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6 Mind-Blowing Tech Trends Shaping the Next Decade
From quantum mechanics to psychedelics, the six major forces that will impact our lives over the coming decades
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Celu Ramasamy
CEO of Blockgenic
May 24, 2019 15+ min read
Innovations and disruptions are becoming increasingly common as they occur at never before seen rates. Many of the technologies that we expect to shape the future have already started making an impact on our lives. Yet, recent developments in these areas are pointing to significant repercussions that these technologies will have on our everyday lives in the future, often in unexpected ways.
Here are six key trends in technology that will impact our lives over the next decade.
1. Quantum mechanics and its impact on living processes.
The use of quantum mechanics in computing has led to significant progress in the creation of larger and more powerful machines that can solve complex problems that are outside the realm of capability for today's classical computers. IBM, Google and Intel are among the tech conglomerates making giant strides in the race to create truly functional quantum computers. Presently, IBM has a 50-qubit computer, accessible for use over a cloud platform which falls behind Google's 72-qubit chip. However, Google's version is yet to have practical applications to test it while IBM already has researchers working with it.
While scientists are looking into the mysterious forces of quantum mechanics that will deliver the next major computing breakthrough, quantum forces have been helping scientists unravel the mysteries of life itself.
In recent years, there have been some significant breakthroughs in the exciting field of Quantum Biology, a fast emerging discipline that examines whether quantum mechanics plays a fundamental part in biology and the living processes of organisms. In their landmark 2014 paper, a team at University College London found evidence that quantum mechanical forces play a crucial role in supporting energy transfer during photosynthesis in plants, or the fundamental process that ultimately powers most life on earth.
In the field of quantum computing, one of the barriers hampering the development of quantum computers is the high instability of qubits (the quantum equivalent of classical bits used in our present day computers). For quantum computing to work, the physical objects such as chips, which implement qubits, need to be in a supercooled energy state for qubits to remain stable. Even at that low temperature, qubits retain stability for an extremely short time; a challenge scientists are fighting to overcome.
As it turns out, though, living things including humans, have been relying on quantum mechanics at room temperature inside the wet and messy world of biology for a very long time. For instance, scientists are baffled by the manner in which enzymes accelerate processes. At times this acceleration is more than a trillion-fold. In recent decades, experiments have revealed a trick known as quantum tunneling. This is the process through which electrons vanish from one position inside a molecule and appear instantly in another. Evidence of the crucial role played by these quantum mechanical forces in many biological processes is fast emerging. This includes in respiration, vision, in shaping our sense of smell and even in affecting DNA mutations that are fundamental to the existence of all life.
As this emerging field develops in the coming decade, could these mysterious and confusing quantum forces that seem to defy all reality, help shed light on the ultimate question of what it means to be alive?
Related: IBM Just Made a Powerful Research Tool Available to Everyone for Free
2: CRISPR and the DIY gene editing movement.
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) refers to a technology that allows scientists to edit the DNA within genes to make precise changes to cells. An ability to alter the genetic blueprint of life essentially makes it possible to modify the traits of living things. It allows for high specificity, effectively knocking out specific genes, making precision edits to DNA, stimulating activation or repressing genes.
The technology has been around for the past decade or so and has been used to change the DNA of plants and animals in beneficial ways. It works by isolating a specific DNA strand and replacing it with the desired one. It has been used with success to create insect-resistant crop varieties and hardier livestock. However, it also offers great potential in healthcare. Cell modeling offers prospects of curing genetic diseases.
Some of the recent research projects in the field include efforts to wipe out malaria by introducing malaria-resistant mosquitoes and fixing defective bone marrow cells to cure sickle cell anemia. There is unlimited potential for CRISPR, but the science world is still in the early stages of figuring out practical applications for this technology. When a technique as powerful as CRISPR is born into the radically connected and open-source world of the internet, some interesting things (good and bad) tend to happen.
On the positive side, knowledge tends to flow away from being trapped behind the monolithic research labs of large corporations to being accessible and available in open communities. Similar to the counterculture movement that happened during the personal computer revolution in the 80s, there is a wave of citizen-driven, DIY research being powered by a new breed of amateur biohackers. But unlike during the PC era, the stakes are much higher now with CRISPR -- the hackers from the 80s couldn't mess with DNA, the blueprint for life.
Understandably, strong ethical concerns have been raised around the application of CRISPR technology. For instance, a year ago, a biotech CEO publicly injected himself with an untested treatment for herpes. This is, by no means, an exception in biohacking stunts. But, if harnessed correctly, the principles of openness and knowledge sharing that underpins these DIY biohacker movements will seed interest amongst a new breed of talent who otherwise might not have been exposed to the CRISPR technology at all.
It is important to encourage these open source biohacking movements, while also implementing strong ethical rules around them. Such movements will help seed interest in the next generation of Steve Jobs and Linus Torvald who might be biohacking away in their parent's garage right now!
Related: A Bill Gates-Backed Gene Editing Startup Is Going Public
3. Digital wealth, freelancing and non-traditional jobs.
The rich get richer by owning good appreciating assets. As such, an individual who only has a high income but does not invest in good assets cannot create long-term generational wealth. This is especially true in this age of disruption and career uncertainties. Gone are our parents' times of being a loyal employee to a company that would take care of you well into your retirement. Such career stability is a thing of the past. Flexible, short-term assignments and freelancing is the fastest growing job trend right now. According to a 2018 study conducted by Edelman Intelligence and Upwork, nearly half (46 percent) of Generation Z college graduates (born between 1997-2000) are opting to be freelancers rather than taking up traditional jobs. This number is only expected to grow in the next five years.
Just as Gen Z is coming of age and starting to enter the workforce, other technological developments like the advent of the blockchain technology and the creation of cryptocurrencies are starting to redefine the notion of what it means to own assets in a digital world.
A quick primer for the uninitiated, blockchain is a record-keeping technology that makes use of a distributed, decentralized, public ledger system. Simply put, it consists of a chain of blocks whereby a block contains digital information, and the chain is a public database. Blockchains form the foundation for the creation of digital assets which operate without the need for a central authority.
As challenging as it is to wrap our heads around some of these concepts, for the digital native generation the idea of owning property that exists only in the digital world will be second nature. Thanks to a ton of experimentation and innovation in the area of asset tokenization, a new generation of "easy to own," lightweight digital assets will be made available to the next generation. The next decade will showcase new types of digital asset types and hybrid asset ownership models that are unfamiliar to us today. However, like any new and emerging technology, a host of current growing pains will have to be addressed by entrepreneurs before the digital assets ecosystem can reach its full potential.
Over the next decade, these technologies will lay the foundation for democratizing access to assets for the next generation. In the same manner that the internet democratized access to information for our generation, digital assets will make new forms of wealth accessible for the digital native generation in the coming decade.
Related: The Most Important Blockchain Organizations You Should Know About
4. The legalization of marijuana and the study of psychedelic drugs.
In 1970, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) classified marijuana as a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drugs are said to have high risk and no counterbalancing benefit. Many theories have been proposed to explain the criminalization of marijuana at that time when their wide-ranging medicinal use was well known. But recent decades have shown a marked difference in the societal attitude towards these plants, including renewed interest from academia with calls for more research into their potential health benefits.
In a first for the industry, the US Food and Drug Administration in June 2018 approved a drug derived from the marijuana plant for the treatment of severe pediatric epilepsy. Additionally, 33 US states (and counting) have given medical marijuana legal status for treating a wide variety of illnesses.
In line with this trend, there has also been a resurgence in academic research into psychedelic drugs for treating "untreatable" mental disorders. They too are following more or less the same path as their close cousin, marijuana, after being made illegal as Schedule I drugs in 1977. Notably, such bans have mostly been due to pressure from big pharmaceuticals companies which are virtually uninvolved in the ongoing research.
Psychedelic drugs are chemical substances capable of inducing hallucinations as well as sensory disturbances. Some of the most well-known psychedelics include lysergic acid (LSD), psilocybin which naturally occurs in "magic mushrooms" and mescaline, found in the peyote cactus. In the recent past, institutions such as John Hopkins, New York University, UCLA and others have been researching the use of these drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety resulting from cancer, alcoholism and depression.
A recent study published by researchers at the John Hopkins University showed that psilocybin produced substantial and sustained decreases in depression and anxiety in patients with life-threatening cancer. Quoting the results of the study, "... mystical-type experiences on session days mediated the effect of psilocybin dose on therapeutic outcomes. Participants, staff, and community observers rated participant moods, attitudes, and behaviors throughout the study. High-dose psilocybin produced large decreases in clinician- and self-rated measures of depressed mood and anxiety, along with increases in quality of life, life meaning, and optimism, and decreases in death anxiety. At 6-month follow-up, these changes were sustained, with about 80% of participants continuing to show clinically significant decreases in depressed mood and anxiety. Study participants attributed improvements in attitudes about life/self, mood, relationships, and spirituality to the high-dose experience, with >80% endorsing moderately or greater increased well-being/life satisfaction, which was further supported by community observer ratings showing corresponding changes. "
Healing mental conditions like depression is complex and intricate due to the wide range of triggers, including the non-physiological factors that might be involved. Recent studies are showing a sharp rise in depression amongst our general population, especially amongst teens. These numbers are reaching never-before-seen epidemic proportions.
A noteworthy development took place in October 2018 when the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted psilocybin therapy for depression treatment, which is a Breakthrough Therapy designation. This designation presents a fast pathway for approval of drugs that display significant advantages over existing treatment methods. It even allows the FDA to assist and speed up the process.
Denver is the first US jurisdiction to relax regulations on psilocybin when voters approved a referendum to decriminalize the drug. More recently, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, psychedelics researcher Robin Cahart-Harris said that the drugs are edging closer to gaining regulatory approval. Noteworthy, too, is the fact that investments into the field are also coming in. In the summer of 2018, a startup backed by Peter Thiel, a renowned Silicon Valley tech investor, made enough profits from psilocybin to afford to send 20,000 people on a psychedelic trip. After that, in November, an entrepreneur from Germany launched Atai Life Sciences, a $25 million startup whose objective is to back up research studies into the therapeutic potential of psychedelics for treating psychiatric diseases.
By virtue of the advancements taking place in this area, the coming decade will see tremendous progress in fighting mental disorders that were previously elusive to treatment. Current research in this area might even provide a window into understanding the nature of our consciousness itself.
Related: How Open Relationships and Psychedelics Have Shaped This Entrepreneur's Mindset
5: A new space race and asteroid mining.
While 2018 was a great year for space travel, 2019 promises to be extraordinary with 25 various launches planned around the globe. As NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary since man's first lunar landing, its astronauts could go back to space from the Florida Space Coast for the first time in seven years. At the same time, NASA is pushing to return to the moon and even carry out a Mars exploration.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is currently working on commercial flights to the moon. SpaceX also has a busy year ahead after having flown a record 21 times in 2018.
China has laid out plans to dominate space, in spite of being a latecomer to the race. After NASA rejected the idea of landing on the far side of the moon, China landed its spacecraft Chang'e-4 there on January 3, 2019. The move was widely considered a remarkable achievement. They went where no man had gone before.
As the next space age heats up, one unexpected area that's poised for significant disruption is the precious metals industry. Asteroid mining, which was once science fiction, seems set to become one of the significant emerging areas related to space travel. There has been a lot of interest based on the revelation that the asteroid belt is positively brimming with mineral elements which are running low on earth. These include iron, nickel, water, gold, tungsten cobalt, ammonia, hydrogen, and nitrogen among others.
NASA is at the forefront of the initiative, as it plans to probe 16 Psyche, an asteroid that is entirely made out of metal. Located in the asteroid belt area between Mars and Jupiter, the 16 Psyche could potentially yield iron worth $10,000 quadrillion. According to NASA estimates, the entire asteroid belt could be worth nearly $700 quintillion ($100 billion for everyone on earth).
A significant benefit of asteroid mining is the potential to rid planet earth of damage resulting from mining exploits. It would also alleviate the current environmental crisis resulting from depletion of rare minerals. Mining on earth mostly occurs under highly unethical and toxic conditions. Taking it to outer space opens up the possibility of using robots, which cannot be exploited.
In a bid to harness the economic benefits of the initiative, organizations are already positioning themselves in readiness for future efforts. For instance, Luxembourg is already working on becoming the European haven for asteroid mining. Deep Space Industries is also developing technology to make asteroid mining feasible. Asteroid Touring Nanosatellite Fleet, which was proposed in 2018, could probably inform the first step in the initiative.
Asteroid mining is bound to impact the current precious metal industry significantly. Over the past century, gold has remarkably retained its high purchasing power for over a century. In 1913, an ounce of gold bought 157 gallons of gas. Today, more than a hundred years later, an ounce of gold buys over 546 gallons of gas. That's a 248 percent increase in purchasing power. But, with the advent of new deposits that become accessible through space mining, it will be interesting to see how well something like gold will hold up its purchasing power over the next 100 years.
According to John Zarnecki, the Royal Astronomical Society president and professor of Space Sciences at the Open University, getting a proof-of-concept could take 25 years. It might be another 50 years before the initiative gets a commercial start.
Related: Entrepreneurs in Space: Musk Shouldn't Have Mars All to Himself
6: The decade of the distracted mind and the rise of meditation.
Life in the digital world has made this the decade of the distracted mind. We witnessed a year of algorithms, content changes in 2018 (Snapchat, Insta, Tumblr) and social media backlash via altered images, fake news and Cambridge Analytica.
High accessibility to social media has had significant impacts on users. More than 210 million people globally are estimated to suffer from addiction to social media and the internet. Unfortunately, this has led to an increase in depressive symptoms for teens who spend five hours every day on their phones. As a result of the addiction, the number of young adults suffering negative effects on the quality of sleep increased from 26 percent in 2015 to 41 percent in 2017.
According to Professor Gabrielle Egan from the UK University of Montfort, "The problem with social networks is that they generate addiction… Nobody wants to spend hours every day updating their status and observing what other people think about them, nobody wants to do that consciously, but those behaviors are addictive… Once you get stuck in that loop, it's very hard to break it."
Notably, the average adult's attention span has fallen from 12 seconds in the year 2000 to about 8 seconds today. Compared to the pre-digital era, people living in the current age have to simultaneously deal with multiple stimuli rather than concentrating on a single one. The high competition for attention is, in turn, sparking renewed interest in age-old spiritual practices such as meditation and mindfulness.
Subsequently, the age of social media will inadvertently spawn an era of spiritual resurgence as people strive to find themselves amongst the chaos. In fact, in the rising quest for quietness, silent retreats and other mindfulness concepts are already becoming a trend. In 2017, books that offer a path to spiritual growth experienced a sales surge of 13 percent according to a global sales monitor. Similarly, in the US, over 14 percent of adults said they had practiced yoga in 2017, from a mere 9.5 percent in 2012. At the same time, recent studies have shown that the overall trend towards traditional religion has also been falling, especially among young adults.
Given these trends, as people continually strive to achieve that elusive work-life balance, mindfulness and wellness initiatives in various forms will take center stage, and new forms of digital spiritualism will gain momentum in the coming decades.
Related: 7 Proven Ways Meditating Prepares You for Success
To me, the most exciting aspect of examining future trends is the butterfly effect. This effect is the tendency of a single trend or technology to cause a snowball effect in seemingly unrelated areas. We can't pinpoint which of these butterfly effects will be dominant in the future. The key is to keep a close eye on each of these areas and recalibrate our thinking based on how each of these areas evolves over time.
Throwing rocks into a lake is an excellent analogy to demonstrate this process. You can reasonably predict that a number of these rocks are going to hit the water surface and that a bunch of waves are going to be created. However, trying to predict how exactly these waves will emerge and interact with other waves is a losing game. The first and most important step is to be watching in the right direction when these rocks hit the water's surface!
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Q: ANOVA when group differences aren't clear-cut I'm wondering if anyone can help me with a really tricky one-way independent ANOVA problem I'm having? Here's a bit of background:
There are 3 diagnostic groups (depression, anxiety, non-clinical). The groups are independent, but participants in the depression group might also have an anxiety diagnosis. The dependent variable is a continuous measures of self-esteem. A-priori power analysis indicated that I need around 50 participants per group to detect a medium effect, which I do. However, after doing an initial ANOVA to look at differences between these groups, I need to do a follow-up to see whether controlling for anxiety in the depression group affects the group differences (as they might just be similar on the DV due to shared high levels of anxiety).
I can't use the continuous measure of anxiety I've used to categorise participants into the diagnostic groups as a covariate, as this would remove the effect of anxiety in the anxiety group (which doesn't make much sense!) The only alternative option I've found is to split the depression group into 'depression with anxiety' and 'depression without anxiety' and then run another one-way ANOVA this way. However, the 'depression without anxiety' group is far smaller than 50, and so the test wouldn't be adequately powered.
Can anyone think of a way around this that results in a suitable, adequately powered test? Essentially, I need to control for a variable in one group but not the others!

A: As you seem to have a continuous measure of anxiety, you should take advantage of it.
Instead of continuing with an ANOVA-type analysis you could consider a linear model that specifically allows for both anxiety and depression scores for each individual. If you have anxiety and depression scores for each individual (including the non-clinical group) then you could use those scores plus an interaction between anxiety and depression scores to try to characterize your outcome. If we call the anxiety score "A", the depression score "D", and use ":" to represent the interaction then you could use a linear regression model:
outcome ~ A + D + A:D

That would also cover the non-clinical group, whose members presumably have low "A" and "D" scores. As your "A" score is continuous, this could work quite well even if "D" is binary. That would allow modeling of any combination of anxiety and depression score. This linear modeling of "A" and "D" and their interaction only uses up 3 degrees of freedom, versus the 2 in your ANOVA model, so your 150 cases should still be enough even if you, say, have to do some non-linear modeling of the "A" scores with a spline.
You will, however, have to be careful when interpreting the individual "A" and "D" coefficients with an interaction in the model. The coefficient for "A" will be the association of outcome with "A" when "D" is at its reference value (or 0 if continuous), and that for "D" will be the association of outcome with "D" when your continuous measure "A" is at a value of 0. If the interaction is significant then there won't be a single value representing either of anxiety or depression. That might be more complicated than you were hoping for, but if that's the reality then that is what your audience deserves to know.
That said, I am concerned about the issues raised by @BruceET with respect to re-design of the analysis after the data have been collected. I think this type of analysis will help get around those issues, but I haven't thought fully through whether the procedure for selecting the individuals for this study might lead to some problems if you proceed this way.

A: Re-designing an experiment after you see the data can be a direct path to false discovery.
If you can use pre-experiment information as criteria to split the Depression group for a post hoc analysis whether the two parts of it differ significantly. If so, then your report needs to admit the difficulty and unorthodox re-design along with findings.
Here are data for a design such as yours.
set.seed(2020)
NC = rnorm(50, 100, 20)
D  = rnorm(50, 115, 30)
A  = rnorm(50, 110, 20)
x = c(NC, D, A)
g = rep(1:3, each=50)
boxplot(x ~ g, col="skyblue2", pch=20)

oneway.test(x ~ g)

        One-way analysis of means (not assuming equal variances)

data:  x and gp
F = 3.5155, num df = 2.000, denom df = 95.537, p-value = 0.03364

A "re-design" based on illegitimate use of data, can produce bogus differences.
This is an extreme case, but it is why I mentioned that splitting the Depression
group needs to be based on pre-experiment information.
D1 = sort(D)[1:20]    # smallest into D1
D2 = sort(D)[21:50]   # largest into D2
y = c(NC, D1, D2, A)
gp = rep(1:4, c(50,20,30,50))
boxplot(y~gp, col="skyblue2", pch=20, varwidth=T)

oneway.test(y~gp)

        One-way analysis of means (not assuming equal variances)

data:  y and gp
F = 26.23, num df = 3.000, denom df = 65.733, p-value = 2.843e-11

t.test(D1,D2)$p.val
[1] 1.492356e-11

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Negri grew up hunting and butchering game animals with his dad and was planning on a career as a fish and game warden. At the beginning of his sophomore year at U of I he realized his true passion.
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The Atelier games have long been a favorite here. An interesting twist on the more traditional JRPG genre, the Atelier games are about being an alchemist, brewing concoctions, and generally saving the world/solving some big problems/learning alchemy/maintaining an atelier. After a length weight, Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book is finally here and is Gusts' first Atelier title built for the PlayStation 4. Does the Atelier series transition well to a next-gen console? Pretty darned well.
First off, I love the Atelier games. They are great, seriously, we have covered a few. Each title is chalkfull of a cast of lovable characters that each have their own struggles that tug at your heartstrings (nnnngggghhhh ... Ateleir Ayesha ...). Atelier Sophie is no different, though at times feels more lightweight than previous titles, with the affable, if airheaded Sophie leading the troupe this time around. While Eschy and Logy, or even Ayesha all had wonderful supporting characters, I have a serious "thing" for Sophie's friend and supporter, Monika Ellmenreich. Voiced in English by the stunning and vibrant Erica Lindbeck and voiced in Japanese by the utterly gorgeous, incredibly talented, and simply wonderful Suzaki Aya. She is Sophie's more serious friend and supporter, and frankly, one of my favorites in the entire franchise.
Monika aside, Atelier Sophie is a proper entry into the Atelier franchise, though I do have a few little (and I mean LITTLE) issues with it. The first issue is how you "glide" across the ground; simply walking across the screen shows Sophie sliding before stepping; it is extremely distracting and shows that Gust may still be stuck in the portables mindset. I would be more forgiving if this was a Vita port to the PlayStation 4, where the Vita is nowhere near as strong as the PlayStation 4, but it is not. Atelier Sophie was built for next-gen systems and this sort of amateur animation is troublesome. On the topic of amateur animation, and the second issue I have with Atelier Sophie is the lip syncing. Whether you are playing the game in Japanese (as you should be) or you are playing in English, the lip syncing is atrocious. The quality of syncing is PlayStation One era at best, and is a massive letdown given the quality of everything else in Atelier Sophie.
Though the Atelier games have always looked good, I was absolutely stunned by the gorgeous character art and animation (syncing and footsteps aside). Within minutes of meeting Monika, Sophie's childhood friend, I was in love, and even twenty and thirty hours into the game I am still floored by amazing vistas, stunning character art, or the deep and wonderful story. Add to that mix the tried-and-true atelier item gathering/crafting mechanics and a solid combat mechanic, and well ... you have one of Gust's best to date.
If the PlayStation 4 will continue to get priority from Gust I would like to see more attention spent on careful animation and getting away from the amateur-level animations and syncing that I see in Sophie. However, their writing remains top notch, their choice of seiyu and English voice actors remains some of the best in the industry, and their addictive blend of resource gathering, crafting, and more traditional JRPG goodness is masterful when it is at it's worst. Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book is a powerful entry into one of the best JRPG franchises to date.


If your weight is constantly fluctuating no matter what you do, the chances are you are focusing on the wrong weight loss method. As unbelievable as it seems, your bedtime routine may be a contributing factor to your undesired weight gain.
At the end of the day, we all want to sit down, watch our favorite TV show, and enjoy a large bowl of popcorn. However, a study done by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania shows found that eating food late at night can lead to sudden weight gain. And, it can increase cholesterol and insulin levels, negative affect metabolism, and cause hormonal imbalance.
Life is busy and chaotic these days, so we are constantly pressed for time to finish our daily tasks. This is why people often postpone sleep, but it has been scientifically proven that lack of sleep is leading to weight gain.
Researchers found that lack of sleep changes the release of hormones that regulate hunger, leading to increased appetite. To keep appetite in check and maintain healthy weight, an adult should get at least 7 hours of sleep.
It has been scientifically shown that being on phones or laptops before bedtime can inhibit sleep, which in turn leads to weight gain. Electronic devices contain blue light, which affects our sleep pattern. Therefore, to ensure a good sleep and maintain healthy weight, stay off of your devices at night time.
Caffeine in coffee blocks the molecules which induce sleep, which makes it a great morning drink. On the flip side, drinking it at night wards off sleep, which is associated with weight gain. Additionally, researchers have found that the consumption of chlorogenic acid, which is found in coffee, is related to weight gain.
According to a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology, exposure to light, whether it be a nightlight, a bedside lamp, or light from the hallway, increases weight and is also linked to an increase in depression.
With our tight schedules, it can be difficult to fit a workout in. Regarding exercising before bed, there are rumors around that it makes it difficult to fall asleep, which as we discussed earlier, is associated with an increased weight. However, these rumors are false! If you are having a difficult time sleeping, feel free to try a calming workout like stretching or yoga.


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require 'open3'
require 'tmpdir'

BIN_PATH = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "../mruby/bin/mruby-cli")

assert('setup') do
  Dir.mktmpdir do |tmp_dir|
    Dir.chdir(tmp_dir) do
      app_name = "new_cli"
      output, status = Open3.capture2("#{BIN_PATH}", "--setup", app_name)

      assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"
      assert_true Dir.exist?(app_name)
      Dir.chdir(app_name) do
        (%w(.gitignore mrbgem.rake build_config.rb Rakefile Dockerfile docker-compose.yml) + ["tools/#{app_name}/#{app_name}.c", "mrblib/#{app_name}.rb", "bintest/#{app_name}.rb"]).each do |file|
          assert_true(File.exist?(file), "Could not find #{file}")
          assert_include output, " create  #{file}"
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

assert('setup can compile and run the generated app') do
  Dir.mktmpdir do |tmp_dir|
    Dir.chdir(tmp_dir) do
      app_name = "hello_world"
      Open3.capture2("#{BIN_PATH}", "--setup", app_name)

      Dir.chdir(app_name) do
        output, status = Open3.capture2("rake compile")
        assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"

        output, status = Open3.capture2("mruby/bin/#{app_name}")
        assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"
        assert_include output, "Hello World"

        %w(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu i686-pc-linux-gnu).each do |host|
          output, status = Open3.capture2("file mruby/build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/#{app_name}")
          assert_include output, ", stripped"
        end

        output, status = Open3.capture2("rake test:bintest")
        assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"

        output, status = Open3.capture2("rake test:mtest")
        assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"
        assert_false output.include?("Error:"), "mtest has errors"
        assert_false output.include?("Failure:"), "mtest has failures"
      end
    end
  end
end

assert('version') do
  require_relative '../mrblib/version'
  output, status = Open3.capture2("#{BIN_PATH}", "--version")
  assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"
  assert_include output, "mruby-cli version #{MRubyCLI::Version::VERSION}"
end

assert('help') do
  output, status = Open3.capture2("#{BIN_PATH}", "--help")
  assert_true status.success?, "Process did not exit cleanly"
  assert_include output, "mruby-cli [switches] [arguments]"
end

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Never in her wildest dreams as a young girl growing up in Czechoslovakia did Ivana Zelnicek Trump think she'd be so rich and famous. In a communist country, she said, "you're neither rich nor poor, you just are . . . Everyone is equal, equally educated as well as equally lacking in riches. You can't excel."
At this interview in the newly renovated State Suite at the Plaza Hotel where she reigns supreme as the chief executive, Ivana talked about herself, how she met Donald, and her work first as an interior decorator, then as an executive for her husband's casinos and his most recent acquisition, the Plaza.
Blond, statuesque Ivana, wearing a simple green dress, the hemline hovering just above the knee, her firm voice heavily accented, said: "I'm half Czech and half Austrian. I was raised in Czechoslovakia, was educated in public schools and got my master's in physical education from Charles University in Prague." A sports enthusiast, Ivana went on to become an alternate for the Czechoslovakian Women's Olympic Ski Team.
An only child, Ivana's parents put her on skis when she was only 2. She won her first race at 6. A great believer that sports teach you "a lot of discipline and competitiveness," Ivana also was a champion swimmer at 12 and eventually had to choose between the two sports. Skiing won out. Today, weekends on the slopes are a favorite Trump family pastime, and the couple's three children - 11, 7 and 5 - were started on skis as soon as they could walk. Sports, Ivana Trump said, teach a "a lot of incredible characteristics which go with you all your life."
Ivana emigrated to Canada and became a successful fashion model in Montreal. She met her husband there at a dinner party during the 1976 Olympic Summer Games. Nine months later, in 1977, they were married.
Was it love at first sight? Not necessarily so. She claims she wasn't a dewy-eyed 18-year-old girl . . . it was his powerful energy that was a big attraction.
"I moved to New York and started to work for my husband." She did the interior design for Trump Tower, then when her husband opened Trump Castle in 1985 her opportunities expanded. In no time she was overseeing all the work from design to construction, from the kitchens to the blackjack tables, and likened her role to "running a small business." For her efforts, she is paid "$1 a year and all the dresses she can buy." About her much-publicized salary, Ivana says she and her husband are a team; they are working and building their empire together.
It is her latest hotel venture that has Ivana most excited. She talked with great enthusiasm of projected plans for the Plaza Hotel, the 81-year-old jewel of a hotel which her husband bought last June for $320 million.
"We have since done incredible work here," said the hotel's chief executive. "Three hundred rooms are now finished and hopefully another 300 will be done by September. The hotel is well on its way to its original glory. We're restoring it completely, from draperies to carpeting to walls, in all the rooms, suites and restaurants," she said.
The Plaza was the setting for a dozen or so shows of top New York designers during the recent market-press week in Manhattan.
Asked if she personally made a pitch to designers to bring their shows to the Plaza, Ivana replied: "Having been a model, I have always followed fashion. To get to all the shows I wanted to see, like you press people and the retailers, it was a nightmare attending a show uptown then rushing downtown in heavy traffic, many times missing a show because of the time involved in getting from one end of town to the other. I thought how nice it would be to have all the shows in one area. It makes sense to me to have the shows centrally located for the convenience. I love the fashion world and this makes a lot of sense. We're now working on trying to get the shows more localized for the spring-summer '90 season."
Needless to say, the press and retailers who cover the shows are delighted with Ivana's plan. She has provided a hospitality room for the media complete with coffee and tea poured from silver urns, and trays of French pastries and fresh fruit served from silver platters, as well as a computer and telephones.
This summer she is considering spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to renovate meeting rooms and ballrooms to better accommodate fashion shows on a larger scale. This will enable up-and-coming designers with limited budgets to show in a prestigious hotel rather than cramped downtown lofts or showrooms that have no embellishments.
"I used to go to Paris for my clothes; now I buy American. I feel if I'm going to be spending that kind of money for clothing, I'd rather spend it in this country," Ivana said.
Asked if she has a favorite designer, she replied: "No, I feel they all deserve the same treatment. Most of them are my friends, and no, I don't change my clothes for the different designer shows."
At 39, she has accomplished much in her life . . . married to a billionaire with a far-flung empire, running his businesses, mistress of three lavish homes, a mother of three children and active in charitable work. What more can she conquer in years to come?
"I'd be happy doing what I'm doing now. My husband has accomplished much in our 12 years of marriage. He's totally unpredictable; I never know what he's going to do next. Who knows what he'll buy next, what he'll be doing in years to come," she said with a laugh.
Her day is a busy one, she says. "I usually start around 9 o'clock and get home about 5:30-6 in the evening, in time to be with the children when they get home. But the children have their activities and usually don't get home until 5 p.m. My husband and I always have dinner with the children. We go out maybe twice a week to social engagements."
Does she cook? "No, not any more," she replied, "but used to. I'm a fairly good cook and I like to cook. I was into French cooking; I'd make these dishes with exotic sauces and my husband would look at the dish and say, 'Ivana where's my dinner?' He'd prefer a nice steak and potatoes to my gourmet dishes. Now, I don't have the time to cook."
Home is the triplex penthouse atop the Trump Tower. Then there's the mansion, Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., and the country estate in Connecticut where they like to spend weekends.
How is she instilling ethics and the value of a dollar in her offspring?
"Like all mothers, I tell my children not to smoke, take drugs, lie or steal. We tell them how hard we work for our money; that we didn't inherit it, we made it the old fashioned way - we earned it. They know how hard we are working. The children all have chores around the house. And, if they want something, like a new bicycle, we make them work for it."
Do the children speak foreign languages? Said Ivana, who speaks five including Russian, "Our oldest son, Donald, speaks Czech very well. Ivanka understands Czech, but the youngest is lazy. Of course, my parents now speak English well, so there's no reason to learn, I guess. But I'm working on it. They all speak French because they have it in school."
Asked about the life of her extensive wardrobe, Ivana said, "Some of my clothes are seven-eight years old. I may not wear them for a couple of years, then I take them out again. But the clothes I no longer want I give to my mother, who takes them to Czechoslovakia and distributes them among my friends because they can't get quality clothing there. So you see, my clothes are recycled."
Noting her model-like figure, she was asked if she has a rigorous fitness routine. "No, I don't," she answered. "But I've been active in sports all my life. I still ski, play tennis, swim, and I do exercise about twice a week. My cousin is a fitness enthusiast and she puts me through the paces. I hate her at the moment, but am glad that I've done it when it's all over," she said with a laugh. She also lists gardening as a favorite pastime.
What is the greatest challenge she faces? Without hesitation she replied: "Making the Plaza a five-star hotel."


Colombian star Shakira will perform at Univision's Upfront presentation May 16, Billboard has learned.
Shakira, who recently won the Billboard Latin Music Award for Hot Latin Songs artist of the year, female, will perform at the network's unveiling of its upcoming programming at New York City's Lyric Theater.
"Univision has been such an important partner throughout my career, and I'm looking forward to teaming up with them again for this new season, and to perform at Upfront," said Shakira in a statement, hinting at the possibility of other partnerships with Univision.
The Upfront presentations for Spanish language networks in this country have long been punctuated by performances from major Latin acts.
Shakira, who is expected to release an album later this year, comes to Univision with several recent hits under her belt, including "La bicicleta" with Carlos Vives and "Chantaje" with Maluma.


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The section also provides that if a public protection order without restriction is extended, a qualifying person may apply to the Tribunal within the period beginning with the date of extension and ending with the date on which the extension ends ("the extension period").
Additionally, the section provides that where a public protection order with restrictions, a hospital direction or hospital transfer direction is in force, a qualifying person may apply to the Tribunal within 6 months following the initial period or within any 12 month period beginning with the anniversary of the date of the making of the order or direction.


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We are a leading organisation in creating innovative solution in global freight and logistics that is proud to be customer driven and recognizes the value of long term mutually beneficial relationships to help create genuine stakeholder value.
To deliver worldwide, meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations in global freight forwarding and logistics.
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An indigenous firm, Beeptool Communications and Integrated Services Limited, has developed and unveiled a smartphone for low income earners.
According to the firm, the project was part of Beeptool's commitment to provide communication and digital access to everyone, everywhere and every time.
Speaking at the inauguration of Beeptool's Oyi-1 affordable smartphone in Abuja, the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of the firm, John Enoh, explained that the affordable smartphone concept was one where manufacturing and ancillary costs were covered by investors and stakeholders and handed to user who live on less than $2 a day at $1 or the nearest local single currency note.
He said the phone will be preloaded with advertising services platform capable of generating revenue for investors and sta keholders to cover the cost of the smartphone and further revenue for investors and stakeholders.
Enoh stated that the implementation of the first level in the affordable smartphone project was broken into three stages.
"Stage three is to distribute the 3,000 units to the public through a qualifying process," Enoh said.
In his address at the event, the Chairman of the occasion, Amb. George Ajonye, expressed confidence that the innovation would complement government's effort to improve the standard of living of Nigerians in the areas of communication, access to digital services and financial inclusion.
He said, "This innovation is unique in many ways. It provides access to digital services such as telephone, e-health, financial and data services in rural locations with or without grid power. In addition, these services are accessible with or without cellular network coverage.
Ajonye called for the support stakeholders to make the project a success in order to empower Nigerians with access to digital and financial services, particularly the low income earners in the society.
The Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer, Beeptool, Michael Ige, said the innovation would solve the problem of high cost of acquiring a smartphone for low income earners, adding that Beeptool fintech app, embedded in the smartphone, would provide access to digital and financial economy for the unbanked and underserved in Nigeria.
On rural connectivity, Ige said, "The nanosatellite network integration to Beeptool fintech app and other apps or devices solves the challenges of network infrastructural deficit in remote and rural part of Nigeria. This also eliminates the risk in the use of USSD and SMS.
Ige urged stakeholders to fund the Oyi-1 affordable smartphone project and noted that with such partnerships, the firm would be able to narrow the access gap and improve the welfare of citizens in Nigeria and sub Saharan Africa.
He noted that as soon as the concept was announced, Beeptool opened up sponsorship opportunity, which was still open, to potential investors and promised that the firm would recoup the investments through services revenue within 12 to 18 months.
He further explained that the funds from sponsors would be used to cover the true cost of the smartphone.
This, he said, would enhance sustainable and profitable poverty alleviation by connecting underprivileged Nigerians to the digital economy.


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Morneau's message to employers: 'Get ready to rehire people' with subsidy
By Todd Humber
The federal government's wage subsidy program to help employers is expected to cost $71 billion and the money should start flowing to employers in six weeks, said Finance Minister Bill Morneau today in Toronto.
"My message to Canadian employers is this: Get ready to rehire people," he said. "You can apply online through a Canada Revenue Agency portal that will launch soon."
The Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) provides 75 per cent of a worker's wages for the first $58,700 of regular salary up to a maximum of $847 a week per employee. The criteria is that revenue has to have declined my 30 per cent or more.
Defining the revenue decline
Morneau said the criteria is simple — eligibility will be determined by comparing the revenue for the month in 2020 with the same month in 2019.
So if revenue dipped 30 per cent in March 2020 versus March 2019, the employer would be eligible for the CEWS.
Companies will have to reassess revenue each month and apply for the subsidy.
As long as the decline remains 30 per cent or more, the benefit would be available to that organization, said Morneau.
All organizations, regardless of size, are eligible for the subsidy — with the exception of publicly funded ones, he said.
Don't game the system
Morneau repeated a warning issued by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier that there would be harsh penalties for any organization or individual who tries to game the system.
"There will be severe consequences for any bad actor," said Morneau, calling the CEWS a "high trust system" with penalties for anyone who breaks that trust.
He also said employers should attest they're doing everything they can to pay the remaining 25 per cent of a worker's income.
"We know that this may not always be possible," said Morneau. "The system will be flexible."
Eye-popping price tag
The program is expected to cost taxpayers $71 billion, though Morneau pointed out there will be a decline of about $24 billion in costs related to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB). The CERB was announced earlier and provides a benefit of $2,000 per month for people who have lost work but are not eligible for employment insurance.
That's far higher than some initial estimates from Canada's banking sector, which pegged the cost more in the $25 billion to $28 billion range.
"This is the largest economic program in Canada's history," he said. "We have to take this measure to protect Canadian jobs."
Hospitality sector eligible
The finance minister underscored the point that the wage subsidy is available to the hospitality sector. It has been one of the hardest hit by COVID-19.
"I know restaurants and bars have been particularly hard hit by this pandemic," he said, adding that non-profits and charities are also eligible.
Morneau called the various programs launched by the government a "boost to the confidence that we all need in this challenging time."
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SPAIN: Offshore floating project Hiprwind has been put on hold, with no immediate timeline to push the plans forward, according to the project leader, German research organization Fraunhofer Institute.
The project was to consist of a 3MW floating turbine at a demonstration site off Spain's north-east coast.
It had already been delayed considerably, with the project undergoing a partnership reshuffle last year, amid rumours that Acciona, which was to supply the turbine, was negotiating its withdrawal.
In October 2013, a spokesperson from Fraunhofer said that the floating platform was "under manufacture" and that the commissioning of the turbine, at a deep water site in the Bay of Biscay, would begin in mid-2014, already a year behind the initial schedule. This is now off the cards.
The project was launched in 2010 as a cooperation between 19 European companies from eight countries. The EUR 20 million project was 60% funded by the European Union, the largest investment by the EU in an offshore wind research project.
The turbine would have been mounted on an anchored triangular structure. Each triangle corner, with a 30-metre separation, would have rested on 20-metre submerged steel conical tubes.


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2019: The year that privacy got real for marketers
December 26, 2019 • marketers, privacy
Europe's GDPR took effect in May 2018, but 2019 was the year privacy got real for marketers in the U.S. There was a convergence of legal, technological and cultural factors that forced brands, publishers and tech companies to confront privacy head-on in ways they'd been trying to avoid for years.
CCPA comes into sharp focus
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was passed in 2018 and came into sharp focus this year, as January 1, 2020 has approached. As we draw closer to that implementation deadline, the IAB, DAA and a host of software companies have introduced "compliance frameworks" and tools to help marketers and publishers address the requirements of the act.
However, there's still considerable corporate foot dragging and uncertainty. That's consistent with what happened with GDPR compliance. Indeed, many companies operating in Europe are still not fully compliant more than a year and a half later. With CCPA, there won't be any enforcement actions before July 1, 2020, giving affected marketers some additional time to get in line.
For much of 2018 and early 2019, big tech companies and industry trade groups criticized and fought CCPA — trying to weaken it with unsuccessful amendments – because of anticipated compliance costs and fear that more limited access to data would harm revenues or disrupt the ads ecosystem. That very much remains to be seen.
The war on third-party cookies and 'bad ads'
In September, Firefox launched Enhanced Tracking Protection, which included default third-party cookie blocking. Apple updated Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) to strength anti-tracking and cookie blocking capabilities and rules:
ITP now downgrades all cross-site request referrer headers to just the page's origin. Previously, this was only done for cross-site requests to classified domains.
ITP will now block all third-party requests from seeing their cookies, regardless of the classification status of the third-party domain, unless the first-party website has already received user interaction.
Google Chrome, which controls 64% of the global browser market, also expanded third-party cookie blocking, claiming it was doing so in a smarter way (than Apple). And in July, Chrome rolled out ad filtering on a global basis. All ads that fail Better Ads Standards are now potentially blocked.
The rise of 'surveillance capitalism'
This was also the year when the ominous term "surveillance capitalism" entered the digital lexicon and became mainstream, appearing in books and news articles, culminating in a December 21 NY Times editorial "Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For."
China is the leading example of the dark side of digital technology, in the service of domestic surveillance. But in some ways, America isn't that far behind. And mobile-location tracking is at the center of the debate over privacy and personalization in this country.
Technology companies, which went from being seen primarily as job creators, innovators and purveyors of social good, have been increasingly vilified. Facebook, in particular, stumbled badly in addressing privacy and data scandals it confronted over the past few years, captured in the Netflix documentary "The Great Hack."
But most technology companies, for reasons that aren't entirely clear, have failed to educate consumers and the broader market about the value of their services and methodologies. As a result, often sensational journalistic pieces filled the void and helped fuel popular distrust.
Consumers are now highly concerned and even fatalistic about technology and privacy. It's to the point where 90% of consumers said they would click "do not sell my personal information" under CCPA. We'll see if that actually happens.
Conclusion: Privacy is your friend
A cultural and legal Rubicon of sorts has been crossed. Privacy will now be a central feature of the user experience going forward. Privacy-conscious consumers will reward companies that are more transparent and shun those that are opaque or manipulative. One could argue the failure of Facebook's Portal smart display is a byproduct of a lack of trust in the company.
Ethics and trust will also be critical features of a brand's long-term value. Indeed, there's early evidence that privacy is becoming a competitive advantage. The way forward for marketers involves a wholehearted embrace of privacy and the creation of genuine value for consumers in exchange for their personal data. There really is no other alternative.
Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes about the connections between digital and offline commerce. He previously held leadership roles at LSA, The Kelsey Group and TechTV. Follow him Twitter or find him on LinkedIn.


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Q: Feed for responses for all SE sites? I just found the per-site response feeds like:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/feeds/user/<user-id>/responses

Is there a feed for responses on all SE sites?

A: No, such a feed does not exist at this time...nor do we have plans to add one.  From a back-end standpoint, we don't aggregate this data, and it'd actually be tricky to do so without duplication or heavy query cost (one or the other, maybe both).


One lucky supporter could walk away considerably richer by getting their new-look Golden Gamble ticket ahead of Saturday's Emirates FA Cup game at home to Reading!
All money made by the Golden Gamble goes straight to funding the Huddersfield Town Academy, with the rest of the money going straight to supporters in winnings!
An amazing £30,000 was given away to fans who have bought a £1 ticket around the ground on home match days last season – and more cash will be on offer this weekend.
The first prize is on offer to everyone who buys a ticket from a seller, who will be wearing special Academy-branded t-shirts around the ground.
If your ticket is the first prize winner, make your way to pitch side during the half-time interval to play 'Take Your Pick' – where another £2,500 could be yours!
Watch David Wagner's Town side in action this weekend for just £10 in cash at the gate!


"According to the symbolic interactionist perspective, the self is a process" (Rohall, Milkie, & Lucas, 2014).
This means that we continually take in the information around us such as to the perceived opinion of others about who they think we are. Do they seem to think we are cool, uncool, funny, not so much? Their subtle reactions to us are unconsciously taken in and weighed against previous experience to help form our sense of self or our identity. This is true for us all even our children and teens.
Thinking more about teens, it really gives new insight into teen behavior and sense of self. This really helps us to understand their difficulty in finding an identity. Not only do teens try out different personas, but they are trying to determine whether they are a good or bad person.
Teens are meeting new people as they head into middle school and then high school. Whichever group seems to accept them, will likely be the identity they choose for this time in their life. Imagine a teen girl who wants to be part of the prep crowd. She will attempt to look and act like the prep crowd. If accepted she will continue to see herself as a prep. But if she is unaccepted, she will likely look for a new group to identify with.
Even though other teens play a large role in who they choose to be, we as parents and family members still play a pivotal role in how they perceive themselves. They are still looking to us for affirmation that they are good people. Our role is to always see our children in the best light. We need to be careful to separate their behavior from who they are. They are going to make some bad choices but this does not make them bad people. Look for the good and reflect it back to them. Let's always reflect love and acceptance so they can love and accept themselves.
Rohall, D. E., Milkie, M. A., & Lucas, J. W. (2014). Social psychology: Sociological perspectives. Boston: Pearson Education.


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Is Vizag cricket stadium lucky for the Indian Cricket Team?
Vizag, the city of destiny, has always been proved to give positive results when it comes to the Indian Cricket Team and the same trend follows this year too. The famous ACA-VDCA cricket stadium, set on the outskirts of Visakhapatnam amidst scenic hills, has hosted many International as well as Interstate IPL matches including 1 Test match, 6 One Day Internationals and 1 T20I as till November 2016. India has won a T-20 match against Sri Lanka, One Day against New Zealand and now the first Test match in Visakhapatnam against England.
The ACA-VDCA ground has been very lucky for Virat Kohli as he managed to score many runs including some centuries while playing in the city of destiny. The ACA-VDCA stadium is also the place where Virat scored two One Day century and one Test century. He scored 99, 117, 118 and 65 against New Zealand on October 29 and 167, 81 in the test match against England which took place recently.
The growing attraction of Vizag amongst the Indian cricket players can be seen clearly through their tweets as they address the city as clean, beautiful and lucky for Indian cricket's future. Many famous lead cricketers including Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh have praised the cleanliness in Visakhapatnam and its beautiful landscapes in their tweets.
Earlier this year, MS Dhoni tweeted about how he would love to live in Vizag with its beautiful landscapes and beaches and that Vizag is the home to his first big inning. While addressing the media after the Indian Cricket team won the test match, Virat Kohli said that Vizag is his lucky ground along with Adelaide in Australia. He further added, "The people are extremely encouraging and the crowd helped our confidence. I would love to play in Vizag any time." The highest runs scored by the Indian cricket team in Visakhapatnam is 356 in 50 overs in one inning.
The coming time would show all the surprises that the city of destiny has to offer to the Indian cricket team. All we have to do is to wait till the Indian cricket players show their skills on the ACA-VDCA ground next time.
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Pubdate: Fri, 07 Jan 2005
Source: Barrie Advance, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 Metroland Printing, Publishing and Distributing
Contact:  http://www.simcoe.com/sc/barrie/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2192
Author: Janis Leering, The Advance
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mdma.htm (Ecstasy)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)
ECSTASY - THE DEADLY CLUB DRUG OF CHOICE
While there may not be many rave parties across Simcoe County, Stephen
Meredith knows so-called 'club drugs' are still found in the area.
Meredith, with the Centre For Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto,
warned county health professionals about the dangers of Ecstasy and
other drugs, during a recent presentation sponsored by Think Clear.
Meredith was in Midland to talk to pharmacists, police, lab
technicians and youth workers about the myths and dangers of club drugs.
"We are hoping to share information with the community and while
Ecstasy was not identified as a particular problem here, it's
something they should know about," he said.
Meredith said Ecstasy is a coloured pill commonly found at club
parties in Toronto, but said levels of drug use don't differ across
the province, which means it is being used in this area too.
"If there's no club scene here, kids are taking the drugs at bush
parties or house parties."
He said teens' perception is that Ecstasy, also called 'E', isn't a
hard drug.
"People think it's risk-free and they just
want to have a good time with it. They do think it's different than
cocaine, and it may be in some senses, but there are still people who
have died after taking the pill."
Meredith said teens taking Ecstasy may also decide to drink, or smoke
marijuana while at a party.
"Poly drug use is a huge issue, it's as if people are becoming
self-pharmacists, deciding how much to take and when they should take
He said Ecstasy, or Methylene DioxyMethAmphetamine (MDMA) was made as
far back as 1912 and was tested by the United States army intelligence
in 1953, to try and disorient enemy troops. But it was discontinued
after a death occurred.
In the 1980s, it made a comeback as Ecstasy, even though it was
restricted in Canada, and Meredith said very little is known about the
long-term effects of the drug.
Ecstasy is a man-made drug that usually contains MDMA, and it can
contain caffeine, codeine, cocaine and other drugs or impurities that
can make harmful combinations.
The small pills, with different logos stamped onto them, are usually
sold for $15 to $20, and it is seen as a social drug that enhances the
"It lessens your inhibitions. It's 60 per cent a stimulant, and 40 per
cent a hallucinogen, and it makes someone feel like they're on cloud
nine," said Det. Const. Rick Dupuis, with the Huronia Combined Forces
Drug Unit.
"The speaker was talking about raves in the city and we don't
experience that here (in Simcoe County) because of our population base.
"But it is in the area. On Nov. 12, in Wasaga Beach, we went into a
'flop' house, where there was E, marijuana and cocaine."
Dupuis said he has seen Ecstasy in Simcoe County only for the past
three years but as a police officer, it has been hard to
investigate.
"Most of the youth involved are aged 14 to 22 years old, so it's not
like we can blend in with them for an (undercover)
investigation."
Dupuis said parents play an important role to cracking down on club
"E is just like marijuana, where parental supervision is important.
Parents should know who their children are hanging out with, and where
they are going."
For example, Dupuis said a 13 year old was visiting the Wasaga Beach
home at 11 p.m. and that shouldn't happen.
"Being a good parent is no guarantee, but you should have an idea
where your child is."
Dupuis said E is seen as a designer drug and the use of it all comes
down to peer pressure.
"Everyone is popping a pill, and some kids try it because their
friends are."
Another drug becoming more prevalent in the drug scene is OxyContin,
but Meredith said there isn't a lot of it in Ontario just yet.
"It's a concern because it is an opiate, which is very
addictive."
OxyContin is a legally-produced prescription drug, which can be quite
harmful. It's similar to morphine, and is meant to be slowly released
into the body.
"Users break it down and inject it, and there are reports of it
becoming more popular in the East Coast."
Meredith said he was surprised the questions after his presentation
were about drug use in general, not so much about club drugs.
"There were questions about OxyContin and embalming fluid, and a
couple of other things, so the impression I got was that club drugs
isn't a huge issue."
The E and other club drugs presentation was sponsored by Think Clear,
a group of Simcoe County partners who want to bring awareness to drug
and alcohol issues to the community.
The 150 guests were given a copy of a new pamphlet on Ecstasy that was
created to educate parents and students about the drug.
"This is the only resource for E for young people," said Velma
Shewfelt, project co-ordinator of Think Clear.
The book was designed by graphic design students at Georgian College,
with basic information about Ecstasy, and it is now available at local
health unit offices across the county.
"We heard there was a need for this from educators, because you can't
always trust what you read on the Internet."
MAP posted-by: Derek


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Q: what are the conditions under which mysql replication might break? I am running mysql server in master/slave configuration mode. There are multiple slaves replicating from a master. They are working fine and their replication status is monitored.
One of the slaves serves for a special purpose. The devs have given me a set of update queries to be run on replicated slave db on slave A.
They are updating old records in a table in a db (modifying a column data for lot of records).
Questions

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*Is there any way I can figure out if the given query will break the replication ?

*For the future, how do I determine if the query will break the replication or not ?

A: Given that MySQL Replication is dual-thread, it is importatnt to recognize how Replication looks when it is broken. There are four main topics is this area
SQL Thread Dies
The SQL Thread is responsible for

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*Getting the Next SQL Statement fromt the Relay Logs

*Executing the SQL Statement

*Rotating Relay Logs by Deleting any Relay Log that had all its SQL Entries Executed

If any SQL error happens, the SQL Thread simply dies and the following is posted to its Slave Status:

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*Error Number

*Error Message

*SQL statement that experienced the Error

*Current database

*Master Log File where the SQL Originated

*Master Log Position where the SQL Originated

This gives an opportunity to troubleshoot, skip the error, run the SQL statement by hand, start replication back up. Sometimes it may be a SQL-based error, such as error 1062 (Duplicate Key). Other times, it may be related to the Storage Engine or the OS.
To figure out if an SQL statement will break replication, you should take any DML (INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE) and make a corresponding SELECT using the WHERE clause of the DML. Then, run that SELECT to see if the data you are about to manipulate really exists or not.
I/O Thread Dies
The I/O Thread is responsible for four(4) things:

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*Downloading SQL from the Binary Log Entries of a Master

*Recording SQL into its Local Relay Logs as a FIFO queue

*Acknowledging Communication Failure

*Attempting the Reestablish of I/O Thread

Any network latency may cause the I/O Thread to simply die and retry connection. Once a while under those circumstances, the Slave's viewpoint of the Master's log file and position (as logged in its relay logs) may be out-of-sync with what Master actually recorded in its binary logs.
Other side effects may include corrupt relay log entries

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*caused by bad network transmission, which can be corrected by running CHANGE MASTER TO from the last SQL statement from the Master that the Slave executed.

*caused by corrupt binary log entries on the Master which was successfully transmitted to the relay logs, which can be corrected by

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*RESET MASTER; on the Master to Zap all binary logs

*setting up replication from the new current binary log

*using pt-table-sync to correct differences

Temporary Table Usage
Troubleshooting this is like playing "pin the tail on donkey". Most developers are unaware of this until it happens and you try to fix it not realizing where the cause of this began. Here is the scenation: If you use CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE on a Master, it will replicate to the Slave. During the time the table is in use, it will be kept in existence in the SQL Thread. If you issue STOP SLAVE;, the SQL Thread is voluntarily killed along with all temporary tables the SQL Thread was holding. You do not realize that this has occurred until you issue START SLAVE; and the SQL Threads dies again because the needed temp table no longer exists.
To fix this, you have perform surgery on the master's binary logs and replication as follows:

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*Step 01) Locate the exact log file and position the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE was issued on the Master

*Step 02) Locate the name of the database that the CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE was meant for

*Create the table using CREATE TABLE instead of CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE

*Step 03) Run CHANGE MASTER TO using the file and position from Step 01

*Step 04) Run START SLAVE; until Replication catches up or another table's nonexistence (due to CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE) breaks replication for this same issue

*Step 05) If replication breaks again because of CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE on a different table, go back to Step 01

Network Inconsiderations
Once upon a time, there was a tendency for MySQL to say Replication was running when, in fact, it was not. This can happen when the network has intermittency that may delay data transmission of binary logs but not severe enough to timeout the I/O Thread. Since the MySQL process can be inconsiderate by being a little insensitive to the network, I affectionately call this "Network Inconsideration". While the bug report on this is closed, it is good to have multiple ways to check MySQL Replication as to its ability to run, especially the I/O Thread. Using MySQL 5.5, you could adjust the sensitivity of the I/O Thread using the the heartbeat and timeout parameters centered around Semisynchronous Replication.


Ryanair, the budget airline, has reported a 19 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to &£155m for the year to the end of March. The airline says that it remains confident about the rest of the year, as sales for the summer months are strong.
The Telegraph Group has appointed Alex Foster as head of classified advertising. Foster was head of sales at Guardian Recruitment Solutions.
John Ayling & Associates has been appointed by Allianz Cornhill Animal Health to handle the £1m account for its Petplan pet insurance brand following a four-way pitch against undisclosed agencies.


Autism: Understanding The Puzzle: What to do at 22?
Utah Education Network (UEN) and the Autism Council of Utah (ACU) have partnered, in part, with the Utah Parent Center serving families in the Davis School District, to bring this important film to our community. Following the film, parents and advocates will share their experiences with coming of age decisions.
MassMutual sponsored this documentary which was produced by public television station WGBY (Springfield, MA) to help raise awareness of the challenges faced by individuals with autism and their families as their students "age out" of the public education system.
This presentation is provided for you free of charge but registration is appreciated.
Parking: South of the building – excuse the dust, our new school is under construction.
Special thanks to the Vista Education Campus administration for support with community outreach and venue.


Entrepreneurship is not only about hard work or smart work. Its also about spotting an opportunity where no one sees it.
Several years ago I met a Venezuelan oil and shipping businessman by the name Raphael Tudela. As I have come to know, respect, and admire him, he has impressed me as the quintessential street-smart executive. He has built a billion-dollar business from scratch in less than twenty years. He seldom deals in written contracts because his word is his bond. He has always made his own breaks. And his principal business, which is oil speculation, relies on his constant process of seeing opportunities where no one else does and taking advantage of them.
In other words, Raphael Tudela is a genius at taking the edge. One of the best illustrations of this –of how he has the facts, knows what people want, and figures out a way to give it to them- is the story of how he got in the oil business in the fist place.
When he – a glass manufacturer operating alone with no previous connections or experience in the oil business- got to Argentina, he discovered his competition was formidable: British Petroleum and Shell Oil.
But feeling around a little bit he also discovered something else: Argentina had an oversupply of beef which they were desperately trying to sell. By knowing this one fact –his first "edge," so to speak- he became at least an equal to Shell and BP. "If you will buy $20 million of butane from me," he told the Argentine government, "I will buy $20 million of beef from you." Argentina gave him the contract contingent upon his buying the beef.
Tudela then flew to Spain, where a major shipyard was about to close down from lack of work. It was a political hot potato and an extremely sensitive issue for the Spanish government. "If you will buy $20 million of beef from me," he told them, "I will build a $20 million supertanker in your shipyard." The Spanish were ecstatic and delivered a message to Argentina through their ambassador there that Raphael Tudela`s $20 million of beef should be sent directly to Spain. Once again he had found the edge and taken it.
Sun Oil agreed, and Raphael Tudela fulfilled his desire to get in the gas and oil business.
Before Tongue Goes On The Accelerator, Put Your Ear In Gear.
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From 23 – 24 November 2009, the Egypt Air delegation visit Mozambique to participate in the 41st Annual Conference of the General Association for African Airways.
From 17 – 26 September 2009, Egyptian National Team for Basketball (Youth) visit Mozambique to participate in the African Champion.
From 19 – 23 February 2009, Assistant of Minister of Foreign Affairs visit Mozambique and meeting Mozambique Officials.
The Egyptian Fund for Technical Cooperation with Africa visit Mozambique to evaluate the Cotton Corps.


An excellent recipe for your breakfast: a vegan blackcurrant smoothie. It is one of the recipes of the Best of Cassis Smoothie contest 2017. The participants had to use blackcurrant concentrate in their recipes. You may, of course, not be able to buy this in a shop. But blackcurrant concentrate is nothing more than what it says: concentrated blackcurrant juice. You can simply replace it with the double of the amount of pure blackcurrant juice. Keep in mind: pure blackcurrant juice does not contain any added water or sugar!
Mix well all the ingredients in a blender. Pass the smoothie through a sieve in order to retain the raspberry seeds.