This is the second part of a series on health care refugees. Read the first part here.
(CNN) Rich and Kim Muszynski know when their 5-year-old daughter, Abby, is about to have a grand mal seizure because her pupils enlarge, and she'll seem to fixate at something in the distance that only she can see.
Then it starts. Abby's extremities shake. She gasps for air.
By the time she turned 3, Abby had tried about eight different anti-seizure medications. None of them worked very well. Panicked to see their daughter getting worse and worse, the Muszynskis drove three hours to Orlando to see Dr. Ngoc Minh Le, a board certified pediatric neurologist and epileptologist.
Le told them that chances of another anti-seizure drug working on Abby were tiny. He recommended medical marijuana. The timing was right: Just months before, Gov. Rick Scott had legalized the use of a type of non-euphoric cannabis called Charlotte's Web.
Charlotte's Web did help Abby, but not as much as it had helped Charlotte. She still was having about two grand mal seizures a week, each lasting about eight to 10 minutes.
Le explained to Kim and Rich that Charlotte's Web has only tiny amounts of THC, one of the psychoactive ingredients in marijuana. Medical marijuana with higher levels of THC was Abby's best hope, he told them.
But at this point, in 2015, high-THC marijuana wasn't legal in Florida for Abby. To get it, the Muszynskis would have to move, leaving behind their friends and family, including two older children.
Kim thought about Colorado, where Charlotte Figi lived. She'd checked with parents of disabled children there, and they told her the state had a fair and efficient Medicaid program.
Getting to Colorado would be a challenge: Abby's doctors said it wasn't safe for her to fly on a commercial plane or to take a long car ride across the country.
The Muszynskis began their final fight with Florida Medicaid — one that would leave Kim and Abby homeless for several days.
Kim says that in mid-August, she started talking to Medicaid officials about getting an air ambulance to Colorado. On September 19, Rich drove the family car out to Colorado. They planned for Kim to attend the closing on their house in Boynton Beach on September 23 and leave on the air ambulance with Abby that afternoon.
Kim had emailed and spoken with various Florida officials, and it seemed to her that everything was in order. "Please give a call today so we can finalize travel arrangements!" Mary Joyce, a senior registered nurse supervisor at Children's Medical Services at the Florida Department of Health, wrote in an email to Kim on September 20.
But then several days passed, and there was still no final approval for the transport.
Their house sold, Kim and Abby were homeless. They moved in with Kim's best friend and her husband. All of Abby's equipment, like her bed with guardrails, was with Rich on their way to Colorado. Kim slept with Abby on the floor.
Abby's cries at night kept Kim's friends awake. Kim wrote emails begging Florida officials for help. But for the first time, she added someone not previously included on the email: this CNN reporter.
Three days later, she learned that the transport had been approved.
"In this case relocation services are not covered by Medicaid, per federal Medicaid guidelines. However, thanks to Safety Net funds made available by Governor Scott and the Legislature, the state supported this family by covering the costs to provide relocation services via the air ambulance of the mother's choice. Working with the family, the state arranged transport as quickly as possible," wrote the spokeswoman, Mallory McManus.


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Holy Lance	 September 14, 2018 September 15, 2018
A Bag of Templar Items is Found with the Lance
The investigators continue to follow leads that might help them explain the mysterious items found at the excavation site. Along with the spear, they find a piece of burlap that perhaps was once a small bag to hold the remaining items – a nail, a ring, and a Templar coin.
The lead provenance investigator, Michael McKibben, asks the following questions to an Indonesian Christian Orthodox priest, Father Dan, in an email of August 26, 2018. He copies Douglas Gabriel:
I am looking for the earliest reference to the use of the holy spear at the table of oblation in the preparation of the host.
Fr. Dan: The use of the spear in the Prosthesis (liturgy of preparation of the sacraments). Our pattern to this very day is The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. St. John is from ANTIOCH
Many/most of the liturgical spears used in the Prosthesis are leaf shaped…. just like our spear.
St. John would most certainly have seen and venerated the spear.
"Golden-Mouthed" ("Chrysostom").
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom
b. c. 349 – d. 14 September 407
This also means that the use of the spear at Antioch in the preparation service was already occurring.
St. John Chrysostom liturgy
https://www.goarch.org/-/introduction-to-the-divine-liturgy
Douglas Gabriel responds, the same day, in another email:
Is it possible that Saint Peter used the true spearhead (without staff) as the tool to cut the bread in the services on the altar at St. Peter of Antioch? It would serve as a relic, the spear to cut the bread and "pierce" it, and the fan (as used in the Eastern orthodox churches). Perhaps the spearhead and the chalice (Leon or Valencia, later Antioch) were the tools of the early eucharist and thus became the two symbols of the grail that are used to create a communion that nourishes all present in the fashion that they need. The true holy grail.
McKibben replies:
I checked out three seminal histories of early Liturgies from our church library today to investigate further. So far, it appears that St John Chrysostom/Antioch or possibly St. Basil is the source.
McKibben shares these mining nuggets below with the research team:
https://www.goarch.org/-/the-office-of-oblation-proskomide-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Liturgy_of_Saint_Basil
https://orthodoxwiki.org/Spear
http://www.monachos.net/conversation/topic/847-the-byzantine-divine-liturgy-evolution-and-structure/
First Council in Nicaea 325 AD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
St. John Chrysostom (349-407)
Patriarch of Constantinople (397-407)
My theory appears to be confirmed by this statement. The spear may have entered to the liturgy of preparation in response to the Arian controversy that Christ was only a man, not an inseparable person of God in Holy Trinity.
Second Council of Nicea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea
Canon 7 commands that relics are to be placed in all churches: No church is to be consecrated without relics.
https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/church-teaching-on-relics.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic
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By Margarita Torres Sevilla, José Miguel Ortega del Rio
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"Reinvent yourself" is a modern mantra for countless Americans. So many Americans are creating the next chapters of their lives in or near retirement or beginning a new line of work or hobby. If we all write the story of our lives, then sometimes we have to turn a page. Jean Titus, 50, has experienced that in the last 10 years or so.
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Then he'd better improve his language. Seems to me there're others besides me who don't get him.
These are a few of Trump's least favorite things.
The only thing worse than a politician talking about himself in the third person is a politician thanking himself in the third person. CREEEEEEEEPEEEEEEEEEE.
Indeed. Fox News has betrayed mother Russia, its American whores, the Republican party and its christian faith, the buybull, jesus and conservatism by providing Bernie Sanders an opportunity. Fox News should be exclusively reserved for conservatives, christians and Republicans. I hope the conservatives in the administration are looking at revoking their broadcasting license and having them investigated for being traitors to the cause.
He's still around? Where is the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America in all of this? Those are 2 names I haven't heard in awhile.
It almost sounds like Trump expected Fox to rig the event and bring in anti-Bernie rapid Trump supporters just to make Bernie look bad.
Fox claims to have assembled a "diverse" audience.
I don't trust Fox as far as I can throw them.
Markos is still trying to get his political footing, but the damn ground keeps moving underneath his feet and he ends up in the mud again.
Like Don Quixote, only an abject coward too.
Awww, Twumpy haz a sad.
Trump can't even be original in his senility.
instead of worrying about how much brie and pinot grigio it could sell to donors from Manhatten and San Francisco.
I think this is true. That's why I love him as a VEEP for any of the Democratic women running. He's already debated the current VEEP - he seems to be the perfect person for the job.
Near retirees often count down the days till they can get on Medicare. All the "no socialized medicine" speech's the GOP gives can't make up for the fact that people like their private insurance up till they actually use it.
Black people in the south are not voting for Buttigieg.
Black churchgoers are notoriously homophobic.
Delusions of Grandeur. He also walks around applauding himself. He believes his office is a teevee show. He's insane.
Yes, there's some of that definitely. In addition, he has no connection with Black voters, South or North.
This, IMO, is what's going to put Biden over the top.
Now that Rupe has been pretty-well pensioned off, is it possible Faux sees Trumpfs limitations and is edging away?


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Rather than do lists, this is probably the way to go. The (console) video game of the year is clearly one of the Halo series. It's hard to remember, given the success of the Call of Duty franchise, as well as Valve console releases such as Team Fortress II or Left 4 Dead, but there was a time when first-person shooters were almost exclusively the province of PCs. The Halo franchise proved you could make an FPS for a console system. I picked Halo 2 since it helped usher in the era of online console play as well, which is the other real turning point in the decade of gaming.
A strong argument can be made that Guitar Hero or Wii Sports ought to be the game of the decade, since they both signficantly broadened the number of people who played video games.
Gotta mention WoW too -- 13 million monthly subscribers can only be so wrong/addicted...
Well I did say "console" ...
It's also still not clear to me whether or not WoW represents any innovation over Everquest...
Fair on that point.
I don't know that WoW represents "innovation" per se (though there's never been an MMO endgame nearly as sophisticated before) as much as the refinement of the genre. It has at least some new concepts and has way more staying power.


At a friend's house recently, shooting promo photos for a tool that he distributes, I ran across this carved hawk, called otaka poppo, part of an ancient craft from the Yamagata prefecture in Japan. Like lots of woodworkers, my friend is curious about just about everything. He flies planes, fishes for salmon, and rides his bike on weeklong trips. As the traveled the world on business, he collected handcrafts wherever he went, and these amazing carvings are just treasure he brought back.
One of the many things I love about Japanese culture is how far back the handwork traditions go, from sushi to woodworking blades to temple-building, and how alive they still are today, in their original form.
Otaka poppo means hawk toy. A quick web search revealed that the lord of the town of Yonezawa had these made by local farmers when they were stuck indoors during the winter, and they soon became a source of income. Today these figures are the most popular souvenir of the region.
The same technique used to make the hawk is also used to make chickens and other figurines, as seen here. Each one is amazingly carved with a single blade from a single branch of wood. The beautiful Japanese burst characters give the name of the craftsman and the amount of experience he or she has. Experience is respected.
What I love about this craft is the obvious skill and precision that only comes from hundreds of hours of practice. It reminds me of the figures I saw people in West Africa carve, when I was in the Peace Corps. They worked on the ground, using rudimentary tools with amazing skill.


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Forecasted Unemployment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
44 Pages Posted: 8 Apr 2022 Last revised: 2 Nov 2022
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Baris Ince
Date Written: March 3, 2022
This paper provides evidence to the importance of revisions in expected unemployment rate in the cross-sectional pricing of individual stocks. We introduce a measure of unemployment beta which quantifies monthly-varying stock sensitivity to the innovations in forecasted unemployment rate. Stocks in the lowest unemployment beta decile generate 7% more annualized risk-adjusted return compared to stocks in the highest unemployment beta decile. The unemployment premium is higher during low economic activity, high economic uncertainty, and high unemployment periods. The premium is robust to various regression specifications which account for various risk factors, and macroeconomic and financial variables. Finally, (labor) operating leverage is an important factor in the cross-sectional pricing of unemployment beta.
Keywords: Unemployment, revisions in expected unemployment rate, return predictability, operating leverage
JEL Classification: G11, G12, E24, E44.
Ince, Baris, Forecasted Unemployment and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns (March 3, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4048669 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4048669
Baris Ince (Contact Author)
University College Dublin ( email )


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Q: How to properly construct prolog parser? I'm writing a parser in prolog and getting the following error:
procedure `copula_verb(A)' does not exist
Reachable from:
      proper_noun(A,B)
      np(A,B)
My query is ?-np([the,cat],X).
Here is my code:

np([Word],X) :- proper_noun(Word,X).
np([Word|Rest],X) :- article(Word), np2(Rest,X).

np2([Word|Rest],X) :- common_noun(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).
np2([Word|Rest],X) :- adjective(Word,X), np2(Rest,X).

mods([],_).
mods(Words,X) :-
    append(Start,End,Words),
    pp(Start,X),
    mods(End,X).

pp([Word|Rest],X) :- preposition(Word,X,Y), np(Rest,Y).

sentence(Start, End) :- np(Start, Rest), vp(Rest, End).
vp([Word|Rest],X) :- copula_verb(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).
vp([Word|Rest],X) :- transitive_verb(Word,Y,X), np(Y), mods(Rest,X).
vp([Word|Rest],X):- intransitive_verb(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).

%  LEXICON

article(a). article(the).

preposition(in,X,Y) :- in(X,Y).
preposition(beside,X,Y) :- beside(X,Y).
preposition(with,X,Y) :- in(Y,X).
preposition(with,X,Y) :- beside(Y,X).

proper_noun(X,X) :- \+ article(X), \+ adjective(X,_),
    \+ common_noun(X,_), \+ preposition(X,_,_), \+ copula_verb(X),
    \+ transitive_verb(X,_,_), \+ intransitive_verb(X,_).

common_noun(cat,X) :- cat(X).
common_noun(box,X) :- box(X).
common_noun(basket,X) :- basket(X).
common_noun(poptart,X) :- poptart(X).

intransitive_verb(purrs,X) :- purrs(X).
intransitive_verb(sleeps,X) :- sleeps(X).

transitive_verb(chases,X,Y) :- chases(X,Y).

copula_verb(is,X,Y) :- is(X,Y).

adjective(sad,X) :- sad(X).
adjective(gray,X) :- gray(X).
adjective(white,X) :- white(X).

% WORLD MODEL

cat(Maru). cat(Grumpycat). cat(Henri). cat(Nala). cat(Pusheen). cat(Shironeko).
poptart(Nyancat).
box(box1). box(box2).
basket(Basket1).
in(Maru, box1). in(Henri, box2). in(Shironeko, basket1).
purrs(Maru).
sleeps(Shironeko).
chases(Nyancat,Nala).
beside(Grumpycat,Maru).
beside(box2, basket1).
beside(X,Z) :- in(X,Y), beside(Y,Z).
sad(Grumpycat). sad(Henri).
startled(Nala).
gray(Pusheen). white(Shironeko).

Could someone please explain how to get rid of the error?  I'm not sure how to properly structure a copula verb.

A: This answer is late by 10 months, but may help beginners in the future.
You have defined copula_verb/3 (with 3 arguments), but calling copula_verb/1 and copula_verb/2. So there is code missing (such as is/2).
In addition, under "world model", you define many facts using variables with capitals (e.g. cat(Maru).) This is wrong, since such variables are logically undefined in standard Prolog syntax.
I made some modifications and the answer to ?-np([the,cat],X). is

X = maru ; X = grumpycat ; X = henri ; X = nala ; X = pusheen ; X = shironeko ;

Is this what you are looking for?
np([Word],X) :- proper_noun(Word,X).
np([Word|Rest],X) :- article(Word), np2(Rest,X).

np2([Word|Rest],X) :- common_noun(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).
np2([Word|Rest],X) :- adjective(Word,X), np2(Rest,X).

mods([],_).
mods(Words,X) :-
    append(Start,End,Words),
    pp(Start,X),
    mods(End,X).

pp([Word|Rest],X) :- preposition(Word,X,Y), np(Rest,Y).

sentence(Start, End) :- np(Start, Rest), vp(Rest, End).
vp([Word|Rest],X) :- copula_verb(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).
vp([Word|Rest],X) :- transitive_verb(Word,Y,X), np(Y), mods(Rest,X).
vp([Word|Rest],X):- intransitive_verb(Word,X), mods(Rest,X).

%  LEXICON
article(a). article(the).

preposition(in,X,Y) :- in(X,Y).
preposition(beside,X,Y) :- beside(X,Y).
preposition(with,X,Y) :- in(Y,X).
preposition(with,X,Y) :- beside(Y,X).

proper_noun(X,X) :- \+ article(X), \+ adjective(X,_),
    \+ common_noun(X,_), \+ preposition(X,_,_), \+ copula_verb(X),
    \+ transitive_verb(X,_,_), \+ intransitive_verb(X,_).

common_noun(cat,X) :- cat(X).
common_noun(box,X) :- box(X).
common_noun(basket,X) :- basket(X).
common_noun(poptart,X) :- poptart(X).

intransitive_verb(purrs,X) :- purrs(X).
intransitive_verb(sleeps,X) :- sleeps(X).

transitive_verb(chases,X,Y) :- chases(X,Y).

copula_verb(is).

adjective(sad,X) :- sad(X).
adjective(gray,X) :- gray(X).
adjective(white,X) :- white(X).

% WORLD MODEL

cat(maru). cat(grumpycat). cat(henri). cat(nala). cat(pusheen). cat(shironeko).
poptart(nyancat).
box(box1). box(box2).
basket(basket1).
in(maru, box1). in(henri, box2). in(dhironeko, basket1).
purrs(maru).
sleeps(shironeko).
chases(nyancat, nala).
beside(grumpycat, maru).
beside(box2, basket1).
beside(X,Z) :- in(X,Y), beside(Y,Z).
sad(grumpycat). sad(henri).
startled(nala).
gray(pusheen). white(shironeko).

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"Have all of you finished it?" The fully refreshed disciple asked as he looked upon the group of wretched and exhausted youth, as an evil smile appeared on his lips.
The youths lowered their heads, unable to make a sound.
"What a bunch of losers! Since you can't even complete such a simple task, you can forget about breakfast! Now, go and get the water from the urns and water the herb beds!" Without allowing the ravaged youths any chance to rest, more torment was being heaped upon them.
Howls of protests sounded from those youths then.
"Senior, we are dying from exhaustion, and did not sleep a wink last night….. Can we sleep just a little before we go?" A braver youth among them pleaded for them.
The next moment, as soon as those words had left his mouth, the Hidden Cloud Peak disciple rushed at him and kicked him hard in the stomach, making the weakened youth double over and fell onto the floor, howling in pain.
"What a lazy bunch! These rules in the Hidden Cloud Peak are meant to be followed once you are admitted! Anyone who refuses to follow them can pack up and leave!" The Hidden Cloud Peak disciple looked at every single one of them in disdain and gave a cold laugh, the cruel look in his eyes did not even see those new recruits as humans anymore.
Under threat and fear….. made these totally exhausted youths huddle together, unable to argue further. They dragged themselves to their feet and straggled outside.
The Hidden Cloud Peak did not allow any outsiders to enter, and hence, no one knew what went on behind their firmly closed doors.
There was no one to come save these sacrificial lambs about to be sent to slaughter.
"Say, if these guys knew they would be tortured to death by the Hidden Cloud Peak, would they still cling on so desperately to be admitted into the Hidden Cloud Peak?" Qiao Chu walked slowly out of the quarters and looked at the figures before him walking unsteadily, his eyes inquisitive.
Ke Cang Ju was a bad egg, but these scoundrels were no angels as well. When they had just come to the Hidden Cloud Peak, they had sneered and jeered at him and Jun Wu Xie. He doubted they had the energy to do that anymore.
Jun Wu Xie did not say anything. She lowered her eyes and looked at the ground before her feet.
A place like this, totally disgusted her every moment she was here.
And since it disgusted her that much, she would totally wipe the place out!
Qiao Chu waited for Jun Wu Xie to reply but she did not say a word. He then turned his head and suddenly saw that Jun Wu Xie's pink cheeks had lost all colour, and her lips were deathly white!
"Jun Xie! You….." Qiao Chu had just opened his mouth to speak when he suddenly felt the world spin around him. Before he could react, he involuntarily feel flat on his face onto the ground.
Two loud thuds alerted the youths who were walking before them. They turned their heads to see and found that the trailing pair of Qiao Chu and Jun Wu Xie had fainted, as they lay flat on the ground. They had shown no prior signs of fatigue but their faces were now deathly pale and the dry cracked lips were white!
"H….. help! Some people fainted!" Shouts erupted from the group of youths.
The Hidden Cloud Peak disciples were drawn to the noise and they immediately spotted Jun Wu Xie and Qiao Chu lying at the side of the path the moment they stepped out.
For just a brief moment, a flash of malicious glee flashed within the eyes of the disciples of the Hidden Cloud Peak, but it disappeared very soon after.
They b.u.mbling group of youths looked with uncertainty at what was happening here. According to the senior Hidden Cloud Peak disciples, they would be sent to Elder Ke for treatment, and they were suddenly comforted by the fact that the Elder of the Hidden Cloud Peak took a personal interest in the well being of their disciples…..
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Repeated instances of flagrant injustice within our borders have galvanized a new civil rights movement here—and around the world. Here, some of the women leading the fight.
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Trump's Mistake: 9 Counties Running Out of Water
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Earlier this month, California lifted some — but not all — of its statewide restrictions on urban water use. That was not sufficient to satisfy the Republican Party's putative nominee for president, Donald Trump, who declared Friday in Fresno that "there is no drought." Who knew?
Unlike several past winters, this last one was relatively wet, relieving drought conditions in the northern part of the state and allowing the state to lift some of water restrictions. Conditions in much of the southern part of the state, however, remain unimproved. Southern California did not benefit from the wet weather, and some major counties have now been in a state of exceptional drought — the worst level classified by the United States Department of Agriculture — since early 2014.
Currently nine counties have at least 60% of their total area in exceptional drought conditions. During periods of exceptional drought, losses of crop or pasture as well as water shortages and restrictions are widespread.
In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Brad Rippey, agricultural meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, explained that the California winter was indeed a boon for the northern part of the state. "Now, you go to the southern end of the state and it's like a whole different world. They did not get any sustained precipitation there, and so roughly from the San Joaquin Valley southward there are still major issues in California with reservoirs and rivers."
As the hottest, driest months approach, Southern California braces for further worsening of already historically poor conditions. Most of these counties have been in a state of exceptional drought for almost 30 straight months. The prolonged drought has dried the lakes and wells around the state, and municipal water reservoirs are at just a fraction of their capacity.
Several of these counties are located in California's San Joaquin Valley, which is one of the world's most productive agricultural regions, and these county economies disproportionately rely on farming. While just 2% of the nation's workforce is employed in agriculture, at least 10% of the workforce is employed in agriculture in four of these counties.
Due to the months-long drought, farmers have been forced to allow hundreds of thousands of acres to lie fallow and focus their limited water supplies on a smaller number of crops. The total reduction in crop output in the state is estimated to have reduced California's agricultural production by some $1.84 billion in 2015 alone.
Another potential problem for residents of these counties is the increased risk of wildfires. The drought has killed many trees, effectively creating kindling for the upcoming wildfire season. "In Southern California, we've got the issue of dead and dying trees, millions of them, and that may be manifested in the form of wildfires not just this year but for years to come," Rippey said.
Conditions may not get better for these counties any time soon. California summers are typically dry and warm, and meteorologists are projecting a 70% chance of La Nina conditions this fall, which means dry conditions are likely to extend even beyond the summer.
24/7 Wall St. identified the driest counties in California based on the most recent drought levels estimated by the United States Department of Agriculture as of the week ended May 17 from the U.S. Drought Monitor. 24/7 Wall St. identified the nine counties with the most widespread exceptional drought conditions.
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Doraemon Story of Seasons Impression
by Sam Wachter · Published December 20, 2019 · Updated December 20, 2019
Even though this spin-off doesn't offer a lot of differences from the standard Story of Seasons formula, it is a solid entry into the franchise and worth checking out if you fancy a more leisurely paced game.
Whether you are familiar with him or not, Doraemon is a staple of Japanese culture, having existed since 1969. This robot cat with many gadgets has stolen the hearts of children and adults alike for over fifty years. Doraemon hasn't really had any success in North America until the release Doraemon Story of Seasons back in October. I've put roughly forty-five hours into the game so far, and while it's charming, it suffers from the usual issues that Story of Seasons-style games often have.
The story begins with friends Noby, Sneech, Big G, Sue, and Doraemon planting mysterious seeds. Upon planting the seeds, Doraemon and friends find themselves transported to the world of Natura. Arriving in this land, where a mystical tree resides, Doraemon realizes that many of his trademark gadgets have gone missing. While looking for Doraemon's gadgets, Noby and friends decide to help the residents of Natura out by assisting them in their day-to-day lives. Taking on the role of Noby, players are primarily given the role of revitalizing the town's local farm.
If you've played a Story of Seasons game, then you'll likely be familiar with the formula of growing crops, animal husbandry, fishing, mining, and bug catching. Every day when Noby wakes up, players have free reign with how they wish to spend their time. With a set amount of stamina that must be monitored, Noby is able to rotate through a variety of activities, and when it runs out, he winds up in the local doctor's office, having lost a day of progress. Noby is also expected to engage with the townsfolk, providing gifts and participating in local festivals.
Gotta plant all the turnips!
That's where things get a bit challenging as Doraemon Story of Seasons is not the best at directing it's players through the game's story. The game wants players to move at a leisurely pace, but what is challenging is that it's hard to uncover how to move story events along. While each towns person has a corresponding heart level, it's not always obvious how to find story events or complete tasks as there's often little information to go on. This is why it's taken me forty-five hours, and I still feel like I haven't gotten a good grasp on finding all of Doraemon's gadgets or how to push the story forward.
On the other hand, I will say that it's an enjoyable game to play. There's something very kind and gentle about Doraemon Story of Seasons's presentation and localization. The latter in particular is fantastic, chock full of great humour and silly puns, and it does a great job of emphasizing what it means and how it feels to help others. There aren't a lot of games out there that focus on kindness or friendship the way that Doraemon does, and the game succeeds not only in its ability to provide a zen-like experience for the player, but also in its worldbuilding. There are some notable differences between Doraemon and Story of Seasons, the main one being that there is no marriage element in the game. Noby and friends are just too young to be gettin' hitched.
Fall is the most beautiful season of them all.
The game looks absolutely stunning on the Switch. There is a softness throughout in its choice of colour palette, especially in the designs of East and West Natura. It's beautiful to watch the way in which the seasons change in this game, as it's often a calming experience. The music is soft, serene, and fits the tone of the game quite naturally.
While the story of getting home in Doraemon Story of Seasons is ostensibly stressful, the game is anything but. While I wish I had a full review to share with everyone, the reality is that this is a game where it is a long and ongoing process. It's been such a relaxing game to play when dealing with the stresses of everyday life, and I think it has a lot to offer to any RPGamer looking to play something of a much slower pace. Although I have had moments of frustration in trying to advance the story, those moments are minimized when I find myself getting sucked into the routine of Noby's day-to-day. Even though this spin-off doesn't offer a lot of differences from the standard Story of Seasons formula, it is a solid entry into the franchise and worth checking out if you fancy a more leisurely paced game.
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Accidental Hypnosis: Can It Happen To You?
You are more powerful than you give yourself credit for. Honestly. When you say things off-the-cuff, you are rarely aware of the impact of those words and thoughts.
That's dangerous. And, yes, I do mean the casual statements you make to friends, to your kids, and most of all, to yourself.
You are the one person you are always around, the one you can't escape, who hears everything you say, both aloud and within the confines of your mind. While others can takea break from you, you are uniquely barraged by the thoughts you drum into your mind.
Some people call that kind of conversation self-talk. I call it unintentional self-hypnosis.
Please hear me out: unintentional self-hypnosis isn't always bad. Sometimes it's wonderful - if you talk to yourself nicely, encouragingly, about things you want and how you will move toward them.
But how many of us have truly empowering conversations in the privacy of our own minds, where no one is watching or hearing, except, unfortunately, our deepest selves. Yes, our childlike, subconscious selves who trust too much, open too wide, and take in everything without discriminating between the useful and the damaging.
That receptive, undiscriminating self is the one you are talking to when you mentally blurt out: "You idiot! That was the stupidest thing you ever did! You are going to get fired for sure!"
Now that I've described self-talk as a kind of self-hypnosis, albeit unintended, I need to tell you what is generally thought to make hypnosis stick and create change.
These are principles I usually teach clients for the purpose of creating empowering hypnotic suggestions that cause positive, helpful, constructive change. The stuff we are aiming for.
But the same principles apply to negative, damaging change. Ouch.
1 - Are specific and stated in present tense.
A positive, useful suggestion might be: I am an intelligent person who learns easily.
Both are specific and stated in the present tense, but one is helpful and the other damaging.
I weigh 125 pounds or less by October 1st.
I am mastering Power Point.
What they don't want - what they choose to get f-a-a-a-r away from is undesired, feared, even dreaded. Yet it, too, is repeated ad-nauseum, thoughtlessly: I'll get fired next week. I have a fatal disease. I'll be chosen last for the team.
Are you noticing the structure is the same on both positive and negative suggestions?
That's right: Negative suggestions can go to work on you the way positive ones do, and because people give negative suggestions to themselves regularly and repeatedly, they can be quite effective. Negatively and dangerously effective, I mean.
One more caveat. When teaching clients how to empower a positive, desired suggestion, I often ask them to imagine it being true as they speak the words. They are asked to SEE it as real (picture yourself slim, trim, and with great stamina).
And FEEL it concretely (feeling the new slenderness of your leaner waist, sensing the new lightness in your step).
The bad news is that when people give themselves negative, damaging suggestions and reinforce them regularly, they thoughtlessly use the same method: In their mind they SEE themselves getting fired by their boss, HEAR snickers about their new outfit, and FEEL the shame as they pass others in the hallway.
What to do? Since the mechanisms are identical in both positive and negative reinforcement, make the choice to use positive reinforcement on yourself from now on.
That's right, make up your mind and switch from the negative, self-berating team to the affirmative, continuously-improving, moving-toward-a-better-future, positive team.
Be thoughtful in the words you speak to yourself and the images you project on the movie screen of your mind. Instead of reminding yourself what you don't want to be, do, or have - remind yourself what you are intentionally choosing. Both tasks take the same time and energy.
The only difference is getting what you want or creating what you least desire.
©2008 by Wendy Lapidus-Saltz. All rights reserved.


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A company can sit u as long as they want to based on the shipper and consignee on the load u were assigned to from where dates and times were changed. Or of let u sit until 34 hour reset is done from not enough hours.
Or they can sit u for however long for of refuse a load or something else u did wrong. Sum even sit a driver until fie them and give truck to another driver/new hired driver.


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LEPTOTRYHII of i Greek (leptos thin, thrix, trichos of hair) — bacteria of the sort Leptotrichia this. Bacteroi-daceae.
For the first time the generic name of Leptotrichia was used in 1879 by Trevisan for the description of the filamentous bacteriums living in an oral cavity of the person. L. — a limit vitel of normal microflora of an oral cavity of the person, are one of the assotsiant creating tooth plaques, belong to a conditional latogenn ym to microorganisms (see Uyel about in and about - Aage's stalemate and N ye m and kr about y).
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names — Leptothrix buccalis, Fuso-bacterium plauti-vincenti, Fusobacte-rhrni fiisHorme).
L. — thickened in the center, with one or two pointed ends gramotrizdatelny sticks 1 — 1,5 micron thick and 5 — 15 microns long, are often located couples, concerning each other the ends. The dispute is not formed. Cells in young cultures can be gram-positive, in old — to form the long intertwining threads with the gram-positive granules which are evenly located along an axis of threads. L. are strict anaerobes, with the content of carbon dioxide (5 — 10%) on an agar for brucellas or an agar with infusion of heart and blood well grow In anaerobic conditions and create convex, smooth, shining with rough edges («the head of a jellyfish») of colony to dia.
0,5 — 1.5 mm. After a long incubation the surface of colonies becomes gyrose and reminds a surface of cerebral hemispheres. At repeated resowings nek-ry strains gain ability to grow in conditions with the lowered oxygen content. On fluid mediums usually form a serovatobely flocculent deposit. L. ferment glucose with formation of a large number milk to - you that distinguishes them from bacteria of the sort Bacteroides and the sort Fusobacterium. An optimum of growth at t ° 37 °.
The morphology of cells of L. buccalis is similar to morphology of Fusobacterium nucleatum — the activator of ulcer and necrotic processes of an oral cavity (see Quinsy, the Spindle-shaped bacterium, Fuzobakteriya) that complicated their classification. L. buccal is unlike F. nucleatum do not form an indole, hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and carbon dioxide gas, ferment a maltose, sucrose, mannose, trehalose and salicin and especially actively glucose and fructose, hydrolyze esculin, do not reduce nitrates, have no putrefactive smell. L. buccalis is formed specific lipopolisakharid, having
properties of endotoxin. In blood serum of most of people the caption of the IgM-antibodies reacting with it lipopolisakharidy is quite high.
L. buccalis in association with other opportunistic microorganisms was allocated from contents of abscess of a jaw and piogenic granulomas; short-term bacteremia was observed after extraction of tooth. The case of development of pneumonia and sepsis, caused by L. buccalis in the patient who had a lymphoblastoid leukosis that led to a lethal outcome is known. L. buccalis. having high sakharoli-tichesky activity, perhaps, play a role in development of caries of teeth.
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Microbes of the Bacteroidaceae family in pathology of the person and animals. Zhurn. mikr., epid. and immun., No. 10, page 14, 1979, bibliogr.; Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology, ed. by R. E. Buchanan a. N. E. Gibbons, p. 416, Baltimore, 1974; F i n e g about 1 d S.
M. Anserobic bacteria in human disease, N. Y., 1977; G u s t a f-s o n R. L. a. o. The biological activity of leptotrichia buccalis endotoxin, Arch, oral. Biol., v. 11, p. 1149, 1966;
M a-shimo P. A., Gen with o R. J. a. Ellison S. A. Antibodies reactive with Leptotrichia buccalis in human serum from infancy to adulthood, ibid., v. 21, p. 277, 1976; Morgen stein A. A. a. o. Serious infection with Leptotrichia buccalis, Amer. J. Med., v. 69, p.
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Illinois Trails & Traces
Portraits and Stories along the State's Historic Routes
Text by Gary Marx and photographs by Daniel Overturf, with a foreword by Dick Durbin
Paperback (Other formats: E-book)
294 pages, 10.75 x 8.25, 113 illustrations
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Exploring Illinois history through the paths we travel
Illinois Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state.
Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we've all been traveling the same road all along.
Gary Marx is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Kansas City Star and numerous other publications. Daniel Overturf, an exhibiting photographer and professor emeritus of photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has coauthored Artificial Lighting for Photography (2009) with Joy McKenzie. Together Marx and Overturf are the authors of A River Through Illinois (2007).
"This remarkable new release straddles the line between a travel documentary and a collection of truly inspirational portraits. Along with the scenic images you'd expect, Illinois Trails & Traces also incorporates the narrative potential of the environmental portrait. . .[This book] celebrates a foundational American experience—the mystique of the road, the wanderers and free spirits among us, and winding stretches of hard dirt and asphalt."—Rangefinder
"When we think of the Illinois landscape, we may primarily think of the things made by modern people—shopping malls, skyscrapers, highways, and cornfields. But in a lyrical combination of archeological and historical research, personal stories, and startling photographs, Gary Marx and Daniel Overturf remind us that the territory of Illinois long predates the coming of white settlers. They reveal how today's roads and railbeds were once buffalo traces and Native American trading routes, and tell a deep, layered, and uncommon history of the prairie state."—Mary Wisniewski, author of Algren: A Life
"Daniel Overturf doesn't glorify his subjects; he appreciates them; warmly, respectfully introducing you to them while literally presenting them in their best light. Then you read Gary Marx's thoroughly engaging historical narrative, and the dance begins—you bounce back and forth between the words and the pictures, again and again. Their combination brings the past alive. This book is a treasure to be passed on to future generations."—Gregory Heisler, author of Gregory Heisler: 50 Portraits
"Illinois Trails & Traces, along with the state highway map, is the Illinois traveler's best companion for exploring the nooks and crannies; the sheltering rocks, moraines, and river valleys; the forgotten ferries, winked-out towns, and lost highways of the Prairie State. If you go anywhere in Illinois, you have to start here."—William Furry, Executive Director, Illinois State Historical Society
"Illinois Trails & Traces takes readers on an enjoyable ramble through Illinois history via the state's backroads and byways. From prehistoric buffalo traces to Abraham Lincoln's circuit-riding to Route 66, Illinois has long been a state in motion. This book tells the story of how those roads made the Prairie State. The portraits tell the story of unheralded residents who preserve the state's history and make Illinois such a memorable place."—Jeffrey T. Manuel, author of Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522
"Gary Marx and Daniel Overturf seem destined to be a team. Marx's prose is clean and evocative, and Overturf is a master at capturing the blended textures of a place where the hardscape of civilization—a bridge, a roadside shanty, a sawmill—touches the green fringe of rural Illinois. Perhaps more important, Overturf is a virtuoso of the environmental portrait, which he uses with surgical skill throughout the book. His story-telling images of the people who live and work along these meandering roads and watercourses, add humanity and depth. Illinois Trails & Traces was made to be on your coffee table or at your bedside."—Jim Cornfield, author of Environmental Portraiture: A Complete Guide to the Portrait Photographer's Most Powerful Imaging Tool
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Game Drives, Hot Air Balloon.
The Serengeti National Park is a Tanzanian National Park in the Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions It is is famous for its annual migration of over 1.5 million white bearded (or brindled) Wildebeest hooves pound its endless plain and 250,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing and renowned for its wealth of leopard , lions, African wild cats and for its numerous Nile crocodile. Not only is it Tanzania's oldest and popular national park but the mighty Serengeti is one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in the world. This park has been declared a World Heritage Site.
The vast reaches of the park are a hiding place for the endangered black rhino and provide a protected breeding ground for the vulnerable cheetah, alongside the Serengeti's thousands of other diverse species, from the 500 varieties of bird to 100 different types of dung beetle. Serengeti offers sensational game viewing in Africa with great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of African elephant and giraffe, and thousands and thousands of eland, topi, kongoni,impala, and Grant's gazelle. Overall Serengeti has about 35 species of plains animal including big five and has 500-plus bird species ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo hills.
After the rains, the Serengeti's magical golden horizon is transformed into an endless green carpet, flecked with wildflowers. The famous plains are interspersed with wooded hills, towering termite mounds, monumental rocky kopjes and rivers with elegant acacia trees.
Amazing Wildebeest Migration :Witness the amazing wildebeest migration which is one of the most amazing wildlife events. The wildebeest migration is a circular journey which happens through the whole year. Prepare yourself for majestic Serengeti Wildebeest Migration.
The Climate change sometimes affects the Wildebeest Migration pattern, travellers need to contact Restoration Safaris so that we can plan the safari itinerary which would be good for the Great Wildebeest Migration Safari.
Visit Southern Serengeti -Ndutu in late November, December to March. The short grass plains here are rich in nutrition which provides the herds with the best conditions to raise their newborn. During calving season in February approximately 550,000 Wildebeest are born. The concentrated herds attract around the good numbers of predators. It is a great time for photography.
Around June the wildebeest migration is in Western corridor - Grumeti River, often building up to a high density before crossing the river.
In July and August the wildebeest migration moves northwards, often spreading out across a broad front, some heading through the heart of the Serengeti National park.
In September , October the wildebeest migration spread out across northern Serengeti, where Mara River. It is common to see the herds cross the Mara River on one day, and then back south a few days later.
Serengeti National Park and especially Lake Ndutu is a paradise for both birds and bird-watchers. The national park is inhabited by over 500 bird species such as Ostriches, Secretary birds on the grasslands, the Black Eagles above the Lobo hills, larks, Kori bustard, fiches, raptor and African harrier hawk.The park is also the homeland of the amazing Lilac-breasted roller and the 3 endangered Tanzanian species: Grey-rumped spur fowl, Fischer's lovebird and the babbler-like Rufous-tailed weaver.
The Serengeti is also inhabited by a very special bird worth looking for the honey guide also known as the indicator bird.The Greater honey guide know sites of many bee hives in their territory, with symbiotic relationship with Honey badger, as the honey guide deliberately leads the honey badger immune to bee stings directly to bee hives. Honey badger pull down the bee hives and open them to eat the honey,so that the honey guide can feast on the grubs and beeswax that are left behind.


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