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The Chilcot Report Fails to Speak Plain Truth: Bush Lied, So Did Blair
Calvin F. Exoo,
The newly released Chilcot Report on Iraq is British understatement, to a fault. In fact, it is understated so far as to miss the plain truth of the matter. Saying only that extremely questionable intelligence "was not challenged [by the Bush and Blair regimes] and it should have been" is failing to say plainly what the evidence so clearly shows: George W. Bush lied; so did Tony Blair.
To demonstrate that, let's try a simple exercise: let's compare what White House officials said about Iraq in the run-up to war with what they knew at the time — or at the very least, should have known, because the intelligence was available to them.
What they said: "We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we've gotten this from the testimony of defectors — including Saddam's own son-in law" (in the words of Dick Cheney).
What they knew: Testimony obtained by reporters in 2003 showed that Saddam's son-in law told UN weapons inspectors that "all weapons — biological, chemical, missile, nuclear — were destroyed." In other words, he said the opposite of what Cheney claimed he said.
What they said: Saddam Hussein is "aggressively seeking nuclear weapons" (Cheney). Iraq attempted to acquire aluminum tubes that were "only really suited for nuclear weapons development" (Condoleeza Rice). The US has "irrefutable evidence" that the tubes were destined for centrifuges (Cheney). "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" (Rice).
What they knew: Department of Energy scientists had concluded that these tubes were the wrong size for centrifuges, but were the proper size for conventional, non-WMD rockets. Post-war CIA inspectors concluded that, indeed, the tubes had been used for this purpose and were, in inspectors' words, "innocuous."
What they said: There is a "sinister nexus between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network (Colin Powell).
What they knew: A special UN committee on terrorism, in its report on al Qaeda, concluded, "Nothing has come to our notice that would indicate links between Iraq and al Qaeda." The CIA had earlier come to the same conclusion, citing "critical gaps" in evidence and the "questionable credibility" of sources. The 9/11 Commission also found no link between Iraq and al Qaeda. At least one Commission member charged that the administration had delayed the Commission's report in order to "get the war in Iraq in and over before it came out."
What they said: "Intelligence leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised … I would remind you that … report came out of the IAEA that they were six months away from developing a nuclear weapon. I don't know what more evidence we need" (George W. Bush).
What they knew: As the International Atomic Energy Agency stated at the time, no such report had ever been issued. Indeed, the IAEA did report that it had "found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq."
This exercise could go on and on, featuring all of the prewar hobgoblins and bugbears: "Uranium from Africa," "500 tons of VX nerve agent, a single drop will kill in minutes," "terrorist training camp inside Iraq," "25,000 liters of anthrax, enough to kill millions," "500 tons of sarin," and of course, the promise that might nowadays be funny if it were not so tragic: "They will greet us as liberators." In all these cases, unambiguous pronouncements were based on very ambiguous intelligence, or worse, on intelligence that flatly contradicted the pronouncements.
Baghdad, "the city of peace," has not seen a day without war since the US invaded, in March of 2003. Over a million Iraqi men, women and children have been killed in the conflict. That's over a million — and still counting. Two million are refugees to other countries. Another 1.7 million have been displaced within Iraq. A million American veterans were injured there; 4,491 of them never came back. The Chilcot Report has done these victims of a US war no good. The dead and the wounded, the aggrieved and the displaced all cry out for something more than understatement. They, and we, need the truth.
Calvin F. Exoo
Calvin F. Exoo is a political science Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison) and an endowed professor of government at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Exoo has published three books on US politics; the most recent, The Pen and the Sword: Press, War and Terror in the 21st Century, was named an "Outstanding Academic Book for 2010 by Choice" by the reviewing service of the American Library Association. Since 2010, Exoo has been writing for online magazines, including Salon, HuffPost, Daily Kos and Truthout.
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The beginning of 2018 saw the launch of IBM's scale-out family of IBM POWER9 servers. Previously, IBM launched the AC922 server, the AI and HPC-dedicated system with embedded GPUs, a truly revolutionary offering in this space.
But what is the story behind the POWER9 server? The secret lies in the POWER line of processors, graduated now to the 9th generation.
The name is an acronym for performance optimization with enhanced reduced instruction set computer (RISC). IBM's processor is using a different approach than the x86 processors (which use a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture) and is significantly different by design than the aforementioned processors.
The first POWER processor was designed at the end of the 1980's and made its appearance in the RS6000 and AS400 servers. The RS6000 was running AIX, IBM´s Unix version, and the AS400 was designed for OS400 (now called IBM i). These servers were designed to allow a tight integration of database and application running together on one server, a concept introduced long before the appliance concept become common in the market. Later, those servers were to merge into a single family – the POWER server.
The modern-day versions of these servers are capable of running AIX, IBM i and also Linux.
This can be done on separate servers or, alternatively, on the same server, next to each other. This is done using IBM´s virtualization technology called PowerVM, which allows you to partition the server. The strength of this technology lies in its flexibility. PowerVM allows the user to add but also to remove resources on a running virtual machine. Another strength it offers is the low overhead. Being built in the hardware, the performance penalty compared to x86 is minimal. That means that a POWER box uses most of the resources for performing tasks, not wasting them on virtualization.
The uniqueness of the POWER processor is based on its performance design. Rather than concentrating on ever bigger gigahertz (GHz) figures, the POWER7 processor diverged from this path. Even at lower clock speeds, the overall performance offered was better. One of the ways IBM accomplished this was by increasing the amount of threads, allowing more tasks to complete per each clock cycle. More threads meant more performance.
While an x86 processor is usually capable of performing 2 threads per core, a POWER processor can have 8 threads per core. The secret to performance is not only in the number of threads, however, but also in the faster memory access and faster I/O transfer. The processor is the heart of the server, but it's not the only item to influence the speed of the server, since the overall design of the server is very important.
The Power servers are designed so that they can work with huge amounts of data quickly, making them perfect for the modern era enterprises where data and the insights it can provide are more and more important. In the real world, the average performance of an 8-way-multi-threaded Power processor core is around 2 times that of an x86 core.
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Next to performance, a very important factor is server reliability. IBM Power Systems servers have a long history in enterprise and have always played a key role in the IT infrastructure of our customers. That's why IBM Power Systems servers have always been designed to have a lot of RAS (reliable, available and serviceable) features like dual power supplies, memory correction without an impact on performance, hot swap functionality and features built into the firmware that activate and work automatically without user intervention. All of these elements create a server which has a proven track record on reliability and is recognized in the market.
With the announcement of the Power9 servers, IBM takes the next step in the long history of Power servers. As shown in the past, this next step is again based on unique customer-centric technology, focused on reliability, security and speed. The new Power9 servers are made to respond to the highest demands.
This is the first in a series of blog posts dedicated to explaining how the POWER architecture and the servers based on it can help organizations. In future posts we'll discuss in more detail the different way that IBM implements GPU compute. We'll go into more detail on AI Vision, a technology that allows advanced image recognition, and we will also discuss how AI can augment various industries like government, education, healthcare and the auto industry. Stay tuned for more blog posts.


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The Golden Age Senior Citizens Association was delighted in the unexpected donation of $700 from Hans Electrical to further the work of the Association. Hans Electrical has this year been contracted to replace the spot lights in the carpark and a number of internal light fittings. This donation represents a day's wages from the Hans Electrical team who have heard only good reports regarding the work of the Golden Age Association.
This donation will assist the Association within its centre on Arcadia Avenue at Woorim to undertake maintenance to their indoor facility including the cleaning of carpets, the provision of a pathway ramp from the carpark and the upgrade of the bathrooms. The Golden Age centre provides each week indoor bowls, table tennis, various forms of dancing, including square dancing, clogging and round dancing. The centre is home for the Golden Entertainers choral group and also houses the office of Choral Voices. New participants are welcome to join any of these activities. Weekly Friday night dances are held and on the 3rd Saturday of each month a Saturday night dance. On the 2nd Sunday of each month a country-Western afternoon is sponsored by "Country Links".
The Golden Age Senior Citizens Centre is responsible for the operation of the adjacent Day Respite Centre with its 3 units catering for the frail aged, adults with dementia and for young adults with disabilities. For information about day respite care or activities at the centre telephone 3408 2112.
Hans and Cassandra (our apprentice since January 2013), both volunteered a days' work on Saturday 27/09/2014. We are donating the day's takings equalling $750 to the BRIBIE MEALS ON WHEELS. These funds will go towards the long overdue new cold room in their kitchen in Woorim.
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Hans and Cassandra volunteered a day's work on Saturday 09/11/2013.


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Sitarist Indrajit Banerjee is one of the leading exponents of the Maihar Gharana. He was born in a musical family, unique due to the large number of accomplished artists in Hindustani Classical Music. Some of these family members include his guru, Pandit Kartick Kumar (Sitar), Pandit Barun Kumar Pal (Hamsa Veena), Niladri Kumar (Sitar), Partho Das (Sitar), Aparna Roy (Surbahar). He got inspiration from his sitarist mother, Manju Banerjee, who was a disciple of late Nikhil Banerjee, and afterwards, Santosh Banerjee. Indrajit's training began with his maternal grandfather, Bankim Kumar Pal, who was the disciple of Inayat Khan, and Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhuri (Kochi Babu). He then took training under Pandit Manilal Nag of Bishnupur Gharana. Later on, he took intensive training from his uncle, Pandit Kartick Kumar, who is a senior disciple of Pandit Ravi Shankar. All of this training developed a strong foundation for Indrajit's music, and creative individuality. Indrajit has a special touch on Sitar combined with technical virtuosity and sensitivity. He is an A grade artist of All India Radio and National Television, Panel Artist for Indian Council Of Cultural Relations, has served as Judge for A.I.R (Kolkata), and is a member of the American Federations of Musicians, and voting member of The Recording Academy (Grammies). He was awarded the Gokul Nag Memorial Medal in 1987 by Bangia Sangeet Parishad, (W. Bengal), "Sur Mani"in 1990 by Sur Sringal Samsad Bombay, Avinav Kala Samman in 1997 by Avinav Kala Parishad (Bhopal). Parangotsava-2007 (a festival held in Mysore, Karnataka) recognised him as Veteran (Pandit). In 2014 awarded for exceptional contribution by (SAPNA) IL U.S.A. Indrajit has been touring extensively toured in the U.K., Europe, Caribbean Islands, Lebanon , Hawaii, Alaska, Costa Rica, Brazil and Canada for the last 18 years as a solo sitar artist. He has also collaborated with several artists from the West, including STING (Channel V Awards), Yaron Herman, Abbos Kosimov, Craig Pruess ,Goodman Theatre, Fareed Haque, etc. He has several solo sitar albums to his credit and also has been featured in many albums. His music can be purchased on Itunes and Cdbaby, and can be streamed on Spotify, Pandora, Lastfm, etc. Indrajit has National and International awards from India and the U.S.A. His lessons and instructional DVDs on Sitar are popular throughout the world. Indrajit is also a composer and has arranged music for several albums and award winning documentary films. Please click on the link https://antaraschool.com/concert-schedule/ for more information on his tour dates and teaching.
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Two weeks of the candidate's invective inspired a number of G.O.P. officials to retract their support for his campaign. But where will they go?
It's fair to say that Donald Trump has made things difficult for the Republican Party. He has taunted its leaders, turned its debates into rap sessions about his anatomy, sabotaged its efforts to appeal to Latinos and to women, and, as he has shouted out bigoted invective, made many of its members feel shame. But, in the past two weeks, Trump has made things easier for certain Republicans: those elected officials still seeking what Senator Lindsey Graham has called an "off-ramp," by which they can justify to the most partisan of their constituents and colleagues renouncing the Party's nominee.
The first week in August was, as the title of a Wall Street Journal column by Peggy Noonan, a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, summed it up, "the week they decided Donald Trump was crazy"—"they" being Republicans who finally had to admit that nothing could induce Trump to act rationally. Instead, he had insulted Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of an Army officer who died while trying to protect his men in Iraq. Senator Susan Collins, of Maine, in an op-ed published in the Washington Post on August 8th, cited that incident as one of many that had persuaded her that she could not vote for Trump. The same day, fifty former officials who had held national-security or foreign-policy posts in Republican Administrations released a letter saying that none of them would vote for Trump, and expressing particular alarm at his potential control of the nuclear arsenal. And those defections came before Trump told a crowd in Wilmington, North Carolina, that if Hillary Clinton won the election and "gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment people—maybe there is." Suddenly, this was the week when Republicans had to decide whether they would stick by a nominee who, indirectly but unmistakably, had mooted nullifying election results at gunpoint.
On Thursday, Trump told CNBC that only the "haters" would think he wanted Hillary Clinton dead. Hate, though, is precisely what he has worked to evoke in his supporters. In Wilmington, he said that Clinton's actions as Secretary of State "cost so many lives" and that "she's so guilty, she's so guilty." He added, "If I'm ISIS, I call her up and I give her the most-valuable-player award." By the next day, he was calling President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS" and Clinton his "co-founder." She was, further, a pawn of Wall Street and other paymasters, working to destroy America "from within"—someone who has to be stopped but perhaps can't be by normal means, because the electoral system is "rigged." In that context, the callout to Second Amendment people was almost an unnecessary Trumpian embellishment. For some time, commentators have been observing that violence can emerge from the sort of rhetoric that swirls around Trump, and drawing parallels to the angry exchanges in Israel in the days leading up to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, in 1995.
Collins was the sixth Republican senator to announce that it's all too much to sustain. (The others are Graham, Jeff Flake, Mark Kirk, Ben Sasse, and, in his own way, Ted Cruz.) Historically speaking, that's a remarkably high number, and Collins may be a harbinger of a still broader shift. By the end of the week, however, none of the remaining forty-eight Senate Republicans had followed her. Politico reported on the draft of a letter from seventy G.O.P. regulars asking the Republican National Committee to redirect money to down-ticket races. The letter's primary concern, though, seemed to be less Trumpism than Trump's poll numbers.
Then, there is the question of where the defecting Republicans will go. So far, most have been elephants wandering off into the mist. Only a few—Meg Whitman, Mark Salter, Representative Richard Hanna, of New York, who is retiring—have said that they will support Hillary Clinton. Many of the most prominent, including Collins, her fellow-senators, and Jeb Bush, have said that they will not. Jeb's father and brother, the former Presidents Bush, have effectively declined to engage since the primaries, at least publicly. For a family that, for several generations, has made public service its profession, that is an extraordinary abnegation of the idea of leadership. The Party's previous nominee, Mitt Romney, has said that he wants to be able to look his grandchildren in the eye and tell them that he took a stand against Trump. But he won't vote for Clinton; he told the Wall Street Journal that he might "write in a name." Michael Hayden, a retired general who has headed the C.I.A. and the N.S.A., signed the national-security officials' letter and also loudly condemned Trump's Second Amendment comment. "You're not just responsible for what you say," he said on CNN. "You are responsible for what people hear." But he has also stated that he and others who signed the letter have deep concerns about Clinton, and that he may not vote for anyone for President. Some people might hear in that a military man telling them that there is no option at the ballot box that will keep America safe.
Trump's implication that gun owners might attack Hillary Clinton if she is elected President was irresponsible in more than just the obvious ways.


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"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."
"We all live in a televised goldfish bowl."
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."
"Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."
"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."
"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
"There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness."
"You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly."
"The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger."
"Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life."
"It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence."
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
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The case for a national master plan
Could we master plan an entire country?
By Scott Davies with illustration by Choon Yong Heng
Master plans are wilful. They should establish a clear design vision and framework for development, that incorporates the entire site, often at city scale (or at least part of a city).
But a national master plan? Sounds ambitious. How could we master plan a country like Australia, which is the size of a continent, with varied state and federal jurisdictions? And why should we?
EARLY MASTER PLANS: FOR THE POWERFUL
Early master plans focused on the physical space of buildings and curated environments. They were often commissioned by a powerful man or group of men, and so established and reinforced power and authority. Examples include Georges-Eugène Haussmann's plan for Paris, Peter Charles L'Enfant's plan for Washington D.C. and Walter Burley-Griffin's plan for Canberra.
These formal plans have large avenues that establish a hierarchy of movement throughout cities. Key axes and vistas extend from palaces and civic buildings.
People could see the places of power, designed to impress and awe, and the powerful could see the cities laid out before them.
Haussmann's boulevards converging at Paris's Arc de Triomphe. Image: Hercules Milas / Alamy
Plan submitted to the Canberra design competition by Burley Griffin, 1911-1912. Image: National Archives of Australia
L'Enfant's 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. (as revised by Andrew Ellicott in 1792). Image: Library of Congress record
MODERNIST MASTER PLANS: FOR CARS AND EFFICIENCY
These early master plans created some of today's most beautiful and visited cities, and set precedents for the city planning movements that followed, like The City Beautiful and Garden City movements.
Then a new breed of master plan came with the automobile age and the modernist project of efficiency and anti-ornamentation.
Just as Haussmann ripped up Paris' slums and historic heart in the 1800s, modernist master plans of the early 1900s sought to rid cities of urban mess.
Le Corbusier's Radiant City plan for Paris saw the 'ideal city' as an ordered environment for man. Though unrealised, Ville Radieuse's utopia influenced cities big and small – from Brasilia, with its large towers and free car circulation, to Woden, Canberra.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City was a suburban counterpoint to Le Corbusier. Wright's city of acre-sized plots prioritised car movement, and confined public spaces to the private realm.
But these planners forgot the most critical element of cities. They designed cities at the expense of people, instead of in their service. Modernist planning principles centre on a theoretical, 'ideal' way of living that in reality, doesn't work.
Lloyd Wright's Broadacre City – overtly suburban and coarse in scale. Image: Granger Historical Picture Archive / Alamy
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
ADVOCATES FOR 'URBAN MESS'
So was born the urban advocacy of Jane Jacobs, whose activism began against plans for an expressway in downtown Manhattan. Jacobs's seminal books critique top-down master planning in favour of community-driven city planning. She measures a city's success by its diversity, and sees Greenwich Village as an exemplary place.
Cities are complex, and this is their strength. Richness of choice, opportunity, and people is inherently 'messy'. Richard Florida champions this complexity as the backbone of the creative economy. When people rub shoulders in creative communities, this collaboration generates something elusive, yet powerful: ideas, innovation and growth.
Jacobs's Greenwich Village in the 1960s: a place for people, alive with activity and community. Image: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy
WHAT COULD A NATIONAL MASTER PLAN DO?
Throughout history, the master plan process proves to be fraught with unintended and negative outcomes. But if we learn from history, there can be a different way.
The national master plan could be a mechanism to think about systems that go beyond city and state borders. Masterplanning at this scale could address the complex problems of our time (global warming, biodiversity loss, resource depletion) by enabling us to implement their solutions (energy transition, closed loop ecological restoration).
DEFINING THE PROBLEM
At their core, master plans are about resolving an understood set of problems. So what are the problems for Australia, a rich nation with high standards of living?
The CSIRO's 'Australian National Outlook 2019' says we're at a crossroads. The report, prepared with leaders in business, academia and NGOs, indicates that business is not as usual. Australia risks 'drifting into the future' unless we respond to the challenges of a fast changing world. The report defines the problems that a national master plan would need to address in its framework for the future.
Australia has enjoyed nearly three decades of uninterrupted economic growth … However, there is no guarantee that this good fortune will continue into the future. The world is changing rapidly and Australia will need to adapt to keep up.
'Australian National Outlook', 2019, CSIRO
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL OUTLOOK: 6 DEFINING CHALLENGES
1 Rise of Asia
2 Technological change
3 Climate change and environment
5 Trust (in governments and organisations)
6 Social cohesion
LEARNING FROM COMMUNITIES
A national master plan could provide a touchstone for national decision making with people and the environment at its heart.
Instead of a top down approach, we should draw much more on the rich knowledge base of Australia's communities, including First Nations peoples. For tens of thousands of years before European colonisation, First Nations people were the land's custodians. Their deep connection to and understanding of place could lay the foundation for our nation's custodianship, today and for future generations.
At a state level, the NSW Government Architect has started this conversation and identified themes to consider. We should learn from land management practices undertaken over thousands of years. We must balance productive and environmental needs, and depart from 'single use' products and 'churn and burn' practices.
To strengthen our collective narrative we need to stop designing for people and start designing with people. Community engagement is expensive and time consuming, but social media platforms provide accessible spaces for a national conversation, debate and the socialisation of ideas.
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A RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
This year's Global Climate Strike called on the world to change how we live or risk our sustainable future. A national master plan could provide a framework for that change. A plan that greens and cools cities and protects and regenerates biodiversity at the national scale. A plan that enables a collective shift to sustainable transport, energy and infrastructure.
By pure definition, a master plan is a 'comprehensive plan of action'.
As designers, architects, urbanists, politicians, residents – this is our challenge. To design a national master plan not for its own sake, but as a framework for a sustainable future.
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Content Marketing and the Difficult Art of Storytelling
In Content Marketing by Backbay.com February 28, 2016 Leave a Comment
These days, you probably read a lot about the importance of telling stories as it relates to marketing in general, and to content marketing in particular. For our part, we find this trend mildly amusing — in the way it gets overused — but sometimes downright annoying, for the same reasons. The fact is that if you get advised to turn every other piece of content into a story, then you should know that it is in fact very hard to put this into practice. So let us look briefly at stories in general and how this all came about.
Stories are patterns
The fundamental hook of a story is that it uses repeatable, identifiable patterns to create a stream of emotion triggers. Stories are patterns composed of actors, relationships and events distributed along a linear timeline. Humans are wired to recognize these patterns and to respond emotionally to the changes that occur in the relationships. The particulars, such as the identity of the actors, the nature of the relationships and the importance and sequence of events, can vary dramatically from one story to another, but they do so without affecting the overall efficiency of the entire pattern. Ultimately, the structure of any story can be reduced to a graph like the one below.
Telling a story is one of the most effective way to ensure that your users (readers, viewers, listeners) will relate to your content, remember you and ultimately associate you with what they felt when reading, viewing or hearing the story. It all "works" because in the course of their lifetime, most adult human beings have already experienced an array of relationships and challenges that closely resemble those that are depicted in the story which is being told — either through actual experience or through empathy. In fact, a simple snapshot of a relationship in context is sufficient by itself to pull the same triggers as a full story, often with even more dramatic effects. Humans are prone to reconstruct events from static snapshots and inject plots and timelines, even where there is none.
Products don't tell stories
Businesses don't tell stories. Brands certainly don't tell stories either. People tell stories. Stories are told by, and are about, people. To connect your product, your business or your brand to a story, you need to inject it into the timeline as a static element, a prop that gets associated with the emotions that the story triggers. This injection process is as close to an "art" as can be: the longer the exposed timeline, the more difficult it becomes to execute this process effectively. Here's an example, where we (rather clumsily) inject an iPhone or two into the story:
As it turns out, our prop is a good example of the effect of storytelling in the marketplace. While hugely popular, Apple and the iPhone don't tell stories, nor do they have any way to do so. The company and the product have no story of their own; at least, none that anyone who uses an iPhone cares the least bit about. Steve Jobs, the father of the product, certainly had a personal story which has been told many times; but it is one that, in and by itself, isn't particularly relatable — unless you happen to have an affinity with bossy individuals who often act like assholes just to get things done. The story of Steve Jobs doesn't help selling iPhones: at best, it's a story that is a part of the Apple's overall brand and cultural image.
Steve Jobs doesn't sell iPhones: Apple stores and their employees do. But most of all, iPhone users sell iPhones. They do so to their friends, to their relatives and to their co-workers. They are actors in a story that develops in the customer's own timeline. Though the product itself is but a prop, it is a prop that is now omnipresent in our collective, ongoing story.
It is very unlikely that you are sitting on, or in charge of marketing, a product that has the same kind of cultural and market penetration potential as the iPhone. To make your product, your business or your brand a part of the ongoing story of your target customers, you will have to inject it in a way that makes it significant or relevant enough so that it becomes part of that story: their story. Remember that nobody cares about you or your product. Nobody cares unless one or the other has a significant impact on them. Make it so. With or without an explicit story.


Health And Wealth: Women Are DifferentOr Are They?
Much statistical research over the past 40 years has found that higher death rates go hand in hand with lower socioeconomic status: the lower the income and education level, the higher the mortality rate.
But the "rule" didn't seem to apply to women as well as to men, so Peggy McDonough, Ph.D., of York University in Toronto and her colleagues studied data collected on 5,665 men and women from 1972 to 1991, focusing on the death-risk influences of gender differences in the workplace and household, in income and education, and other factors.
They report in the March issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior that earlier data doesn't adequately predict women's mortality risks primarily because the socioeconomic measures used in those studies were tailored to men's position in the labor market, but not to women's. The occupation, education, and income of the male household head generally was used as a marker for the socioeconomic position or status of the entire family.
"Conceptually, this 'conventional' view implies the existence of a family-based class position," the researchers write. "Empirically, it means assigning women to the occupational class of male relatives."
That conventional view fails to consider the ways in which gender is a fundamental element of socioeconomic status, the scientists say. It doesn't take into account the different patterns of job concentration for men and women, and doesn't reflect the hierarchy of women's jobs. Significantly, it ignores women who are not in the paid labor force.
Once gender-sensitive criteria were in place and used on the study subjects, the researchers found no difference in the effects of men's and women's socioeconomic status on their mortality risk. The same factors result in the same risk.


For those who do not know about these amazing probes and what they have shown us and continue to tell us this is a must. Amazing story and one that will never end as of course one probe has now left the solar system, another is leaving.
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The fourth leg of the Australian Athletics Tour headed to Perth for the Jandakot City Track Classic. Seventeen-year-old Nina Kennedy (WA) produced the highlight of the evening soaring to an astounding 4.59m in the Pole Vault. Kennedy now boasts the highest jump ever by an under 20 athlete outdoors, moreover the performance exceeded the World Championships qualifier. The Doncaster Athletics Club was represented by two athletes; Abbey De la Motte and Katherine Katsanevakis.
With both athletes contesting the 800 meters, it was sure to be a sizzling race. World Junior representative De la Motte finished strongly to record a personal best of 2:05.82 seconds and claimed third place. Glasgow 2014 representative Katsanevakis did the tough task of leading the field through 400 meters, she faded to fourth place in a commendable time of 2:06.13. National Champion Brittany McGowan (QLD) ran away with the victory in 2:05.05 seconds.
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FSU Panama City joins Peach Belt Conference for esports
By: Becky Kelly | Published: January 10, 2023 | 2:56 pm | SHARE:
FSU Panama City has been admitted to the NCAA Division II Peach Belt Conference (PBC) as an associate member for esports beginning spring 2023.
"This is very exciting for our campus," said Randy Hanna, dean of FSU Panama City and the College of Applied Studies. "It is the first time our students will have the opportunity to participate in collegiate-level competitions and the Peach Belt Conference is a leader in esports."
The PBC was the first NCAA conference to hold an esports championship starting with the 2017-2018 academic year. The league was also the first to partner with Riot Games, publisher of League of Legends, the most-played online game in the world, and the first to hold an in-person live conference championship. Esports has become a very large and popular competitive sports category with dozens of multiplayer games eligible for championship leagues.
"We are very excited to welcome FSU Panama City to the Peach Belt," said David R. Brunk, commissioner of the Peach Belt Conference. "They have demonstrated their commitment to putting in the energy and resources necessary to build a competitive esports team from the start and will be a great addition to the conference."
FSU Panama City students have formed a League of Legends competitive team that will be coached by Nicholas Sellers, professional communication teaching professor at FSU PC. The campus has a long-standing history of student-driven gaming and gaming events. There are two active student organizations — The Gaming Club, advised by Sellers, and the newly formed esports Club — that include undergraduate and graduate student members who meet and compete weekly.
An avid gamer, Sellers is an industry-recognized video game researcher. His game plan for the team features mental and physical preparation including developing hand-eye coordination, good posture, wrist strength and mindfulness exercises to increase endurance and success.
"I am so grateful to Dean Hanna and Associate Dean Irvin Clark for the opportunity to coach our students in varsity esports competitions," Sellers said. "A big thanks to the Peach Belt Conference for working with us to make this possible. The students and I are looking forward to competing and to representing our campus in the spring. Go Noles!"
For more information, visit peachbeltconference.org/sports/esports.
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All relations between Maldives and Israel remain suspended: Gov't
The Maldives government has stated that it stands against the injustices being committed by Israel against the people pf Palestine, and that the Maldives remains in solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle to secure their right to statehood.
Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Tuesday took part in a campaign, 'Free Palestine' organized by Maldivian youth to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Taking part in the event, the president posted the picture of a Palestine flag on his official twitter handle, and assured that the people of the Maldives stand with Palestine.
Retweeting the president's original post, Spokesperson at the President's Office, Mohamed Mabrook Azeez said the Maldives' stance on the Palestine issue is very clear, and that the Maldives remains in solidarity with Palestine. He further said that all relations between Maldives and Israel remain suspended, and that the ban on importing Israeli products introduced in 2014 still remains in place.
President Solih earlier this week condemned the atrocities being committed against Palestinians by Israel. The president said that Israel continues to violate international law by forcefully evicting Palestinian families from Palestinian lands, and and by escalating attacks on Muslims offering prayers in the Al Aqsa complex, the third most Holy Site for Muslims. The President in his address at the 74th UN General Assembly also made clear the Maldives' stand on the Palestine issue. He has spoken on the issue on different platforms over the past two years.
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The largest corporations and richest people in America—who donated billions of dollars to Republican candidates the House and Senate in the 2106 election—appear on the way to getting what they paid for: a giant tax cut.
The New York Times reports that business groups are meeting frequently with key Republicans in order to shape the tax bill, whose details remain secret.
Speed and secrecy are critical. The quicker Republicans get this done, and without hearings, the less likely will the rest of the country discover how much it will cost in foregone Medicaid and Medicare or ballooning budget deficits.
Donald Trump has been trashing democratic institutions—the independence of the press, judges who disagree with him, uncooperative legislators—while raking in money off his presidency. But don't lose sight of the larger attack on our democracy that was underway even before Trump was elected: A flood of big money into politics.
Lest you conclude it's only Republicans who have been pocketing big bucks in exchange for political favors, consider what Big Tech—the industry that's mostly bankrolled Democrats—is up to.
It's mobilizing an army of lobbyists and lawyers—including senior advisors to Hillary Clinton's campaign—to help scuttle a proposed law requiring Google, Facebook, and other major Internet companies to disclose who is purchasing their online political advertising.
After revelations that Russian-linked operatives bought deceptive ads in the run-up to the 2016 election, you'd think this would be a no-brainer. But never underestimate the power of big money, whichever side of the aisle it's aimed at.
This shameful law weakened the Drug Enforcement Authority's power to stop prescription opioids from being shipped to pharmacies and doctors suspected of taking bribes to distribute them—a major cause of the opioid crisis. Last year, Americans got 236 million opioid prescriptions, the equivalent of one bottle for every adult.
Overwhelming majorities of House and Senate Democrats voted for the bill, as well as Republicans, and President Obama signed it into law.
There you have it, folks. Big money is buying giant tax cuts, allowing Russia to interfere in future elections, and killing Americans. That's just the tip of the corrupt iceberg that's sinking our democracy.
Republicans may be taking more big money, but both parties have been raking it in.
Average Americans know exactly what's going on.
I just returned from several days in Kentucky and Tennessee, both of which voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
A number of Trump voters told me they voted for him because they wanted someone who'd shake up Washington, drain the swamp, and get rid of crony capitalism. They saw Hillary Clinton as part of the problem.
These people aren't white nationalists. They're decent folks who just want a government that's not of, by, and for the moneyed interests.
Many are now suffering buyer's remorse. They recognize Trump has sold his administration to corporate lobbyists and Wall Street. "He conned us," was the most polite response I heard.
The big money that's taken over American politics in recent years has created the biggest political backlash in postwar American history—inside both parties.
It's splitting the Republican Party between its large corporate patrons and a base that detests big corporations and Wall Street.
Trump is trying to straddle both by pretending he's a champion of the working class while pushing for giant tax cuts. But if my free-floating focus group in Kentucky and Tennessee is any indication, the base is starting to see through it.
Which you might think creates a huge opportunity for Democrats heading into the 2018 midterms and the presidential election of 2020.
But when it comes to getting big money out of politics and ending crony capitalism, there's no right or left, and certainly no middle. There's just democracy or oligarchy.
For that matter, Republicans should be fighting for these, too.
Heres'a wild idea. What if the anti-establishment wings of both parties came together in a pro-democracy coalition to get big money out of politics?
Then it might actually happen.


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Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y – 2009 (Album Review)
By Quincy Dominic on February 8, 2019 • ( 6 Comments )
So what does the year 2009 represent for Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y? It was a time both rappers were on top of the game, as together, they were able to usher in a brand of hip-hop music that was loose, relaxing and catered to the stoners of the world. Today, listeners get a chance to relive some of their high moments (pun intended), as the dynamic duo decided to link up once more for "2009."
5. GETTING LOOSE
"Getting Loose" isn't the greatest song to listen to, but I do f**k with its energy.
Much like Problem and Wiz's previous collaborations, "Getting Loose" features a great tempo and lots of club vibes. Despite all of this, Curren$y almost ruins the song with a mundane ass first verse, before Wiz picks things back up on his verse with some gritty/boisterous bars. Thank GOD for Wiz and the beat here. They definitely saved the day.
So many lessons get learned on "Find A Way."
Over an instrumental your grandfather would probably f**k with, both Wiz and Spitta give listeners game on how to ball effectively, hustle smartly and provide for fam. I love the boss-like demeanor our guys show us throughout the song, as they never stress a single bar or trip that they are being gassed up without a hook backing them.
Lyrically, I think you get the toughest version of both rap acts on this song.
3. 10 PIECE
"10 Piece" falls directly in line with what Wiz and Curren$y were giving us back in the day. The song is powered by this heavy-hitting yet smooth instrumental, and over it, both Wiz and Spitta discuss how much smoking, stroking, hustling and flossing they are doing these days. Personally, I love how both rappers remind the world about their resumes on their respective verses, giving generation Z a bunch of role models to follow.
This is one of the few songs in which both Curren$y and Wiz ride the beat they were presented with fantastically.
2. BENZ BOYS
"Benz Boys" features this cold ass instrumental that sounds like it's ready to stick n***as up at a gas station. Over it, you get a simple/raw ass hook by Ty Dolla $ign that i hope he didn't get paid for (He put in about five minutes of work laying it down). From there, Wiz and Curren$y trade verses, each talking about bossing up, showing off their luxurious items and keeping it real 24/7 (Their subject matters sound like Deja Vu, right?). What I love most about the song is that you get three completely different styles of artistry on it, which legitimately makes it feel like some authentic gang s**t.
1. NO CLOUT CHASIN
"No Clout Chasin" is one of two opportunities this album has for a commercial hit ("Getting Loose" is the other). The song features a lively instrumental, phenomenal hook by Wiz, and vibes you need for a party to get started. Aside from that, Curren$y and Wiz deliver some pretty humble lyrics on their respective verses, as they each bask in all the great decisions they've made in their life up to this point.
SONG BY SONG BREAKDOWN
1. GARAGE TALK (2.5/5)
2. 10 PIECE (4/5)
3. BENZ BOYS (4/5)
4. THE LIFE (3/5)
5. FIND A WAY (3.5/5)
6. EASTSIDE (3/5)
7. FROM THE START (3/5)
8. NO CLOUT CHASIN (4/5)
9. GETTING LOOSE (3.5/5)
10. STONED GENTLEMEN (3.5/5)
11. FIRST & LAST (3/5)
12. PLOT TWIST (3.5/5)
13. BOTTLES POPPERS (3/5)
13. FOREVER BALL (2.5/5)
(D+)
I have a few critical takeaways about this album that I need to get off my chest immediately:
When Wiz and Curren$y rapped over beats that weren't smooth and vintage-sounding on this album, I really wasn't f**king with the music like that. For example, on "Garage Talk," why the f**k would I want to hear these particular n***as spit bars over an instrumental catered for Run-DMC?
Curren$y is a very boring rapper. At this point, it is what it is. He's not a bad rapper, as he does a phenomenal job of dishing out serious wisdom through some pretty intelligent bars. But in the end of the day, his voice is capable of putting unlocked phones to sleep.
On this album, we don't get nearly enough melodic hooks by Wiz. In my opinion, this is what he does best.
OK, now that I got all of that beef out of my system, I'm ready to highlight the good.
"2009" features some serious wisdom from players in the game that have seen it all. Literally from start to finish, both Wiz and Curren$y accept their roles as consultants, schooling us on keeping s**t real at all times. For this reason alone, listeners will be able to overlook times in which they come across as dull (Curren$y), corny (Wiz) or predictable (Wiz). I think the number one goal for this album was to motivate the rappers that are currently in the shoes Wiz and Curren$y were in back in 2009. It's almost like both rappers are letting the world know that they didn't have any examples to rely on, instead, they had to figure s**t out all by their lonesome.
In my opinion, the beats on this album were simply alright. I f**ked with "10 Piece," "Benz Boys," "No Clout Chasin" and "Stoned Gentlemen," but absolutely hated "Garage Talk" and "From The Start." As a whole, I thought too many of the beats sounded like carbon copies of their old s**t, which frfr, should make you start to question how much credit needs to be given to I.D. Labs, Sledgren and Johnny Juliano for the success of both of these guys. Also, I felt like the inconsistency in beat-selections made the album flow weirdly. For a stoner-inspired album, that s**t has to flow well.
At this point, I am aware when Wiz and/or Curren$y has made a good project, and in my opinion, this isn't one of the cases. I need to feel their s**t, and for reasons such as lack of chemistry, underwhelming production and blahzay-blahzay raps, I simply didn't. Welp, time to go back to their actual 2009 s**t.
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Garage talk was so bad, you gotta rethink some of these song ratings though, you can't give an album that averages 4/5 stars per song a d+ otherwise a good review, I agree with everything but the song ratings.
The Widows Peak Bandit says:
I hated "Garage Talk."
But yea, you are absolutely right. I was in the middle of still tweaking, so those were very fluent at the time. Take a look now and it should look better (Or worse for that matter).
Thanks so much for reading, and thanks for the feedback!
Vern says:
I stopped reading when you said Curren$y boring. You sound like a hater
On the real, people are too scared to say it, but Curren$y's voice is dull as hell. Does nothing for me. I don't hate the man, I hope he succeeds, but I call it how I see it… As for you, Stan… I mean Vern, I appreciate that you read up to that point! I am more than happy to agree to disagree.
Calder Schwartz says:
I'll take a "dull" voice any day over auto tune trash, curren$y's discography and industry respect speaks for itself. He may never go platinum but he's doing something more meaningful, being himself. Spitta sounded good on this project, as a whole prolly 3.5/5 cuz i wish it was more wavy like 10 piece and find a way. Hey but this just me.
I agree with everything you said 100%! ((3.5/5) is 70%, which I say is a C-/D+) Curren$y is definitely that dude, don't get me wrong, his tone is just a very dull one. Fabolous, Mase and Rockie Fresh all have dull ass voices, too, but I think they are dope ass MC's. It wasn't meant to be as f**ked up a comment as some people (cough cough Vern) took it lol
If this album was all "10 Piece," I would've ran this joint back over and over again. And like I said, we needed more melodic hooks by Wiz.
Thanks for the comment, and I love your input and honesty!
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How would I know if a new code has been released?
Usually, the Club Penguin Rewritten team celebrate an event with a code and then share the code on social media. Word of this quickly spreads round the island and it is likely you will found out about it in-game, but this blog and page will definitely be updated quickly when a new code is out. It is rare to miss a code unless due to inactivity!
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Adam Levine Gets a Massive Mermaid Tattoo On His Back
It's another tattoo for Adam Levine... and it's massive!
The Voice coach posted a pic of his new ink on Instagram recently, giving a nod San Rafael-based tattoo artist Bryan Randolph, writing, "If you ever want a tattoo and you don't get it from @bryanrandolph ...you're nuts. He's the DUDE."
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If you ever want a tattoo and you don't get it from @bryanrandolph ...you're nuts. He's the DUDE.
A post shared by Adam Levine (@adamlevine) on Nov 15, 2015 at 8:00pm PST
Woah that's huge!
Levine's supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo, gave us another angle of the tattoo with the caption, "Kinda have a thing for my trainer."
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Kinda have a thing for my trainer 🔥🤓
A post shared by Behati Prinsloo Levine (@behatiprinsloo) on Nov 7, 2015 at 1:14pm PST
Earlier this month, Prinsloo walked in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York City as one of five returning Angels for the annual show. The 26-year-old model opened up to ET about her 36-year-old beau having to miss her big night.
"They sent him a video of me live and he's so proud," Prinsloo told ET with a smile.
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Xavi criticises Madrid, Lopetegui announcement timing
Julen Lopetegui was named as Real Madrid coach days before the World Cup, a decision Spain great Xavi questioned.
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14 June, 2018 10:29 IST
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Spain great Xavi criticised the timing of Julen Lopetegui being announced as Real Madrid coach.
Lopetegui was sacked as Spain boss on Wednesday, a day after it was revealed he would be Zinedine Zidane's successor at Madrid.
Xavi, a 133-time Spain international, was unhappy with the timing of the announcement of Lopetegui's Madrid move.
"I am not the person to talk about it [Lopetegui joining Madrid]," the Barcelona great told Radio Marca.
"It was not the most ideal or opportune moment."
Lopetegui's sacking came just two days before Spain's opening game against Portugal in Sochi.
But Xavi believes the nation, who will be led by Fernando Hierro, can still have a strong World Cup.
"You never know, the players have already seen it all and sure, they can play a good role at the World Cup," he said.
"Leadership will not be missing, there is [Sergio] Ramos, [Gerard] Pique, [Andres] Iniesta.
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The upcoming ninth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who is set to premiere on 19 September 2015 on BBC One. The series began filming in January 2015, and will be the ninth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and the thirty-fifth season overall. This is the second series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. Jenna Coleman will return as the Doctor's companion, Clara Oswald for her third series in the role.
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Granted a whole new regenerative cycle by the Time Lords, the Doctor experienced an explosive and unprecedented thirteenth regeneration, ending the Siege of Trenzalore. A new Doctor – with a sharp face, bushy brows and boggle eyes – faced a bewildered Clara, across the console. A Doctor who has seemingly forgotten how to fly the TARDIS… Though little is yet known of this Doctor's journeys, at some point in his future, he helped his previous incarnations freeze Gallifrey in a pocket universe.
Rumoured guest cast: Faye Marsay as Shona, Alex Kingston as River Song, Roger Moore, Frank Skinner, Jack Whitehall.
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Q: Unpack Node.js to a custom folder and perform paths setup I want to unpack Node.js (Linux Binaries (x64)) to a custom folder and use it for a few projects.
The difficulties appear when I start using console. I can't use npm at all and I've got no idea how to install global modules in this case.
For instance, I install gulp -g and even specify the installation path for it, but when I wish to use gulp, it doesn't work.
So, again, I do not use package managers and /usr/lib folders, the whole node.js package in one, single folder. How to use it that way if possible at all?
There may be a few more Node.js versions there and it would be greate to have a way of setting up the /paths/variables for the selected /folder/version of Node.js.

A: You do not mention how you would like to manage the versions, I will illustrate a simple method using symlinks.  There are packages that can manage the versions for you, such as the Node Version Manager if you would rather use those.
Starting with a node directory in my user's home, I have populated it with two versions of node:
$ tree -L 3 node
node
|-- node-v12.16.1-linux-x64
|   |-- CHANGELOG.md
|   |-- LICENSE
|   |-- README.md
|   |-- bin
|   |   |-- node
|   |   |-- npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
|   |   `-- npx -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
|   |-- include
|   |   `-- node
|   |-- lib
|   |   `-- node_modules
|   `-- share
|       |-- doc
|       |-- man
|       `-- systemtap
`-- node-v13.10.1-linux-x64
    |-- CHANGELOG.md
    |-- LICENSE
    |-- README.md
    |-- bin
    |   |-- node
    |   |-- npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
    |   `-- npx -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js
    |-- include
    |   `-- node
    |-- lib
    |   `-- node_modules
    `-- share
        |-- doc
        |-- man
        `-- systemtap

You would then make a symbolic link to the version you would like to use:
$ ln -s node-v12.16.1-linux-x64 node/nodejs

and finally, we need to link all up this through your PATH:
$ export PATH=~/node/nodejs/bin:$PATH

Now, you should be able to run node commands:
$ node --version
v12.16.1
$ npm --version
6.13.4

You can switch the versions by changing the symbolic link:
$ unlink node/nodejs
$ ln -s node-v13.10.1-linux-x64 node/nodejs
$ node --version
v13.10.1
$ npm --version
6.13.7

Unfortunately, this does not handle global packages, as all versions would install/use global packages from the same place.  If you have two users attempting to use different versions of node, having global packages can break things.

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I'm feeling very uninspired to write a post today so I figured I would talk about my new ears. Actually they're the same old ears I've always had so it's more about their new friends.
So it's been a week now and I have to say that I am amazed at all the things I have not been hearing. Although it's wonderful to be hearing better it is also a bit overwhelming at times. When I first put them in in the morning everything sounds really loud. Also when I get to work and all the equipment running in the bakery it just gets very loud . Last Saturday I was in the basement and almost had a heart attack. As I was standing there suddenly there was a loud alarm type noise. It took me a minute or two to figure out that it was the dryers signal going off. I had never heard it before.
The hearing aids also came with a microphone. I used this last Saturday to talk to my daughter on the phone and it worked really well. I've also used it to watch tv. I turn it on and set it next to the tv and the sound comes right through my hearing aids.
Probably the best part is that I'm hearing people talk much better than I was. Yesterday at work the boss called my name and I turned around and said "yeah" his response was WOW, you heard me, I usually have to yell at you a few times.
Wow, this is really like a miracle. And the little speaker is so cool! I am so happy for you! I hope insurance paid for all of it.
I'm glad they are working for you. Some love them and some hate them. Hearing is such a wonderful sense.
My first thought was - "Whoa - the sound from the tv directly in your ears!" but then again that's what headphones do, don't they? I imagine, after all these years not hearing well, that you are overwhelmed with the sound experience. OTOH - isn't it grand!
Yes, it is grand. Amazing. I knew I couldn't hear well but I guess I didn't realize how much I was missing.
That's GREAT news! Imagine the sounds that you didn't hear that are important--horns honking or sirens approaching when you drive...smoke detectors...I am sooo glad you got these!!
Oh my! This is fabulous! I'm so happy for you to hear things you've been missing!
Now maybe you should rethink this, always hearing the boss might not be a good thing! HAHA....So happy for you. I have a friend that has had nothing but issues with his but I think a lot of it is working with the loud equipment. But the first time he has his back to me and I spoke, he turned and did not say, "what"! It was nice to not have to repeat it and I am glad for anyone that can hear after so long. Congrats to you.
LOL you have a point about hearing the boss. There is a guy at work who recently got hearing aids as well and he has had so many problems with them and quite honestly he doesn't seem to hear any better than he did before.
A friends dad turned his down when he didn't want to be bothered. A lot to enjoy I bet, find a good bird feeding station at a park and be amazed at the birds singing to you.
I imagine I'll be hearing lots of birds soon.
So happy you are hearing better. My husband has a hearing aid for one ear but really needs one for the other. Because of the expense he has been getting by with just one but I notice he isn't hearing all the time. He says he is hearing fine but that is because he doesn't hear what he is missing.
Thank you so much for writing about this. I will probably need them even more in the fullness of time, but I don't like loud noises so I'm guessing I won't be as patient with them as you are. I do appreciate you sharing your experience. That to me is one of the best things about blogging.
That's awesome! My sister just got one and she said similar things. It's taken her a long time to get used to them.
how fabulous is the technology that gives you so much more.
I'm so glad that they are working out!


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New emissions standards to come into effect next year
Friday, Dec 10, 2021 15:14
The government has raised the bar for automotive exhaust emissions. The level-5 standard will come into force next year. — VNA/VNS Photo An Dang
Manufactured, assembled and imported brand-new cars will be subject to level-5 exhaust emission standards from January 1, 2022.
This requirement is set forth in the Prime Minister's Decision No 49/2011/QD-TTg on the roadmap for the application of exhaust emission standards. According to the decision, the level-4 standard took effect from January 1, 2017, and level-5 will be applied next year for manufactured, assembled and imported brand-new cars.
Level-4 and level-5 are standards on the testing and limits of pollutants in exhaust gases applicable to manufactured, assembled and imported brand-new motor vehicles. They are equivalent to Euro-4 and Euro-5 limits provided in United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's technical regulations on motor vehicle exhaust emission or in European Union directives.
The Viet Nam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) said that it had been upgrading equipment and developing new technologies to comply with the requirement since the very first days the decision was introduced. Now, it is ready to roll out cars that meet the level-5 standard.
VAMA is also working with the Viet Nam Petroleum Association (VINPA) to expand the fuel distribution network, help customers access level-5 fuels, and create a set of Frequently Asked Questions to keep customers well-informed about the new standard.
According to VINPA, level-5 diesel (DO-V) is currently available at more than 1,100 petrol stations nationwide. However, no station sells level-5 petrol so far. This new type of petrol is expected to be available on the market from January 1, 2022.
Petrol below level-5 standards may cause damages to many internal components of cars equipped with a level-5 engine. For that reason, VAMA recommends customers buy petrol with a standard equal to or higher than their cars' emission standard level. Petrol stations that sell level-5 fuels can be found through the instructions of petrol firms or on Logigo, an application available on AppStore and Google Play.
With new emission standards in place, cars would become more environmentally friendly, effectively reducing exhaust fumes in the atmosphere. — VNS
Car registration fee reduced to boost market
Registration fee for domestically produced cars reduced by 50%
Ford launches next-generation Ranger
Tax rescheduling proposed to support local automobile industry
Auto market to continue growing: experts
Proposal suggests slashing new car registration fees
Mercedes Benz Vietnam recalls nearly 1,800 C200 cars for inspection
Motorbike sales slash nearly 46 per cent in Q3
Viet Nam's EVI announced for first time
Vietnam Motor Show cancelled due to COVID
Positive signs for year-end car shopping


It's easy to miss what is most important during this time of year. With shopping for Christmas presents, festive parties, children's plays, decorating and baking, we can so often feel stressed and exhausted. During the time when we are celebrating the birth of Jesus and want to abide in His presence, we can so easily miss time spent with Him. Making prayer and God's Word a priority in our life is not always easy. But if we make it our aim to glorify Jesus right in the midst of everything, He can help us to redeem the time in many varied and unusual ways. We can never lose out if we choose to stop and ask Him to enter into our busy holiday lives.
God is calling us to live a focused and dedicated life. A focused life is not scattered in many directions because of the distractions. It always moves to the center even in the busiest times because it is like a magnet attracted to Jesus, knowing that He alone is the one who makes everything work when priorities are in order. God knows that it's difficult and our temptation is to get too busy. We want to concentrate on God's best and not let the good things steal our relationship with Him. Let us remember that prayer and abiding in his presence are of utmost importance to Him.
When feeling overwhelmed with all the work, I encourage you to stop and pray short breath prayers to God throughout the day: "I need You." "I want to abide in You." "Help me Jesus to live for You today." "I worship You." The following prayer will help you and your family to keep God and His Word at the center of your life. You may want to pray it daily and print it for each member of your family, especially when faced with the pressures and the temptation to lose God's peace, joy, and love.
Lord, We worship You. You are our wonderful Counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6). We choose to put You at the center of our family life as we celebrate Your birth. Keep us from distractions and help us to invite You into all our family activities. Teach us to pray and help us to glorify and worship You in our family during this busy time of year. Give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation that we might know You better (Ephesians 1:17).
Thank you for being Immanuel, "God with us." Open our eyes to realize this each day as we interact with others. Help us to be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as You forgave us (Ephesians 4:32). Show us creative ways to love and care for those outside our home. Fill us to overflowing with Your love for the lost. Teach us to do acts of kindness to those who are in need at this time of year. May our family be a refreshment and light to others. We ask You to touch with salvation those in our family who do not know You [Name those individuals]. Open their hearts to Your great love for them. Help us to share Your Truth and be Your light. You are the Savior of the world.
Lord, we want to be passionate about the things you are passionate about. Help each member of our family to be a student of the Bible. Teach us to pray Your Word out loud in our family devotions in such a way that we see mighty spiritual breakthroughs in our home, friends, school, and workplace. Help us declare prophetic promises and decrees from Your Word. We want to experience the life-giving power of Your Word on a daily basis in our family. Show us truth in Your Word, and bring it to life through our prayers. Open the eyes of our hearts that we may be enlightened in order to know the hope to which You have called us, the riches of our glorious inheritance in You and Your incomparable great power (Ephesians 1:18-19a). In Jesus' name, amen.
"For behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people. For to you is born this day in the town of David a Savior, Who is Christ (the Messiah) the Lord! (Luke 2:10-11).


All eyes are on Studio Trigger's mysterious new anime project Promare, as it features a new collaboration from the team behind Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill, and the newest look at it does not disappoint.
With a teaser trailer and poster giving fans an idea of the kinds of visual flair to expect, Promare already makes the kind of impact its predecessors did.
Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi and written by Kazuki Nakashima, who have previously collaborated for fan-favorite Studio Trigger projects Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill, Promare is a joint effort between Studio Trigger and X-FLAG Studio (Monster Strike The Animation), and will release in Japanese theaters next year. The story for the film is currently unknown, but the staff touts it will have a similar tone to the previously mentioned projects.
The first teaser trailer and poster for the film reveals a new look at the film's main character, Galo, who shares a similar vibe to Gurren Lagann's Kamina. That's not the only reference, however, as Galo is a member of a rescue team that uses special mechs called "Matoi-Tech." Although the series named the tech after the matoi banners used by firefighters during Japan's Edo period, as noted by Anime News Network, this is also a sly reference to the main protagonist of Studio Trigger's Kill la Kill.
Shigeto Koyama will be overseeing character and mechanical design, Sushio (who had previously worked on Kill la Kill) will animate for the series, Tomotaka Kubo (Mary and the Witch's Flower) will serve as art director, and Saishi Ichiko designed the series logo. Hiroyuki Sawano (who has previously worked on Attack on Titan and Kill la Kill) is composing the music, while SANZIGEN Animation Studio will handle the CG animation.
If you're unfamiliar with Kill la Kill, it was the first original anime project from Trigger, a company formed by ex-Gainax employees Hiroyuki Imaishi and Masahiko Ohtsuka. It was directed by Imaishi and written Kazuki Nakashima, who had both worked together on Gainax's Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The series follows Ryuko Matoi, a girl in search of her father's killer. Left with one half of a giant pair of scissors, she transfers to Honnouji Academy. The school is under the control of of the student council and their president, the dominate Satsuki Kiryuin. What's different about this academy however is that every student is equipped a Goku Uniform, a suit that gives its wearer superhuman abilities because of the "Life Fibers" sewed within.


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A shot of Barry Kennedy and myself (taken by bride Liz) in front of the fireplace in the spectacular new library/museum at the Royal Canadian Military Institute on University Avenue in Toronto in September 2017. Mr Kennedy, an ex fighter pilot, actor and published author himself, contributed generously to the Flight Lines project, giving of his limited time to copy edit and to the penning of a memorable Foreword to the book. This was all done "long distance" and believe it or not, this was the first time we had met face to face since we met for a beer in Vancouver at least 10 years ago. I was flying the 767 for Air Canada and had a long enough layover to track him down. Love you Barry! It won't be another ten years, I promise!
Chapters Books in Barrie hosted a book signing for me near the end of September. It was a pleasant experience, I met some neat people and even signed and sold some books! As Liz points out "even to some strangers"(!) De-briefing on that crack later. Anyways the highlight of the morning was when John Brassard, our Conservative MP for Barrie-Innisfil dropped by unannounced with a staff photographer and presented me with a bound certificate of congratulations on the writing and publishing of "Flight Lines". A nice touch for sure. He bought a book too!


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Blackcurrant & Mint ganache – Wet and Windy Cottage…….
This is great with strawberries and ice cream, or as a filling to a cake, or meringues. Easy to make, as ever, but great.
At this time of year the blackcurrants are coming out of my freezer, last years crop was so good that I still have lots to use, so I had better get on with it as the bushes are already starting to flower for this years crop. The mint is already growing well in the veg patch, so this is good and fresh. I love the taste of mint, it means new potatoes… or pimms! But this is chocolate spearmint I have just got to add to my mint collections.
In a pan, heat the blackcurrants with a drop of water.
sieve the blackcurrant so as to get ring of the pips and skin.
water to heat the mixture up and get all the chocolate to melt.
which will help get the leaves to turn into a paste.
Allow to cool before placing in the fridge.
before you want to use it, allow it to warm up slightly so that you can pour it, you may need to pace in a pan or in the microwave for a couple of seconds.
Pour over ice cream, or, as in this picture make a meringue sandwich with it.


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