Syon Hill Jan: 5 – 58.
I send you with your anonymous Criticisms The produce of Xtmas. but first as to the Criticisms I think just as you do about them, yet I have so much good nature even for a Critic that I think I would write to him, tho on second thoughts it scarce signifys when one reflects what he has said about the famishd Eagle.
Now be it known unto you, I send you two Odes. One so very antient, that all the Æolian Lyres that ever sounded are mere things of Yesterday in comparison. If you have a mind to trace my imagery, you'll find it all huddled together by Keysler, in his Antiquitates Selectæ Septentrionales & Celticæ. the Book I dont doubt is to be met with at Cambridge, & if you have not seen it, you need only read his 2d Chapter. But tell me, may this sort of imagery be employd? Will its being Celtic make it Druidical? if it wont, burn it; if it will, why scratch it ad libitum, & send it me back as soon as possible.
The other Ode is as Modern as can be wishd & is that upon wch I trust all my future Fame will be founded. While Lord Bolinbroke stands upon the Same Shelf with Malbranch & Locke I have no fear but I shall squeeze myself between Soame Jennyns & Lord Chesterfield, & I swear I wont give the pas to Sr Charles Hanbury. Well but who is this Mr Joliffe? & how came you acquainted with him? Lord! you are not one of us, you know nothing of Life. Why Mr Joliffe is a Booksellers Son, in St James's Street who takes Profiles with a Candle better than any body. All Whites have sat to him not to mention Prince Edward. at first his price was only half a Crown, but it is now raisd to a Crown and he has litterally got above a hundred Pounds by it. Return it with the other Ode. & besure let no body see it except Mr Brown.
I can't finish my Letter without telling you an excellent Story of Fobus. On the death of the Laureat, Lord Barrington told him, he was very glad to find that I was not to succeed because it would be a shame to employ me in writing such stuff as Birthday Odes. Fobus said he did not know me. Lord B stard, & told him he wonderd at that, "for that He of all People ought to know me." Still Fobus was ignorant; in Short Lord B was obligd to rattle the installation Ode in his Ears before Fobus would own to the least Bit of remembrance. Pray tell this story to evry body, tis matter of fact & I think to both our Credits.
Correspondence of Thomas Gray, 3 vols. Ed. by the late Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, with corrections and additions by H. W. Starr. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971 [1st ed. 1935], vol. ii, 548.


How can Shanghai formalise its army of rubbish collectors?
A recent study says that China's struggle to deal with its growing waste problem could end up sidelining a key part of its waste management landscape—millions of informal waste collectors and recyclers.
As is the case in many developing countries, China's informal waste collection economy is a highly efficient sector when it comes to sorting and recycling waste in cities.
But a recent Shanghai-focused report finds that the future of the informal economy is uncertain as the municipal government looks to tighten waste regulations and beef up infrastructure to deal with growing amounts of trash and fast-filling landfill sites.
"Sustainability Insights: Shanghai's Informal Waste Management", a report released by China-based sustainability consultancy Collective Responsibility, argues that a well-functioning and sustainable waste management system must incorporate the informal sector to combine efficiencies from both.
The report, launched last week, provides an overview of Shanghai's informal waste management economy, profiling the migrant workers that power it and the trends that will shape it in the years to come.
The Chinese metropolis of 24 million generated 7.89 million tonnes of municipal waste last year. According to the Collective Responsibility report, 3 million tonnes was directed to landfill and 2.5 million tonnes was incinerated.
Collective Responsibility's managing director Richard Brubaker told Eco-Business that the company chose to spotlight the role of informal waste collectors for two reasons. "First, we look at how cities are going to work [with an urban population] of 7 billion people by 2050, and core to that is how we will manage our waste," he said.
China has a growing waste problem and World Bank data shows that the world's biggest economy could be producing almost 1.4 million tonnes of trash daily in eight years' time. Buoyed by rising incomes and consumption as the country's commercial capital, Shanghai's waste output has steadily grown since 2005, according to figures in the Collective Responsibility report.
Citizens have so far not responded to calls to separate trash, while formal trash collectors do not have the capacity to collect sorted waste.
In contrast, the report found that informal trash picking systems were able to have used materials—cardboard, plastic and metals in particular—returned to the manufacturing cycle as soon as 10 to 15 days after disposal.
"[The waste collectors] specialise in recycling and reuse – selling waste to recycling plants, factories, and reprocessing centres, diverting from landfill in the process," said the report.
The fact that the formal sector does not sort, recycle or reuse material is one reason that the informal sector is booming, states the report.
The second is that the private network of rubbish collectors and sorters remove recyclable waste from the trash generated by businesses and construction sites, lightening its weight and therefore cutting the cost of formal waste collection.
By some estimates, the informal sector accounts for between 0.56 to 0.93 per cent of the Chinese urban population but recycle some 17 to 38 per cent of municipal waste.
But the report highlighted that Shanghai is seeking to formalise its waste sector, following illegal dumping scandals, pushback from residents who reject informal collection centres as dirty, and a greater awareness of the need for transparency, accountability and better waste management processes in its value chains. For instance, the national government has announced that a national electronic waste plan will be implemented by end 2017.
The city has its work cut out. There is a need to build more infrastructure to manage Shanghai's growing volume of waste efficiently, while figuring out how to "incorporate informal collectors into the formalised system, maintain their incentives, and keep up with their everyday collection efficiency".
Speaking to Eco-Business about the report, Brubaker said that while incorporating the informal sector into the formal one is necessary, his team does not have a clear model for doing so at the city level.
"We have been talking with some developers, who have large amounts of waste, about creating a formal team of recyclers by hiring the informal teams that are already servicing their site, but those discussions are still at an early stages," Brubaker shared.
This is one of the three areas for investments the report outlined. The other two are investing in environmentally friendly, waste-to-energy projects in Shanghai, as well as developing recycling, waste-to-energy projects and formal waste collectors in China's second, third, and fourth-tier cities.


*Breaths deeply* It's about time we got a black tabard.
Legion isn't released for another week. I noticed this tabard in my tabard list today. I'd never seen it before and was confused about where it came from, especially since the Nightfallen aren't out yet. So I came here to investigate. Needless to say, I've discovered a bug and have a tabard that isn't even in game yet!
Nothing will ever top my Tabard of the Shattered Sun.
Best looking tabard in an entire game. Fun police's nerf incoming.
This tabard looks freaking beautiful with pink/purple gear. I finally have a use for Greaves of Shackled Souls, for example. And it makes Netherbane look surprisingly badass when paired with it.
Does this tabard require level 98 to transmog?
Oh yea when were AT exalted we get a tabard.
thanks Thallysra, hope you choke on a manacrystal.
This tabard's appearance is not account wide, you must acquire the tabard on each character you want to use it on.
When wearing this thru raids and dungeons, do you gain rep still for the nightfallen so you can earn the nightfallen cache quicker?


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Inspiring a new generation of cyber security experts
The UK Government's CyberFirst scheme for developing a bigger pipeline of young people entering the cyber security industry was launched yesterday evening at a high-profile event. Ben Gummer, Minister for the Cabinet Office announced the official opening of the programme along with senior government representatives and industry partners, including Nexor.
Support for CyberFirst
Chris Ensor, Deputy Director for the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) skills and growth said:
"This is the first time government and industry have come together to make a concerted attempt to inspire and support a whole generation of young people to take up a role in cyber security.
"Cyber security is a fascinating career choice which is fundamental to our modern digital society and we are delighted our industry colleagues are supporting CyberFirst."
Andy Walker, Managing Director of Nexor, commented:
"Despite being an Investors in People Gold company and offering an exciting environment with good career prospects, we still struggle to find suitable candidates to fill our vacancies as quickly as we would like. In the current climate, all cyber security companies have to face up to the fact the demand for cyber security specialists is outstripping the supply.
"Schemes like CyberFirst offer a win-win outcome for both Nexor and the industry as a whole. Firstly, by sponsoring talented individuals and providing experience of working on solutions for high-profile organisations, we benefit from nurturing the talent to build upon our secure information exchange capability.
"Secondly, as new talent is attracted into the cyber security sector it creates a bigger pool of resource for the sector to keep pace with the increasing demand for the cyber security skills needed in today's technology-driven world."
The CyberFirst Vision
The vision of the CyberFirst programme is that cyber security roles in UK government and industry are efficiently fulfilled and maintained through developing a highly skilled, motivated and diverse talent pipeline for national security.
The specific objectives of CyberFirst are:
To provide a positive perception of a career in cyber security;
To identify, nurture and support talented individuals through university into national security roles;
To form a public / private campaign – led by GCHQ / NCSC and jointly resourced by government and industry;
To be inclusive of and build on the successes of existing student development schemes;
To build a pipeline of students considering a career in cyber security.
Further details of the scheme.
Promoting the cyber security agenda
Nexor is proud to be a founding industry member of the CyberFirst scheme and will be announcing further details of the opportunities available at Nexor in the coming months.
As a company, we have been, and continue to be, supporters of a wide range of initiatives like CyberFirst to promote the wider understanding and take-up of cyber security including:
The Cyber Champions programme – promoting awareness of cyber security in schools;
The One Day in their Lives initiative – a series of videos to inspire cyber security as a career choice;
The East Midlands Cyber Security Forum – a platform for those with an interest in cyber security to explore issues of common concern through a series of regular events;
Cyber Essentials – an initiative to build up cyber security controls across all organisations in the UK;
CyberInvest – a UK Government programme to support cutting-edge cyber security research and protect the UK in cyber space.
Tweets by @Nexor

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Q: JQuery - Loads both elements on page load I've used some jQuery to hide and show certain elements on my page. However, on page load they both show. Then when you interact with the menu/options, it works as expected.
I don't want them both to show and when I've used this code before, but I've added
Any help would be appreciated.
Here is the behaviour:
https://gyazo.com/2798001dacc2daf353d845050872a3a0
Here is the jQuery:

Here is the html:

Info

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Stats

                                {% if driver.fullNationality %}

                                        Nationality

                                    {{ driver.fullNationality }}

                                {% endif %}
                                {% if driver.age %}

                                        Age

                                    {{ driver.age }}

                                {% endif %}
                                {% if driver.placeofbirth %}

                                        Born

                                    {{ driver.placeofbirth }}

                                {% endif %}
                                {% if driver.lives %}

                                        Lives

                                    {{ driver.lives }}

                                {% endif %}

                                        Height

                                    5ft 11

                                        Weight

                                    175lbs

                                        Highest race finish

                                    1 (x64)

                                        Date of birth

                                    07/01/1985

                                        Place of birth

                                    Stevenage, England

                                            Team

                                        Mercedes

                                            Wins

                                        1

                                            Podiums

                                        3

                                            Points

                                        2730

                                            GP's entered

                                        11

                                            Championships

                                        0

                                            Highest race finish

                                        1 (x64)

                                            Highest grid position

                                        1

A: Here's how I would do this:

$('#menu').on('click', '.profile-tab:not(.current)', function (e) {
    $('.profile-menu').removeClass('current');
    $(this).addClass("current");
    $('.pbox:visible').hide(600);
    $('.pbox[id=' + $(this).find('.profile-links').attr('data-id') + ']').show(600);
    e.preventDefault();
});
.profile-menu {
  display:inline-block;
}

.profile-tab a h2 {
  background-color:lightgray;
  border-radius:10px;
  padding:3px 5px;
}
.profile-tab.current a h2 {
  background-color:#005dff;
  color:white
}

Info

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Stats

            {% if driver.fullNationality %}

                    Nationality

                {{ driver.fullNationality }}

            {% endif %}
            {% if driver.age %}

                    Age

                {{ driver.age }}

            {% endif %}
            {% if driver.placeofbirth %}

                    Born

                {{ driver.placeofbirth }}

            {% endif %}
            {% if driver.lives %}

                    Lives

                {{ driver.lives }}

            {% endif %}

                    Height

                5ft 11

                    Weight

                175lbs

                    Highest race finish

                1 (x64)

                    Date of birth

                07/01/1985

                    Place of birth

                Stevenage, England

                    Team

                Mercedes

                    Wins

                1

                    Podiums

                3

                    Points

                2730

                    GP's entered

                11

                    Championships

                0

                    Highest race finish

                1 (x64)

                    Highest grid position

                1

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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History, BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES., CHAP. 19.—THE AURIAS AND THE SCOMBER.
1 Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. vi. c. 16.
2 Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. viii. c. 25.
3 This fish does not seem to have been exactly identified till recently but was generally supposed to have been of the tunny genus. Appian says, that it israther smaller than the tunny. Rondelet, B. viii., speaks of it as being, in his time, known by the name of "byza." Cuvier has the following remark. "The 'amia' of the ancients, as Rondelet was well aware, was the same fish, to which, incorrectly, upon nearly all the coasts of the Mediterranean, the name of 'pelamis' has been transferred. It is, in fact, the same as the 'limosa' of Salvianus, the 'pelamis' of Belon, the ' thynnus primus' of Aldrovandus, and the 'scomber sarda' of Bloch. The proof of all these being synonymous, is the fact, that the ' scomber sarda' is the only species of the tunny genus in the Mediterranean, which has strong, sharp, cutting teeth, and is capable of attacking large fish, which Aristotle relates respecting the amia, Hist. Anim. B. ix. c. 37. The same author too, was well aware of the length of its gall-bladder, which is greater than in most other fishes."
4 Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. viii. c. 16.
5 Generally supposed, as Cuvier says, to have been the same as the mackerel, or Scomber scombrus of Linnæus, and with very fair reason. From the frequent remarks made on the subject by the Roman poets, we find that it was a very common fish at Rome, of small size, and was in little repute. It was wrapped in paper when exposed for sale, and bad poets were threatened with the mackerel, as they are at the present day with the grocer or butterman; or, as in the time of the Spectator, with the trunk-maker. Thus Persius says, Sat. i, 1. 43. "and to leave writings worthy to be preserved in cedar, and verses that dread neither mackerel nor frankincense." Aristotle, Hist. Anim. B. ix. c. 2, enumerates this fish among those that are gregarious, and places it in company with the tunny and the pelamis, but states that it is inferior in strength, B. viii. c. 2. Cuvier says, that the mackerel still has names in different parts that are derived from the word "scomber," they being called "sgombri" at Con- stantinople, scombri at Venice, and scurmu, scrumiu, and scumbirro in Sicily.
6 Cetarias. These "cetariæ," or "cetaria," Papias says, were pieces of standing salt water, in the vicinity of the sea-shore, in which tunnies and other large fish were kept, and adjoining to which were the salting-houses. In the middle ages these preserves were called "tunnariæ," or "tunneries."
7 As in the Euxine. Tunnies were caught on the Spanish coasts, as we learn from Athenveus, who, as quoted above, mentions the fisheries off Gades, for the orcynus, or large tunny. See N. 37, p. 385.


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Q: sed unknown option to 's' I am attempting to write a short bash script that removes CSS comments from a file (so any text including and in between /* and */), however it needs to ignore lines that have the string "not" or "NOT" in it.
This is what I've got so far:
sed '\_(not|NOT)_!s_/\*_,_\*/_g' $1

However, when running the script, it is returning with the error:
sed: -e expression #1, char 22: unknown option to `s'

My first assumption was that using forward slashes was causing issues, despite escaping the characters, so I used underscores as the delimiters instead. However, that has not resolved my issue.
Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks.

A: I'm not sure about the part up to the ! but the syntax for s is s_old_new_ optionally followed by some options.
You have a , and an extra _ in there. Or maybe you meant s_/\*.*/\*__g to replace comments with nothing.
Recommendation: Build it up in tiny pieces. Eg try just stripping out sequences of letters, test that, then add the feature to skip "not" lines, then make it strip comments.

A: I have solved the issue with this:
sed -e '/not /I!s/\/\*.*\*\///g' $1

Found out about the case insensitive flag that you can use, which picks up both "not" and "NOT". I also figured out the correct syntax for finding all comments and replacing with nothing.
Thanks to everyone for their help.


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Penn College Names Vice President for Workforce Development
06.15.2017 Faculty & Staff, Workforce Development
A woman with more than 20 years' experience in workforce-development leadership has been appointed vice president for workforce development at Pennsylvania College of Technology.
Shannon M. Munro, who had served as executive director for workforce development and continuing education at the college since 2012, succeeds Tracy L. Brundage, who is leaving to become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Keystone College.
Munro's appointment was approved Thursday by the Penn College Board of Directors. As vice president, she will oversee all workforce-training and consulting offerings and operations at the college. She will also serve on President's Council.
Shannon M. Munro
Before coming to Penn College, Munro served in a variety of roles for the Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Corp., including executive director.
She has extensive experience working with companies to deliver impactful training opportunities to their employees in the manufacturing and health care sectors. While focusing her career on solving workforce training and hiring challenges, she has written and managed grants from the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as the Pennsylvania Departments of Labor & Industry, Education, and Community & Economic Development.
"Shannon has a wealth of experience in workforce development; her skills and abilities make her ideally suited for this position," said Penn College President Davie Jane Gilmour. "She has served commendably as executive director of WDCE, and the expertise she has gained in that position will help her succeed in this expanded role. I welcome her contributions."
Munro holds a Master of Science in geoenvironmental studies from Shippensburg University and a Bachelor of Arts in environmental planning/geography from Bloomsburg University.
Her community affiliations include service on the board of directors for the Industrial Properties Corp., an affiliate of the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce.
Previously, Munro served on boards for PA Partners and the Union County Industrial Development Corp. She also performed volunteer roles for the National Association of Counties, the Pennsylvania ACT Council, Central Susquehanna Valley Women in Transition and the Northumberland County Planning Commission.
For more about Workforce Development & Continuing Education at Penn College, visit WDCE.
For more about the college, a national leader in applied technology education, email the Admissions Office or call toll-free 800-367-9222.
Trade groups embrace students' educational mission to Vegas
Practical nursing information sessions set for Northern Tier
President Reed joins workforce education panel at STEAM Academy
Trade groups embrace students' educational mission to Vegas An Open House to close the deal! 'Facing Suicide' examines urgent health care challenge Industrial design: a potential 'perfect fit' 'Engagement Series' makes enlightening visit to PTA lab
Practical nursing information sessions set for Northern Tier College IT groundbreaker dies at 92 President Reed joins workforce education panel at STEAM Academy Penn College student project 'manufactures' benefits Construction students visit Clean Energy Center for instructive demo


Es beginnt mit Bitterschokolade… und endet in einem köstlichen, dekadenten und super saftigen Chocolate Delight!
We are always happy to satisfy our customers. And even more when they even share their experience with the public.Many thanks to Thomas for his FANtastic article on feinschmeckerei!


The Titanic - RMS Titanic Cap Tally.
The Titanic Cap Tally is long so as to wrap around the Crewman's Cap.
Gold " RMS TITANIC " woven on black cloth making it stand out much better.
The tally in this image has been chopped so as to show off the " GOLD PRINT ".
Most suitable for a collector's item for the Titanic enthusiast.
This item will be packaged with great care and shipped securely.


In the summer of 2018, the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) released version 2 of its flagship climate model, the Community Earth System Model (CESM2). This update is the most significant change in the model since CESM was first made available in 2010, with the addition of several new model components and all of the existing components being radically revised. CESM2 can be configured in a variety of ways, making it suitable for applications ranging from paleoclimate simulations and climate prediction to air quality and space weather forecasts. CESM2 will be used extensively in model intercomparison projects as part of the next Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment activity (i.e., the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 or CMIP6). In the two years following CESM2's release, NCAR alone will dedicate around 460 million CPU core hours to conducting CMIP6 simulations; the equivalent of 26,000 CPUs operating 24/7 for that entire period.
In this climate exchange, we will provide an overview of the various capabilities in CESM2, highlighting what is new in the model and how those changes have affected such things as its climate sensitivity. We will also discuss how staff at the University of Leeds can utilize CESM2 in their research, whether it is accessing model output to running the model on the University of Leeds' HPC systems. Finally, we will briefly present our thoughts on future directions in climate model development and what new science problems can be tackled as a result.
Dan divides his time between Leeds and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a senior scientist and heads the Multi-scale Chemistry Modeling Group. Dan's research interests are in planetary atmospheres, whole atmosphere modeling, climate change, upper atmosphere composition and space weather.
Dr. Bette L. Otto-Bliesner is a Senior Scientist in the Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on using computer-based models of Earth's climate system to investigate past climate change and climate variability across a wide range of time scales. She is co-chair of the CESM Paleoclimate Working Group.


For an exclusive look in tussar silk, check out Picture Perfect. The red saree has the characteristic textured feel of pure tussar silk. While the body of the saree is relatively plain, its borders and pallav are gorgeously decorated with hand-painted Madhubani designs. Intricate, colourful patterns are inked to create traditional motifs, characteristic of the Madhubani-style of art. The saree comes with a running blouse piece with matching Madhubani painted designs. You can also pair this saree with a black designer blouse to add to its exclusivity. The saree has a Silk Mark label.


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'05-15+
Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences, at the University of Connecticut
Director, Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
PhD - 1985 in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh University
BSc - 1981 (1st class with Honours) in Experimental Psychology from Sussex University
Languages spoken: English, Italian, Spanish, some French, 5 words German, 1 word Japanese. update: a rude phrase in Greek.
2014 - present. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, USA.
1996 - 2014 Department of Psychology, University of York
1988 - 1996 (lecturer / senior lecturer) Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex
1984 - 1988 (research fellow) Centre for Speech Technology Research, Department of Linguistics, Edinburgh University
selfless acts of altruism
2018 - 2023 Board of Directors, Haskins Laboratories
2017 - 2018 Member, National Science Foundation review panels
2006 - 2014 Editor-in-Chief, Cognition.
2011 - 2013 Economic and Social Research Council Grants Assessment Panel (GAP A)
2005 - 2010 Language and Communication (LCOM) grants review panel, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2004 - 2007 Honorary Secretary, Experimental Psychology Society
1993 - 1995 Associate Editor, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
1990 - 2002 Managing Editor, Language and Cognitive Processes
1994 - present. Parent, Sam and Jamie. And now Kai also.
1960 - 1990 A few things of note, but they were so long ago...
2000 - British Psychological Society Book Award for The ascent of Babel (1998, Oxford University Press).
2019 - Elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
Actually, these are my only awards, except for a couple of school prizes and a scholarship to my secondary school…
psycholinguistics: sentence processing; mapping between language and the world; language and visual attention; event representation; grammar learning
real-time mapping between sentence processing and attention to the visual world; eye movement monitoring as people listen to descriptions of concurrent visual scenes
the interpretation of event structure; the representation of object-change as events unfold
the role of context in syntactic processing
computational modelling of grammar learning; learning in (simple recurrent) neural networks
2015 - present (@ UConn) Graduate seminar on Event Cognition
2015 - present (@ UConn) Psyc 3500: Introduction to Psychology of Language (co-taught with Eiling Yee)
2005 - 2014 (@ York) MSc. course Research Design and Statistics
2005 only (@ York) 1st year course Developmental Psychology (co-taught with Emma Hayou-Thomas)
1996 - 2005 (@ York) 2nd year course Hearing Speech and Language (co-taught with Peter Bailey)
1996 - 2014 (@ York) 3rd year advanced course The Language Machine: From sentences to meaning (co-taught since 2005 with Silvia Gennari)
1993 - 1995 (@ Sussex) 3rd year advanced course Spoken Language Understanding
1993 - 1995 (@ Sussex) 2nd year course Language and Memory (co-taught)
1990 - 1993 (@ Sussex) 2nd year course Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
1988 - 1993 (@ Sussex) 1st year course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Programming
1988 - 1989 (@ Sussex) 3rd year advanced course Artificial Intelligence
2011-2014 £595,844 from ESRC "Language-induced event-representation: competition and multiple object instantiation". Ref RES-062-23-2749. Awarded to Altmann & Kamide.
2008-2011 £369,879 from ESRC "From language-mediated eye movements to goal-directed action: Mapping language onto perception and action". Ref RES-063-27-0138
2006-2007 £29,670 from the Hull-York Medical School on Eye movements and hallucination
2005-2008 £274,588 from The Wellcome Trust "Language processing situated in a visual world: Typical and atypical processes". Refs. 076702/Z/05/Z & 076702/B/05/Z. Awarded to Altmann (U. York: 60%) and Nation (U. Oxford: 40%).
2000-2004 £152,418 from MRC "Integrating language with the visual world: Representation and process". Ref. G0000224.
2000-2003 £118,788 from ESRC "Artificial Grammar Learning in multiple domains: Representation and process". Ref. R000238380.
1999-2000 £40,966 from ESRC "Language-mediated eye movements and predictive language processing". Ref. R000222798.
1998 £39,248 from The Wellcome Trust to purchase an ISCAN head-mounted eye-tracker with a child headmount. Awarded to Altmann, Nation, and Snowling.
1998-2001 £103,996 from MRC "Language and emotion: separation and integration". Ref. G9812945. Awarded to Young, Ellis, and Altmann.
1999-2004 £27,519 from MRC "Development, integration and disorders of language and mind". Ref. G980528. Co-operative group status awarded to Ellis, Altmann, Hulme, Snowling, Young, & Brown.
1997-2000 £129,216 from MRC "Monitoring eye movements during the integration of sentential and visual information". Ref. G9628472N.
1997 £10,000 from the Royal Society towards eye-tracking equipment.
1996-1997 £6,000 from York University Innovation and Research Priming Fund "Measuring Eye Movements in Response to Sentential Descriptions of Visual Scenes".
1995-1998 £104,420 from ESRC "The nature of implicit knowledge and its relevance to natural language processing" Ref. R000236338. Awarded to Dienes and Altmann.
1995 £23,125 from the European Commission for a 3rd meeting of the workshop on "Cognitive Models of Speech Processing".
1994-1997 £96,410 from ESRC "Thematic roles in parsing: Assigning roles and resolving ambiguities" Ref. R000234973. Awarded to Altmann and Garnham
1992-1995 £116,000 from MRC/SERC/ESRC "Multiple task learning in PDP systems and models of implicit learning in humans" Ref. G9110951. Awarded to Dienes and Altmann.
1993-1994 £28,403 from MRC "Eye movements and coordination: A new tool for investigating analysis and re-analysis during sentence processing" Ref. G9302037N. Awarded to Altmann and Garnham.
1990-1993 £83,323 from MRC for the UK component of the HFSP funded project Processing Consequences of language phonologies. Awarded to Cutler, Morton, and Altmann
1990-1993 £117,424 from MRC/SERC/ESRC "Parsing in context: Computational and psycholinguistic approaches to resolving ambiguity during sentence processing" Ref. SPG8920151. Awarded to Altmann and Garnham.
1988-90 £30,000 from British Telecom International for two workshops on "Cognitive Models of Speech Processing: Psycholinguistic and Computational Perspectives".
1990 £6821 from the Royal Society (RSRG 10782) for equipment to work on compressed speech.
1988 £3400 from The American Association for Artificial Intelligence to fund Cognitive Models workshop.
publications (view them in Google Scholar)
Altmann, G.T.M. (in preparation, forever, don't hold your breath). Psycholinguistics: Language, Mind and Understanding. Oxford University Press.
Altmann, G.T.M. & Ekves, Z., (in press). Events as intersecting object histories: A new theory of event representation. Psychological Review.
Mirkovic, J., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2019). Unfolding meaning in context: The dynamics of conceptual similarity. Cognition, 183, 19-43.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2017). Abstraction and generalization in statistical learning: implications for the relationship between semantic types and episodic tokens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372(1711): 20160060.
Staudte, M. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2016).Recalling what was where when seeing nothing there. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24(2), 400-407.
Solomon, S. H., Hindy, N. C., Altmann, G. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2015). Competition between mutually exclusive object states in event comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 27(12), 2324-2338.
Hindy, N. C., Solomon, S. H., Altmann, G. T., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2015). A cortical network for the encoding of object change. Cerebral Cortex, 25(4), 884-894.
Kukona, A., Altmann, G.T.M., & Kamide, Y. (2014). Knowing what, where, and when: Event comprehension in language processing. Cognition, 131, 25-31.
Hindy, N.C., Solomon, S.H., Altmann, G.T.M., Kalenik, E., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2013). A Cortical Network for the Encoding of Object Change. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht275
Marsden, E., Altmann, G.T.M., St. Claire, M. (2013). Priming of verb inflections in L1 and L2 French: A comparison of 'redundant' versus 'non-redundant' training conditions. International Review of Applied Linguistics for Language Education, 51 (3), 271-298.
Dumitru, M.L., Joergensen, G.H., Cruickshank, A.G., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2013). Language-guided visual processing affects reasoning: The role of referential and spatial anchoring. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (2), 562-571.
Trenkij, D., Mirkovic, J., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2013). Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi:10.1017/S1366728913000321.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2013). Anticipating the garden path: The horse raced past the barn ate the cake. In M. Sanz, I. Laka, M. Tanenhaus (Eds.) Language Down The Garden Path: The Cognitive and Biological Basis for Linguistic Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hindy, N.C., Altmann, G.T.M., Kalenik, E., & Thomspon-Schill, S.L. (2012). The effect of object-state changes on event processing: Do objects compete with themselves? The Journal of Neuroscience, 32(17), 5795–5803.
Salverda, A.P., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Attentional capture of objects referred to by spoken language. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 37, 1122–1133.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Language can mediate eye movement control within 100 milliseconds, regardless of whether there is anything to move the eyes to. Acta Psychologica, 137(2), 190–200.
Weighall, A., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). The role of working memory and contextual constraints in children's processing of relative clauses. Journal of Child Language, 38(3), 579–605.
Huettig, F., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). Looking at anything that is green when hearing 'frog' - How object surface colour and stored object colour knowledge influence language-mediated overt attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(1), 122–145.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2011). The mediation of eye movements by spoken language. In. S.P. Liversedge, I.D. Gilchrist, & S. Everling (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements. Oxford: OUP. pp. 979-1003.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2010). Why emergentist accounts of cognition are more theoretically constraining than structured probability accounts. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14, 340.
Richardson, D.C., Altmann, G.T.M., Spivey, M. J., & Hoover, M.A. (2009). Much ado about eye movements to nothing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13, 235-236.
Altmann, G.T.M. and Mirkovic, J. (2009). Incrementality and prediction in human sentence processing. Cognitive Science, 33, 583-609.
Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2009). Discourse-mediation of the mapping between language and the visual world: eye-movements and mental representation. Cognition, 111, 55-71.
Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (2007). The real-time mediation of visual attention by language and world knowledge: Linking anticipatory (and other) eye movements to linguistic processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 502-518.
Huettig, F., and Altmann, G.T.M. (2007). Visual-shape competition and the control of eye fixation during the processing of unambiguous and ambiguous words. Visual Cognition, 15(8), 985-1018.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2006). History of Psycholinguistics. in K. Brown (ed). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition). Elsevier.
Huettig, F., Quinlan, P., McDonald, S., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2006). Models of high-dimensional semantic space predict language-mediated eye movements in the visual world. Acta Psychologica. 121, 65-80.
Huettig, F. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2005). Word meaning and the control of eye fixation: semantic competitor effects and the visual world paradigm. Cognition, 96(1), 23-32.
Huettig, F. & Altmann, G.T.M. (2004). Language-mediated eye movements and the resolution of lexical ambiguity. In M. Carreiras & C. Clifton (Eds.) The on-line study of sentence comprehension: Eye-tracking, ERP, and beyond. (pp. 187-207). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
Kamide, Y., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2004) The time-course of constraint-application during sentence processing in visual contexts: Anticipatory eye-movements in English and Japanese. In M. Tanenhaus & J. Trueswell (Eds.) World Situated Language Use: Psycholinguistic, Linguistic and Computational Perspectives on Bridging the Product and Action Traditions. MIT Press.
Altmann, G.T.M., & Kamide, Y. (2004) Now you see it, now you don't: mediating the mapping between language and the visual world. In J. Henderson and F. Ferreira (Eds.) The integration of language, vision and action. pp. 347-386. Psychology Press.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2004) Language-mediated eye movements in the absence of a visual world: The 'blank screen paradigm'. Cognition. 93, 79-87.
Nation, K., Marshall, C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2003) Investigating individual differences in children's real-time sentence comprehension using language-mediated eye movements. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 86, 314-329.
Kamide, Y., Altmann, G.T.M., & Haywood, S. (2003). The time-course of prediction in incremental sentence processing: Evidence from anticipatory eye-movements. Journal of Memory and Language. 49, 133-159.
Dienes, Z. and Altmann, G.T.M. (2003). Measuring learning using an untrained control group: Comment on R. Reber and P. Perruchet. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Section A: Human Experimental Psychology. 56A(1), 117-123.
Kamide, Y., Scheepers, C., & Altmann, G.T.M. (2003) Integration of syntactic and semantic information in predictive processing: A cross-linguistic study in German and English. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 32(1), 37-55.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2002). Statistical Learning in Infants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 99(24), 15250–15251.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2002). Learning and development in neural networks: the importance of prior experience. Cognition, 85(2), 43-50.
Altmann, G.T.M. (ed) (2002). Psycholinguistics: Critical concepts. (Vols 1-6) Routledge
Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). Predicting thematic role assignments in context. In P. Merlo & S. Stevenson (Eds. ) The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, Computational, and Experimental Issues. John Benjamins Publishers.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). The mechanics of language: Psycholinguistics in review. The British Journal of Psychology. 92, 129–170.
Tunney, R. J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (2001). Two modes of transfer in Artificial Grammar learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 27(3), 614–639.
Altmann, G.T.M. (2000). Late closure in context: Some implications for parsimony. In M. Crocker, M. Pickering, and C. Clifton (Eds. ) Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Cambridge University Press.
Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). Review of Tartter Language and its Normal Processing. Perception, 28(5), 665-667.
Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). Thematic role assignment in context. Journal of Memory and Language , 41, 124–145.
Altmann, G.T.M. and Dienes, Z. (1999). Rule learning by seven-month-old infants and neural networks. Science. 284, 875.
Altmann, G.T.M. and Kamide, Y. (1999). Incremental interpretation at verbs: Restricting the domain of subsequent reference. Cognition, 73(3), 247–264.
Dienes, Z. , Altmann, G.T.M. , & Gao, S-J. (1999). Mapping across domains without feedback: A neural network model of transfer of implicit knowledge. Cognitive Science. 23(1), 53-82.
Tunney, R. J. and Altmann, G.T.M. (1999). The transfer effect in artificial grammar learning: Re-appraising the evidence on the transfer of sequential dependencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 25(5), 1322-1333.
Altmann, G.T.M. (1998). Ambiguity in Sentence Processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2(4), 146-152.
Altmann, G.T.M., van Nice, K. , Garnham, A. , & Henstra, J. A. (1998). Late closure in context. Journal of Memory and Language. 38(4), 459-484.
Altmann, G.T.M. (1997). The Ascent of Babel: An exploration of language, mind, and understanding. Oxford University Press. Translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Korean. Winner 2000 British Psychological Society Book Award.
Altmann, G.T.M. (ed) (1997). Cognitive models of speech processing: psycholinguistic and computational perspectives on the lexicon. Taylor & Francis. 1997.
Dienes, Z. & Altmann, G.T.M. (1997). Transfer of implicit knowledge across domains? How implicit and how abstract? In D. Berry (Ed. ) , How implicit is implicit learning? Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Dienes, Z. , Altmann, G.T.M. , Gao, S-J. , & Goode, A. (1995). The transfer of implicit knowledge across domains. Abstracted in Language and Cognitive Processes. 10(3/4), 363-367.
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Altmann, G.T.M. & Carter, D. (1989). Lexical stress and lexical discriminability: stressed syllables are more informative, but why? Computer Speech and Language, 3, 265-275.
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podcast> FOR Kids > Africa for Kids: Living Next to the Namib Desert
Africa for Kids: Living Next to the Namib Desert
Welcome to Namibia — home to one of the oldest deserts in the world, the Namib Desert. In this Go With Nugget for Kids podcast episode, we meet Clive, who shares with us what it's like growing up next to the Namib Desert. His hometown, Swakopmund, is nestled between the desert and the Atlantic Ocean. You'll learn about his school, his favorite food and what it's like to roll down one of the largest sand dunes in Africa.
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MAP OF AFRICA: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS NAMIBIA?
Namibia is a country in West Africa, and it shares borders with Angola and Zambia in the north, Botswana in the east, and South Africa in the south. The western part of the country faces the Atlantic Ocean. Namibia is home to two major deserts, the Namib Desert, and the Kalahari Desert. Its total population is only 2.5 million people, which makes it one of the least populated countries in the world. The largest city in Namibia is its capital city, Windhoek. In this episode, we visit 9-year-old Clive, who lives in Swakopmund, a small coastal town about 3.5 hours west of Windhoek.
AFRICA FOR KIDS: DAILY LIFE IN SWAKOPMUND
Clive's family has started a small vegetable garden, where his family grows sweet potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, spinach and beetroot. As we learn in this podcast episode, Clive helps water the vegetables, as well as the lawn and palm trees.
The lawn in front of the house. Photo: Clive's family.
Clive's garden at his family's home in Swakopmund.
Photo: Clive's family.
A pumpkin in Clive's garden. Photo: Clive's family.
When Clive is not helping out in the garden, he loves to meet his friends at the beach, play in the sand and play soccer. He also loves ice cream!
Clive at the beach eating ice cream.
The beach in Swakopmund.
Clive also plays hockey after school, both indoors and outside.
Clive at home in his school uniform.
Clive at indoor hockey practice.
FOR THE GROWNUPS
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AFRICA FOR KIDS: TRADITIONAL NAMIBIAN FOOD
One of Clive's favorite traditional foods is sorghum porridge with sour milk. Sorghum is a grain that's drought and heat-resistant, and thus very popular in arid countries, such as Namibia. Clive also likes dried beans with corn, which in Yeyi is called tsoli. Another favorite traditional food of his is wild spinach, which is called mundambi. Because Clive's family lives by the ocean, they also have access to fresh seafood. Some of the fish they eat are hake and angelfish, also called brama brama, which are indigenous to Namibia. And, of course, they also have dessert in Namibia. Clive's favorite is homemade ice cream with frozen bananas, soy milk and cocoa powder. His mother also bakes a traditional cake from pearl millet that Clive loves to eat. In Clive's native language, this grain is called mahangu, and it's another grain that grows well in dry regions. Scientists have found that mahangu (pearl millet) has been grown in parts of Africa since at least 2000 BC.
AFRICA FOR KIDS: WHAT LANGUAGES DO THEY SPEAK?
Clive speaks five languages: English, German, Afrikaans, Silozi and Yeyi. Here are a few words in Silozi that you can practice at home or in school.
HELLO, HOW ARE YOU?:
Kucwani
I AM FINE:
Niitumezi
Muyo Zuswa
AFRICA FOR KIDS: LOCAL GREETINGS
In the podcast episode, Clive talks about a special handshake he uses to greet friends and family. Watch the video below and practice with your friends!
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AFRICA FOR KIDS: THE NAMIB DESERT
The Namib Desert is often considered one of the oldest deserts in the world and it's an iconic landmark of Namibia. Scientists believe the desert has existed for at least 55 million years. Today, it stretches for over 1,200 miles (2,000 km) along the Atlantic Ocean and is home to a surprising number of desert-adapted animals, such as springboks, oryx, ostriches, snakes, lizards and the endemic "fog beetles." These beetles are able to collect water on their backs from the coastal fog and let it drip into their mouths. Because the Namib Desert is near the ocean, its coastal regions benefit from a thick fog that covers the area for an average of 180 days a year. The fog is created by the cool Benguela Current, which flows in the Atlantic Ocean along the African continent. The current cools the air above the water, which then moves inland and creates fog underneath a layer of warmer and drier desert air.
An ostrich racing through the desert.
Photo: Ranjana Armstrong
Lizard in the Namib Desert.
A group of oryx grazing at the edge of the desert.
A springbok near a water hole.
In the northern part of the Namib, where there is access to underground or surface water, you may even see desert-adapted elephants. These desert elephants can walk up to 44 miles (70 km) at night to get from one water hole to the next. Because they walk so much in the sand, their feet tend to be wider than those of their relatives in nondesert regions. Their legs are also longer, and their bodies are smaller
A desert elephant with her baby. Photo: Ranjana Armstrong
The Namib Desert is also home to some of the largest dunes in the world. In this podcast episode, Clive shares how his family visits Dune 7 near his hometown, Swakopmund. The dune is approximately 1,256 feet (383 m) tall. For comparison, the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet (380 m) tall without its antenna. Listen to how Clive loves running down the dune!
Clive is climbing Dune 7 with his family.
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This episode would not have been possible without Clive and his family who worked with us through technical difficulties and rowdy cousins to get this wonderful account of what it's like to live next to the Namib desert. Thank you so much!
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Adetoro David, a 44-year-old man, has been accused of stealing a two-year-old boy in Ogun State.
Adetoro was on Friday arraigned before an Ota Magistrate's court, DAILY POST reports.
He was said to be facing a two-count charge bordering on stealing and conspiracy.
The Prosecutor, Police Inspector E.O. Adaraloye, had informed the Magistrate that Adetoro and others at large, committed the offences on September 8 at Oju-Ore, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government area of Ogun State.
Adaraloye alleged that the defendant, in collaboration with his accomplices, stole to a 2-year-old boy Marvelous Oluwole.
Oluwole was reportedly abducted by the suspect when the mother sent him and his eldest brother, Kehinde Oluwole, on an errand.
The prosecutor said the defendant and a woman were together when they called Kehinde and the stolen boy to come over.
On arrival, they allegedly gave Kehinde money to go and buy biscuit, as Marvelous was left with them.
Before Kehinde returned from where her went to buy biscuits, Adaraloye said the two had 'disappeared' with Marvelous.
It was gathered that Adetoro was apprehended when the case was reported at the Onipanu police station by the boy's mother.
The offences contravene Sections 371(1) and 516 of the Ogun State Criminal Code, Laws of 2006.
However, the defendant had pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The Magistrate, Mrs A.O. Adeyemi, has granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum.
The case has since been adjourned till October 8.
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Learn more about BigCommerce - a leading eCommerce platform for merchants. Includes info on BigCommerce themes, pricing, and BigCommerce mobile.
BigCommerce is one of the world's leading cloud-based e-commerce platforms for small-medium size businesses. It enables you to grow online sales at a fraction of the cost of on-premise software.
Pros: Templates, custom layouts, app integration, great customer service.
Cons: No user-generated content feature, limited themes.
Bottomline: Good e-commerce platform to help small business owners with online sales and order management.
What is the price range for BigCommerce?
BigCommerce pricing ranges from $29.95 to $249.95 per month depending on the size of your business.
BigCommerce is a cloud-based eCommerce solution for businesses of all sizes. It powers thousands of small-medium size businesses and leading brands around the world. BigCommerce allows you to build an attractive online store, list your products on sites like Amazon and eBay, and scale your business with no hosting or maintenance expenses that come with on-premise software.
Where can I find BigCommerce themes?
You can find a wide range of free and paid BigCommerce themes on the BigCommerce theme store. Themes can be filtered by industry, collection size, and layout and all BigCommerce templates are responsive, simple to use, and ready for you to add your branding and products.
Where can I find the BigCommerce mobile login page?
Go to login.bigcommerce.com to log in to your BigCommerce store.
Shopify pricing ranges from $9.00 to $299.00 per month for up to 15 users. Both platforms allow you to build beautiful online stores and offer a range of features, apps, and 3rd-party integrations. That being said, BigCommerce offers unlimited staff accounts and does not charge transaction fees.
What third-party integrations does the BigCommerce app store offer?
BigCommerce syncs with a wide range of free and paid apps no matter which industry you're in. Popular apps include MailChimp, ShipperHQ, Inventory Source, and BigCommerce Quickbooks integration. BigCommerce is compatible with iPhone and Android.
BigCommerce partners with some of the best designers, developers, and marketers in the world to help businesses build successful online stores. Go to www.bigcommerce.com/partners/ to find a directory of BigCommerce SEO experts and partners.
Where can I read articles about BigCommerce website design?
On the BigCommerce website, select "Features" followed by "Design Your Store" to access the BigCommerce knowledge base. Here you will find a wide range of articles on launching and customizing your online store.
Is there a BigCommerce API?
For those who want to become a BigCommerce developer, go to developer.bigcommerce.com/api/ to find BigCommerce API documentation.
Where can I find my BigCommerce login page?
On the BigCommerce webpage, click "Log In" in the top right corner or sign in directly at login.bigcommerce.com/login.
How do I get in touch with BigCommerce support?
Go to support.bigcommerce.com to access all BigCommerce guides and documentation. You can also ask a question 24/7 via the Bigcommerce forum. If you prefer to speak to a BigCommerce customer service representative, call 1 (888) 699-8911 (US and Canada), submit a case, or start a live chat online.
What are some BigCommerce alternatives?
I am satisfied with BigCommerce. I cannot say that it's my recommendation. I'm a chef, not an egghead and it's working well for our needs. I don't have any experience to compare it to other platforms.
Phenomenal. We have been using it for almost a year now. It comes with way more features out of the box. We cut our app spend by a lot just by switching from Shopify. My one beef with it is that it doesn't have a built in feature (or app) that allows you to add user generated content to the site. We would love a chat forum where our customers could post content, but there isn't anything that we could find that could just be installed. It seems like the only option is a custom built solution. Wordpress/woocommerce is a better CMS IMO. Still sticking with Bigcommerce. Better all around platform.
I signed up for Bigcommerce 8 months ago. In around August they made the insights feature "available" for everyone. What this was supposed to do was mislead everyone to think that the feature was free but in the end we got charged 50$ a month for 4 months even after cancelling it.To activate it all you had to do was accidentally click the insights tab right above the tab where you see your visitors. It was activated with a click and boom a monthly charge of $50 was added to my account. Fast forward 2 months until I finally noticed it on my credit card bill that this piece of !@#$ company has been charging me 50$ for 2 months. Asked them to cancel Insights which they told me they did. HOWEVER on November they continued to charge me again for the useless service until TODAY I find out about it. Now I am out $200 that I will likely never get refunded for. Asked for a refund and the guy "opened a case" and STILL HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. Don't go with this POS company that steals from their own customers behind their backs.
Been a customer for 8-9 years. I've always been happy. Customer service is unbeatable.


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using TFSAdvanced.Updater.Models.Builds;

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        public DateTime queueTime { get; set; }
        public DateTime? assignTime { get; set; }
        public DateTime? receiveTime { get; set; }
        public DateTime? finishTime { get; set; }
        public DateTime? lockedUntil { get; set; }
        public Guid serviceOwner { get; set; }
        public Guid hostId { get; set; }
        public Guid scopeId { get; set; }
        public PlanTypes planType { get; set; }
        public Guid jobId { get; set; }
        public string[] demands { get; set; }
        public Agent reservedAgent { get; set; }
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Quote of the day: 'Can the ECB fill the vacuum of lack of action by national governments on fiscal growth? The answer is no. The financial crisis has heightened risk aversion in a dramatic way.' Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, warns that Europe's leaders must clarify their vision for the euro quickly or risk disaster.


Yardi Matrix: Detroit, Approaching the Fast Lane?
The city is steadily overcoming its resonant collapse and continuing its recovery from the Great Recession.
Detroit is steadily overcoming its resonant collapse and continuing its recovery from the Great Recession. With the automotive industry regaining its footing and with manufacturing and infrastructure improvements on the rise, the city is trying to move forward, despite a laundry list of headwinds.
Detroit's revival relies partly on local government efforts to bring new life into the city's blighted areas and increase community involvement in residential neighborhoods. One strategy involves hiring professional design services aimed at revitalizing several local communities, starting with utilities and transportation infrastructure. The city continues to add a significant number of jobs in the manufacturing sector, with auto giants Fiat-Chrysler and Ford Motor Co. announcing nearly $2 billion in investments to expand their units in Michigan. Detroit is also becoming an attractive place for young professionals, who have been enticed by modern work environments such as WeWork, one of several companies to recently lease office space in the central business district (CBD).
The Motor City continues to upgrade its aging housing stock with options fit for Millennials and Baby Boomers, with nearly 10,000 units in various stages of development. Although we expect demand to remain healthy, the amount of new supply will decelerate rent growth, reducing it from 4.4 percent in 2016 to 3.4 percent in 2017.


The Koran contains statements that call for the spread of Islam and unbelievers to be killed.
Muslims should renounce passages that call for violence.
Ban Ki Moon condemned the film for itself being extremist.
I want to add some observations that were not in the film.
The Koran has statements that non-believers should not be harmed.
Getting inspiration towards violence from a holy book depends on the supply of the book, being told to read it and to take it seriously – and also to take a particular pro-violent interpretation. All this takes human influence. To say that words on a page are wholly responsible for violence is an over simplification.
Apparently some (most?) Muslim scholars do call for sections of the Koran to be interpreted and not to be taken literally.
When Geert Wilders attempted to travel to the UK to show his film, we was denied entry as he was deemed a "public safety threat". I'll tell you what is a public safety thread: a government who censors a descenting voice. If Wilders called for violence (he didn't – I think?), he would be a loose canon – but it is the protests from hysterical people who feel themselves "offended" that are the threat to public safetly (even if there is a threat at all). The ironic thing is I probably would not have bothered watching this rather superficial film if they had not blocked his visit!
PS There is an excellent audio episode of The Moral Maze concerning the origin of morality. (Titled poorly as "moral relativism"). Also, congratulations to them on the 500th episode broadcasted!
Interestingly, it is legal to hold views that are anti-democracy and anti-state. My worry is what does "challenge people" mean in this context? Pressure people to avoid conservative preachers? This is similar to having black lists of people suspected of being anti-government (and McCarthyism) and since "challenge" probably does not mean legal sanction, the people who are black listed have no legal recourse in the case of false accusation.
This ties in to the view of a study by the International Commission of Jurists. The use of extra-legal measures against society are the biggest menace to our "open" society.
Mr Chaskelson, chairman of the panel, said: "In the course of this inquiry, we have been shocked by the extent of the damage done over the past seven years by excessive or abusive counter-terrorism measures in a wide range of countries around the world.
"Many governments, ignoring the lessons of history, have allowed themselves to be rushed into hasty responses to terrorism that have undermined cherished values and violated human rights.
This also agrees with a former head of MI5.
Is the mere accusation of terrorism being used to silence rational debate by assuming the guilt of the accused?
Do the proposed measures mitigate or aggravate the problem? What evidence supports this claim?
… he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains. There he enjoyed his spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it.
I was interested to see AC1 comment on recent news as I was planning on doing so myself – and at the same time air some of my more unusual views.
1) The lifting of the excommunication on a holocaust denying Bishop.
The first story is troubling for me as a nominal Catholic, although I should celebrate the hoped for "return to the fold" of schismatic Catholics to the church – a precursor for a greater ecumenical push between world religions – I am dissappointed that the Holocaust Deniar Bishop Williamson has not been publicly disciplined.
There is an interesting tension here that revolves around freedom of speech – a matter much discussed on this blog. We needn't repeat the arguments over and again – suffice to say though that I feel extraordinary pain that in the name of freedom of conscience Bishop Williamson's evidentially wrong and misinformed beliefs concerning the scale and nature of the holocaust should be permitted the oxygen of publicity that his office and his rehabilitation to the Church has afforded him.
A very interesting article concerning this tension between censorship and freedom of conscience can be found on the hermeneutic of continuity blog. Where a traditionalist priest struggles with the notion of freedom of conscience and the spreading of error. His resolution interpreted in the Church's conciliar teachings are that freedom of conscience is a responsibility rather than a right and that we have the responsibility to pursue that which is true – therefore in the context of Holocaust denial the overwhelming weight of evidence and testimony to the horrors of the "Shoah" should suffice to encourage mass censure of this mans false beliefs.
In principle I have no objection to Gay adoption. I am unconvinced by those arguments (usually motivated by a pre-existing heterosexually dominant bias) that the classic mother/father unit is always the best environment to bring up a child. There is no reason why a Gay couple (whatever their status in law i.e. married, cohabiting etc.) or indeed any couple (whether their relationship be sexual or not) cannot provide a safe, caring, loving and nurturing environment for the upbringing of children.
The role of sexuality and sexual orientation has minimal impact on the upbringing of children (indeed I may be understimating how positive such an upbringing may be in terms of encouraging a pluralistic attitude with regards human nature).
It is to put it bluntly "wrong" to suggest that a Gay couple could distort the emotional and sexual development of any children in their care. Homosexuality is a) not infectious, and b) not acquired. The sexual orientation of any children who have been placed in the care of homosexual couples is wholly incidental.
However. I am troubled by the Edinburgh case that has been in the news recently. Namely two young children have been placed in the adoptive care of a Gay couple, despite the protestations of their maternal grandparents who insist they are capable and willing to care for them themselves.
Generally where family is available – and they are deemed to be fit to bring up children – then priority should be given to the family – not because it is in the family's interests but because it is in the childrens interests. Living with your grandparents (in theory) should be far less of a major upheaval than living with total strangers.
Edinburgh Social Services have deemed that the grandparents are unable to adopt the children because firstly they are too old (grandfather 61, grandmother 49), and secondly because they are too ill (grandfather has angina, grandmother type 2 diabetes). Having informed the grandparents of their decision they then told them that the children would be adopted by a gay couple. The grandparents claim they did not object to gay adoption (though they did not favour it) but they did object to their being disqualified. The reaction of social services was very blunt – the objection must clearly be homophobic and unless they changed their attitudes and became more open minded they would never be allowed to see their grandchildren again.
My opinions very briefly are that despite news reportage I may give some benefit of the doubt to social services – age and health should be taken into consideration regards suitability for adoption. However I would like to know if the judgement that disqualified them was made by a doctor or by a social worker. Are they medically unfit to adopt – or is this just an opinion formed by a non-medical professional?
I am also worried about the increasing power that the state is taking over society. To threaten the grandparents with permanent loss of contact unless they conform to an opinion that social services approves is potentially dangerous. Are we in thought police territory yet?
My final concern is that the press have manufactured this into a homophobic issue.
This story fascinates me. The nurse asks a patient if she would like a prayer said for her, patient declines, takes no offence (though considers it weird), mentions it to the nurses colleague the following day, nurse gets suspended.
What is a nurse/nursing? My definition (which I consider fairly accurate) is that a nurse is a medical health practitioner who offers a more "holistic" service than that which can be provided by a physician.
Thus the nurse not only carries out the physicians instructions re: medication, dressing of wounds, general health care provision etc, but also provides support, basic counselling skills, caring observation of the patients welfare status and so on.
Part of this "holistic" approach focuses on the "spiritual" well being of the patient. I will post more on the beneficial uses of religion and spirtuality in health care soon (this story broke shortly after I started gathering materials for it).
The definition of "spiritual" well being in a multi-denominational and plural society necessarily needs be very broadly defined. Indeed one could describe the terms "spiritual" and "well being" as identical (i.e. not referencing any transcendent factor).
In this context then one would be hard pressed to suggest that asking a patient if they wished to be prayed for was a bad/wrong thing to do. One could argue that this approach (though overtly religious) was part and parcel of a holistic caring approach to the patient that a nurse ought provide.
Now for some problems and analysis.
1) The nurse had previously been warned about her behaviour (having been caught handing out prayer cards to another patient).
2) Though the nurse offered to pray and freely accepted the refusal such an overt statement may seem evangelical (forcing of ones beliefs).
3) Such an offer may be liable to offend.
The first issue is interesting – she has "previous" and has seemingly gone against the wishes of her local primary care trust. It is therefore (whether the policy is correct or not) an internal disciplinary matter. It is not a global persecution of expressions of the Christian faith (though one may argue it is a more localised persecution). What is more interesting though is that neither the prayer card, or prayer request patient made a complaint. Offence was neither intended nor taken – yet offence has been registered by a third non-interested party. Again (a common theme in this post) there seems to be a tension between freedom of conscience and institutional censure.
The second issue is a strange one. I dislike being evangelised (and yet I am a person of faith). Clearly a person who does not share the same faith or who is a non-believer altogether may feel irritated at being evangelised and preached to. This is a problem again with freedom of conscience and living in a plural society. Should a person of faith assume the "worst" and keep their beliefs private? Or should they be allowed the freedom to express themselves – partically when its expression has benign intent.
As I noted on a previous comment – a famous atheist once remarked (in suprisingly conciliatory tones) that if ones worldview was such that you believed in good/evil, life after death, eternal bliss etc., then you would have to really hate someone not to want to share the "good news" with them.
In this case I think offering to pray for someone – an expression of good will here – another way of saying "I hope you get better soon" – is not evangelising.
I think it is inevitable that in a plural society there will be a diversity of beliefs regarding God, the spiritual etc. Many of religion and many of no religion – it is therefore important that we recognise benign sincerity wherever we see it and understand though we may not share the same "language game" that good wishes may be expressed in a variety of idiomatic ways.
My only comment on this is – (and again this reflects the overriding theme of this post the tension between freedom of conscience and censorship) – if were constantly vigilant to the fact that what we say may be interpreted in ways we never intended and that the seemingly benign may transform before our very eyes into something heinous – then most likely we would be struck mute for ever!
I had the misfortune of being seriously ill a couple of years ago and of being thoroughly dependent upon the care provided by visiting nurses. None of them to my knowledge openly prayed for me or asked about my spiritual wellbeing. And yet in their actions a broadly spiritual concern was expressed – and I am perpetually grateful to them for it.
I did in my sick bed recieve from concerned individuals good wishes (of a secular variety) and also expressions of religious sentiment.
There is some research that suggests that praying for someone (and informing them of it) may be cathartic to their recovery. There is also conflicting research that suggests the effects to be negligible.
Personally I found it a) satisfying – it is nice to know people care, but also b) irritating.
I found it irritating for three reasons philosophical and theologically formed.
i) I am quite fatalistic – it is not so much that something happens for a reason, but that things happen and one must make do with ones circumstances – Although I was in pain, and distress I quickly came to be at ease with my situation – it was out of my control, therefore I let go of my attachment to suffering. Consequently my suffering became redemptive, enlightening even, and I learnt more about myself in a short space of time than I had ever known in all my previous years.
ii) I am quite cynical and humble – God (if you happen to believe in Him) surely has far more pressing concerns than to worry about little old me and my ailments. Don't pray for me, beg him to stop earthquakes, floods, famines, war, pestilence, and so on.
This is the crux of 'Christian' prayer as Jesus is supposed to have taught it.
but if they should fall sick they would wish it were God's will that they should be better. These people, then, would rather that God willed according to their will than that they should will according to His. This may be condoned, but it is not right. The just have no will at all: whatever God wills, it is all one to them, however great the hardship.
Eckhart coined the phrase Abegescheidenheit which loosely translated can mean living without a why. The lucky man is attchment free and is content with whatever befalls him, sickness, health, weal or woe.
Therefore this nurse's case is in my humble opinion – no great offence to society or to the healthcare profession. In fact I would propose that her goodwill is such that it overflows and she is a fine model of what the nursing profession can be. Her suspension is therefore heavyhanded and sad reflection of the ease of misinterpretation. I wouldnt mind betting that the patient who mentioned it in passing, now wishes she had remained silent.
What this does represent though is perhaps an immature approach to her faith and to prayer. We all wish the sick to get better, we all wish to live long and happy lives. But life is not like that – the evidence is all around us to see. For some people this is a damning condemnation of the supposed goodness of God and perhaps demonstrative of His non-existence. For others it is simply demonstrative of the selfishness of the human ego that we should seek to define God's will as compatible with ours. Some people find the approach of the via negativa uncomfortable, is a God that allows suffering or who shows no inclination of goodness worthy of our attention and worship?
The nurse didn't do a bad thing, and is being wrongly persecuted. But the nurse most likely should have persisted in her caring capacity without the need for a public expression of her faith. By her actions alone – and indeed by the actions of the entire medical proffession – we may judge for ourselves what manner of persons they are. And if a patient requests some form of explicit expression of benign goodwill such as a prayer then regardless of ones personal beliefs one should be willing to offer it knowing that it is part of a holistic approach to wellbeing.
The only options are due process under the law or release. Since the procedures used to apprehend and detain them were illegal, no prosecution could ever be fair. They must be release and further harm they might inflict is the fault of those who used illegal procedures. Before anyone criticises me for being naive, remember the 5th amendment agrees with my interpretation (not to mention the second sentence of the US Declaration of Independence – but that is too "natural rights" for me).
A Christian nurse from Weston-super-Mare has been suspended for offering to pray for a patient's recovery.
Although this is not the first complaint against the nurse for this behaviour, I feel her managers are acting as if "through the looking glass". One woman's spiritual view is not particularly threatening or offensive, particularly when compared to much more significant issues. If we want to remove Christian bias in the health care system, perhaps we should have a discussion on euthanasia, gene therapy, etc without resorting to spiritual arguments? That would be more worthwhile then martyring this one person. Incidentally, Kierkegaard probably would say being victimised in this way is a necessary part of being a Christian.


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Video Premiere: Majid Jordan – Phases
By BiGJamZBMF | 25 May 2017 - 21 h 31 min | 29 May 2017 Uncategorized
R&B duo Majid Jordan is currently working on their new album for a release this summer. Here's the video premiere for the lead single "Phases".
Leak Preview: Gorilla Zoe – Don't Feed Da Animals 2
8 years after the first taste, Atlanta rapper Gorilla Zoe has revealed plans to release his fourth studio album Don't Feed Da Animals 2 on May 26th. The lead single is "So Many Drugs". The lone feature on the LP comes from fellow Atlanta MC, Young Dro. Support him and… Continue reading →
Leak Preview: Lil Yachty – Teenage Emotions
Teenage Emotions is the debut studio album from 2016 XXL Freshman Lil Yachty. It is produced by The Stereotypes, Diplo, WondaGurl, Digital Nas, Free School and more … It features Migos on the first singe "Peek A Boo", YG, Kamaiyah, Grace, and more … Support him and buy his new… Continue reading →
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Leak Preview: RJ – MrLA
Los Angeles rapper RJ has announced a new stage name RJMrLA in addition to his new deal. And tomorrow DJ Msutard's protégé will release his debut album, MrLA. The15-track project featured YG, ScHoolboy Q, Blac Youngsta, and more… It included the single "Brackin". Support him and buy his new album… Continue reading →
Leak Preview: Blaq Tuxedo – ABA (Art By Accident)
Blaq Tuxedo is a duo hailing from Sacramento, California made up of brothers Dominique and Darius Logan. In the past, the songwriting pair have penned hits from Ty Dolla $ign, Chris Brown, and more… Tomorrow the Hip Hop brothers will drop their debut album ABA (Art By Accident). The project… Continue reading →
Video Premiere: Meek Mill – Glow Up
Meek Mill has been busy working on new music and should release his third album Wins & Losses later this year. Here's the video premiere for his brand new single "Glow Up".
Video Premiere: Goapele – Secret
Few days ago, talented Soul/R&B singer Goapele dropped her new EP, Dreamseeker. Today, the lady is back with the visual for her song "Secret".
Video Premiere: Brenda Mada – House Party
Brenda Mada is the new Def Jam's rising star from Belgium. Here's the video premiere for her debut single "House Party". * BMF Debut- FOLLOW @BrendaMada *
Video Premiere: Gucci Mane – Hurt Feelings
Yesterday, Gucci Mane announced that he will release his new album DropTopWop on Friday. He now follows it up with the first cut and here's the video for "Hurt Feelings". MP3: LINK