Roku (Avatar: The Last Airbender) was a Fire Nation-born Avatar who preceded Aang.
"One of the five major elements which make up this world, the spark that ignited genesis, the light which nurtures life, and the illumination of judgment which vanquishes all evil. While at times a gentle blessing given to men by gods, it is also a terrible curse which annihilates everything. Its name is fire."
"Fire is the element of power."
"Fire never surrenders. If it cannot burn through, it burns around. Block its path and it sends sparks through the air, to begin the blaze anew somewhere else. Fire always finds a way."
The power to manipulate heat and fire. Variation of Elemental Manipulation and Energy Manipulation.
User can create, shape and manipulate fire, the rapid oxidation of a material in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products, flame being the visible portion of the fire. Depending on the substances alight, and any impurities outside, the color of the flame and the fire's intensity will be different.
Manipulate the properties of fire/heat.
Chaos Manipulation: fire is considered a wild, chaotic element.
Combined with Earth Manipulation, may allow Magma Manipulation.
Electricity Manipulation and Plasma Manipulation by manipulating the atoms in different ways.
Radiation Manipulation via kinetic acceleration by splitting atoms.
Smoke Manipulation smoke always follows the flame.
Distance, mass, precision, etc. depend upon the knowledge, skill, and strength of the user and their power's natural limits.
See Also: Playing with Fire and Kill It with Fire.
Chris Griffin (Family Guy); one episode only "Family Guy Viewer Mail No. 1 - Supergriffins"
Ness and Lucas of Earthbound/Mother were given PK Fire in Super Smash Bros. despite never learning it in the their original games.
Captain Falcon (F-Zero); only seen in Super Smash Bros. and the F-Zero animé.
Kirby (Kirby Series); Via Fire and Burning abilities given by enemies with fire powers, such as Hothead and Burning Leo.
As the current Fire Elemental, Flame Princess (Adventure Time) has immense power over the element.
Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) firebending.
…and summons a fire wall.
Fire Lord Ozai (Avatar: The Last Airbender) manipulating fire.
Mako (Avatar: The Legend of Korra) manipulating fire.
Kevin 11 (Ben 10) possesses Heatblast's pyrokinesis.
Ultimate Kevin (Ben 10: Ultimate Alien) projecting flames.
Ackar (BIONICLE) testing his new fire abilities.
Using their Fire Shields, a group of Tahnok (BIONICLE) burn down a forest.
Kai (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu) the Elemental Master of Fire.
Hekapoo (Star vs. the Forces of Evil) unleashes a fiery attack.
Taranee Cook (W.I.T.C.H) the Guardian of Fire.
Bloom and Daphne (Winx Club) are very powerful fire users.
Kimiko Tohomiko (Xiaolin Showdown/Xiaolin Chronicles) is the Xiaolin Dragon of Fire.
Martin Scaponi/Hotsreak (DC Comics) is a powerful pyrokinetic.
Human Torch and Pyro (Marvel Comics) with Spider-Man caught in the cross-fire, literally.
St. John Allerdyce/Pyro (Marvel Comics) is a mutant with ability to manipulate fire, but since he can't create fire, he wears a special suit with a built-in flamethrower.
Simon Lasker/Pyro (Marvel Comics) can create and manipulate fire.
Jonathan McFee (Marvel Comics) a pyrokinetic able to generate small amounts of fire from the friction of his snapped fingers.
Cyndi (Marvel Comics) persona of Legion.
As a god associated with fire, Baphomet/Nergal (The Wicked + The Divine) has power over fire.
As a god associated with fire, Lucifer (The Wicked + The Divine) has power over fire, ranging from manipulating fire into different shapes to creating spontaneous explosions.
Ifirit (Arabic Mythology) are supernatural creatures in Arabic and Islamic culture. They are a class of infernal Jinn, spirits below the level of angels, well know for their strength, cunning, and ability to control flames.
Hephaestus (Greco-Roman Mythology) as the God of Fire, has absolute control and divine authority over fire, heat, and lava.
Leo Valdez (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles) as a chosen demigod child of Hephaestus to generate and control fire.
Skulduggery Pleasant (Skulduggery Pleasant) conjuring a flame.
Madison Montgomery (American Horror Story: Coven) lighting candles using pyrokinesis.
Meredith Gordon (Heroes) produces flames to show her abilities.
When Lily (Misfits) took ecstasy, her power reversed causing her to create fire.
Walt Arnold (Smallville) uses this ability to intimidate the football players.
Cecil L'Ively (The X-Files) ignites his hand.
Sbeastion (Black Butler) uses fire from candles to set the place ablaze.
Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto's (Bleach) Ryūjin Jakka is the oldest and most powerful fire-type Zanpakutō, and has greater offensive power than all other Zanpakutō in Soul Society.
Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail) is the Fire Dragon Slayer being able to create and manipulate fire.
Erza (Fairy Tail) can manipulate fire by using her Flame Express Armor.
Muhammed Avdol (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III Stardust Crusaders) can create and manipulate fire with his Stand, Magician's Red.
Most of Halloween's (Marchen Awakens Romance) ÄRMs focus on the manipulation of fire. He is a Knight class in the Chess Pieces and the 3rd strongest.
Guardian ÄRM, Kikazoku Fire (Marchen Awakens Romance) as his name implies, is a guardian with the element of fire. It is said his fire is the most dangerous of all ÄRMs.
Orb (Marchen Awakens Romance) has the power to summon and command the Guardian ÄRM, Phoenix.
The flames Leno (Marchen Awakens Romance) creates with Nature ÄRM, Flame Ball can be hurled at the enemy and even used to coat his weapons.
Obito Uchiha (Naruto) using a Fire Style technique.
Sasuke and Itachi Uchiha (Naruto) use the Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu/Blaze of Glory.
Madara Uchiha (Naruto) using Fire Style: Majestic Destroyer Flame.
Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) using Inferno Style/Blaze Release the highest level of fire nature transformation.
With his Devil Fruit, the Mera Mera no Mi, Portgas D. Ace (One Piece) can summon intense flames as well become it.
Because of the Gasu Gasu no Mi Caesar Clown (One Piece) can manipulate fire through his control of oxygen.
After Ace's death, Sabo (One Piece) ate the Mera Mera no Mi gaining its immense power.
Thanks to a cybernetic core, Genos (One Punch Man) is a walking flamethrower.
Cain Barzad (Seven Deadly Sins) uses his ability Blaze to create, control and release fire.
Zeru (Yu Yu Hakusho) specializes in manipulating heat energy.
By drinking the ambrosia of Efreet, Kai Watari (Shinju no Nectar) gain the flame powers of a Fire God.
Captain Falcon (F-Zero) imbuing his kick in fire.
Captain Falcon (F-Zero) imbuing his fist with fire, into the shape of a falcon.
As the Flurry of Dancing Flames, Axel (Kingdom Hearts) has all the power of fire under his control.
Lea, Axel's complete being (Kingdom Hearts), can also generate and manipulate flame.
... and his kick as well.
Fujiwara no Mokou (Touhou Project) Human Immune to Death by Fire.
Annaberge (Valkyrie Crusade) is a demon that manipulates fire and poison,and can combine the two,making a poisoned fire.
Cu Chulainn (Valkyrie Crusade) is a flame goddess with untold power.
Plantain Fan (Valkyrie Crusade) wields the Plantain Fan, relic that allows she control the wind, fire and rain.
Zenobia (Valkyrie Crusade) manipulating yellow fire.
Tyrannosaurus rex/Terry (Dinosaur King), one of the tyrannosaurid dinosaurs with fire powers.
Cinder Fall (RWBY) creates a flame in her hand.
Piro (TF2 Freak) can create and manipulate fire.
Axe Cop (Axe Cop) burning Chuck Norris to a crisp.
Wexter (Axe Cop) a flying t-rex that can breath fire.


Margaret Sanger, the alcoholic and Demerol addict, who spawned the International Planned Parenthood Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality. Here are some of her quotes.
"…human weeds,' 'reckless breeders,' 'spawning… human beings who never should have been born." Margaret Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, referring to immigrants and poor people.


How many of you honestly believe that in the next twenty four hours you could do something that would have a drastically negative effect on your life?
How many of you honestly believe that in the next twenty four hours you could do something that would have an immensely positive effect on your life?
Likely you believe that each of these things are possible but that these two paths of action are quite different.
What if they were nearly identical?
The Slight Edge presents a philosophy of our actions, one that affects the choices that you and I make over the course of our lives.
This philosophy is based on the principle of compounding, the idea that one thing builds upon another and adds up over time to a logical conclusion.
Before we get into the body of this post, a story.
I should probably frame my experiences differently in my mind but at this point in my journey of life I haven't achieved that yet. I grew up on a farm and while the sheep were fluffy and the fruit tasted good, I could not stand being dirty, sweaty, and bending over for hours on end to pull tiny sprouts out of the dirt. One summer sticks in my mind because we had a new 4 acre field of strawberries and they all needed to be weeded. For those of you who don't know what 4 acres look like, imagine a field that you have a hard time hearing someone on the other side who is yelling and you're pretty close.
So myself and the other workers that summer were busy in the field from roughly 8am til 12pm 6 days a week and then we got to work on less offensive projects. During that year the worst weed was Nut Grass. I also hate Nut Grass. My description of this plant wont be written on this blog because children could read it. Anyway, as we weeded I can remember doing enough to make the field look great, but it wasn't 100% clear. Generally there were a few small weeds left, or roots not fully unearthed and those would spring back like, well, weeds. Several weeks later, by the time we had made our way across the yell-distance field, those first small weeds had grown back and multiplied and we had to start over.
My point with this story is that had we put in that last 5-10% effort to demolish the weeds, we wouldn't have had to weed the field multiple times. That final 5% was the difference between a summer filled with 4 hour spinal stress sessions and one that still included weeding, but only half as much.
That is the Slight Edge.
A cursory search of "Compound interest retirement saving" got me Business Insider article. Check it out if you want a reminder to be consistent in the things that you do, or if you like graphs and charts.
The slight edge not only applies to finances but to areas as diverse as health, relationships, skill sets, and thought patterns. It can be summed up in the following image, thanks to attackstylewrestling.com for hosting the image online and demonstrating that it also applies to wrestling!
So what does this mean for our original idea that our actions tomorrow on the success path or our actions tomorrow on the failure path look quite similar?
Simply put, the right actions to take are easy to do, but they are also easy not to do.
Writing down 3 things you're thankful for each day. Easy.
Listening to an audiobook instead of the radio. Easy.
However each of these things are also easy not to do.
Would you agree with me that NOT writing down three things you're thankful for would be unlikely to mean that you are a grouch and constantly complaining tomorrow?
Would you agree that NOT buckling your seat belt on your commute on Monday would be unlikely to end in a fiery car crash?
In my opinion, one of the main ideas of the book is that our habits generally rule the actions that tie directly into the slight edge.
Your habits are what will propel you up the success curve or down the failure curve.
If we can structure our habits so that they feed our positive progress up the slight edge, we can use the momentum we build over time to ride our way to goals that may seem incredible at this time.
However, I would like to encourage you to start as soon as you can to build the habits that you need to propel you towards the goal you have. Think of it in this way, could you move in that direction by 0.3% tomorrow? That's only one third of one percent!
If you usually run 1 mile, you would run 1 mile and 15 feet.
This is a ridiculously small improvement, right?
Consider this though, if you are able to consistently improve at this rate, one year from now you will be well over 100% better!
This old Chinese proverb is worth pondering.
So what easy thing are you going to do today?
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy and magnetism that resonates profoundly.
In the wake of the nightclub attacks in Paris, he recalls how he sought refuge as a teenager in music, at shows, and wonders whether the next generation of young Muslims will not be afforded that opportunity now. While discussing the everyday threat to the lives of black Americans, Abdurraqib recounts the first time he was ordered to the ground by police officers: for attempting to enter his own car.
In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—along with original, previously unreleased essays—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world, so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.

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For other uses, see Sisyphus (disambiguation).
Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 530 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1494)
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus (Greek: Σίσυφος [sí.sy.phos] ['si.si.fos] (help·info), Latinized: Sisyphus, (IPA: /ˈsɪsɨfəs/)), was a king punished in Tartarus by being cursed to roll a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity.
Today, Sisyphean can be used as an adjective meaning that an activity is unending and/or repetitive. It could also be used to refer to tasks that are pointless and unrewarding.
1 The myth
1.1 "Sisyphean task" or "Sisyphean challenge"
2 Interpretations
3 Literary and other references
4 "Cheating Death" theme in other folk tales
[edit] The myth
Sisyphus was son of the king Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete, and the founder and first king of Ephyra (Corinth). He was the father of Glaucus by the nymph Merope, and the grandfather of Bellerophon.
Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce, but was avaricious and deceitful, violating the laws of hospitality by killing travelers and guests. He took pleasure in these killings because they allowed him to maintain his dominant position. From Homer onwards, Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men. He seduced his niece, took his brother's throne and betrayed Zeus's secrets. Zeus then ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus slyly asked Thanatos to try the chains to show how they worked. When Thanatos did so, Sisyphus secured them and threatened him. This caused an uproar, and no human could die until Ares (who was annoyed that his battles had lost their fun because his opponents would not die) intervened, freeing Thanatos and sending Sisyphus to Tartarus.
However, before Sisyphus died, he had told his wife to throw his naked body into the middle of the public square in attempt to test his wife's love for him. Annoyed by the obedience and loveless decision by his wife, Sisyphus persuaded Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, to allow him to go back to the upper world and scold his wife for not burying his body like a loving wife would. When Sisyphus returned to Corinth, he refused to retreat back to the underworld and was forcibly dragged back to the underworld by Hermes. In another version of the myth, Persephone was directly persuaded that he had been conducted to Tartarus by mistake and ordered him to be freed.[1]
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[edit] "Sisyphean task" or "Sisyphean challenge"
As a punishment from the gods for his trickery, Sisyphus was compelled to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, but before he could reach the top of the hill, the rock would always roll back down again, forcing him to begin again.[2] The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for Sisyphus due to his hubristic belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus. Sisyphus took the bold step of reporting one of Zeus's sexual conquests, telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina. Zeus had taken her away, but regardless of the impropriety of Zeus's frequent conquests, Sisyphus overstepped his bounds by considering himself a peer of the gods who could rightfully report their indiscretions.[3] As a result, Zeus displayed his own cleverness by binding Sisyphus to an eternity of frustration. Accordingly, pointless or interminable activities are often described as Sisyphean. Sisyphus was a common subject for ancient writers and was depicted by the painter Polygnotus on the walls of the Lesche at Delphi.[4]
[edit] Interpretations
According to the solar theory, Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west.[5] Other scholars regard him as a personification of waves rising and falling, or of the treacherous sea.[5] The 1st-century BC Epicurean philosopher Lucretius interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an "empty thing," being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.[6] Welcker suggested that he symbolises the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge, and S. Reinach[7] that his punishment is based on a picture in which Sisyphus was represented rolling a huge stone Acrocorinthus, symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum. Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, sees Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but concludes "one must imagine Sisyphus happy" as "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart."
[edit] Literary and other references
Ovid, the famous Roman poet, references Sisyphus in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song with the result of getting his wish of bringing Eurydice back. After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus sat on his rock, the Latin wording being "inque tuo sedisti Sisyphe, saxo."[8]
Albert Camus, the French Absurdist, wrote an essay entitled The Myth of Sisyphus in which he elevates Sisyphus to the status of absurd hero.
Franz Kafka repeatedly referred to Sisyphus as a bachelor; the Kafkaesque for him were those qualities that brought out the Sisyphus-like qualities in himself. According to Frederick Karl: "The man who struggled to reach the heights only to be thrown down to the depths embodied all of Kafka's aspirations; and he remained himself, alone, solitary."[9]
In Gene Wolfe's Ancient Greece novel Soldier of Arete, the protagonist Latro encounters Sisyphus, observes him trying to lift the stone and fail, then succeeds in helping him carry the stone to the top of the hill.
Harlan Ellison's article "Rolling Dat Ole Debbil Stone", written about early video games, draws a parallel between the legend of Sisyphus and pointless video games that go on forever and never accomplish anything--just getting maybe a little further before you lose.
Also seen in Airborn by Kenneth Oppel in regard to the Sisyphus Triangle, similar to the Bermuda Triangle.
In ultra low temperature Physics, 'The Sisyphus Effect' involves the use of specially selected laser light, hitting atoms from various angles to both cool and trap them in a potential well, effectively 'rolling' the atom down a hill of potential energy until it has lost its kinetic energy[10].
The stone Sisiphus ended rolling up the hill, became the name of the title track and album for the American rock band Chicago titled Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisiphys. It was a metaphor describing their career.
In Xena: Warrior Princess (season 1), the episode "Death in Chains" is loosely based on the myth of Sisyphus.
[edit] "Cheating Death" theme in other folk tales
The way in which Sisyphus cheated Death is not unique to his tale. Thus in a Venetian story the ingenious Beppo ties up Death in a bag and keeps him there for eighteen months; there is general rejoicing; nobody dies, and the doctors are in high feather. In a Sicilian story an innkeeper corks up Death in a bottle; so nobody dies for years, and the long white beards are a sight to see. In another Sicilian story a monk keeps Death in his pouch for forty years (T. F. Crane, Italian Popular Tales, 1885). The German parallel is Gambling Hansel, who kept Death up a tree for seven years, during which no one died (Grimm, Household Tales). The Norse parallel is the tale of the Master Smith (G. W. Dasent, Popular Tales from the Norse). For a Lithuanian parallel, see A. Schleicher, Litauische Märchen, Sprichworte, Rätsel und Lieder (1857); for Slavonic parallels, F. S. Krauss, Sagen und Märchen der Südslaven, ii. Nos. 125, 126; see also Frazer's Pausanias, iii. p. 33; O. Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie (1906), ii., p. 1021, note 2.[5]
[edit] References
^ Bernard Evslin's Gods, Demigods & Demons, 209-210
^ Odyssey, xi. 593
^ Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 312-313
^ Pausanias x. 31
^ a b c "Sisyphus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
^ De Rerum Natura III
^ Revue archéologique, 1904
^ Ovid. Metamorphoses, 10.44.
^ Karl, Frederick. Franz Kafka: Representative Man. New York: Fromm International Publishing Corporation, 1991.
^ http://www.lkb.ens.fr/recherche/onl/intro_Eng.htm
[edit] See also
Look up Sisyphean in
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Sisyphus (dialogue), a dialogue ascribed to Plato
1866 Sisyphus, asteroid
The Myth of Sisyphus, a philosophical essay by Albert Camus
"Sysyphus", an instrumental by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd
Stone of Sisyphus, the previously unreleased album by the band Chicago
Cool Hand Luke, a popular movie starring Paul Newman in which the title character is a defiant prisoner at a work camp. His futile efforts to challenge authority, such as his escape attempts, result in equally pointless punishments, such as digging holes and filling them back in.
Naranath Bhranthan, a similar character in Indian folklore
Other figures in Greek mythology punished by the gods include:
[edit] Sources
"Sisyphus". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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While acupuncture has been around for centuries, the East-Asian medical treatment has remained a bit of a mystery. Acupuncture is an effective pain reliever, but how does it work? Researchers posit that acupuncture may activate the body's own, natural pain killers, but how the treatment does its magic at the cellular level is still a great unknown.
Now, a University of Michigan research study gives new evidence that this traditional Chinese medical treatment aids the brain in building up its ability to handle pain long term. The results of this study appeared in the Journal of NeuroImage.
Researchers from the U of M's Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center saw that acupuncture served to increase the availability of mu-opoid receptors (MOR) for binding in those areas of the brain that work with and mute pain signals, such as the amygdala, thalamus, caudate, insula, and cingulate. It is thought that opioid painkillers, for instance codeine and morphine, work through binding with these opioid receptors found in both the brain and in the spinal cord.
Richard E. Harris, Ph.D., a researcher at the U of M's Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center as well as a research assistant professor of anesthesiology with the university's medical school commented that, "The increased binding availability of these receptors was associated with reductions in pain."
Harris explains that a major implication of this study is that those patients treated with acupuncture for chronic pain may be more sensitive to traditional opioid medications since the Chinese treatment seems to give the receptors greater binding availability. This apparent benefit is not negated by a recent controversy in which sham acupuncture was shown to be just as effective as the real deal in relieving chronic pain. The acupuncture and sham acupuncture groups experienced a near-identical lessening of chronic pain, said Harris, "But the mechanisms leading to pain relief are distinctly different."
Participants in the study included 20 female fibromyalgia patients, who had been suffering from the condition for at least one year. The participants all suffered from pain at least half of the time. For the duration of the study, the participants agreed not to begin any new medications for fibromyalgia pain. The participants underwent brain scans using positron emission tomography (PET) during their first assessments, followed by further scans, one month after completing their eighth treatments with acupuncture.


There are several different ways to employ a used shipping container. One of the most common ways to utilise a used shipping container is just to use it to store your goods. A shipping container is designed to withstand the dangers of traveling at sea. The sea obviously will have high humidity, salt water, high winds, and other types of serious dangers. They're also designed to withstand the stacking of other crates on top of them. Each 20-foot create typically weighs about 2,000 kg. They can weigh many times more than that when they are filled with goods. This means that they will be able to withstand just about anything you need them for. However, they're useful for more than just storing your items.
If you want to turn your garden or your side yard into a workshop, a shipping container is a great choice. A shipping container as a workshop needs to have a few modifications. You will need to make sure that you can run wires into the shipping container. That will allow you to run lights and other types of machinery. Furthermore, you will need to make sure that you have ventilation in your workshop. Usually, a shipping container will come with some ventilation chambers to allow you to control the humidity level but you'll need more than just that. You'll need fans that will bring in fresh air and also expel any kind of harmful substance. That is typically accomplished by installing a fan that blows outward. Also, shipping containers will have large doors that will allow you to bring in a lot of natural light and air flow. Getting them to your house requires a Melbourne container transport, though.
The first thing you'll need to do when you are considering buying a shipping container for your needs is to choose a company that will get your container to you. If you don't have a large truck, you'll need to have it delivered to you. So, choose a company that will transport to your location.
You should also consider a company that will modify the container for you. The suppliers can often install roller doors to your container. A roller door will make it easier to open and close the door, especially if you're choosing to only partially open it. Furthermore, suppliers will be able to install the proper vent fans or insulate the container. Insulating the container is useful if you intend to stay there when it is cold outside. That will allow you to keep it warm even during the winter.
These are just a few of the ways that you can benefit from a used shipping container. They are incredibly useful structures that are waterproof and very resilient.


I recently met someone from the local learning industry, and surprisingly, we had not yet crossed paths. Probably because she comes from the entertainment side of the street. As we got deeper in our conversation about what we do, how we do it, who is involved, the tools we use, how long it takes, etc, we realized we needed to align our "fruits": terminology, approaches, concepts, etc. to be able to understand each other, to talk "apples to apples".
When scoping a job, we usually start by looking for past experiences to figure out what needs to be done for how much, right? And you probably heard the expression… "we need to compare apples to apples" or "you can't compare apples to oranges" when you realize that you're looking at different examples. And come to think of it, there are many kinds of apples: color, texture, taste, etc.
So we need to get to a common ground, talk the same language, use the same reference points. Especially when you are talking with clients. Learning materials (elearning, instructor-led training (ILT), etc.) can be distinguished from many different perspectives, but generally we end up discussing the "look and feel", the interactivity, the media elements, and more importantly, the engagement factor.
Side note: Of course human nature wants it all: but sooner than later you need to talk how much it costs and how long it takes to build it.
For now I'll set aside the the "look and feel" and engagement factor, as the former is pretty easy to tackle and the latter is very subjective (at least I think so). So that leaves the interactivity and the media elements, which leads the discussion to "levels" of complexity, to relate it back to effort, cost and time.
For elearning, we've all heard of levels 1, 2 and 3. For ILT? I actually don't know if there is such a classification. There should be. Maybe some of you can join in and point to some… But for now, I'll focus on elearning.
I like Amit's extended model. Not sure about his breakdown of "course-types", as I would see at least another type between "presentation" and "scenarios", to account for designing activities that are not scenario-based (I guess it depends on how he came up with his range of instructional design effort). His model better addresses a situation where you need a highly interactive design, scenario-based with non-linear branching, in a very simple interface, and no media: instructional design effort would be very high, while media design and production very low. But I'd like to see separate curves to distinguish the course-type (instructional design) and the multimedia parts. Maybe two separate graphs need to be created… that you overlay to get the "real" picture?
Another example: Shift Disruptive elearning (which in turn points to EduTech's wiki page on "interactivity") presents it from the interactive side with a 4-level classification: passive, limited, moderate and simulation. But there again, they include media design and development into the mix.
There are many different views out there, which makes it difficult to compare – from tomatoes to apples… And then, we need to look at what it takes to create and produce the apple we agree is needed. Ultimately, the right one is the one that you feel most comfortable with, that you can "easily" explain and relate to the person you're talking to. Of course you also need to consider the group you are part of, your colleagues, the ones that need to have the same "schpeel" in front of clients.
I'm currently working on a model of my own, working from past experiences, considering the major blocks of activities relating to elearning design and development: lead ID, ID, authoring (integration, programming), Lx/Ux*, media design and production, QC and of course PM. If some of you are interested in discussing this further, either from the service provider or buyer sides, please let me know.
Augmented reality for training… get it out to the masses!
You start the app, tell it what the problem is (by answering some questions), set a reference marker (visual cue on the subject, or even better, it knows already what you are looking at because of a RFID!) and let it guide you!
Wouldn't that be cool! On your phone!


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The reflective ideas of Nehru on history
by C I Issac on 27 May 2010 8 Comments
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime-minister of India, visualised his socio-political and economic insights for a future India by imbibing lessons from history. He was not a professional historian in the strict sense of the term, but he had a good sense of history and was reflective in the bulk of his literary creations and letters, including his memoirs [Autobiography]. Thus his literature unequivocally substantiates that he was not a professional historian in the modern sense of the term.
However, his vision was closely amalgamated with the annals of history - both national and international. He found enough room inspiration from the lessons of history. He dreamed of a socialist India, different from his contemporary socialistic archetypes. That is why he suggested a mixed economy; an Indian socialistic alternative. Notwithstanding its success or failure, the lessons from the past that he acquired through study of the history of political economy since the French Revolution, considerably influenced his new paradigm. He had confidence in the Indian mindset portrayed through our itihasa-purana tradition [1].
It is generally held that one reason for Hitler's failure was his ignorance or reluctance to learn from history. The Indian mind is amazingly analytical and has a taste for putting ideas and concepts realistically. To Indians, democracy and secularism are not western ideas but part and parcel of their age-old tradition, which the rest of the world calls mythology. From time immemorial, from tribals to aristocracy, all appropriately responded to threats of external and internal anti-dharmic forces. A.L. Basham underlines this particular Indian response; "...we have ample evidence to show that great empires rose and fell in India, and that, as in religion, art, literature and social life, so in political organization India produced her own system, distinctive in its strength and weakness" [2].
The ancient Indians maintained a well-argued historical and chronological tradition – the itihasa-purana mode. The incorporation of this age-old Indian tradition and its time-scale [yugas & manvantharas] method into the category of mythology is an exercise of Euro-centric reductionism of the Indian past. This historical tradition was not identifiable to those familiar with Greek historical writing [3]. The advocates of Abrahamic-reductive-mythological time-scale, which fixes the age of the origin of humanity at 4000 BCE, could not fathom Hindu time calculations. To them, Abrahamic traditions and canons are unique historical events. Nehru was a subject of this Euro-centric notion [4]. But our itihasa-purana is an orally transmitted pattern of history. So, for the effective transfer of the bare facts of history from generation to generation, it is an essential condition to coat facts with sugar. Thus history to Indians [Hindus] is not only a meagre narration of bare events in a chronological order but:
"Dharmartha kama mokshanam upadesha samnnvitham
Poorva vritham katha youktham Itihasam prachkshathe"
Above all, to the Indians, history has a purpose to serve, evolutionary but progressive in character, which targetted material and spiritual enrichment of society. Distinguished astronomer and writer Prof. Carl Sagan of Cornell University, USA, opines: "… the calculations of the age of the universe based on this cosmology works out to be fairly close to our current scientific estimates – and [Hinduism] is the only ancient religious tradition on the Earth which talks about the right time-scale" [5].
Even though Nehru believed Euro-centric notions of historiography, he was a proud Indian. He was well aware of the glorious days of India and always tried to imbibe pride and self-esteem from the itihasa-purana tradition. "We shall learn also of the great days of India when Ramayana and Mahabharata were written and India was a rich and powerful country" [6].
G.P. Singh observes "the two epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, include almost all the elements of historical tradition" [7]. But Nehru was not free from the general Indian intellectual timidity and believed: that ancient Indians lacked historical sense and historical writings; that pre-Mohammedan India did not produce historians like Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, etc. Thus he laments: "Unlike Greeks, and unlike the Chinese and Arabs, Indians in the past were not historians. This was very unfortunate and it has made it difficult for us now to fix dates or make up an accurate chronology. Events run into each other, overlap and produce an enormous confusion. …" [8].
He ignored the universal fact that hitherto all accredited works in history are tailor-made [9] to fit the occasion or the interest. He totally bypassed our rich antiquity contained in itihasa-purana. He tried similarly to fix the date of our scientific tradition of history by mimicking Euro-centric reductionism, and thus sees the only real early book on history as Kalhana's Rajatarangini, a history of Kashmir written in the 12th century CE, considered by many as history with proper traits. "For the rest we have to go to the imagined history of the epics and other books, to some contemporary records, to inscriptions, to artistic and architectural remains, coins and to the large body of Sanskrit literature, for occasional hints" [10]. It is a paradox that critics of itihasa-purana mode are enthusiastic to praise Kalhana, ignoring the fact that he had given due consideration to ancient texts [purana] as source materials for the composition of his masterpiece, Rajatarangini [11].
The historiographical transactions of ancient India almost to the end of the Gupta period were broadly based on itihasa-purana tradition. It thus contained myth, genealogy and historical narrative. "From the time of Vyasa to Kalhana various traditions of historiography, including the Vedic, Epic, Puranic, Buddhist and Jain, flourished one after another" [12]. It never infringed the integrity and persistence of the nation. Nehru identified and recognized this fact: "This lack of historical sense did not affect the masses, for like elsewhere and more so than elsewhere, they built up their view of the past from the traditional accounts and myth and story that were handed to them from generation to generation. This imagined history and mixture of fact and legend became widely known and gave to the people a strong and abiding cultural background" [13].
Nehru observes that the disregard of history had a criminal consequence that still chases the nation. The absence of proper understanding of history "produced a vagueness of outlook, a divorce from life as it is, a credulity, a woolliness of the mind where fact was concerned" [14]. Fact is the core of history; Indians from the very beginning of this civilization preserved it sacredly. That is why "the dawn of history is heralded in India by the hymns sung by the Rishis and enshrined in the Rig-Veda Samhita" [15]. According to Nehru the Indian mind was vague and indefinite in the dominion of the knowledge system - history. But in other areas they excelled and outperformed the rest of the world. In the "… realms of philosophy; it was analytic and synthetic, often very critical, sometimes skeptical. But where fact was concerned, it was uncritical, because perhaps it did not attach much importance to fact as such"16.
While skeptical of our way of preserving the past, Nehru was aware of the source and continuity of Indian nationalism. He recognized the vital role Hindu culture, institutions, philosophers and religion that played to sustain the spirit of nationalism through ages. He accepted Indian nationalism as Hindu nationalism [17. He highlights the role of Vivekananda as enough to substantiate the importance of sages in the Indian renaissance [18]. He accepts that Indian spiritualism is different from that of the West, and that Indian spiritualism and science are inseparable. "Fifty years ago, Vivekananda regarded modern science as a manifestation of the real religious spirit, for it sought to understand truth by sincere effort" [19]. Nehru arrived at this conclusion by accepting Albert Einstein's testimony [20]. He accepts the absence of the western model of history never crippled the Indians onward movement. "Liberty of thought and action is the only condition in life, of growth and well-being. Where it does not exist, the man, the race, the nation must go" [21].
This immense freedom guaranteed by the Hindu way of life is the undisclosed reality behind the success of democracy in independent India. "Swami Vivekananda always gave emphasis to the aspect of freedom which was reflected in Upanishads as the answer to the truth about universe" [22]. Above all he identified an exclusive Indian spiritual reality, the progressive movement of spiritualism along with time. On the other hand, it is notable that the religion and spirituality of the Semitic world still remain in one way or other, under the fetters of fundamentalism [23]. He was not reluctant to praise [24] Indian Vedanta and the longstanding Rishi hegemony in the long running process of nation building. Finally, Nehru expresses his faith in the Indian style of spirituality which spins around monism or Advaita philosophy of Vedanta. Nehru by accepting our un-infringed tradition confesses that Vedanta will be the future religion of thinking humanity [25]. Yet on several occasions he pretends to be pro-West and contemptuous of Hindu; this observation still remains as an enigma!
He identified the partiality of historiographers. "He [Herodotus] was, of course, partial to the Greeks, but his account is very interesting …" [26]. Nehru is too critical of the Indian lapse of failing to keep chronicles and praises the Greeks for their approach to chronological presentation of facts, for "drawing some moral and lesson from them for future behaviour" [27]. He passes judgment by not considering the merit [Dharmartha kama mokshanam upadesha samnnvitham] of the Indian approach of itihasa-purana: "the whole conception of history in ancient India was influenced by the speculative and ethical trends of philosophy and religion" [28].
While talking about history, Nehru fell on the horns of dilemma. He was too proud of the Indian past and its ascetic inheritance, patient enough to note the extraordinary ability of Indian sages to attach human business of life into the ashramas and purusharthas. He believed such methodical approach of putting ideas and concepts made Indian life a meaningful affair [29]. In this manner he courageously questioned the veracity of the dichotomous racial question of Aryan and non-Aryan fabricated by imperial interest [30]. But he still found fault with the Indian method of telling the past: "Nevertheless it is true that Indians are peculiarly liable to accept tradition and report as history, uncritically and without sufficient examination. They will have to rid themselves of this loose thinking and easy way of arriving at conclusions" [31].
Nehru was no historian, but the influence of our historical tradition reflected in his effort to design economic and political ideas. The practicability of the Indian experiment in democratic institutions was doubted by the West, but Nehru was confident about its success as he was well aware of Hindu [immense freedom of expression] tradition. Similarly he was an ardent socialist; hence he was not ready to imitate Marxian or Soviet paradigms. All these are sufficient to show how far Nehru was influenced by our itihasa-purana tradition. Thus he ushered in a new economic policy for India [32].
Even though Nehru was the product of Euro-centrism, he retained a soft corner for the Indian past and tailored it to fit the changing present. He was always in search of Indian tradition and knowledge systems for developing alternatives for Western systems. He was well aware of the drawbacks of our present textual history. "Even the British period is distorted with the object of glorifying British rule and British virtues. Very slowly a more correct perspective is developing. But we need not go to the past to find instances of the manipulation of history to suit particular ends and support one's own fancies and prejudices. The present is full of this, and if the present, which we have ourselves seen and experienced, can be so distorted, what of the past?" [33].
He was well aware of the prejudice behind Indo-European historiography: real history in India begins with the advent of the Englishman and all texts before them are a mystic way a preparation… Above all, the colonial historiographic exercise brought before us an obscure and contemptuous account of what happened here in the millennia preceding the Raj [34]. Nehru was confident of the birth of a living history tradition with an Indo-centric approach in free India [35]. In ancient India there were historians and historiography. The traditional Indian understanding of its past differs from the Greco-Roman, but there was no poverty of historical knowledge and works in ancient India. It is true there some chronological questions remain a challenge in the itihasa-purana tradition, particularly of non Jain-Buddha tradition. The need of the hour is the formulation of an Indian paradigm.
1] Itihasa-purana mode is the traditional Indian way of understanding history. Nehru observes: "…, but always there was the back-ground of Indian mythology which I had imbibed in my earliest years. … That influence is a good influence both culturally and ethically, and I would hate to destroy or throw away all the beauty and imaginative symbolism that these stories and allegories contain". Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, London, [New impression of the fourth edn] 1960, pp 89, 90
2] A. L. Basham, The Wonder That was India, New Delhi, 1995 [first pub. 1954], p 47.
3] "The Indian historical tradition – the itihasa-purana, as it is called – was in a form not easily recognizable to those familiar with Greek historical writing. … the inability of modern scholars to perceive and concede the awareness of change, so necessary to a sense of history, in the itihasa-purana, and this precluded them from seeing the historical basis of the tradition". Romila Thapar, Interpreting Early India, Delhi, 1993, p 20.
4] "I do not think I ever attached very much importance to these stories as factually true, and I even criticized the magical and super-natural elements in them", Jawaharlal Nehru, op cit, p 89.
5] Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and Aditi Banerjee [Editors], Invading the Sacred, Chapter 16: Is there Prejudice in Hinduism Studies? By Sankrant Sanu, New Delhi, [second imp], 2007, pp 175, 176.
6] Jawaharlal Nehru, Letters From Father to His Daughter, [first edn. 1929] III [edn], Allahabad, p 6.
7] G. P. Singh, Ancient Indian Historiography, New Delhi, 2003, p 11.
8] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, V [edn], 1948, Calcutta, p 75.
9] "… history is what the historian makes". E. H. Carr, What is History? Harmondsworth, UK, 1977, p 26.
10] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, V [edn], 1948, Calcutta, p 75.
11] G. P. Singh, op cit, pp 113, 114.
12] Ibid, p 14.
13] Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, London, 1960 [edn], op cit, p 91.
14] Ibid.
15] R. P. Chanda, The Indo-Aryan Races, Delhi 1978, p 1: Quoted from G. P. Singh, Ancient Indian Historiography, New Delhi, 2003, p 17.
17] "A famous disciple of Ramakrishna's was Swami Vivekananda, who very eloquently and forcibly preached the gospel of nationalism. This was not in any way anti-Muslim or anti any one else, … None the less Vivekananda's nationalism was Hindu nationalism, and it had its roots in Hindu religion and culture". Jawaharlal Nehru, Glimpses of World History, Penguin Books New Delhi, 2004, p 507.
18] "Rooted in the past and full of pride in India's heritage, Vivekananda was yet modern in his approach to life's problems and was a kind of bridge between the past of India and her present". Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2004, p 368.
19] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, Meridian Books, London, 1960, p 574 n.
20] "In the materialistic age of ours, says Professor Albert Einstein, the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people" …, Ibid.
21] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, Penguin Books, op cit, p 369.
22] Ibid, p89.
23] "Progressively, Vivekananda grew more international in outlook: Even in politics and sociology, problems that were only national twenty years ago can no longer be solved on national grounds only. They are assuming huge proportions, gigantic shapes. They can only be solved when looked at in the broader light of international grounds. International organizations, international combinations, international laws are the cry of the day. That shows solidarity. In science, every day they are coming to a similar broad view of matter". Ibid, pp 369, 70.
24] "So Vivekananda thundered from Cape Comorin on the southern tip of India to the Himalayas, …..", Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, London, 1960 [edn], op cit, p 341.
26] Jawaharlal Nehru, Glimpses of World History, Penguin Books New Delhi, 2004, p 46.
27] "Like the Greeks, that were strongly imaginative and artistic and they gave rein to this artistry and imagination in dealing with the past events, intent as they were drawing some moral and lesson from them for future behavior". Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India, London, 1960 [edn], op cit, p 91.
29] "The Indian mind was extra ordinarily analytical and had a passion for putting ideas and concepts, and even life's activities, into compartments. The Aryans not only divided society into four main groups but also divided the individual's life into four parts: … [ashramas] … In this way also they adjusted the two opposing tendencies which often exist side by side in man – the acceptance of life in its fullness and rejection of it". Ibid p 74.
30] "The word arya ceased to have any racial significance and came to mean 'noble', just as un-arya meant ignoble and was usually applied to nomadic tribes, forest-dwellers, etc". Ibid.
31] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, V [edn], 1948, op cit, p 77.
32] "… radical programme was taken at Karachi in 1931, when the Congress passed a resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Programme, accepting that 'political freedom must include real economic freedom of starving millions'. … and state ownership or control of key industries, mines and means of transport". Bipin Chandra, The epic Struggle, New Delhi, 1992, p 36.
33] Jawaharlal Nehru, Discovery of India, V [edn], 1948, op cit, pp 76, 77.
34] "The histories of India that most of us have had to read, chiefly written by Englishmen, are usually long apologies for the panegyrics of British rule and barely veiled contemptuous account of what happened here in the millenniums preceding it". Ibid.
35] "Many competent historians are at work now, but they often err on the other side and their work is more a meticulous chronicle of facts than living history. But even today it is strange how we suddenly become overwhelmed by tradition and the critical faculties of even intelligent men cease to function. This may partly be due to the nationalism that consumes us in our present subject state. Only when we are politically and economically free will the mind function normally and critically". Ibid, p 75.
The author is a retired Professor of History, and lives in Trivandrum


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Republicans maintain control in Tennessee
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican candidates maintained control in Tennessee in Tuesday's election with the help of high voter turnout throughout the state.
Two open statewide contests sparked high-profile attention in the buildup to Election Day, with officials reporting high amounts of early voting and absentee ballots being cast.
Despite the attention, little will change in the political makeup of Tennessee. Republicans will continue to control the U.S. Senate, governor's seat and statehouse, but the longstanding moderate tone that outgoing GOP leaders such as U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, Gov. Bill Haslam and House Speaker Beth Harwell held while in office could be exchanged with more outspokenly Republican replacements.
Here is a look at the major victories:
Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn became Tennessee's first female U.S. senator after defeating Democratic former Gov. Phil Bredesen.
The two had been locked in a tough, expensive fight to replace Corker, who is retiring at the end of the year.
The campaign spending shattered Tennessee records, as Bredesen argued he would be an independent voice in Washington, and Blackburn countered by tying him to national Democrats. Blackburn closely aligned herself with the White House, having drawn visits to Tennessee from President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other prominent Republicans.
Bredesen's campaign had spent $15.2 million through mid-October, while outside groups have spent about $26.3 million as of early this week to help him. Blackburn's campaign, meanwhile, shelled out about $12 million through mid-October, and outside groups some $31.6 million for her bid.
Blackburn, from Brentwood, was first elected to the U.S. House in 2002. She calls herself a "hardcore, card-carrying Tennessee conservative" who will fight for Trump's agenda.
Bredesen was Tennessee's governor from 2003 to 2011, and served as Nashville's mayor before that.
Republican businessman Bill Lee won his bid to be Tennessee's next governor against former Democratic Nashville Mayor Karl Dean.
While the battle for governor was often overshadowed by the high-profile Senate race, the race did result in record breaking spending in the build up to Election Day.
Ultimately, voters chose Lee, a political newcomer who touted his faith and used the success of his business — Lee Company, a $225 million mechanical contracting, facilities and home services firm with more than 1,200 employees — to argue that he's ready to lead the state.
That victory was secured in an overall positive campaign between the two candidates. However, Dean spent the last few weeks of the campaign increasing Lee's vague answers on the state's top policy issues. In one ad, Dean went as far as to call Lee "extreme" due to his support for private school vouchers and arming teachers.
Lee has continued to shrug off those accusations and declined to address them when asked. He instead has vowed to work with both political parties to move Tennessee forward.
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Democrats made no gains in the nine races for the U.S. House, including three open seats retained by Republicans.
All six House incumbents cruised to victory to maintain the party breakdown status quo: Seven Republicans, two Democrats.
Former GOP Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett won in District 2 in East Tennessee, a seat vacated due to the retirement of Republican John Duncan Jr.
Republican Diane Black's failed gubernatorial run made room for a new face in District 6, where Republican farmer John Rose won.
Republican Marsha Blackburn's successful run for U.S. Senate left District 7 open, and GOP state Sen. Mark Green won that seat.
Republican supermajorities looked firmly intact in the state General Assembly, where all 99 seats in the House and 18 of the 33 Senate seats were on the ballot.
State Senate GOP Speaker Randy McNally declared a clean sweep for Republicans in his chamber's slate of elections, and House Republicans looked on track to hold their ground.
Plenty of lawmakers did not return. Eighteen Republican and seven Democratic incumbents in the House are not seeking re-election, and two Republicans lost in the primary.
They included Republican Speaker Beth Harwell of Nashville and Democratic Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh of Ripley, who both unsuccessfully ran for governor. The Harwell seat was picked up by Democrat Bob Freeman and the Fitzhugh seat flipped to Republican Chris Hurt. Knoxville GOP Rep. Eddie Smith also lost his seat to a Democrat.
In the Senate, Democratic Sens. Lee Harris and Thelma Harper, and Republican Sen. Bill Ketron of Murfreesboro did not seek re-election. Democratic Sen. Reginald Tate lost a primary contest.
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K&L Gates Partner Elisa D'Amico To Receive The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service Award for Eleventh Judicial Circuit
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MIAMI – Elisa D'Amico, a partner in the Miami office of the global firm K&L Gates LLP and co-founder of the firm's Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, has been named as a recipient of The Florida Bar President's Pro Bono Service Award for 2019. The Florida Bar President, Michelle Suskauer, will present the award to her on February 7, 2019 at the Florida Supreme Court.
Each year, the Florida Supreme Court and The Florida Bar give special recognition to lawyers, groups and a member of the judiciary who have freely given their time and expertise in making legal services available to the poor. D'Amico will be recognized for her work founding and managing the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project, in addition to her significant pro bono contributions across the state and throughout the United States.
D'Amico focuses her litigation practice on Digital Crisis Planning & Response, counseling corporations,educational institutions, and high-profile individuals in proactively planning for and effectively managing digital crisis situations, including university scandals, corporate imposter accounts and websites, and leaked confidential and proprietary information. In this role, she also fights internet-based abuse such as invasions of privacy, cyber harassment, fraud, and unfair and deceptive acts and practices. D'Amico regularly writes and lectures about internet privacy, cyber civil rights, and computer forensics. She frequently is consulted by various media outlets, including The New York Times, The WallStreet Journal, CNN, MSNBC, and Broadly/VICE on those topics. She has authored several articles about digital abuse that have been published by the ABA'sHuman Rights Magazine, National Law Journal, Miami Herald and Daily Business Review, among others.
Among her many accolades, in 2015, D'Amico was named "Attorney of the Year" by the ALM/Daily Business Review; in 2016, she was awarded The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono Service Award, and in 2017 she was named as On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers by the ABA Young Lawyers Division.
In late 2014, she co-founded the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project after realizing that there was a void that needed to be filled: victims who had been exposed online did not have the knowledge or the resources to help them remove the offensive content, identifywho was responsible for distribution of the material, and/or reclaim their online identities and their lives. D'Amico, then an associate, founded the pro bono project with her law partner David Bateman, on the principle that people have a right of privacy when it comes to their intimate photographs and videos,and that public dissemination of that material without consent is an invasion of privacy that amounts to a "cyber civil rights" violation. Since its inception, D'Amico has managed the pro bono project and its volunteer K&L Gates lawyers, and has worked toward recognition of the Cyber Civil Rights Legal Project as a leading legal resource to protect the rights of revenge porn victims worldwide.
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The Case for Mobile Thin Clients
IT departments save money and increase security with these new devices.
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Mobile Thin Clients
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Information needs to move easily, cheaply and securely. To fill those requirements,
many colleges and universities are taking a close look at mobile thin clients:
portable devices with minimal storage and processing power that deliver networked
applications and data via a wireless connection. These clients can go virtually
anywhere and run tasks that full-powered notebook systems can, but they're
less expensive and more secure.
Yet, mobile thin clients remain a fairly well-kept secret, accounting for
less than 4 percent of all thin devices expected to sell worldwide in 2010,
says Bob O'Donnell, vice president for clients and displays for IDC.
In part, that's because many organizations run thin-client software
on existing hardware such as full-fledged notebooks, which aren't included
in these thin-client projections.
Iowa State University is looking to outfit a mobile lab for its English Department
using notebooks or thin clients running VMware View, says Mike Lohrbach, a
systems analyst for the university's IT Services.
The department plans to buy roughly 30 machines that it will store on a cart
and wheel between rooms. Mobile thin clients will give English professors the flexibility
to hold classes wherever they want without the cost of putting a machine on
every desk, Lohrbach says. With thin clients, no data is stored on the machine's
hard drive, so multiple users can share a notebook without jeopardizing data
security. Plus, using a thin-client architecture allows the IT department
to manage all the machines centrally.
Right now, Lohrbach says his group is still evaluating thin clients for the
English Department, which will buy and deploy the machines perhaps as early
as this fall.
At the University of Baltimore in Maryland, the IT staff is testing mobile
thin clients this summer as part of a desktop virtualization pilot.
Jim Campbell, a systems analyst at the university, says his staff bought
50 virtual desktop licenses from VMware, half of which will be used on thin-client
devices, with the rest going to notebook and desktop computers.
The percentage of organizations that have not established security standards
for handheld or portable devices
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Enterprise, 2009; survey of 220 e-mail decision-makers at U.S. organizations with more than 1,000 employees
He says the primary goal is to deliver applications such as SPSS and Microsoft
Visual Studio remotely so students don't have to use the campus labs.
"Many of our students are working parents and working professionals,"
Campbell says. If they don't have to come to campus to use a computer
lab, it's a big plus.
The university will test the setup over the summer and roll out the virtual
applications in tandem with a course this fall, most likely a statistical
methods course, he says.
Future Factors
A mobile thin client is ideal for an environment in which users move from
building to building and have good connectivity, says IDC's O'Donnell.
Beyond that, he says, "if there's no guarantee of a strong wireless
bandwidth or a reliable 3G connection, mobile thin clients become more problematic,"
he says.
Still, as fourth-generation networks come online and cloud computing becomes
ubiquitous, such bandwidth issues will likely become less prevalent.
"In general, people are moving toward what I call a 'portable
digital identity,' where their ability to function isn't dependent
on a particular hardware device because all their stuff lives in the cloud,
enabled by software like Citrix or VMware," says O'Donnell. "At
that point, it doesn't matter whether you use a thin client, a PC or
something like an iPad to access it."
Questions to Ask Before Going Mobile
How's your wireless infrastructure? You need
bandwidth to spare and solid coverage wherever your users roam; otherwise,
access will suffer.
Are there any software license limitations? Make sure
you have the rights to run your programs in a thin-client environment.
Got batteries? Even thin devices eventually run out
of juice. Invest in spare batteries and consider setting up charging stations
in common areas.
What are your users used to? If they're comfortable
running Windows, you will need to prepare them for the transition to a
new interface if you choose a non-Microsoft operating system or Linux.


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My energy has been alllll over the place lately — one minute feeling like I'm at the start of something amazing and the next feeling like I'm working through old stuff that I thought was long gone.
Maybe it's the eclipse season? Not sure, but makes me feel better putting it in that context!
Anyway, a few ideas were percolating in my mind and heart for this week's blog post, and at one point I realized that as soon as I have a cool insight about life, my immediate reaction is to want to share it.
That's an awesome reaction, and following this desire to share my life and insights has created a lot of positive change. But everything has a shadow, and the shadow to this desire is that a lot of times I forget to keep something for myself.
I think we can all relate to this at some level. Maybe you struggle with keeping time for yourself, or money or energy, attention.
Or maybe you, too, feel the desire to share a lot on social media and end up sharing too much, illuminating all your moments with the glow of your iPhone instead the glow of your attention.
It's easy for people, especially women who thrive on feeling needed, to feel like we need to give all of ourselves away in order to receive the love we desire. Instead, it's helpful to create the time and intention to receive our own love, and give to the world from that place of overflow.
As I talk about in my course Self-Love Supernova, self-love is a relationship to yourself. Keeping things for yourself is part of the foundation of that self-relationship.
If you give all your time away, you have none left to truly know and understand yourself on a deep level.
If you give all your money away, you never have dolla bills left over to treat yourself to a massage or save up for that awesome vacation or other life-changing experience that requires an investment.
If you give all your attention away, you end up spending your entire life focused on caring for others or comparing yourself to them. During the spare empty moments, you're not sure who you are or even if you like yourself, alone, without the distraction.
Is that you don't deserve it. We're constantly trying to prove our worth by giving everything away in hopes that we'll receive love from others that we really long for from ourselves.
The energy of love is the energy of sitting alongside yourself.
I had kind of a rough day this weekend, was feeling a little sad, and I suddenly noticed tension around this sadness, the energy of struggling and judgment, wondering how I can lift myself back up.
And then I breathed into that tension and surrendered. This really beautiful moment followed where my spirit expanded.
My spirit enveloped my small self and sat down along side of me. We became one and I remembered that the true task of this life is to cultivate that unconditional self-love, which truly is the willingness to love ourselves, sit with ourselves, no matter what's happening.
In my case, it was a really delicious, slow yoga practice, breathing into all the stiff places in my body and connecting to my spirit even more.
I feel better now, but that's not the point. The point is that I'm connected.
The amount of joy we feel in life is directly related to how connected we are to ourselves and the universe. To the energy of love.
Love is what heals us.
Love is what helps us shift out of fear and false perception into the fullness of possibility and presence. Presence is love. Come back to your breath. To your heart. To the knowing that everything is perfect as it is, and you are enough exactly as you are.
To stay connected, you've to keep something for yourself. To have the time, energy and resources to truly drop in and give yourself what your heart wants. Not just the necessary things but the indulgences, too. They matter.
Savor it. And know in every part of your body that you deserve to receive it.
I hope this blog post resonated with you! Comment with your thoughts below and share on social media if it did!
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Le long-métrage est très bien reçu par la critique et engrange plus de 24 millions de dollars. Pour sa performance, Beanie Feldstein est nommée à la 77e cérémonie des Golden Globes dans la catégorie meilleure actrice dans un film musical ou une comédie.

Synopsis

Deux ados en dernière année ne sont jamais allées dans une soirée car elles ont toujours privilégié leurs études. Mais à la fin de leur terminale, elles décident enfin de se rendre à la soirée de Nick, un élève populaire de leur classe. Cependant, rien ne va se passer comme prévu...

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Titre québécois : Premières de classe
 Réalisation : Olivia Wilde
 Scénario : Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel et Katie Silberman
 Musique : Dan the Automator
 Distribution : United Artists (États-Unis)
 Pays d'origine :
 Format : couleur
 Genre : comédie
 Durée : 102 minutes
 Dates de sortie :
 États-Unis :  (South by Southwest) ;  (sortie nationale)
 France :  (Netflix)

Distribution
 Kaitlyn Dever  : Amy
 Beanie Feldstein  : Molly
 Jessica Williams  : Miss Fine
 Jason Sudeikis  : Principal Brown
 Lisa Kudrow  : Charmaine
 Will Forte  : Doug
 Victoria Ruesga  : Ryan
 Mason Gooding  : Nick
 Skyler Gisondo  : Jared
 Nico Hiraga  : Tanner
 Diana Silvers  : Hope
 Molly Gordon  : Triple A
 Billie Lourd  : Gigi
 Noah Galvin  : George
 Austin Crute  : Alan
 Eduardo Franco  : Theo
 Michael Patrick O'Brien  : Pat
 Maya Rudolph (voix)

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Film américain sorti en 2019
Comédie américaine
Lesbianisme au cinéma
LGBT au cinéma aux États-Unis
Film se déroulant à Los Angeles
Film d'Annapurna Pictures
Cinéma indépendant
Film se déroulant dans un lycée
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Q: I want to update a dictionary/json key instead of appending a new one? Alright, So I am using discord.py and JSON and I am trying to make a ticket counter, the client refuses to use a database so I have to use JSON. But every time the code updates the file it create a second key and then it uses that key instead of the first one. If anyone wants to see it happen in action friend me (Jpac14#8237) and I'll show you what happens. I will also attach my code and the JSON file.
Also do you think I could you Collections Module for this.
Code:
from discord.ext import commands
import discord
import json

class TicketSystem(commands.Cog):
    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot
        self.create_ticket_msgs = []

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_reaction_add(self, reaction, user):
        for create_ticket_msg in self.create_ticket_msgs:
            if reaction.message.id == create_ticket_msg.id and user != self.bot.user:
                await reaction.message.channel.send(f"{user} reacted")
                await reaction.message.remove_reaction("", user)

                ticket_counter_dict = {}

                try:
                    with open("json/ticket_counter.json", "r") as ticket_counter_json:
                        ticket_counter_dict = json.load(ticket_counter_json)
                except json.JSONDecodeError:
                    print("JSONDecodeError")

                current_ticket_counter = ticket_counter_dict.get(str(reaction.message.guild.id))

                if current_ticket_counter == None:
                    current_ticket_counter = 1

                ticket_catergory = discord.utils.get(reaction.message.guild.categories, name="Tickets")

                if reaction.message.guild.id == 660156957486874645:
                    support_team_role = discord.utils.get(reaction.message.guild.roles, name="Staff")
                else:
                    support_team_role = discord.utils.get(reaction.message.guild.roles, name="Support")

                ticket_channel_overwrites = {
                    support_team_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=True),
                    user: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=True),
                    reaction.message.guild.default_role: discord.PermissionOverwrite(read_messages=False)
                }

                users_ticket_channel = await ticket_catergory.create_text_channel(f"ticket-{current_ticket_counter}", overwrites=ticket_channel_overwrites)

                current_ticket_counter += 1

                ticket_counter_dict.update({reaction.message.guild.id: current_ticket_counter})

                with open("json/ticket_counter.json", "w") as ticket_counter_json:
                    json.dump(ticket_counter_dict, ticket_counter_json)

                embedMessage = discord.Embed(description="Support will be with you shortly.\nTo close the ticket type ?close", color=discord.colour.Colour.green())
                embedMessage.set_footer(text=f"Created By Nexus Developments - https://discord.gg/YmdugDf", icon_url="https://i.imgur.com/MRBsIpe.png")

                await users_ticket_channel.send(embed=embedMessage)

    @commands.command(name="ticketmsg")
    async def send_create_ticket_msg(self, ctx, channel: discord.TextChannel):
        embedMessage = discord.Embed(title="Create A Ticket", description="To create a ticket react with ", timestamp=ctx.message.created_at, color=discord.colour.Colour.green())
        embedMessage.set_footer(text=f"Created By Nexus Developments - https://discord.gg/YmdugDf", icon_url="https://i.imgur.com/MRBsIpe.png")

        create_ticket_msg = await channel.send(embed=embedMessage)
        await create_ticket_msg.add_reaction("")

        self.create_ticket_msgs.append(create_ticket_msg)

def setup(bot):
    bot.add_cog(TicketSystem(bot))

JSON File:
{"665930890039394305": 6, "665930890039394305": 7}

A: reaction.message.guild.id is an int.
When you write ticket_counter_dict.update({reaction.message.guild.id: current_ticket_counter}), you create a new int key in your dict, which doesn't override the str key that exists from loading the json file.
See this example:
import json
d = {1: 'a', '1': 'b'}
json.dumps(d)
>>> '{"1": "b", "1": "a"}'

The dict can hold both 1 and '1' as keys as they are different objects. But the json serialization will turn both into strings, as json uses strings as keys.
I supposed there is room for improvement in the json module as it doesn't seem to check that the stringified keys are all unique.
You can fix your code by making sure you use a string for the key in your dict:
ticket_counter_dict.update({str(reaction.message.guild.id): current_ticket_counter})

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