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At Citus Data, our mission is to make it so developers never have to worry about scaling their database. Our expertise is in Postgres and distributed systems—and we have decades of collective experience managing Postgres databases in the cloud. And in 2019, we were acquired by Microsoft.
Umur Cubukcu
I co-founded Citus Data to make it so SaaS businesses never have to worry about scaling their database. As CEO, I serve in both operational and strategic roles, doing whatever is needed to make my customers and my team successful.
Before founding Citus Data, I led enterprise software and IT projects at Boston Consulting Group. And I worked with some of the world's biggest companies including Wal-Mart and Kimberly-Clark at demand analytics startup TrueDemand. At startup Mekanist.net, I served as CEO and put the company back on a growth path. I have an M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford—plus a keen interest in how scalable systems of record can help businesses to grow.
Ozgun Erdogan
I am a co-founder of Citus Data, where I am CTO and get to solve really interesting distributed database problems. I started Citus because I believe developers should not have to re-architect their application in order to scale out their database.
My love for technology started with a Commodore 64. I earned a B.S. from Galatasaray University and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford. Before Citus, I was a software developer in the distributed systems team at Amazon, where I designed distributed caching algorithms and built systems for scalable data analytics. My other awesome job title: Dad.
Sumedh Pathak
VP of Engineering & Co-Founder
I am a co-founder of Citus Data and the VP of Engineering. At Citus, I lead the effort to make sure our scale-out database is useful for app devs, so developers can focus on their application and not their database infrastructure. Before Citus, I worked as a software engineer at Amazon on the shopping cart app; I also worked on distributed data stores like Dynamo, and relational data stores such as Oracle. I have an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and a B.S. from University of Minnesota. In my free time, I keep it simple: you'll find me with my family and throwing the tennis ball for our dog.
Craig Kerstiens
Head of Cloud
I joined the team at Citus Data to help create Citus Cloud, our fully-managed database as a service. As head of cloud, I am responsible for product, engineering, and operations for our cloud database. My goal at Citus: to give developers the experience of having the best DBA in the world.
Before Citus I ran product at Heroku Postgres and for Heroku core languages and APIs, where I launched support for Python, PHP, and Go. I also worked on Postgres'y things at Truviso, where I extended Postgres to be a streaming database. I have a degree in Management Information Systems from University of Alabama, which is where I fell in love with bbq and football.
Claire Giordano
I joined Citus Data to lead marketing and raise awareness about the worry-free Postgres database that is Citus.
Before Citus, I served in leadership roles in engineering, product management, and marketing at Sun Microsystems, Quantum, and A9, an Amazon company. At Sun, I managed the engineering team that created Zones, and I led the effort to open source the OS. At A9, I launched the beta of a new advertising platform; at Quantum I delivered over 15 scale-out storage products. My career in tech all started in Providence: I earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science from Brown University. Which explains why I'm a New Englander at heart.
Utku Azman
Managing Director, EMEA
I love being part of a technology stack that enables organizations to observe, measure, and understand the swaths of data that are available today. As the managing director of EMEA, I manage our EMEA engineering team as well as leading all sorts of business and operational projects.
Before Citus, I served in senior business development roles at Intel, Oracle, and McKinsey. I was a product manager at Google, and a systems engineer at Alcatel-Lucent. I earned M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell and an MBA from London Business School. When I'm not at work, I love to snowboard with my family.
Saurabh Modi
I joined Citus Data to help our customers modernize their data platforms without having to replatform. And to join a pretty stellar team. Before Citus, I served in sales leadership roles at both MapR and Oracle. At MapR, I worked with big data customers on Hadoop and open source projects. At Oracle, I was responsible for growing database, middleware, analytics, and infrastructure sales. I earned a BS degree in MIS in the heart of America's dairyland, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. And when I'm not at work, I've been learning how to entertain my young children on long car trips—with the power of song.
Burak Velioglu
I joined Citus to work on challenging distributed systems problems—and to take the awesome database that is Postgres and make it scale out. I've been interested in data science and analytics since forever, or at least since college. Before Citus, I was a researcher on machine learning techniques for computer vision, NLP problems, and brain decoding. I earned my B.S. and M.S. degrees from METU in computer engineering. When I'm not at work, you'll find me listening to classical music and working on my PhD.
Burak Yucesoy
I am a software developer. I joined the team at Citus Data to work on distributed systems and databases and especially HyperLogLog. Before Citus, I worked as a software engineer at SAP on distributed databases; I did a research stint at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon; I contributed a translation of Ubuntu into Turkish; and I earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Bilkent University. In my free time, I play experimental games and build flying robots. One of my dreams is to have my own metal workshop.
Daniel Farina
I joined Citus Data as a principal engineer to help build our fully-managed database as a service, Citus Cloud. My goal: to enable developers to forget about their database and focus on their application instead.
I first started to use Postgres in a computer science class at UC Berkeley. My later work at streaming database company Truviso also involved Postgres. And then I joined Heroku, where I was one of the earliest and longest-serving Postgres engineers, managing thousands of Postgres databases in the cloud. Another claim to fame: I created and maintain WAL-E. My free time is spent with my wife, newborn baby, and learning from the lessons of history.
Eren Başak
I am a software developer. I joined Citus Data to scale out Postgres and work on distributed systems. These days I work on Citus Cloud, our fully-managed database as a service. Before Citus, I worked on web and mobile applications, as well as geographical information systems and software quality measurement.
I have B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Bilkent University. When I'm not at work, I spend my time with all kinds of motorcycles and my favorite space opera, StarCraft.
Furkan Sahin
My favorite field in Computer Science is distributed systems. So I joined Citus to work on really difficult distributed systems problems with an engineering team that not only loves what they do, but loves to share their expertise with the community. Before Citus, I worked on blockchain-based data distribution systems, distributed databases, and complex data visualizations. I have also worked on percentile approximations for PostgreSQL and distributed tables (my favorite type of table). My B.S. degree is in Computer Science from Bilkent University.
Hadi Moshayedi
I joined Citus to work on complex distributed systems problems. In my early days at Citus as the first employee, I created an open source columnar store for Postgres called cstore_fdw, along with a bevy of other useful Citus features. I am an ex-Googler and an active Google Chrome committer, contributing patches to event dispatching and processing in ChromeOS. I have won way too many programming competitions in my day. Nowadays, I dream of distributed databases and winning road bike races in Kitchener, Canada.
Jason Petersen
As an early team member at Citus Data, I've had a front-row seat to watch the Citus distributed database grow and scale. And I've learned the true measure of a product is getting it into the hands of customers with the ease of use they intuitively appreciate. Commitment to doing even the little things well is what makes me most proud of my work, be it an elegant algorithm within AWS, clean Rails UI libraries, or a new SQL feature that just works. When I'm not obsessing over tasks at work, I love playing piano, gardening, sampling new restaurants, or biking around Denver's City Park with the kiddo.
I joined Citus Data because I love Postgres and I believe developers need great documentation. I am a speaker, blogger, writer, and maintainer of popular open source projects, notably PostgREST a RESTful API server for PostgreSQL. In addition to programming, I enjoy teaching and organizing events such as the Bay Area Haskell Users Group. I earned a BS in Mathematics from UW Madison. I have a luddite affection for dumb phones, card games, and chalkboards.
Lukas Fittl
I joined Citus Data to make distributed databases easier to use—and to make it so developers never have to worry about scaling their database. As a principal cloud engineer, I helped to create Citus Cloud, our fully-managed database as a service that scales out Postgres. Before Citus, I was part of the founding team at Product Hunt and a co-founder at Soup.io & Spark59. I'm originally from Austria and yet nobody thinks I have an Austrian accent. When I'm not working, you'll find me biking across the Golden Gate Bridge: the view of the golden gate never, ever gets old.
Marco Slot
I am a principal engineer at Citus Data, although I prefer to be called chief bug fixer. I've been working on distributed systems for over a decade. Citus is the most exciting technology I've worked on. Every time there is a new feature, countless new possibilities are created within the database. I work on all parts of Citus and on lots of crazy ideas. Before joining Citus Data, I worked on distributed operating systems, helped start Route 53 and CloudFront at Amazon, and got a PhD in cooperative self-driving cars. I love mountain hiking but I live in a flat country, so I travel around a lot and cycle on the flats of nearby dunes and tulip fields.
Metin Doslu
I joined Citus Data to be part of the company that scales out Postgres, so that developers can focus on their app and not their database. At Citus, I am both a software developer and a project manager: I get to create and I get to lead. Before Citus, I worked as a software engineer on train traffic control software and on a mobile development environment in the IoT space. I love software and I code in my spare time, including writing predictive algorithms for College Football game scores. I have B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Bogazici University. I sometimes wonder if the universe is deterministic or not.
Murat Tuncer
Challenging myself is important, which is why I joined Citus Data as a software developer: distributed systems are hard! And I love working on back-end development. Before Citus, I worked on R&D projects in distributed systems, network protocol analysis, and data mining—in the defense industry as well as at Microsoft and Real Networks. I graduated with a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Bilkent University. In my free time, I hang out with my wife and teenagers and build static ship models.
Önder Kalaci
I joined Citus Data as a software engineer to scale out Postgres. And to do something that had not yet been done: a full outer join of an awesome RDBMS with a robust distributed system. Before joining Citus, I worked as a software developer on an environmental monitoring system, a dynamic data race detection framework, and unified threat management. I earned a B.S. degree from METU and an M.S. degree from Boğaziçi University in computer engineering. I think thread level parallelism is the perfect topic for dinner table conversation.
Sai Krishna Srirampur
I am a solutions engineer at Citus Data. I spend my days onboarding customers, advising on data models and sharding strategies, and demo'ing the Citus distributed database to help developers understand how Citus can help them scale out Postgres. I have a Bachelors in Computer Science and a Masters in Computational Linguistics from IIIT in Hyderabad, India. And I've published several papers in the field of Natural Language Processing. Before Citus, I worked as a software developer at Epic Systems Corp. Fun fact: I am also a professional ping-pong player. You can catch me flipping, looping, and lobbing a few times a week. 🐋
Sally Martinez
I joined Citus Data as part of sales and customer success, to help people learn about how Citus can help them grow their business. Our mission: to make it so developers never have to worry about scaling their database. Before Citus Data, I worked in lead development and as an account manager at Percona, Jaspersoft, and MySQL. When I am not working to make customers successful, I hike the mountains of Idaho. I'm also a bit of a foodie, and I love trying out new restaurants as well as trying out new recipes at home.
Samay Sharma
I joined Citus Data over 5 years ago as a software engineering intern before finishing my degree in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad. Flash forward to today, I am now the Lead Solutions Engineer. In my earlier years at Citus, I created new features and wrote documentation. These days I spend my time onboarding customers, and demo'ing our distributed database to those who want to learn whether our sharded Postgres will help them scale out their application. When I'm not at work, you'll find me at the theatre watching Bollywood movies.
Will Leinweber
I am a principal engineer and security lead at Citus Data. I joined Citus because I love working on challenging database problems and Citus gave me the opportunity to help create Citus Cloud, a fully-managed service we offer to keep your database worry-free. Before Citus, I spent 5 years working on the core Heroku Postgres team. I graduated with an M.S. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I love music, so when I'm not working, I'm probably at a concert or listening to music somewhere.
Dimitri Fontaine
I joined Citus Data to help users make the most of the Citus extension to PostgreSQL. Goal: to improve user experience one bit at a time. I love being a PostgreSQL Major Contributor and being part of the Postgres community. I contributed the extension facility and the Event Triggers feature to core PostgreSQL, and I also work on documentation, pgloader, and organizing Postgres conferences. Prior to Citus Data, I served in architect, CTO, and engineering leadership roles at 2ndQuadrant and leboncoin.
Recent news: I wrote a book! "Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development" teaches SQL to application developers so they can replace 1000s of lines of code with simple SQL queries.
Teresa Giacomini
I joined Citus Data as a Principal Marketing Program Manager to create programs & events that help developers learn what the Citus extension to Postgres can do for them. Before Citus Data, I worked at Oracle as a Principal Engineering Program Manager, where I managed field communications, new product introductions, and events large and small—from Oracle OpenWorld to customer advisory boards. In the operating systems group at Sun, I was the Open Source Community Manager for OpenSolaris where I grew the number of user groups from zero to 150+. I earned my Bachelor's degree from U.C. Berkeley. A farm girl at heart, I like to hang out in the garden with my chickens when I'm not at work.
Joe Sciarrino
I joined Citus Data to enable developers and businesses to scale their data. As the commercial Director of Sales for Citus, my primary responsibility is to be '"chief listener" for customers, collaborating with them to address their challenges with performance and growth. Before Citus, I served as a senior Account Executive at Heroku, managing and growing $35 million of Heroku's accounts during a 3 year period in which top-line revenue quadrupled. Previously, I served in both product management and sales roles at AnyPerk, Vivint, and Scan.me. I earned a B.A. in Economics from Wake Forest University, with a minor in Entrepreneurship. Outside of work, you'll find me befriending restaurant owners, trying to discover all the secret menus.
Nils Dijk
I joined Citus Data because I am obsessed with distributed systems problems like TopK, and I wanted the opportunity to work on beautiful data structures like bloom filters. Prior to working on the Citus database, I built an ETL stack at Bottlenose that ingested more than 10% of all tweets into an online analytical database. At Uber, I worked on the distributed systems layer that powered most of their dispatching stack. My degree is in Computer Science from the University of Applied Science of Amsterdam in Game Technology. In my spare time, when I'm not on the meetup circuit in Amsterdam, I analyse multiplayer video games to extract movement information and social graphs from the players.
Amanda Durham
I joined Citus Data to be part of something that matters. At Citus, I serve as executive admin to the CEO and his staff, I manage the San Francisco office, and I provide logistical support for internal and external events. Before Citus, I worked as a business analyst for PG&E Academy, and as a compliance analyst for PG&E Gas Ops and Engineering. I am a lifelong student, and I'm not yet done learning new things. I earned a B.S. in Business Management from Indiana Wesleyan University & an MBA from Brandman University. Once upon a time, I proudly served as a Radioman in the US Navy. On weekends, you'll find me volunteering for Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity.
Colton Shepard
I joined Citus to make it easy to scale out Postgres and bring worry-free distributed databases to the world. As a solutions engineer, I get to spend my days working with users, answering questions about data models and sharding keys, and making sure that everything goes smoothly with onboarding. Before Citus, I worked with fleets of millions of devices, I managed complex distributed file sharing solutions, and I kept online courses for massive schools running. When I'm not at work, I like to build tabletop role-playing games. I will never stop trying to find something new.
Murat Ulutas
I joined Citus Data because of the people. Based in Istanbul, I am responsible for accounting operations and government relations for our EMEA teams, including working on the Innovation Agendas set forward by the EU & other Governments in Europe. I earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Istanbul University and a Master's Degree in International Accounting from Nisantasi University. And when I'm not at work, I love to play football (some people call it soccer) and table tennis.
Dan Alpert
I joined Citus Data so more and more enterprises will benefit from Citus, and how Citus transforms Postgres into a distributed database. As Director of Sales at Citus, I work closely with customers to make sure their experience with us is a success, from evaluation all the way to deployment. Earlier in my career, I worked for a fast-growing data platform startup focused on meeting the needs of the Fortune 500. My bachelor's degree is in marketing and logistics from Central Michigan University, but my learning didn't stop there: I have formed a lifelong hobby of taking really interesting data science classes. And I have music in my DNA: I come from a family of musicians, directors, and conductors, and I myself play 5 instruments.
Louise Grandjonc
I joined Citus Data to help Postgres users take advantage of Citus to scale out their database. At Citus, I'm a solutions engineer, and I collaborate with users on data models for new projects and migrations. I love working on database performance and tuning SQL queries. Before Citus, I was lead developer at crowdfunding company Ulule where I was also responsible for website performance. And at peopledoc, I worked on PostgreSQL full text search. I have a masters in Computer Science & Engineering from Université de Technologies de Compiègne. When not at work, you'll find me playing the bass viol or reading one of my favorite books, "The Master and Margarita."
Hanefi Onaldi
I joined Citus Data to work on distributed systems, and to find ways to pull apart and distribute data. Before Citus, I created tools for machine learning workflows at a leading mobile phone operator; I also worked at Pisano.co on software to monitor and improve customer experiences. Processing millions of feedback items has helped me to understand how Postgres operates and to appreciate the flexibility and power of a relational database like Postgres. I am currently pursuing a BS double major in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Bogazici University. And in my free time, I train bots on my favorite novels so my favorite characters from different genres can speak to each other.
Jeffrey Davis
I joined the Citus team at Microsoft as a Principal Engineer to raise expectations of what a database can do. Citus is at the perfect intersection of analytics, performance, cloud, Postgres, and community. And I believe Microsoft is the perfect place to take Citus to the next level. Before Citus, I worked on streaming analytics at Truviso, at Aster Data, and on AWS Aurora. I'm also a Postgres committer—and have been working on PostgreSQL since I was 16 years old. My B.S. degree is in Electrical Engineering from the University of California San Diego. And when I'm not at work or doing patch reviews for Postgres, you just might traveling the world to yet another PostgreSQL conference.
Josh Berkus
Josh Berkus is a hacker emeritus of the PostgreSQL Core Team and is the community lead for Project Atomic at Red Hat. For many years, Josh served as CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, a professional services consulting company that provided full-stack application development for PostgreSQL. At Sun Microsystems, Josh was in charge of PostgreSQL for Solaris. And before Sun, Josh served as the open source community manager for the data warehousing startup, GreenPlum.
Peter van Hardenberg
Peter van Hardenberg was an early team member at Heroku and co-founded Heroku's Department of Data, the team behind Heroku Postgres. Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com for $212M, less than four years after founding. Earlier in his career, Peter worked as an Arctic oceanographer, game developer, and Shakespearean scholar. Peter lives in the heart of San Francisco and advises high-growth software companies like Citus Data, Zapproved, and Auth0.
Andres Freund
Andres Freund is a PostgreSQL committer and developer, focusing on replication, scalability, and robustness. Andres served as a principal engineer at Citus Data for many years; prior to his work on Citus, Andres worked as a PostgreSQL developer and consultant at 2ndQuadrant. Currently Andres is a database architect at EnterpriseDB. Andres has been developing Postgres and other open source projects since 2005. In his free time, Andres enjoys climbing, diving, and paper books.
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Q: For developing a website with Django, how can I use 'localhost' as a functioning SMTP server? I'm developing a website with Django, and I'm currently working on the whole authentication setup, specifically the part where the user can use a password reset form that sends a one-time email with a link to use for resetting the password. However, if I try to use 'localhost' (currently my own personal machine) to send the email, the web server included with Django crashes with the message:

ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

I did some research and figured out that to send email, I need to connect with an SMTP server, and my machine is apparently not an SMTP server. At least, not usually. Now, I want to note two things:

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*I am aware that I can use Gmail's SMTP servers, and in fact, I have code in another program that does just that. However, I would prefer to use 'localhost' if possible. If I can't, then I'll just create another Gmail account and use that.

*I am aware that Django provides several email backends, and in fact, I currently have the file-based backend implemented right now. That's good enough to test the provided links and verify that they work, but I would like to see what the email would actually look like, with any formatting included in the email template.
So, how can I turn 'localhost' into an SMTP server, and one that Django will accept? Alternatively, if I can't, then please let me know and I will take the alternate route of setting up another Gmail account to use.

A: In the interest of potentially helping anyone who has the same issue and comes across this question, I'll share the path I chose.
As per Tiago's comment,

You can create a free account on sendgrid or mailgun and send your test email from there.

I took a look at sendgrid, but they require a website, and I don't have one (yet) as I am running the website locally on my machine. mailgun was much more useful, and they even provide code snippets to use in a variety of languages. However, as I am currently using Django's built-in views, I didn't use the snippets they provided. Rather, in my settings.py file, I set the following:
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.mailgun.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'postmaster@sandbox[sandboxID].mailgun.org'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '[Default Password]'

sandboxID and Default Password can be found by going to https://mailgun.com/cp/domains/ and then following the link(s) to the page for whichever sandbox(es) has/have been assigned to you.
I tested this code and it worked great!
Important note: Apparently, it seems like you have to have your mailgun control panel open in a browser page in order to send mail from your sandbox(es). After I had closed that tab, I wasn't getting any mail, and it popped up in my Gmail inbox the moment I opened it back up.

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Cheiromancy (derived from the Greek word "Cheir" meaning hand) more popularly known as Palmistry, dignifies the study of the lines or flexion folds on the palm of the hand which, together with the shape and size of the hand and the lengths of the fingers, are used to read a subject's character and the past and future events in their life.
It is an ancient belief, extending back in China to 3000 B C where it was sometimes combined with Podoscopy, or divination by reading the lines on the feet. Today it flourishes in Asia and the Middle East and to a lesser extent in the West.
Palmistry is a divinatory system; it has the charm of simplicity and definiteness, as during the ages every detail has been brought under a set of formal rules which need only perfunctory application.
The Line of Life, which runs in an arc from between the thumb and forefinger around the base of the thumb, and from which can be judged the vitality and length of life.
The Line of Heart, lying across the centre of the palm, relates to the mental outlook of the affec-tions rather than the physical.
The Line of Head, also running across the palm, relates to everything concerning the intellect, education, improvement and mental attitude.
The Line of Fate or Destiny, starting at the wrist and extending to the base of the second finger is held to relate to the success or failure of one's worldly affairs and the barriers one is likely to meet during life.
Many other subsidiary lines and features are also taken into consideration by the Palmist such as where a line begins and ends, whether it joins or crosses another, the breaks in a line, the forks, the depths and irregularities such as "chain" formations.
The mounts at the bases of the thumb and fingers are named after the planets Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury and Mars, the satellite Moon, and the god Apollo. Frequently the characteristics interpreted by the Palmist are augmented with an infusion of astrology and numerology.
Count Louis Hamon, or Cheiro, (1866-1936), a former lecturer and editor, was considered the most successful palmist of modern times and is still regarded posthumously as the foremost exponent of the art.
The author of several books on the occult and palmistry, the latter being held in high regard by palmists who follow his basic principles.
In his book, You and Your Hand, (listed as non-fiction and of which a reviewer wrote, "It was Cheiro who lifted palmistry into the realms of serious study and led the way to the present scientific and psychological approach to the subject") he includes an introduction entitled "A Defence of Palmistry", in which he refers to the testimony and ideas given by scientific men as arguments in favour of the cheiromantic use of the lines on the hands.
Among the quotes are Aristotle, "The hand is the organ of organs, the active agent of the passive powers of the entire system." Quintilian, "For the other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these I may say, speak for themselves; they ask, they promise, they invoke, they dismiss, they threaten, they entreat, they deprecate, they express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assents, our penitence, they show moderation, profusion, they mark number and time." Sir Charles Bell, "We ought to define the hand as belonging exclusively to man, corresponding in its sensibility and motion, to the endowment of his mind", and Sir Richard Owen as writing, "In the hand every single bone is distinguishable from one another; each digit has its own peculiar character."
While I have no argument with the profundity of the above, not one of them argued, agreed, or even suggested, that the creases on the palm of the hand are anything other than the natural flexion folds of the skin. So much for the invocation of authoritative and scientific support, which in no way demonstrate any fundamental hypothesis or correlation existing within the province of reason.
Shortly after my fortieth birthday, an amateur palmist friend offered to read my palm. Out of curiosity and despite any misgivings I may have had about the validity of palmistry, I told him to go ahead. As he was familiar with my past, and a shrewd judge of character, I was not unduly surprised that what he purportedly read in the creases of my palm was a fair assessment – until he came to the Line of Life. According to his reckoning I would not live to see my 53rd birthday. Having lived an active life, and being in excellent physical and mental health at the time, I dismissed this with an unconvincing laugh, unconvincing, because despite my scepticism, to hear any prediction of that nature is disconcerting and hard to shake off. Over the next few months, no matter how determined I was to dismiss it from my mind, the thought kept re-occurring until finally in desperation, I successfully psyched myself into substituting another thought, "I will live to be 105."
While my 53rd birthday passed uneventfully well over a decade ago, the experience served to demonstrate one of the dangers inherent in "fortune telling." To a believer, the ramifications of such a revelation could have had a disastrous effect on both the individual and his family, and in an extreme case, even lead to the self-fulfillment of the prophecy, as with the "pointing of the bone" in the Aboriginal culture.
Coincidently, using Cheiro's charts to interpret the lines on my palm, I discovered that I had been dead for some years!
While I had been up to that time moderately sceptical, albeit passive, in respect of paranormal claims; cognizant now of the possible deleterious effects of predictions based on irrational premises, motivated me to take a more active part in critically examining those claims and reporting my findings.
To my observation I have a fairly uncomplex palm, that is, the main creases are well defined with few feathery offshoots. Using Cheiro's textbook, I embarked on a deliberate and impartial evaluation of my character, with meticulous regard to each and every word in an endeavour to be fair to the author. The result was less than 50 per cent accurate, (no more than fair guesswork) even allowing for the ambiguity and patronising generalities.
Specifically, one point which adequately invalidates the claimed accuracy of palmistry was found when interpreting the Line of Life. In his book Cheiro (p 91) writes, "If the beginning of the Line of Life commences with a chain formation (which mine does and I suspect most others do) delicate health in the early years is clearly foreshadowed."
Given the prevalence of ailments to which the children of my generation and those preceeding it were subject – diptheria, scarlet fever, German measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, mumps, ringworm, impetigo, rickets and tuberculosis, most of which have now been eradicated in the western world by improved living conditions and health standards – "delicate health" in infants was not an unusual feature in those times. You will recall that this period was also Cheiro's hey-day, his deductions therefore would have been influenced by the prevailing socioeconomic conditions.
If Cheiro's interpretation was correct, then logically, with the improvement in health standards since his time, the chain formation should have all but disappeared from our palms. Has it? (The Line of Life runs from between the thumb and forefinger, and around the base of the thumb – check it). Cheiro goes on to say, "but if the line becomes clear of this link or chain formation, as it proceeds, it shows that complete recovery from these earlier illnesses may be promised." It should be patently obvious, that an adult who is having his palm read and has had an illness of this sort as an infant, has made a complete recovery – hardly a startling revelation!
Further evidence of the erroneous correlation between the lines on the palm and destiny, is the claim often made by palmists that "the lines in the hand begin to break down... at the moment of death." A check with the Connecticut State Medical Examiner's Office by Michael A. Park (1982), an associate professor of anthropology at Central Connecticut State College, New Britain, indicated that this claim was unfounded, the crease lines remain after death. Furthermore, palmists' claims to be able to divine longevity from this furrow is equally spurious according to British pathologists, who examined the hands of 100 cadavers in a hospital mortuary, which revealed that "the lifeline appeared to have no bearing on how long the patient lived."
In the first and second World Wars, tens of millions of young men in their late teens and early twenties were slaughtered on the battlefields, it is interesting to speculate whether they all had atrophied "life lines", and if so, why this trend was not noted and reported by palmists around the world.
There have been many well documented scientific tests of palmistry, and all show conclusively that there is no correlation between the lines on one's hand and future or past events. Any success or accuracy accorded a palmist or perceived by a client can be explained prosaically – the astuteness of the palmist in judging character by observation, a general knowledge of the common situations we all experience in life, the use of "cold reading" techniques, and the proclivity of the client to believe.
Boparai, M.S. 1992. Mind Pollution of Fortune Telling. PO Box. 6250. Lismore.
Cheiro, 1974. You and Your Hand. Sphere Books Ltd. London. UK.
Edwards, Harry. 1988, "Quack Attack." the Skeptic Vol 8 (4) p 24.
_____________ 1993. "Cross my hand with a Fiver." the Skeptic Vol 13(3). Australian Skeptics Inc., PO Box A2324, Sydney South, NSW. 2000.
Gettings, F 1986. Palmistry Made Easy. Wilshire Book Co. CA.
Hill, D. 1992. Fortune Telling. Hamlyn Paperbacks. England.
Laycock, D. (Ed.) 1995. Skeptical. Canberra Skeptics. PO. Box. 555. Canberra, ACT. McBride, R.M. 1939. Encyclopaedia of Occult Sciences. New York.
Park, M.A. 1982. "Palmistry: Science or Hand-Jive?" Skeptical Inquirer. 7(2):21-32.
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Article Review Example: Migration Toward the New World
Article Review Example Migration Toward The New World
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This article is an excerpt from Chapter five of a book that was authored by Ida Altman. It covers the events that occurred during the movement of people from Extremadura to the Indies. The intent of the author here was to examine the how the people moved between Spain and America during the sixteenth Century. According to Altman, the emigrants differed in their pursuits and achievements.
In my analysis, the author appears to be hugely biased on the scope of his study. The people whose migratory behavior was being studied had common origins and also moved to similar destinations. They were relatives, neighbors, and friends and thus their acquittances were apparently known to one another. The nature of biases dissuades the reader from getting exposed to the social behavior of other migratory groups that also existed at that particular time.
The figures and ideas of this paper are based on quite some resources. Among the sources used primarily include: Peter Boyd-Bowman, Indice geobio grafico de cuarenta mil Pobla Dores espanoles de America en el siglo XVI, 2 vols. (Bogota, 1964, Mexico, 1968) and the Catalogo de pasajeros a Indias Durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII, 5 vols. (Seville, 1940-1946, 1950). Altman also used materials from archives that supplied additional terms of the emigrants, for example, Archivo General de Indias (AGI). Moreover, it is reported that some files were sourced from James Lockhart.
Contribution attributed to this literature rests on the fact that it has taken an in-depth study of the context of the movement of the Spanish emigrants. As a result, the paper provides a framework of how immigrants carried themselves together as they moved in a colony. The shortcoming of this article is however evident to the fact that the author's focus is based on "immigration." Many critics have cast doubts on that concept since it is a modern vocabulary that did not exist the sixteenth century. Further studies need to clarify the general characteristics for emigrants that hold across the globe.
Extremenos in the New World
Like the previous article, this is another chapter of the same book written by Ida Altman. The author seeks to analyze the nature of a particular group of emigrants named Extremenos, who made it to the New World. This article is a continuation of Altman's study, and its position is still based on addressing a unique feature similar to the preceding chapter. The group under study exhibited typical social connections; they were from the Extremenos had a common origin, family relationships, and kinships.
Among the primary sources that the author refers to include Men of Cajamarca, 27-31, 40, 77 by Lockhart and "Resena historica," pp. 1, 189-196 (Pasto, 1942) by Jose Rafael Zarama. Used, here again, was Lockharts Spanish Peru. It is from the sources that the author has reviewed his literature and found a research gap that he attempts to fill by his study. As part of her contribution, the study has provided insights and understanding of how Spanish-American Society came into existence.
The drawback of Altman's study about this literature is that it lacks clarification on how the emigrants who returned home influenced their culture. How were they perceived? What was their main reason for going back while others were still moved to the new world? All these vital questions remain unanswered. Therefore, further studies should address the fate of those of emigrants who returned to their homeland and how they were affected.
Key to the Indies
It is surprisingly coincident that this article is also written by the one, Ida Altman. Her narrative revolves around the episodes that ensued Spanish movements across the Caribbean port towns. The events of that period were hostile; they entailed several expeditions, mainly slave-raiding. Altman has directed her focus on the cities and towns to elucidate the manner in which they portrayed a unique contextual outlook of the islands. The aspect of biases in this particular paper, however, is very minimal. It appears that the author is biasedly objective in studying the small towns in the ports merely because many scholars had ignored them. She has touched on what had been done to the bigger cities.
The sources for Altmans study include but not limited to, The Early History of Cuba (New York, 1916), 6364 by A. Wright; AGI Santo Domingo 1121, L. 2 (1534); and AGI Santo Domingo 9. The article succeeds in exploring the nature of the society and life lived in the ancient port towns. This contribution is fairly a major one since no scholarly study had been done on it before. No erroneous details have been spotted on this work. However, further investigations should be conducted on the colonial interference and its impact on the ports.
Indian Justice and Law Empire in Colonial Mexico
This book explores effectiveness with which the principles of the Spanish Law took its course after the end of 1600 conquest. Brian Owensby (the author of this book) reveals how the people of India perceived the law as practically and morally binding tool for the society. Many legal aspects of settling disputes and reinforcement of human rights have also been widely covered. The author's primary focus is based on the core of the viceroyalty. The fact that Owensby concentrates entirely on the aspects law without connecting them to other ethical doctrines reflects biases.
The primary sources on which he has relied on are the documents drawn from the Archivo General de la Nacion in the City of Mexico. He has enriched his work with lots of information regarding conflicts and mechanisms of resolutions that were recorded in the colonial era. The authors contribution in this field heavily banks on the virtue of demonstrating how much the Indians succeeded to understand, internalize and manipulate Spanish political and juridical principles. I must admit that Brian Owensby did a splendid work on this study, it is error free. However, future research needs to check on how the colonial legal principles have so far been transformed since the seventieth century and how they relate to the current laws.
Altman, Ida. 1989. "Emigrants And Society: Extremadura And America In The Sixteenth Century.". International Migration Review Chapter 5, "Movement to the New World" (2): 33. doi:10.2307/2546298.
Altman, Ida. 1989. "Emigrants And Society: Extremadura And America In The Sixteenth Century.". International Migration Review Chapter 6, "Extremenos in the New World" (3): 26. doi:10.2307/2546298.
Altman, Ida. 2016. "Key To The Indies: Port Towns In The Spanish Caribbean: 14931550". The Americas: A Quarterly Review Of Latin American History 74 (01): 5-26. doi:10.1017/tam.2016.79.
Owensby, Brian P. 2008. "Empire Of Law And Indian Justice In Colonial Mexico." Choice Reviews Online 46 (04): 32. doi:10.5860/choice.46-2257.
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Chris Higgins (a Team Member since1996, and a Deputy Leader since 2000) has become only the 5th Team Leader in 66 years!
After serving 20 years in the post, Mark Hodgson MBE stood down at the Team's AGM on Thursday 30th January 2014. The team is one of the busiest in the country with around 150 rescues each year. Its new leader is Chris Higgins. Chris will be ably supported by two new Deputy Team Leaders, Paul Barnes and Chris Harling along with the existing leaders, Simon Hodgson and Chris Gilyon.
Congratulations to Chris and his deputies and and a big thank you to Mark for his considerable contribution to mountain rescue locally, regionally and nationally.
Since its inception in 1947, the previous Team Leaders have been Lt Col Rusty Westmorland OBE (who preferred to be called the Captain), George Fisher MBE, Mike Nixon MBE and Mark Hodgson MBE.


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The innovative fabric was chosen by Urban Vision as a flagship product of all its Out of Home achievements. 'The Breath' exploits nanotechnology to capture pollutants present In the atmosphere and ensure cleaner air. Placed on scaffolding or on hoarding of construction of urban regeneration and sponsored restoration works, the fabric, exploiting the natural air circulation and without being powered by energy sources, absorbs surrounding contaminants, including mold and unpleasant odors. An environmentally friendly technology, whose potential has been immediately caught by Urban Vision, always attentive to the environmental issue.
The Breath won the Sustainable Development Award 2016, designed by the Foundation for Sustainable Development in collaboration with Ecomondo and with the high support of the President of the Republic. The award is annually given to Italian companies that reach significant environmental results through innovative initiatives.
Urban Vision has started an exclusive partenrship with Anemotech for distribution in Italy and England of the zero impact technology 'The Breath' .


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In recent years, food materials that contain flavonoids and antioxidants have been connected with the prevention of heart disease. Flavonoids are poly-phenolic combinations found plentifully in cocoa and, to a slightly lesser extent, in apples, red wine and green tea. More particularly, the flavonoid found in dark or black chocolate has been linked to decreases in blood pressure, improvements in antioxidant properties, improvements in cognitive function, increases in high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations, improvements in insulin sensitivity, improvements in anti-platelet activity, and improvements in endothelial dysfunction that promote vascular homeostasis. Compared with white chocolate and milk chocolate, dark or black chocolate contains more flavonoids because it contains more cocoa. Click here to enable the notifications for Santa Barbara Chocolate details here.
Dark chocolate and the heart: Dark chocolate may aid in lower blood pressure in individuals with hypertension, and has been proven to lower levels of LDL, the "bad cholesterol," by ten percent. Adding dark chocolate to your diet may benefit your cardiovascular organs by helping to block arterial damage provoked by free radicals. It may also inhibit platelet aggregation, which would provoke a heart stroke or attack. There have also been researches showing that the flavonoids in cocoa relax the blood vessels, which inhibits an enzyme that causes inflammation.
Eat chocolate for your brain:In a study, a compound found in cocoa, epicatechin, when incorporated with exercise, was found to boost functional alterations in a part of the brain involved in the formation of memory and learning.
Potential anti-cancer benefits: A research study indicates that dark chocolate may be a weapon against cancer cells. Researchers at Georgetown University School of Medicine discovered that a synthetic cocoa derivative really increased the rate of destruction and decreased the rate of growth of human cancer cells. Furthermore, it accomplished this without having an influence on other cells.
Some have their doubts: Not everyone believes that dark chocolate is a healthy food. Primarily, it is vital to understand that processing changes the natural flavanol antioxidants found in cocoa. Even though some of the suggested benefits of dark chocolate consumption are linear and positive, neither is unlimited because dark chocolate is laden with a substantial calorie load, which can readily offset its antioxidant benefits.
Eat dark chocolate for pleasure: There is growing acceptance among people that occasionally eating dark or black chocolate containing a high percentage of cocoa provides polyunsaturated fats and flavonoids that may benefit cognitive abilities during aging, as well as anti-inflammatory and anti-clotting effects, among other potential health benefits still being analyzed in research. So, the combination of super fruits and chocolate may be both healthy and delicious! Eat chocolate treats in moderate amounts so you can have fun without guilt!


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Meadowbrook Parkway SUV Crash Kills Driver
Timothy Bolger
A 24-year-old Roosevelt woman was killed when she crashed the SUV she was driving on the Meadowbrook State Parkway in Westbury on Tuesday morning.
New York State Police said Danielle Tippin was driving a Ford Explorer northbound when she lost control of the truck, causing it to roll over onto the center median near exit M3 for Merchants Concourse at 9:44 a.m.
Tippin was ejected from the SUV. She was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead shortly later.
A passenger in the truck, 22-year-old Yesser Vanegas of Copiague, was also taken to NUMC for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.
Police are continuing their investigation into the cause of the crash.
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Q: Issues in abstracting ImageView style into themes.xml Here's my original layout:
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    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:paddingRight="10dp"
        android:src="@drawable/ic_action_refresh"/>
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And I have extracted all but one of the ImageView layout into themes.xml:
<style name="MenuButton" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
    <item name="android:layout_centerVertical">true</item>
    <item name="android:layout_alignParentRight">true</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">10dp</item>
</style>

I then replaced the attributes of the ImageView above to be:
<ImageView
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        android:src="@drawable/ic_action_refresh"/>

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*The design preview in Idea complained it couldn't resolve the MenuButton style.

*The app deployed and ran just fine on my device, but the android:layout_centerVertical attribute was not applied. The item floated to the top of the container.

I'm new to Android so I'm likely to have missed something fundamental. Any ideas please?

A: Dont use these attributes in style
<item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
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It may create problems.


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In My Dreams by Muriel Jensen attracted me because of the cover and the intriguing title. The blurb is again very interesting and had me picking up this book to read.
This is the story of an ex-soldier, Jack who is searching for his biological sisters and a former Pediatric nurse, Sarah Reed. Both these people have faced traumas in their past that have shaped their present. While Sarah left her career behind following the death of a patient she blames herself of, Jack faced the harsh realities of battle and a traumatic event in his childhood separated him from his sisters. In this book, how these two broken souls help each other heal and find closure to their quest of happiness is beautifully shown by the author.
I loved this book and connected with both Sarah and Jack. Jack's search for his long lost sisters had me praying for their reunion soon and Sarah's fears had me understanding her and empathizing with her. The romance between these two characters is beautifully and poignantly shown and had me rooting for a happy end for them.
The added suspense and thrill of searching for Jack's biological family was another attraction of this story and had me glued to me seat throughout.
The author's writing style is engaging and fluid and she brought the story to me right in my home, making me feel a part of all the action.
The only issue that I had with this book is that the author doesn't give much time to developing Sarah and Jack's love story. They just sort of have an insta love which seemed a bit out of sorts because at one time Sarah is just a friend of Jack's brother and then suddenly she is helping Jack overcome his nightmares and behaving like a girlfriend! However, despite this, I loved these characters but had this aspect been developed properly I know the story would have been even more stunning!
I loved Jack's brother through adoption and was intrigued by Jack's biological sister and look forward to reading their own stories.
All in all, In My Dreams by Muriel Jensen is a touching and entertaining story of a man's search for his lost family, a woman's search for redemption and their poignant love story where they will not only heal each other but also finally forgive themselves. 4 out of 5 to it and recommended to all romance lovers.


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NASA's Swift spies Comet Lulin
Published: Friday, February 20, 2009 - 12:09 in Astronomy & Space
NASA/Swift/Univ. of Leicester/Bodewits et al.
While waiting for high-energy outbursts and cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift Gamma-ray Explorer satellite is monitoring Comet Lulin as it closes on Earth. For the first time, astronomers are seeing simultaneous ultraviolet and X-ray images of a comet. "We won't be able to send a space probe to Comet Lulin, but Swift is giving us some of the information we would get from just such a mission," said Jenny Carter, at the University of Leicester, U.K., who is leading the study.
"The comet is releasing a great amount of gas, which makes it an ideal target for X-ray observations," said Andrew Read, also at Leicester.
A comet is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. These "dirty snowballs" cast off gas and dust whenever they venture near the sun. Comet Lulin, which is formally known as C/2007 N3, was discovered last year by astronomers at Taiwan's Lulin Observatory. The comet is now faintly visible from a dark site. Lulin will pass closest to Earth -- 38 million miles, or about 160 times farther than the moon -- late on the evening of Feb. 23 for North America.
On Jan. 28, Swift trained its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) and X-Ray Telescope (XRT) on Comet Lulin. "The comet is quite active," said team member Dennis Bodewits, a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "The UVOT data show that Lulin was shedding nearly 800 gallons of water each second." That's enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in less than 15 minutes.
Swift can't see water directly. But ultraviolet light from the sun quickly breaks apart water molecules into hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl (OH) molecules. Swift's UVOT detects the hydroxyl molecules, and its images of Lulin reveal a hydroxyl cloud spanning nearly 250,000 miles, or slightly greater than the distance between Earth and the moon.
The UVOT includes a prism-like device called a grism, which separates incoming light by wavelength. The grism's range includes wavelengths in which the hydroxyl molecule is most active. "This gives us a unique view into the types and quantities of gas a comet produces, which gives us clues about the origin of comets and the solar system," Bodewits explains. Swift is currently the only space observatory covering this wavelength range.
In the Swift images, the comet's tail extends off to the right. Solar radiation pushes icy grains away from the comet. As the grains gradually evaporate, they create a thin hydroxyl tail.
Farther from the comet, even the hydroxyl molecule succumbs to solar ultraviolet radiation. It breaks into its constituent oxygen and hydrogen atoms. "The solar wind -- a fast-moving stream of particles from the sun -- interacts with the comet's broader cloud of atoms. This causes the solar wind to light up with X rays, and that's what Swift's XRT sees," said Stefan Immler, also at Goddard.
This interaction, called charge exchange, results in X-rays from most comets when they pass within about three times Earth's distance from the sun. Because Lulin is so active, its atomic cloud is especially dense. As a result, the X-ray-emitting region extends far sunward of the comet.
"We are looking forward to future observations of Comet Lulin, when we hope to get better X-ray data to help us determine its makeup," noted Carter. "They will allow us to build up a more complete 3-D picture of the comet during its flight through the solar system."
Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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The Creation Of The Magnificent Makers
February 16, 2021 Food For Thoughtmagnificent makers, theanne griffith
by Madeline K. Sofia and Rebecca Ramirez
Theanne Griffith has always loved science and literature. But her career has always focused on the science— specifically, neuroscience. She's now a researcher at the University of California, Davis.
Theanne Griffith is a neuroscientist and author of the children's book series, The Magnificent Makers.
But during her maternity leave, she felt a renewed urgency to embrace that other passion for books and writing.
So, she took the natural next steps: change the good ol' Twitter handle, create a website—plus, of course, write and pitch publishers like mad.
Until finally, The Magnificent Makers children's book series was born.
The books follow two third graders, Violet and Pablo, through science-based adventures. In each book, they are zapped through a magical scientific instrument into an alternate universe, where they complete challenges that test their scientific knowledge. Readers are able to complete exercises along with the pair and at-home experiments are included at the end.
Brain Trouble, the second book in The Magnificent Makers series.
The three books in the series include: How to Test a Friendship, Brain Trouble, and Riding Sound Waves.
Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].


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Understanding how nanoparticles interact with cell membranes is of great importance in drug/gene delivery. In this paper, we investigate the interactions between Janus particles and membranes by using dissipative particle dynamics, and find that there exist two different modes (i.e., insertion and engulfment) in the Janus particle–membrane interactions. The initial orientation and properties of Janus particles have an important impact on the interactions. When the hydrophilic part of the particle is close to the membrane or the particle has a larger section area and higher hydrophilic coverage, the particle is more likely to be engulfed by the membrane. We also provide insights into the interactions between Janus particles and membranes containing lipid rafts, and find that a Janus particle could easily detach from a membrane after it is engulfed by the raft. The present study suggests a potential way to translocate Janus particles through membranes, which may give some significant suggestions on future nanoparticle design for drug delivery.


Using deodorant isn't rocket science: you apply the stuff to your armpits. Done. For this, it doesn't matter whether you're using a roller or a spray. Just make sure the liquid ends up under your armpits so it can do its thing. But is it really as simple as that? According to an expert, we're probably all using our antiperspirant wrong.
It's not really incorrect, per se, but the deodorant is less effective than it could be.
Deodorant makes sure you sweat less and, if you do sweat, it masks any sweaty odour that you might be emitting. Yet there's a specific way of applying the antiperspirant if you want to get the most out of it and make sure it's as effective as possible. And that's by applying it at a certain time of the day.
Surprisingly, you shouldn't apply the deodorant after you've woken up, but instead before you go to sleep. A professor of dermatology explains to Allure that it's best to apply deodorant on dry skin right before you go to bed. David Bank from Columbia University Medical Center agrees with this. He explains that the antiperspirant will work better this way. That's because the aluminium salts in the antiperspirant get the time to plug the sweat glands during the night, which means you'll sweat less.


This adds new information on 527 but can you add a bit more detail as well as specify what you mean by magical properties.
So quick question so what the +'s are they supposed to be positives and the - is supposed to be negative.
I think you should state of your hypothesis if it is right or wrong in the conclusion part of the test personally. Also I hate saying this but please don't incinerate people please. Other than that great test.
Excellent and detailed test this is what I want all Researchers to strive for in helping MTF or other agents successful contain SCPs to further the efforts this is very helpful in RP as well. Good quality test.
Good test Constructive criticism: There's a lot of empty space but that's fine just pointing it out.
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Lore Name: Dr. Clef (Spookie) Rank: Foundation Dr Clearance Level: 4 List of personnel involved in testing: Me, a Medical Doctor, a Technician to setup the camera, and an MTF. List of materials: x4 Thermal goggles, x1 Thermal Camera broadcasting what was happening for review and able to broadcast the 966s. Level D personnel involved: None SCP: 173 and x5 966 Hypothesis: If 173 cannot see the 966's then it can still move freely Pre Test: The MTF moved SCP 173 inside of 966s cell, he released ordered us all to look at 173 while he released it. Once SCP 173 was free he ran back outside of the cell and we shut the door. I instructed everyone there to look away from the glass. After some time about 3 minutes we took 173 out of the chamber. Camera Footage: The following is written format of what happened as the camera footage was [Data Redacted]. //----TEST BEGIN----\\ 1:00: MTF agent moves scp 173 into the chamber. 1:30: MTF agent released 173 and quickly moves out of the chamber. 1:45: Dr. Clef (Me) instructed everyone to look away from the chamber glass. 2:00: SCP 173 is standing still, SCP 966 pay no attention to it. 2:28: SCP 173 remains still, a SCP 966 notices SCP 173 and starts to slowly approach it. 2:30: The other 966 instances do not pay attention to the 173 while the 966 still approaches 2:34: The 966 is right up in front of 173 and starts to pace around it. 2:39: 173 suddenly Snaps 966s neck having 966s body uncloak and fall to the ground. The sound of the neck snap alerted every other SCP 966 instances which quickly turn to face SCP 173. 2:40: SCP 173 appears in front of a 966 farthest from the group closest to the containment chamber door. 2:48: The 966 closest to the containment chamber door backs into a wall and gets cornered by 173. 2:49: 173 Snaps the 966s neck and its neck, and then turns to face the other 966. The 966s then enter a panic state one 966 runs up to the glass and begins to claw at it attempting to get out. The other 966s a male and a female run to the side of the room farthest from SCP 173. 2:50: SCP 173 starts to approach the 966 clawing at the window making it claw at the window faster, this broke its claws but despite this SCP 966 continues to try to get out. The 966s shift themselves to the other side of the room. 2:51: SCP 173 continues to approach the 966 clawing at the window, this triggered a "Fight of Flight" scenario within the 966 where it decided the best cause to stay alive would be to fight. The 966 then charged SCP 173 uncloaking and attempting to claw it despite them not having claws at all. The 966 attacks leave no visible damage to 173 swiping 4 more times before a loud crunch was heard. 966 drops dead on the floor. 2:52: SCP 173 approaches the 966s and they dash to the otherside of the room. 2:54: SCP 173 turns and continues to approach teh 966s the 966s attempt to escape clawing the glass the 966 did before. ----At this point I decided to stop the test---- 2:53: I told the MTF to get ready and i'm about to open the door they move over to the door and I open it. The 966s run towards the door and hide beside the MTF agent not attempting to kill them. 2:54: The 173 sees its escape and gets to a point behind the guard the medic turns around and sees 173 and alerts the MTF. The MTF successfully captured SCP 173 and begin to bring it to its own containment chamber //----TEST CONCLUDED----\\ Visual Stimuli (Photos/videos): [Data Lost] Errors and/or safety hazards: SCP 173 got stuck on the door while we tried to move him out the technician suggested closing and opening the door we did that and the door was fixed allowing us to bring SCP 173 back to its containment. Addendum: After the Test I went to log my findings I was uploading the footage to the foundation database when [Data Expunged] causing the footage to be lost. Because of the SCPS lost the remaining 966s have been assigned new names, with the Male 966 being assigned the name 966-1 and the female being assigned the name 966-2 Conclusion: while my hypothesis was proven wrong I have discovered that the 966 SCPs have a higher self preservation then I thought and also cannot establish a threat as easy and fast as other SCPS do like the SCPs 939 how they want to avoid 682 and how 682 wants to avoid 173 but this could be marked down as past experience I imagine. The 966 will even go out of the way to side with their prey in escaping danger when 966s hid by the door to avoid SCP 173 or what could be when the SCP was clawing the door they could have been attempting to get out attention. I've also discovered that 966s have a closer pack bond then I expected attempting to protect another from danger. Which I will further attempt to study at a later date.
I know but I imagine this can and can't work as not many people play janitor or untility staff in general expect medic. We would also need a rank system or training and I'm not sure how janitor training world work. Overall it's a good concept abd can work but I'm not sure many people would want to lose a rank to the utility hierarchy. Or that many people would play as janitor. Also if we do add utility roles we should allow them to enter HCZ and have equipment failures so they have things to do.
"Spookie Ghostie" - Event Team App Name: Spookie Ghostie SteamID: STEAM_0:0:85224325 What is your ULX Rank?: User How would you rate your knowledge of the SCP world? (1-10): Personally Id say a 9 I dont know everything like the numbers or what all of them are but growing up I loved the SCP community watching SCP readings and stuff like that the more it scared me the more I wanted to come back for more. Do you have any experience as a GM or event planner in the past (If so, explain l): Personally no How Active are you?: I am really active but recently I've been LOA due to family matters and me getting sick my activity might be semi active as the year progresses and I get more and more things to due but ill still try to get on as much as I can. How many warns do you have?: 3 how ever I am viewing it as 1 because I thought the RDM was allowed if it was a research test ( I wont go in detail of what its about for the sake of writing and keeping this short) and the mic spam was because I thought It fit the mood and the people wanted some music when I was playing it nobody said to turn it off or to stop so I thought It was ok. Why should we allow you to be an Event Team Member (150+ Words)?: I imagine that I can unify many people of the SCP RP community through events finding a way to increase activity because as a researcher I found that many of the people in the research branch are inactive. Like the CI branch you look in their discord and find many people in it how ever you go in game and you only see about 2 or 1 CI on including high command, my idea of how to increase activity is by making events that revolve around a group such as CI events or a research event where every researcher does a huge test on one scp only to have it breach causing a panic and have MTF do something. I want to make the community as great as it can be and hopefully make these events so good they can attract new people to join ( real ambitious I know but I want to do the best I can for this community ) if i'm not able to be apart of event team its fine I still have fun on the server and i'll try to make it as good as I can from a RP perspective. Describe an event you could create (The more specific the better): I can think of 2 on the spot one is and scp 105 and scp 682 cross test as it will allow the breach of 2 keter SCPS and could keep people on their toes and be exited. The other idea is GOC, and CI raid the foundation at the same time having a 3 way war in the process having the CI spawn at gate A and having the GOC spawn at gate B telling the MTF not to kill the GOC right away or place the GOC somewhere near the Keter hallway as to prevent distance from the MTF spawn and avoid people dying before the event even starts. What is your favorite SCP? Why? I love almost every SCP but if I'd pick a favorite between 999 and 173 I would go with 173 because of how the one post of 173 started a great community and made many other writers make fantastic story's. I also like the whole theme of a non emotionless statue killing its prey and hiding in the darkness waiting to strike and the reputation it built up through out the SCP wiki having many content creators on others sites gain fame from it. I like that its one of the most popular and how it basically represents not only the SCP community in general but by what it does and how it captures the theme of the SCP community having an emotionless item kill people giving the foundation a cause to capture and contain the scps as to not have them do harm to the world.


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Coronavirus will postpone the release of its new movie "Jane Time" by November.
The Corona virus affected not only the people but also the film industry. Now, the new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, will be delayed for seven months due to the new Coronavirus. China has shut down cinemas, as well as suspended Hollywood productions.
The film will be postponed from April to November, the film's director, Daniel Craig, said. "No Time To Die" will be postponed until November 2020, according to the official Twitter account of the film.
The post has not been confirmed by the Coronavirus, but plans to cancel the film for Red Carpet last week in China, Hollywood's biggest overseas movie market. China has been shutting down cinemas since January. South Korea Other countries, including Italy, are closing cinemas to prevent the spread of the virus.
The Korean film has been postponed because of the Corona virus, as well as new films and TV shows, which have delayed the launch of American films in China. No Time To Die costs $ 200 million in production. The London Film Festival is set to launch on March 31 and will be shown on April 2. The film is now being released in the UK on November 12. November 25th in the US


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Update 5PM—In a sign that the police department is still not quite ready for hiring 1,000+ new officers, most of the 19th District's newly-arrived probationary officers are training with beat cops instead of Field Training Officers.
Twenty probationary police officers who graduated from the Chicago Police Academy on Sunday have been assigned to the 19th (Town Hall) District, according to a department source. Town Hall serves all of Lakeview plus parts of Lincoln Park, Uptown, North Center, and Lincoln Square.
Another twenty rookies are being assigned to the 1st (Central) District, which serves the Loop, and the 18th (Near North) District, which protects the area between the Chicago River, Lake Michigan, and Fullerton Avenue. That's according to a tweet by the 1st District CAPS office and information in an email from Alderman Michele Smith, who serves much of Lincoln Park.
As CWBChicago reported exclusively on February 21, the Town Hall district has lost 108 cops since Emanuel took office; Central has lost 26, and Near North has lost 45. The new probationary police officers will start to reverse those numbers.
The remaining 25 graduates from Sunday's class will be split among the Wentworth, Near West, and Shakespeare Districts, according to a tweet by the mayor's office.
Those newly-minted officers will have their hands full. The 18th and 1st Districts are suffering under a withering rise in violent crime. As CWBChicago reported earlier this morning, robberies are up 50% in Near North and 106% in the Loop this year compared to 2017.
To fulfill that promise, the department will need to send at least 100 more cops to Town Hall plus officers to replace any that retire or transfer out between now and then. That's a tall order, but at least we have something to measure their performance by.
The 19th District has shed nearly a quarter of its manpower under Rahm Emanuel. One of his first moves was to force the merger of the 19th and 23rd Districts into a single entity. The result was an almost-immediate surge in violent crime, backlogs for police assistance, and a back-door shedding of 132 cops despite promises that manpower would not suffer under the merger.
A police source also reported that, despite budgeting for 200 more detectives in 2018, those promotions will not be happening until autumn. "It has been a year since a new class was made and there has been a year's worth of retirements," the source said.


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