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Tellings, A Role-Playing Primer
Posted on April 25, 2020 April 25, 2020 Posted by Tellings Wright Categories Blog
{From the Tellings vaults, here is a handout I wrote in 2009 to give to brand new players to my gaming table. The years have passed, the game has changed, and I have had the great fortune to get to know new players in different cities. However, my advice has remained constant. Enjoy.|
My gaming philosophy has never been really hard-lined about role-playing in of itself but rather a focus on character development and interaction. But now I think that part of creating atmosphere, good storytelling, and better play is thinking about how role-playing, playing a role, is necessary for the big picture. In that spirit, I want to encourage a more energetic, dramatic, gristly, courageous, and ultimately fun gaming experience for everyone.
It'll be great.
What I hope for from myself and us players is a more detailed game play. Really peer into your character, your skills, your abilities, your spells, your prayers, your equipment, and your possibilities. Read into the details. Read between the lines.
A sword is just a sword is just a sword. Not unless you enhance it with a bit of imagination and style. An Elar weaponsmaster's sword is long, sleek, elegant and etched with fine designs, one-edged (perhaps slightly curved), with a long grip meant to be light, quick, and deadly. Whereas, a Gaurien bastard sword is elegant in a different way: heavier, sturdy, double-edged, heavy cuillions and pommel, hammered to a burnished silver and designed as a symbol of strength, courage, and ultimately if need requires the sword to be raised, cleaving righteousness.
A long cloak, accent, the favoring of bear hide leather as opposed to cow hide leather, jewelry, stance, the smoking of a particular pipeweed from Arasa, meticulous care for a favorite horse, generosity with the poor, fear of mirrors, anger over being beaten at a game of crowns, or even the bad habit of whistling while crawling through a dungeon — all of these characteristics are built into your characters already. Your Strengths and your Weaknesses and your Skills all give you clues as to the who, what, why, when, and where of your character.
A character with Streetwise probably spent a good deal of time listening to the gossip of local taverngoers or perhaps was orphaned and joined a gang of petty thieves or perhaps had a parent or friend in the city guard who came home after every shift and spoke of the goingson in the city. There are a multitude of ways a character can gain information and it does not necessarily mean they are always rogues. Furthermore, a character who is Streetwise from Grand Takare will have some differences in behavior and action than a character with Streetwise from Atrassis (the capital of Arasa). (Perhaps as different as someone who lived in London as opposed to Bangkok.)
Also pay attention to institutions, ideologies, guilds, governments, and temples. Characters without any particular devotion or fealty must still work within a world that is teeming with priests and mages and soldiers and rangers and performers and of course villains. Characters that do have clear alliances and allegiances should always keep in mind whether a course of action will help or hinder their standing and their favor. The World is a place of consequences and whether the character gains renown and respect or infamy and derision are based on how they navigate through people and places.
THE TOP TEN ROLE-PLAYING DOS and DON'TS
10. Read the rulebook.
Read the rulebook. Always. Read the book right before you go to bed. Flip through the book when you're eating dinner. Glance at a few pages while you're on the bus. Learning a whole system can be a daunting challenge. It's like trying to master a foreign language. However, practice, play, and preparation are key to building comfort and confidence in both mechanics and in role-play.
Learning the rules provides the background and more importantly the context in which your character lives, survives, and acts. Plus it's just time-saving: the less you have to look up, the more time you have to just play your character. Furthermore, don't just learn the things that are important to your character. Broaden your experience to read spell descriptions even if you're not a mage, to know different weapon types even if your character wields only a quarterstaff, to understand the difference between a 15 Constitution and a 10 Constitution.
Again, read the rulebook.
9. Practice speaking as your character.
One of the most basic difficulties role-players have is speaking (and acting) as their character. Instead, they speak like their character's narrator (as if they were followed by a sportscaster calling all the plays): "My character says he'll go down the hallway…" "My character asks your character for help…" "My character gets mad…" "My character says to the stranger, 'Greetings…'" "My character explains to them what happened…" No one expects a player to be in-character all of the time; this isn't a stage play. But, the goal is to get rid of the narrator. Most good GMs I know have had an underlying rule during role-play: everything you say is in-character unless you preface that it is out-of-character. Therefore, an off-hand comment to a fellow player suddenly becomes in-game and leads to some interesting consequences. The idea is that if you realize that you are speaking as your character most of the time, then you will be more conscious of your words and your descriptions. Look at your game Master or your fellow player and be confident in your playing: "I'm going down this hallway. Someone watch my back…" "I think I'm in trouble. Help me!" "I throw down my sword and shield and stalk off into the woods while the others prepare camp."
8. Role-playing is a group activity.
I think most players find that once they start practicing speaking and acting as their characters then the rest of the players catch on. In most groups there is usually one or two players who are very comfortable with role-playing and their skills and experience should be used to encourage newer or more self-conscious players. It's all about cooperative learning and cooperative sharing. Prompt each other. Ask each other questions. Take an interest in one another's characters. And notice actions, reactions, and specific instances where a character's personality shines through.
Furthermore, be careful of grandstanding or any form of role-playing narcissism. It's all right to be a character who is selfish and attention-seeking, but the behavior cannot cross from persona to player. I have Mastered for groups where an individual player will purposefully use their character as a way to draw attention to themselves — usually, it manifests as a form of power-gaming, of greedy playing: my character needs to win, my character needs to get the treasuer, my character needs to be the most powerful, or even my character needs to be the most adored, cheered, comforted, or pitied. Once a character begins to purposefully sabotage the group, then that character (and perhaps player) must find a way to get along or move on.
7. Learn to parlay (and to listen).
Once you begin to master speaking and acting as your character and once you begin role-playing as a group, then realize that interacting with the world, with other characters, with creatures, with NPCs can be just as satisfying as busting heads and razing dens of evil. Many times, groups of characters take for granted that the people they meet might not be enemies in disguise. Politeness often pays off. Rudeness often creates conflict. Parlay does not necessarily mean always being diplomatic. Then act. Sometimes conversations break down. Sometimes inquiries become insults. But remember many times vital information is hidden in the minds, speech, and personality of people the adventurers encounter. Without conversation, the story is nothing more than a chain of events with little glue and justification.
Perhaps the most important lesson of parlay is the willingness and skill to listen. I used to play with GMs who would have significant conversations between characters and NPCs. Anything said during the parlay was the sole-responsibility of the player to remember. If you were busy pouring yourself more soda or in the bathroom or doodling on your neighbor's character sheet, then your character was assumed to also be not paying attention. It was the responsibility of the game Master to provide meaningful conversations and it was the responsibility of the players to pay attention and to ask good questions.
6. Don't be afraid to run.
Sounds silly, doesn't it? Actually, the fear of mortality and the de-sensizitation to failure is a difficult hurdle to overcome particularly in veteran players. Fear is perhaps the most difficult emotion to role-play. And it is fear of your character perishing, of your character being corrupted, of your character failing that makes challenges interesting, worthwhile, and exciting. Suspend the idea that you're only playing a character and that there is simply another character waiting in the wings to replace one that is lost or that the game Master will somehow save the characters in the end. Realistically, your character probably has a sense of self-preservation, and when the heroic spirit is stretched too far even heroes run.
I personally am not a game Master that likes to rely solely on death as the defining deterrent for lazy role-playing. I have had GMs who were always ready to kill characters in the hopes of encouraging players to be careful, inventive, and determined. However, death need not be the only final consequence. But the game Master must remember to challenge the players and their characters. There must be conflict and threat and overwhelming odds. But killing off characters creates disruptions in the story, holes in the telling, and therefore should not be done without conscience and dramatic reason.
5. Avoid roll-playing.
You've read the rulebook a million times. Now go beyond the charts and figures. Role-play. Not roll-play. It's a pun but a most important one. For me, RPGs are about stories, about sharing ideas, about exploring imaginary worlds, about magic, and about being heroes. I want to encourage everyone to remember that good mechanics are important for any game but good role-playing is just as important if not more so. Your character is more than just a sum of what's written on your sheet. Your character is a warrior not a list of weapon proficiencies and combat maneuvers. Your character is a mage, an artist of fire or light or thought, not just a number of technique points and spells in a book. Your character is a sailor or a woodsman or a performer not just a Sailing roll or a Tracking roll or a Singing roll.
Futhermore, we all want our characters to be as effective, efficient, frankly as powerful as they can be. But, this end goal is often destructive to role-playing. Mix-maxing Attributes or picking just the skills for maximum damage or sacrificing finesse wholly for power is counterproductive. Sometimes choosing a off-the-beaten track skill or developing a purely role-play ability can be very rewarding.
4. Remember what the character knows and does not know.
Akin to avoiding roll-playing, players should try to separate what they know as players and what they know as characters. It seems a bit schizophrenic, but it can make a big difference in how the game is played, how situations are handled, how you face a challenge, and how you are rewarded for that challenge.
As a game Master, I have asked players, "How do you know that?" or "Why do you think that?" or "Would your character react that way?" Most of the time, I'm prompting players because they may be using their own knowledge and experience instead of the knowledge and experience of their characters. Granted, characters are as smart, clever, informed, or knowledgeable as their players want them to be. However, characters do have histories, do have skills, and more importantly don't have access to everything in the rulebook. Just because you've read the rulebook a million times doesn't mean your character has nor should they behave as such.
Take nothing for granted. New players rarely have this difficulty because everything is still fresh. However, veteran players often jump to conclusions that their freshly made characters may not do so as readily. The goal is to remember the distinction and to be conscious of the fine line between player and character.
3. Role-playing is in the details.
If real life is in the details, then a character's life is also in the small things, the minutiae, the colors, the bits of personality that separate them from someone else. The first place to start with the details is what the character looks like, what the character dresses like, what the character presents to the world around them. Be specific. Be concrete. Be honest in your description.
Details also means choices. Your character is always making choices. This weapon over that weapon. This tunic over that shirt. This path over that path. This course of action over a different action. The more choices your character has made, the clearer the picture of your character becomes. Don't be afraid to make those choices and changes in those decisions when the story calls for it. Personalize. Customize. Stylize.
Then when your character speaks, moves, sits down for supper, invokes a spell, or challenges a foe, some of the details will reveal themselves. Volunteer hints and flecks here and there. A turn of the wrist. A hint of perfume or cologne. A sparkle of color. A design on a shield. Repeat the details. In the end, they will make your character memorable.
2. Trust your game Master (and players).
Trust. In any relationship, trust is probably the most important quality to uphold. Trust means honesty, means confidence, means understanding, means patience, means reliance, means doing the right thing.
Trust that your game Master will lead you and your characters on a worthy and wonderful adventure. If disagreements about rules or encounters arise, let the game Master make a final decision and move on. Return to the disagreement after play is over.
Trust that your fellow players will help you and your character explore and succeed in the adventure. Leave personal feelings and grudges outside of how you role-play your character.
In the end, communication between the players, friendship between the players is most important. Players should help one another with questions, with solving issues, with explaining rules, even coaching in role-playing. Players should also realize that the discourse between group and game Master is not one-way in favor of the GM. The GM must be open to suggestion, to comment, and to encouragement and praise as well. On the other hand, the GM must also nudge, develop, and sustain the players, their interest, their skills, their curiosity, and their characters' lives.
1. Play a character you enjoy.
I have GMed for a fair number of people in the past and I myself have had a slew of different characters for different games. The one constant that I have noticed is that players have the best time, the best gaming experience when they create a character they are interested in, they are invested in, and ultimately that they enjoy. Why pretend to be someone you don't like? Now there are gaming purists and method-gamers who like the challenge of playing personas completely anathema to their own being. I am not one of those players. Therefore, as a rule, I encourage people to stick with what they know, what they like, and what sparks their imagination. However, as a caveat, I discourage players from creating clones of their favorite characters. A dash of change, a note of difference is important and provides vitality.
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The Port of Los Angeles
West Coast Ports Reach Agreement
BROOMFIELD, Colo.— After nine months of often tense negotiations, agreement on a tentative contract between shipowners and dockworkers has been reached that will return 29 West Coast ports to full operations.
The deal between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association was reached on Friday, Feb. 20. It came just days after U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez flew to California to broker the talks. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the agreement is a five-year deal that still needs to be approved by the 13,000-member ILWU. According to reports, the union will likely vote on it in April.
Some 20,000 dockworkers had been working without a contract since July. Negotiations between the workers and the PMA, which represents about 70 shipping companies, began in May, weeks before the contract's expiration. Recently, members of Congress and governors of the states affected had spoken out, urging the two sides to come to terms.
"After more than nine months of negotiations, we are pleased to have reached an agreement that is good for workers and for the industry," PMA president James McKenna and ILWU president Bob McEllrath said in a joint statement. "We are also pleased that our ports can now resume full operations."
The inability to come to an agreement meant a crippling backlog at the ports, both in terms of unloading cargo off ships and American goods being loaded onto ships for export. Millions of dollars in perishables, such as produce and meat, have been lost. And although the docks are now back up to full speed, analysts say it will take months for the ports to catch up. The Journal of Commerce, a publication that covers global maritime and logistical issues, put out the following statement:
"Industry experts agree that it will take months for Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma—all among the 10 largest ports in the U.S.—to return to 'normal' operations."
The 29 ports handle about $1 trillion worth of trade annually. The LA and Long Beach ports by themselves account for about 40 percent of the nation's incoming container cargo, with about $1 billion worth moving through daily. Almost two-thirds of those imports come from China.
The wholesale apparel and textile industries were among many segments of the global economy affected by the labor dispute. According to Seth Barnett, government relations manager for the Promotional Products Association International, it's uncertain how much the apparel industry suffered monetarily because the organization doesn't have the resources to track imports to that level of detail, but he acknowledged that the hit it took was significant.
Alex Weidner, the owner of a retail clothing store in Los Angeles, described the situation to the LA Times, stating, "Clothing and fashion is definitely perishable.We only have a limited number of months to try and sell these items until they are out of season and we need to discount them on sale, which creates even more of a ripple effect throughout our business."
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The mission of the Concordia R-2 School District is to help all students develop their unique talents as well as the critical thinking, technological and lifelong learning skills needed in order to become productive, responsible citizens in a global community.
As a part of the district Missouri School Improvement Plan, the board adopted a vision statement. The purpose of a vision statement is to instill a sense of direction. It predicts a realistic, credible and attractive change process.
During the process of developing a vision we sought input from parents, patrons and staff. The next step in the process will be outlining what we plan to do to work toward our vision. Many of the activities can already be found in our CSIP Plan, others we will need to develop. We appreciate the open and honest comments we received in this process.
Everyone takes responsibility for his or her own actions, creating an environment that is a supportive and safe place to learn.


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Narendra Modi's call for selfie from people becomes all-India rage minutes after launch
Published By : Admin | April 30, 2014 | 14:12 IST
"Shri Narendra Modi shared a selfie after casting his vote on 30th April 2014"
"Narendra Modi's team launched a website early on Wednesday morning that allowed young voters to upload their selfie after voting"
"#SelfieWithModi became the top trend on social media across India & Worldwide in a couple of minutes"
"Narendra Modi has found an innovative way to use the digital platform to encourage people to come together and vote"
The epic Oscar selfie by Ellen DeGeneres created a huge wave on social media. Clearly, selfie is in and BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, whose pulse of the youth is quite well known decided to share a selfie after casting his vote on 30th April 2014.
After voting in senior BJP leader L K Advani's Parliamentary Constituency, Gandhinagar, clicked a selfie and uploaded it. Within minutes it went viral and got thousands of retweets. But Narendra Modi as always is ahead of the curve and found a way to involve the young voter in the voting process.
Narendra Modi's team launched a website early on Wednesday morning that allowed young voters to upload their selfie after voting. NaMo himself tweeted the message, "Selfie is in! Share yours using #SelfieWithModi & see what happens https://mosaic.narendramodi.in/"
And #SelfieWithModi became the top trend on social media across India & Worldwide in a couple of minutes.
Again Narendra Modi has shown an understanding of the pulse of the youth and found an innovative way to use the digital platform to encourage people to come together and vote to be a part of strong and developed India.
Going by the way he has handled his election campaign, India can rest assured that when Narendra Modi becomes the prime minister we will see several innovative changes in all the sectors that are sagging and a positive change is definitely on its way.
Check out the compilation of tweets with selfies, here.


Like all mental illnesses, anxiety comes in many forms and affects people in different ways. Victims can have symptoms of one kind of anxiety disorder, two kinds or even five. In the end, all anxiety disorders greatly reduce the standard of living and prevent victims from living their lives to the fullest.
General Anxiety Disorder is characterized by excessive worry that occurs day after day. Although some stress in life is to be expected, people with this disorder experience anxiety more frequently and with a greater intensity than people without this disorder. Even if a victim is aware that their anxiety is unreasonable, they are unable to control it. Symptoms include an increased startle response, difficulty sleeping and headaches.
Social Anxiety Disorder manifests as a fear of interacting with other people. Victims are often convinced that friends and strangers dislike them or judge them in a negative light even when reassured otherwise. Social anxiety is distinct from shyness in that it significantly debilitates a person's life. Symptoms include an intense fear of humiliation, avoidance of unfamiliar people and always expecting the worst in a social situation.
Panic Disorders are marked by regular, unprovoked episodes of intense fear. Physical symptoms of panic attacks are often extreme and may resemble a heart attack. People who struggle with panic attacks often experience a fear of impending doom, difficulty breathing and chest pain. The fear of a panic attack itself is often enough to trigger one. Some people have only a few panic attacks over the course of their lives, but others suffer from them much more frequently.
A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear. Common phobias include fear of spiders, blood, needles and clowns. Some people who experience phobias do not need medical attention, but others may require intervention, especially if the phobia has a significantly negative impact on their lives. Symptoms include uncontrollable panic when exposed to the source of the phobia, avoidance and an inability to function.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by intrusive thoughts that provoke anxiety (obsessions) as well as the rituals used to mitigate that anxiety (compulsions). Those with OCD are often aware that their fears are irrational, yet they cannot control them. Common obsessions include fear of contamination, fear of causing harm to others and the need for symmetry. Common compulsions include excessive hand washing, counting and constant double-checking.
Often when a person is afflicted by an anxiety disorder it is a good idea to seek help through treatment at a rehabilitation center. For those interested in finding a treatment program you can contact the Anxiety Treatment Centers of California at 855-972-9459 for more information.


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This boot camp for men claims it'll revive your 'primal nature'
By Dana Schuster
June 3, 2017 | 10:43pm | Updated June 5, 2017 | 9:11am
Rusty Rahm was perched on a stool, his legs tethered to the piece of furniture and his arms bound behind him. A man stuffed a wad of gauze into Rahm's mouth and taped it shut, then shoved Vaseline up his nostrils.
He sat like that for more than an hour as an EMT watched.
"Obviously I was having trouble breathing at that point," said Rahm, a 47-year-old entrepreneur who owns seven different companies and lives in Kansas City, Mo.
'There is a primal nature in men that has been completely castrated.'
- Garrett White
"But I was a smoker — and they told me if I continued to smoke, that's what my breathing would be like if someone tried to kick down the door and break into my home and I had to protect my family."
"They" are the coaches of Warrior Week — an intensive program for male executives from tech, finance and other high-pressure industries to learn the "hidden science of accessing (nearly) unlimited sex, power and money as a married business man," according to the program's website. Rahm shelled out $10,000 for the privilege of being bound, gagged and run ragged for five days and nights in Laguna Beach, Calif., in April.
Drills included being thrown off a boat into the Pacific Ocean while blindfolded, dunked into a tank of ice water, and visiting a cemetery where the men are told they will die in 20 minutes and must first write goodbye letters to their loved ones.
"We teach them how to be a man," said Warrior Week founder Garrett J. White, a 40-year-old blond with tattooed biceps who looks like a video-game soldier.
"Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that's causing complete chaos for men."
White launched Warrior Week in 2012 to offer guidance to wayward souls like he once was. At 23, he was divorced, bankrupt and recovering from cancer. He pulled his life together and built a million-dollar real estate empire — then lost it all in the mortgage banking crisis of 2007. That's when he reinvented himself as a life and business guru: Tony Robbins meets The Rock.
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"There is a primal nature in men that has been completely castrated," said White.
Warrior Week is a boot camp held 10 to 12 times a year, where participants receive a mix of intense physical and mental training, with a focus on emotional development (there is even a course on meditation).
Members of the so-called Warrior brotherhood range in age from 35 to 55. White said he receives approximately 500 applications for each Warrior Week's 20 or so spots.
He added that his applicants fall into one of two categories: "They are guys who have built something and lost it and are stuck . . . and then we have guys who are even more dangerous. They're killing it and bored."
First up for potential Warriors is the application, with questions such as "Have you ever been punched in the face by another man?"
"I've been a United States Marine. Combat action, Iraq and Afghanistan," said William Toadvine, 40, who owns car dealerships and lives in Delaware. He completed the program in March 2016. "Warrior Week was a tough application process. It was the first time I had a man tell me I was a coward."
Toadvine wasn't even accepted on his first go-round.
"I don't know if I was being 100 percent honest, and I think the coach interviewing me felt that," he said. "I had lied for 38 years straight. I had infidelities in my relationships. I was in a fourth marriage and I had met my wife [while] having an affair. I thought money fixed things; Warrior Week taught me that money wasn't going to save my kids or show them love."
Once in, things don't get much easier.
The men stay at a chichi Laguna Beach hotel, but sleep a mere four hours each night, waking up at 5 a.m. for drills and calisthenics.
Doug Weed, who works for a food manufacturing business and lives in Auburn, NY, signed up for Warrior Week last May.
"It's easy to lose focus on the things most important to you, and having the stress of a small family business, and trying to show up as I should as a husband, father and boss can be very difficult," said Weed, 38.
His first challenge upon arriving was to recite the poem "Invictus" — with lines like "Under the bludgeoning of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed" — from memory.
"Those who couldn't got sent to the ice tank or had to do pocket burpees" — where one sticks his hands into his pockets, drops to the ground and lies on his chest, and has to get on his feet without using his hands — "with a 30-pound backpack on," said Weed.
Navin Thukkaram, a tech investor who owns the juice company Indie Fresh and splits his time among NYC, Stockholm and Park City, Utah, participated in Warrior Week in April to "get back to being present."
"A lot of New Yorkers feel the same [need]," the 41-year-old said. "There's sensory overload, and it creates some distance from reality. I wanted to . . . specifically focus on the male psychology, the warrior mentality, that resonated with me."
By week's end, he was foaming at the mouth and virtually unresponsive, he said. "In the end, the will to live prevailed." A comrade had to be hospitalized after White feared he was having a heart attack. (The man ended up being fine.)
"It's one of the best things I've ever done," said Thukkaram. He loved it so much that he — and his session's 10 other participants — signed up for a year of customized coaching with White for $25,000 each.
White wasn't always a guru. He grew up in California and Washington and played semipro indoor football after graduating from a Mormon junior college. At 22 — newly married and with a pregnant wife — he was diagnosed with ameloblastoma, a form of cancer, and had to get all his lower teeth pulled. (The couple divorced the next year.)
'Women are leading [both] across the board in business and at home . . . and living more powerfully than men today. And that's causing complete chaos for men.'
Directionless, White drifted into the mortgage industry in 2002.
"Within one year I was making more money than I imagined possible," he said. He started a 100-person company; at his peak, he brought home $1 million to $1.5 million per year. He married his second wife, Danielle, with whom he has two daughters, in 2003.
By the fall of 2007, White's empire had crumbled amid the mortgage crisis, and he sold off his businesses and home in Utah.
"When you lose your identity as a businessman, you literally lose the power to create. You become weak," said White. "It becomes awkward to engage with powerful men. So you spend most of your time with women or men who drink all the time."
White, a consultant at the time, said he was heading toward a second divorce as he relied more on porn and drinking.
"I wanted to connect sexually with my wife, but I operated like a huge p - - - y. I might as well have thrown my balls into the garbage disposal."
He searched for answers in Hinduism and the writings of Eckhart Tolle. White left the Mormon church, and started going to sweat lodges, practicing reiki and running ultramarathons — anything to "help me understand why I felt so horrible."
In 2012, he launched Warrior Week and now employs 17 staffers. "I figured out that if we gamify life . . . and you compete against yourself, it f - - king works."
His marriage rebounded, and White — who lives with his family in Dana Point, Calif. — now estimates his net worth at around $10 million. Apparently, there are a lot of lost men out there.
While White says he's never heard of Robert Bly and the mythopoetic men's movement of the 1990s, during which guys beat drums in the woods to channel their masculinity, many of the tenets are similar to Warrior Week.
"There is a primal nature inside men that has been sedated, between the way that boys have been raised like me, raised by my mother, and the way that churches and society and government . . . have taught men that it is not OK," said White.
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Controversially, he believes that without an outlet for primal energy, men "go ballistic and beat women. A guy is suppressed with anger that he has no healthy release for," said White.
Warrior Week focuses on four principles: body, being, balance and business.
"I went to a female therapist, and I just don't think she understood," said Steve Krebs, 38, who lives in Marcy, NY, and participated in Warrior Week in 2014. "At Warrior Week, it's [other men] who have gone through what we've gone through rather than someone theorizing about it."
White said the majority of clients aren't there to make more money, but rather to improve their relationships at home.
"There's nothing more painful [than] a sexless relationship with a woman you started out loving deeply," said White. "You go to your office, you're in power, and you come home and are not powerful."
White teaches disciples that their wives are queens, calling up a clip from the movie "300" in which King Leonidas looks to his wife for approval before waging war.
Andy Rosenfarb, a 45-year-old acupuncturist from Warren, NJ, is a believer. "I went from sex that was kind of 'eh' with my wife, to . . . date nights and paying attention to each other again."
And then, there is the end-of-the-week fistfight.
Rahm said Warrior Week dubs marriage "the ATM. If you don't put deposits in, there won't be anything to take out."
Just don't call Warrior Week a camp. "Camping is a hobbie [sic]," White corrected The Post in an email. "Warrior Week is War."
A war waged by a bunch of middle-aged men, many of whom are admittedly out of shape. "I was scared s - - tless," admitted Adam Splaver, a 46-year-old cardiologist from Florida who attended Warrior Week to become "a better version of myself."
"We had to run up the mountain with two sandbags. I was like, 'I can't do that. I'm from Florida. It's all flat,' " said Splaver, who has four children with his wife of 22 years.
"Then they said, 'Your wife and kids are at the top of the mountain,' " he added. "It gave me more confidence in myself, which is very funny when talking to a very successful clinical cardiologist."
In addition to "log work" — where the men are forced to do situps with 300-pound logs on their stomachs and carry them overhead during a 2-mile hike — there is a sadistic drill called "sand cookies."
"You don't know when it's going to end," said Krebs. "You dive into the ocean, you go into the sand and roll around, dive back into the ocean. We did it for 90 minutes nonstop."
"Often a powerful man needs to come to a place where he can be punched in the face," White said. "We lose a lot of guys, too, because they are like, 'Dude, I don't want to fight.' And we're like, 'Dude, you're not at the same speed as us.' "
The men go to a nearby boxing ring where they are set up to spar with their brethren for one-minute intervals.
"You went through the crucible with the man they're telling you to fight," said Weed. "But they say this man represents someone who is going to take everything of value. You have to fight for what's important in life." He recalled being barely able to chew food for a week after getting knocked in the jaw.
And to think, men pay for this. Big time.
Christian Steiner, a 45-year-old Midtown resident, did Warrior Week last May and now shells out $25,000 for an annual membership with the broader "Wake Up Warrior" movement. "You could be eating steak at your favorite restaurant your whole life," said the owner of a health care company. "And all of a sudden you go across the street to a place you've never been and you realize this is the best steakhouse."
In other words, for some true believers, Warrior Week is life-changing despite its torturous lessons. Steiner said the cost wasn't even a factor: "Add a zero to what I paid and I would do it again."
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Q: Uncatchable errors from Entity Framework I am trying to implement a basic example of Entity Framework, using the Code First approach, with an external database. I just want to read some already existing data, from a table in my database. The way I have implemented it works, in the sense that it shows the right output, but it throws a bunch of exceptions during the process. I have located the line of code, during which the exceptions are thrown, but I cannot catch them, using try/catch (see code).
Here is a screen dump of the Output log (debug) when I run the program (I have highlighted the final output with pink):

And here is a screen dump of the table I am connecting to:

Even though the output is correct, the errors do seem to affect the performance. It takes somewhere between 2-3 seconds to run the code, even though the table only contains six columns and three rows.
What I have done wrong, to make it behave like this?
CODE
The function which uses the EF-connection:
public PrintFirstEmployeeName()
{
    try
    {
        UniContext db = new UniContext();

        // Exceptions are thrown during this line of code:
        string fullName = db.Employees.FirstOrDefault().first_name
                  + " " + db.Employees.FirstOrDefault().last_name;

        Debug.WriteLine($"Hello { fullName }!");
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    }
}

The employee model (names are matching database names 1:1):
[Table("dbo.sandbox_employee")]
public class EmployeeModel
{
    [Key]
    public int employee_id { get; set; }
    public string first_name { get; set; }
    public string last_name { get; set; }
    public int age { get; set; }
    public int company_id { get; set; }
}

The dbContext implementation:
public class UniContext : DbContext
{
    public UniContext() : base("Name=MyConnString") { }
    public DbSet<EmployeeModel> Employees { get; set; }
}

And finally the App.config file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxx" requirePermission="false" />
  </configSections>

  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="MyConnString" connectionString="Integrated Security = SSPI; Persist Security Info = False; Data Source = MyServer; Database = MyDatabase" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>

  <startup>
    <supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.7" />
  </startup>

  <entityFramework>

    <defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.SqlConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">

      <parameters>
        <parameter value="System.Data.SqlClient" />
      </parameters>

    </defaultConnectionFactory>

    <providers>
      <provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
    </providers>

</entityFramework>

</configuration>

ERRORS
As far as I can tell, there are 3 different errors. All of them are thrown multiple times...

*

*Exception thrown: 'System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException' in System.Data.dll

*Exception thrown: 'System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityCommandExecutionException' in EntityFramework.dll

*Exception thrown: 'System.Data.Entity.Core.EntityCommandExecutionException' in EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll

A: The two tables dbo.__MigrationHistory and dbo.EdmMetadata is (usually) not there for existing databases. Entity Framework (EF) looks for these tables during initialization, which causes the exceptions I saw. Setting the initialization to null right after instantiating the DbContext will tell EF not to look for these tables and no exceptions will occur.
using (UniContext db = new UniContext())
{
    Database.SetInitializer<UniContext>(null); // Prevents initialization exceptions

    var emp = db.Employees.First();

    Debug.WriteLine($"Hello { emp.FirstName } { emp.LastName }!");
}

*

*See this post for more details.

*Thanks to @JohnyL for helping me solve the mystery.

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Only one in five Americans want to see additional immigration, while two in five Americans want less immigration, says a new Gallup poll.
The June 27 Gallup poll helps to explain why the GOP's rejected the media-touted lobbying push for the Senate's June 2013 immigration-boosting bill.
Progressives and business groups have spent at least $1.5 billion since 2008 pushing for increased immigration, and routinely insist that the public supports their version of comprehensive immigration reform. That version was approved last June by the Senate, and it would double the inflow of guest workers and legal immigrants up to roughly four million per year.
But even among Democratic respondents, only 27 percent want increased immigration, said the Gallup survey of 1,027 respondents.
That's actually less than the percentage of Democrats who want it reduced, which is 32 percent, according to Gallup.
Only 23 percent of independents want immigration increased, while 43 percent want it to be reduced, said the new Gallup.
Fourteen percent of GOP voters want immigration increased, while 50 percent want it reduced.
Roughly one third of independents and GOP supporters say they want immigration to remain level, suggesting they're not very concerned with the issue.
The new Gallup poll matches many other independent surveys.
A March 2014 poll by The Washington Post showed that independent swing voters would vote against a legislator who backed amnesty for illegals by 41 percent to 28 percent.
Even Hispanics oppose greater immigration, despite the concurrent sympathy with their co-ethnics south of the border. In June 2013, only 25 percent of Hispanics wanted immigration increased, according to a February 2014 Gallup poll. Thirty percent of Hispanics wanted immigration reduced, and 43 percent wanted it to stay level.
However, actual election-day support for more immigration may be far lower than even these polls show.
One reason is that only about 10 percent of Americans know their government welcomes 1 million immigrants each year, despite a record level of joblessness, according to a May 2013 poll by Rasmussen Reports.
Thirty-two percent of Rasmussen's respondents believed immigration is less than one million per year, and seven percent believe it is more than 2.5 million per year. Fifty-one percent of 1,000 respondent in the poll said they don't know how many people come into the country.
In any debate over immigration, public knowledge about those numbers is likely to grow, and nudge more people to vote against further increases.
Many polls also overstate support for increased immigration by asking broad questions that invite Americans to repeat socially-approved support for new immigrants. That idealistic support, however, plummets when people are asked by pollsters to make trade-offs.
That poll pushed a left-leaning set of respondents — of whom only 20 percent identified as Republicans — to reject the hard-edged claim that "most" immigrants cause problems. Unsurprisingly, it is cited by advocates for greater immigration, including Aaron Blake, a blogger at The Washington Post.
In response, 66 percent endorsed active policing, while only 18 percent opposed the policing, said the New York Times poll. That almost 4:1 answer suggests that many Americans are worried that a significant number of immigrants — although not most — cause problems.
That idealistic vs. practical drop-off is also shown in the new Gallup poll, which shows that 63 percent of independents, and 55 percent of Republicans, say immigration is a "good thing" for the country. Yet only 23 percent of independents and 14 percent of Republicans want it increased.
The new Gallup survey also may have overstated support for immigration by ignoring the closely related and very unpopular issue of guest workers.
Few voters recognize that the federal government awards work-permits to roughly 800,000 guest-workers each year, or that the Senate's June 2013 immigration bill would have sharply increased that inflow.
When the public is asked about guest-workers, the results show a lopsided rejection.
A 2012 poll by the Washington Post showed that adults opposed guest-workers by 59 percent to 31 percent.
A poll funded by NumbersUSA — which favors reduced immigration — showed 60 percent strong opposition and 2 percent strong support for a policy that allows companies to hire guest-workers in place of Americans.
But an increased inflow of guest-workers is a central part of Obama's so-called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" push.
He's offering extra guest-workers to big business groups in exchange for their promise to lobby GOP legislators for passage of legal changes that would allow at least 11 million illegal immigrants to win citizenship, not just residency.
"If we're reasonable with 11 million, if we all give them a pathway to citizenship … then the Democratic Party has to give us the guest worker program to help our economy," one of the Senate bill's drafted, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, told NBC's "Meet The Press" in April 2013.
Also, public opinion can be shifted during elections by politicians and advertising.
For example, since Obama's inauguration in 2009, many more Democrats echoed his support for more immigration. This shift is especially strong among African-Americans and progressives, who previously opposed higher immigration a threat to the economic interests of working-class Americans.
Also, numerous carefully-designed industry polls have managed to show supposed public support for the bill above 70 percent. Those polls tend to mischaracterize the Senate bill, and to downplay particularly controversial elements.
The impact of skewed polls was highlighted when a pollster tested a pro-industry pitch this June on voters in Majority Leader Cantor's district, shortly after his defeat by Dave Brat, who campaigned against increased immigration.
When initially asked for their views by North Star Opinion Research, only 15 percent of Republican primary voters in the district supported the Senate's immigration bill. Forty-four percent opposed it and 44 percent said they don't know about the bill, according to a statement from North Star.
The pollster then presented a carefully drafted and misleading description of the Senate bill, and then tested opinions.
"When the bill is described, including four key components — strengthening border security, employer verification, an earned approach to legal status including paying fines and taxes, learning English, and waiting at the back of the line, and tying legal immigration to the economy — primary voters support the bill by a 75 to 21 percent margin," said North Star in its summary of the poll. That's a huge 80-point swing.
But Brat defeated Cantor — and that industry pitch — with a shoe-string budget and an value-related argument that said wages and job-prospects are being curbed by a "crony capitalist" alliance of immigration-boosting business executives and politicians.
The business-backed push for more workers "is the most symbolic issue that captures the difference between myself and Eric Cantor in this race, but it also captures the fissures between Main Street and Wall Street," Brat said after his defeated the GOP's Majority Leader in his home district.


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Viable cold-tolerant iron-reducing microorganisms in geographically diverse subglacial environments
Sophie L. Nixon1, Jon P. Telling2, Jemma L. Wadham3, and Charles S. Cockell4 Sophie L. Nixon et al. Sophie L. Nixon1, Jon P. Telling2, Jemma L. Wadham3, and Charles S. Cockell4
1School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
2Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, NE1 7RU, UK
3School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1SS, UK
4UK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
Received: 29 Jul 2016 – Discussion started: 17 Aug 2016 – Revised: 02 Jan 2017 – Accepted: 04 Jan 2017 – Published: 21 Mar 2017
Abstract. Subglacial environments are known to harbour metabolically diverse microbial communities. These microbial communities drive chemical weathering of underlying bedrock and influence the geochemistry of glacial meltwater. Despite its importance in weathering reactions, the microbial cycling of iron in subglacial environments, in particular the role of microbial iron reduction, is poorly understood. In this study we address the prevalence of viable iron-reducing microorganisms in subglacial sediments from five geographically isolated glaciers. Iron-reducing enrichment cultures were established with sediment from beneath Engabreen (Norway), Finsterwalderbreen (Svalbard), Leverett and Russell glaciers (Greenland), and Lower Wright Glacier (Antarctica). Rates of iron reduction were higher at 4°C compared with 15°C in all but one duplicated second-generation enrichment culture, indicative of cold-tolerant and perhaps cold-adapted iron reducers. Analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA genes indicates Desulfosporosinus were the dominant iron-reducing microorganisms in low-temperature Engabreen, Finsterwalderbreen and Lower Wright Glacier enrichments, and Geobacter dominated in Russell and Leverett enrichments. Results from this study suggest microbial iron reduction is widespread in subglacial environments and may have important implications for global biogeochemical iron cycling and export to marine ecosystems.
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How to cite: Nixon, S. L., Telling, J. P., Wadham, J. L., and Cockell, C. S.: Viable cold-tolerant iron-reducing microorganisms in geographically diverse subglacial environments, Biogeosciences, 14, 1445-1455, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1445-2017, 2017.
Despite their permanently cold and dark characteristics, subglacial environments (glacier ice–sediment interface) are known to harbour active microbial communities. However, the role of microbial iron cycling in these environments is poorly understood. Here we show that subglacial sediments harbour active iron-reducing microorganisms, and they appear to be cold-adapted. These results may have important implications for global biogeochemical iron cycling and export to marine ecosystems.
Despite their permanently cold and dark characteristics, subglacial environments (glacier...


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Rain clouds are formed by the condensation of warm, moist air as it rises in the atmosphere. In regions with mountainous terrain, the shape of the earth's surface can enhance this process and accelerate the formation of rain clouds.
As air flows over mountains it is forced higher into the atmosphere. Air is blown towards the bottom of a large hill or mountain and has to to move up and over the obstacle. The air temperature drops as it rises because there is less pressure in the atmosphere at higher altitues, and the air is able to expand. The decrease in temperature causes water vapour within the air to condense and, under the right conditions, can create precipitation. The process of air condensing over mountains is known as orographic enhancement, and is the reason we often see more rain in regions with mountains, like Cumbria.
The data collected by RAIN-E will help researchers to understand more about these issues in Cumbria, and to find out more about using the X-band radar in this complicated environment.


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ELDER SON OF
BR. GEN. S. GEOGHEGAN C.B.
"HE WAS ONE OF THE BRAVEST
AND MOST WILLING SUBALTERNS
I HAVE EVER MET"
HIS CAPTAIN
LIEUTENANT STANNUS GEOGHEHAN
ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS
BURIED: NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY, WEST FLANDERS, BELGIUM
As you might have noticed, this inscription is seven lines long and has almost double the amount of characters stipulated by the War Grave Commission. The Commission nowhere states formally that excessive inscriptions will be permitted, but there's plenty of evidence that this is so. It seems that if you made a special case, and were prepared to pay, then sixty-six characters was not the limit. Both Lt Horace Allenby and Lt.Col. Percy Machell have inscriptions that are also over a hundred characters, whilst Captain Willock's is over two hundred.
Why has Brigadier General Stannus Geoghegan C.B. Indian Army used up valuable letters on himself you may ask. It's not because he was proud of himself but because, as many parents felt, their sons were still boys and not having had a chance to make their own mark in the world their identity was still linked to that of their family.
Geoghegan's entry in de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour Volume V tells the story of his brief life and military career:
"b. Naini Tal, India, 3 July 1898; educ. Sangeen, Bournemouth; St Winifred's, Kenley; Marlborough College, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 16 Aug 1916; promoted Lieut. 16 Feb. 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Aug. 1917, and died of wounds received in action near Passchendaele, a few hours previously. Buried in Nine Elms Cemetery, Poperinghe. His Company Commander wrote: "He had been in my company for six months, and I had a great affection for him. He was one of the bravest and most willing subalterns I have ever met with, and I feel his loss very deeply. He was always a great favourite in the mess."


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$60/hour, which usually pays for itself, because I love to find bargains.


I tried using menstrual cloth instead of the usual sanitary napkins because of an article that I read that napkins use bleach and other harmful chemicals which are carcinogens and can cause cancer. I bought mine from a Baguio based company (I forgot the name!) for P600-700 for a set of 7pcs 12″ menstrual cloths. I tried using them while I was out on a trip, and the size is long enough and has wings and a clip-on per cloth. Although the cloth seems to cover most of the area, it has a tendency to slip, therefore does not really prevent stains. It does a better job though compared to your ordinary napkins. I also got some skin rashes when moving about probably because of the cloth rubbing with my skin. Overall, 2/5 considering that you also have to take it home and wash instead of just disposal with ordinary napkins, but will try using again since it may be better the second time around and I do not really want to use sanitary napkins ever again because of the harmful effects.


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Maps fight a good war. Geographic intelligence has always been a pre-requisite for battle, whether in the form of Ezekiel's clay model of Jerusalem or a digital terrain model from a reconnaissance drone.
The year 2014 marks one hundred years since the outbreak of World War I, a global conflict which began on 28th July 1914 and ended on 11th November 1918 with a cost of 16 million lives and the downfall of four Empires in continental Europe. After the German army had invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg, their march on Paris was halted and what became the Western Front fell into a battle of attrition with a line of trenches that changed little until 1917.
When the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) crossed the English Channel in August 1914, it relied upon on existing maps at 1:40,000 (Belgium) or 1:80,000 (France) and some at smaller scales, which were useful for planning troop movements, but not for the largely static war of attrition that required a more detailed knowledge of enemy defensive positions. From early 1915 the Geographical Section of the General Staff (GSGS) at the War Office began to produce new, larger-scale maps for the fighting units at the Front. At a scale of 1:10,000, the new maps could reveal details of the enemy Front Line, machine gun posts, bunkers, communication trenches to the rear and any defensive positions. Small teams of Royal Engineers and Ordnance Survey surveyors gradually grew into larger field survey companies who could correct, print and distribute maps from the British lines.
The Battle of the Somme, fought by the British and French forces against Germany from 1st July to 18th November 1916, was one of the largest battles of the war and claimed over one million casualties. The 1:10,000 sheet shown here, Gueudecourt, depicts the trenches as on 2nd December 1916, with German positions in red and British/French in blue (as was the standard until these colours were reversed in early 1918). Gueudecourt was one of the most distant objectives of the British during the Battle of the Somme. The village saw decisive action from the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, who played a key role in capturing and successfully defending a German strong point. A memorial near the village, comprising a bronze caribou standing atop a cairn of Newfoundland granite, commemorates their achievement and sacrifice.
It's not always the case that those closest to the geography are those that either make or use the maps. Plenty of examples of covert mapping operations litter history, particularly military history. During the Cold War, the Military Topographic Directorate of the Soviet Army General Staff conducted a secret global topographic mapping program on a vast scale. The true extent is yet to emerge, but the availability of global and regional map indexes together with map sheets at 1:15,000,000, 1:2,500,000, 1:1,000,000, 1:500,000, and 1:200,000 scales, with further territories (including areas within the British Isles) covered at 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 scales, suggests that this was probably the most comprehensive and systematic cartographic project ever undertaken.
In addition, the production of thousands of street plans of towns and cities around the world at large scales, such as 1:25,000, 1:15,000, 1:10,000, and 1:5,000, have come to light since the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991. These include Paris, Berlin, Helsinki, Dublin, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Dakar, Luanda, and Cairo, and many others around the globe, all produced to standard specifications and using a variety of source material, including satellite imagery.
Over 90 towns and cities were mapped in the British Isles, including London, which is shown here. The plan comprises four sheets, which join together once the inner margins have been cut away. The astonishing level of detail includes the identification of strategically important buildings and their classification according to their use (e.g. military buildings shown in green, governmental and communications in purple, and military industrial as black). This extract lies at the centre of the four sheets and includes the Houses of Parliament (bottom left, in purple) and several of the city's railway stations (in black). At a distance the maps might appear similar to the sort of standard topographic sheet you'd expect but the typographic detail makes plain the authorship.
The sources used to compile the detailed hydrography and the construction material of bridges and their height above water (which can be found on many of these plans) remain unknown and it is not unlikely that direct observation played a role. That so much geographical detail was mapped at a time when the obliteration of many of these cities seemed a real possibility is the paradox of the programme's amazing legacy. Designed for a very specific purpose.
Executed with considerable expertise and care in the look, feel and accuracy of the finished product. Not bad for a map created on foreign soil without anyone's knowledge.


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This image provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft as it approaches the International Space Station Thursday May 24, 2012 for a series of tests to clear it for its final rendezvous and grapple on May 25. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to grapple the supply ship about 8:06 a.m., Friday with the berthing to the Earth-facing side of the station s Harmony node following…
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Q: AngularFIre Firebase saving data locally? I have an app that displays a list of items. Here is what I am doing.

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*When the app first loads I am making an HTTP request to get the list from the firebase database.

*once the list is received the list is stored locally on localStorage for future use.

*On future app loads, the list is loaded from localStorage to prevent unnecessary http calls

I am doing the above programmatically, i.e, saving data to localStorage and check for new data and getting it etc.
Does firebase provide any other way to the same?

A: There is no built-in support for cross page-reload persistence in the JavaScript SDK for the Firebase Realtime Database. Somebody is working on such functionality in the open-source repository, but no release was made with it yet.
If you need this functionality, I highly recommend looking into using Cloud Firestore. In addition to many other benefits, it supports cross page-reload persistence.


The following describes, in general terms, a typical tax basis calculation for United States spinoffs. This was true to the best of our knowledge as of January 2015, but please be warned: we are not tax experts. We cannot and do not advise you. Tax treatment varies with circumstances. Laws change every year. Consult a tax accountant before acting on any information here.
Typically, in the United States, shareholders in distribution-type spinoffs are taxed on gains or losses in the tax year in which they sell the shares. To calculate tax basis in the spinoff and parent, the shareholder must allocate his basis in the purchase of shares in the original company pro rata across the two resulting companies, based on the relative fair market values of the parent and spinoff immediately after the separation.
For example, suppose you buy one share of Company A at $100; A spins off Company B; and each share of A receives a distribution of 4 shares of B. Immediately after the spin, suppose the fair market value is $80 for A shares and $10 for B shares. The total market value of your holding is now $120 (one A at $80, and four B's at $10). So your allocated basis in A would be 100*80/120, or $66.67; your basis in B would be 100*40/120, which is $33.33 for the four B shares, or $8.33 per B share.
The above paragraph evades the question of how to determine fair market value immediately after the spinoff. Turns out the IRS does not explicitly answer this question either. Your accountant can answer it, or you can refer to the investor relations pages of the parent and spinoff companies. The latter can be very helpful sources of information on this. They often offer specific fair market values for the two entities, which you can then use to allocate basis. For example, here are the tax basis allocation guidance pages from various recent spinoff transactions.
These three all follow the pattern described above, but again, circumstances vary. Not every US spinoff is taxed this way. Outside the US, rules differ even more. This is background, not advice. Consult your accountant.


Published: Jan 31 at 1:39 p.m.
A serious accident on Manitoba Drive in Clarenville has closed a section of the road.
In a press release issued this afternoon, Jan. 31, Clarenville RCMP advise motorists to take an alternate route for the next few hours in the area of Manitoba Drive and Memorial Drive intersection.
The release states the reason for the closure is a "serious motor vehicle collision."
While RCMP say the area surrounding the intersection will be closed for the next few hours, The Packet will provide an update when the road is reopened.


Folks, taking into account the weather forecast for tomorrow I think it's best to cancel the tempo ride. It's to be very heavy rain throughout which will create serious issues with traffic and standing water etc. Obviously if riders wish to go out of their own accord, that's a decision for each individual.
Folks, I'm leading Tempo this Sat and here is my proposed route - www.strava.com/routes/15559056 . The only fly in the ointment is storm Callum which is looming and may scupper our plans. I'll see how things are progressing throughout today and make a judgement later on. If the conditions are dodgy and likely to compromise safety, well, you know the script.


The guild leader must keep the guild mystified by rumor and legend, thus keeping them in total ignorance of his inner thoughts.
Players: While this may sound confusing, and while guilds thrive on transparency between leadership and the general player base, a guild leader's reputation is often driven not by what they have done, but by what others say they have done. It is best to keep up the appearance of the positive while quelling the negative quickly.


We have had many interesting conversations about the "value" of social media and ROI of engagement lately, some more interesting than others. One most insightful was with Sid Banerjee, Chairman and CEO of text mining software company Clarabridge.
He pointed out that beyond the numbers, there's a wider benefit which is that knowing what customers are doing in relation to your brand enables you to close the loop on customer marketing and customer experience. And once you've harnessed the data, you can use it to drive not just marketing activity, but product development, customer experiences, and more.
Would you like to be more comfortable next time you make a multimillion dollar decision? Maybe its time you let data set you free.
Check out Sid's interviews with yBC here.


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Q: Parsing a RS256 JWT from Xero using JJWT I'm trying to parse a JWT from Xero for SSO.
Xero documentation states "The JWT is a JSON payload signed with your client secret and the RS256 signing algorithm".
I can get the JWT from Xero. I know my "client secret" (string).
How do put it together to setSigningKey to verify the response for RS256? using Java.
Thanks

A: Thanks for asking this question. I came to this as a complete beginner and there is quite a learning curve. Because I am proxying the Xero signin so I can support multiple domains with one app, I needed to handle the oauth2 stuff manually.
There are hardly any questions on this and it was driving me a bit crazy, so I have added a python answer in case it helps others.
In python3, this is how it can be done:
    # using pip install pyjwt[crypto]
    import jwt
    ...
         def decode_id_token(self,id_token):
             #a method in a class I have, self.client_id is from the Xero app
             #decoded_without_verification = jwt.decode(id_token,options={"verify_signature":False})

             discovery_url = "https://identity.xero.com/.well-known/openid-configuration/jwks"
             jwks_client = jwt.PyJWKClient(discovery_url)
             signing_key = jwks_client.get_signing_key_from_jwt(id_token)
             decoded = jwt.decode(id_token,signing_key.key,
algorithms=["RS256"],audience=self.client_id)
             return decoded

I don't know if there is some way to avoid hardcoding the discovery URL. I got it from this Xero discussion: https://community.xero.com/developer/discussion/115505302

A: your goal is to just see the data in the id_token correct?

If your goal is to validate the legitimacy of the JWT i'd recommend using a library to handle that security portion of validation https://openid.net/developers/certified/

However, if what your looking for is just the data contained within (email, first name, last name) you can simply decode the JWT with this lib. Or checkout the decode function to roll your own (it will programmatically lookup hashing algo and decode it for you)
https://github.com/auth0/java-jwt#decode-a-token


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package com.twitter.tiny.domain.http

case class PostUrlResponse(tinyUrl: String)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


It's that time of year again! February 1st is the deadline to post the OSHA 300A Summary of incidents that occurred during 2012.
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Is my business subject to OSHA recordkeeping rules?
Employers must comply with OSHA recordkeeping rules unless they have with fewer than 10 employees or they are in designated, Partially Exempt Industries.
All employers–including those partially exempted by reason of company size or industry classification–must comply with OSHA recordkeeping rules if they are asked in writing to do so by OSHA, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), or a state agency operating under the authority of OSHA or the BLS.
If your business is subject to OSHA recordkeeping, you must fill out an OSHA Form 301 Injury and Illness Incident Report for every recordable incident, within 7 days of the incident. You must also log the incident in the OSHA Form 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses.
Annually, you must complete the OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses.
You can find a fillable PDF version of all three forms here.
What do I need to post in my workplace?
At the end of the calendar year, use the OSHA 300 Log to fill out the OSHA 300A Summary with the work-related injury and illness totals for the year in each category.
The OSHA 300A Summary (NOT the Log) must be posted in a visible location in the workplace from February 1st through April 30th.
What do I need to orally report to OSHA?
All employers must orally report to OSHA the death of any employee from a work-related incident or the in-patient hospitalization of three or more employees as a result of a work-related incident within eight (8) hours. OSHA's toll-free phone number is 1-800-321-OSHA (6742).
The answers above are general guidelines. For more detailed information, visit the OSHA website.


Teastaíonn focail éagsúla Ghaeilge chun identity a aistriú, ag brath ar an chomhthéacs. Ní mór dealú idir 'céannacht', 'aitheantas' agus 'féiniúlacht'. Tá siad an-trína chéile sna habairtí seo thíos.
'Féiniúlacht' is fearr a úsáid más é an chiall atá le identity ná sainiúlacht phearsanta nó chultúrtha. Féiniúlacht chultúrtha na hÉireann atá i gceist sa chéad sampla thuas, cuir i gcás.
Is é is bunbhrí don fhocal 'céannacht' ná 'the state of being the same as a person described or claimed (Collins).' Seans go mbeadh ar thaistealaí a chéannacht a chruthú, is é sin a chruthú gurb eisean an duine a bhfuil a ainm ar na doiciméid taistil.
Tá blas rud beag teicniúil ar 'céannacht.' Tá sé ar an téarma is coitianta a úsáidtear i dtéacsanna oifigiúla ach tá an gnáthfhocal 'aitheantas' le fáil ina lán leaganacha, mar shampla 'cárta aitheantais', 'goid aitheantais' (identity card, identity theft).
I gcásanna áirithe, is fearr an gnáthfhocal ná ceann ar bith de na focail thuas. Comhrá gutháin atá i gceist san abairt thíos.
Ní dúirt an fear eile a ainm...níor rith sé leis nach mbeadh a fhéiniúlacht go hiomlán soiléir.
Níl i gceist ansin ach nár sé rith leis an duine nach mbeadh a fhios ag an duine eile cé a bhí ag caint leis.


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This course is a study of the theory, concepts, and practices of learning measurement and evaluation in instructional settings. Course topics include reliability theory, test and evaluation development, validation, and assessment.
Understand key terms in measurement theory and practice.
Analyze peer-reviewed journal articles related to measurement and evaluation.
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Q: How do I get a song name and a rating inside an arraylist? How do I make an arraylist with a song name, and a rating? Right now i just put a number infront of the song name, and then use substring to extract the rating, but I need to sort the ratings and find the songs with the highest rating - which is very complicated (in my world) using this method. Any way to link a song and a rating (1-5)? I was thinking about linkedlists, but that will be too complicated for my skills, if its the only way. All advice are very welcome. Thanks in advance.
Here is my main method:
    // Create band
    Band Beatles = new Band("Beatles");

    // Add musicians
    Beatles.musician.add("John Lennon");
    Beatles.musician.add("Paul McCartney");
    Beatles.musician.add("George Harrison");
    Beatles.musician.add("Ringo Starr");

    // Add songs (first number is popularity of the song)
    Beatles.songs.add("5Yesterday");
    Beatles.songs.add("5Let it be");
    Beatles.songs.add("3I Saw Her Standing There");
    Beatles.songs.add("2Misery");
    Beatles.songs.add("4Love Me Do");

    //Prints out all songs by Beatles, and their rating
    System.out.println(Beatles.musician);
    Beatles.getBandSongs();

Here is my Band class:
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Band {

public String bandName;
public ArrayList<String> musician = new ArrayList<String>();
public ArrayList<String> songs = new ArrayList<String>();

// Constructor
public Band(String bandName) {
    this.bandName = bandName;
}

public void getBandSongs(){
    for (String s : songs) {
        int rating = Integer.parseInt(s.substring(0,1));
        s = s.substring(1);
        System.out.println("Rating: " + rating + " - Song name: " + s);
    }
}
}

A: I would define a new class named Song, with two fields: a String specifying the name of the song and an integer for the song's rating. Overwrite the default compareTo() method so that songs can be compared by their ratings. You can then put the songs into an ArrayList and use a method such as Collections.max() to get the song with the highest rating. Best of luck.


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package com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.core.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Abilities.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Areas.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Behaviors.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.CharClasses.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Commands.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Common.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Exits.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Items.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Locales.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.MOBS.interfaces.*;
import com.planet_ink.coffee_mud.Races.interfaces.*;

import java.util.*;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
public class Fido extends StdRace
{
	public String ID(){	return "Fido"; }
	public String name(){ return "Fido"; }
	public int shortestMale(){return 12;}
	public int shortestFemale(){return 12;}
	public int heightVariance(){return 12;}
	public int lightestWeight(){return 10;}
	public int weightVariance(){return 60;}
	public long forbiddenWornBits(){return Integer.MAX_VALUE-Item.WORN_HEAD-Item.WORN_FEET-Item.WORN_NECK-Item.WORN_EARS-Item.WORN_EYES;}
	public String racialCategory(){return "Canine";}

	//                                an ey ea he ne ar ha to le fo no gi mo wa ta wi
	private static final int[] parts={0 ,2 ,2 ,1 ,1 ,0 ,0 ,1 ,4 ,4 ,1 ,0 ,1 ,1 ,1 ,0 };
	public int[] bodyMask(){return parts;}

	private int[] agingChart={0,1,2,4,7,15,20,21,22};
	public int[] getAgingChart(){return agingChart;}

	protected static Vector resources=new Vector();
	public int availabilityCode(){return Area.THEME_FANTASY|Area.THEME_SKILLONLYMASK;}

	public void affectCharStats(MOB affectedMOB, CharStats affectableStats)
	{
		super.affectCharStats(affectedMOB, affectableStats);
		affectableStats.setRacialStat(CharStats.STAT_STRENGTH,10);
		affectableStats.setRacialStat(CharStats.STAT_DEXTERITY,10);
		affectableStats.setRacialStat(CharStats.STAT_INTELLIGENCE,1);
	}
	public Weapon myNaturalWeapon()
	{
		if(naturalWeapon==null)
		{
			naturalWeapon=CMClass.getWeapon("StdWeapon");
			naturalWeapon.setName("sharp teeth");
			naturalWeapon.setWeaponType(Weapon.TYPE_PIERCING);
		}
		return naturalWeapon;
	}

	public DeadBody getCorpseContainer(MOB mob, Room room)
	{
		DeadBody body=super.getCorpseContainer(mob,room);
		if((body!=null)&&(CMLib.dice().rollPercentage()<25)&&(!CMSecurity.isDisabled("AUTODISEASE")))
		{
			Ability A=CMClass.getAbility("Disease_Fleas");
			if(A!=null) body.addNonUninvokableEffect(A);
		}
		return body;
	}
	public String healthText(MOB viewer, MOB mob)
	{
		double pct=(CMath.div(mob.curState().getHitPoints(),mob.maxState().getHitPoints()));

		if(pct<.10)
			return "^r" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^r is hovering on deaths door!^N";
		else
		if(pct<.20)
			return "^r" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^r is covered in blood and matted hair.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.30)
			return "^r" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^r is bleeding badly from lots of wounds.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.40)
			return "^y" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^y has large patches of bloody matted fur.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.50)
			return "^y" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^y has some bloody matted fur.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.60)
			return "^p" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^p has a lot of cuts and gashes.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.70)
			return "^p" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^p has a few cut patches.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.80)
			return "^g" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^g has a cut patch of fur.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.90)
			return "^g" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^g has some disheveled fur.^N";
		else
		if(pct<.99)
			return "^g" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^g has some misplaced hairs.^N";
		else
			return "^c" + mob.displayName(viewer) + "^c is in perfect health.^N";
	}
	public Vector myResources()
	{
		synchronized(resources)
		{
			if(resources.size()==0)
			{
				resources.addElement(makeResource
				("a "+name().toLowerCase()+" nose",RawMaterial.RESOURCE_MEAT));
				resources.addElement(makeResource
				("some "+name().toLowerCase()+" hair",RawMaterial.RESOURCE_HIDE));
				resources.addElement(makeResource
				("a pound of "+name().toLowerCase()+" meat",RawMaterial.RESOURCE_MEAT));
				resources.addElement(makeResource
				("some "+name().toLowerCase()+" blood",RawMaterial.RESOURCE_BLOOD));
				resources.addElement(makeResource
				("a pile of "+name().toLowerCase()+" bones",RawMaterial.RESOURCE_BONE));
			}
		}
		return resources;
	}
}


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WWE Planning Four-way Title Match At Summerslam
by H Jenkinson August 1, 2019 August 1, 2019 at 7:35 am
WWE has a big Summerslam card and they want to put as many Superstars on the show as possible. Fans tune in to see their favorite Superstar so WWE is trying to include as many of the more popular members of their roster as possible. With a six-hour show that is easier to accomplish.
We previously reported that Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross are slated for a WWE Women's Tag Team Title match. Dave Meltzer said on Wrestling Observer Radio that this match will actually be a fourway contest.
The IIconics are slated to defend their championships against Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross, The Kabuki Warriors, and Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville.
Peyton Royce and Billie Kay have been able to hang onto their titles since WrestleMania, but they have hardly defended them. This will be their biggest challenge to date so it will be interesting if they will be able to hold onto their titles past August 11th's Toronto event.
Big Match Officially Booked For AEW All Out
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Julia Alvarez American Literature Analysis
Julia Alvarez Poetry: American Poets Analysis
Julia Alvarez Long Fiction Analysis
Alvarez, Julia
Please supply an example of connotation in Julia Alvarez's In The Time of Butterflies.
Angie Waters | Certified Educator
starTop subjects are Literature, Math, and Social Sciences
In In The Time of The Butterflies, the butterflies (las mariposas) are Dede's sisters who were tragically murdered (and therefore martyred) because of their involvement in the Dominican Republic's underground movement. Dede, the surviving sister, is left with only the memories of her sisters. The novel begins after the sisters have died and the reader is not distracted by the drama of their deaths as they are already documented, allowing the reader to concentrate on the reasons why these sisters gave their lives for the cause.
The connotation and denotation of words refers to their implied meaning and their literal meaning, respectively. In this historical novel, based on the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Alvarez uses connotation because there is so much that is not said (but that is implied) and so much that cannot be said (for fear of their lives) because of Trujillo's dictatorship. Even his title of "El Jefe" which simply means "chief" or "boss" comes to mean so much more as he transforms from hero into tyrant.
As Minerva comes to terms with her increasing dislike for Trujillo, she tries to loosen his grip on her, complaining that his medals are hurting her. He says,
Anything else bother you about my dress I could take off?He yanks me by the wrist, thrusting his pelvis at me in a vulgar way...
Trujillo's words have sexual connotations and show his lack of respect and his inflated sense of importance. He is not expecting her to slap his face and although he responds by minimizing the slap ("a mind of her own, this little cibaena"), this, together with the inclement weather which immediately follows, signifies the changing circumstances for the girls. Trujillo will find Minerva's letters.
What is the summary of My English by Julia Alvarez?
Are there example of figurative language in Julia Alvarez's poem "Woman's work"?
For "Daughter of Invention," please provide summary of the story."Daugter of Invention" by Julia...
How is the author's name important in "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez?
Does the Julia Alvarez use symbols to represent abstract ideas in the short story "Daughter of...
Lorna Stowers | Certified Educator
Words can be defined in two different ways. They possess either denotative meaning or connotative meaning. Denotative meaning refers to the dictionary meaning of a word. Connotative meaning refers to the emotional meaning attached to a word. In regards to Julia Alvarez's In The Time of Butterflies, one can identify gringa dominicana (from Chapter One) as possessing a connotative meaning.
Gringa dominicana refers to an Americanized Dominican woman. This phrase could be highly emotional based upon the fact that the Dominican woman has forgotten her traditions because of her becoming Americanized. Other Dominican women may not like the fact that the woman has forgotten her heritage. Therefore, given the emotional attachment to the word, this would be an example of a connotative word.
What is the central theme of Julia Alverez's poem, "The Dusting?"
1. In "Daughter of Invention" by Julia Alvarez, why does the father give the speaker the gift...
What is the rising action for "Daughter of Invention"?
Is Julia Alavarz married? Does she have kids and who influenced her? its an assignment
How does culture influence Julia Alvarez's writing as a whole?
Julia Alvarez Biography
Julia Alvarez Analysis
Julia Alvarez Quiz
Julia Alvarez Lesson Plans


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