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First for iOS! Microsoft announces closed beta for Minecraft Earth
July 13, 2019 By Kamran Haider Leave a Comment
In mid-May of this year, Microsoft introduced its new game Minecraft Earth, focusing on experience in augmented reality. Now the Redmond giant has announced the start of the game's closed beta, initially only for the iOS operating system.
To the molds of Pokémon GO, the title will enable players to build blocks in real life. The game's official channel has posted a promotional video about the trial period. Watch the following:
"Discover a new dimension of Minecraft while creating, exploring and surviving in the real world. The closed beta of Minecraft Earth will hit select cities in the next two weeks. Did you sign up to join in the fun? Stay tuned as we announce sites that will be part of the closed beta and receive all the latest Minecraft Earth updates! "
The beta of the app will be released for iOS in the next two weeks. Those selected to attend will receive an invitation to the email associated with their Microsoft or Xbox Live account. To keep score, gamers will have to play at least once every seven days.
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The subscription to the closed beta of Minecraft Earth can be done at this link . There is still no forecast for testing available on the Android platform, but it is confirmed for the Google platform.
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Can Bodybuilding and Lifting Weights Turn Into an Unhealthy Addiction Eating Your Life?
This entry was posted in natural bodybuilding, philosophy and tagged natural bodybuilding, philosophy on August 24, 2015 by Truth Seeker.
Addictions make the world vibrate. The main difference between them is that some kill you faster than others. Other than that the principles are exactly the same – you want to get more and more of the same thing to produce a certain effect.
A while ago I was looking to buy a computer tablet to get away from the desk and brainwash myself while giving a chance to my ecto parts to rest in bed. Naturally, I went online and started researching the offers of the local stores. Then, I began watching reviews of the specific models I had chosen. One of the guys doing product presentations opened the box of a tablet and said something that later found itself in my notebook – "I've opened 100s of boxes, and yet every time I experience euphoria," he said.
I remembered this statement because it reveals the principle behind addiction – every time you buy a new product, you experience a high that keeps you buying and opening new packages.
Some people consider shopping a modern form of hunting. You find an item (target) and then you begin researching. When you are ready, you pull the trigger and order it. Nowadays, we buy mostly from the Internet. This adds another element – the waiting part.
Many buyers feel like kids the week before Christmas. Every day you check your mail, hoping that your new trophy has arrived. Sooner or later, it's on your working desk. Some people use a knife or scissors to open the package while others prefer the savage approach and tear right through it. Those individuals behave like impatient vampires who want to consume their victim as fast as possible – no waiting. When you finally see your new acquisition for the first time, you experience a climax. You've won. The victim is in front of you – dead. It's yours now. The hunting is over, and you can go home and eat for a day or two. A few weeks pass before it's all forgotten. Your new acquisition is a given. It's not exciting anymore. You are hungry again. You need something else – a new victim, a new high.
For people with a perpetual amount of coins, this cycle can transform into a never-ending vicious hobby while for others with less money it can be an economic seppuku. Having said that, I am not against buying things as long as you can afford them without going into debt, and you truly find a function for them in your life.
The same core principle applies to other more advanced addictions. You can be addicted to everything, including spiritual experiences.
Believe it or not, some people are addicted to helping others and making them happy. Obviously, this is not the most popular addiction in the world, but it does exist. Without a shadow of a doubt, I don't have a similar problem, but I have seen others who do. Very often it's the result of a built-in perpetual guilt. Some humanoids feel guilty for breathing and self-torture themselves while giving away to other people and/or animals.
A simple example would be somebody who squats down and donates a few bucks to a beggar on the street. It makes you feel good inside, and your deep internal guilt diminishes for a moment. This is also a form of addiction even though it's seemingly not as selfish as getting high for example. Nevertheless, it still proves that our actions are simply a part of different cycles that end with a few moments of inner peace.
Regardless of who you are, you will be addicted to something that will become your master one way or another. What is your choice – a slow or a fast killer?
There are many idiots out there who call themselves collectors. They collect things that may or may not be functional. Recently I watched a few videos on YouTube of a watch guy. The man has watches worth more than everything I own. He is one of those brain dead snobs who can't stop spending money. However, since he is a wealthy dude, he gets away with it to a certain degree. But guess what? It never ends. In every video, he wants more and more. At the core of this experience is the fact that his hobby does not involve doing anything other than searching and buying. Obviously, he is not making those watches himself and is just a consumer/sponsor. This cheapens the experience.
Lifting weights, on the other hand, requires you to get involved and use verbs other than "have" or "get". You don't need a ton of money to go to the gym or the local park to receive the high that training can provide. Ultimately, training produces a satisfaction superior to the one derived from polishing watches or jewelry that is too expensive to wear outside of your own bathroom. Therefore, bodybuilding and lifting weights, in general, have the potential to be a more elevated form of addiction because you have to be a doer.
Of course, bodybuilding can quickly turn into an unhealthy addiction too because it's a great ego food. There are bodybuilders who get super attached to their musculature and its effect. This diminishes the spiritual side of the training experience. You begin with a small dose, get some new muscle, and then you up the dose over and over again to mute your ego and experience the same pleasure again.
A decade later you may find yourself taking grams of muscle elixirs while shaking that thong in front of thousands of people. When does it stop? The answer of modern bodybuilding is never. "Juice till you die," is a motto that fits the whole activity really well.
The "constantly wanting more" mechanism is natural for our human nature. As the old cliché goes "you always want what you cannot have". This principle is partially responsible for all human based progress. You are never satisfied. You always want more. That's how the "more" addiction operates. You can try to shut it down, but as long as your heart is beating, it will be there. It's a part of you. You can try to control it, but you cannot cut it out. Some consider it an imperfection while others see it as a driving force needed to succeed.
Bodybuilding and lifting weights could transform into a scary and expensive addiction completely consuming your life if you choose to play the size and ego game. Nonetheless, the activity has the potential to be one of the healthier addictions that kill you slowly.
My observations say that balance is the key to a longer life with optimal functioning. You have to decide what you want. Some prefer to go all in (YOLO) and sell their soul to feed their addiction while others are able to see through and seek equilibrium.
Even if both movies end the same way, the story line is what counts the most anyway.
Great points here. I struggle at times with finding a balance between spending time with my family (wife, two young children) vs. the urge/desire to stick to my program and train whenever a free hour avails itself, chasing the spiritual high that a shock to the CNS can bring. I admit I come with an addictive personality; it has caused friction at times in my relationship with my wife. Better than cocaine, though.


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Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: The Agonizing and Absurd Moments of Palestinian Life
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference books, artists' books, and more. Meet Tanya Habjouqa at the museum on Wednesday, July 27 for a special in-gallery program.
The cover of Occupied Pleasures by Tanya Habjouqa, FotoEvidence, 2015
Occupied Pleasures
(FotoEvidence, 2015)
Jordanian photographer Tanya Habjouqa reveals the agonizing and absurd instants of occupied Palestinian life in Occupied Pleasures. In the foreword, poet Nathalie Handal describes the book as "a collection of stories captured in images, images like Palestinian lives lived in instants only." Habjouqa's photographs portray joyous moments of daily life—a family picnics together, women dance, and children swim—that are surrounded by dark circumstances. The occupation is obvious in these images: the menacing security wall looms in the background, a man sits at a checkpoint, a woman holding a bouquet wanders through the tunnel between Gaza and Egypt to a forbidden wedding.
Habjouqa's work has been exhibited and published worldwide, and six of her photographs are currently on view at NMWA in She Who Tells a Story. She currently works from East Jerusalem on projects concerning identity politics and subcultures of the Levant. Habjouqa is also a founding member of the Rawiya photo collective, a group of women photographers from the Middle East who challenge stereotypes and support fellow women photographers in the region.
Occupied Pleasures contains a combination of photojournalism and imagery illustrating everyday Palestinian life, which Laleh Khalili refers to in the book's introduction as "evanescent moments." This body of work offers a nuanced perspective. Khalili writes, "It brings together the indisputable condition of their lives—occupation, violence, surveillance—and shows us that even within the confines of normalised atrocity, the spirit effervesces."
West Bank: Portrait of a young man. After grueling traffic at the Qalandia check point, a young man enjoys a cigarette in his car as traffic finally clears on the last evening of Ramadan. He is bringing home a sheep for the upcoming Eid celebration. 2013. He named the sheep Morsi. Courtesy Tanya Habjouqa
In one captivating photograph, a man smokes a cigarette in his car outside of a checkpoint, with a sheep in the passenger seat of his car. "Detention juxtaposed against a moment of respite illuminates the extremities of the Palestinian narrative: celebration and mourning, respite and struggle, and the pleasure of smoking a cigarette," writes Khalili. Through this collection of photos, Habjouqa exposes moments of levity to give the viewer a window into the humanity of the Palestinian people.
Meet artist Tanya Habjouqa at the museum for an in-gallery conversation on Wednesday, July 27. Reserve your spot on NMWA's website.
All are welcome to look at this catalogue, which is available in the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. If you're touring the museum, the library is open to the public Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–5 p.m.
—Katy Seely was the winter/spring 2016 intern in the Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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Republican Mitt Romney's favorite football team, headed by a donor to President Barack Obama's re- election bid, faces a rival Oct. 21 owned by a top Romney fundraiser who's said he would rather see his candidate than his team win.
The owners of the New England Patriots and the New York Jets, squads meeting with first place at stake in the American Football Conference's Eastern Division, line up on opposite sides in the political arena as well as on the football field.
Patriots owner Robert Kraft has given $5,000 -- the maximum allowed under federal election law -- to Obama. Jets Woody Johnson not only has funneled the same amount to Romney, he serves as the New York finance chairman for the former Massachusetts governor who is a Patriots' fan.
Johnson told Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers" Oct. 1 he's rooting more for a Romney victory than for his team to finish the season with a winning record.
"Well, I think you always have to put country first," Johnson said. "So I think it's very, very important, not only for us but in particular for our kids and grandkids, that this election come off" with Mitt Romney claiming the White House.
Three other Jets executives, including general manager Mike Tannenbaum, each donated $2,500 to Romney.
Among other owners of the 32 National Football League teams, Johnson's leanings in the presidential race are more typical than Kraft's.
The Atlanta Falcons' Arthur Blank and the Pittsburgh Steelers' Dan Rooney, named by Obama in 2009 to be ambassador to Ireland, joined Kraft in donating to the president's re-election campaign, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis and the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based research group that tracks campaign donations.
Eleven other owners aside from Johnson are Romney donors, including the Dallas Cowboys' Jerry Jones and the Washington Redskins' Dan Snyder, whose teams otherwise are arch-enemies.
The total score, based on the most recent information on donations from the NFL ownership ranks: Romney $63,500; Obama $12,500.
A spokesman for the Patriots, Stacey James, declined comment on the Krafts' politics.
Despite Johnson's support, Romney declared his allegiance to the Jets' division rivals in a September appearance on "Live," the television program hosted by Kelly Ripa and former New York Giants defensive end Michael Strahan.
"Favorite football team?" Strahan asked as one of a series of rapid-fire questions.
"Sorry about that, Mr. Giants, but for me, it's New England," responded Romney, who lives in Belmont, Mass.


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Q: Spring @WebMvcTest with Spring Security I have a problem when I want to test controllers using @WebMvcTest - on application load I get:
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Field customUserDetailsService in com.test.config.SecurityConfig required a bean of type 'com.test.security.CustomUserDetailsService' that could not be found.

The injection point has the following annotations:
    - @org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)

Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'com.test.security.CustomUserDetailsService' in your configuration.
...

Do you have any idea what is problem? Is it good solution to exclude security?
There are classes:
@RestController
@AllArgsConstructor
public class EmployeeController {

    private final EmployeeService employeeService;

    @GetMapping
    public List<EmployeeDTO> getEmployees() {
        return employeeService.getAllEmployees();
    }
}

@WebMvcTest(controllers = EmployeeController.class)
class EmployeeControllerTest {

    @Autowired
    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @InjectMocks
    private EmployeeController employeeController;

    @Test
    void getEmployees_Success() throws Exception {
//        mockMvc.perform(get("/employee/all")).andExpect(status().isOk());
    }

A: The controller which you are using in test have a dependency  EmployeeService employeeService;
So in test case add below.
@Mock
EmployeeService employeeService;

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In general, you may apply for transfer to UP provided that you:.
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Q: how to verify a user update database table only once using foreach and if statement In the MySQL database table which is keeping questions of the forum i have a field which is also keeping user ID's who has liked the question or not, e.g when the button like clicked is updating the column likes in this format 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 .etc... I would like to verify that the user can only like/dislike one question once since am new to php i was hoping to use foreach and if statement to check either the user ID is already in the database column likes/dislikes if not update if available echo error
If i use the first code am not getting anything although the data exits in the database.
$nocast = htmlentities($_SESSION['user']['id'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$likes = ("$row[likes]");
$dislikes = ("$row[dislikes]");
foreach($likes as $voters)
    if($likes == $nocast)
        echo("you already voted");
exit;

And if I use the second am getting what I want but the problem I can not directly enter the numbers.
$nocast = htmlentities($_SESSION['user']['id'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$likes = ("1, 2, 3, 4, 5");
foreach($likes as $voters)
    if($likes == $nocast)
        echo("you already voted");
exit;

Can one help me how do I go about it I don't need to create two tables and if this is wrong how to do it? Any suggestion is welcomed.

A: Since one user can vote for many questions and one question can be voted by many users, you have a many to many relationship. So, you would better use two tables.

A: You have the basic syntax for accessing array keys wrong here:
$likes = ("$row[likes]");

That should be:
$likes = $row['likes'];

This then leaves the question of whether that variable actually holds the array you want, which we can't tell without seeing more code. Running var_dump($likes); would soon show you.


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London Fashion Week Men A/W 2020 – Round-Up
Our favourites shows from LFWM A/W 2020
London Fashion Week Men A/W 2020 is over for another year (six months if you're waiting for the summer shows) and once again the British fashion industry levels up to reach higher design standards and media acclaim. Men's fashion is one of the few industries in the world that has to play a definite second fiddle to the women but, considering where the whole British industry was just 10 years ago, the leaps that have been made in that time certainly proves the old adage, 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. Here we give you a brief round-up of some of our favourite menswear shows:
Art School London
It's easy to overuse the term 'life imitates art' but it was very apt for the Art School London show. There was more drama than we're used to, with models who felt more like stage actors that catwalk veterans.
It was a perfect match for a collection that displayed a sombre, almost Amish restraint to the delicious designs – with even the tailored outfits being cinched at the waist with loops of bleached rope.
Astrid Andersen
You can always rely on Astrid Andersen to give urban casualwear the kind of premium twists and design flourishes that makes it one of the most exciting labels on the block.
Bright tangerine sustainable fur coats, bell-bottom jeans, fringed ponchos and swirls of abstract colours that drew inspiration from rose printed upholstery subverted expectations alongside the obligatory hoodies, track pants and sports shirts.
Band of Outsiders
This year, the winter season for Band of Outsiders is, appropriately enough, all about outdoor work. And there's nothing in the rule book that says you can't look good while doing it.
So work pants and jackets come in eye-catching colours and checks while the jersey hoodies and track pants are thick and luxurious to protect you from the elements while chopping down that tree or building that shed. Nothing should stop you looking fashionable, even when you're grafting out in the elements.
Bethany Williams
Fresh off her British Fashion Council award for Emerging Menswear Talent last month, Williams took the new colour and enthusiasm injected into her life and applied it to her new collection in a series of head-turning abstract patterns and colour schemes throughout the show. Recycled bedding and techniques like quilting and patch working are common threads in this collection.
Chunky hand-knit vests and shorts (from the fingers of Bethany's own mother, Karen Kewley) play with the connotations of 'winter clothing' while denim is given the abstract art treatment. The striped technicolour dreamcoat teamed with Adidas shell-toe sneakers was a particular highlight of the show.
Loose was the watchword for Chalayan's winter collection. Ankle-length coats billowed in the wind of the outside location to highlight the extra yards of fabric that had been incorporated into the designs.
The tailored trousers were equally volumous and created some great silhouettes when teamed with the tailored jackets. The sombre palette of browns, blacks and beiges were occasionally broken up with shocks of abstract black and white prints to keep you on your toes.
Kaushik Velendra
When you're a newcomer it behooves you to make sure you announce yourself and leave and impression. Valendra did exactly that was his first show at LFWM with a collection that never strayed from the yin and yang of black and white and traded heavily on very sharp tailoring with a nod to his south Indian heritage (by way of Central St Martin's).
Unusual touches like slick suits with sleeveless jackets and the addition of molded shoulder and chest pieces added a touch of drama to one of LFWM's best dressed shows.
Paria Farzaneh
There are a few designers who are so distinctive you'd know their pieces on sight. Farzaneh is one such designer. Her Iranian heritage comes through everything she designs, creating the kind of cultural transference not many other labels could manage.
The unmistakable ethnic patterns reimagined recognisable staples like work pants, work jackets and hoodies, all utilising environmentally friendly materials. The show itslef revolved around an Iranian wedding, mirroring the perfect marriage of culture and design and fashion and sustainability.
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Dear Crow, I had a thread on this forum, reporting illegal promo, and someone closed my thread with telling me to make a ticket.
I already have a ticket and noone cares about it.
Why closed my thread when I am asking for help? Why noone does anything to stop fraud? I hope you will do something!
I assure you that xat takes fraud very seriously.
Please stay patient and wait for your ticket reply. The matter will be resolved there. Check the email address associated with your account for a notification of reply.


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Home > News & Resources > Press Releases > Anchor Hotel in Tarbert for sale through Christie & Co
11/2/2017 | Hotels
Anchor Hotel in Tarbert for sale through Christie & Co
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has been instructed to sell the Anchor Hotel in the popular Argyll village of Tarbert, famous for its seafood festivals and host of Scotland's biggest sail racing event, the Scottish Sailing Series.
Nestled on Loch Fyne, the modern 3 star hotel boasts 18 en suite letting rooms, with a reception area and the Sea Bed Restaurant overlooking the harbour. The property has a separate, private dining area, ideal for private parties and functions. Four additional luxury rooms are available for let on the hotel's refurbished barge, moored at the harbour directly across from the hotel.
Josh Hill, Business Agent at Christie & Co's Glasgow office comments; "Located in picturesque fishing village. Tarbert is last stop before the Islay Ferry service and popular with overnight visitors. Tarbert hosts a variety of music, food and boating festivals and events throughout the year. We expect to see a range of interest from both first time buyers and experienced operators."
The freehold of the Anchor Hotel is available for £850,000.
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Although the unforgettable Ode To Billie Jo had been a number one single and album in the USA it didn't even reach the top ten in the UK, however her photo on the album cover and reports of her American TV appearances must have drawn attention to producers at the BBC. An invite was made, contracts signed and after introductory appearances on Top of the Pops in May 1968 and Billy Cotton's Bandshow in June Gentry set about recording her first BBC TV series to be shown in colour on BBC2.
Announcing the series Radio Times said Bobbie Gentry "sings of the fragrance, love, sorrow and humour of the Delta country." Dance troupe Pan's People were resident as were singing group The Tears of Joy, John Cameron was the Musical Director, while the show would be produced and directed by Stanley Dorfman. He would later claim that despite his Producer/Director credit, Gentry herself would have as much creative input. It was Dorfman's idea to hire Pan's People, much to the chagrin of Gentry who would then choose inappropriate outfits for the girls just to make things difficult. One week they were dressed as trees. One of the troupe would later claim that Gentry would be stoned on set.
Talking to Disc in June 1968, just after arriving in the country to record the show she exclaimed how much of a big deal this was for an American. "They're very impressed. It's a very prestige thing to have a British TV series. I'm trilled about it."
Each half-hour show began with a version of Mississippi Delta and she would then perform songs from her first two albums, almost in a medley style with little or no gaps between them since there was no audience present for the recording. Each show finished with Chickasaw County Child.
Featured guests on the first series were Alan Price, Donovan, The Hollies, Long John Baldry and future singing partner Glen Campbell.
She was back in London Summer 1969 to shoot her second series after appearing on Top of the Pops and Dee Time to help promote it. Arriving in the UK on 4th May 1969 Gentry began work on the series on 14th May. Again Mississippi Delta and Chickasaw County Child topped and tailed each show while Stanley Dorfman, John Cameron, The Tears of Joy and Pan's People also returned. The guests this time were Joe South, Billy Preston, Alan Price, Noel Harrison, James Taylor (performing songs from his Apple LP) and John Hartford.
A third series must have been planned for recording in September 1970 as Tony Joe White was booked in to guest on the 10th, but she made plenty of personal appearances on other people's shows instead, as well as starring in her own half-hour special in October, again produced by Stanley Dorfman.
The third and final series finally appeared on BBC2 in 1971 with the usual supporting team, but Sue & Sunny were the backing singers this time around. According to The Stage Gentry herself devised each show, presumably in terms of theme. Guests included Jerry Reed, Tony Joe White, Marmalade, Elton John, Mason Williams, Randy Newman, while Alan Price made a third appearance.
Her guest slot on the Harry Secombe show in July 1971 would be her last TV appearance in the UK. However in 1974, long after her hits had dried up her TV career would pick up again with The Bobbie Gentry Happiness Hour on CBS, her first and only TV series in the USA.
The soundtrack to the surviving shows would appear on her 2018 box set.
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You know when you scroll through Pinterest for ideas and everything looks absolutely perfect? You know those loaf cakes with the top of some pears peeking perfectly out. It turns out that Pinterest is sorcery and it is not to be trusted.
I tried it and was a little disillusioned to find that my loaf rose so much it covered the tops of the pears and they flopped to one side as if they'd drunk to much wine.
Unruly pears aside, I still love the contrast of the pear within the chocolate cinnamon loaf that each slice gives. My favourite way to serve it is warmed with a little custard or with a short, strong coffee for breakfast on a Monday. Just to make Monday's that little bit friendlier. And besides, it'll be one of your five a day.
In a large saucepan, bring the water and sugar to the bowl along with the juice and cinnamon. Once the sugar has fully dissolved, add the pears and bring to the boil once again. Cover and leave to simmer for 20-25 minutes, until the pears are tender. Remove from the pan and set aside to cool.
Heat the oven to 180 degrees and thoroughly grease a 2lb loaf tin.
In a large mixing bowl, sift together all of the dry ingredients to remove any lumps. Take another bowl, add the wet ingredients and whisk also. Add the wet into the dry ingredients and fold in until you have a smooth batter.
Pour the batter into the prepared loaf tin.
In a shallow bowl, whisk together the tablespoon of flour, cocoa powder and half teaspoon of ground cinnamon until incorporated. Gently roll each pear in the mix until fully coated. Place the pears steam side up in the tin and push gently down towards the bottom.
Bake in the oven for 50-55 minutes, until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
During baking the cake may rise over the top of the pears and they may sink a little, but that's ok. They will still look good when the loaf is sliced.
In place of buttermilk, I always make my own sour milk with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice but sour cream or yogurt would also work well.
I think this looks great. I wouldn't have known the pears were hungover!


Hailing democracy in solemn songs of praise from a smug cushion of affluence is ever so easy. But the fact is that, so far, there has never been a democracy that has survived an extended period of crisis and hunger. So the first question is: Can a democracy survive without economic progress?
Through their years of democracy, western countries have generally seen an increase in wealth and the Western World has fetched natural resources from all over the world without paying the full price for them. Western economies have relied on slavery, military power and political bullying without spreading education, labour unions or enlightenment to the rest of the world to any notable degree.
In the 1930s, the western World suffered a grave economic crisis that threatened democracy. In Germany, that crisis led to Hitler's rise to power and in Italy, Mussolini took over.
In the United States in 1933, Roosevelt was forced to enact the "New Deal", which in turn triggered off a large number of public construction projects that created jobs and wealth.
•	what is going to happen to democracy in the Western World if the Western economy and standard of living have to adapt to those of the rest of the world?
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•	what will happen if an undemocratic regime such as the one in China gets to dominate economically?
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Meaning of Life è l'ottavo album in studio della cantante statunitense Kelly Clarkson, pubblicato nel 2017.

Antefatti
Dopo la ristampa del suo settimo album in studio, Piece by Piece, insieme al suo remix album nel 2016, Kelly Clarkson aveva completato gli album previsti del suo contratto discografico con RCA Records e 19 Recordings che aveva firmato come premio dopo aver vinto la stagione inaugurale di American Idol nel 2002. I dirigenti della RCA Peter Edge e Tom Corson avevano rivelato le loro intenzioni di firmare direttamente all'etichettq Clarkson senza il coinvolgimento di 19 Recordings. La loro offerta di rinnovo avrebbe incluso un accordo di tre album con un anticipo di 1 milione di dollari per album, in contrasto con il limite di sei album del precedente contratto con un incentivo di $ 500.000 per album. Corson aveva anche ammesso che il suo rapporto con l'esecutivo di Sony Music Clive Davis avrebbe potuto rivelarsi una sfumatura dell'offerta.

Nonostante abbia osservato che il suo rapporto con Edge e Corson si era dimostrato di successo, Clarkson ha ripensato al rinnovo del contratto, che ha ricordato come un "matrimonio combinato". Di conseguenza, la sua direzione ha incontrato il direttore della Warner Music Nashville, John Esposito e gli agenti degli Atlantic Records Craig Kallman e Julie Greenwald, che a sua volta le hanno offerto un accordo a lungo termine a livello mondiale con una maggiore libertà creativa. Il 24 giugno 2016, Warner Music Group ha annunciato che Clarkson aveva firmato un contratto discografico a lungo termine con Atlantic e avrebbe immediatamente lavorato a un album soul e R&B che sarebbe stato rilasciato l'anno successivo. Il passaggio ad Atlantic l'ha ricongiunta anche a Pete Ganbarg, che in precedenza aveva lavorato al suo quarto album in studio All I Ever Wanted nel 2009. Kallman e Ganbarg, che stavano producendo un mixtape ispirato al musical di Broadway Hamilton, hanno invitato Clarkson a registrare il numero musicale It's Quiet Uptown per il mixtape, facendolo diventare il suo debutto su un disco Atlantic.

Produzione
Tre dei produttori di Piece by Piece erano stati confermati al ritorno per Meaning of Life: Greg Kurstin, Jason Halbert e Jesse Shatkin, mentre gli altri collaboratori includono The Monarch, Nick Ruth e Mick Schultz. Scostandosi dal suono pop rock predominante delle sue precedenti uscite, Clarkson voleva avvicinarsi a una musica diversa, di genere soul e R&B. Ha rivelato di aver in precedenza voluto registrare questo tipo di canzoni ma non aveva mai trovato l'opportunità di farlo, ma ha scoperto che Kallman stava "morendo per fare questo disco" con lei e ha contato sul suo pieno supporto. Ha detto che il nuovo materiale ricordava le canzoni che aveva suonato durante la sua partecipazione ad American Idol, e ha osservato che l'album era una "cosa nuova e fresca" per lei e la faceva sentire come un' "artista nuovo di zecca". Le sessioni di registrazione sono iniziate dopo la gravidanza di Clarkson nel 2016 e sono continuate fino al 2017.

Per evitare di rendere il materiale simile a quello di Stronger, Clarkson ha incontrato diversi cantautori e ha mostrato loro alcune tracce soul per dimostrare la direzione dell'album. Ha osservato che il suo incontro con vari campi di scrittura, discutendo sul tipo di canzoni che voleva e rifiutando le canzoni che non si adattavano alla direzione dell'album, era un "processo diverso" per lei. Clarkson ha detto che "ha scritto un po'", trovando ispirazione per il testo di una canzone nel romanzo Big Little Lies, ma la sua vita familiare ha impedito a lei di contribuire maggiormente alla scrittura.  Diversi autori di canzoni come Ali Tamposi, Mozella, Harlœ, Sebastian Kole, Diztortion, Warren "Oak" Felder hanno tutti confermato di aver presentato materiale a Clarkson a Nashville.

Clarkson e Kallman sono stati produttori esecutivi dell'intero album, con quest'ultimo a occuparsi dell'A&R. È stata la prima volta in dieci anni che Clarkson è stato accreditata come produttore esecutivo. Lo ha descritto come "strumentale" nel guidare il disco, ma le ha anche permesso di esplorare il lato soul della sua voce che una volta ha mostrato ad American Idol e ai concerti dal vivo. Ha osservato che l'ha aiutata a capire cosa significasse in realtà un produttore esecutivo di un album, dicendo che spesso spingeva i produttori abituati a lavorare con altri dirigenti nel realizzare hit radiofoniche, ma che a volte lacera lo spirito e l'anima fuori di esso. Entrambi hanno invitato diversi artisti a suonare nell'album - Kallman ha invitato personalmente la band soul Earth, Wind & Fire a esibirsi nelle sessioni di registrazione dei due brani dell'album, mentre Clarkson ha chiesto ai suoi accompagnatori di tour: Jessi Collins, Nicole Hurst e Bridget Sarai, per avere un ruolo più importante accompagnando la sua voce principale, deviando dalla solita pratica di registrare la propria voce di sottofondo nei suoi precedenti album.

Accoglienza
L'album è stato accolto con recensioni generalmente positive. Su Metacritic, ha ottenuto un punteggio medio di 73 su 100, basato su 8 recensioni. Un editor di AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, ha dato all'album una valutazione di quattro stelle, definendolo uno dei suoi album più soddisfacenti e lodando Clarkson per il sound "assicurato in un modo che differisce dai suoi primi dischi".  Leah Greenblatt di Entertainment Weekly gli ha dato una valutazione B+. Considerando l'album come coeso e sicuro di sé, ha considerato che non sembra particolarmente interessato a replicare i primi successi di Clarkson, ma "oscilla dolcemente  - un dispiacere davvero originale di un artista che esprime esattamente ciò che prova". Scrivendo per Time, Bruner ha scritto che l'album "è perfetto per i fan: un artista fiducioso con un senso dell'umorismo e qualcosa da fare." Shaun Kitchener del Daily Express ha dato all'album cinque stelle, scrivendo che l'album è un'alternativa più giocosa a 25 di Adele".

Glenn Gamboa di Newsday ha dato a Meaning of Life una valutazione di quattro stelle.  Lodandolo come il miglior album della carriera di Clarkson, ha scritto che presenta una "possibilità di dichiarare le sue ambizioni e di consegnarle" per il suo "album più coeso".  Il critico del Boston Globe Isaac Feldberg ha commentato che Clarkson "non è sembrata così sicura e comoda" nell'album, e che "canalizza la sua gioia per la sua ritrovata libertà nelle canzoni che, mentre segnalano un nuovo palcoscenico della sua carriera, sembrano fluire direttamente dal suo cuore e dalla sua anima." Mike Nied di Idolator ha condiviso un pensiero simile, affermando che  "il ritorno alle sue radici aveva davvero aperto un sacco di opportunità" per Clarkson. Craig Jenkins di Vulture ha descritto l'album come "una pentola bollente di groove caldi e una voce potente, un perno della carriera alla musica che Clarkson ha potuto fare". Per The Observer, Michael Cragg ha dato all'album quattro stelle, paragonandola a Meghan Trainor e Mariah Carey e elogiando le sue ballate "grandi e sciroppose" che "accentuano la voce innegabilmente potente di Clarkson, creando una zona di comfort che sembra genuina".

Alcuni dei critici sono stati più negativi con l'album: Hannah Davis di The Guardian ha dato al disco una valutazione di tre stelle, scrivendo che l'album aveva "un sacco di filler" ed evocava notabilmente gli album di Christina Aguilera e Trainor, ma è comunque "forte, l'umore da diva anni '90 si adatta allo stile vocale di Clarkson, mentre la introduce ad fase più profonda di classe." Per Spin, Katherine St. Asaph ha notato che gran parte di esso è "datato, cerca di ricreare un'epoca che Clarkson trascina da tempo", e nonostante abbia elogiato la sua voce, è rimasta perplessa dopo aver "sentito un album che è molto simile a quello della vincitrice del contratto" quasi 15 anni dopo aver vinto la competizione.

Riconoscimenti
Meaning of Life ha ricevuto una nomination per Best Pop Vocal Album e per Best Pop Solo Performance per Love So Soft ai Grammy Awards 2018. Esse hanno fatto diventare la cantante la più nominata in entrambe le categorie, condividendo il record del primo con Justin Timberlake. Durante la Promozione dell'album, è stata premiata con vari premi speciali, cioè il Powerhouse Award ai Billboard Women In Music 2017, l'Icon Award ai Radio Disney Music Awards 2018 e un'introduzione all'Hall Of Fame ai Nickelodeon HALO Awards.

Liste di fine anno
L'album è stato incluso in diverse liste di fine anno:

AllMusic, Album pop preferiti del 2017

AXS, 10 migliori album pop del 2017

BBC, Migliori album del 2017

Billboard, 50 Migliori Album del 2017 secondo i critici

Entertainment Weekly, 25 migliori album del 2017

Idolator, Migliori album e EP pop del 2017

Newsday, Migliori album del 2017

Rolling Stone, 20 migliori album pop del 2017

Time, Migliori Album del 2017 (nominato)

Us Weekly, Migliori album del 2017

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Successo commerciale
Meaning of Life ha debuttato nella classifica Billboard 200 degli Stati Uniti al numero due con 79.000 unità, di cui 68.000 copie pure. L'esordio ha fatto guadagnare a Clarkson il suo ottavo album consecutivo tra i primi tre posti e il suo terzo album a debuttare al secondo posto. Meaning of Life ha debuttato in cima alla classifica degli album digitali di Billboard ed è diventando la sua prima entrata nella classifica degli album di Billboard Vinyl. Oltreoceano, l'album è entrato nella top ten della classifica degli album canadesi di Billboard e nella classifica degli album australiani di ARIA.

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The Forest Service Is About to Set a Giant Forest Fire—On Purpose
October 23, 2019 by Steve Wilent
From The Atlantic:
A man-made blaze on a remote Utah mountainside could provide valuable insights into the behavior of the powerful wildfires growing more and more common out West.
It will be among the fiercest controlled burns scientists have ever studied in the wild—"as close to a wildfire as you can expect," says Roger Ottmar, the principal investigator for the Forest Service–led Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE). The goal? To collect data on every aspect of the fire at once, in order to improve the models scientists and land managers use to predict the impacts of fires. That will allow the agency to oversee more controlled burns on landscapes that need fire to thrive, and the data will also provide insight into the large, intense blazes that keep erupting across the West—the types of unruly fires that climate change and changing land-use patterns are making more common.
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8 thoughts on "The Forest Service Is About to Set a Giant Forest Fire—On Purpose"
Bob Sproul
I would think the FS has had plenty of fires to study? I hope it doesn't get away from them.
Maybe we could have a giant clearcut somewhere and they could study that?
Maybe the FS had money left over in their fire budget and figured this would be a good way to spend some.
Matthew Koehler
Well, when you look at fire data going back even just 100 years it's very questionable that "powerful wildfires [are] growing more and more common out West."
I'm sure that some data from this late October or early November prescribed burn in a high-elevation patch of the Fishlake National Forest will yield some valuable information. However, unless it's 90 degrees, with humidities under 20% and winds over 25 mph it's doubtful that the data could possibly replicate the natural situation where a "powerful wildfire" would naturally and normally go through this type of ecosystem.
Larry Harrell Fotoware
I'm quite sure there is a graph out there documenting how many homes have burned in the last 50 years, showing radical increases. Apples versus mangoes, when you compare different eras. If you just go back 60 years, there IS a very significant increase in annual wildfire acreage.
PFeckety
From 2000 – 2010 there was an average of 6.7 million acres burned and from 2011 – 2017 there was an average of 7.5 million acres burned. There is an increase in annual wildfire acreage burned in the USA.
Here is a portion of the proposed burn area:
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.5505658,-111.9432226,2299m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
The fuels seem to be spotty, being in a dry part of the topography. They also plan to harvest conifers in a different area, to enhance aspen populations.
Although it wasn't a prescribed burn, this idea seems to have worked very well in Grand Canyon National Park. The fire killed off everything above ground but, you can see that the aspen 'mycelium' survived quite well. Aspens should dominate this site for many decades to come.
I've seen some massive aspen patches around Cedar City. Maybe severe fires trigger massive aspen domination?
There was this interesting paper about aspen post-Yellowstone fires. It seems like post-fire they tend to reproduce by seed rather than vegetatively, which gives them a chance to adapt to whatever conditions present themselves today.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/03-4093
Maybe they had a follow-up paper?


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Is Grimes Dating Chelsea Manning? Has Grimes Moved on from Elon Musk?
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Find out all the details about who is Grimes Dating, Is Grimes dating Manning? Has she moved on from Elon Musk? and more details.
Claire Elise Boucher, better known by her stage name Grimes, is a Canadian musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She was born on March 17, 1988, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Moreover, she has released six albums and also won several awards. However, she came into the limelight for being recognized as Elon Musk's wife. However, they are rumored to be no longer together.
Elon Musk, the millionaire entrepreneur, and musician Grimes split up after the birth of their second child made headlines. Read more to find more details about Has she moved on from Elon Musk? Who is Grimes Dating, Is Grimes dating Manning? and more details.
Has Grimes Moved on from Elon Musk?
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Elon Musk's ex-girlfriend, Grimes, has reportedly moved on from their romance with an odd new love interest: military whistleblower Chelsea Manning.
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Moreover, Grimes gave a new update for fans and followers just hours after it was announced that she and Elon Musk had privately welcomed their second child together. They welcomed their second kid, a daughter named Exa Dark Siderl, via surrogacy.
While Grimes has remained shut about her rumored new relationship, she did tweet that she and Musk "have split up," calling Musk "my greatest friend and the love of my life. "And, according to a new report, she has already moved on now.
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However, She did not specify when the break-up occurred, but Manning's official account 'liked' her Twitter thread announcing the break-up.
Yes, Grimes and Chelsea Manning are recently dating each other. According to Page Six, the 33-year-old musician has been dating Manning, 34, after her recent split from Musk, 50.
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Bhanwar Lal Gurjar, aged forty-two, lives in Charasada village with four of his family members, his wife Sajana Devi, aged forty, and his two sons, seventeen year old Rajaram and fifteen year old Sitaram. Bhanwar's two daughters are married and have left home. Bhanwar has led a challenging life as a small farmer from a poor background with a very small plot of land (2.8 acres). To earn a living Bhanwar had to also work in nearby villages while his family had to walk long distances to fetch water each day, time which could have been spent going to school and doing other work.
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What's included in a standard security system?
The Control panel: This is the brains of the entire system. it links all the different components, detectors, sensors, contacts, keypads, modules and it is responsible for communicating with the central station.
Keypads: Keypads are what you use to interact with the control panel. It allows you to arm/disarm, bypass, set functions, view events stored in its memory and displays critical alarm status information.
Motion Detectors: Are used to protect open spaces within a home or business, they can also be used outdoors in certain conditions. Have pets? no worries, today's motion detectors can tell the difference between a human and our 4 legged friends.
Door and Window Contacts: these magnetic and/or button style contacts tell the control panel whether the door or window is open or closed.
Siren and Strobes: This alerts the occupants, the burglars and everybody around that someone has tripped the alarm. It gives the occupant time to react to potential threats, lets the intruder know that he has been caught and that police are on the way and it tells you neighbors that something is wrong.
Battery: Every alarm control panel has a backup battery, in most cases, the battery lasts for at least 4 hours. Typical backup batteries last for 24 hours. Longer is certain equipment is installed. Ask us about battery backups.
Key Fobs: Practical, portable little devices always at arms reach. keep these on your night tables for when you forget to set the alarm, and god forbid you forgot to set the alarm and someone does break in, you can quickly press the panic button without having to run down to the main keypad. Another popular use is for elderly medical emergencies, if they need help, all they have to do is press a button.
Why should I have a security alarm system?
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Lucozade is targeting what it says are the six million fitness fans in the UK motivated by beating their "personal best" with its latest product launch, Lucozade Ribena Suntory's marketing and business development director, Jon Evans, says.
Lucozade Sport Fitwater, which launched in Tesco this month, is a water containing four electrolytes – magnesium, sodium, calcium and chloride – each of which comes with an approved health claim.
It has been designed to appeal to people who take fitness seriously, but not competitively, and need a functional drink, but do not want the sugar boost in Lucozade Sport.
The product will be supported with an outdoor and digital campaign this autumn featuring brand ambassadors Anthony Joshua and Emily Skye and created by LRS's in-house production team, TED (which, like its namesake conference, stands for technology, entertainment and design).
TED, which has 18 staff and has been running since last spring, has become a "massive source of creativity", Evans says.
While he still relies on lead agency Grey London for "strategy, big creative concepts and big production", TED fills in the gaps by carrying out a lot of the production for smaller or more straightforward parts of the marketing output.
"It's a really good balance because it allows us to be quite agile, quite flexible, and also get through a lot of the production ourselves, while still using the best expertise and talent externally," he says.
Lucozade Sport was relaunched last year with a new brand positioning, "Made to move", and a KPI of getting a million people moving in three years. In the first year, Evans says, it has reached 300,000 people, putting it more or less on track to hit the target.
"In one year we've shifted our demographic quite a lot," he says – "we now have more women in the brand than men for the first time. It's done a really useful job for us in terms of broadening the appeal of the brand."
The new purpose for the brand had provided a fantastic level of clarity to his job, he adds. "When you've got a purpose as clear as that, it makes every decision much easier, because if it doesn't make people move more, we're not going to do it.
"We've been quite strict, we need to see evidence that we have directly influenced someone."
This mindset has led to activity such as a partnership last year with Joshua and PureGym, when it was announced that Joshua would be showing up at one of the gym brand's locations to lead a workout, which was also livestreamed on YouTube. "We had people in their living rooms taking part in the workout," Evans says.
Working with Skye, a fitness blogger with a huge social following, is indicative of a shift of approach from the brand, he says: "Our judgement about who we're partnering with has shifted quite a lot in the last 18 months to two years, and social influence will be a much bigger part of our decision making criteria."
Skye, who Evans says used to make her own electrolyte drink at home, was also involved in the development of the product.
Joshua, while a more conventional sporting superstar, is also a fit because the heavyweight champion is a "cultural icon", Evans explains.
The film featuring Joshua, which Grey created for the brand ahead of his fight in April against Wladimir Klitschko that saw the Englishman become the undisputed world heavyweight champion, is the single most effective ad the company has ever produced, according to Evans. He attributes this to Joshua's willingness to share his troubled life story.
"He gave us all that rich back story and was proud to tell it. That's been the most effective ad we've ever made in terms of ROI. We only aired it on TV five times, but it was viewed online 20 million times and we had over 170,000 comments and likes."


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Interview with Shanna Swendson!
By Vanessa | July 9, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment
The Serious Questions
What made you want to become an author?
I've always loved books, and I've always entertained myself by making up stories in my head. When I was about 12, I realized that if I wrote down the stories in my head, I'd have a book. That was when I decided I was going to be an author.
Tell us about your current work in progress.
I'm currently working on book 3 in the Fairy Tale series. I've written a draft and am now working on revisions.
What do you do to cure writer's block?
I make lists – lists of things that can happen next, lists of what's going on with each character, lists of what the villain wants. Eventually, this either untangles the problem that's blocking me or sparks a new idea.
Are you a plotter or a pantster?
I'm kind of both – the worst of both worlds! I can't start writing a book without having at least a basic outline, but then I never know what a book is really about until I've written it, and then I end up doing a lot of rewriting to fix it. But it varies by series. I was much more of a plotter with the Enchanted, Inc. series and with my steampunk book, Rebel Mechanics. These nicely followed my planned outlines, for the most part. The Fairy Tale series is a lot more nebulous. I can't even seem to tell what's really going on until I've written a draft, and these books defy outlines. I can't see the end until I'm almost there, and I can't seem to do any kind of detailed outline more than a few scenes ahead.
Do you have any writing rituals?
I usually disconnect my laptop from the Internet (I know I don't have the self-discipline for Wi-fi) and go somewhere else in the house to write. I have to have a cup of tea. When I'm writing a draft, I reward myself for each page with a dark chocolate M&M. That's how I can see my progress – I count out M&Ms for my page goal for the day, and I let myself stop writing when the M&Ms are gone.
What is your favorite book? What about favorite book to movie adaptation?
It's hard to pick a single favorite book, but the one I usually come up with is To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis. It's a laugh-out-loud funny but still kind of serious science fiction novel about chaos theory, as seen through time travel, but it's also a Victorian comedy of manners with a dash of mystery and romance. Every time I read it, I want to crawl inside it.
Probably my favorite book to movie adaptation is Stardust, based on the Neil Gaiman novel. I loved the novel and dreaded the movie because I wasn't sure they could do it justice, but it's now one of my all-time favorite movies, and I watch it at least once a year. It's very rare for me to love a book that much and love the movie even more.
What was your favorite fairy tale as a child (or maybe it still is!)?
I've always loved the Cinderella story. I like that out of all the fairy tale heroines, she's the one who goes out to get what she wants. Plus, there's a makeover. It's a very hopeful story, with the idea that no matter where you are in life, you can rise above it (and then the people who were cruel to you will be sorry).
What is the best piece of writing advice you NEVER followed?
I can't think of anything. I'm usually open to trying just about every bit of advice at least once to see if it works for me.
Tell us about your journey to publication. What was it like?
I've had a very up and down career. I'm one of the lucky few who sold my first novel, to the second publisher I sent it to. I sold four more books pretty quickly. It seemed so easy! And then I hit a long dry spell, during which I couldn't seem to sell anything. I tried so many things, sent so many submissions to editors and agents. I was getting pretty depressed and found it discouraging to even try writing. But then I was at a conference and chatting with an editor, and I mentioned this wacky story idea I had that I was afraid no one would be interested in. She got really excited, gave me her card, and said she wanted to see it. So I went home and wrote the book that became Enchanted, Inc. That editor didn't buy it, but it ended up selling to Random House. But then after four books, they didn't want any more in the series, and I thought it was all over. I wrote more books and proposals that didn't sell. The Japanese publisher of the Enchanted, Inc. series asked if there would be more books, so I wrote more for them, and my agent convinced me to self-publish them in English. That started my career up again, and it meant that when I couldn't find a home for the Fairy Tale series, I just self-published it. Meanwhile, I sold a young adult steampunk book that's coming out this summer in hardcover. So you can never rest on your laurels in publishing and feel like you're set for life, but at the same time a setback doesn't have to mean it's all over.
Tell us about THE FAIRY TALE SERIES!
This series came from an image I had pop into my head of a woman in a rather retro flowery dress walking a bulldog down a city street and disappearing into the mist. I came up with a couple of different explanations behind the image and wasn't entirely happy with any of them. Meanwhile, after my publisher quit buying Enchanted, Inc. books, editors who loved the series were asking to see something else from me, but they weren't happy with anything I sent, saying they wanted something more like Enchanted, Inc. I revisited that mental image, and this time I found the story in it, with some similarities – the small-town girl from the south in New York – but with a different mythology, drawing on fairy folklore. It starts as essentially a Tam Lin story about rescuing someone from captivity by the fae, but with sisters instead of lovers. The primary heroine is a ballerina, which sounds unlikely, but dancers have to be incredibly tough and fit, so they should actually make great action heroines. I'll admit I was also being a bit snarky because I was creating a story that couldn't use the stereotypical urban fantasy cover of the tattooed chick in black leather. Instead you get a dainty, very feminine ballerina (who just may be tougher than most of those urban fantasy chicks. She's just more polite about it). This series has been very tough to write, but I love the characters and their world.
The Random Questions
Chocolate or vanilla?
Chocolate for eating, vanilla for scent
Dinos or dragons?
Dragons!
What psychic power would you want?
Telekinesis – move things around with a thought. That should make housework easier.
Favorite Disney character?
I've always been a bit in love with Prince Philip from Sleeping Beauty
Dream vacation?
Somewhere with trees, water and hills or mountains, for a lot of hiking during the day and sitting by a fire and reading at night.
Tomatoes: Fruit or veggie?
I know they're technically fruit, but I use them as a veggie.
Morning Person or Night owl?
Neither, really. I can't stay up late enough to count as a night owl, but I don't get up early enough to be a morning person.
Favorite Book Ever:
To Say Nothing of the Dog, by Connie Willis
Favorite Movie Ever:
Music Earworm of the Moment:
I sang a solo in church a week ago, and that song is still stuck in my head, driving me crazy.
About Shanna
Shanna Swendson earned a journalism degree from the University of Texas but decided it was more fun to make up the people she wrote about. Her contemporary fantasy Enchanted Inc. series has been published around the world. She just launched a new contemporary fantasy series, beginning with A Fairy Tale, and her young adult steampunk fantasy Rebel Mechanics is a July release from Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers. She's also contributed essays to a number of books on pop culture topics and spends too much time discussing television on the Internet. Visit her web site at www.shannaswendson.com.
Wednesday Muse #32 – Dig Deep
To Read Tuesday – Winterkill, Sunshine Girl, and Magpies!


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import {Grid, Layer} from './layer'
import {Position} from './position'
import {getElement, pixelRatio} from './util'
import {View} from './view'

class Board extends View {
  ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D;

  backgroundColor: string;
  pointW: number;
  pointH: number;
  stoneRadius: number;
  elem: HTMLElement;

  protected layers: Layer[] = [];

  constructor(parent: HTMLElement | string, public position: Position, layers: Layer[]) {
    super();

    if (typeof(parent) == 'string') {
      parent = getElement(parent);
    }
    this.elem = parent;

    this.backgroundColor = '#db6';

    let canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    this.ctx = canvas.getContext('2d') as CanvasRenderingContext2D;

    parent.appendChild(canvas);
    window.addEventListener('resize', () => {
      this.resizeCanvas();
      this.draw();
    });
    this.resizeCanvas();

    this.addLayer(new Grid());
    this.addLayers(layers);
  }

  private resizeCanvas() {
    let pr = pixelRatio();
    let canvas = this.ctx.canvas;
    let parent = canvas.parentElement as HTMLElement;
    canvas.width = pr * (parent.offsetWidth);
    canvas.height = pr * (parent.offsetHeight);
    canvas.style.width = `${parent.offsetWidth}px`;
    canvas.style.height = `${parent.offsetHeight}px`;
    this.pointW = this.ctx.canvas.width / (N + 1);
    this.pointH = this.ctx.canvas.height / (N + 1);
    this.stoneRadius = 0.96 * Math.min(this.pointW, this.pointH) / 2;
  }

  newGame(rootPosition: Position) {
    this.position = rootPosition;
    for (let layer of this.layers) {
      layer.clear();
    }
    this.draw();
  }

  addLayer(layer: Layer) {
    this.layers.push(layer);
    layer.addToBoard(this);
  }

  addLayers(layers: Layer[]) {
    for (let layer of layers) {
      this.addLayer(layer);
    }
  }

  // Update the board's layers from the given state object.
  // Board layers that are derived from DataLayer will look in the state object
  // for a named property. If that property exists, the layer will update its
  // internal state from it.
  setPosition(position: Position) {
    if (this.position == position) {
      return;
    }

    this.position = position;
    let allProps = new Set<string>(Object.keys(position));
    for (let layer of this.layers) {
      layer.update(allProps);
    }
    this.draw();
  }

  update(update: Position | Position.Update) {
    let anythingChanged = false;
    let keys = new Set<string>(Object.keys(update));
    for (let layer of this.layers) {
      if (layer.update(keys)) {
        anythingChanged = true;
      }
    }
    if (anythingChanged) {
      this.draw();
    }
  }

  drawImpl() {
    let ctx = this.ctx;
    ctx.fillStyle = this.backgroundColor;
    ctx.fillRect(0, 0, ctx.canvas.width, ctx.canvas.height);
    for (let layer of this.layers) {
      if (layer.show) {
        layer.draw();
      }
    }
  }

  getStone(p: Point) {
    return this.position.stones[p.row * N + p.col];
  }

  canvasToBoard(x: number, y: number, threshold?: number): Nullable<Point> {
    let pr = pixelRatio();
    x *= pr;
    y *= pr;

    let canvas = this.ctx.canvas;

    y = y * (N + 1) / canvas.height - 0.5;
    x = x * (N + 1) / canvas.width - 0.5;
    let row = Math.floor(y);
    let col = Math.floor(x);
    if (row < 0 || row >= N || col < 0 || col >= N) {
      return null;
    }

    if (threshold) {
      let fx = 0.5 - (x - col);
      let fy = 0.5 - (y - row);
      let disSqr = fx * fx + fy * fy;
      if (disSqr > threshold * threshold) {
        return null;
      }
    }

    return {row: row, col: col};
  }

  boardToCanvas(row: number, col: number): Coord {
    let canvas = this.ctx.canvas;

    return {
      x: canvas.width * (col + 1.0) / (N + 1),
      y: canvas.height * (row + 1.0) / (N + 1)
    };
  }

  drawStones(ps: Point[], color: Color, alpha: number) {
    if (ps.length == 0) {
      return;
    }

    let ctx = this.ctx;
    let pr = pixelRatio();

    if (alpha == 1) {
      ctx.shadowBlur = 4 * pr;
      ctx.shadowOffsetX = 1.5 * pr;
      ctx.shadowOffsetY = 1.5 * pr;
      ctx.shadowColor = `rgba(0, 0, 0, ${color == Color.Black ? 0.4 : 0.3})`;
    }

    ctx.fillStyle = this.stoneFill(color, alpha);

    let r = this.stoneRadius;
    for (let p of ps) {
      let c = this.boardToCanvas(p.row, p.col);
      ctx.beginPath();
      ctx.translate(c.x + 0.5, c.y + 0.5);
      ctx.arc(0, 0, r, 0, 2 * Math.PI);
      ctx.fill();
      ctx.setTransform(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0);
    }

    if (alpha == 1) {
      ctx.shadowColor = 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)';
    }
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  private stoneFill(color: Color, alpha: number) {
    let grad: CanvasGradient;
    if (color == Color.Black) {
      let ofs = -0.5 * this.stoneRadius;
      grad = this.ctx.createRadialGradient(
          ofs, ofs, 0, ofs, ofs, 2 * this.stoneRadius);
      grad.addColorStop(0, `rgba(68, 68, 68, ${alpha})`);
      grad.addColorStop(1, `rgba(16, 16, 16, ${alpha})`);
    } else if (color == Color.White) {
      let ofs = -0.2 * this.stoneRadius;
      grad = this.ctx.createRadialGradient(
          ofs, ofs, 0, ofs, ofs, 1.2 * this.stoneRadius);
      grad.addColorStop(0.4, `rgba(255, 255, 255, ${alpha})`);
      grad.addColorStop(1, `rgba(204, 204, 204, ${alpha})`);
    } else {
      throw new Error(`Invalid color ${color}`);
    }
    return grad;
  }
}

type ClickListener = (p: Point) => void;

class ClickableBoard extends Board {
  enabled = false;
  protected p: Point | null;
  protected listeners: ClickListener[] = [];

  constructor(parent: HTMLElement | string, position: Position, layerDescs: any[]) {
    super(parent, position, layerDescs);

    this.ctx.canvas.addEventListener('mousemove', (e) => {
      // Find the point on the board being hovered over.
      let p = this.canvasToBoard(e.offsetX, e.offsetY, 0.45);

      // Clear the hovered point if there's already a stone on the board there.
      if (p != null && this.getStone(p) != Color.Empty) {
        p = null;
      }

      let changed: boolean;
      if (p != null) {
        changed = this.p == null || this.p.row != p.row || this.p.col != p.col;
      } else {
        changed = this.p != null;
      }

      if (changed) {
        this.p = p;
        this.draw();
      }
    });

    this.ctx.canvas.addEventListener('mouseleave', (e) => {
      if (this.p != null) {
        this.p = null;
        this.draw();
      }
    });

    this.ctx.canvas.addEventListener('click', (e) => {
      if (!this.p || !this.enabled) {
        return;
      }
      for (let listener of this.listeners) {
        listener(this.p);
      }
      this.p = null;
      this.draw();
    });
  }

  onClick(cb: ClickListener) {
    this.listeners.push(cb);
  }

  setPosition(position: Position) {
    if (position != this.position) {
      this.p = null;
      super.setPosition(position);
    }
  }

  drawImpl() {
    super.drawImpl();
    let p = this.enabled ? this.p : null;
    this.ctx.canvas.style.cursor = p ? 'pointer' : '';
    if (p) {
      this.drawStones([p], this.position.toPlay, 0.6);
    }
  }
}

export {
  Board,
  ClickableBoard,
  COL_LABELS,
};

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Some children have trouble with their speech. Some have trouble with language. Some have trouble with both.
Speech: Speech has three parts—articulation, fluency, and voice.
This is how speech sounds are made. Your tongue, lips, teeth, and other muscles move together to make sounds. For example, you press your lips together and "hum" to make an "m" sound. It is very common for children to have trouble saying sounds when they first learn to talk. Most children speak clearly by the time they start kindergarten.
When we talk, we are usually able to say a sentence or more without too much trouble. This is called fluent speech. If your child stops a lot or repeats sounds or words, he may be stuttering. Many young children repeat words or sounds between the ages of 2 and 4 while they are learning language. Most of them will stop stuttering or be more fluent as they get better at talking.
You need to make sound to talk. Sound comes from your voice box, or larynx. Voice problems happen when your child's voice doesn't sound right for his age or gender. For example, his voice may sound too high or low, too loud or soft, or hoarse. Voice problems do not occur very often in children.
Language includes: listening, talking, reading, and writing.
When a child has trouble understanding others, it is called a receptive language disorder. When he has trouble sharing thoughts, ideas, and feelings, it is called an expressive language disorder. Children can have problems with both understanding and sharing ideas. Your child may have trouble in school.
Worried about your child's speech and language? Your child can have speech problems, language problems, or both. The problem can be mild or severe. In any case, a complete evaluation by a speech-language pathologist, or SLP, is the first step to getting help for language and speech problems. Contact us today to learn more about we can help.
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Histoire du ressentiment
On Resentment: Past and Present
Bernardino Fantini ; Dolores Martin Moruno, Javier Moscoso
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (June 1, 2013)
Resentment has a history. Paintings such as Gericault's Le Radeau de La Meduse, nineteenth-century women's manifestos and WWI war photographs provide but a few examples to retrace the changing physiognomy of this emotion from the second half of the eighteenth century up to our contemporary society. The essays in this collection attempt to shed light on the historical evolution of this affective experience adopting the French Revolution as a "gravitational force", namely as a moment in which the desire to be other was politically legitimised by means of the ideal of a meritocratic society. From Adam Smith's definition as social passion linked with justice, to Nietzsche's interpretation of resentment as a pathological symptom, this emotion has also shaped a plethora of social movements forging their identity out of hatred mixed with fear and indignation. This volume seeks to provide new insights into the history of emotions by showing how resentment is a cultural experience that contributes to a better understanding of the differences between the past and the present world.


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Úmoří je část pevniny, ze které všechna povrchová voda teče do jednoho moře nebo oceánu. Pomyslná hranice mezi úmořími jsou hlavní rozvodí. Nejvyšší kategorie úmoří je podle oceánu, z nichž se někdy ještě vydělují některé specifické části (např. Středozemní moře z Atlantiku). Bezodtoké oblasti nepatří k úmoří žádného oceánu a lze zde hovořit jen o povodích jednotlivých jezer nebo řek.

Úmoří v Česku
Na území Česka zasahuje podle zvoleného měřítka jedno až tři úmoří. Celá země patří k úmoří Atlantiku, v podrobnějším dělení pak částečně k vlastnímu Atlantiku a částečně ke Středozemnímu moři, a konkrétně odsud odtékají vody do tří moří – Baltského, Černého a Severního. Hlavní evropské rozvodí (mezi Středomořím a ostatním Atlantikem) prochází na českém území po hřebenech Českého lesa, Šumavy, Novohradských hor, Českomoravské vrchoviny, Jeseníků a Beskyd. Všechna tři česká úmoří se dotýkají v masivu Králického Sněžníku, na hoře Klepáč (1145 m n. m.).
 Úmoří Černého moře – řeka Morava, pravostranné přítoky Váhu a levostranné přítoky Dunaje – odvádějí vodu do Dunaje a tudy do Černého moře
 Úmoří Severního moře – řeka Labe, která odvádí vodu do Severního moře
 Úmoří Baltského moře – řeka Odra (a její přítoky, zejména Lužická Nisa), která odvádí vodu do Baltského moře

Související články
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