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CKUT AND THE IMMIGRANT WORKERS CENTRE PRESENT: MIGRANT VOICES!
Migrant Voices is a continuing series in which CKUT teams up with the Immigrant Workers Centre to bring the stories and voices of migrant workers to the airwaves.
Past broadcasts have included:
Migrant Voices on World Skip the Beat: music and stories of workplace struggle
On Monday, March 26th the Immigrant Workers Centre hosted World Skip the Beat.
The program featured musical selections chosen by a worker of Mexican origin, and his stories of workplace struggle in Montreal. His identity is confidential due to the threat of employer retaliation.
Testimony of a former temporary agency worker
The Immigrant Workers' Centre presents the story of a Filipino machinist who came to Canada through the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program.
He agreed to share his story with us, from working as a machinist in a "free trade" (militarized) zone in the Philippines with a "no unions, no strikes" policy, to working as a TFW during the graveyard shift at an aerospace factory just outside of Montreal. His identity is confidential due to the precarity of his status and the threat of retribution by employers.
About the Immigrant Workers Centre: The Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) defends the rights of immigrants in their places of work and fights for dignity, respect and justice. The IWC provides resources and referrals for immigrant workers in several languages (English, French, Spanish, Persian, Hindi, Arabic, etc). For more information visit their website.


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Interview Questions for a Team Leader Role
By Tara Duggan
Interview Questions for Human Resource Managers
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Managers try to ensure that jobs are awarded to the best person by asking a broad range of interview questions that cover the skills and knowledge needed to lead a team. Strong team leaders exhibit skills in team building, motivation and supervision. If the role involves managing a global team, skills in effective cross-cultural communication typically enable success. Before interviewing candidates for a team leader position, the hiring manager should clearly establish the job requirements.
The candidate's description of his team-building methods will illustrate his ability to ensure that team members are well-trained to carry out their tasks. Ask questions about the frequency of team meetings and how to handle team conflicts and managing risks. This determines if the candidate knows how to coordinate a group of people to achieve a goal. The candidate gets an opportunity to describe how he would handle a situation, such as dealing with a team member who consistently misses deadlines or suppliers who deliver materials below quality standards.
Team Motivation
Effective team leaders need to motivate their team members to produce results. This answer to this question will offer some sense of how the applicant will use incentives to inspire her team. For example, a candidate can describe the rewards and recognition she plans to offer people who succeed in produce timely results. Candidates can discuss their ability to influence others through written or audio communication, such as email, newsletters and podcasts.
Effective Supervision
Team leaders need to be able to delegate tasks effectively. Ask a candidate to give examples of his ability to supervise a team. This allows him to describe his past experience in assigning tasks to subordinates and checking that quality work results. The candidate also has a chance to describe sessions he has conducted to transfer his knowledge about policies and procedures to less experienced staff members.
If team members do not all reside in the same location, or if they represent different countries and backgrounds, the team leader needs to be able to communicate effectively without offending or insulting her subordinates. Ask questions about the candidate's experience working with other cultures to see that she has developed the necessary intercultural communication sensitivity required to manage a multicultural team.
CVTips: Interview Questions and Answers: Team leadership
Society for Human Resource Management: Sample Interview Questions
"ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals"; Elaine Biech; 2008
Tara Duggan is a Project Management Professional (PMP) specializing in knowledge management and instructional design. For over 25 years she has developed quality training materials for a variety of products and services supporting such companies as Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and HP. Her freelance work is published on various websites.
Interviewing Questions for Leadership Competencies
How to Write a Good Interview Questionnaire
How to Prepare for Behavioral Interviews
Interview Questions for a Human Resource Director
The 10 Effective Qualities of a Team Leader
Description of "Leadership Style" During an Interview
Basic Employee Tests
Training & Development of Management & Teamwork Synergy
Six Sigma Green Belt Vs. Black Belt
1 Interviewing Questions for Leadership Competencies
2 How to Write a Good Interview Questionnaire
3 How to Prepare for Behavioral Interviews
4 Interview Questions for a Human Resource Director

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Blockchain gaming has come a long way since its fumbling start. Here are the exciting things that are coming, according to Don Norbury, Head of Studio at Shrapnel.
Ralph Baer's 'Brown Box', Atari's 'Pong', Sega Genesis, Playstation, Xbox Live, the advent of online gaming – the list goes on and on of important milestones in the development of the video game industry over the years. All of these projects and products contributed something different to the evolution of gaming, but they all had one thing in common: they pushed the boundaries of innovation.
Since its modest beginnings, the gaming industry has consistently evolved and changed shape through technological innovation. At its best, this enhanced what players already love about gaming – community, exciting world-building, and immersive gameplay. At its worst, over-complicated and poorly integrated technology destroys the gaming experience and drives players away.
The rise of blockchain gaming is a controversial and ever-developing recent example of innovation in the gaming space. Evangelists have always pushed the potential of blockchain to deliver new, fun and enhanced experiences to players. But early blockchain or crypto games have failed to live up to this billing and been derided by most traditional gamers.
This is largely due to the first blockchain games' fixation on the features of monetization and neglect for production values and gameplay. Put simply, many early crypto gaming projects forgot the fundamental fact that it's exciting world-building and immersive gameplay that attracts players to gaming.
Blockchain gaming missteps
Missteps made by early projects in the Web3 space do not mean that blockchain is without value for gaming. These missteps have provided fantastic insight and, in fact, blockchain still has great potential to transform the gaming industry and enhance player experience. Don't just take my word for it, this potential is clearly reflected in the recent trend of game industry veterans making the move to work on blockchain.
Recently the Japanese gaming giant Square Enix sold $300 million worth of intellectual property tied to major franchises "Tomb Raider" and "Deus Ex." This is alongside a number of its foreign studios – in favor of funding its blockchain initiatives.
Attracted by the possibility of the technology to facilitate features like community participation, true ownership, and interoperability, many high-caliber developers with proven track records in traditional gaming are now working on Web3 projects. Their aim is not simply to shoehorn crypto payment infrastructure into existing game models. But rather, to maintain the essence of what players already love about gaming and create a whole new genre of top-quality games that are enhanced by the features enabled by blockchain.
Blockchain gaming goals
In these top-quality games on the horizon, the goal is for the underlying foundations of blockchain to be invisible. Instead, the player will enjoy an AAA gameplay experience. The Web3 technology will work in the background to enable important features and enhance the gaming experience. The first projects to successfully achieve this smooth integration of top-quality gameplay and blockchain-enabled features will be a key milestone in the history of the video game industry. They will offer a truly novel experience to gamers.
This novel experience is clear from the very outset of a Web3 project, as the decentralized nature of the technology allows for far more community participation in the evolution of games. Enabling voting on in-game item development, map creation tools, game functions and innovations, community members have the capacity to get involved in different aspects of the game ahead of its launch. With its egalitarian and communal ethos, blockchain allows game developers to open up the game creation journey to their communities, transforming the traditional player-studio relationship.
Empowering players
Blockchain can also enable top-quality games to further empower players by facilitating true ownership of in-game assets. Unlike traditional games, where players' assets exist solely within the game ecosystem itself, blockchain enables players to attach their possessions, like weapons and skins to an on-chain identity that is immutable, transferable, and valuable. This allows the player to get real rewards for their items in a way that they have never experienced in traditional AAA games.
Furthermore, recording game items on the blockchain also has the added benefit of helping to create a backstory for every item in the game. For example, a player would be able to pick up a weapon and tell who exactly had used it before them, who had created it and how it was won. This adds more significance to every item in the game and builds an extra layer of storytelling to the gameplay experience, accentuating what players already love about gaming.
Web3 and virtual worlds
Perhaps most revolutionary though, Web3 allows the next generation of games and virtual worlds to be built with interoperability as a core tenet. Rather than hold players inside walled gardens, the virtual worlds that comprise the open Metaverse will empower players to own their identity and take their digital assets wherever they go. These open economies will be larger and more durable than any closed economy game that we've seen yet, with players deeply invested in their assets and driving innovation as co-creators / co-owners of the world around them.
The prospect and potential of these blockchain-enabled features makes this a really exciting moment for the industry. However, it's clear that Web3 gaming developers still have a long way to go to prove to traditional players that they can successfully integrate blockchain and maintain an AAA quality of gameplay.
Now backed by industry veterans with the knowledge and skills to create thrilling and enjoyable games, blockchain holds great promise as one of the next major gaming evolutions. In years to come, we will inevitably look back at the early top-quality blockchain games as a key milestone in the gaming industry's development.
Don Norbury is the Head of Studio at Shrapnel. A gaming industry veteran from genre-defining franchises like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Bioshock, Sunset Overdrive, and Crackdown, Don has redefined creative boundaries across platforms and player experience for over a decade. Don sees backend blockchain infrastructure in games as a natural industry progression for facilitating the kind of creativity and applications that Minecraft players are looking to age into. Shrapnel is the world's first blockchain-enabled moddable AAA first-person shooter game.
Got something to say about blockchain gaming or anything else? Write to us or join the discussion in our Telegram channel. You can also catch us on Tik Tok, Facebook, or Twitter.
All the information contained on our website is published in good faith and for general information purposes only. Any action the reader takes upon the information found on our website is strictly at their own risk.
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Jinger Duggar's wedding to Jeremy Vuolo is coming soon: when is the 'Counting On' event?
Have fans uncovered some details regarding 'Counting On' star Jinger Duggar's wedding to Jeremy Vuolo?
Is it time for another Duggar wedding? "Counting On" and "19 Kids and Counting" fans have watched over the past few months as Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo courted and got engaged, and now many signs point toward them getting married over the weekend of November 5. The family has stayed more quiet than is typical on this front, but it certainly looks as if Jinger's wedding is about to take place.
As the Hollywood Gossip details, comments sprinkled across various social media pages have hinted that Jinger Duggar's wedding to Jeremy Vuolo is set to take place during the weekend of November 4.
It seems that the gal set to photograph the wedding was asking Whitney Bates of "Bringing On Bates" if she'd get to meet her at the "wedding next week," and as "19 Kids" and "Counting On" fans know, the Bates and Duggar families know one another well and typically attend one another's weddings.
The Facebook page "Duggar Family News: Life is not all pickles and hairspray" has been sharing tidbits that point toward this weekend being Jinger's wedding to Jeremy as well. One post notes that the Vuolo family is in the midst of driving 18 hours to Arkansas ahead of this weekend, and there is no way around thinking that this tidbit points toward the big wedding taking place over the next few days.
When will the Duggar and Vuolo wedding air on TLC?
When it came to both Jill Duggar's wedding to Derick Dillard and Jessa Duggar's wedding to Ben Seewald, the family had been fairly open about many of the details. In the case of Jinger and Jeremy, however, the "Counting On" stars have been much more secretive. Season 2 of the family show wraps up on TLC on November 15, but it is said to be returning for Season 3. There have been some teasers hinting at the wedding being featured in the finale, but that seems highly unlikely as viewers have yet to see all of the typical wedding prep that usually airs on the family's shows.
Will Jinger Duggar's wedding to Jeremy Vuolo take place in Arkansas this weekend as many "19 Kids and Counting" and "Counting On" fans suspect? It should be quite the event and the family's supporters will be anxious for details regarding the nuptials and when it will all air on TLC.


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Inmate Advocacy
Through our "Inmate Advocacy Program" that is Partnering with Buck Angel's Project "Trans-Form", & Trans Lifeline, we are helping a trans man in South Dakota, currently incarcerated and possibly facing ten years over a cannabis related offense. His name is Riley Notti. Since being incarcerated, Riley let us know he has been sexually assaulted in custody and has made an attemp to end his life behind bars. He has been held in the women's facility and after requesting to be transferred to the facility consistent with his gender identity, the state has refused. He has been denied adequate medical and psychiatric care by the South Dakota officials. His spouse told us that officials are claiming he's using his mental health as a get of jail free card.
41% of Transgender Individuals have attempted suicide. "The prevalence of suicide attempts among respondents to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality, is 41 percent, which vastly exceeds the 4.6 percent of the overall U.S. population." As stated by the Williams Institute.
NAMI reports "LGBTQ individuals are almost 3 times more likely than others to experience a mental health condition such as major depression or generalized anxiety disorder."
This report shows "Nearly one-quarter of adults who are LGBT (23 percent) say that they have been unfairly stopped, searched, questioned, physically threatened or abused by the police."
With these statistics in mind, we are concerned for Riley. Read more about mental health in the transgender population here. Trans Empowerment Project-National has been working with Buck Angel's "Trans-Form" Project, Trans Lifeline, TLC, PPFA, and NORML to ensure this client has access to his basic rights. We need YOUR help!
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April 2018 Colorado Springs Entrepreneurs Group Meetup
CSE Group Members;
Looks like it's April and time for some "Financial Education"... Seems like this becomes one of our topics every year in April most likely due to tax month, but for some reason we end up with really good topics and speakers...
Financial Education:
This month you are in for a treat, as will have the opportunity to experience a really "engaging" talk by Jack Cassidy, (one of our long term members) who is a financial professional and will give one of his favorite talks on the "Keel and Canvas"
"Keel and Canvas":
Jack's objective is to show how the left side of the balance sheet supports the activities of the income statement, and the right side of the balance sheet is where the left side comes from. The sailboat analogy shows how that works. Most people get that it takes some amount of Money to go from ZERO to $100 in revenue. Now we show that it takes a similar amount to go from $100 to $200 !
About Jack Cassidy:
Like Ben Franklin Jack is a Philadelphia boy, The term Hoagie may have been coined in Jack's parent bar in South Philly. Educated in the midwest, Iowa State, BS and Northwestern University Kellogg Grad (MBA)
The BS stands for Balance Sheet not Bachelor of Science !
- Partner in Hedrick McBride Development Real Estate Development … (Partner Tom McBride was taught to fly a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star by Chuck Yeager)
- V.P. Acquisitions Occidental Land Research (SEC Registered Syndicator providing equity to real estate development)
- Associate Pro Forma West (Business brokerage and Private Equity Brokerage)
- Principle Kepler Financial (Private Equity Brokerage)
- Principle Carver Hall Group. (Financial Consulting)
- Adjunct Faculty at Cal State University (Dominguez Hills and Fullerton campus)
About Carver Hall Group:
Carver Hall Group is a consulting and brokerage team that is dedicated to connecting science and technology with industry and commerce.
Affordable and Obtainable Housing:
Also, this month I will provide an update on the proposed Affordable and Obtainable Housing "Test Pilots" we have proposed for the City of Colorado Springs, and the County of El Paso... This also includes a number of local aid agencies who are interested in solving affordable housing in our local community.
In addition, I will provide an update on Ballot Initiative 66 which is a really bad upcoming voter initiative coming out of Boulder to try and attempt to restrict the number of single family housing developments in 10 counties in Colorado. Will present the "pros and cons" and some of the background behind this initiative.
Will also have another "Open Mic" opportunity for our members who would like to make some "mini-pitches" on their businesses, or propose some challenges to our group for problem solving on a particular issue or development in their business. You never know what to expect with Open Mic !
Looking forward to seeing many of our recently added members this month !
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ProEsys presents a turnkey implementation of the LoRaWAN™ Network Server software suite, ensuring interoperability among own Gateways and LoRaWAN™ compliant end-nodes. The software suite allows easy network configuration, management, encryption, archiving and data export to customer applications. In addition, LNS-1 includes maintenance functions such as multi-level logging, remote gateway configuration and diagnostics, geographical map representation of network elements, including mobile nodes. To maximize both battery life of the end-devices and overall network capacity, the LNS-1 manages the data rate and RF output for each end-device individually by means of an adaptive data rate (ADR) scheme. The LNS-1 is built with a modular and scalable architecture, allowing standalone, single server installations, up to geographically distributed and redundant configurations. Built around standard modules such as Apache, mySQL and Linux, it is easily portable to different architectures.
LoRaWAN™ compliant: Interoperable with own gateway and LoRaWAN™ standard end-nodes.
Modular design: Scalable and portable from embedded architectures to nationwide redundant servers capable of handling thousands of gateways and end-nodes.
Easy to use interface: Web configuration and network management, including maps.


Nowadays, our company are actually deluged along with vehicle insurance coverage commercials, with each firm claiming to possess the very best cost and package for you. Who can you actually leave, and exactly how can you create the best educated choice? The insight in this write-up will help you arrange by means of this overwhelming overload from automobile insurance policy details.
When guaranteeing a teenage driver, save loan on your auto insurance by designating just one from your family's automobiles as the car your daughter or son are going to steer. This will conserve you coming from paying out the rise for each one of your automobiles, as well as the cost of your automobile insurance coverage will certainly climb just by a percentage.
To assist conserve amount of money on automobile insurance, begin along with an automobile that is actually less expensive to cover. Buying a stylish automobile along with a big V-8 engine may drive your yearly insurance coverage premium to multiply just what it would be for a smaller, much less flashy auto with a 4 cyndrical tube motor that spares gas simultaneously.
To maintain your insurance coverage claim going properly, you ought to begin a notebook along with details as quickly as you create the insurance claim. The first thing you are going to acquire is a claim number and also every person entailed will certainly be actually seeking that. Documenting every discussion, commitment and also contact will certainly help you negotiate your resolution later.
Requesting for a grow older discount can help save a bundle on auto insurance coverage for older chauffeurs. If you possess a tidy driving document, insurer are actually likely to supply you much better rates as you age. Chauffeurs in between the ages from 55 as well as 70 are more than likely to become qualified for such discount rates.
Avoid permitting your insurance policy coverage lapse to help keep your rates lesser. Lapses typically happen when you alter your providers or maybe when you merely modify plans. To secure themselves, the insurer will certainly increase prices when they discover a gap in insurance coverage.
Students are actually commonly supplied a lot of discounts when this comes to automobile insurance policy. Examine out resident pupil price cuts if you're a trainee appearing to spare money on a policy. These discount rates are actually for pupils who merely utilize their lorries throughout the weekends, holidays as well as summer months. You can easily save some big money through this price cut.
Your adolescent driver might be actually qualified for a number of discount rates that could create automotive insurance even more inexpensive, therefore be sure to talk to. Some companies will certainly offer a markdown to good pupils along with a GPA above 3.0. Your teenager's premiums might also slowly lower as they build up a secure driving report. Protective steering courses and an automobile with plenty of safety components may also receive you a much cheaper plan.
There are actually various kinds of car insurance provider available. Receive quotes off each of all of them to discover what is the greatest rate. Numerous business currently use quotes internet, over the phone, or you could enter any insurance policy representatives workplace as well as make a visit to discuss your alternatives.
Stop driving your car if you wish to pay for a lot less for your insurance. Appears simple, yet this's effective provided that your insurer offers markdowns for vehicles along with reduced usage. Having the bus or walking more often may keep your vehicle in the garage and also save you loan on your premiums. You may even drop a pound or two!
If you're planning to, or even simply received married, call your insurance provider for a savings. Chauffeurs which are actually wed have the tendency to drive even more safely and securely, especially if they have youngsters in the auto. Insurance provider often will certainly provide you a savings as soon as you celebrate a marriage, due to your much better driving.
Carry out not work out for the 1st vehicle insurance coverage firm that you find. Some insurance coverage business supply rebated costs for accident-free drivers, or for people from particular line of works.
Also if you could be quick on money, auto insurance is certainly not one thing you must miss out on. Auto insurance policy are going to aid defend you (and also your family) when you are out on the road.
Talking to for a grow older discount can easily help conserve a bundle on cars and truck insurance coverage for more mature vehicle drivers. Students are actually often offered a lot of markdowns when this comes to vehicle insurance coverage. Your adolescent vehicle driver might be actually eligible for a number of discount rates that could possibly create automotive insurance even more budget friendly, therefore be actually certain to inquire. Seems straightforward, but that's reliable as long as your insurance coverage firm supplies discounts for cars with low mileage. Some insurance coverage firms use marked down superiors for accident-free motorists, or for folks of certain occupations.


This is about a simple girl who happens to be the only child and her name is Zara Olens. She dreamt about of being a part in the music industry and probably get noticed by the whole world. But she always thought that this is just a fantasy, to be known and noticed.
During school days, she's one of the members in school campus choir and she has a secret crush to one of her music classmate named Lian Brown. But they've never been friends during school days. This guy has a hidden personality that every girl would love.
What will happen now that they're going to graduate and will have separate lives? And what will happen to her dream? Will it remain as fantasy? Find out more by reading this book. Something good to start your day.
I've been searching for that and luckily I found one.
i love the cover. You did the artwork?
Wow! Thanks for that flattering remark. Glad you liked it!
You're only 16? Wow, that's the best part of teenage life. Just enjoy the present. Don't mind your age. It's exciting when you get more older. Different trials and experiences. But I wish I could go back to that age. Haha. Anyways I've been a little busy with work so I dont have much time to write a new story. I am also busy with my real life story. Haha.
Lol thanks. :) Yes I'm still writing but for one of my stories I have an idea I want to go with but I cant seem to put it in words. And I do have a FB account but I haven't been on it ever since I made it.
FB has never really held my interest.
Hi Kristen.. Sorry to reply so so late.. How's your writing? Is your new book already done? I hope so, so I could read it.. Oh nice, you have an FB .. Me neither. I dont put much time on FB, instead i am more interesting in IG. Do you have it too? I just want to see you that's why I am asking for your FB account ..
You take care always. I miss hanging around here in Bookrix!


A recent information that has rumbled the jungle of beer drinkers, is the fact that you could lose weight by simply taking some glass of beer. Am sure this has hit you like a flash. It is okay or natural to respond to such information with an ounce of skepticism. However, this is what this post will be focusing on.
Are you overweight and you also happen to be a consumer of beer? Do you know that the answer to your troubles may be in that glass of liquor that is seated right in front of you? Take your time and go through this post carefully and find out for yourself how this can be made possible. Also be on the lookout for the types of beer that will be most suitable for weight reduction purposes.
How does beer can help you to slim down?
This was the result of a recent study by a group of researchers at Oregon State University. According to the result, xanthohumol, a kind of flavonoid that is present in beer and hop helped mice in weight reduction as well as the reduction of the cholesterol levels.
The study actually focused on male mice. Hence, they split them into two groups. They fed both of them with a diet that was high in fats. What differentiated both groups was that they gave a particular group between 30 to 60g of xanthohumol each day in all the twelve weeks.
The result was that those mice that were given the xanthohumol ended up cutting down their cholesterol levels to a very safe level (about 80%). They equally lost weight in contrast with their counterparts that did not take xanthohumol.
This is exactly how beer can help you lose some extra weight. It does it simply by the help of xanthohumol. You can also say it's a product of absolute brilliance even though it's not 100% proven. The important thing is that beer drinkers now have something else to talk about other than just getting themselves high in the act. They can now bother about how they can adopt a drinking pattern that can help them lose weight in a long run.
The other side of the research is not as cheering because it was concluded that before you can actually have this weight loss effect experienced, you may need to drink as much as 3500 pints of beer within a short space of time. This report does not encourage the act in a certain way. However, it's nothing to worry about, as there should be some weight loss effect in a glass of beer. No matter how small the effects, the must be some effect when you consume one glass of beer.
The next section of this post will be containing the list of beer that can help you in losing weight comfortably. Coupled with this outline will also be a small review on the various drinks.
This is a beer that is prepared from a combination of different aroma hop. Bud light is both imported and American grown. It's equally a combination of rice and barley malt. Its refreshing flavor and easy to drink nature has put it in number place of light beer from the world. It includes a calorie of about 110. This beer is a classic for any American. It's crispy nature simply makes it hard to resist regarding consumption. It's what a beer should taste like. You can consume bud light for your weight loss purposes.
Sam Adams Light has been categorized as a unique beer. They emphasized it's not in the class with the Boston Lager. It's only the drink that is brewed traditionally to ensure that there is a balance of taste and satisfaction. With a calorie of 128, you can be glad of consuming the Sam Adams Light because it has a zero after taste. It has a complex flavor though. Its been regarded as one of the few beers that is light regarding calories but quite heavy on a hop.
Another great beer for your drinking pleasure. It starts out with little carbonation, and the rest is history. This beer becomes headless immediately it's served. It has an appearance that looks pale and smells like banana. Some people do not like this brand for reasons best known to them. Our focus, however, is the fact that it can be used to cut down excess weight. You can count on its sweetness, and a calorie of about 100+.
Most people categorize this beer in the same class with the European drinks. It's because of the simple aroma it has. They also believe it lacks that skunk odor that is normally associated with most beers. The good part is that it's a low-calorie drink with a calorie of 64. It's what has made it gain some popularity amongst its drinkers. It's just perfect for your weight loss benefits.
This beer is also fairly low in calorie. This is a drink that has raced its way from obscurity to glory. It may not be the most recognized drinks in the circle of the heavy drinkers, but it certainly gained its ranks by being a fairly healthy drink. It is highly convenient for your weight loss benefits. You may have a contrary view about this drink, but that does not change the fact that it's been of great help to those who don't want to gain weight on the process of drinking.
The ideology of the producer of this drink is that simply because the drink is low on calorie does not mean the drink has to be low in taste. A good number of persons have decided to stick with this brand of drink. They have made it their preferred choice because of the great taste as well as it low calorie nature. You can hop on with this group of persons who have chosen this drink as their brand. If not for anything you can go along with it because of its low calorie nature. This beer has a calorie value of about 99.
Miller lite is also sometimes referred to as lite. This is another great brand that has competed favorably with other products in the American market. Most people have decided to adopt this drink type for so many reasons, but one good reason is the fact that it has weight loss benefits. In other words, it can be consumed without the fear of being overweight in the process. This beer has certainly distinguished itself with its calorie value of 98. It is an excellent choice if you do not want to get some excess calorie into your system.
If you have taken theSan Miguel Pilsen before then, you will not find it difficult to relate with this drink. It is basically regarded as a summer drink. It is believed to be most convenient for most people in the Philippines who are actually starting out as beer consumers. The good part about this drink is that its calorie value is actually low which implies a low alcohol level as well. If you are thinking of taking a beer, and not adding too much on your weight, then this could be a nice option.
The side effects that could result in our consuming excess alcohol. You could experience things like dizziness, excess calorie and some other. You may want to be on the lookout for how you are consuming yours, so you do not exceed your limit. This is very important. Apart from the problem of excess consumption, it can be regarded as a safe choice for your weight loss benefits.
In conclusion, it is very possible that you have been dazzled at some of the information you have come across in this post. Well, there is no need to feel bad about it because most people equally felt the same way the first time they encountered this. The long and short of it is that you have learned so much about how beer can help you in the quest to drop some extra pounds. You were equally exposed to some brands that could help serve the purpose. Maybe you should stop contemplating, and give it a try straight away.
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Alice Peurala left her parents' home in Missouri to move to Chicago and work. Her parents were upset with the decisions she made because they felt that a girl's place was in the home until she was married off, then she was to be in that home. However, Alice wanted to work. She worked numerous jobs in various factories and shops. She joined unions and strived to be an active woman in the work force. This where we see that some cultures and families want to keep the traditional roles alive; women in the home, men in the work force.
What was the time frame for this one? You could connect this back to one of your first posts that show how much those values have not changed.
I feel like it would be useful to know the time period. I feel like it is post world war 2 but by telling us the time period you can also show a change in time since your first post. You could also talk a little about how culturally things are changing that makes women working outside the home more acceptable.
Yes, a date will be very helpful. The selection we read from Orsi's book on St. Jude might give you some good context here.


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Options to Ensure the Best Indo-Pacific Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense
Chandler Myers is an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He holds a BS in English from the Air Force Academy and a MA in international relations with a focus in cyber diplomacy from Norwich University. Chandler contributes to WAR ROOM, the U.S. Army's online national security journal. Divergent Options' content does not contain information of an official nature nor does the content represent the official position of any government, any organization, or any group.
National Security Situation: Since the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Secretary of Defense (SecDef) has focused on the Middle East at the expense of the other, greater threats. While U.S. interest in the Indo-Pacific has increased since 2009[1], there has not been a SecDef with deep professional experience in this region. While some may look at the SecDef, as the principal member in the DoD responsible for executing defense strategy to fulfill U.S. policy goals strictly as a generalist, without a sizable length of professional experience in the Indo-Pacific region, or the right mix of Indo-Pacific experts available for consultation, risk of military failure increases.
Date Originally Written: March 25, 2021.
Date Originally Published: April 12, 2021.
Author and / or Article Point of View: The author believes that while the DoD's increasing focus on the Indo-Pacific is the correct strategy, that bureaucratic inertia can cause too many people or not the right people to be in the room when policy decisions are made. This inertia can contribute to failure and guarding against it is a must[2].
Background: In an effort to realign the unbalanced focus and strategy the U.S. military executed in the Middle East from 2000-2008, President Barack Obama broke from tradition to restore engagement in and focus on Indo-Pacific regional issues that impact U.S. security, and the security of U.S. allies and partners. President Obama and SecDef Leon Panetta renewed America's security investments in the Indo-Pacific through increased deployments and enhancing allied and partner collective and individual security capability[3]. The driving force causing President Obama's redirection was U.S.-Sino relations. After President Obama reaffirmed U.S. national interests in the Indo-Pacific, he ordered SecDef Panetta to increase planning and troop deployments as one way to compete with China's military modernization and assertive claims to disputed maritime territory[4]. While President Obama's direction changed the region, SecDef Panetta had little to no experience there[5]. Indo-Pacific problems require thinking in an Indo-Pacific context. U.S. security goals in the region are contingent more on the professional experience of the SecDef, or the access he has to an experienced workforce to help him execute policy goals, not the advancement of the tools the military wields.
Significance: The U.S.-China security relationship is arduous in many facets. Recommendations and options to assuage the relationship bend toward making changes in DoD force structure, but few focus on expertise within the DoD.
Option #1: The President nominates people with deeper professional experience in the Indo-Pacific to the position of Secretary of Defense.
Risk: A mandate that requires professional experience in the Indo-Pacific will greatly limit who can be nominated to be SecDef. Additionally, a SecDef with highlighted experience in the Indo-Pacific may fall into a similar strategic trap as past SecDefs who served during OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM and OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM; in a sense that, instead of ignoring China to focus on current operations, they will ignore other parts of the world to focus on China.
Gain: This option will ensure the SecDef has the experience necessary to ensure the development and execution of DoD policies and strategies to support the President's policy goals in the Indo-Pacific. A SecDef equipped with Indo-Pacific experience atop the Pentagon will make fewer strategy errors and more wisely employ the military instrument of power in the Indo-Pacific.
Option #2: The SecDef establishes an Indo-Pacific Advisory Board, separate from any current advisory boards in existence, to provide him expert advice on the region that will be used to complement the advice he receives in current DoD channels.
Risk: This option risks alienating the Indo Pacific-focused DoD workforce across both the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, and Defense Intelligence Components. The employees of these organizations, once they learn that non-DoD personnel are advising the SecDef on the Indo-Pacific, may feel ignored or neglected and their work may suffer.
Gain: Under this option, the SecDef now has an additional channel to receive specialist advice from Indo-Pacific experts. This non-DoD channel would enable him to look at Indo-Pacific issues through a different lens. This different lens would be a valuable complement to the information and advice provided by the DoD workforce and ensure that the SecDef is not looking at courses of action that may only serve the DoD, but contribute to U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific more broadly.
Other comments: None.
Recommendation: None.
[1] Obama, B. November 14th 2009. Remarks by President Barack Obama at Suntory Hall. Retrieved from: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-suntory-hall
[2] Komer, R. January 1st 1972. Bureaucracy Does Its thing: Institutional constraints on U.S.-GVN performance in Vietnam. Retrieved from: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R967.html
[3] Lieberthal, Kenneth. December 21st 2011. Brookings Institute. The American Pivot to Asia. Retrieved from: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-american-pivot-to-asia/
[4] Manyin, Mark, et al. March 28th 2012. Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration's "Rebalancing" Toward Asia. Retrieved from: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42448.pdf
[5] Department of Defense Historical office. January 22nd 2021. Secretaries of Defense. Retrieved from: https://history.defense.gov/DOD-History/Secretaries-of-Defense/
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First glimpse of Fifty Shades of Grey promises more romance than raunch
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by Fr. Bernie Healey
Patrick H. McNabb, new Principal of OLM School
Father Bernard A. Healey, Pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, has appointed Mr. Patrick H. McNabb as Principal of Our Lady of Mercy Regional School. "I am thrilled to accept the leadership of Our Lady of Mercy School, and I am grateful to Fr. Healey for this wonderful opportunity. I look forward to working together with our teachers, students, families, and parish community to help all of our students become the saints and scholars God is calling them to be." said McNabb.
McNabb holds a B.A. in History from Haverford College and a M.Ed. in Administration and Supervision from National Louis University. With experience in teaching and administration, he has served as a coach, classroom teacher, and Vice-Principal. Since 2016, he has served as Middle School Religion Teacher and Director of Faith Formation at Holy Name Church and School in Fall River, MA. Previous to working at Holy Name School, McNabb began his career in education at the Shelby Middle School in Shelby, Mississippi for Teach for America. He went on to serve as Middle School Teacher and then Vice-Principal at KIPP DC: KEY Academy in Washington, DC and as Vice-Principal of KIPP DC: College Preparatory in Washington, DC. Principal McNabb and his wife are parishioners of St. Barnabas Church in Portsmouth, RI and are the parents of two young children.
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Brazil March 2018: Chevrolet struggles, VW, Renault and Nissan up
The new Virtus helps Volkswagen up 23% in Brazil in March.
* See the Top 20 best-selling brands and Top 150 models by clicking on the title *
New car sales in Brazil are approaching a full year of growth with March the 11th consecutive month of year-on-year gains at +8.9% to 200.101 units, leading to a year-to-date tally up 14.7% to 537.312 registrations. However things are not going according to plan for market leader Chevrolet, enduring its first year-on-year decline since December 2016 at -1% to 15.3% share. In contrast, Volkswagen soars 23% to 14.4%, far above Fiat also down at -2% to 11.7%. Ford (+16%), Renault (+27%), Honda (+13%), Nissan (+27%) and Jeep (+17%) all outpace the market inside the Top 10 while Toyota (-1%) and Hyundai (-6%) lose ground. Further down, Volvo (+74%), Kia (+71%), JAC (+49%) – the only Chinese carmaker in the Brazilian Top 20 this month – Land Rover (+36%) and Mitsubishi (+26%) all post spectacular gains in the Top 20.
The Nissan Kicks posts its first Top 10 ranking in Brazil.
Atop the models ranking, the Chevrolet Onix endures its second year-on-year decline in the past four months but its first double-digit drop in over two years at -12% (previous was -16% in December 2015). It however remains comfortably in the lead at 6.5% share and 7.9% so far in 2018 (+3%). The Ford Ka gains 22% to take the 2nd spot off the Hyundai HB20 (-13%) both in March and YTD. The Chevrolet Prisma counteracts its hatchback variant's decline with a vigorous 16% uplift to #4, its highest ever ranking also reached in January 2016, September 2016 and August 2017. The Renault Kwid is stuck at a majestic 5th place, overtaking the VW Polo down two spots on last month to #6 but still #4 YTD.
The JAC T40 is the best-selling vehicle in Brazil for the first time in March.
The Fiat Strada is up 22% to top commercial vehicles while the Nissan Kicks surges 58% to break into the Brazilian Top 10 for the very first time at #9, almost two years after its launch (July 2016). Further down, the Honda HR-V is up 24% to #11, reclaiming the title of #1 SUV in Brazil off the Jeep Compass itself up 17% to #12 and the Jeep Renegade is up 21% year-on-year and 9 spots on last month to #15. Among recent launches (<12 months), the Fiat Argo is down one rank on February to #12, the VW Virtus is up 10 to #24, the Fiat Cronos is up 87 to break into the Brazilian Top 50 for the first time at #36 and the Honda WR-V is down 6 to #47. The JAC T40 ranks at #81 and snaps the best-selling Chinese nameplate title off the Chery QQ at #84 and the Lifan X60 at #99.
Previous month: Brazil February 2018: Chevrolet & Volkswagen strong, Kwid up to #5
One year ago: Brazil March 2017: First year-on-year gain in over 2 years at +6.1%
Full March 2018 Top 20 brands and Top 150 models below.
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Q: Running a recursive asynchronous function in dart I am using Microsoft Graph to get a list of mailFolders that a user has. Each mailFolder has the opportunity to have a number of child folders, and these child folders get split up into tens so as to follow Microsoft's rules on making large API calls. I am attempting to make an object that will include all of a person's folders and all of their child folders and their child folders and so on - it needs to be a recursive process. Currently I am returning List<MailFolder> which will be the list of mail folders a user has, but a MailFolder looks like this, note that it contains a list of itself:
class MailFolder {
  String name = "";
  int unreadCount = 0;
  int totalCount = 0;
  String id = "";
  List<MailFolder> childFolders = new List<MailFolder>();

  MailFolder(this.name, this.unreadCount, this.totalCount, this.id, this.childFolders);
}

My function then has to run itself again to fill up a folders childFolders property. It seems as though dart does not let you run recursive processes if you have to await them, as I get no errors but when execution reaches the call to itself it instantly ends the current execution of the function and leaves. Is this a problem with the way I have written my code or is this a functionality that dart does not have? Below is the extract of code for getting the folders:
Future<List<MailFolder>> getFolders(String request) async {
  var response;
  var data;
  List<MailFolder> folder = new List<MailFolder>();
  var prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance();
  response = await http.get(
      Uri.encodeFull(request),
      headers: {"Authorization":"Bearer " + "Access Token" });
  data = JsonDecoder().convert(response.body);
  while(data["@odata.nextLink"] != null) {
    for (int i = 0; i < data["value"].length; i++) {
      folder.add(new MailFolder (
        data["value"][i]["displayName"],
        data["value"][i]["unreadItemCount"],
        data["value"][i]["totalItemCount"],
        data["value"][i]["id"],
        await getFolders("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/" + folder[i].id + "/childFolders"),
      ));
    }
    response = await http.get(
      Uri.encodeFull(data["@odata.nextLink"]),
        headers: {"Authorization":"Bearer " + "Access Token"});
    data = JsonDecoder().convert(response.body);
  }
  for (int i = 0; i < data["value"].length; i++) {
    folder.add(new MailFolder (
      data["value"][i]["displayName"],
      data["value"][i]["unreadItemCount"],
      data["value"][i]["totalItemCount"],
      data["value"][i]["id"],
      await getFolders("https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/" + folder[i].id + "/childFolders"),
    ));
  }
  return folder;
}

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An interesting product I've been using for the past several months is the Paraliminals series from Learning Strategies. The best way to describe Paraliminals is a combination of guided meditation and neuro-linguistic programming. It's best experienced with stereo head phones because it works by playing two different audio tracks simultaneously.
The experience is difficult to explain, but the two soundtracks compliment each other in such a way that it's impossible to concentrate on either but your brain is able to absorb both. One voice usually tells a story, relevant to the theme of the session while the other repeats affirmative messages. The sessions cover a wide range of self improvement topics, including health, relationships, personal charisma, and motivation.
Behind the audible voice tracks are soothing nature sounds accompanied by binaural beats. The real power of the program is the binaural beats, which work by using two complimentary frequencies that interfere with each other to create pulsating phantom frequencies.
The beats affect brainwave patterns and help bring the mind to a state of focused relaxation. If you've ever used a guided relaxation program, where the instructor takes you through the process of relaxing each part of the body, then you'll recognize the feeling of your body being totally relaxed while the mind remains alert.
The benefit of Paraliminals is that it allows you to reach this state much more quickly and helps to block out distractions. I've found myself using Paraliminals as a substitute for naps.
Instead of going to sleep and waking up groggy, I lay down for 20 minutes and listen to one of the CDs. There are a wide range of topics covered in the Ultimate You series, so I can usually find something that matches my goals for the near future. After listening to the program I get up relaxed, refreshed, and motivated to take action.
I don't think anyone is silly enough to believe that listening to a CD will somehow take the work out of success. If you approach Paraliminals with this attitude then you'll probably be disappointed. That being said, I think those who have a strong desire to bring about positive improvements will find Paraliminals to be a helpful tool.
The biggest benefit that I've experienced with the program is the ability to reach focused relaxation in a matter of minutes. Instead of having to find an isolated place and exert effort to clear my mind, Paraliminals puts the process on autopilot. I can just lay back and listen.
If you're interested in learning more, I've put together a page with more information about my experience with Paraliminals. I've also gone to the trouble of negotiating a significant discount, available only to PickTheBrain readers. Check out the Paraliminals page for all the details.


Bariatric surgery improves factors that underlie fertility and pregnancy outcomes, according to the findings from a study by researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. The paper published in the journal Obesity Surgery, also called for a prospective study to demonstrate that these factors effect translates into a positive effect on pregnancy outcomes.
The aim of the study, 'Bariatric Surgery in Obese Women of Reproductive Age Improves Conditions That Underlie Fertility and Pregnancy Outcomes: Retrospective Cohort Study of UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR)', was to examine the female population of reproductive age having bariatric surgery in the UK, to assess the age and ethnicity of women accessing surgery, and to assess the effect of bariatric surgery on factors that underlie fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
The researchers used data from the UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry (NBSR) for women aged 18–45 years. The NBSR is a comprehensive, prospective, nationwide analysis of outcomes from bariatric surgery in the UK and Ireland. The comorbidities measured include the following: menstrual dysfunction, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, asthma, joint pain, functional status, gastro-esophageal reflux, and sleep disorder. Menstrual dysfunction, as defined in the registry, refers to the presence of amenorrhea, irregular periods, or menorrhagia. Functional status in this context refers to exercise tolerance, deemed impaired if the patient is unable to climb a flight of stairs without stopping.
For comparison to a representative national cohort, data were extracted from the Health Survey for England (HSE), which is an annual national census. Data were collated from 2007 to 2013 inclusive. Women aged 18 to 45 with a BMI ≥40 (representing those who may be considered for bariatric surgery by NICE criteria) were selected.
In total, there were 29,010 male and female patients who underwent bariatric surgery to year 2013, of whom 15,222 were women aged 18 to 45 years old (53 %). Collating the HSE data from 2007 to 2013 produced a total cohort of 91,649 subjects. Female subjects, aged 18–45 years old, with a recorded BMI of ≥40 totaled 384 subjects. The NBSR cohort had a median age of 38 years (IQR 32–42) and was older than the HSE cohort (median 36 years, IQR 30–41; p < 0.0001). Caucasian patients were overrepresented in the NBSR cohort (90% of NBSR vs 84% HSE, p < 0.0001). Bariatric patients were twice as likely to have type 2 diabetes as HSE subjects (14.7% NBSR vs 7.4% HSE, p < 0.0001).
The mean BMI fell in the first year postoperatively from 48.2 ± 8.3 to 37.4 ± 7.5 (p<0.001). Of women with menstrual dysfunction pre-surgery, 12% of patients normalised menstrual function postoperatively. Similarly, of women with PCOS preoperatively, 15 % were classed as no longer having the syndrome postoperatively. Type 2 diabetes showed the greatest improvement with 54% of those patients who had diabetes preoperatively achieving a non-diabetic state postoperatively. The mean total number of comorbidities per patient fell from 2.36 to 0.96 (p<0.05).
Of those with a single comorbidity preoperatively, functional impairment was the most frequent (46%). PCOS was the single comorbidity in only 4 % of these patients and menstrual dysfunction in 8%. However, in patients with three comorbidities, menstrual dysfunction was more commonly seen: 16% had PCOS, and 30% had menstrual dysfunction (Figure 1).
In addition, they state that the data demonstrate that ethnic minorities are under-represented in the operated population, suggesting reduced access, and requires further investigation to explain possible cultural barriers and to prevent health inequalities in access to services.
This article was published under the Open Access license.


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This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 75 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Fall 2007.
https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-159
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Lecture 24 - Asymmetric Information: Auctions and the Winner's Curse
We discuss auctions. We first distinguish two extremes: common values and private values. We hold a common value auction in class and discover the winner's curse, the winner tends to overpay. We discuss why this occurs and how to avoid it: you should bid as if you knew that your bid would win; that is, as if you knew your initial estimate of the common value was the highest. This leads you to bid much below your initial estimate. Then we discuss four forms of auction: first-price sealed-bid, second-price sealed-bid, open ascending, and open descending auctions. We discuss bidding strategies in each auction form for the case when values are private. Finally, we start to discuss which auction forms generate higher revenues for the seller, but a proper analysis of this will have to await the next course.
1 u. 2 min.
Lecture 23 - Asymmetric Information: Silence, Signaling and Suffering Education
We look at two settings with asymmetric information; one side of a game knows something that the other side does not. We should always interpret attempts to communicate or signal such information taking into account the incentives of the person doing the signaling. In the first setting, information is verifiable. Here, the failure explicitly to reveal information can be informative, and hence verifiable information tends to come out even when you don't want it to. We consider examples of such information unraveling. Then we move to unverifiable information. Here, it is hard to convey such information even if you want to. Nevertheless, differentially costly signals can sometimes provide incentives for agents with different information to distinguish themselves. In particular, we consider how the education system can allow future workers to signal their abilities. We discuss some implications of this rather pessimistic view of education.
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Lecture 22 - Repeated Games: Cheating, Punishment, and Outsourcing
In business or personal relationships, promises and threats of good and bad behavior tomorrow may provide good incentives for good behavior today, but, to work, these promises and threats must be credible. In particular, they must come from equilibrium behavior tomorrow, and hence form part of a subgame perfect equilibrium today. We find that the grim strategy forms such an equilibrium provided that we are patient and the game has a high probability of continuing. We discuss what this means for the personal relationships of seniors in the class. Then we discuss less draconian punishments, and find there is a trade off between the severity of punishments and the required probability that relationships will endure. We apply this idea to a moral-hazard problem that arises with outsourcing, and find that the high wage premiums found in foreign sectors of emerging markets may be reduced as these relationships become more stable.
Lecture 21 - Repeated Games: Cooperation vs. the End Game
We discuss repeated games, aiming to unpack the intuition that the promise of rewards and the threat of punishment in the future of a relationship can provide incentives for good behavior today. In class, we play prisoners' dilemma twice and three times, but this fails to sustain cooperation. The problem is that, in the last stage, since there is then is future, there is no incentive to cooperate, and hence the incentives unravel from the back. We related this to the real-world problems of a lame duck leader and of maintaining incentives for those close to retirement. But it is possible to sustain good behavior in early stages of some repeated games (even if they are only played a few times) provided the stage games have two or more equilibria to be used as rewards and punishments. This may require us to play bad equilibria tomorrow. We relate this to the trade off between ex ante and ex post efficiency in the law. Finally, we play a game in which the players do not know when the game
Lecture 20 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Wars of Attrition
We first play and then analyze wars of attrition; the games that afflict trench warfare, strikes, and businesses in some competitive settings. We find long and damaging fights can occur in class in these games even when the prizes are small in relation to the accumulated costs. These could be caused by irrationality or by players' having other goals like pride or reputation. But we argue that long, costly fights should be expected in these games even if everyone is rational and has standard goals. We show this first in a two-period version of the game and then in a potentially infinite version. There are equilibria in which the game ends fast without a fight, but there are also equilibria that can involve long fights. The only good news is that, the longer the fight and the higher the cost of fighting, the lower is the probability of such a fight.
Lecture 19 - Subgame Perfect Equilibrium: Matchmaking and Strategic Investments
We analyze three games using our new solution concept, subgame perfect equilibrium (SPE). The first game involves players' trusting that others will not make mistakes. It has three Nash equilibria but only one is consistent with backward induction. We show the other two Nash equilibria are not subgame perfect: each fails to induce Nash in a subgame. The second game involves a matchmaker sending a couple on a date. There are three Nash equilibria in the dating subgame. We construct three corresponding subgame perfect equilibria of the whole game by rolling back each of the equilibrium payoffs from the subgame. Finally, we analyze a game in which a firm has to decide whether to invest in a machine that will reduce its costs of production. We learn that the strategic effects of this decision–its effect on the choices of other competing firms–can be large, and if we ignore them we will make mistakes.
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Q: why is scanf skipping an integer in an input txt file? I am trying to understand the procedure of scanf for an exam tomorrow. I cant for the life of me figure this out. Any help would be appreciated.
#include <stdio.h>
int sum()
{
  int r;
  int x,y;
  while ((r = scanf("%d,%d",&x,&y)), ((r >= 0) && (r < 2)))
  {
    char ch;
    scanf("%c",&ch);
  }
  return x+y;
}

int main()
{
  int x;
  x = sum();
  return 0;
}

the input.txt is:
as23,rt12,67cd!x1,2
When I run this program in gdb and put a break on
return x + y
x is printing x=12, and y is printing y = 67.
Why is 23 being skipped and not assigned to x, and why is 12 not being assigned to y? The loop is suppose to skip characters that are not integers such as "as" in the input.txt Even with a input.txt of 12,rt12,67cd!x1,2
it is still skipping 12 being assigned to x. I am lost.

A: This happens because scanf() will only accept input that exactly matches the format string you gave it. In this case, the format string is saying: I want an integer that is immediately followed by a comma, which is then immediately followed by another integer.
The first thing in your input string that matches your first scanf() format string is "12,67", so your while loop will keep eating characters from your input stream until it comes across the "12,67" and then the first scanf() will successfully complete (and the ((r >= 0) && (r < 2)) condition will terminate the while loop).


ethnic group, race, and nation are only some of the many shared orders of social life.
can help perform group solidarity and signal individual status within the group.
with murals painted by the Protestant owner.
laity, or the gods themselves.
images orchestrate people's relationship to one another.
cloth, wood, fiber, pigment, Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain.
the commemoration, as well as the importance of Catholicism for Chicanos.
his cultural identity and the years he spent in prison. [©Susan A.
costumed participants take part in a structured liturgy.
costumed as spirits and ancestors at a ceremony in Sierra Leone.
the public witness of an entire city's inhabitants.
Gan.eśa to the Arabian Sea. [©Amit Bhargava/Corbis] (j) B E L O W.
a figure or event that totemically represents the whole.
alive and purposeful as part of a larger self.
15, 1085 ce. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ex coll.: C. C.
Collection, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 1996 (1996.479a-c).
the same benefit, to everyone.
Fong, Wen C. Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th–14th Century. New York and New Haven, 1992.
Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art. New York and Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1993.
Mende of Sierra Leone. Los Angeles, 1995.
edited by Nicholas Mirzoeff, pp. 357–70. London, 2002.
historical survey reveals goddess worship to be a continuous phenomenon, despite periodic ebbs and tides during certain critical epochs.
the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The interpretation of these artifacts remains controversial today.
The Court of the Lions in the Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
the east frieze of the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi, Greece. Archaeological Museum, Delphi.
menstruation, copulation, pregnancy, birth, and lactation.
The Neolithic goddess figurines take different forms.
images made especially for the burial.
is largely uncertain, and no single interpretation is adequate.
wild animals, but by this time with the addition of domesticated animals such as the dog, bull, and male goat as well.
mentarity between male and female images—one is not subordinate to the other.
they usually appear without a male counterpart.
in the process of giving birth.
hand. This image may foreshadow the later cult of the goddess Astarte, who was widely worshiped in the area.
as a woman-controlled form of subsistence.
to the fertility of crops, the sovereignty of kingship, the protection of urban ceremonial centers, and the waging of warfare against enemies.
though somewhat less intensely than formerly.
and kings, these female deities played a less prominent role.
Hathor, another sky goddess who assumed various forms.
be sons of Isis. Later Isis became linked to the god Osiris.
Isis had become a popular mystery religion, with secret initiation rites promising salvation and rebirth.
the development of the first urban centers.
the focus of considerable economic activity and the redistribution of resources characteristic of urban life.
and the redistribution of resources among urban peoples.
in her as a goddess.
no matter what gender. This raises yet another question.
research from different theoretical perspectives.
priests until the reign of Emperor Claudius (41–54 CE).
and the bathing of Cybele's statue.
Pure Land. This goddess continues to be worshiped throughout China and in Japanese Buddhism.
where many male and female nature deities are propitiated.
in the world and to support her major pilgrimage shrine, located at Ise.
were central in the emergence of urbanism and kingship.
phenomenon remains unbroken from Paleolithic times.
film, and literature, noting strong national themes that continued to thrive in the Soviet era.
while others represent a postindustrial flourishing of Marianism during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
by the Nahuatl to be a son of the goddess.
Akan, Yoruba, and Igbo religious traditions.
identifiable with goddess worship throughout the world.
goddess worship is within human experience. They each deserve special attention.
event because of their supernatural status.
the power of her tears to cure diseases.
of the goddess Inanna to the reigning monarch, a rite designed to ensure the fertility of soil and womb.
with gentler, more nurturant motifs like fertility and healing.
earth, is another example. Thus, the general rule that goddesses are earth mothers is clearly not without exception.
the fields when the goddess is menstruating.
holding animal horns that have been stained with red ocher.
of bearing children is often widespread in these societies.
away. They are frequently supplicated for curing diseases.
divinities become the focus for ongoing sustenance of the individual or local family.
darsana; "sight of the deity") rather than a quest for cures.
including both gods and goddesses who constitute not separate but complementary parts of a unified whole.
Hindu counterpart, Kālı̄, who has a more nurturant side.
demons, whose skulls she wears in a garland around her neck.
goddess worship are found in many of the world's religions.
one of several deities associated with death.
and in various parts of Africa and Polynesia.
blood sacrifices should be associated with goddesses.
urban life associated with the great traditional civilizations.
Bhardwaj, Surinder Mohan. Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India.
the shrines of male and female deities.
Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God, vol. 1, Primitive Mythology.
a Jungian orientation suggesting a universal Great Goddess.
Somewhat dated but useful as a secondary source if read critically.
Campbell, Joseph. The Masks of God, vol. 2, Oriental Mythology.
3500 B.C.: Myths, Legends, and Cult Images. London, 1982.
An extensive discussion of the art and symbolism of Old Europe for the Neolithic period.
eastern Mediterranean, and India. An excellent source, although some of the interpretation is dated.
Marshack, Alexander. The Roots of Civilization. New York, 1972.
fertility symbolism. While Marshack's thesis may be controversial, the volume is a rich source of information and remains a major scholarly contribution.
cultures. Mother goddesses are discussed throughout the volume, particularly at the famous site of Çatal Hüyük.
understanding of goddess worship in the Neolithic period.
important source that deserves special attention.
work on a Hindu goddess temple located in eastern India.
in the process of cultural change.
Preston, James J., ed. Mother Worship: Theme and Variations.
excellent anthropological treatment of Chinese goddesses.
female deities differ from their earthly counterparts.
of the few anthropological studies of Christianity.
Benard, Elisabeth, and Beverly Moon, eds. Goddesses Who Rule.
Campbell, Joseph, and Charles Musès, eds. In All Her Names: Explorations of the Feminine in Divinity. San Francisco, 1991.
Hiltebeitel, Alf, and Kathleen M. Erndl, eds. Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses. New York, 2000.
Hurtado, Larry W. Goddesses in Religions and Modern Debate. Atlanta, 1990.
Husain, Shahrukh. The Goddess: Power, Sexuality, and the Feminine Divine. Ann Arbor, 2003.
East and West. Albany, 1989.
Pintchman, Tracy. The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition.
Pintchman, Tracy, ed. Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Identities of the Hindu Great Goddess. Albany, 2001.
this: the complexity of the religious systems, and the long period over which they developed.
rather than to delineate a rigid code that holds for all contexts. Unfortunately, the limited space allows only an introduction to the subject.
offering lists, seal inscriptions and votive dedications, mythological literary compositions and liturgical hymns, petitionary prayers and exorcistic incantations.
periods and in all areas of the Near East, from Egypt to Iran.
naked, they can be distinguished by context, stance, or attribute.
There is an immense range of possible uses for figurines.
been images created as part of a temple ritual.
might serve as talismans, amulets, fetishes, or therapeutic objects. These varied functions are known from many texts recording charms, incantations, and descriptive rituals.
adapted to illustrate songs, epics, or myths.
to be enjoyed by the dead in the afterlife.
explanation could ever account for them all.
Late Neolithic Hacilar in western central Anatolia.
process of reinterpretation and syncretism, mutation and fossilization, fusion and fission generated a Mesopotamian religion that was a complex, multilayered accumulation.
all—the heaven, the earth, and the gods.
as a timid virgin while others exalt her as a licentious harlot.
the weak, meting out justice, and punishing immoral acts.
of the grain. She was also in charge of the scribal arts, including accounting and surveying.
goddess of love. Inanna shared her aspect as Venus with Ninsianna, the "red lady of heaven," who executed divine judgements.
the netherworld in the second and first millennia.
destruction were in the hands of the gods.
where she represented the numen of the central storehouse.
of temples to various manifestations of Ishtar. These goddesses were understood as both one goddess and as many.
be worshipped but commonly under the names of their Akkadian counterparts.
and Akkadian divinities, both male and female, were relegated to lower positions in the hierarchy.
mythology and the only sources of information are royal inscriptions.
life. During the second millennium on the coast of the Persian Gulf, another goddess, Kiririsha (Great Lady), occurs.
responsible for combat and battle, judging by her votive offerings of battle axes.
figurines were found in her temple.
the waters upon the earth and the source of the cosmic ocean.
of vegetation, became the Hittite god Halki (Grain).


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