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(Neil deGrasse Tyson) is nothing but a distortion of scientific reality. The truth is, there is no immutable truth in science. Any scientist who claims their data proves this, that or the other – x, y, or z- has misunderstood the philosophy on which science is built. Scientist should not be in the business of finding evidence to support their views. Instead, Scientists should be in the business of finding evidence to refute their claims. Wrong until evidence suggests it is right, is good heuristic to go by. And of course, truth largely depends on the questions asked. Ask one set of questions, and version A of the truth is revealed. Ask another set and version B is exposed. There is no truth in science. Not of the immutable, unvarying, absolute variety. There remains, only relational or relative truth….
Poor Neil. But I feel that his affirmation reflects an important reality: science does change the world around us, both in beneficial and harmful ways. In my mind, "wrong until evidence suggests it is right" is a little timid.
That said, I find some inspiration in elaborating the thought with "right" in the sense of moral philosophy. Even though contradicted in my youth by "Mutually Assured Destruction," the desire for "the good" underpinned my passion for physics.
Now there's a topic. Moral philosophy. Suddenly, I recall Plantinga's neat argument about moral good not being able to exist without moral evil…but that's an entirely different discussion. My biggest issue with scientists (of which I am one) is that they, along with the media, incorrectly use the word "proof" and "truth", "right" and "wrong". I was so bold to use those words as an undergraduate. Thankfully the Royal Society Fellow under whose auspices I studied my PhD, beat them out of me with a stick! Just kidding. Red ink was the order of the day. I did come around to the idea that as a scientist I cannot "prove" anything and there is no "real" tangible "truth" out there in the "real world". Indeed there is no guarantee that the "real world", as we understand it, exists at all. If that's true, then right- wrong, true-false, yes-no, black- white as logical premises fall apart. A visual percept, for example, is a mere representation of the outside world. A percept is a product of the visual system and prone to error and distortion. The real world, then, cannot be weighed and measured, objectively, ever. That's strong. It's philosophical, agreed. And it would make the natural scientists among us baulk and scoff, no doubt. But my logic is sound, mostly.
Popper's response, if I recall correctly, was to assert that the only truth was the universe itself, and so science must be founded on the recording of its state. This is itself problematical.
The challenge of epistemology is that logic cannot provide axioms. Unfortunately, our perceptions are filtered representations of reality, and so do not provide unimpeachable axioms.
So what are we left with? No, in an absolute sense, we cannot know that the logical systems of deduction that scientists formulate are "true." But we can know that they give us power to change reality in a controlled and predictable fashion. That power is obvious all around us, even when its relationship to scientific theory is completely obscured by their material expression.
I'm not sure that I'm expressing the matter clearly, so I'll restate it another way: The "truth" that is important is not (A) the correlation of our theories with reality, but rather (B) the correlation between our theories and the power that we wield over reality.
Your final paragraph is an excellent summary, elegantly put.


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Pastor Dave Clark and associate Pastor Susie Bjork get ready for another take at Bay Shore Community Church. It will be part of the church's online Christmas Eve services.
Bay Shore Community Church videographer Chap Cooper gives direction to Pastor Dave Clark and associate Pastor Susie Bjork during video-taping a portion of the Christmas Eve online service.
Long Beach Churches Get Creative To Give Christmas Eve Meaning
Church services have been a sometimes controversial topic since the coronavirus pandemic began in March.
Then even more restrictive Stay At Home orders were issued Dec. 6 in Long Beach. That lockdown stretches past Christmas, leaving church leaders scrambling to keep Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services as meaningful as in past years.
"We made the decision back in September," Pastor Dave Clark said at Bay Shore Community Church. "We knew we had to prepare if we were going to provide a meaningful virtual Christmas Eve, so we committed to it."
Clark was speaking during a break from video taping the lighting of candles portion of the service last Thursday, Dec. 10. Musical performances before the camera started in October. Soon, it will be up to Chap Cooper, the church's videographer and sound engineer, to put it all together for its premiere next Thursday, Dec. 24.
Every church in the area is approaching Christmas Eve a little differently. While many are doing remote only services, some are meeting outside, with social distancing.
St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, just down the Toledo from Bay Shore Community, will have outside masses — three Christmas Eve masses at 4, 6 and 8 p.m. in the courtyard and on the lawn, with three Christmas Day masses at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m., also outside.
"People's lives have been turned upside down with illness, death, loss of work and much fear and anxiety," Father Michael Reardon said in his Christmas message. "The closing of churches has challenged us in our coming together as community to worship God — the very soul of people. For some it seems the light for people has diminished or gone out.
"Albert Schweitzer (the French author and philosopher) tells us: 'Sometimes our light goes out, but it is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.' And this, I feel, is true. We need each other for it is in and through each other that we use our strengths to keeping going."
Grace Community Church in Seal Beach also will be outside on Christmas Eve, but not on church property. The Seal Beach government has agreed to allow Christmas Eve afternoon (2:30 and 4:30 p.m.) services at Eisenhower Park, at the entrance to the Seal Beach Pier.
"Planning Christmas Eve services this year raised a number of good questions for our church," senior Pastor Bob Wriedt said. "What is the best way to serve our community? What is essential about Christmas Eve and what could we change? How can we turn the limitations we're facing into creative opportunities? I hope that we're honoring Jesus in the way we addressed these questions and serving our neighbors well."
Grace also will provide a remote service on line; they have had both in person and online services for the last couple of months.
First Congregational Church in downtown Long Beach has been online only since the beginning of the pandemic, and senior minister The Rev. Elena Larssen said the YouTube services have been so popular they will continue even after in-person services are allowed again.
Regarding celebrating Christmas Eve during a pandemic, Larssen said, "This year, the problems of our society are even more obvious, unmasked by the virus. We see who is hungry, facing racism on a daily basis, we see who works in dangerous jobs. At Christmas time, the church has an ancient reason to step forward in faith and show hope to the world. Christmas in a pandemic means finding the silver linings and letting them sparkle."
Several church leaders said being forced to provide online services has expanded their reach, and likely will continue in some form in the future. But, especially with Christmas Eve, the message is more important than the way it's delivered, they said.
"It (Christmas Eve services) just means so much now," Pastor Clark said. "It can bring us together even while we are apart."

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package de.unioninvestment.eai.portal.support.vaadin.validation;

import org.junit.Test;

import de.unioninvestment.eai.portal.support.vaadin.validation.RegexpValidator;
import de.unioninvestment.eai.portal.support.vaadin.validation.validator.AbstractValidatorTest;

public class RegexpValidatorTest extends AbstractValidatorTest {

	private RegexpValidator validator = new RegexpValidator("[0-9]+", "Fehler");

	@Test
	public void shouldValidationFaildByToLongInput() {
		expectFieldValueProducesErrorMessage(validator, "test", "Fehler");
		expectFieldValueProducesErrorMessage(validator, " ", "Fehler");
	}

	@Test
	public void shouldSucceedOnValidInput() {
		expectFieldValueSucceeds(validator, null);
		expectFieldValueSucceeds(validator, "");
		expectFieldValueSucceeds(validator, "266");
	}
}

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EPM - Artigos
Diversity of mechanisms conferring resistance to beta-lactams among OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii clones
Cardoso, Juliana Provasi [UNIFESP]
Cayo, Rodrigo [UNIFESP]
Girardello, Raquel [UNIFESP]
Gales, Ana Cristina [UNIFESP]
Diagnostic Microbiology And Infectious Disease
10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2016.01.018
A total of 31 unrelated OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii strains isolated from 14 hospitals located in distinct Brazilian regions were evaluated in this study. These isolates were grouped into 12 different sequence types (STs), of which 7 had unique allelic sequences (ST188, ST189, ST190, ST191, ST192, ST228, and ST299). Most isolates belonged to the clonal complex CC79 followed by CC15 and CC1. Only polymyxin B and minocycline showed good activity against the OXA-23-producing A. baumannii clones. The ISAba1 upstream bla(OXA-23), bict(OXA-51)-like, or ampC was found in 100%, 54.8%, and 77.4% of the isolates, respectively. High resistance rates to ceftazidime and cefotaxime were observed among those isolates possessing ISAba1 upstream ampC, in contrast to those isolates that did not carry this configuration. Moreover, a >= 2 Log(2) decrease in the MICs of meropenem and ceftazidime was observed in the presence of phenyl-arginine-beta-naphthylamide for 80.6% and 54.8% of isolates, respectively. Overexpression of the adeB was observed in 61.3% of isolates, particularly among those isolates belonging to the ST1 (CC1). It was also verified that ompW was down -regulated in all isolates belonging to the ST15 (CC15). On the other hand, carO and omp33-36 genes were overexpressed in 48.4% and 58.1% of the isolates, respectively. In this study, we show that overexpression of AdeABC system could significantly contribute for resistance to meropenem and ceftazidime among OXA-23-producing A. baumannii clones in Brazil, demonstrating the complexity involved in the p-lactam resistance in such isolates. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Diagnostic Microbiology And Infectious Disease. New York, v. 85, n. 1, p. 90-97, 2016.
Acinetobacter baumannii
Efflux pumps
Porins
AmpC
OXA-23
Carbapenems
Extended-spectrum cephalosporins
Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP)
National Council for Science and Technological Development (CNPq)
https://repositorio.unifesp.br/handle/11600/55986
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"London Has Fallen" in Hawai'i BitTorrent Suits
By Benjamin Justus on August 10, 2016
Notorious BitTorrent plaintiff LHF Productions, Inc. has expanded its nationwide litigation campaign to Hawaii, with recent copyright lawsuits against scores of "Doe" defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai'i.
LHF Productions, Inc. holds copyrights to the action flick London Has Fallen, featuring Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart in an assassination plot caper. The Hawai'i actions follows many other LHF suits recently filed in other jurisdictions across the U.S.. As reported before, LHF is an affiliate of Nu Image / Millennium Films, which hold interests in films that have been the subject of prior enforcement actions, including Automata, The Humbling, The Expendables, Charlie Countryman and Bad Lieutenant.
The new lawsuits each allege direct and indirect copyright infringement by many unknown "Doe" parties through their use of BitTorrent file-sharing software. The cases seek statutory damages pursuant to the Copyright Act, attorney's fees and costs, and an injunction against further infringement.
Like many another similar lawsuits filed in the same District Court, the LHF complaints were signed by Honolulu attorney Gregory A. Ferren. A case listing, with links to the complaints, are below.


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OSU gets a new 'Q'
COLUMBUS – It was like Ohio State pulled off a blockbuster early in the season, trading LaQuinton Ross for LaQuinton...
OSU gets a new 'Q' COLUMBUS – It was like Ohio State pulled off a blockbuster early in the season, trading LaQuinton Ross for LaQuinton... Check out this story on coloradoan.com: http://noconow.co/1fXpTK4
Ohio State forward LaQuinton Ross drives past Michigan State forward Adreian Payne during a March 9 Big Ten game. (Photo: Greg Bartram/USA TODAY )
COLUMBUS – It was like Ohio State pulled off a blockbuster early in the season, trading LaQuinton Ross for LaQuinton Ross.
The mercurial junior was scoreless at Marquette, then followed with four points against American and three against Wyoming. At crucial moments in games, he found himself watching on the bench instead of producing on the court.
"The beginning of the season started out real slow, but then I started picking it up toward the middle, especially in Big Ten play," Ross said. "I can't complain about the season now. I think I'm doing good right now, and that's the thing that matters."
The 6-foot-8 forward was penciled into the lineup as the heir apparent to All-American forward Deshaun Thomas, who left a year early for a pro career. Ross showed flashes of being that type of dynamic scorer, especially in the 2013 NCAA Tournament when he averaged almost 18 points in his final three games, including a game-winner against Arizona in the Sweet 16.
"I think it was me getting adjusted to my role in the team and me actually playing," Ross said of his slow start. "This is my first year starting, and this is my third year here. I think it was a lot different for me."
There was never an ah-ha moment for Ross, a game where things suddenly clicked for him. Instead, it was an evolution this year.
Primarily a perimeter player as a sophomore, he started the year wanting to be a 3-point shooter first. But after going 3-for-8 from 3-point range in a loss at home to Iowa, how he got his points started to change.
In his past 13 games, Ross has made as many as two 3s just once. But his scoring average is up to 15.4 points per game. His ability to pump fake and drive the ball into the lane has been the difference.
"Finding ways to get to the hole is what I do," Ross said. "I've been doing that a lot lately, trying to get to the rack, trying to finish, trying to get contact and trying to get to the free-throw line — using that free-throw line to open up the jumper."
He hasn't scored fewer than 19 points in his past six games. In that time, he's shooting 47 percent from the floor and averaging 7.5 free throw attempts, making 76 percent of those.
Buckeye coach Thad Matta said Ross is recognizing the matchups by taking bigger players off the dribble and posting up smaller players off switches.
"Q is stronger than he looks," Matta said. "He does have some pretty good strength to him."
He's the team's leading rebounder at 6.1 per game, but he went for 19 points and 15 rebounds against Purdue and 26 points and 13 rebounds against Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament. When games are tight, he's no longer a spectator like in the early or middle of the season.
"Playing against this better competition makes you step up your game as well," Ross said.
There was speculation in 2013 that Ross might declare for the NBA draft. In the preseason, he said he almost went pro. A quick look at 11 NBA mock drafts heading into the tournament has only one with him as a late first-round pick. Most see him as a middle to late second-rounder, if at all.
So if his motivation this season is to attract the attention of pro scouts or if it's to be the best Ohio State player he can be — or something in the middle — the bottom line is it's working for him and the team.
Turns out the Ross-for-Ross trade was a blockbuster for the Buckeyes.
rmccurdy@nncogannett.com
Twitter: @McMotorsport
Buckeye NCAA
Tournament Advance
No. 6 Ohio State (25-9) vs. No. 11 Dayton (23-10).
NCAA Tournament, South Region, second round.
Thursday, 12:15 p.m.
Buffalo, N.Y., First Niagara Center (18,690).
CBS.
Ohio State leads 4-2.
Buckeye Notes:
Ohio State has made four straight Sweet 16s, the longest current streak in the nation ... The Buckeyes are 8-5 against teams in the NCAA Tournament this year ... The No. 6 seed is their lowest seed since being a No. 8 in 2009 ... OSU has never been a No. 6 seed ... No. 3 Syracuse or No. 14 Western Michigan would be in the next round Saturday if the Buckeyes win ... The South Regional will be played next week in Memphis.
Flyer Notes:
Dayton is making its 15th NCAA Tournament appearance, but first since 2009 ... Head coach Archie Miller was an assistant for a year under Thad Matta at Ohio State ... Junior guard Jordan Sibert played his first two seasons at Ohio State before transferring, and he averages a team-high 12.5 points on 44 percent 3-point shooting ... Two Columbus Northland products Jalen Robinson and Devon Scott, a pair of 6-9 frontcourt players, come off the bench for the Flyers.
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Masud Rana the original name of Shakib Khan. Sakib is a bengali popular film actor from Bangladeshi film industry known as Dhallywood. Sakib Khan was born in a Muslim family on 28 March 1983 in Narayanganj district in Dhaka division. His father was a govt employee. He has a borther and a sister.
He made his acting debut in the film Annotho Bhalobasha in the year 1999. He has received many awards and acclamation. He is the highest paid actor in Dhallywood. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in Bhalobaslei Ghor Bandha Jay Na.
Khan married co-actor Apu Biswas in a private wedding ceremony at Khan's Gulshan house in Dhaka on 18 April 2008, but kept it secret until 2017. Their son (Abraham khan Joy) was born on 27 September 2016. Since 2011, Shakib Khan has been the president of the Film Artist Association till 18 May 2017.
Shakib Khan was born in Narayanganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father Abdur Rab was a government officer and his mother Nurjahan is a housewife. His father's job required the family to relocate frequently from one city to another during his school years. He had good results in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) exams.
Besides education, he also had an interest in dancing. He completed a dancing course under film choreographer Aziz Reza. In 1998 he went to Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) with his dance master Aziz Reza, a studio of Bangladeshi film industry at that time, where he met a photographer who asked him to take part in a photo shoot. During the photo shoot, film director Abul Khair Bulbul noticed Shakib and offered him the leading role in his movie Shobaito Shukhi Hote Chai. Shakib accepted the offer. But Shakib Khan made his debut in the big screen with Ananta Bhalobasha (1999) directed by Sohanur Rahman Sohan.


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The (not so) perfect choices of the autonomous car
Two children are playing on the sidewalk. Suddenly the ball they are playing with, bounces away, and the two kids cross the street without looking. A passing autonomous car computes it can't stop anymore and has but two choices: run over the kids, and thus killing them, or running into a truck coming from the opposite direction, and thus probably killing the driver of the car. What should the car do?
This dilemma is not new, but in his book '21 lessons for the 21st century', Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian/philosopher with a popstar status, answers with some thought-provoking considerations.
The dilemma of our autonomous car is not recent, it's a centuries old thought experiment in ethics, known as the Trolley problem. It opposes two schools of moral thought: utilitarianism and deontological ethics. Or in common English: should a choice be made based on a deontology or on the basis of the most positive outcome.
The autonomous car adds a very real dimension to this discussion: the discussion is no longer a theoretical discussion between philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, but a very real problem, with life or dead consequences.
Lousy philosophers, lousy drivers
Humans don't react based on philosophical views. Emotions and instincts prevail. This can be illustrated by an experiment in the US in 1970 involving theology students. On short notice, they were invited to come to the classroom and present the parable of the good Samaritan (an anecdote from the Bible, telling the story of a Jew who was robbed and beaten; he was neglected by his own people but taken care of by a Samaritan, although Jews and Samaritans were enemies). The organisers of the experiment placed an actor on the way to the classroom. He played a poor man asking for help. But our students didn't help, they were focussed on their presentation and neglected the moral obligation to help a person in need. To be themselves good Samaritans.
Human beings are not only bad in philosophy but also in driving. Well over a million people die in car accidents worldwide. Because drivers are angry, aggressive, distracted, stressed, uncapable, unexperienced, … even with all the calls for ethical and responsible behaviour.
Computers and algorithms are not driven by instincts, they follow the strict procedures they got as input. Autonomous cars would strictly follow the ethical procedures, if we would/could translate ethics into figures, statistics and IT codes. Society could ask philosophers to come up with an ethical guide for autonomous cars. Every time they run into a dangerous situation, those cars would make choices based on that strict ethical procedure.
Will that procedure be perfect in every situation? Probably not. But would that procedure do better than the human drivers nowadays? Most probably yes. Don't forget: now we have well over a million deaths per year.
Altruist or Selfish?
Ok, let's assume we have the technology for an autonomous car that can follow a clear ethical procedure. Then the question is: who will write that procedure? Philosophers? They don't agree about ethical dilemmas. We already mentioned Immanuel Kant, who wants to base decisions on absolute rules, as opposed to John Stuart Mill who wants to decide according to the consequences of the different options.
Or do we leave the choice to the producers? Can Tesla and Toyota decide? Or maybe we can let consumers decide? We could give the option: do you want an altruist car or a selfish car? Applied to our opening dilemma: do you want a car that lets the kids live or one that saves the life of its owner?
In 2015 a study was launched to put this very question to a number of people. When asked what their (theoretical) preference was, most replied they opted for the altruist car. When asked what car they would buy, most respondents opted for the selfish car. No surprise there.
A logical choice would be to let the government decide. Authorities would write a moral code for autonomous cars and every car would follow the same rules and procedures. For the first time in history, a law would be strictly respected in all circumstances. This might look as a good idea, but historically, the weakness of enforcing the law has always been a barrier to political abuse and totalitarian regimes. Authoritarian regimes have always tried to concentrate all information and power in one place, the technology of the 21st century would allow this.
One set of rules and procedures that all cars respect to the fullest, has many advantages: all cars respect all traffic regulations, all cars are interconnected and thus know how the other will react, all reactions will be rational. In summary: the death toll of road traffic will drop significantly. On the downside, all power and all information will be centralised. Privacy is more vulnerable than ever. And responsibility lies no longer with the individual driver but with those that told the autonomous cars how to react.
What choices will society make? How will we make them? What price are we willing to pay?
How will insurance companies react to this shift?
The arrival of autonomous cars not only raises some ethical dilemmas, it also creates new challenges for insurance companies. In the past, insurers have based their business model on three competitive advantages: Risk pooling, spreading of financial risks evenly among a large number of contributors. Risk timing, the ability to even out risk over time. And risk assessment, using historical causal event data for loss probability.
As no comparable information exists for autonomous vehicles, the insurance industry must redesign its current pricing structure to cover the decisions made by a machine instead of a human. According to several experts, autonomous vehicles will help reducing accidents, as the vast majority of them are caused by humans (human error is involved in about 95% of all road traffic accidents in Europe). Does this mean that the historic business model of insurance companies will not be viable in the future?
Insurers will most likely have to focus on covering new risks. For instance, a failure in the software processing the collected data, which could lead to accidents. A cyberattack, where the hacker takes control of the car, can also occur. The hacker can also take possession of sensitive user information, including travel patterns, and so forth. This drives insurers to develop a whole new range of products, protecting privacy and personal data.
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Q: How to convert a list to JSON in C#? I have a City_State list:
City_State[0].Range="\"city\":\"REDMOND\",\"state\":\"AK\"";
City_State[1].Range="\"city\":\"Alex City\",\"state\":\"

How to convert it into json like below:
var _pairs = new
{
    criteria = new { cities = new[] { new { city = "REDMOND", state = "WA" },
     new { city = "Alex City", state = "AL" } }
} ;

I tried the code below, but it does not work:
var _pairs = new { criteria = new { cities = new[] { _paged_City_State.ToArray() } }  };

A: If you had these classes:
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{
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public class CityState
{
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    public string State { get; set; }
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The following code would work:
var ranges = new[]
{
    new CityStateRaw { Range = "{\"city\":\"REDMOND\",\"state\":\"AK\"}" },
    new CityStateRaw { Range = "{\"city\":\"Alex City\",\"state\":\"foo\"}" },
};

var list = ranges
    .Select(raw => JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CityState>(raw.Range))
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But if this doesn't match your expectations you should be more concrete about what your exact input and the expected output should be.

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Most Beautiful Woman In Greek Mythology
Centaurs. In Greek mythology, Centaurs (or Kentauroi) are half-man, half horse creatures that inhabited the mountains and forests of Thessaly. Centaurs were said to be primal, existing in tribes and making their homes in caves, hunting wild animals and arming themselves with rocks and tree branches.
Oenone, in Greek mythology, a fountain nymph of Mount Ida, the daughter of the River Cebren, and the beloved of Paris, a son of King Priam of Troy.Oenone and Paris had a son, Corythus, but Paris deserted her for Helen.Bitterly jealous, Oenone refused to aid the wounded Paris during the Trojan War, even though she was the only one who could cure him.
However, Zeus is not the only douchebag in Greek mythology. here are two of the most prominent stories about Athena with women. Case #1: Medusa. Medusa was one of three sisters, who was described.
A goddess is a legendary woman who is celebrated and respected and she brings many skills to the table. For as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with Greek mythology. weren't always.
At once a stunningly evocative retelling of Greek mythology. is absent in most of the original tales, her centrality within the retellings feels entirely natural and yet poignant in the way Miller.
In Greek mythology, Andromeda (/ æ n ˈ d r ɒ m ɪ d ə /; Greek: Ἀνδρομέδα, Androméda or Ἀνδρομέδη, Andromédē) is the daughter of the Aethiopian king Cepheus and his wife Cassiopeia.When Cassiopeia's hubris leads her to boast that Andromeda is more beautiful than the Nereids, Poseidon sends the sea monster Cetus to ravage Andromeda as divine punishment.
Of the Greek myths, one of the easiest to translate into film is that of Pygmalion. The myth concerns a man who sculpts the woman. one of the most lyrical places on the planet: Rio De Janeiro. Set.
Creatures and Monsters from Greek Mythology. The heroes are probably the best-known part of Greek mythology, but what makes a hero?. Having monsters to fight, that's what. Luckily for the heroes, the Ancient Greeks had the strangest, coolest, most terrifying creatures & monsters mythology had to offer ranging from Dragons, Giants, Demons and Ghosts, to multi-formed creatures such as the.
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Kids learn about the goddess Hera of Greek Mythology including her symbols, special powers, birth, her husband Zeus, stories about Hera, her revenge on Heracles, and fun facts.
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In Greek mythology the Judgement of Paris was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympus–Aphrodite, Hera and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed to the fairest. The story began with the wedding of Peleus and Thetis which all the gods had been invited to attend except for Eris, goddess of discord. When Eris appeared at the festivities she was turned away.
The Greek heroes were playing a significant part in the Greek myths and folk tales. They usually were characters with a daring personality and extraordinary abilities, mostly arising from the Trojan War.
Perhaps the most noticeable influence in Salman Rushdie's Shame is from Greek mythology, that is. where a hideous beast falls in love with a beautiful woman. Beauty and the Beast might be seen as.
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Microsoft Heavily Investing towards AI & Bots
Today, companies worldwide are investing heavily towards artificial intelligence (AI) and bots. How can significant conglomerates stay back? Microsoft has been all in on AI and bots this year, and in the build versus buy equation, it has been leaning heavily toward buying. We can already see that Azure Bot Service has gained momentum and is speeding up development by offering a unified environment that's purpose-built for bot development with the Microsoft Bot Framework connectors and BotBuilder SDKs. Developers who are interested in building their bots can start the same within seconds with out-of-the-box templates for situation including basic, form, question and answer, language understanding and proactive bots.
Recently, Microsoft has announced that it has acquired a conversational AI and bot development firm XOXCO and the reason is simple; Microsoft wants to become the super-powers in giving the best building facility. Texas-based XOXCO has been building the way in conversational AI for approximately six years and has been accountable for the creation of Howdy-the first bcommercially accessible bot for Slack that assists in scheduling meetings. Microsoft over the years has partnered with the firm and has been inspired by its work, for example, the development of a Botkit that provides the development tools used by hundreds of thousands of developers on GitHub.
One can see that AI's with conversational capabilities are fast becoming a way in which businesses engage with employees and customers these bots can also assist from creating virtual assistants and redesigning customer interactions to using conversational assistants to help employees communicate and collaborate to work better. According to a recent report that by 2020, conversational AI will be a supported user experience for more than 50 percent of large, consumer-centric enterprises. Microsoft' existing Bot Framework, available as a service in Azure and on GitHub supports over 360,000 developers, and with the acquisition of XOXCO, Microsoft will continue to realize their approach of democratizing AI development, conversation, and dialog, and integrating conversational experiences where people communicate.
Over the last few months, it made several strategic moves to fasten the pace of AI development. Their acquisition of Semantic Machines in May brought a revolutionary new approach to conversational AI. In July, Microsoft acquired Bonsai to assist in reducing the barriers to AI development by combining machine teaching, reinforcement simulation, and learning. In September, Microsoft acquired Lobe, a company that has created a simple visual interface empowering anyone to develop and apply deep learning and AI models quickly, without writing code. The acquisition of GitHub in October demonstrates their belief in the power of communities to help fuel the next wave of bot development.
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Back to School: Talk to Your Professor!
For university students around the US it's time to go back to school, or go for the first time for freshmen. European and other students might have a while before the next school year starts up, but this advice is for them, too.
In one of my earliest posts here at Lifehack, I explained how to talk to a professor – today, I want to talk about why you should talk with your professors.
You know that word "collegiality"? "Colleague"? What about "college"? OK, just testing with that last one. Anyway, they're all words that describe a sense of community, a sense of people working together towards a common goal. That's what college is about – working together, both with other students and professors, towards the goal of increasing both your own knowledge and the world's total store of knowledge.
It's in that spirit that I'm telling you, talk to your professors. Approach them after class, visit them during their office hours, drop them an email – just open a channel of communication.
Professors know lots of people in your chosen discipline. A lot of professors are well-connected with people at other universities, as well as in government and in the private sector. They can often give you a leg up on summer internships, post-college jobs, and events where you can network.
Professors have lots of students and you're just one name among many. I teach about 150 students a semester, and I'm lucky – I have friends at other schools who teach 800-1000 or more students every semester. Making personal contact outside of class can help your professors get to know you as more than just a name and student ID number – and though it might not be entirely fair, that can help you in terms of grading, feedback on assignments, and the inside track on research projects.
Professors write letters of recommendation. Whether you're applying for a scholarship, heading to graduate school, or trying to get your dream job, having a reference letter from a professor who knows you well can be a huge benefit – especially if someone on the scholarship committee, graduate admissions board, or hiring committee knows who they are.
Professors know the literature in your field. If you're looking to delve further into some aspect of your major, put together a research paper, or just differentiate yourself from your fellow classmates, a professor can be a great help in directing you to books, articles, films, even artwork you might want to check out.
Professors are frequently asked to recommend students for special honors. I get a number of notices of scholarships, leadership awards, and other honors every year, asking me to recommend students of mine who qualify. If I don't know you, I don't recommend you.
Professors know the various career paths in your field. No small number of students approach graduation every year with no idea of what they should, could, or want to do next. Most students pick majors they're interested in, with no clear sense of what they could actually do with their degree. Whether it's grad school, a non-profit job, or even freelancing, a professor can help you understand the potential of your degree.
Professors are interesting people. At the risk of tooting my own horn, can I just say that we professors aren't entirely without certain conversational abilities? We've often led exciting, even adventurous lives, and just as often have amassed a thorough knowledge not just of our chosen disciplines but of many areas of knowledge. If you're in school out of a love of learning, your professor can be quite an encouragement!
Professors can help straighten out administrative snafus. I put this last because often, we professors are just as baffled by the various Catch-22s and Kafka-esque procedures that make up college administrations as you are. But once in a while, we do know a thing or two about how to get things done on campus – it's always worth a shot.
Most of all, you should talk to your professors because it's what we're there for. There's a reason college isn't just a stack of books and a reading list – the idea isn't to memorize a bunch of other people's ideas but to work with the people around you to develop your own.
You don't need to have anything lofty to say or ask to approach your professors. Just dropping by their office during office hours and saying "Hi, I'm in your history [or whatever] class and I just wanted to introduce myself" can be a fine way to get the ball rolling. I owe my entire major, anthropology, to just that – a couple of conversations with the anthropology professor at my community college. By peeking "behind the scenes" a little, as it were, I saw a richer, deeper field than my introductory classes might have suggested, which led me to do some independent reading, which led me to major in anthropology. That same professor wrote a letter of reference for my transfer to a UC school, and then again for my graduate school applications.
So, with the semester just begun or about to begin, that's your first assignment, from Professor Lifehack: pick at least one of your professors and introduce yourself. You might well be surprised at the reception you get. Remember, most of us chose this job because we like interacting with students – you'll be doing your prof a favor as much as yourself!


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Chart roundup: Mariah Carey lands 28th top 10 with holiday classic 'All I Want for Christmas'
By: Chase Hunt AXS Contributor Dec 19, 2017
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It's hard to believe that 23 years after its release, Mariah Carey's holiday classic "All I Want for Christmas (Is You)" taken from Merry Christmas is finally hitting the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, nabbing her 28th top 10 on the chart since her career began in 1990. Meanwhile, over on the Top 200 Albums chart, country superstar Luke Bryan earns his fourth No. 1 with What Makes You Country. The update is reflected on the Dec. 19 refresh.
Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" moves from No. 11 to No. 9 marking the first time its reached the top tier (more on that later). On Streaming Songs, the track gains slightly by 4 percent having 25.2 million streams across officially recognized platforms. On Digital Songs, "All I Want for Christmas" sits at No. 13 after moving just 19,000 copies, down 8 percent. Rounding out the Hot 100 formula on Radio Songs, the song received 34 million impressions in the U.S. as Christmas approaches.
The last time Carey reached the top 10 was in 2009 with single "Obsessed." The hit would only peak at No. 7. Carey is now tied with Stevie Wonder for the fifth most top 10 songs.
Throughout the years, Billboard is forced to keep up with the ever shifting landscape of music consumption. At the time "All I Want for Christmas" was released, it was not available commercially as a physical single. Songs only released to radio were not eligible to chart on the main Hot 100 tally. It wasn't until 1998 when a string of album tracks were released to radio as radio only singles that convinced Billboard the chart formula should be altered. These songs included the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" and Alanis Morissette's "Uninvited" - both songs from The City of Angels soundtracks. No Doubt's "Don't Speak" was also another song that influenced the change in rules.
Country star Luke Bryan's new album What Makes You Country begins its run at No. 1 on the Top 200 Albums chart. It's his fourth No. 1 on the parent album chart after moving 108,000 total units with 99,000 of that number deriving from actual album sales - physical and digital. His previous No. 1 came in 2015 with the LP Kill the Lights having a massive 345,000 units. First week sales at that time were much higher than Country at 320,000 sold.
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I only have a few hours at Disneyland in a few weeks. Has anyone used the Ridemax software? Supposedly it drastically reduces your wait times.
Best Answer: I used to sell tickets to Disneyland, and spoke with dozens of people about ridemax. I don't know how they do it, but it actually works as advertised. My best guess is that ride times and attendance patterns can be predicted based on past history. If you have people to observe such things (nice job, I'd like to have it), you can predict line times with uncanny accuracy.
Everyone with whom I have spoken on this sings its praises. They all say it's worth it.
Ridemax is a program that uses statistics on the wait times in Disneyland to give you an itinerary of the order and times you should try to go on rides. In my experience it is a great way to get the most out of your time. Many people that I know have used it ended up being far ahead of schedule in getting through all that they wanted to do. There is also a couple other alternatives, one that I have heard of but not used is tourguidemike.com which I have heard several good things about.
never heard of it- the only thing I know about is the FastPass which you can get 1 of every 2 hours and gets you in the shorter line. Sorry your trip is so rushed- it usually takes at least 2 full days to get through Disneyland. and you're going when it's crowded! have fun anyway!
Do most rides at Disneyland Anaheim fit 4 people, or more?
Are there size limits for rides at Disneyland?
We are going to Walt disney world what is max weight on rides?
What is the maximum height for these Disneyland rides?
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00:00:12: Alright everyone this is Crystal pepper from linkresearchtools out of Jana with the link building and SEO podcast and we got a very special guest in today's episode of Today Show his name is Joe sinkwitz what's your background where you from,
00:00:26: what do you do what does your company do.
00:00:29: Sure thing I've been in the search industry for 20 years now I got my start actually,
00:00:37: spamming Viagra on Altavista back in 1997 I graduated up there into the payday and insurance market after I graduated from college.
00:00:47: I guess maybe you claim to fame.
00:00:49: How is the top organic lead source for both payday and insurance for a couple years and it within that 20 year. So I was pretty cool.
00:00:57: Right now most of my attention goes to a company by the name of intellifluence where I'm CEO and we are building influencer marketing Network.
00:01:06: Wow that's that's a lot of experience in a lot of different ways and I'm just because you mentioned by ever on payday it was a very aggressive niches or have always been and I just.
00:01:20: Think just got more aggressive over the years right.
00:01:23: Oh yeah it was absolutely crushed it got to the point where I no longer felt competing in some of the markets there was a point where I had to go on stage.
00:01:34: And actually in Austria in Salzburg.
00:01:38: And I did the life hacking to say this is how bad it's getting in Payday I refuse the cross that line,
00:01:45: I'm a black hat but that just means I follow the actual rules of the system and not the specifically listed out terms of service however there were groups of people that were just hacking for links and I wasn't comfortable with it,
00:01:59: and no matter how much I try to bring it to Google's attention they just wouldn't listen so I figured okay,
00:02:05: maybe I just need to get up on stage in a few thousand people as shown how easy it is to hack because I hate here's how you can get 500000 links real fast it's a it's a fairly small Footprints of Google's not already filtering it out this is how bad.
00:02:20: Aleve and still took a couple years before they they really crack down.
00:02:24: But by that time I had a sort of shifted away like post penguin things got even more aggressive because the.
00:02:32: The window in wish you could operate before getting slapped down was getting you know shorter up to some degree obviously you have a ton of data on this when you when you're doing the audit.
00:02:46: So I just shipped it out what two to copy press to help the Run sales and marketing so I.
00:02:53: Did a lot of content marketing with Dave Schneider is pretty cool.
00:02:56: Out of that you know I always wanted to return and do my own thing again so intelliflo is kind of watched out of there we're.
00:03:04: We're very close when it's kind of like our ecosystem they do their thing really well we do our thing really well.
00:03:11: Got to remember so calm and 2000.
00:03:17: 12 for 2013 you were on stage is kinara nothing you were very back then if you if it's actually legal to address you know League,
00:03:27: to say that to say what is possibly on the illegal site and I think this was one of the consent we discussed back then which I thinking always valid,
00:03:37: concern you don't giving people ideas for what to do that.
00:03:42: Yeah I remember talking to you and and some of the others say that you know what what's the law on Austria what's the law in Germany because I have to go back to Germany when I.
00:03:51: Yeah yeah yeah.
00:03:53: Internet okay.
00:03:54: Yeah yeah yeah yeah remember I think Harris Harris something you know that reminds me that especially experts like you.
00:04:03: Awesome you know.
00:04:05: Or concerns or or or I thinking through things that no one else gets that no one you don't also in in like a station doesn't get it reminds me about the you judgment on on on something that Google did so many years ago still does and.
00:04:20: With you don't just catching on a little bit of Google's well.
00:04:26: Practice is still great that there is some decision finally made but I think you know the world around us is.
00:04:36: Moving a lot slower so when we talk about influences Paris,
00:04:42: here's one big big thing that I you know hair loss influences are,
00:04:47: are all ladies and gentlemen putting up their photos on Instagram getting lots of likes and thumbs up and then you don't share the link or or or or share of her post with a link with their audience is that what you know.
00:05:02: You do.
00:05:02: Sure so I Define a Maybach at them a little bit so I I take influencers and I start by saying.
00:05:10: Influencer marketing is really just getting someone else to tell your story for you or to do something for you if you leave it at that.
00:05:18: Then I bucket where I say we have the the celebrities Witcher the aspirational in filters these the people that their followers want to be them.
00:05:29: That we have like authoritative influencers you're a good example of authoritative influence within the search Market.
00:05:36: People look to you for your specific recommendations around search anything that touches search if if you weigh in on the subject it's going to carry more weight than if a random person with the same audience eyes as you raising them such a.
00:05:50: And then you have to pierce so I'm a peer to you your appear to me your influence directly influences me to a much higher degree because we know each other and we understand your likes dislikes.
00:06:04: Our network is really founded on pure influence,
00:06:07: because we see that grow in exceptionally fast in it has a going back to you whether I see Instagram posts yeah that's a type,
00:06:17: so is blogit which is what most of the sun history tends to focus on further version influence.
00:06:24: Russell YouTubers LinkedIn is not thought of enough that's a big Market Amazon it has influencer Market pretty much any platform that gets to a certain size or there's a community.
00:06:37: Becomes a potential Target for influencers.
00:06:39: Got it so.
00:06:49: When you say if lenses being ghetto active from blocks this world reaching out using an influence platform like yours to blog as isn't that very similar to reaching out to gas block Networks.
00:07:04: That's a great question that's a great question should the biggest know there's a couple of big differences one difference is when you're doing a cold Outreach to a Blog Network.
00:07:16: Your your thought of it a certain way by the recipient.
00:07:21: They aren't they are seen something specific there they're used to getting a ton of emails they filter it out,
00:07:27: you don't you don't have that the interruption ability to cut through the noise when you're contacting them through a warm Network,
00:07:35: in our particular case there's other networks like us everyone that's in their his signed up specifically because they want to receive pictures.
00:07:44: Just by having the warm versus cold it's.
00:07:47: It's an accelerant to get post but there's another reason to when when they're in an influencer Market.
00:07:54: What you're essentially doing when you're reaching out to you do not ask for the link do not ask for the Post don't mention guest post we are saying is.
00:08:05: I have identified you as an expert in this industry I would like you to apply your influence I would like you to weigh in on this particular topic.
00:08:15: Yeah here is my brand if if if this makes sense for you,
00:08:19: and the D the ratio of Link's given there is so much higher it looks more natural and the other positive is when when you're hitting up the same old guest post blog network is everyone else that is a pattern.
00:08:33: Play if you're going through something where a lot of the activity is for people that are trying to push eCommerce sales over social.
00:08:41: And now you just happened to get links from those people too and is it comes across as far more organic looking.
00:08:47: Got it so in your network basically everyone would qualify as a woman Aldridge because they're always or you waiting for the pitch.
00:08:59: How do you.
00:09:04: How do you get people to sign up how do you how do you grow your network of influence how do you page those that want to be paged.
00:09:12: So this is good question or Kristoff and my answer is you do know me I am a spammer when we started,
00:09:22: I want to every possible Facebook group that I could I went to every Reddit subreddit I want to all these groups on LinkedIn,
00:09:30: and I let him know hey if you want to get free products come over here we have another mechanism for getting free product that started this snowball itself up for the influence your side,
00:09:39: as that occurred that I started being able to do more targeted approach like Twitter it's not hard to find all the followers of a brand on Twitter.
00:09:49: So we're other networks blog Network at cetera and I was just doing lots and lots of out I'm just constantly doing Outreach trying not to annoy them but I'm also trying to get,
00:10:00: get them to understand that hey for an influencer you're not going to have to pay me anything and I'm going to be providing you,
00:10:08: potential opportunities that you actually want to see so it becomes a real easy decision from their part then from the brand angle it's just sales right it's it's a matter of no to do an interview with Kristoff.
00:10:21: Go to write a bunch of blog post I wrote a book that's being published in the next couple months on influencer marketing you know there's all these little.
00:10:32: Inbound tools but also I do a ton of outbound you know identify every,
00:10:38: Shopify domain in existence not With a Little Help from our snake and then I'll say okay let's let's mail them all and see what they want to do.
00:10:48: Let's let's see how are you willing to do a free trial play with this software in overtime I got enough data to keep building it up.
00:10:57: I push to thread live on Black Hat World recently just to see how that market response to it.
00:11:03: Pictures all these lovers that one can do to keep growing the network in that is my main goal is I understand that the value of this is,
00:11:11: entirely based on network size because as it grows like I could be less involved actually with the the actual sales process just because it'll start to sell itself.
00:11:23: Speaking about the concept of there it's like a Marketplace that connects people with each other and they pay per lead or or how does it work what do I need to do to get a flights of.
00:11:36: Sure so I mean if you wanted to get an influencer you know you sign up as whatever brand or agency that you're looking to do.
00:11:44: And then you start running filters so you might say hey I'm really interested in the United States on going to filter that geographically.
00:11:53: Maybe you're interested in fashion say say OK Google have it interesting fashion.
00:11:58: Man and you might say okay I only want people that are Instagram selecting you slept Instagram and it keeps narrowing it down the where I think you got really interesting is we started adding filters.
00:12:10: On value and expected compensation type so you can you could determine who is willing to do something for you just by giving them product.
00:12:19: Let's say it's an impact on a t-shirt.
00:12:22: And if you would be surprised by what people do for free t-shirts so you could you could build a campaign for linkresearchtools.
00:12:31: And say okay I'm going to give anyone in here I want to identify anyone that has more than 5000 followers keep a real low bar,
00:12:40: and they only want to receive,
00:12:42: product as compensation to do anything on social as it pertains to promoting my product ship them out the t-shirt we have a messaging system we try to keep everything on that work out everyone to a campaign,
00:12:56: catch them all and then manage the responses.
00:12:59: And from there you determine okay here's my address send this t-shirt here okay my review is posted here accepted or denied request changes.
00:13:08: It's it's actually fairly simple flow it's just it's pretty amazing on what you can do and what you can ask for I've I've seen some really crazy stuff.
00:13:20: I got for whatever reason Brazilian audience.
00:13:24: It's confusing to me because we'll have a couple from Brazil who have an aggregate audience of over a million which is a big number.
00:13:33: But they're not asking for hardly anything.
00:13:36: There's a hey you know if you send me something that's worth fifty bucks I'd be happy that's pretty incredible you know if I had something that focused on that market I would.
00:13:47: Definitely be pushing in that direction so it's help to identify Arbitrage opportunities as well.
00:13:54: Brilliant brilliant brilliant brilliant so you mean.
00:14:00: People would just you don't go for the swag and take my linkresearchtools t-shirt with Gary Elias on a drank it with a Linksys really really hard and and to do stuff for us.
00:14:11: Marcus wearing it getting photos in front of themselves and Tech Gary with a tour you know okay okay.
00:14:20: I definitely could see someone like you because you tend to be so early in the marketing process you test out so many different things,
00:14:28: you can absolutely do the swag Concept in start signing in the different audiences you say okay will the hardcore search people maybe they're going to be a little bit more jaded maybe they'll theme little bit more difficult to get some,
00:14:40: but maybe the the people that are in marketing but not necessarily search marketing.
00:14:45: Maybe the general business people will do it even more maybe you don't even care maybe you're just looking for a pure.
00:14:53: Audience reach perspective so you can do retargeting to them later there's so many ways to slice and dice.
00:15:09: Did I lose you.
00:15:26: Joe.
00:15:28: Okay there there you are.
00:15:30: I think you can drop that it just asked what when did you launch and Teleflora's how long has it been around.
00:15:36: Sure I launched intellifluence last summer actually so we are just now at one year from when we push daughter are very first,
00:15:44: terrible looking in her face and it's gone through one update already and we're pushing that alive another very large update where we rewrote the whole thing.
00:15:53: In September I want to have it done before we go to see October.
00:15:56: Okay yeah see this is very very familiar there are still amused out there that give me a hard time for the first version of linkresearchtools in a really ugly.
00:16:09: Gray reddish totally unusable horrible interface so I think that's nothing too unusual picture.
00:16:17: Oh it's absolutely,
00:16:19: Yeah yeah exactly so I finally have to check it out you just you know gave me some ideas that I would like to try in a ride after this,
00:16:28: interview here so maybe I'll because we're also stretching the limits off all all-time budget here with 15 16 minutes already.
00:16:37: We touched on on the cold was a small Aldridge we touched on black head.
00:16:45: Is there something you don't want to make money now.
00:16:50: Get rich quick overnights tape that you would like to share with our audience something as an immediate take away an instant gratification for those people listening to the liquor statues podcast and you add me.
00:17:03: That would be super happy to just listen that hated take action.
00:17:08: Okay I have an interesting tip if you run a pbn create personas associated with each domain separately.
00:17:18: Load them all up into different influencer networks and you will diversify the link flow and opportunities that come in you'll be able to sell out your inventory a lot quicker and you're going to have a much higher,
00:17:30: a caliber of Brands using your stuff.
00:17:33: Oh and you would suddenly half as wide a range and therefore less of a footprint and be much more sustainable and.
00:17:47: Well not guaranteed but more likely Prosper for a lot longer with the whole network.
00:17:52: A lot safer looking yes.
00:17:54: All that was the golden tape to PBM prosperity.
00:17:59: Joe sinkwitz I like it I like it I like it alot yeah Joe then thank you for for now thank you for today.
00:18:07: It's been a pleasure to have you on the show I would love to continue and I will certainly want you again in the show I look forward to seeing you at SM toberfest is there something that you maybe have,
00:18:19: it's a little secret that we could use in an essay Oktoberfest challenge to take place.
00:18:27: Well I know what that special keyword is but I'm not allowed to say.
00:18:31: No no no no no not the one from the webinar but.
00:18:36: I would say that you could use intellifluence to win the contest because you could share that link out with 26,000 influencers with a reach of a quarter billion.
00:18:47: Okay okay yeah I'm a cherry,
00:18:51: I fully agree with that or if that already wins the ticket but it's certainly something that we could ask for a so thank you very much for that and it has been a pleasure to I see you very soon,
00:19:03: everyone out there have a great day I'm Krista from linkresearchtools that has chill sync runs from intellifluence Joe thank you very much.
00:19:12: Happy to do it thank you.
00:19:14: Make it pop I.
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MishL: University music student who likes to draw.
Charlotte: Baker who likes Pokemon.
And that is all for now. Oh Jesus, I haven't worked on the comic in forever.. Will-do. Mental note.
Physical note. I will make a physical note. Many physical notes.
And I'm gonna make a way I can work less and move the story along faster. Sounds good.
I hope the awesomeness of this page makes up (somewhat) for my neglect for the comic. I swear, some of my excuses are good excuses..
Dewgong uses Aurora Beam, and Kingdra uses Dragon Pulse.
Everything in this picture was completely done by me, I didn't use outside brushes, only my own effects and drawings.
Yeah, it's been a while, but we're back on track! I'm done school and I'll be getting some pages and some extra content up to make up for the hiatus!
I've actually had this done since Sunday. Just haven't had a chance to post it. This time...it's all my fault XD MishL was a good girl and did comics in advance, so you should see slightly better colouring than just straight colours XD.
ALSO Pokemon can talk, just only to eachother... not to their trainers.
If you want this form I can give you a blank copy of which you can do what you want with it. No need to credit me, but you must PM/Post a comment for me to know if you want it.
Well, in this nuzlocke.... I (Char) want to become a pokemon master, while MishL just wants bacon XD Good reason to start a journey? Absolutely!
Ohh geez. We are so sorry about the lateness. It's finally done (she finished drawing it late last night) and I just finished colouring. Was done speedily so it could get done, so the quality isn't the best, but at least it's done?
Here is the cyndaball that was promised. The pokeball was found here: http://poke-lab.deviantart.com/gallery/26289009#/d2wt0sw but the rest of it was done by me.