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Q: Intuitive derivation of the Husimi Q function from the Wigner function The Wigner function is given by
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  \text{e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}\text{Tr}\left(\hat \rho \hat D(\beta) \right) \text{d}^2\beta,$$
where $\hat D(\beta)=\text e^{\beta \hat a^\dagger-\beta^*\hat a}$ is the displacement operator and $\hat \rho$ is the density matrix of the state being analysed.
The Husimi Q function is the Weierstrass transform of the Wigner function. This means that it is integrated over a Gaussian filter
$$Q(\alpha)=\frac 2 \pi \int W(\beta) \text e^{-2|\alpha-\beta|^2}\text{d}^2 \beta.$$
The most common defintion of the Husimi Q function is given by
$$Q(\alpha)=\frac 1 \pi\langle \alpha |\hat \rho|\alpha\rangle$$
but how do you simplify the Gaussian filter such that the function can be written in this form?

A: We take the Wigner function
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  \text{e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}\text{Tr}\left(\hat \rho \hat D(\beta) \right) \text{d}^2\beta,$$
and write the displacement operator as $\hat D(\beta)=e^{\beta\hat a^\dagger-\beta^*\hat a}=e^{-\beta^*\hat a}e^{\beta\hat a^\dagger}e^{\frac 1 2|\beta|^2}$ using the BCH formula such that
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  \text{e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}\text{Tr}\left(\hat \rho e^{-\beta^*\hat a}  e^{\beta\hat a^\dagger}e^{\frac 1 2|\beta|^2} \right) \text{d}^2\beta.$$
Using the cyclic property of the trace, this can be rewritten as
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  \text{e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}e^{\frac 1 2|\beta|^2}\text{Tr}\left( \hat e^{\beta\hat a^\dagger}  \hat \rho e^{-\beta^*\hat a} \right) \text{d}^2\beta.$$
The trace can be evaluated as
$$\text{Tr}\left( \hat e^{\beta\hat a^\dagger}  \hat \rho e^{-\beta^*\hat a} \right)=\frac 1 \pi \int \text d^2\gamma \langle \gamma |e^{\beta \hat a^\dagger}\hat\rho e^{-\beta^*\hat a}|\gamma\rangle=\frac 1 \pi \int \text d^2\gamma \langle \gamma |e^{\beta \hat \gamma^*}\hat\rho e^{-\beta^*\gamma}|\gamma\rangle=\frac 1 \pi \int \text d^2\gamma e^{\beta \gamma^*-\beta^*\gamma} \langle \gamma |\hat\rho |\gamma\rangle.$$
Therefore, the Wigner function can be expressed as
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^3}\int \int  \text{e}^{(\alpha-\gamma)\beta^*- (\alpha^*-\gamma^*)\beta}e^{\frac 1 2|\beta|^2}  \langle \gamma |\hat\rho |\gamma\rangle \text{d}^2\beta \text d^2\gamma .$$
By completing the square we find
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{1}{\pi^3}\int \int  \text{e}^{\frac 1 2 (\beta+2(\alpha-\gamma))(\beta^*- 2(\alpha^*-\gamma^*))+2|\alpha-\gamma|^2} \langle \gamma |\hat\rho |\gamma\rangle \text{d}^2\beta \text d^2\gamma .$$
which can be simplified to
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{2}{\pi^2}\int  \text{e}^{2|\alpha-\gamma|^2}  \langle \gamma |\hat\rho |\gamma\rangle  \text d^2\gamma .$$
This shows that
$$W(\alpha)=\frac{2}{\pi}\int  \text{e}^{2|\alpha-\gamma|^2}  Q(\gamma) \text d^2\gamma .$$

A: @Sunyam has mapped out your homework for you, but here are the two explicit steps that should allow you to  unfold it,
$$ \frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  {e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}\text{Tr}\left(\hat \rho    e^{ -\beta^*\hat a}  e^{\beta \hat a^\dagger } e^{|\beta|^2/2}\right) \text{d}^2\beta= \\  \frac{1}{\pi^2}\int  {e}^{\alpha \beta^*-\alpha^*\beta}  e^{|\beta|^2/2} \text{Tr}\left( e^{\beta \hat a^\dagger }\hat \rho    e^{ -\beta^*\hat a}  \right) \text{d}^2\beta
,$$
while
$$
\text{Tr}\left( e^{\beta \hat a^\dagger }\hat \rho    e^{ -\beta^*\hat a}  \right)= \frac{1}{\pi}\int  \!\! d^2\gamma ~ e^{\beta \gamma^*-\beta ^*\gamma}\langle \gamma|\hat \rho   | \gamma \rangle .
$$
I really don't know about "intuitive", though, unless that's what you call the Gaussian filtering.

Edit in response to comment : Maybe this and Ch 12 of W. Schleich's book could be helpful.
The double integrals are reduced by "completing the square" and performing the double Gaussian integrals. Here is an example/confirmation in a trivial special case, $\hat \rho =|0 \rangle \langle|0$. On the one hand,
$$
Q(\alpha)={1\over \pi} |\langle \alpha | 0\rangle   |^2= {1\over \pi}  e^{-|\alpha|^2}.
$$
On the other hand,
$$
W(\beta)= {1\over \pi^2} \int \!\! d^2\alpha ~ e^{-|\alpha|^2/2 + \alpha^* \beta -\alpha \beta^*}= {2\over \pi} e^{-2|\beta|^2}.
$$
Plugging this into the Gaussian filter expression,
$$
{4\over \pi^2}\int \!\! d^2\beta ~e^{-2|\beta|^2 -2|\beta-\alpha|^2}
= {4\over \pi^2}\int \!\! d^\beta ~e^{-4|\beta|^2 -2|\alpha|^2 +4(\alpha \beta^* + \alpha^* \beta)} \\ =
{4\over \pi^2}\int \!\! d^\beta ~e^{-4|\beta-\alpha/2|^2 -|\alpha|^2 }={1\over \pi}  e^{-|\alpha|^2},
$$
the very previous expression, since the centering of the Gaussians is  immaterial to its value.


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YouTube targeting, banning "Let's Go Brandon!" hit rap video, other materials, because it's offensive to Biden: They are all welcome at Brighteon.com
There are several reasons why Natural News founder and editor Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, developed and founded Brighteon.com, one of the world's fastest-growing video-hosting sites: As an independent publisher for many years, Adams knows about and understands the value of the First Amendment's free speech and expression protections.
Unlike other social media platforms that are run by abject leftists, Adams knows that a truly free society cannot remain as such without Americans of differing — even widely offensive — views being able to express themselves in public forums.
That is especially true for political discourse. Whether Americans like politics or not, politicians nevertheless debate, pass and implement laws that affect everyone, so it's better to be involved than not. These days, that includes participation in the new 'virtual town square' of social media.
Only, the leftist corporatists who run the biggest platforms have their political favorites — and they aren't Republicans. The platforms were especially hostile to then-President Donald Trump, waiting for any excuse they could find to kick him off (he's founded his own platform now — Truth Social, though it has not officially launched yet). That includes Google-owned YouTube, of course, which is now targeting an obscenely popular rap video based on a derogatory, non-complimentary slogan aimed at Joe Biden.
You may have seen video clips of fans at college football games, patrons at nightclubs and bars, and people at other venues shouting "F**k Joe Biden!" A 'cleaner' version of that insult is "Let's Go Brandon," and BizPac Review explains how this latter version came about:
The cleaner version was popularized by critics of the president after an NBC Sports reporter appeared to misunderstand what was being shouted in the stands following a NASCAR race when she was interviewing the race winner, Brandon Brown. The crowd was chanting "F**k Joe Biden," according to video posted online, but she 'mistook' it for "Let's go, Brandon!"
And a new slogan was born.
Rap star Loza Alexander, who has lampooned other political leaders as well, decided to title a new release "Let's Go Brandon" which, of course, is directed at Biden, but for some reason (!) YouTube just didn't think the content was appropriate.
"YouTube has banned 'Let's Go Brandon' song from YouTube due to 'medical information,'" Christian rapper Bryson Gray noted on Twitter last week regarding his version of the song. "What medical misinformation is in the song? Whoa."
Medical information? Oh, right — because Alexander was critical of Biden's COVID actions in his song.
The music video is still up for now but the lyric video was banned. Which means the music video is coming too.
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Update: The music video was just banned. @YouTube this is crazy.
I can't post on YouTube for a week. If they also ban the music video, I don't be able to post for two weeks.
People can promote music about drugs, sex, gang banging, and murder
But I can't make a song called "Let's Go Brandon"
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It just happened. YouTube banned the music video to "Let's Go Brandon". The most censored rapper in the country is one that doesn't even curse. Wow. I can't even express myself through art. pic.twitter.com/axMzmJHtLb
News of the rapper's being banned comes amid additional new reports that, as we have suspected all along, Facebook has been banning and censoring conservative and independent content because the little Stalinists who work there don't like diversity of opinion — meaning, anything they disagree with is labeled "misinformation" and thus 'harmful' and thus…it must be banned.
Breitbart was singled out in particular, according to internal communications seen by The Wall Street Journal, but it was by no means the only site censored.
"The documents reviewed by the Journal didn't render a verdict on whether bias influences its decisions overall," the paper said. "They do show that employees and their bosses have hotly debated whether and how to restrain right-wing publishers, with more-senior employees often providing a check on agitation from the rank and file. The documents viewed by the Journal, which don't capture all of the employee messaging, didn't mention equivalent debates over left-wing publications."
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/ Don't Worry About Perfect. There's No Point Anyway.
When you work for yourself and do most of that work online, an internet or laptop problem is a 5 alarm emergency. In the grand scheme of things, there's worse things that can happen, but when it hits you (and remember – there' no tech support!) then it can be a bit overwhelming.
It happened me a while ago when my hard drive and the top case on my mac died (that's the thing that houses the keyboard etc) – I got 'em replaced immediately because the laptop was unusable, but I was without it for a week and the bill was not small.
Then they keyboard died AGAIN, and even tho I think it was still in the warranty period, I couldn't deal with giving it up again, so I just got an official apple bluetooth keyboard and put it on top of the inbuilt.
I actually prefer it now because the keyboard is at a slight incline, and it's kinder on my wrists.
Then, this morning, Sarah's MacBook Air was showing a "wifi hardware not installed" problem (I swear, we actually do like our Macs!!) and when the usual fixes (SMC / NVRAM resets) didn't work, it was time for plan B (and C).
B was to just bluetooth her phone to the laptop so she can tether for the morning, and C (the real 99% fix) is to get a little plug in USB wifi adaptor in Argos that means rather than losing her laptop for a week, and instead eating what will be at least a €200 bill, we'll have it fixed in 10 minutes for €12.
And that's the point of today's mail – perfect isn't really a thing anymore, and looking for the perfect solution is sometimes more hassle than it's worth. I've been using this bluetooth keyboard over a year now, and outside of changing batteries every couple of weeks, I notice NO difference.
It's a very real thing for weight loss and muscle gain too.
You won't ALWAYS be able to find the perfect meal, sometimes you'll just have to ask them to hold the chips and add a side salad. Or you'll forget your prep'd meals and have to go to the deli for a wrap.
Or maybe the pulldown machine you like in the gym is being used, and you'll have to use a different handle. Perhaps you'll walk in and have to train hamstrings BEFORE you squat because the racks are all taken but the leg curl is free.
It's great if you strive for perfection, but getting close enough is almost always good enough.
In fact, I can't think of a single situation in the gym or on a diet for a normal person (who isn't in the final weeks of prep for a show / peaking for a comp) where a 99% solution is not good enough.
…it's just comforting to have an excuse in our back pocket in case we fail.
You know the one… "oh I coulda been leaner, but I had that day where I forgot my lunch, ate out and my week just feel apart"?
It's the same with joining a gym – "oh well I can't join now because I'm away for a weekend in 3 weeks so I'll miss a day any probably eat badly".
There never is, never was and never will be a perfect time to join a gym.
The best time was last year. The next best time is today.


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Falling Red unleash new video for 'We Escaped A Cult'
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Within just three short years, rising rockers 'Falling Red' have taken their high octane fist pumping brand of Rock from the backstreet clubs to the legendary Hammersmith Apollo! Now, with further fire in their bellies, Falling Red set loose their brand new video single 'We Escaped A Cult', which is taken from their forthcoming album 'Empire Of The Damned'. The band release 'We Escaped A Cult' on Monday 14th October and head out on tour in support of the record this October.
Formed in 2007 and hailing from Carlisle, Falling Red have already acquired a stellar name for themselves for their intoxicating blend of hard rock. Just about every rock publication, from guitarist magazines through to national rock press such as Classic Rock, Rocksound and Metal Hammer, have reviewed, interviewed or supported the band. And they are rightly deserving such attention, as everything the band has achieved has been born out of sheer hard work. The rampant rocksters cut their teeth by playing just about every sweat-drenched flea pit from the highlands in Scotland to the pits of Southern England. With a glowing reputation for energetic live shows, the quartet soon chalked up invites to play both Hard Rock Hell & Hammerfest; the band grasped the opportunity with both hands and graced audiences with a series of invigorating performances. Supports slots with Skid Row's front man Sebastian Bach followed, and Falling Red upped their game both on & offstage, with the wild man of rock being over shadowed at every turn. Due to their growing status, the band were hand-picked as main support to the meteoric rising rock crew Steel Panther. Falling Red killed it again and left the stage every night to mass applause, with thousands of new fans wanting more. Falling Red toured again in March 2013 with a Headline tour which packed out 02 Academy 2 venues.
The band have now just finished working with Matt Elliss (The Black Spiders, Scarlett Riot) on their eagerly awaited new album 'Empire Of the Damned' and the UK rock crew unleash their first video single 'We Escaped A Cult' this October. Look out for a series of headline tours in the UK & mainland Europe starting with a tour this October with fellow Brit Rockers New Device.
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Q: MySQL handle duplicate key error insert into table with multiple unique indexes; not multi-column unique index How do I find which unique index has failed from within a stored procedure?
I have created a table with a single column primary key and three single column unique indexes:
CREATE TABLE tableName (
  id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  col1 VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
  col2 VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
  col3 VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (id),
  UNIQUE INDEX id_UNIQUE (id ASC),
  UNIQUE INDEX col1_UNIQUE (col1 ASC),
  UNIQUE INDEX col2_UNIQUE (col2 ASC),
  UNIQUE INDEX col3_UNIQUE (col3 ASC)
) ENGINE = InnoDB;

I have create a stored procedure that handles Error '1062': 'Duplicate entry %s for key %d':
DELIMITER $$
CREATE PROCEDURE insertRecord (
        col1Value   VARCHAR(50),
        col2Value   VARCHAR(50),
        col3Value   VARCHAR(50),
    OUT idValue     INT,
    OUT errColName  VARCHAR(50)
) BEGIN
    DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR 1062 BEGIN
        SET errColName = 'Insert Column Name Here';
    END;

    INSERT tableName SET
        col1 = col1Value,
        col2 = col2Value,
        col3 = col3Value;

    SET idValue = LAST_INSERT_ID();
END;
$$
DELIMITER ;

I have called the stored procedure 5 times with different data to return various results:
1st INSERT attempt is successful
-- Initialize parameters
SET @col1Val = 'MySQL',
    @col2Val = 'Is',
    @col3Val = 'Cool',
    @Id = NULL,
    @ErrColName = NULL;
-- 1st Insert Attempt
CALL insertRecord(@col1Val, @col2Val, @col3Val, @Id, @ErrColName);
-- Expected result: @Id = 1, @ErrColName = NULL
SELECT @Id '@Id', @ErrColName '@ErrColName';

2nd INSERT Attempt fails because col1 is not unique
-- Re-initialize parameters
SET @col1Val = 'MySQL', -- Intended to generate an error
    @col2Val = 'Is',
    @col3Val = 'Cool',
    @Id = NULL,
    @ErrColName = NULL;
-- 2nd Insert Attempt
CALL insertRecord(@col1Val, @col2Val, @col3Val, @Id, @ErrColName);
-- Expected result: @Id = NULL, @ErrColName = 'col1'
SELECT @Id '@Id', @ErrColName '@ErrColName';

3rd INSERT Attempt fails because col2 is not unique
-- Re-initialize parameters
SET @col1Val = 'SQL',
    @col2Val = 'Is', -- Intended to generate an error
    @col3Val = 'Cool',
    @Id = NULL,
    @ErrColName = NULL;
-- 3rd Insert Attempt
CALL insertRecord(@col1Val, @col2Val, @col3Val, @Id, @ErrColName);
-- Expected result: @Id = NULL, @ErrColName = 'col2'
SELECT @Id '@Id', @ErrColName '@ErrColName';

4th INSERT Attempt fails because col3 is not unique
-- Re-initialize parameters
SET @col1Val = 'SQL',
    @col2Val = 'For',
    @col3Val = 'Cool', -- Intended to generate an error
    @Id = NULL,
    @ErrColName = NULL;
-- 4th Insert Attempt
CALL insertRecord(@col1Val, @col2Val, @col3Val, @Id, @ErrColName);
-- Expected result: @Id = NULL, @ErrColName = 'col3'
SELECT @Id '@Id', @ErrColName '@ErrColName';

5th INSERT Attempt is successful
-- Re-initialize parameters
SET @col1Val = 'SQL',
    @col2Val = 'For',
    @col3Val = 'Life',
    @Id = NULL,
    @ErrColName = NULL;
-- 5th Insert Attempt
CALL insertRecord(@col1Val, @col2Val, @col3Val, @Id, @ErrColName);
-- Expected result: @Id = 5, @ErrColName = NULL
SELECT @Id '@Id', @ErrColName '@ErrColName';

What do I need to do in the stored procedure to find which unique index has failed from within a stored procedure?
Thanks in advance.

A: I found the answer under Which unique key is hit with my insert?. It is not ideal however does solve the problem.
The following is the applied solution:
    ...
    DECLARE EXIT HANDLER FOR 1062 BEGIN
        -- Check if col1Value is already in use
        IF EXISTS (
            SELECT 1
            FROM tableName
            WHERE col1 = col1value
            LIMIT 1
        ) THEN
            SET errColName = 'Col1';

        -- Check if col2Value is already in use
        ELSEIF EXISTS (
            SELECT 1
            FROM tableName
            WHERE col2 = col2value
            LIMIT 1
        ) THEN
            SET errColName = 'Col2';

        -- Check if col3Value is already in use
        ELSEIF EXISTS (
            SELECT 1
            FROM tableName
            WHERE col3 = col3value
            LIMIT 1
        ) THEN
            SET errColName = 'Col3';

        END IF;
    END;
    ...

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Ten Kate Honda rider Jonathan Rea has taken the win in the World Supersport race at Brno after an epic battle with Brit Craig Jones and team-mate Andrew Pitt.
The 18 lap race saw an epic battle at the front between Jones, Pitt and Rea, ending only when Craig Jones had a technical poblem on lap 13 while leading the race.
Irishman Jonathan Rea ran wide on lap six and was pushed back to sixth, enabling Suzuki rider Barry Veneman to move up to third place behind Jones and Pitt. Rea then put in several fastest laps in succesion to quickly move back up to the sharp end of the race.
Honda rider Robin Harms then joined the battle for the lead, dicing with Pitt, Jones and Rea for first spot.
On the last lap Robin Harms has a mechanical problem and was unable to continue to run at the front, gifintg the last step on the podium to hie team-mate, Josh Brookes.


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Cosmogony sentence example
In the Orphic cosmogony the origin of all goes back to Chronos, the personification of time, who produces Aether and Chaos.
It is only in the institutes of Manu, where we find the system of castes propounded in its complete development, that Brahma has his definite place assigned to him in the cosmogony.
It is curious that Laplace, while bestowing more attention than they deserved on the crude conjectures of Buffon, seems to have been unaware that he had been, to some extent, anticipated by Kant, who had put forward in 1755, in his Allgemeine Naturgeschichte, a true though defective nebular cosmogony.
To deny the Linnaean, or later the Cuvierian, classes was very much like denying the Mosaic cosmogony.
Jewish thinkers would have been attracted by the emphatic assertion of the creatorship of the One God in the royal Persian inscriptions more than by the traditional cosmogony.
The student should, however, notice that the dragon-element is not entirely unrepresented even in the priestly Hebrew cosmogony.
But we are far from having exhausted the evidence of Babylonian influence on the Hebrew cosmogony.
On this sacred mountain, see Cosmogony.
He is compelled, therefore, to rest his medical practice upon general theories of the present state of things; his medical system - if there is such a thing - is an adaptation of his cosmogony.
GeoRef is the most comprehensive database on geology and geophysics and also includes cosmogony.
The mosaic cosmogony has been called " the proem to Genesis.
In conclusion, it is of utmost importance to reiterate the differences between the Hebrew cosmology and the Mesopotamian cosmogony.
Clement himself had declared that natural lore, as taught in the course of higher Christian education according to the canon of truth, ought to proceed from "cosmogony" to "the theological idea," 2 and even in the little that is left of the works of Origen we have two instances of the proceeding in question.
The first is contained in a fragment of a cosmogony in Berossus, now confirmed in the main by the sixth tablet of the Creation epic. It represents the creation of man as due to one of the inferior gods who (at Bel's command) mingled with clay the blood which flowed from the severed head of Bel (see Cosmogony)..
The Babylonian dragon myth (see Cosmogony) is often alluded to in the Old Testament, e.g.
That larger conceptions prevailed in some of the loftier minds of Israel, and may be held to have existed even as far back as the age of Moses, is a fact which the Yahwistic cosmogony in Gen.
For a comparative study of the occurrence of the ark in the various deluge myths, in the present edition, see Deluge; Cosmogony; Babylonia And Assyria.
Such a theory must be mythical in form, and, after gods have arisen, is likely to be a theogony (0E6s, god) as well as a cosmogony (Babylonia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Polynesia).
Let us now collect specimens of the evidence for different varieties of cosmogony, ranging from those of the Red Indian tribes to that of the people of Israel.
This may illustrate the fact that the dragon is also unmentioned in the Hebrew cosmogony; to some writers the dragon-element may have seemed grotesque and inappropriate.
The cumbrous mythology and cosmogony of Mithraism at last weakened its hold upon men's minds, and it disappeared during the 4th century before a victorious Catholicism, yet not until another faith, equally Iranian in its mythology mad cosmological beliefs, had taken its place.
Just as the background of Christianity was formed by the Hebrew scriptures, and just as the Hebrew legends of the creation became the basis of its scheme of human redemption from evil, so the Avesta, with its quaint cosmogony and myths, formed the background of Mani's new faith.
Philo's cosmogony has been preserved, at least in fragments, by Eusebius in Praep. evang.
Still it is plain that the name of the god Marduk (Merodach) was known to the Jews, and the Cosmogony in Gen.
Hastie's introduction to Kant's Cosmogony (1900), which summarizes criticism to that date; and articles in Kant-Studien (1896 foll.).
If he said so, he was speaking of the Ptolemaic cosmogony as known to him through the Arabs, and his vaunt was a humorous proof of his scientific instinct.
The cardinal doctrines of the Kabbalah embrace the nature of the Deity, the Divine emanations or Sephiroth, the cosmogony, the creation of angels and man, their destiny, and the import of the revealed law.
A collection of oracles, a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose works on purifications and sacrifices, and a cosmogony, were attributed to him.
It is useless to follow Boehme further, for his cosmogony is disfigured by a wild Paracelsian symbolism, and his constructive efforts in general are full of the uncouth straining of an untrained writer.
It is said that, though he was a pupil of Ammonius, he was at first a Christian, and he has been credited with the authorship of a commentary on the Mosaic Cosmogony in eight books, dedicated to Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, and edited by Balthasar Corderius in 1630.
Its history will serve as a sketch of the cosmogony of the Stoics, for they too, like earlier philosophers,, g y have their fairy tales of science."
His cosmology, which is drawn almost entirely from the Timaeus, and, as he intimated, is not to be regarded as a cosmogony, should be studied in connexion with his psychology.
On these subjects see further Cosmogony; Deluge.8 The records of the patriarchal age, xii.-1.
Lemaître Georges
The Belgian astronomer Abbé Georges Édouard Lemaîtrédouard Lemaître (1894-1966) originated what came to be called the "big bang" theory of cosmogony.
The Greek natural philosopher and astronomer Anaximander (ca. 610-ca. 546 B.C.) attempted to explain the origins of the universe through his theory of the apeiron.
Words near cosmogony in the Dictionary
cosmogonic
cosmogonical
cosmogonically
cosmogonies
cosmogonist
cosmogonists
cosmogram
cosmogrammatic
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cosmographers


Antmicro is delighted to announce that its Smart Display with XML-defined GUI project has found itself among the distinguished few.
The IPSO CHALLENGE website is going to do a weekly feature of each of the semi-finalists until IPSO Alliance's December IoT showcase at the Designers of Things conference in San Jose, CA. Antmicro is already looking forward to presenting the Smart Display at the event and meeting the other semi-finalists in person for an inspiring two days of competing with some of the best.
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In the Hall of Black Trees, a number of unusual animals are mentioned, animals that seem fanciful in the extreme.
In reality these animals actually once lived, forming part of what is now the extinct Australian Megafauna.
These were a fascinating collection of animals, much larger than current species as can be guessed by the name. They went extinct some 40,000+ years ago, roughly at the time man first arrived in Australia. Whether that had any effect on the extinction is a matter of much debate still.
Only a few of the species get a guernsey in this first story – others will be seen in later stories of Braega and Tudhala.
The Thunder Birds that chase Tudhala are, or were, a species called Dromornis stirtoni – Stirton's Thunder Bird. They were a three metre, 500 kilogram flightless bird that was probably carnivorous. For the sake of a good story, I am saying they are meat eaters. A smaller species, the Bullockornis, is also know by the colourful moniker the Demon Duck of Doom.
Alia is of the species Thylacoleo carnifex – the Marsupial Lion. They were the largest meat eating mammals in Australia, and one of the largest in the world. The size of a leopard, they nevertheless possessed the strongest bite of any known mammal, living or extinct. A 100 kg Marsupial Lion would have had a bite the same strength as a 250 kg African Lion. Her colouration is of course made up, but taken from a picture of one I saw when writing the story.
The Diprotodon I have mentioned before, but I can't go without mentioning it again. Imagine a wombat. Now imagine it scaled up to three metres long, two metres tall and weighing in at almost 3000 kilos. Basically a wombat the size of a rhinoceros.
The snakes and lizards also existed, including a giant carnivorous goanna that might have reached seven metres and 2000 kilos, the Bluff Downs Giant Python that grew up to ten metres long, and the quinkana fortirostrum, a crocodile which grew from five, to possibly seven metres in length.
All in all, a collection of rather large and defiantly dangerous animals. Perfect, in fact, for the Primal Tales series of stories.


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Q: Calculating relative velocity in three dimensional space Given two points $\mathcal{A}$ and $\mathcal{B}$ in $\mathbb{R^3}$ whose position and velocity vectors are, respectively:
$$\mathbf{r_A}=\begin{pmatrix}r_{A_{x}}\\r_{A_{y}}\\r_{A_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$
$$\mathbf{r_B}=\begin{pmatrix}r_{B_{x}}\\r_{B_{y}}\\r_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$
$$\mathbf{v_A}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{A_{x}}\\v_{A_{y}}\\v_{A_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$
$$\mathbf{v_B}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{B_{x}}\\v_{B_{y}}\\v_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$

How would you calculate the relative velocity of $\mathcal{A}$ with respect to $\mathcal{B}$ and the opposite, given random position and velocity?
For example: if the two points are moving in the same direction, you would calculate the velocity of $\mathcal{A}$ relative to $\mathcal{B}$ with the following formula:
$$\mathbf{v_{AB}}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{A_{x}}\\v_{A_{y}}\\v_{A_{z}}\end{pmatrix}-\begin{pmatrix}v_{B_{x}}\\v_{B_{y}}\\v_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{A_{x}}-v_{B_{x}}\\v_{A_{y}}-v_{B_{y}}\\v_{A_{z}}-v_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$

A: Your equation for the $\mathbf{v_{AB}}$, the velocity of $\mathcal{A}$ relative to $\mathcal{B}$ with the following formula is correct and general for all 'real' values of  $v_{X_{i}}$ where $X=A, B$ and $i=x, y, z$.
$$\mathbf{v_{AB}}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{A_{x}}\\v_{A_{y}}\\v_{A_{z}}\end{pmatrix}-\begin{pmatrix}v_{B_{x}}\\v_{B_{y}}\\v_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}=\begin{pmatrix}v_{A_{x}}-v_{B_{x}}\\v_{A_{y}}-v_{B_{y}}\\v_{A_{z}}-v_{B_{z}}\end{pmatrix}$$
Note that the velocities will only be collinear if $\mathbf{v_{A} \times v_{B}} = \mathbf{0}$, which cannot be assumed for random values.
Final note is that this is not correct for particles moving at speeds close to the speed of light, where special relativity will give a better picture.


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Lycium americanum ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Gattung der Bocksdorne (Lycium) in der Familie der Nachtschattengewächse (Solanaceae).

Beschreibung
Lycium americanum ist ein aufrecht wachsender, 1 bis 4 m hoher Strauch. Die Laubblätter sind sukkulent und unbehaart. Sie werden 5 bis 60 mm lang und 4 bis 29 mm breit.

Die Blüten sind zwittrig und vier- oder fünfzählig. Der Kelch ist röhren- oder becherförmig, er ist verkahlend oder beständig drüsig behaart. Die Kelchröhre ist 1,5 bis 3 mm lang und mit Kelchlappen von 0,5 bis 1,5 mm Länge besetzt. Die Krone ist röhren- oder trichterförmig, sie ist weiß, weißlich-grün, lila oder violett gefärbt, die Aderung ist dunkel purpurn. Die Kronröhre ist 5 bis 8 mm lang, die Kronlappen 2,5 bis 4,5 mm. Die Staubfäden sind behaart.

Die Frucht ist eine rote, kugel- bis eiförmige Beere, die 5 bis 13 mm lang und 4 bis 10 mm breit wird.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 24.

Vorkommen
Die Art ist in Südamerika und auf den Antillen verbreitet und kommt dort auf den Bahamas, Kuba, Haiti, in der Dominikanischen Republik, in Venezuela, Kolumbien, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivien, Paraguay und Argentinien vor.

Systematik
Innerhalb der Bocksdorne (Lycium) wird die Art nach phylogenetischen Untersuchungen in eine Klade mit anderen nord- und südamerikanischen Arten der Gattung gruppiert. Die Art ist nahe verwandt mit Lycium infaustum, Lycium exsertum, Lycium fremontii, Lycium parishii, Lycium texanum, Lycium torreyi, Lycium berlandieri, Lycium andersonii, Lycium elongatum, Lycium athium und Lycium minimum.

Literatur

 Rachel A. Levin et al.: Evolutionary Relationships in Tribe Lycieae (Solanaceae). In: D.M. Spooner, L. Bohs, J. Giovannoni, R.G. Olmstead und D. Shibata (Hrsg.): Solanaceae VI: Genomics meets biodiversity. Proceedings of the Sixth International Solanaceae Conference, ISHS Acta Horticulturae 745, Juni 2007. ISBN 978-90-6605-427-1. S. 225–239

Einzelnachweise

Bocksdorne
americanum

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Cosmopolitan magazine has been labelled as "horrendous" and "completely out of touch" after publishing what it says is a "tongue-in-cheek" article about internal comms pros - although others in the industry have seen the funny side.
The article, which looks at several emerging jobs, including 'wellness entrepreneur' and 'fintech developer', outlines a number of alleged responsibilities of an internal communications strategist.
The article reads: "The internal comms strategist is busybusyverybusy - despite their whole job seemingly being about organising people's birthday cakes."
It goes on to make a series of suggestions for anyone who aspires to have a career in internal comms - including having a carefully curated personal brand and an in-depth knowledge of potential employers.
The article faced a backlash online from public relations professionals.
Internal comms director Rachel Miller pointed out in a blog post on LinkedIn that while the article was most probably tongue-in-cheek, it was also "horrendous" and "beyond unhelpful".
Commenting on Miller's LinkedIn post, Toni Noble, UK head of internal comms at PepsiCo, said the article undermined an internal communicator's purpose.
Noble said: "Unfortunately it sums up some naive views of what IC is all about...[but] at least most business leaders are starting to understand the real benefit and purpose of our function."
Internal comms manager at Nuffield Health, Julie Jones, said: "What a naive, unintelligent article." She added, sarcastically, "Journalism at its best."
James Staunton, a partner at Instinctif Partners, described the article as "truly abysmal", while another PepsiCo comms pro said Cosmopolitan was "completely out of touch".
In response, Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Farrah Storr told PRWeek: "Of course Cosmopolitan does not believe this is a fair representation of internal comms strategists.
"It is a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek piece which gently pokes fun at a number of professions and was in no way intended to cause any offence. We work with lots of brilliant comms professionals all the time and have the upmost respect for the profession."
While many took umbrage, however, several also poked fun at the article on Twitter.
Irony... Cosmo parent company needs IC help https://t.co/hFkx7jn4Qu (thank you to everyone who just DM me) #busybusyverybusy ??


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Our Ambassador Hadar & A journey of courage
by ripple studio
Meet the wonderful Hadar.
A Ripple ambassador, but more than that, an ambassador of courage with a story we couldn't help but relate to.
This dear yogini has expanded our hearts with joy and awoke within us a deep sense of freedom and trust.
Born and raised in Israel, arts and sports have always been a part of Hadar's life and interests, and yoga found it's way into her life in her early 20's, with her move to Tel Aviv.
"I have always felt that yoga completes and compliments the connection between body and soul," she says, "creating a space that allows us to slow down and deepen our breath, synchronizing the connection between the inner world and the physical world".
At the age of 30, Hadar's life was picturesque; a stable relationship, a career as a water engineer, comfortable and convenient... but something was missing.
Hadar shared that she almost gave up on some old dusty dreams because of the paralyzing fear of breaking a routine and getting out of her comfort zone.
We immediately empathized with her feelings. It is sometimes difficult to stray away from the known and familiar routine towards new uncharted territory.
And so, tucked deep within her soul, Hadar had a Now or Never moment, embracing her feeling that the game of life could not be paused, she left behind everything she had built and replaced it with a magical life-changing journey.
Four years prior, during a trip to Guatemala, a seed was planted when her path crossed with that of Doron Hanoch - a yoga teacher and founder of a yoga center in Tzununa, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala who invited her to his Ashtanga-Vinyasa Yoga Teacher Training.
"I remember he told me it can change my life!".
Without knowing a seed began to grow deep roots within her soul. This last April, she has summoned up the courage and leaped into this great adventure, heartbroken, scared and at the same time with faith in her heart, she took a "break" from her life to go inwards and explore.
As she dived into her yoga practice, a clearer connection to herself was created. Strong emotions and challenging questions about herself arose, but deep down in her heart, the message was loud and clear: "Trust yourself!"
And as it was said, her life has changed profoundly. The "break" she took from her life has become a 9-month journey in South America and the US, which includes cosmic encounters, yoga, art, and interpersonal connection.
This lifestyle proved perfect for practicing the essence of Ashtanga yoga, and to prove time and time again how the breaking of old habits and patterns and the silencing of internal judgment feeds cleaner more authentic communication, and creates beautiful interactions and human connections.
For the first time in a long time, Hadar found herself happy and reconciled, connecting with people that come her way on a much deeper level.
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Today Hadar continues to spread her wings and trust the winds of change. We love that she is part of the Ripple family, and represents for us the spark that yoga ignites in life, inspiring us to release things from the past, and live in the now.
"There is no doubt that yoga has been a driving force throughout my journey. Through yoga, I have found the courage to trust myself and venture outside my comfort zone."


Morbid vigilance. Highly excited. Dull, heavy headache with dizziness. Drawing and twitching in every muscle.
Drowsy during the day. Sopor.
Painful erections. Emissions, depending on sexual weakness and after organism. Spermatorrhea.
Scarlatina-like eruption on face. Feels like insects crawling under skin; feels chapped, skin peels.
Tincture, to third potency. Lupulin 1X trit (Best in seminal emissions. Locally in painful cancers).
Characteristics.─Lupulus has had a somewhat extensive proving, to the symptoms of which have been added the effects of working with hops and of sleeping in rooms where hops were stored. The "hop-pillow" remedy for sleeplessness is well known; and this sleep-provoking effect passes into delirium and stupefaction. In a child of twelve, who remained several days in a room where hops were being picked, there was: Frequent starting up from deep sleep with violent delirium, from which he could only be aroused with great difficulty, when he recognised the bystanders, but immediately fell backward into stupor. It was months before he recovered. The effects which remained were: Dilated pupils; mental indolence; unsteady movements; erythema. Among other symptoms of Lupulus are: Burning in urethra during urination. Nausea and vomiting. Turning sensation in stomach. Fermenting in abdomen. Twitching of tendons. Faintness. > In open air.
Relations.─Compare: Urt. urens, Cann. ind., Cann. s., Op. Antidoted by: Coffee.
Mind.─Frequent starting from deep sleep with violent delirium, from which he could only be aroused with great difficulty, immediately lapsing again into stupor.─Mental functions remained indolent several months.
Head.─Vertigo, stupefaction.─Confusion.─Rush of blood to head and eyes.─Heat in head and face; with confusion and dull headache.─Headache: insupportable; drawing; dull pressure.─Violent pulsating of temporal arteries.
Eyes.─Pupils remained dilated several months.
Stomach.─Appetite lost.─Great thirst, no appetite.─Eructations: nauseating; tasting of hops.─Nausea.─Vomiting.─Sensation: of increased warmth in stomach; of turning with nausea without diminished appetite; of turning with feeling of hunger, but without appetite.
Abdomen.─Fermentation and dull pains in abdomen.─Dull griping in lower abdomen with nausea.
Stool.─Stool softer than usual, with urging so great he could hardly reach the closet.─Stool retarded.
Urinary Organs.─Burning in urethra during micturition, not > by coffee.─Urine retarded.─Diuresis.─Urine dark brown, clear.
Sexual Organs.─Diminishes and allays sexual appetite.
Respiratory Organs.─Respiration deep, almost stertorous.
Upper Limbs.─Great twitching of tendons.
Generalities.─Movements difficult and unsteady for months.─Occasionally the smell made him so faint and dizzy he was obliged to go into the open air.─Drawing in almost all muscles in short paroxysms, < between shoulders, and in muscles of arms and hands; pains rheumatic, shift from place to place.
Skin.─Scarlatina-like erythema, esp. over face; with here and there small pustules.
Fever.─Pulse slow.─Profuse, greasy, clammy perspiration.─Profuse perspiration with high temperature.


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CORVALLIS – A Facebook friend recently asked her peeps what they thought of Measure 02-88, which proposes new parking districts for the neighborhoods around campus. She doesn't live in the areas affected and wanted to know what people were living with so as to better inform her vote.
Much like my neighborhood email list, the responses were varied and often dramatic. Complaints include students up at all hours of the night, streets crammed with cars and a general decline in livability. Anger is directed at OSU, developers and city codes.
Though I live in the area affected, and do indeed become weary of the student influx each fall, I am even more fatigued by the outrage. The "Corvallis Effect" is in full swing, as the not in my back yard mindset rises to the top and offers solutions that aren't based in reality at best and are hypocritical at worst.
One suggestion offered up was for the churches close to campus and in the affected areas to rent out their parking spaces during the day. Several people were congratulated for their forward thinking. And all I can say is are you serious? Why don't you rent out your driveway when you're at work?
While one of the more vocal proponents of the parking measure complains about not having space to park in front of their home, they have a two car garage and driveway they don't use for their cars. Another neighbor has their driveway full of planters and a year round pile of bark mulch. I have never seen either of their two vehicles parked on their driveway.
This, of course, fell on deaf ears.
Perhaps the "best" example of a herd-like non-reality based refrain is that we need to reduce our reliance on the automobile as a valid reason for the parking districts. More bike parking and better public transit, and everyone will magically use their bikes and take the bus. And they somehow believe this will happen if we provide parking for some (residents) and not others.
This is NIMBY logic at its finest.
Or, possibly, it's worst. My response is this: the surest way to de-incentivize the automobile is to make it inconvenient for everyone.
What has been driving me batty of late are the critics of the Benton Center, who keep talking about public transportation or biking to solve parking issues. It rains, a lot, in Oregon from October to April. Biking isn't a great option, especially when many attending classes at the Benton Center are going back to school and still working. They don't often have time to rely on public transportation to get to and from work or home midday, much less at 9 or 10pm.
Yet discussion recently in a neighborhood group had several rendering Measure 22-130 to a no vote. A reason given; "As much as I am pro-education, I am also against wasting money on parking." This from someone living close enough to walk to the Benton Center, but who also admitted to driving. Oh, the irony.
These are views arising from within an incredibly insular bubble. They keep suggesting that LBCC or OSU needs to think more creatively, but they can't change the habits of others. The need for adequate automobile parking is not going to go away. They are guilty of mislabeling our parking issues and everyone else not in agreement as somehow selfish. Yet what are people complaining about when they can't park in front of their homes if not their own inconvenience?
So, dear Facebook friend, I am voting no on 02-88. I moved to this area to be close to downtown, shopping and schools. I'll take the good with the inconvenient.
This entry was posted on October 23, 2014 by A.J. Simonsen in Corvallis and tagged 02-88, corvallis, corvallis effect, districts, measure, nimby, no, parking, vote.


About a year ago I wrote about one's image and standing out. With the holiday season approach, a good way to maintain and further progress your image to your clients is to plan ahead. Expecting the unexpected is key.
As an account manager in the food distribution industry, it is imperative that our operators follow strict rules. We don't want to mess with the integrity of someone's food. Knowing that sales will go up, being extra stocked during key holidays is essential. Some operators will shut down upwards of a week while others, like myself, work only taking the actual holiday off.
A "plan-ahead plan" can simply be sending a reminder email to your client about the anticipated changes that you're aware of or a quick internal meeting to tackle the necessary steps to keep track of a promotional item. Doing this can in turn bring other changes to the client's attention that may need immediate action before your task can get completed, such as a new UPC number for a box of napkins or an invoice discrepancy with a distribution center.
Another example of a "plan-ahead" action would be to push up delivery dates to your distribution centers a week in advance so that the carriers could have more time to spend with their families during the holidays. Informing the distribution centers ahead of time about this adjusted delivery schedule would mean that these centers would need to stock up to ensure no disruption in the supply chain. It would also mean that the carriers would anticipate more loads to move the weeks leading up to the holidays.
Having your departments interdependent on each other really helps with the checks and balances. We may have to delay a price change to recoup lost funds or research recurring issues that happen every year during the same time period. This will keep everyone on task and help prioritize.
Do you have a "plan-ahead" plan without realizing?


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Hillary Clinton Is Back – She Makes Prediction Biden Gang Will Be Removing 'Punitive Tariffs' with China in President Trump's Trade Deal
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Hillary Clinton is now traveling the world and making statements about the Biden gang's next moves to help China.
American Military News reports:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicted the Biden administration would remove some punitive tariffs on China, while also calling on the world to prevent military aggression by Beijing and criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"I know that there's an ongoing process, as we speak, to try to figure out what would be the best approach with respect to the tariffs," Clinton said last Friday during a virtual appearance at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore. "And I would predict that there will be some changes. But they will not all disappear, because some of them in this new reality we're living in may well be continued."
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Last month, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the administration would directly engage with Beijing to enforce commitments in a trade deal reached last year with former President Donald Trump. China is far behind its purchasing targets, in which it pledged to buy an extra $200 billion in U.S. agriculture, energy and manufactured products over the 2017 level in the two years through the end of 2021.
It's clear that the Biden regime will do all they can to help China. Not a single move that Biden has made has harmed China but many have harmed the US and Americans everywhere (just ask those Americans left behind in Afghanistan).
What's also clear is that Hillary is raising her head again.
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What does it mean to laugh like the letter k?
In Abuelito Who by Sandra Cisneros, the symbolic meaning of one line is quite confusing. The narrator is referring to her grandfather (abuelo), and she says he:
who used to laugh like the letter k
I'm not exactly sure what this means; does this mean his laugh was common and good-natured, or rather cold and rare?
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I always felt that it was visually symbolic, that someone who
laugh[s] like the letter k
was simply someone who throws their head back and opens their mouth extremely wide when laughing, so that their head and mouth seems to form a letter "K".
ValorumValorum
Do you have any evidence to support this answer?
– user111
@Hamlet - Nope. Just the picture in my head (which I've tried to show with the picture above). It makes a lot more sense, to me at least, than someone laughing "keh-keh-keh"
– Valorum
I also agree with @Valorum.Laugh like letter "k" is that to laugh heartily without being distracted by any social norm and convention.Our true feelings should be mingled with our smile.Otherwise it will be fake. When a person laughs like letter "k" ,it is obvious that person is laughing without pretending. Further it may suggest to laugh loudly.
– I_am_feminist
It means his laugh was a hearty, good-natured laugh. There are really two ways you could've pieced this together: one, realize that the letter "k" is a common part of inherently funny words, which are simply words that can make people laugh without any other context. According to Wikipedia, (emphasis mine)
the concept that some words, especially those with a k sound, are inherently funny is a common trope stated in many fictional works. In the Neil Simon play The Sunshine Boys, for example, a character says, "Words with a k in it are funny. Alka-Seltzer is funny. Chicken is funny. Pickle is funny. All with a k. L's are not funny. M's are not funny". Similarly, the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Outrageous Okona" features Joe Piscopo as a comedian who, in attempting to teach the android Data the concept of humor, refers to words ending in a k as funny.
The second clue that gave it away was the context of the poem. In it, the narrator talks about how her grandfather used to spend time with her and have a deep, personal relationship with her. This is when the author brings the laugh sounding like the letter "k". Now, however, he is distant and so tired all the time, so much so that it feels as if he's not even there.
Another possibility is that it's simply the onomatopoeia being used for the sound of his laugh. While the usual Spanish onomatopoeia for laughter is a "j" sound, "jajaja, jejeje, jijiji, jojojo, jujuju", there are some languages such as Korean that use a "k" sound to depict it, with "kekeke" becoming a fairly well-known one from Korean StarCraft players. Outside of its normal cultural context of standard onomatopoeia, it's more likely descriptive of the actual sound of her grandfather's laughter, a breathless chuckle that one might associate with someone so amused they can barely draw breath to actually put voice to the laughter. Now, sick and old, he no longer has that voiceless mirth.
I personally feel it's the least satisfying of the answers so far, since it's more descriptive than symbolic, but it's what came to mind with the phrase.
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The phrase "laugh like the letter k" sounds like the way speakers of Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, represent laughter. See the article Jajaja, 55555, kkkkk: las curiosas formas de escribir risas en otros idiomas on BBC News Mundo (4 September 2019). See especially the following paragraph (emphasis from the original):
Los hablantes, principalmente en Brasil, expresan la risa con la letra k, la cual se pronuncia como "kja" y al unirse en una cadena de la misma letra terminan produciendo la onomatopeya de la risa: kkkkkk.
Speakers [of Portuguese], especially in Brazil, express laughter with the letter k, which is pronounced "kja"[1] and when joined in a chain of the same letter, they end up producing the onomatopoeia for laughter: kkkkkk.
[1] Note that the Spanish pronunciation of "j" is different from the English one. For an example, listen to the pronunciation of jalapeño on Wikipedia.
I found this by searching for reir como "letra k" (i.e. laugh like "letter k").
Tsundoku♦Tsundoku
He simply means he laughs with a k sound — literally.
When most people laugh, they laugh with the letter H as in HA HA HA HA HA HA
The Count from Sesame Street laughs with letter A. A is for AH AH AH AH AH AH (sorry had to get that joke in).
Laughing with the letter K is like saying Kick minus the CK which would sound something like saying Kiss but don't use the two "s's" from kiss and give it a hissing sound with your mouth. A better way to imagine it is if you know the "FRIDAY THE 13th sound effect" where the creepy sound goes "ki ki ki ki ha ha ha" now imagine laughing with that ki ki ki faster and hissing more or the word ca(boose) minus the word "boose". ka ka ka ka ka! There are more ways but I think you get the point.
I sometimes laugh with the letter S which is just hissing with the letter S
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Welcome to Literature Stack Exchange. You may be looking in the right direction, but I think you mean "sound" rather than "letter" in a few instances.
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Political Affiliation is Not an Employer's Business — Especially in Education
March 31, 2021 March 31, 2021 Lisa Hoover Academic Freedom, Legislation
House Study Bill 199 in Iowa, allegedly aimed at addressing concerns over free speech "suppression" at Iowa universities, proposes some interesting changes to college education. Other bills have also proposed banning tenure and surveying and reporting of university employee political affiliations.
This new bill would require the posting of syllabi online, including a "general description of the subject matter of any lecture or discussion," according to The Gazette.
The syllabi bill appears to have been sparked in part by a syllabus warning by an ISU professor against "intentional 'othering' like racism, sexism or homophobia" which also stated that students could not address a topic that "takes at its base that one side doesn't deserve the same basic rights as you do (i.e. no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc.)," according to The Gazette. The professor was later asked by the university to revise her syllabus after the statement received backlash and she was reprimanded, according to The Gazette.
The bill regarding employee political affiliation, Senate 292, would require that the Board of Regents conduct a survey of "all of the employees of the institutions governed by the state board" to determine "political party affiliations of all such persons," although individual employee names won't be listed. It appears the bill was introduced Feb. 9 and referred to the Education Subcommittee Feb. 10.
"In terms of hiring faculty, it would be wholly inappropriate for [us] to be asking at the point of hire what their political party is to ensure that we have some sort of political balance," the Des Monies Register quotes Chief Academic Officer for the Iowa Board of Regents Rachel Boon as saying.
The tenure ban has been attempted a few times in the past, but most have died early in the legislative process. The attempt to ban tenure has arisen as at least in part over concerns that conservative students "feel their viewpoints are unwelcome" on campus and incidents that are alleged to "show political bias on the part of university faculty and administrators," according to the Des Moines Register. Opponents of the law point out that it would make Iowa's universities less able to compete for the most qualified applicants.
There are ultimately three different laws involved here, but I think all raise potentially troubling issues for academia, particularly regarding academic freedom for faculty. I can see arguments for posting of syllabi; indeed, many institutions already do this, or at least keep copies for records purposes, and I suspect most faculty would be on board or willing. However, I'm not sure this is something the legislature should be determining for the individual institution.
The other two are more troubling. With regard to tenure, it sounds like opponents have already pointed out the issues this will likely cause in driving away faculty that can get jobs elsewhere and reducing the quality of applicants. Unless they're offering a major salary increase or other major benefits to compensate, why would anyone want to work for them if they can work elsewhere? I would also argue that this is also the sort of the thing that the individual institutions ought to manage and decide.
But for me, the biggest issue is surveying employees regarding political "affiliation." Even ignoring the tradition of academic freedom, that sounds odious. Yes, it sounds like it's going to be anonymous at least in theory — or at least that your identifying information won't be shared publicly — but we all know leaks and hacks happen. Furthermore, if it's anonymous how do they ensure compliance or truthfulness?
And for the vast majority of employees, why does it matter? For someone in the registrar's office or the cleaning staff or the athletic staff or the financial aid office, for example, what does their political affiliation matter? Even if we can accept the premise that it matters for faculty because of the potential that faculty might influence students, what are we going to do with that information? Are we going to have some sort of affirmative action plan for political parties? Are we going to make hiring decisions based on political party? As Boon says, that would be inappropriate.
And what about librarians? Librarians have a set of ethical guidelines that already address issues related to potential biases; we collect information and help patrons based on their information needs and wants, not based on our own political affiliation. To me, this is the ultimate point with all of this — librarians, faculty, etc. are professionals. The vast majority of them are not abusing their position to inappropriately influence young minds. For the few bad apples, internal discipline can manage it.
Overall, this move just seems calculated to have a chilling effect on employee — especially faculty — political participation.
And ultimately all of this raises tones of suppression of academic freedom and chilling of speech, especially when all three acts are considered together. Yes, there are lines faculty should not cross regarding freedom of student speech and opinion, etc. But we also need to respect faculty's academic freedom and the need for faculty to be able to raise controversial issues in the classroom. Faculty should not push their opinions on students — or make students feel denigrated for their opinions — but they should encourage students to question and strongly analyze their opinions. That's part of the point of college. Making faculty afraid that if they touch on anything considered "political" or controversial they might lose their job is going to put a serious damper on real academic debate and thought, and we will all be poorer for that.
Lisa Hoover
Lisa Hoover is a public services librarian at Clarkson University and an adjunct professor in criminal justice at SUNY Canton. In addition to her MLS, Lisa holds a JD and an MA in political science. She began her career as an editor and then manager for a local news organization, adjunct teaching in her "spare time." She teaches courses in criminal procedure, criminal law and constitutional law. She is passionate about First Amendment issues. She recently began her career as a librarian, starting at Clarkson University in June 2017, teaching information literacy sessions and offering reference services. Lisa and her husband Lee live in Norwood, New York, with their cats Hercules and Pandora, and pug-mix Alexstrasza (Alex).
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Last month I floated the idea of a Missing Middle Summit—a one-day conference for builders and aspiring builders of missing middle-scale housing to connect and learn.
It's happening.
I've booked the event space at the Broadview Hotel in Toronto for Thursday May 25th and am now working on a preliminary agenda.
It will feature talks from builders, of course, as well as urban planners, municipal lawyers, lenders, general contractors, and others. And some more fun stuff. Maybe a debate. We'll see.
I'd like to crowdsource a lot of the planning, and have started doing a bit of that on twitter. You should follow along and share any feedback or thoughts you might have.
Since my last newsletter, John Tory has been re-elected as mayor. He's also been granted strong mayor powers by the Province, which means that he has a greater ability to push his agenda through Council.
Ostensibly, that agenda includes the Exploring Housing Options in Neighbourhoods (EHON) program being lead by the Planning Department to allow for more missing middle housing development in more neighbourhoods.
If this is to be the term that he decides to get big things done, both because he's now more able to, and maybe, if he's decided it will be his last term, because he's less concerned about any political blowback, we might actually see some progress on that file.
And if we do, we'll need a new cohort of entrepreneurial builders ready to take action.
I think that the Missing Middle Summit can help with that in some small way.
August: We're still not great at business development at August. I think that many agencies probably feel that way.
The way in which we land new clients and projects still feels more random than it should. But I think that we're getting better at it. We now have a few strategies that we're executing that should lead to more consistent deal flow.
I tell myself to "trust the process". We're either reasonably smart and doing the right things that just take time to bear fruit, or we're pretty dumb and we're not and they won't. It's hard to tell at this juncture, but I do think that pulling the plug on promising efforts prematurely is the cause of much failure. So we won't.
I do feel optimistic about the increased standardization of our processes and of the development and consistent execution of those strategies. Most of that credit goes to Alex, our head of business development, who's leading the charge. Jeff (head of operations) and I mostly act to support him, when we're not doing everything else that needs to be done.
It strikes me that nailing agency business development is not a new problem. There are countless people who have gotten really good at it, including people who are no longer doing it. I'll probably spend a lot more time going forward reaching out to some of them to see how much of their experience they'd be willing to share.
Buildstack: I hinted last month that we were working on a couple of major updates that would change how people think about the product. Well, the first has shipped and the second will soon follow.
Over the past month, we've introduced a feed of new projects. And by "new", we don't mean "newly added to our database", as these are often actually quite old, but "newly submitted development applications to the relevant municipality ".
This now makes Buildstack both a great directory of the various designers, consultants, and trades that have contributed to various projects, as well as something like a news site informing you of new development applications in your city.
I expect that this will help us drive a lot more traffic.
FH1*: So we finally came to an agreement with our neighbour who had appealed our successful COA decision. It's a funny story. We paid them 5-figures to drop their appeal about a week before the Province announced new legislation that would kill any ongoing third-party appeal. Well, now that I think about it, it's not that funny. But it's done. We can move on.
We're now on to our working drawings submission to the City's Buildings department for review and permit issuance. Onward!
MR1**: Our Zoning Bylaw Amendment application submission is imminent. The (potentially) big development this past month on this file is that we have a new ward councillor. I won't say any more than that yet, but that should give some of you a better indication of where this project is located.
With the new Provincial legislation mentioned above, we had expected to see some direction from the Province that the City was to relax (or kill) its strict angular plane requirements for midrise construction. For those of you who don't know what that means: midrise in Toronto is expected to comply with the Mid-Rise Building Performance Standards. Among other things, these Standards prescribe that the rear of the building be built to fit within a 45-degree angular plane so that, as a whole, it looks something like half of a Mayan pyramid. This is to prevent or minimize any shadow impacts on neighboring properties. These requirements lead to a very inefficient built form that's hard to build and insulate, and that leads to fewer and smaller housing units than otherwise. They very obviously prioritize existing residents over new residents and are broadly understood to be, on the net, a set of very bad ideas.
In any case, we have not yet seen that direction from the Province. Rumour has it that it might be included in the updates to the Provincial Policy Statement and Growth Plan that are forthcoming. We'll see. This would have a material impact on the City's reaction to our application.
Article: There's an ascendant political movement that's broadly known as the abundance agenda. I wrote a bit about it in this piece. It's made up of people who think that the future should be better than the present, and that for that to happen, we need to build more stuff, including new not-yet-invented stuff. This article does a good job of summarizing the movement, as well as describing in broad strokes what it will take to advance it.
Book: I've just finished reading The Slight Edge, which I heard about in an interview featuring Dashiell Bark-Huss. It's very self-helpy and centred on a very simple idea: that, in order to accomplish big things, you need to have the discipline and patience to make small incremental progress every day. I liked it. It didn't break any new ground, and that's the point. It's a reminder of something we all basically know but also easily forget or ignore.
Podcast: Here's an episode of my favourite new podcast featuring one of my favourite newsletter writers: Brian Potter (the Construction Physics guy) on Dwarkesh Patel's The Lunar Society. It's great. This past episode discussing J. Storrs Hall's Where's My Flying Car? is also very much worth checking out.
Video: I'm pretty excited about VR. Palmer Luckey calls it "the final computing platform. Not the next one; the final one." I think he's right. Many people don't, as evidenced by Meta's crashing stock price. In any case, this video covering Meta's VR foray in general and the release of the Quest Pro in particular is really interesting.


If your client has been served with a Notice of Final Demand, they may apply to the Director of Fines Victoria for a review of the decision of the enforcement agency to serve the infringement notice and enforce that notice under s 32 of the Fines Reform Act 2014 (Vic) (FRA).
family violence within the meaning of section 5 of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic) where the person is a victim of family violence and the family violence results in the person being unable to control conduct which constitutes an offence.
The definition of 'special circumstances' is discussed in further detail here.
An application for enforcement review on the basis of special circumstances may be made by a person acting on the applicant's behalf, such as a lawyer, case worker, parent or guardian, medical practitioner, financial counsellor or psychiatrist.
The application does not need to be accompanied by a statutory declaration. An application form can be downloaded from Fines Victoria here.
The critical part of a special circumstances application is to satisfy the definition of 'special circumstances' under s 3 of the IA, in particular articulating the causal connection between the person's condition and how that meant that the person was unable to understand and/or control the conduct that constitutes an offence.
the condition meant that the person was unable to understand or control the conduct that constituted the offences.
The below template letter provides an example of how this causal connection between a person's condition and the offending conduct can be explained when applying for enforcement review on the basis of special circumstances.
how payment of the outstanding amounts would exacerbate the client's condition or cause further hardship.
It is also extremely important to provide support letters or reports for the application (see supporting documentation).
a letter applying for a payment order and variation of prescribed fees for matters that are not eligible for enforcement review.
Before making the application, make sure you give the client clear advice regarding key considerations such as the risks of going to court. Once the advice has been given to the client, you should ensure you have obtained their express instructions to lodge the application.
Guilty plea and criminal record. If your client wants to make an application for enforcement review based on special circumstances, you must advise them that if the matter proceeds to court, it involves entering a guilty plea. Though this is less likely under the new fines system, enforcement agencies still have the option of taking the matter to court if enforcement review is successful. They have 90 days from Please also advise your client that findings of guilt may show up on criminal record checks. This will be particularly significant for clients with no previous criminal record, clients who may be seeking employment and clients with temporary visa status. Note that there is no risk of going to court for an internal review based on special circumstances.
Notification of unsafe drivers. If you make an application for review on the basis of special circumstances for the client, the police or the court are likely to notify VicRoads of any condition disclosed in the application that may affect your client's ability to drive (eg mental health concerns or substance dependence). This may prompt VicRoads to require tests to be completed to determine the client's fitness to hold a licence (see section 27 of the Road Safety Act 1986 (Vic) and regulation 78(1) of the Road Safety (Drivers) Regulations 2009 (Vic)). Please ensure you look at the most recent version of the legislation. VicRoads may then require your client to undergo a medical test or assessment (medical review) to confirm that your client can safely drive. The medical review involves a client attending an appointment with their doctor and asking them to complete a VicRoads template report, within one month of receiving notification from VicRoads. We should make clients aware of the risk that if the client has refused or failed to undergo the medical review, VicRoads can vary, suspend or cancel their licence.
Demerit points. If an enforcement review is successful and a fine is withdrawn or an official warning issued, no demerit points are accrued. However if an enforcement review is successful but the enforcement agency opts to take the matter to court via charge and summons, demerit points will be added to the record after the court hearing. If there are more than the allowed number of demerit points over a period of time, this may result in your client's licence being suspended. More information about demerit points is available from VicRoads website.
Note that if an internal review based on special circumstances is successful, no demerit points are accrued.
Making an application for waiver or reduction of fees under s 9of the FRA and making an application for a payment arrangement unders 42 of the FRA for the remaining amount (if a payment arrangement is manageable).
Applying for a Work and Development Permit.


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