Along with I14 - CoH/V's latest free major update - came the Mission Architect system. Billed as the "the first MMORPG to offer User Created Content" (err, no - even if you don't accept that playing with another player is user created content, Ryzom certainly offered scenario building tools before CoH/V, Star Wars: Galaxies had the Storyteller system... but anyway) the Mission Architect (MA) system allows players to build their own missions, populate it with their own custom enemies and create story arcs up to five missions long. It is a fantastic idea. The system itself is pretty easy to use, well spelled out and is very popular right now. Creating custom villain groups in and of itself is a mini-game that can consume several hours.
The Mission Architect system is getting a lot of use from players at the moment.
But this very strength is revealing a number of CoH/V's weaknesses. CoH/V's problem with repetitive maps hasn't been solved with the release of MA, as anyone who plays a mission set in a warehouse will soon find. The objectives of missions can feel very same-y. However, the greatest problem with MA is that in letting users create the content, you end up with content created by amateurs. Playing poorly designed content ends up being a turn-off for playing the game in total, especially when it seems the majority of people are playing through MA content (so your option to play other types of CoH/V content is limited at the moment).
Yes, some of the MA content is very good (although I've played some 5-star, Hall of Fame or Dev Choice arcs that I've found very ordinary). But a lot of it isn't. Sure, you can avoid that content if only play top end and well-played MA arcs, but even that opens the door to nothing but farming missions or MA arcs created by powergamers to test out their uber-powerful, purple slotted characters.
MA arcs / missions that a player has obviously not tested - there will be incomplete text, a token effort at spelling or grammar, badly defined mission objectives, etc.
Custom enemies that can have huge power differentials within one map. I played through one map where the minions, lieutenants and bosses were all easy to take on, but one Elite Boss (who summoned multiple ambush spawns) was all but impossible.
Coming across missions that are just in bad taste. Player created content where the bad guys used the vomit emote (which projects a stream of green vomit) over a cross-dressing developer proxy isn't something that was ever necessary.
MA arcs where someone's development reach exceeds their abilities. Or where English obviously isn't a first language. Or where the person who created the mission much have been 10 years old or younger.
The farm mission. Technically these are against MA policy, but there are tons of them just the same. Certain groups well known for the ease of fightning them or for their XP bonuses are packed into a mission to be steamrollered.
The powergamer mission, where the creator set out to challenge their build and punish everyone else who dare attempt it.
MA is a great system and the player response to it has been massive. Right now there are a number of teething problems (some of which will be dealt with in the upcoming I15: Anniversary update) but the main issue is something that no developer created update can fix: a large proportion of the MA content is ordinary at best. Distinguishing the new wheat from the chaff is only going to get harder as time goes on. I suspect we'll see large purges of the MA content over time (unrated and low-rated missions from inactive accounts will likely go) because it will be the only way to try and reduce the massive amount of content that isn't worth playing.
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There's a nasty trend in MMO development to announce a title before the ink has dried on the IP agreement or a single line of code has been written. Following this announcement usually an official website soon follows and an official forums is opened on the basis that MMOs need to build a community around them. Although it is true that a MMO needs a community to survive, pre-alpha really isn't the time to try start building one.
Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWOR) is a perfect example of this issue in action. The worst kept secret in MMO-dom until recently, it is arguably the most exciting mainstream MMO property outside of a new Blizzard MMO. But it has started off its community building attempts in the worst way.
Take a look at the forums page. I count 19 forums - there is no way this number is needed before the game has even launched (and even after launch, for that matter, especially since this 19 number doesn't include a full list of class sub-forums). It's a popular forums, sure, but by opening up a Fan Fiction forum only encourages people to write fan fiction where they wouldn't have before. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy on a forums with enough people - if you create a built it, they will come and write stories where they jump kick Boba Fett in the face. And are three guild forums really needed when the tools to form a guild don't even exist yet?
But worse than being unnecessary, it is creating a rod for BioWare's back. In the General Discussion and Character Classes forums players are taking what little information they have and spinning it off into the realms of (kindly) the wildly optimistic. Not even BioWare knows what SWOR is going to look like in its alpha form - things will change as QA and testing take their toll - yet space is provided for the "community" to endlessly spin off their hopes and dreams (or more realistically, attack others' hopes and dreams).
Within pre-alpha forums, every dev comment is stretched out until it is almost unrecognisable - "the dev said we can choose the colour of our lightsaber, so this must mean we can also customise its shape - I'm having a lightsaber-axe!" - because there is so little solid information about the title. Nature abhors a vaccuum, so pre-alpha forums fill that vaccuum with a heap of dreams, ideas and wishful thinking. This doesn't end well when the devs come along later and release more information (as they have with Bounty Hunters will be Sith only) that steps all over what players have projected on the official forums. In turn this creates a wave of animosity that sees some "community" members leave and others hold grudges that build as more information comes out.
Bounty Hunters being Sith only caused lots of flames on SWOR's pre-alpha forums. Hahaha.
I'm a big supporter of official forums, but they actually need something solid to talk about. Drip-fed information that is highly subject to change ISN'T solid. If developers comment in the pre-alpha forums they see potential players repeatedly disheartened that the game being developed isn't the game that players had planned in their heads. If the developers don't comment in the pre-alpha forums, it is complained that the devs don't care about the community. If the devs announce something that is later changed, it is claimed they lied to the community. It's a no win situation.
The reality is that pre-alpha communities mean very little (outside of hype to attract investment dollars) until the title is on the cusp of launching. It is at this point the pre-alpha community has been swamped by new members wanting to play the new game so their voices don't matter anyway, while a proportion of them won't elect to play anyway because the game isn't what they wanted. Pre-alpha "communities" aren't really communities at all - they are just a group of interested onlookers with time to kill.
Much like announcing too soon, MMOs also need to get away from trying to build communities from pre-alpha onwards. It will save customer service time and forum costs while also preventing devs from having to backpedal when they drop previously announced features. Instead community building should only really start when a MMO title is in closed beta - more features will be locked down, some vague release date will be known and players will have solid features on which to comment about. Those who aren't interested in those features can leave without complaining that they'd wasted their time on a title that isn't going where they wanted to go. Everyone wins.
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I can't say for sure that The Secret World (TSW) is going to be starting up some sort of beta in the near future, but yesterday it opened up a thread that lead people through a special video and then to a site which required you answer a number of questions in order to get access to a special code. A duplicate of the original message (which has since disappeared) can be found here.
It's a bit more interesting than just filling out a beta application, that's for sure.
If you can't get the answers, look around - there are a number of locations I've seen with answers listed.
Despite being from Funcom, TSW is interesting to me because it is doing something different in a genre that really hasn't seen a lot of attention. We'll see if they can pull it off.
Marvel's president of worldwide consumer products, Simon Philips, has said that the full Marvel MMO (not the kid's version) is due out in 2012. Super Hero Squad (SHSO, I guess) is due out in 2010 and is aimed at the 5- to 9-year old market while the Marvel Universe MMO is for the older market.
Although 2012 sounds like a while away, it isn't. While I firmly believe long development cycles are detrimental to the MMO industry, three years is a pretty short development period, especially since Gargartuan Studios - a studio so new they appear not to have a website - is starting from scratch. I'm expecting announcements like "Marvel MMO to use Unreal Engine" and "Marvel MMO to use PhysX for ragdoll" or similar to start appearing in the near future because third party apps would be the only way to get things done in this time frame. Even then, third party apps - especially full third party MMO toolsets - still have lots of inherent issues and I note the irony that apps like BigWorld, HeroEngine and Icarus' toolset still haven't made any MMO titles that had a positive impact, if they've even been seen in a released title at all.
In short, three years doesn't give Gargantuan enough time to develop their own toolsets, but will give them time to see what the other superhero MMOs coming out will offer.
Reading the release also indicates that 2012 has been picked not for any kind of design purpose, but because that is where the worldwide consumer product marketing plan says it will best fit. The Captain America film comes out in 2011, followed by the Avengers movie in 2012, which sees 2012 as the year the Marvel MMO should come out. The way it is stated, it is completely tied to Marvel Entertainment's multimedia plan, not to any kind of "this is a good schedule to develop a MMO on" way of thinking.
"Every day, every week, and every month, there is a new element of technology that comes about. So whatever plans we had for an MMO two years ago have now evolved to embrace that new technology."
"We're looking at lots of different scenarios. But at this moment in time we haven't identified exactly what the end game is going to be. We're still working on the different variations that are potentially possible."
Both of these statements indicate to me that the Marvel MMO is in such an early state of planning they don't have anything at all - not even a vague claim - to hype. Except for non-news such as Marvel offering artists and writers to the project.
All in all: not confidence building.


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In one of our previous articles, A Company Director: Powers & Responsibilities, we discussed who a director is and the duties and responsibilities he owes the company. These duties and responsibilities demand that only a person who meets certain legal requirements may be chosen to be a director. This article shall discuss those requirements.
The Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) which regulates company affairs in Nigeria, does not expressly provide what the qualifications of a person to be appointed director should be.
It, however, goes on to list out the factors that would disqualify one from being appointed as a director.
1. An Infant - A person below 18 years as at the date of the appointment cannot be appointed as a director.
There is, however, no age limit for being appointed a director as long as the individual is of sound mind. It should be noted that for a person of 70 years and above to be appointed as a director in a public company, such person must disclose his age to the shareholders at the general meeting of the company.
2. A Lunatic or Person of Unsound Mind – A lunatic or person of unsound mind cannot be appointed as a company director. A person with a certified mental illness or disease cannot be appointed a director of a company. A director must be able to understand his actions and bear the legal consequences of those actions.
3. A Bankrupt or Insolvent Person - A person who is declared by a court to be in debt and unable to meet his financial obligations or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors is not qualified to be a director of a company.
4. Fraudulent Persons – Any person who has been guilty of any offence related to fraud for which he is liable, whether convicted or not, involving the promotion, formation, management or winding up of a company shall be disqualified by the courts from being a director or in any way involved in the management of another company for a specified period not exceeding ten years.
5. A Corporation - A registered company cannot be appointed director of another company. Only its representative may be appointed to the board of another company for a given term.
What this means is that the only way registered Company A can sit as a director in registered Company B is for Company A to choose a qualified person to be appointed a director and represent it in Company B.
Where the Articles of Association of a company requires its directors to hold a specified share qualification, a person who does not hold the specified share qualification is disqualified from being a director.
It is the duty of a director already appointed who is not already qualified under the Articles to obtain the specified share qualification within two months from the date of his appointment.
For example, if Company X has a clause in its Articles of Association that only a person holding at least 100,000 of the company's ordinary shares is qualified to be appointed a director, Mr Y who holds only 80,000 of the company's ordinary shares, is not qualified to be a director of the company. And if for some reason, Mr Y was already appointed a director of the company, he must obtain at least 20,000 more shares of the company within two months of his appointment to remain a director or he shall be removed from the Board.
A person may not have been in the category of the above persons before being appointed a director. If, however after his appointment and before his tenure as a director ends, he falls within any of the above categories, his office as a director is automatically vacated. At this point he can either be asked to resign or be removed by an order of the court if he is unwilling to leave.
In the case of a director becoming bankrupt or a lunatic, only an order of court can remove them from office as the court has the final word on whether such director is truly bankrupt or a lunatic.
A director must be an adult.
He must be sane and of sound mind.
He must be financially sound and stable and must not have been convicted of fraud.
He must meet the conditions required of a member of the board of directors of the company.


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Media & Events Reporting obligation and sanctions: is Germany failing to ensure sanctions enforcement?
Reporting obligation and sanctions: is Germany failing to ensure sanctions enforcement?
The amendments to the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act through the first Act on the More Effective Enforcement of Sanctions (Sanctions Enforcement Act I) have been in force since 28 May 2022 and are Germany's reaction to the war in Ukraine and the European sanctions imposed as a result. But do the new regulations, in particular Section 23a of the Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG), really contribute to more effective sanctions enforcement?
1. Who is affected by the reporting obligation and what is covered by it?
The subject matter of Section 23a AWG is primarily an obligation to provide information on the part of foreigners and nationals who are affected by sanction measures. Sanctioned persons must report their economic resources and funds comprehensively to the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control and the Bundesbank. This affects both natural persons and companies.
2. Is there a conflict with the right to refuse to testify?
In German and European law, there is a principle of not having to incriminate oneself. It follows directly from the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and is a central aspect of the rule of law. No one can therefore be forced to actively participate in their punishment.
Nevertheless, the reporting obligation forces sanctioned persons to disclose their assets on their own initiative and thus to provide the public prosecutors with information that they would have to determine themselves in the context of proceedings for possible sanction violations. So how is the admissibility of such a reporting obligation justified?
The legal service of the EU Commission, which responded to a question from the German news format ZDFheute, sees the connecting factor for the problem of freedom from self-incrimination exclusively in the punishability of the violation of the obligation to report. There would be no obligation for the persons concerned to disclose their own violation of the reporting obligation. The reporting obligation itself is punishable by a fine of up to EUR 30,000 and imprisonment of up to one year or a fine.
However, violations of the current EU sanction measures can also be punishable in principle, e.g. the concealment or alteration of the own assets of sanctioned persons. By making a report, the parties involved would provide the authorities with the necessary information for criminal prosecution in this regard. Through the obligation to report, sanctioned persons would thus have to provide assistance to the prosecution authorities, as it were, in possible proceedings against themselves. From this point of view, the EU Commission's view seems questionable.
Whether the current regulations violate the rule of law will ultimately be up to the courts to decide.
3. How does the implementation work in practice?
Despite the threat of penalties for failure to comply with the obligation to report, according to information from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, no reports have been received to date, and this despite the fact that the regulation has been in place for several months. Despite the high penalties, those affected do not seem to see the need to file a complaint. The reasons for this can only be speculated. In any case, it is not possible to punish persons who are not known, and those who do not file a complaint remain unknown for the time being.
The German regulation - a model for success?
The German regulation is tried and tested with high penalties and can therefore not be described as toothless. Nevertheless, it does not lead to the desired success. With the new regulation, the German legislator is shifting tasks from the authorities to those affected, who certainly have no interest in sanctions. There are voices that claim that Germany already has a fundamental problem with money laundering prevention. Does Germany also have a problem with the effective enforcement of sanctions?
The fact is that other countries, such as Italy, have frozen a large number of assets and values since the beginning of the sanctions and are implementing the sanctions much more efficiently. Sanctions always affect their own economies, which every country tries to protect. Does the pronounced Russian business of the German economy lead to a half-hearted implementation of economic sanctions?
It is questionable whether the obligation to report under Section 23a AWG will prove to be an effective tool in sanctions policy in the future, or whether the German legislator should rather provide the authorities with more powers of intervention and possibilities to enforce sanctions rather than putting those affected under the obligation to do so.
A first step in this direction could be the recent announcement by the Federal Minister of Finance, Christian Lindner. A new federal authority, the so-called Federal Financial Criminal Police Office, is to be created. There, the competences for fighting financial crime, which have been fragmented nationwide so far, are to be bundled. In future, this authority will also be the central office for the enforcement of sanctions. Only time will tell whether Germany will become a pioneer in the EU in terms of effective sanctions enforcement.
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Humanities › English
Confirmation in Speech and Rhetoric
Confirmation describes rhetoric designed to convince audiences in favor of one's argument. Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images
An Introduction to Punctuation
Richard Nordquist
English and Rhetoric Professor
Ph.D., Rhetoric and English, University of Georgia
M.A., Modern English and American Literature, University of Leicester
B.A., English, State University of New York
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
In classical rhetoric, the confirmation is the main part of a speech or text in which logical arguments in support of a position (or claim) are elaborated. Also called confirmatio.
Etymology: From the Latin verb confirmare, meaning "strengthen" or "establish."
Pronunciation: kon-fur-MAY-shun
Confirmation is one of the classical rhetorical exercises known as the progymnasmata. These exercises, originating in ancient Greece with the rhetorician Aphthonius of Antioch, were designed to teach rhetoric by providing exercises in increasing difficulty, beginning with simple storytelling and increasing to complex arguments. In the "confirmation" exercise, a student would be asked to logically reason in favor of some topic or argument found in myth or literature.
The rhetorical opposite of confirmation is refutation, which involves arguing against something instead of in its favor. Both require logical and/or moral arguments to be marshaled in similar ways, simply with opposite goals.
See Examples and Observations below. Also see:
The Parts of a Speech
What Are the Progymnasmata?
Examples of Confirmation
"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by woman, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position. There is no need of naming the De Staels, the Rolands, the Somervilles, the Wollstonecrafts, the Wrights, the Fullers, the Martineaus, the Hemanses, the Sigourneys, the Jagiellos, and the many more of modern as well as ancient times, to prove her mental powers, her patriotism, her heroism, her self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of humanity--the eloquence that gushes from her pen or from her tongue. These things are too well known to require repetition. And do you ask for fortitude of mind, energy, and perseverance? Then look at woman under suffering, reverse of fortune, and affliction, when the strength and power of man has sunk to the lowest ebb, when his mind is overwhelmed by the dark waters of despair. She, like the tender plant, bent but not broken by the storms of life, now only upholds her own hopeful courage, but, like the tender shoots of the ivy, clings around the tempest-fallen oak, to bind up the wounds, peak hope to his faltering spirit, and shelter him from the returning blast of the storm."
(Ernestine Rose, "An Address on Women's Rights," 1851)
"This food would likewise bring great custom to taverns; where the vintners will certainly be so prudent as to procure the best receipts for dressing it to perfection, and consequently have their houses frequented by all the fine gentlemen."
(Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal")
Explanations of Confirmation
Cicero on Confirmation
"The confirmation is that part of a narration that, by marshaling arguments, lends force, authority, and support to our case. . . .
"All argumentation is to be carried on either by analogy or by the enthymeme. Analogy is a form of argument that moves from assent on certain undisputed facts through approval of a doubtful proposition due to the resemblance between what is granted and what is doubtful. This style of argument is threefold: the first part consists of one or more similar instances, the second part is the point we wish to have conceded, and the third is the conclusion that reinforces the concessions or shows the consequences of the argument.
"Enthymematic reasoning is a form of argument that draws a probable conclusion from the facts under consideration."
(Cicero, De Inventione)
Aphthonius on Confirmation in the Progymnasmata
"Confirmation is showing proof for any matter at hand. But one must confirm neither those things clearly manifest nor those utterly impossible, but those that hold an intermediate position. And it is necessary for those engaged in confirmation to treat it in a manner that is exactly the opposite of refutation. First, one must speak of the good reputation of the proponent; then, in turn, to make the exposition and to make use of the opposite headings: the clear instead of the unclear, the probable for the improbable, the possible in place of the impossible, the logical instead of the illogical, the suitable for the unsuitable, and the expedient in place of the inexpedient.
"This exercise encompasses all the power of the art."
(Aphthonius of Antioch, Progymnasmata, late fourth century. Readings from Classical Rhetoric, ed. by Patricia P. Matsen, Philip B. Rollinson, and Marion Sousa. Southern Illinois University Press, 1990)
Proof in Rhetoric
The Parts of a Speech in Classical Rhetoric
Definition and Examples of Dialectic in Rhetoric
Definition and Examples of Progymnasmata in Rhetoric
Arrangement in Composition and Rhetoric
Definition and Examples of Valid Arguments
AP English Exam: 101 Key Terms
Logos (Rhetoric)
Narratio in Rhetoric
Ekphrasis: Definition and Examples in Rhetoric
Division: Outlining the Parts of a Speech
rhetorical canons
Oration (Classical Rhetoric)
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A Historical Review of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality
Levy Kenneth, William D. Ellison, Joseph S. Reynoso
Although its place in history is secure, with DSM-5 on the horizon the future of narcissism and NPD is uncertain. Current conceptions of DSM-5 do not include NPD among the five major personality disorder types. However, aspects of NPD are included in the remaining three components of the proposed model (level of personality functioning, general personality dysfunction, and personality traits). Thus, the personality disorder workgroup suggests that narcissistic functioning can be captured through the use of this hybrid model. The workgroup has proposed that the new model allow for a multidimensional assessment of narcissism, which will provide a more nuanced portrait. Of course, the final conceptualization of narcissism or NPD in DSM-5 awaits more data from field trials and debate within the scientific community, and regardless of how it is included in DSM-5, research on the concept will continue. One thing is for certain: despite its rich history, contributions for understanding clinical phenomena, and broad influence for conceptualizing trends in society, narcissism has only relatively recently begun to receive its due attention. The inclusion of NPD in the DSM-III led to an upsurge of research, but data suggest that this interest has leveled off(Konrath, 2008). Despite this finding, research findings from clinical psychology and psychiatry as well as social-personality psychology suggest that more intensive focus on narcissism is needed.
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments
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Kenneth, L., Ellison, W. D., & Reynoso, J. S. (2012). A Historical Review of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality. In The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Findings, and Treatments (pp. 1-13). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118093108.ch1
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package org.apache.calcite.test;

import org.apache.calcite.util.Bug;
import org.apache.calcite.util.Pair;
import org.apache.calcite.util.Util;

import org.hamcrest.Matcher;

import org.junit.Test;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

import sqlline.SqlLine;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

/**
 * Tests that we can invoke SqlLine on a Calcite connection.
 */
public class SqlLineTest {
  /**
   * Execute a script with "sqlline -f".
   *
   * @throws java.lang.Throwable On error
   * @return The stderr and stdout from running the script
   * @param args Script arguments
   */
  private static Pair<SqlLine.Status, String> run(String... args)
      throws Throwable {
    SqlLine sqlline = new SqlLine();
    ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    PrintStream sqllineOutputStream =
        new PrintStream(os, false, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
    sqlline.setOutputStream(sqllineOutputStream);
    sqlline.setErrorStream(sqllineOutputStream);
    SqlLine.Status status = SqlLine.Status.OK;

    Bug.upgrade("[sqlline-35] Make Sqlline.begin public");
    // TODO: status = sqlline.begin(args, null, false);

    return Pair.of(status, os.toString("UTF8"));
  }

  private static Pair<SqlLine.Status, String> runScript(File scriptFile,
      boolean flag) throws Throwable {
    List<String> args = new ArrayList<>();
    Collections.addAll(args, "-u", "jdbc:calcite:", "-n", "sa", "-p", "");
    if (flag) {
      args.add("-f");
      args.add(scriptFile.getAbsolutePath());
    } else {
      args.add("--run=" + scriptFile.getAbsolutePath());
    }
    return run(args.toArray(new String[args.size()]));
  }

  /**
   * Attempts to execute a simple script file with the -f option to SqlLine.
   * Tests for presence of an expected pattern in the output (stdout or stderr).
   *
   * @param scriptText Script text
   * @param flag Command flag (--run or -f)
   * @param statusMatcher Checks whether status is as expected
   * @param outputMatcher Checks whether output is as expected
   * @throws Exception on command execution error
   */
  private void checkScriptFile(String scriptText, boolean flag,
      Matcher<SqlLine.Status> statusMatcher,
      Matcher<String> outputMatcher) throws Throwable {
    // Put the script content in a temp file
    File scriptFile = File.createTempFile("foo", "temp");
    scriptFile.deleteOnExit();
    try (PrintWriter w = Util.printWriter(scriptFile)) {
      w.print(scriptText);
    }

    Pair<SqlLine.Status, String> pair = runScript(scriptFile, flag);

    // Check output before status. It gives a better clue what went wrong.
    assertThat(pair.right, outputMatcher);
    assertThat(pair.left, statusMatcher);
    final boolean delete = scriptFile.delete();
    assertThat(delete, is(true));
  }

  @Test public void testSqlLine() throws Throwable {
    checkScriptFile("!tables", false, equalTo(SqlLine.Status.OK), equalTo(""));
  }
}

// End SqlLineTest.java

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Loving Paris isn't special. Almost everybody loves this city because Jesus, look at it. It's dreamy and goddamn delicious.
Shikha Kaiwar 07 Sep 2022
Loving Paris isn't special. Almost everybody loves this city because Jesus, look at it. It's dreamy and goddamn delicious, a perfect mix of elegance and informality. When you're here, luxury feels accessible even if all you do is stare through window displays. Time moves as fast as the next metro and as slow as your morning cappuccino. There is no guilt, only goûter. As the street signs guide you through the arrondissements, you just know that wherever you go, you're right where you should be. Paris makes you feel like it exists only for you. That it loves you not only back but more, more than the others. And that unlike your other loves, this love is special.
While some find the uniform architecture boring, I find it familiar and calming. As someone who grew up with little consistency, I crave it whenever I can and bask in in this gift that Paris has unknowingly offered me. I shudder at how unreliable San Francisco felt—antique Victorian houses clashing with phallic tech office buildings, buses broken down (or one time, literally on fire). In San Francisco I was always stressed, but I am never stressed in Paris.
These balconies never get old.
I love that Paris this effect on people. The city means different things to different folks, yet it means the exact same thing to all of us. That thing, I think, is a gaping, weeping realisation that it's okay to feel your feelings. Just exist here and feel.
Paris has given me so much, and unlike my old haunt in San Francisco and my new haunt in London, it hasn't really taken anything away. In Paris, I am an outsider but also at home, like that uncle in Encanto who hid in the walls of his family house but in a less creepy way.
Or maybe Paris is a shark and I'm a remora, harmlessly feeding off of it without hurting it. Like the shark, it pays me no mind, and after enough days go by, I go completely unnoticed, which is exactly what I want.
Afternoon tea at Le Restaurant Dalí inside Le Hotel Meurice.
The first time I visited Paris, in 2014, I thought I would collapse from grief over my first big Breakup. Several times over the course of the week, I nearly did, although that could also have been because I decided to take the stairs to the top of the Eiffel Tower. It had been a capital R Relationship that was supposed to be everything and amounted nothing. After it ended (kindly but painfully), I needed to figure out who I was after and in spite of him, and the only thing I knew better than anything was pastries. After years of working in some of the best restaurants and making some of the best desserts, there was only one place left to go—Paris.
I've visited several times since then, each time digging up a past version of me to reflect and reminisce on. When I leave, I deposit the newest version of me there like a less evil and more butter-filled horcrux. Unlike Voldemort, I'm not trying to fragment my soul so I can take over the world. Rather, I'm trying to preserve my soul so that I may understand it, and Paris allows me to do that. As I shed these outdated selves, Paris nourishes the new me with unending croissants and a barrage of vowel-laden words that I only half-understand. But more importantly, it never judges as I squirm and grow and learn to recognise myself in my own reflection.
Three pastries for breakfast? Standard.
My biggest fear is that I'll outgrow Paris, or that it will outgrow me. I already harbour a superstition that if I consume too much of something, I'll start to hate it, which is why I only eat cheesecake like three times a year. What if Paris is a phase like Hot Topic or Xanga or Neopets or bandanas or Taking Back Sunday? What if there comes a point where there's nothing left to discover about the city—or worse, about myself?
The scariest thing about outgrowing something is that you don't realise it's happening until it's passed, and by then, it's too late. It's never coming back, and in the twisted way that nostalgia works, you don't want it to. I don't know the exact moment when I stopped wearing all-black clothing or fed my Neopet for the last time. It was never an active decision nor was it forced on me by anyone else. It simply ceased to be a part of my life, a slow fade (or a fast fade? I don't know!) from one version of me to the next. It's the same process that transformed apes into humans or wolves into dogs—we know it happened, but we don't precisely know how or when or why. It just did. Maybe outgrowing is the same thing is as evolution, and Pokemon was lying to us the whole time by making us think that we could control it.
I am grateful and LUCKY that I can call this city familiar. On my most recent trip, I got to share that love with my mother and brother, for whom Paris is new. I envied that they got to experience Paris for the first time and also worried incessantly that they would hate it, or worse, be indifferent to it. I wanted them to see what I saw, to feel what I feel, before remembering that Paris is both a collective and very individual place. Emotions are everywhere, but you can't feel others feelings, only your own. My goal can't be for them to experience exactly what I do. Instead, I should just let them take it in for themselves while guiding them to my favorite boulangeries, bistros, and wine bars. There, we can discuss, compare, and accept. That's what Paris lets you do.
I can't wait to see what the next version of me looks like. And when I visit Paris again, I know it'll be there for me even if I've outgrown it. Evolution isn't forgetting the past, it's honoring it as you move into the future–and I'll always have deep love for this city.
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Shikha Kaiwar 16 Jan 2023
Travel Guide: Andalucía, Spain
I was physically incapable of rushing in Spain. Maybe it was because we visited for two weeks, as the generous holiday policies of Europe allowed us to do. But mostly, it seemed due to the very nature of Andalucía, a region that after eight hundred (!) years of Moorish rule, seems
Shikha Kaiwar 20 Apr 2022
Travel Guide: Marrakech, Morocco
Marrakech consists of an old and new city which often overlap. The Medina is crowded, interesting, and historical, full of winding alleys, souks to shop and bargain at, and the famous Jamaa El Fna Square and Koutoubia Mosque. Prayer bells sound five times a day, and you can feel the energy of faith.
Pastry Thangs
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Why We Don't Need Fisker
The failing maker of luxury hybrids is in the spotlight in DC, but technologically speaking, who cares if Fisker fails?
Congress is trying answer some important questions today about whether the government made mistakes in handling a loan to Fisker Automotive, a company that's now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy—the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is holding a hearing on the subject. But when looked at from the perspective of innovation, Fisker doesn't really matter much.
The company didn't really develop any new technology. The company produced, for a while, a plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedan called the Karma (it sold about 2,000 of them). One way it could have contributed to pushing forward technology is to have been the first to demonstrate that plug-in hybrids– cars that run on both a battery that's recharged by plugging it in and an gasoline engine that extends it range–could work. But it wasn't the first. When it was founded, GM was well on its way to producing the Volt, a plug-in hybrid that's much less expensive—and more efficient—than the Karma. And GM started selling the Volt before Fisker came to market. BYD, the Chinese automaker, was also an early plug-in hybrid developer. And hobbyists and startups have been converting conventional hybrids into plug-in hybrids that rely more on battery power for many years.
Fisker also didn't substantially improve plug-in hybrids. It got its electric motor, engine, battery, and the system for tying them all together from suppliers. And the way it integrated these technologies didn't greatly advance plug-in hybrids. While Apple has excelled at pulling together existing technology to make products that do something that others can't—or do it better than others have—Fisker's car, by many accounts, just doesn't work that well. Reviewers have said it's heavy, sluggish, inefficient, and cramped.
Fisker's lack of innovation is part of the reason for its troubles (see "Why Tesla Survived and Fisker Won't"). For more on Fisker, there have been several accounts about what went wrong (see, for example, the takes on Fisker here, here, and here).


I wanted to emphasize this.
Opportunities don't fall into your lap if you are looking for a retirement gig. In my case, it was many years of paid employment and volunteer activities with professional organizations that led to consulting opportunities.
For cabinsmama(excuse me for speaking for you) and me, the opportunities have included significant travel. I mostly enjoyed it and liked visiting places I might never have gotten. OTOH, I had a couple of places that were just a PITA. In my case, I had some control of the timing but I was coordinating with a colleague and with the client for dates.
In my case, I didn't plan to work after retirement and retired young. I have enjoyed most of what I have done since then but my main work is no longer all that much fun and I'll be done this spring. It's always possible I will be offered something but I am not looking.
One of the side benefits of a good network was that I had several friends/colleagues who were very clear that they would have more work for me if I needed it after my husband died. Also, by staying in my field, I also knew it wouldn't have been an issue to go back into full-time employment.


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Mull Ferry
By Barbara Rae
105.5 x 88 cm
'Mull Ferry' sets an abstract scene full of contrasts. The sea dominates the painting. It is dark but appears velvety and still and colourful, manmade objects float on the surface. Because we cannot clearly see what they are we are not sure whether their placement is intentional or simply the result of littering.
The colours and shapes usually associated with Scottish Islands are replaced with scratches, thick black lines and blocks of colour. The sky is almost black but there are scratches which lift away the darkness to reveal a lighter more hopeful sky some distance away. The land bank on the far side of the painting is a stark, muddy brown colour. Blocks of green do not appear to connect with the land but allude to sporadic grassy landscapes on the other side of the water.
The foreground is filled with triangles and rectangles which are defined and linked by black lines. The shapes are transparent in most cases and overlap each other. The initials 'D' and 'G' are etched into one of the shapes in the foreground. Underneath a set of thick, straight, black lines create a window-like grid though which we can see the water. This part of the painting with the window panes and lettering contrasts with the rest of the image, perhaps because we see something very real, rather than abstract.
Born in 1943, Barbara Rae studied at the Edinburgh College of Art between 1961 and 1965, where she was awarded a travel scholarship to work in France and Spain. She attended Moray House College of Education and taught in Edinburgh until 1972. She went on to lecture in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking at Aberdeen College of Education from 1972 to 1974 and lectured in drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 to 1996.
Barbara's work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Britain and internationally, including Edinburgh, Aberdeen, London, Dallas and Washington.
She has received many awards, including the Major Scottish Arts Council Awards (1975, 1981), Guthrie Medal, Royal Scottish Academy (1977), Royal Scottish Academy Sir William Gillies Travel Award (1983) Calouste Gulbenkian Printmaking Award (1983) and Hunting Group Prizewinner (1990). She was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 1992 and the Royal Academy in 1996 and was elected President of the Society of Scottish Artists in 1983. In 1999 she was awarded a CBE and received an Honorary Doctorate from Napier University. She lives and works in Edinburgh
Her paintings and prints include intense colour bursts that evoke dramatic landscapes but remain resolutely abstract. They distill the colour, light and forms of nature into dazzling visions.
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Linda Coventry
Edith Cowan University, Australia
Title : Prevalence of pressure injuries over twenty years in a Western Australian hospital and evaluation of an intervention to reduce pressure injury prevalence
Background: Pressure injuries (PIs) impinge on patients' emotional, mental, social and physical wellbeing and financially burden the Australian healthcare system. National and international evidence suggests that prevalence of hospital-acquired PIs (HAPIs) has decreased over time, but few studies provide a long-term (>20 years) picture.
Methods: Between 1997 and 2018, patients at a major Western Australian tertiary hospital completed a validated risk assessment tool to determine their risk of developing PIs. Patients' demographic and treatment data were also collected, including age, sex, length of stay at time of audit, risk assessment score, mattress type and the site of their PI. Twenty years of data were combined to form a larger patient sample. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were undertaken to investigate the association between PIs and patients' demographic and treatment data, and model change in prevalence over time.
An intervention to reduce the prevalence of PIs and hospital-acquired PIs (HAPIs) was designed and implemented. This involved updating the hospital's existing PI prevention management plan and educating ward-based nursing personnel in its use over a 5-week period. Prevalence of PIs served as a baseline measure prior to the implementation of the intervention. PI prevalence was measured for a random sample of 392 consenting patients, over two eight-week periods post-intervention. Statistical process control (SPC) charts plotting PI prevalence over time were constructed to assess the short-term effectiveness of the intervention.
Results: Over the 21-year period, data from a total of 6,837 patients was analysed. Results indicated that 921 (13.5%) patients had at least one Stage 1 or above pressure injury, of which, 685 (10.0%) were hospital-acquired. There were 460 (6.7%) patients with at least one Stage 2 or above pressure injury, of which, 315 (4.6%) were hospital-acquired. Factors that were positively associate with a hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) included older age, a lower Braden score, mattress type, and increased length of hospital stay at the time of audit. Relative to the start of data collection in 1997, pressure injury prevalence fell significantly over time (19.3% to 12.1%). However, following the initial significant decline observed towards the start of the millennium, no further significant reduction in pressure injury prevalence has been achieved.
Mean PI and HAPI prevalence over the historical 20-year period was 13.5% and 10.0% respectively. Mean PI and HAPI prevalence post-intervention was 8.4% and 2.0% respectively.
Conclusion: Pressure injury prevalence rates have plateaued over the past 21 years. A hospital-based intervention was implemented to reduce the burden of PIs. Short-term results suggest the intervention is tracking to significantly reduce the prevalence of PIs in this hospital setting, with prevalence of HAPIs already significantly lower than historical measures.
Linda is a Vice Chancellor Senior Research Fellow at Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia. Linda's research focus is on improving patient outcomes in acute care settings and areas of interest include vascular access, pressure injury, falls, indwelling urinary catheterisation and handover. Linda was awarded a National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Post Graduate Scholarship to complete her PhD (conferred in 2016). Linda has a Scopus h-index is 9, with 25 peer reviewed articles. Linda has been successful in 23 grant applications, attracted $2,248,366 in research funding. Of which $117,585 is from NHMRC; $1,527,664 is from three funded internationally advertised post-doctoral positions; $414,819 has been externally funded; and $188,298 has been internally university funded.


It's pretty much guaranteed that we're going to enjoy almost anything that Grist puts its name on. They're funny, they tackle big environmental topics, and they seem to get it right almost all of the time. Did we mention that they're funny? We like that. We really liked that in Grist's new book, Wake Up and Smell the Planet.
As serious as we are about the environment, sometimes too much earnestness makes us feel cranky. We enjoyed this read because some of it's refreshingly goofy (workout advice: "Volunteer to lift sacks of bulk grains at your local grocery store"), but also packed with all kinds of great information.
The book is organized as a sort of green guide through an ordinary day. Starting with the morning shower (get a low-flow shower head, don't use disposable plastic razors) and ending with a little sexual healing before bed (try vegan condoms), there are helpful tips and really unexpected bits of information packed into each page.
For instance, do you know what beauty product you should seriously consider giving up (if you haven't already)? According to Grist, it's nail polish -- because of the 10,000 chemicals used in its production (89% of which have not been tested for safety by any independent organization).
This is a great gift for a friend who seems intrigued, although possibly intimidated, by the whole green thing -- or a nice addition to your library if you're looking for a few laughs and some great tips.


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Q: Selector not working for ListView inside a fragment I am trying to use a selector to highlight a selected row in my ListView. I need it to remain highlighted after i have released the press. Symbolizing the highlighted row is the row selected.
Currently the text changes color by default. I need to change the background color.
I have the ListView in a fragment that is inside of a DrawerLayout. When i select a device, the DrawerLayout closes. When i open the DrawerLayout again, the background of the device i selected is not changed. The text of the device selected is a different color, but not the background.
I have tried numerous suggestions here on SO and have found nothing that works. I am targeting API-17 and minsdk is API-17.
Here are some posts i have tried with no success.

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*ListView Item Selected State not working

*Change background color of selected item on a ListView

*Android ListView selected item stay highlighted
Let me know if you need any further details, thanks.
Here is my code(with the last thing i tried):
device_list_fragment.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ListView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/device_list_view"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
    android:background="@drawable/device_selector" >
</ListView>

device_selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:state_activated="true"
        android:drawable="@drawable/device_selected"/>
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/device_not_selected"/>
</selector>

strings.xml
<drawable name="device_selected">#777777</drawable>
<drawable name="device_not_selected">#555555</drawable>

DeviceListFragment
public class DeviceListFragment extends Fragment implements OnItemClickListener {
    public View onCreateView(...) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.device_list_fragment, container, false);
                this.devicesArrayAdapter = new DevicesArrayAdapter(this.getActivity());

        this.deviceListView = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.device_list_view);
        this.deviceListView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_SINGLE);
        this.deviceListView.setAdapter(this.devicesArrayAdapter);
        this.deviceListView.setOnItemClickListener(this);

        return view;
    }

    public void onItemClick(...) {
        this.deviceListView.setItemChecked(position, true);
    }
}

DevicesArrayAdapter
public class DevicesArrayAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<Device> {
    public View getView(...) {
        View rowView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.device_element, parent, false);
        return rowView;
    }
}

A: Your adapter is the problem - You only inflate the view and return it. If you want the background of your view to remain a different color, you should set a flag that indicates whether the rowView should be changed or not. A sparse array is a nice way to do this. Otherwise, every time you
show the DevicesArrayAdapter, it gets the default view, no background change.
Something like this:
getView(...) {
    View rowView = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.device_element, parent, false);

    If (arrayViews[position] == CHANGE_BACKGROUND){

         rowView.setBackground = NEW_COLOR;
    }

    return rowView;
}

A: In your DeviceFragment change
public void onItemClick(...) {
    this.deviceListView.setItemChecked(position, true);
}

To
public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position,long arg3) {
    view.setSelected(true);
}

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The Elite 50, According To 'FIFA 15'
Ramiz Parchment
Ahead of the release of FIFA 15, the developers of the tremendously successful FIFA series have published the list of the top 50 best players. The list is not surprisingly topped by the series cover star Lionel Messi, who once again reigns supreme over his rival Cristiano Ronaldo despite missing out on the FIFA Ballon d'OR.
FIFA 15 is due to be released on September 23 in the United States, on September 25 in Europe, and September 26 in the United Kingdom.
According to EA Sports, the list is based on player performances over the last 365 days (both in club and cup competitions), as well as in-game statistics. The developers of FIFA 15 claim that FIFA 15 uses the most detailed up-to-date stats yet to accurately recreate every player from all the key leagues throughout the world. It currently works with the Premier League to produce the EA Sports Player Performance Index, which analyses player contributions to each match based on five criteria.
The list is dominated by elite footballers mainly from the Barclays Premier League, the Italian Serie A, the Spanish La Liga and the German Bundesliga.
50. Giorgio Chiellini – Juventus (Italy)
49. Andrea Pirlo – Juventus (Italy)
48. Xabi Alonso – Bayern Munich (Germany)
47. Iker Casillas – Real Madrid (Spain)
46. Cesc Fàbregas- Chelsea FC (England)
45. Hugo Lloris – Tottenham Hotspur (England)
44. Javi Martinez – Bayern Munich (Germany)
43. Sergio Busquets – FC Barcelona (Spain)
42. Jerome Boateng – Bayern Munich (Germany)
41. Juan Mata – Manchester United (England)
40. Karim Benzema – Real Madrid (Spain)
39. Carlos Tevez – Juventus (Italy)
38. Mario Götze – Bayern Munich (Germany)
37. Diego Costa – Chelsea FC (England)
36. Toni Kroos – Real Madrid (Spain)
35. Arturo Vidal – Juventus FC (Italy)
34. Petr Čech – Chelsea FC (England)
33. Edinson Cavani – Paris Saint-Germain (France)
32. James Rodríguez – Real Madrid (Spain)
31. Thibaut Courtois – Chelsea FC (England)
30. Neymar Jr. – FC Barcelona (Spain)
29. Mats Hummels – Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
28. Mesut Özil – Arsenal (England)
27. Thomas Müller – Bayern Munich (Germany)
26. Marco Reus – Borussia Dortmund (Germany)
25. Ángel Di María – Manchester United (England)
24. Sergio Agüero – Manchester City (England)
23. Wayne Rooney – Manchester United (England)
22. Yaya Touré – Manchester City (England)
21. Xavi – FC Barcelona (Spain)
20. Vincent Kompany – Manchester City (England)
19. Robert Lewandowski – Bayern Munich (Germany)
18. Luka Modrić – Real Madrid (Spain)
17. David Silva – Manchester City (England)
16. Thiago Silva – Paris Saint-Germain (France)
15. Sergio Ramos – Real Madrid (Spain)
14. Gareth Bale – Real Madrid (Spain)
13. Philipp Lahm – Bayern Munich (Germany)
12. Radamel Falcao – Manchester United (England)
11. Robin van Persie – Manchester United (England)
10. Eden Hazard – Chelsea FC (England)
9. Franck Ribéry – Bayern Munich (Germany)
8. Bastian Schweinsteiger – Bayern Munich (Germany)
7. Luis Suárez – FC Barcelona (Spain)
6. Andrés Iniesta – FC Barcelona (Spain)
5. Manuel Neuer – Bayern Munich (Germany)
4. Zlatan Ibrahimović – Paris Saint-Germain (France)
3. Arjen Robben – Bayern Munich (Germany)
2. Cristiano Ronaldo – Real Madrid (Spain)
1. Lionel Messi – FC Barcelona (Spain)
The reaction over the eagerly awaited FIFA 15 ratings was met with bemusement from fans over Twitter.
Messi beats Ronaldo once again on ratings for FIFA 15! 93 over 92
— Damon Salvatore (@Lewisscoot) September 8, 2014
Di Maria with the same rating of 86!! Crap, didn't they see him last season?? 17 assists in la liga baana! #fifa15rankings
— The Tric (@tony_tric) September 8, 2014
I don't even want fifa 15 anymore. Messi still better than Ronaldo. Bale outside the top 10. Ramsey outside the top 50! #fake
— Dawood_Majiet (@Dawood_97) September 8, 2014
The Inquisitr had reported features set to make its debut in the FIFA series. Unique FIFA 15 features such as Emotional Intelligence should give gamers a more realistic experience while gaming.
The FIFA 15 demo is set to be released on September 9.
[Image via EA Sports]


Go on an interstellar odyssey, right here in Pune. Space is so vast that it would take billions of years for a rock ejected from the earth to collide with a planet circling another star. The stars of the Milky-Way are drawn together by gravity in their own enormous orbits around its center. The sun, for example, being way out on the edge takes some 2250 million years to complete a single orbit. At the same time, during each revolution around the galaxy, the solar system will pass through three gigantic interstellar clouds, planet making factories each many light years across. The Milky-Way has more than 100 of these vast clouds, places where gas and dust condense to form new stars and planets.
The best way to start exploring the night sky is with the naked eye. Under the guidance of experts, you'll learn to identify the constellations and stars, and that's only the beginning!
This stargazing night has been organized in association with Jyotirvidya Parisanstha (JVP) on Saturday the 3rd and the 4th of November, at Nasrapur Farmhouse location.
Kindly note: The star gazing activity starts pre-dinner and will go on till 7.30 AM. Those who would like to sleep early, there will be tents set up for you to sleep in (on sharing basis); others who wish to stay awake throughout, kindly get enough rest during the day on Saturday or prepare to get rest once you head back on Sunday.
Sky shows (total 3): One of the JVP experts will explain to participants about stars, planets, constellations, Raashis, Nakshatras, their mythological stories as well as interesting scientific information.
Telescope sessions (total 4): Through JVP's telescopes, participants will get to see mind-blowing views of the Moon, Jupiter, and some deep sky objects like Orion Nebula, Beehive cluster, Omega Centauri cluster, Ring nebula, Hercules cluster, etc.
Software demo: One of the experts will demonstrate a free planetarium software that you can use with your laptops, tablets or cellphones.
You'll also get to see some bright satellite passes (and hopefully meteors!) with an unaided eye!
Perfect if you like seeing yourself as part of a bigger picture, with a sense of wonder, and just love being out at night.
If that's you, come and join in for a slumber party under the stars.
Pick up from and drop off at Restaurant Blue Nile.
This is a great event and has many unusual sights. Please do not expect this as a party invitation and completely avoid alcohol or substances.
Once you are ready, please contact the organizer and reserve your seat. Feel free to ask any questions that you may have.


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The doctors at Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates are highly trained to diagnose and treat a wide range of orthopedic ailments throughout the body. Our goal is to understand how your injury or pain condition impacts your life and get you back to your normal activities as quickly as possible.
Tulsa Bone & Joint Associates is a leading orthopedic practice serving Tulsa, Oklahoma and our surrounding communities. The group began as the merging of orthopedic surgeons at St. John Medical Center. We offer comprehensive care for all types of athletes, injured workers, rheumatoid arthritis sufferers, and anyone else with musculoskeletal conditions affecting their ability to live free from pain and limited mobility. Our care includes advanced diagnostic and treatment methods to help keep the joints of your upper and lower extremities, back, and neck healthy and happy.
Our board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopedic specialists collaborate with physical therapists and other providers to deliver the highest quality, specialized patient care for you and your family. Our customized treatment plans are designed to get you back to work and play as quickly and safely as possibly. We take a conservative approach to treatment, but when surgery is necessary to replace a broken down knee or hip joint or repair a fracture, you can rest assured you're in the very best surgical hands.
When experience and quality orthopedic and rheumatological care is what you need, turn to Tulsa's experts for all of your bone and joint care needs. Call (918) 392-1400 or request an appointment online today.


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This Therapist Takes Her Sessions Off the Couch and Onto the Roads
She's helping her clients one mile at a time.
By Annie O'Sullivan
Sepideh Saremi
We've all heard the expression—you can't run away from your problems. But this therapist believes you might be able to run through them.
Thirty-three year old Sepideh Saremi of Los Angeles, California is helping her patients realize this through her practice "Run Walk Talk," launched back in 2012, which focuses on using running and walking as therapeutic alternatives to the traditional "sit n' speak" method that so many are familiar with.
"The way that I work really focuses on the relationship that (my patient and I) are forming. I think running is a really amazing way to form a closer relationship," Saremi said. "It's very nonthreatening, very comfortable for people, and it's much easier to do than going in, and sitting on a couch in a room with somebody that you just met and being expected to just talk to them."
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As one of the pioneers for this fairly new approach in modern day therapy, Saremi says that she was inspired to launch her program while in graduate school at UCLA, where she researched and found evidence that running was a help for issues like depression and anxiety.
"The evidence is really good for this as a mental health intervention but I didn't see it in the work anywhere," Saremi said. "Nobody was doing this kind of work so that kind of planted the seed for me about doing this kind of work in the future."
Following graduation, she worked at a community mental health center with the local Iranian refugee population for a few years. Saremi, who was born to Iranian parents in Germany and immigrated here when she was 7, said she started brainstorming different ways to conduct therapy for these refugees, many of whom were uncomfortable with the idea of expressing their feelings.
"With that population, the idea of therapy is foreign," Saremi said. "We don't really talk about our feelings so lots of my clients had that mindset, and also being a young woman, it was hard for many of the men, because the gender roles are different where they are from."
She started conducting more of her sessions outside with her clients when she made home visits.
At the same time, Saremi had been building on her own passion for getting active. After realizing how out-of-shape she was in her mid-20s, she started walking, and then jumping rope, and then running three miles almost every day.
"I used running all throughout grad school to deal with stress. You're dealing a lot with other people's problems, especially in social work where you're dealing with really stressful social systems that often don't work," Saremi said. "So the running was a way for me to just be really centered."
She wanted others to reap these benefits as well, which is why, in 2012, she left her job and opened up her own private practice Run Walk Talk. These days, Saremi, who runs her practice by herself, is often seeing 15-20 clients a week, usually for 50 minute, covering between 3-5 miles with each patient along Redondo Beach. If she could describe her patients in one word, it would be "overachievers."
"They are people who tend to be very hard on themselves. They have always done really well in life. If they have a mental health crisis or some substance abuse issue, sometimes it's harder for them to recover," Saremi said, "because they don't have the experience of having a lot of hard knocks, or having failed, so they carry a lot of shame."
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With every patient, the approach is the same. It doesn't matter how many miles you go, it doesn't matter how fast you go, and it doesn't matter what your pace is. All that matters is getting out and running.
"It's an interesting thing for my overachievers that are so used to driving themselves into the ground and working really hard, and thinking everything has to be difficult or it doesn't count," Saremi said. "This is a way to kind of do things differently. We run in a much more gentle way. We run in a way where we can have a conversation and connection with each other, and we're also using the body to notice what are the needs that are coming up, what are the feelings that are coming up, and how can we go about addressing them."
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One of her biggest challenges isn't always getting people to open up, but rather, keeping herself stocked and fueled properly for all of the running sessions she does everyday.
As more patients are looking for alternative forms of therapy, Saremi hopes more therapists recognize and understand the benefits of running. One thing she wants to make clear—running individually isn't therapy, and while it is beneficial, it shouldn't be treated as such.
"Running can be very meditative and it's very helpful, but therapy is about a relationship with another person, so it's important for us to be able to talk," Saremi said. "I think it's great that people using running as a way of self care but you have to use running as a way to form a relationship for it to be therapeutic."
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