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About our workflow...
You may not know this, but Aether Interactive recently reformed. Previously, I was its sole owner; this meant that what it made, I made, and to compensate for being the pen name of a collective with shifting team members per project, I had a lot of individual agreements I processed and laid out for everyone involved; while still listing everyone's income as my income, and their split as a subcontract with a particularly strange pay structure. I mean, none of it was false; but it wasn't ideal for the work we did. Most notably, it put a lot of work on me without appreciable pay in response.
On May 2, 2018, Penelope and I reformed it as a general partnership and simplified our pay structure across all projects. It's far simpler now: as partners, we split the cost and profit of the company. It's like being a super freelancer: now the overhead isn't covered by just you, and the output is that much greater, making the potential for sustainability and income more likely.
I think this is how a lot of companies start.
I get asked sometimes how I organise myself; I do wear a lot of hats across a number of places, I have two credit cards, recurring applications to file, bills (although I usually just put those on the credit cards to consolidate tasks), you know. Adult stuff. And I'd love to answer – and open the door on our company process a little, as well. But first, we have to look at how we got here. I want you to meet kid Matilde, and she might seem very familiar to you.
Kid Matilde and Adult Matilde
Most of my life I didn't do much outside of school and work. I didn't know how to. I went years, and years, wondering why I felt so together during school, and why I became a frozen, depressive puddle once it was supposedly relaxation time. I had interests. I had projects I wanted to do. I just didn't ever do them.
It turns out it was a delicate cocktail preventing me from taking action:
I had a pretty bad anxiety disorder. If I didn't have a huge amount of buffer in everything in my life, and a very low stressor load, I would freeze up entirely, unable to act. All of life's stresses felt too big, and they made me too scared to act on them while keeping my mind on the now. I didn't know how to break up tasks to keep the stressors managed on a day to day basis. If they weren't eliminated entirely for me, I wouldn't be able to do anything.
School and work provided a structure and routine to life that I succeeded within. I was a phenomenal student, I was dedicated and enthusiastic. I was passionate as a scholar. But outside of school, I didn't really pursue anything. I couldn't, without the structure and routine school provided, so I thought I needed school. When really, I needed structure I could just provide myself.
So I had interests and hobbies and projects, but unless they were compatible with the anxiety disorder, they didn't happen. That meant I did a lot of photography. I biked around town a lot. I did things that were mind-numbing enough to turn off the part of my brain that worried. I did a lot of things that had no start or end date or time pressure to do them, because once there was any pressure at all, I couldn't enjoy it. So video games were also delicate. I craved silent, solitary exploration. I played Metroid Prime and Guild Wars and did it entirely at my own pace, within my own head, and wondered at the world in a way that never made me feel stressed out.
These problems were fixed almost by accident.
I started taking anti-anxiety medication to deal with my first full-time job outside of school. It felt like if I couldn't handle entry-level work, I couldn't handle anything, so I needed to abandon the pointless hesitation I had to medicate myself. What I did most of my life was knowingly reduce my stressor load, try to cope with anything else. I meditated, I read on Buddhist and Stoic philosophers and tried to focus on doing, on living the fears I had so I could feel prepared to tackle them. But still, the anxiety was always too much.
I take sertraline, and it was the best decision I ever made. I don't know how to explain it, really – everything shrank down to the correct perspective. I had life stressors, but in a capacity I could tackle and manage. I could focus my mind on other things while knowing the stressors were there, and they had to be addressed. The only side effect I've really noticed is a lessened emotional expressiveness and what friends have called "an almost supernatural calmness" that can put people off. I actually really like it.
Second, I started finding ways to make structure happen in my own life once I left that full-time job. I started using task managers instead of sticky notes; I started booking time to tackle different kinds of work. Work wasn't something I kept entirely in my head, done at all hours of the day. It was something that had a reliable, consistent routine from day to day. And everything was work – everything was different kinds of work, once you think about it the right way.
Personal workflow
So, for tasks I use OmniFocus. You should probably use OmniFocus. Seem like a lot of money? It's the smallest amount of money you'll spend on such a life-changing thing. The amount of lost income you'll have by not having OmniFocus so, so, so gigantically outweighs spending $60 once that it's ridiculous. Just spend it. I feel the same way about estrogen and sertraline. Penny-wise, pound-foolish, after all this time!
Don't have a Mac/iPhone/iPad/Apple Watch/iPod/Apple IIGS? Fine, use Todoist, it's less configurable, but it's still servicable. It's about the method. It's about the workflow.
And me? I use inboxes as my basic structure.
I think of a basically everything as an inbox with an underlying organisation. Once a week, the parts get organised. You book a day for it, and that becomes the work for that day; in a way, it's theraputic. It's how the week begins.
Even my desktop on my computer – I think of it an inbox. I put everything in there as I do my weekly tasks a day at a time, and then on Sundays I move stuff into neat folders if I need to, or I delete it.
With tasks, everything you ever have to do, ever, gets put on the list. Medication? Yeah, it's in there. Surgery stuff? Definitely in there. Credit card bills? Repeating 3-week tasks, because I literally never buy anything more than I can afford, I just put everything on a credit card to manage expenses in a unified place while accumulating the best reward points for my lifestyle.
Emails you gotta answer? Yup, stick it in there. If it's living in your head, taking up brainspace, it's preventing you from focusing on the task at hand. It's like it's taking up all the RAM and you need to open Chrome to work.
I tend to live in the "forecast" view of OmniFocus, seeing what's ahead. Seeing what's on the calendar for various orgs, looking at what has to be done today, and prioritising the day from there. Then on Sundays I look at every project, every inbox, and see what's changed, what has to be added, and revise accordingly.
Seem weird? I mean, I devotedly catalogue my hydration intake so I can see it on a graph. It probably is weird.
Aether Interactive's workflow
How do you balance this with a company that needs to be always moving forward? Well, we use weekly sprints. We evaluate each week what's up ahead and what we need to do as a company and we do that planning together before assigning tasks. I tend to need action items or else I don't know what to do next, so we make action items.
We use Basecamp for projects and HQ stuff but you could honestly use a few different tools for group task management. I know people who only use Trello, though I don't understand them. We smile and nod at each other and then go back to our real system for adults.
Aether's HQ has group paperwork. We forward emails that are relevant for discussion. We keep assets and a year-by-year ledger with income and expenses for the company, profit split, and remitted HST.
Then for games, we make projects for collaborators as necessary and use the same weekly sprint system. I tend to prefer hiring producers to manage that – managing the full timeline of the project is a godsend; plus producers clarify and assign roles in a way that I just can't do well – but if my own workload is smaller for a project, I'm a capable producer for the team.
We use a company Slack, of course, but it's rarely about huge discussions – just quick decisions for tasks. Microtalks. Anything bigger gets sidebarred for a meeting, and meetings happen once a week, so it's fine. The company Slack is usually more about teambuilding. It's about sharing what we're doing, discussing the project according to our roles. It's about sharing company-relevant stuff in the same way you'd show your friends something in a group chat.
Generally, Penelope and I meet Mondays and we organise projects in states of conception, preproduction, production, and postproduction. We see the timeline for each one; we have go-to collaborators and other projects where we'd have to hire out. We evaluate if we can afford to pay entirely upfront between the two of us, whether we can give a significant amount of that and hybridise it with a deferral from sales, or pitch a limited revenue-share model to a collaborator we just really want to work with.


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Later I found a sector with minerals where I would like to build my starbase, however, the dead race has starbase there already and I can't seem to kill it, the only option is 'Withdraw'.

In the politics screen, there is no option to interact with them, so I can't declare war but then how do I remove the leftover starbases?

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We would only like to create these articles in the system once it is sold to a customer.
Is there any way to update master data at the time of sale instead of maintain 5000 articles before hand?
Well, the articles have to exist in some system before appearing on the Web site, right?
One scenario would be to bring the items into SAP Retail via standard PRICAT funtionality. They are not Articles yet, but they would be available to be searched. There is functionality called Enhanced Material (Article) Search with Article Creation that can enable searching for an Article (that exists in a Price Catalog or as an Article) while in a sales order or purchase order, with the ability to create an article on the fly from the PRICAT search results.
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Unaware of any nearby danger, a red-bearded tom turkey, barely visible through the thick stand of trees, swivels around, just as Jeff Ensor raises his shotgun. Ensor pulls off one shot, followed by another, then watches as the bird flaps away and vanishes. "Oh, man," Ensor whispers, obviously disappointed at his miss. "Darrell's gonna love this."
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Cameraman Stephen Boulware films Jeff Ensor and dogs on the hunt for pheasants in Nebraska.
He's right. Waiting in a nearby field, hunting buddy Darrell Wright shakes his head and grins. "We just heard two gunshots," he says, looking into the camera. "That's not good." Wright shakes his head again and holds up two fingers for emphasis. "Oh, Jeff," he deadpans with mock dismay.
Welcome to another action-packed, typically humorous episode of NonStop Hunting, a half-hour television show that airs on The Sportsman Channel.
From backwoods turkey hunts to big game safaris, Ensor, 34, and Wright, 39, travel across the country, and occasionally the world, in their ongoing quest to hunt in front of a camera — hence, the show's catchy title.
"Before we ever got the show going, we had that name in mind," Ensor says. "That's us. That's what we do — nonstop hunting!"
Well, not quite. For one thing, they each have full-time jobs: Wright works in Angola, Africa, as an offshore driller, and Ensor, who's married and has two children, owns Davidson-Craig Real Estate. Both men were reared and still live in Hamilton, Texas, a rural community of 3,000 or so residents. They're also customers with the Texas Land Bank in Lampasas, Texas.
Friendship Through Hunting
Ever since the two can remember, they've always hunted, although not necessarily together. It wasn't until after high school that their casual acquaintance tightened into a strong friendship, thanks to communal hunting trips.
Photo by Sheryl Smith-Rodgers
Jeff Ensor, left, and buddy Darrell Wright enjoyed watching hunting shows so much, they decided to start their own.
"In a small town like Hamilton, if you don't like to hunt or fish, there's nothing else to do," Wright says, seated in Ensor's downtown office. "Hunting became a passion that Jeff and I shared. For me, I respect the animals, and I love being around them. Every time you're in the woods, you learn something new. That's what makes it so exciting."
"It's not just about hunting," says Ensor, from behind his desk. "We give back to wildlife, too. We both manage and conserve our properties responsibly."
"We're very ethical hunters, and we practice a ton," adds Wright, who, like Ensor, prefers to hunt with a bow. "We take only high-percentage shots."
So how did two hunting buddies from a little town in Texas land their own television program? It took an enormous amount of work, they explain.
Learning the Video Business
Their venture began in January 2006 when Ensor, still single at the time, first toyed with the idea. "Darrell and I were always big fans of hunting shows. I remember telling him, 'We could do that. What do you think?' And Darrell said yes. But neither of us had a clue about how to broadcast, and we'd never laid eyes on a video camera. Through a series of phone calls, I got in touch with a TV host, and he told me about a videography school that was geared toward the outdoor industry."
The next month, Ensor studied a week at Brock Ray's Outdoor Videography School in Alabama and returned home determined to move forward. Wright agreed. In March, they flew to St. Louis, Mo., where they visited a video production company.
"We told them what we wanted to do, but we were still taking baby steps on how to do it," Ensor recalls. "They introduced us to Stephen Boulware, a freelance videographer. We met with him and set up an April turkey hunt, so we could produce a pilot show. You have to have that to send out to networks and recruit commercial sponsors."
"We're not just die-hard hunters. The show's about two good friends who hunt together. We're competitive, but we're also happy for one another, and we laugh at each other if one misses a shot. That's the way we really are." - Jeff Ensor
Meanwhile, Ensor set up a three-day hunt with Jim Call, an outfitter they knew in Kansas, where they especially love to hunt. "We did the turkey hunt; then Stephen took the tapes back to the video company," Ensor says. "We paid them to do a half-hour show. They edited five hours of video down to 22 minutes. We communicated the storyline and then did the narration and voice-overs. We decided to send the pilot to several networks in hopes of getting an approval and negotiating air times. I spent a lot of time on the phone."
Meanwhile, the men also juggled full-time jobs and hunting trips. "We kept putting together more shows," Ensor says. "Looking back now, even if we had it to do over again, I guess we'd still do it. But we just didn't know it'd be so hard."
Their First Break
It wasn't long until they had their first big break — or at least the start of one.
"Stephen, our videographer, had a good relationship with Scott Shultz, president of ScentBlocker," Ensor says. "In fall of 2006, he and Stephen were videoing a hunt for another show. Scott tagged out early. Stephen happened to have some of our shows with him, so he played them for Scott. He either liked what he saw, or he saw some potential." Ensor laughs. "They were terrible shows, but we did the best we could!"
Either way, Scott was intrigued. That December, he accompanied Ensor on a white-tailed deer hunt in Uvalde, Texas, while Wright was offshore, working. "It was a good hunt, and we got another show out of it," Ensor says. "But the main thing was that it gave me time with Scott." What's more, the personal connection gave Ensor access to trade shows, where he promoted NonStop Hunting to sponsors.
Meanwhile, Ensor had negotiated the show's first airing in July 2007 on the Men's Channel. "It wasn't cheap," he says, "especially for two guys without sponsors. We paid $3,000 a show. By August, the channel went bankrupt. Fortunately, we hadn't paid for too many shows in advance. Yeah, we lost some money, but we couldn't do anything about it."
Courting Sponsors
Disappointed but still determined, the pair bought airtime on Fox Sports Southwest. "We wanted to keep our exposure out there one way or another," Ensor says. "We also kept hunting and building up content for our shows. I was still trying to sell sponsorships, too."
In January 2008, Ensor set up an archery trip in Mexico with Shultz. This time, Wright joined them. "It was a good hunt, and Scott saw how Darrell and I interacted," Ensor says. "On the way to the airport, Scott said, 'I will commit to you right now for a full sponsorship.' But he wanted us on a bigger network and with a different production company. We said yes!"
Back home again, Ensor jumped on the phone and set to work. His tenacity paid off: NonStop Hunting would air on the Versus Channel in July 2008. With their television schedule nailed down, commercial sponsorships followed. "Then the economy started to sink, and companies had to cut back," Ensor says. "But it was still amazing to see how far we'd come by the end of '08 compared to the year before. We'd made a lot of progress."
Taking Aim at the Future
Now, another season into airing, NonStop Hunting continues to gain momentum. Starting in July, the show was slotted for Sundays at 5:30 p.m. (CST), Wednesdays at noon and Fridays at 2:30 a.m. on The Sportsman Channel.
"We're excited about this year," Ensor says. "I think The Sportsman Channel will really help us grow our audience. When people see what we have to offer, they'll keep coming back. I mean, we're not just die-hard hunters. The show's about two good friends who hunt together. We're competitive, but we're also happy for one another, and we laugh at each other if one misses a shot. That's the way we really are.
"Hosting a TV show is a difficult business," he adds. "It's not all fun and games. The hunting part is fun. But even then, doing the show has made hunting tougher, because we have a videographer along."
Still, they are not complaining. Their show has taken them on all kinds of hunts in all kinds of locales — for bear in Washington, elk in Montana, blue wildebeest in Africa and white-tailed deer from Wisconsin to Mexico, for example.
Where is their favorite place to hunt? It's a 240-acre property in Kansas, which Ensor and Wright financed through the Texas Land Bank in 2005. "I had closed deals with the Land Bank through my real estate business," Jeff explains. "When we were ready to make our purchase, I knew who to call."
Looking ahead, the "two guys from Hamilton, Texas," as they jokingly call themselves, plan to keep making shows and maybe even turn a profit. This year, they finally broke even.
"There are people who make a living at what we're doing with NonStop Hunting," Ensor reflects. "Someday we hope we can, too."
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The most well-known stage for streaming live cricket matches in India will likewise be streaming the ICC World Cup. Hotstar has elite rights to live to stream all World Cup matches on its application across cell phones, internet browsers, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV Stick, Android TV, Samsung Smart TV, Roku TV, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Clients can just download the Hotstar application and begin streaming world cup matches in 6 distinct dialects
Here is all that detail on streaming the ICC world cup through Television.
Hotstar. Gone are the days when you needed to peruse the live score and ball-by-ball live critique on the applications and sites. Today, you can stream the match of the gadgets. Hotstar is the official streaming accomplice for the ICC Cricket World Cup in India. Fans should know that there is in any event a 4 brief slack between the live transmission and what they see on Hotstar. Along these lines, decorations could get themselves 4-5 balls behind the live match.
CWC19. This is the authority application for the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2019 that will keep you side by side with the apparent multitude of most recent happenings identified with this game. This will incorporate live scores, video features, most recent news, coordinate websites, and the sky's the limit from there. The news on this divert is accessible in numerous dialects like English, Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu.
Doordarshan. Individuals of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka can undoubtedly watch the ICC World Cup on this channel.
Ten games and PTV. Individuals of Pakistan can check out PTV or Ten games for the live inclusion of the world cup matches.
Willow TV. For the individuals of the USA and Canada, Willow TV will communicate the World Cup through an uncommonly devoted channel.
Star Sports. Star Sports shows all matches in English, and will likely carry the rights for the rest of the Indian regions. Start sports is the official telecaster for the ICC world cup.
Super Sports. South Africa's cricket sweethearts can observe live matches of the World Cup on the SuperSports channel. South Africa's group has not won the World Cup to date.
So all the ICC world cup lovers these were where you can essentially stream the entire match on TV. Likewise, these channels that are referenced above give live streaming that too at great and HD quality.
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I just heard an ad on the radio offering a 3.99% mortgage. That makes sense to me. Where I'm confused is when the ad then mentions a 4.22% APY immediately after that. What does it mean? What interest rate will I actually be charged?
APR, or Annual Percentage Rate, defines the interest rate that is charged to the principal of the loan. You will be charged a total of 3.99% interest on that loan over the course of a year.
APY, or Annual Percentage Yield, describes the percentage of the principal of the loan that you'll have to pay over the course of the year.
The trick here is to understand that we're talking about two separate and somewhat different things. An example will illustrate this difference clearly.
Let's say you have a loan from a bank that has 3.99% with interest that is compounded quarterly. That means that every three months, your loan is charged 1/4 of the interest for the year, which would be 3.99% divided by 4, or 0.9975% interest.
Let's say your loan has a balance of $100,000 at the start of the year, to make the math more clear.
At the first quarter, your $100,000 loan will be charged 0.9975% interest, or $997.50. This gives your loan a new balance of $100,997.50.
At the second quarter, your loan has a balance of $100,997.50 and that balance will be charged 0.9975% interest, or $1,007.45. This gives your loan a new balance of $102,004.95.
At the third quarter, your loan has a balance of $102,004.95 and that balance will be charged 0.9975% interest, or $1,017.50. This gives your loan a new balance of $103,022.45.
At the fourth quarter, your loan has a balance of $103,022.45 and that balance will be charged 0.9975% interest, or $1,027.65. This gives your loan a new balance of $104,050.10.
Over the course of a year, your $100,000 loan turned into $104,050.10, earning $4,050.10 in interest. That's 4.05% of the balance of the loan, which is your APY.
Thus, this loan has a 3.99% interest rate, but a 4.05% APY.
In the United States, APY is legally defined as being the rate achieved when using daily compounding. In this case, that would give you an APY of 4.07%. So, where does the rest of that 4.22% come from?
What the radio ad isn't telling you is that in order to get that 3.99% interest rate, you'll have to pay some fees and possibly a discount point or two. These are up-front costs that add to the balance of the loan.
In this specific case, the fees and points will add enough to the balance of the loan to raise the APY from 4.07% to 4.22%. In other words, the total of the fees and points will be somewhere around $165 on a $100,000 loan, or about $817 on a $500,000 loan.
These fees will be rolled into the true APR that the lender has to give you (not that nominal rate given on the radio that doesn't include these fees), and it's that APR that you should be paying attention to if you're intending to live in the house for a long time.
Another point worth considering is the fact that banks are allowed to advertise interest rates as much as 0.125% lower than what they'll actually give you. In theory, this is done to allow for market fluctuation between the time you hear the ad and the time you sign on the dotted line, but lenders often push this so that they can advertise with seemingly incredible low rates.
What's the moral of the story? Two things.
First, shop around. Getting a mortgage is a major financial decision, one that will have an impact on you for a long time. You owe it to your finances to shop around.
Second, get the APR on paper. Remember that APR takes into account most loan costs (points, most loan fees, mortgage insurance), but doesn't account for some other charges, like application fees, title insurance, title examination, appraisals, document prep, and so on. You'll likely have to come up with some additional cash for those when you move forward with the loan.
No matter what, never take out a mortgage based on an advertisement. This is far too important of a decision to do it based on a radio ad. Spend the time doing your homework and shopping around first, even if your favorite radio host is recommending a particular product.


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Welcome to year seven of the annual "Prospects the UFC Should Sign" series, in which we'll examine five MMA prospects per division the UFC should sign this year.
This series started during my time as a writer for Bleacher Report, continued through my tenures at Today's Knockout and FanSided and now it stays alive this year at Combat Press.
Let's examine the flyweight division, a weight class that is caught in a stranglehold by longtime champion Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson. There is new, exciting talent being added the division, which could provide the UFC with great depth — and a potential successor to Johnson — in the future.
In picking these prospects, I'll try my hardest to stay away from fighters who are currently in top organizations, such as Bellator or the Professional Fighters League, but a couple may pop up. In the past, I've had some great picks on the list and some that haven't worked out. Below are the previous year's selections, followed by the five men the UFC should offer roster spots to this year.
2013: Sergio Pettis, Josh Sampo, Alptekin Ozkilic, Darrell Montague, Sean Santella*
2014: Henry Cejudo, Alexandre Pantoja, Pietro Menga*, Sean Santella*, Czar Sklavos
2015: Alexandre Pantoja, Hiromasa Ogikubo, Pietro Menga*, Nildo Nascimento, Allan Nascimento
2016: Hiromasa Ogikubo, Adam Antolin, Bruno Menezes*, Nick Urso, Rany Saadeh
2017: Jarred Brooks, Deiveson Alcantara, Bruno Menezes*, Askar Askarov, Yuki Motoya
Note: Bold denotes fighter was signed by UFC; * denotes fighter ineligible due to two years on list.
Askar Askarov (9-0, Russia)
Making his second appearance in two consecutive years, Askarov continues to be one of the best flyweights in the world outside of the UFC. The 25-year-old Russian has an impressive resume and the skill set to go along with it.
The Fighting Eagle product is undefeated thus far in his career, but it has not been because he's fighting cans. He's fought notable opponents and done away with them in dominant fashion. He's a dominating wrestler with a suffocating ground game, which is how he's able to score submissions and ground-and-pound stoppages. He's never been to a decision either, instead preferring to be an aggressive finisher.
Askarov only fought once in 2017, but it was an impressive third-round submission of respected veteran Anthony Leone. It should also be noted that Askarov has scored previous wins over UFC veteran Jose Maria Tome, Ukrainian vet Ruslan Abilitarov and former Polish prospect Marcin Lasota. That's a solid lineup of victims.
Askarov is the Absolute Berkut Championship flyweight titleholder. He's set for a title defense already in 2018 against fellow prospect Rasul Albaskhanov. If he can move to 10-0 with another finish against a quality opponent, it's going to be hard for the UFC to ignore a top fighter for a division that is in need of an injection of talent.
Sid Bice (8-1, United States)
The first of three American prospects in the flyweight list, Bice is quietly becoming a face to watch in the 125-pound class. The big-show veteran is getting better and better while taking on increasingly difficult competition.
A member of the underrated Factory X Muay Thai camp in Colorado, Bice uses the camp's style to a T. He's a technical striker with toughness who can grapple a bit as well. That said, he's known for most of his wins coming by way of decision, so he needs to be more assertive in becoming a finisher if he wants to catch the UFC's eye.
Bice went 3-0 in 2017, earning some impressive wins along the way. He opened up his campaign by tapping out Marc TongVan. He moved on to earn Legacy Fighting Alliance victories over Cody Land and Kenny Porter by decision. It should also be noted that he owns a 2014 decision victory over current UFC roster member Eric Shelton.
If Bice becomes more consistent in finishing fighters while continuing to take fights with big promotions like the LFA and Titan FC, he will do enough to catch the eyes of the UFC matchmakers.
Riley Dutro (11-3, United States)
Thanks to fighters like B.J. Penn and Max Holloway, Hawaii has really built a reputation as an island state that houses impressive talent, tough guys and great fighters. One of those guys is Dutro, a flyweight who has punched his way onto the radars of MMA scouts.
Dutro, who stands 5-foot-8, is a decently tall flyweight. He's an aggressive striker with good power for a 125-pounder. He's able to score stoppages with his hands. Dutro has not lost since 2013. He has been dominating in the Pacific regional scene.
After a busy 2016 in which he earned his biggest win to date over UFC veteran Darren Uyenoyama, Dutro slowed down in 2017 with just one fight. In that fight, Dutro needed just two rounds to put away Yusaku Nakamura with strikes. He will need more activity in 2018 if he wishes to get in good with the UFC brass.
Dutro is already scheduled to fight undefeated Japanese fighter Takumi Tamaru. Should Dutro score another impressive stoppage, especially via strikes, it would be curious if the UFC didn't go after him to help add depth to the flyweight division.
Jonathan Martinez (9-1, United States)
Every year, this list includes a dark-horse fighter that may not have a ton of name recognition or buzz from MMA scouts, but who could be better than he appears to be. This year, that man is 23-year-old Texan Jonathan Martinez, a ferocious finisher with an aggressive style.
Martinez is a striker who has scored most of his finishes via knockout. He does so with variety and technique. He owns finishes via knees, kicks and punches. However, his last two wins have come by way of submission. He's shown improvements and rounded off his game.
Martinez only competed once in 2017. Three of his fights ended up being canceled for one reason or another. His one appearance was a sub-minute submission win over Randy Hinds, who is a lower-level talent. This does not diminish the fact that it was an impressive finish. Martinez's only loss came by way of disqualification against UFC fighter Matt Schnell in a fight in which Martinez was holding his own.
He's still young and has more to prove, especially against higher levels of competition. If Martinez can get that experience and continue to be a destructive finisher, there's no reason the UFC shouldn't come calling for this exciting fighter.
Yoni Sherbatov (7-0-1, Russian-Canadian)
It's not often that this series will include guys who have already had a shot in the UFC, but Sherbatov was only part of one fight on The Ultimate Fighter. So, let's make a concession. Despite his failure on TUF, he's still a top flyweight prospect who should get another crack at the big show.
Sherbatov is a powerful striker with a boxing background. He can also tap out opponents on the mat. This well-rounded style has served him well. It's tough to game-plan for Sherbatov. Plus, he's a finisher, which makes him even more exciting to watch in the cage.
After failing on TUF in 2016, Sherbatov returned to the drawing board and came back strong in 2017 with two wins. He opened his campaign with a 44-second destruction of Martin Sandoval via strikes. He followed that up with an impressive decision victory over UFC and Bellator veteran Zach Makovsky.
As a TUF alum who has already dealt with the UFC matchmakers, Sherbatov has a good chance of returning to the promotion. It would be a shock if Sherbatov wasn't on the UFC roster by year's end.
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I would like to change the color of my arrow (Icon Button) after querying my firebase (likedby) array. Essentially my upvote / downvote system works by adding the user to a likedby/dislikedby array on the post and I want the arrow color to change if the users id is in the likedby or dislikedby arrays.
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10 Ways Nerds And Scientists Have Inspired Each Other
By MaxTop10 on January 22, 2019
There's no doubt about the connection between nerds and scientists. Often, the culture of one feeds the other. Perhaps it is because the phenomena of the natural and technological worlds become building blocks when creating fantastic fictional worlds.
However, it is not always the scientists who inspire nerd culture to provide the elements to create wonderful worlds of fantasy. Sometimes, the influence travels in the opposite direction and inspires scientists to examine fictional worlds to understand our own natural world.
Regardless of the direction from which ideas flow, an incredible symbiotic relationship exists between both spheres.
10 Moving Atoms
In September 1989, IBM physicist Don Eigler managed to arrange 35 Xenon atoms to spell out "IBM." This amazing feat was made possible by a scanning tunneling microscope. Single atoms are arranged by using a sharp tip to move over a surface and release attractive and repulsive forces to pick up and put down the atoms.
Since then, physicists have managed to write the word for "atom" in Japanese Kanji, create the world's smallest abacus, and leave notes for colleagues. The culmination of their work is depicted by manipulating atoms in the short film, "A Boy and His Atom," which is more science than fiction.
While the real-world application of building on such a small scale has not been fully realized, it is predicted that the discoveries made with this technology will assist in developing life-changing nanotechnology.[1]
9 Lucy
Perhaps one of the most iconic fossils in the world is that of Lucy the Australopithecus afarensis. Discovered in 1974 in Hadar, Ethiopia, by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray, Lucy is dated to have lived about 3.2 million years ago.
Her curved spine, bicondylar knees, and pelvic structure indicate that she was primarily bipedal. Thus, she was one of the oldest hominid ancestors at the time she was discovered.
What makes this discovery so nerdy, though?
After they initially found the remains, the team partied into the night. The popular Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" played throughout the night. Like all good stories, nobody knows exactly who decided to call her Lucy, but it was clear that the Beatles inspired the naming of one of the most famous human ancestors.[2]
Although it may seem like a stretch to consider it nerdy to name a fossil after a song by the biggest pop band in history, I would consider Beatlemania to be an offshoot of "nerd."
8 Sonic Hedgehog Gene
Scientists who discover genes are a little eccentric when it comes to naming them. The most popular may be the Sonic Hedgehog gene, which is responsible for many aspects of a human's early development. This includes signaling the split of the brain into a left and right side and the split of the eye field so that we develop two separate eyes.
Sonic Hedgehog got its name from two scientists. In the early 1990s, Christiane Nsslein-Volhard first discovered the gene when she deactivated it in fruit flies. This caused a mutation resulting in the growth of small denticles that resembled hedgehog quills. The gene was simply named Hedgehog.[3]
Three similar genes were later discovered. They were given the names Indian, Desert, and Sonic. While Indian and Desert are names of real species of hedgehog, Sonic came from researcher Robert Riddle. He was inspired by a promotional comic of Sonic the Hedgehog that his daughter had brought over from the UK before the video game was released.
Recently, some scientists have been trying to cut down on the silly names that researchers have been giving to genes. They want to be more professional when speaking to human patients. Although the gene in question is now officially known as SHH, most people still refer to it as Sonic Hedgehog.
7 William Gibson And The Internet
When we watch films or read books set in the future, we often laugh at how far off their vision can be. Take a look at Back to the Future's view of what 2015 would look like compared to what really happened during 2015. While predicting the future is often a crapshoot, many of the writings of William Gibson have been extremely accurate.
With his first novel, Neuromancer, written in the 1980s, Gibson was able to envision a world much like our current one in terms of the Internet and how computers have seeped into every aspect of our lives. Gibson is credited for creating the terms "cyberspace" and "computer virus" as well as inspiring the film series The Matrix.
Gibson downplayed many of his predictive abilities and insisted that his writings were focused on how people were living currently and following those trails to what they might evolve into. Despite his predictive powers and inspiration on the world of computer science, Gibson humorously points out that the major thing he never thought to include in his story was the prevalence of cell phones.[4]
6 Cthulhu
H.P. Lovecraft was unable to attend college and enter the scientific community due to a childhood illness. However, like the cult of the tentacled cosmic entity Cthulhu that was bent on destruction and chaos, scientists have been spreading the influence of Cthulhu throughout the scientific world and beyond.
First, a spider in the redwoods of California was given the name Pimoa cthulhu. While the spider doesn't exactly resemble the evil being, the discoverer G. Hormiga states that it was "named after H.P. Lovecraft's mythological deity Cthulhu, akin to the powers of chaos."
Additionally, microbes referred to as protists found in the guts of termites have been named Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque, an ode to the Great One and his secret daughter.[5]
These microbes have been described by the researchers as having up to 20 flagella (tentacles) that they use to locomote like an octopus. They are responsible for breaking down the wood that termites eat into a sugar that the creatures can digest.
Extending past our world and into the far reaches of space, a region on dwarf planet Pluto was named after Cthulhu. The region is one of the darkest features on the planet, and that includes places named after evil Lord of the Rings creatures and the Mayan god of death.
5 The Lord Of The Rings Inspires Everything
Speaking of evil creatures from The Lord of the Rings, it's time to talk about one of the most present forms of nerd culture in the scientific world. The Lord of the Rings is pervasive in almost every scientific discipline—from the taxonomy of creatures both extant and extinct to regions of planets and comets.
A software company named Palantir also works with the CIA and NSA. In case you're wondering, Palantir refers to Middle Earth's version of a crystal ball that allows the user to see anywhere in the world. Let that sink in.
Even more interesting, J.R.R. Tolkien's influence has extended beyond scientists paying homage by naming discoveries after things from Middle Earth to actual scientific research based on Tolkien's works. For instance, researchers have created climate models for Middle Earth and determined that the Shire, the home of the hobbits, is much like Lincolnshire or Leicestershire in the UK and that Mordor is similar to Los Angeles or West Texas.
Others have investigated the oxygen levels of Middle Earth to explore how men in that world could perform fantastic feats of athleticism, whether Frodo could survive a stabbing while wearing mithril armor, and the physical and mental disabilities of Gollum.[6]
While these articles are somewhat tongue-in-cheek, real science was conducted to investigate these aspects of the story. However, the question remains: Why do scientists strive so hard to come up with scientific reasoning for Tolkien's works?
It is because they are inspired by the depth that was put into these stories. Tolkien created languages, lineages, and geographies in his stories. That kind of attention to detail in world-building attracts and inspires scientific minds.
4 IBM Watson
IBM is known for creating interest in science and technology with their Grand Challenges. These challenges typically pit man versus machine in tests of intellectual prowess.
IBM previously had created Deep Blue, the computer responsible for defeating Grand Master Garry Kasparov at chess. Searching for their next Grand Challenge, IBM worker Charles Lickel looked to Ken Jennings's record 74 wins on the quiz show Jeopardy.
Originally considered to be "too gimmicky," the project developed from creating a system that could barely beat a five-year-old to winning against two of Jeopardy's legendary contestants in a three-day, head-to-head challenge.
Beyond simply answering questions, the system—named after the company's founder, Thomas J. Watson—had to overcome the challenge of formulating questions from clues given on the show. To a human, the concept seems fairly straightforward. But for a machine, this is a precise and nuanced difference.
To accomplish this, IBM developed software called DeepQA that analyzed what was being asked and the information it was being given. The system would create multiple threads with likely answers. Based on the likelihood of being right, Watson would give the answer.
For Jeopardy, over 200 million pages of information were generated that Watson would comb through for answers. Back in 2011, when Watson demolished the other contestants with a lead of more than $50,000, Watson was the size of the entire room.
Currently, Watson is used for information sectors and can fit in the vegetable crisper of a refrigerator. With the supercomputer's huge advancements in the past few decades and its proof of intellectual superiority, Ken Jennings said it best when he admitted, "I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords."[7]
3 Scientific Studies From Interstellar
Films often require suspension of disbelief to some degree. Whether it is adding dramatic flair, creating wholly fictional worlds, or slightly changing the physics of reality to make a more compelling story, filmmakers are known to bend the truth a bit.
So it should raise some interest when astrophysicists and other scientists credit a film with being an accurate representation of reality. This makes Christopher Nolan's movie Interstellar stand out among most other high-budget films.
To give the most accurate portrayal of black holes in real life, the special effects team Double Negative partnered with physicists such as Kip Thorne, who also participated in Carl Sagan's film Contact.
While the filmmakers have admitted that some true features one would see in a black hole were toned down to reduce confusion, the results seen in the film are the most accurate depiction and have led to some interesting discoveries about the behavior and morphology of black holes. By studying the code used to create the visual effects in the film, physicists have published scientific papers detailing the behaviors of black holes.[8]
2 James Cameron Reaching Deepest Point In Ocean
While Christopher Nolan's film took us through the unexplored reaches of the final frontier, the work of James Cameron has helped science explore the unseen depths of our own planet.
In March 2012, James Cameron, director of some of the most iconic films in history (Titanic, Avatar, The Terminator) partnered with scientists to complete a solo descent into the deepest portion of the Mariana Trench known as Challenger Deep.
This was the first time since the 1960s that anyone had descended to these depths and the first time that anyone had done it solo. The purpose of the mission was to explore the deep unknowns of the planet and to possibly bring back any life found for research purposes.
So, how did the famous filmmaker manage to become the first and only person to ever reach the deepest part of the Mariana Trench? Cameron answered, "I sort of joke about this, but it's more true than not that I made the movie because I wanted to do an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, and I did explore it."[9]
For Cameron, there is no separation between explorer and storyteller. His blockbuster films are the ways he tells his stories about the inspiring majesty of nature that he has explored.
1 Cost Of Death Stars Destroys Empire
In what may be one of the most thorough accounts of "they did the math," Zachary Feinstein took an in-depth look at the galactic economy and the potential catastrophe that destroying two death stars would have on the economy. Feinstein published his findings in 2015 in an article titled "It's a Trap: Emperor Palpatine's Poison Pill."
He determined that the destruction of both death stars in the original Star Wars trilogy would have tragic economic consequences if the Rebel Alliance was not prepared for any kind of buyout.
Based on previous research, the materials and development (in 2012) would have cost a grand total of at least $419 quintillion. Although that's a large number, Feinstein notes that the galactic economy surely is larger than our piddly US economy.
Then Feinstein goes on to develop a picture of how the galactic economy would have looked and the toll that destroying two death stars would have. The argument is that the empire would have taken out a government loan to build these hulking planet destroyers.[10]
With the death of Emperor Palpatine, the destruction of both death stars, and the dissolution of the empire, the borrower would default on the $419 quintillion loan (without anyone to pay for it) and throw the economy into a huge deficit unless the Rebel Alliance would have planned for such a circumstance.
But as Feinstein notes, the Rebel Alliance probably had no such plans. As best explained by one of their highest-ranking members, the rogue-like Han Solo: "Never tell me the odds."
+ The Time An Astronaut Called Into Car Talk
Car Talk was a radio show that aired between 1977 and 2012 and featured the Boston-accented brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi. The show consisted of the brothers taking calls from people around the country asking about their car troubles.
The simple concept of the show eventually became comedic as the brothers argued and laughed about the strange experiences people would have with their cars. Perhaps one of the strangest calls on the long-running show came from John in Houston in 1997.
The twice that I've driven this thing off the line, when I first start it up, it starts great. It starts really, really well, and it runs incredibly rough for the first two minutes. This is one of those puzzlers. After the first two minutes, after this really rough ride, there's kind of a jolt. And then it runs smooth for about six and a half minutes, and then at that point, the engine dies.[11]
The caller informed them that he was talking about a government vehicle. The brothers weren't easily fooled and soon found out that the caller was John Grunsfeld aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. "Not exactly our area of expertise," the brothers concluded.
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Hazard admits to piling on pounds over the summer
Real Madrid forward Eden Hazard has admitted to letting himself go while on holiday and piling on the pounds after signing for the Spanish giants in the close season last year.
"It's true, I cannot lie, if I'm on holiday, then I'm on holiday," Hazard told Belgian magazine Sport/Foot.
Perhaps set back by his extra weight, Hazard, 28, made a slow start to his Real career and did not score his first goal until a 4-2 win over Granada in October.
The Belgium international, who after years of flirtation finally signed for Real from Chelsea for a joint-club record €100m in June, raised eyebrows when he reported for pre-season training packing some extra weight.
"I put on five kilos in the summer.
In the summer I went up to 80 kilos but I lost it again 10 days later."
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1. These Guidelines, and the Application For Exemption From Ordinance No. 4358, contain the administrative procedures referred to in Paragraph 8 of the Ordinance.
2. These Guidelines and the Application may be amended by a vote of the MAC members.
3. Permits for Exemption to Ordinance No. 4358 are only required under Paragraphs 6 and 7 of the Ordinance.
4. Applications are available from the County Supervisor. At the request of an Oak Park resident, the County Supervisor will put consideration of the resident's Application on the agenda of a MAC meeting as an action item. The County Supervisor's office must have the completed Application in hand at least 72 hours before a MAC meeting for it to be included on the agenda.
Before voting on the Application or deciding to continue the item to the next monthly MAC meeting, the MAC members may discuss it with the applicant in order to help determine that the vehicle meets the requirements for exemption defined in Paragraphs 6 or 7. Members of the Oak Park community may also provide information to help MAC members in this process. It is useful if the applicant as well as community members who wish to give input are present at the MAC meeting, but this is not necessary for the MAC to vote on the Application. The purpose of discussion at the meeting is to assist the MAC members in weighing the accuracy of statements made in the Application. The MAC can only vote to deny an Application if the vehicle does not meet the requirements for exemption defined in Paragraphs 6 or 7.
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D-Link, makers of the Boxee Box have unveiled their latest product, a cheaper and more streamlined media player called the MovieNite Streaming Media Player DSM-310. The set-top box delivers instant access to an unlimited amount of streaming 1080p full HD movies and also TV shows, and Internet radio playable on any TV set at an affordable price.
D-Links MovieNite also offers a reasonable selection of home entertainment content available via one-click of the remote, including: VUDU, Netflix, YouTube, Picasa, and the Pandora music service, as well as the ability to view mydlink-enabled network cameras.
D-Link's MovieNite offers other streaming capabilities of which include the ability to use online photo sharing with the Picasa app. Also on offer is a free MovieNite app available that allows iPhone and Android users to control MovieNite using the smartphone app.
At around $60, the box is much cheaper than the $180 Boxee Box launched in 2010. The MovieNite makes D-Link more of a competitor to Apple TV, and even more the Roku media box.
MovieNite does lack some features of it's bigger brother. It lacks a full web browser, has less support for video and audio files and has less content. It is also equipped with the right connections if your using an older analogue TV!
The MovieNite retails for around $60 and is now available exclusively at Walmart stores across the US.