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Our Fatuous Future
Posted: January 31, 2012 in Culture, Debate, Technophilia
Tags: Culture, Futurism
The BBC News Magazine has an article where readers submitted predictions for futurologists Ian Pearson and Patrick Tucker to discuss their likelihood. (If there is a job description for "futurologist," I'd like to read it.) I find it striking that the majority are about technological refinements and the minority are about social issues. A few observe how the biosphere is changing (for the worse). Notably missing are artistic and spiritual predictions. Rather than quote the entire article, I've grabbed the predictions only:
Oceans will be extensively farmed and not just for fish.
We will have the ability to communicate through thought transmission.
Thanks to DNA and robotic engineering, we will have created incredibly intelligent humans who are immortal.
We will be able to control the weather.
Antarctica will be "open for business."
One single worldwide currency.
We will all be wired to computers to make our brains work faster.
Nanorobots will flow around our body fixing cells, and will be able to record our memories.
We will have sussed nuclear fusion.
There will only be three languages in the world — English, Spanish and Mandarin.
Eighty per cent of the world will have gay marriage.
California will lead the break-up of the U.S.
Space elevators will make space travel cheap and easy.
Women will be routinely impregnated by artificial insemination rather than by a man.
There will be museums for almost every aspect of nature, as so much of the world's natural habitat will have been destroyed.
Deserts will become tropical forest.
Marriage will be replaced by an annual contract.
Sovereign nation states will cease to exist and there will be one world government.
War by the West will be fought totally by remote control.
Britain will have had a revolution.
The criteria for selecting user submissions and what qualifies the two experts to opine on the future (engineers as leaders of men?) are a bit obscure, but there is clearly something fatuous about the vision of the future contemplated by these predictions. I linked before to Bill Joy's famous article in the April 2000 issue of Wired, entitled "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us." Since publication, the article has provoked considerable discussion, which some complain is pessimistic (or doom-and-gloom or neo-Luddite or obscurantist) while others concur with Joy's assessment. Anyone who can step back and contextualize technophilia as a threat to human and nonhuman wellbeing attracts my attention. Those barreling ahead heedlessly, despite some rhetorical flourishes and rationalizations, I tend to avoid.
Perhaps it's wrong of me to filter out the technophiles, since the world is inevitably going that way on the short term at least. However, further technological refinement is just not something to long for. Social change is inevitable, too, but we seem pointed toward increased global hostilities (similar to world conflicts throughout the 20th century) while we're not otherwise busy reducing the world to rubble and grinding people into the dust. Elsewhere, I wrote that
… the world has been understood as an essentially dead, lifeless form from which we humans can extract and exploit at will all resources available to provide material wealth and comfort. Even those things that live (plants and animals) have no inherent value but are totally available for us to manage as resources quite independent of any consideration of the suffering we inflict upon them. This is what it means to live in an instrumental reality, where the totality of existence boils down to matter or material changing form until it eventually exhausts itself via the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Any discussion of a spiritual plane where human emotion, natural beauty, or artistic expression might hold sway are merely "entertainments" we afford ourselves to titillate the senses. All this is a dystopian view, of course, but we're so far away from utopia that one can't argue with a straight face that most of the world's people (and most other animals, too) aren't in fact suffering horribly, no matter what glories await the American consumer at the shopping mall.
Sequencing and Time Stamping
Posted: January 24, 2012 in Consciousness, Narrative
Tags: Book Blogging
Back to book blogging after an absence of a couple months while my attentions were turned elsewhere.
Picking up The Master and His Emissary again, I was intrigued to read something that jogged a memory from a neuroscience class I took 20 years ago. McGilchrist mentions almost in passing (on his way to other matters of interest) readiness potentials and their relation to sequences of events in mental processing. My memory is that event-related potentials as measured by electroencephalography (wow, that passed the spell-checker!) reveal a latency period following a stimulus. More specifically, the P3 wave (sometimes P300) signalling the onset of brain processing (as distinguished from background noise) is delayed by anywhere from 250 to 700 ms (usually falling around 300 ms, hence the name). The mere fact that it takes the brain a split second (literally) to respond is unsurprising; one would expect response to follow stimulus by some interval. What's interesting is that the brain time stamps or backdates stimuli to coincide with their occurrence. Maybe that's not so interesting either, but for my appreciation of consciousness, it's pretty significant that any moment in the stream of consciousness had width to it and strict ordering of events as measured by scientific instruments down to the millisecond is time adjusted on the fly in human experience. This is more apparent in McGilchrist's description of hemispheric cooperation in mental processing:
… the right hemisphere contribution … has both temporal priority and ontological priority, since thought is originally 'largely imagistic and minimally analytic', whereas by the moment of utterance, it has become 'both imagistic and analytic and is a synthesis of the holistic and analytic functions'. In terms of the thesis of this book, then, the process begins in the realm of the right hemisphere, gets input from the left hemisphere, and finally reaches a synthesis of right with left. [p. 190]
This is made clearer perhaps on the next page:
[It was] found that the disconnected left hemisphere could not engage with narrative, for two main reasons: it lacked concreteness and specificity in its relation of the story, and became abstract and generic, and it got time sequences wrong and conflated episodes that were separate in the story because they look similar (in other words, it categorised them, and therefore put them together, even though in the lived world their meaning was destroyed by being taken out of narrative sequence). In place of a narrative, it produced a highly abstract and disjointed meta-narrative. [p. 191]
Considering how the stream of consciousness is narrative, a kind of story we tell ourselves even as it's experienced from inside the story, temporal displacement and decontextualization enabled by built-in mental mechanisms have some far-reaching implications. It's reaching, no doubt, to suggest that our politics, as formulated by technocrats, are an incoherent stew of disjointed abstractions (soundbites, anyone?). And it's a paradox that the worst offenders could hardly be described as analytical, left-brain types.
What may be going on, which is far beyond the scope of McGilchrist's arguments up to my reading position in the book, is that technocrats, speaking through mind-numb candidates with nice hair and strong jaws, have intuitively or perhaps brilliantly concocted a bizarre meta-narrative that appeals strongly to left-brain categories but never manages to synthesize with the right hemisphere into an overarching narrative. The candidates can turn on a dime and spew inanities because frankly they're just as flummoxed by words put in their mouths by campaign managers and strategists interested solely in winning elections, not in governing, as the general public, which goes goggle-eyed at the mere mention of iconic words such as freedom, liberty, and democracy, or alternately, family, wealth, and progress. Thus, one can perhaps embrace McGilchrist's thesis that the Emissary (left brain), which should take its direction from and serve the Master (right brain) because that's the way it's structured biologically, has usurped control and is making us, in a word, insane.
Tab Dump 02
Posted: January 23, 2012 in Blogosphere, Idle Nonsense
Over two years ago, I purged a bunch of links I'd been collecting of news stories and opinion columns I had thought perhaps I'd blog about but then never did. Seems it's time again to rid myself of bookmarks in my browser. I haven't reread any of these links to refresh my memory but will if the comments indicate I should.
We're All Animals Now: In Psychology Today, "The Ideological Animal" provides this summary:
We're easily manipulated by politics. We think our political stance is the product of reason, but we're surprisingly malleable. Our essential political self is more a stew of childhood temperament, education, and fear of death.
Pretty much says what it says, little comment being necessary. But I'll offer this: we tend to think of ourselves as smart animals (if we regard ourselves as animals at all), but scientific evidence continues to mount that like other large mammals we share social behaviors to a greater degree than we like to believe.
More on PoliPsy: An article originally published in The New Republic (republished by the Carnegie Endowment) by John Judis called "Death Grip: How Political Psychology Explains Bush's Ghastly Success" adds to the argument that the public is led around by the nose. A similar argument could be made for Ronald Reagan's remarkable success. Both presidents essentially carried water for corporate interests and ideologies that aligned with their own self-aggrandizement.
Lessons in Learned Helplessness: The Atlantic published an up-is-down, right-is-wrong-is-right article called "Cultivating Failure" about learning how to grow food. It's a rich argument that teaching immigrant sons and daughters basic biology returns them to the fields they escaped in Mexico or elsewhere.
Success is Failure: The Guardian has an option column by Simon Jenkins that Eisenhower's warning that the military-industrial complex would come to define us has been realized. Well, it's pretty much been true since then, so not exactly a new development. Additionally, the invention of enemies to justify war was novelized two decades before the Eisenhower administration by George Orwell. Same old, same old, but it might as well be acknowledged anew.
Looking Backwards to the Future: An article in Logos by Philip Green called "Farewell to Democracy" describes our fairly brief flirtation with democracy in the West coming to its tawdry conclusion. The even wider perspective I've been seeing elsewhere suggests that all types of hierarchical social organization based on concentrations of power and rule of law are doomed to failure. Whether their brief, bright flame is worth it is perhaps yet another debate.
The Jesus Phone and its Discontents: An article in Commonweal by Andrew Bacevich called "Selling our Souls" tells the obvious, not that anyone wants to see or hear it: technolust ain't all it's cracked up to be. From other quarters, I can anticipate that the argument would be that since we're soulless now anyway, there's no real conflict.
Hanging by a Thread (or a rope): A brief summary of an interview with Sophie Shevardnadze by RT News (a useful alternative to mainstream Western media) states that modern capitalism is nearly kaput, which is another statement of the obvious to which most of us are blind.
Sensible Schooling: An article in the NY Times tells about a school operating in the heart of the silicon beast that refuses to allow computers in the classroom. This is even more ironic as the article states, "Three-quarters of the students here have parents with a strong high-tech connection." Something about do as I say, not as I do belongs here.
One is the Loneliest Number: An article at Salon.com by Alice Karekezi called "Why Kids Need Solitude" describes how constant overstimulation blocks the conditions necessary for anything to sink in. The article is about education, but it arguably applies to just about everyone everywhere, not just kids in school. There's simply no time for processing if the fire hose of information and stimulation aimed at us never gets turned off.
The Great Unwashed Masses: Charles Saatchi believes that Eurotrash can't discern good art from bad as the works are regarded among collectors more as investment vehicles than artistic expressions. I've thought the same thing about American art and its audiences for years. But anytime a call for raising standards of taste and erudition appears, it's attacked as elitist and snobbish.
Lives Lived in Denial: The NY Times reports that 60% of Americans believe they're living the dream despite everything in shambles around them. I suppose this much is true if one's dreams are nightmares.
Incarcerated America: Reuters reports on a study noting that by age 23, one-third of U.S. adults have been arrested. Such is life in the modern security state. The article discusses criminal activity, but I can't help but wonder how many of the arrests were really over acts of dissidence.
Care-Givers Rn't Us: A shocking account in the NY Times about doctors who learn nothing about care-giving but are only skilled at procedures reveals they overtreat due to perverse economic incentives that reward procedures well out of balance with consultation, which consultation they seem ill-suited to render unless of course procedures are indicated.
Human Scale
Posted: January 22, 2012 in Culture, Idealism, Philosophy, Technophilia
I wonder if there is such a thing as proper human scale or whether we're truly at liberty to adopt whatever scale we can imagine. The question was prompted upon viewing two documentaries: Ken Burns' Civil War and This is It by and about Michael Jackson.
I had never seen a Ken Burns documentary before. This one has aged pretty well, especially considering how its subject is already well removed from the present day. Among the many impressions it made on me, it seemed very much that the people profiled, be they presidents, generals, or foot soldiers, were men of surprising integrity who still yet operated at human scale. One might expect to have seen any of them — even those quite famous in retrospect — walking along the streets in Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; or elsewhere. Much was made of generals who fought, were injured, and sometimes died with their troops, even though military officers have always been somewhat insulated from the thick of battle. So despite having made icons of them as we now look back upon the history they experienced, they were of decidedly human scale in their own time. Washington was undoubtedly the first superstar prez, for instance, but the office didn't immediately confer upon Lincoln the awe in which we now hold him. Lincoln was actually quite disliked during his first term as president and is resented in the South even down to today.
In contrast, well into the era of mass media, Michael Jackson became known as the King of Pop and carried around him (or everyone projected onto him) a powerful aura or presence. Whereas the folks in the documentary about the stage show Jackson was mounting for his comeback (or swan song) just prior to his untimely death regarded him simultaneously as showbiz genius and saint among men (not even oblique mention was made of Jackson's many legal, financial, and identity issues), Jackson apparently regarded himself with surprising humility and was more motivated by the work than by being Michael Jackson. No doubt his talent was quite unique. In fact, even though the film was only clips of rehearsal from the show, not yet a fully polished performance, Jackson was riveting to watch. I suspect that this is due in part to how media remakes people into mythological characters or demigods. Who among us would not admit to being star-struck when in the presence of someone as famous as Jackson (or Sherman or Davis)?
Review: Titus
Posted: January 17, 2012 in Artistry, Cinema, Culture, Media, Narrative
Tags: Cinema, Reviews
I've wanted to see the movie Titus since it came out in 1999, and it finally made its way to the top of my Netflix queue. It's directed by Julie Taymor, who has risen to fame and prominence as a director of movies, operas, Broadway shows, and other theatrical productions. Titus is the earlier of her two film adaptations of Shakespearean works, the second being The Tempest (2010).
Anachronistic resetting of operatic or theatrical works is a narrative device that sometimes works marvelously and sometimes renders the work unwatchable. Though not Taymor's work, I turned off the movie Romeo + Juliet (sometimes given as William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet) reset as the story of rival gangs in Verona Beach (or was it Venice Beach, CA?), and I once played in the pit orchestra for Mozart's Magic Flute staged as a Texas western ("Whale, howdy hay, y'all!!). In Titus, Taymor's high concept blends without trace of apology ancient and modern Roman locations (some actually being Croatian), Weimar Germany decadence (citing Nazism and cabaret culture), and 1980s American kitsch. The costuming is similarly inventive and mismatched. While plain and obvious to the eye, these devices in Titus don't detract as needless distractions or heedless destruction, though they do come across as rather self-aware. And like most other resettings, one should not really notice but simply go with it. However, especially when opulent production values practically scream for attention and the shifts between visual themes snap one's head back and forth jarringly but without comment, I can't help but to take special notice.
Titus joins a fairly crowded field of movies based on Shakespearean plays. I may be unusual in that I still feel some obligation to know this bit of our cultural heritage, even though I come to the plays primarily through movie adaptations and have never really considered them in print or read them aloud in classrooms or elsewhere. I read the beginnings of a couple online reviews, and though others critics are doubtlessly far more knowledgeable than I am about Shakespearean canon, I didn't really care that it's an early work of his (chronologically, no. 6 of 37) and therefore reputed to be not as fully developed thematically as his later works. It's still got the rich, allegorical language and brutal, tragic elements.
Rendering late middle English intended for the stage into natural-sounding language is always tricky, and the actors fare well in Titus. One big advantage of viewing a DVD is that one can turn on captioning and track the speech visually as well as aurally. It was a big help for me, though it still takes quite a bit of decoding and a curious cognitive shift to hear that style of language as fluid. (And of course, many of Shakespeare's references and allusions go right over my head.) Titus may be fortunate not to contain any of the more famous Shakespearean quotes. The other standard DVD bonus feature is the director's commentary, and though I've only yet heard the first few minutes, Taymor starts by describing narrative choices rather than making technical observations (who cares what lens or what kind of dolly shot?) or relaying dumb anecdotes. In my experience, only a few movie commentaries are equally erudite and interested in discussing storytelling (The Name of the Rose and Something's Gotta Give spring to mind).
I recommend the film, and it's easy to see why Taymor earns the attention given her. I viewed Titus in perhaps 5 or 6 segments (the film runs rather long at around 2:40:00), but I intend to see it again and then hear the commentary in full, probably neither in one sitting (such is the modern world with its fragmented attention).
Awarded Answers 04
Posted: January 15, 2012 in Advertising, Blogosphere, Education, Writing
Tags: WebAnswers
I learned something useful about the way WebAnswers works. The site creates much of its own content in the form of robot questions. I knew of this category before but didn't know how to recognize them. Now I do. So when possible, I avoid answering them for two reasons: the best answer is never awarded and the traffic tends to be minimal. That doesn't mean the question can't be legitimate, interesting, or useful or that I might not have a well thought-out answer worth contributing. Nor does it mean that I might not earn some residual income from answering (which is all that I get out of awarded answers for that matter). The biggest reason is that the bot questions are culled from other Internet question-and-answer sites and so are derivative and without authorship. They are at small remove from content farms, which I blogged about here.
What that means for my participation at WebAnswers is that I am finding it harder to locate questions to which I want to contribute an answer. I've already steered clear of an inexhaustible stream of questions about medical and legal issues, pregnancy, custody, pets, and favorites. The bot questions (now that I recognize them as such) further reduce my activity potential, which has been more than a little questionable anyway in terms of the reward-to-effort ratio and my association with other regular contributors whose expertise is often unclear despite some impressive numbers.
Nevertheless, these are my latest awarded answers:
Who has commented about "the bimbo eruption"? To what is he referring? link
What does POLICE stand for? (abbr) link
Is it good for your body to run a marathon? link
Is music essential to life? link
Is there really such a thing as a victimless crime? link
How should "economics" be considered and delineated. Is it truly "a discipline" or something else[?] link
Was the Big Bang loud? link
How many James Bond movies have been made? link
Are we living in a simulated reality? link
Training for marathons is bad for you? link
As usual, my previous sets of awarded answers can be seen here and here and here.
Salting the Earth
Posted: January 13, 2012 in Education, Environment, History
Tags: Insult to Injury
Chicago just had its first seasonal snowfall of any significance, and the first reaction of residents, businesses, and IDOT is to haul out their snow blowers, snowplows, and salt broadcasters. Considering how modest the snowfall was, only 4.5 to 6.5 inches in most areas (but up to 7 or 8 inches in a few), it was almost hysterical overkill. Perhaps the memory of last year's blizzard, dubbed Snowmageddon or Snowpocalypse, was to blame. No matter. What matters is that with each new snowfall and each winter, more and more salt is scattered onto sidewalks and roadways. The Chicago Loop in particular becomes several square miles of salt-encrusted concrete and pavement lest anyone slip, fall down, go boom, and litigate. I'm not especially concerned over my ruined shoes or deteriorating sidewalks and roadways. They're impermanent anyway. Rather, my concern is that over a period of years, we're literally salting the earth — something far more permanent. (The IDOT link above reports that "Last year, the agency spent $84.6 million on snow removal and spread 562,220 tons of salt." That may sound like pride but should read as horror.)
Sowing with salt was a practice in ancient warfare meant to destroy the soils of a conquered city or country to make it impossible for the conquered to grow food — a particularly nasty way of adding insult to injury. In the modern world, it's occurring with alarming regularity due to a variety of factors. Plenty of information is out there to be had about salinization (see for example here, here, and here, the last of which appears to be pretty extensive), but do we learn from our mistakes and make the necessary adjustments? Don't bother responding to that question; everyone already knows the answer. The numbers of ways we continue to insult our injured planet just keep mounting.
Posted: January 5, 2012 in Blogosphere
WordPress prepares an automated annual traffic report for its bloggers. I haven't posted it in the past but I will this year (about last year) for no particular reason. I notice the platform has a steady stream of minute improvements and features on the private side, which is appreciated. People often ask which blog host is best, and although I don't have any experience with others and only use the free tools, I'm pretty happy with WordPress.
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 11,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Review: Shostakovich Against Stalin
Posted: January 4, 2012 in Artistry, Cinema, Classical Music, History, Media, Music
I borrowed from the Chicago Public Library (CPL) the DVD Shostakovich Against Stalin: The War Symphonies (1997). This is very much the sort of media public libraries ought to collect, along with nonfiction and reference titles. Undoubtedly, the CPL knows its patrons better than I do, so its primary focus lies instead with popular fiction, popular music, and feature films (this last in direct competition with video stores or the ubiquitous Redbox). I suppose I shouldn't complain, since I borrow liberally.
I learn of new titles only infrequently, now that classical music is no longer available in record stores and browsing must be done online. Further, major orchestras have begun weaning themselves from the record labels as the means of production have been democratized. Some orchestras have also begun to concentrate on multimedia: DVDs of concert and stage performances or educational efforts aimed at illuminating the music. For instance, the San Francisco Symphony has a steadily expanding series called Keeping Score, while the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has its own multimedia stage production called Beyond the Score, an installment of which was made into a companion DVD to its CD recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 4.


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University of East London
Romford Road, London, E15 4LZ
http://www.uel.ac.uk/hab/sports/index.htm
UEL's four programmes are delivered in a highly applied context, seeking to make use of the ever increasing number of community based employer contacts. From the use of real life case studies in assessments to extensive opportunities to gain vocationally relevant paid work experience the programmes focus on developing the analytical, critical and interpersonal skills necessary to make our graduates as employable as we can. Our position in Stratford in East London has placed us in an ideal position to benefit from the whole process of the London 2012 Olympic bid as this where the major developments for the London Games would be based. Win or lose we are already benefiting from the opportunities being created by the Games, both in terms of new facility development and transport links making Stratford one of the easiest places to get to in London.
J.Johnstone@uel.ac.uk
MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Sciences (Sport Psychology)
MSc Sport Analytics
BSc (Hons) Sport Therapy
BSc (Hons) Sport, Physical Education and Development
BSc (Hons) Sports Coaching and Performance (West Ham United Foundation)
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (with Foundation Degree)
MSc Applied Sport and Exercise Sciences (Strength and Conditioning)
MRes Sport and Exercise Science

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Why is Asus MG278Q 27" better than Dell Professional P2012H & Dell UltraSharp U3011?
Why is Dell Professional P2012H better than Asus MG278Q 27" & Dell UltraSharp U3011?
Why is Dell UltraSharp U3011 better than Asus MG278Q 27" & Dell Professional P2012H?


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Q: extract text from cells after string pattern in Excel I have a spreadsheet an in each cell there's a chunk of data but I am only interested in extracting a particular piece of information, after including the FIRST date up until the word "Base" example:
FROM ->
[extra data] 10APR18 [in between text] 11JUL18 [in between text] etc. Base [extra data]

TO ->
10APR18 [in between text] 11JUL18 [in between text] etc.

I'm not too familiar with the needed syntax, but I'd guess it would something all the lines of extracting everything after:"(number)(number)(letter)(letter)(letter)(number)(number)" up to "Base"
If anyone could shed some light on a solution or point me in the right direction, I'd be incredibly grateful. Thanks!

A: Try something like this:
(\d{2}[A-Za-z]{3}\d{2}.*)Base
Example: https://regex101.com/r/AO1qmW/1
Explanation:

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*(\d{2}[A-Za-z]{3}\d{2}.*) - Capture from the date up until Base

*

*\d{2} - Match two digits

*[A-Za-z]{3} - Match three letters, upper or lower case

*\d{2} - Match two more digits

*.*  - Match anything following the date (up until Base)

*Base - Matches Base, but doesn't capture

You can also use a positive lookahead to not have to worry about capturing/non-capturing groups, since you'd only match what you want: \d{2}[A-z]{3}\d{2}.*(?=Base)
Only difference is removal of group parenthesis and replacing Base with (?=Base), which matches if the previous expression is followed by Base.
Example: https://regex101.com/r/SPzslJ/1

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Posted by wmmbb in Life Experience, Miscellaneous.
My first response is denial or skepticism. The claims cannot possibly be true. Then again, how would I know? If these claims were true, it might be helpful. It is easy to be dismissive. To ignore evidence.The only thing to do is to try it.
Posted by wmmbb in Human Rights, Humankind/Planet Earth, Life Experience, US Politics.
There are a number of obvious problems surrounding the execution by lethal injection in a Georgia prison of Troy Davis.
After taking the dogs out this afternoon, I went to see my neighbour and friend. As you do,when I arrived I could tell something was wrong.
Well, I suppose the metaphorical bucket still has water, but it seems to be pouring out at an increasing rate.
Hospitals are community institutions and are not without their problems, from management to costs and mistakes.
Posted by wmmbb in Life Experience, US Politics.
I reacted to the news of the death of Howard Zinn, the American historian.
It is not that I have friends, but I do have a family, and in turn my sister and brother have families, and now it seems I am connected to them, which is no small feat since I live in New South Wales, and they live in New Zealand and Western Australia.
Susan is laid up in the Intensive Care Unit in hospital.
Posted by wmmbb in Humankind/Planet Earth, Life Experience.
Who knows what consciousness is? But without consciousness how could we experience anything, let alone seek to bind back into the cosmos, the stuff from which we were formed, to echo Carl Sargan.
I don't like to talk about myself, but since I have been confined away for a few days, I will.
Let me suppose that the personal is the political, or that humans are innately social animals.
For some time this morning I sat on the kerb and took some photos. Unless you sit for a moment, I find, the scene is often not appreciated.
Posted by wmmbb in Life Experience, Natural Environment.
Have to say, I am somewhat grounded, risk averse person, which is perhaps wise given the sometimes precarious ladder-experiences I have been prone to.
Following doctor's orders can take a person to places that they did not know exist and be subjected to experiences and reflections not anticipated.
A lack of anger can be a moral fault in the face of craven self interest. Sometimes life, if indeed television qualifies, imitates the movies, or in this instance on particular movie, Network, starring Peter Finch.
Posted by wmmbb in Life Experience, Philosophy.
How do we know anything? What is the evidence that we are knowing beings?
Annie Leonard says, "You cannot run an linear system on a finite world indefinitely".


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Eatontown, NJ, US
Off-Leash Dog Parks in Eatontown, NJ
There's 1 off-leash dog park in Eatontown, and 14 more nearby. Use the links below to get an overview of each one, see pictures, print directions, and even read reviews from other dog owners. Coming from out of town? Get a discounted rate on pet friendly hotels in Eatontown.
Wolf Hill Recreation Area
Wolf Hill Recreation Area Wolf Hill is home to one of two off-leash dog areas operated by the Monmouth County Park System. This 4-acre area combines an area for dogs of all sizes as well as an area for dogs weighing 35 lbs or less. Dog waste bags and garbage cans can be found in both dog areas, and there are portable toilets near the parking lot. At present, there is no water source available at the site for dogs and humans. See Details
Wolf Hill Dog Park - Oceanport NJ
Wolf Hill Dog Park - Oceanport NJ Wolf Hill is home to one of two Off-Leash Dog Areas operated by the Monmouth County Park System. This 4-acre area combines an area for dogs of all sizes as well as an area for smaller dogs weighing 35 lbs or less. Dog waste bags and garbage cans can be found in both dog areas, and there are portable toilets near the parking lot. There is no water source available at the site for dogs and owners, so you have to bring your own water bottles or jugs. See Details
Ocean County Dog Parks
Ocean County Dog Parks Spacious 4-acre fenced area with separate sections for large and small dogs. Permit is required before entering. The Ocean County Dog Park is open from 8am to 5pm. There is an annual fee of $5 per dog. See Details
Dog Park The Dog Park is located in the Sewaren section near Alvin P. Williams Park. It has two separate fenced areas, water fountains, benches, shade, gazebos, agility equipment, poop bags, trash cans, and parking. It's also near the water, so there is usually a nice breeze. See Details
Wolfe's Pond Park
Wolfe's Pond Park This public park includes a special area and walking trail for dogs and hosts loads of dog-related events, including agility trials. The dog run is located to left of Cornelia Avenue. See Details
Bay Shore Water Front Park
Bay Shore Water Front Park Bring your pet for a scenic stroll at this lovely waterfront park. They're welcome if on-leash. See Details
Manalapan Dog Park
Manalapan Dog Park Thompson Grove Park: Two fenced in area dog park, large and small area It is located in Manalapan See Details
Bark Park of Old Bridge
Bark Park of Old Bridge Bark Park of Old Bridge has a separate park for under 30 lbs and over 30 lbs. See Details
Howell Bark Park
Howell Bark Park Fenced in, 2 sections, lots of trees, plenty of benches, trash cans and clean up bags. See Details
Marlboro Dog Park at Municipal Complex
Marlboro Dog Park at Municipal Complex Pets will love to run and play off-leash at this fenced dog park near the municipal complex. See Details
The Hungry Puppy Dog Park
Farmingdale, NJ
The Hungry Puppy Dog Park The Hungry Puppy, a pet food and supply retailer at 1288 Route 33, Howell, opened its Puppy Park, a safe environment where pet owners can being their dogs to socialize. The Hungry Puppy Park is a free park and is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. Sundays. For information on the park and its events, call 732-938-4470. See Details
Turkey Swamp Park
Turkey Swamp Park This woodsy park is fully of easy-to-navigate trails for you and your on-leash pet to explore. Be careful as it does get muddy. See Details
Manhattan Beach Dog Run
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First cohort of students to graduate from STSFT Health Equity Academy
One of the region's biggest NHS employers is celebrating the first cohort of students to graduate from its Health Equity Academy as part of its commitment to take action to reduce health inequalities.
The new academy at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust aims to make sure that action to change the unfair differences that exist in people's health becomes embedded in everyone's work.
The Trust believes it is the first NHS Foundation Trust in the country to set up such an academy, following the innovative appointment of its first Consultant in Public Health in 2019, Ryan Swiers.
It is part of the Trust's Health and Wellbeing Strategy and long-term ambition to prevent disease, protect and improve peoples' health and improve healthcare services for the local population.
By understanding what causes health inequalities and taking action to reduce them, the Trust hopes to support patients improve about their own health and wellbeing. This means they may be more likely to go to appointments, take medication correctly and take more control of the things that affect their health and that of their loved ones.
Nine members of staff at the Trust have become the first to graduate from its new dedicated course around tackling health inequalities in healthcare, with that number to rise to 20 each year as it picks up momentum.
The programme, which is available at Degree and Masters level, has been designed with public health experts from the University of Sunderland to look at unfair and avoidable differences in health, what causes them and how as health professionals can take positive action in their day-to-day roles to reduce them.
At a celebration event health in South Tyneside, staff from across the Trust and partners gathered to hear from the first graduates about the projects they have undertaken.
Each was asked to choose an area of work to look at ways to address that issue. These projects result in a stand-alone qualification or can be the starting point of the higher levels of qualification.
Among the first intake was Emma Davidson, a Business Change Manager for the Trust's Planning, Improvement and Programme Office.
Her project focused on the launch of the Trust's Tobacco Dependency Service and supporting women to quit smoking during their pregnancy. This looked at the different options available, tailoring the help to create a programme which helps mums-to-be in hospital and through community venues.
She said: "For me, this was an important project to help manage and to think about how we can make an improvement to people's health. It also helped us look at a mind set and culture and that in turn meant we could think about how to best support our patients.
"The academy has been a really good opportunity to be able to study at this level and to then deliver the project. I enjoyed working with people from different areas of the Trust, so clinical staff and our colleagues from Human Resources, and I learned a lot about their work and how we can all make a difference."
The NHS has set out Core20PLUS5 as part of its approach to reducing healthcare inequalities. Core20 refers to the 20% most deprived part of the population identified through the Index of Multiple Deprivation, while the five refers to areas for focus to help address this.
In South Tyneside and Sunderland almost half of the population are within that 20%, with the COVID-19 pandemic highlighting this gap even further.
Ryan Swiers said: "There are lots of unfair differences in how healthy people are and how they access and experience health services. This is true everywhere and South Tyneside and Sunderland are no exception. Social circumstances such as the place you live can affect the experiences you have and your general quality and length of life. There is a lot of evidence that factors like education, employment, income and ethnicity can influence how healthy a person is and the quality of life they will have.
"In South Tyneside and Sunderland for example, we know that people live in poorer health than in other areas of the country, but that they also don't live as long as the national average. While there are some things we can't influence as a Trust, there are steps we can take to make it easier for our patients to access services and better manage their own health and wellbeing.
"This is about making things fairer and accessible to all those we care for. Through the work we are doing with the University of Sunderland and our Health Equity Academy, we hope to bring about real change by giving our staff the skills and knowledge to take action. We are very proud to be the first Trust to do this."
Ken Bremner, Chief Executive of South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust said: "The NHS was designed to be accessible to all and we want to make sure we do all that we can to keep that promise. Through our new Health Equity Academy, we aim to show strong leadership to tackle the challenges we face and with our partners to make a real difference for local people.
"This means doing things differently to improve the lives of people who live in South Tyneside and Sunderland. It means putting just as much focus on prevention as we put on curing ill health. It means health inequalities is front and centre of our work. We want to reduce the unfair gaps in health that exist for local people. The circumstances people are born into should not control what happens in their life."
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That's true when you follow your passions. This applies to both our personal lives and our professional lives.
As a Career Coach, I have clients all the time who come to me saying they are dead inside when it comes to their jobs but they stay because of the money, the security, (I chuckle when I hear this one), the convenience, their families would be disappointed, they don't know anything else, they don't know what else would make them happy, it wouldn't look good on a resume……the list goes on, and on. Ultimately though, what each of these clients are telling me is that it is their FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) that's keeping them in careers they hate.
Companies spend a lot of money measuring employee engagement through surveys because evidence tells us that the more engaged you are in your work, the more productive you will be. The more productive a workforce is, the more profitable it will be. Nothing is worse than having a disengaged workforce so not only are you not doing yourself any favours, you aren't doing your employer any favours either by remaining in a job you have checked-out of.
OK, so if you agree it isn't wise to remain in a job you don't like, what do you do about it?
First, figure out what your passion is. For many of us, that's the hardest part. This is where a Career Coach can really help you because for many of us, we often wear blinders when it comes to our hidden talents and interests and we become pigeon-holed with our thinking. Our family is often wearing the same blinders.
Once you figure out what your passion is, unlock it. Begin by incorporating it into your life. I'm not suggesting you quit your day job tomorrow and run off doing your passion, but somehow, you must figure out a way to begin adding this into your life.
You have to push through your fear of the unknown, failure, ridicule, whatever it is that's holding you back and just try it. Do this as a gift to yourself, your family AND your employer.
Over time, you can transition into your new career, or at the very least, you will have unlocked your passion and allowed it to flow into your life making every day feeling like Valentine's Day!
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Seoul, U.S. may have different positions on N.K.
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North Korean envoy Kim leaves for New York, expected to hold talks Thursday
While South Korea and the U.S. are seemingly very much together in dealing with North Korea patiently, the allies may find themselves in different positions after the upcoming Pyongyang-Washington talks, analysts and officials here said Tuesday.
Pyongyang's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan reportedly left for New York Tuesday to discuss the next necessary steps in reviving the long-stalled six-nation negotiations aimed at disarming the North of its nuclear weapons.
FLOUR AID TO NORTH KOREA — Trucks carrying 300 tons of flour are prepared for delivery to North Korea via land on Tuesday. (Kim Myung-sub/The Korea Herald)
The invitation to the North by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came on the heels of last week's security forum in Indonesia, during which chief nuclear envoys of the two Koreas met for the first time since the denuclearization talks collapsed in 2008. During the meeting, the two officials agreed to work on "an early resumption" of the multinational talks that also involve the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.
Although Clinton did not unveil the exact schedule of Kim's trip, sources say he will meet with U.S. officials on Thursday.
Seoul and Washington have both warned against rash optimism saying the upcoming talks won't bring a "drastic improvement" to the current deadlock. While South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan said his government will deal with the changes "patiently," Clinton said Washington won't reward Pyongyang "just for" returning to the negotiation table.
But Pyongyang's relations with the U.S. are highly likely to take a turn for the better via this week's talks, analysts say, noting the possibility of Seoul losing the initiative in solving the issues related to the peninsula.
"The (South Korean) government has to make a diplomatic decision here," said Yoon Duk-min, a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security in Seoul.
As the North works on opening a direct dialogue channel with Washington, Seoul needs to "actively engage other dialogue partners" so as not to lose the initiative in resuming the six-nation talks, he said.
In a briefing in Washington, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said discussions will be made over "what will be necessary to not only resume six-party talks but to improve direct engagement between the U.S. and the North.
"We want the North and the U.S. to stay on good terms, but not in a way that will shut us out," a Seoul official said on the condition of anonymity.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Byung-jae said his government expects Pyongyang and Washington to discuss "a wide range of issues" related to the two states.
But regardless of how the situation develops, South Korea is "still waiting for North Korea to apologize" for its deadly attacks last year, he said.
"The attacks resulted in great damage to the lives and properties of our people. We cannot just overlook this issue," he said.
North Korea's March attack against a Seoul warship and November bombarding of a border island have been a major obstacle in thawing the ice between the two Koreas.
Despite the apparent international pressure to resume dialogue with the North, public sentiment here has been blocking the government from making up with Pyongyang until it makes a proper apology. The North, which is technically still at war with the South, denies responsibility for the attacks that together killed 50 people.
South Korea will feel more pressured to let go of the issue should this week's talks between the U.S. and North Korea go well, analysts say.
The South Korean government proposed holding government-level talks over the stalled cross-border tours to North Korea on Monday, indicating its determination not to lose the initiative in the ongoing process by staying close with Pyongyang. The two Koreas have not discussed the issue in 17 months.
"We cannot just sit and watch the North and the U.S. negotiating after holding one dialogue with the North," a high-ranking Seoul official said, asking not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue. "The two dialogues will go together."
This week in New York, Kim, formerly Pyongyang's top nuclear negotiator, is expected to meet with Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea affairs, in what would be their first meeting since Bosworth visited Pyongyang at the end of 2009.
China, host of the six-nation talks, suggested earlier this year to the dialogue partners the strategy of the two Koreas holding talks, followed by a Pyongyang-Washington dialogue and finally the six-party discussions.
As North Korea's traditional allies, China and Russia have been supportive of seeing an early resumption of the six-nation talks while the U.S. and its two closest Asian allies Japan and South Korea have been more cautious.
The six-nation talks had been one of Pyongyang's largest sources of outside assistance until they broke down in December 2008. The communist state has reportedly being suffering from deepening food shortages as well as international isolation ever since.
By Shin Hae-in (hayney@heraldcorp.com)


What kind of woman is best in bed? In a sneak peek for an all new Walk Of Shame Shuttle, Jordan finds out, from a passenger, that he gets much more play from older women on Tinder. When Jordan asks who's better in bed, the answer may shock you! The fella, sitting shotgun, shares that women in their late sixties are quite skilled at what they do. Yeah, girl power!
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'Cakes accepting donations for Harvey relief
The New Orleans Baby Cakes will be raising money and supplies for victims of Hurricane Harvey during the team's final homestand of the season from September 1-4.
From each ticket sold during for the four games, $1 will be donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane Harvey relief fund, and will be matched by MiLB Charities. Donations will also be accepted at Customer Service during the games.
By making a donation, fans will be able to enter a drawing to win prizes ranging from autographed baseballs from current Major League home run leader Giancarlo Stanton and Hall of Famer Andre Dawson, to 2018 season experiences such as ceremonial first pitches and exclusive field access. All proceeds will be donated to hurricane relief.
Additionally, the 'Cakes have teamed with the Junior League of New Orleans to collect supplies for storm victims. Fans bringing the following items to Sunday's Fan Appreciation Night will receive a FREE ticket to the 6 p.m. game, which features postgame fireworks:
Gift Cards in $20 amounts to Target or Wal-Mart
The Baby Cakes face the Nashville Sounds for the final four games of the 2017 season beginning Friday at 7 p.m. For more information, contact the 'Cakes at (504) 734-5155.
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Baby Cakes host peanut allergy-friendly game
I t's hard to imagine a baseball game without peanuts, but in a new collaboration between Minor League Baseball and AUVI-Q (epinephrine injection, USP), fans that suffer from peanut allergies can enjoy America's national pastime with less concern.
The New Orleans Baby Cakes will host a "Peanut-Free Game Day" on Thursday, August 24 when they face the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. To make the ballpark safer to sufferers of peanut allergies, the peanut free-game will feature no in-park sales of peanuts or products containing peanut ingredients.
As one of the most common food allergies, peanut sensitivity can lead to reactions ranging from mild irritation to anaphylactic shock, with peanut allergies becoming more prevalent in children.
"With peanut allergies on the rise, AUVI-Q will support our overarching commitment to our fans," said David Wright, Chief Marketing & Commercial Officer for Minor League Baseball. "We hope that all families, regardless of existing allergies, can experience a Minor League Baseball game to its fullest during designated peanut-free nights."
"We're proud to support MiLB to help provide a safer environment for those who suffer from severe peanut allergies to enjoy one of our nation's favorite pastimes," said Dr. Eric Edwards, a life-threatening allergy sufferer and co-inventor of AUVI-Q. "AUVI-Q is committed to providing information and resources to help educate the public about life-threatening allergies and encourage a community of inclusion and acceptance."
AUVI-Q is an FDA-approved prescription medicine used to treat life-threatening allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, in people who are at risk for or have a history of serious allergic reactions. AUVI-Q is the first and only EAI with an auto-retractable needle and includes innovative features such as voice instructions. AUVI-Q is not a substitute for emergency medical treatment.
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Baby Cakes, EJGH team up for Scalise blood drive
East Jefferson General Hospital (EJGH) and the New Orleans Baby Cakes are joining forces for a blood drive benefiting U.S. Representative Steve Scalise this Saturday, June 24, at the EJGH Blood Center from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Those who wish to donate a pint of blood will receive a voucher for two (2) tickets to the July 8th Baby Cakes' game against the Oklahoma City Dodgers at the Shrine on Airline.
"This is an important opportunity for our community," said EJGH President and CEO Gerald Parton. "Representative Scalise has always put Jefferson Parish and the state of Louisiana first. It's important that we give back to him during his time of need."
"The Baby Cakes are proud to partner with EJGH on this important initiative," added Cookie Rojas, Baby Cakes General Manager. "This community always comes together in difficult times, and this is a wonderful way to show our support for Representative Scalise."
Scalise represents the 1st Congressional District of Louisiana, encompassing the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain to the area south to the Mississippi River delta. The Archbishop Rummel and LSU graduate, who serves as the House Majority Whip, was injured in a shooting on June 14, while practicing for the annual congressional baseball game. He remains hospitalized at the Medstar Washington Hospital Center in Virginia.
The EJGH Blood Center is located on the second floor of the Domino Pavilion on the hospital's main campus, located at 4200 Houma Blvd. in Metairie and can be reached by calling 504-503-5691. Convenient parking is available in the Hudson Garage, adjacent to the Domino Pavilion. Appointments are not necessary but encouraged for convenience.
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Dean is running the 2012 Antarctica Marathon to promote fitness and raise money for penguin conservation!
Sponsor an Hour of Penguin Running!
Businesses can get into the act as well. Sponsor an hour of running as I run with the penguins on Saturday, December 10th. You choose the hour. I'll wear your T-shirt and extoll your virtues right from my Garth Brooks head set as I pound the treadmill into submission. By all means, bring a nice poster with your logo. We'll proudly display it.
$300 nets you this fine opportunity to proclaim your support of conservation to thousands of Zoo visitors!
Drop me a line and we'll set it up.
Or, heck, you can just donate online right now.
Donate based on how many miles I complete on Saturday the 10th!
I expect to run 50 miles with the penguins of Riverbanks Zoo. Will I reach this goal? Your donation based on how many miles I run will propel me through the rigors of the day.
If my math can be trusted, a donation one dollar for every mile I run would net $50 dollars toward the fine cause of penguin conservation.
You kind donation will be greatly appreciated!
The Governor's Cup Half Marathon (Saturday, Nov. 5th) is a storied race here in South Carolina. It's one of the toughest half marathons around. Don't believe me? The delirious uphill slogs, Killborne and Blossom Streets, would like a word with you in private. Blossom alone makes one wonder what the course planner was smoking. Its apocalyptic hill is mercilessly situated just past mile twelve, stretching nearly to the finish.
Naturally, I am running. But there's a twist. A glutton for punishment, I shall run the Governor's Cup dressed in a head-to-toe penguin suit.
Race organizers have agreed to let me run 'Charity Chase" style. I will quite literally start the race in LAST PLACE. After the entire field has set off, I will toe the starting line and launch myself after the pack. I will catch as many runners as my polyester-encased legs can manage.
This means that you, intrepid runner, need to double your efforts and steel your will for the arduous race ahead. No one wants to be caught by a sweaty penguin.
Especially not on Blossom street.
Follow the Governor's Cup and donate an amount for each runner I beat in the race!
Can finally hear Southern Gothic/Folk music, courtesy of THE RESTORATION. Incidentally, I have it on good authority that the lead singer reverentially keeps a rather huge Freddie Mercury Action figure on his desk at work. This is an undeniably good sign.
Bid on a near-mint copy of The Amazing Spider Man #252 (circa 1984). If I have to tell you how drop-dead fantastic this is, chances are you may bid on the luxury Cabin Smoky Mountain weekend getaway instead.
Have you senses turned upside-down by the curious juxtaposition of Southern plantation ethos, penguin monomania, roasted bivalve mollusks, and Halloween décor.
Meet Mr. Ron Naveen, conservationist, penguin scientist, CEO of Oceanites, author of several conservation books, lead investigator for the Antarctic Site Inventory, and Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic Hero of the Planet. He will undoubtedly encourage you to recycle.
If you have been to both the Okra Strut and the Oyster Roast, you will now be fully versed on all aspects of high Irmo culture.
Get a postbellum vibe from an antebellum home.
See legitimate, actual works of art created by Gentoo and King penguins. Not kidding.
Get a tax deduction for eating oysters. Seriously.
As a resident of a positively sweltering state, you can bask in the raw irony of fostering Antarctic conservation.
Those outside our sub-culture don't understand us. They hardly know what a marathon is. But the initiated are different. When you, determined maniac, announce you're running a marathon in each of the fifty states, I don't stand aghast. I admire your pluck. When you finally achieve Osmium Level with your sick and twisted, four marathon QUADZILLA, I don't call a psychiatrist on your behalf, I celebrate with you. In short, we understand each other.
So, when I say I'm running the 2012 Antarctica Marathon, I don't have to explain why I'm doing it, or assure you that, in fact, I'm not kidding. You get it, and I appreciate that.
But let's go a bit beyond the mutual admiration of our respective ill-advised athletic feats. I'm calling on all Maniacs for help.
I'm running the Antarctica Marathon to call attention to the fragile Antarctic ecosystem and to raise money for penguin conservation and science. We share the same passion for running, and I know that many, many of you share my passion for the natural world.
I challenge the Maniacs to raise a total of $3,000 for our friends the penguins by November 2011. There's over 4000 Maniacs out there. This works out to about 75 cents per Maniac, give or take.
I'm commissioned three original works of jaw-dropping graphic design to commemorate this Antarctic quest. Each 18″ X 24″ poster is signed by the artist.
You'll receive a recorded thank-you direct from the frozen continent itself.
I'll regale your generosity on this site, and trumpet your thoughtfulness across the the social media world.
I write about the running sub-culture at www.zerotoboston.com. Give over $100 bucks, and I'll interview you and author your next race report. Rampant exaggeration of your exploits and outright lies about your prowess are included in the deal, of course.
Just click the "Donate" link on the right column of this page. You'll go right to my FirstGiving secure donation page.
If cumulative Maniac donations exceed $3,000, I will swim naked in the ice-filed Southern Ocean (filmed of course). Not kidding.
Give, and fine art will be given to you.
If you give your hard-earned money to support conservation, well then, I just LOVE you.
I love you so much, I want to give you something.
Let's start with a series of fine art posters by award-winning graphic designers, each designed exclusively for this quest and individually signed by the artist.
Come on out and dine with the deanguin!
10% of earnings (and all tips) between 5 and 8pm go to Oceanites and the penguins!
Please give to Oceanites.org, a wonderful non-profit dedicated to Antarctic Conservation and of course, penguins.
A beautiful poster created for this occasion by award-winning graphic designers. Signed by the artist of course.
A video thank you from me, directly from Antarctica.
Satisfaction that you've done a good deed by supporting conservation!
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Q: Does the Riemann Xi function possess the universality property? Here is the question.
Does the Riemann Xi function possess the universality property,  or something similar to Voronin's universality property?
Here is why the answer to this question is important.
Up to arbitrary precision, any function can be approximated by some vertical translate of the the Riemann Zeta function.  The universality property is also possessed by many other classes of functions (see below).
Voronin's universality theorem
Does the Riemann Xi function possess the universality property?
The universality property can be formulated in terms of the modulus of the Riemann Zeta function. Up to arbitrary precision,  the modulus of any function can be approximated by some vertical translate of the the modulus of Riemann Zeta function (Voronin universality implies modulus universality).
We assume that the Riemann Xi function has the universality property (the modulus formulation, on the right half of the critical strip).
Now we consider the following result:
Sondow and Dumitrescu - A monotonicity property of Riemann's xi function and a reformulation of the Riemann hypothesis (arXiv).
Now,  based on the reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis,  from the paper above   "A monotonicity property of the Riemann 's Xi function and a reformulation of the Riemann Hypothesis",  we can conclude that the Riemann Hypothesis is false (the  truth of the reformulation is not compatible with universality),  even though we have not effectively found a zero that is not on the critical line,  we proved that it must exist.
So the question is, does the Riemann Xi function possess the universality property,  or something similar to Voronin's universality property (on the right half of the critical strip)?
To me this seems like a true statement (based on the universality of Riemann's Zeta function and the relation defining Xi), but I could be missing something.
I remember I read somewhere that Alan Turing believed that the Riemann Hypothesis was false,  and he tried to find some counterexample through computation, but with the state of the art computers at that time  (and in the present it is not much different,  in relation to this problem),  it was impossible to effectively find a zero that is not on the critical line,  if its imaginary part is extremely large.  Also Littlewood seems to have been convinced that Riemann's  Hypothesis was false.

A: The Riemann xi-function decreases exponentially as $t\to\infty$,
so it can't be universal.
The decay comes from the fact that
$$
\xi(s) = \frac12 s (s-1) \pi^{-s/2} \Gamma(s/2) \zeta(s) .
$$
If $s = \sigma + i t$ with $\sigma$ bounded and $t\to \infty$,
then $\frac12 s (s-1)$ has polynomial growth, $\pi^{-s/2}$ is bounded,
$\Gamma(s/2)$ decays exponentially,
and $\zeta(s)$ has polynomial growth.
So, the exponential decay wins.


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The boxes becomes smaller. I tried a lot of alternatives however I couldn't find why I am having problem with it.
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Scientific Proof that Non-Dog Lovers may Be Neanderthals
03/30/2015 by Fred
So it's not exactly a secret that we here at Life with Dogs, LOVE dogs. Also, we're fairly sure that if you're reading our work, then you love dogs as well. Believe it or not though, there are people out there that are just not dog lovers. I know it's hard for some of us to imagine that, but it does exist, somehow.
Well, if you've ever thought, "Man, what is up with this person? I love dogs! Why don't they?", you are not alone. So, through the help of modern science, we have an answer! Apparently people that do not love dogs, are Neanderthals! No, really. This is not just one writer's attempt to insult everyone on the planet that doesn't feel the way he does. It's science!
A study has been done that poses the idea that you may actually have more Neanderthal DNA in you if you're not a dog lover. Apparently that's a big deal. Homo sapiens, or humans as we are today, could have gained that edge on Neanderthals because of dog domestication.
To be a bit "black or white" about it, we survived because we embraced the idea of dogs and man living together. Sadly, Neanderthals did not. Scientists believe this gave homo sapiens the ability to survive and thrive through things Neanderthals were ill equipped for, and that's why we don't have two species of humans wandering the lands.
The following is a very interesting article from National Public Radio's WBUR in Boston, Mass. It gives some very interesting evidence to support this line of thought, and some clearly definable distinctions between humans and neanderthals. Give it a read, and you may just find yourself going, "Now that makes sense!"
From NPR station WBUR, done for the The Wild Life by Vicki Croke
Is it possible that along with being happier and healthier, we dog lovers are also more evolved than those who don't like dogs? Probably not, but for fun, lets use some emerging science to make the case.
First of all, new fossil discoveries, genetic data, and a hot new book by anthropologist Pat Shipman are giving real lift to the idea that modern humans out competed Neanderthals in part because we had wolf/dogs and they didn't. That alone would make us dog lovers gleeful, but then, there's a possibility that we could be downright smug. Because if you add in the fact that most of us humans today have anywhere from one to four percent of Neanderthal genes in our systems, depending on the individual, you might just wonder if dog loving might be an indicator of the ratio of Neanderthal genes you've got.
The second part is pretty sketchy, actually, but I liked it when I first heard of it three years ago, while reviewing the book "The $60,000 Dog," by Lauren Slater. She wrote, with some humor, that theories about Neanderthals and dogs might tell us something about the people around us today: "What this may mean: all those 'not dog' people, the ones who push away the paws and straighten their skirts after being sniffed, well, they may have one foot in the chromosomally compromised Neanderthal pool." We dog lovers, she asked? "Well, we may be displaying not idiocy or short-sighted sentimentality, as our critics would call it, but a sign of our superior genetic lineage."
Those words have really come back to me this month as Pat Shipman's new book–"The Invaders: How Humans And Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction" –is getting a lot of buzz. She makes a very persuasive and full case that early dogs were critical to modern humans beating out Neanderthals in the game of life.
According to The Atlantic:
"One of the most compelling — and enduring — mysteries in archaeology concerns the rise of early humans and the decline of Neanderthals. For about 250,000 years, Neanderthals lived and evolved, quite successfully, in the area that is now Europe. Somewhere between 45,000 and 35,000 years ago, early humans came along. They proliferated in their new environment, their population increasing tenfold in the 10,000 years after they arrived; Neanderthals declined and finally died away."
But, according to The Guardian, the question is: what killed off those Neanderthals?:
"Some scientists blame climate change. Most argue that modern humans – armed with superior skills and weapons – were responsible. Shipman agrees with the latter scenario, but adds a twist. We had an accomplice: the wolf. Modern humans formed an alliance with wolves soon after we entered Europe, argues Shipman. We tamed some and the dogs we bred from them were then used to chase prey and to drive off rival carnivores, including lions and leopards, that tried to steal the meat."
The timing of the human-dog bond is critical to this theory. We used to think that wolves were domesticated only about 10,000 or 15,000 years ago, and that would mean dogs weren't around for the great modern human vs. Neanderthal competition. But new data is pushing back the timing of our first associations with early dogs.
We've got that evidence from biologists and archeologists now. For me, these little glimpses of our earliest associations with wolf dogs, told in fossils and ancient imprints, are always so evocative. For instance, from a cave in Southern France, there are footprints made in mud and preserved for thousands of years—one set those of a child walking along barefoot and right next to them, step for step, are the paw prints of a large dog or wolf. They date back 26,000 years.
There are other recent fossil discoveries from the Czech Republic, Siberia, and Belgium indicating a dog-wolf/human bond starting at least back 33,000 years ago. And some doggie DNA analysis says wolves could have started becoming dogs 135,000 years ago. Mark Derr has written eloquently about this ancient dog-human bond framed not as us taming them, but as an "alliance," and an "evolutionary inevitability."
But even if there's a good argument to be made that modern humans beat out Neanderthals because of a love of dogs, what about the notion that people who don't like dogs have more Neanderthal in them? Well, as it turns out, our ancestors did have sex with Neanderthals, and parts of Neanderthal genetic code is alive and well in many people.
According to National Geographic's "Genographic Project":
Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them, carried as a living relic of these ancient encounters. A team of scientists comparing the full genomes of the two species concluded that most Europeans and Asians have between 1 to 4 percent Neanderthal DNA. Indigenous sub-Saharan Africans have no Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors did not migrate through Eurasia.
Intriguingly, "Levels of Neanderthal ancestry differ in European and Asian groups," according to a study cited by Discovery News. "Han Chinese people in Beijing, for example, have the most such ancestry while Puerto Ricans have the least."
If that makes you wonder how high you score for Neanderthal ancestry, you're not alone. An Associated Press story included a quote from New York University anthropology professor Todd Disotell, who says he did something about his curiosity. "Disotell recently had his genome tested by a private company and found he's got more Neanderthal DNA than most people, about 2.9 percent: 'I'm quite proud of that.' "
Here was my chance to test the theory at least with a sample of one. I emailed Professor Disotell to ask if he likes dogs. He responded: "I have a Golden retriever who I love." Oops. So much for the theory that a higher amount of Neanderthal DNA makes people dislike dogs.
Categories Dog News, Dogs in History, Editorial, Food for Thought, Friendship, Research, Science Tags DNA, dog, dog news, dogs, dogs and humans, editorial, neanderthals, npr, science, scientific research
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Rosemary Thurman Hamblin passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, February 2, 2019, at McDowell Place in Danville, KY. Rosemary, the daughter of the late Sarah Elizabeth and Stephen Livingston Thurman, was born on August 25, 1929 in Hodgenville, KY. Rosemary spent her childhood in Lexington, KY where she graduated from Lafayette High School in 1947. She then attended Centre College in Danville, where she majored in English and sang in the school choir. After graduating from Centre, Rosemary became a stewardess for Pan American Airways and American Airlines and met her husband, Robert "Bob" Hamblin. Bob and Rosemary had three wonderful children, Robert Nelson Jr., Elizabeth Leigh, and Mary Ann.
After her husband Bob's death in 1968, Rosemary continued to raise her children in Danville and taught second grade at Jennie Rogers Elementary for twenty five years. She also co-founded "The Tea Leaf" restaurant in 1990. In recent years she was a dutiful member of the PEO Sisterhood and the Retired Teachers Association, worked with CASA of the Bluegrass, and was a docent at the Historic McDowell House Museum. Rosemary was very active in the First Christian Church community and enjoyed leading bible study, singing in the choir, and playing handbells. She was very passionate about her faith, and dearly loved her church family.
Rosemary is survived by her beloved children, Bobby (Paula) Hamblin of Charleston; Leigh (Mark) Gordon of Richmond; and Mary Ann (Richard) Getty of Lexington; her brother, William (Joan) Thurman of Pinehurst; sister-in-law, Kathy Thurman of Colorado Springs; grandchildren, Tyler (Sam), Mary Alex (Derek), Jennifer (Ben), Robert (Emily), Livingston, Sarah, Elizabeth, Clay, and Stuart; four great grandchildren, Finn, Sawyer, Corbin and Addison and a multitude of nieces and nephews whom she adored.
Rosemary was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Nelson Hamblin of Tupelo, MS; her parents, Stephen and Sarah Elizabeth Thurman of Danville; and her youngest brother, Stephen Phelps Thurman of Colorado Springs. Rosemary was the type of person you meet once in a lifetime. She had the ability to fill an entire room with warmth in an instant and her generosity, intelligence and grace were unparalleled. Rosemary, we know where you're going and we'll see you there. Your peaceful rest is well deserved. We will love you forever.
Visitation will be held from 4 – 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8th at Stith Funeral Home, Danville. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, February 9, 2019 at First Christian Church, Lexington Ave., Danville. Rev. Joey Pusateri will officiate. A private burial at the Red Hill Cemetery in Hodgenville, KY will follow. Memorials donations are suggested to First Christian Church of Danville or the Elizabeth Thurman Library Fund at the Danville Public Library.


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Menace sur l'Eldorado (Hurricane Gold) est le quatrième livre de la série La Jeunesse de James Bond écrite par Charlie Higson.

Synopsis

Lagrimas Negras est une île ensoleillée des Caraïbes où les criminels viennent se cacher et oublier leurs méfaits. En face, sur le continent, l'ancien pilote Jack Stone a laissé ses deux enfants avec James Bond. Mais des cambrioleurs pénètrent dans la maison, au moment où une tempête s'abat sur la ville. Commence alors une fuite mortelle à travers la jungle mexicaine.

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Le livre commence par un prologue à Lagrimas Negras, une île paradisiaque des Caraïbes qui abrite de riches criminels. Le patron, El Huracán, informe ses hôtes pendant le déjeuner que l'un d'eux a brisé la règle interdisant le contact avec le monde extérieur. Robert King avoue. Il est alors conduit à La Avenida de la Muerte (« L'avenue de la mort »), un parcours d'obstacles mortels illustrant un mythe Maya. Il lui est annoncé que s'il parvient jusqu'au bout, il pourra repartir librement, mais il meurt vers la moitié de l'épreuve.

Après les événements de Poker fatal, James Bond se rend au Mexique avec sa tante Charmian, qui souhaite visiter les ruines Maya de Palenque. Dans le village de pêcheurs de Tres Hermanas, Angel Corona, un jeune pickpocket mexicain qui ressemble beaucoup à James, vole le sac de Charmian. Lancé à sa poursuite, James parvient à le rattraper. Corona est maîtrisé et bientôt arrêté par la police locale. Alors que Jack Stone, un ancien as de l'aviation américaine et un ami de Charmian, amène cette dernière à Palenque (une tempête étant prévue, elle doit s'y rendre le soir même), James demeure à Tres Hermanas avec les enfants de Stone, qui lui posent rapidement des problèmes. La fille de Stone, du même âge que James, Precious, s'avère être une enfant gâtée et égocentrique, tandis que son jeune frère, Jay Jay, se révèle immature et ennuyeux. De plus, les deux enfants n'ont aucun respect pour les domestiques.

Pendant qu'un ouragan dévastateur se rapproche et frappe Tres Hermanas, des gangsters dirigés par  Glass entrent dans la maison des Stone et y volent le coffre-fort. James intervient, faisant passer l'un des gangsters, Manny, par la fenêtre et aide les jeunes, que les gangsters retenaient prisonniers, à se cacher dans une sorte de cave située à l'extérieur de la maison. Après la tempête, James emmène Precious et Jay Jay dans la Duesenberg de Jack Stone. Une soudaine inondation détruit la voiture. Jay Jay frôle la mort, mais est sauvé par Garcia, un marin qui avait auparavant amené James et Charmian à Tres Hermanas. Cependant, Jay Jay et Precious sont capturés par les quatre gangsters restants et qui passaient par le même itinéraire. Leur camion tombe rapidement en panne. James, se faisant passer pour Angel Corona, rejoint les gangsters avec Garcia qui les aide à réparer le camion, avant d'accepter une proposition pour partir avec eux et James au cas où le camion aurait une nouvelle avarie. Les noms des autres criminels sont Strabo, Kesstudi et Sakata et  Glass. Le gangster japonais Sakata se lie d'amitié avec James et lui apprend le ju-jitsu.

 Glass conduit le groupe à un ancien champ de pétrole afin d'obtenir des outils et des explosifs pour ouvrir le coffre-fort. Elle raconte toute l'histoire à Precious : Jack Stone a perdu de l'argent après la fin de la guerre et est devenu passeur pour s'enrichir ; l'un de ses clients était un ex-officier américain qui avait volé des documents importants sur la flotte de l'US Navy dans le Pacifique, que Stone a réussi à voler après avoir abandonné l'officier. Sakata a été envoyé pour récupérer les plans, très précieux pour les Japonais dans la perspective d'une guerre. Toutefois, les documents ne sont pas dans le coffre : Jack Stone ne les aurait pas nécessairement retiré de son avion. Kesstudi s'attaque à James parce que celui-ci essayait de fuir discrètement avec les enfants, mais il se noie. Garcia tente d'amener Jay Jay à Veracruz pour soigner la blessure grave qu'il a reçue durant l'ouragan, mais il est tué par Strabo. James apprend par  Glass le vrai nom de Kesstudi était Charlie Moore. La jambe blessée de Jay Jay étant gravement infectée, Sakata, invité par James, décide de fausser compagnie à la bande et d'amener le jeune homme à l'hôpital de Veracruz.

 Glass et Strabo, voyant que les choses tournent mal, envisagent un nouveau plan : fuir vers Lagrimas Negras et vendre les documents au patron de l'île, El Huracán. James et Precious parviennent à fausser compagnie aux gangsters après un certain temps. Precious a été changée par l'expérience : elle n'est plus grossière, égoïste, ni obsédée par son image, et développe des sentiments pour James, qu'elle exprime en embrassant ce dernier pendant son sommeil. Au détour d'une route, en faisant du stop, ils croisent Manny et montent dans une voiture. Ce dernier est très malade, après être passé par la fenêtre chez les Stone son cerveau et sa mémoire ont été très endommagés, un bout de son cerveau est même apparent. Il sombre dans la confusion, ne savant plus qui est James, qui en profite pour le manipuler en lui faisant croire que sa cible est  Glass. Enfin, James et Precious l'éjectent de la voiture lorsqu'il s'endort. Les enfants se dirigent vers Pelanque et trouvent les documents dans l'avion, mais  Glass, Strabo et Manny arrivent et reprennent les documents. Avec l'aide de Manny, ils parviennent à fuir dans la jungle ; Strabo est tué dans la lutte.
 Glass se rend seule à Lagrimas Negras. Precious convainc James de s'y également car elle veut se venger. James, Precious et Manny prennent un navire jusqu'à l'île. Manny est tué par les gardes d'El Huracán, tandis que James et Precious sont bien accueillis par le patron. Étant à court d'argent, ils s'engagent comme domestiques à Lagrimas Negras. James découvre que lorsque les habitants de Lagrimas Negras sont eux-mêmes sans argent, et donc obligés de travailler comme esclaves dans la ferme de El Huracán. James entend également que la traversée du parcours d'obstacles Avenida de Muerte est le seul moyen de sortir de Lagrimas Negras, mais que personne n'y a jamais survécu. Precious vole un plan du parcours, et ,avec James, commence à s'entraîner dans le but de faire faire le parcours. Ils trompent El Huracán pour qu'il les laisse faire le parcours ; celui-ci accepte à contrecœur car il espérait que James deviendrait son successeur.

James et Precious traversent avec succès les nombreux obstacles du parcours. Enfin, ils atteignent un réservoir d'eau massif où nage un crocodile. Comme il n'y a en réalité aucun moyen de sortir après la dernière épreuve, El Huracán les pense perdus. Mais James a laissé des explosifs dans le tunnel d'entretien, et il fait sauter le mur. Il est emporté par le courant et perd connaissance. Il se réveille sur un rocher avec Precious, qui l'embrasse passionnément pendant qu'ils attendent d'être sauvés. El Huracán tient sa promesse de les laisser partir, avec en prime les documents de l'US Navy (Hurricane Gold, selon une légende maya est un trésor qui est maudit et qui n'apportera qu'une ruine inévitable sur son possesseur), mais propose une dernière fois à James de rester. Les enfants se consolent en pensant au sort de  Glass lorsqu'elle n'aura plus d'argent. Le livre se termine avec James et Precious s'éloignant de Lagrimas Negras en bateau, accompagnée de Jack Stone. Ils partagent un moment d'intimité en regardant le coucher du soleil, au cours de laquelle Precious avoue à James qu'elle l'aime (bien qu'elle comprenne qu'il devra retourner en Grande-Bretagne).

On apprend aussi par le biais de lettres adressées à James Bond, que le Club du Danger, à Eton, a été dissous.

Liste des obstacles de La Avenida de la Muerte

 Une petite piscine de bébés crocodiles sauvages. James et Precious la passent après s'être enduits de répulsif pour animaux.
 Un long chemin avec des trous d'où sortent des pointes acérées. James et Precious le passent en formant un arc humain le long des murs.
 Un tunnel rempli de scorpions qui nécessite de ramper pour le franchir. En formant l'arc humain, James et Precious sont arrivés au-dessus du tunnel.
 Un anaconda géant dans une fosse. Étant surélevé en ayant abordé le tunnel rempli de scorpions par le dessus, James et Precious n'ont eu qu'a sauter par-dessus la fosse.
 Un chemin de plaques métalliques brûlantes, à la fin se trouve une petite tranchée pleine d'eau contenant des sangsues. James et Precious dissimulèrent des fines feuilles métalliques dans les semelles de leurs chaussures.
 Un chemin barré d'une série de fils transparents et acérés, ainsi qu'un jaguar noir à l'entrée pour ceux qui ne traverseraient pas le chemin assez rapidement. James et Precious n'ont pas eu les moyens de conquérir cette épreuve autrement qu'en s'entrainant à l'avance.
 Un chemin d'accès contenant une série de trois meules, deux qui tournent dans le sens horaire, celle du milieu tournant dans le sens antihoraire ; les murs sont également constitués de meules qui peuvent écraser les personnes s'en approchant de trop près. James et Precious n'ont pas eu les moyens de conquérir cette épreuve autrement qu'avec un bon sens de l'équilibre et de la vitesse.
 Un énorme bassin de miel. James et Precious n'ont pas réussi à battre ce défi autrement qu'en se dépouillant de leurs vêtements.
 Un tronc couvert de fourmis légionnaires suspendu au-dessus d'une grande fosse de pieux. James et Precious ont trouvé ce défi le plus difficile du lot, car ils ont dû ramper sur le tronc, étant recouvert de miel.
 Le dernier défi, connu sous le nom de : un/mort (Hun Came). Un crocodile géant dans une chambre fermée, sans issue. James et Precious sont parvenus à s'échapper de la chambre en soufflant le mur avec de la dynamite (déposer la veille) de l'intérieur de la chambre.

Personnages principaux

 James Bond
 Precious Stone
 Jay Jay Stone
 Jack Stone
 El Huracán
 Theda Glass
 Kesstudi
 Strabo
 Manny
 Sakata
 Garcia

Autour du livre

 C'est la première fois, (en dehors des novélisations et de la série The Moneypenny Diaries), que deux romans de James Bond sont sortis la même année, Poker fatal étant aussi sorti en 2007.
 Outre le fait que le titre original, Hurricane gold, soit en accord avec le personnage de El Huracán, selon une légende Maya, Hurricane gold est un trésor qui est maudit et qui apportera une ruine inévitable sur son possesseur. Les documents de l'US Navy sont Hurricane gold de cette histoire, il arrive des malheurs à tous ceux qui ont cherché à les posséder. Le titre prévu à l'origine était Lágrimas Negras, mais les éditeurs ayant pour idée de publier un livre avec une couverture dorée, ont demandé à Higson d'inclure le mot Gold dans le titre.

Roman ou recueil de nouvelles de la série James Bond
Roman britannique paru en 2007

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Q: Yii 2 and jQuery Due project requirements I have to use a different version of jQuery than the one which comes with Yii2. I know I can disable it by using:
'assetManager' => [
        'bundles' => [
            // you can override AssetBundle configs here
             'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [
                'sourcePath' => null,
                'js' => []
            ],
        ],
    ],

Then I go to AppAsset:
class AppAsset extends AssetBundle
{
    public $sourcePath = "@app/themes/v1/assets";

    public $jsOptions = [ 'position' => \yii\web\View::POS_END ];

    public $js = [
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    ];
}

But this brings one big issue, jquery loads after yii.validation, etc:
</script><script src="/assets/5b466ff1/yii.js?v=1465857632"></script>
<script src="/assets/5b466ff1/yii.validation.js?v=1465857632"></script>
<script src="/assets/5b466ff1/yii.activeForm.js?v=1465857632"></script>
<script src="/assets/98d185b3/js/lib/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js?v=1466702133"></script>

My temporal solution is changing POS_END to POS_HEAD, but that affects page SEO right?, as far as I know is considered bad practice to load js on head.
So my question is:
How can I load jQuery from my theme assets, using POS_END and loading before yii.validation etc?
A possibility is to add it on web/js/jquery.js but I would prefer to keep it on the assets bundle.
Any ideas?
Update:
Adding this to AppAsset allows me to have control on the theme itself. It is cleaner than modifying the global config.
public function init()
    {
        parent::init();

        Yii::$app->assetManager->bundles['yii\\web\\JqueryAsset'] = [
            'js' => ['lib/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js'],
            'sourcePath' => '@app/themes/v1/assets/js'
        ];

    }

A: Just Change Your Config Code as :
'assetManager' => [
        'bundles' => [
            'yii\web\JqueryAsset' => [
                'js' => ['lib/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js'],
                'sourcePath' => '@app/themes/v1/assets/js'
            ]
        ]
    ]

No Need to Define jquery in AppAsset
class AppAsset extends AssetBundle
{
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  public $jsOptions = [ 'position' => \yii\web\View::POS_END ];
  public $js = [
    //"js/lib/jquery/jquery-1.9.1.js" Not Required
  ];
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