My thanks to you for the many thoughtful responses, both on my website and on Facebook, about my first post on death. A couple of you wrote that you don't fear death, thus challenging my idea of "that feeling of existential terror that we all feel at some points of our lives." Everyone, however, offered some explanation of the role of death in our lives.
Seventeen years ago I was a faculty leader on a Queens University of Charlotte student study tour of Italy. We started the tour on the beautiful Amalfi coast, where our hotel overlooked the sparking Tyrrhenian Sea. We took a boat to Capri, rode a taxi to the top of the island, where we sat under a restaurant umbrella enjoying the world's best cappuccino. It was morning, we and the world were young, full of possibilities, relaxed and enjoying life in the best Epicurean fashion.
The next day we rode the bus to Rome, which was beautiful in its own way, but also busy, noisy and crowded. We had to be alert when crossing the street to avoid being hit by cars. The students adapted, though, and quickly found the best clubs and bars, staying out just as late as possible.
One morning our itinerary showed we were to visit Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini (Our Lady of the Conception of the Capuchins). The students assumed it was yet another church where we would see and "appreciate" sculpture. Neither they nor we faculty were fully prepared for the key feature of the church, The Capuchin Crypt. We faculty walked to the entrance of the Crypt, paid the entrance fees for us all, and stood aside to let the students go in first. Their initial responses of "Oh my god!" appeared the most reverent of any church we had entered — except their "Oh my god!" exclamations were closer to disgust than to awe. Before us in the first of six chapels/crypts were displays of bones arranged to form a theme. We were overwhelmed both by the gargantuan number of bones as well as by the arrangements where bones had been clothed to resembled a body.
In all, there are the bones of about 4,000 skeletons. The students who had been out late at the bar may have been thinking about how good it would be to take a nap, but this tableau no doubt left them wide awake.
For the professors who hold the knowledge in their brains in such high esteem, there was also this in The Crypt of the Skulls.
We no longer felt young and relaxed, with the world at our fingertips.
Just as we whispered to ourselves little jokes and smiles as we went through the Crypt twenty years ago, I find myself even now trying to make light of the all-too-real bones. The whole crypt does seem macabre. Why would anyone construct such a crypt? In fact, why would anyone visit there?
Oh. My. God. They were once like us, young, happy, excited. And we shall one day be as them: mere bones.
We could not wait to get out of there. After exiting we dispersed quickly to find a late cappuccino or an early lunch or even better, a beer. Whew…. We smiled, we even laughed, but for a while we could not shake off the image of our own deaths.
Was it worth the shock?
The Capuchin friars clearly want to remind us of the temporary nature of our life here on earth, in hope that we will be reminded of the eternal life to come after this one. We need to be oriented toward the world to come, and to rid ourselves of the vanity of putting too much emphasis on this life. We aren't all that.
"While we are talking, jealous time has fled.
The Capuchins and the Epicureans hold radically opposite beliefs about an afterlife. However, they share the belief that it is important that we face the reality: we will die. Facing reality is a good thing. Our own culture has as much as possible removed death from the home, placing it in sanitized hospitals and funeral homes, lessening its reality. People in the developed world spend a great deal of time in the virtual reality of the internet. National politics in the U.S. are often divorced from reality.
 Horace, Odes, I, 11, 7, in Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy, 126.
 Horace, Epistles, I, 4, 13, in Hadot, 126.
Picture credits: Norris Frederick; http://tripfreakz.com/offthebeatenpath/the-capuchin-crypt-in-rome-italy ; and http://www.romeing.it/museum-and-crypt-of-the-capuchin-friars-rome/ .
There's been way too much death in my world in the last year: four nearby neighbors, three cousins, two close high school friends, and one Robert Pirsig, the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a book that had an enormous influence on me. These deaths have affected me in ways I don't yet fully understand. They may have something to do with the writer's block that has locked my mind and typing fingers.
Objectively, ten deaths is nothing in this world. Eighteen people died just yesterday in the terrorist attack in London, just as they were going about their normal day, going to work, shopping. And that pales beside the years-long carnage in Syria. When I hear about those deaths, I suffer briefly with them, but typically go on to the next thing and their deaths fade from my being until some event brings it back. But for most all of us, when our friends and family die, we feel the loss in a deep, existential sense that rocks our world.
I talk every week with a very good friend who lives near D.C. He's listened sympathetically to me talk about the deaths of my friends, but it wasn't until recently when he had a close friend die that he really felt what I was experiencing. Words failed us both as we tried to explain, but now we share the experience.
Aristotle writes that one of the essential goods of a person's life is friendship. Who would want to live a life without friends? We realize that by paying attention to the feeling when a friend moves away and most vividly when a friend dies.
One conception of philosophy is that it deals with far-out, abstract ideas that have no connection with reality. Guys and gals sit around, drinking or perhaps smoking dope, saying, "Hey, man, what if ….?" But in fact the best philosophy begins with wonder or mysteries or problems or deep experiences, and tries to think about those problems and experiences in ways that connect back fruitfully to our lives, so that we both understand better and live better.
There are some strange asymmetries in the way we think about death. Adults have no trouble conceiving of a time before we are born (after all I know I was not alive during the Civil War), but it's difficult for us to conceive of a time after we are dead – how can the world go on without me?
I do not want to die – no; I neither want to die nor do I want to want to die; I want to live for ever and ever and ever. I want this "I" to live – this poor "I" that I am and that I feel myself to be here and now, and therefore the problem of the duration of my soul, of my own soul, tortures me.
That's it. Unamuno nailed it that feeling of existential terror that we all feel at some points of our lives. I do grieve, truly grieve for the deaths of those I know, and for their families and friends. But I also grieve for me. I want to live for ever and ever and ever. That wild, deep feeling he describes is perhaps more "me" than reason.
The fall semester – finally – has come to an end. And even though I don't have a real job – like welding, for example – I'm exhausted, just as I have been after every semester for the past 40 years or so. You'd think a rational person would be ready to hang it up and walk away. Instead, I'm thinking about the spring semester classes I'll teach, especially about my upcoming class on the philosophy of religion.
As I write this, the people of the United States are perhaps more divided than ever on major issues of politics, ethics, and religion. In the last year we've seen raging hatred, mass murders of citizens and police by individuals, senseless killings by police, international slaughter in Syria, and a vicious political campaign season. Confidence in political figures is at all-time lows.
My philosophy of religion classes attempt to model a sympathetic approach to deeply held beliefs, and also to move beyond "whatever you think is true" to critically examine current beliefs in order to move toward more adequate beliefs, thus benefitting both the individual and our society.
William James' The Variety of Religious Experience, with its basis in human experience and pluralism, is the backbone of my approach. The book contains hundreds of often first-hand accounts of the religious experience of various forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. James focuses both on the differences and also on the underlying psychological and philosophical similarities.
I also find a guiding idea to my teaching in his Talks to Teachers. On its first page, he urges teachers to "reproduce sympathetically in [our] imagination, the mental life of [the] pupil as the sort of active unity which he himself feels it to be." Note that this respect is both ethical and pedagogical. It assigns a worth to the current life of each student as that student experiences it. It's a worth very different from the "I respect your right to be an idiot." It's different because we're asked to sympathetically imagine the unity that the student feels. The ethical is based in the fact that the mental lives of the students and our own as teachers are based in the same processes of the stream of consciousness, association, habit, and so on. Every person's life – including that of the professor — is built largely on the same principles.
We hardly feel that everyone in the profession of teaching philosophy – let alone in teaching other disciplines – should come to the exact same conceptions about the nature of the good life and what the aims of life should be. Our lives and our democracy are better to the extent that we can sympathetically imagine the lives of others and thus extend respect to their lives. So it is with the lives of our students.
As I think back upon my teaching, some of the best moments in class and I hope some of the best learning took place with assignments that allowed the students to think about their lives and at the same time allowed me to sympathetically imagine their lives. In my introductory Philosophy of Religion class last time I taught it, the assignment for the second meeting was to write a couple of pages on "What influences did your parents have on your worldview? Do one's parents determine one's worldview?" The students were told in advance that I'd ask them to discuss or read part of their papers in class, although they could pass if they weren't comfortable with sharing what they'd written.
There were a wide variety of responses that led to a lively class discussion which offered the opportunity for the students to sympathetically imagine the mental lives of each other. Many chose to describe their religious upbringing or absence thereof. Some asked others for more details about their upbringing. The second question ("Do one's parents determine one's worldview?") allowed for students not only to further describe their parents' influence and the student's actions, but also to develop a definition of "determine," and to offer evidence and reasons.
The assignment was connected to the topic of the day's reading on "worldviews," and it appealed to each student's strong interest in the self and to their curiosity about concrete and lively details in the upbringing of others.
The discussion gave me an opportunity both to learn more about my students' lives, to strive for distinctions (such as the difference between "influence" and "determine"), and to ask whether some of the evidence offered was sufficient or relevant to claims being offered. When I commented in class and later when I read and wrote comments on the papers, I not only sympathetically responded to the student's present self, but also invited her to grow into a wider and deeper self. As James makes clear, sympathetically imagining the unity of a student's mental life is not mutually exclusive with challenging a student's thought. We who teach philosophy have an obligation to our students to move them toward a broader and deeper set of ideas that is more adequate for meeting life.
With that introduction to the course, the students felt more free both to express their own views and to realize that critically examining those views might get to a more adequate response. In my most recent philosophy of religion class some memorable discussions occurred between two of my students who in many ways could not have been more different. She was a middle-aged African-American woman from a rural town in the South, whose strong Christian faith was formed in youth and sustained by community. He was a 20-something white male from the Northeast whose major in biology and military deployment in several countries had led to a sort of reverse conversion, through which he now happily found himself a naturalist, an atheist.
These students played a leading role in class discussions in which several realizations occurred over the course of the semester. She came to realize that there are plausible arguments for atheism, even though she would never find them strong enough to become an atheist. He was particularly interested in reading and discussing instances of conversion and transcendence. He had at first dismissed these experiences as non-scientific and thus non-veridical, but as we discussed and read the arguments of James and others, he came to see the value of the experience of transcendence. For him, the object of that transcendent experience was not God, but nature. Both he and the theist came to realize that each found value in a transcendent experience.
While they might have left the semester's discussions alienated and estranged, instead they found themselves companioned, in community. And both had deepened their understanding of philosophy, religion, and self. That's one valuable thing philosophy can offer to the modern university, and to our culture.
A slightly different version of this article appears at http://philosophyofreligion.org/?p=524969 .
One of the joys of travel to another country is the discovery of new landscapes, new customs and cultures, and new people. We find some ways in which the culture and people differ from our own, as well as ways in which they are similar. If we are open, we find we can learn from both the differences and similarities. This is especially true if we are not just tourists (spectators) but are being-with the people of that country. Upon return we think about some ways we might think and live differently, and are reaffirmed about other of our current habits of thinking and being.
If we reverse the metaphor of our travel abroad, visitors to the USA from developing nations are often overwhelmed by the vast array of goods in our stores. If you are like me, you're having a related experience as you enter stores from early October on: astoundingly, even though I know it happens every year, Christmas decorations and items are already appearing in stores. Nerves tense, stomachs tighten, with the obligation to buy gifts that will bring the requisite pleasure to friends and family. All this is just part of a bigger picture of the race for pleasure in which many of us engage. "Buying and selling" has become so dominant that it threatens to enslave us. It's not that there is anything wrong with pleasure; in fact, a life without any would be very grim. It's just that we go about seeking pleasure in such an unintelligent manner. We can learn much from philosophy traveling to Greece, about 300 BC, to experience being-with Epicurus, whose worldview is all about pleasure, but an intelligent version of it.
Epicurus was a materialist, writing over 2,000 years ago that everything in the universe consists of "atoms" (from the Greek word meaning "not divisible"). Unlike modern scientists who used sophisticated equipment to discover the atom, Epicurus used only reason. Take any object, such as a tree. Divide that tree by cutting off its limbs and sectioning its trunk. Start cutting a limb into as small parts as possible. Ultimately, continuing this thought experiment, one gets to the point where the matter that is left can't be cut any smaller: the atoms of the tree. Not only the tree, but all beings in the world – including humans – are made of atoms. Our minds consist of "fine atoms," which register the sense-impressions of other atoms.
As the several types of atoms move through empty space they "hook up," creating objects: trees, cows, humans, you name it. The huge oak trees in front of my university succumbed to disease last month and now they no longer exist. Through one process or another, all beings – including humans – perish. Only the atoms are eternal. I will not live forever.
But you, being a critical thinker, ask Epicurus, "Shouldn't hedonists, even if they don't fear death, bemoan the loss of future pleasure?" Not so, he replies, if we understand the nature of pleasure. Seeking pleasure intelligently does not mean that we "choose every pleasure whatsoever, but we will often pass over many pleasures when a greater annoyance ensues from them." Many of us are caught on the hedonic treadmill. If I just had the next thing, I would be happy. But then i get the next thing, and soon that's not enough and I'm back to being unhappy, so I say to myself if I just had one more next thing I would be happy. The process is repeated. And I continue anxiously looking for the next thing that will make me happy. Worrying that death will cost us future pleasures is yet another way of missing the enjoyment of the pleasures are right here in the present.
To our 21st century minds, Epicurus' definition is not at all what we mean by pleasure: it's not Disney World, or the new cell phone, or the ability to spend $5,000 on a dinner as celebrities are reported to do. Epicurus' pleasure is in a sense negative: the absence of pain physically and psychically. What's the good of that?
The good of an Epicurean understanding of pleasure is that it opens us to something broader and deeper and infinitely more satisfying, the awareness of being, the astonishing fact of being alive when I might not exist at all. Like everything else in the universe, I might never have existed, and I might not tomorrow, but I do now! It's astonishing to be here, in this place, right now.
First of all, the bright, clear color of the sky, and all it holds within it, the stars that wander here and there, and the moon and the radiance of the sun with its brilliant light; all these, if now they had been seen for the first time by the mortals, if, unexpectedly, they were in a moment placed before their eyes, what story could be told more marvelous than these things, or what that the nations would less dare to believe beforehand? Nothing, I believe; so worthy of wonder would this sight have been. Yet think how no one now, wearied with satiety of seeing, deigns to gaze up at the shining quarters of the sky!
 Pierre Hadot, What is Ancient Philosophy?, translated by Michael Chase, 126 (Belknap Press, 2002).
 Luretius, On The Nature of Things, as quoted in Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life, ed. by Arnold Davidson and translated by Michael Chase (Blackwell, Publishing 1995), 258.
Philosophy offers us new ways of seeing the world and living in the world, thus helping us live and enriching our consciousness. At first these new insights create a rupture in our thinking and feeling and an unpleasant sense of dizziness or confusion. However, if we learn to persist in integrating new ways of thinking and being into our lives, we also come to experience feeling excited at the possibilities offered by philosophical challenges and we broaden our understanding of reality.
One of those insights is that of "thrown-ness," first named and elucidated by the German existentialist philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889 – 1976), author of Being and Time. What's it like to be a human being? Are there characteristics of experience that all humans share? Heidegger thought so. We ordinarily are engaged in activities and tasks in ways in which we use the objects and tools around us. I type these thoughts but as I do so I'm not focused on the keyboard. We dig with a shovel but we're not focused on the shovel but rather on the topsoil we're blending into the garden. We live with a family with whom we prepare meals and clean the house. We're engaged in what we do.
But then one day the handle snaps off the blade of the shovel, or a grandmother dies. Suddenly my attention shifts from the task at hand to the presence of the shovel I was barely aware of before and to the missing presence of the grandmother. I am jerked from my ordinary pursuits into a disorienting sense of looking at beings in a strange way. My grandmother was just here, solid and real and fully being, and now she is gone.
I was 13 when my grandmother died, and her death led to a series of reflections in my consciousness. There were the comforting reflections from family and friends ("she's now with grandpa in heaven"), but simultaneously there was also the unpleasant experience that people can be here one moment and gone the next. As we get older we get used to death in most cases as we go about our daily tasks, but there is always an opening in which we can sense the presence of death, the absence of a loved one, in a way akin to vertigo. (I think of Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's Vertigo spinning round and round as he goes down, down, down).
For me, these reflections led to my first experience of "thrown-ness," although of course I didn't know this strange word. After the shock and after the funeral of this kind woman with whom my family lived, I began to have a related sense of vertigo that began one day as I sat on our porch after school, trying to catch a breeze in that hot Carolina September. I thought about and looked at my parents, sisters, and brother: who ARE these people? In my altered state, I now had an alien strangeness about them. Previously I was engaged in everyday life with them and never thought anything about it – they're my family– but now I wondered WHY am I in this family? Couldn't I have been living with some other family? And would I have been someone else? WHY was I born into this family, with these people?
For a teenage boy whose main interest was baseball and who was just beginning an interest in girls, it was a strange and disorienting feeling. So strange that I never told anyone about the experience for years. I was experiencing "thrown-ness": we are thrown into the world in a way not of our choosing. We don't choose our family, the century we're born, nor the country and culture of our birth. While I was well aware of making choices ("Shall we play baseball this morning?"), the reality of the "thrown-ness" of life hit me like a fastball straight to the pit of my stomach. Worse, just when I thought this feeling had gone away, it returned at unexpected times like when we were all sitting down to watch "Gunsmoke" on Saturday night. Who ARE these people? And who am I?
Not only is the existence of shovels and people contingent on circumstances, but our relationships and thus who we are is contingent in ways in which many of us are not aware in everyday life. The idea of thrown-ness expands and deepens our understanding of reality. The idea of thrown-ness also offers to us the reality that we are not alone in this contingency. My teenage experience of thrown-ness resulted from my new awareness of death and my family. At the time I felt that something was strange and wrong with me to even feel this sense of alienation, but now when I read Heidegger's thoughts about thrown-ness, I no longer feel estranged but companioned.


Among the various odd things found on beaches recently have been numbers of balls of compressed plant fragments. The typical size of the near spherical things is about 8 – 12 cm across. They appear to be composed of interwoven bits of marram grass or fragments of rushes. During the storm surges of last winter the fronts of sand dunes were washed away along with the roots of the grasses and much debris was also mobilised from inundated salt marshes. A likely explanation is that some of this debris became waterlogged and was washed out onto the sea floor. Over time, some was rolled into dense balls by the oscillation of swell waves.
Yesterday we came across at least a dozen such balls on a stretch of the west coast of Anglesey. Another surprise was that a few of the balls were so dense and waterlogged that they must have stayed put on the seabed long enough for Nursehounds (Scyliorhinus stellaris), otherwise known as Bull Huss, to attach their egg cases to them. A rather unwise choice for a dogfish whose eggs are said to take about 9 months to develop before hatching.
Blogpost by Ivor Rees, a regular contributor to Natur Cymru.


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Nearly two months after T-Mobile launched the own-brand Revvl (shown above), new details have leaked about a second model in the Revvl family.
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Since they said that it would be a Samsung Phone next, I would say no. Not sure if there is a low end quad core out that can support Band 71.
Why are there hardly any reviews for the original device on Youtube?
There maybe not be any reviews on you tube,but go Tmo site,you will see the reviews for this phone there,which are not good.
Junk not even worth $100.
Yeah it's worth like $200.
I have not had any problems with mine, but I wasn't expecting much to begin with. It works and it doesn't randomly reboot or stop functioning.
That's really, IMO, the best one can hope for in a low-end device.
I'm looking forward to this new one though. Upgrade the specs a bit and it should be pretty solid.
It would be beneficial if it actually came with Band 71. I think I'd be interested if it comes with 3-4gb RAM, OIS cameras – I'm not saying Samsung or Apple crushing cameras but something decent and good speakers and a 4000mha battery.
5.5″ AMOLED screen, stereo speakers, DAC for wired listening (yes, give it a headphone jack!), 630 chip, and a sub $400 price. That's all I want.
Sounds like the ZTE Axon 7 is the perfect phone for you. Just bought the Mini 7 with the same DAC & the reviews are true, it brings headphones listening to a whole new level. I'm a little picky about my music & this phone really drives my limited edition Audio Technica M50's like no other. Not sure why, but my bluetooth headphones sound better as well. Bought the Mini Axon 7 to tide me over till the end of the year in hopes of a more than $200 reduction in price or a BOGO on the V30 or Note 8. That happens, especially with the Note 8, I'll keep the Axon Mini as a supplementry DAP.
You are good! I upgraded from the M9 to the Axon 7 three weeks ago. I love it!! I wished more OEMs would pay more attention to music listeners.
I did. But Axon 7's external stereo speakers sealed the deal for me. They sound amazing, much better than HTC's Boom Sound even.
EVERYTHING WOULD NEED TO BE SUPERSIZED for the Revvl Plus– screen size, resolution, ram, storage, battery, camera. Annndddd NFC, Oreo, Band 71 also needed.
TMo got their work cut out on this phone.
If they did this how much do you think they would charge for it?
Wish list: water and dust resistance (IP67 min), a better camera (MP count is nothing, sensor and lens are everything), and up the resolution to 1080p minimum. I know for $100 more that's a lot to ask (since I'm sure they'll be upping the SoC and RAM as well, and maybe even the onboard storage) but that sure would be nice. Heck, I'd take that phone for $200 more than the Revvl.
720p with 3000mah could mean substantial battery life at a very low price. Not for everyone(and not for me), but I could see people who'd find value in it.
Those are the specs of the current Revvl, and it does indeed have greqt battery life at a low price.
The T1 is almost the perfect size. If they can enable both speakers and maybe put an SD 630 in there, it would be a steal. If they put the 660 in there, even better.


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YouTube Video Upload Specifications and a Bit of History
Uploading videos to YouTube is easier than ever, primarily because the platform accepts a great variety of video lengths, as well as the majority of video formats.
In brief, any YouTube user can upload videos up to 15 minutes long. However, users who have a good track record of complying with YouTube's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length (or 128GB, whichever is less), as well as live streams, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone. This even includes high-quality video formats, such as 4K.
But it wasn't always that way. Back in the earlier days of YouTube, only low-quality formats and shorter videos were acceptable. For more info on some of the history of YouTube video upload specification, scroll down further. For now, let's get to the current specs.
Supported YouTube File Formats
A video file format normally consists of a container that holds video data, separate audio data, subtitles and additional information such as the type of video compression used. Technically, the last items on the list, DNxHR, ProRes, Cineform, HEVC (h265), are compression technologies (codecs) and not video container formats themselves. Nevertheless, YouTube includes them in the following list anyway, likely for simplicity's sake, so we're including them as well.
.MPEG4
.WMV
.MPEGPS
.FLV
DNxHR
HEVC (h265)
YouTube Recommended Resolution & Aspect Ratios
'Aspect ratio' describes the proportional relationship between the width and height of video screens and video picture elements.
YouTube states that "The standard aspect ratio for YouTube on desktop is 16:9. If your video has a different aspect ratio, the player will automatically change to the ideal size to match your video and the viewer's device."
Hence, the following aspect ratios are all the same (16:9), which represents the shape of a high-definition TV. But the actual size (resolution) of the images are different, as depicted by their pixel lengths horizontally and vertically. A bigger image size is associated with higher quality video.
2160p: 3840×2160
720p: 1280×720
480p: 854×480
The 'p' in the name, such as '1080p' refers to 'progressive scanning' to differentiate from 'i' (not recommended by YouTube) which means 'interlaced video,' usually associated with TV.
Following are how three of the above resolutions and aspect ratios relate to each other.
A Word on Video Length
How long should your video be? Just because you can upload a video to YouTube that is longer than 15 minutes in length, should you? The short answer is "it depends." For more info, visit What's the Best Length for an Internet Video?
Video quality means different things. For this paragraph, we're not talking about the quality of the content or the quality of the lighting or audio or camera placement or how well focused the camera was or was not. We are simply referring to the technical quality of the video file itself. In brief, the higher video quality you upload to YouTube, the better quality available to viewers. But viewers will not necessarily see the same quality that you uploaded. YouTube will provide a level of quality appropriate to the internet speed of the viewer in addition to the size of the viewer's screen. In other words, just because you upload a 4K video does not mean viewers will see a 4K video. For example, instead they may see a 240p video if that is most appropriate to their internet speed and/or size of their viewing device.
A Bit of YouTube History
YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, who were early employees of PayPal. The platform originally offered videos at only one quality level, displayed at a resolution of 320×240 pixels.
In March, 2006, a ten-minute limit was introduced after YouTube found that the majority of videos exceeding this length were unauthorized uploads of television shows and films.
On October 9, 2006, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13, 2006.
In March 2008, a 'high-quality' mode was added, which increased the resolution to 480×360 pixels.
In December 2008, 720p high-definition (HD) support was added. Also, the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 (standard TV) aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9, which reflected the future of high-definition video and TV viewing.
In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added
In March 2010, YouTube began offering online streaming video.
In July 2010 the 10-minute video upload limit was increased to 15 minutes.
In Dec 2010, YouTube began allowing users to upload videos of unlimited length.
In October 2014, YouTube introduced videos playing at 60 frames per second, in order to reproduce video games with a frame rate comparable to high-end graphics cards
In March 2015, support for 4K resolution was added, with the videos playing at 3840 × 2160 pixels.
In 2016, YouTube discontinued the ability to upload 'unlimited' videos and instead limited the ability to upload videos up to 12 hours in length (or 128GB, whichever is less).
In January 2019, YouTube said that it introduced a new policy intended to stop recommending videos containing 'content that could misinform users in harmful ways.' This invoked controversy since is necessitates censorship in terms of what represents misinformation.
As of October 2020, YouTube is still the second-most popular website in the world (since 2008), behind Google. And of course, Google owns YouTube. So Google benefits from a large share of our planet's search volume, which is what fuels their advertising revenue.
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Pokemon Sun and Moon – Review
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You know when a piece of game music turns into an ear-worm and it makes you want to dive back in every 20 seconds?
That's what Pokemon Moon's battle music has been doing to me for the last week. I think I'm out for a few hours, then suddenly I'm sat watching Westworld, eating pizza and garlic knots, and it's there again, drowning out another of Anthony Hopkins' thought-provoking monologues.
The irony isn't lost on me that we've gone from walking for hours on end, searching for something that isn't a Zubat, to curling up in bed, twiddling a thumbstick around some long grass in the hopes of bumping into a Pikachu. And even though it's apparent that Niantic couldn't replicate the same spirit and feel of a traditional Pokemon title, the introduction of the mobile phenomena has unquestionably given this franchise a new lease on life.
Despite this being the Seventh Generation, Game Freak have managed to create a title that will not only appeal to traditionalists, but equally open the door to the inevitably large surge of new players inspired to see what all the fuss is about.
And there's plenty of fuss to be made because Pokemon Sun and Moon is an absolute delight. There is just so much soul and heart here and you can't help but immediately get swept up by Alola, a gigantic grin firmly planted on that face the entire time. It's a place that not only has a unique ability to unlock doors to your childhood, but also feel like a relaxing haven you never want to leave.
Reminicsant of Hawaii, Alola is a tropical region made up of several islands. Prospective trainers will meet Professor Kukui who teaches them the ropes and helps them discover their first Pokemon. The aim is to traverse the islands, beating other trainers of various skill levels, completing trials, and collecting the best, strongest Pokemon before Team Skull get to them.
Traditionalists may fault the paced out, tutorials during the first few hours of the game, but there is so much to take in with these games that it's almost impossible not to give some sort of guiding hand to newcomers. Don't worry though, once the game sets itself up, you're free to roam as you please and everything opens up very quickly. There's also plenty to discover and learn about this beautiful world.
The sense of progress also feels great, with barriers gradually being lifted as you explore the islands and go looking for stronger Pokemon. And while the difficulty naturally increases, you always feel capable and competent in battle areas providing you put in the work of training your allies properly.
A big part of this comes from completing the various Trials scattered throughout Alola. If you fulfil the set objectives – from beating x amount of Pokemon, to finding a particular type – and then fight the Totem Pokemon that resides there, you can then gather a Z-Crystal which unlocks Z-Moves. These Z-Moves are exciting, powerful attacks which vary between your allies and offer brash, flashy animation sequences that can wipe out wild creatures in moments.
Havig said that, some of these attacks can feel a little overhyped and built up by not having a desired impact. Sitting through such an epic animation only to see a small portion of health stripped away can be a bit irksome. They can also be countered quite easily on occassion which almost seems improbable.
It's also important to mention that both games have introduced various new Pokemon, including various memorable additions. Salazzle, for instance, is a poison-carrying Pokemon that also uses fire and offers a deadly corrosion ability. And, of course, the lovable Rowlet who glides unsuspectedly down onto his enemies.
These are supported by the new Ultra Pokemon, which may remind you a bit of Summons from Final Fantasy in terms of their size, stature, and overally impressive abilities. They're not traditionally, animalistic looking Pokemon, but they give off a distinctly otherworldly vibe in comparison to the rest. Of course, they're extremely rare, and scarcely populated through the game, but the feeling of genuine excitement, nerves, and anticipation prior to that confrontation has been absent from the series for sometime.
The beautiful, cel-shaded aesthetic really draws out substance and satisfaction at every turn and the opening hours are full of Pokemon that will be familiar to everyone, while introducing new additions in a smart, natural way. Each island also has its own look and feel as well, seperating one from the next and allowing Game Freak to be experimental and creative in some truly surprising ways.
It is very interesting to note, however, that 3D support has been almost completely dropped and is restricted to use in the Poke Finder. It's been said this is to improve the overall performance of the game, and isn't a huge surprise as 3D support has gradually been stripped away from previous titles. Still, it's a little sad the option isn't available at all.
Fortunately, performance is rock solid. Pokemon Sun and Moon is gorgeous to look at, and the action moves very smoothly and steadily. The environment is extremely alive, from flowing water to weather effects, and the characters are extremely expressive and animated. Although, some do look very pixelated up close.
Game Freak haven't really changed the Pokemon formula radically. They've often stuck with what works, but tweaked some of the features in clever ways to freshen up the action. For one thing, Pokemon Refresh is a sweet grooming and pandering mini game you can play to boost the morale of your Poke pals. You can comb muck out of their fur, use medicine to cure some ailments, give them a rub on the head, and even feed them.
But the best feature has to be that Sun and Moon makes use of your boxed up Pokemon. Previous games have been guilty of letting them just sit there and look pretty. Now they can actually be trained up, and even encourage other Pokemon to seek you out. This might even encourage you to swap out your Pokemon more often as they can reach a similar level to those already in your party.
And, of course, there's the Festival Plaza. This is a fantastic communication hub that lets you get as much, or as little out of it as you like. You can go around chatting to people normally and boost the level of the Festival while adding in new stalls and attractions. Or you can trade with others, have battles, and even compete in fun mini games. There's even extensive character customisation possibilities which have been a staple of previous games.
For a base package, not only is Sun and Moon incredibly polished, but it's so effortlessly entertaining and varied that it reminds us why we fell in love with this series in the first place. It may even be the greatest Pokemon game ever designed as it not only flaunts the series' greatest strengths, but it manages to be as compulsive as it is compelling.
Either way, this is easily one of the best releases across any system this year. Pokemon Sun and Moon is the cherry on top of a library oozing with quality and is further proof that the 3DS might be the greatest gaming platform – in terms of essential, exclusive releases – of the last decade.
+ Beautiful, refreshing, stylish, and incredible stable and smooth
+ Clever tweaks on familiar mechanics and exciting new additions
+ New Z-Moves and Ultra Pokemon give the franchise a real shot of adrenaline.
+ Many memorable new Pokemon that are sure to be fan-favourites
+ One of the best games of the year
– Tutorial like opening may frustrate series veterans
– Stereoscopic 3D almost completely removed
– Z-Moves can sometimes feel a bit anti-climatic
– Character models look a bit pixelated up close
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Q: What are some ways of showing that a structure is not minimal? The question is really in the title.
My background in model theory is very limited. Basically nothing past the definition of minimal structures and minimal subsets.  I am interested in some strategies that one might use to show that a structure, or a subset of the domain is not minimal.
By minimal I understand:
An infinite structure, $A$ is minimal if any subset $Y$ of the domain of $A$, which is definable (with parameters) is either finite or cofinite.
A subset $Y \subset A$ is minimal if, for any definable-with-parameters subset $Z$, then $Y \cap Z$ or $Y \setminus Z$ is finite.
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Sibley Lake, a man-made lake located in west Natchitoches that serves as the City's primary source of drinking water and the surrounding area and is owned and managed under a cooperative endeavor agreement between the City of Natchitoches and Natchitoches Waterworks District #1. The lake is not owned by the State of Louisiana; however, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is involved in the protection and management of the lake.
Sibley Lake was originally known as Lake Terre Noir in 1875. Later, Lake Terre Noir was drained and remained a swampy, wooded area until it was developed into a water source in the early sixties. Sibley Lake is named in honor of Dr. John Sibley, an early settler and colorful character who came to Natchitoches from New England in 1803. He acquired land as part of a government tract including the Northwestern State University property to land extending beyond the sector known as Sibley Lake.
Sibley Lake covers approximately 2,000 acres and has a 38 mile shoreline. Recreational activities include fishing, hunting, boating, skiing, camping, and picnicking. There are certain rules and regulations that apply to all individuals who use the lake.
Every person on Sibley Lake ages 16 to 60 should have a recreation permit for boating, skiing or any other water activity.
Permits cost $10 each and can be bought at One Stop Grocery on La. Hwy. 504 and Wal-Mart. Barge permits are also available for $25.00. The permits are good for one year from July 1 to June 30 of each year.
Public Boat launching ramps are located on Highway 504, Oak Grove Community, and on old Highway 1 at Sibley Lake Marina. There is no charge for public boat launching. There is one commercial ramp at Settles Boat Marina on Highway 6 West. No swimming is allowed in the boat launch area. (Signs are posted)
Everyone should adhere to no-wake zones and be aware that the speed limit is 5 mph between the red buoys and the shore. The speed limit is in place because of a City Ordinance and is for the safety of all people on the lake.
Those driving boats, jet skis or other devices are prohibited from drinking alcohol. The rules regarding driving automobiles and drinking alcohol apply to those operating any kind of watercraft on the lake.
Sibley Lake presently supports an excellent population of white crappie, channel catfish and largemouth bass. During the months of February and March, large numbers of 1-2 pound crappie concentrate in the shoreline areas of this 2,175 acre impoundment. Crappie are usually caught on live shiners and jig lures. After the spring spawning period, the fish are usually caught in brush and tree tops placed in the lake by crappie fishermen. During the summer and fall, crappie are found suspended in the deeper parts of the lake.
Channel catfish are caught during the spring in the shallows on trotlines, yo-yo's, and rod and reel, using cut bait and worms. Largemouth bass are caught during the spring on artificial baits on the numerous points and shallow flats throughout the lake. The principal diet of bass in Sibley Lake are the numerous small shad and sunfish associated with the shallow water in the spring and deeper water during the summer, fall and winter months.
Catches of hybrid striper bass are often reported during the spring and summer when the fish are forging on shad and sunfish. Sibley Lake supports a moderate amount of bluegill and redear sunfish. These sunfish species are usually harvested during April and May spawning activity.
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Q: Use of new and delete in C++ I need help in understanding when shall I use the following options
char *a = new char();

and
char *a = new char[sizeof(int)+1];

and how the respective memory freeing calls should be made?

A: None of the expressions you show make much sense.
Also, as a general rule, never use an explicit delete (leave that to smart pointers and collections), and try to avoid using any explicit new.
For simple strings with char elements, just use
std::string a;

This is an example of leaving the new-ing and delete-ing to a library class (which is strongly preferable), in this case std::string.
Include the <string> header to get a declaration of the std::string type.

A: The fist one allocates a single char. You delete it with:
delete a;

The second one allocates an array of chars. The length you have chosen is a little strange. You deallocate it with:
delete[] a;

Now... I hope you don't think you can put a stringified number in the second a (something like "123456", because you'll need many more bytes. Let's say at least 12 if an int is 32 bits. There is a funny formula to calculate the minimum length necessary. It's an approximation of the log10 https://stackoverflow.com/a/2338397/613130
To be clear, on my machine sizeof(int) == 4, but in an int I can put -2147483648 that is 10 digits plus the -, so 11 (plus the zero terminator)

A: char *a = new char();

This creates a pointer to a single initialized char.
char *a = new char;

Creates a pointer to a single uninitialized char.
char *a = new char[sizeof(int)+1];

Creates a dynamically allocated char array, of size sizeof(int)+1, i.e. an uninitialized c-string of size sizeof(int)+1. Probably 5 or 9, depending on sizeof(int).
char *a = new char[sizeof(int)+1]();

The same, but the string is initialized.
You need to explicitly free the memory with delete for a single char* and delete[] for the char array.

A: Any time you use new T, you have to call delete on the resulting pointer afterwards.
Any time you use new T[n], you have to call delete[] on the resulting pointer afterwards.
And that's really all there is to it.
But note that you typically shouldn't use them at all.
If you need a string, don't allocate a char array. Just declare a std::string (without using new). If you need an array whose size is determined at runtime, don't allocate an array. Declare a std::vector (without using new).

A: Another thing worth pointing out as well as the other answers is do not mix the two statements up - you should know whether you allocated a pointer or an array to char* c so that:

*

*You call the correct delete/delete[] operator when cleaning up memory

*You do not try accessing data beyond the pointer's scope.

For example, if you did:
// Create a pointer to a single char and set the value
char* c = new char();
*c = 'a';

// Access the pointer using array syntax
char tmp1 = c[0];    // Works, returns 'a'
char tmp2 = c[1];    // Illegal!

Because there are no safe-guards on pointers trying to access c[1] would do something, but in this context it will not return what you expect, it will most likely return memory stored after the char* c pointer or random memory.


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U.S.|Buyers of a Wright Home in Phoenix Reconsider a Deal 'Too Good to Be True'
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Buyers of a Wright Home in Phoenix Reconsider a Deal 'Too Good to Be True'
By FERNANDA SANTOS OCT. 25, 2012
When John Hoffman and Steve Sells bought the house for $1.8 million in June, paying $1 million less than its previous owners paid to Wright's granddaughters, "we thought we had hit a home run," Mr. Sells said. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times
PHOENIX — For Sale: a four-bedroom, four-bathroom piece of history made of galvanized steel and concrete, rising above a landscape of cactus and citrus trees in one of this city's most sought-after neighborhoods.
It is priced at $2,379,000. It needs a little T.L.C. Oh, and it was built by Frank Lloyd Wright, architectural icon.
Its owners, John Hoffman and Steve Sells, high school contemporaries from Meridian, Idaho, are hoping to sell the house before Nov. 7, when the City Council is scheduled to vote on giving it landmark status, which they oppose. Though they agree that the house ought to be saved — "The property is gorgeous," Mr. Sells said in its master bedroom one morning — they say they must first safeguard their investment, as well as their livelihood.
The house, designed by Mr. Wright and built in 1952, is full of curved edges. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times
"If it becomes a landmark," Mr. Sells said, "we're out of business."
The house, built in 1952, bears Wright's signature on a red tile by its front door — equal parts seal of approval and certificate of authenticity. The wood on the cabinets, doors, desks, shelves and sofas, all designed by Wright, sparkled, having been brought back to life by coats of lemon oil Mr. Sells diligently applied early this week as a new real-estate listing went live.
Piano hinges, which line cabinets and doors from top to bottom, still hold strong. The floor, in colored concrete, has cracks that show its age but also lend it a degree of rugged charm.
When Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Sells bought the house for $1.8 million in June, paying $1 million less than its previous owners paid to Wright's granddaughters, "we thought we had hit a home run," Mr. Sells said.
The city gave them permission to split the lot, and their plan was to build two luxury homes and make a killing. "The dirt alone," in the heart of the Arcadia neighborhood and in the shadows of Phoenix's picturesque Camelback Mountain, "would be worth $1.2 to 1.4 million," Mr. Sells said.
"The dirt alone," in the heart of the Arcadia neighborhood and in the shadows of Phoenix's picturesque Camelback Mountain, "would be worth $1.2 to 1.4 million," Mr. Sells said. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times
They felt that the approval to divide the lot implied permission to demolish the house, which Wright had built for his son and daughter-in-law, David and Gladys, and indeed, they briefly had a demolition permit.
It was, Mr. Sells said, "a deal that seemed almost too good to be true."
And, in many ways, it was.
Just as Mr. Sells and Mr. Hoffman prepared to close on the deal, preservationists involved in protecting Wright's legacy reached out to the city, asking that the house be considered for landmark status. Mr. Sells, 50, a technology entrepreneur, said he had no idea of its significance, or of the difference "between Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wright brothers."
"I grew up in Idaho rodeoing," he said. "We had no money."
Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Sells — principals of a company called 8081 Meridian after Meridian High School and their graduation years, 1980 for Mr. Sells and 1981 for Mr. Hoffman — got their demolition permit in August.
The kitchen table's round edges match the round edges of the fireplace, which match the round edges of the ramp that leads from ground to second level like an inverted U. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times
By the end of September, though, under pressure from preservationists and perhaps realizing that the owners were serious about razing the house, the city invalidated the permit.
By then, the landmark designation process was well under way.
The house dances. The glass of its windows is mounted on frames that curve, following the flow of its spiraling walls. The furniture inside, all of it designed by Wright, is a study in symmetry. The kitchen table's round edges match the round edges of the fireplace, which match the round edges of the ramp that leads from ground to second level like an inverted U.
The house surprises. Sheets of plywood hug support columns as they cross the innards of the closets in a child's bedroom, hiding them playfully as in a game of peekaboo. Inverted triangles carved out of galvanized steel hang from the edge of the roof, casting shadows on the ground that change as the sun moves.
Mr. Sells is not your stereotypical developer. He enjoys off-road racing, wears a hoop earring in his left ear and has tattoos on his arms and neck, among them the name of his mother, who died when he was young, and the words "Triple Trouble."
A signature tile near the front door. Credit Joshua Lott for The New York Times
Mayor Greg Stanton of Phoenix has been working closely to help Mr. Sells find a buyer; they speak by phone often. The city wants the house saved. If a buyer is not found by the time the Council gathers next month to consider giving the house landmark status, Mr. Sells plans to be at the hearing, making his case.
"Does the house deserve landmark status? Yes. This place needs to be preserved," he said. "But when three Wright granddaughters sell it for $2.8 million, for me to carry the cross for Frank Lloyd Wright, that's not fair."
In Arizona, where ownership rights are strong, granting a property landmark status shields it from development or destruction for only three years. So if the Council approves the request, something else might happen, Mr. Sells said.
"I'll move in, invite everybody to come in and take their pictures, and I'm going to wait three years," he said, interlacing his fingers behind his neck as he slouched on the orange cushions of the master bedroom's seating area. "Then I'm going to knock it down to recoup my losses."
A version of this article appears in print on October 26, 2012, on Page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Buyers of a Wright Home in Phoenix Reconsider a Deal 'Too Good to Be True'. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
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SKID ROW RECORD NEW ALBUM WITH VOCALIST ERIK GRÖNWALL, NEW SINGLE "THE GANG'S ALL HERE" AVAILABLE FOR LISTENING
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Skid Row has parted ways with singer ZP Theart and has replaced him with ex-H.E.A.T.vocalist Erik Grönwall. Grönwall will make his recording debut with the band on the band's upcoming album, The Gang's All Here, due on October 14th via earMUSIC. The LP's first single, the title track can be heard below.
Skid Row said in a statement, "It's a new era for Skid Row. With a new album, a new single and a world tour, we've added a new voice. Welcome powerhouse vocalist Erik Grönwall, formerly from the band H.E.A.T. from Sweden."
Grönwall added, "Ladies and gents. I hereby declare the circle of all fucking circles complete. You're looking at the new singer of @officialskidrow #skidrow #erikgronwall."
‹ MICHAEL SCHENKER GROUP RELEASE NEW SINGLE, "EMERGENCY" FROM FORTHCOMING NEW ALBUM, ANNOUNCE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
DAILY MAIL REPORTS: FOO FIGHTERS DRUMMER TAYLOR HAWKINS HAD TEN DIFFERENT DRUGS IN HIS SYSTEM ›
Real Paul Stanley on April 3, 2022 at 4:57 pm
Thank you Dana. I believe this guy is at least their 6th singer. I'd never want to be the singer in this band lol. Seem like backstabbing dudes to me.
Charles Clinchot on April 4, 2022 at 12:21 pm
Thinking about it, Kiss refuses to have any past members do a show, because the don't want to work with them. So, they have fake Ace, and fake Catman, therefore, Skid Row can just get a Bach lookalike or sound alike.
I do believe the reason there is no reunion, is because both sides are difficult, and money will never change that. Although, for a time, it did lead to that Kiss reunion. I guess the straw that got Bach kicked out was trying to get the guys to open for Kiss, which Bolan refused, but did anyway, without Bach on the 2000 farewell tour.


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Nerlens Noel's poor work ethic reportedly keeping him on Mavericks' bench
Written By Jordan Greer
@jordangreer42
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The Mavericks are sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference with a 5-17 record. Across the league, the Mavs own a better winning percentage than only two teams, the rebuilding Hawks (4-16) and lowly Bulls (3-16).
MORE: LeBron James knew 76ers rookie Ben Simmons could be better than him
Dallas is unlikely to suddenly turn it around this season, which only makes it more confusing to see 23-year-old center Nerlens Noel sitting on the bench game after game. After signing a $4.2 million qualifying offer this past summer, Noel has disappeared from Rick Carlisle's rotation other than a few minutes in garbage time. He hasn't played more than six minutes in a game since logging 14 in a loss to the Timberwolves on Nov. 5 (AEDT).
Why can't a young talent like Noel move past a formerly undrafted free agent in Maxi Kleber on the depth chart? Apparently Noel just isn't trying hard enough.
From Newy Scruggs of The Dallas Morning News:
My sources tell me that Nerlens Noel is not known as a hard worker. I cannot for the life of me understand that if a player decides to turn down a four-year, $72 million contract to bet on himself getting a max deal why that player would not be in top shape and perform at a level the club has never seen... I'm told he doesn't have a sense of hard play and that's not going to fly with a head coach like Rick Carlisle who had to cut his teeth as a NBA player.
Until Noel shows a better work ethic other players will get minutes. I just think we will see Noel traded. It's a shame because the club had high hopes for him when he came from Philly in a trade last year.
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban reportedly offered Noel a four-year deal prior to the season but pulled it off the table after Noel asked for a max contract. Unfortunately for Noel, he won't be getting anything close to that figure when he becomes a free agent in 2018.
The Sixers sent Noel to the Mavericks in February for a package of Andrew Bogut, Justin Anderson and a first-round pick which turned into two second-round picks after the first-rounder failed to convey ahead of the 2017 NBA Draft. That return seemed poor at the time, but the Mavericks likely wouldn't receive even that much considering Noel's trade value has plummeted.
Noel still has time to change the course of his career, but he won't be able to prove himself in Dallas (or anywhere else) if he doesn't care enough to put in the effort.


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Q: Failed creating starting window on Android device I have been getting this error for a week and I have no idea that caused this error. The game works on unity editor with no problem. As soon as Unity builds and runs the game on the Android device, the game crashes with this log.
03-26 19:14:40.070 815-931/? W/WindowManager: Token{44bfbbb8 ActivityRecord{45526c08 u0 com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester/com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity t388}} failed creating starting window
                                      java.lang.RuntimeException: Binary XML file line #31: You must supply a layout_height attribute.
                                          at android.content.res.TypedArray.getLayoutDimension(TypedArray.java:492)
                                          at android.view.ViewGroup$LayoutParams.setBaseAttributes(ViewGroup.java:6204)
                                          at android.view.ViewGroup$MarginLayoutParams.<init>(ViewGroup.java:6372)
                                          at android.widget.LinearLayout$LayoutParams.<init>(LinearLayout.java:1837)
                                          at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:1749)
                                          at android.widget.LinearLayout.generateLayoutParams(LinearLayout.java:58)
                                          at android.view.LayoutInflater.rInflate(LayoutInflater.java:768)
                                          at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:498)
                                          at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:398)
                                          at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java:354)
                                          at      com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.generateLayout(PhoneWindow.java:3315)
                                          at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.installDecor(PhoneWindow.java:3378)
                                          at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.getDecorView(PhoneWindow.java:1870)
                                          at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindowManager.addStartingWindow(PhoneWindowManager.java:2753)
                                          at com.android.server.wm.WindowManagerService$H.handleMessage(WindowManagerService.java:9440)
                                          at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
                                          at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:146)
                                          at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
03-26 19:14:40.310 13526-13526/? D/dalvikvm: Trying to load lib /mnt/asec/com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester-3/lib/libmain.so 0x42609060
03-26 19:14:40.320 13526-13526/? D/dalvikvm: Added shared lib /mnt/asec/com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester-3/lib/libmain.so 0x42609060
03-26 19:14:42.260 12435-13607/? D/PkgBroadcastIntentOp: Received broadcast action=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED and uri=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:42.430 12435-13607/? D/WearableController: Received broadcast action=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED and uri=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:42.590 12435-13628/? D/gH_MetricsDatabase: 0 metrics were deleted when clearing package com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester.
03-26 19:14:42.870 815-2343/? D/ThermalMonitor: Foreground Application Changed: com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:44.600 13526-13590/? E/Unity: Invalid serialized file version. File: "/mnt/asec/com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester-3/pkg.apk/assets/bin/Data/globalgamemanagers". Expected version: 5.3.1f1. Actual version: 5.3.2f1.

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03-26 19:14:44.850 815-8185/? I/WindowState: WIN DEATH: Window{449735a8 u0 com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester/com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity}
03-26 19:14:44.850 815-1260/? I/ActivityManager: Process com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester (pid 13526) (adj 0) has died.
03-26 19:14:44.850 815-8185/? W/WindowManager: Force-removing child win Window{4559ea18 u0 SurfaceView} from container Window{449735a8 u0 com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester/com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity}
03-26 19:14:44.850 815-1260/? W/ActivityManager: Force removing ActivityRecord{45526c08 u0 com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester/com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayerActivity t388}: app died, no saved state
03-26 19:14:47.110 12435-13607/? D/PkgBroadcastIntentOp: Received broadcast action=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED and uri=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:47.540 12435-13607/? D/WearableController: Received broadcast action=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED and uri=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:47.580 12435-13992/? D/k: Processing package: com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:47.630 13592-13964/? I/UpdateIcingCorporaServi: Updating corpora: APPS=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester, CONTACTS=MAYBE
03-26 19:14:47.660 12435-13992/? D/GassUtils: Found app info for package com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester:2. Hash: 697d83f55dab21db6f0e7a85ee05325dacc575c7cb6660ae4d7751cc1670d845
03-26 19:14:47.660 12435-13992/? D/k: Found info for package com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester in db.
03-26 19:14:48.290 14009-14072/? E/ActivityThread: Failed to find provider info for com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester.YPLContentProvider
03-26 19:14:49.140 12435-13607/? D/PkgBroadcastIntentOp: Received broadcast action=android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REPLACED and uri=com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:49.160 12435-14179/? D/k: Processing package: com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester
03-26 19:14:49.190 12435-14179/? D/GassUtils: Found app info for package com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester:2. Hash: 697d83f55dab21db6f0e7a85ee05325dacc575c7cb6660ae4d7751cc1670d845
03-26 19:14:49.190 12435-14179/? D/k: Found info for package com.akkuzugames.flip.flop.reflex.tester in db.

A: I still do not know what was the problem but I finally solved my problem uninstalling Unity and its components by using AppCleaner, and re-installing.


The brainwashed cranium HQ–it's the business at hand.
On the fake set of our true self evermore, evermore, spots unchanged.
As we fall to pieces… Top billing at this wrecking party?
In quotation Marx—while plagiarizing public opinion out into the open!
Brightly, and when lost is found there's no telling what you'll see!
Whatever past is locked away holds the "ki" to the future.


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Gentleman: You know how it is, I don't work well with people who tell me what to do and neither do I suffer fools gladly. That's why when Dad and I work together it's never easy.
Lady: I don't like that term, I've told you before.
Lady: "Suffering fools gladly", it suggests that someone is a fool when they could be a really interesting and intelligent person. You shouldn't put people down in those terms.
Gentleman: You knew what I meant.
Lady: That's not the point.
Gentleman: Well I don't want to fall out with you over this problem as well. The fact of the matter is, the model club isn't seeing eye to eye with Dad and you know how bad tempered he can get. He likes to do things his way.
Nick: It's an old peoples thing, they do more talking and less work on those models.
Gentleman: Yeah, that's what Dad was getting at, some of them turn up test there trains on test track don't do any work and go back home to there own project.
Lady: Maybe that's the problem with the club, they all attend as if they are all working on their own project with others helping and don't work as a true team.
Gentleman: Ah, well, we'll see how things are resolved tomorrow. This committee meeting is a load of nonsense. They complaining about stuff that the complainants do too and Dad is Dad, trying to do things his own way.
Lady: He wants to run it his way.
Gentleman: No he doesn't, he gave up being chairman because of all the politics involved in running the place. He is exhibition manager, that's a tough enough job as it is.
Lady: Right, well pudding I think. Dinner's gone down so far alreeaady.
Lady: We got the Fudge from the holiday.
Gentleman: (Gets up and walks over) Where is it?
Lady: In the bag marked "Cranchies", one for us and one for Nick.
Lady: Look at this stuff, it's all glued together.
Nick: Mine's OK, its just got warm and turned in to one block of fudge.
Lady: You see what I mean about accusing people of not doing a proper job, they didn't sort the fudge out to well.
Gentleman: Yeah, how hard can it be to pack fudge properly.
Lady: (Turns in to hysterics and begins laughing) Nick: (looks cringingly down at his bag of fudge attempting to hide the rye smile and remove the thought again, at the sight of his pudding.
Gentleman: ...the things which make you laugh, such a tiny mind you have to please.
Nick: (Looking at the gentleman) I saw that coming, suffering from fools gladly?


Just Roots, Clinical and Support Options and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts are among seven organizations awarded $300,000 in competitive "innovation" planning grants from the Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.
CSO's $45,000 "Building Resilience by Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools" grant will be used to help schools around Franklin County plan training and policy review that helps sensitize them to student trauma such as teen suicide, which is more prevalent here than for the state as a whole, says CSO Chief Executive Office Karin Jeffers.
The grant, focused on high schools, will help the Mohawk Trail, Frontier, Pioneer, Mahar, Gill-Montague and Franklin County Technical school districts, as well as Greenfield schools, develop more "trauma-informed" cultures.
An outcome will be to apply for an implementation grant to provide staff training and onsite clinical support.


Charged particles in aqueous solutions are always surrounded by a shell of water molecules. However, much is still unknown about the nature of this so-called hydration shell. Using terahertz spectroscopy, chemists from Bochum have gained new insights into how an ion affects the water molecules in its environment. Prof Dr Martina Havenith, Dr Gerhard Schwaab and Dr Federico Sebastiani from the Chair of Physical Chemistry II of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) provide an overview of the results of the experiments in the journal Angewandte Chemie in July 2018.
"The hydration shell of ions is extremely important for understanding fundamental processes such as the transport of ions through membranes or batteries", says Martina Havenith, spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence Ruhr Explores Solvation. "However, seemingly simple questions, like the size of the hydration shell or the occurrence of ion pair formation, still remain unanswered."
At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Martina Havenith's team approaches this question with spectroscopic methods developed in-house. The researchers send short pulses of radiation in the terahertz range, i.e. with a wavelength just under one millimetre, through the sample. The mixture absorbs the radiation to different degrees in different frequency ranges, which is made visible in the form of a spectrum. The spectrum, i.e. the absorption pattern, reveals something about the movement of certain bonds in the investigated molecules, for example about hydrogen bonds in a water network.
The Bochum group developed special techniques using low-frequency terahertz radiation to determine the size of the hydration shell, i.e. the number of water molecules that are affected by an ion. They mathematically break down the recorded absorption pattern into its components and can thus identify the parts in the spectrum that reveal something about individual ions or pairs of ions.
The result: Hydration shells with a size between two and 21 water molecules were determined for more than 37 salts investigated. The number depends for instance on the size of the ion and its valency. Single-charged ions usually affect fewer water molecules than multiple-charged ions. "However, this is not entirely systematic, but also depends on the cation or anion present", explains Martina Havenith.
The researchers use their method to determine the so-called effective number of water molecules, which is the minimum number of water molecules that is affected by an ion, i.e. that cannot move as freely as the unaffected surrounding water. Due to the positive or negative charge of an ion, the water molecules with their partially positively charged hydrogen atoms or their partially negatively charged oxygen atom align themselves with the ion. "The effect of the ion on the water molecules gradually decreases with distance", Havenith explains. "Thus there is not always a clear boundary between affected and unaffected water molecules." The team therefore specifies a minimum number for the size of the hydration shell.
However, the Bochum group dealt not only with individual ions, but also with pairs of cations and anions. The water molecules affect the formation of the ion pair. They can either form a joint hydration shell around the two partners or separate shells around cation and anion. The team is able to estimate how many water molecules these shells each consist of. "In order to know how many water molecules surround an iron chloride, it is not enough to know how many water molecules are affected by a single chloride ion and how many by a single iron ion", explains Havenith. This is not a simple additive process.
"In general, our results clearly show that cooperative effects rather than individual ion properties are decisive", sums up the researcher. It is therefore not enough to know a single ion property in order to predict how a salt will affect the water molecules in its environment. Instead, various parameters, such as the charge density or the combination of the cation-anion will determine whether an ion pair is formed.
The experimental data are suitable for theoretical simulations of other groups and can serve as input parameters for chemical process engineering.


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Grand County police blotter, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Throwing bottles
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WEDNESDAY, JAN. 31
Crash — It was reported at around 7:40 p.m. of a vehicle rollover near mile post 189 on Highway 40 in Kremmling. The male driver was partially out of the passenger window. Colorado State Police was notified of the crash. The fire department later cleared the scene.
THURSDAY, FEB. 1
Assault — It was reported at around 6 a.m. from a male at the Trailhead Lodges in Winter Park that he went to retrieve his belongings and a friend threw a bottle at his head. His head was now bleeding and the man was crying. He told authorities he just wanted his dog back from his roommate.


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Yahoo Q2 profits fell by 18 percent
By Christian Nordqvist Published Jul 16, 2014 at 5:38 AM GMT
Yahoo Q2 profits fell by 18% to $270 million and revenues also declined, by 3% to $1.084 billion, the Internet giant reported on Tuesday. The weak performance was mostly due to a steep drop in digital display advertising, which fell by 8%. Yahoo's financial hopes now lie almost entirely on the Alibaba IPO.
Adjusted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) in Q2 2014 were $340 million, eight percent less than in Q2 2013.
In the past five quarters, four have reported declining revenues. Q2 2014 posted the worst revenues since CEO Marissa Mayer took over two years ago.
Ms.Mayer said she was not satisfied with the company's Q2 results. Some areas, she explained, did show strength, but their growth was outweighed by declines.
Yahoo Search grew by 6% year-on-year on a revenue ex-TAC basis and nineteen percent in search click-driven revenue.
In Q2 2014, Yahoo's social, mobile, video and native areas collectively gained almost 90% compared to Q2 2013. A number of displays are still an area of investment and transition, the company added.
Ms. Mayer said:
"In Q2, we saw display revenue decline, further highlighting the fact that we need to work faster to ameliorate the negative trends. I believe we can and will do better moving forward. Overall, I remain confident in Yahoo's future, our strategy, and our return to long-term growth."
Was Q1 2014 just a blip?
Ms. Mayer told analysts that Yahoo's transformation will take several years, and probably a little longer than they had originally forecast. This is a completely different sentiment from the previous quarter when she said Q1's results were "evidence that we are on the right course."
In Q1 Yahoo posted its first revenue increase in over a year. Analysts now believe it may have just been a blip. The company continues to fail to persuade advertisers to move from Google and Facebook, which still completely dominate the online and mobile advertising markets.
The price-per-ad plunged by 24% in the second quarter.
Yahoo ad prices, which have declined during the whole of this year, suggest that the company's new ad offerings are not attracting advertisers. The company had hoped its "in-stream" adverts that appear in the middle of the web pages of Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance would catch on.
Advertisers are shifting from the more expensive graphical banner ads, something that Yahoo has specialized in, towards cheaper adverts that target each individual visitor, an area in which Google and Facebook have thrived.
Once Yahoo was the biggest display ad seller in the US. eMarketer forecasts its market share will fall from 7.1% in 2013 to 6% this year, even though the overall market is expected to grow by 23.8% this year.
(Data Source: Yahoo Inc.)
Yahoo relying on Alibaba's IPO
Despite gloomy financial results, which have haunted the company for several quarters, the imminent initial public offering (IPO) in the New York Stock Exchange of Chinese online retailer Alibaba will give Yahoo, which has a 22.6% stake in the company, a giant financial boost.
Yahoo had planned to sell 208 million shares when Alibaba is floated. However, the two companies have agreed that the number of shares required to be sold will be only 140 million. It will sell 27% of its Alibaba stake rather than the originally-planned 40%. This means that Yahoo will get less cash from the sale of shares, bit will be able to hold on to stocks that could be worth a great deal more as Alibaba grows.
The Sunnyvale-based Internet corporation stressed that it will return at least half of the Alibaba sale proceeds (net of tax) to investors.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Sameet Sinha, a B. Riley & Co analyst, who estimates Yahoo's Alibaba stake to be worth approximately $38 billion. After paying capital-gains on the sale of shares this year, it should make about $6.7 billion, which would mean about $3.35 billion for shareholders.
Despite the exciting news for shareholders from Alibaba's expected IPO proceeds, Yahoo shares dropped 2% in after-hours trading.
Yahoo announced this week it will be broadcasting a string of live concerts by famous artists, including Usher, Justin Timberlake, Kiss, and the Dave Matthews Band.
Video – Yahoo Q2 disappointing results


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Anyone charged with a crime in Woodbridge needs the help of an experienced criminal defense lawyer. The Woodbridge Municipal Court handles crimes that can result in substantial jail times and expensive fines. Convictions can mean a criminal record that can last a lifetime, damage to a person's reputation, and often-serious civil consequences as well such as difficulty in getting employment.
The law firm of Aiello, Harris, Marth, Tunnero, & Schiffman, P.C. represents clients in the Woodbridge Municipal Court who have been charged with the following crimes.
Theft charges include stealing cash, credit card theft, identity theft and shoplifting. Theft under $200 is a municipal crime. Theft of $200 or more or theft that includes robbery, grand theft or offenses that have a physical force component are normally indictable offenses. The amount of prison time and the amount of the fines depends on the value of the items taken and what additional factors such as force were involved. If convicted, the defendant will normally be ordered to return the items or pay the value.
There are defenses an experienced Woodbridge NJ lawyer will explore such as whether there was intent to steal, the true value of the items taken, questions about where and how the theft occurred, and more defenses.
Resisting arrest can be a disorderly person crime or an indictable offense depending on many factors such as whether flight was involved; a car was used, or if the person being arrested, used force. Our aim is to defeat the charge completely or to show that the offense should just be a municipal court offense. We may assert defenses such as a mistake in communication rather than true resistance.
Woodbridge is a known speed trap, and this court hears thousands of speeding ticket cases each year. An attorney can help you beat some of the more serious traffic violations, such as reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, and more.
Possession of less than 50 grams of Marijuana.
Receive a fair day in court with the assistance of an experienced municipal court defense attorney from Aiello, Harris, Marth, Tunnero, & Schiffman, P.C.
All weekdays but Tuesday: 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Tuesday: 9:00 A.M. to 6:30 P.M.
Monday through Thursday 6:45 P.M.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: 1 P.M.
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Hon. Emery Z. Toth J.M.C.
Several of the lawyers at the law firm of Aiello, Harris, Marth, Tunnero, & Schiffman, P.C. have prior experience as municipal court prosecutors. This prior work experience greatly helps defense lawyers because they then understand the arguments and mindset of the prosecutors. The more a criminal defense lawyer can predict the prosecution arguments, the better he/she can prepare defenses and make the right counter-arguments. As former prosecutors, our lawyers have a better feel than other lawyers for when prosecutors might be willing to enter into a plea agreement.
One of our attorneys, Christopher G. Aiello, is an example of how prior litigation experience can help. His record of success includes many cases where he was able to obtain a dismissal of criminal charges, a fair plea arrangement, and an alternative disposition of the case such as placing the client in a pre-trial intervention program.
Delays will only hurt your case. Make the call to a tough Woodbridge municipal court lawyer today.
The sooner you speak with a criminal defense lawyer, the sooner you begin to focus on getting a just result—instead of fearing the consequences. The strong advocates at Aiello, Harris, Marth, Tunnero, & Schiffman, P.C. use experience, tenacity, and persuasive arguments to help clients get justice in New Jersey. We have helped many clients get charges dropped or reduced. For immediate assistance, please schedule an appointment at our Woodbridge location with one of our lawyers by calling (908) 561-5577. We also have on online contact form for your convenience.


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