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FULTON, MO – From an early age, Gina Gentry's father debated political issues with her and she became quite a skilled debater, which no doubt led to her career as a political talk show host.
Now known as "Dr. Gina," Gina Loudon—author, anchor, columnist, talk show host and frequent news commentator—will return to her alma mater, William Woods University, as the commencement speaker this May.
The 1990 WWU graduate will address graduates and their families at 10 a.m. May 9 in Cutlip Auditorium. The ceremony follows the traditional Ivy Ceremony, which takes place at 9:15 a.m. at Senior Lake.
Loudon is a regular commentator on Fox News and Fox Business shows and originator of the field of Policology–the nexus of politics and psychology.
A national speaker and analyst, Loudon is also a writer on topics ranging from adoption to immigration. Her latest book, titled "What Women REALLY Want," co-authored with AnnMarie Murrell and Morgan Brittany, was published in 2014.
Her book, "Ladies and Gentlemen: Why the Survival of our Republic Depends on the Revival of Honor," published in 2012, is a historical and psychological non-fiction book about the roles people play in society and how they can change their role.
While at William Woods, Loudon majored in psychology and minored in design/education. She was president of Psi Chi National Psychological Honor Society and Distinguished Scholar in Psychology. She was recording secretary of Alpha Chi Omega.
She then went on to earn a master's degree from Saint Louis University and a master's degree and Ph.D. from Fielding Graduate University.
The wife of former Missouri State Senator John Loudon, she and her family now live in San Diego, California, where she home schools her five children, including an adopted son with Down Syndrome.
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The date was July 25, 1861, and the credulous editor, an ardent supporter of the Lincoln Administration, was commenting on the news which war correspondents were sending from the battle of Bull Run. A few weeks later, Harpers Weekly, the most popular illustrated paper of the day, carried a full page picture — presumably drawn by the artist on the spot — showing the Southerners bayonetting wounded Union soldiers on the battlefield.
The editorial, the correspondents' stories, and the illustrations might well have been published in the spring of 1945. Within recent weeks, the most popular illustrated weekly has carried elaborate spreads of border atrocities, correspondents have added solemn testimony, the State Department has promised adequate punishment for German war criminals, and Gen. Eisenhower invited a Congressional committee to visit scenes of German atrocities to gather authentic information. History — or as least the history of propaganda - would seem to be repeating itself.
In two important respects the propaganda aspects of the Civil War's atrocity stories resemble the present. One is the demand for vengeful retaliation on prisoners of war, and the other is the use of high-placed officials to verify and authenticate the stories handed out for popular consumption.
During the Civil War, when stories of suffering in Southern prison camps in Richmond and Andersonville began to spread over the North, Secretary of War Stanton prepared to use the stories to "fire the Northern heart." The Union armies were waging a relentless war upon the South's transportation system, and the Confederates were unable to provide adequate housing, clothing, medicine, and food to the prisoners. Instead of exchanging the prisoners — the obviously humane solution — the Secretary of War preferred to allow Union soldiers to suffer from disease and privation in Southern prisons. Stanton knew that the very presence of the prisoners furnished a drain upon the Confederacy's dwindling resources.
Edward M. Stanton was the Cabinet representative of the "Radical," or "Jacobin," faction of the Republican Party. The Jacobins represented the interests of the North's rising industrialists who wanted a protective tariff, of the railroad promoters who wanted subsidies from the Federal treasury, and of the financiers who were using the new national banking system to get a strangle hold on the country's wealth.
Using the language of humanitarianism and freedom to cloak their predatory aims, the Jacobins wanted the war prolonged until the armies had crushed the South, destroyed its economic system, and enabled Northern exploiters to seize the South's resources. In Congress, the Jacobins controlled the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War, which fomented propaganda and formulated Jacobin policies.
Neither Secretary Stanton nor the Congressional Jacobins were willing to relieve the suffering of Union prisoners of war by modifying military policy or exchanging the prisoners. Instead, the Secretary gave encouragement to popular demands that Confederate prisoners of war, confined in the North, be made to suffer in retaliation. Northern prison officials reduced the rations of prisoners of war, failed to provide heat, and refused to issue clothing to prisoners suffering the unaccustomed severities of a Northern climate. Surgeons of Northern prison camps officially reported that men were dying from exposure, overcrowding, lack of food and bad sanitary arrangements.
"The Secretary of War is not disposed at this time, in view of the treatment our prisoners of war are receiving at the hands of the enemy, to erect fine establishments for their prisoners in our hands," replied Stanton to a suggestion that more prisons were needed. Moreover, he ordered that measures be taken to subject captured Confederates to "precisely similar treatment in respect to food, clothing, medical treatment and other necessities" as prevailed in Southern prisons.
Although the Jacobin press enthusiastically endorsed this venomous program, some prisoners of war, returning from the South, denied that Confederates were deliberately torturing prisoners. Such reports might well have caused a reaction against the policy of retaliation, and have given excuse for renewed demands for exchanges. To forestall such developments, Stanton sought "official confirmation of his policy. He asked the Committee on the Conduct of the War to visit a hospital at Annapolis and report on the condition of some sick and wounded ex-prisoners.
Thus instructed, the Congressional committee visited Annapolis. They emerged with a report which was a masterpiece of propaganda. In 30 pages of official print, they set forth a catalog of Confederate brutality. They told how the Southerners robbed their captives, how they beat them, starved them, and murdered them with fiendish glee. And, as evidence that could not be denied, the committee presented the pictures of 8 alleged victims of Confederate savagery. The 8 pictured men have hollow, unshaven cheeks, glassy eyes, protruding bones, and expressions of utter despondency.
The Government promptly circulated thousands of copies of this official report. No one noticed that two of the pictured men had been dead when the committee visited Annapolis, and no one knew, of course, that the worst case was a soldier who had never been a prisoner at all! Nor did the Committee bother to mention that the Confederates had sent these prisoners home, at their own request, because there were no proper hospital facilities for their care in Richmond. Such an admission would have weakened the Jacobin argument that the rebels had a "predetermined plan" permanently to disable all Union prisoners of war.
Bolstered by this report bearing the solemn signatures of Congressmen, the War Department continued its policy of retaliation upon the helpless Confederate prisoners of war. Before long, disease ran riot and death stalked the Northern prison camps until more than 12 percent of the prisoners were dead. Secretary Stanton had almost succeeded in administering "precisely similar treatment." In the South where the blockade prevented getting medicines, and the war on the transporation system prevented the Confederates from feeding their prisoners, 15.5 per cent of the captives died.
The end of the Civil War did not bring an end to official propaganda on the subject of Confederate atrocities on prisoners of war. After the war, the Jacobins continued their program of destroying the South's economic system. As they proceeded to impose military government on the South in a drastic program of "Reconstruction," they needed to keep the prison atrocity stories alive. Unless, so their argument ran, the Southerners were controlled at the point of a bayonet, they would reestablish slavery and rise again in an effort to destroy the Union.
Accordingly, in 1869, the Jacobins in the House of Representatives appointed a committee to report again on the prisoners. "Rebel cruelty," duly reported the committee, "demands an enduring truthful record, stamped with the National Authority." The committee took testimony, oral and written, from 3,000 witnesses, and they issued a heavily documented volume which stamped with the National Authority" all the horror stories of the Confederate prisoners and proved conclusively the Jacobin doctrine that the Confederates were fiends, Jefferson Davis was a beast, and no rebel could ever be trusted with a ballot. To the Jacobin it was clear that the whole South should be made to suffer forever for its sins.
Such was the history of one aspect of Civil War propaganda. To it might be added a footnote from the First World War. In that war, too, atrocity stories played a major role in "firing" the Allied heart. After the war, Sir Arthur Ponsonby and others examined the stories of the Belgian babies, of the cathedral monks tied to bell-clappers, and the famed corpse rendering factory. They found the stories interesting and ingenious, but untrue.
Hardly had the guns ceased firing on the morning of November 11, when Allied prisoners began to straggle over from the German lines. These returning prisoners were in a pitiful condition. They were all ravenously hungry, and most of them in rags and indescribable filth … The sight of the deplorable condition of the prisoners caused bitter resentment among the Allied troops. Some of these prisoners brought stories of terrible conditions of hunger in the prison camps from which they had been released.
Promptly, the Armistice Commission protested to the Germans against this brutality, and threatened reprisals. The Germans denied the charges, and said that the prisoners had muntinied in the camps and had made their way to the Allied lines without waiting for proper transportation.
The prisoners had revolted, and had made their way without rations to the Allied lines. This "was sufficient to account for the deplorable condition in which they arrived." Moreover, the camps in the interior had been deprived of supplies by the Allied victory and by internal revolution.
The memory of these cases from two previous wars should have a sobering effect at the present time. The current deluge of atrocity stories, vouched for by the State Department, and soon to be stamped with the national authority by visiting congressmen, may turn out, of course, to be true. They were not true in 1864 and in 1918, and even if they were true in 1945 they would have to furnish a rational basis for sadistic retaliation on prisoners of war or for enslaving the German people in a short-sighted surrender to the lust for revenge, that can only serve to wreck the hope for enduring peace.
Source: Reprinted from The Journal of Historical Review, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 65-69.


Al-Farabi was described as the founder of Arab Neo-Platonism and the first major figure in the history of that philosophical movement since Proclus. The Latin Middle Ages called him as Abunaser and the Arabs selected him as the 'Second Master' after the great philosopher, Aristotle. Al-Farabi's best work contains the integration between Aristotle and Plato on concerns of the world existence, the soul, and reward system for afterlife. According to Al-Farabi, God's core and reality is fused together with no distinction in them. But there has been neoplatonic touch in his writing too. It is uttered in Al-Farabi's orientation to God in a negative mode; presenting the divinity by what he is not i.e. He has unique, undividable and inexpressible.
The Neo-platonic element is most visible in his doctrine of emanation which gives hierarchy of being. The top position is the Divine Being whom Al-Farabi designates as 'the First' which gives birth to the First Intellect. A total of ten intellects emanate from the First Being, all being an immaterial substance. The First Intellect comprehends God and produces a third being, the Second Intellect. It also comprehends its own essence and results in the production of the body and soul of "al-sama' al-ula", the First Heaven. All the other following intellects emanate stars and planets. The tenth intellect is given a greater importance. It builds the true bridge between the divine and terrestrial worlds. This Tenth Intellect (active intellect) was responsible for actualizing man's intellectual potentiality and emanating form to man and the sublunary world.
It was quite clear that Al-Farabi's philosophical drink were relating the Quranic touches. He mentioned that God does not act directly on the sublunary world but is responsible for all actions done by his emanations. Much is assigned to the Active Intellect. He does points to God as 'Lord of the Worlds' and 'God of the Easts and the West's'.
He was Aristotelian and neo-Platonist as well. He tried to demonstrate a basic agreement between Aristotle and Plato on such matter as creation of world, survival of soul, rewards and punishment.
Al-Farabi was surely aware of Plato's own fourfold division of imperfect societies in the Republic into diarchy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. The resemblance, however, is more one of structure (four divisions) rather than of content. Ibn Sina owes a considerable intellectual debt to his predecessor for what he got from Aristotle with the help of Al-Farabi. Islamic (particularly Sunnite) educational thought followed the course mapped out by al-Ghazali and this influence has remained valid even after the influx of Western civilization and the emergence of a modern, contemporary Arab civilization.
Al-Ghazali is one of the greatest Islamic theologians, mystical thinkers and jurist, was born in 1058 A.D. in the city Tus of Khurasan to a Persian family. His father was reputed as great Sufi and died when he was young. His father's friend takes care of Al-Ghazali and his brother after the death of his father. Both of them went to Madrasa, where they study Arabic, Persian, the Koran and the principles of religion. He also studied fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), tafsir (Koranic exegesis) and hadith (prophetic tradition).
He then moved to Nishapur, where he studied fiqh, kalam, logic and some philosophy under the guidance of Imam al-Juwaini, the most eminent Shafi'ite faqih of the day. He continued to study for five years under Imam al-Juwaini and to assist him with teaching. He also began to write and to study Sufism under another shaikh, al-Farmadhi.
After the death of his master Imam Al-Juwaini, he travelled to meet Nizam ul Mulk, the Seljuq minister, and remained with him for six years, during which time he lived the life of a 'court jurist'. After few years, he was appointed as chief professor at Al-Nizammiyah of Baghdad, where he lectured more than 300 students.
He was a lawyer, a scholaristic, a philosopher, a skeptic, a traditionist and a moralist. His famous work was the revitalization of Muslim theology and reoriented the values of theology once again in the people of that time. It is said that he brought the orthodox Islam of his time in close contact with Sufism. His combination of spiritualization and fundamentalism in Islam had such a mark stamp on his powerful personality.
His book "the coherence of the philosopher" mask a major turn in Islamic epistemology. His encounter with skepticism led him to believe that all the casual events and interactions are not the product of material conjunction but rather than the immediate and present 'will' of God. And this major turn led him to convert into Sufi.
He rejected all the previous philosophies. He become the real challenger to the philosophies of Aristotle, platonious, Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina. He bitterly criticized Aristotle, Socrates and considers Greek as non-believers and labeled them as corrupters of Islamic faith. His philosophies were also closer to the modern minds.
He is famous for proposing and defending the Asharite theory of occasionalism and he gave very good example of fire and cotton to explain it. He supports scientific methodology. He believed that whosoever thinks that refuting such a theory is religious duty, harm religion and weaken it. These matters rest on demonstrations, arithmetical and geometrical that has no room for doubt.
His theory of atomism claims that atoms are the only perpetual thing in existence and all the other things in the world is "accidental" which means something that last for just an instant. He stated two types of diseases, the first is the physical and the other is spiritual. He believes that closeness to good is the sign of normality whereas, distance from God leads to abnormality.
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Check out the interview with Planet The Rapper exclusively on Skilly Magazine Online.
Planet The Rapper: Music began for me when I was 9 years old and my music teacher recruited me to play in the band. From that age I started playing the trumpet and studying a lot of music theory. I didn't start becoming a recording artist until my mom's neighbor wanted me to play a riff on the guitar for one of his songs. To see my music go into one of his songs was one of the coolest feelings and I was hooked ever since.
One thing I like to push is that I produce my own music. A lot of the songs I make I build straight from scratch with my keyboard, drum set, and a few effects or synths. This helps in making music that really does fit me and the styles I like to experiment in. I would say it definitely helps my lyrics.
The best ever. Simple as that. I don't see my stage name as just that, I see it as a title that I have to work to earn. I want to be the best rapper on the planet. If I'm not aiming for that then what's the point in doing it you know?
The hardest thing with being in the music business I would say is to understand what you're getting yourself into. The industry requires a lot of work to be successful in it and even then you may not get the accolades you deserve. There's definitely a risk factor in it where you may put in all this work and not get any of the credit.
Chicago is always live if you know where to look. As for the music scene, I love how it's so diverse. Things like jazz and classical music are still very well alive in Chicago if you know where to look. Rap and Hip Hop are livid here and it's amazing.
I'm not sure if I can give any advice at the moment until my notoriety goes up. If there's any advice I could give I would say to work at it every day and never lose sight. This goes tenfold for if you're young. For me, I see my best days ahead of me all the time. Always aim to get better because you don't know how far away you are from your goal.
I pull inspiration from almost every genre, but this is mostly due to my background. As for rapping, I find myself influenced a lot by Kanye West, Drake, and Big Sean. Their flows are unique from time to time. I even listen to some Chief Keef from time to time. Not just because he's a Chicago rapper, but also because the way he may attack a line is so different.
That depends on what their measure of success is. I know some people who just want to make dope tracks for them and their friends to bang to. Then you have people like me who want to see how far they can push themselves into the industry. I do believe anyone can be successful in this.


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Expect heavy rain this weekend
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Andreas Fuhrmann/Record Searchlight A man fishes on the Sacramento River Thursday near Turtle Bay East.
El Niño is back.
"We had a really wet January. We had our break, and now the storm door's open again," said Johnnie Powell, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
The system, which technically never left, is expected to deliver a light rain and cloudy weather Friday as the first storm system pushes through.
But that system is also opening the floodgates - it weakened because it plowed through and demolished a high pressure ridge that had kept California dry during February.
The current weak storms and the system coming through on Saturday and Sunday are expected to deliver 4 inches of rain - mainly during the weekend.
"Don't make any (outdoor plans for the weekend)," Powell said. "Just sit this one out."
The rain will be heaviest Saturday, he said. It will also deliver 1 to 2 feet of snow in the mountains - snow levels will start at 7,000 feet but drop to 4,000 feet, he said.
Temperatures will range between lows in the 40s and highs in the 60s in the valley.
Those concerned about February's dry spell needn't worry either - those aren't out of the ordinary, even in a strong El Niño, he said.
"Even in '97, I remember it was dry three weeks straight," Powell said.
That's because it generally takes around three weeks for the atmospheric cycle to change. In January, it rained about 20 days, he said. Then a high pressure ridge developed, blocking much of the moisture from hitting Northern California.
Indeed, the Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center predicts the next two weeks are quite likely to be wet. It gives slightly weaker, though still favorable, chances for all of March.
But it doesn't mean that rain will hit every day or be constant, he said. It also doesn't mean an end to the drought, he said.
One measure is how full the reservoirs are - as of Wednesday, Lake Shasta was 69 feet from crest. Trinity was 131 feet from crest.
"One winter, unless it's a massive flood, doesn't get you out of a drought," he said. "Every little bit helps but we've got a long way to go."
Nonetheless, the weather through next Thursday looks wet every day except Tuesday, according to the Weather Service's website.

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Kanye West drives this $500,000 high-performance tank around his Wyoming ranch — take a closer look at the Ripsaw EV2
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Get to know the Ripsaw EV2, a super-fast luxury tank that Kanye West drives on his ranches in Wyoming.
Ripsaw tanks are the fastest-tracked vehicles on the market, according to Howe and Howe Technologies, the company that developed them.
The "light, fast super tank" was originally developed for the military and, depending on the customization, can cost north of $ 500,000.
You can find more stories on the Business Insider homepage.
Kanye West, as unsurprising as it may be, has a taste for eye-catching vehicles. A recent Forbes valuation valued the rapper and fashion mogul at just over $ 1 billion, finding that approximately $ 3.8 million of its net worth was invested in "vehicles".
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While West probably owns its fair share of exotic and luxury cars, it seems to have a special obsession with powerful off-roaders who can go anywhere. On its huge ranches in Wyoming, West has a fleet of Ford F-150 Raptors, 10 Sherp amphibious ATVs and a high-performance tank called the Ripsaw EV2.
The EV2 was developed for military use by Howe and Howe Technologies, a Maine-based company that has since been acquired by aerospace and defense manufacturer Textron Systems. The EV2 is known as a "luxurious, powerful and fast-moving super tank" and is also available to private individuals. The price can be up to "over half a million dollars".
Take a closer look at the Ripsaw EV2 below.
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The lady Spartans concluded their final preseason match on Aug. 30 with a win against the Downey VIkings, 3-2, with set scores of 25-20, 23-25, 25-16, 21-25 and 15-8. They faced their first loss of the season at an away game against the Gabrielino Eagles with set scores of 25-12, 21-25, 23-25 and 18-25 on Aug. 24.
"Preseason was a fun experience that made us stronger as a team. It prepared us for league and got us back into shape. We bonded a lot more which helped us to communicate and perform better on the court," said senior Allyssa Rodarte.
With set scores of 25-15, 25-19 and 25-5, the varsity team shut out the El Rancho Dons 3-0 Aug. 23 at home. The Santa Fe Chiefs were defeated 3-1 Aug. 20 with set scores of 25-21, 25-12, 23-25 and 25-17.
"The most memorable part of preseason was making a new bond with new teammates. It prepared me for league because it gave us a taste of what will be facing during season," said junior Vanessa Murillo.
The varsity Spartans emerged victorious, 3-0, in their first two preseason games against the Paramount Pirates and Bellflower Buccaneers on Aug. 16 and Aug. 14.
Preseason was an opportunity to develop and fortify the bonds between all levels and their newly formed teams. Working and practicing together assisted the players' communication skills and gave them confidence going into league.
"We were a new team with new people in the beginning, but we eventually grew closer and more comfortable with each other. It [preseason] improved my ability on how to talk more to my teammates and prepare me for league," said sophomore Leslie Quezada.
The JV and frosh/soph teams both concluded their preseason with overall records of, 5-1.
"All of us would work out together as a team and encourage each other to work harder and it built us to a successful team and a successful league season," said freshman Jaquelyn Sandoval.


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Q: Using PrePopulated SQlite database in android I have tried to open Sqlite database using react-native for android application but couldn't open using prepopulated database stored inside assets directory of the project.
I have removed location and createfromLocation from the openDataBase code databae was created in android device which would be empty without schema and data. I can populate data from the code but this doesn't make any sense. So What might be the mistake that I am making.Am I missing something here?
Code(App.js file):
 const db = SQLite.openDatabase(
      {
        name: 'Recipe.db',
        location: 'default',
        createFromLocation: '~Recipe.db',
      }

Log:
 OPEN database: Recipe.db
05-20 09:22:23.620  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS: new transaction is waiting for open operation
05-20 09:22:23.629  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS: OPEN database: Recipe.db failed, aborting any pending transactions
05-20 09:22:23.632  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS: { [Error: Could not open database]
05-20 09:22:23.632  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS:   code: 0,
05-20 09:22:23.632  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS:   line: 100047,
05-20 09:22:23.632  5975  6009 I ReactNativeJS:   column: 27,

A: You can't open a SQLite DB for writing if it is stored in the Assets folder.  Typically, on startup, an app will check to see if it has a SQLite database in its own /data/data/database folder.  If not, it copies the database from the Assets folder to the /data/data/database folder, then opens that copy for writing.
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11. Individual, Organizational and Social Values (Developmental Life Cycle)
Spiral Dynamics is a developmental model of individual, organizational, and cultural values change based on work by psychologist Clare Graves in the 1970s. It is just well-enough validated to consider here, as a good example of its class. Like the field of foresight itself, this model needs more evidence and modification (running its own Do loop) to be taken seriously by cultural psychologists, who like to poke fun at its lack of rigor. Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, well illustrated in A Theory of Everything (2001) is another promising model needing further development and rigor. Both have many similarities to other simpler models of values, psychology, and identity development that are better validated. Rokeach's Understanding Human Values, 2008 introduces those, and the emerging science of values development in individuals, organizations, and cultures.
Like all developmental models, spiral dynamics has some cyclic features as well, of at least two kinds. First, the model recognizes that at each values or preferences stage the individual, organization, or culture engages in a good deal of repetitive exploration of its typical thoughts and behaviors before the next stage emerges. Think of organizational and cultural fads, styles, and tastes, which fall out of fashion if they become too common, repetitive and predictable, in favor for something new, which is often just something old that again becomes new. Second, the model stresses that the individual, organization or culture is developing on a life cycle. Just as in life cycle models of psychological development, there can be regression to earlier stages, as occasionally happens after trauma in growing system, and there can be senescence and sclerosis of thoughts and behaviors, in which case rejuvenation must occur or the system may die. In any over-mature (rigid, overly controlled) developmental system even small traumas may trigger regressive and maladaptive behaviors. The declining system must renew itself to regain its previous developmental level or to move beyond it. Books on resiliency, unlearning, presencing, and becoming more childlike are all helpful here. Children, living with little past, are quite good at being in the present, being open, loving, and fearless learning. These are traits we need more of as we mature. Understanding values development, and how to promote renewal in mature organizations and individuals, can be one of the foresight professional's most significant contributions.
Don Beck and Chris Cowan first published their developmental values model in Spiral Dynamics (1996), and it has slowly gained in popularity since, with several psychology, therapy, integral theory and organizational development consulting groups now using and offering training in it. It is a model of converging values development over time, as individuals and groups learn to build increasingly complex mental models to handle new problems. The model is usually represented as an expanding cone of increasing radius at higher levels, representing the increased complexity of activity at those levels. Unfortunately, such a representation is a bit misrepresentative, and in conflict with developmental theory.
A more accurate but more controversial representation of values development would be as a contracting funnel of decreasing radius at higher levels. This is because each new level is more self-regulated, morally constrained, and predictable in regard to expressed values and behaviors than the more chaotic, blindly experimental, and impulsive lower levels.
Social scientists who propose that social moral development has predictable directionality to it, such as the Spiral Dynamics thesis, are in the minority today. Those who do historical and comparative social research on cooperativity and reciprocity are among that minority. I recommend Bowles and Gintis, A Cooperative Species, 2013, for one excellent account. It also seems uncommon in social science today for scholars to propose that more values-developed social systems become, the more regulated, constrained, controlled, and predictable they become in their average behaviors, relative to less-developed systems. They gain increasing total freedoms, but decreasing occupation of failure states and nonadaptive behaviors, the more complex they become. That is how biological development works, as any student of organismal development learns, so we should expect the same in social development. We maintain therefore that future evidence will show, all else being equal, that individuals, organizations, and cultures at the higher stages of values development are significantly more predictable and self-controlled. They are freer in particular to make new kinds of useful mistakes, but less free to make old mistakes, the more experience they have, which makes them more predictable in lots of specific new ways.
Bowles & Gintis (2013)
The Spiral Dynamics model proposes eight stages of values and world-view development: Survival, Clans, Power, Purpose, Autonomy, Empathy, Systemic, and Holistic, and describes healthy and unhealthy adaptive states at each values level. Some advocates take pains to state that spiral dynamics is not progressive, with higher stages not being "better" levels to attain. I consider that position to be politically correct doublespeak, something occasionally said to avoid socially uncomfortable truths.
Those apparent truths are that higher-level values and world-views in this or any developmental model offer a better ability to adapt in more complex environments, as well as to relate better to all those presently adapted to lower-level value systems. Higher levels of values are also predictable developmental destinies for living systems as they gain internal complexity. If developmental values exist, we humans must be funneling gently toward one ideal set of values most adaptive for high-complexity environments, types that are far more morally restrained, predictable in new ways, and less impulsive than most of us are today. Some of the more creativity– and freedom-driven among us are particularly resistant to developmental thinking. For these individuals, understanding development in all its forms, including universal development, will particularly improve their foresight proficiency.
For examples of developmental values progression across cultures and centuries, I recommend Norbert Elias's classic, The Civilizing Process (2000), and Stephen Pinker's masterful The Better Angels of Our Nature (2012). Evidence is today scant for the claims I have just made, but as our psychology research and human simulation capacity improves, I strongly expect progressive, constraining, developmental Spiral Dynamics-like models will be increasingly validated. We shall see. For a good book that applies spiral dynamics and integral theory to organizational structure and rulesets, championing bottom-up management, read Frederic Laloux's Reinventing Organizations (2014).
Again, a promising research frontier for all developmental values models is their cyclic nature, once values reach (temporary) states of maturity in any adult individual, organization, or culture, and then begin to decline or regress. As Stan Salthe reminds us in Development and Evolution (1993), all complex systems eventually move from maturity into senescence (over-patterning and decline), and their agility and learning ability must at that point be renewed, or they will eventually fail and die. Understanding how old, brittle, low-learning systems renew themselves is thus a key both to seeing the cyclic nature of any learning system, and to helping systems that are in decline.
At the individual level, we need better models of psychological development that incorporate natural cycles of decline and renewal in later life. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development are perhaps the best-known psychological development model, with Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional stages. Understanding how stasis or regression can occur at each stage, and ways that decline can be halted and reversed, are key frontiers of research.
We all try diligently to be anti-ageist in our leading societies these days, a very commendable goal. But we can also take this diligence too far, and become blind to the common psychological problems of aging, a much less commendable outcome. Consider sci-fi author Daniel Suarez's quip in Influx (2014), "Anything new before you're thirty-five is exciting, and anything new after that is proof the world is going to hell." This is a comical overgeneralization, but the sentiment has a kernel of truth, for some of us at least. Old age is not easy. Global suicide rates typically peak in two age groups, the 40s-50s and again after 65 years of age. (As I am writing this, one of my favorite comedians, the brilliant and manic-depressive Robin Williams, committed suicide today at the age of 63.)
We have all known colleagues who increasingly viewed society as a doomed, perverse, or crisis-ridden place in their older age, at least for a time. This most famously occurred with perhaps our greatest Twentieth Century futurist, H.G. Wells. The shock of the First World War and his anticipation of WWII contributed to his dark outlook on humanity in his final years, but if you read him carefully, you will see he became increasingly pessimistic and dogmatic as he aged, long before these seminal events. We see it again in the great futurist, science fiction writer, and satirist Stanislaw Lem. His futurological masterwork, Summa Technologiae (1964) written at the age of 43, while his pessimism was in balance with his optimism, introduces coming topics like virtual reality, nanotech, and the technological singularity, and cleverly anticipates some of the social problems we might expect with such advances.
Today, some senior foresight professionals mistake a biological process happening in their minds, a natural mild but inexorable process of decline, with the state of the world and its prospects, which I think is doing exactly the opposite, accelerating in its production of new capacities and opportunities (as well as a smaller complement of risks) every year. I think the older we get, the safer and easier it is to see the negative, and to make self-preventing forecasts about risks and failure states, rather than to argue the positive, and to make self-fulfilling and aspirational forecasts about positive goals or visions. The latter is largely a (mentally) younger person's game. If too much pessimism (or optimism) is an issue for you, neuroscientist Elaine Fox's Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain (2012) offers several evidence-based procedures to retrain fear and negativity circuits at any age. As mentioned in Chapter 8 (Your Digital Self) the power of mental retraining will grow greatly for all of us when such procedures are integrated into our groupnets and personal AIs in the coming decades.
In a related trend, a kind of creeping and practical pessimism, rather than practical optimism, becomes a systemic bias in many mature-stage leadership environments, as Matt Ridley notes in The Rational Optimist (2011), and Diamandis and Kotler argue in Abundance (2012). At the same time, those who see the exponential power of technology, or who have financial incentive, are often guilty of their own systemic biases, becoming indiscriminate boosters of various technologies, rather than critical evaluators of those few technologies that are actually being disruptive. Read Fenn and Raskino's Mastering the Hype Cycle (2008) for more on that. We ignore these systemic biases, negative or positive, to our own detriment as foresighters, and must strive to uncover them.
Fortunately, decreased depression, anxiety, pessimism, dogmatism, criticism, and unwillingness to learn are not inevitable consequences of aging, and their degree of severity varies widely by individual. There are many tools and strategies available now and more coming with the intelligent wearable web that will help us renew our learning abilities in old age, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, exercise, diet changes, education, games, recreation, spiritual activities, getting a pet, getting a job helping others, de-cluttering one's environment, and many others. We are also on the threshold of medical therapies that will partially (but perhaps never fully) rejuvenate aging brains (see "Can Compounds in Young Blood Fix Aging?," Technology Review, (May 2014)). We know senescence is partly reversible in human psychology, and mature organizations can also renew in powerful ways, as Beck and Adizes both argue. Our culture will increasingly come to recognize these facts, to our great collective benefit.
Even states and cultures can be affected by value, institutional, and legal stagnation and regression. Jonathan Rauch's Demosclerosis (1995), and Mancur Olsen's The Rise and Decline of Nations (1984) are two good introductions to that thesis. Typical social rigidities that come in aging states include plutocracy, political polarization, cultural decline, and lack of media truthfulness and relevance. Periodic institutional, legal, and constitutional reform has traditionally been the best renewal remedy in such situations, and "useful crises" may be required to precipitate reforms in polarized and sclerotic states. Most obviously, to my mind at least, as our information technology gains its own intrinsic learning ability, it will help us lower the threshold of productive group action in response to crises. Our technology is itself a learning system with several powerful new capabilities, efficiencies, resiliencies, and other advantages over biological learning systems, as Ray Kurzweil in The Singularity Is Near (2005) and others have argued.
For an example of an acceleration-aware story of mental development, derived from integral thinking and stage models, see Carter V. Smith's Accelerating Evolution of Integral Consciousness, at AcceleratingEvolution.info. Carter proposes that accelerating technology is co-evolving (and I would add, co-developing) with humanity in a way that is necessarily "driving us to a higher morality." That is a bold statement, and it deserves to be carefully tested and challenged. That is certainly difficult at present, but think of the benefits to humanity if we continually find more support for this proposal. I think Smith and others of his ilk deserve credit for publicly stating their arguments and evidence, even in a world unlikely to accept them at first, and for inviting ongoing critique and feedback. Only through tentative first steps like these will we get closer to a science of accelerating improvement of mind and morality, a science that I believe will necessarily develop, in time.
10. Inequality Cycles
11. Indiv, Organizational & Social Values
12. Generational and Phase Social Value


Voting equipment can be more secure and less expensive, while facilitating election processes which provide for more accurate representation of the people (and therefore, better leadership).
Open Voting Consortium holds the promise of an inexpensive system, with equipment you can buy at a store, software that is developed by volunteers and fully transparent to ensure security, and a voter-friendly interface that is easily accessible for disabled voters, all with a paper trail. And, I should add, fully capable of processing ranked ballots. Estimated price per machine is 1/5 of what ES&S charges.


Sharp, dangerous, dignified. The Katana Crew.
Legend has it that Japanese sword master Muramasa was the lands most skillful smith, crafting weapons unmatched in beautiful simplicity, but that he also harbored a violent and ill-balanced mind, verging on madness. That same madness was said to have passed into his hand forged blades, making them hunger for blood and impelling the wielding warrior to commit murder and/or suicide... Pretty heavy stuff, but rest assured the maker of the Katana Crew possesses the same meticulous eye for detail, without the malicious madness. The Katana is a signature Opus take on the traditional ladies crew jersey.
Slightly scooped tail with wider waste band than usual, perfect for keeping your bum covered in the field or at the desk.
Form fitting while not being tight like a traditional thermal garment.
Long-line cut with a mid scoop neck line for style and function.
Embossed genuine New Zealand leather punctuates the clean lines of the garment.


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Q: C#: Background color problem I am having trouble with background colors in C#. For some reason they are simply not working. Specifically on the System.Windows.Forms.Panel control. Setting the BackColor property does nothing. All I have is gray and all the efforts I have made will not change it. Is there something that could be overriding this? Am I approaching this the wrong way?

A: If you want to have the Panel Control the same color as the Form's background color, then you can use this:
myPanel.Parent = this;

... I hope this helps :)

A: I have had instances where controls must have both the foreground and background colors specified, you might want to try setting the foreground color explicitly as well, to see if that works.

A: It may be that your control is being repainted without your knowledge.
To try to rule this out, I would add a Form Load event, and force the following properties:
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   this.panel1.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Maroon; // or any other color
   this.panel1.Visible = true
}

And on the designer, I would bring the control to the foreground.

A: I had this problem with two overlayed panels in one form.  I inadvertently had one panel as a child of the other main when I created them in Design View.


I am lucky and do not need to scrub my face like some. In part I am an old school shaver and that exfoliates nicely. That said my forehead never felt smoother after my first use. I like it and you will too.
Billy Jealousy makes good stuff but I don't think this is their best work. Not comfortable on the skin and not very effective.
This product was pleasant to use but didn't leave my face feeling so clean. I broke out soon after (which happens rarely). This may or may not be because of this product, but I'm not sold on it in either case.
Great smell and texture. Very sandy feeling and it has been exfoliating my face very well. I would certainly recommend!
It works well on my face, and it doesn't burn like other cleaners but I did not like the smell at all. However, I can get past the smell for how good it works.
Works really well. Not too rough. Face felt really clean.
Product works great but did not care for the scent.
I love Billy Jealous products and this one didnt dissapoint! My face felt clean and refreshed after each use. I just wish the sample size was bigger.


Located in Ballpark Village just north of Busch Stadium, the Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum is a collection of a seven galleries arranged in chronological order, with artifacts dating from the late 1800's. LED lighting concealed in the casework and dialed in to specific light levels illuminate the exhibits without over photo-exposure. A scaled replica of the Busch Memorial Stadium's "bottlecap" ceiling features color-changing LEDs that are cued to cycle between Busch Blue and Cardinal Red.


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Q: ipCore.min.js impresspages trying to load theme resource in Ip/Internal/Core/ Working with bootstrap 3  when including glyphicons I am getting a 404 error Ip/Internal/Core/assets/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.ttf
http://pasteboard.co/XQwHBbe.png
the Icons are displayed properly but I cant avoid ipCore.min.js in Admin state from trying to load it within ip/internal/Core
the theme structure is as follows:
Theme/ThemeName/assets/fonts/
this is the full console log http://pasteboard.co/XRNb9zz.png
Is there any way to avoid that?

A: ipCore.min.js is a JavaScript file. It doesn't relate with the error. Those fonts are actually loaded by admin.css. ImpressPages admin elements are based on Bootstrap 3. So don't mix admin with your own theme.
What you found is actually a bug which is now added to the issue list - https://github.com/impresspages/ImpressPages/issues/491 (you can vote for the solution).


ERP is a bright spot as Oracle, along with its customers, transitions to the cloud.
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd- As enterprises transition from on-premises IT, Oracle is positioning itself as the premier, one-stop-shop provider for cloud computing. You may think this is a stretch, considering that, for example, Oracle has been lumped in with "Others" in Gartner's ranking of top public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, far below leaders like Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Oracle, however, has over the past few years steadily revamped its vast software portfolio to the point where all of its ERP applications are available, with their full feature sets, on the public cloud or in its Cloud at Customer offering, which lets users put all of their Oracle cloud apps behind the corporate firewall. It's imbued its PaaS (platform as a service) offerings with blockchain and machine-learning services and last fall released its Generation 2 Cloud, which it bills as as the perfect IaaS platform for its autonomous Oracle Database 18c.
While the company may remain far behind the public cloud infrastructure leaders, it has seen users respond to its efforts to beef up its cloud offerings, particularly for ERP. The company said its cloud ERP businesses, Fusion ERP and NetSuite ERP, delivered a combined revenue growth rate of 32 percent in its second quarter for fiscal 2019 ending Nov. 30. The company now has nearly 6,000 Fusion ERP customers and over 16,000 NetSuite ERP customers, CEO Mark Hurd said in his comments on the quarter.
Oracle has been touting its achievements in the cloud at a series of Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle Cloud Day events around the world. IDG News Service Editor in Chief Marc Ferranti sat down with Hurd at the New York edition of Oracle Cloud Day last week to talk about Oracle's evolution, how it's helping its customers move to the cloud and why it's Exadata hardware business, tuned for its database technology, is growing.


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No Such Thing as "Democratic Socialism"
By Steve Feinstein
Filed Under Congress, Domestic Policy, Economy, General, Healthcare, Policy on Jul 27
© 2018 Steve Feinstein. All rights reserved.
The new darling of the Democratic Party and the liberal mainstream media is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bright-eyed, 20-something upstart who upended long-time House member Joe Crowley in a New York state Democratic primary a few weeks ago. In their breathless, frenzied rush to anoint Ocasio-Cortez as the next coming of the Savior of the Nation, liberals across the land have wholeheartedly embraced her call for "Democratic Socialism."
Ignoring the fact that Bernie Sanders espoused essentially the exact same things in the last presidential campaign but was unceremoniously and dishonestly pushed aside by the Democratic Party in favor of Hillary Clinton, what exactly is this "Democratic Socialism" that seems to have everyone on that side of the fence so atwitter these days?
What Democrats think it is sounds good: Income equality, a fair living wage for everyone, plentiful employment opportunities, quality healthcare coverage for all, affordable college education for all who want it, easy access to affordable, quality housing, and a tax system where the so-called rich pay their "fair share."
While they're at it, the Ocasio-Cortez's of the world would also abolish ICE while ending most immigration restrictions, end what they see as our destructive international interventionism and put a stop to Israel's wholly unjustified occupation and oppression of Palestine. What these last three have to do with either "Democracy" or "Socialism" is unclear, but there it is anyway.
Implicit in the entire discussion of their prized new order is that everything about the American economy, way of life and culture that is to their liking would remain securely in place, unaffected by the transition to Democratic Socialism. That, of course, is preposterous. The aspects of daily American life that people like and take for granted—plentiful food availability at well-stocked supermarkets, instant access to news, sports and music, the ability to get product information, make purchases and have them delivered the next day, cheap and plentiful fuel availability, an uncountable variety of non-essential consumer goods, from toys to fashion clothing to jewelry to entertainment electronics and their associated services, and millions of other items—are all made possible by the capitalistic/profit-oriented structure of our economic system. If the private business profit incentive is removed, as is the case in a socialist economy, the underlying competitive impetus for providing those goods and services disappears. It's a zero-sum game: the more "socialism" that is introduced into the economy, the less efficient that economy becomes, because lessened private competition results in fewer choices and a diminishing incentive to increase efficiency or reduce costs.
Proponents of so-called Democratic Socialism never actually explain where the money needed to pay for all the largess will come from. There is a limit to how much simply taxing the rich will produce. Taxes on services and sales transactions would need to be raised to a stifling degree, with a commensurate negative effect on economic activity.
Europe's supposed nirvana of universal healthcare is, in reality, a boondoggle of smoke and mirrors, where the average person has limited access to what we would consider routine medical care, at a level far lower than the average American could ever imagine. In Italy, for example, patients usually bring their own metal eating utensils and towels with them, since those are often not provided. Toilet paper is often scarce in the hospital as well. For childbirth, expectant mothers usually bring her own topical medicines, sanitary products and newborn diapers. Visitors are not asked to leave by 8:00 PM as is customary in U.S. hospitals. On the contrary, patients are advised to have a visitor stay overnight with them, because nurse staffing levels are far lower, as a matter of normal course. Bedding is not provided for overnight visitors, however.
Patients do have access to doctors and medical care via the national health system, but non-critical conditions and injuries receive lower priority and delayed attention. If a patient desires American-style "on-demand" care, they must simply pay for it out-of-pocket, an option not possible for all but the wealthiest citizens.
I know this first-hand, from an American family member living there for fourteen years and having had three children in Italy. She is fortunate enough to live in a high-income household, well above the European norm. They get around the limitations of EU-styled universal healthcare by being able to pay for any extra care they need. But that access is simply not available to the average Italian, heavily-taxed $8.00/gallon gasoline notwithstanding.
Let's look at one other fantastical promise of Democratic Socialism: affordable college for anyone who wants it. The government can't make college "affordable." When the government artificially corrupts the education marketplace by injecting billions of dollars into the mix in the form of aid, scholarships, stipends and the like, they don't reduce the ultimate cost of college. They increase it. Secure in the knowledge that a very significant portion of their students get artificially low-rate loans and generous grants/financial aid, the colleges themselves simply raise their tuition, salaries and fees—at a rate far in excess of inflation—confident that the Government will be handing out money to the students so they can pay for a significant portion of their college expenses.
What's needed in the education marketplace is less government involvement, not more. Government-provided funds distort and obscure the real cost of education. College pricing is higher, not lower, because of government money. Remove the artificial effect of the Government's likely one-third or more share of the $70,000 cost at Boston University and virtually no one would be able to go there. If Government-subsidized financial assistance was removed from the equation, then colleges would be forced to compete with each other in the open market for their "customers" hard-earned money. College costs would go down and the services and value they offered would go up, as the free market imposed its ruthless, unapologetic competitive lessons on the various college "brands."
Capitalism is the best answer for raising the standard of living and delivering greater opportunities to more people. The more government is involved—funded by higher and higher taxation—the more 6-month waits we have at VA hospitals, the more $70k tuitions we have at colleges and the more $50 hammers we have being purchased by the Pentagon. Capitalism is far from perfect and not everyone benefits to the same degree—but it's fundamentally superior to everything else. It's kind of like what Churchill said about democracy: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
"Democratic Socialism," as envisioned by its proponents, doesn't exist. Not in the real world. It's just another pipe-dream fantasy with which hucksters like Ocasio-Cortez hope to fool unsuspecting, uninformed, entitlement-minded voters. Or worse yet, themselves.


Below are videos of interest. The information in the videos are of the company, or persons, mentioned in the videos and not necessarily linked to Top-Edge Roofing & Exteriors. The information is for educational purposes only.


Built with green principles over the last 15 years, practices extend to the lawns which use no pesticides and abound with native plants. Great for strolling and relaxing by the riverside, with site-specific artwork, play zones, ferries and other friendly amenities. Built on landfill, BPC also hosts free concerts & cultural events, especially in summer during the River to River Fest.


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Saint-Maur, Saint Maur oder St. Maur (französischer Name des Heiligen Maurus, in Frankreich Schutzpatron der Bergleute) steht für:
 Namensform innerhalb der Familie der Herzöge von Seymour
 Saint-Maur (Belgien), Teilgemeinde der belgischen Stadt Tournai

Gemeinden in Frankreich:
 Saint-Maur (Cher), Département Cher
 Saint-Maur (Gers), Département Gers
 Saint-Maur (Indre), Département Indre
 Saint-Maur (Jura), Département Jura
 Saint-Maur (Oise), Département Oise
 Saint-Maur-des-Bois, Département Manche
 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Département Val-de-Marne
 Saint-Maur-sur-le-Loir, Département Eure-et-Loir

Die ehemalige Abtei Saint-Maur in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés

Siehe auch: Sainte-Maure

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Sterling Silver Dendritic/Plume Agate, Garnet and Peridot Necklace. See Closeup.
Sterling Silver Dendritic/Plume Agate, Garnet and Peridot Bracelet.
Sterling Silver Dendritic/Plume Agate, Garnet and Peridot Earrings.
Dendritic Agate looks like it has little plants growing in it, but it is not organic...it is mangnese and iron oxides. If you've ever watched ice crystals form on a window, it takes on a crystline structure that looks very plantlike as well. The main pendant stone is Plume Agate, a kind of dendritic agate, which also resembles feathers.
For those who are interested in Astrological significances of stones, Agate corresponds with Capricorn and Gemini, Garnet corresponds with Capricorn and Aquarius and the month of January, and Peridot corresponds with Libra and with the month of August.


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Q: Increase shell buffer size in linux Its difficult to explain what I am exactly looking for, so let me try with an example..
Suppose i am finding  a file . But once my searching ends.. I am not able to scroll up and see all the 1000 lines. The size of the screen buffer is obviously limited. Is there anyway I can increase this size ?

A: As you don't specify the terminal emulator you are using, in general terms you should look for the scrollback value, generally under the Preferences menu of your terminal emulator.  Could be under a Scrolling or Profiles sub-menu, as well.
For example, using x-terminal-emulator:

Similar menus and options should be available for other terminal emulators, like PuTTY, GnomeTerminal, etc...

Here's a similar thread in the AskUbuntu SE site:

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*How to see more lines in the terminal


Today I participated in the first running/walking event of my life and it was great!
This year, my life has changed for the better and I have become more active. Three months ago I started attending Zumba classes at my gym and I fell in love with it. Since then, I also bought the game Just Dance and became addicted to all the choreographies uploading the videos to my YouTube channel (click Here to visit it). So, when the ad for the MS Race popped-up in my Facebook wall I thought it was a great way of challenging myself and keeping my motivation up while supporting and helping people with Multiple Sclerosis.
There were 2 options, either run or walk 5k or 10k. I have never been a runner. At the gym, if I run 5 minutes on the treadmill at 8km/hour without stopping I feel like a huge accomplishment, so running was not an option this year. I decided to go for the 5k fun walk and I'm glad I did it because I couldn't have done the 10k, my legs are not prepared for that yet.
Given that it was a walk, i did not do anything special to prepare for the race however, I have been exercising at least 4 days per week for the last couple of months, so my body was kinda prepared for one hour of cardio.
The weather was not the best, it was raining non-stopping but still hundreds of people showed up. Families with kids and dogs, couples with prams and people wearing funny customs, all of us came together to the starting line and waited for Katy Perry's song to mark the start of the walk. As I said, this was my first event of this kind so, when we all started walking, I felt very emotional and tears filled my eyes (I did not cry tho). I was happy. I was happy of being part of something much bigger than me; being part of a community that comes together to support a great cause. I was happy about all the changes that I can see in my body and my mind since last year. So, when we left the starting line, I walked as fast as I could and promised myself that I will give my best and get to the finish line without stopping.
I crossed the finish line 52 min 46 seconds later. I could not stop smiling. It felt incredible. I felt the same way I feel every time I run more than 5 min on the treadmill: Awesome! – People who were at the finish line were cheering every runner and I truly felt they were cheering me, I was a winner (you can see it in this video). That feeling stays with you and motivates you to keep going, to keep you motivated, to make you want to participate in other events, to discover new things that potentially you could love.


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The Miner Detail
Manogue Girls Golf: Individual Sport, Team Effort
Courtesy of Kim Tisdale
Morgan Tisdale, Assistant Editor
Golf, to say the least, is not the most popular sport in high school – or at any level. Most people think of it as boring or pointless, and don't find much interest in it. However, the Bishop Manogue girls' golf team, the top six consisting of senior Amelia Gladys, juniors Jordyn Jensen and Morgan Tisdale, and sophomores Audrey Brust, Ella Williams, and Claire McQuone, has exceeded all expectations in their 2019 season while dealing with adversity and bumps in the road. At the beginning of the season, the girls started off strong with their first win at Genoa Lakes Golf Course, defeating the second place team by more than 40 strokes. Team captain and senior Amelia Gladys stated at the beginning of the season, to keep up their winning streak "we need to focus on short game, I think we overlook how much it can affect our scores." Gladys has been on the Manogue golf team since her freshman year, and she claims that this year is by far her favorite. "Since its my senior season, I want to have a scoring average in the 70's and make the most of every practice and tournament with the team," she explains.
Courtesy of Audrey Brust
During the first half of the season, however, the girls went through their fair share of adversity. "We lost a teammate that played a pretty big role on our team…it was rough because the first tournament we played without her, another one of our better players got sick and couldn't finish the round," junior Jordyn Jensen explains. "We were worried we were going to lose the tournament, but we picked it up on the back nine and kept our scores low enough to win." The lady miners went through their season undefeated, and went to the Northern Regional Championship to win by 75 strokes, setting a new record for Manogue Girls Golf. The top six individual scores consisted of three Miners, sophomore Ella Williams in sixth, sophomore Audrey Brust in fourth, and senior Amelia Gladys in second.
Courtesy of Morgan Tisdale
The girls then continued on to the State tournament in Las Vegas to play at TPC (Tournament Players Course) Summerlin. Placing fifth in the tournament to end their season, sophomore Audrey Brust is already looking forward to the future of the Manogue girls' golf team. As a 70's – average golfer, Brust is excited to lead the team into two more years of success. "I plan on getting the underclassmen really involved and determined to play their best golf … the last four spots on our tournament team really set us apart from the other schools that only have two or three low scorers, and those are the ones that can be the difference between winning and losing." The Lady Miners' only senior, Amelia Gladys, will be coming back in the 2020 season as a team manager to help the team along in another promising year.
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Fold It, a massive multiplayer online game, cracks AIDS Protein Configuration!
Can massive multiplayer online (MMO) games tap into in the wisdom of crowds to solve the world's biggest problems? One company, called FoldIt, is doing exactly that. In nature, form follows function. But the form, structure, and folding of proteins is largely an unsolved mystery. No computer program has been able to collect enough artificial intelligence to model protein structures on its own. This is where FoldIt comes in. Non scientists are able to "design" the structure of a protein on their laptop computers. The configuration are refined till the structure realizes its lowest energy state. Non scientists are helping the scientific community to solve problems they couldn't in decades. As proof, the FoldIt community, has cracked the protein structure of the AIDS virus. Web 2.0 and the wisdom of crowds is progressing science. This is the power of collaboration in the world of Science 2.0.


Including drapes and curtains to your window can add quite a lot of character, not only to the window, however for the complete room. These are specially designed to fit a variety of normal doors and home windows. Exclusive Home's Ironwork Room-Darkening Window Curtains provide a luxurious mixture of favor and performance, immediately making any room more elegant and private. Bring residence nature-impressed beauty with the Rye Leaf Grommet Top Room Darkening Window Curtain Panel by VCNY House.
The drapes shield books, art work and fabrics that ought to have restricted exposure to sunlight. The Sebastian curtains' fabric itself is pretty opaque, however the real gentle blocker is the lining. Lining is costlier but has other advantages: It may possibly shield material from sun damage, making curtains last longer.
In the living room of a New Jersey mansion designed by Nannette Brown, a Rogers & Goffigon fabric is used for each the curtains and the custom-made couch. With this testing method, solely three of the 13 curtains we examined proved to be true whole-blackout curtains, with a few others coming very shut.
We love additional lengthy curtains draped over your home windows to create a feeling of opulence and glamour. Typically, hanging curtain brackets on the wall above and outdoors the window molding seems to be best; it permits material to fall gracefully. Ornamental curtain rods ought to relate to the model of the room.
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O Carnaval de Joaçaba (também referenciado como de Joaçaba e Herval d'Oeste) é um dos principais carnavais do estado de Santa Catarina. Com a criação da Liga Independente das Escolas de Samba de Joaçaba e Herval d'Oeste (LIESJHO) em 1996, o carnaval de Joaçaba cresceu muito, e hoje conta com quatro grandes escolas de samba. Joaçaba e Herval d'Oeste são cidades conurbadas, sendo a área urbana separada apenas pelo Rio do Peixe, no meio-oeste catarinense, que juntas possuem aproximadamente 60 mil habitantes, estimando-se que cerca de metade da população esteja envolvida direta ou indiretamente. O carnaval tem um público estimado de 30 mil espectadores na Avenida XV de Novembro, 8 mil entre arquibancadas e camarotes.

Foi televisionado no ano de 2008 por SBT e Bandeirantes para toda Santa Catarina, e TV Cidade para região. O investimento médio chega na casa do milhão de reais, sendo que a escola Aliança, gastou 1,5 milhões, cifras volumosas para o interior do Brasil.

Todo ano há a presença de inúmeros contratados do carnaval carioca, baiano e paulista (Que só roubam para a Aliança). Os jurados também são oriundos do Rio de Janeiro e pertencem à Riotur. As quatro escolas têm barracão próprio onde ao longo de todo o ano confeccionam fantasias e alegorias. O clima de carnaval simplesmente toma conta da cidade nos meses anteriores. As vagas em hotéis da região geralmente se esgotam com bastante antecedência. Turistas de várias regiões do Brasil chegam à cidade para as quatro noites de festa e duas de desfile.

Em Joaçaba existem também Carnaval de blocos, que ocorre paralelamente na Praça da Catedral e chega a receber 8 mil foliões em vários blocos. O carnaval de blocos já foi considerado pela Riotur e pela Associação das Cidades Carnavalescas da América como o 3º melhor desfile de escolas de Samba do Brasil.

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Quatro escolas de samba
Aproximadamente 5000 integrantes
25 mil espectadores por noite
Gasto aproximado das escolas no total de 3,5 milhões de reais, entre recursos privados e públicos
Televisionado por 3 emissoras, 2 estaduais e 1 local
Seis horas de desfile por noite

As escolas de samba
Lista das Campeãs do Carnaval de Joaçaba


"Hampstead Heath" by John Constable is a watercolour view looking at the panoramic views that were visible in every direction in the open spaces of then-rural Hampstead. Constable enjoyed painting at Hampstead which allowed him to escape London's summer heat. This watercolour is part of the nearly one hundred sketches he made there, in which he attempted to capture the variable sky and its atmospherics. Constable referred to the practice of painting these works as "skying" where he used the landscape to portray a sense of scale and depth.
"the atmosphere possesses a characteristic humidity about it, that almost imparts the wish for an umbrella".
To these sky studies, he added notes, often on the back of the sketches, of the prevailing weather conditions.
John Constable was an English Romantic painter known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home which he painted with a passion. Although his paintings are now famous and valuable, he was not financially successful during his lifetime. His work was more popular in France, where he sold more works than in his native England and which helped inspire the Barbizon school.
Hampstead Heath is a large and ancient London park, covering 320 hectares. The park sits on one of the highest points in London and the view of London from Parliament Hill is protected by law. The skyscrapers of the City of London can be seen, along with St Paul's Cathedral and other landmarks. The heath is rambling and includes hills, ponds, woodlands, playgrounds, a training track and swimming pools.
Does this watercolour capture a realistic sky and its atmospherics?
In his lifetime, Constable sold only 20 paintings in England and was never financially successful. Today his pictures are among the most popular and valuable in British art. Why is this the case with so many artists?
Popular culture has many references to Hampstead Heath. It has featured in art, fiction, non-fiction, movies and documentaries. What are your associations or references to Hampstead Heath?


Brie Larson is ready to become the most powerful character introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That's according to Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige. The Oscar winner is glowing with cosmic energy in a new batch of 10 posters for Captain Marvel. Set in the '90s before the events of the first Iron Man, this human-Kree warrior battles a secret war against the shapeshifting Skrulls looking to invade Earth.
Before he rose to the top levels of S.H.I.E.L.D., before S.H.I.E.L.D. was disbanded following the Winter Soldier business with Hydra, before he lost his eye even, Nick Fury was more of "a bureaucrat" than expionage expert, according to Samuel L. Jackson. "He hadn't become jaded or a slave to the cynicism that we normally see. He sort of respects the people that are above him, more so than the Nick Fury that people are used to." His meeting with Carol becomes his introduction to the world of superheroes.
Here's the real star of Captain Marvel, Carol's cat Goose. In the comics, the feline goes by the name Chewie as a reference to Star Wars. The cat was also secretly a Flerken, an alien creature that happens to look like cats of earth. In the movie, the name change lends itself to all the Top Gun references that abound.
The star of Crazy Rich Asians becomes a crazy cool sniper as Minn-Erva, another member of Starforce.
Before Korath sided with Lee Pace's Ronan the Accuser (who also returns for Captain Marvel) in Guardians of the Galaxy, he too was a member of Starforce fighting alongside Carol. Perhaps we'll see how he became a sympathizer of religious zealouts.
Another familiar face — and Captain America's biggest fan — returns to the big screen through de-aging CGI magic.
We still don't know exactly who Annette Bening is playing in Captain Marvel. What we do know is that she's Kree. She mentions in the trailers how her people found Carol with no memories and remade her as one of them, bestowing her powers and a longer lifespan. Speculate wildly!
There's something about Agent Fury's boss at S.H.I.E.L.D. that's not quite right. Maybe it's because he's really one of those green-skinned Skrulls who infiltrated the top-secret government organization. Could that be it?


I called a sales rep from CONSUMERS WINDOWS AND DOORS to give me a price on a door. So he measures two doors and a window. So he gives me an estimate for the three items and asks me to sign. As a dummy I sign. My wife gets home and wants to know a price for a door and not the three items I mention above. I call the salesman and he never gets back to me. So I call them up after two weeks and cancel. Long story short, I was taken to small claims court. The total bill was 3800.00 and the judge said since I signed I should give them 500. and walk away. The lesson I learned is not to sign anything especially when sales people come to the house.


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Bethany decided that she would spend all the summer earning money as a tutor. She put up flyers around elementary schools in her neighborhood. She was offering lessons in Spanish, French, and Italian. Bethany grew up travelling the world, so she knew how to speak a lot of languages. She would charge her customers $25 per hour. Someone called Bethany. It was a girl asking for lessons in Italian.
Bethany drove down to the girl's house on Saturday. The student lived in a huge mansion! Bethany went inside the house and introduced herself. "I'm Megan," the girl said. Bethany first started teaching her the basics, like how to introduce yourself and saying "thank you." Megan had a hard time pronouncing the words. Bethany repeated them until she could say them correctly.
Megan started to get upset and blamed Bethany for teaching her incorrectly. Bethany was insulted. She had been speaking and writing in Italian since she was four years old. "Megan, why don't you take a short break and come back to this?" Bethany suggested. Hopefully that would calm her down. "Why don't you take a long break and get out of here?" Megan said. Bethany left her house, she didn't need to take insults from a teenager.
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The TGYS Program is excited to announce the release of the Request for Application (RFA) for the next three-year funding cycle that begins July 1st, 2014.
TGYS provides funding for community-based programs that target youth and their families with prevention and intervention services in an effort to prevent incidents of youth crime and violence, and child abuse and neglect.
To begin the TGYS application process, visit the TGYS website at: www.colorado.gov/CDHS/TGYS and download the application. The TGYS Program highly recommends that all potential applicants watch the RFA Technical Assistance Webinar, also posted on the TGYS website. This webinar provides information about the TGYS program, outlines the RFA requirements and provides resources and tips for submitting a competitive application.
Applications must be submitted by email and received by 4:00 pm Mountain Time on Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Additional instructions are provided in the RFA document.
If any questions remain, please submit these via the online form at: TGYS RFA Question Submission Form, and responses will be posted weekly on the TGYS website.
Thank you for your work and dedication to ensure that children and youth in Colorado are safe, healthy, educated, connected and contributing.


Twilio is a developer-friendly cloud communications company, facilitating business calls and messaging on its robust API platform.
Twilio is seeking a Financial Analyst to join our Sales Finance team in San Francisco to be a strategic business partner. This role will be highly visible, helping guide the investments fueling Twilio's Go-To-Market strategy focusing on marketing, support, and partners on a global basis. You'll primarily partner with the business management and budget owners, and be responsible for reporting, forecasting, and analyzing all aspects of departmental operating expenses and its impact on revenue. You will also partner with senior executives to help them manage their hiring and program spend investments. Additionally, you'll collaborate with the rest of the FP&A team on crafting the consolidated P&L, recommending high ROI activities, process improvements, generating budget vs actual analysis, and completing other ad hoc projects.
Can bring strong financial and analytical skills to a collaborative team-based working environment.
Has 3+ years' FP&A experience, preferably in a high, growth SaaS environment.
Excels at juggling multiple priorities, is eager to make an impact on the business, and motivated to tackle complex problems.
Takes pride in their work's integrity, quality, and accuracy.
Is able to build professional relationships within the business that will be critical to their success.
Is a results-oriented individual with a "can do" attitude, and is comfortable asking questions.
Get to know and help shape how we manage our business.
Develop financial models and operating budgets for the marketing, support, and partners to help scale the business, plus variance analysis and other various projects.
Drive excellence in data quality, work on complex tasks, and be the source of truth on how our business is performing in key areas.
Twilio is a complex, high-growth, and quickly evolving business. The Finance team is central to Twilio's decision making process and the Sales Finance team guides company investment decisions to maintain Twilio as the platform to fuel the future of communications. As a Financial Analyst, your ability to identify and communicate trends, opportunities and problems--and more importantly, recommend a course of action--will play a critical role in charting Twilio's future.
This position will be located in our beautiful new office at 101 Spear Street in the Rincon Center in San Francisco. You will enjoy our incredible perks: catered meals, snacks, game room, ergonomic desks, massages, Wednesday Night dinners, bi-weekly All Hands and more. What you will also get to experience is a company that believes in small teams for maximum impact; that strives to balance work and home life, that understands that this is a marathon, not a sprint; that continuously and purposefully builds an inclusive culture where everyone is able to do and be the best version of themselves. We seek people who naturally demonstrate our values, who are challenged by problems, empower others to thrive, people who can draw the owl and not be beholden to one playbook.
Launched in 2008, Twilio simplifies business communication across applications—supplying developers with the highly competent tools needed to develop customer-centric phone, VoIP, and messaging systems on its global cloud API platform. From online restaurant bookings to tech support call center networks, Twilio's flexible technology lets companies construct personalized business solutions that enhance customer-service interaction and profitability.