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44 percent had incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
As a refresher, the IRS uses 250 percent of the federal poverty level as a proxy for economic hardship in several situations, such as in administering the Federal Payment Levy Program (FPLP). FPLP is an automated system the IRS uses to match its records against those of the government's Bureau of the Fiscal Service to identify taxpayers with unpaid tax liabilities who receive certain payments from the federal government. IRC § 6331(h) allows the IRS to issue continuous levies for up to 15 percent of federal payments due to these taxpayers who have unpaid federal liabilities. As explained in my 2014 Annual Report to Congress, the IRS excluded Social Security recipients whose incomes were below 250 percent of the federal poverty level after a 2008 TAS research study demonstrated that the FPLP program levied on taxpayers who were experiencing economic hardship.
In 1998, Congress first adopted the measure of 250 percent of the federal poverty level in IRC § 7526 to identify taxpayers who cannot afford representation in IRS disputes and are therefore vulnerable to overreaching by the IRS. The January 2018 Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 adopts the measure to excuse some taxpayers from paying user fees to enter into installment agreements (IAs). Still more recently, the House of Representatives included a provision to exclude taxpayers whose incomes are less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level from referral to a PCA in the bipartisan Taxpayer First Act, H.R. 5444, which passed the House with a recorded vote of 414-0 on April 18, 2018.
PCAs solicit full payment of the tax debt when they contact taxpayers, and if the taxpayer cannot immediately pay, the PCA can offer an IA. We took a closer look at the IAs taxpayers entered into, and I included in volume 2 of my 2017 Annual Report to Congress a TAS Research Study that reports our findings. Specifically, we studied the financial circumstances of 2,102 taxpayers who, between April 10, 2017 (when the IRS began assigning tax debts to PCAs) and September 28, 2017, entered into an IA while their debts were assigned to a PCA and made a payment on which the PCA received a commission.
In addition to looking at these 2,102 taxpayers' income levels, we checked to see how often their incomes were exceeded by their allowable living expenses (ALEs). ALE standards determine how much money taxpayers need for basic living expenses (for items like housing and utilities, food, transportation, and health care), based on family size and where they live. The IRS compares the taxpayer's income with ALE standards to determine the taxpayer's ability to pay his or her tax debt and at what level.
Figure 1.1 shows what we discovered about taxpayers who entered into installment agreements and made payments between April 10, 2017 and September 28, 2017 while their debts were assigned to PCAs.
Overall, 43 percent who entered into IAs had incomes less than their ALEs.
On April 23, 2018, I issued a Taxpayer Advocate Directive (TAD) ordering the IRS not to assign to PCAs the debt of any taxpayer whose income was less than 250 percent of the federal poverty level. I ordered the IRS to respond to the TAD, either by agreeing or by appealing the TAD to the Deputy Director for Services and Enforcement by June 25, 2018.
In the meantime, as the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 drew to a close, we continued to gather data about how taxpayers are faring in the hands of PCAs. With the PDC program more than a year old, we think it's time to find out how often taxpayers default on IAs they enter into while their debts are assigned to PCAs. We plan to report our findings in my Fiscal Year 2019 Objectives Report to Congress, which will be published later this month.
The views expressed in this blog are solely those of the National Taxpayer Advocate. The National Taxpayer Advocate is appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury and reports to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. However, the National Taxpayer Advocate presents an independent taxpayer perspective that does not necessarily reflect the position of the IRS, the Treasury Department, or the Office of Management and Budget.


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module HealthSeven::V2_6
class OplO37 < ::HealthSeven::Message
  attribute :msh, Msh, position: "MSH", require: true
  attribute :sfts, Array[Sft], position: "SFT", multiple: true
  attribute :uac, Uac, position: "UAC"
  attribute :ntes, Array[Nte], position: "NTE", multiple: true
  attribute :rols, Array[Rol], position: "ROL", require: true, multiple: true
  class Guarantor < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
    attribute :gt1, Gt1, position: "GT1", require: true
    attribute :ntes, Array[Nte], position: "NTE", multiple: true
  end
  attribute :guarantor, Guarantor, position: "OPL_O37.GUARANTOR"
  class Order < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
    attribute :nk1s, Array[Nk1], position: "NK1", require: true, multiple: true
    class Patient < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
      attribute :pid, Pid, position: "PID", require: true
      attribute :pd1, Pd1, position: "PD1"
      attribute :obxes, Array[Obx], position: "OBX", multiple: true
      class Insurance < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :in1, In1, position: "IN1", require: true
        attribute :in2, In2, position: "IN2"
        attribute :in3, In3, position: "IN3"
      end
      attribute :insurances, Array[Insurance], position: "OPL_O37.INSURANCE", multiple: true
      attribute :al1s, Array[Al1], position: "AL1", multiple: true
    end
    attribute :patient, Patient, position: "OPL_O37.PATIENT"
    class Specimen < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
      attribute :spm, Spm, position: "SPM", require: true
      attribute :obxes, Array[Obx], position: "OBX", multiple: true
      class Container < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :sac, Sac, position: "SAC", require: true
        attribute :obxes, Array[Obx], position: "OBX", multiple: true
      end
      attribute :containers, Array[Container], position: "OPL_O37.CONTAINER", multiple: true
      class ObservationRequest < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :orc, Orc, position: "ORC", require: true
        attribute :obr, Obr, position: "OBR", require: true
        attribute :rols, Array[Rol], position: "ROL", multiple: true
        class Timing < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
          attribute :tq1, Tq1, position: "TQ1", require: true
          attribute :tq2s, Array[Tq2], position: "TQ2", multiple: true
        end
        attribute :timings, Array[Timing], position: "OPL_O37.TIMING", multiple: true
        attribute :tcd, Tcd, position: "TCD"
        attribute :dg1s, Array[Dg1], position: "DG1", multiple: true
        attribute :obxes, Array[Obx], position: "OBX", multiple: true
      end
      attribute :observation_requests, Array[ObservationRequest], position: "OPL_O37.OBSERVATION REQUEST", require: true, multiple: true
    end
    attribute :specimen, Array[Specimen], position: "OPL_O37.SPECIMEN", require: true, multiple: true
    class PriorResult < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
      attribute :nk1s, Array[Nk1], position: "NK1", require: true, multiple: true
      class PatientPrior < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :pid, Pid, position: "PID", require: true
        attribute :pd1, Pd1, position: "PD1"
      end
      attribute :patient_prior, PatientPrior, position: "OPL_O37.PATIENT PRIOR"
      class PatientVisitPrior < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :pv1, Pv1, position: "PV1", require: true
        attribute :pv2, Pv2, position: "PV2"
      end
      attribute :patient_visit_prior, PatientVisitPrior, position: "OPL_O37.PATIENT VISIT PRIOR"
      attribute :al1, Al1, position: "AL1"
      class OrderPrior < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
        attribute :obr, Obr, position: "OBR", require: true
        attribute :orc, Orc, position: "ORC"
        attribute :rols, Array[Rol], position: "ROL", multiple: true
        class Timing < ::HealthSeven::SegmentGroup
          attribute :tq1, Tq1, position: "TQ1", require: true
          attribute :tq2s, Array[Tq2], position: "TQ2", multiple: true
        end
        attribute :timing, Timing, position: "OPL_O37.TIMING"
        attribute :obxes, Array[Obx], position: "OBX", require: true, multiple: true
      end
      attribute :order_priors, Array[OrderPrior], position: "OPL_O37.ORDER PRIOR", require: true, multiple: true
    end
    attribute :prior_result, PriorResult, position: "OPL_O37.PRIOR_RESULT"
    attribute :ft1s, Array[Ft1], position: "FT1", multiple: true
    attribute :ctis, Array[Cti], position: "CTI", multiple: true
    attribute :blg, Blg, position: "BLG"
  end
  attribute :orders, Array[Order], position: "OPL_O37.ORDER", require: true, multiple: true
end
end

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The 8th biennial meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy will be held at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino and will take place on May 2-5, 2019.
We look forward to another meeting with programming spanning Wednesday (Student Event), Thursday morning through Saturday evening (Conference), into Sunday (Post-Conference Workshops).
You can find the program overview HERE and the full program HERE.
- Symposia: Each symposium is allocated 90 minutes for 4 talks. The symposium chair can decide how to manage the time for each presentation and for questions, and is also responsible for getting the symposium start in time (e.g., uploading all presentation on the room computer in due time).
- Oral paper sessions: Each session is allocated 75 minutes for 4 talks. Each talk should last max. 15 minutes and be followed by 2/3 minutes for questions. Shorter presentations to allow for more questions could also work. Each presenter is responsible for having their presentations on the room computer in due time. The first presenter of the oral paper sessions is gently requested to make sure the session starts on time.
- Posters: Posters should be 4' x 3' (about 120 x 90 cm). Each presenter can choose to use portrait or landscape orientation based on text and visual characteristics.
You may register online (Conference Registration) for the conference on this page. Please register by April 1st, 2019 to get the early registration discount.
You can find more information about the post-conference workshops on Sunday May 5th 2019, please see HERE.
We invite you to book your room at the special conference rates. Please use this LINK to get the special conference rate.
If you prefer to book by phone, please mention SSSP9R. Please book by April 1st, 2019 to ensure you receive the discounted rate.
We look forward to having you join us in Las Vegas!


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Q: SQL Select Query for Retrieving WooCommerce Order Items and Meta Data I'm working on creating some SQL Views for my Wordpress database to more easily view online orders generated via the WooCommerce plugin. I'm familiar with the WooCommerce structure and where the data is stored but being an SQL novice I'm getting stuck at the last hurdle.
I've been able to create the first view of all the order details using this reference:
http://codecharismatic.com/sql-script-to-get-all-woocommerce-orders-including-metadata/
Now I need to create a similar view of the line items for each of these orders. There are 2 tables that store order item details:
wp_woocommerce_order_items
wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta
I've been able to create the basic list of records from the wp_woocommerce_order_items table as follows:
SELECT order_item_id,order_item_name,order_item_type,order_id
FROM ocm_woocommerce_order_items
ORDER BY order_id

This returns a nice list of records like this:
order_item_id   order_item_name order_item_type order_id
 2  Widgets line_item   9
 3  Widgets line_item   10
 4  Widgets line_item   11
 5  Woo Logo    line_item   473
 6  Woo Logo    line_item   473

I would now like to add additional columns for each line item from the wp_woocommerce_order_itemmeta table. This table contains multiple records for each line item like this:
 meta_id    order_item_id   meta_key    meta_value
 136    16  _qty    4
 137    16  _tax_class
 138    16  _product_id 87
 139    16  _variation_id   0
 140    16  _line_subtotal  36
 141    16  _line_total 36
 142    16  _line_subtotal_tax  3.6
 143    16  _line_tax   3.6

I would like to convert each of these into a new column so my output would consist of:
 order_item_id, order_item_name, order_item_type, order_id, qty, tax_class, product_id, variation_id, line_subtotal, line_total, line_subtotal_tax, line_tax

I'm not sure which SQL syntax to use here - I've tried to use a similar syntax to the link above but haven't been able to get it to work so far and not sure if that is indeed the correct syntax.

A: You can use this query to get all completed orders including all metadata.
SELECT
        p.ID as order_id,
        p.post_date,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_email' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as billing_email,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_first_name' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_first_name,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_last_name' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_last_name,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_address_1' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_address_1,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_address_2' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_address_2,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_city' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_city,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_state' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_state,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_billing_postcode' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _billing_postcode,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_first_name' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_first_name,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_last_name' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_last_name,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_address_1' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_address_1,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_address_2' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_address_2,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_city' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_city,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_state' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_state,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_shipping_postcode' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as _shipping_postcode,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_order_total' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as order_total,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_order_tax' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as order_tax,
        max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_paid_date' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as paid_date,
        ( select group_concat( order_item_name separator '|' ) from wp_woocommerce_order_items where order_id = p.ID ) as order_items
    FROM
        wp_posts p
        join wp_postmeta pm on p.ID = pm.post_id
        join wp_woocommerce_order_items oi on p.ID = oi.order_id
    WHERE
        post_type = 'shop_order' and
        post_date BETWEEN '2021-07-01' AND '2021-08-01' and
        post_status = 'wc-completed'
    group by
        p.ID

A: I managed to work this out by trial and error. Here's the query that worked in the end:
select
p.order_id,
p.order_item_id,
p.order_item_name,
p.order_item_type,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_product_id' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as productID,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_qty' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as Qty,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_variation_id' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as variationID,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_line_total' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as lineTotal,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_line_subtotal_tax' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as subTotalTax,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_line_tax' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as Tax,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_tax_class' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as taxClass,
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_line_subtotal' and p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as subtotal
from
ocm_woocommerce_order_items as p,
ocm_woocommerce_order_itemmeta as pm
 where order_item_type = 'line_item' and
 p.order_item_id = pm.order_item_id
 group by
p.order_item_id

A: @mostafa Norzade I don't have commenting previlige so posting as answer
the meta_key for user_id is '_customer_user', so simply add the following:
max( CASE WHEN pm.meta_key = '_customer_user ' and p.ID = pm.post_id THEN pm.meta_value END ) as customer_user,

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in: Villains, Dragons, DreamWorks Dragons Characters,
Main antagonist
Main Antagonists
Toothless' Nemesis
Charile Skanker
Toothless' Rival
"ROAR!!!!"
Toothless' Nemesis is a enemy of Toothless and the main antagonist from DreamWorks Dragons.
The Whispering Death first appeared in What Flies Beneath, where it was revealed he and Toothless had a history, and not a nice one. The Whispering Death was a ferocious and merciless fighter, who was determined to kill Toothless. He was also shown to be quite intelligent, being able to figure out Toothless couldn't fly, and thus was an easy opponent. After Toothless defeated him, it is assumed both have moved on and consider the matter closed.
This Whispering Death appeared in episode 14 (What Flies Beneath). He held a grudge against Toothless who had bitten him before Toothless and Hiccup became friends, and got into two fights with Toothless after he arrived on Berk. In the first one, he showed himself to the rest of Berk's dragons, but they all backed off when Toothless attempted to confront the Whispering Death by himself. Hampered by his inability to fly, Toothless wrestled with the Whispering Death until he was shot in the leg by one of the Whispering Death's spikes. In the second fight, Hiccup was prepared to help Toothless, but Toothless refused and tried to manage on his own. Without Hiccup, Toothless was unable to fly properly, so the Whispering Death knocked him out of the sky and used his fire to send him onto a ledge where the Whispering Death attempted to send Toothless into a canyon, which would kill him. Only by accepting Hiccup's help was Toothless able to defeat the Whispering Death, Hiccup deliberately forcing Toothless to accept his aid by jumping off the canyon himself, leaving Toothless to save Hiccup and accept his aid or let his friend die to save his vendetta. After he and Hiccup were able to down the Whispering Death using its weakness to direct sunlight, Hiccup convinced Toothless to spare his foe, which then fled back to its tunnel.
Toothless' Nemesis' defeat
It has never been revealed how, where and why Toothless and Whispering Death developed a grudge for one another in the first place. However, Rise of Berk hinted that the story may be revealed in a later season.
DreamWorks Dragons Characters

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Home / Conference Listings / Informatics / Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience
Conferences and Meetings on Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience
Australia (1) - Canada (3) - China (1) - Cyprus (1) - France (1) - India (1) - Italy (1) - Japan (2) - United States (1)
CHIIR '21 — Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
15 Mar 2021 - 21 Mar 2021 • Canberra , ACT, Australia
SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). SIGIR welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR theory and foundation, techniques, and applications. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, non-English IR, cross-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets) Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query representation, query intent, query log analysis, question answering, query suggestion, query reformulation) Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user models, user studies, user feedback, search interface, summarization, task models, personalized search) Retrieval Models and Ranking.
https://dl.acm.org/conference/ir
CHI 2021 — Annual SIGCHI Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems
08 May 2021 • Yokohama , Japan
SIGCHI
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
https://chi2021.acm.org/
CHI 2021 — Computer Human Interaction
08 May 2021 - 13 May 2021 • Yokohama, Japan
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI – pronounced 'kai' – is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. CHI is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of HCI and attracts thousands of international attendees annually. CHI will be held for the first time in Japan, in the city of Yokohama, just south-west of Tokyo. In 2021, our theme encourages authors and delegates to make waves as they feature the latest discoveries and advances in HCI and shake up the existing state of affairs. And to think of CHI as a platform to combine strengths of different people from different perspectives. This gives rise to our CHI 2021 theme "Making Waves, Combining Strengths".
AHMIS 2021 — 2021 2nd Asia Human-Computer Interaction Symposium
29 May 2021 - 31 May 2021 • Shanghai, China
ACMSC
AHMIS 2021 information: Prof. Kai Hwang from Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, Prof. Changxu (Sean) Wu from University of Arizona, USA and Prof. Yao Liang from Indiana University Purdue University, USA will be the keynote speakers. AHMIS 2021 can provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and professionals from the industry, academia and government to discourse on research and development, professional practice in Human-Computer Interaction.
Phone: [+86-021-59561560]; Email: amychou2020@163.com
Human; Interface/interaction; Social/organizational issue; Process; Technology
http://www.ahmis.net
QoMEX 2021 — 13th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience
14 Jun 2021 - 17 Jun 2021 • Montreal, Canada
Computing Hardware, Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Visualization, Games
IS-EUD 2021 — 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development"
06 Jul 2021 - 08 Jul 2021 • Limassol, Cyprus
SEIT Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus
IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas.
Phone: [+35722892693]; Email: george@cs.ucy.ac.cy
• User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices • Conversational interfaces for end-user development • End-user development for big data visualization and exploration • End-user development for collaborative robotics • End-user development for social robotics • End-user development in Industry 4.0 • End-user development and explainable AI-based systems • Cybersecurity and end-user development • End-user development in daily life • Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development • Empirical studies of end-user development • Recommender systems to support end-user development • Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches • Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies • Evaluation of end-user development technologies • Supporting creative work through end-user development
http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/
The Summer Institute on AI and Society
21 Jul 2021 - 23 Jul 2021 • Western University, Canada
The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences
The goal of the AI Institute on AI and Society is to bring together a diverse group of thoughtful individuals at different career stages to explore some of the most critical questions we face as a society around the development and use of Artificial Intelligence. Potential impacts of AI range from specific, near-term issues such as concerns related to transparency and accountability, algorithmic bias and equity, and liability for autonomous vehicles and other automated physical systems, to longer-term disruptions to employment, economic structure, government functioning and geopolitics. Our goal is to facilitate the production of impactful research outputs that cross disciplinary boundaries of mathematics, computer science, engineering, law, sociology, philosophy, history, and art.
Social Networks and Social Aspects of Information Technology, Software Agents and Intelligent Agents in Artificial Intelligence
http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/21-22/AI
SOUPS 2021 — Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
08 Aug 2021 - 10 Aug 2021 • Vancouver, Canada
The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021) will take place August 8–10, 2021, at the JW Marriott Parq Vancouver in Vancouver, BC, Canada. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, security, and privacy.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2021
INTERACT 2021 — IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
30 Aug 2021 - 03 Sep 2021 • Bari, Italy
IFIP – International Federation for Information Processing
INTERACT is the International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human–Computer Interaction. INTERACT is held every two years. The theme of INTERACT 2021 "Sense, Feel, Design" highlights the new challenges of interaction design. Technology is today more and more widespread, pervasive and blended in the world we live in. On one side, devices that sense humans' activities have the potential to provide an enriched interaction. On the other side, the user experience can be further enhanced by exploiting multisensorial technologies. Not only the traditional human senses of vision and hearing, but also senses of touch, smell, and taste, as well as emotions are to be taken into account when designing for future interactions. INTERACT 2021 represents the right venue to debate such new challenges.
MobileHCI '21 — 23rd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
27 Sep 2021 - 30 Sep 2021 • Toulouse, France
https://dl.acm.org/conference/mobilehci
VL/HCC 2021 — IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
13 Oct 2021 - 09 Oct 2021 • St. Louis, Mo, United States
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC)
The IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) is the premier international forum for research on this topic. Established in 1984, the mission of the conference is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people.
The 2021 symposium is scheduled to take place October 10-13 in St. Louis, Mo. Our special emphasis for 2021 is Interaction at a Distance. We are planning for a potentially hybrid conference with options to participate at a distance due to continued uncertainty around COVID-19. IEEE VL/HCC 2021 is 100% Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC).
https://conf.researchr.org/home/vlhcc-2021
IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2021
15 Dec 2021 - 18 Dec 2021 • Jodhpur, India
The IEEE conference series on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition is the premier international forum for research in image and video-based face, gesture, and body movement recognition. Its broad scope includes advances in fundamental computer vision, pattern recognition, computer graphics, and machine learning techniques relevant to face, gesture, and body action, new algorithms, and analysis of specific applications. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition will be held in Jodhpur, India.
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, Machine Vision, Biometric Technologies
http://iab-rubric.org/fg2021/


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Mark Zuckerberg Interviewed by Michael Arrington - TechCrunch Disrupt 2012:part2
Mark Zuckerberg Interviewed by Michael Arrington #2/2
TechCrunch Disrupt 2012
Arrington Do you still code? I know, even recently, you still occasionally would.
Zuckerberg So, we have a rule at Facebook that if you check in code, you have to maintain your code so...
Arrington So, not so much.
Mark Zuckerberg(マーク・ザッカーバーグ)
Zuckerberg So, the answer is I code for fun on the side, but out of respect for other folks and not wanting to be a jerk and make other people maintain my code when something breaks in a meeting. And I don't want to have get pulled out of, like, a management team meeting or something, to go fix something. I don't check in code to the main branch anymore.
Arrington Does Mark Zuckerberg's code break?
Zuckerberg Yes, everything I do breaks, but we fix it quickly.
Arrington So you've closed the Instagram acquisition?
Zuckerberg Yeah.
Arrington Can we talk about that now? Why did you do it and what are you going to do with it?
Zuckerberg Oh. So Instagram is great, right? I mean, they're a... they're this super talented group of engineers building this amazing product, that just crossed a hundred million registered users and they're killing it. And the history of how this thing came together is really interesting, right?
So the way that I got to know Kevin is they started off building on top of our platform, but they had just a great open graph integration that made it to that... you can take pictures with Instagram and you can share them to Facebook. It's really first class, right? So, sharing a picture from Instagram, it basically appears exactly the same as if you shared a photo on Facebook.
So, it's great. They did a really good job with that. And, one of the things that I like to do is, all of our big developers, I just like to reach out to them and get to know them personally. Partially because I'm just, I'm personally just really interested in entrepreneurship and helping other entrepreneurs, but also I just want to get to know the people who are doing great stuff on top of our platform. So, I spent a lot of time with Kevin.
And over the course of our discussions, we built this road map of all these things that we can do together. But then this tension started which was, you know, they were starting to get a lot of distribution from Facebook. And from them there's this question of, you know, how much do they want to bet on just one company providing a huge amount of their distribution, right, so that became the strategic question for them.
And on the flip side for us, there's this question of how much do we prioritize these things, right, so we had this list of cool things that we could do. But then there's this question of, we could help them grow, but this might just be specific to them. But without the value occurring to us, we'll probably get to these things more slowly than ideally we would have wanted to.
So, eventually I just brought up the idea to Kevin, hey, maybe we should just join and become one company, and we can do a lot of these things really quickly, and we decided to do it. So, that's basically the game plan, is we're going to execute on the features that we decided earlier. Our mission around Instagram is we think Instagram is amazing, and we want to help it grow to hundreds of millions of users.
We want to help them out with whatever we can, but we have no agenda in terms of making them go into our infrastructure or something. I know a lot of times companies force companies that they're integrating, to do stuff like that. I think it's primarily a waste of time. We're not going to do any of that. We're going to just try to do the things that we would have done if they were an open graph partner, but now we can prioritize them more highly. I mean they could do a lot of them directly, because they have access to our code directly
Arrington I clearly miss time drinking the water.
Zuckerberg No, I just stopped awkwardly because I wanted to...
Arrington You did a purpose... I am not sure I am allowed to ask this question, but I'm going to anyway. I have been bugging you about a Facebook phone for years. You've dragged me to the office to say it's not happening Mike .
Zuckerberg Do you believe me yet?
Arrington No. I believe that... that you have been... of course I believe you, except that I don't. I think maybe there is like a secret group inside of Facebook that is building, like, hardware phones and it is such a juicy story. I just hope that now you can come out and publicly say finally that we are definitely building a Facebook phone.
Zuckerberg We're definitely building it... No. See, that's never - that's always been the wrong strategy for us. I mean, it's such a juicy thing to be able to say oh, they're building this phone, right? And that's what I think people have wanted to write that.
But, it's so clearly the wrong strategy for us. We're building this network; we have nine hundred, fifty million users soon. It's growing quickly. You know, let's say we built the phone, theoretically. We're not. You know, maybe we could get, we could get ten million people to use it.
Twenty million. It doesn't move the needle right for us. The strategy we have that is different from every other major technology company which is building their own hardware and operating system, right? I mean... Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon, Microsoft, like, everyone. I mean, we're going in the opposite direction. We want to build a system which is as deeply as possible integrated into every major device and things, that people want to use.
Right, so, there are three major platforms for us. I mean, there's mobile web which, I said before, is huge for us and, you know, no one is more integrated than us on mobile web because there is kind of this limit on how far you can go. So we are good there. On iOS, the whole strategy was we want to build a great app. The last release that we did was the first step.
It didn't really innovate on design that much. It just got us to a good fundamental framework. We're now in a good place where we can do a lot more interesting stuff. The iOS integration that Apple announced before and hopefully will be coming out soon, is a big piece of that. I'm really excited about that. It's going to make it so that iOS developers can integrate with Facebook a lot better, already we see beat out of the top ten iOS apps and something like half of the top five hundred iOS apps.
And more than a hundred thousand mobile apps are already integrated with Facebook, but that's with the current stuff we have, which I think is kind of clunky compared to what we're doing with iOS. So that, that provides a really good opportunity for us to go deep on iOS. Android, we can go deep on our own, right? Because, there's a lot of hooks in Android that you can just use as a developer and we can do really interesting stuff around, so that's the strategy.
Arrington There's really no question that you spend a lot of time thinking about mobile these days. I mean, it just clear that this is top of mind to you.
Zuckerberg Yeah.? I basically live on my mobile device. Actually you want to hear something pretty funny? You know I am the founder's letter in S1?
Arrington Yes.
Zuckerberg I wrote that on my phone.
Arrington Really?
Arrington You didn't have like... did your lawyers do anything like... like read it?
Zuckerberg No. I wrote that. Yeah, I do everything on my phone as a lot people do and... it's..., I still use our website right, and I mean I, a but you know I think it's really clear that, just the stats and my own personal intuition and experience just go towards it.
You check in more with, with seeing what's going on with the people around you, you can share more. I mean, you have the device with you when you want to do things. A lot of the development, ?the energy and the ecosystem is not going towards building desktop stuff anymore.
It is going towards building mobile stuff. We're able to integrate and we're helping a lot of folks build great mobile experiences. That, we just think, that's the future. We're going to be doing killer stuff there and so is everyone else, so we want to help them do that.
Arrington So did you say you are building a phone then, or no?
Zuckerberg Everything except that.
Arrington What about search? Do you ever think about search? I mean, Google Plus must have kind of pissed you off a little bit, right? It's like, hey watch what we can do back? That's the way I think of it.
Zuckerberg You know search is interesting. We do on the order of a billion queries a day already, and we're basically not even trying. Right, so, I mean, today, search is... the vast majority of it is people trying to find people, but there are also a meaningful portion of queries which are people are also trying to find pages, brand pages, other business pages and apps, right? So, there's a bunch of it actually does kind of link to commercial behaviour.
And I really know there is a big opportunity there. At some point, we just need to go do that. You know, search is interesting. It's going in this interesting direction. The legacy around the search is you get these search engines like a Google and Bing and what Yahoo is doing before. That basically, you type in keywords and the search engine tells you some kind of... runs some magic to tell you what it thinks the answer is that matches your keyword.
But, I think that search engines are really evolving toward giving you a set of answers, right? Not just like typing here and show me some relevant stuff. I have a specific question, answer this question for me. When you think of it from that perspective, Facebook is pretty uniquely positioned to answer a lot of the questions that people have like - so what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York, in the past six months what and liked.
You know, what which of my friends, or friends of friends, work at a company that I am interested in working at, because I want to talk to them about what it's going to be like to work there. I mean, these are queries that, that you can potentially do in Facebook if we built out the system that you just couldn't do anywhere else. And at some point we will do it.
Arrington Do you have a team working on it now?
Zuckerberg We have a team working on search. But, but I mean that stuff...
Arrington How many engineers do you have working on search?
Zuckerberg I don't even know off the top of my head... I mean, we are already doing on the order of a billion queries a day. So, when I said we weren't trying, I was being facetious. I mean, there is an on-going effort to make sure that people can find friends and look people up efficiently. But, no, I mean, it's - we're- we're doing a lot of stuff. I don't have anything specific to announce, but I- I do think that, that's one kind of obvious thing that would be interesting for us to do in the future, if we got to a stable place about it.
Arrington What are other obvious things that you might want to do in the future?? Facebook phone?
Zuckerberg See the phone just doesn't make any sense. There is a lot of stuff around platform that I am really excited about.
Arrington Let's talk about that for a second, since we're a little over time. You know there's Zynga, right?
Arrington Not growing so much anymore. What else is going on there? Are there...?
Zuckerberg Well, so platform is really these two things, primarily. Canvas has been the legacy, right? So, there's obviously this big games business and, yeah, I mean Zynga's had a rough few quarters. I think that they are fundamentally a strong company, but they've lost some share on our platform, and other companies like Kixeye and King.com are gaining, right?
So, I mean, it's not kind of all bad news. We have more people playing games on Facebook platform. Now that we have in the past,? up to two hundred and thirty five million people playing games monthly. That's real right? But, so that's kind of Canvas, but the thing that I'm actually spending most of my time on is open graph and when you think about what Facebook platform should be, it shouldn't be about people building apps inside of our environment.
There's a bit of that on desktop, and I think that's cool and its providing value, but I think the real value is about people being able to bring their information, their friends to apps. Being able to bring context from what they are doing in those apps back to Facebook, helping apps spread themselves, helping give people more social contacts in all the things that they're doing. And you're starting to see a lot of really interesting stuff.
Spotify is killing it. They were a good early example. Airbnb, I think is doing a lot of really interesting stuff and they are growing quickly. I mean, you see examples of things in fitness. So, Nike+ is doing interesting stuff, Run Keeper - I just- a lot of, a lot of interesting things that, that are going on. And, that's one of the areas that I'm personally really excited about. You know, all developers want more distribution. One of the recent things we did that's on the margin between platform and ads.
I mean, this is an example of this kind of new way of thinking, where we have or integrating our monetization products into the product teams, is we launched this product recently mobile active installs, not particularly creative we named but clear. And what it basically allows you to do as the developer is you can put in, you can list out the different market segments or just like any kind of targeting that you want, and you can say how much you are willing to pay for an install. And then you just embed the Facebook SDK into your app, we kind of figure out which apps that we should show.
We have hundreds of millions of people who are using apps, who we can; we can put your apps in front of. We give social context so here your friends who are using these apps. It has great ROI for the initial partners. I don't think we've done a full public launch yet, but we've done a bunch of private testing and it's working really well. So, that's something that I'm excited about that I think, almost every mobile developer can kind of get behind and be interested in it. It's right on that, the intersection of the platform stuff that we're doing and a real good distribution tool that I think most developers are going to want to use.
Arrington All right. Last question.
Zuckerberg All right.
Arrington It's a hard one. Are you still having fun?
Zuckerberg Yeah. I mean, for me it's not really about fun, though. It's about mission, so you know people ask... we go through these waves, right? And, you know, there are times where everyone in the world thinks that what we're doing is awesome and, you know, usually they are, they are too optimistic when they think that and they are writing stuff like we're whatever.
And then there's times when people are super pessimistic and, you know, I personally... this is may be a perverse thing personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people underestimate us because I just personally would rather be underestimated. And I think it gives us good latitude to, to go out and take some big bets, and do some things that really excite and amaze people,
Michael Arrington : Are people underestimating Facebook right now, do you think? Are you in that cycle?
Zuckerberg I think a bunch of people are. It's hard for me to say, overall, but over the long term, I think that there's a huge amount of interesting stuff that we... that we're working on. There are all these long term projects that I really can't get into right now, but that we are retooling to work on, and we are about half way through that cycle.
And that's the stuff that keeps me going. I just want to build good stuff. You know, I, I, you know when we look back ten, twenty years from now, the legacy of this company should be that we've connected everyone in the world, and that everyone can share all the stuff that they want. And you know, that's a lot. That's a lot to get excited about, whether it is fun, exciting, whatever. I mean some days are hard, some days kick ass, but I think everyone is amped for what we are doing.
Arrington On the behalf of all of us, thanks very much for you time, Mark. Thanks!
Zuckerberg Thank you.
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Just another wee plug one of my pictures was selected for the "featured" section on the British University Artists Website.
Looks really good this website, loads of great artists on there.
So I am in great company!
Another fashion illustration this time a MAN!


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One bear is facing winter alone for the first time in his life. Just like his father showed him, he gathers leaves for his cave, and just like his mother showed him, he catches fat silver fish to eat. The bear meets his mate and both sleep away the winter in his cosy cave, snuggled in a big bear hug. When spring arrives, a new bear cub arrives also, and the new father begins to teach his child all he has learned.


Directly out of The Tennessean that gets delivered at work. I saw the photo on the cover of the taste section on Wednesday, I folded it and hid it in my purse. Then I lied when someone asked if I knew where it went. I literally lied and stole for this recipe.
I celebrated Easter with my sisters yesterday. We cooked, played cards, ate and colored eggs. They both had obligations with their fella's families on actual Easter so I asked my friends Raquel and Carl to join Ben and I for Sunday brunch. The real reason I wanted to have brunch couldn't be clearer, I needed to make that tart.
I have never dealt with puff pastry before and I wanted to make it myself, but I woke up after 9 am and decided to buy the frozen stuff. (It was cheaper than I thought it would be!) I coated my surface with flour, just like the recipe in the newspaper says. Then I realized that I didn't need it, so my photo up there is a little misleading.
Lay your puff pastry on a baking sheet in a rectangle, once it's soft enough press together any seams that aren't attached already. Use a sharp knife to lightly score a rectangle about one inch smaller than the puff pastry on the inside of the puff pastry.
Then use a fork to poke holes inside the rectangle you scored. Bake this in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until golden.
Remove pastry shell from oven and sprinkle all the Gruyère inside the rectangle. Wash and chop the asparagus to fit across the rectangle in one single layer, alternating end to tip. Brush the asparagus with oil and then season with salt and pepper.
Bake for another 20 minutes or until the asparagus are tender. Absolutely delicious.


Medit8 – A Psychic's View of . . .
while dreaming of meditating and falling asleep.
and I realized that I was dreaming.
and realized I was still asleep.
but fell asleep thinking that I was awake.
but then realized I was only meditating.
And, boy did I have a headache!


"House of Cards" begins its third season Friday on Netflix, and though we would never recommend watching the Kevin Spacey version with your kids, Sesame Street's playful little "House of Cards" spoof is one you and the kids will both enjoy.
Want more? Watch "Upside Downton Abbey" and more spoofs from Sesame Street.
Artwork is disappearing from the Museum of Modern Cookies and Cookie Monster is the prime suspect. Can Elmo, Abby, and Chris clear their friend's name?
That was the premise of the "classic chewdunnit" The Cookie Thief, which aired on Sesame Street today. If you and your kids enjoyed the show, keep on learning with games and video clips from PBS Kids.
Right now on PBS Kids, find several video clips from The Cookie Thief. And over at Sesame Street find a whole bunch of related games including Cooking With Cookie and Cookie Thief Puzzle. There's even one Pac-Man-inspired game that will be most fun for parents.
Learn more. Watch PBS Kids Video and Play Sesame Street Games with your kids now.
For last night's finale of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert invited a couple familiar Sesame Street friends, Ken Burns and Charlie Rose to join him and an all-star group of actors, news reporters, musicians, writers, politicians and more for the rousing – and dare I say, epic! – musical farewell that you can watch below.
Together they sang, "We'll Meet Again," which of course is correct since Colbert (minus the TV pundit character he's played on the Report) will be taking over hosting duties on The Late Show on CBS after David Letterman retires in 2015.
Have you ever wanted to listen to a 5.5-hour video of Count von Count from Sesame Street counting pi to 10,000 places? You're in luck. YouTube creator crysknife007 has created a video that features The Count tackling all 10,000 digits of pi, with his trademark "ah ah ah" after every digit.
Repetitive? Yes. Maddening? Yes. Worth checking out at least for a few seconds? Yes. The fact that videos like this go viral is a testament to Sesame Street's iconic, timeless appeal. After more than 40 years on the air, Sesame Street's muppets are still in the spotlight.
Looking for some creative ways to spend your Halloween? There's plenty of fun costume ideas, gripping dramas, delicious recipes and more available throughout the public media landscape. Here are eight activities to add to your Halloween festivities.
1. Make Salted Pumpkin Caramels or Mummy Dogs — because, for some, holidays are all about the food.
2. Go ghost hunting with Green Bay's paranormal investigative team Shadows of Spirits (S.O.S.). See what WPT's Wisconsin Life turned up on a recent investigation with S.O.S.
3. Take a haunted road trip with Antiques Roadshow by reading about paranormal highlights from the series' past tour events, including those of a young engineer that haunts the Queen Mary and a vengeful prison ghost in Idaho.
4. If you're skeptical that paranormal ghosts really do exist, spend time with some of nature's undisputed ghosts. Frolic with the White Deer of Wisconsin or take to the oceans to swim with beluga whales, also known as sea ghosts.
5. Grab the kids and play Dress Up Time with Sesame Street's Elmo and Abby Cadabby. You might even find some last minute costume ideas.
6. Elevate your halloween costume to couture fashion status with ideas from HighBall, "the nation's fiercest costume party" held annually in Columbus, Ohio. Watch the video from PBS member station WOSU.
7. Go trick or treating with "The Seven Sinister Sisters" and learn how the cosmos relate to Halloween celebrations around the globe. Check out this short video so you know where to "look up" this Halloween.
8. Experience the golden age of radio on Nov. 8 with "Supernatural," a live radio drama event from Wisconsin Public Radio. Or look back on one of the spookiest radio broadcasts of all time, Orson Welles' performance of "The War of the Worlds" on Oct. 30, 1938, as documented by American Experience.
Sesame Street is a classic, and the work of Johannes Vermeer, James McNeill Whistler and other talented artists is widely recognized as classic art. So what happens when Sesame Street characters and classic art collide?
These images are part of a photo effects contest by the website www.worth1000.com, which describes itself as "the top creative contest site in the world." These three images come from a contest titled "Sesame Street Ren 3: classic paintings with Sesame Street characters," which encouraged users to submit their original entries combining classic art and their favorite Sesame Street character.
You can view all of the entries from this particular contest here. And, if you want to see more, check out photos from some of their other "Sesame Street Ren" contests here, here and here.
Just when you think you've seen it all, the internet throws a curveball. What's your favorite entry?


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Education bill heads to Governor's desk
by: Cole Henke
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) — Changes are on the way for schools in Illinois.
An package of new rules are heading to the Senate after passing through the House and Senate during the Lame Duck Session in Springfield.
The proposals come from the Legislative Black Caucus, and it is the first legislation that has passed out of both chambers. It falls under one of the caucus's four pillars. The changes are meant to help minority students and students from underserved districts reach a level playing field with other students.
In the coming years, it will change high school graduation requirements to include 2 years of a foreign language and an increase in the number of STEM classes.
It will also create a new test for kids entering kindergarten to see how they measure up on literacy, math, social and emotional skills. The test won't keep kids from going to schools, but instead give educators a chance to figure out exactly which area a child needs to improve in.
The bill now goes to the Governor's desk.
More Illinois Capitol News Stories
Speaker Welch's chief of staff tests positive for COVID-19
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) -- Speaker Chris Welch's chief of staff said she has tested positive for COVID-19.
In a message to House members and staff, Chief of Staff Jessica Basham said she has been tested daily and Thursday she got the notice that her rapid test was positive. "I have been made aware of two other confirmed positives, and my PCR results came back, confirming my own positive."
IL House of Representatives staff & members asked to self-quarantine after positive COVID test at Bank of Springfield Center
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) -- Staff and members of the Illinois House of Representatives were told to self-quarantine after notification of a positive COVID-19 case from the Bank of Springfield Center.
Jessica Basham, chief of staff for Speakers Madigan and Welch said staff and members who were at the Center Thursday, or around someone who was, were asked to self-quarantine. They are waiting on more specific information and instructions from public health.
Rep. Emanuel 'Chris' Welch elected Speaker of the House
ILLINOIS (WCIA) -- Illinois House Democrats elected Representative Emanuel 'Chris' Welch as Speaker of the House.
This brings Speaker Michael Madigan's record run as the longest tenured state legislative leader in American history to an end.


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Q: How do I use array_map recursively in PHP? I am attempting to convert an associative array to a 2D array to allow me to export it to Google Sheets. I've figured out a simplistic solution that works as follows:
$headers = $data["resultSets"][0]["headers"];

$rowSet0 = $data["resultSets"][0]["rowSet"][0];
$rowSet1 = $data["resultSets"][0]["rowSet"][1];

$hackresults = array_map(null, $headers, $rowSet0, $rowSet1);

This produces the following:
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    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => SEASON_ID
            [1] => 22017
            [2] => 22017
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => Player_ID
            [1] => 203954
            [2] => 203954
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [0] => Game_ID
            [1] => 0021701118
            [2] => 0021701105
        )

    [3] => Array
        (
            [0] => GAME_DATE
            [1] => MAR 28, 2018
            [2] => MAR 26, 2018
        )

    [4] => Array
        (
            [0] => MATCHUP
            [1] => PHI vs. NYK
            [2] => PHI vs. DEN
        )

    [5] => Array
        (
            [0] => WL
            [1] => W
            [2] => W
        )

    [6] => Array
        (
            [0] => MIN
            [1] => 9
            [2] => 27
        )

    [7] => Array
        (
            [0] => FGM
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 6
        )

    [8] => Array
        (
            [0] => FGA
            [1] => 6
            [2] => 12
        )

    [9] => Array
        (
            [0] => FG_PCT
            [1] => 0.333
            [2] => 0.5
        )

    [10] => Array
        (
            [0] => FG3M
            [1] => 0
            [2] => 0
        )

    [11] => Array
        (
            [0] => FG3A
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 1
        )

    [12] => Array
        (
            [0] => FG3_PCT
            [1] => 0
            [2] => 0
        )

    [13] => Array
        (
            [0] => FTM
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 8
        )

    [14] => Array
        (
            [0] => FTA
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 10
        )

    [15] => Array
        (
            [0] => FT_PCT
            [1] => 0.5
            [2] => 0.8
        )

    [16] => Array
        (
            [0] => OREB
            [1] => 2
            [2] => 1
        )

    [17] => Array
        (
            [0] => DREB
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 12
        )

    [18] => Array
        (
            [0] => REB
            [1] => 3
            [2] => 13
        )

    [19] => Array
        (
            [0] => AST
            [1] => 0
            [2] => 2
        )

    [20] => Array
        (
            [0] => STL
            [1] => 0
            [2] => 1
        )

    [21] => Array
        (
            [0] => BLK
            [1] => 0
            [2] => 2
        )

    [22] => Array
        (
            [0] => TOV
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 4
        )

    [23] => Array
        (
            [0] => PF
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 5
        )

    [24] => Array
        (
            [0] => PTS
            [1] => 5
            [2] => 20
        )

    [25] => Array
        (
            [0] => PLUS_MINUS
            [1] => 7
            [2] => 20
        )

    [26] => Array
        (
            [0] => VIDEO_AVAILABLE
            [1] => 1
            [2] => 1
        )

)

This is the output I'm looking for, but there are 27  "rowSet"s, and it seems there must be a recursive way of performing this task.
I've looked at a number of custom array_map_recursive style functions but haven't had any success. Apologies and thanks in advance, I am a terrible novice coder!

A: You can use argument unpacking.
With the ... operator, you can use all the elements under $data["resultSets"][0]["rowSet"] as additional arguments to array_map.
$headers = $data["resultSets"][0]["headers"];
$rowSets = $data["resultSets"][0]["rowSet"];

$results = array_map(null, $headers, ...$rowSets);

(This isn't recursion, but I think it does what you're trying to do.)


Alt Space is a coworking space that uses the coworking tool, Habu, to help run it. I was given a chance to have a discussion with Steve, CEO of Alt Space, about why he chose Habu to help operate his business. Continue reading to see what made Habu the best pick.
Alt Space opened in January in South Manchester. This is currently the only location. Currently we have about 20 people and have been growing gradually. Initially, there was not a coworking space in the local borough. Since it is outside the major city, people were not really aware of what a coworking space is and what it involves. However, since its opening there has been a positive sentiment towards Alt Space and coworking.
What were the main obstacles you faced when managing your space before choosing Habu?
Obstacles included the normal small business issues that you encounter in the early stages of a startup company. Managing admin, booking, paperwork, and invoicing were all gruelling time-consuming tasks.
Why did you choose Habu? How long have you been using the tool?
Alt Space has been using Habu for 3 months. Two key factors, community and simplicity, seemed to be something that Habu possessed. This resonated well with me. For these reasons, I decided Habu is the perfect fit for Alt Space.
What made you choose Habu over other tools?
Comparably, Habu is a more close knit business. So it is easier to communicate with them and response times are rather quick. Also, the quality and simplicity of Habu made it the right choice. These things are important because you don't want to over-complicate your business in its early stages. Habu offered an effective system that performs well and doesn't over-complicate.
What is your favorite feature of the product?
White label aspect. The Habu branding alongside alt space branding is a great feature. Also, the invoicing system is really quick and effecient. I appreciates how well the system operates.
How did you find out about Habu?
Habu writes and publishes really good pieces on social media. Their content is interesting and very valuable. I had been following them on social networks for some time and finally decided to reach out to them.
Do you use any other tools as well?
No. Habu meets all the needs of Alt Space.
Why would you recommend this tool to a friend/community manager?
When running a business, time management is key. Habu allows you to get things done quickly and easily. This is really important because it allows you to free up some time and get other things done. Previously, I would handle invoices manually, and it became too time-consuming.
What current struggles do you face with managing your space?
Well, it has definitely gotten easier to manage. The main challenge we are facing now is acheiving scale. We want to continue to expand and grow our membership.
What ideal feature could help solve this issue?
There would not be a feature that would necessarily solve that issue, but an ideal feature to add would be some type of check-in/visibility integration with Slack. It would be cool to allow members to communicate with each other on Slack and be able to see who is in the office.


The NORTH Wastewater Treatment Plant serves the City of Henderson and some limited portions of Henderson County.
Wastewater is the potable water supply of a community after it has been used in homes, businesses, and industries and has been contaminated by use. Wastewater treatment utilizes a combination of processes which alter and reduce the contaminants and removes them from the water, accelerating the natural processes by which water can be purified.
The Henderson Water Utility operates two Wastewater Treatment Plants, designated "North" and "South". The North WWTP is located on Drury Lane and serves 54 Pumping Stations and the North Wastewater Collection System covering approximately 25 square miles. This North system contains some 190 miles of sanitary and combined storm-sanitary sewers ranging in size from six-inch (6") to 48-inch. There are approximately 11,000 service connections flowing to the pump stations. The Wastewater Treatment Plant proudly serves the residents and industries of the City of Henderson, portions of Henderson County & the City of Corydon.
The North Wastewater Treatment Plant (NWWTP) was constructed as a primary treatment facility in 1954 and upgraded to secondary treatment in 1975 (aerated bio-filter) and again in 1989 (extended aeration). The plant was renovated and expanded in 1991 & 1998 with additional aeration basins, and an additional secondary clarifier. A large addition including a new Headworks building with new screenings & grit removal equipment, a third secondary clarifier and UV disinfection is currently under construction, with completion scheduled in June 2015.
The NWWTP is operated 24 hours-per-day, 365 days-per-year and provides full secondary treatment. With the completion of the current upgrade project, the plant will have the capacity to provide treatment to remove over 99% of the contaminants from the water at an average flow of 7.5 million gallons per day (MGD) with a peak flow of 25.5 MGD. This process is a dynamic process which must be properly monitored and controlled to assure maximum effectiveness with changing flow rates and organic loadings.
All wastewater entering the NWWTP is pumped, and as it enters the plant at the Headworks, it passes through a set of fine bar screens with openings of 3 mm (about 1/8 inch). Objects which are trapped by these screens are removed by automatic mechanical rakes. The wastewater then flows to a centrifugal-type grit removal tank in which sand, cinders, and gravel are removed from the wastewater. The grit removal equipment removes 95% of the particles that are 125 microns or larger (.005 inches), when the flow to the plant is less than or equal to 18 mgd. The screenings and grit are washed and stored for disposal at a landfill. After the initial screening and grit removal, the wastewater still contains high concentrations of dissolved, small suspended solids and organic materials. This process is known as preliminary treatment.
After the wastewater leaves preliminary treatment it enters a secondary treatment system. The secondary process uses an extended aeration variation of the activated sludge process. The water is first pumped to a three very large aeration basins, where it is mixed with air and activated sludge. The detention time in this basin is 18 – 60 hours depending upon influent flow. During this time the aerobic bacteria and microorganisms present in the activated sludge consume by "eating" most of the organic matter. These bacteria and microorganisms, referred to in the industry as "bugs", depend on oxygen for their respiratory systems the same as humans. For this reason large quantities of air are pumped into the aeration basin where air bubbles rise continually up through the liquid to provide sufficient oxygen for the bugs to breathe.
All the basins are excavated "ponds" that are lined with a heavy gauge geotextile that contains the wastewater within the basin. Two of the Extended Aeration Basins contain air diffusers that consist of vertical "drops" that float in the basin. The largest EAB, #1, was renovated in 2011 with a concrete floor and fixed, fine-bubble diffusers as seen in this photograph.
Due to better air diffusion and mixing, this basin performs at a higher level of treatment and has a larger flow-through capacity than the other two basins. HWU plans to retrofit EAB #2 & 3 with this fine-bubble technology at some future date.
Four (4) groups of bugs do most of the "eating" in the activated sludge process. The first group is bacteria which eat the dissolved organic compounds. The second and third groups of bugs are microorganisms known as free-swimming and stalked ciliates. These larger bugs eat the bacteria and are heavy enough to settle by gravity. The fourth group is microorganisms known as Suctoria & Rotifers which feed on the larger bugs and assist with settling.
An interesting fact about the bacteria that eat the dissolved organics is that they have no mouth. The bacteria have a fascinating characteristic in that their "fat reserve" is stored on the outside of their body. This fat layer is sticky and is what the organics adhere to.
Once the bacteria have "contacted" their food, they start the digestion process. A chemical enzyme is sent out through the cell wall to break up the organic compounds into small units which are able to pass through the cell wall of the bacteria.
In wastewater treatment, using bacteria-eating bugs in the presence of oxygen to reduce the organic content of wastewater is called the activated sludge process. The first step, the contact of the bacteria with the organic compounds, takes about 20 minutes. The breaking up, ingestion and digestion processes which follow take 4 to 24 hours.
The fat storage characteristic of the bacteria is also an asset in settling. As the bugs "bump" into each other, the fat on each of them sticks together and causes grouping (flocculation) of the non-organic solids into a biomass.
From the aeration tank, the wastewater, now called mixed liquor, flows to secondary clarification basins to allow the flocculated biomass of solids to settle out of the water. The solids biomass, which is the activated sludge and contains trillions of bacteria and other microorganisms, is used again by returning it to the influent of the aeration basin splitter box for mixing with the raw sewage and ample amounts of air. This biomass, which contains many dead "bugs", acts as food for the live bugs in the extended aeration basins, causing them to reproduce at a high rate, jump-starting the treatment process in the basins. A portion of the sludge in the clarifiers that is not needed to sustain the process is drawn off (wasted) and sent to a digestion and dewatering operation, described below.
The final phase of wastewater treatment consists of disinfection with UV light of a specific wavelength that kills more than 99% of the remaining bacteria. The disinfected water is then discharged through a submerged outfall pipe into the Ohio River.
The waste sludge referenced above is sent to holding tanks, where a digestion process occurs. As a result of digestion, the volume of the sludge is reduced and the organic solids, such as sugar, carbohydrates and fats, are broken down into smaller inert organic and inorganic solids. Carbon dioxide, methane and water are the by-products of this organic reduction process.
When digestion has been completed, the sludge is withdrawn from the digesters to dewatering devices known as belt filter presses. The digested sludge consists of approximately 97 – 98% water, so it is necessary to remove enough of the water to produce a material which is dry enough to be hauled in trucks. Water is removed from the sludge by use of porous fabric belts which pass around a series of rolls at increasingly higher pressure. For more effective separation of the water and solids, the sludge is first treated with a liquid cationic polymer which chemically causes the water and solids to separate. The polymer treated sludge is introduced as slurry between the fabric belts. As the belts wrap around the rolls, a large quantity of water is squeezed out of the sludge and escapes through the porous belts. This water is then returned to the plant for treatment. The process of removing the water is somewhat similar to that used by wringer clothes washing of years past. The dewatered sludge cake at 14 – 18% solids is scraped from the belts on the discharge end of the presses where it drops onto a belt conveyor and is deposited in a storage building. The sludge cake is pushed into a hopper at floor level onto a belt conveyor and loaded into trucks. The sludge cake is currently taken to a landfill.
Supporting all the various phases of the wastewater treatment and sludge disposal process is the laboratory where numerous tests and analyses are performed on a daily basis to assure that the process variables and life support conditions for the bacteria and microorganisms are within optimum ranges. The laboratory also helps meet our required reporting for State & Federal reports.
Although not an integral part of the actual treatment process, but critical to the success of the process, is the Industrial Pretreatment Program. This program is an EPA permit requirement established by the Clean Water Act of 1977, the purpose of which is to guard the quality of the wastewater entering the plant. The program consists of monitoring, surveillance and regulation of the wastewater discharge from major industrial contributors to the municipal wastewater collection (sewers) system. Discharge of certain types of chemicals and metal compounds can have a severe toxic effect on the wastewater treatment process and therefore must be regulated to prevent such discharges. The characteristics of the discharges from some industries are such to require that the industry construct and operate a contaminant loads equalization basin prior to discharge to the municipal wastewater collection system.
The operation of the Henderson Wastewater Treatment System contributes to improvement of water quality in the Ohio River, and as a result, helps to provide recreation and health benefits for the entire community. The Ohio River is, in certain respects, one of the community's most valuable assets and the protection of this asset is a primary goal in the operation of the Wastewater Treatment System. The higher water quality also helps, proportionally, to provide a cleaner water source for many cities downstream of Henderson all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.


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What Works in Stimulating Creativity Amongst Socially Excluded Young People
Karen Halsey, Megan Jones, Pippa Lord
This research project set out to determine what works in stimulating creativity in social excluded young people through a literature review and case study interviews.
In total, the research identified eight factors which may be associated with the emergence of creativity. These included:
Authenticity - it appeared that themes, stimuli and creative activity worked successfully when they appeared to be relevant and meaningful to the young people. Also, where young people could respect the practitioner delivering the workshop or programme as a 'real working artist' it was felt that they engaged well.
Something different - exposure to new ideas and concepts was particularly instrumental in provoking creative responses from young people. Use of new/different locations, learning styles and working with new people were also seen as helpful.
'Significant other' - someone in the role of a mentor/mediator was found to be beneficial for creativity because they could provide encouragement, support and model expertise for the young people to appropriate.


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Interview with ABC's Alec at the 2017 Arena World Championship
Pubblicato 14/11/2017 alle 10:10 da Dderserei
After the conclusion of the 2017 Arena World Championship, Dderserei had the opportunity to interview Alec, the captain of the winning team ABC. Alec is a veteran of the World of Warcraft PvP scene and is one of the most notable Mages in the world. \r
Check out the 2017 Arena World Championship Recap to learn about key matches at BlizzCon!\r
Q: Firstly congatulations on your win and continuing the EU tradition of winning BlizzCon, it must feel pretty amazing!\r
A: Yeah it feels good to represent EU and to give everyone a warm welcome to EU.\r
Q: Last year you just missed out on making it to BlizzCon, how did you rebuild after that?\r
A: Actually after we lost last year, I was actually a bit depressed and I felt cheated from the game because were prepared, I thought we were good enough but we didn't make it to BlizzCon. My team helped me rebuild and helped me build confidence again and they said we should stay together, we should go all the way.\r
Q: Do you think you made the right decision?\r
A: Yeah, now I feel like I made the right decision, for sure!\r
Q: Do you think that going through that process strengthened your team?\r
A: Yes, because losing definitely teaches you a lesson and we had a lesson to learn. With everything that we learned, we made it to the Grand Finals and I don't think we could have without that. It really took a loss to make us win, and I'm happy that we stood through it as a team and as friends. \r
Q: The format of the Road to BlizzCon was very different this year, how do you feel that affected your preparation?\r
A: The Road to BlizzCon this year was a long one and a very tough one. We knew we were going to make it to Regionals, BlizzCon was the dream. At times, we had to spend so much time that we were almost burned out, but it takes good friends to make it through all of this and I think we did and I'm really happy about that. \r
Q: Do you think the longer Road to BlizzCon had an effect on which teams were actually able to make it through?\r
A: I think the long Road to BlizzCon gave us more tournament experience and it taught us how to approach a tournament better because we had more practice in how to handle defeat and how to handle victory. So yes, it definitely changed who got to BlizzCon. You have to be adaptive, and we were taught this lesson with the long road. You couldn't just make it with one composition or one strategy, you had to keep changing and you had to keep improving. \r
Q: On the topic of compositions, your team is best known for Rogue Mage Druid. You didn't play it in the Grand Final, but you did to play it on the big stage, how was that experience?\r
A: It feels good to play triple mains for once, because as I said, you need to be adaptive and always have the right strategy and the right compositions. When I had the idea this morning that Niksi could actually be very valuable on Rogue, we talked it through and instantly okayed it and it went really well. \r
Q: What made you decide to run the Windwalker Monk in the last series?\r
A: Traditionally we would play something like RMP with Subtlety Rogue but in the state of the game, we just valued Windwalker more. We think it's a better class with a better toolkit and it's easier to play. In LAN and high pressure situations you need something that you can execute, something that if things go wrong, you don't instantly lose and the Windwalker enabled this for us so we naturally saw it was the best pick for the situation. \r
Q: With all the changes this year, what would you like to see for WoW esports in the future?\r
A: I would like to see continued support. This year has been the most professional year, and the year I felt most appreciated by Blizzard. They did a good job picking up talented casters and talented players who can work behind the scenes and improve the process. Now we need some more exposure maybe, working together with sponsors and making it into a more prominent esport. I think it has the potential to be there, and the competitive scene is quite active. What we are missing right now is broad exposure and maybe cooperation with sponsors. \r
Q: Now that you've won and got through the difficult year before, do you think you'll be back next year?\r
A: I haven't decided what my plans are yet. When I was going to BlizzCon, I couldn't believe it, it was a dream come true. I came back just to get here and now having won it, it's more of a fairytale even, so I'll have to think about what my future will be, and I'll let you know.\r
Q: Congratulations again for such an amazing run through the Top 6, thank you so much for your time!\r
A: Thank you.\r
If you want to know more about Alec, his Twitter account can be found here and Twitch account can be found here. \r
About the Author:\r
My name is Dderserei, I'm a Warrior main and I'm also the main contributor to the World of Warcraft Liquipedia site. I will be bringing you recaps of World of Warcraft Arena tournaments, with plenty of statistics and a summary of the action.
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Commento di TheLonelyPhox
As a OG WoW player, and a huge fan of Ranked Arena PvP - I have no enjoyment when watching matches. They talk all the time about how to bring Arena to the mainstream Esports scene....but I just believe we will never see it. It is to rapid with too many things going on to effectively shout-cast, watch and casually enjoy. \r
It is just a blur of action that most of the high end decision stuff goes over peoples heads. That is it's main problem - people can't care about what they don't know about -Let alone how ugly matches look. Everything is just out-dated, too fast paced and sometimes too random. Haven't caught on in 12 years....\r
As much as i loved arena - WoW was never made for it, too unbalanced (which it should be, i feel that is it's beauty. As with World PVP) and with that unbalance, you tend to see the same things over and over and over.


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Jess Dandy
Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a fellowship and graduated with distinction. She was the winner of the London Bach Society Singers Prize 2017 and Oxford Lieder Young Artist 2018. She currently studies with Gary Coward. A Britten-Pears Young Artist and Heidelberger Frühling Scholar, she has performed at 22 Mansfield Street, Holywell Music Room, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, Pierre Boulez Saal and Heidelberg Stadthalle.
Jess is also co-founder with mezzo-soprano, Joanna Harries of Song Path, a walking concert series, founded to promote walking and music-making in the context of mental health and raising funds for Mind UK. To this end, she is the recipient of the Royal Overseas League Roderick Lakin Memorial Scholarship.
Opera highlights include two Royal Opera House workshops on new works by Datta/Glynn Maxwell and Philip Venables 4.48 Psychosis. Jess also covered the role of the Messenger and was a member of the ensemble in the Royal Opera House/Roundhouse production of Monteverdi Orfeo with director Michael Boyd and conductor Christopher Moulds and played the multi-part contralto role in Jack Furness' production of Into the Little Hill for Shadwell Opera with Finnegan Downie Dear conducting. On the concert platform appearances include Mozart Requiem at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Berlioz Roméo et Juliette at the Barbican and Salle Pleyel with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, Andriessen De Staat at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Simon Wills and Reich Music for the BBC Proms Multi-Story with Christopher Stark. Jess is also an experienced ensemble singer with the Monteverdi Choir, The King's Consort, Le Concert d'Astrée, Polyphony, the Gabrieli Consort and Philharmonia Voices.
Future engagements include alto solos in the St John Passion with Stephen Layton with the Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras and a recording of Handel's Samson (Micah) with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort. She will also appear with the Dunedin Consort as alto soloist in performances of Bach's B Minor Mass at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh and Wigmore Hall. Upcoming recitals include the Oxford Lieder Festival with Dylan Perez, Ulverston Music Festival with Anthony Hewitt and 22 Mansfield Street with Keval Shah.
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Seven Last Words from the Cross – Edinburgh
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#47: 2/29/16
Buck Does Just About the Same | Part 3
monk sleep
aam ka jutsu
By UnknownUser,
February 28, 2016 in Monks
Oramac
2 hours ago, buckswrath said:
The graphics library i'm using uses a unit circle that is different than the unit circle that all trigonometric functions use, in order to orient objects on the screen. A normal unit circle is setup with 0° in the positive X direction, 90° in the positive Y direction, 180° in the negative X direction, and 270° in the negative Y direction. Their circle is rotated 90° counter-clockwise, and flipped over the Y axis. This combined with the fact that most computers consider the positive Y to go down the screen makes 0° point in the negative Y direction, 90° in the positive X direction, 180° in the positive Y direction, and 270° in the negative X direction. The fix turned out to be taking the angle from the graphics library multiplying it by -1 and adding 360° to get the angle on the standard unit circle. Since the program window has a flipped y-axis, I had to take the converted angle and plug it into the negative sine function and negative cosine function to get the X and Y, respectively. Then, I could take the X and Y and use it to modify the direction of my object. I haven't got a clue why the maintainers of the graphics library couldn't set up a unit circle correctly. Oh well.
"Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back." - Captain Malcolm Reynolds
Also, I Agree With Tank™
Kishi
So what you're saying, with regard to the circle, is that you had to pull a Willy Wonka - "Switch that, reverse it!" - and that to get it to play nicely with the code that you already had in place. Which, assuming I understand you, is way more than I know how to do.
Assuming I don't understand, well, the point is all the more pertinent.
So it sounds like the big project is a game?
Work like a farmer, train like an athlete, fight like a soldier. 2 Tim. 2:3-6
BATTLE!
UnknownUser
22nd:
Breakfast: 4 tbsp. of peanut butter and a cup of coffee
Lunch: 1 veggie bag with 2 eggs, 2 pork sausage, and 1 cup of rice
Snack: about half a container of the peanut butter balls and a cup of coffee
Dinner: 2 cups of rice and about a cup of chicken, white beans, onion, and tomatoes
None, skipped it.
Sleep:
11:30; 9 (8 hr 59 min)
- none.
22 hours ago, sarakingdom said:
That's how they get you.
The sleep gremlins?
20 hours ago, Oramac said:
Ack, I wish that image weren't blocked on my internet.
12 hours ago, Kishi said:
I really just wanted to complain about the fact that I had to calculate that at all.
Yeah the CS class project is a game, i'm trying to do an astroids clone. I figured that would be best since i've already got the art for it.
sarakingdom
5 minutes ago, buckswrath said:
The math problems that NEVER WANT YOU TO SLEEP.
I felt like I could run forever, like I could smell the wind and feel the grass under my feet, and just run forever.
Current Challenge: #24 - Mrs. Cosmopolite Challenge
Past: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11a & #11b, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #23
How I feel about math word problems:
If I have 4 pencils and you have 7 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof? Purple, because aliens don't wear hats.
23rd:
Snack: a cup of coffee
Snack: a peanut butter sandwich and 3 clementines
Dinner: a baked sweet potato, 3 eggs, and 2 pork sausage
Snack: 1 tbsp. of peanut butter
2:43; 9:34 (6 hr 14 min)
I got incredibly frustrated and angry last night. So, I stayed up to calm the truck down. It felt good. I'm calm and thinking clearly now, so that's all good. I really want to get back to my normal sleep schedule. At least, i'll endeavor to do so.
I heh'd.
Aw, man, sorry to hear you had a rough night. But I am glad to hear that you managed to get yourself to calm back down.
12 minutes ago, buckswrath said:
4 minutes ago, Kishi said:
This. Glad to hear you got it sorted out.
24th:
Lunch: a baked sweet potato with 3 eggs and 2 pork sausage
Dinner: 1 veggie bag with 3 eggs and a bit more than a cup of rice
6 TGU @ 25 lbs per side, 2x20 TGU @ 25 lbs
12:12; 9:01 (8 hr 18 min)
- nothing.
Lunch: 1 veggie bag with 3 eggs and 2 pork sausage
Snack: a cup of coffee, a peanut butter sandwich, and 3 clementines
Dinner: a double patty hamburger on an onion bun with sauteed onion and mushroom with tomato and some baked beans
Dessert: two small cake pops
11:44; 6:17 (5 hr, 46 min)
Not much sleep this time, huh?
Also, this is officially the end of the challenge! Kick back, relax, write up, and chill.
Hmm, yeah sleep has been lacking this challenge. This week i've been sleeping in since it's spring break. Tomorrow i'm back to my normal schedule.
In review, i've got a lot done so far. I've completed a side project, I got my new portfolio up and running, I made a Youtube tutorial (something i've wanted to do for a long time), and completed my 20,000 kick challenge.
I think the best course of action is to keep chugging.
Since I don't see the new challenge up yet...
Snack: 4 tbsp. of peanut butter and a cup of coffee
Breakfast: 1 veggie bag with 3 eggs and 2 pork sausage
Lunch: 2 small peanut butter sandwiches and 2 clementines
Dinner: 1 veggie bag with 3 eggs, 2 pork sausage, roasted tomato and basil with a pinch of spinach
Snack; 2 tbsp of peanut butter
6 TGU @ 25 lbs per side, 205 side kicks each side, and 10 one-armed presses per side (for fun)
11:53; 12:04 (11 hr 20 min)
- worked on the main project (finally!)
Well, obviously keep chugging, but wouldn't it be interesting if you tried to skew toward more sleep?
Breakfast: none
Lunch: a small baked russet potato, 1 veggie bag with 2 eggs, 2 pork sausage, and half a tomato (with basil)
Snack: 2 handfuls of peanut butter pretzels balls
Dinner: a baked sweet potato with 3 eggs and 2 pork sausage
Desert: 2 small cake pops
Workout: N/A
11:22; 6 (5 hr 1 min)
- a little bit of main project work
Yes it would! Last night was really weird. I couldn't seem to stay asleep. I haven't got a clue as to why.
I mean, it could be stress or over-stimulation. Those are the general causes I tend to look for.
Lunch: a peanut butter sandwich, and 3 hard-broiled eggs and a baked sweet potato
Dinner: 1 veggie bag with 3 eggs and 2 pork sausage
Mmm, that could be. Last night's sleep felt much better.
Metal anyone?
New challenge is up!