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Manufacturers voice concerns over power rate increase proposal
TAIPEI — Manufacturers in the local semiconductor and steel sectors said Wednesday that a government decision to raise domestic electricity rates will increase their operating costs and squeeze their profitability.
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE), one of Taiwan's leading integrated circuit packaging and testing services providers, said the electricity rate hike, which is slated to kick in Oct. 1, is expected to cut the company's gross margin by about 0.2 percentage points.
The assessments came after the Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that it will raise domestic electricity rates by 8.49 percent on average, which is lower than a previous plan for a 9.64 percent increase.
For the manufacturing sector, power rates will rise 10.4-12.2 percent, lower than a previously planned hike of 11.6-13.6 percent.
Despite the reduction in the hike, ASE said that as power consumption accounts for 3.5-4 percent of the company's total operating costs, the increase will still have an impact on its operations.
With the Oct. 1 hike, the ratio of power consumption to the company's total operating costs is expected to rise 0.2-0.4 percentage points.
An ASE rival, Siliconware Precision Industries Co.. also expects the higher power rates to increase its operating costs, as power consumption makes up about 3.5 percent of the company's total costs. It did not give further details about the impact.
Currently, electricity consumption costs Siliconware NT$100 million to NT$150 million per month, the company said.
Meanwhile, China Steel Corp., Taiwan's largest steel product supplier, said that based on an 11 percent hike in electricity rates, the company will need to pay an additional NT$2.78-NT$3.1 per kilowatt hour from October.
China Steel said it is possible the company will have to spend an additional NT$200 million on electricity for the fourth quarter, adding that this will raise its operating costs for 2014 by almost NT$800 million.
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A Quick Guide to AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages in 2021
admin Send an email September 16, 2021
Mobile users are increasingly taking over the number of people who use a desktop and largely influencing how a marketer strategies. Marketing teams of many big companies have had to change and evolve with the changing landscape, and one major aspect of that is how web pages are displayed on mobile. It is easy enough for people to make an appealing website on a desktop, but when it comes to mobile, a lot of adjustments have to be made to retain the customers.
For one, the menu has to be accessible in a convenient yet appealing way, the images cannot take too long to load lest the customer gives up and leaves the sight, and navigation should be as smooth as butter for these users. This might seem like a hassle, but it makes sense once you consider how much is shared over social media, and how much social media is accessed from the phone.
When it comes to laptops or computers, people are usually restricted to one area at a time, and it isn't the most portable device. Mobiles, however, are carried with the person everywhere, so if they wanted to check their Facebook or Instagram, they would not have to wait till they reached home but would open up the app.
Here is the Marketer's guide on how to make accelerated mobile pages to attract more potential customers.
What are AMPs?
Accelerated mobile pages can be understood as an open-source framework that helps make the web experience faster and more pleasing. They are essentially copies of existing HTML files that just happen to load much faster than standard ones. The presence of one is usually indicated by a small grey icon at the top left of a webpage.
What are the individual components of AMP?
To understand how AMP works, we must first go through what it consists of.
Html- JavaScript is something AMP does not support, so the main structure of AMP is in html, where the html code has a unique mark-up that is streamlined to be compatible with CSS.
JS- this is the part of AMP that consists of all the fetch resources and other general jargon. You can explore the component library to work on the animation, layouts, content, and such.
CDN- this is a proxy-based network that is recognized as AMP cache in a more general sense and helps to cache content faster so that information can be delivered faster.
AMP is at its core a minimal coding concept that serves to provide a responsive and smooth website performance.
How do AMPs make web pages load faster?
Now that you know about the components, here is how they work to load faster.
AMPs work by creating short forms of content, or blocks of the pages' JavaScript that load separately instead of the entire page rendering. As opposed to what a traditional browser does, AMPs are designed to understand the page structure, resources, and other aspects of the design to help with the loading process, like loading the content, visuals, and ads separately.
AMPs have a well-defined process with the help of an entire additional data load that they keep in their sandbox iframe. This helps render the main elements of the website so as to avoid interrupting the loading process. Finally, AMPs work on resources of the websites where they categorize the priorities that enable faster loading of visuals and content.
Initially, AMPs were aimed at websites that were static, but they were adapted for eCommerce websites for faster loading on mobile devices. It helps avoid unnecessarily long waiting times and also resists loss of conversions, customer support, and page visits. This is why many marketers have understood the need for AMPs for their home pages, product pages, and product category pages. All of it is aimed at a better user experience and better sales prospects.
What are the advantages of using AMP on my website?
The catch is that implementing AMPs onto your website needs skilled development support, however, it can be of great benefit to the business you might be running, where customer loss is something it aims to prevent.
Faster conversion rates: along with a better experience, AMPs instantly improve loading time. They can work on all major search engines to deliver speedy support for users to improve their chances at conversions and customer engagement.
Flexible control: AMPs and CSS can be paired together for styling websites and getting new sets of data that can result in an enhanced buyer experience.
Order values and sales maximization: AMPs enhance the performance of an eCommerce store which enables customers to stay and revisit the website for sales maximization.
Custom AMPs: you are allowed to explore the search console and optimize and customize, which is a big advantage of AMPs.
Where is it all headed?
Google is all for AMPs, so much so that they are aiming to make artificial intelligence that can make the experience of browsing webpages effortless, which helps future marketers feature their website in a more appealing way. The AI will help stabilize connections with buyers.
The AI combined with the AMPs can put marketers at a great advantage where their ranking opportunities are increased. The AI can also help the marketers to understand their audience better, what their habits and buying patterns are, and so on so that a simpler buying experience can be achieved.
How can I get this for my website?
AMP helps businesses reach heights they could not have otherwise. This is because it helps produce implement and locate pages that can attain maximum ranking potential. The successful implementation of AMPs can mean enhanced user satisfaction that helps with conversions. This is why you should invest in a professional SEO company in India because AMPs cannot be implemented solo. You can use plugins and such that can take your site only so far, but to unlock the true potential of AMPs, you will require the professional help of a marketing team in India.
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A few days ago I was perusing my RSS feeds in Google Reader when I came across this story on Digg called Stalking 2.0: The Websites that Track Your Every Move (Voluntarily!). I knew right away this was related to Lifestreaming and by the headline I felt it was going to be a negative view so I clicked away. It was actually a link to an article on Mashable which I made my way to only after reading some of the comments on Digg first. I knew instantly that the mob on Digg had formed its opinion on the evil nature of the article so I made my way over there to see it.
So, you don?t mind being followed and tracked? You don?t care if your friends can see what websites you?ve been to lately, what software you?ve been running, or even what music you?ve been listening to? Then you?ll love the web?s trend towards extreme openness: sharing everything you do on your computer. Sometimes referred to as sharing your ?attention? data, this is a growing market. Below, we round up 12 services that want to track your every move – voluntarily.
Following the comment threads and trackbacks from other blogs regarding the post it Mashable has successfully created a paranoid state.
Here's a post called "Six Creepy Things I Can Learn About You". He provides a method of finding out my favorite band, age, and my friends…oooooh….that's so creepy!
Here's another one called "Who Needs Privacy" where he says: "It is unnerving to see so many users literally broadcasting much of their personal information to the web." He goes on to say that he feels it will lead to identity theft…If thieves can steal our identity by knowing our age, music tastes, and friends we're doomed.
My biggest beef with users streaming their life to the web, revolves around social engineering where a person uses all of the information he can find on a particular person and uses it to his our her advantage when trying to get other personal information out of someone.
Another point I tried to make was that, for as long as I have used the internet, the majority of people tried their best to remain anonymous and privacy concerns were a big issue and in some cases they still are, but users seem to be throwing all of that stuff out the window by using all of these different services that stream their life to the web.
Am I really just another paranoid freak, or is there really nothing to worry about?
Jeffro, as far as being paranoid or worried…I think it all depends. There is no black and white when it comes to Lifestreaming…part of it depends on the content we decide to publish and share. There are differing levels as to how much we divulge depending on those choices. Ultimately, as long as we are still in control of this I think we're ok…the flipside to Lifestreaming is also controlling who you are on the web and employers and others use it as a tool to determine this. I think in those cases it's good to create transparency and take ownership of who we are.
I have an old friend who I connected with after years of not talking to him and he told me the story of how a jilted ex-girlfriend created an imposter page depicting him on MySpace in a very negative way. So there are times that being pro-active could be important to clear/define your name.
I also remember back in the early days I had a friend that was scared to shop online fearing that someone would get his credit card number. He even went so far as to delete all his cookies after every web session and I know many more like him. The truth is/was that it's easier and much more likely to have your credit card number stolen in the real world than the online world. I've shopped online for almost ten years and haven't had a single problem, meanwhile over the same period I had 2 incidents of my card number being stolen by employees at brick and mortar stores.
Also if someone really wants to stalk another person they will find a way to do it regardless of them having a Lifestream…I don't think the stream would provide a triggered mechanism to make somebody a stalker, it would just provide an additional tool to facilitate it.
Thanks for the reply. Diving into the subject a bit more, I am beginning to look at Lifestreaming in the way you describe it in your reply to my original comment. I suppose your right, if a social engineer or someone else is determined they will find a way to do just about anything to achieve a goal. I suppose streaming information such as the programs your using or the websites your clicking on across the web, really don't pose an identity threat, but I do understand that those various streams of information help to describe who you are, at least in cyberworld.
I guess Lifestreaming isn't so bad after all.
Lifestreamed users choose it ! And choosen what's they would like to share about themselves.


I've upgraded our test server to hub revision 2.2.2.8, in the about screen in service center it still says 2.2.2.4. Why? has the server been upgraded to 2.2.2.8 or not?
Did you Upgraded the Runtime and the Log database schemas?
- Leave the OutSystems Hub Server Configuration utility by pressing the "Ok" button.
Also, Hub Server Revision installation ends with Service Center upgrade.
- In a "command prompt" console, go to OutSystems Hub Server installation folder and execute the command "SCInstall.bat".
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What are your thoughts on big sunnies?
Love them or not so much?
I hope you have a fabulous weekend full of good times and lots of sunshine!
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Tattoo parlors, nail salons, gyms reopen in all but 3 Maine counties
MAINEHOUSE-DOT- ORG OR THROUGH A LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION LIKE OPPORTUNITY ALLIANCE. TATTOO PARLORS, NAIL SALONS AND GYMS - ABLE TO REOPEN TODAY IN ALL BUT THREE COUNTIES. THE OWNER OF SEA SIDE STUDIOS IN BATH SAYS HER PHONE IS RINGING OFF THE HOOK WITH CLIENTS LOOKING TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS. CHRISTINA HUGHES SAYS THE TWO MONTH CLOSURE WAS DEVASTATING. SHE BELIEVES SHE COULD'VE OPENED SAFELY WEEKS AGO. <> ((CHRISTINA HUGHES, OWNER OF SEA SIDE STUDIOS)) 39:11 "I CARE ABOUT MY STAFF. THEY'RE LIKE FAMILY TO ME. I CARE ABOUT MY CLIENTS. THEY'RE MY FAMILY TOO. I LOVE THEM. AND I CARE ABOUT MY OWN PERSONAL HEALTH BECAUSE I HAVE TO GO HOME TO MY DAUGHTER AND I REALLY TOOK THINGS ABOVE AND BEYOND." 39:
Tattoo parlors, nail salons and gyms were allowed to reopen Friday in all but three of Maine's 16 counties.The owner of Sea Side Studios in Bath said her phone was ringing off the hook with clients looking to make appointments for tattoos.Owner Christina Hughes said the two-month closure was devastating for her business.She said she believes she could have opened safely weeks ago."I care about my staff. They're like family to me. I care about my clients. They're my family too. I love them. And I care about my own personal health because I have to go home to my daughter, and I really took things above and beyond," Hughes said.Nail salons that opened on Friday were also slammed with customers.Mainely Nails in Damariscotta was fully booked with appointments.Workers said they have gone to great lengths to adhere to the state's safety guidelines."We have them call in to check in. We check their temperature. We have them wash their hands, pick their color and then wash their hands again after sitting down. We told them no guests," Jennifer Huynh said.Bars and tasting rooms in all but Cumberland, Androscoggin and York counties were allowed to reopen for outdoor service on Friday as well.
BATH, Maine —
Tattoo parlors, nail salons and gyms were allowed to reopen Friday in all but three of Maine's 16 counties.
The owner of Sea Side Studios in Bath said her phone was ringing off the hook with clients looking to make appointments for tattoos.
Owner Christina Hughes said the two-month closure was devastating for her business.
More Maine businesses allowed to reopen Friday
She said she believes she could have opened safely weeks ago.
"I care about my staff. They're like family to me. I care about my clients. They're my family too. I love them. And I care about my own personal health because I have to go home to my daughter, and I really took things above and beyond," Hughes said.
Nail salons that opened on Friday were also slammed with customers.
Mainely Nails in Damariscotta was fully booked with appointments.
Workers said they have gone to great lengths to adhere to the state's safety guidelines.
"We have them call in to check in. We check their temperature. We have them wash their hands, pick their color and then wash their hands again after sitting down. We told them no guests," Jennifer Huynh said.
Bars and tasting rooms in all but Cumberland, Androscoggin and York counties were allowed to reopen for outdoor service on Friday as well.


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Q: Easiest way to query XML files? Scenario:
I'm on an AIX machine - actually, over a dozen. I have an application that outputs information to XML files, unfortunately without linebreaks. I have a need to run scripts that can make queries on those files. It's mostly simple : If they were normal log files, grep and cut would do me just fine. However, I'm stuck with what I've got.
I've done very little work with XML, and these are production AIX machines, so I can't install random software to see if something works. Perl is on these machines, and grepping through  @INC for XML shows me (abridged):
XML/LibXML
XML/Parser
XML/Simple
XML/SAX

Is using one of these the right way to go about doing what I need to do?

A: I recommend XML::Simple.  Very easy to pick up and is already installed.

A: Expanding a big on Maris(t?)'s answer, XML::Simple is definitely my best friend. It's dead simple, and works well for static XML files.
XML::Simple is NOT good for an XML stream, nor huge (we're talking many multiples of megabytes here) XML files, but for configuration files and resource files, XML::Simple works wonderfully.
I'll spare you the details, because my link (to mclean.net.nz) should be a great primer on usage, and maris(t?)'s link to CPAN will be great to really get you into the details of it. How to tweak it to your behavior, and what all you can do with it.
Two quick tips for something I always see screw over new users;
When instantiating the handler, add an option of KeyAttr => 0. I don't understand who in their right minds wants that to start out with. Down the road, when you understand it? Sure, you'll use it. Until then? Worthless.
Anyways, second tip:
ForceArray is your best friend when a node can have 0, 1, or many records. Saves you from nasty workarounds like checking the size of an XML node and acting on it two different ways, or skipping it altogether. Put that key on a ForceArray, use a for/foreach loop, call it done.

A: Possibly check some of the answers from here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/91791/grep-and-sed-equivalent-for-xml-command-line-processing

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Building abs is a lot like building wealth. The experts say slow and steady is the key—your dividends paying off after months of hard work. And they're right: A lifetime of good habits leads to long-term weight loss. But sometimes, you just can't wait. Sometimes, the bill is due. Sometimes, the sun is shining, the beach is calling, and you haven't exercised all winter.
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So you're proud you never snack between meals? Sadly, that very ascetic approach to eating may be why you can't lose weight. Most people consume the bulk of their calories in two or three large meals each day—often in an attempt to slim down—going for hours at a time eating nothing in between. The problem: When your snacking is lacking, so is your body's ability to burn fat—the key to long-term ab-itude. A nutritious meal or snack about every three hours keeps blood-sugar levels stable, feeds your body a steady stream of necessary nutrients and helps control hunger-induced cravings for sweets and fats.
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What's a "wet" carb? We're talking carbs that have high amounts of water in them, such as cucumbers, leafy green salads, tomatoes and steamed asparagus. Avoid "dry" carbs like pasta and bread. The reason: High-fiber, low-water foods leach water out of your system; wet carbs, on the other hand, allow you to maintain relatively adequate levels of water during the night since you can't drink while you sleep. Staying hydrated overnight means your body will continue to get the nourishment it needs to unveil your abs even while you're dreaming of a faraway beach.
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Your first meal when you wake up and the first meal you have after working out should contain your largest carb intakes of the day. Your body's glycogen stores are depleted when you wake up; replenishing them quickly is crucial to physical and mental functioning. A serious workout session depletes glycogen stores as well.
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When you eat carbs, they get turned into one of two things: energy, or fat. That's all the options your body has. But here's something you might not know: If you're not drinking ample water, your body may have to store carbs as fat. Your body cannot efficiently change carbs into energy without ample water. And, according to the Journal Physiology of Sport and Exercise, you can't deliver essential amino acids to muscle tissue without adequate water, either. Not only will your workout sessions suffer, but insufficient liquids in your body will also hinder fat breakdown.
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how do you keep the wheels on the ej's chassis?
Hey how would I tune a fly panoz so that it goes around the track without a mag....or with a mag for that matter....with out throwing the damn thing. I've checked the forum here. sci doesnt let me post so I dont go there.
I added a post about a new racer series "Mid America Monster Tuesday Night Summer Series". but I put it in the "Race Results" section instead of the "Race Announcements' section, could you kindly move the post to the correct section.
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Just wanted to say thanks. And maybe someday we will get the chance to race each other.
Did I get locked out of reading a thread ?
Won't let me view Live Race coverage.
If I remember correctly you were supplying some very nicely painted bodies to Steve Hosford at Speedway and Hobby Too back in the mid 80's. Guessing you don't do that any more.
I might have posted in the wrong forum. I thought I posted under race announcements but I see my JK Hawk 7 Ednuro race under "Manjor Announcements." Do you think it should be moved?
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After Facebook deal, Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms baggage Rs 5,656 cr funding from Silver Lake – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Days after the mega Facebook deal in its digital arm Jio Platforms, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance group on Monday announced a Rs 5,656 crore fresh investment by US private equity firm Silver Lake, at a 12.5% premium over the last transaction.
Facebook had invested Rs 43,574 crore in Jio Platforms on April 22, and the fresh deal displays the growing interest of global investors into Jio Platforms' business, that is also the holding company for Reliance Jio, the country's biggest telecom company.
Commenting on the transaction, Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, said, "Silver Lake has an outstanding record of being a valuable partner for leading technology companies globally. Silver Lake is one of the most-respected voices in technology and finance. We are excited to leverage insights from their global technology relationships for the Indian digital society's transformation."
Silver Lake is a global leader in technology investing, with over $43 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of approximately 100 investment and operating professionals located around the world. Companies where it has invested previously include Alibaba group, Airbnb, Dell, Didi Chuxing, Hyla Mobile, Ant Financial, Alphabet's Verily and Twitter.
Egon Durban, Silver Lake Co-CEO and Managing Partner, said that Jio Platforms is one of the world's "most remarkable" companies. "They have brought extraordinary engineering capabilities to bear on bringing the power of low-cost digital services to a mass consumer and small businesses population."
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According to a report released last summer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), less than 23% of American adults are meeting federal recommended standards for exercising. Since advances in technology have led to our increasingly sedentary lifestyles, is it possible that technology itself could help reverse the problem?
Over the past three decades, people around the world have become fatter and Americans lead the way. One in three adults in the United States is overweight. It's such an epidemic that it has actually become "normal" to be 15-20 pounds above one's recommended weight, but this is incredibly unhealthy for our bodies and our long term health.
In addition to the weight crisis, our society is aging. While 8.5% of the population is currently age 65 and over, this is expected to jump to 17% by 2050. In other words, this is many of you (and definitely me!) so I can't help but wonder what actions we can take now to help ensure that we look a bit more like Betty White or Morgan Freeman when we reach our 80s than characters from Wall-E when we've barely hit middle age.
While exercise can't stop or cure all of these issues, definitely it can prevent some, delay others, and even reverse some.
In order to address a problem, we need to first determine the causes. There seems to be a general consensus about the reasons people are less physically active.
For one thing, despite the fact that technology should have made our lives simpler, on average people are more stressed and busier than in the past. Stress leads to unhealthy habits such as watching more television and making poor food choices.
Exercise is no longer part of our daily routine. In the past, people obtained more physical activity from household tasks, yard chores, or farm work. Many of those activities have been replaced by options that require little or no physical effort for most of us (and it has become acceptable to have someone do those activities for us).
Even in the push to add exercise back into our lives, many people try this and fail. Just look at how many people join gyms in January and then drop out by the end of February. If it's inconvenient for people, most won't stick with it. Others won't continue going to the gym, yoga studio, or even to the local track because they're already uncomfortable with their lack of muscle tone or the extra fat they carry so they simply see it as a lost cause and give up.
Some people don't stick with exercise because they have the wrong motivations. We look at our bodies and decide we want them to look better, but this is a poor motivation when we live in a society where we're surrounded by others who are overweight. When being overweight is "normal," the motivation to change that status just isn't going to stick.
If we look at the reasons people aren't exercising, it's evident that we need a change in attitude. We can't change everything that is influencing a reduction in exercise, but we can change our attitudes about the reasons we need to do it. While we might not be able to return to a time when each of us works to plant, grow, harvest, and then eat our own food, we can decide to make exercise about overall health and fitness rather than looks. There will always be things about our bodies that displease us, but ultimately our goal should be better health. If we could instill that mindset in young people now and begin to integrate healthier habits overall for ourselves, we might be able to see a healthier population of aged persons in 2050.
As someone who was pretty much opposed to technology prior to virtual reality, two years ago I would've suggested that we simply find ways to remove technology from our lives and that might fix our problems. Since we can't stop progress, it makes more sense that we work to find ways to embrace it in such a way that it will help humanity rather than harm us. Let's consider the specific technology of virtual reality.
When most people think of VR, they immediately think of it as a traditional video game, except maybe with a bulky headset and some sort of 3-D features. In truth, mainstream society knows very little about virtual reality or the fact that it might be the greatest contribution to solving the healthcare crisis we've seen to date.
Consider the recommendation that Americans should get at least 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise every week. When you consider the reasons people aren't exercising, what if they had something that was convenient, didn't require them to be seen by others, was enjoyable, and became an active habit that replaced sedentary television viewing?
For many early VR adopters, they've discovered that exercise is easy when it's simply part of their daily routine. In other words, it's a leisure activity, but unlike television and traditional computer games, VR requires players to be physically interactive. There's at least a little movement required in VR games and many are incredibly physical so it's literally easy to exercise and there's the added benefit that it's nearly impossible to snack passively while in VR.
With games like Beat Saber, Creed, Echo Arena, and many others, users are having fun while also experiencing a challenging cardiovascular workout.
Many VR games result in intense workouts equivalent to traditional sport activities. Click on the image to visit the VR Institution of Health and Exercise to see more comparisons.
In addition to physical activity for exercise, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recommends muscle-strengthening activities for adults at least twice a week. For anyone who has played VR games like In Death or Hot Squat, you already know that even though it's "virtual" reality, our muscles don't know this and they'll be screaming in pain the next day if you overdo it.
VR Fitness Insider regularly shares stories of people who have discovered that benefits of VR exercise. People are losing weight, getting fit, and having fun while they're doing it.
One VR fan who has lost weight is Don Hopper, Jr., 48, who lost 50 pounds last year playing BoxVR and Beat Saber. He believes there is a lot of potential for VR as a fitness tool for adults.
In other words, it's hard to get bored when you can literally ride a bike through Paris or slash enemies on an alien planet.
For many middle-aged VR enthusiasts, it's not just the accessibility that's appealing, but the fact that it's just plain fun. Hopper agrees.
He points out that the technology itself and the physical challenges of using VR could be a bit of a challenge for many older adults. Steighner is referring to "older adults" as those age 55 and older. While it's true that it might be a bit difficult for them to set up a Rift, the Oculus Go is already being used in nursing homes and other therapeutic settings for adults approaching the triple digits. Literally anyone can put on a Go and use it.
Considering the recommendations from health.gov for older adults, virtual reality could be perfect for users who can manage the technological hurdles. One of the main assets of virtual reality for the older user is that it encourages aerobic activity, balance training, and muscle-strengthening exercises.
Steighner says he tries "to exercise daily, alternating between free weights and walking. I use VR games to supplement my other workouts." Perhaps for now, it should be our goal to encourage those in the "older adults" category to use virtual reality as part of an overall fitness routine, but not their main source of fitness.
While some of the most active games – like Echo Arena and Beat Saber – haven't yet been confirmed, the Oculus Quest will come out soon and that could change the situation entirely. It remains to be seen whether older adults will find it more appealing as a source of fitness since it's more like the Go in terms of ease of use, but there will be plenty of stimulation for the body physically and mentally with games like Stormland, Superhot VR, The Climb, Robo Recall, and Moss. The Quest could be tremendously appealing for older adults.
Virtual reality pretty much meets all these requirements, though some vary depending on the headset and type of program being used. One additional component that has a tremendous appeal for the middle-aged user is engagement within a community.
As we leave the social settings of college and early 20's, we see our social circles begin to shrink as people move away and become more involved with their own families and/or careers. Multiplayer VR games provide a lot of opportunity for social interaction, but even single player games have some terrific support systems through social media. For many adult gamers, the community keeps them coming back even when they're feeling tempted to slack with their VR fitness routine.
Facebook groups such as VR Fit, dedicated to fitness in virtual reality, are terrific places to find like-minded adults who want to live healthier lifestyles and they're using virtual reality to help them do so.
Other adults are finding that they excel at VR esports such as Onward, Echo Arena, or Sprint Vector. These games can be physically exhausting, but it's a great way for adults to stay in shape and have the support of a community through resources such as private Discord servers.
KushBerries, age 42, plays for Beginners, the VR League Onward champions at Oculus Connect 5 in Sept. 2018.
While there are some challenges, there are also definite ways virtual reality can be used to help adults achieve a healthier lifestyle.
- Virtual reality is easily incorporated into fitness plans.
- Users are losing weight and seeing improved health in other areas such as lowered blood pressure.
- There's always something new and enticing so it's easy to switch up fitness routines for a new physical challenge or simply to avoid boredom.
- It's convenient, which means people are probably going to use it more.
- People can avoid feeling embarrassed about exercising in public.
- Games provide a huge variety of fitness level challenges. There's something for the healthy 30-yr-old adult who can do an hour of squats with no problem, but there are also games for the bedridden 80-yr-old adult who needs a simpler workout.
- There are appealing community support networks.
- General public still isn't aware of virtual reality or how it can benefit them for personal fitness.
- For those who want to stick with more traditional forms of fitness, it's still possible to go to the gym and still reap the benefits of virtual reality fitness programs if you're fortunate enough to live near a Black Box VR location. Black Box VR integrates traditional fitness equipment, strength training, and cardio workouts with the immersive environment of VR to offer a unique virtual reality gym experience.
- The technology is still relatively costly, this should be reviewed in perspective. According to a 2018 study from My Protein, the average American adult spends $155 per month on their health and fitness. In other words, people are already spending a ton of money and a good VR headset can be purchased for as little as $150. Granted, someone could simply go walking for free, but the fact is they probably won't.
Overall, while virtual reality definitely can be used as part of a beneficial fitness program for adults, it seems that we simply need to work harder to help the average citizen recognize how it might help them. Virtual reality is incredibly difficult to describe. I can definitely say I wouldn't be using it today if I hadn't simply shut up and put on the headset. Now my family can't hardly get me out of it.
It's up to the early adopters to spread the word and continue to help people see how it can benefit them. The world seems to be in agreement that we need to live healthier lifestyles and exercise more. If we can help them recognize how virtual reality could be used to achieve that goal, it's possible that we actually could begin to see a healthier generation of middle-aged and older adults and at least make a positive impact for improved overall fitness and lifestyles.


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Leslie Marmon Silko - November 19, 1974
In this reading, Silko engages in "what I really love to do"--storytelling in the Laguna tradition. Most of the stories and poems told here would be collected in the 1981 volume Storyteller.
Simon J. Ortiz - February 26, 1975
Simon J. Ortiz reads from the manuscripts of two books that would be published in 1976 and 1977. This expansive, flowing performance includes a generous selection of work from all sections of Going for the Rain.
Gary Snyder - October 7, 2010
In his first reading at the Poetry Center since 1969, Gary Snyder reads broadly from his work, including poems from his most recent collection, Danger on Peaks. He ends by reading uncollected newer poems. Snyder also speaks of his time in Japan, his studies of Zen Buddhism, and his friendship with Poetry Center founder Ruth Stephan.
John Gardner - April 8, 1981
John Gardner reads from two of his stories, "Coyote and the Dead Man" and "Come on Back."
Daniel Lopez - January 27, 1992
Daniel Lopez reads several of his poems and sings songs; this performance includes the poems "Preservation," "Village Progress," and "Naming," along with "Corn Planting Song."
Simon J. Ortiz - February 3, 1992
Simon J. Ortiz reads poems following the theme that poetry is the voice that we all speak.
Diane Glancy - April 27, 1994
Diane Glancy reads a range of works on the theme of story. She also reads from Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996), which would be published two years after this reading.
Nanao Sakaki - November 8, 1990
Nanao Sakaki performs poems and songs in the courtyard of the Poetry Center on Cherry Avenue. Asking the audience, "Any questions? I'll answer by my poems," Sakaki addresses themes raised by audience members such as anger, feeling at home, time, walking, and love for the desert and all forms of life.


The mission of the U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron the Blue Angels, is to showcase the pride and professionalism of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, inspiring a culture of excellence and service to country through flight demonstrations and community outreach. The Blue Angels perform for 11 million people annually across the United States, and are scheduled to perform 69 shows in 36 locations for the 2016 season. For more information, visit the Blue Angels website at www.blueangels.navy.mil and follow the Blue Angels on Facebook and on Twitter.
For more videos of the Blue Angels in action, visit the Military.com Video Center.


Encouraging patients to take control of their own health is a priority for nurse practitioner Jenna Baker. She helps people focus on prevention and being as healthy as they can be. Trust, kindness, respect and accountability are at the foundation of her patient-provider relationships. Outside of the clinic, Jenna enjoys running, reading, spending time at the water and the mountains, hiking with her dog, Lady, and traveling.


Customers say they can not get the Barclay's homepage to load meaning there is no access to their online account portal.
But customers were still complaining that there is an issue with the app, even though the bank said it was working normally.
A Barclays spokesman said: "We're very sorry about the technical problems our customers have experienced today".
"You can still make payments and check your balance in our mobile banking app as normal".
The bank had also acknowledged earlier in the day that services in their branches were intermittent.
"We're happy to say that everything is now fixed - thanks for bearing with us".
Another customer told the BBC that: "The systems have also gone down inside branches with no transactions possible". The manager was trying to placate customers and couldn't advise when they would be back online.
Another miffed customer took to Twitter to complain that the downtime had caused them to lose £4,600.
The service status report on the Barclays website confirms there is an outage of both online and telephone banking.


Houseplants make a beautiful, and inexpensive, decorative accent, adding color and warmth to virtually any room in your home or apartment. Not only that, houseplants help purify the air round you, adding a health benefit as well. And the best news is: Anybody can grow houseplants. You are just as capable of having a lush, verdant indoor "plant-ation" as a certified botanist, as long as you're willing to devote the barest amount of time to seeing that your plants get the proper amount of light, water, humidity, food and love.
1--Be sure you buy an indoor plant. Over the past couple of hundred years, professional horticulturists and just plain plant fanciers have discovered and isolated, mostly through trial and error, the plants that will thrive in a pot in your house or apartment. The best way to ensure the plant you buy is a certified "indoor plant" is to shop at a reputable nursery, garden center or flower shop where you can put your trust in the staff. Plants sold at supermarkets and discount stores are most likely indoor plants, especially if they're potted in clay or terra-cotta containers.
2--If you travel a lot or if you're just too busy to devote a lot of time to plant care, stick to a hassle-free plant. Among the best are philodendron, pothos, Chinese evergreen, dracaena, cactus, spathiphyllum, palms, ficus, dieffenbachia or sanseveiria. These plants need only northern or eastern sunlight, water when their soil is dry, a weekly misting and a monthly feeding. Flowering plants, delicate, fern-like plants and plants with gaudy foliage usually will not survive indoors without ideal growing conditions and lots of TLC.
3--Know the name of the plant you're buying and what kind of growing conditions it requires. For instance, there are only a few plants that will do well in dark corners, such as those listed above. If you haven't got a bright sunny spot, stay away from flowering plants and plants with colorful leaves. Tell your plant purveyor about the light conditions where you want to put your plant. He or she will advise you which plants will be best suited to those conditions.
4--Be a cautious waterer--don't overdo it. More plants die from overwatering than any other cause. A good general rule is water your plants only when their soil is dry to the touch.
5--Water your plants with water at room temperature. Water that's too hot or too cold can shock the plant's delicate root system.
6--Cover the top of the soil with a thin layer of purified charcoal. This will filter out any impurities in the water and will help freshen the air.
7--Make sure there is a drainage hole in the bottom of your plant's container. If you want to repot a plant to a container with no drainage hole, be sure to put a layer of pebbles on the bottom of the container to collect excess water before adding potting mix. Wet roots rot and the plant will die.
8--Transplant your plants from plastic to terra-cotta pots. The terra-cotta, or clay, pots are porous and they "breathe," ensuring more oxygen for the roots and allowing excess water to escape, thus helping to avoid overwatering.
9--If possible, keep an inexpensive humidifier in every room where you have lots of plants. Dry heat in winter and air conditioning in summer rob much of the humidity from our houses and apartments, and tropical plants need humidity to ensure maximum health. Come to think of it, so do we.
10--Spray your plants with a fine mist of water every day. A daily misting helps keep them clean and will go a long way toward preventing brown tips.
11--For extra humidity, group your plants together if it's aesthetically pleasing. Plants "transpire," giving off humidity for each other to absorb.
12--Keep your plants on a "dry well." This can be a saucer or tray filled first with pebbles and then with water. The water will evaporate upward and keep the humidity level higher around the plant. You'll have to add water to the well a couple of times a week.
13--Feed your plants regularly. Use a good liquid houseplant food once a week during the spring and summer and once a month during the fall and winter.
14--Don't feed your plants "table scraps." Some plants might benefit from coffee grounds, egg shells, etc., but others will suffer, so it's best to stick to the commercial houseplant foods.
15--Never feed a sick plant. No matter what the plant may be suffering from--overwatering, underwatering, not enough light, not enough humidity, whatever--while nursing it back to health don't add any chemical matter to the soil. This can weaken the already struggling root system.
16--Rotate your plants so that each side gets equal exposure to the sun. This keeps the plants from leaning in one direction or another.
17--Keep your plants clean. Don't polish the leaves with oil or mayonnaise--this clogs the breathing cells and may kill the plant. Simply sponge the leaves with a solution of one part dish-soap to 20 parts water and then spray off with clear water.
18--Water your African violets from below. Watering them directly into the soil can rot the crown. Instead, as soon as the soil begins to dry out, place your violet in about an inch of water in a saucer or bowl. The violet will "drink" the water through the holes in the bottom of the pot. It's a good idea to add a couple of drops of liquid plant food to the water.
19--To get poinsettias to "re-bloom": Prune them back when the red bracts (flowers) fall off in late winter or early spring, nurture them in a bright spot through spring and summer, then starting in mid-October give them 12 hours of darkness (as in a closet) every night for about 8 weeks until the red bracts reappear.
20--During the summer, take your more temperamental plants outside and put them in a sheltered, shady spot. There they'll experience ideal growing conditions for a couple of months. They may have a little trouble readjusting when you bring them back indoors, but they'll benefit from the vacation.
21--Check your plants regularly for pests--mealybug, scale, aphids, whitefly, etc. Keep a bottle of organic insecticidal soap on hand. Early detection is your best hope to control the pests.
22--Use only store-bought, sterilized potting mix for your houseplants. Garden soil is too thick. Houseplants need a nice, airy soil, and who knows what pests lurk in ordinary loam?
23--Prune or cut back your hanging and vining plants frequently. This process encourages new and bushier growth. Creeping Charley and wandering Jew are among the more common plants that should be cut back as soon as they begin to turn brown and straggly.
24--If your plant just sits there doing nothing, and you want it to grow, repot it. Transplanting is a much-feared operation, but there's no need to be afraid. Just get a new pot two inches larger in diameter than the old one; fill it halfway with fresh potting mix; remove the plant from its old pot and set it in the new one; add soil until the plant is snug in the new pot; water thoroughly.
25--Rake the top of your plants' soil every couple of months with a fork or the little indoor gardening tool made for that purpose. Aerating the soil in this manner keeps the soil loose and prevents it from caking. Plants need air to get to the root system to do their best.
26--Play music for your plants and talk to them. Don't scoff. I knew a botanist who did an experiment: He put three sets of identical plants into three separate rooms with identical growing conditions. In the first room he played only rock music and the plants thrived; in the second room he played only classical music and the plants thrived. In the third room he played only the news and the plants died.


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PDLM. Tesis del Programa de Doctorado en Lenguas Modernas
The Sacred in Shintō: A Comparison and Analysis of Rudolf Otto's Concept of the Numinous and Motoori Norinaga's 'Definition of Kami' in Selected Texts of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki
dc.contributor.advisor Falero Folgoso, Alfonso es_ES
dc.contributor.author Sande Belmonte, Alejandra
dc.description.abstract [EN] This essay carries out an analysis of the concept of the sacred in Shintō through Rudolf Otto's 1869-1937) concept of the numinous, presented in one of his main works, Das Heilige (1917), and Motoori Norinaga's (1730-1801) 'Definition of Kami,' a brief section in the more voluminous Kojiki-den—a text completed in 1789—in which Norinaga attempts to define the notion of kami. These two concepts are then applied to a textual analysis of selected texts of the Kojiki (712) and the Nihon Shoki (720), two of the most important classical writings of the Japanese mythological narrative. The present research begins with a preliminary section on the objectives and methodology that have been utilised throughout, followed by a section dedicated to the main elements of the subject at hand: the nature and characteristics of Shintō, summarized in Chapter 1 — On Shintō; Rudolf Otto's concept of the numinous, on which we elaborate during Chapter 2 together with Motoori Norinaga's 'Definition of Kami.' Lastly, this first section of the thesis finalizes with an analysis of the concept of kami carried out in Chapter 3, in which the concept of kami is examined through the writings of several authors and which includes a section of the concept of kami understood as mana. Then, during the second section of this essay an exhaustive textual analysis, philosophical in nature, has been performed. Thus, in Chapter 4 we briefly introduce the subject of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki, and then proceed to study a variety of texts from these aforementioned sources. While in Chapter 4 we analyze fragments which referred to the figures of the kami Izanagi and Izanami no Mikoto, Susa-no-wo no Mikoto, and Amaterasu, in particular the scene where Izanagi and Izami go around the Heavenly Pillar, and when Izanagi's fear when faced with Izanami's otherworldly appearance in the land of Yomi, together with the cycle of Susa-no-wo's birth and divine expulsion, and his relationship with his sister Amaterasu and her hiding from the world, Chapter 5 is dedicated to the adventures and demise of Prince Yamato-takeru, the prophecies of Empress Jin-gū, and the misadventures of Emperor Yū-ryauku with the a couple of kami. Lastly, in Chapter 6 we examine the notion of the sacred in Shintō through a series of more contemporary authors, focusing of the elements of polarity and liminality, the curious relationship between the sacred and the sea and, finally, between women and sacredness. Then, in the conclusion we highlight the importance of emotion as a possible thread connecting the sacred life-force known as tama with the supernatural power of kami, and also the need of further research on the subject of the concept of the sacred in Shintō for, as the concept of kami, it is too broad to be undertaken by only one academic field. es_ES
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dc.subject Tesis y disertaciones académicas es_ES
dc.subject Universidad de Salamanca (España) es_ES
dc.subject Tesis Doctoral es_ES
dc.subject Academic dissertations es_ES
dc.subject Sintoísmo es_ES
dc.subject Sagrado es_ES
dc.subject Otto, Rudolf es_ES
dc.subject Norinaga,Motoori es_ES
dc.title The Sacred in Shintō: A Comparison and Analysis of Rudolf Otto's Concept of the Numinous and Motoori Norinaga's 'Definition of Kami' in Selected Texts of the Kojiki and the Nihon Shoki es_ES
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dc.subject.unesco 72 Filosofía es_ES
dc.subject.unesco 5101.10 Religión es_ES
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Trooper John S. Horton
North Carolina Highway Patrol, North Carolina
End of Watch Monday, January 3, 2022
Trooper John Horton was struck and killed by a patrol car while conducting a traffic stop near the intersection of High Shoals Church Road and Goodes Grove Church Road in Mooresboro at about 9:00 pm.
Trooper Horton had detained the driver of the vehicle and was standing on the shoulder of the roadway with the subject. Another trooper arriving on scene to back him up lost control of his patrol car and collided with Trooper Horton's patrol car, which was then pushed into Trooper Horton and the detained subject. The detained subject died at the scene and Trooper Horton died after being transported to a hospital in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
The area the crash occurred in had experienced snow and sleet throughout the day.
Trooper Horton had served with the North Carolina Highway Patrol for 15 years. He is survived by his wife and six children.


Private developers, in cooperation with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, are exploring the idea of building a 20,000-seat multi-purpose event center south of the Scottsdale Pavilions and west of the 101 Freeway that they say could potentially house the Arizona Coyotes or Phoenix Suns, multiple sources told Arizona Sports this week.
The facility would be part of a larger, approximately 65-acre sports village that could also include retail, entertainment, living and work spaces. A group of local businessmen, investors and advisors has been working with the community for more than a year, and multiple sources said the basic structure of the financing is already in place with Barclays Bank in the fold.
One source termed the project "an examination, with nothing concrete set yet," admitting that an anchor tenant like the Coyotes or Suns would help.
A decision on whether to move forward is expected within the next six months.
A location on Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian land could remove many of the perceived barriers to building an arena in other locations, including bonding issues, tax districts and political or public backlash. As one source noted: "We are not asking for any cash" from the community or the public.
The Pavilions area already includes Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, the spring training home of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, along with a new aquarium. The genesis of this arena project can be traced to previous Coyotes suitor Greg Jamison, who attempted to buy the team but was unable to secure the financing before IceArizona purchased the team in 2013. Jamison was exploring a Pavilions site.
The Suns lease at Talking Stick Resort Arena expires in 15 years, but there is a clause that allows the Suns to bring in a mediator in five years to determine if the building is "functionally obsolete." If that is the finding, the city has another year to make the necessary upgrades before owner Robert Sarver can explore a new venue.
Multiple sources said the developer group working with the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community had a meeting scheduled with the Coyotes the day after the team's Faceoff Luncheon and the day before the season opener on Oct. 15 to discuss the possibility of the Coyotes playing there, but the Coyotes cancelled the meeting at the last minute for unspecified reasons. No make-up date has been scheduled.
The Coyotes' arena lease agreement at Gila River Arena in Glendale expires after the 2017-18 season, but the team has the option of renewing it on a year-to-year basis. Although the team could extend that agreement, the ownership group has made it clear it would like to relocate to the East Valley or downtown. It's no secret the team has been in discussions with Arizona State University about a potential partnership that could see an arena built on or near the Tempe campus. ASU launched a Division I hockey program last season and needs a legitimate arena to call home — or at least the promise of one — before it can secure conference affiliation and land top-end recruits.
ASU already plays some of its marquee games at Gila River Arena through a growing partnership with the Coyotes. It's unclear how far the Coyotes' talks with ASU about a new arena have progressed.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in the Valley in March to tour potential arena sites, and sources confirmed that he met with officials from Arizona State University, officials from the City of Phoenix, including Mayor Greg Stanton, and he also toured the Pavilions site.
Just before the season began, LeBlanc expressed optimism about the team's long-term fortunes in the Valley.
"I've never been more confident and excited about the process than I am today," LeBlanc said. "Admittedly, these things take more time than any of us expected and humbly, this is the first time I've ever been involved in such an extensive development project so I didn't appreciate that, but people should be comforted by the knowledge that we anticipate communication in the very near future.


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Todays featured artists is Jeff Delgado, who hails from California! I can't find much info of this incredible artists apart from the obvious. He's awesome! Just check out some of his stunning works below. Especially my personal favs featuring scenes from Lost and The Shining!


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Gordon Campbell | Parliament TV | Parliament Today | Video | Questions Of the Day | Search
Scoop  Parliament
Synthetic drugs rethink welcomed
Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 7:45 pm
Press Release: New Zealand National Party
An indication from the Government that it will reclassify some synthetic drugs as Class A is being welcomed by National but it doesn't go far enough, National's MP for Pakuranga Simeon Brown says.
"Today we heard of yet another death from these insidious drugs. This year more than 45 people have died. In the past fortnight alone Christchurch has seen at least 19 people affected by toxicity from synthetic drugs with two people in intensive care.
"Health Minister David Clark has said that he will ask his cabinet colleagues to reclassify two synthetic cannabinoids as Class A which is a positive step forward.
"The problem is that drug dealers can then simply change their recipes. They don't care if they ruin lives and cause misery as long as they're making money. By only increasing the penalty for some synthetic drugs, dealers will avoid these penalties by simply changing the ingredients.
"In response to Written Parliamentary Questions Dr Clark has also told me that he hasn't had a single meeting with anyone outside Government about the issue. The Minister should be getting expert advice on this very serious issue.
"National has committed to signing up to a global effort to combat the manufacture and supply of drugs alongside 120 other countries, but the Labour-led Government won't even consider being part of it. The effort is a broad approach which would include rehabilitation and education.
"I once again urge the Government to support my Bill which is back before Parliament this month. My Bill will increase the penalties for those who manufacture and supply all synthetic drugs which destroy people's lives."
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As nights lengthen with the coming of arctic winter, one can sometimes walk across water—on natural, frozen bridges. Wind and waves can drive sea ice together to form giant superstructures of ice stretching miles longer than any bridges that people have built over water. Now scientists have developed models describing how these ice bridges form and break up, findings that could shed light on a variety of seemingly unrelated phenomena, including jamming in grain silos that can lead to explosions.
A satellite image of the Northwest Passage shows ice connecting some of the islands.
Ice bridges are massive, stationary, rigid structures that can form when chunks of floating ice get stuck as they flow through narrow straits. These frozen formations can last for months, and can get "quite wide—about 50 kilometers," said study senior author Howard Stone, a fluid dynamicist at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Ice bridges form seasonally in many of the straits and channels in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, and can impact climate on a global scale by preventing the flow and loss of ice into warmer oceans. Moreover, regions free of ice cover known as polynyas that form downstream of ice bridges "are crucial in supporting marine ecosystems," Stone said.
"For marine mammals and sea birds, polynyas are true oases," explained Dany Dumont, a physical oceanographer at the University of Quebec at Rimouski. At polynyas, light can penetrate the ocean, triggering the growth of photosynthetic phytoplankton that feed the rest of the food chain, Dumont said.
Despite the important role that ice bridges can play in climate and ecology, their formation and breakup was poorly understood and difficult to predict. Now scientists have developed a theoretical framework describing the physics of these massive ice structures, yielding insights into how they emerge and disperse.
"The model adapts ideas traditionally used to study liquids at small scales—usually smaller than a centimeter—to a much larger scale phenomenon in a completely different setting," Stone said.
The new model analyzes how the flow of sea ice through a narrow channel might form an ice bridge. The motion of the ice is driven mostly by wind on its top surface, while resistance against this flow is due primarily to the thickness and density of the ice field and the width of the channel.
"If the ice is thick enough, frictional forces can overcome the driving wind forces and form a sea ice bridge," Stone said. "If the strait is too wide, the frictional forces are only important near the land boundaries of the strait and are not strong enough to cause a bridge to form across the strait."
Once ice bridges form, they freeze into solid sheets over the winter months. They ultimately break up due to a combination of stresses from the wind and the weakening of the bridges at the beginning of summer due to melting, the researchers said.
Stone noted that ice bridges appear to break up in very different ways than ice shelves breaking apart in the Arctic and Antarctic. Unlike ice bridges, "ice shelf break up seems to occur by fracture processes that do not involve mechanical forcing by winds or currents," he said.
Instead, the researchers noted their work could help shed light on all kinds of jamming. "Jamming of grains is a common concern that can generate a large amount of heat and in some cases cause explosions," and "river ice jams regularly cause flooding that causes damage to life and property," Stone said. "Our study describes a way to understand and potentially control these processes."
Future research can incorporate seasonal changes into the model "to assess the long-term stability of ice bridges," Stone said. Sea ice specialist Jennifer Hutchings at Oregon State University in Corvallis, who did not take part in this research, said that such work could help see if ice bridges "will become less prevalent in the future based on projections of ice drift and thickness."
Validating this model against real-life data will prove challenging because "the environment is so variable and difficult to measure that theoretical refinements can't go beyond what's achieved here," said Dumont, who did not participate in this study. Still, future research could test the model with small-scale experiments, such as in the long, narrow inlets of fjords, Dumont said.
The scientists detailed their findings in a paper accepted by the journal Physical Review Letters.
—Charles Q. Choi, Inside Science News, reprinted with permission.


There are compile config that can help ffmpeg to perform better on a raspberry?I can skyp 4k support as example.
I'm using running omv with plexmediaserver plugin on a rpi2.
It works fine in the local network (3d movies) and also as song playlist from remote.
It's not really usable from remote to stream movie outside the local network.
I checked and also LG MusicFlow app is able to handle music from a remote DLNA server.
I'm still looking for something more dedicated like Volumio to handle my music but miniDlna is still fine (maybe I could try Plex also for music stuff).
The speaker is DLNA compliant.
Do you now an android app I could use to control the DLNA server running on raspberry and use the speaker to play music?
guitarchrislp wrote: Can the Raspberry Pi be a plex media server as well as network attached storage at the same time?
The last benchmark test zip is usable (with relevant results) also on Rpi2?
With the graph I can check what is wasting time in startup!
Last thing: how can I check which services are running at startup and which I have installed but not autostarted?
After myoung008 hints systemd now run fine!
and paste it there for support?
I' stop webmin and efter installed other services, and the issue happens again.
No info in the logs, how can I detect which service causes the issue?


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namespace Kunstmaan\UtilitiesBundle\Tests\DependencyInjection;

use Kunstmaan\UtilitiesBundle\DependencyInjection\KunstmaanUtilitiesExtension;
use Matthias\SymfonyDependencyInjectionTest\PhpUnit\AbstractExtensionTestCase;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Extension\ExtensionInterface;

class KunstmaanUtilitiesExtensionTest extends AbstractExtensionTestCase
{
    /**
     * @return ExtensionInterface[]
     */
    protected function getContainerExtensions(): array
    {
        return [new KunstmaanUtilitiesExtension()];
    }

    public function testCorrectDefaultParametersHaveBeenSet()
    {
        $this->load();

        $this->assertContainerBuilderHasParameter('kunstmaan_utilities.cipher.secret', '%kernel.secret%');
    }

    public function testParameterWithSecretParameter()
    {
        $this->setParameter('secret', 'testvalue');

        $this->load();

        $this->assertContainerBuilderHasParameter('kunstmaan_utilities.cipher.secret', 'testvalue');
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    /**
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Trump just sent a mystifying, disturbing tweet about North Korea
Maybe the president shouldn't tweet vaguely threatening things about a nuclear power.
By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp Jun 20, 2017, 3:50pm EDT
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Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. Before coming to Vox in 2014, he edited TP Ideas, a section of Think Progress devoted to the ideas shaping our political world.
Here's a real thing the president of the United States tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. It is about North Korea — and it is very, very hard to figure out what it means:
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017
You can sort of try to piece together what Trump might have meant.
It seems like he's declaring failure in some kind of campaign by China to help the United States bring North Korea in line on issues of mutual concern, like the nuclear program and Otto Warmbier (the American who died this week shortly after being released from a North Korean prison camp).
Trump, who used to blame China for North Korean misbehavior but changed his mind after a 10-minute chat with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April, seems to be exonerating his new buddies in Beijing from any culpability in Warmbier's death or North Korean ongoing missile tests.
But it's not clear that China actually has done all that much to solve any of the various problems Kim Jong Un creates. They've done a bit, like ramping up criticism of the North in state-run media outlets, but that hasn't caused Kim to change course on any major issue (at least, as far as we can tell).
China has a powerful tool at its disposal: its trade ties with Pyongyang. China is the North's only major trading partner, so a threat to limit commerce if North Korea doesn't change would be the natural way to try to push Kim around. Yet trade between China and North Korea actually increased in the first quarter of 2017, suggesting Beijing isn't seriously trying to use economic pressure.
That would suggest that Trump has been completely snookered by Xi: reversing the simplistic anti-China stance he took during the campaign to an equally simplistic pro-China stance after meeting with China's leader.
More importantly, this is only one speculative interpretation of what Trump's tweet meant.
His wording is so imprecise, the policy implications so unclear, that it's possible to read it as saying all sorts of different things. You could even interpret it as a threat — as Trump declaring that diplomacy with North Korea has failed and that a possible military strike on the Kim regime is now in play.
This kind of murkiness is dangerous. North Korea's government is famously insular; it's unclear how well they understand signals coming out of Washington. This tweet almost certainly doesn't represent the start of some kind of new North Korea policy — but who knows if it'll seem that way in Pyongyang?
The risk is that this kind of confused, potentially threatening message makes the North feel even more insecure — causing them to lash out even more with provocations like new missile tests.
It's not that this tweet itself will spark a direct military response from the North. It's that it adds to a background context of a rudderless, at times very belligerent, line on North Korea from the Trump administration. Sending vaguely threatening signals like this could create a level of tension that you really don't want with a rogue, nuclear-armed power.
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"Dear Elizabeth" is based on the letters exchanged over a 30-year period between two Pulitzer Prize winning poets, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Their friendship was complicated — built on respect and genuine affection. Ms. Bishop was an alcoholic and Mr. Lowell would probably be diagnosed as bipolar today. Despite their struggles, they each regarded their friendship as a key element to sustaining them as they navigated successful careers and very troubled lives.
Ms. Bishop's father died before her first birthday and her mother was committed permanently to a mental hospital soon after.
"When you write my epitaph, you must say that I was the loneliest person who ever lived," Ms. Bishop once told Mr. Lowell. She owned a home in Key West, published 101 poems in her lifetime,and was appointed the U.S. Poet Laureate in 1949.
Ms. Bishop bought a home in Key West in 1938 with her then-lover Louise Crane. She sold the home in 1941 after she and her subsequent lover, Marjorie Stevens, parted ways. Soon after she began to travel, but got no further than Brazil where she met the wealthy and vivacious Lota de Macedo Soares. The two women remained together for 16 years. It was during this time that Ms. Bishop composed some of her greatest poems. Ms. De Macedo Soares committed suicide in 1967, and Ms. Bishop eventually returned to the United States, where she taught, wrote and continued her struggle against alcoholism and depression.
Mr. Lowell won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was appointed Poet Laureate in 1947. He wrote volumes of award winning poetry throughout his life, but Mr. Lowell also struggled with episodes of mania and depression throughout his life. Between 1947 and 1964, a period that included his winning the Pulitzer Prize, a marriage and the birth of a daughter, and the publication of two of the most important books of American poetry, Mr. Lowell was hospitalized 12 times for mania.
From 1947 until Lowell's death in 1977, Mr. Lowell and Ms. Bishop exchanged correspondences.
They periodically visited each other and even dedicated poems to each other, but it is their letters, all 459 of them, that speak to their dedication to each other. And it is these letters on which Fringe Theater's production of "Dear Elizabeth" is based.
The show is directed by Fringe's artistic director Rebecca Tomlinson and features Andrew D. Cannady and Paula Cabot along with cellist Denise Nathanson.