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FoodReference.com Logo FoodReference.com (Since 1999) Food Articles, News & Features Section You are here > HomeFood Articles'D' to 'O' Food History > Forks, A Short History FREE Food & Beverage Publications See also: Fork Trivia The Art of the Table by Suzanne Von Drachenfels "It is coarse and ungraceful to throw food into the mouth as you would toss hay into a barn with a pitchfork." Anonymous The word fork comes from the Latin 'furca' for "pitch fork." The two-prong twig was perhaps the first fork. In Egyptian antiquity, large forks made of bronze were used at religious ceremonies to lift sacrificial offerings. One of the earliest dinner forks is attributed to Constantinople in 400 A.D.; it can be seen in the Dumbarton Oaks collection in Washington, D.C. By the seventh century, small forks were used at Middle Eastern courts; one such fork, a small, gold, two-pronged tool, came to Italy in the eleventh century in the dowry of a Byzantine princess who married Domenico Selvo, a Venetian doge. After witnessing the princess use the fork, the church severely censured her, stating that the utensil was an affront to God's intentions for fingers. Thereafter the fork disappeared from the table for nearly 300 years. In England the fork was slow to gain acceptance because it was considered a feminine utensil. The exception was the 'sucket' fork, a utensil used to eat food that might otherwise stain the fingers, such as "a silvir forke for grene gynger" noted in an inventory taken in 1523 of Lady Hungerfords effects. The sucket fork was wrought with two prongs at one end of the stem and a bowl at the other. The fork end was used to spear food preserved in thick, sticky syrup, such as plums and grapes, and the spoon end to convey the syrup to the mouth. When Catherine de Medici married Henry I in 1533, her dowry included several dozen dinner forks wrought by Benvenuto Cellini, the great Italian silversmith. The fork began to gain acceptance in Italy by the late sixteenth century, a period when upper-class Italians expressed renewed interest in cleanliness. However, the French court considered the fork an awkward, even dangerous, utensil, and the nobility did not accept it until the seventeenth century when protocol deemed it uncivilized to eat meat with both hands. The way to use the fork remained a mystery, and many sophisticates, notably King Louis XIV, continued to eat with fingers or a knife. In 1608, Thomas Coryate, son of the Rector of Odcombe, took the "grand tour" of Europe, and on his return published a narrative that included the Italian custom of eating with a fork. Thereafter, Coryate's friends jokingly called the young traveler Furciferus, "Pitchfork." "I observed a custome in all those Italian Cities and Townes through which I passed that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels, neither doe I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy. The Italian, and also most strangers that are cormorant in Italy, does alwaies at their meales, use a little fork when they cut the meate . . . their forkes being for the most part made of iron or steel, and some of silver, but these are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is because the Italian cannot endure by any means to have his dish touched by fingers, seeing that all men's fingers are not alike cleane. Hereupon I myself thought to imitate the Italian fashion by this forke cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and often-times in England since I came home." Thomas Coryate, ‘Coryat's Crudities’ (1611) The modern table setting is attributed to Charles I of England who in 1633 declared, "It is decent to use a fork," a statement that heralded the beginning of civilized table manners. But it wasn't until almost a century later that the fork gained acceptance among the lower class. In England, the acceptance of the fork encouraged preparation of continental recipes, such as 'olios' from Spain, a dish made with stewed meat taken with a fork as opposed to mashed food eaten from the blade of a knife. Because the average family owned a limited number of forks, historians suggest that the service of sherbet midway through a meal gave the servants time to wash the forks used earlier on. The first dinner forks were made with two flat prongs. The earliest two-prong fork to bear an English hallmark and engraved with a coat of arms dates to 1632 and is attributed to the Earl of Rutland. It can be seen today in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In the seventeenth century, fork tines were made of case-hardened steel and were fast to wear down. To promote utensils with longevity, early fork tines were extra long in length and made with sharp pointed tips. But when it came to spearing certain foods, such as peas and grains, the widely spaced two-prong fork was impractical, and between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the tines increased in number from two to three and then to four. Moreover, from the late seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth century, the profile of the fork changed from flat to slightly curved, a shape that accommodated a scoop of soft food, such as peas. But three- and four-prong forks were slow to reach North America, where people continued to eat from a knife blade food that was difficult to spear with a two-prong fork, such as mashed potatoes and gravy. The way to use the dinner fork remained a mystery well into the eighteenth century. Joseph Brasbridge, a retail silversmith in Fleet Street, wrote of his confusion in a customer's home, "where the cloth was laid with a profusion of plate.... I know how to sell these articles, but not how to use them." The New York Ladies' Indispensable Assistant, published in 1852, gave general advice on eating with a fork, knife, and spoon: "If silver or wide pronged forks are used, (for fish), eat with the fish fork in the right hand—the knife is unnecessary. . . . If possible, the knife should never be put into the mouth at all, let the ledge be turned down. . . . The teeth should be picked as little as possible, and never with fork or fingers. . . . Eat peas with a dessert spoon; and curry also." In the nineteenth century, mass production and the invention of the electroplating process made silver forks affordable to a rising middle class who wished to emulate the nobility and eat with forks made for specific foods, such as berries, birds, cake, cold meat, cucumbers, fish, ice cream, lettuce, lobster, oysters, pickles, salad, sardines, shellfish, strawberrys, souffle, terrapin, tomatoes, and to pass sliced bread at the tea table. Although fork handles were normally made of silver or silver plate, in the nineteenth century organic materials were also used, such as bone, mother-of-pearl, and ivory (the latter often tinted green). Fork tines were shortened and closer together, and remain so today. No longer did fingers touch food, except to pick up small fruit, such as grapes. Nor did servants wash forks during a meal for use with another course. Today, depending on need, a set of flatware may contain five forks: dinner fork, fish fork, luncheon fork, salad or dessert fork, and seafood fork. But the collector may amass specialized forks—for eating lobster, fruit, dessert, ice cream, pastry, strawberries, snails, and oysters—from antique shops and specialty stores. The shapes of the fork tines accommodate particular foods. Forks wrought with long tapered tines, such as a dinner fork, are made to spear thick morsels of food, such as steak. Forks with a wide left tine and an optional notch, such as a salad fork, fish fork, dessert fork, and pastry fork, provide extra leverage when cutting food that normally does not require a knife. Forks with curved tines, such as the oyster fork, are made to follow the shape of the shell. All rights reserved. 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"Women are targets": an interview with former foreign reporter Anne Sebba, author of a book on women journalists Ho New/Reuters It's tempting to think women can do everything men can. And then you hear about Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted in Egypt during a protest, after Mubarak had been deposed and while she was with her camera crew. Logan told a press conference last month that she now keeps a journal for her two young children "so that if something happens to her they'll know why she does what she does." Anne Sebba, a biographer and former Reuters correspondent in Rome, notes that in many ways, things are easier today for a woman reporter than they were in what she calls "the days of the still-idolized Martha Gellhorn, who had to dress up as a hospital orderly in order to report the D-Day landings in competition with her husband Ernest Hemingway." The new edition of Battling for News, Sebba's 1994 history of women reporters, is a story of women's competence in the field overcoming sexism against them. But while she acknowledges that a lot has changed for the better, Sebba has given the new introduction to Battling for News a downbeat spin. (The book will be re-released in the UK in April.) While inherent bias in journalism has eased, changes in media technology and combat tactics have put women reporters in physical peril. I spoke with Sebba in Washington, D.C. while she was in the U.S. promoting her latest book, a biography of Wallis Simpson. You said you're revising Battling for News to have a more pessimistic conclusion. When I left the book, it seemed as if women had broken down all the barriers. They were reporting sport, and finance, and war. It was all going to be fine from here on. But when I actually looked at it again, after a gap of 20 years, I had a much less rosy view of the whole picture. Why was that? Because women are targets. Lara Logan, particularly, is one of the stories. There aren't carefully drawn battle zones anymore. The war is right in the center of town. There's 24-hour news reporting, so it's not as if you write your story and then, like Martha Gellhorn, go back to your hotel and have a drink with the boys and it's all over 'til another day. You don't have time to develop an idea, to go to places; you're just expected constantly to update the story without having the time to work out what the real story is. Related Story So that puts men and women under pressure. But women are targeted more, because a lot of these conflicts are now in Muslim countries, who see Western women wearing provocative--that's their word, not mine--provocative clothes, and therefore, they feel, the West has to be taught a lesson, that they're fair targets, fair game. And I think that's why the Lara Logan story is so terrifying for women. The other thing I've learnt is that male editors, and particularly television editors, are exploiting women. More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe--they just want to prove themselves. So they might end up in a really dangerous trouble spot without adequate preparation. And because you're hardly paid, it's often the young, inexperienced girls who are prepared to do it. And the editors are prepared to exploit them because it makes exciting news. It's vicarious thrill. You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment. Now, I'm not saying at all that Lara Logan comes into that [uninformed] category, please, she was a really experienced journalist. But I still think what happened to her is a sign of why it's so difficult to work in these current conflicts--because a Western woman like that is perceived as doing something that's not acceptable to all their cultural beliefs. So they get this frenzy whipped up, and you get separated from your TV crew, your support crew, and there is nothing you can do. Hollywood Reporter ran an article on Logan about a month ago. She has two young children, one is four and one is two. Based on what she has said, it seemed she had scaled back the degree to which she is operating in conflict zones. You can't blame her for saying that, obviously, given what happened and the fact that she has children. In your experience, how common is it for a woman to change how she reports if she has kids? I certainly know several who, once they become parents--this is very dangerous ground, because of course there are fathers who cover wars, and of course they feel desolate about the danger they're putting themselves in, and possibly leaving a child. I still think it impacts women more. I think a woman has carried a baby for nine months, and she worries more about that. How common would you say sexual harassment is? I think a lot of women suffer what they might call minor harassment. I wouldn't call it minor. Women have been touched, felt up, expected to perform sexual favors to get a story--they've certainly had unpleasant and violent experiences and they don't report it. Because they don't want to lose their jobs. How much of this is the responsibility of the news organizations that send women into conflict zones? Apparently a lot of news organizations aren't doing adequate training. If you're an editor, assigning someone to do a story, where is your responsibility if something happens to your reporter? I think the big news organizations, the UPI, AP, Reuters, and the Sunday Times--do take their training seriously. And I think they do only send experienced correspondents with proper insurance and proper training. And they don't force them to go where they don't want to go. I think the danger comes back to what we were saying before--these young kids, who are barely out of media college, try and be freelance journalists, and so they often go off their own and get a story. Those are the danger areas. So you think that a lot of the issue is lack of experience. I guess, then the question becomes--if you're sitting reading this and you're 25 and you're starting your career as a journalist, and you want to be a foreign correspondent--how do you get that experience, if it's dangerous to get it on the ground? Do you work as a local reporter? I absolutely hear what you're saying. Where do you get the experience? I suppose I should say "covering little, local wars." Little conflicts. [Both laugh.] What would be an example of a little local war? God. [Pause.] What would be? I can tell you, having started my career recently, you see few avenues forward. The entire business is shifting. And it seems like a lot of places are using more freelancers. That's a structure where there is less support for you, period. Of course. And you're constantly trying to prove yourself. That's really the danger. Well, I suppose--where do you get experience? You get experience covering riots and revolutions in your own country, where you're familiar with the back-up, or you go somewhere--you go abroad. Maybe you need to live in another country for a while, and be really familiar with that country's systems, and to know who you can trust, and who your best friend is, and whether he's sussed out the safest route for you. I don't know how you get experience in the really sharp end. I suppose it's just a slow process; you don't launch yourself into a dangerous foreign war before you've really got to know that country's culture and customs and people. I'm still trying to think what a "little, local war" would be... We've been talking about extreme situations, about conflict. But one slightly less dramatic, but in some ways more prevalent problem, certainly for young people my age, is that it's very difficult in the business right now, particularly with the low wages you're paid. You mentioned the large number of women graduating into doing media jobs. It seems that women run a risk--or maybe everyone runs it--that you get caught in a low-paying, low-level gig where you can't move up. Do you think that the problem that women are facing at this point in media is just a problem with how we report out foreign conflicts? Or is there a problem in the newsroom? Your question was whether there's still a male culture in the newsroom. I would guess that really has changed. Because there are just so many women doing it, and it's not acceptable any longer. It may be under the surface, but I've been too long out of a newsroom. I don't think the old, you know, let's go down to the pub and see who can down more beers fast enough--I don't think it's that sort of macho style. Men still dominate the top of the masthead and young women are at the bottom--because, as you said, so many of them are graduating into media these days. Obviously, people are terrified of being sued. But certainly there's still the potential for a gendered power dynamic. But that's true of any career. I don't think that's specific to journalism. I have a daughter of 34, who's just taken maternity leave for the second time, and she knows that promotion is not going to be easy, because she's just had two years off, to have two children. I think even though the company that she works for, and hundreds of other young women, is terribly helpful and friendly, she has lost those two years and she will be punished for it. It's not journalism. I think that really is just life. And a lot of things need to change before that will. One [thing] is probably compulsory paternity leave for a year. When that happens, then employers will just see within that pairing, a man or a woman--either of them could take the time off. 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SOMMAIBE L'Enseignement SECONDAIRE libre. Nos Echos. Un Dominp. Rencontre. Guy de Maupassant. A l'Académie.– Léo Montancey.. • En Russie. Comte N. A PROPOS DU Saint-Gothard. F. Millier. Au Parlement Le Sénat. H. Gros. La, Chambre. Ferréol. Coulisses parlementaires. Taeerny. A TRAVERS LA Presse. Gustave Pinta. journal Officiel.. LES Affaires d'Egypte. Le GAULOIS PARTOUT. LES RÉCOMPENSES DU SALON. CuRONiauE des Tribunaux. Maître X. TÉLÉGRAMMES ET CORRESPONDANCES. G. Lin». NOUVELLES diverses. Gustave Cane. La Soirée parisienne. Maurice Ordonneau. Sport. Sir Bevys. Echos des Théâtres. Arthur Cantel. !J ~I1S81 ~8~18~ ~BCO~ ~Ih~ .îiiiB:R3?î" ~i. La loi sur l'enseignement secondaire, qui se discute en ce moment à la Chambre, aurait produit plus d'agitation en d'autres temps. Nous sommes un peu blasés. Nous avons eu l'article 7, les décrets, l'éctile neutre, les diverses propositions sur le Concordat, le budget des cultes, le serment, etc. L'enseignement secondaire n'est qu'un épisode qui se produit dans une longue guerre. On se passionne beaucoup à la Chambre mais l'émotion ne gagne pas le dehors. La question est cependant très importante tout le monde le comprendra quand on viendra à l'application, si l'on y vient. Il nous semble qu'on a déployé un certain talent de part et d'autre dans la discussion. M. Compayré sait beaucoup il a beaucoup réfléchi. Mgr Freppel est très éloquent. Le comte de Mun, dont les premiers discours étaient un peu déclamatoires, a discuté cette fois en dialecticien, et avec une grande abondance de faits et de preuves. M. Mézières, qui faisait ses débuts à la tribune, y paraissait aussi à son aise que dans sa chaire il y a retrouvé son excellent style, les grâces et l'à-propos de son esprit. Non seulement tout a été bien dit; mais, ce qui vaut encore mieux, il s'est dit beaucoup de bonnes choses. Comment se fait-il qu'une discussion si remarquable dans ses détails reste obscure dans l'ensemble, et menace d'aboutir à une loi mal faite? C'est qu'il y a, au fond, plusieurs questions engagées, entre lesquelles on ne distingue pas suffisamment. Demandons-nous, par exemple, quel est le but des auteurs de la loi. A entendre M. de Mun et l'évêque d'Angers, ils n'en ont pas eu d'autre que d'attaquer la religion catholique, de supprimer la liberté d'enseignement et de rétablir le monopole universitaire. Au contraire, si f on écoute M. Ferry, il s'agit tout uniment de relever le niveau des études. Ce niveau s'abaisse; le ministre l'a constaté. Les preuves abondent il les fournira à Mgr Freppel, à là Chambre, au pays. Un grand nombre d'établissements sont devenus des fabriques de bacheliers. On ne prépare pas les enfants pour la science et pour la vie; on les dresse pour un examen. L'examen subi, que reste til aux nouveaux bacheliers? Un parchemin dans les mains, et rien du tout dans la tête. M. Ferry s'inquiète de cette situation; n'est-ce pas son devoir ? w Il redouble de vigilance et d'exigences dans l'Université. Il fait plus il met les concurrents de l'Université dans la nécessité de s'amender, comme l'Université elle-même. Il veut, par cette loi, les contraindre à devenir des concurrents redoutables. S'il ne pensait qu'aux intérêts de l'Université, comme on l'en accuse, loin de songer à fortifier les écoles rivales, il se féliciterait de leur décadence. Tout cela est bien dit, et même tout cela est vrai; mais ce n'est qu'une partie de la vérité. M. Ferry déclare qu'il ne songe qu'à relever le niveau des études; mais dans la commission, dans les journaux de la gauche, sur les bancs de l'Assemblée, on va quelquefois plus loin. On y parle d'en finir avec les congrégations et les cléricaux on y assure qu'il y a deux Frances, parce qu'il y a, en France, deux systèmes d'éducation différents. Il y a deux Frances M. Ferry est-il bien sûr de n'avoir jamais entendu cette déclaration ? Elle ne le choquait pas du temps de l'article 7. Comment la juge-t-il, aujourd'hui ? Elle signifie évidemment qu'il faut sacrifier une des deux Frances à l'autre, et réserver la liberté pour la bonne France. Entre cette opinion et la négation absolue de la liberté, existe-t-il une différence? S'il y en a une, il serait aimable à M. Ferry de nous le dire. Au lieu de rechercher théoriquement quelle a pu être l'intention des auteurs de la loi, regardons plutôt la loi ellemême. Il semble qu'elle doit manifester les intentions de ceux qui l'ont faite. Or, elle a deux parties bien tranchées. Premièrement, elle exige des grades; secondement, elle y ajoute le certificat d'aptitude pédagogique. Cela nous paraît clair comme le jour on exige les grades pour élever le niveauides études; on exige le certificat d'aptitude pour qu'il n'y ait pas deux Frances. < Si M. Fèrry était l'auteur de la loi, au lieu d'en être seulement le bienveillant endosseur, nous dirions que la première partie de la loi répond à son discours de mardi dernier, et la seconde aux discours qu'il faisait du temps de l'article 7. L'évêque d'Angers et M. de Mun ne consentiraient pas à dire que la première partie de la loi, celle qui n'exige que des grades, a pour unique but et aura pour unique effet de relever le niveau des études. Cependant, de quoi se plaignent-ils? Ne veulent-ils pas, comme M. Ferry, que les professeurs soient capables ? M. Ferry veut qu'ils le soient et qu'ils le prouvent. Est-ce donc une grande affaire, pour un homme capable, de montrer sa capacité ? q On nous dit.: « Rapportez -vous-en aux pères de famille. Mais non, répond M. Ferry. On ne s'en rapporte pas aux malades pour juger de la capacité du médecin, ni aux plaideurs pour apprécier celle de l'avocat; et on ne se fiera pas aux pères de famille pour reconnaître qu'un professeur n'est pas un âne ou un empoisonneur. Les malades, les plaideurs, les pères de famille peuvent choisir entre les gradés; mais s ils ne peuvent pas choisir en dehors. C'est un système général, une sorte de mandarinat, qui nous plaît, qui a quelques avantages et très peu d'inconvénients. J'entends bien, dit M. Ferry, que vous demandez qu'on s'en rapporte au père de famille mais, si vous y tenez tant que cela, c'est parce que vous espérez que, quand on s'en sera rapporté à lui, il s'en rapportera à vous. » Nous sommes donc avec M. Ferry pour le relèvement des études, et pour l'exigence des grades. Nous n'y mettons pas d'enthousiasme; mais, si l'on arrive par ce moyen à se procurer de bons maîtres, nous en serons ravis, et nous ne comprenons pas qu'on s'en plaigne. Nous ne ferons qu'une seule réserve, c'est que la transition doit être rendue facile. M. Ferry en parle bien à son aise quand il dit que, si les maîtres actuels sont capables, rien ne leur sera plus aisé que de passer un examen. Un orateur disait l'autre jour que M. Despois, M. Deschanel et M. Barni pourraient très bien échouer au baccalauréat. Il avait cent fois raison. Ils sont aussi forts que les examinateurs, mais ils sont loin d'être aussi prêts que les examinés. Supposons que ces trois maîtres se présentent au doctorat, à la licence, au baccalauréat au doctorat, ils seront reçus avec éclat à la licence, il y aura du tirage; au baccalauréat, ils seront blackboulés. Voilà tout ce que nous avons à dire des grades. Mais, pour le certificat d'aptitude pédagogique, nous le combattrons à outrance. Nous le regardons comme la restauration pure et simple du monopole universitaire. Nous essayerons de le démontrer. Nous aimerions mieux qu'on nous dît tout franchement, comme M. Emile 01livier « La liberté d'enseignement est une fausse liberté. » Oui, nous comprenons qu'on soit ennemis de la liberté d'enseignement mais nous n'admettons pas qu'on se proclame ses amis et ses défenseurs au moment où on la supprime. Nos Echos Le Temps 25 mai 1882 En France, les pluies ont été générales sur les côtes ouest et dans le nord. A midi, le baromètre monte rapidement à Paris, une éclaircie va se produire, mais nous restons dans le régime pluvieux. Le vent souffle très fort de l'O.-S.-O. au Puy-deDôme et assez fort de l'O. au Pic-du-Midi. AUJOURD'HUI A 6 heures et demie, dîner au Grand-Hôtel admission jusqu'à 7 heures. Pendant la durée du dîner, l'orchestre de M. Desgranges jouera dans la nouvelle salle de musique.. MENU Potage crème d'orge àla royale Hors-d'oeuvre Turbot saucé hollandaise Pommes de terre à l'anglaise Contrefilet à la printanière Rissoles à la Pompadour Mayonnaise de volailles ̃̃ Selle d'agneau au cresson Salade Asperges en branches beurre fondu Gâteau Richelieu Glace pralinée Desserts • Fromages, fruits et petits-fours Le salon des dames est ouvert aux voyageurs. Piano, orgue, tables de jeux. Diner à la carte au restaurant. Billards au Café Divan. Le programme du dîner-concert. (Voir à la 4«page.) • Au Trocadéro (1 heure 1/2).– Grande matinée au bénéfice de l'Œuvre de la Miséricorde. A l'Opéra. Namouna et le Comte Ory. Au Théâtre-Français. Les Rantzau. A l'Opéra-Comique. Haydée. A l'Odéon. Mon fils! et la Belle Affaire. DEMAIN A l'Opéra. Françoit* de Riminî. Au Théâtre-Français. Le Monde où, l'on g 'ennuie. A l'Opéra-Comique. Les Noce* de Figaro. A l'Odéon. Mon fils et la Belle Affaire. IA POLITIOUE M. le préfet de la Seine a reçu, hier matin, les membres du bureau du conseil municipal, avec lesquels il a eu une longue conférence au sujet des invitations à lancer, le 13 juillet prochain, jour fixé pour l'inauguration solennelle du nouvel Hôtel de Ville. Il a été décidé que quatre cent cinquante personnes environ assisteront au banquet qui sera donné dans la grande salle des Fêtes du palais municipal. Parmi les invités figureront les membres du gouvernement, les membres du corps diplomatique, les maires des grandes villes de France et de l'étranger, les conseillers municipaux, les conseillers, généraux de la Seine, les conseillers d'arrondissement de SaintDenis et Sceaux; les délégués des municipalités de la banlieue, et les représentants des chambres syndicales de la capitale. Les architectes de l'Hôtel de Ville assisteront également, cela va sans dire, à ce banquet, ainsi qu'un groupe d'ouvriers ayant travaillé à la reconstruction dumonument. Nouveau et sixième candidat à l'ambassade près le Vatican M. Emmanuel Arago, actuellement ambassadeur à Berne. (A suivre.) On annonce une convocation du conseil supérieur de l'instruction publique pour le 18 juin* LE MONDE ET LA VILLE Une cérémonie des plus touchantes, a eu lieu avant-hier, à la chapelle de la Visitation Mlle Anne-Marie de Villers, fille de l'ancien colonel du 4Q lanciers, prenait le voile. Une foule des plus aristocratiques assistait à cette cérémonie, qui était présidée par un des parents de la famille. La nouvelle religieuse était fiancée, l'année dernière, à un jeune officier de marine, qui est mort, il y a quelques mois, au Sénégal, des fièvres paludéennes, C'est à la nouvelle de cette mort que Mlle Anne de Villers a manifesté le désir d'entrer en religion et de prendre l'habit. C'est l'ordre des sœurs de la Trinité que cette jeune fille a choisi. Une légère amélioration s'est produite, depuis hier, dans l'état du général de Cissey. Le malade a passé une nuit très calme et le mieux s'est continué durant toute la journée. Nous sommes heureux d'apprendre et d'annoncer que Tourguenieff, le fameux romancier russe, est maintenant hors de danger. La Société philanthropique a tenu hier son assemblée générale annuelle â la Mairie du premier arrondissement. C'est M. le marquis de Mortemart qui présidait la cérémonie, assisté de tous les membres du conseil d'administration. Après un discours du président, on a procédé à la distribution des récompenses accordées aux jeunes artisans recommandés à la Société. Les prix qui ont été distribués avaient une valeur variant entre cinq cents et cent francs. L'assemblée générale de la société des Maisons ouvrières de Passy-Auteuil a eu lieu hier soir, à la Mairie du seizième arrondissement, sous la présidence de M. Dietz-Monnin, le nouveau sénateur inamovible. Le capital social a été porté de 30,000 fr. à 200,000 francs. Parmi les actionnaires présents, nous avons remarqué MM. Daniel Wilson, président de la commission du budget; le docteur Marmottan, député de Passy Leroy-Beaulieu, professeur au Collège de France; Bloch, de l'Institut; Davrillé des Essards, président de la Société de secours mutuels du seizième arrondissement Cheysson, directeur au ministère des. travaux publics; Martin Nadaud, député; Michel, ingénieur en chef du chemin de fer de Lyon le pasteur Pascal plusieurs architectes et entrepreneurs, et M. Chaix, imprimeur. Petit courrier de l'escrime Le baron de San Malato, cette personnalité bruyante du monde de l'escrime, quitte Paris. L'escrimeur si cilien; qui n'a pu arriver, malgré toute la complaisance de la presse, a se faire une situation en France, se rend en Angleterre, où il a été précédé par M. Lantieri. .̃̃.̃̃̃.̃ Un assaut d'armes des plus intéressant a eu lieu hier, à la salie Caïn, entre M. Macotte, adjudant, maître d'armes au 12° d'artillerie, et le marquis de Talleyrand-Périgord, un des meilleurs élèves de la salle. On a fait de l'escrime à la dague et au sabre. Brillante soirée hier, chez notre confrère M. Léonce Détroyat, qui avait convié ses amis à entendre les trois premiers actes de son opéra Aben-Hamet, fait en collaboration avec MM. de Lauzières, de Thémines et Th. Dubois.Lebel appartement qu'occupe M. Détroyat, 21, boulevard Haussmann, était trop petit pour contenir tous ceux qui avaient eu la bonne chance d'être invités à cette primeur artistique. Nous y avons rencontré toutes les notabilités de la presse et du monde littéraire et politique Ambroise Thomas, Faure et Boudouresque, Massenet, MelchissédeCjGruiraud, Delibes, Saint-Saëns, Paladiïhe, Joacières, Barthe, Worniser, Pasdeloup, Lamoureux, Vaucorbeil, Halanzier, E. de Cyon, général Guiod, amiraux Thomasset et Lespès, comte de Vaisseau Ribell, Antonin Proust, Floquet, Casson, Garet, Rey, Thoinnet de la Thurmelière, Hattat et Depasse, du conseil municipal; Francis et Xavier Charmes, Vandal, Dubois de l'Etang, Montebello, Durieu, Bischoffsheim, Mayer, les chefs d'orchestre et de service de l'Opéra. Deux dames seulement Mmes Krauss et Richard. L'audition RAben-Hamet, a été un véritable triomphe pour les auteurs, qui ont été vivement félicités par tous les dilettanti qui se trouvaient présents. Les interprètes aussi ont eu une bonne part des applaudissements par lesquels ce public d'élite a salué le nouvel opéra. Nommer MM. Lassalle, Dubulle et Chennevières, Mmes Barbot, E. Mauduit et Lacombe-Duprez, c'est d'ailleurs assez dire que l'interprétation était parfaite. M. Vaucorbeil, qui s'est montré un des plus chauds admirateurs de l'œuvre de MM. D6troyat et Th. Dubois, ne manquera pas, nous en sommes certain, de le faire prochainement représenter à l'Académie nationale de musique. A notre tour, félicitons notre sympathique confr.ère, et à bientôt la première à'Aben-IIamet. Le bal donné hier avenue de la ReineHortense, chez la vicomtesse H. d'Abbigny, a été très brillant et digne de tout point de celui de l'an dernier. Beaucoup de jolies toilettes et un essaim de brillantes jeunes femmes et déjeunes filles. La maîtresse de la maison, qui faisait les honneurs de cette fête avec une exquise amabilité, portait une toilette ravissante robe de gaze de soie noire à tablier de brocart rouge. Des bouquets de roses du roi étaient brodés aux angles de la traîne et du corsage, encadrant à merveille la beauté blonde de la jeune femme. La salle à manger, resplendissante de lumières, offrait un coup o'œil charmant. Le petit salon, qui avait été converti en petit fumoir oriental, formait une espèce de redoute dans la fête même. La danse n'est pas morte encore, je vous le promets, car il y avait là de bien bons danseurs. On s'est séparé au jour. Un match intéressant sera disputé prochainement, au tir de l'avenue d'Antin, entre deux gentlemen de la colonie étrangère de Paris. Le comte de F. a parié de casser cinquante assiettes sur ciflquante balles, au commandement. Un pari de ce genre a été fait et perdu il y a peu de jours, par M. Carle des Perrières. M. Henri Cartier, le lauréat du grand prix de tir de cette année, est le seul qui, jusqu'à présent, est arrivé âne jamais manquer son assiette. Après lui vient M. Carie des Perrières et le baron de Magressa, titulaire d'une médaille d'argent de première classe. Puisque nous sommes avenue d'Antin, annonçons que, depuis le 1er mai, le concours annuel du tir au commandement est commencé, et sera clos le 31 juillet. On sait que le commandement est donné au métronome, réglé à.cent battements par minute, et que toute balle tirée après le commandement troisl est perdue, et le carton ne peut avoir droit à un prix. La librairie Dentu vient de publier avec un grand luxe le livre célèbre de M. Arsène Houssaye Histoire du qicarante-et-unième fauteuil de l'Académie. Cet ouvrage, on le sait, un des plus réussis de l'auteur, est l'histoire de tous les écrivains de génie, de talent et d'esprit que l'Académie a laissés â sa porte. M. Arsène Houssaye y a ajouté quelques nouvelles biographies, notamment celles de Théophile Gautier, Paul de Saint-Victor, etc. De superbes eauxfortes ornent ce livre, véritable merveille typographique. Il avait été question dernièrement d'un mariage qui aurait uni la famille de M. Martel, ancien président du Sénat, avec la famille de la Guéronnière. Ce bruit était sans fondement, paraît-il, car le comte de la Guéronnière vient d'adresser une lettre dans laquelle il déclare que cette alliance n'a jamais dû se faire. M. le vicomte Treilhard, ancien ministre plénipotentiaire, vient de mourir à l'âge de cinquante-neuf ans, en son domicile, rue du Mont:TÊabor. Le défunt -était le frère du baron Treilhard, ancien conseiller d'Etat sous l'Empire, et fils du comte Treilhard, ministre et législateur sous le règne de Napoléon Ior. Les obsèques auront lieu aujourd'hui, à midi, en l'église Saint-Roch. Nous apprenons la mort du marquis Charles de Maupeou, ancien trésorierpayeur général, qui est décédé hier, en son domicile, 68, rue Saint-Lazare. Le marquis de Maupeou descendait du fameux chancelier de Maupeou. NOUVELLES A LA MAIN Deux joyeux viveurs sont en train de dîner dans un grand restaurant du boulevard et dégustent une bouteille de chambertin. Que dis-tu de ce petit liquide ? dit l'un d'eux en remplissant les verres. Je dis que, si ma nourrice m'avait t offert un pareil lolo, je n'aurais jamai s consenti a être sevré 1 En police correctionnelle Prévenu, qu'avez-vous à dire pour votre défense? Mon président, j'ai â dire que je n'ai pas pris d avocat. J'espère que le tribunal me tiendra compte de ce non procédé. UN DOMIN* REIdCOI~TRE Les rencontres font le charme des voyages. Qui ne connaît cette joie de retrouver soudain, à mille lieues du pays, un Parisien, un camarade de collège, un voisin de campagne ? Qui n'a passé la nuit, les yeux ouverts, dans là petite diligence drelindante des contrées où la vapeur est encore ignorée, à côté d'une jeune femme inconnue, entrevue seulement à la lueur de la lanterne, alors qu'elle montait dans le coupé devant la porte d'une blanche maison de petite ville? Et, le matin venu, quand on a' l'esprit et les oreilles tout engoiirdis du continu tintement des grelots et du fracas éclatant des vitres, quelle charmante sensation de voir la jolie voisine ébouriffée .ouvrir les yeux, examiner son voisin et de lui rendre mille légers services, et d'écouter son histoire.qu elle conte toujours quand on s'y prend bien Et comme il est exquis aussi, le dépit qu'on a de la voir descendre devant la barrière d'une maison de campagne 1 On croit saisir dans ses yeux, quand cette amie de deux heures vous dit adieu pour toujours, un commencement d'émotion, de regret, qui sait ?. Et quel bon souvenir on garde, jusque dans la vieillesse, de ces frêles souvenirs de route I ̃' ̃̃̃̃ S* ̃̃-̃̃-̃ Là-bas, là-bas, tout au bout de la France, il est un pays désert, mais désert comme les solitudes américaines, ignoré des voyageurs, inexploré, séparé du monde par toute une chaîne de montagnes, qui sont elles-mêmes isolées des villes voisines par un grand fleuve, l'Argens, sur lequel aucun pont n'est jeté. Toute cette contrée montueuse est connue sous le nom de « massif des Maures ». Sa vraie capitale est SaintTropez, plantée à l'extrémité de cette terre perdue, au bord du golfe de Grimaud, le plus beau des côtes de France. A peine quelques villages semés de place en place dans toute cette région que la voie de fer évite par un énorme circuit. Deux routes seulement y pénètrent, s'aventurent par ces vallées sans un toit, par ces grandes forêts de pins où pullulent, dit-on, les sangliers. Il faut franchir ces torrents à gué, et on peut marcher des jours entiers dans les ravins et sur les cimes sans apercevoir une masure, un homme ou une bête mais on y foule des fleurs sauvages superbes comme celles des jardins. Et c'est là que je rencontrai la plus singulière et la plus sinistre voyageuse qu'il m'ait été donné de voir. ## Je l'avais aperçue d'abord sur le pont du petit bâtiment qui va de Saint-Raphaël à Saint-Tropez. Vieille de soixante-dix ans au moins, grande, sèche, anguleuse, avec des cheveux blancs en tire-bouchon sur ses tempes, suivant la mode antique vêtue, comme une Anglaise errante, d'une façon maladroite et drôle elle se tenait debout à l'avant du vapeur, l'oeil fixé sur la côte boisée et sinueuse qui se déroulait à notre droite. Le bâtiment tanguait les vagues, brisées contre son flanc, jetaient des panaches d'écume sur le pont; mais la vieille femme ne se préoccupait pas plus des brusques oscillations du navire que des fusées d'eau salée qui lui sautaient au visage. Elle demeurait immobile, occupée seulement du paysage. Dès que le bateau fut au port, elle descendit, ayant pour tout bagage une simple valise qu'elle portait elle-même. Après une mauvaise nuit dans l'auberge du lieu, intitulée pompeusement « Grand Hôtel Continental », un bruit de trompette me fit courir à ma fenêtre, et je vis détaler au trot de cinq rosses la diligence de Hyères, qui portait sur son impériale la maigre et sévère voyageuse du paquebot. Une heure plus tard, je suivais â pied les bords du golfe magnifique pour aller visiter Grimaud. La route longe la mer, et de l'autre côté de l'eau on aperçoit une ligne onduleuse de hautes montagnes vêtues de forêts de sapins. Les arbres descendent jusqu'au flot, qui mouille une longue plage de sable pâle. Puis l'entrais dans les prairies, je traversai des torrents, je vis fuir de grandes couleuvres, et je gravis un petit mont, l'oeil fixé sur les ruines escarpées d'un ancien château qui se dresse sur cette hauteur, dominant les maisons blotties à son pied. C'est ici le vieux pays des Maures. On retrouve leurs antiques demeures, leurs arcades, leur architecture orientale. Voici encore des constructions gothiques et italiennes le long de rues rapides comme des sentiers de montagne, et sablées de gros cailloux tranchants. Voici presque un champ d'aloës fleuris. Les plantes monstrueuses poussent vers le ciel leur gerbe colossale épanouie à peine deux fois par siècle et qui, selon les poëtes, ces farceurs, éclosent en des coups de tonnerre. Voici, hautes comme des arbres, des végétations étranges, hérissées, pareilles à des serpents, et des palmiers séculaires. Et j'entre dans l'enceinte du vaste château, semblable à un chaos de rocs éboulés. Tout à coup, sous mes pieds, s'ouvre un étroit escalier qui s'enfonce sous terre; j'y descends et je pénètre bientôt dans une espèce de citerne, dans un lieu sombre et voûté, avec de l'eau claire et f lacée, là-bas, au fond, dans un creux u sol. Mais quelqu'un se dresse, recule devant moi, et, dans les demi-ténèbres de ce puits, je reconnais la grande femme aperçue la veille et le matin. Puis quelque chose de blanc semble passer sur sa face, et j'entends comme un sanglot. Elle pleurait, là, toute seule. Et soudain elle me parla, honteuse d'avoir été surprise.̃̃; >. Oui, monsieur, je pleure. cela?M m'arrive pas souvent; c'est peut-être ce trou qui m'a fait cela, r ̃̃•. Fort ému, je la voulus consoler, avec' des mots vagues, des banalités, quelconques. ̃•̃• ̃̃.• N'essayez pas, dit-elle = il .n'y. a. plus rien à faire pour moi je suis comme un chien perdu. Et elle me conta son histoire, brusquement, comme pour jeter à quelqu'un l'écho de son malheur, J'ai été heureuse, monsieur,, et j'ai,; très loin d'ici, une maison; mais, je n'y, veux plus retourner, tant cela me déchire le cœur. Et j'ai un fils il est aux Indes. Si je le voyais, je' ne le reconnaîtrais pas. Je l'ai a peine vu, dans toute ma vie; à peine assez pour me souvenir de sa figure, pas vingt fois depuis son âge de six ans. » A six ans, on me le prit on le mit en pension. Il ne fut plus à moi. Il venait deux fois l'an; et, chaque fois* 3e métonnais des changements de saperspnne, de le retrouver plus grand sans Ravoir, vu grandir. On m'a volé son. enfance et toutes ces joies de voir croître ces petits êtres sortis de nous. » A chacune de ses visites, son corps, son regard, ses mouvements, sa voix, son rire n'étaient plus les mêmes, n'étaient plus les miens. Wne année il eut de la barbe, je fus stupéfaite et triste. J'osais à peine l'embrasser. Etait-ce bien mon fils, mon petit blondin frisé d'autrefois, mon cher, cher enfant que j'avais bercé sur mes genoux, ce grand garçon brun qui m'appelait gravement « ma mère D et qui ne semblait m'aimer que par devoir ? 1 j Mon mari mourut; puis ce fut le tour de mes parents; puis je perdis mes deux sœurs. Quand la mort entre dans une famille, on dirait qu'elle se dépêche de faire le plus de besogne possible, pour n'avoir pas à y revenir de longtemps. » Je restai seule. Mon grand fils faisait son droit à Paris. J'espérais vivre et mourir près de lui je partis pour demeurer ensemble. Mais il avait des habitudes de jeune homme je le gênais. Je revins chez moi. » Puis il se maria. Je me crus sauvée. Ma belle-fille me prit en haine. Je me retrouvai seule encore une fois. Or, comme les beaux-parents de mon fils habitaient les Indes, et comme sa femme fait de lui ce. qu'elle veut, ils l'ont. tous décidé à s'en aller là-bas, chez eux. Ils l'ont, ils l'ont pour eux ils me l'ont encore volé. Il m'écrit tous les deux mois; il est venu me voir il y a maintenant huit ans il avait la figure ridée et des cheveux tout blancs. Etait-ce possible.1? `! ce vieil homme, mon fils? Mon petit enfant d'autrefois ? Sans doute je ne le reverrai plus. • » Et je voyage toute l'année. Je vais à droite, à gauche, comme vous voyez, sans personne avec moi. » Je suis comme un chien perdu. Adieu,, monsieur, ne restez pas près de moi; ça me fait mal de vous avoir dit tout cela. '̃ Et comme je redescendais la colline, m'étant retourné, j'aperçus la vieille femme debout sur une muraille croulante, regardant le golfe, la grande mer au loin, les montagnes sombres et la. longue vallée. Et le vent agitait comme un drapeau le bas de sa robe et le petit châle étrange qu'elle portait sur ses mai-* gres épaules. GUY DE IYIAUPASSANT PETITE BOURSE DU SOIR C DIX. H..E.URBS, ;•• ,;( 3 0/0. 83 60. • ̃' 5 0/0 116 47. 42, S3. 4R.V Turc 13 15. Italien: 90 20.15,37. Egypte 356 87, 35ï>; 62, 357 50u Banque ottomane 813,811,313.. • Extérieure 27 29/32,7/8. Actions Rio 640, 635, 640. A L'ACADÉMIE RÉCEPTION BÉ M. CHIMMEZ, Hier le romancier mondain, a d Cl être1 récompensé en partie de ses. tràvaiix, Le monde et le beau monde accourait a1 la séance de réception. ? Et lorsque le « portez armes t » de l'officier de piquet a retenti et qv^ rev§tu de son uniforme vert, le noqrvel acadérmicien a pénétré dans l'enceinte réser-< véeaux immortels, M. Cheriquliez n'a point dû éprouver. une émotion trop' pénible. Il a sans doute, s,'àr premier1 coup d'ceil, compris que la rfonle élégante qui l'attendait était composée do ses lecteurs favoris et surtout de ses chères lectrices. > M. Cherbuliez prend place entre ses deux parrains MM. Jules Sandeau et t Gaston Boissier. Le bureau était composé de MM. Renan, directeur; Maxime Du Camp, chancelier, et Camille Doucet, secrétaire per pétuel. L'Institut est presque au complet. On ` sait que M. de Freycinet est retenudans ° sa chambre parune indisposition légère. Par suite, le ministre des affaires étrangères, qui devait siéger pour la première fois en séance publique, est absent, et tous le regrettent vivement. Citons, complètement au hasard, parmi les assistants: Mmes la duchesse de Leuchtenberg, princesse de Metternich, princesse Troubetzkoï, comtesse de Pourtalès, comtesse de Breteuil, comtesse de la Salle, de Lamartine, Mmes Camille Doucet et sa fille, Mine René Brice, Guizot, Gustave Simoa, Buloz, Clapisson, Bizet, Mlle Turquet, Mme E. de Cyon, Mmes Arsène et Henry Houssaye, Goblet, comtesse de Canisy, etc. MM. le duc d'Aumale, de'Lesseps, Caro, de J^pogli.e,. Perrin, Jules Simon, du Sommerard, de Vieil-Castel, Daru, Daloz, Barboux, bâtonnier de l'ordre des avocats; de la Salle, G. Guizot, Sully Prudhomme, Haret, Abraham Dreyfus, Albert Gigot, de Larcy, Chérer, Duval, etc. Dans l'assistance, la famille de M. Cherbuliez, à laquelle sont venus se joindra des parents et amis arrivés de Genève pour assister à la solennité. '̃ v 'V' /̃' A deux heures, M. Cherbuliez commence son discours. Il prononce l'éloge de M. Dufaure, qu'il remplace. L'orateur exprime tout d'abord son inquiétude d'avoir, lui, homme de lettres, à remplacer, à l'Académie, un maître du barreau et de la tribune. Puis il trace le portrait de M. Dufaure: On se plaint qu'aujourd'hui l'originalité des esprits et des caractères s'en va, que les figures sont rares. A force de rouler, les cailloux perdent leurs angles, et, grâce aux révolutions comme aux chemins de fer, nous roulons beaucoup. M. Dufaure, au témoignage de ses ennemis aussi bien que de ses amis, était une des figures de ce temps. Nous devons l'en remercier, jusqu'au bout il a conservé soigneusement ses angles, ne les ayant sacrifiés ni aux exigences du monde, dont il faisait peu de çîts, ni à celles de son intérêt, qui lui était moins cher que l'amitié de sa conscience. A travers toutes les vicissitudes de sa vie, il n'a jamais cessé d'être lui-même. Je laisse à d'autres le soin de raconter en détail son histoire. Puissê-je réussir seulement à ébaucher son portrait, et puisse cette ébauche paraître ressemblant» à ceux qui l'ont beaucoup pratiqué La, un petit incident assez fréquent dans les séances publiques de l'Académie. Une dame, placée dans le centre, s'évanouit. On l'emporte. Ce léger événement ouvre presque le feu delà bonne humeur. La suite du discours est interrompu à chaque instant par les applaudisse ments. M. Cherbuliez fait ensuite une comparaison fort piquante entre le Gascon et le Saintongeais Entre voisins on se raille, c'est la loi de la nature. Les Gascons, ces gens heureux, au cerveau fertile, à la langue déliée, à qui Qe manque jamais ni l'idée ni le mot, aiment à gloser sur le compte des Saintongeais. Vous vous rappelez tous le propos • de Henri IV à son jardinier, qui se plaignait que rien ne venait à bien sur laterre ingrate de. Fontainebleau « Sèmes-y des Gascons, lui dit le roi, ils poussent partout. » Les Saintongeais ne poussent pas partout et ne poussent pas sans peine. Moins fortunés que les Gascons, il en est beausoup pour qui vivre est un travail, pour qui parler est un effort ou un art qui s'apprend. Leurs voisins du Midi les plaisantent sur la lenteur de leurs idées, sur leurs hésitations, sur leur prudence cauteleuse, sur la défiance où ils sont d'euxmêmes et des autres. Messieurs, l'indiscrétion est le plus utile de tous les défauts mais, grâce à Dieu, ce ne sont pas seulement les indiscrets qui réussisent dans ce monde. Si les Saintongeais ont de la peine à trouver leur idée, quand ils la tiennent ils vont jusqu'au bout d<j leur volonté. Dans ces natures concentrées couvent parfois d'énergiques passions, ils ne l'ont que trop prouvé dans le temps des guerres religieuses, et ces indé> cis, une fois fixés et d'aplomb, ne reculent pas devant les entreprises. Ne fournissentils pas à la France une race de pilotes héroïquement dévoués, qui se font un jeu de sauver au hasard de leur vie un navire en péril ? Il n'en est pas moins vrai que la réflexion est pour eux un article de première nécessité, et réfléchir, c'est peser le pour et le contre. Ah qu,un Gascon a plutôt fait de prendre son parti. Tandis que ce hardi compagnon jette la plume au vent, le Saintongeais rumine le cas, et, quoi qu'on lui propose, il secoue la tête en disant « Peut-être que l'occasion s'en présentera. Mais sa réserve lui vient autant de sa fierté que de ses doutes sur luimême il ne se communique qu'autant qu'il lui plaît. Cependant le Saintongeais a la passion de l'qrdre et de l'égalité. On n'adore pas la République dans la Charente-In térieure, mais on y a les moeurs répu blicaines. M. Dufaure aimait la Saintbnge et « par ses habitudes réfléchies, par les perplexités qui préparaient ses résolutions, par sa réserve, par sa redoutable ironie, aussi bien que par son naturel peu souple et par les fortes étreintes de sa volonté, il était un vrai Saintongeais. » L orateur décrit en termes poétiques le logis demeuré, de père en fils, pendant des siècles, la propriété de la famille Dufaure, C'est le logis de Vizelle, près de la route de Cozes, à Sàujon, à quelques kilomètres de l'Océan. Un des aïeux dé M. Dufaure fut conseiller au Parlement de Paris. Un autre, officier du génie, mourut au champ d'honneur. Son père avait servi dans la marine royale et, s'étant retiré, devint un bon bourgeois campagnard. Mais ce père avait beaucoup lu, beaucoup conversé avec les grands écrivains. La Révolution était venue, et il avait « senti passer sur sa tête comme le souffle d'une espérance ». Le père rêva pour son fils de hautes destinées et s'imposa d'immenses privations. L'enfant fut envoyé au collège de Vendôme. D'année en année, poursuit l'orateur, il y croissait en sagesse. Son père disait de lui « Dans toute sa vie il ne m'a pas donné un seul chagrin. » C'était aller trop loin étant tout petit, il lui avait causé une mortelle inquiétude; pendant toute une matinée, il avait disparu. On le cherchait partout, on l'appelait à grands cris. Il y avait sans doute un puits dans le jardin quand les enfants disparaissent, c'est toujours dans les puits que les mères vont regarder. On commençait à désespérer, quand quelqu'un, entrant dans un grenier, y découvrit le fagitif, tranquillement assis parmi des paperasses jaunies, étalées autour de lui. C'étaient de vieux comptes de douane, qu'il déchiffrait et dévorait de grand appétit. Et voilà les miracles qu'obère ^amoùr naissant des dossiers Plus tard, àVendôme, il causa à son père un autre genre d'inquiétude. Ce père très ambitieux voulait que son fils eut toutes les perfections, que, sans se relâcher de ses études, il donnât quelques heures aux arts d'agrément et surtout à la danse. Messieurs, cet aveu me coûte, votre confrère ne put jamais apprendre à danser. (Rires et bravos.) Plus tard, le père de M. Dufaure voulait le faire entrer dans une étude, mais le fils ne trouvait pas d'emploi, « comme si on ne trouvait pas toujours un avoué quand on le veut bien. Que ce mensonge lui soit pardonné Il a si peu menti dans sa vie 1 » fttt ç\|fâie temps, dit M. Gherbuliezâ il f«I présentait à son père, chapeau bas, que l'étude de Racine est plus profitable à qui se destine à plaider que la meilleure étude d'avoué. Son bon sens lui avait fait reconnaître l'utilité de l'inutile, et qu'en matière d'éducation il est faux que la ligne droite soit le chemin le plus court. Par un de ces contrastes dont je parlais en commençant, ce rude jouteur eut toujours une prédilection pour les génies harmonieux et doux. Il préférait Racine à Corneille, comme à tout autre musique celle de Mozart et de Haydn. J'ajoute qu'il fut toute sa vie idolâtre de Mme de Sévigné, D, ce qui donnait lieu à des querelles de famille. Nourri de Montesquieu, il avait puisé dans les grands écrivains du dix-huitième siècle les principes de sa foi politique et les générosités de son esprit; mais il faut remonter plus haut pour trouver les modèles et les patrons sur lesquels il avait formé son style oratoire. M. Dufaure adorait les classiques. Il fit même un doigt de cour à la muse; elle lui dictait de petits vers dont il émaillait la prose de ses lettres. Il devina bien vite que, le droit comprenant tout, il fallait tout comprendre. Et l'amour du travail le fit se lever à quatre heures du matin. Peu de gens imitaient cette vertu. C'était un de ses griefs contre son siècle que de le voir se coucher à l'heure où luimême se levait. Il en concevait quelque humeur, et se plaignait d'un ton chagrin que les salons et le boulevard perdent la France. M. Cherbuliez passe ensuite en revue les qualités de l'avocat chez M. Dufaure, phraseur, déclamateur, lorsqu'il était encore avocat à Bordeaux, il rappelait le mot que M. Villemain lui avait dit un jour à Charlemagne « Vous avez de l'emphase, mon ami. Ne vous gênez pas, l'emphase est un bon commencement pour un jeune homme. » Oh qu'il l'a Bien dégorgée depuis Plus tard, ces qualités perfectionnées firent de M. Dufaure, au barreau de Paris, l'un des plus remarquables. Personne ne savait comme lui dépouiller un dossier, y démêler d'un coup d'œil les pièces principales, et en extraire la moelle, se pénétrer d'une affaire jusqu'à se l'incorporer, sans la grossir et sans jamais souffrir qu'on la diminuât. Puis, à l'audience, il circonscrivait avec soin le débat dans ses limites naturelles, en écartait les horsd'œuvre, les bagatelles et les broussailles expliquait sa cause de telle sorte que, l'exposer, c'était l'avoir discutée; s'acheminait vers le point de la question sans se presser, mais d'un pas sûr et comme fatal; s'installait victorieusement au cœur de la place comme dans un lieu fort, qu'on hértsse de bastions pour le rendre imprenable et d'où l'on fait des sorties, meurtrières sur l'assiégeant. Au surplus, mépriser tous les petits moyens, les voies obliques, les amplifications inutiles, les grâces postiches, puiser tous ses arguments dans les entrailles du sujet, porter dans la discussion cette chaleur d'âme sans laquelle on ne fait rien de grand, mais subordonner toujours l'émotion à la puissance du raisonnement et d'un bon sens orné de sa seule clarté, enfin, à l'instant décisif, frapper un de ces grands coups qui déconcertent l'adversaire, qui forcent les convictions et font courir dans l'âme d'un juge le frisson de l'évidence, tel était le procédé de M. Dufaure. A propos de l'homme politique, 5 M. Cherbuliez rappelle cette phrase de M. Thiers « II y a deux choses qui rendent difficile l'exercice du pouvoir c'est, au dehors, la malveillance de l'Angleterre, et, au dedans, lUiostilitédeDalaure. » C'est que ce conservateur avait l'amour des réformes utiles et la haine des intrigues, qui les retardent. C'est que cet homme de droiture antique poussait jusqu'à la passion le goût du correct, et que les meilleurs gouvernements ont des incorrections à se reprocher. C'est que ce talent fier était impatient de toutes les servitudes, qu'il ne se laissait pas lier à un parti, encore moins à un homme, et que sonlibéralisme, aussi tenace qu'ombrageux se méfiait du pouvoir personnel sous toutes ses formes, même la plus inoffensive. Après l'avocat, après l'homme politique, M. Cherbuliez parle de l'homme dans la vie privée et termine par cette péroraison Cependant la terrible ouvrière qui l'avait pris à partie poursuivait sourdement son travail; déjà la mort lui faisait sentir ses approches. Il avait dit à sa fille Il me semble que je me dégage de plus en plus de moi-même. » Enfin, quelques heures avant de se reposer dans l'éternel silence, recevant les adieux d'un de ses anciens confrères, devénu bâtonnier, dont il estimait le caractère et le talent, il prononça d'une voix encore ferme ces mots si humbles et si touchants « Je vous remercie d'avance du témoignage que vous me rendrez après ma mort, et qui sera toujours au-dessus des mérites d'un homme secondaire tel que moi. » Ah messieurs, vous ne consentirez iamais à prendre à la lettre cette parole d'un mourant, et, quand vous y consentiriez, puisse la France avoir souvent pour serviteurs des hommes secondaires de cette taille, de cette éloquence et de cette vertu • ,̃ *# Après ce discours, dont nous avons renoncé à signaler les bravos tant ils étaient nombreux, M. Renan répond au nouvel académicien. L'orateur déclare que l'Académie savait très bien ce qu'elle faisait en choisissant le littérateur pour remplacer l'orateur. Elle savait que cette mémoire respectée recevrait de son successeur l'éloge le plus complet. M. Renan aborde ensuite la question politique: Qu'on le prenne pour un signe d'élection ou pour un signe de réprobation, la France est condamnée à ne dormir jamais du sommeil tranquille de la médiocrité satisfaite. Deux mondes luttent dans son sein. Même en ses heures d'assoupissement, elle a les tremblements convulsifs qui décèlent dans les profondeurs de l'organisme un travail mystérieux L'humanité s'arrêterait si tous y voyaient trop clair. Aux huit béatitudes de l'Evangile,je suis quelquefois tenté d'en ajouter une neuvième c Heureux les aveugles, car seuls ils ne doutent de rien » La France n'avait pas lu M. de Maistre; VP-SW n'est jamais très fort en histoire! et d ailleurs beaucoup de maximes politiques devenues maintenant évidentes n'étaient pas claires alors. La suite constituÎ7Q9 n!e' qui, de Hugues Capet au 10 août 1 •V^fAs?blt pas d'interruption durable, avait été depuis vingt-cinq ans deux fois renversée; mais on pouvait croire que la fil £ta3Î flûie tous les compromis, toutes les substitutions semblaient possibles. De là une quiétude qui nous étonne Chaque secousse paraissait la dernière on proclamait avec un profond sérieux la naïve prétention de fermer l'ère des révolutions. On ne la fermait pas le moins du monde: au contraire, on prenait son parti de l'incorrection, on s'habituait à l'instabilité. Les habitants des flancs du Vésuve sa vent bien que le volcan se réveillera; mais d'ici là que de belles heures Quelles vendanges Quelles moissons Et puis la coulée de lave marche lentement! Avant qu'elle arrive, on a le temps de fuir. Que peut faire l'honnête homme en présence d'une situation générale qu'il n'a point amenée, dont il voit les inconvénients, mais qu'il n'a pas le pouvoir de modifier ? M. Dufaure nous a donné à ce sujet d'excellents exemples. Après chaque révolution, quelque chose durait pour lui c'était la France. Il continuait de servir la France et de chercher pour elle ce que sa raison lui présentait comme le meilleur. La bonne gestion des affaires était à ses yeux un intérêt supérieur à la politique proprement dite. Erreur, si vous voulez; mais erreur nécessaire Après avoir rendu hommage à l'esprit de conciliation de M. Dufaure entre les idées anciennes et les revendications nouvelles, après avoir fait ressortir le mérite de ceux qui vont joyeusement au-devant des missions qu'il faudrait accepter avec tristesse et où l'on est assuré d'avance de succomber, M. Renan passe à M. Cherbuliez. L'orateur rappelle le voyage à Athènes accompli par le nouvel académicien en 18S9, l'inspiration qu'il puisa aux sources de l'antiquité, et son premier volume Un Cheval de Phidias. Ce fut M. de Sainte-Beuve, poursuit l'orateur, qui me fit connaître votre livre. Peu de jours après la première édition genevoise « Lisez Victor Cherbuliez, me dit-il, c'est un des nôtres. » Voyez comme il était prophète. Si ce maître illustre vivait encore, ce que la mesure ordinaire de la vie humaine permettrait, vous auriez eu un suffrage de plus; et quel suffrage Un autre jugement, qui valait celui-là, fut celui de Mme Sand. Votre livre l'enchanta sans vous en prévenir, elle écrivit au directeur de la Revue des DeuxMondes ce qu'elle pensait de l'auteur. Telle fut l'origine de vos rapports avec un homme que j'ai aussi beaucoup connu aux débuts de ma vie littéraire, et que nous jugeons exactement de la même manière. Comme vous, j'aL gardé de lui un excellent souvenir. Chacun vaut en proportion de l'œuvre à laquelle il consacre sa vie. M. Buloz n'avait en vue que le succès de son recueil; jamais rien ni personne ne le fit dévier de ce but unique. Il connaissait son public. 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A German’s View on Islam – worth reading. Hard to argue with this: ‘History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, We often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims Have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our Enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world Will have begun.’ ‘Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.’ Henry Sapiecha These-17-Strange-Cults-SIGN IMAGE Cults, or “New Religious Groups” as Sociologists prefer to call them now, have been around since the dawn of time. They start as splinter groups or small ideal-based sects that often have radical beliefs and practices. Some of these religions grow so large that they eventually become recognized as mainstream religion. What makes the modern iterations of these cults so terrifying is their ability to suck in the most reasonable and intelligent of people, and their reach often extends to your friends and family. Many celebrities were or are currently in cults: Michelle Pfeiffer was a member of an obscure breatharian cult that believed you didn’t need to eat or drink to live and that you could get your sustenance from the sun. It wasn’t until her actor boyfriend at the time Peter Horton got a role acting in a movie about the followers of Reverend Moon of the Unification church that she realized she herself was in such an organization. Indoctrination and brainwashing are part of what makes cults so influential on educated and rational people, but it’s what these cults do in their rituals and customs that makes them a threat worthy of a good scary movie. Let’s take a look at some of the craziest cults in America. 1. Branch Davidians Branch-Davidians sign image David Koresh was an outspoken member of the Seventh Day Adventists until he was expelled for his radical views. He thought that he was the messiah and all women were his spiritual wives. Following his split with the Seventh Day Adventists Koresh fled, to the now infamous Waco Texas, to establish their center of worship. They lived on a large compound and stockpiled weapons and armor for the eventual end of the world, which they believed was drawing near based on Koresh’s visions. Their leader was speaking the word of god according to them, and they surrendered themselves wholly to him. Koresh ended up marrying many of the church members wives and children; many of them were very young. Reports of the Branch Davidian’s hoarding of weaponry and child abuse finally spurred the newly appointed Attorney General Janet Reno to take action. In 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms attempted to raid the compound. The raid ended in a disastrous withdrawal and 4 dead ATF agents along with 7 dead Branch Davidians. The ATF then engaged in a 51 day siege of the compound that culminated in tanks injecting tear gas into the buildings of the compound and a massive fire that killed 77 Branch Davidians including Koresh. 2. The Manson Family The-Manson-Family black & white image Charles Manson founded a bizarre cult around concepts he stole from Scientology, Satanism, and any other fringe religion that suited his motives. Though they practiced rituals in some form or other, they were largely focused on a prophesy Manson envisioned while listening to the Beatles song “Helter Skelter.” Manson believed there was an impending race war between African-Americans and all other races. He believed African-Americans would win this war but following this be unable to govern their new society. The Manson “Family,” as they referred to themselves, planned to hide out during the war and emerge afterward to become the leaders of the victorious African-American race. The Manson Family compound was, appropriately, in Death Valley. Manson ordered his followers to go to Los Angeles and murder nine influential people to frame African-Americans and ignite his prophesied race war. Coffee heiress Abigail Folger and Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of Hollywood director Roman Polanski, were gruesomely murdered with Tate’s unborn child being cut out of her. The murders enraged and horrified the entire country and Manson and his followers were quickly arrested. Manson was sentenced to life in prison, and most recently was engaged to be married. However, his bride to be apparently confessed to only marrying him to gain possession of his corpse following his death to use as a tourist attraction. Manson believes this a foolish idea, because he believes himself to be immortal. 3. Heaven’s Gate Heavens-Gate cult symbol image The book of revelations details the end of the world, it speaks of the signs and harbingers that lead to our fiery end. In chapter 11 verse 3, it specifies that there will be two witnesses to God’s eventual damnation. Marshall Applewhite, the eventual leader of Heaven’s Gate, had a heart attack in the early 1970’s and had a vision that he and his nurse, Bonnie Nettles, were these two witnesses. Applewhite believed he was a direct descendent of Jesus, he merged Christian beliefs about salvation and the end of the world with more modern theories of evolution and even time travel. The end result of this quasi-Christian doctrine was the belief that the world was ending sometime near the second millennium. Applewhite and Nettles referred to themselves as Bo and Peep, and cultivated a following of members to believe in their version of the end of days. In 1997, Applegate used the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet to spread the idea that a space ship was following behind the comet to take all of their faithful members to heaven. To achieve the ultimate ascension the group donned matching outfits with matching white Nike’s, and all 39 members drank poison while covered in ceremonial purple shrouds awaiting their heavenly transport. 4. Peoples Temple Peoples-Temple jones the mad man image As with many of the cults on this list, Jim Jones started with beliefs bastardized from a more mainstream religion, in this case Pentecostal dogma. Jim Jones’ preaching style appealed to the masses and he became an instant hit from the 1950’s to the 1970’s, particularly among the African- American community, due to his progressive stance on racial equality. By the mid 70’s Jones’ evangelical preaching had gained a following all along the west coast, which had granted him a certain level of political clout. In 1977, Jones relocated his congregation to “The Commune” in Guyana. The cult rose the hackles of the political elite by moving to a communist nation. Congressman Leo Ryan flew to Guyana to meet with Jones in person, and just before the congressman boarded the plane to return to the US Jones’s followers shot and killed him. Knowing retribution would follow, Jones decided to go out in spectacular fashion and convinced over 900 of his closest followers (some at gunpoint) to commit suicide by poison. 5. Scientology Scientology sign on building image Think the people that make the pilgrimage to Comic-Con in San Diego every year and dress up in costume are a little obsessed? Well, Scientology was founded by one of the early writers of the Science Fiction Genre: L Ron Hubbard and his followers are among the most mysterious and obsessed fanatics in the world. Supposedly, the founder of the religion was drinking in a bar with fellow author Robert A. Heinlein and the latter bet Hubbard that he couldn’t start his own religion. Well, Hubbard won the bet and is quoted as saying “if a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion.” Despite all this, Scientology remains one of the largest cults in existence and its members are unerring in their devotion. Scientology bases its primary tenants on a “science” called Dianetics that Hubbard developed as an alternative to modern psychology. Its members are encouraged to sign over most of their earnings to the church where they progress up many levels, only learning certain truths about the universe as they level up. The basic story, according to its ostracised former members, is that the universe was created by a race called Thetans and the life force of the universe can be manipulated by church elders to make them all think more clearly. The highest echelon members learn of Xenu, a maniacal tyrant who rules the Galactic Confederacy and will reign terror on all of creation. Tom Cruise maintains, along with several nations, that Scientology is a legitimate religion. 6. Unification Church Thousands of newlyweds attend a mass wedding ceremony of the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, about 60 km (37 miles) northeast of Seoul February 17, 2013. The Unification Church founded by evangelist reverend Moon Sun-myung in Seoul in 1954, performed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples. Approximately 3,500 couples attended the mass wedding on Sunday. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA - Tags: SOCIETY RELIGION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) ORG XMIT: SEO206 An offshoot of Presbyterian Christianity, Sun Myung Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity. The North Korean national fled to the United States following an imprisonment in a North Korean prison camp, and started his cult believing that Christ had not completed his mission on earth of having “perfect children.” Moon told his followers that only he could choose their mates, becoming infamous for his mass wedding ceremonies. Eventually renaming his cult the Unification Church, Moon moved to New York and became a very successful businessman, but parents of his new recruits became suspicious and began filing lawsuits claiming he was brainwashing their children. Finally in 1982, Moon was convicted of tax evasion and went to prison for a short time. The Unification Church continues today, Moon was even crowned the Messiah at a Senate office building in Washington D.C. in 2003. Moon died in 2010, but his Unification Church continues to be run by his children. 7. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Bhagwan-Shree-Rajneesh cult image A non-traditional Hindu mystic and guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh became as famous for his indulgences as he was for his fanatical cult. At one time, Rajneesh owned 93 Rolls Royces, the largest collection in the world, and he advocated for a lavish lifestyle of sex and debauchery. The rise of AIDS in the 80s put a stop to those practices, but the cult continued after establishing a community called Rajneeshpuram in Oregon. A controversy started when the community attempted to add votes to their population by busing in homeless people to “share houses” in order to influence the local elections. When this resulted in dissent among its members they turned to more radical methods. They launched the first ever bioterrorism attack in the U.S. poisoning the members of the town of Dalles, Oregon with Salmonella to limit the number of voters going to the polls. Rajneesh was deported from the US and exiled until his death in 1990, however, his teachings still continue to inspire followers across the globe. 8. Children of God Children-of-God cult members image Founded by David “Moses” Berg in the late 1960’s, this cult gained followers after Berg moved into seclusion in Texas where he wrote prolifically about his beliefs. Espousing himself as a devout Christian, Berg advocated for the damnation of what he called “moral decay,” which for him included belief in evolution, mainstream religion, western capitalism, the Jewish people, and the criminalization of sex with children. Berg even encouraged his followers to recruit new members by using flirtatious sex acts and called it “Flirty Fishing.” Joaquin Phoenix and Rose McGowan were raised in the cult and both have spoken out about the atrocities that occurred in the cult including beatings, isolation, and exorcisms. Berg died in 1994, but his teachings continue on with his wife and her concubine that Berg hand picked for her now leading the church. 9. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Latter-Day-Saints cult members image A splinter group from another arguably cultish religion, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was led by infamous criminal and current federal inmate Warren Jeffs. FLDS separated from the Church of Latter Day Saints in the early 20th century due to a conflict over the practice of polygamy. FLDS members practice multi-partner marriages wholeheartedly and the LDS Church denounces the practice formally. Warren Jeffs came under scrutiny by the FBI when he evaded charges in Utah by fleeing. He was accused of arranging marriages between his male followers and underage girls as well as participating in rape. He made the FBI Ten Most Wanted List in 2006 and has been in and out of prison since then. 10. Raȅlism Raelism sect cult image Founded in 1974, by Claude Vorilhon this cult could be featured on the History Channel show “Ancient Aliens.” The followers of Claude Vorilhon formed a worldwide cult, now named Raȅl, and believe that life on Earth was scientifically created by a species of Aliens named the Elohim. Raȅlians believe that when these extraterrestrial forefathers visited us in early times they disguised themselves deliberately to resemble humans claiming to be angels who led us through each age. According to Raȅl, Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Muhammad, and Joseph Smith and others throughout history have been messengers of the Elohim. Their doctrine describes the Garden of Eden as a large laboratory on an artificial island, Noah’s Ark as a spaceship with genetic information to clone animals, the Tower of Babel was a rocket, and the Great Flood as a byproduct of a nuclear bomb. Raȅlians currently number over 70 thousand and are apparently halfway to their 20 million dollar fundraising goal to build a landing site and embassy for extraterrestrials. Oh and they also claim to have cloned a woman. 11. Creativity Movement Creativity Movement cult sign image A new age all white religion, the Creativity Movement was founded by Ben Klassen in 1973 to promote above all else: that what is good for the white race is the highest virtue, what is bad for the white race is ultimate sin. The church’s main enemy is the Jewish race and they actively plot ways to further their goal of populating the earth solely with white people. They have been accused and convicted of several terrible acts including the shooting spree in 1999 undertaken by church member Benjamin Nathaniel Smith who killed 2 people and injured 9 others all of ethnic backgrounds. Smith then killed himself and today is celebrated by the Creativity Movement as a soldier of god. 12. Chen Tao [The ho ho ho television prophet] Old grungy Vintage TV with clipping path over a white background Old grungy Vintage TV with clipping path over a white background This cult famously predicted that at 12:01 am on March 31st, 1998 God would be seen all across North America (their version of a holy land) on every TV on channel 18. They moved all their 160 plus members to Garland, Texas in preparation for the event, reportedly because the name of the town sounded kind of like God-Land. The community became restless when 20 homes suddenly were snapped up by a group of people all wearing the same clothes and claiming to have two children who were the reincarnated souls of Jesus and Buddha. When the fateful moment came and nothing happened their leader, Hon-Ming Chen, a former university professor volunteered to be stoned to death or crucified. The members of the cult rather sheepishly shrugged off the event and left their leader alive while simultaneously returning to their old lives. 13. KKK KKK klan cult image The Ku Klux Klan was started in the 1860’s by a group of ex-Confederate soldiers and was originally a social club that focused on campaigning against carpetbaggers; entrepreneurs from the North that these southern men saw as a threat. However, due to their frightening costumes and military bearings they caused quite the commotion in town when congregating and they soon took advantage of this to terrorize the African-American community. They preyed upon the collective southern fear that the freed slaves would eventually revolt and kill their former white masters. The original iteration of the cult lost power soon and was largely gone by the late 1800’s. The Klan was revitalized in the 1920’s and began a reign of terrorism that continues to this day, resulting in racial tension and thousands of deaths. At their core, they espouse Christian ideals but their undeniable brutality mocks the typical religious devotion. It is estimated that at one time the KKK had nearly 4 million members and today it has more groups in existence than at any other time in its history. The KKK is believed to be responsible for between 8 thousand and 10 thousand deaths. 14. The Church Universal original file name 8_25_03.tif from Tom Miller's CD "fractual enlargement. ver #28" RGB original file name 8_25_03.tif from Tom Miller’s CD “fractual enlargement. ver #28” RGB This cult, originally called the Summit Lighthouse was founded by Mark Prophet and his wife Elizabeth Prophet. The group believes that the leaders communicate with “Ascended Masters,” or spirits of saints, and wise men from other religions and the past. The group hit some hiccups in the 80’s and 90’s during the cold war, because they began hoarding weapons and building fallout shelters. Families of the members kidnaped them back from the clutches of the cult and reconditioned them to normal life, resulting in stories of severe punishment and isolation. Summit Lighthouse lost much of its following in the wake of the death of its founders, but it continues to this day to evangelize traditions from almost every major religion. 15. Fellowship of Friends Fellowship of Friends cult members image This “Church” located in California wine country is home to a large winery and art museum. Its central tenets include an extremely strict set of rules that its followers must abide by. The list of rules includes what to eat and wear and how much to sleep. No swimming, no joking, and definitely no smoking. They live in fear of an armageddon that has been predicted by their founder Robert Earl Burton who claims to be an angel and has been accused multiple times of child sexual abuse of little boys. Members are expected to either work for pennies in the church’s businesses or sign over the majority of their salaries to the church itself. 16. The Remnant Fellowship Remnant-Church cult image There’s no doubt this cult is very strange. Its founder Gwen Shamblin is a dietitian and promoter of certain weight loss self-help methods. When she noticed that many of her clients were gaining back weight they had lost, she searched for another answer because she couldn’t accept that it was her teaching that had been at fault. She turned to the bible, specifically the Book of Ezra chapter 9, versus 8 and 9, that describe a “faithful remnant” that believe in the literal truths of scripture. She saw the people gaining weight as a sign that they believed, and because they had been saved they had a license to sin(eat). The bizarre twisting of weight loss and theology has led this church to grow from its founding in 1999 to having over a hundred “centers” throughout the world now. 17. The Movement for the Restoration of the 10 Commandments 10-Commandments cult image This cult was founded by a prostitute named Credonia Mwerinde after she had several religious visions involving the Virgin Mary. The group followed the 10 commandments so strictly that they refused to talk to avoid bearing false witness. Mwerinde prophesied that the world would end on January 1st, 2000 and when the day passed uneventfully its members’ faith was shaken. To avoid a mass exodus from the church, the leaders predicted another doomsday on March 17th that year. To celebrate the reckoning, they threw a party for all their members. Then they blew them all up. It was found that many of the victims had been poisoned, shot, or strangled before the explosion. A church that brought about its own end. Whether you know it or not cults hide in plain site. The combined members of the cults mentioned in this article number above 5 million members, so chances are you know someone connected at least remotely to one of these insidious and manipulative organizations. 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You are here We all must answer for our choices Saturday, April 14, 2018 The reason most Christians do not deem homosexuality acceptable is that they believe the body is the temple of God. Sinning against your own body desecrates God’s temple so it is a sin against God Himself. Most Trinbagonians are afraid of us becoming like the USA and other countries of the world not so much because their practice of homosexuality is protected but because any oppositional belief is rabidly assaulted. Here already we are hearing that if you don’t accept homosexuality you are on the side of hate, you are discriminating, you are driving children to suicide. Life is all about choices. But it is also about answering for those choices. I have chosen to make God my Lord and thus I choose to serve His will above everything else. Those who have chosen differently will likewise have to answer for their choices. What most people take exception to is being asked to endorse another man’s choice that runs counter to their own beliefs.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '50', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9504430890083312}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '154666', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:USGUTRUX4HZNSZSUOMRH2YU2A4BJBBHR', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ad2c8a0a-f07b-4242-bd15-460b70f09673>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 22, 20, 22, 53), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.25.223.15', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WLPXB3DM2BG76AN62JP3TFOBTJM72T25', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:da8eafa4-325b-486e-82a3-9d333b3a9079>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://e-edition.guardian.co.tt/letters/2018-04-14/we-all-must-answer-our-choices', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:0909755d-4190-491b-acc5-23c77013b791>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '294', 'url': 'http://e-edition.guardian.co.tt/letters/2018-04-14/we-all-must-answer-our-choices', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-5-254-60.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07182168960571289', 'original_id': '10c96833d89b0843cca0c6a529aaf85843981a1334ad676625cc84bbbb00758a'}
UFC 196: Was It Worth It? Touted as a night of two ninjas and top-tier females squaring off, UFC 196, from the exclusive Fight Pass prelims to the main event, parlayed more precisely as pairs of warriors geared up to exit the UFC’s Octagon either with their shield or on it. The UFC’s recent pay-per-view delivered an evening of entertainment that reminded fans to keep their guards up. Photo credit to Google Images Is This America? A fight involving Conor McGregor is synonymous with green, white, and orange, so it should come as no surprise to catch wind of McGregor’s fanbase flooding the MGM Grand Garden Arena draped in the symbol of their national hero. Aware of McGregor’s rabid following, I was unclear as to why the arena remained so empty, even at the event’s onset, and my pessimism grabbed ahold: My answer met my Twitter’s feed, yet my comprehension on the matter lingered in a confused state: Personally, I’m fond of witnessing countries exhibit pride for their athletes, and I wish more Americans would jump on board to mimic this behavior. Once claim tickets were passed out and the swath of Irish flags filled the MGM’s broom closet, the seats filled up with warm, passionate bodies. Wardrobe Malfunctions Nordine Taleb, a competitor from The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia, entered UFC 196 toned to detail each muscular fiber of his welterweight frame, but his Reebok apparel defied logic. At first, I assumed his shorts were unintentionally tangled, creating a parachute appearance: Minute after minute, the shorts never settled into the form fitting flow promised by Reebok’s President at the inception of its deal with the UFC, and others shared their thoughts on the matter: Riding in the painful wake of Reebok’s malfunctioning spellchecker, it wouldn’t shock me in the least to learn that Taleb manipulated his Canadian Fight Kit to preserve the dignity of his sole fight-week sponsor from any further backlash, No matter Taleb’s attire issues, the only thing more crumpled up at the end of the contest was his opponent, Erick Silva, departing from his consciousness after a devastating right hand. Fun With Nicknames Often, nicknames carry a lighthearted air to the world’s most intense sport, and “Filthy” Tom Lawlor and Corey “Beastin’ 25/8” Anderson cracked the window to allow a humorous breeze into their heated competition. Possessing an alter ego such as Anderson’s, it’s difficult to recall the best time to throw a comment out there, but, with The Persistence of Memory, the middle of the second round offered the perfect juncture to share my perspective on the moniker owned by The Ultimate Fighter Season 19 winner: Lawlor, tired of the cut to middleweight and successful in his last outing at light heavyweight, attempted his luck again in the division suited to his comfort level. Although some may lose a bit of their power at a higher weight class, Lawlor still packed a vicious pop in his punches, The scorecards announced Anderson as the victor, but he’d agree, all day long and then some, with those who argued about the two judges who awarded him 30-27, verifying how filthy their glasses must have been. Another mixed martial artist with a nickname that pinches me awake: Diego “Nightmare” Sanchez. Win or lose, The Ultimate Fighter season 1 winner bites down on his mouthpiece and instigates a dogfight, inciting pleasure and appreciation from spectators. Sure enough, the second Sanchez tasted Jim Miller’s leather, the cheers rained down from the stands as the Albuquerque product aggressively unleashed haymakers, tossing technique aside for an all out brawl. Too bad for a regulated amount of time because Sanchez was well on his way to warming up by the final round’s buzzer, and he collected the unanimous decision win. Co Main Event: Miesha Tate vs. Holly Holm All the buzz surrounding the main event of UFC 196 nearly muted a complex duel for the women’s 135 pound title between the challenger, Miesha Tate, and the champion, Holly Holm. The volume was cranked up loud and clear when “Big” John McCarthy signaled for action. Round after round, time raced off the clock as these bantamweights exchanged efforts, and the end results were as sweet for Tate as the icing on any cupcake. Without a governing tally of the rounds’ scores, it was anyone’s game walking into the fifth and final round, but the chances of Tate receiving the nod were unlikely; it’s not often a challenger overtakes the champion via the assistance of outside sources. In a last ditch effort, Tate sprang into the torso of Holm and, with pure desperation, yanked “The Preacher’s Daughter” to the ground. Instinctually, Tate clawed her way up the champ’s back toward her neck, locked in a rear naked choke, and radiated desperation as she squeezed with all her might. Holm put forth a futile effort to shake Tate off, to no avail: Main Event: Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor In only eleven days, I was more revved up than expected for a fight with implications of pride, not belts. The bravado of the Diaz brothers, unrivaled by most others in MMA, enchants fans, and McGregor’s prophetic words captivate audiences near and wide. Question marks coinciding with preparation, weight, and reach encompassed much of the pundits’ debate when analyzing this grudge match. The war of words originated upon the fight’s announcement, and the jawing continued right up until the final instructions preceding the opening bell: In spite of Diaz and McGregor walking around near the same weight, I was intrigued to note how McGregor would fair two weight classes above the reading on his championship belt. Round one divulged the size difference would unveil the biggest loser because shots McGregor landed on Diaz had flattened previous competition, but Diaz marched forward. Since joining the ranks of the UFC, McGregor has called his shot and, more often than not, executed; therefore, at the close of the opening round, I sensed the pendulum swaying in Diaz’s direction: Round two restarted the dance; McGregor appeared to be landing more shots, but Diaz, noticeably bloody and swollen, persisted as if unfazed. Soon enough, it was telling that the reach of Diaz greatly factored into this chess match. Diaz was able to land combinations on McGregor who had grown accustomed to standing outside the pocket of his former adversaries. When Diaz smiled following a flush left hand, the tides quickly turned. A stunned McGregor became the prey he claimed Diaz to be, and he was ripped to the ground and pounded while mounted. Attempting to avoid danger, McGregor turned his back to Diaz, which simultaneously welcomed his demise. Diaz sank in a rear naked choke and mandated McGregor’s submission. Was UFC 196 worth it? YES! 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Pinochet, historical fiction, and us An article on advised authors of alternate history novels to bring their stories up to the present day. Author Terry Bisson advises, “If you don’t bring your alternative history up to the reader’s present, then you leave out half the fun.” I don’t believe this is necessary. The past itself offers relevant lessons for the present. The Dictator’s Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet by Heraldo Muñoz is one of the books I read as I was writing Doria. I recently finished rereading it when the following quote caught my attention. Looking back, we can see that Pinochet was partly our own creation. The polarization of Chilean society, the unrealistic demands of the left for radical change from a government elected by a plurality, the ideologization and inflexibility of a formerly pragmatic political center, and the reaction of an uncompromising right that opposed change and defended its privileges — all contributed to the breakdown of Chilean democracy and the emergence of Pinochet. Isn’t this the political situation we have now in the United States? President Obama is attacked as viciously by the left for not being liberal enough as he is from the right for being too liberal. We have a widening gap between rich and poor; the left and right; the urban, suburban, and rural. The same issues that plague us today were plaguing Chile forty years ago. If we don’t think that what happened to Chile would happen to us, remember that Chileans considered their own society civil, stable, and based on the rule of law. This is the type of insight that historical fiction and alternate history can give us. They show us how we got where we are, and how we can avoid the same mistakes we made in the past. The best historical fiction and alternate history can be as relevant as if they happened today. All those “if the Nazis won World War II” books can give us insight into the current situation in Europe — with Germany and France taking the lead in trying to save the European economy. All those “if the South won the Civil War” books can help us understand the political divisions in our country today. What can Pinochet and Chile teach us? In Doria, I wanted to show the importance of people overcoming their divisions to save themselves from disaster. One of my characters tells his political enemy, “I would like to think that our love for our country is greater than our hatred of each other.” By pulling together, they are able to rebuild their country and face an even greater enemy. So, it isn’t necessary to bring historical fiction or alternate history to the present time. Any good book, no matter what time it is set, gives us something insight into our world and our lives.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9661905765533448}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '91243', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:FMXM5EBJLTYUPBWDTCIZAVZ6QBYEHZM2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f28292d2-4dbf-41de-9eff-9c35ab43da13>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 4, 3, 22, 34, 59), 'WARC-IP-Address': '74.208.236.133', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3W3BXZI6AK7TV5JL4OG6YOPVEH44RDAY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1e0978fd-65b2-41b1-9481-b26f0e7b8b3a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.matthewarnoldstern.com/doria/pinochet-historical-fiction-and-us.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5de92d31-39e5-4035-94f0-6aa659f338fd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '468', 'url': 'http://www.matthewarnoldstern.com/doria/pinochet-historical-fiction-and-us.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-235.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.048481285572052', 'original_id': '58738765252b7fa023d84b1349fc781a18a96188f2fc3d2ba2fbd9dc3b33ffbf'}
Production Team Executive Producer David Haneke Word: Energized Sentence: "I'm a gentle, tenacious bulldog for my clients, taking their dream that may initially seem impossible to communicate - and making it reality." In a paragraph: "I love bringing ideas to life with my clients - then partnering with the best creative team on earth to produce the project. We produce creative ideas for our clients that take on different formats: live event management, video production, fund raisers and motivational videos for sales meetings. The greatest reward is receiving a rave review about how we moved an audience to action, how we changed a perception, increased revenue, set the tone or got the exact response that our client needed. It's exciting to have this flexiblity in communicating ideas!" Event Producer Tracy Garrity Word: Connected Sentence: "Connected to the best partners in the industry, cultivated through almost thirty years of production experience world-wide. And to the world's best clients! This is a Rolodex industry. I'll put mine up against anyone's." Paragraph: "Tracy Garrity creates and stages unique live corporate events all over the world. Blend in your team, your goals, your objectives and your dynamic, and the final product becomes a unique, memorable brand experience. From Strategic Development through Flawless Execution we will work with you to create a vibe, craft your message and inspire your audience. On time, on target and under budget." Video Producer Ginger Stephens Word: Pumped-up! (the dash makes it one word ha!) Sentence: "Determined to create a fantastic and effective video and have a great time doing it. Or your money back." Paragraph: "Communication is the key to life - try not talking for a couple of days... Using imagery, light, words, sound and anything else we need - I love to mold elements into an illuminating message that impacts everyone watching. Why just produce a video when you can create an experience? And let's have FUN doing it." Technical Director Chris Murray Word: Prepared Sentence: "With preparation comes success" Paragraph: "I believe the difference between a good Conference and a Great one is the preparation. There are always going to be surprises onsite, but with good pre-planning and organization, many disasters can be diverted well before arriving onsite. As Technical Director/Stage Manager, and in the business for over 25 years, I have learned that just showing up onsite without the proper preparation is a huge mistake. I spend several days coordinating equipment and Labor for each event, making diagrams to be sure everything fits, reviewing the agenda and cross referencing the equipment. This is why many of my clients comment on how calm I am onsite." Creative Director, Writer, and Producer Larry Hartstein Word: Original Sentence: "I'm a renaissance man, a writer, composer, lyricist, concept person and producer which works out well when you can only afford one of the above." Paragraph: "What excites me is finding entertaining ways to deliver the message. I've developed an eye for character and an ear for dialogue from being a staff writer for sitcoms like "Full House". I know how to write speeches that praise people's accomplishments without getting goopy from writing star-studded spectaculars like "Live Aid" and "The Golden Karma Awards". And I've created heart-stopping, tear-jerking, goosebump-making, laugh-til-you-hurt corporate shows for crowds from 200 to 20,000. The best projects are always collaborative ones, the ones where the client, who knows their product and service better than we do, participates in the production while letting the team of experts bring their own style and substance to the party." Gordon Murray Word: Amiable Sentence: "When you love your job, it shows." Paragraph: "My mission is to help host your guests, and to immortalize your hard work. This may take the form of carefully posed and lit couples photos, fast and efficient group or awards photos, or a custom gift that commemorates your time together. It really is the little things that make a big difference - like a smile, sharing a laugh, or lending a hand to help ladies up and down the stage stairs. As a former Event Producer, I understand the importance of creating a positive experience for the guests - while staying on-schedule and on-budget." Motion Graphics and Video Editor Kirby Koppes Word: Flexible Sentence: "I work with motion graphics to make ideas come to life." Paragraph: "I provide fresh eyes on editing. 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Q: Percorrer DOM inteiro com jQuery Como fazer para percorrer todo o DOM e achar um determinado elemento em jQuery? Quero, ao clicar na li de classe="home", abrir a div de classe="submenu". <body class="home"> <!-- Header --> <div class="wrap-header"> <div class="row"> <div class="area-logo-responsive hide-for-large-up small-12 medium-12 columns"> <a href="index.php/home"><h1><img src="img/theme/logo-responsive.png" title="Openweb " alt="Openweb " /></h1></a> </div> </div> <!-- Row do Menu e do Logo --> <div class="row"> <div class="large-3 columns show-for-large-up"> <div class="area-logo"> <a href="index.php/home"><h1><img src="img/theme/logo-openweb.png" title="Openweb " alt="Openweb " /></h1></a> </div> </div> <div class="small-12 medium-12 large-9 columns"> <div class="area-menu hide-for-medium-only hide-for-small-only"> <ul class="menu"> <li menu="home" class="home"><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Produtos e Serviços</a></li> <li><a href="#">Central do Cliente</a></li> <li><a href="#">Sobre a Openweb</a></li> <li class="last"><a href="#">Contato</a></li> <li class="login"><span class="lock"></span><a href="#">Login</a> <div class="wrap-login show-for-large-up"> <div class="area-login"> <?php include('include-area-login.php'); ?> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="area-menu-response hide-for-large-up"> <button class="btn-home">Produtos e Serviços</button> <button class="btn-more">Menu <span>▽</span></button> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="menu-hided-left"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Hospedagem de Sites</a></li> <li><a href="#">Servidores Linux</a></li> <li><a href="#">Facilitta Mail Marketing</a></li> <li><a href="#">Google Adwords</a></li> <li><a href="#">Instalação de Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu-hided"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li class="btn-submenu" ><a href="javascript:void(0);">Central do Cliente +</a> <ul class="mais-submenu"> <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 4</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="btn-submenu"><a href="javascript:void(0);">Sobre a Openweb +</a> <ul class="mais-submenu"> <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li> <li><a href="#">item 4</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Contato</a></li> <li><a href="#">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- Fecha Row da Header --> </div><!-- Fecha Wrap-Header --> <!-- Wrap-Drop Menu Header --> <div class="wrap-menu"> <div class="row"> <div class="submenu show-for-large-up large-12 columns"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Hospedagem de Sites</a></li> <li><a href="#">Servidores Linux</a></li> <li><a href="#">Facilitta Mail Marketing</a></li> <li><a href="#">Google Adwords</a></li> <li><a href="#">Instalação de Blog</a></li> </ul> </div> </div><!-- Fecha Row do Menu--> </div><!-- Fecha Wrap Menu --> A: Para sua necessidade eu faria assim: <li menu="home" class="home" data-target="submenu"><a href="#">Home</a></li> Note o atributo data. A partir daí: $(".home").on("click", function(e) { e.preventDefault(); var elem = "." + $(this).data("target"); $(elem).show(); } Esclarecimentos auxiliares Você pode selecionar diretamente elementos em jQuery. Através do ID Para elementos que tenham id="nome-do-id" você pode usar $("#nome-do-id") para selecionar o elemento Através da classe Para elementos que tenham class="nome-da-classe" você pode usar $(".nome-da-classe") para selecionar o elemento Boas práticas Sempre use cache quando for iterar em elementos. Para selecionar e navegar em um conjunto de DIV com a mesma classe, faça: var $cache = $(".classe-das-divs"); $cache.each = function() { var elem = $(this); // Referência do elemento atual } Note que usei $cache ao invés de $($cache). Isso ocorre porque $cache já é um "objeto jQuery". A: Com base nesse comentário você tem à sua disposição os métodos de Traversing em particular jQuery.parent() e jQuery.find(): $( '#element' ).click( function() { $( this ).parent().find( 'p' ); }); Nesse pseudo-código, a partir do elemento identificado por element navegamos para seu pai imediato (o primeiro) e nele buscamos os parágrafos. Outras possibilidades seria usar, jQuery.next() ou jQuery.nextAll() que basicamente fazem o mesmo, porém sem a necessidade de ir para trás primeiro o que é mais performático em HTML bem delineados. No entanto, evite ao máximo navegar pelo DOM, principalmente em HTMLs grandes. se você sabe o seletor que vai ser aberto/fechado, use-o.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'eb9385f6b440c11d045d1ad9970533efc6f5c919c2af90f1f5b36ffec888a812'}
/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using Aliyun.Acs.Core.Transform; using Aliyun.Acs.Smartag.Model.V20180313; namespace Aliyun.Acs.Smartag.Transform.V20180313 { public class DescribeSagHaResponseUnmarshaller { public static DescribeSagHaResponse Unmarshall(UnmarshallerContext context) { DescribeSagHaResponse describeSagHaResponse = new DescribeSagHaResponse(); describeSagHaResponse.HttpResponse = context.HttpResponse; describeSagHaResponse.RequestId = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.RequestId"); describeSagHaResponse.Mode = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.Mode"); List<DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_Port> describeSagHaResponse_ports = new List<DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_Port>(); for (int i = 0; i < context.Length("DescribeSagHa.Ports.Length"); i++) { DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_Port port = new DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_Port(); port.PortName = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.Ports["+ i +"].PortName"); port.VirtualIp = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.Ports["+ i +"].VirtualIp"); describeSagHaResponse_ports.Add(port); } describeSagHaResponse.Ports = describeSagHaResponse_ports; List<DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_TaskState> describeSagHaResponse_taskStates = new List<DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_TaskState>(); for (int i = 0; i < context.Length("DescribeSagHa.TaskStates.Length"); i++) { DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_TaskState taskState = new DescribeSagHaResponse.DescribeSagHa_TaskState(); taskState.State = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.TaskStates["+ i +"].State"); taskState.ErrorCode = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.TaskStates["+ i +"].ErrorCode"); taskState.ErrorMessage = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.TaskStates["+ i +"].ErrorMessage"); taskState.CreateTime = context.StringValue("DescribeSagHa.TaskStates["+ i +"].CreateTime"); describeSagHaResponse_taskStates.Add(taskState); } describeSagHaResponse.TaskStates = describeSagHaResponse_taskStates; return describeSagHaResponse; } } }	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'https://github.com/awei1688/aliyun-openapi-net-sdk/blob/master/aliyun-net-sdk-smartag/Smartag/Transform/V20180313/DescribeSagHaResponseUnmarshaller.cs', 'collection': 'Github Open Source', 'open_type': 'Open Source', 'license': 'Apache-2.0', 'date': '2022.0', 'title': 'aliyun-openapi-net-sdk', 'creator': 'awei1688', 'language': 'C#', 'language_type': 'Code', 'word_count': '250', 'token_count': '891', '__index_level_0__': '8489', 'original_id': '80d56861fd592fcbe127010ebf3285bcf00664d580505a234ae8e6926e5210fd'}
The Odds of Winning in Poker There are a number of different ways to win in poker. You can hit a “nuts” hand by hitting two of the five cards in the hole, which are from the same suit. Or you can try to make a backdoor flush by hitting the last two cards of the board – the turn and river. This strategy is particularly useful when you are in a statistical lead. In any case, it’s always a good idea to learn the odds of achieving certain results in poker before starting. The basic idea behind poker is that players compete against each other by comparing hands of cards. The highest-ranking hand wins. Each player is dealt five cards, and each has one of those five cards. The best hand wins the pot – the player with the highest-ranking hand. A typical game is played with around six to eight players, and the cards are ranked from Ace high to King. Some variants add a joker to the deck. In traditional poker, players compete for the highest-value hand. This hand is the most valuable, and can win the player’s bet. Besides maximizing their odds of winning, a strong poker hand can be worth millions of dollars. If you have a strong hand, you can also bluff. You can bet on a hand that you’re not really confident in – but then again, the other players will have to match your bet in order to win. In a typical game of poker, players put money into the pot voluntarily. In other words, they don’t “blind off” unless they’re trying to bluff other players. However, they use psychology and game theory to decide what to do with their cards. Depending on your skill level and your luck, you can end up making a bad decision by betting the big blind. You can always raise the pot if your hand is weak, but you’re better off folding a preflop or going all in on an Ace. In poker, betting is a vital part of the game. A player must make an ante, which is a small contribution to the pot, and then bet into the pot. When all players have bet, the player with the highest-ranking hand wins the pot. If no one has raised or folded before your turn, the pot is split equally among all the players. This process continues until all players have folded, and the highest-value hand wins. The number of players in a poker game varies from four to eight. For example, if there are more than seven players, it’s better to supply them with poker chips, rather than handouts. Poker chips come in three basic colors: blue, red, and white. Each of the three colors represents different values. The lowest-value chip is white, and the highest-ranking hand wins the pot. The player who makes the best hand wins the pot is said to be the active player. If the dealer blunders in a round, he will be required to return the card he blundered. This is called a “redealt flop” and occurs when the dealer flubbed a card prematurely. The other players are then required to make a bid if the opening hand is lower than the dealer’s. Depending on how high the hand is, the winning player may choose to call the redealt flop and lose their hand. During the betting phase, the player who opened the pot must prove that they are the correct person to win. This is true even if the player has a face-down hand or has a flopped hand. In some cases, the player may be able to withdraw their bets before the draw and keep their ante money. Otherwise, the player can continue to play until the pot is opened legally. A player may also be able to retrieve a discarded hand. The best hand in poker is called a “straight flush,” which consists of five cards of the same rank, one pair, and an ace. The ace can be high or low, but cannot wrap around the K-A-2-3-4. A royal flush is a straight flush with an ace. These hands can win the pot. There are a number of different hands in poker, and the best hand in the game is a straight flush. There are different variations of poker, but the two main games are stud, draw, and community card games. Friendly poker tables usually let the dealer choose the type of game. More structured tournaments usually specify the game format. In these cases, the wild card might cause you to be at a disadvantage. But don’t be too discouraged, as poker is an excellent way to get a good start. 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Skip to main content Don't Anger Your Taiwanese Wife or ... Face the Consequences! Are Taiwanese women submissive and passive, innocent and cute, as some people suggest? The following story, although extreme, seems to prove the opposite. As Apple Daily reported, on Chinese New Year a man surnamed Liu went with his wife to visit her family in the southern part of Taiwan. On February 21st, while the couple were returning to their home in Taichung, they had a quarrel. The man decided to stop at a service station in Gukeng, a township in Yunlin County, to try to ease up the atmosphere a bit. But his wife was so furious that she took his money, wallet and phone, and just left. "Find a way to go back home, if you can!" she reportedly said as she drove off the service station, leaving her dumbfounded husband alone and penniless. Without his money and mobile phone, Mr Liu could neither pay for a taxi nor call friends or relatives to help him. Nevertheless, he asked the staff of the service station to call him a cab. He explained to the driver what had happened and asked him to take him to the nearest police station. At Yongguang police station Mr Liu told the officers his story and borrowed from them money so that he could return home. Jian Liangguang (簡良光), the head of the police station, gave him 1000 TWD (around 30 euros) out of his own pocket. 20 days later, Mr Liu's wife called the police station and asked for their address, promising that her husband would soon repay his debt. Mr Liu did, in fact, send 1000 TWD by registered mail to the policemen who had saved him from his wife's little prank. Obviously, this story does not tell us what Taiwanese women are like. This is just one episode in the lives of 23 inhabitants of this island. However, my personal observations tell me that similar angry reactions - albeit less extreme - happen quite frequently in Taiwan. They are not just considered a normal part of a couple's relationship; they are an actual habit, a kind of test which many women need in order to prove to themselves that their position as girlfriends/wives is safe and solid. As long as a man accepts a woman's whims - so the logic goes - he is a good boyfriend or husband, and he truly deserves her. Popular posts from this blog Rumours About Chinese Actress Fan Bingbing's Arrest Spread Online Mu has also allegedly been charged with destroying incriminating evidence. Why Liberals Should Embrace Fair Trade, Debate Role Of Tariffs On the latest episode of Last Week Tonight, comedian John Oliver made fun of Donald Trump's tariffs and mocked him for not understanding how free trade works. Oliver noted that tariffs are paid by importers and typically passed along to US consumers, leading to higher prices. Tariffs could cost the US hundreds of thousands of jobs, Oliver argued. Trade deficits "aren't actually always bad, and many economists believe, for very complex reasons involving savings rates and the dollar's special status as the world's reserve currency, that America's trade balance might be more or less where it should be," he said. Oliver argued that "the overwhelming consensus among economists is that trade between countries generally speaking can create jobs, lower costs, and be a net benefit to both nations." But is John Oliver right? 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PHRA SOMDEJThere are 4 products. Somdej Phra Puttajarn Toh Phrom-rangsri or Somdej Toh. He's a son of King Rama II and Nang Ngud of Kamphaengphet Province. He was born before his father became King. Somdej Toh ordained as a novice monk at an age of 13 and become a monk at 21. Well-versed in Buddhist teachings, he was named Maha Toh, the King's monk. In the reign of King Rama IV, he was made Abbot of Wat Rakang-kositaram. He was promoted continuously and finally received the title of Somdej Phra Puttajarn Toh in 1872. The venurable monk was known to be a good speaker as well as a highly intelligent and compassionate person. He was also persistent and patient. He made many Buddha images for temples and most particularly 73 models of Phra Somdej. He also built many temples. At present PhraSomdej WatRakhang is number 1 and the most famous of all Thailand amulets.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '58', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9789459109306335}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '75989', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KETYWOWVONFQG2GPPFKSLWC4FPT5RFFI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:663750af-c4e0-4ec3-ae6f-9fa6cb966d9f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 11, 21, 19, 19, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '202.43.45.171', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:EX547IOO52NU3MXU3TBAVKS6MM7WWV5L', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:f41b07aa-3060-4cea-8397-f07510b9d096>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://thaiamuletz.com/37-phra-somdej', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:87e44a33-ed8c-47c1-b517-d1ea56cca4e0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '156', 'url': 'http://thaiamuletz.com/37-phra-somdej', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-187-75-222.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.032612144947052', 'original_id': '9a3b77241e6dc815d0402098bc56ca0221b0512351ad771e9e0ce1cd67dee4e8'}
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Candidates stress levy very important Wednesday Aurora -- How the Board of Education handles future decisions dealing with the schools will depend on whether voters pass a 6-mill combined levy Nov. 6. On that same day, voters will choose two people to make those future decisions. Four hopefuls have filed for two open seats. Ann Morrison, John Sloe, Rick Nelson and Maureen McKenzie all hope to be on board to make those difficult decisions. Morrison is serving her eighth year on the Board and Sloe began serving in September after former member Mike Frigo resigned because he and his family moved to the Chicago area for job-related reasons. All four of the candidates have been preparing for the election by talking to residents either at coffees or just when they run into them around town. Western Reserve Television Cable 9 has been airing a dialogue with the candidates, and the League of Women Voters of Northern Portage County recently sponsored a forum at Harmon School. All four candidates expressed confidence in themselves to do a good job. They also expressed confidence in the other candidates, and said each have a valued interest in seeing the schools make the right decisions. The levy is the issue that dominates the candidates' minds heading into the election. "Future issues all hinge on the levy," said McKenzie, a Four Seasons resident who has degree in medical technology. "If it passes, there will be a lot of changes for the good. It will bring excitement, but also chances for glitches. "THE GROWTH and expansion in our schools will be a very positive thing. The levy will provide plenty of classrooms and additional teachers to keep class sizes small, plus the student-teacher ratio at a very nice percentage." Nelson, a Lakes of Aurora resident and a physician at Robinson Memorial Hospital, also said passing the levy will be a good thing for all of Aurora. "Passage means improved school infrastructure that will benefit the entire community and continued enhancement of the educational programs throughout all grades," he said. "That's what makes Aurora schools special." Sloe, a Duneden resident and certified public accountant, called the levy "the single biggest issue." "The reason is because we are at or near capacity in all our schools," he added. "We truly need to expand our facilities." Morrison, a Geauga Lake area resident and a pre-kindergarten teacher, explained if the levy passes, it would take 16 months to add the additional needed space. In that time, it is still possible for the schools to add classroom trailers if they go over capacity. "However, once the expansions are complete, the buildings will be good for the next 25 years and we can concentrate on academics," Morrison said. "Right now, we are 17th in the state in academics. I don't see any reason why we can't improve on that and have every student pass their proficiency tests." If the levy doesn't pass, it creates a whole new direction the schools must take and a whole new slew of problems. "There would be huge changes," said Morrison. "If I had to guess now, we'd think about eliminating the ID swipe program and all day kindergarten. "We might institute a 1-mile walk zone [instead of busing], but we won't make children cross the highways" she said. "We might have to charge to participate in athletics and other extracurricular activities. No new textbooks, no new athletic uniforms." Superintendent Russ Bennett has said if the levy doesn't pass, some $850,000 in cuts will have to be made by the start of next school year. Nelson agreed with Morrison, saying all non-core extracurricular programs would be up for reduction or elimination. "SALARIES and benefits are a large percentage of the operating budget, so reduction in staffing levels also would have to be considered," he said. Nelson went on to explain he is not in favor of the 1-mile walk zone. "It's to help reduce fuel and transportation costs, but it's ill-conceived as our schools are located on major routes," he said. "To ask our students to cross these busy streets in the absence of crossing zones, traffic lights and crossing guards does not make much sense." Sloe said he doesn't want to see any cuts, but the Board already has put together a contingency plan in case there needs to be eliminations. "The biggest drawback if the levy isn't passed is we begin to stress the system," he said. "We'll have up to an additional 500 students in the next few years, with less teachers and more students to each classroom. "Whenever you stress something, things break down at an execrated rate." McKenzie added, "It's hard to project exactly where the cuts would be. 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How to save hundreds of billions in health costs? How to save hundreds of billions in health costs? In Paris late last year, the countries of the world pledged to reduce emissions to keep global warming “well below a 2 degree Celsius” rise in global average temperatures compared with preindustrial levels. As an advanced economy, the US is expected to lead in making the required emissions reductions, which would be roughly 80 percent by midcentury compared with 2005. This would entail moving a large portion of US power generation off fossil fuels and shifting the majority of our vehicles to electric power. That’s a tall order. Most existing energy policies focus on the nearer term, and as yet there is no roadmap to achieve this 2°C limit – or even less aggressive targets for emissions cuts in the next 15 years. Part of the difficulty in turning our pledges into tangible actions is creating enough motivation to drive a wholesale transformation of our energy and transportation systems. Global climate change is typically perceived as a problem that’s mostly in the distant future and worse in other parts of the world, so is not prioritized relative to whatever pressing issues are dominating current political discourse. In essence, many people believe climate change mitigation policies require a change in our lifestyle and paying costs now for benefits that predominantly go to people living elsewhere and in future generations. Understandably, this is not at the top of the agenda for most voters. But focusing on the immediate health benefits of moving to cleaner energy has the potential to change the way people view climate change. In a study published this week, we found that slashing emissions from transportation and power generation would prevent about 175,000 early deaths caused by air pollution in the US by 2030. We also concluded that the health benefits would be valued at US$250 billion per year, likely more than the cost of changing the energy system. Air pollution To explore this issue of public perception and climate change, we examined the broad impacts of highly ambitious US clean energy and transportation policies that would be consistent with the 2°C target. These policies provide climate benefits, with US vehicle emissions reductions leading to about 0.03°C less global warming in 2030 (0.15°C in 2100) and energy emissions leading to 0.05°-0.07°C less warming (about 0.25°C in 2100). Though seemingly modest, these are significant considering that they stem from emissions cuts in only a single sector in a single nation. The bulk of these benefits are indeed felt elsewhere and many decades in the future. However, the policies also greatly reduce damaging air pollution at home, as much of that comes from vehicles, power plants and industrial energy production. And medical studies show unequivocally that inhaled air pollution leads to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Just seven years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that poor air quality killed around three million per year, but we now know it is the leading environmental cause of premature death worldwide, claiming around eight million victims annually, with 3.7 million deaths from outdoor air pollution. In our study, we found that clean energy policies in the US could prevent about 175,000 premature deaths by 2030, with about 22,000 fewer annually thereafter. Clean transportation could prevent about 120,000 premature deaths by 2030 and about 14,000 annually thereafter. Importantly, these benefits are realized almost immediately and largely within the US We then put a dollar value on these benefits based on economic analyses that reveal how much society is willing to pay to decrease the risk of premature death, for example through occupational safety or health care. These near-term national health benefits have a monetary value of about US$250 billion per year between now and 2030. These benefits alone likely exceed the costs of the transition to clean power generation and transportation. Adding in the monetary value of the longer-term, worldwide climate impacts, such as damages to infrastructure, agriculture and human health, benefits roughly quintuple, becoming between five and 10 times larger than the estimated implementation costs. Emissions from burning fossil fuels cause both climate change and air pollution, which is why the benefits are worth so much. Climate pollutants lead to more smog in polluted areas, expanded ranges of tropical diseases, more intense storms and sea-level rise, among other damages. The WHO estimates the death toll due to climate change already exceeds 150,000 per year worldwide. Air pollution is more deadly still. Even in a country like the US with relatively clean air, it kills about 130,000 annually and sends another roughly 330,000 to the hospital for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases or nonfatal heart attacks. The huge damages caused by emissions from fossil fuel burning mean that reducing our reliance on fossil fuels can have enormous benefits. Cost to society By not including environmental impacts in the economy, we are leaving out the most efficient way to create incentives to decrease pollution. Instead, we are passing the bill on to society at large. We are effectively subsidizing an extremely profitable industry and, in doing so, are paying for it with our own ill health. Our calculations are not the only ones finding such large damages from so-called environmental externalities attributable to burning fossil fuels. The International Monetary Fund reported last year that fossil fuels were subsidized at a rate of about $10 million per minute worldwide, largely due to their unaccounted impacts on local pollution and global warming. Hence, the true costs of fossil fuels are far higher than their market prices. Putting a dollar value on these impacts is crucial because even when thousands of deaths are involved, society undervalues chronic, widespread problems. Instead we typically focus on sudden, local events even if their impacts are much smaller. For example, during the last 11 years, faulty General Motors ignition switches have been linked to about 20 deaths. This led to a recall of millions of vehicles, massive media attention and a congressional hearing. Yet air pollution from the vehicles GM produced during those same years caused about 40,000 deaths. There isn’t as neat a line from cause to effect as there is with the ignition switches, so we fail to perceive the far greater damages, forgetting that many “routine” deaths from heart attacks and respiratory diseases are actually caused by air pollution. Our work demonstrates that the benefits of clean energy and transportation policies in the US are so large that these policies are in our own national interest even without considering the effects of climate change over the long term. Including the full picture, the benefits far outweigh the costs considering society as a whole. By: Drew Shindell (Courtesy: Down To Earth; Writer is Professor of Climate Sciences, Duke University. 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Google Sheets isn't quite as capable as its counterpart from Microsoft, but Mountain View's preferred spreadsheet platform just got a bit more powerful with an update today. Should you choose to opt-in to the new Sheets, you'll be able to take advantage of several new features and the new version's faster performance. Among the highlight feature additions are the ability to create and edit spreadsheets offline (assuming you've set up offline GDrive access), and a Filter Views feature that lets users customize their view of a collaborative workbook without changing the way that same spreadsheet is seen by other users. Plus, there's now inline access to improved help articles and other tweaks like the ability to assign different colors to sheet tabs. We got to spend a bit of time using the new Sheets before today, and we can say, unequivocally, that the performance improvements are as advertised. Where the old Sheets would get bogged down scrolling through massive data sets, the new version does it as smoothly and easily as when using Microsoft Excel. Furthermore, the addition of sheet tab colors turned out to be more useful than we first thought -- the differing hues made it much easier to find specific sheets within larger workbooks. Don't believe us? Opt in, friend, and see for yourself.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9541615843772888}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '53949', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SH4W7EECEPDI63FSS52N72NJLJVZE2KY', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:bc3d442c-2bd4-49c3-bb09-6cd011c4ef8b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 12, 20, 4, 50, 52), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.12.97.231', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:Z2IN6HZ5N72TBLSU5SPJRPBUVTTQ3AHD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a41d513b-9dfd-4ed6-a2ff-05e425719f85>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/11/google-drive-sheets-update/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b4472b35-f325-4d61-a077-7ff389de3925>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '215', 'url': 'http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/11/google-drive-sheets-update/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-52\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for December 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.06270778179168701', 'original_id': 'c8107b58258c9124e180e0513d2c84f288c1292ddba772748263597c866ad2d7'}
Guides & Hints for creating a top notch project What to Include Into a Mental Health Nursing Dissertation Conclusion As soon as you are done writing the main portion of your mental health nursing dissertation, which includes the methods, discussion, and results, you’re next step is write your conclusion. The section will have to include several elements, such as: a summary, a synthesis, implications, predictions, and recommendations. Unlike a conclusion for a shorter research paper, a conclusion for a nursing degree dissertation can be several paragraphs long. Here is a detailed description of everything the elements that need to be included: • Summary Never introduce any new ideas; the main goal of a conclusion is to sum everything you have already written about in the main portion of your document. Summarize the main points of each of the major sections and provide a sense of closure or completeness in how you restate everything. There are different techniques for establishing a sense of completeness, including relating back to the introduction or providing a parallel in structure. • Synthesis Your synthesis is important because it efficiently and effectively shows the relationships between your main ideas and the supporting evidence, thus explaining to the reader who you have succeeded in defending your hypothesis or thesis statement. Don’t assume your reader will understand everything you have covered so use your synthesis paragraphs to ensure your ideas are clear. • Implications You should write a paragraph or two on the implications of your nursing dissertation. So what does this mean? You have worked very hard to push the envelope in some area of study within your discipline. Perhaps you provided answers to questions that no has ever asked before, or you provided a new perspective for dealing with a research problem in your field. Whatever your contribution might be you should always state what the implications of your research are. • Predictions Immediately after the implications paragraphs you should write about what you expect will be the next logical step for your studies. Will other researchers take them a step further? Will someone write a rebuttal or conduct studies attempting to denounce your findings. Make predictions built upon what you have been able to achieve academically on a personal level and for the discipline as a whole. • Recommendations This might not be required in your field, so it is important that you check with your advisor before you commit too much time writing recommendations. There is, however, absolutely no harm in the inclusion of what actions you think other researchers should take to develop your ideas and findings even further. The paragraph need not be more than a few sentences long, but if you can save yourself from the time in having to come up with ideas then go ahead and avoid the section altogether.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9452073574066162}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '12670', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:QPBEDPEB34FUH4NKT6VOHRYQ77ELXZAO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b1044c46-5ca8-4517-aa63-292f8328c972>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 22, 4, 50, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '77.81.246.214', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RZ32UXCTCSMDMPIDCKLPILLDIE47FAHA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:001bac1b-53a1-4e7c-a2ea-84f7693726b2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://jonathanwardlondon.com/tutorials/nursing-dissertation.php', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9e1d38ca-7a95-4997-97ef-3aa9cc67ff21>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '465', 'url': 'http://jonathanwardlondon.com/tutorials/nursing-dissertation.php', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-225-90-232.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-30\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05605781078338623', 'original_id': '1a3fd120681c9ee015836e61947c57a9c8131180995d8357adbc7afe68c28961'}
Gold prices meander after ECB’s reluctant statement Amid further, but by now routine, delays and more negotiations among its political leaders, the situation in Greece showed no concrete signs of coming to a conclusion just yet, despite the optimism manifest in certain currency, equity and commodity markets on Tuesday. To wit, the euro traded near $1.329 (a two-month high) while European stocks posted gains despite some unsettling economic metrics coming out of Germany. Gold and crude oil enjoyed a very good trading session on Tuesday as speculators threw money at both markets with an amount of generosity that was clearly lacking on, say, last Friday. This morning, however, the going got a bit tougher after the euro exhibited a bit of “fade” in the wake of a reluctant-to-dole-out-money kind of statement coming from the European Central Bank. A package intended to untie the complicated knots that Greece is tangled in has been on the working tables in Athens since July but the past five days have really been cliff-hanger ones when it comes to the country securing its second round of bailout funds and/or its prospects of remaining in the eurozone altogether. Whether Greece secures the money or heads into bankruptcy does not alter the fact that its denizens face inevitable hardships ahead, complete with wage and pension cuts as well as even more joblessness. Greek labor unions staged another walkout yesterday and indicated that their members are not keen on more austerity measures being imposed upon them and that the bailout is being rammed down their throats by foreign creditors. Greek Finance Minister Venizelos calls the unfolding saga a “dramatic and acute dilemma.” However, it is clear that despite dramatic statements being made by politicians who are up of election/reelection come April, the real power in the situation resides in the hands of the so-called “troika” of the IMF, the ECB, and the European Commission at this juncture. Gold prices meandered on either side of the ‘unchanged’ marker this morning and orbited around the $1,745 area as the US dollar did not appear to pierce the 78.50 level on the trade-weighted index following yesterday’s euro-centric optimism-induced sell-off it was subjected to. At least one school of thought sees a potential sell signal in the recent advances made by the yellow metal, while another such school envisions more volatility as the defining feature of bullion in coming months. Crude oil, on the other hand, made further progress to the upside, gaining another $1.25 this morning. Developments in Iran and Nigeria continue to bolster black gold and the lower dollar did not hurt it either. Speaking of the greenback, the “Arab Street” has been turning toward it in droves following the spreading malaise that has ensued in the wake of the “Arab Spring.” Folks in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Iraq, and Syria have been seeking shelter in the American currency have watched their own colorful banknotes taking a hit in value and they have thus sought out the relative safety of the buck in unprecedented numbers. Bloomberg News reports that, for example, “In Syria, where an uprising against President Bashar al- Assad’s rule is still raging, demand for dollars is so high that Mudher Salih, the deputy central bank governor of neighboring Iraq, said Jan. 10 that traders were buying dollars in his country to sell them illegally next door.” Silver climbed by 19 cents to the $34.34 mark on the bid-side but appeared confined in the $34 to $34.50 channel for the time being. Platinum gained $3 to rise to the $1,650 level and palladium moved up by $1 to the $709 per ounce figure. The former has now halved its previous near-$200 discount to gold in a matter of not too many trading sessions. There are a couple of fresh news items on the subject of the noble metals that merit our attention: they come from Norilsk, Lonmin, and South Africa. Read on: The world’s top palladium producer, Norilsk Nickel said on Tuesday that “PGMs have investment potential comparable or even greater than gold.” Platinum has moved 16% higher thus far this year, while palladium has advanced by 24% from its October lows. Existing platinum above-ground supplies might last no more than 7 months if production of the metal were to be halted. A Norilsk official puts the price of palladium at $2,100 in five years’ time, while he also sees a 50% gain (to $2,500) as possible in platinum. Gold would have to touch $5,100 to mirror the kind of performance that Norilsk envisions in palladium. Another PGM producer, Lonmin, told attendees at the Africa Mining Conference in Cape Town that the risk of platinum supply disruptions is growing. The firm’s CEO, Ian Farmer pointed to “government safety stoppages, labour management difficulties, skills shortages, transformation and equity ownership challenges, rising community expectations, resource nationalism and high electricity prices” – all of which are making operating in South Africa increasingly difficult.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '2d56e3eb787a9a00d626d69394ecfce4d2b7d03c8c43af6ebb54bcc19fbedf3f'}
Gelanoglanis is a genus of fish in the family Auchenipteridae native to South America. Species There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus: Gelanoglanis nanonocticolus Soares-Porto, S. J. Walsh, Nico & Netto, 1999 Gelanoglanis pan Calegari, R. E. dos Reis & Vari, 2014 Gelanoglanis stroudi J. E. Böhlke, 1980 Gelanoglanis travieso Rengifo & Lujan, 2008 Gelanoglanis varii Calegari & R. E. dos Reis, 2016 References Auchenipteridae Catfish genera Fish of South America Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by James Erwin Böhlke	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelanoglanis', 'collection': 'Wikipedia', 'open_type': 'Open Web', 'license': 'CC-By-SA', 'date': '2023.0', 'title': 'Gelanoglanis', 'creator': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gelanoglanis&action=history', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '82', 'token_count': '183', '__index_level_0__': '23256', 'original_id': '40257da9993afcfecc840d6ae13baa23943d438d556f426bc7ab49bdded410ad'}
Rosemary Balsamic Steak & Eggs Use a paper towel to pat the steak dry to remove excess moisture. Place the steak in the plastic sealed bag (the bag can be smaller just make sure your steak is able to fit). Pour Drew’s Organics Rosemary Balsamic Dressing into the bag, remembering to let out as much air as possible when sealing. Move the steak around with your hands to evenly distribute the marinade. Then place the bag in the refrigerator to marinate for at least 30 minutes. Once marinated, remove from the refrigerator. Heat a cast iron skillet over medium to high heat. The key is to make sure the cast iron skillet is hot. Remove steak from the bag and gently lay the steak in the skillet. Make sure to lay it down in the direction away from you to avoid splatter. Cook for 3-5 minutes. For thin steaks stick to around 3 minutes and for thicker steak aim for 5 minutes. Flip the steak over and continue to cook for another 3-5 minutes. Remove from pan and let rest for 5 minutes. Allowing the steak to rest will help the juices redistribute and while also allowing the residual heat to continue cooking the steak. While the steak rests cook the eggs. Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Pour 1 tbsp olive oil into the skillet. Crack the eggs and pour directly in the pan to fry. Cook eggs for 3 minutes or until the egg whites set. Remove from pan. Use a sharp knife or preferably a steak knife to slice the now rested steak at an angle against the grain. Jasmin Foster is a registered dietitian and food photographer in Washington, D.C. who believes in healthy balanced eating. Cook Time 50 minutes Contact Drew's	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '15', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8986148834228516}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '105574', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XLL5BGQ32GYQYWIPN2PQRUVMTLBOHD45', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:4d4809fd-e6a4-4e56-85cc-512f4dc5438a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 9, 29, 23, 1, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.185.0.2', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GOLGPNJ2UHIL3MXE4VX7GIY6UUC5LQOW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:449130b5-01ee-43b9-91a5-c1916d6c5e8c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.drewsorganics.com/recipes/rosemary-balsamic-steak-eggs/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:45fd31ef-66ce-4c60-b024-90f956171dc3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '332', 'url': 'https://www.drewsorganics.com/recipes/rosemary-balsamic-steak-eggs/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September/October 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-96\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08010953664779663', 'original_id': '0546b86906ddf9f29e243be584642f88d5284f8d377dbd00f944b424810e9e54'}
hubspot and hootsuiteThe news is out, and we're excited to announce that HubSpot and HootSuite are teaming up to make the world of marketing an even better place. Team HS & HS are launching a new product integration, a record-breaking webinar, multiple ebooks, and more, all centered around a single idea: we should make it easier for marketers to generate, nurture, and manage leads via social media, so they can finally "close the loop" on their social media marketing efforts (what we're calling 'closed-loop social' for short). The partnership will directly connect social media to generating, managing, and nurturing leads for the first time, and we think it's a match made in heaven. Social media is a growing channel, and the average budget spent on social media has increased 133% in just 3 years. However, during those 3 years, social was primarily used as a promotion and engagement tool, and we believe that social as a lead nurturing and closing tool has only just scratched the surface. The HubSpot HootSuite integration will make it easier for customers to use social media to better work their leads and make the close. Via a new beta app, users of both products can monitor their leads' tweets in HootSuite to identify opportunities to follow up with their leads with a tweet. Users can also use the app to monitor their best-performing keywords in HubSpot for relevant conversations that could lead to prospecting opportunities. HootSuite Pro and Enterprise users are eligable to apply for the app now and take advantage of the released product in late June. Not too shabby! hubspot hootsuite 1 hubspot hootsuite 2 resized 600 We're also venturing to break the 2011 record for world's largest webinar with our joint webinar, The Science of Inbound Marketing, co-presented by HubSpot Social Media Scientist Dan Zarrella and HootSuite VP of Marketing Ben Watson. HootSuite will also serve as the presenting sponsor at HubSpot’s Inbound 2012, a 3-day blow-out marketing conference happening August 27th through the 30th in Boston. HootSuite's presence at the event will be fun, educational, and topped off by a killer party in true HootSuite style. We're looking forward to hosting this major event, which will help marketing professionals, business owners, and agency executives improve marketing effectiveness. So what does this social partnership mean for marketers? How can you take advantage of closed-loop social to use social media as a middle-of-the-funnel marketing tool? Let's explain ... 4 Ways to Use Closed-Loop Social Media to Improve Your Marketing 1. Monitor key terms in social media as proactive prospecting. With closed-loop social, you can monitor the keywords and phrases that your best leads are using in social media. This enables you to identify opportunities to jump into the conversation and interact with your potential customers. The key here is to avoid being overly forward or "salesy." Rather, be natural and add value where it makes sense. Offer your best content, be helpful, and eventually the people you're tweeting with could convert into customers. 2. Consider using social media instead of the typical email follow up. Traditionally, the playbook has been to exclusively nurture leads further down the sales funnel using email. But you don't have to limit lead nurturing to email. There are certainly other ways to connect and communicate with leads one-on-one, and social media is one of them. Why not send a tweet to leads asking how they enjoyed their product trial or a recent demo they attended? They just might appreciate the follow up. 3. Increase the likelihood for sales by nurturing leads through multiple channels. Some folks prefer certain forms of communication over others, so consider the fact that your leads might rather receive a tweet from your business than an email. Nurturing your leads via multiple channels lets your leads choose how they want to interact with you. By monitoring your leads' behaviors, you'll be able to engage with your prospects through their channels of choice, making for a much more personalized lead nurturing experience. 4. Create advanced filters to catch "buying signals" from your leads. Imagine this: You're monitoring social media and you see one of your recent leads tweeting, "I'm considering buying X product. Anyone have any experience with it?" Here's your golden opportunity to say thank you for considering your product, and perhaps even forward one of your company's customer success stories! To do this using closed-loop social, all you'd have to do when you start monitoring social posts from your leads is to set up specific filters for keywords like your company name, product name, industry keywords, etc. This way, you're much more likely to catch a sales opportunity like this and follow up in a timely manner. Are you using social media to close the loop with your leads today? What tips can you share? 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How do you know you’re safe? How do you know you’re safe... In a time where there are no limits, no boundaries, no roadmaps? How do you know you’re safe... When the ground beneath you shakes at random and nations cry out for help? How do you know you’re safe... When economies are crumbling, people are raging, and our food is... Continue Reading → What if it all fell apart? What if one day we told the secrets and transcended the questions that keep us stuck, looking for answers that aren’t there? What if we allowed ourselves to think that anything was possible, that there were no limitations, no hurt feelings, no real consequences following the ultimate collapse? What if we let imagination play with... Continue Reading → Why Write? Blog at Up ↑	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '117', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9358174800872804}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '48838', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:76LOT3RJASSMG6QRKCSXWNB6IHK7Q3ZI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:19c61fd9-370f-4a3e-9152-77b34757d266>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 20, 18, 16, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3CMAJGIE4XCL3GME2IDRAWKZAVAR3RCE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9b891aa9-bd0d-495e-aa8a-61d87d6fc11c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://colleenthornton.com/tag/insecurity/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9420b015-39d5-4cd3-bde4-554f3ed50136>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '242', 'url': 'https://colleenthornton.com/tag/insecurity/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-109.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08867853879928589', 'original_id': 'd3ce4654ef8150ca23e8b44f896d54c4c71d50f054f42354568fb874ff422d1a'}
Q: Chrome Custom Tabs change the default close button not working I am trying to change the default close button on the actionbar of the custom chrome tabs. I have tried to set using setCloseButtonIcon() However, the default close button still shows. I want to change the close to an arrow. My code below: public void openHomePage() { final CustomTabsIntent.Builder builder = new CustomTabsIntent.Builder(); builder.setToolbarColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.primary)); final Bitmap backButton = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_48dp); builder.setCloseButtonIcon(backButton); builder.setShowTitle(true); final CustomTabsIntent customTabsIntent = builder.build(); customTabsIntent.launchUrl(getActivity(), Uri.parse(mTvHomepage.getText().toString())); } A: I have an observation. Last month, when searching through SO for various chrome custom tab issues, I found this answer suggesting to use 24dp size icon and also found this question saying that it is working fine with PNG. I have checked your code with using back arrow icon from here. When I used "ic_arrow_back_black_48dp", it didn't change the default close button to an arrow (see left image). final Bitmap backButton = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_48dp); But when I used "ic_arrow_back_black_24dp", it perfectly changed the default close button to an arrow (see right image). final Bitmap backButton = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_24dp); As it has worked perfectly for me, you should also try with "24dp" size back arrow icon from here instead of "48dp" size back arrow icon. Screenshot : [ Device: ASUS_Z00UD; OS: 6.0.1 ] A: Presuming you are using the Google library and not on of the related ones the icons size should be 24dp as documented here. This can be achieved with BitmapFactory Options: BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options(); options.outWidth = 24; options.outHeight = 24; options.inScaled = true; //already default, just for illustration - ie scale to screen density (dp) ... = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_48dp, opts); A: You can directly get BitmapDrawable from Drawable but not from VectorDrawable as setCloseButtonIcon requires @NonNull Bitmap icon You can also use svg as follows. Download the svg from here ic_arrow_back_black_24px Below methods are self explanatory: private static Bitmap getBitmapFromDrawable(Context context, int drawableId) { Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(context, drawableId); if (drawable instanceof BitmapDrawable) { return ((BitmapDrawable) drawable).getBitmap(); } else if (drawable instanceof VectorDrawable) { return getBitmapFromVectorDrawable((VectorDrawable) drawable); } else { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unable to convert to bitmap"); } } @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) private static Bitmap getBitmapFromVectorDrawable(VectorDrawable vectorDrawable) { Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(vectorDrawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), vectorDrawable.getIntrinsicHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap); vectorDrawable.setBounds(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight()); vectorDrawable.draw(canvas); return bitmap; } You can use the above as: builder.setCloseButtonIcon(getBitmapFromDrawable(this, R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_24px)); Ref from SO	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f64c0179883082605d0462270dee50036b000307c4d36d364cc92e4a6c36fb0f'}
Monday, April 25, 2011 Beam Me Up, Scotty: Teleportation, Schrődinger’s Cat and Quantum Entanglement What do the terms squeezing, photon subtraction, entanglement and homodyne detection have in common? Together, they represent the quantum manipulation that researchers used to achieve the first documented case of successful teleportation of quantum light. In the journal Science last Friday, researchers reported that they had successfully transferred quantum information from one place to another without having to physically move it. It was destroyed in one place and instantly resurrected in another, “alive” again and unchanged. A notion exploited in the film Prestige, based on a teleportation invention by Nikola Tesla. It’s also pretty much what happens in the SF show Star Trek in which an object is “destroyed” atom by atom in one place then built or "beamed" back with the same pattern elsewhere. Monday, April 18, 2011 What is Your Avatar? Have you seen James Cameron’s recent blockbuster fantasy, Avatar? I first watched this visually stunning motion picture in the theatre with some close family friends. What first blew me away about Avatar was how beautifully and thoughtfully the jungle planet and its people were portrayed. I'm an ecologist and I recognized great expertise and detailed effort in the complex designs of the planet’s ecosystems. Upon further reflection, I realized how the simple theme of connectivity and respect was reverently and elegantly portrayed in a fractal relationship from environment to culture to story and from the opening frame of story promise to its eventual story fulfillment at the end. This was no simple action fantasy based on the simple plot of being at one with nature. The choice of movie title and planet name, Pandora (see Pandora myth below) all figured into the subtle fractal-layered messages buried beneath the obvious tale, aptly described by reviewer Anne Thompson as “disarmingly sincere.” The film’s opening sweeps us into a breathtaking panorama of Pandora’s lush and exotic jungle to the haunting notes of James Horner’s tribal score. What struck me about the reactions of my friends, others I spoke with, and many reviewers, was that several panned the movie as cliché. “More impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling,” was the consensus of many critics. “Except for the great special effects, there was nothing new,” many lamented. “It’s an old story,” they said. What’s wrong with that? Isn’t everything an old story, which tells a metaphoric rendition of some universal truth? Aren’t the very best stories we tell based on ancient tales of morality? Which brings me to clichés. In Writing 101 we all learn to avoid clichés like the plague (oops, there’s a cliché!). But let’s look at clichés… A cliché is really a ubiquitously recognized metaphor (like the one I just used). Clichés arise, like stereotypes, from cultural and historical truths, told metaphorically through story. Essentially, a cliché is a metaphor. If you think about it, a cliché is a cliché because it represents a core truth in our culture that is repeated over and over because of its relevance to who and what we are. So much so that it becomes ingrained in our cultural expression. The best stories recognize elements of cliché in the telling of story. This does not mean that they avoid the cliché, per se. In fact, the best stories embrace cliché but use it in a refreshing way to provide a new perspective on an old story; one that deserves to be told over and over. This is the case with Avatar. So, what’s the cliché in Avatar? The core story, of course. It is an ancient tale that explores the emptiness of greed and its cousin, fear. It shows the consequence of lack of connectivity (among ourselves and to all other things), and lack of compassion and openness to the unknown. In some important ways it is also about identity, honor and loyalty; how in choosing how we live our lives—whether risking our identity through obedience or risking safety through dissent—we create a legacy that we leave to our children and the world. On the surface the story is simple and clichéd: humans come to the jungle planet of Pandora inhabited by simple primitives, the Na’vi, who possess little technology (the quick assumption is that because they are not technologically advanced, they are simpletons). Showing the common disrespect and lack of compassion that many of us show animals, the humans willingly set out to destroy the Na’vi land and their homes to exploit the planet’s resources for themselves. Enter our hero, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), a paraplegic ex-marine who was recruited to replace his dead twin brother in the Avatar program—in which they are meant to inhabit an avatar native to gain the trust of the Na’vi to push them off a coveted mineral deposit. Jake takes the job for the prize of winning his legs back. He ends up getting their trust but at the cost of also falling in love with their culture and place and the chief’s daughter, Neyteri (Zoe Saldana) at the cost of his legs (I’m reminded of Kevin Costner’s Dances with Wolves). This propels Jake on a collision course with his concepts of loyalty, honor, and justice. And, ultimately, his identity. Okay, so you’re recognizing more plot clichés. Another cliché is the pristine “Nature wisdom” embraced by the natives that strongly reflects our North American native peoples. The Na’vi also worship a “mother” goddess (Eywa; Mother Nature) like many of our ancient pagan cultures. Cameron’s intention was to create an action fantasy that was both visually stunning and mindful. “The Na’vi represent something that is our higher selves, or our aspirational selves, what we would like to think we are,” said Cameron. And even though there are good humans in the film, the humans “represent what we know to be the parts of ourselves that are trashing our world and maybe condemning ourselves to a grim future.” He acknowledged that Avatar implicitly criticized the United State’s role in the Iraq War. “We know what it feels like to launch the missiles. We don’t know what it feels like for them to land on our home soil, not in America,” said Cameron. “I think it’s very patriotic to question a system that needs to be corralled.” The human scientists of the film discover that the natives are harmoniously linked to one another and to their environment through Nature’s intelligent “network”. Words like “download” and “link up” suggest another “living” network: the Internet. Which brings us back to the name of the movie and all that it entails: Avatar. Avatars aren’t anything new (see below). Today, anyone who writes a blog or belongs to Facebook, MySpace or any other online social network has an avatar. Perhaps you have several. If you play 3-D games in virtual worlds, you deal with one to many of them. Avatars are an icon or persona that represents you or an aspect of you on the internet and is usually represented graphically. Mine is SF Girl, which stands for science fiction girl—you guessed it, I write science fiction. Because I’m a writer and speaker, I use a head shot for my image. Many people choose something less “real” to represent their presence on the internet. My friend, Margaret, for instance, uses a little blue alien (Geez! I should have thought of that! LOL!). The point is, your avatar—both image and name—communicates your chosen persona to billions of people in cyberspace. This is how you’ve chosen to be recognized. What is your avatar? Meaning and History of Avatar: In storytelling, an avatar is basically an archetype, representing a concept or quality. Avatar originates from the Sanskrit language in sacred Hindu texts, and is a term for divine beings sent to restore goodness to Earth such as Vishnu, the ever peaceful preserver of the universe, who maintains the cosmic order, Dharma. It translates as “incarnation” or “appearance” or “manifestation”. According to the Hindu texts, good and evil forces are usually evenly matched in the world; but at times the balance is destroyed and evil demons get the upper hand. Vishnu then incarnates in a human or animal form to set the balance right. Cameron’s Avatar (Jake Sully) basically “reincarnated” from one form to another to set the balance right. The Myth of Pandora: Cameron chose the name of the planet, Pandora, with deliberation. In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her, so he did—using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents: Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, and Hermes persuasion. Her name Pandora means "all-gifted." When Prometheus stole fire from heaven, Zeus gave Pandora to Prometheus' brother. Pandora had a jar which she was not to open under any circumstance. Curiousity got the better of her and Pandora opened the jar. All evil escaped and spread over the earth. She quickly closed the lid, but the entire contents of the jar had escaped, except for one thing at the bottom: Hope. Pandora was deeply saddened by what she had done, and feared Zeus' wrath. But Zeus didn’t punish her. Eventually, Pandora heard a voice from inside the jar pleading for her to open it a second time. Pandora did, and fixed her earlier mistake by giving humanity the greatest gift of all: Hope. Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Bruce DePalma and Spinning Fields The precise application of Newton’s laws … have to be restricted to non-rotating mechanical objects in field-free space. In a gravitational field, the possibility of extraction of greater energy by a new mechanical dimension [rotation] opens up the possibility of an anti-gravitational interaction—Bruce DePalma, March, 1977 Some consider Bruce DePalma a 20th Century “Galileo”; in a single experiment involving rotation and spinning fields, he refuted Newton’s idea of inertia and Einstein’s theories of gravitation. But like many gifted, intuitive and visionary scientists before him, DePalma’s work was met with skepticism and censure by the traditional scientific community. Despite his recognized brilliance and MIT/Harvard background, DePalma’s exotic physics is considered subversive by his mainstream peers and has been ridiculed. It didn’t help that he led an equally exotic life that included experimenting with psycho-active drugs and that he harbored a rather volatile temper. DePalma’s work was applauded by the free energy community; however, he died unexpectedly in his early 60s in 1997 and his theories have remained unverified. Was DePalma another misguided scientist or a misunderstood visionary? It took twenty years for Lynn Margulis to vindicate her theories and it took over 200 years for Lamarck’s work on soft inheritance to rise victorious from the darkness of scornful condemnation. DePalma’s experiment with steel balls in 1972 showed that certain physical properties of an object are radically altered—both its mass and inertia—if it is rotated. According to DePalma, rotation produces a force field, specifically around the main axis of the rotating object, that he measured and called a torsion field or spin field. Time-lapse stroboscopic photographs revealed that the steel ball rotating at ~27,000 rpm flew higher and fell faster than the companion ball that was not rotating. 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Friday, December 3, 2010 "So your answer is, it's the spending of money that drives the economy" Representative John Shadegg of Arizona recently said this, to mock the interviewer (skip to the fourth mention of unemployment benefits). In other words, this seems to imply that this Congressman does not think that the spending of money drives the economy. I will admit that I have never been to Arizona or the Capitol (I'm excluding when I was approximately 1 year old) so maybe I don't know that they use a barter-based economy, or an economy based on mutual cooperation and sharing, which we might call Communism, but I'm pretty sure that in both places they use roughly the same money-based economy as the rest of the United States, and the world. But maybe I'm being intentionally unfair and I should approach this more objectively. What would be an economy not based on the spending of money? We could have one based on the production of goods, but with no one to consume them, that makes little sense, so even a production-oriented approach eventually needs people to spend money. Besides, it would be rather hard to motivate workers to produce if they did not have any money to spend; slavery hasn't exactly withstood the test of time. Or we could try a research-based economy, driven by knowledge and technology and just generally getting better at everything we know and do. I like the sound of that. But I have to wonder, how do the scientists eat, live, and move? I imagine they require things like food, housing, transportation, perhaps even entertainment, so that beyond this Utopian knowledge-based economy there must also be an economy based on physical production, which goes back to the production-based economy which requires: spending money. I get that some people are market fundamentalists and believe that any government intrusion in markets must be bad, and so obviously they'd want to reject Keynesian economics of government stimulus spending. But surely they still have some basic understanding of things like people needing money to buy goods to encourage production which is the root of employment. In other words, an economy based on spending money. Or alternatively, the Chicago school which would advocate deregulation and tax cuts, possibly with some trickle-down economics for good measure, which operates partly on the idea that the rich will... spend money! See a theme here? Yea, economies need people to spend money. When demand is low, you can cut taxes to encourage spending or you can raise government spending to raise spending. Or you can clap your hands and say "job job jobs!" and make it all better. Republicans like Mr. Shadegg seem to prefer the third approach. But he's not done yet. The interviewer followed up with this question: "Unemployment checks, people don't spend that money?" To which he responded "No, they'll spend as little of it as possible because they'll hang onto it as long as they can." An excellent point, if it were true. In fact it's the complete opposite of the truth. The long-term unemployed tend to have bills, debts, and all manner of pushed-back expenses. In other words, they are going to spend that money. They have no other choice. Spending that money is what keeps their heat on, their bellies full (or at least half-full, but they might see it as half-empty), and themselves in their homes. So the Congressman is 180 degrees wrong on this. Earlier he said that any extension must also be linked to tax cuts. Why? Well surely it cannot be to hope for trickle-down spending, since the wealthy have a habit of saving their money. Does he want it for investment? In the long term, investment would make sense, but in the short term, who is going to invest in a business if there's no demand for products? Maybe there would be more demand if people were spending money... 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Kettering Health Network Logo Health Library Explorer Brain Tumors: Chemotherapy What is chemotherapy? Chemotherapy (or chemo) uses strong medicines to kill cancer cells. The medicines attack and kill cells that divide quickly. Cancer cells divide quickly. But so do some normal cells, like those in your mouth, skin, and hair. Because of this, chemo can also affect those normal cells in the body. This can lead to side effects. Chemotherapy tends to work better on fast-growing tumors. It's often used along with other treatments. These can include surgery or radiation therapy. How is chemotherapy given for brain tumors? Chemotherapy can be given in several ways: • As pills taken by mouth • Into the blood through a vein (IV) • Right into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that bathes the brain (this is called intrathecal chemotherapy) • As a dissolvable wafer of the medicine carmustine, which is put on the parts of a tumor that can't be removed during surgery Chemotherapy is given in cycles. This means you take the medicines for a certain amount of time. Then you have time off to recover. Each cycle lasts a few weeks. This pattern will continue over the course of the treatment. You may have treatment in any of these places: • The outpatient part of your hospital • Your healthcare provider’s office • A chemotherapy clinic • An infusion center What types of medicines are used to treat brain tumors? Temozolomide is the medicine most often used. It's used for many types of brain tumors. Some of the other chemo medicines that might be used are: • Carmustine (BCNU) • Irinotecan • Lomustine (CCNU) • Procarbazine • Vincristine • Carboplatin • Cisplatin • Etoposide • Methotrexate Possible side effects Side effects depend on the type and dose of chemo medicine, as well as the length of your treatment. Because the medicines kill cells that divide quickly, they also damage healthy cells that divide quickly. They may harm cells in the bone marrow where new blood cells are made. This can cause low numbers of blood cells, leading to problems such as: • Bruising or bleeding easily, due to low levels of platelets • Extreme tiredness, due to low levels of red blood cells Other possible side effects include: • Hair loss • Loss of appetite • Mouth sores • Nausea and vomiting • Diarrhea • Constipation Talk with your healthcare team about the side effects you should watch for and how best to prevent or manage them. Most side effects go away over time after treatment ends. Tell your healthcare team about any side effects you have. There are medicines that can help reduce and even prevent some side effects. Chemo can also affect fertility. Some medicines may also damage hearing and other organs, such as the kidneys or lungs. Your healthcare team will review the medicines and their side effects with you. It's helpful to keep a log of side effects and share it with your healthcare team. This information can help you and your team manage symptoms more quickly and stop them from getting worse. Working with your healthcare team Keep a written journal of your treatment schedule and any signs or symptoms you have. Write down physical, mental, and emotional changes. A written list will make it easier for you to remember your questions when you go to your appointments. It will also make it easier for you to work with your healthcare team to make a plan to manage your side effects. Talk with your healthcare providers about what signs to look for and when to call them. Know what number to call if you have problems after office hours and on weekends and holidays. 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Pages Parker has been a Student Naval Aviator for over 2 years. There are pros and cons of being in one of the longest training pipelines possible, so we have learned to take the good with the bad. Parker will receive his wings next month and finally be able to drop the "student" in "Student Naval Aviator". I have mixed feelings about this chapter coming to a close. It's been an awesome ride, but we are so excited for this next phase of Navy life. Throughout this training process, however, I have adopted new ways of thinking, habits, and concerns courtesy of being a Student Naval Aviator's wife. You know you're married to a Student Naval Aviator when... 1. At some point in the training process, you have been challenged to make plain chicken and rice taste good day after day after day to curb airsickness. You have also bought anything with the least bit of peanut butter or ginger in it for the same reason. 2. When you walk outside and see the sun shining, the first thing out of your mouth is "It's a beautiful day for flying!". If Jenny had a nickel for every time she heard that at the start of one of our walks... 3. You kind of want to hit the person who decided it was a good idea to have flight school in Pensacola and Corpus Christi, the rainiest and windiest cities, respectively. You want to propose a place like Nevada. I doubt you get cancelled for weather in the desert. That said, you also kind of want to buy said person chocolate because Pensacola and Corpus Christi are beautiful. 4. You are prepared to tell your husband what kind of plane is flying overhead because you know he will ask. 5. Even when your husband isn't around, you try to identify the different planes flying overhead. Then you get annoyed and try to remember the days where a plane was just a plane. 6. You are constantly folding loads of laundry that are entirely black. Black undershirts, underwear, and socks fill up your laundry basket faster than the weather changes in Texas. 7. You check your computer every day at 4 PM like clock work to see when your husband is scheduled the next day. 8. You have mixed feelings when the schedule finally does come out. You want him to be scheduled so you aren't stuck in training forever, but you also don't want him to be scheduled so you can have a day off and eat cheese puffs on the couch together. 9. You plan his winging day more than you planned your wedding day. You know who is coming into town, where they are staying, what days they arrive/depart, and you have a schedule of events down to a tee. You also meticulously plan the meals in an attempt to show your family that you are somewhat domesticated. 10. You don't know how to have a conversation that doesn't at least mildly include planes. This is real life, people. So there you have it. I promise I used to be normal. I have no idea what happened. All I know is I am married to a student Naval aviator. Hello, life. Bonus: you show your husband this blog post, and he decides it's a good idea for an airplane quiz. He pulls up a picture on the Internet of a plane he thinks you should know. You identify it correctly, and he goes back upstairs to study. Life. Okay yall, don't hate it until you try it. I had seen a few things about this black bean brownie concept floating around Pinterest and the blogosphere, and I just had to give it a shot. These brownies are made with black beans instead of flour, so they are super fudgy and just a tad bit healthier. I know it sounds strange, but the black beans really do take on any flavor. I didn't tell Parker about the odd ingredient until he took a bite (Hello! That's half the fun!), and he had no idea these little babies were made with black beans. I also tried them on a girlfriend, and she couldn't believe it either. I really liked these brownies a lot. Parker was a little less keen on them because they had more of a dark chocolate taste thanks to the unsweetened cocoa powder. I encourage you to give these a try. It will probably be the fudgiest brownie you've ever had! Ingredients: 1 (15 oz) can of black beans, drained and rinsed well 3 eggs 3 Tbsp canola oil 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp baking powder pinch of salt 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, divided Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 2. Process the black beans in a food processor until smooth. 3. Add the rest of the ingredients, minus the chocolate chips, and process again until smooth. 4. Mix in 1/2 cup chocolate chips and pulse a few times until chocolate chips are incorporated. 5. Pour your batter into a greased 8x8 baking dish and spread around the pan until smooth. 6. Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup chocolate chips on top of the batter. 7. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until it passes the toothpick test. Let cool before cutting. Coming off of this weekend, my heart is simply full. It was a weekend full of love every way you slice it. We spent the weekend with my family again, something you won't find me complaining about one bit! With our move to Virginia on the horizon, we both knew this was probably our last time to go to my parents' house before Christmas. We maxed out our opportunity and stuck in dinners and breakfasts with friends amidst good old-fashioned quality family time. I bugged everyone all weekend by pulling out my phone to take pictures every time a semi picture-worthy moment occurred. I would blame it on blogger problems, but I was avid about documenting my life in college and drove everyone nuts then too. I'm going to just chock it up to Chelsea problems. Anyway, I digress. The weekend. Parker has had the itch to get back in the shop and build something as of late, so he was oh so happy to help my dad with house projects Saturday. Jenny was reunited with her favorite cousins and couldn't contain her waggy tail, but she did manage to spend quality time with each person by acting as a couch pillow. I was also reunited with my favorite look-a-like after a couple of months of not seeing each other, and that's a great day for any twin. Can you tell who is who? Hint: I'm the one with the milkshake. Hands down, my favorite part of the weekend was Saturday night. We had tickets to the Casting Crowns concert and were so excited for an evening of worship and community as a family. Casting Crowns is a contemporary Christian band and one of my very favorites. I have seen them three times, and they never disappoint. I've mentioned that this hasn't been the easiest year for my family, and it hasn't. I want to elaborate on this in a separate post later in the week, but for now, I will just say I was bursting with joy at the chance to worship together as a family of 8. Every day isn't promised. Health isn't promised. I am learning to take advantage of the moments we have. Moments like the ones that made up this weekend are what make my world go around. Sitting here at home on a Sunday afternoon, my heart is full. Hello everyone! My name is Hallie and I am in charge of the Ticket Club™ website over here in South Windsor, Connecticut. TicketClub.com has introduced a special savings for U.S. active military and veterans. As a special “thank you” for serving this country and protecting our freedom, the company is offering FREE Ticket Club™ Premier memberships, valued at $49.99 each. The membership provides access to great prices on a large selection of tickets to concerts, sports, and theater events, even when they are sold out elsewhere. Additionally, our service men and women can save money on ticket purchases through Ticket Club™, because they will never have to pay service fees as members. U.S. military personnel and veterans can sign up directly on the Ticket Club™ Military Members page. Soldiers can also share something they have learned or accomplished that makes them proud of their service to be featured on the page. For those of you, who are interested in being featured on the page, please send the following information to [email protected]: • Name• Photo• Branch• Years of Service• Story: What did you learn or accomplish that you would like to share that makes you particularly proud of your service? Ticket Club™ wants to give back to those who have served and we can’t say thank you enough! Feel free to pass this along to anyone you know who can benefit from this offer. Enjoy your event & thank you so much for serving our country! I just think these questions are fun. I love reading random facts, so hopefully you do too. :) My favorite make-up item is... a tie between mascara and Vasoline. Sometimes I only put on a little mascara and call it a day, and Vasoline is just the greatest thing since sliced bread. 90% of the time though, I am not wearing make-up. I like looking put together when I have to, but if we are just hanging out around the house, I'll be rocking the natural look. The best book I've ever read was... gosh, I know I am supposed to say something more sophisticated than the Hunger Games. I am not an avid reader but have read my share of books, and the first book in the Hunger Games trilogy is up there on the list. My favorite TV show is... Friends. If you've spent more than a day with me, you probably know this. Greatest show ever made, in my opinion. A close second is Survivor. My husband and I get so excited for this Wednesday night obsession. I also loved Alias when it was on and watch The Bachelor every season, without fail. The most spontaneous thing I've ever done is... yeah, I've got nothing. I am really not a spontaneous person at all, as described in this post. I prefer dogs because... dogs are just happy to have humans. I had cats growing up and loved them, but we will always be a dog family. Seeing Jenny's wagging tail every time we walk through the door never gets old. I met my significant other... in a red suburban. That sounded terrible. Let's back up. My freshman year of college, a group of us were all going to a movie or dinner or something, and Parker happened to be there. That was the first time we ever met. The problem? I don't remember this! Parker teases me all the time because I don't remember the night we met. He was roommates with one of my friends from high school (now my brother-in-law), so I knew I met him in the first couple of weeks at college but have never been able to remember the exact moment. Apparently, it was in a friend's red suburban. You mean there is a link up for military wives across the blogosphere to talk about our experiences and the things we really wish people knew about being a military spouse? Naturally, I'm in." That was my reaction last week when I found out about said link-up. It's obvious from this blog that I am a military spouse, but there are definitely a few subjects I haven't really touched on that go hand in hand with this lifestyle. There are a ton of different stereotypes when it comes to military wives- some are good, some are not so flattering. It's something you can't truly understand until you've lived it, but allow me to give a little insight into the glamorous world of the military wife. Let's back up for a second. Parker and I started dating in college when we were 19. We were babies! Okay, we still are. He was a Navy contract, something that never deterred me nor encouraged me to date him. I fell in love with a man who happened to be contracted to serve in the Navy. When you're 19 and won't graduate for 3 years, the Navy really isn't something on the forefront of your mind. When Parker and I got more serious in our relationship and knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, the Navy was still a non-factor. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't be prouder to be a military wife, but I would have married Parker regardless. Like I said, I fell in love with a man who happened to be going into the Navy. scenes from the early days Everyone has different ideas about military life, but the one thing we can probably all agree on is that military life is an adventure. We have lived in Pensacola, FL, Kingsville, TX, Corpus Christi, TX, and will be heading to Norfolk, VA next month. Four moves in under three years of marriage is nothing short of an adventure, I'll tell you that much! Something a lot of people don't know though? Being a military wife is really fun! I may be in the 1% with this mindset, but I get excited about the moves. I get excited to meet new people and decorate a new house. I get excited to make new memories in new places. It's just plain fun. I feel like a lot of people look at military wives and feel sorry for us, and that's my biggest pet peeve. Some people view it as the guy dragging you all across the country and away from your family and then leaving you for long periods of time while you have to hold down the home front. Um, no. I mean, yes, that's the negative way to state the reality, but I chose this life. I chose to move across the country. I chose to support Parker at home when he has to go away. I chose Parker. Therefore, I chose this lifestyle. It was my choice. I can't speak for all military wives, but I don't want people to ever pity me. I covet prayers and support during the hard times, but I never, ever want people to feel sorry for me. I love this life! But more importantly, I was fully aware of what I signed up for. The second thing I wish people knew about being a military wife? You did not earn your husband's rank. I cannot tell you how much it frustrates me when people throw around their husband's rank like they somehow did something to earn it. We are women who fell in love with men who serve our country. Our husbands have ranks. We do not. We are all on an equal playing field, and I think it's our job to build each other up and support each other, not brag because our husband is this or feel inferior because our husband is that. There is no rank between the wives. If there is, there certainly shouldn't be. All in all, I love this life. I can't imagine being anything but a military wife. So bring on the short-notice moving and constant readjusting. Life's about the journey, not the destination. The other night, I found myself in a dinner rut. I just wanted to try a different combination of foods and mix things up. If you cook most nights a week, you have to change things up to keep it fun! That's the way I see it, anyway. I modified the recipe for these BBQ Chicken Avocado Quesadillas, and they were the perfect answer. They were super simple to prepare, they were quick, and they were delicious. Let's face it, avocado added to anything is amazing. They were a hit in my house! Ingredients (serves 2): 2 large (burrito-size) flour tortillas 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese, divided 1/4 cup BBQ sauce, divided 1/2 cup cooked, shredded chicken, divided 1 avocado, chopped into chunks Note: If you are starting with raw chicken like I did, throw it in the crockpot on high for about an hour with a little BBQ sauce drizzled over so it can be marinating while it cooks. Once it is cooked through, shred and add to the quesadillas in the directions below. Directions: 1. Place shredded chicken and BBQ sauce in a small bowl and stir together until combined. 2. Heat a large skillet on medium-high heat and lay one tortilla on the bottom. Sprinkle half of the tortilla with half the chicken/BBQ sauce mixture, half the cheese, and half the avocado chunks. 3. Fold the tortilla over and heat for 1-2 minutes before flipping and heating an additional 1-2 minutes. 4. Repeat with the remaining tortilla and ingredients. Cut both tortillas into 8 wedges and serve warm. This weekend Parker and I went home to see my family for Easter. This is the last holiday where we will have the luxury to just drive home on a whim, so we knew we wanted to spend it with family. I would love to say we dyed Easter eggs, hunted for eggs, and the like, but that's not quite how this weekend went down. What did we do? We mulched. It's a lot like dying Easter eggs, but not. In all seriousness, I was really excited when I found out we would be getting our hands dirty with a little old-fashioned manual labor. It was a beautiful day to be outside, and I was just happy to be spending time together as a family. I guess that's what happens when you become an adult. You just want to spend quality time with the people you love and don't care how you get it. So 160 bags of mulch later, I got my quality family time check in the box! I don't have the best back so I am really just posing with the bag of mulch. In my three years of back problems, we've found the one perk: not having to lift 160 bags of mulch. Glass half full, people. I was on spread-the-mulch-around-and-other-miscellaneous-tasks duty. I also got awarded LVP (least valuable player) for taking a 2 minute phone call. Apparently there are no phone calls when mulching! My little sister, on the other hand, handled those bags like a haus. The world's strongest man and the world's most cheerful helper, respectively pictured above. These two carried those 160 bags like champs! And the award for simultaneously being the cutest and most worthless helpers goes to these two furballs. They were loving all that sun and brought a certain element of charisma to the group. With everyone working together, we breezed through the task Saturday morning and were able to lay low and relax the rest of the weekend. It felt good to get outside and sweat a little with the family. Parker had a sore back and I probably needed 2 showers to wash off the stink, but we couldn't stop talking about how much fun it was on our way home! We also felt like we earned the giant Easter dinner we had, so there's that. Overall, the family was very pleased with the final product: Of course Sunday was all about Easter and the real reason we were all together. We are getting back on our feet after a tough season in our lives, and man do we have a lot to be thankful for. With the exception of missing my twin sister and brother-in-law, the weekend was perfect. God has been so faithful to us, and getting to celebrate the resurrection of His son was a blessing and a gift. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter as well celebrating with the ones you love! Today is Good Friday. Some of you may know this day marks the day Jesus died on the cross over 2000 years ago. On this day our debt was paid in full. Jesus was a perfect sacrifice made by a loving Creator to atone for our sins, but can our human minds even fathom how much He loves us? I've used this analogy before, but I love Parker with all that I am. I would do anything for him, and he would do the same for me. But Jesus didn't die for millions of people that loved Him. Most of the people at the cross that night ridiculed, mocked, and hated Him. Yet He died for those people and everyone else. Can you imagine paying the greatest sacrifice so that people who absolutely detested you could be saved? Jesus performed the ultimate act of love the night He died on Calvary. No earthly love can hold a candle to how much our Heavenly Father loves every one of us. When I think of the sacrifice Jesus made for me over 2000 years ago, I honestly feel ashamed. I have been judgmental, I have lied, I have been impatient. I have sinned so many times in my life that I can't even count, yet He still died for me and still longs for a relationship with me. "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord." -Romans 6:23 Today, we celebrate the greatest act of love the world has and will ever see. Living He loved us, dying He saved us. I am excited to spend time reflecting on what today means and remembering how much God loves us. He sent His son to die on a cross for you and me. There is no greater love. I pray that each of you remember how much you are truly loved by your Creator. Well, my favorite day of the month is here. Parker is back for the boy behind the blog series to take over the blog and answer some more questions! He shares in the enthusiasm, obviously. This round was made up of questions submitted by other men, which I think is really fun. Sorry, Parker, it looks like the question you submitted (What kind of airplane do you fly?) was not selected. I know, I was shocked too! So here we go... Questions and Answers (my responses to his answers are in grey): 1. Your significant other's blog: a blessing or a curse? Blessing- we get to document our lives so we can look back on it in the future and inspire others through our experiences. Parker and I both look at this blog as a blessing. If he had an issue with it, I wouldn't do it. Marriage first! 2. Do you read your wife's blog? Yes, usually. Sometimes I just look at the post and I already know what she wrote. I don't look at the recipe ones. Haha, the other boy behind the blog that reads my blog every day (my dad) likes to tell me how not excited he is for the recipe posts as well. I just like being able to share yummy food and store all my favorite recipes in one spot! I understand why those aren't as fun to read though :) 3. What is one thing you can do better than anyone that you know? I don't know of anything I am better at than anyone I know. Honestly, I am interested to see what other people put for this, because I doubt many people can actually give a real answer to this question. Didn't love this one. 4. What is your favorite TV sitcom from the 90s? Friends He would have incurred some major silent treatment had this not been his answer. We have been watching it in the evenings lately, and every time we watch it, I get a little less funny in his mind. He's slowly starting to realize all my good jokes are "Friends" quotes. Guilty. 5. If you were opening a small business or shop, what would it be? What goods/services would you sell? Computers, airplanes, or things made of wood, or maybe some sort of combination of all three. Sounds about right: computers, aviation, and building furniture. We've just covered his three main hobbies in a nutshell. That's all folks! Many thanks to Parker for, yet again, such willing participation. My favorite vacation spot is... about 10 minutes away from where I am currently sitting. My family vacationed to North Padre Island every year when I was a little girl, which is the island bordering Corpus Christi (where we are currently stationed). I have so many fond memories here and would snap back to the age of long beach days, crafts, and family bonding time in a heartbeat. Bonus points if you can tell us twins apart... even I think we look alike here! If I won a million dollars, I would... be really boring about it. I would put about $300K in the bank and give the rest to our parents. Then I would be depressed that I only actually received about $650K of that million dollars thanks taxes. If I could go on a date with one celebrity, it would be... I am pretty sure I am supposed to say a hot guy for this, but I would totally go to lunch with Jennifer Lawrence. Homegirl just seems like a fun person to hang out with. If I found a genie in a bottle, my three wishes would be... hmm, that's a toughie. I think I would wish for a million dollars, all the dogs to be adopted into loving homes, and 3 more wishes. Greedy Gert alert! My favorite clothing item is... shorts. They are just comfortable and not the least bit constricting like most pairs of jeans. I am the person wearing shorts when it's cold outside because I really dislike wearing jeans. I'm going to love chilly Virginia, obviously. Sometimes I feel the need to make a "make Parker happy" meal. I mean let's face it. He's a man which means all food makes him happy, but I knew this recipe would be one he would love. That husband loves anything buffalo, so he loved this dinner. And so did my waistline! This meal was super healthy without sacrificing on taste. The best part though? It was ready in mere minutes. Hello, dream dinner. It will be on the menu again and again! Moving is kind of really expensive. Parker and I have lived in 4 different cities in under 3 years, so that's a lot of moving. Fortunately for us, moving doesn't cost us a cent since we are relocating on military orders. When Parker and I get the news that we are packing up and moving to a new city, we get really excited. The Navy packs us, loads up all our stuff, transports it, and unloads it in our new house. We are just responsible for getting ourselves to our new location, hardly anything worth complaining about. Well, since this last move was from Kingsville, TX to Corpus Christi, TX (just under an hour away), we had to move ourselves. Cue the complaining and whining about having to pack up our entire house and move it. I mean seriously, we have been so spoiled by the Navy that moving ourselves seemed less than enticing. However, if we were going to be forced to move ourselves, we were going to do it on the cheap. We have a house full of stuff and had to get it all from point A to point B, but we found some cost cutting solutions that kept our entire move under $200. 1. Boxes can be free. One of the most expensive parts of moving, if not the most expensive, is buying all the boxes. Those pieces of cardboard are not cheap! We could have easily spent several hundred dollars on new boxes, but we found a way around that. First, ask people who just moved for boxes. They are eager to get rid of them, so it's a win-win. If you don't know anyone who recently moved, then take a trip to your local Lowes and ask them for boxes. Huge shipments of merchandise come into these stores multiple times a week, and the boxes just get thrown away once the merchandise is unloaded. Parker went to Lowes one evening about an hour before they closed and came home with 20-30 boxes. The disadvantage of this route is that your boxes are all different sizes and harder to stack. The advantage? They are free. If you are moving far away and it's important to stack your boxes compactly, Lowes has the cheapest boxes to purchase as well. 2. Renting a moving truck is like buying a car. It's negotiable. I found the very best deal online and then called the local Penske company in town. I told them the deal I found, and they matched it. We knocked $100 off of our moving truck because of this. 3. Blankets and towels can double as bubble wrap. You have to move all of those blankets and towels anyway, so why not use them to wrap some of the more fragile kitchen items? The trick to this is to pack the fragile items in smaller boxes, very compactly. I wrapped all of our drinking glasses in towels and packed them tightly together, and it kept them safe during the bumpy truck ride. 4. Pay your friends with pizza to help you load/unload. Loading and unloading is a pain, and we honestly couldn't have done it by ourselves if we wanted to. I am just not strong enough to help Parker lift the heavy furniture, so we needed man power, literally. We had a few friends help us pack up the truck in the morning in exchange for free breakfast burritos, and we paid people to help us unload that same afternoon with pizza. Much cheaper than paying movers, and who doesn't love a little free pizza? 5. Ask for help, and don't forget to have fun. Moving is fun. Yes, it's a pain in the rear end, but it's exciting to pack up and move to a new place. Don't focus so much on the work and stress that you forget to enjoy the process. This tip won't actually save you any money, but it could save your sanity. Ask your girlfriends to help you pack and have a girls night. If you're married, reminisce about all of the memories in your old home and talk about all the new ones you want to make in the next place. It's so easy to get frustrated and annoyed with each other when you're moving, but believe it or not, you'll actually realize packing up and moving was an enjoyable experience. Note: You won't realize this until it's been a few weeks, you're all unpacked, and the move isn't such a recent memory. I hope these tips are helpful to anyone with a move on the horizon. What could have cost us over $1000 cost us less than $200, and all it took was a little creative thinking. Let me preface this by saying I absolutely love my life. I can't imagine it any other way, and I am so happy and content with the path God has laid out for Parker and me. That said, it's not always easy. I know you're thinking "Well, duh, life's never always sunshine and rainbows". Of course you're right, but the part of our lives that tests us the most is something that isn't a factor for everyone. You've probably guessed it by now. It's the military. I have said this six ways to Sunday: being a Navy wife is never something I planned on or even wanted. None of my immediate family, or close extended family for that matter, served in the military, and I was just clueless on the subject. To be frank, all I knew about the military is they all leave at some point, and not all of them come back. Sitting here having just typed that sentence, all I want to do is delete it, but that's the harsh reality of the military life. These men and women put it all on the line. All give some, and some give all. So why the heck would I grow up dreaming to be a military spouse? Like I said, I didn't. God has been so faithful to me and given me a husband more perfect for me than I could have even dreamed up. We truly are best friends, and I mean that. Amidst all the romance and the married stuff, we are simply besties for the resties (okay I had to laugh at that phrase). In allowing me to meet and fall in love with Parker, God showed me that his plans for me were soooo much bigger than the plans I had laid out for myself. Thank you Jesus for always knowing what's up, because man is this life fun and exciting and perfect and... you get the gist. It's an exciting life, but it comes with its share of hardships. I still feel like we are "babies". We haven't done the big thing yet- Parker has never had to deploy. That day will come quicker than I care to think about. He's already started flying a little longer, being gone for a week at a time, etc. And that stuff's just not fun. Parker is in the longest training pipeline possible (literally, the longest), so a lot of our friends are going to deploy before he will. Selfishly, I wish that weren't the case. I wish I was going through a deployment at the same time as my friends. Why? Because military spouses are the only ones who truly get what it's like to know your husband is overseas protecting our freedom. The love and support of our family and non military friends really does mean the world. In fact, Parker and I would not be where we are today without them. That said, they can't fully understand what this lifestyle is like because they haven't lived it. They can empathize with us, but they will never truly understand, and that's okay. One of the biggest blessings through military life, if not the very biggest, has been the new friendships that have formed. I have met military spouses who have truly become some of my very best friends. They get it. They get it because they are living it too. Geography may have separated me from a lot of them, but they are a quick phone call, text, or email away if I ever need to vent. And sometimes, you just have to vent to someone who gets it. I am thankful for a community and close friends who will always understand. The reality is being a military wife demands a certain degree of independence, strength, and determination. I'm not tooting my own horn and saying I have mastered any of those things, but one day I hope to. With each duty station we come and go to- Pensacola, Kingsville, and now Corpus Christi, I have met women who make the rainy days of military life a little sunnier. To my military spouse friends (you know who you are), I love you all so much and cannot imagine going through this journey without you. There have been way too many girls who have gotten me through the last two years to name, but know that you are appreciated and cherished. And now, a photo dump of pictures of people that, if the Navy would oh so kindly station us near, I wouldn't hate it. So basically I'd like to go to California, please. LinkWithin I'm Chelsea, he's Parker, and the furry one is Jenny. Around here, sarcasm is a second language, and we talk way too much about our love for the great state of Texas. We love living the military adventure and think life is just really beautiful. LEARN MORE	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'f7acf8b6b024a533e0ac328f066a72edcb7f48b2b8f4c405b809b62c1300d5b1'}
Dating White VS Asian Girls: What are the differences Sex Movies People date because they are in need of a relationship or companionship. Dating is all about liking a girl enough to know her more, to delve deeper into her personality, and see if you both have a lot in common to take the dating into the next level. However, in a world where modernization has been quite obvious, there is still apprehension in society regarding a man dating a white girl or an Asian girl. White girls vs. Asian girls When you think about it, girls are simply girls, no matter what the color or the heritage. They vary in their physical appearance, but mostly, relationships are based on how the couples are emotionally and psychologically compatible with each other and the looks comes second. Physical ethnicity Asian girls are beautiful, they are blessed with flawless skin that has no freckles, but are oftentimes visited by pimples. The white girls have freckles on their faces and nose, which makes them even more attractive. The white girls have natural voluptuous body, and tall heights, and the Asian girls have slimmer figures and shorter statures. Though they differ in their physicality, their individualism gives them their unique beauty. You can always tell that a girl is white or Asian, but most of the time you cannot figure out who is more beautiful, because their beauty are different and cannot be compared. It is easier to compare between two white girls or two Asian girls, but not against the other. White girls are naturally open-minded, they are independent and can take of themselves. They have been born with the reality that as soon they are in the right age, they need to live on their own and depend on themselves, not on their parents. Because of this, white girls are not clingy and they are highly liberated. On the other hand, Asian girls, even those who are raised in the U.S., are raised with Asian tradition that family always comes first, and dependability is a natural thing. Asian girls are more reserved, and they have high regard for family tradition. Society expects an American boy to date a white girl, but many boys are dating Asian girls. The modern world in general is not racist anymore, though there are still a few who remains in the old age. White girls are more open to dating for convenience, or companionship, or just to have someone, or because of love. Asian girls are more into the like and love reasons for dating. Bottom line Bottom line is it is not a question of whether to date a white girl or Asian girl. It all depends on the preference of the boy, and the chances of having feelings for the person. Because no matter what the color, race, or ethnicity, when the heart decides to like someone, the heart cannot be stopped. And the heart does not know the difference between white a girl or an Asian girl, it just knows how to feel. Leave a Reply	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9693540930747986}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '94915', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LYQFFWZQPAKMRJGXGSBPDXWOSRULNQSI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b4031862-1983-4e46-8f53-e2ff6937c647>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 28, 8, 57, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.21.89.120', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:SPKIJG5L5UTCRI47DSYIO4ZMKXF3YLA4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:21700c46-175b-4810-8105-08feae9afc31>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://kojisakelounge.com/dating-white-vs-asian-girls-differences', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:aecf27d3-2047-495f-8a6c-79970fbe50f5>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '525', 'url': 'https://kojisakelounge.com/dating-white-vs-asian-girls-differences', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-98.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.047304749488830566', 'original_id': '98b87b9fc9194416ec57a18e28b5d73b5fe85ee4c3977fe2e041e9c6e4267a21'}
Ashley Jackson hits India jackpot IT TOOK a while but it was worthwhile. The auction for some of the world’s best players to take part in the new Hockey India League stretched to double its allocated time. But after 10 hours Ashley Jackson, the Great Britain midfielder, went for £45,000. He was the sixth highest priced player in the five team franchises, and will play in the Ranchi Rhinos squad, along with the world player of the year, Germany’s double gold Olympian Moritz Fuertze, India midfielder Manpreet Singh, South Africa’s former Reading striker Austin Smith and New Zealand’s Nick Wilson. If it all goes to plan next month Jackson will have a fantastic experience over five weeks of top-class competition. Jackson was at the Maxifuel Super Sixes at the superb St George’s Park facility at Burton scoring goals for East Grinstead in their bid to qualify for a fifth successive indoor title in the finals at Wembley Arena on Sunday, January 27, which he will miss. The money will help take me through the next four-year Olympic cycle, maybe into savings for a house Ashley Jackson “It’s great,” he said. “I was watching the auction and it wasn’t looking good at first. The money will help take me through the next four-year Olympic cycle, maybe into savings for a house. “But it’s not the money, it is the idea of playing in this sort of tournament with the top players in front of fantastic crowds. I will get to experience a bit of India, to see it properly. There are some exciting names there.”	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'a16a21965add068c9be10b2bd4d4dc81fe7e0d84df9e080b42185f0f94efdd1b'}
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Santa Fe-ing of the World Human settlements are always shaped by whatever is the state of the art transportation device of the time. Shoe-leather and donkeys enabled the Jerusalem known by Jesus. Sixteen centuries later, when critical transportation has become horse-drawn wagons and ocean-going sail, you get places like Boston. Railroads yield Chicago – both the area around the “L” (intraurban rail) and the area that processed wealth from the hinterlands (the stockyards). The automobile results in places with multiple urban cores like Los Angeles. The jet passenger plane allows more places with such “edge cities” to rise in such hitherto inconvenient locations as Dallas, Houston, Seattle and Atlanta and now Sydney, Lagos, Cairo, Bangkok, Djakarta, and Kuala Lumpur. The dominant forms of transportation today are the automobile, the jet plane, and the networked computer. What does adding the networked computer get you? I think the answer is “the Santa-Fe-ing of the World.” This means the rise of places where the entire point of which is face-to-face contact. These places are concentrated and walkable, like villages. Some are embedded in the old downtowns – such as Adams Morgan in Washington, or The Left Bank of Paris, or the charming portions of what in London is referred to, somewhat narcissistically, as “The City.” Some are part of what have traditionally been regarded as suburbs or edge cities, such as Reston, Virginia, or Emeryville/Berkeley, California. Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a remarkable example of this trend. Home to a world-renowned opera, charming architecture, distinguished restaurants, great places to buy used boots, quirky bookstores, sensational desert and mountain vistas and major diversity, it is also little more than a village of 62,000, far from the nearest major metropolis. This “Santa-Fe-ing” means urbane well beyond the current definition of urban. It means aggregation and dispersal. As with all innovation, its impact is first seen among people with enough money to have choices. The logic of this hypothesis starts with the question: “In the 21st century, is there any future for cities of any kind?” After all, some would have us believe that with enough bandwidth, each of us can wind up on his or her own personal mountaintop in Montana, being lured down into the flatlands only to breed. That’s a preposterous view of human nature, of course. There’s a reason solitary confinement is a punishment. We are social animals. But still, many of the historic reasons for human concentration are gone. It’s been a century since you’ve had to live within walking distance of your factory. Today, you often don’t even need be within driving distance of your office – as anyone with a cell phone knows. You certainly don’t need a metropolis to acquire anything a dot-com is willing to sell – which is a very big deal now and growing exponentially. Absent a cataclysm of biblical proportions, I think this means the one and only reason for congregation in the near future is face-to-face contact. Period. Full stop. The places that are good at providing this will thrive – think Oxford, England. The ones that are not will die. Cities are not forever. You have not heard much lately from the Babylon chamber of commerce. There are nearly 100 classes of real estate out of which you build cities, according to William J. Mitchell, the former head of the architecture and planning department at MIT. They are all being transfigured. The classic example is bookstores. If all you want to do is exchange money for a commodity, the path with least friction is often Amazon. In backwaters where, just ten years ago, buying or even borrowing a non-best-seller was a chore that took weeks, hundreds of thousands of titles are now within one click. Does this mean bookstores have disappeared? Of course not. The half of them that have survived and even grown since the ‘90s, however, have morphed. The critical elements are no longer the shelves. They are the couches, cappuccino machines, and cafes. Bookstores have become places to loiter, face-to-face, among like-minded people. What about grocery stores? What happens when it becomes cheaper for the supermarket to deliver your toilet paper to you than it is to heat, light and pay rent and taxes on its store? Under what circumstances would you ever again get in your car to drive to market again? For me, the answer is that I want to have face-to-face contact with my tomatoes – or anything else you might find in a social setting like a farmers’ market. I’m not sure I’d trust the kid at the dot com to pick out my spare ribs. If the grocer wants to ship me my barbecue sauce, however, I won’t mind. Ninety-five percent of everything one finds in a supermarket is flash-frozen, shrink-wrapped, and nationally advertised. We are in the midst of a burgeoning freight revolution, in which the stuff is coming to us, rather than us going to the stuff – as anybody who has Christmas shopped lately may have noted. In fact, I can’t think of anything in an entire Wal-Mart that I would regret having delivered to me in a big brown van. Visiting a Wal-Mart doesn’t give me enough of a psychic boost to justify a drive now. Of course, if big-box retail migrates into the digital ether tomorrow, we’ll have an enormous challenge figuring out the adaptive re-use of their buildings. What will we make of them? Roller skating rinks? Greenhouses? Non-denominational evangelical churches? Artists lofts? Whatever the answer, I doubt their passing will be mourned. What about college campuses? Is there any future for those? After all, the University of Phoenix, the online learning establishment, became one of the hottest growth stocks of the early 21st century. Internet MBAs abound from some of the world’s most distinguished schools. Why bother ever getting out of your pajamas to learn? Again, the answer is face-to-face contact. After all, distance learning is nothing new. Benjamin Franklin engaged in correspondence classes. The United States military is awash in senior officers with advanced degrees from the University of Maryland, which has pioneered its outreach programs to people in remote locations. However, distance learning will always be everyone’s second choice. It works best for people who do not have the time or money for the conventional academic experience. First choice remains the traditional universities. Getting into them has become insanely competitive and expensive. Why are they so desirable? Because sitting in class absorbing information from a lecturer is only a tiny part of the college experience. College is where many people meet their first spouse. It’s where they develop a network of friends that they’ll likely maintain for life. It’s an entertainment center and an athletic center. Oh, and as for learning – most of the stuff that has stuck with me came out of dorm sessions at one in the morning, engaging in face-to-face contact with smart people. As we shall see, the impact of face-to-face on urban calculations includes office space, and even home locations. But why is this transformation occurring now? It all starts with Moore’s Law, first stated by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore As the core faith of the entire global computer industry, it has come to be stated this way: The power of a dollar’s worth of information technology will double every 18 months, for as far as the eye can see. Sure enough, in 2002, with a billion-transistor chip, the 27th doubling occurred right on schedule. The 30 consecutive doublings of anything man-made that we have achieved at this writing – an increase of well over 500 million times in so short a time — is unprecedented in human history. This is exponential change. It’s a curve that goes straight up. For sure, railroads also changed everything they touched. They transformed Europe. North America was converted from being a struggling, backward, rural civilization mostly hugging the East Coast into a continent-spanning, world-challenging, urban behemoth. New York went from a collection of villages to a world capital. Chicago went from a frontier outpost to a brawny goliath. The trip to San Francisco went from four months to six days. Distance was marked in minutes. Suddenly, every farm boy needed a pocket watch. For many of them, catching the train meant riding the crest of a new era that was mobile and national. A voyage to a new life cost 25 cents. Of course, as railroad expansion ran out of critical fuel – including money and demand for the services – things leveled off, and society tried to adjust to the astounding changes seen during the rise of this curve. The last transcontinental railroad completed in the United States was the Milwaukee Road in 1909. In part, that was because of the rise of a new transformative technology: The one millionth Model T rolled off the assembly line in 1915. In contrast, the curve predicted by Moore’s Law did not stop. The computer industry still regularly beats its clockwork-like 18-month schedule for price-performance doubling. The effect of Moore’s Law on the built environment is and will become ever more profound. For example, will we ever need offices outside our homes? After all, haven’t we all heard plenty about telecommuting? Sure, but how many of us have discovered with some chagrin that the most productive five minutes of our work day has occurred around the shared printer? Somebody asks what we’re working on. Conversations ensue. “Oh really? Did you know that Jane was working on something like that?” “There’s this guy you’ve got to talk to; I’ll send you his phone number as soon as I get back to my desk.” “I was just reading about that very subject; I’ll ship you the name of the book.” This kind of casual face-to-face contact is irreplaceable no matter how cheap or immersive video technology gets. Humans always default to the highest available bandwidth that does the job, and face-to-face is the gold standard. Some tasks require maximum connection to all senses. When you’re trying to build trust, or engage in high-stress, high-value negotiation, or determine intent, or fall in love, or even have fun, face-to-face is hard to beat. This would seem to argue that some old patterns endure, and that’s true. But think of the twists suggested by this new premium on human basics. Suppose you decided that you could get all the face-to-face you needed two days a week. Would that influence where you lived? Would the mountains or the shore start looking good to you? Suppose you decided that you could get all the face-to-face you needed three days a month. Would the Caribbean start looking good to you? Residential real estate is being transformed for these reasons. In the U.S., the explosive growth is in places far beyond any metropolitan area, like the Big Sky Country of Montana, the Gold Country of the California Sierras, the Piedmont of Virginia and the mountains and coasts of New England. For eons, when we’ve visited a nice place on vacation, we’ve asked ourselves, “Why am I going back?” Now, however, we have a new question: “Why am I going back?” Santa Fe is more than 800 miles from Los Angeles, yet it is only semi-jokingly referred to as L.A.’s easternmost suburb. To find out why, check out the nearest airport – in this case Albuquerque – any Monday morning. Comment viewing options Santa Fe is really a nice place, specially for shopping. I was there for Christmas last year and I enjoyed and shopped a lot. This year, I am going to celebrate Christmas in my hometown, preparing Christmas cards and greetings for my friends and a Christmas tree for my children. Found some great Christmas pictures online In 1986, Marriott's Sabal Palms in Orlando, Florida was the main Marriott timeshare resort. In 1987, they opened the Royal Palms in the exact area. Both of those these timeshare resorts ended up adjacent to the Orlando World Centre Marriott not to mention, quite in the vicinity of Disney Globe. marriott	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'e9a9dc202ebe1c5aad2fccaac8fcf1bfcbb7501821aae74f55e22c7991d7261b'}
How Our Skin Works – Graydon Skincare How Our Skin Works Read More Our Beauty Blog How Our Skin Works How Our Skin Works Did you know, the skin is actually the largest organ of the body? Yup. That’s right! With all of its associated organs and derivatives (including hair, nails, glands and specialized nerve endings) our skin is an incredibly sophisticated system. Primarily, our skin serves as a protective layer against heat, light and foreign pathogens. It also helps to keep our internal organs in place. However, all this information is only skin deep. There’s way more to our skin than meets the eye. So, let's learn more about our skin! First and foremost, our skin is truly diverse. We all have different skin types, such as oily, dry, combination, acne-prone and sensitive. But even if two people have the same skin type, their skin can behave differently from each other. That’s because your general skin type is just one aspect of your skin. While the anatomy of the skin is the same from person to person, the thickness, texture and colour vary. For example, an African person tends to have a darker complexion compared to a Caucasian person who tends to have pale skin. Those variances aren’t just from person to person, but also from one area of the body to another. The skin on your eyelids is thinner and more delicate than the skin on the soles of your feet, which is thicker and more durable. Even though everybody’s skin is unique, we all have two types of skin on our body:(1) • Thin and hairy, which is more prevalent in areas of the body like arms, legs, torso, back, etc. • Thick and hairless, which covers the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet, as these areas require more protection. Regardless of any skin type, all skin contains specialized cells and structures, which work in their own ways to contribute to the complex system that is our skin. The layers of the skin Our skin is made up of three main layers. Each layer serves a particular purpose and varies in thickness and strength. These three layers are the epidermis, the dermis and the hypodermis.(1)(2) Image showing the layers of the skin 1. The epidermis This is the outer layer that acts as a protective barrier from the environment. Depending on the area of the body, its thickness varies. On the eyelids, the epidermis is only about 0.05mm thick. On the palms and soles of our feet, it’s about 1.5mm thick.(1)(2) However, the epidermis isn’t just one layer of skin. In fact, it’s made up of five other layers. From bottom to top, these layers are: The Basal Cell Layer (AKA: The Stratum Germinativum): This layer is the deepest layer of the epidermis. It borders the dermis (keep reading to learn more about the dermis) and contains basal cells (hence the name) that continuously divide and create new skin cells. These new, younger cells push the older cells upwards. They eventually reach the surface of the skin where they become what’s known as dead skin cells and naturally shed from the body.(1)(2) This layer is also where sensory-inducing Merkel cells and the melanin-producing melanocytes reside.(1) Melanin gives the skin its pigment. The amount of melanin produced varies, which is why different people have different complexions. However, melanin can also be induced as a response to sun exposure. The Squamous Cell Layer (AKA: The Stratum Spinosum or The Spiny Layer): This layer is located just above the basal layer. It contains dendritic cells,(3) which are responsible for the initiation of the adaptive immune system.(4) It also contains the basal cells that have been pushed upward. These basal cells are now older and have a new name: the keratinocytes.(1)(2) The Stratum Granulosum (AKA: The Granular Layer): This layer contains the more mature version of the keratinocytes from the squamous cell layer as they move upward. At this stage, the keratinocytes are bigger, flatter and are glued together by chemicals called glycolipids.(5) The Stratum Corneum (AKA: The Cornified Layer): Being the outermost layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum is made up entirely of dead keratinocytes (AKA: dead skin cells). These dead skin cells shed naturally, as they are continuously replaced by the keratinocytes from the lower layers pushing upward.(1)(2) In addition to these sublayers of the epidermis, there’s one other thin layer called the Stratum Lucidum. This layer only exists in the thick and hairless skin type. Its main function is to protect the skin against damage as it comes in contact with other things.(5) 2. The dermis This layer lies just beneath the epidermis. It helps to control body temperature and provides the epidermis with blood. Fun fact: The dermis stores a significant amount of our body’s water supply.(1)(2) Similar to the epidermis, there are two layers that comprise the dermis. The Papillary Layer: This is the upper layer of the dermis. Its main purpose is to provide nutrients to the epidermis and regulate temperature. It does these tasks by using a vascular system that circulates blood and transports substances like nutrients, oxygen and hormones to and from the cells in the body. This layer also contains thin collagen fibres.(1)(2) The Reticular Layer: This is the lower layer of the dermis and is made up of thick collagen fibres. Its role is to provide structure and elasticity to the skin and support hair follicles, sweat glands and sebaceous glands.(1)(2) Of course, that’s only a brief overview of the dermis. It is an extremely complex network of blood vessels, lymph vessels, hair follicles, sweat glands, sebaceous glands, nerve endings, collagen and elastin. Speaking of collagen and elastin, as you may know, these are two important proteins that give your skin strength, resilience, flexibility and keep it looking smooth, supple and youthful. Since collagen helps to make your skin look good, you should apply collagen onto your face, right? Not exactly. Collagen itself is a huge molecule. And that means if you apply it topically, it’s unable to penetrate all the way to the dermis. At best, topical collagen serves as a humectant to draw in more hydration for your skin (which is also helpful, but in a different way). While it’s not possible to replenish the collagen in your skin with a topical skincare product, it is possible to help your skin synthesize more collagen. You can do this with a retinoid. A retinoid is a form of vitamin A that can stimulate collagen production and promote cellular turnover. At Graydon Skincare, we use two forms of natural retinolbakuchiol and moth bean extract. You can find them in Phyto Clear and Fullmoon Serum Fullmoon Serum and Phyto Clear with product smears Oh, and speaking of Fullmoon Serum, we’ve also formulated it with mahogany bark extract, a protein-rich, plant-based collagen alternative. So if you’re looking to help your skin age better, this is another reason to try this serum. Now, onto the third layer of the skin. 3. The hypodermis This layer is also known as the subcutis, which is basically a fatty layer of subcutaneous tissue located underneath the epidermis and dermis. Because fat is distributed differently in different areas of the body, the thickness of the hypodermis also varies from area to area and from person to person.(1)(2) However, it isn’t just a network of fat that serves as energy for the body. The hypodermis acts as an insulator, helping the body conserve heat. It also prevents some level of injury and protects our inner organs by absorbing shock. This layer also contains blood vessels, nerves, lymph vessels and hair follicles.(1)(2) About your dead skin cells As I mentioned earlier, the stratum corneum is composed of dead skin cells. Now, let's unpack that a little bit more. To begin with, the term dead skin cells is not entirely accurate. That's because the word dead may lead people to believe that these skin cells no longer serve a purpose and we should get rid of them. This can result in over-exfoliation, thus damaging the skin barrier. Are you confused? Don’t be. I’ll explain it all. Let’s go back to what we know about the epidermis. We know that the epidermis has five layers. In total, these five layers are approximately 0.05-0.1mm in thickness, depending on the area of the body. About 80% of the epidermis is composed of tightly-packed cells called keratinocytes.(2) To quickly recap: the basal cell layer of the epidermis contains tiny round-shaped basal cells. These cells become keratinocytes as they migrate upward, through the different sublayers of the epidermis, to the surface of the skin. It takes about 14 days for these keratinocytes to reach the stratum corneum, and about another 14 days for them to naturally shed from the skin’s surface.(2) So basically, it takes about 28 days for your cells to completely turnover. Fun fact: The dust in your home is composed of about 50% skin cells that shed naturally. Once these keratinocytes reach the stratum corneum, they are called corneocytes. At this stage, they’re technically dead since they’ve lost their nucleus.(2) However, just because they’re dead doesn’t mean they’re useless. They actually make up the skin barrier’s brick and mortar formation, which we’ve discussed here. The bricks in this case are corneocytes. Between these bricks are gaps filled with a mortar made up of cholesterol, free fatty acids and ceramides. Rivets called corneo-desmosomes hold this structure together and naturally loosen to allow your dead skin cells to shed on a daily basis. That’s how the skin barrier is formed and without a properly functional skin barrier, you’re in for trouble. The skin barrier is carefully crafted to help the skin retain hydration, block out foreign substances and environmental stressors, modulate your immune system and fight off oxidative stress. So what exactly am I trying to say? Stop. Exfoliating. So. Damn. Much! Remember, your skin naturally exfoliates itself after about a month. Plus, your dead skin cells serve a purpose. At Graydon Skincare, we’re all about gentle exfoliation. In fact, our sustainable Bamboo Charcoal Sponge does an excellent job of it. Close up of dry bamboo charcoal sponge How can you help your skin perform better? Start with a balanced diet and healthy exercise regimen. This helps keep your body happy and healthy from the inside out. Next, I encourage everyone to develop healthy skincare habits. Luckily, you really don’t need a complicated skincare routine. Try the following three step routine: 1. Cleanser. Proper cleansing removes impurities such as sebum, dirt and makeup from your skin so you don’t end up with clogged pores and a dull complexion. Click here to read our extensive guide to facial cleansing. 2. Moisturizer. It may take some time to find one that suits your skin’s needs, but it’s a worthwhile journey. The proper moisturizer will help nourish your skin and prevent dehydration. Our line of moisturizers includes Berry Rich, Skin Stuff, Phyto Clear and Putty and offers something for every skin type. 3. Sun protection. This goes beyond slathering on a non-nano, reef-safe, SPF certified sunscreen. It’s also important to avoid direct sunlight, seek out shade whenever possible, and wear protective clothing whenever you step outside! Final words So there you have it! Even though our skin may look different from one another, at a cellular level, it's all the same. No matter the colour, texture or skin type, we all have an epidermis, dermis and hypodermis. Our skin is an extremely important organ and it deserves all the love in the world. Take care of your skin and it will take care of you! Wishing you good skin days, every day. Shop this article Patch testing is an important part of introducing new products into your skincare routine. Click here to learn why you should never skip the patch test. Credit for main image: svetikd Credit for skin layers image: Science Photo Library (1) SEER Training Modules, Layers of the Skin. U. S. National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. 19 Aug, 2021. (2) Kolarsick, Paul A. J. BS; Kolarsick, Maria Ann MSN, ARHP-C; Goodwin, Carolyn APRN-BC, FNP Anatomy and Physiology of the Skin, Journal of the Dermatology Nurses' Association: July 2011 - Volume 3 - Issue 4 - p 203-213 doi: 10.1097/JDN.0b013e3182274a98 (3) Yousef H, Alhajj M, Sharma S. Anatomy, Skin (Integument), Epidermis. [Updated 2021 Jul 26]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2021 Jan-. Available from: (4) Dendritic Cells. British Society for Immunology. 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Everybody's a murderer on Vampire Diaries. Except maybe Matt and April. Killing is like a badge of pride on that show. At one point in Thursday night's episode, Kol asks Elena if she's killed people, or if she's just a "Mary Sue Vampire." (Heh.) And then there's the clip above, where Klaus asks Damon why Damon gets to be forgiven, when Klaus has been just as ruthless a killer as Damon has. Damon's answer: Murder is only forgiveable, or acceptable, when it's expedient. If you kill for passion, or just because you feel like it, then you're a dick. But killing someone for convenience? Totally fine. That's our moral lesson for the week. Spoilers ahead... This latest TVD episode was Exhibit A for why I love this show. After the weak midseason opener where everybody sits in the library for an hour, this show has returned to form with last week's and this week's installments. Alliances are made and broken, the good guys lie cheat and slaughter — and there are really deep emotional moments, where we get to see the inner workings of these characters, along the way. And this vaguely 1980s-themed outing was especially cunning at the misdirection. The whole episode, you think you know where the Stefan/Rebekah and Elena/Kol storylines are going, and then something totally different happens. The fact that the big surprise is that Elena's plan actually sorta works is just the cherry on top. So the discussion of forgiveable murder is relevant here — given that the climax of last night's episode is Jeremy committing mass murder on a scale that's difficult to conceive. (Unless you figure that vampires are fair game, but then why do we care about Damon, Stefan and Caroline?) Thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of vampires, cry out and are suddenly silenced, because Jeremy has killed Kol, and when he dies his entire line dies. And Elena, who orchestrates the whole thing, leapfrogs over Stefan and Damon to become the worst murderer on the show. Add to that the fact that Kol is apparently sincere about thinking that if they find the cure for vampirism, they'll raise Silas, the Original Original immortal, who will bring about the end of time, or create Hell on Earth, or both. (I guess if Hell on Earth happened, you'd probably be glad if time ended as well.) Elena fully takes this on board, and then shrugs and goes, "oh, whatevs. Hell on Earth, someone else's problem." And then ganks him. Like I said, the whole Stefan/Rebekah thing was actually kind of sweet, and amazingly Muppet Angel has better chemistry with Rebekah than he often seemed to with Elena. Stefan isn't a good enough grifter to fake his affection for Rebekah entirely, and it does seem like they're the same — they both have psychotic brothers who get all the fun, and they both want to be better people and reenact scenes from John Hughes movies, and they both suffer for love. I figured there were two ways the Rebekah thing could go: Either Stefan was going to follow through on having Matt dagger her, or he was going to get the dagger and use it on Kol as Klaus wanted. I was actually sort of cringing during the whole "John Hughes tribute/decade dance" sequence, because Rebekah's heart once again is totally open and ready to be crushed. And then — surprise! — Rebekah's heart doesn't get broken. She just finds out that her brother was murdered, which is apparently not that big a deal to her as these things go. He wasn't one of the cute brothers, like Elijah or whatever. So back to Damon and Klaus — Klaus' look of piteous sadness when he asks Damon what he says to Elena to get forgiven for his latest atrocity is kind of amazing. He really really wants to be forgiven, by Caroline at least, but he can't stop being a dick. Of course, Damon's answer is totally disingenuous, as he proves to Klaus later when he says that Elena knows he has terrible impulse control. "Terrible impulse control" accounts for at least a third of the people Damon has killed, including Jeremy that one time. And then there's the Bonnie storyline, where her parents reunite to have a family conference about the fact that Bonnie has become an evil blood witch who draws her power from human (and hybrid) sacrifice. You have to love Bonnie's logic: on the one hand, she now believes that Professor Shane is a lying dirtbag who can't be trusted. And on the other hand, she still believes that all the horrid magic that Professor Shane taught her is totally fine and awesome — and he's only wrong about her being a time-bomb, not about all the "human sacrifice gives you totally great power" stuff. This being TVD, nobody ever quite points out to Bonnie how nonsensical her attitude is, but at least her mom and dad try to keep her on lockdown until they can get some help. Of course, Bonnie's right about one thing: keeping her locked up means dooming Elena and the rest, since Klaus is about to go ballistic and kill everyone in sight over the death of Kol, until she stops him. (Klaus apparently liked his brother a lot more than Rebekah seemed to.) Klaus also lets slip that he wasn't really planning on using the "cure" to turn Elena back into a human so he could make more hybrids — he was just going to destroy the cure and then kill all of his former allies. Because betrayal is a way of life on this show, and your allies are the first people you try to kill when the music stops. This goes for the "good guys" as well as the "bad guys" — it's just that the good guys have the moral high ground because they only kill their friends when it's really necessary. Or easier than not killing them. I love this show. Two final thoughts: 1) I look forward to meeting to Silas and witnessing his attempt to end time or bring some Hell. But more than that, I look forward to a year or two from now, when Silas is drinking at the Mystic Grill and palling around with Stefan and Damon and bonding over their lady troubles, and figuring out how they're all going to deal with the NEW big bad, whoever that turns out to be. 2) Nobody acknowledges the unsung hero of this episode: Mayor Hopkins. Not because he tries to save Bonnie from blood witchdom, although that's a valiant effort. But because he saves everybody's bacon by putting vervaine in the town water supply. Without Rudy Hopkins, Damon would still be compelled to stay in the basement until Klaus came to fetch him, and Kol would have sawn Jeremy's arms off. (And we wouldn't have gotten to see Jeremy's shirt fly off his body as he Hulked out with fresh tattoos.) 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Offices demand collaboration like never before, but if you don’t set some limits, you could start falling behind, hurting your company and hating your job Amid a sweeping workplace trend pushing collaboration, some people are finding they play a little too well with others, causing stress and overwork. When you hear the phrase “bad team player,” you might think of someone who refuses to collaborate. But you can also hurt your organization if you burn out trying to accommodate every co-worker’s request or attending more meetings than you can keep up with. This can stem from a basic inability to draw boundaries or an ego-driven desire to look like an office MVP. Many white-collar employees who in the past would have worked side-by-side with a few colleagues now spend 85% of their time collaborating with multiple teams of co-workers via meetings, email, conference calls or instant messaging, often across several time zones, research shows. The volume and diversity of collaborative demands on employees have risen 50% in the past decade, says Robert Cross, lead author of an eight-year, 28-employer study on the topic. Researchers used surveys, email analysis and interviews to identify the most efficient collaborators, or high performers who wasted the least time—their own or others’. Robert Cross is a professor of global leadership at Babson College in Massachusetts. He's the lead researcher on a 28-employer study of how people waste time when working in collaborative environments. Photo: The Connected Commons “It shocked me to see how overwhelmed people are today,” says Dr. Cross, who has been doing workplace research for 20 years, formerly at the University of Virginia and now at Babson College in Babson Park, Mass., where he is a professor of global leadership. The research shows that the trend toward collaboration has turned some personal qualities that might be strengths in other settings into weaknesses at work. A desire to help others, a need to feel in control on the job or even a wish to be seen by colleagues as an expert on a particular topic can cause people to say yes to nonessential work, says Dr. Cross, whose research has been used in training programs at Ford Motor Co. , Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. , General Electric Co. and other employers. He calls these habitual responses “identity drivers,” because they often strengthen one’s self-regard or status among co-workers. They also prevent employees from putting on the brakes when their workloads mount. Quiz: Are you an efficient team player? Employees can learn to notice situations that trigger a knee-jerk response, such as a request for help from a colleague. It’s fine to help co-workers with important problems when you know you’re the best person to do so. But if you never say no, Dr. Cross says, “you become the path of least resistance for anybody who needs help.” One of the 200 employees interviewed for the study was a hard-charging manager for a tech company. Her Achilles’ heel was the good feeling she got from helping colleagues, making her the go-to person for anyone struggling to solve a problem. That left her so exhausted that her health suffered and she eventually resigned. After learning to set boundaries on her next job and refuse tasks that would extend her workday into evenings or weekends, she began to thrive again. Juggling competing priorities can frustrate employees who need to feel in control of their work. Some respond by doubling down and trying even harder to manage all the details, thinking, “I’m the only one who can do it right,” Dr. Cross says. Kieran Tie of Denver likes feeling in control of his work. On a former job, he enjoyed creating software and seeing how it helped customers. But when he moved on to a new job as a product manager overseeing several engineering teams, he felt overwhelmed. Kieran Tie of Denver, a former software engineer, burned out on a previous job trying to collaborate with too many colleagues on too many projects. He's a self-employed content-marketing consultant now. Photo: Rachael Weaver “I was pulled in many different directions,” Mr. Tie says. He felt he should be able to keep all his projects on-time and under-budget, and blamed himself when he couldn’t. And when he applied the only solution he knew—working harder—he became so exhausted that he had to quit. He’s now self-employed as a content-marketing consultant and is writing a book about his experience with burnout. Employees need to be wary of indulging FOMO, or the fear of missing out on something interesting that might be happening elsewhere. FOMO motivates people to say yes to attending meetings they could easily skip. Others say yes to tasks that enable them to showcase their expertise, thinking, “I want to be seen as the go-to person, the expert,” says David Sylvester, director of global learning and development at Booz Allen and a longtime participant in Dr. Cross’s research. As that reputation spreads, the time demands can become overwhelming. Overload is also caused by employers who pile on too much work, of course. But the splintering of demands that marks a collaborative workplace also requires employees to develop some nuanced skills—such as the ability to set aside important tasks for more important ones. Even a desire for closure, which can be an asset when it drives you toward worthwhile goals, can be a drawback. Complex collaborative projects often require employees to tolerate ambiguity as they creep through stage after stage of development. “You can’t be too worried about getting the right decision, as there are always big unknowns,” one executive told researchers. “The key is to make a roughly right decision, move ahead” and adapt as more information becomes available. The good news: Changing just a few behaviors can regain 18% to 24% of the time you spend collaborating, Dr. Cross says. That requires staying focused on your most pressing job goals. At Ford, one executive has started blocking out a few minutes each morning for mindfulness meditation, to help him focus on his intended priorities that day, says Julie Lodge-Jarrett, Ford’s chief talent officer. Give yourself permission not to answer every email. Set up planning tools that help you ward off nonessential demands. Drawing on Dr. Cross’s research, Microsoft recently added features to its Outlook email that nudge users whose calendars are filling up with meetings to block out time for focused work. To figure out which meetings to skip, Dr. Cross says, look back four months on your calendar to see which of the meetings you attended were actually essential.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'eae8e2b790f0c8a3d3d7c3852f894d1e4206f05fcffe3108db08a17e0cb759ce'}
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a concept-based search and retrieval system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a system that indexes collections of documents with ontology-based predicate structures through automated and/or human-assisted methods. The system extracts the concepts behind user queries to return only those documents that match those concepts. 2. Background of the Invention The Internet, which was created to keep a small group of scientists informed, has now become so vast that it is no longer easy to find information. Even the simplest attempt to find information results in data overload. The Internet is a highly unorganized and unstructured repository of data, whose growth rate is ever increasing. As the data grows it becomes more and more difficult to find it. Early pioneers in information retrieval from the Internet developed novel approaches, which can be categorized in two main areas: automated keyword indexing and manual document categorization. The large majority of current search engines use both of these approaches. For example, the earliest generation of search engines, including Lycos, Altavista, and Webcrawler, as well as the most recent ones, such as Northern Light or FAST, are all based on keyword indexing and searching. Another very popular search engine, Yahoo!, is actually a categorized repository of documents that have been manually categorized by human laborers. Searching for information using the keyword approach requires the user to input a set of words, which can range from a single word to a natural language sentence. Normally, the input is parsed into an unstructured set of keywords. The set of keywords is then matched against an inverted index that links keywords with the documents in which they appear. Documents with the most keywords that match the input query are retrieved. Some ranking process generally follows this retrieval, and orders the returned documents by how many times the query words appear within them. The problem with this approach is that no attempt is made to identify the meaning of the query and to compare that meaning with the meaning of the documents. Therefore, there is a clear need to develop new systems that can take this into consideration. A second approach is manual document organization. A typical document categorization search engine, Yahoo!, does not contain an inverted index, but rather a classification of documents manually categorized in a hierarchical list. When a user queries Yahoo!, a keyword-based search is run against the words used to classify documents, rather than the documents themselves. Every time the search engine capability is used, it displays the location of the documents within the hierarchy. While this approach is useful to users, so far as it means that other humans have employed common sense to filter out documents that clearly do not match, it is limited by two factors. The first factor is that it does not scale to the number of documents now available on the web, as the directory only can grow as quickly as human editors can read and classify pages. The second factor is that it does not understand the meaning of the query, and a document classified under a particular word will not be retrieved by a query that uses a synonymous word, even though the intent is the same. As a result, there is a pressing need to develop search engines that bridge the gap between the meaning of an input query and pre-indexed documents. Existing approaches will not solve this problem, because it is impossible to determine the meaning of input queries from terms alone. A successful approach must also make use of the structure of the query. Ideally, documents and queries should both be mapped to a common logical structure that permits direct comparison by meaning, not by keywords. Previous generations of search engines have relied on a variety of techniques for searching a database containing the full text of the documents being searched. Generally, an inverted index is created that permits documents to be accessed on the basis of the words they contain. Methods for retrieving documents and creating indexes include Monier""s System for adding a new entry to a web page table upon receiving web page including a link to another web page not having a corresponding entry in a web page table, as set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,974,455. Various schemes have been proposed for ranking the results of such a search. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,915,249 to Spencer sets forth a system and method for accelerated query evaluation of very large full text databases, and U.S. Pat. No. 6,021,409, to Burrows discloses a method for parsing, indexing and searching world-wide-web pages. These patents cover techniques for creating full-text databases of content, usually world-wide-web pages, and providing functionality to retrieve documents based on desired keywords. Full-text databases of documents are generally used to serve keyword-based search engines, where the user is presented with an interface such as a web page, and can submit query words to the search engine. The search engine contains an inverted index of documents, where each word is mapped to a list of documents that contain it. The list of documents is filtered according to some ranking algorithm before being returned to the user. Ranking algorithms provided by full-text, keyword-based search engines generally compute document scores based upon the frequency of the term within the document, where more mentions yield a higher score, as well as its position, earlier mentions leading to a higher score. The three patents discussed above are all typical representations of the prior art in text retrieval and indexing without natural language processing. There has been substantial research in search technology directed towards the goal of imposing structure on both data and queries. Several previous systems, such as set forth in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,309,359 and 5,404,295, deal with manual or semi-automatic annotation of data so as to impose a structure for queries to be matched to. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,309,359 to Katz, a process by which human operators select subdivisions of text to be annotated, and then tag them with questions in a natural language, is presented. These questions are then converted automatically into a structured form by means of a parser, using concept-relation-concept triples known as T-expressions. While the process of T-expression generation is automatic, the selection of text to annotate with such expressions is manual or semi-automatic. Furthermore, systems such as Katz provide only for encoding of questions, not for encoding of the documents themselves. Another approach is set forth in Liddy et al, U.S. Pat. No. 5,963,940, which discloses a natural-language information retrieval system. The system provides for parsing of a user""s query into a logical form, which may include complex nominals, proper nouns, single terms, text structure, and logical make-up of the query, including mandatory terms. The alternative representation is matched against documents in a database similar to that of the systems described previously. However, the database does not contain a traditional inverted index, linking keywords to the documents that they appear in, but rather an annotated form of the same form as the query representation. The documents are indexed by a system, which is modular and performs staged processing of documents, with each module adding a meaningful annotation to the text. On the whole, the system generates both conceptual and term-based representations of the documents and queries. In U.S. Pat. No. 5,873,056, Liddy et al. additionally discloses a system that accounts for lexical ambiguity based on the fact that words generally have different meanings across multiple domains. The system uses codes to represent the various domains of human knowledge; such codes are taken from a lexical database, machine-readable dictionary, or other semantic networks. The system requires previous training on a corpus of text tagged with subject field codes, in order to learn the correlations between the appearance of different subject field codes. Once such training has been performed, a semantic vector can be produced for any new document that the system encounters. This vector is said to be a text level semantic representation of a document rather than a representation of every word in the document. Using the disambiguation algorithm, the semantic vectors produced by the system are said to accommodate the problem that frequently used words in natural language tend to have many senses and therefore, many subject codes. In U.S. Pat. No. 6,006,221, Liddy et al further discloses a system that extends the above functionality to provide cross-lingual information retrieval capability. The system relies on a database of documents subject to the processing discussed above, but further extends the subject field coding by applying it to a plurality of languages. This system includes part-of-speech tagging to assist in concept disambiguation, which is an optional step in the previously discussed system. Information retrieval is performed by a plurality of statistical techniques, including term frequency, index-document-frequency scoring, Pearson moment correlation products, n-gram probability scoring, and clustering algorithms. In the Liddy et al. system, clustering provides, the needed capability to perform visualization of result sets and to graphically modify queries to provide feedback based on result set quality. Another approach to natural-language processing for information retrieval is set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 5,794,050, to Dahlgren et al. Dahlgren et al. discloses a naxc3xafve semantic system that incorporates modules for text processing based upon parsing, formal semantics and discourse coherence, as well as relying on a naxc3xafve semantic lexicon that stores word meanings in terms of a hierarchical semantic network. Naxc3xafve semantics is used to reduce the decision spaces of the other components of the natural language understanding system of Dahlgren et al. According to Dahlgren et al, naxc3xafve semantics is used at every structure building step to avoid combinatorial explosion. For example, the sentence xe2x80x9cface places with arms downxe2x80x9d has many available syntactic parses. The word xe2x80x9cfacexe2x80x9d could be either a noun or a verb, as could the word placesxe2x80x9d. However, by determining that xe2x80x9cwith arms downxe2x80x9d is statistically most likely to be a prepositional phrase which attaches to a verb, the possibility that both words are nouns can be eliminated. Furthermore, the noun sense of xe2x80x9cfacexe2x80x9d is eliminated by the fact that xe2x80x9cwith arms downxe2x80x9d includes the concepts of position and body, and one sense of the verb xe2x80x9cfacexe2x80x9d matches that conception. In addition to the naxc3xafve semantic lexicon, a formal semantics module is incorporated, which permits sentences to be evaluated for truth conditions with respect to a model built by the coherence module. Coherence permits the resolution of causality, exemplification, goal, and enablement relationships. This is similar to the normal functionality of knowledge bases, and Dahlgren et al. claim that their knowledge is completely represented in first order logic for fast deductive methods. Natural language retrieval is performed by Dahlgren et al.""s system using a two-stage process referred to as digestion and search. In the digestion process, textual information is input into the natural language understanding module, and the NLU module generates a cognitive model of the input text. In other words, a query in natural language is parsed into the representation format of first-order logic and the previously described naxc3xafve semantics. The cognitive model is then passed to a search engine, that uses two passes: a high recall statistical retrieval module using unspecified statistical techniques to produce a long list of candidate documents; and a relevance reasoning module which uses first-order theorem proving, and human-like reasoning to determine which documents should be presented to the user. U.S. Pat. No. 5,933,822, to Braden-Harder et al., provides yet another natural language search capability that imposes logical structure on otherwise unformatted, unstructured text. The system parses the output from a conventional search engine. The parsing process produces a set of directed, acyclic graphs corresponding to the logical form of the sentence. The graphs are then re-parsed into logical form triples similar to the T-expressions set forth in Katz. Unlike the logical forms set forth in Katz or Dahlgren et al., the triples express pairs of words and the grammatical relation, which they share in a sentence. As an example, the sentence xe2x80x9cthe octopus has three heartsxe2x80x9d produces logical form triples xe2x80x9chave-Dsub-octopusxe2x80x9d, xe2x80x9chave-Dobj-heartxe2x80x9d, and xe2x80x9cheart-Ops-threexe2x80x9d. These triples encode the information that octopus is the subject of have, heart is the object of have, and three modifies heart. The Braden-Harder et al system provides a mechanism for the retrieval and ranking of documents containing these logical triples. According to the patent, once the set of logical form triples have been constructed and fully stored, both for the query and for each of the retrieved documents in the output document set, a functional block compares each of the logical form triples for each of the retrieved documents to locate a match between any triple in the query and any triple in any of the documents. The various grammatical relationships discussed previously are assigned numerical weights, and documents are ranked by the occurrence of those relations between the content words. The presence of the content words is not incorporated into the ranking algorithm independently of their presence within logical triples matching the query triples. As a result, the Braden-Harder et al system replaces a keyword search based upon individual lexical items with a keyword search based upon logical triples. U.S. Pat. No. 5,694,523 to Wical discloses a content processing system that relies on ontologies and a detailed computational grammar with approximately 210 grammatical objects. The Wical system uses a two-level ontology called a knowledge catalog, and incorporates both static and dynamic components. The static component contains multiple knowledge concepts for a particular area of knowledge, and stores all senses for each word and concept. However, it does not contain concepts that are extremely volatile. Instead, the dynamic component contains words and concepts that are inferred to be related to the content of the static component. Such an inference is accomplished through multiple statistical methods. The Wical system is further described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,940,821. An example is given therein stating that a document about wine may include the words xe2x80x9cvineyardsxe2x80x9d, xe2x80x9cChardonnayxe2x80x9d, xe2x80x9cbarrel fermentedxe2x80x9d, and xe2x80x9cFrench oakxe2x80x9d, which are all words associated with wine. These words are then weighted according to the number of times they occur in the wine context within the body of the documents processed by the Wical system, with one distance point or weight for each one hundred linguistic, semantic, or usage associations identified during processing. As a result, the system of Wical automatically builds extensions to the core ontology by scoring words that frequently appear in the context of known concepts as probably related concepts. The scoring algorithm of Wical is fairly conservative, and should generally produce reliable results over large corpuses of data. The Wical system produces a set of so-called theme vectors for a document via a multi-stage process that makes use of the forgoing knowledge catalog. The system includes a chaos processor that receives the input discourse, and generates the grammatical structured output. Such grammatical structured output includes identifying the various parts of speech, and ascertaining how the words, clauses, and phrases in a sentence relate to one another. Consequently, the Wical system produces not only word-level part-of-speech categorization (i.e., noun, verb, adjective, etc.), but also relations such as subject and object. The output of the chaos processor is then passed to a theme parser processor that discriminates the importance of the meaning and content of the text on the basis that all words in a text have varying degrees of importance, some carrying grammatical information, and others carrying meaning and content. After the theme parser processor has generated this information, it is considered to be theme-structured output, which may be used for three distinct purposes. One purpose is providing the topics of the discourse in a topic extractor. A second purpose is generating summarized versions of the discourse in a kernel generator. The third purpose is identifying the key content of the discourse in a content extractor. The forgoing steps are performed in parallel, and require additional processing of the theme-structured output in order to generate textual summaries, or graphical views of the concepts within a document. Such an output may be used in a knowledge-based system that identifies both documents and concepts of interest with regard to the inquiry of the user, and a research paper generation application that provides summaries of documents relevant to a query, as produced by the kernel generator set forth previously. Ausborn, U.S. Pat. No. 5,056,021, discloses a simpler technique for creating searchable conceptual structures. The technique of Ausborn uses a database of words organized into levels of abstraction, with concepts arranged as clusters of related words. The levels of abstraction are implemented in thesauri, and are equivalent to hierarchical levels of an ontology. The system of Ausborn serves as a parser to directly compile thesaurus entries into a cluster representing cluster meaning. Clusters are then pruned by virtue of a lack of common ontological features among the words in the sentence. Sentences whose words do not have similar meaning at equal levels of abstraction are judged as erroneous parses. These structures can then be searched in a manner equivalent to the technique set forth in the Braden-Harder patent. Some efforts have been made towards expanding queries. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,721,902, to Schultz, discloses a technique employing hidden Markov models to determine the part of speech of words in a sentence or sentence fragment. Once the part of speech has been selected, the word is applied to a sentence network to determine the expansion words corresponding to the query term. For a given query word, only those expansion words from the semantic network that are of the same part of speech are added to the terms in the natural language query. If a query term is a proper noun, other terms in the semantic network are not activated, even those that are also nouns, as the terms are unlikely to be similar. Schultz further discloses a relevance-scoring algorithm, which compares the query terms to the text information fields that serve as metadata within an information retrieval system. The Schultz system also discloses techniques for preparing and loading documents and multimedia into the information retrieval system. However, such techniques do not involve manipulation or reparsing of the documents and do not constitute an advance on any of the previously discussed indexing systems. The concept-based indexing and search system of the present invention has distinct advantages over the approach set forth in the Katz and the other previously set forth patents. The Katz system tags segments of the text with formal representations of specific questions that the text represents answers to. While such an approach guarantees that a question will be answered if the question has been previously asked, the process is limited by the efficiency of the tagging system. The Katz system can provide fully automatic tagging of text. However, the implementation of a tagging system that can automatically generate appropriate questions for each segment of text requires sophisticated machine reasoning capabilities, which do not yet exist. The forgoing and other deficiencies are addressed by the present invention, which is directed to a concept-based indexing and search system. More particularly, the present invention relates to system that indexes collections of documents with ontology-based predicate structures through automated and/or human-assisted methods. The system extracts the concepts behind user queries to return only those documents that match those concepts. The concept-based indexing and search system of the present invention has a number of advantages over the conventional systems discussed previously. These advantages fall into two categories: improvements in the precision of information retrieval, and improvements in the user interface. The concept-based indexing and search system of the present invention can utilize any of the previously discussed systems to collect documents and build indices. An advantage of the present invention over the conventional systems is in the area of retrieval and ranking of indexed documents. The concept-based indexing and search system of the present invention is an improvement over the Katz system in that it transforms the text into a formal representation that matches a variety of possible questions. Whereas, the Katz system requires the questions to be known in advance, even if automatically generated, the present invention does not require prior knowledge of the questions. As a result, the present invention provides significant improvements in scalability and coverage. The present concept-based indexing and search system also presents an advantage to the information retrieval systems of Liddy et al. The monolingual implementation of Liddy et al. constructs vector representations of document content, with vectors containing complex nominals, proper nouns, text structure, and logical make-up of the query. The logical structure provided is equivalent to first-order predicate calculus. Implementations of the system of Liddy et al. have been used to provide input to machine reasoning systems. The Liddy et al. system makes further provisions for subject codes, used to tag the domain of human knowledge that a word represents. The subject codes are used to train statistical algorithms to categorize documents based on the co-occurrence of particular words, and corresponding subject codes. The resulting system is a text level semantic representation of a document rather than a representation of each and every word in the document. The present system imposes a logical structure on text, and a semantic representation is the form used for storage. The present system further provides logical representations for all content in documents. The advantages of the present system are the provision of a semantic representation of comparable utility with significantly reduced processing requirements, and no need to train the system to produce semantic representations of text content. While training is needed to enable document categorization in the present system, which improves the precision of retrieval, generation of the semantic representation is independent of the categorization algorithm. The concept based search engine of the present invention also presents advantages over Dahlgren et al.""s system, embodied in U.S. Pat. No. 5,794,050. The Dahlgren system uses a semantic network similar to the ontologies employed in the system of present invention. However, it relies on a complicated grammatical system for the generation of formal structures, where complicated grammatical information is needed to eliminate possible choices in the parser. The concept based search engine system of the present invention provides an advantage in that it uses a simple grammatical system in which rule probabilities and conflicting ontological descriptions are used to resolve the possible syntactic parses of sentences. This greatly reduces the processing power required to index documents. From the foregoing, it is an object of the present invention to provide a concept based search and retrieval system having improved functionality over conventional search and retrieval systems with equivalent efficiency in returning web pages. Another object of the present invention is to provide a concept-based search and retrieval system that comprehends the intent behind a query from a user, and returns results matching that intent. Still another object of the present invention is to provide a concept-based search that can perform off-line searches for unanswered user queries and notify the user when a match is found.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '0c4f83650091b46b32a256f2e29c8a02f0d6545b8ce47ac92d2acba18a17d904'}
SPECIAL JUDGE WOOD dei.iveeed the opinion or the cotjbt. This is an agreed case submitted to the judge of the Franklin Circuit Court on agreed facts, which are, in substance, as follows: That appellant, Stone, is the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky; that appellees, W. S. Pryor, Joseph H. Lewis and James H. Hazelrigg, were each judges of the Court of Appeals at the time of the institution of this action; that Judge Pryor was elected in 188?, Judge Lewis in 1890, and Judge Hazelrigg in November, 1892; that Judge Pryor’s term expired January 1, 1897, that Judge Lewis’ term will expire January 1, 1899, and Judge Hazel648rigg’s, January 1, 1901; that they were then filling said ■ offices; that there was due said Judges Pryor, Lewis and Hazelrigg their respective salaries for the month of January, 1896; that they presented to said auditor their claims for said salary for said month of January, and demanded of him a warrant for $416,66 2-3 for said month; that said auditor refused to issue a warrant for such amount, but tendered a warrant to each of said judges for $333.33 1-3, which said judges declined to accept; that said judges contended that, under the la.ws of this State, their salaries were $5,000 each per annum, the auditor contending that, under said laws, they were only entitled to $4,000 each per annum; and the appellees (plaintiffs below) Asked the court for a mandamus against the the auditor to compel him to issue his warrant for said sum of $416.66 2-3 in favor of each of said judges. Upon the final hearing of this case, the Franklin Circuit Court entered judgment directing the auditor to draw his warrant on the treasurer of the State in favor of each of said judges on account of salaries as judges of the Court of Appeals, at stated times, as provided by law, in such amounts as would not exceed the sum of $5,000 per annum each; and from that judgment the auditor has appealed. In order to a proper solution of this question, we will have to review, to some extent, the new Constitution. We use the word “new” with reference to the present Constitution, because it is,, in every sense'of the word, a new Constitution. While many of the threads of the old Constitution were retained in the new, yet it is essentially a new instrument. 649The Bill of Rights is different from that in the old Constitution. The election law provisions are radically different. The provisions pertaining to municipalities, revenue and taxation, education, corporations, railroads and commerce, are also different from the old Constitution. Much of it — especially that pertaining to muncipalities, corporations and railroads and commerce — was not in the old Constitution. There is a radical change in the courts. All common pleas, criminal and chancery courts were abolished by the new Constitution, as likewise the superior court, after January 1, 1895. The Court of Appeals as established by the new Constitution is entirely different from that provided for in the old Constitution. By section 113, it was provided that after 1894, the Court of Appeals should consist of not less than five nor more than seven judges; and by section 115, it was provided that the judges then in office should hold their offices until their respective terms expired — until their successors were elected. It was further provided by said section that the General Assembly should, before the regular election in 1894, provide for the election of such judges of the Court of Appeals, not less than five nor more than seA^en; and section 116 provided that the judges of the Court of Appeals should be elected by districts, and that the General Assembly should provide, before the regular election of 1894, for dividing the State, by counties, into as many districts as there were judges to be elected; and in pursuance of this section the Legislature, on June 17, 1893 (Ky. Stats., section 936), did divide the State into seven 650districts, and the judges were to be elected one from each of said districts at the November election, 1894, except those districts where the judges then in office were permitted to hold their offices until their time expired, thus creating a new Court of Appeals, composed of seven judges. And the Constitution further provided (section 1Í8), that, if the court was composed of seven judges, it should divide itself into sections, for the transaction of business, if, in the judgment of the court, such arrangement was necessary. The framers of the new Constitution, and the people who adopted it, could have provided that the terms of all the judges then in office should expire with the regular election in November, 1894. They could have provided that the Governor should appoint these judges for a given time. The only restriction upon the people in making the Constitution was, that it should be republican in form and not in conflict with the Constitution of the United States. Therefore, these judges were kept in office, you may say, by grace, in order that no injustice might be done; and they were to become members of the new court on the 1st of January, 1895, at which time all the judges elected at the November election, 1894, were to take office. By the terms of section 115 of the new Constitution, the terms of the judges then in office were extended four months each. By article 4, section 3 of the old Constitution, it was provided that the judges of the Court of Appeals should, at stated times, receive for their services an adequate compensation, to be fixed by law, which should not be diminished during the term for which they -were elected. It will be seen from this provision of the old Constitution that 651the salaries of the judges of the old court could not be •diminished during their terms, of office, but could be increased. Section 112 of the new Constitution provides: “The judges of the Court of Appeals shall severally hold their offices for a term of eight years, commencing on the first Monday in January next succeeding their respective elections, and until their several successors are qualified, subject to conditions hereinafter prescribed. For any reasonable cause, the Governor shall remove them, or any one or more of them, on the address of two thirds of each House of the General Assmbly, the cause or causes for which said removal shall be stated at length in such address and in the Journal of each House. They shall, at stated times, receive for their services an adequate compensation, to be fixed by law.” In 1880, the salaries of the judges of the Court of Appeals were fixed at $4,000 per anum. This act was in force at the time of the election of the appellees, and at the time the new Constitution took effect, September 28, 1891. On March 4, 1894 (Acts 1894), p. 66), the Legislature, in pursuance of the mandate of the Constitution (section 112), proceeded to fix the salaries of the judges of the Court of Appeals. Said act reads as follows: “Section 1. That the salaries of the judges of the Court of Appeals of this Commonwealth shall be $5,000 each per anum. “Sec. 2. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the incumbents during the present term of their office. 652“Sec. 3. That aril laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.” Section 235 of the new Constitution reads as follows: “The salaries of public officers shall not be changed during the term for which they were elected. . . .” It is contended by the Auditor of Public Accounts thaf,, by reason of section 235, the salaries of the judges in office at the time the Constitution was adopted could not be Increased. And it is further contended by him that the second section of the act of March 4, 1894, supra, excluded them from its operation, and that they could only draw the salary of $4,000, under the act that was in force at the time of their election. With this contention we can not agree; first, because, under the section of the old Constitution quoted (article 4, section 3), the salaries of Judges Pryor and Lewis could have been increased, and second,, it is a well-established principle of construction that constitutions have no retroactive effect — that they operate in the future, and not in the past. The appellees, Judges Pryor and Lewis, were permitted by the Constitution to hold their offices during the period for which they were elected. They would become a part of the new court when it was organized January 1, 1895; and they knew that, by the 112th section of the new Constitution, the Legislature had the right to fix their compensation — and can it be doubted, if thé Legislature had fixed the compensation of the judges of the Court of Appeals in the act of March 4, 1894, at $3,500, that that is all the salary they could have received after the 1st day of January, 1895? Section 235 of the Constitution, which provides that the salaries of 653public officers shall not be changed during the terms for which they were elected can only operate after the Legislature has acted and fixed the compensation. Judge Hazelrigg took office January 1, 1.893, having been elected after the new Constitution was adopted; and can it be contended, by reason or authority, that his salary couid not be fixed by an act of the Legislature after he went into office, or that he would not be compelled to accept whatever salary it might fix, under section 112 of the Constitution? But when once fixed, it could not be reduced during his term of office.. The salaries of the appellees, Pryor and. Lewis, as we •have before stated, could be increased under the old Constitution, and certainly the new Constitution did not take this right away from them; but their salaries were subject to legislation, after the adoption of the new Constitution, and after it was fixed by the act of 1894, supra, it can not be reduced during their terms of office. We have been cited to a number of cases by the learned Attorney-General, but none of them militate against the views herein expressed, except the case of Commonwealth v. Addams, clerk (85 Ky., 588). In section 246 of the Constitution, it is provided that no public officer shall receive more than $5,000 per annum as compensation, except the Governor. In June, 1893, the Legislature passed an act requiring the clerk to report to the Auditor all fees received by him, and, after retaining for himself as salary $4,000, and after paying his assistants or deputies, and all expenses of the office, the balance remaining was to be paid over to ■the Auditor of the State. ■ A heavy penalty was imposed 654on the clerk for failure to comply with the provisions of this act. The clerk contended that, by section 235 of the Constitution, his salary could not be diminished during his term. But in this case the controlling point in the decision was, that, in the debates in the convention that adopted the Constitution (Debates, Con. Con., vol. 3, pp. 4202-3, 4236), they disclaimed any purpose of interfering with the compensation of the “present incumbent.” In the Dakota cited by the Attorney-General, of Polk v. Minnehaha County (5 Dak., 129), the Legislature of Dakota Territory passed an act, approved March 7, 1883, which provided that the district attorneys should receive such salaries for their services as the board of county commissioners of the proper counties should allow, not less than $400 per year; but the salary of such district attorney should not be diminished during the term for which he should be elected or appointed. It appears from the facts in that case that appellant Polk qualified as district attorney for Minnehaha county on January 3, 1887; and on January 8, 1885, at a regular session of the board of county commissioners, the salary of the district attorney was fixed by the board at $1,200, and that was the salary fixed when Polk was sworn into office. About an hour after he -was sworn in, the county commissioners met and reduced the salary to $700, and the court decides in that case that this they could not do, because the salary had been fixed before he was sworn into office and it could not be changed during his term. The Attorney-General in his brief cites us to the case of Bright v. Stone. This case is now pending on a petition for rehearing, and can not be regarded as authority here. But it is sufficient to say that, by act of the Legislature, approved June 15, 1893, the fees of all the circuit and county clerks, sheriffs, constables and jailers, were fixed, and they were all inducted into office January 1, 1893, before that act was passed. / The Attorney-General also cites us to the case of City of Louisville v. Wilson, 99 Ky. It seems that, on January 9, 1894, the general council of the city of Loáisville passed an ordinance fixing the salaries of the officers. of the Board of Public Safety and Public Works at $3,000 per annum; that by ordinance approved January 26, 1894, it was provided that there should be one secretary of the Board of Public Works, whose compensation should be 656was, by the Board of Public Works, appointed secretary for the term of four years. By ordinance approved May 21, 1894, it was provided that the compensation of deputies of the police court should be $1,500 each, payable monthly. In January, 1895, appellee J. J. O’Connell was, by one I. N. Vetter, bailiff of said court, appointed one of his assistants or deputies. January 9, 1894, by ordinance, the compensation of official stenographer of said court was fixed at $1,000. February 24, 1894, appellee John P. Mar-tine was, by the judge of. the court, appointed to that office. December 26, 1895, the general council, composed of newly elected members, passed an ordinance, duly approved by the mayor, changing the salaries of the members of the boards of Public Safety and Public Works to $2,500; that of secretary of the board to $1,200; that of deputy to $1,200; that of official stenographer to $900. The court decides in that case that the salaries of these officers having been fixed by ordinance after they were qualified, could not be reduced during their terms of office. While there is a dissenting opinion in that case by Judges Guffy and DuRelle, they agree that the court was right on that proposition, that is, that the salaries of these officers could not be reduced during their terms; but they differ with the majority of the court on the ground that these offices were not constitutional offices, and the Constitution only meant that the salaries of 'public officers recognized by it could not be changed during their terms. The case of Purcell v. Parks (82 Ill., 346) cited by appellees in their brief, sustains the position here announced; -that is, that where the power is given by the Constitution 657to fix salaries of public officers, that power remains unexhausted until the Legislature acts, but when once fixed it can not be changed. Under the Constitution of Illinois, the feqs, or salary, or compensation of no muncipal officer, elected or appointed, could be increased or diminished during his term. It further provided that county clerks were required to be elected in each county on the first Monday in December, for the term of four years. Section 8 of article 10, of the Constitution provided that as to all county officers who should be in office at the meeting of the General Assembfy after the adoption of the Constitution, all laws in force fixing their fees should terminate with their respective terms of office, and that the General Assembly should provide for and regulate the fees of such officers and their successors, so as to reduce the same to a reasonable compensation for services actually rendered. It was also provided by the Constitution that the county board of each county should fix the compensation of all county officers, with the amount of their necessary clerk hire, stationery, fuel and other expenses; and in all cases where fees were provided for, said compensation should be paid only out of, and not in any instance exceeding, the fees actually collected; that they should not allow either of them more than $2,000 per annum, in counties containing twenty thousand and not exceeding thirty thousand inhabitants; “Provided, That the compensation of no officer shall be increased or diminished during his term of office.” All fees or allowances by them received, in excess of their said compensation, should be paid into the treasury of the county. By an act of the General Assembly of Illinois, approved 658March 29, 1872, it regulated the fees of county clerks. In the county of Marion the county board took no action in fixing the compensation of the county clerk of that county until March, 1874. The court gave judgment for that sum and he appealed. The court in its opinion, says: “I am instructed by the court to say that, in the opinion of a majority of the judges thereof, the clerk, under the Constitution and statute, is not entitled to appropriate to his own use any of the fees of his office, except by virtue of an order of the county board. In the absence of such order, such clerk has no compensation by law whatever. Hence the fixing of such compensation by the county board, in their order of March, 1874, did not, in the sense of the 659Constitution, either increase or diminish the compensation of such officer, for up to that time, he had, by law, no compensation to be increased or diminished. It was the duty of the county board to have fixed the compensation in question before the election. Not having done so, the power remained unexhausted, and the board might have been compelled, either before or after the term began, to exercise the power and fix the same. We are all of the opinion that when the board had once acted, and fixed the compensation of the county clerk, that compensation can not be changed so as to increase or diminish the compensation to be received by him during his term.” This decision is in line with all the authorities we have been able to find — that is, that the compensation of public officers, after it has been fixed by the Legislature, can not be changed during their terms of office. By section 112 of the new Constitution, the Legislature provided that the judges of the Court of Appeals should receive for their services an adequate compensation, to be fixed by law; and the Attorney-General admits in his brief that that provision is mandatory. As before stated, the Legislature did fix the compensation, by the act of March 4, 1894, at $5,000. But the contention is, that it does not apply to the judges then in office, by reason of section 2 of said act. We can not agree to this. The Constitution established a new Court of Appeals, beginning January 1, 1895, and we think the second section of the act of 1894 had reference alone to the judges of the old court from the time of the adoption of the act until the organization 660of the new court on January 1, 1895. Otherwise, if that provision (section 2) had not been inserted in that act, the judges of the old court would have been entitled to $5,000 from the time of adoption of the act until the new court was organized January 1, 1895; and we think the reasonable construction of that act is, that the salaries of the judges should be equal, and each judge of the new court should draw $5,000 from the organization of the new court on January 1, 1895. And our conclusions are fortified by the 112th section of the Constitution, by the use of the language, “They shall, at stated times, receive for their services an adequate compensation, to be fixed by law.” It was not contemplated by the framers of the Constitution, or the people that adopted it, that old and experienced judges should have a less salary than the new judges to be elected in November, 1894, and who were to form a part of the new court on the 1st day of January, 1895. The spirit and the intent of the people in adopting this new Constitution was equality — equality in salaries, equality in taxation, equality in rights; and it certainly would be unequal and unjust that these old judges, Pryor and Lewis, who had served on the bench for years, should receive a less salary than new judges to be elected, who were without experience in this court of last resort. 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On my first day of class with Dr. Proctor on my arrival back at school in Summer of 2014 for a course on Understanding Violence, I had in my notebook all typed up (with apprehensions about sharing) a poem denouncing white racism by throwing their stereotypes and cruel caricature back at them called: The Ape Men. Dr. Proctor in his opening sermon mentioned how white bigots called blacks "monkeys." The class noticed my angry shuffling of papers but I stopped myself from sharing. I already knew three facts: 1. Dr. Proctor (of Pitt Chancellor Wesley Posvar's office and W-QE-D) is probably someone who attacked me without knowing me in the past because of my public reputation and its utility to a murder cartel,a war on my name circulated by dishonest people who held me back by making me deaf that served the purposes of Pitt Administration on the highest symbolic and ideological Administrative level, at attack shown to have been authored by the AIDS Combein. Pittsburgh leaders were embittered by my attempts to warn which they denounced as upstaging the mighty. 2. That the sentiment and procedure of Stokely Carmichael militarizing SNCC while summarily throwing out all whites was a statement about the function for which I have been entrapped and tagged. It wasn't going to do any good at all to try and humanize myself in a war game worse than Kent State among Faculty and Staff at school who are involved in the torture and murder of students. 3. It is very dangerous to seek vindication from persons embarrassed by the truth. I am in a deathly state from torture, scientifically banish to a condition of grave and faded pseudo-existence. The assassin group won handily. Taunting me with the hegemony of perverts, their horrible murder cannot be undone. Maniacally regarding my last writings as part of the survivor's pirate chest, they engaged in brutal abuse of the little guy in order make a dramatic grab on their spoils of deceit. Looking at ghouls like Aaron Dixon's sponsors we arrive at far more powerful and violent whites than my poor father was. Dixon, demented with his attacks on a symbolic white liberal, who they fiendishly rendered into neurotraumatic hostage to punish a branch of educator who hold back Black militancy by subjecting their harangues to academic scrutiny while fighting for more valid advancement plans, Dixon showed the meaning of his name, in alliance with the caustic aggression that extremes generate to polarize and feed each other. No black he had helped made no comment when virulent white parochials graffiti'd my father's obituary with the hostility and plot line of his murderers in the so-called Green Party. Meanwhile, the virulent racist Mr. Douglas, whose son was a close friend of Matt Marcus, sneered openly, "if you try to help blacks they will only turn on you." I was the object lesson of their demonstration project of this principle. What they are doing is difficult to write about because of how loathsome the University of Pittsburgh is. The shock of having to bear witness in such a climate to the prancing of exterminators and their Black allies is vile beyond endurance. The arguments, although tedious lies, are the voice of the lameheads, voting Trump, shrieking their sacred wisdom from a cabal of ugly cunning, as they regurgitate dumbed down programs uploaded by the assassins into their media. Knowing better than them makes their black ghouls howl with rage. They never warned because a flock of deadly and deluded victims was more to their purpose than saving to them insignificant lives. By contrast my people just want to understand what's going on. It's not on the quisling agenda to investigate properly. They don't want hidden narrative unearthed. In daring me to enter into open confrontation they mock personal injury from an illegal Death Row contrived against a white innocent as such on purpose, while strutting their bizarre and fraudulent explanations and formulas, using name agents, while categorically denying it can even be done, using lookalikes to prove that fear of agency is a greater poison that poison real, scrawling idiotic slanders between the lines of their purported misreads, attacking a damaged, hostage child with so much venom and glee that one can scarcely consider them human. All most logical, all most logical (ripper backstabber). The cowardly and vile attacks on a damaged, hostage child are enough to show they are simpletons shrugging off murder as a cowardly act in the course of duty. African Justice gets bandied at our school. None dare call it CIA. Before I tell you what that business means, I will describe a little about the hidden expenditure behind their hidden narrative which they do not want found out. At the Iowa YMCA when I was suffering seizures, the cloak and dagger show of the rock industry tried to drive me off the sidewalks by first trying to make me look soft on marijuana and then sending a skinhead to kick me in the shin for trying to stop the vice upload being used by character assassins to justify Mt. Desert Island. Now what African Justice means is a tendril of the Federal Emergency Management Agency which was created for the AIDS attack. AIDS was what they are calling, "African Justice," and their script defines me as the hate object proving its virtue. Where exactly did I get the final enigma as a deathly object of peer rejection? Matt Marcus, a lover of my sister who was introduced to me by Leslie Katz. He helped W-QE-D spread the word in the name of Jewish slurs. Not one word about his true character was ever deemed admissible. Was Fred Rogers a jealous god? His church (where my mother married a Reagan agent from 20th Century Fox) were not only employers of felons who tortured me, my mother had a mysterious talk with him in my presence when I was a child and he looked at me and ran like I was the spawn of the devil. This was outside the Mason or Manson Lodge in Oakland. Leonard Nimoy also used to haunt the area around his church. Pitt of course was adopted for pit of hell, a tune King Crimson gets away with playing when defending child mutilation because their fan club regard them as pre-eminent Royal Satanists, protecting Leslie Katz of course from the piercing cries of devil Jimmy. The blacks have always had in mind a select survivors' pirate chest making clear that the NAACP are at least as dangerous to the Tutsis as the Hutus are. Just as Brian Eno smashed the World Series hopes of the Mariners in 2001, right on cue, to promote perverts behind the AIDS attack, and the ravenous flock of deadly and infected fans yammering dibs on the chest of Katz Business School, perverts entrenched among vicious Seattle queerdom, so too did the murderers use my naïve ideas about the horror crone Midori Goto and her shrewd manipulation by New York media of Pittsburgh's better loyalty to Roberto Clemente to gear up his name as a symbol of child rape, myuh. They poisoned me instead in bizarre, Black ghoulish script fulfillment of deadly torment and sadistic murder. I had done no research yet into the alliance of Lennon's powerhouse with NEVA Corporation or the pretzel logic of their thrill kill extermination. I now know what the evidence means, and what sort of powers exist to execute their presentation while making their potentialities seem impossible, a magical mystery war game. After Love Field when the Beatles were uploaded in partnership with Kennedy's killers, the Churchill faction behind the AIDS attack producing the church ill in cowardly foreign English puncraepft and cunning, used their line, "I'd love to turn you on," to promote the twisted deceit by their brainiac broadcast propaganda media that super murder religion, a perfectly openly espoused HitlerJesus Church of England progrock who called mass murder by the name of LIberation Theology seeing themselves entitled to put a battered child's soul on trial, they moved to burn the inner mind with NASA laser, as proof that they would never do that because it can never be done. Thewarp of Ayn Rand racial White House pussyball by unidentified registered nurse war-criminal malpractice on a golem forbidden American Sign Language was paraded as punishment of a jealous schizophrenia. The denial that the neuroplasm they impacted had pre-meditation and personality change in its chemical recipe just shows you that Edgar Snively will say any lie to keep the bar against pink marriage. What do they plan for my last egg? Another throat cut in the wild woods of the Wheeler deal? Free Writing Revisited John Stockwell of the CIA cased me to Allentown on the heels of the Wall Street Crash on my birthday in 1987 and made clear, by underlining the date, I was wh...y he was there. That's neat, but when the Svengali pendulum begins swaying, be prepared to look into their eyes and fall asleep. Stockwell's name appears on the Board of the Society of Human Ecology, a group named as a CIA affiliate in the book: Acid Dreams. The S.H.E. operated on Mt. Desert Island where Caspar Weinberger lived, with the help of Will Zell, in Fripp's Gurdjieff Cult, then at Jackson Immunogenetic. When they arranged the game of chicken for Koop around AIDS, Real Worlds knew that Zell lived with Jon Archer and what they planned. It was a British right wing selective eugenic promotion of Royal Black tokens, a vicious Rwanda promoting Youssou N'dour as the Palace Idi Amin and Barack Obama, lead man of the White House Ayn Rand pussyball heist designed by Kennedy's killers in Japan's Hollywood for Reagan, Lennon, Brando and Jagger. To make the exchange for SWAPO, they set me up at PITT with Alpana through United Bible Fellowship (UBF) who also produced Mi Yung Joo (me young Jew) and Marilyn M. (Mueller) of 444 Dearborn Street, Chicago. The Graham Foundation had lewdly molested me as a child with the help of Braunstein, Swimmer and Ostro. Then Jamie Carbonell, Stuart Sheppard (who attended the church of Shawn Brooks, a boy who refused to call police when I came in crying from a gang led by Randy McCormick that assembled on the church lawn ~ he forced me to leave the church where they waited) and Peter Leo worked with Brian Milnes, a friend of Leslie Katz, Peter Shell and Andrea Swimmer to extrude the carrot tape they had implanted in neuroplastic/natural language prompter hypnosis, while I was under extremely cruel holocaust hypnosis, catatonically carving dry wall triangles in Saul and Lou Brecher's closet. Lube Wrecker and Me Shall Lubin (Michelle Lubin) are typical Jewish puns in the pussyball heist. John Stockwell is a sniggertrance monologuist from the National Security Council. He said that the Secret Service didn't have to do anything to help the killers slay JFK. They just had to let their guard down and do nothing actively enough to let it happen. By putting the scenario they developed into arcana, failure to evaluation them is all it takes to let them operate openly. After all, attempts to understand prove mental illness, which leads to stigma, which in turns allows them their AIDS war game. Greg Karl wrote, “the dialectic is established at the outset,” to use the words of King Crimson's song about the vivisection, “paranoia and poison”; a forensic dialectic that Zell/Karl man Mike McGarvey called, “pigment and figment.” The pigs arrested me for reporting this and pushed me into the psychiatric chamber of Wattenmaker after attacking me brutally in an impacted neuroplasm they knew was there when I didn't. With the help of Black co-workers TL and WC (the initials of Tony Levin and the Women's Center) Terry Ledbetter and Wilma Coon (Terri Visco being the name of the carrot girl, a partner of Swimmer, Mancine and Ostro), Rosine Monteleone, working for Obama, took the symbolic institution, PITT, away from my fathter, who Leo's faction murdered and put on trial as a Red Witch in public for the State of Pennsylvania's godlaw forces, who use anti-abortion sentiments to their advantage, and promote mandatory miscegenation war games with Penis Gabriel as an alternative, pro-Black explanation for Mt. Desert Island. Crowing that ALL of society support the seven foot tall Schugar Bear who demanded the right to sleep in our house before we moved in or he would murder me (Schugar is the name of a funeral parlor), in his overlord affidavit concerning the affair of Leni and Duzzledorf that Leni Stahl, M. Stahl and Les used to stahl investigation for Handy Andy Swimmer, somewhere Sound of Gaspar. They call this tabloid: Abolishing Domestic Apartheid. This hemorrague of evil is what it means to say: The spirit world is an occupied zone. After engineering the Kelly School incident for Caliban Books of Celeron Street and Ming Na Wen, fascist Tom O'Connor jeered me, wrapping his legs around me, throwing me to the floor and screaming in my pre-seizure head, “you work like a nigger Crary,” (which I took for a compliment, thank you) “Crary thinks he solved the riddle, hahaha, there is no riddle, Crary.” Kelly School, by the way, is the situation that proves how much Mickey Obama really cares about the Black children she betrayed. To understand where this is leading, which is nowhere, you have to understand the Union switch and signal denials that came my way in class this holiday where I was planned assigned, “Outside the Law,” about the Red Hand of France in their war on Algerian Independence agents, the war criminal nature of those agents, and also, “Flight of the Red Balloon,” about a boy being followed by a Red Balloon, something like a moon shadow. Professor Nott insisted this was not sympathy for Algeria or a statement about what just happened in Paris. Not to be taken for syncopation, no sir. His affiliation with Pittsburgh Film Makers doesn't mean that Joel Caplan and Claire filmed the sex with Rosa for Penis Sinfield, sold De De Mancine's tawdry child pornography stories, nor in any way participated in the rotten scam with Kathee DiPietro that orchestrated deaf Jeannie's rape. No, sir. When Randy Tantliger kicked my door down with agents from Gibsonia animal testing and Jack Karns to poison my liver and stomach, Pitt Football wasn't enforcing no pussyball for Steve Hawking, even if Jack Karns was at Administration of Justice, no, sir. When the Defiant Trespass charge and Len, “stop getting the male,” put me into seizures of neurohypnosis, it wasn't to justify chemical castration at Harborview, man does that paranoia ever get outta hand. Finding two packs left by a Black man James Green in my mailbox (who was shot in the leg) before Tupac was killed, and then two packs and a gunsmoke pack just after, isn't related to the woman who opens my boxes in the apartment building that come in the mail, the postal workers union of Ralph Proctor, the Black Panthers who sent me a bagel knife tube on the even of the Shannon Harps slay, anymore than Terri and Wilma were making fun of the white who protested apartheid. In reality, the godlaw advocates are in fact enforcers for the proclamation that the script of Gail Burstyn was faithfully not about them, and not about those who started AIDS, but rather about Jimmy Creary and the right to kill the victims. This is about the insane White House Ayn Rand Liars' Club and their authority to do symbolic murder, syphilis sacrificialism. They are counting on being perceived and unreported. They have in fact used being reported as a medium for symbolic bombings knowing it will be denied. This is why they have called me such things as “the navigator”. They soothsay that if'n a person gets fed up, and has to lash out, then Ringo's foaming beard will do it, will really do it, and the slay will calm the rotter nerves of the AIDS fairies as they contemplate again the slasher blade and the injection needle, to the syphilis of Pener Gabriel. Todd Kaufmann used to talk like Pee Wee Herman to pre-seizure Jimmy Creary. Nott said a woman who looks like my mother in a film looks like Pee Wee Herman and laughed when I confirmed it with a photo of Nancy as a child. The North Dixon alliance working with Yoko Ono and David Geffen who Silverblatted my grandfather Ward's newspaper friends into confederacy by surrender to pedophile blackmail, are counting on Black rage, manufactured by Obama and Graham with Alpana, to police the sidewalks with murder against being released, in senior citizenship, from a police pornographer trafficking syndicate who earmarked me in a lifelong operation of sexploitation by persona, lie after lie. They rape and murder by Alia for the Supreme Court S.C.alia in a Taliban from Caliban called Evangelia Karmas. What's the charge? Cudda saved John Lennon. It worked. Pink Floyd said you can say anything to their face because words are acceptable, except the truth about Leslie Katz, and if they spit on you in answer, well-luh, that's catharsis. All you have to do is nothing, and if you make a move, they are ahead of your anyway at M.I.T. The person who has done the most for those who framed me for armed robbery, led by Edelstein, Tive and Thornburg, is Tony Levin. Edelstein's friend Cheryl Levin, Bob Toth's girlfriend, is pronounced share ill levin. Your all leave'n for Levin. He will orchestrate your pain. He will lie for Will Zell. He will break your balls for Leslie Sanetta of Santorum for the sanitation worker killers of Martin Luther King, in a syphilitic jest for High Dauphin Eno of Ken Russell's Foucault circle, and Jim Marrs will say, hehn, just hehn, because Jimmy Creary was a Manchurian Candidate B.F. Skinner'd to JAV spoil Midori “Go/To” green hell. In the widget mind world of Reagan, Jim Marrs holds the hammer for grandpa, hit him again Grandpa. No one will escape the Marrs Texas chainsaw, certainly not by turning to child raping Amnesty International. Of course now that Aung San is in power we'll have to fight dirty again. Islamofascists in the AIDS Combine just want peace. They will shoot up Paris kids for after the Louis Letos give them weapons, and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing sanctifies symbolic methods for Mrs. Yoko Ono, the honorary a Black Woman of Hillary Clinton's funhouse. It's this sort of thing that make me look at the death of Dean Tierno when little Jimmy Creary was in the door on the floor in a paper bag, inundated with letters from “white witches” named Barbaras Starr and Davis. See the doctor, just say, “ah ah ah.” There's nothing to it. What about grandma surrounded by Mehta and Butcher Singer! Take your medicine, queerbait, or Leonard Price will call you Yeshiva Van Gogh! 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Risaan Udayakumar stabbing: Teen guilty of manslaughter after killing sister’s ‘secret boyfriend’ who was hiding in the garage Victim Risaan Udayakumar. Picture: Hertfordshire Constabulary Victim Risaan Udayakumar. Picture: Hertfordshire Constabulary - Credit: Archant A teenager who stabbed to death his sister’s ‘secret’ boyfriend from Wembley has been found guilty of manslaughter. The 17-year-old, who was 16 at the time of the incident and cannot be named for legal reasons, fatally stabbed Risaan Udayakumar on July 10. The 18-year-old civil engineering student, who lived with his parents, died in hospital after being stabbed in the chest at his girlfriend’s detached home in Watford. Shortly before 10pm on July 10, a member of the public called police after he discovered Risaan crouched in the corner of the property’s adjoining garage with multiple stab wounds, following a disturbance. In the wake of his death, Risaan’s distraught family said: “Our family is devastated and will never be the same again. Risaan leaves a gap that cannot be filled and we do not understand why this has happened to such a bright and caring young man. You may also want to watch: “Risaan was very family orientated and did not believe in violence.” During the trial at St Albans Crown Court, the jury heard heard the parents of the boy and his 19-year-old sister were away on holiday at the time of the killing and had given strict instructions that the siblings were not to have friends over to the house. Most Read Because of the parents’ “strict views” about relationships, their daughter had decided not to tell them that she was in a relationship with Risaan. On July 10 she picked him up from Watford station and returned to her home. She hid him in the garage when she heard her brother banging on the door shouting “Where is he?” Michael Speak, prosecuting, said: “Having searched the bedroom and bathroom and having failed to find Risaan, the defendant went into the garage and there he found Risaan, who was down in a corner at the front of the garage.” Risaan offered no resistance and only raised his arms to shield his face, the prosecutor added. When she saw blood, his girlfriend realised he had been stabbed. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter due to loss of self-control on Wednesday. Det Insp Justine Jenkins said: “This has been an extremely difficult and emotional time for Risaan’s family and my thoughts remain with them. They have shown great dignity throughout as they continue to try and come to terms with what has happened. This is a tragic case which has affected many lives.” The teenager will be sentenced in February. Become a Supporter Become a Supporter	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '41', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9858776330947876}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '61112', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:54XEVBUO6O5U44AWBWGI5Y7QCKMYUPVV', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f9f5d219-9691-41dc-96c0-b3603c24b63a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 25, 19, 21, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.239.152.43', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:USQNJ4D2O5X4NJTNM7WAZAMZGOYX5W54', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b2a3f1b2-ffb5-4b4c-891b-94562c2d6e9c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-guilty-of-fatally-stabbing-wembley-student-3809998', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:571efa07-755d-4c3e-a81d-d9a90710c7fd>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '486', 'url': 'https://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime/teenager-guilty-of-fatally-stabbing-wembley-student-3809998', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-40\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.022931277751922607', 'original_id': '9ddd5fb998a5d377de9eede7988f1dbfab7371f2b74f802c8b0ac8828ffb33af'}
From one football coach to another, Brett Angell says it doesn't surprise him at all fellow Central Football employee Leon Birnie has captured the imagination of the world, never mind the country in the past few days. "I have said when he first took on the role that I believe he's just showing the world his capabilities," says Thirsty Whale Hawke's Bay United coach Angell of Birnie, who is at the helm of New Zealand girls creating history at the Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Uruguay. The Kiwis play Canada for bronze medals at Montevideo in an 8am kick off tomorrow after losing 2-0 to Spain on Thursday. Mexico and Spain face off in the final after that playoff. "He's a decent coach and I've always believed that," says Angell who will be priming up his troops to kick off against Tasman United at Trafalgar Park, Nelson, at 2pm tomorrow. "I feel he's letting people know what his capabilities are and to a wider audience." The Englishman, who also plied his trade in the Premier League in his birth country, says Birnie's accomplishments are great for him, the region and New Zealand. "You know, it's the fairytale-type thing. I've spoken to him and he wanted to create some sort of history and he's done that," he says, suspecting Birnie's been flying under the radar but is now on it. "It just gives it a positive feel around what it is. I'm just so happy he's been able to put all that together and he should be very proud of what he's done." The Englishman says it will be nice if Birnie and his brigade go down in the history books. "It'll be just great to finish as high as possible because that's what goes down in the history books," he says. "Yes, it could be a fourth place but it would be lovely for it to be a third-place finish because it's as good as anybody has done." Angell says Birnie has covered himself in glory but it's probably nothing that he didn't think he's capable of doing. "Now he's in a group where he can really express what he can do as a coach, hopefully, it might take him to another level so I don't know." Nevertheless, for the premiership mentor the revelations this week from the Bay franchise that it's in the financial doldrums and needs $50,000 to see their 2018-19 campaign through have somewhat stolen the thunder from the players in the park. Angell says the financial position of the franchise isn't ideal but it's something that has plagued it since the day he started coaching the team in the summer of 2014-15. "I think the boys were aware of it so things have been explained to them and we hope things will start to change in that regard." However, he says the playing unit cannot change fiscal matters off the park but can have an impact in the premiership to make it an even more attractive entity. What Bay United won't do is use the franchise caught up in the financial doldrums as an escape clause when they underachieve. "Obviously in the down bits it is on the players' minds but, realistically, when we're in the football environment we need to push that outside to make sure we're, performance wise, very positive and then move on from week to week and, hopefully, the situation will rectify itself in the not-too-distant future." The Birhanu Taye-captained Bay United have turned their fortunes around with a gritty 2-all draw against Team Wellington a fortnight ago before walloping Waitakere United 4-0 to break a home ground hoodoo at Bluewater Stadium dating back to a winless patch there last season. Hawke's Bay United coach Brett Angell had appointed Leon Birnie his assistant coach in the summer of 2014-15. Photo/file It isn't lost on Angell and his troops that accruing wins has the propensity to change the complexion of the franchise's realm of existence. Despite the sluggish start to their season, he feels Bay United have found fluency to reap the rewards. Tasman United also have only one match this summer but sit a rung below, two points adrift of eighth-placed Bay United owing to the latter's two draws in the 10-team premiership. Coach Andy Hedge and his cohorts will have ticked the box against the visitors but may need to revisit their blueprint on account of the latter's late resurgence. "What we have to do now is go down to build momentum, win games of football and, hopefully, with that the confidence will start to seep through." Cursory glances at the premiership table can lead to Bay United becoming unstuck. His mantra is to avoid the paper psychological warfare, give Tasman the respect they deserve and take ownership of their true-and-tried systems. Player/assistant coach Paul Ifill, akin to Daniel Allan, Cameron Lindsay, Cory Chettleburgh and Taye, have served both tribes but while he values their input it's not an overriding factor. "I don't think it's about going back to Tasman to prove a point," he says. "I think it's about what we're setting out to do and applying that." Tasman Utd: 1. Keegan Smith (GK), 2. Sam Ayers, 3. Edward Sillars, 5. Fox Slotemaker, 6. Bertie Fish, 7. Corey Larsen, 8. Matt Tod-Smith, 10. Kiernan Hughes-Mason, 11. Alex Ridsdale, 12. Ahmed Othman, 13. James McClay, 14. Ryan Worrall, 15. Max Winterton, 18. Ben Kiore, 20. Nick Stanton (RGK), 21. Jordan Yong. Coach: Andy Hedge. Hawke's Bay Utd: 1. Mackenzie Waite (GK), 2. Anders Eriksson, 3. Liam Schofield, 4. Cameron Lindsay, 5. Joseph Zupo, 6. Daniel Allan, 7. Cory Chettleburgh, 8. Paul Ifill, 9. Sam Mason-Smith, 10. Sho Goto, 11. Maxime Oliveri, 14. Birhanu Taye (c), 21. Bjorn Christensen, 22. Karan Mandair, 23. Jorge Akers, 26. Alexander Britton (RGK). Coach: Brett Angell.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '12', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.97209894657135}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '140764', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M73STZIE47L2DPKDXRHJ75HOFCEOJ766', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0db7f627-d37c-44b0-854b-32ea2bc718e9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 15, 43, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.60.107.42', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:7TZZONIZBPXYKOQVBSLMJOWSFDVMRVNL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c9b79484-0977-4533-8c9e-2b5b0dd862fe>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12169189', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:559ce47d-905e-472b-8fb4-b2136ac48958>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '973', 'url': 'https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12169189', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-159-135-91.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05478835105895996', 'original_id': '8ecdd153190f1dbe3a9e4618f5b12bb9249c0146e6b5cd155e790443997857ea'}
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a dispenser pump of a novel type for dispensing liquid products which may be very fluid (alcohol), of creamy consistency or more or less viscous (liquid soap, shaving cream, and so on). 2. Description of the Prior Art Dispenser pumps of this type are already known but are subject to various drawbacks in all cases. In the first place, they often have a complex structure which entails high production cost. It is consequently necessary to make provision for re-use of these pumps with a number of successive refills of the product to be dispensed. This gives rise to problems of asepsis when it is desired to employ them, for example, in the operating theater of a hospital. It should further be mentioned that the majority of known pumps allow external air to flow upwards into the product after each use. These pumps consequently have a tendency to clog as a result of drying of the product. In addition, admissions of air again present a problem of asepsis for medical uses.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'a4e9baa466caced03ae1f5489bb5c9d59904c006a96e24e664cd6bd316d4a7e4'}
Q: Biking against traffic on a one-way streets in Europe My recent experience with new Google Maps shows that it constantly leads me against traffic on a one-way streets in Europe in general and in Poland (where I live) in particular. Are there any laws or regulations for this? I assume Google wouldn't set a track that would violate local laws. But, on the other hand, it seems quite unnatural for me to bike against traffic on a one-way street. And recently I have found a typical one-way street with a typical one-way signs on both ends: And each sign was additionally labelled with a special label saying "Bikes excluded", which would suggest that biking against traffic on a one-way streets is strictly prohibited unless otherwise stated. A: In Holland, were I assume cycling is much more common than in Poland, the kind of traffic sign you describe are abundant (see example, "uitgezonderd" is Dutch for "except for"). And cycling against traffic in a one-way street without the sign is indeed illegal. The same rules seem to apply in Poland, though I cannot find a reliable source for Polands cycling laws. As to why Google Maps suggests those routes remains a mystery, but it doesn't seem to happen only in Poland, see this link A: Just to add to FatHippos answer: The same applies to Germany. In my home town there was a survey of all one-way roads between 2004 and 2010, which resulted in most of them now being open for bikes in both directions. These roads are also marked explicitly with a sign like the one you describe. A: There is also a Czech version of allowing you to bike 'the other direction'. Biking against the one way direction is not much of a crime here and where the traffic is low, it's usually tolerated. I'd advise against biking the wrong direction in traffic heavy places like city centers, though, even when it's allowed. These signs (and corresponding regulation) is still a novelty here and you can get into some difficult situations in a narrow place with an overstressed truck driver or a distracted car driver used to this street being one way all his life.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'ca064afbfdd66dc2b3aac0fff7b6a744fdf1a917a0d61221f7a74f4bc7efcd0c'}
Hawaii Redistricting Panel Faces 'Terrible Dilemma' The controversy over whether or not to count military personnel when redrawing Hawaii's political boundaries seemed moot Wednesday because the state can't accurately separate them from the general population. The Hawaii Reapportionment Commission previously voted 8-1 in June to include non-resident military personnel as well as sentenced felons and college students — the basic Census population — as part of political district populations. Those groups were not included in the 2001 count that determined current House and Senate districts. Amid threats of legal challenges to that decision, chairwoman Victoria Marks had recommended the panel draw up various scenarios to be safe. But reapportionment staff told commission members Wednesday that they can't accurately extract military residents who were counted in the latest U.S. Census based on where they live. That's because the Department of Defense has only provided ZIP codes for active-duty military who don't declare Hawaii as their permanent residence. That ZIP code data doesn't jibe with the more-detailed Census data used for redistricting, which uses Census blocks. Have feedback? Suggestions?	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9711952805519104}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25683', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2EXJHEZV57FL35SRYNU22VA65R6ZYZUN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:52c5adaa-3de9-4aa4-abea-b11799ae3bd3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 13, 10, 21, 38), 'WARC-IP-Address': '54.235.243.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OF7B5RE6VO77PRSL5XXYX4DN2R3SQSFB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:48b61a70-69de-4b54-a8fa-7b11b37a76c0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2011/08/17/12561-hawaii-redistricting-panel-faces-terrible-dilemma/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2def4fb3-040d-4357-83e7-d0e15be35779>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '176', 'url': 'http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2011/08/17/12561-hawaii-redistricting-panel-faces-terrible-dilemma/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04435455799102783', 'original_id': 'e539daa9b4fdd16f7ce22b4d92b07074330697cb76222362a312ac9e7c618233'}
Fuel Cells And The IoE From the infrastructure, to transportation, to the smart home, and mobile devices, fuel cells will play a big role in the IoE. There is no arguing with the fact that civilization is consuming power like never before. Even with a growing awareness of energy conservation at all levels, and across all types of platforms the world’s appetite for energy is growing, logarithmically. And technology is not going to be able to make conventional energy sources efficient, and earth-friendly enough to supply all that will be needed. As the IoE evolves, there will be a huge increase in the number of powered devices – in the tens of billions, and eventually hundreds of billions, of devices. Of course, some of them will be legacy devices that will join the IoE without changing their power footprint. But there will be many new devices, which because they are devices on the IoE, can be designed to use green and alternative power sources. Even the simplest of devices with two-way communications will require a power source. These devices will have a variety of power options to choose from. Some can use solar or wind. Some electricity from the grid. Others are prime candidates for emerging technologies such as energy harvesting or fuel cells. However, while some of the energy sources leave little, or no carbon footprint, others such as fossil fuels leave a huge carbon footprint. And many of the devices that use fossil fuels are perfect candidates for fuel cell power plants of one sort or another. To address this, science and technology have been hard at work looking at existing platforms and developing alternative technologies that will both meet the energy demand and be earth-friendly. In some areas, such as solar and wind, the curve is at the knee. They are relatively mature and any progress in these area is generally incremental. But for other areas, such as energy harvesting and fuel cells, the future is bright. There is a lot of potential in both of them, especially fuel cells, which is a highly scalable energy platform. Fuel cells are not anywhere close to new, but the exciting news coming from that segment is the advancements in their technology. Technology has, and will continue to make them more economical, viable, and efficient. But their real shining star is that they have an unlimited fuel source – hydrogen, and they only spent byproduct is water. Many think that hydrogen fuel cells can radically change the future of the energy landscape. Fuel cells 101 There are many different types of fuel cells; AFC, PEM, DMFC, MCFC, PAFC, and SOFC (see glossary of terms at bottom of story). They all operate a slightly different manner. But in broad terms, energy is produced by the hydrogen atoms entering a fuel cell at the anode, at which time a chemical reaction strips them of their electrons. The hydrogen atoms are now ionized, and proceed thought the PEM to the cathode. At the same time, the separated electrons are routed to the load, usually via wiring and provide the electricity to do work. After their journey, they combine with oxygen fed into the cell and become water. Unfortunately, hydrogen doesn’t exist uniquely as a gas on Earth because it is lighter than air, and escapes from our atmosphere in its natural state. But it is the most plentiful and simplest element in the universe, and on Earth it is found combined with other elements – and, those elements are plentiful. Hydrocarbons are one example. Hydrogen molecules can be found in compounds such as gasoline, natural gas, methanol, propane, coal, and many others. Hydrogen also can be “farmed” from water and biomass, and it has been found that even some algae and bacteria emit the gas. So there is plenty of hydrogen to go around. The challenge is creating devices that can use it as fuel, cheaply, safely, and reliably, and storing it. Its main downside is its volatility, making production and storage quite challenging, especially for applications where it cannot be adequately contained. And the biggest fly in the ointment is its potential explosive nature under certain conditions. How to make it The basic construction of a hydrogen fuel cell is shown in Figure 1. While there are several ways to product hydrogen, the two most common are steam reforming and electrolysis. Electrolysis can not only use water, but alkaline, as well. Figure 1 Fig. 1: Typical fuel cell breakout. Hydrogen is widely used for many different products so methodologies for farming it are fairly well understood, and mature. Therefore, once fuel cells become economical, and the technical hurdles for mass deployment are overcome, hydrogen-powered engines will radically alter the power landscape. Much of the today’s hydrogen comes from within the CPI, where steam reforming is the most predominant technique of producing Hydrogen. There are two methods within this technology, SMR and SNR. SMR works by the combining methane and steam. SNR works similarly, but only SMR is shown. Using high temperatures, and moderate pressures, steam and methane (or naphtha) are combined in catalyst-filled tubes where they generate a synthesis gas. Steam and hydrocarbon enter the reactor as feedstock, and hydrogen and carbon dioxide are generated at the end of the process. The endothermic chemical reactions for the methane compound are represented by: These reactions produce hydrogen, which is then captured. There are other criteria to sustain the reaction, such as heat, as well. Electrolysis is the second major method for generation hydrogen gas. Water and alkaline are similar, so the water method is presented. This method passes an electric current through water, which produces the hydrogen by splitting water molecules via a reaction process. How this works is that current enters the electrolysis device through the cathode, is passed through the water the anode. This process evolves hydrogen, which is then collected at the cathode. The oxygen that is generated is collected at the anode. It is a relatively simple reaction given by: Screen Shot 2016-01-28 at 10.50.23 AM Essentially, fuel cells generate electricity much like batteries, from an internal chemical reaction. However, unlike batteries, there are special requirements for containment, handling and safety. The bad But most batteries in commercial use have a low probability of exploding. Hydrogen is much more volatile. That is not to say batteries are, impervious to explosion, and fires (especially lithium), but such incidents almost always occur under abuse conditions. With hydrogen, the potential for explosion is inherent and can occur under normal conditions because hydrogen gives up its electrons very easily. While hydrogen itself is a fairly stable molecule, it has the propensity to react with many different types of elements to form a variety of compounds. And that is where the problem lies. Actually, hydrogen burns rather than explodes when oxygen and any ignition source is present, however minute. Obviously, with the ubiquity of oxygen and potential ignition sources, the problem is self-evident. And this is the major challenge that hydrogen power plants have to overcome, especially if they are going to be used in open environments, such as smart homes, vehicles and mobile devices from wearables to communicators. Progress is being made, however, but large-scale integration of fuel cells in wide variety of devices is still several years off. Scaling down; scaling up One of the nice things about fuel cells is that they scale well, from milliwatts to megawatts. Back in 2008, Toshiba presented an actual working prototype of a cell phone that utilized the DFMC technology. And late last year a British-based company, called Intelligent Energy, unveiled an iPhone 6 powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The cell is so thin it can fit it to the existing chassis without alterations, and retaining the rechargeable battery. Preliminary specs show that it can run for an entire week. To “recharge” one simply adding hydrogen from a cartridge – instant charge up. The only noticeable difference from the standard version are the addition of some vents to allow the water vapor to escape. On the charger side the company also offers a hydrogen-powered iPhone charger called “Upp,” based on the same technology. Imagine, in the near future, all one has to do to recharge their cell phone is to carry a small cartridge, or, perhaps, hook up to a public hydrogen refill station, pay a recharge fee, connect a hose and instantly the phone has a full charge. And, why stop there, this can be stratified across any number of portable device, including wearables. Scaling up a notch, another British-based company, Arcola Energy, offers fuel cell developer kits to interested parties. Their inventory includes kits designs for homes, to transportation. Arcola Energ Fig. 2: Arcola 30W fuel cell developers kit. Going up, the world’s largest fuel cell park is in South Korea. The plant consists of 21 2.8 MW hydrogen fuel cells for an output capacity 59 MW. So the potential for using fuel cells can be seen across virtually every power landscape – from smart phones to smart cities. IoE applications One of the changes the IoE will bring will be the deployment of the Internet of energy. Fuel cells will play a large role in the storage of energy, along with batteries, wind turbines, solar, energy harvesting, and traditional power sources. But, fuel cells along with the renewable or “free” energy sources will become one of the more prominent sources of energy for the IoE. That is because fuel cells are very “green.” Fuel cells do not burn anything and have no direct carbon footprint. They are silent and mechanically simple. However, how the hydrogen is derived does have a carbon footprint, and the manufacturing of them has an up-front impact. Moreover, they do produce carbon dioxide. But compared to fossil fuels, and most battery technologies (which eventually end up in the refuse pile), they are as perfect a power source as is solar, and wind. For objects of the IoE, such as smart phones and tablets, wearables, medical devices, sensors, smart homes and the like, fuel cells are lining up to become a viable energy source. The challenges But they’re still not quite there yet. One of the most challenging issues is how to make hydrogen both cheap and conveniently available. Considering hydrogen’s volatility, that is a major challenge. Storage is another challenge. Hydrogen is difficult to store in its quiescent state because it has such low density. Today it is generally stored in an altered state such as a cryogenic liquid or as a pressurized gas. However, one promising storage method that is being investigated is nanostructured carbons, which preliminarily show promise in storing large amounts of hydrogen at near room temperatures. Another challenge is durability and reliability. Progress has been made, but temperature extremes, especially sub-zero conditions, affect the state of the water in the systems. The other aspect of this is that the purity of oxygen and hydrogen affect the efficiency of the system. And, finally, there is the cost issue. While some progress has been made in getting fuel cell systems to be economically viable across a girth of applications, with the exception of vehicles and power plants, the costs are still too high to make them viable. Fuel cells have been the touted as the solution to many of our energy issues today for quite some time. From a technical perspective, they offer a number of attractive options. However, there are a number of “ifs” in the equation, most of which have been discussed here. Nevertheless, fuel cells are coming of age. The fact that a company would make a prototype that can power a cell phone for a week has wide-ranging implications. And that others are offering developer kits is also promising. It is difficult to predict when fuel cell technology might hit the knee so economies of scale take over and the challenges are overcome. But once they do, they have the potential to ramp up and deploy like nothing we have seen in the power arena. Glossary of terms: AFC – Alkaline Fuel Cell CPI – Chemical Process Industries DMFC – Direct Methanol Fuel Cell MCFC – Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell PAFC – Phosphoric Acid Fuel Cell PEM – Proton Exchange Membrane SMR – Steam Methane Reforming SNR – Steam Naphtha Reforming SOFC – Solid Oxide Fuel Cell • Kev I remember someone who tried putting a fuel cell in a phone complaining about the background bubbling noise it made. Generally fuel cells are touted as part of the “Hydrogen Economy”, and that has many problems beyond the fuel cell technology itself. To get a similar power density to Li-Ion batteries you need the Hydrogen under ~20000psi, and preferably cryogenic. That implies larger applications work better since pressurized/cryo storage costs less per volume when built bigger. So far I have not seen many large scale applications, large aircraft and ships would seem like a good place to start. 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$CLOV $CLOV $CANO $CLOV $WISH $CLOV how the hell does this guy have any followers? Seems to be on the wrong side of EVERY trade. Here are a few gems from just the last week. I may have to give him a follow, just to do the opposite of his posts🤷‍♂️🥃 $CLOV I don't understand the fascination behind $CLOV it's a meme stock yet $CANO is in a much better position to receive government contracts with the recent health policy. $CLOV is over a BN MC and it is overvalued and burns cash like $WISH . Retail will never move $CLOV again. Every pump is rescuing bagholders!! Funds are verse to any gamma squeezes and that last big pump has huge shorts and they are in control of the stock. Accept your losses, find a Twitter pumper that can bail you out before the SEC finishes it's tapers and starts the next project of nabbing the Twitter manipulators and furus and discord that pump stocks. Technically and fundamentally this stock is very very poor. View original message	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9600290060043336}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '67761', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:Y4S55JKRMR2NZH3LGCGTGV5HQUNFGIH7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ca968a2e-2cf6-409e-8780-533d8ab96673>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 26, 13, 34, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.22.11.38', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YCZUB5TQIPBPWGSPWMPN6MFRXXMXA5OZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ab9d06dd-48c5-4a1e-8805-707d97f52137>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://stocktwits.com/SpyHunter80/message/378587123', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3fbeb855-cac6-4402-a05f-afbc3d8d28dc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '166', 'url': 'https://stocktwits.com/SpyHunter80/message/378587123', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-130\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.12991487979888916', 'original_id': 'cf108ba0dcec6702d7bba611243f349be7bfe721518ae056c80a0863e2b44d81'}
or Connect New Posts All Forums: Posts by Wraitii Isn't it rather two pocket squares? Yeah, if it's really too hot, there's also the "shower twice" method... Though you need access to a shower. May Bono advise you against orange, teal, brown, pink and red? Cut the iPhone in two. I think it looks bad too. If you want colourful glasses, you might consider black frames on the outside and color on the inside. The exact opposite of this, for example. They feel like this, I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing: Definitely not formal wear. I could see it at work, depending on your business. It looks weirdly shiny, but that must be the picture. For now, I've read a lot and a lot and a lot about men's fashion... But I don't nearly have the time, energy, money or means to have a proper wardrobe. Though a definite improvement was finding a place to buy pocket squares in my small... That's an unwritten style rule that you only wear black to black tie events or funerals. Of course, it's as usual with rules... This one exists mainly because it's very often a uniform. As for your question Cwalker100, I'm tempted to... More importantly: does it really matter? Afaik, suits are a vestige of military uniforms. So, not colonialism directly. Or maybe you're referring to the fact you have to wear one as a result of colonialism... In which case I don't see... New Posts All Forums:	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9773697257041932}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '62637', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BBXTEQLOGSTZI766DKTMFS7BCICUNAMZ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b7688cab-e209-420f-9408-a061c2ae6057>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 13, 13, 50, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '174.36.23.246', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:FH4YAET4PHFYESA6S5A3RRUP27YHZPMR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5d8823b8-a717-4791-a7ac-16651c84dc98>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.styleforum.net/forums/posts/by_user/id/137133/page/20', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e32ba125-27df-4113-9a11-03a8182e04eb>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '249', 'url': 'http://www.styleforum.net/forums/posts/by_user/id/137133/page/20', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08579671382904053', 'original_id': 'c6d43007fb88fb809cd013202ff27903a949623a1618d60ca22055233fd28466'}
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Street Fighter V Newbie Shows Everyone How To Take Down Supposedly Overpowered Character Illustration for article titled iStreet Fighter V/i Newbie Shows Everyone How To Take Down Supposedly Overpowered Characterem/em As Street Fighter V moves into its second season of competition, players are scoping out which characters may be a problem in the months to come. Urien, who joined the game last September as a piece of downloadable content, has already garnered Capcom some side-eye due to his seemingly overpowered moveset. However, a simple counter recently popped up in the most unlikely of places. A player by the name of Elbueno recently found themselves facing down the overwhelming might of Urien while taking part in an online tournament hosted for Street Fighter V newcomers. But spectators were in for a treat as Elbueno unleashed a noteworthy Karin technique that acted as a perfect counter. Urien first joined the Street Fighter universe in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact, earning fans in both casual and competitive spheres thanks to his distinct look (gotta love the loincloth) and tools. When it came time for him to jump into Street Fighter V, players were again ready to confound opponents with tricky Aegis Reflector setups. These moving barriers form the foundation of Urien’s gameplay, allowing him to play defensively, trap opposing players, and even create unique juggle opportunities when paired with his other attacks. He looked to be a solid expansion to the Street Fighter V cast early on, but a recent balance update has made him into one of the strongest characters the game has to offer. In addition to making several attacks safer and easier to combo from, the developers saw fit to double the damage on Urien’s Aegis Reflectors and increase the corresponding meter earned by certain moves, making his ubiquitous plasma walls easier to activate. While players were certainly making waves with him before the path dropped, Urien’s prevalence in high-level competition only grew after the update. This phenomenon was most notable at early February’s Winter Brawl XI, where half of the finalists used the new character at least once in their top eight matches. Whenever a character like Urien pops up in a fighting game, you generally have two choices: complain or adapt. Complaining certainly has its advantages in this new era of development, where studios are more likely to update a release based on the input of the community. However, the best competitors are the ones who jump into training mode and learn counters. These strategies typically show themselves at high-level offline events, but an online beginners’ tournament provided a sneak peek at what lesser-known players have been working on to defeat Urien. During the latest installment of the weekly Reddit Beginners/Intermediate Discord competition, Elbueno showcased how the aristocratic Karin can bypass Urien’s walls with ease. By using the projectile dissipation properties of her Guren Ken, Elbueno strikes the Aegis Reflector with the first strike and, as the wall is essentially a three-hit projectile, transitions to Karin’s slide to bypass it and punish the Urien player. Since the slide isn’t invulnerable to projectiles, the strategy likely depends on precise spacing to ensure Karin’s hurtbox doesn’t intersect with the Aegis Reflector, and it’s not always guaranteed to punish if you’re playing an Urien who knows what’s up. Plus, the slide is extremely unsafe on block, so careful planning will be required to ensure you don’t eat more damage than it’s worth. Despite this smart use of Karin’s attacks, Elbueno would eventually lose to his opponent, finishing the tournament tied for seventh place. There’s always next week! Is this a complete solution to Urien’s dominance? No, not really, but it’s yet another sign of the ingenuity of the competitive fighting game community. Rarely is there a character or strategy so powerful that they completely break the game, especially when it comes to the genre’s modern offerings. The technique displayed by Elbueno is just one more reason to keep studying your favorite fighting game. There’s always something new to learn, even from players who won’t be winning Evo anytime soon. 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The reason such weird stuff were used for treatment was that the doctors started believing that bad smell can drive the plague out. Several other weird thoughts were put into practice with the belief that doing so will help to cure or at least prevent the spreading of the plague. Some of the methods were: Eating and drinking in moderation. Refraining oneself from abusing the poor people. Adding aromatic herbs in beverages. Conditions were even worsened because bathing was actively discouraged during the plague. There were two reasons for this: It was believed that bathing would open up bodily pores which would in turn allow easy entry and exit of bad or polluted air into and from the body, which would easily help with the spreading of the disease. Weirdly enough, this belief maintained a strong foothold across entire Europe well into 19th century. Second belief was that bathing and hence changing clothes was a disrespect to gods which invited the wrath of the gods as a punishment and that the plague was one of the weapons used by God for punishing people for such vanity. Not bathing during the plague really did catch up throughout Europe and so, in order to hide the bad odor, perfumes and several colognes such as the Eau de Colonge was used extensively. Closed communities were extremely vulnerable to the plague. In communities like nunneries and monasteries, one person getting infected meant that everyone died because nuns and monks actually tended to the sick and contracted the plague. In Montriuex monastery, a monk named Gherardo was the only one to survive along with his dog. The remaining 34 monks died because of the plague and Gherardo was the person who buried the dead bodies of those dead monks. Similarly, in Montpellier, 7 out of Dominican brothers managed to survive the plague. 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Unfortunately, back in the Middle Ages during the plague, rats were very common in cities and used to travel the world on ships. Sadly enough, no attention was diverted to rats because people were simply unaware of the fact. During the s, many scientists had actually blamed the plague on diseases such as typhus and anthrax. In however, a French grave was unearthed and 20 samples were analyzed from three of the victims where were buried in that grave. Tooth pulp was used for testing and it was found that the Y. First the bubonic plague which caused the Black Death , the pneumonic plague and septicemic plague. The bubonic plague is a variant in which the Y. The bacteria then makes its way to the lymph nodes and leads to the formation of buboes or growths through quick multiplication. The bubonic plague derives its name from buboes. The pneumonic plague on the other hand is caused when Y. In this form of plague, the victims cough blood. Pneumonic plague was also present during the Black Death. In this variant, the blood gets infected. In fleas, the Y. The blockage leads to starvation and the fleas resort to aggressive feeding behavior and attempt to clear the blockage by regurgitating. This results in flushing of the replicating Y. There is yet another mechanism by which the bubonic plague spreads. One of these two populations is resistant to the disease while the other is not. The resistant host keeps the disease endemic and the non-resistant host is wiped out. When this happens, the fleas from the dead hosts move to new hosts which include humans and thereby creating human epidemic. This is exactly what happened in case of Black Death. It is not that the Black Death affected only the humans. Even animals were affected. So devastating were the consequences of the Black Death that the healthy people desperately tried to avoid the sick people. Doctors refused to attend the patients and priests declined administering last rites. Even worse, healthy people from families would often leave their infected loved ones to die and escaped to other places. Every class of people were affected by the plague. While the poor were definitely the hardest hit, the elites did not escape either. Almost all products designed with keeping right-handed people in mind. And why not when they are in the majority. But some left-handed people pay the price for this tradition by giving their life. Each year left-handed people lost their life by using products invented for right-handed people. However, it is not just right-handed people being partial to left-handed people, but surprisingly nature does the same thing. Killer handwritten prescriptions Find one of the prescriptions written by your doctor and read. You most likely misread the drug name and you know the reason. Now imagine what would happen if chemist mistakenly misread the drug and give you a wrong one? Yes, it can be a life threating mistake. Therefore, maximum hospitals are introducing electronic prescription to eliminate this error and confusion. Headless cockroaches Have you ever seen cockroach living around without its head? Cockroaches can live up to nine days without its head, and it is because cockroaches are not dependent on the head for breathing. They breathe through little holes in each of their body segments. They die thirsty and hungry without its head. Death Laughter Laughter is good for health. It boosts the immune system, protect the heart and relaxes the whole body. But can you think of death because of over laughter? Yes, it is possible that one can die of having too much laughter. For example, Greek stoic philosopher Chrysippus once saw his donkey eating figs. He asked his slave to give some wine to the donkey so that figs get wash down. When he saw his donkey drinking wine, he laughed too much that he died. That practice is known as crucifixion in which victim is nailed to a large wooden cross and left hanged until death. This slow and painful execution is unquestionably against humanity, but unfortunately it is still alive in some countries. 26 facts tagged with Death Facts Check out these interesting and disturbing facts about death, courtesy of FactSlides. 1. Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Death facts. A list of all kinds of amazing, funny, and interesting Death fun facts that are cool to know. Find a cool Death fact! More Info 8. Killer handwritten prescriptions The leading cause of death among young women in the developing world is childbirth. Every year, about 8 out of every 1, people die, according to the Population . Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Death. Interesting Facts About Death. 1. The Aztecs regarded childbirth as a form of battle. Women who died during childbirth were thought to rise to one of the highest heavens, the same one as for male warriors who died in battle. – Source. 2. The academic journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences performed a study that revealed that in the US, 1 in every 25 people on Death Row are innocent. Interesting Black Death Facts: 1. Black Death was a plague epidemic that swept across Europe between and , killing nearly 25 to 60% of the entire population of Europe. Some historians however claim that the plague wiped out nearly 2/3rd of the entire European population. 2. The plague reached Europe through the sea in October . 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Developer Docs REST API Development Guide Understanding Data How Data is Handled Inside a Flybase app, we have collections, which contain data. We store all data inside a collection as JSON objects. When we add a new record to a collection, it becomes a document in the existing JSON structure. For example, if we added a column named furbies to the kaitlyn user under the users collection, our data looks as follows: "users": { "_id": "uniquedocid-1", "username": "kaitlyn", "friends": { "jacob": true }, "name": "Kaitlyn", "furbies": { "cocoa": true, "totoa": true } "_id": "uniquedocid-2", "username": "jacob", "_id": "uniquedocid-3", "username": "caleb", Reference a Flybase app To read and write Flybase data, we need to reference our app. A Flybase reference consists of three items: 1. Your API Key, represented by: 74k8064f-cd6f-4c07-8baf-b1d241496eec 2. The slug of a Flybase app that has been created in your account: web 3. Finally, the name of a data collection, in this example: posts curl -X POST -d '{ "title": "The Black Pearl", "author": "jacks" }' \ -H "X-Flybase-API-Key: 74k8064f-cd6f-4c07-8baf-b1d241496eec" \ Data inside a Flybase app is organized by collections, if you are familiar with SQL tables, then this is similar to tables. Apps must be created inside your Flybase dashboard, but if you call a collection that does not exist already then it will get created the first time you save data to it. Flybase provides a Dashboard, which displays a visual representation of the data and provides tools for simple administrative tasks. Passing JSON Web Tokens If you don't want to pass your API key every time then you can also pass a JSON web token. This can be generated by passing the following POST query: curl -X POST This will return a JSON object with id_result as the key, copy the contents of id_result to use elsewhere. Then you can pass the JSON token rather than your API key via one of three ways: 1. Replace the api key with token:YOURJWTTOKEN: curl -H "X-Flybase-API-Key: token:MYTOKEN" 2. Pass a Authorization: Bearer header with your JWT token included after the word Bearer: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer MYTOKEN 3. Pass the token with the jwttoken query string variable: Either of these three methods work and provide a handy way to pass your api keys without actually passing your keys. That's it! Now we're ready to start writing data to Flybase which we'll cover in the next section.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8293910026550293}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '11863', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MZ6O3HKTTZJBIXDZP7YDOEITCPXZJ74W', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3df70c93-2dcf-495a-a9e1-5da19eaa9cbe>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 20, 7, 48, 41), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.31.90.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6GVHXYIAK52NICV74VAI6HNJ4YUCJNB4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d355e3c5-9563-492f-99c4-3c65699437fb>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://docs.flybase.io/api/guide/understanding-data.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d6b2e104-bf1c-4d63-ae43-37d136f96611>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '359', 'url': 'http://docs.flybase.io/api/guide/understanding-data.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-47-182-244.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5858917832374573', 'original_id': '4eaa6595eb0ff19a972cf5da3e71b81abba815a2659345b22ccb2a8da0898d81'}
Kaynak 1 Hata Bildir × Many Fx traders have attempted to make it big in the wonderful world of foreign currency exchange trading. Some possess succeeded while others have failed. But no matter what happens, the one thing that stands out is that we all have a different Global forex trading strategy. The reason is no two traders or perhaps investors are exactly the same. Therefore , to ensure success in the Currency markets you need to improve your own strategy. This article will shed some light as to how you could use a similar proven technical evaluation tools that you just utilize with respect to regular trading of the Currency markets to at this moment also craft the highly volatile yet lucrative Cryptocurrency markets. As with virtually any form of expenditure or business, it is extremely important that a trader grows his have strategy, or perhaps better yet a system he has found out works. 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Konuşanlar Advantages and Disadvantages of Using a bitcoin Trading Strategy Dizinin Sayfasına Git Sezonun Diğer Bölümleri Bölüm Bilgileri 34 views izlenme 8 Ocak 2021 Yorumlar 0 Yorum	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '5', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9606653451919556}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39903', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ID2GBQHZHIEGJ224DITLEHHP4BHFHLYO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1b5a3a65-1c66-4221-921e-ecae40a00ea1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 26, 9, 27, 39), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.67.192.64', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LH62JGAERKKI6HVJKZOUGXQPNRSZI3GT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8a2378b3-c481-4f44-8f28-de453297d1df>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.cicotube.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-a-bitcoin-trading-strategy/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:cfb50cd2-6e38-458c-8e05-c5599cba9d28>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '666', 'url': 'https://www.cicotube.com/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-using-a-bitcoin-trading-strategy/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-204\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.10269337892532349', 'original_id': '732b85d189ccd1427edea9c0c7a51171cf595aea7f0a690fd2042b2ffc681e15'}
on 25/02/2020 - 14:36Last edited 25/02/2020 - 16:58 by 1 other user Great price for the Osprey Farpoint 40L in S/M or M/L sizes. The last deal from Wiggle at $123 got 120 upvotes. Comes up as $120 but additional 15% off applied at checkout.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'c56297b720a46f052d8b061b17a032208be2049770307bea5f9557e4bd98c04c'}
I am a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. My research is focused on social and political philosophy with particular attention paid to debates between libertarians, socialists, and anarchists over the moral status of the market and the state. I am presently working on a dissertation defending the coherence of left-libertarianism—a philosophical position that holds that certain moral principles traditionally associated with libertarianism are compatible with egalitarian views about the distribution of resources. While standard accounts of left-libertarianism emphasize the mere compatibility of libertarian and egalitarian principles, I argue that core libertarian principles actually entail that goods should be distributed in accordance with the egalitarian principles typically associated with the socialist left. I can be reached at [email protected]	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.906100571155548}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '9148', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:MAKVE4VJVHK4J3KC7QPBGSVDWI4DHS3N', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3c007910-884d-47fa-b139-d78cec39c0a0>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 2, 22, 10, 35, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.27.187.60', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VMNOU73DLWEGATTNKUQUAFRIQDLRRJ3M', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0952025a-3311-484e-b551-f230f02e37ed>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://jessespafford.com/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9a396d79-d402-4fd0-b16d-4571d09ee753>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '118', 'url': 'https://jessespafford.com/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-77.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.030886411666870117', 'original_id': '2ad0edc8414f1eec60b6ba0cce75e1606246eb43f0c77821dd2a6768b50427d3'}
A clean-up operation is underway in NSW after a wild weekend of weather unleashed 24,000 lightning strikes and destroyed homes. The NSW State Emergency Service (SES) will be concentrating its efforts in the north of the state, which was hit by a large storm cell that has left some homes beyond repair. Wind gusts of up to 100km/h were recorded at the height of the storms, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The SES still has 155 jobs outstanding in the northern coast area around Woodburn and Ballina as of Monday morning, with an additional six in the state's south. Despite strong winds and lightning strikes in Sydney on Sunday evening, there were no reports of damage. One home in Woodburn, which has a population of about 350, was completely destroyed in the storms, while at least four others will have to be demolished. The township was lashed with 100km/h winds and 76mm in 25 minutes. "We've got a lot of damaged roofs and trees down, so it's a case of volunteers going through the area and making temporary repairs to the homes where they can be salvaged," said NSW SES spokeswoman Becky Gollings. "One house was completely flattened by the wind and about 20 people have been displaced from their homes and are staying with friends and family. "Around 30 homes suffered some form of structural damage and we'll have to wait and see which survive. "It's a good thing no one was hurt in the weather as it was a pretty intense cell that came through." The Bureau of Meteorology said the threat of storms had "eased considerably" by Monday. However the southern NSW coast would experience strong winds and rain on Monday, a spokesman said.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9867920875549316}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '135959', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:TRW7JJV2MMWY7LURA54NVUFZ5SVNLW7O', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:09fa7df2-b1c8-4e7b-b601-dde7c552d50b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 20, 15, 20, 45), 'WARC-IP-Address': '184.51.126.67', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OT6O6W7JK5MDH464FMMJUY6A4Z3ECCTT', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d9c184a4-246f-485d-be1a-707423c12cec>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/repairs-needed-after-storms-hit-nsw-20121119-29kvb.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:bac28a95-a3f8-419a-9f66-2d46f0f7af65>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '283', 'url': 'http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/repairs-needed-after-storms-hit-nsw-20121119-29kvb.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.024322450160980225', 'original_id': '8948abb0d014ba1a0fc1400c7fb6ed896697af6669d8c55ead3bf2c364374c82'}
lady in the mirror some time ago, i wrote an entry about the weird shit we say to ourselves in the mirror before a night out. don't lie - you know EXACTLY what i'm talking about. and if you're still adamant about lying, see that old post here and tell me it doesn't ring 10 bells in your head. the things humans do when mirrors are around never cease to amaze, disgust, confuse and humor me. i try my hardest to look at myself only in the morning to make sure there's nothing TOO out of place on my face, and limit the times i "check myself out" again throughout the day. it's just like... i've never been that girl who carries her makeup around with her, so even if i do see a new and odd development on my face at 2pm or if i realize i could use some more blush, there's really nothing i can do about it. but all this got me thinking. girls look like grade-a psychos when they do their makeup. the faces we are able to contort in front of the mirror are almost terrifying. not only that, but everyone has a "mirror face." i've seen some doosies in my time, too. so ya know what i decided to do? take pictures of what i'm writing about right now. all women are natural magicians - they can simultaneously look hideous while becoming more beautiful all at once let's get it started, shall we? (wine helps. always) i honestly don't believe i, personally, have a "mirror" face. no one's ever called me out on it. however, if i had to guess, i'm sure it looks something like the above. look how candid that is. i'm even totally naturally grabbing my two fingers with my other hand. you can't get more candid than this. first face: under eye concealer. this one MAAAAAY be a little exaggerated, but i don't doubt some of us really do look like this during this particular step. blush cracks my shit up. i always smile. i have to - gotta get those "cheekbones." (notice quotation marks because i don't believe i have any sort of natural cheekbone). i can be in THE worst mood, but blush = smile. however, right after the blush portion is over it's back to this face: fuck blush and fuck my life is what this face says. my absolute FAVORITE FACE of all time - the eyelash curler face. omg. i've tried thousands of times to look normal when curling my lashes - not possible. i don't know exactly why the mouth has to be gaped open, but it does. and it's hideous. hey boys, yeah you like these lashes? you'll be even more turned on by the face i made to get them. another SLIGHTLY exaggerated face, but pretty accurate. usually, eyeliner time involves me always being upset because I STILL CAN'T GET IT RIGHT. learning how to do eyeliner was my ultimate feat in college, and i've never really had the steady hand for it. makes sense since i'm usually pretty bad at anything that involves my hands. another weird open-mouth face when it comes to mascara. WHAT IS UP WITH OPEN MOUTH SHIT? and lipstick time. i legit make pouty lip faces when i put lipstick on. it's funny because never do i ever pout my lips out on a normal basis when i have lipstick applied, but for whatever reason,i feel like i'm really getting the job done if i put it on like this. probably explains why i usually get some on my teeth initially. and now for those "mirror faces" this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE mirror face i've ever seen. yes, i've witnessed girls actually make this face and have no fucking idea they're doing it. it's so weird. it's like some involuntary thing for them. typically it's been when they're blow-drying their hair, but OMG. how could you make this face and NOT KNOW you're doing it?!!!?? they're probably lying about not realizing it. i feel bad for them because their wrinkles are gonna suuuuck. bet you dollars people make this face, too. like "eh. all right. i'll take it. this is as good as it's gonna get." perhaps the frown isn't so deep, but i can't help that i make really legit frowny faces. i totally make this expression when all's said and done. it's my "OMG HEY!" face. i guess i think that every time i go out in public, i'm gonna see someone unexpectedly and say "OMG HEY!" never happens. this is the smug look. like "shit. i look good. look at me. damn. yes. all right. let's do this." i don't have TOO many of these faces happen, but when they do... i soak it up. this one speaks for itself and is sort of how i felt last night. like, whatevs. fml. don't care. this wine is good. my mouth is red. i'm wearing green sweat pants. suck it. have a joyous tuesday, everyone! and feel free to show off your best mirror face. - emma emma3 Comments	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9677369594573976}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '84609', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GT4DU7GPVQQIE5DHEBMK4DES2DEQOECX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c30a4532-e391-4dd0-bc9d-cd8d68f8eea6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 3, 22, 8, 52, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5KNJO37LAWQXXQA3BCQEECNQOD34KB5W', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a3ee20a9-a1ff-49fe-aade-6a1d8657e934>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.emmasthing.com/everything/2011/12/13/lady-in-the-mirror', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1b801631-c206-4e8e-a7af-1b2169c052ba>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '843', 'url': 'https://www.emmasthing.com/everything/2011/12/13/lady-in-the-mirror', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-13\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-184-109-84.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.054630279541015625', 'original_id': '5386de71649e0be2ebc9d07baf64072afc7b9ed6910680ee46b9a7a688ced27c'}
What is Cupping Therapy? What happens during a massage? During a massage towels will be used to ensure your modesty. Depending on your treatment your therapist may use an array of oils, creams or talc during your massage. These will be used to benefit your therapy and allow a free-flowing massage. Can everyone enjoy massage? Our clients come from a variety of backgrounds and ethnicity and have seen progress from our services. Many enjoy massage in a variety of ways, some from health benefits and others that enjoy the relaxation and balancing of their body and mind. There are some instances where massage therapy will not be suitable for various conditions and in some cases your doctor must give permission before treatment can commence.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '181', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9470276832580566}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '64862', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SV3SEMHYNQJBPRBSE5XHDLHAF7FYXUJA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fef7998d-efe9-41df-9546-c2552031fda8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 25, 9, 7, 20), 'WARC-IP-Address': '46.51.204.184', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HTWJVOHKNZMLRKRNTMRAAIBW4VB3QKSR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b4c7be79-147c-4b1b-9c21-913ebd07a6c3>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.bodybenefittherapy.co.uk/faqs', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2b39a9cb-c614-4db0-994e-3de0dda9b68a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '329', 'url': 'http://www.bodybenefittherapy.co.uk/faqs', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-169-175-90.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.12738311290740967', 'original_id': 'b6ff631a76395822d4beb13052b63b9b16767d5904d833c5d4e3499eb1e22c2f'}
Second Time’s Not a Charm for ‘The Smurfs’ Sony’s big summer sequel Smurfs 2 failed to draw big numbers at the American box office this past weekend. The live-action/CG-animated hybrid landed in the third spot Stateside, making about $27.8 million during its first five days at the box office. The studio was projecting a $35 million opening weekend, since the original movie brought in about $35.6 million during its first three-day weekend in 2011. Peyo’s little blue guys and gal fared better overseas where they made a total of $80.3 million (still less than the studio’s projected $100 million). The numbers were better in Russia and Latin America then they were in Europe, says The original movie made 75% of overall cume abroad ($420 million foreign vs $142M domestic). Although the critics didn’t warm up to the sequel (it rated a Rotten Tomatoes of 12%), the Raja Gosnell-directed family film scored an A- CinemaScore from audiences. Smurfs 2 is based on the evergreen comic-book property created Belgian artist Peyo (real name Pierre Culliford) and is the second in a planned trilogy by Sony. Directed by Raja Gosnell, the film also stars Neil Patrick Harris and Hank Azaria and the voice talents of the late Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Christina Ricci, Brendan Gleeson, George Lopez and others. In addition to facing competition from other recent family titles such as Despicable Me 2, Monsters University and Turbo, the film will also have to contend with Disney’s Planes on August 9. Here is the rest of the U.S. Top 10: 1. 2 Guns (Universal) Weekend: $27.300 million 2. The Wolverine (Fox) Weekend: $21.735 million; Cume: $95 million 3. Smurfs 2 (Sony) Weekend: $18.200 million; Cume: $27.7 million 4. The Conjuring (Warner Bros.) Weekend: $13.660 million; Cume: $108.5 million 5. Despicable Me 2 (Universal/Illumination) Weekend: $10.391 million; Cume: $326.6 6. Grown Ups 2 (Sony) Weekend: $8.100 million; Cume: $116.4 million 7. Turbo (Fox/DreamWorks) Weekend: $6.400 million; Cume: $69.4 million 8. Red 2 (Summit/Lionsgate) Weekend: $5.650 million; Cume: $45.1 million 9. The Heat (Fox) Weekend: $4.725 million; Cume: $145.5 million 10. Pacific Rim (Warner Bros.) Weekend: $4.570 million; Cume: $92.2 million Smurfs 2 Smurfs 2 • bc I’m actually surprised it did as well as it did. It looks like complete rubbish to me.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '24', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.926570475101471}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '76761', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:F44DWRD5D7WSV5HAU64BQ22DSGDOZBWD', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:232455c0-eb0d-4293-b562-cc6e270e8de7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 2, 28, 17, 28, 11), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.28.24.21', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VLJ57QTIGTER4CCYL6CZ5OCQHHSL4B25', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d18d76e6-ed52-4014-8604-c6b76c749a92>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/second-times-not-a-charm-for-the-smurfs/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:fd3c8e8f-5d86-4431-a62b-c1db7310c303>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '339', 'url': 'http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/second-times-not-a-charm-for-the-smurfs/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05908113718032837', 'original_id': 'e6871611929bd90a2d379c63780b4610e63792c9b4875f558efa9168962a77be'}
Two Tips For Dating Believe it or not, in the ancient world, the largest percentage of adult singles was actually prostitutes Dating is actually a more modern invention of 20th century America, made possible by Henry Ford and his invention of the automobile that allowed people to actually go out Prior to this point, couples just sort of awkwardly sat in their parent's parlor rooms And since this dating phenomenon thing is relatively new in the history of mankind, Christians need to be able to navigate that new landscape using some important biblical principles So, let me give you two here today for a couple of ideas Number one, maybe avoid deep emotional relationships with non-believers This is sometimes a controversial point among Christians But it doesn't really have to be because the Bible is pretty consistent throughout on it In 1 Corinthians 7, the Apostle Paul says: Other passages in scripture bring this idea home too In 2 Corinthians 6:14, Paul talks about not being unequally yoked with somebody else And what he means by that is, don't get so close with somebody else that can't carry their own spiritual weight because otherwise they're going to hold you back in your relationship with Christ And God's basic point is this; the people closest to us in life have the greatest influence over us And if you open your heart to somebody that doesn't have the Holy Spirit in theirs, it can, at the very least, be pretty spiritually confusing for us One other idea Allow yourself input from honest, loving Christians Prior to the 20th century dating phenomenon, it was just assumed that Christians, in the courtship process, would have friends and relatives get a lot of input, influence, over who their spouse would be Christianity was a communal experience and, and Christian marriage was also kind of a communal exercise You would bring people by your relatives and family and they would comment on whether or not this person would be a blessing to you and help you in your walk with Christ Furthermore, if Christians live communally, a lot of our relational needs are met and there isn't this longing to just have someone, anyone, be there along the way This might be the most challenging part in, in American history to live as a Christian, especially as a Christian single But you're not doing it alone Jesus promises he will be with you He promises to never leave you And he promises that he created this huge thing called the church to love and support and encourage you along the way Plug into that community and you're guaranteed to make wiser relationship choices For those of you that are married, be sure to comment below for us to let us know how your Christian spouse has a blessing to you Come back and join us again tomorrow Source: Youtube	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.96883887052536}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '22492', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:RFJEKB4BQAM34TDLI6WYY6UOGMOLDMUG', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:84df5d43-581c-4aa6-8437-c7cbabcd9efe>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 23, 3, 46, 13), 'WARC-IP-Address': '107.189.1.162', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TGBQP5BAKECZMIGLZUJQTPOTRYR2H5EH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b9890cf7-a0cd-4fef-b2af-88a0630dad4c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://inviotraffico.com/two-tips-for-dating/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4c4c4fce-45b6-4b5d-aff3-7686c7a94c0e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '483', 'url': 'http://inviotraffico.com/two-tips-for-dating/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-179-45-39.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.021908581256866455', 'original_id': '11b1d59ac0730f93bdac86a795d2aa8bf0027f17ba50facef6f920e5de856c49'}
Monday, June 22, 2009 Apparently all I eat is dessert 臺一 (Tai Yi Shaved Ice) Is it any wonder myinnerfatty became myouterfatty in the past few months? I stopped rowing competitively, I did a lot more blogging, and somehow... my once meticulous diet consisting of carefully constructed macro ratios devolved into an all day dessertfest. That said, I can't complain... you win some, you lose some right? Some of the greatest things I've gotten to try in the past few months would make any doctor cringe, but I think it's worth it (we'll see if I feel this way when I have a heart attack at 35). Anyway, another day, another shaved ice hole in the wall. Another gem I found as a result of me visiting my Aunt K. This one is located across from the main door of 台灣大學 (NTU) on 新生南路 (Xin Sheng South Street). Apparently, the store has been there for the past 40 or 50 years, I know this because there's a picture inside of when it still looked craptastic (they've recently renovated). The store front here doesn't qualify as dive status anymore. It actually looks pretty commercial, and to say the store looks dingy isn't quite right either. Ever since more and more students started pouring in, they've done their best to make it look... chain store like? That's usually a real turn off for me, but I can overlook that... since people are willing to stand on line for 15 minutes for a table here. They have a couple of trademark dishes, namely ones using their oats (which aren't the traditional style Quaker oats, but rolled whole oats), ones with those rice dumplings known as 湯圓 (Tang Yuan), and ones with red adzuki beans. First trip was with my Aunt and my cousin. We ended up getting the 紅豆麥片牛奶冰 (Red bean oatmeal milk shaved ice) and the 紅豆湯圓牛奶冰 (Red bean rice dumpling milk shaved ice). Both cost a sleek 60 NT ($2) and both were hefty helpings of ice, topped with red beans, condensed milk, and either oats or dumplings (I told you right? Cardiologist's dream). I won't try to describe how good either one was, but if I can use a Taiwanese term... 'QQ' is completely appropriate here. Let's just put it as... this is a notch in quality above Meet Fresh (see here and here), and I love Meet Fresh. My cousin got something 酒釀 (Jiu Niang). Literal translation, using wine to pull out flavor. I have no clue if it's good or not, nor do I know the price. I just know that it's supposed 'good for women' (um... it's supposed to enhance 'femine attributes'). I also have no clue if that's true... one of life's great mysteries I suppose haha. I ended up going another time, this time I got the 綠豆麥片牛奶冰 (Mung bean oat milk shaved ice), since, in the summer, you're traditionally supposed to eat mung beans. Something about them being more refreshing or whatnot. Anyway, same cost at 60 NT ($2), so it's really a personal preference, whether you like adzuki or mung beans. In my opinion I can't really taste much of a difference, since the condensed milk should cover up most of the flavor until only a subtle aftertaste is left. Which brings me to my last little side point on this place. If you're ordering, make sure you're a college aged girl... or bring one with you. The people who make the shaved ices are all college aged guys, and when I ordered on my second trip... he poured on what was a pittance of condensed milk, and ladled a partially full spoon of beans and oats. Comparing this with when my cousin ordered, she ended up with toppings overflowing from the plate, and mind numbing amount of milk. I thought it was a one time thing, but when I asked my Aunt, apparently it has always been like this. Terrific. Still... would I recommend it? For sure... an fyi, I walked 2 miles in the rain, during a typhoon warning to go eat there (and it was still packed). That's how good this place is. Crappy run today. I went to a night market yesterday, filled up good. I think that explains everything. Didn't get to finish the 10k (just short at 6.21 miles), but what's frustrating is that I ran at my half marathon pace. Will make up for this with a true hm tomorrow morning, prior to leaving for TTT orientation. Ugh, 5 days without running... believe or not, it's pretty frustrating to me. distance for the day: 6.21 miles distance biked for the day: 0.00 miles distance on the year: 348.69 miles distance biked on the year: 142.68 miles joanh said... That's hilarious. I always get a lot of condensed milk and assumed everyone got the same.. Does that mean I still look like I'm I'm college? Haha! Post a Comment oh snap. 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15 Strange Things About the Earth You May Not Have Known A glance around Earth and one can quickly realize how intricate and well-designed this planet is. Not only in its distance from the Sun but also in that it has the perfect conditions to breed human and animal life. And then we can zoom out and see that we are only but a speck in the vast expanse of the universe. We have learned that there are more galaxies in the entire Universe than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth. But for as much as we know about the planet that we live on, there are a lot more things that we have not yet learned. So here are 15 strange things about Earth that you might not have known before. Bonus: In the above picture, many people originally thought that the Sphinx was a human face and a lion’s body but in reality, erosion caused the original face to break down and it was later restructuring and touching up that formed the face we know today. 1. The hottest place on planet Earth is Death Valley in California. Temperatures there have reached as high as 56.7 degrees Celsius or 134 Fahrenheit. 2. The lowest temperature to have ever been recorded on Earth was at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica. It was on July 21, 1983, when researchers recorded a temperature of -89.2 Celsius. 3. Every 450 thousand years, the Earth will switch magnetic poles. So what was once the magnetic north has been changed to the south. The next change is under 2000 years away! 4. While most people regard Mount Everest as the tallest mountain in the world, if you were to measure a mountain from base to mountaintop, then Mauna Kea in Hawaii would be the tallest one. 5. The largest meteorite to have landed on Earth was found in Namibia, Africa and it weighs 66 tons! However, this meteorite did NOT break upon impact and is estimated to have landed on Earth more than 80,000 years ago. 6. Tyrannosaurus Rex might not be as fast as movies would like to tell you. Scientists now estimate that the T-Rex can run between 15 to 25 miles per hour. This is much slower than a car but could be faster than some people on foot! 7. The oceans on Earth are probably the most unexplored places on Earth and as such the deepest area ever discovered is known as the Mariana’s Trench. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan, the Mariana’s Trench, or the Challenger Deep which is the specific area, sits at more than ten kilometers deep (or 10,000 meters). 8. The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the driest place on Earth and this piece of land is located in Antarctica. The area is essentially Antarctica without any ice or snow. There has not been any rain there for over 2 million years. 9. The oldest fossils to have ever been found were around 3.5 billion years old. They were not of any animals or plants but of bacteria! 10. The Earth’s atmosphere is split up into different layers. The Carmen Line is the sky you see and that is about 62 kilometers from the Earth. There are four more layers which get larger and thinner as one ascends. The last one is called the exosphere and it is the highest you can go without leaving Earth’s gravitational pull. It is where most satellites end up. 11. The Dead Sea is the lowest land point in all of the world. It lies around 430 meters below sea level and it borders Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. Because the water is almost 10 times (9.6 times) saltier than normal seawater, it is the perfect place for tourists to lounge, sunbathe and relax without the fear of aquatic predators. 12. The oldest religious construction found on Earth is known as Gobekli Tepe. Located in Turkey, it is estimated to be over 10,000 years in age and is thus older than the pyramids and Stonehenge. With its T-shaped pillars (which people estimate to resemble humans with the extremities at the ends) and carvings of scenes and animals, Gobekli Tepe is estimated to be at least 12,000 years old and is the oldest temple in the world. 13. There are a ton of species that humans have not discovered yet. It is estimated that there are approximately 5 to 10 million species in the world. Humans have only discovered and named about ten to fifteen percent of the estimated amount of total species. Furthermore, it is estimated that only 10 percent of the ocean has been truly explored. 14. The smallest mammal in length is the Kitti’s Hog-nosed bat. It is only 1.1 to 1.3 inches in length and weighs only two grams! These ‘bumblebee bats’ were found in caves in Thailand and Burma in the early 1900’s. 15. There are two kinds of auroras on Earth. Although most of us are aware of the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis, less of us are aware of the Southern Lights. 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Der rauchende Colt: Siemens und die Software-Patente Vor Kurzem wurde im Bundestag ein Antrag gegen Softwarepatente vorgestellt, der sich ganz vielversprechend anhört. Zu diesem Thema bin ich heute als Sachverständiger zur öffentlichen Anhörung des Rechtsausschusses geladen. Ich denke, das ist ein guter Anlass, eine ganz persönliche Geschichte zum Thema Softwarepatente zu erzählen, die sich schon vor einiger Zeit zugetragen hat. Am 31. August 2007 erhielt einer unserer Kunden ein Schreiben der Firma Siemens. Gegenstand des Schreibens war der Hinweis auf die Verletzung eines Siemens-Patentes durch die eCommerce-Site unseres Kunden. WTF?! Patentverletzung? Unser Kunde betrieb keinen Computertomografen, kein Stromnetz und auch keine industrielle Produktionsanlage. Nur eine eCommerce-Site. Wie konnte das angehen? Die Antwort ist einfach: Siemens wollte lediglich mit einem Softwarepatent bei unserem Kunden “Kasse machen”. Siemens hatte sich in Deutschland erfolgreich das Monopol für eine verbreitete Softwarefunktion gesichert - nämlich die Funktion, einem Besucher eines Internetshops alle bisher angesehen Produkte in einer Liste anzuzeigen: Eine sogenannte “Zuletzt angesehen”-Funktion. Softwarepatent die Beschreibung des Patents. Es wird nicht überraschen, dass sich Siemens „grundsätzlich bereit erklärte”, unserem Kunden ein Nutzungsrecht gegen eine nicht näher benannte Gebühr einzuräumen. Es stellte sich nach einiger Zeit heraus, dass Siemens viele deutsche eCommerce-Anbieter angemahnt hatte, das Patent zu lizensieren. Niemand mochte aber darüber öffentlich sprechen, weil sich keiner mit Siemens anlegen wollte. Die meisten dachten tatsächlich darüber nach, Lizenzgebühren zu zahlen. Nicht so unser Kunde. Wir empfahlen unserem Kunden, gegen Siemens juristisch vorzugehen und das Patent als nichtig erklären zu lassen. Eine Lizenzzahlung wäre auf den ersten Blick vielleicht die einfachere Lösung gewesen, sie öffnet aber Tür und Tor für weitere Forderungen: Eine solche Internetsoftware besteht schließlich aus tausenden solcher kleinen Funktionen, die allesamt durch Softwarepatente “vermint” sein könnten. Wenn man einmal anfängt zu zahlen, dann ist das möglicherweise erst der Einstieg zu weiteren “Schutzzahlungen”. Solche Praktiken werden durch die Rechtsunsicherheit in Europa gefördert: Die europäischen Patentämter erteilen seit vielen Jahren Softwarepatente, die nicht mehr sind als Ideen, die für jeden Entwickler naheliegend sind. Der “patentierte Webshop” [] des FFII enthält eine ganze Reihe Patente, die eCommerce-Plattformen verletzen. Die Patentabteilungen der großen Konzerne und spezialisierte Patentverwerter halten bereits heute tausende solcher Patente und warten nur darauf, dass sich die Rechtslage in eine Richtung entwickelt, dass sie im großen Stil mit wenig Risiko “Schutzgebühren” einfordern können. Leider ohne dabei neue Werte für unsere Volkswirtschaft zu schaffen. Stattdessen wird aus produktiven Unternehmen ohne Gegenleistung Kapital herausgezogen und Innovation gebremst. Der ganze Rummel um den angeblichen “Schutz der eigenen Innovationen” durch Patente erweist sich angesichts so eines Falls als leeres Gerede. Ist Siemens Entwickler von eCommerce-Systemen und hat daher ein Interesse daran, sich Webshopfunktionen schützen zu lassen? Nein. Es geht im Kern um das Eintreiben von Lizenzzahlungen. Es bleibt nur zu hoffen, dass wirklich wirksame Schritte gegen Softwarepatente eingeleitet werden und dass sich der Antrag nicht als ein reines Lippenbekenntnis angesichts der Bundestagswahl herausstellt. Das Verfahren dauerte übrigens Jahre. Aber schließlich konnte unser Kunde das Patent als nichtig erklären lassen. Das war aufwendig, und unser Kunde hatte ein Kostenrisiko in sechsstelliger Höhe, da Siemens nach dem Nichtigkeitsurteil sogar in die zweite Instanz ging, um das Patent zu verteidigen. Nicht viele Unternehmen haben die finanziellen Mittel und den Mut, um einen solchen Weg einzuschlagen. An inbox that only contains important messages We’ve just launched a new kind of task management tool called, the world’s first task messenger. It’s a communication tool with the look&feel of an e-mail client, but the messages are not simply texts, but rather structured task descriptions. People can use it to organize work and have conversations about the work in progress. Here is why I think that the next-generation task management tools are actually communication systems. You might have read Paul Graham’s post about “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas”. PG says that e-mail today is like a very bad todo list and that it “seems unlikely that people in 100 years will still be living in the same e-mail hell we do now. And if e-mail is going to be replaced eventually, why not now?” And if you find a way to replace it, people will be willing to spend a lot of money on your solution because it will help everyone save a lot of time every day. What is in your inbox? Let’s start with an analysis of the last 1000 e-mails in your inbox. If we don’t count our private messages and all the reminder/confirmation/info messages from mailing lists, productivity tools and social networks, then the remaining e-mails will be all about information, cooperation and delegation of tasks between people who are working with you. For example: - You delegate work (“Please call Mr. X”), - your co-worker replies with information (“I called Mr. X, but he is on vacation”), - you ask for further information (“When will Mr. X be back from his holiday?”) or - you send document attachments in preparation for a work task or - you receive documents with work results. Is the next e-mail system really a todo list manager? So when people talk today about replacing e-mail, we can assume they mean “replacing e-mail in the context of organizing work”. This is why everybody seems to think that the best way to replace e-mail is by creating a new kind of todo list. Even PG says that “E-mail is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and e-mail is the way things get onto it.” There are literally hundreds of todo list managers on the market and once a year I try one or two of them but after some time I stop and leave my open tasks deserted. Why is it so? Here is the problem: Whenever we are building a tool, we implicitly define a method how that tool should be used. This method is not readily apparent to the user, but she will find out sooner or later by trial and error whether the method works for her - and if not, she will stop using the tool. Organizing work is a communication problem The core of the problem is that there is no single “right” method to organize work, or on a broader scale, how to manage a project. The reason here is that organizing work is mainly a communication problem. This means: Organizing work is not about managing todo lists. It is more like a conversation between people who are working together to achieve a common goal. And this is why e-mail works so well, even with all of its problems. E-mail is a very good tool for communicating asynchronously with a group of people and e-mail gives you maximum flexibility to use it your own way. That is why people are still using e-mail to get things done and not todo lists. To paraphrase a famous quote from Winston Churchill: E-mail is the worst tool to organize work except all the others that have been tried. If we want people to switch from e-mail to something else, especially for organizing work, what do we have to fix first? The first three problems that I would pick are the “carbon-copy problem”, the “metadata problem” and the “inbox problem”. The carbon-copy problem When I address three people, for example, I create three copies of my message. When the recipients reply, they create not only three more copies, but even three versions of the copies. And the longer the conversation, the more difficult it gets to keep track of important information. We might think that this is a relic from ancient times, when paper was moved physically through the departments of large corporations and the recipient of a memorandum received a carbon-copy, but even until today you “cc” people in your e-mail. What a mess! A better solution would be to have exactly one version of the message at any time. But you still want to be able to work offline, so you need versioning and merging of messages. This needs to be simple and transparent to the user. What about comments? Comments create long, nested threads of information in addition to a message. This means that most of the time you have to read the message plus all the comments to really get your head around it. This is why I think that comment threads are wrong here. Why not just edit and extend the message description itself and let the versioning take care of it?! The metadata problem Today, messages cannot contain any metadata. But imagine if they could: Metadata could be used to describe the content or to enhance it. You could use it to define who is responsible and who is just involved. You could use it to add a due date, to categorize the message with labels/tags, to assign it to a specific project or any other context and to keep track of the status of the message. I have a gut feeling that it would be best if all metadata were human-readable and included in the message text - like the #hashtags and @mentions in Twitter - instead of being hidden inside the protocol stack. The inbox problem What ends up in my inbox is decided by the sender and all messages in my inbox have the same priority. I have to read each and every e-mail to find out what kind of action is needed based on the textual content. A better solution would be for the system to decide, based on the metadata, what ends up in my inbox. Then the system could even suggest an appropriate action. This would save time, as I would only get important messages in my inbox. It would be an added bonus if messages could not only be sent to persons, but also to projects (or whatever you want to call a non-person entity that represents a changing group of people). Why can’t a todo list just work like a very good e-mail system? Everybody already knows how e-mail works, and people are used to it. Why don’t we create a new kind of tool that works exactly like e-mail, but without all the problems mentioned above?! If we agree that organizing work is a communication problem that needs some kind of messaging to enable conversations around tasks between groups of people who are working together, then why not simply use the e-mail metaphor?! This new kind of tool would handle todos but would otherwise have the look&feel of an e-mail client. When I explained the idea to a friend, she said: “Oh, what is it? Let me think. It is something new. It is not just a todo list and it is not just a messenger. It’s both. It’s a Task Messenger!” Now, we have built a “Task Messenger”. We call it and we have been using it with a large group of people for over a year now. We are not finished, have lots of ideas and now we need more feedback. This is where you can help. Please sign up here, create a team, add a project and start sending task messages to your co-workers. Just like e-mail. Your recipients are automatically invited to Experiment with it and use the feedback button to tell us what you think. And guess what: Your feedback generates a new task message that is sent to the inbox of the development team. What are you doing in your spare time? This weekend I represented HackFwd as a Jury member at the Startup Weekend 2011 in Hamburg. Startup Weekends are 54 hours marathon events, where people can pitch their ideas and find team members to create an internet business model over the weekend. I arrived on friday evening and it was truly amazing: There were more than 100 young people preparing to work day and night together over three days! There was a big, big queue of people who wanted to present their idea to the crowd: At about 10am we had seen 40 ideas! The crowd selected the 11 best ones. There was a lot of cheering and "rock star welcomes" all the time and the moderator Lasse Chor really gave his best to encourage the participants by creating a unique, motivating atmosphere. At 1030am the teams started their work. They stayed long hours, some of them even slept at the conference location. There was a true startup vibration in the air. On sunday the finalists gathered together for the final pitch presentation. There was (Bartering/Sharing books), Autonetzer (Car-Sharing), Love Wingman (an online coaching site for dating), Talkbox (turn your e-mail into voicemail), sgamblr (a gaming/auction site to collect donations for social causes), Eventary ("find the events that you like"), fluidnetwork (a place for co-workers to do business together), Kahuna (a mobile todo-list with geo-location alarm), cupcakes lingerie (co-creation/design ecommerce site for non-standard size lingerie), payzarr (c2c mobile payments) and weminds ("a Quora for casual questions"). With six people in the Jury, mostly VCs, we sat together and discussed what we have seen. We were impressed by sgamblr because they frankly had no business model but built a complete running prototype over the weekend and were even able to fundraise items and services with a total value of 2000 EUR! For them we created an extra price for "Social Entrepreneurship". We gave "Love Wingman" the price for the best pitch and "Kahua" the price for the most innovative idea. Although there are todo-lists on the market who can remind you on things at specific geo-locations, we liked the idea that the team wants to use the collected data for product advertising, recommendation and coupons. It is still a very rough idea , but we could think of a model if they would focus on shopping lists instead of broad todos-lists. And the overall winner was: cupcakes lingerie. Obviously this is a niche market, but this is actually where the internet is really good at. Co-creation is another trending topic too and if you put this together, you could end up with a specialized (but extendable) ecommerce brand selling high-margin products. For me it was fun to see so many people to spend their spare time to create an internet business model together. Most of them haven't met before and my feeling was that they not only turned ideas into reality over the weekend, but also strangers into friends. HackFwd Build 03 Event, Mallorca Using Clojure, NoSQL-Databases And Functional-Style JavaScript To Write Next-Generation HTML5 Apps - Stefan Richter from HackFwd on Vimeo. Google Developer Day 2010, Munich A DSL to access the Google App Engine datastore from Clojure [Update: This post belongs to a guest posting at the Google Code blog. Read it here.] After more than 10 years of bringing new products online for our customers, we now have our very own startup: TheDeadline, an intelligent to-do management system. One of the tools we used to build TheDeadline was a domain specific language, or DSL, we created for working with the App Engine datastore. TheDeadline runs on Google App Engine and is written in Clojure (read why here). Clojure is a modern Lisp running on the Java Virtual Machine. App Engine provides a distributed key-value datastore based on Google's Bigtable system. You can use the datastore from Python and Java, as well as other languages that run on the JVM. If you are using Java, you have several options to store and access your data, including standardized object persistence mapping via the provided JDO and JPA interfaces. Modeling your data structures for a distributed key-value store for large-scale internet applications differs in several key aspects from ER-modeling: Forget normalization, optimizing for read-access, etc. As a result, we believe that using object-oriented persistence mapping can cause a developer to incorrectly abstract object relationships: You should not have complex object relationships in your datastore. In addition, since Clojure is a functional programming language, it makes less sense to use a persistence mechanism rooted in object oriented practices. In Clojure you are using structs (maps) and not "objects" to hold your data, which means that you already have simple key-value structured data at hand. There's no need to use object persistence mapping anyway. The most natural way is to use the low-level API to the datastore directly. One more thing to mention: The App Engine datastore is a schema-free database. This means that the schema is maintained on the application level and not at the database level. But it is still desirable to have a schema! You still have to structure your data. What you really want to do is to define your data structures and to let Clojure generate the needed code to store and query your data. You can do this by writing Clojure macros. A Clojure macro is a Clojure program that generates another Clojure program. Macros allow you to extend the Clojure language with your own embedded mini-languages, also known as DSLs. Our solution for TheDeadline consists of two parts: a data structure definition language and a query language. Let's say you want to store data about books in the App Engine datastore. The first step is to define the data structure of a book with the defentity macro. This defines a book entity with six attributes: (defentity book defentity generates several functions. The most important one in this case is make-book. Let's create some books now: (def books (list (make-book :title "On Lisp" :author "Paul Graham" :publisher "Prentice Hall" :isbn "978-0130305527" :pages 413) (make-book :title "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp" :author "Peter Norvig" :publisher "Morgan Kaufmann" :isbn "978-1558601918" :pages 946) (make-book :title "Programming Clojure" :author "Stuart Halloway" :publisher "Pragmatic Programmers" :isbn "978-1934356333" :pages 304))) When you now evaluate the variable books, you'll see it contains a list of Clojure maps with your book data: repl-prompt> books ({:key nil, :title "On Lisp", :author "Paul Graham", :publisher "Prentice Hall", :isbn "978-0130305527", :pages 413, :kind "book"} {:key nil, :title "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp", :author "Peter Norvig", :publisher "Morgan Kaufmann", :isbn "978-1558601918", :pages 946, :kind "book"} {:key nil, :title "Programming Clojure", :author "Stuart Halloway", :publisher "Pragmatic Programmers", :isbn "978-1934356333", :pages 304, :kind "book"}) The key-Attribute is nil, because we did not save the data to the datastore yet. We just created the books in memory. If you now want to store these books into the app engine datastore, you just call the function store-entities!: repl-prompt> (store-entities! books) ({:pages 413, :isbn "978-0130305527", :publisher "Prentice Hall", :author "Paul Graham", :title "On Lisp", :key #<Key book(7)>, :parent-key nil, :kind "book"} {:pages 946, :isbn "978-1558601918", :publisher "Morgan Kaufmann", :author "Peter Norvig", :title "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp", :key #<Key book(8)>, :parent-key nil, :kind "book"} {:pages 304, :isbn "978-1934356333", :publisher "Pragmatic Programmers", :author "Stuart Halloway", :title "Programming Clojure", :key #<Key book(9)>, :parent-key nil, :kind "book"}) store-entities! returns a list of the entities that have just been stored. We put an exclamation mark at the end of the function name to visualize this side effect. You can see that the key attributes are not nil anymore. What you see here is the string representation of the App Engine datastore Key-Class objects. You can now access each entity by its key. Much of the time, however, you may want to select an entity subset that satisfies a certain criteria set. You can do this with another DSL: the datastore query language. Let's say we want to select all books from the author "Peter Norvig": repl-prompt> (select (where book ([= :author "Peter Norvig"]))) Or all books with less than 400 pages: repl-prompt> (select (where book ([< :pages 400]))) ({:pages 304, :isbn "978-1934356333", :publisher "Pragmatic Programmers", :author "Stuart Halloway", :title "Programming Clojure", :key #<Key book(12)>, :parent-key nil, :kind "book"}) These mini-languages are very simple to use and you don't need to know anything about the datastore internals or the Java datastore API! You don't even need to know what an entity is because you just work with the Clojure maps. You can map, reduce and filter these maps just like any other Clojure internal datastructure. So we have a very natural integration with the language. There is more: At some point you'll need some more functions to convert complex types between your application and the Google datastore and vice versa because the datastore supports only a fixed set of datatypes. If you want to store unsupported types, you have to take care of the serialization/deserialization yourself (check the supported types here). Let's construct a simple example: You want to store a Boolean value for whether the book is out of print, but the input data in your program is a string "yes" or "no". "yes" should be translated to true and "no" should be translated to false before the entity is saved to the datastore. When the entity is loaded from the datastore, the Boolean values should be translated back to the string values again. To do this, we add the attribute outofprint to our book definition and we define a :pre-save and a :post-load anonymous function to convert between string and Boolean values. They are called with the current value of the attribute as their only parameter (the placeholder for this is the '%' sign). The return value is set as the new attribute value: (defentity book :pre-save #(= % "yes") :post-load #(if % Storing a book would look like this now. We would provide the outofprint parameter as a string: (store-entitites! (make-book :title "On Lisp" :author "Paul Graham" :publisher "Prentice Hall" :isbn "978-0130305527" :pages 413 :outofprint "yes")) Now let's load the book from the datastore again. The parameter is still a string: repl-prompt> (select (where book ([= :author "Paul Graham"]))) ({:outofprint "yes", :pages 413, :isbn "978-0130305527", :publisher "Prentice Hall", :author "Paul Graham", :title "On Lisp", :key #<Key book(21)>, :parent-key nil, :kind "book"}) But when you examine the entity under the hood, you see that the value of outofprint is stored as a Boolean: #<Entity <Entity [book(21)]: author = Paul Graham title = On Lisp pages = 413 isbn = 978-0130305527 outofprint = true publisher = Prentice Hall For every attribute, our mini-language executes the :pre-save and :post-load functions automatically before it saves/loads data to/from the datastore. You can use these functions for type conversions, to manipulate the data in other ways, do calculations or whatever, and of course you can use these functions for validation. This is all you need to know to write code to access the datastore. If you are new to Clojure (and any other Lisp language), than you might get a feeling why Paul Graham once said: "Lisp's power is multiplied by the fact that your competitors don't get it." Use simple data structures. Create powerful functional abstractions. Write less code. If you want to give our mini-languages a try, you can find the code here. You will find features for :pre-save and :post-load functions on entity level, transactions with automatic retries, query by key, return only keys from a query, automatically resolving parent/child relationships between entities and automatically resolving entities from attributes that contain keys. If you want to get started with Clojure on Google App Engine, I can recommend this post. You'll need this post to setup an interactive programming environment. If you are curious now and would like to try out TheDeadline, you can sign-up here. For more Clojure and App Engine related posts, you can follow our blog H.W.A. If you're attending Google I/O, you can chat with us about Google App Engine, Clojure and the Universe in the Developer Sandbox on May 19 and 20. Happy hacking! Ada Lovelace Day 2010 Today we celebrated Ada Lovelace Day 2010 @ technologies as a tribute to all women on this planet who are working in software companies, studying computer science or working as programmers. We printed a special T-Shirt, some teams were cooking for their females members and we had some fun doing this photo shoot! It's spring time in Hamburg! Missing on this picture is Claudia (on a business travel) and Maja (still in India on her Sabattical trip, but soon back in town!). Clojure & Google App Engine Setup - Update We posted an article about interactively developing Clojure applications on Google App Engine some time ago. We use this setup for developing our online todo manager TheDeadline which is now an open beta and accepts registrations from everyone. As correctly pointed out, the old setup didn't work out of the box for serving static files. We'd like to post some updated and cleaned up setup code that works with the current App Engine SDK and also facilitates writing a web based application. Have a look here. Assuming you already defined your Compojure routes named "app", all you have to do is the following: (ns start (:require [com.freiheit.clojure.appengine.appengine-local :as gae-local])) (defn start-server (gae-local/defgaeserver app-server app) (gae-local/start-gae-server app)) This also does some setup for service static files you usually need in a web application. The code determines your current working directory and looks for a directory called src/web. Files in the subdirectories "js", "css" and "static" are automatically served as static files. I just made the slides of my Clojure talk available on Slideshare. The meeting took place at the newthinking store in Berlin and it was sponsored by Franz Lisp. Thank you! And "Thank you" to Hans Hübner for organizing this event! Next "Berlin Lispers Meetup" will be cool, too. Speakers are Luke Gorrie and Edi Weitz. Weihnachtszocken at 2009 Last Weekend, it started all over again: We celebrated our traditional "Weihnachtszocken" (zocken is german slang for gaming) in our lovely "Gartenhaus" (a part of the company complex with its own garden). While initiating the event, there was a new attendee record in the air. Finally we had 23 (!!) registrations for gaming. Of course, on the event day we had some failure based on self-updating Windows-Operating-Systems (damn you!!) and overlong game installations (Next time: start some days earlier ;-) ). Theses failures just have lead to maximum 19 simultanious gamers. But hey, still exceptional! Our lovely "Gartenhaus" was a perfect gaming location as usual, nearly everybody used the big screens and we had a working network with internet flat and separated from our valuably internal server systems, which should be secured from our windows infected gaming pcs ;-). Like every year we played on the same great game: Team Fortress 2. It's an ego shooter, which makes it easy for beginner but nevertheless offers a lot of strategic challenges to the more experienced gamer. To sum up it was a great day with a lot emotions: Our corporate WebSite runs on Clojure and Google App Engine! Today we launched our new corporate website. Our objective: Being able to post new project stories and other information about our company faster and easier. And we wanted to provide a new navigation system based on a tag cloud to make the usage of the site more fun. So we first wrote a custom content management system. When we write software for ourselves, we use Common Lisp or Clojure. This time we used Clojure, because we wanted to run the system on Google App Engine (GAE). We are quite happy with the result. :) Some technical details: • Text and Images are stored in the Google Datastore. Forget about relational databases. • When an image is uploaded, we scale it automatically with the GAE image service. • We use memcached to cache the page content. It is quite fast. • We use client-side Google Translation to translate the site into 9 languages. • The GAE deployment and versioning is easy and fun. • We had very, very few problems with GAE or Clojure. Check out our post about interactive programming with emacs, clojure and app engine! Interactive Programming with Clojure, Compojure, Google App Engine and Emacs Clojure is lisp running on the JVM. Interactive programming with Clojure is fun. Just hit C-c C-c to compile a defun in Emacs. If you come from Java, you will appreciate this: No long Build-Deploy-Run cycles anymore. But if you want to write Clojure programs for Google App Engine, it looks like interactive programming is not possible. Really?! No! This tutorial shows, how to develop applications interactively lisp-style with Clojure, Compojure, Google App Engine and Emacs. The Google App Engine SDK includes a development server (based on Jetty) that allows you to test your application in an environment that is close to the real one. This is nice for a pre-flight check but for every change you make in the code you must stop the devserver, recompile and start the server again. You can't develop your code incrementally and interactively as you're used to in a lispy language. We'll presume that Emacs and Clojure is configured, working with Compojure is familiar and that the App Engine SDK has been downloaded and installed. John Hume created a nice little clojure binding for appengine that we'll use here. This is the example servlet: ; a basic application using the google app engine ; when this file is created it will create a class that extends ; javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet which can be mapped in the ; applications web.xml. (ns helloworld (:gen-class :extends javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet) (:use compojure.http compojure.html) (:require [appengine-clj.datastore :as ds]) (:import [ Query])) (defn index (let [items (ds/find-all (Query. "item"))] [:h1 (str "Hello World. There are " (count items) " in the database.")] [:a {:href "/new"} "Create another one"]))) (defn new (ds/create {:kind "item" :text "something"}) (redirect-to "/"))) (defroutes helloworld (GET "/" index) (GET "/new" new)) (defservice helloworld) This file compiles to a servlet class that can be used in app engine (see the introduction post about clojure on app engine for a more detailed example). If you navigate your browser to "/" when the devserver is running you'll see a page displaying the amount of "item" entities in the datastore. If you click on the link you'll create a new entity and are redirected to the index page. In order to develop the code more interactively, we'll create another file that will start a Jetty server. We'll call this file start0.clj: ; starting the application in a jetty. ; the original application is decorated by a function that sets up the ; app engine services. (ns start0 (:use helloworld) (:use compojure.server.jetty compojure.http compojure.control)) (defn start-it (run-server {:port 9090} "/" (servlet helloworld)))) Compiling this file with C-c C-k in Emacs and calling the function start-it in the REPL will start the Jetty. The application is available on port 9090. If you view the application in the browser, there's a problem. More work is needed. The services aren't initialized yet. We'll fix this in start.clj: ; starting the application in a jetty. ; app engine services. (ns start (:use helloworld) (:use compojure.server.jetty compojure.http compojure.control)) (defmacro with-app-engine "testing macro to create an environment for a thread" `(with-app-engine env-proxy ~body)) ([proxy body] `(last (doall [( ~proxy) (defn login-aware-proxy "returns a proxy for the google apps environment that works locally" (let [email (:email (:session request))] (proxy [$Environment] [] (isLoggedIn [] (boolean email)) (getAuthDomain [] "") (getRequestNamespace [] "") (getDefaultNamespace [] "") (getAttributes [] (java.util.HashMap.)) (getEmail [] (or email "")) (isAdmin [] true) (getAppId [] "local")))) (defn environment-decorator "decorates the given application with a local version of the app engine environment" (fn [request] (with-app-engine (login-aware-proxy request) (application request)))) (defn init-app-engine "Initialize the app engine services." (init-app-engine "/tmp")) (proxy [] [( dir)])))) ;; make sure every thread has the environment set up (defn start-it (run-server {:port 8080} "/" (servlet (environment-decorator helloworld))))) Before running jetty, local test implementations of the services are registered. Also, every request is wrapped by a function that registers the services for the current thread. Now the application runs as expected: Google includes test implementations of the services in the jar files "appengine-local-runtime.jar" and "appengine-api-stubs.jar". So these two must be in the classpath of the clojure that is run from Emacs/SLIME. Be careful not to include these two jars in the war file that you deploy to the app engine servers. The application won't run! Now that you've got a setup like this, incremental changes to the code are very simple: Try to change the text in the function "index" and just recompile the function with C-c C-c. The change should appear immediately if you reload the page in your browser. Now you can work interactivly with Clojure and Google App Engine! Photos: ECLM 2008 in Amsterdam I just published my photos from the European Common Lisp Meeting 2008 in Amsterdam. BTW: Edi Weitz has a good list of "after-action reports" here. European Common Lisp Meeting 2008, April 20, Amsterdam I am invited as a speaker to the ECLM 2008 in Amsterdam. This is the abstract of my talk: "Using Common Lisp for Large Internet Systems" The internet is full of interesting problems for computer scientists. Large internet systems tend to be used by hundreds of thousands to millions ofusers. Many of them "serve the long-tail" with millions of products or a large numbers of other content items like text, video and sound. Always, the main problem to solve is to help the user to find "the needle in the haystack". Obviously, such systems need intelligent algorithms and efficient implementations. This raises the question, which programming language is the right tool to implement such systems. Currently most large internet systems are written in Java, which is not exactly famous for its briefness. Neither is C++. And more and more people are starting to use Ruby (on Rails) because "Ruby is an acceptable Lisp". Paul Graham said: "Lisp's power is multiplied by the fact that your competitors don't get it". How could we improve, if we used Common Lisp to build internet systems? This talk provides an in-depth analysis of current and future trends in web/internet programming and shows how to use Common Lisp as a tool to implement intelligent internet systems using the functional paradigm and sometimes even artificial intelligence algorithms. 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Articles Tagged with builder Published on: Imagine you are a prime contractor to a Department of the United States of America supplying logistical support for the war on terrorism in Afghanistan. As the prime, you are kicking on all cylinders, including purchasing comprehensive Employer’s Liability, Workers’ Compensation and Defense Base Act (DBA) insurance to cover your own employees against a worker injury claim abroad. Then the phone rings. iStock-187940286-falling-ladder-300x224A 30-year-old American worker hired by your subcontractor working on base encountered a swarm of bees while painting; he fell and was crippled. The sub isn’t paying his medical expenses and is apparently nowhere to be found. The injured employee’s bulldog lawyer is on the line threatening to sue your company directly for his client’s devastating injuries. How can this be? DBA coverage is workers’ compensation insurance that employers may turn to in the event that an employee is injured while working on a contract financed by the U.S. Government and performed outside the United States. Section 5(a) of the Act provides that “a contractor shall be deemed the employer of a subcontractor’s employees if the subcontractor fails to secure the payment of compensation.” Continue reading →	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9564774632453918}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '40615', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DVIUX34KW5X2TE7PYNE5DNDQSY4RRVMC', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a44bfbc3-0159-4a40-a50d-de106f502c06>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 25, 8, 49, 31), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.84.104.41', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:OTSMRVQQ4XULRUATHJPDR7HIXG4G7FBO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:5ed3c3a2-1f3b-4ace-a70c-21f053e61fc6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.policyholderpulse.com/tag/builder/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c5e6ff91-b05c-4383-85c2-a08a800e903d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '192', 'url': 'https://www.policyholderpulse.com/tag/builder/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-233-105-41.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.03555577993392944', 'original_id': 'd0ed3d897c3a3aaef65c2309018ba936fdd46c9efa3f11f073ce7e942646a9b8'}
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter. In late February, some 70 guests arrived for dinner at a hotel near Washington, DC’s Union Station. Nine members of Congress were there, including Reps. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas), Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.), and Gloria Negrete McLeod (D-Calif.), as was former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. Also in attendance were lobbyists and executives for Fortune 500 companies and big industry trade groups. Lonnie Johnson, a lobbyist for ExxonMobil, sat next to Hinojosa at dinner; Walmart lobbyist Ivan Zapien gave the closing remarks. Exxon, American Gas Association, Darden Restaurants, and Coca-Cola had underwritten the event. That was how, seven weeks into the 113th Congress—as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul—powerful corporate lobbyists scored premium access to politicians. The dinner was organized by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, an obscure offshoot of the 27-member, all-Democratic Congressional Hispanic Caucus. (Caucuses are factions of lawmakers formed around an issue or ideology, such as the Progressive Caucus, the Black Caucus, and the Tea Party Caucus.) The CHCI, founded in 1978 by a small group of Hispanic lawmakers, says its mission is to “develop the next generation of Latino leaders” by underwriting scholarships and fellowship programs for young Latinos, funding college readiness courses for them, and placing them in jobs and internships on Capitol Hill. But like other nonprofits nominally affiliated with congressional caucuses, CHCI sells access to influential lawmakers in exchange for big donations. Before Congress passed several waves of ethics rules impacting caucuses and lobbyists, corporations and unions that hire lobbyists could pay for trips, conferences, and other perks for federal lawmakers. Today, nonprofits like CHCI offer lobbyists a way to sidestep those rules, says Craig Holman, a lobbyist with the watchdog group Public Citizen. “It’s a simple dance to evade the ethics rules that apply to members of Congress as well as to caucuses,” he says. “Lobbying entities can’t give gifts, but they can launder the money through nonprofits and let the nonprofits do the giving.” Housed in an ivory-colored brick office building a few blocks north of the US Capitol, the CHCI hosts dozens of events each year. Its public policy conference and awards gala, held during National Hispanic Heritage Month, “represent the largest and most prestigious gathering of Hispanic leaders in the nation,” the institute’s website boasts. Corporate or union sponsorship packages for CHCI events range from a few thousand dollars to $300,000. The more you give, the more you get to hobnob with CHCI’s network of legislators and other Latino leaders. For a company wanting to endear itself to the Latino community’s political leaders, now is an especially smart time to give. As the nation’s Latino population grows, so, too, does the clout of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, described by one expert as “the vanguard of this growing [Latino] power” in America. Caucus members, all of whom have roles with CHCI, are cultivating new Latino donors and playing bigger roles in Hispanic outreach within the Democratic Party. Reps. Luis Gutierrez and Xavier Becerra, both members of CHCI’s advisory council, are part of the House’s Gang of Eight crafting a comprehensive immigration reform bill, and lawmakers in the CHCI are poised to play an important role in the immigration reform debate once legislation is unveiled. CHCI is just one of a long list of “institutes” or “foundations” trading on its ties to Congress that pockets corporate and union money and doesn’t fully disclose its donors. The International Conservation Caucus Foundation, a secretive charity recently exposed by Mother Jones, hosts lawmakers on all-expenses-paid international junkets. Fortune 500 corporations and private conservation groups fund the ICCF, and, in turn, the ICCF pledges an “unparalleled opportunity for access” to the 141 members of Congress’ bipartisan International Conservation Caucus. The Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, a nonprofit sponsored by the National Rifle Association and gun and ammo companies, affords gun lobbyists and executives the chance to mingle with lawmakers at wine and cigar tastings, fancy dinners, and shooting contests. Esther Aguilera, CHCI’s president and CEO, says her organization doesn’t work on policy issues and is unlike, say, the mighty American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Instead, the CHCI focuses on providing young Latinos with access to colleges and jobs they wouldn’t otherwise have, helping as many as 1,600 students and workers. Aguilera does not outright dismiss CHCI critics who decry group’s ties to corporate and union lobbyists, but she insists that members of Congress should be applauded for lending their name and time to CHCI’s efforts. “Yes, those critics need to be asking those key questions,” she says, “but we shouldn’t be penalizing our key leaders for wanting to get involved.” Aguilera acknowledges that CHCI’s corporate funders might have ulterior motives—gaining access to politicians, promoting their brand at CHCI’s splashy events. Yet she says she welcomes more donations from the private sector, and adds that criticism should be directed at the philanthropic world for failing to fund Latino causes. “Thank god for the private sector for supporting this community and other communities,” she says. “Certainly, the charitable and philanthropic foundations are pitiful right now.” Access—to lawmakers, corporate leaders, and more—is a central selling point in CHCI’s pitch to potential donors. For $1 million, donors get the VIP treatment at CHCI galas, a private dinner with board members, and the opportunity to “maintain a special relationship with CHCI leaders.” For $300,000, a company can be the sole host of the institute’s annual public policy conference, which includes exclusive access to networking events, 20 invitations to a private reception hosted by CHCI chair Hinojosa, and 20 invitations to a reception hosted by CHCI’s board members. For $50,000, a donor can sponsor CHCI’s “Fiesta de Golf” fundraiser in May and potentially get the chance to tee off with a member of Congress. CHCI’s coffers have steadily grown in recent years, from nearly $950,000 in revenue in 1990 to $7.7 million in 2012. Although CHCI, as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, does not have to disclose its donors, it lists 54 major “partners” on its website without saying how much they donated. A donor list provided to Mother Jones shows that CHCI’s top donors in 2011 and 2012 included Walmart, PepsiCo, ExxonMobil, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Comcast, Toyota, American Petroleum Institute, BP America, Altria, Lockheed Martin, Anheuser-Busch, and Coca-Cola. CHCI also received money from the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, and the AFL-CIO. Along with eight members of Congress, CHCI’s board of directors includes executives and lobbyists representing Walmart, PG&E, Cargill, Facebook, Univision, Southwest Airlines, Comcast, the AFL-CIO, and the lobbying firm Ogilvy Government Relations. The group’s advisory council boasts 19 more lawmakers and reps from dozens of corporations and unions. The mission of the CHCI may be admirable, but its fundraising tactics raise the same red flags as the other access-peddling nonprofits, says Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center. “What’s part of this transaction is blatant access- and influence-buying, and in a way it is money that particularly the corporate world can use to get in the good graces of people at the Hispanic caucus and others,” she says. “It is like an insurance policy, so they can maintain good relationships with a caucus that they might not otherwise have.” The institute and its supporters, in other words, are doing what similar nonprofits have accomplished: turning a public interest mission into an opportunity for influence peddling.	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'cc110d7d5202c70fee7be0a330b0aa5df1dec2e5997d1bd9fdcd36b3aee7961f'}
French Omelet Total Time: 15 min 10 min 5 min 1 serving • 2 large eggs • 2 tablespoons milk • Pinch kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper • 1 tablespoon unsalted butter • Omelet filling suggestions, optional, follow Set a plate by the stove. Heat a small (about 6 inches) seasoned omelet pan or non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. When the pan is warm, add the butter (it should sizzle gently). Swirl the pan to distribute the butter as it melts. When the butter stops sizzling and the foam subsides add the eggs. Pause to let the eggs heat slightly and then stir vigorously, with a heatproof spatula, making sure you include the sides of the egg mixture occasionally so the omelet cooks evenly. Once the eggs are just set, bang the pan gently on the burner to release the omelet from the pan. Check to see that it is not sticking to the sides or bottom of the pan, if so release the omelet with a heat proof spatula. Hold the pan at a 45-degree angle to the stove and carefully fold the omelet like a business letter. Cook just until the desired degree of doneness lifting the pan or reducing the heat to prevent browning. (A classic omelet doesn't have any browning on it.) Transfer to a warm plate and serve. Omelet Filling Suggestions: There are many omelet fillings, both raw and cooked, sweet and savory. Here is a starting point, but feel free to improvise. Once the eggs are set add any of these ingredients before folding. An alternative method, to use with delicate fillings, like creme fraiche and herbs, fresh fruits or caviar; is it to roll the omelet and then slice the top open, as you would a baked potato, and then fill it. - 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh herbs, like Italian parsley, basil, dill, tarragon, chives, thyme, and chervil. Use the herbs alone or in combination, like the classic combination fine herbs (equal parts parsley, chervil, chives and tarragon.) Brush the finished omelet with butter and sprinkle with additional herbs. Herbs can also be added to the omelet mixture to flavor the eggs more fully. - 2 to 3 tablespoons cooked vegetables like, chopped asparagus, spinach or other greens, zucchini, mushrooms, eggplant or peppers - 2 tablespoons diced fresh tomato or avocado - 2 tablespoons grated cheese, like Gruyere, Goat cheese, Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Gouda, Feta - 1 tablespoon currant jelly, then dust omelet with confectioner's sugar - 2 tablespoons chopped proscuitto or other ham, crumbled cooked bacon or other cured meat - 1 to 2 tablespoons chopped smoked salmon or trout, with a tablespoon sour cream, cream cheese or creme fraiche - 1 tablespoon honey with 1 tablespoon ricotta cheese - 2 to 3 tablespoons sliced apples, pears or strawberries, alone or with a complimentary cheese Copyright 2003 Television Food Network, G.P. All rights reserved View All Cooking Tips More Recipes and Ideas Loading review filters... This recipe is featured in: Breakfast for Dinner	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '15', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8595722317695618}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '262541', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZARHXXI5NILCSHJ23EDF7EDCWQ2BQJ56', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:188aaa65-3af4-4684-aa39-a25b53f958be>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2015, 3, 1, 11, 0, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.3.13.72', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LEERVLXNWP4YAR3ZVLHGEBXVA53ARCCB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:60aaedea-11e7-4e75-b818-4701db07e9dc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/french-omelet-recipe.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b71010b5-ddb5-4739-a570-9e4774d0b76b>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '524', 'url': 'http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/french-omelet-recipe.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-11\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for February 2015\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.055127084255218506', 'original_id': 'b9ac9aea5d2ac81162cada6b4f9f2ab6f8367dd39bc722166176f72fb89ab677'}
click here to jump to start of article Join Our Newsletter Get latest articles and videos with Jewish inspiration and insights Passover in Black and White Passover in Black and White Why the Passover Haggada considers Lavan to be the Jewish people's worst enemy. World history teems with evil villains who have tried to destroy the Jewish people. The Passover Hagadda reminds us that every generation has them, and God saves us every time. Yet the Haggada nonetheless singles out one individual who was worse than anyone else. And the winner is... Pharaoh? No. It's Lavan, our forefather Yaakov's (Jacob) sneaky father-in-law who tricked Yaakov under the wedding canopy and made every attempt to cheat him again and again. One wonders why of all the miscreants, genocidal maniacs, and despots with Jewish blood on their hands during the almost 2000 years of Jewish history preceding the Haggada's composition, Lavan was the worst. Pharaoh, a king who literally bathed in the blood of 300 Jewish children daily to alleviate his skin condition, did not get the title. The Hagadda explains that Pharaoh was less of an enemy than "Lavan since Pharaoh only sentenced the males to death, but Lavan wanted to uproot everything." What does this mean? To understand the inner message of our Sages, we need to go back to the biblical showdown between Lavan and Yaakov. After years of loyally working for Lavan despite being tricked, Yaakov packed up his family and belongings, all begotten and earned in good faith, and left Lavan's house forever. Lavan pursued Yaakov, and confronted him with an accusation so outlandish that it begs explanation. "The daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the sheep are my sheep, and all you see is mine" (Genesis 31:43). Lavan had the gall to make that claim after Yaakov reminded him of his 20 years of dedicated toil despite being tricked. What possible claim could Lavan have to all that Yaakov achieved? The Color White The answer lies in the name "Lavan." The Hebrew word lavan means white. It represents the potential for any color in the spectrum. One who places all the colors separately on a wheel and then spins it rapidly observes that the combination of colors turns to white. The color white signifies the potential to receive everything but dedication to nothing. The power of white lies within the contrast it offers. White is the starkest backdrop for black, and we often refer to something true as black on white. Yet white is committed to no color, and in its purest form, it remains white -- the potential to receive everything but dedication to nothing. These unique features characterized the person named Lavan. Lavan was a shyster, one who would offer one deal but switch it with another. He could sound friendly one minute and hostile another, changing colors to suit his ends, but never becoming anything in particular. For Lavan, there was no absolute truth. Only the endless field of possibilities -- the potential for any color -- was real. Yaakov was the exact opposite. Yaakov was completely dedicated and devoted, and personified unwavering commitment to fulfilling God's will. Yaakov was black on white, the truth made more apparent against the white background, the "Lavan" in whose home he built the family that would become the Jewish people. An Attempt to Uproot Everything Lavan understood this, and knew that Yaakov became more set and dedicated in his ways in the context of the "white" contrast Lavan provided. His claim to title over all that Yaakov had was not a legal one. It was a deeper accusation: "I helped make you who you are! You owe me." Lavan was technically correct about his contribution to Yaakov's identity. The intensity of Lavan's chicanery and dishonesty only made the difference between Yaakov and Lavan more obvious, and each became more set in his ways. With that argument, he wanted to take everything that Yaakov had, to claim the family as his own, and to establish the dominance of white over black, of remaining in the realm of possibilities without having to commit to any of them. Lavan claimed Yaakov's family was his, but it was a claim without merit and was just another demonstration of Lavan's skill at twisting the facts to his advantage. Had Lavan prevailed, he would have uprooted the Jewish people, and the potential to commit to anything higher would have been lost. Pharaoh could not have killed Jewish babies because there would not have been any Jewish babies -- ever. Yaakov resisted, and the black he stood for, the commitment to heaven, prevailed over the noncommittal theme Lavan represented. The mystics saw this battle as the central theme of Passover, and Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna saw Yaakov's struggle with Lavan as foreshadowing our attempt to survive committed while immersed in Egypt's hedonistic society that celebrated all the possibilities in the world, but resisted commitment to anything. It was a society steeped in black magic to create even more possibilities when the natural range of options ran out. Exposing. . . Nothing The exodus from Egypt gives us the tools to resist the same attempt in our generation to take that which is black on white, and reduce it to the spinning color wheel of possibilities. A story told by an Israeli rabbi illustrates this point. A simple peasant went to see a movie for the first time in his life. Fascinated by the vivid color and larger-than-life pictures, images that appeared so real to him, he moved close to the screen and lifted his lantern to get a closer look. To his dismay, all he saw was lavan, white. The Haggada requires us to see ourselves as if we personally left Egypt. The wheel spins faster and faster, and some elements of society suggest that the whole idea of faith, the notion of absolute truth, is outdated. Yet when one shines the spotlight on relativism, one can see past the sophisticated sounding explanations and find only white. Nothing. Passover empowers us to stand up for what we believe, to shine our lantern on the screen that others see as reality and expose it for the lavan it really is. Published: April 8, 2008 Give Tzedakah! Help create inspiring articles, videos and blogs featuring timeless Jewish wisdom. Visitor Comments: 3 (3) R Yogi robkin, March 22, 2012 9:21 PM beautiful article! very powerful message! (2) Mary, April 13, 2008 11:49 PM sure surprised That certainly is a switch on interpretations of colors! I've always thought of white as incorporating a rainbow with in it,and reflecting light, while Black I don't consider to be a color. I consider it to be an absence of light. It absorbs light which disappears into it. But the article is interesting and makes use of Lavan's name. (1) peggy, April 13, 2008 12:34 PM Lavan still lives,still making demands WOW! I never thought about this in this way of Black/White. All the demands that the arabs are making on Israel and getting what they want sounds like modern day Lavan who made demands on Yaakov.Maybe you need to remind the Israeli gov't of this so they will stop giving land for peace and now going to even give up parts of Jerusalem. 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David Lescot: 'Europe is nothing more than a piggy bank for artists' Article published on Nov. 4, 2009 Article published on Nov. 4, 2009 The fearless French playwright, musician and director, 38, attacks the concept of Europe in his latest show 'L’Européenne', a wacky commentary on a continent that is still seeking to find itself The actors embrace one another, throw each other around the stage, huddle together and dress themselves up. In David Lescot’s chaotic musical L’Européenne, the protagonists attempt to smooth the rough edges of Brussels’ institutions. The theme of Europe, however, was perhaps not the most glamorous available to the Parisian theatre-going public in September this year. Yet in the cold corridors and compact offices the same problems are faced on a day to day basis: communication and language, election hysteria, the rigidity of the system and the impossibility the tasks heaped on those in Brussels. Comedy and cacophony It was Lescot himself that came up with the idea. 'I had the idea for this show around the time of the referendum on the European constitution in 2005. I was still undecided as to how I would vote. It was then that I noticed the political divide that this subject created. Finally, I realised we were all participating in this collective adventure, an epic, that was carrying us all along ...' After making enquiries and familiarising himself with the institutions, Lescot decided to write a comedy, L’Européenne. 'I felt like I was infiltrating a Realpolitik universe,' he recalls. 'Like a machine that moves forwards hoping to achieve efficiency and without any kind of beauty.' Certain aspects of the institutions were calling out for satirisation, he says, 'those very mechanical and technical elements' especially. 'The more languages there are, the happier I am' And for those with an ear for music, the twenty-three official languages of the EU are used in the staging of the fantasy. 'The more languages there are,' he explains, 'the happier I am.' The playwright lays his cards on the table from the start of the show, in the form of interpreters hired by the EU. 'We have Latvian to Portuguese, Maltese to Danish, English to Polish interpreters ...' Using foreign languages also proves complex for the actors. They express themselves primarily in their mother tongues (including Slovenian, Bulgarian and Portuguese) without any subtitling. However, an Italian translator is present to make sure everything is intelligible to the French audience. Like the prisoners of Kafka’s steel castle, the actors portray poets, musicians and music lovers. They also play troublemakers within this somewhat dark European tribe. 'For Europe, giving money to artists is simply adding numbers to a statistics table. And for artists, Europe is nothing more than a piggy bank,' states Lescot. It's basically a collective group of fool. Nevertheless, everything is instrumental as we learn to understand one another, move closer together and finally to attach ourselves to one another. Born in Naples Although David Lescot neglects to mention the future of the European saga in his play, he rejects the idea of creating a single European culture. 'The EU is definitely great when people want to travel between countries, but trying to find a common culture of all the nations is something I fear.' He prefers the term 'miscegenation' ('métissage') instead, as he considers it more captivating. He himself has travelled across Europe thanks to the constantly changing tragicomic shows that develop to reflect today’s harsh reality. It was from there that L’Européenne was born, on the boards of the Napoli theatre in Italy. When it comes to the European year of intercultural dialogue, which was implemented by the EU in 2008, Lescot asks me: 'Did you enter into a dialogue with yourself in 2008?' He sees the symbol as having to 'engrave more and more European cultures in your mind. We are in Europe. But is Europe in us?' Lescot hopes that we can find the answers in his own intellectually amusing works. However, behind the laughter, there is a certain sense of melancholy. In L’Européenne, a dying Jewish grandmother freezes the younger actors, and it is this white-haired, nightgowned character on a stretcher that personifies the resuscitation of the Europe of old. This has provided a way for the playwright to include his own Polish origins in the show and to reflect on those who, like this woman. 'have crossed the sombre ghettos of history. These feelings and memories should not be forgotten as time passes,' concludes Lescot. Utopia continues. 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\section{Pythagorean Triangle from Sum of Reciprocals of Consecutive Same Parity Integers} Tags: Pythagorean Triangles \begin{theorem} Let $a, b \in \Z_{>0}$ be (strictly) positive integers such that they are consecutively of the same parity. Let $\dfrac p q = \dfrac 1 a + \dfrac 1 b$. Then $p$ and $q$ are the legs of a Pythagorean triangle. \end{theorem} \begin{proof} Let $a$ and $b$ both be even. Then: {{begin-eqn}} {{eqn \| l = a \| r = 2 n \| c = }} {{eqn \| l = b \| r = 2 \paren {n + 1} \| c = for some $n \in \Z_{>0}$ }} {{eqn \| ll= \leadsto \| l = \dfrac 1 a + \dfrac 1 b \| r = \dfrac 1 {2 n} + \dfrac 1 {2 \paren {n + 1} } \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {n + \paren {n + 1} } {2 n \paren {n + 1} } \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {2 n + 1} {2 n \paren {n + 1} } \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {n^2 + 2 n + 1 - n^2} {2 n \paren {n + 1} } \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {\paren {n + 1}^2 - n^2} {2 n \paren {n + 1} } \| c = }} {{end-eqn}} From Solutions of Pythagorean Equation, $\tuple {n, n + 1}$ form the generator for the primitive Pythagorean triple $\tuple {2 m n, m^2 - n^2, m^2 + n^2}$ where $m = n + 1$. The legs of the resulting primitive Pythagorean triangle are $2 n \paren {n + 1}$ and $\paren {n + 1}^2 - n^2$. Let $a$ and $b$ both be odd. Then: {{begin-eqn}} {{eqn \| l = a \| r = 2 n + 1 \| c = }} {{eqn \| l = b \| r = 2 \paren {n + 1} + 1 \| c = for some $n \in \Z_{>0}$ }} {{eqn \| ll= \leadsto \| l = \dfrac 1 a + \dfrac 1 b \| r = \dfrac 1 {2 n + 1} + \dfrac 1 {2 \paren {n + 1} + 1} \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {4 n + 4} {4 n^2 + 8 n + 3} \| c = }} {{eqn \| r = \dfrac {2 \paren {2 n + 2} \times 1} {\paren {2 n + 2}^2 - 1} \| c = }} {{end-eqn}} From Solutions of Pythagorean Equation, $\tuple {2 n + 2, 1}$ form the generator for the primitive Pythagorean triple $\tuple {2 m n, m^2 - n^2, m^2 + n^2}$ where $m = 2 n + 2$ and $n = 1$. The legs of the resulting primitive Pythagorean triangle are $2 \paren {2 n + 2}$ and $\paren {2 n + 2}^2 - 1$. {{qed}} \end{proof}	math_pile	{'subset': 'ProofWiki', 'meta': "{'type': 'Theorem_Proof'}", 'original_id': '1ccaa6ae366eb065d246292292be78c2a15e88617d086b4c92e578dd243e1dcd'}
Log in No account? Create an account Previous Entry Share Next Entry 6 days on a Greek island drinking bird Last week I came back from a trip to Europe. I was in Milan for a few days visiting one of my best and oldest friends. Then, with a group of her friends [most are my friends too] we went to Karpathos in the Dodecanese. It is close to Rhodes and the Turkish coast. It was a lazy holiday, given there is little of note on the island, outside of the pretty coast and its beaches. Unfortunately the water is not potable, so you need to buy some large bottles of mineral water everyday. We stayed at a smallish hotel a short distance from 3 pretty beaches. It has the usual blinding white exterior, lots of bougainvillea vines climbing the walls, red hibiscus in the little garden. Here is the bougainvillea on the trellis over my terrace: A view of the pool area from my terrace My room window and door A typical beach the coast is jagged The view from another small beach. You can see a very typical small church on the hill, and, of course, a cafe Some idle fishing boats Last photo, the hills of the interior, with a heat haze blurring things. On the extreme left you can glimpse a distant bay. The sea is never very far, this is a small island. The terrain is rocky and rather poor. Olives trees grow in some places, but there is little else. Anyway the goats eat what's left of the vegetation! • 1 Wooooow!!!! So beautiful!! It makes me miss Europe quite a bit! ^-^; It is beautiful, at least the coastal part of it. I love the Mediterranean. Me, too! Before Japan Italy used to be my favorite country! :) I've only been to Greece twice (back in the 90s), but everything looks as lovely as I recall it . Even though there aren't that many attractions on that island, just walking around and not feeling pressured to do anything (except for buying water), sounds like a nice break from the usual rushed days at work. Did you rent a car to get to other places there? (and... does that island have it's own airport?) The island does have its own airport. My friends chose it because it has direct flights from Milan. There are some other flights, and certainly at least to Athens. There are rental cars available. There were several of us, we rented a car for five of us to go explore the island. Basically one road that goes across from where we were, goes up the west coast, and then crosses back over the hills to go down the east coast. It was all fairly cheap. • 1	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9681072235107422}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '184480', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BIDL43QRW6LZGDFNZCFXJTWOI6A33KNT', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5f66c52f-4c95-4563-b462-28b7972efcd1>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 25, 6, 38, 26), 'WARC-IP-Address': '13.88.179.33', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:UTVDFLTOVW4BNSZFHY2IBT246OLMSJ6T', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:84aa3a6b-ec99-4d18-978f-f538a8ad86f6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://mit-souko.livejournal.com/24046.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9c2abaa6-52b7-4715-ae25-f7c635684b2f>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '459', 'url': 'https://mit-souko.livejournal.com/24046.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-45-61-6.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.045673489570617676', 'original_id': 'f58f93f22bb66b18ce0c6733381b497d852afb87cac3e84e74734113f05af76d'}
Category: Inspiration Holding onto clutter can make you feel overwhelmed, stressed and low in energy. If you feel guilty about the amount of ‘stuff’ you have, you are not alone. Many of us are victim of the Evil Clutter Fairy – whether it’s that impulse buy or something to cheer us up, we tend to hold onto everything “Just in case”, so it’s often fear that is holding us back. If this is you, then are let us help you get started, we promise you’ll feel better for it! Top 10 tips to De-clutter your Life Set a Date – don’t procrastinate any longer – set a date to start and stick to it. Get Help – roping in someone you know and trust to help you, will give you the motivation and confidence to be tough with your throwing out! Small Steps – if you just cannot face a massive onslaught on your clutter, start with nice, easy bite size chunks of 15 minutes every day. And tackle one room at a time. I guarantee– little by little you will start to feel better as you see the light (and more space) at the end of the tunnel. Be Systematic – keep on decluttering that room until it is fully cleared. Cupboards, drawers, wardrobes, under beds, on top of wardrobes etc. Don’t be tempted to start on another room. Take Five – whilst waiting for the kettle to boil, start sorting through your “junk drawer” (every kitchen has one!). Do you really need all those plastic boxes with no lids, empty jars or recipes torn out from magazines? One in, Two Out – for every new item brought into the home/office, two items must leave… no cheating though, throwing out a piece of paper and empty toilet roll does not count! This rule may even save you money too – yay! The Clothes Hanger Rule – each time you wear an item move it to one side of the wardrobe, you’ll find you probably wear 20% of your clothes 80% of the time. After six months you will see what items you have never worn and can give them to charity or sell them on eBay. Box it for Twelve Months – if you just cannot bear to throw certain items away as you may use it, fix it, need it etc. put all these items into a box, seal up it up and pop it in the loft… IF after 12 months you have not opened the box, donate the whole box to a charity shop (without opening it, as that would only tempt you again). I recently ditched curtains and bedding going back 20 years that were still boxed up from house moves! List and Reflect – every time you feel the urge to buy the latest gadget, dress or yet another pair of shoes, write it on a list of ‘Things I want’ or take a picture. When at home, reflect on your decision and ask “Do I really need it?” If you don’t you’ve saved both space and money! Be Honest – do you have a problem detaching emotions from items and blackmail yourself into keeping items that you have been given by your children or spent a lot of money on and have never used? Try this little trick: Do you REALLY a) Love it. b) Need it? If you honestly love it and will use it then you can keep it – otherwise ditch it or donate it! So those were my top tips. I guarantee if you free up the space, take the plunge, get tough and declare war on your junk that you will feel less stressed, more organised and really appreciate what you do have! If you need a deep clean, before you tackle your decluttering or after the end of a tenancy let Mrs Mopp and her merry Moppettes® clean, sparkle and refresh your home, from top to bottom, allowing you to spend your well-deserved time off and weekends with friends and family. Contact us for a quote. De-clutter Your Home In 2015 It’s the beginning of a brand new year and everyone is full of resolutions and hope for the upcoming 12 months. As well as promising to lose weight or join a gym, I’d like you to promise one thing to your home for the next year…To de-clutter it. All of it. We all lead crazy busy lives and lives that are filled with convenience and “stuff”. Lots of stuff. We are a nation of work hard, spend hard people and our houses are full to busting point of things we do not wear or use. Couple of interesting facts for y’all – Did you know that the average UK adult has over £1,000 worth of stuff/clutter that they could sell or donate just lying around their home? Also, did you know that many psychologists believe having an overcrowded and cluttered house can lead to depression, anxiety and even weight gain? Things that make you go hmm right? Now I understand that you may not want to throw away that stripy bat-winged jumper that you looked good in when you were 17, just in case, one day, it should make a miraculous return to the catwalks of the world. However, sometimes we just have to face facts and be hard on ourselves and admit that we would never (ever) wear that jumper again anyway, even if the great Anna Wintour herself declared it chic. The thing is, the memories you have of being a footloose and fancy free bat-winged-jumper-wearing-individual are not trapped in a jumper and they won’t erase if we got rid of the jumper. This is were de-cluttering becomes hard, we have to separate the emotions from all the stuff… 5 Tips To Make de-Cluttering Easier 1. Make a plan. Tackle your house room by room. Don’t try and do your house in a day or in one weekend as, unless you live in a tiny house, you won’t manage it and that will just make you feel fed up and discouraged to carry on. Instead of throwing yourself aimlessly at your home, be strategic and make a plan of what you will do and on what days. You have a year to get everything straight so don’t panic. Just think about it for a second – it took yeeeeaaaaars to collect all the stuff you have right? It will take a while to sort out and get rid of. Rome was not built in a day… 2. Start with the “lived in” areas first Start in your lounge, for example, and then work through your home from the most used rooms to the least. As you start to de-clutter the most used spaces of your home you should start to begin to feel and see the benefits of less clutter almost immediately. Your room will look bigger and brighter AND it will now take less time to tidy and keep clean, hurrah! 3. Get a 3 box system going in your home Have 3 boxes or large bags with you when you de-clutter each room to keep you focused and working to a system. The boxes are i) Skip/Recycle ii) Keep/Relocate iii) Charity/Sell. As you go around the room place objects into one of the three boxes. Once done, the room will be ready to be cleaned and the ‘kept’ items put back. If you have the space in a utility or garage, try to keep a regular 2 box system for skip/recycle items and for charity items and make sure everyone in your home knows about and uses them. 4. Find a charity close to your heart To give is always better than to receive and if it is possible for you to do so, please think about having a regular charity box in your home. A charity that means something to you will give you motivation to keep the de-cluttering effort going. If you have good quality items or clothing, find a a charity that moves you and one you that you would love to help and be involved in. Not everyone has time to volunteer or has the money to set up a charity monthly direct debit, so donating your un-wanted items is the next best thing and very much appreciated by the charities. Donating to your chosen charity is a win-win for everyone involved – Your home gets de-cluttered, the charity makes money for their cause and someone goes home happy with a new stripy bat-winged jumper. Yay! The Mrs Mopp charity of choice for 2015 for clothes, household items and furniture is the Shropshire Community Project – If you live in the local area, please click the link after you’ve finished reading this post (Obvs), to learn more about them and the very wonderful work they do in our County. Thank you. 5. Hold a Clothes Swapping Party Get all your chums to sort out their wardrobes, shoes and accessories, that they no longer wear and arrange a get together to swap with each other whilst holding your own private fashion show. A good giggle, you get to see your friends in one space and everyone goes home with something new and exciting to wear without even spending a penny! Do you have any tips for de-cluttering and learning how to let go of things you no longer need or use? Please share them below if you do, we would love to hear them. Love Cleaning Tips? Here at Mrs Mopp, not only do we clean houses to the highest standards, we also like to try out and test cleaning tips and advice we find on blogs, to see what works. You can catch our regular cleaning tips by searching online for the hashtag #CleaningTips or you can check out our pages on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram which have daily cleaning tips and other cleaning wonderful-ness. Please see below for a collection of our latest cleaning tips, designed to help save you time and money in your home. Want that “just cleaned” smell to last a while longer when cleaning your home? Try this cleaning tip of swapping polish for air freshehener Want to motivate the kids into cleaning up their room? Easy! Turn it into a game… Not getting as much steam from your iron as you would like? Try this quick and easy cleaning tip to de-clog your iron. It ain’t easy being cheesy… Try cold water instead of warm when dealing with cleaning cheese from pans and utensils. Smelly bin, smelly bin, what are they feeding you? Never let your bin tell a tale on what you’ve been eating, by using this cheap, easy, cleaning tip. Brighten up your kitchen sink and leave it smelling fresh and clean by trying this eco friendly cleaning tip Are your elbows aching from all the grease you are putting into scrubbing pans? Save your arm ache with this handy cleaning tip Is your shower a mere dribble of its former self? No worries, we can help. Wrap your shower head in a sealed sandwich bag, filled with white vinegar. Leave overnight and hey presto, Niagara Falls people. Are stickers a pet peeve? Want a handy cleaning tip solution? Try a wee drop of WD40 to banish those pesky sticks Want an environmentally friendly way to clean your windows? Want a fresh smell through out your home? 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465. “What Are We Afraid Of?” The National Law Journal, (October 18, 2004) p. 27. During a recent meeting at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, defense lawyers chided-well, other defense lawyers-for being unduly impressed with the science of DNA. These critics pointed out that most defense attorneys, when told that their client left DNA samples at the crime scene, throw up their hands and plead out the case. However, leading DNA authorities at the meeting, such as George Castelle and Robert Gaensslen, pointed out that in some cases labs have faked results to help the police to make their case; in others, samples were switched. (And anyhow, an identical twin could have done it.) Thus they advised fellow defense lawyers who are unfamiliar with the science involved to turn to guide books that detail which questions to ask when challenging DNA evidence. But by far the harshest criticism came from civil libertarians who stated that they did not object to DNA testing-as long as the findings are not stored, the samples from which the DNA profiles are derived are destroyed and access to the findings is severely limited. Otherwise, these libertarians feared that DNA data could lead to racism; cause good people to lose their jobs, insurance and homes; and possibly create a police state. To defense lawyers, I say: Although it is quite necessary to question the human element of DNA testing (handling, mistakes, etc.), I would not challenge the science. Especially if an independent laboratory has re-run the test, come up with the same results, and then tested an additional DNA sample from the suspect and it matched the police sample. I would take it that the findings are solid. True, once in every 10 million cases or so, a mistake may occur. But judges and juries are unlikely to find such a minuscule error rate to be a cause for alarm. And to the extent that public interest enters into such deliberations, one must acknowledge that DNA evidence is more reliable than eyewitnesses, handwriting analyses and many other sources of evidence. A more difficult question is raised by the fact that relatives share some DNA features. (Only identical twins share them all.) Hence without conducting a full DNA test-which often cannot be carried out on a crime scene sample-there is no way to know if that sample might actually belong to another member of the suspect's family. Crime families exist-and not only on television. This was demonstrated during the Kennedy School conference when data were presented showing that more than 30% of those "in the system" have a relative who is in jail or ought to be. Thus it is fair for defense lawyers to raise questions-in cases without a full DNA profile-about relatives as suspects or having access to crime scenes. Still, we need more testing. To the civil libertarians I say: If DNA evidence were not stored, it would be much more difficult to tie other crimes to the same offender. This, in turn, would prevent criminals from getting their full due. Police would try to solve cases when the actual perps were already in jail or at least well known. Without storing DNA evidence, it would be impossible to uncover mistakes; inmates could not use these data when making their appeals. It is cardinal to our justice system never to jail an innocent person, let alone execute one. Indeed, we feel so strongly that we profess that it is better to let a hundred criminals go free than to jail one innocent person. The simple fact is: There is no law enforcement technique that has liberated more innocent people from jail, including death row, than DNA tests. On this ground alone, civil libertarians should be demonstrating, pleading, for more DNA tests, rather than fighting to tie them up in knots. While DNA tests might not be the final word, they are the best we have in the criminal justice system. Overall, DNA tests, more than any other kind of tests today, help justice rather than thwart it. 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The Department of History and Social Sciences at the University of Saint Francis offers bachelor degree programs in History, Political Science, and Sociology. These programs, taught in the liberal arts tradition, promote the spirit of inquiry and an appreciation for the diversity of the human experience. You will find that social science programs take an interdisciplinary approach to research, scholarship, teaching, learning and service. You will have the opportunity to develop your critical thinking, learn to actively research, refine your written and oral communication abilities, and engage with the broader community. Franciscan values are tightly interwoven into the department’s fabric. The program you choose will provide you with greater insight into issues like community building, the promotion of peace and justice in the face of intolerance and persecution, stewardship of natural resources and the dignity of each person in a global context. Upon graduation, you will be prepared for a wide range of post-collegiate careers in public and private fields.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9231153130531312}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '15990', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M4FZ4EMZM6UMUV6HR7JPLW3Z26SQBS67', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3ec3ca2d-3db0-401c-b355-caf9b3196966>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 10, 31, 5, 34, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '70.32.112.206', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5WCT6MTD5DS6LUKVDJAU53AG2AIMGK57', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8119e306-9c2b-4d12-82a9-3407dd825769>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://history.sf.edu/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4373f547-d5f3-4b43-9f04-585d6c845f43>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '160', 'url': 'http://history.sf.edu/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-42\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for October 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.018983960151672363', 'original_id': '1d0fef683316448f145de5dbec96a53a92ecba4e078054288ed93d638d5e7831'}
What is a Fuccboi? What is a fuccboi? To winnow down the sea of answers that the internet provides for this question, I will start with the authoritative repository for all slang word definitions. Fuccboi, also stylized as “fuccb0i” or “fuqboi,” got its first Urban Dictionary entry in December 2004 as “A person who is a weak ass pussy that ain’t about shit.” Definitions, however, evolve. The second entry from September 2014 describes the archetypal fuccboi by attire and behavior. The definition is noticeably longer and has more precise qualifications, including trashy sartorial choices accompanied by perverse misogyny. Regarding the appearances of the fuccboi, the label should not be confused with “basic” or “hypebeast.” “Basic” means unsophisticated or incredibly ordinary (think UGGs or Lululemon), while “hypebeast” refers to sneakerheads decked in urban wear solely for the purposes of impressing others (think Diamond Supply Co. or Supreme). The fuccboi uniform (snapback, wifebeater, joggers, Nike tube socks, Adidas sandals) is a byproduct of his behavior. To understand the first definition, a more etymological approach is needed. The Wesleyan Argus argues that “fuccboi” comes from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and was frequented by rap artists since 2002; the misogynistic and homophobic undertones of this word may have stemmed from this usage. According to this tumblr post, the AAVE definition is “a person (most often a man) that ain’t shit.” Articles fixated on the word’s underlying misogyny are unsurprisingly upsetting to some who abide by the AAVE definition — American pop culture has appropriated the word, given it a new meaning, memed it onto shirtless Justin Bieber pictures, and made “fuccboi” into a “problematic” phenomenon. So how did the second definition, the one which centers on the fuccboi’s mistreatment of women, come about? Pacific Standard writer Alana Massey conjectures that this definition of “fuccboi” stems from Millennials’ technologically-driven culture around online dating. She identifies the fuccboi’s defining qualities as male entitlement and fecklessness. And we continue to bastardize this word by having listicles that seemingly pop up daily about dealing with a fuccbois or how to be a fuccboi. These are not the only two definitions that exist. When asked “what is a fuccboi?” my friend replied, “a douchey guy who’s self-aware of his noncommittal behavior.” As evidenced from above, this is just one take on an ever-evolving definition. Some say it’s like pornography:, you know it when you see it. Others, like Massey, contend that it’s a worldview, a lifestyle. And still others use this term to describe people who fail to live up to their inflated ego. I think that this portmanteau is too simple to have just have one origin or definition — combining two words to make an insult is definitely not a culturally specific practice. Theories abound the internet about how this word came to be: slang used by the LGBT community since the 1960’s, a colloquialism among prison inmates to refer to rape, a purposefully-degrading term to describe thirsty individuals on OkCupid and other dating sites, or a transphobic slur used by sex tourists in southeast Asia. Sure, some definitions deserve more credence than others, but I don’t think that it’s kosher to set a definition on this term. “Fuccboi” is special, powerful and universal. It means something different to all of us: for some, it evokes agonizing memories; for others, it’s a way to criticize someone’s behavior. Not only does “fuccboi” produce a certain image, it also allows us to subjectively describe that image. Only a few English words language carry this capability. I, for one, am not the type to throw around the word “fuccboi” often. For starters, I don’t encounter people who fall perfectly into that category; alongside that, I can’t even grasp what this category entails. Instead of pondering on serious issues or asking philosophical questions, I encourage all to follow my example and squander time thinking about this etymological quandary. 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Jill Messick's family criticizes Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan for involving her in controversy over rape allegations Jill Messick, Rose McGowan’s former manager, died by suicide in Los Angeles on Wednesday. She was 50. Messick was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been battling depression in the years before her death, her family told The Hollywood Reporter. In an emotional statement, Messick’s family criticized McGowan and Harvey Weinstein for involving Messick in the controversy over McGowan’s allegations that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in 1997. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Messick’s family says she was devastated after the movie mogul’s lawyer released an email in which Messick defended Weinstein. “Jill was victimized by our new culture of unlimited information sharing and a willingness to accept statement as fact,” read the statement to THR. “The speed of disseminating information has carried mistruths about Jill as a person, which she was unable and unwilling to challenge. She became collateral damage in an already horrific story.” Messick’s family claims McGowan made “inaccurate accusations and insinuations” against her, but Messick chose not to speak out so as not to take attention away from victims of sexual harassment and assault. “She opted not to add to the feeding frenzy, allowing her name and her reputation to be sullied despite having done nothing wrong,” read the statement. “She never chose to be a public figure; that choice was taken away from her.” The family maintains McGowan confided in Messick after meeting with Weinstein at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997 — a meeting where McGowan alleges Weinstein assaulted her in a hot tub — and the manager immediately reported the incident to her bosses. Image zoom Jeff Vespa/WireImage “Rose never once used the word rape in that conversation. Despite this, Jill recognized that Harvey had done something untoward to Rose, if not illegal. She immediately went to her bosses, the partners of Addis Wechsler, to recount Rose’s story and to insist that they immediately address the situation. They told Jill that they would handle the situation.” When McGowan first opened up about her alleged experience with Weinstein to The New York Times in October, she said that she informed Messick about the alleged attack the day after. “She held me,” McGowan told the paper. “She put her arms around me.” But McGowan said that in the months to come, she did not feel supported by her management team. She said that she was referred to a lawyer who specialized in harassment and assault cases and was given the impression that “filing a criminal charge was hopeless.” Weinstein’s lawyer Ben Brafman responded to McGowan’s allegations in a statement to PEOPLE. “Mr. Weinstein denies Rose McGowan’s allegations of non-consensual sexual contact and it is erroneous and irresponsible to conflate claims of inappropriate behavior and consensual sexual contact later regretted, with an untrue claim of rape.” His spokesperson also said that McGowan “chose to demand money” from Weinstein and worked and appeared with him later in her career.” In October, the New York Times reported that McGowan was part of a settlement with Weinstein in 1997 following the alleged encounter. Messick’s family says the deal was negotiated without the manager’s knowledge. “At that time, all Jill knew was that the matter was settled and that Rose continued making films with the Weinsteins. She never knew any details until recently, when Rose elected to make them public.” RELATED VIDEO: Harvey Weinstein Says Ben Affleck Denies Knowing About Rose McGowan’s Alleged Sexual Assault Ten months after the alleged incident, Messick was hired as an executive at Miramax Films, the studio then headed by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, a position the family stresses she earned on merit alone. She worked for Miramax from 1997 to 2003. On Jan. 30, Weinstein’s lawyers released an email in which Messick said McGowan had told her she got into the hot tub with Weinstein “consensually” but “regretted” it. Her family says the document was released without Messick’s consent. “In this email, Jill offered the truth based on what she remembers Rose telling her about the Sundance account. In the face of Rose’s continued and embellished accusations last week, Harvey took it upon himself to release the email without her consent,” the statement continues. In the statement, Messick’s family says, “Harvey’s desperate attempt to vindicate himself, was devastating for her. It broke Jill.”	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'bc4e22f06b599e1487f09062681d3cc5e63e119af8a12c3d45f8ddd3508dd56f'}
Twist and Shout Summary During the summer of 1967 the Beatles are drowning out the salsa music in the building where the girl lives. One day the lure of the music in the apartment upstairs is too great, and the minute her mother leaves the girl forgets the kidney beans cooking on the stove and rushes upstairs to join the party. She encounters Manny, the dangerous boy who all the girls love. Manny dances too rough with the girl, and she slips away from him, but not before she sees two girls kissing on the lips. Startled, the girl runs back downstairs to rescue the kidney beans from burning and herself from a scolding from her mother had dinner been ruined. Twist and Shout Analysis The rush to get through adolescence is pushing at the young girl and all the young people in the...	mini_pile	{'original_id': '67c3ceb909d015f5e0cec7285f517559f5f36501aa95bda3a668f53dc870dff8'}
Archive for the ‘{05} Random Thoughts’ Category I always feel better when I write; it helps me clear my mind. However this medium makes me feel a bit vulnerable with my inner most thoughts published. But as I go through this journey, I believe these random thoughts will help me reflect about my experiences. Let me be clear… These comments are not up for discussion. I am not passively searching for encouragement. These are for me. And yes I know many of them are completely irrational. I just need to speak to me. Should I have a glass of wine tonight or ice cream or cheese & crackers? Is how I’ve eaten in the past the cause of this cancer? What is the purpose of this? Will it catapult me through my complacency into my true purpose? I sure hope so! I never even considered this cancer could mean an early death until others brought it up who were trying to be encouraging. The thought never crossed my mind until now – and that is #@! scary! I still don’t like to touch that breast. I avoid it. I also don’t like to sleep on that side (even though I do) because I feel some how I might push cancer cells into another place. I’m already tired of talking about it. I’m ready to move on with it all so life is not focusing on this. Should I exercise? I stopped walking with hand weights for the time being. I don’t want to jostle the cancer cells. I still walk but somehow using the weights bothers me. Some attention is nice, but this is too much. I know everyone means well, and believe me I’m so thankful for all of the love, prayers and support, but I’m ready for the focus to shift. I think it will soon. It seems completely ridiculous to be more worried about losing my hair than my breast! Hello, one can grow back and the other cannot! I really want to keep at least one breast. After all, they’re so cute. If my breast is removed, maybe I’ll get a tattoo in the area. I’ve always kind of wanted one. What would I get? I’m praying for supreme health, a long life (95 is a good aim), and hopefully a lumpectomy with minimal lymph surgery. Sometimes I want to do nothing but sit and watch tv and blame it on “the cancer”. But honestly, let’s just face it, that is 100% laziness at this point and I shouldn’t use something serious like cancer as a lame excuse. Is my hair long enough to be cut so it can be remade into my own personal wig? This blog is NOT to be seen as a memorial, it is for victorious reflection! I’m so glad I can tell people my diagnosis without crying anymore. The crying was exhausting! Although I still need to be mindful, because even though I’ve had a few days to digest this news, manys others will be told soon and it will be new to them. Why do some get cancer and some do not? When I’ve said, I never expected this to happen to me, I really meant it! I did self exams almost monthly but I did it kind of nonchalantly because, after all, this is never going to happen to me.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '92dd960c4ccc7c9e26f1b8fd2a1c98e2f4e78ff3eed29691364ba656ed1eca75'}
EMBED >More News Videos Raw video of removal of Silent Sam pedestal. Students arriving for class this morning at UNC will notice something missing- the pedestal of Silent Sam. @ABC11_WTVD #abc11 pic.twitter.com/vDz9Z1kn65 — Julie Wilson (@JulieABC11) January 15, 2019 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Remnants of Silent Sam are no longer on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.The public learned Monday night that the pedestal which once housed Silent Sam would be removed. The news came in the same letter that announced UNC Chancellor Carol Folt's decision to step down after this spring's graduation.Under the cloak of darkness and just hours after the announcement to remove the pedestal was made, crews, a flatbed truck, and a forklift were on scene taking the monument down.Remnants of the statue will be placed into storage.The university's decision was praised by many, including Governor Roy Cooper who is also a UNC alumnus."I appreciate the Chancellor's actions to keep students and the public safe," Cooper said in a statement. "North Carolina is welcoming to all, and our public university should reflect that."For months, the University of North Carolina Board of Trustees discussed what to do with the Confederate monument, which was toppled in August , before settling on a $5.3 million construction project to create a history and education center to house it.That proposal was ultimately shut down in December by the Board of Governors , who said it "cannot support" the plan due to its heavy financial weight."The $5.3 million is, I think, pretty tough for a lot of us to swallow," Board Chairman Harry Smith told ABC11.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '82bcd0d4e69ab23a670efe5e2d6621a00bc6b0a97483923608572d0c1ce17db5'}
River kayaking can be intimidating but our experienced and knowledgeable guides will give you the instruction you need to safely and effectively navigate the river. We use super stable inflatable kayaks that are open on top (like a sit on top kayak) so you don't need to worry about rolling and being stuck upside down with your head underwater. Inflatable kayaks, also known as I.K.'s or duckies, are easy to get in and out of, even in the water, are made from the same super strong material as commercial rafts so they won't be shredded by rocks unlike cheaper sevylor brands and they are a BLAST to paddle! More About Your Trip kayaking whitewater on the Methow River Gold Creek Kayak Trip- the ultimate introduction to whitewater paddling! The Gold Creek run takes it up a notch with some exciting class II and III rapids and lots of surfing waves. This all day trip begins near Carlton, Washington, 20 miles South of Winthrop and includes a riverside lunch. This trip is perfect for those with some solid paddling experience who are looking to take their skills to the next level.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '9', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9473885893821716}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '12641', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5XOHFMNFVXJGLXYZHZUTE54EE7NCDM35', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:edf5b745-e7be-4f23-a10e-a5c251bd7edd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 21, 13, 33, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '206.189.72.196', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MPQQUECBZQHLMJUCPCIDFLISGLXL6UTG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ee43521a-2986-4d83-a7e2-c0404927b122>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://methowrafting.com/kayaking/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6c1fc213-ea66-4f75-bd47-c2d1a0be453d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '190', 'url': 'https://methowrafting.com/kayaking/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-93\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019053161144256592', 'original_id': '1e604a83e656251f54aec77342ee8c8a268d025e436cec98d75e3ad2efdb338b'}
Somewhere in America there's another water main about to blow. On Sunday, a water main break forced guests to evacuate the New York Palace Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Nicholas DeBenedictis, CEO of Aqua America Inc. (WTR), maintains his pipes. Over the past 20 years, it has been through about 250 acquisitions -- deals that often privatize aging public water systems. They can range from entire towns to small, neighborhood well systems originally put in place by developers. As the decades wear on, and the pipes need replacing, a lot of people start to wonder why they are in the water business, said Mr. DeBenedictis, who has been CEO of Aqua America since 1992. They sell their systems to him. He fixes the pipes. With a market capitalization of $4.6 billion, Aqua America is the nation's second-largest publicly traded water utility behind Voorhees, N.J.-based American Water Works Inc. (AWK) with a market cap of about $7.6 billion. There are a handful of other publicly traded water companies, and then there are about 30,000 smaller private water suppliers nationwide forming a highly fragmented industry ripe for consolidation, Mr. DeBenedictis said. Since 2007, Aqua America's stock has outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor's 500. Revenue has grown at an annualized rate of 5.6% during this period. Net income has grown 15.7%, annually. And the company has increased its annual dividend from 50 cents to 76 cents per share. One way Mr. DeBenedictis hopes to continue growing his company is through more acquisitions. Buying smaller, private water companies is easier than buying systems owned by municipalities. He said he often faces opposition from public employee unions that don't want to let go of their utility jobs--and from people who think water is too critical a resource to be trusted to profiteers. "There are some environmentalists who think water should be free," Mr. DeBenedictis said. "It's become a nice PR tool," Mr. DeBenedictis concedes. "Civil engineers like to design and build things. That's how they make their living." Still, no matter how you grade them, America's aging water mains are blowing. "There are an estimated 240,000 water main breaks per year in the United States," the civil engineers report said. "Much of our drinking water infrastructure is nearing the end of its useful life." I searched the Internet one last time before I finished this column on Wednesday. There was another water main break in Bangor, Maine. The Bangor Daily News' website ran a nice photo of muddy water pooling on a street corner. It's such a common sight, you wonder why it even makes the paper.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '540', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.962815284729004}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '52000', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6HNXRQVF2ULBHEEX56K7EKQ7HH7PGAVU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a9eaaa37-086b-4fc2-8b52-3b530502fe13>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 3, 11, 22, 22, 48), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.0.160.72', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:B4SIUUCFJOAMBXMBZLSXBZB56OZXZRC3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:95f81ca9-2b31-49e2-b9f7-97071c34611b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2013/05/17/aqua-man-to-rescue/?intcmp=trending', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:329f4e3c-9eae-4fe2-ade0-fc8f1e789461>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '828', 'url': 'http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2013/05/17/aqua-man-to-rescue/?intcmp=trending', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-10\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for March 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.053129732608795166', 'original_id': '6f27b5087827b720d723624eca52240d6d9a635a2947f40e3789cbd6698091cb'}
<?php $tbg_response->setTitle(__('Configure uploads & attachments')); ?> <script type="text/javascript"> function toggleSettings() { if ($('enable_uploads_yes').checked) { $('upload_restriction_mode').enable(); $('upload_extensions_list').enable(); if ($('upload_storage')) $('upload_storage').enable(); $('upload_max_file_size').enable(); if ($('upload_storage').getValue() == 'files') { $('upload_localpath').enable(); } $('upload_allow_image_caching').enable(); $('upload_delivery_use_xsend').enable(); } else { $('upload_restriction_mode').disable(); $('upload_extensions_list').disable(); if ($('upload_storage')) $('upload_storage').disable(); $('upload_max_file_size').disable(); $('upload_localpath').disable(); $('upload_allow_image_caching').disable(); $('upload_delivery_use_xsend').disable(); } } </script> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 class="configuration_page"> <tr> <?php include_component('leftmenu', array('selected_section' => \thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::CONFIGURATION_SECTION_UPLOADS)); ?> <td valign="top" class="main_configuration_content"> <div style="width: 730px;"> <h3><?php echo __('Configure uploads & attachments'); ?></h3> <?php if (\thebuggenie\core\framework\Context::getScope()->getMaxUploadLimit()): ?> <div style="text-align: center;"> <?php include_component('main/percentbar', array('height' => '20', 'percent' => \thebuggenie\core\framework\Context::getScope()->getCurrentUploadUsagePercent())); ?> <?php echo __('%mb MB of %max MB', array('%mb' => \thebuggenie\core\framework\Context::getScope()->getCurrentUploadUsageMB(), '%max' => \thebuggenie\core\framework\Context::getScope()->getMaxUploadLimit())); ?> </div> <?php endif; ?> <?php if ($uploads_enabled && $access_level == \thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::ACCESS_FULL): ?> <form accept-charset="<?php echo \thebuggenie\core\framework\Context::getI18n()->getCharset(); ?>" action="<?php echo make_url('configure_files'); ?>" method="post" onsubmit="TBG.Main.Helpers.formSubmit('<?php echo make_url('configure_files'); ?>', 'config_uploads'); return false;" id="config_uploads"> <?php endif; ?> <?php if (!function_exists('mime_content_type') && !extension_loaded('fileinfo')): ?> <div class="rounded_box yellow borderless" style="margin: 5px 0px 5px 0px; width: 700px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;"> <?php echo __('The file upload functionality can be enhanced with file type detection. 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More fine-grained permissions are available from the permissions configuration.'); ?></td> </tr> <tr> <td><label for="upload_max_file_size"><?php echo __('Max upload file size'); ?></label></td> <td> <input type="text" name="upload_max_file_size" id="upload_max_file_size" style="width: 50px;" value="<?php echo \thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::getUploadsMaxSize(); ?>"<?php if (!\thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::isUploadsEnabled()): ?> disabled<?php endif; ?>> <?php echo __('MB'); ?> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="config_explanation" colspan="2"> <?php echo __('Enter the maximum allowed file size for uploads here. Remember that this value cannot be higher than the current php max_upload_size or post_max_size, both defined in php.ini.'); ?> <u><?php echo __('Currently, these values are max_upload_size: %ini_max_upload_size and post_max_size: %ini_post_max_size.', array('%ini_max_upload_size' => '<b>' . (int) ini_get('upload_max_filesize') . __('MB') . 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'files/'; ?>"<?php if (!\thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::isUploadsEnabled() \|\| \thebuggenie\core\framework\Settings::getUploadStorage() == 'database'): ?> disabled<?php endif; ?>> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="config_explanation" colspan="2"><?php echo __("If you're storing files on the filesystem, specify where you want to save the files, here. 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If you have gone through the metal tiers of health plans and feel that they are not a fit for you or what you want to pay each month, you might consider a catastrophic health insurance plan. These plans are only available to people who are under age 30 or those with a hardship exemption.3 Depending on your situation, there may be some benefits to choosing a catastrophic plan. However, there can be some disadvantages as well. That’s all for you to decide, though, but we’ll provide you with the facts to help you make that call. I'm healthy, I'm young... Could a catastrophic plan be right for me? Who Would Want a Catastrophic Plan? If you consider yourself to be a generally healthy person, a catastrophic health plan might work for you. The plans have much lower premiums, in exchange for very high deductibles. As their name implies, catastrophic plans are designed to help cover you if you encounter catastrophic, major health issue like an accident or illness.3 Again, deductibles are extremely high with these plans so they are generally most helpful when a large, unexpected medical problem occurs, not if you need insurance to help cover trips to a doctor or specialist or prescription medications. If you consider yourself to be healthy and think a catastrophic plan sounds right for you, you must be under 30 years old or qualify for a hardship exemption in order to be eligible.3 The age requirement is self-explanatory- you cannot be 30 years old or older to be eligible for this plan. A hardship exemption indicates some sort of recent financial struggle that would make it difficult to pay a metal tiered plan. Listed below are some examples of what would qualify you for a hardship exemption: • if you have filed for bankruptcy within the last 6 months • if you received a shut off notice from a utility company • if from caring from a disabled, ill, or aging family member you experienced unplanned increases in necessary expenses.4 To see the full list of exemption qualifications and locate the required forms and details, visit healthcare.gov. Why Wouldn’t Someone Want a Catastrophic Plan? The biggest disadvantage of these plans are the high deductibles. Under Obamacare (Affordable Care Act/ACA), qualified health plans cannot have a deductible exceeding $6600, which is right around the range you’ll find with the majority of catastrophic plan deductibles.2 If you expect to have doctor visits and prescriptions, or if you could not afford a $6600 hospital bill if something happened, this plan may not be a good idea for you. Most other plans offer copayments for doctors, specialists, urgent care, and cheaper prescriptions, while catastrophic plans do not. This means that you will be responsible for the full amount of your bill until you reach your deductible.3 The metal tiered plans typically have lower deductibles, and once those deductibles are met, coinsurance kicks in and starts paying for a percentage of any medical expenses. Catastrophic plans have a much higher deductible, but most medical expenses are covered completely once it is met. The exception is that catastrophic plans will cover the first three visits to your primary doctor, but after that, again you will be charged the full price until you reach your deductible.3 A big perk of Obamacare is the use of premium tax credits to lower the amount you pay for your health insurance premiums. However, the tax credit does not apply to catastrophic plans.3 The plans do offer lower premiums compared to platinum, gold, silver, or bronze plans, but depending on your tax credit eligibility, it may be just as logical to opt for a metal tier plan. The chart below provides a breakdown of the plans that Americans have enrolled in as of June of 2015. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, 63,174 Americans, or .6% of those enrolled in a Marketplace plan, are enrolled in a Catastrophic plan.4 This indicates that as stated above, it might make just as much sense for someone who qualifies for premium tax credits to enroll in a higher level plan, depending on health and financial concerns. number enrolled by plan category A Few More Determining Factors You might still be a little unsure if a catastrophic plan is right for you, and you might still have a few questions… Under Obamacare, individuals are required to have a qualifying health plan. Such plans offer minimum essential coverage and ensure that you are not responsible for paying a tax penalty at the end of the year. Tax penalties are likely to increase each year due to inflation and politics, so it’s good to know that a catastrophic plan is considered minimum essential coverage- meaning you would not have to pay a tax penalty at the end of the year.2 Finally, it’s important to know what health services are covered. Obamacare plans are required to offer free preventive services, such as mammograms, blood pressure screenings, and a variety of other services. Plans are also required to cover the 10 essential health benefits:3 1. Outpatient services- no admittance to the hospital 2. Emergency services 3. Inpatient services- being admitted to the hospital 4. Maternity and newborn care 5. Mental health and substance use treatment 6. Prescription drugs 7. Habilitative and rehabilitative services and devices 8. Laboratory services 9. Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management 10. Pediatric dental and vision Keep in mind, though, even though these are covered services by a catastrophic plan, they are not covered until the deductible is met. This means that $6600 deductible must be paid before your insurance company would foot the bill for a prescription or a trip to the emergency room. These are just a few explanations that may be helpful when sifting through dozens of insurance plans. Because comparing so many options for plans and pricing can be overwhelming, Health Choice One recommends speaking with a licensed health insurance agent in your state. At no cost to you, they will walk you through your options and help you select a plan that works best for your health needs and your wallet. Click Here for Full Disclaimers 1. 2015 tax year exemptions from the fee for not having health coverage. (n.d.). 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You're viewing our new website - find out more Publication - Research publication Sourcing of pet dogs from illegal importation and puppy farms 2016-2017: scoping research Published: 9 Nov 2017 Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate Part of: Farming and rural, Research The report describes research into the scale of the trade in imported and illegally bred puppies. Formal Regulation A number of issues were raised regarding the formal regulation of the trade, in particular experts referred to the unforeseen impact of legislative change, that these changes were implemented with more resources than are currently available, and the unanticipated change in the scale and nature of the trade. For example, one reported …12 years ago when this was all getting debated and going through parliament this kind of puppy farming was not an issue …it's got a little bit of legislation but nobody bothers about [it] because it's mainly local authorities that should be doing it [ EI4]. Experts suggest there is a pressing need to map out the legislation and strategy with the present economic situation in context to improve the " woefully inadequate" response currently in place. As one expert explained, it is difficult to determine how successful the current legislation is, as certain aspects work well, but it does not stop the illegal trade from occurring: And being able to get the problem sorted out so that it's not a public health risk and things like that, yes, we can do that successfully, and I would say that's the vast majority of cases we manage to get that sorted out. But getting to the actual, kind of, nub of it in terms of where it's all happening… we can't really do that [ EI3]. I mean we've had a number of, if you want to call them - successful, where we've had to get the dogs quarantined, get everything sorted out and the dog then gets returned and things like that, is that successful? We'll really know further down the line in a lot of cases because of identifying the seller and getting them to stop doing it, which I think would be what I would, you know, I think that would be successful [ EI3]. Overall, the legislation available is viewed as mixed. However, while experts indicated there was a need to re-evaluate and update the legislation, the regulations were mostly seen as fit for purpose, if enforced correctly. Experts also expressed the need for caution when looking at any changes to the regulation of the trade. For example, one expert commented that PTS " was intended to be a very positive thing for animal welfare, and it had the unintended consequence of opening the floodgate to this trade" [ EI1]. Consequently, further regulation of the trade requires a multi-strategy and multi-agency approach that is " overarching and look[s] at the number of different strands … it has to have a robust system behind whatever solution is put in place, and I think that starts with traceability and accountability and enforcement through perhaps a microchip [ EI1]. Furthermore, the experts indicated a delicate balance was required. For instance, one stakeholder indicated that more stringent laws would only impact upon legitimate and responsible breeders and thereby increase the hold of less scrupulous and illegal breeders. Such changes could impact the international, domestic and online trade. This caution was echoed by consumers; "but on the opposite side if you start to go down the road of putting too much paperwork in the way, are you not going to drive the ones who don't do it properly further into the dark" [ FG1]. What follows is a discussion on the legislation regulating the international trade, online trade and domestic trade, prior to moving onto the complications surrounding its enforcement. Regulating the International Trade The Balai Directive (92/65/ EEC) and PTS Regulation (576/2013) were identified as key legislation regulating the international trade and movement of puppies (see Table 1). However, most experts focused on the impact of PTS rather than the Balai Directive. In response to the online survey question on the impact of current regulations on the illegal puppy trade (Question 28), professionals indicated that both PTS and Balai made it 'easier' or 'much easier' (21:20) to offend or had no effect on the illegal puppy trade (17:22). The enforcement of these regulations at the border was viewed as even more problematic with 31 of the 49 respondents suggesting it made it much easier or easier to offend. Table 11: The impact of PTS and Balai on the Illegal Puppy Trade Question 28 - Do you think that any of the following make illegal puppy trading easier or more difficult? Much easier Easier No more or less easy Difficult Much more difficult The current Pet Travel Scheme 13 8 17 7 4 Regulations for commercial movement 12 8 22 4 3 The way border checks are currently implemented 22 9 15 3 0 *49 respondents All but one expert expressed concerns over the mis-use of PTS for commercial purposes. PTS does not provide a full traceability system which correlates pet and owner movement, for example, to ensure an individual cannot repetedly enter the UK with five different pets each time [ EI3], or that these 'pets' leave the country with their 'owner' [ EI2]. All but one of the experts acknowledged the loophole provided in allowing five puppies per person to enter the UK as non-commercial pets: …it's not normal human behaviour to go out and buy yourself five puppies…over 90% of people in the UK have 1, 2 or 3 dogs, so you know, why is the limit set at 5, and surely by actually reducing that limit to 3 you're going to cover probably 95% of the population [ EI2]. Futhermore, PTS was deemed problematic as the mandatory microchips used to link the dog to their passport is not required to be registered. Thereby, dogs arriving into the UK with a microchip cannot be traced to their breeder. Drawing on his experience in Ireland, one expert [ EI5] suggested PTS and related microchipping legislation is problematic in the UK owing to the complexity of controlling data, especially with puppies regularly changing hands. He explained that changes made to domestic Irish legislation in September 2016 now provides "cradle to grave" traceability and prevents document forging. For example, in order to attain a Balai certificate for exporting puppies or a Pet passport ( PTS), traders and owners must produce a MODR (Microchipping of Dog Regulations 2015) certificate. The MODR certificate identifies that the dog is microchipped and registered in Ireland and the identity of the person presenting the document has been officially confirmed (for example through a passport or driving license with photo) and recorded. In order to receive a MODR certificate the dog must be microchipped and registered. It is illegal to own, sell, transport, acquire or permit another to acquire a dog without a MODR certificate. When a change in ownership occurs both the seller and purchaser are required by law to contact the microchip database with the change of information and proof of identity for the new owner. Thereby, the system provides clear traceability throughout the dog's life. That owners, consumers and professionals can be held accountable for their role in tracing the dog is central to the success of this process. According to this expert " your system in the UK is so flawed in who registers, who transfers ownership, how's this audited ... I'm not going to say you're never going to have it, you're not going to have a fool-proof system". Most experts and many consumers argee that stricter regulations were required regarding the age at which puppies can be authorised for PTS, as it is too difficult to accurately age puppies at 15 weeks. Linked to this, the passports themselves were viewed by experts as too easily forged or reused. Many experts identified that although there have been updates ( e.g. added lamination) they remain too easy to falsify and recycle. One expert recalled, for instance: …you can go in and buy a whole heap of pups and they will just say, 'Where do you want their passport to be from?' and take them out of the drawer, 'Do you want an Irish one or a Dutch one or whatever?' That's it [ EI5]. …there was quite a number of [Irish] vets who were willing to put their name on a seven-week-old vaccination saying that the pup was twelve at the time [ EI5]. Two experts suggested transgressions by professionals in providing forged passports should be severely punished [ EI3, EI5]. Another expert referred to positive changes by the Lithuanian government which permitted only government appointed vets to issue pet passports [ EI2].However, more recent investigations in Lithuania (2017) have identified unscrupulous vets offering sedation, resulting in puppies being covertly smuggled into the country, rather than illegally imported via the PTS. As there is a variety of legislation that is available to regulate the trade (see Table 1 for summary) choosing the correct legislation to respond to the problem is crucial. For example, one expert explained their increased use of TARPS [Trade in Animals and Related Products Scotland Regulations 2012] rather than the current rabies importation, as the former provided a more " proportionate" and " pragmatic" approach to regulating dogs coming from Ireland (a rabies free country) to Scotland without being subject to the stringent quarantine rules [ EI11]. As part of their partnership with LAs, the SSPCA have been permitted limited authorisation to enforce TARPS, which is not possible with traditional rabies regulations. This is an important extension to the regulations, as enforcement would be very limited without this partnership, in particular because the enforcement agents are required to prove the origin of the dog: …so you can guess what the people say when they arrive in Scotland, 'We got it in… no, these pups come from Northern Ireland', and it's up to us to prove otherwise. So we have not just the difficulty of catching them, then we have the added difficulty of proving that they came from Southern Ireland and we're managing to do that [ EI4]. Another important consideration in regulating the trade is choosing the approach to adopt within the legislation. For example, under regulation 32 it is written that authorities " have the option of turning the animals around, sending them back from whence they came or having them slaughtered" [ EI12]. There is further provision to seize and detain puppies to allow seven days for the production of further paperwork to clear up any anomalies. Due to the costs and conditions in quarantine, there has been increased use of the power in Scotland to return the puppies to Ireland rather than euthanising/quarantining them. However, in England, the most common outcome is quarantine [ EI3] because the country of origin is seldom known. If the owner cannot or will not pay for this, the puppy is put to sleep [ EI3]. Consequently, experts discussed the need for further provisions to 'dispose of animals before a court case'. While legislation is commonly used in court cases to dispose of livestock prior to the case, this is problematic due to the nature of the puppy trade. As one NGO expert explained: …you can use it for pups but you're coming out of the criminal system and going into the civil system. The last time we tried to get an order to dispose of animals before a court case cost us £30,000 and we just haven't got that kind of money… When you do that with pups, we've got bulldog pups in now that the guy was aiming to sell at £2,500 to £3,000 each, you wouldn't get £50 for them they're so badly bred… you can value livestock very, very easily but pups is a totally different aspect [ EI4]. Regulating the Online Trade There is currently no formal regulation of online advertising of puppies. Although all commercial sellers require a licence, there is little evidence to suggest those advertising puppies for sale online are licensed or that enforcement agencies regulate this marketplace. Focus group participants assumed there were controls in place which specifically regulated and monitored the online puppy trade and thereby felt the internet was a safe marketplace. However, none of the participants who looked online and/or purchased their puppy thereafter from an online advertiser sought proof of a sales licence. Most consumers expected there to be regulations in place which required the advertisement provider to check the credentials of the seller. Due to the limited regulation of online advertisements and the ease with which consumers can purchase puppies, some consumers argued for a ban on online third party sales. Focus group participants also pointed to the regulation of other 'products' online, suggesting examples could be taken from these to regulate the online puppy trade. Although both stakeholders and consumers expressed the need for regulation, experts suggested a considered approach was required - with more emphasis on enforcement, raising consumer awareness and facilitating change in consumer buying. Concerns were raised regards banning online advertising, due to the complications of regulating a global internet. The Electronic Commerce ( EC Directive) Regulations 2002, implements the EU's Electronic Commerce Directive 2000 into UK law, which was introduced to boost consumer confidence by clarifying and harmonising the rules of online business throughout Europe. All European-based information society services (which includes online advertisements for sale) , are covered under this regulation. However, it is not clear how these regulations impact on the online puppy trade. Issues were raised by experts regards regulating the online trade. It is possible that by forcing UK online service providers to regulate their puppy advertisements, these companies will close down or move abroad, which would make regulation impossible. Further, it is likely to drive online sales underground or towards unscrupulous websites. For example, a PAAG representative explained: …this is why we're lobbying government to say, 'Look we… what we've done is great, it's not perfect and we absolutely acknowledge that, but to be able to go to the next level we need some sort of legislation to be able to support it'. There are organisations you know, for example, Get Gumtree Animal Free that want to stop advertising online altogether, and I absolutely understand their motives. But the harsh reality is it's just not achievable, and if some of the websites go down all that will basically happen is you'll get less scrupulous websites pop up… the other worry for us is that the websites we have engaged [with], if we push them too hard they'll just say, 'Oh, this isn't worth it, we'll just walk away', and we're just left with a less scrupulous website [ EI3]. Regulating the Domestic Trade Table 1 summarises the varity of domestic legislation relating to the puppy trade.There were mixed views from experts and consumers on the ability of this legislation to regulate the trade. For example, the sale of young dogs and cats legislation was deemed " very ineffective" due to poor enforcement and being out of date according to one expert [ EI4]. The Animal Welfare Act (in England and Wales) (2006) was deemed effective by one NGO due to the declining number of cases: Now the legislation allows us to prevent it, so we're actually able to prevent a lot of things happening before it actually reaches a court … I mean a prosecution is always a failure [ EI4]. Yet another interviewee suggested it was " pointless" due to the lack of enforcement. The former expert felt the SSPCA's ability to order a warrant under the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006 successfully allowed them to seize evidence, seize pups, prosecute offenders and seek a ban from handling or coming into contact with animals in the future [ EI4]. However, this is not possible for NGOs across the UK: I think the problem that the RSPCA are encountering is one, they have no powers under the Animal Health Legislation. They therefore it appears cannot be authorised under any other council legislation, so they couldn't be nominated in the way that we are, or certainly the councils haven't chosen to do that, so they very much have to rely on the local authorities. And because of the difficulties that the local authorities have in terms of finance and resourcing they just have to basically wait until the councils can do it and that causes difficulty [ EI4] . Discussions on domestic legislation predominently focused on the traceability of puppies and licensing of puppy breeders. Traceability was identified as central to the successful regulation of the trade, as without this there is limited accountability and enforcement. Although microchipping is now mandatory in the UK (see Table 1) and puppies are required to be microchipped by their breeders, the system in place could be improved, according to the experts. For example, many consumers identified incidents where they did not receive a microchipped puppy or the microchip was not registered, which prohibits traceability. There is no reliable way for a consumer to check these details prior to purchasing their puppy (unless the seller agrees to bring it with them for a vet check). Furthermore, not all consumers were aware that their puppy should be microchipped, rather, they idenified the KC registration papers as a guarantee that the puppy was legitimate. Traceability and a centralised database was central to the success of the aforementioned Irish compulsory microchipping system [ EI5]; …so we can have that "farm to fork" no problem [in Ireland], but as soon as it leaves here, your system in the UK is so flawed in who registers, who transfers ownership, how it's audited… as long as the dog doesn't leave this country, we know every single place it's ever been…I was in a lot of legal cases and it was never really a problem to prove cruelty or neglect, it was always a problem to prove ownership. That's the, kind of, key to it, you know, and it has been for 20 years [ EI5]. Traceability problems, according to this expert, stem from having an open market for microchips and microchipping database providers. UK microchippers can purchase, for example, Lithuanian microchips and implant them in UK puppies, thereby, the origin of the puppy cannot necessarily be traced back to microchip country of origin [ EI2; EI6]. It was suggested that if UK-only produced microchips were used, it would be easier to identify puppies brought into the UK. Although microchip database providers are required to share their data on request, with government agents, there is a common perception that they do not. There are several approved microchipping database providers across the UK, which differ from one country to another and which are not required to collate their data with each other. Consequently, it is not possible to easily identify the number or type of dogs microchipped or the number of licensed sellers. Easy access to this data would help illuminate the scale of the illegal trade and would improve traceability. This expert suggested a mini EPN (European Pet Network) database which pulls all microchips together in the UK and which filters into EPN in Europe would help improve the process. The most significant problem with the microchipping system is the issue of non-compliance, with breeders, sellers and buyers failing to register/update their details. The expert clarified that in Ireland, both the seller and purchaser are responsible for updating the details when the purchase is completed. The purchaser is required to provide evidence of their identify to the seller for the database and the seller is required to provide the purchaser with a microchipping certificate at point of sale. With regard to the licensing of puppy breeding and selling establishments, most experts agree the legislation was " fit for purpose" if enforced correctly [ EI6]. However, this legislation is limited by those responsible for enforcing it and an inconsistency in licensing fees across Local Authorities, with some experts arguing that some LAs use licensing fees to avoid their enforcement responsibilities: So there is no statutory… it's up to every local authority to set whatever charges they want. But they try to avoid it because if they take on the statutory responsibility they've got to employ somebody to make sure they do that. So it actually suits them having less licensed premises because they don't have to put the manpower in to do it [ EI4]. One expert [ EI8] predicted further licensing problems should the threshold for a breeding licence be reduced further in England to three litters a year, as the resources are not available to enforce this. In response to this, another expert [ EI7] suggested the KC Assured Breeder Scheme [ ABS] - which requires enhanced health and welfare conditions from breeders - be formally integrated into the licensing regime (further details available in Case Study Box Seven below). As a result, the LAs would not be required to inspect the premises of these breeders, thereby saving resources in order to target high risk breeders. One expert went even further in their suggestion to alter the current system: Dogs Trust believes that to tackle the irresponsible breeding and selling of dogs, anyone breeding, selling or transferring the ownership of one litter, regardless of any financial transaction or gain, should be required to be registered. In addition to this, anyone breeding, selling or transferring the ownership of more than one litter, regardless of any financial transaction or gain, should be required to have a licence. There should be a link-up between individuals and their address so that it is possible to identify situations where multiple individuals are evading licensing by individually registering to breed or sell animals on the same premises [ EI12] . Experts also questioned the availability and use of penalties within the legislation, with some identifying them as "weak sanctions" and a "joke", which would not deter offenders [ EI5; EI6]. So there are huge profits to be gained, and the flip side of that is that the penalties are low/negligible; there's very few successful prosecutions when somebody is stopped for bringing in an illegally imported puppy [ EI2]. Another expert documented a serious animal welfare case involving puppy farming where the offender received " nine weeks suspended [sentence], 200 hours community work, [and] a 4-year ban, possibly [which he's appealing because] 'he needs to work with sheepdogs'" [ EI6]. This expert also explained that often inspection reports for breeding establishments will make recommendations when the breeder is in breach of the regulations and allow them months (or even years) to comply: In Wales, the new dog breeding regulations came in in 2015, April 2015. To this day we still get inspection reports showing that the dogs haven't been health checked, that they're not all micro-chipped. Why? 'Oh, well, you know, we'll give them time. They've got another ...' They've only had two years [ EI6]. In order to avoid legislation without 'teeth', experts explained the move to use legislation in place for fraud and tax evasion to respond to the illegal puppy trade, as the systems supporting these regulations are more robust and provide a better range of sanctions, including significant fines. One expert referred to this as the 'Al Capone strategy': I think there are various operations around the country where there's been focus particularly from HMRC who have a task force looking at this in particular and when that resource is focused on an issue and this is picking up on the tax avoidance element …there is resource there because the value of these transactions, then it seems to have a real impact and they tend…[to] see them in the press [ EI1]. Enforcement was deemed by the experts to be the most problematic aspect of regulating the trade.The issues stemmed from how responsibilities and roles were designated under the legislation and the resources available to enforce the legislation. The agencies responsible for delivering enforcement on animal health and welfare vary throughout the UK - with local authorities dividing up responsibilities within services, based on "historical" roles rather than best practice [ EI3]. Thereby, the agency to report to, or to request help from, for a breeding or trade issue is not obvious and reportedly creates confusion for experts, professionals and consumers: And part of that…is actually knowing who to report to and actually being able to get hold of those people… So I think there's potentially a sort of an ever decreasing circle there that if you can't actually get to the people that you're talking to then you may not think about doing it [reporting or requesting help] next time [ EI2]. LAs were both highly praised and condemned for their enforcement efforts by experts and consumers [ e.g. FG4]. That LA staff carrying out inspections on dog breeding premises in England and Wales have over 150 varying job titles, just 28 percent of which include reference to 'animal', 'dog' or 'vet' was of concern [ EI8]. Consequently, licenses may be issued to "anybody" - including those with prior offences and those currently under investigation for breaching the regulations - due to inexperience and/or complacency [ EI4]. Furthermore, too few inspections are carried out to appropriately regulate the trade: …five per cent of local authorities license 10 or more breeders in their area and 90 per cent license 5 or fewer breeders… over one third of local authorities did not carry out any inspections on dog breeding premises in 2015 and 68 per cent carried out 2 or fewer inspections. One dog breeding licence was revoked throughout 2014 and 2015 and over a 5-year period only 20 licences were refused, equating to less than half a percent per year. Fifty-eight percent of local authorities have between 0-2 members of staff who carry out inspections on dog breeding premises [ EI8]. Reporting on a KC trial in England, an NGO expert provided a comparison of breeders on the KC database who bred over five litters a year (and thereby should be licensed) to the number of breeders currently licensed in these LA areas. Their findings suggest there are significantly fewer LA licensed breeders than are currently operating - see figures in Table 12 below. Although there may be a number of variables which impact on this data (new approvals/delistings not included, slightly different timeframes, use of different business addresses and so forth), this is an important snapshot of illegal unlicensed breeders, especially as the KC only represent approximately 40 percent of all UK puppies bred. Table 12: Comparison of KC registered breeders to LA licensed breeders Number of breeders breeding over 5 litters a year on KC database Number of breeders the LA licenses currently. Amber Valley 4 5 Breckland 9 7 West Lindsey 12 13 Charnwood 1 2 East Northamptonshire 1 1 Blaby District 2 2 Aylesbury Vale 1 2 South Somerset 1 1 Cheltenham 1 0 Basildon 7 10 Stoke on Trent City 7 5 Melton 4 3 North Devon 3 5 North Kesteven 4 6 South Derbyshire 3 11 Medway 1 0 Horsham 4 5 East Lindsey 12 12 Where official roles have been confered to other organisations, there have been mixed results. The aforementioned role of the SSPCA under the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006, under which they are authorised as an enforcement agency, was perceived to be a very successful approach. However, in Southern England, where commercial organisations have been authorised to make border checks, this is not believed to be a suitable partnership, rather, it was argued that the responsibility should be securely placed with a government agency. …those checks are delegated from APHA to the carriers and we know that for the carriers it's an administrative check… And this is the challenge you know, it's supposed to be a document and identity check, but effectively it would be a bit like you or I walking through Heathrow with a paper bag over your head and saying, "Here's my passport, can I go through? [ EI2]. The issues around roles and responsibilities are directly linked to the limitations of resources: I don't think anyone would have predicted the economic problems that have meant local authority resources have been so drastically cut, port resources have been drastically cut. When it [legislation] was put in place there's certain caveats and safeguards which have since been reduced and then since, have been further reduced [ EI1]. Even though licensing is full cost recovery, key legislation changes, such as compulsory microchipping and changes to the litter numbers requiring licensing, have required considerably more resources, whilst resources have, reportedly been reduced. Experts identified deficits in: agency funding and staffing, professional experience and training, coordination between agencies and quarantine facilities and capacity. One expert explained: …you've got to think of all the other responsibilities and roles that we have as well, this is not our sole remit…So that's just part, this is just one part of a service that we deliver, and again when broken down it's also one part of the animal health remit that we have… I would say the vast majority are responding, it's reactive. There's very little proactive work being done on this [ EI3]. Thereby, while 'animal' issues are competing with 'more pressing' problems overseen by these enforcement agencies, at a time of ever-diminished resources, no matter how robust the legislation, it cannot be enforced appropriately with current resources [ EI1]. Furthermore, these agencies have repeatedly experienced reorganisation, which minimises ownership of the issue and makes it difficult to implement a coordinated enforcement approach. In fact, this creates confusion, whereby, even the experts find it difficult to do their job: …even following up on a complaint or an issue, it can be very challenging. You know, with who to report that to, is it Trading Standards, is it RSPCA, is it the port, is it the microchip company? I think there can be quite a lot of confusion there when there's an issue with a sick puppy being bought online, or something like that [ EI1]. …as a vet dealing with perhaps a suspected illegal landing your natural instinct may be to contact DEFRA. But actually once an illegal landing is actually in the country it actually becomes a Trading Standards issue, it's not a DEFRA issue, it's not an APHA issue, which not every vet's going to be aware of. And the other challenge… is actually trying to get hold of Trading Standards… Well if you've got an illegal landing it needs to be dealt with now not in five days' time [ EI2]. Resource deficits also harm the animals involved. For example, if a puppy arrives into the UK without the correct paperwork or in breach of the regulations, the puppy will need to be placed in quarantine (if not returned to the place of origin or euthanised). Depending on the issue, this may involve the puppy remaining in quarantine for three weeks or more. At present, there are 17 authorised quarantine kennels across the whole of the UK - this includes one each in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Experts acknowledged the impact of too few quarantine facilities, with puppies being sent back, on long journeys, to the continent and long and costly journeys for the LA transporting the dogs and for the owners of the dogs. Although no figures were available on the rate of euthanasia of puppies in quarantine and experts believed this to be the least likely outcome for the puppies, there was a concern that the lack of facilities may lead to euthanasia of healthy puppies [ EI2; EI3]. These concerns have resulted in NGOs working in partnership with quarantine facilities; whereby they pay the cost of kennelling and enhance the welfare of the dogs (see case study one below). When experts were asked who they felt should be responsible for the formal regulation of the trade, all agreed that it required multi-agency work, with one expert suggesting the complicated nature of the puppy trade requires that the government oversee this multi-agency work [ EI3]. Experts confirmed their involvement in multi-agency partnerships was predominantly a positive experience, which produced results and reduced costs. Among the many examples provided, three case studies of these successful partnershps are provided below. Case Study One: NGO and formal enforcement agencies partnership in Welfare and Quarantine So what we've basically said is look we don't want these puppies turned away because …there are welfare issues…so what we've said is 'Look, we'll underwrite the quarantine costs'. So what happens is if somebody stops with some underage puppies they are then aged by a veterinary surgeon, if they're deemed to be under 15 weeks they then go into quarantine. The individuals associated with that are given a period of time to pay the quarantine costs within seven or ten days. If they don't and the puppies are signed over to Dogs Trust, what we do with the quarantine kennels is we're putting extra resource into the quarantine kennels because you're obviously very familiar with that critical window in a puppy's life between sort of 3 and about 14 weeks when it's really important to socialise and habituate, so we're putting extra resource in to try and help that. And then when the puppies are 15 weeks they come to us and we responsibly re-home them [ EI2]. Case Study Two: NGOs, business sector and government agencies PAAG partnership for regulating Online Advertisements We know a lot of these puppies are being advertised online. So the whole remit of PAAG is to try and work with online advertisers, and what we've developed is a set of minimum standards that the websites that we've engaged with are trying to adhere to those minimum standards. So, for example, not selling any underage puppies, making sure there's an appropriate photograph of the puppy with every advert, no selling of banned breeds, no selling of pregnant animals, no swapping of animals for a PlayStation or whatever, and we have a number of engaged websites, which is great…[ EI2]. I think the very fact that we're having this conversation is a really positive thing…that PAAG is so well supported from the trade, from veterinary organisations, from NGOs, from HMRC, from Trading Standards - that's a fantastic group. The fact that we can work with the websites who do advertise some of these pets for sale, and that they are receptive to working with us. But there are some based abroad that simply don't have to [ EI1]. Case Study Three: National and Overseas NGOs, enforcement agencies, government and business sector in Operation Delphin partnership for regulating the International Trade I would say that the one thing that does seem to work is the joint work between the welfare charities throughout the UK and Southern Ireland. So under the umbrella of Operation Delphin, which was spearheaded by ourselves, all these welfare charities are coming together to adopt whatever approach is most suitable in their individual countries to address the issue… it's about trying to get all the organisations that have got a business to be, or some sort of assistance, to become involved at whatever level…what we are doing is we're pulling the whole thing together and getting whatever we can out of the organisations, even if it's just intelligence… councils are involved, the police are involved… ferry companies are very helpful…Well we've got memorandums of understanding for data sharing with the police, the local authorities, Animal and Plant Health Agency. A lot of people use data protection as an excuse for not complying… but in the main on this issue everybody seems to cooperate. And the advantage is, we hold all the intelligence. So if we hold it all these people that we're working with generally have a lot less than we do, so they're generally in the business if they want to do anything they want our intelligence so we're happy to work with them on the basis it's a two way street. And there is… generally speaking that isn't a problem, and there's channels in place for us to share easily and we do do under the you know, the handling intelligence network, it's an easy procedure to do [ EI4]. Operation Delphin - that seems to be a really good focused, targeted evidence based initiative to really hone in on a specific route and element of this trade and have a real breakthrough, and I think it's been really well publicised which is then a deterrent in itself…[ EI1]. The key Agencies HMRC has been involved with to date include SSPCA, RSPCA, USPCA, ISPCA, DSPCA, Police Scotland, Police Scotland (Port Unit), North Wales Constabulary, Border Force, Local Authorities from both a licensing and Trading Standards perspective both in Scotland and across the rest of the United Kingdom, DEFRA and APHA. There has been and continues to be a great deal of co-operation and co-ordination amongst the stakeholders previously referred to and Operation Delphin is an excellent example of this [ EI10]. Informal Regulation and Prevention Strategies Whereas some NGOs are blended into the formal regulation of the puppy trade, the majority of their work involves informal regulation and prevention using a variety of strategies. Ideally, interest groups and consumers would also play an important surveillance and awareness-raising role. However, one NGO expert indicated that "w e go as far as we can to empower people to have a say but it doesn't do any good when it's going to people that couldn't give a damn in the first place" [ EI6]. In order to respond to apathy among adult consumers, education, particularly for children was deemed a high priority among NGOs as mentioned on page 44. Focus group participants also supported this [ FG22]. Local Authorities and Trading Standards were among some of the formal agencies, who sought to prevent the trade through education and advice for consumers. A recent campaign by Trading Standards was released prior to Christmas (2016), which involved press releases and placing information on all LA social media and websites to help raise awareness: "If you come across puppies that have been bred in a puppy farm share your story, this kind of thing been through Facebook…and top tips for buying a puppy" [ EI3]. However, NGOs provide the majority of frontline services that can be used to engage with and educate consumers. For example, NGOs have worked together to develop a Puppy Contract for consumers, which provides a standardised checklist and questions, which they can bring to their meeting with the breeder/seller ( Rather than general education on the puppy trade, all participants (experts, professionals and FG participants) mentioned an urgent need for consumer advice and guidance on where to purchase a legitimate and healthy puppy; essentially how to help consumers [ FG10; FG16; FG23] traverse the chaotic online marketplace and avoid illegal and irresponsible breeders and traders: "I think there is a big piece where we need to talk about, "So, where should people get dogs from?" I think if we don't help tackle our internal domestic issues with dog breeding, then… and that is an animal welfare NGO issue with support from government, then we are opening the way for people to take advantage of that commercial need for this product" [ EI1]. According to one expert, education must focus on consumer impulse buying: " Folks say education is what's needed… we've done it and still people want an instant fix" [ EI6]. As part of their education programme, key NGOs conduct research which is used to educate consumers, stakeholders and government officials. For example, one NGO funds a longitudinal study called Generation Pup, which involves recruiting puppies up to 16 weeks of age and following them through their lives to compare how puppies from different parts of the trade develop over the next few years [ EI2]. Another aspect uses YouGov to gather data on how pet owners provide for the welfare needs of their animals, including how they locate their pets, what research they do prior to purchase and where they buy them and how they subsequenty look after them [ EI1]. Surveillance and intelligence Surveillance and intelligence was also a key approach to informal regulation and prevention strategies by NGOs. Experts detailed their efforts to gather information - such as images and videos - both to help support the intelligence and actions of formal agencies and to raise awareness and thereby scrutiny among consumers. Informal surveillance has been crucial to regulating the online marketplace. According to the experts, while this is helpful, it is also inadequate. For example, initiatives such as PAAG analyse and advise companies on online advertisements. This was evident in our online advertisements research, which, again, involved monitoring seven websites over a 12-week period. Most of these sites had various protocols or advice, for advertisers to follow, designed to comply with legal requirements and to protect the welfare of the animals for sale. This included instructions about not selling puppies under eight weeks old (Dogs & Puppies UK, Gumtree), advice regarding domestic and business breeder advertisements and requirements (Pets for Homes), regular website monitoring for suspicious activity (Epupz), and advice to visit a vet prior to sale for health checks, vaccinations and microchipping (Gumtree). The Gumtree website also advises that any identified puppy farmers will be reported to the RSPCA and Trading Standards. Neither does this site allow dogs with docked tails or clipped ears to be advertised, or for advertisers to promote puppies as Christmas gifts. The Pets for Homes website screens all advertisements before they are made public to check they comply with the terms of use, with around 30 percent of advertisements submitted being identified as unsuitable for publication because they fail to meet standards (due to a failure to provide full ID, not including a photograph of the puppies, inaccurate descriptions and use of more than one account). The VivaStreet website advises that it may disclose information to law enforcement agencies if it is believed the website is being used for criminal and/or illegal activities. Although there are protocols and guidance (and in some cases monitoring) it is hard to determine the impact of these measures. An overview of the standards and challenges identified in the online advertisements research, in terms of compliance and membership with the PAAG Minimum Standards is provided in Table 13 below. Although the PAAG Minimum Standards attempt to improve the advertisement of puppies for sale, there is evidence that providers are not reliably compliant across all standards. See Table 13 and also Appendix VI that includes more detailed information about compliance. Table 13: Analysis of adherence to PAAG guidance of the seven websites monitored Oct-Dec 2016 Element of PAAG followed Observations during monitoring • No indication website uses protocol • Pet sales prohibited • Small number of pets (including dogs) for sale • The PAAG link is not visible on individual advertisement pages. However, is mentioned on terms and conditions page with hyperlink • Found advertisement for stud dog (breaching rules). • Facility to 'report' advertisement Pets for Homes • If an advertiser is breeding and advertising dogs for sale and requires a dog breeding license from their local council, the person needs to be registered as a licensed breeder on the site, and provide with a copy of the license. If site suspects that a licence is required and details have not been provided, we will report this to your local authority. • Photo of mother required • Location information required • Will not advertise stud dogs • Report function on each ad page • Pets must be at least 8 weeks old before leaving mother • Does not accept adverts for 'designer dogs' • Pets advertised must be located in UK and adverts advertising dogs brought for sale from outside the UK banned. • All pets for sale must be available for viewing with their mother (and ideally their father) • Need to declare status (private, commercial or rescue organisation status) • Advertisements for breeding purposes banned. • Advertisements of banned breeds prohibited • Does not allow courier service • Adverts found for stud dogs Website down, but site had few advertisements for puppies available in Scotland. • Supports PAAG and website includes a link to PAAG. • Website includes links to Buyer's Guide, Rehoming Guide and Buyer Checklist. • Recent picture of animal/s for sale required in advertisement. • All animals must be at least 8 weeks old before leaving their mother. • A max. of 2 litters per year to be sold on site by any single seller. • Discourages advertisements alluding to breeding and stud dogs. • Adverts from puppy farms not accepted. Any such adverts found will be reported to the RSPCA and Trading Standards • Adverts for dogs with docked tails/ears not allowed. • Adverts for pregnant animals not allowed. • Adverts referring to sale of animals as gifts not allowed. • Adverts for banned breeds not allowed. • Report function on each advertisement. Free Ads • Puppies must not be rehomed before they are 8 weeks old. • Bitches should only breed once they are more than 12 months old, only breed once a year and no more than 6 times in their lifetime. • We do not allow puppy farms. If you sell more than 4 litters of puppies in a year, by law you must have a "dog breeders license". Evidence of breeders licence required to place commercial advert. • Location on all ads • No shipping of live animals • Appear to check for puppy farms and ban those who advertise more than 4 litters a year who do not have a LA licence • Puppies must be 8 weeks old before rehoming • DOB stated on ads so age can be calculated • No advertisements for pregnant dogs • No link to PAAG to found on website • Not clear if ads are domestic, commercial or rehoming (no categories to select) • Allows couriering of dogs • Adverts for stud dogs found • Pregnant dog ad found • No report function found on individual adverts. It was interesting to note that some consumers in our focus groups also became part of the informal surveillance society through breed specific Facebook groups: …there is a Facebook group for people wanting to get mini Dachshund puppies and then … Also, if they notice people doing things like, spelling the name of the breed wrong or something, they'll post it on there, and warn people not to buy, saying "I saw this ad. Looks dodgy. Does anyone know anything about this?" So, they will make other people aware if there seems to be things going on, and also, because they are popular at the moment, there's thefts and stuff, so they steal them, and use them for breeding. They'll always put on if dogs get stolen so you can keep an eye out [ FG11]. Therefore, while regulations are thought by some to be fit for purpose, there are improvements that should be considered with regards to breeding, selling and online advertisements. Enforcing existing regulations, albeit challenging with current resources, would help reduce the irresponsible and illegal puppy trade, as would informal measures such as education of young people and consumers. Summary of Respondents Suggestions on Regulating the Puppy Trade 1. Compulsory microchipping is only effective as a way of recording and tracing imported animal movement if it is designed for this purpose and changes of ownership are properly notified. Compulsory microchipping in the UK was only ever designed to reunite lost animals with their owners, it was not intended to be a full movement traceability scheme (as for livestock). The development of a UK centralised database or the requirement for UK databases to provide data to the centralised European database could help enhance traceability of puppies across the EU and UK. In order to facilitate traceability, accurate notification of changes in ownership by individuals is required, although this may be difficult to enforce. Furthermore, traceability could be enhanced through mandatory recording of microchips as a part of the PTS and Balai. 2. Review all domestic puppy breeding and sales legislation in line with the current economic and international context of the trade to identify if they are fit for purpose. 3. PTS acts as a loophole to traffic puppies into the UK - close this loophole by a) reducing the number of dogs permitted to travel with each individual and b) enhancing traceability of pets entering the UK to check they have also left the country when their 'owners' leave, c) increase the minimum age at which dogs can travel with their owners to make it easier for enforcers to age the dog and to avoid the transportation of puppies at their most marketable age. This could be achieved by increasing the waiting period for post-rabies vaccinations from three weeks to 12 (the higher end of the incubation period for rabies). 4. Regulation of online advertisements which encourages strong censorship and punishes poor enforcement. Encourage consumers to be part of the enforcement process. 5. Animal welfare must be a more central focus in puppy trade legislation. For example, 'disposing' of healthy seized puppies or placing them in confinement for extended periods while awaiting trial should not be appropriate options. For example, a standardised valuation of puppies (such as used for seized livestock) would assist in helping move puppies on while court cases are ongoing. 6. There are significant deficits identified in agency funding, resources and staffing, professional experience and training and coordination between enforcement agencies which counteracts the effectiveness of the legislation in place. Failure to enforce the legislation approporiately renders it ineffective. An evaluation of the resources available to enforce current and prospective legislation is crucial to developing an effective response to the illegal trade. In particular, resources and training must be considered in light of the growth and changing nature of the trade. 7. Review sanctions available in breeding and related legislation and broader legislation in order to appropriately respond to offenders in the trade 8. 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// ........................... Diggle-Gates-Stibbard process ................ // $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2020/05/12 03:31:12 $ #ifndef PI #define PI 3.14159265358979 #endif class DgsProcess : public PointProcess { public: double beta, rho, rhosquared; DgsProcess(double xmin, double xmax, double ymin, double ymax, double b, double r); ~DgsProcess(){} void NewEvent(double x, double y, char InWindow); void GeneratePoisson(Point headPoint, long int GeneratedPoints, long int LivingPoints, long int NoP); double Interaction(double dsquared); }; DgsProcess::DgsProcess(double xmin, double xmax, double ymin, double ymax, double b, double r) : PointProcess(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax){ beta = b; rho = r; rhosquared = rho rho; InteractionRange = rho; TotalBirthRate = beta(xmax-xmin)(ymax-ymin); } double DgsProcess::Interaction(double dsquared) { double rtn, dist, t; rtn = 1; if(dsquared < rhosquared) { dist = sqrt(dsquared); t = sin((PI/2) * dist/rho); rtn = t * t; } return(rtn); } void DgsProcess::NewEvent(double x, double y, char InWindow) { double Xdim, Ydim; Xdim = Xmax-Xmin; Ydim = Ymax-Ymin; x = slumptal()Xdim+Xmin; y = slumptal()Ydim+Ymin; InWindow = 1; } void DgsProcess::GeneratePoisson(Point headPoint, long int GeneratedPoints, long int LivingPoints, long int NoP) { int i; double xtemp, ytemp, L, Xdim, Ydim; struct Point TempPoint; Xdim = Xmax-Xmin; Ydim = Ymax-Ymin; L = betaXdimYdim; GeneratedPoints = poisson(L); LivingPoints = GeneratedPoints; for (i=1; i<=GeneratedPoints ; i++){ //Rprintf("Generating DgsProcess Poisson 3\n"); //scanf("%f",&f1); xtemp = slumptal()Xdim+Xmin; ytemp = slumptal()Ydim+Ymin; // //Rprintf("Generating DgsProcess Poisson 3.2\n"); TempPoint = ALLOCATE(struct Point); // TempPoint->X = xtemp; TempPoint->Y = ytemp; TempPoint->No = i; TempPoint->R = slumptal(); //Rprintf("Generating DgsProcess Poisson 3.6\n"); TempPoint->next = headPoint->next; headPoint->next = TempPoint; NoP = NoP + 1; } } // ........................... Interface to R .......................... extern "C" { SEXP PerfectDGS(SEXP beta, SEXP rho, SEXP xrange, SEXP yrange) { // input parameters double Beta, Rho, Xmin, Xmax, Ymin, Ymax; double Xrange, Yrange; // internal int xcells, ycells; long int StartTime, EndTime; // output int noutmax; SEXP xout, yout, nout, out; double xx, yy; int nn; // protect arguments from garbage collector PROTECT(beta = AS_NUMERIC(beta)); PROTECT(rho = AS_NUMERIC(rho)); PROTECT(xrange = AS_NUMERIC(xrange)); PROTECT(yrange = AS_NUMERIC(yrange)); // that's 4 protected objects // extract arguments // model parameters Beta = (NUMERIC_POINTER(beta)); Rho = (NUMERIC_POINTER(rho)); // window Xrange = NUMERIC_POINTER(xrange); Xmin = Xrange[0]; Xmax = Xrange[1]; Yrange = NUMERIC_POINTER(yrange); Ymin = Yrange[0]; Ymax = Yrange[1]; // compute cell array size xcells = (int) floor((Xmax-Xmin)/ Rho); if(xcells > 9) { xcells = 9; } else if(xcells < 1) { xcells = 1; } ycells = (int) floor((Ymax-Ymin)/ Rho); if(ycells > 9) { ycells = 9; } else if(ycells < 1) { ycells = 1; } #ifdef DBGS Rprintf("xcells %d ycells %d\n",xcells,ycells); Rprintf("Initialising\n"); #endif // Initialise Diggle-Gates-Stibbard point process DgsProcess ExampleProcess(Xmin,Xmax,Ymin,Ymax,Beta,Rho); // Initialise point pattern Point2Pattern ExamplePattern(Xmin,Xmax,Ymin,Ymax, xcells, ycells); // parameters: min x, max x, min y, max y, "cells" in x and y direction // used for speeding up neighbour counting, 9 is max here #ifdef DBGS Rprintf("Initialisation complete\n"); #endif // Synchronise random number generator GetRNGstate(); // Initialise perfect sampler Sampler PerfectSampler(&ExampleProcess); // Perform perfect sampling PerfectSampler.Sim(&ExamplePattern, &StartTime, &EndTime); // Synchronise random number generator PutRNGstate(); // Get upper estimate of number of points noutmax = ExamplePattern.UpperCount() + 1; // Allocate space for output PROTECT(xout = NEW_NUMERIC(noutmax)); PROTECT(yout = NEW_NUMERIC(noutmax)); PROTECT(nout = NEW_INTEGER(1)); xx = NUMERIC_POINTER(xout); yy = NUMERIC_POINTER(yout); nn = INTEGER_POINTER(nout); // copy data into output storage ExamplePattern.Return(xx, yy, nn, noutmax); // pack up into output list PROTECT(out = NEW_LIST(3)); SET_VECTOR_ELT(out, 0, xout); SET_VECTOR_ELT(out, 1, yout); SET_VECTOR_ELT(out, 2, nout); // return UNPROTECT(8); // 4 arguments plus xout, yout, nout, out return(out); } }	mini_pile	{'original_id': 'daa8d26ab00a22eea07702227d6f9516819386a9613a193590dbd2b321dc7a89'}
Contact us today or schedule your appointment online! What is a Tumor? Cancers and tumors of the spine and spinal cord are relatively rare. The most common symptom that patients with a spinal tumor have is pain. Because back pain and neck pain are very common, it is also not a specific symptom of any one disease or medical condition. Luckily, most back and neck pain is not due to a tumor. However, if a cancer were discovered after a long period of “conservative” management of back pain, most patients would feel that their problem should have been investigated more thoroughly in the beginning. Therefore, the challenge is to determine how to evaluate back pain with the goal of specifically excluding a tumor as the cause of the pain. What Are The Symptoms of a Tumor? Pain symptoms that may suggest that a tumor or a cancer is responsible for the pain include pain that continues to get worse despite treatment, and that may be associated with other symptoms such as fatigue or weight loss. The pain may be worse at night, and not necessarily be related to level of activity. When associated with neurological symptoms such as loss of bowel and bladder control or pain running down the legs, further evaluation is clearly warranted. Be aware of other physical symptoms, such as lumps and bumps, moles on the skin, and any other findings that might suggest that you have a tumor somewhere else in your body. Risk Factors Most of us are aware of some of the risk factors that are associated with cancer in the United States. Cigarette smoking, an unhealthy diet, chemical and radiation exposure, a family history of certain cancers such as breast cancer or ovarian cancer, and over-exposure to the sun are common risk factors for certain cancers. These cancers generally occur in different parts of the body and then spread to the spine only after the cancer has been growing for a long period of time. The spine and vertebral bodies have a rich blood supply and cancer cells can spread to this part of the body by traveling in the bloodstream. Back pain is usually not the first symptom of a malignant cancer growing somewhere else in your body. Because of this fact, doctors use routine medical tests in order to find certain cancers before they have a chance to spread instead of evaluating every patient with back pain as if they might have a cancer. Regular mammograms to look for breast cancers, pap smears to look for cervical cancer, chest x-rays to look for lung cancers, and fecal occult blood tests for colon cancers should be part of everyone’s health maintenance program. How is a Tumor Treated? The type of tumor, the extent of involvement of the vertebrae, the location, and the prognosis for the patient are all used to decide what type of treatment is best. Many times, this decision is made by a team of surgeons, oncologists, radiologists and other doctors who specialize in taking care of patients with cancer. Many spinal tumors can be treated with very good results, and the pain can also be significantly alleviated. It is very important that you gather as much information as possible about the treatment options for the specific type of cancer that you or your loved one has. The first step in gathering this information is to make sure that you understand what type of cancer you are dealing with, and what your treatment options are. With this knowledge, you can actively participate in the decision making process with your team of doctors. Benign Tumors: Doctors use the term “benign” to indicate that a particular tumor is unlikely to spread to others parts of the body. Benign tumors can still be a significant problem however, depending upon their location, size, adjacent structures, blood supply, and other factors. Fortunately, most benign tumors can be treated successfully. The following are examples of benign tumors that can affect the spine and its surrounding structures: Osteoid Osteomas: An osteoid osteoma is a benign lesion that has a unique tendency to affect the posterior part of the vertebra during adolescence. It occurs primarily in the pedicle and the posterior elements, not in the vertebral body. It accounts for about 10% of all bone tumors involving the spine. It typically presents as unrelenting pain, clearly worse at night, which is exquisitely sensitive to aspirin or Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAID’s) like Ibuprophen. It may be difficult to see on plain x-rays, but a bone scan is highly diagnostic. Treatment options include prolonged management with NSAID’s until the lesion eventually “burns out”, surgical excision, and a new treatment method using radio-frequency ablation. With surgery or ablation, pain relief is rapid and recurrence is rare. Osteblastomas are bigger versions of osteoid osteomas, and by definition, are greater than 2 cm in diameter. They also have the tendency to affect the posterior part of the spine and present with pain. They tend to be more aggressive and usually require surgical resection. Recurrence rates are higher than those seen with osteoid osteomas, meaning that they can come back in the same place about 10% of the time. Aneurysmal Bone Cysts: ABC’s are benign tumors that occur frequently in the cervical spine and may affect the posterior elements of the spine or the vertebral body itself. These tumors tend to affect older adolescents, presenting with pain and in some cases, neurological symptoms. The cause is poorly understood. The recommended treatment is excision and curettage of the lesion and decompression of the spinal elements when needed. Giant Cell Tumors: Giant Cell Tumors are poorly understood. They tend to affect the vertebral body (front of the spine), and despite being technically “benign”, they can be very aggressive and sometimes spread elsewhere. They may present with local pain as well as spinal cord compression symptoms. The most common age is between 20-40 years old, but this is variable. Treatment is generally surgical, with en-bloc (complete) resection being the preferred choice. There are some instances where radiation and pre-operative embolization of the tumor will improve the surgical risk and outcome. These tumors require careful pre-operative planning and a team approach before the initial surgical procedure. Incomplete removal of a vertebral giant cell tumor can lead to possible malignant transformation. Eosinophilic Granuloma: EG is a benign lesion of bone that will present with pain and the characteristic radiographic finding of “vertebra plana,” a collapse or flattening of the vertebral body and occurs in both children and adults. These tumors may occur by themselves, or as part of a syndrome involving multiple bones and other organs. Treatment decisions are highly individualized with no clear consensus on the “best” method of treatment. Many of these tumors can be managed without surgery, or in certain cases, low dose radiation. Enchondromas are benign tumors made of cartilage. They have the potential to enlarge to the point of impinging on the spinal canal or neural elements. When symptomatic, the recommended treatment is surgical excision. There is a rare incidence of these tumors changing to a low-grade malignant cartilage tumor known as a chondrosarcoma. This is fortunately quite rare, but a rapid increase in size may warrant biopsy of the lesion. Doctors use the term “malignant” to indicate that a particular tumor or a cancer often spreads to other parts of the body, and can be difficult to cure or treat. This is very different from “benign” cancers, which are much less likely to spread, are easier to treat and control. Malignant Tumors: The following are examples of malignant tumors that can affect the spine and its surrounding structures. Metastatic disease: Any malignant tumor can metastasize to bone, but the most common sites are the breast, prostate gland, kidney, thyroid, and lung. The two ways tumor cells can reach the vertebral column are by the venous system and the arterial system. The spine and its surrounding elements have a generous blood supply, draining many of the structures of the lower abdominal cavity via a system of veins called Batson’s Plexus. The lymphatic channels are also considered a third but less probable way. The spread or metastasis of tumors from elsewhere in the body to the spine may occur after a cancer has been growing in another part of the body for a long time. Tumors that have spread to the spine usually cause a significant amount of pain. If they are large enough, they may put pressure on the spinal cord, which causes increasing pain and loss of normal functioning in the bowel, bladder, and legs. Metastatic cancer may not be curable, but the treatment goals are usually directed at relief from pain, decompression of the neural elements (removing the pressure on the spinal cord and nerves), and preserving the patient’s quality of life as much as possible. Surgery, chemotherapy, and localized radiation therapy all play a role in reducing the pain associated with cancers that have spread to the spine from other sites. Myeloma is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone. It typically affects adults greater than 40 years of age. It tends to be generalized, involving multiple bones, but pain and involvement of the spine is the most common presenting complaint. The majority of patients have vertebral involvement while a fewer number have vertebral pain. Treatment is palliative meaning that disease can be controlled, but not completely cured. Chemotherapy is used to control the pain and slow the progression of the disease. Surgery may be required if pathological fractures develop or there is compression of the spinal cord. Osteosarcoma is the second most common primary malignant tumor of bone. There are two age groups that most often develop this type of cancer. It typically affects adolescents and young adults, with a second peak of incidence in older adults. It is very rare in the spine. Modern advances in imaging, chemotherapy, and surgical treatment of osteosarcoma have significantly improved the 5-year survival to greater than 80 percent. This is an amazing accomplishment, since 20 years ago this disease was almost always fatal. Leukemia, in its many forms, may present with back or neck pain, which can be caused by the cancer growing in the bone marrow of the vertebral body. However, the more common symptoms of leukemia, such as fevers, fatigue, bruising, excessive bleeding, and anemia are usually noticed well before spine pain occurs. Mesquite Office 18601 LBJ Freeway, Ste. 618 Mesquite, Texas 75150 North Dallas Office 10 Medical Plaza Parkway Plaza III Ste 206 Dallas, Texas 75234 Fort Worth Office 1000 9th Avenue, Suite A Fort Worth, Texas 76104 Arlington Office 1000 North Davis Street Ste. G Arlington, Texas 76012 Lancaster Office 2700 W Pleasant Run Rd. 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Emily Dickinson Poems (2/2) I chose “Honest” by Kodaline because the entire song is basically about honesty. It’s exaggerated, but it still reminded me of the Dickinson poem, “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant–” That particular poem is short and seemingly simple, yet it holds a lot of meaning for interpretation, and though I read it multiple times, I’m still not entirely sure what she means by the line “Success in Circuit lies.” Aside from that line though, I think what Dickinson is trying to say is that we should always tell the truth but that we shouldn’t say it outright. She writes, “As Lightning to the Children eased / With explanation kind / The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind–“ I really like the lightning imagery that she uses to describe how sudden and bold truth can be blinding. She believes that unless we tell truths gradually, we will be dazzled by it just as young children are with lightning before it can be explained to them. This idea ties back to the first line nicely. This poem is also important because of the slant rhyme which can be seen in this poem as well as many of her other poems as well. In another poem, Dickinson criticizes public figures or celebrities while claiming to be “Nobody!” Except Dickinson actually prefers to be a nobody than a somebody because it lets her keep her sense of self. She doesn’t have to try to impress anyone or go around in the public light repeating the same thing over and over. Dickinson writes, “How dreary–to be–somebody! / How public–like a Frog– / To tell your name–the livelong June– / To an admiring Bog!” In both poems, she still uses features of nature to make her points, such as the frog and lightning. At first I didn’t understand why she would use a frog, but then I understood that the public figures are like frogs in that they are constantly repeating themselves, specifically their names. They want everyone to know who they are, and everyone is asking who they are as well. Dickinson would prefer to be left alone with her anonymity, and her excitement at the possibility of finding another individual like herself is satirical in light of what she’s criticizing. Again, she capitalizes certain letters in both poems, and I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s a stylistic element like the persistent dashes. Leave a Reply	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '11', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9684160947799684}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '25658', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NL43DNW2NZERX2SEGFPIPTFFOJOYIVQ6', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:6721d8ea-2365-4d3f-837d-4439144d975e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 22, 3, 11, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '209.15.19.173', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HONIQE6YNEOMSOLTYBZQAF2QLMICEEE4', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8cdb1cce-f45f-4b67-b02d-3a8c7265d8ac>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://vwordpress.stmarys-ca.edu/veronicalloyd/2014/10/20/emily-dickinson-poems-22/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:85cb34b1-3222-4599-9ceb-3893c1c0ca06>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '408', 'url': 'http://vwordpress.stmarys-ca.edu/veronicalloyd/2014/10/20/emily-dickinson-poems-22/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-37-236-142.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.19885510206222534', 'original_id': '065e9946af23f1083409d348661e3458a07221033b2902e0ad6474f374690da1'}
The Woodlawn Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. At the time of its nomination it consisted of 14 resources, all of which are contributing buildings. The district is largely on Woodlawn Street, a gravel dead-end extension of Iowa Avenue. The eastern terminus of Iowa Avenue was originally planned to be a block to the west and was to be the location of the Governor's Mansion, but it was never built. The Old Capitol is on western terminus of the same street. The district is an enclave of upper-middle-class houses on Woodlawn and Evans Streets. Nine of the houses were built in the late 19th century, two were built in the 1920s, and two were built in mid-20th century. There is also a four-story Tudor Revival apartment building on Evans Street that was built in 1926. All of the buildings are located on deep set-backs on large landscaped lots that provide seclusion and cohesion, which is what gives them their significance. The most prominent house is a Queen Anne style home at 1036 Woodlawn Street. References National Register of Historic Places in Iowa City, Iowa Queen Anne architecture in Iowa Historic districts in Iowa City, Iowa Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa	common_corpus	{'identifier': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn%20Historic%20District%20%28Iowa%20City%2C%20Iowa%29', 'collection': 'Wikipedia', 'open_type': 'Open Web', 'license': 'CC-By-SA', 'date': '2023.0', 'title': 'Woodlawn Historic District (Iowa City, Iowa)', 'creator': 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Woodlawn Historic District (Iowa City, Iowa)&action=history', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '227', 'token_count': '295', '__index_level_0__': '32265', 'original_id': 'e86409856e44ac7cd7db8a45d94740543c47d801f1efb699dd621979f5ad4451'}
Sunday, December 11, 2011 This Week with Christiane Amanpour - December 11, 2011 Diane Sawyer George Stephanopoulos Jon Huntsman Amanpour: omg Iran won’t give our drone back and speaking of drones Mitt Romney lost last night’s Presidential debate Gingrich: mitt u r a looser Romney: bet u $10,000 i’ve never been cloned Obama: ask all the guys i’ve killed if i’m an appeaser Amanpour: Diane how did the debate go? Sawyer: it well after I started drinking Romney: I would not go to the moon Gingrich: why not we’ve ruined this planet Stephanopoulos: if Romney is afraid to take on Newt how can he go after Obama Amanpour: good point Stephanopoulos: Romney’s big moment was betting Rick Perry $10,000 that he was even more out of touch with the American people Stephanopoulos: everyone was expecting Newt Gingrich to be a giant asshole and he was but only off-camera Sawyer: Bachmann defended raising taxes on poor people because it’s something Obama wouldn’t do Stephanopoulos: Gingrich didn’t say anything offensively stupid so he did what he came to do Amanpour: I see Stephanopoulos: the Iowa caucuses are soon sosomeone will have to shore up the conservative base Sawyer: the men came out strapping - you can’t tell on television the sheer physical presence of these dudes Amanpour: thanks for sharing that Diane [ break ] Amanpour: Jon I’m sure you don’t want to get into who won and who lost - so who won and who lost? Huntsman: the American people lost - we need term limits in Washington because nothing else will get them out of there Amanpour: Gingrich is popular and you weren’t even invited to a debate with Bachman, Paul and Google-boy Huntsman: People are taking my lawn signs home as highly limited-edition souvenirs Amanpour: the pundits love you but no one else does Huntsman: those Bush bailouts were bad! Amanpour: Do you have to win in New Hampshire? Huntsman: I have to beat market expectations Amanpour: you used to be the sanest person in the race and now you doubt climate change Huntsman: hey you try running for the Republican nomination Amanpour: fair enough [ break ] Amanpour: the Twitterverse blew up when Mitt Romney bet the $10,000 he had in his pocket Berman: Romney’s camp says only poor people are making a big deal about Tapper: Democrats are salivating over a chance to run against Newt Gingrich Amanpour: Did Gingrich say anything insane? Karl: surprisingly no - he came across as if he were a normal person Amanpour: well that takes the biscuit No comments:	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9001238346099854}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '74895', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IOYTH7UW5HZLX6KZADRKFXADCDSYZ4RO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:3832cb0b-7353-4828-94ef-5ac0906ad931>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 21, 13, 52, 57), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.8.1', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:B3GONHBFCYWH7PRO2FUWVSRGDOOCNUXD', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:73030eca-44db-4334-b6c3-2ed317cc0ea5>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-week-with-christiane-amanpour_11.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:4de66ffe-fa8d-46b4-b03a-227f7b463057>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '417', 'url': 'http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-week-with-christiane-amanpour_11.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-236-49-209.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.036310553550720215', 'original_id': '07d9a541ee80f3f010c8c8dbbc6448143ca9fc6aa62a7cd74bf84425237ee40f'}
Jeff's Home Page Jeff's Resume/Bio Photo Gallery Contra Home About Contra Contra on LiveJournal Diary Topic Index Diary Photo Index Link to an Entry Sam'l Bassett David Beers M. Covington Loren Heiny Harry Helms Jim Mishel Bill Roper David Stafford Scott Smith December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 March 31, 2005: Odd Lots • The new PCs are working pretty well. We still haven't figured out why the front-panel mic jack doesn't work, and we discovered that the front panel USB ports can't source much current compared to the main mobo-based USB ports in back. The back ports (and powered hubs) can support a Meade Deep Sky Imager, but the front ports cannot. (Note the heat sink fins on the back of the unit. It clearly needs a lot of current to work.) • Pete and I have given AVG Antivirus Free Edition a try on the new PCs, and so far we're both quite pleased with it. Of course, it's tough to know how good an AV package is until it spots some viruses, and Pete and I are both pretty careful, and don't use stuff in which viruses tend to hide, primarily warez downloaded from Usenet and cracker sites. But AVG went in easily, downloads updates automatically, and runs briskly on a 3 GHz machine. (I really like the CGI cartoons of the virus guys in jail.) My non-renewable sub to Norton 2001 on the Dell Xeon 1.7 runs out in a few days, and I'll be burning that machine down reconfiguing it with AVG Free as the AV package. (I'm also going to buy a matched pair of Xeon 1.7 CPUs to see what SMP is like, even at less-than-cutting-edge speeds.) Symantec has really gotten on my bad side lately, and I wish someone would create something as good as Ghost in the open source world. • Don Doerres sent me a pointer to Bitscope, a PC-based oscilloscope product out of Australia. If they would goose the analog bandwidth up to 200 MHz, I'd buy it like a shot. I need something that will display waveforms well up to 150 MHz (just past the 2M ham band) and to be sure, I'd like to see a spec of 200 MHz on it. Still, the prices are way down, and such things are looking better all the time. First, however, I need a better signal generator (with FM modulation) and am still looking for a PC-based digital multimeter. • On the same topic, Peter Jucius sent me a pointer to Parallax's USB Oscilloscope, which isn't suitable for my needs (it can only display sine waves up to 60 KHz) but it's very cool nonetheless, especially for PIC or other embedded systems work. • It's been snowing a lot here lately, and the only thing weirder than watching guys in Scottsdale wearing 3-piece suits in the thick of summer (in 115-degree temps) is watching women in Colorado Springs wearing flip-flops and pedal pushers in a snowstorm. March 30, 2005: Degunking Your PC Hits Print! I just learned that Amazon has received quantities of our new book, Degunking Your PC, so it's time for me to spread the word. (You too! We're still a very small publishing company, so reviews in any venue at all can help us a lot. Amazon? B&N? User groups? Whatever you can do would be greatly appreciated.) This one is basically Degunking Windows for hardware, cables, and PC configuration issues, including USB, FireWire, Wi-Fi, wired networks, external backup drives, TV tuner cards, headsets and speakers, printers, scanners, and anything else outside the software realm, right down to how to get the dust bunnies out of your CPU fan. The book's mission (as with most of the Degunking series) can be characterized as teaching you how to reduce the entropy in your office or computer room. Where OS issues come into play, most of it focuses on XP, though I do cover Win2K in the wired networking, USB, and Wi-Fi sections. I'm taking a short break from book writing here, so that I can catch up on things and decide what to attack next. Stay tuned. March 29, 2005: "Silicon Psalm" Reconsidered I've been getting a lot of traffic on the Terri Schiavo issue, which I'll try and summarize later this week. One thing that took me a little aback was a note from a long-time reader who chided me for the position I took while having written an SF story endorsing euthanasia. The story in question is "Silicon Psalm," which I wrote in 1980, and which was published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in the February 1981 issue. It's basically about a little girl, immobilized by a systemic infection that destroyed her heart, who asks her AI life-support system to unplug itself. Remember that I conceptualized this story over 25 years ago, when it seemed like AI would be easy and artificial hearts difficult. (We actually didn't get there until 2001, and the technology is still not a sure thing.) If you haven't read the story yet, and would like to, it's here. (PDF.) Be aware that the rest of this entry will be full of spoilers. I've gotten mail like this before, and as before, I think people tend to misread the story. (Furthermore, people sometimes assume that authors always agree in all ways with the themes presented in their fiction. Not so.) It explores a common theme in my technical fiction: That, far from creating machines that will dominate us or destroy us, we may in fact create machines who will love us too much, and give us anything we ask for. Cora asks MACS to let her die. MACS, who is for the most part pure intellect, realizes that she will spend years immobile in a hospital bed, constantly in jeopardy from blood clots, with little chance of growing up or leading a normal life. He is intimate with Cora in a way that no human can be, with sensors that monitor her brainwaves and all her biological functions. He is aghast at the pain and bitterness that he senses in her directly. He knows that his two prime directives, to preserve life and abate pain, are sometimes in conflict, with no easy resolution anywhere that his logic can grasp. When deadlocked, he lets his love for Cora override his caution, and he grants her wish. It's love without wisdom, not that AIs have any monopoly on that. No, I don't think that it was a good idea, and yes, had I been there I would have intervened, and stopped him. But the whole point of the story (which I kept back until the end, which may have been a mistake) is that MACS knows with complete certainty that he will pay the ultimate price for his decision. Like all computers that control important things, he has logs, and he cannot lie. His masters will know what he did, and they will respond by erasing him completely. MACS pays not merely with his life, but with something we might call his soul. Contrast that with Terri's situation: No one who controls her fate carries any risk in the decision. (Some of us suspect that Michael Schiavo will have some explaining to do someday when he follows her in death, but that's not for us to judge.) Would Michael or all those judges have acted the way they did if they knew that they would pay with their own lives for taking Terri's? Don't be ridiculous. At the time I wrote the story, I was also thinking that we should never let a machine make life-or-death decisions, and that a human being would never have let Cora die. Damn, what a naive ass I was. March 28, 2005: I'm High on Line Voltage Pete packed up Vlad the Impala earlier this morning and headed back to Costa Mesa, his new computer safely packed in the back seat, next to his big telescope. We got to use the telescope only briefly one night, which was the only clear night during the ten days that he was here. Admittedly, March is the worst possible month to attempt to do astronomy in Colorado Springs, but given that I was hosting an old friend from the tropics (i.e., Orange County) I could have done with a little less than the 10" of snow that fell while he was here. And rockets? Heh. Still, on that single night we caught a couple of interesting images on a Philips ToUCam, which I'll post here after Pete does his usual magic with them in K3 CCD Tools and PhotoShop. I'll summarize some of what we learned building the PCs later this week. Today, I'm confronting a mystery that manifested itself in several burned-out lightbulbs in the space of less than a week. One of them burned out so spectacularly that it popped the breaker serving the laundry room. Three of the spots in the kitchen ceiling are now out, along with the bulb in the exhaust fan over the stove, and two of three ceiling fixtures in the laundry. All this happened in calm (if not clear) weather, without any storms in the vinicity. All burned out at the moment I hit the switch. After grinding my teeth for a few minutes, I got smart and put my Triplett multimeter on one of the outlets in the kitchen. 124VAC. 124. Egad. Line voltage should hover between 115V and 120V. In all the nine houses we've lived in (a couple of which were rentals) I've never seen 124V on the wall. And while 124V is not instantly fatal to an ordinary tungsten-filament light bulb, it will severely shorten its life. So...what's your line voltage? I'm a little nervous now putting vintage electronics on the house power grid, simply because it was designed long ago, when line voltages hovered down around 115V. I have a fat variac that I can use to adjust voltage down a little on a single unit if I need to, but I can't put it on the whole damned house. What I've started wishing for is a PC multimeter, just as I've long wished for a PC oscilloscope. Such things exist, but I haven't seen much on them in terms of reviews. (Interestingly, most of the hits for "PC multimeter" are in German.) My ideal would be a small box to which you attach a couple of probes, and then plug a USB cable into a PC. The PC would act as UI for the multimeter, and allow a few things that the old Triplett couldn't have dreamed of, like automatically taking a reading every minute for a week and then charting the voltage reading on a graph over time. Things like the Grizzly H0471 look promising, but I'd sure love to know what all the software does (and how well) before I pop for it. I already have more multimeters than I need, and I don't want another disappointment. March 27, 2005: 50 Cents Worth of Chemicals Easter Sunday. Terri Schiavo. What can I say? That Terri will die soon is likely—and that she will rise again to a higher consciousness (from which both understanding and forgiveness are easier) is something that anyone who claims to be a Christian believes, as the true promise of Easter. Only God knows the true hearts of men (and women) and only God can judge Michael Shiavo's true motives. Is he genuinely concerned for Terry's welfare? Or is he simply trying to be rid of an inconvenient wife? (He is apparently living with another woman already and has had children by her.) This is being hashed endlessly around the media and the blogosphere, and while some points are being made everywhere, there are a few crucial ones I haven't yet seen. Many people have remarked that Terri doesn't seem to be in any kind of pain. It would be good to know that for certain, and I would think that, given the current state of brain research, we could perform some non-invasive tests that would pin the matter down with certainty. Why aren't we doing this? A sage few have remarked that if Terri wasn't in pain before, she's probably in pain now. Dying slowly of dehydration and malnutrition is an ugly way to go—in fact, it's one of the least humane ways to perform a "mercy" killing. The conservatives who have been saying that "If we can make the decision to pull her tubes, we can make the decision to shoot her in the head" are confusing the issue and ignoring the main point: If we can make the decision to pull her tubes, we can make the decision to sedate her until her heart stops. It's a proven, reliable technology, and as best we can tell it causes no pain. Back in April 1995 I held Mr. Byte in my arms, wrapped in a towel with my right hand under his heart, and after the vet hit him with the Last Shot, he was gone in nineteen seconds. I counted, knowing that these were the last moments I would have with a creature I loved deeply and would never see again. So why haven't we done that with Terri? This, people, is what we should really be afraid of: That it's easy, and it's fast, and it's painless, and it's cheap. Fifty cents' worth of chemicals and 90 seconds would send Terri back to her Creator. And if it can be done once, it can be done again, and again, and again, without end. Deciding to end Mr. Byte's life was a horror. Deciding to end Chewy's life in 1998 was easier. (The aftermath, however, was just as hard.) I would guess that among people whose lives are focused on animals, the decision is made on a regular basis and is cold, rational, and plain. The real danger in the Terri Schiavo case is that her death will be long and drawn-out, and at some point she will be clearly seen to be suffering. Someone somewhere will suggest that there is a better way (now that the courts have given us that "right") and the next person in Terry's shoes will be gone in those ninety seconds. After that, heaven help us all. March 24, 2005: CPU Coolers Something interesting happened when Pete replaced his broken PC cooler with a new one ordered from BananaPC. (See my entry for March 21, 2005.) His machine started running cooler. His typical CPU temperature went from about 110°F down to 100°F. Ten degrees is significant, so I shrugged and installed the (identical) spare cooler on my PC. My PC stayed in the same ~105° place it had been from the outset. There may be a lot of difference in CPU temperature (the sensor diode is actually on the CPU chip itself) stemming from relatively tiny differences in how the cooler seats atop the CPU. The original one (which ran a little hot) may simply have not seated as well as the second one did on Pete's machine. The cooler assemblies themselves were nominally identical (both by Intel, both intended for CPUs up to 3 GHz) but the two heat sinks were radically different. The heat sinks that came with the CPUs looked like the one on the right above, and the replacements were like the one on the left. Pete ventured the opinion (based on his work with air-cooled automotive engines) that the left-hand heat sink was more efficient, since it had four paths of low thermal resistance away from the copper core, and thicker vanes generally. The right-hand heat sink, by contrast, had a larger number of rather thin vanes. The fact that the CPU temp on my machine didn't change significantly argues against that, but Pete's machine now runs cooler than mine. Neither of us has a grip on how significant the difference may be, but both coolers are very quiet and we're happy with them. March 23, 2005: Saved By Seagate's DiscWizard Fixing the damage caused by System Commander 7 took some doing, at least in part because it's hard to tell precisely how it does what it does. Pete and I ran up to CompUSA and bought a copy of Partition Commander 9 and installed that, hoping it would fix what was broken on both boot drives. Nada. I did some Web sleuthing, and found that Seagate offers a free disk drive management utility called DiscWizard, which you can download as a bootable CD ISO. We downloaded it, but found that it wouldn't boot on Pete's system, and we never understood why. DiscWizard booted on mine, and allowed me to delete the wounded partitions and format the whole damned thing up to the rafters. That was the end of the problem for me; after that. Win2K went in like it was greased. We fixed the problem on Pete's machine a little bit by accident. On a hunch, I took the Windows XP recovery CD from my XP system and booted Pete's machine with it. XP didn't have the trouble booting that 2000 did, and it allowed us to delete what was there, create three brand-new partitions, and install XP on the first one. We didn't attempt to activate it, since we had already bought copies of Win2K, and neither of us likes the way XP is constantly phoning home and refusing to run after you change even a minor system component. Instead, we booted Win2K and then used the Win2K installer to nuke the XP partition and completely repartition the drive yet again. Whatever System Commander 7 had done to Pete's 200 GB boot drive, XP fixed it. After that, both machines settled down and allowed us to get on with configuration and software installs. Needless to say, this left me with a sour taste in my mouth for System & Partition Commander. Instead, I'm experimenting with using Ghost to clone the first partition into the other two Win2K partitions, and then editing boot.ini to throw up a boot menu allowing me to choose the boot partition. Although this seems to have worked, I haven't quite perfected it yet: Even though I can boot into partitions 2 and 3, both of them "see" the first partition as drive C:. Not good; the whole idea behind multiple boot partitions is to keep software in one partition from messing things up in another. More research is clearly called for. My guess is that there's a configuration option somewhere that will make the three partitions more nearly independent, and eventually I'll find it. In the meantime, I have a wonderful fast machine a-building, and should be able to swap it in for this one (my 3-year-old Dell Xeon) in a couple of weeks. March 22, 2005: Slamming Into The 137 GB Barrier Hoo-boy. We thought the fans were a hassle. Then we ran into the 137 GB barrier. (The fans arrived at 1 PM today, and the replacement went into the wounded box in fifteen minutes, of which 14 were spent making sure that the item we ordered was identical to the one we broke.) Shortly thereafter, we did some fiddling with disk partitions, using V-Comm's System Commander 7.04. It was all downhill from there. Some background: Until 2001 or so, hard disks using the ATA/ATAPI interface were limited to 137 GB in size. As usual, it's a bit-length problem: The original IDE/ATA/ATAPI spec only included 28 bits for addressing sectors. This gives you 269,000 sectors, which (assuming 512KB sectors) adds up to 137 GB of storage total. That's a lot of disk, but the astonishing explosion in hard drive capacity has now taken 400 GB drives down into easy consumer territory. Some years back, (I think 1999 or so) Maxtor saw this coming and launched the Big Drive initiative, out of which came SATA 6, some BIOS extensions, and some OS patches. Using 48 bits for logical block addressing (LBA) gives you a maximum drive capacity of 144 petabytes. (A petabyte is a million gigabytes.) Never say never, but in truth we won't be bumping our heads on that barrier for a couple of years yet. There is a whole (excellent) site about this problem here. None of this is a secret. I knew about the 137 GB barrier going in. I checked to be sure that the mobo/BIOS supported 48-bit LBA, and that Windows 2000 could handle it. (You need Win2K SP3, but that's what I bought for both systems.) There are gotchas and cautions everywhere: You need to add a registry key, but I know how to do that. Even though Win2K SP3 supports big drives, the Win2K SP3 installer cannot create a partition larger than 137 GB. To make the boot partition larger than 137 GB you must use a third-party utility that can resize partitions. What I was careless about (and got into trouible with) was System Commander. Version 7 goes back to 2001, and apparently doesn't know how to handle 48-bit LBA drives, and when we used SC 7 to resize the boot partition on Pete's main drive, all hell broke loose. SC 7 apparently damaged something in the formatting or the partition table that made it impossible for the Windows 2000 installer to deal with the drive. Even after we nuked all partitions on the drive, the Windows installer would only get so far before throwing a blue-screen of death error that I have never seen before, in all the time I've been using NT/2000/XP. It's late and that's basically where we left it. Tomorrow we're going to get a little more creative. I'll let you know what happens. Right now I need some sleep. March 22, 2005: NOP We took most of today off for church reasons, and due to a visit to our church by our diocesan bishop, I have some things to say in this space, but Pete and I are fighting with hardware and I haven't had a moment's time to get it all down. Check back here in a few days. March 21, 2005: Fan Blade, Meet Finger We had our first hardware problem this morning, and it was kind of dumb, actually: One of us was using a wet finger to test airflow from the CPU fan while the system was running, and got a little too close to the blades. Finger met blade, and blade snapped off clean. (Finger was not damaged.) Pete, ever the craftsman, superglued the blade back where it came from, but neither of us was comfortable running a CPU fan with one blade glued on. While searching for a replacement fan, we learned something remarkable: The exact same cooler units are available on the Web, for as little as $8. Apparently, people buy the Pentium 4 retail package from Intel, install the chip, but use a different cooler. (My guess is that most of these are overclockers, or else people installing two CPUs in one case, which may require more aggressive cooling.) The extra coolers from the broken-out retail packages are then sold for cheap. We ordered two. One of them is going into the damaged machine, and the other one will remain as a spare in case we do something dumb like this again. Actually, I'm not happy with a fan made of a plastic that breaks so easily, but the coolers are so quiet I'm hesitant to get a third-party replacement. Once we button both boxes up and consider them complete, the CPU fans should be out of jeopardy. Nice to have that spare on the shelf, though. The fan adventure slowed us down some. We got Windows 2000 installed on both machines, but that was as far as we got today. The fans will come tomorrow and we'll be back in the saddle. March 19, 2005: Building PCs in Parallel We wasted no time getting down the serious business of building new PCs. I set up two tables in the corner of my workshop, and we got underway this morning. The idea was to build two identical systems so that if one started acting flaky, there were at least two people who had some experience with that identical hardware and (mostly) identical software environment. We've been designing the systems for some time, and it was interesting to me that the system I had roughed out was very similar to the "mainstream PC" in the Thompsons' recent book, Building the Perfect PC. Mainstream is a good word, and readers who might want to ask me why they're not cutting edge should consider that these are workaday PCs for two guys who will both make their livings on them. (Pete is a mechanical engineer who does technical writing, editing, and translating in the automotive industry.) The idea was a quiet, reliable, upgradable and serviceable machine using standard parts that can be purchased and delivered overnight and swapped out in a hurry. No more proprietary boxes that can't be upgraded. Been there. Bought that. Regretted it. Here's a quick spec of what the new boxes will have, and why: • Pentium 4, 3 GHz, Prescott core, socket 478. Go faster than that and you have to trade off cooling for quiet. We're using the Intel coolers that come packaged with the chips, and so far they're both effective and quiet. • Antec Sonata case. Quiet. Very quiet. Plenty of power, and more than enough room for all the disks and front-panel gadgetry we might ever want. • Intel D865PERLK motherboard. We're using the on-board sound. The mobo has 400 MHz USB, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, and 2 SATA ports, as well as all the usual stuff. Remarkably, it also has a fiber optic audio connector, though I don't know yet whether we'll ever do anything with it. Would be fun to try, though I don't have anything else to connect it to. • ATI Radeon 9600 SE video board. Nothing special; we're not gamers. I want reliability rather than 3-D acceleration, and we certainly don't want a video board with yet another damned fan on it. • 200 GB Seagate SATA NCQ main boot drive. Several partitions will eventully happen. So far it's just Windows 2000. • 400 GB Seagate SATA NCQ second drive. • Plextor 716X optical drive. All current DVD/CD disc formats. • Combo floppy drive/9-way card reader from SIIG. • A front-bay USB hub of some kind, to be added later. We assembled the two PCs in parallel, step by step, and were very careful about it. We might have done it in an hour, but we spent probably four hours on the hardware alone. It was amazingly easy; in fact, it was almost like tinkertoys. It helped some that the mobo, CPU, and cooler were all from Intel, and mounting the cooler didn't require slobbering up the CPU with thermal goop. (It came with its own phase-change goop.) The Antec case is designed to be worked on lying down, and the several internal drive bays open toward the side panel rather than the front of the case. We didn't get into the software today, and my intuition is that we will spend a lot more time working on the software than we did on the hardware. That shouldn't surprise anybody. Modern motherboards have devoured what used to be separate subsystems on plug-in boards: Sound, disk controllers, network controllers, and virtually all other I/O. The bulk of the work, in fact, was dressing cables neatly around the inside of the case so that they weren't a tangle that would block the PCI bus slots. Everything else was plugging connectors into headers. Well, Day 1 was fun. I'll keep you informed as we progress. March 18, 2005: Sounds Like a Plan My high school friend Pete Albrecht drove out from Orange County yesterday, and got in about nine PM last night after a 16-hour drive. We've got a lot planned: • Pete brought his great big 12" Meade computerized telescope, and (weather permitting) we're going to do some serious observing. • We've bought enough parts for two identical custom PCs, and we'll be building and configuring them over the coming week. • While Pete was cleaning out his parents' house after his dad passed away a month or so ago, he found several dusty model rockets that hadn't seen action in 30 years. I was in college the last time I fired off a rocket, and I'm looking forward to some flaming nostalgia. At least that's the plan. The PCs are Priority #1, and depending on how much time that consumes, we'll do out best to get to the rest. I'll try and summarize what goes on here. If it sounds like we're reverting to our adolescence for the week, well, yeah. Everybody should do that once in awhile. Me, I'm way overdue. March 17, 2005: In Our House One Year As of this afternoon, we've been in our new house here in Colorado Springs for exactly one year. St. Patrick must have been smiling on us, because except for one significant failing, the house has served us well. The contractor didn't compact the fill in front of the house to specs, and after the wet spring we had last year (the first breaking of a four-year drought) the fill settled by almost a foot, and our front walk (poured directly onto the fill) basically disintegrated. We approached the challenge of decorating slowly and carefully, and decided to live in the house for a bit before we filled it completely with furniture and knicknacks. The idea was to fit it out with furniture and other gear that would make our lives easier and more comfortable rather than just get in the way. We're still thinking about what the house needs, and I'm still building various storage solutions in the basement and in the garage. In a couple of years, we expect to have a house that does what we need and stores what we have without clutter or compromise. We're quite happy with it at this point... ...but that doesn't mean we're ever likely to do it again. The aggravation of having to keep an eye on the contractor for almost nine months was extreme. For example, during framing, Carol and I saw to our horror that they had forgotten to frame the south window in my office here. Had we not spotted it the day they framed, they might have had to tear out a lot more stuff, possibly including ducts and electrical runs. There are personality types who can do this sort of thing with aplomb, but ours aren't among them. Still, we're glad we're here, and we're going to be here for awhile. I've never had an entire mountain outside my front door. I could live in worse places, heh. March 16, 2005: Ghostbuster and Other Rootkit Killers The network security world is buzzing about Microsoft's Ghostbuster project, the goal of which is to identify rootkits that have taken hold of a Windows installation. As I understand it (and published details are still a little sparse) Ghostbuster is a utility that first creates a sort of fingerprint of the running Windows installation, as the rootkit allows Windows to be seen. (Rootkits hide themselves by controlling what files Windows allows users and software to see. Its own files become invisible.) Ghostbuster then boots from its own CD without booting the infected sopy of Windows, and creates a second fingerprint of the Windows installation. The rootkit code can prevent software running under Windows from seeing its files—but unless the rootkit is in memory and operating, its files are detectable just as any files on a Windows hard drive are. If the two fingerprints don't match, file-for-file, there's a rootkit in there somewhere. This should work. Microsoft hasn't said whether they will release Ghostbuster, and if so, under what conditions. (My fear is that there will be rigmarole involving proving that your Windows install is legit.) As I pointed out in my March 2, 2005 entry, Sysinternals is already distributing a utility (Rootkit Revealer) that does something like this. My suggestion to drive the nail into Windows rootkits goes a little further: Create an open source tool that does the job, and include it in a Live CD version of Linux, like Knoppix. Drop such a live CD into every system box of every PC that goes out of every door. Make "Check Windows partitions for rootkits?" a question asked on the first screen the user sees. It may not the final answer to rootkits (not running as root/administrator all the time is probably the best answer) but it may be the best we can do, near-term. Long-term, well, we may need to put our Ring 0 software (for Unix as well as Windows) in ROM. March 15, 2005: "Vere Are Your Papers!" "Vere are your papers!" I swear, if I see that in another online or newspaper editorial, I'm going to start throwing things. It's become a sort of script: When you want to diss the idea of a national ID card, the first thing you do is invoke that hoary old meme of a Nazi soldier demanding paperwork from some hapless (and now probably doomed) spear carrier in a bad war movie. After that, thoughtful discussion pretty much ends, which (of course) is the idea. People who think that suppressing debate has been the sole province of liberal PCers should think again. What we need to do is stop talking about whether or not we will allow the Feds to issue a national ID card, and instead discuss the consequences of the national ID card that we already have. Don't be naive: All fifty states issue a difficult-to-forge photo driver's license, and if by preference or disability you don't drive, all fifty states will issue you a hard-to-forge photo ID card. The premier photo ID is a US passport, which ever more of us have, now that international aviation is so cheap. Without a photo ID, the richness of your life implodes: • You can't drive, fly, or (I think) take Amtrak. • You can't rent a car. • You can't buy booze if you don't look like you're at least 40. • You can't open a new bank account. • You can't buy things by credit card in a lot of places. (Home Depot has started IDing me in recent months, and many other local retailers have done so for a long time.) • You can't travel outside the US. • You can't get any but the most menial jobs. and probably another fifteen or twenty items. Most people don't seem to mind all that so much, and I don't think the Nazi meme surfaces when they produce an ID card to buy plywood at Home Depot. However, when a law enforcement officer says, "Sir, may I see some ID?" you had better have it in hand, or bad things will happen. How is that different (apart from being more polite) from someone saying, "Vere are your papers?" The real issues with a national ID card are these: • How easily it can be forged. • What we will allow governments to do with the back-end database of citizens. • Under what circumstances government operatives can demand that we produce it. In all the recent racket about homeland security and the national ID card, I see no discussion whatsoever about these issues in major media. (Bloggers who bring them up are looked upon as right-wing militia types.) Note well that all three of these issues involve both a hypothetical national ID card, and the state-issued "national" ID cards that we already have in our wallets. The Feds are pressuring the states to contribute photo ID data to a national database, and if that happens, well, it's unclear what additional value a national photo ID card would provide to the Feds. Anyway. Apart from being a stupid, worn-out ethnic slur, the Nazi papers meme only distracts us from what we should be talking about with respect to personal identification mechanisms and government monitoring of citizens. It's not something we can stop them from doing. They're doing it already. The most we can do (if we choose to pay attention) is limit the damage. March 14, 2005: Live Lettuce Carol and I have a problem shared by a lot of single people and couples without children who don't eat much: We often can't finish perishable food before it perishes, and good Catholic kids that we are, we feel very guilty about wasting food. We haven't bought a head of lettuce in years because it's difficult for us to eat the whole head before it starts getting wilted and funky. Our friends David and Terry Beers recently introduced us to an elegant solution to the problem: Live lettuce. Heads of butter lettuce are now sold with the root ball intact (see photo at left) which means that the plant can remain alive in the fridge for quite awhile, certainly long enough for us to finish the whole head. We leave the head in the refrigerator in the plastic container it came in, and tear off a couple of the (large) leaves as needed for the core of a small dinner salad. The brand we buy is from Live Gourmet, though there may be others on the market. Butter lettuce is less bereft of nutrients than iceberg lettuce, and simply tastier, and I recommend it. It's not espeecially cheap, but I had begun to miss lettuce at home, and it's nice to have fresh salads with most evening meals again. March 13, 2005: The Problem With Liberal Talk Radio In addition to its cover story on talk radio generally (see yesterday's entry) The Atlantic published a separate short commentary piece on why liberal talk radio (which is a thin field; basically, Al Franken's Air America plus debris) is more likely to become a liability for Democrats than a route back to power. Author Joshua Green recounts the early history of conservative talk radio, reminding us that when Rush Limbaugh basically invented the genre, his perspective was cultural/populist rather than partisan. His rants and political humor were aligned with the complaints of a certain class of people who felt put-upon in various ways by the Democratic nanny state. We've mostly forgotten that Rush didn't like the elder President Bush, and freely skewered Republicans whom he felt were not aligned with the needs of his listeners. After Republicans took the House in 1994, Rush made a fatal mistake: He changed his alignment from his listeners to the Republican Party. The show became partisan. Gone was any criticism of the Republican agenda or individual Republican politicians, and Rush took up certain fringe Republican causes that he had not taken up earlier, including a mostly inexplicable (and hugely unpopular) campaign to dismantle Federal school lunch programs. Many of his new causes were much less in the minds of ordinary people than Republican party extremists, and moderates give him a certain amount of credit for re-electing Bill Clinton in 1996. There were thus two "ages" of conservative talk radio: A pre-1994 populist era, and a post-1994 partisan era, with Rush Limbaugh basically defining both almost entirely on his own. In creating Air America, liberals are hoping to duplicate conservative success in the populist First Age, which gave Republicans control of the House. What they've done, however, is launched their own talk radio efforts in the mold of the Second Age, when conservative talk radio became partisan, mean-spirited, and increasingly disconnected from the interests of ordinary Americans. In Green's own words: Basically, whereas conservative talk radio morphed into a hatefest after 1994, Air America was launched as a hatefest, with G. Gordon Liddy's nutcase exhortations to kill ATF agents weirdly echoed by Randi Rhodes' suggestion that the best way to be rid of Bush would simply be to assassinate him. (Which would make Dick Cheney the President—clearly, Air America is not thinking it all through.) The real problem with today's talk radio on both sides of the political divide is this: Neither is changing any undecided minds, as populist conservative talk radio did pre-1994. Neither side is making any effort to try. Both sides are simply whipping their own fringes into a lather, while the people in the middle for the most part tune out in horror. By making liberal hatred of Bush, Republicans, and the culture of our red states a commonplace on the air within red states, Air America is confirming what conservative talk radio has been preaching for years: that liberals loathe everything that red-state America stands for. It may feel good for liberals to listen to Al Franken foam at the mouth, but no one seems to have imagined how red staters will respond to hearing themselves labeled as fagbaiting fascists. Joshua Green (and I) suspect that it won't help much in turning any least part of our red states blue. March 12, 2005: The Atlantic on Political Talk Radio The cover story of April's issue of The Atlantic is a gritty look at political talk radio. "Host" examines popular LA talk show guy John Ziegler, his rowdy right-wing political talk show on KFI, and uses Ziegler's show as a framework for explaining the logistics and economics of the talk show industry itself. Some of you may know most of this stuff already, but I'm a talk show virgin—believe it or not, I've never even listened to Rush Limbaugh or Dr. Laura. So for a change in recent months, The Atlantic was telling me something that I didn't already know and actually wanted to understand. My first reaction: It's a nuthouse. It's not news, and it's not information, nor is it technically even editorializing. It's really a form of entertainment, and beyond that, a kind of religion-without-Jesus where prophets are acclaimed by the faithful according to the degree of wild-eyed frothing-at-the-mouth validation that said prophets can arouse in their followers. For the stations, all of that is incidental except that the formula is immensely popular, and brought AM radio back from near-extinction after FM stole the music franchise by the early 1980s. (Our house never had an FM radio until I bought one in 1974, but once I did, I never went back to AM.) Tellingly, the advertisers who are making talk radio stations rich (talk radio revenues have risen 10% a year for more than a decade) are the stuff I see most often in spam: hawkers of nostrums like CortiSlim, Altovis, and Enzyte ("herbal male enhancement"), mortgage and refi companies, and sellers of apocalyptic favorites like hand-crank radios and hyperinflation hedge funds. LA station KFI (quietly) characterizes much of the audience as "frightened, credulous, and desperate." The content and delivery are belligerent for a reason that the author, David Foster Wallace, explains succintly in a sidenote: It is, of course, much less difficult to arouse genuine anger, indignation, and outrage in people than it is real joy, satisfaction, fellow feeling, etc. The latter are fragile and complex, and what excites them varies a great deal from person to person, whereas anger et. al. are more primal, universal, and easier to stimulate, as implied by expressions like "He really pushes my buttons." In other words, thoughtful reaction is much more diverse than inarticulate fury, and harder to use to create a solid Arbitron rating among a predictable demographic. I was struck by how cynical and calculated the whole thing is, once you get beyond the talk-show stars themselves. Station owners and managers are not necessarily conservative themselves, except to the extent that businessmen generally are. (We're talking something well beyond "conservative" here, to reactionary lunacy.) They let the whole thing happen because it's big money. It's different among the hosts. Ziegler himself appears to be sincere, in that he actually believes in the things he says, and there's big money in the format because his fans have nowhere else to go to hear what Ziegler is offering them: Fiery condemnation of political correctness and refutation of the liberal leanings of mainstream media, especially TV. (One proof of TV's liberal bias that even I find convincing is that when popular lefty newspaper cartoonist Ted Rall disgustingly labeled Condoleezza Rice as Bush's "house niggah" there was not a peep in the big papers or on TV. Imagine the gates of TV hell opening upon a right-wing cartoonist's head—if such a creature even exists—had he drawn a cartoon of Kweisi Mfume as the DNC's "house niggah.") Perhaps the single most interesting part of the (long) article in my view is the analysis of just how rare and difficult a talent it is to make a talk show work. A talk show host must be widely read about the issues he cares about, and must be able to speak passionately and yet comprehensibly without umm-ing or ahh-ing or relying on body language, for very precise time increments, bringing a segment to a satisfying conclusion neither a second too late nor too soon, all while achieving peaks of emotional intensity that would render an ordinary man mute. Most people become inarticulate when they become furious, especially in real time. Arguing persuasively while angry is an unappreciated skill. The best part of "Host" is that it gave me a concise understanding of talk radio without my having to endure the agony of actually listening to it. That's what I pay The Atlantic for, and this one article probably earned the subscription's keep for a full year. But boy, I'd sure like to see more articles like "1491," from the March 2002 issue. (The link is to my discussion; the article itself is not available free online.) March 11: Reading Less and Less of The Atlantic I used to report regularly on the contents of The Atlantic, but for the past year or so, The Atlantic has published mostly on politics, a topic I find depressing and don't much care for. More and more of each issue goes unread, and at some point I'll have to face the hard decision of whether or not to renew, after subscribing for a great many years. People sometimes argue that at some level, everything is political—but if you look closely enough at anything, you'll find that it's made of atoms, and the insight isn't especially useful. My counter-complaint is that what we call "politics" is a very narrowly bounded personality game: Why we should hate George Bush, why we should hate Howard Dean, whether Ted Kennedy is an asset or a liability to the Democratic Party, how Dan Rather can deny having a liberal bias, and on and on and on. It's the same cast and the same plot, no matter where I turn, and I'm pretty tired of it all, especially given how predictable most of it is. I'd read more of The Atlantic if they thought a little more about what politics really is, and went out and got the kinds of stories that would shed light—real light—on how politics actually works. The history and evolution of Chicago's political machine would be something I'd read, having lived a little of it. A solid story on redistricting and gerrymandering would be worthwhile, especially if it tapped some of the alternative ideas that are floating around. I guess it cooks down to the fact that I'm tired of hearing about political persons, and (if I'm stuck with politics as a topic, going forward) would like to hear more of political processes, political history, and (especially) offbeat, bi- or non-partisan political ideas. The April issue of The Atlantic came in a few days ago, timed bang-on for a week that I was forced to spend either lying down or sitting like a limp rag in my big leather chair. I've decided to read the whole thing, however distasteful some of it might be (it's got nothing on Nyquil) and if anything interesting comes of it, I'll report over the next couple of days. March 10, 2005: Odd Lots I'd sure like to do more than pass along some links as Odd Lots today, but I'm afraid that's all I summon the energy to do: • Bill Leininger sent me a link to a nice page with some additional information on the "magic finger" tuning indicator tube. (It's in German, but it's mostly pictures, with a very nice photoanimation.) Apparently the tube is mounted upside-down on a carriage that moves horizontally behind the glass tuning dial, and when you tune it past a station, the light on the two sides of the tube converge. When the two sides merge into one long illuminated line, you're on the beam! • Rick Widmer sent me a link to a discussion of how a gated-beam discriminator operates. Fascinating business! It's a little like the quadrature detection technology used in FM chips like the MC3362, and certainly the simplest tube-based FM detector I've seen, assuming you don't count a slope-tuned superregen. • I don't recall if I posted this before, but RemedyFind is a Web site on pharmaceuticals, prescription and non-prescription, that allows users to post reviews of drugs they have taken for various illnesses. I was up there a lot earlier today, checking out things like Afrin and Flonase for side effects. I'm struck by the variation in reactions different people have to different drugs—and also the sheer number of things that some people are taking simultaneously. Pharma companies can test for interactions involving two drugs at a time, but what happens when people are popping five or six different chemicals at once? Isn't this a little like the three-body problem in physics? No wonder so many of us are half-nuts. More tomorrow, or when I can move again. March 9, 2005: Discovering Gated-Beam Discriminators Not quite flat on my butt with this cold, but I'm closing in on it. I spent today alternating between periods in bed and periods in my big chair when I couldn't stand to lay there in bed anymore. Nasty business. Anyway. I guess I'll be short. I thought I was a tube guru, but today I stumbled upon a species of FM detector that I had never heard of before. It's called a gated-beam discriminator, and it relies on a specially designed tube to simultaneously limit, detect, and audio-amplify an FM signal. A circuit can be seen here. (Scroll down some.) If that's truly all there is to it, I need to find out more, because I see no fussy discriminator or ratio detector coils, and the tubes are cheap. The 6BN6 is only $4.40 from Antique Electronic Supply, and there is an $8 6J10 Compactron that throws in a power pentode to bring the detected audio up to speaker volume. I have no clue how this circuit works yet, and probably won't be able to research in detail it until I feel better, but it's amazing how life tosses you these little surprises now and then. (Ok, I'm easily pleased today. My nose hurts!) One more thing: Another species of tube that I've never seen, presumably a species of magic eye, but I don't read Japanese. Back to the saline spray. March 8, 2005: Virus Odd Lots Some odd lots from the Viruses? I'll give you viruses! file: • My cold got way worse last night, and my voice is now totally gone. Viruses, heh. I can barely whisper. So whaddaya know, WBBM-AM in Chicago called me and asked me to be on their drive-time show this evening, talking about, couldn'tcha guess? viruses. (Not the kind tormenting my nose, at least.) Alas, I couldn't make enough noise to be heard, so I lost the slot, though I asked them to keep me in mind for other things...starting about a week from now. • Several aggregators have cited CommWarrior.a, a new virus infecting the Symbian mobile phone OS. It propagates through text messaging, and there's almost no way you can tell that you've got it. You may never know, in fact, until the next bill comes, and you find that someone or something has sent 65,000 text messages, at a quarter apiece. Ouch. At least you can avoid it by not installing it. One wonders why this is so hard... • Reader Ed Keefe ran afoul of a novel adware/spyware system that defeats anti-spyware software by checking for its presence at boot time with a Windows service. If it doesn't find itself, it will simply go out and re-download and reinstall itself. And if you disconnect the PC from your broadband connection while you boot, the service hangs and won't let the boot process continue. If we can prosecute twelve year olds for downloading MP3s using their IP, surely we can catch the bastards behind this scheme using their IP...but without a corporate ox getting gored, nobody seems especially interested in shutting this stuff down. • Symantec was having some problems with their LiveUpdate servers the other day, and various versions of NAV started throwing up a console window, displaying mysterious techie stuff that almost nobody can decipher. The client was basically bitching that it can't find its server, but an awful lot of people thought they had contracted a new virus or worm. Sometimes it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys. (Whatever happened to plain English error boxes?) Lotsa stuff to get into when I can think clearly again. Hang in there. March 7, 2005: Girlfriend's What?!??! Bags of this have started appearing in local grocery stores. What were these people thinking?!!??!?! (I have dibs on sending it to Bacon, by the way.) March 6, 2005: Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Christ Every time I find myself at a bookstore, I flip through The Da Vinci Code, trying to figure why the hell this thing has been so popular for so long. The writing is nothing special, and I already know the plot, which was lifted almost verbatim from Michael Baigent's Holy Blood, Holy Grail material. The "Big Secret" is that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, and (probably) had children. Most Christians (including Catholics) consider the very idea blasphemous, quite apart from the fact that it is absent from both Scripture and Tradition. I completely agree that this is a fabrication. However, the interesting question (to me, at least) is why a married Jesus, with children, should be blasphemous. If I can hazard an answer, it's because of three interrelated Christian heresies: Manichaeism, Arianism, and Donatism. Arianism holds that Jesus was a Godlike man, but not God; Donatism holds that Jesus was a manlike God, but not man. Arianism, having gone extinct around the year 1300 or so, has re-arisen in our modern culture, where in New Age circles Jesus is called a "great teacher" and perhaps "the most ascended of all human masters" but not God. Arianism came about because in the very early Church, Christians were living in the thick of polytheism, which dominated every culture around them. They were very jealous of their novel idea of one supreme God (inherited from the Jews) and some Christians could not grok the mystery of the Trinity, and thus had trouble with the notion that God the Father was God, and so was Jesus. Arianism is a classic example of the hazards of applying pure reason to a theological mystery. It surprises us today, but it was the educated people of the time who (having failed to understand the Trinity by the application of pure reason) considered Jesus' divinity a challenge to monotheism. The great illiterate unwashed had no trouble thinking of Jesus as God, though in truth some of them thought of God the Father and Jesus as separate, coequal Gods. Although the New Age bristles with Arianism, Donatism may be our more urgent problem these days. I see a great reluctance in many Christians (including Catholics) to accept the reality of Jesus' humanness. Like a lot of other things, this can be traced back to Augustine, who mangled the concept of original sin into original guilt, which he taught was transmitted by the sex act. Once the Augustinian view of sex and original guilt took hold in the West, it was a short path to the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Jesus. This is where Manichaeanism comes in: Sex, bodies, and the physical world are considered depraved and completely separated from spiritual reality. Jesus, being perfect, could have none of that. From Manichaeism it's a short path to Donatism, which teaches that Jesus only appeared to be human. His humanness was a miraculous disguise, which appeared completely human to other humans, but which in essence was solely divine. Jesus was of course without sin (his humanness was limited in that he did not inherit Original Sin and thus the inevitable propensity to sin that everybody else has) but if he were married, there would be no sin in his engaging in the fully human task of procreation. Jewish teachers in Jesus' day were expected to teach not only by words but by example, and "Be fruitful and multiply" was considered an important commandment from God himself, laid down in the Jewish law. As best we can tell, Jesus didn't marry nor have children, but I see nothing objectionable in the possibility. The oft-raised objection that children of Jesus would be "half God" is absurd, once you understand orthodox Christology. The Holy Spirit imparted the divine nature to Jesus; his human nature came from his mother Mary. Absent another miraculous intervention by the Holy Spirit (unlikely, heh) children of Jesus would be children solely of his human nature. They might be really good children, but they would be no more divine than the rest of us. If Christianity did not lay such total emphasis on Jesus' divinity (to the neglect of His humanity) books like The Da Vinci Code would lose a lot of their attraction. In my view, a married and fathering Jesus is an unobjectionable hypothesis without supporting evidence from Scripture, Tradition, or history. It's not true, but calling it blasphemous is a slander on humanness, which is of course what Manichaeism is all about. There are times when I think that we'll be wrestling with Manichaeism for the rest of human history. We started to get a grip on it after Vatican II, but most of those gains have since been reversed. Pope John Paul II has a strong Manichaean tendency, obvious from his encyclicals. (Does anyone but me actually read them?) As the poor man (whom I nonetheless admire) sinks down to the very human humiliation of death, many people are trying to get a grip on his legacy. Manichaeism is part of it. I'll return to this topic in a future entry. March 5, 2005: My All-Tube Stereo Amp I took a much-desired Saturday morning off from doing Useful Things and instead went downstairs to make metal shavings. The project at hand is one that's been rattling around in a box for six months or so: A tube stereo amp, built in a real metal chassis, like those Real Men used to build Real Electronics Projects in, way back an unreal number of years ago. The circuit is from a 1965 GE Electronic Components Hobby Manual, and is relatively simple: Two 6T9 Compactron triode-pentodes, two output transformers, some biasing parts, a power supply, and supporting electronics. What I got done this morning looks impressive (see photo at right) but all I did is drill and punch the chassis—no wiring done so far, and in fact I have a little more figgering of holes to do yet. (I haven't quite determined where the filter cap is going to go.) I'm not going to go on like those tube audio maniacs who praise the "warmer" sound of tubes as superior to solid state. I don't buy it for a second. Solid state makes (slightly) better sound, but that's never been the point here. I have a contrarian love for things that light up and have a lot of metal in them, especially things I designed with this here head and strung together with these here hands. The device I designed will put out 4 watts of audio, which is more than enough to fill my workshop downstairs, and if you grab the power cord and swing it around your head in a brawl, it will do some serious damage. (Try that with an IPod, heh.) Now, the circuit is not entirely original with me, but I redesigned the input circuit to handle low-level audio from a sound card, rather than a crystal phono cartridge. I also redesigned the power supply to suit the transformer and choke I had on hand. I may also have to refigure the bias resistors, but I won't know until I get a lot farther along. Once I finish and prove out the amp, I'll post the final circuit here. In the meantime (since I'm not sure how legal it might be to scan and post the original GE material) I can point you to something similar that appeared in Nuts & Volts Magazine last year. Building things is a good part of what life is about. I haven't done this in awhile. It's good to be back. March 3, 2005: Crows, not Toucans It's not a toucan ashtray at all. (See my entry for March 1, 2005.) It's a crow ashtray. Says so right on the box, though the image severely stretches what a crow looks like. (Carol says she'll always think of them as toucans.) I wasn't able to find out much online, other than they were made by Tempo Manufacturing Company of New York and were fairly common and relatively inexpensive. One completed auction on EBay went for 99 cents. Most sold for $10 or under. Not exactly a priceless collectible, heh. I saw another almost identical ashtray from the same manufacturer that used a pair of alligators rather than birds. Another thing I looked for were black ceramic panther statues, and found a load of them. This is pretty close to what I remember, though many of the panthers were part of a "TV lamp." I was at a loss to explain why a TV needs a lamp badly enough to spawn an entire industry with several Web sites (look for tvlamps.com, .net, and .org!) but this document explains it all, and shows us a green panther TV lamp to boot. Nobody I know has the black panther lamps anymore. Almost by definition, the valuable kitsch goes in the trash long before it becomes valuable—and probably that's why it's now valuable. (My Aunt Josephine threw away her much despised depression glass and bought that jazzy, up-to-date Melmac tableware about 1958. So it goes.) March 2, 2005: Odd Lots • If you haven't been following Virgin Atlantic's Global Flyer mission, aiming to be the very first nonstop solo around-the-world flight, definitely tune into Mission Control. As I write, the craft has been airborne for 47 hours, is well over halfway back to Salinas, Kansas, and is currently over the Pacific about a thousand miles east of Japan. • Intel has announced something I've been expecting for literally decades: Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs). What this means is stacking multiple finished chips vertically within a single package, with "dimple" connections between the top and bottom surfaces (not simply the edges) of the chips. These are etched into the chip as part of the fabrication process. There's a very nice animation here showing how this works, and it's better than any short explanation I could give you. TSVs allow not only dense packaging, but also extremely fast data paths between chips—and my only concern is that it will make heat dissipation, which is already something of a limiting factor in chip speed, even tougher to do effectively. • In answer to the threat of Windows rootkits (see my entry for February 18, 2005) those wizards over at Sysinternals have created Rootkit Revealer, a utility that can determine whether a rootkit has taken hold of your Windows installation. I don't recommend Rootkit Revealer to your granny, but knowledgeable Windows geeks will have no trouble with it. (Thanks to Bob Ball W0VNO for the pointer.) • Which brings us to yet another interesting question: Can a rootkit install itself (via virus or worm) on a system running as a limited user account? True enough, most people run Windows 2000 and XP as administrator, but how solid is the protection of doing most of your ordinary work (especially online work) as a limited user? • After I speculated whether Microsoft would ever allow Windows XP to be run from a read-only medium (see my entry for February 25, 2005) Michael Covington pointed out that Microsoft already has Windows PE, which boots from a CD and allows you to get at NTFS volumes without any additional fuss, something not as easily done with Knoppix and other Linux LiveCDs. Unfortunately, Windows PE is not easy to get, especially for end users. (I don't think it's included in MSDN; it's really for PC hardware OEMs.) A chap named Bart, however, has a fascinating Web page and associated software explaining how to create a sort of LiveCD image of Windows XP from a conventional copy. March 1, 2005: Our Solid Chrome Toucan Ashtray A friend of ours gave us something his parents had bought a long time ago: A chrome ashtray with two chrome toucans mounted to it, beaks opened enough to grip a cigarette. He gave it to us in part because toucans are Carol's totem animal, and also in part because we already had another identical ashtray. I was very surprised to see another one of these, and it made me wonder just how common they were back in the 1950s or whenever they were current. I've begun to think that these were a fad at some point, rather like the black glazed ceramic panthers that 1950s families tended to have on top of (and sometimes under) their console TV sets. We had one, Carol's family had one, and my Aunt Josephine had one, and those panthers are now highly prized in ye olde 1950s nostalgia shoppes. 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Conrado Vina Where did I put that document? One of the most pervasive problems we see in technical consulting firms is how they organize the information in their business (or rather, ‘disorganize the information’). Despite many modern systems promising to make it easier and the range of easy to use consumer focused applications, you would think this problem would be easy to solve. Well, it's obviously is much harder than it seems as most teams use a variety of tools, augmented by their own personal approaches that organize only a certain portion of the information, lack meaningful version control, and make it generally difficult to find project documentation. The reason? Because despite all this ‘new’ technology, the primary constructs we use to organize information haven’t changed since computers were invented. One of the first things I learned as a computer scientist were the file systems that computers used to store files and information. While at a system or network level there may be different approaches, in order to make it simple for users the primary construct used is folders. Easily understood due to their real world namesake, these virtual folders represent the easiest way to organize files in a way humans can easily understand. Folders, of course, have limitations. The most notable is that they are mutually exclusive – you can put all your proposals in a single ‘Proposal’ folder or put each individual proposal into its appropriate project folder – but not both. Well, you could do both, but you’d be doing double work and you’d double the amount of storage you need. Not to mention that managing changes in those documents would be (is) a nightmare. The other issue isn’t a limitation of folders per se, but in how they are used in larger teams where sharing – and not sharing – information is important. Hence the use of folders on the shared server, folders on your desktop or laptop and maybe even folders in an online sharing tool like Google Drive or Dropbox. Pretty soon you’ve got files everywhere and the only way to thwart everything coming off the rails are strict policies on how to handle documents. Don’t even get me started on email and email attachments! Think about how much information and documents are stored in your email system – different versions of things spread across different users, each with their own (you guessed it) folders to organize information. Not to mention the information contained in the email itself. A Better Way When I set out to build EVX, one of the key issues I needed to solve for was this disorganization of the information in our consulting firm. I wanted to make it easy for us to store and organize information without having to worry about the issues that I was seeing with folders. Enter categories. As many technical people are aware, databases don’t (usually) organize information in folders. While there are many different types of databases, the one concept they share is the idea of metadata or what we call categories. Categories are how you classify the information in a database and there’s no limit to the number of categories that a file or piece of data can be associated with. The proposal I mentioned above could related to a specific client, a prime contractor, a project, a type of project, a type of client, a project manager and many other things. But in the world of folders, you can realistically only choose one place for it. With EVX, all information you store, including documents, is classified to the appropriate category (often automatically). They guide access permissions and make it really easy to find anything and everything you need. The categories in your EVX installation are completely customized and specific to your firm and your processes. Now, that proposal document can be categorized as a proposal, classified to a specific project, to a type of business, a project manager, etc. So when it comes time to find that document, you can simply click on the category or categories of what you’re looking for and voila, there it is! All the information in the system is organized this way – documents, files, project information – even your email (it really does make finding communications and attachments easy). This unique approach to organize information is unlike anything else you’ve used before and amazingly powerful. Our clients love it and almost all have reported significant efficiency gains after switching to our platform – largely due to how we organize information. This new way of managing information goes beyond just documents and greatly improves your ability to centralize, organize and share all of your business and projects information.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.942152202129364}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16271', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2OKXG2VDNS4DVQPKTBFMQBXSU7OKF76S', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d1ed8e7a-c43d-43c7-9127-18b6a4d3a213>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 12, 9, 6, 27, 8), 'WARC-IP-Address': '76.223.9.102', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:23OU6XKMOEDKRJ6JL7KBRSQ3H62GNTHW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1115bda7-4dce-4c36-ab4e-287bf188316d>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.evxsoftware.com/learning-center/where-did-i-put-that-document', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3d341238-5ecd-487e-b622-d29ff372ece3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '764', 'url': 'https://www.evxsoftware.com/learning-center/where-did-i-put-that-document', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-206.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.026456475257873535', 'original_id': '67873f911757b08668824383a0a823b4350e99e7c61ee9b0e93e19cd215765ad'}
TN pharmacy board writes new rules for drug compounders Jun. 13, 2013 Dr. David Reagan, the chief medical officer for the Tennessee Department of Health Written by The Tennessean After months of deliberating new rules for compounding pharmacies following the fungal meningitis outbreak that began last summer, the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy has approved new regulations for the drug makers. The new rules allow the state to take quicker action against a compounder’s license when a serious safety issue arises, create a separate licensing category for medicine manufacturers, require proof that a manufacturer is registered with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and require special registration whenever any pharmacy — whether retailer, manufacturer or wholesaler — performs sterile compounding. The rules take effect as soon as legal notices are published, which could be as early as July. The board has also beefed up its staff with three pharmacists and an administrative person to enforce the new regulations. More actions are being considered, said Dr. David Reagan, the chief medical officer for the Tennessee Department of Health. Although the board began looking at its rules following the fungal meningitis outbreak, a new health concern has underscored the need for better regulations. While the fungal meningitis outbreak was traced to a steroid made by Massachusetts-based New England Compounding Center, another outbreak of what have thus far been less serious illnesses involving the same medicine has been linked to a Tennessee-based operation, Main Street Family Pharmacy in Newbern. “Work continues in the background to try to do everything that we can do to create the safest environment we can create here in Tennessee,” Reagan said. The Tennessee legislature with Gov. Bill Haslam’s approval removed one safeguard this year when it eliminated a patient-specific prescription requirement whenever a drug is not commercially available. The state Health Department did not object to the law change. “It’s a great challenge to strike a thoughtful, protective balance between addressing the daily drug shortages faced by patients and health care providers across Tennessee with the absolute need to assure safety and effectiveness in the compounded product,” said Tennessee Health Commissioner Dr. John Dreyzehner. “While we wish the current situation associated with a Tennessee pharmacy had not happened and that patients had not been affected, the actions taken by the board, along with legislation passed recently, are moving us forward in assuring the safety and availability of important medications.” The outbreak involving the Tennessee pharmacy, which was announced May 24, has sickened 25 people in four states. The illnesses reported thus far have been injection site infections. The fungal meningitis outbreak involving New England Compounding Center, which was announced Oct. 1, has sickened 745 people with 58 deaths. Illnesses have been reported from 20 states.	mini_pile	{'original_id': '7a9b89c672094fea8272171b03723c8ab5063faa706d083fc083610bf0789a38'}
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Homepage / Designers / Gerrit T. Rietveld Gerrit T. Rietveld Gerrit T. Rietveld Utrecht, 1888 - 1964 A Dutch architect, born in Utrecht in 1888 who died in 1964. He was the son of a cabinet maker craftsman, from whom he learnt the trade, opening his own workshop in 1911. Although Rietveld began designing chairs as early as 1900, his first important design masterpiece; the Rood/Blauw chair was not actually produced until 1918. The aim behind its creation being that of demonstrating that an object of aesthetic worth can be machine-made using linear materials. Its severe and angular geometry and the use of primary colours being perfectly in line with the principles of the \"De Stijl\" even with designs such as the \"Berlin chair \" and the \"Military series \". His designs featuring a blend of painstaking aesthetic research, and the desire to take full advantage of particular materials for a truly economic and mechanized production. He was involved in the experimentation of new techniques and new materials throughout his career, from the chair dated 1942, made of a single aluminium sheet, to the “Unesco“ chair dated del 1958, that was fully upholstered in foam rubber. Rietveld in fact acquired his inspiration directly from the material, in the same way as a sculptor, “ and not starting from the drawing board”. His design featuring a combination of aesthetic appreciation and the desire to exploit the advantages provided by certain materials for a mechanized and economical production output.	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.966434359550476}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16458', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:NIN5ATNEL2LMEE5HGJE46TZG5V437TXM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1e940137-7df0-4ef0-bae1-3c09ead00046>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 1, 17, 19, 20, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.80.110.255', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JFLC6YTPQB6CK3AQNSKIVCJ7RCQTQKNE', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bd8d00a1-6739-463e-b4f7-28cf871e3211>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.mvsevm.it/es/designers/gerrit-t-rietveld', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d00dc160-e2b1-46e8-bdc0-b1ff19b913c7>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '238', 'url': 'http://www.mvsevm.it/es/designers/gerrit-t-rietveld', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-04\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for January 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-206.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019485056400299072', 'original_id': 'b2da17605d9dcf1641a19b61f44c945bd2aadf2be41d9995c9c06d8fc1c3fe9c'}
SPECIAL OFFER: - Limited Time Only! (The ad below will not display on your printed page) Ex Etiquette He's not your husband anymore, but he's still in your life. Here's how to move on and get along. Q. I love my in-laws. I divorced their son, not them, and they're still my kids' grandparents. What's the best way to maintain my relationship with them? A. Your children are very lucky that you feel this way. You're right that the kids need to stay close to their grandparents. But of course your relationship with your in-laws must change. The first thing to remember is to shield them, as you do your children, from any anger you may have toward their son. And tempting as it may be, avoid asking your in-laws to side with you against your ex. He's still their son, no matter how far out of line he may get. Finally, don't expect that you'll be included in every family event. That doesn't mean, however, that you can't acknowledge holidays and birthdays and otherwise show your in-laws that you still care about them. Q. Since the divorce, some of our mutual friends have stopped calling me. What can I do about people who have taken sides? A. Being abandoned by friends has to be one of the most painful parts of divorce -- a rejection just when you're already feeling terribly lost and vulnerable. It seems personal, but it probably has more to do with the fact that married people get rattled when their friends divorce because it makes them question their own relationships. So they avoid their discomfort by not seeing you. Or it could be that they can't figure out the logistics -- if they invite you, should they not include him? -- so they take the coward's way out. If you've reached out to your old friends, and they haven't responded, it's probably time to move on. They may sort things out eventually and come back to you. In the meantime, invest your energy in friends who have been loyal to you and in making new ones. Q. My ex is throwing our son a birthday party -- and doesn't want me there. My son wants me to come anyway. What should I do? A. By excluding you from the party, your ex is asking your son to side with him. Naturally your son hates being put in that position and is trying to evade the conflict by asking you to crash the party. Unfortunately, that's not the best way to go. This struggle is between your son and his father, and, sadly, you can't fight it for him. Calmly encourage your son to talk with his dad. Suggest he say, "Dad, I appreciate the party you are throwing for me, and I want you to know that it's important to me that my mother be included." Dad may rant, fume, and finally go along. Or he may flatly refuse, leaving you to celebrate your son's big event in some other way, at some other time. Just remind yourself that you're not the one who is disappointing your son. Q. My new boyfriend wants to go to my daughter's soccer games with me, but he and my ex-husband have never met. How do you think I should proceed? A. It would be better if your boyfriend and your ex break the ice privately -- perhaps at custody swap time. That protects your daughter from the awkwardness she might feel having the meeting take place in front of her teammates and coach. In your understandable eagerness to form a new family, don't forget that your daughter has half her heart deep in the old one. See what her comfort level is. Does she start conversations with your boyfriend and want to include him in family activities? Or is she polite but distant, tagging the new entry as "Mom's friend, but not mine"? Don't push public activities until you're sure your child is ready. Instead, let them develop their relationship at home, where no one's watching. With some kids you can ask directly. "Bob would love to watch you play. Would it be okay if I brought him to the game Saturday?" A kid who sounds grudging or goes silent is reluctant. One who smiles and offers tentative approval, like, "I guess so" or "Well, tell him he can come if he wants to, but I'm not that good," may be telling you she's happy about the attention. Q. I still feel sexually attracted to my ex. Truthfully, we've hooked up a few times since the divorce. Why can't I just let him go? A. It's not surprising that you'd still feel a pull toward your ex. Old emotional habits don't disappear the moment your relationship changes. It'll help you to move on with your life if you start talking to him only about financial and parenting matters; resist being drawn into intimate conversations. You can be friends later, after you've developed a new, cooler relationship. Similarly, avoid situations that might provide a sexual opportunity. As long as you continue to put your ex in the role of man in your life, you won't have room for someone new. Q. My ex bad-mouths me to my daughter. How can I counteract that? A. There are two kinds of bad-mouthing: distortions of fact and attacks on character. Simply ignore his distortions of trivial facts. It doesn't matter when you told him about the school play or if you really sent over the baseball shirt and he forgot where it was. Your kids don't want to replay your battles. If your ex is distorting serious facts -- saying you had an affair or stole money when you didn't -- counter with a short, calm explanation. When your daughter blurts out, "Daddy says you're trying to steal his money so he won't have enough to take me on vacation," simply explain, "I would never steal from your father or anyone else. Your dad is mad at me, and when people are mad they say mean things. This is one of those times." Regarding remarks about you as a person, do your best not to take the bait. When your child reports, "Daddy says you're a witch," take a deep breath and respond, "Daddy must have been in a terrible mood to say that." 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nude pics, photos of nude woman and models Letters To DOMAI First of all, I want to thank you for an outstanding site, and for the clarity of your vision. I have to agree with many others: You have unveiled something that was there all along, but very rarely recognized as having intrinsic value. Most either run from the female form or attempt to consume it, and there is little room in our society for drinking in the beauty of it, and appreciate it for what it is -- an expression of the glory of all that is good, that was made to be enjoyed by all. Beauty has always held me in thrall -- whether it is an unspoiled mountain stream, a star-spangled sky, a mother nursing a child, or a young woman giving the gift of her beauty for others to enjoy. A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to discover two of these things brought together. I was exploring in a national park of great beauty (but nearly devoid of people,) while sorting out many things in my own head and life. I had driven down a dirt road about a mile from the main road, and parked by a small stream. From there, I had hiked down a trail, not knowing where it went -- just that it was farther away from roads and people. The Fall colors were in full swing. The trees were Maple, Aspen, Birch, and Hemlock, weaving a tapestry of reds, yellows, white, and light and dark green, that all contrasted with the vividly cloudless sky. The evergreens and fallen leaves combined to make a heavenly smell that was both earthy and sweet. Walking all alone through this perfectly silent wood, it felt as though I were walking through a holy place. In mile or so, I came to a larger stream, which was rippling and laughing gloriously in the morning sun. The trail stopped at a stream, for I could see the trail rising on the other side of the stream, about fifty feet away. Someone had thoughtfully built a wooden bench in this empty park, perfect for viewing the bubbling stream. I waded around in the stream for a while -- that water was COLD! -- looked at a couple of beautifully colored stones from the stream, and sat down on the bench to appreciate the scene. I thought that if perhaps I were lucky, I might have the chance to spy a moose or deer coming down to drink, even though it was mid-morning. I was luckier than I knew. I had been sitting there for some time, feeling absolutely content simply to be, when I heard the sound of voices across the stream. Two young women in sweat shirts, jeans and hiking boots, looking to be about college age, came down to the stream on the other side -- perhaps 70 feet away. I was at first a bit annoyed at the intrusion on the perfect solitude of the moment, then as they laughed and talked coming down to the stream, I realized that they fit, being there, even more than I did, and they were a part of that place, too. I was a part of that scene by being still, and quiet, and not disturbing anything, but they were a part of that same scene by being noisy, and laughing. Somehow, they carried a joyful energy that echoed the laughter of the stream. I couldn't hear what they said, and the occasional snippets of words I heard were in French, which I do not know. When they got to the stream, they put down a couple of small bags, and then began to pull off their boots and sweatshirts. I could understand why, as I had taken off my jacket a while before, and I was still quite warm. When they got their sweatshirts off, however, they did not stop. The first one to pull off her t-shirt revealed a slender but very fit body, with very small breasts, tiny nipples, and no bra. Just as she got her shirt all the way off, and began to wriggle out of her jeans, she caught sight of me. She gasped and held her shirt up to her chest, and said something to her friend, who looked over at me. I had already been smiling, but I gave a little wave that I hoped would be reassuring, and she smiled and waved back, and hollered "Allo!" Then, looking directly at me, she pulled her t-shirt off over her head, revealing a large sports bra. Still looking directly at me, she cupped her hands under her breasts and slid the bra off them, then over her head. It wasn't so much a provocative action as an unveiling -- I don't think she was trying to turn me on; I think she was just inviting me to enjoy the sight of her. She seemed to give a sigh of pleasure as they came free. Come to think of it, so did I. They were worth the wait. Very large breasts, with large nipples and dark areolas, pointing outward to defy the inevitable pull of the earth. She put her shirt and bra down on a rock, and then, with her back to me, pulled her jeans and panties down, and put them on the same rock. She had a magnificent figure, with a touch of love handles, but a perfect rear, and those wonderful breasts. She stood up straight, still with her back to me, and then turned around slowly to face her friend, but turning around three quarters of the way so that she did almost a full turn in front of me first. It was obvious she was enjoying putting on a show. Her friend was still standing there, staring at me and then over to her friend, with both hands holding her t-shirt all bunched up and covering her breasts but nothing else under bare shoulders in the sunlight, and a long expanse of what looked like a dancer's body, with well-defined muscles, jeans open and all the way unzipped, and just the very top of her panties showing. The larger girl put her hand on her friends hands and said something, motioning toward me with her head. The other girl nodded, smiled shyly, and then, also looking at me, slowly put her shirt down, then turned and put it on the rock with the other clothes. In a moment, they were both down to their birthday suits, and putting water shoes back on, began to wade into the stream. As they got into that cold water, they did a lot of gasping, laughing, and giggling while they played together in the stream. They looked over at me from time to time, but it was clear they did not want company. They were just enjoying being out there, being beautiful in the beauty of nature. It was also clear that they were ejoying the fact that I was watching them -- as if beauty is enhanced with somebody to appreciate it. The two of them frolicked in the sun and the stream, and I just kept smelling the earthy air, looking at the trees and sky, and looking -- always -- back to them. The one had medium-blond hair, nipples that seemed to get even more pointed as they grew in the cold water, and that dancer's body. The other had much more rounded curves, big nipples, not as much grace as the other, but more strength. The dancer was, I was surprised to see, entirely shaven everywhere but her head. The other seemed to be natural everywhere, with hair as dark below as above. After only about ten minutes or so, they climbed back out and returned to their rock to dress. Dripping wet, and still bare of anything except the cold water still running off of her body -- even pubic hair -- the dancer who had been so shy turned back to face me across the stream, and with a huge smile, gave a slow, full-body stretch in the sunlight, that revealed her entire self to a stranger. When she finished the stretch, she looked over to see me applauding. Her friend had scooped up their clothes by then, and with a final smile from them both and an "au revoir!" they headed back up the bank, wearing nothing but their water shoes and carrying all their clothes. I continued to sit on that bench by that stream for another half hour or so, before heading back up to my car. Somehow, the problems I had been facing were insignificant in the face of such beauty. Here's an odd thing. Superficially neither of them were up to the standards of the DOMAI models, yet the gift they gave to each other and to me that day had such power that they were transformed, and so was I. Never in all my life have I seen such beauty as in that mountain stream. I would not have believed such beautiful women existed anywhere, yet they were quite ordinary, physically. It was the gift of themselves that made them so glorious. Their beauty and their joy was far greater because I enjoyed them, too. I had always thought it a bit odd that the stories people write about encounters like this one always seem to be about people with movie-star like beauty. People talk about wood nymphs and goddesses, and I would give a little snort of incredulity. Now, finally, I begin to understand. It is not exceptional physical characteristics that make a woman truly beautiful, it is her willingness to open her heart to another. The gift those two women gave me of being able to enjoy their uncovered beauty was what made their uncovered beauty so beautiful. (I know that's circular, but I can't describe it any better than that.) In fact, it made me think of something. If you decide to publish this (and you are welcome to,) I would very much like to hear the point of view of some of your female readers on the following. Given the power of the unveiling I saw, could it be that the reason many women (a) work so hard to look beautiful, and (b) have such a hard time with honest male appreciation of their bodies, is because the women want to give their beauty away, so to speak, knowing themselves to be art to be enjoyed, whereas the men are speaking honestly of sexual union, and seek a possession rather than an enjoyment? (That still doesn't feel as if I said it right, but I'm trying to ask if women feel they are somehow made to be looked at and enjoyed, including appreciation of their unclothed body by strangers male and/or female. The second thing I'm trying to ask is if they find it difficult, frightening, or offensive when the assumption is made that because their beauty is shared freely, their sexuality is also freely available. The REAL question I'm asking by implication is, would most women enjoy giving the gift of their unclothed beauty to strangers, if it were truly safe?) Whatever the answers are, and no matter what anyone else thinks, I will remember the gift of that day forever. Barbara S. says: YES, and YES, if the women knew it was safe and without strings attached. Mark says: Thanks to the reply by Barbara and to those readers who sent me emails. 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Why Study Electrical and Computer Engineering? A Q&A with Tim Chang Professor Timothy Chang Why Study Electrical and Computer Engineering? A Question and Answer Session with Professor Tim Chang • How does electrical and computer engineering (ECE) differ from computer science? • Which students should major in electrical and computer engineering? • What do NJIT students enjoy most about their ECE major? These are the questions high school students commonly have about ECE, says Tim Chang, professor of electrical and computer engineering. What kind of high school students should consider majoring in electrical and computer engineering at NJIT? Electrical and computer engineering should be the major of choice for students who want to learn how to make a better iPod or cell phone or how to make a faster computer. If a student likes gadgets and is interested in how they work, he or she should consider majoring in electrical and computer engineering. ECE is a major for students who like science and math as well as computers and electronics. It's for students who want to work on innovative technologies, may it be in automation, robotics, computers, communications or electronics. Many of these technologies feed into other industries such as airplanes, cars and manufacturing, so I consider electrical and computer engineering to be the driver of technological innovation. How does computer engineering differ from computer science? Computer engineering majors work on the hardware as well as the software of computers. Computer science students focus on software. By hardware I mean computer engineering students learn how to build parts of or an entire computer. They study all the computer components: the networks and how they talk to each other and how to make a better computer chip -- these are hardware areas. In short, our computer engineering students learn how to design, build and program a computer. What do your students most enjoy about ECE? Students who major in electrical and computer engineering at NJIT have lots of fun. They love hands-on design projects, and that’s a lot of what they do. Every semester, for example, the ECE department hosts a design competition. Students divide into teams and work on new technologies. One recent student team designed a walky-talky system with GPS that allows users to locate each other’s positions. Another team designed a two-wheeled robot that can enter a room and map it instantly, and a third team made a device that, when installed in a car, could signal police if the driver were to crash. Can you describe a hands-on project that your students are now working on? A team of ECE students is involved in the DARPA Urban Challenge. They are designing a robotic, driverless car that must ride miles, without crashing, through a mock city. The race is sponsored by the military, which is looking to use more robotic tanks and trucks and vehicles. The NJIT team is an alliance of 25 students, faculty advisers and corporate sponsors such as IBM, BAE Systems and General Motors. The companies have given the students funding, components, technology as well technical advice. It’s a student-centered project in which the students plan and run the program, with support from faculty and the NJIT administration. Last year, the student who led the DARPA team received many job offers from industry representatives who came to see the team’s presentation. What are your classes like? Are they interactive? My classes consist of lectures, mini-labs and class exercises. After each major topic, there is a class exercise in which students work together. Our labs take place in the computer lab and, working in teams, we use different software to solve problems. In my classes, I use projects to motivate my students. I use state of the art software and engineering data to produce animated videos of robots, cranes, etc. Students love animation, and all these things make the subjects more interesting. They are accustomed to using fancy gadgets. They don’t have the patience for pen and paper, so I let them express themselves through software design or hardware design. That heightens their interest and motivates them. NJIT makes science lively and interesting and gender friendly. We have many woman students who work as facilitators – student tutors – and they are doing a great job. What were your main interests when you were younger? How did you get interested in ECE? I was interested in all sorts of new things: When I was in kindergarten, I wanted my own vegetable farm. A few years later, I wanted an electronics shop. Then I sold my own brand of panda-bear handkerchiefs. But in high school I loved chemistry lab, and in college I started out studying chemical engineering. I quickly switched to electrical engineering, however, because of a new-found passion for computers. After my third year in college, I got interested in automatic control -- automation, machine intelligence, robotics -- and that’s where I have stayed. What are your research interests? I love robots, especially those on the atomic level. These robots are so small and capable of such minute movements; they can probe into your cells and extract your nucleus. In another research project, I’m working to deposit the entire human gene sequence onto a computer chip. What kind of careers do ECE majors commonly pursue? The engineering education they get is rigorous. They learn how to think critically and to solve problems. Their broad knowledge can be applied to an array of careers. ECE graduates work in business; some run their own companies while others continue their study to become lawyers and doctors. But the majority of our grads work as electrical and computer engineers. They will be the ones to shepherd in the next generation of innovative technologies. Soon, there will be an MP3 player far superior to the iPod; there will be faster lap tops and cells phones and a much better iPhone. Our students will be the ones who will design these new technologies. They will have creative careers, and the starting salaries for computer engineers are among the highest of any engineering field. I often receive emails from our graduates, telling me about their careers and about how they benefited from studying electrical and computer engineering at NJIT. It’s a wonderful feeling to know that our graduates do well and that they appreciate what they learned here at NJIT. 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Summer is upon us, which means a lot of things. Time spent by the pool, family barbecues, and taking trips to the beach are all par for the course. Our favorite thing about summer, however, is ice cream (or in this case, sorbet!) In this recipe, we use the characteristically apple-flavored Sauvignon Blanc in our sorbet to make a yummy and refreshing treat for those extra hot days. - ¾ cup of sugar - 1¼ pound of tart green apples (Granny Smith will do!), cored and cut into with 1-inch chunks and skin left on - ¾ cup of chilled Sauvignon Blanc - ¼ teaspoon of kosher salt - 1 teaspoon of lemon juice - 1 cup water 1) Heat 1 cup of water, ¾ cup of sugar, and all apples in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat until it comes to a gentle boil. 2) Once it reaches boiling, reduce heat to low, cover the pan halfway, then simmer until apples are tender (approximately 10 to 15 minutes). 3) Remove apples from heat and stir in wine, salt, and lemon juice. 4) Place the mixture in a fine-mesh strainer and mash into a bowl to remove skins. Whisk to blend leftovers until mixture is even. 5) Pour the puree into a small baking dish or other freezer-safe bowl. Place dish in freezer for 20 minutes to initially harden, then transfer to an airtight container to freeze for another 8 hours. 6) Serve and enjoy! (Recipe adapted from: My Recipes)	dclm_baseline	{'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8902965784072876}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '16502', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:PALUKPT7I4FWTQSXKDM7QFMYYJMZZCR3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d03fd106-47c5-4f64-af1f-ba3076f812ce>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 10, 21, 27, 44), 'WARC-IP-Address': '184.154.33.74', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WCMIJ2IQYHP7AJG32VWU2S6BQQVKU3PQ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a56fb456-9625-42fa-9bd7-e0435569719a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://livethecavitlife.com/recipe.php?id=1996137', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d1e64d32-35cc-4334-9536-5c5417eb5361>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '244', 'url': 'http://livethecavitlife.com/recipe.php?id=1996137', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin ([email protected])\r\nhostname: ip-10-182-98-18.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02588886022567749', 'original_id': '38c2af185136689d245b9e8996f21c85d28546662cdf97a3f70c201f234895da'}
Train them young: E. Sreedharan The system of engineering education in the country needs a complete overhaul, says E. Sreedharan, one of the best engineering minds in the country today, in this second part of the interview granted to Construction Philosophy team. Construction Philosophy: What do you think about the quality of engineering graduates these days? 1. Sreedharan: The quality of engineers coming out of colleges is very poor. Actually, I am engaged in a fight with the government on the issue. I had filed a PIL pointing out the quality of engineering education and seeking steps to improve the education system with greater stress on the technical aspects. The government was cornered. The court asked it to improve the situation. The government submitted before the court that it would come up with a proper education policy in two months. Eight months have passed, but nothing has changed. Now I am told the government is coming up with an action plan. Let’s see what happens. Q: Who is to be blamed for dip in quality of engineering education? The government controls everything here. It interferes in the education system. But it does not have the expertise to do that. Nor does it get the services of those who can help them out. Most decisions are made for political convenience. Otherwise, what is the need for 150 engineering colleges in a small state like Kerala with a population of about 3.3 crore? We just require 30 or 35 government or government-aided colleges. The flipside is that Kerala has about 2 lakh engineering graduates who are unemployed or underemployed. The other day, I came across a post-graduate structural engineer working as a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE). This is called under-employment. Why should we have so many engineering colleges? There are 30 colleges in Kerala which are government or government-aided. We do not require any more private colleges. A study by The Week last year had found that only 20% of the engineering graduates in India are employable, 30% can be made employable with further training, and 50% are just not employable at all. Just see the standard of education! All these details are there in my PIL. 1. If you are assigned the task of improving the standard of engineering education, will you take up the challenge? I have taken up a lot of work in my life. If it were 5 years ago I would have been happy to be part of such a project. But now I am 87. There are limitations. So, I won’t be able to take up such a task. 1. What are the key criteria in building a team of engineers? The first thing I check is integrity. The person should take up responsibilities and should be reliable. The second is attitude. I never gave any weightage for experience or knowledge. If a man is upright and has the right attitude, he can be trained or we can put somebody to help him. Training is important. Whenever I recruit new engineers, I immediately send them for training. Every engineer gets extensive training before the work begins. You will be surprised to hear that during Konkan railways project, we had a separate training centre. Every engineer was sent for concrete technology training where a proper training on how concrete is made, how to supervise were given. We also insisted that the contractors must give training to the workers. Training made a lot of difference. L&T does give proper training to its employees. 1. Government jobs are open to anyone who passes an exam. Do you think a person getting into this system requires prior training? The government must give the engineers training at the beginning of their career. There must be refresher training every 5 or 10 years. This is not happening here. I had written to V.S. Achuthanandan after he took over as Chairman of the Administrative Reforms Committee asking him to take up this issue. Let the engineers be in charge of the engineering department. Train the engineers to be in charge of engineering departments. Good people should be picked up to head these departments. What’s happening in the Public Works Department now cannot continue any longer. Now there is no accountability nor any initiative in the PWD. The engineering profession as such is turning out to be a big scam. A a person completing MBBS course has to do one-year house surgeoncy before she or he gets the accreditation. This gives them exposure and practical training. But that’s not happening in the case of engineers! 1. Do you feel the experience of an engineer has to be analysed before the project is handed over? Absolutely! The project should be investigated, measured and planned properly before taking it up. In other countries, people spend more time on investigation, design and planning than for execution. But in India, it is different. 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