Have you ever gone camping for the weekend, and didn't really start to slow down until the weekend was over? For the average adult– that is one who has a job, bills, family, stress, or simply life wearing them down—it can take up to 2 days of being in the woods before you really begin to enjoy it.
You can throw out as many excuses as you want. Unpacking and setting up a tent can be stressful? You forgot something important at home? You have a deadline or due date looming over your head? Maybe you feel guilty about taking a break from life to go into nature and relax.
Unfortunately, that transition period can interfere with your whole purpose of going camping. You need to get away from it all and unwind because that's how you reconnect. That's how you return as the best you that you can be. If it takes you two days to get there on a weekend camping trip… what about a hike that only last a couple hours?!
Physical and mental relaxation goes hand in hand with nature observation. When you bring your troubles into the woods with you, you will not be able to get the intended results out of your nature observation experience. In the worst possible scenario, you may leave feeling even more stressed than before you began.
To Achieve Full Relaxation, You Must Let Those Thoughts Go!
Before entering a natural environment, you must free your mind and body of all tension. Study common meditation practices, because that is the most effective way to reach the right state of mind so you can concentrate on seeing more, feeling more, and experiencing more of your surroundings.
A natural environment is no place for the worries of civilization, and people go into nature observation to get away from it all… so it is counter-productive to bring all that garbage with you!
Simple Meditation Exercise – Do Try This At Home!
Lay down on your back, or sit in a very comfortable position, and relax your body starting with your feet then working up to your head. Massage if necessary. Once your body is relaxed, close your eyes and quietly count backwards from 100 down to one.
This simple meditation exercise works because it concentrates your mental efforts only on the numbers you're counting and does not allow any other thoughts into your mind. Whatever meditation exercise you use, the concentrated state of mind should be brought into the woods so you can continue to focus completely on nature observation… to see, feel, and experience as much as possible in a natural environment.
It only takes a quick glance around the natural world to see that camouflage is one of the most effective defense mechanisms ever developed. It is for this reason that we see it utilized by a large number of organisms that are preyed upon, and in many cases it is an amazingly successful strategy.
In this article, I'll discuss some of the reasons why things are seen, and how you can use that knowledge to keep yourself from being detected. This information should help you when considering your own survival efforts.
It should be noted first and foremost that the human visual system (and the visual system of most other animals) is geared toward detecting changes in the environment. This is in and of itself a survival mechanism, as a non-changing environment poses potentially less of a threat than a changing one. For example, you can imagine that you would feel more at rest in a peaceful clearing with no one around than you would in that same clearing if you constantly saw movement in the trees and heard unidentified noises all around you.
The idea that people and animals notice change more than stasis is the foundation for all forms of camouflage. If you can make yourself resemble your environment more, it will allow you to blend in with your surroundings. Because you blend in, others will be less likely to notice you as there will be less disturbance of their normal visual scene.
The visual system is tuned to recognize any changes, but because we know that certain things indicate movement by a potential predator we are especially tuned into them. For example, changes in the surface of something, including the color or pattern, are sure indications that there is another presence in the environment. Also, moving shadows or alterations in the spacing between two objects are sure signs that someone or something else may be near. These types of changes are what we are particularly tuned into, and it is these changes that you must minimize in order to go unnoticed.
nding on the background it rests upon. Countless other examples abound throughout nature, however, including leopards, foxes, insects, etc. All of these creatures are trying to reduce the amount of change they introduce into their environment in order to go unnoticed and thus stay alive longer.
It is great to know why things are seen, but what we are concerned about here is using that information to your advantage when it comes to survival. Knowing that things are seen based on the concept of change indicates that one of the first steps toward creating good camouflage is minimizing that change. In order to do that, you must know your environment.
Thus, the first step to camouflage is to know the area you are trying to blend in with. If you are trying to blend into an urban environment, your camouflage strategy will differ drastically from if you are trying to blend into a woodland environment. Either way, you should don clothing and bodypaint that matches your surroundings.
In addition to body paint and clothing, you should consider rubbing some natural debris on your body to allow you to blend in further. Natural debris in a city environment might be garbage, while in the woods it could be dirt, leaves, and branches.
Your disguises shouldn't begin and end with camouflage, however. You should also pay attention to creating the proper environment to hide in. It is essential to find a good location where it is likely you will be able to blend in. Once you've done this, prepare your location just as you do your body, for maximizing stasis over change.
Blending in with your surroundings is an essential part of survival. In order to make it in an unsafe world, you must master this technique. To do so, keep in mind the way the visual system works and work to minimize the changes you cause in the environment around you.
Tracking is a crucial survival tool because it helps you to gather food. Water, carbs and proteins can be located by tracking and understanding the animals and their hidden paths called game trails.
A tracker is a reader of signs. A sign is a clue that talks about who left the clue.
A tracker requires just few light bits of information from the surroundings and, by deduction and comparison with previous experience, recognizes paths.
In remote areas, a tracker has the ability to discover the game trails and is able to follow them from their sleeping areas to their feeding locations, where trapping is simpler.
When tracking game near to civilization, man-made boundaries like fences and irrigation ditches, pushes game through bottlenecks, making them easier to follow.
Search the ground out to 4 meters until a trail is found.
Move head and eyes from side to side, back and forth.
Look through the vegetation and the undergrowth, not at it.
Observe as close to ground level as possible.
Try to keep the sign between you and and the light source.
For tracking, a general ability to see isn't sufficient. You have to synthesize information and be able to put details together, just like Sherlock Holmes, and make a story about what has happened. If you are patient, determined and continuously questions your personal hypotheses, you'll stay ahead of your quarry.
The very first skill of tracking is the most essential one: sign awareness. There isn't any magic formula to develop this skill. Each day search for and pay attention to any kind of signs such as tracks, fingerprints, footprints, tracks, and so forth. As you walk along a sidewalk, look for coins and other dropped items. With persistency you will learn to spot the fine features of sign everywhere. When that occurs, you are ready to become a tracker.
Hearing is one of the most important body senses. It helps you to perceive messages in audio form by detecting air vibrations. However, this ability may gradually diminish as a result of several factors. In this write-up, we're going to understand various ways on how to heighten the hearing sense.
The following exercises will help heighten your hearing ability.
When exposed to different sources of noise, our ears can manage to select the kind of noise they want to hear by ignoring the rest. The following noise filtering technique will be in a position to help improve your hearing capability. To start with, you need a radio. Switch it on to play your favorite music at a moderate volume. Simultaneously, strike a conversation with your friend. Though the music from you radio may disrupt your conversation, don't let your friend shout in order for you to hear. Now, take a second radio and tune it to a different radio station. Continue talking to your friend without necessarily straining. Continue adding more radios depending on your level of comfort. You'll realize that as time goes by, you'll be in a position to adapt to the surrounding noise and gradually start grasping what your friend is telling you comfortably.
There are two things that you can achieve with this exercise. First and foremost, you'll be in a position to heighten your hearing capability and secondly you'll be able to locate different sources of sound. For this exercise, it's necessary to have a source of noise e.g a horn. You can then practice this technique outdoors or inside a large room. Stand at about 5 meters from your friend and then close your eyes. Let your friend honk the horn severally and then try to locate the exact direction of the sound. In simple words, you should try to point where your friend is standing. You'll find out that the more you practice, the more your hearing capability will improve and soon you'll be in a position to locate the exact source of the noise without straining.
Phase inversion is a tactic of "trickling" the brain in an attempt to cancel the constant ringing sounds that may disrupt hearing in some individuals. Basically, phase inversion is done by qualified ENT specialists who work towards discovering the pitches of the ringing sounds on each ear. After that, the doctor can then play similar pitches at different degrees using a listening device on the patient's ears. Over time, your brain will become accustomed to different ringing sounds thus cancelling out the ringing tinnitus. With regular application of this tactic, one's hearing capability is constantly restored and heightened.
Constant build up of wax in your ears can greatly impair your hearing ability. It is therefore very important to uphold good personal hygiene by regularly cleaning up your ears using an ear bud or a mixture of olive oil and hydrogen peroxide (for huge chunks of wax). On the same note, it is very important to consult your doctor in order to ascertain whether the accumulation of wax is the actual factor behind your impaired hearing ability.
This is actually one of the basic precautionary measures that one should take in improving their hearing capability. Loud noise assaults your eardrum thus impairing your hearing ability. Ordinarily, an eardrum is not designed to handle high amounts of noise and thus you should wear hearing protection devices as a cautionary measure in case you're in a noisy environment. You should also avoid using headphones on regular basis.
Nutritional deficiency is yet another factor that can greatly ruin your ability to hear. A healthy diet avails the necessary nutrients to the body thus helping you sustain your hearing capability for longer as you age. Some of the most important vitamin supplements that you should opt for in order to heighten your hearing senses are vitamins C and E. Good nutrition contains the necessary anti-oxidant elements that help in getting rid of free radicals thus protecting your ears from age related problems.
A good hearing ability is a combination of healthy living, personal hygiene and various hearing exercises. It is thus important for you to uphold the advice offered in this article in order to heighten your hearing sense.
Practically nothing can move without influencing everything else. Nature is similar to a spider web. When a bug falls into the web, there is an instantaneous vibration that lures the resident spider to his victim. Spiders can understand these waves so well that they can distinguish vibrations produced by their prey from vibrations generated by a leaf.
Nature features its own web vibrations. You need to recognize and know how to interpret these vibrations to keep yourself alive. Vibrations can let you know what is taking place, even if it's out of the range of sight and sound.
If you enable yourself to be able to read vibrations, you will have not just an advantage in a survival situation, but also a better understanding of the interconnected nature of all things. You will experience a deep, strong and growing awareness that will enable you to travel far away without moving.
As Lao Tzu said: "One may know the world without going out of doors".
Understanding vibrations isn't as simple as it may appear because you aren't studying a quiet and sticky web, but a living, always transforming and multidimensional web.
There is a regular beat in each environment that varies with the time of day, the weather conditions, and other factors.
Your first move is to discover this baseline rhythm. The moment the rhythm is recognized, you'll notice any disruption in the form of a distinct vibration. This anomalous disturbance may occur as a louder, or quieter, vibration; any minimal change means something.
Whenever a change happens, go quietly over to observe what has generated the perturbation and from what distance the vibrations can be detected. While moving, make an effort to not produce a vibration that interferes with what is going on.
The more you train, the more will be the prizes of understanding what is happening far, far away.
A final note: don't try to verbalize or describe the single vibration, but instead try to discern the overall pattern. See the chain through the links.


'Modi is likely to make more announcements to win or retain popularity, and put himself at the centre of things even more than now,' says T N Ninan.
Exactly mid-way through his five-year term, Narendra Modi has changed gears, and possibly direction.
Till November, his was an administration seemingly determined to follow a path of sustained incrementalism -- a steady flow of small steps whose cumulative impact would be transformative.
Or so it was hoped.
Then, with virtually no advance warning, Modi launched a 'big bang' initiative, bearing the stamp of bold radicalism that many observers had expected of him from the beginning of his administration.
Undeterred by widespread criticism of the poorly executed, disruptive step, Modi has made typically exaggerated claims and also promised a follow-through attack on benami property.
This too could be potentially disruptive in a country with poor land records and plenty of property transfers done through power-of-attorney arrangements. But India's strongest prime minister since Indira Gandhi is intent on his anti-corruption crusade.
Demonetisation was a surprise, but Modi during his election campaign had promised to root out corruption. There were two earlier attempts at unearthing illegal cash -- one directed outside India and the other within the country. Neither yielded great results, and Opposition spokesmen took to reminding Modi of his campaign promise to distribute unearthed cash among millions of ordinary Indians.
Demonetisation is his over-the-top response; the official expectation was that unreturned currency would yield the government a bonanza. That did not materialise, but a pay-off may yet come in the form of tax on money that has surfaced in bank accounts.
That's the simple reading of events. There could also be a more complicated story unfolding.
Modi came to office on the back of the promise of 'good days' and transformative change. He has certainly applied himself to the task with laser like focus.
creating thousands of ports as part of an inland waterways transport system, and much more.
Simply reading the list is exhausting.
There is almost no month that has gone by without a fresh announcement, often with typical fanfare at public meetings.
Admittedly, many of the initiatives (like Make in India) are a re-packaging or expansion of existing programmes, but it is doubtful whether any government has been quite so beaver-like, as ambitious in scaling up targets, or worked harder at improving execution, though with an attendant degree of centralisation in government functioning that cannot be a positive development.
Still, no prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru has used public platforms to continuously sell the logic and the benefits to flow from the work of the government more resolutely than Modi.
Not for him the reticence of P V Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh.
And yet, halfway through the life of this relentless government, almost none of it has made much of a difference that one can see and feel.
Indeed, many of the initiatives have run into sand -- like the Indradhanush package for government banks.
There has been little movement on the Ease of Doing Business ranking, the 130th position is still a far cry from the target of 50.
The Jan Dhan bank accounts were mostly inoperative till the demonetisation.
Digital India has made patchy progress, and the reality of the highway construction programme is way short of ministerial bombast.
Most Swachh Bharat toilets are reported to be not in use.
And Make in India can't be making much progress if industrial investment has shown no uptick.
While there are two years to go before the fever of the next election catches, the outlook on delivery matching promise is less than promising.
In terms of the overall economic picture, investment in fixed capital has continued to decline in relation to GDP, dropping to levels last seen over a decade ago.
Total exports (crucially, non-oil exports, too) will be lower this year than in 2013-2014.
The rate of economic growth has been creditable, especially in the context of two drought years, but there is nothing on the horizon to herald the double-digit growth rate that was promised in the initial burst of optimism.
Credit growth has declined steadily, the corporate debt overhang has not got better, and the banks need more capital than had been estimated.
The stock market reflects the drift, with the leading stock indices lower at the end of 2016 than two years earlier.
The worrying fallout of the tepid economic performance has been the jobs agitation by important caste groups in different states.
Modi is the most astute and able politician of his generation.
As he has reviewed project after project in his monthly video conferences (dubbed Pragati) with department heads across the government, he cannot have failed to see that the import component in defence equipment is not about to be halved, Smart Cities have not turned out to be the transformative story he might have hoped for, and GST has been stymied.
In general, the story of a steep jump in economic performance, which Modi might have planned to sell to voters in 2019, was looking like a narrative that would not hold.
As the Chinese would say it, this has been so far a case of loud thunder, little rain.
Against this frustrating backdrop, it might have become obvious to Modi that the time for incrementalism was over.
The political narrative had to be redefined and reclaimed.
He could have chosen to go down the communal route to political mobilisation.
Instead, he has taken a surer path, tried and tested before by Indira Gandhi: Populism.
His vehicle of the moment, demonetisation, was always an option at the back of Modi's mind, planted there by the head of the Pune-based Arthkranti Pratishthan back in 2013 and something that Modi subsequently discussed with more than one interlocutor.
As a tool for entrenching Modi's positioning as a campaigner against corruption -- an issue on which the Congress and many regional parties would be on the backfoot -- it had a unique appeal, especially if one considered a Robin-Hood-style plan to take from the rich and give to the poor.
It would pit the common man against the 'corrupt elite', the Opposition and critics could be de-legitimised as defenders of the corrupt, or simply anti-national -- and would be vulnerable to tax raids, as already seen.
Most important, it would set Modi on a course that is a surer bet than trying to sell a second time the same narrative of hope and change, amid non-existent jobs.
A surer bet because a populist's appeal is based as much on emotive perception as on reason: Indira Gandhi did little to improve the life of the poor, but she is remembered as their champion.
It does not matter that demonetisation is neither the least-costly nor the most effective way to tackle black money; nor does it matter that pushing digital payment systems can be independent of demonetisation.
It is also of no consequence that no economy in the world is free of a black component, and that the majority of transactions in most economies are in cash.
Simply attacking the longstanding problem of illegitimate wealth earns credit points.
Can anyone be opposed to tackling corruption, any more than a US voter can oppose 'making America great again'?
The bonus is that the drama of tax raids provides good theatre -- as V P Singh realised 30 years ago.
Modi has prepared the ground for his plunge into populism by using the last 31 months to forge a strongman system of government, radically different from what had gone before: Democratic for sure, but very prime minister-centric, operating through hand-picked officials in key slots.
Typical of the way such systems evolve, many critics have muted their voices or switched allegiance.
Now Modi is slipping into the mould of a classic populist, joining the company of Donald Trump, Turkey's Recep Erdogan, Russia's Vladimir Putin, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and Hungary's third-term prime minister, Viktor Orban, who says that he wants to abandon liberal democracy in favour of an 'illiberal State' because a liberal system cannot be competitive.
Populists tend to follow a standard playbook. A populist positions himself as the political outsider, railing against the elite even as he expresses the frustrations and resentments of the common man.
He seeks a direct leader-follower relationship, bypassing or over-riding the established intermediaries of party and institutional structures.
Usually a charismatic demagogue, he attacks unworthy outsiders who are often minorities (immigrants for Trump).
Contesting viewpoints are non-legitimate, and therefore the opposition is seen not as an essential part of democracy but as people who should not be criticising the government, and may be anti-national.
A populist usually operates an effective propaganda machine, puts pressure on civil society and seeks to control the media, centralises power, and tends to be authoritarian.
If required, he will weaken the institutions of State or re-write the Constitution, and is not above organised violence.
Many of India's chief ministers have followed much of this playbook within their limited spheres, so India already has a minor tradition of autocratic rule.
The default political tool is clientelism, a patronage system in which political support is sought in exchange for material benefits.
It could take the form of a subsidy or cash benefits, jobs for the boys, more money for supportive states, tax and other benefits for the businesses of favoured friends, expropriation for others.
All of these have a familiar history in India from Indira Gandhi's days. But clientelism is also associated with corruption.
One example is the Vyapam scandal in Madhya Pradesh, though the more common practice is siphoning off government handouts.
As should be clear, Indira Gandhi was India's original populist. Most of the above also describes the careers of Orban, Putin and the others.
What Modi's career so far has an uncanny resemblance to is Erdogan's.
Modi sold tea at a railway station, Erdogan sold lemonade and sesame buns.
Modi's real schooling was in the RSS, while Erdogan studied for some years in a religious vocational school.
Modi spent time doing backroom organisational work; Erdogan spent his apprenticeship years in the Islamist Welfare Party that was subsequently banned for violating the separation of church and state mandated by Turkey's constitution.
Modi made his reputation as chief minister of Gujarat, Erdogan as mayor of Istanbul.
Modi faced ostracism for a while on account of the post-Godhra riots; Erdogan was jailed and banned from holding political office for some years.
Modi has crystallised the aspirations of a nativist elite that is displacing a more Westernised set of Nehruvian inheritors; Erdogan has done the same by creating political space for a rising, Islamist Anatolian identity (the Asian part of Turkey) quite different from Ataturk's inheritors, a secular elite.
Modi runs an opaque, centralised system, while Erdogan after starting out as a widely appreciated reformer has become steadily more autocratic.
At some of his public rallies, Modi has come close to saying something similar.
But even populists like Putin usually remain democrats, for they like an expanded diplomatic footprint abroad on the strength of electoral endorsement at home, even as they crack down on opponents.
If Modi is indeed set on a populist course, he is quite likely to plunge deeper into his self-styled battle against corruption, make more clientelist announcements to win or retain popularity, and put himself at the centre of things even more than now.
Populists do face setbacks and taste defeat (like Orban), but they make comebacks and usually enjoy a long-ish ride -- Chavez ruled for 13 years, Putin has been at the helm for even longer, while Erdogan and Orban have done multiple terms in office.
Modi could do the same.
In the new age of populism, India's man-of-the-moment is in sync with the multi-country revolt against a liberal order and neo-liberal economics.


Baron Rajiram's forces have secured the Nelanther Isles and have scoured the Sword Coast for treasures.
Now they have begun to explore a mysterious island that recently just popped into existence nearby. SEER seems to believe that an aboleth artifact is their goal. It is up to theadventurers, in competition with the baron, as well as aboleths, the Kraken Society, and themysterious caretaker of the island, to locate the Eye of Xxiphu and avert catastrophic disaster.
Who can i talk to about providing an FG module for this?
This was a fun module. Kudos to the designer!
Now this was a fun adventure. The way that this was done was much better then the first part of this adventure. Taking some of the ideas from this adventure and improving on it is what we need for this kinda level of play. But the one thing we need more of is epic story awards. We should have been able to have a story award of befriending the dragons or taking the Eye of Xxiphu and locking it away ourself. But still, this was a fun adventure. Just through harder challenges at us, we need more deadly creatures at this level. Let's see some Death Knights, Arch Magee with epic level Boons and other stupid stuff that most things would not have at such a low level but would be more common at this epic level of play.
Running this on Saturday (along with Mysterious Isle). There are two items that appear to be errors that cause some concern.
1) Page 7 The rules for underwater melee attacks is wrong. Same error was made in Mysterious Isle. Ranged attacks within normal range are at disadvantage....they don't automatically miss.
2) Page 23 Areas 2 and 3 are mislabeled on the map. They should be the other way around. Area 3 should be above water and area 2 should be submerged.
Also....the adventure description says that there are 3 parts and that in part 3 you have to defeat Rajarim. I am assuming that Part 2 Section D is actually suppose to be Part 3. Also, you never defeat Rajarim...it is Lord Dworkin.
How many pages are in this scenario?
Okay I just have to say I love the sidebar at the bottom of page 14. It's great.


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NBA Draft Knicks Big Board 2.0
Because now I know more stuff.
Last night's Game 7 between the Nuggets and Jazz wasn't exactly a classic, but it was fun and exciting. Denver won on a wild sequence late.
NBA @NBA
The THRILLING FINISH to Game 7! @nuggets win the series 4-3 and advance to play the Clippers in the West semis! #NBAPlayoffs
2:58 AM ∙ Sep 2, 2020
The outcome sent Donovan Mitchell home and Johnnie Bryant (after what I'm sure will be a well-deserved short vacation) to New York to begin his associate head coaching duties under Thibs.
Charles Oakley is going to be on Dancing with the Stars. Maybe during one of his routines, he can pick up his dancing partner and hurl himself into the judge's table.
Game 7 of Houston/OKC is tonight. Something tells me the final score will be higher than 80-78.
JB @JeffreyBellone
Stephen A Smith on June 23, 2017 after the Knicks picked Frank Ntilikina: "At the end of the day, we are going to find ourselves thinking about Malik Monk, thinking about Dennis Smith Jr" https://t.co/ISXXXxA9kW
NBA Central @TheNBACentral
Stephen A Smith is still mad that the Knicks drafted Frank Ntilikina over Donovan Mitchell 😂 https://t.co/EDFV0rs7tG
The Knicktator™ @knicktatorship
Had a convo with @_IamTrueHate about the 2021 NBA season & the #Knicks possession of a potential DAL lottery pick. Is DAL finishing ahead of these teams next year? Can Luka/KP get through a whole season? 1. LAL 2. GSW 3. LAC 4. DEN 5. UTAH 6. POR 7. OKC 8. HOU 9. PHX 10. MINN
We're all friends here right? Ok, good. Couple things…
This season, the Mavs had the 6th best net rating in the league. Net rating is a better predictor of how good a team is than record, so by this metric, Dallas was closer to the 6th best team than the 12th, which is what their record says.
By the same token, according to Cleaning the Glass, Dallas was tied with Detroit as the unluckiest team in the NBA this season, meaning they had 5.2 fewer wins than their point differential suggested they should. As they were integrating several new pieces and their crunch time go-to guy wasn't yet old enough to drink until February, this isn't altogether surprising.
Speaking of new pieces, KP had a tough time figuring out how to play with Doncic at first. Over their first 17 games together, they had just a plus 3.9 net rating. Over the last 30, it was a plus 5.6.
Dallas is going to have their full midlevel exception to use in free agency this offseason. They also have Tim Hardaway Jr's expiring contract and will be able to trade their first round pick - the 18th - on or after draft night. They also own the 31st pick this year. They have a move in them.
Dallas finished 7.5 games ahead of the 8th place Blazers, but only 2.5 games back of OKC, Houston and Utah. Even assuming Golden State is back up top and Dallas remains behind all the teams they finished slightly behind this season, saying any team below them is going to close that gap assumes a) a lot of missed games from Doncic and/or b) his improvement stagnating.
Doncic missed 14 games, and the Mavs went 7-7 in his absence. Anything is possible and maybe he'll always be an injury plagued player, but I don't see it.
If you think Doncic is a perennial MVP candidate - I happen to, you should too - then looking at the early progression of similar players may be instructive. LeBron went from 35 to 42 to 50 wins in his first three seasons. Durant went from 20 to 23 to 50. Shaq was 41 to 50 to 57. Doncic won 33 games as a rookie and their win percentage equated to 47 over a full season. We can guess what's coming.
Folks, like I wrote yesterday, I'm openly rooting for bad juju to hit the Mavs for the entire 2020-21 season, but we need to stop acting like next year's pick is some sort of golden ticket. Might it be good? Yes. Should we be counting on it? No. Should we cavalierly toss it into any trade? Of course not. It's a thing that may or may not be helpful. Let's leave it at that and move on.
Well it's September.
That means for the moment at least, we can say the NBA Draft is next month.
Will is stay that way? Probably not. But if the beginning of next season is pushed back from the original December 1 start date to Christmas like many people expect, it would make sense for the draft to get pushed back roughly the same amount, maybe a little less. I'd guess November 5 if I had to.
So yes, we still have some time. But it's been nearly two months since I did my initial KFS Knicks Draft Big Board, and it feels like as good a time as any for Version 2.0. Why now? A few reasons:
We not only know where the Knicks are picking, but where everyone else is selecting as well.
I just did a whole week on trade-downs, so updating my board to expand to a top 15 (the lowest I could see them trading down to) seems appropriate.
I've consumed more tape and info in the eight weeks since I did my last board.
With that as the backdrop, I'm switching it up this time and going from the top down, breaking the draft into tiers. As always, feel free to yell profanities and throw things at your screen if you disagree.
Tier 1: I might consider trading way up to get him
He was number one when I wrote a whole piece on him in early June, he was number one on my board in early July, and he's number one by a healthy margin now.
In short, he's got great size for a ball handler, will be a Day One top-10-passer in the NBA, has a plus handle, and his touch gives me hope that both his finishing and shooting will progress nicely. He's so smart and sees the game so well on offense that at his size, the defense will come. Pairing him with RJ, another defender who will benefit from a switch-heavy scheme, makes a ton of sense.
"If his shooting comes around, he's a multi-time All-Star and a top-ten NBA point guard" may seem like too big of a stretch for some, but in a draft where almost everyone else should be prefaced with "If [skill X] comes around, he might be a starter on a decent team," I'll take my chances, and if the price is right, I'm absolutely moving up.
Tier 2: Praying he falls
Other than Anthony Edwards and someone I'll get to a few tiers down, he's the only player in the draft I think has a prayer of being the engine on a really good team.
Except unlike the guy we'll get to later, with Hayes we're talking about a few Hail Mary's as opposed to the whole rosary. He shot 42 percent on off-the-dribble threes last season, which is nuts. Along with the other components of his game, size, and age, it's enough to make me buy the package in a weak class. I'm betting the 18 percent he hit on catch-and-shoot threes is an anomaly given his stellar conversion rate (87 percent) from the line.
If he falls to a spot where I can trade up to get him by using only one of a) either Dallas pick, b) either the 27th or 38th selection, or c) either of next year's Detroit or Charlotte second rounders, I'm thinking really hard about doing it.
Tier 3: Assuming they go before us
Anthony Edwards
I'm really happy I'm not the GM who has to make a decision between these two.
Tier 4: You have to give me real stuff to move down
Isaac Okoro
Kira Lewis
Let's stick with the wings for a second before we get to Lewis. What do you want to bet on, Okoro learning to shoot or Vassell becoming more than just a 3 & D guy?
If the Knicks end up with Vassell, I'll be thrilled, and if they end up with Okoro I'll be secretly petrified. Vassell is the intentional walk for a team being no-hit. Maybe you even steal a base. Either way, he's exactly what ails them.
Okoro, meanwhile, can't shoot right now and may never be able to shoot, and the Knicks are currently less equipped to integrate this type of player into their rotation than any team in the league.
So why do I still have Okoro higher? Three reasons:
For the last two weeks we've been been watching Luguentz Dort single handedly neutralize the single greatest offensive threat in the game today, and all I can see when I watch him is Okoro (Dort is 6'3", 220; Okoro is 6'6", 225). Meanwhile, in another first round series out West, Donovan Mitchell and Jamal Murray took turns passing the flamethrower back and forth. The value of a smart, burly, agile wing has perhaps never been higher.
While there is no guarantee he gets there, knowing that Okoro merely needs to get to around 35 percent from deep to become a borderline All-Star-level player given the rest of his profile (defensive versatility, legit playmaking, great athleticism, good decision-making, positional size, plus finishing, and constantly max effort) is enough for me to take the bait.
Finally, via Spencer "The Draft Godfather" Pearlman in a text to me yesterday:
The thing with Vassell is that his archetype as a volume 3 & D guy is hard to come by, but low volume 3 & D guys are not. So if you think his 3-point attempt rate will go up a good amount (it was 36.1 percent last year, as he took just 4.4 threes per 36 minutes; Aaron Nesmith's were 8.3/56.1 by comparison), his ceiling goes up. If they don't, it stays the same.
If you're going to make a ceiling play over a floor play, make it with the guy who seems to have an impeccable work ethic and also might have a chip on his shoulder from being under-recruited coming out of high school. Sound familiar?
As for Lewis, I've been on the hype train for a while now, mostly because the thing everyone seems to be most concerned about - his ability to adequately defend at his size and with such a slight frame - doesn't worry me. Effort, plus knowing where you're supposed to be and actually being able to get there, goes a long way, and at 19 years old, it's not like Lewis can't put on weight.
But Kira screams secondary playmaker to me. He simply lacks the handle, vision, finishing and obviously shot creation to be anything but. Even if his speed and ability to make every pass in the book (h/t to Spencer again) makes up for the handle/vision, he's going to become so dependent on kicking out to corner-three shooters that I think defenses will just dare him to beat them.
Maybe as he bulks up, he improves his ability to finish through contact and get to the line, but for as much as I want to dream about a Donovan Mitchell-like conversion to the pros, Mitchell had 50 pounds on Lewis when he was drafted. With a free throw attempt rate under 30 percent, I just can't to where I think his blazing speed will translate into becoming an engine for a good offense, not with an AST/TO ratio under 1.5.
Tier 5: Poku
Aleksej Pokuševski
Go big or go home.
Tier 6: I would feel queasy taking him at 8
Cole Anthony
Oh, Cole…
Again, I think Cole/Kira is an upside/floor play a'la Okoro/Vassell. Unlike Vassell/Okoro though, I think the ceiling on Cole is lower in comparison to Kira's floor, and I think there's less of a chance he gets there than Okoro.
But there's a part of me that looks at the disaster that was Anthony's lone season at UNC and wonders whether it's a plus or a minus.
On the day of the lottery, I went back and watched Anthony's final game at UNC: a 2-for-10 no show job against Syracuse. Maybe Cole wasn't already checked out, but you sure couldn't tell by watching him.
While I think it's possible to parse out the specific facets of Anthony's substandard play this year from the specific drawbacks of the situation he was in, I don't know that we can separate the totality of one from the totality of the other. There's also a chance he wasn't fully healthy after coming back following a midseason injury. The skills are undeniably there, and he's the one other guy in this draft besides Ball, Hayes and Edwards that I think has primary/engine upside.
I just don't know whether there's a 1, 5, 10 or 20 percent chance he gets there. There's only so much lipstick you can put on a 45.1 eFG% and a 1.14 AST/TO ratio, after all.
Given that the Knicks aren't an ideal environment to highlight his strengths and diminish his weaknesses, from a roster standpoint at least, I remain dubious.
Tier 7: Please make me an offer to move down
Okyeka Okongwu
Obi Toppin
James Wiseman
In a vacuum, I think there's a good argument that any of these guys will turn out better than anyone in either of the two tiers above them. And yet, here they are.
For Okongwu, it's merely a positional thing. He's a center. As much as I detest the thought, if there's a draft night trade or trades that net OO and send out Mitch for above-market value, you gotta listen. If such a thing were to happen, Okongwu vaults up to Tier 3.
As for Wiseman, there are too many red flags for me, but you can only drop elite talent and skill so far.
Toppin…man, I still really don't want Toppin. Unless he's a small-ball five, who's he guarding when it's nut-crunching time at the end of the close playoff game? And for everyone who thinks he could be the best offensive player in this draft, look around at the teams still playing and find me one difference-maker who remotely fits Toppin's archetype as a player.
Which gets us to Hali. Hali is going to be a really good player for a really long time. He should probably be in the above tier, TBH. He can shoot. He's smart. He defends. He's a wonderful passer. He would also help New York immediately…
Actually, you know what?
Tier 6 Redux: I would feel queasy taking them at 8
So what if he can't break down a defense and his shooting off the dribble is probably not a thing that will ever happen. We need good players.
Tier 8: I'm intrigued
They were only flashes, but those flashes at his size (6'8", 225) and age (barely 19) - decent catch and shoot ability from distance, a nice handle, a developing pull-up game, even a little pick and roll playmaking - are what I'd be willing to bet on in the late lottery given his potential defensive versatility and upside.
Tier 9: Something doesn't quite sit right
More on him tomorrow.
And that's it! I got to 15. Maybe by the actual draft I'll have the gumption to mock all the way down to 30. Baby steps though.
That's it for today! See everyone tomorrow and stay safe! #BlackLivesMatter

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Q: Conda install some-package hangs with (Solving environment: failed) I have tried multiple ways but can't conda install packages (in my case, geopandas). I tried geopandas install guide, but get output that the solver runs forever. I tried without creating an environment, after creating a new environment, using defaults channel and using conda-forge channel. None worked.
$ conda create -n top
$ conda activate top
$ conda config --env --add channels conda-forge
$ conda config --env --set channel_priority strict
$ conda install python=3 geopandas

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source.
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: \

I don't want to use pip install because it is preferred to use conda install.
Also I tried installing using Anaconda Navigator following this answer, but the progress bar keeps hanging, saying "solving package specifications".

A: Favor Specifying Constraints at Creation
Iteratively installing packages is a real choking point for Conda. If you know up front that the env will require certain packages, then specify them at creation:
conda create -n top -c conda-forge -c defaults python=3 geopandas

This solves in seconds for me. If you have many packages, then use a YAML.
Use Mamba
Sometimes ad hoc installations are unavoidable. For tough solves (or just generally), try using mamba, a compiled (fast!) drop-in replacement for conda. Mamba will shine where Conda struggles.
# install mamba
conda install -n base conda-forge::mamba

# use mamba
mamba install -n top geopandas

A: After trying many advice from Conda's GitHub page, I found out that the issue was not being able to find dependencies for the python version I had installed. Creating new environment help but with one more argument for python version.
conda create -n branch-env python=3.7
conda activate branch-env
conda install geopandas

A: The conda message "Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve." comes from
Conda install some-package hangs with (Solving environment: failed)
The answer above deserves provides one of the best answers that I have seen anywhere to deal with the time-consuming problem of package incompatibilities and waiting endlessly for conda solver sessions to finish.
The key is to learn in advance what packages you will likely need to use, and then specify those packages UP-FRONT when you create your conda environment, but leave the Python 3.x subversion "floating").  Conda will figure out which sub-version of Python 3.x is the latest and most appropriate to solve the dependencies for all other packages in your target environment.
This approach of determining and specifying your required environment "core" packages up front -- then letting conda work out which Python 3.x version -- avoids the problem of downgrading Python (which frequently does not work).
When your new conda solves and builds your new environment, it can be cloned as a template for future similar work.

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Two suspects have been arrested in the central district of Milange, where the killings occurred.
"The belief is that the head of a bald man contains gold," said Afonso Dias, a police commander in Mozambique's central Zambezia province.
Albino people have also been killed in the region for ritual purposes.
Three men have been killed in the past week alone.
The BBC's Jose Tembe in the capital, Maputo, says police think the notion of a bald head containing gold is a ruse by witchdoctors to get clients to take a person's head to them.
"Their motive comes from superstition and culture - the local community thinks bald individuals are rich," Commander Dias is reported as having told a press conference in Maputo.
The suspects are two young Mozambicans aged around 20, the AFP news agency reports.
A regional security spokesman, Miguel Caetano, told AFP that one of the victims had his head cut off and his organs removed.
The organs were to be used in rituals to advance the wealth of clients in Tanzania and Malawi, Mr Caetano said, citing the suspects.
There has been a spate of killings of people with albinism in East Africa in recent years, with their body parts used to make charms and potions by witchdoctors.


Zettle is a junior at Carroll Senior High School in Southlake, Texas. He is the double-defending Texas 6A champion in the 200 free, and he set the Texas state and 6A record in the event at the UIL Swimming and Diving State Meet this past February with 1:36.27. He won the 200/500 free double as a sophomore, and was runner-up in the 500 as a junior.
I am excited to announce my verbal commitment to the University of Texas to continue my academic and swimming career. It's an honor to join the longhorn family. Hook'em!
What makes you say Matthew Willenbring has committed to Texas? I can't find anything that shows that.
When was the last time a 200 freestyler did anything at Texas?
I'll have you know, swimgeek, alex is a fine young man and a great swimmer too. He'll be sure to do great things for the Texas men. I sense an Aggie fan perhaps? Sad!
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The Atlanta Braves placed ace left-hander Max Fried on the 7-day concussion injured list Thursday, days after he hit his head on the field during a game at Citi Field.
The Braves made the move retroactive to Monday. Fried was injured in the Braves' 6-2 loss to the New York Mets on Saturday night, the second game of a doubleheader.
In the third inning, a throw by Braves shortstop Dansby Swanson bounced and caromed off Fried's chest at first base and went into foul territory. Fried slipped and fell face-first, and his pitching shoulder and head hit the ground hard as he attempted to get the Mets' Francisco Lindor out with a throw to home plate.
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Fried remained in the game and pitched six innings, allowing six hits, four runs (two earned), striking out five and walking one. He took the loss, as he was outdueled by Mets co-ace Max Scherzer, to fall to 10-4 this season. He has a 2.60 ERA.
The Braves, who are in second place in the National League East and hold the NL's top wild-card spot, recalled right-hander Jay Jackson on Thursday in a corresponding move.


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Gregory Davis leads the Fallon Ambulance effort to expand the company's Mobile Integrated Healthcare Services offerings. His work with the senior management team to establish additional relationships with healthcare and community providers throughout the Greater Boston area is providing expanded out-of-hospital healthcare services in the home and the community. Mobile Integrated Healthcare Services (MIH) are an emerging trend in the healthcare industry that leverages the expertise of Paramedics and EMTs in caring for patients in the out-of-hospital environment against the rising use of hospital acute care services. These services seek to align the patient with the most appropriate clinical care for their needs which includes, among many other things, providing certain types of care for patients in their homes.
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Gheorghe Simion (born 10 May 1957) is a Romanian boxer. He competed in the men's light middleweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also won one national senior title and one bronze medal at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.

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Romanian male boxers
Olympic boxers of Romania
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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Which Cartridge Design Is Best For Critical Applications?
People often discuss the different methods for defining the performance of their filter cartridge e.g. beta ratios, percentage, efficiencies, titre reductions, diffusion flow values etc. All of these have great merit as it is important to understand how the filter you have chosen to use will affect your process.
Whilst most filter companies strive to provide their clients with the best performing cartridge and provide the data to back it up, often the importance of the sealing mechanism on the cartridge can be over looked. There are two common types of cartridge sealing mechanisms used on most filters, Double Open End (DOE) and Single Open End (SOE).
The more simple, low cost DOE design often has a basic polypropylene core and flat gaskets either end. The cartridge is sealed into the housing using a knife edge sealing mechanism.
This design is adequate for systems where high removal efficiencies or fine filtration are not required. In addition they are not suited to applications that see significant temperature changes as different levels and rates of expansion of the metal and plastic components in the filter system mean that the cartridge to housing seal could be compromised and allow by-pass of contaminants.
The SOE cartridge design involves a plug in adaptor typically fitted with two o rings. This provides a positive seal that is unlikely to be compromised by varying process conditions or poor fitment. This provides a minimal risk option.
Therefore DOE cartridges tend to be associated with nominal rated, low efficiency filters or as pre filters at less critical parts of the process. These are ideal in these applications and offer the most economical solution. SOE cartridge design tends to be used with absolute rated filters where maximum performance is expected from the filter, such as a final trap, polishing or sterilising applications.
However, we still find many applications in the market where people select high performance filters, but choose the DOE design of cartridge and use these in low performance housings and then suffer the ongoing problems associated with that.
Filtrate bypassing is then possible due to a variety of reasons such as poor length (too long, too short), damaged knife edge seals on the filter vessel, an over eager operator who over compresses the filter and very often on small single cartridge housings, where the operator has to 'guess' that the filter has indeed sealed at all.
Therefore cartridge design selection is crucial and a full understanding of the process and criticality is required in order to adopt the right solution. A cartridge may be developed as a high performance filter, but all the 99.99% removal efficiency could be wasted if the seal is not right !


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Superstorm Sandy: Six Months Later
Six months ago today, Superstorm Sandy slammed the northeast, where recovery is far from over.
FOX News Radio's Jeff Monosso reports from New York:
It cost tens of billions in damage, killed dozens and devastated people across the northeast.
(Resident) "I lost everything I own. 27 years and I'm living in my car."
Many people are still homeless, living in hotel rooms. From New York City to the ravaged world famous Jersey Shore where:
(Resident) "Most of the small businesses did not have flood insurance."
And while there's a promise to be back by Memorial Day, the roller coaster that plunged off a pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey is still in the ocean.
Not far from where homes still await repairs or demolition, slowed by bureaucratic red tape and insurance companies that are fighting claims.
In New York, Jeff Monosso, FOX News Radio
On the six month anniversary of Sandy's landfall, a new survey shows just how extensive the damage was and how slow the rebuilding is actually going.
FOX News Radio's Chris Hoenig reports from New York:
Six months ago Hurricane Sandy slammed into New Jersey, knocking out power, cable and internet service to more than two-thirds of the more than 8,000 surveyed by Consumer Reports in the tri-state area.
(Reynolds) "Landline phone service was lost by more than half, and cell phone service, hot water and getting gas for cars was lost or impossible for at least a third."
...Editor Paul Reynolds.
And while the public sees boardwalks being rebuilt, the devastation just blocks away remains.
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More than half of all homeowners in the survey reported property damage.
Chris Hoenig, FOX News Radio.


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Obituary of Doris Pressey
Pressey, Doris of Aylmer passed away at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital on Friday, August 19, 2022 in her 92nd year. Beloved wife of the late Allan Pressey(2011). Dear mother of Alana Rice(Ken) of St. Thomas and the late Randy Pressey(April 2, 2022) and mother-in-law of Debbie Pressey of Vittoria. Loved by her grandchildren Kevin Pressey, David Pressey(Kristin), and Cheryl Creighton(Drew). Great-grandmother of Austin, Trinity, Ethan, Nick, Josh, Mason, and Olivia. Predeceased by her siblings Willard Shackleton, Murray, Hugh, Mildred Marr, Vera Buck, and Lulu Parker. Born in Malahide Township, Ontario on May 15, 1931, daughter of the late Clarence and Alice(Winters) Shackleton. Doris and Allan loved going to dances with their friends. They owned and operated a dairy farm east of Summers Corners, before moving into town in 1975. She was a member of the St. Paul's United Church. Doris was proud that she could stay in her own home for all these years. She enjoyed baking, especially pies. A private family funeral service will be held at the H.A. Kebbel Funeral Home. Interment, Aylmer Cemetery. Flowers respectfully declined. Donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated. Share memories or condolences at kebbelfuneralhome.com


today is the first day of the official redesign of one of my favorite (if not my most favorite) brands! early last year it was announced that nicola glass would be replacing deborah lloyd as creative director of kate spade. while i know anyone who follows me knows i am a kate spade fanatic (and former employee) and that i've have always loved the brand, i knew it was time to take the brand into the next stage of its life. when nicola's first collection first hit the runway last fashion week, i will be honest, there were pieces that i loved…and some, not so much. was this redesign too drastic for the kate spade customer? was it going to stray too far from the whimsical brand i once knew? i had to wait and see it for myself in person before i came to any conclusions.
a few weeks ago, i was getting alerted by susan that nicola's collection was starting to make its way into the stores and i couldn't wait any longer to finally put my hands on the products. i ran to the madison avenue flagship as soon as i could and i was truly blown away. i found myself completely loving some of the pieces i was initially hesitant about on the runway and i had a huge sense of relief! the prints were the perfect balance between femininity and modernity that are going to take kate spade to the next generation of shoppers. the collection, and rebranding in general, gives me major vintage/70's vibes with a pinch of freshness and miu miu attitude thrown in there…you know, without the miu miu price tag! nicola harvested what made kate spade wonderful and relatable and parlayed that into her first collection all while making it luxurious, feminine, playful and modern.
rebranding for any brand is almost inevitable at some point in its life and i just hope the past customers of kate spade come to realize this. as the brand has been rolling out some sneak peeks of the launch this past week, the negative comments on the brand's instagram page stood out to me. words like "disappointing" and "ruined" jumped off of the screen and it made me sad that people had such little optimism about the rebrand. did they really think kate spade could stay exactly the same for the rest of eternity!? i know that this is the right next step for kate spade.
while i'm not going to sit here and say i would want every single piece of the collection, because that would be unrealistic, i can honestly say i appreciate every single piece and their craftsmanship. nicola's first collection was an incredible launching pad for what big things are to come from this british visionary!
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Troy Mattes Net Worth 2018: What is this baseball player worth?
Troy Mattes is a pro baseball player who plays Pitcher. Mattes was born on August 26, 1975, in Champaign, Illinois. This page will take a closer look at Troy Mattes's net worth.
Troy Mattes Career, Earnings
Mattes bats Right and throws Right. Mattes debuted in the MLB on June 19, 2001 for the Montreal Expos. In all, Mattes played for the Montreal Expos. Mattes's career ended with the Montreal Expos in 2001.
Some of Mattes's most prominent statistics in the MLB included a Win stat of 3-3, a Earned run average stat of 6.00, and a Strikeouts stat of 26.
Troy Mattes Net Worth 2018
Troy Mattes was last under contract in 2002, according to USA Today, with a 1 (2002) year package worth $200,000. Over the years, Mattes earned $200,000 in 2002.
Baseball salaries can range widely. In professional baseball, the average player earns approximately $3 million every year. Top MLB players can get $25 million or more per year, and less successful players bring in $1 million or less.
Troy Mattes net worth: soccer/football salary distribution
Outside the MLB, most contracts are worth less than $10,000 a year.
So what is baseball player Troy Mattes's net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Troy Mattes's net worth as of 2018 is: $300,000
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Exhibition Reviews | Visual Arts
Karl Momen's "Homage to William Shakespeare" Does and Doesn't Work
By Shawn Rossiter on July 1, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
We know him — if we know him at all — as the creator of "Metaphor: The Tree of Utah," the 87-foot tall sculpture that surprises travelers driving through the Bonneville Salt Flats along Utah's I-80. But Karl Momen is more than this one-hit wonder (or miss — people tend to mock or ignore the piece; few love it; not like they love "Spiral Jetty" or "Sun Tunnels"). Momen has had a long and fruitful career. He grew up in Mashad, Iran, where he was influenced equally by Persian miniatures and the abstract patterns in the rugs his father sold; he was a bit of a child prodigy, commissioned to paint portraits of both Stalin and the Shah while still in his teens; he went to Germany to study, where he was influenced by the Bauhaus and Surrealism, then to Sweden for what was meant to be a short-term architectural project but ended up becoming a career (and a nationality — he took Swedish citizenship). He walked away from his architectural practice after a decade to devote himself to painting and sculpture.
In the late nineties, Momen was inspired to create two related suites of work, one dedicated to Shakespeare and one to Wagner, which he later published together in a book. The "Homage to William Shakespeare" suite is currently on exhibit at the Southern Utah Museum of Art, an appropriate venue considering the opening of the Utah Shakespeare Festival this month. The eight works are all the same size (67" x 67"), medium (oil on canvas) and palette (grays, blue and browns, with striking red accents). They also use a similar visual vocabulary: an undefined background space divided by two strong verticals — sometimes accented to look like columns — and floating near these symbolic attributes to identify characters — a tartan for Macbeth, a laurel crown for Julius Caesar. It's a vocabulary — strongly by the ideas of the Constructivists — used in his paintings and also related to his sculpture: look at the span of his work and the strong vertical and suspended spheres of "Metaphor: Tree of Utah" begin to look familiar.
With a strong family resemblance throughout the works and enough unique elements to identify an individual play, Momen's visual strategy in "Homage to William Shakespeare" would work great as a branding campaign for a troupe looking to design playbills for a season. It would have to be a season devoted to tragedies and history plays, however: all the works referenced are bloody, hence the flash of red that appears in each. Slipping Love's Labour Lost or A Midsummer Night's Dream into the campaign might prove difficult.
As a contemplative work of art, the suite is less successful. Tucked as they are in the back of SUMA's exhibition space with inadequate space or lighting, the paintings are done no favors, but one imagines they would not impress a great deal more under better conditions. They don't seem to say anything specific about a given play. They identify without revealing. When an artist develops an individual style, it usually is very good at doing certain things; but it cannot say or express all things, no matter how important or inspiring the subject might be. Momen's exhibit is up during this year's festival, and the museum is free, so worth a visit. But your insights into the plays will have to come from attending them.
Karl Momen: Homage to William Shakespeare, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, through October 5.
Shawn Rossiter
The founder of Artists of Utah and editor of its online magazine, 15 Bytes, Shawn Rossiter has undergraduate degrees in English, French and Italian Literature and studied Comparative Literature in graduate school before pursuing a career in art.
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Former Maine DHHS Chief: Photos on EBT Cards Won't Deter Fraud
Maine Public | By Susan Sharon
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon wants to reassure low-income Mainers that their food stamp benefits will continue, despite an ongoing stalemate between the state and the federal government over administration of the federally-funded program.
A former Maine Department of Health and Human Services comissioner, Concannon says he's confident the state will follow federal rules governing the use of photos on EBT cards.
The stalemate has dragged on for months. The LePage administration, anxious to cut down on fraud and abuse, last year began encouraging food stamp recipients to get photos included on their EBT cards and requiring in-person interviews for those who choose not to have their photos taken.
Kevin Concannon says, under the rules, the state is allowed to encourage recipients to get photo IDs but it has to be made clear that the photos are optional. And he says the state should understand that its new photo-ID initiative won't achieve its stated goal.
"Don't kid yourself that it has any real effect on reducing fraud," he says. "It's more of a political statement than an effective statement."
Over the summer the state was warned that failure to comply with the federal rules could result in administrative funding cuts. Last month DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew wrote a letter to the agency, criticizing it for consistently putting up "roadblocks and barriers" in the state's effort.
"If the federal agency stands by its threat to reduce funding," Mayhew wrote, than Maine would "have to re-evaluate our partnership with the federal government."
Concannon says that's the wrong message to send.
"We don't want people worried from one end of the state to the other - poor people, elderly people: Will I have help to get food next month? That's wrong," he says. "So, we want to be very measured in that regard. We don't want to swing things, you know, hold news conferences and make idle threats to anybody."
Reached late this afternoon, Commissioner Mayhew had this to say:
"We plan to put photos on EBT cards consistent with what is permissable under federal law. I've never spoken about the program not continuing."
Concannon points out that it's in the state's best interest to comply with the federal rules. In October of last year, there were more than 100,000 Maine households participating in the food stamp program. About a third of the heads of those households are adults who are working.
But they aren't the only ones who depend on the program.
"Supermarket chains in Maine and corner stores from one end of the state to the other really depend upon the ability of people to buy food with these benefits," Concannon says.
In the end, Concannon says the federal program winds up pumping $600 million into Maine's economy, something the LePage administration has also pledged to improve.
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Deputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.
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Q: How to make a yes and no options in the console in c# I making a text adventure game and I'm stuck with making a y/n option.
This is my code. BTW I'm to new to coding like one night new.
Console.WriteLine("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord [y/n]");
Console.ReadLine();

Sorry if this too easy.

A: You can go with someting like this
        Console.WriteLine("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord [y/n]");
        string yesNo = Console.ReadLine(); //get the answer

        if(yesNo == "y") //check the answer
          Console.WriteLine("You are ready."); //write something for option y
        else
          Console.WriteLine("You are NOT ready."); //write something for other option

A: Something like this can be your case
ConsoleKeyInfo k = Console.ReadKey();

if (k.Key.ToString() == "y")
{
    // do what you need for yes
}
else
{
    // presses something other then Y
}

A: I would suggest to use string.Equals to compare strings so something like this should work properly:
Console.WriteLine("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord [y/n]");
string userInput = Console.ReadLine();

if(string.Equals(userInput, "y"))
{
    Console.WriteLine("You answered yes");
}
else
{
    Console.WriteLine("You answered no");
}

This if you want only "y" or "n"

A: Sounds like you are going to be doing this a lot, so perhaps wrap these sort of things up in a helper class
public static class Prompt
{
    public bool GetYesNo(string input)
    {
        Console.Writeline(input + " [y/n]");
        var result = Console.ReadLine().ToLower();
        if(result == "y") return true;
        if(result == "n") return false;
        Console.WriteLine("Invalid input");
        return GetYesNo(input);
    }
}

Then in your console app:
var ready = Prompt.GetYesNo("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord");
if(ready)
{
    // do something
}

A: I'm using this code for it.
Console.WriteLine("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord [y/n]");
string userInput = Console.ReadLine();

if(string.Equals(userInput, "y"))
{
Console.WriteLine("You answered yes");
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("You answered no");
}

Thank you all for the help.

A: This should work:
Console.WriteLine("Are You Ready For The Day My Lord [y/n]");
string currOption = Console.ReadLine();
if (currOption == "Y" || currOption == "y"){
   Console.WriteLine("You answered yes");
}
else if(currOption == "N" || currOption == "n"){
   Console.WriteLine("You answered no");
}
else{
   Console.WriteLine("Invalid Input");
}

Hope it works!