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VIKINGS TRUE EXPLOERERS?!?!
Vikings are considered by many to be the true explores of their time. they lived such free spirited lives. They looked to meet with new peoples in new lands and make their own maps and markers leading to these places as well as the resources and mark notable hostility and friendliness. Some of these Vikings have thoughts an ideas outside of war such as what Visit Sweden makes note of.
They write that , " According to Norse mythology, heroes slain in combat ended up in Valhalla – an afterlife destination in the shape of a lofty hall in Asgard, the realm of the gods. So, who are the Viking gods? Like the Vikings themselves, these are rather complex characters. Take Odin, the king of the Æsir clan, and the god of war, wisdom, poetry and death, riding his eight-footed horse 'Sleipner'. Odin's wife Frigg is the goddess of relationships, protecting all mothers, despite frequent infidelities. Baldr – goodness personified – is the son of Odin and Frigg. Representing courage, he's killed by fellow god Loke, and forever mourned.
To continue the count, Freyr and his sister Freyja personify fertility and promote a fruitful harvest, healthy cattle and peace. Striding forth in thunder and lightning, Thor is also associated with fertility but more than anything, he has a talent for controlling chaos and keeping giants at bay – a task made easier with his beloved 'Mjölnir' hammer.
The Vikings' influence can be felt far and wide to this day. Their resourceful, nature-centric way of life continues to be a source of inspiration to many and their innovative techniques as shipbuilders are still in use today.
The Viking legacy is particularly evident in modern language and names. The 'thing' or 'ting' assembly was an early version of today's parliaments and courts – 'ting' or 'landsting' in modern Swedish – developed by the Norse people to solve arguments and establish new laws.
Any surname ending with 'son' can be traced back to the Vikings as they brought in the 'son of' name structure. In Ireland and Scotland, the 'Mc' is the equivalent. Many of Britain's towns and place names are derived from the Old Norse language, because the Vikings settled there – especially in northern and eastern England. Towns and places ending in 'thorpe' (an 'outlying farm' or 'torp' in Swedish today), 'by' ('farm' in Old English and 'village' in modern Swedish) and 'kirk' (meaning 'church' or 'assembly') are common. From Dunthorpe in Oxfordshire to Kirkby in Liverpool, the Viking presence is everywhere in England." Many Vikings actually had a lot to do with sailing in far off lands but a few of them have made their marks in history as highly notable and often topic of conversation. Some, Like Leif Erickson have even had locations named after them and still going today.
The dockyards site points out that these Norsemen have had the largest effect on the Viking legacy, " Naddodd was a Faroese Viking who discovered Iceland accidentally, after his ship was blown off of its initial course in the North Atlantic Ocean. He actually intended to set sail to the Faroe Islands, but after a journey on a stormy sea, his ship and crew were unexpectedly forced to set ashore on an unexplored new land.
Gunnbjörn Ulfsson was a Norwegian Viking who firstly discovered Greenland after getting lost from his route from Norway to Iceland. When he returned to Norway, Gunnbjörn told others how he spent a winter in the frozen and rocky Greenland.
Erik Thorvaldsson (commonly referred to as 'Erik the Red') was a Norwegian Viking who is actually credited for discovering Greenland. He reached the south-eastern coastlines of Greenland after he was exiled from Iceland. Nevertheless, shortly after he had set foot on Greenlandic soil, Erik sailed back to Iceland in order to persuade other Norsemen to set sail with him and settle there.
The name Greenland stems from Erik the Red's accounts about a fertile land located in the west, referred by him to as 'Groenland'. Doubtlessly, the story of Erik the Red involving the name of Greenland was nothing more but a mere euphemism, given the fact that much of the Arctic island's territory wasn't fertile at all, being either frozen or rocky, and thus uninhabitable.
Leif Eriksson (also recalled by his nickname 'Leif the Lucky') was the son of Erik the Red. A skillful explorer just like his father, he travelled to North America upon hearing the news about a land full of forests and lush meadows from an Icelandic merchant who spotted several eastern coastal parts of modern day Canada on through one of his voyages.
So it is that Leif Eriksson overtook Christopher Columbus in discovering the American continent by a margin of roughly 500 years. He gave the name Vinland to the newly discovered territory. Nonetheless, the Norsemen confronted themselves with harsh opposition on behalf of the Native Americans who were already living there, and as such they weren't able of permanently settling the area where they landed.
Without the smaller contributions of the Vikings who pointed out the directions and made those markers along the way none of the bigger named ones would have made it so far on their own. It takes the footwork of a few to make a legacy so profound as the Vikings and make it part of the many.
1. ""Sweden's Legendary Vikings – beyond the Ruthless Stereotype." The History and Culture of the Scandinavian Vikings | Visit Sweden, https://visitsweden.com/what-to-do/culture-history-and-art/history/vikings-beyond-the-stereotype/."
2.""Rouă, Victor. "Top Five Viking Age Explorers You Should Definitely Know." The Dockyards, 3 June 2021, https://www.thedockyards.com/top-5-viking-explorers/."
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Q: How to group the x_axis dates in openpyxl I want to group the x_axis (Date) so that if there is a cell with 01/01/2022 & another 01/01/2022 it will only show one bar with 01/01/2022, here it actualy print each row with a bar
How can i do that in openpyxl please
Thanks in advance
from openpyxl import Workbook
from openpyxl.chart import BarChart, Series, Reference

wb = Workbook(write_only=True)
ws = wb.create_sheet()

rows = [
    ('Date', 'Batch 1'),
    (01/01/2022, 10),
    (01/01/2022, 40),
    (02/01/2022, 50),
    (04/01/2022, 20)
]

for row in rows:
    ws.append(row)

chart1 = BarChart()
chart1.type = "col"
chart1.style = 10
chart1.title = "Bar Chart"
chart1.y_axis.title = 'Test number'
chart1.x_axis.title = 'Sample length (mm)'

data = Reference(ws, min_col=2, min_row=1, max_row=5, max_col=2)
cats = Reference(ws, min_col=1, min_row=2, max_row=5)
chart1.add_data(data, titles_from_data=True)
chart1.set_categories(cats)
chart1.shape = 4
ws.add_chart(chart1, "A10")

A: So you want a stacked chart like this then?

from openpyxl import Workbook
from openpyxl.chart import BarChart, Reference

rows = [
    ('Date', 'Batch 1', 'Batch 2'),
    ('01/01/2022', 10, 40),
    ('02/01/2022', 50, ''),
    ('04/01/2022', 20, '')
]

wb = Workbook(write_only=True)
ws = wb.create_sheet()

for row in rows:
    ws.append(row)

chart1 = BarChart()
chart1.type = "col"
chart1.style = 10
chart1.title = "Bar Chart"
chart1.grouping = "stacked"  # Stacked column chart
chart1.overlap = 100  # Set overlap to 100% so top column sits squarely on the bottom column
chart1.y_axis.title = 'Test number'
chart1.x_axis.title = 'Sample length (mm)'

data = Reference(ws, min_col=2, min_row=1, max_row=4, max_col=3)
cats = Reference(ws, min_col=1, min_row=2, max_row=4)
chart1.add_data(data, titles_from_data=True)
chart1.set_categories(cats)
chart1.shape = 4
ws.add_chart(chart1, "A10")

wb.save('new_chart1.xlsx')

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This is a message from Jessica N, Jessica B, and Low- your friendly Babes in Bikeland organizers!
Previous organizers include Kayla Gibbons, Chelsea Strate, Kat McCarthy, Karyn Rudnick, and a host of other helpers, a large group of Grease Rag organizers, and tons of volunteers and community partners and sponsors. It takes a village to nurture and support an event like Babes in Bikeland!
Did you attend Babes TEN?! Our theme was CELEBRATION, and we were so happy to wobble, dance, and raffle the night away at First Ave Main Room with you! We hope that you felt the love on the WTF-only dance floor, got some sweet swag at one of the many opportunities to win prizes, felt free on your bike while you explored the city in your beautiful costumes, and had a super fun time at the stops along the route!
Putting on Babes TEN was a big effort, and we organizers recognize the need to care for ourselves and take a break. There won't be a Babes in Bikeland "alley cat" race this year, but don't worry! We would never leave you hanging! We are planning a whole weekend of events for community, and WTF solidarity.
Thank you for understanding how crucial it is for us to take the time to do some soul searching about the future of Babes in Bikeland. A diverse group of us have shaped and molded and changed the event over the last ten years, with your input and direction, and we want to be really intentional about the future of Babes. This year will be an opportunity for us to focus, re-imagine, and work as a community for a better event in the future!
Pick the event that makes you the most excited, or go to them all! We will have special giveaways and activities, and all events will be focused on COMMUNITY!
What a day! We had such a blast celebrating 10 years of Babes in Bikeland at First Avenue with all 670 registered racers! Thank you all for being a part of this amazing WTF bike community.
200 Olivia Lavecchia 8:25 Completed BOTH races!
201 Beth Wagner 8:25 Completed BOTH races!
42 The Minksta 6:49 1st EVER BLIND RIDER!
43 Lee Penn 6:49 Blind Rider Tandem Captain!
295 Olivia Lavecchia 8:25 Completed BOTH races!
296 Beth Wagner 8:25 Completed BOTH races!
My first Babes in Bikeland was last year (2015)! I am looking forward to riding again. The vibe at Babes was great – super positive, very welcoming. As a beginner it was a great feeling, to feel so welcomed and encouraged.
I have a 3-speed bamboo bike I built with the Bamboo Bike Studio back when they were in Red Hook Brooklyn. It is special because I used it when I rode the Ohio to Erie Trail in Ohio, from Cleveland to Cincinnati.
When I rode in Ohio there was a super tough day in Amish country. It was windy and the hills were ridiculous. I walked several of them. But I finished for the day and pulled into Millersburg and was so happy to have made it.
I am not an avid biker, or a racer. I'm not a novice though. I'm a fair-weather biker. What I like about Minneapolis is that so many people bike to get around, and it's not seen as this wild thing, as it is in other cities. There are so many biking events (not just races) here, and I especially like the Grease Rag events.
My typical bike commute to work is still new to me, since I've only been at my job about 2 months. It's not far, less than 5 miles. I'm mostly on trails but if I want to mix it up I can also take the bus part of the way. I'm lucky because my work building has showers and lockers, and bike racks. Normally I take the bus to work, or get a ride into work and then take the bus home.
I find that biking is a good tool to meet people and sometimes make friends! Particularly in Minneapolis, where there are multiple bike-related events. There are a lot of events, besides races. (I am a slow bicyclist so races are not my preferred event.) And sometimes there is even a simple expectation that your travels (happy hour, brunching, shopping) will be done via bike. Some of the people I like the most in the Twin Cities – I met them from biking. Bike rides, volunteering related to bikes (shout outs to Cycle 4 Change and their learn to ride classes, and also the Open Streets events that MBC organizes), and Grease Rag open shop nights!
Life passions – I have been fortunate enough to be able to do bicycle-related work and get paid for it sometimes. I work as a transportation planner and engineer for a company called HNTB. At this company and at my previous jobs I have been able to work on bicycle facilities design, Complete Streets, that type of thing. That's very fulfilling for me.
I raced in Babes in Bikeland in 2014 and 2015. The first year I raced with my friend Marisa who was working with me at Nice Ride at the time. We rode Nice Ride bikes and had an absolute blast hammering all over Minneapolis. The next year I slow rolled with a group of friends.
To me, Babes is most exciting as a point of entry into Grease Rag & the different communities of people who ride bikes. I always wanted to learn more about racing, but was too afraid to go to a No Name or just jump in on an alley cat. I thought I would be too slow and that I would be marked as an outsider. Babes helped me to meet new people and get over those fears. At first, riding a Nice Ride was a crutch to give me an excuse for when my finish results didn't match my inner competitive edge. But as the race went on the other racers made me feel like a total badass.
A few months later when I applied to be on the Koochella race team I built up my experience in Babes to make it sound like I had a ton of alley cat racing experience, when really I'd only raced that one time.
There's really nothing like seeing hundreds of WTFs out on the course with you. Now I try to replicate that experience every chance I get in sanctioned races.
I have a few bikes, but if someone were to ask me to describe 'my bike' I'd go with my Surly Cross-Check. I got it from the Hub in May 2014, just a week before I graduated college with some money I won for a very dorky philosophy paper. It was my first 'big girl bike', or new bike I spent a lot of money on. At the time, I felt like it was the coolest, lightest, fastest bike around. It symbolized my commitment to my own independence.
A lot has changed in the past two(ish) years. We rode our first season of crits together & half a season of cyclocross. We commute all through the winter. When I carry it up the stairs to my apartment I now bemoan its weight instead of rejoicing it. I wear that bike to the ground. And I don't always take care of it the best I could – or even know how to take care of it. But, at the end of the day, I love it. For better or for worse, that bike is me, through and through.
The best day of biking I've ever had was Northern Spark 2012. I had just bought my first bike maybe two weeks before & secretly taught myself how to ride it in a series of alleys in Saint Paul. One of my good friends was working the ARTCRANK booth in front of Midtown Freewheel & I convinced two of my friends to bike there with me. I didn't have a smart phone so I jotted down some Google directions & we set off from the Mac-Groveland neighborhood.
The ride was, in many respects, a bit of a disaster. Within a few minutes I locked up my chain. Thinking I knew better than the directions I tried to go from West River Road directly across the Marshall/Lake Street bridge (we ended up carrying our bikes up the stairs). I had no idea how to get on the Greenway. We biked right past the entrance and ended up all the way at the U of M Westbank Campus before I let go of my stubbornness and let one of my friends look up directions on her phone. By the time we got to Midtown, ARTCRANK was packing up. I was sweaty, exhausted, and embarrassed.
That night was the first time I biked more than two miles. Though it was rough, I learned that I could use my bike to get around the cities. To me, that was powerful. & I've been trying to challenge myself on my bike in new ways ever since.
I feel like I have a couple different bike identities. On the one hand, I feel like a master commuter riding from Steven's Square to University & Cleveland in all days in all weather. On the other, I feel like a total novice in the racing scene – both sanctioned & unsanctioned.
What's special about Minneapolis, to me, is that there are so many ways to have fun on your bike. You can be serious, casual, race, fool around, and you are bound to find other people who welcome you into that mode & celebrate your love of biking with you. And it all comes together on the Greenway, which is still my favorite place to ride because of that unifying, 'this space is for everyone', quality it has.
Woof. To me, biking is so huge. First, my bike is my independence. I can go anywhere, I can do anything, and I can do it myself. I feel like I especially rejoice in this independence as a woman who grew up being constantly told not to depend on anyone. But, sometimes I take this too far. Sometimes it's okay to ask for help, okay to accept a ride. This is something I'm still learning, and it's really hard. When I ask for help I feel weak. I feel like other people will see this weakness as stemming from my femininity–a femininity I express loudly in other ways.
I am still struggling to see my womanhood outside of the social lens that makes me sometimes feel like my gender is a trap. Most of the times my bike empowers me. More than anything, it challenges me, humbles me, and pushes me to be better.
In most spaces I feel like femininity and strength exist at odds with each other. Or are at least ironic or novel when expressed together. Babes helps take away that notion by removing the cis male gaze. I'm super grateful to spaces like Babes that help me experiment with and realize the person I want to be. Cheezy, but true.
I first participated in Babes in Bikeland in 2011! I've tried to participate in it every year since then, with the exception of 2013, when I believe I missed it due to travel. I definitely plan to race it this year!
Babes is my favorite cycling event that happens locally due to how unique it is. It was my first alleycat, and I remember that I felt comfortable racing it in when I was 19 alone because it felt so incredibly welcoming. There's something uniquely empowering about so many W/T/F's gathered in one space, excited to ride, and taking over the streets for one day – every year I've done it, everyone seems to support each other – whether racing, riding, or volunteering – and is excited that you're there. I love it. It's a giant W/T/F bike party.
I'm lucky enough to have many bikes, but my absolute favorite is my Croll. I was gifted the frame when I was younger, and finally got around to building it up as a flat bar 1×10 road bike a few months ago. It's incredibly special because I built it up myself – I chose the build, what components I was going to use – every detail. I built it up to be exactly what I wanted out of a bike. It's my baby. I named it Bruce!
That's tough. I think it was the day my friend and old teammate Tiana rode our track bikes from Denver to Boulder to race the velodrome. Riding that kind of elevation on fixed gears was insane – and then we raced. And rode back. I remember there were a few times we told the group that was riding with us to leave us behind (others had been smart enough to ride their road bikes there and rent track bikes, but we were stubborn about riding our Koochella All City Thunderdomes). But when we got back to Denver, I remember how proud of us I was and so glad that I had done it. It was definitely the most challenging day of riding I've ever done but I was so proud! We took like a three hour nap afterward and smashed like two burgers.
I grew up in Saint Paul and moved to Minneapolis when I was 17 – for me there was never anywhere I couldn't go within the cities that wasn't accessible by bike. When I was 16, I started volunteering at the Grease Pit Bike Shop and built my first bike – I've been ruling these streets confidently since then. Back then, it was my ticket to freedom. It hasn't stopped being the most liberating thing I do. I've followed my passion for it and have started racing at the NSC Velodrome, last year with Team Koochella and this year for Club Kidz Racing, where I push myself to ride my bike in new and exciting ways. Minneapolis is so special because of the many communities that promote and support cycling within it. I have made so many connections and friends through cycling that I likely wouldn't have met otherwise. It's incredible.
Almost every facet of my life revolves around biking – I work as a bike courier for two of my jobs, and I sell and build bikes for my other. My bikes are my work horses, my tickets to fun, and my vessels for racing. I fell in love with them when they were the only way I could get from A to B, and they have truly shaped my life and the way I approach it since then. Whenever I travel I bring a bike with me – in 2015 I brought a bike to Seattle, to Denver, and to Bogota, Colombia and I plan to travel to Oakland, NYC and Puerto Rico with them this year! Riding around a city, seeing the neighborhoods and its people from bike level is the best way to see a city, in my opinion. Half the reason I work at a shop is because I want to help people find the bike that they will love as much as I love mine. Without bikes, I wouldn't be who I am today. End of story.
Babes in Bikeland TEN will be held on Saturday, August 27th. We're working hard to make this year a huge celebration in honor of TEN years of Babes in Bikeland!!
We'll be set up at the most North-West baseball field in the park after 2pm.


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The portfolio of MF Global Mix consists of units of the Master scheme and cash. The portfolio of the master scheme is structured in a way to provide diversification and protection from downward market trends and to avoid overexposure to a single asset class/ issuer. The choice of the master scheme is defined by its potential to achieve the Feeder's investment targets based on its portfolio structure.


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Q: Regex not working in bash My regex:
 (<property\sname=\"uri\"\s[value=\"htttp:\/\/]+(\d+\.)+\d+)+

Text sample:
 <bean id="journeyWSClient" parent="abstractClient" class=" lib.JourneyWSClient">
        <property name="uri" value="http://192.24.342.432:20010/some/path/1_0_0"/>
        <!-- Fortuna -->
        <!-- property name="uri" value="http://164.7.19.11:20010/some/path/1_0_0"/ -->

It works on http://regexr.com/, however when I put the regex in bash script, it doesn't work. Are there some characters I need to escape? Ideas?
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A: Replace the \d with [0-9] and \s with [[:space:]], and adjust the IP matching part as ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+) (or simplify it to ([0-9.]+)) so as to be able to get its value with ${BASH_REMATCH[1]}:
text='<property name="uri" value="http://192.49.200.142:20010/some/path/1_0_0"/>'
regex='<property[[:space:]]name="uri"[[:space:]]value="http://([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)+)'
if [[ $text =~ $regex ]]; then
    echo ${BASH_REMATCH[1]};
fi

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A: See if this works for you..
value="http:\/\/(([0-9].?)+):

This worked for me if you have IP only with http pattern
grep http TEXT_SAMPLE_FILE |sed -E    's;.*value="http://(([0-9].?)+):.*;\1;g'


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Q: Partitioning disk to host 6 Ubuntu Installs I have a laptop running Win7 on its internal drive, and I have installed Ubuntu (13.10 64bit currently) onto an external USB drive.  Other than Ubuntu hardware compatibility (Mouse button presses are not being responded to) issues, everything's working fine.  To load Ubuntu, I created 3 partitions, '/boot', 'swap', and '/' (in that order) and used EasyBCD to setup my boot menu.
What I would like to do now is setup a number of Ubuntu versions on another (blank 500GB) external USB drive as I've had hardware related issues both with 13.04(32bit) and 13.10(64bit).  So I want to try out 12.04LTS, 13.04, and 13.10 with 32 and 64 bit versions of each, and see which runs best.
The problem for me is that I'm not sure how to partition the drive to achieve this.
I understand that I can have one '/home' and one 'swap' partition that will be shared by all the installs, but what about the other partitions?
I will need to setup an extended partition with logical partitions inside, to accommodate so many installs.
Do I need a '/boot' partition for each install?
  Do I need a '/boot' partition at all?
  I know I need a '/' partition per install.
  What order would work best?  (Swap 1st, then all the installs, and home last) or (Swap 1st, then home, then all the installs) or (some other arrangement)
Any advise would be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Nap
(My computer is an ASUS M70SA with an Intel Core2 Duo processor & 4GB mem.)
I would have liked to have been able to create a new tag for multi OS installs beyond the usual 2, eg 'OSx3+' or something. (Not enough reputation to do so.)

A: That's a lot of installs, but I would do it this way
Swap as the first primary partition
Home as the second primary partition
Then an extended partition to contain the following
/ for 13.10
/boot for 13.10

/ for 13.04
/boot for 13.04

etc. etc.
I wouldn't share any partitions except swap and /home in case compatibility issues arise.
That arrangement also makes it easier later on when you delete the other installs, home and swap are still the first and second partitions.


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Keep a safe distance when Carmen is in the mood for love
English surtitles
Friday 3. 2.
Sunday 26. 2.
Saturday 15. 4.
2 hours 50 minutes, 1 intermission (20 minutes) minutes
In French, surtitles in Czech, English
Bizet's Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. The opera is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding in torrential rhythms, engrossing melodies and bewitching songs of the beautiful Gypsy, as well as the overwhelming power of the passions depicted in the story.
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Petros Gallias
Daniel Tesař
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Carmen is actually one of the first verismo operas that preceded the "manifesto" of the Italian artistic movement. Its style, and the death of the title heroine, which were at variance with the established opéra comique conventions, seem to have been the reason why the work did not give rise to much public enthusiasm at and in the wake of the world premiere in Paris in 1875. Yet Carmen soon triumphed in other European cities.
Bizet's Carmen is a staple of the repertoire of the majority of opera houses worldwide. It is extremely popular owing to the music, abounding in torrential rhythms, engrossing melodies and bewitching songs of the beautiful Gypsy, as well as to the overwhelming power of the passions depicted in the story.
Carmen was first presented in Prague in 1880, at the Estates Theatre. The National Theatre staged it on 3 January 1884, shortly after its opening, as the very first foreign opera. In our new production, the story of Don José, a soldier who falls madly in love with the Gypsy Carmen, is retold by the German director Grischa Asagaroff. Petr Popelka, chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra in Ostrava, took over the musical production.
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By: Brenda Scottsdale
Published: 28 November, 2018
How Does Playing Sports Make You More Healthy?
What Is the Role of Sports in Socialization?
The Effect of Sports on Teenagers
Does Participation in Sports Negatively Affect Academics?
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At SportsRec, we strive to deliver objective content that is accurate and up-to-date. Our team periodically reviews articles in order to ensure content quality. The sources cited below consist of evidence from peer-reviewed journals, prominent medical organizations, academic associations, and government data.
American College of Sports Medicine: Mental Health Benefits of Exercise for Adolescents
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How Do Playing Sports Affect Us Mentally?
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Sports condition both your body and your mind. Apart from the obvious physical prowess required to participate in any sport; you need the mental discipline to maintain your focus. And like any form of exercise, you'll benefit from the release of neurotransmitters like endorphins that elevate your mood. Participating in sports, especially ones that require complex movements like skating, can also improve your brain function at work or school through the release of BDNF – brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Any way you look at it, sports can positively affect your mental well-being and acuity.
Improve Your Outlook
Sports participation can make you less depressed. A research team led by Michael Babyak, Ph.D., demonstrated that depressed people who participated in structured sporting activities for 4 months were more likely to report minimal or no depressive symptoms than comparative groups who either took medicine for depression or who used both medicine and exercise. The American College of Sports Medicine advocates exercise as a way to alleviate depression in adolescents, citing a 2006 study in the "Journal of Abnormal Psychology" as evidence.
Improve Your Anxiety
If you want to feel less anxious, try participating in sports, according to a December 2005 article in the "American Journal of Psychiatry." The researchers chemically induced a panic attack in two groups of subjects suffering from an anxiety disorder: one who had just finished exercising for 30-minutes and the other who had rested during this time. After the injection, both groups became more anxious; however, significantly fewer members in the exercising group had a panic attack compared to the at-rest controls.
Improve Your Self-Perception
One of the physical benefits of participating in sports is people tend to lose weight and gain muscle, making themselves look better and improving their self-perception. The Association for Applied Sports Psychology officially lists improved self-perception as a psychological benefit of exercise. Assertions such as these are given further creditability by a 2000 study published in the journal "Pediatric Exercise Science," using a large sample of 6,923 adolescents. Among both male and female teens, level of exercise was associated with feeling better about their body image.
Improve Your Confidence
If you are feeling less depressed and anxious and viewing yourself more positively, then you would also feel more confident overall. Princeton University Health Services indicates that athletic persons have increased energy, which makes their day-to-day tasks easier. The New York State Department of Health echoes this statement, indicating anyone can tailor a sports routine to their level to improve independence and self-confidence.
Association for Applied Sports Psychology: Psychological Benefits of Exercise
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: How Much Physical Activity Do Adults Need?
Psychosomatic Medicine: Exercise Treatment for Major Depression: Maintenance of Therapeutic Benefit at 10 Months
American Journal of Psychiatry: The Acute Antipanic Activity of Aerobic Exercise
Pediatric Exercise Science: The Relationship Between Physical Activity, Self-Esteem, and Academic Achivement Among 12-Year-Old Children
Princeton University Health Services: Exercise and Fitness
New York State: Department of Health: Fit for Life: Disability and Health
Brenda Scottsdale is a licensed psychologist, a six sigma master black belt and a certified aerobics instructor. She has been writing professionally for more than 15 years in scientific journals, including the "Journal of Criminal Justice and Behavior" and various websites.


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The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work
If you're the average person in the developed world, you spend 70 percent of your waking hours at work. And if you're the average person, you're miserable for most of those hours. This is simply not an acceptable state of affairs for your one shot at life. No matter your station, you possess incredible unique powers. It's a modern myth that hard work and hustle are the paths to success. Inside you is a soul. And once you unleash it fully into the domain of work, magic happens. Awakening the Buddha and the Badass inside you is a process that will disrupt the way you work altogether. You'll gain access to tools that bend the very rules of reality.
- The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment.
- The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor--the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species.
Once you integrate the skill sets of both archetypes, you will experience life at a different level from most people. You will operate from a space of bliss, ease, inspiration, and abundance. The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work will show you how. Author of the New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and founder of Mindvalley, Vishen Lakhiani has turned his own life and company into his research lab. He's codified everything he's learned into the how-to steps in this book. The Buddha and the Badass teaches you how to master your work and your life.


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Have you ever heard someone talk or complain about how things in their life were not fair? Have YOU ever done this? I suspect we all have felt this way and even verbalized it at times! But it is interesting that when things work out to our advantage, when we get more than we deserve, when things are "unfair in our favor"… we never seem to gripe about that. So what do we do when life is unfair? When God himself appears to fall into this category when we really need Him to come through? In this series we'll battle the tendency towards entitlement and discover some wisdom that will set us free when we are not getting what we know we deserve!
This week Pastor Rob finishes up the series, driving home the important point of this well known story.
After three weeks of dancing with this parable, hopefully our hearts are softening to the idea that our Heavenly Father is always looking out for those who need an open door and an invitation to come in. With God it's not that we're getting less of something we deserve, it is that He is so gracious and generous that He gives everyone the same reward, which none of us have earned - or ever could! And when we get our eyes off of ourselves and join Him in His work, it is the greatest thing ever. Do you want to discover the biggest secret to ridding our hearts of entitlement? This paradigm shift will rejuvenate anyone who is weary of laboring for God!
Roy Templeman takes the stage again, talking about those who have just never had the same opportunity as others.
I can remember being a freshman, looking up to those who had been around a while. I can remember being a rookie on a team, wishing I knew more than the "absolutely nothing" my utter lack of experience provided me. Can you relate to feeling as if you have little to offer, yet in all that lacking, being given a chance? An opportunity? Being recognized by someone, not for anything you'd done, but for what they were willing to do for you? For what your potential could be with a little investment? Check out this week's message and be reminded of what it is like to be on the outside looking in… and how an invitation changes everything!
Pastor Rob continues our entitlement series talking about those who are first.
Have you ever been the hardest worker for an extended period of time? Have you ever been in a situation where you had more seniority than anyone else by a long shot, yet it didn't seem to matter? Even though you had been around long enough to deserve some credit, you were treated the same as the lazy scrubs who just walked in. This is painful to experience. It can definitely cause us to consider ejecting for better options, but it can also tempt us to stick around and do way less, just like everyone else. Let's learn together a better perspective for these types of circumstances.
Roy Templeman leads off Week 1 of this entitlement series.
In difficult life moments, it's helpful to shake free from our own perspective and see things through someone else's eyes. Some people even find it helpful to consider and even serve someone who has it worse than they do. One of the incredible things about the heart of God is that He sees things clearly when we are clouded and confused. So when things appear one way, understanding how God sees them can be all we need to break through into a healthier place.


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A Nobel Peace Prize with Eternality
By Barry (Shikun) Ke on October 26, 2016 in Opinion, Perspectives of a Math Major, Politics
Several days before the Nobel Prize Committee awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize to the current Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos, a referendum took place in Colombia that rejected the peace deal made by Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). This result put the Nobel Prize Committee in an awkward position, as the committee awarded Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50-year-long civil war to an end," yet the millstone on the peace journey was just rejected by Colombia's population. Though people rejected the peace deal mostly because they were unsatisfied with the conditions set in the peace deal, such as releasing FARC officers who are currently in custody, the rejection still reveals the immaturity of peace in Colombia and poses questions on Santos' legitimacy of the award.
Besides the awkwardness from the referendum rejection, people also question whether Santos' contribution is significant enough to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The conflict between Colombia government and FARC could be traced back to 1960s, when the left-wing revolutionary force was established in the wave of communism in Latin America. The conflict was brutal and inhumane, and claimed the lives of more than twelve percent of Colombia population. However, due to the relieved tension between United States and Latin America countries, as well as the diminishing power of FARC that could no longer stand for more aggression, a peace deal seems to be inevitable to resolve the conflict that both parties could no longer support.
The Nobel Peace Prize endorses those who have "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," yet it has been criticized for being too political. Some critics believe that the reasons for awarding is based on the contemporary significance, which makes the prize lack eternality. Current president Barack Obama has been awarded "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples" only nine months after his presidency, and it is doubtful how the committee could examine the effectiveness of his international diplomacy in such a short period of time, as the increasing tension in Syria and the rise of ISIS raise more questions of the legitimacy of his award.
A political Nobel Peace Prize does not endorse its original purpose, as it is supposed to endorse some higher stakes that go beyond contemporary politics. It should be more humanitarian, more cosmopolitan, and more inclusive. In terms of this year, the Syrian Civil Defense organization, which was nominated but not awarded, may have been a better choice, as the group continues humanitarian rescues in the most dangerous country with no assistance from other political groups. Getting rid of influences from politics and political norms is hard for the Nobel Peace Prize, but it is necessary to keep the prize's eternal significance.
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Created: Mar 18, 2020 09:00 AM
A crash claimed the life of a 68-year-old motorcyclist yesterday.
The man, from Southampton, died after his bike was in collision with a car near the Fourways Inn on Middle Road in Paget.
An off-duty fireman battled to save the man's life, assisted by a fire crew sent to the scene, before he was taken by ambulance to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
The man was later pronounced dead by doctors.
The crash, which happened about 4pm, was the second fatal road-traffic collision this year.
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Australia Falls Further Behind As Illinois Passes Marriage Equality
In Australia, USA•By LOTL Staff•November 8, 2013•1 Minutes
The Governor of Illinois Pat Quinn has said he will sign the successful marriage equality bill into law.
A third of Americans now live in states that support marriage equality following the passage of the reform through the legislature of the US state of Illinois, sending a strong message to Australian politicians that they are lagging behind
Australian Marriage Equality National Director, Rodney Croome, said:
"Over 100 million Americans now live in states that have embraced marriage equality, sending a strong message to Australian politicians that we are continuing to fall behind our close friend and ally, the USA."
"At both a state and federal level, Australian MPs have the opportunity to embrace a reform that has strengthened relationships, families, and communities across the USA."
"We congratulate the state legislators in Illinois who voted in favour of reform, and we call on our own lawmakers to open their hearts and minds to the importance of marriage equality for Australia."
In the 2012 US Census, the combined population of the 16 US states and districts that have supported marriage equality is 116,000,000, out of a total US population of 313,000,000
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Do you think the sport has become too commercial?
It seems like sports today is all about money. It is put first and only then come sporting motives of athletes. Do you agree?
I'm not sure I agree. The two motives are intertwined. The commercial aspect does not seem to detract from the athletic side.
But what I find disturbing is how the scientific side is gradually growing in importance. Doping is becoming more and more sophisticated. I'm afraid that, at some point in the future, the real contestants will be the eggheads in white coats and the athletes mere proxies. When that happens you might as well ban competitive or at at least professional sports like dog fights have been outlawed as cruelty to animals.
It really depends on what kind of sport we are talking about. Sure if we talk about soccer it is crazy. THere was a documentation at German TV a few days ago showing how the big soccer clubs are cheating by getting money from big investors. More than they are allowed to receive because of the financial Fair Play rules.
Also American Football is going crazy. They are playing games at London or Mexico because they want to generate more money. For the local fans that is really sad because not everyone can afford to travel to other countrys to watch their team.
A another thing that shows how commercial sports is getting are the TV rights. To watch all games of the 1st German Bundesliga you need to pay for 2 different Pay-TV providers. If you want Champions League EuroLLeague and the 3rd division you have to pay 4 different Pay-TV providers.
You're definitely correct I do think that sports have become too commercialized, however the fact that it's become too commercialized doesn't bring a downturn or a negativity to the purpose and intention of sports, it's only proving the fact that the profiteering involved in sports is making it evolve, yet it still maintains it primary agenda. infact sport will become one of the only sector that will evolve with commercialization even beyond any other sector in the world.
When you take a look at golf, football, tennis and boxing and formula one this are the most commercialized sports in the world, football for example has sports betting, it has revenue from ticket and stadium fees, it also has organisational collaborations with top companies like Nike and addidas even sometimes the jerseys of football player is promoting a particular business brand which of course is another form of commercialization in all these look at the top amount of money given to football players, the owners invests billions of dollars in expenses in acquiring and also selling as well.
As a result of these commercialization sports is now mutating, it no longer means just passion alone, but a lucrative way of making millions, as an outsiders, a shareholders, a stakeholder a betting person or even an athlete as well.
The commercialization of sports helps boosts a nation's GDP growth, just like South Africa earned over a hundred million dollars in just one month of hosting the world cup in 2010 taking them topmost as the country in Africa with the highest GDP rate, look at that!
In my opinion I think the commercialization of sports is the future, it makes sports marketable and valuable and definitely a sector that businessmen can invest on I don't agree that money is the primary motive, money is the the incentive that makes it better, and if sports is losing it's motive then why are people still crazy over sports? It's because the main purpose is being maintained despite all these commercialization.
Sport has become big business. It has changed over the last decade as money is being pumped into it from new revenues.
Football is a prime example. The new money that has come in via Television revenues is massive. This has dwarfed previous business deals and taken the sport onto a new tier.
If we look at how the money has increased in the English Premiership you will see why it is big business and that the players salaries have doubled. It is all about getting the results at the end of the day. Staying in the Premiership is critical for these clubs now. There is such a big divide from the 20 clubs in it compared to the First Division and lower tiers.
The athletes are used now for marketing selling products via the shops stores or internet around the world.
Sports being commercialized can be a good thing as it allows money to flow down to the smaller poorer communities developing athletes and hopefully giving them the same chances as someone else.
It is all about entertainment and the public wants more and more. Will it be a bubble that pops somewhere.
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The Toyota Way or the unions' way?: Examining the nexus between lean and unions in Toyota Australia
International Journal of Human Resource Management
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. An earlier special issue of this journal (Vol. 25, Issue 21, 2014), focused on the use of the lean model in developed countries. The authors of the introductory article (Bamber, Stanton, Bartram and Ballardie, 2014, pp. 2881–2891) observed that lean in an employment relations-unionist paradigm is relatively an under researched area, despite several organizations attempting to introduce lean being unionized. Resultantly, two broad themes they identified for further research, included the relationship between lean and employee unions, and the involvement of unions in the implementation of lean. This article addresses these themes by paying attention to an actual case study of the attempts made by the Japanese automotive giant Toyota, to establish its customized lean model within its unionized Australian affiliate TMCA (Toyota Motor Corporation Australia), during the period 1959–2015. The findings suggest that there is an acrimonious relationship between lean and the unions–as evidenced by Australia's strong manufacturing unions that posed significant challenges to Toyota's efficacious implementation of lean practices–and concur with a few of the key reasons that informed the decision taken by the company's top management in 2014 to cease their Australian manufacturing operations by 2017.
Reynold James, Zayed University
James, Reynold, "The Toyota Way or the unions' way?: Examining the nexus between lean and unions in Toyota Australia" (2019). Scopus Indexed Articles. 791.
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Starring Amanda Burton, Georgina Terry, Kenneth Cranham, Pam Ferris, Tom Bell, David Bamber, Aden Gillett, Kate Ashfield, Tom Ellis, Ben Thonrton, Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough, Gregor Fisher, Jemima Rooper, Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Richard Griffiths, Emilia Fox, Victoria Wood, Marc Warren, Eileen Atkins, Peter Bowles, Lucy Cohu
Directed by Sarah Harding
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Collection of three TV adaptations of classic children's stories.
The first, 'Pollyanna' (2002), is based on the Eleanor H Porter tale in which the eponymous orphan (Georgina Terry) goes to stay with her rich but bitter Aunt Polly (Amanda Burton).
Soon Pollyanna introduces mirth and mayhem into her new home, encouraging the other inhabitants to look on the bright side of life, and generally warming the hearts of all those she meets.
This version moves the action from America to early 20th century England.
The second, 'The Railway Children' (1999), is based on Edith Nesbit's novel.
When their father (Michael Kitchen) is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying, young Bobbie (Jemima Rooper), Peter (Jack Blumenau) and Phyllis (Clare Thomas) are forced to move to Yorkshire with their mother (Jenny Agutter, who played Bobbie in the 1971 film version).
The local railway provides a useful focus for them, and they strike up a friendship with an elderly gentleman (Richard Attenborough) who vows to help them prove their father's innocence.
The third, 'Ballet Shoes' (2007), is set in 1930s London and is based on the novel by Noel Streatfield which tells the tale of Pauline (Emma Watson), Petrova (Yasmin Paige) and Posy Fossil (Lucy Boynton), who are adopted by an eccentric explorer, Gum (Richard Griffiths), and raised by his selfless niece (Emilia Fox) and her nurse (Victoria Wood).
Each of the girls has a dream to fulfil: Pauline longs to be an actress, Petrova yearns to be an aviator, and Posy seems born to be a ballerina.
But when Gum disappears and the money runs out, the feisty and devoted Fossils find they must fight to survive.
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package com.tianjunwei.selectKey;

import java.io.InputStream;

import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSession;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSessionFactory;
import org.apache.ibatis.session.SqlSessionFactoryBuilder;

import com.tianjunwei.selectKey.entity.User;

/**
 * @author tianjunwei
 * @time 2017 下午8:34:41
 */
public class SelectKeyMain {

	public static void main(String [] args){
		//mybatis的配置文件
	    String resource = "learn/mybatis-config.xml";
	    InputStream is = SelectKeyMain.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resource);
	    //构建sqlSession的工厂
	    SqlSessionFactory sessionFactory = new SqlSessionFactoryBuilder().build(is);
	    SqlSession session = sessionFactory.openSession();
	    User user = new User();
	    user.setAge(10);
	    user.setNames("yao");
	    session.insert("com.tianjunwei.selectKey.entity.User.add", user);
	    session.commit();
	    System.err.println(user.getId());
	    session.insert("com.tianjunwei.selectKey.entity.User.insert", user);
	    session.commit();
	    System.err.println(user.getId());
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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