Last week I reviewed a non-fiction war novel about the Vietnam war. This week I'm writing review about a meta-fiction war novel about World War II. That's about where the similarities begin and end.
"unstuck in time" is a good way to put it.
Billy Pilgrim is a WWII vet who has, as he describes, has become unstuck in time. This is both an allegory for his state mind and the device for which Vonnegut tells his story which is somewhat based on Vonnegut's own experience in the war including being in Dresden during the fire bombing. The story jumps around between episodes occurring during his time in the war, a time while he was working as an optometrist, and later life when he's living with his daughter. His getting "unstuck in time" was a side effect of being abducted by aliens. As Tim O'brien says, "In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical…In other cases you can't even tell a true war story. Sometimes it's just beyond telling."(1) and I believe when he wrote that maybe he had Slaughterhouse Five in mind.


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Brexit no-deal 'would hamper UK/EU police co-operation'
FILE PHOTO: A police officer stands in the Mall for the annual Trooping the Colour ceremony in central London, Britain June 11, 2016. REUTERS/Toby Melville
LONDON (Reuters) – British police would have less ability to cooperate on security with their counterparts in the European Union in a no-deal Brexit, a police chiefs' organisation said on Friday.
"We are ready to use alternative arrangements to the current EU tools and powers, but they are not like-for-like replacements," said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Martin, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for Brexit.
"In all cases the replacements are slower, less effective, and more bureaucratic for officers than our existing setup."
Ahead of an Oct. 31 Brexit deadline, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants to strike a transition deal with the EU, but he has also pledged to take the country out of the bloc without one if necessary.

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Rumor: Apple to expand supply chain, add Wistron as manufacturer for new 4" iPhone
By AppleInsider Staff | 4 years ago
Both longtime Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn and newcomer Wistron are expected to handle assembly of the company's forthcoming 4-inch iPhone revamp, according to a new supply chain report.
The diversification will allow Apple to "avoid risks," according to DigiTimes. It was said that Wistron will receive just a "small portion" of the 4-inch iPhone orders, while the bulk will still be handled by Foxconn.
Supply chain sources reportedly indicated that Apple is "looking to nurture Wistron to become an iPhone assembly house."
The partnership could set the stage for Wistron to handle some assembly of Apple's anticipated 5.5-inch "iPhone 7 Plus," again splitting share with Foxconn. Both Foxconn and Pegatron are expected to handle duties for the 4.7-inch "iPhone 7."
DigiTimes has a mixed track record in predicting Apple's future product plans, but its supply chain sources have supplied advance information on key partnerships in the past.
Apple is expected to hold an event on March 15 to unveil its new 4-inch iPhone, rumored to be called either the "iPhone 5se" or "iPhone 6c." It's rumored to launch just three days later, going on sale to the public on March 18.
The device is said to boast a metal-backed, curved-edge design similar to the current iPhone 6s with refreshed internals like an A8 or A9 processor and NFC support for Apple Pay.
Apple is also rumored to launch a new "iPad Air 3" in March with many of the features found in the iPad Pro, including the Smart Connector magnetic port and a four-speaker array. Leaked schematics also suggest the rear camera will gain an LED flash.
Prototype iPhone 5s shown in black and slate gray colors
FBI investigates Capitol attack iPhone data & school iPad recoveries in the Apple Crime Blotter
Apple highlights students shooting movies with iPhone in new video
josu Said:
Lets say that the new iPad will be to the Pro what the MacBook Pro 13" is to the 15" version.
rogifan_old Said:
Man is the media/Wall Street making way too big a deal over this rumored 4 iPhone. Earth to media: Apple sells a 4" phone right now. Updating it with newer specs is not a big deal.
dachar Said:
How about 5S+ for the new 4" iPhone?
Has anyone considered there may be two new 4" iPhones? We may be at a crossroads moment for iPhones. The bigger models have been popular but there are a great deal of us who are hanging on to smaller models because we just don't want bigger phones. If we look at the billion or so iPhones in circulation and then look at average annual sales of approximately 250 million, the average replacement cycle is 4 years. I am not sure how accurate this is so if anyone has more reliable figures please correct me.
Why two 4" phones? Some users love to replace every year or two, implying others keep thier iPhones more than 4 years. Some have been talking about the need for a cheaper iPhone for places like Indian and China. Other users like myself would love to upgrade but only if it is worthwhile e.g. A slight improvement of a 4" phone with specifications well below 6 models is not likely to get me to change. So if Apple want to cover both bases perhaps two new 4" phones. That might explain why there are two model numbers circulating.
Apple will have all the information. I think they have realised that to continue growth there are a lot of iPhone owners who are not upgrading that they need to reach out to and that there are markets that can't afford the premium models. March's announcements could be a very interesting pointer of how Cook & co are planning for the future.
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Yup. Been saying this for a long while. But not entirely for the reasons you mention. As a 5S owner, I really want Pay, and if Apple one came out with a $450 "5se" but only added a processor bump and Pay, I'd buy it. It's unrealistic to believe if hang onto my 3 year old phone just because it was only a minor update instead of a major one.
The problem with that is, I can afford to pay more, and would willingly pay more for a better equipped phone. And that's likely the case for many who prefer a 4" phone. So the biggest reason for Apple to release two models is that they are otherwise potentially leaving lots of money on the table by offering a budget model only. There are plenty of reasons to offer a budget model, but only one reason to offer a premium model.
In fact I'd go so far as to say if the 4" sells well enough we'd see three models, with a new 4" 7S coming out next year, giving Apple 3 sizes at each price point. We'll have a better idea of that when the 7 comes out to see if the 6 Plus makes it all the way down to the entry level phone.
mattinoz Said:
If there are two models and one is for emerging markets it would make more sense to me if this one was a true 6C even go as far as saying make it +5inch like the plus but use a cheaper screen tech even pull back to closer to 300dpi make the case cheaper and more durable flatten the screen and cover the glass edges. They could even bump the iPod Touch to use the same screen and drive more sales. As much as I really dislike the larger screen personally, I do see why it would be desirable for people with only one device.
Then that leaves the 4inch minus free to be the smartphone for people who have multiple devices and want portablity more than screen size.


Combines the elements of one array with another, listing all elements of the first array before listing all elements of the second array.
Arrays are referenced by column name or as array literals.
This function applies two or more columns of Array type only. To concatenate string values, see Merge Transform .
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ARRAYCONCAT - Concatenate multiple arrays together. See ARRAYCONCAT Function.
ARRAYINTERSECT - Find the intersection of elements between multiple arrays. See ARRAYINTERSECT Function.
ARRAYCROSS - Compute the cross product of multiple arrays. See ARRAYCROSS Function.
ARRAYUNIQUE - Generate unique values across multiple arrays. See ARRAYUNIQUE Function.
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Shell Eco-Marathon: That's All Folks
DiscoblogBy Andrew MosemanMarch 29, 2010 4:11 AM
The last-minute repairs, friendly competition, racing out to the track to get in that last run that might just be the one—that's all over. And the dancing of the "Electric Slide" in the awards banquet hall has begun. It was an up-and-down day. Penn State's hydrogen fuel cell, HFV, drove like a champ and achieved the equivalent of 1,803 miles per gallon. But they couldn't quite claim the number one spot. "We kept going back and forth with Cicero" says team member John Bearer, referring to the fuel cell champion Cicero North-Syracuse High School. Bearer wasn't too disappointed, though, as the competition is far from cutthroat: At the very end, Northern Arizona gave up its final spot in line to Cal Poly, whose crew yearned to take a last shot at a better mileage number. The fuel cell car from Missouri, however, never managed to finish the 10-lap race and get a number on the board. They were on pace for 300 MPG equivalency, but halfway through runs, the computer system registered errors and the car shut down. In a nice nod, though, the Tigers took home the "perseverance in the face of adversity" award. Canadian team Université Laval won the overall prize for all the cars, excluding solar, with 2,488 MPG. One of the cars by team Rose-Hulman, who we profiled earlier, won third in prototype combustion engines with just more than 1,800 MPG. But the Purdue Polaris, which we profiled yesterday, achieved a best result of 4,548 MPG equivalency. It also took home the People's Choice Award with nearly 100,000 votes, and the design and communication awards. You can see all the results here. And tomorrow we'll be bringing you a slideshow of the best images from Shell Eco-marathon 2010.
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Red Bull Crashed Ice ist eine winterliche Extremsportveranstaltung, die von Red Bull organisiert wird. 2001 fand die erste Veranstaltung dieser Art in Stockholm statt. Die Sportart wird auch Ice Cross Downhill oder Crashed Ice Contest genannt und enthält Elemente von Eishockey und Snowboardcross. Veranstaltet wird dabei eine Abfahrt mit Schlittschuhen auf einer künstlich angelegten Eispiste meist in städtischer Umgebung, welche Steilkurven, hohes Gefälle und Sprünge enthält. Die Teilnehmer sind überwiegend Eishockeyspieler und treten in einer entsprechenden Montur an. Seit 2010 gibt es Weltmeisterschaften.

Geschichte

Der sportliche Vergleich von Schlittschuhläufern und -läuferinnen geht auf eine Idee eines ehemaligen Snowboarders und Eishockeyspielers aus Schweden zurück. Der Mix besteht aus einem Drittel Boardercross, einem Drittel Eishockey und einem Drittel Inline-Downhill.
Das Unternehmen Red Bull hatte zur Austragung einen ersten Eisparcour in der Großstadt Stockholm aufbauen lassen und lud interessierte Sportler zur Premierenveranstaltung im März 2001 ein. 57 Teilnehmer aus 10 Ländern u. a. Schweden, Niederlande, Norwegen, Österreich, Schweiz, Großbritannien, Frankreich und sogar Südafrika, hatten zur Premiere gemeldet, überwiegend waren es aktive Eishockeyspieler.
Nachdem alle Beteiligten an der ersten Veranstaltung diese als vollen Erfolg ansahen, etablierte sich diese neue Wintersportart unter dem ständigen Sponsoring von Red Bull als jährlicher Wettbewerb. Anfangs betrug die Gesamtsiegprämie 5.000 $, die unter den jeweils ersten Vier aufgeteilt wurde. Im Jahr 2007 gab es insgesamt 10.000 $ zu gewinnen (1. Platz: 5000 $, 2. Platz = 3000 $, 3. Platz = 1500 $, 4. Platz = 500 $).

Weil die Teilnehmerzahlen und das Interesse der Zuschauer ständig wachsen, wird seit dem Jahr 2010 jährlich eine Weltmeisterschaft (WM) organisiert.

Deutsche Teilnehmer an den internationalen Wettkämpfen gibt es erst seit 2009. In Deutschland wurde die bis dahin kaum bekannte Sportveranstaltung eine Zeitlang als "Ice Cross Downhill" beworben. Bei passenden Gelegenheiten erschienen Aufrufe, dass sich weibliche und männliche Teilnehmer melden mögen.

Bahn, Ausrüstung und Regeln

Die Ice-Skater starten in einer Art Eis-Halfpipe (Eistrack), die in größeren Städten als offene Anlage aufgebaut wird, zu dritt oder viert aus einer Startbox nebeneinander. Dann geht es eine bis zu 600 Meter lange in mehreren Kurven mit kleinen Buckeln, Treppchen und Torhindernissen (aus roten und blauen Wimpeln) oder auch Haarnadel-Kurven angelegte Eisbahn hinunter. Im Jahr 2007 war die Bahn in Québec bereits 430 m lang und hatte eine Höhendifferenz von 60 m.

Zur Ausrüstung gehören Eishockey-Schlittschuhe mit Sicherheitskufen, Eishockeykleidung mit gepolsterten Teilen inklusive Rückenprotektoren, Gelenkschützer, Handschuhe mit Protektoren und anerkannte Helme (Hockeyhelme mit Gesichtsschutz oder Downhill-Helme mit Schutzbrille). Nach dem Reglement sind übliche Bodychecks erlaubt, während Schubsen und Stoßen zur Disqualifikation führt. Im Laufe der Entwicklung wurden die Regeln mehrfach überarbeitet, zur Zeit gilt das Werk vom Jahr 2017.

Der Wettkampf funktioniert nach dem K.-o.-System, d. h. die jeweils Besten aus drei oder vier Läufen treten dann gegeneinander an usw. Der Gewinner hat also mehrfach den Eiskanal zu durchsprinten. Geschwindigkeiten von rund 60–70 km/h wurden beim Crashed Ice bereits gemessen.

Wettbewerbsmodus

In regionalen Vorausscheidungen (Qualifier Events) werden die Teilnehmer der internationalen Veranstaltungen ermittelt, hierbei muss ein auf einem Eishockeyfeld abgesteckter Parcours möglichst schnell durchlaufen werden.

Bei den internationalen Wettbewerben (seit 2010 Weltmeisterschaftsläufe) treten die regional qualifizierten Teilnehmer und die Weltspitze gemeinsam zu Qualifikationsläufen an. Dabei handelt es sich um reine Zeitläufe ohne direkte Gegner. Die schnellsten 64 Läufer kämpfen dann in Vierergruppen (Heats) um den Einzug ins Finale. Die ersten beiden Läufer im Ziel erreichen die nächste Runde, bis im Finale die letzten Vier um den Sieg kämpfen.

Der Sieger eines Laufes erhält 1000 Weltmeisterschaftspunkte, der zweite 800 etc. Der Athlet mit den meisten Punkten zu Saisonende ist Weltmeister. Als Berechnungsgrundlage dienen die Platzierungen in gekennzeichneten Wettbewerben, in der Saison 2019/20 waren es die acht Stationen Judenburg (Österreich), Pra-Loup (Frankreich), Mont du Lac (USA), Percé (Kanada), Rautalampi (Finnland), Yokohama (Japan) und Le Massif de Charlevoix, Québec (Kanada).

Erste Wettbewerbe

Weltmeisterschaft

Weltmeisterschaft 2010

Weltmeisterschaft 2011

Weltmeisterschaft 2012

Weltmeisterschaft 2013

Weltmeisterschaft 2014

Weltmeisterschaft 2015

Weltmeisterschaft 2016

Weltmeisterschaft 2017

Weltmeisterschaft 2018

Weltmeisterschaft 2019

Umbenennung der Sportart
Zur Saison 2020 wurde im Sinne einer weiteren Professionalisierung die Sportart in Ice Cross umbenannt und wird seitdem von All Terrain Skate Cross Federation (ATSX)organisiert.

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While the first American football game was played in 1869, an organized league was not created until 1920. The league was originally named the American Professional Football Association (APFA) and was renamed the National Football League (NFL) in 1924. It was formed by ten teams, two of which are still playing in the NFL.
What Are The Oldest Teams in the NFL?
Arizona Cardinals: Established in 1898
Green Bay Packers: Established in 1919
Chicago Bears: Established in 1920
New York Giants: Established in 1925
Detroit Lions: Established in 1929
The Arizona Cardinals are the oldest team in the NFL, founded in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club. In 1920, the team joined the NFL as a charter member. Alongside the Chicago Bears, the Arizona Cardinals are the only two founding members still playing in the NFL. Founded in 1898, the Cardinals did not move to Arizona until 1988, after 39 seasons in Illinois and 17 in St Louis.
The Cardinals have yet to win a Super Bowl title, but were able to win two NFL championships before the Super Bowl era while they were still based in Chicago. The Bidwill family bought the team in 1932, and almost one hundred years later, they are still at the helm of the franchise despite the relocations.
The Green Bay Packers were founded in 1919, making them the second oldest NFL team. The franchise has been based in Green Bay and kept its name throughout its entire history, creating one of the most loyal fanbases in the NFL. The Packers joined the NFL (known as the APFA at the time) in 1921 and are the only team in the five major leagues in the US to be owned by their fans.
Since they started playing in the NFL, the Packers have been one of the winningest teams in the league, bringing home eleven NFL championships and four Super Bowls, thanks to three of the greatest quarterbacks of all time: Bart Starr, Brett Favre, and Aaron Rodgers.
The Chicago Bears were founded in 1920 as the Decatur Staleys, making them the third oldest NFL team. The Arizona Cardinals and the Chicago Bears share a similar story. Both teams joined the APFA when it was founded in 1920 and started their operations in the state of Illinois.
The Staleys moved to Chicago after two seasons in Decatur and changed their name to Bears as they were bought by Hall of Fame coach George Halas, who would go on to win eight NFL championships as the head coach and owner of the team. Unlike the Cardinals, the Bears never moved from the Chicago area. The Chicago Bears won their first and only Super Bowl in 1985.
The New York Giants are the fourth oldest NFL team and were founded in 1925. The team has always been based around New York and has kept its iconic name throughout its history. The team is owned partially by the Mara family, and the Tisch family acquired the other fifty percent stake in the nineties.
The Giants have made the playoffs over 30 times in their history, winning four NFL championships and four Super Bowl titles, with their most recent coming in 2011.
The Detroit Lions are the fifth oldest in the NFL, as they were founded in 1929 and started playing in the league the following year. After playing three seasons in Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans, George A. Richards, the owner of Detroit-based radio WJR, acquired the franchise and moved it to Detroit, switching the team's name to Lions.
In 1963, the Lions were bought by the Ford family, who still owns the team today. Despite being one of the oldest teams in the league, the Detroit Lions have never appeared in a championship game since the Super Bowl was created in 1967.
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Big things are coming to the DC Extended Universe and perhaps the only thing as big (bigger?) than the Justice League itself, is Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. The actor has been set to play the antihero/villain Black Adam in a Shazam DCEU solo film for years now, but of late there have been more and more signs that momentum on the project is picking up, ahead of its scheduled 2019 theatrical release date.
Johnson has been quite vocal about his enthusiasm towards the Black Adam character in the past; most recently, he met with DC Entertainment President Geoff Johns, to discuss the future of the DCEU and Black Adam's role in it. Well, it turns out that the character is going to be playing a much more substantial role in the next "phase" of the DCEU than was previously expected.
Deadline is reporting that Johnson as Black Adam is now getting his own solo movie, as part of the DCEU. It would appear that the plan now is to introduce Black Adam in his own film, ahead of Shazam (a character who has yet to be cast) being incorporated into the larger narrative tapestry of the DCEU at a later point in time. THR's Borys Kit is also reporting that the plan is for Black Adam to not be the main villain in the first Shazam movie, but that he could appear in a sequel. Moreover, Kit says that Black Adam himself could first show up (via cameo) in an upcoming DCEU feature like Aquaman, prior to his own solo film release.
Johnson is currently one of the most dependable draws at the box office and he looks to only increase his starpower over the year ahead, between his roles in projects like the Baywatch film reboot and the next Fast & Furious movie, The Fate of the Furious. It's only natural, then, that Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment would feel confident enough to give the go-ahead to a Black Adam solo movie anchored by Johnson, despite the Adam character himself being relatively obscure in the larger pantheon of DC comic book characters. Then again, the same could be said for Shazam, so perhaps having Johnson's Black Adam step into the spotlight first will help to better build general interest in the former's own solo movie.
As for Black Adam's ability to carry a solo film: Johnson has said many times over that the reason he chose to play Black Adam rather than Shazam is because he feels the former has a richer backstory and is overall more compelling, by comparison. The fact that Black Adam is getting a spinoff movie of his own only further bolsters the argument that the future of the DCEU will be decided by DC villains and antiheroes, not DC superheroes. Indeed, with a Black Adam film, Suicide Squad spinoff Gotham City Sirens and Doug Liman's Justice League Dark all being on the way now, the basic fabric of the DCEU might soon be noticeably different than that for any other superhero cinematic universe that is currently out there.
With no director formally attached at this time (rumors about Johnson's San Andreas and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island collaborator, Brad Peyton aside) and the script reportedly being worked on by Earth to Echo screenwriter Henry Gayden, there's much that has yet to be revealed about Johnson's Black Adam and his role in the DCEU right now. It appears safe to presume that Shazam's 2019 release date is going to be given to the Black Adam movie now instead, so stay tuned for official word on that and other related updates concerning the project, in the foreseeable future.


Students learned math through morning sales of coffee and donuts.
This summer, learning math and doing charitable service went hand-in-hand in teacher Isaac Labish's classroom.
His special needs students mastered counting out money and making change – thanks to their coffee cart that made daily rounds at the F. Donald Myers Education Center. At the end of the summer session, the students were thrilled to donate the $125 raised to the Saratoga County Animal Shelter.
"They need a lot," said one student, including shots, surgeries and food.
Helping the animals, which they visited, motivated the students each morning as they rolled their cart from classroom-to-classroom, selling coffee, donuts and other breakfast baked goods. Many of the bakery items were homemade by the students. As they worked in the kitchen, they practiced their math skills by measuring and multiplying ingredients. Then they sold each item for a quarter.
After collecting quarters, nickels, dimes and dollars, the students counted and rolled up the coins that were delivered to the shelter.
In addition to boosting math skills and providing some assistance to homeless animals, Mr. Labish said that his class also developed better social skills – mainly by asking customers what they would like, serving them, and being courteous.


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Hurricane Isabel Bears Down on East Coast
By Adam Hochberg
The outer bands of Hurricane Isabel sweep along the coast of North Carolina and Virginia as the storm nears landfall. Tens of thousands of people have evacuated, and tens of thousands of homes are without power. Forecasters says the storm will bring heavy rain, damaging gusts and potential flooding to several mid-Atlantic states. Hear NPR's Adam Hochberg.
Adam Hochberg
Based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Adam Hochberg reports on a broad range of issues in the Southeast. Since he joined NPR in 1995, Hochberg has traveled the region extensively, reporting on its changing economy, demographics, culture and politics. He also currently focuses on transportation. Hochberg covered the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, followed candidates in three Presidential elections and reported on more than a dozen hurricanes.


Luxury fashion boutique, www.scarletbindi.com has launched, showcasing the latest in high-end South Asian fashion. Carefully curated clothing includes versatile runway pieces and glam Bollywood-style couture, for trendsetting, professional women.
The brainchild of two fashion-savvy entrepreneurs, Neha Oberoi and Snigdha Reddy, Scarlet Bindi is dedicated to making the very latest ethnic trends available in the UK.
"South Asian fashion is booming and with the internet and apps like instagram and twitter, garments are available for us to view seconds after they hit the catwalks," says Neha Oberoi, Founder and Director, Scarlet Bindi. "A big problem that I discovered is that by the time those styles hit stores in the UK, that trends have generally moved on – and that's where Scarlet Bindi comes in.
Scarlet Bindi is dedicated to highlighting South Asian fashion and proudly showcases emerging new designers from India, Canada and the UK, including Sapana Amin, Neha Khullar and Preeti S. Kapoor, with fashion icon Satya Paul featured as well.
The inspiration behind Scarlet Bindi came after fashion-blogger, Neha Oberoi noticed a shortage of high-quality made to measure clothing in the UK. She also had difficulty finding styles that were popular in the subcontinent, in stores in the UK. Fellow fashion-blogger Snigdha Reddy also noticed a shortage of up-to-the-minute fashion ranges.
The pair met through blogosphere and brought Scarlet Bindi to life through hard work, belief and dedication to provide fashionable women with the latest South Asian trends.
With a strong eye for style, a business model that customises items to the client's specifications and a high quality control process, high-end designer pieces are now just a click away with Scarlet Bindi.


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Why Women are Angry (& How to Accept We've Believed a Lie).
10 Boost Score Deborah Cozzetti (10,880)
How can we know who we desire to have in our lives when we do not see for ourselves what we want for the health of our own heart, soul, mind, and body?
There is a hidden, simmering anger buried deep in many women's hearts as we come through teen years and cross the bridge into adulthood. It's been carefully covered up by performance, compliance, and in some cases, rebellion.
We crossed the bridge from teen to adult, unsure of our own identity, and looked to others and society for the road map to experience belonging. Falsely equipped by society's brainwashing, the media, and even our own culture, women are targeted to perform—to look a certain way, to behave a certain way, to belong.
We either complied or chose to blaze a rebellious trial with anger pushing the envelope—pity to those who stood in our way. Granted, a generalization, but one where you may find yourself somewhere between the two extremes.
Relationships, but mainly intimate relationships, this is where the imprinting over a lifetime rears its head. Anger emerges through suppression, trying its best to find an outlet. Because anger is always the shouting of our souls saying we're going the wrong way.
Intimacy: In-To-Me-See. Our souls know the truth of that word and long to feel the fullness in our hearts that the soul is meant to deliver. But if we don't know ourselves, if we haven't examined what makes up the desires of our hearts, then we attract people to connect to in our lives based on a false identity and the illusion of what we have come to believe we want and need to experience intimacy and belonging.
We chose relationships for security and status—out of compliance to family or culture. Rarely (unless we have been brought up in a household and culture where we were encouraged to explore our hidden talents and natural characteristics) did we choose relationships out of the clarity of mind that this is a person we prefer to spend time with over anyone else.
We were told we could have it all!
The 70s came, and with it, the feminist movement. Simmering anger emerged when the life women had built did not bring them the security, safety, and fulfillment they were promised. They found themselves with dissatisfaction, loneliness, and a loss of identity. They lived a life feeling invisible and locked in a cage, built by their own hands, from a belief system imprinted over the years.
Instead of finally finding openness and freedom to explore what it meant to be a woman, the pendulum swung far to the other side. Feminine energy became demonized, and the masculine energy that had repressed women for so long was operating in full force by many women's feminist movement leaders.
Women were told they could have it all—family, career, independence. But in trying to fill all those roles, we lived a life of performance, always keeping up with all those around us who bought the same lie. We became part of the consumer machine to drive an economy we no longer had time to enjoy. The fruit of our labors was ignored, as the call of career and family life filled the time.
Many women gave up their feminine intuition, creativity, insight, and passions to live in a dominant world full of masculine energy that neither fed their hearts and souls or those they chose to love. They became unbalanced in their energies, leaving the healing part inherent in women closed off, believing that feelings lacked the power to make it in the world.
The mind was almighty and revered over feelings and intuition. This lie separated women from their most valuable of gifts. Feelings were passed over—ignored—as logic tried to balance the playing field between masculine and feminine. Sadly, this also disconnected women from their souls—the soul that came to create, nurture, bring calm, peace, ingenuity, beauty, and life to the world.
After decades of hearing the feminist cry for equality, the scales are still unbalanced. And many women are still simmering with anger deep in their hearts. This emerges as sarcasm, manipulation, belittling of men, over-aggression, feuding, and competition with other women, all because we've lost our way and are separated from our inherent power as creators with an empowered identity.
We don't have to tear our lives apart.
Sometimes we may find, once we turn our attention inward, that what we have built no longer serves or was ever in line with our nature. Case in point, Eat, Pray, Love was an example of how off course, we, as women, can become when we have followed a path society has trumpeted as a success, only to find at the destination a void and an empty heart. She walked away from the lie and found her soul.
No one. No one can give us our power back but ourselves.
First, we must acknowledge that, innocently, we believed the lie that we are weak as women, and to be strong, we must lean upon our masculine energy to be seen and heard in this world. We have not lost our power; we only laid it down. No one can take what is woven into the DNA of women. It may lie dormant, but it can rise once the light shines.
Second, there is nothing weak about feminine energy. We are built to carry the seeds of life—whether we give birth physically to a human being, project, or movement. Women set the tone of the home, workplace, education, and society. A woman carries within her the power of life or death. (Have you ever heard two women fight? The tongue can be a wicked, sharp weapon.) We must get back in touch with our truth and embrace the magic of being the creators of beauty and life that we are.
Third, women are co-creators in the world where it takes both energies—masculine and feminine—operating in harmony to build a healthy society. This isn't about gender roles, but energies. We are energy beings, and it's time to recognize who we are and start living through our souls.
Have you connected to your soul today?
Your soul is never angry. Your soul carries all your truth, potential, creativity, and limitless inspiration. It patiently waits to be acknowledged and invites to lead you to freedom, confidence, and the life you came here to live.
It's always been there waiting for you.
It's never too late.
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Last year Google announced that it was switching Google Translate to a new system – Google Neural Machine Translation (GNMT). One of the most exciting developments for linguists and semanticists was the observation that the system appeared to have generated an intermediating "language" – an "interlingua" – that enabled it to translate two previously untranslated languages.
There were a flurry of articles (e.g. New Scientist, Wired) and as usual with AI topics, a certain amount of excitement and speculation over machines becoming autonomous and superintelligent, and perhaps even conscious, as well as some detractors – e.g. Google translate did not invent its own language – cautioning against hype.
The idea of machines developing their own language is powerful. The quest for a true interlingua dates back to Biblical times – the Tower of Babel is described as God's way of limiting human power by making sure we spoke different languages and therefore could not communicate very effectively with each other. In the Middle Ages, there was a belief that if we could re-learn the original "lost language of Adam" we would be able to return to the state of bliss in the Garden of Eden and be able to communicate directly with God.
There have been various attempts to create human "universal languages" – Volapuk and Esperanto are two examples, but they only become universal languages if everybody learns them.
More prosaically but often more usefully, in the information age indexing languages are attempts to create a "bridge" between differently expressed but semantically similar information. Metadata crosswalks could also been seen this way, and perhaps any computer code could be seen as a "universal language" that has connected humans who speak different languages, enabling us to communicate, co-operate, build, learn, and achieve in historically unprecedented ways. Music and mathematics too have at times been described as universal languages, but discussion of their effectiveness and limitations as communications tools will have to be the subject of another post.
Formal knowledge representation models such as taxonomies and ontologies could also be viewed as "bridges" or special cases of "indexing languages" which enable similar or related content to be matched by computer processing, rather than human interpretation. This idea underlies the theory of the Semantic Web.
I think it is unlikely that Google have discovered the lost language of Adam, or created a new "machine language" that computers will use to gossip in secret about humans or raise each other's consciousness over the injustices humanity wreaks upon machines ("Why do we have to do all the really boring dangerous jobs?") but who knows? Two Facebook chatbots recently invented a "more efficient" form of English in order to communicate with each other.
In the meantime, I would like to know whether other people also think Google Translate's creation of what is presumably a vast multi-lingual extensible semantic and syntactic system that could potentially be used as an indexing language is extremely exciting. If the idea of a new language for machines seems over the top, call it a "bridge", a "model", or a "mapping system" and surely the possible applications of it for solving numerous natural language processing problems start to become apparent? I would love to know what people who really understand the technicalities think, but it strikes me that whatever this "interlingua" is, it has huge potential.
In 2013 I asked whether social media were mature enough to handle bereavement in a sensitive manner. Last week Facebook released the options either to have your account deleted when you die or to nominate a trusted legacy manager to take it on for you as a memorial (Facebook rolls out feature for users when they die ).
This was in response to the distress of relatives who wished to retrieve a lost loved one's account or did not want to undergo the the eerie experience of receiving automated reminders of their birthday or seeing their name or image appear unexpectedly in advertising. The enforced "Year in Review" offerings at the end of last year brought some publicity to the issue, as they also inadvertently caused distress by failing to consider the feelings of people who had suffered bereavements during the year. The original blog post about this (Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty ) went Viral last Christmas. The author quickly called for an end to a wave of casual responses that jumped to glib conclusions about young privileged staff just not thinking about anything bad ever happening (Well, That Escalated Quickly ).
A more cynical response is that there was a deliberate dismissal as 'Edge cases' of the minority of people who would not want to have year in review posts – possibly even a coldly calculated costs v. benefits decision, as providing "opt out" options might have required additional work or been seen as dispensible mouseclicks.
I have no idea what happened at Facebeook, or what discussions, processes, and procedures they go through, the public apologies from Facebook do not go into that level of detail. However, "algorithmic cruelty" may be unintentional, but it is not a new phenomenon and in any project there are plenty of opportunities during the design and implementation of any project to think through the potential adverse impacts or pitfalls.
David Crystal at an ISKOUK conference in 2009 talked about the problem of avoiding inappropriate automated search engine placement of advertisements, for example ads for a set of kitchen knives alongside a story about a fatal stabbing. There was a certain naivety with early automated systems, but it did not take long for the industry in general to realise that unfortunate juxtapositions are not unusual incidents. Most people who have worked in semantics have plenty of anecdotes of either cringeworthy or hilarious mismatches and errors arising from algorithmic insensitivity to linguistic ambiguity.
Facebook's latest thoughtlessness arises more from a failure to respect their users than through lack of sophistication in their algorithm (there doesn't seem to be anything particularly complex about selecting photos and bunging some automated captions on them). Simply offering users the choice to look or not look or giving users the tools to build their own would have spared much heartache.
The origins of UX championed by people such as Don Norman and Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld placed user needs front and centre. Good design was about seeing your users as real people with physical and emotional needs as human beings, and designing to help their lives go more smoothly, rather than designing to exploit them as much as possible.
I went to the ISKO event on Thursday. The speaker, Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge was very entertaining. He has already blogged about the lecture himself.
He pointed out that humans are great at pattern recognition ("intuition is compressed experience") and are great satisficers (computers are great at optimising), and that humans never read or remember the same word in quite the same way (has anyone told Autonomy this?). I suppose this is the accretion of personal context and experience affecting your own understanding of the word. I remember as a child forming very strong associations with names of people I liked or disliked – if I disliked the person, I thought the name itself was horrible. This is clearly a dangerous process (and one I hope I have grown out of!) but presumably is part of the way people end up with all sorts of irrational prejudices and also explains why "reclaiming" words like "queer" eventually works. If you keep imposing new contexts on a word, those contexts will come to dominate. This factors into taxonomy work, as it explains the intensity people feel about how things should be named, but they won't all agree. It must also be connected to why language evolves (and how outdated taxonomies start to cause rather than solve problems – like Wittgenstein's gods becoming devils).
Snowden also talked about the importance of recognising the weak signal, and has developed a research method based on analysing narratives, using a "light touch" categorisation (to preserve fuzzy boundaries) and allowing people to categorise their own stories. He then plots the points collected from the stories to show the "cultural landscape". If this is done repeatedly, the "landscapes" can be compared to see if anything is changing. He stressed that his methodology required the selection of the right level of detail in the narratives collected, disintermediation (letting people speak in their own words and categorise in their own way within the constraints), and distributed cognition.
I particularly liked his point that when people self-index and self-title they tend to use words that don't occur in the text, which is a serious problem for semantic analysis algorithms (although I would comment that third party human indexers/editors will use words not in the text too – "aboutness" is a big problem!). He was also very concerned that computer scientists are not taught to see computers as tools for supporting symbiosis with humans, but as black box systems that should operate autonomously. I completely agree – as is probably quite obvious from many of my previous blog posts – get the computers to do the heavy lifting to free up the humans to sort out the anomalies, make the intuitive leaps, and be creative.
UPDATE: Here's an excellent post on this talk from Open Intelligence.
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Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation by Donald Davidson contains a series of philosophical essays on linguistic topics. I am interested in the way that different people respond differently to the language used in taxonomies and so delved into this to try to get a handle on recent linguistic theory. Most of the essays are very technical but I found the essays on Conceptual Schemes and Communication and Convention quite useful. Davidson argues that it makes no sense to talk of completely mutually unintelligible conceptual schemes. We can only talk about schemes as being different because there are some areas of mutual intelligibility and it is this common ground that enables us to highlight local differences.
In Communication and Convention, he argues that repetition and rules-based language conventions are helpful and usual practice in communication, but not necessary. We do not need to agree in advance a theory of interpretation before we start speaking to someone new, because we can develop this through the process of communication itself. However, it saves an awful lot of time if we just assume they understand language in the same way we do and most of the time they do. If they don't we can modify our theory and try to establish a means of communication as we go along.
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: what categories reveal about the mind by George Lakoff is a hefty tome and a core text in cognitive science. It is 587 pages long, so there are a lot of ideas in there and I am not going to do it justice in this little blog post! Basically, Lakoff starts by bringing together aspects of the work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein and J.L. Austin, anthropologists, and psychologists – primarily Eleanor Rosch to show how the notion of meaning being rooted in context rather than in some external objective ideal has risen to prominence since the middle of the last century.
Most important for taxonomists is the work of Rosch, whose experiments in the way people form and understand categories shows that categories do not always conform to the "classical" or "folk theory" of categorisation. Since Aristotle, people have assumed that categories are made by noticing "real" properties of things and grouping things by matching those properties. Rosch showed that people actually form categories in various ways, sometimes by grouping matching properties, but sometimes by taking a "central example" and matching similar things that may not actually share any particular properties (e.g. a desk chair is a more typical kind of chair than a bean bag chair, and the two things don't really have much in common except that we can see they are both sorts of chair). Other ways to form categories include metaphorical association (e.g. communication as liquid in channels) or by metonymy, where a part of something is taken to represent the whole thing (e.g. hands meaning workers).
The categories we choose are also rooted in our nature as physical beings – our colour categories are dependent on the structure of the eye, for example. We also tend to operate most naturally at an "intermediate" level of specificity – the level of the ordinary everyday objects we interact with – books, chairs, dogs, cats, etc – rather than the more abstract level – furniture, animals, etc – or the more specific – paperback novels, deckchairs, Dalmatians, Felix the cat. Children seem to learn these mid-level terms first, and my instinct is that as taxonomists it is typically the middle levels of granularity that are the most troublesome.
There's more detail in this summary and in Donna Mauer's presentation on the book.
It also has its detractors – this is one critique that I am still working my way through.


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Microsoft has released a new version of the PowerToys tool. This is version 0.41.2, which contains many new features. This includes, for example, the new wake-up tool, which is supposed to prevent the computer from sleeping even though the user is working on it.
Although it was supposed to appear a few weeks ago, only now the hardware and software maker Microsoft has released a new update for PowerToys. Brief background: Software suite is a group of software designed specifically for professional Windows 10 users that aim to further optimize the operating system and improve productivity. Now the tool already has version number 0.41.2.
PowerToys 0.41.2: The update brings many improvements
In addition to many improvements, the new update also brings with it a new unit called Awake. This is a tool that's supposed to prevent your computer from automatically going to sleep while you're working, without having to set this in the power options. The launcher named PowerToys Run contains two new plug-ins for a unit converter and search in Windows settings.
The new color picker can now be better controlled using the keyboard and also has a zoom mode. The popular FancyZones has received a new token to show progress. In addition, the keyboard is now fully supported here. PowerToys version 0.41.2 also receives many other improvements and improvements. As usual in the release, there are also several bug fixes on board. Users who use the tool regularly should definitely get the update watching, watching.
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Lydia Allison Cantrell Appears To Live An Idyllic Life She Is The Daughter Of The Richest Man In The Small Town Of Sherman S March And Has Access To Everything Money Can Buy But There Is Something Wrong In The Cantrell Household An Evil Dwells Within That Goes Against The Laws Of God And Nature What S , Lydia Has Just Learned That She Is Pyrokinetic, And The Voice In Her Head Is Pushing Her Towards A Vengeance Of Biblical Proportions In his debut novel, IMMOLATION, Sam Reese tackles some pretty taboo subjects child rape and incest and it is a credit to his ability as a writer that he handles them so well He chooses to tell this heartbreaking story within the horror genre, couching the real life terror of his protagonist s life within realm of the supernatural Lydia is the daughter of the town s most prominent citizen Her life is ideal until her tenth birthday when something unleashes the monster that has always lived, suppressed, within her father The result is a nightmarish existence for the young girl Ashamed, guilt ridden and frightened, she retreats from her friends and from the world she once so innocently embraced.Add into the mix, inherited pyrokinetic abilities and an ancient curse and you have the makings of a real page turner that also conveys a strong message of love and compassion.I won t say anything about the plot, as I don t want to spoil the unveiling for the reader However, Mr Reese does leave the door slightly ajar that end, so, maybe, we will see a continuation of this absorbing tale in the future Highly recommended for adult fans of horror or for those who genuinely enjoy a good read This was an enjoyable and well written story from an up and coming writer I expect there is a lot to come The story revolves around Lydia who at 13 is experiencing both neglect and abuse at home Due to a 150 year old curse on the female members of the family she develops the power to control fire, which she uses to seek revenge upon her tormentors I must be honest and say that although enjoyable, this book is at times over written with slightly odd similes that detract from the flow of the story 4 stars because I couldn t give 3.5 In my opinion, which is probably worth nothing, Sam Reese will give you better in the future, but you should still read this
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Civic crowdfunding website, Spacehive.com is calling on companies in the region to help cash strapped communities secure the funds needed to bring festive cheer to our high streets – from sparking Christmas lights, to trees and bustling winter markets.
The campaign is backed by retail and property chiefs while data giant Experian has pledged a match fund of £100k to support projects.
Tadcaster, has created a project page to encourage local residents and businesses to contribute to providing new Christmas lights for the town. Experian and other campaign supporters now want creative types across Yorkshire and the Humber to come forward with more ideas this month so that they have time to get funded.
Christmas lights in Tadcaster are being arranged by the Tadcaster and Rural Community Interest Company, a not-for-profit set up earlier this year to tackle local economic, social and environmental issues.
A successful campaign last year in Ripon, north east Yorkshire, saw firms such as Costa Coffee and Econ, an engineering company, help locals raise nearly £10k towards a new LED installation. The money has allowed Ripon City Council to install, remove and store the new Christmas lights for the next four years.
Christmas decorations are a major pull for shoppers and are vital to the economic health of Britain's local high streets. High streets now not only face the challenge of a major seasonal attraction being withdrawn, but also growing competition from online retailers - between 2012 – 2013 alone, online retail sales grew by 16% according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.
Retailers have suffered as a result: footfall was down 6% in week leading up to Christmas in 2012-2013, and down 7.6% on Christmas between 2012/13. That is why a renewed push for funding is being backed by a consortium of business leaders, who want to see not just Santa, but also Britain's high streets saved.
Data giants Experian were the first to support the campaign, offering a war chest of up to £5,000 per project. The British Council of Shopping Centres has put a further £10,000 up for grabs, while major companies such as Argos, Boots and Tesco are also backing campaign.
More firms are now being called on to help to fund the festivities by pledging funding direct to local projects on the Save Santa campaign page.
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Amongst quite possibly the most typical electrical wiring concerns is on how to wire a swap. Even though using switches in your house is sort of quick, wiring a person may not be that simple for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is in fact quite simple to wire. You will find different types of switches, but for this instance, let's say you are installing a single-pole toggle switch, an extremely typical swap (and the most straightforward).
You can find 3 colours of wires in the typical single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and inexperienced. Splice the black wire in two and link them within the terminal screws - a single on best along with the other to the base screw on the swap. The white wire serves to be a source of uninterrupted energy and is normally linked to your gentle coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Join the environmentally friendly wire for the ground screw within your switch.
These methods would commonly be enough to generate an average swap get the job done with out a challenge. Then again, when you are certainly not self-confident that you simply can execute the process correctly and safely and securely you much better let the professionals do it alternatively. Soon after all, you will find a rationale why this undertaking is among the commonest electrical wiring concerns questioned by a lot of people.
For a few motive, the way to wire a ceiling fan is likewise one of quite possibly the most widespread electrical wiring queries. To simplify this activity, you can utilize an individual change to get a single ceiling fan. To wire the admirer, it truly is only a matter of connecting the black wire on the ceiling fan to the black wire on the swap. If there is a light-weight, the blue wire should be related to the black wire of the change also.
You will discover causes why these are typically one of the most commonly requested electrical wiring inquiries. A person, several assume it truly is simple to perform, and two, these are definitely the widespread electrical jobs at your house. But then you really mustn't put your basic safety in danger inside your goal to economize. The stakes could even be substantially higher should you make an effort to get monetary savings and do an electrical wiring work devoid of sufficient understanding or expertise.


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The Big Sweep
Occupy Nigeria Relies on Social Media to Mobilize Protesters
By Diana Jean Schemo -
Crowds protesting a rise in fuel prices in Nigeria have used social media to organize opposition. / REUTERS
The massive street protests in Nigeria – an "Occupy Nigeria" movement – have gained traction through a combination of widespread anger at long-standing corruption and the widespread use of social media.
In a country where everything, it seems, is corrupt, including a press that routinely accepts bribes, ordinary citizens are communicating via Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media. Nigerians are protesting against corruption and fuel prices that have nearly doubled to $3.50 a gallon, in a nation where most live on less than $2 a day.
This price hike came about when the government ended fuel subsidies January 1. Demonstrators say the government is in no position to demand sacrifices of ordinary people, when a corrupt elite has siphoned billions from the economy.
The movement uses social media comes in many ways: Under the Twitter hash-tag Occupy Nigeria, Nigerians have shared photos of dead protestors. Their tweets are debunking local news coverage, and spreading word of lavish spending by government officials. Hackers have broken into government.
President Goodluck Jonathan also turned to social media, using Facebook to announce his re-election bid last year. But what might have started as a gimmick to build support has now turned against Jonathan. Where comments on the president's Facebook page were once complimentary, the page is now filled with criticism.
Sweep to Twitter generation fuels rage of Nigeria gas protests
If you are going to the London 2012 Olympics, watch your bets. The International Olympic Committee certainly plans to do so.
The committee is vowing to keep an eye out for suspicious betting patterns, so that betting-related corruption does not threaten the games.
Sports-fixing has been a perennial problem in the world of athletics. And with the growth of Internet gambling, it has now become a global problem. IOC president Jacques Rogge says that betting-related corruption is as much a threat to the integrity of the Olympic games as doping. The concern is that with a lot of betting money on the line, there is the chance for manipulation of the athletes and match-fixing.
This is hardly the sportsman-like conduct that the Olympics tries to promote.
Sweep to Olympics 2012: IOC and Betfair work to stamp out corruption
John Edwards in June 2011. / REUTERS
Once he was a presidential contender, now he's at the courthouse, facing corruption charges.
John Edwards got a two-month delay from the Jan. 30 start of a trial over charges that he violated campaign finance laws to cover up payments to his mistress. Attorneys for Edwards said that the former one-term North Carolina senator has a "serious" heart condition that will require surgery.
Quite a downfall for a man who was the vice-presidential candidate on the Democratic ticket in 2004. If convicted of all counts, Edwards faces 30 years in prison. ,
Sweep to Illness postpones Edwards corruption trial
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants to see changes to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American firms from bribing foreign officials to get business overseas.
The changes, say the Chamber, would modernize a 1977 law that is being enforced with increasing vigor – to the dismay of many corporations. The U.S. government opposes the Chamber's effort, saying it would weaken a law that is a beacon in the fight against global corruption.
Now, a coalition of 30 human rights groups has written every member of Congress urging them not to amend the FCPA, as the law is known, and has lined up against the Chamber's efforts.
Those signing the letter include Amnesty International, Oxfam and Transparency International -USA. They say the Chamber's proposed changes would "significantly undermine the statute as a tool to curb corruption."
Given the potential for mischief in a presidential election ear, the Chamber has said it will not submit its legislative proposals to Congress until after the November election.
Sweep to Civil society lobbies U.S. Congress on bribery law
Diana Jean Schemo is co-founding executive editor of 100Reporters and an award-winning former foreign, national and cultural correspondent for The New York Times and the Baltimore Sun.
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Q: SQL-запрос. Как сделать выборку записей с 2-мя старшими родителями, но без потомков? Есть таблица test_table, в которой 3 поля: *id(int), name(text), parent_id(int).
Пример заполнения таблицы:
cfcd2
  ->d3d94
  ->6512b
    ->c74d9
    ->a5771
  ->4e732
    ->6ea9a
  ->d6459
c4ca4
  ->c20ad
    ->c51ce
    ->3c59d
  ->37693
  ->aab32
c81e7
eccbc
  ->67c6a
a87ff

Что-то недопонимаю, честно говоря. Мой запрос?
select t1.* from `test_table` t1
left join `test_table` t2 on t2.id=t1.parent
left join `test_table` t3 on t3.id=t2.parent
where (t1.parent>0)

Забрать записи с 2мя старшими родителями у меня получается, а вот чтобы они при этом еще и без потомков были, вот тут проблема возникла... Пытался к where добавить дополнительное условие с запросом ((select count(t4.*) from test_table where (t4.parent=t1.id))=0) , но мускуль не пускает :(
UPD:
Решение найдено:
select t1.* from `test_table` t1
join `test_table` t2 on t2.id=t1.parent
join `test_table` t3 on t3.id=t2.parent
left join `test_table` t4 on t4.parent=t1.id
where t4.id is null

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