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"A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap." — Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without A Country
In this weekend-long intensive, we will closely examine strategies used by humor writers. We will look at dark humor and slapstick and evaluate comedic timing in essays and fiction. Our discussions will also revolve around sustaining humor: how long can we be funny? When in our work and where? How can we inject our prose with a sense of the comic that is appropriate to our material? Our explorations will extend into generative prompts in which we evoke in our own writing techniques we identify in the laugh-out-loud prose of Kingsley Amis, Melissa Broder, Sloane Crosley, Helen Fielding, Miranda July, George Saunders, David Sedaris, P.G. Wodehouse, and others. We will also discuss strategies for delivering comic material to an audience and platforms for publishing.
Theodora Ziolkowski is the author of On the Rocks, winner of a 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award, and Mother Tongues. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, The Writer's Chronicle, Short Fiction (England), Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing. Recently, she served as Poetry Editor for Gulf Coast and Fiction Editor for Big Fiction. She is pursuing her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston.

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NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden's up-and-down season is back on an upswing after a dominant win at Road America two weeks ago.
Newgarden is back at Iowa Speedway — the scene of perhaps his most impressive performance back in 2016 — in hopes of closing the gap further on series leader Scott Dixon.
Newgarden is fourth, 50 points behind Dixon, despite a series-high three wins in 10 starts. That's because the Tennessee-born Newgarden finished eighth or worse in a five-race stretch that began in Indianapolis and ended in Texas.
Newgarden got things going in the right direction in Wisconsin two weeks ago, leading all but two of 55 laps, and he feels as though his No. 1 Chevy will have an advantage after testing the newly designed aero package at Iowa on June 27.
Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power won his 52nd career pole on Saturday, with Newgarden set to start second. Ryan Hunter-Reay was third, followed by Simon Pagenaud.
"Us testing here is a benefit...(and) I think it's more important this year just because it's a new car — and Iowa is its own animal," said Newgarden, who led a record 282 of 300 laps to win at Iowa two years ago. "Even having been to Phoenix, another short oval, I don't think a lot of that really applies here because Iowa is just crazy unique. It's a lot bumpier."
Despite being one of the few drivers to run in each of Iowa's previous 11 races, Dixon has never won here. His best finish was third in 2016 — even though he has claimed the pole three times.
Dixon didn't test here either, but he's been dominant of late for Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon has two wins (Belle Isle and Texas) during a stretch of six consecutive top-four finishes. He qualified sixth on Saturday.
"It's a track that you can pass well," Dixon said. "Hopefully, the pit stops and strategies for us, they've been pretty good, pretty strong of recent and we can use that to our advantage."
Winning at Iowa typically isn't a problem for the resurgent Hunter-Reay, who entered the weekend tied for second with Alexander Rossi, 45 points back of Dixon.
Hunter-Reay took first for Andretti Autosport at Iowa in 2012 — the year he won the championship — and in 2014 and 2015. He was second in 2013 and tied a season high with a third-place finish a year ago.
Hunter-Reay's No. 28 Honda also topped last month's test in Newton as well, and he and his team have clearly found the speed that eluded Hunter-Reay during back-to-back disappointing seasons.
But Hunter-Reay acknowledged that, between the new setups and what could be much warmer conditions on Sunday, it should be an interesting race to say the least.
The qualifying results haven't seemed to matter much at Iowa either, since no pole-sitter has gone on to win the race.
"We have some good momentum going here at Iowa," Hunter-Reay said. "It's just that nobody really knows how the race will play out. Once we get into 50 laps on tires, we still have to go another 20, 30 more. It's going to be really light, very busy behind the wheel. Just a lot less downforce to deal with this year."


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Der Jeu ist ein Fluss in Frankreich, der im Département Maine-et-Loire in der Region Pays de la Loire verläuft. Er entspringt im beim Weiler La Jariaie, im südwestlichen Gemeindegebiet von Mauges-sur-Loire, entwässert in einem Bogen über Südost nach Nordost und mündet nach rund 21 Kilometern an der Gemeindegrenze von Chalonnes-sur-Loire und Chaudefonds-sur-Layon als linker Nebenfluss in den Layon, der nur etwa 1,5 Kilometer weiter die Loire erreicht.

Orte am Fluss
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 La Jariaie, Gemeinde Mauges-sur-Loire
 Sainte-Christine, Gemeinde Chemillé-en-Anjou
 Neuvy-en-Mauges, Gemeinde Chemillé-en-Anjou
 Le Plessis Bevereau, Gemeinde Mauges-sur-Loire
 La Varenne, Gemeinde Chaudefonds-sur-Layon
 Les Fourneaux, Gemeinde Chalonnes-sur-Loire

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Climate/ Weather Top
Follow the link to our China weather page for details about the climate in China and the best time to visit this fabulous country, including a detailed six-day Beijing weather forecast.
Communication Top
The country code to dial in Mainland China is 86; Hong Kong is 852; and Taiwan in 886. To dial out of China dial 00, followed by the relevant country code and phone number.
Telephone services in China are readily available, obviously better in the cities rather than regional areas; however you will find that making international phone calls from China is sometimes easier than making calls internally. Usually, there is a 3 minute minimum charge for international calls. Domestic calls are usually cheaper to make between 9pm & 7am and will often find that the connections are also better during this time.
You will find that most major cities and urban areas have mobile phone coverage, but coverage in other parts of the country is often sporadic.
Emergency numbers in China are:
Fire: 119
Internet is a resource that is available in many areas of China and is growing fast. Most major cities are home to numerous internet cafes and coverage can be found in many areas of China. The Chinese government routinely blocks access of its citizens to certain sites and subjects, such as the human rights group Falun Gong, as well as some foreign news agencies.
If you are looking to send items via post overseas, regular services to Europe can take anywhere from a couple of days to 1 week. Most larger tourist hotels usually have their own post offices. Post offices are usually open between 8am & 7pm.
Currency/ Money Top
Chinese Money is called Renminbi (RMB - which means People's Currency). The popular unit of RMB is Yuan. Chinese currency is issued in the following denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 50 and a 100 Yuan; 1, 2 and 5 Jiao; and 1, 2 and 5 Fen. There are parts of China the Yuan is also known as Kuai and Jiao is known as Mao.
To view the current Chinese exchange rate, this can be seen by visiting OANDA.com.
Local Costs in China
Internet cafe/hour - Y2
Meal in a food court - Y16
American Handburger - Y12
Cigarettes (pack of 20) - Y3
Bottle of water - Y2
Bottle of beer (from corner store) - Y2
Pint of local beer (from a bar) - Y10
City bus ticket - Y1
DVD (pirated) - Y8
Petrol/litre - Y3
Souvenir T-shirt - Y25
Average room rates
- Low US$25-35
- Mid US$35-100
- High US$100-300
- Deluxe US$300+
Average meal rates
- Low US$1-5
- Mid US$5-10
- High US$10-25
- Deluxe US$25+
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The electrical system in China runs off a 220 volts/ 50Hz system, however you will find that many good hotels also have facilities for 110 volt appliances.
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For a list of Chinese embassies around the world, as well as foreign embassies within China, check http://www.embassy-worldwide.com/.
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Population: 1.313 billion people (the most populous nation with one-fifth of the world's people).
Total Area: 9,596,960 million square kilometres.
Capital: Beijing (formerly known as Peking) with 13.82 million people, lying in the north-east of the country.
Time Zone: Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +8 hours.
To view the current time in Beijing, click on this link to TimeAndDate.com.
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The official language of China is Chinese (Mandarin) and is also one of the five working languages designated by the United Nations. Over 915 million speak Mandarin, making it the most spoken language in the world. Most of the 55 ethnic minorities have their own written and spoken languages. Other languages spoken in China include Yue (Cantonese), Wu (Shanghaiese), Minbei (Fuzhou), Minnan (Hokkien-Taiwanese), Xiang, Gan, Hakka dialects, as well as various other minority languages.
Some common Mandarin phrases handy for travellers include (spellings are for pronunciation only and doesn't represent the actual Mandarin characters):
Yes - sher as in sherpa
No - boo
Hello - knee how
Good-bye - dzai jyen
How much? - dwo shahw
Please -cheeng
Thank you -shyeh-shyeh
That one - nay guh
Sorry - dway boo chee
English - ing wen
Where's the toilet? - tsuh swo dzai nah lee?
Help - cho dju
0 - líng
1 - yī
2 - èr
3 - sān
4 - sì
5 - wǔ
6 - liù
7 - qī
8 - bā
9 - jiǔ
10 - shí
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Follow the link to view a current list of public holidays in China.
As well as the above national holidays, there are also other days observed as public holidays throughout the country, being official in some parts. These include:
8th March - International Women's Day.
4th May - National Youth Day.
23rd May - Tibet Liberation Day.
1st June - International Children's Day.
1st August - Army Day.
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China is officially an atheist country, but 8% of the population have some kind of official religious belief. These include (in order of popularity) Buddhists, Taoists, Muslims, Catholics & Protestants. Freedom of religious belief is a government policy, and the constitution protects all normal religious activities.
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Foreigners travelling to China first need to apply for a visa at the Chinese embassy or consulate in their home country. Depending on the status of your passport and the purpose of your visit to China, Chinese authorities will issue the specific visa. Diplomatic visas, tourist visas, transit visas, business visit visas, student visas and work visas are issued depending on the category the visitor falls in. A separate journalist visa is also issued to journalists.
China has also signed agreements with 64 countries on Mutual Visa Exemption. Normally the mutually visa-free agreements allow a stay of less than 30 days. The basic documents necessary for a Chinese visa are a valid passport, completed visa application form along with a recent 2-inch (4cm x 6cm) full-face photograph and visa processing fee.
To visit Tibet, you will need consent from the Tibet Tourism Administration before you are issued a valid visa. To visit China's five special economic zones – which include Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong Province, Xiamen in east China's, Fujian Province and southern China's Hainan Province.
If you are entering China in your own vehicle (be it a cycle, motorcycle, car or aircraft), prior approval is mandatory. If a visitor wants to extend his/her stay beyond the approved term, then permission from the local security organization is required for the extension.
US citizens who do not wish to go through the trouble of dealing with the red tape themselves can count on the professional services of Travel Visa Pro to speed things up: Apply for China Visa Online (service starts from $39). If you need to renew, add pages, change name, or just get a new US passport, you can Apply for a New US Passport here.
Geography Top
The fourth largest country in the world after Russia, Canada, and the United States, China has 9.6 million square kilometres of land which has diverse landscapes ranging from vast deserts, high mountains and stretches of fertile alluvial plains. A very long sea coast of more than 18,000 kilometres length borders the eastern side of the country. The western half of the country has plateaus and the highest tableland on Earth. To the south of China lies the Tibetan plateau. Just north of the Tibetan plateau is the vast Gobi desert which extends towards Mongolia.
The mighty Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world and along its course it is fed by thousands of lakes. The Yellow River, known as the cradle of human civilization, is the sixth largest river in the world and empties into the Bohai Sea. The mainland of China in East Asia covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres and is bordered on the east by a seacoast more than 18,000 kilometres in length. Taiwan and Hainan are the largest of the 5,000-plus islands on the country's vast territorial seas.
China's landmass consists of a wide array of of escarpments, which descend eastward towards the seas. Its rivers, including the world-renowned Yangtze and Yellow rivers, have a total length of 220,000 kilometres. Its picturesque landscape is glorified by towering mountain ranges, vast plateaus and plains, and a myriad of basins and hills. Mountains and highlands make up 65 percent of the mainland, which is studded with 2,000-odd natural lakes of varying sizes. Mount Qomolangma, soaring to an unbelievable height of 8,848 metres, is the world's highest mountain, whereas the Turpan Basin sinks 154 metres below sea level.
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China lies in eastern Asia and borders an unbelievable 15 different countries, which include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan & Vietnam. It also borders the East China Sea, Korea Bay, Yellow Sea & South China Sea.
To view a map of China, click on this link for WorldAtlas.com WorldAtlas.com.
People Top
Besides the Han Chinese who make up the majority, there are 55 other ethnic Chinese people. The other major minority ethnic groups are the Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uyghur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyei, Dong, Yao, Korean, Bai, Hani, Kazakh, Li, and Dai.
Resources Top
China has a vast territory which is rich in natural resources. Its fauna and flora resources are immense and it has the distinction of having the largest number of wild animals in the world. The Giant Panda, which is regarded as a 'living fossil' because of its endangered status, is endemic to China. Other animals which are unique to China are the snub-nosed golden monkey and the Yangtze alligator. Several ancient surviving plants such as Metasequoia, Cathaya argyrophylla and Ginkgo are also unique to China.
China also has an abundance of mineral resources. These include petroleum, uranium, natural gas, and coal, which are necessary for a country's development.
Television Top
While the major language used for broadcast on Chinese TV is Chinese, English and Japanese programmes are also available in some select hotels. The Chinese Television Station (CCTV), which was launched in the year 2000 is the window to the world for the Chinese. It provides 24-hour news broadcasts and has 45 million subscribers outside China.


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Q: Simple VBA routine needed for exam I am sitting an exam in the morning which involves HTML and a small bit of VBA.
VBA isn't my stong point and Im asking for help with this particular practice question:
"Write a simple VBA subroutine to illustrate how to insert data into a range of cells"
Sounds relatively easy but the lecturer put zero notes online,
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
Thank you

A: will keep this somewhat abstract as it is homework and i dont wnat to gift you the answer
alt-f11 opens the vba-editor thing
maybe make a module using the appropriate button
a subroutine should look a bit like
Sub insertIntoCell()
    ' right code here
End Sub

take a look at this documentation, you may wish to consider some form of iteration

A: I looked for a good example or tutorial and I think a found a good one to go into VBA programming. This gives you some basics and a example handles with ranges. I hope it will help you go ahead.

A: Like this:
Range("A2").Value = 1000

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Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced that Scality, an industry leader in petabyte-scale object storage, is the latest in a growing list of partners developing solutions based on the Seagate® Kinetic Open Storage platform. Scality's award-winning software-only storage solution, the Scality RING, now integrates the Kinetic Open Storage platform for an all new scale-out storage solution.
Developed for large-scale cloud service providers, financial services and media customers, the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform fueled Scality solution offers better performance and significantly lower total cost of ownership by eliminating the storage server tier in the data center.
"Storage capacity continues to shift to the cloud. Global data center IP traffic is projected to exceed 7.7 zettabytes by the end of 20171 creating additional challenges for supporting and managing data. Software-Defined Storage has the potential to revolutionize the data center and we are pleased to be working with Scality, a global leader in object-based storage solutions, to help realize the potential of the Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform," said Kaustubh Das, vice president, Seagate Cloud and Advanced Storage.
"The Software-Defined Data Center represents a complete rethinking of the data center, in order to deliver an architecture that is truly at the service of applications, and at the same time, achieves better reliability and performance at dramatically lower cost than the traditional data center," said Jerome Lecat, CEO, Scality. "This kind of fundamental rethinking requires real innovation, not just the evolutionary incrementalism of yesterday's technologies. The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform represents exactly the kind of innovation required to achieve the full promise of the Software-Defined Data Center. We are extremely excited to work with Seagate to make this vision a reality."
The new Seagate Kinetic fueled Scality RING software is currently being tested in the Rausch Netzwerktechnik Bigfoot Object Storage Solution (BOSS), aimed at scale-out cloud customers. The first functional Kinetic fueled system in Europe, the BOSS 4U chassis houses 72 HDDs giving 288 TB per 4U or 2.8 PB per rack. Each hard disk drive has two 1/Gb Ethernet ports which are accessed via a traditional form factor hard disk drive interface connected to an Ethernet switch on the backplane of the system. BOSS will be demonstrated at World Hosting Days 2014 starting today.
Keynote: World Hosting Days 2014, Europaworld, Germany
In their keynote, "The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform: Delivering breakthrough economics for scale-out object storage," on Tuesday 1st April, Seagate's Ali Fenn, senior director, Advanced Storage, and Joe Fagan, senior director, Cloud Initiatives, Europe, Middle East and Africa, will explain advantages for scale-out storage customers.
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Businesses with Benefit Plans: Is this on your Radar? It Should Be.
Topics: Accounting & Audit, Business Advisory
There's a magic number when it comes to your welfare benefit plans. That number is 100. While there are a few exceptions, most businesses that reach 100 employees covered by their plans must file a form with the government to show that the plans meet all regulations and remain in compliance with government requirements. If they fail to file that form, known as a Form 5500, businesses can face some significant penalties.
Gilmore Jasion Mahler's Molly Wolf specializes in employee benefit plan administration, advising many healthcare practices and other businesses, and acting as a third-party administrator (TPA) for their plans.
"As employees come and go, it's not uncommon for a business to go over those 100 individuals covered by their welfare benefit plans and not even know it," she says. "Some insurance providers will watch that closely for a business, but others may not, and that can be a costly mistake."
Do you know the exact number of employees you have? Is it possible you've gone over that 100 mark in terms of members of your business benefit plans? Could you owe a penalty and not know it? Wolf says there's one thing you can do right now to get a good idea of where you sit: Look at how many are on your company's long-term disability (LTD) plan. It's a good place to start, she says, because for most plans that provide LTD coverage, it automatically applies to all employees. It's also important to know when checking how many plan participants you have that those covered may include not only active employees receiving benefits, but terminated employees, retired employees, deceased employees, and even eligible employees who are not yet enrolled in the plan.
Wolf says most businesses that need to file a Form 5500 have likely received their 5500 Schedule A or will soon receive it. That's because the 5500 is due the last day of the 7th month after their plan year ends. If you have a calendar-year plan, as may businesses do, your Form 5500 will be due on July 31, 2022. You'll need the months ahead to gather your information and file before the deadline.
The Form 5500 is filed by private and public businesses every year with, not only the IRS, but also the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The purpose of the form is to demonstrate that your plan is operating as it should be and meets all government requirements as outlined by the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). It's also important to note that the Form 5500 covers not only retirement and savings plans like 401(k)s, pension plans and profit-sharing plans, but it is also required for health and welfare benefit plans with over 100 employees, including medical, vision, dental and more.
Here is a listing of the most common ERISA welfare benefit plans that must file a Form 5500:
Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
Business Travel Accident
Cancer Insurance (if voluntary)
Death benefits (other than life insurance)
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)
Health Reimbursement Accounts or Arrangements (HRAs)
Health Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Legal (prepaid) Assistance Plans
Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs)
Severance Benefits
5500 Penalties and Pitfalls
If you miss the deadline to file your Form 5500, you're looking at the potential of two penalties: one from the IRS and one from the DOL. The IRS penalty is $250 a day up to a maximum of $150,000. DOL penalties went up for 2022 due to inflation and can be as much as $2,400 a day with no maximum.
If you know you've missed the deadline to file, Molly Wolf says your best option is something called the Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program (DFVCP). She says it is an inexpensive option, generally the best way to resolve late filing, and could significantly reduce what you owe in late fees & penalties per plan.
All Form 5500s must be filed electronically through the EFAST2 program. Be sure all the information you provide is accurate. You could also face a fine or penalty for mistakes on the form. Some common errors include incorrect information on the number of benefit plan participants, failing to include terminated plans as part of the submission, mistakes with employee identification numbers (EINs) or plan numbers, just to name a few.
Another potentially costly pitfall: confusion over whether your welfare benefits are offered through separate plans or collectively offered through a "wrap" document. If your plans are all separate, that means you need to file a 5500 for each individual plan as opposed to a single 5500 for a "wrap" document. Wolf says she has seen it happen where a business doesn't know they need to file a Form 5500 for each individual plan. She says she's seen it go the other way as well, where a business is filing multiple 5500s and it turns out they had a "wrap" document all along, and only needed to file one form.
Typically, an operations manager or human resources leader would be responsible for filing a Form 5500 for a business, though many businesses rely on an outside provider known as a third-party administrator (TPA). In those cases, that third-party will prepare the filing based on the data provided or collected from the client and the plan's providers.
If you're concerned about being able to accurately file your Form 5500 and want to consult with an expert who specializes in employee benefit plans, Gilmore Jasion Mahler's Molly Wolf is a good place to start. To begin the conversation, email info@gjmltd.com with "Employee Benefit Plan Services Inquiry" as the subject line of your email.
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Q: Storing Object States in java I need to store a thousands objects states in a file, at the end of a time-cycle and bring them back to life in main memory with start of every new cycle.
so there are two ways I have thought of so far :
for example storing these objects directly as
class UsingClassObjects {
    private String name;
    private int age;
    private long rollNo;
    private long credits;

}
or create a hashMap to store the states as:
class UsingHashMap{
    HashMap<Integer, HashMap<String, HashMap<Long, Long>>> data = new HashMap<Integer, HashMap<String, HashMap<Long, Long>>>();

}
So which of these two approaches is better memory and efficiency wise and why ?
and is there any even a better way to do so ?
and would serializing the object/s affect the performance rather than writing states to a plain text file, if I use the HashMap?

A: Serialize the object and store in the File is much better than your HashMap approach as it can be wasteful. Also it will be trivial to serialize/deserialize a POJO if it is not complex. You can use a DB too and that can be helpful. You can use a Cache like REDIS also.

A: To store the state in an HashMap is not a good option because:
1. In the end it is an object and it will dead if your server is crash or you stop the JVM.

*If you are storing 1000 of object in HashMap which will increare the memory and there are chances to get Out of Memory issue.

*HashMap will consume lot of memory for each entry object in it.
Hence I would recommend to use Java Serialization to store the state of an object which will preserve the state even if JVM is down.


Wendy's 3-D Cats: DANTE AND DOMINO ARE MR. AND MRS. CLAWS!
... at Christmas they make the PURRfect Mister and Missus CLAWS!
Both of them are very patient about posing in their Santa coats. They are also very comfortable with each other, so don't mind being in such close quarters.
Dante (aka Santa Claws) takes a look around the neighpurrhood, while Domino (aka Mrs. Claws) has eyes only for the camera.
But then I went one step too far! With the addition of a hat on Mrs. Claws and a beard on Santa, they were ready to turn their backs on the whole thing.
"We are NOT aMEWSed!!!" they say.
Basically cats don't like hats covering their ears, or false whiskers covering their own.
Well, we don't call them Mr. and Mrs. Claws fur nothin'!


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Down At The Nightshade, With Jason Webb and Apache Trails by Clinton Hoffman
Bykintners
Sometimes you hear a voice that sounds larger than life. How do they do that? Go from gravel to smooth in one breath, almost dredging your soul through your ears. You mix that kind of vocal energy with lyrical imagery both dark and pure and you have one hell of a sound. That's what you get when you listen to Jason Webb and his band, Apache Trails.
Apache trails, based in the Delmarva region, tends to be a rotating cast of some of the best musicians in the area all gathered around to support Jason's blues and folk driven songs. Their debut album "Apache Trails" features 17 different musicians. But these were not strangers. 17 people that loved each others music as much as Jason's. A community.
"My daddy was a brakeman. Never paid no mind to the rain and the thunder. He just smiled and said listen to them angels bowl." Aren't dads the best?
The opener on this album, "Howl Train Howl", is a mid tempo swing stomper written about Jason's father. A real life brakeman. "My daddy was a brakeman. Never paid no mind to the rain and the thunder. He just smiled and said listen to them angels bowl." Aren't dads the best?
Apache Trails by Apache Trails
My favorite song on this album is track 2, "Cricket In A Music Box". It's about a cricket that escapes the confines of a magnificent music box to find what else could be out there. If only in his mind. "Wind me up, don't you let me down. Keep rubbing those wings while the wheels go around. Pins pluck the combs, my feet brush the ground. Swing me slow in that wedding day gown". It's Beautiful.
"I've got a bottle of this feeling, rock with the mountain healing". The campfire feel with the mandolin under the lyrics… It's real and honest and practically perfect.
Let's take a listen to how they sound live. Here's "Rain Or Shine" from their album "The Flash Sessions", recorded in Kennet Square, PA. I love this song because it's tight and loose at the same time and it also sounds like something I would write. So I may be biased. "I've got a bottle of this feeling, rock with the mountain healing". The campfire feel with the mandolin under the lyrics… It's real and honest and practically perfect.
The Flash Sessions by Apache Trails
Another tune from this album that I really enjoy is "Nightshade", track 5. It paints a haunting picture of a rowdy dirty bar owned by a son of a witch. "Down at the Nightshade the air's thicker than the mud". It makes me feel like I'm right there drinking next to Tom Waits and Maurice from 1989's "Little Monsters".
I hope you enjoy these tunes as much as I do. Til next time.
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As part of recollection, here I gathered some my conceptual analysis on Quantum Mechanics.
It started when people observed conventional particles, for example, electrons, behave like a wave. This hints a description of particle in wave mechanics, so here we go, we will describe a particle by . However, it's not so easy to interpret it. We could say, since it's a wave, maybe it has similar properties as light wave. Since we could interpret the amplitude of light wave as probability amplitude, could possibly also be a probability amplitude of some sort.
In other words, the second equation means that particle must be somewhere, we call it normalization condition.
Now suppose our system has two particles that are sufficiently apart such that there is no interaction between them. The two particles are described by and respectively. One may ask, what is the probability amplitude of finding particle 1 at and particle 2 at ?
This really follows from common sense that the probability of two events occurring at same time is the product of the probability of individual event occurring. We could check that it indeed behaves like a probability amplitude.
Now let's consider a two-particle system as we described above. We know their energies respectively.
This shows that the form of E must follow a peculiar structure. One familiar function that has the above property is log function.
Now we want to see how changes in time by taking the partial derivative of .
We could, then, easily figure out the constant by fitting experiment. Here we could consider an example of a photon. Photon classically is described as the propagation of alternating electric field and magnetic field. However, as proposed by Einstein, the amplitude of classical electromagnetic field could also be interpreted as the probability amplitude of the particle photon. This means for a free photon, it's wave function would be of the following form.
This is in fact one of the very important results in Quantum Mechanics. Through the arguments, one has to conclude that the emergence of complex number is a natural consequence to conserve energy, and in this sense, Quantum Mechanics doesn't seem that mysterious at all!


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package ee.cone.c4gate

import okio.ByteString

case class HttpResponse(status: Int, headers: Map[String, List[String]], body: ByteString)

trait HttpUtil {
  def get(url: String, headers: List[(String, String)]): HttpResponse
  def post(url: String, headers: List[(String, String)]): Unit
  def post(url: String, headers: List[(String, String)], body: ByteString, timeOut: Option[Int], expectCode: Int*): Unit
  def put(url: String, headers: List[(String, String)], body: ByteString, timeOut: Option[Int]): Int
  def put(url: String, headers: List[(String, String)], body: ByteString): Int
}
object HttpUtil {
  sealed trait HttpMethod {
    def ==: (that: String): Boolean = that == this.toString
  }
  object HttpMethod {
    case object PUT extends HttpMethod
    case object POST extends HttpMethod
    case object GET extends HttpMethod
    case object OPTIONS extends HttpMethod
    case object HEAD extends HttpMethod
    case object PATCH extends HttpMethod
    case object DELETE extends HttpMethod
    case object TRACE extends HttpMethod
    case object CONNECT extends HttpMethod
  }
}

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Q: jQuery action when .load() is done I am trying to have an action that starts when my load() request is done, but the alert never shows up. The load() request works since I can see the content of mypage.html in my .haha div. This is the really simple code:

Hello

None of the alerts shows up.
EDIT :
In my console i have this :
Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user's experience. For more help, check http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/.
FAToolbar.js:1 Uncaught TypeError: $.cookie is not a function

A: If you check the documentation for load() you'll see that the xhr object is the third parameter passed to the callback function. Your code is most likely generating a syntax error in trying to access properties of the returned string which don't exist, which is stopping further execution. Try this:
$('.haha').load('mypage.html', function(response, status, xhr) { // note the extra params
    if (xhr.readyState == 4 && (xhr.status == 200 || xhr.status == 0)) {
        alert('TEST TEST');
    }
    alert('TEST TEST');
});

A: first,the function load 's callback parameter is only called after request has completed, so you don't have to check xhr.readyState == 4.
second,you load a html via the function load,and i guess that the page mypage.html include some javascript code , and some code call the function $.cookie which is not include in the page.So the error print in you console product by you js code from the page mypage.html.


When it comes to being a developer, everyone does it a little differently. Find out what keeps these 5 developers motivated and productive.
Our design team has spent a lot of time explaining their processes on the Dialexa blog. But when it comes to our client projects, design is just one piece of the puzzle.
It's time for the software team to step into the spotlight. Five members of the Dialexa software team—Luke Gordon (Senior Solutions Engineer), Simba Musarurwa (Solutions Engineer), Kia Wright (Front End Developer), Ehis Ojielu (Full Stack Engineer), and Brady Walker (Quality Assurance Engineer)—took the time to explain what a typical day looks like for them.
How Do You Get Your Dat Started?
Simba: I wake up at 4:50, get ready, and then ride my bike to the gym. After about an hour at the gym, I ride back, cook breakfast and do some light reading until about 7:30 when it's time to head to the office. I ride my bike to work and I'm in by 7:40 to start the day. I make my coffee and start planning my tasks for the day, front loading efforts because I have the most energy earlier in the day.
Kia: Especially during crunch time on a project, I like to wake up at 7 and get to the office around 8. For me, Post-it notes are the best way to keep track of tasks so I spend time in the morning writing out my tasks and sticking them to my monitor. Then as the day goes on, I can get the satisfaction of crushing each one and moving along.
Ehis: When you're a software engineer, you tend to get stuck in your own little bubble of work. So in the mornings, I like to listen to podcasts while I get ready. The topics could be politics, technology, or anything really just as long as I can think outside of work until I'm in the office.
What Do You Do Every Day to Integrate Projects?
Luke: One of the biggest things to keep in mind is that there aren't any "typical projects" at Dialexa. Every project is different whether it's in hardware, software, or a new industry and we have to be able to adapt our approach. Being T-shaped is the best way we can contribute to integration on a daily basis—thinking where I can offer the most value and where I can help others who are struggling.
Brady: The standup is our most important daily meeting as everyone gives a quick overview of 3 things—what did you accomplish yesterday, what will you accomplish today, and blockers for those tasks. Understanding the blockers is most important because it helps us collaborate better and see where we can apply the T-shaped mindset. Especially for me in QA, the standup shows me what I need to do to work alongside project managers and developers every day.
Kia: Simba's plan to take out the toughest tasks early might be the best approach, but I feel more productive when I build momentum early. I take out small tasks so I can cross them off and start doing my heavy lifting later in the day. There's always a lull in the afternoon, but early mornings and late evenings are when I get the most done.
Ehis: I don't necessarily fit the night owl developer stereotype, but I'm closer to it than others. My productivity definitely lies toward the end of the day. After I've gained momentum through the morning and afternoon, I take care of the biggest challenges between 3 and 6 (and beyond). It's like two bursts—in the morning I put out fires and then later in the evening you hit the groove and start moving quickly.
How Much Interaction Do You Have With Clients Throughout the Day?
Simba: This is another question that depends entirely on the project. A major project with 10 or 15 team members would have a dedicated lead engineer or project manager, so we probably wouldn't have much client interaction outside of demos. But with a small project, a solutions engineer like me could be the primary point of contact.
Luke: There are times when we go beyond status updates for clients and provide full workshops for a system. If we have a project that is very complicated with deep business logic and a lot of nuances, we have to get in the system with the client and see how they're using it. The design team is often responsible for this level of research, but from a QA standpoint, I need to understand workflows so the build covers all bases.
How Do You Overcome Any Roadblocks in Your Tasks?
Brady: Daily routines might be different for everyone, but this is something we all agree on. If there's something keeping us from getting a task done, we have to talk it through with someone every time. The general idea is that if you're stuck for more than 15 minutes, it's time to talk it out with a colleague for a new perspective.
What Do You Do to Make Sure You Continue to Grow (Both Personally and Professionally)?
Ehis: Reading blogs is a great way to learn how to solve new problems. One of my favorites is the Instagram Engineering blog. But sometimes reading isn't enough. When I had to learn the new Angular 2 framework for a specific client project, it helped to get practical experience. Building something small with Angular 2 before getting into the client project helped me gain a solid understanding of the framework faster than I would have from reading alone.
Simba: Internal demos and our Lunch and Learn series are two ways Dialexa helps push both personal and professional growth. We usually do internal demos at the end of our two-week sprints so we can bring people from outside the project team in to offer a new perspective. When you work on a project so long, it's easy to lose sight of some of the finer points. A second set of technical eyes helps us all learn more about the work we're doing.
The Lunch and Learn initiative comes up every Wednesday when a team member gives an educational presentation. It could be on anything really, ranging from highly technical engineering to how to brew the best cup of coffee. We always want to learn more and we want to keep practicing how we share our knowledge with others.
Luke: Stemming from the Lunch and Learn, we also did a Beer and Learn recently, after hours. Instead of the usual internal focus, we've started focusing on showcasing our lessons for local companies. We gain more experience by teaching and we get to help the local community at the same time.
Kia: I came to Dialexa through a shared Crossfit connection and now Crossfit has become a big part of the Dialexa culture. And on a higher level, I think we all share a similar feeling that exercise is a big part of our free time. When you're so plugged into technology all day, it's great to take a break and experience the physical world. I also have a personal goal to take 1 international trip every year and I run a small business in my spare time.
Ehis: It's great to unplug from technology outside of work, but I like to stay creative. I'm a musician, so when I go home I spend time in my studio practicing my instruments and getting creative with music. And then on the weekends, it's great to check out the Dallas music scene and play around with fellow musicians.
If there's one thing our software team proves, it's that delivering results in the tech world isn't just about coding. There's a serious dedication to the projects (so much so that Kia told us she has to commit to taking more breaks to stay productive), but sometimes you have to unplug for the job (and from Slack).
However, even if you have a superstar software team, it won't mean much if your company strategy isn't on the right track. If you want to learn more about aligning your business (and individual teams) for success in digital transformation, download our free ebook, Enterprise Technology for Business Outcomes.


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Evrilla's Quarters
Posted Nov. 30, 2021, 11:22 a.m. by Commander Garinder'Jen th'Jir (Executive Officer) (Gene Gibbs)
Posted by Civilian Evrilla (Chief Medical Officer w/ specialty in Pathology) in Evrilla's Quarters
Posted by Commander Garinder'Jen th'Jir (Executive Officer) in Evrilla's Quarters
Jen had to look up the CMO's quarters. Without specific designations they could be almost anywhere on the ship. The various 'offices' of the department heads were easy to find; living quarters not so easy. However, the Andorian had trodded on virtually every deck on the ship in his morning runs where he engaged in a variety of different routes that included Jeffries Tubes, corridors and ladders. In one way it was a varied routine of not getting bored with running. On the other it allowed him the ability to get to know the ship much better. One thing he did know after this time: this was a big ship.
Over dinner earlier he had been thinking of this meeting and had stared at the ushaan-tor that he had taken out and polished. It was sitting on an open wooden case, gleaming in the overhead light. His had accompanied him in his postings and carried with him as an 'additional' item in his field kit. Evrilla's request was unusual, though she was of Andor, and that made her an ally. Different yes, but, in Jen's view, the same. Still, it dredged up memories of his son, teaching him, and who had since turned away from the Andorian traditions. That, in itself, was distressing to Jen. Still, he could not fault him for making his choices. Jen had taught to choose wisely, that all choices held consequences and, when faced with a large choice, to consider the cost of one path over another. Children .. were full of surprises. slowly he fit the ushaan-tor into the case, carefully placed the cloth over it and closed it. The snap seemed loud in the room.
He came to Evrilla's quarters about the agreed upon time. He was not dressed in his uniform but in a more casual dress of loose fitting shirt and trousers with a light 'runner' shoe. Over one arm he had a uniform tunic and in the other two slim cases in a dark, worn wood. He held them by a handle at the top of each. With the free finger he pressed the chime.
- Jen, XO
The door opened to a blue child staring up at Jen. "Amma, Amma, He's here!" Tatyl had been standing in front of the door for 15 minutes, ready to let Jen in the second he arrived. Tatyl stood at attention, her face scrunched up in concentration. "My name is Tatyl ch'Sa-" She cut herself off suddenly, and scuffed her feet. "Just Tatyl. Sorry."
The door opened quickly. He was looking ahead to an adult height, though a blink later and he was peering down to a quite excitable appearing girl. "And I am Garinder'Jen th'Jir," he replied, kneeling to her level. He winked, a very 'human' expression but one that he had picked up as it typically elicited a response from children. "Just Jen," he continued. He was unsure of the potential 'slip' that she had made. Whatever one's history it belonged to that person, though he was not to press it at all.
The girl moved sullenly out of the doorway as her mother emerged around the corner. "Commander. Please, come inside." Evrilla stepped to the side, letting Jen in with a smile. "I have cleared our sitting area. Tatyl has been looking forward to this since I told her." She smiled politely, although it seemed a little strained after Tatyl's near slip.
-Evrilla and Tatyl
Standing again, Jen stepped inside and let the door swish quietly shut behind him. The room had a fresher smell than his own which didn't surprise him at all. Perhaps bidden, he looked to the side clearing, though took in the rest of the quarters with it. It had the same 'feel' to it like the home he grew up in though he was hard pressed to figure out just what it was that rendered that connection. His antennae moved about as though searching for that elusive connection. Perhaps it was that sense of making a space more a home. "Thank you. I have brought this," he said, indicating his tunic, "and a welcome gift." Under the tunic was a decorative shawl in what looked to be the wool of an Andorian Quidram, the print bearing the skyline of the Nornat Glacier.
Evrilla ran her hands over the shawl and met Jen's eyes with a smile. "Thank you. Please, sit wherever you'd like." There was a couch and two chairs arranged around a low table, but Tatyl had simply taken a couch cushion and sat on the floor. A small sewing kit was sitting on the table, and Evrilla placed Jen's tunic in the chair besides it. "Can I get you something to drink?"
-Evrilla, CMO
Jen 'felt' the domestic sense here. It was something that to him was a distant memory and something that had been torn from him. 'Normal' was something he was increasingly not used to. Even though Evrilla was Aenar, and very rare even on Andor, this was the closest to a 'norm' as he had known for some time. He looked at the seating choices and picked one of the single chairs. "Thank you. I am fine for now," he replied as he settled in, placing the cases on his lap and focused on Tatyl sitting on the cushion. After a moment of studying her he slid one of the cases off his lap and handed it to her.
Evrilla nodded and retrieved a bolt of fabric, the mentioned paneling, settling in to watch and sew. She found herself interested beyond a proper amount, perhaps longing for something of her lover's culture that she never got to see.
Over his shoulder he could hear and sense through his antennae what Evrilla was doing. The smells reminded him of his .. in earth terms .. grand parents' home. It was missing the 'chill' in the air of the bare ice walls that had been carved in an intricate design of a flock of K'ir passing over an ice flow. There too was a great deal of seamstress work, though the whole family did it as an occupation. He wondered how the Aenar, blind, did it.
The case was thin and of a dark wood, worn but holding a dark lacquer coating. A simple clasp held it closed. It was about the size and shape of an old style sheaf of paper, though close to 5cm thick. As such it had some weight to it.
Tatyl held the case, studying Jen back. She nodded, apparently satisfied, and looked over it carefully. "It's heavy." It wasn't locked, but he also hadn't told her to open it. "Should I open it?"
-Dr. Evrilla & Tatyl
Jen nodded his affirmation.
Tatyl released the clasp and opened the case with a hint of reverence. This was a part of her parents' culture, a connection she wouldn't be able to find any other way/
The case would open on hinges and inside was a velvet like cobalt blue fabric and nestled within was a glistening metal object, the ushaan-tor. "Andorians are a violent people," he began. "Not unlike Vulcans. Where they control their instincts to battle through logic and the suppression of emotion, Andorians have codified it into ritual. We fight, but within a rigid framework of honor and tradition. This," he said, gesturing to the ushaan-tor, "is a simple tool. Once most Andorians would carry this to his work. They were common in the home. It was a digging tool. A mining tool. A construction tool. Like a hammer or a broom or a spade. Today it is a device of ritual. Elevated to prominence. Given a .. honored case and place in family history, an heirloom for some, like a historical Klingon bat'leth.. Then, at home, this would have been tossed on a table." He smiled and opened his own case, revealing another, this time in a crimson fabric. "But remember what I said. Andorians are a violent people. This was a tool, but if a fight flared up, this became a weapon, and blue blood would join the ice chips on the floor."
He paused for Tatyl to comment or question or touch it.
Tatyl glanced at him, then reached out a hand. She brushed her fingers over the weapon, staying clear of sharp edges and feeling the metal. "Are there rules on when you can have an ushaan? You said it's about honor. Do you have to have a reason?" She was enthusiastic, although she remained hesitant to actually pick up the ushaan-tor.
-Tatyl
"Andorians have had many weapons as options to use at their disposal. Any of them could have been adopted. And, where an ushaan-tor is not available, can still be used, but in this, much like the Vulcan lirpa, we prefer this, the ushaan-tor. Why is that, do you think?" he asked. Yes he had sidestepped her question for the moment. Before one climbed the ladder one must place it firmly on the ground.
Tatyl hummed. "It's easily accessible? You said it's a tool, so that must mean lots of people have one."
Jen nodded. "This is true. Or at least was. We still mine but not often with these." He tipped his head in thought. "I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. These will be different races. When you hear them, tell me the first thing that comes to your mind about them." Ready?
Tatyl nodded once, shifting in her seat.
He waited for the affirmation then said, "Vulcan."
"Rules."
Then after the answer he said, "Ferengi."
"…Rules?"
Then after that answer he said, "Human."
Jen, XO
"Friendly!" Tatyl had been educated about each of the races her mother dealt with, but she had only met a few of the many she knew in the abstract.
"Good," he said, glancing at her mother with a 'not quite what I had expected' but that's okay smile. His experience of the races was a mixed bag of 'friendly'; that depended on the person. However it was not entirely the space of debate right now. Looking back to Tatyl and picking what she said, "The Ferengi have their 'Rules of Acquisition'. When people think of them they think often of those 'rules'." he said that framing the word rules in 'finger quotes'. Then he smiled wide and put them out at his head and wagged his head back and forth a couple of times. "Or their ears."
Evrilla shrugged with a slight smile. Everything in a lab was rules, so Tatyl had developed quite the ear for directions.
"But," he continued, "what the Rules are to us is that they are a symbol of the people as a whole. Yes a very general symbol but one nonetheless. A symbol is much like a flag. You see it and you go 'oh belongs to this or that people or group'. It is how they are best known. And to the people who owns that symbol it becomes part of their identity." He paused there, wondering whether Tatyl would catch what he was trying to say.
"The ushaan… It's a tradition. And the ushaan-tor… Is the symbol of that tradition? So we can't change it without messing up the meaning?" Tatyl frowned slightly. "So it's not about winning. It's about fighting right."
Clever girl. She was starting to get it, but Jen was not going to let this be simply about a brawl when it was so much more. "And a symbol of the Andorian people. It is a part of our identity. You have probably seen it, or felt it, the way that Andorians are very orderly and quick to feel angry, to react to a word or something we see as wrong. And so we do not live careless lives. The humans call one with a temper to be .. hot blooded. It means that they can be out of control. Many races control their .. tempers .. differently. The Vulcans bury it. The Klingons don't try to hide it. Humans .." he shrugged, thinking. "pretend they don't have it. Us Andorians know that we are fighters and to control it we have our own rules of life together." He tapped the ushaan-tor. "These we use when those rules are broken and which demands a response. And so we practice with it for the times when it may be needed, but we do not seek out reasons to use it. Why? Because it is an important symbol that is not taken lightly. And we must give consideration to all these other people who are not of Andor who do not understand and be .. lenient. Otherwise we would be fighting them .. often. And that is not fair to them, nor is it honoring to us. Our fights are very .. personal. They are not just brawls. They have a reason. We fight to win because they are personal and we fight because it is personal and has meaning for us."
"Now, think about that for a minute and tell me what I said in your own words. I have said a lot. If there is something you don't understand, ask."
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Tatyl frowned, her brows scrunching up. "The ushaan isn't a game. It's not fighting for practice. If you don't do it right, that's worse than letting it slide." Tatyl sighed. "I guess everyone has rules we have to learn." She'd simplified it, but she understood the concept. "I get the feeling this is going to be more like school than sparring."
Tatyl seemed fixed on rules, Jen thought. Codes and custom were, more often than not, unspoken rules in a society. Truly Andorians had a great deal of them, but Tatyl would grow into them. He thought she grasped the idea and that was what he had hoped for. Jen did feel .. out of practice in talking to children again. "Oh, this will be more fun than school, but a lot of practice. You are right. The Ushaan is not a game, but it does not mean that training can't be." He glanced over to her mother and flashed a smile and a quick wink.
Then, setting the case down, he picked up the ushaan-tor. "Now, let's look at how to hold it properly. It looks easy but a proper hold will maintain control. See the edge. It is very sharp and.." Jen paused to move it in a fluid figure eight. ".. is an extension of your own hand. It will help you not only in fighting but in not hurting yourself." He shifted the angle of it just slightly and brought it down by his hip showing her how it being just off angle could, if moved quickly, hurt oneself.
"Go ahead. Pick it up. Feel its weight. It will be heavy for you at first but that will change."
Jen took some time to watch Tatyl take it up. Moving behind her he reached around to curl her small fingers around the handle, showing her the proper hold, then moved them to other places to show what was not right but always back to the proper hold. "Do you feel the difference? Now, this is the 'ready' position. Let's try putting it down and then picking it up and going to the ready position. I'll do it with you." Picking up his own he set it down on the floor. Then, when she was ready he went through a series of picking it up, moving to the ready position with the proper hold then putting it back down again.
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Civilian Jessa Novar (Child)
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This past Sunday I published a review in the Los Angeles Times on teaching writing. I cross-posted on the Huffington Post and have been surprised by the interest it has generated.
"Professor X" is teaching at schools very different from Wesleyan, and yet there may be lessons in his book for us. The first is that our students have the benefit of working with scholar-teachers who are dedicated to providing a bold and rigorous educational experience. The second is that our faculty have the benefit of working with students who are motivated to develop their capacities for critical and creative thinking. All of us know that this joint endeavor only works well when built on a foundation of trust, hard work and care. As we move toward the end of the semester, let's make sure that foundation is as strong as possible.
In fall 2008, the Atlantic published an anonymous essay on the awful conditions in the basic writing courses of many colleges. "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower" told the story of Professor X, a part-time adjunct professor with a passion for literature and a dedication to upholding standards. "Professor X," as the author called himself, penned a cri de coeur lamenting that we now encourage people to enter these courses without the preparation or ability to do college-level work. He compared contemporary inflated assumptions about the abilities of many non-traditional students to the inflated credit scores that helped fuel the housing bubble. Professor X had himself begun to teach, he tells us, because his family had taken on a mortgage they could scarcely afford, and he needed more than one job to make ends meet. He was stuck in "adjunct land" because the culture all around him refused to uphold its basic standards. The verve of his essay lay in Professor X's refusal to give in to the hypocrisy of the system that victimized him.
One can imagine someone, seeing that the controversial essay was attracting attention online, trying to recast it as a book. Why not just inflate into chapters the points made in paragraphs, add a bit on reactions to the original essay, and presto! A book! The result is a volume with an embarrassing amount of rhetorical padding and an excruciating number of repetitions. As a writing teacher, X probably realizes this, but how could he resist morphing his successful essay into his first published book?
Teachers of a certain age often like to complain about students who just don't get it. We all have stories of howlers committed by naive freshmen or of students who come up with lame excuses for not handing in work or who get caught plagiarizing. "In the Basement of the Ivory Tower" is chock-full of bonehead tales from the classroom. Some are amusing, but after a while they leave a bad taste in the reader's mouth. Should a teacher be this condescending and still parade his virtuous upholding of true university standards?
Professor X was by his own account a student who loved to learn and who developed the noble ambition to be a writer. But his plans for a life devoted to what he repeatedly calls the very hard work of writing were derailed. "Meanwhile, my wife had gotten pregnant," he tells the reader in a howler of his own, and he wants us to understand that this meant that he had to get serious. Further shocking disappointments would be coming: An agent didn't like the book manuscript he finished. "I knew that I wouldn't be able to start another book," he writes. "I was on the road to forty years old." Writing is so hard!
With debts piling up and tensions mounting with his wife, X becomes a part-time teacher. Now he can really show somebody how hard writing is! He doesn't want to talk about race or class in his courses because these topics make him uncomfortable. He is surprised to discover that his nontraditional students are often indifferent to his pedagogical charms and that they are woefully unengaged. They don't even seem to care about failing. X rails against a system that pulls them into college when they have no ability to work at the appropriate level. He wonders whether this is the fault of postmodernism or maybe of the increasing number of female teachers (with all that feminine compassion!).
Professor X sees a corrupt system in which community colleges succeed in attracting more and more students who will fail (but pay tuition) because more and more companies are using college certification as a job requirement. Why should nurses or computer programmers or cops have to learn about literature? he complains. He does not ask this question because he believes that literature is relevant only to those pursuing a life of writing. No, Professor X really does love literature and writing, and he believes with admirable passion that learning to read and write is enormously fulfilling whatever your job may be. X rails against the system of attracting all these students into courses they can't pass because he despairs of their ability to learn (or his ability to teach them).
I wish we had heard more about the students who did learn from Professor X, and I bet there have been more than a few. The glimpses into his successes in the classroom don't support his call for more restrictions on who should go to college, but it is moving to hear about those students who surprised him with their insights, honesty and desire to learn.
Professor X's 2008 essay struck a chord because we were ashamed to be reminded that more than half of those who begin community college never finish and that the great majority of college students across the country are taught by woefully underpaid part-time instructors. We want to believe that all citizens should have the chance to develop literacy and the ability to think and write clearly. This cannot be reduced to job training. X is so frustrated by his classes because he wants his students to develop these capacities too. Despite his often cynical and pandering tone, Professor X does occasionally show that he cares about the welfare of those he is trying to teach. To his credit, he just wishes they cared more themselves.


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Q: Prevent INSERT of NULL values for Stored Procedure I'm working on a stored procedure that is supposed to update a table Order_TruckDelivery with info from another table Basket_TruckDelivery if the second table has any data. There are two columns in each of the tables: an int id and a datetime column called TruckDeliveryDate. If Basket_TruckDelivery has a date stored for the current basket id, then insert that date into the Order_TruckDelivery table.
Right now, the INSERT will execute regardless if there is anything in the Basket_TruckDelivery table, and this results in a NULL value for the TruckDelveryDate column in the Order_TruckDelivery column. I want to prevent this from happening but am not entirely sure how. Basically, I only want to perform and INSERT into the Order_TruckDelivery table IF the value of TruckDeliveryDate in Basket_TruckDelivery is NOT empty or null.
This is what I have so far...I have not done much work with stored procedures, so I am not sure what I've missed....
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SaveTruckIntoOrder]
    @BasketID INT,
    @OrderID INT
AS
BEGIN
   -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from
   -- interfering with SELECT statements.
   SET NOCOUNT ON;

   -- Insert statements for procedure here
   DECLARE
      @TruckDeliveryDate DATETIME

   IF(EXISTS(SELECT uidBasket FROM [Basket_TruckDelivery] WHERE [uidBasket] = @BasketID))
   BEGIN
        SELECT
            @TruckDeliveryDate = [TruckDeliveryDate]
        FROM
            [Basket_TruckDelivery]
        WHERE
            [uidBasket] = @BasketID
   END

   BEGIN
       INSERT INTO [Order_TruckDelivery] ([uidOrder], [TruckDeliveryDate])
       VALUES (@OrderID, @TruckDeliveryDate)
   END
END

A: ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SaveTruckIntoOrder] @BasketID INT
    ,@OrderID INT
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @TruckDeliveryDate DATETIME

    IF (
            EXISTS (
                SELECT uidBasket
                FROM [Basket_TruckDelivery]
                WHERE [uidBasket] = @BasketID
                )
            )
    BEGIN
        SELECT @TruckDeliveryDate = [TruckDeliveryDate]
        FROM [Basket_TruckDelivery]
        WHERE [uidBasket] = @BasketID
    END

    IF (
            @TruckDeliveryDate IS NOT NULL
            AND @TruckDeliveryDate != ''
            )
    BEGIN
        INSERT INTO [Order_TruckDelivery] (
            [uidOrder]
            ,[TruckDeliveryDate]
            )
        VALUES (
            @OrderID
            ,@TruckDeliveryDate
            )
    END
END


Penn State women's basketball is four full seasons removed from its last NCAA Tournament berth.
The Lady Lions have been through a drought before — concluding a five-year skid in 2010 during the third year of head coach Coquese Washington's tenure — but it's debatable whether a situation has ever been as urgent as this one.
Teniya Page, the team's All-American and three-time Big Ten honoree, enters her final season of collegiate action. For all the accolades she's garnered through the years, her postseason résumé consists of a pair of Big Ten Tournament opening-round victories and a handful of WNIT games.
For a player whose legacy could go down with players along the likes of program legends like Maggie Lucas, Kelly Mazzante, and Helen Darling, it would be a shame to never see her reach the Big Dance.
Lost in the mix of the drought and final season for a star player is this: Coquese Washington is in the final year of her contract. She's earned Big Ten Coach of the Year honors three times and taken the team to the Sweet 16 twice, but those days of competing with the best in the nation seem further away than they should.
Washington received a vote of confidence with a contract extension through this season after 2015 — a year that still stands out as an anomaly, the worst season record-wise in program history. While Penn State's steadily crept back into an above-.500 team, Washington wasn't awarded another extension like men's basketball head coach Pat Chambers was in the offseason.
If there's any increased pressure for her team to perform this season, Washington isn't showing it.
"Every team in the country wants to be part of the NCAA Tournament. It's, in my opinion, one of the best sporting events in the world," Washington said. "So, we want to be a part of that, and that is certainly something that we're working for — trying to put the pieces together, trying to put the building blocks together.
The backcourt features players who each have at least one season — if not more — of regular playing time, so it's largely settled. Jaida Travascio-Green would likely be a starter in favor of Frazier, but she's still working her way back from injury.
The biggest question comes on the low post: Who will start alongside sophomore Alisia Smith? Freshman Lauren Ebo got the nod in the exhibition game against Lock Haven, registering 12 points and four rebounds. But sophomore Sam Breen also had a strong showing off the bench, scoring nine points and grabbing nine rebounds.
This may be the strongest group of guards Penn State's put on the floor since its last NCAA Tournament appearance in 2014.
That all starts with the All-Big Ten duo of Teniya Page and Amari Carter. What gives the backcourt so much potential is the fact that this will be the first season we get to see Page and Carter play together while both are fully healthy and have experience under their belts.
The two came to Penn State as five-star recruits, but Page was left on her own during that first season after Carter tore her ACL in that year's opener. Carter adjusted to the college game during her second season, but the duo didn't get a chance the next year to both perform at 100 percent after Page suffered an ankle injury that forced her to miss a good portion of her junior year.
Don't look now, but both stars will be at full strength. And if what players and coaches have been saying is any indication, we'll see a significantly better Page than we saw last season. It'd be incredible, considering she still put up one of the nation's best averages at 18.4 points per game last year.
Outside the duo, Penn State has a defensive specialist in Frazier, who averaged approximately two steals per game last season, and eventually Travascio-Green, a 6'2″ perimeter threat. The speedy Kamaria McDaniel also should be an asset off the bench after appearing in all 32 games last season.
The Lady Lions add freshman Karisma Ortiz, a four-star prospect out of California, to cap off their depth in the backcourt. She's meshed with the team well after their trip to Spain for games in the offseason, and according to Page, she "has the IQ" to be a factor.
Here's where things gets iffy for Penn State. The two low-post starters from last season — Jaylen Williams and De'Janae Boykin — both transferred in the offseason. That leaves the roster with four players who have a grand total of five career starts to fill the void.
The main name on that list is Alisia Smith. She's a sophomore who played in all 32 games last season and racked up those aforementioned five starts toward the end of last season. She also had the team's most impressive outing in an exhibition game against Lock Haven, notching a double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds.
Not much is known after that.
The Lady Lions have Sam Breen, a sophomore who averaged 6.5 minutes in 22 appearances last season. The other two are freshmen — Lauren Ebo and Bexley Wallace. Washington's been nothing but optimistic about these players, but it will take a few games to truly get a feel for how they'll perform in their much-needed roles this season.
The 11-game non-conference schedule features more of the same for Penn State, factoring in mostly mid-majors with a few tournament-level teams. The slate outside Big Ten play features one currently-ranked opponent — No. 24 California — and Florida State and Duquesne, a pair of teams which received votes in the AP Top 25 poll.
Penn State will certainly need to fire on all cylinders once conference play begins. The Big Ten currently has two ranked teams, No. 9 Maryland and No. 13 Iowa, as well as three teams who received votes in the AP Top 25 poll: Minnesota, Nebraska, and Michigan.
The Lady Lions could produce a similar non-conference record this season if they're at their best. The end of this drought could finally come if they put together a season in which they finish in the top six of the Big Ten.


As a wife of a trucker I love to make sure my favorite guy has what he needs while on the road. A couple years ago I wasn't sure what to buy my guy for his birthday. After he dropped several hints- I realized he needed a new noise canceling hands free headset for safe driving. After much research and more hints from him, I settled on the Blue Parrot headset by VXi. Now, my husband doesn't get excited about too much but when he opened his gift he smiled ear to ear like a kid on Christmas morning. Be a blessing to a trucker and purchase this wonderful headset.
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Join Us May 2nd at Union Station (with a Yellow Bus!)
By Jennifer O'Neal Schiess on April 21, 2017
The largest system of mass transit in the U.S. isn't the airline industry. Nor is it trains, or city buses, or even all those things combined. The largest mass transit system in America is made up of the nearly 500,000 school buses transporting students to and from school each day.
Despite innovations in technology, developments in clean fuels, and big changes to the way schools work in many communities, in most places, school transportation operates much as it has for decades.
But should it?
On May 2nd, Bellwether will host a discussion of the role of transportation in education, its many challenges, and some innovations and possible solutions. We hope you'll join us at Union Station in Washington, D.C. for a light breakfast at 8:45, followed by a lively discussion. At the end of the event, for that dose of nostalgia, we'll even take you back to work on a yellow school bus!
Seating limited, RSVP today.
The discussion, moderated by Bellwether's Andy Rotherham, will feature:
Cindy Stuart, District 3 representative on the Hillsborough County, Florida school board since 2012, and current board chair. She also represents the school board as a voting member of the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization, the federally-established transportation planning body for the Tampa metropolitan area. This cooperative relationship between the school district and the broader regional transportation planning infrastructure is unique across the country and holds promise for a more coordinated approach to meeting the needs of communities and schools.
Mike Hughes, Assistant Director of Transportation at Boston Public Schools (BPS). BPS provides transportation to district, charter, and private schools in the Boston area — navigating a complex cross-sector system of education. Facing escalating costs and other pressures, the district has taken innovative steps to address significant challenges.
Joel Weaver, Director of the Chief Tahgee Elementary Academy (CTEA), a charter school located on the Fort Hall Reservation, owned by the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, in rural southeastern Idaho. CTEA serves students dispersed over a large geographic area, representative of the challenges many rural schools face in transporting students in safe, efficient, and cost-effective ways.
Kristin Blagg, a research associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, where she focuses on education policy. She recently co-authored "Student Transportation and Educational Access" with Senior Fellow Matthew Chingos, a paper that explores the role of student transportation in school choice, profiling five choice-rich cities.
We rarely discuss school transportation, but its impact reverberates through the entire school system — raising issues of educational equity, student safety, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact. Please join us as we explore these issues.
This entry was posted in Charter Schools, Equity, Rural Education, School Choice, School Transportation and tagged Environment, equity, Safety, school bus on April 21, 2017 by Jennifer O'Neal Schiess.
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Peter Gabriel Passion Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 3LP
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Numbered, Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 3LP!
Passion is the music, composed by Peter, for the Martin Scorsese film The Last Temptation of Christ. The vinyl was cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering, mastered by Tony Cousins at Metropolis and overseen by Peter's main sound engineer Richard Chappell.
Format: Real World Records Numbered, Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 3LP
Peter Gabriel So Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
RWRLP4548
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 187/500!
Half-Speed Mastered 180g 33rpm LP!
Produced by Daniel Lanois, So features intriguing collaborations with the likes of Laurie Anderson, Kate Bush and Youssou N'Dour and contains some of Peter's most recognizable and popular songs.
Format: Real World Records Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
Peter Gabriel Us Half-Speed Mastered 180g 2LP
Half-Speed Mastered 180g 33rpm Double LP!
Although a personal and confessional record, US is far from being bleakly introspective featuring several songs that have gone on to be amongst the most cherished in the Gabriel songbook.
Format: Real World Records Half-Speed Mastered 180g 2LP
Peter Gabriel 3 (Melt) Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
The album delivered a top 5 UK single in Games Without Frontiers and Peter's first overtly political song in the shape of totemic closer Biko. It also features notable contributions from Kate Bush, Paul Weller, Phil Collins and David Rhodes.
Format: Real World Records Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
Expected On: 07/17/19
Peter Gabriel Up Half-Speed Mastered 180g 2LP
Released September 2002, UP was the final part of the two-letter, single-syllable trilogy and sees contributions from the likes of Peter Green, Danny Thompson, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Daniel Lanois, the Black Dyke Band, Peter's daughter Melanie and the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
Peter Gabriel 1 (Car) Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g 45rpm 2LP!
This album really has never sounded so good!
Peter's first solo album following his departure from Genesis was released in 1977 and features the song "Solsbury Hill".
Format: Real World Records Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch) Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
With this 1978 release, producer Robert Fripp continued to feed Peter's growing fascination with electronics and the resulting album is denser and more experimental than the debut.
Peter Gabriel 4 (Security) Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
Co-produced by Peter and David Lord, this is the first album where Peter really immersed himself in the music of distant lands and cultures. Featuers the single Shock The Monkey which became Peter's first top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Peter Gabriel 1 (Car) Half-Speed Mastered 180g LP
Having left Genesis in the summer of 1976, at the age of 26, Peter released his first solo album in February of 1977. The album provided one of Peter's most recognizable songs in the shape of Solsbury Hill.
Peter Gabriel Birdy Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
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The soundtrack to the Alan Parker movie of the same name it finds Peter flexing his creative muscles free of any commercial pressures and has a number of tracks built out of elements of existing tracks from Peter's third and fourth solo albums.
Peter Gabriel So 180g 2LP/4CD/2DVD Box Set
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25th Anniversary Limited Edition 180g Vinyl LP, 12" AA Vinyl Single, 4 CDS, & 2 DVDs Box Set!
Released in 1986, "So" became one of the defining albums of the era and landed an international array of multi-platinum certifications. Includes the hit "Sledgehammer", "Red Rain", "Big Time" and more!
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Natural Born Killers Soundtrack Numbered Limited Edition 180g Import 2LP ("Mickey's Twisted Mind" Green Vinyl)
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25th Anniversary Edition On 180g Audiophile Double LP!
Numbered, Limited Edition "Mickey's Twisted Mind" Green Vinyl - 2000 Copies!
Some songs for the Trent Reznor-produced Natural Born Killers soundtrack were written especially for the 1994 film or soundtrack, such as "Burn" by Nine Inch Nails. Other songs featured are by artists like Patti Smith, Cowboy Junkies, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jane's Addiction, Patsy Cline, Dr. Dre and Juliette Lewis.
Format: Music On Vinyl: At The Movies Numbered, Limited Edition 180g Import "Mickey's Twisted Mind" Green Vinyl 2LP
Peter Gabriel 4 (Security) Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Co-produced by Peter and David Lord this is the first album where Peter really immersed himself in the music of distant lands and cultures. Features "Shock the Monkey".
Peter Gabriel 2 (Scratch) Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Released in June 1978, producer Robert Fripp continued to feed Peter's growing fascination with electronics and the resulting album is denser and more experimental than the debut.
Music From Vanilla Sky 2LP (Blue Cloud Vinyl)
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Soundtrack To Cameron Crowe Film On "Blue Cloud" Vinyl 2LP!
Limited Edition - 1000 Copies!
Director Cameron Crowe has always put his heart and soul into the soundtracks of his films. Vanilla Sky features music from top notch performers including Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Paul McCartney, R.E.M., The Chemical Brothers, Peter Gabriel and more.
Format: Real Gone Music Blue Cloud Vinyl 2LP
Peter Gabriel Long Walk Home Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Long Walk Home is an album based on the music from the film Rabbit-Proof Fence. This is the first time the album has been available on vinyl.
Format: Real World Records Numbered Limited Edition Half-Speed Remastered 180g 45rpm 2LP
Genesis From Genesis To Revelation 180g LP (Clear Vinyl) Scratch & Dent
NBRLP44600SD
All covers have 3/4" - 1 1/2" split spine and 1/4" corner damage.
The Classic Debut Album from Genesis on 180g Clear Vinyl!
At the time of its release in 1969, only 650 copies passed over the counter, despite a rave review from International Times magazine. As the seventies progressed however, the original mono copies became much sought after. So early fans and late adopters alike will find something to enjoy in this promising debut disc.
Format: Not Bad Records 180g Clear Vinyl LP
Big Blue Ball 140g 2LP (Black Vinyl)
WEALP80145
15 years in the making, Big Blue Ball is an album of all-star international collaborations which grew from recording sessions at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the early 1990's.
Format: 2 Classic Records/Real World 140g LPs
Genesis The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Half-Speed Mastered 180g 2LP
ATLLP89619
Deluxe Edition Half-Speed Mastered 180g Vinyl Double LP!
2008 Mixes By Nick Davis!
The sixth studio album by Genesis, released in 1974, was their last recorded with Peter Gabriel as lead singer. The album produced two singles in the UK, "Counting Out Time" and "The Carpet Crawlers". The title track was released as a single in the U.S.
Format: Atlantic Half-Speed Mastered 180g 2LP
The Deadpool 2 Soundtrack LP
COLLP65051
Soundtrack On Vinyl LP!
2019 Grammy Award Nominee:
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The soundtrack for Deadpool 2, the hilariously crass film starring Ryan Reynolds, contains music by the likes of Pat Benatar, Air Supply, Cher, Dolly Parton, and of course, Celine Dion singing the theme song "Ashes".
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Qualcomm boosted its presence in the automotive sensors and chips market this week with its announcement that it bought NXP Semiconductors for around $38 billion.
Qualcomm confirmed it would pay $110 per share for NXP and fully expects the deal to close by the end of next year.
The company wants to become a major player in the rapidly expanding industry that is self-driving vehicles, of course!