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Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me
by Andrew Santella
"Well-researched…[Soon] argues that in many cases eminent figures have done great work while putting off work they were supposed to be doing. Procrastination might, for some people, be part of innovation and the creative process." — Wall Street Journal
A fun and erudite celebration of procrastination
An entertaining, fact-filled defense of the nearly universal tendency to procrastinate, drawing on the stories of history's greatest delayers, and on the work of psychologists, philosophers, and behavioral economists to explain why we put off what we're supposed to be doing and why we shouldn't feel so bad about it.
Like so many of us, including most of America's workforce, and nearly two-thirds of all university students, Andrew Santella procrastinates. Concerned about his habit, but not quite ready to give it up, he set out to learn all he could about the human tendency to delay. He studied history's greatest procrastinators to gain insights into human behavior, and also, he writes, to kill time, "research being the best way to avoid real work."
He talked with psychologists, philosophers, and priests. He visited New Orleans' French Quarter, home to a shrine to the patron saint of procrastinators. And at the home of Charles Darwin outside London, he learned why the great naturalist delayed writing his masterwork for more than two decades.
Drawing on an eclectic mix of historical case studies in procrastination—from Leonardo da Vinci to Frank Lloyd Wright, and from Old Testament prophets to Civil War generals—Santella offers a sympathetic take on habitual postponement. He questions our devotion to "the cult of efficiency" and suggests that delay and deferral can help us understand what truly matters to us. Being attentive to our procrastination, Santella writes, means asking, "whether the things the world wants us to do are really worth doing."
Publisher: HarperCollinsReleased: Mar 13, 2018ISBN: 9780062491602Format: book
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Soon - Andrew Santella
My father . . . proposed that I should become a clergyman. He was properly vehement against my turning an idle sporting man, which then seemed my probable destination. I asked for some time to consider.
—Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
Even a procrastinator has to start somewhere—if he's going to start somewhere—so let's start with Darwin.
Charles Darwin spent much of 1837 drawing, jotting, sketching, and scribbling in one of a series of pocket-size leather-bound notebooks he carried around London with him. Each notebook shut with a small metal clasp, like a diary.
He was living then in rented rooms in a house on Great Marlborough Street, not far from the Athenaeum Club, where rising literary and scientific men gathered to murmur great thoughts to one another amid neoclassical statuary. Darwin had just been elected to membership. One of his new clubmates would be Charles Dickens. I had guessed that the two must have met at some point—you know: Dickens, Darwin, both named Charles—but as far as I can tell, there is no record of it. I like to imagine them in conversation, bewailing the government or the food at the club.
Darwin was just twenty-eight then and had recently returned from a nearly five-year circumnavigation of the globe aboard the HMS Beagle, a trip that had made him a minor celebrity in scientific circles. Now he had a book contract and a growing reputation as a naturalist. As a bright and eligible bachelor, he was also getting more dinner invitations than he could accept. And he was still busy trying to make sense of what he had seen on his long voyage. Here's one mystery Darwin spent a lot of time puzzling out: On islands of the Galápagos archipelago, six hundred miles off the west coast of Ecuador, Darwin had found dozens of species of mockingbirds—one species for each island. Why so many varieties in one neighborhood, sharp-beaked birds in one place, blunt-beaked in another? And why had other naturalists found similar variations of iguanas and tortoises and other species, each island's populations different from the next?
These were just the kinds of questions Darwin had been jotting in his leather-bound notebooks, along with drawings and shorthand notes to himself and summaries of conversations with other naturalists. Now he was starting to sketch out some answers, too.
Each species changes, he wrote in one of his notebooks in the summer of 1838. Three words. Such a simple sentence, but a stunning one, too. Darwin had become convinced that the categories of creatures we know are not immutably fixed articulations of a divine plan, but the result of ongoing modification. By September, he had described in his notebooks the mechanism behind that change—the way an organism's environment favors certain random mutations and extinguishes others. He called this culling process natural selection.
This was world-changing, belief-shattering stuff. But twenty years would pass before the world would hear about it. Because Darwin, having made one of the great leaps of intellectual history, did something strange. He dropped the matter. He took no steps to publish his ideas. He sent no treatises to the scientific journals, wrote no essays for the popular press, didn't start writing a book or even seek out a publisher. Not yet, anyway. He did tell a few friends what he was thinking, and he did write a brief summary of his new theory, which he called a considerable step in science. But he kept this locked away, alongside his metal-clasped notebooks. With it, he placed instructions that his work be published only after his death.
It wasn't like Darwin was idle during this time. He married and started a family. He moved to a house in the country. He stayed back-achingly busy at his writing: He produced volumes on coral reefs and volcanic islands, and a five-part work called The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. For a periodical called The Gardeners' Chronicle, he wrote on some decidedly not world-changing topics: how to grow fruit trees from seedlings, for example, and the advantages of using wire rope for well buckets. And from 1846 to 1854, Darwin was almost obsessively engaged in dissecting and describing barnacles.
Darwin devoted whole years to barnacles. He became a barnacle enthusiast. Some might say he teetered on the brink of barnacle obsession. He hunched over a custom-made barnacle microscope all day, surrounded by specimens of barnacles pickled in alcohol, trying to understand the immense variety and mystery of barnacle-dom. He referred to them as my beloved barnacles. One of his friends said that Darwin had barnacles on the brain. Darwin spent so long studying barnacles that his children grew up thinking that all fathers lived like this. On a visit to a friend's home, one of Darwin's young kids is supposed to have asked, But where does your father do his barnacles?
The barnacles and other matters kept Darwin so busy that it wasn't until 1859 that he finally published The Origin of Species, the immensely consequential book that articulated the theory he had first sketched out in his notebooks more than twenty years earlier. Later, when he was old and eminent, Darwin himself confessed that he was puzzled by the delay between the formulation of his ideas and their publication in book form. Some have called this interval the long wait.
So why did Darwin wait so long to let the world know what he had figured out? Why did he put off sharing what he knew to be a monumentally significant scientific advance?
This is a question that preoccupies biographers, historians of science, and anyone interested in the odd ways otherwise rational people—even, as in Darwin's case, fantastically brilliant and prolific ones—behave. A lot of explanations have been offered for Darwin's delay. To begin, there was the very momentousness of his work. Darwin knew as well as anyone that his book would have a revolutionary impact on science and suspected that it would upend the quiet life he had made for himself in the country. It would be easy to understand ambivalence about such a prospect.
Darwin was also the product of a pious Christianity and, though he moved away from faith, he remained the husband of a believer (who worried about her husband's eternal soul) and the loyal son of a devout father. Darwin worried about upsetting the old man. Removing the hand of God from the process of species creation, as his book clearly did, would not have been a step to be taken lightly.
Then there was his perfectionism. Darwin, like any good scientist, was methodical and thorough—see the rows of cabinets full of barnacles to be examined. In Darwin's orderly mind, his decades-long delay would have seemed justified as the due diligence of a scientist who wanted to be sure he got the most important work of his life right. So there was always one more experiment to run, one more resource to check. And even when he did publish, he insisted on calling his epochal book an abstract, as if to apologize in advance should anyone find it incomplete.
Or is it that Darwin at first just didn't want to be bothered with publishing? In the parlor at Down House, his home fifteen miles outside London, there was a piano, and in the long hallway, cupboards to hold tennis rackets and hiking boots and notebooks and all the equipment to make British country life livable. There was a billiards room; there were gardens. My life goes on like clockwork and I am fixed on the spot where I shall end it, he wrote to a friend, sounding like a man completely uninterested in upending his daily routine, let alone all of intellectual history. Clockwork was right. Every day started with a walk out into the countryside before first light; every lunch was preceded by a walk around the gardens with the family dog. In between, and maybe most important, there was work, the little researches he loved. There were barnacles.
In fact, what you see when you begin to look into Darwin's delay is just how busy he kept himself during the time when he was not publishing The Origin of Species. Darwin could never really be still, not even in his quiet country retreat, not even when he was putting off his hugely consequential work. Idleness seems to have been hateful to him. What was needed was a project, any project. Earthworms, barnacles, orchids, whatever. He kept at these projects like the world depended on it—even though most of the world couldn't have cared less about Darwin's barnacles. Even Darwin later admitted that he might have overdone it a bit with the barnacles. I doubt whether the work was worth the consumption of so much time, he conceded in his autobiography. Darwin spent twenty years doing everything but the one thing that he must have known really was required of him—publishing his world-changing book about natural selection. In this sense, much of his biography can be read as a story of misspent energies.
So, besides being a prolific scientist, was Darwin also a procrastinator? To answer that question, it helps to understand that procrastination has little to do with laziness.
Not everyone gets this distinction. Bill Wilson, the man who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, once called procrastination sloth in five syllables. Wilson was right only about the word being a bit of a mouthful. Compounded from two Latin roots (pro, meaning forward, and cras, meaning tomorrow ) it takes its time getting to the point, appropriately enough. But Wilson was wrong about the sloth. Procrastinators can keep admirably busy even while they're avoiding their work. Darwin may have been strangely reticent about his new theory, but he can't be called slothful. Again, for evidence, consider the barnacles. The humorist Robert Benchley came closer to the truth in his essay, How to Get Things Done, which articulates one of the most basic rules of procrastination: Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Benchley's rule applies to all of us, not just epochally influential scientists.
My apartment is always cleanest, my files most precisely reordered, the fridge most thoroughly cleared of moldering leftovers, when I am under the most pressing deadlines at work. When it is most crucial that I get something done, I become heroically determined to do just about anything but that thing.
Darwin is remembered because he was brilliant and diligent and tireless. But it is his delay that makes him so accessible to us, so human. He reminds us of the knottiness of human motivations. We all have our lists of things we should do, things we must do. And yet we find some reason to not do them. In this way, we can all claim some kinship with Darwin.
We all have our barnacles.
I don't recall exactly when it occurred to me to write a book about procrastination, but I do know that for a long time after I had the idea, I did nothing about it.
I made the mistake a lot of procrastinators make: I told friends about my idea. They encouraged me; they told me they couldn't wait to read the book. This was the worst possible thing they could have said. They meant well, but what they didn't understand was that their encouragement only made it less likely that I would ever get around to actually writing the book. It wasn't that I doubted it was worth writing. Just the opposite: the more enthusiastic I got about the book, the more difficult, the more impossible, the writing became. I'm the kind of procrastinator who puts off longest that which most urgently needs to be done.
So, when I might have been working on my book about procrastination, I was instead alphabetizing my collection of LPs, or painting a radiator, or watching YouTube videos of someone else's dog barking at a tablespoon. I was vacuuming the stairs or shopping online for Clyde Frazier's basketball shoes. I was sweeping the kitchen floor, unnecessarily. I was eating every last scrap of cheese in our refrigerator, or trying, without success, to repair a dripping faucet. There were even moments when—and this is my deepest, darkest shame—I listened to sports talk radio.
When you go around telling people that you are at work on a book about


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Opinion: SEAT And Cosmopolitan Misjudge With New Car For Women
It was inevitable. Some car manufacturer somewhere would unveil a 'car for women', claiming that they had developed the perfect accessory on wheels for the modern woman.
The SEAT Mii by Cosmopolitan caused a storm when it was revealed last month at a launch event in London. Critics took to Twitter and hijacked the hashtag used to promote the event to denounce the diminutive city car as sexist and regressive. The car even reached the attention of comedian Ellen DeGeneres. What had SEAT and Cosmopolitan done to provoke such outrage?
Co-developed between SEAT and the women's magazine Cosmopolitan, the 'SEAT Mii by Cosmopolitan' is a special edition of SEAT's Mii city car, and according to the press release, it's a car that 'understands the feminine side and lifestyle of the fun and fearless COSMO girl'. Available in 'Candy White' or 'Violetta' (purple), the Mii by Cosmopolitan has such feminine features as door mirrors finished in champagne coloured paint, jewelled bi-colour alloys, and headlights with an 'eyeliner' shape. It's described as agile, exciting to drive, and of course it's 'easy to park'.
What SEAT and Cosmopolitan failed to understand when trying to develop a car that would embody the spirit of the woman they so wished to reach was that their 'fun and fearless' woman wants to live in a world where she is not defined by her gender. And that sort of makes the SEAT Mii by Cosmopolitan, or any other attempt at sugar coating a car so that it's a perfect fit for a woman, pretty much redundant.
These bumbling, awkward attempts to create a 'woman's car' are not uncommon as the motor industry clambers around desperately trying to attract the pink euro. It's as if the motor industry's executives try to create a profile of the modern woman, but miss the diversity of women by several yards, instead confusing her with an eight year old girl who enjoys Barbie-themed birthday parties and face glitter.
In response to the backlash, SEAT released a statement defending the car and backtracking on who the car was aimed at. "Mii by Cosmopolitan is not a car intended entirely for a female audience. It is the result of a two year long process of co-creation involving Cosmopolitan readers, editors and the magazine's creative team, aimed at developing a model that responds to a very specific target, the Cosmo reader, and in no way to women as a whole." Such a statement is hardly complimentary to the Cosmopolitan reader either.
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This is not SEAT's first attempt at aggressively targeting the female market with a car. In 2014, the brand teamed up with Spanish fashion retailer Mango to create the 'Mii by Mango', a chic black and cream affair that came with a practical hook to hang a handbag, and a mirror in the driver's sun visor (hint: to check your make-up).
SEAT are not alone in their attempts to woo the ladies with soft colour palettes and lipstick holders. Other car manufacturers have also gone down the route of creating a novelty car for women. In the motor industry's mind there is just one type of woman and she is invariably fashion savvy and beauty obsessed.
For example, Citroen created a special edition of their DS 3 supermini with Benefit Cosmetics in 2014 and have recently teamed up with Givenchy to launch the DS 3 Givenchy Le MakeUp, which comes with a bespoke Givenchy Le MakeUp kit stored in a special compartment in the driver's armrest, a feature which is bound to raise a few eyebrows.
A few years ago, Honda released a 'Fit She's' for the Japanese market based on the Jazz hatchback. Developed for women, it was predictably finished in pink and came with UV light blocking glass to protect women's delicate complexions, and a special climate control system that could allegedly improve skin quality.
Even as early as the 1950s, Chrysler had a go at marketing towards women and launched the Dodge LaFemme. It had a two tone pink and white paint finish, special storage places for a hat and purse, and a swivel seat to help the woman to get out of the car in a skirt and preserve her modesty.
While we can reassure ourselves that the world is a more progressive and equal place for women than it was in the 1950s, there's something troubling about the fact that the motor industry is still using a variation of the same lousy techniques to market cars to women in 2016.
Yet rather than being a conscious effort to patronise women as the online critics will attest, there may be nothing more sinister here than a car manufacturer trying to make a splash in a noisy world where it's getting ever more difficult for brands to reach their market. If that's the case, then SEAT, in the midst of a maelstrom of online vitriol, have actually had a major PR win.
Women purchased 64% of all small, urban cars like the Mii in Europe in 2015 and SEAT are citing this as a reason for developing the Mii by Cosmopolitan.
But SEAT already sell a standard version of the Mii. It's the same size, and has the same engines and gearbox as this special edition, but does without the flick of eyeliner.
The Mii by Cosmopolitan is little more than a gimmick to gain notoriety as a brand among Cosmopolitan's female audience, in the same way collaborations with women's fashion retailers and make-up brands expose carmakers to an audience they may find difficult to reach by conventional means.
This collaboration between SEAT and Cosmopolitan may not have won either of the brands any new fans but in terms of creating awareness around a new product launch? Job done.
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Tech Nation report reveals strength of UK technology clusters
Digital job growth expected to outperform all other occupation categories by 2020
Updated: Feb 5, 2015 Published: Feb 5, 2015
The prime minister has welcomed the launch of the first in-depth analysis of the UK's digital technology clusters, Tech Nation – an interactive data project to analyse the growth of digital clusters across the nation.
The survey of more than 2,000 businesses was developed and curated by the government backed Tech City UK, in partnership with DueDil, and reveals the positive impact the digital sector is having on the UK economy.
Some of the most significant findings in the report are that digital job growth is expected to outperform all other occupation categories by 2020, with 7.5% of the entire UK workforce currently employed in the sector.
74% of digital companies operate outside the capital, with Bristol & Bath, Reading, Greater Manchester and Leeds showing the highest rates of digital employment, and Brighton & Hove, Inner London, Edinburgh and Cambridge having the highest density of digital companies.
Additionally, Greater Manchester, Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove, South Wales and Bristol & Bath have the highest average company turnover.
The report also revealed that 50% of digital companies in the UK have been founded since 2008, with the fastest growing tech clusters since 2010 being Liverpool, Inner London, Belfast, Greater Manchester, Bournemouth, Brighton & Hove, South Wales and Bristol & Bath.
Finally, 90% of companies expect their revenue to rise in 2015 and 77% say they benefit from access from access to a network of entrepreneurs whom they can interact and share ideas with.
Baroness Joanna Shields, chair of Tech City UK and digital adviser to the prime minister, said: "The UK is recognised on the world stage for its tech and digital strengths. Today's report reveals the depth of the sector and the complex array of skills, specialisms and strengths that truly make us a Tech Nation.
"The unprecedented level of detail and analysis of business starts, revenue and job growth give us a first hand view of the clusters and businesses that make up the UK digital economy. We are a Tech Nation and we hope this project will inspire innovation and growth for years to come."
While DueDil founder, Damian Kimmelman, commented: "The data from the Tech Nation interactive online guide shows that the opportunity for digital to change the economy isn't just coming from tech giants such as Google and Amazon."
View the report in full here.


$5k spare – Thinking about ARV, CLV, 4CE, DHR… flip a coin maybe?
Lucille Sutton: Ive been looking at buying some 4ce for a while. Recon its a good time luke ?
Amaya Bush: Maybe have a look at RGI for something a little different, they seem to be gaining traction in supplying and servicing medical cannabis and food growing setups and they say that during the gold rush it was the people making the buckets and shovels who made the real money. Also Im pretty useless with charts but it has just started going up again following a nice ann this week.
Theodore Clayton: I think this exercise is to keep us all busy while Martin Fisher mops up all the free float of 4CE 🙂 🙂 🙂 – cannot imagine Martin not topping up on 4CE at these price !!!
Theodore Clayton: What happens on 1st June?
Theodore Clayton: Yes. Saw that yesterday. That means 6 weeks or so before drill results of the first batch. Until July end. A long time to go.
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Gunner Harmon: AVZ drilling results not doing much to its SP. 4CE may go up 15% and then retrace again.
Gunner Harmon: Greyson Hodges: Yes no love for AVZ until JORC resource estimate. Would love to see 4CE going into production phase, if so will jump abroad.
Greyson Hodges: Early-Mid June … In my opinion i think the Mid was thrown in as a failsafe imo so just incase it did have an unexpected delay the company would still deliverthe rig will be clearing & ready to leave over the next few days (Mind you they work over the weekend in the DRC)IMO, I see this starting first week of June. speculation only ofc.
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I think it's safe to say that this particular Lexington Marine Reunion has been a most enjoyable experience for all who came and celebrated together. Last night at dinner we also celebrated Barbara Wilson's birthday with presents, good food, happy tears and lots of laughs….and desserts! Wait until you see the size of the bread pudding they serve at the place we are dinner last night!! The place was called County Line Rd BBQ and it was pricey but very good.
First order of business once the waitress took our order was to surprise Barb with her gifts. I was unaware we were going to to that, however, so we gave her her gift later. Here she is getting her blingy Texas hat, so she never forgets San Antonio or the great time she had there.
Can't eat BBQ with your bling-y bill in the way!
After consuming what seemed like tons of meat, some people just had to have dessert!! Claudette started it by ordering a delicious blackberry cobbler a-la-mode and so two others followed suit. The waitress was kind enough to bring everyone extra spoons so we could all sample a bite. Thanks a lot lady!!! Then, unbeknownst to Chuck, the bread pudding he ordered fed about 10 people!
Bad camera angle, this thing was way bigger than that!
Does Chuck look perplexed or what? (My hubby's words) He literally shared this bohemoth with the whole table. Rich and I were so stuffed, we had to walk back to the hotel!
We have to thank the Delgato family for their wonderful gifts, including covering the meal for the birthday girl and Claudette, they are the most generous, sweet folks. "Gigi" and his wife Tonni and their kids showed such hospitality, maybe because they as a family are so blessed. The Lord has been very good to them-Tonni is a four time cancer survivor. She is beautiful inside and out!
Unfortunately the party had to end as they needed to get home but not before expressing their gratitude at seeing their old Marine buddies. I truly hope it goes another year so my husband doesn't miss out next time! Once we got back to The Crockett, we convened at Ernie's for a nightcap, small talk, and the next Astro's game. Which we won!!! Then we said our goodbyes since the Miles family had to leave early to make their flight, and Ruthie isn't an early riser. We did get to say bye to Chuck at breakfast, I think he beat a hasty retreat lest we see him get emotional. You can tell these people really share a special bond that can't be broken by time, distance, or loss.
Come back tomorrow when I share our side trip home at the famous Silos at Magnolia in Waco, Texas! A true example of extreme decadence! Thanks for stopping by!
It was, but it was way too big for one person!!!


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The Misfit of Demon King Academy - Chapter 152
Chapter 152 – The Targeted Aharthern
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Zeshia took the stick and bit into it.
"Even so, this era's inhabitants are remarkable after all. Even though they were suppressing their magic power completely, those two people earlier were extremely formidable."
"…They are… strong…"
Zeshia said, licking the candy.
"They are Reno and Shin. Despite being two thousand years ago, there aren't many who can parallel them."
I approach Eleonore and address her question.
"Wow… so that was Shin and Reno… come to think of it, she said idiot Shin or something like that…? That startled me…"
Eleonore stares in the direction they left, as if in amazement.
Even though the mask he was donning was different, I am sure he would have noticed our presence.
"They are probably on their way back to Aharthern. Let's follow them. But don't approach too closely. Shin will behead you."
I say as I make my way toward the gate.
"Are all your subordinates like that?"
Sasha inquires.
"What do you mean by 'like that'?"
"He's powerful, but he seems to be a bit difficult to communicate with…"
"Shin is different. Well, he's not a bad guy, just a little inflexible."
Sasha was eyeing me with an incredulous expression.
"Lina!"
I called out to the girl who has been walking without saying anything since a while ago.
"The masked man earlier is Shin. Do you recall anything about the Spirit King you wanted to meet?"
"…I am… still not clear on that…"
Lina cast her eyes downward.
"But I have a feeling that something is about to unfold."
After a brief pause, she lifted her head.
"Something horrendous will arise."
It was as if she were prophesying the future.
Perhaps her lost memory contains something that will transpire in the future.
I also cast <Rainel> magic on Zeshia and Eleonore and conceals them from view.
In this state, we passed through the castle gate of Gairadite and emerged at Lake Seimei.
After heading out into the deserted area, a faint voice can be heard.
"I'm back, Titi. I bought you some souvenirs."
In the distance, Reno and Shin could be spotted.
A mist is drifting in the area, and small fairies have surfaced from the mist.
However, things were different from usual.
Titi and the others seem to have fallen into a state of turmoil and are flying around aimlessly.
"Reno, you're back!"
"Something's gone haywire."
"Aharthern has been in deep trouble!"
"Liniyon has been killed!"
Reno's expression grows stern.
Liniyon, the eight-necked water dragon, is the guardian deity of Aharthern as well. If Liniyon has been vanquished, it means that someone has attacked the Spirit Forest.
"Who was behind the attack?"
Titi and the others answered Reno's question.
"The silver beast."
"The hound of the divine."
"Gwen, the divine beast."
"We're all going to be devoured!"
"Everyone is going to be eaten!"
Reno held out her hand toward the mist, and the Great Spirit Forest Aharthern made its appearance.
A black aurora envelope the place like a wall.
It is <Four Worlds Wall Beno Yeven> magic.
The wall that separates the spirit world is functioning. Nevertheless, the divine beast has invaded the forest.
Both she and Shin are clad in anti-magic. Shin draws his demon sword and slashes at the wall with all his magical power.
Within a fraction of a second, a narrow path is established, and the two of them cross over <Four Worlds Wall Beno Yeven>.
The wall soon reverts back to its original state.
While it may seem like a trivial endeavor, the two of them are expending a great deal of magical power.
Can the divine beast really overcome them?
Misha ask.
"We have no choice but to proceed. Otherwise, we will never learn what transpired."
"…Um, are we crossing this thing?"
Sasha cast a dazed glance at the black aurora in front of her.
"Don't worry. It's my magic."
I send magic power to <Four Worlds Wall Beno Yeven> and control it. After creating a seemingly invisible passageway in the jet-black aurora, we passed through it.
Before our eyes lay a transformed spectacle.
The lush vegetation of Aharthern is withering away.
The screams of fleeing spirits could be heard.
What was roaming around Aharthern were beasts with silver fur and huge, acute fangs. And they were not limited to just one or two. These beasts sink their fangs into the trees in Aharthern and devour them. Within a heartbeat, the vegetation begins to wither and die.
They are feasting on the spirits.
"Rumor and lore will be consumed."
"We're going to die!
"Even spirits would die!"
Titi and the others fly around Reno.
She glared at the divine beasts.
"Come here, Gigadeas, Gennul!"
The massive, hidden wolf, Gennul, abruptly appears beside Reno.
On his back stood Gigadeas, a dwarf elf with a mallet.
"I'll save you all!"
Reno draws a magic circle in the palm of her hand.
"Spirit magic――"
Gigadeas swings down his mallet, and lightning strikes the divine beast Gwen.
The figure of Gennul disappeared and then transformed into a myriad of thunder wolves.
"<Wind Thunder Spirit Arrow Gigadeal>."
The thunder dropped by Gigadeal reinforces the innumerable arrows of lightning released by Reno, and together with the thunder wolves, they assail Gwen, the divine beast.
One after another, the silver beasts were struck by lightning arrows.
But they were not intimidated at all.
On the contrary, with each lightning arrow, the divine beasts are growing in volume and size.
"…They are eating… <Wind Thunder Spirit Arrow Gigadeal>…?"
The divine beast Gwen pounces on the thunder wolves and sets his fangs on them.
With each thunder wolf that was devoured, the divine beast also became more gigantic.
"Save me…!"
"I will be eaten…!"
"I'm scaredー"
"This is dreadful!"
Titi and the others were being pursued by the divine beast Gwen.
Reno quickly attempts to unleash her spirit magic, but she stops herself in the nick of time.
Spirit magic only empowers the divine beasts.
Reno focuses her attention on the masked demon who is standing by her side.
"I apologize. Thank you for waiting."
After saying this, Shin placed his hand in the center of the magic circle he has drawn.
The magic power is overflowing.
When he pulls out his hand, a rusty magic sword is revealed.
Shin holds one of a thousand swords, the God-Slashing Sword Guneodros.
It is a god-killing demon sword that slays only gods.
The divine beast is a messenger of the gods, possessing power akin to that of a god. They cannot be destroyed by mere force.
Hence, he has taken the most effective weapon against the gods among his own demon swords.
"Now then."
At the moment Shin uttered these words, about a hundred of the divine beasts, Gwen, were split in half.
It is so swift that it seems like a flash of light.
"We are saved!"
"Thanks, uncle with the sword!"
"You're very strong, uncle with the sword."
Shin removed his mask and stepped forward.
"Do you know what you have done?"
As if to rebuke Gwen, the divine beast, Shin releases his words.
Taking a step forward, he saw the body of Gwen, the divine beast, lying on the ground.
"My master sought after peace," he said.."
His voice is icy, brimming with murderous intent.
"To allow an animal like you to tarnish that great ambition is tantamount to spitting in the face of the heavens."
In an instant, Shin disposed of all the divine beasts that had been chomping on the thunder wolves and the silver beasts that had been latching on to the fallen eight-necked water dragon, Liniyon.
"The divine beast deserved to die."
Shin walks slowly through the Spirit Forest.
With each step he takes, 100 corpses of the divine beast Gwen tumble to the ground.
In succession, Shin rescued the fleeing spirits.
Even so, there are many divine beasts. Slaying them all would require considerable time.
Misha mutters.
"I'm watching."
Misha turned her magic eyes toward a few divine beasts, Gwen.
They are flexing their ferocious muscles and eyeing us as if they were about to charge at us at any moment.
"…Why all of a sudden? Even though they were targeting the spirits just a moment ago…?"
"Hmm. As expected of the hounds of God, they have a sharp nose. Watch out for them. They seem to have recognized us as the enemy."
The moment I spoke, the divine beasts leaped at us.
"…W-What should we do…?"
"It won't be a problem if we kill one or two of them. In any case, they are just small fry to be discarded by Shin. But don't use any flamboyant magic. Destroy them quietly."
"How am I supposed to defeat them… without using flashy magic… in the first place?"
With my hand cast with <Source Kill Bebesd> thrust into Gwen, the divine beast that had lunged at me, I deliver a kick to him. Without even leaving a corpse, I crushed him and extinguished him.
"Do it like this."
"…That's impossible for me…"
I grasped Sasha's hand.
"…What…? U-Um…?"
Sasha glanced at me with her magic eyes, her cheeks reddening.
"Let me show you how it's done. Even 2,000 years ago, I was the only one who could perform <Source Kill Bebesd>, but I think it would work well with you. With your current magical power, you should be able to control the technique."
Aligning my wavelength with Sasha's magical power, I construct the magic technique of <Source Kill Bebesd> as if I were teaching her.
"Breathe along with me. Peek deeper and deeper into the abyss."
As if tracing the magic circle I drew, Sasha draws the same magic circle with her own magic power.
"Hmm. For a first time, you did well. Give it a try."
Before her eyes, Sasha softly dips her fingertip into the magic circle that floats in front of her.
Although it does not encompass her entire hand, her index finger is stained black.
"Let's give it a try."
Gwen, the divine beast that pounced on her, is sent hurtling in Sasha's direction.
"…Ei…!"
Notwithstanding her cute voice, the fingertip of the <Bebesd> has made a brilliant penetration into the source of the divine beast Gwen, ending his life.
"…Ah… I've managed to do it…!"
With her cheeks revealing a smile, Sasha gouges out the body of the divine beast with <Source Kill Bebesd> and annihilates him.
She gazed gleefully at her black fingertip.
"A matching pair?"
Misha popped up and stared into Sasha's eyes.
"Oh, we have the same magic, so it's only natural…"
As if to elude Misha's eyes, she abruptly turned away.
"…The sword isn't… there…"
Zeshia says.
"Speaking of which, I can't even get out my Spirit God Human Sword and my Unique Sword."
"Ah, I forgot to mention that you can't bring any kind of magical equipment into the past. Well, even if we can't defeat them, Shin will take care of it if we run away."
Sasha glares at the divine beast with her <Magic Eyes of Destruction>.
The divine beast was frightened slightly, but the messenger of God will not be exterminated by that degree of fear.
Lay and the others spread out and run away from the divine beast.
"Hmm, this is the last of them."
I sneakily wiped out all of the several divine beasts that had assailed me.
As I swept my eyes over the area, I noticed that they no longer seemed to be in the vicinity.
"…Huh, where's Lay-kun?"
Eleonore remarked.
Misha, Sasha, Zeshia, and Lina are nearby.
"He's unarmed. He must be struggling to deal with the divine beast."
Well, Lay would have no problem.
If he wanted to, he could probably finish them off with his bare hands.
"Who's there?"
A piercing voice shot out.
"This is the Great Spirit Forest. You cannot deceive my eyes."
Hmm. I must have caused a bit too much commotion.
But Reno must not have had a clear grasp of the situation either.
After a few moments of holding my breath, her expression became grim.
She is probably fooling me into revealing myself to her.
But even if we kept laying low and keeping an eye on those two, how could we be there for them at the critical moment?
If they suspect that we are pawns of the gods, they will be on the lookout for us.
In that case――
[Hmm. I have a good idea.]
I'm going to send everyone messages with <Leaks>.
[What's your good idea?]
Sasha asked.
[If we stay out of sight, we'll look suspicious. It is extremely difficult to get close to Shin and Reno and not be noticed. On the other hand, it is easier to approach them if someone shows up and speaks to them openly.]
[S-Speak to them… How are you even going to do that…? If you go there, you will be completely exposed as the Demon King of Tyranny.]
[The root of the problem can be hidden by Lay's magic. As long as I change my appearance, there will be no problem. As a mere passing demon, the past will not change so much when we meet.]
Once more, Reno's words are heard.
"…I will give you three seconds to show up and tell me your name and your purpose. If you don't, I will regard you as hostile…"
"I have no hostile intent. Let's go now."
I deactivated everyone's <Illusion Mimicry Rainel> and stepped in front of Reno.
Reno looks astonished and directs her gaze downwards.
My current height is much shorter than hers.
By using the magic of <Reverse Growth Kursla>, I shrunk my body to that of a six-year-old child.
"My name is Anosh. Anosh Porticollo. I came here because I am interested in spirits."


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Freedmen's Town's Brick Preservationists Take Fight To City Hall
Ongoing fight over historic brick streets could end in litigation.
Florian Martin
| Posted on July 28, 2014, 5:32 PM
Members of the Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition — from left: Dorris Ellis, publisher of The Houston Sun; Gladys House with the Freedmen's Town Association; and Eric Skonberg, engineering consultant — hold a media availability at the Rutherford Yates Museum.
The disagreement over how to deal with the historic bricks in the Fourth Ward has gone on for over a decade. But it got hot again when the City Council voted last month to move forward with replacing old water and sewage pipes.
Now a coalition is lobbying City Council to rescind their vote and use a method they say has worked well in other places: use tunnels to get to the old pipes and put new infrastructure underneath sidewalks.
"We are, like, at the edge of the wall, but the wall has not been knocked down yet," said Dorris Ellis, publisher of the Houston Sun, a community newspaper based in the Third Ward. "And we're trying to get the city to look at an alternate way of placing the infrastructure."
Ellis is also the president of the newly formed Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition, a group of residents and organizations that are fighting against the city's plans to open the neighborhood's historic brick streets for utility repairs.
Catherine Roberts is the president of the Rutherford Yates Museum, which is also part of the coalition. She said someone from the coalition is going to every City Council meeting.
"We're hoping that they will be open to new information and switch their vote and then work with us to save this district," she said. "I mean, we have a preservation mayor. This is a great example of a real preservation job, not a half-baked one where you move houses, which is a violation too, but one that's really going to create a major tourism destination for Houston."
Catherine Roberts, president of the Rutherford B.H. Yates Museum, has long fought for the preservation of the historic brick streets in Freedmen's Town.
Eric Skonberg is an engineering consultant with knowledge in trenchless engineering – basically putting pipes underground without digging a trench. He has consulted the Yates Museum in the bricks issue since 2007, when the city was also considering doing repairs.
"It's basically to put pits down the street," he said. "You drill a hole between the two pits and you install the pipe, instead of digging a trench as you go. It's a very accepted technology. The city of Houston has used a lot of trenchless methods over the years. And I don't understand why they're not pursuing it here."
Mayor Annise Parker has said the method the coalition is lobbying for is too expensive. But she has promised that the bricks will be put back where they were after the repairs are done.
Keith Wade, chair of the city's Fourth Ward/Freedmen's Town task force, has said the city will replace any bricks that might get damaged.
But that is unacceptable for the members of the Freedmen's Town Conservation Coalition. They pledge to continue to reach out to the public and try to convince council members to change their vote.
However, time is running out. The start of construction is scheduled to start next month.
Catherine Roberts said a lawsuit will be considered as a last resort.
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Q: How to route traffic from VPC to another by following set of constraints in AWS Here I have the scenario shown in the figure below, in which there are 3 VPCs. Each VPC hosts 1 VM and CSR 1000v, except VPC2 where there is only CSR. CSRs of both VPCs are able to communicate with each other over preconfigured GRE tunnel.
Let's say we have traffic coming out from another VPC, that traffic requires to pass through VM1 in VPC1 then VM2 in VPC3. The traffic has to pass first from the VM1, then it is routed to CSR1 (Communication within VPC). After that, using the GRE tunnel, it is routed to CSR2 in VPC2, and from there, it is sent to VM2 and finally to CSR3 in VPC3.
I cannot find a way to route the upcoming traffic from a VPC to another as I described above.

For more details.
Suppose we have traffic that requires to pass the following instances {VM1, VM3 then VM2} and it ends at CSR3. In VPC1, CSR1 receives the traffic from VM1, then it is sent (LINK 2) to CSR2 via GRE tunnel 1. CSR2 itself sends it (LINK 3) to CSR3 via GRE 2. From CSR3 the traffic (LINK 4) is sent to VM3 in VPC4 via GRE 3, then VM3 itself sends it (LINK 5) to CSR4, which will be sent it back to VM2 (LINK 6) via GRE 3. Finally, VM2 forwards the traffic (LINK 7) to its final destination CSR3. If we can see, the GRE tunnel 3 has been passed twice, and it exactly what to achieve, that the tunnels are being passed multiple times.

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The newly Platinum-plated Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance features a story different from the one planned for the old Metal Gear Solid: Rising. While the game was originally intended to take place between Metal Gear Solids 2 and 4, the setting has now been transferred to a time years after MGS4.
This was done in order to let Platinum "show off what they can bring to the series." Without creating a time paradox and accidentally undoing the events of MGS4, we suppose.
This information comes via the official site, which is also the source for the new screens in our gallery. The site provides a detailed listing of staff for the title, including Platinum's Atsushi Inaba (the guy on stage with Kojima) as producer alongside Konami's Yuji Korekado. It could stand to be more detailed, as there's no game director listed.
Konami still has some revealing to do: the site claims that a video interview titled "The Truth Behind RISING" will explain the genesis of the Platinum/Kojipro collaboration, on December 13.


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Prince  was a Japanese statesman and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan during the Meiji era.

Life

Tokydaiji Sanetsune was born to a branch of the Fujiwara court nobility in Kyoto. His father was Tokudaiji Kin'ito, and his brother was Saionji Kinmochi, later Prime Minister of Japan.

Joining the sonnō jōi ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarian") faction in Court against westernization and the Tokugawa shogunate, he was forced to flee Kyoto during the coup d'état by the moderate samurai of the Aizu and Satsuma domains on 18 August 1863. He returned after the Meiji Restoration and served in a number of posts in the new government. He became a Dainagon in 1869.

In 1884, he was given the title of koshaku (marquis) under the new kazoku nobility rankings, and was subsequently elevated to koshaku (prince).  In 1891 he became Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan a post he held until Emperor Meiji's death. He felt very strongly that the Emperor should not involve himself in politics or in the decision-making process of government.

Honours
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (22 November 1877)
Marquess (7 July 1884)
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers (7 October 1895)
Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (1 April 1906)
Prince (21 April 1911)
Collar of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (4 June 1919; posthumous)

Order of precedence
Fifth rank, junior grade (12th day of the seventh month of the first year of Kaei (1848))
Fifth rank, senior grade (Fifth day of the first month of the second year of Kaei (1849))
Senior fifth rank, junior grade (Third day of the second month of the third year of Kaei (1850))
Fourth rank, junior grade (28th day of the seventh month of the fourth year of Kaei (1851))
Fourth rank, senior grade (27th day of the first month of the fifth year of Kaei (1852))
Senior fourth rank, junior grade (Eighth day of the fifth month of the sixth year of Kaei (1853))
Third rank (19th day of the 12th month of the fourth year of Ansei (1857))
Senior third rank (24th day of the third month of the fifth year of Ansei (1858))
Second rank (24th day of the 12th month of the second year of Bunkyu (1862))
Senior second rank (28th day of the second month of the third year of Keio (1867))
First rank (December of the 32nd year of Meiji, or 1899)

References

1840 births
1919 deaths
Deaths from Spanish flu
Japanese politicians
Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
Kazoku
People from Kyoto Prefecture
Tokudaiji family
Recipients of the Order of the Plum Blossom


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Apr 26, 2021 - Politics & Policy
Biden to create task force to support worker organization efforts
Kate Marino
Illustration: Lazaro Gamio/Axios
President Biden today said he would create a task force to put the federal government's weight behind worker organization efforts.
Details: It will be chaired by Vice President Kamala Harris, with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh as vice chair.
Why it matters: The White House is closely watching employee organization efforts, on the heels of a failed unionization by Amazon workers that could have opened the floodgates for e-commerce unions in the U.S.
A union complaint last week alleged the tech giant interfered in the vote by threatening layoffs or a facility closure, among other tactics, if workers voted in favor of joining the union.
What they're saying: Declining union membership has contributed to economic inequality and the shrinking of the middle class, as well as the pay gap that women and workers of color experience, a statement announcing the order says.
The task force includes more than 20 Cabinet members and heads of federal agencies for a "whole of government approach to empower workers."


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Home News Open-Source Renewable Energy Potential (reV) Model Offers Endless Potential
Open-Source Renewable Energy Potential (reV) Model Offers Endless Potential
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What can the Renewable Energy Potential (reV) model calculate when it comes to renewable energy potential? Just about everything.
This novel modeling framework includes highly dynamic, user-defined modules that function at different spatial and temporal resolutions, allowing users to assess resource potential, technical potential, and supply curves at varying levels of detail for photovoltaic (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), and wind turbine technologies.
Available open source as of February 2020, the reV model was developed by researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to align previously disparate analyses for resource modeling, technical potential, and renewable energy cost supply curves. The reV model was developed for cross-platform use and can be scaled to run a small geographic extent on a laptop to all of North America on a high-performance computer (HPC) or on the cloud.
"No other renewable energy potential model exists of this scale, fidelity, and flexibility," said Galen Maclaurin, manager of the NREL geospatial data science group that developed the model. reV provides invaluable insight for utility planners, regional and national agencies, project and land developers, and researchers.
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The reV model integrates with several NREL tools and is the pipeline of data for large studies including the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study and the North American Renewable Integration Study.
Enabling Scalable Spatiotemporal Analysis
The reV model can assess renewable energy potential for a single site up to an entire continent at temporal resolutions ranging from five minutes to hourly, spanning a single year or multiple decades. The model has been run across North America, South and Central Asia, the Middle East, South America, and South Africa to inform national- and international-scale analyses as well as regional infrastructure and deployment planning.
The land exclusion module in reV considers technical barriers, regulatory restrictions, or stakeholder constraints to land access for renewable energy projects so developers know where to focus their efforts.
Modeling System Performance with High-Value Data Sets
Coupled with NREL's System Advisor Model, the reV model's generation module estimates system performance based on user-defined parameters like panel tilt angle and inverter load ratio for PV systems or hub height and rotor diameter for wind systems.
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Through efficient parallelization, the reV model reads hundreds of terabytes of time-series solar or wind data from state-of-art resource data sets, including the National Solar Radiation Database (NSRDB) and the Wind Integration National Dataset (WIND) Toolkit, which both recently became available on the cloud, expanding accessibility to the average user.
Calculating Cost and Capacity
The reV model estimates for wind and solar sites the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which represents the average revenue per unit of electricity generated needed to make up for the costs of building and operating a generating plant.
Based on LCOE and accessibility to transmission, the reV renewable energy supply curve module ranks sites based on which ones to develop first, again helping developers to know where to focus their efforts or eliminate potential sites.
Other Models in the reV Family
Several other open-source tools can integrate with reV. The reV Exchange Model (reVX) can be used after reV processing to couple with capacity expansion and production cost models. Additionally, the Resource Extraction Tool (rex) assists with user accessibility to the state-of-art resource data sets integrated into reV.
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Users can now access the full power of reV from their own computers through Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform. NREL has migrated several web applications to the AWS environment to expand access and scalability to the NSRDB and the WIND Toolkit. Through the AWS, users will be able to perform detailed analysis with massive data sets from their own desktop.
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A group of towns in regional Victoria are making an ambitious bid to host the Commonwealth Games in 2030.
The Greater Shepparton City Council has initiated the proposal, dubbed "the people's games", to allow events to be held in regional towns such as Shepparton, Bendigo, Mildura, Ballarat, Wodonga and Warrnambool among others.
Athletes including John Steffensen and former basketball star Lauren Jackson are on the 13-member taskforce who will meet for the first time today.
It is headed up by former Swisse executive Adem Karafili.
"We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't think it was one hundred percent feasible," Mr Karafili told the TODAY Show this morning.
He said logistics "wouldn't be much of a challenge", but the taskforce would examine glaring issues such as moving athletes around.
A notable location omission from the group's proposal is the state's capital, which will likely cause a stir.
"Melbourne's had a good run, it's already established itself as a sporting capital of the world. Now it's time for the regions to have the opportunity to host and attend," Mr Karafili said.
Greater Shepparton City Council mayor Dinny Adem agreed no new stadiums would be built, but rather existing infrastructure would be updated.
It's believed around $1 billion of state and federal funding would be needed for the group's proposal.
A feasibility study has already been undertaken.
Acting Victorian sports minister Luke Donnellan said the government would consider the plan given they had time to work through the obstacles.
"There's a good period of time to work through obstacles to overcome and to actually see how viable it is and what benefits it would bring," he said.
Jackson, who lives near Wodonga, said the ripple effects of regional events would be difficult to imagine.
"It will literally be a game-changer for millions of people and I really hope our dream becomes a reality," she said.
The Australian Commonwealth Games Association endorses only one Australian bid for each Games.


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Albert Einstein: Genius of Space and Time!
Part of Show Me History!
By Mark Shulman
Illustrated by Kelly Tindall / Letterer John Roshell
Published by Portable Press
How did this peace-loving man become the father of the atomic bomb? Find out inside!
By any measure, Albert Einstein changed the ways we understand—and measure—space and time. At first his ideas were ridiculed, but soon they were idolized. Prior to World War II, Einstein was a celebrated figure in Germany, but when the Nazi Party rose to power in the 1930s, he fled for his life and eventually settled in the United States. This proved to be a crucial decision, as his knowledge of physics helped the United States develop the atomic bomb and win the war. Albert Einstein: Genius of Space and Time! recounts the life of the world's most famous scientist—from his youth in Germany to his final years in the United States. Readers of all ages will be entertained and educated by the full-color illustrations and historically accurate narrative of this graphical biography.
Kelly Tindall
Kelly Tindall, the award-winning writer/artist of The Adventurers: Love You Very So Much and the Strangebeard series, makes one heck of a good sandwich. He lives in Edmonton, Canada, with his wife and two daughters. For more of his work, follow him on Instagram (@mrkellytindall).
Publisher: Portable Press (April 13, 2021)
Ages: 8 - 12
Children's Non-Fiction > Science & Technology > Physics
Children's Non-Fiction > Biography & Autobiography > Historical
Praise for the Show Me History! series:
"Bunking the notion that history is dull, these titles in the Show Me History! series convey the lives of notable historical figures through colorful and spirited cartoons." —Booklist
Book Cover Image (jpg): Albert Einstein: Genius of Space and Time!
More books from this author: Mark Shulman
More books from this illustrator: Kelly Tindall
More books in this series: Show Me History!


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Health institutions to introduce day-specific coloured bedding to improve hygiene
For decades, the cleaning industry in the more developed countries has been pushing the idea of colour-coding to prevent cross-contamination, but now an organisation has gone one stage further by introducing day-specific colour-coded bedding, to improve hygiene and patient care, while ensuring that the sanitation mechanism that has been put in place, is adhered to.
According to a report in Brighter Kashmir, the Jammu and Kashmir Government has introduced a scheme whereby there will be different colours of bed sheets to be replaced on all seven days in the state's health institutions.
The authorities have taken note of the frequent complaints from the patients and their attendants that the hospital authorities were not replacing the bed sheets on daily basis and thus compromising with sanitation in the health institutions. The new mechanism was introduced to ensure replacement of bed sheets on a daily basis. Each day has been matched with a particular coloured bedding, to ensure the smooth running of the scheme and to show that each institute in abiding by the regulations. On Mondays the sheets need to be green, on Tuesday pink, Wednesday blue, Thursday green, Friday pink, Saturday blue and on Sunday the sheets have to be white.
The authorities have procured sufficient stocks of bed sheets in the different colours and the scheme is now being followed in all the government health institutions across the State.
The decision to introduce the new mechanism was taken in the recent review meetings chaired by the Minister for Health & Medical Education, Bali Bhagat, wherein several issues relating to the improvement in the patient care in health institutions were discussed.
After taking over the health and medical education department, the health minister has tried to improve overall health across the State, with the introduction of free medicines, introduction of specific colourcoding on government medicines, auditing of patients' prescriptions, free institutional deliveries, free ambulatory services for pregnant women, free medicines and treatment for mother-infant up-to one month of delivery, earmarking isolated space for the attendants in big hospitals and handing over the sanitation responsibility to the Sulabh agency.
There are many other reformative measures in the pipeline which will be introduced after the current budget session.
Image: courtesy of Dunhelm
www.brighterkashmir.com


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Nicocles (, Nikokles) may refer to:

 Nicocles of Salamis (reigned from 374/3 BC), king of Salamis in Cyprus
 Nicocles of Paphos (d. 306 BC), king of Paphos in Cyprus
 Nicocles of Sicyon (reigned 251 BC), tyrant of Sicyon
 Nicocles (fly), a genus of robber flies


An Open Letter to PayPal from Anonymous Hackers !
the organization raising funds for legal support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning.
a fair trial and freedom of speech.
an extended time to rule on any violations of your terms of service is peculiar, at best.
States Government's systematic abuse of first amendment rights.
Please consider our requests. You and your subsequent actions can make the difference.


And just like that, I'm almost there. Kind of amazing what you can accomplish when you actually, you know, sit down and write the damned thing. Funny, that.
I found myself astonished that I was so close to finishing. I thought maybe I'd done something wrong. Then I realized—no, I'm just working on a short story for once. I suppose it's a bit of an occupational hazard for those who, like me, spend most of their writing time working on novels: you just don't expect the end to come so soon.
Climax and denouement shouldn't take very long. It's gonna go over my target length of 7500 words, but not by too much. I'm reasonably sure I can get it down to size.
Write Club update: Tier one bounce from IGMS. Response time, 72 days.


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Q: class.getResource().getFile() fetches older version of a file I have a file in the same path under test resources package as my test class. When I try to run the test cases using ./gradlew test after making changes to the resource file, the changes are not reflected when that file is read(verified using a debugger.). I've tried cleaning the project but that doesn't help.
Is there some other caching that happens for resources that I'm missing here?
This is how I'm reading the file:
File testFile = new File(this.getClass().getResource("namr_two").getFile());

A: getClass().getResource() loads resources from the classpath, not from filesystem. Class loaders are responsible for loading Java classes and resources during runtime dynamically to the JVM (Java Virtual Machine).
I would suggest using ClassLoader.getSystemResource():
    File testFile = new File(ClassLoader.getSystemResource("namr_two").getFile());

or:
    Class class1 = null;
    try {
        class1 = Class.forName("class1");
        ClassLoader cl = class1.getClassLoader();
        File testFile = new File(cl.getResource("namr_two").getFile());
    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }


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namespace libkafka_asio
{
namespace detail
{

inline Int32 RequestMessageWireSize(const FetchRequest& request)
{
  Int32 size =
    sizeof(Int32) +  // ReplicaId
    sizeof(Int32) +  // MaxWaitTime
    sizeof(Int32);   // MinByte

  // Topics Array
  size += sizeof(Int32);
  BOOST_FOREACH(const FetchRequest::Topic& topic, request.topics())
  {
    size += StringWireSize(topic.topic_name);

    // Partitions Array
    size += static_cast<Int32>(
      sizeof(Int32) +    // Array Length
      topic.partitions.size() * (
        sizeof(Int32) +  // Partition
        sizeof(Int64) +  // FetchOffset
        sizeof(Int32))); // MaxBytes
  }
  return size;
}

inline void WriteRequestMessage(const FetchRequest& request, std::ostream& os)
{
  WriteInt32(request.replica_id(), os);
  WriteInt32(request.max_wait_time(), os);
  WriteInt32(request.min_bytes(), os);

  // Topics Array
  WriteInt32(static_cast<Int32>(request.topics().size()), os);
  BOOST_FOREACH(const FetchRequest::Topic& topic, request.topics())
  {
    WriteString(topic.topic_name, os);

    // Partitions Array
    WriteInt32(static_cast<Int32>(topic.partitions.size()), os);
    BOOST_FOREACH(const FetchRequest::Partition& partition, topic.partitions)
    {
      WriteInt32(partition.partition, os);
      WriteInt64(partition.fetch_offset, os);
      WriteInt32(partition.max_bytes, os);
    }
  }
}

}  // namespace detail
}  // namespace libkafka_asio

#endif  // FETCH_REQUEST_WRITE_H_B441DB98_D6A0_42AF_B49E_B7FEA169DCC6


The Anne Arundel County Police Department Traffic Safety Section has located the suspect, Thomas Leonard Judge, 21, of 3153 Catrina Lane in Annapolis along with the suspect vehicle, a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado. Additionally, Jason Ruegg, 21, of 3519 Saratoga Avenue in Annapolis and John Deleonibus, 21, of of 735 Intrepid Way in Davidsonville have been identified as passengers. The investigation is still ongoing at this time and charges are pending a review of the case by the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office. The Anne Arundel County Police Department would like to thank the public for their help in this incident.


This article aims to give a general understanding about the popularity of electronic resources in Independent University, Bangladesh, which would help in shaping higher education in the country. Resources usages were determined on the basis of electronic resources providers data. The article comes up with some important findings. Use of Emerald database in IUB found to be more rational compared to other three IP based databases. The ratios between the top-most and the 25th documents those opened, from Emerald 5:1, from JSTOR 13:1, from ABI/Inform 19:1, from OUP Journals 31:1. Users preferred PDF documents and Period had no influence over usage. The study only covered IP based electronic resources; password based or other free electronic resources were out of the study. This is the first case study on the use of electronic resources in Bangladesh, which would give Bangladeshi libraries a guidance regarding electronic resources subscription.


Auric was a one page website created for a programmatic trading desk.
I was provided with the branding and they explained they wanted a user friendly site. They wanted the user to seamlessly be able to scroll through all the information they needed to include.
We grouped the important information into bite-size chunks and created it so it smoothly went from one to the next with just one scroll, similar to a presentation. This allowed us to include a lot of information without cluttering the screen.
Please take a look at the site using the link below.


First Sergeant Price2010(OD) was promoted to Sergeant Major with 36 total cumulative points from Commander R.agnarok(OD), Brigadier General Rose(OD), Major gamer87(OD), Lieutenant Colonel satanshell(OD), Lieutenant Colonel ScudBarb(OD), Lieutenant Colonel GreenBud(OD), First Lieutenant KawiKami(OD), Second Lieutenant FrozenSushi(OD), Second Lieutenant texan(OD), Second Lieutenant BIGTIME(OD), Chief Warrant Officer CWO3 Ezpk(OD), for Always active BNET and Vent deserving. GM too on Tue Mar 24th, 2009 at 12:01:46 AM GMT.
Sergeant Major Price2010(OD) was promoted to Warrant Officer WO1 with 37 total cumulative points from Commander R.agnarok(OD), General Thigus(OD), Major General skyking(OD), Brigadier General Rose(OD), Lieutenant Colonel ScudBarb(OD), Major P.J.(OD), Captain SG-Shadow(OD), First Lieutenant FrozenSushi(OD), Master Warrant Officer MWO5 Silent_Mage(OD), Second Lieutenant muppet(OD), Chief Warrant Officer CWO3 Ezpk(OD), for He\\\\\\\'s worthy enough for WO or at least i beleive so he\\\\\\\'s GM active and always around to help. on Tue Apr 14th, 2009 at 12:09:12 AM GMT.
Warrant Officer WO1 Price2010(OD) was promoted to Chief Warrant Officer CWO2 with 51 total cumulative points from Lieutenant General Buckeyes47(OD), Brigadier General Castigate(OD), Brigadier General Rose(OD), Lieutenant Colonel ScudBarb(OD), Lieutenant Colonel BabyT(OD), Major gamer87(OD), First Lieutenant FrozenSushi(OD), First Lieutenant BIGTIME(OD), Second Lieutenant muppet(OD), for Hes helpful, gm, does anything and everything he can to help other members. He has changed enough to deserve climbing up the ranks again. I personally appreciate everything you have done and put up with. Gl and Hf. -BabyT(OD) on Thu Apr 30th, 2009 at 12:01:05 AM GMT.
Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:52 AM.
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Made it out of bronze. Finally.
Date: Sun Jan 03, 2016 4:44 AM.
active member, always on vent and gaming.
Date: Sat May 31, 2008 3:52 AM.
Awarded for supreme activeness in game, forums, teamspeak and the site. Recipient must have received the Defense Superior Service Medal and shown consistent activity.
Date: Sun Jan 03, 2016 4:45 AM.
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Very loyal to OD. Has proved himself time and again. Someone you can really count on.
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Congrats to Team Neerly Priceless who won the Jan. '14 DST!
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Q: iOS application that self-updates javascript (or other interpreted) resources? Based on several questions I've seen:

*

*How to implement auto-updating iOS Apps from App Store?

*auto upgrading iOS apps

*Is it possible to have a self-updating iPhone application?
it seems pretty clear that apps are not allowed to "self-update" code on startup (or through some other mechanism within the app), since the new code was part of the app submitted to app store.
However, there are plenty of applications out there that do perform automatic updates on startup (for example, this popular game downloads several hundred MB on first startup) - it seems this type of thing is allowed for resources - as long as the download is data/resources - stuff that doesn't change the compiled code.
Technically, Javascript included with an app's resource bundle could be considered a resource, and so it's safe to auto-update any included Javascript.  On the other hand, Javascript could be considered 'code', as it's interpreted by Webkit (in a UIWebView) and executed.  If this counts as code, one could even go to the extreme and create some interpreter that runs commands included in the app based on contents of an xml file (very easily considered a resource) that gets auto-updated to the app. Would this count as 'code'?
So, my main questions I'm looking for answers to:

*

*Where exactly is the line between 'resource' and 'code'? Does 'code' just mean 'compiled Objective-C'?

*Are there any known examples of accepted apps that do something like this?
Also, since I'm sure it'll be asked, my main reason for wanting to download and execute the javascript locally instead of just hitting the remote site all the time is for performance / offline capabilities.


Stafford loan are fixed rate student loans specifically for undergraduate students in universities or colleges and are participating in direct loan program. This kind of loan can be used in tuition payment and also other eligible school expenses. The loan is not based on credit. The student loan can be subsidized or unsubsidized it depending on the financial needs.
These are federal guaranteed loans which are based on financial need basis. The interest in this kind of loan does not accrue when the student is still in school or even during deferment periods. During these times it is the federal government that pays for the interests.
These are federal guaranteed loans that are not given on financial need basis. The loan accrues interest from the disbursement period. However, it can be deferred until elapse of 6 months after graduation.
An undergraduate Stafford loan benefits from low interest rate which is fixed and goes as low as 3.4%. They also get increased limits of up to 12,000 US dollars a year all depending on the degree status as well as the number of years in school. Lastly, he/she will not get payments while still in school.
Both unsubsidised and subsidized student of this kind has Stafford loan limits which are annual and also cumulative. The cumulative loans are listed on student aid report. However, it is also advisable that you keep record of all the loan transactions. Moreover, you can get your loan history online at www.nslds.ed.gov site.
Those who have attained their lifetime Stafford loan limits are not eligible to receive any further loan of that type. On the other hand any student who exceeds their limits will have the amount disbursed billed back. This means that in such a case you will need an alternative means of financing your education.
In this respect, borrow only what you really need for your education expenses and also keep track on your cumulative debt. You can find ways of minimising your borrowing. A question that is commonly asked is the amount that a student can take out each year in Stafford loan limits. This kind of information is particularly useful as it helps you understand how much to borrow.


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Q: UnclaImed display in ubuntu 21.04 with Rocket Lake I just put together a new PC and put an 11th gen (Rocket lake) intel CPU, i5-11400. It is supposed to have Intel UHD Graphics 730. I installed the just-released ubuntu 21.04.
But the display shows as UNCLAIMED, and I can't change the resolution, and when I try to hook up 2 monitors, the resolution decreases dramatically. It seems to me there's a problem with the driver.
Is the Intel UHD Graphics 730 driver not available in linux yet? I read that they didn't even release the driver until a few weeks ago. Looking back at similar issues over the past few years, it seems it may take awhile for this processor to support linux graphics. If that's the case, does anyone know how long that usually takes?
sudo lshw -c video
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 04
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pciexpress msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b0000000-b0ffffff memory:a0000000-afffffff ioport:4000(size=64) memory:c0000-dffff

A: This question has sort of been answered in a question concerning a blank screen. The solution is to install the 5.10 oem kernel. But that caused me to have another problem, my 11900k only turbos to 4.7ghz because for some reason the "powersave" governor in the kernel won't let it go higher. My workaround has been to use cpupower-gui and set all cores for 5.3 and change the governor to "performance" but that keeps the cpu revved up around 5k and about 5C hotter. BUT both of my monitors work even expanding the desktop.
sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04b -y
sudo apt install cpupower-gui -y

run cpupower-gui by typing it into the terminal. You will want to boot into the new kernel first of course and get your monitors working properly.
UPDATE 4/30/2021. I've upgraded to 21.04 but kept the 20.04b kernel. It complains about binaries when installing software but it runs. Today I updated my Asus Z590 Rog Strix bios from 0704 to 0707 and the cpu frequency issue went away, so no need to install cpupower-gui if you don't want to.
Update: 5/8/2021. I have discovered if I used "i915.force_probe=4c8a" in grub with 5.12, 5.12.1, 5.12.2, linux next, kernels etc I can boot ONE monitor only. For dual monitors using both ports I still must run the 20.04b (5.10.0.1023-oem) kernel.


My name is LEXI. My Animal ID # is A1096693.
11/16/2016 Exam Type RE-EXAM – Medical Rating is 3 NC – MAJOR CONDITIONS NOT CONTAGIOUS, Behavior Rating is NONE, LBS.
OFFICER BAUTISTA SAID THAT HE WASN'T PRESENT WHEN THE DOG WAS BROUGHT INTO. HE SAID THAT FELLOW POLICE OFFICERS WHO WERE PRESENT WHEN THE DOG WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 40TH PRECIENT SAID THAT THE DOG WAS CALM. I WITNESSED WHILE THE DOG WAS IN THE CRATE IN THE LOBBY OF MACC THAT SHE GROWLED A LITTLE BIT. BUT SHE ALSO WHINED.
A volunteer writes: A peanut of a little gray girl wearing a white mask as if she's off to a Viennese masquerade ball. If invited, she's ready! We're out the door quickly, as Miss Lexi needs to potty, and when she's done we're off to the park, Lexi walking perfectly on leash. Posing nicely for photos, and enjoying some reward treats, Lexi watches me watch her as I take pictures. She wags her tail gently as we make friends, and while she doesn't yet solicit petting from me, she accepts it. In a backyard pen off leash, Miss Lexi is more interested in exploration than she is in balls or toys, and comes over to me for more treats. Lexi looks like she's been a mom several times and is ready to give up that life for the life of a pampered pet. When I took the leash down off the peg, Lexi got bouncy excited, as to her a leash means 'I'm going out'. Sadly, in this case it meant she was going in, but I'm wishing her a lifetime of leashes being taken down to take her out. Will you make my dream for her come true?
Poor Lexi. Killed after only 5 days in the shelter.
Someone should have saved her.
Well, she whined and growled in the nypd crate. What the ?!? For that she was murdered.


Clearing up mess left behind by tenants when they leave a rented home is the major cause of friction between renters and landlords, say industry experts.
Complaints from renters against landlords keeping hold of deposits to pay for cleaning and repairing damage to rented homes are at their highest since 2007, according to the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC).
The AIIC claims tenants have a 'general lack of respect' for a landlord?s property and fail to leave the home in the same state as when they moved in.
?We see tenants moving out without paying the last month?s rent and the homes have obviously not been cleaned for months, with ovens dripping with grease and even unwanted food left inside,' said AIIC spokesman Pat Barber.
The AIIC also argues many tenants fail to turn up for check-out, so the landlord has no chance to explain what needs to be done to bring the home up to standard and the likely cost.
?Tenants are shocked that professional cleaning firms charge up to £20 an hour or more but really only have themselves to blame for footing the bill when they could have kept house better,' said Barber.
Some tenants cut hidden sections out of carpets and patch them into to hide dirty or damaged areas, Barber explained, sometimes they come from under beds or sofas and the tenants hope the landlord does not spot the botch job.
The Tenancy Deposit Scheme (TDS) reviews tenancy agreements in deposit disputes and feels some do not make clear a tenant?s responsibilities to clean and look after the property.
TDS and the AIIC both suggest landlords and tenants should sign a comprehensive inventory at the start and end of a tenancy.
The article Tenants fail to come clean over dirty home disputes appeared first on LandlordZONE.


The Classic Red Kong Dog Toy is the chase-chewtastic experience for dogs! Its shaped for wild, bouncy fun with irresistible natural rubber. Kongs exclusive, super bouncy, red natural rubber compound is virtually indestructible and comes in 5 chew friendly sizes.


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Q: AJAX getting posts from wpquery, prevent post duplication I'm trying to AJAX loading posts in my blog, I've successfully get it to work this way:
the page displays 3 posts on page load, then the visitor can get 3 more posts each time he clicks the button "LOAD MORE".
Now I want to load 9 posts on page load but keep 3 posts with each click on "LOAD MORE" button.
A problem occurs with the page number value in the WPQuery, it's getting the same 3 posts which were already displayed.
how can I prevent posts duplication?
Please check it here at  my temp website
[note that I have less than 9 posts at the category page, it should load all of them]
(function($) {
$(document).ready(function(){
    var $content = $('#list-content');
    var $btnLoad = $('#btnLoad');
    var loading = true;
    var page = 1;
    var load_posts = function($count){
        var post_id = $(this).attr( 'id' );
        /** Ajax Call */
        $.ajax({
            cache       :   false,
            timeout     :   8000,
            url         :   php_array.admin_ajax,
            type        :   "POST",
            data        :   {action:'main_query', numPosts : $count, pageNumber: page, condition: php_array.condition, val: php_array.val},

            beforeSend  :   function() {
                $('#loadimg').slideToggle("fast");
                $btnLoad.prop("disabled",true);
            },
            success     : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR ){
                var $data = $( data );
                if($data.length){
                    $content.append( $data );
                    $btnLoad.prop("disabled",false);
                }
                else{
                    $btnLoad.html("That's it");
                    $btnLoad.prop("disabled",true);
                }
            },
            error       : function( jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown ){
                if(t==="timeout") {
                    alert("Server is too slow, try again later");
                } else {
                    alert(t);
                }
                console.log( 'ajaxLoop.js: The following error occured: ' + textStatus, errorThrown );
            },
            complete    : function( jqXHR, textStatus ){
                $('#loadimg').slideToggle("fast");
                loading = false;
                page++;
            }
        });
    }
    $btnLoad.on("click", function(e) {
        e.preventDefault();
        loading = true;
        load_posts(3);
    });
    load_posts(9);  //load the first elements
});

})(jQuery);

PHP code:
function main_query_init() {
/** Made Query */
$numPosts = (isset($_POST['numPosts'])) ? $_POST['numPosts'] : 0;
$page = (isset($_POST['pageNumber'])) ? $_POST['pageNumber'] : 0;
$condition = (isset($_POST['condition'])) ? $_POST['condition'] : '';
$val = (isset($_POST['val'])) ? $_POST['val'] : '';
$args = array(
        'posts_per_page'=>  $numPosts,
        'paged'         =>  $page,
    );
if($condition != ''){
    $args[$condition] = $val;
}
$post_query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ($post_query->have_posts()) : while ($post_query->have_posts()) : $post_query->the_post();

A: You are probably looking for the offset parameter for WP_Query. Setting it to 3 will cause it to skip the first 3 results when using posts_per_page and paged.
The other option is to specify the post_ids that you don't want explicitly using the post__not_in parameter, but this will require passing the array of values to exclude with each request - you might be able to get away with just passing in the first 3 IDs, but I would go with offset.

A: The key is var currCount = $data.filter('article').length;
where I store the current count of posts from ajax response.
Since I ask for extra 3 posts every load button click, then if((currCount % 3) == 0) will tell me if it got 3 posts otherwise there are no more posts and there is no need to increment page counter.
success     : function(data, textStatus, jqXHR ){
    var $data = $( data );
    var currCount = $data.filter('article').length;
    totalCount += currCount;
    if(currCount > 0){
        $content.append( $data );
        $btnLoad.prop("disabled",false);

        if((currCount % 3) == 0)
            page += currCount / 3;
        else
            page += (parseInt(totalCount/3) + 1);
        return;
    }
    $btnLoad.html("That's it");
    $btnLoad.prop("disabled",true);
},


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module NumericFieldDecorator

  def link_to_edit
    link_to name, edit_setup_numeric_field_path(self)
  end

  def link_to_value_edit(parent_id, value_str = nil)
    value_str ||= 'numeric, undefined'
    link_to value_str, edit_numeric_field_path(self, parent_id: parent_id), {id: "field_#{id}"}
  end

  def search_input
    text_field_tag "field_#{id}_nbr_gist", nil, class: 'input-mini'
  end

  def only_integer?
    only_integer_p == '1' ? 'Yes' : 'No'
  end

  def type_human(downcase_p = false)
    str = 'Numeric field'
    downcase_p ? str.downcase : str
  end
end