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Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Wiki Guide
Girl in the Flower Dress References
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Below you'll find a useful guide documenting the various easter eggs and nods to the greater Marvel Universe found within the fifth episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Girl in the Flower Dress.
Did we miss any references or easter eggs? Feel free to share by clicking the edit button to add your own!
Potential Spoilers below, read at your own risk :)
Comic Book References[edit]
This section will provide references that tie directly into Marvel's comic books.
Scorch - Raina tells Chan that he should take on a name so he'll be remembered, and she dubs him Scorch. While Scorch can refer to a few different characters (across the different Marvel Universes), this is most likely a nod to Tommy Ng, a pyrokinetic in the Earth 616 Universe. Ng is a pretty obscure character, with almost no background, who appeared in Night Thrasher #13-14 back in 1994.
Super Hero Registration - Coulson reveals, to Skye's surprise, that there is a growing "list" of superheroes and identities, a possible nod to a Superhero Registration Act enforcing the mandatory registration of heroes and powers with the government.
Raina - Raina is a bit of a weird reference. In the Earth 616 Universe, there is a villain named Raina who resides in the Savage Land. The Savage Land is a prehistoric preserve in Antarctica complete with dinosaurs. The area has been the location of various story lines, and most recently appeared in this summer's Age of Ultron event. Raina is a member of the Saurid race (similar to humans) and is actually a mutant. She has superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and agility as well as lethal claws on fangs. In a lot of ways, she is a close analog to the Beast, of X-Men fame. However, this episode's Raina does not seem to possess any of the qualities of Raina from the comics. The show may be setting her up to be a bigger threat-one more in line with the comics-but as of right now it's unclear.
Marvel Cinematic Universe References[edit]
This section will focus on references and nods that are more directly related to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, rather than just the comics. As usual there are a few references to Coulson's time with the Avengers and his "death" prior to the Battle of New York.
Extremis - This episode deals heavily with the extremis serum from the movies and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s pilot episode. It's discovered that Chan's platelets are somehow flame retardant, and this allows his body to accept the extremis serum without blowing up. After his platelets are removed from his blood, the "Centipede" group apparently synthesizing a serum that incorporates them to neutralize that negative effect.
I Love These Things - Coulson offers this line when he uses the same device he used to get through the keycard locked lab door in Iron Man to get through the locked lab door in this episode. He also takes up the same arms folded with slightly hunched shoulders and turned away from the device stance that accompanied its use in Iron Man.
Do you know Steve Rogers? - When Raina is making her pitch to Chan to get him to cooperate, she asks if he has ever heard of Steve Rogers. She then explains that people only know Captain America, but that he could be the same if he chooses to embrace his powers and let Raina and her people nurture them. That's when he adopts the moniker Scorch.
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Shallow Coral Reefs — Essential Fish Habitat of the Pacific Islands
Shallow coral reefs provide important habitat for fish and other species.
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They buffer our shores from powerful waves, storms, and floods. They provide homes and shelter to numerous species of fish — including many that are an important part of subsistence, commercial, and recreational fishing — and supply surfers, boaters, snorkelers, divers, and fishers with bountiful leisure.
And they serve as the "medicine cabinets" of the 21st century, housing plants and animals that are increasingly becoming the target of research projects looking into new drugs for everything from cancer, to arthritis, to microbial infections.
Just what are these valuable resources?
They're shallow coral reefs, which the United States identifies as essential fish habitat (EFH) — areas necessary for federally managed fish and other organisms to reproduce and survive.
A valuable resource
There are more than 22,000 square kilometers of shallow coral reef here in the U.S. Pacific Islands and includes tens of thousands of species, which are home to over a thousand species of reef fish.
"Our coral reefs are in Hawai'i, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)," explains Mike Tosatto, Regional Administrator for NOAA Fisheries in the Pacific Islands. What's more, shallow coral reefs also surround several islands and atolls in the Central Pacific — such as Wake and Johnston Atolls, and Baker and Jarvis Islands — that are collectively known as the Pacific Remote Island Area. "Aside from being physically expansive and biologically diverse, coral reefs in the U.S. Pacific Islands provide extensive economic benefits."
Trevally, damselfish, butterflyfish, and surgeonfish hang around various types of coral.
Schools of surgeonfish swim around a colony of lobe coral at the Island of Hawai'i's Ke'ei reef.
A school of purple queen anthias fish among the plating rice coral and branching cauliflower coral in the reefs around Swains Island in American Samoa.
For instance, when combining recreational, amenity, fishery, and biodiversity values, Hawai'i's coral reefs alone are estimated to have direct economic benefits of approximately $455 million in 2012. Coral reefs in Guam, on the other hand, provide residents and visitors annual benefits of about $68 million.
But these coral reefs face numerous threats from climate change and other human activities, such as overfishing and pollution. For instance, high ocean temperatures from climate change in recent years have caused mass coral bleaching events in Hawai'i, American Samoa, and other Pacific areas, resulting in significant coral mortalities.
Various regulatory actions and laws help ensure the survival of these valuable reefs.
The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council is responsible for managing fisheries in the federal waters of the Pacific Islands Region, which contain a portion of the shallow coral reefs in the region (the rest of the reefs are within State and Territory waters). In 1986, the council banned bottom trawling and other potentially destructive and non-selective fishing gear — which could damage coral reefs — in these managed offshore fisheries.
And in 2014, NOAA Fisheries listed 14 species of Indo-Pacific corals as "Threatened" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), a move that provides enhanced federal protections against harm and collection of the listed species.
Less recognized, however, is the role that NOAA Fisheries and EFH play in protecting the region's shallow coral reefs from non-fishing human activities.
"A lot of people when they think about NOAA Fisheries and they think about regulatory framework, they immediately go to ESA or other laws," says Gerry Davis, NOAA Fisheries Assistant Regional Administrator for Habitat Conservation in the Pacific Islands. "There's no doubt that our EFH authority is having a significant benefit for the resources that NOAA Fisheries [and our State and Territorial partners are] managing and I think that's one of those untold treasures for NOAA Fisheries."
The benefits of protecting EFH
First passed in 1976, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act serves as the nation's roadmap towards achieving sustainably managed fisheries by helping NOAA Fisheries prevent overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks. Twenty years ago, in 1996, U.S. Congress amended the Act to establish new requirements to identify and conserve EFH for federally managed species.
Top: A lizardfish hides among finger coral. Bottom-left: A whitespot hawkfish peers out from a perch in the plating rice coral at Swains Island in American Samoa. Bottomright: Two small damselfish above the brightly colored tentacles of a sea anemone at Kingman Reef in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.
"It's partly the case in Hawai'i and the Pacific that EFH is everywhere," says Alan Everson, retired NOAA Fisheries EFH coordinator. That is to say: All coral reefs in the U.S. Pacific Islands are considered EFH for many managed species.
For example, lobe and finger corals are the most common types of reef-building corals in Hawai'i — these EFH are home to a range of fish, including various species of surgeonfish, damselfish, triggerfish, goatfish, and snappers. And in American Samoa, table coral serves as an EFH and food source for butterflyfish, such as the Chevron Butterflyfish.
Importantly, EFH designations don't exclude commercial or recreational activities from occurring on or near shallow coral reefs. Rather, they ensure that federally funded, permitted, or conducted coastal and marine activities move forward in a way that minimizes harm to fish habitat.
Before undertaking projects that may directly or indirectly harm coral reefs, federal agencies must consult with NOAA Fisheries to gauge the potential effects on EFH, managed species, and associated species (such as major prey species), and discuss potential mitigation measures — such as planting seagrass or relocating disturbed corals.
In the Pacific Islands, NOAA Fisheries conducts about 200 consultations a year, says EFH coordinator Danielle Jayewardene. "The majority involve us recommending mitigation measures to protect coral reefs," she says, adding that the consultations have helped protect hundreds of thousands of coral colonies.
"These consultations, however, haven't always been welcomed as agencies are under pressure to complete their projects on time," Everson says.
But over time, federal agencies have begun to realize that early coordination and collaboration on these activities can save them time and money, and help them produce a better project. They recognize the intent of EFH consultations is not to stop or create hurdles for economic progress and development, but rather to protect precious habitats that important fisheries species need for productive commercial, recreation, and tribal fisheries, Davis says.
Left: Researchers conduct a coral reef survey to better understand the health of the reef. Right: Gerry Davis holds an 18-pound wahoo he caught off O'ahu's Ka'ena Point.
"We're trying very hard to maintain that resource as best as we can, recognizing we need a healthy and viable economy," Davis says. "The fruits of the EFH work are reflected in whether I catch fish or not. That's a very easy way for me to justify what I do."
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Essential fish habitat includes coral reefs, kelp forests, bays, wetlands, rivers, and even areas of the deep ocean that are necessary for fish reproduction, growth, feeding, and shelter.
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# should change before deploying.
- HITCHHIKER_MAIL_CUSTOM #是否需要自定义mail,可以使用 "api" 或 "smtp"
- HITCHHIKER_MAIL_SMTP_USER # smtp用户名  "***@qq.com"
2月 07 08:27:16 TR systemd: Started Docker Application Container Engine.
If you don't want to use sudo when you use the docker command, create a Unix group called docker and add users to it. When the docker daemon starts, it makes the ownership of the Unix socket read/writable by the docker group.
# 1. Create the docker group.
# 2. Add your user to the docker group.
# 3. Log out and log back in so that your group membership is re-evaluated.
# 4. Verify that you can run docker commands without sudo.
场景是这样的 , 边做集成或系统测试期间 ,就可以弄一些接口测试 , 这样后期发版回归微调后 , 以后再发版就可以 继续微维护了 .
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You can change default behaviour of response getting from Web API from XML type to JSON type by removing xml media type from XmlFormatter in Web API configuration.
The problem is to change default behaviour of response returning from Web API as a result from XML type to JSON type.
By default response comes in XML format. You can change default behaviour of response getting from Web API to JSON format. Let's see how to do this with a simple example.
Create a Web API Project. You will find ValuesController inherited from ApiController Add a Get(int id) method and run the application. Execute url api/values/5.
You will see an XML response on browser.
Add lines in WebApiConfig file to remove XML formatter from media type and you will see API response coming in JSON Format.
//This will totally remove xml media type from formatter.
Use this if you want to totally remove XML format as API outcome.


The much-rumored HTC One Mini is looking more and more like a real thing, this time cropping up in a Chinese TENAA certification database listed as the HTC 601e.
The listing suggests that the phone will sport a single SIM card slot—unlike the Chinese version of its bigger brother, which packs two—but reveals little else. Other than the fact it's almost certainly real, and about to land really rather soon.


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Chrysler Viper GTS-R #51 – Minichamps
2000 Chrysler Viper GTS-R #51
Pilots: O. Beretta, K. Wendlinger, D. Dupuy
Team: Sté. Viper Team ORECA
Race: 7th overall (1st in GTS) at Le Mans in 2000
Hugues de Chaunac founded ORECA (Organisation Exploitation Compétition Automobiles) in 1973. Starting out with single-seaters, in 1977 they arrived at La Sarthe, in a partnership with Toyota. From then on they competed in almost every class of car racing, from GT to rally to endurance. In 1998 they were back at Le Mans, with three Chrysler Viper GTS-R. Car #53 came in first place in the GT2 class. The following year they were back, again with three cars. And they did it again: car #51 came in first place in the GT2 class. With the good results, for the last 24 Heures du Mans of the millennium, ORECA stuck to the winning formula. In June of 2000 they arrived at La Sarthe with a team of three Vipers. This time however, gone was the red, white and blue livery. The cars were all red with go-fast white stripes.
Playstation was a big sponsor to the GTS-R – the car appeared a LOT in their racing games.
The Viper GTS-R was the racing variant of the Dodge Viper. The project of the car was a joint-venture between Chrysler, ORECA and Reynard Motorsport. The first prototype was ready in 1996, and consisted of an unitary steel space frame covered by a carbon fiber body. And of course, a huge engine at the front. Powering the GTS-R was a 7995 cm³ (!) naturally aspirated V10, delivering up to 750 hp and 95,4 mkgf of torque. Car #51 (chassis #C31) here was one of the three GTS-R that ORECA had at La Sarthe in 2000. On June 19th it finished in seventh place overall and first place in the GTS class. As a side note, chassis #C31 is the most successful Viper GTS-R. Not only did it win at Le Mans, it also won at Sebring and scored six class wins in the 2000 American Le Mans Series.
Oh yes, I need the winning 1999 car.
Minichamps is a brand that became sparse here at W-143 nowadays. Not that I don't like their models, however lately they are not releasing many Le Mans cars. While Spark churns out Le Mans cars non-stop, Minichamps seems to be dedicating their production to passenger cars. And F1. Therefore, I can only find old releases from them, like this one. With that, detail level is subpar compared to current Spark offerings. And as always, the worst aspect on these old models are the decals. On this GTS-R the decals are okay (just okay), though better in fact than on my 1999 #51. So if you fancy these models, always check the decals before buying. BIG chance they'll be in bad shape 😥.


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Egyptian Women Chop Their Locks in Protest of Fundamentalist Constitution
"It's not our hair which crowns us women; our freedom does"
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Dozens of Egyptian women chopped their hair Tuesday in protest of Egypt's new fundamentalist constitution. (Photo: Ahmed Abd El Latef / El Shorouk)
Dozens of Egyptian women chopped their hair in Tahrir Square to protest the passage of Egypt's new, fundamentalist constitution—Egypt's first since the overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak.
Holding up their shorn locks protesters chanted, "A woman's crown is her liberation!" and carried signs saying, "Your constitution is invalid," "Don't you dare try to marginalize the role of women," and "A woman's crown is not her hair, a woman's crown is her liberty."
The protest was held on Tuesday shortly before the national electoral commission announced that 64 percent of voters in the two-round referendum backed the new constitution; turnout was a scant 33 percent.
"They were upset by the passage of the new, Muslim Brotherhood constitution, and also by reports that fundamentalists stopped some women from going into polling stations to vote in the referendum on it," writes Middle East historian Juan Cole, adding, "They affirmed that they would continue peacefully to demonstrate, rally and camp out until the demands of the revolution were realized."
Daily News Egypt reports:
"Freedom costs a fortune," Fatma Sherif, one of the organizers of the protest, said, "it's not our hair which crowns us women; our freedom does."
Sherif stated that women have been subjected to oppression since the early days of the revolution. She recalled incidents such as subjecting women to virginity tests, dragging them in the streets and stripping them off their clothes to prevent them from protesting.
"In the end, they produce a constitution which doesn't protect our rights," said Sherif.
Christians and liberals boycotted the referendum in protest of changes they saw as weakening human rights, particularly those of women, and the possible introduction of a form of fundamentalist Islamic law, AFP reports.
Despite the opposition, the Islamist-dominated Shura Council convened on Wednesday to swear in 90 new members appointed by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Following the vote, Morsi immediately signed into law the charter, which had been written up by his Islamist allies.
According to Al Jazeera:
The charter gives the traditionally toothless upper house full legislative powers until elections for a new lower house is called within two months.
The upper house of parliament has taken over from Morsi, who had given himself the power to pass laws that led to days of violent protests.
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BIG HERO 6 International Trailer: Hiro Hamada Meets Baymax
by Perri Nemiroff July 16, 2014
Disney has released a Big Hero 6 international trailer. Although the trailer is entirely in Japanese, after that domestic trailer dropped yesterday and absolutely melted my heart, I'm down to watch Hiro (voice by Ryan Potter) and Baymax (Scott Adsit) do just about anything, even if I can't understand what they're saying.
This one still has the footage of Hiro trying to train Baymax and help him suit up, but it's got a far more somber tone to it. Rather than open up with vibrant colors and an amusing scene like watching Baymax plug up a few holes with tape, this international version gets a funeral and rather blue and grey imagery to go with it. However, as soon as Baymax pops up – or rather, blows up – the piece lightens significant and also gives us a look at how and why Hiro and Baymax came together in the first place. Hit the jump to check out the Big Hero 6 international trailer. The film opens in 3D on November 7th, and also features the voices of Maya Rudolph, James Cromwell, T.J. Miller, Jamie Chung, Genesis Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., and Alan Tudyk.
Via CBM.
Here's the official synopsis for Big Hero 6:
"Big Hero 6" features brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who finds himself in the grips of a criminal plot that threatens to destroy the fast-paced, high-tech city of San Fransokyo. With the help of his closest companion—a robot named Baymax—Hiro joins forces with a reluctant team of first-time crime fighters on a mission to save their city. Inspired by the Marvel comics of the same name, and featuring comic-book style action and all the heart and humor audiences expect from Walt Disney Animation Studios, the CG-animated "Big Hero 6" hits theaters in 3D on Nov. 7, 2014.
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How Has Tech's Measurement Of Everything Affected Human Performance?
Humanity has responded predictably to the behavioral economics of manipulation.
Digitally transmitted pings, buzzes, scores, pop up questions and the like attract attention and, usually, a reaction. Which was exactly the point of applying such stimuli. But the longer term question is whether the broader societal outcomes already becoming evident are worth the short term benefits to the companies who set these performance altering processes in motion. JL
Tyler Bettilyon reports in One Zero:
Feedback is a powerful determinant of human behavior. We respond to social pressure, blinking red lights, and new scores. Whatever gets measured gets managed. Measuring impact necessitates measuring and managing users. Companies will send you measurements, multiple times per day. "As attention gets more competitive, we have to crawl deeper down the brainstem to get you addicted to getting attention from other people." Most of us cannot help but be affected. We've become so accustomed to this feedback loop that the lack of notifications is a signal of its own. "First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us."
This morning, as all mornings, I opened Twitter, Linkedin, and Medium. I know I've been in a writing slump on Medium because I only had nine notifications this morning. I probably haven't been doing enough social media marketing either: only three notifications on Twitter. On LinkedIn I had eight notifications, but somehow none of them were actually related to me. Maybe LinkedIn is trying to tell me something. Duolingo is definitely trying to tell me something: I broke my language learning streak.
Last week, while traveling, I took five Lyfts and provided 25 stars. Some say I'm too generous, but unless something goes seriously wrong during the drive I give five-out-of-five. I'm not about to put someone's livelihood at risk because I don't like their music or because they're not an effusive conversationalist. I also gave surveys to 15 students via Google Forms last week. Their average satisfaction with my class was evidently 3.9 / 4. I wonder if the students treat my survey the same way I treat Lyft drivers, but I'm grateful for the ego boost either way. I also wonder if Google learned as much about my students as I did: Maybe they'll be served an ad for a competitor's computer science class.
Feedback is a powerful determinant of human behavior. We respond to social pressure, blinking red lights, and new high scores. An old managerial adage claims that whatever gets measured gets managed. Of course, a zillion companies want you to prioritize their products and services over everything else. They will send you various measurements, multiple times per day, often encircled in an urgency-inducing red bubble, begging you to log back into their app. Most of us cannot help but be affected by this feedback, often without ever realizing it. As the renowned science fiction writer William Gibson observed, "first we shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us."
Much has been said about the enormous data extraction operation that has been evolving online. Entire books, such as security expert Bruce Schneier's Data and Goliath and Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, are filled with disturbing revelations of widespread data mining. But, the cycle doesn't just end once the data is harvested. Obviously, we can thank surveillance capitalism for the relentless onslaught of "relevant" ads we see every day. But these companies also deliver some of their measurements back to us as measurements. The injection of data back into our lives creates a pervasive and subtle motive that now guides significant aspects of everything we do.
We've become so accustomed to this feedback loop that even the lack of notifications is a signal of its own.
Quora asks me, based on my profile, "can you answer this algorithms question for Gurdeep?" I don't respond, but I feel a little guilty about it. Sorry, Gurdeep.
Facebook tells me, "you made Jason mad!" Shortly thereafter, Facebook shows me one of Jason's posts. The post makes me mad. I'm low on willpower and, unable to resist the urge, I type back: "Fuck you, Jason." We don't speak anymore and I can't tell if I'm better or worse for it.
Strava tells me I just set a personal record. I feel pride as I kick off my shoes and look ahead to my next run.
A friend bemoans the dating apps that tell him how desirable he is, in precise, quantified detail. I feel sympathy, he feels insecure.
If you're looking at a screen, it's probably given you some unsolicited feedback in the last few minutes. Hell, your phone has probably interrupted you (buzz buzz, please look at me!) to deliver some algorithmically generated advice. We've become so accustomed to this feedback loop that even the lack of notifications is a signal of its own. Really, no one liked that photo? Ha, that cowardly internet stranger doesn't have the chutzpah to argue with me, the obviously braver internet stranger. Why hasn't anyone matched with me yet?
This feedback loop has, at times, made me anxious AF. Habitually checking my phone. Nervous that someone might have digitally demanded my attention. Excited that someone might have paid attention to me. Worried I might offend someone I love. Giddy that I might have received praise. I was never a complete wreck, but my relationship with some apps and services has certainly made me feel less healthy, happy, and whole overall.
Amid all that anxiety, I slowly broke up with Facebook over several years. First turning off notifications, then removing it from my phone completely. The occasional joy of connecting with an old friend kept me coming back to Facebook for a long time. But I finally deleted my Facebook account in 2019 as the flood of scandals demonstrated how little Facebook actually cared about helping me "connect" with my "friends."
Pull to refresh and you might win a new notification!
In moments of candor, and among people they trust, even the most faux-zen CEOs of Silicon Valley will admit that the purpose of their business is to make money. The mission is shareholder value, and the "mission" is just an exercise in product and market fit. In the case of social media, the money comes from our attention. Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google and founder of the Center for Humane Technology, has been one of the most prominent voices criticizing the vicious competition for our attention on such platforms.
Speaking to Congress in June, Harris told legislators, "as attention gets more competitive, we have to crawl deeper down the brainstem to your identity and get you addicted to getting attention from other people." He compared design tactics used by tech companies to slot machines — pull to refresh and you might win a new notification! — and describes infinite scroll features as an attempt to "remove the stopping cue," keeping you in the app. He described people who — like 2017 me — were becoming "obsessed with the constant feedback they get from others."
Social media use, especially high levels of use, has been tied to rising levels of anxiety and depression among teenagers. Some research has even established causality, finding that those who deactivate their social media accounts spend more time socializing in person, which has fairly well-established mental health benefits, and that intentionally limiting social media use caused significant reductions in anxiety among participants.
This isn't earth-shattering news. Like smokers, many social media users realize the downsides while continuing to use the product. I tried an informal experiment — in a new private browsing window I opened Google and typed "how to quit," and let Google's data hungry oracle open a window into humanity's soul:
Unlike cigarette companies, social media operations do not have a chemically addictive substance to boost sales. But they do have an unnerving stockpile of psychological ammunition to leverage against our fragile minds. Harris and Zuboff both describe data stockpiles as a form of power imbalance. Facebook, Twitter, and Google have an almost alchemical ability to transmute billions of data points into an algorithmic engine optimized for engagement. Harris likens this process to a virtual voodoo doll, with notifications and new content playing the role of a pushpin. What happens if I poke at this bias, or that desire?
In 2014, Facebook got caught with the pushpin still in the doll. Researchers at Facebook intentionally manipulated the news feeds of more than 680,000 people. Some were shown more negative posts, others were shown more positive posts, and the resulting paper confirmed that emotions are contagious online. Those shown increased negativity displayed increased negativity in their own posts, and vice versa. Facebook never asked any users for consent to participate in this experiment. In a pattern that has become quite familiar since 2014, the researcher at Facebook was "very sorry."
Contemporaneous reporting in the wake of the 2014 scandal revealed what probably should have been obvious: Facebook was running tons of experiments on its platform. It would be financially irresponsible for Facebook not to measure the impact of changes to its design and algorithms. Measuring that impact necessitates measuring and managing its users. The business model of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others relies on engagement. The risk of competition mandates that those companies encourage their users to stay on their platform and use their service frequently.
Dr. William Brady, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, has found that moral and emotional content is especially gripping on these platforms and that outrage is among the most powerful emotions in terms of spreading content online. There are at least two psychological factors driving this phenomena. First, there are personal motivations related to humanity's ever-present group orientation. Brady told me when we express outrage or joy about an issue connected to morality we "signal our own attitudes and beliefs to our ingroup." His work has found that emotional content tends to spread much better within — rather than between — distinct social groups online.
The second, Brady told me, is that we might be innately wired to respond to emotional content. "There is also something about moral and emotional content that our perception system is attuned to," he explained, "when people express emotions, it's important that we know how to navigate that emotion in the social world. This draws us into that content."
I asked if human psychology alone was enough to explain the swampy state of social media. Brady said he isn't ready to take that for granted, "if we want to understand why this content is spreading, we also have to understand the specific design of social media and how it might amplify this content. We get rewarded from our group in this immediate and quantifiable way, so it's possible that this social feedback could amplify social content." But he cautioned that his work hasn't clearly established the impact of the algorithms and design decisions in this process, although he is currently doing research along those lines.
These perspectives also help explain a paradoxical finding from a 2018 study: Following people you disagree with actually increased polarization. Tristan Harris says the platforms are cynically built to maximize engagement. Brady and others have established that outrageous content is highly engaging. If you buy those arguments, it stands to reason that the voodoo specialists at Facebook and Twitter would want to push their needles straight into our amygdalae.
The platform operators aren't the only ones interested in our eyeballs.
Advertisers, influencers (who are advertisers disguised as your friends), manipulation mercenaries like Cambridge Analytica, and state-sponsored propagandists have all built their own efforts on top social media firms' engagement optimization machines. Dr. Darren Linvill, associate professor at Clemson University, studies digital disinformation especially by state actors. Linvill commented in a recent article that professional trolls "understand how to harness our biases," and "know what pressure points to push and how best to drive us to distrust our neighbors."
Dr. Linvill told me that, "absolutely the design of the system fuels disinformation," from the near-frictionless creation of anonymous accounts to the data-hungry engagement algorithms. He also explained that data collection is a kind of double-edged sword. The data that gives Twitter and Facebook the power to manipulate us is the same data that helps researchers like Linvill identify and study trolls.
Linvill reminded me that, "If you're going to police a platform, you need resources." Those resources include money, person-power, and data. He also expressed deep frustration with Facebook and Google, who are enormously well resourced, but hoard their data troves like jealous dragons. Similarly, the algorithms that process this data are guarded trade secrets. Without access to the algorithms and the data, it's hard to quantify their impact on the spread of content. But I'll go out on a limb and speculate that it's not trivial.
In my view, none of this is inherent to social media, the internet as a whole, or even to a "data driven" lifestyle generally. The worst aspects highlighted here are the specific result of business models predicated on one-sided data extraction, intense competition for our limited attention, and a cynical reduction of people to the metrics they generate.
Personally, I loved Facebook for many years. From 2008 to 2012, I widely extolled the virtues of connecting with friends and family scattered around the globe. I felt it broadened my horizons, gave me a more cosmopolitan mindset, and certainly exposed me to many new and interesting ideas. It's not hard to imagine versions of social media where that's all still true, but it is hard to imagine the techie robber barons of our new gilded age building such systems out of the goodness of their heart.
In his testimony before Congress, Harris suggested that many of these services could be engineered in prosocial ways. Imagine if Facebook gave you a notification to "give your eyes a rest," if you've been in the app for 30 minutes straight. Instagram recently announced it will start asking "are you sure you want to post that?" when the message is similar to ones that have already been flagged or reported by users.
In the hands of good-faith organizations with better data management protocol, I believe the processing of personal data can absolutely improve our lives.
Similarly, I like that Duolingo nags me a little when I stop practicing. Yes, it is an example of what Harris calls "persuasive technology," and it does serve to keep me engaged with the app, but it's also nagging me to learn something and keep practicing.
A spokesperson for Duolingo told me that they, "discourage binging Duolingo lessons in favor of shorter practice sessions on a regular basis."
They do run tests, and collect your data as a result, but they use those results to maximize learning outcomes. While Duolingo's revenue is derived from advertising, the spokesperson indicated that they do not give data collected within their app to Google, who serves the ads.
Limiting our engagement with these apps and media ecosystems, and approaching them with intentionality can alleviate some of the risks. One study found that limiting social media use to 30 minutes per day had positive impacts on well-being. Plus, there are risks associated with checking out completely as well: One study found that while political polarization decreased among those who stopped using social media, so did factual news knowledge. The Center for Humane Technology maintains a long list of suggestions for taking control of your own engagement.
Harris also argued in his testimony to Congress that regulating these companies like fiduciaries — as we do with lawyers, financial advisors, and doctors — could compel them to abandon the "race to the bottom of the brainstem" by forcing them to build their services with the best interests of their customers at heart. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital civil liberties, also endorses the idea of treating companies that collect significant customer data as "information fiduciaries." The EFF makes the case that, like financial advisors who manage your money, those who collect data "owe a duty of care, meaning they must act competently and diligently to avoid harm to their customers."
It's clear to me that some data collection and processing has incredible upside. In the hands of good-faith organizations with better data management protocol, I believe the processing of personal data can absolutely improve our lives. In some cases, like the world of health care, such efforts can even lengthen and save our lives. Little nudges and notifications can be deployed towards prosocial goals.
But this upside is cold comfort in a world where behemoth corporations surveil our every action, without disclosure or consent, and store the results indefinitely in Mark Zuckerberg's simmering cauldron of neural network fodder, bubbling endlessly while some data scientists try to alchemize our data into gold.
The technology behemoths of the last decade haven't taken their responsibility to their customers and society nearly as seriously as they have taken their fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. Without an external incentive — like new legislation or massive loss of market share from customer rejection — Facebook, Google, Twitter, and the rest will continue down the path of extraction and exploitation. We can try to individually resist these companies' digital voodoo, but it's past time we regulated the practice as well.


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Q: Polynomials $X^n$ and $(1-X)^n$ are coprime Let $n\in \mathbb N-\{0\}$ . How can we show that the polynomials $X^n$ and $(1-X)^n$ are coprime? Do we have to do an induction on $n$? it is clear that $X$ and $(1-X)$ are coprime by Euclid's algorithm. We can write $(1-X)^{n+1}=\sum_{k=0}^{n+1}{(-1)^k{k\choose n+1}X^k}$ but then how to proceed for the induction. thank you for your help.

A: The only irreducible divisor of $x^n$ is $x$. By the binomial theorem,
$$(1-x)^n=1+x\left(\sum_{k=1}^n(-1)^k{n\choose k}x^{k-1}\right).$$
But then if $x|(1-x)^n$ we have that $$x\bigg|\left((1-x)^n-x\left(\sum_{k=1}^n(-1)^k{n\choose k}x^{k-1}\right)\right).$$
Of course this means $x|1$ which is impossible. Hence no primes are shared by $x^n$ and $(1-x)^n$ so they are coprime.

A: Let $Y = 1 - X$, we have
$$1 = (X + Y)^{2n-1} =
\left( \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} + \sum_{k=n}^{2n-1} \right) \binom{2n-1}{k} X^k Y^{2n-1-k}$$
Let $j = 2n-1-k$ in the second sum and notice $\displaystyle\;\binom{n}{k} = \binom{n}{j}$, we get
$$1 = \left( \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} \binom{2n-1}{k} X^k Y^{n-1-k} \right) Y^n
+ X^n \left( \sum_{j=0}^{n-1} \binom{2n-1}{j} X^{n-1-j} Y^j\right)
$$
Since $1$ can be expressed as a linear combination of $X^n$ and $Y^n = (1-X)^n$ over the
polynomial ring of $X$, $\gcd(X^n, (1-X)^n) = 1$.

A: Suppose $p(X)$ is a monic divisor of both $X^n$ and $(1-X)^n$. Then for $p(X) \mid X^n$, any root of $p(X)$ has to be $0$. Because of $p(X) \mid (1-X)^n$, any root of $p(X)$ has to be $1$. Therefore $p$ cannot have any roots and we must have $p(X) \equiv 1$, which is to say that $X^n$ and $(1-X)^n$ are coprime.

A: We have according to Newton's identity:
$(1-X)^n=\sum\limits_{k=0}^n{n\choose k}(-1)^kX^{n-k}=1+X\sum\limits_{k=1}^n{n\choose k}(-1)^kX^{n-k-1}$
Put $P=\sum\limits_{k=1}^n{n\choose k}(-1)^kX^{n-k-1}$
It means that $\exists P\in\mathbb{C}[X],\,(1-X)^n-P(X)X=1$.
According to Bezout's theorem, $\gcd\left((1-X)^n,X\right)=1$ and so $\gcd\left((1-X)^n,X^n\right)=1$ (because if $\gcd(P,Q)=1$ then $\forall(n,m)\in\mathbb{N}^2,\,\gcd(P^n,Q^m)=1$).

A: As you say, the case $n=1$ is clear. So suppose that $n >1$ and we know the result for $n-1$.
Suppose that the gcd is not $1$. Then some irreducible polynomial $f(X)$ of positive degree divides both $X^{n}$ and $(1-X)^{n}.$
Then (from the first, and using $f(X)$ irreducible) $f(X)$ divides $X$ or $X^{n-1}$ ( so, in any case, as $n>1$, $f(X)$ divides $X^{n-1}$). Simillarly, from the second, $f(X)$ divides $(1-X)$ or $(1-X)^{n-1},$ so in any case, as $n >1,$  $f(X)$ divides $(1-X)^{n-1}$. Hence we know that $f(X)$ divides both $X^{n-1}$ and $(1-X)^{n-1}$, so divides their gcd, which is 1 by induction, a contradiction as $f(X)$ has positive degree.

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Sakyamuni once cried out in pity for a yogi by the river who had wasted twenty years of his human existence in learning how to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.
It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals . . . with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being, alone.
We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand. . . . Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.
A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego vs. the world. . . . The world is hydra-headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.
Jesus is not a blue-eyed right-winger. Jesus is the one who entered the world among the dispossessed and the outcasts to announce an entirely new way of thinking and living. The way of Jesus and the prophets . . . moves us beyond the familiar options of abandoning the poor, controlling the poor, or even "helping" the poor from places of isolation and comfort. Instead, it leads us to a new relationship with one another, a deep reconnection, a restoration of the shattered covenant.
The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there. All of it.
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I wonder whether you realize a deep, great fact. That souls, all human souls, are interconnected . . . that we can not only pray for each other but suffer for each other. Nothing is more real than this interconnection — this precious power put by God into the very heart of our infirmities.
In orbiting the sun, the earth departs from a straight line by one-ninth of an inch every eighteen miles — a very straight line in human terms. If the orbit changed by one-tenth of an inch every eighteen miles, our orbit would be vastly larger and we would all freeze to death. One-eighth of an inch? We would all be incinerated.
We keep our distance. It is all we have.
Whenever I prepare for a journey, I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.
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Exsqueeze me? Male nuns? Come on, man…makes me puke…
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Let's drop the pretense of faithfulness to Church teaching once and for all: Catholic prelates have a soft spot in their hearts for feminine men, masculine women, and sodomy.
"A 46-year-old Catholic man in Belgium who identifies as female is pushing to gain entrance to a convent as a nun where he hopes to live the remainder of his life as a religious sister," reported my colleague, Pete Baklinski, last week.
"Eefje" Spreuters told Radio 2 Antwerp, as reported by VRT.be, that "everywhere I register, the sisters are enthusiastic. But it is not allowed by the rules" for a man who believes himself to be female to enter the convent.
This man's twisted desire to become a nun didn't come out of nowhere and it can't naively be attributed to pop-culture forces.
It stems from the very fertile environment our prelates have created for sexual confusion to flourish.
While the teaching of the Catholic Church on sexual matters is perfectly clear, our prelates are not.
Let's drop the pretense of faithfulness to Church teaching once and for all: Catholic prelates have a soft spot in their heart for feminine men, masculine women, and sodomy.
The fish stinks from the head down
First and foremost, this male-nun daydream is a reflection of Pope Francis' softness and jocularity on the topic of transgender men and women.
Last year, Pope Francis praised a nun in South America for opening a residence for 'trans women' — men who choose to identify as women — referring to the men as "girls."
Sister Mónica Astorga Cremona, known locally in Argentina as the "Nun of the Trans," had cut the ribbon on a new complex of apartments dedicated solely to housing men claiming to be women and their partners.
Upon hearing the news, the Pope responded, according to the nun, "Dear Mónica, God who did not go to the seminary or study theology will repay you abundantly. I pray for you and your girls."
Again, the Supreme Pontiff, according to the nun, referred to the males, reported to be between 40 and 70 years old, as "girls."
Pro-LGBT Jesuit priest Fr. James Martin SJ was delighted with the Pope's congratulatory words to Sister Monica Cremona, saying in a tweet: "Wow. Pope Francis sends his support for a Catholic sister in Argentina who ministers to transsexual women."
In 2016, Pope Francis referred to a woman who had undergone a sex-change operation as a "man," and also referred to her as having "married" another woman and admitted to receiving them in the Vatican.
Referring to the post-trans surgery woman, the Pope said, "He got married."
"He that was 'her' but is he," explained Pope Francis, multiplying the confusion of his already confounding words.
"The bishops are to blame"
But it's not just Pope Francis. This Belgian man's surreal plight is also a reflection on the sexual confusion perpetrated by many European and U.S. bishops.
Over the last few years I've covered several United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) general assemblies. These are not men prepared to lead the Church and do battle with Satanic forces; USCCB meetings are quilting conventions, coffee klatsches. With just a few exceptions these are soft academics, ill prepared to inspire men to be men of God.
"Our Church is fast becoming an institution devoid of men; a patriarchy devoid of patriarchs — true fathers," wrote Leila Marie Lawler and Leila Miller in a scathing rebuke of Catholic men in general and our bishops and priests in particular.
The faithful who want to worship as God commands are weary. We thought the bishops' complicity in sex abuse, finally exposed in the Summer of Shame of 2018, was the watershed moment. We were wrong. The situation is not better today. It is worse. And as before, the bishops are to blame, this time by inappropriately imposing obedience (often through their subordinates, not directly) on purely prudential matters.
Regarding the hierarchy's response to the COVID-19 pandemic:
[O]ur hierarchy ran in panic at the first hint of danger, and then added a new form of abuse, for which (with few exceptions) they have neither apologized nor repented. We now have dioceses resuming Mass in the U.S. for the most part (not all!), but most with bizarre and arbitrary restrictions still in place, and the threat of taking it all away again still hanging over us.
Most troubling of all is the strangely naïve and imprudent cooperation with the state to pressure or require the faithful to accept the COVID-19 jab. Using their moral authority to persuade the doubtful, our clergy seem to see no danger looming as those who choose not to accept the vaccines will be relegated to a lower stratum in the new caste system — or outright banished. A soft dictatorship based on medical status is upon us, and our bishops are enthusiastically welcoming it.
"A priest recently said of the U.S. bishops, that, with very few exceptions, we could not find a more effeminate group of men if we tried," reported Lawler and Miller.
Wrapping and obscuring Catholic teaching with garish rainbow colors
In recent weeks, LifeSiteNews has reported:
Two U.S. bishops back a pro-LGBT campaign calling for acceptance of men who claim to be female.
13 U.S. bishops earlier this year signed a statement in partnership with the foundation supporting young people who identify as LGBT, telling them that "God is on your side."
Pro-homosexual Bishop John Stowe expressed public support for the so-called Equality Act which would effectively criminalize Christianity by overriding conscience objections to practices such as performing abortions and transgender surgeries. Stowe has previously encouraged the celebration of "PRIDE" events in his diocese and has even issued a "prayer" card that celebrates homosexual "pride" and includes an image of a crucifix with rainbow colors coming from it.
Further:
In 2019, Newark's Cardinal Tobin said in a nationally televised Today Show interview on April 17 that the church's teaching that same-sex attraction is "disordered" is "unfortunate" and "hurtful" language. Shortly after being appointed archbishop of Newark, Tobin personally welcomed homosexuals to the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark as part of a so-called "LGBT Pilgrimage." Tobin became the center of speculation in 2018 after tweeting "nighty-night, baby. I love you" and then promptly deleting it, saying it was meant for his sister. The Cardinal was in the limelight again months later after having reportedly confirmed rumors he recently housed in his rectory a young Italian actor for a period of time.
Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich has praised the pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin and has removed a priest in his archdiocese from his parish in apparent retaliation for his decision to burn a "rainbow pride flag" previously used by the parish to promote the homosexual agenda. When he was still an archbishop, I asked him in a press scrum if he believed homosexual couples could receive Holy Communion and he replied in the affirmative.
Washington, D.C., Cardinal Wilton Gregory has permitted the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Atlanta) to act as a center for LGBT events, including LGBT potluck s and socials. The group has also participated in the city's Pride Parade. Gregory has personally invited  pro-homosexual Fr. James Martin to speak in his archdiocese and has designated a pro-gay priest who heads a homosexual-affirming parish as the "Spiritual Director for Victims" of sex abuse for the Atlanta archdiocese.
Then there's the Commission for Marriage and Family of the German Bishops' Conference which has concluded that homosexuality is a "normal form of sexual predisposition."
It's clear: The softness of our Catholic hierarchy on sexual matters amplified by their own velvety smooth personal softness has led "Eefje" Spreuters to believe he has a right to become a nun.
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It comes after Beardsley had discussions with the club on Tuesday.
The 56-year-old former Magpies player, who has been in his current role since 2009, faces multiple complaints.
One of the complaints of bullying has been made by 22-year-old academy midfielder Yasin Ben El-Mhanni.
In a statement, Beardsley's solicitors said: "Peter Beardsley is aware of inaccurate media reports which result from unauthorised leaks.
"Allegations of unfair treatment have been made, which are currently being investigated. Peter Beardsley categorically denies the allegations.
"It is hoped the investigation will conclude quickly.
"Peter Beardsley will not be making any further comment at the present time and until investigations conclude. Peter respectfully requests that his privacy and that of his family is respected."
A club statement said: "After discussions with Peter Beardsley this morning it has been agreed that he will take a period of leave, to commence immediately, whilst the club conducts its investigation into allegations made against him."
Beardsley made more than 300 appearances for his hometown club during a career that also included spells at Liverpool and Everton.
He was offered a coaching role on Tyneside following his retirement, but in 2003 he and academy director Kenny Wharton faced a Premier League inquiry over allegations of bullying made by youth players James Beaumont and Ross Gardner. The case was dismissed.
He returned in an ambassadorial role following Mike Ashley's takeover at St James' Park before being appointed as an academy coach again.


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WASHINGTON – Congress failed to extend unemployment benefits for some 1.4 million jobless workers – including about 45,000 in Michigan late last year and again earlier this month.
Democrats in the Senate fell one vote short of the 60 needed to overcome a Republican filibuster and pass the $6.4 billion jobless benefits extension in the Senate. A handful of GOP senators crossed the aisle to move the legislation along, but there wasn't quite enough Republican support. The Republican-run House is another story: there is little appetite by the GOP to spend federal dollars on the jobless without some kind of offset in the in the budget.
The average weekly benefit for jobless workers among the states is about $300.
The GOP is demanding other program cuts, notably to the Affordable Care Act – the 2010 health care law – to offset the cost of extending the benefits for three months retroactive to Jan. 1. Senate Democrats rejected those demands, but lacked the needed 60 votes to pass the jobless benefits alone, without any offsetting cuts.
The extended federal jobless benefits are in addition to state jobless benefits, paid for by workers and employers, which range from 20 weeks to 26 weeks. The extended federal benefits lasted up to 73 weeks after state benefits expire. They're particularly valuable to the long-term jobless, who are three of every eight jobless workers.


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To legally drive in DC, people must first properly register their vehicle with the DMV. In order to be properly registered, they must complete a vehicle safety and emission inspection. Additionally, they must complete a registration process with the DMV.
If a person is pulled over and they fail to show their registration, the penalties can affect a person's life in numerous ways. Not only can the fines for a laps of registration can take a toll on a person's wallet, and jail time can affect their ability to be employed, as well as their relationships with loved ones.
Ultimately, for this reason, a Washington DC traffic attorney can help a person navigate the legal process ahead of them, and using their experience in traffic cases and knowledge of the DC area, can work to minimize the penalties they are facing as much as possible.
In DC, people should always make sure to have their registration on them because they may face a fine for failure to present registration if they are ever pulled over. Additionally, they should have a physical paper copy of their registration card in a place that is easy to reach from the driver's seat. A person may face a failure to provide proof of registration or failure to exhibit registration charge if they do not have a physical paper document in the car when pulled over.
If someone is pulled over in DC, an attempt to show a DC police officer the registration information on a phone will not be accepted as proof. Furthermore, if an individual has to take the time to search through papers in the car to find the registration information, the officer may become restless and issue the citation.
Under section 2 of the law, it is illegal for any vehicle owner to knowingly permit someone else to drive the vehicle without having proper registration. If you are accused of driving without a registration or allowing someone to use your vehicle without it being registered, you have legal options. Contact a DC driving without registration lawyer.
It is also against the law to make false statements or hide any material fact in each of the above types of registration procedures.
If you have been accused of any of these offenses you will likely want to contact a DC driving without a registration lawyer.
Penalties include a fine of $100.00 for a lapse in registration between one to 30 days. For every additional 30 days that someone does not have valid registration, there is an additional $200.00 fine. The person's car could also be impounded.
The maximum fine that individuals can receive is $2,400.00. Moreover, they may face an additional $1,000.00 fine and be imprisoned up to 30 days if they are found guilty of either using a fraudulent registration or providing false information to obtain registration.
Fortunately, the DC Council eliminated criminal charges for people who were simply driving with expired registration. However, using fraudulent registration or providing false statements or information in order to obtain registration can carry possible jail time.
Because the law requires that you knowingly provided false information in order to obtain registration, providing such information by accident, or mistakenly believing the information to be true, can be one possible defense to these charges. To learn more consult with a DC driving without a registration attorney.
People should have any documentation that they received from the DC DMV in regards to the renewal of their registration, proof of DC car insurance, proof of their most recent vehicle inspection, their DC driver's license, and proof of ownership of their vehicle, such as a title.
If a person has been charged because there are steep consequences if found guilty, they should hire a DC driving without registration attorney. There are possible defenses that their lawyer may be able to argue to ensure that their rights and interests are protected.


Crossville , which claims to be the "Golf Capital of Tennessee," is located in Cumberland County approximately an hour from Knoxville. It boasts the well-known retirement resort, Fairfield Glade, which includes 90 holes of golf. Also, Crossville is near the site of Jack Nicklaus' Bear Trace at Cumberland Mountain State Park and is home to a total of eleven championship golf courses in all. Many golf course designers have incorporated the beautiful mountain streams, rock formations and rolling hills into their layouts. Crossville also has historic sites, antique stores and outlet shopping, a wide variety of restaurants and world-class theater. In addition, great weather in the Cumberland Plateau region makes outdoor recreation possible nearly year 'round. Be sure to check out the Historic Crossville Depot, which is now a one-of-a-kind shop that offers freshly brewed gourmet coffees and teas, as well as creative and beautiful gifts. Crossville Centennial Park is a 40-acre park that offers horseshoe pits, lighted softball fields, sand volleyball courts, tennis courts, covered picnic shelters, a playground and a half-mile wood chip walking trail. Just a short drive from Crossville is the Cumberland Mountain State Park on U.S. Highway 127 South, which includes the 35-acre Byrd Lake for swimming, boating, fishing and canoeing. Camping is also available at Cumberland Mountain State Park.
South-Central Tennessee has a moderate four-season climate with warm, humid summers and mild, wet winters. Rainfall is distributed fairly evenly throughout the year, and thunderstorms are common in spring and summer. The higher elevations of the Smokies, Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains are generally cooler in the summer and colder, more blustery in the wintertime. Fall tends to be the dry season, due to the higher frequency of slow-moving high-pressure systems during this season. Average annual snowfall ranges from 4-6 inches in the south and west to over 10 inches in the east. Due to the mild winter conditions over most of the state, snow cover rarely lasts for more than a few days. Severe storms, such as tornadoes, are very infrequent in Tennessee.
The closest airports in the area are the Upper Cumberland Regional airport (SRB) located about 29 miles east of Crossville in Sparta, Tennessee, the Scott Municipal airport (SCX) located approximately 42 miles northeast of Crossville in Oneida, Tennessee, the Mc Ghee Tyson airport (TYS) located roughly 58 miles east of Crossville in Knoxville, Tennessee, and finally Lovell Field (CHA) located around 63 miles south of Crossville in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Cataloochee Maggie Valley NC 112.2 mi.
Scaly Mountain Scaly Mountain NC 116.0 mi.
Cumberland Mountain State Park TN 2.9 mi.
Fall Creek Falls State Park TN 27.1 mi.
Bone Cave State Park TN 31.0 mi.
Knoxville Zoological Gardens Knoxville TN 61.9 mi.
Tennessee Aquarium Chattanooga TN 64.4 mi.
Warner Park Zoo Chattanooga TN 64.4 mi.


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Areva is a world leader in the businesses of both energy and connectors, with sales of 8,3 billion euros in 2003 and 70 000 employees in more than 100 countries. Areva focuses on technological solutions for nuclear power generation and electricity transmission and distribution. The group also provides interconnect systems to the telecommunications, computer and automotive markets.
According to Christian Lindner, Areva's Vice President for R&D for High-Voltage Switchgear, using IEC/TS 61639 – Direct connection between power transformers and gas-insulated metal-enclosed switchgear for rated voltages of 72,5 kV and above – allows the company to reduce greatly the time needed to set up the interface among the partners of a project: final user; contractor; transformer manufacturer; and bushings manufacturer.
Areva says the gains brought by having a standard for direct connection between transformer and gas-insulated metal-enclosed switchgear (GIS) have to do with both time and cost. There is a significant gain in time on the realization of the interface, which is often between three and six weeks out of five to 15 months and is on the critical path of such projects. Where guidelines exist in a technical report there is less need for discussions and meetings.
The savings in cost can run into the double digits, even as high as 25%, compared to a non-standardized solution. Specifically, this concerns reduction in development costs as IEC/TS 61639 helps Areva to eliminate special parts such as enclosures and supports. It also impacts product costs: the company says quantities are increased once they are standardized, and there are gains in manufacturing cost as the production process is repeatable.
"Cases such as this," says Lindner, "where components from different sources and manufacturers must be combined to achieve the final product, are typically where greatest benefit can be obtained by standardization."
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If you are a corn producer and if you're harvesting, don't forget to complete the national yield contest harvest entry.
With harvest already underway in many parts of the country, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) reminds farmers that National Corn Yield Contest entrants must report within two weeks of their final yield check or by November 16, whichever comes first.
The online harvest entry is available to both farmers and seed representatives using the same login process as the initial entry. Login does require submission of the entrant's NCGA membership number.
To complete, entrants will upload weigh tickets and yield calculations worksheet that details the number of rows harvested and length of each pass. Prior to upload, both documents must be signed by the contest supervisor.
Go online to access contest information and a detailed list of the entry and harvest rules. A tutorial video is available. Contact the direct call line at 636-733-5518 or email ncyc@ncga.com with any questions. The entry forms are available online.


BOTTOM LINE: SO difficult but so beautifully written and well-done.
"Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11-year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52-year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he's an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute—unless she does as he says.
My Thoughts: There is a nonfiction account of Sally Horner's story that is garnering a lot of media press lately, which is unfortunate because from what I have been hearing, it is not the greatest reading experience. It is also unfortunate that the nonfiction version is getting all of the publicity because T. Greenwood's fictionalized version is so very, very good. With the freedom of fiction, Ms. Greenwood places us into the mind of Sally and that of her mother and sister so that they are once again alive and vibrant and telling their collective story so that all may know what happened during those lost years at the end of the 1940s.
Rust & Stardust is not an easy novel to read. While Ms. Greenwood does not get explicit in the forms of abuse Sally experiences, she provides enough contextual clues to understand just what is happening to Sally at any given time. This understanding is enough to turn your stomach and is most definitely a trigger for readers sensitive to pedophilia and other forms of child abuse. While it would be easy to say that such knowledge is not necessary to Sally's story, Ms. Greenwood presents it in such a way to understand not only her experiences but also her frame of mind during and after her abduction. In turn, this helps frame her state of mind that leads to her ultimate fate. It may be some of the most difficult reading you might do, but it is vital reading if only to recognize the mental trauma such sustained abuse causes Sally and the strains placed on her relationships with her sister and mother as a result of her trauma.
Because of the sensitive nature of her subject, Ms. Greenwood tiptoes delicately through the grimier aspects of Sally's story. She provides Sally with a modicum of privacy within her most horrific scenes. Some of this privacy is out of necessity if only because we truly have no idea what Sally thought or felt throughout her ordeal. However, even among those aspects of the story in which Ms. Greenwood had to utilize her imagination, her speculations are so realistic that you forget you are reading fiction. In point of fact, Ms. Greenwood's diligent and very thorough research shines among the pages of Rust & Stardust so that you do not have to do any further research on your own. Adding to that is Ms. Greenwood's ability to paint a picture, which is so good that you have no need to Google Sally and find the images to which Ms. Greenwood refers throughout the story.
To that end, Rust & Stardust is an excellent historical fiction novel specifically because Ms. Greenwood not only did her homework on her chosen subject but also presents it in such a way that blurs the line between fiction and reality. It is easy to forget that Sally's story is real, that Sally herself was real, and that she did endure years of sexual, physical, and mental abuse at the hands of her abductor. That her story inspired Vladimir Nabokov only serves to make his classic story even more disturbing – because it forces us to realize that for all his rationalizations, Humbert Humbert really is a disgusting and depraved character, something not so easy to realize while reading it.
Sally's story is a tough one, and there will be times you will set it aside thinking you cannot possibly get through it, but there is something so beautiful about Rust & Stardust that it bears continuing with it. Sally may have undergone horrific situations, but her family never gave up on her. They continued to search and pushed the police to continue their searches. They offered rewards, even though money was tight. They physically searched areas themselves. They fought, and Sally fought. That is the story worth telling and worth experiencing. That we should never succumb to what is happening to us but continue to fight to achieve our goals – whether they are to lose weight, travel more, or escape your abductor. For the many instances of a roiling stomach her story causes, Ms. Greenwood's Rust & Stardust is a beautiful, sensitive novel that provides you more insight into the Horner family than a certain other nonfiction publication out on the shelves right now.
I so want to read this one! Great review!
It is such a painful story but SO good!
I've read at least one other book by this author and liked it a lot. It did not have this sort of story to tell, but still. I'm intrigued by your review and know that if I decide to try this, I'll be prepared. Plus, I prefer to read such in fiction anyway because for some reason, my mind handles it better. There's a reason why this avid mystery reader doesn't read much 'true crime'.
Good luck! I hope you are able to separate yourself from the true crime aspect of the novel!


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curricular-based competency workshops, group project meetings, assessment activities, and the like. Course enhancements will be entirely facilitated and scheduled by each RC.
E-portfolio project(s) will be assigned by each RC with the details of the project(s) at the discretion of the RC. At the minimum, the eportfolio project(s) should require first-year students to engage each RC competency in a substantive manner.
Each RC will arrange self and peer assessment activities for first-year students enrolled in the course.
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