Book review: The Way Home For Wolf by Rachel Bright and illustrated by Jim Field.
Rachel Bright and Jim Field have successfully worked on many picture books. Together though this author and illustrator team are fantastic and the creators of award winning books The Lion Inside and The Koala Who Could. Recently their book The Squirrels Who Squabbled has been shortlisted for the Laugh out Loud Awards and is another great read to track down should you not have had the pleasure of reading such a giggly book.
This month their latest picture book has been published by Orchard Books who are an imprint of Hachette Children's Group. The Way Home For Wolf is a wonderful read and I am delighted to be talking about it here on my blog.
The wolves walk though heavy snow and icy banks and as the journey progresses the weather conditions worsen. Wilf tries to keep up but the older wolves are stronger and fast paced and poor Wilf finds it tricky to keep up. He doesn't ask for help and eventually is separated from the pack and gets caught in a blizzard.
Wilf is all alone and he can't bring himself to ask for help. He lies down on ice but this shatters beneath him and this leads to a truly magical moment where Wilf meets a sea unicorn. His meeting with the narwhal is the start of a chain of events that lead Wilf to meeting interesting artic animals who have his best interests at heart and want to help this little wolf cub.
You'll be pleased to know that the book ends happily and Wilf learns so much. Though he was keen to lead the pack, Wilf getting lost results in new friendships being made. He witnesses a team of animals cooperating well with each other, big and small.
Though it can be fun to lead it is something that comes with time and Rachel Bright has created a brilliant story with a touch of magic that shares this. The book shows that asking for help is no way a weakness and that taking guidance from others can be a good thing.
I am sure you will agree the illustrations are utterly gorgeous and they get better and better at every turn of page. Jim Field illustrates the scenes so wonderfully and his work is so emotive. I adore the contrast of snowy scenes and night time scenes capturing magical lights in the sky. Together with Rachel Bright's rhyming text this is a lovely read and we highly recommend it.
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Previous Book review: An Anthology of Intriguing Animals by Ben Hoare.
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I think it's happened to everyone at some point in time. You get baby in a carrier, think you're looking pretty fantastic, snap a quick selfie, and realize….Ahh man, I missed the mark on this one! Total babywearing blooper. And now there's photographic proof of your blooper since you already uploaded it to Twitter, Instagram, and BWI of Central Iowa's Facebook page. No need to shame yourself though, let's embrace those babywearing bloopers and all get a good chuckle out of them so we can go back to taking rockin' selfies!
The most notorious babywearing blooper is the leaner or back bender. Here's some of our favorites!
Toddlers love doing back bends!
How the ruck turned impromptu strap carry?
Always have a spotter for those seat poppers!
Toddlers love to turn on the charm for babywearing selfies!
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The student becomes the teacher, me thinks.
Big smiles for forward facing!
First time wearing baby and the ring sling and Mama was too nervous to move around a lot. So her and baby chilled on the couch all day until baby had a massive diaper blow out!


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What's a "Celebration Station?" Come to Mama's Happy, one of our favorite places, where our host, Happi Olson is finding out as well. Owner, Amanda Ficek has a bunch of ideas for how to celebrate the members of your family in simple ways, using old frames that she has found at garage sales or thrift shops. This is the sweetest. You're not going to want to miss it!
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Sports & Youth
Anime and Manga: Sports & Youth
This is an introductory guide to the anime and manga resources at the library.
Manga and Anime by GenreToggle Dropdown
Sci-Fi & Mechas
History & Memory
Romance & Young Adult
The Tale of Genji
Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki
Top 10 Sports Anime by Watchmojo.com
Slam dunk. Season 1 by Tōei Animēshon Kabushiki Kaisha, production company.
Hanamichi Sakuragi is a high school punk who hates basketball, mostly because the girls he likes always prefer basketball players to him. Things change, however, when he meets the cute and available Haruko Akagi. She loves basketball and thinks Hanamichi has the height and prowess to play. Hanamichi, quite willing to settle for collateral affection, immediately takes up the sport, never mind the fact that he doesn't know the rules, cannot dribble and is constitutionally unsuited to teamwork.
Spotlight - Pingpong
Ping pong : the animation by Yuasa, Masaaki, 1965- screenwriter, television director.
Smile and Peco. Peco and Smile. Besties from the beginning, both with a badass backhand. Peco is known for his arrogance on the table tennis court, and Smile for his silence. But with a new school year and a new high school table tennis team, both boys are in for a challenge, on - and off - the court. Peco's slacker ways are hurting his game, and after getting crushed in a tournament, he decides to quit.
松本大洋 = Taiyou; Matsumoto Taiyō = Taiyou.; Paintings. Selections by Matsumoto, Taiyō, 1967- artist.
t's been 19 years from the last artworks of Taiyo Matsumoto, "101" published in 1999. Illustrations in this art book, "TAIYOU" are selected by Taiyo Matsumoto himself. Taiyo Matsumoto is known for his works such as Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong and Number Five.
Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet. What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It's the brand-new masterwork from Eisner Award-winner Taiyo Matsumoto, one of Japan's most innovative and acclaimed manga artists. Translated by Tekkonkinkreet film director Michael Arias!
Manga / 漫画
Ashita no Jō = Tomorrow's Joe by Takamori, Asao
Publication Date: 2003-
Chihayafuru (Bilingual Edition) by Suetsugu, Yuki, 1975-
Haikyū!! by Furudate, Haruichi
Hajime no Ippo by Morikawa, Jōji
Kuroko no basuke by Fujimaki, Tadatoshi
Kuroko no basuke = Kuroko's Basketball by Fujimaki, Tadatoshi
Kyaputen Tsubasa by Takahashi, Yōichi, 1960-
Publication Date: 1982-1989
Kyaputen Tsubasa : wārudo yūsu hen by Takahashi, Yōichi, 1960-
Ping Pong by Taiyo Matsumoto Ace high school table tennis players push their passion to the limit in this story of self-discovery, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto. Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto doesn't smile even though he's got a natural talent for playing ping pong. As one of the best players in school, all hopes are on him to win the regional high school tournament, but winning is not what Smile really wants to do. Will the fierce competition to be number one bring out his best or drive him away from the game? Ping Pong is Taiyo Matsumoto's masterwork reflection on friendship and self-discovery, presented here in two volumes, featuring color art, the bonus story "Tamura" and an afterword by the original Japanese series editor. Translated by Michael Arias, director of Tekkonkinkreet. Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka "Peco" Hoshino have been playing table tennis since they were kids, but as they enter high school, they find that the game has changed. Seeing potential in them that they themselves don't fully realize, the coach recruits them for the school team. Bringing out their best will mean challenging the top players from rival schools in the summer tournament, including an ace Chinese exchange student who almost made the Olympic team. With the pressure on, can Smile and Peco take the heat and make it into the finals?
The Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi A tennis prodigy leads his handsome tennis club to victory at the national tournament. Four-time consecutive U.S. Junior tournament champ Ryoma Echizen comes to Seishun Academy to further his reign as The Prince of Tennis. His skill is matched only by his attitude--irking some but impressing all as he leads his team to the Nationals and beyond! There is a rumor going around that a twelve-year-old boy is going to enter the sixteen-year-old and under tennis group. How can someone so young ever hope to compete with kids much older and more experienced than him? This is no ordinary kid: he is none other than Ryoma Echizen, the Prince of Tennis! Ryoma's father was destined for greatness until he injured himself during a match, ending his career forever. His talent was passed on to his son, who is determined to be the best tennis player in the world. Can the prince gain the respect of his fellow teammates despite his small size and young age? Find out in this intense sports manga!
Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue Winning isn't everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's dream of reaching the finals come true--will they do it? Takehiko Inoue's legendary beloved basketball manga is finally here and the tale of a lifetime is in your hands. Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls--none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever...
This page introduces you to mangas and animes in Sports and Youth. These are the genres that most of the Japanese people encounter when growing up. Many poeple start playing sports because of some of these titles. They mean a lot to many.
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When it comes to interior design, many people celebrate color, focusing on their favorite two or three shades for any given room. But what about those who love every color of the rainbow? Do you have to limit your palette? The answer is "no!" Believe it or not, it is possible to bring a rainbow of options to your space. The key is making it stylish.
The Rainbow rug by Sonya Winner is a great way to bring color to a space without the use of paint. You may recognize this piece from a previous Decoist post on modern rugs. Note how the room's glass windows and simple flooring allow for the addition of a purple couch, an usual touch that somehow works in the space!
Rainbow-themed bathrooms are fun spaces, because their smaller size allows for a complete saturation of color. Not to mention, people are often willing to take more creative chances with bathroom spaces. The Rainbow Lab Bathroom below is designed by Chroma Lab, which specializes in custom interior finishes. Check out the full tutorial at the Chromalab blog.
In this next space, tiles were hand-painted with great care, then installed. All of the work clearly paid off, as a colorful pixel effect is the result! For the full tutorial, check out Instructables.
If you're tempted to bring rainbow colors into your home, remember that a little goes a long way. At the same time, you can't embrace this motif halfway. Whatever you decide, go all out. As you've seen in today's images, some rooms prefer to keep it simple with one rainbow feature in the midst of neutral surfaces, while others involve bringing as many colorful touches into the space as possible. Yet even in these rainbow-tastic spaces, some restraint is used. Add one detail at a time, and don't be afraid to call it quits when the room has reached its color limit. Follow these pointers, and you're sure to find a pot of gold at the end of your design rainbow!


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Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures
To a surprising degree, our political beliefs may derive from a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical revulsion.
Story by Kathleen McAuliffe
I. "My Jaw Dropped"
Why do we have the political opinions we have? Why do we embrace one outlook toward the world and not another? How and why do our stances change? The answers to questions such as these are of course complex. Most people aren't reading policy memos to inform every decision. Differences of opinion are shaped by contrasting life experiences: where you live; how you were raised; whether you're rich or poor, young or old. Emotion comes into the picture, and emotion has a biological basis, at least in part. All of this and more combines into a stew without a fixed recipe, even if many of the ingredients are known.
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On rare occasions, we learn of a new one—a key factor that seems to have been overlooked. To a surprising degree, a recent strand of experimental psychology suggests, our political beliefs may have something to do with a specific aspect of our biological makeup: our propensity to feel physical disgust.
In the mid-2000s, a political scientist approached the neuroscientist Read Montague with a radical proposal. He and his colleagues had evidence, he said, that political orientation might be partly inherited, and might be revealed by our physiological reactivity to threats. To test their theory, they wanted Montague, who heads the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at Virginia Tech, to scan the brains of subjects as they looked at a variety of images—including ones displaying potential contaminants such as mutilated animals, filthy toilets, and faces covered with sores—to see whether neural responses showed any correlation with political ideology. Was he interested?
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Montague initially laughed at the idea—for one thing, MRI research requires considerable time and resources—but the team returned with studies to argue their case, and eventually he signed on. When the data began rolling in, any skepticism about the project quickly dissolved. The subjects, 83 in total, were first shown a randomized mixture of neutral and emotionally evocative pictures—this second category contained both positive and negative images—while undergoing brain scans. Then they filled out a questionnaire seeking their views on hot-button political and social issues, in order to classify their general outlook on a spectrum from extremely liberal to extremely conservative. As Montague mapped the neuroimaging data against ideology, he recalls, "my jaw dropped." The brains of liberals and conservatives reacted in wildly different ways to repulsive pictures: Both groups reacted, but different brain networks were stimulated. Just by looking at the subjects' neural responses, in fact, Montague could predict with more than 95 percent accuracy whether they were liberal or conservative.
The subjects in the trial were also shown violent imagery (men pointing revolvers directly at the camera, battle scenes, car wrecks) and pleasant pictures (smiling babies, beautiful sunsets, cute bunnies). But it was only the reaction to repulsive things that correlated with ideology. "I was completely flabbergasted by the predictability of the results," Montague says.
His collaborators—John Hibbing and Kevin Smith at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and John Alford at Rice University, in Houston—were just as surprised, though less by the broad conclusion than by the specificity of the findings and the startling degree of predictability. Their own earlier research had already yielded a suggestive finding, indicating that conservatives tend to have more pronounced bodily responses than liberals when shown stomach-churning imagery. However, the investigators had expected that brain reactions to violent imagery would also be predictive of ideology. Compared with liberals, they'd previously found, conservatives generally pay more attention—and react more strongly—to a broad array of threats. For example, they have a more pronounced startle response to loud noises, and they gaze longer at photos of people displaying angry expressions. And yet even in this research, Hibbing says, "we almost always get clearer results with stimuli that are disgusting than with those that suggest a threat from humans, animals, or violent events. We have an ongoing discussion in our lab about whether this is because disgust is simply a more powerful and more politically relevant emotion or because it is an emotion that is easier to evoke with still images in a lab setting."
Findings so dramatic, especially in the social sciences, should be viewed with caution until replicated. The axiom that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof clearly applies here. That said, Hibbing, Montague, and their colleagues are scarcely alone in linking disgust and ideology.
At a deep, symbolic level, some researchers speculate, disgust may be bound up with ideas about "them" versus "us," about whom we instinctively trust and don't trust.
Using a far cruder tool for measuring sensitivity to disgust—basically a standardized questionnaire that asks subjects how they would feel about, say, touching a toilet seat in a public restroom or seeing maggots crawling on a piece of meat—numerous studies have found that high levels of sensitivity to disgust tend to go hand in hand with a "conservative ethos." That ethos is defined by characteristics such as traditionalism, religiosity, support for authority and hierarchy, sexual conservatism, and distrust of outsiders. According to a 2013 meta-analysis of 24 studies—pretty much all the scientific literature on the topic at that time—the association between a conservative ethos and sensitivity to disgust is modest: Disgust sensitivity explains 4 to 13 percent of the variation in a population's ideology. That may sound unimpressive, but it is in fact noteworthy, says David Pizarro, a psychology professor at Cornell who specializes in disgust. "These are robust, reliable findings. No matter where we look, we see this relationship"—a rarity in the fuzzy field of psychology. The trend stands out even more, he adds, when you consider all the other things that potentially impinge on "why you might have a particular political view."
II. The Behavioral Immune System
Broadly speaking, studies of possible connections between ideology and susceptibility to disgust fall into two categories. The first involves measuring subjects' sensitivity to disgust as well as their social or political ideologies and then calculating the correlation between the two. The second category explores whether exposure to disgusting subject matter can actually influence people's views in the moment. But whatever the type of study, the same general finding keeps turning up. "We are at the point where there is very solid evidence for the association," says Michael Bang Petersen, a political scientist at Aarhus University, in Denmark. His own research finds that "disgust influences our political views as much as or even more than long-recognized factors such as education and income bracket."
So many scientists have thrown themselves into this line of research in recent years that it has become an accepted discipline, sometimes jokingly given the aptly unappetizing name "disgustology." Their conclusions raise a lot of questions, chief among them: Why in the world would your reaction to mutilated animals, vomit, and other unwelcome things somehow be associated with your views on transgender rights, immigration, or anything else stirring debate in the news?
Researchers have theories rather than answers. At a deep, symbolic level, some speculate, disgust may be bound up with ideas about "them" versus "us," about whom we instinctively trust and don't trust. In short, this research may help illuminate one factor—among many—that underlies why those on the left and the right can so vehemently disagree.
There is nothing inherently political about disgust. It evolved not to guide us at the ballot box but rather, it is widely theorized, to protect us from infection. As we move about in the world, a sizable volume of research shows, our minds are constantly searching our surroundings for contaminants—moldy leftovers, garbage spilling out of trash cans, a leaky sewage pipe—and when the brain detects them, it triggers sudden feelings of revulsion. Confronted, we withdraw from the threat. The mechanism is part of what's known as the "behavioral immune system," and it is as vital for survival as the fight-or-flight response. Our pathogen-tracking system does its job largely beneath our conscious awareness—and pays close attention to those walking germ bags we call human beings.
This dynamic was highlighted in a pioneering series of experiments launched in the early 2000s by the psychologist Mark Schaller, of the University of British Columbia. Like a smoke detector, Schaller discovered, our germ radar operates on a better-safe-than-sorry principle. It is error-prone in flagging danger—it produces a lot of false positives. Any physical oddity displayed by the people around us—contagious or not—can set off an alarm. Just as a pink eye, a hacking cough, or an open wound may activate our behavioral immune system, so too can a birthmark, obesity, deformity, disability, or even liver spots. Furthermore, having germs on our mind can affect how we feel about people we perceive to be of a different race or ethnicity from ourselves.
In one notable experiment, Schaller showed subjects pictures of people coughing, cartoonish-looking germs sprouting from sponges, and other images designed to raise disease concerns. A control group was shown pictures highlighting threats unrelated to germs—for instance, an automobile accident. Both groups were then given a questionnaire that asked them to assess the level of resources the Canadian government should provide to entice people from various parts of the world to settle in Canada. Compared with the control group, the subjects who had seen pictures related to germs wanted to allocate a greater share of a hypothetical government advertising budget to attract people from Poland and Taiwan—familiar immigrant groups in Vancouver, where the study was conducted—rather than people from less familiar countries, such as Nigeria, Mongolia, and Brazil. Familiarity does make a difference. Schaller, whose landmark studies are credited with sparking the initial interest in the relationship between disgust sensitivity and prejudice, says: "If I grow up in an environment where everybody looks pretty much the same, then someone from China, for example, might trigger my behavioral immune system. But if I grow up in New York City, then a person who comes from China is not going to trigger this response."
If pathogen cues of this kind can indeed intensify prejudice, the explanation could be biological adaptation. Some scientists—notably the psychologist Corey Fincher, at the University of Warwick, in England, and the biologist Randy Thornhill, at the University of New Mexico—theorize that foreigners, at least in the past, would have been more likely to expose local populations to pathogens against which they had no acquired defenses. Other scientists think germ fears piggyback on negative stereotypes about foreigners common throughout history—the notion that they're dirty, eat bizarre foods, and have looser sexual mores.
Whatever the explanation, an online study launched by Petersen and Lene Aarøe, also at Aarhus University, and Kevin Arceneaux of Temple University suggests that a dread of contagion is not just a personal matter. It can have an impact on society. The investigators began by evaluating the disgust sensitivity of nationally representative samples of 2,000 Danes and 1,300 Americans. The participants were then asked to fill out a questionnaire that assessed their views about foreigners settling in their respective countries. As the researchers reported in 2017, opposition to immigration in both the Danish and American samples increased in direct proportion to a participant's sensitivity to disgust—an association that held up even after taking into account education level, socioeconomic status, religious background, and numerous other factors.
The team expanded the part of the study that focused on the U.S. It got state-by-state breakdowns of the prevalence of infections, and also analyzed statistics compiled by Google Trends, which tracks internet searches related to contagious illnesses in an effort to spot early signs of outbreaks. Crunching the numbers (the results are as yet unpublished), the researchers found that resistance to immigration is greatest in states with the highest incidence of infectious disease and where worry about this, as reflected by internet activity, has also been high.
More recent investigations by Petersen and Aarøe suggest that those with high disgust sensitivity tend to be leery of any stranger, not just foreigners. They view casual social acquaintances with a certain amount of suspicion—a robust finding replicated across three studies with a total of 4,400 participants. The implication is clear: Disgust and distrust are somehow linked. And maybe, again, the link is defensive in origin: If you shrink your social circle, you'll reduce your exposure to potential carriers of disease.
III. The Smell Test
Interest in disgust sensitivity extends beyond its potential role in fostering xenophobia and prejudice. As the social psychologists Simone Schnall, at the University of Cambridge, and Jonathan Haidt, at NYU, have shown, disgust sensitivity may also help shape beliefs about right and wrong, good and evil. In one experiment, Schnall, Haidt, and other collaborators sat subjects at either a clean desk or one with sticky stains on it as they filled out a form that asked them to judge the offensiveness of various acts, such as lying on a résumé, not returning a wallet found on the street, and resorting to cannibalism in the aftermath of a plane crash. One subgroup of participants seated at the filthy desk—those with high "private body consciousness," meaning they were particularly sensitive to their own visceral reactions—judged the transgressions more severely than those seated at the pristine desk.
Foul odors can be just as effective as a sticky desk. Another experiment involved two groups of subjects with similar political ideologies. One group was exposed to a vomitlike scent as the subjects filled out an inventory of their social values; the other group filled out the inventory in an odorless setting. Those in the first group expressed more opposition to gay rights, pornography, and premarital sex than those in the second group. The putrid scent even inspired "significantly more agreement with biblical truth." Variations on these studies using fart spray, foul tastes, and other creative disgust elicitors reveal a consistent pattern: When we experience disgust, we tend to make harsher moral judgments.
In thinking about why disgust sensitivity may be associated with conservative moral values, researchers have considered the potential connection between the behavioral immune system and religion. Religious strictures and other traditions may have the hidden function of protecting us from disease, some theorize. Our urge to respect certain culinary practices, sexual prohibitions, and injunctions about washing and hygiene may not be just about achieving spiritual or symbolic purity, but may be the result of an evolutionary drive to avoid contamination.
Could a predilection toward revulsion indicate how we vote? A team led by Cornell's David Pizarro and Yoel Inbar, at the University of Toronto, set out to answer that question by conducting an online study during the 2008 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. In the run-up to the election, the researchers assessed the contagion anxiety of 25,000 "demographically and geographically diverse" Americans and then surveyed the attitudes toward the candidates held by a random subset of the larger group. Those with the highest germ fear reported that they were more likely to vote for McCain, the Republican nominee and the more conservative candidate. Further, the actual proportion of votes that went to him in each state directly scaled with that state's level of contagion anxiety. The researchers eventually extended studies of this kind to 121 countries and found that disgust sensitivity correlated with a conservative ethos basically everywhere there were sufficient data for analysis. As Pizarro, Inbar, and the other authors of the study write in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, this result suggests that disgust sensitivity "is related to conservatism across a wide variety of cultures, geographic regions and political systems."
IV. "It's a Little Hack"
Disgustology is a young endeavor. Not all the pieces fit together neatly, and some suppositions (as always) may turn out to be wrong. But a few clues have recently surfaced that suggest a useful framework for interpreting this sprawling mass of findings. One of them, in hindsight, is obvious: the etymology of disgust. The English word is derived from the Middle French desgoust, which literally means "distaste." As it turns out, what tastes foul to us is typically a sour or bitter substance—which can be a marker of contaminants (think of spoiled milk). Several years ago, Pizarro learned that people vary tremendously in the number of bitter receptors they possess on their tongue, and thus in their taste sensitivity. What's more, the trait is genetically determined. This got him wondering: If conservatives have a greater disgust sensitivity, are they also better at detecting bitter compounds? "It seemed like a really long shot," Pizarro says. But he, Inbar, and Benjamin Ruisch, a grad student at Cornell, decided to put the idea to the test. They recruited 1,601 subjects from shopping malls and from the Cornell campus and gave them paper strips containing a chemical called Prop and another chemical called PTC, both of which taste bitter to some people. Sure enough, those who had self-identified as being conservative were more sensitive to both compounds; many described them as unpleasant or downright repugnant. Liberals, on the other hand, tended not to be bothered as much by the chemicals or didn't notice them at all.
The researchers went a step further. Taste receptors, they knew, are concentrated in fungiform papillae—those spongy little bumps on your tongue. The greater the density of papillae, the more acute your taste. So they dyed subjects' tongues blue (which allows the papillae to be more easily observed), pasted a paper ring on them like those used to prevent pages from tearing out of a metal binder (to create a standard area to be evaluated), and recorded the number of circumscribed papillae. The degree to which subjects' views tilted to the right was, they found, in direct proportion to the density of papillae on their tongue. This result may have bearing on a puzzling partisan split in food preferences. A 2009 survey of 64,000 Americans revealed that liberals chose bitter-tasting arugula as their favorite salad green more than twice as often as conservatives did. It may also have a bearing on conservative President George H. W. Bush's famous hatred of broccoli—an unusually bitter vegetable. Of course, sometimes a stalk of broccoli is just a stalk of broccoli.
No doubt your own political allegiances will heavily influence what you extract from the bulk of this research. If you're liberal, you may be thinking, So this explains some of the other side's nativism and hostility to immigration. But it's just as easy to flip the science on its head and conclude, as conservatives might, that the left is composed of clueless naïfs whose rosy-eyed optimism about human nature—and obliviousness to various dangers—will only lead to trouble.
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The research itself does not speak to the relative merits of a conservative or liberal ethos—how could it? Conservatism and liberalism are not monolithic, and they rest on deep intellectual traditions. In terms of gut reactions, the relative appeal of each philosophy can depend significantly on context—for instance, on whether times are kind or cruel. When tensions are high and groups split into factions, as they inevitably do, we can depend on our family and friends to defend our interests—but the outsider is an unknown quantity and, from an evolutionary perspective, may be seen as a source of contamination or, more generally, a threat.
One defining characteristic of disgust, though, is that it occupies a blind spot in our psyche. As Pizarro notes, "It's such a low-level, almost noncognitive emotion that you really aren't thinking that much about it." Compared with anger, happiness, and sadness, he says, disgust is also "less open to change based on your judgment, your thoughts, your reasoning." Chocolate in the shape of dog poop, he points out, is still gross. The emotion is more reflexive than reflective. "That is the rhetorical strength of disgust," Pizarro says. "It's a little hack. You hack into brains pretty quickly and easily by making them feel disgust," bypassing logic and reason to sway judgment.
Aristotle may not have found this idea surprising. As he intuited millennia ago, a human being "is by nature a political animal"—uniquely endowed with the capacity for deliberation and speech, but at the same time governed by instincts we share with other living creatures. Like bees, he noted, we have a desire to congregate—to form societies. Aristotle could not have anticipated the germ theory of disease, or the role infection avoidance might unconsciously play, but his fundamental insight about the animal side of our politics remains prescient. Even the most rational among us might not always be as rational as we'd like to think.
This article appears in the March 2019 print edition with the headline "The Yuck Factor."
Kathleen McAuliffe is a Miami-based science writer and the author, most recently, of This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society.
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Plant of the Week: Ficus aurea
sciencesnippets1 April 5, 2018 August 17, 2018 Plant of the Week
Ficus aurea, also known as the Florida strangler fig, is in the family Moraceae, which includes cultivated plants such as mulberry and breadfruit. The genus Ficus includes species such as the common fig, Ficus carica, and strangler figs (e.g. Ficus watkinsiana and Ficus altissima) [1].
Edited from Useful Tropical Plants – Ficus aurea
Strangler figs are a group of plants found in the tropics and subtropics that grow through strangling a host plant. All species of strangler fig are classified within the genus Ficus but there are other strangler species (e.g. within the families Araliaceae and Clusiaceae). In David Attenborough's The Private Life of Plants series, he entertainingly describes how a strangler fig consumes another plant.
Briefly, a seed, likely dispersed by bird, germinates in a crevice at the top of a host tree. Once established, the roots begin to grow downward towards the ground to obtain nutrients, not only from the host but the surrounding environment. As the roots develop, the plant begins to grow reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the host species. The roots slowly constrain plant growth, "strangling" the host species. Often upon completion of this process, the strangled tree dies. However, having developed an intricate network of roots, the strangler fig is able to support itself.
Edited from Arbor Culture
Edited from Project Noah
This evolutionary adaptation is termed a hemiephiphytic life cycle. An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and therefore a hemiepiphyte is an organism that spends part of its life cycle as an epiphyte [2]. Epiphytic plants common to the tropics that I plan to discuss in future posts include many species in the families Orchidaceae and Bromeliaceae. There are also terms for an organism that grow on another life form, plant or otherwise (epibiont) or grow on a rock (epilith).
Distribution and characteristics
Ficus aurea is native to Central America with its range spanning from the state of Florida to Panama. It can be found in tropical forests and aquatic habitats and can grow between 30 to 100m in height. It is pollinated solely by fig wasps in the family Agaonidae. These mutualistic partners of the fig tree are defined as obligate, meaning that neither species can survive without the presence of the other. The strangler figs cannot be pollinated by any other insect whilst the fig wasp is only able to reproduce within the flowers of the strangler fig [3].
Why is it Plant of the Week?
The lifestyle of Ficus aurea as an epiphyte makes it an interesting plant. Alongside this fascinating strategy, the Florida strangler fig is used in agriculture as a building material in Central America [4]. It has also been utilised as an ornamental tree and tamed to produce bonsai forms. I feel that the relationship between the strangler fig and its host species demonstrates that plant biology is not static or simple but that the ecological interactions of flora with their surroundings is an ever changing, dynamic continuum.
If you want to learn more:
Zhou, Z. & Gilbert, M, G. 2003. Flora of China (Moraceae) 5: 21-73.
Putz, F. E. & Holbrook, N. M. 1989. Strangler Fig Rooting Habits and Nutrient Relations in the Llanos of Venezuela. American Journal of Botany. 76(6): 781-788.
Bronstein, J. L. & Patel, A. 1992. Causes and Consequences of Within-Tree Phenological Patterns in the Florida Strangling Fig, Ficus aurea (Moraceae). American Journal of Botany. 79(1): 41-48.
Harvey, C. A. & Haber, W. A. (1998). Remnant trees and the conservation of biodiversity in Costa Rican pastures. Agroforestry Systems. 44 (1): 37–68.
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Veronica Darling: Back from the country!
Thank you so much for your lovely comments about my first dress for the Sew Weekly challenge! I was so excited to read through them all, and I felt very spesh indeed! And thank you for putting up with my spelling mistakes courtesy of my 'smart phone', as I had to load the photos quickly on Friday morning, and then write about them in the car down to the country.
I can't remember if I posted this baby blanket, but it's one I finished before Christmas, while watching The Sopranos. It's made up entirely of scraps from my wool basket/suitcase!
I also thought (for you non-crochetters) this really shows you how the granny square is done, when it's multicoloured like this... So pick that yellow fat yarn/wool there, it's more of a square than a triangle, cause it's such fat wool. But see the purple and green straight after it, and how they sit like a triangle? That's made up of three little stitches, and I call them half double stitch... or maybe I can them treble stitch. I can't remember, cause it's different in different countries. I'm really bad at explaining things... I'll have to work on this sometime this year!
But I guess what I'm pointing out is that you keep one colour, and go all the way around the edge of the square... you do three little stitches together, then you do one single stitch, etc until you reach the corner then you do three little babes together in the corner, do two single stitches, then another 3 little babes in the same corner stitch. All the way around. Yep. Bad at explaining.
This is another blanket for the gift box, and we're hoping to see all these new baby friends soon, so we can give these presents away!
Also: The Sew Weekly challenge this week, is a film theme: Unrequited Love... I'm going to choose a film made in the late 1990s, but set in the 1970s! I'll blog my progress again this week when I can... is that ok? I'm adoring sewing a theme each week, with the darling Sew Weekly community! Whilst we (Debi, Sarah & Adey, and Mena of course) are the contributors, you are also invited to sew along when you have the time! I saw some darling Chanel photos on Mena's blog, as part of the flickr group... so if you have time to look at a 'Unrequited Love' movie this week, sew away with us!
The blanket is beautiful. I love the bright colours!
My first Sew Weekly Theme!
More things for the Gift Box!
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Q: trying to save the figure of stacked bar chart in canvas widget I grouped the data and tried for a stacked bar chart and it worked fine the figure is also plotted in the interpreter with an ipynb jupyter notebook file as show in the picture attached, but when I want to use that figure in the canvas of matplotlib.backends canvas for displaying plots figure was not plotted just empty axes,
need some solution to save the subplot and utilize it for displaying in canvas
can any share their knowledge with me to solve my problem
    dfd = df.groupby(['Region','Sub-Category']).aggregate({'Sales':sum}).unstack(-2)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize =(7, 5))

below is the core detailed code
  import pandas as pd
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  df = pd.read_excel("C:/Users/OneDrive/Desktop/Excel_files/Sample - Superstore2.xlsx")
  df.groupby(['Category','Sub-Category']).aggregate({'Sales':sum}).unstack(-2).plot(kind = 'bar',stacked= True,figsize = (15,7) )
  plt.show()

this is my full code what I want is like I to want use its figure to display in the Tkinter canvas widget, as like we have option in below possible way as far as my knowledge
      fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, figsize=(7, 5))

by using ax we will plot graphs and those graphs will be stored in fig variable as subplots and this fig variable can be used to display the figure in canvas.
type of fig varibale is ->  <class 'matplotlib.figure.Figure'>
but when i use ax for plotting the stacked bar plot its not been plotted properly

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August 30, 2021 justintfirefly
JTF's HS Jams Review — 7) Blink-182 "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket"
Released June 12, 2001; Produced by Jerry Finn
Cliques are an interesting thing, no? When I was in elementary school, I think I fell into a clique that was unidentifiable. Kevin and Cody were the troublemakers, Jeremy and Joey were the preps, Mark and Eric were the jocks, Willie and Nicole were the hoods. I got along with the troublemakers but made very little trouble, myself … My family wasn't rich enough to buy my way in with the preps … I played sports but wasn't good enough to associate with the jocks … And my family lived in a neighborhood that was a little too nice to allow me to be a hood. I wore band shirts and hand-me-downs from my older cousins most of the time and was rather happy with my very unique, though very small, group of friends.
In middle school I was introduced to a more fierce version of the jocks and preps but was also introduced to the skaters, the metalheads and the rednecks. I was immediately attracted to the skaters and metalheads because I, too, was a skater at the time and I had been listening to metal most of my life. They also seemed to be a safe place to exist if you were a kid who felt like they were a little too far "outside" the social norm. I was shunned by both groups, however, because I wore Airwalk shoes (apparently too "preppy" for real skaters who preferred DCs and Etnies) and owned t-shirts with AC/DC and Van Halen logos on them (two bands who were a little too "soft" for the metalheads who were at the time WAY this new-at-the-time band called Korn). With no other place to turn, I tried to force my way into the world of jocks and preps.
For the next few years I spent plenty of my parents' money on Abercrombie t-shirts, Aeropostale jeans, FUBU jerseys and Dennis Rodman's signature Chuck Taylors. I played football, basketball and ran track. I participated in 3-on-3 intramural basketball and spent my days woefully pining for the attention of the popular girls who saw through my facade and never gave me any attention. Day in and day out I was miserable because I was so obsessed with what everyone thought of me and despite my best efforts, I was never quite full-on "cool."
I was in high school when I found my home. There was never a punk scene in Kingsport but there were some kids who were lucky enough to have experienced a life on the fringes where punk rock exists and they brought it to school with them — the music, the attitude and the style. Turns out I already had the punk-rock mentality and immediately fell in love with every punk band I listened to … I just didn't quite have the look yet. My parents were sticklers when teaching me how to make a good first impression and being careful to not offend anyone with my words or my appearance. Deep down, though, I knew that walking on eggshells for the rest of my life was not in the cards for me.
When I was a sophomore, I dove deep into the world of punk — I was already a fan of the Ramones and Green Day but the high school experience turned me onto the Misfits, the Dead Kennedys, NOFX and the Dropkick Murphys just to name a few. I was also a big fan of pop-punk outfit Blink-182 who was kinda killing it on TRL and on the rock charts with their 1999 record Enema of the State. I bought that record, like so many others, after seeing the music videos for All the Small Things, What's My Age Again? and Adam's Song. I then took a much deeper dive into their music and picked up 1997's Dude Ranch, 1995's Cheshire Cat and 1994's Buddha. My gray Blink-182 shirt that simply depicted the band's "pill' logo made famous by Enema of the State was my first "punk rock" band t-shirt and I wore it proudly to school every week.
Until I walked out of biology and a then-foe (not faux) punker named Dustin began yelling at me with a voice that sounded like a tape recorder on half speed. "HEYYYYYYYY … You're not a punk…" he said as he began frantically tapping the Blink-182 logo on my shirt with a right hand that was wearing a grizzly bear glove. I muttered "… what?" before he ran away down the hall.
"What" was all I could get out. I was dejected and heartbroken. He was right. I wasn't in the punk scene, I just knew some punk kids and liked the music. I immediately went into a multi-day panic that this guy was going to expose my poseur-ness in front of all the classmates I didn't like much anyway when I realized that very fact — I didn't like these kids anyway so who cares what they thought of me?
I ended up sitting next to Dustin the entire second semester and we became really good friends. After several in-depth conversations, I realized that I had finally been accepted. Not because my clothes fit the part, but because both he and I realized in those days that being a punker had little to do with your clothes and everything to do with your mindset and attitude.
Dustin and I shared a mutual love of hardcore punkers like the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and the like, but we both also loved the pop punk that was growing more popular by the second in those days. Green Day and Good Charlotte were all over MTV but more importantly … so was Blink-182. The band who caused our initial rift became what we bonded over the most. We'd ride around town together singing songs from the existing Blink albums, splitting the vocal parts (I was Tom, of course, and he was Mark) and we even shared vocal duties on a karaoke rendition of All the Small Things during a school assembly.
And while Dustin and I were having a great time singing songs about being desperate to get laid, having mature relationships ruined by our own personal immaturity, vague references to beastiality, mocking the boyfriend of the girl you want to be with, feeling depressed and suicidal because of life's pressures and being stuck in the middle class of a small town — all themes present on Enema of the State — At the end of the day, we were starting to grow up.
Fortunately for us, Blink-182 was also growing up (slightly) with their 2001 release.
7 — Blink-182 — Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
I'm going to go ahead and admit that contrary to the "growing up" I was just mentioning, the title of this album is a bit immature. Earlier this week while I was doing research for this post, I was made aware — for the first time ever — of the album's title being a play on words (take off your pants and jack it). I'd been listening to this album for TWENTY YEARS and have said the album title probably hundreds of times and never once caught that. Maybe I grew up before Blink-182 did? Who knows.
Regardless of the album's title, this record definitely shows Blink going in a much more mature direction than their previous efforts. The pop-punk sounds they helped put into full-time radio are still there but there's more of a hint of hardcore and elements of harder emo. Lyrical subjects include kids being more aware of the "systems" of society than they get credit for, breaking up in the early internet age, being the kid with divorced parents and leading an anti-authoritarian lifestyle.
More mature though it may be, they sprinkle in the pee-pee, poo-poo elements that made Blink-182 what they were. Happy Holidays, You Bastard is so filthy that on edited versions of the record, the track is merely instrumental. Depending on the version of the album you got (Take Off, Pants or Jacket versions) hidden tracks include songs about beastialitarian desires and grandfatherly incest. They're growing up but at the end of the day, Blink-182 is still Blink-182. The great thing about this is at the age 16, I too, was growing up but was still an inappropriate child with a potty mouth and a taste for toilet humor.
Strong Points
Anthem Part Two kicks off the record and picks up where Enema of the State left off (the final song on that record is simply Anthem). The thundering intro is reminiscent of a military march for an army of teenagers. Travis Barker's drumming carries this record and it immediately shines through as it literally rolls through each verse.
Story of a Lonely Guy is a ballad that most teenage guys would identify with — hell, maybe even some adults I know! Being young and in love is both one of the greatest and most painful things we can ever experience and Tom's crooning about the metaphorical storms in one's heart caused by teenage romance is not only relatable but you also can't help but believe it's coming from someone who's been there and done that.
Roller Coaster is a song about a relationship's ups and downs, a concept that as a teenager, I HATED but as an adult, I admire in a weird way. The highs of a teenage relationship are beautiful but the lows are usually calls for dramatic response, threats of self-harm and unnerving attempts to stir up a reaction from your BF/GF. As an adult, the highs are even more beautiful and the lows are a great test of the strength of your longevity as a couple. When Katie and I were first telling everyone we were getting married, SO MANY people responded by asking us if we'd ever gotten into a fight! While this was very strange for us, it was also understandable because everyone who asked us had already been through some righteous fights of their own, many of which were detrimental to their relationships. Katie and I have certainly experienced a few lows but we deal with them in such a great way and it makes our relationship much stronger as a result. In this way, I identify with Mark saying "Roller coaster, favorite ride; Let me kiss you one last time."
Favorite Songs
In 1997, Mark was in love with a girl named Josie. She was the best girlfriend he could have ever asked for — not getting jealous when he hangs out with the guys, laughing at his dumb jokes, etc. But in Online Songs, a sequel to Josie, the relationship hasn't quite survived the lows of the aforementioned roller coaster. I love Mark's bass solo during the opening verse and the creative count-in that follows. Travis' drums hit that classic punk-rock pattern while Mark's bassline permeates the rest of the song. I love the chorus So don't remind me, put your past behind me, it shines so bright it blinds me, I wish that this would end; And I am not fine, last night I saw you online, your screen name used to be mine, why can't we just pretend? Dated references now, maybe, but at the time it was a great illustration of the relatively new world of breaking up with someone you'd still see online. A great timely reference and I dig it.
The Rock Show was the first single off the album (I think it got an early release on MTV) and is one of my favorite Blink-182 songs of all time. The topic of falling in love with someone at a show and sticking it out with them despite getting no support from anyone at home has a fairy-tale element that Blink-182 isn't exactly known for but pulls off fairly well. The back-and-forth between Mark and Tom in the chorus adds to the high energy of the song and can we talk about the music video for a second? The guys cash a check given to them by the record label for their video and spend every last penny on the most obnoxious and wasteful things … while shooting all of it for a PRICELESS music video!
Stay Together for the Kids is the aforementioned song about being a kid during a divorce. As a child with divorced parents, I identified with nearly every emotion expressed on this banger. The intro and verse structure is heartfelt and low-key, not unlike Adam's Song. But unlike Adam's Song, when the chorus hits, it hits HARD. In what was probably the hardest instrumental in Blink's catalogue up until that point, the chorus' emotionally charged vocals and raucous sound is a stark contrast to the saddened tone of Mark's verses. The music video adds a rumble effect to each of the choruses while teenagers rage out in an abandoned home — a visual that was quite obvious to me even before seeing the video. A very powerful song and totally unexpected from a band like Blink-182.
Like I mentioned before, each version of the record came with a unique pair of hidden tracks. Take Off consisted of Time to Break Up (DeLonge) and Mother's Day (Hoppus); Jacket had Don't Tell Me It's Over (DeLonge) and When You F*cked Grandpa (Hoppus); and Pants had F*ck a Dog (Hoppus/DeLonge) and one of my personal favorites, the somber What Went Wrong (DeLonge). Tom said the band usually writes all their songs on acoustic guitars before turning them into electric punk rock songs, yet What Went Wrong was much stronger as an acoustic song. I have to agree! Tom felt the need to push his songwriting skills to a different level after listening to another band I loved from that era — Alkaline Trio. What Went Wrong gives me hardcore Alkaline Trio vibes only instead of "I'm in love with you so much I want to be buried alive" the theme is "I hate my life without you in it."
Take Off Your Pants and Jacket only sold half as many copies as their previous effort Enema of the State (2-million vs. 4.5-million in the USA). Regardless, Enema peaked in the US at number 9 on the charts while Take Off Your Pants went all the way to number 1 in the USA, Canada and Germany.
So far on this list, the record I'm covering remains my favorite album by that band. That's not the case here — my favorite Blink-182 album was Take Off Your Pants and Jacket's followup, the eponymous Blink-182 (peaked at #2, selling 2.2-million domestically) and is one of my favorite records of all time. This record didn't get released until I was in college, so it doesn't qualify for this list — it was definitely the soundtrack to my college experience, however.
After the self-titled record, Blink-182 didn't experience the same kind of success, with 2011's Neighborhoods selling only 353,000 copies, 2016's California (with Matt Skiba in place of Tom) selling 500,000 and 2019's Nine selling 77,000.
While this record is phenomenal and still holds up 20 years later, it's notorious for being a turning point for the band. Darkness was beginning to descend on the guys as Tom's continued abuse of painkillers was becoming problematic as was Mark's unwillingness to evolve the band's sound. The next record was the best thing they ever put out and their hiatus led to the building of the just-okay +44 (Mark and Travis' side project) and Tom's Angels and Airwaves (whom I cannot stand).
It did, however, lead to the formation of Tom and Travis' side project Boxcar Racer — a band with only a single release that I'll be talking about on this very list in a couple of weeks.
Until then, ever onward.
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The nonnative zebra mussel from Eurasia began infesting U.S. rivers and reservoirs in the late 1980s. The clam-like creatures first appeared in the Great Lakes Region, most likely brought there as stowaways on cargo vessels.
Since then, they have spread southward through rivers and streams and now infest 14 Texas water bodies along five river basins. Canyon Lake is the infected water body nearest to Corpus Christi.
Evidence shows recreational boats have become the unwitting carriers of this epidemic, according to Texas Parks & Wildlife officials. The tiny mussel larvae from an infected lake attach to boats, motors and trailers.
They can survive for days out of the water. So the undetected hitchhikers can detach the next time a boat is launched at a different location miles away. Wildlife officials suggest allowing a boat and trailer to dry for at least seven days after cleaning.
"When zebra mussels were found in the Colorado River Basin we knew it was likely that larvae would disperse and invade downstream water bodies," said Monica McGarrity, who leads the department's Aquatic Invasive Species team. "But downstream dispersal doesn't spread zebra mussels to new river basins — boats do — and boats can spread them downstream more quickly."
The most effective way to protect other river basins and prevent zebra mussels from spreading is by thoroughly cleaning, draining and drying all boats and other gear after visiting any lake or river.
Texas boaters are required to drain all water from their boat and onboard receptacles, such as bait wells, before leaving or approaching a body of fresh water.
This requirement applies to all types and sizes of boats, including personal watercraft, sailboats, kayaks/canoes or any other vessel used on public waters.


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Q: Especificar Consulta de búsqueda tipo Tengo un pequeño problema: necesito una función que me ayude a seleccionar solo datos explícitos.
Ejemplo. En el campo TIPO tengo
 boleta 12
 ticket
 E-boleta
 factura 13
 Pedido
 boleta 23
 factura 2

Solo quiero que me muestre los que inicien con:
 boleta
 factura

como podría ser mi procedimiento. Alguna pista por favor y que tengan un buen día abrazos.
select sucursal.nombre,venta.mov, count(*) [Total Comprobante] from venta
(nolock)
left outer join sucursal (nolock) on venta.sucursal = sucursal.sucursal
left outer join movtipo on venta.mov = movtipo.mov and movtipo.modulo =
'vtas' and movtipo.clave in
('vtas.fb','vtas.f','vtas.fc','vtas.fg','vtas.d','vtas.dc','vtas.b')
where
movtipo.clave in
('vtas.fb','vtas.f','vtas.fc','vtas.fg','vtas.d','vtas.dc','vtas.b') and
FechaEmision >= '2018-01-01' and FechaEmision < '2018-01-31'
group by sucursal.nombre,venta.mov

A: Buen día.
Puedes utilizar el operador like para hacer un select que te devuelva las filas que te interesan.
La idea básica del like es encontrar registros que sean similares a un patrón. Los caracteres % y _ son comodines (wilcards en inglés) y tienen un significado especial:

*

*% coincidirá con cualquier secuencia de caracteres (cero, uno o más)

*_ coincidirá con un caracter cualquiera, exactamente uno.

Así las cosas, podemos encontrar coincidencias de cadenas que inicien con un 'valor' determinado utilizando el patrón 'valor%'.
Aterrizando las ideas, puedes encontrar todos los registros que inicien con la palabra factura haciendo algo como:
select *
  from miTabla
 where tipo like 'factura%';

La coincidencia entre mayúsculas y minúsculas estará determinada por el collate de la columan tipo. Si es case insensitive, también conicidiría una cadena tal como 'FACTURA 56'.
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Ahora que has añadido tu consulta, quiero añadir que puedes añadir directamente al where dos condiciones like, por ejemplo, asumiendo que el campo tipo está en la tabla venta, esto haría el trabajo:
 where ...
   and (venta.tipo like 'factura%' or venta.tipo like 'boleta%')
 group by ...

Finalmente, no está relacionado con tu pregunta, pero no veo sentido a que en el select hagas un left outer join con la tabla movtipo si luego vas a filtrar solo ciertos valores de una columna de dicha tabla en el where. Haz directamente un inner join, además eso te ahorra poner el filtro es el mismo en el join que en el where.
Otro tema que he visto que mucha gente utiliza indiscriminadamente es el uso del hint (nolock). ¿sabes realmente lo que estás haciendo con eso?. Si no lo sabes, por favor, investiga.


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Do not distract attention from our homemade extremists
The Times of Israel, July 7, 2014
Many people now claim that they cannot believe that Jews commit such a crime: to kidnap and then to burn a 16 year old Palestinian, who was still alive, after having been beaten by his killers. Obviously, several Jewish Israeli have been involved in this crime, with three suspects already affirming their crime. I am wondering, why so many in the pro-Israel tent immediately responded with disbelief. As if Jews were not human beings like all others? The shocking truth is that human beings are capable of the worst crimes possible, everyone, everywhere.
Of course, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Boko Haram and many other Islamist groups are much more dangerous. We deal with them and their crimes and their threat to Jews, western civilization, to education, to Muslims, women and girls in Nigeria and many other places, to our western freedoms and many more related topics on a daily basis. But now is the time to at least for a certain time focus on our own, pro-western, pro-Israel tent. I dealt with these troubling aspects in the pro-Israel and anti-Islamism tent already in the past, but close to no one of my colleagues listened.
Now, I am shocked to still see people on the internet who deny that Jews could have been the killers. They say that burning is a typical method of Arabs to kill gay men. All these people are bordering to hardcore conspiracy circles and to anti-Arab racism of the worst kind. Others are very eager to detract attention from the killing of Muhammed Abu Khdeir. Some posted today the most ridiculous and shameful posters like the one made by Pamela Geller and her allies that portray Islam as such as much as evil as Hitler. This was a bus advertisement in May in New York, for example. As if Islamism is in the Quran and not in those heads of Islamists who use the Quran to fight the Jews. Both Islamists and those anti-Islam agitators ignore and fight the majority of Muslims that is moderate and not involved in antisemitic hatred. Still, Islamism is a huge threat. But by inciting to hatred of all of Islam the fight against Islamism is already lost. They posted this today to distract attention from Netanyahu's excuse to the Palestinian family of Muhammed Abu Khdeir.
David Horovitz on 7 July, 2014, wrote a very powerful and tremendously important piece about the current situation and the killing of Muhammed Abu Khdeir.
Horovitz wrote:
We need to internalize, too, that while we rightly protest the constant incitement against Israel that is tolerated, often encouraged, by the Palestinian leadership, our own house is not in order. It's heartening to hear politicians and rabbis reaching deep into their lexicons for words of condemnation, but they ring a little hollow against the backdrop of hostility to Arabs displayed so routinely by so many policy-makers and opinion-shapers. (…) We can try to comfort ourselves by claiming that our thugs and killers are aberrations, reviled by the mainstream, while their thugs and killers are widely exalted heroes. But our aberrations are multiplying — our killers and our thugs, our Jewish terror groups and our uniformed assailants. And unlike the Palestinians, we cannot claim the "occupation" in our defense — for we are masters of our own destiny, and we must urgently reassert our higher values.
Netanyahu called the parents of the killed Palestinian teenager and offered them his sympathies. There won't be places named after the killers. Abbas did not call the Israeli parents so far and the PA did not find the Palestinian killers of the three Israeli teenagers.
But this has nothing to do with right-wing extremist views and actions in Israel and abroad. Too many people are reluctant to deal with troubling tendencies in Israel and the pro-Israel camp. I realized this at a conference in Jerusalem in May 2014, for example. Making fun of killed socialist anti-Zionists in Norway in 2011 by neo-Nazi Breivik did not result in criticism. Statements like "the Westbank is temporarily occupied by the Palestinians" went without any kind of outcry. The same holds for statements like "all Muslims will become antisemitic" sooner or later, as the Quran teaches them like this. Obviously too many people still have not learnt that not a single book (including the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Bible, the Quran) can be taken literally anymore. It always depends on interpretation. There are left-wing pious pro-Zionist Muslims, no doubt about this.
Much work is to be done in the pro-Israel tent. Taken my experiences with scholars and activists in Germany, the US, the UK, France, Israel and other countries, I fear that there won't be much efforts to deal with right-wing ideology in our own tent.
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Start your engines — your electric engines that is.
Nissan has just anounced that it will sell the all-electric LEAF in the U.S. for $32,780. A Federal Tax Credit of $7,500, which, in theory the first 200,000 LEAFs sold should qualify for, brings that price to a very affordable $25,280, or essentially the same price as a 2010 mid-line Honda Accord.
Only, in contrast to the Accord, the LEAF won't use any gasoline, just electricity, which, on a per mile basis is considerably cheaper than gas.
And if you solar-charge the LEAF with a home solar system that's already been paid off, you'll be filling up your car for free.
In other words, as SolarChargedDriving.Com has noted in other stories, you'll be saving a lot of money — and doing the right thing for the environment.
Nissan has been promising for awhile that it would deliver what it has sometimes termed "the world's first affordable electric car". And, it would seem it has delivered.
There is also a lease option of $349 a month for 36 months with $1,999 due at the signing of the lease.
Now — especially with the post-tax credit price putting the LEAF in the mid-20,000 dollar range — the biggest issue for those who want a LEAF might well be getting their hands on one.
The LEAF will be available in December 2010 in a few select West Coast and East Coast markets. Nissan says it will offer the LEAF more widely in the U.S. in 2011.
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Wikipedia Lies, Apr 06 | False Information on the Internet
Internet Tools and Website Savvy
by Claudia Mueller
BY JIM KARPEN
Imagine John Seigenthaler's surprise last November whenhe read in an Internet encyclopedia that he was suspected of being involvedin the assassinations of John F. and Robert Kennedy. The article also claimedthat he had lived in the Soviet Union for 13 years.
This demonstrably false information about the 78-year-old former editorand publisher of The Tennessean newspaper was eventually found to have beena prank. But it had been online for four months before Seigenthaler discoveredit.
And when he did discover it, he wrote about it in USAToday and drew worldwideattention to the incident.
The encyclopedia in question, of course, is Wikipedia.
Click here to read therest of this article. You'll be taken to Jim Karpen's website for the complete article, and access to all of Jim's posted writings.
Jim Karpen, Ph.D., teaches writing at Maharishi University of Managementin Fairfield, Iowa. He has been interested in the revolutionaryconsequences of computer technology ever since writinghis Ph.D. dissertation in 1984 at Bowling Green State Universityon the study of the "digitizedword."
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Dr. Bryan believes in a natural approach to maintaining happiness, wellness, vitality, and peak performance through regular chiropractic adjustments, optimum nutrition, daily exercise, supplementation, and eliminating toxins and stress. His philosophy when treating patients is that proper structure will equate to proper function. When the bones and joints are misaligned, it creates added stress on the body via an abnormal feedback loop to the brain that is often hard to overcome. This, in-turn, creates added stress on the muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are attached. By removing the misalignments, there is less nerve interference, and the body is able to heal itself. When your body's structure is sound, your function will be optimal thus reducing injury, pain, and ultimately… disease.
Other than providing Chattanooga chiropractic care, Dr. Bryan's biggest passion is soccer and loving on animals! You may even see Dr. Bryan playing soccer around the local community 1-2 nights a week or hanging out with his dog, Piper at a local dog park! He also enjoys learning new things, reading books, talking sports, and riding his motorcycle!
Dr. Bryan has worked with patients from all walks of life. He has helped the lives of the elderly, infants, pregnant mothers, fathers, athletes, couch potatoes, and everything in between. He has a specific passion for empowering his practice members to take control of their health by clearing their nervous system of interference and through simple, yet sustainable and effective health practices! He has lead classes in the community on topics ranging from Nutrition and Lifestyle modifications to Exercise and Mental Health Practices.
While illness, sports injuries, and accident-related injuries lead many patients to seek chiropractic relief from our office in Chattanooga, these same patients are inclined to continue with routine treatment. After seeing the many benefits that come from a genuinely whole-body approach to health and well-being, the previously skeptical person often become a 100% enthusiast! These individuals find that they are also noticing a vast improvement in their overall function!
The services that we offer at our chiropractic clinic located in Chattanooga caters to the specific, individualized needs of our patients, making us the premier source for Chattanooga chiropractic care.
Prenatal and Pediatric Care: Prenatal chiropractic care can help soon-to-be Moms have a more comfortable pregnancy and help her prepare her body for the difficulties of childbirth. Also, we can employ a gentle technique to address common misalignments found in infants, toddlers, and young children.
Personal Injury (Auto Accident): Treating patients after they have experienced a physical trauma requires a particular kind of care. Time is of the essence as soft tissue damage in and around your spine, if allowed to heal out of line, can cause chronic ongoing issues. Having the less obvious of spinal injuries assessed soon after an accident is vital. Acute soft tissue injuries often get overlooked without the attention of a chiropractor. We have been uniquely trained to look for these subtle and potentially dangerous misalignments.
Corrective or Reconstructive Care: Many spinal misalignments do not arise from a traumatic injury or accidents. They tend to happen over time! Throughout our lives, certain habits – such as posture, heavy lifting, and even workouts can cause recurring issues within your spine therefore your entire nervous system. We use corrective care to help bring back the natural curvatures and alignment of your spine and return order to your nervous system. With a combination of adjustments, exercises, and massage therapy patients often experience improvements in sleep quality, energy, mood, and more!
At our 100% Chiropractic center we can provide treatment to all family members regardless of age or stage of life. A significant portion of our patients and their families engage in regular wellness care. We believe that our individualized approach to wellness care, aimed at maintaining a healthy nervous system through a combination of adjustments, exercises, massage, supplements, and informative workshops offers our patients a pathway to optimal living! Other patients may only seek our help after they have had an accident or suffered from chronic pain for some time. In either case, the team will perform a thorough discovery assessment on all newcomers with the intention of developing and delivering individualized treatment plans.
If you would like to learn more about this whole-body approach to well-being and living your life to 100%, please stop by to visit our team at 100% Chiropractic Chattanooga right off I-75 on E Brainerd Road towards the mall! We love serving the Chattanooga Community and can't wait to meet you and your family!


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he described as Iran's testing of a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads as a violation of the international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme.
President Donald Trump pulled out of an international nuclear agreement in May and reimposed sanctions on Tehran, criticizing the deal for not including curbs on Iran's development of ballistic missiles or its support for proxies in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and Iraq.
Iran says its missile programme is purely defensive but has threatened to disrupt oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, if the United States tries to strangle Iranian oil exports. Last month, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said U.S. bases in Afghanistan, the UAE and Qatar, and U.S. aircraft carriers in the Gulf were within range.
The Islamic Republic's government has ruled out negotiations with Washington over its military capabilities, particularly its missile programme, which is run by the Revolutionary Guards.
On Tuesday, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran warned the European Union that Tehran's patience was running out on the bloc's pledge to keep up oil trading despite U.S. sanctions. He said Iran could resume enriching uranium to 20 percent purity if it fails to see economic benefits from the 2015 deal that curbed its nuclear programme.


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Temple U Student Struck in Hit-and-Run Near Campus
By David Chang	• Published at 7:29 pm on April 29, 2015
UPDATE: Family members have identified the Temple University student critically injured in the hit-and-run crash. And police have recovered the striking vehicle.
A Temple University student is fighting for her life after she was struck in a hit-and-run crash near the school's campus in North Philadelphia Wednesday.
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The 22-year-old student from Mullica Hill, New Jersey was riding her bicycle at the intersection of Park Avenue and Diamond Street around 7:25 p.m. when she was struck by a vehicle. The impact threw her off the bike and she landed on the street.
Witnesses told NBC10 the male driver tried to stop at first but was told to flee by the passenger. The car then drove west on Diamond Street and then northbound on Broad Street.
The woman, who police say was not wearing a helmet, suffered a fractured leg and head injuries. She was taken to Temple University Hospital where she is currently in extremely critical condition.
Investigators say the hit-and-run was captured on surveillance video.
The vehicle is described as a silver 2007-2009 Mitsubishi Galant with all black tires and damage to the passenger-side windshield. Police also say three men were in the car though they have not yet released a detailed description of them.
If you have any information about the incident, please call Philadelphia Police.


A Kentucky hospital has agreed to pay a $2.3 million fine to settle charges that it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
The penalty is the third-largest hospital false-claims settlement since 1984, according to government records compiled by MODERN HEALTHCARE.
The largest-nearly $3.3 million-was paid by Sacred Heart Hospital in Hanford, Calif., in 1991. The former HealthSpan Health Systems in Minneapolis paid a $3 million fine in 1993.
As was Sacred Heart's, the Kentucky settlement is the result of a "whistle-blower" lawsuit filed by someone connected with the hospital.
In his 1992 lawsuit, J. Hilton Brooks, M.D., accused 100-bed Pineville (Ky.) Community Hospital of violating the false-claims act.
Brooks, a physician on Pineville Community's staff, accused the hospital and two of its physicians of falsifying medical records. They did so, according to Brooks, by indicating in medical records that a physician performed a patient history and physical as part of the patient's visit, although neither service actually was provided. They attempted to authenticate the Medicare and Medicaid claims by rubber-stamping the physician's signature on the medical records, he said.
The hospital and physicians had engaged in the illegal billing scheme since at least 1986, Brooks charged.
When Brooks brought the matter to the attention of Pineville Community management, the hospital responded by recommending that his staff privileges not be renewed, according to court records.
On behalf of the federal government, Brooks subsequently sued the hospital and two physicians-Jerry Woolum, M.D., and Talmadge Hays, M.D.-in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky. He sought damages of $31 million.
Under the federal whistle-blower statute, individuals who sue on behalf of the federal government in fraud cases are entitled to as much as 25% of any recovery for the government.
However, the parties negotiated the settlement down to less than $3 million. They signed the deal on April 18.
"There was no desire to see the doctors or hospital put out of business," said William Copeland, Brooks' lawyer.
Under the settlement, the hospital and physicians admit to violating Medicare and Medicaid payment rules.
In addition to paying a $2.3 million fine, the hospital also agreed to conduct a training program for managers, employees and physicians on Medicare and Medicaid billing procedures.
The hospital also paid Brooks $300,000 to settle charges that it attempted to retaliate against him by stripping him of his staff privileges, according to Copeland. He has since retained "courtesy" staff privileges, which means he can admit a limited number of patients, Copeland said.
Woolum and Hays each paid $100,000 to settle the false-claims suit.
A spokesman for the hospital referred calls to Pineville Community's attorney, J.P. Cline III.
Cline said there was no intent on the part of the hospital to violate federal billing rules. He said the problem resulted primarily from the actions of the two physicians and "shoddy documentation practices."
Cline also credited the government with pressuring the plaintiff in the case to reduce the damage award in order to keep the hospital open.


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Matilda Van Cooten Excellence in Parenting: Royston and Claire Jones
Royston and Claire Jones have been married for 47 years and their four children describe them as exemplars of parenting.
"They have given us a very strong spiritual foundation, a prime example of perseverance in the face of challenge and adversity, the gift of support in every arena, huge lessons through their selflessness and a constant reminder of the importance and value of being an active participant in family," wrote the children in tribute to their parents.
Having studied in England, Royston arrived in Canada from Guyana in 1970 to answer the call of ministry. He was joined a year later by Claire and their first daughter, Diba. The family subsequently grew with three more children: Shireen, Andrew and Psegga.
When he came here, Royston was associated with inner city mission work of the United Church of Canada that included churches in the College St.- Bathurst St. area, as well as St. Jamestown-Regent Park areas.
He was stationed at the Regent Park United Church and when he started losing his vision as a result of glaucoma, he joined the Pentecostal church dealing with various aspects of ministry.
The loss of his sight changed the family dynamics but Royston continued to work in ministry and social services for as long as he could.
Claire became the breadwinner and has been working in the childcare sector for over 35 years.
Initially, she was working with teenage parents and is now at Cast for Kids Child Care Centre in the Sheppard Public School where she has been for 30 years.
"To this day our parents sacrifice continually, work hard, love intensely, and have blessed us immensely. The greatest blessing we have received is the truth of the gospel and the knowledge that there is power in walking in the grace of God," the children said.
They said their father is a strong patriarch and a very prominent spiritual leader for them, including his eight grandchildren.
Describing their mother as being "quiet and reflective" they noted that, "her strength is powerful."
Their parents pushed them to strive for greatness and made sure that they would accept nothing but the best from themselves and from others.
Royston is very proud of the achievements of his children and their involvement in their faith communities. Diba is a music instructor with The Royal Conservatory of Music, Shireen is a teacher with the Toronto District School Board, Andrew is the associate pastor at Christian Life Centre in Ajax, and Psegga lives in Montreal and works with the homeless and university students.
"I was pleased somebody has taken notice of my labour of love," he laughs in reference to the telephone call he got about being the recipient of the parenting award.
Mr. Darian Carrington


Conflicts of interest can be defined as situations in which a divergence between personal and professional interests might be perceived, such as an individual's professional actions being influenced by considerations of personal gain. Conflicts of interest can erode scientific objectivity.
In the modern research institution, it is impossible to avoid conflicts of interest. The goal of policies in this regard is not, therefore, to eliminate all conflicts but rather to manage them. The key to the conflict of interest process is communication and disclosure.
At most institutions, all faculty members are required to submit to their Chair/Director, Dean or Dean Equivalent, and finally to the vice President an annual disclosure and certification of compliance with the policies regarding conflicts of interest and any state ethics laws. In addition, as circumstances may arise during the year, ad hocdisclosures may be necessary. It is often difficult to identify a potential conflict of interest. One way to sensitize yourself to possible issues is to review the policies in their entirety.
Conflicts of commitment, a related problem, are situations in which the individual's time and energy are unreasonably diverted away from away from institutional responsibilities. Conflicts of commitment are managed in part through limits on the amount of time that a faculty member may act as a consultant. Consulting and other outside activities can create real benefits for the faculty member and for the institutions involved; they can also create conflicts of commitment, and can precipitate conflicts of interest. The scenario linked here, developed by the National Academy of Sciences, allows analysis of hypothetical conflicts, and FVSU encourages researchers to view it.
In addition to institutional requirements, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have their own requirements for disclosures whenever a proposal is submitted to either. Special attention is focused on conflicts of interest in biomedical research, particularly in the relationships between faculty and pharmaceutical companies in the conduct of clinical trials.
Any issues related to conflict of interest should be discussed with Chair/Director and Dean/Dean Equivalent. The Office of the Vice-President for External Affairs, the Office of Sponsored Programs, the Post Award Office, and the Office of the Director of Agricultural Research are also available to provide advice.


China Press reported that Hong Kong singer William So would be marrying his 37-year-old girlfriend by end of the year.
The couple had been together for eight years. This will be So's second marriage.
His first marriage to a Singaporean ended in 2003.
Guang Ming Daily reported that the 46-year-old singer had been checking out the venue for his wedding banquet.
When contacted, So admitted that he had plans to get married but was still undecided on the date.


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Berhampur,16/01/19:A frustrated Romeo was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a seven-year-old by on 12th January.
The accused person who identified as Debasis Panda, is the so called uncle of the deceased Ashish Anshuman.
Today Pinak Mishra,SP,Berhampur while addressing to media person said, On dated.12/01/19 one Smt Niruparani Acharya of Tota street,Berhampur under Gosanianuagaon police limit had reported that about a year back incidentally her family came in contact with one Debasis Panda (30) of village Jakhpura,district Jajpur Odisha.
On 12th on this month about 10..45 am Debasis had taken her only son Ashish (7yrs) in her Scooty to drop him his DAV school at Gandhinagar in Berhampur city.On inquiry she ascertained that, Debasis Panda had not drop her son at school (!). Suspecting her son to have been kidnapped away by Debasis Panda she had lodged the report before the police station.
Regarding the gravity of the case, two police teams were formed by SP,Pinak Mishra under the directive supervision of Addl SP,Santanu Kumar Dash and Pravat Kumar Routray entrusted with the specific job to rescue the missing boy.The team was consisting of IIC,Kulamani Sethy,Suresh Tripathy,JK Patnaik and Nihar Ranjan Pradhan.
On 13th evening police traced the Identity card of Asish Anshuman the missing boy from National Highway,Chatrapur and next day found the used Scooty at Auto Nagar,Haladiapadar wherein the shirt of Debasis Panda which was worn by him while taking the missing boy to drop him at school was found stained with blood(!).told by Pinak.
However, during the investigation police could able to know Debasis Panda have gone to Village Dunguripalli in Subarnapur district.Geeting the intelligence report a team was deputed to Dunguripalli village wherein Debasis Panda traced.
In police custody after long hours interrogation accuse Debasis Panda admitted his guilt activity and to have killed Asish Anshuman by crushing stone on his head near Tara Tarini temple and concealed the dead body along with other incrementing materials.
After confired,our police team along with one Magistrate visited the place of concealed. Police recovered the dead body and sent to P.M,to MKCG Hospital, he added.
Notably police arrested Debasis basis on the clue of Mobile traking and CCTV footage.