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Clemson intent on limiting the disruptive nature of USC star Kinlaw
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This week's study time for Clemson's offensive line and anybody else chipping in on the blocking schemes included plenty of overtime viewing on South Carolina senior defensive lineman Javon Kinlaw.
"Anytime as a coach when you're watching video you want to see if there's a really a talented player you need to spend a little extra time accounting for and if it's a defensive lineman like it is with Kinlaw you go through all of your protections and run game schemes and make sure you're putting your guys in the best opportunity to be successful," Clemson co-offensive coordinator Jeff Scott said.
"It's important for them to really study how well he uses his hands and some of his tendencies and always know where he is and get two hands on him and not just give him a shoulder. He is absolutely a guy we spent some time really studying and I think some teams that have had success against them have found a way to be able to double-team him at times although you can't play the entire game that way. But certain times maybe you can schematically put your guys in a good position to be able to block him, but he's definitely a problem and much improved from where he was a year ago watching him on video."
Clemson senior guard John Simpson knows Kinlaw's ability better than anybody with the two Charleston high school products – Kinlaw at Goose Creek and Simpson at Fort Dorchester – having faced off against one another since the 10th grade before taking their rivalry to college. They were postseason teammates both at the Shrine Bowl and the U.S. Army All-American Bowl where they were roommates during their week in San Antonio, Texas.
"That's my boy," Simpson said. "Playing against each other is a big deal between us. We've got a task ahead of us. Those guys are really talented up front. (Kinlaw) is one of the best defensive linemen we'll have faced up to this point. He's an animal, man, a different breed."
Kinlaw said of Simpson, "It's always a good battle. Both of us coming from the same city and we've got the same dream. He's become like a brother to me over time so it's always going to be a good matchup."
At 6-foot-6 and 310 pounds (40 pounds less than when he arrived at USC after a year of junior college), Kinlaw has 31 tackles, his six sacks are tied for sixth in the SEC and his two forced fumbles are tied for second. He's also blocked a field goal. Kinlaw, who has accepted an invitation to play in the Reese's Senior Bowl all-star game, was SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week after USC's upset win at Georgia.
"If you watch the Georgia game he's just on another level and he's probably going to be a first-rounder," Clemson center Sean Pollard said. "He's huge, he's a big dude and he's fast."
Clemson offensive guard Gage Cervenka added, "He's arguably the best defensive tackle we'll face all year. We definitely need to know where he's at on the field because he's a very dynamic, strong, fast and agile player. He can be very disruptive so we have to learn his tendencies on film and he's a great player and will be a tough challenge each snap."
Clemson was involved with Kinlaw during the recruiting process and coach Dabo Swinney said, "I saw him in high school and just watching his development he's a massive human being. He's long, powerful and can move. There's really no weaknesses to him and he's a very good football player. He's a lot like a Dexter (Lawrence), not quite as big but he's got that type of power and explosiveness at the point of attack and again has great length. He's a problem for everybody."


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WOW! A Journalist Admits The Press Ruined Its Own Credibility NOT TRUMP (AUDIO)
John Dickerson of CBS News was recently on the Hugh Hewitt radio show and admitted something that most of the American people know. The media's credibility wasn't ruined by Donald Trump, they did it to themselves.
Mediaite reported:
CBS's John Dickerson: Donald Trump Didn't Ruin the Press's Reputation, We Did That Ourselves
CBS's Face the Nation host John Dickerson was critical of President Donald Trump's haranguing of the press during a Thursday press conference, but told conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt that the press's credibility took a hit long before Trump.
Hewitt asked Dickerson Friday about Trump's message to reporters that "the public doesn't believe you people anymore." Dickerson countered that if Trump wanted to lecture the press on believability, it would help if he stopped saying things to the public that were verifiably untrue.
"But that one comment, 'they don't trust you anymore,' is a summation of where we are in America," Hewitt argued. "Because I really do think Manhattan-Beltway elites have lost the country. They've lost it. There's just no confidence…"
"Yes, it's true, and it's not because of anything obviously Donald Trump did," Dickerson agreed. "The press did all that good work ruining its reputation on its own, and we can have a long conversation about what created that."
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S Hutzler, A Mughal, J Ryan-Purcell, A Irannezhad, D Weaire
Physical Review E 102 (2), 022905
[23] A simple experimental system to illustrate the nonlinear properties of a linear chain under compression. D Weaire, A Irannezhad, A Mughal, S Hutzler. American Journal of Physics 88 (5), 347-352
[22] Equilibrium configurations of hard spheres in a cylindrical harmonic potential. J Winkelmann, A Mughal, D Weaire, S Hutzler
EPL (Europhysics Letters) 127 (4), 44002
[21] Homogeneous and heterogeneous populations of active rods in two-dimensional channels. V. Khodygo, M. T. Swain, and A. Mughal. Physical Review E 99 (2), 022602
[20] Theory of rotational columnar structures of soft spheres. J. Winkelmann, A. Mughal, D. Williams, D. Weaire, and S. Hutzler. Physical Review E99 (2) 020602
[19] Demonstration and interpretation of "scutoid" cells in a quasi-2D soap froth. A. Mughal, S.J. Cox, D. Weaire, S.R. Burke, S. Hutzler, Phil. Mag. Lett. 98 (8), 358-364.
[18] Columnar structures of soft spheres: metastability and hysteresis. A. Mughal, J Winkelmann, D Weaire, S Hutzler, Phys. Rev. E 98, 043303
[17] Simulation and observation of line-slip structures in columnar structures of soft spheres. J. Winkelmann, B. Haffner, D. Weaire, A. Mughal and S Hutzler, Phys. Rev. E 97, 059902.
[16] How bees and foams respond to curved confinement: level set boundary representations in the Surface Evolver. A. Mughal, T. Libertiny and G. E. Schroeder-Turk, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects. 2017 Mar 4.
[15] Curvature driven motion of soap cells in toroidal Hele-Shaw cells. A. Mughal, S. Cox, and G. E. Schroeder-Turk. Interface Focus 7 (4), 20160106.
[14] Phyllotaxis, disk packing and Fibonacci numbers. A. Mughal and D. Weaire, Phys. Rev. E 95, 022401.
[13] An experimental study of columnar crystals using monodisperse microbubbles. Meagher, A. J., F. García-Moreno, J. Banhart, A. Mughal, and S. Hutzler, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects 473: 55-59.
[12] Theory of cylindrical dense packings of disks, A. Mughal and D. Weaire Physical Review E 89, no. 4: 042307.
[11] Packing of softly repulsive particles in a spherical box – a generalised Thomson problem, A. Mughal. Forma, 29, 13–19, 2014.
[10] Screw symmetry in columnar crystals. A. Mughal. Philosophical Magazine, Volume 93, Issue 31-33, pages 4070-4077.
[9] Compaction of cereal grain. J. Wychowaniec, I. M. Griffiths, A. Gay, A Mughal. Philosophical Magazine, Volume 93, Issue 31-33, pages 4151-4158.
[8] Dense packing of hard spheres in cylinders I. Simulations A. Mughal, H. K. Chan, D. Weaire and S. Hutzler, Phys. Rev. E 85, 051305.
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What's Up With the Mac Mini?
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At Apple's October 22nd event, my friends and I were absolutely sure that they would refresh the Mac mini, but that didn't happenThe Mac Mini has, since its launch in 2005, has always been the entry level Mac. I know for my family, it was the perfect first Mac. With a price under $1,000, it is easily the most affordable Mac. So I ask the question, why didn't Apple update the Mac Mini at their event?
The market for PC's has slowly been sliding with the introduction and refinement of tablets. Apple sold under 20 million Macs in the 2012 fiscal year, as apposed to 15.43 million iPads in their first quarter of fiscal year 2012 alone. It's kind of obvious where the majority of the attention would be.
The Mac Mini is literally a repackaged Macbook Pro. Same circuit board, just refitted. Same RAM. Same Specs (except for the new Haswell Processors). The problem with the Mac Mini is that there just isn't the market for it. Casual Mac users will typically buy a Macbook Air or Pro because of the portability, and Pro users, are going to buy either an iMac or a new Mac Pro. The Mac Mini just hasn't evolved with the desktop users in terms of features and power. The current Mac Mini is still sporting Intel's HD Graphics 4000, which are a joke for anyone wanting to do any video or photo editing.
Desktop users these days are typically the people who need power. The Mac Mini just doesn't provide the power at an enticing price anymore. If you were to buy a Mac Mini with the same specs and an iMac, it comes within a few hundred dollars, plus you still need to buy a display, or use the crappy one in the basement. With the iMac, you get an amazing display, keyboard, and mouse or trackpad. There is no more use for the current Mac Mini in a semi Pro setting.
Then again, Apple has been known to amaze us, like with the iMacs last year. They tend to breath new life into old product lines. Let me know what you guys think down in the comments.
For your' convenience I have embedded a video of David and his dad unboxing a Mac Mini… Classic J-Puff… =)
About the Author Sam Farrar
Sam Farrar is a technology enthusiast, Apple Fan, and all around geek. Sam has been writing for a few tech and gaming websites for 2 years. While only 18, Sam knows quite a bit about the tech industry. His first Gaming console was the Nintendo 64, with a Gameboy Advance to follow after that. His current main gaming machine is the XBOX 360, with a PS3 as a close second. As of now his eyes are on the XBOX One, but the Steam Machine looks really cool. His first computer was an old E Machines desktop, handed down from his parents. (It only ran Windows 95 with 256 mb of RAM) Sam was first introduced to the Apple Brand when his cousins bought one of those translucent, teardrop shaped iMacs in the early 2000's. (He played lots of Nascar: 2000 on that thing) Apple would weave in and out of his life with iPods and Macs here and there, but his real passion didn't begin until his neighbor bought an iMac in 2009. His thought it was a stupid $1500 computer until he used it. There were many early YouTube collabs made on that computer. Ever since then, he has been a total Apple fan, finally able to convince his family to buy their first Mac at Christmas 2010. The family is slowly turning into a true Apple family, with 3 iPads, 4 iPhones, 2 Macs, an Airport, and many iPods. One of Sam's many role models is Steve Jobs for his intensity and attention to detail. Sam is currently a student at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA, in their Applied Arts program. His goal right now is to go on from Community college and move on to an art school to get a bachelors degree in Digital Film or Graphic Design. Sam is now an Apple Employee at their Natick Retail Store as a Specialist.


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Do More Or Doolittle: On The Nats' Late Inning Struggles
Erik Payne May 01, 2018 2018 Articles	Leave a Comment
For the first time in what seems like forever, it's May, and that Washington Nationals aren't in first place in the National League East.
Why? Well, the bullpen hasn't helped.
As of April 30, the Nats bullpen sits a cool 24th out of 30 in Fangraphs' WAR, having added 0.2 wins above replacement in the team's first 28 games. On that pace, the Nats 'pen would add approximately 1.2 WAR over the course of a full season—last year, that would have ranked 26th.
Speaking of last year: what great bullpen memories those were. Across 2017, the Nats bullpen accrued 2.7 WAR, thanks in large part to the three late-inning arms the team traded for in July. Going into this season, you could forgive Nats fans for feeling good about the bullpen, especially knowing they were hopefully getting full seasons from Brandon Kintzler, Ryan Madson, and Sean Doolittle. Now, after eight one-run losses (and two wins), the question needs to be asked: what the heck is going on with these guys?
Sean Doolittle
This is an easy one: Doolittle looks great.
Doolittle makes his bones on his fastball. He throws it nearly 90% of the time, which makes sense given that it ranks as one of the best in baseball among relievers.
Despite the cold temperatures to start the season, Doolittle's four-seam fastball velocity has held steady at 95 mph. Per FanGraphs, it generates the most vertical movement in 2018 and rates as the third most valuable fastball among relievers.
The rate stats, among relievers, are just as good. Enjoy them as bullets:
· K/9 of 15.23: 11th
· Strand rate of 96.2%: 12th
· BABIP of .111: 4th
· Contact% of 64.4%: 12th
· Hard hit % of 20.0%: 15th
· K% of 47.8%: 4th
There are, of course, reasons for caution. He hasn't thrown more than 60 innings in a season since 2014 (think the Nats might lean on him this year?), and his strand rate and BABIP numbers are outrageously skewed. But while there's negative regression to come, he's also allowing home runs at nearly twice his career rate. The regression monster taketh; the regression monster giveth back.
Ryan Madson
The Nats' eighth-inning man has given up nine earned runs in 13 innings this season. He coughed up six to the Mets two weeks ago, two to the Braves the week before that, before blowing his hold in the eighth inning against the Diamondbacks on Saturday's extra-inning loss.
In his other 9.1 innings the 37-year-old hasn't allowed a run, though he's scattered six hits and eight walks in these appearances. When he's not playing with fire this year, he's getting burnt.
Last year was Madson's best season as a professional. Though it sounds weird to say about a 15-year vet who won a World Series with the Phillies, everything clicked for him. His (*takes a deep breath*) K/9, BB/9, HR/9, BABIP, strand rate, and HR/FB% were all well below career averages. He struck out 30.6% of hitters he faced and allowed opponents to hit just .184. His K/BB% of 7.44% was fifth best among qualified relievers. By Fangraphs WAR he was the 13th most valuable reliever in all of baseball. Ryan Madson!
Thus far, 2018 Ryan Madson is a different pitcher.
His fastball velocity is slightly up from 2017, but his pitch mix has changed drastically. This year, per FanGraphs, he's throwing his four-seam fastball nearly 40% of the time, up 15 percentage points from last year. Accordingly, he's throwing his sinker 15 percentage points less than a year ago, which brings us to an interesting fork in the road. Either he doesn't trust his sinker at all this year or FanGraphs has wrongly defined 15% of Madson's pitches. If that latter is true, that pitch might be getting so little movement as to render it four-seam-like to the pitch-tracking data.
Fewer of those heavy sinkers likely play a role in his 38% ground ball rate, 10% lower than his career average. But he's also catching more than a bit of bad luck. Madson's BABIP of .432 is the 5th worst among relievers (Sammy Solis BABIP is 6th worst for what it's worth).
What's more troubling is his inability to miss bats. He's striking out less than 20% of hitters this year and is throwing more strikes than in years past. That's been an issue, because hitters are swinging more often at his pitches in the zone (he has the 4th highest percentage of hitters swing at his strikes) and making harder contact.
We can probably expect some positive regression from that sky-high BABIP, but it's probably worth monitoring how his pitch mix develops across the year, if he can corral a walk rate that's currently twice what he posted in 2017, and if/when he starts to miss bats.
Brandon Kintzler
For the third amigo, the problem is clear: the walks are out of control.
He's walking more than five hitters per nine innings, more than double his career rate. That coupled with a 66% strand rate (almost 10 percentage points lower than career average) makes run prevention difficult.
He's lost about one mile per hour on his fastball from 2017, and has more than tripled his rate of changeups thrown. This increase in changeups has come at the expense of the slider, which graded as his worst pitch in 2017. And so far, hitters seem puzzled. Kintzler isn't known for missing bats, and he still isn't in 2018, but he's striking out more than a batter per inning and batters are swinging at a lower rate than ever before. While that patience seems to have driven up Kintzler's walk rate, he's happy to take a backwards K.
His peripherals are all solid: it really feels like he's been bit by a lack of command and some poorly timed hits. If he can get those free passes under control and execute a little better with runners on base he can right this ship.
As for when the rest of the bullpen might right itself? That's a story for another day.
All stats current as of April 30, 2018
Tags: Brandon Kintzler, Bullpen, Nationals, Nats, Ryan Madson, Sean Doolittle
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Q: Designing treehouses sounds like an incredible vocation, but it's probably not something you start out studying for. How did you get into the industry?
I studied Interior Architecture & Design and got my first job in restaurant design. I didn't think such a vocation existed!!!
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The Invisible TreeHouse. It's a mirrored cubic treehouse in Sweden.
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Q: How to GREP a substring of a filename for renaming files? I have a lot of files that were named with example1_partofEx1A_individualfile_name.fil.
I have since organized the files into a directory structure so the path is ./example1/partofEx1A/example1_partofEx1A_individualfile_name.fil.
I am trying to write a script that can take the unnecessary info out of the filename. I basically want to grep the 'individualfile' part so I can use a loop and mv.
I have no experience with scripting, just some with matlab. Using ubuntu or macOS. Any suggestions?

A: Maybe something like:
#!/bin/bash

cd /path/to/rootdir || exit

for file in *.fil;do
    IFS=_ read dir1 dir2 individual <<<"$file"
    if [ "$individual" ] ;then
        test -d "$dir1/$dir2" || mkdir -p "$dir1/$dir2"
#       mv -v "$file" "$dir1/$dir2/$individual"
        mv -vt "$dir1/$dir2" "$file"
      fi
  done

As suggested by Charles Duffy's comment, I've added -p flag to mkdir in order to prevent race condition.

A: Assuming that the three parts (the first two to delete and the third to be kept) are always separated by underscores, this could be a possible solution:
for f in /path/to/rootdir/*; do
    if [[ -f $f ]]; then
        mv "$f" "$(echo "$f" | sed "s/\/.*_.*_/\//")"
    fi
done

where /path/to/rootdir is the root directory of your structure.

A: #!/usr/bin/env bash
for f in ./*/*/*; do
  [[ $f =~ ^[.]/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*) ]] || continue
  dir1=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
  dir2=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
  filename=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}

  [[ $filename = "${dir1}_${dir2}_"* ]] || continue
  new_name=${filename#"${dir1}_${dir2}_"}
  mv -- "$f" "${dir1}/${dir2}/$new_name"
done

Tested as follows:
testdir="$(mktemp -d)"
cd "$testdir" || exit
mkdir -p ./dirA/dirB
touch dirA/dirB/dirA_dirB_hello_world.txt
touch dirA/dirB/other_content_here.txt

for f in ./*/*/*; do
  [[ $f =~ ^[.]/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/(.*) ]] || continue
  dir1=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
  dir2=${BASH_REMATCH[2]}
  filename=${BASH_REMATCH[3]}

  [[ $filename = "${dir1}_${dir2}_"* ]] || continue
  new_name=${filename#"${dir1}_${dir2}_"}
  mv -- "$f" "${dir1}/${dir2}/$new_name"
done

...whereupon the directory contains:
./dirA
./dirA/dirB
./dirA/dirB/hello_world.txt
./dirA/dirB/other_content_here.txt

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Colorado, Boulder County economy expected to…
Colorado, Boulder County economy expected to slow, but still grow in 2020
BOULDER, CO – DECEMBER 9:From left: University of Colorado Boulder aerospace engineering majors Heng Deng, Michael Schlittenhart, Raymie Fotherby and Andreas Brecl add weights to test the load on a composite wing design during an Intro to Static Structures and Materials class at the aerospace engineering building on Dec. 9, 2019. (Photo by Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer) CQ HENG DENG CQ RAYMIE FOTHERBY CQ MICHAEL SCHLITTENHART CQ ANDREAS BRECL
By John Spina | jspina@prairiemountainmedia.com | Longmont Times-Call
PUBLISHED: December 9, 2019 at 7:04 pm | UPDATED: December 9, 2019 at 10:33 pm
While economic growth slowed throughout Colorado in 2019, according to the Leeds School of Business' 55th annual Colorado Business Economic Outlook 2020 released on Monday, the state, and Boulder County, in particular, are expected to continue to outperform much of the rest of the country.
"We've got broad-based growth and then there are very strong subsector pieces," said Richard Wobbekind, the executive director of the business research division for the Leeds School of Business. "So there aren't a lot of warning signs in Boulder County of some sort of impending economic doom."
Between September 2018 and 2019, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows employment in Boulder County increased 3.3%, creating an additional 6,400 jobs and driving the Boulder County unemployment rate down to 2% compared to state unemployment of 2.2% and a national rate of 3.3%.
Though the Colorado Business Economic Outlook expects job growth throughout the state to fall from 1.9% growth in 2019 to 1.4% in 2020, Boulder County is again expected to outpace the state due to its strong base of technological and scientific businesses, as well as its robust tourism and outdoor recreation industries.
The only industry expected to lose jobs this year is the information sector, which the report estimated would lose 500 jobs statewide. Meanwhile Boulder County's other key industries, including aerospace, biotech, cleantech, natural and organic products, outdoor recreation, tourism, and professional, scientific and technical services are all expected to grow, with professional, scientific and technical services projected to be the strongest industry in 2020 with 3.4% percent growth.
In large part, the report suggests Boulder County's continued growth is due to the concentration of educated employees emanating from the University of Colorado Boulder while businesses in other areas struggle to find qualified applicants.
"Having an intellectual high-tech base with physicists, chemists, and aerospace scientists is very helpful in terms of being able to grow in those types of industries because they're not on every street corner in the county," said Brian Lewandowski, associate director of the business research division at the Leeds School of Business. "Even in manufacturing, which nationally most people think manufacturing employment is going to fall, we're seeing manufacturing employment rising because of food and beverages and aerospace manufacturing, both of which are very positive for the Boulder area."
The one downside to relying so heavily on tech-based businesses, Wobbekind said, is that it makes Boulder susceptible to a recession as more jobs are being replaced with artificial intelligence or automation. A 2019 Brookings Institution study reported Boulder was one of the more susceptible cities to artificial intelligence disruption in the county.
Wobbekind compared the potential disruption to the difficulty Colorado had in rebounding from the tech bubble bursting in the early 2000s, which took longer to recover from the Great Recession.
However, Clif Harald, the executive director of the Boulder Economic Council, noted Boulder has diversified its economy enough in recent years to withstand such a recession.
"If we were to see softening in one industry, say for example in IT, the strengths in aerospace, bioscience, energy, natural foods, outdoor recreation, and tourism would hopefully keep things moving along for our economy," he said.
Wobbekind also noted the high concentration of start-ups in Boulder County and its history of innovative companies suggests that should one of Boulder's key industries take a hit, the highly educated entrepreneurs in the area would find a way to take advantage of the opportunity.
According to data from CB Insights, $484 million in venture capital funding was received by Boulder County companies in the first three quarters of 2019, representing 48% of the state total.
"We have a very highly educated workforce within this region and a lot of these individuals are innovators and entrepreneurs," Wobbekind said. "That has fueled a lot of Boulder's economy over the last couple of decades so I'm optimistic Boulder will find a way to reintroduce itself."
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We all know there's a psychology to pricing. Something that taps into our brains and convinces us that $199 is cheaper than $200 even when we know it's a tactic. But it still makes us feel better to buy the $1 cheaper thing.
And you can't have missed it everywhere in the online space of offers using the psychology of pricing things ending in 9s - or perhaps even more commonly in digital products and courses, 7s.
$27…$47…$1997… Why 7s? No one seems to really know for sure.
When it comes to pricing, we tend to fall into one of two camps:
We go hard with the psychology and pricing formulas and strategies that we see everywhere
Or we just kind of wing it, and hope for the best
But neither of those quite cut it for me. I'm not the kind of person who is satisfied with a shrug for an answer, as why we price it that way.
I need pricing to feel aligned and purposeful.
Not just a formula or marketing trick because someone said so.
I need pricing to feel aligned and purposeful. Not just a formula or marketing trick because someone said so. #marketingwithheart #intutivemarketing
What is Intuitive Pricing?
What is Numerology?
Why do we end prices in 9s or 7s?
When it comes to prices, what do we want to feel?
The Meanings of Individual Numbers
1: leadership, newness
2: partnership, duality
3: creativity, social connection
4: stability, support
5: change, daring
6: home, nurturing
7: truth, intuition
8: wealth, manifestation
9: fulfilment, completion
0: the infinite, source, nothingness
Double or Triple Numbers
Using Numerology in Your Pricing
The Importance of Perceived Value
Intuitive pricing - we think of intuition as going with our gut, and that may not sound concrete enough for deciding on your prices.
But I don't consider intuition as separate from psychology. Psychology is just one part - intuition is the part of ourselves that encompasses all kinds of knowing. Mind, body and heart.
I think of Intuition as "Body Knowing" - the part of yourself that expands beyond just the conscious, rational mind, and draws on all the ways we sense and know things.
Intutive pricing means using more than just the psychological "tricks.". (I'm not against them, using ethical marketing psychology helps remove obstacles for your customers - rather than tricking or manipulating them, you're aiding them to get out of their own way.)
But pricing intuitively uses your feeling and body awareness, and your energetic knowing, to get out of the rigidity of pricing by formulas, and keeping aligned with the bigger picture of your business.
This is why sometimes it feels perfectly aligned to price something completely differently to what conventional marketing might tell you, and it brings unexpected results. But I'll cover more about Intuitve Pricing as a whole another time.
Let's focus on the numerology…
At a basic level, numerology is the about the energy of numbers. Everything in life has an energetic vibration, and each number embodies its own unique vibration - which influences and evokes our response to it in various ways.
I love numerology for my personal life. And we've even created an app and plugin for calculating the numerology of your business name. (You can check it out on Google Play here - it's totally free, no ads.)
But I hadn't looked at it specifically for pricing before - but why not? If you're at all interested in this kind of thing, you've probably encountered a connection to numbers before, perhaps in seeing 11:11 on the clock repeatedly at synchronistic times.
So perhaps numerology holds an explanation for some of the innate response we have to different numbers in pricing.
Perhaps when we can't fully explain through psychology why we respond the way we do, it's because we aren't looking at the whole intuitive picture.
While numerologically, no number is inherently positive or negative, they have different vibrations that we respond to differently in different circumstances.
For example, a 4 is a very grounded, stable number. Imagine four sturdy chair legs.
When you want a stable, reliable feel, like the numerology of an accounting business name, it's perfect.
But if you want something new and exciting, full of fresh potential… the energy of a 4 can feel a little too stuck in the mud.
So I think the energy behind 7s and 9s in prices relates to how we want to feel about the money we are spending and what we a receiving in exchange for it.
This can depend of course on what we are buying.
A 9 can help us feel good about almost anything - it is a number of completion and fulfilment.
So it can help us feel satisfied. A wish fulfilled. The promise of something new, but with a more complete energy than the total newness of a 1 or the buzzy energy of a 3.
And because it has this completion energy - the culmination of a cycle - it also holds a sense of wisdom. Of everything gained and learned along the journey.
And who doesn't want to feel wise when making a purchase!
It's a very full, rich number because numerology works in cycles, and 9 comes at the end of the cycle of single digit numbers. So in pricing, it makes sense that it holds and conveys a sense of value - perhaps this sense of value is then imbued into whatever product the price is applied to.
7s, though not a number of completion, similarly hold a deep energy of wisdom - it is the number of inner knowing, and of truth.
I feel that is why it is so common in the digital product space, because it conveys something trust worthy. Something that has been well thought out, in both practical and intuitive ways - because the 7 holds the energy of both of these things. It also holds a deep sense of fascination and interest.
Some consider it "lucky" too which probably plays a role. But in numerology, 7 is not really a "lucky" number, but it is an intuitive and perhaps even psychic one.
If numerology helps us see why certain numbers like 7s and 9s are most appealing to us for pricing, it might also help explain why we instinctively don't use certain other numbers very often.
(Though once you know their energy, you might decide to use them in certain circumstances when you instinctively feel their energy is just what the situation needs. I'll go more into the full idea of intuitive pricing another time.)
Here is the list of all single digit and the main master numbers, and what their numerology could tell us about pricing.
New opportunities, a fresh start, and or an invitation to lean in to alignment. 1s are quite direct.
Ending a price with a 1 feels a little incongruous, unless the whole price is 1s. E.g. $111 vs $411.
1s want to lead the way. They don't like being back up dancers. Consider what energy you're trying to convey before you tack them on behind other numbers - do they add or detract from that aim?
A 2 has a sense of balance that is a bit lighter on its feet than the stable 4. It is the energy of duality - e.g. light and dark, masculine and feminine, two sides of the same coin. Like balancing out scales.
2 is partnership like two people dancing together - while they work together well, there is still a little bit of push and pull, and lead and follow. But is more sensible, and not flashy or showy like some other numbers.
It could be good for 1:1 offerings, or small group settings, where you want a sense of peace and harmony, while addressing challenging subjects.
3s have a lively energy - but it is not unstable. 3 legged stools can be perfectly balanced. A 3 stranded cord is strong.
But these things have to be done right - if the stool legs are out of alignment, or if the cord strands are frayed or not twined together properly, then things get all out of whack.
Each part has to be contributing equally to maintain balance.
In pricing, 3s could be attached to collaborative, creative offerings or products where everyone needs to keep engaged and motivated - where you want to keep that 3 energy alive, so that people are excited all the way through until the end.
4s, like I have mentioned, are the most stable and grounded of the bunch. Like a well built, four legged chair. Like mountain pose in yoga, with all parts of your feet touching the ground.
It's balance, trust, tradition, and predictability. Which is perfect for foundations, for creating a firm base people feel at ease with. But may not be dynamic and exciting enough for some purposes - with too much 4 energy, it becomes a stick in the mud. Unable to shift quickly with the times.
5 has an unstable energy to it - a "this could go either way" energy. Which could be either exciting or dangerous.
It's daring and adventurous - in some circumstances this might work perfectly. Or when you want to reflect the excitement of what your customer is purchasing. E.g. $555 instead of $497 attracts a more daring buyer for something that offers an exciting transformation ahead, compared to the more solid, foundational 4, 9 & 7.
6 is the mother number, the caregiver and nurturer. It represents home base, the place you know you can always return for rest and to be cared for.
But it can have an edge to it. Mother's aren't just all soft and squidgy pushovers… they can be feirce and powerful creative forces. Leaders and protectors of those in their care.
I think the reason 666 has been a "demonised" number is because of the fear of the feminine, witch, creative womb power of women - represented in a 6.
It holds within it the potential to bring forth new life. That's kind of powerful alchemy you don't see anywhere else. Use 6s wisely!
7s feel wise and knowing. Something well researched, or even something that contains a sense of ancient wisdom. It also piques our curiosity.
The message is - there is something here I want to know more about! And you feel it in your body, as much as in your mind.
(That's when it is balanced - over used, and it can become something that goes too far one way or the other. Either completely head based, ignoring the intutive side and lacks creativity. Or so into the energetic, that it loses touch with practicality, and becomes unstable.)
On the face of it, the infinite 8 (it's an infinity symbol on its side) might seem like the perfect number for pricing.
But I think it most cases, it's far too strong. In pricing, it's off putting in its forcefulness.
You can use it other places in your life and business when you want to invite that manifesting power in - but used without wisdom and intention, it turns into power imbalances and shows up in overpowering leadership styles.
(Kind of like the energy of the masculine, forceful bro-marketing that we already see everywhere - which perhaps is why they use 7s and 9s so much, because they are instinctively trying to balance out the overbearing salesy manipulation that's going on everywhere else. If they used 8s as well, their message would be all too plain - we just want your moneeeeey!! :))
A wish fulfilled! The end of the journey, where you can now look back and see the big picture, how it all came together, and what it all means. You're at the point where you can benefit from your experiences and accumulated wisdom, and begin to bestow this upon others.
That's feeling and images that 9s evoke. They are well rounded and complete, containing everything gathered along the way on the journey through all the other numbers.
This can feel very elite, expensive. It does not compromise, it is completely whole within itself, and doesn't need to change or adjust itself for anyone or anything.
Come to me if you want, it says, I won't chase after you. You need me, I don't need you. I am already whole.
If you apply too many 0s to the wrong thing, it will feel empty, because it just isn't a fit.
But to the right things, the emptiness becomes a channel for the infinite, and it imparts something powerful that people will aspire to attain.
Essentially any double digit (e.g. 77) or repeating of the same number, is an amplification of the energy of the single digit.
I wouldn't base my pricing solely on numerology. It's just one way of enhancing the overall energy and persona of your brand.
Focus too much on it, try to make it a formula, and the real energy of it will elude you. It's not something that works when you get all in your head about it.
And it's just one aspect of your pricing and business. One tool in your intuitive toolkit, not the whole picture.
If you're in a cafe and want chocolate cake, are you not going to buy it because the price ends in an 8 instead of a 6? Unlikely.
But how the cafe uses pricing overall as part of its branding is going to affect how likely you are to go into that Cafe in the first place.
Your prices still has to be connected to a balanced energy exchange based on the value of what you are selling.
Now if that cafe was selling a tiny piece of cake slab cake from a packet for $18 dollars - it's not the 8 that would put you off, it's that they're ripping you off in the exchange of value.
If it was an exclusive piece of cake from the best pastry chef in the world visiting for just one day - well, the right people would pay $18 in a heartbeat for that and feel they got a bargain.
So use numerology as a tool, but use your intuition and the big picture of your business, what you're selling, and who you're selling it to.
If something doesn't feel right, consider the numerology of it to tweak how you're pricing it and see if that feels more aligned.
But don't use numerology to overthink it and get bogged down in the details!
Get out there and sell your things - that will be the quickest way to tell you if you're pricing right, instead of getting stuck figuring out "perfect pricing" and not selling anything at all!
Or the $0 in your bank balance will be laughing at you haughtily… 😉
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"Pearl River Community College is a college of firsts," Ron Hague, the director for the PRCC Museum told the newly formed tourism council on Wednesday.
The council is getting organized, and one of the tasks is to get familiarized with the many attractions of Pearl River County.
"Mississippi became the first state in the nation with a funded system of public junior colleges with the passing of the 1928 Bill. It all began right here in Pearl River County," Hague said.
A significant first happened in 2004 when PRCC won state championships in all four of the men's sports.
In 1935, PRCC applied for and was awarded the charter for the nation's first ROTC program in a junior college. There were high school programs and four-year college programs, but none in the junior colleges.
Hague said he has talked with numerous graduates from those years and pointed out that almost all of them recall PRCC looking more like the Citadel rather than a community college.
"The boys marched to and from class, and to and from town to the movies. The women's auxiliary unit was just as patriotic as the guys," he said. "My mom remembered them marching right along with them to class… It's the people here who are always trying to better themselves."
Hague began putting the history of the school together and his mother suggested a museum. After about a year, he said he realized PRCC needed a museum. In 2000 he began collecting things and opened the museum in 2001.
What is now in the museum from old annuals to a scoreboard to letters and pictures, and String of Pearls outfits, and much more is the result of five years of collecting.
There is a multimedia room that has an old television camera, several old cameras, a printing press that looks more like a mimeograph machine.
Bits and pieces of Moody Hall have been preserved. It was built in 1926 and was the first to be built for junior college use. It was an auditorium/gym. It is worthy of a trip to see it.


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When you see a gem, you may ask: is there any meaning to this stone?To apply meaning and significance to a gem stone is common throughout human cultures. Gem stones and their meanings are a part of our culture and history.
Some are considered birth stones, and are associated with a particular month. To those born in that month, wearing an article with their birthstone may bring prosperity and protection.The emerald gemstone is the Western European birthstone for May, and is also the traditional gift for couples 55 wedding anniversary.
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Turquoise gem stone, associated with the natives of North America is found in abundance in Iran, the Sinai and many parts of Asia.
The sapphire gemstone is found in many parts of Asia. The star sapphire in particular is abundant in Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, an island nation off of the southern coast of India.
When people think of where gem stones come from, they often think of the diamond mines of Southern Africa.
However, the African diamond industry is barely a century old. In ancient times, when you wanted to know where diamonds come from, the answer would be India. India would continue to be the primary source of this gem stone until the mid 18th century when diamonds were discovered in Brazil.
Jade is a gem stone that most think comes only from China and other Asian provinces, but Australia neighbor New Zealand is a modern source of the beautiful gem stone.
Though one of the first successfully manufactured gem stones, the natural gem stone ruby still comes from many parts of Asia, including Sri Lanka and Thailand.
No matter where you are, no matter what your nation, when you think of the gem stone and where they come from, the answer can be the same place you do.


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I want to only show values in the crosstable when the Column A's value >= threshold1 and Column B's value is also >= its own threshold2.
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When a pest goes in search of a new place to call home, it's not as picky as one might wish. It certainly cannot tell the difference between a shed, house, warehouse, or school. Unfortunately for humans, mice and other pests don't base their decisions off of a moral code, and their requirements are pretty minimal. Food, shelter, water and maybe a bit of warmth is all they really need.
When a child goes to school, their interest and focus should be on learning, not worrying about the school's condition. Having a clean and pest-free place for students to learn is important, and schools often have to invest in protecting their facilities. With the size of schools alone, taking care of a pest problem is a serious undertaking. Seeking out professional pest control will ultimately save a lot of time and money.
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'Pirates of the Curry Bean' – thank you to all of the children and the staff in years 5 & 6 for their fabulous performances. A tremendous amount of hard work went into creating all the scenery and props, and a lot of lines and songs were learnt. Well done to all.
Reports – the children's end of year reports will be sent out via the classes next week, from Tuesday 12th July. Please check your child's bag. If you do not receive your child's report please let the Class Teacher know. Please return reply slips to the class teacher before the end of term.
West Wittering Whole School Trip – each child should have received a Barcoded ParentPay letter this week, with details of the trip on Monday 18th July. If you have not yet received it, please let the office know. Please make your payment either using the online ParentPay system or the Barcoded letter. If you have any issues regarding payment, please speak to a member of the office staff. Attached is a letter from Mrs Hunt regarding the school trip. If you have any further queries please let us know.
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RBI Grade B Application Form 2018 – Steps to fill the RBI Grade B Officer Online Application form.
Reserve Bank Of India has released RBI Grade B Officer Application Form 2018. The last date to apply is 23rd July, 2018. RBI Grade B is one of the most coveted job profile in the Banking Sector. Through RBI Grade B 2018 Exam, the government will recruit eligible candidates to the post of Officer in Reserve Bank of India. If you are willing to apply for both the posts Gr. B (DR)-General and Gr B (DR) DEPR / DSIM, you have to fill the separate application form for both the positions and pay the fees separately.
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Why Merkel Hates Tax Competition
Biggest problems with states in the world is that there are too few of them
Ryan McMaken | Mises.org - March 27, 2017 Comments
European political leaders gathered in Malta last month to discuss the future of the European Union.
During the meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made sure to denounce any post-Brexit move on the part of the United Kingdom to lower corporate taxes. (Merkel condemned efforts by the US to cut corporate taxes as well.) Merkel called any such move a "race to the bottom."
With these comments, Merkel; was echoing earlier comments by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble who in January employed the same "race to the bottom" phrase and harangued the UK on the matter, claiming that any attempt to lower taxes would be in violation of international agreements. Besides, lowering taxes is retrograde and non-progressive thinking, Schäuble noted, stating that "A truly global economy must think of global governance."
This controversy helps to reveal how the European Union has been a useful tool in preventing tax competition between member states.
By threatening retaliation from EU institutions, and by resorting to claims that international agreements cancel out national policy, EU bureaucrats have long used the EU as a stick to beat potential tax-cutters into submission.
What Is Tax Competition?
Richard Teather explains:
Tax competition occurs when a government uses its tax system to try to attract capital, business activity, or wealthy individuals from other countries. At its most obvious this could be a "tax haven" with very low (or even zero) tax rates, but it could include more subtle provisions such as tax breaks for specific businesses relocating into a country. Game theory suggests that if the low-tax countries successfully attract international investment then other governments will respond, leading to a competitive spiral of tax reductions as they all compete for mobile capital.
Once upon a time, Europe was notable for its frequent use of tax competition. As Ralph Raico noted in his seminal essay "The European Miracle," a central phenomenon behind the unprecedented economic growth and wealth-building that occurred in early-modern Europe was the common use of tax competition.
Thanks tothe presence of a very large number of small states in Europe at the time, many European political rulers competed with each other to attract the most productive people and the most productive enterprises. Those tone-deaf princes and rulers who insisted on raising taxes to levels higher than their neighbors lost both residents and profitable businesses to neighboring states.
The European Union, on the other hand, has long attempted to end this sort of tax competition, as Louis Rouanet recently noted:
It has now become clear that in many ways the European Union is a cartel of high-tax governments whose goal is to restrain tax competition. The EU's supposedly free — this is, regulated — trade policy is none other than an excuse to homogenize the tax and regulatory regimes of the nation-states.
The ultimate goal of the high-tax member states such as France is to use the EU to milk as much as possible from the productive members of society without losing their tax base.
Thus, no one should be surprised that Europhiles like Merkel and Schäuble are now condemning the very idea of a "rogue" government like that of the United Kingdom lowering taxes.
Indeed, so long as the EU included the UK — one of the worlds largest and most productive states — the EU could exercise a degree of control over domestic tax policy above and beyond the expected tax-funded remittances the UK government was expected to pay into the EU's common purse.
Now, with the UK on its way out of the EU, the EU faces the threat of a competitor right next door which might entice EU businesses and citizens to relocate to the UK in order to escape higher taxes in the EU. Nor is this any minor threat, considering the UK's advantages as an island of English-speakers with easy access to global shipping lanes.
Even worse for the Europhiles is the fact that the US now might be headed in the direction of reducing some taxes as well. Trump has expressed an interest in reducing the US government's corporate tax — one of the highest in the world — to attract businesses to the United States. This would come as a break with the policies of Barack Obama who was committed to both high tax rates and working in concert with his fellow interventionists in the EU establishment.
Such a move by the US would present an additional threat to the EU's hegemony, and thus Merkel has hit the panic button, declaring tax cuts to be a "race to the bottom" as if tax cuts were anything but a laudable move upward into the light.
Moreover, the entire affair illustrates yet again that one of the biggest problems with states in the world is that there are too few of them. To the extent that the EU constitutes a single state on tax policy, the creation of another state through the UK's secession created competition for the EU and increased the potential to reduce taxes and create more tax competition. One could only imagine how much worse tax policy would be if the US had to reply on approval from the EU to engage in its own tax cuts. To further increase the potential for greater tax competition, of course, both the US and the UK should be broken up into still smaller states, thus further reducing the monopoly powers currently enjoyed by the mega-states that rule us from Brussels and Washington, DC.
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Ford Kuga expands its hybrid range with MHEV and PHEV variants
By Select Car Leasing, 18-11-2020
New Ford Kuga Full Hybrid joins mild hybrid and plug-in hybrid in the range.
Capable of doing 600 miles between fill-ups, it's also completely self-charging.
A combined 190 PS equates to a 0-62 mph time of 9.1 seconds.
Available now, priced from £33,600 to purchase outright.
If you want the economy of a diesel without the associated emissions, this new 'full hybrid' Ford Kuga could be the car for you.
Ford says its new creation is able to travel for a huge 600 miles between fill-ups, through a mix of petrol-electric and pure-electric driving.
And if you're confused about what a 'full hybrid' actually means, worry not, because you're most certainly not alone.
First thing to know is that the Kuga already comes as both a plug-in hybrid and a mild hybrid. You can already lease those models, starting from around £368 per month for the 'EcoBlue' MHEV.
The mild hybrid version uses a small electric motor to support the engine during acceleration and cruising, but this electric motor isn't strong enough to power the car on its own.
The plug-in hybrid is slightly different in that it does have an electric motor that can power the car for short distances - but the battery for this motor needs plugging in and recharging.
But the great thing about the full hybrid Kuga is that it can do all the things a plug-in can do - ie, switch between electric and petrol power - but it's also self-charging and doesn't need to be plugged in.
That's particularly attractive if you don't want electric cables snaking out of your front door every night.
With the full hybrid Kuga owners enjoy a 2.5 litre petrol engine that replenishes a 1.1 kWh battery, also using regenerative charging when coasting or braking.
And the new Kuga will also automatically switch between power configurations according to the driving scenario, delivering 'diesel-rivalling convenience of over 600 miles total driving range', according to Ford.
So how does this compare to the other electrified Kugas?
Ford says the full hybrid will give you fuel economy of 48.7mpg, CO2 emissions from 130 g/km, and adds: "The total driving range is also more than 30 per cent greater than that of the Kuga Plug-In Hybrid, which offers a greater pure-electric driving range of up to 35 miles."
With 0-62 mph acceleration of 9.1 seconds, the 190 PS Kuga is not the quickest SUV on the block, but certainly not the slowest.
And while the Kuga is an automatic, Ford have even gone so far as to mimic the traditional gear shift to try and improve the driving experience.
A spokesperson explains: "We've listened hard to customers to make sure the Kuga Hybrid really delivers when it comes to driving appeal. The simulated gear-shift function makes the SUV more engaging to drive with the familiarity of traditional 'cog swaps', plus the added benefit of limiting engine noise."
If you fancy one, you don't have to wait - as they're already available to order.
You can choose the Kuga Hybrid in a variety of traditional Ford trims, including ST Line Edition, ST Line X Edition and Vignale variants.
Meanwhile the firm's 'FordPass Connect' system - which allows over-the-air software updates and mobile phone app integration - comes as standard, as does a handy wireless charging pad.
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Q: Undirected weighted graph in polytime I'm attending a master course in Algorithm for Bioinformatics, and I'm trying to solve some exercise in order to pass the exam. I'm stuck in this problem and I don't understand in which way I have to solve it. Could you help?
Thanks the next few lines are the exercise:

Argue whether you believe that the following problem has a polynomial time algorithm
Input: A complete undirected graph G with non-negative weights on the edges, and a weight bound W.
Solution: A simple path with the maximum possible number of vertices among all paths in G of weight < W.

A: This is NP-Hard, and thus there is no known polynomial solution to it.
It is easy to reduce this problem from the Hamiltonian Path problem1.
Given a graph G=(V, E), create:
G' = (V, E', w)
Where:
E' = VxV (all edges)
w(u,v) = 1    if (u,v) is in E
         2    otherwise

Now, G' has a valid solution with |V| maximal weight if and only if G is hamiltonian.
(->) If 'G' is hamiltonian, then there is a path v1->v2->...->vn. Weights of all these edges is 1, so total weight in G' is |V|-1, making it maximal and valid.
(<-) If there is a path in G' with value<|V|, and we know it is maximal - so if it goes through all vertices - it cannot have edges with w(u,v)=2 (otherwise it will exceed the maximal weight). Then, this path is hamiltonian in G.

(1) A hamiltonian path is a simple path that goes through all vertices in the graph. If a graph has such a path, we call it a hamiltonian graph. The Hamiltonian Path Problem is finding if a graph is hamiltonian or not.


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