Swarming across IIo and Tarchannenalt, kobolds are, quite literally, a plague on the planet. Formed from the demonic taint left on acient dragons, these small reptilian-like creatures hold the potential to be much more than the parasitical bottom-feeders of other civilizations; yet, their matriarchal society has made little progress in the four billion years since their creation.
Kobolds appear to be small bipedal reptilian creatures. They are usually of slight build, but possess a wiry strength belying their size and appearance. They have many bony ridges and can grow horns as they age. Kobolds can be different colors ranging from dark orange to ruddy brown to burgundy, but their colors seem to be independent of genetics. They regularly grow to over three feet in height, but rarely grow past four, and are typically between 60 and 90 pounds. Most kobolds possess a small tail between one and two feet in length. Kobolds have a high mortality rate, so most do not live to maturity and even fewer live to old age. As such, it is not known when kobolds die of old age. Some scholars suspect that, due to their mixed heritage, kobolds may not have a maximum age.
Kobolds prefer leather clothing and regularly utilize armor and weapons such as clubs, maces, and spears. They rarely live in anything other than shacks and dens.
Kobolds are scavengers, and live at the lowest levels of aviadin and lizardfolk societies. They scavenge tools, equipment, and food as best they can, and are considered no better than pests. Their hordes come before and after the armies of the lizardfolk and aviadins. They swarm over everything in their path, stealing and eating anything they can get their claws on.
Kobolds are organized into swarms, but when they live autonomous from other species, they regulate their breeding and form small stationary communities. These are typically matriarchal in form, but both males and females have a say. When a community believes itself to be threatened, the breeding rates rise exponentially to form a swarm. Kobolds believe that the only defense is to eat your enemies before they have a chance to slay you. As long as a kobold matriarch lives, thousands of kobolds will throw themselves in front to die willingly with no loss of morale. When a matriarch dies, the title is passed to the next highest ranking female and so on.
Kobolds found away from their matriarchs are typically rebels and brigands that want their own freedom to live and die. These kobolds have a reputation for being craven, but they are usually more intelligent and capable. Occasionally, these rebel kobolds will band together to form small communities on their own, but more often they will seek solace in the sewers and alleyways of other civilizations.
Kobolds crave the flesh of other creatures, but this is beyond dependency when it comes to the possibility of draconic or demonic blood and meat. Kobolds experience a type of withdrawal whenever they sense the presence of aether or nether magicks. Their ability to think rationally becomes severely hindered and their desire for the magick overwhelms any other concern. Instead of becoming weakened, their strength increases along with their need for the magick contained within the flesh of dragons and demons.
Kobolds mate frequently and with many partners. The females seem to have some control over when they will lay eggs, and so unwanted children are not a possibility. The matriarch of a kobold community may allow or disallow pairs of kobolds to have children based on the circumstances and needs of the community at large. Any kobolds disobeying her orders are typically put to death and eaten along with the eggs or children. Kobolds lay between eight and fourteen eggs at a time, with usual clutches being around ten. After laying, it takes five to six weeks for the kobolds to hatch from their eggs. The eggs are six to eight inches long, and weigh no more than two pounds. Kobold youth appear as miniature versions of their parents, and are able to scamper along on two legs shortly after birth. Kobolds grow quickly after that, reaching their full height by ten years of age.
Kobolds speak their own language, which they call kobold, but that seems to have its roots in spoken draconic. Kobolds typically also speak one or more dialects of Saurian to communicate with lizardfolk and/or aviadins. Communities of kobolds away from lizardfolk and aviadins regularly learn the languages of their neighbors.
Kobolds are most commonly found in swamps, marshes, highlands, and arid desert regions, nearly always close to a community of lizardfolk or aviadins. When encountered alone, kobolds prefer to inhabit dark dens where they can use their small size and greater numbers to devastating effect. As such, independent kobold communities are most often found in Tarchannenalt. Their communities always have dozens of tunnels with even more intersections between them leading up to their main living quarters. These tunnels allow them to engage swarming tactics on any that enter.
Kobolds have no over-arching civilization, although many matriarchs have attempted to form them in the depths of Tarchannenalt in ages past. They are regularly connected to other civilizations in a parasitical manner; most commonly lizardfolk and aviadins.
The technology of kobolds is nearly always stolen, and only their autonomous communities even bother with attempting to manufacture products. Kobolds living a parasitical existence within another civilization steal, beg, and find other means to procure what they need.
Kobolds are not known to possess any inherent magicks; however, kobolds are highly proficient at learning universal magicks, and the matriarchs nearly always learn witchcraft, alchemy or some other form of non-racial magick.
They have the natural ability of darkvision and the ability to prevent pregnancy in themselves. Similar to goblins, kobolds are able to gain power from eating the hearts of creatures affected by the Culling, however this increase in power is not anywhere near as dramatic as it is when goblins perform the same action. However, unique to kobolds, is the ability to gain power from cannibalizing any aether or nether creature, including dragons and demons. Many scholars believe that this hints at massive reserves of untapped magickal potential in the kobold race as a whole.
Shortly after the formation of the multiverse and the beginning of life on IIo, dragons discovered a deadly disease preying on their kind. The then god-like dragons were able to trace its origins back to their ancient enemy whose destruction was caused by the formation of the multiverse. The demonic residue of that ancient enemy plagued their race and caused many of the dragon-gods to fall. The dragons did what they could, but much like their ancient enemy, they could not eradicate the plague without destroying the host--when that cost was their home universe, they gladly paid it, but now that the cost was the life of a dragon, they could not.
Still, as the most powerful and wisest life-form in the multiverse, the seemingly immortal dragon-gods arrived at a solution. While they could not eradicate the disease, they could exorcise it. And so the dragon-gods banished from their bodies any trace of their former enemy. In so doing, the residue took from them a memory of its former host. Thus, the kobolds came into existence.
Born from draconic blood and demonic essence, the kobolds had all of the genetics and background to become one of the most powerful races of creatures in the multiverse. Luckily for the multiverse, their history has been one of subjugation and defeat. It goes without saying that wherever the dragons encountered their unholy progeny, they stamped them out. When the saurians came into existence and the dragons were Lessened once more, the kobolds began to carve out their own niches on prehistoric IIo.
Still, they were always considered a pest, and the kobolds could never reach an accord with either the dragons or the saurians. From the latter, the best they could hope for was to be ignored. Thus the kobolds began to dig deep into the earth. This made the kobolds one of the first races to settle Tarchannenalt--the World Below.
When dwarves began awakening in the depths of the earth, it was with great prejudice that they carved out their own kingdoms from kobold-controlled land. Again, the kobolds were pushed to the brink of extinction.
Nevertheless, the kobold race was nothing if not resilient. Traces of ancient kobold civilizations can be found, both aboveground and below, all the way up through the elven conquest of IIo and to the Seal of the Seven Archmagi of the Humes that banished most of magick from IIo for 20000 years. It was then that any kobold unaware of their magickal heritage became painfully knowledgeable of the magicks. A mixture between demonic and draconic magicks, their magick, and as a consequence their species, was unable to exist in IIo post-Seal.
Luckily, kobolds continued to exist in the many subRealms of IIo--pocket dimensions formed by the Seal to compensate for magicks too powerful to cancel. Kobolds lived and thrived in some of these tiny worlds, and were exterminated in others.
With the Sundering, kobolds once more journeyed into Tarchannenalt and IIo proper. Again greeted as pests, they found in the newly created aviadins kindred spirits, and gladly settled into a parasitic relationship with cities of creatures too busy and important to deal with the small kobolds.
Kobolds are remarkably free of demonic corruption and influence. Their legends and beliefs more closely resemble any people long oppressed. They have many heroes that they believe once led them to glory and will someday rise up to lead them into the spotlight again. Kobolds aware of their demonic heritage still do not practice demon worship, instead choosing to utilize whatever powers they can glean from their heritage to acquire more power for themselves--perhaps enough to become a hero.
Kobolds inhabiting the sewers of other races frequently join cults and subversive religions present within those religions. With humes, this is usually through cults dedicated to the Nemesis or to Plague. Perhaps surprisingly, kobolds within communities of lizardfolk and aviadins rarely believe the propaganda of the aviadins; kobolds feed on the dead of aviadins as freely as they do lizardfolk.
Dragons have long forgotten their relationship with the kobolds, but they can detect the remnant of draconic magick and demonic residue within individual kobolds. This knowledge is on a subconscious/intuitive level more than not, and so dragons will find they are (perhaps unfairly) prejudiced against kobolds.
Kobolds rarely find they are able to coexist with any creature containing aether magick, as they are usually unable to control their cravings to consume the flesh and magicks of these creatures. Kobolds are not compelled to consume creatures capable of nether magicks, but once a kobold realizes how powerful they can become eating others, rarely will a kobold make peace.
Kobolds are often found to be friends with goblins, but goblins do possess a fraction of nether energy, and so kobolds are just as often found to be eating goblins.
Kobolds are terrible foes when they are in a position of strength. Luckily, individual kobolds are nearly always weaker than those they meet and can be dealt with fairly. As long as a kobold population is not strong enough to easily overwhelm others, they will usually seek peace. If it is more profitable for kobolds to maintain peace than war, then they will do so. This explains why kobolds do not overrun lizardfolk communities after the regular purging of lizardfolk adults.
Kobolds are somewhat related to both dragons and demons, a fact that allows them to use certain artefacts of those races.
Kobolds remain remarkably unchanged over the millennia since their creation/expulsion, and possess no genetic differences from the first kobolds.
Kobold males are almost always some type of fighter, while females are more likely to learn abilities of universal magick-users.


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Book Review: Rebel by Marie Lu (Legend series, Book #4)
January 8, 2020 by Geetanshi
Rating: ❤ ❤ ❤
Format: Physical book
Release date: 10.1.2019
Ah, time to review my most anticipated release of 2019, and the fourth book in my favorite YA dystopian/sci-fi series of all time. I vividly remember the day I found out Marie Lu was releasing a new addition to the series–almost seven years after it had "ended" (or so I thought). I was working in a library with a friend over the summer, and I somehow came across the news online. I was frozen in shock for about 30 seconds, and then started completely freaking out. The book was pre-ordered in the next five minutes, after I sent a frantic slew of text messages to my YA book besties of course. I wasn't sure how to feel about the news of a fourth book because I had come to terms with the series' ending almost seven years ago. On the one hand, the ending had been frustratingly mysterious (if you've read Champion, you know what I'm talking about). On the other, that aspect had made it heartbreaking-ly beautiful and hopeful; full of potential and possibilities, and I wasn't sure if I wanted to be disappointed if the characters didn't get the ending I imagined.
Rebel, the fourth and final book in the Legend series, is set about a decade after the ending of Champion and follows Day and his younger brother Eden in their lives in Ross City, Antarctica.
Eden Wing has been living in his brother's shadow for years. Even though he's a top student at his academy in Ross City, Antarctica, and a brilliant inventor, most people know him only as Daniel Wing's little brother.
A decade ago, Daniel was known as Day, the boy from the streets who led a revolution that saved the Republic of America. But Day is no longer the same young man who was once a national hero. These days he'd rather hide out from the world and leave his past behind. All that matters to him now is keeping Eden safe―even if that also means giving up June, the great love of Daniel's life.
As the two brothers struggle to accept who they've each become since their time in the Republic, a new danger creeps into the distance that's grown between them. Eden soon finds himself drawn so far into Ross City's dark side, even his legendary brother can't save him. At least not on his own . . . "
Rebel by Marie Lu
Learning more about Eden! I absolutely loved Eden's character in the original trilogy and it was really great to get to know him better in this book, especially as half of it was told through his viewpoint. I think Lu did a great job of capturing his emotions and struggles, especially how it would feel like to be in his position as the younger brother of a national hero. He stayed true to the younger Eden we knew and loved, but there was so much depth to his character–like the way he was drawn towards Dominac Hann– that made him so interesting to learn more about.
If you have to sell your soul in your quest to make things better," I say through gritted teeth, "then you'll never succeed."
The sibling relationship between Day and Eden. Eden was one of Day's primary motivations in Champion, and throughout the entire original trilogy. It was great to see how their relationship had developed from both of their perspectives when we've previously only been used to one. Moreover, Lu actually delved into the complexities of their relationship and I thought Day and Eden's struggles in particular were a great reminder of how blinded we can become when we get so caught up in our own feelings and perspectives.
The absence of June's POV. I loved having both Day and Eden's point of views, but something felt missing without June's. It just didn't feel like the Legend series without her viewpoint, and it was strange reading about her developing relationship with Day only from his perspective. I understand that most of her character arc had wrapped up by the end of Champion while Day's was left ambiguous, but everyone changes over time, and I felt like I didn't really know the June in this book. As a result, I wasn't really able to get the closure this book was intended to give, and I feel more discontent after having finished it than I was after Champion.
"I've looked over my shoulder for a decade,' I whisper, 'wondering what it was that was missing in my life. Turns out, all this time, it was you."
I'm not sure how I feel about…
The plot. Lu introduced a whole new world with new problems, and a single book wasn't really enough to let us get to know it enough to feel truly connected to it. I loved all of the ideas, and I think that Ross City and its problems had the potential to have its own complex arc, but beginning and ending the struggle to solve those problems in a single book made it seem less important and almost trivial. Everything in the second half of the book felt very rushed to me, and it felt like the heroes didn't have to struggle all that much to defeat the big bad. At the same time though, I think with the time that she was given, Marie Lu still wrote a captivating story with enough nuance and creativity to make it truly unique.
The cover. I'm really conflicted about this one. On the one hand, it's beautiful. On the other, it partakes in one of my least favorite schemes – when one book in the series doesn't follow the same theme as the others.
Overall, Rebel was a pretty good book, but I don't really know if it added anything to the Legend series other than letting us get to know Eden a bit better. It did provide us some closure as to where Day and June end up, but I don't know that I needed that after the aforementioned beautiful ending of Champion. It was almost more fun to imagine where that closing moment would have taken them than to be given a definite ending. I did, however, enjoy many aspects of this book, such as some of the new characters that were introduced (Pressa!!) and the exploration of the Ross City points system, even if that was partially explored in Lu's other series Warcross.
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Here we present digest on IDPs and conflict affected persons for October prepared by R2P. This digest has been produced with the assistance of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in the frame of the project Advocacy, Protection and Legal Assistance to the Internally Displaced Population.
The demand for legal assistance from R2P with pensions is increasing, constituting 90% of all secondary legal assistance cases in October.
After the Supreme Court ruled favorably in R2P's model case, the courts of lower instances resumed consideration of pension cases. The number of court cases has substantially increased, from 20-30 cases per month in the summer time to 99 in October, as a result.
Under Cabinet of Ministers (CMU) Resolution 795, persons who did not update their passport photos within a month of turning 25 or 45 must now obtain ID cards, which is more complicated (mainly, because it is time consuming).
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The history of King's exists in more than just College lore. Welcome to the University Archives.
The University Archives, located in the Library & Archives Building, is the depository for inactive records of the University that have permanent administrative, legal, financial or historical value. Researchers may place requests for material at any time, but materials may be consulted only while Archives staff are on duty.
In addition to records created by the University's administrative bodies, the Archives contains a variety of other holdings relating to the history of the University. These include a significant collection of photographs and several student publications, such as The Ancient Commoner (1965-1988); The Watch (the monthly student news magazine, published since 1989); Babel, published by the Early Modern Studies Society since 2002; and HINGE, a contemporary studies journal.
Finding aids for the following collections of archival records are available at the Library's Reference desk:
Alumni Association of the University of King's College fonds (1845-2008)
Andrew Doane Merkel correspondence (1900-1953)
King's Students' Union fonds, including student societies (1890-2008)
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Minnesota Twins vs Toronto Blue Jays – 8-6-15 – MLB
Posted By FanPicks Staff on August 6, 2015
It will be the fourth and final game of the series between the Minnesota Twins and Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night. MLB draft managers can check out the results of their fantasy picks on August 6th at 7PM Eastern Time over MLB Network.
The Twins dropped the first two games of this series as they sit 54-52 entering play on Wednesday. The bats have been cold as the offense has pushed across just seven runs total in their past five games. As they took the field on Wednesday Minnesota has lost three straight and eight of ten games. The team may have overachieved early and falling back to their season numbers. They rank in the lower third of baseball offensively in team batting average and home runs. The Twins pitching staff sits in the lower third for WHIP and strike outs and are 19th in Team ERA.
Toronto has won three straight and six of seven games after their 3-1 win to Minnesota on Tuesday. They have been an outstanding offensive club sitting first in runs scored (5.27 per game), fifth in team batting (2.63) and third in MLB in homers (147). What has kept the team near or below .500 for much of the season has been the pitching staff. Toronto was busy at the trading deadline by acquiring David Price a much needed arm and getting shortstop Troy Tulowitzki from the Colorado Rockies.
Minnesota Twins 1B: Joe Mauer is hitting .266 with six homers and 44 RBIs. He is sitting on a 3 for 25 slump over the past 7 days.
Minnesota Twins 3B: Trevor Plouffe is slumping going 2 for 14 over his past seven days. His average has dipped to .253 with 14 homers and 55 RBIs.
Minnesota Twins 2B: Brian Dozier is among the slumping Twins hitters as he is 5 for 28 over his past seven days. Season to date Dozier is batting .250 with 23 homers and 57 RBIs.
Minnesota Twins RF: Torii Hunter is just 2 for his past 19 over his past seven days as the top hitters from the Twins are bad right now. On the year Hunter is batting .247 with 17 homers and 57 RBIs.
Minnesota Twins LF: Eddie Rosario is 1 for 12 in August. His average is .281 with five homers and 24 RBIs.
Minnesota Twins CF: Aaron Hicks joins the ranks of the slumping batters for Minnesota with a 1 for 15 in the month of August. On the season Hicks is hitting .278 with five homers and 18 RBIs.
Minnesota Twins P: Kyle Gibson has pitched well for Minnesota with a record of 8-8 with an ERA of 3.37. His last start was on August 1st as Gibson held Seattle to two earned runs and six hits in seven innings in a home victory.
Toronto Blue Jays 3B: Josh Donaldson has played well since coming over from the Oakland Athletics. Donaldson is batting .293 with 28 homers and 78 RBIs. He is batting .379 over his past seven days with four homers.
Toronto Blue Jays CF: Kevin Pillar is battling a 1 for 13 slump in the month of August. Pillar is batting .266 for the year with seven homers and 39 RBIs.
Toronto Blue Jays C: Russell Martin is batting .257 on the season with 15 homers and 49 RBIs.
Toronto Blue Jays SS: Newly acquired Troy Tulowitzki in his time with Toronto since being traded by Colorado is batting .276 with two homers and six RBIs. He has hits in five of the seven games with the Blue Jays.
Toronto Blue Jays 1B: Edwin Encarnacion has put up some power numbers with 19 homers and 57 RBIs season to date. He is red hot batting .412 over his past seven days.
Toronto Blue Jays RF: Jose Bautista has slugged 23 homers and driven in 71 RBIs on the year. He has a high 66 strikeout number so his batting average is .234.
Toronto Blue Jays P: The 15 year veteran Mark Buehrle is 11-5 with an ERA of 3.32 and WHIP of 1.17. He has held his past ten opponents to three earned runs or fewer.
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P: Mark Buehrle (Blue Jays)
3B: Josh Donaldson (Blue Jays)
C: Russell Martin (Blue Jays)
SS: Troy Tulowitzki (Blue Jays)
1B: Edwin Encarnacion (Blue Jays)
RF: Jose Bautista (Blue Jays)
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The Russian authorities have destroyed 1.6 tonnes of food brought into the country via Latvia by the BMW Motorsport DTM team.
The food was set to be used by the team for staff and guests during the Russian round of the 2015 DTM championship, which will take place at the Moscow Raceway over the weekend of August 28 - 30.
According to the Russian Agricultural Safety watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, BMW Motorsport brought in 836 kilograms of fruit and vegetables.
It also accused the Munich-based manufacturer of smuggling.
"The attempt to smuggle the goods of high sanitary risk has been averted," Rosselkhoznadzor said in an online statement. "Fruit and vegetables were confiscated, and destroyed in line with Russia's legislation".
Moreover, the Russian authorities stripped BMW's eight DTM drivers of 1,600 kilos of food intended for personal consumption, after they failed to show the correct documents regarding imported food.
Russia and two other members of the Moscow-led Customs Union (Belarus and Kazakhstan) introduced the mandatory certification agricultural imports in June 2010.
"BMW's DTM drivers always bring their own food with them," Alexander Kabanovsky, the editor of Motorsport.com told the TASS news agency.
In July 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of all food imported from countries, which have introduced sanctions on Moscow as a result of Russia's involvement in the conflict in Eastern Ukraine .
The first batch of the food was destroyed on August 6 to public outcry in Russia.
Over 250,000 Internet users fruitlessly petitioned Kremlin to re-distribute the food to orphanages and other social-support facilities.
The head of BMW Motorsport's communication department, Jörg Kottmeier, told Russia's RIA-Novosti news agency the destruction of the food will not affect the outfit during this weekend's race.


The Big Bang Theory has had an ongoing mystery about one of its characters since episode one, and the producers plan to leave it unsolved when the show ends its run.
Although we've met both of Penny's parents, as well as her frequently incarcerated bother, the topic of her last name has simply never come up in the series itself. It hasn't been a plot point inside the world of the show at all, and is just something the fans picked up on years ago. As mysteries to be left with when a show ends, it could have been way worse.
The next episode to air will be episode 1218, "The Laureate Accumulation," and will air Thursday, April 4.


It's a number that makes average Americans wince and incumbent presidents reach for the Xanax: The average national price of a gallon of gas is $3.87, just 24 cents below its all-time high. A recent McClatchy-Marist poll found that three-quarters of Americans believe higher gas prices put "a moderate or great deal of strain on their family budget." And you don't have to pay more than cursory attention to the presidential campaign to see that Republicans are convinced that pain at the pump equals pain for the White House.
As one might assume after a year of rising gas prices, Americans are driving fewer miles and consuming less gasoline. Historically speaking, that kind of trend line is bad news, sending economy-watchers scrambling to sound the recession klaxon warning bell. Americans are generally unwilling or unable to cut back on their car-centered lifestyles, so when they do, it usually means that they have no other choice, because the economy is cratering.
But there's a mystery here, because the economy is not cratering (at least not yet). Thursday's release of the final government estimate for the rate of economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2011 held steady at a reasonably healthy 3 percent (and a look inside the numbers is unexpectedly even more encouraging). The economy has added almost three-quarters of a million jobs in the last three months, and jobless claim numbers for March, which continue to average at a four-year low, suggest another good labor report waits in the wings next week.
Americans are driving as if every freeway exit ramp leads straight into recession, but the available data on the overall economy practically qualify as rosy. From the White House to your wallet, brows are furrowed. The normal rules of economic reality don't get repealed all that often. What's going on?
The answer is complicated and tentative. Numerous factors are in play. They include higher fuel efficiency, thrifty habits inculcated during the Great Recession and demographic changes (for example, fewer baby boomers toting their kids to and from school). But there's also a potential wild card. Young people aren't driving anywhere near as much as previous generations did.
And why should they? If you've got a smartphone and a Facebook account, who needs to leave home?
If there is anything economists think they know about gasoline demand today, it's that it's supposed to be "inelastic," a characteristic that differentiates it from demand for typical goods and services. Normally, if the price of something goes up, demand falls -- that's the definition of "elasticity," in econo-speak. But that's not true for gasoline, for reasons that have always seemed obvious: No matter what the price, Americans still need to get to work, pick up their kids from school, go to the grocery store and so on.
It wasn't always this way. Back in the days of the big oil shocks of the 1970s, there was still a lot of slack in the system. Americans reacted to huge price hikes by dramatically changing their consumption habits. But over recent decades, as documented by three researchers at the University of California at Davis in a paper released last year, the pattern started to change. There has been less and less room to maneuver.
The authors cited several reasons for the lack of flexibility, including the rise of suburban development and the decline in availability of public transport. But whatever the ultimate explanation, the conclusion was firm: "Today's consumers have not significantly altered their driving behavior in response to higher gasoline prices."
A year later, the equation seems different. Americans are driving fewer miles and consuming much less gas. In 2011, Americans drove around 34 billion fewer miles than in 2010. In January, the four-week average for U.S. gasoline consumption fell to its lowest point since the immediate aftermath of 9/11. In March, a MasterCard study reported that in the most recent 52-week period, "U.S. gasoline consumption dropped by 4.2 billion gallons, or 3 percent, vs. the previous one-year period."
Improvement in fuel economy explains some of the shift. Over the last four years, the average fuel efficiency of the American auto fleet has risen almost four miles per gallon. But that doesn't explain the change in miles driven.
Could it be that young people -- especially those so-called millennials -- just don't like to drive?
We know that Americans under 40 are driving much less than their older cohorts, according to data from the National Household Travel Survey. But the younger we are, the more pronounced our disdain becomes. The New York Times reported last week some very interesting numbers, and posited a provocative explanation.
In 2008, 46.3 percent of potential drivers 19 years old and younger had driver's licenses, compared with 64.4 percent in 1998, according to the Federal Highway Administration, and drivers ages 21 to 30 drove 12 percent fewer miles in 2009 than they did in 1995.
Never mind gas prices! The Internet has already reshaped the music business and is strangling print publications by the throat. Now it's going after the automobile?
According to Mike Cooperman, director of marketing for Power's web intelligence division, "The most interesting conclusion we came to is that millennials don't talk about cars the way previous generations did. It used to be that when you turned 16 you went down to the DMV and got your license, but young people care more about their cell phones than they do their cars."
Part of the reason for this, Cooperman said, is that young people use Facebook, Twitter and IM messages to stay in touch, so physical proximity doesn't matter as much as it used to. Cell phones and PDAs mean that everyone they know is connected. "Teens feel less of a need to physically congregate," the study says, "and less of a need for a mode of transportation."
We can throw other factors into the mix too. So-called millennials may be more concerned with the environment and the threat of destructive climate change. They also may be more willing to experiment with car-sharing services. And in general, consumers of all ages are choosing to buy products online rather than at the mall.
I asked Dan Sperling, one of the authors of the U.C. Davis report on gasoline demand inelasticity, whether new data contravened the thesis he and his co-authors had put forth. He wasn't convinced, but he did acknowledge that the demographic changes are significant -- including those visible in his own home.
"My anecdotal impressions about young people's behavior (including my 21-year-old daughter) -- smartphones and social media having more status than cars -- is supported by the aggregate data on their driver's licenses and car ownership," said Sperling.
So what does this mean for the overall health of the U.S. economy? Maybe, just maybe, we can worry a little less about high gas prices stabbing a dagger in the heart of the ongoing recovery. There are fundamental changes occurring in the decades-long love affair between Americans and their cars, and millennials are leading the way. If that reduces our dependence on foreign oil and cuts back on greenhouse gas emissions, all the better.


"I am not making any film with Shah Rukh" : Farhan Akhtar.
Recently, the news was that Farhan Akhtar was doing Don 3. Not only this news, it was confirmed that in Don 3, Farhan Akhtar will be seen in the role of a policeman. The fans were very excited. Now Farhan himself has tweeted this news as a liar.
Farhan did not make such reports even without confirmation from the media. It binds the Forcibly with hope and it is wrong. I am not making any such film which is being talked about.
Request those who conjure up news about #Don3 without any fact checking to please refrain. It is not fair to raise expectations of the films fanbase via false news.
Not only was Don 3 discussed. In the discussion of the role of Farhan Akhtar, the release date of the film was also set in 2020. However, the situation of Don 3 is always frustrating. In December of last year, the film had completed 6 years, and on this occasion, the director of Excel Entertainment, Riteish Sidhwani, admitted that the film is under construction.
Farhan and his friend Ritesh Sidhwani's production house acquire the rights of the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Don (1978). Farhan and Ritesh's production house made two successful films both starring Shah Rukh Khan in the lead role, Farhan directed both the films.


This year we have presented 'The Grange' with two art works created in collaboration with the Grange Park community and members of the 'Art of Recovery' group. The art works include photos of over 100 individuals from the Grange Park area and from the Art of Recovery groups . Community members from Grange Park and people from the recovery community allowed us to take photographs to add to the final piece. We also received a number of super photographic images for inclusion, taken by Donna Hannigan. The 'Freedom Clock' art work is now complete and up on the wall, next to the first.
'Life is like one big clock Keep on thinking happy thoughts Tick tock: tick tock'.
for including us in this beautiful catalogue commemorating the 'Marking the Martyrs' parade last year. We participated in the celebration of 'Votes for Women' along with our friends the Revoe-lution choir.
Going forward in to 2019 we continue to work with Horizon Blackpool, Blackpool Gorton St Hostel, the Revoe and Central community, Urban Arts Studio St Annes, and the Grange – Grange Park community.
have agreed to continue funding our creative activities -art project 'Onward and Upwards' with Blackpool Gorton Street hostel residents.
We look forward to working in partnership with them 2019.
I'm really in to art….I used to do arty stuff with the kids when I worked as a nursery assistant .. it was my favourite thing to do with them'.
Our last artwork for 2018 completed in December 2018 for 'The Grange' working in collaboration with art group, local, and the art of recovery community. on behalf of Horizon Blackpool.
Thank you to everyone who participated and a Happy New Year.
We are currently working with people in Blackpool as part of our Art Buddies Project.
The project aims to support people who may be socially isolated to get involved creatively in their communities. We take creative activities to people who may not have the opportunity to get involved with the arts due to personal circumstance or ill health. The project is funded by BCH.
In November we began work with the art group at the Grange, Grange Park to produce a bespoke artwork that reflects the memories and images of people of Grange Park. We are working with the group for 6 weeks until 14th December.
We were at Highfield Park today creating art works for the park with the community and Friends of Highfield Park volunteers.
On Saturday 18th August at the Revoe Fun Day we are delivered creative activities to young people and families from the Central area of Blackpool.
We have been spray painting these portraits on the Recovery Tram: working with Blackpool Horizon Art Club to produce stencil based art work using photographs of participants.
We also worked with the group to produce spray paint designs on the Horizon tram ready for the pride walk 12th June 2018.
In May we volunteered at the stone carving workshops in St Annes, organised by St Annes in Bloom.
Anthony Lysycia the stone carver at work on one of the stone pieces.
With the community in Revoe and the Art Club Hand Made Un's we created two new poster for the front of the King Edward Cinema. Project commissioned by Blackpools' Healthy Living and Creative Design Officer.
Revoe Community Choir participated in the 'Marking the Martyrs' parade on Saturday 2nd June.
Banner made with 'Hand Made Un's' art club and Boz Phillips.
Supporting Blackpools' longest established artists group: Blott Artist Studio.
With the Hand Made Un's and community members in the Central and Revoe area we are creating a community mosaic. The mosaic will be installed on the empty spaces along the George Hotel on Central Drive visible to the wider community.
for sourcing these end of line tiles for our mosaic.
Hand Made Un's art works on plates dishes, cups and saucers, will be for sale on 18th August at Revoe Fun Day.
items such as these beautiful Blackpool themed plates are now available prices start at £3: half the money will go to the community center the other half to the lifeboats.
We will be running a workshop for children customising bandannas at the Fun Day.
We are currently working with Shabby2Chic and the wonderful Sandra, in Knott End. An exiting opportunity to be involved with the Wise Owls project in a fantastic new venue for exhibiting and selling began this week. We will be in Knott End at the studio every Monday.
In January we will be continued with the successful 'Art Buddies' in a new Blackpool location – Marton . The first leaflets have now been distributed to people in sheltered housing in Marton. The project is funded by Blackpool Coastal Housing.
In February we exhibited a selection of our work at Urban Arts Studio St Annes.
Wishing everyone a Creative 2018.


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Q: Upper bound for the probability $P\left[\left|\frac{Y_n}{n}-p^2\right|>\varepsilon\right]$
Let $X_1,X_2,\cdots,X_{n+1}$ be independent random variables with $$P(X_i=1)=p=1-P(X_i=0)\quad\text{ for all }i$$
Define $Y_i$ to be the number of $i$'s such that $X_i=X_{i+1}=1\,,\quad i=1,2,\cdots,n$.
For some $\varepsilon>0$, I am trying to find an upper bound of the probability$$T_n=P\left[\left|\frac{Y_n}{n}-p^2\right|>\varepsilon\right]$$

We can write $$Y_n=Z_1+Z_2+\cdots+Z_n$$
where $$Z_K=\begin{cases}1&,\text{ if }X_k=X_{k+1}=1\\0&,\text{ otherwise}\end{cases}$$
So,
\begin{align}E(Y_n)&=\sum_{k=1}^n E(Z_k)
\\&=\sum_{k=1}^nP(X_k=1,X_{k+1}=1)
\\&=\sum_{k=1}^nP(X_k=1)P(X_{k+1}=1)=np^2
\end{align}
That is, $$E\left(\frac{Y_n}{n}\right)=p^2$$
Using Markov's inequality,
$$P\left[\left|\frac{Y_n}{n}-E\left(\frac{Y_n}{n}\right)\right|>\varepsilon\right]<\frac{\operatorname{Var}\left(\frac{Y_n}{n}\right)}{\varepsilon^2}\quad,\,\varepsilon>0$$
So one upper bound of the desired probability $T_n$ is $$\frac{\operatorname{Var}(Y_n)}{n^2\varepsilon^2}=g(n)\quad,\text{say}$$
We have $$\operatorname{Var}(Y_n)=\sum_{k=1}^n \operatorname{Var}(Z_k)+2\sum_{k>k'}\operatorname{Cov}(Z_k,Z_{k'})\tag{1}$$
Now,
\begin{align}
\operatorname{Var}(Z_k)&=E(Z_k^2)-(E(Z_k))^2
\\&=P(Z_k=1)-\left(P(Z_k=1)\right)^2
\\&=p^2-p^4
\end{align}
And
\begin{align}
\operatorname{Cov}(Z_k,Z_{k+1})&=E(Z_kZ_{k+1})-E(Z_k)E(Z_{k+1})
\\&=P(Z_k=1,Z_{k+1}=1)-P(Z_k=1)P(Z_{k+1}=1)
\\&=p^3-p^4
\end{align}
We also note that $$\operatorname{Cov}(Z_k,Z_{k'})=0\qquad,\text{ if }|k-k'|>1$$
Hence from $(1)$ we arrive at
\begin{align}
g(n)&=\frac{np^2(1-p)(1+p)+2(n-1)p^3(1-p)}{n^2\varepsilon^2}
\\&=\frac{p^2(1-p)}{n\varepsilon^2}\left[1+p+2\left(1-\frac{1}{n}\right)p\right]
\\&<\frac{p^2(1-p)(1+3p)}{n\varepsilon^2}
\end{align}
While I reached this answer as a simple application of a probability inequality, my question is what other approach could I take to find an upper bound of the probability? Surely, this upper bound is not unique, so what other answers could I arrive at using a different approach, maybe by using some limit theorem? After upper bounds, is it a valid question to ask for the supremum of $T_n$?
The source of the problem is basically some old exam papers. If what I seek is some sort of a classic result or inequality, then I would like to know about the theory behind that as well.

A: Let $\mathcal F_k$ be the $\sigma$-algebra generated by $X_1,\dots,X_k$. Let $D_k:=Y_k-\mathbb E\left[Y_k\mid\mathcal F_k\right]$. Then $\left(D_k\right)_{k\geqslant 1}$ is a martingale differences sequence for the filtration $\left(\mathcal F_{k+1}\right)_{k\geqslant 1}$. Since $\left\lvert D_k\right\rvert\leqslant 1$, Hoeffding's inequality entails that
$$T'_n:=\Pr\left(\left\lvert \sum_{k=1}^nD_k\right\rvert\gt n\varepsilon/2\right)\leqslant 2\exp\left(-n\varepsilon^2/4\right).$$
Since $\mathbb E\left[Y_k\mid\mathcal F_k\right]=p\mathbf 1\left\{X_k=1\right\}$, we can treat
$$
T''_n:=\Pr\left(\left\lvert \sum_{k=1}^n\mathbb E\left[Y_k\mid\mathcal F_k\right]-p^2\right\rvert\gt n\varepsilon/2\right)
$$
using Hoeffding's inequality forsum of independent random variables.

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Our Review by David Rabinowitz on January 11th, 2013
Rating: :: TRAIN LOGIC
Rails is a logic and timing game that will really make players think.
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Rails is a cerebral logic game for the iPad. It's similar to other path drawing and timing games, but in a train setting. The player's job is to build and manage train tracks, and to ensure that trains make it to the correct location.
The goal is to laydown train tracks so each train makes it to the station of the same color. When trains don't make it to the correct color station, they backtrack. There is an incentive to be fast since the longer the game takes the less money players get. The only controls are tapping to place tracks, change traffic lights, or change the direction of tracks.
This game is pretty hard and definitely not a casual game. There are so many things that have to be accounted for it can be overwhelming. Thankfully, there is a tutorial with multiple parts that explains the various game mechanics. One mistake in my opinion is that the tutorial is not the first thing players go through, but rather it is in the level select menu.
Rails keeps things interesting during levels by adding traffic controls to the game. There are rail switches and traffics lights that can be added to tracks. They are also both very handy for avoiding crashes while using the same tracks for multiple trains.
The biggest deterrent from this game getting more downloads it its price. At $4.99, it's on the more expensive end of the app store. I think it's definitely worth its asking price, but considering there are so many cheaper apps, I hope people just don't disregard it because Rails is definitely up there with some of the best timing and logic games, and it does include 60 levels.
Rails also includes a "Trainopedia" which details all of the various types of trains in the game. The trains range from handcars, to steam locomotives, and up to new electric locomotive trains. I really like that Rails also has a lot of fictional trains that make for more interesting game play, like the Kamikaze trains or "Crazy" trains that can't stop. Thankfully, there is a demo level in which players can mess around and practice without worry.
Rails is a thought-provoking game. It requires timing skills, creativity, and logic. There are so many different factors that players have to consider when building tracks. Since there are multiple train types, it's not a simple matter of dealing with uniform and consistent trains. With multiple trains having to make it to the correct station, things can difficult really quick. Anyone who enjoys thinking hard will enjoy Rails, but people who want a really easy to play casual game should probably look somewhere else.
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Portal: Hands-on Preview
Written by Joe Martin
Tags: #aperture #freeman #half-life #hands-on #lombardi #narbacular-drop #newell #orange-box #portal #preview #team-fortress
Companies: #microsoft #valve
1 - Portal Hands-On Preview 2 - Thinking with portals 3 - Thoughts and Conclusions
Microsoft Xmas Show: Portal Hands-On Preview
Now, call me weird but Portal is the title that I am most excited about out of all of the Orange Box titles which, for those of you who've been sleeping under a rock for the last few years, includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and the aforementioned Portal.
So, why has Portal got me even more excited than Episode Two?
Well, to put it simply it's because I'm a sucker for story. While Episode Two promises to give me a certain fix of story-telling, I also know that the narrative will be automatically handicapped by a large number of issues which I explored in a past feature. Portal meanwhile may break from those handicaps whilst still remaining fixed in the Half-Life universe - something I find incredibly exciting.
On top of that you can pile a whole heap of other reasons which would make it appeal to a gamer like me. The fact that it's the mainstream debut of a small group of developers who are being guided by Valve is something I find exciting too, even if Valve's involvement removes a lot of the indie feel of the game for me.
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Then there's the design of the game itself, which fuses a bewildering story with a mind-bending puzzle element and an innovative twist on modern 3D platformers and action games.
All of Portal appeals to me – from the perverted sense of humour and impersonal feel of the game to the team behind it all. That's why I seized a chance to slip away from the main congregation at the recent Microsoft Xmas Showcase and go play a substantial portion of the game. While everyone else was downstairs shaking hands, sipping champagne and picking up their free Xbox 360 controllers, I was upstairs having the time of my life with a game so delightfully unique that it can be compared to very little else.
While I'm on this topic, I should probably apologise to the organisers of the event who seemed to be in the middle of tidying up when I came bursting up the stairs of the elegant Violin Factory and plopped myself time down in front of a screen to play some more Portal. I imagine they were quite annoyed with me and since I had a incredibly sore throat at the time, I was unable to apologise or explain myself.
Still, I'm not going to apologise that much because, as I said, I was having a great time playing on the game and experimenting with the different ways to abuse and use the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, which lets players shoot interconnected portals through which to travel instantly.
It's this portal gun which forms the entire armoury of the player, who must learn to use the portals to travel through a series of escalating tests set by the Aperture Science Labs and, perhaps ultimately, escape the labs themselves. So, in words similar to those of the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre; I hope you, <reader name here>, have enjoyed your time in the introduction. However, it is now time to move on to the preview proper. Ready yourself.
Ten Years On: Portal
Rick looks back at Valve's landmark puzzle game a decade on after release.
Garry Newman points to impending Half-Life 3 release
Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman has posted an image of a T-shirt bearing the Half-Life 3 logo - but is it all a joke?
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It's pretty safe to say that Portal was one of the best games released in 2007. For those of you who can't get enough of it, our mega-modder Wolverine has a treat for you. It's time to work with your Weighted Companion PC - cake not included.


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Rickey Smiley is mourning the death of his son Brandon Smiley, who just passed away at the age of 32.
The 54-year-old comedian and host of the Rickey Smiley Morning Show announced the devastating news on Sunday morning (January 29) through a video on his Instagram page.
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The 18-year-old daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin made her fashion show debut at the Chanel Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday (January 24) in Paris, France.
Apple sat in the front row alongside many other stars and she just gave a rare interview in which she talked about the experience.
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Drake Reportedly Stayed in the Most Expensive Hotel Room in North America During New York City Shows
It sounds like Drake was living in luxury while in New York City for his exclusive concerts at the Apollo Theater!
A new report claims that the rapper was staying in a $75,000-a-night hotel suite at The Mark Hotel, which is reportedly the largest and most expensive hotel room in North America, according to Page Six.
The suite includes 10,000 square feet of space with five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a dining room for 24 people, a full kitchen, and amazing views of the city.
On Wednesday night (January 25), Drake was spotted going to Richie Akiva's The Ned NoMad for an exclusive, private listening party for artist Ebony Riley, held in the Magic Room of the membership club and hotel.
More stars there included Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber, Meek Mill, and Joan Smalls. Drake DJ'ed in The Magic Room until 3am. Drinks by Lobos 1707 and D'USSE cognac were served.
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Noah Centineo has been acting on screen for over 10 years now, and he's got quite a few auditions under his belt. In a new interview, Noah revealed some roles that he auditioned for, who he lost the roles to, and how he handles rejection...
Lisa Loring Dead - Original Wednesday Addams Actress Passes Away at 64
Lisa Loring, the actress who originated the role of Wednesday Addams in the 1960s series The Addams Family, has sadly passed away.
Loring was just six-years-old when she began playing Wednesday in the ABC sitcom and she played the role for two years. She was also known for her roles on the TV shows The Pruitts of Southampton and As the World Turns.
The death was confirmed by Lisa's daughter Vanessa Foumberg.
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A new report claims that The CW will only have three current scripted original series on the air next season, which means that a lot of fan favorite shows are going to be canceled soon.
We are currently in the middle of the 2022-2023 television season, which means we are looking ahead to the 2023-2024 season, which will begin in September 2023.
There are currently 10 scripted shows that are airing on The CW and one new series will premiere in March. Out of those 11 shows, three of them are already confirmed to be ending soon and only one of them has been renewed.
This means that out of seven remaining shows, only two of them will be renewed, according to TVLine and THR.
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Julia Roberts and Jennifer Aniston are teaming up for a new movie!
The two fan-favorite actresses will star in a "body swap comedy" that is being made at Amazon Studios.
Deadline reports that the studio won the project after a "heated auction" that included four other studios and streamers.
Max Barbakow, who directed Andy Samberg's Hulu movie Palm Springs, will write and direct the upcoming movie, which is based on an original pitch that he created. Not much is known about the plot of the film as of this time.
It has been noted that there is demand for beloved stars teaming up on the big screen following the success of Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum's The Lost City and Julia's own movie with George Clooney, Ticket to Paradise. Both films grossed more than $160 million each at the worldwide box office.
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Who Is Playing in Super Bowl 2023? Date, Time, Location, & More Info Revealed!
We're two weeks away from the 2023 Super Bowl and the teams playing in the game have been revealed!
Following the NFC and AFC championship games on Sunday (January 29), we know who will be going to the Super Bowl.
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Konceptualism (av latinets concipere, "begripa" eller "föreställa sig") är en filosofisk riktning enligt vilken allmänbegreppen (universalierna) endast existerar i den mänskliga tanken. Vissa menar, att riktningen ställer sig mellan realismen och nominalismen, medan andra menar att konceptualismen endast utgör en nominalistisk gren, då universalia icke ges en oberoende existens. Enligt konceptualismen existerar således allmänbegreppen endast genom mentala abstraktioner och äger ingen självständig existens i den mening som realismen gör gällande.

Konceptualismen var en relativt vanlig ståndpunkt inom den medeltida skolastiska debatten om universaliernas natur, den så kallade universaliestriden. I modern filosofi återfinns emellertid liknande ståndpunkter inom framförallt matematikfilosofin.

Inom konstvärlden talar man om konceptkonst, där konstobjektet kan utbytas mot en diskurs eller idé av något slag. Välkända konceptkonstnärer är exempelvis Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Joseph Kosuth och Yoko Ono.

Se även
 Begrepp
 Nominalism
 Pierre Abélard
 Universalierealism
 Universaliestriden
 William Ockham

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Former Orlando Magic player Anthony Bowie accused of exposing himself to teacher, police say
By David Harris
Former Orlando Magic guard Anthony Bowie is on paid suspension from his job at a Sanford elementary school after he was accused of exposing himself to a teacher, according to a police report.
Bowie, who works with physical education teachers at Goldsboro Elementary School, will not face criminal charges because the female victim did not want to pursue a case, Sanford police said.
Seminole County Public Schools spokesman Michael Lawrence said the district's investigation into the incident is ongoing. Bowie, 54, has been on leave since Nov. 7.
The victim told police she was in her classroom the morning of Oct. 31 when Bowie came in and went to a walk-in closet.
She said he called her over and asked for a bottle of water.
That's when Bowie exposed himself to her, the report said. He was touching himself while saying: "Do you want to take a picture of it?" and "You know you want this," according to the report.
She walked away from the closet, police said.
Later that afternoon, he came to her classroom and exposed himself to her again, the report said. She told him, "Put that junk away" and left the classroom, according to the report.
There were no children inside the classroom during either incident.
Bowie played for the Magic from 1991-96, mostly coming off the bench. He averaged 6.2 points, 1.8 assists and 2.2 rebounds per game during his career.
Since his retirement from the NBA in 1998, Bowie coached the boys basketball team for a season at Bishop Moore High School and hosted several youth basketball camps.
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He was hired at Seminole County Public Schools in 2010 and had no prior disciplinary history before this incident, Lawrence said.
Bowie could not be reached for comment.
Staff writer Leslie Postal contributed.
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1. The unfortunate state of seizing whilst bathing.
2. An action performed in a communal shower (usually in small New Jersey high schools). This act consists of rolling/jerking/b-boying/breakdancing in a grotesque manner on the scum-filled, urine and germ coated blue tile floor. Usually occurs as a performance for approximately 5 homosexual, cleansing harriers. Eppy showerers, as the seizees are often called in urban areas, are often pasty honors students with large thighs. They tend to be premature ejaculators and enjoy playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 with their toes. These transparent folks experience an epileptic shower whenever one of their teammates flickers the overhead light on and off to an intense techno beat, in the style of a discotheque club.
Tom: "Hey Greg, let's go flicker them there lights on and off. We can flash them and play "Through The Fire and Flames". Maybe Jonny will have one of those Epileptic showers again."
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5th graders are curious, open to new ideas and eager to take on more responsibility. They are beginning to understand the complexity of the world and they are so curious and eager to participate. We cannot know exactly what their contribution will be, but we know they will be creating solutions to problems and challenges to make the world a better place.
My role is to help them develop the tools to understand understand complex ideas and how to communicate with a purpose through writing, presentations, discussion and collaborative projects.
My hope is that every student understands their potential and that their effort and determination empowers them to continue to grow as learners.
Included on the site, are links for parents and students, so be sure to "dig in" and look around. For students, there are sites that support learning and provides resources to help you with with homework and beyond. I encourage you to email me if you have any questions or concerns. I always appreciate your communication because it helps me to best support your child.
In 5th grade, I was in the Future Teacher's Club at P.S 52 in Staten Island, New York. I always wanted to be a teacher! I graduated from St. John's University in N.Y in 1977 and began teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Language Arts and Social Studies. I also taught reading at Sandy Hook Elementary in CT. Before coming to Koontz, I taught 1st grade and 5th grade at Glen Arden and was honored to be selected as Teacher of the Year. In 2011. I became a student again and received my Master's Degree at Western Carolina University in 2013. I completed my National Board Certification in 2003 and completed the ten year renewal process in 2013.
My husband Ed and I have been married for 37 years and we have 3 wonderful adult children, Seton, Keeley and Gabe. As a child, reading opened the world to me and I hope it will open the world for my students.


Day 4 of the throwback baby pics starts NOW!
I am baby, hear me roar!
I wasn't a fussy baby, or a big crier. What was I? I was an eating machine. I had a large frame on me and needed food to keep the machine going. Was I a fat baby? I'll admit, I had some extra layers, but I wasn't obese. The one distinguishing feature on me, that I still have to this day, are my legs. As a baby, I had very dense and thick legs that became my trademark. In the pic above, you can see through the pajamas a pair of legs that became the foundation of a body that was, well just a body. HOWEVER…because of my legs, I was walking much sooner than anticipated.
I'm starting to think my unborn daughter may have picked up on this genetic goldmine. She's notorious for strong kicks at random times. At a recent doctor's visit, my lady had a strap around her stomach with some sensors that picked up the baby's heartbeat. As soon as the doctor walked away, boom! My daughter kicked so hard, that the strap actually shifted from the position it was in. Just the other day, here at home, I'm talking to the baby and I lay my cheek on my lady's belly and boom! SHE KICKED MY FACE!!! I jumped up and my jaw just dropped like, what the heck just happened?
Part of me was like, did she just kick her father in the face? And the other part of me thought, hey, what a kick. I can see Soccer or gymnastics or power lifting in her future; she got some legs on her! The genetics are strong with this one! Maybe.
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That's the opening to The Lion King for anyone wondering. Not the actual spelling of the lyric but that's how I sing along to it when I watch it!
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The Psychedelic Library Homepage
Psychedelics and Personal Growth
Psychedelic Reflections — Afterword
Lester Grinspoon & James B. Bakalar
Psychedelic Reflections &copyHuman Sciences Press 1983
One of the people we asked to write for this book replied that after long thought he had to decline, because he feared the effect on his ability to support himself and his family if he said what he really thought about psychedelic drugs. This may be an unusually strong expression of a feeling that is more common in milder forms. Anyone, whatever his views on the drugs themselves, ought to recognize that it is an unhealthy situation in a free society. Even if this kind of fear is not common—even if it is not justified—the fact that it exists at all suggests something seriously wrong in our social response to psychedelic drugs. They were once regarded by some as the great liberating force of our time, the destined sacrament of the Aquarian Age, and by others as a threat to sanity and civilized society. In the last 10 years, since the end of the psychedelic craze, they have been neglected almost entirely. All these attitudes, as the essays in this anthology suggest, are wrong, but apparently they can still affect people's actions to the point of self-censorship.
It is hard to achieve balance in our thinking about psychedelic drugs because the response to them is intimately bound up with a whole set of attitudes about everything from drugs in general to mysticism in general. As a drug abuse problem, LSD and its relatives are no longer a very serious issue. There has probably been a moderate decline in illicit use of psychedelic drugs, and there has certainly been a substantial decline in publicity about it. We are not ever likely to face an epidemic of psychedelic drug abuse again. The question now is not how to get these drugs off the streets—which is probably impossible anyway—but how to get them back into laboratories, hospitals, and other supervised settings. The irony becomes obvious in rereading the public debates of the sixties. The most determined opponents of the drug culture and advocates of restrictive legislation continually warn against allowing the concern about abuse of psychedelic drugs to prevent legitimate research. But that is in effect what we have done. Uncontrolled use continues, probably at the same level it would have reached even without the laws, while controlled legal use has become impossible. We should arrange ways for people to take psychedelic drugs responsibly under appropriate guidance within the law, and a way for those who want to administer them to volunteers for therapeutic and general research to do so. This is not the place to go into details about informed consent and selection, preparation, and training of subjects and guides. But it is important to keep in mind that from 1950 to 1962, when LSD and mescaline were more freely available within the law than they are ever likely to be again, there were very few reports of adverse reactions.
To discuss how to handle the problem of psychedelic drugs within the present system of rules and institutions, however, is to suggest what a restricted and historically peculiar system it is. LSD and its relatives are treated for research purposes very much like a new antibiotic, as medicines to be tested for specific, concrete, limited efficacy and safety and accepted or rejected on that basis. In other words, the model is Western physical medicine of the last 50 years. Compare the great variety of more or less successful alternatives: Huichol peyote ceremonies, Mazatec curing rites vision quests, psycholytic therapy sessions, the Native American Church. These are the arrangements that arise naturally in any culture where the drugs are not suppressed, and analogues of them were developing among us even when the LSD abuse problem was at its height. They still exist, but they have been driven underground, and we have effectively foreclosed our choices. For us anything called a drug must be either a simple medicine or a "drug of abuse." Evaluating psychedelic drugs in the same way that we evaluate aspirin will always be enormously to their disadvantage, since they do not bring guaranteed relief for any simply defined problem. The Mexican Indian who said, "Aspirin is a drug, peyote is sacred," was making a distinction that our laws do not permit.
Using different analogies makes the anomalies in our laws and attitudes obvious. For example, as a voyage and an adventure, taking LSD might be compared to flying a plane or climbing a mountain. Psychedelic drug use as a form of spiritual or psychological exploration might be compared with methods like kundalina yoga, Tantra, or the more emotionally intense forms of psychotherapy, all of which induce drastic changes in consciousness that may occasionally endanger emotional stability for the sake of some alleged insight, awakening, or realization. Even psychoanalysis can produce psychotic reactions. Yet no one considers outlawing any of these practices. To many people familiar with psychedelic drugs, such comparisons seem more appropriate than an analogy with antibiotics or aspirin, or even with drugs used mainly for pleasure or because of addiction.
Consider another analogy. Imagine that no one has ever remembered his dreams before, except a few widely ignored mystics, primitives, and madmen. Then someone invents an electrical gadget that permits them to be recalled. At first, dreams come as a revelation. People who use the machine are overwhelmed by their depth of emotion and symbolic significance. They rush out to look up the obscure literature about this neglected state of awareness. Psychologists discover that dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. Others examine them for prophecies, philosophies, and religions, clues to personal salvation and social revolution. Meanwhile, there are the many who have never remembered their dreams and do not understand why anyone considers them important or useful; they declare it all mental illness and social decadence, and demand that the machines be outlawed. Ultimately the dreamers too become somewhat disillusioned. Remembering and interpreting dreams provides no sure cure for any illness and no obvious alternative view of the world. Their meaning for art, philosophy, and religion is ambiguous. Many dreams are unpleasant or frightening. People sometimes act foolishly in following the commands of their dreams. Some dream interpretation is superstitious, some of the popular dream interpreters are of dubious character, and some of the dream cults have repellent practices. Dreams are not the answer.
One possible outcome is that we decide to record and study dreams, relate them to other states of consciousness and to neurophysiology, find out their possible scientific, therapeutic, and creative uses, and so on, while cautioning against overvaluation of them. Another possibility is withdrawing in fear, declaring that we were meant to forget our dreams and that remembering them is pathological and socially debilitating, and finally suppressing the means by which they are remembered. We have removed a source of disturbance, at the price of denying part of our own potential. Psychedelic drugs resemble this imaginary machine. They sometimes allow people to see things about themselves that they did not know before, without telling them how to interpret and act on what they see. We have the choice of ignoring and suppressing this knowledge or finding ways to make use of it.
One of the main problems is that we have no appropriate classification for psychedelic drugs. We cannot regard them as divine: should we then treat them like aspirin or heroin? Are they outlawed because we fear drugs, or because we fear the social effects of altered states of awareness, religious intensity, and mysticism? LSD use may be conceived as part of a drug problem that also includes something as utterly different as heroin addiction; it may also be seen as part of a social trend toward irrationalist religious enthusiasm combined with scorn for gainful labor and political participation; and these fears are in practice inextricably entangled.
In modern society we are uneasy about experiences we cannot quickly classify. We are unwilling to tolerate much ambiguity, for example, about whether an activity is religious ritual, medicinal, or recreation, and our legal arrangements depend on these classifications. Use of psychoactive drugs in general and of psychedelic drugs in particular crosses these lines and muddies these distinctions, and that appears as a threat to control and rationality, a problem for the law and society. We have chosen, in effect, to divide psychoactive drugs into three categories: first, medicines, second, drugs that may be used for pleasure (alcohol is the main example) and third, so-called drugs of abuse, a few of which also have medical uses. Psychedelic drugs have been classified as drugs of abuse without medical uses, and our legal and social attitudes toward them follow from that. Some of the hostility to psychedelic drugs, especially among people who are unsophisticated about them, is based on the assumption that they are just another exotic vice providing enviable but dangerous thrills, which like all such stereotypical vices can also drive the user into addiction, madness, and despair.
But at a deeper level the social response to psychedelic drugs is also connected with their users' tendency to revert to religious language and interpretations in talking about them. The idea of drug use as a religious practice—in fact, of any connection between drugs and religion—is one we are willing to indulge in preindustrial cultures but violently reject for ourselves. Orthodox religion in the West long ago abandoned the sacramental use of drugs, so during the psychedelic era this field was appropriated by sects, eclectic or syncretic, which challenged the hegemony of established medical and police rules. The "LSD priest" (Timothy Leary's term) who led a "drug cult" was in effect a rival of the physician in importing and applying expertise on drugs. The old calling of priesthood or shamanism invaded territory claimed by modern medical professionals. Modern medicine was even likened to a state religion, with imposing organized strength, an intellectually powerful ideology, an ability to create and sustain faith, and the all-important support of civil authority; it was said to treat unorthodox healing practices as heresy or pagan superstition to be eliminated by a mixture of official coercion and missionary activity. A religious war in which medicine served as the ideological arm of cultural orthodoxy was said to be disguised by scientific terminology and talk about health hazards.
These quasi-religious disputes suggest that our attitudes toward psychedelic drugs involve response to certain kinds of experience as well as certain substances. We have a mysticism problem as well as a drug problem, and its historical causes are older and more complicated than the causes of the drug controversy. Mystical, messianic, and shamanistic religion always comes into conflict with established authority after social evolution has reached the stage of hierarchical state systems. Any contact with divinity not subject to priestly mediation and formulation in terms of traditional doctrines appears as a threat to the political and social order, and may be classified as madness or vice. It is feared that all accepted standards will be abandoned in a frenzied search for some individual or communal self-realization.
The potential challenge to social order in all forms of religious intoxication, drug-induced or not, is augmented by special characteristics of modern Western society. Max Weber discovered a cultural foundation of modernity in the Protestant ethic of inner-worldly asceticism, which developed at about the same time as the scientific revolution. The Protestant ethic demands the attainment of salvation by work and activity according to rational norms within this world. In identifying religious duty with rule-governed mastery of everyday life, it opposes all forms of otherworldliness in religion, including the other-worldly asceticism of desert saints; it also opposes all mysticism, for in mysticism the highest virtue is to be possessed rather than active, a vessel rather than an instrument of divinity. Both conservatives and radicals in a society devoted to the extension of rule-governed control over the external world are likely to see great dangers in mystical and messianic religion, either because it is too passive and socially quietist, or simply because it may tend to devaluate everyday life and economic activity.
This mistrust of religious virtuosity, whether it takes the generic or the specifically modern form, should not be regarded as mere cowardice, intellectual rigidity, or defense of established privilege. As the sadder aspects of hippie culture showed, all standards of truth and social responsibility may be abandoned in the search for spiritual revitalization by means of magic, myth, and mystery. Mysticism claiming ineffability is a common form of rebellion in rationalistic ages like our own; it can be useful in moderating the excessive pretensions of intellect, but the danger is that it will turn into a mere plea of impotence: a denial of reason and an admission of incapacity to cope with social problems that takes the form of quietism or messianic fanaticism
So the belief that psychedelic religiosity may cause a breakdown of social order (as conservatives fear) or abandonment of the struggle for social change (as radicals fear) is no more and no less reasonable than the fear of a breakdown of individual mental stability during a drug trip; in some circumstances it could be justified. But for the most part these circumstances do not now exist. As the essays in this book prove, the vision achieved in ecstatic states usually depends for its social content on the intellectual set that is brought to it; once it recedes it can serve as a backdrop for action as well as passivity, and for moderate as well as extreme action.
If the self-image of modern Western society cannot easily accommodate virtuoso religion and mysticism, it also precludes the suppression of virtuoso religion and mysticism. Liberal principles demand free speech, freedom of worship, and the right of privacy. The government does not claim to know what sorts of experiences and thoughts its subjects should and should not cultivate. But drugs are a special case. We do not admit, even to ourselves, that outlawing psychedelic drugs could be in part an attempt to eliminate certain kinds of experience and thinking. By regarding them as merely exotic vice, dangerous instruments, or poisonous substances, we avoid the issue. Therefore, in the case of drugs, the liberal principles that prevent expression of the typical modern distrust of enthusiastic and mystical religion by legally suppressing it do not operate.
Psychedelic drugs are a borderline case in many ways—therapeutically, intellectually, and socially. The components of research, therapy, religion, and recreation in their use are hard to separate (the awkward term "consciousness-expansion" is an attempt to define a role for them by avoiding all these familiar categories). Since we do not know where to place them, they become an easy target for confused fears about drugs in general or matters unrelated to drugs. For example, the idea has been suggested that centers should be established where people could go to take psychedelic drugs in a safe environment. But are these centers conceived as analogous to resorts, amusement parks, psychiatric clinics, religious retreats, Outward Bound expeditions, or scientific research institutions? Without any further examination, the very ambiguity of purpose is enough to create hostility and suspicion. And in this field liberal governments feel justified in asserting themselves with the kind of confidence that only despotic governments display with respect to other social questions.
Our legal and political institutions, like our natural science and psychiatry, are failing to supply the complex response these complex drugs demand. We should show more confidence in our capacity to tolerate and make use of them. That demands, first, a more consistent application of liberal principles. We need to produce a suitable balance between individual choice and protective authority, and in doing this it is probably useless to try to find replacements for the existing inadequate conceptual categories. We simply have to tolerate some openly recognized ambiguity in dealing with psychedelic drugs. The old forms of religious justification, for example, are obviously no longer plausible. Except for a few isolated individuals and groups like the peyote church, intoxication can no longer be sacred in the primitive and ancient sense, no matter how intensely religious it may seem as pure experience. Too much has been changed by the intellectual and social revolutions of the modern age; there is no point in mourning the loss, if it is one.
But we have something to learn from religious forms of drug use, especially about the protective and assimilative function of ceremony. Preindustrial societies might also have something to teach us about the proper balance between democracy and authority in managing psychedelic drugs. When primary religious experience is no longer restricted to specially qualified charismatic individuals, the resulting democratization presents special dangers and opportunities. The danger is that everyone will think himself qualified to start his own religion, as Timothy Leary once half-facetiously recommended, and some sort of authority and tradition is needed to avoid this parody of liberal individualism.
For example, in his last novel, Island, Aldous Huxley tried to salvage a communal significance for the drug experience by imagining a utopia in which psychedelic drugs play an integral part. On his fictitious island in the Indian Ocean, a decentralized political system and a Western science and technology stripped of their excesses are guided by a Buddhist philosophical/religious tradition, with the help of a psychedelic drug called moksha medicine that is used on carefully defined occasions, especially by the dying and in initiation rites. Huxley's utopia avoids the danger of excessive individualism by an emphasis on community, discipline, and tradition in the use of psychedelic drugs. The usefulness of the drug depends on the quality of the social system and not the other way around. He also avoids the cultural limitations of primitive mythologies and communities by incorporating the most tolerant and ecumenical of the great world religions and the most universally applicable body of human intellectual achievement.
Unfortunately, Huxley is pessimistic about his own solution, at least for the short run. His utopia survives only because it is an island that has been fortunately isolated for generations from the malevolent forces of the modern world. In the moving and horrifying final chapter, it is destroyed in a coup d'etat by a neighboring ruler who represents Oil, Progress, Spiritual Values (Huxley's ironic capital letters), military force, lying propaganda, and demagogic tyranny in a combination with all the worst features of capitalism, communism, and third-world nationalism. If the fate of Huxley's island turns out to be the fate of the world, there will certainly be no place in it for psychedelic drugs. Whatever their dangers and potential for abuse, they are worse than useless to a modern despotism. Unlike Huxley's earlier invention, soma, they do not reconcile the user to a routine or keep the fires of the intellect and passion burning low. On the other hand, the hippie idea of drugging ourselves into individual and social salvation is obviously illusory, and Huxley certainly did not mean to promote that illusion.
Something in the nature of our society and of the drug trip itself tends to make us fall into attitudes of worshipful awe or frightened contempt when thinking about psychedelic drugs. It is as though they had to be either absolutely central or beyond the periphery of normal human experience. But in primitive shamanism that is not what happens; instead, at least ideally, "the otherwise unfettered power of the world beyond human society is harnessed purposefully and applied to minister to the needs of the community." (Lewis, 1971, p. 189). That is just what technology, including drug technology, is supposed to do in our society. We should find a modest role for psychedelic drugs, not deifying or demonizing or ignoring them, and distinguishing rational from irrational fears. The metaphysical hunger that provides one reason for the interest in these drugs is a permanent human condition, not an aberration that is created by the drugs nor one that can be eliminated by suppressing them. Huxley's Island expresses not faith in psychedelic drugs, which would be a form of idolatry, but hope for mankind. It dramatizes the conviction that the drugs can be used, rather than condemned and neglected, and that finding a way to use them well is a test for humanity. We should use our resources of intelligence, imagination, and moral discernment to face that test.
Clark, W., Lieff, J., Lieff, C., & Sussman, R. Psychedelic research: Obstacles and values. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1975, 15: 5-17.
Huxley, A. Island. New York: Harper & Row, 1972 (orig. 1962).
Lewis, I.M. Ecstatic Religion. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971.


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Curling is a sheet metal forming process used to form the edges into a hollow ring. Curling can be performed to eliminate sharp edges and increase the moment of inertia near the curled end. Other parts are curled to perform their primary function, such as door hinges.
In the curling operation, the flare, or burr, should always be turned away from the die. This will help prolong the life of the die by avoiding unnecessary damage due to scratching. The stroke of the die must be as long as the curl. Curling is often performed as part of a high production, multiple operation progressive forming.
The curling die is designed to curl a material of specific thickness. Dies are generally made of hardened tool steel because of the amount of wear caused by the operation. Their smooth, rounded cavities are often lapped and polished to help curl the material uniformly.
^ Boljanovic, Vukota (2004), Sheet metal forming processes and die design, Industrial Press, p. 55, ISBN 978-0-8311-3182-1.
Handbook of Die Design. Ivana Suchy.
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Cognitive and behavioural symptoms represent primary clinical manifestations of anterior thalamic infarcts (ATIs) in the tuberothalamic artery territory. The aim of the study is to understand the pathomechanism of cognitive and behavioural disturbances in left ATI (LATI).
6 patients with isolated LATIs were investigated using neuropsychological assessments, MRI stereotactic lesion localisation and positron emission tomography.
The patients were characterised clinically by verbal memory impairment, language disturbances dominated by anomia and word-finding difficulty and apathy. The ventral anterior nucleus (VA) proper, magnocellular VA (VAmc), ventral lateral anterior nucleus (VLa), ventral lateral posterior nucleus (VLp) and mammillothalamic tract were involved in all patients. Compared with healthy controls, the regional cerebral blood flow was lower in the thalamus, the dorsolateral, medial and orbital frontal lobes, the anterior temporal lobe, the inferior parietal lobule and the occipital lobe of the left hemisphere.
The authors propose that the Papez circuit disruption at the mammillothalamic tract and possibly thalamomedial temporal disconnection at the VA region is responsible for memory impairment and that the thalamo-anterior temporal disconnection is associated with language disturbance in LATI, respectively.


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Choi Siwon Chosen as Special Representative for UNICEF Korea
by kiddy_nights
Choi Siwon, who is currently starring in the popular drama "She Was Pretty," has been chosen to act as the special representative to UNICEF's Korean branch. The UNICEF office in Seoul will be presenting him with a special certificate on November 12.
The singer-actor has contributed to various UNICEF campaigns, including 2013's "Santa Campaign," 2014's "Popcoin Campaign," and 2015's "Bracelets for Nepal Campaign." His involvement has convinced UNICEF that he would be a fantastic representative for their cause.
In the future, he hopes to continue participating in various campaigns. Choi Siwon showed his excitement by saying, "I have been working with UNICEF for some time now, and it really opened my eyes towards campaigns that allow us to share with the less fortunate. I am very honored to be a representative."
He hopes to focus specifically on projects helping children, expressing, "I hope to share warmth with all the children around the world, and I would like to contribute to a world in which every child is happy."
Will you join in on his campaigns?
Choi Siwon