"Mr. Stillingfleet's "Origines Sacrae," wherein many things are very good and some frivolous."
I wonder which things Pepys thought "very good" and which "frivolous" and whether Captain Cocke agreed.
" ... discoursing over ... Mr. Stillingfleet ..."
A Cambridge acquaintance( http://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/1665/04/23/ ), Stillingfleet was the greatest book collector of the day.
MR - thank you! Beautiful, beautiful library! As a librarian, I am very envious, but also wonder how they conserve and preserve all that lot? Knowing the problems, it is also amazing that Sam's library has come down to us so intact and in such good condition.
Preserving books of the early modern age is actually less difficult than preserving books of the 20th century will turn out to be. The use of acid based papers from the early part of the last century, up until the 1990s, means that books of that era will deteriorate far quicker than books of earlier centuries. Acid will make the pages completely crumble in less than 100 years.
Saving a dollar or two per book in the cost of paper has resulted in libraries having to de-acidify books individually (page by page, I believe). Around 1990 libraries just stopped buying any books that used acid-based papers, and publishers of scholarly books started to use acid-free paper.
I bet that all those Harry Potter's printed over the last 20 years or so will deteriorate before our Pepys books (unless they happened to be printed on acid free).
... how they conserve and preserve all that lot?
"In the 1980s the American Irish Foundation gave a grant for the extensive restoration of Marsh's Library. This included rewiring, painting, decorating, carpeting, the installation of security systems, and the conversion of a derelict area into a fine seminar/reading room. These new facilities were entirely provided by the generosity of the members of the AIF and gave a new lease of life to Marsh's Library. Over the past twenty years the American Irish Foundation (now The Ireland Funds) has continued to support various projects in Marsh's Library."
What will happen to the books will also happen to the pictures. The more information we get, the worse it conserves. Now that music is also digital, it will also deteriorate at the same time than the digital pictures, together with our family videos, etc. I do not know why to keep all the garbage information, but who knows what is garbage and what is not?
Apologies perhaps I was too absolute and one or two cases were chained, Liliblogs, but I don't recall reading about chaining, nor seeing any evidence of it in Mirjam Foot 'The decorated bindings in Marsh's Library, Dublin', 2004 – I don't have a copy immediately to hand but will take a look again. Your fine shelf photographs also don't show any evidence for the former presence of attachments. Anyway, I will ask and try to find a way to get the reply to you directly.
As well as Don's comment about acid in paper (and yes, it is time-consuming and costly to deacidify a book, but the Library of Congress is doing this - book by book, not page by page, but still v. slow), the problem arises from using non-rag based papers so that the cellulose chains are short and easily break down. Newspapers of the 17th century are in much better condition than those of the 19th and 20th centuries. The other thing that is really anathema to books is sticky tape which is not of library quality - leaves dreadful damage as it deteriorates. Sam had organic problems - worms and so on and not the modern way of dealing with them: putting the book in a freezer (wrapped in special plastic) to kill off the nasties. Takes about 24hrs. Our library's kitchen freezer usually has at least one book in it. Sam's temperate climate for his books would have helped preserve them.
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This article will discuss how supply chains are being improved through the use of innovative technologies before highlighting five uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning in supply chains. When you finish reading, you'll understand why many industry analysts have described A.I. technologies as disruptive innovations that have the potential to alter and improve operations across entire supply chains.
Supply chains across the globe are facing increased pressures due to a whole host of factors. The globalization of manufacturing coupled with high customer demand driven by strong performing economies are putting strain on supply chains. Furthermore, trucking shortages are amping up the pressure in the U.S., the world's largest economy, and the shortfall in available drivers reached a record 296,311 in 2018.
Adopting the latest technological solutions has become a prerequisite to the operation of a successful supply chain. Efficiency, transparency, and predictive analytics in supply chains are all driven by using technological solutions, such as Big Data, Internet of Things, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, and artificial intelligence.
A.I. has huge potential in supply chains, and machine learning has arguably the most diverse range of use cases out of all the fields of A.I. for supply chains. As a brief reminder, machine learning is a domain of A.I. that encompasses the use of statistical techniques to give computers the ability to learn and improve performance at tasks without needing to explicitly program them.
Last mile delivery refers to an incredibly important stage in the journey of a product from its fulfillment center to a final destination, which is most often the chosen delivery location of the customer. Given the high cost of last mile delivery in proportion to the total cost of getting products to customers, visibility into last mile delivery is taking on increasing importance.
Dedicated last mile software platforms are helping to optimize last mile operations, however, A.I. can provide further benefits by ensuring more consistency and accuracy in delivery. Geocoding algorithms can automatically map addresses into coordinates, enabling optimization of last mile delivery routes and schedules. This type of automated geocoding has previously proven difficult to implement due to the inconsistent ways in which people input addresses in ordering systems.
Using human labor to conduct quality inspections across warehouses and other logistics hubs is inefficient. These types of quality inspections can become time-consuming and cause downstream effects on the operation of the supply chain. High customer demand is driving a need for more automated quality inspections with greater production throughput from manufacturers while at the same time maintaining a consistently high level of quality.
Automated quality inspections are possible through machine vision, which is a set of techniques and disparate technologies that provide image-based automatic quality inspections. Machine learning algorithms can improve the accuracy of machine vision-based inspections by learning what a normal product without any defects looks like through the use of high volumes of training data.
Autonomous vehicle technology has made incredible progress over the last few years. Companies like Amazon use drones in some areas to get goods to customers. Self-driving trucks, powered by A.I. could also be on the horizon, and they could solve the truck driver shortage that continues to plague supply chains across the U.S.
The idea of a fully autonomous truck is still more conceptual than nearing real-world implementation, however, even semi-autonomous trucking could have dramatic and positive effects on supply chains. For example, trucks that can drive themselves under certain conditions could give drivers the opportunity to take breaks from driving while not slowing down shipping times.
Enormous amounts of natural language data are generated within supply chains, and with the globalization of supply chain management, this data might arise from multiple languages at different stages, from supply to procurement to retail to end customers. Sources include texts, tweets, news websites, and weather data.
For example, a manufacturer might depend on a key supplier for its product, but unbeknownst to that manufacturer, the supplier recently lost a key contract that puts its liquidity at risk, and the story was reported on an industry website in another language.
Natural language processing, which blends A.I. and computer science, can help tap into all this natural language data and derive insights from it, including information on suppliers' abilities to meet order fulfillment needs.
Modern manufacturers tend to use a lot of sensor-based equipment which generates tons of data about the usage of that equipment. Machine learning models can tap into this data and predict the failure of machine assets before they even happen. The machine learning models achieve this capability by being able to analyze time series data.
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The five use cases here show just what artificial intelligence and machine learning can bring to supply chains. Expect to see technologies like these become staples of supply chain management over the coming years as the use cases become more widely known and lower technological costs drive wider adoption.


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August 19, 2013 Rob B 11 comments
The Rock Viper's repaint into Python Patrol has already been covered here, but the original figure still holds some interest thanks to a sensible color scheme, a functioning climbing backpack, and a bit of facial hair.
I'm disappointed that these more specialized Cobra troops were released after I had finished my childhood collecting. I'm sure I would have picked this figure up and dangled it from many an outcropping of rock, or a staircase when playing inside. Had they been released a few years earlier, these guys would have been giving my Alpine figure fits hanging from the living room stairs. The working backpack doesn't have a fancy automatic climbing feature, but the ability to string a climbing rope through it and hand wind it is still a lot of fun. I don't care how old you are, toys with grappling hooks are awesome.
Most vintage Rock Vipers I've run across have a broken crotch. Some GI Joe figures over the years were simply prone to breakage, due to either a slightly thinner build in that area, or even the quality of the figures' plastic. Broken bits aside, this is one insanely detailed Cobra trooper, and far superior to the modern re-imagining. At least the original has its own unique helmet, and though not removable, it won't fall off at the slightest movement.
One sort-of sore spot of the Rock Viper is its rifle. While not as bad as the SAW Viper's weapon, this thing is almost too big to be effective in display. The mold was released again and again in the 90s, and also in black as part of the Cobra Infantry Forces pack. I must have a few couple dozen of them floating around my miscellaneous weapons bins. I probably would like it more if it hadn't been so ever-present. It's a cumbersome rifle, and could have been really great if it were just smaller. It does have a redeeming quality in its ability to plug into the backpack. That's a handy feature for a guy who probably needs two hands free most of the time.
Finally, there's the mystery of the facial hair. For a troop builder to have such a distinctive feature is odd, but I can dig it. After all, if Cobra can be thought of as the antithesis of GI Joe, then it stands to reason that the bad guys might require its membership to grow facial hair. Even though the 80s Joes have their fair share of cookie dusters, this one is decidedly evil looking. Now that I'm thinking about it, this figure reminds me of another mustachioed evil-doer who frequented toy mountainsides in the 80s. Could the Rock Viper have been inspired by the Sky Commanders series' own Raider Rath?
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Then there's also the funny aspect of the head being used for the UK release of a figure from the following year: the Crimson Guard Immortal.
scruffyronin
" I don't care how old you are, toys with grappling hooks are awesome."
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Rob, I will definitely attest to the fact that the climbing backpack was an awesome play feature. I used the Rock-Viper whenever I could just because that thing was so fun to use. The Rock-Viper was such a great figure and a great design. From head to toe, there's a lot of great detailing and I enjoy the concept of an entire group of Cobra specialists having mustaches. Maybe Cobra Commander has the Rock-Vipers celebrate Movember all year round.
If this guy had been released alongside Alpine, I would have likely picked him up as well. But he showed up just as my interest in Joes was dying out. I could never get over that cumbersome gun. I hated it with a passion, but Hasbro kept reissuing it anyway.
Incidentally, Rocky here does resemble Raider Rath a bit. Maybe if the figure had been released shortly after the Hasbro/Kenner union where Kenner seemed to end up calling the shots? All I know is that Rocky's facial hair always threw me off. Was he supposed to be an specific character due to his mustache or was this one of the requirements for making the grade at Rock Viper Graduate School? The world might never know.
Back in 2006, i picked up a large bag of loose ARAH figures from the local swap meet. Most of the figures in it were the "DIC regualrs" [including this guy] I remeber scouring priceguids and websites only to discover they werent worth much but since then most [if not all] of the 89-90 figures have jumped in value [except for poor old DeeJay]
Ambush Subzero and this guy are easily my favorites. A pity their cartoon adventures were so lackluster.
Does anyone know what sort of rifle that is?
troublemagnet
Ahh the vintage Rock Viper….a classic. The rifle is ridiculous, but one ca always discard it, yes? Perhaps for funny joke, I paint over Rock Viper's 'stach and paint one on '83 Zap. Hilarious!
Little Boa
I too felt they were a natural foil for Alpine, though unfortunately I could never find Alpine at the stores and the rare times I did, my parents weren't buying (from my experience, the rarest figures from 1985 were: Snake Eyes, Snow Serpent, Alpine). And yes, grappling hooks (but only if they have lines) are awesome.
Yeah, the more you look at it, the more detail you see in the figure. While the rifle was cool, it was oddly out of place for mountaineering figures. There's a lot of weight on that gun. It also detracted a little from S.A.W. Viper by making his gun not so large by comparison (that weapon was his defining feature, what he specialized in). It's a nice weapon, but it seems better suited for another figure. I still liked the Rock Viper as my favorite 1990 Viper. I did wish he came out earlier. Alpine seemed so alone up on those mountains (even though I never had him, it just seemed like there should've been a Viper for that speciality since 1985).
And yes, I thought the moustache was as mandatory as the uniform for Rock Vipers. Who knows, maybe some of the masked Vipers were required to have vandyke beards under the masks?
Less bothered by the mustache and more by the fragile crotch. I think fans got so army builder obsessed with generic appearance. Fans accept that Toxo-Viper have strange noses (which admittedly is covered by the helmet), and Tele-Vipers are weasely-faced, what you can see of it.
I bought my only '90 Rock Viper at a Kay Bee store in 1991 in a mix of a buy-some-get-some free mix deal.
I didn't notice it at the store, but the crotch was already broken when I opened it up brand new.
I totally dig this figure, I would have loved to build up a squad of these.
That rifle is awesome, but definitely too big! The pistol is kind of cool, it stands out to me as one of those sidearm type weapons with the rear stock that helps ARAH figures hold their pistols a little straighter-looking!
Hit & Run usually tangled with this guy here.
Neapolitan Joe
September 1, 2013	3:54 pm
Ultra cool backpack!
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Moody's, one of the three major credit rating agencies, has bought a research firm that assesses the physical risks of climate change.
The agency plans to use the information to assess how credit-worthy a corporate or municipal borrower is based in part on their exposure to climate-driven disasters.
Wall Street has been slow to incorporate climate-change effects into investment prices, despite plentiful research showing the financial hit from a degrading climate.
Moody's bought a controlling stake this week in Four Twenty Seven, a research firm that prices climate-change risk. It's the latest indication that Wall Street is coming around to putting a price on climate change and its economic impact—albeit more slowly than many economists and investors have called for.
Moody's is one of three agencies—along with Standard & Poor and Fitch Ratings—that evaluates debts and issues credit ratings. The letter grades that result indicate how likely a public company or a private hospital or an entire nation is to repay a debt, and therefore how expensive it is for them to borrow.
The likelihood of a debt being repaid can change dramatically in a warmed-up world. In Miami, for instance, a commercial property stands a 50% chance today of being in a flood zone. As sea level rises, more and more of them will be regularly flooded. That existential threat to the occupants of buildings will cascade on their landlords, developers and investment portfolios based on those properties, potentially threatening billions of dollars. Meanwhile, many organizations remain unaware of their own exposure to climate-driven events, Moody's said.
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That's where Four Twenty Seven comes in. The company, based in Berkeley, California, measures a range of physical risks related to climate change, including heat stress, intense rainfall or flooding, wildfires and rising sea levels, and analyzes how those risks affect companies. The company, founded in 2012, has been called a "pioneer" in pricing climate risk.
"When I started it, there weren't other companies doing this. There also wasn't a lot of demand for it. A lot of companies hadn't integrated what the science is showing, which is that climate change is going to affect us quickly—now," said Emilie Mazzacurati, its CEO and founder.
Since then, a range of companies have sprung up to provide intelligence on climate change. "This is something that is bound to become mainstream, and that's a good thing," Mazzacurati said.
"Moody's is committed to offering global, transparent standards for assessing environmental risk, and the acquisition of Four Twenty Seven advances our objective of integrating climate analytics into our offerings," Myriam Durand, its global head of assessments, said in a release.
Big business has been slow to incorporate climate-related risks despite prodding from increasingly vocal investors and money managers. To the extent that companies have grappled with this issue, they have focused on risks they would face if governments put a price on carbon or otherwise forced drastic cuts in emissions more than the physical risks to their assets.
"Companies are not pricing those risks very well," Nicolette Bartlett, global director of climate change for CDP, told CBS MoneyWatch recently. "I would have thought, in the U.S., that realization would be a bit more stark now, given that the country has now suffered two years of weather damage."
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That disconnect was made clear in testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell earlier this month. Powell said he agrees that climate change is making severe weather more frequent—as a growing body of scientific research indicates. But when Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii pushed Powell to incorporate severe weather risks into the way the Fed oversees banks, Powell demurred.
"I guess I see climate change as a longer-run issue. I don't know that incorporating it into day-to-day supervision of financial institutions would add that much value," he said.
If Moody's were to integrate climate risks into its pricing models, it could spell a radical change for corporations and investors. In the aftermath of the housing crash, rating agencies were widely panned for failing to assess how insecure mortgage-based securities were, thus playing a part in the financial collapse that followed. With the potential hits from climate change dwarfing the 2008 crash, many investors are calling on Wall Street to be smarter this time around.
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3/98. Acquired in auction Jan-97 for $47 (imported for $73 net).
I rarely buy (or refrain from buying) (B) wines based on Mr. Parker's recommendations. But this time I admit I bought three bottles solely on his 'awesome' critique. Parker compared this "Reserve Particulier" wine to the best of the Cote d'Or and proceeded to give it a 96/100 mark.
Opened this bottle for Friday night 'homeish' dinner of geffilte-fish, chicken soup, and lamb in lemon and peas for main course.
COLOR: Deep yellow, looks viscous and fat.
NOSE: Assertive and heavy bouquet of vanilla, overwhelming any other aromas this wine could boast. The last thing that can be said is that this wine lacks nose, but the obvious oak is heavy-handed indeed.
TASTE: Similar to the nose. The wine is obviously rich and concentrated but is totally immersed in wood. At least for my palate its taste borders on the unpleasant!
TEXTURE & BALANCE: Medium bodied. Rich, fat, concentrated. Every aspect is overshadowed by the apparent new oak. Heavy, short on fruit, lacks in perceived acidity, extremely over-oaked. Way out of balance.
OVERALL: Very good (in absolute terms) but a big disappointment for me. How on earth can anyone mark it 96/100 is beyond me.


"This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways," said Mr Hughes, who said the crash left him with an aching back.
The daredevil blasted off shortly after 3pm local time with no countdown or fanfare.
Mr Hughes reached an estimated 350mph before activating his parachute.
He was forced to deploy a second chute as his rocket, emblazoned with the words "research flat earth", was falling too fast.
The daredevil landed bluntly with the rocket's nose breaking in two places – as it was designed to do.
"Am I glad I did it? Yeah. I guess," he said.
"I'll feel it in the morning. I won't be able to get out of bed. At least I can go home and have dinner and see my cats tonight."
Mr Hughes uses his Facebook page to address those who doubt his rocket-making skills and his theory that the Earth is flat.
"Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is," he said in one video. "Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space."
Mr Hughes had converted a mobile home into a ramp and worked on the rocket in his garage.
The launch had been scheduled for November last year, but issues over land management and mechanical problems pushed the date back.
Saturday's event was at risk but Mr Hughes pushed on despite his rocket losing steam and high winds.
"I'm tired of people saying I chickened out and didn't build a rocket. I'm tired of that stuff. I manned up and did it," he said.
A video of the launch was filmed by Noize Tv and uploaded to Mr Hughes's Facebook page. A shorter clip, which features a countdown set to Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, has been uploaded to YouTube.
As hype around the experimental launch mounted, retired NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger told reporters he hoped Hughes "doesn't blow something up".
Mr Linenger, who orbited the globe more than 2,000 times during four months in 1997, added: "Rocketry, as our private space companies found out, isn't as easy as it looks."
Mr Hughes has a Gofundme page set up to raise money to help with his expenses. At the time of writing, it had raised $110 (£78) out of a $10,000 (£7,070) goal over the course of a month.
The Saturday launch is "a wild stunt designed to raise awareness for my ultimate challenge, THE space launch," Mr Hughes explains on the money-raising site.
He wants to build a "Rockoon," a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit. This rocket would take Hughes about 68 miles up.
Mr Hughes says he previously built and launched a rocket in Arizona which saw him travel 419 metres (1,374ft) high. He collapsed after that landing and needed three days to recover.
His next challenge? Mr Hughes says he will be applying to run for governor of California.


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Rang Mahal Bangkok is located on the glamorous rooftop of the Rembrandt Hotel Bangkok. The dining room itself is classically styled with white plaster colonnades and chandeliers, with floor-to-ceiling windows for enjoying the downtown location. For anyone looking for a taste of Northern Indian flavours in Bangkok, Rang Mahal is one of the most celebrated restaurants in the city and has a range of set menus to choose from, such as the Premium Set Menu, which starts at 1,295 THB without drinks. You can choose from an array of delicious starters such as Punjabi samosas, toothsome deep fried triangles of puff pastry packed with spicy potato and peas, or other delights such as Tandoori Jheenga: juicy jumbo shrimp that have been cooked in a charcoal oven.
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The NLP history is difficult to write about because Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a house divided with the two main groups being those trained by Dr. Richard Bandler 's and John and Kathleen LaValle known as the Society of NLP of which I trained and am affiliated and those students that were trained through the International Training Academy of NLP and are students of John Grinder , Carmen Bostic St. Clair and Michael Carroll.
I'm sure that there are many versions of this NLP history and I will do my best to be sure that this is as true as possible, but if there are any challenges to this account they are just as likely to be true as this one is. MasterSamNaples-NLP-Hypnotherapy has written this history with the utmost gratitude and respect for all people involved with the inseption and development of NLP and is always willing to add or correct anything in this history that is incorrect.
NLP history begins with a young Richard Bandler, a physics, computer science student at University of California at Santa Cruz in the early 1970's. While watching video's of Gestalt Therapy founder Fritz Perls, which Bandler was transcribing for Bob Spitzer, he began to see linguistic patterns that Perls used affect change in the people he did therapy with.
Bandler began to host "gestalt-type" group therapy sessions at the university getting the attention of many students and one of the linguistics professors, Dr. John Grinder. After watching several sessions Grinder approached Bandler with several observations and some questions. Bandler's fake it till you make it New Jersey attitude led him to pretend he knew everything that Grinder was talking about and ultimately they began to work together.
Dr. Grinder brought to the table his knowledge of Transformational Grammar including the concepts of "deep structure" and "surface structure" and Korzybski's concept that the Map is not the Territory, and that when we receive information we either delete, distort and generalize that information. This material grew to be the content of the books, The Structure of Magic I and II.
Richard Bandler was living in a house and a friend of the owner was famed couples and family therapist Virginia Satir who was living in the guest house. She became friends with Bandler and began taking him with her when she went to do therapy often in mental institutions. He noticed similarities in what Virginia and Perls did and these similarities became another clue as to how successful therapy worked.
Most of what Satir and Pearls did was unconscious to them. Dr. Bandler tells the story of how when they explained what Satir did to her, she lost her edge and was unable to work because she kept thinking about what she was doing. He states that he needed to do a process with her to make these 'techniques' again unconscious.
Dr. Bandler also speaks of going into some of the "better" mental institutions in California and the people were almost prisoners. He speaks of one patient that was in an institution that was labeled a paranoid schizophrenic. When Bandler spoke to this poor soul he learned that he had been on an acid trip, common in California in the 60's and was committed to an institution. When he realized what had happened he tried to escape, which any normal person would do and was labeled paranoid schizophrenic. It was because of instances like this and Dr. Bandler's polarity responding tendencies that caused him to avoid going the academic, traditional route with NLP.
Much of what Bandler and Grinder learned from Perls and Satir became the foundation for what is know in NLP history as the Meta Model. The three primary parts of the Meta Model are the processes of deletion, distortion and generalization. It is by deleting, distorting and generalizing that we are able to make sense of the world and it is by these same processes that mental problems develop. The first two books of NLP The Structure of Magic I and II are explain the meta model and it's application in therapy.
Next in NLP history was the relationship that Bandler and Grinder had with the famed hypnotherapist the late Dr. David Dobson . Dobson was one of the early hypnotherapists that taught Richard Bandler hypnosis. The Legendary Barbara Stepp , Dobson's soul mate told the author that Dr. Bandler said that the hypnotic voice in his head was Dave Dobson's voice. Stepp also informed the author that one of the early seminars taught by Bandler and Grinder took place in Dobson's living room. This was before they came up with the name Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
In the telling of NLP history not enough emphasis can be placed upon the friendship they developed with Gregory Bateson who acquainted Bandler and Grinder to concepts now fundamental to NLP such as logical levels, logical types, and the double bind theory which are an integral part of NLP. In addition to the intellectual stimulation that they got from the musings of Gregory Bateson they also learned of his good friend, the famed hypnotherapist and founder of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, Dr. Milton H. Erickson .
As Bandler and Grinder observed more and more closely what Erickson did in hypnosis and therapy, the began to realize that he was doing exactly opposite of what therapists like Perls and Satir were doing when applying the meta model to a client. Where the meta model strives to bring clarity and reveal the deep structure of the client. With the "reverse meta-model" Milton strove to be "artfully vague." The reverse meta-model or Milton Model bypasses the conscious mind and communicates directly to the unconscious mind. Much of what Bandler and Grinder learned from modeling the work of Erickson became the material for the two books Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I (1975) and Volume II ( 1977).
Other people instrumental to the evolution of Neuro-Linguistic Programming that belong in this NLP history were Leslie Cameron–Bandler (who was Dr. Bandler's first wife), Judith DeLozier, Stephen Gilligan, Robert Dilts,David Gordon.
At the time of this writing of the NLP history most of these people are still alive and active in teaching their versions of NLP. As previously mentioned Dr. Bandler's organization which is run by John and Kathleen LaValle is known as The Society of NLP,TM and a running list of every practitioner, master practitioner and trainer licensed by the society. Dr. Grinder now calls his version New Code NLP and certifies people through International Training Academy of NLP.


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Message in a Battle
Personal duels like the one between Avalanche defenseman Adam Foote and Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg define the character of the postseason—and determine its outcome
Michael Farber
IN THE FIRST minute of Game 2 of the second-round Western Conference series between the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings, two men who have never shared a word but who always seem to share the same square footage on the ice collided in front of the Colorado net. Henrik Zetterberg, who plays left wing for the Red Wings, and Adam Foote, who plays right defense for the Avalanche, jostled and briefly raised their sticks before Foote gave Zetterberg a brisk whack on the hip as the puck left the zone. ¶ To characterize the gamelong Zetterberg-Foote confrontations as a matchup is accurate but also terribly reductive. Something more profound occurs in these 45-second shifts. During the course of a series Zetterberg and Foote do not just play against each other, they become inextricably intertwined. They are a double helix of hockey's cruel and ennobling spring, the DNA of the playoffs. In the stilted language of hockeyspeak, Zetterberg and Foote are physically engaged. But it's not a mere engagement; it's more like a marriage. "And everybody's looking to get divorced," Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville slyly notes. One player will go on to better things, the conference final. The other will just go.
Although Colorado lost the first two games in Detroit, Quenneville had no plans to change the matchup when the series moved Tuesday to Colorado. The coach acknowledges that playing against Detroit's fabulous No. 1 line of Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom might be the NHL's most taxing assignment, but in Foote and his defensive partner Kurt Sauer, Quenneville is confident he has a strong shutdown pair. He played Foote against Zetterberg on nearly every even-strength shift in the first two games, at least until Game 2 veered beyond the Avalanche's control. The coach calls them "abrasive" and says, "The top guys welcome that kind of strict assignment. Individual matchups, add them all up, and if you win more than your share, you'll likely win the series."
Detroit coach Mike Babcock relished the matchup of Zetterberg and Foote just as much as Quenneville. Sitting behind his desk last Friday after practice, he exclaimed, "Not one time!" when asked if he thought about changing his lines on the fly in an effort to get Zetterberg & Co. away from Foote. Although Babcock wouldn't elaborate on why, the reasons seemed obvious: Zetterberg and Datsyuk, who combined for 74 goals and 189 points during the regular season, have a considerable speed advantage over the 36-year-old defenseman. Foote is a master of stick positioning, reading a play and bulldozing the front of the net, but he's not quick and he doesn't make especially crisp first passes, which can give the dynamic Red Wings extra time in the attacking zone if they deflect a few.
"In the end only one of us is going to be right," Babcock said. He leaned forward, his voice growing low and raspy. "And the only way you'll know will be at the end, by who moves on."
Through two games Babcock and the Red Wings had been extraordinarily correct. Zetterberg had a goal in the series opener, a 4--3 win, and another in the 5--1 Game 2 victory, in which he beat a collapsing Foote, who was stuck defending a two-on-one. Zetterberg also had a shorthanded assist in that game when he broke in for a shot that was snuffed by goalie Peter Budaj, and second-line center Johan Franzen nudged in the rebound for his third goal of the game and fifth of the series. Franzen earlier had scored a pair of power-play goals, one on a deflection and the other on a backhand from outside the crease. When asked for his estimate of the cumulative distance of the goals in Franzen's first NHL hat trick, Zetterberg smiled and said, "Eight feet."
THE FIRST time Zetterberg, 27, laid eyes on Foote was at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, as Sweden prepared to meet Foote and Team Canada in a round-robin game. Zetterberg, who had seen Foote on television in some of those classic Red Wings--Avalanche playoff series of the late 1990s, immediately decided that the defenseman was one of those players you'd hate to play against but would love to have as a teammate. But now Foote was mere feet away, across the DMZ of the red line. While going through his pregame stretching, Zetterberg, then regarded as the best player in the world who was not in the NHL, gazed over at Joe Sakic, Eric Lindros, Steve Yzerman and Foote. "That was a real nervous moment," said Zetterberg, who had an assist in a 5--2 win. "That was the first contact I'd had with the world's best."
Foote, of course, has no recollection of Zetterberg from that day.
The personalities in this odd coupling could not be more different. Zetterberg, 27, has his own website, complete with his own merchandising line—henrikzetterberg.com is promoted on the Joe Louis Arena scoreboard during the second intermission—while Foote is old school enough to assume MySpace is the area between the face-off dot and the front of his own net. Zetterberg has a Google-able girlfriend, Emma Andersson, who is a pop singer/model/TV host/winner of the Swedish version of Survivor, while Foote has a wife, Jennifer, and two sons. Zetterberg has a GQ face, now adorned by a russet-tinted playoff beard, while Foote's mogul course of a nose and lived-in features look like something out of a 19th-century daguerreotype. Their worlds clash most violently whenever Zetterberg tries to slither the puck along the boards and Foote delivers a bodycheck.
Although the matchup is highly personal, Foote learned long ago not to take it personally. "That," Foote says, "is when you get burned. You have to respect your opponent's talents and strengths but focus on your job. I don't talk to anybody on the ice. Brett Hull used to come up to me and say, 'Hey, Footer, how ya doing?' and then he'd get a quick two goals. I learned." Foote's task of defending the Avalanche's goal is complicated by the presence of Datsyuk, who blends so deftly with Zetterberg that the distinction between left wing and center often is blurred as they constantly look for two-on-ones and give-and-go's all over the ice. In Game 1 last Thursday they combined to isolate Foote on the face-off dot, and Zetterberg took a pass behind Foote and burst in to score the Wings' first goal. Says Foote, "He's got great skills and skates well—maybe that's genetics, the whole Viking thing. But what separates him is his intelligence."
If Zetterberg has left an impression on Foote, rest assured that Foote has left several impressions on Zetterberg: on the wrist, the ankles and the back of his calves. "He's pretty feisty with the stick," Zetterberg says. "He gets you on the spots where it hurts. You get a shot like that, you get mad and you become a better player. He forces me to be a better player because otherwise he just takes me out of the game."
Playoff marriages like these are all quickie affairs, till seven games (or fewer) do they part. (This one will be especially brief unless Avalanche star Peter Forsberg's balky groin feels better quickly.) They end not in recriminations and lawyers' billable hours but with a brief handshake. If only life were that perfect. "You see [Foote] so much on the ice," Zetterberg said. "You hate him. He hates you. Then the series is over." He shrugged. "Some players you dislike even after the series is over, but he isn't one of them."
Pivotal Pairs
More semifinal matchups that matter
MARTIN BIRON (Flyers) VS. CAREY PRICE (Canadiens)
If Biron, 30, continues to outplay opposing goalie Price, 20, Philadelphia will pull off an upset of Montreal.
PATRICK MARLEAU (Sharks) VS. BRENDEN MORROW (Stars)
San Jose's center started poorly, but Marleau has a chance to outduel his opposite captain if he picks up his game.
JAROMIR JAGR (Rangers) VS. JARKKO RUUTU (Penguins)
Forward Ruutu played with composure while remaining aggressive, and his Pens went up 2--0.
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TWO FOR TWO Zetterberg (left) had the early edge on Foote, with two goals in two games as Detroit took a 2--0 lead at home.
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REMEMBER ME? This pair's history includes a blindside hit Ruutu made on Jagr (left) in the 2006 Olympics.


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In Wake of Doping Scandal, Figure Skating Age Limit Raised to 17
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Delegates with the International Skating Union (ISU) voted 100 to 16 to raise the age limit.
The results of the vote were announced by the agency via Twitter on June 7, 2022.
"The ISU Congress voted in favor of gradually increasing the age limit from 15 to 17 years ... for the sake of protecting the physical and mental health, and emotional well-being of Skaters." ISU Figure Skating, Twitter
The age limit will be raised over the next three years.
The decision follows several high-profile doping scandals in the sport, ... the most recent of which involved 15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva at the Beijing Olympics.
The scandal resurfaced questions involving the mental health of young athletes.
"The life of an athlete is short and intense. The experience in this short period of their lives sets the stage for the rest of their lives, physically, mentally and emotionally." Eric Radford, Olympic Medalist Canada, via 'The New York Times'
Many within the ISU praised the decision as "historic."
"This is a very important decision. I would say a very historic decision." Jan Dijkema, ISU President, 'The New York Times'
Others, though, oppose the measure because it will affect the careers of young athletes currently training.
"[The ISU can] see that in our country [Russia], there's a huge amount of girls and boys, and they want to block it. That's why they started this whole rigmarole. They can block it only by removing from competition." Tatiana Tarasova, Figure Skating Coach Russia, via 'The New York Times'
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This week on In Frequency, Eleanor Grace chats with Malia Endres of Glacier Veins about their new EP Dreamspace, released in October via Common Ground.
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This week on In Frequency, Eleanor Grace speaks with Alex Biro of Selfish Things about new music and their upcoming tour with Simple Plan.
This week on In Frequency, Eleanor Grace is joined by Layne Putnam and Alexander Rosca of LAYNE to chat about their new single and the future.
idobi and Leaky Sync's Portugal Invasion artist, Menage called in to talk with Fish about their first tour of China and more! Listen here!
idobi and Leaky Sync's Portugal Invasion artist, Bed Legs, called in to talk with me about their latest releases and recent North American tour. You can listen below!
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SouthworldNews February 2016Islamic investors eye opportunities in Africa
Donors and businessmen from the Islamic World are increasingly determined to explore investments opportunities in Africa.
Africa is increasingly seen as a land of opportunities. After the large emerging countries such as China, India and Brazil, member countries from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) which groups 57 countries including 22 African states, are increasingly interested by the continent. In fact, OIC's interest for the continent began at the moment of the creation of the organisation in 1969. But over the last years, OIC's financial arm, the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) whose main shareholders are Saudi Arabia (23.6%), Libya (9.5%), Iran (8.3%), Nigeria (7.7%) and the United Arab Emirates (7.5%) has become increasingly involved in Africa. About 30 percent of the US $ 12 billion dollars invested in 2015 by the Islamic Development Bank, went to Sub-Saharan Africa, said its regional director, Sidi Mohamed Taleb during the Media Forum on Investment Opportunities in Africa organised by the OIC in Marrakech between the last 17 and the 19 December in Marrakech.
According to Sidi Mohamed Taleb, the IDB's strong point is that Africans are taking part in the definition of the Bank's strategy which consists in investing massively in the sectors where Africa still lags behind other continents such as energy, telecoms, transports and agriculture. The bank's objective is to tap the productivity potential and create job opportunities for the youth. Energy and infrastructures alone absorb more than half of all the loans.
The bank is particularly active in Mali where it is building a 60 MW thermal plant near Bamako and a new international airport. In this country, where the IDB's portfolio amounts $ 400 million, the bank is also financing roads towards neighbouring Mauritania and also studies for the construction of a road between the Tuareg capital Kidal and the Algerian border, "even if the security situation is a problem because there is an absolute necessity to break the isolation of this region", explains Sidi Mohamed Taleb. The question is not only to generate communication, growth and employment but also to create the pre-condition for all this which is political stability. In this case, the IDB is acting in coordination with the political initiatives of the OIC which has supported reconciliation missions in Mali between the government and the rebels in the same way it has supported reconciliation in Somalia, Niger, Côte d'Ivoire, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Chad.
In the area of transports, the OIC's flagship project in Africa is the completion of the multimodal rail-road highway between Dakar and Port Sudan. OIC's contribution will consist in financing the construction of the missing links, explains the organisation's assistant Secretary General, Hameed Opeloyeru. Food security is high on the OIC's agenda. Since the creation in 2011 in Astana (Kazakhstan) of the Islamic Organisation for Food Security, US $ 1.5 billion has been pledged to finance agricultural projects jointly with the Food Agricultural Organisation and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
Another important initiative was the OIC Cotton Action Plan created in 2007 with a view to rehabilitate the decaying cotton and textile industries in OIC member states. So far, 27 projects were approved under this plan, including three in Cameroon and two in Mozambique and efforts are underway to mobilize financing for projects submitted by Senegal, Uganda, Nigeria and Burkina Faso.
Beside the multilateral interventions of the OIC and the IDB, several Islamic countries have developed commercial and investment ties with Africa over the last years. Turkey has already held two summits with Africa in 2008, in Istanbul and in 2014 in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea). Turkish Airlines was one of the first countries to resume international flights to Somalia in 2011. Since 2003, trade volume rose nearly four fold from US $ 5.4 billion to $ 20 billion in 2014 and the Ankara government has opened 40 embassies in the continent. Morocco banks, insurance and agribusiness are expanding fast in Africa. One of the reasons is that the improvement of bank services in the Sub-Saharan African countries helps to boost the activities of Moroccan exporters. The Attijawariwafa Bank has now subsidiaries and branches in 14 African countries including Guinea-Conakry, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali. The world leader of fertilizers, the Office chérifien des phosphates (OCP), is keen to support Africa's green revolution and it is therefore promoting its products in order to boost productivity in the South of the Sahara. OCP has embarked on a programme which aims at providing access to improved fertilizers to 100,000 African farmers during the next three years, through the initiative of "agricultural caravans" aiming at providing training to farmers of Guinea-Conakry, Mali and Senegal.
According to the director of the Casablanca-based ISCEA management school, Rachid M'Rabet, who created a similar institution in Guinée-Conakry, Moroccan companies' comparative advantage is that they are African and that their managers understand the culture of Sub-Saharan countries. Another symptom of the development of business links with the Islamic World is the expansion of the networks of Turkish Airlines which has now 44 African destinations, of Royal Air Maroc which has 22 and Emirates Airlines which has 19. The 21st century is definitely the period of economic diversification for Africa which is no longer the former European colonizers' hunting ground.
François Misser


95 ford explorer eddie bauer edition. seating mod!
Discussion in 'Modified 1995-2001 Explorers' started by rushjones94, July 7, 2011.
Measure out and see if the Expedition bench seat will fit. If not I'm sure a town car/grand marquis/crown vic bench seat will do.
All you'd really have to do is make some brackets and drill some holes.
A ranger bench seat will bolt right in.
there are bench seat Explorers from the factory, but they are super rare, Ive run across 3 of them in my life. But I imagine a Ranger seat will bolt in, no sweat.


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2021 Palmetto Championship at Congaree purse, winner's share, prize money payout
The 2021 Palmetto Championship at Congaree purse is set for $7.3 million, with the winner's share coming in at $1,314,000 -- the standard 18 percent payout according to the PGA Tour's prize money distribution chart.
The Palmetto Championship at Congaree field is headed by Dustin Johnson, Tyrrell Hatton, Brooks Koepka and more of the world's best players.
The 156-player field is an open event on the PGA Tour schedule, with the field including four Monday open qualifiers.
A cut is made after 36 holes to the top 65 players and ties for the final two rounds of the tournament. All players who finish four rounds of the tournament will earn money.
The event is played this year at Congaree Golf Club in Ridgeland, S.C.
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Q: Eclipse: I turned on hidden characters now I can't turn off Somehow I've turned on hidden characters in Eclipse. It's not the "whitespace" characters in the general editor preferences. When turned on, it adds another layer of hidden characters over the existing ones.
Then I have things like

\r\n

Does anyone know what these are and how to remove them?

A: CTRL + . does the job.

A: There is a toggle button 'Show Whitespace Chars' on the Eclipse toolbar

A: For Aptana Users
To toggle hidden characters in Aptana on and off, use the following keyboard shortcut:

Ctrl+Alt+W

A: I am using Eclipse Oxygen and can see this option to toggle whitespace characters:

A: It is actually in two places...
Sandkastenliga points out the obvious one, but you can also show white space with a shortcut key combination.  The key combination is separate from the text editor preferences and will superimpose additional characters when active (it uses \r and \n for carriage return an line feed respectively instead of the symbols used by the text editor preference.)
Go to preferences > general > keys and look for the binding for the 'Show Whitespace' command.
I have the text editor preference turned on, so I removed the binding for this command altogether (it was set to Ctrl+. in my profile) to prevent accidental activation as it doesn't affect the other preference.

A: A great tip about using 'quick access' from eclipse forum:
CTRL+3 swc

Allows to turn them on and off

A: The right shortcut is Ctrl + N
UPDATE From Eclipse 3.7 version, something is changed... Now you have to go to:

Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors

A: It is under Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors. There is a checkbox labeled "Show whitespace characters". If you uncheck this the editor switches back to normal.
If you click on the link (whitespace characters) (<= v3.6) or (configure visibility) (>= v3.7) in this line you will get a popup window, in which you can define which characters eclipse is supposed to consider as whitespace characters.
In this popup window you also get the option to define the transparency in which each whitespace character is displayed in the editor, which you can use to (indirectly) change their foreground colour. I'm just mentioning it here, because it took me about half an hour to find this setting! ;-)

A: Go to Window > Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors
Uncheck the "Show whitespace characters" option on the right side of the page, then click "Apply" at the bottom of the page.

A: Since this is not a standard setting, it could be the result of one of your extra plugin.

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*Did you try starting your eclipse with the -clean parameter?

*Do you reproduce the issue with a fresh Eclipse installation?

A: Go to Preferences > General > Editors > Text Editors and restore defaults.

A: I have done this several times by accidentally hitting some keystrokes.
If you go to Windows/Preferences/General/Keys you will see all the keyboard shortcuts you have.
Mine is set to Control + .
I had to place my cursor inside the document and do it a couple of times to make it work because there is also a keyboard shortcut for Control +
Hope that helps.

A: You can add "Show Whitespace Characters" button in toolbar by customizing your perspective.
It also contains buttons to toggle word wrap, and toggle selection mode.

Go to Window > Perspective > Customize Perspective > Action Set Availability, then select "Editor Presentation" action set:
This works in Eclipse Neon.
You can also add a key binding for this action.
Go to Preferences > General > Keys > "Show Whitespace Characters"

A: Eclipse > Preference > General > Editors > Text Editors > Show WhiteSpace characters.

A: Sorry this is a bit vague but it's a while since i used Eclipse and i do not have it installed. I think this is it ..... in one of the menus you will find the Eclipse settings, there are two set's of settings, current project and overall Eclipse, you mat need to check them both. In there are various menus in tree form that allow you control the actions and look and feel. But some of them are nested so there is an overall control but some packages have their own options in a sub menu set. The menu's will expand when you click them and i'm afraid you need to walk through them all.

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