People whose brains fell out and were replaced with shite tell him crap 'science', and he repeats this garbage, absolutely on cue.
Ed, don't delude yourself about having the equivalent of an elementary school education — you have obviously been soaking up all manner of things over the years (in whatever manner works best for you), and applying your native wit to understanding the world. Doubtless your knowledge base is erratic, but that is not the same thing as being entirely lacking!
Keep that dictionary next to the computer; I for one am prone to using exercising my vocabulary. In turn, DO let me know when I'm not making sense to you — this is true for EVERYONE reading my blogposts.
Pavlovian: Refering to Pavlovs dogs. Pavlov described his veiws about conditioned responses based on his experiments using dogs.
Just so you know, if there was something here that I obviously missed, Im open to being told by you or Andrea. Some things that you both wrote will probably dawn on me later.
Back to the dictionary. Im learning. Youre helping. If there is a difference between a post and a point, I hope I made a point. Me being a learner is more of an ongoing point and I hope that my being loquacious was done in a way that was seen as productive.
As for the head cold, this too shall pass. Tomorrow is the first Saturday in months that I won't be working (or traveling) and can finally Sleep In!
No, not at all. My point really wasnt in contradiction to anything you said at all.
I get caught up in saying too much but then sometimes I say too little. If people dont know about why Im bringing up a point, sometimes they completly misunderstand where Im coming from. Then I get frustrated trying to explain.
I agree with everything youve said.I dont even know what spam is but Im quite sure you wont get any of it from me.
I was meaning to supportive. Ive just got to learn better ways to do that.
So Ill try to be respectful in making points and learn to exit more gracefully and earlier. My next lesson in blogging/comments etc. is to learn to do that with less words.
Sorry about your cold. Hope youre feeling better.
Ed, did you feel that I had missed responding to a question? I have a head cold and not been sleeping well this past week, so it is entirely possible that I may have missed it.
Don't worry; I think your posts are rather clear. And I always welcome comments and discussion on my blog (spam excepting, of course).
Afterthoght: And oh yeah, Andrea, what you explained was helpful. Thanks.
My hope was really to be supportive in what I see your efforts to be. While I cant begin to understand all that you described about testing, what I did understand makes me even more glad that you are doing the work that you are. If I wasnt clear about it before, please understand that I REALLY appreciate the work you are doing. It helps everyone.
My mother is a special edUCATION teacher. She works very hard at helping other parents and teachers understand that just because a kid cant do one thing doesnt mean they may not be good at something else, and it is vitally important to find out what they ARE good at. Anyone who knows her story and about me, knows why she feels so strongly about that.
Also this is your blog page and everybody does it differently….so….I hope I dont go on too long. Ill try to respect what you do and dont want discussed. Im dying for a place to discuss this. Its vitally important to my future and I think my my example can really help others. Actually Im quite certain of that.
1) Im 43, recently married, and I have not much more than an elementary school education. There are lots of reasons for my lack of education but none of them include my lack of desire. Having been recently married Ive never been so motivated to overcome my disability label. There is no way that the system will not continue to be challenged by me. I have never thought that that was a bad thing and I certainly dont now. If they were half as eager to meet the challange as I am, Id have more than a fighting chance. Ill make either way.
2)My wife and my mother actually help me alot with my blogging and comments. It scares me alot. I really appreciate the encouragement.
Now the next step is to make sure that people who have diverse talents and skills that these test show, enter a world where there are markets for the talents and skills that have been discovered. Anybody interested in that stuff, just ask me. PLEASE ASK ME : ) : ) : ) : ) !!!! l have SOOOOOO much information and ideas about that, that somebody who asks wont eventually be saying autistic speak. They will eventually be saying to me, autistic, SHUT UP! Or just Ed, shut up. People actually getting what I say and not needing me to explain any more….Im looking forward to that day.
4) I hope that you guys(and gals) know how revolutionary what you are doing is. What I see you doing(besides other things) is showing how diverse expressions such as those expressed by autistics are more valid than previously thought( by your own expressions and the ones you see in others). These pages are where I come for that kind of education and encouragment. Do you get it? This kind of stuff is scarcely available anywhere. I hope you all know how much what youre doing is appreciated.
Now soon, someone from the DDSN in my state is going to come and help me with my blogging (among other things) and I going get a REAL blog and everything. Im going to show them these pages where Im learning and who knows, THEY MAY LEARN SOMETHING TOO.
I'll explain it more in a less public forum, since this test could actually be compromised by the idea being discussed in public.
Oh boy, do you cover some interesting issues on the topic of testing?!
Well, to be honest… you do. This will become clearer as I respond to things you posted.
Having seen your posts on a number of blogs, and assuming that you do it yourself (just making sure that you know that this is my assumption; many uncharitable individuals would no doubt take a more objectionable stance on this), I get the impression that you are not being served well by the tests that have been administered to you. There is evidence of reasoning ability, and you can construct sensible sentences (one person in the north east of the US, who shall remain nameless posts diatribe that would suggest he possesses neither ability). You also demonstrate an ability to raise questions about the usefulness of some particular concept/approach, and this can only be good: when people blindly accept some approach, without thinking it through properly and without asking questions of the approach, then usually the result is not good. The notion of 'overinclusivity' is a case in point. This question is particularly germane: "I mean could the system at large feel that if of too many diverse people do well on test that show them as having strengths, they would then be afraid that they will be unable to find jobs for these "extra" people?".
This is an issue relating really to standardised norm-referenced testing. This is the sort of test that grades people under the normal distribution curve (which, in case you don't about this curve, is a curve that describes an 'ideal' distribution of scores). The curve is also known as a 'bell curve' because it looks a bit like a vertically-challenged bell. It describes on its vertical axis the frequencies of various results mapped along its horizontal axis, and has a peak of frequencies in the middle, with both ends trailing off towards – but never reaching – a zero frequency count. The curve has an area under it, which relates to the percentage of the population for which the test was designed and, the further a score is to the right-hand end, the higher the percentile ranking of the score is. These types of scores show only how one person's performance relates to the overall set of performances of a group generally, without actually giving any idea of how well that person has actually done in terms of meeting any given set of criteria. For this, a different sort of test is needed: a criterion-referenced test. Andrea has rather ably clarified this sort of test so there's no need for me to elaborate on them. Needless to say, I suspect that the sorts of test on which you score low would be norm-referenced tests. And I can readily see a number of possible contributors to this phenomenon.
First, the issue of test anxiety… how anxious you may feel about the test, given that most people go into a test situation quite naïve to the process they are about to go through. Some people are more susceptible to their own emotional responses to events/objects than others, and you may well be such a person. An examiner who failed to acknowledge such an issue would make an error that could lead to being declared incompetent.
Second, the issue of you being given sufficient time to understand the instructions given to you… not all people understand seemingly instantly, and so this has to be taken into account by the practitioner concerned when the test is administered, and a way of circumventing difficulties should be sought prior to the administration of the test. If, for example, the issue was about remembering a chain of instructions that you needed to remember for a particular task and you have a short-term/working memory problem, a competent examiner would write the instructions down and allow to refer to them during the test.
I have to go now to a school to do an assessment. More later.
Ed, we have to consider what the purpose is behind testing.
We cannot have "too many" competant people! We want as many people to be as competant as possible, to improve their lives and what they are able to achieve. Success should not be considered a commodity in limited supply. This is why "grading on the curve" can be hazardous — for some to do well, others must do poorly.
There is nothing wrong with a test describing people as "competant" if indeed they do have the knowledge and skills that the test is supposed to be assessing! In truth, we want everyone to learn — that's the whole point of schooling.
The real concerns are whether the tests are accurate at giving some kind of meaningful measure, and if the method of testing does not create additional or exceptional problems for the students and their abilities to demonstrate what they've learned.
Accommodations are not about giving disabled students "extra" advantages over their nondisabled peers, but rather about levelling the playing field so they are able to approach the materials without extra problems that others don't have.
I hope I have something to offer here as well as something I can learn.
My diagnosis(s) is complicated. I know I must be careful in how I describe myself and how much I say about myself. Im working on that.
With that said, Ive always scored low on every test and Im seeking an education and a vocation much later in life than most people.
Im very inspired by people like David Andrews. He has worked hard and done well and Im sure hes a real help to many. Im glad he is creating more test that will show the skills of more people.
Here is my question: Does the educational system feel that there is any danger in creating too many test that will then describe too many people as compotent? I mean could the system at large feel that if of too many diverse people do well on test that show them as having strengths, they would then be afraid that they will be unable to find jobs for these "extra" people?
By being TOO inclusive in this way the educational system might look bad?
I know that is more than one question. Id appreciate any ideas.
All too often, that actually does seem to be the end goal.
I'm currently designing an educational assessment package, assessing actual skills. It covers mathematical-arithmetical skills (+,-,x,÷) at four levels of complexity, reading (accuracy, fluency and comprehension) and writing (clarity, speed, dictation and copying), and it's intended for 1st to 3rd years in a Finnish school system. It's an criterion-referenced ipsative assessment – measuring only in relation to what the student can do, and the purpose is to identify skills variation that could be indicative of problems of mismatch to curriculum.


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Pyramid Mountain () is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. The peak is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Custer National Forest.

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On behalf of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. posted in child custody on Friday, March 8, 2019.
We know that restraining orders are frustrating and complicated. This is especially true if you were going through a tough divorce in addition to suffering under these legal restrictions. At Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C., we want to help.
How do I stop an international parental abduction?
On behalf of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. posted in child custody on Thursday, February 28, 2019.
When it comes to hashing out custodial rights in Michigan, few parents are 100 percent satisfied with the final ruling. This may especially be the case for parents who are not awarded the primary custodial rights.
On behalf of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. posted in child custody on Wednesday, February 20, 2019.
After a divorce, people in Michigan may want to move for any number of reasons, such as to be closer to family, to pursue job opportunities or just to achieve a fresh start. If they are parents, however, they may not be able to just make the decision, pack up their belongings and load up the trucks.
What are some ways to deal with family conflict?
On behalf of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. posted in child custody on Monday, November 26, 2018.
Now that the holiday season is finally here, many families in Michigan are facing a great deal of stress when it comes to gatherings. This is especially true for couples who've recently undergone a divorce, who may experience issues with scheduling, as well as a great likelihood of family conflict. While you can't always prevent interpersonal battles over the holidays, VeryWellMind.com offers the following tips to help mitigate them.
How can I effectively discipline my child post-divorce?
On behalf of Vandervoort, Christ & Fisher, P.C. posted in child custody on Thursday, November 8, 2018.
Divorced parents in Michigan may find shared custody arrangements challenging. While it is thought to be the best solution for a child's development, things like discipline can be complex when exes can't come to an agreement. That's why VeryWellFamily.com offers the following tips on how you can discipline your child after divorce.


Federal judges in the Bay Area have issued recent rulings rejecting substantial challenges to the No-Fly List and the authority arrogated by President Obama to order American citizens killed without due process. Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle covered both cases. He details the case of Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian scholar who was studying at Stanford and was detained at San Francisco International in 2005 as she attempted to fly home. She sued to get removed from the list, and it was it was confirmed that she was on it by mistake. Just last week, the judge cited secret evidence to deny her request for a visa. The other case was heard in Oakland, where a federal judge rejected demands by the First Amendment Coalition that the Justice Department release memos that we're told authorize the president to target individuals—including US citizens—for elimination with no legal process.
*Bob Egelko is a veteran journalist, and the legal affairs reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle.
Excellent straight forward interview, Peter B..
Secret courts, secret laws, secret evidence, secret rulings. My God, what have we wrought?


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Christian Pulisic Called the 'LeBron James of Soccer' in Cringeworthy 'Pawn Stars' Episode
U.S. men's national team forward Christian Pulisic became the unexpected star of an episode of Pawn Stars this weekend, but soccer fans have reason to be annoyed after the show's cringeworthy segment.
The segment began with a man looking to pawn a framed, signed Pulisic Chelsea jersey for $1,500. While stating that he was a big Pulisic fan, the man also said he needed money to "upgrade" his guitar. What followed was a series of hot takes that may or may not be entirely accurate but remain highly quotable.
"This guy's like the phenom guy, right? He's like the LeBron James of soccer?" Pawn Stars personality Corey Harrison asked.
"Definitely," the potential seller said.
After Harrison continued to robotically list a series of Wikipedia facts about Pulisic's life, the store owner then asked what position the USMNT star played.
"Center midfield and sometimes center forward," the man said without skipping a beat, even if he was entirely wrong.
The hopeful seller later said Pulisic "ended up being one of the top players in the Premier League, which for an American that's pretty far and few between."
While Pulisic is the most expensive transfer in U.S. history, his 15 career Premier League goals in 59 appearances across two and a half seasons at Chelsea may not be enough to make him one of the league's top players just yet. To put it in perspective, six players in just last season, alone, scored more goals than the winger's respective career Premier League total.
The hyperbole continued when Harrison brought in an expert to authenticate Pulisic's signature.
"We think of guys like Messi or Ronaldo, and this kid's already being compared to all them," the authenticator said.
In the end, the authenticator estimated the signed jersey would cost around $400 while saying that a signed, game-worn jersey could fetch upward of $5,000.
After the evaluation, Harrison decided against even making an offer.
"The guy [Pulisic] is phenomenal, but it would take a lot of real estate in my shop," Harrison said. "There's stuff I could hang on my wall that would actually sell."
Aside from the jersey, it appears as though the segment's blatant exaggeration also didn't sell among soccer fans, primarily among Chelsea supporters online.

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Europe's startup scene is doing better than ever before. It's easier than it ever has been to raise venture capital, and the number of European startups that are becoming unicorns – with a valuation north of $1 billion – is soaring. But while the money is flowing, diversity is stalling.
Wired is a monthly magazine, published in both print and online editions, that reports on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy and politics.


The Italian government has defied the European Commission (EC) by sticking to its big-spending budget plan.
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said a deficit target of 2.4% and a growth forecast of 1.5% were unchanged.
The EC – worried about the impact of high spending on already high levels of Italy's debt – had told Rome to revise the budget or face possible fines.
It had set Tuesday as a deadline to Italy's governing populist parties to respond to its objections.
The EC's warning to Italy, the eurozone's third-biggest economy, is an unprecedented move with regard to an European Union member state.
What's behind Italy's economic turbulence?
Italy populists take power: What comes next?
Why does Italy want to spend more?
Mr Salvini, who leads the League party, was speaking after a cabinet meeting on the highly controversial issue.
In a statement, he said the government would stick to the budget's main parameters.
The government has vowed to "end poverty" with a minimum income for the unemployed.
Other measures include tax cuts and scrapping extensions to the retirement age – fulfilling several key campaign promises from the election in March.
The government argues that servicing its debt of 131% of national output – second only to bailed-out Greece – would hurt Italians, who have still not recovered from the decade-old financial crisis.
Italy's economy is still smaller than it was in 2008. The governing coalition argues an increase in spending would kick-start growth.
How bad is Italy's debt?
Italy's neutral Finance Minister Giovanni Tria and international observers had hoped the country would keep its deficit under 2% of GDP – and perhaps as low as 1.6%.
While 2.4% falls well short of the 3% deficit limit under eurozone rules, Italy's debt level is alarming.
"For the first time the Commission is obliged to request a euro area country to revise its draft budgetary plan but we see no alternative than to request the Italian authorities to do so," the EC Vice-President for the euro, Valdis Dombrovskis, said last month.
He pointed out that Italian taxpayers were having to spend as much servicing the national debt as on education.
"Breaking rules can appear tempting at the first look – it can provide the illusion of breaking free," he said.
"It is tempting to try and cure debt with more debt. At some point, the debt weighs too heavy… you end up having no freedom at all," Mr Dombrovskis said.


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Mação es un municipio portugués perteneciente al distrito de Santarém, Región Centro y comunidad intermunicipal de Medio Tejo, con cerca de 2200 habitantes.

Geografía

Es sede de un municipio con 400,83 km² de área y 6402 habitantes (2021), subdividido en 6 freguesias. El municipio está limitado al nordeste por Proença-a-Nova, al este por Vila Velha de Ródão y Nisa, al sur por Gavião, al sudoeste por Abrantes, al oeste por Sardoal y por Vila de Rei y al noroeste por Sertã.

Demografía

Freguesias

Las freguesias de Mação son las siguientes:
 Amêndoa
 Cardigos
 Carvoeiro
 Envendos
 Mação, Penhascoso e Aboboreira
 Ortiga

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 Ayuntamiento de Mação


CDC Director Tom Frieden in West Africa during the Ebola epidemic.
Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH has had a long career in public health, working as Commissioner of the New York City Health Department and most recently as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr Frieden went to Oberlin College, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and did his residency in internal medicine at Yale University.
The field of public health aims to improve the health of as many people as possible as rapidly as possible.
A responsive government can maintain that people are responsible for their own health while also taking public health action that changes default choices to make it easier for people to stay healthy.
And after working to eliminate trans fats from restaurants in New York City and have chain restaurants post calorie information on their menu boards, he has continued to confront many of the more modern era epidemics, like obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.
He resigned from the CDC on January 20, 2017 and was replaced by Anne Schuchat, MD, who became the became Acting Director.
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Titan Returns continue to awe me with their deluxes! I've just bought myself a Takara Legends Blurr and he's great!
Blurr's alt mode is pretty faithful to old G1 alt mode, it's some sort of cybertronian car that looks very sleek and aerodynamic.
I like the colour scheme here, the light blue plastic accentuates the dark blue paint nicely.
Besides the sides, the gun can be attached to the front of the vehicle as well.
Like Hardhead, Blurr has a cockpit with an opening windshield.
Blurr's headmaster, Hyperfire is pretty well painted for something so small. And like the previous headmasters, it's well sculpted.
Now to the main article, Blurr's bot mode is a handsome blue bot. It's a great modern interpretation of the classic look with a slim silhouette and angular edges. There's ton of details and the paintapps are great.
Compared to Hasbro's more monotonous darker shade of metallic blue, Takara's colour looks alot better here.
There's no new sculpt for the head this time, it's the same head for both version. It's a great head, but i would have preferred the extandable antennae be alittle tighter.
...shield/buckler on his forearm. Unlike the previous release though, Blurr doesn't have a targetmaster partner so his only accessory is a grey blaster.
Compared to all the deluxe Blurrs that i have, i would rank him above Generations but slightly below Animated. Animated Blurr is still one of my fave deluxes.
Articulations on Blurr is great as expected of the new headmasters. You can do all sort of running poses and he even has a waist swivel!
His legs also provide plenty of support so balance is no issue here.
Since Blurr is one of my favourite Autobots, i'm pretty happy to have this figure. I think i like him a tiny bit more than Hardhead., great figure overall!


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Omicron variant, the world continues to tighten restrictions
Germany finalizes a package of new restrictions, the United States tightens the requirements for entry into the country and the EU is considering a mandatory vaccination. The measures against the coronavirus are multiplying in different countries of the world due to the continuous expansion of the omicron variant.
Faced with its worst coronavirus wave since the start of the pandemic, Germany will decree on Thursday new measures such as the possible closure of bars and other public places while waiting to debate in parliament a possible mandatory vaccination.
The question is on the table of many governments. Austria plans to apply it from February, South Africa reflects on the matter and the same president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, invited European countries to address a debate on the matter.
For now, the action of many governments has been to limit international mobility despite the contrary opinion of the WHO and the UN, especially given the restrictions specifically imposed on southern Africa, where this new variant was first warned.
In the United States, which detected the first case of him in California, President Joe Biden will announce a new campaign against the pandemic focused on new requirements for travelers and an increase in the vaccination effort.
Starting "early next week," all travelers entering the country must, in addition to being vaccinated, present a negative test carried out the day before their departure, the White House reported on Thursday.
On the other hand, Japan reversed on Thursday its drastic decision to suspend all new reservations for inbound flights to the country during December and allow the return of its nationals abroad.
Despite these limitations, the new variant, apparently more contagious and with multiple mutations, continues to reach new countries and is already present on all continents.
After announcing a case in its overseas territories, France detected another this Thursday on the European continent. Cases were also reported for the first time in India, Norway, Iceland or Ireland.
In America it has been detected in the United States, Canada and Brazil, although the Pan American Health Organization warned that soon this variant will probably be in circulation throughout the continent.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that low rates of anticovid vaccination and diagnostic tests cause a "toxic cocktail."
It is "an ideal combination for the reproduction and increase of variants" of the coronavirus, said its secretary general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Both the WHO and the UN advised against imposing generalized restrictions on travel, especially focused on southern African countries, which are subject to vetoes in multiple countries.
The border closures are "deeply unjust, punitive and ineffective," denounced the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, describing the condemnation imposed on Africa for not having enough vaccines as a "scandal".
Faced with the threat to economic growth posed by omicron, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) urged that "vaccines be produced and distributed as quickly as possible throughout the world."
The most developed countries of the G20 spent 10 trillion dollars to protect their economy during the crisis, while vaccinating the entire planet would only cost 50 billion, lamented Laurence Boone, chief economist of the OECD.
There are doubts about the efficacy of existing vaccines against COVID against this new variant, recognized by the president of the American laboratory Moderna, Stephan Bancel.
Manufacturers such as Pfizer / BioNTech, Novavax, AstraZeneca or Moderna itself were confident in being able to develop a new drug against omicron. Russia announced working on a specific version of its Sputnik V.
At the same time, alternatives such as Merck's anticovid pill, backed by a health panel in the United States, or the monoclonal antibody treatment of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), which received the green light from the British regulator, began to appear.
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Justin -- The wave thing is mad cool. I like to imagine a surfer infinitely surfing on a wave rocking based on planetary motion. I also feel like I have to use that analogy to calm my fears of how horrifying the whole concept actually is... Jake -- Same thing with the relativity concept, the live feed vs. video tape description was a perfect way to describe the concept. But it's scary! To calm my fears about this: I like to think of Skyping someone on the planet Miller. You'd think it was just taking forever to buffer. But it's actually just the fact that your partner is so close to a black hole that gravity is messing with how slow they are moving relative to ourselves. So no worries.
Something (shorter) that I learned from the planetarium was about wormholes. I'd like to connect this to time travel. Where, in Interstellar, Dr. Cooper observed a form of time travel through the mysterious beings and the 5th dimension. He was able to interact with Murph through time travel only to be described beyond science. But is time travel actually possible? In theory, if one were to have some sort of a way of CONNECTING the singularities of two wormholes at their ends, one could plausibly enter one, and exit another in a different time. This would absolutely work, if it were possible, because think, you would be traveling over one warp in space time to meet another and travel over it BACKWARDS. Depending on the space along the wormhole, the time jump would differ. So we wouldn't have control of how much time we would travel across or back, but it's a cool idea to legitimately consider. Just a thought for your next science fair project. Or in case you're bored or something.
So I like going to the planetarium a lot, and last year I went quite a few times to watch and re-watch a presentation on black holes. Watching Interstellar for the first time in class then, I had already some preconceived notions on understanding the idea of black holes and the science/physics behind them. Basically, the second I understood that Cooper and his fellow astronauts planned to enter the black holes to travel across the universe, I was concerned and confused. According to the Strasenburgh Planetarium of Rochester, New York: that isn't really super possible. The website won't let me attach my diagram, so I'm going to paint you a mental picture. A 2D circle, with a dot in the center. Imagination, guys. Got it? Okay, so the circumference of said circle is the event horizon of a black hole and the dot at the center is the singularity. Upon first glance, we would say that this is a representation of, for lack of a better word, a "snapshot" of a black hole; a way to symbolize the space within it. But it's not that simple. Inside of a black hole, the positions of time and space SWITCH. Time becomes the variable and space is constant. This diagram represents a kaleidoscopic view of many different TIMES. A black hole cannot be explained in distance, width, length or any sort of SPACE. Distances in a black hole moreover correspond to different MOMENTS. Along with this: we know that time goes on, and on, and on and on and on, and therefore the singularity of a black hole is not a single point, but exceeds infinitely long. Ergo, as weird as it may sound, we can look at a sphere and see a sphere. We can look at a black hole and see a sphere. INSIDE of a sphere we have an area; a defined area. Inside of a black hole we have an INFINITE area. Therefore, infinitely large objects can be hidden within a black hole...if that makes sense. This corresponds again to the fact that time and space switch places. The diagram represents a simple black hole, an indefinite one: a Schwarzschild black hole. One that has always existed and will continue to exist. From the outside, we see a sphere/black hole suspended in time and assume a finite space within. But on the inside, the tables are turned. Time is finite. It starts at the horizon and ends completely and abruptly at the singularity. But direction (space) is now infinitely long. For this complex switch and turn of tables, it would be much harder to travel through a black hole as simply as Cooper and his scientists. From the planetarium I learned that if you were to cross the event horizon, the switch would occur gradually. And it would actually cause your body to stretch in an uncontrollable manner. You would not be able to control the space around you. But you would be able to control time. Right now I can lift my arm at any pace. And I can look at the clock, and have no effect. Those two "powers" are opposite after crossing the event horizon. Finally, from the outside of a black hole, time and space are as they usually are. So seeing someone cross and event horizon, nothing would seem different. I could wave at Bob inside of a black hole and he could look perfectly fine. When to him, time and space have switched spots, he is out of control and sees everything in continuously changing moments, without having any sense of space anymore. Of course, black holes are all sorts of levels of complex. And Interstellar represents one that obviously has an end and beginning that can be travelled though. But in reality, humanity cannot likely move through black holes and find successes in a mission or even survive.
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Missing Wolf Hall to See Wolf Hall
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At first, I regretted that the crowd was shouting louder, wasn't giving out the sort of orgasmic screams you hear at the opera after an aria, because I wanted Ben Miles – the entire cast of Wolf Hall, but more than any of the others, Ben Miles, to know that we loved him. Later, on my way home, I reflected that perhaps a greater tribute than screaming applause (although we the audience did scream and applaud) was our silence. When Henry VIII signs five death warrants, he sits in a shaft of fog-shrouded light, at a table. Cromwell hands him a warrant. The king pauses, then signs. Rafe Sadler (who is played in the PBS series by Thomas Brodie Sangster, who I admire to excess, but that's another story) who is played by Joshua Silver, steps forward, sprinkles powder to dry the fresh ink of the signature, removes the document and steps back into his position of relative shadow.
This happened five times, without dialogue, without music. I could hear the air whooshing from the cooling vents in the Winter Garden Theater (my father was in HVAC, so I notice these things). From the audience, there was no coughing, no rustling. There was not a throat clearing. I was aware of the spot on my spine that these days aches when I've been sitting too long and we were now entering the sixth hour of theater, but I compared my mild suffering–much like the many fervent clergy who had been part of the five hours of drama preceeding this moment, who flamboyantly proclaimed their willingness to suffer to achieve salvation–to that of what Ben Miles must be experiencing. For two and half hours that afternoon, and two and a half hours that evening, he had been onstage the entire time. He would start to exit a scene, then pivot to face a new set of players, like a knight on a chessboard. He rarely (and I do mean rarely) even sat down. When he wasn't standing or moving, he was kneeling to a king or a bishop, a former queen, a queen to be.
Wolf Hall is being presented on Broadway by the RSC in two discrete plays: Wolf Hall, and Bring Up the Bodies, each based upon the book of the same title. They are the first two books (each won the Booker prize, a rarity for a series) of a trilogy by Hilary Mantel about Thomas Cromwell, and his role during part of the reign of King Henry VIII. Tudor England has always interested me, since Anne of a Thousand Days, which I didn't get to see when it was first released but read the book, which was most likely a novelization of a screenplay based on a play, but I was a child at the time, so I read anything I could get my hands on. I'm a bit more discriminating now, and perhaps I'm fairly arrogant about my own writing, but it is rare that I read a novel by a contemporary author and think, maybe I should just hang this up and open a wine bar, because I will never be that. But that is how I felt when I read Wolf Hall, and I proceeded, while waiting for Bring Up the Bodies, to read her other writings, and to generally worship Hilary Mantel (see my earlier post, "History Dames"). For me, the Broadway production of Wolf Hall was among the best theater I have ever seen.
The dialogue is witty and contemporary without seeming anachronistic. Much of it is taken directly from the books, so much so that the Tony nominating committee has decided that Hilary Mantel should be credited as a co-playwright. The production values are of the latest trend for the RSC — large, high sets with minimal props (tables, chairs) brought on and removed by the actors, with the interesting (and well-used in this case) innovation of strips of fire to indicate the fire of a fireplace and also the mayhem of vandalizing fire. This firestrip was also put to use in the recent and uneasy Romeo and Juliet with Orlando Bloom. That production suffered, as Wolf Hall does not, with a number of "look at me! I'm acting!" performances. You don't look at the acting in Wolf Hall because you are watching the characters–easily manipulated Henry, overplaying-her-hand Anne, boasting George Boleyn, and always the crafty, patient, loyal and vengeful Cromwell. Thanks to the skill of the writing and acting, they are swiftly familiar and often exasperating, like more clever and less clumsy versions of people you already know.
All that said, this might not be the play for you. This was a self-selecting audience: one with enough money for the tickets (if you buy tickets to both you get a break, but it's still $220 for a day's entertainment) and enough education and interest in this specific area of history. A man turned around during intermission of the first play to ask if I was a teacher (I've learned that if, while sitting in the audience at a play, you mention more than two other plays, people think you are a teacher.) He told me that he had taught high school English for 38 years, which made him, in my eyes, a far greater martyr than Sir Thomas More on stage there. The woman in the next seat for the second play spoke at length to me about the novels, reminding me of bits of dialogue I'd forgotten.
We audience were primarily women. I'd say 85%. We were all ardent fans already. From the conversations I had with seatmates, ladies-in-waiting for the restroom, and people at the next table at dinner (during the dinner break, which comes relatively early, so it was easy to spot fellow "Wolf Hall-ers") the audience had read the books and/or but mainly and were watching the PBS series. If you don't know what you are going to see, you would be lost. There are a few grounding bits of dialogue ("It's been 18 years!" and "this is 1503!") but no long expository exchanges of dialogue. The scenes are swift and cinematic, but there is a lot of ground to cover.
Theater is spectacle, and Wolf Hall is spectacular. The stagecraft alone — the lighting and the costumes — are breathtaking. Characters scurry about, becapped, in black, dark grey or foreshadowing blood-red, scurrying across the stage, scheming, betraying, blundering, while Cromwell, who unveils new hard-won skills only when they are needed ("I was a solider." "I was in the silk trade." "I was a banker in Florence.") keeps a ledger of grudges and insults, scores he will settle.
On occasion the busyness stops and we are caught in a tableau, as when Henry signs the death warrants, when Cromwell, spends a last quiet moment with his wife, when meek Jane Seymour, in virginial white, penetrates Cromwell's many masks with her sincere offering of sympathy for the loss of his wife and daughters. These scenes are lit like a Vermeer painting, except that in Vermeer, women in isolated rooms sit in the illumination of a window, sewing a hem, writing a letter, awaiting their fate, which will be decided in a far different painting, say, a Rembrandt, where sallow men bicker over points of theology and law, or an impromptu militia charges into heedless action.
Henry wanted a son so that upon his death England would not descend into the civil war from which it had only recently emerged. Protestant stirrings were creeping in from the low countries, after the invention of the printing press increased the availability of books, leading to an increase of literacy, leading to the idea that people might want to read Scripture themselves in their native tongue, rather than have it presented to them by a priest. "Is there a Pope in the Bible?" asks Cromwell. "Are there monks, nuns?" Wolf Hall balances these and a dozen other ideas — how harshly grief haunts, the harsh demands of loyalty, the fleeting nature of power — and in doing so creates a world I never wanted to leave, even after five and a half hours.
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CHAR, VARCHAR, And LONGVARCHAR CHAR, VARCHAR, and LONGVARCHAR data types are used to express character data. These data types are represented in JDBC as Java String objects. Data of type CHAR is represented as a fixed-length String, and may include some padding spaces to ensure that it is the proper length. If data is being written to a database, the driver must ensure that the data is properly padded. Data of type VARCHAR is represented as a variable-length String, and is trimmed to the actual length of the data. LONGVARCHAR data can be either a variable-length String or returned by the driver as a Java InputStream, allowing the data to be read in chunks of whatever size the application desires.
At a minimum, a JDBC driver must support one (if not all) of the character data types (CHAR, VARCHAR, and LONGVARCHAR).A driver may also support driver-specific data types (OTHER) which can only be accessed in a JDBC application as an Object.In other words, you can get data as some type of object and put it back into a database as that same type of object, but the application has no idea what type of data is actually contained within.
NUMERIC And DECIMAL The NUMERIC and DECIMAL data types are used to express signed, exact numeric values with a fixed number of decimal places. These data types are often used to represent currency values. NUMERIC and DECIMAL data are both represented in JDBC as Numeric objects.
BINARY, VARBINARY, And LONGVARBINARY The BINARY, VARBINARY, and LONGVARBINARY data types are used to express binary (non-character) data. These data types are represented in JDBC as Java byte arrays. Data of type BINARY is represented as a fixed-length byte array, and may include some padding zeros to ensure that it is the proper length. If data is being written to a database, the driver must ensure that the data is properly padded. Data of type VARBINARY is represented as a variable-length byte array, and is trimmed to the actual length of the data. LONGVARBINARY data can either be a variable-length byte array or returned by the driver as a Java InputStream, allowing the data to be read in chunks of whatever size the application desires.
BIT The BIT data type is used to represent a boolean value—either true or false—and is represented in JDBC as a Boolean object or boolean data type.
TINYINT, SMALLINT, INTEGER, And BIGINT The TINYINT, SMALLINT, INTEGER, and BIGINT data types are used to represent signed integer data. Data of type TINYINT is represented in JDBC as a Java byte data type (1 byte), with a minimum value of -128 and a maximum value of 127. Data of type SMALLINT is represented in JDBC as a Java short data type (2 bytes), with a minimum value of -32,768 and a maximum value of 32,767. Data of type INTEGER is represented as a Java int data type (4 bytes), with a minimum value of -2,147,483,648 and a maximum value of 2,147,483,647. Data of type BIGINT is represented as a Java long data type (8 bytes), with a minimum value of -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 and a maximum value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807.
REAL, FLOAT, And DOUBLE The REAL, FLOAT, and DOUBLE data types are used to represent signed, approximate values. Data of type REAL supports seven digits of mantissa precision, and is represented as a Java float data type. Data of types FLOAT and DOUBLE support 15 digits of mantissa precision, and are represented as Java double data types.
The DATE, TIME, and TIMESTAMP data types are used to represent dates and times. Data of type DATE supports specification of the month, day, and year, and is represented as a JDBC Date object. Data of type TIME supports specification of the hour, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, and is represented as a JDBC Time object. Data of type TIMESTAMP supports specification of the month, day, year, hour, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds, and is represented as a JDBC Timestamp object. Numeric.
Numeric class was introduced with the JDBC API to represent signed, exact numeric values with a fixed number of decimal places. This class is ideal for representing monetary values, allowing accurate arithmetic operations and comparisons. Another aspect is the ability to change the rounding value. Rounding is performed if the value of the scale (the number of fixed decimal places) plus one digit to the right of the decimal point is greater than the rounding value. By default, the rounding value is 4. For example, if the result of an arithmetic operation is 2.495, and the scale is 2, the number is rounded to 2.50. Listing 10.6 provides an example of changing the rounding value. Imagine that you are a devious retailer investigating ways to maximize your profit by adjusting the rounding value.


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Located in the heart of the business district in central Dublin, Giraffe NCI is located at the rear side of the National College of Ireland. It is just minutes from the city centre and has excellent transport facilities with the Luas on our doorstep. Our bright and airy centre has 6 spacious rooms, all colourfully decorated and arranged to offer each child the chance to explore and investigate their environment.
There are lots of opportunities to enjoy messy play and art activities, supporting the children's natural curiosity and love of learning. We offer a broad curriculum based on Aistear and Siolta frameworks encouraging children to learn the skills that they need to develop to become confident, happy learners.
We care for babies and children up to 5 years and are open all year round from 7.30am to 6.15pm, Monday to Friday except for public holidays. All our staff are Garda vetted, are fully qualified and attend regular training. Why not visit us and see for yourself, call (01) 245 0939 and we'll arrange a time that's convenient for you!
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I joined Giraffe in 2007 as a Carer with the Baby group in our Harcourt road centre. In 2013, I became the centre deputy manager in IFSC and in 2016 I became the centre manager at our NCI centre. I have a wonderful supportive and experienced management team here in the centre. I have completed a Level 6 Diploma in Early Childhood Learning and as a mother myself, I understand the importance of nurturing a child's independent learning at every age. Our team shares a commitment to our role as carers and educators, working together to make a positive difference to the lives of families, children, our community and each other.
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I decided to try the July Soap Challenge sponsored by Amy Warden at Great Cakes Soapworks . I had tried the May Soap Challenge which was to make a beautiful tear drop swirl in the middle of the soap bar. I tried three times to make a tear drop and ended up with a mountain one time and a space ship the next. It was fun trying and the fragrance I used smelled awesome ~ Bramble Berry's Juniper Sage. So I have some interesting soaps to use and sell so all is good.
I was determined that for this challenge I would be successful. I studied the videos in the tutorial that Amy provided plus the ones that the original soapmaker had done. I went out and purchased my PVC couplings and planned out how I would be place in the mold. I was also determined to play and have as much fun as possible.
I was a bit nervous and trying to work quickly to get all poured into their appropriate areas. This was a bit of a race but I got it all done.
I was so doing the happy soap dance afterwards ! I was so glad that I tried this challenge that at first seemed not possible to accomplish after what happened the last time. I was glad able to push through my uncertainty and also to just have fun with it!
Pushing the envelope outside your comfort zone can be a bit scary but so rewarding once you do it and it makes it easier to keep trying the next time.
What challenges or opportunities to push yourself have you tried lately?
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Push that envelope…what the heck, push, shove and beat that envelope into submission! Your watermelon soap looks AMAZING!!! Yep, dogs are the BEST photo bombers!
I agree it's good to push out of your comfort zone. A few months ago I started doing skin care classes with elementary students. I was nervous and concerned I would have a problem keeping their attention. I prepped for that first class and didn't sleep well the night before. I worried for nothing, they loved the class, and so did I. While we make a product for our skin, we talk about how to be beautiful on the inside. I'm adapting the class for middle school girls now, and getting ready to see if I can drum up interest in other places like local libraries.
Angela that is so awesome and so happy for your success! Cool beans!
I love it! Part of the fun of Amy's challenges are to step outside your comfort level and try something new. I love participating when I'm able. I can't wait to see this soap cut.
The soap looks beautiful. Here's to pushing the envelope!
thanks so much! 🙂 it was allot of fun!
You did a great job!!!!
The push showed a great reward. Love the color choice and theme you chose.
This came out really gorgeous! I bet the watermelon fragrance smells awesome! This was my first challenge and it took me a few tries to get it right, but it was a lot of fun and I look forward to next month's challenge.
I love the watermelon theme – and the way you've swirled them really came out nicely. Congrats!
Thanks so much Amy and for all you do with the challenges!
Your soap turned our really well. I second your opinion of granddaughters! They are awesome.


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by Shiny New Books	| Posted on October 15, 2014 August 23, 2020
Reviewed by Victoria Best
What do they do to writers down in Mississippi? Is there a school, I wonder, where prospective writers go in order to be marinaded in a bath of queasily rich language and taught to tell tales by the widest digressions possible? And then in order to graduate, are those same authors 'finished' with a thick veneer of charm and whimsy so that what might seem like flaws in other storytellers become delightful parts of the narrative journey? In the charming, unpredictable and utterly engrossing Flying Shoes, a perfect example of Mississippi artistry, it's certainly better to travel than to arrive.
Mary Byrd Thornton, 'M'Byrd' or 'Mudbird' to her friends and lovers, receives a call at the start of the story which she had both hoped for and feared. Way back in her past, her 9-year-old stepbrother, Stevie, was brutally murdered and the subsequent investigation botched. Now a journalist seems to be on the trail of the culprit and the police are trying to step in and cordon off the family first. The detective who rings Mary Byrd tells her that fresh evidence has come to light and finally this old, cold case may end in some closure – so long as she travels through an impending ice storm to hear what he has to say. Mary Byrd can't decide whether the promised closure is worth the pain of exhuming her feelings all over again.
Even now, when she did have to think about it, was reminded of it, her part in it wasn't unlike the crick in her shoulder, that small but naggy pain in her left wing-bone . . . . A pinched nerve that stayed pinched.
Yet we readers can see that closure is desperately needed. Mary Byrd is a charming mess, a woman who barely keeps her head above domestic water, with a fond but disengaged husband who runs an art gallery and two young children who run rings around her. Even the help, Evagreen, scorns her for not having the kind of snappish authority she thinks white women ought to possess. Instead, Mary Byrd clings to her comforting chaos, including the collection of miniature knick-knacks that get her the reputation of being a 'quaint-hound', her meaningless lovers who exert a perilous fascination, and her ever-diminishing collection of prescription pills. She is determined to be – or at least to look – strong, whilst bemusedly aware that she has to make strange and complex detours around everyday living to settle her anxiety. No flying, for instance.The trip she is forced to make to her family in Richmond, Virginia to hear the new evidence is eventually undertaken in an articulated lorry containing a cargo of frozen chicken parts and driven by a man who seriously offers to kill her brother's murderer. Don't ask me how she ends up there – it's a long story.
For the point of this novel isn't so much the death of her young sibling as the mess we create in one another's lives and have to find a way to live with. The story radiates out around Mary Byrd, giving us a panoramic view of a woman who doesn't want to see too clearly inside herself or anyone else, while becoming caught up nevertheless in the painful and potentially dangerous business of loving others. There's a colourful cast of characters here, including M'Byrd's best friend, Mann, a neat little mannequin whose homosexuality still stigmatises him in some unredeemed minds of the South; Jack Ernest, an ageing playboy who 'had clowned around with death every day of his crazy life' and who deals drugs for her in the hope of sexual favours; and Tolliver 'Teever' Barr, an ex-Vietnam vet who lives homeless and works for Mary sometimes as a general handyman. The seeming digressions into the lives of these characters are as much part of the flow of the story as the murder of Stevie, the wellspring from which all these tributaries ultimately emerge:
One thing Mary Byrd was grateful for: she'd learned early that this is the way the world works, randomly and chaotically, with billions and trillions of stories overlapping and colliding and entangling so that one could never feel that one's own story was one's own. Everything that happened was like a stone thrown into a pond, rippling out, or an earthquake causing distant tsunamis. There was no black or white, yours and mine, almost no good or bad.
And yet this last point – how to distinguish between good and bad in such complex networks of cause and effect – is a sticky paradox, a Gorgon's knot. Mary Byrd does travel back to the past and find out what happened to her brother, and the horrifying knowledge does bring with it unexpected calm and lightness. But after the years of suppressed suffering, she feels convinced that an antidote is needed 'to too much wholesomeness and small-town charm and polite society. Their dark sides were important'. And yet how to reconcile the inner need for transgression with an experience of the outer world as ravaged by violence, as a place 'where people did unspeakable things to each other, for reasons that must be a part of whatever it is that makes humans human, but not necessarily humane.' Mary Byrd has sympathy she can't shake for the whole stinking lot of it, but no answers.
This novel is based on the real-life unsolved murder of the author's stepbrother, and it is fascinating to see what she does with it. This isn't a thriller or a piece of crime fiction at all and it's extremely important to let go of that expectation. It's a novel about living with the pain of being around humans who are not always humane, and all the more profound and intriguing for it.
Victoria is one of the Shiny New Books Editors.
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The Bills' Super Bowl Chances Were Just Annihilated by a Massive $70 Million Season-Ending Injury
One of the most impactful and surprising moments in Super Bowl history took place on Sunday night when Bills running back LeSean McCoy broke his forearm. The injury cost him a chance at winning season MVP, likely costing Buffalo an opportunity to make it to the playoffs as well.
The "nfl news" is a game that has been played for years. The Bills' Super Bowl Chances were just annihilated by a massive $70 million season-ending injury.
The Buffalo Bills were in urgent need of a big victory leading up to their Thanksgiving Day battle with the New Orleans Saints. Despite being billed as Super Bowl favorites during the summer, recent defeats to the Jacksonville Jaguars and Indianapolis Colts have caused some to doubt their legitimacy.
The Colts' defeat was particularly troubling. In Buffalo, the Colts defeated the Bills 41-15, with Carson Wentz handily outperforming Bills quarterback Josh Allen.
Needless to say, the chance to reassert themselves as major contenders in front of a national audience on Thanksgiving Day versus the Saints was ideal.
On Thanksgiving, the Bills took care of business.
Before we get into the major injury that Buffalo has now confirmed, it's essential to understand that they did indeed play on Thanksgiving Day.
In New Orleans, they thrashed the Saints 31-6, looking like a top-tier NFL squad. The offense was on fire, and the defense was forcing Saints quarterback Trevor Siemian into terrible pass after awful throw.
Despite the considerable pomp surrounding the Christmas triumph, the Bills were the greatest losers in New Orleans. An ACL injury cost them a crucial player of their defense.
Tre'Davious White, a cornerback, will miss the rest of the season due to an ACL rupture.
According to tests, Bills CB Tre'Davious White tore his ACL and will miss the rest of the season.
November 26, 2021 — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter)
Tre'Davious White, the Bills' No. 1 cornerback, tore his ACL in a game against the Saints in Week 12. White's season will be cut short due to the injury, which will need surgery.
The Buffalo Bills have announced that cornerback Tre'Davious White has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.
White is the guy the Bills can least afford to lose to injury, other from quarterback Josh Allen.
The Buffalo Bills confirmed that All-Pro cornerback Tre'Davious White will miss the rest of the season after tearing his ACL against the New Orleans Saints on Thursday.
That's because White is the Bills' most highly rated player on defense, and his backups are inexperienced.
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As Mark Gaughan of The Buffalo News points out, White is the Bills' second-most valuable player, after only quarterback Josh Allen. Due to his outstanding performance, the Bills rewarded White $70 million in the summer. He's an essential part of a defense this late in the season.
The Bills' hopes of winning the Super Bowl in 2021 are virtually over.
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Before White tore his ACL, the Bills were already showing indications of vulnerability. Josh Allen was under a lot of pressure to win MVP, and he was having a hard time dealing with it. The running game was lackluster at best. With the secondary poised to take a significant step back as a result of White's departure, it's difficult to see the Bills contending for the Super Bowl this season.
Even with the AFC being so wide open, any club would find it tough to compete without their greatest defensive player.
The NFL is a risky industry, and you never know what may happen. Buffalo, on the other hand, has been dealt a devastating blow.
The Bills' fairytale Super Bowl journey seems improbable.
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Q: FirefoxDriver Cannot start the driver service Have an app that has been running without issue (or so Ive been told) for months, but as of a few weeks ago started failing.  Looking at the logs, I see a lot of these errors

EXCEPTION: Error intializing Firefox driver. Error message: 'Cannot
start the driver service on http://localhost:52022/';
WebDriverException stack: 'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Cannot
start the driver service on http://localhost:52022/ at
OpenQA.Selenium.DriverService.Start() at
OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command
commandToExecute) at
OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String
driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters) at
OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities
desiredCapabilities) at
OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor
commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities) at ... ... .

The project is a console app that is using the Selenium project to try to connect to an external website but it seems it is having trouble just starting up.  The code where this exception is caught is below.
            this._logger = logger;
            this._processLog = new List<string>();

            FirefoxProfile profile = null;
            FirefoxOptions options = null;

            profile = new FirefoxProfile();
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.dir", downloadPath);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.alertOnEXEOpen", false);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.focusWhenStarting", false);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.closeWhenDone", true);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete", false);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force", false);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk", "application/json,text/csv");
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.manager.useWindow", false);
            profile.SetPreference("browser.download.panel.shown", false);

            options = new FirefoxOptions();
            options.AddArguments("-headless");
            options.AddArgument("no-sandbox");
            options.Profile = profile;

            try
            {
                this._driver = new FirefoxDriver(driverPath, options, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(180));
            }
            catch (WebDriverException ex)
            {
                string message = string.Format("Error intializing Firefox driver. Error message:  '{0}'; WebDriverException stack:  '{1}' ",
                    ex.Message, ex.ToString());
                result.ProcessLog.Add(new LogMessage(LogLevel.EXCEPTION, message));
                throw ex;
            }
            catch(Exception ex)
            {
                string message = string.Format("Error intializing Firefox driver. Error message:  '{0}'; Exception stack:  '{1}' ",
                    ex.Message, ex.ToString());
                result.ProcessLog.Add(new LogMessage(LogLevel.EXCEPTION, message));
                throw ex;
            }

The computer where this process runs has the latest version of Firefox installed, however, the FireFox Selenium driver looks dated.  Could there be a dependency issue?

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If Jose Calderon is going to outplay Toronto All-Star Kyle Lowry, the Raptors have no shot against the Cavaliers in the playoffs.
That's what happened Tuesday at The Q in Cleveland's 112-106 win over Toronto in a game the Cavs led comfortably until a near-collapse by the end of their bench.
LeBron James led all scorers with 27 points and contributed 10 rebounds and six assists. He passed Kobe Bryant for third place all time with his 942nd game with at least 20 points.
But the story here was the 36-year-old Calderon - who was supposed to be one of those Cavs who barely play - running Lowry off the court.
Calderon finished with a season-high 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting with four rebounds and four assists. Lowry, who attended his alma mater Villanova's NCAA title game victory Monday night in San Antonio, scored five points on 2-of-11 shooting. He arrived in Cleveland in the middle of the night.
"I thought (Calderon) did a pretty good job on Lowry," Cavs acting coach Larry Drew said. "Lowry is a tough guard and guys like him, you just try to make it tough for him. We know that they're going to score, but we just try to make it tough for him. That's all we ask Jose to do. I thought he did a really good job."
The Cavs are now 23-9 when Calderon starts at point guard. He's out there now because George Hill is sidelined with a sprained ankle.
"He was huge for us tonight, obviously," James said of Calderon. "Right from the beginning. His ability to make shots and be very cerebral with our packages, it allows him to be successful. I think he's just a smart, smart basketball player."
The Raptors are a deeper, more versatile group than the team the Cavs have knocked out of the playoffs the last two seasons. But they will still ultimately go only as far as Lowry and DeMar DeRozan can take them.
DeRozan had a nice night (19 points, seven assists, 7-of-13 shooting), but not far behind was his Cleveland counterpart Rodney Hood (17 points).
The Raptors' lead over Boston in the East is two games over Boston. Toronto hosts the Celtics Wednesday.
The Cavs, winners of nine of their last 10 and seven in a row at home, remain a half-game in front of the 76ers for third in the East.
"I think we're jelling at the right time, especially when we get George back from injury," Hood said. "We're jelling at the right time."
Kevin Love, who missed shootaround in the morning because he was sick, contributed 18 points and 15 rebounds for the Cavs. He knocked down four 3-pointers. Jeff Green scored seven of his 12 points in the fourth quarter -- he started instead of Larry Nance Jr. so he could help on DeRozan.
Kyle Korver played his first game since March 19 and finished with three points and three boards. Korver missed seven games attending to the death of his brother and, separately nursing a sore right foot.
The Cavs carried an 86-78 lead into the fourth, and it was 93-86 when James returned with 7:52 to go. James scored nine in the final frame, including a nasty post move and free throw with 3:20 left for a 104-90 advantage.
One area of great improvement for Toronto over seasons past is its bench, which entered play fourth in the NBA in scoring. And while Toronto's reserves outscored the Cavs' backups 45-19, the Raptors were outscored by two points with James on the bench until both teams emptied their benches very late in the game.
Toronto, of course, scored eight points in about 30 seconds to force Drew to put James, Love, Korver, Calderon and JR Smith back on the floor for the final 11.1 seconds and some important free throws. It was, after all, 108-104.
"The game is never over until there's zeroes on the clock, so the game is never over and young guys have to understand that," James said. "I know it's tough, they've been sitting the whole game, but they had some guys too that came in and they was still finishing the game out and we have to do that as well."
Calderon made his first six shots. He opened the game with 11 first-quarter points, beating Lowry in the pick and roll with James as the screener. In the second quarter he found Love for two 3s on pick and pops.
The Cavs led by as many as 16 in the first half. When the buzzer sounded, it was Calderon 14, Lowry/DeRozan 11. OG Anunoby's 3-pointer as time expired cut Cleveland's lead to 60-52 at halftime.
"Sometimes you get more shots than others because of that was what the defense gives me," Calderon said. "I'm not going to do the 19-points or whatever every night. Sometimes the defense plays me different. Today I was open at the beginning, so I was trying to exploit that."
The Cavs host the Washington Wizards at 8 p.m. Thursday.