Claire Lordon Design: Merry Christmas!
My pastor recently asked me to create some art for the service bulletin on Christmas Eve. He wanted me to base it on the theme of light.
I had much fun playing around with textures in this piece. I also might use it for my own Christmas card.
Awesome!! I love this Claire!


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Worthy Christian News > World News > Journalist Sells Nobel Medal For $103 Million To Help Ukraine
Journalist Sells Nobel Medal For $103 Million To Help Ukraine
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | Tag Cloud Tags: Nobel, Russia, Ukraine, WorthyNews
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
KYIV/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – The Russian editor-in-chief of independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has auctioned off his Nobel Peace Prize medal for $103.5 million to help Ukraine's child refugees.
Dmitry Muratov said all the money from the sale will go directly to the United Nations fund UNICEF to support its efforts to help children displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Just minutes after bidding ended, UNICEF told Heritage Auctions, the U.S.-based auction house which handled the sale it had already received the funds.
Heritage Auctions did not confirm the buyer's identity but said the winning bid was made by proxy. The $103.5 million sale translates to $100 million Swiss francs, hinting that the buyer is from overseas.
Muratov's idea to auction off his Nobel Peace Prize Medal came after he already donated the accompanying $500,000 cash award to charity.
The journalist, who was awarded the gold medal in October 2021, helped found the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.
BATTLES RAGE
He was the publication's editor-in-chief when it shut down in March amid the Kremlin's clampdown on journalists and public dissent after Russia's invaded Ukraine.
The money to support child refugees came as thousands of people fled daily to neighboring countries from Ukraine, where Russia has captured roughly a quarter of the nation.
Despite the heavy influx of weapons from the West, Ukrainian forces are outgunned by the Russian military in the battle for the eastern Donbas region, Ukraine's industrial heartland.
Ukrainian forces say the fighting involves mainly artillery exchanges.
While Russians can keep up the heavy, continuous fire for hours at a time, the defenders can't match the enemy in weapons or ammunition, Kyiv has acknowledged.
Tens of thousands of people, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed in the near-four-month war.
McDonald's Sells Business In Russia Amid Global Worries
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Jared Kushner, Avi Berkowitz nominated for Nobel Peace Prize for Abraham Accords
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Ukraine refugee crisis: More than 10 million flee homes, 13 million stranded
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'Brazil Fisherman Admits Killing British Journalist And Expert In Amazon'
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Tag Cloud Tags: Nobel, Russia, Ukraine, WorthyNews
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Q: How to make Controller parameters in Nest JS? Service Code:
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The problem is that if i insert values (EmpId, BTTitle, Reas) in the Service then the code runs and inserts the values in the database. The actual problem is with the controller. I have tried using parameters through different methods but no use. Somehow the parameters i give in postman, aren't recieved by the controller. After running the code, Postman gives a 500 error and VS Code shows:

Error: Named parameter ":EmployeeId" has no value in the given object.

Please have a look and tell where is the problem in my code. Thank you.

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Police Officer Fired For Threatening Black Child's Life On Facebook
The department investigated and fired the officer the same day it was notified of the post.
KSHB
Article by Stephanie Liebergen
A Kansas police officer was fired after posting a threatening comment on Facebook.
Just hours after a sniper started shooting police officers in Dallas, a Facebook notification told Dallas resident LaNaydra Williams about a new comment on a picture of her daughter she posted two years ago.
Facebook user Rodney Lee wrote, "We'll see how much her life matters soon.. better be careful leaving your info open where she can be found :) hold her close tonight, it'll be the last time."
"I felt horrified because I don't know these people. And when I click on the guy's, Rodney Lee's, picture he's a cop," Williams told Newsy's partner KSHB.
The post came from the personal Facebook page for Rodney Wilson, a police officer for Overland Park, Kansas, and someone Williams has never met.
Williams told KCTV she called the Overland Park Police Department to report the officer. The department initiated an investigation and fired Wilson that same day.
Overland Park's police chief publicly apologized for that officer's actions and said, "I will continue to hold the employees of the Overland Park Police Department accountable for its actions on and off-duty. ... No one should be subjected to any type of discrimination or this kind of behavior." A criminal investigation is underway.
This video includes images from the Overland Park Police Department and clips from WFAA. Music provided courtesy of APM Music.
Latest in U.S.
Seven officers disciplined in Tyre Nichols' death
Inaction may not warrant criminal charges in all circumstances, but the Memphis Police manual calls for a 'duty to intervene' by officers.
By Memphis Police Department
Why are retail thefts on the rise?
It's organized retail crime — where the thefts are planned, and part of organized rings.
By Michael Macor / AP


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Another case of Democratic staffers going wild has broken out within the Washington State Democratic congressional caucus, or to be precise on the campaign of the 1st Congressional District's premature evacuator–Democratic candidate for Washington State governor Jay Inslee.
Some of our readers will surely recall that last year, the story of alcohol-infused tweeting and unsupervised mayhem by three staffers working in the Washington, D.C. office of Congressman Rick Larsen (D, WA-2) broke right here on the pages of NW Daily Marker, traveled around the globe, resurfacing recently in a new ad attacking Larsen in his bid for re-election.
Earlier this week the staff gaffe tally increased by one when aDemocratic staffer associated with U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell's campaign for re-election landed his boss in hot water over a tweet and satirical photo some felt was offensive to Asian-Americans.
Now, a Facebook comment posted earlier this summer by George Rowe–an intern working former Congressman Jay Inslee's gubernatorial campaign, and prophetically featured as "Intern Profile #13" on the 'Interns for Inslee' Facebook page–is the latest damaging remark to surface in a string of social media indiscretions by Democrat underlings.
In response to a Facebook user's status post that lamented a "weak" answer from Inslee on the question of whether he would raise taxes to support education, the dutiful intern Rowe stepped up to offer an explanation.
The emphasis above was added by me, but the context is all contained in the screengrab of the Facebook conversation. Rowe's "lie until you're elected" philosophy garnered 12 likes.
Rowe's post, however, is distinct from other gaffes because it is not crass or racially offensive but because it may prompt further inquiry into what position his boss would take on raising taxes if he is elected governor this November.
Certainly, a case of careless keyboarding by an intern cannot be taken as anything like an official statement of Inslee's position for raising taxes on Washingtonians. What does Inslee have to say on his own behalf? Verbally, not much, but his body language on the issue seems to say he's hiding the secret that Rowe let slip. View the clip below and judge for yourself. Attorney General Rob McKenna is talking for most of the clip, but keep your eye on Inslee.
That's not your best poker face, Congressman Inslee.


Eight pieces to go on display more than a year after the Hollywood star's world-class collection fetched record prices at auction.
Famed jeweler Bulgari said on Sunday it would put eight pieces of the late actress Elizabeth Taylor's jewels on display at its Beverly Hills boutique, more than a year after the Hollywood star's world-class collection fetched record prices at auction.
Included are Taylor's first piece of Bulgari jewelry, an emerald-and-diamond brooch which achieved a record per-carat price for any emerald at the Christie's sale. The brooch sold for $6,578,500, setting a record price for an emerald jewel and emeralds per carat at $280,000.
The jewels, widely reported to have been bought from the Taylor estate by Bulgari at the December 2011 auction of her collection at Christie's, will go on display this week in advance of next Sunday's Academy Awards, Bulgari said.
"There couldn't have been a more appropriate celebrity to have fallen in love with Bulgari," it said in announcing the display.
Noting Taylor's "grounded" nature in contrast to her impossibly glamorous life, it said Bulgari is known for creating jewels that pair precious stones with items of no intrinsic value such as antique coins, ceramics and silk cords.
Burton, whom Taylor married and divorced twice, once famously quipped that "The only Italian word Elizabeth knows is Bulgari." The Italian luxury house was founded in 1884 in Rome by Greek Sotirios Voulgaris, known in Italy as Sotirio Bulgari.


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Mikio Yahara (; born April 4, 1947 in Ehime Prefecture) is a Japanese karate expert of the Shotokan style. He holds the rank of 10th dan.

Biography
Yahara was born in 1947 in Ehime Prefecture, the fourth son of a prominent family with ancient samurai roots. He started his martial art training in judo. After studying at Kokushikan University, he became a kenshusei (or junior instructor) with the Japan Karate Association and began his career as a competitive karateka. In the period 1974-1984, he achieved substantial success both in kumite and kata.

In 2000, after a battle for leadership at the JKA, which lasted from 1987 to 1999, Yahara decided to establish his own organization, the Karatenomichi World Federation that promotes Yahara's core concept of "one killing blow".

Tournament achievements

JKA All-Japan Championships
1984 - 3rd (kumite), 1st (kata), Grand Champion
1983 - 2nd (kata)
1982 - 3rd (kumite), 2nd (kata)
1981 - 2nd (kata)
1980 - 2nd (kata)
1979 - 3rd (kumite)
1978 - 2nd (kumite), 2nd (kata)
1976 - 3rd (kumite)
1975 - 2nd (kumite)
1974 - 1st (team kumite)

JKA/IAKF World Championships
1983 (Egypt) - 1st (team kumite), 1st (team kata), 2nd (kata)
1980 (Germany) - 1st (team kumite), 1st (team kata), 2nd (kata)
1977 (Japan) - 1st (team kumite), 1st (team kata), 2nd (kata)
1975 (USA) - 1st (team kumite), 1st (team kata)

Asian Championships
1974 (Singapore) - 1st (team kumite)
1983 (Singapore) - 1st (kumite), 1st (kata)

World Cup
1984 (Hungary) - 1st (kata)

See also
List of Shotokan organizations

References

External links

1947 births
Japanese male karateka
Living people

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The 1st international conference on Building Information Modeling (BIM) was held by the efforts of Mehregan Design-Build group and the most appreciated support of the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, Iran Project Management Association and top domestic universities. Doubtlessly, the keynote speeches made by experts around the globe such as Germany, Italy, The United States, Australia and the UK, alongside the round tables, papers and case studies presented, regarded as the turning point of the 1st conference was warmly welcomed by the experts, academic staff and governmental organizations and provided a convenient platform for the development and promotion of BIM more accurate concepts.
Considering the BIM development infrastructures such as IT & ICT and legal-contractual infrastructures.
Tracing up a Road map for the development of BIM in the country and defining promotional and supporting regulations by the governmental agencies.
Promoting the accurate concept of BIM among experts and avoid hastiness.
Establishing BIM scientific associations and forums in order to standardize educational courses and awarding certificates to the qualified individuals or companies.
Teaching the BIM concepts and its implementation methods in universities and also initiating the field of BIM as an independent university major.
Organizing annual international conferences and events in order to develop international communications and review the findings on the path of BIM development and maturity in the country.
It is expected that by the achievement of the above mentioned and the ever-increasing efforts of the administrators of construction in the academic staff, public and private sectors, the speed of concurrence with this approach augments and our beloved country can manage to export technical and engineering BIM services around the globe.


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To the President of Congress, 3 May 1781 JA President of Congress Huntington, Samuel To the President of Congress, 3 May 1781 Adams, John President of Congress Huntington, Samuel
To the President of Congress
Sir Leyden. May 3d. 1781
On the first of May I went to the Hague, and wrote to his Excellency Peter Van Bleiswick Esqr. Grand Pensionary of Holland, that having something of Importance to communicate to him, I proposed to do myself the Honour to wait on him the next Morning at half after eight, if that Time should be agreable to him: but if any other Hour was more convenient, I requested his Excellency to mention it. The Answer which was not in writing was, that half after eight should be the Time.1
Accordingly the next Morning I waited on him, and was politely recieved. I informed him that I had asked his permission to make him this Visit, in order to inform him, that I had received from my Sovereign the United States of America full Powers to treat with the States General, and a Letter of Credence, as a Minister Plenipotentiary to their High Mightinesses, and another to his most Serene Highness the Prince; and that it was my Intention to communicate those Powers and Letters to their High Mightinesses and to his most Serene Highness on Friday next the fourth of May.
His Excellency said he would acquaint the States General and his Highness with it: that in his private Opinion he thought favourably of it, but that he must wait the Orders of his Masters: that it was a Matter somewhat delicate for the Republick: but I replied, as to the delicacy of it in the present State of open War between England and Holland, I hoped that it would not be any Obstacle—that I thought it the Interest of the Republick as well as of America. His Excellency rejoined one thing is certain We have a common Enemy.2
As this was a Visit simply to impart my design, and as I knew enough of the delicate Situation and of the reputed Sentiments of this Officer, to be sensible that he did not wish to enter into any very particular Conversation at this time upon public Affairs, I here arose to take my Leave. His Excellency asked me if I had any good News from America? I answered none very late. He then said he would be 302very glad to form an Acquaintance with me. I answered this would be very flattering to me, and then took my Leave.
Tomorrow morning I propose to go to the President of the States General, to Secretary Fagel and to the Secretary of the Prince. This moment for the first Time I have recieved the Congress Account of General Morgan's glorious Victory over Tarleton.3
I have the Honour to be, with the greatest Respect and Consideration, Sir, your most obedient and most humble Servant.
RC in John Thaxter's hand (PCC, No. 84, III, f. 129–130).
JA's letter of 1 May has not been found. Dumas carried the note to van Bleiswyck and presumably delivered the grand pensionary's message to JA (Dumas to the president of Congress, 1 May – 13 July, Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 4:393).
Dumas accompanied JA when he visited the grand pensionary on 2 May, probably to serve as an interpreter. His account of the meeting is virtually identical to JA's (same, 4:393).
On 3 May, JA apparently received an account of the Battle of Cowpens taken from a letter of 24 Jan. from Gov. John Rutledge of S.C., to his state's delegates at Congress. John Thaxter wrote to Edmund Jenings on 4 May (Adams Papers) to provide Jenings with an extract from Rutledge's letter, indicating that it had been sent by Thomas Bee, a South Carolina delegate, to an American in Paris, who passed through Leyden on 3 May. The American was probably William Jackson, who carried Benjamin Franklin's letter to JA of 29 April, above, and to whom Bee had written on 9 February. For more information on Rutledge's letter see Bee's letter of 9 Feb. to John Laurens (Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates , 16:692– 693). An extract from Rutledge's letter appeared in the Gazette de Leyde of 11 May; for the full letter see South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, 18 (July 1917): 131–133.
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Exploring the American Experience
About Mark Walston
1972, America, history, Personal Computer
The Birth of the PC
Posted by markwalston ⋅ March 6, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under Austin Roche, history, Intel, PC, RAM, ROM
Histories have traced the lineage of the PC's x86, the first PC, back to 1972, with Intel Corp.'s introduction of the 8008 chip, the 8-bit follow-on to the 4-bit 4004, itself introduced in 1971 and remembered as the world's first microprocessor.
According to "Forgotten PC history: The true origins of the personal computer," written by Lamont Wood and appearing in ComputerWorld, the x86 was originally conceived by an all-but-forgotten engineer, Austin O. "Gus" Roche, who in 1968 began his obsession with making a personal computer and would become part of the initial team that set out to build the world's first PC.
The 4004 — the predecessor to the 8008 chip that made the first PC possible — was put in the Intel catalog in November 1971, becoming history's first commercial microprocessor. The 1201, renamed the 8008, was offered in April 1972, for $120. Unlike the 4004, the 8008 could use standard RAM (which had become available) and ROM memory, making it popular with embedded applications. Since no one was using the chip initially to compete against the mainstream computer vendors, there was no backlash from them, and the nervousness of Intel's management eventually eased over the prospectives of introducing such a radical chip design that was capable of processing information in a way that the 4004 was impossible to achieve
Also in 1972, design Patent 224,415 was issued to Roche, former NASA engineer Phil Ray and industrial designer John "Jack" Frassanito, head of John Frassanito & Associates Inc., a NASA contractor in Houston, for the appearance of the Datapoint 2200, which some have suggested was the birth of the personal computer; the patent allowed them to say they held the patent for the first PC. (Other parties claimed utility patents for the microprocessor, and the precedence of these other patents was in litigation for decades.)
In 1974, Intel brought out the 8080 chip based on the same architecture as the 8008, using suggestions from engineers from Computer Terminal Corp. derived from developing the Datapoint 2200 II. Its use of a recently developed 40-pin package meant that fewer support chips were required to multiplex the output. Its descendants formed the x86 dynasty, especially after the 8088 was used in the first IBM PC in 1981.
Therefore, any PC in use today can trace its ancestry to the Datapoint 2200 of 1972.
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Following the success of the first Goût de France / Good France event, it will be held again on 21 March 2017, with a view to making it an annual spring event.
Goût de France / Good France, organized on the initiative of Alain Ducasse and the French ministry of Foreign affairs and international development, showcases the French way of life, regional products, and France as a tourist destination. Now more than ever, gastronomy is a key part of France's appeal to tourists.
Each recipe will be based on cuisine that uses less fat, sugar and salt and shows concern for "good food" and the environment. The price is at the restaurant's discretion and each participant will commit to donating 5% of the proceeds to a local NGO promoting health and the environment.
From 28 January 2016, all participating restaurants are presented on the www.goodfrance.com website. All around the world, anyone can find participating restaurants in their city or country. Many chefs have already posted their menu on the Good France website, to enable everyone to imagine the dinner they will savour on 21 March. All that is left to do now is to contact the restaurant of your choosing to book a table. Given the number of restaurants that still hope to take part, registration will remain open until 22 February, and the committee of chefs will decide on this additional list.
Join us on 21 March 2017* in one of the 2,000 participating restaurants to sample the menus put together by the chefs and witness their expertise and creativity.


This paper analyzes a model in which there is excessive bank lending and in which regulators attempt to correct the problem with a tax. A tax on lending can correct the over†lending problem by reducing the returns from lending. Imposition of the tax has a perverse effect on the composition of lending, however, because it falls more heavily on banks that incur expenses to reduce loan losses. Hence, along the external margin, the share of banks that voluntarily monitor loans decreases. In contrast, monetary policy tightening can produce the optimal level of lending without generating any distortion of monitoring incentives.
Enzo Dia & David VanHoose, 2018. "Bank Taxes and Loan Monitoring: A Cautionary Tale," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 86(1), pages 1-20, January.
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If you own a caravan or camper, you'll no doubt find a dedicated camping sat nav invaluable. The dominant player in this field tends to be Garmin, who have some advanced GPS units which get rave reviews from the press and owners. The benefits of a dedicated camping unit are mainly specialist routing (width & height restrictions etc), and specific info on points of interest, such as local campsites, even with integrated Tripadvisor reviews! The Garmin Camper 780LMT-D is the latest release from Garmin for 2018, and includes high quality 6.9inch touchscreen with a slim bezel.


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Q: how to set the simplecursoradapter to a listview in android? i have to set the simpleCursorAdapter into a listView.
how can i achieve that?
thanks.

A: This question is a bit vague, so I'm tempted to answer simply:
my_list_view.setAdapter(my_cursor_adapter);

But there are better explanations and examples in the documentation. Here is one:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/view/List2.html

A: ListView has the method declard as:
public void setAdapter (ListAdapter adapter)

And the documentation for ListAdapter lists SimpleCursorAdapter as one of its own indirect subclasses. So to set your SimpleCurseAdapter into a ListView, you just need call setAdapter on the view with your adapter.


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About Haier
Haier Industries
Innovation Model
Haier Global
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From Ford to Haier, "Being-towards-Death" of the Corporate Paradigm
The term "paradigm" was first proposed by Thomas Kuhn, the founder of the American historicism in the philosophy of science. The basic meaning of the term is: "Some recognized paradigms in the actual science activities - including paradigms of laws, theories, applications, and equipment, provide models for the traditional scientific research in some subject".
It can be argued that the enterprise management paradigm focuses on the whole workflow elements of the enterprise. Not only the production methods, it also explores various issues such as organization, management, and employee value. It was proposed in an article "Organization Management Theory of 'China Times'" that the three companies of Ford, Toyota and Haier represented the three revolutions of the enterprise management paradigm. In fact, compared to other companies of the same generation, the common feature of Ford, Toyota and Haier is to explore a complete and effective enterprise whole workflow system, and rely on this unique model to pursue excellence in their respective eras.
To see through the brief history of the term "enterprise", it has been full of profit, plunder, and control of such radical attributes since the start of the handicraft industry in the 16th century. Human society is constantly moving toward civilization. The collapse of the feudal system and the acceleration of the primitive accumulation of capitalism have also contributed to the transformation of the corporate form. Especially at the advent of the industrial revolution accompanied by the roar of steam engines, the popularity of large machines not only liberated human productivity, but also liberated our thinking about the factory enterprise system.
Although the plunder of the feudal society has ceased to exist, with the establishment of the factory system in the 1930s, large-scale centralized labor and regulation became the commonality of future enterprises. The "violence" under this kind of civilization has established a corporate empire. Although there are many reformers in the process of enterprise development, most of them still stay on the issue of solving production efficiency. The top-down control was not changed. The obedient execution was also not changed.
Haier System, a Paradigm Disruption —— "Being-towards-Death"
Toyota System has made Japan's corporate management paradigm go to the world stage, but this does not mean it is impeccable. The core point in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is that Japanese have special contradictory personality because they are eager to be recognized and achieve self-realization while they will walk the chalks and are willing to be controlled. This kind of contradiction is also reflected in Toyota's System whose essential appeal is to make employees better serve the company, although it tried to stimulate employees' autonomy.
The humanity research of Toyota's System is positive, but not profound enough. Because it doesn't change the essence of Ford's bureaucracy and its perception of the market is still based on enterprises as the core. Therefore, we have seen many high-welfare companies decline steadily in the internet era such as Kodak, Nokia, Yahoo, and Microsoft. In my opinion, this is because such companies ignore another attribute of "humanity" — user value.
At this level, Haier's exploration of the business management paradigm shows its unique advantages. Firstly, it needs to be clear that in Haier's entrepreneurship, the state of "suiciding for rebirth" is always existing. So I prefer to define the exploration of Haier System as a process of "Being-towards-Death". The death doesn't mean demise, but refers to the overall subversion to get rebirth.
User value is the core of Haier System. And in this dimension, Haier defines the market demand for the new era as "user experience plus personalized customization", and lays out models such as Connected Factory, COSMOPlat and so on. So that the transformation from mass manufacturing to mass customization can be achieved. The mass customization relies on the high efficiency under high precision and emphasizes that users are supposed to be involved in the whole process of manufacturing and consuming. Its goal is to have all manufactured products ordered, and until now its non-inventory rate has reached 69%. As a matter of fact, the manufacturing model in Haier System has answered the question of "whom we are intelligently manufacturing for" and completely overturned the traditional habit of traditional enterprises to pursue for production capacity.
In terms of management, Haier's Rendanheyi Model has opened an era when everyone becomes an entrepreneur, which is the new understanding of Haier System on employee value. Comparing with "enterprise identification" of Ford System, Haier requires its employees to "identify themselves", and then to realize self-entrepreneur. In addition, Haier also make entrepreneurs paid by users instead by enterprises, so that those who create more user value get more benefits, otherwise, they will be eliminated. Therefore, employees in Haier System are autonomous because they are not controlled by the enterprise, but interact directly with the market. They are self-organized, self-driven and self-evolving.
The subversion of production, management and human value has also completely changed Haier's organization. Haier broke the shackle of bureaucracy, and has changed into an infinite platform organization, meanwhile it attracts the world's first-class resources, producing co-creating and win-win ecosystem. In fact, the organization of Haier bears the most meaning of "Being-towards-Death", because it is trying to end the form of enterprises and reborn as an "urban ecosystem". Its pursuit is not a century-old enterprise, but endless growth.
Of course, Haier System which achieves comprehensive subversion will not be the end of corporate management paradigm. Because it is also a product of the times just as Ford System and Toyota's System. However, Haier, "Being-towards-Death", enlightens us that subversion is not exclusive to western enterprises including Ford, Toyota, Jack Welch's GE, and Kazuo Inamori's Kyocera. Instead, it can come from the oriental, from China in the IoT era.
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Computer Science Teacher: Can I Give You A Hint?
Last month I attended a workshop on CodeHunt at Microsoft Research. A talk there by Daniel Perelman on Hint generation in Code Hunt (you can watch a video of his talk here) really sparked some thinking on my part about how I give hints to students. Since then I have seen some other research on automatic generation of hints including an interesting paper by some researchers at Stanford (PDF). Having automatic hint generation is an important problem for online education and MOOCs. It's not an easy problem though. In fact at times I struggle with giving the right hints to students in live interactions.
Some times there is a fine line between pointing a student in the right direction and telling them how to solve the problem. Sometimes a simple "are you sure you want to do that inside the loop?" is enough. Other times a student needs someone to go over the statement of the problem and help them break it down into pieces. If a student is close to a solution then there may be little room of a hint. At that point it can become a judgment call between asking the student to keep working on their own and giving them the information that puts them over the top.
Different students need different hints. Or perhaps I should say that some students need more help than others. Working with students in person means that a teacher can figure out what concepts students are struggling with. A student that understands loops can be told "have you thought about a loop here? while a student who is struggling with how to set up a loop needs a refresher on the lecture they slept though didn't quite understand the first time. That more involved help, which is more than just a hint, may be a harder problem for software tutorial systems to handle than simple hints.
I'm pretty excited about the possibilities for software giving students hints. I think that this may allow teachers to spend more (and higher quality) time with students who need more than a hint.


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The many languages of working life
Dato: May 28, 2021 | By Björn Lindahl, Editor-in-chief
In this edition, we look at work from several different points of view. But in reality, it all comes down to the same thing. Work gives us an identity and experiences we would not have otherwise. That is why we are vulnerable when our professional roles are under attack. Or if we never get the chance to work.
The Nordic Council of Ministers' Work Environment Committee has launched an initiative to make work environment knowledge part of the secondary school curriculum. There is great interest in this among vocational students. They have already learned a great deal about ergonomics, lifting techniques and sitting positions. The subject is more remote for those who prepare for university.
By linking education material to the school environment – like the danger of too much passive screen-time – the Swedish Agency for Work Environment Expertise hopes to make the subject relevant for students. As one female student says: "You are still, like, young, so you don't want to ruin your body already."
Mehmet from Turkey has been teaching science to young people for 24 years. Now he and his wife are political refugees in Sweden and have been given the chance to participate in the Intensive Year. This is a new initiative aimed at linking internships with language training, giving participants a relevant job within one year.
The Swedish language is key for the duration of the Intensive Year. But English training can be relevant too. A published and experienced researcher with no English skills might struggle to find a job in Sweden, where most scientific texts are written in that language.
Most debates about language and work are centred on the need to learn the main spoken language. The challenge for Finnish-speaking Maria Karjalainen from Rovaniemi in the north of Finland was to learn Swedish. A job in Åland through Nordjobb gave her the opportunity to practice her Swedish in everyday life for the first time. It made her feel safe speaking the language, which she had studied in school but still felt uncomfortable using. All this came in handy when she became an exchange student at Stockholm University the year after.
The language issue is different again for people with hearing difficulties. A deaf person often works in places where there are no other deaf people. That means their sign language can get lost. The Norwegian Signo foundation is the country's largest employer of deaf people.
Hege Farnes Hildrum is their Secretary-General. With so many deaf people in the workplace, you get an unusually rich language environment, she points out. After many years of fighting, Norwegian sign language is now recognised as a national language alongside bokmål, nynorsk, the different Sami languages, kvensk and romanes.
It is still too early to conclude what this new status will mean, but it might prepare deaf people better for working life, hopes Hege Farnes Hildrum.
But what happens when communication collapses or when language is used for bullying and harassment? In their new book, Norwegian researchers Bitten Nordrik and Teresa Østbø Kuldova point to a development where workplace conflicts are increasingly described in militaristic terms.
"Nonconformist behaviour in the workplace is increasingly understood as a breach of the law, and investigated using methods inspired by the police," they write and warn against what is called workplace investigations. External lawyers and psychologists are hired to allow employers to draw a line under workplace grievances. Rather than talking about the reasons behind the conflicts and finding solutions involving all the parties, the accused end up in Kafkaesque interrogations with no legal protection.
We all need someone who dares to take the fight to the big guns. Read Marie Preisler's portrait of EU Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, who has fought some of the world's largest companies like Amazon, Facebook and Google.


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St. Catherine was born at Alexandria, of pagan parents. She was gifted with great personal beauty, and possessed so extraordinary a mind, that she mastered all the sciences which, at that period, flourished in her native city. The only science of which she had no knowledge was that of eternal salvation; but this, too, she at last obtained in the following manner: It seemed to her, in her sleep, that the Queen of Heaven was standing before her in wondrous beauty, carrying her divine Son in her arms. But the latter, turning His face from her in displeasure, said that Catherine was ugly, because she had not been baptized. Catherine awoke, and, while thinking over her dream, she was inspired by Heaven to resolve to become a Christian.
What he was unable to do, he thought others could do for him; therefore he summoned some of the most learned men into his presence, to answer Catherine's arguments, and persuade her to renounce the Christian faith. But the Almighty, Who, by a feeble maiden, could bring to naught the wisdom of the pagan sages, inspired St. Catherine with such eloquence, that she succeeded in convincing them of their error so completely, that they publicly renounced it, and proclaimed the Christian faith as the only true one. The emperor, enraged at so unexpected an issue, ordered these new confessors of Christ to be immediately executed. He then endeavored to win Catherine from her faith by flatteries and promises; and when he found that his words made no impression on the mind of the virgin, he began to threaten, and finally sent her away to be tortured. She was scourged so cruelly and so long, that her whole body was covered with wounds, from which the blood flowed in streams. The spectators wept with pity; but Catherine, strengthened by God, stood with her eyes raised to heaven, without giving a sign of suffering or fear.
After this cruel treatment she was dragged into a dungeon, and, by the command of the emperor, was left without food, in order that she might slowly pine away. But God sent an Angel, who healed her wounds and filled her heart with indescribable comfort. The Lord Himself appeared to her, encouraged her to fight bravely, and promised her the crown of everlasting glory. Some writers add, that the empress, having heard much of Catherine's wonderful learning, eloquence and fortitude, had deep compassion upon her, and secretly went at night with Porphyrius, the captain of the guard, to visit her in her dungeon. When she beheld Catherine's wounds healed, and the virgin resplendent with more than human beauty, she was speechless with surprise. Catherine made this miracle an occasion to speak to her of the omnipotence of the Most High, and of the falsity of the heathen gods. She spoke with such overwhelming eloquence, that the empress, as well as Porphyrius, promised to embrace Christianity.
I. Before Catherine was baptized she saw that the Divine Child in the Blessed Virgin's arms turned its face from her; but after she had been received in the holy Church by baptism, it looked most tenderly at her. The reason of this was that before baptism, she was in sin, and after it, she was cleansed and endowed with spiritual beauty. Sin deforms the soul of man and makes it horrible in the eyes of God. Baptism, and after baptism, true penance, cleanses it again from all impurities, and gives it such beauty, that even the Almighty looks upon it with love. What is the appearance of your soul? If it is stained with one single sin, it is more deformed and horrible in the sight of God, than anything on earth. It resembles Lucifer, but is more horrible to look upon than he. Lucifer was the most beautiful of Angels, but one sin changed him to such a degree, that if you saw him, you would die of horror.
How dreadful must be the appearance of your soul, if it is disfigured not only by one, but by many sins? Why then do you not hasten to do penance, which will cleanse like a second baptism? Why do you not endeavor to keep your soul clean and beautiful? If your face bore a blemish, which made you an object of disgust to every one, would you not make every effort to remove it? Why not do the same with your soul, which, on account of sin, is a horror to the Almighty? If you were assured that, immediately after committing sin, you would lose all beauty of face and form, and that you would be changed into a frightful monster, would you commit the sin? Most certainly not. Why then do you become guilty of it, knowing that it deforms your soul, that it destroys all its beauty, and changes it, in the eyes of God and all the Saints, into a most frightful monster? "Those who wish to preserve the beauty of their soul, avoid sin; for there is nothing that deforms the soul so much as sin," writes St. Lawrence Justinian.
"It is of no avail," says St. Prosper, "to learn what we must do, and not to rule our conduct accordingly." Christ says: "If you know these things, you shall be blessed if you do them." (John xiii.) Knowledge alone does not save, but living and acting in accordance with our knowledge, gains us life everlasting. To know and not to act accordingly, makes us deserving of punishment. Christ Himself says of the servant who knew the will of his Lord and acted not accordingly: "He shall be beaten with many stripes." (Luke xii.) What is to be done, therefore, it is easy to infer. Endeavor to learn the science of salvation, employ all the means necessary for its acquirement, and then regulate your life by your knowledge. Parents are obliged, under pain of eternal punishment, to see that their children are early instructed in this science, which is more needful knowledge for them than any other. Woe to those parents who neglect this duty!


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On Monday morning, after a short ceremony to pray for a bountiful catch and safety at sea, five ships will slip out of a port in northern Japan to hunt whales for profit for the first time in more than 30 years.
They will not head to the southern ocean, the controversial hunting ground for Japan's "scientific" whaling programme since the late 1980s, but to coastal waters, six months after the country announced it would leave the International Whaling Commission [IWC] on 30 June.
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The vessels' imminent departure from Kushiro, on the northern island of Hokkaido, to kill minke, sei and Bryde's whales, drew condemnation as Japan and its pro-whaling prime minister, Shinzo Abe, prepared to host G20 leaders in Osaka.
In a letter published on Friday, conservation groups and celebrities including Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais urged G20 leaders to stage an "intervention" at the summit and publicly condemn commercial whaling.
"It has taken the combined efforts of every nation on earth to bring whale conservation to the fore," the naturalist and TV presenter Steve Backshall said. "At the G20 summit, our leaders need to talk to our friends in Japan, and let them know that – on this issue – they are deeply at odds with the rest of the world."
Japan's government will not reveal the hunt's quota until after the G20, reportedly to avoid a backlash during its two days in the diplomatic spotlight.
Kitty Block, president of Humane Society International, said: "Japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic, it is undermining its international reputation for an industry whose days are so clearly numbered, to produce a product for which demand has plummeted.
"The IWC is maintaining its ban on commercial whaling for very good reasons and world leaders meeting in Japan this week should not turn a blind eye to the cruel assault planned on whales of the north Pacific."
But in Ayukawa, a remote village on the Pacific coast whose connection with whale hunting goes back to the early 1900s, local officials and fishermen believe the resumption of commercial whaling will help revive the local economy.
"People here have hunted whales for a long time, so we thought it was only natural for Japan to leave the IWC and start hunting commercially again," said Masaaki Sato, a fisherman who started working on research whaling expeditions 20 years ago in his late teens.
One vessel and several fishermen from Ayukawa will join the fleet due to leave on Monday morning, one day after Japan quits the IWC.
Shinetsu Oikawa, a local official, believes the resumption of commercial whaling will bring tourists to Ayukawa, which was badly damaged in the March 2011 tsunami that killed almost 19,000 people along Japan's northeast coast.
"Ayukawa is very remote, road access is poor and there's no space for industry, so whaling is the best way for the town to make the most of its natural resources," Oikawa said. "Now we want tourists to come and eat whale meat, spend money and help us truly recover from the disaster."
In September, a large tourist centre will open in the village featuring restaurants serving whale meat. "This is a chance for the area to finally look forward," added Oikawa, who misses the local delicacy – boiled whale offal seasoned with ginger-infused soy sauce. "It's been 10 years since I last ate that."
Shinji Sato, who has run an izakaya restaurant in nearby Ishinomaki for 35 years, was a relatively late convert to whale meat. "I first ate it when I was around 20, and to be honest, I didn't like it much," the 65-year-old said.
"But as I got older and my tastes changed and I came to love the texture," added Sato, whose restaurant serves whale meat deep-fried, as sashimi and in gyoza dumplings. "To eat whale meat is part of being Japanese, and it enables people in this region connect with their past. I don't see why anyone should object to that."
But in regularly eating whale meat, Sato is going against the culinary grain. Domestic consumption has plummeted from 200,000 tons in the 1960s, when it was an important source of protein, to less than 5,000 tons in recent years.
"In the past 30 years, all kinds of foods have come into Japan; there are so many things to eat," Kazuo Yamamura, president of the Japan Whaling Association, told Reuters. "It's no longer a situation where if you produce lots of whale meat, you're going to make lots of money."
Some observers have pointed out that the coastal expeditions will be much smaller than previous research hunts and would save hundreds of whales that Japan once caught in more distant waters. It could also be cheaper, as the fleet will no longer have to travel to the Antarctic.
Japan used a clause in the IWC's 1986 moratorium to hunt a certain number of whales in the Antarctic in the name of scientific research, but grew frustrated over its repeated failure to reform the IWC to facilitate a return to commercial whaling.
Patrick Ramage, director of marine conservation at the International Fund for Animal Welfare, said the "astonishing" decision to leave the IWC was a "face-saving" admission that Japan's research expeditions had achieved nothing of scientific value, but had instead caused diplomatic friction with anti-whaling nations such as Australia.
"Based on this astonishing development and concerns recently expressed by coastal whalers regarding the dwindling market for their product, it appears what we are seeing is the beginning of the end of Japanese whaling," Ramage said.
"Only the most convinced fisheries agency bureaucrat would suggest it is still possible to resuscitate consumer demand and commence a glorious new era of coastal commercial whaling and domestic demand for whale meat."
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from collections import Counter
from discord.ext import commands
from utils.converters import InsensitiveMemberConverter
from utils.messages import ColoredEmbed, MessageUtils

class Server(commands.Cog):
    """Server related commands."""

    def __init__(self, bot):
        self.bot = bot

    @commands.command()
    @commands.guild_only()
    async def serverinfo(self, ctx):
        """Get information about the server."""
        guild = ctx.guild

        create_time = MessageUtils.stringify_datetime(guild.created_at)
        roles = ', '.join(
            [role.name for role in guild.roles if role.name != '@everyone'])
        guild_info = '\n'.join((f'**ID**: {guild.id}',
                                f'**Owner**: {guild.owner}',
                                f'**Region**: {guild.region}',
                                f'**Created On**: {create_time}',
                                f'**Roles**: {roles}'))

        members = guild.members
        member_counts = Counter(map(lambda m: m.status.name, members))
        member_stats = '\n'.join((f'**Online**: {member_counts["online"]}',
                                  f'**Idle**: {member_counts["idle"]}',
                                  f'**Do Not Disturb**: {member_counts["dnd"]}',
                                  f'**Offline**: {member_counts["offline"]}',
                                  f'**Total**: {len(members)}'))

        text_channels = len(guild.text_channels)
        voice_channels = len(guild.voice_channels)
        channel_info = '\n'.join((f'**Text**: {text_channels}',
                                  f'**Voice**: {voice_channels}'))

        embed = ColoredEmbed()
        embed.set_author(name=guild, icon_url=guild.icon_url)
        embed.add_field(name='General Info', value=guild_info, inline=False)
        embed.add_field(name='Member Stats', value=member_stats, inline=False)
        embed.add_field(name='Channels', value=channel_info, inline=False)
        embed.set_thumbnail(url=guild.icon_url)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

    @commands.command()
    @commands.guild_only()
    async def avatar(self, ctx, *, member: InsensitiveMemberConverter = None):
        """Get someone's avatar.

        Args
        ----
        member:
            the member whose avatar you want to get. Defaults to
            yourself if a member is not specified
        """
        if member is None:
            member = ctx.author

        avatar = member.avatar_url_as(static_format='png')

        embed = ColoredEmbed()
        embed.set_author(name=member, icon_url=avatar)
        embed.set_image(url=avatar)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

    def _format_status(self, status):
        if status.name == 'dnd':
            return 'Do Not Disturb'
        return status.name.capitalize()

    @commands.command()
    @commands.guild_only()
    async def userinfo(self, ctx, *, member: InsensitiveMemberConverter = None):
        """Get information about a user.

        Args
        ----
        member:
            the member to get information about. Defaults to yourself
            if a member is not specified
        """
        if member is None:
            member = ctx.author

        status = self._format_status(member.status)
        join_time = MessageUtils.stringify_datetime(member.joined_at)
        register_time = MessageUtils.stringify_datetime(member.created_at)
        activity = member.activity.name if member.activity else 'None'
        roles = ", ".join(
            [r.name for r in member.roles if r.name != '@everyone']) or 'None'
        user_info = '\n'.join((f'**Username**: {member}',
                               f'**Nickname**: {member.nick}',
                               f'**ID**: {member.id}',
                               f'**Status**: {status}',
                               f'**Activity**: {activity}',
                               f'**Joined On**: {join_time}',
                               f'**Registered On**: {register_time}',
                               f'**Roles**: {roles}'))

        embed = ColoredEmbed()
        embed.set_thumbnail(url=member.avatar_url)
        embed.set_author(name=member.display_name, icon_url=member.avatar_url)
        embed.add_field(name='General Info', value=user_info, inline=False)
        await ctx.send(embed=embed)

    @commands.group(case_insensitive=True)
    async def prefix(self, ctx):
        """Manage the prefixes for invoking commands."""
        if ctx.invoked_subcommand is None:
            return await ctx.send_help(ctx.command)

    @prefix.command(name='list')
    async def prefix_list(self, ctx):
        """List the prefixes for this server."""
        prefixes = map(lambda x: f'`{x}`', self.bot.prefixes[ctx.guild.id])
        await ctx.send(f'Here are the prefixes for this server:\n{", ".join(prefixes)}')

    async def _update_prefixes(self, guild_id, prefixes):
        """Update the database and cache with the new prefixes for the guild.

        Args
        ----
        guild_id: int
            the id of the guild to update
        prefixes: str[]
            the updated list of prefixes
        """
        query = "update prefixes set prefixes = $1 where guild_id = $2;"
        await self.bot.database.execute(query, prefixes, guild_id)

        self.bot.prefixes[guild_id] = prefixes

    @commands.has_permissions(manage_guild=True)
    @prefix.command(name='add')
    async def prefix_add(self, ctx, prefix: str):
        """Add a new prefix to this server.

        If you want your prefix to contain spaces in the middle or end,
        then the prefix should be enclosed in double quotes.

        Required Permissions
        --------------------
        Manage Guild

        Args
        ----
        prefix:
            the prefix to add
        """
        prefix_to_add = prefix.lstrip(' ')

        guild_id = ctx.guild.id
        current_prefixes = self.bot.prefixes[guild_id]

        if prefix_to_add in current_prefixes:
            return await ctx.send(f'`{prefix}` is already a prefix for this server!')
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WE WERE on the Hume, me and Steve Brooks. Two men and two trucks, the newly launched New Truck Generation Scania trucks.
I had driven the six cylinder R 500 B-Double from Sydney to Gundagai (see road test in the previous issue of Big Rigs) and now step up the extra step to the taller, more powerful R 620, the V8 powered line-haul machine also hooked up to a B-double set of trailers, this time grossing 62 tonne.
At Gundagai it's a late summer day, the sun is shining and for a bloke who only yesterday flew out of a heavy Wet Season in the Top End, the weather was a pleasant change.
Sitting high in the V8, the driving controls mirror of the 13 litre banger, "Learn the ropes with one Scania, you learn for all," so my new minder, Scania man Lindsay Pollock, tells me.
I clicked the right hand wand toggle to D-for-Drive and the beast pulled out of the Gundagai Shell and we were southbound. A few clicks and the 100km/h cruise control, 103km/h descent retarder controls were back in place.
The V8 gurgled along as only a V8 can, the Freighter Trailers tracking straight as a ruler with the outfit's 62 tonne gross.
These trucks are the product of a ground-up revision of all major components bringing, according to Scania, improvements to safety, fuel efficiency, driving environment and uptime.
The smaller G500 was a sweet truck to drive. The R620 too is very easy to come to terms with although the steering seemed to run a little.
"Reactive steering, it's very sensitive," Pollock answered my query.
But the steering wasn't bad, probably just something to talk about.
The Scania claim is that the new trucks will cost less to run, are less fatiguing to drive and are safer.
I think about these claims as the big truck rolls down the Hume heading for the border.
It is interesting that the R620, as with the G500, that these trucks are specced up with Euro 5 engines where on previous test drives with Scania B-doubles - maybe two years ago on the Melbourne Adelaide run - Scania was pushing Euro 6 product. A change in corporate philosophy, or just meeting the demands of the Australian market?
Getting into the nitty-gritty of change with these New Gen trucks, the V8 has redeveloped combustion chambers and new injectors that delivers a .2 per cent to .5 per cent fuel saving. The cooling fans are now direct-driven and don't pull horsepower out of the engine like the old Houghton clutch fans did causing a drop in power and an increase in fuel consumption.
As with all the New Generation line, I found the external aesthetics of the cab a little retro, but Scania says improved aerodynamics and smart engine management deliver a comparative reduction of up to five per cent over previous configurations.
V8 engine power choices in the new trucks are 520 and 620 hp with Euro 5 standards and with Euro 6 the choices are broader with 520, 580, 650, and 730hp ratings.
Scania claims a seven to 10 per cent fuel consumption improvement where applications have a high GCM, multiple trailers, higher average speeds or a combination of all.
5). The aerodynamic changes of Scania's New Truck Generation contribute around 2 per cent for a typical long-distance customer, even with Australian-spec bull bars fitted - proven, Scania says, by on-road testing in Australia.
The fuel tanks are topped up at a servo in Albury and we cross the Murray. The road is levelling out now into the gentle undulations of the Hume though Victoria, a three-hour run into Melbourne and the Scania dealership.
Both the G500 and R620 New Truck Generation Scanias were exceptionally easy to drive. Leaving Sydney at 7am, we pulled into the Scania yard in Melbourne at 6 pm. The trucks ran the distance out of sight of each other and Steve Brooks and I were not attempting to run together however through the hills and over the flats, these two trucks pulled unbelievably matched driving times for all the legs.
In summary, the R620 V8 truck grossed 62 tonnes drove 816 km averaging 47 litres/100km (2.12km/l) and used 383.5 litres of fuel for the trip at an average speed of 84 km/h.
The G500 grossed of 56 tonnes drove 811km with the fuel averaging 48.3 l/100km (2.07km/l) and used 391 litres of fuel for the trip at an average speed of 85km/h.
So the 16 litre V8 bettered the 13 litre straight six by a minimal seven litres for the trip. The smaller truck averaged close to 1km/h speed faster than its bigger sibling, unnoticeable in the real on-highway world.
The realisation coming from this double-header road test is that the New Generation Scania trucks really are exactly that, a new wave of driving that looks to the future and offers an unprecedented ease of driving and comfort.
These are smart, intelligent trucks and if a driver is willing to trust in the technology, you climb out of the cab after 11 hours on the road more refreshed than I would expect from a modern sedan.


Oh Thailand, the most backpacker friendly/sunburn mandatory/party til you can't stay up anymore country I have ever been to. It's also incredibly cheap if you do a bit of thinking and saving dollars makes me gitty so I have gifted you this perfect itinerary for island hopping in Thailand, including how to get there, what to do and extra tips.
Where to stay: Any hostel on Khao San road. I recommend Khao San Immjai hostel which is a 5 min walk from Khao San Road. Stay 2-3 nights.
What to do: Explore the city! Walk around Khao San road and meet other backpackers. Temples are beautiful but require you to cover up for a lot of them so be prepared. Take the water taxis/buses to get around and go see a drag show! Thailand is famous for ladyboys and they put on a great performance. The Hangover 2 was filmed at the Sky Bar in Bangkok. It definitely lives up to its name.
Other Tips: In April Khao San Road turns into a water gun fight for three days in celebration of the Thai New Year. You will not be able to get to your hostel without getting soaked but it is hilarious and awesome and was the highlight of our trip. The portions of alcohol in Thailand are different than what you're probably used to so have less than usual.
Getting there: Train from Bangkok (overnight) to Chumphon and ferry to Koh Tao.
Where to stay: Good Dream Hostel, stay for 3-5 nights.
What to do: Rent a scooter and drive up to the lookout on the quiet side of the island with hammoks! Take a fast boat over to the smaller island, Nangyuan, and hike up to the top. Koh Tao is famous for scuba diving so you can become certified here. See a drag show or a Muay Thai fight. Relax on the gorgeous beaches.
Other Tips: The island is small enough that you only have to stay at one hostel. Beware of pickpockets on the trains.
Getting there: Fly to Surat Thani and then take a boat to Koh Pha Ngan. You can also ferry from here to Koh Tao or Koh Samui. Stay for 3 nights.
Where to stay: There are so many options for under 30 bucks a night. Book very far in advance for full moon party dates. We stayed in Sarana Bungalows farther away from the full moon beach and they were way more peaceful than I expected on this island.
What to do: Full moon, half moon, and jungle parties. Lounge in the shallow sandbars far away from the full moon beach. I suggest getting a waterproof case for your phone that you can put around your neck if you are going to a full moon party (you can buy these all over the island) because you will want to take photos of this.
Getting there: You can ferry to the mainland and bus to Krabi if you are already on Koh Tao, Koh Pha Ngan or Koh Samui or you can fly here.
Where to stay: Pak Up Hostel. Stay for 1-2 nights.
What to Do: Head to Railay Beach for the day, the water is beautiful and clear and have a snack at one of the cute food stands! Krabi was a stop over when I did it so we didn't spend much time here, however, there is great hiking here, try Tab Kak Hang Nak.
Getting there: Take a ferry to Koh Phi Phi from Krabi.
Where to stay: Blanco Beach Bar or Stones hostel. Stay for 3 nights.
What to do: Every night there's a beach party with fire dancers and blaring music, walk through the streets and get authentic hand rolled ice cream. Watch a muay thai fight here. Take a day trip to Maya Bay where the Beach was filmed. Disclaimer: you have to pay 200 baht to get off the boat in Maya Bay.
Other tips: The men with fire are there every single night and prey on women as the night goes on so be very careful when you are drinking and hanging around them on the beach.
Sometimes ATMs will eat your cards so when you exchange do it with a teller, there are western union stands all over.
Get used to the term toasties. These are packaged sandwiches you can find at 7/11 and they grill them for you. This processed goodness will be the cheapest meal you can buy and they're everywhere.
I hope you enjoyed this quick guide to Thailand. Hostels not for you? Get a discount on Airbnb with My 4 Favourite Airbnb Stays in Thailand post.
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The RoSPA Safety Awards are internationally recognised and have fast become the most sought after accolade by organisations from every sector. This key fixture in the health and safety calendar offers organisations a prime opportunity to prove their ongoing commitment to raising health and safety standards and to be a part of the longest running and most highly respected occupational safety awards programme.
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Video: Jurgen Klopp dismisses criticism from Sam Allardyce
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has dismissed Sam Allardyce's criticism of his methods by insisting he is not overloading his players with running.
The Sunderland boss, who recently called Klopp a "soft German", offered his thoughts on the Reds' current injury crisis which has sidelined 10 first-team players, six of whom have or are recovering from hamstring injuries.
"That is him asking his players to play a high-tempo pressing game from the top end," Allardyce told talkSPORT.
"I don't think Jurgen has realised just how ferocious our league is at this period of time and because he has asked for that extra-high energy – that extra 10 yards – these lads are fatiguing now with so many games in such a short period of time and are picking up these muscle strains."
Klopp, who is likely to travel to their FA Cup tie with Exeter with no senior central defenders – hit back at the Black Cats manager and rejected his claims.
"I am glad for Sam, such an experienced manager, that he has time to think about Liverpool's problems – I don't have time to think about this," he said.
"I knew about the Premier League, the fixtures, the intensity of the football here.
"There is no time for training, only recovery, the game is our only session in the week to be honest.
"We know about our situation, we know in most of the cases about the reason.
"One injury at the wrong moment is a problem for the whole squad because other players have to play too much but you have to react to this.
"Two weeks ago we never knew we would have a problem with centre-halves."
Since arriving in mid-October, Brendan Rodgers' replacement Klopp has regularly corrected what he sees as misconceptions about his methods – particularly the high-intensity gegenpressing tactic which he employed with such success at Borussia Dortmund.
"The problem is now people speak about the intensity of my style – I didn't create a style, how could I? I am not a genius," he added.
"We play only football and a team like Liverpool, with the ambitions the club have, we have to find a way to be successful.
"For this you need players, a little bit of luck with injuries but we haven't had too much of this.
"Maybe the first game against Tottenham was more intensive than the other games and now we make a few sprints more but not 500 more.
"It is completely normal, average running – football is not all about more, it is more about thinking quicker and being quicker in the right position.
"As long as you are not quick enough in mind then you have to run a little bit more."
Allardyce later insisted he had not intended to sound critical of Klopp's methods, but had simply voiced an opinion when asked a question.
Speaking at his own pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon, the Sunderland boss said: "I think the headline has upset him in the nationals.
"I got asked a question by a friend of mine, Alan Brazil, on talkSPORT, 'What do you think the injuries are down to?', and I gave an opinion off the question that Alan asked me, which was perhaps the high-pressing game in all the games that they have had created that little bit more fatigue and that was maybe a cause of why they have picked up so many hamstrings.
"It was a question that Alan asked me, I answered it and never expected it to bring the headlines it's brought.
"But if Jurgen is listening, I didn't mean to upset you or criticise your club in any way, I was just giving what I could see as as maybe one of the reasons why we get injuries.
"I am very wary of the amount of work we do in the week now in the hope that our players have enough energy to do the running they need to do in this period of time to try to get a result, and we are all suffering because of it.
"I'll probably suffer some injuries, no doubt, by the end of next week when we have played three games in a short period of time, but we are trying to manage it.
"I was just trying to say that he hasn't experience this level of football before and maybe that might be one of the causes."
Asked if the pair had fallen out, Allardyce replied: "I hope not. I had no intention of trying to wind him up. Alan asked me to talk about Sunderland, he threw the question in at the end and maybe I should have said, 'It's not for me to answer, it's for Jurgen'. I don't know."
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Graduate Student (co-advised by Jonathan Flombaum)
chenxiao@jhu.edu
Chenxiao is interested in connections between what we see and what we can create, including how we perceive objects can interact with each other to make something new (e.g., jigsaw puzzle pieces). She came to us from the University of Rochester, where she studied affordances in the CAOs Lab with Brad Mahon, and took advanced math courses for fun. Chenxiao is a skilled ATV pilot, and is rumored to be in a band. She also enforces the lab dress code.
Makaela Nartker
Graduate Student (co-advised by Howard Egeth)
makaela@jhu.edu
Makaela thinks about how people think about how machines see. She spent two years in Jeremy Wolfe's lab at Harvard Medical School, where she studied how to play nicely with robots. Before that, she was an undergraduate at The Ohio State University, where she made cool 3D stimuli with Jim Todd, scanned brains with Julie Golomb, and spelled her state's name with Barack Obama. This is Makaela's brain; this is Makaela's brain's cat.
Zekun Sun
zekun@jhu.edu
Zekun is exploring the perception of complexity — how and why some objects look informationally dense, and others look informationally sparse. Her previous work at the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored visual attention to painful images (such as a hammer hitting a hand), including one study in which she inflicted actual pain on her subjects by attaching a contact-heat thermode to their arms. For this reason, we don't mess with Zekun.
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Austin Baker
Postdoctoral Assistant Professor, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
austinacbaker@gmail.com
Austin studies the overlap of perception and social cognition; specifically, how our worldview impacts perceptual and cognitive judgments, and how this sheds light on bias and irrationality. She earned a PhD in Philosophy from Rutgers in 2019, and is a frequent lab visitor who spent her final year of grad school in our lab. Austin has worked in a congressional office, been a community organizer, and worked to make academia more inclusive. She likes 80s and 90s cult sci-fi.
Qihan Wu
Graduate Student in the Flombaum lab
qwu30@jhu.edu
Qihan is interested in the perception of beauty. Her previous work at NYU with Denis Pelli explored beauty's "dimensionality"; now, she's interested in how beauty connects up with other psychological processes, and also in the role of uncertainty and probability in perception. Qihan enjoys classical music, and has a very specific recording she listens to when debugging code: Zhu Xiao Mei's performance of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988.
Qian Yu
Graduate Student in the Halberda lab
qianyu@jhu.edu
Qian studies how we remember what we see, and how remembering is or isn't like seeing. While working as a translator of popular books (incl. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson!), she read some psychology books and became fascinated by how the mind works. So, she joined Ying-Yi Hong's Culture Lab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and explored the Uncanny Valley phenomenon. Qian gives you two lab members for the price of one, since she is rarely seen without her cat, Pipi.
Zhenglong Zhou
Graduate Student at Penn (but frequent lab collaborator!)
zzhou34@sas.penn.edu
Zhenglong is a member of the JHU Class of 2019 who majored in cognitive science and math and worked in our lab. With us, he explored how similar the human mind is to various sophisticated machine-learning systems, by asking how humans perceive images that fool machines. Zhenglong is now a grad student at Penn, but he still has lots of projects with us, so he gets to stay on the website. He also plays funky jazz guitar and sends Chaz groovy jazz-fusion recommendations.
Lab Manager (jointly with the Halberda lab)
patlittle@jhu.edu
Pat was a member of the JHU Class of 2019, until he graduated early this last December and is now living his best life. He became our lab's first member when he worked with us in Summer 2017; lucky for us, he came back the next year too with a Summer Training And Research Award. Here in the lab, Pat turns viral memes into science. Pat also is a skilled listener: He led the peer listening group A Place To Talk, and he subscribes to more podcasts than Chaz has heard of.
Axel Delano Fabiano Bax (really)
abax1@jhu.edu
Axel is a junior studying psychology and English. He's using a laser cutter and Raspberry Pi to run our lab's first "real world" vision experiment, on first-person representation in perception. Axel cooks and gives admissions tours, and is somehow also a professional futsal player. Really: He plays for the Baltimore Kings, and once competed for a national championship with a broken wrist. Here are his sick highlights. By a 10-1 lab vote, Axel has the coolest name in cognitive science.
Subin Han
shan61@jhu.edu
Subin is a junior studying cognitive science. She joined the lab in Summer 2019 as an intern, working on the "shape bias" in object naming. Apparently we didn't scare her off, because she's back at it this semester. Subin likes learning languages (so far: English, Korean, Chinese), is a member of Baltimore First, and misses her dog Mong-yi. Subin claims she can live indoors for over a month as long as she has an endless supply of fantasy novels; currently, we have no plans to test this.
David Schwitzgebel
dschwitzgebel@vassar.edu
David is a junior studying cognitive science at Vassar College. In 2019, he joined the lab as a summer intern, and he continues to collaborate with us on "possible objects" in perception. David sings baritone in a choir, identifies as a science-fiction geek, and last year became a citizen of Luxembourg though a "convoluted ancestral technicality" that his aunt discovered. His favorite pizza topping is bananas, and if you disapprove of this you can meet him by the flagpole.
Isabel Won
iwon1@jhu.edu
Isabel is a junior studying psychology and cognitive science. She is the resident 3D-printing expert in the lab, where she is working on a mind-bending illusion of weight perception. Isabel enjoys music and writing, and was inspired to pursue psychology by Oliver Sacks' book, Musicophilia. Isabel is a member of the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and has been playing the cello since age six. Here she is performing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in her home state of New Jersey.
A central research interest in the lab is how perception is 'smarter' and richer than we often give it credit for, often influencing — or even incorporating — surprisingly sophisticated processing that you might typically associate with higher-level cognition. For example, we've recently become interested in how our minds generate physical intuitions about the world (e.g., how we determine that a pile of rocks will topple over or stay upright). In one recent project, we have explored how basic representations of an object's shape can reach all the way up to our higher-level judgments about how that object will behave in physically rich scenarios, creating illusions of balance whereby objects that look hopelessly unstable may in fact balance perfectly (or vice versa).
We have also engaged with core questions about the underlying 'format' of what we see. Just as the format of a digital file constrains how it can be used (consider how a .doc file is useful for different purposes than a .pdf), the way our minds encode and represent information constrains how that information can be used by other processes. We have explored the format of perceptual representations by taking objects and shapes as a case study. Using new paradigms the lab has developed, we have found surprisingly direct evidence that the mind represents objects much as an architect might represent a building — in the format of a 'blueprint' or 'skeleton' that explains why objects look and behave as they do.
The lab also has a deep interest in foundational questions about the nature of perception. In particular, we have explored the ways in which higher-level factors such as language, desire, emotion, and action can — and cannot — influence what we see. Our work on this long-standing question in cognitive science has suggested that vision is not simply another kind of cognition, but rather is a truly distinct, 'encapsulated' process in the mind.
For a list of lab publications, see here.
Some of our recent work explores illusions of balance.
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