I n this episode, I invited Lesli Richards to join me to talk about the importance and beauty of including Art in your home without losing your mind. Lesli is the homeschooling mother of five and a former Classical Conversations director and tutor. In addition, Lesli is a dear friend and my business partner at The Homegrown Preschooler. Lesli stays busy schooling her blessings and traveling across the country sharing her passion for classical education and life long learning.
Lesli shared three reasons she believes art is a must in every home. She suggests that art be displayed on your walls, your screensavers, and in your books. Lesli and I talk about the importance of process driven art instead of product driven art for young children under the age of six. This process-oriented art develops the structure of a child's brain, releases endorphins, and encourages the child to take risk when creating art. Art for young children should be open ended and parents should not have an expected result (eyes in a certain place, looks like a picture, etc…). Parents should invite children to create with a variety of materials, leaving the results up to the child.
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Lastly, Lesli and I decided to offer two prizes to our listeners. Post your creativity on our FB or Instagram with the hashtag #THGPmomscreate to enter yourself or #THGPkidscreate to enter your children. We will choose a winner in each category two weeks after this episode airs.
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For the second year in a row, Net Impact Undergraduate students took the lead on coordinating the war room during the undergraduate challenge. Dozens of volunteers from the organization and from around the school pitched in to run the simulation last month.
We caught up with the two leads (our "war lords"), Antara Ajjampur and Aaron Ngo, to get the inside scoop on LCC.
How did you end up behind the scenes in the war room this year?
AARON: Each year, a group of Net Impact (NI) students helps with writing the case and putting on the Crisis Challenge. I knew that I wanted to take on a larger role in NI this year, and was considering being a project manager. I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to get more involved in NI and the broader Ross community (and it was)!
ANTARA: I echo everything Aaron said. I had heard a lot about the Crisis Challenge and the people who participated in it said it was a great experience so I knew I wanted to join the team that helps out with the case. They luckily needed new project managers this year and I knew that I wanted to become more involved and take on a bigger role in NI so I applied.
What did you find most interesting or challenging about the Polaris case that was used during this Crisis Challenge?
AARON: For me, it was challenging being an underclassman working on the case. Early in the year, I looked at it and it had a lot of components I wasn't familiar with yet. I didn't really understand the implications of the financial statements or what a subpoena was. Luckily, Antara and the rest of the team helped out and taught me what I needed to know.
ANTARA: The thing I found most interesting about the case was how in-depth but also applicable this case was. It felt very real and I liked that I got to help add extra elements to make the case more interactive. I also loved being able to read the case at the very end and seeing parts that the NI team and I had added make it into the final case.
You both seemed so composed in the war room that night. How did you feel it went?
AARON: To be honest, I didn't really feel composed. There was a lot going on that night so it felt like we always had something to do. I'm happy everything went relatively smoothly too. It definitely went by faster than I thought it would as well. We had the Michigan game on in the background so that was fun too!
ANTARA: I definitely did not feel composed! I was in charge of checking on the first time release and making sure everyone sent in their answers. I thought I would be ready, but it all felt so hectic when the time came. Luckily, we got them all in and everything ended up going so well! I was happy with how well our team worked together and time flew by. We also had fun reading out funny responses and tweets to each other throughout the night.
What was the most memorable interaction you had with a team on Thursday night?
AARON: Towards the end of the night, I walked past a study room where another member of the war room was calling teams, pretending to be Kim (a disgruntled employee at Polaris). You could hear him from the hallway, and the things he was saying were hilarious!
ANTARA: I replied to a couple emails in a sassy manner after the teams didn't do something and it was really fun to see how they reacted! Also, seeing the tweets the teams put out and getting to read the hilarious responses back to them!
What did you think of the activities on Friday at the Big House?
AARON: We were both Room Managers on Friday, basically working to ensure both students and judges knew what was going on and where to go during and after their presentations. I thought the teams did great! Being able to see it all come together and watch the teams compete was definitely a valuable part of the experience for me.
ANTARA: It was really interesting to see how each team approached it differently and to hear the judges feedback. I got to learn what the judges would be expecting in an actual boardroom setting.
How does LCC fit in with Net Impact's mission?
AARON: Net Impact strives to cultivate a community of students interested in how business can play a greater role in the world: mostly through a social impact or sustainability lens. I think LCC is a perfect example of an NI project that engages other students and forces them to think about the impact that a business's actions can have.
LCC takes it a step further and challenges students to figure out how to handle a situation where the impact may not be positive. By helping Sanger put on this event every year, we're providing an opportunity for other students to act as business leaders and think deeply about how a business can affect its broader stakeholders.
How can other students get involved with the Net Impact LCC team?
AARON: They can join NI next semester! (Just kidding, or maybe not). Every year we try to do a good job of recruiting for volunteers for the war room and for a press ambush or protest. These roles really help the case come to life, making it more fun and engaging to students. It's also a pretty fun time, plus you get free dinner.
ANTARA: Come join the NI Crisis Challenge Team! Also, we love having volunteers to help in the war room, press ambush, and room managers. So if any of those seem interesting to you, definitely reach out to us because it is so helpful and helps students truly get the most realistic experience.
What are some tips you have for future student teams participating?
AARON: I thought the best teams were able to communicate with each other during their presentations. Instead of memorizing what they wanted to say and switch off by saying things like "and now [NAME] will tell you about our financial projects" I think teams could be more fluid and speak whenever they feel they had something valuable to add to the conversation.
These cases are naturally made to be ambiguous so I don't think preparing a structured script is the best way to go, rather just knowing your recommendation well enough to be able to answer any questions about it on the spot.
ANTARA: Remember that the board of directors (judges) are on your team. Make sure that you are willing to work with the judges as they give feedback and take what they are saying into account. Also, be sure that you have a reason for everything you decide to say and can back it up. Finally, don't get lost in the little details. It is a long case and focus on the most important parts that the judges will want to learn about.
AARON & ANTARA: We 100% recommend participating in the Crisis Challenge. It is such an amazing, one-of-a-kind experience that you should really take advantage of.
The Leadership Crisis Challenge is held twice per year, once for graduate students and once for undergraduate students. It is open to all current Michigan students; you can express interest in a future challenge to get more information.
Net Impact Undergraduate is a student organization at U-M that empowers a new generation to drive social and environmental change throughout their careers. You can join by visiting their website.


With a lyrical name like Lyman Ditson, one seems almost destined to be a poet. Please Don't Ask, Ditson's eclectic collection of poetry, traverses a variety of genres, subjects, and forms, taking readers on an interesting journey of words.
One of the great things about modern poetry is that it doesn't insist on similarity and consistency as benchmarks of success. A book of poetry today doesn't have to contain only poems that take place in a specific location or only those of a particular metrical pattern. It doesn't have to be love poems or political poems or spiritual poems – it can be all of these and more. Modern poetry thrives on variety and purity of self expression, no matter the form, and Please Don't Ask fits right into this ideal.
Ditson has crafted poems that act as social commentary (i.e. the world of celebrity through the lens of mythological figures in "Mount Olympus"), that rely on humor to convey a message ("Just a Trash Bin"), and that transport readers to another time or place ("The General", "Adobe Land").
Several pieces in the collection are clear standouts. The absolutely beautiful imagery in "Prior to Eternity" will make you feel as though your own memories have been stirred, whether or not you've ever "slept 'neath the stars". "Cricketland" is an example of wordsmithery at its finest, while "Self" reminds you why poetry is considered an art.
While there may be the occasional poem in Please Don't Ask that makes you stop and re-read to make sure you have a real grasp on what it's about, more often than not the thing that will stop you are lines like "gaze across the cosmic sea" and "cast my knowledge into infinity's canyons" because you'll wish you'd written them yourself.
It's sad to say that often books of poetry aren't the most exciting things you'll ever read, but one thing that can help a collection to grab readers is to embrace variety, to focus on expression over homogeneity, and Ditson achieves this in Please Don't Ask.


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The term "Zagat TM Guide" has become ingrained in our culture as a trustworthy source of consumer reviews of a full range of leisure, shopping and entertainment destinations. The folks behind the ubiquitous guides are Tim and Nina Zagat, two lawyers who launched their eponymous restaurant surveys as a hobby in 1979 and now preside over a growing electronic and print publishing empire.
We were grateful when Tim agreed to an interview in which he discussed his prior legal career, his "accidental" transition to entrepreneur, building a business with his wife ("It's been fantastic"), dining with clients, and advice for other lawyers who aspire to start a business ("focus on doing something you truly enjoy").
Read our interview with Tim Zagat below.
JD Bliss (JDB): What events, personal experiences, etc. motivated you to apply to law school and to initially pursue a career as a lawyer?
Zagat: I wanted to have a constructive life that would do maximum good for our country. Politics (and the law) gave me the greatest leverage to do that.
JDB: Prior to launching Zagat Survey, where did you practice law? Did you enjoy it?
Zagat: From 1980 until 1987, during the early years of publishing the restaurant Survey, I was Chief Litigation counsel for Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. From 1976–1982, I was also a partner at Pomerantz Levy Haudek & Block where I was in charge of major litigation under the federal securities and antitrust laws. Prior to that, I was a litigation associate in Hughes Hubbard & Reed's Paris and New York offices. I liked practicing law a lot…most of the time. I found it fascinating to work on such great and diverse projects. New and different things everyday made it very enjoyable.
JDB: At the time when you started practicing law, did you ultimately envision yourself as an entrepreneur and were simply waiting for an opportunity to present itself? Or were you and your wife, Nina, lawyers who became entrepreneurs "accidentally"?
Zagat: Accidentally. This started out as a hobby for Nina and me, something we enjoyed doing for ourselves. Now we have the best of both worlds, enjoying our hobby and being successful doing it.
JDB: The company's website indicates that Zagat Survey was born in 1979 while you and Nina were dining with friends and one of the dinner guests started complaining about the restaurant reviews in the newspaper. You suggested collecting the opinions of the guests around the table as an alternative, and later arranged for each guest to survey their friends. Did your "survey" idea thereafter experience explosive growth? Or did the business grow slowly at the outset?
Zagat: I wouldn't say explosive. It did, however, get popular among our friends and their friends. The first survey was done on a piece of legal sized paper (front and back) and handed out to friends. Eventually we had to start mailing them out to people. The cost of stamps, making photocopies and the time involved made us rethink our desire to keep this up. We certainly didn't want to stop doing what we loved, but we needed to pay for this rapidly more expensive hobby – and at least make it tax deductible. We started printing the books on our own, because no one thought it was a worthy endeavor to support, and then bringing them to bookstores to see if they'd buy them. Some said yes, others offered to as consignment and others flat out refused. Once we started getting orders for more – we knew we were on to something.
JDB: Did your legal training help in the early years of your business? How so? What skills did you lack that you had to learn from scratch as you grew the business?
Zagat: My legal training helped a lot. Practicing law helps you see things for what they are. Even the practical things of being in publishing were helped by our experience working in a firm. We knew, for example, that if you needed a 200-page document copied and bound overnight, you could get it done, regardless of what printers might say.
JDB: What was like it building a business together with your spouse? Did you split responsibilities and avoid encroaching on each other's "territory?" Or did you collaborate closely in all aspects of the business?
Zagat: It's been fantastic. It really is a family business. We did split responsibilities except where it was really important to discuss new territory. We often have very different points of view, but we continue to row in the same direction. To this day, we have our individual roles, but as co-founders of Zagat Survey, we are equally invested in it.
JDB: Now it seems easy to persuade people to complete Zagat surveys – how did you persuade so many people to complete and submit your surveys in the early years of the business? What was the incentive?
Zagat: The incentive was and still is a free book. If you complete the survey, we will send you a copy of the book. By being online – we can reach a much wider and in some respects, broader collection of participating surveyors.
JDB: How has the restaurant business changed since you launched Zagat Survey in 1979?
Zagat: It has been a revolution in every respect. The quality is better, the number of restaurants is greater, and the education/training of the chefs is better because of an increase in culinary schools. The people dining out today are able to demand better food because they are more educated and have a better sense of what is good. The quality of ingredients is better. It's a whole new landscape.
JDB: How has the Internet changed your business? How do you compete against sites that offer free "reviews" from users and rely on advertising for revenue?
Zagat: The Internet has made things much easier for us. We are able to send out, receive and calculate ratings and reviews much more efficiently – allowing us to grow our business into new areas. Our Zagat.com website offers plenty of free information though our subscribers get added benefits. What makes Zagat Survey ratings and reviews stand apart from others is that it is a collaborative result. No other website offers condensed and accurate reviews of more than 250,000 individuals (Ed. note: there's a great case study on MarketingSherpa of how Zagat.com uses free content on its site to convert casual users into paid subscribers).
JDB: Any advice for lawyers on choosing a restaurant to dine at with a favored client?
Zagat: Go to a place where your main competitors are not likely to stop by your table, i.e., have enough privacy to talk business without having someone else close your deal before you do. If the client is looking for a good time with no business involved, see the Zagat Survey's index "Visitors on an Expense Account" in the back of the book.
JDB: Given what we assume was, and probably still is, a busy schedule for you and Nina as managers of a rapidly growing business, what steps have you and Nina taken over the years to balance work with family and personal interests?
Zagat: To start with, our business involves principally things that are a great deal of fun: restaurants, travel, nightlife (eat, sleep, stay & play). That being the case, it is hard at times to tell when we are working and when we are simply having fun. Since our two sons enjoy the business and at times worked for the business, they share in this phenomenon.
JDB: What advice would you give to lawyers who aspire to become entrepreneurs?
Zagat: Keep your daytime job until you are making more money at your new business. You may end up working extra hard but its nice to have a regular paycheck until your business takes off. Also, a few years of experience as a lawyer will certainly prepare a would-be entrepreneur for the business problems that will inevitably arise.
JDB: What advice would you give to lawyers who are unhappy with their current career path and are considering alternatives – whether in law or outside of law?
Zagat: Anyone who is intelligent enough and has worked hard enough to become a lawyer can become a success in a myriad of fields. The thing is to focus on doing something you truly enjoy. If you love what you are doing, it won't seem like work even when you are up all night; you are likely to work harder at it and your enjoyment will manifest itself in positive interactions with other people. And for all of the above reasons – you will likely be more successful. At the very least it is a wonderful feeling to wake up and look forward to your day.


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Book Reviews, Southeast Asia
SVAY: A Khmer Village in Cambodia | By May Mayko Ebihara; edited by Andrew Mertha, with an introduction by Judy Ledgerwood
Ithaca; London: Southeast Asia Program Publications [an imprint of Cornell University Press], 2018. xxxi, 331 pp. (Illustrations.) US$35.95, paper. ISBN 978-1-5017-1512-9.
Scholars working on Southeast Asia, and Cambodia in particular, have for decades relied upon Mayko Ebihira's beautifully written dissertation for insights into the life, culture, and politics of Cambodia immediately prior to the Khmer Rouge. Although Svay is an ethnographic piece about one particular village in Kandal Province near Phnom Penh between 1959 and 1960, insights from the intensive research program have informed the social sciences more broadly. Political scientists have turned to chapter 7 of the monograph, on political organization, to understand the state-society relations that precipitated the Khmer Rouge. Chapter 4 has been a goldmine for economists attempting to understand the peri-urban supply chains and organization of the economy that undergirded agriculture, aquaculture, and local crafts. Personally, my own work on Cambodia has been enriched by Ebihara's keen eye and fulsome descriptions. I am managing two field experiments in Cambodia right now on civil society resilience and local government accountability for waste management, and have been surprised how much our theories of change for both of these efforts have been informed by discoveries about village governance that were first pointed out in Svay.
Despite its importance, however, the monograph has never been widely accessible. Scholars passed around ancient, dog-eared photocopies or spent hours clumsily looking at an ugly, microfiche file. In this elegantly edited book, Andrew Mertha has painstakingly reprinted the original manuscript for future students of Cambodia. Readers can now more easily locate critical observations through a thorough, updated index, and excerpts can now be more easily pulled out for use in the classroom. In preparing for this review, I saw how easily snippets could be drawn from the book that would enlighten my class on the political economy of Southeast Asia, in regard to interactions between economic actors in agriculture, religious and cultural life, and family ties. Even the chapter "Cambodia as a Whole" is a time capsule into how scholars understood the country prior to its devastating civil wars and authoritarian consolidation.
Svay comes complete with an elegantly written and erudite introduction from Judy Ledgerwood, Ebihara's protégé and co-author, who is now a distinguished cultural anthropologist at Northern Illinois University. The introduction is a critical stand-alone piece in its own right that will undoubtedly find its way into graduate syllabi, because it connects the threads of Svay to academic debates over Cambodia today. I was especially struck by her probing of how Ebihara's documentation of declines in religiosity and even growing distrust of religious actors, economic hardship and rising inequality, and growing distrust of outsiders were cited by scholars like Michael Vickery (1984) as antecedents to the rise of the Khmer Rouge.
The declining trust of outsiders is fascinating for another reason. According to the Asian Barometer, Cambodia has among the lowest levels of social trust in the Southeast Asian region (Henke and Hean, 2004), which has critical political and economic implications. Most importantly, low social trust can inhibit economic growth because it is difficult for economic actors to do business with others out of tightly defined social networks, limiting business expansion and development of capital markets. Cambodia's lack of social trust has often been attributed to the hardships and dislocations suffered under Pol Pot, but Ebihara shows, at least in the outskirts of Phnom Penh, that a lack of trust predated Pol Pot. Ledgerwood's introduction also does a nice job of grappling with the debate over whether the lessons of Svay generalize well to more rural villages and urban wards.
After Ledgerwood's introduction, the book is divided into the nine original chapters of Ebihara's dissertation. The introduction provides her methodology and case selection approach, which I found enlightening as a social scientist unfamiliar with ethnographic research from that era. Chapter 2 puts Svay into the political and social context of Cambodia at that point in time. Chapter 3 relates the social hierarchy of the village of Svay. Chapter 4 documents the source of income, occupational choices, and interplay between economic actors in the village. Chapter 5 looks at religious commitments and their organization and their influence on cultural life. Chapter 6 on the "Life Cycle" studies cultural rituals and decision making from pregnancy and birth to death and beliefs about afterlife. Chapter 7 provides an account of how the village institutions operated, how decisions were made, and how villagers interacted and responded to local-level decision makers. Finally, chapter 8 discusses social and village relations between Svay and the capital city, in particular, as well between Svay and other provinces and regions in the rest of Cambodia.
I am a political economist by training, so it should come as no surprise that I was drawn to the political and economic discussions. What was a surprise to me, however, was that the most valuable political analyses occurred in chapter 3, on setting and social structure. Over the past two decades, political economy has been fascinated with the advantages and disadvantages of decentralizing administrative and economic decision making to local levels, and the influence of these choices on local-central relations. When decentralization includes very low levels of authority, such as the village or commune, these debates tend to hinge on how villages make redistributive allocations and how much voice villagers have in the decisions. Surprisingly, however, we often know very little about this decision-making process. While Ebihara uses chapter 7 to place the village administration within the hierarchical political architecture of Cambodia, it is in chapter 3, when she introduces Grandfather Kompha, that we learn how things actually get done.
Grandfather Kompha is not an official state actor in any way, yet he is respected as the leader of the hamlet and holds tremendous informal legitimacy. As one villager put it, "If Kompha tells you to do something, you do it" (88). No village administrative or regulatory decision was taken without his consent, he supervised local collective activities, such as festivals, and was appealed to for dispute resolution between citizens and economic actors. His power therefore exceeded the formal decision-making apparatus as well as that of Grandfather Map, the wealthiest member of the village, and Phana, the local militia chief. The discussion of informal authority remains important for understanding variation in the implementation of central policies in Cambodia today, and for understanding how this form of dispute resolution has served as an imperfect substitute for contracting institutions in enabling local economic development.
This is just one illustration of why Svay remains a canonical contribution to Cambodian studies, and why this lovingly prepared restoration belongs on every Southeast Asian scholar's bookshelf.
Edmund J. Malesky
Duke University, Durham

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Elex 2 is the second installment of a series of role-playing games, which is supervised by the German studio Piranha Bytes. The band has on its account both the first three installments of the cult gothic cycle, as well as the slightly cooler accepted trilogy risen.
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'To study the Way of Buddha is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things. To be enlightened by all things is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as all others. All traces of enlightenment disappear and this traceless enlightenment continues on and on endlessly.' In this teaching of Eihei Dogen Zenji, everything is thoroughly stated about the nature of human life and the world.
Practice (studying the Way of Buddha) is to ascertain the essence of things (Self). This is to realise that there is no separation between self and things (forgetting) and that everything is part of one's body (enlightened by all things). Seikyo Zenji said, 'Sentient beings are deluded by the self and chase after things.' However, when there is the realisation that there is nothing to compare outside of one's functioning right now (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, thinking), seeking mind ceases, great loving mind flows forth, and the true nature of the Self is manifested. Seeing that self and other are the same body is expressed in Zen as 'Self and other are not two' and the condition where self and all things are one is called 'the Dharma (causality)'. However, this is a realm that does not permit the intervention of any viewpoint arising from the ego-self.
The habit (viewpoint arising from the ego-self) of dividing the essential nature of oneness into self and other, life and death, pain and pleasure, rising and falling, and so on, is the source of all delusion and anxiety. However, when the source of this delusion disappears completely, this condition is called liberation. It is also called 'essentially there is no substance to anything', 'nirvana', and 'the moment now'.
Shikantaza (just sitting) is the quickest way to forget the ego-self and verify this matter for yourself. When the self is forgotten, then the joyous activity that is free of the ego-self is born (all traces of enlightenment disappear) and verifies yourself at every moment, in every place, in any situation (continues on and on endlessly).
It is from this that the Buddhist precepts originate. It is the only way that mankind can make great progress, reach great peace. Long ago a Chinese poet called Tufu wrote 'These days, people reject this Way (of Buddha) as if it were dirt.(1)' If there is no awakening to the Way of Buddha, won't human beings continue to wander endlessly in this chaotic world?
Turning the hand up, clouds form; turning the hand down, rain falls.
Many are the fickle and insincere who turn their hands this way or that.
Don't you remember the devoted friendship of Kan and Po when they were poor?
These days, people reject this Way as if it were dirt.


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A random message from someone who was listening to my music in a bad time in life and it helped them get through ! Its nice to see people use music the same way as myself.
The passing of Robert Miles was a sad day ... I will always remember listening to children as a young child when I was in the car as it got national radio coverage.
Josh Bailey: Future releases - Plutonium on AVA Recordings.
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Many thanks to Omair Mirza at OHM Music for organising this interview.


Within this section, we provide a documentation of all patterns and the according CML language features.
On the Language Semantics page you find a diagram illustrating the domain model on which the CML language is based. It helps to understand the structure of the language and semantics. The page further describes all implemented semantic rules in a textual form.
The following strategic DDD patterns are supported by CML. For detailed descriptions of the patterns itself we refer to Evan's book and his DDD reference.
The tactic DDD part of the CML language, meaning all rules inside aggregates, are based on the Sculptor DSL. Thus, we refer to their documentation for details regarding the tactic DDD patterns.
Note: The aggregate pattern implementation has been changed and no longer corresponds to Sculptors implementation. Therefore it is documented here.


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Q: get values from select query and put them into variables I'm a beginner in php and mysql, I just want to know how can I put values that I got from a select query into variables.
For example I used this mysql query :
$req="SELECT type, titre, auteur, abstract, keywords FROM manusrit WHERE file='$name';";
$req1=mysql_query($req);

I want to put the value of the column type in $type variable and the value of auteur in a variable called $auteur and the same for abstract, and keywords.
How can I do this?

A: FIRST of all use PDO instead of  mysqli.
Example :
$link = mysql_pconnect($hostname, $username, $password) or die('Could not connect');
    //echo 'Connected successfully';
    mysql_select_db($dbname, $link);
    $name = $_POST['Name'];
    $query ="SELECT type, titre, auteur, abstract, keywords FROM manusrit WHERE file='$name';";
    mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'", $link);
    $result = mysql_query($query, $link);

    //Now You FETCH result and read one by one
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {

        //Access COLMN like this
        print $row['abstract'];
        print $row['keywords'];
    }

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Researchers show gender norms that favor women reverse gender disparities in health
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences points to gender norms as a primary cause of health disparities between men and women.
Sandia, UNM sign agreement for nuclear security education, research collaboration
Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico have signed a memorandum of understanding to offer a collaborative program in nuclear security at UNM.
Anthropology professor to discuss Chaco jewelry finds; Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Fall lecture set for Nov. 18
The Jewelry of Pueblo Bonito: Insights into the Production, Use, and Meaning of Personal Ornaments at Chaco Canyon will be presented by assistant professor of Anthropology Hannah Mattson via Zoom, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Registration required.
UNM women in STEM launch child language acquisition lab
Women in STEM researchers from UNM's Linguistics department have recently created the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab (LLA LLA), a new research lab focused on child minority language acquisition.
Yes, social justice and discrimination were driving issues for Latino voters in 2020
Although the coronavirus was the top issue on the minds of voters this cycle, Latino voters, particularly young Latino voters, were energized by demands for social justice and discrimination directed at their community.
UNM researchers receive NSF National Robotics Initiative grant to develop swarms of drones for volcano research
Now, with the help of a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), an interdisciplinary team from The UNM Departments of Computer Science (CS), Earth and Planetary Sciences (E&PS), and Electric and Computer Engineering (ECE) received the research grant from NSF's National Robotics Initiative to develop novel bio-inspired software and drones to measure and sample volcanic gases.


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CV boys extend their unbeaten streak to 13 games
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Central Valley High School's undefeated varsity boys soccer team continued its dominance this past week.
The Hawks improved to 12-0-1 overall and remained in second place in the Western Athletic Conference (4-0-1) after posting back-to-back shutouts. Defending WAC champion Central Valley lost in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV finals in 2010 and 2009.
"The only way to improve on what we've done the last couple of years is to win it all," Hawks head coach Omar Leon said. "Otherwise, it's just going to be another good season."
Central Valley posted a 6-0 win over host Los Banos on Wednesday.
Daniel Ochoa tallied three goals and one assist.
Jonathan Ramos collected one goal and one assist.
Adriel Castellanos and Juan Castellanos both scored once.
Andres Cazares made five saves.
Los Banos goalkeeper Andrew Bernal had a busy day while playing goalie for winless Los Banos (0-5-1, 0-4-0). He totaled 15 saves.
"We dominated the game," Leon said. "We created a lot of scoring opportunities."
Host Central Catholic challenged Central Valley for a half before suffering a 4-0 loss on Monday, Sept. 26.
The Hawks and Raiders (2-3-0) battled to a scoreless tie in the opening 40 minutes.
"I was concerned," Leon said. "I have a lot of respect for that team. They were competitive throughout the whole game. They didn't quit."
Ochoa scored twice.
Omar Orozco contributed one goal and one assist.
Benjamin Magana had one goal.
Ozzie Ramos and Diego Duran chipped in with one assist apiece.
Cazares had three saves, 15 less than Central Catholic goalkeeper Bryan Conor.
The Hawks have risen to No. 7 in the state MaxPreps Freeman Rankings thanks to their talent and depth.
"We need to take every game seriously, regardless of who we're playing," Leon said.
Just two points separated the Hawks and first-place Ceres High Bulldogs in the WAC standings as of Sunday.


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For some of you tech aficionados out there, this may be old news. However, for others, sometimes the simplest posts are the sweetest. The iPad keyboard doesn't have a print screen button like a normal Windows keyboard, however Apple has a history of having Windows-like features, but accessing them in a different way.
Get your screen ready for capture.
Press and hold the Home button, then press the Power button.
Release both buttons at the same time. That's it!
You will then see a momentary white screen and hear a "camera click" sound, this identifies that your screen capture was successful. Your screen image will be saved in your Photo application and is immediately accessible.
This feature is also accessible on the iPad Mini, iPod Touch, and iPhone. Enjoy!


No luck for the Cheetah, but we found this little guy, a Hyena baby.
Yeah! Coming out of water, our another mission was completed.
It is rare to see Hippopotamus comes out of the water because they spend most of the day time in water.
Again, I regret not having a better camera and lens.


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Ten People Who Should Not be in Baseball's Hall of Fame
Not everyone who's in baseball's Hall of Fame deserves to be there. Here's the 10 most egregious examples.
One of the more discussed and argued topics in the game of baseball is who should be in the Hall of Fame—and who shouldn't. Everyone has their own opinion, their own idea of a threshold to determine who belongs. The truth is, nobody's wrong and everyone's right.
Our particular threshold is high. Cooperstown, in our minds, is a place for the immortals, the greats, not the very goods. And that's the problem we have with the Hall of Fame. There are too many "very good" players enshrined. Reggie Jackson said it best not so long ago when he believed that there should be a Hall of Fame for the real Hall of Famers.
So what follows is a list of the players who we never would have considered for the Hall—had we'd been given a vote—but there they are anyway. It's important to note a few things: One, this isn't a criticism of these guys—they were all terrific ballplayers—but the system that let them in. Two, we are not holier than thou, and neither is anyone else—so this is not to say we're right and you're wrong. It's just opinion. See if you agree.
Jim Bunning
We're still perplexed by the fascination people have for a pitcher who only once won 20 games and finished with a 54% rate of winning. (For goodness' sake, Bunning even edged out Pete Alexander, who three times won 30 for the Phillies, on the list of nominees for the team's Fantastic Four in 2015.) Yes, Bunning will always have that perfect game from 1964 and he consistently produced one solid ERA after another, but there's a reason his name isn't front and center in the minds of fans and historians conjuring up the great pitchers of the 1960s—you know, the ones that do belong in Cooperstown.
Bert Blyleven
A similar case to Bunning, Blyleven gathered up a lot of wins, a lot of losses and a whole lot of innings over 22 seasons. But what did he really do? He never won a Cy Young Award, never once led the league in wins, or ERA, and only once led in strikeouts (that came in 1985 when, somehow, nobody else punched out more than Blyleven's 206). Finally, he only got named to two All-Star teams. Now think about that; an all-time "great" appearing just twice out of 22 seasons in the Midsummer Classic? Yes, Blyleven has two rings to vouch for, but people don't recall the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1987 Minnesota Twins winning it all because of him. He was an ace to be sure, but his enshrinement in Cooperstown is an achievement in quantity, not quality.
Bruce Sutter
Okay, so Sutter led his league in saves five times. We get that. But so did Dan Quisenberry, who was every bit as good, if not better, in his equally short heyday. So how is it that Sutter got a pass to Cooperstown while Quiz fetched only 3.8% of the vote in his one and only year of eligibility? This is not a plea to right the wrong and put Quisenberry in; the truth is, neither belong. Sutter had a nice run, but more recent closers like Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman had far longer runs and were consistently A-list through it all. They're the ones who deserve the plaque.
Tony Lazzeri
Location, location, location. It never hurts to play the bulk of your career for a big-market, championship-caliber team as Lazzeri did for 12 years with the hallowed New York Yankees. Lazzeri did put up strong numbers during his time—hitting .293 while knocking in 100 runs seven times—but his glory by association, playing alongside the likes of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, got him in the Hall whereas he might have gone anonymous toiling for a second division team, kind of like Bob Johnson for the A's. In a career that slightly overlapped Lazzeri's, Johnson knocked in more runs, hit for a higher average and belted at least 20 homers nine times (Lazzeri's career high was 18). But Johnson played during losing times in Philadelphia and, sure enough, he was virtually forgotten by Hall of Fame voters.
Rube Marquard
The southpaw pitcher came to New York shouldering the weight of major promise and expectations when the Giants signed him for a then-record $11,000. And he fulfilled those expectations—for about three years. Outside of that and a brief renaissance with Brooklyn in the late 1910s, Marquard had an average career at best, one that was tripped up after struggling to overcome a 21-inning effort midway in 1914 (the same game that also temporarily derailed the career of the Pirates' Babe Adams). If Marquard had maintained his early, brief greatness, he would be more deserving of the Hall. Instead, he was a below-.500 pitcher (119-131) after 1913.
Joe Gordon
Another very good—but not great—player who was able to sing "Thank God I was a New York Yankee" all the way to Cooperstown. Granted, Gordon missed two years to military service (1944-45) but even without the interruption, he still ends up with something around 1,800 career hits and over 300 home runs—again, very nice numbers, but also the kind that will produce yawns from the plaques of more deserving Hall entrants.
Rick Ferrell
It's quite possible that Hall-of-Fame voters gave their nod to the catcher of 18 seasons for his durability and ability to maintain his sanity toward the end of his career when he had to catch a Washington Senators rotation that included as many as four knuckleball pitchers. It's acknowledged that catchers have a special place in the hearts of Hall electors, yet it's surprising that so many of them felt the love for this guy. And how can you belong when even your brother (Wes Ferrell), a pitcher no less, hits more major league homers than you? (Wes also won 20 games six times, so maybe he's the one that belongs in Cooperstown…but then his career ERA was 4.04, so maybe he doesn't.)
Bill Mazeroski
Terrific fielder. Okay hitter. One historic moment with the bat. And it's because of that latter achievement that "Maz" is in Cooperstown. The sure-handed second baseman won eight Gold Gloves but will always be known for one thing and one thing only: Hitting the World Series-winning home run for the Pirates against the almighty Yankees in 1960. Mazeroski otherwise lacked the sparkle on offense, hitting .260 with 138 home runs over 17 seasons. He's remembered and beloved, but he shouldn't be enshrined; it's because of his inclusion in 2001 that the Hall decided to rethink the Veterans Committee voting process and made it tougher for anyone to get in.
Bobby Wallace
The Pittsburgh native seemed to play forever at shortstop—it actually was more like 25 years, only 15 of which were full-time—but we scratch our heads as to what convinced voters to include him in Cooperstown. Even the writers of a very good coffee table book from the TGG library on Hall-of-Fame players, whose job was to glorify the accomplishments of each of the enshrined, waxed puzzlement over how Wallace made the cut. For the record, he hit .268 with very little power (even for the Deadball Era), but never mind all of that—Wallace' claim to the Hall supposedly comes via his glovework, but even there we don't see dominance in the numbers. Like beauty, stats are only skin-deep, so maybe there's something underneath that clicked with voters. Somebody please tell us—and a whole lot of other people—what we're missing.
Frankie Frisch's Friends
Freddie Lindstrom. Chick Hafey. Jesse Haines. George Kelly. Travis Jackson. Dave Bancroft. What do these six guys have in common? For one, they were very good players—but not great. More importantly, they were teammates at some point in their careers with Frankie Frisch, himself a more deserving Hall of Famer who, in 1967, took over the chairmanship of the Veterans Committee. Over the next six years, he engaged in Cooperstown cronyism at its most naked by making sure his old pals got to share the Hall with him. And so we now have plaques for these six guys, five of them hitters who averaged close to or over .300 in their careers—and while that sounds impressive, remember that they all played in the 1920s and 1930s when hitting .300 wasn't all that difficult. And as for Jesse Haines, the one pitcher in the group? A 210-158 record is nice, but it's hardly divine. With friends like Frankie, who needs lobbyists?


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