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Impossible Foods partners with meat supplier to ramp up production of plant-based burgers
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Published July 31, 2019 Updated July 31, 2019
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The Impossible Burger contains wheat protein, coconut oil and potato protein among its ingredients.
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Plant-based burger maker Impossible Foods Inc. on Wednesday announced a partnership with major meat supplier OSI Group, a long-time producer of patties for fast-food chains, as it ramps up to meet demand from consumers and restaurants including Burger King.
Burger King started offering the Impossible Whopper in April in 59 stores in and around St. Louis, and is expected to launch nationally in the United States, which would put the plant-based Whopper on the menu in about 7,000 Burger Kings.
The partnership between the vegan burger maker and one of the biggest meat suppliers comes as young, environmentally conscious consumers are feasting on plant-based patties and sausages.
"We got ourselves into a supply-demand imbalance in which we frankly just did not anticipate the level of demand that came from consumers," said Sheetal Shah, Impossible Foods' senior vice-president of product and operations.
Shares of rival vegan burger company Beyond Meat Inc. are up more than 700 per cent since it went public in May. Beyond Meat earlier this week forecast its revenue would rise more than 170 per cent in 2019.
Privately-held OSI, based in Aurora, Ill., has been supplying McDonald's Corp. for about six decades and has 65 facilities in 17 countries.
Mr. Shah said California-based Impossible Foods and OSI will both be investing in OSI facilities to produce the plant-based burger patties and that multiple facilities in the Chicago area will start supplying Burger King and eventually other customers as well. The investment details were not disclosed.
When asked whether Impossible would be serving McDonald's, too, Mr. Shah declined to comment on customers, but said: "I see no reason why we shouldn't be able to go anywhere and everywhere."
When it comes to plant-based meat substitutes, "Its time and place is right now," said Kevin Scott, senior executive vice-president for OSI North America. "The work that's been done in the sector on our behalf and other manufacturers and companies like Impossible Foods are really narrowing that gap to a point of overall consumer acceptance."
Just three months after its IPO, Beyond Meat this week said it was raising more funds in a stock offering to expand its manufacturing facilities, which are also stretched by booming demand.
Smelling the sizzling opportunity, major meat packers like chicken producer Perdue Foods and Canadian packaged meat producer Maple Leaf Foods Inc. have also launched vegan meat substitute products.
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We've all sacrificed sleep during the week because we think we can catch up by snoozing all weekend long. Then, like clockwork, Sunday night rolls around all of a sudden, you can't sleep! Leaving you tossing and turning 'til 2 a.m., trying to figure out why the hell you can't sleep like a "normal" person. So, what gives?
That sleep-in you're desperately holding out for, is doing your health more harm than good. It's called "social jetlag", and no, it's not just the best excuse your yawning self-has ever heard, it's an actual phenomenon.
The term describes when we sacrifice sleep in favour of social obligations, thinking we can play catch-up further down the line.
Unfortunately, for those of us who love a lie-in, it's all bad news.
Those Sunday sleep sessions you love so much, are disrupting your circadian rhythm, and are most likely to blame for why you can't fall asleep at a regular time once Monday rolls around.
Curious why? Sleep expert and member of the Sleep Health Foundation, Dr. Carmel Harrington, recently shared how social jetlag works, and why the most important part of sleeping well has more to do with your wake up time than anything else.
The Real Question: Can You Catch Up on Sleep?
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Bugatti Type 46 Ottin Roadster, Chassis 46501, at the 2006 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este, by Wouter Melissen - Ultimatecarpage.com
The Type 46 used a 5.4 L (5359 cc/327 in³) straight-8 engine with 3 valves per cylinder driven by a single overhead camshaft. Power was reported at 140 hp (104 kW).
The engine was undersquare like most Bugatti designs with an 81 mm bore and 130 mm stroke.
The Type 46 was a large car, weighing 2500 lb (1134 kg) and riding on a 138 in (3505 mm) wheelbase. 400 examples were produced from the end of 1929 through 1936.
The three speed gearbox was in unit with the live rear axle, resulting in high unsprung weight, and a relatively harsh ride.
Despite this, the model was a favourite of Le Patron, and it remained in production longer than might have been expected.
Type 46S
Bugatti Type 46S, Reinboldt and Christie Cabriolet, Chassis: 46525 at the 2009 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance, by Wouter Melissen - Ultimatecarpage.com
A supercharged version, the Type 46S, or Sports model was introduced in 1930. This featured a supercharged version of the 5.3 litre engine. Mated to two Zenith carburettors.
This Roots-type supercharger provided 20 bhp increase in power, but with just 160 hp (119 kW), from its supercharger it was not enough to convince many customers to pay the premium as only around 18 Bugatti Type 46S cars were produced.

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I like to imagine a sentence as a boat. Each sentence, after all, has a distinct shape, and it comes with something that makes it move forward or stay still — whether a sail, a motor or a pair of oars. There are as many kinds of sentences as there are seaworthy vessels: canoes and sloops, barges and battleships, Mississippi riverboats and dinghies all-too-prone to leaks. And then there are the impostors, flotsam and jetsam — a log heading downstream, say, or a coconut bobbing in the waves without a particular destination.
My analogy seems simple, but it's not always easy to craft a sentence that makes heads turn with its sleekness and grace. And yet the art of sentences is not really a mystery.
Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.
At some point in our lives, early on, maybe in grade school, teachers give us a pat definition for a sentence — "It begins with a capital letter, ends with a period and expresses a complete thought." We eventually learn that that period might be replaced by another strong stop, like a question mark or an exclamation point.
But that definition misses the essence of sentencehood. We are taught about the sentence from the outside in, about the punctuation first, rather than the essential components. The outline of our boat, the meaning of our every utterance, is given form by nouns and verbs. Nouns give us sentence subjects — our boat hulls. Verbs give us predicates — the forward momentum, the twists and turns, the abrupt stops.
For a sentence to be a sentence we need a What (the subject) and a So What (the predicate). The subject is the person, place, thing or idea we want to express something about; the predicate expresses the action, condition or effect of that subject. Think of the predicate as a predicament — the situation the subject is in.
I like to think of the whole sentence as a mini-narrative. It features a protagonist (the subject) and some sort of drama (the predicate): The searchlight sweeps. Harvey keeps on keeping on. The drama makes us pay attention.
Switching to the predicate, remember that it is everything that is not the subject. In addition to the verb, it can contain direct objects, indirect objects, adverbs and various kinds of phrases. More important, the predicate names the predicament of the subject.
One way to get the hang of such mini-narratives is to gently imitate great one-liners. Try taking each one of the sentences above and plugging in your own subjects and predicates, just to sense the way that nouns and verbs form little stories.
When a sentence lacks one of its two essential parts, it is called a sentence fragment. Like the flotsam I mentioned earlier, fragments are adrift, without clear direction or purpose.
Playing with sentence fragments can be fun — the best copywriters use them for memorable advertising slogans (Alka-Seltzer's "Plop plop, fizz fizz"). But there are plenty of competing Madison Avenue slogans to convince you that a full sentence registers equally well — from Esso's "Put a tiger in your tank" to The Heublein Company's "Pardon me, would you have any Grey Poupon?" While sentence fragments can be witty, they are still shards of thoughts, better suited to hawking antacids than to penning the Great American Novel or earnestly attempting to put inchoate thoughts into indelible words.
As the subjects in those sentences keep shifting — from we to twins, one of them, the other, we (implied), wig, I, I, I, you, kids, I, and I — his message keeps shifting, too. Mr. Bush's speechwriter, Peggy Noonan, has written that the president was "allergic to I." He seemed to feel uncomfortable calling attention to himself, so he performed what Noonan called "I-ectomies" in his speeches.
Biden not only shifts from you to I and back to you again, he throws three sentence fragments into the middle of his sentence, each featuring a different subject.
Syntax gets a lot more complicated than subjects and predicates, but understanding the relationship between the hull and the sail, the What and the So What, is the first step in mastering the dynamics of a sentence. In future weeks we'll delve into more ways you can play with subjects and predicates, but first, in the next few lessons I will write, we'll explore the raw materials of sentence-building: nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Just as there is no one perfect boat, there is no one perfect sentence structure. Mark Twain wrote sentences that were as humble, sturdy and American as a canoe; William Faulkner wrote sentences as gaudy as a Mississippi riverboat. But no matter the atmospherics, the best sentences bolt a clear subject to a dramatic predicate, making a mini-narrative. Tell us your favorite sentences from literature in the comments section below, and identify the subject and the predicate. We'll publish some of the best ones in Draft later this week.
Constance Hale, a journalist based in San Francisco, is the author of "Sin and Syntax" and the forthcoming "Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch." She covers writing and the writing life at sinandsyntax.com.


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In 2012, Jesse Zwick of The New Republic criticized RT, stating it held that "civilian casualties in Syria are minimal, foreign intervention would be disastrous, and any humanitarian appeals from Western nations are a thin veil for a NATO-backed move to isolate Iran, China, and Russia." He wrote that RT wants to "make the United States look out of line for lecturing Russia."[142] Zwick also wrote that RT provided a "disproportionate amount of time" to covering libertarian Republican Ron Paul during his 2012 presidential campaign. Writing after her 2014 on-air resignation, Liz Wahl suggested the reason for this "wasn't his message of freedom and liberty but his non-interventionist stance and consistent criticism of U.S. foreign policy. His message fit RT's narrative that the United States is a huge bully."[233] In a June 2011 broadcast of Adam vs. the Man, host Adam Kokesh had endorsed fundraising for Paul, leading to a complaint to the Federal Election Commission charging a political contribution had been made by a foreign corporation. Kokesh denied his cancellation in August was related to the complaint, but said it did involve Paul's aide Jesse Benton.[146]
General idea: Crunchyroll is Netflix for anime. And it's seriously awesome. With a premium account, you'll get access to over 900 anime shows (for reference, Netflix only has 50 titles). Find old favorites like One Piece, new releases straight from Japan like Megalobox, as well as a wide selection of manga and even a number of live-action J-dramas. If you're an anime newbie, check out Mashable's full rundown on Crunchyroll and our resident anime expert's suggestions on the best shows to watch.
Consensus: If you're a PlayStation household, this is hands-down the service to choose for obvious reasons. While Vue certainly isn't worthless to other devices, its packages are slightly pricier than competitors who offer mostly the same channel selection. However, if you value channels like HBO and Showtime, PlayStation Vue's Ultra package is a better deal than purchasing those channels as add-ons elsewhere.
Last, download the necessary software. You can download a compatible app for your Mac right from myhdhomerun.com. You can also download the HDHomerun app for iPhone and iPad. On Apple TV, you can use Plex with your Plex Pass subscription or Emby with an Emby Premier subscription, or you could also side load Kodi and use the HDHomeRun add-on. If you don't already use Plex, Emby, or Kodi on your Apple TV, you should probably get Channels for Apple TV (my personal recommendation) or InstaTV Pro.
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After 2009, over the air TV signals became digital and old analog tuner TVs stopped working. Did you know that you could still get over the air signals? In fact, you can watch local channels without cable, and they are available free and in a clear beautiful high definition picture. Those signals are bouncing off your house as you read this. If you own a TV sold in the U.S. made after March 1st, 2007, it has a digital tuner as mandated by law.
Cable stinks, but it didn't always stink, and its channel bundles include some great stuff. That inspired the companies behind the major live TV streaming services to set out to beat cable at its own game. They began to offer pay TV "multichannel" services – industry lingo for cable- and satellite-type pay TV bundles – only they slashed the size and the price of cable's bulky bundles and offered folks a key selection of channels for less. And since these services stream online, you can watch them anywhere and on almost any device.
we have not had a pay tv service since 2009 it just kept going up it started at 45 dollars a month then went all the way up too 142.00 dollars a month for just 2 tv's in the house it was insane one day I called up comcast and told them either they make me a deal on the tv service or I was cancelling they told me they could knock it down to 99 dollars a month for two years as long as I wanted to sign up for a 4 year service plan and I had to add on there Voip phone service and after 2 years it would go up to 199.00 a month
I take it you have done your homework and it sounds as though you know your stuff! However, I do not know who you are or if you are a "plant" by the cable industry to down talk these alternative methods to cable. Having said that, I need to do my own research and I know I have to start somewhere, so I consider your remarks and opinions as that start. The problem I see in doing research is "who to trust"! Call me cynical if you wish. However, I detest these things about cable: 1) The major cable companies (Comcast, Spectrum, et al) control the perimeters of choice for consumers by, as you stated, "blocking" given areas; 2) If you want to watch a given number of channels, the cable companies mentioned control the "plans" for the channels that include my favorites like sports, local channels, documentaries, etc… I could not care less for the so-called movie channels that show hardly anything but smut movies. I have to pay an astronomical monthly fee to get the preferred channels and pay for channels I do not want or watch. I suppose I could list much more disgust that I have for cable. However, all I would be doing is frustrating myself more. The task of searching for the best solution is to me, much too tedious and not as trustworthy as is being touted by these "cable cutting" enterprises. So, until I can find a more realistic alternative, I will stay with the blood-sucking cable company which I currently have.
Live sports is admittedly the Achilles heel of streaming video services. The enormous licensing payments that pro sports leagues generate from cable networks simply puts them beyond the reach of Internet TV, with its significantly smaller viewing audience. Certainly, if your day isn't complete without updates from ESPN and ESPN 2, cutting the cable cord isn't yet a feasible option. But the situation is not quite as dire as you may think. Remember, an antenna gets you free OTA broadcasts, so you can watch big events like the World Series, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, and the Olympics. Home market NFL games are still on free TV as well (though they are subject to blackout restrictions if the stadium doesn't sell out).
The savings are all tied to a service that is in a sense revolutionary. Sling TV, a new live TV streaming service from Dish provides you with access to networks like ESPN 1, ESPN 2, HGTV, Food TV,TBS, Disney and more for $19.99 per month. All you need is an internet connection to watch Sling TV on a television, phone or tablet. With a deal I found, just for signing up, you get a FREE Fire TV Stick.
In the past decade, the Federal Communications Commission and Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona attempted to force media companies to offer their channels individually. Neither effort went very far. The cable industry argued prices would rise if consumers could choose only certain channels, and channels aimed at minority groups, for instance, wouldn't survive without every subscriber paying for them—regardless of whether they watched.
A few years after Prevue Channel completed its transition to TV Guide Channel, the programming it featured changed drastically. Full-length shows were added, moving away from the typical model of showing television previews and other information. Starting in 2005, Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa Rivers began providing coverage for televised awards ceremonies such as the Emmy Awards and the Academy Awards. In 2007, the mother-daughter duo were unceremoniously dropped by TV Guide Channel in favor of actress/host Lisa Rinna. Later, in 2007, Rinna was joined by fellow Dancing with the Stars alumnus (and former N*SYNC member) Joey Fatone during awards coverage. On July 29, 2009, TV Guide announced that Rinna and Fatone had been replaced by the hosts of the channel's entertainment news program Hollywood 411, Chris Harrison (host of The Bachelor) and Carrie Ann Inaba (who serves as a judge on Dancing with the Stars).
You might also be able to save by bundling your TV and Internet subscriptions: After a recent move, one of the authors of this guide, Chris Heinonen, discovered that with his new Internet provider, it was cheaper to get Internet service bundled with TV than without. However, once Chris added the cost of multiple cable boxes and DVR service, those savings disappeared. So Chris currently rents one non-HD cable box, which sits in a closet unused, and uses an Apple TV, Roku, or tablet to stream all his family's favorite shows. This setup lets them start and finish shows on any TV, and it offers more flexibility than any cable box would. (The downsides to this strategy are that one can't "record" shows for offline viewing, and each network you want to watch must provide an app with streaming support—but more and more networks are offering such apps.) In the end, Chris saves around $10 a month compared with paying for Internet alone while also being able to stream the Olympics, college and NFL football, Mr. Robot, The Americans, and more directly to his iPhone and various media streamers.
In response to Rob's comment about the No Subscription Required site being safe or not ? I have been a fan of this site for the last five years without any problems caused to my pc, i have been careful to view links that are free steaming and not the download links, that can cause entering of viruses and spyware, this is maybe what happened to you. Only today have i seen the latest listing from No Subscription Required.net of Vwho.net that gives you all the possible links to all the latest media, my thanks to the site for giving us such a great service.
Start with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, tack on an HBO subscription to the latter, and consider paying for the Brit-centric streaming service Acorn as well. You'll have plenty to watch, all commercial-free, and if you hear a lot of buzz about a show that isn't available through any of those platforms, you can always pay for them on an episode-by-episode basis from Amazon (or iTunes, Vudu, or whichever digital retailer you prefer).
The only choice out of the top three that plays commercials, Hulu is best loved for its selection of current seasons of popular TV shows, most of which show up on the site soon after their original air date. For those who want to have their cake and eat it, Hulu also offers a luxurious, commercial-free way to stream its growing catalog of original shows, network content. It will cost you $6 more a month, but we think it's well worth it if you're leaving behind the bonds (and ads) of cable.
For Amazon Fire TV users (no coincidence that it requires an in-house device), a small selection of these channels can be browsed via a "Live Now" menu, which includes a programming guide so you can see what's on next. As of this writing, only a small number of premium channels — including HBO, Cinemax, Starz, and Showtime — will show up on the "live now" section, and only if you're subscribed to them through Amazon Prime's "Channels." The number is growing, however, and we're hopeful for a more varied selection in the near future.
Editor's note: Each service has the conditional inclusion of the major networks it carries. Some markets have access to live network channels, including local programming, while others will be on-demand only. In some select locations, one or more of the networks — or even an entire service — may not be available. Check each service's website for availability in your area.
Sling TV is one of the better value options out there, because you can get a lot of the most popular channels for only $25 a month. However, if you're a binge-watcher, you'll love Hulu with Live TV's huge on-demand library, which currently has 10 full seasons of Adventure Time (aww yeah homies!). YouTube TV is great, but it may not be available in your area just yet.


The incredible marketing leverage the internet provides from business owners is invaluable in today day and age. The internet has allowed small business owners and start-ups to really expand their marketing message, increasing their marketing reach and often much more cost effective than past traditional marketing methods.
Internet marketing should be at the top or any small businesses marketing arsenal however like all tools if you don't have an understanding how to use it, it will cost you.
After helping out dozens of local small business owners make more money and generate more leads using the internet I have found there are a few core reasons why most of them struggle in the first place.
I see this problem happen all the time when I work local business clients. Many have acted and got a website created and uploaded to the World Wide Web and I congratulate them for taking action.
The problem is that many pay a graphic designer $10000 or more for a 'beautiful' website only to discover 6 months later that their website has not made them any money and has not generated any leads.
What most small business owners don't understand is that a 'beautiful' website won't get you more customers. There are certain elements a graphic designer will never tell you about (even if they did know about them) that you can tweak on your existing site that can quickly turn it not just into a beautiful website but one that is a lead magnet.
Many of these tweaks won't cost you any money at all but they can be the difference between zero customers to your website versus hundreds or even thousands of customer every month.
This where many small business owners are told to hire an expensive SEO (Search Engine Optimization) or PPC (Pay-Per-Click) firm and get them to do it for you. What many SEO and PPC companies don't want you to know is that what they are doing to get your website listed in the search engines is not that difficult once you understand HOW it works.
Some companies even guarantee to get them a first page ranking in Google within the next 30 days. Yet what most of these companies do is pick an obscure keyword or phrase like 'San Jose Dentist who like to fish' which only get 1 visitor every other year and only take them about 30 seconds to get a first page ranking.
Obviously the reason they don't tell you how simple it is because if you understood the step-by-step process you would just get your assistant or receptionist to do these tasks between phone calls.


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Q: Can I have something shipped to the exhibit area? If so, when does it need to be shipped by and how should it be addressed?
Q: Where can we get promotional material for our retail store about the event?
We have posters and postcard invitations available for our vendors. Please contact your salesperson if need extra postcards and posters.
Q: What time should exhibitors arrive and be setup by?
Exhibitors set up times are 2 to 8pm on Friday and 8 to 9:30 on Saturday. Please arrange with your sales representative if you need to arrive earlier. Booths should be completely set up no later than 9:30 on Saturday.
Q: Will there be a special loading/unloading area? If so, where?
There is access all around the building through garage type roll up doors. This is a loading and unloading only area no parking.
Free parking is available in the Red Parking Area.
Q: Can we have pop-up tents at our exhibit? If so, what are the size limits?
Pop-Up Tents are not allowed in most booths and require pre-approval for limited use.
Q: Can we have flags or other banners at our exhibits? If so, what are the size limits?
The booths are arranged in an open exhibit hall with only Pipe and Draping for dividers.
Therefore, if you have a banner, you will need to provide your own means to hang it. Flag banners are allowed. Any banners you bring must fit within your booth area and be less than 8 feet tall.
Q: Will vehicles be allowed to be displayed on the exhibit floor?
Vehicles are allowed to be displayed if it fits within your allotted booth space with a drain pan underneath. Please make sure to schedule your load-in time with your sales representative or Jennifer Hargrove at jennifer@alcovymedia.com.
Q: Can we use microphones or voice enhancers at our booth?
No microphones or voice enhancers are allowed in Vendor Booths.
Q: Is there an electrical outlet available at our booth?
Only certain booths have access for electrical access. There is an extra fee associated with this usage. Please contact your sales representative or go to the website to order electrical access.
Q: During the exhibit, who will be the contact and how will we contact this person if there are questions or problems?
A logistics coordinator and site contact information will be provided in your registration packet upon arrival.
Q: Are we allowed to bring food and drink into the exhibit hall?
Q: Are we allowed to sell food and drink at the Expo?
No, all food and beverage products must be pre-packaged for attendees to purchase and take home. You may, however, offer samples. If you are providing samples or have a demonstration that involves food preparation, please refer to our Temporary Food Service Requirements form.
Q: What time can exhibitors start to break down their exhibits and by what time will they need to be out of the exhibit hall?
Q: Where onsite will the exhibitors check in?
A check in table will be at the entrance of the exhibition hall.
Q: What are the show's hours?
The Expo will be open to attendees from 10 am to 6 pm.
Q: Is there a fee to attend the Expo?
No, attendance is free to the public.
Q: What hotels are in the area?
A separate document is available in our online welcome packet that lists hotels in the area.
Q: Where is the Expo and how do I get there?
To get to the GIHP, take Exit 82 off Interstate 20 in Conyers. Travel north approximately 4 miles. Turn right onto Centennial Olympic Parkway. The main entrance to the park is 2 miles ahead on the right. Enter through Gate C, which is the main gate.
An alternative route to the Park is via Salem Road (Exit 84) off Interstate 20. Take Exit 84 and travel north approximately 1 mile. At Gees Mill Road, turn right and the Georgia International Horse Park Gate A is 2.5 miles on the right. To continue to the main gate (Gate C), continue past Gate A and turn right at the stop sign onto Centennial Olympic Parkway. The main entrance will be on your right.


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Canyon Creek Mushrooms
Canyon Creek Mushrooms sustainably cultivates a variety of gourmet mushrooms to bring nutrient-dense, delicious mushrooms to the Coachella Valley community.
Location: Palm Desert, CA
Products: Mushrooms
James Shaffer
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Gourmet Mushroom Facility Expansion
by Canyon Creek Mushrooms
Canyon Creek Mushrooms is expanding their mushroom production in Palm Desert, CA to meet the blooming demand for their delicious and nutritious mushrooms.
For much of Jim's life, learning about and hunting for mushrooms was merely a hobby. He and his fiancé Stacy moved to Southern California for Jim's job as a software engineer, and soon missed their days spent foraging for morels in the woods of Michigan. They decided to bring mushrooms back into their life by testing out grow kits, which spiraled into a "wildly different adventure" of turning an empty pole barn on their property into a proper grow house.
A 30-year career as a software engineer ultimately prepared Jim for this next chapter as a mushroom farmer, giving him the tools to understand how to set up the precise climate conditions required for the different stages of mushroom growth. To hone his mushroom farming techniques, Jim took a formal training with a grower in Kansas and toured farms around Southern California. In September 2019, Jim and Stacy launched Canyon Creek Mushrooms and with rocketing local demand reached their maximum growing capacity of 360 lbs of mushrooms per week by fall 2020.
In spring 2021, they sold their house and signed a lease for the perfect commercial building for expanding operations in Palm Desert. There they can produce 900 lbs of mushrooms per week to start, with the capacity to produce up to 1500 lbs per week, and will finally be able to meet the incredible demand of their local customer base.
Canyon Creek Mushrooms operates on a weekly continuous schedule of incubating, fruiting, harvesting, and culturing the next generation of mycelium. Their tree-based mushrooms are grown on sterilized hardwood sawdust and soy hulls in their climate controlled indoor cultivation rooms. The new 4500 square foot facility is ideally suited for mushroom cultivation with a large, open interior that allows for the construction of various rooms and chambers necessary for the different stages of mushroom growth.
Perfecting the climate controlled conditions needed to successfully grow mushrooms in the desert requires a level of mastery unreachable to many. As one of the few mushroom farms in the region, demand for Canyon Creek Mushrooms continues to surge as they are within an hour's drive from 13 farmer's markets and over 800 restaurants with mushrooms on their menu. Jim and Stacy are delighted to have the opportunity to expand their growing capacity and share their love of mushrooms with more of the southern California community.
Most mushrooms found at the grocery store are imported from other countries, with the majority coming from Canada. Canyon Creek produces mushrooms that are consumed locally and regionally, doing their part to help feed and sustain the local food system. They grow mushrooms indoors using farming byproducts, and engage in the following sustainable practices:
Reusing two waste byproducts, soy hulls and sawdust, as the growing medium for producing their gourmet mushrooms.
Once the substrate blocks have fed 3-5 fruiting cycles, Canyon Creek passes them off as compost for other local farms in the area. Leftover mycelium is a nutrient-dense addition to enhance soil fertility for growing crops.
Plans are in the works to partner with a local organization to build out a community composting facility that will increase accessibility to a nutrient-dense soil enhancer.
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Holly's Secret Garden is a special event created by James Thredgold and friends to raise funds and awareness for Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation who are dedicated to tackling mental health head on.
This will be an elegant evening with a shared degustation experience, premium beverages, exciting entertainment by Lesley Williams and a fundraising auction. The event will bring people together to honour the beautiful Holly Thredgold and connect through food, music and making a difference.


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I need to collect the order of the span elements and put it in a variable for example, if the order look as below:
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then, the variable will be "2,3,5,4,1"

A: var ids = [];
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});

And you will have ids in array ids.
For your example, it would be ids = ["span-2", "span-3", "span-5", "span-4", "span-1"]

A: If there is an identifiable parent you could do this:
var order = new Array();
$("#parentID span").each(function(){
    order.push($(this).attr('id').substring(5));
});

However, if I would try this I would add some classes and data-ids to the mix:
HTML:
[Up/Down]
[Up/Down]
[Up/Down]
[Up/Down]
[Up/Down]

JS:
var order = new Array();
$(".mySpan").each(function(){
    order.push($(this).attr('data-id'));
});

A: For getting the spans themselves:
var spanArray = []; //Contain all spans in the proper order (2,3,5,4,1)

$("span").each(function(i){
     spanArray.push($("span")[i]);
     console.log(i + ": " + this.id);
});

For getting only the span ids:
var spanIDsArray = []; //Contain all span ids in the proper order (2,3,5,4,1)

$("span").each(function(i){
     spanIDsArray.push(this.id);
     console.log(i + ": " + this.id);
});

A: Your variable will be look like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
 var spnArray = [];
 $("span").each(function(i)
 {
    spnArray.push($(this).attr("id"));
             });
                 console.log(spnArray);
    });

See DEMO:
http://jsfiddle.net/KcRTm/

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Kanye West's new partnership with Gap might be risky enough to pay off
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It's either a Hail Mary for both parties or a match made in heaven, but Kanye West and Gap are officially in business. They've paired for a new clothing line called Yeezy Gap, set to debut in the first half of 2021. This isn't quite a short-term commitment, either — the New York Times reports that they've inked a 10-year deal, with the option to renew the contract after five years. Per YZY Gap, they'll be offering "modern, elevated basics for men, women and kids at accessible price points," which sure sounds like a merger of both companies' ethos.
The newly minted billionaire, who worked at Gap as a teenager and said in the past that he wants to be "like to be the Steve Jobs of the Gap," may have picked a precarious time to jump onboard. The company, like almost every other retail brand, has been in a perpetual freefall throughout the pandemic. With high-profile bankruptcies of J.Crew and Neiman Marcus, some had every expectation that Gap could be next, after years that brought on more than 100 store closures.
But if this connects, it'll be a mutually beneficial move for the pair, fulfilling West's wishes for a more affordable take on Yeezy while retaining full ownership of the brand, and Gap with a new opportunity to crawl out of financial ruin. Kanye's fashion efforts to this point have...decidedly not been accessible to the average consumer, from his infamous $120 white t-shirt to a recent $925 graphic cardigan. This will likely shift in the other direction under Gap, and bring in a whole new swath of normie dads to the fold. That said, his sneaker line with Adidas, which routinely go for hundreds of dollars, will remain a separate venture. YZY Gap has also brought on Mowalola Ogunlesi, a Black woman who's worked with the Kardashian-West family before, to head up the design team that's expected to hit $1 billion in sales by the five-year mark.
The Yeezy-Gap pairing could be a risky head-scratcher at first that might just be regarded as a brand-saving move 10 years from now. Of course, with coronavirus cases surging nationwide and no guarantee that retail can endure a full year like this, it could be unfortunate timing. That said, this all but guarantees Gap with a brand that people order online en masse, even if the pandemic is still very much a part of our lives by next summer.
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Q: How to run a tcl program/script I have a small tcl script which I am trying to run. I have changed the permissions to allow execution of the script (although it did require sudo access to do so?)
checking the Ubuntu Software Centre, tcl is loaded.
So how do I run it? Does it have to be run from command line?
Shouldn't I be able to run it by double clicking on the script name?

A: To run a TCL script from the command line, cd to the appropriate directory and then tclsh your_script.tcl
The effects of double clicking it depend upon the configuration of your desktop, and also what the script actually does - it may only send any output to the console, for which you'd need to have run it from the command line.

A: The problem lies with you not configuring the Nautilus properly.
Refer to this post How do I run executable scripts in Nautilus? , change the Executable Text Files to Run executable text files when they are opened.
You can try the following helloworld script to test, the first line please change it to the path of your tclsh (you can find that by which tclsh:
#!/usr/bin/tclsh
package require Tk
button .b -text {Push Me} -command {tk_messageBox -message {hello, world}}
pack .b

The result will look something like this.


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In geometry, a truncated cubic prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four-dimensional polytope).

It is one of 18 convex uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of Platonic solids or Archimedean solids in parallel hyperplanes.

Net

Alternative names
 Truncated-cubic hyperprism
 Truncated-cubic dyadic prism (Norman W. Johnson)
 Ticcup (Jonathan Bowers: for truncated-cube prism)

See also
Truncated tesseract,

External links

4-polytopes
Truncated tilings

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HEAR THIS/MIXTAPE: Femme Faves with Iggy, Jessie J, Kimbra, Hilary, Neon Hitch & More...
Despite my obvious and unabashed love for boy bands, in general my listening habits tend to gravitate toward the female -- in particular, ladies who can flex their vocal muscles and flex them well. Here's a rundown of the ladies I've been listening to the most lately...
JESSIE J - "Bang Bang (feat. ARIANA GRANDE & NICKI MINAJ)"
Everything about this screams hit, let alone Max Martin's hand in penning it. Released at the end of July, in less than a month its shot up the Billboard Hot 100 (thanks in no small part no doubt to Ms. Grande supplying the second verse). Here's to ladies with enviable vocal chops, right? Even Nicki's verse slings and swats without feeling unnecessarily tacked on for show. It's not quite the "Lady Marmalade" reboot we all have been screaming for but it's a pretty easy guess that anything this girl power-y (and downright melismatic) will have my stamp of approval.
IGGY AZALEA - "Black Widow (feat. RITA ORA)"
Upon the release of Iggy's debut set The New Classic dropped earlier this year, this tune automatically stood out to me as a keeper -- easily my favorite of the non-single "new" jams featured. Setting aside the bringing to light of Iggy's "questionable" past as a femmcee (my thoughts: she makes jams now and writes them so...) and a now somewhat common complaint that it sounds "too close" Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" (my thoughts: Ms. Perry co-penned "Black Widow" so...I guess you just have good ears). I'd rather field the more obvious -- who exactly is Rita Ora playing to in the US? She's best known here as an ex to the male Kardashian and her vocal contribution here sounds a bit like a Perry/Rihanna rebirth -- a far cry from her best known US hit, "R.I.P." No matter, this one cooks.
KIMBRA - "90's Music"
Welcome back to that other alt-popstar from New Zealand, Kimbra (the other being Lorde, obvs)! Following a pristine bow with her debut set, Vows, and a star-making turn as the featured artist in that Gotye smash "Somebody That I Used To Know", Kimbra dropped her sophomore album The Golden Echo yesterday and it has a handful of late 80's/early 90's synth sparklers that seem to be so en vogue now. Difference is with Kimbra it doesn't sound forced or jumping on a bandwagon -- it really fits and fuels her jazz-y, ethereal voice. "90's Music" is quirky, a little bit weird, and my favorite for the Mary J Blige and TLC homage mentions alone, but I also quite like "Miracle" and "Madhouse".
HILARY DUFF - "All About You"
Hil's return to the music scene surprisingly excited me (What can I say? Dignity was a stellar record and it made me a fan.) until the hype single "Chasing The Sun" dropped. While its sunny ethos is surely A-OK and believable, it did little to augment how thin Hil's natural voice is. Her choice to go the "indie-esque", folky, handclappy route was a head-scratcher for me, given how strong her dancey pop music was but she proved her decision was all for naught with "All About You". It's very call-and-response, sing-along in a way that takes advantage of her everygirl persona. More of this, please.
NEON HITCH - "Yard Sale"
The Gypsy Queen of the Indie Grind has offered quite a bit of fresh material since I saw her perform at CMJ last year in two stellar alt-pop mixtapes (that are both available to stream on Spotify so get on that!). Her latest is the single "Yard Sale", a salty in-your-face Neon-ized version of "Irreplaceable". It reads like an Eff You to an ex who's done you wrong (or, if you want to read into it, perhaps directed at a former label who's done her wrong by "giving away all of the things that [she] used to call [her] own"? "Giving 'em all away for free?" Who knows?). As Neon warbles, "There is a person that could love you/But that person is the old me." Oh, and there's an accordion riff in it. Win.
CHRISTINA GRIMMIE - "Must Be Love"
If 20-year-old Christina's name only sounds slightly familiar, get ready for a potential onslaught. She began her career singing covers on YouTube, which led to a game-changing run on The Voice this past season (she placed third this past May) and a barrage of record deal offers. She ultimately signed with Island Records and her debut major release single, "Must Be Love" hit the decks at the end of July. It's an incredible earworm to say the least, owing to Grimmie's power pipes that could easily compete in this post-Ariana big voiced teenage popstar world.
HALSEY - "Ghost"
Halsey continues into this dark electro pastiche with some seriously noteworthy results. "Ghost" was distributed through AstralWerks, who also handle the catalog of Nervo, Empire of the Sun, Kraftwerk, and Goldfrapp to just name a handful. Halsey has just jumped aboard The Kooks live tour as an opening act. Put her on your list as one to watch.
RYN WEAVER - "OctaHate"
An "indie" alt-popstar along the likes of Charli XCX and Jessie Ware, Ryn Weaver's entire career blew up overnight thanks both of those ladies giving her some props and promo pointing to her SoundCloud page. Her song, "OctaHate", is distributed through Interscope, along with a new EP that was unleashed yesterday. While there's a bit of controversy regarding her actual "indie" status, it is clear she's Interscope's new viral pet project (not unlike Lana Del Rey) to build a story around her straight out the gate. So far, this does not bug me -- the music is standard pop fare and much more listenable than droll Lana any day.
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Boxing News / By Brady Briggs / January 8, 2021 January 8, 2021
As we all know by now, YouTube sensation Logan Paul will be facing Floyd Mayweather Jr on February 20, 2021, live on pay-per-view.
Jake Paul was recently interviewed by TMZ about his brother, Logan's upcoming bout opposing the greatest boxer of all-time, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
The interviewee asked Jake how he thought Logan matched up with Mayweather, considering one of the greatest of all-time in Manny Pacquiao couldn't touch him:
"No exactly, I agree. My brother's fucked. It's bad for the sport, I think it's just for clout. You know, my brother's a fake fighter, I'm the real fighter. He's 0-1-1, I'm 3-0.
"But, you know, I wish him the best of luck. I just, like, don't get in there with the guy who's never even been knocked down. He's been knocked down once and it was by accident."
Logan responded to Jake's comments on one of his Impaulsive Podcast episodes, and stated the following:
"I fully support Jake. Whatever drama he wants to stir or create, it really doesn't bother me. Like, 'Oh, you're a fake boxer.' Okay. Let's box, because Jake is the kid that gets beat up by my sparring partners. That's that kid."
Logan continued: "I've become like rubber sheet metal, dude. In this fight, everyone's saying a lot of things. And, for good reason. I'm fighting Floyd fucking Mayweather. So I've literally become immune to (everything). I've heard it all."
Logan also stated on Brendan Schaub's Food Truck Diaries that he expects a match up between himself and Jake to come about in the coming years, and he expects it to be one of the biggest sporting events in history.
Brendan and Logan were talking about how people have paid for years and years to see Mayweather lose, and that they'll pay just as much to see Logan lose.
However, Brendan said a pay-per-view between Logan and Jake would break the pay-per-view the record. Schaub then asked Logan if he'd ever though about a fight between himself and his brother:
"My dad does not want us to do that. If you want my opinion, I think it's inevitable. I think Jake and I in two-to-four-years time are gonna be beating the shit out of each other in a ring.
"And I think it'll be one of the most historical sporting events to take place ever. The Klitschko's didn't do it, they had a chance, right?" Brendan chimed in, "their mom made them agree never to do it."
Logan responded: "Yeah, see, our mom tried to make us agree (not) to do that, but you got the one tatted up problem-child, and then you got the podcasting, Pokemon-collecting, apoxie-producing, whoever else I am.
Schaub responded: "I figured you were gonna be like, dude, come on, what're you doing (asking), absolutely not. But you guys are open to it?" Logan lastly responded: "Very much so, yeah, I think I'd beat the shit out of him."
We've got to be honest with ourselves, he may not be wrong.
Give it a couple more years; these two are still brand new to the sport, once they each get a couple more fights, this really could be one of the biggest events in the history of sports.
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Mit dem Ausdruck Metaphysikkritik bezeichnet man zusammenfassend philosophische Auffassungen, die metaphysische Erklärungen oder Erklärungssysteme kritisieren oder in Frage stellen – ob und wie diese möglich sind. Dabei werden die Thesen und Begriffe, aber auch die Methoden klassischer Ansätze der philosophischen Disziplin der Metaphysik einer Überprüfung unterzogen.

Gegenstand der Metaphysik
Die philosophische Disziplin der Metaphysik beschreibt zum einen Grundstrukturen der Realität, die nicht Gegenstand von einzelnen Erfahrungserkenntnissen oder von naturwissenschaftlichen Erklärungen sein können, sondern darüber hinausgehen oder ihnen zugrunde liegen. Darüber hinaus beinhaltete die Metaphysik bis zur Entstehung spezifischer Kultur-Geisteswissenschaften neben der Naturphilosophie auch die rationale Auseinandersetzung über Gegenstände, die nicht zur Natur im Sinne von griechisch φύσις, physis zählen. (Zur Ideen- und Begriffsgeschichte siehe auch die Artikel Metaphysik, Naturwissenschaft, Physik und Geschichte der Physik.) Klassische Gegenstände der Metaphysik sind u. a. Wesensfragen, ideelle Objekte (z. B. Universalien), aber auch philosophische Konzeptionen der Seele, des Geistes oder der Göttlichkeit. Davon werden bereits seit der Antike Ethik, Mathematik und Logik abgegrenzt, obwohl durchaus Zusammenhänge bestehen – so setzten etwa bestimmte Systeme ethischer Gebote ein metaphysisches Modell für Handlungen voraus. Im modernen kulturellen Diskurs wird der Ausdruck "Metaphysik" auch aufweichend für die eine harmonische, die Welt insgesamt erklärende und auf einen letzten Sinn beziehende Weltanschauung gebraucht.

Kants Metaphysikkritik
Immanuel Kant entwickelt im letzten Viertel des 18. Jahrhunderts eine grundlegende Kritik an traditionellen metaphysischen Inhalten und Verfahren. Diese stammten zum Teil aus der Scholastik, Kant lagen sie aber historisch in rationalistischen Rekonstruktionen, zuletzt von Leibniz und Wolff vor. Sein erkenntnistheoretisches Programm formuliert Kant v. a. in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft und den Prolegomena.

Gegen die klassischen Verfahren der Begriffszergliederung und des indirekten Beweises führt Kant an, dass erstere keine Erweiterung der Erkenntnis ermöglicht, letzterer hingegen zu notwendigen Widersprüchen führen kann, wie sie Kant in den Antinomien der reinen Vernunft beschreibt.

Wichtige Fragen der klassischen Metaphysik müssen Kant zufolge notwendig unbeantwortet bleiben, da prinzipiell keine Möglichkeit besteht, etwas von den Eigenschaften der Objekte zu wissen, die traditionell in metaphysischen Systemen als Basis vorausgesetzt werden. Diese sollen nämlich übernatürliche, unabhängige Substanzen sein – Kant spricht von "Dingen an sich". Diese Übernatürlichkeit aber macht nach Kant gerade ihre wesentlichen Eigenschaften nicht erfahrbar, denn Erkenntnis und Wissen sind auf die indirekte Vermittlung der Inhalte durch die Strukturen der Sinnlichkeit und des Denkens angewiesen. Erkennbar ist bei Kant daher nur, welche Wirkungen Gegenstände auf das Bewusstsein haben, und diese wieder nur so weit, wie sie sich gedanklich nachvollziehen lassen. Der Eigenanteil, den Sinnlichkeit und Verstand in das Erleben und in die Inhalte des Bewusstseins einbringen, lässt sich im konkreten Fall aber nicht abgrenzen.

Transzendentalphilosophisches Programm

Kant schlägt ein neues Programm für die Metaphysik vor: Statt ein Wissen von Dingen an sich anzustreben, soll die Metaphysik die allgemeinen Strukturen der Erkenntnisvermögen (Sinnlichkeit und Verstand) untersuchen, die die Erkenntnis einzelner Sachverhalte, also Urteile, ermöglichen. Diese allgemeinen Voraussetzungen ("Bedingungen der Möglichkeit") jeder Erkenntnis heißen in Kants Terminologie kurz transzendentale Prinzipien. Dazu gehören:
 die reinen Grundbegriffe unseres Verstandes, die Kategorien (zum Beispiel die Kausalität),
 die Formen unserer sinnlichen Anschauung: die linear-kontinuierliche, gerichtete Zeit als innere Anschauungsform und der euklidische Raum als äußere. Gegenstände der Natur sind in Zeit und Raum, mentale Zustände nur in der Zeit.
 die Ideen unserer Vernunft

Kants zentrale These ist, dass mit den beiden ersten Gruppen der transzendentalen Prinzipien Erkenntnisse begründbar sind, die den besonderen Status von reinen synthetischen Urteilen a priori haben. Diese Grundsätze sind keine Aussagen über die Welt "an sich" mehr, aber notwendige Regeln für die Welt, so wie sie uns erscheint. Synthetische Urteile sind nach Kant solche, deren Wahrheit nicht durch Begriffszergliederung, sondern durch ihre Bedeutung für die allgemeinen Strukturen der Sinnlichkeit erkannt wird. Im Gegensatz dazu wird bei analytischen Urteilen der propositionale Gehalt als Beziehung zwischen Intensionen der beteiligten Begriffe erkannt und ist also wahr dank semantischer Implikation. Kants Unterscheidung von Urteilen "a posteriori" und "a priori" betrifft ihr Verhältnis zur Sinneserfahrung: Wenn der Sachverhalt, der im Urteil erkannt wird, durch Sinneseindrücke vermittelt wird, heißt das Urteil "a posteriori", sonst "a priori". Urteile heißen "rein a priori", wenn sie nicht einmal empirische Begriffe, die aus der Erfahrung stammen, verwenden, sondern nur die Begriffe des Verstandes und Begriffe, die sich auf die reinen Formen der Anschauung beziehen. Kant zufolge haben viele traditionelle metaphysische Thesen, die auch die Ideen der Vernunft miteinbeziehen, den Status möglicher reiner synthetischer Urteile a priori, d. h., wir können uns ihrer Wahrheit nicht sicher sein. Insofern dies aber auch für ihre Negation gilt, können sie weder bestätigt noch widerlegt werden.

Kants Programm einer "Kritik der Vernunft" unterscheidet (der etymologisch ursprüngliche Wortsinn von Kritik) also die möglichen Erkenntnisse, die sich in den Strukturen von Anschauung und Denken bewegen, von unmöglichen, aber traditionell beanspruchten, die diese Grenzen überschreiten.

Historische Entwicklung seit dem 19. Jahrhundert
Die Philosophie des Deutschen Idealismus, die im 19. Jahrhundert tonangebend wurde, übernahm zum Teil Kants Kritik der traditionellen Metaphysik. Die Unentscheidbarkeit transzendenter synthetischer Urteile a priori ermöglichte aber neue Systementwürfe, die diese durch "Setzung" bestimmten. Da unter diese Urteile auch die Existenz des Erkenntnissubjekts als unabhängige Substanz fällt, konnte Kants erkenntnistheoretisches Programm scheinbar ohne Weiteres in neue "Metaphysiken" integriert werden.
Erst mit dem Aufkommen des Positivismus und der Ablehnung des deutschen und britischen Idealismus durch die britischen Philosophen G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell oder etwa den Sensualismus von Ernst Mach kam es auch wieder zu einer Kritik der Metaphysik. Die Linguistische Wende stellte nicht nur die Erkennbarkeit oder Wahrheit, sondern sogar den Sinn der traditionellen wie idealistischen metaphysischen Urteile, sofern diese Transzendentes zum Gegenstand hatten, in Frage. Beim frühen Ludwig Wittgenstein mündeten diese Zweifel im Diktum:

Immerhin billigte Wittgenstein in dieser Phase der Metaphysik den Bereich der individuellen "mystischen" Erfahrung als Reservat zu, diese war seiner Meinung nach aber prinzipiell unkommunizierbar.

Metaphysikkritik des logischen Empirismus
Der Wiener Kreis – eine etwa um 1922 entstandene Diskussionsgruppe um Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Kurt Gödel, Friedrich Waismann, Otto Neurath u. a. – vertrat einen sogenannten logischen Empirismus. Damit war eine methodische Einschränkung der Erkenntnistheorie auf die Analyse logischer Beziehungen einerseits und auf wissenschaftlich verlässliche empirische Erkenntnisweisen andererseits. Alles darüber Hinausgehende war diesem Programm zufolge kein Gegenstand möglichen Wissens; es richtete sich entschieden gegen die Forschungsprogramme des Neukantianismus und des britischen Idealismus. Überhaupt jeder Versuch, Wahrheiten auszumachen, die nicht auf naturwissenschaftliche Beobachtungen und deren Ausdruck, die Beobachtungssätze, reduzierbar waren, wurde vom Wiener Kreis als "metaphysisch" abgelehnt. Ausgangspunkt war ein verifikationistisches Sinnkriterium: Der Sinn eines sprachlichen Ausdrucks wurde mit der Methode, ihn zu verifizieren, gleichgesetzt, d. h. mit den wissenschaftlich bestätigten Verfahren, mittels der wir das Bestehen des entsprechenden Sachverhalts feststellen können.

Rudolf Carnaps Aufsatz Überwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache (1931) zeigt schon im Titel die metaphysikkritische Ausrichtung. Seiner These zufolge sind metaphysische Sätze lediglich Scheinsätze. Gemeint ist: sie besitzen zwar die grammatikalische Form eines sinnvollen Satzes, bringen jedoch keinen möglichen (bestehenden oder nichtbestehenden) Sachverhalt zum Ausdruck – sie können also gar nicht wahr oder falsch sein. Scheinsätze entstehen nach Carnap auf zweierlei Arten: Zum einen dadurch, dass in einem Satz Wörter verwendet werden, die keine Bedeutung besitzen, da die so gebildeten Sätze empirisch nicht überprüfbar seien. Zum anderen entstehe ein Scheinsatz, wenn Wörter miteinander verknüpft werden, die fundamental unterschiedlichen semantischen Kategorien entstammen. So wird in dem Satz "Cäsar ist eine Primzahl" das Wort "Primzahl", das nur auf Zahlen anwendbar ist, auf ein Wort bezogen, das keine Zahl bezeichnet: "Cäsar". Dieser Satz ist somit weder wahr noch falsch, sondern sinnlos. Die Sinnlosigkeit metaphysischer Sätze liegt nun an ihrer von Kant bestimmten Charakteristik: Da sie synthetische Urteile a priori sein sollen, die sich empirischer Erkenntnis generell entziehen, seien sie per se sinnlos. Die Daseinsberechtigung der Metaphysik besteht laut Carnap nur darin, wie die Kunst ein Lebensgefühl zum Ausdruck zu bringen.

Analytische Kritik am logischen Empirismus
Die Dichotomie von analytisch und synthetisch, wie sie Carnap zugrunde legte, hat Willard Van Orman Quine bestritten und Anhängern von Carnaps Position die unkritische Vertretung von zwei Dogmen des Empirismus vorgeworfen: Quine zufolge wird die analytisch-synthetische Unterscheidung von diesen einfach vorausgesetzt, obwohl es nur vage Kriterien für sie gibt. Insofern lässt sich aber auch die Abgrenzung der Metaphysik aus dem Bereich des möglichen Wissens nicht mehr halten. Nach Quine stehen vielmehr alle innerhalb einer Theorie der Welt als wahr ausgezeichneten Sätze, Überzeugungen, in einem holistischen Zusammenhang, insofern sie sich gegenseitig stützen. Carnaps Bestimmung von "analytisch" sei dabei ein Missverständnis der Tatsache, dass in diesem Netzwerk einige Überzeugungen eine wichtigere Rolle spielen, insofern sie viele Sätze stützen, ohne von ihnen gestützt zu werden. Sie erscheinen daher als notwendig und selbstverständlich. Andere Sätze haben nur eine periphere Funktion. Werden sie durch Erfahrung widerlegt, so bedroht das die Gesamtstruktur nicht, insofern auch die Negation eine Funktion im Netzwerk einnehmen kann. Diese Sätze erscheinen daher eher kontingent und synthetisch zu sein. Eine Kritik oder sogar Ablehnung der Metaphysik kann demnach nicht mehr auf Basis der Frage nach dem empirischen Gehalt metaphysischer Sätze gestellt werden, wohl aber, indem ihre Funktion für unsere Überzeugungssysteme untersucht wird.

Die Vertreter der Philosophie der normalen Sprache wiesen den semantischen Unterbau des logischen Empirismus zurück und konnten durch semantische Analysen (Gilbert Ryle) metaphysischen Ausdrücken und Behauptungen wieder eine sprachliche Funktion zuweisen. Allerdings führt diese nicht zu einer Rehabilitation der traditionellen Metaphysik. Peter Strawson setzt an deren Stelle sein Programm einer "deskriptiven Metaphysik", das nicht mehr die Strukturen der Welt erforschen will, sondern die logische Struktur des Denkens, die dem alltäglichen Sprachgebrauch zugrunde liegt.

Auch der kritische Rationalismus von Karl Popper weist das Sinnkriterium des logischen Empirismus zurück und führt stattdessen Falsifizierbarkeit als Kriterium der Abgrenzung von Sätzen der empirischen Wissenschaft von metaphysischen Sätzen ein. Sätze der empirischen Wissenschaft müssen sich Popper zufolge vor allem dadurch auszeichnen, dass sie einen empirischen Gehalt derart haben, dass Erfahrungen vorstellbar sind, die sie widerlegen. Dieser Falsifikationismus schließt damit viele Thesen der traditionellen oder der idealistischen Metaphysik aus dem Bereich der empirischen Wissenschaft aus.

Kontinentalphilosophische Metaphysikkritik

Im Laufe des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts wurde von verschiedenster Seite die methodische Grundanlage traditioneller metaphysischer Erklärungen kritisiert. Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts beispielsweise von Friedrich Nietzsche und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts von Vertretern der Lebensphilosophie, der Existenzphilosophie und des Existenzialismus. In der Ablehnung der Metaphysik zeigt sich eine Parallele zwischen Carnap und Martin Heidegger. Aber auch die frühe und die späte kritische Theorie wandten sich gegen die traditionelle Metaphysik, da sie sie verdächtigten, Ausdruck einer Ideologie der herrschenden Klassen zu sein.

In der Spätmoderne erfolgte eine Kritik vor allem durch Autoren, die üblicherweise dem Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus oder der sog. Postmoderne zugerechnet werden, darunter beispielsweise Michel Foucault, Emmanuel Levinas oder Jacques Derrida, aber auch den Amerikaner Richard Rorty.

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Literatur

Klassiker
 Auguste Comte: Cours de philosophie positive, Paris 1839.
 Rudolf Carnap: Überwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache. In: Erkenntnis 2. 1931, 219–241.
 Immanuel Kant: Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Riga 1781
 Willard Van Orman Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism, Synopse der Originalveröffentlichung (1951) und der Fassung in der Zweiten Ausgabe in From a logical point of view (1961).

Sekundärliteratur
 Myung Hee Guderian: Perspektiven der Metaphysikkritik: Typologie und Analyse metaphysikkritischer Argumente. Mentis-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 3-897-85695-6.
 Panajotis Kondylis: Die neuzeitliche Metaphysikkritik. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1990. Rezension von Christoph Menke
 Ursula Wolf: Warum sich die metaphysischen Fragen nicht beantworten, aber auch nicht überwinden lassen. In: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48. 2000, S. 499–504.
 Rüdiger Safranski: Wieviel Wahrheit braucht der Mensch. Carl Hanser 1990 ISBN 3-596-10977-9
 Adrian Pabst: Metaphysics: the creation of hierarchy. W.B. Eerdmans, 2012

Weblinks

 Lorenz B. Puntel: Metaphysikkritik bei Carnap und Heidegger, München 1997.

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The late delivery of key parts forced Benjamin Leuenburger and the rest of Team Panoz onto the sidelines at Petit Le Mans. However, the team are now aiming to enter the brand new Panoz Abruzzi "Spirit of Le Mans" in the 6 Hours of Zhuhai next month.
"Some parts which were delivered from suppliers just didn't come in time. So in the final stages, the whole schedule came to a halt," says Leuenburger about the team's disrupted preparations. The delays led to the car only being completed the day before the 1000mile race at Road Atlanta, and only arrived at the track on the morning of the race itself – two days too late to enter the event.
However, the car – in race livery – was able to complete a demonstration lap before the start of the race, the car running perfectly from the moment the start button was pressed.
The team now hopes to debut the car at the Chinese Zhuhai track when it hosts the final round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Challenge (ILMC) on November 5-7. But before the car is loaded for the journey Leuenburger will get the chance to test the new car before its first race.
"I just extended my stay in the US for some couple of days," Leuenberger, 28, says. "We will test the new Panoz this week. Immediately after the test, car and parts will be loaded into a container and shipped to China. It's too bad that we couldn't race with the Panoz on home turf at Road Atlanta, especially as there was a record crowd this year of more than 120.000 spectators. But now I'm really looking forward to a successful race debut at Zhuhai."
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David McMahon (born 19 October 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the VFL.

McMahon played on the half forward flank and after being recruited from Preston he made his league debut in 1973. He retired in 1984 with 218 VFL games to his name which puts him at 7th on the all-time list for the now defunct club.

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Study explains 'cocktail party effect' in hearing impairment
New research from OHSU, VA Portland suggests new therapies for people with hearing loss
By Erik Robinson April 21, 2021 Portland, Oregon
Plenty of people struggle to make sense of a multitude of converging voices in a crowded room. Commonly known as the "cocktail party effect," people with hearing loss find it's especially difficult to understand speech in a noisy environment.
New research suggests that, for some listeners, this may have less to do with actually discerning sounds. Instead, it may be a processing problem in which two ears blend different sounds together – a condition known as binaural pitch fusion.
The research, co-authored by scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and VA Portland Health Care System, was published today in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.
The study's lead author attributes these difficulties to abnormally broad binaural pitch fusion in people with hearing impairment. The new study suggests that, for people with hearing impairment, fusing of different sounds from both ears leads to sound blending together in a way that is often unintelligible.
Lina Reiss, Ph.D.
"This differs from what people with normal hearing experience in what is known as the 'cocktail party effect,'" said Lina Reiss, Ph.D., associate professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery in the OHSU School of Medicine. "People with normal hearing can separate and understand the multiple voices, but they just get confused about which voice is saying what."
Reiss, who has hearing impairment herself and is part of the Oregon Hearing Research Center at OHSU, previously co-authored research in 2018 that first demonstrated broad binaural pitch fusion in hearing impairment. Together with another study showing blending of the fused pitches, the research suggested the possibility that similar fusion and blending could occur with sounds in speech.
The new study, co-authored by Michelle Molis, Ph.D., a research investigator with the VA, put the theory to the test.
Researchers with OHSU and the VA's National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research recruited 11 people with normal hearing and 10 with hearing loss. Participants were fitted with headphones in a double-walled, sound-attenuated booth in OHSU's Hatfield Research Center.
Two vowel sounds were played simultaneously through the headphones, with a different vowel sound played to each ear, and with voice pitch varying between male and female voices. Participants were then asked to respond on a touchscreen to identify the specific vowel sounds.
Using statistical analysis, researchers definitively revealed that people with hearing loss experienced abnormal fusion of speech across both ears, even for different voice pitches.
When different vowel sounds were fused, participants heard an entirely new vowel sound. For example, the vowel "ah" (as in "hot") spoken by a female talker would fuse with the vowel "ee" (as in "heed") spoken by a male talker, and be heard as "eh" (as in "head").
"Abnormal binaural fusion may provide a new explanation for the difficulties that hearing-impaired listeners have with understanding speech in multi-talker environments," the authors concluded.
Reiss called it a breakthrough, suggesting the possibility of new therapies to improve the perception of speech among the millions of people worldwide with hearing impairment.
"This suggests more targeted rehabilitation strategies to improve speech perception in noise," she said.
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Deafness and Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health award R01 DC013307 and the VA's National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research award C2361-C.
The contents of the study do not represent the views of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. government.
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Caller I: This is not stopped yet. It is going alongside.
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Caller I: I haven't cut it down yet. Mine is 5.3 and my husband's is 5.1. We both are diabetics.
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Caller II: I have been taking your medicine since April. It reduced a bit in the meanwhile but my glucose level has been increased since last 2 months. I underwent test last year on January 13. At that time, my fasting was 119 and PP was 154. As I notice my trend of last 5 months. When I started oral hypoglycemic, my PP was between 106 and 140 till May 2012. In July, these calmed down to 108 and 176. These were 105 and 169 in August. In September, these became 104 and 149; these were 103 and 143 in October and in December, these reached to 114 and 199. When I compare all my last months' levels, I found that my fasting has been increased but PP is vice-verse.
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Host: One of the familiar ones of mine is on dialysis since he has some disorder in his kidneys. Recently, it was detected about which he was unaware that he is a diabetic also. Now, he has disorder in his multiple organs. Now, the suspicion is if his reversal in Diabetes is possible or not.
Dr. Gaurav Sharma: Well, it is 99 % impossible. If it is addressed earlier then this could be preventive. But at the stage of dialysis, where multiple organs have been failed, no medicine, as Diabetall or Diabetplus, will work wonder. I want to inform my all users that this same thing can happen to you as well. You will not be able to know when your organ was failed, when you were you put on dialysis and when did die. This is an example and a story or a reality to understand. You have to maintain your blood sugar level under control. If you monitor it initially, then we can address it. But if the situation will go out of hand then financial mar as well as trauma will inflict you. These all things will be resolved through simple tests and if your blood sugar level is increased then consult us. We can ensure you not to let your condition go out of your hands from where it would be difficult to save your life.
Host: The problem is that we are unfamiliar with the fact from where the problem is shooting. We are trapped amid people who suggest wrongfully. Ultimately, our end roof has inscription on it as 'Dead end'.
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Post run I fueled up with Honey Stinger Chocolate gel, which is gluten free and delicious!!
I am all packed up and ready to roll with the Millers. We are headed out to a fancy schmancy dinner tonight… I will try to sneak in a few pics of the food. I still have not conquered my fear of looking weird in public like that. We are going to Del Friscos, which is where Aaron said he had the best steak of his life. Believe me, he has had a LOT of steak after working for various agriculture companies… most of the steak were free haha!
Should be a fun night and a great weekend with friends, Aaron's family, and livestock. A good combination.
Thank goodness I won't have the pressure showing... GOOD LUCK GABE!!
Just a side note, my Mom said that Indiana is getting more snow… BRRRR I was upset about the wind slowing us down while running, but I am so thankful not to have the snow to contend with on the roads.
Looking forward to hearing more about our calves and progress back home, I sure do miss my family!
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Paris Hilton wows in blue Louis Vuitton monogrammed bikini on sunny Caribbean honeymoon
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Paris Hilton is enjoying a honeymoon after getting married last month. (Getty Images)
In scenes likely to make many jealous, Paris Hilton is soaking up the sunshine on an exotic honeymoon trip to the Caribbean.
The TV star, 40, showed off a striking blue Louis Vuitton bikini as she enjoyed a holiday to a private island with her new husband Carter Reum.
In a post on Instagram, she could be seen posing in the monogrammed two-piece, which she accessorised with a blue sarong around her waist and white cat-eye sunglasses, in front of a tropical backdrop.
Captioning a series of shots, she wrote: "In paradise. My inner Aquarius can't get enough of this private island the ocean and this tropical oasis."
Hilton's post has been 'liked' more than 216,000 times, with many social media users wishing her the best post-wedding trip.
Her entrepreneur other half, also 40, shared a string of flame emojis, while her mother Kathy Hilton commented with a row of heart-eye face emojis.
Others called the newlywed "stunning" and "beautiful", while another told her "that colour blue on you is my all time fave".
The couple are staying on Richard Branson's Moskito Island, which has 125,000 acres.
It comes after Hilton revealed the iconic inspiration behind the stunning lace wedding dress she recently wore down the aisle.
In a post on Instagram, she revealed that the bridal-wear worn by Hollywood star Grace Kelly was the reference for her own white Oscar de le Renta gown.
Captioning a picture of the custom design, she wrote: "Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamt of my fairy tale wedding.
"I dreamt of being in a stunning gown that was beautiful, timeless and chic. I dreamt of marrying a man who was my best friend and had the sweetest, kindest heart.
"I loved Princess Grace Kelly and always thought about how she was so elegant and iconic, and I knew I wanted to be elegant like her when I walked down the aisle."
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Griffith: The Glory of Ancient Greece
By: Hugh Griffith
Narrated by: Benjamin Soames
Categories: Children, Ages 8-10
Editor reviews
Starting with familiar tales of Prometheus and Odysseus and ending with Alexander the Great, Hugh Griffith gives listeners a quick tour of Ancient Greece. British narrator Benjamin Soames takes the history seriously while making the examples and comparisons in Griffith's writing fun. Those examples - such as describing a Spartan camp as "a kind of Scout troop" - show that this history is aimed at a young audience, but it's done well enough for a family road trip as well. As an introduction to Greek history, it's a good one, covering a lot of ground quickly and even taking a moment to consider the historical basis of the myths.
The glory of ancient Greece is all around us, even in the 21st century, because Greece was the cradle of Western civilisation. We know about the gods and their characters - Zeus, Athene, Apollo, Ares, Aphrodite - and their heroes, both legendary (Heracles) and historical (Alexander the Great). Architecture, mathematics, politics, philosophy, observation of nature and the cosmos, and much more emerged in ancient Greece. Hugh Griffith's entertaining and informative account of the people and the history places it all in perspective. An outstanding introduction for younger listeners.
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This 5-star property offers access to a business centre and a limo/town car service. This luxury hotel also offers a kid's pool, a fitness centre and a sauna. Parking is available on-site at a surcharge. A total renovation of this property was completed in September 2017.
JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur is a smoke-free property.
Located in Bukit Bintang, this luxury hotel is steps away from Starhill Gallery and Pavilion Kuala Lumpur. Lot 10 Shopping Centre and Jalan Alor are also within 10 minutes. Bukit Bintang Station is 7 minutes by foot and Raja Chulan Station is 13 minutes.
4 restaurants, a full-service spa and an outdoor pool are available at this smoke-free hotel. WiFi in public areas is free. Additionally, a fitness centre, a bar/lounge and a poolside bar are on-site.
All 578 rooms feature thoughtful touches such as bathrobes and slippers, plus complimentary wireless Internet access and LCD TVs with satellite channels. Other amenities available to guests include 24-hour room service, minibars and premium bedding.
JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur offers 578 forms of air-conditioned accommodation with minibars and a safe. Beds feature premium bedding. LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Rooms have partially open bathrooms. Bathrooms include a separate bath and shower, a complimentary bathrobe, complimentary slippers and complimentary toiletries. This Kuala Lumpur hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers and telephones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottles of water and coffee/tea makers. Housekeeping is provided on a daily basis.
JW Marriott Kuala Lumpur has 4 restaurants on site.
Starhill Spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include facials, body wraps, body scrubs and manicures and pedicures. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub and a steam room.


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DH, NHS England and NSPCC join forces to fight FGM
The Department of Health, NHS England and the NSPCC have joined forces to support more frontline health practitioners to seek the information and support they need to tackle female genital mutilation (FGM).
The HSCIC reported that 3,963 newly identified cases of FGM were reported nationally between September 2014 and March 2015. The three organisations want to ensure that all frontline health professionals are confident about the appropriate action and feel supported to take action to prevent this abuse from taking place and support victims.
Commenting on the new initiative Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said: "We must do all we can to help NHS staff protect girls and care for women who have suffered FGM.
"We know doctors and nurses want expert and timely advice when dealing with this important issue. This helpline will support our front line professionals in the critical role they play in the fight to end FGM in a generation."
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The NSPCC's FGM helpline practitioners have received new training, supported by the Department of Health from FGM specialist midwives as part of the Department of Health's national FGM Prevention Programme aimed at supporting health professionals to care, protect and prevent FGM.
The initiative has been developed to provide health professionals who are directly working with women and girls that may be at risk or have been victims of FGM, with a dedicated 24/7 team of advisors who can discuss the often complex circumstances surrounding cases of FGM.
Vanessa Lodge, NHS England Director of Nursing (North, Central and East London) and Chair of the national FGM steering group for NHS England added: "This is a great step forward in protecting women at risk of FGM. By calling the helpline, doctors and nurses can talk through their concerns, clarify risks and seek advice on taking appropriate action to protect the women and girls at risk. NHS England, the NSPCC and the Department of Health are working hard to help healthcare professionals reach victims of this terrible scourge."
Since launching at the end of June 2013, the helpline has received nearly 700 contacts from the public and professionals with concerns about FGM.
If you are uncertain about what to do in relation to a suspected Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) case - the NSPCC FGM helpline (0800 028 3550 / fgmhelp@nspcc.org.uk) can provide you with advice and support.
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