I've been sitting in a local coffee shop most of the afternoon, and they offer free refills when you buy a cup of coffee. I don't drink it everyday, but I'm quite sure that the four cups I've consumed this afternoon is enough for the week.
There seems to be an ongoing debate as to whether or not coffee is bad for you, and I'd like to hear your thoughts on it.
Do you drink coffee? If so, how much do you drink per day?
I think like anything else, coffee is fine in moderation. But, when I have a bunch on a empty stomach it really screws with my digestive system so I try to only have a cup or two a day and always with a snack or with/right after a meal.
I rarely drink coffee, and if I do, it is decaf. Then again, I don't drink anything with caffeine either. If I do drink decaf coffee, instead of milk or cream, I may add some Boost to it.
Whenever I have had coffee, I usually get a wicked headache the next day.
Coffee is the only thing that I drink that has caffeine in it, and I don't drink it everyday. I wouldn't drink it either if I got a headache. Yikes!
I don't drink coffee, but the macarons sound good!
Oh gosh…the pumpkin spice lattes are the reason I like coffee at all now, but they're loaded with calories so I'll have to say no to that craving most of the time.
If I remember correctly you can get a pumpkin spice latte in the skinny version for less than 200 calories!!!
I don't drink coffee at all. I've never liked the taste of it. I drink 1 or 2 ice teas a day for my caffeine.
I hadn't considered iced tea, but I like it too. Great idea!
I drink it daily. It used to be about 3 cups per day, but I realized it aggravated my anxiety. So I switched to decaf or half-caff, and about 1-2 a day. I do love me some coffee.
Right now I add cream to mine, and sometimes coconut oil, too. Usually I'd always drink it black, but since switching to a lower carb/higher fat way of eating, I enjoy the cream.
I don't understand the coconut oil part, but that's interesting to hear.
I love coffee and drink it every day. About 3 cups. Caffeine is a good appetite suppressant. Of course, as with everything, moderation is always best.
I have one 18-ish oz. cup of coffee every morning, with sugar-free Italian Sweet Creme creamer and Splenda.
It wasn't until a year or two ago that I started drinking coffee and now I drink way too much. In fact, I noticed that now that I only drink 1 maybe 2 soft drinks a day I am drinking even more coffee.
And I drink it with skim milk and splenda or cream and splenda which makes it even less healthy. It's something I realized the last few days and am working on cutting back on too.
Samantha– nobody gained weight drinking coffee (even with 'cream'). As long as you don't overdo it–get the shakes, trouble sleeping– coffee is a guilt-free pleasure. Real coffee with skim milk and splenda has about 40 calories, but gives you about 80 calories worth of appetite suppression. Enjoy.
YES! Kenlie is right– water is the #1 key to weight-loss success. I'm jealous of people who love to drink water, I have to force myself.
I put in chocolate almond milk-i used to use regular chocolate milk but found the chocolate almond milk gives it such great flavor, and its healthier too.
Never liked the taste of coffee – I'm a tea girl! I have one tea a day in the morning with milk only.
I prefer iced coffee too when I'm drinking it, though I will drink it hot too. I don't like sugar in it though…I don't care for the flavor..
I mostly drink my coffee black, espresso shots or occasionally I'll have a latte. Lately I've been drinking Iced Kenya. Nom!
Since my breakfast each morning is a smoothie I drink on the way to work, I don't like to have coffee with the smoothie. So an hour or so into my workday, I'll have a travel mug (2 cups worth) of decaf or half caff with some hazelnut creamer. (used to drink regular then had anxiety and insomnia for a few months this year, so now it's mostly decaf AND I have to stash the creamer I buy away in a hiding place or it would be gone in a day – coworkers like it as much as I do).
I did discover a local gas station/travel center that has hazelnut coffee in the morning to which I'll add french vanilla creamer they have in a carafe. unlikely combo but oh so delicious. a weekend treat for me if I don't get a mocha at starbucks.
Honey, I live in the Pacific Northwest, specifically WA State. Coffee is our state pastime. Heck, donate blood and it's part espresso.
I would hazard to guess I drink 4-6 mugs/day. I really do try not to, especially in the late afternoon, because I grind my teeth all night. Seems like when I cut back I don't do that so much. I have tried to totally quit coffee, but I'm a wimp when it comes to those withdrawal-related migraines.
I don't think it has a dither to do with my weight gain/loss. Although a nice pastry makes coffee even so-o-o-o much better! As for the good for you-bad for you question, stay tuned. Every few years they change the list.
I love coffee and begin each day with it. Throughout the day I usually have between three and four cups. I wish I could drink it black, but need creamer and sweetener in it. To compound my sins, I also drink caffeinated diet drinks. I couldn't stick with a diet without these two friends!
Coffee every morning. First thing. Should be the second thing (apparently water should be the first thing in your system in the morning to wake up your digestive system) but I haven't retrained myself yet. OK, I haven't even tried. Anyway, a 16-20 oz. travel mug with two Splenda and a splash of creamer. Needs to taste like dessert.
On the pro coffee side, I heard of a recent study which indicated that strong Greek coffee may be a contributing factor in longevity (it's also very cleansing – but not if you drink it..). On the negative side, coffee is highly acidifying, which is apparently bad for us. I go for the middle way, I enjoy a coffee occasionally, so I have one once or twice a week.
I drink WAY too much coffee. If I'm not making a Fit Frappe Espresso, it's usually an FF Mocha. Coffee is the elixir of life, after all!
I've NEVER drank coffee, I was a diet soda addict for 20 years but i'm happy to say I got off the soda train 3 months ago. I drink crystal light or water now.
I've never liked coffee, but LOVE the smell of it! I used to drink quite a bit diet soda, but have recently cut that out as a part of my "re-start". I'm thinking of trying tea occasionally in the winter, but mostly I'll just stick with water!
I have loved the smell of coffee for years, but I just started to love the taste in the last several months…I love tea too, especially cinnamon.
I've never been a fan of coffee.
That's going to happen, Queen Sarah!
I drink one cup of coffee a day with skim milk. During the week, no sweetener when I make it at work but over the weekend my husband puts some truvia in it.
I agree, moderation is key. And water, lots of water.
PS Kenlie, I've been reading your blog for years but today was the first time I've been inspired to comment so Hi and thanks for being an inspiration. I have 100lbs to lose and I'm just getting started.
I start every day with a 16oz travel mug of coffee with a teaspoon of maple syrup and a splash of whatever milk/cream I have in the house. On super tired days, I sometimes have a second (or, very rarely, even a third) cup sometime in the late morning. I never do it after 2pm though. I have a theory that it messes with my sleep then, although that remains unproven.
I've definitely read about health benefits, specifically around reduction of Parkinson's disease, increased physical and cognitive abilities, and reduction of dementia. But, it also has draw backs of increasing the stress hormone in your body and messing with a healthy sleep cycle. I try to only have a few cups a day and I go at least once a week caffeine free so that I don't get headaches or anything when I go without.


Giuseppe Verdi created his famous epic opera Aida under the commission of Isma'il Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, in order to inaugurate Cairo's new opera house. Despite a small delay, the composer's plan worked splendidly: the work enjoyed high critical and audience acclaim, and it made its way into the operatic catalogue instantly. For Aida's performance in Rome, the Baths of Caracalla provide as majestic and impressive a background as the legendary on-stage action would require. This is an opera showing not to be missed!
Apart from being one of the composer's crowning achievements musically, Aida was also important for Verdi's emerging philosophy of putting the music at the centre of the action and allowing it to carry the plot forward. One of the reasons that the premiere at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871 was such a success was that Verdi had achieved such a perfect amalgamation between libretto and score that the audience experienced complete immersion into the Ancient Egyptian storyline. The same magical evening awaits you at Terme di Caracalla as well!
The plot of Aida, with a libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, is centred on a love triangle with very high stakes. The army commander Ramadès brings the captured Ethiopian princess Aida back to Cairo as a prisoner of war. He slowly finds himself drawn to her and she reciprocates his feelings, while Amneris, the daughter of the King of Egypt, grows ever more jealous and scorned. Will the duty to the country or the heart's desires prevail?
To match the emotional charge of the storyline set in ancient times, Verdi created a score that was both technical and emotion-laden. The title role of Aida is one of the most popular ones in the soprano repertoire; similarly, Radamès is a dream casting for any tenor, despite how technically challenging his arias are. Amneris, in turn, is a haunting and beautiful mezzo soprano part that lets the beauty of that vocal register shine. This season at the Bahts of Caracalla, do not hesitate to take the wonderful musical journey that is Aida!


We've lots of exciting plans in place for 2018 with many artists releasing much-awaited new albums and many storming into the new year at the top of 2017 album lists!
Stick In The Wheel promise to make a big East London-infused noise in 2018 with their new album (out this month) Follow Them True. "Urgent, uncompromising, intelligent…the bristles on the clean broom the UK folk scene badly needs." Record Collector. Bookings for summer festivals and Oct/Nov album tour dates being taken now!
The creative partnership of Anna and Elizabeth join iconic label Smithsonian Folkways to release The Invisible Comes to Us, out in March – an extraordinary work of unique, genre-bending storytelling and sonic exploration pioneering new ways of presenting old songs and stories to modern audiences. Some May dates still available!
Sheesham & Lotus and 'Son have a new sepia-tinted new old time CD brewing. Grab dates in late July now.
Folk Awards Best Group The Furrow Collective are in the studio right now, with a new Hudson Records release out later in the year to coincide with November tour dates and Lankum are riding high in the critics' polls for Between Earth & Sky (Rough Trade). Book now for summer festivals and Oct tour dates.
Touring solo 30 Nov – 15 Dec 2018.
Having just completed a substantial UK tour with his new trio, Bruce Molsky returns for some special solo dates in autumn 2018.
Bruce Molsky is one of the most revered "multi-hyphenated career" ambassadors for America's old-time mountain music.
For decades, he's been a globetrotting performer, ethnomusicologist and educator, a recording artist with an expansive discography including seven solo albums, well over a dozen collaborations and two Grammy-nominations.
Well-known for his work with Norwegian fiddler Olav Mjelva, Cahalen Morrison, Jayme Stone and more, the singer and multi-instrumentalist oozes understated talent.
Nancy Kerr, currently touring with The Transports, is making new fans across the country and is available solo for intimate and conversational concerts in smaller venues in September 2018.
The James Brothers, James Fagan and Jamie McClennan, with wit, warmth and songs from 'down under' have just announced new dates for February 2019 and Nancy's rockier, Sweet Visitor Band remains available for festivals across this year and next.


Driving through Lincoln Township on a Steelers game day, passersby will likely hear cheering from the home of Tim and Diane Bridge. The Bridges are hosts to a group of friends and family for every Steelers game, and Diane is responsible for the football food.
As owner and operator of Diane's Pet Parlor and Boarding Base, Diane certainly knows busyness. Her husband Tim operates a landscaping business, and they are the parents of four children: Shane 17, Myranda 15, Autumn 13, and Gavin 11. The kids are active in sports, 4-H, and the church youth group.
The daughter of Don and Lois Kimmel, Diane is a native of Somerset County. She graduated from Somerset High School, and obtained her college degree from University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.
The Bridge family attends Bethany United Methodist Church, where Diane and Tim lead the youth group. Diane helps out by doing the Children's Moment in church every other week.
Diane is energetic and enthusiastic in everything she does. Despite her family and business responsibilities, she still manages to find some time for hobbies. She loves to read, enjoys photography, walks regularly and looks forward to workouts at the gym. Family nature hikes and hunting with the kids are high on her list of interests.
In small bowl, mix egg and milk. Place spaghetti in 9x13 pan. Pour egg/milk mixture over spaghetti and mix well. Pour pizza sauce over spaghetti. Top with mozzarella cheese. Place mushrooms and bacon on top of cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted.
2 package (8 oz each) cream cheese.
Cut pepperoni in small pieces. Mix well with cream cheese. Refrigerate overnight. Serve with choice of crackers.
Spread cream cheese in 9x13" baking pan. Spread pizza sauce evenly on top of cream cheese. Add mozzarella cheese and then pepperoni. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Optional: Prior to baking, add optional toppings such as mushrooms, olives, onion, peppers, etc.
Combine Red Hot sauce and cream cheese and mix well. Add chicken and cheddar cheese. Mix well. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until ingredients are melted through.
If using optional Bleu cheese or ranch dressing, add prior to baking.
Serve hot with chicken flavored crackers or corn chips.
** Go to SomersetMagazine.com to view more of Diane Bridge's recipes.


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Gifts to the Community Foundation can be a way for private citizens to give back to the community that nurtured them and their families. Citizens can also play an important part in making Sioux Center an even better place to live by creating a legacy of generosity for generations to come.
Sioux Center enjoys a rich heritage of visionary leaders who work to build a community where quality of life is valued over expediency and progress is achieved through cooperation rather than confrontation. The Sioux Center Community Foundation is deeply committed to the community of Sioux Center as a place for future generations to live, work and raise their families with these same goals in mind.
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This course project involved applying artificial intelligence techniques to play the board game amazons (i.e. game of the amazons), a distant relative to chess.
The architecture of this project is composed of one main game class with four connected interfaces. This allows for flexible modularization of the board model representation, online server communication, visual board view, and artificial intelligence evaluation function. The board model module is always required, while the server client, board view, and evaluation function modules are all optional, for certain circumstances.
The GUI is drawn using Java 2D graphics. Both queens and arrows are represented by colored diamonds, but arrow corners are "smart" filled in, making it very clear where queens can or cannot move. The pieces at the bottom represent a ratio of who owns the most squares.
The artificial intelligence has been implemented as an iteratively deepening game state space search, in which the depth is limited by a given turn time limit. In order to increase the performance, each state node is evaluated concurrently in its own thread, using a work-stealing execution pool. The evaluation function is implemented as a standard neural network, using backpropagation training. Training data is generated by randomly simulating a game until one of the opponents cannot make a move, or all queens are isolated in chambers.


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Yesterday I briefly addressed the danger of allowing cultural influence on the church. Today I found this commentary, written by Mike Adams, that outlines how such cultural influences led to a compromise of the gospel at his church making it necessary for him to leave.
The founding fathers advocated a small, decentralized form of federal government because they had this hunch about the nature of power. They seemed to think that once power became consolidated in one place it would corrupt those who wielded it and tyranny would result. They believed such a government would seek to dictate to everyone how they would behave, take property from citizens in violation of their rights to property, and might even go so far as to make determinations about what is and is not the proper way to think.
But that could never happen in America. Those founding fathers must not have known what they were talking about.
Here is a little more information on congressman Ron Paul, his ideas about government, and his possible run for the presidency in 2008.
Who to follow — culture or Christ?
It has been theorized that the cultural trends in Europe — including ideologies, philosophies, cultural ideas, fashion trends, etc. — eventually migrate to America. There is some evidence to support this. I am grateful, however, that many cultural practices of the Europeans have remained heretofore rejected by Americans. Like, for example, the French practice of eating "mature" cheese. We Americans still call it spoiled.
Nevertheless, when we see adverse cultural influences in Europe it's at least a good idea to keep a sharp eye for them in the U.S. lest they gain a foothold. Case in point: Europe has been called a "post-Christian" culture. It is said that Europeans embraced Christianity for a while but became too "enlightened" to keep on believing in spiritual "fantasies" or "fairy tales." This "post-Christian" culture has been influencing American Christians for some time. Christianity is deemed "relevant" only insofar as it "embraces" the culture around it.
It certainly appears the biblical instruction for the church is to influence culture not be influenced by culture. But we continually do just the opposite — like turn our worship services into makeshift rock concerts — in some futile attempt to remain "relevant." The good news is Europe seems to be experiencing a bit of a shift. Apparently many Europeans are returning to the faith of their fathers. I hope it is a genuine move of God that will bring true revival. I also hope the church in America will forego the whole "post-Christian" phase, immediately repent of allowing culture to influence us, and remain faithful.
Just remember. The candidates touting "universal" healthcare aren't interested in healthcare. They are interested in votes and accumulated power.
Reasononline has an article entitled, "State-Based Parenting," that discusses proposed legislation in California and Texas that seriously undermines the authority of parents. In California legislation has been proposed that would make spanking a child a criminal offense punishable, in some cases, by jail time. In Texas the notion is being kicked around to make missing a parent-teacher conference at the public school a criminal offense (unless the parent missing the appointment has a decent excuse and a note to verify it).
Legislation of this kind is outrageous, and hopefully it will serve as a wake-up call to many that politicians are bent on controlling more and more areas of our lives. However, this little bit of news should come as no surprise. We've been turning over our liberties to the government at an alarming rate in hopes that the "nanny-state" will take care of us.
In fact, where our children are concerned, we long ago abdicated our responsibilities as parents to follow the biblical mandate to "bring up a child in the way he should go." Instead, we've turned our children over to government schools that spend their time instilling secularized standards of "political correctness" and "tolerance" into our children that bear no resemblance to the biblical principles in which we are supposed to be training them.
That the states of California and Texas now think it is their responsibility to mandate to parents how they should discipline their children and participate in their children's schools is merely the next natural step of a bloated government that long ago overstepped its bounds.
"Recently released Jesus in Love is said to be the first novel ever published about a queer Christ.
It may be that Miss Cherry is the product of false teaching. There are a great many "churches" out there that advocate the acceptance of behavior God has deemed sinful under the guise of "God's love." One such "church" is the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) — for whom Cherry once worked. It "ministers" in the homosexual, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual "community" and essentially offers people an excuse to continue in their sin without guilt. But that's not how the gospel works.
If Kittredge Cherry thinks God reached out to her just as she is "lesbian and all" in a way that condones her sinful lifestyle then she is sorely mistaken. Rather, she is changing the grace of God into a license for immorality and denying the Jesus of the Bible for an idol she created in her heart (which, as we saw before, is deceitful).
Dan Phillips, a regular contributor to the Pyromaniacs blog, addresses this very subject in an article entitled "Misreading God." I wish someone would recommend it to Miss Cherry.
Worldnetdaily.com reports that approximately 3,000 people place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and are saved everyday in China. This is happening despite fierce government persecution on the Church. Read the story entitled, "3,000 Christians added daily in China," and see how God is not only calling out His own but how He is gifting them with the faith necessary to deal with their circumstances. Remember to pray for our Chinese brothers and sisters.
Meanwhile the United States congress is looking to pass legislation to criminalize its critics. Worldnetdaily's article, "Congress preparing to criminalize critics," reports that churches and Christian organizations could be impacted at one of the grossest attempts ever to violate the first amendment. This legislation actually provides for prison sentences for people who dare exercise their freedom of speech. Unless the lovers of liberty stand up and hold congress accountable for their illegal actions the Church in America could well find itself in the same boat as the Church in China.
May God be glorified either way.
Upon discovering that I believe in God's absolute sovereignty in salvation (you know, election) many of my brothers and sisters in Christ have engaged me in discussion on the topic.
"How can you believe in a God that picks and chooses who is saved?" They will ask with the typically over-simplistic view of the Doctrines of Grace.
I assure them that my sinful nature recoiled at the notion when I first considered it. I did not like the idea, any more than they, that I could contribute nothing to my salvation. In the end, I tell them, I conformed my beliefs to Scripture and believe in election because it is contained therein.
It's at this point they typically uncork John 3:16 with extreme emphasis on the words "world" and "whosoever." I agree that the gospel message is to be proclaimed to the whole world and that "whosoever believes in Him shall not perish" but John 3:16 says nothing of man's ability to believe. It is absolutely true that whosoever believes will be saved but Scripture also indicates that apart from God's intervention on behalf of the sinner nobody will believe because it is contrary to our sinful nature.
Thus the debate over general vs. particular atonement rages. But wouldn't you know it — a real theological heavyweight (respected by Christians of both theological persuasions) has weighed in on the subject. And so I direct your attention to the Pyromaniacs blog and defer to the text of a sermon preached by none other than Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
Newly elected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has introduced legislation that would greatly restrict American's freedom of speech. Oh, she doesn't call it that, of course. No, no, she calls it "lobbying reform." Under her new reforms churches, pastors, religious denominations, public interest organizations, civic organizations and other nonprofit groups could be labeled "grassroots lobbying firms" subject to congressional regulation.
It's that part about "abridging the freedom of speech" that sticks out here. You see the word abridge means, "to reduce in scope or diminish." Subjecting the speech of anyone to congressional review reduces that speech in scope and diminishes it. This is a clear violation of the Constitution but Congress will push forward as if they have the authority to do such a thing.


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Java and Raspberry Pi Example code
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PahoMqttSubscribe.java
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**Description**:
	Subscribes to temp sensor messages and prints results

**Requires**:
- Paho MQTT client for Java. To obtain use
```
curl -O https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-releases/org/eclipse/paho/mqtt-client/0.4.0/mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar
```

**Build**:
	javac -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:. PahoMqttSubscribe.java

**Run**:
	java -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:. PahoMqttSubscribe

PahoMqttSubLED.java
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**Description**:
	Subscribes to temp sensor messages and displays results on
	BerryClip LEDs

**Requires**:
- Paho MQTT client for Java. To obtain use
```
curl -O https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-releases/org/eclipse/paho/mqtt-client/0.4.0/mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar
```
- Pi4j Library. Consult http://pi4j.com/ for details and download the library from https://code.google.com/p/pi4j/downloads/list as a deb archive

**Build**:
	javac -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*':. PahoMqttSubLED.java

**Run**:
	sudo java -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*':. PahoMqttSubLED

PahoMqttSubLEDButton.java
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**Description**:
	Subscribes to temp sensor messages and displays results on
	BerryClip LEDs. Also sends a test message to the sensor when
	the BerryClip button is pressed.

**Requires**:
- Paho MQTT client for Java. To obtain use
```
curl -O https://repo.eclipse.org/content/repositories/paho-releases/org/eclipse/paho/mqtt-client/0.4.0/mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar
```
- Pi4j Library. Consult http://pi4j.com/ for details and download the library from https://code.google.com/p/pi4j/downloads/list as a deb archive

**Build**:
	javac -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*':. PahoMqttSubLEDButton.java

**Run**:
	sudo java -cp mqtt-client-0.4.0.jar:/opt/pi4j/lib/'*':. PahoMqttSubLEDButton

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Sangram Bana, Nirbhay Ahlawat, Dr. D. Kaur "Image Segmentation Schemes Applied To Microscopic Images Using Matlab." International Journal Of Advanced Engineering Sciences And Technologies, Vol. 9, Issue No. 1, 146 – 158. , 2011.
Amit Chauhan, Vineet Chauhan, S. P. Singh, Ajay K. Tomar, H. Chauhan "A Text to Speech System for Hindi using English Language." International Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Vol. 2, Issue 3, September 2011.
Amit Chauhan, Vineet Chauhan, Gagandeep Singh, Chhavi Choudhary, Priyanshu Arya " International Journal of Electronics & Communication Technology." International Journal of Electronics & Communication Technology. Vol. 2, Issue 3, Sept. 201.
Amit Chauhan , Vandna Bhatt , Gagandeep Singh " Google Apps to Improve The E-Learning Education: A New Learning Resolution." International Journal of Research in IT, Management & Engineering. Vol.1,Issue3, Oct. 2011.
Amit Chauhan, Vineet Chauhan , Sangeeta Agarwal, S. Kapoor "Motivation for Green Computer, Methods Used in Computer Science Program." National Postgraduate Conference 2011 held at Malaysia on 19-20 Sep. 2011. Proceeding in IEEE.
L.M Tiwari, Sangeeta Agrawal , S. Kapoor & Amit Chauhan, "Entropy as a Measure of Uncertainty in Queueing System" in National Postgraduate Conference 2011 held at Malaysia on 19-20 Sep. 2011. Proceeding in IEEE.
Amit Chauhan, Kamal Sharma, A. Sharma "Text To Speech System For Vedic Studies" National Conference on "Vedic Studies and Information Technology" (August 23rd & 24, 2011) to be held at Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya.
Amit Chauhan, Dr. P.K Sharma, Vineet Chauhan, Kamal Sharma "A Green Computing: A New Era" National Conference on "Vedic Studies and Information Technology" (August 23rd & 24, 2011) to be held at Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalaya.
Dr. Dilip K. Madhesiya, "Socialite Evenings of Shobha De: A Study in Self-Actualization." Accepted for a Chapter in a book entitled Indian Fiction in English.
Ajay Kumar Tomar , attended National Conference On " Ethics In Business : In The Era Of Cut Throat Competition " held on 17 sep 2011 in KIET , Gaziabad.


Memoirs are a very tricky genre for me as a reader. I need to have some level of interest in either the main themes or the individual. Even then, if the book gets to be just too much navel-gazing, I give up or stay away.
That said, are some kinds of memoirs that I enjoy more than others. The travel memoir would have to be my absolute favorite (although, not so much the Eat, Pray Love kind, which had a lot of navel-gazing, I thought). And, why I prefer a travel memoir to a plain old travel book – well, it's like going on a journey with a friend, isn't it? Or, at least, someone, who, by the end of the journey, becomes a very good friend. And, that is one of the absolute pleasures of real-life journeys as well, isn't it?
I wonder if your second paragraph, Ms Kephart, describing exactly what a memoir is could apply to other genres just as well? "the start of a conversation" and "singular life transformed into a signifying life"?
But, I enjoyed this article and thank you for making me think more about why I like to read certain kinds of memoirs.
Introspection turned outward can be challenging too, if the gaze moves from one's own navel to the navel of their family and friends. The task, I think, is to spend time in the immediacy and intimacy of I, and the inner circle We, while communicating about universal needs and dreams. Mutuality is key.
Beth articulates what so many do not understand about memoir (the soaring, reflective work that Beth calls the transcendent memoir). I find the term ""navel gazing distasteful and cheap." Our culture does not value nor understand introspection, the thoughtful and honest reflection of one's life that leads to universal insights and the deep knowing of our connectedness. Thank you Beth for articulating the distinctions between personal narrative that is either reporting (with little insight ) , self-absorbed recitation and hard-won insight that transforms one's life into art that speaks to others on the deepest levels.
I really "enjoyed" reading Lucky, but never thought it was a memoir; in truth, I presumed it was fiction until someone said otherwise.


Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered. This also explains our abundant and careless words about him. Is it any surprise that a divine butler would fail to provoke reverent silence? What need is there to rein in one's tongue if God is merely a cosmic therapist? The god of Consumer Christianity does not inspire awe and wonder because he is nothing more than a commodity to be used for our personal satisfaction and self-achievement.
Here their emulation of Jesus proved fatally incomplete. In their quest to be inclusive and tolerant and up-to-date, the accommodationists imitated his scandalously comprehensive love, while ignoring his scandalously comprehensive judgement. They used his friendship with prostitutes as an excuse to ignore his explicit condemnation of fornication and divorce. They turned his disdain for the religious authorities of his day and his fondness for tax collectors and Roman soldiers into a thin excuse for privileging the secular realm over the sacred. While recognizing his willingness to dine with outcasts and converse with nonbelievers, they de-emphasized the crucial fact that he had done so in order to heal them and convert them-ridding the leper of his sickness, telling the Samaritans that soon they would worship in spirit and truth, urging the women taken in adultery to go, and from now on sin no more.
Given the climate of the 1960s and '70s, these choices were understandable. But the more the accommodationists emptied Christianity of anything that might offend the sensibilities of a changing country, the more they lost any sense that what they were engaged in really mattered, or was really, truly true.


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package io.github.guiritter.wavelet;

import static io.github.guiritter.wavelet.DoubleMatrixParser.encode;
import static io.github.guiritter.wavelet.Main.getJMaximumWarning;
import static io.github.guiritter.wavelet.gui.MainFrame.showError;
import static io.github.guiritter.wavelet.gui.MainFrame.showWarning;
import io.github.guiritter.wavelet.gui.TransformFrame;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.CREATE;
import static java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

/**
 *
 * @author Guilherme Alan Ritter
 */
public final class Transform {

    private final TransformData data[];

    private final boolean dimension1;

    private final TransformFrame frame;

    public final double[][] getInverseView1D(int J, Double softThreshold) {
        return ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(J, softThreshold);
        /* TODO test array with different soft threshold values
        double returnArray[][] = new double[11][];
        returnArray[ 0] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.0d)[0];
        returnArray[ 1] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.1d)[0];
        returnArray[ 2] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.2d)[0];
        returnArray[ 3] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.3d)[0];
        returnArray[ 4] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.4d)[0];
        returnArray[ 5] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.5d)[0];
        returnArray[ 6] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.6d)[0];
        returnArray[ 7] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.7d)[0];
        returnArray[ 8] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.8d)[0];
        returnArray[ 9] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 0.9d)[0];
        returnArray[10] = ((Transform1D) data[0]).transformInverse(0, 1.00d)[0];
        return returnArray;
        /**/
    }

    public final double[][][][][] getInverseView2D(int J, Double softThreshold) {
        double componentArray[][][][][] = new double[data.length][][][][];
        for (int i = 0; i < componentArray.length; i++) {
            componentArray[i] = ((Transform2D) data[i]).transformInverse(J, softThreshold);
        }
        return componentArray;
    }

    private Double getSoftThreshold() {
        String softThresholdString = frame.getSoftThreshold().trim();
        if (softThresholdString.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        Double softThresholdDouble = Double.parseDouble(softThresholdString);
        if (softThresholdDouble == 0d) {
            return null;
        }
        return softThresholdDouble;
    }

    public Transform(String name, TransformData data[], int J) {
        this.data = Arrays.copyOf(data, data.length);
        dimension1 = data[0] instanceof Transform1D;
        frame = new TransformFrame(name, dimension1 ? getInverseView1D(J, null) : getInverseView2D(J, null)) {

            @Override
            public void onDataButtonPressed(int level) {
                Double softThreshold = Transform.this.getSoftThreshold();
                String data = encode(dimension1 ? getInverseView1D(level, softThreshold) : getInverseView2D(level, softThreshold));
                File file = fileSave();
                if (file == null) {
                    return;
                }
                try (BufferedWriter writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(file.toPath(), CREATE, TRUNCATE_EXISTING)) {
                    writer.write(data);
                    writer.flush();
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    showError(frame, ex.getLocalizedMessage(), ex);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onImageButtonPressed() {
                BufferedImage image = getImage();
                File file = fileSave();
                if (file == null) {
                    return;
                }
                try {
                    ImageIO.write(image, "png", file);
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    showError(frame, ex.getLocalizedMessage(), ex);
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onIncreaseButtonPressed() {
                if (data[0].getJ() == data[0].getJMaximum()) {
                    showWarning(frame, getJMaximumWarning(data[0].getJ() + data[0].getJMaximum(), 0), null);
                } else {
                    levelIncrease();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onLevelChanged(int level) {
                Double softThreshold = Transform.this.getSoftThreshold();
                setView(dimension1 ? getInverseView1D(level, softThreshold) : getInverseView2D(level, softThreshold));
            }

            @Override
            public void onRefreshButtonPressed() {
                Double softThreshold = Transform.this.getSoftThreshold();
                int level = getLevel();
                setView(dimension1 ? getInverseView1D(level, softThreshold) : getInverseView2D(level, softThreshold));
            }
        };
    }
}


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FATAL HOUSE FIRE CAUSE FOUND
ROBERTO GONZALEZ; Courant Staff WriterTHE HARTFORD COURANT
The cause of the house fire that killed three people last week wasfaulty construction of the fireplace, Bristol Fire Marshal Denis Pieri said Monday.
Two women and a man were killed in the fire at 103 Maple Ave., which broke out in the early morning of Feb. 2.
Lisa Bernier, 37, and Jean Dionne, 40, who were living in the house, and Deborah Marshall, 51, of 22 High St., perished.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Farmington said all three died of smoke inhalation in the 128-year-old stone and wood-frame structure.
Pieri said Monday that he didn't know when the fireplace was built, but that it was apparent it was improperly built onto an existing chimney. Any alterations or additions to fireplaces must be inspected by the city, and no permit could be found, Pieri said.
Pieri said there was a space between the fireplace and the old chimney.
"There was a gap which was filled with mortar," Pieri said. "And over time, the mortar began to deteriorate, which allowed the flames to escape."
Three men managed to escape the fire: Joshua Cochran, 21, of 22 High St., and Brien Cyr, 41, and Jonathan Osowiecki, 24, who both lived at the house.
Cochran was visiting the house and sleeping on the couch in the living room after a get-together.
The official cause confirms what Cochran reported a day after the fire, when he said he believed the fireplace was to blame. He awoke to see flames shooting through the wall and curling across the ceiling, he said.
Cochran also said the fireplace was constantly used, because just one side of the house was heated. The fireplace also was never cleaned, and the house lacked smoke alarms and fire extinguishers, he said.
The house's owner is Paul Bialobrzeski, an attorney in Waterbury. He would not comment on the fire Monday.


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Muswell Hill's battery powered artist
By Kate Ferguson
Reg Boorer often describes himself as lucky. He is lucky he loves art. He is lucky he has his studio. He is lucky his Parkinson's illness isn't worse.
Most people who are diagnosed with a lifelong degenerative condition would be forgiven for being a little less upbeat, but that is not Mr Boorer's style.
The "battery powered artist", who lives with his wife and teenage daughter in Dukes Avenue, Muswell Hill, has put together a new exhibition of his paintings – produced since he underwent deep brain stimulation surgery two years ago.
In the operation, two titanium rods with electrodes are inserted through the brain, and are wired up to a battery pack hidden under his skin on his chest.
By triggering electrical charges, Mr Boorer is able to control his movements and alleviate his tremors – hence his nickname.
Pointing to the large orange armchair he is sitting in, Mr Boorer said: "I had a guy come here about 18 months ago who couldn't sit in this chair.
"His arms and legs were moving around all over the place.
"It didn't really strike me that I might not be able to use my right arm or draw until fairly recently. That was a scary thought. But I think doing what I do, the art, helps quite a lot.
"Drawing portraits is good therapy because you are always looking into yourself and trying to transcribe that onto a piece of paper."
A graduate in graphic design from the London College of Printing, Mr Boorer worked as a designer and communications officer for charities.
But it was only when he gave up work and his Parkinson's escalated that he returned to his first love – art.
His new exhibition pulls together paintings of plants and portraits he has been working on over the past two years.
Perhaps the most thought provoking among them is a self portrait he sketched by torchlight the evening after his surgery.
"After my operation I was in bed and couldn't sleep and it was two in the morning," said Mr Boorer.
"I was covered in bandages and there were wires coming out of my head.
"I pulled my little mirror out and did a little drawing of myself.
"The next morning the whole team, neurosurgeons, therapists, around ten people were around me.
"They were gobsmacked somebody could have managed to draw something the night after the operation. It signalled something to them.
"It is only small but it is very poignant. I dredged it up from somewhere deep inside me."
Reg Boorer, Nature Studies, is showing at The Gallery Boulangerie Bon Matin in Tollington Park until Wednesday, November 30.


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This is a Pointless review. No, not a review of something pointless that you have absolutely no desire to investigate further. Rather, it is a review of Pointless: The Game.
Making changes – and a Pink Clove dress.
Back in the BC years, I took great care in how I looked. I liked to make an effort with my hair, make up and clothes. Not for anyone but me might I add. In my opinion, I had a nice style.
Zuru Bunch O Balloons – Giveaway.
My children are like pretty much any other, every time an advert comes on the TV they "really need" it. Given that the sun has shone for over two weeks now, the object of desire at present is Bunch O Balloons.
Last week's half term holiday was our most successful to date that is down, in part, to a midweek meet up with some blogging buddies, their children and a Yorkshire Picnic at Doubletree by Hilton, York.


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Frequently combining the deliberate undertaking of Sisyphean tasks (building an actual size replica of the Hoover Dam) with explorations of the aesthetics of plausible deniability (infiltrating a reality television show about bizarre food addictions), Hawkins' oeuvre explores cycles of grandiosity, failure, and rationalization through a battery of sculptural, architectural, land art, and performative strategies, while incorporating diverse media from printmaking, drawing, and painting, to video, sound art, and digital imaging.
Incubated in the bosom of the global digital economy, Hawkins draws from a surprisingly wide set of life experiences, ranging from English public school to the murky underground culture of Austin, Texas. In addition to his broad spectrum of solo art activities, he is a member of the experimental musical group F with Marnie Weber and Doug Harvey, and recently topped the Belgian New Music charts as Kenneth Friendliness (with Mannlicher Carcano), performing his original song "Juli Carson Hates Relational Aesthetics (and so do I)".
Hawkins has studied art at UCLA, Yale's Norfolk Summer School of Art, and UC Irvine, and has exhibited his work at numerous venues including: UC Riverside's Culver Center for the Arts, Las Cienegas Projects, UC Irvine, Jancar Gallery, PØST Gallery, The Beacon Arts Building, and UCLA's New Wight Gallery. In July 2017, Hawkins completed Desert Lighthouse – a nearly 50ft tall fully-functioning lighthouse in the Mojave Desert.
Daniel Hawkins is based in Los Angeles.


text:
43 Episode 43 Supper
The middle of October. It was October and Allen was eight years old.
Today is the day of the lord's arrival. A few days ago a messenger had told the chief of the village the date of his coming. The next day the chief's messenger arrived and informed Rodin and Gerda of his arrival.
Allen was to be the guide. He had to explain the boar hunt to the lord. And the previous day's dinner will be served. I'll have to answer if he asks me anything about the hunt.
Get ready early in the morning and leave for the chief's house before noon. Rodin and Gerda will not be there. It's not easy for a serf to meet his lord.
Arrive at the chief's house before 9:00 a.m. and stay at the chief's house for a nap.
Before noon, you will be woken up by a commoner working at the chief's house. He tells you to take a bath and get ready now.
(Oh?) Maybe it's my first time in a bath. (There is a water bath, though.)
On a hot day in the middle of summer, I sometimes fill up a large tub with water and go in naked. As a farmer, he usually just wipes himself with wet linen without soap.
Soak in a wooden vat of warm water. Take a long time to clean yourself until the water cools down. The clothes they give you are of fine quality, something not many commoners wear.
Then you'll have to wait for three hours. I'm told to stay awake and wait.
(Seriously, you made me wait too long.)
The 3pm bell rings and we've been waiting for another hour or so and it seems we've arrived. The house is quite rustling.
Not long after that, the lord entered the chief's house. Now it's time for dinner in the chief's hall. It's just dinner. The lord and his men will be eating. Only the chief will share the meal on behalf of the village.
The village chief told me about the lord beforehand.
The town where the lord is located is called Granville, the capital. It's about five days from here. From now on, you'll be in charge of waiting for the Baron Granvelle. You've traveled five days to get to the village, and you must be pretty tired.
If you're thinking about that, it's time to go. The rather large kitchen at the chief's house is abuzz with activity. I wonder where five or six women were dispatched from to prepare the food. The neatly arranged dishes are lining up.
In front of the door of the hall's entrance is the village chief. The lord is already in the hall, but it seems that Allen will enter with the chief. I feel the chief is quite nervous.
The chief enters first. As soon as you enter the door, welcome to the house. The meal is ready.
Bring the food in.
Through the door, the village chief instructs you to bring the meal.
Allen will bring in the food from the appetizers. There is one table in the center.
At the far end is the lord, I suppose.
At the far end of the birthday table sits the lord. He is a hawk-eyed man with lilac hair. He has a stern stare. He must be in his mid-forties.
Try not to stare at his face as he silently brings the food from the lord at the far end of the table.
More and more food is brought in. The food is ready on a plank in front of the entrance of the hall. There is no need to return to the kitchen. You walk back and forth between the entrance and the tables. Everyone else should have done the same, but only Allen is in charge of serving.
There are six of us, including the chief. Hmm? You even have kids? (The daughter of the lord?)
Carrying them in turn . A man who appears to be the lord, a man with white hair and a beard who looks like a butler next to him, the Knight Commander and Vice Knight Commander who came to see Krsna .
And next to the lord sits a girl with light purple hair, just like the lord. She looks about the same age as Allen.
"But thank you for settling the village.
"Oh, thank you.
The lord expresses his gratitude to the village chief.
It's been 15 years since the territory's settlement order came into effect. Fifteen years later....no one has ever settled the territory as successfully as we have. Debozi. You have done a good job of bringing the people together and developing the village.
(Territorial Development Order? (What's that?)
While the lord praises the village chief, Allen overhears the conversation. This is because some information might pop up before tomorrow's boa hunt.
We have all worked hard for our lordship.
It's the chief who is starving. You barely touched your appetizer. They have no time for food.
"I'm really sorry about the boar meat. This is the king's life.
(Hmm? The king wants me to hunt boa? (That's getting pretty big.)
More listening as we talked about boa hunting. I'm busy serving you.
"So this was by order of His Majesty the King?
Well, yes. Well, technically, it's Lord Charnel's fault. Lord Charnel took the trouble to mention boa hunting in his audience chamber, thanks to ......
It's the lords who become angry as if remembering. His eyes grow tighter. The village chief's demeanor has changed and he's frightened. Oily sweat is rising from his forehead and cheeks.
"Sir, the chief is frightened. And the master's reputation will rise again if he reaches his goal of 20.
Without looking at the lord, a man of nearly sixty who looks like a butler interrupts.
'Huh? Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, chief Debozi. The king heard about the boa hunt. You asked for more.
It was, wasn't it?
Lords who tell you about the circumstances of the increased number of boa hunts in scratching .
Then bring the meat for the main dish. The lords put down the plates one by one.
''Mm! What's this good meat!
"Ho, it's really good!
The lord and his daughter marveled at the deliciousness and their eyes widened.
What is this? It's a village chief.
Ask the village chief if it was so good.
"Huh? Huh? Let's see, this is ......
The village chief, suddenly asked and at a loss for words.
This is the meat of Albaheron. We caught it yesterday and presented it to the lord. Its parts are the breast, thigh and liver, and it is flavored with herbs.
"Hmm? Oh Soka ......
Allen replies on behalf of a speechless mayor.
All at once, everyone's eyes are drawn to Allen. It's the lords who were curious because a boy with pitch-black hair and eyes was serving them.
Noticing the stares, Allen bows and cleans up the finished dishes. Although there are only six people seated, you are very busy serving yourself. I'm bustling back and forth between the hall and the entrance.
That's the chief. You've got a good son. You did not hear me!
"Huh? Well, this is the son of someone named Rodin. ......
The lord who says that there is a solid child. The village chief who denies that the child is not his.
Rodin?
Oh, I remember. My Lord, the boy is Rodin, the one who organizes the boa hunts.
The Knight Commander seems to remember. I sat with the Knight Commander two years ago at a banquet.
"Son of Rodin of Boa Hunt?
"Yes, my name is Allen, son of Rodin. Tomorrow I will be giving you a tour of the Boa Hunt.
I was approached by my lord, and I greeted him.
'Was Rodin a crumbling knight or something? You've got some pretty fine kids.
No, no, he must have been a serf since his parents' generation.
Because of the child's good manners, his father Rodin asks if he was formerly a knight or something. The chief knows Rodin's father, too, and says no, he was not. That's the time.
"Huh? There's a serf in this hall!
The girl, who appeared to be the daughter of the lord, expressed her disgust when she found out that a serf was in the hall. She looked at Allen with a beautiful twisted face.
'What? Cecil, serfs are fine people in my land! You don't have to say that!
"I'm sorry. Father.
Lords daughter Cecil apologizing with tears in her eyes. And
Kick!
(Ugh, about being stared at so much for some reason.)
He glares at Allen as if to say, "You made my father angry at me. He glares at you with his parental bullish eyes. The crimson eyes seem to express your current emotions. You remove your gaze to avoid making too much eye contact with Allen.
"So, it's Allen.
"Yes, my lord.
The lord speaks to Allen again.
"Tomorrow, you are going to lead us on a boa hunt?
"Yes.
And be sure to tell me how to hunt.
Then I will do so.
Zenov, listen carefully.
"Ha!
The Knight Commander responds. The Knight Commander is named Xenov.
(Hmm? Knight Commander often hear? (What does that mean?)
A question mark appears on Allen's face.
"Son of Rodin. You must achieve this strike count of 20, son of Rodin. I am the king's commander.
It's the Knight Commander talking to Allen. He seems to answer Allen's questions. Allen also turns to the leader.
If it looks too difficult to achieve after a visit, our Order will join us.
(Huh? (You're not just here for a tour)
I finally understand why the lords have come. We must take down 20 this year. We killed 15 last year. But there's no guarantee we'll be able to hunt 20 this year.
My lord is afraid that I won't make it.
I've come to fulfill the king's command to lead the knights in a hunt for the boa.
Isn't that right?
The chief understands the situation. He nods his head in agreement.
My lord.
Then Allen says the words.
What's the matter with you? It's all right. Just give me a good explanation and the Order will take care of the rest. You have nothing to worry about.
This is a lord who only wants to teach me how to hunt.
No, my lord. It's only 20, my lord.
"Buh!
It's the village chief who erupts at Allen's words. Both the lord and the knight master's eyes widen.
''Tomorrow's boa hunt, I will show you that if the village of Krsna pulls together, we can certainly achieve our goal of 20 animals.
In the midst of six gazes, he bowed his head and assured them. There was no fear, no hesitation.
He said it so clearly that no one could gasp and respond.


Thanks for the double like.
lol, only when he can't respond.
I was trying to get popeye to contribute more than just crabby little comments over what other say and encourage him to try to participate in the conversation over his post.
Thanks for the "like", sir.
That's awesome, and I totally agree. Hopefully your daughter is a bit more subdued than the princess, or you must have one heck of an exciting life.
Huge thanks for your basement post, Kal. I've been holding my breath waiting to see what the response would be. I'm glad there'll be, at least, one positive.
Just checking in to say "hi!"


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Husam Hourani  is a Syrian football midfielder who played for Syria in the 1984 Asian Cup.

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Living people
Syrian footballers
Syria international footballers
1980 AFC Asian Cup players
1984 AFC Asian Cup players
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What are five consequences of World War 1?
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World War I caused more damage than any other war before it. 9 million soldiers and as many civilians died in the war. Germany and Russia suffered most, both countries lost almost two million men in battle. Large sections of land, especially in France and Belgium, were completely destroyed.
What were the consequences of WWI?
WW1 caused the downfall of four monarchies: Germany, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and Russia. The war made people more open to other ideologies, such as the Bolsheviks that came to power in Russia and fascism that triumphed in Italy and even later in Germany.
What were the causes and consequences of ww1?
The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary J. A Serbian Nationalist Group sent troops to kill him. This Assassination caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia. Alliances chose to defend their allies which caused a domino effect of all of the causes that led to the war.
What are the consequences of war?
The effects of war include long-term physical and psychological harm to children and adults, as well as reduction in material and human capital. Death as a result of wars is simply the "tip of the iceberg". Other consequences, besides death, are not well documented.
What are the consequences of war answer?
Answer: The most obvious consequences of war are widespread death and destruction. Effects of war also include mass destruction of cities and have long lasting effects on a country's economy. Armed conflict have important indirect negative consequences on, infrastructure, public health provision, and social order.
How is war beneficial?
But there's still a human at both ends. And every war will change people's lives – it might give them freedom, keep them safe, hurt them or their family and friends, give them more money, give them less money, bring them power, take away their power.
How does war affect mental health?
Death, injury, sexual violence, malnutrition, illness, and disability are some of the most threatening physical consequences of war, while post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety are some of the emotional effects.
Why war is bad for the economy?
Putting aside the very real human cost, war has also serious economic costs – loss of buildings, infrastructure, a decline in the working population, uncertainty, rise in debt and disruption to normal economic activity.
How does war affect a country's economy?
Key findings of the report show that in most wars public debt, inflation, and tax rates increase, consumption and investment decrease, and military spending displaces more productive government investment in high-tech industries, education, or infrastructure—all of which severely affect long-term economic growth rates.
What two countries are at war now?
While Turkey is in support of Azerbaijan, Russia has spoken of ending trade relations with the two countries. Violence between the two countries has now reached a frightening level. Dozens of people have died in this war which started last Monday.
How did ww2 help the economy?
America's involvement in World War II had a significant impact on the economy and workforce of the United States. American factories were retooled to produce goods to support the war effort and almost overnight the unemployment rate dropped to around 10%.
How is war profitable?
It can be very profitable for companies that get a contract to supply weapons & ammunition, military equipment, uniforms and food and then deliver shoddy goods. To countries that sell weaponry, war is profitable. To those who anticipate significant advantage after the war, war is profitable.
Who profits the most from war?
Total arms sales among the world's 100 largest defense contractors topped $398 billion in 2017 after climbing for the third consecutive year….Lockheed Martin Corp. • Country: United States.Boeing. Raytheon. BAE Systems. Northrop Grumman Corp. General Dynamics Corp. Airbus Group. Thales.
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The PJ Tatler
A Devastating Takedown of America's Most Overrated Gay Power Couple
By David Swindle 7:52 AM on December 09, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKP8Zp_l3s
Make a point to read all of Jamie Kirchick's "The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America's Worst Gay Power Couple"; here's the opening:
Just three years ago, Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge were the toast of the liberal establishment. The Facebook co-founder and his politically ambitious husband embodied all the attributes of a bona fide "gay power couple." In 2012, Hughes bought The New Republic, rescuing the flagship liberal magazine from financial peril and establishing himself as a player in Washington. At the same time, Eldridge was quietly preparing to run for Congress in upstate New York.
Young, handsome, Ivy League-pedigreed, rich ("the wealthiest openly gay men under 30" according to The Advocate, a stretch considering that the fortune belongs to Hughes), and espousing predictably liberal political views, the Hughes-Eldridge partnership was destined to work wonders for America.
How swiftly things change. In just the past two months, one half of this pair managed to single-handedly destroy a storied journalistic institution, while the other suffered a crushing electoral defeat in New York's 19th Congressional District. Last week, the 31-year-old Hughes forced the resignations of both the editor and literary editor of The New Republic, whose 100th anniversary he presided over last month at a star-studded gala in Washington, D.C.
In protest of the magazine's newly ensconced CEO's plan to transform TNRinto a "vertically integrated digital media company," the majority of the magazine's senior and contributing editors resigned.
Weeks before the implosion at TNR, 28-year-old Eldridge lost his congressional bid by a stunning 30 points, despite having outspent his opponent nearly 3-to-1 in a district President Obama won by 6 percentage points. The couple had purchased a $2 million home in the district expressly so that Eldridge could run there, their purchase of a $5 million mansion in the adjoining 18th having come to naught after that seat was won by another gay Democrat in 2012.
Here at PJ on Friday, Ron Radosh, a former contributor to The New Republic (as was Kirchick, who made his reputation with a groundbreaking article revealing the hateful ideology of the Ron Paul cult), wrote about "The Long, Slow Death of The New Republic":
When Hughes bought the publication, as the Times story notes, he said he was motivated to purchase it because he had a great interest in "the future of high quality long-form journalism."
I knew at the time that the result of his takeover would be the magazine's demise. In a PJ Media column, I wrote: "I am not too optimistic about its future." At that time, Richard Just was running it; he had just met with Hughes and convinced him to purchase TNR, hoping that he would save the magazine. Shortly thereafter, Hughes fired Just and convinced TNR's old editor Frank Foer to return as editor-in-chief.
I believed that TNR would become a shill for the Obama administration. This was made clear quite soon…
Hughes recently told reporters that he considered TNR to be not a magazine, but a "vertically integrated digital media company," perhaps something along the lines of Politico or Buzzfeed. As owner and publisher, he has a right to do what he wants with his money. But he has quickly abandoned the promises he made when he bought TNR, to make the magazine relevant and to continue true to its intellectual traditions.
The current crop of departing editors should not have been surprised at this turn of events. The new course was clear from the very first day Hughes took it over. I recall him announcing that he was going to set up nationwide TNR coffee shops, starting in the major East and West Coast cities, where people could drink coffee and eat pastries and get TNRmugs, shirts, as well as the magazine itself. That crazy idea never came to fruition. But it was a harbinger of things to come.
Here's Kirchick, really sticking the knife in with his analysis of Hughes' lucky path to a pile of wealth that he now doesn't have the skills to use effectively. This explains the silliness of wanting to turn an institution of political journalism into a Starbucks:
Unlike Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, with whom he roomed at Harvard, Hughes had no special programming or coding abilities. But there was a silver lining in this lack of technical expertise, in that, as the only member of this tech geek crew with passable social skills, he could take up the public-relations portfolio. "He is fortunate he found himself in the same room," David Kirkpatrick, author of a book about the website, told the Times. "He is more socially adjusted than the rest of them." By his own admission, Hughes' main job for Facebook was "customer service." $700 million, the rough amount that Hughes earned when he cashed out of the company in 2007, is a pretty good take for a glorified call-center operator.
Is there a more cuttingmMillennial insult than to compare someone who thinks he's the next Zuckerberg building something bigger than Facebook to a "a glorified call-center operator"?
Also be sure and follow Kirchick on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jkirchick/status/541791316003549186
And check out some of his other pieces at the Daily Beast from this year:
'America in Retreat': Why Neo-Isolationism Exploded Under Obama and What We Can Do About It
Rand Paul vs. the Real World
It's Finally Time for the West to Stand Up to Putin
David M. Swindle is the Southern California associate of the Counter-Islamist Grid and a senior editor at Liberty Island. He was associate editor of PJ Media from 2011-2015. Follow him on Twitter @DaveSwindle.
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Following the tragic 3.11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, New Zealand's GNS Science in collaboration with Washington State Emergency Management and other stakeholders set out to further analyze the successes of the evacuation and messaging approaches used in this event. A key element of this research was to investigate both traditional tsunami evacuation strategies used in communities, schools, etc. as well as non-traditional approaches, such as vertical evacuation techniques and draw parallels with the concepts being applied in New Zealand, Washington, and elsewhere in the United States. The report can be found here.


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Q: $wpdb->insert is running multiple times on page load, but only called once
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*I created a php class on a separate file

*I included the file in functions.php

*I initialized the class

The class among many other things has one functions that does this:
$data = array(
    'time' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),
    'offset' => 0,
);

$format = array(
    '%s',
    '%d'
);

$wpdb->insert('my_custom_table',$data,$format);

One page load the class runs, and for some reason I get 2 entries in the database instead of one. The data is correct, but I don't know why I have 2 entries if I only inserted once.
In my class $wpdb->insert only runs once. I can test that buy echoing anything right next to it.
troubleshooting:
So I removed $wpdb->insert outside the class and added directly to functions.php. I noticed that the $wpdb->insert was running 2 or more times.
What's causing it to run multiple times?
No, I don't have a loop.
Yes, I know I should not run it in functions.php, but it' for testing only.
I have found similar questions, but no good answer.

A: It's hard to say why without seeing more of your code. So if you're interested in knowing why, then I'd encourage you to share more of your code.
If you're only looking for a solution, then something like the following will probably work. (I say probably because I don't know because I don't have your code.) What we want to do is make sure that the code to insert the table is executed once and only once. Because we're inserting the table on the init hook, the register() method will only fire once because init only fires once. So the conditional check is really unnecessary, but now we know for extra sure that the table will only be added once.

functions.php
require_once( PATH_TO . '/class-wpse106269.php' );
add_action( 'init', [ wpse106269::getInstance(), 'register' ] );

class-wpse106269.php
<?php
class wpse106269 {
  private static $instance;
  protected $table_already_inserted;
  protected function __construct() {}
  protected function __clone() {}
  protected function __wakeup() {}

  public static function getInstance() {
    if( ! isset( self::$instance ) ) {
      self::$instance = new self;
    }
    return self::$instance;
  }

  public function register() {
    if( ! $table_already_inserted ) {
      $this->insert_table();
      $this->table_already_inserted = true;
    }
  }

  protected function insert_table() {
    //* Insert table here
  }

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I placed this in my functions.php with only ACF (free) active. The init hook only runs once. So this is either a problem with ACF (pro) or there's another plugin that's still active that doesn't play nicely with ACF (Pro?).
//* Don't access this file directly
defined( 'ABSPATH' ) or die();

add_action( 'init', [ new wpse106269(), 'init' ] );

class wpse106269{
  protected $n = 1;
  public function init() {
    echo $this->n;
    $this->n = 1 + $this->n;
  }
}

A: You most likely have a plugin or a theme that is making a separate call to WordPress in the page content, to do something like retrieve CSS or Javascript code. The page loads, and then the stylesheet or JS loads from inside the page in a way that causes WordPress to load a second time.
Alternatively, you have something using the wp-cron system which is causing wp-cron to spawn and thus load WordPress up again in a secondary process (to run whatever the wp-cron action is). This can cause the same effect, especially if you have something using wp-cron on a short timer.
The upshot of it is that WordPress can get loaded for many reasons, and not all of them are to render the page as HTML. So, any time you're "doing something" from WordPress loading, then you probably don't want to put it on the init hook, or you want to have a more specific check so that you're not just arbitrarily doing that thing every single time.

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Jethro Tull's Aqualung Turns 51 This Year
This week on the WPDH Album of the Week, we'll feature the fourth album from Jethro Tull, Aqualung.
Aqualung was released on March 19, 1971, through Chrysalis Records. It is regarded as a concept album and falls under multiple classifications including progressive rock, folk-rock, and hard rock. The album was recorded between April of 1970 and February of 1971. Aqualung was the follow-up to the band's 1970 album, Benefit. The album will turn 51 this year.
Aqualung was recorded at Island Records' studio in London and was their first album with keyboardist John Evans as a full-time member and their first album with new bassist Jeffrey Hammond, and last album featuring Clive Bunker on drums, who quit shortly after the release of the album.
To date, Aqualung is Jethro Tull's best selling album, selling more than seven million units worldwide. The album was well-received critically and has been featured on many best-of-lists. The two singles released from the album were Hymn 43 and Locomotive Breath.
The tracklisting for Aqualung (Original Release)
Cross-Eyed Mary
Cheap Day Return
Wond'ring Aloud
Up to Me
Hymn 43
Locomotive Breathe
Aqualung was reissued in 1996 adding six additional tracks to the album:
Lick Your Fingers Clean
Wind Up (Quad Version)
Excerpts from the Ian Anderson Interview
Song for Jeffery
Bouree
Aqualung was also re-released for its 40th anniversary in 2011 as a special edition.
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At Oxy, students don't wait until they graduate to make original intellectual and creative contributions to their disciplines.
Whether it's testing a scientific hypothesis, composing a new piece of music or observing human subjects, a hallmark of the Oxy experience is opportunities for students to engage in research—often at a level typically reserved for graduate students. Undergraduate research lets you do a deep dive into a topic that fascinates you, collaborate directly with a faculty mentor and develop skills that will prepare you for graduate or professional work. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to do research, whether on campus, in the diverse settings of Los Angeles or around the world.
Oxy's Undergraduate Research Center (URC) provides resources for creative endeavors and original projects on- and off-campus, in all disciplines. You may apply to conduct research of your own design, or join a faculty research team through URC's annual Summer Research Program. More than 100 students participate each year, working with faculty mentors on disciplines ranging from chemistry to economics, psychology, music, and urban and environmental policy.
Many Oxy students conduct research as part of their senior comps project, and the Library and Center for Digital Liberal Arts provide knowledgeable staff and cutting-edge technological resources. You'll also have access to a range of academic support services. Finally, whether the topic is research, career options or life itself, meaningful interaction between students and professors is an important part of the Oxy experience. Learn more about faculty mentorship at Oxy.
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This year I had the extreme privilege of attending the most amazing TIFF party – the L'Oreal Gold party on top of the TIFF Bell Lightbox in downtown Toronto.
You know when L'Oreal and Cowan & Company get together to throw a party it will be beautiful and super fun – and this party did not disappoint. I wish I could have partied all night under the stars with everyone – but alas I have a day job. But the few hours I got to spend basking in the glitz and glam was well worth the tired eyes the next day at work.
L'Oreal also showcased some amazing products – Elnett Crème De Mouse, Feline Mascara and Voluminous Liner Noir and the new Le Vernis a L'Huile by Colour Riche (not available until November 2016).
I will post more about the products later, but for now here are some photos of a fantastic evening!
This entry was posted in Beauty and tagged Beauty Blogger, Eyeliner, Gold, Hair, hair styling, L'Oreal, liner, Mascara, mousse, nail polish, party, TIFF by maldham. Bookmark the permalink.
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The Poor are More Likely to Die of Cancer
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By Kara Brandeisky
People from wealthy areas are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than people from less wealthy areas.
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A new study from Cancer, the peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, finds that cancer afflicts wealthy and poor areas at about the same rate. But the study also found that they suffer from different kinds of cancer—and the cancers that strike the poor are more often deadly.
The study looked at the incidence rates of 39 kinds of cancer in different census tracts. Researchers found that poorer areas have higher rates of lung, colorectal, cervical, oral and liver cancer, while wealthier areas have higher rates of breast, prostate, thyroid and skin cancer. The 14 cancers associated with poverty have a mortality rate of 107.7 per 100,000, while the 18 cancers associated with wealth have a mortality rate of 68.9.
"The cancers more associated with poverty have lower incidence and higher mortality, and those associated with wealth have higher incidence and lower mortality," researcher Francis Boscoe said in a statement. "When it comes to cancer, the poor are more likely to die of the disease while the affluent are more likely to die with the disease."
Why the difference? The researchers aren't sure, but they did find that the kinds of cancers that are more prevalent in poorer communities are associated with "behavioral risk factors," like smoking, drinking, drug use and poor diet. Furthermore, wealthier areas report higher rates of cancers with few symptoms, like skin, thyroid and prostate cancer. These cancers often require advanced medical technology to detect. Since wealthier areas offer better access to healthcare, the scientists suspect that those people are more likely to be diagnosed with earlier stage cancers, but they plan to do more research.
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The Top 5 Most Popular Sports in America
wolfgangsport in #hive-101690 • 2 months ago
Hivean friends! I hope you're all going well and especially to those in the Sports Talk Social tribe. Today I present a piece about the landscape of American sports which has changed rapidly over the last few years. Let's go and take a look at the five most popular sports in the U.S. at the moment:
5. Ice Hockey
Ice hockey is the favourite sport of 4% of Americans and the fifth most popular sport in America. It's a different story across the border in Canada; the most popular sport and an integral part of Canadian culture. When comparing ice hockey to other major professional sports, ice hockey is relatively unpopular with only 15 states in the U.S. sponsoring ice hockey at a high school level. American football and basketball in comparison are represented in all states and baseball in all states but two.
ESPN Sports Science calculated that ice hockey is the hardest sport to play in the world, with body hits calculated at 17% harder than in American football. It's also considered the toughest team sport in the world; hockey fundamentals involving skating at full speed while trying to handle the puck, all while trying to avoid getting physically checked by the hardest hitters in all of sports. It's no wonder ice hockey lands at fifth on America's most popular sports.
4. Soccer
Soccer is the fourth most popular sports in America, the favourite sports of 7% of Americans. Although Major League Soccer isn't one of the four major sports in the USA, it's fast becoming an integral part of North American sports culture. In fact, soccer is the fastest growing favourite sports in the U.S., growing at a rate of almost double in the space of four years and up 3% since 2018.
The growth of the MLS is a major part of soccer's popularity growth in the U.S. and is currently the 8th most attended soccer league in the world. Between 2013 and 2018 crowds had increased 34% and there are 27 teams in 2021, way up from the 12 teams in the league in 2005. Soccer may not be the toughest sport in the world but soccer players are considered the most agile in all sports. Soccer players cover 2.5 times more distance in a game than a basketball player and at double the spee
3. Baseball
Baseball is America's national sport and America's national pastime because of the role it played in shaping America's history. There's a magic about the tradition of the "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" jingle, scoring homeruns, going to a ballpark and eating baseball hotdogs.
Baseball requires the most hand eye-coordination of all sports, and batters have on average only 0.4 seconds to react to a pitch which is remarkable considering the average human reaction is only 0.75 seconds. Add in where a pitch is thrown, the type of pitch and the spin rate and you can see how difficult baseball actually is.
Many consider baseball boring though. You could argue that the pace of play in requires great mental strength. There are just under 150 pitches thrown each game and each player must be locked in on each and every play even though they'll only be involved a handful of times. To the detriment of baseball, this is why some consider it a dying sport. The slow pace doesn't resonate with younger generations who find it boring.
Baseball is still the third most popular sport in the U.S., the favourite sport of over 9% of Americans but soccer is fast on its tail. It's also the second most participated sport behind only basketball, with 23 million players nationally. Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota are the only states in the US that don't sanction high school baseball.
2. Basketball
Basketball was invented in America, and is the only major sport that was invented in the US. It was invented by Canadian American James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 and has evolved into one of the most technically difficult sports to play professionally, behind only ice hockey and football.
The game of basketball is easy to learn and easily accessible to everyone which is why it's an important part of America. It's also why it has the most participants with 24 million Americans playing the game actively. The barriers are low for participation. All you need is a ball, to learn the fundamentals and a little bit of space as it doesn't require the space required to play baseball, football, soccer or ice hockey.
The evolution of basketball culture through sports, music and fashion is an unrivalled phenomenon in US sports. Basketball is the second most popular sport in America and the favourite sport of 15% of people. It may not be America's national sport, that title goes to baseball. But the NBA's influence globally makes basketball one of the biggest cultural influences on the planet.
American football is the most popular sport in America, the favourite sport of 37% of Americans. It's by far America's favourite sport and more than three times more popular than basketball which sits in second place. The action-packed intensity of football is able to connect people in ways other sports can't. American football has around 9 million players, well behind the 24 million that actively participate in basketball. American football however is the most played sport by high school and college athletes.
From a grassroots level high school football is an obsession with small town America and was a popular pastime well before globalization. The traditions of local high school football teams are able to create special bonds in communities like nothing else. The small town of West Monroe, Louisiana, has a population of only 13,065. but the West Monroe Rebels high school team are able to regularly sell out its 5,500 capacity stadium. The school also has a 230-member marching band, has won two national championships and eight state titles.
College football is arguably the most important sports culturally for America, especially for the southern United States. Athletes mirror American values of teamwork and resilience, playing with absolutely everything they've got as they try and make it to the NFL. Every year new students join colleges and in addition to college alumni so the fan bases of college football teams is always growing.
The NFL is also the most profitable sports league in the world and extremely popular because of its parity across all franchises. The tailgate party culture is also a significant part of American culture, able to bring fans together. The Super Bowl is also the most watched event in America and the annual championship game of the NFL is the biggest US sports event worldwide. Super Bowl Sunday is one of the most recognized parts of American culture worldwide and is considered an unofficial holiday where families and friends - even those who don't normally watch football - gather together to watch the game.
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kinab 2 months ago
Previously, I was confused about one thing. How on earth is a sport named football which isn't? and a sport named soccer which is actually football. 😄
sports.guy55 2 months ago
People who don't live in USA or Canada rarely get behind American Football. I think we are all just products of our environments. Just look at how crazy popular cricket is in India.. I don't know anyone that could even name a single cricket player :)
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There is a bit of a cult following for the NFL here in Australia and over in Germany too. You can see it in the amount of international NFL players. If London gets a franchise I think itll launch globally
I have heard about the potential of expansion into London but I think logistically speaking that would be really difficult to pull off especially for West Coast USA teams. A friend of mine who lives in the UK says that the exhibition NFL matches that they have in Wembley sell out really fast though.
It would be huge. The failing of the Toronto Wolfpack in the rugby league is a worry though