WHY Should I Document My Challenge?
I've written another post, 'HOW Can I Document My Challenge?' to go alongside this one - the two posts will serve as the basis of my Documentation Workshop at the Berlin event, so I encourage anyone else interested in documentation to add to these posts and use them to communicate the importance of documentation to others!
Documentation means communicating your experience and discoveries - ensuring that others don't make the same mistakes, and making the work we do stronger, as it can build upon the ideas and experience of many people rather than just ourselves.
Documentation is about turning an individual or group experience into our knowledge commons - something that can benefit anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Who benefits from a well-documented project?
Yep, the answer is d) All of the above.
By documenting your project well, you have the immediate benefit of clarifying and focusing your thoughts - in order to communicate a messy discussion or a trial & error process to others, you have to filter & summarise. This process usually brings up other questions, other solutions, or aspects which you hadn't even considered beforehand.
There's also a huge benefit to Future You.
Now, you haven't met Future You yet, but I think you would get on well with them, you have a lot in common. Future You is likely to be interested in the topic you're working on now, and at some stage - perhaps in two weeks, in two years, or in twenty years - Future You will want to know what happened at that workshop during OSCEdays '16. Future You does not have such a good memory as you think! Future You will need a refresher on what happened, access to the files that you used, links to relevant online resources, and a 'how-to' guide to reproduce or build upon the original process and results. By creating comprehensive documentation of your project, you are making Future You's life much easier. Future You will be eternally grateful.
Documentation also helps you because it is the first step to building collaboration, to finding new ideas, to communicating your needs and encouraging contributions.
You can never know exactly who might be interested in working with you to solve your problems, but only through documentation and communication can you let them know you're working on a problem in the first place.
How does it help OTHER PEOPLE?
Clear, easy-to-understand documentation allows somebody else to quickly understand what the challenge is that you're working on, what you have tried so far, how far you have come, and what problems or interesting questiions you have identified.
With this information, people looking through your documentation are able to very quickly understand if this topic is of interest to them, and if they can help in any way, whether that be by directly solving problems or contributing ideas, or else by spreading the word and putting you in touch with relevant people.
Good documentation saves the reader (your potential collaborator) time.
Maybe the experience that you have been through can help others to see the challenge from another perspective, maybe it will be directly relevant and useful to their work, or maybe they will see a connection between you/your project and other people in their network.
Without this information being presented in a useful, accessible and detailed way, they can't even begin to understand what you're working on, let alone help you or take the idea further.
How does it help THE PROJECT ITSELF?
You're a human being (I assume… hello to any bots and sentient dolphins reading this as well!).
Human beings get distracted, their interests change, their circumstances change. Just because you're interested enough in your topic to be involved in an OSCEdays challenge, doesn't mean that you are committed and responsible for carrying this project with you over the course of your life. And you shouldn't be!
Your project, and the ideas and discoveries around it are actually more resilient if it doesn't depend on a single person.
Documentation is the first step towards freeing yourself of the heavy burden of sole personal responsibility, and allowing others to share the task of stewarding the project. It's also an act of invitation and inclusivity. By putting your thoughts and experiences out there you're inviting dialogue and improvement. You're showing people that you invite and value contributions. And it means that if you get hit by a bus or attacked by a rogue sentient dolphin, your project and ideas will live on.
One more thing - you can't possibly know who may or may not be able to help develop your project, or whom your project might be able to help. If you keep the information to yourself, only sharing what you deem relevant with people you deem relevant, you're missing out on potentially useful connections. By making the information public, under an open license, anybody is able to use the information or pass it on to become useful to others.
For any good idea - particularly one related to the sustainability of our planet - its resilience and diffusion depend upon the contributions and stewardship of many different people - being overprotective of the idea, or choosing not to share it until it's 'ready' can jeapordize its survival!
HOW Can I Document My Challenge?
Sharing is a two-way street, so please document your events and post them as described by Sam.


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Hilton Head Business Profiles
'The answer is yes. What's the question?'
Barry Kaufman | PH: MIKE RITTERBECK
ENTREPRENEUR BILL WINANS BUILT HIS EMPIRE ONE OUTRAGEOUS PARTY AT A TIME.
We've all been there.
You want to throw an absolutely epic party for a few hundred of your closest friends that will include, but not be limited to: a live pirate ship, a complete sports bar fabricated onsite, go-kart races, Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatics and Hollywood-quality set pieces. And possibly a live-action samurai stunt show.
INNOVATION IN 2017: Trends And Key Traits For Startup Success From The Don Ryan Center For Innovation
Ellen Linnemann
Photo: David Nelems, executive director of the Don Ryan Center for Innovation
Since its launch in May 2012, the Don Ryan Center for Innovation has been a leader in transforming our regional economic development
"Empowering innovators and accelerating innovation is our mission," says David Nelems, the center's executive director. "Creating primary jobs and a diverse economy is the true measure of success." Indeed, every regional plan for the past decade has focused on primary jobs, diversity, knowledge and technology business formation.
Celebrating Entrepreneurs: The fine art of good business
Robyn Passante / PHOTO BY ROB KAUFMAN
Jack Morris (seated), David Leahey (left) and Ben Whiteside — the men behind Morris & Whiteside Auctions.
Men behind Morris & Whiteside Auctions celebrate successful longtime partnership
Morris & Whiteside Auctions' annual Hilton Head Art Auction was more than a day late, but definitely not a dollar short.
Usually held in October, Hurricane Matthew forced partners Ben Whiteside, Jack Morris and David Leahy to postpone the 16th annual event until Nov. 5, but art collectors showed up as usual to take home some of the finest works from renowned artists from the Lowcountry and beyond.
South Carolina's best kept secret!
Do you often think of South Carolina as an innovator in education? Most of us would answer that question with a resounding no.
According to EdWeek.Org, a national organization that ranks all 50 states (along with the District of Columbia), South Carolina schools come in as 43rd nationally, with a numeric score of 69.6. Compare that to Massachusetts, which ranked No. 1 with a score of 86.8, and Nevada, coming in dead last with a score of 65.2.
J Banks Design Group: 30 Years of Looking Ahead
Upcoming anniversary bash and the launch of its first book, 'Southern Coastal Living,' starts a new chapter for the island's famed design house.
Most companies celebrate their 30th anniversary with a party that looks back on their past success. But that's not how J Banks Design Group plans to mark this milestone.
Hitting the streets with Bluffton Bike Taxi
Join us for a spin with entrepreneur Trey Snow, who's bringing a new ride to Old Town.
The rain had just tapered off in Old Town Bluffton as Will Moody greeted me by his pedicab in the Old Town Dispensary courtyard. The brief cloudburst, a remnant of Tropical Storm Julia's crazed path around the Lowcountry, had scared off most of Old Town's late-night scene. And yet the electric glow emanating from under the bike still drew curious onlookers. Dodging raindrops, a middle-aged bar patron peppered Moody with questions: how far he goes, how long he spends on the bike, what he charges.
Sweet taste of success
Robyn Passante / Photos by Rob Kaufman
Local entrepreneur introduces gelato brand to nationwide audience
Before her first and only trip to Italy in 2002, Ramona Fantini's Sicilian friend told her that trying gelato would be life-changing. She was not wrong.
Can robots replace humans in giving sound financial advice?
Kim Kachmann-Geltz
Robo-advisers are bringing financial advice to the masses by charging low management fees for customized asset allocation and automatic portfolio rebalancing.
More and more investors are turning to "robo-advisers" as a cheaper and more efficient alternative to traditional financial investment firms that require substantial investment sums and charge up to 1 percent to 2 percent annual portfolio management fees.
Dean Rowland
OKATIE COUPLE GIFTS DOG FENCING BUSINESS TO WOUNDED WARRIOR
You never know who you might meet in life. It could be someone who can change your life for the better overnight.
This happened to Chris Williams, a 42-year-old recently retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and three-time Purple Heart recipient. It didn't happen during one of his seven deployments overseas in war zones. It happened here in the Lowcountry last fall when he met Mark Peterson.
Board director
DAVID GIGNILLIAT / PHOTOS BY MIKE RITTERBECK
MEET JOHN TOLLY, THE MAN BEHIND SUNNY DAZE CUSTOM SURFBOARDS
Like many small business owners, John Tolly started Sunny Daze Surfboards with a mix of knack, necessity and passion.
"Buying surfboards can be very expensive, so I forced myself to make my own equipment," Tolly says. He made his first board in 1997, and opened Sunny Daze Surfboards in 2000. "It began as a hobby and a passion, and it is still my passion today."

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LIVE: West Ham vs West Brom - Jarrod Bowen gives Hammers the lead just before half-time as they look to move up to seventh - with Sam Allardyce returning to face his old club
Gary Lineker questions Kieran Trippier's 10-week ban for breaching FA betting rules after Leicester encourage fans to bet on side on eve of Chelsea game... with Match of the Day host believing that is WORSE than the Atletico star's indiscretion
Shrink for shootouts: England bring in psychiatrist for World Cup as they put faith in Liverpool's mind master
Kyle Walker's absence from squad is confirmed with thigh injury
Luke Shaw desperate to impress his new manager
By Matt Barlow for the Daily Mail
Published: 09:19 EST, 4 March 2014 | Updated: 02:37 EST, 5 March 2014
Welcome aboard: Dr Steve Peters
England manager Roy Hodgson has confirmed he will use a sports psychiatrist in the lead-up to the World Cup - naming Dr Steve Peters as the man who will help prepare his players for the challenges in Brazil.
Peters, who has worked closely with Liverpool and has a long-standing relationship with England captain Steven Gerrard, will be involved with Hodgson's squad and the manager is pleased to have him on board.
'It is not just any psychiatrist,' he said. 'It is Dr Steve Peters, who is a very famous man in that area.
'He has a great CV of working in different sports and has been doing some work with Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers so Steve knows him well.
'It is something we have spoken about for some time but we wanted to get the right man - luckily Brendan let me talk to Steve and he has accepted our invitations so we are happy with that.'
Peters has also worked successfully with the Great Britain cycling team and five-time world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Endorsement: Gerrard had one-on-one meetings with Peters when going through a groin injury
Desperate: Luke Shaw is keen to make an impression on Roy Hodgson
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Gerrard gave his ringing endorsement for Peters, and revealed he first met him three years ago.
'I've been seeing him for three years now,' said Gerrard. 'First, when I had a groin problem and feared for my career in 2010. I saw him in a one-on-one situation and liked the work he did. I continued to see him and I've seen more of him since he's been connected with Liverpool.
'He can't help you do a Cruyff turn better but he can help you to learn what goes on in your head and help with preparation.
'I didn't know what was going on in my head before I worked with him. It works. He's helped me with mental prep before games. I feel I've found my most consistent form since I've been seeing SP. I'm delighted the manager's got him on board.'
Heads up: Jack Wilshere keeps his eye on the ball and will hope to get some game time against Denmark
Something old, something new: It's routine for Wayne Rooney but Luke Shaw is preparing for his England debut
STURRIDGE ON DR PETERS
Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge praised Dr Peters in an interview last October as he hit top form for his club.
'Steve had helped a lot in terms of mindset,' he told the Liverpool Echo.
'He's all about self-belief: don't go out there with the mentality of trying to do something, just let it happen.'
Peters made Sturridge give himself a mark out of 10 for his Liverpool performances so far.
The striker said: 'Steve told me to say high but I've never been one to be comfortable. I'm uncomfortable getting comfortable.
'I think, for my capacity as a footballer, I'd sat a seven out of 10. Probably even six - I'm being kind to myself saying a seven. I can do a lot better than I'm doing now.'
Hodgson also reacted to Kyle Walker's withdrawal from Wednesday's friendly at home to Denmark and confirmed Glen Johnson is now set to earn his 50th cap.
'It is unfortunate of course,' Hodgson said of Walker's hip injury.
'He hasn't played for the last two or three games and we were hoping he would recover but he needs at least another week before he will be fit to play.
'He was with us last night, we had a 'Brazil' meeting to put our plans forward.
'There aren't that many defenders so there is a good chance, if you insist I tell you Glen Johnson will get his 50th cap at right-back then I can say yes.'
Gerrard is joined in the England squad by Liverpool team-mates Johnson, Raheem Sterling, Daniel Sturridge and Jordan Henderson and the skipper wants to see their club form relate into a good international showing if they are selected.
Still got it: Hodgson gets involved while on the pitch in Enfield
'I think we have got five in the squad and everyone is in good form and feeling confident,' he said.
'If everyone is selected hopefully they can bring their performances tomorrow night. We are happy with where we are in the table.
'You have got to give credit to Brendan Rogers - if you are good enough he plays you. He is not scared and he has been paid back by them with top-class performances.'
Luke Shaw, meanwhile, knows he needs to make the most of his first England appearance to make the plane to Brazil.
Shaw only made his league debut last year for Southampton, but he looks set to earn his first England cap on Wednesday night against Denmark.
'If you get a chance you have to give everything and try and impress the manager,' Shaw told The FA's website. 'Hopefully I can do it this week.'
THE PSYCHIATRIST TEST
WHO IS STEVE PETERS?
A consultant psychiatrist and university lecturer who works with elite sports teams and senior management for corporate industries.
WHO HAS HE HELPED?
Peters's clients include Team GB cyclists such as Sir Bradley Wiggins and Sir Chris Hoy, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Liverpool and England's 2007 Rugby World Cup squad.
WHAT ARE HIS METHODS?
Peters works to a principle called 'The Chimp Paradox', which says the brain is split into three parts: the rational 'human' section, the illogical 'chimp' section and a computer for storing information.
The way athletes control their 'chimp' dictates how well they perform. Put simply, athletes need to control their surges of emotion.
HOW DOES IT WORK IN PRACTICE?
Peters gets athletes to write down all the problems in their lives leading up to a big competition. For each problem they then have to provide a logical solution to help them deal with it.
Peters also warns athletes against setting goals that are beyond their control. For example, footballers should not set a goal of becoming the best footballer in the world because they have no control over what other players will achieve.
However, he will tell them to try and be the best they can possibly be and then devise a plan from there.
Sir Bradley Wiggins, Sir Chris Hoy, Chris Froome, Victoria Pendleton, Team Sky, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steven Gerrard, Liverpool FC, Craig Bellamy, England 2007 World Cup rugby squad, Head of UK Athletics' psychology team, Dylan Hartley, Lizzie Simmonds, Nicole Cooke, Sarah Stevenson, Karina Bryant, Georgia Harland
BY JACK McCLUSKEY
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HomeEthiopia: 15 Ginbot 7 members killed in foiled 'Eritrea-backed' terror attack
Ethiopia: 15 Ginbot 7 members killed in foiled 'Eritrea-backed' terror attack
Ethiopia has often accused Eritrea of trying to destabilise the country, something Asmara denies.
By Ludovica Iaccino
Tigray Valley. Surrounding Of Wukro. Tigray. Ethiopia. (Photo by: Hermes Images/AGF/UIG via Getty Images)
Ethiopian security forces claim to have killed dozens of "Eritrean mercenaries" as they foiled a planned terror attack allegedly backed by neighbouring Eritrea. The Ethiopian Ministry of Defensesaid members of the Ginbot 7 opposition movement – which Ethiopia classified as a terrorist organisation – tried to deploy dozens of its armed fighters into Ethiopia.
It is believed a total of 113 alleged terrorists managed to infiltrate from Eritrea via the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia. However, Ethiopian forces killed 15 of them, while 73 were captured, officials told the Sudan Tribune. Weapons and military equipment were also seized.
The ministry added the "terrorist plot by Eritrea and the other destructive forces" aimed to destabilise development in Ethiopia.
The Eritrean embassy in London has not responded to a request for comment on the allegations.
A prayer session at Biftu Bole Lutheran Church for protesters who died in Bishoftu during Irreecha, the thanksgiving festival for the Oromo peopleTiksa Negeri/Reuters
Ethiopia and Eritrea relations
( International Business Times ) –This is not the first time Ethiopia has accused its neighbour of trying to destabilise the country. Addis Ababa has repeatedly blamed Eritrea for anti-government protests that have rocked Oromia, Ethiopia's largest state, since November 2015.
Ethiopia's response to the protests, labelled as the biggest anti-government unrest the country has witnessed in recent history, has resulted in the death of more than 500 people since November 2015, a figure the government later confirmed.
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After broadcasting the girl's games yesterday, today our attention turns to the boys on Day 2 of the MDI Thanksgiving Tip Off Tournament. Admission is by cash donation or by a donation of a new, unused, unwrapped toy.
We will be on the air beginning at 12:40 this afternoon and will broadcast the 1 PM Jonesport-Beals vs. Ellsworth game followed by the 2:30 Fryeburg Academy vs. MDI game.
The MDI Boys tip off the regular season at home Saturday December 7th when they host Old Town at 3:30. That game will be aired on WDEA AM 1370 and WDEA Internet Radio. The Ellsworth Boys tip off the regular season at Foxcroft Academy on Friday December 6th at 7 PM.


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The 16th task is all about making your life handbook.. Me myself made it with the Microsoft OneNote 2007 software, because i think it's quite similar to hard copy of notes, but in the digital version, compared to Word and Excel. But still, for some documents (like my financial info) which need calculation, i still prefer Microsoft Excel or any other spreadsheet. Well, this post will be full of OneNote picture of mine. But, please do remember that this is for SHARING only, not a PROMOTIONAL POST.. (I don't get paid for posting this LoL..)..
A life handbook, to put it simply, is your manual that contains anything and everything important in living your life, from your life purpose, adages, life learnings, long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies, plans, right down to your daily tasks. Just like you need a driving manual to learn driving, your life handbook is your manual to progress in life. Just as the Bible is the guidebook that reflects the doctrine and creed of Christianity, your life handbook is your map towards living your best possible life.
For me personally, a life handbook is my 100% personal book, covering all about myself, my life, my vision, my mission, etc. It's my notes about everything, it's my planner, it's my guide reference.
Why do we need it then ? hmm, first of all, we as human have quite limited memory. I think, we won't be able to remember everything happened in our life, especially in detail and daily basis. So, this book can be a memorial book of your life. Second, about the future, it will be a good place to put everything you plan for your future, so that you can also easily review how is your current condition based on your plan.
Well, to read the whole story about this life hand book, i would like to recommend you to read the whole article written by Celes.
(Copied from the 30 DLBL 16th day post here).
Decide if you want a hard or soft copy book.
As I mentioned in life handbook article, I recommend soft copy because it's easy to edit. Mine is soft copy Excel worksheet. It has many different sheets, whereby each sheet is a section itself.
Start with your mission statement, and go from there. Refer to sections on what to put.
Since it's your life handbook we're talking about, it can get overwhelming with the amount of information to put. Don't worry about it – just do it bit by bit. It's not meant to be finished in one day; in fact it's meant to be filled in and updated your whole life. Do whatever you can today, then continue on tomorrow. 2 weeks should be a good enough time to fill up the core base of the book.
My handbook is an excel workbook with many different colored sections. They guide me in reading. I have a vision board sheet where I plaster all the pictures of goals I want. This is like the soft copy of my real life vision board, with more pictures .
Look at your handbook every morning before you start your day. With your handbook in place, develop the habit to start off your day by reading it. Start off with your purpose, your values, followed by adages in life, your long-term goals then your short-term goals. You will find that even just spending a few minutes looking through it everyday will give you immense focus and clarity throughout the day which will lead to dramatic changes in the long-run.
Refer to it through the day to remind yourself of what you want. I have my life handbook open in my computer all the time, so it's second nature to refer to it and update multiple times in a day. If it's a hard copy, carry with it wherever you go. My clients carry their handbooks everywhere they do.
Update it constantly. Start using it as the central repository for every single piece of information that is valuable to you. Whenever you come across something that is meaningful and noteworthy, incorporate that into your book. Whenever you have a new goal, include it inside. Whenever you get an 'AHA!', revelation or epiphany, capture it so it will not get lost. While you might find some getting used to in the beginning, in no time you will become naturally inclined to refer to your handbook every time.Remember, your handbook is a work-in-progress document. Nowhere will it ever be completed in the truest sense of the word, because your life is a journey to be discovered every day. Your handbook is an evolving tool to guide you to live your best life. Whenever you get a new epiphany/learning/insight, pen it down into the book.
Back it up regularly. If you have a soft copy handbook, please back it up frequently (cue monthly).
Well, for my Life Handbook, i choose to do it digitally, by using Microsoft OneNote.
The picture above show the basic concepts of OneNote, compared to traditional note book. Both of them have sections and pages within each sections.
The main area where you can write on is the center area, the white blank area which we can call it area. Of course, it will act like document/word processor (such as Word). so, i don't think you will find any difficulties there. You can add pages as many as you like in the right column, and subpage, where subpage is a sub part of a page. Here is the example.
For one of my page, titled Journal of September 2010, i wrote some pages, such as goals, new habits i want to do, and daily log as a review journal. I separated the journal based on the date, that's why i created a subpage on daily basis for the 'Daily Log' page.
The picture above is a zoomed picture of section parts. For the general handbook, i made 3 sections up to now, which titled Mission & Values, Vision Board, and Life Wheel. For the others, i just made some section groups, divided into 5, Action Plan, Books Publishing, Data, Goals, and Monthly Journal. The purpose of this grouping is to avoid so many sections in the general page.
Of course, you can insert a picture here. Just as easy as in Mic. Word.
If you want to print it, or convert it into more readable formats, you also can do it, by converting it to PDF format or Word format.
*if you want to convert to pdf, make sure you have add ons programs that enable you to print PDF, such as PDF Writer or Adobe Acrobat.
The biggest weakness is, unfortunately, i think the format of OneNote is really specific to Microsoft. Unlike Word/Excel format which can still can be opened with different application (even by online application such as Google Docs), this one will need Microsoft OneNote installed in your computer.
To close this post, i just say once again. THIS IS NOT PROMOTIONAL POST ABOUT ONE NOTE. LoL. Hopefully this post will be helpful.
Including the screenshots of OneNote is very helpful. They give a clear picture of what it is. Thanks.


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This astonishing substitution has aspects of an eggcorn, with the adjective "exaggerated" providing for the link between the sense of the original and the reshaping. But a case could be made for this being more like a malapropism, or for the meanings of _exorbitant_ and _exuberant_ collapsing into one when costs and prices are concerned — at least for some people. This is why I have marked it as questionable for the time being.
Eliminating duplicates, I found 88 Google webhits for "X above approach", where X is a form of be. Most of them are relevant, and almost all of those look inadvertent.
"Above approach" is certainly a malaprop, with the relatively rare "reproach" replaced by the very common "approach", but I've marked this one as "questionable" as an eggcorn because I'm not sure how approaching enters into the perceived meaning of the idiom, especially with reference to abstractions rather than persons. However, the last of the "above approach" cites, with its explanation that "no one can come" [i.e. approach] and question the writer's manner of life, suggests a possible contribution. And maybe the development of "beyond approach" provides an explanation.
The "beyond approach" webhits include many like the last cite above, in which the expression seems to mean 'beyond approaching, unapproachable, first-order' (similar to "beyond compare" 'beyond comparison, incomparable, first-order'), with no possible reproaching alluded to — presumably the malaprop "beyond approach" reinterpreted more or less literally. The next-to-last cite could go either way, and might represent an intermediate step on the way to literal reinterpretation.
When a ship is awash with water and unable to manoeuvre normally, it is said to founder. Perhaps because flounders are fish in the same seas as the ships, it's almost more common to refer to a ship, today, as floundering than foundering.
In fact, in one of the references added here, flounder is actually given as a vocabulary word, erroneously defined as a boat awash in the sea.
Addendum/edit by CW, 2005/10/25: The substitution _founder/flounder_ (in both direction) has been submitted to the Eggcorn database several times and is discussed by Paul Brians and the American Heritage Book of English Usage. It is, however, not an eggcorn. The two verbs are phonologically and semantically similar, but it is unclear that one is being reanalyzed in terms of the other. An eggcorn requires that someone has understood the sense and spelling of word they actually employ, but not the word that is conventionally used in that particular case. See also Arnold Zwicky's discussion of _flout»flaunt_ (also not an eggcorn).
If it is a reanalysis, the second occurrence quote might give a hint… prospectives looking at the position from their perspective.


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Adjusting the packaging around your frank and beans is a timeless annoyance for men, some of whom handle the process subtly … while others don't.
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This seems to be an isolated track issue with Laguna Seca, displaying temp cars in practice mode, I've already confirmed that you can drive the TS020 in other locations without it being displayed as a "temp" vehicle.
Thanks AVENGED7FOLD. We have had this one bugged in our system already. The issue is actually affecting other cars as well. It seems that one of our game updates changed the way cars were loaded which caused errors on particular car/track combinations. For those who are interested, I have listed the affected cars and tracks below. I have also updated this thread with the bug ID.
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Age of Conan Gets Officially Censored
Germany just issued the final rating for the Age of Conan MMO and an official announcement was issued regarding what has to be stripped from the release version in the territory. As for the US, things seem to be a bit more complicated.
As opposed to "elsewhere in Europe" (where the version is rated 18+ by PEGI and will remain unchanged), Germany decided that full gore should be ok for a 18+ game. However, the USK (the body responsible for game ratings) also stated that "decapitation, dismemberment, and over-the-top type fatalities" should not be made available:
"Please note this isn't a design decision or something we can reverse. It's a legal (or as good as legal) requirement to sell the game in that particular territory," the announcement reads.
In the mean time, things got a bit mixed up in the US:
"It has come to our attention that the North American edition of the game was submitted (by Eidos) to the ESRB without any server-side censorship: full blood, full fatalities, breasts with nipples, not full nudity.
The ESRB reviewed our application and gave us a rating of Mature 17+. The full rating with descriptors has not yet been publicly announced but will be posted on the ESRB web site on 13 February 2008."
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Learning to swim is a memorable experience – for both children and parents. It can be nerve-racking if your children aren't confident swimmers. But once they start improving their skills, swimming is rewarding. Indeed, it's considered an important life skill. 70% of parents think swimming is the most important sport for children to learn, according to The Swimming Teachers Association (STA).
Being comfortable in and around water can maximise safety. Yet one in three children between the ages of 10-16 can't swim. The 2017 report, again from STA, highlighted how parents struggle with a lack of time and money to teach them. But did you know swimming is on the National Curriculum?
With more than 700 people drowning in the UK and Ireland every year, it's no surprise that swimming is a priority for the government. But with targets falling behind, what can be done? In this guide, we explore the importance of teaching children to swim and how to improve safety and hygiene.
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The sign test is a non parametric used to test a given median value for one sample. We may use it also to test equality of medians in paired samples. You can find here (PDF slides) the lecture notes about that issue, as part of the course "Statistics for Business" given by Professor Josemari Sarasola in the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of the Basque Country in Donostia.
Gardenki: Zeinuen proba, the same notes in Basque.


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require 'concurrent/synchronization/lockable_object'

module Concurrent
  class Channel
    module Buffer

      # Placeholder for when a buffer slot contains no value.
      NO_VALUE = Object.new

      # Abstract base class for all Channel buffers.
      #
      # {Concurrent::Channel} objects maintain an internal, queue-like
      # object called a buffer. It's the storage bin for values put onto or
      # taken from the channel. Different buffer types have different
      # characteristics. Subsequently, the behavior of any given channel is
      # highly dependent uping the type of its buffer. This is the base class
      # which defines the common buffer interface. Any class intended to be
      # used as a channel buffer should extend this class.
      class Base < Synchronization::LockableObject

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_size_reader
        #
        #   The maximum number of values which can be {#put} onto the buffer
        #   it becomes full.
        attr_reader :size
        alias_method :capacity, :size

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_initialize
        #
        #   Creates a new buffer.
        def initialize
          super()
          synchronize do
            @closed = false
            @size = 0
          end
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_blocking_question
        #
        #   Predicate indicating if this buffer will block {#put} operations
        #   once it reaches its maximum capacity.
        #
        #   @return [Boolean] true if this buffer blocks else false
        def blocking?
          true
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_empty_question
        #
        #   Predicate indicating if the buffer is empty.
        #
        #   @return [Boolean] true if this buffer is empty else false
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def empty?
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_full_question
        #
        #   Predicate indicating if the buffer is full.
        #
        #   @return [Boolean] true if this buffer is full else false
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def full?
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_put
        #
        #   Put an item onto the buffer if possible. If the buffer is open
        #   but not able to accept the item the calling thread will block
        #   until the item can be put onto the buffer.
        #
        #   @param [Object] item the item/value to put onto the buffer.
        #   @return [Boolean] true if the item was added to the buffer else
        #     false (always false when closed).
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def put(item)
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_offer
        #
        #   Put an item onto the buffer is possible. If the buffer is open but
        #   unable to add an item, probably due to being full, the method will
        #   return immediately. Similarly, the method will return immediately
        #   when the buffer is closed. A return value of `false` does not
        #   necessarily indicate that the buffer is closed, just that the item
        #   could not be added.
        #
        #   @param [Object] item the item/value to put onto the buffer.
        #   @return [Boolean] true if the item was added to the buffer else
        #     false (always false when closed).
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def offer(item)
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_take
        #
        #   Take an item from the buffer if one is available. If the buffer
        #   is open and no item is available the calling thread will block
        #   until an item is available. If the buffer is closed but items
        #   are available the remaining items can still be taken. Once the
        #   buffer closes, no remaining items can be taken.
        #
        #   @return [Object] the item removed from the buffer; `NO_VALUE` once
        #     the buffer has closed.
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def take
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_next
        #
        #   Take the next item from the buffer and also return a boolean
        #   indicating if subsequent items can be taken. Used for iterating
        #   over a buffer until it is closed and empty.
        #
        #   If the buffer is open but no items remain the calling thread will
        #   block until an item is available. The second of the two return
        #   values, a boolean, will always be `true` when the buffer is open.
        #   When the buffer is closed but more items remain the second return
        #   value will also be `true`. When the buffer is closed and the last
        #   item is taken the second return value will be `false`. When the
        #   buffer is both closed and empty the first return value will be
        #   `NO_VALUE` and the second return value will be `false`.
        #   be `false` when the buffer is both closed and empty.
        #
        #   Note that when multiple threads access the same channel a race
        #   condition can occur when using this method. A call to `next` from
        #   one thread may return `true` for the second return value, but
        #   another thread may `take` the last value before the original
        #   thread makes another call. Code which iterates over a channel
        #   must be programmed to properly handle these race conditions.
        #
        #   @return [Object, Boolean] the first return value will be the item
        #     taken from the buffer and the second return value will be a
        #     boolean indicating whether or not more items remain.
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def next
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_poll
        #
        #   Take the next item from the buffer if one is available else return
        #   immediately. Failing to return a value does not necessarily
        #   indicate that the buffer is closed, just that it is empty.
        #
        #   @return [Object] the next item from the buffer or `NO_VALUE` if
        #     the buffer is empty.
        #
        # @raise [NotImplementedError] until overridden in a subclass.
        def poll
          raise NotImplementedError
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_close
        #
        #   Close the buffer, preventing new items from being added. Once a
        #   buffer is closed it cannot be opened again.
        #
        #   @return [Boolean] true if the buffer was open and successfully
        #     closed else false.
        def close
          synchronize do
            @closed ? false : @closed = true
          end
        end

        # @!macro [attach] channel_buffer_closed_question
        #
        #   Predicate indicating is this buffer closed.
        #
        #   @return [Boolea] true when closed else false.
        def closed?
          synchronize { ns_closed? }
        end

        private

        # @!macro channel_buffer_closed_question
        def ns_closed?
          @closed
        end
      end
    end
  end
end


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Essay on Environment
Annotated Bibliography On Ecological Problems
Type of paper: Annotated Bibliography
Topic: Environment, Environmental Issues, Innovation, Climate, Ecology, World, Global Warming, Literature
The term "ecological problems" is nowadays used to define a number of environmental problems. Given the modern environmental mess and the truth that the world has many environmental problems than before, it is no surprise that a lot of emphasis is actually put at this negative ecological context. This is the reason why no difference exists between ecological and environmental problems in everyday talk. Environmental problems are also ecological problems since environment is essentially a center of all the ecological research. All sorts of pollution, climate change, endangered animals, deforestation, are all problems of ecology since ecology uses the scientific approach to discover the potential solutions.
On the other hand, ecological innovations are all measures taken by the relevant actors including unions, firms, politicians, private households and others that develop new behavior, ideas, processes and products, introduce or apply them and that contribute to the ecologically specified sustainability targets or to a reduction of the environmental problems. Various authors have written articles about ecological problems and innovations. For that reason, this paper focuses on the annotated bibliography of two articles one about ecological problems and the other one about ecological innovations. The following is the annotated bibliography of the two articles;
Chang, Kenneth. "Global Warming's Impact and Germs That Induce Thinness." The New York Times 9 Sept. 2013: D3. Print.
Chang begins by informing us that the moon has a thin atmosphere. This source reports that NASA is actually spending more dollars to study it and that scientists on earth have reported that the global warming is changing both weather and climate. The article talks about climate, biology, space, cognitive science, and rocketry. Regarding the climate, the author talks about the greenhouse weather where the increasing global warming that is propelled in part by the carbon dioxide released by burning fossil fuels is actually expected to shake up weather. Thus, according to this source, the shakeup of weather is partly contributed by the human activity. Concerning the Biology, Chang differentiates between fat germs and thin germs where he concludes that change in diet can cause bacteria from thin twin to crowd out bacteria from fat twin and vice versa. The author goes further and talks about looking for the moon dust under the subheading, space. According to him, scientists are essentially interested in how the dust is lifted off lunar surface as well as moved about.
This source directly talks about the ecological problems. Therefore, it is relevant for the research since it provides first-hand information about ecological problems such as climate change, endangered species, among others and various problems associated with them.
Bornstein, David. "Crowdfunding Clean Energy." The New York Times 6 Mar. 2013: D5. Print.
This is an article written by David Bornstein. This author starts by posing a question to the readers; the question is about how individuals can do to help solve the ecological problem of global warming. He suggests a new approach of dealing with this problem that is to directly finance the renewable energy. To show the usefulness of this approach, he narrates how a company by the name Mosaic introduced crowd-funding platform, which makes it possible for the small, non-accredited investors earn interest financing unpolluted energy projects. The source shows the advantage of Crowdfunding clean energy as this helps in reducing the global warming.
This source is all about ecological innovations because the author's ideas will help in reducing the environmental problem of global warming. Consequently, this is a source that I find very vital in the research because it is about the ecological innovations.
Chang, Kenneth. "Global Warming's Impact and Germs That Induce Thinness." The New York Times 9 Sept. 2013: D3. Print. Retrieved from : <<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/science/global-warmings-impact-and-germs-that-induce-thinness.html?ref=globalwarming>>
Bornstein, David. "Crowdfunding Clean Energy." The New York Times 6 Mar. 2013: D5. Print. Retrieved from :<< http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/crowd-funding-clean-energy/?_r=0&pagewanted=print>>
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On Tuesday I wrote a blog post about the blame being thrown around regarding the oil fiasco going on in the Gulf of Mexico. I made the claim that BP was just feeding the appetite for oil in this country.
Secondly, I read this today: Punishing BP is harder than Boycotting Stations — basically it talks about how the BP stations may or may not receive the oil that BP actually mines, but just carry the BP brand because a few additives put in the gas just before it hits the pump. In the journey from the center of the earth to the gas pump, it oil stops at at a refinery, among other places, where it's likely mixed with oil from other companies.
Boycotting BP stations will do nothing to change the larger problem. Nor will vandalization or picketing. Only figuring out how to reduce consumption altogether will work.
And after watching more satire about this whole topic on The Daily Show this morning, I'm done laughing. It's about time we started taking some action, damn it!
Today marks the 50th day oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. Thought the rate of flow and total amount are still unknown, it's been largely agreed upon that this is the largest oil release ever in U.S. territorial waters, eclipsing the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident. As the event is still ongoing and difficult to estimate accurately, it is unclear where this event will rank when the oil finally stops gushing.
The environmental and economic effect on the area, and perhaps the world, is still largely unknown. The damage is already vast, and it's unclear when the leak will end. The ecosystem of the Gulf region will be altered for generations to come, if not forever. A negative economic impact has already been felt by those who fish in affected waters, and the effect on tourism is likely to worsen as the slick grows and the summer begins.
It thus comes as good reason that, since the oil started flowing on April 20, people have been looking for someone, individually or collectively, to blame. Much talk has fallen on the corporations involved in the operation of the oil rig that exploded (British Petroleum, TransOcean, and Halliburton) that led to the current state of affairs. Others have cried out that the government regulators from the Minerals Management Service failed to do enough to prevent this occurrence. Some have said the blame then falls on others within the government, including the president, and others have even pushed blame to environmentalists, saying the need to drill in the Gulf would have been avoided by drilling in Alaska.
However, as I've reflected on what appears to be the new reality for the Gulf of Mexico, I think blaming the people and entities listed above is a bit shortsighted. If we're going to truly answer the questions, "Why did this happen? Who can we blame?" we need to move beyond the specific and look at the bigger picture. When we do this, the answer to the question of blame hits much closer to home.
Who is to blame? You and me.
The reason we all are to blame stems from the answer to the other question, Why did this happen? BP didn't just decide to poke a hole in the earth, in a place where sunlight doesn't even reach, because they were bored and thought it would be fun. It wasn't part of some scientific mission either, or an attempt to "go where no man (or woman) has gone before." No, it's because we asked them to.
"Well I certainly didn't ask them to," you may be saying. You may not have written them a letter, no, but the high demand for oil, and especially the stated U.S. desire to lessen dependence on "foreign" oil, gave BP economic incentives to search for oil anywhere they could find it. One such place they decided to search happened to be 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, 5000 feet under the water's surface.
Every time you put gasoline in your car, purchase an airplane ticket, or use any other oil byproduct, you're telling the oil providers to "keep it coming." While the U.S. does not rank #1 in per capita oil use, a 2008 estimate put the U.S. total use of oil at #1, approximately 33% more oil than the entire European Union, and 2 1/2 times the amount used in China. In addition to the massive amounts of oil we demand, we also crave cheap oil, which can only be sustained by continued high production levels across the world.
While many would argue this specific event could have been avoided, as Jeff Potent noted in a May 16 Letter to the Editor of the International Herald Tribune, such events are a "predictable outcome" of the current oil economy. Until we collectively alter the system, "accidents" will happen, oil will flow, and we all will have to deal with the consequences.
Our oil-dependent society needs to practice some preventative medicine, and perhaps the current events happening in the Gulf of Mexico will be the heart attack that helps us all realize that little bit of truth.
I'm not so confident it will happen, but I can hope.
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