semiconductor's parent company Wingtech's 12-inch automotive-grade power semiconductor wafer manufacturing project started in Lingang's new area. It is expected to produce 400,000 wafers per year, and the annual output value will reach 3.3 billion yuan after it reaches production.
Intel said in April that it will open its existing factories to automotive chip companies and begin producing chips in its new factories within 6 to 9 months to solve the problem of chip shortages in the US automobile manufacturing industry.
TSMC also pointed out in a statement in April that the company's board of directors approved a capital plan of US$2.887 billion for the installation of mature technology capacity. This move aims to meet the growing structural demand and ease the global chip supply challenge that has expanded from automotive chips to the global semiconductor industry.
According to SEMI statistics, global semiconductor manufacturers will start building 19 new high-capacity fabs before the end of this year, and start construction of 10 more in 2022 to meet the market's accelerated demand for chips, including communications, computing, and medical care. Healthcare, online services and cars. SEMI President and CEO Ajit Manocha said that as the industry strives to solve the global chip shortage, the equipment expenditures of these 29 fabs are expected to exceed 140 billion U.S. dollars in the next few years.
Capacity expansion is only the beginning of solving the problem
Although the main manufacturers have shown a strong momentum of expansion and the intention to further tilt their production capacity to automotive-grade chips, the lack of cores for automobiles is a comprehensive problem, and the expansion of production capacity is only the beginning of solving the problem.
Insufficient connection between supply and demand is one of the core factors leading to the lack of cores in this round. Bu Rixin, general manager of InnoPath Investment Consulting, pointed out to the reporter of "China Electronics News" that the "chip shortage" in the automotive industry is caused by many reasons. The core factors include supply chain reasons and the reasons for the capacity planning of chip design companies in 2020. . In terms of the supply chain, due to the industry's general concerns about the lack of cores, the phenomenon of hoarding, rushing, and overstocking has aggravated the shortage of chips; in terms of production capacity planning, due to the impact of macroeconomic environment and epidemic factors, many cars Chip companies are relatively pessimistic about the development of the industry and did not place orders with fabs in advance, resulting in insufficient capacity allocation.
To solve the problem of core shortage, upstream and downstream enterprises need to collaborate and interact more quickly and effectively. Pat Kissinger also said that the lack of core in the automotive industry has brought to the industry the enlightenment that the semiconductor global supply chain synergy needs to expand the scope and include customers and users. It is precisely because automobile manufacturers have not accurately predicted market demand, which has led to the allocation of more production capacity to other fields in semiconductor manufacturing, and the semiconductor industry needs closer and agile interaction across the entire chain.
"If the past year has taught us some lessons, it is: the entire supply chain must be able to change with demand, to ensure that no bottlenecks will limit industry growth." Pat Kissinger said.
For the local supply chain, it is imperative for upstream and downstream companies to "sit at the same table". Vimicro CTO Zhang Yinong once told reporters that when chips are in short supply, automakers and chip manufacturers are required to "sit down" to solve various chip problems and improve the quality of chips. Huang Jipo, general manager of Saiteng Microelectronics, also pointed out to reporters that the core shortage crisis has affected multiple links in the upstream and downstream of the industry chain, and the unilateral efforts of chip manufacturers alone are not enough to help the entire industry smoothly get out of its predicament and achieve a healthy development of the entire industry. In-depth communication between upstream and downstream manufacturers is also needed for common development.
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Below, the frieze again banded tulipwood and purple heart cross-banding. The square section tapering legs with inlaid ebony and box stringing, finished with ebony toes. A very nice touch indicative of quality, is that the frieze to the rear of the table is finished in satinwood. A particularly well proportioned and handsome pair of tables retaining excellent colour and patina throughout.
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The New York Times published a piece this past weekend on the Chilean Presidential election which referred to "the demise of the Christian Democrats". Demise is defined as "the end or failure of an enterprise or an institution." That is strange and inaccurate word to use for a party that holds the balance of power between right and left blocs in both the Chilean Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. And it is an especially strong word to use when the results of the Presidential election, in which the rightist candidate, Sebastian Pinera, won by a larger than expected nine percent margin, indicate that he attracted the vast majority of Christian Democratic voters.
This is an example of the sort of subtle media bias I mentioned in my last blog post. Surely the error the Times committed was taking left-wing statements at face value which caused them to overlook the real story unfolding right before their noses. The real story is that the Christian Democrats, who have been aligned with the left since the restoration of democracy in 1989, are now the balance of power between left and right, and that when forced to choose their voters prefer the right to the left. The story of why the party made this choice and why their voters have these opinions is truly an unheard story – and one you will never hear from the New York Times so long as they allow their unexamined assumptions to rule their reporting.


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We view these two outlets as complementary, and our objective is to make them mutually reinforcing. The journals share an interdisciplinary approach to international issues and have a specific focus on the evolution of the US and Europe in the global context.
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Police apologise to woman who was bitten while attending illegal rave in Yate
AVON and Somerset police have confirmed that they have apologised to a woman who was bitten by a police dog while she was at an illegal rave in Yate.
Jess Andrew was one of up to 700 people who attended the event at an empty warehouse in Millbrook Road on October 31 last year, which breached coronavirus restrictions in place at the time.
Police were attacked as they stopped hundreds more people from getting in to the warehouse (above), which was trashed.
Ms Andrew complained that she was bitten as police tried to clear the venue.
The force's professional standards department investigated the incident and analysed body-worn footage, photographic evidence from witnesses and accounts from officers on duty, with an independent review carried out by a police dog instructor.
It concluded that there was "no indication the dog-handler had behaved in a manner requiring disciplinary action or individual training".
However solicitors acting for Ms Andrew are understood to have referred the matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
A police spokesperson said: "Any injury sustained during police contact is regrettable.
"Therefore, an apology was also made to the complainant for the injury they sustained.
"Any complainant who is unhappy with the outcome of their complaint is entitled to request a review by the IOPC."
Ms Andrew, who has so far refused to accept the apology, is being represented by Iain Gould, a solicitor who specialises in claims against the police.
The Voice has contacted Mr Gould for a comment.
Five people were jailed for crimes committed when police were called to the event.
Seven more people brought to court between February and April were fined and ordered to pay compensation and costs, while a further 15 people were given fixed penalty fines for breaching covid restrictions, including two men fined £10,000 for their role in organising the rave.


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Having a dream about cheating is one of the dreams that disturb the dreamer a lot. Most importantly, if you are already in a relationship and then you have a dream of this kind, it is indeed not a pleasant thing to dream about. Some dreamers often wake up under shock.
Such dreams do place you in a situation when you actually feel the emotions you would have felt, if such a thing would have happened for real.
Remember! You had the dream and you are the best judge of the circumstances you are stuck in. No one can analyze your dream better than you yourself. Such dreams are only about insecurities and fear within you. Just sit with your own self and seek the truth.
An anonymous mentioned about his dream he saw in his teen years. He dreamt about his parents getting divorced. In the same dream, he also saw a man he knew, was taking away his mother away. He was really disturbed and spoke to his parents about it. His parents said that it was a nightmare, to calm him down. He was disturbed to a great extent. He somehow just could not forget the dream and be cool about it. But less was known, what is in line ahead!
Post he had this dream, three weeks later, the family found out that his mother was having an affair with a family friend. The other man was the same person dreamer saw in his dream- such is the power of sixth sense.
Being a child, the dreamer never thought about any sort of unhappiness in his parents' married life. Theirs was a normal happy family. As a dreamer, he somehow did since the disaster his family was about to witness. Though there are times when the brain does not acknowledge your emotions and you also tend to ignore those signals,! At times, better listen to your subconscious mind as well.
While sitting and analyzing the dream, dreamer did realize that his mother was not happy with the circumstances she was in. A monotonous life did make her go ahead the other path.
The power of 6th sense– If you happen to see your partner cheating on you in your dream, it may directly mean that you do have a strong sixth sense. It is indeed a gift and not all have it. The most powerful organ we all are blessed with- is the brain. A brain guides you about the hidden messages other's bodies communicates through body language.
It is almost like being in school, if you happen to come across somebody who has a crush on you, you do judge it soon. It is fun too. Similarly, if a teacher likes a student more than anybody else, the whole class gets to know about it. It is very much the same like this, dreaming of your partner or probably anybody else is because you subconsciously know, you might get or have been back stabbed.
Recommendation- At times people say that the most important person in your life is their mother/father/daughter/son but they all lie. No one is more important to you than you yourself. Having a dream this kind can be a signal or guidance given by Almighty, so that you may help yourself. Self-help is the best help!
Supriya's husband has to travel for at least 1.5 hours to reach to his workplace. There was a time when he used to reach home at 8. After a couple of months, he started coming home at 10 pm. Supriya thought that may be pressure at work have increased. She was being considerate and understanding.
When asked about any dreams this kind, she clearly stated, no she did not have a dream about her husband cheating on him. This directly means that her husband never reflected through his body language about him cheating on his own dedicated wife.
There are times when in the normal daily routine of life you do have such dreams. This does not only mean that your partner is cheating on you. But! What if you have a dream this kind when you are not really in a relationship? It is natural even then. While researching for primary data for this write-up, there were certain cases that came across.
An actor in India, Mumbai, had a dream this kind. He saw that his colleague had stabbed him at his back. He got up really upset and was slightly disturbed. Later he discovered that his colleague got the project he was about to get. After a couple of days, he found out, he had lost to unfair means, not the real talent- but who actually was the loser is the point to be pondered at.
Another example to quote, a young girl of class 7, Sri Lanka, had a dream about her teacher not talking to her looking directly into her eyes. The dream is not that big a thing but, for a girl her age it was a big thing. After a couple of weeks, she felt that her teacher does not like her anymore. When she spoke to the teacher about her ignorance towards her, she found that her class work and homework stayed incomplete. The little girl worked on it and found a solution to the problem.
A maximum number of times, dreams is the representations of your own feelings and emotions.
TO be precise, what you have been feeling inside subconsciously is what you see in your dreams. Same goes for cheating in dreams.
Now consider an instance. There are times when we are stuck in family lives when we really want to break free. There are some of us, who have real abusive parents and are not happy living with them. But, being your parent's own child, freaking out is something you would not find morally right. If you are that child and if you have dreams about cheating, probably you want to just move out of the relationship you are in with your parents. It is better to take the challenge and do well to your own selves. Physical, verbal and mental abuse is something which must stop.
An angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
Such dreams mean impulsive choices. There are times when we take a decision in haste. Probably you should not have rushed into making a girlfriend/boyfriend. Such instances are the reasons why you may have dreams these kinds.
Similarly, out of love, you compromise on integrity and self-respect. Now, since you do such things, you cheat thyself, not your partner. So these are the instances when you should sit and relax and seek self-help.
There are some relationships in which the partner is a persistent cheater yet the other person keeps on cheating. This may make the partner (at the cleaner end) dream of his/her partner cheating on them. This happens because there is scarcity of trust factor.
Children under the age of 5 are not an easy nut to crack. Feeding them becomes a real challenge and you feel helpless as a parent for not being able to look after their nutrition properly. TO feed them, a parent has to scold them and be strict with the kids.
This may lead to arguments and the child may feel bad and go quiet and not talking to you for days. This may make you dream of your child having good time with others and not looking at you (the feeling is excruciatingly painful). This is nothing else but your lack of confidence in your own self to feed your children well.
Pregnant women often have such dreams. Due to pregnancy, they feel a little insecure about their partner. They feel their husbands may lose interest in them and not look after they post the child is born. It is very much natural to have these dreams- Relax.
Righteous people have righteous dreams. But such is not the case always. With prophets, things are a little different than everybody else.
It is believed, if someone watches a dream about getting cheated on, this means shaytaan is more powerful on them and they need to sort things out. This is strictly told to Muslim women that they must keep their emotions under control and be calm if they happen to come across something like this.
As per Islamic interpretations, no control is better than self-control. If you have control over your emotions then you bless your own self by doing so.
The points mentioned above are only to protect the dreamer. What if the dream meant something else? What if it is you who is actually going to cheat? What if it is just a matter of one dream? What if the dream was not vivid and you just presume that it was your partner? What if the dream happened because you were at fault originally? SO stay quiet and be the judge of your own circumstances!
Having dreams about cheating may at times mean that you are not taking care of your own self! There are times when we compromise on our basic factors just to keep others happy. Such circumstances do make you feel so.
Did you pick a job which is really not directly linked to your basic work profile!
Did you compromise on yourself respect only to keep your parents happy!
Do your parents abuse you and do not really cherish your presence.
Are you pregnant and going through depression?
Did your spouse appreciate another woman in front of you?
Did your wife compliment another man?
Did your teacher appreciate another classmate of yours!
Did your classmate get better marks than you in the exam, whom you taught a night before!
Did you buy a pair of shoes out of haste and just because it is in fashion and it is really expensive?
Questions are many but the answer is one- Dream. Simple quiet time spent with thyself is what will do good to you.
Not many of us realize but taking the responsibility of your own actions is what only strong people can do. SO be strong, take the call and be the lead. All you need is a little bit of change and some time to ponder.
Many of us, when we think of cheating in dreams, we always connect it with our partners. Well! Partners are not the only ones who cheat by the way! There are instances when we are stuck and feeling helpless at our workplace and not feeling good about our academic performances as well. The reasons are multiple and so are the factors which make you dream of things these kinds.
The time you realize the power of your subconscious mind, which is when you realize your own strength. Your circumstances and situations in which you dwell, no one can understand them better than you thyself.
No help is better than self help. Post having the dream about cheating or anything related to it, all you need is a cup of coffee and some private space to breathe. The place could be a secluded space in the park, your couch at home, or any other place.
Sit with your own self and ask thyself to analyze the situations you are going through. Single word you need to think and work on is – Focus. You will surely have the answers soon.
Hope, this article has helped you to know the meaning of such dreams if you are having them.


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As a followup to the article about running Jessie LXCs without CAP_SYS_ADMIN, this article describes how to run Jessie LXCs under Wheezy.
In order for this to work, wheezy-backports must be activated (look for Wheezy there, not Squeeze). You will need a backported version LXC 1.0 in order to properly run systemd containers: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports lxc. (Or you can alter your APT preferences and pin the packages lxc, init-system-helpers and libseccomp2 from wheezy-backports to a higher priority and just upgrade.) Beware: the LXC utilities from LXC 1.0 can't properly talk to running LXC processes of older LXC versions, so LXC started with an older version can't be shut down properly (except for SSH login and shutdown from within the LXC). Thus, if you upgrade to LXC 1.0 (the same applies for upgrading to Jessie that comes with LXC 1.0), you should stop all running LXC instances first, then upgrade your LXC version and restart them afterwards.
You will also most likely need a backported kernel: apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-image-amd64 (or whatever your architecture is). Note that tests indicate that simply starting a Jessie LXC under Wheezy's default 3.2 kernel does indeed work (no errors), but systemd's requirements state kernel 3.7. If you do choose to remain with kernel 3.2, things may break unexpectedly. You have been warned. Also note that lxc-attach will work with the kernel from backports, but won't work with Wheezy's default kernel.
The main ingredient that's now still missing is to pre-mount a named systemd cgroup hierarchy on the host (that will remain unused on the host except for LXC). How that can be mounted depends a bit on how the current cgroup setup is done. If Debians recommendations were followed, an entry in /etc/fstab exists to mount all kernel subsystems together to /sys/fs/cgroup. However, other ways of mounting cgroups is to mount a tmpfs to /sys/fs/cgroup, create directories for each controller there and then mount each controller separately to /sys/fs/cgroup/$controller.
If the former is the case, /sys/fs/cgroup is already used, so creating /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd and mounting systemd's hierarchy there is not a good idea. Fortunately, LXC 1.0 is intelligent enough to pick up cgroup hierarchies regardless of their mount point, so it can simply be mounted to /run/cgroup/systemd, which is not a canonical path, but will work.
If the latter scheme is used, it should be sufficient to simply create /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd and mount the hierarchy there. There is a simple package in wheezy-backports to do the latter scheme for all kernel controllers, cgroupfs-mount.
If it detects that cgroupfs-mount is installed and no entry in /etc/fstab exists for cgroups, it will create /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd and mount the systemd hierarchy there.
Otherwise, to be conservative, it will mount the hierarchy to /run/cgroup/systemd to not get in the way.
# Short-Description:  Set up cgroupfs mounts.
#  limits on resource usage on groups of tasks.
The script will be started earlier in the boot process, mitigating that problem.
With these steps it's possible to run Jessie LXCs with systemd under Wheezy hosts. Just follow the instructions in the article about running Jessie LXCs for further details (lxc.cgroup.use = @all also has to be set here, for example), with the backport the same LXC version, the rest of the configuration is identical.
This article was updated to reflect that LXC 1.0 is now in wheezy-backports and does not need to be backported manually.


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# Prerequisites:
# 1. Apple developer certificate, and an enrolled test iDevice (1GB or more memory is better).
# 2. Install https://github.com/phonegap/ios-deploy to run the application.
# 3. Go with iOS support, see $GOROOT/misc/ios/README on how to set it up.

cd `dirname $0`

# build the program
CGO_ENABLED=1 GOARCH=arm go build -o hello helloworld.go
# sign the executable using your developer certificate
codesign -f -s "iPhone Developer" --entitlements Entitlements.plist hello

# run the program inside lldb on iDevice, run `ios-deploy` for more # command options
echo "You can now issue 'ios-deploy --debug --uninstall --bundle `pwd` to run it on your iDevice."
echo 'Depending on your ios-deploy version, you might need to enter "run" into lldb to run your program, and its output will be shown by lldb.'

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Beatrice the Biologist is THE science webcomic to follow… and book, and science blog, and iPad/iPhone game… phew! Beatrice the Biologist creator, Katie McKissick, is one busy bee. With a love of biology and an undying passion for educating the world, Katie can be found busily blogging, drawing, doodling, creating books, and more, all in the name of science.
I found Katie's work while stumbling around some science sites on Facebook and was immediately drawn to her Amoeba Hugs comic. I enjoy how Katie takes an element of science that is often misunderstood by the public and translates it for the layperson to both understand and find the humor within it. As you go through her comic archives, you will find that Katie's comics are easy-to-comprehend, balanced between refreshingly simple and yet humorously complex, and bring levity into something as serious as science.
Additionally, Katie writes for the Symbiartic Scientific American blog and has a book coming out this next winter. Her writing is wittingly funny, yet personal, which subtly welcomes readers into the depths of science, regardless of their expertise. If you are looking for a break from the redundant media sources and discover a need to expand that brain of yours, I highly recommend checking out Katie's Beatrice the Biologist works for a gentle, yet humorous introduction into this beautiful world of science.
Q. Biology is a large part of your life. What memorable moment made you decide you wanted to pursue a life in biology?
A. Hm. There is no single moment I can point to. I fell in love with science over the course of my high school education (whereas in middle school I thought science was poop). I knew I wanted to major in either chemistry or biology in college, but I never thought about what I would really do with a science degree afterwards. I just kept telling myself I would figure it out.
Q. You were formerly a high school biology teacher. How did your Beatrice the Biologist drawings and ramblings come about?
A. When I was teaching I always looked for ways to make the material fun or funny for my students. When I left the classroom I decided to start a blog about all the common misconceptions I found my students had, discussing them in a silly way to make it more approachable.
Q. How was the initial response to your launch of Beatrice the Biologist?
A. Pretty tame. For a good two years, I wasn't sure what I wanted Beatrice the Biologist to be. I was just experimenting and playing around with it, and I had very few eyes on it then. But very slowly I built a readership that liked my goofy perspective on science.
Q. Your mission for Beatrice the Biologist cracks me up: "To make science fun and interesting for the casual reader. I firmly believe that science is important, fascinating, and relevant to every day life, and my goal is to make everyone on the planet agree with that (and pretty much everything else I have to say)." Out of all of the things you offer, what venue do you feel reaches the widest audience?
A. The really straight-forward, short comics. Which is funny because that wasn't at all what I set out to do when I started Beatrice the Biologist. I wanted to write articles for the most part, with just one visual to accompany it. As I kept writing, I started writing posts with multiple images, and the word to image ratio continued to evolve until I was doing posts that were single-panel comics. And that's when I got a lot more feedback from people.
But I think that's due to the fact that people find and consume my content primarily on social networks like Facebook. People don't visit my website, beatricebiologist.com, anywhere near as often as they find me on Facebook. And on a platform like Facebook, people tend to not click links that will take them elsewhere and don't want to read a long, rambling status (and I don't either). Self-contained images are great for Facebook. People can read, respond, and move on very easily.
But while I'm happy that so many people get to see my work on platforms like Facebook, I am getting sick of feeling like I've been reduced to a Facebook page, rather than a science webcomic blog, which is what I feel I'm doing.
I have a complicated relationship with Facebook. It's a great way for people to find and interact with me and my work, but I'm expected to pay $50 per Facebook post for all of my fans to actually see it (but I don't ever do that). Even when something gets hundreds of likes and dozens of comments, which bumps it up in the Facebook algorithm-based queue, not even half of the people who "like" my page end up seeing it.
Similarly, when a comic like "When We Are Hurting" gets shared tens of thousands of times and seen on 2.3 million people's Facebook feeds, it makes no impact on my actual website page views. It's weird.
Q. What few Beatrice the Biologist writings or drawings would you say best sum up your message?
Q. You designed the iPad/iPhone game, Amoeboid. How did that process go?
A. My husband planted the idea in my head, always saying I should make an iPhone app. I wasn't sure what that would be, though. But over the course of a few months, I started hatching this idea for a game about a little amoeba that would have the side effect of teaching the player about a few different kinds of microbes—protists.
A friend of mine used to work at a multimedia production company and knew a great programmer named Niilo Tippler. I got his email from her and asked him if I could pay him to build the game I had in mind. He recruited his longtime friend and colleague, illustrator and animator Chris Tokunaga, to do the artwork.
The actual process was a blast for me. Chris drew sketches of the characters (based on photos of the protists I sent him), and Niilo programmed the game mechanics. For months I got email updates about the progress, and I got to give my feedback and direction, and eventually—voila! A great little mini game starring an amoeba!
The best part is that Niilo and Chris so enjoyed making Amoeboid that they started their own mobile app development venture called Tip-Tok and asked me to join them as the producer! Last year we released our second game, Chicks in Tanks, and we're in the planning stages of our next one. It's been a great experience, and I made two new friends. Awwwwwww.
Q. I love your post about the "Ups and Downs of Producing Online Content." How did you get the position of writing for the Scientific American?
A. I became Twitter-acquainted with Symbiartic writers Glendon Mellow and Kalliopi Monoyios. This January I met them at Science Online—this science communicator conference held in Raleigh, NC. They got a budget to bring on a third blogger to the science and art Scientific American blog, and they asked me! I had major impostor syndrome. I swear my first thought was that they had emailed me accidentally. I suppose that says a lot about me. But I'm beyond honored and excited about being a SciAm blogger. I just hope I'm doing it justice!
Q. You are a busy woman; writing, drawing, creating fabric, creating iPhone games, and now making videos. (I love the Flame Challenge video, BTW). What is your favorite venue for teaching the mission of Beatrice the Biologist?
A. The comics are really fun for me. I love the challenge of taking a concept and distilling it into a cohesive comic strip with as few panels as possible. And I just love drawing and coloring. I'm a 5-year-old trapped in a 29-year-old body. I'm happy that people see my comics and feel like science is fun, funny, and approachable.
Q. Producing online content has its ups and downs. What has been your most exciting experience that has come out of Beatrice the Biologist? What about your most valued lesson?
The most exciting thing was when an editor from a publishing company emailed me because she had seen my work and wanted to know if I was interested in writing a book. I was so excited I felt like someone had punched me in the chest. That's how everyone feels when they're excited, right? Right?!
I just finished the manuscript, and I'm told the book What's in Your Genes? will be out in December or January! I'm looking forward to seeing it in print and feeling the wind knocked out of me again.
The hardest lesson I've had to learn is to not pay attention to mean comments. But I'm not sure I've learned it well enough yet; it's a work in progress.
Q. Do you have any people who you'd like to credit and thank for helping you get the publicity of where you are today?
A. My husband Kip Barnes has always been ridiculously supportive and helpful as I've bounced Beatrice ideas off him or had countless "what the hell am I doing?" crises.
Bora Zivkovic, the blogs editor for Scientific American, has been a huge help as well. I reached out to him for advice, and he told me to come to Science Online. I did, and it was the best week of my life! Plus, as I said earlier, there I got to meet Glendon and Kapi from Symbiartic, and have since joined their team! And thanks go to them too!
Elise Andrew of IFLS helped me get a lot of exposure when she shared a couple of my comics on her well-known Facebook page.
Q. Do you have any upcoming projects or publications that we should keep an eye out for?
A. Be on the lookout for more Amazon self-publishing projects from me (coloring book, anyone?), as well as some new projects in my Etsy store. Watch out. I have a hot glue gun, and I'm not afraid to use it!
Q. How can your followers best support you?
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