With the rise of the sacred ritual of "the camera eats first", eating food went from a way to fill our bellies to an actual movement, almost a religion.
A food trend would take over the blogospheres (or Instaspheres) and it becomes a rat race of who can hop on the bandwagon the fastest and upload it on social media for the world to see.
Unfortunately as we learnt yesterday sometimes a food trend may not be all it's cracked up to be. Either through mishandling, indifference or just sheer risk-taking, food trend mishaps do happen. Sometimes, it's people who take the trends too far past what is safe. Here're some examples.
Yesterday's case of an unfortunate teen's throat and hand burns was not the first time that liquid nitrogen has made the news.
A teenager in the UK previously needed her stomach removed after consuming a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen, apparently given to her without proper guidance on the consumption of liquid nitrogen-made foodstuffs.
And that bar in particular was serving up the cocktail to achieve a "cauldron-like effect". The express purpose of the Dragon's Breath trend is to put the food in your mouth to breathe out the cloud à la a dragon. It can cause burns if the liquid nitrogen has not properly evaporated off the food before consumption.
In a strange twist on life, it might actually be safer to achieve this dragon's breath effect through vaping, another trend that has seen its own share of mishaps.
Anything with a "healthy dessert" label usually gets quite a bit of buzz, and Konnyaku was no exception since some 10 years ago. This plant-based jelly is derived from the Devil's Tongue, and it is rich in dietary fiber and minerals.
Konnyaku has also gained some popularity as a zero calorie alternative for noodles, and is often cited as a prime choice for dieters.
As a jelly it is more rubbery and solid compared to some of its more jiggly cousins, which caused a series of choking incidents in young children or elderly people who might not be able to chew the jellies properly. A choking hazard warning began to appear on Konnyaku Jelly packaging in Japan after these incidents.
This popular local cuisine is served mostly in Korea and Japan, though the Korean iteration is more well-known. It's referred to as Sannakji there, and can be eaten either chopped-up or as a whole octopus.
Eating the whole version of Sannakji by wrapping a baby octopus around a pair of chopsticks is said to give strength to eaters.
The chopped up version seems easier to eat, but there have been people who choked on both versions of the dish. The main cause of death for this particular dish is when patrons do not chew the octopus properly, thus causing the tentacles to stick to the throats and choke the eater, especially for those who are intoxicated.
Many over the years have mocked the USA for such laws, but it's not without reason.
There are at least 3 known instances of children who have died from choking on the toys hidden inside the chocolate eggs. There was even a campaign some of the parents, calling for the European Union to ban the sale of these Kinder Surprises.
There was once upon a time in recent memory where anyone in Malaysia couldn't get a cup of the famous bubble tea without going through a long line of bubble tea enthusiasts. The pearls in bubble tea were seen as delightful little surprises that was enjoyable to chew on in a refreshing drink.
Then, news broke out that the tapioca pearls in bubble tea may contain cancer-causing chemicals. The scientists found traces of styrene, acetophenone, and brominated substances that shouldn't be in food at all.
This news came on top of an already existing choking hazard (yet again) concern for small children that is echoed by the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment.
Not even health-buffs are safe from putting themselves in danger for food. Often seen as a healthy alternative to fad diets, clean-eating is said to focus instead on a sustainable food lifestyle where believers focus on eating raw, unprocessed foods that makes them as close to their natural forms as possible.
However trying to find raw, unprocessed food is a big challenge in today's society, which is partly why mental health experts are warning of the risks in the trend.
It is causing a growing number teens to be very thin, and perhaps cause death if taken to extremes. The lifestyle apparently causes the certain followers to obsess over what they eat and develop obsessive habits over the long-term.
First of all, I would like to apologise to the Salted Egg Yolk fans out there.
Pairing this famous sauce with either pizzas or lava cakes may prove to be a bad idea as "Salted duck egg yolks contain twice the cholesterol of butter and are high in sodium." Despite that, it has not deterred the Salted Egg Yolk craze to sweep the nation, with more and more eateries offering it as part of their menu.
But seeing as preparing salted eggs can take up a lot of time, foodies may be surprised to find that many eateries use a powder instead that is mixed with water to create the sauce.
According to Unilever Food Solution's website, a 6X800g pouch of golden salted egg powder lists chicken egg (not even duck's), shortening powder, creamer and colouring as its main ingredients.
This particular food trend has seen a bit of a revival with llaollao's introduction into Malaysia recently, with their famous cookie sauce as the talk of the town. But even before the era of llaollao, frozen yogurt is seen as a healthy snack, usually paired with fresh fruits or even sweet sauces.
But diners might as well be screaming for ice cream as that is basically what frozen yogurt is. While natural yogurt may only be made out of milk and cultures, frozen yogurt usually finds its way to a store in liquid form, chock-full of corn syrup and artificial flavourings.
Similar to the bubble tea pearls, the thickener used in frozen yogurts has also been linked to ingredients that may cause cancer.
I'm not quite sure who came up with this idea that proposals needed to be a surprise, but it has been a thing that even popular sitcom Friends made a reference to.
One method for proposers to add that zest of surprise for their beaus is to hide the engagement rings in food. Sometimes, it is something immediately visible like in a glass of champagne. Other times, the ring is hidden into goodies like fortune cookies which are not meant to be eaten immediately.
Then, there are those who try to hide the ring in food such as cakes or perhaps even bigger meals like burgers. Without going into too much detail, finding an engagement ring in one's throat is certainly a surprise.


Abstract: We investigate the scattering of surface electrons by the edges of graphene islands grown on Ni(111). By combining local tunneling spectroscopy and ab initio electronic structure calculations we find that the hybridization between graphene and Ni states results in strongly reflecting graphene edges. Quantum interference patterns formed around the islands reveal a spin-dependent scattering of the Shockley bands of Ni, which we attribute to their distinct coupling to bulk states. Moreover, we find a strong dependence of the scattering amplitude on the atomic structure of the edges, depending on the orbital character and energy of the surface states. © 2014 American Physical Society.


With a HUGE E3 right around the corner, the releases for May are mostly lackluster. Metro Last Light has me the most interested this month, but I'm not too excited about May.
Metro Last Light Limited Edition – I loved Metro 2033, so I think I'll be grabbing a copy of Last Light. Such a claustrophobic game that was!
Fast & Furious: Showdown – As far as ridiculous game premises go, you can't really go much more ridiculous than the Fast and Furious movie franchise.
No releases for the Playstation Vita for the month of May.


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This morning NBC Sports published a piece by Joe Posnanski in which he chronicles the rise and fall of Alex Rodriguez. I know what you're probably thinking, you're assuming it's another piece that goes out of its way to trash Rodriguez and I understand why you would feel that way. Bashing Alex Rodriguez is a rite of passage these days but you'd be wrong about this piece. Posnanski does bring up all of the bad stuff but you have to in order to write a complete piece about Alex Rodriguez. For better or for worse, it's all part of his story.
Posnanski goes back to the days when Rodriguez was a 17-year-old phenom being scouted. He talks to the scouts and GM's who watched him all those years ago. He compares Rodriguez's beginning to Rodriguez's present as an injured, older player looking to work his way back after yet another hip surgery. I won't reveal too much about the piece because I think you should read it for yourselves, draw your own conclusions and come up with your own opinions on it but I thought it was really good.
And I'll admit, I was worried that it would be the same old Rodriguez fluff but it wasn't.


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The necessity of safety
I suppose it's a good sign when what I write grabs me by the emotions and swings me around, and it bodes well for the story having the same effect on my readers. There are a few scenes that make me choke up every time I read them -- one of which boils down to a single line of dialogue.
In the story, one of the main characters wakes up in the middle of the night to find that his partner, who has gone through some terrible emotional trauma, is crying silently, obviously trying not to wake him up. He pulls his lover into a hug and whispers, "Go ahead and cry if you need to. I've got you. You're safe in my arms."
What got me thinking about this scene is a conversation I had with some online writer friends, one of whom asked the provocative and fascinating question, "How could you tell someone 'I love you' without using those words?" My immediate response was "You are safe." Those words resonate with me for a great many reasons, not least because I virtually never felt safe as a child or young adult. Everything around me always seemed precarious -- I spent the first half of my life feeling like I was a tightrope walker, always a single misstep from utter ruin, and because of that needed to be constantly vigilant and wary.
It was exhausting.
The pragmatists in the audience might point out that in reality none of us are safe, and technically they'd be right. Bad stuff can happen any time, for any reason or no reason at all, and as the line from Fight Club says, "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." But still, that feeling of safety and security, that there's someone looking out for you and that your friends have your back, is pretty critical for our emotional health.
These days, a sense of safety is hard to find. We're still in the midst of a pandemic, trying to guard ourselves against an invisible enemy that can jump from one person to another with frightening speed. Here in the United States almost a half a million people have died of COVID, and countless others have become desperately ill with complications lasting for months. Everywhere people are losing their jobs, businesses closing down, schools going entirely virtual. Health care workers are facing the awful double-whammy of dealing with incredible overwork and the fact that despite their best efforts, some of their patients aren't going to survive. Add to all that the fact that in many parts of the world we've seen unprecedented social unrest, with deep-seated hatred and prejudice bubbling up nearly everywhere -- and its victims are often people who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Security is in very short supply lately.
Three separate studies conducted late last year track the outcome. The United States Center for Disease Control, Boston University, and Johns Hopkins University independently found that the incidence of anxiety, severe depression, and serious psychological distress has tripled since the start of the pandemic. Unsurprisingly, the effect was larger in vulnerable populations -- low-income individuals, minorities, people with prior mental health issues, people who have lost friends or family members to COVID. Most alarming, young adults across the board showed skyrocketing incidence of emotional distress -- the CDC study found that almost two-thirds of the people from eighteen to twenty-four who participated in the study reported experiencing severe depression since the outbreak started, a quarter reported greater use of alcohol or drugs to cope with the stress, and a quarter said they'd seriously considered suicide in the last thirty days.
This is horrifying and alarming. We already had a built-in mental health crisis ongoing because of the stigma of mental illness and our society's unwillingness to radically revamp the way it's monitored, treated, and covered by insurance. COVID has taken a dreadful situation and made it much, much worse, and I fear the repercussions will far outlast the pandemic itself.
The worst part is that the nature of the pandemic has taken away the one thing that can make emotional distress bearable; comfort from our friends and loved ones. I was talking with some friends (online, of course) a few days ago about what we miss most from the pre-pandemic days, and one that came up over and over was "long hugs from friends." I'm terribly shy by nature, but that one was spot-on. Even we introverts are struggling with the isolation.
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Unfortunately, it looks like we are going to be going without long hugs from friends for quite some time, and that means we need to be especially assiduous about looking out for each other. Check in with the people you care about, especially the ones who don't seem to need it, who are used to being the strong, secure, competent ones who put everyone else's needs in front their own. Okay, we can't have the level of physical and emotional real-time contact we had before, but we can do things to compensate -- Zoom or Skype visits, phone calls, even something simple like a text message saying, "Hi, I was thinking about you. How are you doing?"
In times like these we have to lean on our friends -- and let our friends lean on us. Be honest about what you're feeling, and reassure yourself that right now we're pretty much all feeling that way. If you're having a hard time coping, let the people you love know rather than suffering in silence. If you are really at the end of your tether, get on the phone -- the suicide prevention hotline is 1-800-273-8255. There's help to be had if you are willing to reach out for it.
We'll get through this, but if we're to come through as unscathed as possible, it will be because we've banded together and helped each other through. Don't be afraid to show others you're hurting; it's how you'll get past this horrible low point.
And don't be afraid to tell your friends and loved ones, "Go ahead and cry if you need to. I've got you." It may be a while before we can back it up with a long hug, but for now, it's the best we can do.
Science fiction enthusiasts will undoubtedly know the classic 1973 novel by Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama. In this book, Earth astronomers pick up a rapidly approaching object entering the Solar System, and quickly figure out that it's not a natural object but an alien spacecraft. They put together a team to fly out to meet it as it zooms past -- and it turns out to be like nothing they've ever experienced.
Clarke was a master at creating alien, but completely consistent and believable, worlds, and here he also creates a mystery -- because just as if we really were to find an alien spacecraft, and had only a limited amount of time to study it as it crosses our path, we'd be left with as many questions as answers. Rendezvous with Rama reads like a documentary -- in the middle of it, you could easily believe that Clarke was recounting a real rendezvous, not telling a story he'd made up.
In an interesting example of life imitating art, in 2017 astronomers at an observatory in Hawaii discovered an object heading our way fast enough that it has to have originated outside of our Solar System. Called 'Oumuamua -- Hawaiian for "scout" -- it had an uncanny, if probably only superficial, resemblance to Clarke's Rama. It is long and cylindrical, left no gas or dust plume (as a comet would), and appeared to be solid rather than a collection of rubble. The weirdest thing to me was that backtracking its trajectory, it seems to have originated near the star Vega in the constellation Lyra -- the home of the superintelligent race that sent us a message in the fantastic movie Contact.
The strangeness of the object led some to speculate that it was the product of an extraterrestrial intelligence -- although in fairness, a team in 2019 gave their considered opinion that it wasn't, mostly because there was no sign of any kind of internal energy source or radio transmission coming from it. A noted dissenter, though, is Harvard University Avi Loeb, who has laid out his case for 'Oumuamua's alien technological origin in his new book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth.
His credentials are certainly unimpeachable, but his book is sure to create more controversy surrounding this odd visitor to the Solar System. I won't say he convinced me -- I still tend to side with the 2019 team's conclusions, if for no other reason Carl Sagan's "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence" rule-of-thumb -- but he makes a fascinating case for the defense. If you are interested in astronomy, and especially in the question of whether we're alone in the universe, check out Loeb's book -- and let me know what you think.
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Labels: anxiety, COVID-19, depression, mental health, mental illness, pandemic, psychology, safety, security, stress
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The code switchers
Peering into the Neanderthal brain
The kites fly again
The oddest star in the galaxy
Pharaonic forensics
Holy genome, Batman!
The heart has its reasons
I contain multitudes
Requiem for a dead planet
The strangest flower on Earth
The haunting of Hinton Ampner
Canine emotional therapy
Fooling the experts
Viral stupidity
Listen to the hands
Vanished into the triangle
The climate teeter-totter
A lens into the dark sector
No wands for you!

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Over 2,100 of this original owner collection will be arrive shortly. To give you and idea of what this collection consists of, here are some of the titles and pictures.
Air Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, Amazing Stories Quarterly, Astonishing Stories, Astounding Science Fiction, Doc Savage (over 140 issues), Fantastic Adventures, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, Future, Imaginative Tales, Wonder Stories, Wonder Stories Quarterly, Startling Stories, Unknown, Thrilling Wonder Stories and many more. Here are a few pics.


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Q: GAE - I can't clear datastore and the datastore is corrupted I believe Somehow my local datastore is broken and I want to clear it but I failed to do so.
I seems can't run any code that use datastore now because it is in error state.
I use the following commnand:
dev_appserver.py --clear_datastore GoogleAppEngine
where GoogleAppEngine is my app folder
and here is the log on the console:
and since I am using GO instead of JAVA, I can't find and delete file like
./WEB-INF/appengine-generated/local_db.bin anywhere.
M:\nick\svn\projects>dev_appserver.py --clear_datastore GoogleAppEngine
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\dev_appserver.py", line 182, in <module>
    _run_file(__file__, globals())
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\dev_appserver.py", line 178, in _run_file
    execfile(script_path, globals_)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\devappserver2.py", line 689, in <module>
    main()
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\devappserver2.py", line 679, in main
    options = PARSER.parse_args()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\argparse.py", line 1688, in parse_args
    args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\argparse.py", line 1720, in parse_known_args
    namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\argparse.py", line 1926, in _parse_known_args
    start_index = consume_optional(start_index)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\argparse.py", line 1866, in consume_optional
    take_action(action, args, option_string)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\argparse.py", line 1794, in take_action
    action(self, namespace, argument_values, option_string)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\boolean_action.py", line 67, in __call__
    raise ValueError('must be "yes" or "no", not %r' % values)
ValueError: must be "yes" or "no", not 'GoogleAppEngine'

M:\nick\svn\projects>dev_appserver.py --clear_datastore GoogleAppEngine

And here is the screen content when I try to visit the DataStore Viewer page.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 1536, in __call__
    rv = self.handle_exception(request, response, e)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 1530, in __call__
    rv = self.router.dispatch(request, response)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 1278, in default_dispatcher
    return route.handler_adapter(request, response)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 1102, in __call__
    return handler.dispatch()
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\admin\admin_request_handler.py", line 95, in dispatch
    super(AdminRequestHandler, self).dispatch()
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 572, in dispatch
    return self.handle_exception(e, self.app.debug)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\lib\webapp2-2.5.1\webapp2.py", line 570, in dispatch
    return method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\admin\datastore_viewer.py", line 721, in get
    start))
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\admin\datastore_viewer.py", line 658, in _get_entity_template_data
    cls.NUM_ENTITIES_PER_PAGE)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\devappserver2\admin\datastore_viewer.py", line 131, in _get_entities
    entities = query.Get(count, start)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\datastore.py", line 1674, in Get
    return list(self.Run(limit=limit, offset=offset, **kwargs))
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_query.py", line 2892, in next
    next_batch = self.__batcher.next()
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_query.py", line 2754, in next
    return self.next_batch(self.AT_LEAST_ONE)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_query.py", line 2791, in next_batch
    batch = self.__next_batch.get_result()
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 604, in get_result
    return self.__get_result_hook(self)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_query.py", line 2558, in __query_result_hook
    self.__results = self._process_results(query_result.result_list())
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_query.py", line 2591, in _process_results
    for result in results]
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\datastore\datastore_rpc.py", line 156, in pb_to_query_result
    return self.pb_to_entity(pb)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\datastore.py", line 347, in pb_to_entity
    return Entity._FromPb(pb)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\datastore.py", line 1126, in _FromPb
    (prop.name(), traceback.format_exc()))
Error: Property IdString is corrupt in the datastore:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\datastore.py", line 1122, in _FromPb
    value = datastore_types.FromPropertyPb(prop)
  File "M:\Softwares\Dev Tools\SDK\google_appengine\google\appengine\api\datastore_types.py", line 1847, in FromPropertyPb
    value = unicode(value, 'utf-8')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xcc in position 14: invalid continuation byte

I don't understand why and how i can broke the datastore.
I am learning GAE with Go and this event really scare me...

A: The first traceback tells you exactly what you're doing wrong. You've passed --clear_datastore GoogleAppEngine, but it's expecting --clear_datastore=yes GoogleAppEngine (or 'no').
The correct syntax is documented.

A: For Java Users Solution is:
Delete local_db.bin file

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A WAN is a wide area network that connects different devices over a large geographic area. The devices are often connected so that they can communicate and share different sets of data and other information with each other. There are two different types of wide range networks that will be discussed in this article. The first type of wide range network is a software defined wide range network and the other is called a Cloud Network or cloud wide range network.
A software defined wide range network combines the two forces of software defined networking (also known as SDN) with a wide area network (also known as WAN). By combining these two forces together, different devices can be connected. Businesses typically use software defined wide range networks the most. They may use them to connect their office to the corporate office in another location. Businesses may also use software defined wide range networks to connect to other branches within the company that are located in various places. Banks use software defined wide range networks often to communicate between the different branches. That is how they can access a client's information no matter where the client is at and no matter what branch they are inside of. One of the major downfalls to having a software defined wide range network is that can be very expensive to run and operate. That is because of all of the highly advanced technology that it requires in order to successfully run one.
The pricier unit that is used in order to run software defined wide range network is something called a proprietary hardware, which is a hardware that is being run by a sole proprietor, person, or company. Aside from the major disadvantage of running the overly expensive, extremely advanced futuristic technology that is required to run the software defined wide range network, there are many benefits to using such a network. One of the more obvious benefits to using the software defined wide area networking system is being able to share information and communicate with others who are also involved in the particular network.
Another benefit to using a software defined wide range network is those who are involved in the network can rest assured that whatever information that they are sharing with others who are in the network is being kept 100% secure from hackers or anyone else who may want to break in to the network for whatever reason. This used to be a huge issue that affected thousands all around the world for a long time. Luckily, technology has been invented and utilized to cut down on the amount of hackers and people using the network who were not supposed to be using it.
Welcome to Fractal Design Expo. Our main objective is to share the amazing advances of WAN Technology.
For additional details, feel free to contact us: info@fractalexpo.com.


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More Americans feel Obama's presidency divided…
More Americans feel Obama's presidency divided the country than brought it together
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US President Barack Obama listens to Vice President Joe Biden during a tribute to Biden at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 12, 2017.
PUBLISHED: January 15, 2017 at 8:56 pm | UPDATED: February 1, 2017 at 10:34 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans feel Barack Obama's presidency divided the country than feel it brought people together, a new poll shows. Yet he leaves office held in high esteem by a solid majority.
Eight years after Obama's historic election, just 27 percent see the U.S. as more united as a result of his presidency, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted after the 2016 election. Far more — 44 percent — say it's more divided.
Those figures underscore one of the key contradictions of Obama's presidency. By and large, Americans like him. Yet, aside from the big "Obamacare" health care overhaul, he has been unable to translate that approval into congressional majorities to fulfill many of his goals.
"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency — that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," Obama said last January in his final State of the Union address.
Still, 57 percent say they view Obama favorably, putting him way ahead of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and on par with Bill Clinton at the end of their two terms. Clinton had the same 57 percent but Bush just 40, according to Gallup polling at the time. Bush's father fared better, with 62 percent viewing him favorably at the end of his time in office, despite his failure to win a second term.
Just over half say Obama's presidency has been great or good. Thirty-seven percent view him unfavorably.
Did he keep his promises? He did not, in the minds of 2 of 3 Americans, though 44 percent say he tried.
There's frustration even among many longtime Obama supporters about the lack of movement on major priorities such as overhauling the nation's immigration laws, enacting gun control measures and shutting the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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"He acted very presidential, but he just couldn't get things done," said Dale Plath, a retired sales manager from Mason City, Iowa. He said he voted for Obama the first time, voted against him the second, and this year, Plath said: "I voted for change, frankly" — in the form of Donald Trump.
"Yes, I understand the Republicans were against Obama," Plath said. "But there have been other presidents in the same situation, and they were able to pull through."
Obama leaves office more popular than he was just a few years ago. In December 2014, the month after Democrats lost control of the Senate, just 41 percent said they viewed him favorably in an AP-GfK poll.
His complicated legacy comes into sharper focus when it comes to race. Nearly 8 in 10 African-Americans view the nation's first black president favorably, but far fewer see his presidency as having yielded the type of profound changes for black Americans that many had hoped.
Just 43 percent of African-Americans say Obama made things better for black people, while roughly half say they see no difference. Six percent say Obama has made things worse.
For Ronald Thornton, a 62-year-old African-American from Obama's hometown of Chicago, change has come only around the margins. Thornton said he views Obama very favorably, but he added that even Obama's biggest achievement — the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare" — had come with downsides for people like him.
"The first year that it went into effect, I didn't have insurance," said Thornton, who later purchased care through the Obamacare marketplaces. "I was penalized for it that year, and I really don't have money to pay for that penalty."
By and large, Americans' views of Obama break along partisan lines. Nearly 9 in 10 Democrats and people who lean Democratic view him favorably, while 3 in 4 Republicans and GOP-leaning Americans have a negative view. Independents are roughly divided.
When he took office, the nation was in dire economic straits, with jobs evaporating and a financial crisis deepening by the day. Near the end of Obama's first year in office, the jobless rate hit a quarter-century high of 10 percent. He leaves the White House with unemployment at just 4.7 percent after 75 straight months of job growth, though it's come with sluggish rises in wages and many older Americans simply giving up on finding work.
It may be those persistent challenges that have fueled the perception that despite the economic recovery, things haven't improved enough. Just 4 in 10 Americans said they and their families are better off than when Obama took office, while about a quarter say they're worse off. About a third say they haven't seen much change.
Irene Purcell says she felt the difference. The former paralegal from Austin, Texas, was struggling to find work as a nanny in an economy where too few had the money to hire help.
"Just by virtue of him putting a large percentage of Americans back into the labor force, that made it possible for me," Purcell said, as the 3-year-old she now watches squealed in the background. "That was a real good thing."
The AP-NORC poll of 1,017 adults was conducted Dec. 14-19, 2016 using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
Interviews were conducted online and using landlines and cell phones.
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I know this is a bit grainy, but working on "up"ing my photo skills with iphone.
Today was a momentus day as we finally took the girls to the snow!!!! They had a blast and it was only about an hour and half away!


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Are you ready to make a career change but aren't quite sure how? Do you have passion for learning and trying new things? Are you interested in software development and learning what possibilities are out there for you?
Our intro class might be just the thing for you! During our four night introduction course, potential students have the opportunity to learn more about the languages we teach, meet alumni, and learn about our career support programs.
Each of the first three nights are dedicated to learning a little about each different language we teach here at ArCA.
Night 1 is all about HTML, which is a great language for students to start to get their feet wet with coding. In class, our students use HTML a lot in their final projects.
Night 2 is SQL night. SQL is a language used pretty often in the second half of our classes and is an important and frequently used language in the land of software development.
Night 3 is a night for Java (no, not the coffee. Although we'll have that, too!). The first half of our class is primarily focused on Java development. Night 3 will be a night to let students see how Java functions with the other two languages they've already learned that week.
The big finale of the intro course comes on Thursday. This last night is dedicated to career support and a panel of our alumni. Students will get an overview of our career support program (think resumes, cover letters, the works) and an opportunity to talk with our staff, alumni and current students of our programs.
So, if you've ever thought "Maybe this software development think could be for me", head on over to http://arkansascodingacademy.com/intro/ to register for our introductory course today! Hope to see you there!


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Ruth Steiner, Ph.D.
Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
College of Design, Construction and Planning
The appeal of cities like New York and Chicago is their easy access to shopping, entertainment, schools, housing, parks and other amenities.
This same idea of "New Urbanism" is popping up in many growing cities, bringing popularity to a spirit of community with less driving and more walking. And that's where Ruth Steiner, professor of urban and regional planning and development, takes to the street.
Steiner's biggest challenges in urban planning are transportation systems that focus strictly on the automobile; she says mass-transit users, bicyclists and walkers are often considered secondary.
"It is a constant battle between building cities for cars and building cities for people," says Steiner. "We have to build communities for all modes of transportation instead of focusing solely on the automobile. Otherwise, we will never relieve the traffic strain on our roads, and we will continue to build outward to deal with congestion."
Steiner is part of a team of UF researchers that develops tools to integrate all modes of transportation – cars, buses, bicycles and pedestrians – in order to form a more balanced transportation system. She has attracted more than $1 million in funded research on policies directed at facilitating alternative modes of transportation.
"Dr. Steiner has been instrumental in developing computer-based tools that have allowed city and regional planners to better plan for alternative modes of transportation," says Paul Zwick, associate professor and chair of the urban and regional planning department.
With funding from the Florida Department of Transportation, Steiner and her team have worked with local governments throughout the state to implement the urban planning tools that are being tested in Gainesville, Orlando, Deland, Key West and St. Lucie County.
"A more diverse mix of people, places and activities within neighborhoods will bring activities of daily life closer, reducing traffic and congestion," Steiner says. "A grid street network offers more route choices and more access points to all areas of the city, instead of relying on a few busy roads."


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HOME > INFORMATION > To all customers who purchased tickets for Kobaken's "From the New World"
Updated on July 21, 2020, Tuesday
To all customers who purchased tickets for Kobaken's "From the New World"
***All Kobaken's "From the New World" ticket holders requested to confirm! (details below)***
We are happy to present Shibuya Afternoon Concert (The New World of Kobaken), originally postponed from March 26, Thursday, to August 11, Tuesday, as announced. In order to ensure social distance, however, we have to make a new seat arrangement with vacant seats. We would like to thank you in advance for your understanding of the changes and the items listed below.
It is subject to change at the request of the Cabinet Office and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. We will announce any changes as necessary.
There will be no change in the performers or program
August 11, Tuesday, 14:00 (originally postponed from March 26)
Conductor & Speaker: Ken-ichiro Kobayashi
Guitar solo: Kaori Muraji*
Beethoven: Overture from "Egmont"
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez*
Dvořák: Symphony No.9 "From the New World"
Venue: Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Shibuya
Request for your visit
Reserved seats will be reallocated to all visitors.
We will send you an envelope which should reach you around July 18, Saturday.
Instead of the seats you have purchased, we will assign you a new seat(s) with empty seats on the front, back, right and left.
Please fill out the form enclosed in the envelope and return it to us with your ticket(s) postmarked by July 27, Monday. Please see the information enclosed in the envelope for details.
Please be sure to read the information about our measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus before coming to the venue. We sincerely appreciate your efforts.
Ticket prices can be refunded for those who will not be present.
Please send us your ticket(s) and the form enclosed in the envelope sent by us, postmarked by August 31, Monday. For details, please see the information enclosed in the envelope.
Support the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra by not requesting a refund:
We have provided in the form your option to consider unspent tickets a donation toward TPOs ability to share your love for classical music.
Since late February, all our concerts have been either cancelled or postponed. As performance fees are almost all the source of our revenue, we are facing a survival crisis.
Your passion for supporting the TPO and our dedicated musicians will make a huge difference.
◆For customers who purchased through a ticket agency, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra will send you a letter with details.
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra