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Pronoun Agreement on SAT Writing: Tips and Practice
Posted by Alex Heimbach | Jun 13, 2015 11:00:00 AM
Pronoun agreement errors are some of the most common on the SAT Writing section, and they can be confusing because people often misuse pronouns, especially when we speak. In fact, I just made a pronoun mistake: can you spot it?
Take a closer look at the second half of my first sentence: "people often misuse pronouns, especially when we speak." Who is "we" referring to here: "people." However, the correct pronoun for the third person plural is they. The correct version is "people often misuse pronouns, especially when they speak."
On SAT Writing, you'll be expected to spot many such errors. We'll be covering both the basic SAT writing rules regarding pronouns you need to know and the common mistakes you'll see on the test:
Pronouns and Antecedents
Disagreement in Number
Disagreement in Person
Spotting Pronoun Errors on the SAT
A Pronoun Must Always Match its Antecedent
That title might seem confusing. What's an antecedent? And what does it mean to "match"? The truth is you probably already have an intuitive grasp of how this works, but let's break it down one piece at a time.
What's a Pronoun?
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun—that's it! Usually we think of pronouns as words like I, him, they, or its, all of which are definitely pronouns. But so are words like everyone, which, and each. Any word that can fill in for a noun is a pronoun. For more detailed information on pronouns, take a look at our guide to parts of speech.
What's an Antecedent?
An antecedent is the noun a pronoun replaces. (You may also have heard these called referents.) Let's look at an example—the pronoun is in bold and the antecedent is underlined:
Julie almost forgot her backpack this morning.
Simple enough, right? "Her" is standing in for "Julie's." Let's try a more complicated one:
Running out the door to meet Jimmy, Julie almost forgot to grab his bag, which he'd left at her house the night before.
There's a lot more going on in this sentence, so I've color coded the pronouns and their nouns. The trick here is figuring out who's doing what. Jimmy forgot his bag at Julie's house; now she's bringing it back to him. When looking for pronoun agreement errors, keep an eye out for any sentences that don't track clearly in this way.
What Does It Mean for a Pronoun and Antecedent to Match?
Again, though this concept may sound confusing, it's actually pretty intuitive. Let's revisit our example from above, with a slight tweak:
Julie almost forgot their backpack this morning.
This sentence clearly isn't correct. That's because the pronoun "their" and the antecedent "Julie" don't agree: Julie is singular and their is plural. They disagree in number. It's also possible for a pronoun and antecedent to disagree in person:
Julie almost forgot my backpack this morning.
Julie is a proper noun and should take a 3rd person pronoun, not a 1st person pronoun like "my."
As a review, the most common pronouns and their correct uses are listed below:
I/me/my — first person singular, i.e. the person speaking
We/us/ours — first person plural, i.e. the person speaking and others
You/your — second person (singular and plural), i.e. the person (or people) being spoken to
He/him/his — third person masculine, i.e. a male person or animal who isn't present
She/her — third person feminine, i.e. a female person or animal who isn't present
It/its — third person neuter, i.e. inanimate objects
They/them/their — third person plural, i.e. multiple people or things
Moral of the story: pronouns must always have a clear antecedent and agree with the noun that they replace. Now that we've established what that means, let's look at the errors you're likely to see on the SAT.
Make sure your pronouns aren't like this llama. (© Valdrec)
I mentioned above that plural nouns require plural pronouns and singular nouns require singular pronouns. Usually, that rule feels pretty obvious: it doesn't make much sense to refer to Tom as "them" or the Muppets as "it." However, this is the SAT we're talking about, so the errors are going to be a little harder to spot. Let's go over some of the trickiest cases.
Extra Words
In a simple sentence, it's easy to spot number agreement errors:
Incorrect: The kids want her own TV.
Correct: The kids want their own TV.
Catching these errors gets much trickier when we add in more words, however:
Because Susie and her brother begged their dad for a TV, he agreed to get one for her.
At first glance, this may seem fine—Susie's getting a TV! But let's look at each pronoun and its antecedent:
her = Susie
their = Susie and her brother
he = their dad
her = Susie and her brother
The TV isn't just for Susie, it's for both siblings. As such, the sentence should read:
Because Susie and her brother begged their dad for a TV, he agreed to get one for them.
When you're dealing with pronouns on the SAT, the first step is always to determine what its antecedent is. This will make it much easier to figure out the correct pronoun to use.
The Case of the Non-Gendered Singular Pronoun
Even once you determine a pronoun's antecedent, there's still room for confusion. Especially tricky are singular non-gendered nouns.
Please remind your friend to bring their speakers to the party tomorrow.
Sounds fine, right? But take a closer look. "Their" is taking the place of "your friend's" in this sentence—see the problem? "Their" is a plural pronoun, but "your friend" is only one person.
Using "their" seems right because we don't know the gender of the friend and there is no singular non-gendered pronoun for people in English. However, you can't use 3rd person plural pronouns (they, their, theirs, or them) to refer to singular people of unclear gender.
Instead, you need to use "he," "she," or "he or she," as in the example below:
Incorrect: According to the news, the mysterious thief leaves a single rose in place of each thing they steal.
Correct: According to the news, the mysterious thief leaves a single rose in place of each thing she steals.
Correct: According to the news, the mysterious thief leaves a single rose in place of each thing he steals.
Correct: According to the news, the mysterious thief leaves a single rose in place of each thing he or she steals.
On the SAT in particular, watch for questions with references to occupations like doctor, lawyer, and scientist—these words often signal a pronoun agreement error.
Collective nouns are similarly confusing, because they refer to more than one thing or person as a singular entity. Take, for example, "the class." The class may include multiple students, but there is still only one class. It's a singular noun and therefore takes a singular pronoun.
Incorrect: For their final assignment, the class had to build a dancing robot.
Correct: For its final assignment, the class had to build a dancing robot.
Correct: For their final assignment, the students in the class had to build a dancing robot.
"They" may seem like the proper pronoun to use for a collective noun like "class" because it is made up of multiple individuals, but the noun itself is singular, so "it" is correct.
Collective nouns can be tricky to spot, so be on the lookout for nouns that refer to groups of people. The team, the band, the company, and the town are all examples of collective nouns.
SAT Examples
Let's take a look at how to spot this type of error in an Identifying Sentence Errors question from a real SAT.
Reading over this sentence, you might not notice anything wrong since it sounds fine. The next step is to check each underlined section for errors. In this case, C includes a pronoun, so you must check agreement. And what's the first step to check agreement? Find the antecedent!
For "they," the antecedent is "a Shakespearean character," which is singular. As such, "they have" is incorrect and C is the answer. You don't even have to think about how to fix the error, just spot it! (But in case you're wondering, the correct version would be "he has" or "she has.")
Agreement in number also pops up on the Identifying Sentence Errors, albeit in a different form.
Here we have the pronoun "we" standing in for the noun "a buyer." This may seem fine, because it makes sense that we can be buyers, but there's a disagreement in number: "we" is plural and "a buyer" is singular.
The obvious fix is "as buyers we are responsible," but that isn't a choice. Answer B has a similar disagreement issue to A with the plural "their" standing in for the singular "buyer. C and E add extra words that make the sentence more confusing. As such, D, which cuts the pronoun altogether, is the correct choice.
Pronoun agreement in person is a slightly weirder concept than agreement in number, but it's usually pretty easy to spot. The basic concept is that a pronoun must reflect the type of thing it's replacing. So you use "it" to replace "the garden" but "he" to replace "Abraham Lincoln."
Like with agreement in number, the first step is making sure that you know what a pronoun's antecedent is. Beyond that it's mostly just a question of consistency—if you start a sentence in the first person, you shouldn't suddenly switch to the third without a clear reason.
I was on my way home when he saw a butterfly.
This series of events is entirely possible, but it doesn't make much sense as a sentence. Another incorrect sentence:
Right after the bomb beeped, he exploded.
Again, it's theoretically possible that there's some guy who exploded, but from the context it seems pretty clear that it was the bomb, and inanimate objects can't be referred to as "he."
These examples are pretty simple, but once again the test writers are likely to throw you some curveballs. Let's take a look at some of the harder-to-spot types of errors.
This is a disagreement between genders, not a disagreement in gender.
You vs. One
When explaining how to do something (like I'm doing right now), you can use either "you," in the non-specific sense, or "one," as in "an individual." Both are equally correct: "you" is simply less formal than "one." However, you must be consistent and stick with whichever pronoun you pick; it would sound pretty weird if I suddenly switched to saying "one needs to find the antecedent." Let's look at how that works in a sentence:
Incorrect: If one wants to succeed on the SAT, you must study effectively.
Correct: If one wants to succeed on the SAT, one must study effectively.
Correct: If you want to succeed on the SAT, you must study effectively.
The incorrect sentence uses two different pronouns, while the corrected versions stick to one or the other.
Errors with you and one are very common on the SAT Writing, so watch out for sentences where either word is underlined.
The other tricky case with disagreement in person is relative pronouns like who and which. Each of these words is used to refer to a specific type of thing:
Who and whom — a person (on the SAT you will not be tested on difference between the two)
When — a point in time
Where — a place (use "in which" for media)
Which and that — anything else
Even though you don't necessarily think of these types of pronouns as having antecedents, they still do, and that means they have to agree with those nouns. Here's an example of an incorrect sentence:
I found the gummi bears who I'd lost under my sister's bed.
Who or what is "that"? Well, it's "the gummi bears." Gummi bears aren't a person, so it's incorrect to use "who" to refer them. The correct version is:
I found the gummi bears that I'd lost under my sister's bed.
Let's look at a slightly trickier case.
I finally got to the chapter where the hero sneaks into the castle and rescues the dragon.
This sentence sounds fine, but what is "where" referring to? "The chapter" isn't actually a place, so we need to use "in which" instead:
I finally got to the chapter in which the hero sneaks into the castle and rescues the dragon.
When you see a relative pronoun on the SAT, make sure that it is the correct one for describing the type of thing that it is referring to.
SAT Writing Example Questions
For the Identifying Sentence Errors questions, you can look for problems with agreement in person in the same way you look for issues with agreement in number: determine the antecedent for any underlined pronouns and ensure that they match.
Choices A and C both involve pronouns. In C, "one" is fine, since it's referring to Doris Lessing, who is a singular person. A is a bit trickier. At first glance, "it" seems fine—it's standing in for "The Golden Notebook."
But if we fit that antecedent back into the sentence we get, "The Golden Notebook instantly established herself as one of the most important literary voices of her generation," which clearly doesn't make sense. It's Lessing, not her novel, who established herself, so the correct pronoun would be "she." A includes the error, so it's the correct answer.
Remember to watch out for you vs. one and relative pronouns, as well. Let's look at an example of a question involving these topics:
As written, the underlined portion of this sentence uses two different possessive pronouns, "your" and "one's," neither of which agree with the antecedent, "a person." Choice D has a similar mistake—it uses both "your" and "one's," when any given sentence can either use "you" or "one."
B has a mistake with agreement in number: "their" is plural and can't be used with "a person." C cuts out the antecedent all together, creating a sentence that doesn't make sense.
Eliminating these choice leaves only E, which is the correct answer, since the 3rd person plural pronoun "their" is used appropriately with the 3rd person plural antecedent "people."
We've covered the basic rules for ensuring that pronouns agree with their antecedents, but a lot of the pronoun questions on the SAT Writing are designed to confuse you by not having a clear antecedent. It's important to remember that a pronoun's antecedent must be a noun and you must be able to circle it in the text. In other words, it's not enough for you to know what the pronoun is referring to, the antecedent also has to be obvious in the text.
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No Antecedent
I know I've said this a couple of times already, but it's the most important thing to remember about pronouns on the SAT Writing: every pronoun must have an antecedent. I'm emphasizing this because sometimes you'll see a pronoun that doesn't have one:
In order to get the spelunking permits from the office, I need them to call me back.
Who does "them" refer to? Presumably, the people who work in the spelunking permit office, but there's nothing in the sentence to specifically indicate that. A correct version might read:
In order to get the spelunking permits, I need someone from the office to call me back.
Now it's clear who I need to call me back. Similarly, you'll sometimes see a verb or adjective used as an antecedent—this is incorrect.
People who crawl through caves do it because they love adventure.
This sentence seems fine; "it" is clearly "crawl through caves." However, "crawl" is a verb, not a noun, and thus cannot serve as an antecedent.
People who crawl through caves do so because they love adventure.
This kind of error can be especially confusing because gerunds, the "ing" forms of verbs, are technically nouns and can be used as antecedents for pronouns.
Incorrect: I explore underwater caves often; it is fun.
Correct: I love exploring underwater caves; it is fun.
"Exploring" is a correct antecedent; "explore" is not. Always make sure that a pronoun's antecedent is a noun you can point to in the sentence.
Too Many Antecedents
Another common antecedent issue occurs when a sentence has more than one noun that could be the antecedent. For example:
When Nel and Katie got back from the movie, they took her dog for a walk.
It's unclear whether "her" refers to Nel or Katie. The possessive either needs to be replaced with something more specific or removed:
When Nel and Katie got back from the movie, they took Nel's dog for a walk.
When Nel and Katie got back from the movie, they took their dog for a walk.
When Nel and Katie got back from the movie, they took the dog for a walk.
On the SAT Writing, watch out for sentences that involve two or more names of the same gender, since that construction often indicates this type of error.
This, Which, and That
In casual English, we often use the pronouns this, which, and that without clear antecedents.
Liz: My mom told me I have to stay home and clean my room.
Wayne: That's annoying.
This construction may be fine in spoken English, but it would be absolutely incorrect on the SAT. This, that, and which must have clear noun antecedents, just like any other pronoun. Let's look at an example:
It took me 24 hours to travel from Los Angeles to Mumbai; this meant that I was very tired when I reached my destination.
What is "this"? It's somewhat unclear, but there are a few ways we can improve this sentence.
It took me 24 hours to travel from Los Angeles to Mumbai; this fact meant that I was very tired when I reached my destination.
It took me 24 hours to travel from Los Angeles to Mumbai, so I was very tired when I reached my destination.
Both are perfectly clear; however, on the SAT, the second option would be preferable because it is more concise.
Missing or unclear antecedents pop up fairly frequently on the SAT and they can be hard to spot. Let's look at some examples, starting with Identifying Sentence Errors:
Neither Mr. Weasley nor (A) Mr. Potter thinks (B) that eating as much candy as his (C) daughter Jen does will result (D) in anything good. No error (E)
The underlined pronoun in C, "his," seems fine—it matches the antecedent in person (3rd person masculine) and number (neither takes singular pronouns and verbs). But it's actually unclear who "his" is referring to: is Jen Mr. Weasley's daughter or Mr. Potter's? It's impossible to tell, so this construction is incorrect.
Let's move on to an Improving Sentences question:
Again, at first glance, this sentence looks correct. However, "that" requires an identifiable noun antecedent, which it doesn't have. "That" is referring to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, but that phrase doesn't appear in the sentence, nor does any equivalent noun phrase. Choices B and D also feature pronouns without antecedents.
E is not idiomatic, which leaves C, the correct answer.
You have to watch for errors as vigilantly as this meerkat is watching for predators.
How to Spot a Pronoun Agreement Error on the SAT Writing
As you've seen in the SAT Writing examples, pronoun agreement errors appear in both the Identifying Sentence Errors questions and the Improving Sentences questions. There are slight differences in how these errors are tested in the two sections, however.
Identifying Sentence Errors
Pronoun errors are among the most common on the ISE section, so any time you see a pronoun underlined, you must always check for an antecedent and make sure that the pronoun and antecedent agree.
Underlined nouns can also indicate pronoun agreement errors, although they usually mean that there's a subject-verb agreement issue, which is slightly different.
On the Identifying Sentence Errors, these constructions often indicate a pronoun agreement error:
More than one name of the same gender
"One" or "you" underlined
"It" or "they" underlined
Names of professions
Though sentences with these clues are especially likely to have a pronoun agreement, you should still make sure to check that any underlined pronoun matches its antecedent. For more details on how to systematically check sentences for errors, see our post on how to approach Identifying Sentence Errors questions.
Improving Sentences
Pronoun agreement errors are also relatively common on the Improving Sentences, and you should expect to see some questions dealing with them. However, you likely don't want to check every underlined pronoun, as on the ISE, since they are often part of more complicated constructions with which there are many other possible problems. (For example, pronouns are often used as filler in wordiness questions.)
Certain sentence structures pop up again and again, though, so there are some clues you can watch out for. The following signs—some of which also appear on the ISE section—often warn of a pronoun agreement issue:
That, which, or who underlined
A pronoun, especially it, near the beginning of a sentence
The presence of "you" or "one"
For a more complete rundown of best practices for the Improving Sentences questions, check out our post on strategies for the IS section.
Now that we've covered the ins and outs of pronoun agreement on the SAT, why don't you take a crack at some realistic SAT writing practice questions?
1. The herd of black-and-white cattle bellowed (A) loudly as (B) the cowboys herded them (C) into the expansive (D) pen. (E) No error
2. My sister loves books where (A) the villains win, but (B) my brother prefers those (C) in which good triumphs over (D) evil. (E) No error
3. The more time one spends on the baking of cookies, the less you'll want to eat them.
A. one spends on the baking of cookies
B. you spend baking cookies
C. he spends to make cookies
D. that is spent on the baking of cookies
E. one bakes cookies
4. When the ninja finally tried skiing, he didn't have fun, which confused his friends.
A. which confused his friends
B. that confused his friends
C. which his friends found confusing
D. by which his friends were confused
E. a fact that confused his friends
Answers: 1. C, 2. A, 3. B, 4. E
The only topic the SAT Writing tests more than pronouns is verbs. Make sure to study subject-verb agreement as well!
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Alex Heimbach
Alex is an experienced tutor and writer. Over the past five years, she has worked with almost a hundred students and written about pop culture for a wide range of publications. She graduated with honors from University of Chicago, receiving a BA in English and Anthropology, and then went on to earn an MA at NYU in Cultural Reporting and Criticism. In high school, she was a National Merit Scholar, took 12 AP tests and scored 99 percentile scores on the SAT and ACT.


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How Moldy Hay And Sick Cows Led To A Lifesaving Drug
There is a lifesaving drug that owes its existence to moldy hay, sick cows and rat poison.
The drug is called warfarin sodium. It prevents blood clots, and it can be a life-saver for patients who've had a heart attack or stroke. It's one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the world.
There's rarely a straight line from idea to invention, but the story of warfarin is particularly twisted. It began on a winter day in the mid-1930s when a farmer showed up at a lab at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
"He apparently showed up in a blizzard, and he had this can of cow's blood with him," says Kevin Walters, a graduate student in history at the University of Wisconsin who has studied the warfarin story.
The blood came from a cow that had eaten sweet clover hay that had some mold growing in it. The farmer said quite a few of his cows had eaten the moldy hay and had fallen ill with what became known as sweet clover disease.
"The cows eat the hay, and a few days later they die from bleeding internally, because their blood doesn't clot," says Walters.
The lab the farmer showed up at belonged to a chemist named Karl Paul Link. Link was intrigued by the farmer's problem, and decided to try to figure what was happening.
"He redirects his laboratory towards this question of what is it in this hay that is making this cows blood thin out," says Walters.
After years of experiments, in 1940 Link and his colleagues concluded that the blood-thinning molecule arises when a fungus that causes the mold reacts with a natural substance in hay called coumarin. The chemists called the overall blood-thinning compound dicoumarol.
"They realize that the dicoumerol is thinning the cows' blood. Therefore it could also be used as a blood thinner in human patients," says Walters.
Link and his colleagues collaborated with clinicians who tried dicoumarol as a treatment for human patients who had life-threatening blood clots, and it worked. It was regularly used for patients at risk for forming blood clots.
But the chemists weren't done. They started making chemical cousins of dicoumarol. One, labeled Number 42, was a particularly potent blood thinner. But Link didn't immediately turn to its potential human uses; apparently he was interested in building a better mousetrap — literally. He had tried using dicoumarol to kill rodents in the past, but you can counteract its effects with vitamin K, and rats apparently get a lot of vitamin K in their diets. So Number 42 gave him an idea.
"Maybe if we give [Number 42] to rats ... then what happened to the cows will happen to the rats," says Walters, channeling Link all these years later.
It worked. Number 42 became a popular rat poison, and they named the active ingredient in the poison warfarin. The name was coined by Link. It's a mash-up of WARF, the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and coumarin, the chemical found in sweet clove hay.
So how did a rat poison get back to being a drug? Well, like dicoumarol, warfarin prevents blood clots from forming, and in small amounts a version called warfarin sodium is much easier to use as a human drug than dicoumarol is. It was used to treat President Dwight Eisenhower after he had a heart attack in 1955.
Warfarin sodium went on to become blockbuster drug under the trade name Coumadin.
"And so that's how you get from a sweet clover disease in cows that is causing cows to bleed internally ... to a blood thinner for humans, then a rat poison, and then a more refined, easier-to-take blood thinner called warfarin," says Walters.
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It rocked! Nearly everything seemed to go as planned and it was one of the best we've ever seen! These guys are leaders in the industry, and attractions like this are truly hard to come by.
8: "Solid"
A high score on our scale. They had a good handle on it and, overall, they knew how to use it well. Most attractions can learn from what these guys are doing.
6 to 7: "Good"
We could tell that a good effort was made. However, we've seen this done much better at other places, or can detect areas where significant improvements can be made. This is about the top end of what we'd call "Family Friendly."
5: "Average / Fair"
Compared to the competition, they weren't the best, but definitely not the worst. Scares and Special Effects in this range are usually considered "Family Friendly."
3 to 4: "Below Average"
We could see that a clear attempt was made, but most other professional attractions are doing a much better job at this.
1 to 2: "Poor"
It appeared that very little time, thought or effort was contributed to this aspect.
0 (Zero): "Non-Existent"
No apparent effort was made to make this a significant contributor to the attraction.
Afterword:
This rating system is standardized across all of The Scare Factor's official haunt review teams. However, keep in mind there will always be minor differences between Teams, as we all have varying levels of experience. Regardless, we do our best to remain true to our core values, which is to promote all haunted attractions!
Perhaps the biggest thing to remember is: sometimes the score – in and of itself – doesn't tell the whole story about an attraction's merits. This is why we provide detailed explanations for each category… to help you better understand how and why we chose the score/s that we did.
We do our best to not let feelings or emotions rule our judgement, while also viewing the attraction through the lens of the typical haunt-goer. But, because all reviews with ratings are inherently subjective, this is nearly impossible to completely prevent. Though, when in doubt, we tend to give slightly lower scores than our original "gut feelings" to account for this, and also give the attraction more room to improve over time.
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Final Score: 9.39
How Did We Get This Score?
(15% of Final Score) Cast: 9.39
(15% of Final Score) Costuming: 9.56
(10% of Final Score) Customer Service: 9.4
(10% of Final Score) Atmosphere: 9.2
(15% of Final Score) Special Effects: 9.3
(5% of Final Score) Theme: 9.95
(15% of Final Score) Scare Factor: 9.19
(5% of Final Score) Entertainment & Value: 9.45
CHAMBER OF TERROR returns with a vengeance for the 2019 season presenting their attraction, GOONS IN GREASEPAINT: ARCANE AMUSEMENTS. In a new location (and their first time in a while on solid ground), CHAMBER OF TERROR makes a strong return to the haunt scene of Florida. As they continue to develop in the coming years (they already have plans for expansion and growth), they have a chance to be a very strong competitor for all haunts in the Southeast.
From incredibly-detailed sets, to an extremely interactive and aggressive horde of clowns, CHAMBER OF TERROR is a feast to the senses, ready to make you scream with delight (or terror).
Cast: 9.39
Cast Scores (15% of Final Score):
(20% of Cast Score) Did it seem like there were enough actors?: 9.25
(30% of Cast Score) How believable / convincing were the actors?: 9.5
(20% of Cast Score) How interactive were the actors?: 9.75
(15% of Cast Score) How creatively & appropriately did they use dialogue?: 9.75
(15% of Cast Score) Was there a good variety of characters?: 8.5
CHAMBER OF TERROR has a stellar cast of characters, leaving the question of where the creative team found all of these whacky, creative performers. Performers are placed according to skill strengths (whether it be jump scare locations or the highly-interactive queue area performers), and this attention to performer placement really pays off. Those characters meant to grab fast scares are aggressive and thorough, whereas whenever there is an opportunity for interaction and improvisation, those performers seize the opportunity.
Actors are given suggested script and, in some locations, are free to wander around the scripted lines, and talk more within character. Similarly, the cast gauges their interaction based on the group (they will not be as foul mouthed around children, because even clowns, apparently, have manners). Of specific note are HECKLES and BUBBA, being HIGHLY interactive, exploring some established "bits" that seem frequently used, and customizing interactions for the specific guests in question. They display high levels of improvisation, comedy, as well as dedication to character, never stepping outside character and breaking that illusion.
Costuming: 9.56
Costuming Scores (15% of Final Score):
(15% of Costuming Score) How complete / finished did the costumes appear to be?: 9.75
(25% of Costuming Score) How creative / detailed were the costumes?: 9.75
(20% of Costuming Score) Was their makeup creative? Detailed? Realistic?: 9
(15% of Costuming Score) How effectively did they use masks (if used)?: 9.5
(25% of Costuming Score) How appropriate were the costumes for their scene/s & theme/s?: 9.75
CHAMBER OF TERROR's characters provide a master class in costuming, especially in attention to detail and distressing. Costumes have an unbelievable amount of texture and details, especially noted in those outside the haunt. If HECKLES the clown will let you have a close enough look at his costume, you will notice all of the great pins and buttons on his vest – some themed to the carnival/clowns, others he's collected through the seasons.
In contrast, other costumes are rather simple, yet allowing for extreme action (most notably the aggressive pink-haired clown running around with a sledge hammer), while still being detailed and distressed enough to be interesting, original, and unique.
All of the masks are similarly very well done and high quality, especially effective in letting the characters talk through them (for the most part, some characters would try to deliver lines, with the only response option being, "Huh?!"), and we were glad to *not see the cookie cutter clown mask that a lot of haunts have purchased for their clown character(s). CHAMBER has managed to find (and/or create) some really unique masks that allow their clown characters to stand out from the rest.
In the future, it would be great to see some more performers with makeup (or makeup/mask hybrid) to help continue the realism and further vary characters' looks.
Customer Service: 9.4
Customer Service Scores (10% of Final Score):
(25% of CS Score) How easy was it to locate the attraction, park, and navigate the premises?: 9.75
(30% of CS Score) How safe was the attraction?: 8.75
(25% of CS Score) How professional, helpful and friendly were the staff members?: 9.75
(20% of CS Score) How easy was it to find their information before you arrived?: 9.5
CHAMBER OF TERROR provides a good customer service experience, from the arrival with Boy Scouts working hard to effectively manage the parking lot, helping Guests enter and exit with ease, to the ticket booth workers, to the front of line employee dispatching Guests into the attraction. It seemed like some concessions were available for purchase, also being run by the Boy Scout troop, and a portable restroom was available on-site as well.
For being an outdoor haunt, the ground is extremely level and easy to traverse (there are some uneven thresholds when moving between scenes, be prepared for a slight step up or down when entering/exiting some structures, in logical places). The entire team was friendly, helpful, and professional, adding to a great experience overall.
Atmosphere: 9.2
Atmosphere Scores (10% of Final Score):
(60% of Atmosphere Score) How obvious was it that you were at a haunted house before entering?: 9
(40% of Atmosphere Score) How well did the atmosphere prepare you for what you experienced inside?: 9.5
CHAMBER OF TERROR certainly has an interesting location in a relatively residential area (making it very convenient and central in Tampa) behind a business building. That said, they were left with no inherent atmosphere to assist them in their design for the attraction. The theme of the attraction is a traveling carnival, which even makes the non-traditional location make sense.
Arrive at the attraction (with cluttered, though very well managed parking), step beside the building into the themed ticket booth area, and then step beyond into the courtyard of the carnival. At this point, Guests are immersed into the story with clowns filling the area, each interacting heavily with Guests, and setting up the atmosphere for the haunt.
Unfortunately, since the haunt is so immersive and enclosed, it may be too easy for passersby to not realize what the quality of the attraction is from the road, so perhaps a more-themed sign could be considered (if feasible) in the future to add to the true "curb appeal" they deserve and gain more local business. But, this observation is not to detract from the impeccable theming that is witnessed beyond the entrance gates
Special Effects: 9.3
Special Effects Scores (15% of Final Score):
(20% of SFX Score) How effective were the sound effects?: 9
(20% of SFX Score) How creative / original were the scenes & props?: 9.5
(20% of SFX Score) How well were the scenes detailed?: 9.75
(25% of SFX Score) How well did they achieve & maintain the suspension of disbelief?: 9.5
(15% of SFX Score) How effective were the SFX at providing scares / entertainment?: 8.5
At times, one could argue that CHAMBER OF TERROR is more "old school" in style, relying less on special effects for eye candy and scares, but more on performers (and with a cast so talented, they should) and clever design. The scenic detail is quite possibly some of the best we have seen, especially for an outdoor trail, and hopefully the CHAMBER OF TERROR team will ensure that the quality of these elements holds up in the weather from year to year (we have no doubt they will as they seem incredibly passionate about their work).
The distressing detail is incredible, as it makes a brand new attraction seem extremely worn with age and decay with extensive techniques used by an obviously-skilled group of artists. The design and construction of the scenic elements is nearly flawless with clever layout, designs, and finishing techniques.
The layout is very efficient and clever, utilizing the property to its maximum potential, as well as allowing performers to easily access different points in the trail, along with locations within their scenes to allow for increased scare options per performer.
This is not to say that the CHAMBER OF TERROR team does not have special effects, but they are more subtle in their use. Some of these include well-designed lighting, scents, fog, etc. to create and enhance their atmosphere, leaving you to wonder… "Did I actually smell that cotton candy, or was that my nightmare?"
Theme: 9.95
Theme Scores (5% of Final Score):
(30% of Theme Score) Could you tell what the theme was?: 10
(50% of Theme Score) How well was the theme carried throughout the attraction/s?: 10
(20% of Theme Score) How well does their location authenticate the theme?: 9.75
CHAMBER OF TERROR visits one of the most expected and cliche horror genres, CLOWNS. While this may seem like another 3D blacklight haunted maze style, CHAMBER OF TERROR breaks the mold with GOONS IN GREASEPAINT, taking clowns to a darker, more raw and aggressive place, not solely relying on clown fear to garner scares.
From the second the ticket is purchased (themed carnival style ticket featuring "Arcane Amusements" as the location), suspension of disbelief never stops, as the attraction is so well themed and never deviates, allowing all of the scenes and story elements to tie together seamlessly.
With the limiting clown theme (though again, extremely successful with this fresh, dark look on Clowns), it will be interesting to see where the CHAMBER OF TERROR team goes from here, whether developing the clown theme into potential future other attractions, or exploring new and additional themes / stories to tell at the same location.
Scare Factor: 9.19
Scare Factor Scores (15% of Final Score):
(30% of Scare Factor Score) How scary was it?: 9.25
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How well did they provide scares to the entire group?: 8.75
(25% of Scare Factor Score) How predictable were the scares?: 9.75
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How well did they provide a wide variety of scares?: 9
(15% of Scare Factor Score) How strong was the ending / finale?: 8.75
CHAMBER OF TERROR has created a gritty, realistic, run-down carnival where their clowns come out to play to scare everyone who passes through. There are a multitude of nooks and crannies where the clowns can hide and pop out of, and you never know which gap in the fence will have an aggressive clown behind it.
These clowns don't stop at a single scare either. With multiple scare locations for each Performer, they are sure to maximize each and every one of them to get as many scares as possible, creating great team scares, as well as distractions for other clowns. At times, clowns would shock us at how fast they could traverse the attraction to get to another scene to grab another scare.
Being haunt aficionados, it is hard to truly catch us off guard with a scare, but there were several scares in the attraction that we did not see coming at all, and other times where a performer joined the scene with us having no idea where they silently popped out of. While there were a multitude of great startle scares throughout the attraction (causing even our hard-to-scare team members to jump much more than the average haunt), there were no true stagger back extreme "mess-your-pants" scares, at least for our team's walk through. Perhaps this is something that could be developed in the future to help with the scare pacing of the haunt (likely enhanced with special effects, sound, etc.) to get a large scare, amidst all of the other great scares.
The finale of the haunt is disorienting and intimidating to navigate, especially for the first member of the group, but could use some additional elements to create a truly scary, climactic finale (sound effects, special effects, performers, etc.). Also, some actors need to continue to work on scaring the entire group, as the last member in our group got several less scares (or attempts) than the front-most members. This however, is not to say that CHAMBER OF TERROR is not scary, as the team overall got probably the largest amount of scares and jumps in a single attraction than most other attractions visited this year!
Entertainment & Value: 9.45
Entertainment & Value Factor Scores (15% of Final Score):
(30% of E&V Score) How satisfied are you with the entertainment received during the main attraction/s?: 9.5
(25% of E&V Score) How satisfied are you with the entertainment that's available with the ticket price, excluding the main attraction/s?: 9
(30% of E&V Score) How appropriate is/are the ticket price/s?: 9.75
(15% of E&V Score) Have they effectively used their available space?: 9.5
CHAMBER OF TERROR boasts an incredibly competitive ticket price (check website for details, price varies based on date and option), especially considering nearby theme parks and other haunted attractions. While CHAMBER OF TERROR does not provide a full night of entertainment (there is one trail and atmosphere entertainment), its pricing reflects that, making for a great addition to a weekend evening out.
The quality of entertainment received certainly won't disappoint, so get down to the carnival, and enjoy your time!
The clowns sure will….
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Guest Average: 5.5 out of 10
Miles Plothow – 10/10 – October 27, 2017
If you haven't gone to this, then you need to go. Have been a haunted house enthusiast for years and …show more this is by far the best I've been to. The actors are amazing and so is make-up. They will grab you, breathe on you, and even chase you down the halls. It is a must see attraction! Great job!!
Erin s – 10/10 – October 30, 2016
Best haunted thing I've ever been to. I loved it and I will definitely go back every year
Sarah – 1/10 – October 26, 2019
First.. They are NOT suppose to grab you. Well they grabbed my arm and I had to pull away and now …show more have a nice scratch on my arm. My husband and the other group said they were grabbed as well. Second… They separated my husband and I the entire time. I was with a stranger I had never met. Not cool! I go to haunted houses to have the fun with my husband not to be separated the entire time and with strangers. I attempted to talk to staff after the trail and also through facebook messenger and they were very disrespectful or acted as if all of this was normal. They only offered for me to come back again… Why would I do go back! Just beware of the grabbing, separation and poor management when things go wrong. We will never be back again. I am sorry we drove an hour for that experience.


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November 18, 2019 Economy
Is There a Method Behind Beijing's Bank Rescue Madness?
Dinny McMahon
Bank rescues in China may no longer be isolated events. Since May, one bank has been taken into receivership by the government, two have been bailed out by central authorities, and depositors have lined up outside of two others demanding their money back. Even the chairman of China's sovereign wealth fund recently noted that as the economy slows, the failure of financial institutions will become "a fact of life."
The authorities seem to be handling such failures in an ad hoc fashion, having "…taken different approaches to Baoshang (taken over by the banking regulator), Jinzhou, and Hengfeng banks (both were bailed out) based on the authorities' assessment of the institution's specific circumstances," as noted by a recent International Monetary Fund report. But a closer look reveals that the size of the bank appears to be a main determinant in the method by which Beijing chooses to deal with them. Let's look briefly at what to expect as the central government tackles some of these shakier banks.
Small Banks Get the M&A Treatment
It seems that small distressed banks will get consolidated together or merged into larger, healthier banks. Although authorities have denied it, Beijing was reportedly considering a plan that would do just that for small banks with less than 100 billion yuan worth of assets. The reason for the official denial isn't clear, but China has a long precedent of such consolidations.
Between 2005 and 2014, at least 48 local banks were merged into nine regional banks. For example, Hong Kong-listed Huishang Bank is the outcome of six Anhui banks (and seven credit cooperatives) merging in 2005; Shanghai-listed Bank of Jiangsu is the result of the merger of 10 banks in 2007; and Hong Kong-listed Zhongyuan Bank is the product of 13 Henan banks merging in 2014.
These examples highlight a main advantage of mergers: banks post-consolidation have an easier time listing publicly and borrowing from the interbank market. Another advantage of larger banks is that they are easier for regulators to monitor, and asset management companies (AMCs) are more willing to deal with them, making it easier for larger banks to dispose of nonperforming loans.
Given China has significant experience in bank consolidation—and the simple fact that larger banks are more stable than small banks on their own—it seems likely that more mergers are on the horizon.
Large Banks Get Bailouts
Beijing has few qualms about mobilizing state resources to capitalize large banks. It intervenes sooner than governments in market economies and is willing to bail out smaller banks that aren't systemically important. And crucially, it has the potential to intervene more widely by drawing upon a range of resources typically not available to democratic governments.
When countries like the United States and United Kingdom bail out a bank—as they did with Citigroup and the Royal Bank of Scotland, respectively—they typically use tax revenues, which can invite public backlash. In contrast, when Beijing intervenes, it avoids using either the Ministry of Finance's tax revenue or the People's Bank of China's printing press. Rather, intervention typically involves mobilizing state resources that don't appear on the government's ledger.
For example, the bailout of Hengfeng Bank in September was funded by Central Huijin, a unit of China's sovereign wealth fund. Meanwhile, the Bank of Jinzhou was recapitalized by two centrally-owned AMCs—Cinda and Great Wall—as well as the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Similarly, in 2016, Beijing recapitalized Great Wall and China Orient—two of the four national AMCs—by using the National Social Security Fund, a couple of state insurance companies, and a handful of state firms. And in 2015, China Development Bank and China Export-Import Bank were recapitalized by using China's foreign exchange reserves.
Beijing did something similar during the bank bailouts at the turn of the century, a very costly endeavor that largely remained off the government's books. That approach allows Beijing to use all the resources at its disposal and to spread out the costs of cleaning up the banking system. It also allows the central government to maintain a far healthier balance sheet than would otherwise be the case—as long as it isn't called upon later to bailout those institutions that have been propping up the banks on its behalf. We expect the approach will likely be a fixture of future bailouts.
Who Gets the Bailouts?
But there's a wrinkle to the large banks: it's unclear which banks Beijing is willing to bailout and which it is not, although that may become clearer over time. This can be seen in the divergent fates of Hengfeng Bank and Bank of Jinzhou vs. Harbin Bank and Bank of Jilin. All four are regional banks ranked among China's biggest 100 banks by assets—with Hengfeng at 20th, Jinzhou at 31st, Harbin at 35th, and Jilin at 45th. Yet the first two banks got central bailouts and the latter two did not.
Instead, the Hong Kong-listed Harbin Bank disclosed that two companies owned by the Heilongjiang provincial government (where the bank is based) had acquired about 30% of the bank, taking their combined stake to 48%. Meanwhile, the Bank of Jilin—the product of a merger between two banks and five rural credit cooperatives in 2007—in June announced that it had raised fresh capital from a private placement of shares to the Jilin Province Finance Department, the Liaoyuan City Finance Bureau, the Baishan City Finance Bureau, as well as nine other investors. That came after the bank reported that its total assets had shrunk by 8% in 2018, a sure sign of stress. In other words, Beijing sat on the sidelines as the local government and investors intervened.
At this point, without further clarity, one can only speculate on the reasons that these banks of similar sizes received different treatment. It's possible that Harbin Bank and Bank of Jilin's financial conditions simply weren't dire enough to warrant central government attention. But it also could be because Beijing regards Hengfeng and Jinzhou to be systemically important. Late last year, the central government decided that it would consider the roughly 30 biggest banks to be "domestic systemically important financial institutions," a designation that brings greater oversight and perhaps even a willingness to bail them out. Harbin Bank may fall just outside of the cut off.
Regardless of where Beijing draws the line in the sand, it seems that in general, larger banks will be on the short list for central government bailouts, while more mergers are likely to come for small banks under distress.
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So… what about a much earlier Hoosier daddy?
The 17th of February, 1838, to be exact…?
What would the law have said about an illegitimate child — and that child's father — back then?
In honor of my imminent boarding of a flight this morning that's the first leg of a journey that will take me to Terre Haute, Indiana, later today, and on the 2015 Indiana Genealogical Society's conference on the campus of Indiana State University tomorrow, let's take a look at the Hoosier daddy, 1838 style.
First off, where to find the law?
The Revised Statutes of the State of Indiana, Adopted and Enacted by the General Assembly at Their Twenty-second Session is the official version of the Revised Indiana Code of 1838.3 It's not the first codified version of Indiana's statutes — that was done for the first time in 1823 and published in 1824.4 But it is the first one with this particular statute.
In short, the statute was an early form of child support order, the whole thing designed to keep the kid from becoming a drain on the public.
And, from a genealogical point of view, the perfect vehicle for the creation of records. Lots and lots of records.
Check the court records. You might just find your earliest Hoosier daddies.


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Q: Solving for x in a equation involving natural logarithms How would I solve for x in this equation here:
$$\ln(x)+\ln(1/x+1)=3$$
I realize that the answer is $e^3-1$, but I am not sure as to how to get it.
Any input is appreciated.

A: $$ \ln x + \ln \left( \frac{1}{x} + 1 \right) = \ln \left( x(1/x + 1) \right) = 3 $$
$$ \Rightarrow \ln(x+1)= 3 \Rightarrow x + 1 = e^3 \Rightarrow x = e^3 - 1 $$

A: We know that $ln(a)+ ln(b) =ln(ab)$
Then,
$$ln(x)+ln(\frac{1}{x})=ln(x(\frac{1}{x}+1)=ln(1+x)=3$$
Now,
We know that $e^{ln(a)}=a$
Then, $$e^{ln(1+x)}=e^3 $$
This implies that $$x+1=e^3 \implies x=e^3-1$$

A: Hint: $\ln(x)+\ln\left(\frac 1{x+1}\right)=\ln\left(\frac x{x+1}\right)$.

A: Use that $\ln{x}+\ln{y}=\ln{xy}$ to simplify; the equation becomes much simpler.

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Meet the new climate refugee in the Bay Area:…
Meet the new climate refugee in the Bay Area: Coyotes
A sign warning of coyotes in Tracy Richardson's front yard. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
By Bloomberg |
PUBLISHED: December 6, 2021 at 11:43 a.m. | UPDATED: December 7, 2021 at 12:50 p.m.
By Todd Woody | Bloomberg
Amid the sylvan tranquility of the Berkeley hills neighborhood, an image of a snarling predator, fangs bared, stares down at passersby from atop a pole planted in the yard of a sprawling Tudor-style home. "Danger! "Coyotes!" the homemade placard warns.
It's a sign of a growing climate-driven conflict. Drought and heat waves are not only fueling catastrophic wildfires in California's wildland-urban interface, they're also driving coyotes and other wildlife into the streets in search of food and water, according to scientists. That's triggering clashes among residents over an influx of four-footed climate refugees into the Berkeley hills and adjoining neighborhoods wedged between a vast regional park and San Francisco Bay.
Tracy Richardson says she and her partner put up the sign after a coyote crossed into their yard on an August Sunday morning and growled at them and their three cats. A week later, she says, a coyote snatched one of the felines and ran down the street. "Our cat was sitting like five feet from us and the coyote came up to get the cat," says Richardson. "We're doing this is to stop the inevitable, which is a human is going to get attacked."
A coyote in Tilden Regional Park near Berkeley, Calif.(Sam Hall for Bloomberg)
Attacks on people are rare. But with reports of coyotes roaming the hills and preying on pets multiplying as California's record-breaking drought drags on, the response from some in this affluent, ecologically self-conscious enclave has become increasingly dark. "I am in favor of shooting the most dangerous coyotes," one neighbor declared on Nextdoor in August while another wrote, "Would be nice to see coyotes eradicated from the city."
Richardson has hired a trapper, who placed a cage on their property. No coyote has yet been caught.
Urban coyotes have established themselves as a permanent presence in cities nationwide over the past two decades. Climate change, however, is now pushing wildland animals — coyotes, bears, bobcats, feral pigs, elk — into residential areas where food and water are abundant.
"Most coyotes will try to stay away from folks as much as they possibly can, but as droughts and fires get worse, they will have no choice but to move into human settlements," says Christopher Schell, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley who studies urban coyotes. "That sets up the perfect storm for human-coyote conflict."
As climate change alters the habitats and migration patterns of wildlife, those confrontations are likely to rise, scientists say, compelling a reassessment of how humans share a landscape they and their pets have long dominated.
"It's just an incredibly unrealistic expectation to think that we're going to be able to keep wildlife like coyotes out of cities," says Morgan Farmer, a PhD student researching urban carnivores at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Our effort is better spent trying to understand how to coexist rather than to try and remove them."
Cesar Estien, a PhD graduate student at UC Berkeley, left, and Christopher Schell, watch as researchers set camera traps in the school's Blake Garden.(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
Tilden Regional Park is a 2,079-acre preserve of canyons, meadows, eucalyptus forests and oak and bay laurel woodlands that borders Berkeley and other East Bay cities. Nearby residents have long lived with wildlife. Families of deer amble down winding lanes, grazing on carefully cultivated gardens. Gray foxes perch on backyard fences, scouting for squirrels. And on occasion, a mountain lion will leave Tilden for dinner in town, chasing deer through hillside neighborhoods.
Encounters with coyotes tended to be fleeting, a shadowy shape caught in the corner of the eye or in the headlights of a car as the omnivores moved through the hills at dusk and dawn. During periodic droughts, though, daytime sightings become common as water and prey grow scarce in Tilden. Such contact – and the alarm it raises — was cyclical. As the rain inevitably returned after past droughts, so did some coyotes to the park.
Homes in the East Bay hills neighborhood of Kensington.(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg)
Now, scorching heat waves and back-to-back droughts are upending that balance. California is in the second year of an extreme drought, and since October 2020, more than 1,000 acres of trees have died in East Bay regional parks. By fall, most of the parks' ponds and streams had gone dry for the first time in memory, according to Doug Bell, wildlife program manager for the East Bay Regional Park District. That in turn precipitated a fall in populations of rabbits, squirrels and other coyote chow. As water dries up, wild turkeys have descended into the flatlands, and residents have recently posted sightings of feral pigs roto-tilling lawns and bobcats bounding into backyards.
"It's been mind-boggling and there probably has been a lot of movement of animals like bobcats and coyotes into the urban environment because we supply a lot of food, water and places for them to seek refuge," says Bell, noting coyotes' indiscriminate palate includes cats and other small mammals, fruit and just about anything edible that humans toss in the trash.
Across San Francisco Bay, the black bear population had been extinct in Marin County for 120 years with only rare sightings of individual animals over the decades. Then in May, a homeowner in the town of San Anselmo found a 200-to-300-pound bear clinging to an oak tree in her backyard, a block from downtown.
"There's probably several bears in Marin County now," says Stacy Martinelli, a wildlife biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, noting confirmed sightings over the summer
In neighboring Sonoma County, a 500-pound black bear rambled around a neighborhood near downtown Petaluma last month before seeking refuge in a redwood tree. Martinelli has received so many calls from Sonoma County residents about bears that she is helping lead a two-year genetic study of the population that could shed light on whether climate conditions are prompting migration to cities. She says Tule elk, which were not known to exist in Sonoma, have begun to show up in backyard gardens.
A coyote at dusk in the Marin Headlands in Sausalito, Calif.(Sam Hall for Bloomberg)
How many coyotes traverse East Bay neighborhoods is unknown, though Schell says planned research projects aim to pinpoint the population and its distribution. He says increased sightings of coyotes in part may be due to more people working from home and strolling their neighborhoods during the Covid-19 pandemic.
One indication of coyote numbers in the area comes from a 2017 study conducted by Farmer when she was a UC Berkeley student. She set up nine camera traps on trails in Tilden and captured images of coyotes over the course of a year. Farmer determined that the park is probably home to six to 10 coyotes; likely many more live in the vicinity and may pass through Tilden.
"There's a lot of tension between people who are really concerned about the safety of their children or their pets and people who really value the animals and their place in nature," says Farmer.
Those tensions have intensified in recent months, polarizing an otherwise politically homogenous community where Joe Biden received upwards of 95% of the presidential vote in 2020 and "Hate Has No Home Here" signs dot the yards of $1.8 million houses.
A coyote spotted by a resident in the Berkeley hills on Aug. 2.(Matthew Greenbaum via Bloomberg)
Residents routinely post photos of coyotes trotting down streets during the day on social media along with reports of cats killed by the animals. That's generated hundreds of comments and petitions to local officials to reduce the animal's numbers. One neighbor called coyotes "a parasite on human beings" on Nextdoor in August, prompting another to respond, "Coyotes have been living and hunting here since before European colonization. Are you actually advocating for a mass extermination of a species?"
Gina Farr is an environmental educator and advisory board member at Project Coyote, a Marin County-based nonprofit that promotes co-existence with carnivores. She says such reactions express both an ancient fear of predators and a misunderstanding of coyote behavior in residential areas. Wildlife experts say coyotes rarely attack people and incidents mostly happen when a coyote has become habituated to humans who feed the animals or give them easy access to food.
"Coyotes are simply being attracted by a resource that takes very few calories to obtain," says Farr, noting that keeping cats inside, dogs on leashes and putting food and water out of reach will minimize negative interaction with coyotes.
Kensington resident Marilyn Stollon says she started a spreadsheet of sightings in three East Bay communities after a coyote jumped a fence and chased her cat through a neighbor's yard. She says she's so far this year recorded 102 coyote sightings and 21 cats killed.
"I do believe that once urban coyotes have been habituated and are rogue….it may signal that those few need to be removed," Stollon said in an email, adding that she now keeps her cat inside.
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Other factors may drive coyote conflicts. Schell says research shows that coyotes favor green spaces most often found in wealthier communities that may regard the incursion of such outsiders as a threat. "The historical and contemporary legacies of inequality shape how we perceive and treat coyotes and how folks view their ownership of the landscape," he says. "That will only get worse as fire and drought get worse."
To Farr, trying to wall off neighborhoods from animals people find problematic is "like digging a hole in the ocean" – there's always another wave of wildlife to take their place.
"We live in a natural world," she says, "and we can never sterilize nature around us."
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Вінсент Буено (;  10 грудня 1985, Відень, Австрія) — австрійський та філіппінський співак. Представник Австрії на конкурсі пісні Євробачення-2021. Спочатку мав представляти Австрію на нині скасованому «Євробаченні-2020», з піснею «Alive» у другому півфіналі конкурсу 14 травня 2020 року.

Біографія
Вінсент Буено народився 10 грудня 1985 року у Відні. Його батьки були вихідцями з Філіппін та належали до народу Ілоки. Його батько колишній вокаліст і провідний гітарист в групі.

У 11-річному віці Буено вмів грати на чотирьох музичних інструментах: піаніно, гітарі, барабанах та бас-гітарі. Він здобув освіту в галузі музики та виконавчих мистецтв у Віденській музичній школі. Також він пройшов спеціальні курси з акторської майстерності, танців і співу. Є композитором R&B музики.

«Musical! Die Show»
Популярність до Вінсента Буено прийшла після перемоги на музичному шоу талантів ""на телеканалі ORF. У фіналі конкурсу він виступив з піснями «Grease Lightning» (з мюзиклу «Бріолін») і «The Music of the Night» (із «Привиду опери»). За результатами глядацького голосування Буено став переможцем конкурсу, набравши 67 % голосів. Отримав 50 тисяч євро і «шанс усього життя».

Кар'єра на Філіппінах
На Філіппінах Буено вперше виступив на телепроєкті «» 29 серпня 2010 року, де він був вперше представлений як «австрійський співак Pinoy Champ». На ASAP провів кілька тижнів. Також він підписав контракт з лейблом «Star Records». 14 вересня 2010 року він відправився до Австрії для вирішення деяких питань, але на початку 2011 року повернувся на Філіппіни, щоб продовжити музичну кар'єру.

28 жовтня 2011 Буено провів свій перший міні-концерт в Сан-Хуані, під назвою «Got Fridays with Vincent Bueno».

Євробачення
12 грудня 2019 року телеканал ORF повідомив, що Вінсент Буено представлятиме Австрію на конкурсі пісні Євробачення-2020 в Роттердамі. На конкурсі він мав виконати пісню «».

Особисте життя
Крім рідної для себе німецької мови, володіє також англійською і тагальскою

Дискографія

Студійні альбоми

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Примітки

Учасники Євробачення 2021
Учасники Євробачення 2020
Представники Австрії на Євробаченні
Австрійські співаки
Співаки та співачки XXI століття
Тенори
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Q: Reflection doesn't work after packing I get this code here on stack overflow. It's a good one but only works in Netbeans. After I generated the .jar file don't work anymore and don't give me error messages.
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 * Scans all classes accessible from the context class loader which belong
 * to the given package and subpackages.
 *
 * @param packageName The base package
 * @return The classes
 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
 * @throws IOException
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public Class[] getClasses(String packageName)
        throws ClassNotFoundException, IOException {
    ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
    assert classLoader != null;
    String path = packageName.replace('.', '/');
    Enumeration<URL> resources = classLoader.getResources(path);
    List<File> dirs = new ArrayList<File>();
    while (resources.hasMoreElements()) {
        URL resource = resources.nextElement();
        dirs.add(new File(resource.getFile()));
    }
    ArrayList<Class> classes = new ArrayList<Class>();
    for (File directory : dirs) {
        classes.addAll(findClasses(directory, packageName));
    }
    return classes.toArray(new Class[classes.size()]);
}

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 * Recursive method used to find all classes in a given directory and
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 *
 * @param directory The base directory
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 * @return The classes
 * @throws ClassNotFoundException
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        return classes;
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            assert !file.getName().contains(".");
            classes.addAll(findClasses(file, packageName + "." + file.getName()));
        } else if (file.getName().endsWith(".class")) {
            classes.add(Class.forName(packageName + '.' + file.getName().substring(0, file.getName().length() - 6)));
        }
    }
    return classes;
}

This piece of code was encapsulated in another project to be used as my JMenu Library. but only works in netbeans. I don't understand why.
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I will try to explain better.
I have a project to work with JMenu that works through reflection to read the classes in the other project. This project will be using as a library to others projects. When it's run on netbeans do well, but when a generate the .jar file doesn't work anymore and I receive no error messages.

A: When all the resources is packed in a jar there are no files anymore.
Instead use this.class.getResource() or this.class.getResourceAsStream()
Or you can use some libraries see Can you find all classes in a package using reflection?


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Staff and patients at the Charles Ward in St Mark's Hospital in Maidenhead will make the move to Prospect Park Hospital on Thursday, January 9.
The mental health unit at the hospital in St Mark's Road will close with patients moving to two specifically designed and refitted wards at the hospital in Reading.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said the new facilities will offer single rooms with en-suite facilities and an improved outdoor space for patients.
It follows a redesign and refit of the hospital's Orchid and Rowan wards.
David Townsend, chief operations officer for the trust, said there will be a 'sensory environment' for dementia patients following a £1m grant from the Department of Health.
He added: "Only a very small proportion of people with mental health problems need a hospital stay. This move will provide those who need hospital care with the very best facilities."
A decision was made to move mental health inpatients to Prospect Park in January last year, despite an Advertiser campaign to save the ward.
Friends, family and interested parties are invited to an open day at Prospect Park on January 6.
Email jade.oconnor@berkshire.nhs.uk to arrange a visit.