We love to make up a huge batch of Mini Frittatta's. They are so simple to make and little kids really enjoy them. The best thing about them is they are easy to adapt to your own family's taste (just like an omelet that you add whatever mix-ins you desire) and you can make a bunch in a short time with minimal work.
Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray. Put a bit of diced pepper into each muffin tin and a bit of shredded cheese and the onions. Next, in a large bowl, whisk the rest of the ingredients together.
Pour the egg mixture into the pan. I fill it up to about the top. These will puff up real big during baking but will collapse and flatten out. You bake them for about 11-12 minutes in a preheated 350 degree oven. Let cool for a minute or two and enjoy.
I know they look smashed and unattractive but they are so yummy!
Using the 10 eggs and the ingredients listed above, this recipe made 30 of the mini frittatas.
They can be stored easily in the refrigerator for several days and reheated in a 325 degree oven for a few minutes or "nuked" in the microwave.
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Are Your Programmed to AM or FM?
Many of us have a favorite radio station that we enjoy listening to, or a favorite TV channel that we tune into daily. But, what about "your" channel? What are "you" programmed to? Is your personal channel programmed to AM (against me) or FM (for me)? Before I continue, I guess I should issue a disclaimer that I in no way am insinuating that one type of radio channel is better than the other – AM or FM. I am simply using the AM and FM letters to get my point across for this month's article.
What are you tuned into on a daily basis? Are you tuned into a lifestyle and life circumstances that are AM (against me), or are you bebop'n to life circumstances on the FM (for me) dial? Research has concluded that our health can be affected by our self-talk. The Mayo Clinic determined that our outlook on life and our attitudes toward ourselves can affect our physical health. Some research studies have shown that our personality traits (such as being positive or negative thinkers) can affect many areas of our health and well-being. Positive thinking is associated with proper stress management, and effective stress management is associated with health benefits. On the flip side, negative thinking, pessimistic attitudes, and negative self-talk are all associated with dis-ease in the body and mind. The dis-ease also known as anxiety, worry, and agitation can result in health deterioration over time. I know I have said it a million times, but it's worth repeating again, we all must work hard to rid negative thinking tendencies from our life. Many times negative thinking is a byproduct of the automatic thoughts we produce as a result of our human "conditioning." In other words, negative thinking and self-talk has become a habit. Habits can be ingrained in us, and often they are ingrained over many years, but habits can be broken or altered. It is our own personal decision to determine where we want to tune our thinking and doing dial – AM or FM.
One research theory deems that positive thinkers cope better with stressful situations therefore they experience less harmful effects of stress.
Filtering – Magnification of the negative aspects while filtering out positive aspects. For example, you had a relatively productive day at work but you choose to focus on the one thing that you didn't get accomplished. Another instance is filtering what you see in other people. For example, you choose to "see" or discuss lack rather than credit people for accomplishments they attained. You may see someone who is struggling to find adequate employment or choose to further their education, rather than settle for their current underemployment situation. But rather than support them for their efforts to better themselves you focus on criticisms – which just creates more stress for the individual.
Personalizing – The act of automatically blaming yourself when something bad occurs. For example, you were looking forward to an evening out with friends but plans got cancelled. You believe the plans were cancelled because no one wanted to be around you.
Catastrophing – You always anticipate the worst. Something goes wrong in you everyday life and you assume the remainder of your day will be a disaster. For example, you order coffee at the local drive-thru window, you pick-up, pay for the order, and leave. You sip the coffee to find it is bitter and black when you ordered sugar and cream – entire day ruined!
Polarizing – You see things as either good or bad – no middle ground. In your mind, if things aren't perfect, then it's a total failure. For example, you work extra hard on a school assignment and receive the grade of a "B" rather than the anticipated "A" for all of the hard work and sacrificing necessary to give the assignment all you got. You are downtrodden about the "B" because it wasn't the coveted "A" rather than rejoicing in the fact that it still a good grade.
· Identify areas to change – what must change? What do you think negatively about?
· Check yourself – periodically stop and think about what you are thinking and feeling at that moment. Is it good or bad?
· Welcome humor – Laugh, smile, seek humor and joy in all aspects of your day.
· Surround yourself with positive people – DO NOT give negative people any space in your life. Only give space to those who support you and your endeavors.
· Practice positive self-talk – DO NOT say anything to yourself that you wouldn't say to someone else. Give yourself the same respect & honor you offer others.
Set the dial to FM frequency today. The world needs more optimism and positivity. The world needs you to be the best you can possibly be. The world needs you to have the strength and focus to reach your fullest potential. The world needs you to help spread the light – spread the positivity. Are you up for it? Are you up for contributing to what the world needs? Of course you are! Get up, get tuned in to FM, give the world your best, and watch the light spread!
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My husband bought me an Oster dehydrator a year ago this past Christmas. I had wanted one forever but after I got it, I never used it. Never until this past week that is. Finally opened her up and thought I'd see how it went. Well, basically, we have been dehydrating non-stop. We love it. Just wanted to share some of it with you all.
Mushrooms cut up and ready to go into the dehydrator.
Dehydrated mushrooms can be re-hydrated in water or just pop them into soup, dressing, stew, sauce, or casserole and let them cook with the rest of the ingredients.
The bananas all cut up and put into the dehydrator.
Banana chips make such a great snack. Yum!
The lemons and limes can be tossed into a glass of water or tea for flavoring. You can also add them to a soup for some extra flavoring. Just be sure to remove it before you eat the soup because of the peel. You can grind up the lemons for lemon powder or to make lemon pepper seasoning or use the powder in jams. Or you can throw some into the crock-pot with your chicken for some extra "oomph".
How do you like to eat/use your dehydrated food? To see a list of all the foods I have dehydrated, click here.
For those of you who have limited time for meals, this one is for you. These taste soooo good and are soooo easy.
Preheat your oven to the temperature stated on the spice cake box. In a large bowl, mix the dry cake mix, spices, and pumpkin together. You do not need to add any other ingredients. Mix well and pour into sprayed muffin tins and bake.
Bake the muffins for the same temperature called for on the cake mix box for a cake. That is it. The taste so delicious and go great with a cup of coffee (or two).
These muffins would go great with a cup of my Countrified French Vanilla Coffee.
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I don't know about you but Breakfast is one of my favorite meals of the day. It is right up there with Lunch and Supper. ;-) Today, I am going to teach ya how to make waffles. These are not the frozen kind out of a box. These are the homestyle ones that make ya smile from just their aroma.
First, mix the dry ingredients together. Heat up the waffle iron.
In another bowl, beat the eggs and then stir in the rest of the wet ingredients. Once they are stirred up, pour the wet into the dry. Stir well.
Once the waffle iron is heated up, pour the batter in and cook.
My 15 year old son, bless his heart, is clumsy. Well, clumsy is an understatement. The boy falls or trip or hurts himself at least 5 times a day. We generally contribute it all to his big feet. His feet seem to grow faster than the rest of him and we tell him he is still trying to get the hang of his big clown feet. The rest of him has to catch up. Anyway, I was in my office yesterday and I heard a faint "Help!". I get up and go outside and this is what I see.
Yep, there he sat all forlorn looking. The day before, he and his dad, dug up a tree stump and filled the deep hole with dirt. Well, it rained all night long and became a muddy pit and then along came Bub, who had forgot about the hole, and this is how I found him.
Yep, he's in there good.
So, after laughing, I went inside to call my hubby. He had gone into town and with my MS, I knew I couldn't pull him out on my own. The mud had sucked him in there good and it was so tight, he couldn't even pull his feet out of the boots.
So...I'm inside making the call and guess what? My 8 year old came out to see what all the commotion was about and I guess he wanted to join his big brother.
See, he looks a lot happier about his situation though. So I get to call Ron, my hubby, back and let him know he has TWO children to help out of the mud now. Only in our family!!!!
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I have been wanting a root cellar FOREVER. One of our chest deep freezes went kaput awhile back so my hubby stripped it of its motor, etc. and set to work giving me a make-shift root cellar. I am so happy.
Here is the chest deep freeze before burial.
My 15 year old son who helped dig the hole.
My hubby: the brains and brawn of this project!
So, that's it. It is done. The average temperature inside it is between 52-55 degrees. Right now I am keeping some potatoes and carrots in there.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A History of Monsters, from Werewolves to Hippogriffs
The latest instalment in the Harry Potter franchise, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , sees wizard Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) entering New York in 1926, smuggling a briefcase full of exotic animals through customs. A "magizoologist", he studies and, where necessary, rescues these fantastic creatures. When some of his specimens escape into a city brimming over with tensions between the magical and non-magical communities, Newt must find them before they come to harm at the hands of those who perceive them as a threat.
Stories involving fantastic beasts are some of the oldest narratives we possess, but the threat posed by the beast is usually perceived as being genuine. In the Epic of Gilgamesh , written in Mesopotamia 4,000 years ago, the eponymous hero and his friend Enkidu must fight the Bull of Heaven, who has been unleashed upon the city of Uruk by the goddess Ishtar. Heroes of Greek and Roman mythology also confront monsters: Theseus fights the minotaur, who resembles a man with the head of bull; Bellerophon confronts the fire-breathing chimera, which possesses the head of lion, the hindquarters of a snake or dragon, and the body of a goat; Hercules defeats the seven-headed hydra, just one of the many beasts he encounters during his 12 labours.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu slaying the Bull of Heaven. Neo-Assyrian, 8th/7th century BC. ( Lucas / Flickr )
At times, the fantastic beast in question must be captured rather than killed, but the hero's task is usually to overcome it rather than protect and preserve it. Confronting a monster provides a way for a hero to prove his strength and courage.
In many cases, especially in the narratives of the Middle Ages, the beast itself can be seen as a symbol of evil. In the story of Beowulf, for example, Grendel is described as a descendant of Cain, the first murderer. Entering the hall of Heorot while the king and his retainers are sleeping, Grendel kills 30 men before escaping back to his lair, beginning a reign of terror that lasts for 12 years. The hero Beowulf must defeat both Grendel and his mother to protect not just the hall and its inmates, but the communal bonds that the hall represents.
Similarly, when St George fights the dragon, he is not only rescuing a princess, but also confronting a symbol of the devil.
In Harry Potter's world, creatures such as Buckbeak the hippogriff may initially seem like monsters, but once we learn more about them, they usually seem less fearsome. Even dragons, although dangerous, are not evil.
St. George Struggling with the Dragon ( public domain )
Fearsome or fantastic?
So why has our perception of beasts changed? One answer may be that, in the 21st century, we are more likely to see Newt's job as preserving endangered species rather than fighting monsters. These rare and wonderful creatures represent not a source of evil but the rich and imperilled diversity of life in our world. Heroes can therefore be those who seek to understand and assist fantastic beasts, rather than destroy them.
This transformation may also be the result of our changing perception of evil. In these increasingly secular times, the devil, once a malevolent force seeking the downfall of humanity, is often seen as nothing more than a metaphor, a symbol of our own darker impulses. If evil exists, it is in the harm that humanity inflicts upon itself and the world.
The world of Harry Potter and Newt Scamander contains not just dragons, phoenixes and hippogriffs, but also beings that are not so different from humans, such as house elves, merpeople and centaurs. When we enter this world, we explore the boundary between human and beast, asking ourselves where true monstrosity lies. We learn, along with Harry and Newt, that often the most monstrous acts are performed by other humans.
Centaurs are depicted as not to unlike ordinary human beings. 'Pallas and the Centaur' by Sandro Botticelli ( public domain )
Learning to love the beast
This is not a modern trend. Older narratives can sometimes offer a more nuanced view of the relationship between beasts and humans as well. Grendel may be malevolent, but his mother only attacks the denizens of Heorot to avenge the death of her son. Although she is weaker than Grendel, Beowulf finds it more difficult to defeat her in her watery lair, suggesting perhaps that we should view her cause with some sympathy.
Or there's the short tale of Bisclavret, composed in the 12th century by Marie de France. Like Rowling's tales, this story argues that sometimes beasts need to be understood, rather than feared. Reminiscent of Professor Lupin, one of Harry Potter's teachers at Hogwarts, Bisclavret hides a secret: three days out of every week he hunts in the forest in the form of a wolf.
Concerned by his frequent absences, his wife finally learns the truth, but once she's discovered his secret she no longer loves him. Taking a lover, she conspires to leave him trapped permanently in wolf form. Alone in the woods, Bisclavret is eventually found by the king, who, impressed by his gentle behaviour, keeps him as a pet. For a while the wolf lives peacefully with the king and his court. But when the king visits Bisclavret's former wife, the wolf attacks her, tearing off her nose. Rather than blaming his beloved pet, the king has her tortured until she reveals the full story of her husband's disappearance.
The ending sees Bisclavret restored to his human form and the king's favour while his wife is banished. She and her descendants are condemned to live without noses. Her punishment stems not from her sexual infidelity (several of Marie de France's tales are sympathetic towards women who seek love outside of marriage) but for her failure to see her husband's nobility in spite of his affliction. In the end, it is revealed that she, rather than her former husband, is the "beast".
As in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we cannot judge by appearances. The true monsters tend to lie within.
Top image: Wall relief depicting a head of an Uglallu, a lion-headed man. ( CC by SA 4.0 / Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP )
The article ' Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: A history of monsters, from werewolves to hippogriffs ' BY Marta Cobb was originally published on The Conversation and has been republished under a Creative Commons license.
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How Credible Are the Superstitions Surrounding the Mystical Irish Fairy Trees?
A fairy tree is a type of plant found in Irish folklore. Such trees are believed to be sacred to the fairies, and some believe that they serve as gateways between this realm and that of the fairies...
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The Darker Side of Irish Fairy Lore: When Encounters Turn Dangerous
When we think of fairies many of the more popular tales tend to have an almost playful nature but it would be wrong to assume that this is means that fairies are always benign. Many accounts within...
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5 March, 2019 - 20:41 bill
The Legendary Kraken
According to the Scandinavian mythology, the Kraken is a horrifying giant sea creature (said to be 1 mile long) that attacks ships and is generally described as an octopus or squid. According to some...
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12 November, 2018 - 13:59 ashley cowie
Deep Mining the Mythology of Ganesha and the Ancient Temple Well
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24 August, 2018 - 18:23 dhwty
Blemmyes: The Headless Men of Ancient and Medieval Mythology
The Blemmyes are an example of various species of bizarre creatures rumored, in antiquity and later, to inhabit remote parts of the world - from dog-headed humanoids to strange men with a single...
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25 July, 2018 - 23:29 Joanna Gillan
Exploring Ancient Lunar Legends as Total Lunar Eclipse Will Create Rare 'Blood Moon'
The moon has been an object of worship, veneration, and intrigue among ancient civilizations for thousands of years. Now, it is set to capture our admiration once again as a total lunar eclipse will...
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Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Review (Oculus Rift S)
Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever Review: A Run 'n Light Gun Shooter Refined for VR
After watching and enjoying Zombieland and Zombieland: Double Tap in theatres, I really hoped that Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever would continue doing the series justice. But does the combat play well with the witty jokes and casual gameplay, or does it leave the taste of a stale Twinkie behind with an outdated format?
When I first started Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever, it pleased me to see just a bare couple of settings to tweak. Hand color, left or right-handed, standing or sitting, then you're off! Your first mission is a brief runabout clearing out some stragglers and makeshift targets in your soon-to-be mansion base with a single W1911.
Be cautious of how you tilt your wrist; it can mess with your ability to aim.
With the introductions out of the way, you'll then meet up with the four main characters from the movies. The only original cast member who didn't make it was Woody Harrelson, with Tallahassee being played by his brother, Brett. There's not much in the way of dialogue, but it checks out in keeping in character. You'll have four different stations you can go to from your spot. You can go to the mission select, the armory where you can customize your guns and perks, the shooting range where you can practice your marksmanship with some non-lethal targets, and, finally, a place to view achievements. You'll only have the mission select to go to at first, but play through the "tutorial" parts of the game, and you'll get introduced to everything in due time.
The next thing to look at is how you look around. The VR gameplay was smooth as butter damn near the whole game. I played using a 1080 TI on a Rift S, and it played perfectly fine. The game's lowered, non-demanding graphics will feel at home even on base model VR units and mid-tier GPUs. Speaking of graphics, they aren't made to wow, but definitely don't look awful with a cartoonish style that does make it easier to distinguish foes from the environment. The zombies' heads stick out well and are a decent size, so you aren't trying to headshot something the size of an orange.
So how do the guns feel? They're the most vital part of the game, and they're in a very interesting position. You can only have two guns: a pistol and a special weapon that has limited ammo. They don't have much weight, no recoil really to speak of, reloading is simplified, and weapon choices are limited to only a few guns. The most you'll get towards gun customization is changing the paint job, and you can do a few general upgrades by spending some in-game currency. Normal VR games would likely shudder at this, but this is perfect for what this game's going for. It doesn't want anything getting in the way of its hectic run-'n-gun light gun-style gameplay, and everything I listed above helps it do just that. You need to keep loaded at all times, even after spending a single bullet, reload. If you're done killing a zombie and even have a second to spare, reload. Keep your guns maintained, or you will run out at the worst possible times.
What you'll try to do.
What will probably end up happening. More times than you'll care to count.
Reloading is quick and simple; when you flick down on the stick, you'll drop your mag, and a fresh one will appear right about your belly region. Slam the mag in, then keep firing. Enemies will drop TP, the game's currency. Also, you only get one hit, and you're done. The big trick here is doing headshots. Double-tap the head and, not only will you go into a Bullet Time mode where everything slows down. However, that time you spend in there will be subtracted from your total time, so stay in that mode as much as possible. You can also get that bullet-time mode started by shooting objects out of the air that get thrown at you.
Don't worry. You'll get used to looking up, wondering what's about to bean you in the dome.
You'd think this would make the game lean towards accuracy, but remember that the game does NOT keep track of accuracy (unless the missions for that run state "Do Not Miss"). It wants you to keep your Adrenaline up. Accuracy by volume of fire is totally applicable here. It took me a few rounds before I realized it was absolutely fine to spam rounds as fast as I can if it means scoring that extra headshot.
The first eight missions are set in stone, and the enemies will always be right where you saw them last. The key here is to figure out how to take care of them in the most efficient way possible. Every mission will have four objectives, each with its own rewards. You're looking to get at least fifteen, so you can unlock the Zombieland Invitational, basically the penultimate level and the hardest of the bunch. There'll be several different kinds of "special" infected along these runs, from Homers that you take a penalty for shooting to Throwers that'll yeet random crap at you that'll blind you for a moment if you're hit. The game will not be afraid to throw several of these at you at once at later levels.
These aren't even the most annoying ones either.
The gameplay as a whole here is meant to invoke the feelings of old-school arcade games such as Area 51, The House of the Dead, Time Crisis. If you've ever seen these in a local arcade, think of Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever in that light. Shoot enemies, move to the next area, shoot more enemies, move to the next area. It's the placement of the enemies and how you deal with them that adds the needed spice to make this interesting. Adding in the time trial function makes this a speedrunner's dream. So on top of being a very competent light gun-esque arcade game, it's letting you strive for the best times in the process. The drive to go faster, be more efficient, and aim for accuracy is all there at the forefront.
From here, though, we start seeing where things start to drop in quality. While it's great to feel the accomplishment of going faster, there's not much else here. Some achievements and leaderboards are the only things at the end of the short road because, after the Invitationals, there's just you going faster. You can get some of the objectives, but that'd put you on the same level doing the same song and dance over and over. Whether this is bad or good is more up to the individual. For just twenty bucks, many people will get what they want, and then some, while some might be longing for more. This is the kind of game you'd play for maybe half an hour to an hour, then retire for a few days. This is fine, but I do hope there'll be more in the way of content delivered down the lines. I'd love to see some more guns, at the very least.
The ultimate thing to keep in mind if you want to enjoy this game is that it is absolutely vital you play this like an old light gun game. Don't go in expecting depth or length because there isn't much here. It's meant to play like an arcade game: short, sweet, and to the point. That's the whole idea, and once you get that ingrained in how you play, it becomes the best damn arcade shooter you'll play in a long while. No complicated systems, no powerups, not even much in the way of plot. Just you, zombies, a bit of witty banter, and the fastest gunplay this side of the urban jungle. I'd say for a mere $20, Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever has more than enough heart to satisfy that arcade itch while leaving more than enough room to grow into something even better down the road.
Final Verdict 4/5
Available on: Windows Store/Oculus Store/Steam (Reviewed), PS4; Publisher: XR Games, Sony Pictures Virtual Reality; Developer: XR Games; Number of players: single-player (campaign); Released: July 29,2021; MSRP: $19.99
Full disclosure: The developer provided a Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever review copy.
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With a passion for all things musical, a taste for anti-gravity racing, and a love for all things gacha, Cory is a joyful and friendly gamer soaking up any little gem to come to his little Midwestern cornfield. An avid collector of limited editions with an arsenal of imported gaming trinkets he's absorbed into his wardrobe, he's usually always near his trusty gaming rig if he's not on his PS4 or Xbox One. And when he's not gaming, he's watching anime off his big screen with his lap lion Stella purring away.
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Sam Nhlengethwa, a contemporary artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a prolific artist who has worked in a range of media, exploring multiple themes: life under the Apartheid regime, jazz icons, daily life in South Africa's townships, and miners.
For his Tribute series, Nhlengethwa created a range of prints that pay homage to several artists that have, in his words, "paved the way for South African art." These include South African artists such as David Goldblatt, William Kentridge, and Gerard Sekoto, but also international artists including Romare Bearden, Henri Matisse, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. By recognizing their influences upon his own work, Nhlengethwa shows an exchange of ideas within and across borders that moves past the oft-stated influence of African artworks on avant-garde European artists. His Tribute Series confirms that African artists are by no means working in an isolated context, but are active participants in a global art world.
This installation highlights two works from Nhlengethwa's Tribute series recently acquired by UMMA.
The purchase of this work was made possible through the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.


Growing up in New York City, Jasmine was exposed to so many different cultures and lifestyles from an early age, quickly becoming curious about everything in the world around her. From that curiosity, she studied International Relations during her undergraduate studies. Jasmine became a Benjamin A. Gilman Scholar, which afforded her the opportunity to live abroad and travel the great wide world.
Jasmine's curious nature, and tendency to ask a lot of questions, led her to discover web development, and immediately she fell in love. She utilized the power of social media and built a community of people who helped guide her on her journey of becoming a self-taught Ruby on Rails developer. It wasn't long before she discovered she enjoyed problem-solving and working with databases. From then on, Jasmine knew a career in programming was what she wanted to pursue.
When she's not programming, you can find her at the beach on a surfboard, underwater scuba diving, or watching crime documentaries on Netflix. If she isn't doing one of those activities, she's probably somewhere at a baseball game or watching a game from season's past, anxiously awaiting the start of a new season.


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Basically, I am having the user input 2 text values as well as choose from 2 options on a drop down menu. If the user chooses "Mac" the info in the two fields should print to #macscorecolumn and #macteamcolumnand vice versa if they choose "Nic". The list variables are keeping track of the whole list of scores so the new score is simply added to the end and they're all shown. Not sure why the script isnt working. Any help would be awesome

A: First of all, your code actually needs a rewrite :)

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*You don't need to submit a form to do this kind of thing, you could merely add either a link or a button (for GO), add a click function to it, and do your stuff in there.

*Also I agree with Kunal that your syntax for the if statement is incorrect etc.

Just practice some more and remember that the jquery docs is your friend... :)
Here is your code I modified a little bit to make it work for you. But remember, you don't need a form for this, I just didn't have time to rewrite it differently for you.  I also included jquery library just in case you missed that, which is critical.
    <form>

<input name="foo" id="team" class="teamcolumn" type="text" value="Team?">
<input name="foobar" id="score" class="inputright" type="text" value="Score?">

<button id="dostuff" value="Go">Go</button>

<select name="select" size="1" id="PID">
    <option value="Nic">Nic</option>
    <option value="Mac">Mac</option>
    </select>
</form>

Team

Score

Team

Score

A: You have used else if condition
Its condition element you have to put some condition
else if{  }  // syntax error
else if("somethign goes in here"){ // your code } // correct way
and over here only else can do the thing
You have putted ; at the block end of if statement and and the block end of else. Syntax error

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The two seem to have put their differences to bed as they are said to be in advanced stages of recording their collaboration titled 'Ekimuli' which is being worked upon by producer Diggy Baur of Sound Cover records located in Makindye, Luwafu.
It is believed that in a few days time it will be out and on air as the fans of the two musicians await to enjoy the tune.
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Ma all time fans and friends here is yet another project titled Ekimuli featuring ma musical bro @JChameleone.
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We at MBU, cannot wait to listen to the brand new tune as long time rivals turn good friends.


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Evolving data science, technologies, techniques, and practices, including big data, are enabling shifts in how the public and private sectors carry out their functions and responsibilities, deliver services, and facilitate innovative production and service models to emerge. In this compilation we have put together a series of articles that we have developed as we explore the impacts – positive and negative – of big data. This is a growing body of research that we are exploring and is relevant to multiple areas of our work including privacy and surveillance. Feedback and comments on the compilation are welcome and appreciated.
Silicon Plateau Vol-1
This book marks the beginning of an interdisciplinary artistic project, Silicon Plateau, the scope of which is to observe how the arts, technology and society intersect in the city of Bangalore. Silicon Plateau is a collaboration between T.A.J. Residency & SKE Projects and the Researchers at Work (RAW) programme of the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Volume 1 has been developed in collaboration with or-bits.com.
Digital Activism in Asia Reader
The digital turn might as well be marked as an Asian turn. From flash-mobs in Taiwan to feminist mobilisations in India, from hybrid media strategies of Syrian activists to cultural protests in Thailand, we see the emergence of political acts that transform the citizen from being a beneficiary of change to becoming an agent of change. In co-shaping these changes, what the digital shall be used for, and what its consequences will be, are both up for speculation and negotiation. Digital Activism in Asia marks a particular shift where these questions are no longer being refracted through the ICT4D logic, or the West's attempts to save Asia from itself, but shaped by multiplicity, unevenness, and urgencies of digital sites and users in Asia. It is our great pleasure to present the Digital Activism in Asia Reader.
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Penman No. 281: The Writer in Progress
Posted on December 12, 2017 by penmanila
Penman for Monday, December 11, 2017
(THIS IS the second of three parts of my recent talk on "Celebrating Arguilla" at the Taboan Literary Festival in Bauang, La Union.)
"Midsummer" is of course the quintessential mating story, setting the tone for the younger Arguilla's lyrical odes to rippling muscles and shapely breasts. The man's strength is contrasted with the girl's slenderness, and this dichotomy would repeat itself many times over in the stories ahead: in "Heat," where the Adonis-like Mero captivates Meliang, she of the "long and supple thighs" and whose body exudes "a healthy sweetness." We see it again in "The Strongest Man", where the "tall and shapely Onang" enchants Ondong, whose muscles flow under his sweating skin. Mero and Meliang, Onang and Ondong—it's tempting to think of Arguilla falling into a mannerism, a romantic formula after Amorsolo's or Botong's idealized physiques.
But he quickly disabuses us of our idyllic fantasies, because the same terrain in which so much beauty resides, in both the landscape and the bodies of its fecund youth, is shown to be awash with blood and riven by violence. The second story in the collection, right after "Midsummer," is "Morning in Nagrebcan," and it begins with a picturesque description of rustic serenity, depicting "the fine, bluish mist, low over the tobacco fields." But this mood is soon shattered by the brutal killing of a puppy, and the awakening of the children to the harshness of life—indeed, to evil—in what may seem to be a bucolic paradise.
Sometimes the violence is more subtle and only hinted at. "A Son Is Born" is a long and almost anthropological account of family life and birthing rites, ending on the luminously optimistic note of a Christmas birth and a boy named Jesus, but it is shadowed by its very first line: "It was the year the locusts came and ate the young rice in the fields." Life is difficult, but it goes on.
"How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife" appears midway through the book, providing another tranquil respite, returning us to tall and lovely women meeting male approbation.
And then almost abruptly come the city stories, beginning with tales of marital stress and distress. Here I can sense the young writer and husband flexing his muscles and trying out new material and new approaches, experimenting with the kind of breathy, abstracted adoration you might find in Arcellana, acknowledging his broadening universe, with references to Picasso and Vanity Fair popping up in the prose. There's even an attempt at comedy in "The Maid, the Man, and the Wife." "The Long Vacation" is a melodramatic paean to loss, in the spirit of Carlos Angeles' "Landscape II," but without its magic. In these so-called "marriage" stories, it is the brooding hulk of Elias, in the story of that name, that most comes alive, but this is the one story in that suite that returns to the countryside, as if to make the point that country folk can also lead terribly complicated lives and make terribly complicated decisions.
The last part of the book, which is divided into three, comprises the "socialist" stories, for want of a better description. "The Socialists," "Epilogue to Revolt," "Apes and Men," and "Rice" return us to a rural setting, but this time with an explicitly political agenda, which is to awaken the reader to the inhuman exploitation of the Filipino farmer and worker of the 1930s.
"Caps and Lower Case" is often hailed as a searing indictment of labor exploitation, and indeed it pleads the case of its protagonist—a proofreader who needs the relief of just a small raise—with eloquent anguish, but ultimately it deals him a crushing defeat. "The Socialists" is a scathing satire of armchair socialism. "Epilogue to Revolt" deals with surrender and complicity, "Apes and Men" with industrial unrest, and "Rice" with hunger among the tillers.
These were all worthy subjects, of course, the stories reflecting the afterglow of the recent Sakdalista rebellion and other such uprisings in both country and city. Among writers then, the same tensions would simmer over what would be called "proletarian literature," its standard held high by such avatars as S. P. Lopez and Arturo Rotor, and inevitably Manuel Arguilla. On the other side of the argument were ranged the likes of Jose Garcia Villa, A. E. Litiatco, and a young Nick Joaquin, who in a 1985 essay would dismiss proletarian literature as little more than that generation's adoption of the latest American fad. It "failed to sweep the local scene," Joaquin would chortle, "and the only writer of importance who may have been influenced by it was poor Manuel Arguilla—who got derailed."
Arguilla's avowals notwithstanding, however—and at the risk of committing blasphemy in the Vatican—let me opine that it would be a mistake to deify Arguilla as any kind of socialist icon. True, he embraced "proletarian literature," but his proletarian stories are thoroughly depressing, their desperate protagonists broken and beaten, with the sole exception of "Epilogue to Revolt," which is one of my favorites because it breaks the mold while remaining absolutely true to character and situation. His realism owes more to Charles Dickens than to Maxim Gorky.
Manuel Arguilla was, to me, very much a writer in progress—a writer still coming to terms with his material and his society, one who had explored the range of his talents and was arriving at a fusion of those extremes. Arguilla's stories have to be read as a continuum, where country and city were beginning to come together in his artistic and political sensibilities. But then, all too soon, he died, leaving us to wonder if his stories could have taken a brighter and more hopeful turn in the postwar world he never saw.
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Taieb Fassi-Fihri on Morroco's political history and its position on Libya; Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal on the film "Miral."
Julian Schnabel and Rula Jebreal talk about their film, '"Miral," which is loosely based on Jebreal's life.
A compilation of previous interviews with Neil Young, Mickey Rourke, and Julian Schnabel.
Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel reflects on making the film "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Director Julian Schnabel on his adaptation of the Jean-Dominique Bauby novel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly."
Director Julian Schnabel on his adaptation of "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"; the filmmaker and actors of "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead."
Sandy Berger evaluates the Clinton administration's foreign policy; Julian Schnabel and Javier Bardem on "Before Night Falls."
Director Julian Schnabel and actor Javier Bardem on their film, "Before Night Falls."
Julian Schnabel on making the biopic "Basquiat"; Schnabel is joined by one of the film's stars, David Bowie.


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Living aboard the International Space Station is a unique experience that very few people will ever get to enjoy. Astronauts returning home from the ISS always do their best to share their amazing voyage with the rest of us but stories and videos are not nearly enough to convey the true wonders of space travel. Virtual reality, on the other hand, might be. Thanks to an upcoming documentary called The ISS Experience, anyone will soon be able to see what an astronaut sees on board and around the International Space Station.
The ISS Experience is a very ambitious new documentary series currently in the works at TIME and Felix & Paul Studios. Between them, the two organizations have plenty of experience when it comes to creating space documentaries. TIME brought us 'A Year in Space' a while back, a six-part series that follows Scott Kelly as he attempts (and eventually succeeds) to break the record for the most consecutive days spent in space by a US astronaut. Meanwhile, Felix & Paul Studios are the same folks that brought us the VR series Space Explorers along with a number of other immersive experiences that incorporate virtual reality.
While there are other documentaries that focus on the ISS, this one is quite unique because of the VR aspect. Creating an immersive experience aboard the station is a massive challenge in and of itself, but the producers want to take it even further. In addition to giving viewers a first-person look at life on the station, The ISS Experience will also follow astronauts during a spacewalk.
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The camera systems that are being used to film The ISS Experience were sent to the station back in December aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. The crew shot the first scenes last week and plan to complete the filming process by late 2019.


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