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Alumni Update: Homsey wins 197-pound championship at Averett University tournament
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Braden Homsey: Braden Homsey captured the 197-pound championship for Division III Ferrum College during the Averett Cougar Open at the Grant Center in Danville, VA on Saturday. Homsey defeated Jackson Shumate 16-1 in the 2nd round. In the quarterfinals, Homsey grabbed a major decision over Austin Suess of Southwest Virginia 11-2. In the semifinals, Homsey pinned William Headley of Liberty in 2:12. Homsey scored another technical fall in the championship match over William Baldwin of Averett 21-4. In a field of 20 teams, the Panthers finished third with 127 points.
Joey McMullin: The Sandhills Community College men's basketball team defeated Hosanna Bible College 99-76 at The Hangar in Pinehurst last Monday. McMullin, who scored over 1,000 points in his Orange High career, scored a career-high 27 points for the Flyers. He shot 12-of-15 from the field, including two 3-pointers. On Wednesday, the Flyers defeated Guilford Technical Community College 106-99 in Greensboro. McMullin, who started, had 17 points and six rebounds. On Saturday, Wake Technical Community College defeated Sandhills 126-109 in Pinehurst. McMullin, who started and played 16 minutes, scored six points. He also added two rebounds and an assist. The Flyers are 4-2, 0-2 in Region X of the National Junior College Athletic Association. They will play the Methodist University junior varsity squad in Fayetteville on Tuesday.
Connor Crabtree: The Richmond Spiders started its men's basketball season with a a 70-60 victory over North Carolina Central in the Robins Center on Tuesday. Crabtree came off the bench and scored two points, grabbed one rebound and dished out two assists. On Friday, Utah State defeated Richmond 85-74 in the opening game of the Veterans Classic at Alumni Hall in Annapolis, MD. Crabtree had a stickleback basket to put Richmond in the lead 65-63 with 5:38 remaining, but the Aggies went on a 18-3 run to take control of the game. Crabtree scored six points and four rebounds in 14 minutes. Richmond hosts Georgia State on Tuesday night.
Trenton Gill: Former Cedar Ridge All-Conference punter Trenton Gill was named a co-Captain for #21 N.C. State's game against #13 Wake Forest at Truist Field in Winston-Salem. In the highest-scoring game in 115 all-time matchups, the Demon Deacons defeated the Wolfpack 45-42. Gill had six punts for an average of 45 yards. Two punts were downed inside the 20-yard line. His longest was 52 yards, one of two punts over 50-yards. Gill also had seven kickoffs, six of which were touchbacks. The Wolfpack, who are now ranked #25 by the Associated Press, will host Syracuse at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh on Saturday.
Keshawn Thompson: For the fifth time this year, Thompson led the Campbell football team in tackles. Thompson had ten tackles in the Camels' 28-21 loss to Hampton at Barker-Lane Stadium in Buies Creek on Saturday. It was Thompson's senior day. Campbell has lost five in a row and is now 3-7 overall, 2-4 in the Big South Conference. They will wrap up the season at Robert Morris on Saturday.
Adam Chnupa: The Elon football team defeated Towson 37-14 at Johnny Unitas Stadium in Towson, MD on Saturday. It was the Phoenix's fourth road win of the season. Chnupa played special teams and defense for the Phoenix, who improved to 5-5, 4-3 in the Colonial Athletic Association. The Phoenix will wrap up the regular season against #25 Rhode Island at Rhodes Stadium in Elon on Saturday.
Emerson Talley: The Lenoir-Rhyne women's soccer team received an at-large birth for the Division II NCAA Tournament. The Bears, which includes former Cedar Ridge forward Emerson Talley, will face Catawba in the opening round in Salisbury on Saturday at 6PM. Last week, the Bears lost to Queens 1-0 in double overtime in the semifinals of the South Atlantic Conference Tournament in Matthews. The Bears will enter the NCAA Tournament 11-5-2 overall.
Kate Burgess: The UNC rowing team finished its first official race of the season at the Rivanna Romp in Charlottesville, VA on Sunday afternoon. Burgess was aboard the 2V8+ boat, which finished 21st at 15:02.00. In the Varsity Four race, Burgess was aboard the 4V4+, which finished 24th at 17:21.8.
Bailey Lucas: Bailey Lucas' career with the Meredith volleyball team has come to an end. The Avenging Angels were snubbed from the NCAA Division III volleyball tournament despite a 23-8 record and reaching the championship match of the USA South Athletic Conference tournament. This season, Lucas was 2nd on the team with 506 assists. She had 24 aces.


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The Committee recognizes that inflation persistently below its 2 percent objective could pose risks to economic performance, but it anticipates that inflation will move back toward its objective over the medium term.(July 13).
The last is a bit better, but not very convincing. They could have skipped the "could" and not just "anticipate", but that they would take the measures necessary to reach the target.
So how has inflation, both headline and core measures of their preferred inflation indicator, been behaving? Just as 19 months ago they 'anticipated'! Even worse, the PCE inflation measures are not only below target but trending further south!
We spend a lot of time thinking about how to get out of a liquidity trap. Maybe we can think more clearly about that question if we instead ask the exact opposite question.
How can you get an economy into a liquidity trap in such a way that someone else couldn't get it back out of that same liquidity trap just by reversing whatever it is you were doing? Because it's not really a "trap" if someone else can get the economy out of it.
I can only think of one plausible candidate that might work: inflation inertia. If there is inflation inertia, monetary policy still ultimately controls inflation, but the inflation rate has a lot of momentum, so that it's hard to get it to speed up or slow down quickly. If there is sufficient inflation inertia, I might be able to get the Canadian economy stuck in a liquidity trap so badly it would be very hard for anyone else to get it out again.
Empirically the evidence seems to be mixed, at least to my eyes. During relatively normal times there looks like a lot of inflation inertia. It's just too easy to forecast inflation, especially core inflation, from lagged inflation. But in abnormal times, when there is a clear change in monetary regime that changes expectations, inflation seems to change very quickly. We saw that when the Bank of Canada announced the original inflation targeting agreement. We saw it even more clearly in Sargent's "The ends of four big inflations" (pdf). Dragging me out of the Bank of Canada and putting Steve Poloz back in charge would be a very big and obvious change in monetary regime.
Dunno. It might be possible to get an economy irreversibly stuck in a liquidity trap. But it's a lot harder than you might think.
All that reminded me of the grand excuse in Brazil during the 20 years of 'galloping' inflation. It was said that monetary policy couldn´t do much because, you guessed, inflation was inertial! So policymakers tried alternatives: Price guidance, Price controls, Price freezes and culminating in the 'sequester' of people´s financial assets! And inflation kept climbing higher and higher…until one day (literally) it stopped à la Sargent. The equivalent alternatives to supposedly inertial low inflation are QE, forward guidance and the like. But like a sequence of price controls they don´t seem to change expectations.
Just as you cannot get irreversibly stuck in an hyperinflation, you cannot get irreversibly stuck in a liquidity trap. It´s always someone´s (usually the leading policymaker´s) choice.
Yes," if there´s a change in monetary regime that changes expectations, inflation seems to change very quickly". In addition to the examples of Canada, Sargent´s and Brazil, there is the dramatic price reversal in 1933 when the US delinked from gold and monetary policy became credibly expansionary (irrespective of interest rates).
My conclusion is different from Nick´s. It´s just as easy to get the economy stuck (not irreversibly) in high (hyper) inflation mode as it is to get it stuck in a liquidity trap. And it has nothing to do with the level of interest rates (ZLB or IUB (infinite upper bound)). It´s the policymaker´s CHOICE. And in this day and age it´s 'politically correct' to keep inflation 'inertialized' at 2%, come hell or high water!
First there was a "trick" applied for a few months to 'align' relative prices (see here) and the exchange rate anchor introduced on June 30 1994, for some reason, was immediately credible. Credibility over an inflation target also garnered 'instant' credibility in March 99 when the exchange rate anchor was 'pulled out'.
Consumer prices excluding fresh food climbed 0.7 percent from a year earlier, the statistics bureau said today in Tokyo. That exceeded the median estimate of 29 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg for a 0.6 percent gain. Industrial output rose a less-than-forecast 3.2 percent from the previous month.
The BOJ's loosening is "in its early stages, and I hope you will be patient enough to see its effects permeate the economy," he said.
Just hope they become a bit impatient because inflation expectations have been 'dormant'!
Nunes and Cole deserve credit for making monetary policy and history accessible to a larger audience. Popularizing NGDP targeting as a policy rule by presenting it intelligibly and using it as a framework to re-examine accepted macroeconomic orthodoxy is a valuable endeavor. Especially welcome are their arguments against the "Great Recession as market failure" paradigm which is, unfortunately, one of the most prominent explanations (if not the most prominent) among the public and non-economist intellectuals. However, a stronger link between their claims and the logic of individual action could have made their arguments more persuasive, and further distanced their position from the "macro-as-engineering" approach they disdain. Readers of this journal who read Nunes and Cole will come away with a further appreciation of Market Monetarism, but will recognize the political economy issues associated with institutionalizing a sound monetary environment are far more complicated than the authors suggest.
It´s almost as if the Fed doesn´t want others to succeed!
Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney, in his debut speech on Wednesday, announced new measures to boost lending in the U.K. and said the central bank is ready to step in with fresh stimulus if the country's economic recovery falters.
Once again, however, his message seems to have fallen on deaf ears: U.K. government bonds fell and traders stuck to bets that the Bank of England won't be able to keep its pledge to hold interest rates at a historic low until 2016.
Just hope they learn quickly! For now, they´re just trying to mimic Bernanke who is fond of saying "we can do more if needed"!
India and Brazil, among some other countries, are seeing their exchange rates balloon. But why, for example, isn´t Mexico in the same straits? The "taper talk" that began in May had a "tornado effect" in some places, specifically in those countries who´s defenses were "weak", while having only a very minor effect on countries, like Mexico, who were better "dressed up".
One difference that seems to matter is that while Mexico (despite registering the lowest gowth among the three countries) late last year ushered in a reform-minded government, the other two are on the run-up to elections next year. To politicians that means "don´t rock the boat" and if at all possible let´s hand out more "goodies and freebies"!
Steve Sailer pointed out that the view that Economists and Social Scientists are worthless is biased by the non-overlap between questions people are currently interested in and questions social sciences can answer. Example: He defended Milton Friedman by pointing out that Friedman was the loudest critic of Nixon's somewhat widely supported Price Controls. Friedman was right and people forget that the efficacy of Price Controls was once a contentious issue and therefore underappreciate Friedman in particular, economics in general. The issue of Price Controls was RETIRED from general discourse.
Your response to Andolfatto's request for a 'theoretical model'- "it's the NGDP stupid"- reminded me of Sailer's point. If you guys are right about Macro, you guys basically RETIRE the entire field of Macro!
Imagine how useless Econ will seem 40 years from now with NGDPLT adopted, effective, it's wisdom "obvious" to all and it's once-contentiousness forgotten!
Krugman congratulates Economix (The NYT Blog) for being the second most influential in the world (although I believe only English language economics blogs are considered). That´s a cute way of drawing attention to #1.
Looking at the period after 2007, we may see where this unfamiliar consumption-investment dynamic is coming from. Real output has dropped relative to trend by an order of magnitude greater than at any other time and, apparently, refuses to regain its former 'status'.
Wouldn´t that be the natural outcome of a driving process – nominal spending (NGDP) – that remains depressed?
The "theoretical model" that generates this type of consumption investment dynamic goes by the name of "very bad monetary policy" i.e., one that forgets that good results come from securing nominal stability!
"It's fairly obvious that monetary policy does not have instruments to restore ZLB economies to their normal conditions, else much more progress back to normal would have occurred".
Yet that raises a critical question: how can we know this? How can we know that even more intervention would not have generated more progress back to normal? Similarly, how can we know that the path of the recovery doesn't more or less reflect the Fed's preferences? While we should certainly explore many different stories about the recovery, there is a parsimonious explanation for the economy's behaviour sitting right in front of us: that inflation has been relatively stable because the Fed has targeted stable inflation, and the Fed's choice not to raise inflation higher—and thereby reduce the real interest rate further—accounts for continued high unemployment. That should be the null hypothesis, and I'm not sure on what grounds Mr Hall rejects it. We should assume that a central bank with the ability to print money and buy extraordinary quantities of assets and foreign exchange can raise inflation if it wants to.
Instead of the word inflation I would use NGDP, because it´s spending that drives the process, with (some) inflation being a possible outcome. In the 1982-83 recovery phase, for example, inflation came down throughout. Today it would be a good sign if it went up a bit with the rise in spending.
And it´s well known that Ben – "making sure "it" doesn´t happen here" – Bernanke is a 1%-2% inflation guy! And that´s how the system works when everyone´s expectations of inflation is so well aligned, or "anchored". So yes, the path of the recovery (for want of a better description) reflects the Fed´s preference pretty closely.
The chart below illustrates the recovery paths of post war cycles. The longer the time the economy spends in 'coma' the more important are the hysteresis effects…some permanent 'brain damage' is to be expected. But if 1%-2% inflation is maintained that´s all that matters!


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Gravity Falls Season 3 : Cancelled Or Renewed
Leave a Comment / Anime / By James Watson / August 17, 2021 August 17, 2021 / 3 minutes of reading
The latest season of the hit show, Gravity Falls, has been added to Netflix's lineup. The series is a favourite among many people and has gained a large following from all over the world. There are rumours that Gravity Falls will be renewed for another season, but there are also rumours that it won't happen at all. "We have not made any judgments about what our plans are," said Alex Hirsch in an interview with EW on December 2nd. Whether they renew or cancel, this beloved show remains to be seen.
Gravity Falls is a TV serial on Disney Channel. It is about two twins, Dipper and Mabel Pines, who live with their Grunkle Stan in the fictional town of Gravity Falls, Oregon. They start to notice strange things happening in their surroundings – like disappearances of local people or objects – but they have no idea what it could be until a man named "Pendleton Ward" shows up claiming he knows all about this mystery (hinting that he may know more than he lets on).
Gravity Falls is an animated display on Disney. It tells stories about mysteries that are solved. It is the most imaginative cartoon show available on Disney, made by Alex. You can watch episodes online on Hotstar Kids and Netflix.
Four years ago, we saw the last episode of our favourite show, 'Gravity Falls' in February. Fans loved it, so they wanted more episodes.
Ride on! And let us see all information we have about the next season of Gravity Falls.
Gravity Falls Season 3 Release Date: Canceled Or Renewed?
The fans are very thrilled for the next season. They want more entertainment, and they are demanding it.
In February 2016, the Gravity Falls Season 2 last episode was shown on Netflix. After releasing the second season, the producer wanted to stop making more episodes. But fans demanded more, and he said no more episodes for now.
Gravity Falls Season 3 may occur!
It is TRUE! Alex has said that Season 3 is 100% ruled out. But he loved the character of Chuck too much. We can't know if Season 3 will happen, but there are no signs of it yet!
The Gravity Falls Season 3: Cast Detail
A lot of people were complicated in making the cartoon. Their voice is on the show.
Jason Ritter sounds like the famous Dipper Pines.
Mabel Pines is sounded by Kristen Schaal (Bob Burgers)
Grunkle Stan in the sound of Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch sounds the renowned cartoon, Soos Ramirez
Linda Cardellini (Dead to Me) sounds like Wendy Corduroy
This animated series is the best. People know it for its writing, plot, animation, and, best of all, comic voice acting. It is an adventure with a lot of humour. Thanks to the team and to the people who did voicework!
Gravity Falls Season 3: Story
This is an animated cartoon. It is about two cousins, Mabel and Dipper Pines. They are 12-years old. The cousins plan to spend their adventurous summer vacations in the woods of Gravity Falls City.
Soon, the boys went exploring in the forest accidentally found a diary. This helped them learn about their town and enjoy their time there.
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1 Gravity Falls Season 3 Release Date: Canceled Or Renewed?
2 Gravity Falls Season 3 may occur!
3 The Gravity Falls Season 3: Cast Detail
4 Gravity Falls Season 3: Story

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This is one of a series of vitrines Galt made to isolate and celebrate the iconic aspects of various artists. Interestingly this also attacks the way the public will fasten its attention on one attribute of an artist, blithely assuming that that's the whole story. Such attention becomes a dismembering, if you will, of an artist's integrity.


Outlook: Midweek fishing will be key this month, according to the Fishing Calendar app.
The fishing forecast shows the best days for fishing to be Tuesday-Friday each week in June, beginning this week with strong fishing days June 5-7 that peaks Wednesday with a 98 percent fishing efficiency rating. The major bites are predicted to be 6:24-8:24 a.m. and 6:49-8:49 on Wednesday, with minor bites beginning around noon and midnight and continuing overnight through 9:09 a.m. Thursday. The evening bite Thursday is predicted to run from 7:34 to 9:34.
June 12-14 also are predicted to be excellent fishing days, as well, with a 100 percent fishing efficiency rating June 13. The following week isn't great, but the best days again will be during the midweek, and the bite will pick up again big time to end the month with back-to-back days of 100 percent fishing efficiency June 27-28.
Banner Creek, Holton — Good channel catfish bite with specimens up to 12.5 pounds, according to the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism. Fair white bass population in rocks and along dam. Slow walleye bite. Several new artificial habitat structures placed by Leavenworth Elite Bass Club. GPS coordinates available at http://www.ksoutdoors.com/.
Clinton Reservoir, Lawrence — Fair to good walleye and crappie bite. Walleye and sauger up to 3 pounds can be caught bouncing jigs and nightcrawlers off flats, per KDWPT. Crappie sitting in 10-12 feet of water. Channel cats up to 3 pounds lining the shore.
Jeffrey Energy Center Aux. Lake, St. Marys — Excellent smallmouth bass population, good white bass up to 3 pounds with wiper up to 12 pounds being caught with them or by trolling cranks. Lake closed through June 3. Fair walleye fishing at makeup lake.
Milford Reservoir, Junction City — As of Thursday, good fishing for walleye, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, catfish and white bass/wipers. Poor fishing at the outlet. Blues up to 45 pounds, per KDWPT.
Perry Reservoir, Ozawkie — Good channel catfish bite using cut shad. Crappie bite has been solid for weeks. Big blue cats being caught in river channels.
Lake Shawnee, Topeka — Decent smallmouths being caught on rock beds. Good crappie and bluegill populations caught near shoreline.
Shawnee State Fishing Lake, Silver Lake — Bluegill and crappie being caught near rocks on waxworms or nightcrawlers under bobber. Channel cats coming into shallows. Bass should be hiding near structure in shallow water by now.
Tuttle Creek, Manhattan — Good crappie population with fish weighing up to 2 pounds. KDWPT says 2017 year class was largest in 25 years. Many young saugeye right now. Catfish up to 40 pounds possible but many blue cats under 28 inches.


A New Comedy About Harassment at a Debt Collection Agency Asks, Do You Feel Anger?
Some of off-Broadway's funniest comedians star in Mara Nelson-Greenberg's New York debut.
Tiffany Villarin and Megan Hill star in Mara Nelson-Greenberg's Do You Feel Anger?, directed by Margot Bordelon, at Vineyard Theatre.
Apparently, "empathy coach" is a real job. In our absurd age, jittery HR departments can hire a consultant to teach workers how to discern and share human emotions. Perhaps that explains the neo-absurdist tone of Mara Nelson-Greenberg's Do You Feel Anger?, about an empathy coach hired to conduct several sessions with employees at a debt collection agency. Now playing at Vineyard Theatre, this comedy wrings laughter out of a dismal situation — one that, despite Nelson-Greenberg's heightened style, we recognize as our own.
That style mostly consists of having characters say exactly what they mean while maintaining the passive-aggressive tone that is ubiquitous in American offices — leading to hilarious results. "You're going to love it here," Eva (Megan Hill) tells Sofia (Tiffany Villarin) on her first day, cheerily adding, "I know you hear 'debt collection agency,' and you think everyone in this office must be really mean, but you're right. It's a very small, insular community here, and everyone is so outgoing and mean and it's just a really fantastic, really scary work environment."
The head office has contracted Sofia to teach these debt collectors some much-needed empathy. Howie (Justin Long) has resorted to swearing at the debtors and threatening them with violence, while Jordan (Ugo Chukwu) seems incapable of listening to a word that is said to him. Both men brazenly hit on Sofia, but not Eva since she started dating an elderly man named Rafalgore (Tom Aulino) in order to deflect their advances. Jon (a smarmy Greg Keller) manages the office, and he wants Sofia to sign the form saying the office is empathy-certified ASAP. He makes his priorities clear: "Bottom line, over everything else, I really want to pretend that I'm a 'good guy.'"
Ugo Chukwu plays Jordan, Megan Hill plays Eva, and Justin Long plays Howie in Do You Feel Anger?
Predictably, the sessions go poorly, with the men oscillating between hostility and horniness. Eva smiles for dear life, an apology ready at her side like a revolver. Through her dark humor, Nelson-Greenberg offers trenchant observations about the flattening of the male emotional range, a process that begins in childhood and leads to adult men responding to humiliation with violence (since crying is not an option). Do You Feel Anger? exudes skepticism that such emotional mutilation can ever been remedied by a consultant in a metrics-driven business environment.
With their overgrown toddler routines, the male actors give (barely) exaggerated performances of real men throwing temper tantrums. This is especially true of Long's wall-slamming, face-reddening performance as Howie. This play would certainly feel unabashedly misandrist if it weren't for Hill's manic portrayal of Eva, who is just as frighteningly damaged as the men (although one suspects she got that way as a defense mechanism).
Ugo Chukwu and Justin Long star in Do You Feel Anger?
Although Villarin stealthily portrays Sofia as an interdimensional invader from our totally normal universe, we wonder why this arch-empath cannot be bothered to return a phone call from her clearly distraught mother (a heartbreaking Jeanne Sakata). Sofia's eventual betrayal of her principles in the name of pragmatism shows that any one of us can surrender to a rotten status quo. In fact, we mostly do.
Through bold performances and specific design, director Margot Bordelon maintains the comical tone of Nelson-Greenberg's script without sacrificing any of its seriousness. We immediately recognize the location from Laura Jellinek's joyless conference room set. Audience members are likely to spot items from their own office wardrobe in Emilio Sosa's costumes. But from this realistic design springs a fantastic, terrifying world: As we enter the theater, we notice a burgundy cardigan hanging over the back of a chair next to an unclaimed coffee mug. The spot remains unoccupied for the duration of the play, seemingly reserved for the Prophet Elijah. This, we are told, was the seat of Janie, who popped off to the bathroom several days ago and hasn't been seen since.
Tiffany Villarin sits on Laura Jellinek's bathroom set in Do You Feel Anger?
Revealed in a dramatic set change, that restroom opens before us like a temple in turquoise tile. The depiction of the women's restroom as man-free sanctuary is a notable choice as we push toward gender-neutral bathrooms (a common sight off-Broadway). Nelson-Greenberg doesn't explicitly endorse such gender-segregated spaces, but she does show us all the reasons why some women jealously guard them. Do You Feel Anger? is a leading question for women in the workforce. Nelson-Greenberg knows they don't just feel anger, but rage.


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Répartition géographique
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Via MarketWatch: A new survey shows that the employees who don't have the boss breathing over their shoulders are actually the most honest.
Sixty-eight percent of employers surveyed by the Ethisphere Institute said they let their employees telecommute on a regular basis. Of those employers, eleven percent said that work-from-homers had committed an ethics violation within the past two years.
But more than a third (36 percent) said that the non-telecommuters had committed a visible violation, and 43 percent committed non-visible violations (i.e. expense account fraud, or another type of issue that the employer wouldn't have been there to see in the first place).
On the other hand, we posit, the employees who are given permission to work from home may be more ethical to begin with. In other words, the boss would be less likely to let the company slacker than the hardworking employee have telecommuting privileges.
Either way, bosses, you can relax that your telecommuters aren't sitting on the couch watching TV.


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Fairbanks Daily News-Miner goes live with Stratica Advertising & CRM solution
By tom / November 11, 2019 November 16, 2020
Brainworks Software is pleased to announce that the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has gone live with Brainworks new Stratica Advertising and CRM system on November 1st, 2019.
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BURNT ISLAND – A catch of a lake trout recently by Purvis Fishery and what it had already eaten proves that this species of fish will eat anything, says the owner of the business.
"Have I got a story for you," stated George Purvis, of Purvis Fishery this past Sunday. "The other day one of our fishing crews was out in the area (waters) and caught a lake trout. Once the fish was cut open in its belly was a full banana; it was rotten, but it was a full banana. It also had zebra mussels, alewife and a ling in it," he told the Recorder.
The fish was caught in the North Channel by Mr. Purvis's son Drew. Mr. Purvis said, "it just proves that lake trout will eat anything."
Recently the Recorder reported Mr. Purvis in an article as saying that while the proliferation of zebra and quagga mussels into the Great Lakes has adversely affected the commercial fishery, lake trout have become more of a problem in affecting whitefish populations and that they eat everything.
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Alondra: A Triumphant Transition
Denver Kids | December 17, 2018
The transition from middle school to high school often stirs up many emotions for adolescents, ranging from excitement and anticipation to fear and anxiety. For sixteen-year-old Alondra, those feelings lasted well beyond the first few weeks of ninth grade. Now in a giant new school and a sea of strangers, Alondra felt small and alone. Quiet and reserved, she struggled to make friends with other students and often recoiled in her seat when called upon to participate in class. It wasn't long before her grades and attendance started to slip.
Freshman year has long been considered a "make or break" year, as it's essential in deciding whether a student drops out or stays in. Research shows that failing just one course in the ninth grade decreases the likelihood of graduating by 30 percent. But when students are supported, those statistics get shattered.
Fortunately, Karina, a Denver Kids Educational Counselor, was there to support Alondra through this tough passage. Karina helped demystify many of the procedural obstacles—like understanding her daily schedule, school rules, finding her classes, following the bell schedule — Alondra was immediately experiencing. Together, they also worked on establishing positive relationships with her new high school teachers so that Alondra felt more comfortable in class. Karina also helped Alondra become aware of the many extracurricular activities available to her and how to get involved.
As Karina guided Alondra in developing self-confidence and self-advocacy skills, Alondra started to ask for help when she needed it. Gaining these foundational social and emotional skills unlocked a world of new opportunities for Alondra. In time, her grades and outlook began to improve. By tenth grade, Alondra tried out for—and made—the volleyball team, and even joined student council to help improve the overall student experience at North High School. In her own words, Alondra "found her voice."
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Michelle Yeoh Kicks Ass in First WITCHER: BLOOD ORIGIN Trailer
by Amy Ratcliffe
Dec 17 2021 • 8:59 AM
Season two of The Witcher just dropped on Netflix, but we're already getting a look at additional Witcher content. It makes sense. After all, Netflix is rolling out a whole universe centered on the world of The Witcher. The first look at The Witcher: Blood Origin appeared after the season two credits rolled (via Variety). This limited prequel series takes place around 1,200 years before the events of the current series with Geralt. The story focuses on the world of the elves and the origin of the very first Witcher. Watch The Witcher: Blood Origin trailer below:
Sorry Geralt, you're cool and all, but Scían might be cooler? Michelle Yeoh plays the ferocious elf. Specifically, she belongs to a tribe of sword-elves. Yes. Sword-elves. And here, she's on a mission to retrieve an important sword that once belonged to her people. Netflix says about Scían:
Scían is the very last of her nomadic tribe of sword-elves. No one can come close to her artistry with the blade, and no one carries as much loss within their heart. When a chance presents itself to retrieve a stolen sacred sword, taken from her fallen tribe by nefarious means, she launches herself into a deadly quest that will change the outcome of the Continent.
We see her primarily traveling with two other elves, all seemingly on this quest together. And you know what? She kicks ass. They all do. The elves with Scían are Fjall (Laurence O'Fuarain) and Éile (Sophia Brown). Netflix describes the latter as ""a fierce warrior with the voice of a goddess." Fjall, meanwhile, is a man looking for vengeance. Something that always ends well.
The official synopsis for The Witcher: Blood Origin is as follows:
Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the origin of the very first Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal "conjunction of the spheres," when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.
The Witcher: Blood Origin arrives sometime in 2022.
Amy Ratcliffe is the Managing Editor for Nerdist and the author of A Kid's Guide to Fandom, available now. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
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Q: How to resume downloads of large files in ios I am using downloadTask of URLSession to download a large file. The problem i am facing is how to provide pause and resume functionality. I have read that cancelling the downloadTask with resumeData gives back resumeData which can be used next time to resume the download. But for a really large file, this resumeData can be very large (i think. depending on file size and at what stage download is paused it can be very large). How do i persist this large resumeData so that i can use it next time to resume download.
Also there can be multiple downloads at the same time, which increases the same problem more.

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And it might just be the URL of a metadata file on disk that contains the things listed above.  I'm not sure which.
Either way, you will not get a multi-gigabyte resumeData blob.  That would be devastating.  The whole point of a download task is that it downloads to disk, not to memory.

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Study Proves How Little We Know About Wind Power and Eagle Mortality
Golden eagle | Photo: Tambako the Jaguar/Flickr/Creative Commons License
A new study of eagle mortality at a wind facility near Palm Springs may well prove frustrating to both supporters of wind energy and those concerned about the technology's effect on wildlife.
But if you look beneath the surface, the paper underscores a big problem with the issue of win energy and wildlife: we just don't have the data we need to make smart decisions.
The paper by USGS research ecologist Jeffrey Lovich, to be published this month in the journal Western Birds, describes eagle mortalities at the Mesa Wind Project Site, which is part of the larger San Gorgonio Pass wind area near Palm Springs. Wind industry critics won't find a smoking gun in the study, which documents just two eagle mortalities in the last 20 years, the most recent in 1997. And while wind partisans may try to find validation in Lovich's study, that's going to be difficult: Lovich carefully details a number of reasons why eagle deaths may be ongoing but undetected.
The big story here, though, is the existence of the paper itself. Why would a study that details two eagle deaths during the Clinton administration find its way into a peer-reviewed journal in 2015? The surprising answer emerges when you think about the way science is actually done.
Lovich didn't set out to study eagles at the Mesa Wind Project. Instead, he was on site at regular intervals over the last two decades studying the effects of wind development on the Threatened desert tortoise. As Lovich writes:
I did not survey the site systematically for avian mortality; avian observations were incidental to long-term studies of the ecology and behavior of Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii), primarily 1997-2000 and 2009-2014. The research generally involved visiting the site once every 7-10 days from April to July for one or two days. Crews of 1-8 people walked long, meandering transects looking for tortoises to equip with transmitters or radio-tracking tortoises already outfitted for telemetry. Some aspects of the study required daily field work with one or two people. When dead birds were observed, field notes and photographs were taken opportunistically.
"Since research was not focused on birds," Lovich adds, "and bird carcasses were found incidentally, it is likely that avian mortality and injury were underestimated at the site." Lovich notes that scavenging of carcasses is prevalent in the area; a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study of bird mortality at San Gorgonio placed dead chickens at intervals throughout the area to determine local scavengers' efficiency, and found that only one in ten remained after ten days. With that high "scavenger bias," as the biologists call it, the fact that Lovich's crew was on site only every seven to ten days might well have meant missing other dead birds who were removed and eaten before the crews came back. And then there are the eight months of each typical year in which Lovich and colleagues weren't onsite at all.
Still, two eagles doesn't seem like much in 20 years. Their deaths were admittedly horrible: the first mortality Lovich notes, in August 1995, involved an immature golden eagle that was cut in half mid-flight by a turbine blade. The second, a juvenile female injured by a turbine blade impact in April 1997, was euthanized after a few hours of suffering. But then Lovich reports no new eagle mortalities since 1997, 18 years ago this month. He reports sightings of eagles in the area during his later field work, and observed some of those eagles flying through Mesa at altitudes that could expose them to turbine blade strikes.
Lovich also reports that those sightings have declined over the years; it's getting less and less likely that you'll see eagles in the San Gorgonio Pass area. But no bodies.
It won't be surprising if some wind energy advocates point to Lovich's paper as vindication, characterizing his work something along the lines of "peer-reviewed study finds no eagle mortalities since 1997." Of course, that summary omits all the caveats about mortalities Lovich et al might have missed, about the Mesa Wind Project being one development in a sea of larger turbines, about absence of evidence not being evidence of absence, fewer eagles per year and so forth, so wind fans who pride themselves on their science literacy might have second thoughts.
Regardless of how one side or the other in the windmills versus eagles debate spins Lovich's paper, though, the very fact that it was published at all indicates something disquieting about the state of our knowledge of wind power's risks to wildlife. And the reason has to do with the way we do science.
Doing Science Wrong
I don't mean to pick on wind partisans as solely responsible for hypothetical spin of scientific papers. Opponents of wind development are just as liable to take one preliminary study that supports their position and run with it for PR purposes. It may well be part of human nature; it's certainly part of American culture. We Americans like our science simple and conclusive. None of this nuance stuff for us, with mixed percentages of likely outcomes and possible confounding factors and further study needed. We want science to prove or disprove things unambiguously.
That's not easy even when the topic is something seemingly straightforward, like learning whether it's good to eat chicken eggs or bad to drink Scotch. We'd like to have the matter settled once and for all, but science doesn't always work the way we'd like it to. Life is complicated, and the more we learn about a topic the more complicated it can become.
Of those Americans who actually pay attention to scientific literature more than once and twice in their lives, a majority likely don't enjoy the process in and of itself. We want a straightforward answer. In fact, if we were honest with ourselves, we'd admit that we usually want a straightforward answer that supports what we wanted to believe in the first place.
That's why you still see people citing Andrew Wakefield's discredited work on the alleged link between vaccines and autism. Wakefield's paper was retracted by the Lancet and Wakefield and his colleagues were found to have acted unethically during their research. Nonetheless, people find their beliefs about vaccines bolstered by Wakefield's work and still tout it, ignoring several papers published since that refute any link between vaccines and autism.
That's not just a problem with improperly performed research. It's a problem with perfectly good science as well. To take an example that's closer to the topic of wind power and wildlife, consider a 2014 study published in the journal Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science that looked at whether gulls and other sea birds avoid offshore wind turbines off the coast of the British Isles.
That 2014 paper showed that northern gannets seem to give offshore wind installations a wide berth, while a number of gull species show no evidence of either avoiding or being attracted to those installations. The authors couldn't determine whether birds that entered a wind turbine field actually avoided coming close to individual turbines.
It was a bit of interesting science, and potentially useful for guiding placement of offshore wind turbines to avoid interfering with northern gannets' migration patterns. But it was a limited study: it looked only at the gannets and four gull species; it looked only at those birds in a particular part of the world, and offshore; and it didn't draw any conclusions about any species other than northern gannets.
And yet, I've had more than one conversation on social media with people who've pointed to that Scot study to claim that "birds learn to avoid wind turbines," regardless of whether those birds are gannets, eagles, or condors, and even if the topic isn't offshore wind in the U.K. but onshore wind in the California desert.
It's a disturbing habit. We look for papers that seem to be a slam dunk in favor of the viewpoint we want defended, and then we stick to them as proof of that viewpoint, even if they don't actually say that.
And of course, that's not how science really works.
A paper in a peer-reviewed journal can generally be taken seriously, if you read it carefully. But even the best paper describing the most conclusive, well-designed bit of research isn't the end of the story. Science is a rock wall built by increment, each bit of research a new stone in that wall — or a well-placed tap of the mallet knocking out a stone someone else laid.
When it comes to what science knows about how many eagles are being killed by wind turbines in the United States, that wall doesn't have a whole lot of rock in it. A few studies, like this one by Shawn Smallwood et al published in 2010, have focused on the controversial Altamont Pass Wind Area. We reported in October 2013 about a paper by Joel Pagel and several other U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists that compiled third-party reports of eagle mortalities at U.S. wind facilities since 1997.
Pagel and his colleagues collected hard data on actual eagle mortalities at wind facilities. Smallwood and his colleagues surveyed the Altamont Pass area during their studies, documenting mortalities of eagles and other birds first-hand.
And aside from those two papers, and a bit of other work by Smallwood, that's been pretty much it for actual hard data on eagle mortality at wind installations. There are plenty of other papers that have been published on the topic of eagles and wind turbines, but they mainly base their calculations of potential injury and mortality on projections of abundance of eagles and likely dispersal patterns and other such mathematical models. (The NREL study cited above that distributed dead chickens to local scavengers did do first-hand counting of bird carcasses at San Gorgonio Pass, but their surveys took place only every 90 days during their study period.)Lovich's two eagle mortalities in 20 years of observations may not seem like a lot, but they are actual hard data in a field in which hard data is awfully thin on the ground. Lovich says it himself:
Although two eagle deaths may seem insignificant, my incidental observations represent over 2 percent of all Golden Eagle mortalities reported nationally (Altamont Pass excluded) by Pagel et al from 1997 to June 2012.
Look at it this way. Scientists can work for years to get their research published. There are only so many journals, and access to their pages is competitive. Reviewers considering papers for publication in peer-reviewed journals apply a lot of different standards to gauge whether a paper makes the cut, from the research's methodology to general appropriateness for the journal, but one of the biggest criteria used by most reviewers is "conceptual novelty" — in other words, asking whether the work has been done before.
In 1995, when Lovich observed that first eagle mortality at Mesa Wind Project, the United States had fewer than 10,000 megawatts' worth of operating wind turbines. As of the end of 2014, that's up to just under 66,000 megawatts, with more new capacity built in 2012 alone than was operating nationwide in 1995. As a result of that immense buildout, and concerns for the new turbines' effect on eagles, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been crafting rules to allow wind turbine operators to harm eagles accidentally without running afoul of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.
The issue of eagles being harmed by wind turbines in the U.S. is a huge topic, to put it mildly. And yet a paper documenting two eagle mortalities at a wind turbine facility in the last 20 years is "conceptually novel" enough to merit publication in a prestigious wildlife science journal.
Put it this way: The scientific community has more information on deaths among marine mammals, which spend much of their time in places it's hard for us to get to, than it does about injuries and deaths to rather conspicuous birds in industrial facilities. Hell, we have better, more solid data on planets outside our solar system than we do on eagle mortalities at wind energy plants in California.
One could ask the rhetorical question "why is that the case," but it's almost a waste of time: it's because wind energy companies would strongly prefer that data never gets released to the public.
And that's what peer-reviewed journals are, for all their abstruse language and incomprehensible math and absurd paywalls: public information. Once that data gets analyzed and put in context by independent biologists, it becomes available to us all.
Lovich puts it this way:
Minimizing wildlife mortality at wind farms is a major goal of conservation, although research on how best to do that is in short supply. Compiling and publishing accurate data on mortality of Golden Eagles over time is an important first step in efforts to protect these iconic birds.
And doing so in the clear light of day is crucial if we in the public are ever to make scientifically sound decisions about our energy policy, regardless of whether we put windpower or wildlife first.
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Philosophy Professor Pia Antolic-Piper to Lecture at Washington and Lee
By Julie Cline
Pia Antolic-Piper, professor of philosophy at James Madison University, will lecture at Washington and Lee University on Oct. 19 from 5 p.m. in Huntley 327.
Antolic-Piper will speak on "How Practical is Practical Philosophy? Roger Bacon on the Full Task of Moral Philosophy." Her talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by W&L's philosophy department.
"My talk will center on the medieval thinker Roger Bacon," said Antolic-Piper. "It will be mostly an exercise in the history of philosophy insofar as I will retrace Bacon's reflections on what moral philosophy is and what it should be. However, Bacon's arguments are also of enduring relevance in that, in a certain sense, there are universally true insights that can be gleaned from them and that pertain to the potential of moral philosophy to go beyond conceptual analysis and normative arguments and to extend to moral motivation."
Selected publications of Antolic-Piper's include "Beyond Bosnia: Ethical Reasoning in Political Deliberations about Humanitarian Intervention," chapter in "The Role of Intelligence in Ending the War in Bosnia in 1995" (2014); "Roger Bacon," in "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy;" Roger Bacon's "Opus maius. Selections from Moral Philosophy," introduction and translation, Latin to German (2008); "Experience and Demonstration: The Sciences of Nature in the 13th and 14th Centuries," co-edited, (2007).
Her research includes the history of philosophy (with emphasis on medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy and 13th-century metaphysics and ethics), feminist philosophy and aesthetics, aesthetics and ethics, the use of poetry in ethics, philosophy of mind and feminist philosophy.
Antolic-Piper attended Goethe-University in Frankfurt and received an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy.
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Q: When to compile PyQt5 resources and ui files when releasing a PyPI python package? Use Case:

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Wyrdskein
Re: Daily Song: Hooks in You
I don't care if the lyrics are shallow. Maiden have done enough that isn't shallow to make a diversion welcome. The music is fantastic and once again the vocal performance is committed. 9 out of 10.
What is "a worst Maiden song" when it is also your favourite Maiden song?
Oops, I should have noted that I dedicated that post to thousand_suns.
That was a joke, of course.
I give this song 1/10.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
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Wyrdskein said:
If commitment is downing half a bottle of whisky the day before recording, maybe. Bruce sounds awful on this song. No wonder it has seen no live action since the No Prayer tour.
It's a matter of taste. Some people tolerate (or call it: enjoy) certain Maiden songs more than others.
And if people think the vocals fit to the music (just as some people think Blaze might fit to certain Maiden songs) it's going to help a lot.
But of course. I'm just stating my opinion, and that opinion is that Bruce sounds horrible on this song and that it brings an otherwise quite ordinary song down to the bottom shelf of Maiden songs. (I'd give a 7 for the music, but -1 for the lyrics and -1 for the vocals). You, Wyrdskein and others are perfectly free to disagree with me.
I agree with Wyrdskein that sometimes diversion of style is welcome to keep a band interesting, also for themselves. I think this album can be seen as a fresh new start to reload the batteries. Sometimes a change of style is needed to get it started.
Just an explanation of my own opinion, and the previous post was only meant as an attempt to describe the different way people handle these "different" Maiden/vocal styles, not an attack on yours.
Taste helps of course. I feel lucky that I can stand Bruce doing rough vocals in this context.
national acrobat
I can't find much to like in this song, the quirky lyrics aren't to my taste and the music is quite dull. 2/10
Keeping an open eye on the Weeping Angels.
I'm sorry, but this fairly decent album took a serious nose dive with this track. Awful. 1.
After the war?
Eddies Wingman said:
If commitment is downing half a bottle of whisky the day before recording, maybe.
Hey, that's how Lemmy does most of his recordings!
The Mid-Distance Runner
I really enjoy the guitars during the chorus and breakdown of this song. Music always comes before lyrics for me with Maiden so the lyrics don't detract. Daveys double solo is pretty sweet. 7
Jonszat
Pointless, overly simple and awesome.
The song is one of the catchiest things Maiden have ever released, the instrumental is probably technically the highlight of the song but I end up preferring the parts where Bruce sing because it's so catchy. I even actually quite the singing, it compliments the vibe of the song quite well, which is fairly light hearted anyway.
I'm switching between 7 and 8 out of 10. Might go for 7 because I do realise the song is really not very good and I just enjoy it for some reason. 7/10 it is.
I gave 5 before posting, but maybe I should have given 4. Most people have already said the bad things about this song better than I could. I'll just add that the one thing that saves this song from an even lower grade is that the chorus is kind of catchy.
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Yeah, but he's in Motörhead and they play rock'n'roll
Night and day I scan horizon, sea and sky
I don't even know what "Hooks in You" means.
It's something related to fishing ? "fishing" a woman, if related to the lyrics ?
I'm listening to this song live for the very first time. Let's see if it goes better.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9D38V3gyXs
Marillion has also a "hooks in you" song. Didn't know that.
Rotam said:
Fortunately, there's the Commentary.
I gotta admit that the back story is pretty funny, but still, the song has no meaning to me.
2/10 I never listen to this song. I find it an embarrassment to the Maiden catalogue, along with Holy Shit I mean Holy Smoke.
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"Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into"
I think it's a pretty kick ass rocker, but Be Quick is much better. 7/10
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
Ridiculous lyrics, average melodies. One of the worst songs of Maiden catalogue. 5/10.
Weird song; too un-Maidenish, with riffs and Bruce's raspy voice. The solo is good, and the riff that comes late in song digs it up a bit. 6


Though history has relegated her role to that of a bystander, what if Gorgo, Queen of Sparta, had played a central role in the Greek resistance to the Persian invasion?
Xerxes, the Great King of Persia invades Greece in 480 B.C. at the head of a massive army. Three hundred Spartans and King Leonidas die heroically blocking the Persian advance at the pass of Thermopylae. The Persians are poised to conquer all of Greece. The only one standing in their way is a woman – Gorgo, Queen of Sparta.
Though history has relegated her role to that of a bystander, what if she played a central role in the Greek resistance to the Persian invasion. What if she kept her true role a secret in order to play it more effectively? What if she was hiding other secrets too – dark secrets of murder and vengeance? What if the only person who truly appreciated her genius was an enemy prisoner whom she has vowed to kill? What if after their victory, the Greeks started to turn on each other? What if, eventually, Gorgo had to choose between the security of Sparta and safety of her son? And what if the only one who could find a way out is the same prisoner who had once fought against the Spartans?


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This report was many years in the making. My frustration with the absence of Wonder Woman on screen led me to its creation back in 2013. I wanted to chart Wonder Woman's history in all forms of media and prove just how far her influence reached. The report contained a brief summary of her story-line, the history of Wonder Woman's film development up to 2013, the various other mediums in which she has appeared, and a chart outlining the history of superhero stories on screen, as well as the budgets and grosses of these films. This report was over two years in the making, and I chose April 15th, 2013 as the date for its release because it was the same day as the release of Kristy Guevara-Flanagan's documentary Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines on PBS. As this film demonstrated, I was not alone in my frustration for more female role models in the media.
To coincide with the report, I started a petition and a Facebook group demanding Why No Wonder Woman? and did what I could to spread the word and put pressure on Warner Brothers and DC Entertainment to bring my hero to the big screen. In October of 2014, I finally got my wish, as it was announced that Wonder Woman would be hitting cinemas in 2017. I'd like to think that this report had something to do with it.
On June 2nd, 2017, the Amazon princess that I fell in love with as a child will be seen in cinemas across the world, and I can only hope that this is the first of many more films to come. More importantly, I hope Wonder Woman will inspire a new generation of young girls to become wonder women themselves.
Click here to read the report – Why No Wonder Woman?
* This report was pulled from publicly available information gathered on the Internet and Wonder Woman's publications. We did our best to accurately represent facts as they were presented in their original format. We apologize for any unintentional inaccuracies. This was a labor of love and should be read as such.
©	2021 Jacki Zehner | On Women, Money, and Changing the World


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Jeff Foxworthy Added To Laughfest 2020 Line Up [Video]
Jojo Girard
Rick Diamond
One of the greatest storytellers in the comedy world will be the headliner for Laughfest's signature event and dinner Saturday, March 14.
Laughfest 2020 continues to add to its already stellar line up with the announcement Wednesday morning that Jeff Foxworthy will headline the Laughfest Signature Event, a charity dinner and show set for March 14, 2020 at DeVos Performance Hall.
Individual tickets for the show only will be $75 and tables are available for the dinner and show for $3000. Proceeds from Laughfest benefit Gilda's Club Grand Rapids, which benefits families who have been impacted by cancer.
Foxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the U.S. The Grammy Award nominee and best-selling author of more than 26 books, is widely known for his redneck jokes, his act goes well beyond that to explore the humor in everyday family interactions and human nature, a style that has been compared to Mark Twain's.
Gilda's LaughFest, the nation's first-ever community-wide festival of laughter celebrating its 10th year, will be held March 5-15, 2020.
Headliners previously announced, include Maria Bamford, Adam Cayton-Holland – "Happy Place," Ralph Harris, Russell Peters, JP Sears, Miranda Sings and Justin Willman. They will join Jim Gaffigan, who will open LaughFest on March 5. LaughFest officials also announced artists performing during the Best of the Midwest All-Stars Showcase and the Clean Comedy All-Stars Showcase.
LaughFest Packages are now on sale to the general public at laughfestgr.org or by calling 616-735-HAHA (4242). Packages are priced at three levels and will allow individuals to create customized ticket options for shows before individual tickets go on sale.
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Slayer are touring North America this fall with lesser eighties speed metal bands Death Angel and Anthrax. I'm still hoping for a SlayExodus tour where the same lineup plays 75% Slayer and 25% Exodux material. Slayer Fan Club members (Does anyone who doesn't watch the WWF pay to join this?) may preorder tickets now; sales to the general public go on sale Friday.
* Slayer, Anthrax and Death Angel are all on this bill.
Many of those who are involved with music have spoken praise for the 1980s speed metal explosion, which offered a form of music with both intensity and integrity. Until the great wave of commercialization, it simply refused to join the social impulse to all get along and behave like everyone else.
The royal is addicted to the music of bands including Megadeth, Slayer, Metallica and Anthrax, according to actor Dominic West.
Dominic, 44, said it was the only music that Harry, 29, would listen to on their recent Walking With The Wounded expedition to the South Pole.
While none of us want to be stuck in the 1980s, and retro-nostalgia is both embarrassing and makes us hate the future, perhaps it is time for metal to look back at what made speed metal so popular.
First, it did not behave. When the teacher said, "Everyone sit down," it ran around its desk. When the teacher wanted everyone to play nice with each other, it did not. When someone said "Give peace a chance," speed metal gave them the finger. It was disobedient, lawless, wild and uncontrolled.
Second, it had musical integrity. Please just say no to either (a) droning three-chord "trve kvlt" retro-metal and (b) droning three-chord "innovative and open-minded" post-metal. It's musical simplisticism. No one seems against minimalism per se, but when it becomes an excuse to dumb it down, it's time to leave the hall.
Death metal and black metal at least initially carried on these values but over time got closer to the punk rock that had sold-out, standardized itself and caved in before them. When death metal was 300 intricate but occult nihilist riffs per song, it piqued our attention; when it became three riffs in verse-chorus form it made itself into a parody.
Perhaps our new watchword in metal should be to make music that belongs on Prince Harry's iPod. As a cultural barometer, he provides a better sense of how metal is doing than most other sources we could consult.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace nfklib.NMap
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Simple objects helper
    ///  (each method return just a brick number)
    /// </summary>
    public static class SimpleObject
    {
        public static byte Shotgun()
        {
            return 1;
        }

        public static byte GrenadeLauncher()
        {
            return 2;
        }

        public static byte RocketLauncher()
        {
            return 3;
        }

        public static byte Shaft()
        {
            return 4;
        }

        public static byte Railgun()
        {
            return 5;
        }

        public static byte Plasmagun()
        {
            return 6;
        }

        public static byte Bfg()
        {
            return 7;
        }

        public static byte AmmoMachinegun()
        {
            return 8;
        }

        public static byte AmmoShotgun()
        {
            return 9;
        }

        public static byte AmmoGrenadeLauncher()
        {
            return 10;
        }

        public static byte AmmoRocketLauncher()
        {
            return 11;
        }

        public static byte AmmoShaft()
        {
            return 12;
        }

        public static byte AmmoRailgun()
        {
            return 13;
        }

        public static byte AmmoPlasmagun()
        {
            return 14;
        }

        public static byte AmmoBfg()
        {
            return 15;
        }

        public static byte Shard()
        {
            return 16;
        }

        public static byte YellowArmor()
        {
            return 17;
        }

        public static byte RedArmor()
        {
            return 18;
        }

        public static byte Health5()
        {
            return 19;
        }

        public static byte Health25()
        {
            return 20;
        }

        public static byte Health50()
        {
            return 21;
        }

        public static byte MegaHealth()
        {
            return 22;
        }

        public static byte PowerupRegeneration()
        {
            return 23;
        }

        public static byte PowerupBattlesuit()
        {
            return 24;
        }

        public static byte PowerupHaste()
        {
            return 25;
        }

        public static byte PowerupQuaddamage()
        {
            return 26;
        }

        public static byte PowerupFlight()
        {
            return 27;
        }

        public static byte PowerupInvisibility()
        {
            return 28;
        }

        public static byte TrixGrenadeLauncher()
        {
            return 29;
        }

        public static byte TrixRocketLauncher()
        {
            return 30;
        }

        public static byte Lava()
        {
            return 31;
        }

        public static byte Water()
        {
            return 32;
        }

        public static byte Death()
        {
            return 33;
        }

        public static byte Respawn()
        {
            return 34;
        }

        public static byte RedRespawn()
        {
            return 35;
        }

        public static byte BlueRespawn()
        {
            return 36;
        }

        public static byte EmptyBrick()
        {
            return 37;
        }

        public static byte Jumppad()
        {
            return 38;
        }

        public static byte StrongJumppad()
        {
            return 39;
        }

        public static byte RedFlag()
        {
            return 40;
        }

        public static byte BlueFlag()
        {
            return 41;
        }

        public static byte DominationPoint()
        {
            return 42;
        }
    }
}

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While we have taken care to ensure that the content on this website is accurate, any reliance on the information on this website and the online services is entirely at your own risk. Financial advice should be sought from an independent qualified financial advisor.
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) and was established under the National Credit Act, No. 34 of 2005.
The NCR is responsible for the regulation of the South African credit industry and enforcement of the National Credit Act. The NCR also provides education, research and policy development for the credit industry, as well as the registration of credit providers. The NCR also investigates complaints you may have with any credit provider.
Over-indebtedness occurs when individuals are unable to pay all their debts or accounts in a timely manner and become overwhelmed by the extent of the unpaid debt. This often causes panic and increased personal stress levels, possibly resulting in depression.
You borrow money to pay off debts.
You skip payments on certain accounts in order to pay others.
You cannot pay your bills at the end of the month.
You receive letters and summonses from creditors and/or lawyers.
You are thinking of being placed under administration.
You have judgements granted against you.
If you identify with one or more of the above signs, then you may be over-indebted and in need of financial management assistance and/or debt counselling.
How do I avoid becoming over-indebted?
Do not live beyond your means.
Create a spending plan or budget and keep to it.
Reduce spending on 'luxury' or unnecessary items such as alcohol, cigarettes, entertainment, club membership and satellite TV.
If you drive an expensive car, consider down-grading to a less expensive one. This will reduce your monthly installments and enable you to pay off other debts more efficiently. Also consider using public transport as a cheaper way of getting to and from work or cutting out unnecessary trips.
If you are no longer able to afford the house you live in, consider finding accommodation that is more affordable.
Review your insurance policies – you may find that you do not need some of them.
Contact an independent financial advisor to guide you.
You can use the money gained from your adjustments to pay the most expensive loans, such as micro-loans and credit cards; and perhaps consider obtaining a second job to supplement your income, if possible.
I am already over-indebted - What now?
The first step is to approach your credit provider, and negotiate lower instalments. If this fails, contact a registered debt counsellor.
Debt Counseling was introduced with the NCA to provide a process for helping a customer with over indebtedness. Debt counseling provides you with more breathing space to resolve your debt.
How can a debt counsellor help?
Negotiate with credit providers, on your behalf, to lower your installments.
Reduce your debts to manageable levels with the aim of improving your overall financial situation.
Provide you with basic information necessary to resolve your day-to-day credit problems, to avoid being caught in the same debt trap.
Provide you with support and after-care services such as budgeting skills.
Monitor your payments to credit providers.
The Nation Credit Act requires that all debt counselors be registered with the NCR in order for them to assist consumers.
Can I still access credit while under debt counselling?
No. You will be listed as a consumer undergoing debt counseling at the credit bureau, and will not be able to access credit during this period.
I can no longer afford my car/household goods. Can I surrender my possessions to a credit provider?
Yes. The Act allows you to surrender the possessions for which you are no longer able to make payments. Under an 'Installment Agreement' or 'Secured Loan', you have the right to give written notice to the credit provider to terminate the agreement according to required processes. Contact your credit provider to review the options that are available to you.
What should I do if my accounts have already been handed over to debt collectors?
Contact the debt collection company and make arrangements to settle your account rather than hide away. Interest and costs are added to accounts that are handed over to debt collectors. It is therefore a good idea to contact the collection agency as soon as possible before the costs and interest accumulated becomes too high.
What rights do I have before a credit provider repossesses my goods?
You have the right to reinstate the agreement by paying all overdue amounts, including default charges and reasonable costs of enforcing the agreement, before the credit provider cancels the agreement.
When you receive a Section 129 notice letter or any other letter of demand or final notice from your credit provider, do not ignore the letter. Rather act on it as instructed. If you do not understand the letter, seek professional advice and avoid a potentially damaging situation.
How soon can a credit provider take legal action?
The NCA allows a credit provider to begin with legal proceedings as early as 20 days after the consumer has fallen into arrears, provided that the necessary notices are given.
What are the differences between a debt collection agency and an attorney?
A collection agency is a business that pursues payments of debts owed by individuals or businesses. Most collection agencies operate as agents on behalf of creditors and collect debts for a fee or percentage of the total amount owed. An attorney is a person admitted to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and is authorised to perform criminal and civil legal functions on behalf of clients.


Note: This tutorial assumes that you have completed the previous tutorials: URDF tutorials.
Description: Walks through the steps and conventions for creating a Unified Robot Description Format (URDF) for an industrial robot.
The arm path planning methods that are used by ROS-Industrial are collision aware. In order to take advantage of this capability 3D information about the robot geometry is required.
coincident with the joint nearest to the base of the robot. This placement results in a simple joint transform.
if possible, oriented such that when the robot is in the zero position, the X-axis points forward and the Z-axis points up.
NOTE: If using the Solidworks to URDF Exporter plugin for SolidWorks, the coordinate frames and axes of rotation need to be added under the top-level assembly. Tutorials for utilizing the URDF exporter can be found here.
all link coordinate frames should be identically-oriented with the X-axis pointing forward and the Z-axis pointing up.
if using the URDF Plugin for SolidWorks, after completing the URDF Export Configuration (File->Export as URDF), double check that the Origin_global feature that was created by the URDF exporter is oriented correctly (X-axis forward, Z-axis up) . If it is not correctly oriented, manually correct it by editing the feature, then rerun the URDF Configuration tool to regenerate the URDF file.
The URDF allows for two types of 3D models, visual and collision models.
A visual quality model is used for display purposes only. These models can be highly detailed because they are not used for collision checking. Visual models can be exported directly from a CAD package. Make certain to export binary STLs.
Collision quality models should not be highly detailed. The more detailed these models, the longer it takes to perform collision checks. Collision models should be simple, yet encompass the entire link geometry. It is suggested the convex hulls be created from visual STLs, using a 3D mesh tool such as MeshLab (Filters->Remeshing, Simplification and Reconstruction->Convex Hull).
NOTE: This tutorial was prepared with MeshLab v1.3.0. The convex hulls created from the original STL in a program such as MeshLab will occassionally result in the surface normals being incorrectly oriented (pointing into the model rather than out of the model). To correct this in MeshLab, simply invert the surface normals (Filters->Normals, Curvatures and Orientation->Invert Faces Orientation). In case of inconsistent normal orientation (mesh shows transparent areas), use Filters->Normals, Curvatures and Orientation->Re-Orient all faces coherently.
the joint origin is specified by a full transform (see urdf/XML/joint). However, in order to take advantage of some libraries, the joint orientation (roll, pitch, yaw) is limited to a single rotation. That is two of the three orientation angles must remain zero. Because of this, link and/or model transforms may become more complex.
the joint origins should be oriented with the Z-axis up, and the X-axis forward, when the robot is in the zero position. Assuming this convention was followed when making the STL coordinate frames.
The convention for the name of a package containing urdf / xacro files along with launch files to bring up the robot controller is <<yourrobot>>_support.
While it is possible to write an explicit URDF for a particular industrial arm, a more general XACRO approach is taken. A XACRO is a type of URDF macro that can be used to generate a URDF. We take this approach because industrial manipulators are often combined with custom end-effectors, requiring a custom URDF. By writing a XACRO that can generate the manipulator portion of the URDF, we provide flexible and extensible library that can be used to generate any custom robot.
See the m10ia_macro.xacro for an example.
For more information on creating an XACRO, see the XACRO tutorials.
base_link The base_link shall be positioned in the logical base position (oriented by convention, z-axis up, x-axis forward). This frame name is by ROS convention. Typically this frame is the first frame of the robot tied to the first link.
flange The flange shall be the attachment point for an end-effector. As with other robot links it is oriented with the z-axis up (pointing towards the end-effector).
tool0 The tool0 frame (pronounced: 'tool-zero') shall match exactly an all-zeros TCP configuration as defined on the robot controller. For most controllers, this is equal to an unconfigured TCP, which lies on the physical robot's mounting flange.
This transform (between the last robot link and tool0) may be defined in any way (so may consist of all combinations of translations and rotations), as long as it is a fixed joint type in the URDF.
Users are advised to never change flange or tool0, but instead add additional frame(s) as (a) child(ren) of flange.
base The base frame shall match exactly the base defined by the robot controller. Its purpose is to allow users to transform points into the Cartesian base frame of the robot. Examples of base frames are the World Frame on Fanuc controllers and $ROBROOT for KUKA.
The transform between base and base_link can be defined in any way, as long as the transform is fixed between the two (i.e. not across a movable joint). The preference is for base to be defined relative to base_link. It does not have to be part of the main kinematic chain.
In order to generate a URDF for your robot, another XACRO (a "top-level" XACRO) must be written to call the XACRO macro written in the previous section. See m10ia.xacro for an example.
Note that URDFs are not composible - meaning that you cannot (easily) combine them with other models as you can with XACROs. Most tools that consume URDF in ROS are capable of loading XACRO directly, so there is typically no need to manually convert them to URDFs.
Converting like below can be a good check to see whether your XACRO is formatted correctly though, so it could still be useful.
If successful, the commands above will generate a URDF of your industrial manipulator. As an example, see the m10ia.urdf.
This section is meant to demonstrate why a XACRO is used instead of directly writing the URDF. In the case where an end-effector is added to the robot, the XACRO comes in handy.
See the following robot + end-effector example.
Use the GUI sliders to verify the joint orientation (i.e. plus/minus moves the actual robot). Also verify that the joint limits match.


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here are some layouts for eye charts which i created using three different images of a boom box. i have used black ink (only) to create these images they decrease in detail. i have done this by using less layers of ink therefore the last image is more fainter then the first.
I have looked at a wide range of eye charts, it is a nice simple way to show detail and hierarchy of information within your illustrations.


Tucked between the protruding formations of the Salathé Wall and Lurking Fear, Aquarian Wall and Never Never Land offer fun and secluded adventure. Aquarian Wall is known for its excellent location, plush bivy ledge and moderate difficulty. It's about as challenging as The Shield or North America Wall.
Which SuperTopo guidebooks include a topo for Aquarian Wall?


Recorded on August 14, 1990 in a place near New York City, except not as clean (Jersey City, New Jersey). This music was improvised direct to two tracks, with no overdubs. This news excites you greatly.
NOMUZIC: Buchla Electric Music Box Series 200, Korg MS-20, Roland M-100 module, Casio CZ-101, Korg Poly 800, EML ElectroComp 101, slide flute, FX, debilitating illness.


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Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered too.
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Unto a broken heart
What the poem means by her is only for a select few of us to understand complely in its most exteme from and condition…
You cannot imagine the overwhelming and all consuming grief, sadness, lonliness, anger, fear, depression and utter despondency that attaches it's punishing emotional grip while it sentences you to live in the despair of his/her absence and/or in the shadow of another man/woman's sexual pleasures, until you have been personally through this living hell yourself.
What she says about herself…
Just by writing the poem confirms Emily having passed this way before, at least once, or she could not have written this poem in the first place.
Understanding the poem means having lived the poem and only those who can admit to the experience are the only ones that can understand the extreme emotion in its meaning.
Because the answer is the poem itself and only those who have suffered the experience can understand her meaning, it then leaves all of you who have not been there, but think you get it or understand it, living a lie…you do not get it at all.
You will never understand how this kind of boxed up emotion can hurt you physically as well as mentally…this is beyond nausea or butterflies and at the slightest reference weeks later can trigger these intellecturally daunting and physically incapacitating waves of emotion that can drive you to what you are completely convinced of as being a never ending state of dispair and grief.
But that's the last and most important reason why, if you have not experienced this, you cannot understand it.
The truth is that it all goes away over time…well 98% of it…you do begin a new life and you are not destined for despair ad infintum…but you will not believe this for one moment while you are suffering through it…so once again…it's only the been there, done that crew who understand the full 360 degrees of this life adventure.
Do you have any comments, criticism, paraphrasis or analysis of this poem that you feel would assist other visitors in understanding the meaning or the theme of this poem by Emily Dickinson better? If accepted, your analysis will be added to this page of American Poems. Together we can build a wealth of information, but it will take some discipline and determination.
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 1704. Unto a broken heart
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
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