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The Jedi and the Bishop: two men from Essex, two religious outlooks By Laurence Cawley BBC Inside Out • Published Michael Kitchen, JediImage source, Laurence__Cawley Image caption, Raised in a non-religious family, Michael Kitchen is now a senior figure in the Temple of the Order of the Jedi Both Stephen Cottrell and Michael Kitchen were born in Essex, both are the sons of non-religious parents and both went on to study religion. But that is where the similarities end. Michael Kitchen laughs and shakes his head when asked the inevitable question: do you have a light sabre? He does not. In fact he is not particularly keen on the Star Wars films. Though he does have a robe. Born and raised in Saffron Walden, Mr Kitchen has been a member of the Temple of the Jedi Order for seven years. His Jedi name is Akkarin and he is a member of the order's inner sanctum, the council. Image source, AP Image caption, Michael Kitchen says Jedis do not need to dress up or carry a light sabre Stephen Cottrell was born in Leigh-on-Sea and has been the Bishop of Chelmsford since 2010. A founding member of the College of Evangelists, he has also served on the Church of England's Mission, Renewal and Evangelism committee. But how do their spiritual journeys compare, what do they make of each other's beliefs and does Jediism shed any light on the world of "new religions"? Journey of faith Image source, Laurence__Cawley Image caption, Bishop Stephen Cottrell describes his journey towards faith akin to "falling in love" Both Bishop Stephen and Mr Kitchen say they were brought up in families that were "not particularly religious". But while Mr Kitchen, 22, says he was an atheist before finding Jediism, Bishop Stephen felt from an early age a longing to "change the world". "About seven years ago my father told me there was this thing called the Jedi religion," says Mr Kitchen. "I thought it was a bit of a joke. "I 'Googled' it and while I was reading through some of the beliefs that were outlined I thought this was something I could really relate to." "Believing in something inspired by a fictional universe, well I suppose it is a bit crazy. "But once you start trying to understand what it is about, and once you get down to the substance of it, most people are in broad agreement." Bishop Stephen, on the other hand, says his journey of faith was akin to "falling in love". "As a student I was very political and politically active," he said. "I wanted, and I still want, to change the world. "I think increasingly I came to understand that most of the problems of the world begin in the human heart. How does the heart change? Only then (when we can answer that) can we change the world. "So a number of things led me to think maybe there is a god. "And once I had started down that road, I found faith. But it was a long journey for me." Each other Image source, Laurence__Cawley Image caption, Although he first thought Jediism was "a joke", Michael Kitchen says he found its tenets made sense to him "Anybody can become a Jedi. Many people find they already agree with much of the teaching, such as equality and treating people with respect. "Being a Christian does not mean you cannot be a Jedi," says Mr Kitchen, who openly accepts Jediism has taken on aspects from other religions, including Christianity. "I think we all know where Jediism comes from," says Bishop Stephen. "We've seen the Star Wars films, and we're all actually quite attracted to the powerful idea of a force for good and force for evil. "These are not strange concepts to the Christian faith. "But it is not a religion in the sense that it is about what God has done. In this case it is about what George Lucas has done." Asked whether he thought God would punish somebody for believing in Jediism, Bishop Stephen said: "No, no - but I think he might have a wry smile." Image caption, Bishop Stephen believes God exists outside of time and space "I believe as a Christian that I am responding not to a set of beautiful ideas created by another human being, I am responding to God himself who acted in Jesus Christ," says Bishop Stephen. Bishop Stephen believes in a God which exists outside of both time and space. And because he exists beyond time, is therefore "equidistant" from everybody who has ever, or will ever, live. Asked about other - especially the "new" - religions, Bishop Stephen sees them as various expressions of a deep inner "longing" for the spiritual, and for God. But the idea of new religions taking elements from older religions, practices and beliefs jars with Bishop Stephen, for whom religion is about God and truth, and not about selecting possibly tasty items from a "smorgasbord" of spiritual fancies. Mr Kitchen, on the other hand, does not believe in a god. So it might come as a surprise to some that he is studying comparative religion at the University of Kent. Mr Kitchen sees religions as a means of living well in a social setting and the study of them is a way of studying the various ways societies over time and space have endeavoured to achieve this. But while Mr Kitchen might not believe in a god, he does believe in a power beyond the human. "We don't believe in a metaphysical deity, but something which we call the force," he says. "For many people this might be an energy field or it might be relationship between objects and people in the universe." Mr Kitchen says some Jedi believe Jediism to be more a moral code rather than a religion. The central tenets of this code concern non-discrimination, reciprocity and the importance of all life. Image source, Laurence__Cawley Image caption, Bishop Stephen says his journey of faith grew out of political activism "Prayer," says Bishop Stephen, "is the most natural thing in the world, uniting the human heart with the heart of God. It is not just what we say to God; it is the way God speaks and acts through us. "When we pray we open ourselves up to God's purposes for the world and we become, as it were, the answer to our own prayers. "Our hearts and wills are united and aligned with God's heart and will, as we have seen it and as it has been made available to us through Jesus Christ." Jediism does not involve prayer, but meditation and quiet contemplation form a key part in Jedi practice. Image caption, The Jedi church is based entirely online where members meet and discuss issues of interest and seek advice The Jedi place of worship is the internet. They have no physical buildings. The Jedi website hosts sermons, information and a lively topic forum, covering such issues as what it means to be a Jedi. Discussions on whether Jedi in the US should carry weapons also feature - as do matters of etiquette. Mr Kitchen says the Jedi would struggle to exist as a community without the internet because its members, sparsely peppered across the globe, would have been unlikely to encounter one another in the flesh. This may surprise some who, if they believed the census figures of 2001 and 2011, might think Jedis were lurking on every street. The 2001 census saw 390,000 people declare themselves Jedis, apparently making Jediism the nation's fourth most popular religion - above both Judaism and Buddhism. By 2011, that number had dropped to about 170,000. Image caption, Church buildings are used for a wide variety of services including prayer sessions But Mr Kitchen says the census figures should not be taken seriously. He estimates there are just a few thousands Jedi in the world. The Church of England, which has about one million people participating in services each Sunday, also has a website. But it also has more than 16,000 churches up and down the country used for all manner of services including weddings and christenings, as well as a quiet setting for private prayer. Expert View Beth Singler, of the University of Cambridge's school of divinity, says: • People might think Jediism is "silly" because of "unfamiliarity". People might know about Jediism through the Star Wars films, but not "the religious practice that is drawn from" those films • With established religions, people have "several hundred years to get used to" them - "the way they dress, the style of their buildings and their forms of religious worship" • Jediism is attractive to "a certain generation, one which has grown up with the science fiction stories and it expands on their already quite intense interest in science fiction and a culture of expressing their own inventions and desires" Seeking good Image source, Laurence__Cawley Image caption, Michael Kitchen believes in a "force" rather than a deity "God rejoices whenever human beings seek that which is good," says Bishop Stephen. "So if a person who is a Jedi is compelled, or propelled, to lead a good life, to love his neighbour, to care for the earth, then God can do nothing but rejoice." "We don't take inspiration from Star Wars but from what George Lucas was inspired by in creating Star Wars - a range of much older spiritualist beliefs," says Mr Kitchen. "Everyone is their own hero. Rather than trying to dictate to people, Jediism encourages people find their own answers as to what should be done." Inside Out will be broadcast on BBC One in the east of England at 19:30 GMT and available on iPlayer afterwards. Related Internet Links The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.
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Wedding Present frontman David Gedge has admitted he's loving taking a trip down memory lane - despite expecting to hate it. The evergreen Leeds indie outfit have revisited some of their classic albums in recent years and will headline Glasgow's O2 ABC on Friday night to play their Hit Parade collection of singles from the early 90s. Yet looking to the past initially filled the singer with horror. "It's surprised me how much I've enjoyed it," he says. "When the idea was first suggested in 2007, it was our old record label's idea, as they wanted to do a 20th anniversary re-release of George Best [the band's 1987 debut]. They asked me if I'd be interested in playing it in full, live and I said 'definitely not'. "I was thinking about the next album, rather than nostalgia. Then everyone I spoke to said 'aww, you've got to do it live'. "Reluctantly I did it, and found it really interesting - it was like looking at an old diary - 20 years later you've changed as a person and obviously the songs are quite personal, so it's a bit surreal. "At the risk of sounding pretentious, maybe the past is as important as the future for the Wedding Present, and there's no reason why they can't co-exist." Since then the band, of whom David's the only remaining original member, have rolled through albums Bizarro and Seamonsters, records that secured the group a place as indie royalty of the time, favourites of John Peel and hailed by some devotees as even better than the Smiths. Now they're re-visiting the Hit Parade period, a creative hot streak that saw the band release 12 singles in as many months. Each track charted in the Top 30, resulting in the band being tied with Elvis Presley for having most Top 30 hits in a single year. It's a period David recalls fondly. "I really loved that whole series, doing the b-sides, the videos and it was a hectic period," he adds. "There was a lot to fit in, but that was part of the charm, to have this deadline. It was like doing a magazine, having a certain deadline to reach. It's a weird feeling, having that pressure. It's nice to work on something until you're happy with it, but then you're never happy with it, and that's why bands disappear for five years before an album comes out. "We'd do Peel sessions and in one day we'd record four songs, and some people say those songs sound better than the proper versions." While the band will be revisiting older songs, the singer isn't happy to strictly recreate them, and is always interested in altering them for, he hopes, the better. You learn to do things better, and on all the tours the songs have sounded better than the originals," he says. "That's probably because I've got better musicians now, better equipment and just more experience. The bottom line is I'm trying to improve them without losing what made them good in the first place. "I've seen some people, like Lou Reed, who'll do an old Velvet Underground song and plaster it with a guitar solo or some really terrible session musician type stuff and I really don't want to do that to my work. I want to keep the spirit of the originals." He hasn't purely become hooked on nostalgia, though. This tour will see the band releasing a new single, Two Bridges, that was recorded in one day, while he hopes to write enough new material to release a new album next year. He's also a big fan of trips to Glasgow, where the band have played many times. "You get places where people just want to stand and watch, somewhere like Glasgow people are more into it," he adds. "Bands thrive on that, it can be a bit soul-destroying when you put 100% in and are faced with people just watching you. In Glasgow you get something back and that fires you on." It's not just music David's involved with. For the past few years he's occasionally released a Wedding Present comic book, telling stories from the band's history. A long-time comic book fan, who's frequently dropped in comic references in his songs and takes time during the interview to enthuse about a James Bond compilation he's reading, it was a natural format for him to choose. "I've always been interested in graphic novel," he says. "Secondly, I'm not sure I'm either famous enough or qualified as a writer to do an autobiography, I'm not sure anyone would be interested. Whereas a comic means I can do little bits of Wedding Present history as I go along and shape it into a little story. "I think avoiding that self-importance is important for the band. I'm just flattered people like us, really. It's always something I'm grateful for." n The Wedding Present, O2 ABC, Friday, £16, 7pm
Gilbert N. Lewis : définition de Gilbert N. Lewis et synonymes de Gilbert N. Lewis (anglais) Publicité ▼ définition - Gilbert N. Lewis voir la définition de Wikipedia Gilbert N. Lewis Gilbert N. Lewis Born (1875-10-23)October 23, 1875 Weymouth, Massachusetts Died March 23, 1946(1946-03-23) (aged 70) Berkeley, California Nationality American Fields Physical chemist Doctoral advisor Theodore William Richards Doctoral students Michael Kasha Harold Urey Known for Covalent bond Lewis dot structures Valence bond theory Electronic theory of acids and bases Chemical thermodynamics Heavy water Named photon Explained phosphorescence Influences Irving Langmuir Merle Randall Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society[1] Gilbert Newton Lewis FRS[1] (October 23, 1875 – March 23, 1946)[2] was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond (see his Lewis dot structures and his 1916 paper "The Atom and the Molecule"), his purification of heavy water, his reformulation of chemical thermodynamics in a mathematically rigorous manner accessible to ordinary chemists, his theory of Lewis acids and bases, and his photochemical experiments. In 1926, Lewis coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy. He was a brother in Alpha Chi Sigma, the professional chemistry fraternity, and for most of his long professorial career, a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was born and raised in Weymouth, Massachusetts, where there exists a street named for him, G.N. Lewis Way, off of Summer Street. Additionally, the wing of the new Weymouth High School Chemistry department has been named in his honor. After earning his Ph.D. at Harvard under the direction of Theodore Richards, Lewis stayed as an instructor for a year before taking a traveling fellowship, studying under the physical chemists Wilhelm Ostwald at Leipzig and physicist Walther Nernst at Göttingen.[3] While working in Nernst's lab, Nernst and Lewis apparently developed a lifelong enmity. A friend of Nernst's, Wilhelm Palmær, was a member of the Nobel Chemistry Committee. There is evidence that he used the Nobel nominating and reporting procedures to block a Nobel Prize for Lewis in thermodynamics by nominating Lewis for the prize three times, and then using his position as a committee member to write negative reports.[4] After his stay in Nernst's lab, Lewis returned to Harvard as an instructor for three more years, and in 1904 left to become Superintendent of Weights and Measures for the Bureau of Science of the Philippine Islands in Manila. The next year he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appointed him to a faculty position, in which he had a chance to join a group of outstanding physical chemists under the direction of Arthur Amos Noyes. He became an assistant professor in 1907, associate professor on 1908, and full professor in 1911. He left MIT in 1912 to become a professor of physical chemistry and dean of the College of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Lewis Hall at Berkeley, built in 1948, is named in his honor. Lewis' cubical atoms (as drawn in 1902) About 1902 Lewis started to use unpublished drawings of cubical atoms in his lecture notes, in which the corners of the cube represented possible electron positions. Lewis later cited these notes in his classic 1916 paper on chemical bonding, as being the first expression of his ideas. In 1908 he published the first of several papers on relativity, in which he derived the mass-energy relationship in a different way from Albert Einstein's derivation.[5] In 1909, he and Richard Tolman combined his methods with special relativity.[6] In 1912 Lewis and Edwin Bidwell Wilson presented a major work in mathematical physics that not only applied synthetic geometry to the study of spacetime, but also noted the identity of a spacetime squeeze mapping and a Lorentz transformation.[7] [8] Lewis also introduced the thermodynamic concept of activity and coined the term "fugacity".[9] On June 21, 1912, he married Mary Hinckley Sheldon, daughter of a Harvard professor of Romance languages. They had two sons, both of whom became chemistry professors, and a daughter. In 1913, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He resigned in 1934, refusing to state the cause for his resignation; it has been speculated that it was due to a dispute over the internal politics of that institution or to the failure of those he had nominated to be elected. His decision to resign may have been sparked by resentment over the award of the 1934 Nobel Prize for chemistry to his student, Harold Urey, for the discovery of deuterium, a prize Lewis almost certainly felt he should have shared for his work on purification and characterization of heavy water.[10] In 1916, he published his classic paper on chemical bonding "The Atom and the Molecule"[11] in which he formulated the idea of what would become known as the covalent bond, consisting of a shared pair of electrons, and he defined the term odd molecule (the modern term is free radical) when an electron is not shared. He included what became known as Lewis dot structures as well as the cubical atom model. These ideas on chemical bonding were expanded upon by Irving Langmuir and became the inspiration for the studies on the nature of the chemical bond by Linus Pauling. In 1919, by studying the magnetic properties of solutions of oxygen in liquid nitrogen, he found that O4 molecules were formed. This was the first evidence for tetratomic oxygen. In 1921, Lewis was the first to propose an empirical equation describing the failure of strong electrolytes to obey the law of mass action, a problem that had perplexed physical chemists for twenty years. His empirical equations for what he called ionic strength were later confirmed to be in accord with the Debye-Hückel equation for strong electrolytes, published in 1923. In 1923, he formulated the electron-pair theory of acid-base reactions. In the so-called Lewis theory of acids and bases, a "Lewis acid" is an electron-pair acceptor and a "Lewis base" is an electron-pair donor. This year he also published a monograph on his theories of the chemical bond[12] Based on work by J. Willard Gibbs, it was known that chemical reactions proceeded to an equilibrium determined by the free energy of the substances taking part. Lewis spent 25 years determining free energies of various substances. In 1923 he and Merle Randall published the results of this study,[13] which helped formalize modern chemical thermodynamics. In 1926, he coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy (light). Actually, the outcome of his letter [14] to Nature was not what he had intended. In the letter, he proposed a photon being a structural element, not energy. He insisted on the need for a new variable, the number of photons. Although his theory differed from the quantum theory of light introduced by Albert Einstein in 1905, his name was adopted for what Einstein had called a light quantum (Lichtquant in German). Lewis was the first to produce a pure sample of deuterium oxide (heavy water) in 1933[15] and the first to study survival and growth of life forms in heavy water.[16][17] By accelerating deuterons (deuterium nuclei) in Ernest O. Lawrence's cyclotron, he was able to study many of the properties of atomic nuclei[citation needed]. During the 1930s, he was mentor to Glenn T. Seaborg, who was retained for post-doctoral work as Lewis' personal research assistant. Seaborg went on to win the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and have the element seaborgium named in his honor while he was still alive. Later years Over the course of his career, Lewis published on many other subjects besides those mentioned in this entry, ranging from the nature of light quanta to the economics of price stabilization. In the last years of his life, Lewis and graduate student Michael Kasha, his last research associate, established that phosphorescence of organic molecules involves emission of light from one electron in an excited triplet state (a state in which two electrons have their spin vectors oriented in the same direction, but in different orbitals) and measured the magnetic nature of this triplet state, paramagnetism.[18] In 1946, a graduate student found Lewis's lifeless body under a laboratory workbench at Berkeley. Lewis had been working on an experiment with liquid hydrogen cyanide, and deadly fumes from a broken line had leaked into the laboratory. The coroner ruled that the cause of death was coronary artery disease, but some believe that it may have been a suicide. Berkeley Emeritus Professor William Jolly, who reported the various views on Lewis's death in his 1987 history of UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry, From Retorts to Lasers, wrote that a higher-up in the department believed that Lewis had committed suicide. If Lewis's death was indeed a suicide, a possible explanation was depression brought on by a lunch with Irving Langmuir. Langmuir and Lewis had a long rivalry, dating back to Langmuir's extensions of Lewis's theory of the chemical bond. Langmuir had been awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on surface chemistry, while Lewis had not received the Prize despite having been nominated 35 times. On the day of Lewis's death, Langmuir and Lewis had met for lunch at Berkeley, a meeting that Michael Kasha recalled only years later.[19] Associates reported that Lewis came back from lunch in a dark mood, played a morose game of bridge with some colleagues, then went back to work in his lab. An hour later, he was found dead. Langmuir's papers at the Library of Congress confirm that he had been on the Berkeley campus that day to receive an honorary degree. See also 1. ^ a b Hildebrand, J. H. (1947). "Gilbert Newton Lewis. 1875-1946". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 5 (15): 491. DOI:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0014. edit 2. ^ Gilbert Newton Lewis: American chemist (1875-1946), Woodrow Wilson Leadership Program in Chemistry 3. ^ Edsall, J. T. (November 1974). "Some notes and queries on the development of bioenergetics. Notes on some "founding fathers" of physical chemistry: J. Willard Gibbs, Wilhelm Ostwald, Walther Nernst, Gilbert Newton Lewis". Mol. Cell. Biochem. 5 (1–2): 103–12. DOI:10.1007/BF01874179. PMID 4610355. 4. ^ Coffey (2008): 195-207. 5. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1908). "s:A revision of the Fundamental Laws of Matter and Energy". Philosophical Magazine 16: 705–717 6. ^ Lewis, G. N. & Richard C. Tolman (1909). "s:The Principle of Relativity, and Non-Newtonian Mechanics". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 44: 709–26 7. ^ Edwin B. Wilson & Gilbert N. Lewis (1912) "The Space-time Manifold of Relativity. The Non-Euclidean Geometry of Mechanics and Electromagnetics" Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 48:387-507 8. ^ Synthetic Spacetime, a digest of the axioms used, and theorems proved, by Wilson and Lewis. Archived by WebCite 9. ^ (1908) "The osmotic pressure of concentrated solutions, and the laws of the perfect solution," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 30: 668-683. 10. ^ Coffey (2008): 221-22. 11. ^ Lewis G.N. J.Amer.Chem.Soc. vol.38, no.4(1916) The Atom and the Molecule 12. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1926) Valence and the Nature of the Chemical Bond. Chemical Catalog Company. 13. ^ Lewis, G. N. and Merle Randall (1923) Thermodynamics and the Free Energies of Chemical Substances. McGraw-Hill. 14. ^ Lewis, G.N. (1926). "The conservation of photons". Nature 118 (2981): 874–875. Bibcode 1926Natur.118..874L. DOI:10.1038/118874a0. http://www.nobeliefs.com/photon.htm. 15. ^ Lewis, G. N.; MacDonald, R. T. (1933). "Concentration of H2 Isotope". The Journal of Chemical Physics 1 (6): 341. Bibcode 1933JChPh...1..341L. DOI:10.1063/1.1749300. edit 16. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1933). "THE BIOCHEMISTRY OF WATER CONTAINING HYDROGEN ISOTOPE". Journal of the American Chemical Society 55: 3503–3504. DOI:10.1021/ja01335a509. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021%2Fja01335a509. edit 17. ^ Lewis, G. N. (1934). "THE BIOLOGY OF HEAVY WATER". Science 79 (2042): 151–153. Bibcode 1934Sci....79..151L. DOI:10.1126/science.79.2042.151. PMID 17788137. edit 18. ^ G.N. Lewis and M. Kasha, J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 66, 2100-2116(1944) Phosphorescence and the Triplet State 19. ^ Coffey (2008): 310-15. Further reading • Coffey, Patrick (2008) Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532134-0 External links Publicité ▼ Toutes les traductions de Gilbert N. 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Alcohol consumption is dangerous for everyone One of the depressants is alcohol, which has a significant amount of ethanol. People who consume alcohol for a long time become physically dependent, and alcohol has a significant impact on the role of consumers in society. Wine, beer and beverages Distillates are the three main groups of alcoholic beverages. Recent research by British scientists has shown that alcohol consumption, even in small amounts, is dangerous for all age groups and has irreparable consequences. In addition to increasing heart disease and stroke, alcohol consumption causes Alzheimer’s disease in early middle age and affects the nervous system of the brain. One of the most common diseases caused by alcohol consumption is the weakening of the eyes and in people who consume it regularly, it results in blindness and loss of vision. Alcohol also causes cancers of the esophagus, mouth, trachea, larynx and throat. Contrary to popular belief, drinking not only does not reduce the risk of heart disease, but there is a strong link between alcohol consumption and heart disease, especially heart attack, according to the UK Health Advisor. Source: Fars News Agency Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Back to top button
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3 Short Squeeze Candidates Trading Under $5 Low float stocks can be some of the most volatile stocks in the market. If you mix in a short squeeze, the potential short-term gains in a low float stock can be extreme. A stock's float is the number of shares that trade freely on the public market. Because insiders and institutional investors don’t typically trade their shares on a daily basis, those shares don’t typically contribute to a stock's near-term liquidity. Float is the number of shares that remain after accounting for insider and institutional ownership. Why Is It Important? When a stock gains positive momentum in the market, momentum buyers can rush in all at once. If a stock has a high short interest, short covering can quickly ramp up demand for shares, triggering a short squeeze. Since low float stocks have relatively few shares trading freely, a major imbalance in supply and demand can serve as rocket fuel for the share price. Buying a low float stock with high short interest isn’t a guarantee of a short squeeze. There still typically needs to be some form of catalyst to get the stock moving in the first place. However, traders can keep an eye on these stocks for any signs of life to try to catch most of a potential big move. Related Link: 3 Short Squeeze Candidates With Tiny Floats Short Squeeze Candidates: Here are three stocks trading under $5 per share that have all the ingredients for a short squeeze. Support.com, Inc. SPRT Support.com may be the perfect short squeeze candidate under $5 because it has a built-in near-term catalyst for a squeeze. The company announced a reverse merger with Bitcoin BTC/USD miner Greenidge Generation Holdings back in March, and the merger is expected to be completed in the third quarter. Support.com’s 15 million-share float is very small, creating plenty of opportunity for extreme volatility if trading volume rises. Support.com also has 78.6% of its float held short, according to Ortex Analytics. The stock has previously demonstrated its potential for extreme volatility. When the merger deal was announced in March, the stock price rocketed from around $2.25 to as high as $9.45 in a single day. Finally, short squeeze traders have frequently targeted stocks trading under $5 per share this year, and Support.com’s shares currently trade at just $4.27. ReShape Lifesciences Inc RSLS ReShape Lifesciences is a medical device company that specializes in treating obesity and metabolic diseases. ReShape has reported net losses in each of the past five years, but as many so-called meme stock traders have realized in 2021, short squeezes are technical market phenomena and don’t necessarily have anything to do with the company’s underlying business fundamentals or the stock’s long-term outlook. ReShape has a float of 6.5 million, and a short percent of float of 28.2%, according to Finviz. Its stock price is also just $4.23, making it a prime short squeeze target. (Correction: A previous version of this story said ReShape's float was 520,000 shares.) Recon Technology, Ltd. RCON Recon Technology develops and markets oilfield equipment and services. Recon has a tiny float of 4.98 million shares and a 34.8% short percent of float, according to Finviz. The stock also has a history of extreme volatility. In the past year alone, Recon shares have traded as low as 75 cents and as high as $17.50. Today, the stock trades at $3.92. Posted In: Long IdeasPenny StocksShort SellersTop StoriesTrading Ideas
ICMI is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC Resisting Technology Temptation In An Age of Innovation 10101Not long ago, one of my contact center peers posed this question: "How can our industry use [insert emerging technology] in our operations?" The specific technology they asked about is unimportant; buzzwords like “artificial intelligence”, “machine learning”, “blockchain”, “metaverse”, and “5G” go in and out of the headlines daily. The way the question was posed caught my attention more than anything else. The technology in question was tangentially related to contact centers, at best. We hadn't identified any problems it could solve, yet there seemed to be some unspoken pressure to "do something, anything" with this innovation. I realized that not only had I heard this question before, but I'd also asked it myself. Technology is evolving and iteratively improving every day. Today's contact centers have amazing capabilities that we could have only dreamed of a few years ago, spurred on by solution providers who have made it easier than ever to bring the bleeding-edge right to your office. It made me wonder, "Are there any potential downsides to this fanfare and excitement?" My background is in information technology, and there was a time when I relished technology for technology's sake. Not long after I reached a position in which I could impose my ideology on unsuspecting end-users, I came to understand the consequences of shoehorning "awesome" solutions where they weren't the optimal fit. The latest and greatest technology in the wrong hands has the potential to diminish productivity, damage the user experience, and waste valuable resources. While it's thrilling to contemplate how we can employ new technologies, these tips may help you find balance and direct organizational energy where it will do the most good for your contact center. Don't Strive For Cutting Edge Beware of setting goals or assessing your contact center's success based on technology trends set by the wider industry. Amazing contact centers are characterized by the outcomes they deliver, the memories they make for customers, and the value created for the companies they serve. The fanciest automated quality scoring doesn't mean much if customers always walk away upset when agents do everything by the book. Customers care more about getting correct, helpful responses than dialogue that perfectly mirrors a script. Furthermore, the cutting edge isn't always trending in a direction that makes sense for your organization and its brand promise. For instance, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) has improved by leaps and bounds in recent history, and many firms have developed truly impressive voice assistants to greet customers when they call. That doesn't guarantee that customers will love them in their moment of crisis, and many companies that want to shine have regressed to human operators answering the phone after the first ring. Follow Your Strategy Every contact center should have a robust strategic plan driving its investments. Great strategic plans are born from critically reviewing the current state, evaluating what outcomes best support company objectives, and identifying opportunities to remove friction or build alignment to high-level goals. Meaningful strategic plans are multidimensional; they're formulated with the advice of every role and every level within the contact center to ensure no critical opportunities are overlooked. Technology should not be a strategic objective. On their own, gizmos and gadgets don't improve organizational performance. Improved performance comes from capabilities, speed, or reliability enabled by technology. By starting with the idea of what you want to achieve and later determining how to get there, you'll open the floor to many more diverse ideas. With a broader selection of alternatives to choose from, you can select an approach that best fits your team's budget, tolerance for change, and risk appetite. Specific technology implementations should only become a goal very late in problem-solving. Add Arbitrary Constraints While grand plans are thrilling to consider, they create substantial risk. Many situations warrant elaborate solutions, intricately planned projects, and hefty price tags, but you can overcome many hurdles with much simpler means. Particularly in large enterprises, it's easy to presume that every obstacle demands an answer of the same magnitude as our operation or with a particular technical pedigree. Begin with judgment-free brainstorming; it's good to think big! Then, evaluate other approaches to solve the problem. Imagine various constraints or channel your past experiences to force yourself and your team into greater creativity. Ask, "What if we had no budget?" or "What if we can't spare everyone for a half-day training?" Consider any previous small-scale attempts to address the same type of problem. Does the proposed solution share any common weaknesses? These mental exercises can help identify project risks early and prevent overengineering solutions. Build on a Solid Foundation Finally, the most crucial element of any process or service innovation is to begin on a solid foundation. The best-designed IVR cannot compensate for an inefficient organizational structure or a flawed service delivery model. The industry's leading AI-powered knowledge base tools can't compensate for articles that are difficult for agents to use or understand. Gamification won't motivate or retain agents who don't feel valued and respected by their managers. One may quickly become so enchanted with hip new product offerings that we forget where we're starting. We must step back and recognize that even the most advanced contact center hardware and software must successfully interface with our people, processes, and customers. To attain the inspiring results we read about in case studies, we must start with similar raw ingredients. Technology won't make us different; for the most part, it will amplify who we already are. It's best to layer new capabilities on an already well-oiled machine.
Your Family Matters The dangers of voice-activated devices On Behalf of \| Dec 20, 2018 \| car accidents As people become more aware of the dangers involved in distracted driving, cellphone and vehicle manufacturers look for ways to lessen the amount of distraction drivers’ experience while on the road. Voice-activated technology is designed to perform certain tasks when drivers speak commands. For example, a car equipped with voice-activated technology would allow people to call a contact, navigate the radio and even compose a text all while driving. A study released by AAA found that even though voice-activated technology reduces the amount of cognitive distraction caused by cellphone use, it still creates a significant amount of distraction, which may lead to a devastating car accident. The study looked at different voice-activated technologies implemented in various vehicles and how they affected a driver’s mental workload as they performed a host of tasks. Drivers were asked to initiate voice commands, such as dialing a contact, changing the radio station and changing a CD, as well as listen to email and text messages, compose replies to email and text messages and use Siri to update social media statuses, send text messages, listen to text messages and make calendar appointments. While some systems had computerized voices used in the technology, others had more natural voices. Researchers measured driver reaction time, heart rate and mental workload while they performed the tasks. The results showed that some built-in vehicle systems were harder to use than others, and as the level of difficulty increased, so did the levels of cognitive distraction. If car manufacturers streamlined the voice-activated technology and made it easier to use, this could result in reduced levels of distraction. Yet, performing any type of mental task while driving takes a driver’s mind off of the road.
Dear Dr. Goodhook, I’ve been reading a lot about the importance of a good physician cover letter, but as I apply to jobs, I find myself struggling. A cover letter just seems like a way to restate my CV, and I’m having a hard time seeing the point. Can’t an employer determine that I’m a good fit just by looking at my CV? Also, I was wondering how I should change my letter for each opportunity. Is it OK to send the same cover letter to every job? If not, how should I tailor my letter to a specific employer? Anxious in Asheville Dear Anxious, Might I compare your situation to the bizarre, newfangled world of online dating? Sending a potential employer your CV without a well-written cover letter is akin to sending a potential romantic companion your photo without a message. While this approach may work for some, I think we can all agree it is in bad taste. If your physician cover letter seems redundant to you, try approaching it from a new angle. Instead of thinking of it as a “rehash” of your CV, think of it as a conversation. The key is this: Ask yourself what you would say to your potential employer if you only had a minute of their time. Your physician cover letter should be a maximum of three-quarters of a page, and you should use it to highlight key accomplishments. In addition, you should include other pertinent information that cannot be found on your CV. First, let us go over the specific information you should include in any physician cover letter. Then, I’ll answer your second question. (Hint, hint: The short answer is no!) Physician Cover Letter Basics Introduction: Briefly outline the job for which you are applying. If applicable, you may also state how you heard about the opening. Objective: Here, give a one-sentence explanation of your career objectives. Strengths: Discuss what you could bring to the table. These strengths should directly relate to the job for which you are applying. Educational Highlights: Careful, young resident! This is not where you simply “rehash” your CV. Instead, use this as an opportunity to elaborate on one or two educational highlights that are relevant to the position. Personal: Do you have any outstanding personal characteristics that set you aside from your peers? Make sure they are relevant to the position, and avoid generic corporate speak. Put some thought into your answers. Ties to the Area: This is a key tip that many young physicians miss. Stating your ties to the area can set you aside from others (plus, it indicates that you took the time to craft a personalized letter). Do you have family in the area? Have you always wanted to live there? Explain why the community interests you. Closing: End by reiterating your interest in the position. If you know your schedule in advance, you can include potential interview dates. Sending Your Physician Cover Letter to Multiple Employers Back to the online dating analogy (‘tis corny, but apt): Would you send the same love letter to three different people? Sending the same cover letter to multiple employers is equally tacky. Your physician cover letter needs to be personalized to each and every employer. At minimum, this means changing out the employer’s name and contact information. You should also edit your letter to reflect specific details of the position and your ties to the area. Having a cover letter “template” is acceptable, but make sure you tweak the information to personalize it. And for goodness sake, proofread your physician cover letter! The best way to ensure you won’t land a job is to send a letter to “X” hospital that is wrongly addressed to “Y” hospital. It’s like sending a letter to a redhead complimenting her lovely blonde curls. Which, young resident, I may or may not have done in the past. Learn from my mistakes. For more tips, see the Search Timeline Stage in the Adventures in Medicine Online Resource Library. Carry on, Dr. Goodhook In your opinion, what are the worst mistakes one can make on a physician cover letter?
Thursday, May 19, 2022 HomeVideoODD SQUAD \| Odd Squad Cut Backs \| PBS KIDS ODD SQUAD \| Odd Squad Cut Backs \| PBS KIDS Watch full episodes and play Odd Squad games at Agent Olympia and Agent Otis get the other agents to give up on things they don’t need, like Ms. O’s juice boxes, Ocean’s hammock, and Agent Olo’s glue. Everything seems to be going fine…until Ms. O goes crazy, the Creatures get loose, and the lab starts to fall apart! Can the Agents keep the budget and prevent Headquarters from falling into chaos?
2-Hour Max Limits On-street parking has a 2-hour maximum limit for all motorists to regulate space turnover, and to ensure parking is easy and accessible for everyone who visits Downtown Royal Oak. Motorists who exceed the maximum limit will receive a parking violation in the mail. If you will be in Royal Oak longer than 2 hours, we recommend parking in a surface lot, where the maximum time limit is 4-hours, or in one of our 4 parking structures. The structures offer FREE parking for the first 2 hours and then it's just 75 cents per hour. Parking structures are located at Center and Second, 11 Mile Road east of Main, Lafayette north of Fourth, and Lafayette and Sixth. Show All Answers 1. Back-In Parking 2. 2-Hour Max Limits 3. Grace Periods 4. Comunication 5. Violations/Tickets
SAX inclusion in libgcj Tom Tromey Mon Nov 25 17:42:00 GMT 2002 >>>>> "Nic" == Nic Ferrier <> writes: Nic> I've mentioned a couple of times that the ClasspathX project has a Nic> full JAXP implementation (apart from the XSLT). Should we include a Nic> regular feed of GNUJAXP in GCJ? All other things being equal, I think we should prefer GNU implementations to non-GNU ones. Are all other things equal? I don't really know the SAX code. Could you compare and contrast the GNU implementation with the one currently in the tree? Nic> PS why does fastjar not work with the libgcj jar file?! How does it not work? More information about the Java mailing list
Written Case 19899643 The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate Amazon’s business strategy and sources of competitive advantage to understand how effective is the firm’s strategy. Use the information in “Item 1. Business” from Amazon’s most recent 10-k annual report and conduct additional research to answer the following. To find Amazons 10-K, go to the link in Blackboard for “Online Resources” (in the Module Activities folder). Then, choose the SEC Edgar Database.” Search for Amazon. After you select the company, search for 10-K in the Filing Type window. 1- What is Amazons generic business strategy? How effective is this strategy? A thorough answer requires a VRIO Analysis for Amazon.com. Class Material: https://open.lib.umn.edu/strategicmanagement/part/chapter-4-managing-firm-resources/ please do not use any other sources !!! and do the VRIO table right especially the resources/capabilities and the result. Sources to be used: SEC EDGAR FOR SEARCHING 10-K & COMPANY FILINGS: https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml Google Finance https://www.google.com/finance?tab=we&hl=en The Motley Fool https://www.fool.com/ Yahoo! Finance https://finance.yahoo.com/ The post Written Case 19899643 appeared first on My Perfect Tutors. Essay Writing Service
Your Holiday Angst Is America’s Oldest Tradition Hard-knock life: One-quarter to one-half of new arrivals died within one yar due to diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and malaria.Shutterstock Hard-knock life: One-quarter to one-half of new arrivals died within one yar due to diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and malaria. (Shutterstock) Do you have complicated feelings about Thanksgiving? Maybe your ancestors were among this continent’s indigenous peoples, and you have good reason to be rankled by thoughts of newly arrived English colonists feasting on Wamapanoag-procured venison, roasted wild turkey, and stores of indigenous corn. Or maybe Thanksgiving marks the beginning of a holiday season that brings with it the intricate emotional challenges of memory, home, and family. If you’re someone who feels a sense of angst, foreboding, or misery about this time of year, take heart: American history is on your side. The truth of our history is that only a small minority of the early English emigrants to this country would have been celebrating as the New England Puritans did at the first Thanksgiving feast in 1621. A thousand miles south, in Virginia and the Carolinas, the mood and the menu would have been drastically different — had there ever been a Thanksgiving there. Richard Frethorne, an indentured servant in the Virginia colony during the 1620s, wrote in a letter: “Since I came out of the ship, I never ate anything but peas, and loblollie (that is, water gruel).” And don’t imagine for a second that those peas Frethorne was gobbling down were of the lovely, tender green garden variety dotted with butter. No, in the 1620s, Frethorne and his friends would have subsisted on a gray field pea resembling a lentil. “As for deer or venison,” Frethorne wrote, “I never saw any since I came into this land. There is indeed some fowl, but we are not allowed to go and get it, but must work hard both early and late for a mess of water gruel and a mouthful of bread and beef.” Frethorne’s letter is a rare surviving document reflecting the circumstances of the majority of English colonists who came to North America in the 17th century. The New England Puritans, after all, comprised only 15 to 20 percent of early English colonial migration. Not only did the majority of English colonial migrants eat worse than the Puritans, but also their prayers (had they said any) would have sounded decidedly less thankful. “People cry out day and night,” Frethorne wrote. “Oh! That they were in England without their limbs — and would not care to lose any limb to be in England again, yea though they beg from door to door.” English migrants in Virginia had good reason not to feel grateful. Most came unfree, pushed out of England by big economic forces that privatized shared pastures and farmlands and pushed up the prices of basic necessities. By the 17th century, more than half of the English peasantry was landless. The price of food shot up 600 percent, and firewood by 1,500 percent. Many peasants who were pushed off their homelands built makeshift settlements in the forests, earning reputations as criminals and thieves. Others moved to the cities, and when the cities proved no kinder, they signed contracts promising seven years of hard labor in exchange for the price of passage to the Americas, and were boarded onto boats. A trip to Virginia cost Frethorne and others like him six months’ salary and took about 10 weeks. One-quarter to one-half of new arrivals to Virginia and the Carolinas died within one year due to diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and malaria. Others succumbed to the strain of hard labor in a new climate and a strange place — an adjustment process the English described as “seasoning.” Only 7 percent of indentures claimed the land that they had been promised. Most of these common English migrants did not read or write, so vivid and revealing letters like Frethorne’s are rare. But in the research for my book Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America’s First Immigrants, I learned how English migrants viewed their situation through the songs they sang about the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Those songs survived hundreds of years by word of mouth before they were written down in the 20th century. These were not songs of thankfulness — not by a long shot. They were ballads full of ghastly scenes of the rejection, betrayal, cruelty, murder, and environmental ruin that had driven them out of England — and of the seductive but false promises that drew them to America. These 17th-century songs planted the seeds for a new American genre of murder and hard-luck ballads that was later picked up and advanced by singers like Johnny Cash, whose ancestors, like mine, were among those early hard-luck migrants from England to America. So if you find yourself a little blue this holiday season, take your marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes with a liberal dose of the Man in Black, and reassure yourself that you are a part of a long, long American tradition.
OHS Curators to Host Reddit Ask Me Anything OHS Curators to Host Reddit Ask Me Anything Have any questions for Ohio Historical Society curators? Curators from Natural History, Archaeology, and History will be hosting an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the popular social media forum Reddit. We will be answering questions about museum collections and practices in addition to questions about the museum and Ohio history. Reddit Ask Historians When is it? Wednesday, August 28, from 10 am- 12pm How does it work? After creating a user name at the Reddit site, you can submit a question on the thread. We will be actively answering questions all morning. What can I ask? Some possible questions: Museum Practices: Why do curators wear gloves? Why can’t I take photos? Ohio History: Why is the cardinal the state bird? We hope that you can participate! Posted August 22, 2013 eNewsletter Sign-Up
Blue Day Introducing a colour is always fun to a child. PP1 children celebrated Blue day on 8th February. The Colour blue is generally associated with the feeling of melancholy. According to colour experts, Blue has a calming effect on the mind and it’s the most favourite colour. Children of PP1 dressed in different shades of blue and joined their online class. A presentation on commonly seen blue things was shown. They learnt that blue is associated with life as Earth, water and sky . As part of craft activity, they made a blue whale using a paper plate. The day was filled with blue but definitely not feeling blue.
If you are not satisfied with the king, why accept him as your protector? Why not get out? Why continue to accept his hospitality? The Catholic Answers I am quite satisfied with the king, and wish to hear nothing to his discredit. I do not accept his hospitality. A child does not accept the hospitality of his own parents. I was born a British subject. I do my duty. The king does his. I admit that he is head of the Anglican Church, although I deny that he is head of the true Church of Christ. The question of the relative merits of the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church has nothing to do with national status and loyalty. We need your help. Become a PayPal donor today. Select a Donation Option (USD) Enter Donation Amount (USD) Related Posts Send this to a friend
Go for the Exit I am currently in Grand Rapids, land of Chili’s and crisp apples. But that’s not what I want to talk to you about today. I have been typing for over 20 years now and it amazes me how bad I still am at it. And by “bad” I mean that, while my typing is competent and probably quicker than most people’s, I make the lamest mistakes. Here are my top three typos: 3. teh (instead of the) Even though I rigorously proofread all my emails, this one occasionally slinks past me in the same way that I could never pick out the extra, redundant “the” hidden in some word puzzle that used to drive me nuts in school but which I currently can’t find a link to online. 2. you (instead of your) As in “Thanks for you consideration.” Why would anyone consider me? 1. “thanks you” (instead of “thank you”) That this has happened even once is amazing. But a dozen? Shiver me damn timbers! A couple in their early twenties just sat down at the four-top table in front of mine here at Biggby’s Coffee. But instead of sitting opposite each other so as not to invade my personal space or even sitting on the same side of the table with their backs toward me, they’ve elected to sit on the same side of the table looking straight at me. I hate them. [UPDATE: Ten minutes later, they have been joined by someone else, so I’ve got some privacy back. But it turns out that the couple is engaged and the guy who joined them is their wedding DJ. They are now discussing their wedding playlist earnestly. Topics covered? Must-plays such as Christian music and the Black Eyed Peas. Potential cake-cutting songs, like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” (which the bride says she’s never heard) and “Build Me Up Buttercup,” that annoying oldies song from the end credits of There’s Something About Mary. Games, including something called “the shoe game” and another one involving a race to determine who can unfurl a roll of toilet paper the fastest — at a wedding. Wow.]
Randy Fitzgerald, known in the gaming community as N0M4D, is a disabled Pro Player and he hosted a Twitch Stream with Joel Emslie, Titanfall’s lead artist. N0M4D has Arthrogryposis, a muscle and joint disorder that substantially limits the movements of his arms and legs. He plays using his lips and chin with a modified controller. In gaming tournaments, he uses a bracket that holds his controller near his face and at home he lies on his right side with his controller attached to heavy block of wood with velcro. One of N0M4D’s video game accessibility accomplishments is the development of the N0M4D controller layout for first person shooters. In 2007, his feedback to the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare beta resulted in the N0M4D layout that allows for toggling aim rather than continually holding the trigger while running and shooting. The N0M4D is now a FPS standard, particularly within the Call of Duty franchise. Below are a few highlights from the Twitch stream and the entire video is available here. Titanfall includes an algorithm that prevents quick scoping, a method that allows players to use the scope for aim accuracy but fires the shot before fully looking through the scope thus shooting aimed shots faster. The algorithm randomizes the reticle by allowing the shot within the reticle spread but not dead center. Regarding level interactions, a particular level includes flyers that eats and carries away AI soldiers. Taking down flyers requires substantial firepower but rewards equally substantial experience points. Respawn employees have been playing Titanfall throughout its development. Mr. Emslie loyally attests that the Art department is the best Respawn department at the game. He concedes that the Quality Assurance (QA) department is technically good at the game but that the Art Department has better quality gameplay and tactical strategizing. The Titans are meant to evoke individual personalities which resulted in design decisions such as the Titan’s having fingers. Additionally regarding the Titans, Titan drops can kill both other Titans and Pilots. No tool, class, or ability exists for repairing Titans. Respawn’s focus on Titanfall is on the gameplay customization including weapons and attachments. Aesthetic customizations such as Titan skins and colors for the cockpit are not in the game. Visual features in the game informs gameplay for players who use the visual cues. For example, a Pilot loadout that includes an exposed face character model more easily blends in with the grunts. Titans have red areas of critical points that are weak spots with the Ogre Titan having the smallest exposed areas. Or players who don’t prefer playing as Titans can set their Titan in guard mode and snipe attacking players. There is no Kinect support for Titanfall. Mr. Emslie’s preferred loadouts are the Stryder Titan due to the Titan’s additional mobility and he equips the Stryder with a quad rocket levelled up into a rapid fire rocket. For Pilots, he enjoys SMGs but he also wants to take long shots resulting in using a DMR equipped with an AOG scope and suppressor for off the radar shooting. His loadouts are not yet published weapon information. Mr. Emslie’s favorite gameplay moment so far is a YouTube video that shows a pilot dismounting their Titan, double jumping backwards, and kick killing the pilot rodeo killing the titan. The video ends with dancing, depending on your personal definition of dancing, in support of viewers purchasing Titanfall at launch. Follow us on Facebook and on Twitter @dagersystem. Share This Skip to content
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Huawei's laptops are lovely standouts with their 3:2 displays. • longhorn In reply to bluvg: Huawei didn't follow the rule-book. Normally only Apple and Microsoft can sell tall displays. If you look at Lenovo, Dell and HP they don't dare touch those displays unless it also comes with an ARM processor. 2. harrymyhre This is just pure speculation and blue sky thinking. microsoft. Google. Who else. Gives Huawei the fosters freeze. So okay, the Linux boys make a deal with Huawei and the year of the Linux desktop becomes a reality. But they need to move fast. 3. nbplopes In my view, Mr. Trump just nuked a major Chinese tech company. Furthermore, he is putting US allies to ransom to make them stop pursuing business with this company. For instance, it is known that major European Telcos were planning to use Huawai 5G tech given how advanced it was ... If they now do, US may in effect blacklist them in the same line by not complying with the US embargo to Huawei. ARM for instance has already complied with the embargo to escape any possible US sanctions. No major Chinese tech company has been allowed to work in the US without Government persecution has far as I understand, if allowed . None of them operate freely in the US if they operate at all as far as I understand. Don't know if this is all justified but this has far more political ramifications than you guys are thinking. Get your popcorns. DISCLAIMER: I do not use any of these companies products. I use Apple products ... I know also a foreign company as far as some of you guys are concerned :) I'm just telling it as I see it. • Andi In reply to nbplopes: Agreed. Allegedly the Nokia Ericsson solution still relies on Huawei for a part of their 5G solution. Huawei is the undisputed leader in 5G. Trump doesn't care about nuking a champion of the industry as collateral in a bigger fight. One thing are tariffs, but this is outright aggression via executive order. 4. brduffy Lets see how good this company is. They now have an opportunity to develop their own mobile OS and make it work seamlessly with a desktop OS like linux or something of their own making. They could make their own chips too. They could be the next Apple. Sky is the limit :-P 5. illuminated I do not understand the Huawei ban. At first it was something related to Iran then 5G then spying. I do not know what the real reasons are anymore. Why just Huawei? Why now? It could be just a trade negotiations game. • MikeGalos In reply to illuminated: I put some of it in my comment below. If you're actually interested, I'd highly recommend the podcast I mentioned with Richard Clarke and Susan Rice. • fbman In reply to illuminated: Its over 5G, as Huawei are basically gonna win the 5G war, as they are by far the furthest ahead. Some circles are saying that war is basically over and the Huawei version will basically be come the world standard. Trump does not want that.. as it would mean the Chinese will have an advantage in the spying game and not the US. Huawei, dont seem to be worried, I saw yesterday.. there OS will be ready by Q4 this year, and there new phone with processors will be ready at Q2 2020 for the world market. will be interesting if this happens, • pixymisa In reply to fbman: Huawei's Android skin is terrible and they've been working on it for years. Chances of them getting a robust OS out this year - that is anything other than an absolute stock build of AOSP - are zero. • wright_is In reply to PixyMisa: The EMUI skin is pretty close to the standard Google skin these days. There is a little less flexibility in resizing widgets, but apart from that they aren't really that many differences - they even support the same swipe gestures as standard Android. • wright_is In reply to illuminated: That is the problem, the US Government insists that there is a problem, but won't show any proof. US: "They are bad, ban them." World: "Why?" US: "Believe us, ban them!" World: "Why, where's the proof?" USA: "You can't handle the proof! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with backdoors. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Hauwei and you curse the NSA. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Huawei's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives! You don't want the proof, because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall. We use words like "security", "5G", "smartpones". We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very surveillance-state that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "thank you", and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!" World: "Mum, he's gone mad, hasn't he?" 6. MikeGalos This really is not about the trade war. Huawei was already under tight scrutiny and restrictions under the Obama administration for violating US regulations including violating the sanctions against Iran during the international embargo and for hacking and stealing technologies from US firms. The Obama Administration negotiated an agreement with the Chinese government to restrict those Chinese state-sanctioned actions in exchange for not taking action against Huawei. The Trump administration, in an act of idiocy, dropped those negotiated agreements. As a result, the protections negotiated were no longer in effect and the result is this ham fisted response. To learn more, I'd suggest listening to Richard A. Clarke's excellent Future State podcast. In particular, the episode with former National Security Adviser Susan Rice from last September. It can be found at: 7. Xatom Joined the bandwagon? i think you mean complied with the law. Lose the hyperbole and get the facts. 8. red.radar Comments under these Huawei articles are always fun. Can't wait to see what tonight's edition holds. 9. skane2600 I wonder if some of these moves by companies in the US and elsewhere could violate international laws. Sanctions can always work both ways. Leave a Reply
Snapdragons (<em>Antirrhinum majus</em>) in the curious hybrid zone of the Pyrenees. Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) in the curious hybrid zone of the Pyrenees. Professor Enrico Coen At a lodge high in the Spanish Pyrenees, a stone’s throw from France, biologist Nick Barton and his field crew huddled around a small printout of a Google satellite map. The map showed a hybrid zone, a small patch of land just over a mile wide, where magenta snapdragon flowers meet yellow snapdragon flowers, and interbreed into an explosion of color—every combination of white, pink, and orange. It’s a natural experiment that’s been running for thousands of years, and Barton and his crew are here to collect the data. “Were there many flowers on Rainbow Road?” asked graduate student Lenka Matejovicova, referring to one of two roads that runs through the hybrid zone. “One,” answered Barton. “It’s very sad. They seem to be quite behind this year.” Barton would know. He’s been here for nine consecutive summers, directing field crews in a long-term study of the hybrid zone. He’s British, but works in Austria at the Institute of Science and Technology as a theoretical biologist—which means that he’s interested in uncovering the broad rules that govern biology. Snapdragons are the perfect model organism, because they express their genetic characteristics so visually. That’s why they were studied by Gregor Mendel, the father of plant genetics. But snapdragons are not the only species with hybrid zones. In the past, Barton has studied grasshoppers, toads, and butterflies. Patient researchers examining snapdragons. Patient researchers examining snapdragons. Lindsay Patterson “Most of the species you look at, whether they’re birds, or mammals, or whatever, you often find that there are subspecies, or distinct populations, that meet each other and form these narrow hybrid zones,” explains Barton. “It’s a very common phenomenon. One of the reasons for studying them is that it’s visually very striking. I want to know, why is there such a sharp separation? Suddenly, it changed from one to the other. What’s doing that?” To figure out why the color divide exists, Barton and his collaborators are attempting to do something that’s rare in nature: Create a hybrid family tree. Their goal is to trace each individual flower back to its parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on, for generations and generations, with data that would turn human genealogists green with envy. The family tree will help biologists understand why some traits are passed on while others die out, and ultimately, how plants become separate species. By mapping out the relationships of the wacky offspring between magenta and yellow snapdragons, scientists can tease out the mechanics and patterns of biology. They can make connections between the genes of individuals that have lots of offspring, and those that don’t. They can study the behavior of pollinators, and climate, and all kinds of variation in the environment, year after year. They can test their theories about how nature works, across hundreds of thousands of data points. Yellow and magenta snapdragons. Yellow and magenta snapdragons. Lindsay Patterson Essentially, this stretch of roadside in the Pyrenees is the perfect natural laboratory. “Nature has done the crossing for you,” Barton says. There’s no need for long days spent breeding new specimens. “It makes it possible to do all sorts of things you couldn’t do artificially.” In other words, the snapdragons are running the experiment. But collecting the data is still a lot of human work. Once the morning’s route was decided, the all-female field crew of eight piled into a van and set off down a two-lane road. They donned reflective yellow vests and carried grocery bags loaded with labeled tags, plastic bottles for sampling, and satellite-connected surveying instruments called Trimbles. To the motorists, they looked like a highly specialized cleanup crew. But they were hunting for snapdragons. It was mid-June—peak snapdragon season. Usually the hybrid zone was ablaze with the snapdragon’s popcorn-shaped blooms at that time. But that day, it took a trained eye to spot them. It was Carina Baskett’s first day. She walked along the thin shoulder of the mountain road with grad student Louise Arathoon, scanning the green landscape. After a few minutes, they spotted a lone white snapdragon on the downward slope towards the river. They climbed over the guardrail and carefully made their way down to the plant. Upon close inspection, the snapdragon’s’ popcorn-sized flowers were marked by dainty yellow and pink accents. A true hybrid. Tagging flowers along the Rainbow Road. Tagging flowers along the Rainbow Road. Lindsay Patterson Baskett held the bag of tags and bottles, while Louise readied the Trimble. “This will start searching for GPS coordinates,” Louise explained. Baskett read off the code on the tag and looped it around the base of the plant. This is what would create new pins on the satellite map, and forever tie the plant to its data. Then began the data collection process, including counting the number of flowers on each stem and measuring the flower’s height. It wasn’t hard to understand why Barton refers to collection as “the ritual.” Baskett kept finding old tags around dead stems, a remnant of the flowers, and the scientists, who’d occupied the hybrid zone in previous years. The ritual has already yielded some high-profile discoveries in plant genetics. Enrico Coen of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, England, the biologist who first discovered the hybrid zone, published a paper in the journal Science last November explaining what maintains the sharp distinction between magenta and yellow snapdragons. He found that the gene that controls the yellow coloration uses a tool called small RNA to express itself, which the other subspecies doesn’t have. It pointed to how subspecies find different solutions to the same goal—becoming common enough to attract pollinators. It appears that the hybrids are not as successful, because they simply look strange to the bees they need to appeal to. Some of the many samples that have been collected from the hybrid zone. Some of the many samples that have been collected from the hybrid zone. Lindsay Patterson By the time every snapdragon in that morning’s section of hybrid zone had been spotted, tagged, and sampled that morning, it was time for lunch. The van headed back up to the lodge with samples from 20 snapdragons. Over a typically Spanish spread of cheese, meat, and bread at an outdoor table overlooking the mountains, Barton told the story of a field crew member from a few years back, who showed up to work without knowing what a snapdragon looked like. He had thought he would be searching for lizards. “Did he stay the whole season?” someone asked. “He did,” Barton answered proudly. The work of tagging and measuring may get mundane, even boring, and last for years. But when the snapdragon hybrid family tree is complete, it will mean that some of the most interesting questions about biology, evolution, and nature can be answered. Not a bad way to spend a summer, when you think about it.
One more person has died from coronavirus and the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 has jumped in the past day, Government figures reveal. The death was recorded in Bath and North East Somerset in the 24 hours to 4pm on Sunday, and is the 47th person to in that area to die 28 days after a positive coronavirus test. There were no other deaths recorded in North Somerset or Somerset county in the past 24 hours, but cases have continued to increase, with another 215 people testing positive across the traditional county. Across the South West region, another 105 patients were admitted to hospital with coronavirus in just one day, bringing the total number of Covid-19 patients in hospital in the region currently to 582. Of those, the Department of Health said 51 were on ventilation. Nationally, a total of 156 people's deaths were recorded by the Department of Health in the 24 hours to 4pm on Sunday, November 8. Those were people who died within 28 days of having a positive test for Covid-19 across the UK. The number of people testing positive on Sunday were recorded as 20,572. Both the figures for deaths and new cases were down on yesterday, principally because reporting of new cases and deaths always drops at the weekend. The cases recorded in each district of Somerset in the 24 hours to 4pm on Sunday are as follows: South Somerset +22 to 859 in total Mendip +4 to 562 Taunton and West Somerset +13 to 1,088 Sedgemoor +21 to 987 North Somerset +75 to 2,574 B&NES + 40 to 2,252.
Roma Amor * s/t (cd 2008) Roma AmorIt is funny how the scene works and I am happy to hear that something new and different pops up every now and then. However, new and different? Roma Amor has a theatrical/cabaretesk sound and there are more bands who experiment with that. Actually there even more bands who have done so in the past. Over ten years ago, the French band Eros Necropsique used it in their gothic rock sound, but did not Nick Cave also do something like that? Anyway, in a scene with “neofolk” and (martial) industrial sounds this may seem a little lightfooted, but since some Hau Ruck! releases no longer, so there is plenty of room for a band such as Roma Amor. This band sounds like it comes from some 1950’ies theatre and even though this may not be exactly my cup of tea, this is nice music to play every now and then when I want something different. Links: Roma Amor, OEC Leave a Reply
Linear Model (1) - Linear Regression Maximize Likelihood Linear Regression Suppose we have data set $S={(x^{(i)},y^{(i)}),i=1,\dots,m}$ where $x^{(i)}\in\mathbb R^n$ such that x has $n$ features with $m$ training examples. Let us assume that the target variables and the inputs are related via a linear equation. Where $\epsilon^{(i)}$ is an error term that captures either un-model effects or random noise. Let’s assume that the $\epsilon^{(i)}$’s are distribute i.i.d.(independently and identically distributed) according to Gaussian Distribution with mean zero and variance $\sigma^2$. Which can be written as $\epsilon^{(i)}\sim N(0, \sigma^2)$. And the pdf of $\epsilon^{(i)}$ is given by Because of $\epsilon^{(i)}=y^{(i)}-\theta^Tx^{(i)}$, the pdf also can be given as Notice that the notation ‘$p(y^{(i)}\|x^{(i)};\theta)$’ indicates that this is the distribution of $y^{(i)}$ given $x^{(i)}$ is parameterized by $\theta$ and $\theta$ is not a random variable, the formula is not a probability consition on $\theta$. We can write the distribution as ‘$y^{(i)}\|x^{(i)};\theta\sim N(\theta^Tx^{(i)},\sigma^2)$’. Given an input matrix $X=(x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dots,x^{(m)})^T$ and $\theta$, what the distribution of $y^{(i)}$’s is given by $p(\overrightarrow{y}\|X;\theta)$. When we wish to explicity view this as a function of $\theta$, we call it the likelihood function: Note that by the independence assumption on the $\epsilon^{(i)}$’s, this can be written by Now, given this probabilistic model relating the $y^{(i)}$’s and the $x^{(i)}$’s. The principal of maximum likelihood says that we should should choose $\theta$ so as to make the data as high probability as possible. So We are facing an optimization problem. We define a new likelihood function called log likelihood: And the maximization problem $\max_{\theta}\ell(\theta)$ become a minimization problem: This is our original least-squares cost function. Under the previous probabilistic assumptions on the data, least-squares regression corresponds to finding the maximum likelihood estimate of $\theta$. Back to over Linear Regression problem, assume we have data set $S={(x^{(i)},y^{(i)}),i=1,\dots,m}$ , and our hypothesis $h_{\theta}(x)=\theta^Tx$ (we set $x_0$ to be $1$ so that the constant $\theta_0$ could be include into $\theta$ and thus $x_{(i)}\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}, \theta\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}$). Notice that in our hypothesis, the $\theta$ is not the population parameter, this is the parameter we are going to estimate by maximize likelihood function. According to the probability analysis above, we define the cost function And the linear regression problem can be express as this optimization problem Let’s rewrite this problem with a simple form by matrix, denote $X=(x^{(1)},x^{(2)},\dots,x^{(m)})^T$, $y=(y^{(1)},y^{(2)},\dots,y^{(m)})$ where $x^{(i)}\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)},y\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}$ and $\theta\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}$. So the problem can be expressed by And the linear model of inputs $X$ can be shown as $y=\theta^Tx$, where $\theta=\arg \min_\theta \|X\theta-y\|^2_2 $. We will solve this question latter. Least Square Linear Regression If we want to build a model which can fit the sample data with least error, a simple way is to make the different between the estimator and the samples to be smallest in some form. In the least square linear regression, we optimize the square of the errors. Suppose we have hypothesis $h_\theta=X\theta$ (in the form of matrix, where $X\in\mathbb R^{m*(n+1)}$ and $\theta\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}$, $x^{(i)}_0=1$ for all the inputs to make $\theta_0$ to be constant), the problem can be expressed in the form This is same with the maximize likelihood regression in expression but they have differences. In maximize likelihood estimation we have an important assumption that all the samples $x^{(1)}, x^{(2)},\dots,x^{(m)}$ are i.i.d. The $\theta$ is the parameter of the model, $h$ is our model or our hypothesis. With regard to maximizing likelihood regression, the most reasonable estimation should be the one which makes the probability of $n$ samples extracted from the model observe those $y$’s maximum. But for least square, the most reasonable estimation is the one which can fit the samples best(the minimum of the square of error). It is clear that those regression method are come from different idea. When we employ maximize likelihood regression, we need to know the probability distribution of errors or the hypothesis. In general, we assume that the distribution is Gaussian. Under this assumption, maximize likelihood regression is equivalent to least square regression. For least square, we can also try to understand it in the form of geometry. Suppose we have a vector space $N\in\mathbb R^{(n+1)}$ and all the input sample $x^{(i)}$ is in this space. In this regression problem, the real thing we want is to find one way that hold $x^{(i)}\theta=y^{(i)}$ for all $m$ samples, which can be written as $X\theta=y$. But in real world problems the most likely situation is the number of samples $m$ is larger than the features $n$ which indicates that the equation $X\theta=y$ will be overdetermined. Assume the solution of this least square problem is $\theta’$ and $X\theta’$ is the orthogonal projection $y$ project to the space spanned by $X$’s column vector. And in linear algebra the orthogonal projection from $y$ to $X\theta’$ is $X(X^T X)^{-1}X^Ty$. The solution can be expressed by $\theta’=(X^T X)^{-1}X^Ty$ easily. We will see that this is same with the solution we solve by taking the differential later. Solve $\min_\theta \|X\theta-y\|^2_2$ Except the least square solution of the overdetermined system, we can solve this by other way. With respect to $\|X\theta-y\|^2_2$ we have $J(\theta)=(X\theta-y)^T(X\theta-y)$ and the optimization problem will be We take the derivative And set it to zero We can get the solution
Jump to content Evergreen (PL 10) WIP Recommended Posts Power Level: 10 (150/150PP) Unspent Power Points: 0 Trade-Offs: ± 0 Attack / ±0 Damage, ±0 Defense / +0 Toughness In Brief: A human transformed into an avatar for Mother Gaia herself and sworn to protect both humanity and the Earth herself. Catchphrase: Don't really have one...for now. Alternate Identity: Jaden Maxwell Birthplace: Alternate Earth Residence: An abandoned greenhouse he managed to renovate. Base of Operations: Same as residence. Occupation: Works as a Baker at his own shop when not out being a hero or tending to his plant friends. Affiliations: None at the moment, though it's my hope to have him establish a working relationship with various heroes. Family: Has an Aunt and Uncle back on his Earth named Laura and Adrian Maxwell respectively. Age: 20 (DoB: April 17, 1996) Gender: He's a plant elemental. He technically doesn't have one xD Ethnicity: Caucasian Height: 5 foot, 10 inches Weight: 200 pounds Eyes: Brown Hair: Jet Black in a crop cut. Appears to have the physique of a young man who engages in modest amounts of exercise with fair skin and the traits listed above. He can typically be seen wearing clothing that fits the climate, such as a blue tank top and brown shorts during warmer months and a hooded coat with boots, hat and gloves when it gets cold. Ever since his transformation into a living plant, he tends to sway between different forms depending on his mood. However, perhaps the one he is mainly seen with is a humanoid figure colored in emerald green with darker section to highlight features like a tunic and pants. His hair is actually white rose petals arranged in a sweeping style with a green eye mask and red eyes. He also wears a type of mantled long coat that shares a similar color scheme to the rest of him. Jaden had, for the most part, a normal upbringing growing up. He was born to a loving Mom and Dad who took good care of him for the first few years of his life and he had an Aunt and Uncle who thought the world of him that he frequently visited on the weekends or during the holidays. However, when he was about 7 years old...tragedy struck. One night, he was at his Aunt's place watching cartoons when the phone rang. His Aunt went to answer it only to drop the dish she'd been drying in horror at what the police man on the other end had told her. Mr and Mrs Maxwell had been on their way home from a business trip when a drunk driver slammed into them, killing both parents at once. Needless to say, it was like Jaden's entire world had come crumbling down in the course of just one night. After the funeral, Jaden was taken in by his Aunt and Uncle and it quickly became evident that despite the fact that they treated him well, that life was not going to be easy since both relatives were in their elderly years and they did not have too much money. As such, Jaden had to learn at a young age to pitch in and be self-sufficient, helping his folks around the house and gradually learned skills such as cooking, cleaning dishes and even pulling weeds out of the garden. It didn't help that they ended up having to move twice even before he got into high school. Life was difficult but it wasn't bad by any means as the young lad excelled in his classes and enjoyed helping others with their work. He took on a part-time job at one point to help his folks too. Of course, he sometimes let himself get lost in video games and anime as he got older. Eventually, he graduated from high school to the delight of his Aunt and Uncle and seemed to have a bright future ahead of him. However, that's when his life took a most unexpected turn. During one summer, he took part in a field trip set up by a club he use to be part of that were planting trees in an area that had recently been decimated by a wildfire. During the program, Jaden caught sight of a bear cub that had slipped into the water and was now heading down the stream towards a waterfall. Without thinking, he risked his life to save the cub and return it to its family. Despite not thinking much of it, someone else took notice of his act... That night, he was visited by a voice in his dreams. The voice introduced itself as Gaia, Spirit Of The Earth. It had watched the man's act and, despite its usual indifference towards humans, had been intrigued by his selfless act despite the fact he had risked his life and got no reward out of it. He explained that he didn't do it for a reward but because it was the right thing to do and that he didn't want anyone else to endure the pain of lost loved ones. Growing ever more intrigued with him, the spirit handed him what she called the "Seed Of Gaia" and that she would give him the chance to prove to her that humans and the Earth could co-exist together. With that, the dream ended...Jaden thought no more of it. One night though, he was in his room, doing some reading when he heard a commotion downstairs. Going to check, he saw several men in black suits ransacking the place while holding his Aunt and Uncle at knife point. For a brief moment, he felt like a small boy all over again, like history was about to repeat itself...but not if he had anything to say about it. When the men saw him, they shot the young man on the spot...only for his wound to heal up within seconds, causing all those present to freeze in shock. Anger fueling his actions, Jaden's power activated and vines broke through the windows and floorboards, disarming the men and slamming their bodies against the walls over and over again with enough force to shatter the plaster. However, just when it looked like he was ready to do the unthinkable and take their lives...his Aunt and Uncle's voices brought him back to reality. He collapsed to his knees, sobbing and wondering what he had become. His folks consoled him as the would-be murderers were taken into custody, likely traumatized for life by the ordeal. The police asked questions but nobody was in the mood to give the actual story. After having some time to calm down, and being reminded that his Aunt and Uncle still loved him, it was decided that he needed to learn control since the world was likely not ready for an individual like Jaden. As such, the next week or so saw him practicing with his new abilities and growing quite adept at them. His body underwent more changes until he instinctively created a new identity for himself to go with his new form. It was around this point that an event happened that awoke his inner hero and made him realize that his powers were meant for bigger things. A powerful Fae had come to his town by the name of Glastig and, true to the myths surrounding her, went about luring in unsuspecting men and draining them of their blood, leaving lifeless corpses in her wake, meant to gather strength as her followers constructed the pieces for a gate that would open a way to the Fae Realm and allow her army to come through. After several close calls, and having his family's lives endangered and discovering that his supposed girlfriend was a dirty coward willing to sell him out to secure her own future as a journalist, Evergreen cornered and exposed Glastig, in the process destroying the gate and closing one of the links to the Fae Realm for good. One lengthy battle later, Glastig was defeated. Evergreen refused to kill her...but that didn't mean he or Gaia let her off the hook either. In an event that still haunts him, Gaia, manifesting physically, transformed Glastig into a plant entity...and then Evergreen transformed the fallen Fae into a tree for the rest of her days. Victory was his...but at the price of never again reclaiming a normal life or his humanity as the power he had inherited had transformed him completely. Not helping matters is, upon realizing his girlfriend didn't love him and had betrayed him, broke up with her, leaving him somewhat downtrodden. Feeling alone and isolated from society now, Jaden was unsure where to turn to. He still enjoyed helping people but it didn't give him the same satisfaction it normally did,leaving him in a bit of a rut. Thankfully, Gaia provided a solution in using her connections to transferring him over to another parallel Earth where he may find people in need of his services and where he may find peace of mind at last. After agonizing over the decision, and realizing other heroes were starting to appear on his Earth to take up the torch, decided it was for the best, bid good-bye to his loved ones and was thus whisked off to the other Earth...an Earth very similar to our own yet very different... What adventures await from here? Will he find the peace he desires? Only time will tell... Personality & Motivation: Jaden is for all intents and purposes a rather easygoing and calm individual. He enjoys life for what it is and tries not to worry too much about the future. Growing up with his Aunt and Uncle bestowed on him the values of hard work and independence, as such when he commits himself to something he tends to see it through, regardless of the consequences. Being a fanboy of anything related to anime or video games, when he runs into someone who shares what he is into, he can get surprisingly passionate and ecstatic, to the point that he briefly stops acting his age and behaves like a kid in a candy store. Inspired by the comics he read growing up, he has a strong sense of justice and morals and tries to see the good in people along with being willing to stand up for those who can't do so for themselves. He does not want to see anyone else suffer the tragedy of lost loved ones, but that does not mean he is blind to the real world either. He is aware that unfortunate things happen regardless of what one does in life but does not see that as a reason to do nothing either. He does have a fun-loving side to him too, sometimes using his power to pull off jokes or pranks on his friends all in good fun. Powers & Tactics: Evergreen has not had much in terms of professional training with his abilities...ok, to be more exact, none at all, other than what he's learned through practice and experience. His favored tactics seem to scale to the threat. As such, unless it is not possible, he'll use his plant friends to scout an area before moving in to take out a group, utilizing his plant powers from long range to wear them down before moving in to mop up the leftovers with some hand to hand combat. He also prefers to avoid using lethal force unless it's a situation where it's required. Power Descriptions: Being an avatar for Mother Gaia means Evergreen has total control over any and all forms of plant life and thus can call upon their aid whenever he wishes. His uses for it range from simply calling upon vines and roots to constrict and crush his targets to turning giant sunflowers and watermelons into turrets that shoot seeds as bullets. However, because his original body has been transformed into plant matter, his strength, agility, and endurance are no longer trapped within human limits, allowing him to pull off feats that, although not up to the level of traditional physical-based powerhouses, is still enough to seem superhuman, and he even has a radar-like sense that allows him to commune with other plants. Having a body made up of plant matter also means he has total control over its shape and flexibility, allowing him to morph his limbs into various kinds of weaponry such as hammer fists, spiked maces, blades, and so on, and can even alter his appearance to varying degrees. He is immune to poisons and disease and does not age at all, being virtually immortal. Fire And Ice: Evergreen maybe extremely powerful but that strength comes with a hefty number of weaknesses. Not the least of which is having a severe weakness to extreme heat and cold. His creations will either burst into flames or eventually freeze solid if exposed to these elements for too long and he himself is not safe from them and he will likely maintain his distance unless otherwise. Usage of these elements is perhaps one of the only ways to permanently destroy his physical form, or at the very least incapacitate him. Also, this could make it difficult for him to work with individuals who have said abilities. Sun And Water Dependence: Another weakness is that Evergreen derives much of his power from his connection to the sun and the water. As such, while he is stronger during the day and/or near bodies of water, the opposite is also true since as the light wanes, that power diminishes. Not enough to make him completely helpless, but enough that an enemy could eventually gain the upper hand by severing him off from the source of his strength, which can be done by facing him within enclosed spaces and what not. Corruption: Similarly to another hero themed around the environment, pollution is another way to get the upper hand on Evergreen in that although he is immune to things like poison and disease, actual pollution such as oil can have a detrimental affect on his physiology if he gets too close to it. Also, although it may partially due to his transformation, he does not have a high opinion of people who shamelessly pollute and destroy the environment for no good reason. A Stranger In A Familiar Land: One of Evergreen's reasons for coming to this other Earth was to get away from everything and find some peace of mind. However, an alien world like this makes it sometimes difficult for him to fit in. After spending so much time as a solo hero, he is eager to meet others like himself but at the same time can occasionally be unsure how to handle himself, and having such a vast new, yet familiar, world to explore and interact with can be a daunting task at times. Doesn't Like Attention: Jaden has never been one to enjoy being the center of attention as although he is friendly and well-behaved the events since his transformation, and said transformation itself, have left him in a bit more of a rut than he is use to, and even getting a girlfriend doesn't really appeal to him much at the moment. However, if he intends to be a proper hero on this Earth, he may have to get use to stepping out into the spotlight... My Hidden Self: Although Jaden has revealed it to very few people, he is actually the kind of man whom is in touch with his feminine side, to the point that they use their abilities to crossdress and take on forms that have more of an androgynous and/or feminine appeal. This side of him is one mostly enjoyed in secret as he knows how judgmental society can be at times, and does feel some hints of secret shame, even if it is not really hurting anyone. Morality: Evergreen is an extremely moral individual who is well aware of what his powers are capable of and the responsibility that goes with them. As such, he tends to limit himself when facing his enemies, wanting to bring them in alive rather than severely harm them. He tends to also question himself and what the right course of action is in certain situations, especially in his struggles to maintain balance between the human world and the natural world, even if that means inconveniencing progress on one side of the spectrum or the other, and having some degree of honor means he will prioritize saving lives over pursuing the villain. PL: 10 (150) Abilities: +14 +20 +24+4+2 =44 pp STR 24 (+7) DEX 20 (+5) CON 24 (+7) INT 10 (+0) WIS 14 (+2) CHA 12 (+1) Combat: +12 +12= 24 pp ATK: +6 (+13 melee) DEF: +6 (+4 flat-footed) Init: +11 Grapple: +20 Saves: +2 +5 = 7 pp TOU +7 (+7 Con) FORT +7 (+7 Con) REF +7 (+5 Dex, +2) WILL +7 (+2 Wis, +5) Skills: 40 r=10 pp Climb 3 (+10) Knowledge: Life Sciences 10 (+10) Medicine 3 (+5) Notice 8 (+10) Sense Motive 8 (+10) Stealth 5 (+10) Survival 3 (+5) Feats: +2 +3 +1 +7 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 = 22 PP Attack Specialization (Plant Control) 2 Attack Focus 3 Dodge Focus 7 Improved Initiative Luck 2 Move-By Action Power Attack Second Chance Skill Mastery (Sense Motive, Notice, Life Sciences, Survival) Takedown Attack Uncanny Dodge (auditory) Powers: 27 + 3 + 4 + 9 = 43 pp Descriptors: All plant Plant Control Array 10 (20 PP, Array, Feats: Alternate Powers 7) 27 PP • Base Power: Create Object 8 (Feat: Innate, Precise,Tether) 19/20 • Alternate Power: Snare 8 (Root Attack, Feat: Extended Range Effect: Drain Toughness 3) 20/20 • Alternate Power: Paralyze 8 (Spore Swarm, Effect: Dazzle 4)) 20/20 • Alternate Power: Blast 6 (Flower Blaster) Feats: Precise, Accurate, Progression, Indirect, Mighty 4) 20/20 • Alternate Power: Teleport 10 (200,000 Miles. Flaw: Medium (Plants)) Extra: Accurate)) 20/20 • Alternate Power: ESP 6 (Visual And Audio Cues) Flaw: Medium (Plants) Feat: Subtlety 2) 20/20 • Alternate Power: Strike 8 (Feat: Variable Descriptor 1(bludgeoning, piercing, slashing), Extended Reach 2, Accurate, Precise, Penetrating 5, Mighty, Improved Critical ) 20/20 • Alternate Power: Healing 8 (Healing Fruit Sprouts) Feat: Stabilize, Persistent) 18/20 Flight 3 (50 MPH) 3 PP Immunity (Aging, Disease, Poison, Suffocation) 4PP Morph (Rank 3) 9 PP abilities 44 + combat 24 + saves 7 + skills 10/40 + feats 22 + powers 43 = 150 pts Edited by GamerXZ Link to comment Okay. As always, this is just me doing this by myself, and I will probably make mistakes/say things the refteam might not have the same opinion on. With that disclaimer out of the way: Not doing this one just now, maybe at a later date. No real critique from my part here Looks right. Pretty high physical ones, but not really an issue. I suggest doing a 14+10+14+0+4+2 at the top so it’s a bit easier to calculate You might want to indicate what you’re getting from what better here. Currently, it looks like you’re getting 10 Attack and 13 Defense from points spent here, which would cost 52 points. Also makes it unclear how you calculated your flatfooted. Knockback is missing. As above, I suggest a X + X = Y PP No real issue here. As above, I suggest a X + X = Y PP Looks right too. Same here. Disclaimer: I’m not gonna go through all the cost individually, unless something stands out. The Strike breaks Caps, as it’s at 10 at the moment. You’ve also got a fair chunk of strength, so it might be worth looking into a lower level mighty strike instead, and adding some extras. Also, you’re not really indicating what Feats (Variable Descriptor) you’re using. The other powers I can’t spot anything wrong with on a first glance. I personally think full-vanilla powers like these (without feats, extras, flaws and drawbacks) aren’t as interesting, but that comes down to personal preference. I feel it helps add some character to the powers, but in the end that decision’s up to you. As above, I suggest a X + X = Y PP Also, you’re missing a DC table. Link to comment • Create New...
Members of the UK charity The National Trust voted to ban “trail hunting”, exempt hunting and hounds exercise in the Trust’s land, which is a major blow to the hunting fraternity. A significant proportion of the land registered hunts have traditionally used for foxhunting and hare hunting is National Trust land. The “National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty” (popularly known as The National Trust, or NT) is one of the major landowners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It owns almost 250,000 hectares (2,500 km2) of land and 780 miles of coast. In 2018, the National Trust licensed 25 hunts to undertake “trail hunting” on its land. On 30th October 2021, the NT held its annual AGM in the Harrogate Convention Centre, in North Yorkshire. One of the motions tabled by members called for a ban of all hunts’ field activities. A total of 76,816 votes were cast for the motion, with 38,184 votes against and 18,047 abstentions. This is the result of a long campaign fought by the UK anti-hunting movement since realizing that the hunting fraternity had found ways to circumvent the ban of hunting. Since the Hunting Act 2004 was enacted, hunting mammals with dogs was banned in England and Wales, but registered hunts continued hunting either exploiting some of the exemptions that still allow hunting mammals under certain circumstances or especially by inventing a new activity, “trail hunting”, in which, supposedly, hounds follow a trail of artificial scent laid by people rather than wild mammals. Cornwall coast path with a view Campaigners have always claimed that “trail hunting” is just a smokescreen to create an alibi for illegal hunting. Despite several successful convictions of huntsmen, many people, including the police and major landowners such as the National Trust, believed this lie. However, a recent conviction of Mark Hankinson, the director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association (the governing body for registered packs of foxhounds in England and Wales), for encouraging and assisting people to evade the ban on foxhunting, may have finally changed that. NT anti-hunting members have been very active over the years. In another AGM in 1997, members voted to ban stag hunting on NT land, a milestone that has been regarded as the trigger which later led to the UK hunting ban. And they tabled motions to ban “trail hunting” several times before. Only now they have managed to secure a majority of votes for it, thanks to the work of the Hunt Saboteurs Association which obtained the evidence that led to the conviction of Mark Hankinson, and the campaign of anti-hunting organizations such as the group The National Dis-Trust. All eyes are now on the NT’s Trustees because they will have to decide if they will honor the non-binding motion voted by the charity’s members. It is within their discretion to honor it or not, but it would be difficult for them to ignore it, considering the recent conviction. After all, they decided to suspend the hunts’ licenses in November last year while the trial was in progress. Other major landowners that did the same (such as Forestry England and United Utilities) will be under pressure to permanently ban trail hunting on their land too.
The Victorian House Taking up the theme of food again, I’m still reading about Victorian houses and customs in order to get a feel for how the very old people whom I knew in my youth grew up. One of the things that strikes is me is how indelibly the Victorian age made its mark on those who were born within it. My grandmother was born in 1892 and was nine when Queen Victoria died, yet all her life she was a Victorian. She even dressed like one, in ankle-length skirts and pastel-coloured blouses trimmed in lace, with high collars. Not only did Queen Victoria’s reign seem to imbue everyone who lived in it with norms and values that were immediately spurned by the next generation, but it succeeded in erecting an almost insuperable barrier between itself and the age which preceded it. The most alarming thing of all is how women seemed to become walled up as part of this process. They were literally walled up: condemned to stay in the house almost all of the time, maintaining and cleaning it or supervising its cleaning and maintenance, depending on their class; spending each day of their lives ensuring that the master of the house returned to a perfectly-kept residence. This in itself would have been irksome enough, but social aspirations added to women’s domestic workload in the most intolerable way. In an age when the middle classes were burgeoning, so that many people had more of what is now called ‘disposable income’, and when, for the first time, machinery could churn out materials and finished goods very cheaply, houses became filled with all kinds of artefacts, many of them quite useless. Whether they were bought or made at home, all of these things also needed care and maintenance – the latter involving a great deal of washing and cleaning when houses were warmed by coal fires and lit by candles or gas. Clothes and food became much more elaborate. Women were not only not allowed to go out to work, they felt compelled to spend every waking hour carrying out tasks which today we would regard as of minimal value or even futile. Meals in middle-class households consisted of many dishes. When providing food, the housewife was expected to achieve an illogical combination of outward show – especially when there were guests at the table – and the practice of frugality. This often meant that the same food appeared on the table several times running before it was finally consumed, each time ingeniously and time-consumingly served up in a slightly different way. I’ve often reflected that, to a greater or lesser extent, all except the very young spend some of their time living in the past. Although my own and my husband’s tastes in furniture are quite traditional, and therefore most of our possessions have not dated all that much, I know that the décor and soft furnishings in my house are very much of the period at which we moved in to it in 1994, and that visitors will recognise this. It is a phenomenon that was yet more true of previous generations: they thriftily kept the same furniture until it had, quite literally, worn out. And it wasn’t just the surroundings that belonged in the past; attitudes, values and points of reference were also behind the times. Exactly how far behind often depended on location, sometimes also on education. In London at the turn of the twentieth century, the Bloomsbury Group famously rejected the lifestyle and morals of their Victorian parents; however, Victorian lifestyles and morals were still alive and well in the Spalding of the 1950s and 1960s. It took the combination of the pop scene (I don’t just mean the music, but everything that went with it) and the advent of the first working-class generation to be university-educated to instigate real change. In some ways I feel privileged to have lived through all of this and, through aligning my reading with my own memories, to have come, belatedly, to some kind of understanding of it. Women today still complain about glass ceilings and the impossibility of ‘having it all’. True equality has been a long time coming and is not quite here yet. The journey was started by those Victorian girls who were allowed just enough education to understand what they were missing. Some nineteenth century women were so frustrated, or so badly treated by their husbands, that they turned to murder (the weapon of choice was poison), knowing that the death penalty would surely be their fate if they were caught. What I’d really like to be able to do would be to travel back to the past and knock down that huge Victorian edifice, as the Berlin Wall was knocked down, in order to be able to see beyond it to the Georgian age that preceded Victoria’s. I wonder what those women, in their lighter, brighter, more sparsely-furnished houses, were like; whether they led happier lives than their Victorian descendants; whether knowing them better would prove the hypothesis that civilisation develops, not in linear fashion, but in loops and curlicues, like oxbow lakes. The Victorians, so enterprising in so many ways, were out there in their boats, not realising that they were grounded in a swamp.
Saturday, September 29, 2012 Sarah's Big Day Friday was Homecoming in Wagoner and our granddaughter Sarah was Queen. In the afternoon was a big parade. She rode in a vintage Oldsmobile Cutlass with her student escort and waved to the crowd. After the parade we all gathered at her house for spaghetti. Sarah is a senior this year and her sweetheart Daniel is a freshman at Oklahoma State. He came to join her and brought flowers. Smart man. She was escorted onto the field by her father, my son Adam. As icing on the cake, Wagoner won the football game. It just doesn't get any sweeter than this. Wow. Leedslass said... [Reply to comment] How proud you all must be! Snowcatcher said... [Reply to comment] Awesome to win homecoming, and my goodness, you have a gorgeous granddaughter! Wonderful pics, you have to be a proud Grandfather! DrillerAA09 said... [Reply to comment] Lovely young lady, but you already knew that. It's always nice when the home team wins the homecoming game.
A Strong Immune System Requires a Healthy Gut Most of your immune system lives in your gut...so invest in your gut to stay well! Scientists estimate that approximately 70 percent of the immune system resides in the gut. If we have poor gastrointestinal health, then we will likely have a weakened immune response. Therefore, if you are interested in improving the health of your immune system, start with your gut. The microbiome, which includes trillions of microbes and their genes living primarily in the large intestine, plays a significant role in how the immune system functions. Studies indicate that maintaining a healthy gut microbiome is directly related to our own health. How do I know if my gut health is suboptimal? Some people are very aware that their digestive system could use improvement as evidenced by gas, bloating, and occasional constipation or diarrhea. Maybe you’ve been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and you’re not sure what to do about it. Others may be unaware that their intestinal environment needs attention because their bathroom habits “are just fine.” Regular bathroom habits are not the only indicator of gut health status. Dysbiosis, which is an imbalance of microbes in the intestinal tract, can cause symptoms outside of the GI tract. Symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, mood imbalance, weight loss resistance, and migraine headaches may be related to poor gut health. Of course there are other contributing factors to these listed health issues, but improving the intestinal environment should be incorporated in an overall strategy to improve these health problems, as well as a method of supporting immune system function. How does the gut microbiome support the immune system? Your intestinal tract is highly trained to detect foreign invaders that may have been consumed through food or beverages. If you think about it, your digestive tract is just one long tube starting from your mouth and ending at the anus where waste is excreted. It is a tube that is exposed to the outside world in terms of everything that we consume travels through this tube. If we consume a food that has been contaminated, the digestive tract is on guard to detect the contaminant and get rid of it by its own immune response. If we didn’t have an immune response at the gut level, we would be getting sick all the time with exposure to contaminants in our food and water supply. We will get sick with a high exposure to certain contaminants, but low-level exposure is covered by the body’s natural immune system. Think about your gut microbiome as an army of microbes with different jobs to do in order to keep your health safe. If the army (i.e., group of microbes) is lacking in certain departments, then your team of microbes can’t perform well enough to keep your immune system strong and keep you healthy. We must have a large diversity of good microbes and an abundance of them flourishing primarily in our large intestines. The bad bacteria live there too, but as long as they’re kept to a minimum, they won’t harm our health. How can I support a healthy microbiome for a strong immune system? Here is the bad news before the good news! The Standard American Diet (SAD) is not supportive of a healthy microbiome. It is high in sugar, fat, salt, and processed foods which lack nutritional value and contain artificial ingredients that are non-health promoting. The average American does not consume enough prebiotic and probiotic rich foods to support good intestinal microbial balance, and then we top off with chronic stress, lack of sleep, and insufficient physical activity to create the perfect storm for microbiome chaos. The good news...here are a few tips to get you started on the road to a balanced microbiome for immune support: • Eat more fruits and vegetables (5-10 servings daily), preferably fresh and organic • Eat a diet rich in fiber from a variety of sources (fruit, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds) • Include more probiotic foods (yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, miso, tempeh, and fermented vegetables) • Include more prebiotic foods (onions, garlic, artichoke, asparagus, under ripe bananas, root vegetables, legumes, and most fruits and vegetables in general) • Eat a clean diet rich in whole foods and avoid packaged processed foods • Drink plenty of water (approximately half your body weight in ounces daily) • Keep stress to a minimum and incorporate daily stress management techniques • Get plenty of sleep (7-9 hours every night) • Avoid alcohol or keep intake to a minimum (< 1 drink/day for women; < 2 drinks/day for men) • Get outside in the fresh air every day if possible • Be active regularly - whether it’s a 15-minute walk or a moderate intensity 60-minute workout, physical activity supports a healthy microbiome Let’s face it. 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Wedding Photography at the Great Hall at Mains It’s funny, inspiration can come from the strangest places. This is a gate at the back of the Great Hall at Mains. The Hall itself has a huge potential for photography opportunities, both inside and out. But moving just that little further afield means we can get something unique.
Example Words uapikun flower atiku caribou utshekataku star pishimu month mikuau it is red emikuan spoon takushinu s/he arrives takuatshin it is autumn tshishiku day takuan it exists, there is some apakuai web pakuniu s/he has a blister on his/her hand mishtiku tree iku spider natamiku anything uapamiku the other sees him/her nuapamiku s/he sees me ashukan bridge Short vowels a and i are sometimes pronounced [u] (“oo”). Spelling short vowels correctly is difficult because they vary according to dialect and between words. It is therefore important to pay attention to [u] vowels that are pronounced and followed by a syllable containing a u or a u. Description of the Spelling Issue Short a and i vowels tend to be pronounced [u] when followed by a syllable containing the sequence ku or ku, mu or mu, and in the case of pu (pipun, pronounced [pupun])This case, which affects pipun and its derivations, is an exception as other such forms like -apu- and -ipu- are not pronounced [upu], but rather [-ǝpu-].. In fact, when preceded by k or m, the sound u influences the preceding short vowel, as if it was leaving an imprint on it. This natural phonetic phenomenon is called vowel harmonizationLINGUISTICS: Vowel harmonization (or vowel assimilation) is a “modification caused by a phoneme in contact with a neighbouring phoneme”. Dubois et al. Dubois et al. 2012. Le dictionnaire de linguistique et des sciences du langage. Larousse, p. 55. (passage translated into English) In Innu, the pronunciation of short vowels is more unstable than that of long vowels, and short vowels are therefore more susceptible to changes. The change in the pronunciation of a short vowel that occurs before a syllable containing a u is not the same in every dialect: • In the eastern dialects, we sometimes find long vowels in places we would find short vowels in the western dialects. Since vowel harmonization only affects short vowels, words containing a long vowel are easy for speakers of the eastern dialects to spell. The following examples include a long vowel for the eastern dialects, and a short vowel (which can be pronounced [u]) in the western dialects, followed by ku or ku. atiku caribou mikuau it’s red takusseu s/he takes a step umiku his/her blood assiku casserole emikuan spoon apakuai web pakueshamu s/he cuts a piece of it piku powder utshkataku star utashtamiku his/her face pakueshikan pain The eastern dialects’ pronunciation is a useful indication of the historical vowel of certain words. • However, in words where the vowel is short in all dialects, it is necessary to identify cases of vowel harmonization and to write the historical vowel (of ancient Innu). Caution: It cannot be taken for granted that there are never cases of u followed by a syllable Cu or Cu; in certain cases, a real u exists, as in the following: shuku so much kukuetapuat they have no place to sit mukuman knife kukuetshimeu s/he asks him/her something mukutakan bent knife tshitapuku s/he is taken by the current pakumu s/he vomits atapuku s/he moves by the current uku thrush mukutui bear paw snowshoe muku but natukuieu s/he heals someone natukun remedy Spelling Solution The spelling solution for this issue comes from the history of the Innu language. Short Innu vowels were once pronounced as true [a], [i] or [u] sounds, and still are in certain dialects, especially those of Mamit, where they are sometimes even pronounced as long vowels. There is a long tradition of writing these short vowels as they were in ancient Innu. RULE FOR SHORT VOWELS – To write short vowels, use the letters a, i and u, based on their historical presence. In the specific context of a short vowel followed by ku or ku, and mu or mu, verify whether the vowel is a a, a i or if it’s really a u. The Innu Dictionary is the best tool for checking how to spell words with short vowels pronounced as [u] before Cu or Cu; the conjugation guide is also useful for learning how to spell conjugated forms. Learning Strategy for Short Vowels The correct spelling of short vowels is part of the use-based spelling, or lexical spellingLEXICAL SPELLING: Spelling not based on the application of grammatical rules (GRAMMATICAL SPELLING). Lexical spelling can be based on the pronunciation of a word, but that’s not always the case: it can be partly abstract for historical reasons, among others. This is what has happened with the spelling of short vowels in Innu, which isn’t always based on the actual pronunciation of a word but on an older, historical form. which must be learned when learning to write. In cases of doubt, consult the dictionary. The Innu language is based in large part on morphology – that is, on the construction of words by the use of morphemesA morpheme is a part of a word that holds meaning. For example, mińu- in mińuau it’s good, mińumu it’s well installed, mińuateu s/he appreciates him/her; -pańu in upipańu s/he lifts him/herself up, unipańu s/he sits up, paupańu it spills; -amu in uapatamu s/he sees something, kunamu s/he spills something, naikamu s/he cleans something., it’s useful to base any teachings on these morphemes. In fact, since a single morpheme can appear in many different words, knowing the morpheme’s spelling allows a writer to write a larger number of words more easily. Each time we learn the spelling of a morpheme, a root, a radical, an inflection, we’re learning to write many words. In addition to learning how to spell short vowels, this is also true for other spelling rules. Forming groupings can also help to learn how to spell short vowels. To help learn words with a short vowel pronounced [u] before Cu or Cu, here are groups of word listsThese word lists were inspired by Drapeau, L. et J. Mailhot. Guide pratique d’orthographe montagnaise. Québec : Institut éducatif et culturel attikamek-montagnais, 1989, items 6 et 7. organized by short vowel, by the following syllable, or by morphemes with a short vowel followed by Cu or Cu. nikamu s/he sings tshikamu it sticks atimu dog atimuss small dog, puppy pishimu month, moon, sun pishimuss December uitimua his brother-in-law, his sister-in-law nitimu my brother-in-law uitimushu s/he has a romantic relationship pipun winter pipunakup winter coat mikuau it’s red mikushiu s/he has red blotches kamikuakamit wine mikuapu s/he has red eyes umiku his/her blood umikuiapi his/her vein atiku caribou atikuss young caribou atiku-pimi caribou fat atiku-uiash caribou meat mishtiku tree mishtiku-emikuan wooden spoon mishtikushu a white person uapikun flower ushtikuan his/her head tshishiku the day apikushish mouse paushtiku rapids ussishiku eye uatiku den utashtamiku his/her face umiku his/her blood assiku casserole assikuashku pole for hanging things emikuan spoon utemikuanu s/he has a spoon emikuaniss small spoon tatuemikuaniss so many teaspoonfuls utemikuanishu tadpole tshishikushu s/he is sleepy nanikutini sometimes anikutshash squirrel tshipaiatiku cross nikun small, dry snowflakes fall iku spider ńikushkupańu the sky is overcast nitshiku otter atshiku seal kussikuashu he sews ńikuashkan cemetery shishtiku s/he spits pishikupańu something pops out tshińiku mixed ushiku s/he is blessed nikuteu s/he cuts firewood neshikuau it’s a point of ice pitikushiu s/he is stocky kushikuteu s/he carries a heavy load natamiku anything mishishtikuau it is a big river kauapikuesht priest utshishikumu s/he celebrates his anniversary kutikuniu s/he camps utatshikumu s/he has a cold atshinepiku snake minishtiku island nuapamiku s/he sees me uapamiku the other one sees him/her itiku the other one tells him/her nitiku s/he tells me utitiku someone comes to him/her nutitikun someone comes to me tetapiku! Sit down! takushinu s/he arrives takuan there is… Pakut-shipu Saint-Augustin utshekataku star kanakunass cookie tshakunau chocolate pakuateun belt apakuai web akakuai leech amaku netting needle takukuman pair of scissors takuaitsheu governing takuaikan government takushkateu s/he places a foot on something takutitsheueu s/he crushes his/her hand pakueshikan bread pakueshueu s/he cuts off a piece apu tutamaku we are not doing anything eku uapatamaku so we saw something takut- on top takut on top takutashtau s/he places something on top takutaut at the summit takutapu s/he is sitting on top taku- to hold takunamu s/he holds something in his/her hands takuneu s/he holds it in his hands takumeu s/he holds something in his/her mouth takunaushu s/he is the godfather paku- to remove pakuenamu s/he removes a piece pakuepitamu s/he tears off a piece pakuemeu s/he removes something with his/her teeth pakuekaimu s/he removes something with an axe nakua- snare nakuashu s/he gets caught in a snare nakuakaniapi snare wire nakuateu s/he catches it in a snare nakuanitsheu s/he sets snares takuatsh- autumn takuatshin it’s autumn takuatshineiau the weather feels like autumn takuakut last autumn takuatshi-pishimu November paku- hole pakuneiau something has a hole in it pakunetau s/he makes a hole in something pakuneneu s/he makes a hole in something with his hands pakunetamu s/he makes a hole in something with his teeth -taku useful, carved wood ińnashtitaku cut pine wood ishpimitaku upper floor of a house papatshitaku board ushkuetaku cut birch related topics
How to Improve Conversion Rates by Using Buyer Personas How to Improve Conversion Rates by Using Buyer Personas What is the first thing that comes up in your head when using the word “buyer persona”? If you assume the buyer persona as a fictional or -fictional character of your target audience segment, rest assured that you are on the right track. Understanding your target audience is the very first step towards the success of your marketing campaign. Buyer personas have progressed from a little-known marketing strategy to the most effective technique to boost rates of conversions. The initial move towards marketing success is creating and understanding your buyer personas. Read the article to know the what, why, and how buyer personas are essential for the success of your marketing campaigns. What are Exactly Buyer Personas? A buyer persona is a profile of how your ideal customer should be. It enables you to segment your audience based on demographics and psychographics and helps you answer questions related to your buyer personas like: • What is their age range? • What is their budget? • What will make them choose your brand? • What features do they want in their ideal product? • What makes them choose a particular product or service? • Why would they opt for that product again? • What type of difficulties do they face while purchasing? Why do Buyer Personas Matter? Buyer personas assist businesses in better understanding their customers, resulting in more fruitful marketing campaigns, more connected users, and successful customization of advertising. Brands can also utilize buyer personas to target user search intent. The ‘why’ underlying every user’s search for a product, brand, or service is defined as search intent. It explains whether they’re looking for information or are they looking to buy something? Using buyer personas to understand search intent better is a terrific method to improve the content and marketing initiatives. How Can Buyer Personas Help You Increase Conversion Buyer Personas are nothing but the main concerns you need to jot down about your target audience who you think will surely convert for your product and give you the maximum profit. So let us check out how you use buyer personas and what questions you must consider to use it for maximum conversion rates. • What is their geographical location? • What demographics should you consider? • What type of business to consider? • What is the size of the company and the income level? • What is the title or profession of the targeted audience, and if they are best suitable for conversion? • What is the motivation for buying? • What are the concerns about buying? For example, you can create a buyer persona like this: Product: All in one SEO platform XL subscription plan. Name: Nikita Bakshi Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra Age: 28 Gender: Female Interests: Marketing, Technical SEO, Startups Education: BBA from Mumbai University Job Title: SEO Analyst at a Digital Marketing Startup. Employment: In-house, Full Time. Budget: 20000 Preferred Language: English The motive for Buying: She wants to streamline the SEO process of her two-person SEO team in the company. According to statistics, 4-5 buyer personas account for approximately 90-92% of a company’s sales. That’s the result of doing a lot of audience segmentation and analysis. Let’s look at four ways buyer personas might assist enhance conversion rates across channels now that we’ve covered the basics. 1. Improve your customer’s needs targeting: Customers want products and services that are customized to meet their individual needs. Buyers are 45 percent more inclined to choose a solution-specific product tailored to their business/personal needs. Failure to create buyer personas can cause a slew of issues in your conversion process, including: • Poor understanding of what your clients want, i.e., poorly focused items. • Irrelevant audience targeting. • Developing products and services that lack essential characteristics that your customers expect. As a result, developing strong buyer personas aids in the development of well-targeted products and customized interaction experiences. 2. Get the Most Up-To-Date Information: User insights are essential for determining how well the function of your product and how well your users would respond to a new one. These findings go beyond the standard website and social media metrics like campaign reach, shares, likes, and comments. User-defined insights are all about the user’s perception of your product and brand. However, gathering these insights is a huge undertaking, mainly when catering to a large and diverse audience. Then how do you quickly get the most reliable insights? Of course, the answer is Buyer Personas. Buyer Personas: Organizing your audience into personas representing different audiences allows you to collect data faster and more accurately generalize your findings. Post-purchase surveys, email or social media feedback, or a simple ‘What are you looking for in a particular product?” can all be used to gather these insights. Creating survey questions for each persona can significantly increase the quality of your data. For example, SEO’s subscription plan for Nikita Bakshi might answer better questions like ‘How likely you to take up the subscription are plan for SEO” rather than “How would you rank your site with correct SEO techniques?” As evidenced by the fact that persona-based content increased client engagement by 45 percent, specificity is the key to cutting-edge insights. Asking your consumers for feedback, advice, requests for new features, and an essential quality check regularly will promise that your conversion rate will grow in the long haul. 3. Make Your Interactions More Human: What is it about your brand that will make your buyers enjoy it? Making your conversations more human is the key to getting inside your customer’s heart. Customers shouldn’t feel like talking to an automatic answer machine when interacting with your brand (online or offline). Instead, they anticipate interacting with stuff that has been humanized. This point is also related to your content strategy; the more conversational and tailored your content is, the better it will be received by your buyers. As we can see, creating buyer personas can be very helpful in targeting the right segment of the audience with a suitable mode of interaction. For instance, a young 25-year lad will prefer interactions through DMs, whereas a 65-year-old gentleman would like a formal email update for carrying out conversations. This is where your buyer personas play the most crucial roles. With the help of buyer personas, you will get to know how to interact with different customers. 4. Make Marketing Campaigns That Work: A cakewalk? Not exactly. Many businesses recognize the need to build buyer personas to develop more robust marketing strategies but often fail to include personas in their ad campaigns. Targeting the correct section of customers, whether through Google advertisements or email-based campaigns, is the key to high conversion rates. Here are some eye-popping numbers on the effectiveness of persona-based marketing campaigns: • When tailored emails are delivered to users, the open rate increases by 2-6times. • Following the creation of persona-specific emails, the CTR increased by 15%. • Considering buyer personas makes it 2-6 times quicker for consumers to explore websites. • SEO techniques based on personas increase organic reach by 60%. So, when writing ad text or marketing content, ask yourself, “What would motivate me to connect with this content if I were the customer?” Thinking about your consumer persona can help you create well-aimed and compelling content. Different personalities engage with various materials (blogs, videos, and memes). Maintaining a close eye on the results of your social media posts, email campaigns, commercials, and other marketing efforts across age groups can provide helpful information. While constructing a universal marketing plan may appear to be the simple solution, creating well-researched customer personas will significantly boost your marketing efforts in the long haul. This also entails continually updating your consumer profiles and gathering user insights to improve your ads’ effectiveness and conversion rates. So, if you haven’t already done so, get to work on your buyer personas! Benedict Gareth Benedict Gareth Lorem ipsum consectetur amet sit comeneer ilremsolme dolc. Share this article: Scroll to Top
Thursday, January 26, 2012 LSSU: Banishing Words to Oblivion "Whoomp, There It Is! (1994)" Lake Superior State University or LSSU has released its annual Banished Words List for 2012! The Banished Words List is a collection of words that nominators would like cleansed from the English language. At the very least, these are words that nominators no longer want to hear being used by media personalities or by the general public. The first Banished Words List was issued by LSSU in 1976. Since then, people have been nominating words that they believe should be in the list for a particular year. Although not everyone is in agreement with the words that make it to the final cut, still, it is great fun to find out why these words have been deemed over-ripe and need to be removed from the collective consciousness of society. Why the need for a list? LSSU wanted to point out that people have a tendency to over-use and most often, mis-use words sometimes to the point where the words or phrases become generally useless. Words and phrases like "awesome (1984 & 2007)," "you go, girl (1997)," "win-win (1993)," and "to die for (1995)" for instance have been beaten to a pulp. These words started out as interesting and useful. But alas, they eventually became as pleasant to the ears as the sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard. To help regain some linguistic dignity, LSSU comes up with a yearly list as a reminder to all. LSSU and the birth of the Banished Words List Lake Superior State University started out as Lake Superior State College in 1946. Located in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, right along the border of US and Canada, the college was established for veterans of World War II who were returning after the war. By 1970, the once Michigan College of Mining and Technology branch became autonomous from its mother institution. In 1987, the college completed its transformation to all full-pledged university. LSSU offers over 60 degree programs including accounting, biology, computer science, fisheries and wildlife management, geology, engineering, criminal justice, teacher education, psychology and nursing. It was LSSU's Public Relations Director, W.T. Rabe (now retired from the said post), who spearheaded much of the campaign to lift the small college out of oblivion and distance itself from Michigan Technological University. As early as 1971, the legendary Rabe established a group called Unicorn Hunters and instituted events like the yearly Snowman Burning, which was the then college's way to usher in the 1st day of spring. The Banished Words List first came out in 1976. It was prepared in 1975 by Rabe and some friends at a party on New Year's Eve. Because of the popularity of the said list with the locals and with the international community, Rabe continued churning out lists since then. People have been invited to nominate words or expressions that they believed should be banished from the English language for a particular year. Why release the list on January 1st? Rabe, a newsman himself, knew that the list would get the maximum coverage on New Year's Day because January 1st has always been what journalists term as a particularly slow news day. Each 1st of January, students, faculty, the local and international news organizations, and people who have grown fond of the list eagerly anticipate the Banished Words List. The list's popularity continues to grow especially because of its accessibility given the current state of computer technology. The 2012 Banished Words List is the 37th of its kind. It looks likes Rabe's brainchild will live on for a long time. The first list Since 1976, a whole slew of words have been banished by LSSU. The numbers are close to 900 to date. The words found in the very first Banished Words List are the following: At this point in time Call for Resignation Implement and Viable You can find, enjoy and criticize the different Banished Words Lists on the LSSU website. A few of the words that have appeared on the lists since its inception are: 24/7 (2000) <3 (2009) - it is supposed to look like a heart Absolutely! (1993) App (2010) Awesome (1984 & 2007) Baby boomers (1989) Been There, Done That (1996) Bling or Bling-Bling (2004) Carbs (2005) Exact Same (1981 & 1990) Flip Flop (2005) Hello?! (1999) My Bad (1988) Organic (2008) There are too many interesting words and phrases to mention and it would be best to read it from the LSSU site rather than repeat the same information here. In the LSSU website you can also get an explanation as to why these words made it to the list. What's in the 2012 list? The words and phrases that won a seat on the 2012 Banished Words List are: Baby bump (came in second to the top word) Blowback (corporate jargon meaning reaction) Ginormous (used when gigantic and enormous are not big enough) Man cave (popularized in television, movies and sports shows) Occupy (gained popularity due to the Occupy Wall Street movement) Pet parent (goes beyond pet owner) Shared sacrifice (a politician's go-to word referring to sharing the burden) The new normal (justifies new bad trends or styles) Trickeration (why the word trickery does not suffice is a mystery) Win the future (there must be much dislike for this politician's term that it landed in the list) Thank you in advance (condescending much?) But what got the most nominations for 2012 is, drum roll, please, "AMAZING." Apparently, more than 1,500 people put this word on the list. It seems that the alleged fault lies on journalist Anderson Cooper and media mogul/lifestyle maven Martha Stewart according to the nominators of this word. Not only were people from America and Canada gunning for "amazing," nominations were also received from as far as Scotland, England and Israel. The powers-that-be that issue the yearly list were caught by surprise because the word "amazing" was never part of any of the other lists in the past. Is it right to banish words? Freedom of speech, at least in some countries, essentially gives individuals the right to say what they wants to say. Of course, not unless what one is saying is slanderous and can result in a legal action. However, over-using or mis-using words may make a person appear unintelligent to the more educated crowd. There may be a sort of snobbery to the Banished Words List but at the same time it serves as a reminder that there is no need to use flowery words or meaningless words when there are better words that can communicate what you need or want to say succinctly and, more importantly, accurately. When celebrities, politicians, media personalities and plain wannabes start dishing out over-used and mis-used words, one can't help but imagine the great writers and linguists cringing. Shakespeare must be turning over in his grave whenever someone mis-uses the language he loved. In the end, it is up to the individual whether he wants to continue using the words in the Banished Words List or not. But when doing so, hopefully he uses the words the way these words were intended to be used in the English language. Otherwise, he might not be "on the same page (1996)" as the person he is attempting to communicate with even if that person is his "BFF (2011)." 1 comment: Teresa Halminton said... 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Police raid on Occupy DC I grabbed a woman I recognized from the info tent and pointed to them. "Get them out of here," I told her. She just looked at me for a moment in the chaos, and I repeated, "Get them the fuck out of here." She nodded and grabbed them, still hugging. I spun around, and the riot line was on me. Pushed from every direction, I tripped over something behind me which turned out to be a person on the ground. The officer in front of me screamed "Move back!" but other people were falling on the fallen, and there was no way to move back without trampling them, and no way to stay without being trampled. Occupy DC Evicted From a Winter of Communal Discontent
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Static and animated 3D content can provide more realistic and engaging mobile augmented reality experiences. However, creating 3D objects is not as straightforward as featuring video and photo AR layers. To help you out, we’ve written a blog in collaboration with our partner, Jānis Uzraugs, sharing how to use Blender to create 3D content for the Overly app. Why Blender? Blender is free and open 3D creation software and offers the same features as Cinema 4D, 3DS Max or Maya. Unless you already have a paid-for software, there is no notable benefits to using a costly alternative over Blender. Where does Unity3D come in? Overly app is built using Unity3D. Therefore, all 3D objects need to be prepared so they would integrate with Unity. If you are creating 3D objects that do not move, you can export files in .OBJ format. If you need to create more complex scenes with animations, you need to render these in .FBX format and prepare asset packs for the Overly app. However, do not worry about getting familiar with Unity. Once you send over .OBJ or .FBX files, our in-house team integrates your project with Unity to place in the Overly app. Polygons (low poly) While there are no particular requirements in terms of the number of polygons necessary for preparing augmented reality models and scenes, it is good to consider that people use various devices to retrieve this content. Some mobile devices may be quite old so it is always the best practice to keep the number of polygons low. While the most current devices could easily process 300 to 400 thousand polygons, to stay on the safe side it’s best to keep your scenes at 250 thousand polys for mobile devices. If you are creating a seperate 3D object, do not exceed more than 100 polygons. Understanding polygons We didn’t want to rewrite the facts and have borrowed some information from, as we think they perfectly explain how to understand polygons. Polygons are straight-sided shapes (3 or more sides), defined by three-dimensional points (vertices) and the straight lines that connect them (edges). The interior region of the polygon is called the face. Vertices, edges, and faces are the basic components of polygons. You select and modify polygons using these basic components. When you model with polygons you usually use three-sided polygons called triangles or four-sided polygons called quadrilaterals (quads). Maya also supports the creation of polygons with more than four sides (n-gons) but they are not as commonly used for modeling. An individual polygon is commonly called a face, and is defined as the area bounded by three or more vertices and their associated edges. When many faces are connected together they create a network of faces called a polygon mesh (also referred to as a polyset or a polygonal object). You create your 3D polygonal models using polygon meshes.” Just adding on a quick summary with a visualization. Vertex is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices. Face refers to a 2D shape on a mesh that is defined by the surrounding vertices. Edge is the spot where two faces meet together. Preparing animations Animations can be prepared by using object transformation, changing their location, size as well as rotation across the coordinates of x,y,z axes. You can also create animations with object rigging system. Object rigging will be helpful in animation such objects as humans, animals, cars or other mechanical devices that consist of more than one part. In one of our recent projects that was created for a park tourism brochure, rigging system was used to create an impression of trees swaying in the wind. All animations are prepared in the timeline, noting key frames where changes to the object bone or armature are taking place in the x, y,z space. Each object has its own animation with a unique title attached, so it is easier to when objects and animations are uploaded to Unity. As any one object may have more than one animation, the title should note both the object it is for as well what animation it is. This is mostly relevant to scenes with more than one object, so the assets are organized and not confusing for the Overly support team that handles Unity integration. Animations are created in the Timeline. Animation titles and their attachment to specific objects are added to a Dope Sheet tab, which can be accessed through the Action Editor view. Object as one or many separate layers As in the park example featured above, any other project created for the Overly app should be exported as a single file once the project is complete. The single file should consist of categorized objects, so there would be no issues if there is a necessity to change something once uploaded to Unity3D. All parameters such as materials and textures should be included for each object separately. The origin point of all elements must be located at point 0 (Zero) on x,y and z axes. Textures/materials/colors (color and light differences: rendered visualization vs AR) If an object has only a color assigned, there is no need to create textures. You can just choose the object’s material and give it a specific color. However, if you want to assign more than a color to an object, for example color changes, textures, hieroglyphs, etc., you will need to create textures. One option is to create these textures in Blender and bake them to the specific object as .JPG or .PNG. However, you must be careful with a couple of things – you shouldn’t bake lightning or shadows from the scene, because this will look wrong alongside Unity project lights. Therefore, you must choose the bake type Diffuse (it is defaulted to Combined) and leave just the color option turned on. Before the texture is baked, you must check if everything is correct with the normals and if they are located towards the correct direction. Otherwise, the polygons that are turned the wrong direction will be baked black within the textures and will appear black or transparent once imported to Unity. In this instance normals can be twisted around so they would all face the same direction. When the textures are baked, all you need to do is assign them to specific objects and create a new material with a certain texture attached. UV maps Before the objects are textured, a UV coordinate system map has to be created for each. It sounds more complex than it is. In short, it is a two dimensional image of where different textures appear on the 3D object. It is the same as creating a layout for a cube to later cut it out from a piece of paper, fold it and glue it. Once you’ve created layouts, you can create textures for each object for importing to Unity. One of the options of how to create textures was provided above. However, you can also take those layouts and open them in a different program such as Photoshop if you prefer. Here is an example of the above building layout: Different types of textures exist, which are responsible for making materials glossy, transparent, rough or similar. Each of these textures have to be saved as .JPG fails. That is quite useful for creating such stuff as reflections for windows or highlighting various aspects of a building’s facade. 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33 thoughts on “Bound to be awesome 1. I’m totally onboard with the idea of a gob of cherry goo inside a rich chocolate cake with (say) chocolate ganache on top. But a gob of cherry pie inside all that? No. I just don’t want pie crust inside a cake! So sue me! 1. I’m willing to TRY one, but only if the pie is pecan (or perhaps blueberry). Otherwise, sue me along with Ophelia. 1. Pake is Not Great: How Multi-Layered Frosting Poisons Everything. I can already feel the all-encompassing pericardial effusion. However, I’m willing to relegate myself to a position of pake accommodationism for the sake of holiday revelry. 1. Eyes? Gaping mouth? Definitely not. I see something else… completely unmentionable in mixed company. But then again, I worked in an STD clinic for 13 years. 2. Hey, there’s fruit in the middle! It MUST be good for you if there’s fruit in the middle. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 1. Fruit with antioxidants, vitamins and dietary fiber = good for you! Chocolate can increase serotonin which makes you happy, and can act as an antioxidant too= good for you! Both chocolate and vanilla are thought to act as an aphrodisiacs – and sex is good for your cardiovascular fitness = good for you! (You can make anything a health food if you try hard enough and only look at the anecdotal evidence that supports your “everything is a health food” beliefs) Mmmm cup-pake 1. Didn’t Bill Cosby do a routine like that (“You gave them chocolate cake for breakfast?!”)? :-)) Of course, America is, as usual, way behind the Japanese. I’ve seen both Pie Cake, and Cake Pie over here ;-)) 1. Of course, they’re not the same size ;-)) Even McDonald’s here has smaller (read: original) sizes than the US, and Japanese I know who have traveled in the US are routinely shocked by the size of restaurant servings. Chris is right–there are zillions of great bakeries, though there are plenty of women who bake very well at home. Just smaller size stuff. I’m always surprised when I make something from a Japanese recipe–I get a dozen cookies, instead of 4 or 5 dozen. I wonder, parenthetically, why it is that the Japanese are generally not overweight… ;-)) 1. Which is even more confusing since it’s usually メロンパン (meronpan melon bread). I find it interesting that Americans are behind the Japanese when it comes to baking since home baking is a very different thing in Japan than it is in the U.S. Though I am also constantly surprised by the presence of really good bakeries all over Japan. I lived in Oda, a small costal city in Shimane Prefecture and there were no less than three yummy bakeries. 3. Avoid such indulgences. Avoid tobacco. Drink moderately, eat greens and tubers. (Only if you like it…) And you won’t end up like Hitchens. 1. Cancer is (as many diseases) an outcome of stochastic processes. There is no _guarantee_ that the outcome of heavy work with pakes, smoke, alcohol and meat will get you your desired sick leave. (But you will probably wish for it at the time.) 4. I am baffled by how many people denigrate pakes without having tried one. I too was wary until I discovered how good they are. DATA! 1. Not denigrating; just saying I don’t want. I don’t want to waste the indulgence. I’d rather have the two things side by side. Anyway I’ve got data: I know what kind of thing I like and what kind I don’t! I like smallish very intense desserts; I don’t like huge sprawling ones. I’ve never wanted a banana split, not even faintly. I just…I prefer to concentrate things. So sue me! Leave a Reply to palefury Cancel reply
Monday, April 12, 2010 Andrea DuCane Interview: Discussing the HKC and Resilliance-Based Kettlebell Training for All Populations Andrea DuCane is bringing the first ever-in-the-UK HKC one day kettlebell certification to the UK, June 6 at the University of Southampton. In preparation for that, i thought it might be nice for folks to hear a little more from Andrea about who she is, her approach to kettlebells, and why the opportunity to work with her to tune one's kettlebell practice is to be ceased with gusto. By way of background, Andrea is one of the only Master Trainers in the RKC kettlebell training system. That's not nothing - especially as currently the only woman in this group, too. She wrote and produced and starred in "The Kettlebell Goddess Workout DVD. Her latest DVD, “Working with Special Populations," was filmed at the RKC Level II. She is featured in the "From Russia With Tough Love" video and book. She published an article on Russian Kettlebells for Best Body Magazine. She was interviewed and photographed for an article introducing kettlebells for Oxygen Magazine. She is also a Pilates instructor. She currently teaches classes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has twenty years of aerobics, weight training and fitness experience, with an additional background in classical ballet, jazz dance and Argentinean tango. She has trained in a number of Eastern health and martial arts disciplines including kung fu, yoga, tai chi and qigong. Andrea trains many different types of clients. She has trained a professional baseball player, High School coaches and students for Track and Field. She works with people coming back from injury, older clients starting a fitness program. Housewives and young athletes. Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Osteopaths and Medical Doctors, Pilates Instructors, Dancers and other Personal Trainers she counts as her clients. She is experienced working with large groups or on a one to one basis. So with that list of credentials ringing in our ears, we begin this interview with Andrea. We cover why kettlebells as an approach to training; her fave moves; Andrea's own impact on the North American kettlebell scene, openning it up to women; her path getting involved in KB work and becoming only one of a half-dozen RKC Master Trainers; being a woman in the RKC and some thoughts about the upcoming HKC - who should take it, why, and how to prep for it. o Why Kettlebells What's with kettlebells, andrea? why is this your main tool? First, Kettlebell training is the most efficient and effective training out there. It easily addresses and accomplishes most health, fitness and athletic goals. In your June 2009 Kettlebell Secretes interview with Geoff Nuepert, you suggested that everyone - all ages, gender, ability - should should deadlift and snatch with a kettlebell. Why? The dead lift is already in the course as a prep drill. The kettlebell deadlift is relatively easy to do, requires very little space and equipment. The deadlift is a basic, essential movement pattern everyone performs each and every day of their life, from the time they learn to stand upright to end of their life. Problem is people aren't moving as efficiently and safely as they should. We, as a society have "forgotten" how to move from our hips and use our glutes and legs to lift, squat, sit, run, jump etc. We are “sitters”. We spend nearly every waking hour sitting, from driving to work to sitting at a desk at work to sitting in front of the TV at the end of the day. The physical toll it is taking on our bodies is evident in the epidemic health problems facing all industrialized countries today. Why focus on the deadlift? Well it strengthens all the lower and back core muscles we need to move properly. It teaches us how to move safely and not use our backs. It strengthens the butt (and who doesn’t want a nice shapely derriere!), which is the “engine” and power source of our bodies. I have a saying, “Big butt – healthy back”, ok, I’m talking about muscle here not the other soft tissue☺ Seriously, I come from a family of “no-butt’s” and I work very hard to get and keep a butt! By the way, there are many ways to do deadlifts. You can make them easier for a de-conditioned person by having them place the KB on a box or platform, thereby limiting the depth and range of motion. You can challenge their core and stability strength by doing suitcase dl’s (one kb on one side). Or have them stand on a box if they’re strong and flexible and perform the dl lower than the floor. Ok, makes sense on the DL, and it's in the HKC, the certification course you're doing in the UK June 6 at the University of Southampton. The snatch, however, is not in the course - that's the RKC. The main moves in the HKC are the swing, the turkish get up, and the goblet squat... The Swing is the natural progression of the deadlift. Plus, of course, it has the added advantage of adding the cardio/fat-burning element (that takes care of the “soft-tissue” butt). So for those looking for fat loss the swing should be your go-to exercise. It should be the foundation of your training. The swing is also for every athlete of every sport. For Hardstyle RKC, our idea of sports specific training is: SWINGS. The snatch is the next progression of the swing. It incorporates more upper body and because the arc of the moving kettlebell is greater than the swing, there is more load and intensity per every rep which leads to even greater benefits. Why kettlebell snatches? Again, it requires little equipment, little space, and is fairly easy to learn once the basics are down. Kettlebells are simple, efficient and effective at power generation and cardio endurance, and fat loss. The Snatch is the Czar of all kettlebell lifts. There are many fun and glamorous kettlebell exercises out there, but working the deadlifts, swings and Turkish Getups should be your bread and butter. The snatch should be part of everyone’s conditioning program, once you have the form down perfectly. o Revolutionary Ok, so the snatch is only after spending some quality personal time with the swing, TGU, deadlifts and squats. Not that that's a small program in itself. We’ll come back to the particulars of the HKC lifts shortly, but can we pull back for a sec to your role in North American Kettlebell development. No one will deny that Pavel Tsatsouline is the person who brought kettlebells to north america in 2002. But what most folks may not realize, and that kinda blows me away, is that you Andrea du Cane are more or less responsible for Pavel Tsatsouline thinking about directing kettlebell training to women - his KB work prior to this being directed at least implicitly at guys. - the result being one of his best fitness texts, from Russia with Tough Love (one more folks of either gender would enjoy). How did you get working with KB's such that you had confidence in pushing for this development? or was this idea prior to your own work with kb's? How'd it happen? Why the initial resistance do you think? What changed to make it happen? And how/when/what let you know that you'd been so right? When John [du Cane, Dragon Door Publisher] and I first began working with Pavel, the products were aimed towards a fairly hardcore, extreme group of men. The first five books were not about kettlebells. It took some time for Pavel to write a book on Kettlebells training. While shooting of the RKC book and DVD, I was completely blown away by kettlebells. I immediately saw the draw for women. It’s advanced pilates,…… yoga with weights…. fat burning… you could do it at home while the kids napped or did homework. You could do it at the office. You could get a full-body complete workout down in 10-20 minutes! It was like a working mothers dream come true! The hard part was convincing John and Pavel that there was a market out there and then how to market it to women (and de-conditioned populations). It’s taken a few years, but with every RKC there are more and more women attending, more personal trainers who have the foresight of wanting to find the best system for their clients. Yes, you could say we have moved into the mainstream. You can even find cheap knock-offs at Target Stores. In my opinion, this is a good thing; kettlebell awareness is reaching many more people. In my world everyone will be swinging kettlebells, starting in grade school. Save 30 Percent on Kettlebells o Evolving Path: Master Trainer Background. Your path to fitness training seems really intriguing: you studied psychology as an undergrad, and did a lot of work in make up for film/tv/video productions as it seems your main gig. A constant theme seems to be movement: taking dance classes through school and uni; getting involved in martial arts - what happened that the fitness path seems to have overtaken the other paths? Where do you see those previous incarnations playing into what you do today? I think I define the term “late bloomer”. I was not athletic as a child. I was small, skinny, weak. I couldn’t run fast or throw a ball. I remember distinctly being in 3 grade and not only being the last one chosen for kickball, but the team captains would say “ No, you can have Andrea, the other replied, No you take her I don’t want her”. Seriously! The only thing I could do was hang from the bar. I got the school record for the flex-arm hang; I think I made it close to a minute. I discovered dancing as a senior in high school and never looked back. I became obsessed with it. It was my refuge from the pressures of being a teenager who had lost her mother 2 years before. From classical ballet I discovered jazz dancing, aerobics (yes, I’m embarrassed to say), weight training and finally martial arts. With each new movement I learned, the stronger and more athletic I became. In fact, I discovered I have a gift for learning movement fast. I realized I was pretty coordinated. But I still needed to develop my strength. I’ve loose and weak joints and connective tissue genetically, so finding kettlebell training has saved my health and life. I credit my hardcore martial arts training for developing the mental toughness needed to truly succeed. It also gave me a wiry strength. It taught me about power generation and that it’s all about technique. Good technique will always trump brute strength. My favorite part of my martial art practice was weapons practice and the circular forms. I liked becoming “one” with the weapon. And I liked the flowing, yet powerful energy that comes from the softer circular styles of martial arts. My years in the film/video world has given me a problem-solving way of thinking and operating. I think I use that with my clients and instructing. I feel I have been able to contribute to the high production values of all our Dragon Door products. Beyond master trainer in the RKC - what other formal or informal fitness training have you undertaken, and why those choices? I have completed the 4 levels of Z-health. Taken the CK-FMS, I have done a TRX course and plan on taking the upcoming Indian Clubs workshop. I just completed an on-line Functional Medicine course last year. I am also trained in Pilates. I use something from every workshop or certification I’ve taken. I will continue to take course and learn. These are not including all the martial arts workshops I have taken. You are one of only a few Master Trainers on the planet in the RKC. Not only are you (a) the only woman at that rank, you're also (b) perhaps the most different in terms of profile from the rest of the Master Trainers's, who have some kind of Lift Heavy Stuff A Lot backgrounds… I do have a different background from some of the other Masters. First, I am a women and not into performing “feats of super human strength”. My background is dance and pilates with marial arts. I’m in it for the long haul, I believe in being healthy, fit and agile well into old age. I have seen and met so many messed up broken people and yes KB's can rehab and help fix so many physical problems, but I’m trying to stay healthy by training SMART. I think I represent a healthy, sensible balanced way of life and training… or at least I am striving for that. I think there are a lot of men and women who can relate to that goal. I’m not trying to break any records, I’m not trying to lift the most weight, I want to be able to move like a teenager, I want to be a strong and graceful dancer and athlete. So, what is Master Trainer, what does it mean, when were you appointed a Master Trainer, and what do you think that recognizes about your approach to practice in the RKC - the similarities and the differences among the rest? Master Instructor? (This is very difficult to answer… not sure I can get to in-depth) I think it was going on 3 years when Pavel created the Master Instructor titles. Honestly, I’m not very good with dates [approx 2005/6]. I think Pavel is trying to create a system whereby those that teach the teachers have the experience, talent and beliefs of what makes an RKC. In my mind what makes a Master RKC is the ability to put yourself second to good of the RKC, your RKC candidates and students. It’s in promoting and encouraging the growth of the system through example and highly developed teaching skills. It’s by leading by example. I truly believe in the “quiet professional”, of being grateful and humble for everything I have learned and continue to learn. I cannot express the gratitude I feel and the knowledge of how lucky I am to be able to call Pavel a friend and mentor. o Identity How do you refer to yourself, Andraa, when folks ask what you do? Fitness trainer? Coach? kettlebell instructor? what? how has that identity in this training space evolved? Oh boy, that’s are hard one! I’m a bit ADD as anyone who knows me will agree. I will generally refer to myself as a Master Kettlebell Instructor. But there are still so many people who have no idea what that is, sometimes I’ll just say trainer. Special Pops. You are perhaps increasingly known within the RKC community as the go-to gal for kettlebell work with Special Populations. First, what does "special populations" mean, and how did this focus evolve, and what excites you about developing work in this space? Special Populations can be anyone who is seriously overweight, coming back from injury, elderly or severely de-conditioned. Which really is about 75-85% of the population roughly. So talk about potential market! Seriously, with the aging baby boomer generation and the TV/computer addicted youth we have unlimited supply of potential clients. I think I started out interested in this population because of my pilates training. I finished the advanced reformer and mat training just before or around the same time I was beginning my kettlebell training. I guess I saw the potential and in the beginning of the kettelbell movement. NO one, I mean no one was interested in that group of people. It was all about pressing the largest amount of weight, bending thick nails, working with the military and special ops, you know all the cool guy stuff. Back then the Get up was just that “ get up any way you can safely holding a KB over your head”. As the saying goes: We’ve come a long way baby! I also seemed to attract a lot of clients with “issues”. I saw the need and saw how kettlebells could really help these people. In fact, I believe everyone CAN and SHOULD use kettlebells in some version to stay healthy or get back on track. Being a Gal in the RKC. Ok, let's get it out there: Andrea, you are a petit gal. You're an adult, not a kid, and to be explicit, as we've said before , a Woman. What's your experience like when dealing with the let's say more macho side of an RKC course. Talking with Rannoch Donald about this upcoming cert, he said that you were his team lead in 2007, thought you were great, and started referring to you as Andrea du Pain. (visions of Mr. Miagi come to mind)? I have often thought my job in this life is to break the ceilings and boundaries set up for women. I was the first-born girl and had to break a few rules and give some gray hairs to my poor old dad. I did the hard work so those following in my footsteps (including my sister) would have it easier. The kettlebell world is a man’s world, sorry but it’s true. I’ve done a lot to open the doors for women. It’s not always been easy. I know many of the gals who have assisted at RKC’s can agree it’s hard sometimes to get the respect we deserve. I have been called a lot of names (not printable here). I’ve had to exaggerate the tough part, because I thought that was the only way to get the guys to respect me. Let’s face it when a women is tough she is considered a b_t__h. when a guy’s tough he’s a “man”. If I’m caring and soft … I’m too weak. So I straddle a fine line between letting the compassion come out and being tough. And let’s face it; in many ways women are way tougher than men! It was in Denmark, I had Rannoch Donald on my team and he coined the name Team Du Pain, which I still use today. I tell you that was one heck of a great group of men! I loved every minute of training them. I have to say I do feel a little like a mother hen at every RKC. I take it very seriously and personally to help every candidate achieve their goal to become an RKC. Andrea you will be leading the UK's first HKC June 6 at the University of Southampton. Besides this, however, you have real ties with the UK and travel here regularly. My in-laws live in Buckinghamshire. I come to visit once or twice a year. I love the UK and I love the people. I really would like to see the RKC grow in the UK. I think the time is now, I think by holding an HKC we are on the road to develop a large community of RKC trainers. First the Denmark, Hungary, Italy, now the UK and then the rest of the world! o HKC Redux HKC Prep Plan Indeed. So let’s talk a bit more about the HKC. This is the first official dragondoor/hardstyle cert in the UK. Interestingly, a few folks i've spoken with about the HKC have been a wee bit shocked to find that people actually can and do fail the HKC. What would you recommend folks do to be prepared for this course? The HKC like the RKC is a serious certification. This is NOT a typical fitness workshop: walk in the park, show up and receive your certificate. You had better come prepared. The HKC’s have a 10-30 fail rate. The RKC’s have I believe an average 30% fail rate. You should be already swinging those kb’s and working on your Turkish getups. If possible find a RKC near you and take a few privates or classes [UK RKC list here]. Have your form checked. It’s great to get a couple dvd’s but you should still visit a local RKC to get checked out. Also, make sure you work on the pull-up, flexed arm hang test. If you fail, you fail the course. Lastly, practice teaching friends and family ANY kind of movement so you’re used to demonstrating and talking people through something. By the way, if you do fail the course it’s not the end of the world you have 3 months to send me a video or private You Tube of your retest. Why Take the HKC in the UK? In the UK right now there are a number of certs available that teach a dozen or more KB moves. Why would someone take a one day cert that does effectively three moves, and that's it? Why will these individuals who want to learn kb's or trainers who want to add kb's to work with their clients be better served by what seems like such a limited program? Earlier in this conversation I said that if all people learned to do was a good swing they’d be on their way to their goals. Believe me, it is not easy to learn a proper swing; you can spend an entire day on it if you had the time. The Swing, the TGU and goblet squat. Those 3 drills embody all the principles of our Hard Style system. With just these 3 drills (plus the dl) you are learning the basis for the RKC. Only after mastering those exercises should you consider moving on to any of the other lifts. You will not only learn how to do them correctly, you will get the TOOLS you need to teach them to others. As you will discover it is not so easy to teach the correct form, you will need and use every tool in your box at some time or other. Can we take a wee jag at this point just to go over what HardStyle actually means in the context of the RKC system being a School of Strength etc - i've heard that Hard Style as a term comes from karate? RKC is a "hard style" of kettlebell training that originated from the spec ops of the Soviet Union. As in martial arts, the kettlebell hard style chooses "power production over power conservation." (Randy Hauer, RKC TL). It uses the ability to use total body compression to produce strength and power. To sum up, RKC hardstyle, is "maximual acceleration in quick lifts and maximal tension in slow lifts. Power over efficiency. Can you unpack this a bit more, as there is a considerable Girovy Sport community in the UK and this is possibly their only experience of KB training, where they would find discussion of max tension for all swings, say, kinda weird. Or max tension for their Long Cycle not very helpful and rather fatiguing. Same tool, different context. Those differences can get lost... Maxium tension during slow [heavy] lifts, helps you press heavier - SAFER. The use of compression and tension protects the back and shoulder while using your entire body to press. The advantage to using your whole body and using max tension is to generate more power and force, which translates into more total body conditioning as well as getting just plain stronger. When using lighter weights, such as a 12kg, you do not need to use max tension. In fact, you shouldn't, too much high tension when not necessary can lead to getting slow and tight. But, in order to press heavy - SAFELY you need to use max tension and compression techniques. As I mentioned the other side of the coin of Hard Style is max acceleration for quick lifts. If all you do is high compression/ max tension work, you will get slower. Hard Style's use of fast... is not weak and/or "efficient", it's explosive and powerful which only comes from being able to utilize max tension on slow lifts. I am not an expert on GS and do not practice it myself, but from my understanding the goal is EFFICIENCY, in order to put up as much /Volume/ within a specific amount of time. It is apples and oranges. Different goals that require different technique. But, take a look at your average client. What are their goals? Fat loss, muscle gain, better mobility/flexibility, faster, better over all energy, strong cardiovascular system. Those goals will ALL be met by Hard Style training. Audience for HKC? For some folks the HKC will be perfect as a stand-alone certification, either as an individual cert or as the first steps to feel solid about adding KB’s into their training program. Could you say a bit about why/how the HKC works for the individual who mayn't be interested in formal teaching? The HKC is geared toward teaching. But I would have to say I have about 20% of the people take the HKC for personal reasons only. The first priority of the workshop is to make sure every participant can perform all the drills correctly – or better yet perfectly. From there we go deeper to learn the tools and skills to teach it. In my experience, having the ability to teach something makes you better at it too. You develop a deeper understanding of the movement and system that you can immediately internalize into your own practice. It is in many cases a “life-changing” day, a deeply personal experience you’ll take with you for years to come. Prep for RKC For folks who may be thinking about the RKC, going onto the three day, intensive course, would you recommend they do this course before doing an RKC? if so, why? and if so how much in advance of doing an RKC? I would HIGHLY recommend people do the HKC course before the RKC. First of all it is our entry-level course, it will help prepare you for the RKC. Second, if you sign up for any RKC within a year of taking and passing the HKC (you just have to sign up and pay for the RKC you don’t have to take a course), Dragon Door will deduct the cost of the HKC out of the RKC. Which means you get the HKC for free. It’s like getting two courses for the price of one. Is there anything else you'd like to say about the HKC and prep for the HKC? I would just like to add the HKC is a taste of the RKC. Yet, it is a stand-alone certification. It is an eye opening, mind blowing experience and it will leave you wanting more…. Wanting the full RKC experience and certification! Thank you, Andrea! Getting even more jazzed about the UK HKC now. If you'd like more information on the June 6 UK HKC - and special HKC rates to hook up with an RKC II, CK-FMS, Z-Health level IV trainer to check your form once registered -either in person or via webcam - check the local HKC page here for information and direct access to early bird discount registration. No comments: Related Posts with Thumbnails
7 Health Benefits Of Eating Juicy Citrus Fruits Oranges, lemons, grapefruits and limes are all citrus fruits good to eat and full of health benefits from boosting immunity to fighting cancer. I’ve seven reasons to eat these juicy fruits for taste and nutrition. 1. Vitamins and plant compounds Citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C that is good for immunity and skin. Also, they pack vitamin B, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and copper. These vitamins and minerals are needed for smooth functioning of body. Also, citrus fruits have plant compounds like flavonoids, carotenoids and essential oils. These compounds have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. 2. Fiber Citrus fruits have a higher ratio of soluble to insoluble fiber that is good of health in many ways. It is good for digestive system and lowering cholesterol level. Also, it is a good aid in weight loss. According to experts, one should take 14 grams of fiber for every 1,000 calories. 3. Low calorie fruits Citrus fruits are a great choice for calorie conscious folks. They contain water and rich fiber and they don’t add unnecessary calories. A 2015 study on eating habits of health-conscious folks linked citrus fruits to weight loss. 4. Reduce risk of kidney stones Eating juicy citrus fruits can lower chances of stone formation in kidneys. These stones are mineral crystals but they are much painful. People with high content of stone forming minerals in urine are have more chances of developing stones in their kidneys. Another reason for kidney stones is low level of citrate in urine. Citrus fruits increase citrate level in urine and this way reduce formation of kidney stones. Also, the juice of citrus fruits could become a natural alternative to potassium citrate supplements. 5. Protection from cancer Studies on citrus fruits have linked them to boost immunity from cancer. It was found that people that drink one serving of grapefruit juice daily are less susceptible to developing lung cancer. Also, having citrus fruits reduces the risk of esophageal, stomach, breast and pediatric cancers. Citrus fruits have flavonoids that is a plant compound that can help fight cancer. These compounds suppress genes responsible for degenerative diseases like cancer. Also, they can make carcinogenic substances inactive in body. 6. Boost heart health A Japanese study found that people that eat citrus fruit regularly have lower rate of developing heart disease and stroke. A study done in 2017 linked grapefruit juice to decreased systolic blood pressure. Natural compounds found in citrus fruits are good for heart health. For example, the plant compounds found in citrus fruits increase good cholesterol and lower bad cholesterol. 7. Protection to brain Flavonoids found in citrus fruits could prevent development of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The anti-inflammatory capabilities of flavonoids can break the chain of events leading to deterioration of nervous system. Several studies done on adults related citrus juices to an improvement in brain function. Juicy citrus fruits can give you water, fiber, vitamins, minerals and plant compounds. They are great in taste and they are good for your health. Leave a Reply
• HVAC Best Sniper Shots from History; Thomas Plunket & Baker Shooting Rifle, Rob Furlong & McMillan Tac 50 & More Shooting firearms can be done recreationally or as a part as a career. From multiple types of guns, on multiple skill levels, shooting is common to many folks, even if they aren’t gun enthusiasts. Military, law enforcement, and security careers require more than basic use of firearms, and some with natural really excel. Hunters and competition shooters, use their firearms as a form of entertainment, but even there, abilities are exceptional, and can grow into extraordinary shooting. Those who opt for conceal carry are at least introduced to the basics and law abiding citizens, competitors, and professionals have the opportunity to heighten their skills on a range. But there are some truly phenomenal sharp shooters that make even the most experienced drop the jaw in awe. Today, we at Shooting Range Industries would like to look at some of the most impressive sniper shots history has to offer. Best Sniper Shots from History 1) Thomas Plunket, an Irish soldier in the British 95th Rifles has earned a reputation of being among the greats by shooting French general, Auguste-Marie-François Colbert. History writes that in the battle at Cacabelos, during Monroes retreat in 1809, the French general was shot by Plunket at a range of about 2000 feet with a Baker Rifle. Rifles in the early 19th century were incredibly inaccurate and the soldiers knew it. In fact the British soldiers were trained to shoot into a body of men at 165 feet and primarily armed with Brown Bess muskets. To prove to present soldiers that his shot was not just a lucky one, Plunket reloaded his rifle and hit his target, a major who came to the side of the French general. 2) Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow was an Ojibwa warrior with the Canadians; a scout and a very effective sniper during WW1. He would be awarded the military medal three times, and twice he was critically wounded. He would navigate through heavy fire to run messages to commanding officers and would even run through enemy fire to retrieve additional ammo when his was low. He would be credited killing nearly 400 German soldiers and capturing over 300. 3) Sgt Grace, 4th Georgia Infantry, a Confederate sniper would step on the battle field of Spotsylvania and take aim with his British Whitworth Rifle and shot General John Sedgwick from a distance of 1,000 yards, an extraordinary distance during the time. 4) Rob Furlong, a former corporal of the Canadian Forces, holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in history at 1.51 miles in 2002. Armed with a .50-caliber McMillan Brothers Tac-50 Rifle and loaded with A-MAX very low drag bullets, Furlong shot a three man Al-Qaeda weapons teams as they moved into a mountainside position he took aim. Though his first shot missed, the second hit the knapsack on the back of an enemy, and the third found a bullet to the chest. With the incredible distance, the air time of each bullet was three seconds, and after the first shot, the enemy knew they were under attack, but was not able to respond in time to take cover. 5) Adelbert F. Waldron holds the record for the highest number of confirmed kills for any American sniper in history, with incredible accuracy. Though he has 109 confirmed kills, one stood out when riding on a boat down the Mekong River. A Vietcong was strategically positioned over 3000 feet away on a coconut tree randomly firing his weapon at the boat. While everyone was taking cover in case the offender had luck on his side, they strained to find the perpetrator; but Waldron simply took up his sniper rifle, and with one shot took down that would be assassin. Custom Shooting Ranges for Military Law Enforcement & Civilian Live Fire Practice & Training There are countless other examples where history will show true skill evolving from the incredible sniper shots. The above compilation is just some examples where history would remember some of the greats. Utilizing a shooting range to hone your skills can impress friends, tip the scales of history, and possibly save your life. Contact Shooting Range Industries for more information on your own custom shooting range. Call Now Button
Creating SQL schemas with Doctrine DBAL A tedious task during web development is that of database schema creation. A schema containing a few tables comprising of a small set of rows is quick, while that containing dozens of tables and large numbers of columns is a tedious process. I usually resort to a small php script with some regular expression tossed in to automatically create a schema from a text file definition. But that is a little buggy as I’ve to manually add the indexes and other small things. Now that Doctrine has released a DBAL library, this will provide a nice ability to automatically create sql schemas. Doctrine DBAL Doctrine DBAL (available as RC4 as of this writing) provides a wonderful abstraction layer to process all the needed database actions. DBAL is a lightweight layer built around a PDO-like API which offers features like database schema introspection, schema migration, database access and manipulation through an OO API. Note that DBAL API can be used independently of the Doctrine ORM API. So you can use the DBAL library even if you are unfamiliar with the ORM API. Creating a MySQL schema from DBAL In this post I’ve created a small example script using the DBAL API to generate a MySQL schema for a couple of tables. Note that the DBAL API uses php namespaces, so you will need to be familiar with them to understand the code, which also means that you must be at least using PHP 5.3.0 use Doctrine\Common\ClassLoader; /* Doctrine uses a class loader to autoload the required classes / require 'Doctrine/doctrine-dbal/Doctrine/Common/ClassLoader.php'; / Lets first load the Doctrine DBAL lbrary / $classLoader = new ClassLoader('Doctrine', './Doctrine/doctrine-dbal/'); / Provide DBAL with some initial database infor / $config = new \Doctrine\DBAL\Configuration(); $connectionParams = array( 'dbname' => 'test', 'user' => 'root', 'password' => '', 'host' => 'localhost', 'driver' => 'pdo_mysql', / Connect to the database / $conn = \Doctrine\DBAL\DriverManager::getConnection($connectionParams); / We will now generate a table definition, but first lets get a Schema object . $schema = new \Doctrine\DBAL\Schema\Schema(); /* Now use the Schema object to create a 'users' table / $usersTable = $schema->createTable("users"); / Add some columns to the table / $usersTable->addColumn("id", "integer", array("unsigned" => true)); $usersTable->addColumn("first_name", "string", array("length" => 64)); $usersTable->addColumn("last_name", "string", array("length" => 64)); $usersTable->addColumn("email", "string", array("length" => 256)); $usersTable->addColumn("website", "string", array("length" => 256)); / Add a primary key / / Create another table called 'login' and add some columns / $loginTable = $schema->createTable("login"); $loginTable->addColumn("username", "string", array("length" => 64)); $loginTable->addColumn("password", "string", array("length" => 64)); / Assign a foreign key constraint to the table / array("onDelete" => "CASCADE") / Set the Schema output platform, as we are using MySQL a Mysql schema will be generated. / $platform = $conn->getDatabasePlatform(); / The 'queries' variable will now hold the an array of sql statements. $queries = $schema->toSql($platform); This will generate the following MySQL statements. id INT NOT NULL, first_name VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, last_name VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, email VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, website VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY(id) id INT NOT NULL, username VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL, UNIQUE INDEX login_username_uniq (username), PRIMARY KEY(id) login_id_fk FOREIGN KEY (id) REFERENCES users( Migrating schemas to another platform Now that you have generated the script to create sql schemas, you can easily migrate the generated schemas to another platform using a couple of statements. For example we can migrate the above MySQL statements to Oracle using the following code. $myPlatform = new \Doctrine\DBAL\Platforms\OraclePlatform(); $queries = $schema->toSql($myPlatform); Basic column types Below are the basic types that you can use in the ‘addColumn’ method when creating tables. 'bigint', 'boolean', 'datetime', 'date', 'time', 'decimal', 'integer', 'smallint', 'object', 'string', 'text'. In the next few posts we will explore some more features of Doctrine DBAL. This site is a digital habitat of Sameer Borate, a freelance web developer working in PHP, MySQL and WordPress. I also provide web scraping services, website design and development and integration of various Open Source API's. Contact me at metapix[at] for any new project requirements and price quotes. 4 Responses dhanesh mane December 22nd, 2010 at 10:31 pm thanks for all your efforts to write such a nice and informative article. Is there any option to use this for versions lesser than 5.3. December 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 pm Namespaces where added from version 5.3, so it is not possible to use the class prior to that version. Wil Moore III December 25th, 2010 at 6:02 pm >> Doctrine uses a class loader to autoload the required classes True; however, if you already have a PSR-0 compatible autoloader, you can skip the bundled option. November 6th, 2012 at 12:56 am Great article. I only trying find out how set other DB options, primary key, unique, autoincement and etc. There I can find full list of array key? Assocc is really horrible thing in PHP you never have a clue that you suppose put in function. Your thoughts Sign up for fresh content in your email
By Pure Matters The Other Sunshine Fruit Fresh tomatoes are finally here! When you sink your teeth into a local sun-ripened tomato, it is the true taste of summer sunshine. Right now, keep your toms at room temperature and enjoy them with just a dash of sea salt or with fresh basil and a splash of three-leaf balsamic vinegar. Although nothing is like a fresh tomato, you can save some of that sunshine fruit in your freezer to use in winter months. Smaller tomatoes like Romas can be put in freezer bags whole. No prep other than washing is necessary. Larger tomatoes can be cut in chunks so that they fit in the bag. Later, just thaw, drain and use to make sauce, salsa or your favorite tomato dish. They are so much better tasting than tomatoes from a can or the wan tomatoes of winter. Feeling the sand or soft grass or gentle waves under your feet grounds you … literally! Connecting with the earth physically and being unfettered by shoes can energize you and remind you of all your own potential. Enjoy it while it lasts and take note of how great it feels to just be barefoot! While you are on vacation this summer or at home enjoying the long days, make a summer therapy package. Put some shells, rocks or pressed flowers in a special jar to remind you of your barefoot days. Then if winter’s gray days get you down, break out your vacation jar for a look and treat yourself to a foot soak or massage … and savor the feeling of barefoot days once more. Be Berry Happy Local berries are in abundance right now and they are oh so good for you. Like tomatoes you can freeze their yumminess and use them later in anything from pancakes to salad dressings. A smoothie gets a great start with frozen berries. To freeze any berries, arrange them on a cookie sheet in your freezer. Then, once they are frozen, put them in a freezer bag to store. They won’t stick together in one big clump and you will be able to use whatever amount you need. Sunshine on Your Shoulders My favorite thing about summer is feeling the sun on my shoulders and the breeze on my back. I’m an outdoor girl and can’t get enough of the summer sun. So I was surprised to find that I had a vitamin D deficiency. I learned that it is not that uncommon for people who live in northern climes since vitamin D is produced in the body in response to sunlight. Even though you can get it in some foods, like fish or egg yolks, supplements are a big help. And if you are a person who stays out of the sun on purpose and/or is a vegetarian the likelihood of having a deficiency is high. Having enough D is essential for good bone and muscle health, so it may be worth a check.
A/N: This is basically just a dialogue-only nonsense piece. If you hate pointless fics, don't read it. I won't write many of these; it's just a way to release all my pent-up randomness. Basically, crack!fic meets my distorted brain. It's the Marauders, obviously, and you can just imagine who says what. Can I Touch It? "I know!" "Did you...?" "You really weren't kidding..." "That is the biggest I've ever seen in my life." "I told you! YOU wouldn't believe me!" "Sweet Merlin, look at it! It's huge!" "Hell, yeah!" "Uh, guys?" "It's bloody abnormal!" "You're just jealous 'cause yours would never get close to half this size!" "Psh, please. Ted's was bigger than that by far!" "Was not! Ted's was miniscule compared to this!" "Can I lick it?" "Sure, I guess..." "Well what?" "Does it taste good?" "Yeah, actually. Surprising, seeing as it's Sirius's..." "Hey! I resent that!" "I just realized...it's a little lopsided..." "Is not!" "Yeah, Sirius, it is! Look, on the left, there..." "You're right, it is!" "Is not...shut up you prats!" "You can't make fun of it! Yours is smaller!" "Yeah, well...not by much! I bet mine tastes better, too!" "Does not!" "Does too!" "Let's just get Remus to decide for us, then! Remus, first taste mine..." "No, mine!" "Will both of you shut up! Here..." "So which is it?" "You paid him off!" "Did not!" "There's no bloody way yours is better than mine! I have the Black family genes, mine is better by far!" "This has nothing to do with genes!" "Does too!" "Why can't you just admit that you're inferior and get it over with?" "Because I'm not!" "Wanna bet?" "Guys, shut up and listen to me!" "Finally! I just thought you might want to know-" "Know what?" "Evans and her friends are listening outside the door." "Where'd he go?" "Chasing after Evans, I suppose." "Think he'll come back?" "Only if-Prongs! You're-what happened to your face?" "She slapped me! I only wanted to know if she wanted to try some of the cake!"
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\| \| Connecting marketers to the Forbes audience. What is this? Business 200,459 views Census Data Reveals 'Two Americas' Within The U.S. The two wispy slips of paper were far more than just ATM receipts found at a bank in New York. They created a jarring yet simple mosaic of the sprawling gap between rich and poor in the United States. Income Inequality 04-24-13-A Jim Edwards evaluates two very different ATM receipts on Business Insider. “They show that someone recently withdrew $300 in cash on a balance of $1 million, just after someone else tried to withdraw $100 on an account that had insufficient funds,” Business Insider noted Tuesday. “Extreme, fixed, inequality is a recipe for disaster in a society that claims to be democratic and socially fluid.” Putting Money on the Line The starkest contrast in American income inequality could be right where those ATM receipts turned up, according to a study of U.S. Census Bureau data by The New Yorker. Any given subway commuter’s median household income is likely to drop precipitously once he or she has shuffled off Manhattan. “If the borough of Manhattan were a country, the income gap between the richest 20 percent and the poorest 20 percent would be on par with countries like Sierra Leone, Namibia and Lesotho,” according to The New Yorker. “Along individual subway lines, earnings range from poverty to considerable wealth.” Line 2’s Park Place and Chambers Street stations cater to the most affluent commuters with $205,192 in median household income. Farther up that line, the Bronx’s E 180 Street station services commuters with a median household income of $13,750 — just $1,462 more than the station serving the city’s poorest commuters. Households Still in Crisis Such an income disparity may be tough to imagine this far out from the financial crisis. But households with less than $500,000 in net worth are still in the thick of recession, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. These households lost almost 5 percent of their wealth between 2009 and 2011, while the wealth of those on the other side of $500,000 rose more than 20 percent, the Washington-based think tank’s study found. Stock and bond market rallies returned lost wealth to the top 13 percent of American households, and sinking home values continue to scuttle the rest. “The results are entirely sensible, but depressing,” study co-author Richard Fry said. “It’s a stark story of two Americas.” Facts and Fallacies Of course, not everyone thinks that the people in either America are trapped, or “fixed,” in that position. Nor does everyone agree with the veracity of the figures. U.S. Census data indicates a tremendous disparity in median household income, as shown by The New Yorker. “Almost invariably, such widely publicized statistics leave out both taxes on people in upper income brackets and transfers to people in lower income brackets,” Thomas Sowell wrote in Economic Facts and Fallacies. “When they fail to follow given individuals over time, they exaggerate lifetime inequality, as well as enabling observers to speak of people who are transiently in various income brackets as if they are enduring ‘classes.’” Paradox-Induced Paralysis But income inequality has surged dramatically over the last four decades, according to The New York Times on Sunday. Income Inequality 04-24-13-B “In 1970, the richest 1 percent of Americans enjoyed 9 percent of total national pre-tax income,” NYT stated. “In 2011, by contrast, that share had risen to 19.8 percent.” Meanwhile tax rates for the highest echelon of taxpayers have tumbled, and American voters have lost faith in partisan politicians’ ability to control the situation. “It seems like a paradox,” NYT stated. “Americans are increasingly worried about the gap between rich and poor, but are hesitant to have the government do anything about it.” Creating Value But a wide gulf between dirt poor and filthy rich doesn’t benefit either party in the long run, according to Business Insider. That’s because meager wages are a recipe empty wallets — and people with empty wallets don’t spend a lot of money, which adversely affects rich people’s ability to get richer. “The best way to fix inequality is to persuade the overlords that it is in their best interests to share more of their wealth by paying their employees more for their hard work (work that, not incidentally, is what makes the overlords rich),” BI’s Henry Blodget wrote. “Persuade companies that it’s better to focus on creating value rather than just profit.” Follow Derek on Twitter: @DKlobucher Related Media: ATM Receipt With $1 Million Balance Shows Tale Of 2 Cities In New York” on Business Insider Inequality and New York’s Subway” in The New Yorker ‘A stark story of two Americas’: Rich got richer and poor got poorer after U.S. recession” in Financial Post This article originally appeared on SAP Business Trends. Post Your Comment Please or sign up to comment. • Derek – I need to respectfully debate your post. Your analysis is based on a flawed premise. Someone should not simply take two random ATM receipts and come to sweeping conclusions about the overall state of the wealth in America. When I was in school, and for at least a few years afterwards, you could have viewed my ATM receipt and thought I was part of “poor America”. While statistically I may have been classified as poor, I never felt that way. All this time I was working hard and striving to better my life. However, it didn’t mean I was completely responsible for money management yet. One receipt may have belonged to someone just starting out. The other to someone who has worked hard and saved his entire life and is about to purchase their dream vacation home. I also disagree with your conclusion that the solution is to make the wealthy pay their “fair share”. If you think that the average “wealthy American” (someone making $205,192 in your analysis) doesn’t pay their share of taxes, you are sorely mistaken. By the time you get done adding up federal income tax, state income tax, local taxes, social security, Medicare, property taxes, gas taxes, sales taxes, and other hidden taxes (such as the cost of an airline ticket), it is estimated that up to 59.7% of one’s income can be consumed by taxes. The top 10% of income earners pay 68% of all federal income tax. While I agree that more opportunities need to be created to raise the income levels at the lower end, punishing one group of people is not the way to achieve this. Income equality should not be the objective. Opportunity equality should be. There will be those who grab these opportunities, and those who do not. People should be incented to take these opportunities, not discouraged. And those who choose not to should not be rewarded for making that choice. • Derek Klobucher Derek Klobucher, SAP 2 years ago Thank you for putting so much thought into your comments, Mark. You’re absolutely right about drawing too broad a conclusion from such a tiny sample size. That’s why I only used the ATM receipts as two tiles in an intricate mosaic. My conclusions stemmed from the U.S. Census Bureau data and Pew Research Center study that I cited in the post. You’re right about university students looking poor on paper, which is why I quoted Thomas Sowell’s warning about oversimplifying fixed class affiliation. However, I would warn against ignoring the millions of other people who are perpetually stuck in their class. Unfortunately the data seems to be inconclusive on class mobility. I’ve seen it cited both ways. We’ll have to disagree on the taxes though, Mark. Wealthy citizens enjoy more benefits of our democratic republic without proportionally contributing to it via military or civil service, so they should pay a higher tax rate than those who make less money. After all, public investment in infrastructure benefits corporations, which encourages investment. American military superiority and our robust justice system — both paid for by taxes — also foster wealth creation. So I don’t see higher tax rates as punishment. I see them as a civic responsibility. To be sure, not everyone agrees that income inequality is even a problem. But if it is a problem, it is certainly complex, requiring many cooperating solutions. And government — bigger or smaller — won’t be the only one. • jdr03 jdr03 2 years ago The analysis that someone else has to pay more so those without liquid assets don’t is flawed by the personal decisions one makes in their life. My main concern with this article is that I have more cash than people that have better toys (cars, cellphones, etc) than I do. I look wealthier on paper because I haven’t spent my money on momentary thrills. Instead I have invested in my future through the purchase of stocks, education, etc. If I am to give up money so others don’t have to, I should have a say in what it is those others get, otherwise I am just paying for them to not invest in their future. • Derek Klobucher Derek Klobucher, SAP 2 years ago Thanks for weighing in. It can be infuriating to watch government reward people who do not exercise personal responsibility, but I like that they paid sales tax on their toys. They also paid income tax on the cash they used to purchase those toys, which shouldn’t affect your wisely saved cash. I’d say you’re smart for investing your money in a retirement portfolio — and I’m guessing you’d have an opinion on the capital gains tax. =) • “We’ll have to disagree on the taxes though, Mark. Wealthy citizens enjoy more benefits of our democratic republic without proportionally contributing to it via military or civil service, so they should pay a higher tax rate than those who make less money.” There are a couple of things wrong (so wrong) here and this shows your ideology is leading you to draw biased conclusions from the data. First you assume that wealthy people have not served in the military – you should read a new report titled “Who Serves in the U.S. Military? The Demographics of Enlisted Troops and Officers”. It was compiled by Shanea J. Watkins and James Sherk at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis. The Heritage Foundation’s imprimatur will raise skepticism with you, but the facts from the military data are very compelling. Just to pick the data point that addresses your comment, 50 percent of the enlisted recruits (i.e., not including the officers’ corps) come from families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution, while only 10 percent come from the bottom 20 percent. Now, let us consider the contribution to society. The top 10% of wage earners – over $112,000 per year – pay 70% of the income taxes collected by the government (up from 55% in 1986). The top 50% (which includes the military recruits above) pay 87% of the Federal Income Taxes. In the latest 2013 data from the IRS, 47% of people paid no Federal Income Tax (there’s that inconvenient number again!). So who is it again that is paying for infrastructure? Not to mention that most of our infrastructure was built in the past, when the top marginal rate approached 75% (sometimes higher) on top wage earners. As an apparent journalist, you should get outside of the “1%” rhetoric you appear to sympathize with and actually look at the data if you are going to write a story like this. Shall we also look at what the “rich” give to charity and the arts? A recent study by the Chronicle of Philanthropy found that Households with incomes of $50,000-$75,000 donate on average 7.6 percent of their discretionary income. That’s compared with about 4 percent for those with incomes of $200,000 or more. Now, you say, the middle class is giving a bigger percentage – but that is deceptive, as the raw dollars for 4% of $200K is equal to $8,000 in giving while the higher 7.6% of $75K is $3,000 in giving. Also the study shows that Red States contribute much more than Blue States and that wealthy people who live in poor areas give a much larger percentage to charity – as well as giving their time. I also think you should look at what Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden contributed to charity (and look at Obama before he took office – Biden hasn’t changed, he gives bupkis). Now, all of that came from a guy in 30 minutes who got up one morning and read your article. Do you think you could perhaps put in a little more time in writing the article to come up with some, you know, actual data rather than writing something to suit your ideology? • J P J P 1 year ago Most of the infrastructure is build by local and state governments. The federal government mostly wastes money on wars, foreign aid, and welfare. Those don’t benefit the wealthy. • “In 1970, the richest 1 percent of Americans enjoyed 9 percent of total national pre-tax income… In 2011, by contrast, that share had risen to 19.8 percent. Meanwhile tax rates for the highest echelon of taxpayers have tumbled” Most rich people have a lot of control over whether they report income. In the 1970s people talked about tax shelters at cocktail parties. Now, they don’t. Rich people report more income now that they are penalized much less for doing so; that doesn’t mean the actual amount of money at their disposal has gone up commensurately. • robert ayers robert ayers 2 years ago The problem goes deeper than money. There are two distinct large groups with a smaller group in the middle. There are those who are willing to work very hard, stay in school, get their hands dirty, study physics and calculus, leap at opportunity, save, scrimp, do without, only buy what they need and become “rich”. On the other end are those who live for the moment, don’t want to be bothered with hard schooling or doing homework, won’t accept challenges drop out of school and spend every penny they have and end up “poor.” The group in the middle is willing to do some work and get by. We are victims of ourselves. You can see it all around you, people who expect to have someone take care of them and cover their laziness. I was apalled to see a sign in a national chain department store that stated “it’s okay to be smart”. Romney’s so called gaffe regarding the 47% that don’t pay any federal income tax illustrates the point. 47% aren’t willing to work hard enough or do what is necessary to get ahead. By their own hand millions are making themselves poor. I speak as the first person in my family to ever go to college, who worked full time while in school full time, and who took 7 years to get a BS from an engineering school. I have a masters degree now, a job, own my house and have some money in the bank. I also have the bruises and dirty fingernails from digging my way to being “successful”. Literally, if I can anyone can. As a nation we need to stop wining about things and roll up our sleeves, especially those who have less. Otherwise, we will only be another bump in the road of history. • This strikes me as phony , despite the habit of democratic capitalism (the 2 being inseparable) having a partiality for chasing the best price (including for wages)), which we all are chasing. Except for some this rabbit chase around the track is via big government coercions stealing from the successsful private businessperson. • This strikes me as phony , despite the habit of democratic capitalism (the 2 being inseparable) having a partiality for chasing the best price (including for wages)), which we all are chasing. For some this rabbit chase around the track is via big government coercions stealing from the successsful private businessperson. • I also meant to say (before the clumsy comments technology here began to push me around, suppose we should feel “grateful” anyway) that every businessman knows the truism of Henry Ford: you must pay an adequate wage the market will bear so that your emplyees can also become your customers, …sort of like Paul Newman’s salad dressing promo likes to say: ‘we take the money and then give it back again’….It’s called “the multiplier effect,” dummies! • Irish523 Irish523 1 year ago Why do both receipts say “transaction denied”? Not that the story couldn’t be true. There are certainly people with bank balances over $1 million and others with less than $100. • A few things to note about rich and poor. First, there is a huge disparity in cost of living across the country. $205k a year in Manhattan lives worse than half that much in Indiana. What sized yard can one buy in Manhattan for that income? There is also a big difference in the type of rich and the type of poor. The group that pays the highest percent of their income on taxes are the business and professional class, those with household incomes between $180k and $3M per year. People in higher and lower incomes pay less. It also turns out that is the group that contains our doctors, lawyers, small business owners, and others who work the hardest. The hazard is, if they stop working, they fall fast. On the low end, there are those who are perpetually poor due to laziness or choices of addiction and that propagates through generations. In fact, 70% of the children in America labeled to be poor would not be, if only their mothers were to marry their fathers. With the headline of the two Americas, one could just as well say the two are the married with intact families and the unmarried with people coming and going. The economics will line up. The other thing left out about the so-called poor, is that they do not have to do anything for their standard of living to improve. Cell phones, cars, air conditioners, tv’s were all once the club of the upper middle class, and now the poorest have these things. The biggest problem of American poor is not their lack of money, it is their obesity. The truly poor people of the world spend over half their income on food, and face starvation. American poor often spend none of their own money on food and face diabetes, heart attacks, and other fat-related problems. Everyone in the US has a choice to do better, because everyone can find some kind of education for free or nearly so to improve his skills. If we want to look a barriers, we should look at public schools that force kids with potential into bad schools. The answer of course if school vouchers for every child good at any school. That simple concept will enable millions to be the best they can be. • SharinLite SharinLite 1 year ago I have asked this question on numerous site multi numerous times and get no answers…so, here goes: The “rich”, “wealthy” pay the majority of taxes in America….but, you say they should pay more? Then, what precisely, with specificity can you do with the 47% of the population that pay zero or some sales taxes and no income taxes but get thousands in EIC credits? A large percentage of these people don’t even do the EIC, unless the law changed. However this large percentage also get rent, utility, cell phone subsidies…free medical care through Medicaid…food stamps and free time on the cell phones they sell for drugs or hi end purses. What do you do?????? And, they want jobs. So, what do you do? • coltakashi coltakashi 1 year ago Over the course of our 40 years of marriage we have lived at a range incomes from starving student to established corporate attorney with a couple of retirement pensions earned. None of the income I earn now is making someone like I used to be any poorer. Specifically it does not make my adult children poorer. To the contrary, I have been able to act as a safety.net for them, providing assistance more helpful than unemployment insurance. I have started to employ my oldest grandson. I also am able to donate funds through my church that aid people in acute need as well as pay the expenses for utilities and maintenance of a resource that.is.used by people of all income levels. When I buy the things I need, from hamburgers to cars, I provide income to people at all levels. The measure of the fairness of what I earn is the value of my services to my employer, not a numerical ratio to what is earned by an unskilled day laborer. So long as he is paid according to the value of his services, and is free to earn more through education, accumulated experience, and reliability, just as I did, he is being treated fairly. No one ever criticizes celebrities for their high.incomes, which often have no relationship to level of effort or any intrinsic value of their work. After all the entertainers and sports figures and authors are giving back from their earnings , the fact that it makes no difference in the income if e poor will be more obvious. • David McNutt David McNutt 1 year ago Who keeps 1 million in an account that FDIC only insures up to 300K? • K.T.L.D. K.T.L.D. 1 year ago Exactly. I neglected to add that observation to my comment. The whole article smells like a personal vendetta, with manufactured “disparities”. • Louis Arpey Louis Arpey 1 year ago Even things out and give the poor underprivileged $500,000 each and in a year the poor underprivileged will be poor and underprivileged again. It’s not the fault of hard working Americans that have made something of themselves that the lazy uneducated folks don’t have much. The sad part is that the Democrats want them to stay the way they are. Guaranteed Liberal voters. Share, share, gimme, gimme. Sickening!!! • So, I gather that the media is going to start up the “Equality,” fight and start supporting stealing from the rich to give to the politicians, again. Occupy 2? • Just another Keynesian Liberal spewing out angry opinions of inequality that are completely false. Think back to 1970…did everyone have flat screen tv’s, cell phones, healthcare, a car, a place to live, and food to eat? No. They didn’t. But today, everyone has it. The rich may have bigger houses and cool toys today, but the poor seem to have just about every amenity that life has to offer. The backlash is coming…..taxpayers are sick and tired of paying for everyone else. It doesn’t matter how rich you are. If you have to pay for all of the deadbeats to have every luxury in life, you’re going to get sick of it. • Jay McAmis Jay McAmis 1 year ago I’m going to have to agree with Mark on this one. There never will be income equality, ever. The whole concept of income equality, just like social justice, is a pipe dream created by someone who coveted what others had and who created a mechanism to claim it for themselves. Societal discussions must involve all aspects of that society and social norms. In this conversation, the first step is to segregate those who produce wealth, and those who consume wealth. In the private sector, the value of someone’s compensation is based on their ability to help the organization earn a profit. Without the incentive of profits, why would anyone attempt to build a business in the first place? In the private sector, generally speaking, the value of compensation is directly tied to the value of the participation. i.e., a small business is generally not going to make owners or employees rich, because the amount of profit is usually very small. The bigger the company, or corporation, the bigger the numbers thrown around and the higher likelihood of more employees within the organization becoming wealthy. A good example of this is Microsoft. When they began, Bill Gates and friends worked with meager means. After years of investment and work, they created one of the most profitable companies in American history, enriching many, many people. In the public sector, compensation is generally determined by negotiations between labor unions and the government or jurisdiction. Public employees are consumers of wealth. They do not generate wealth. The bigger the government, the more wealth they are taking from the wealth producers. The more money taken from wealth producers, the less there is for non-governmental employees to build wealth of their own. Hence, resistance by wealth producers to give more of their wealth to the government in the form of taxes. Non-profit organizations are also consumers of wealth. They are generally service providers who do not produce wealth. In that perspective, they are more aligned with the public sector than they are with the private sector. Many, if not all, non-profit organizations depend on charity to operate. That charity generally comes from one of two sources: private citizens who choose to distribute their wealth via charitable organizations; and the government who taxes wealth producers and redistributes that wealth in the form of mandated charity. The bottom line is simple. The more obstacles placed in front of wealth producing organizations, coupled with the growth of government and non-profit organizations, leads to a reduction in wealth for all concerned. Why anyone would promote the growth of the latter without allowing for the growth of the former is beyond me. History has shown us time and time again that the ideologies of wealth redistribution and social justice have only lead to societal suicide. My question is, why do people continue to support and promote suicidal behavior? • sodakhic sodakhic 1 year ago Notice how Obama is redistributing the wealth to his crony friends. The black community is in worse shape under Obama. The fed is printing money, only to the benefit of Wall St. We are $17 trillion in debt. The poor are getting poorer, but Wash DC is the richest section of the US. It would be nice if GE and Google would pay their fair share. • socalactuary socalactuary 1 year ago “Overlords”? How medieval! Your communist class warfare bias is laughable. Last I heard, you get a good education, work hard, look for opportunities, and try to secure your own financial safety net. Those that don’t follow these rules will have poorer results. I have had bosses, and bureaucrats as well, who restrain my options, but I either live within their rules or take my game elsewhere. • Why cannot one EVER see a comparison of the Wealthy that pay the taxes to the social welfare recipients based on the Dollars of taxes paid as opposed to tax rates??? Who owes more to this country? the person who pays $100,000 in taxes or the social welfare recipient who pays in nothing? Who contributes more to his fellow man and the economy? the person who provides at risk capital for companies to exist and thus create jobs of the social welfare recipient who provides nothing? Why do those who constantly want higher tax rates on high earners never seem to advocate for a forced graduation from social welfare programs? Why are nearly all social welfare a lifetime entitlement as opposed to a hand up to gat someone through hard times while they get the education or training to get a job and be able to earn their way to a better life? How about we give all the economically disadvantages everything they could possibly want for twenty years then cut them off for the rest of their lives. Surely in twenty years they could become qualified to EARN a better life. Also why do we not spend any more money (I.E create jobs) to aggressively investigate welfare fraud and sentence the violators to life outside the welfare systems of this country for life. Then we wouldn’t need all those higher tax rates. God Bless America. • P D P D 1 year ago My ancestors came to this country in the latter 1600s on a boat that arrived in Philadelphia. My grandfather, father, and I have all served in the military. So I don’t say this as someone who has a disdain for America but I it still has to be said. America is on the decline and will continue to be. America was the land of opportunity and now it seems that the obligation has turned into the land of wealth distribution equality. What we owe citizens is an opportunity to make themselves successful. Some will do it and some will fail. The country cannot have an obligation to support those that try and fail, and those that never try and thus also fail. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be countries that focus more on wealth equality – they exist. But that’s not America – we are the land of opportunity. Risk taking. Swing for the fences and have the chance to make it really big. The opportunity to have an opportunity exists for most but most squander it and that is their choice, but it’s not our job to pay them and feed them. I grew up in the midwest in a very middle class background. No six figure incomes in our family at all. I went to public school and I squandered a chance to go to one of the military academies because I made bad choices when I was younger. But I also got focused, put myself through college and now live in New York and am one of the 1%. I got no favors or strings pulled along the way, I just worked my butt off. When extra work needed to be done, I volunteered. I sought out mentors and asked them to help me. I know many others who have done the same. And I have NO desire to support lazy people who complain the system failed them and they want a handout. I don’t think it’s right and I don’t think it’s what America is about. What incentive exists anymore for the many lazy people who don’t want to take risk and who know they don’t have to because the government will feed them and their families? Come to America, take your shot and give it your best. If you fail, that’s life. There will be winners and there will be losers and there have to be. Unfortunately, America is now headed the way of a loser because it has changed from the land of opportunity to the land of handouts. • It is often found that the very rich are “cash poor”, so don’t assume that because this account was low on funds that the person is poor. • K.T.L.D. K.T.L.D. 1 year ago 1) The “million dollar” ATM receipt states, clearly, “Transaction Denied”. The two receipts are a little questionable. 2) Higher Echelon tax rates have not decreased, they may pay less in taxes due to overseas investments, tax shelters, etc, but the tax rates have gone up, not down. 3) Income inequality is directly proportional to an education-motivation axis. Why has this even been an argument? The emotional argument of the haves and have nots, the rich don’t pay enough taxes because of blah, blah, blah……Typlical liberal drivel…..I have a Master’s Degree in Nursing; I did not get a raise when I finished grad school. I work for an exceptional company, love what I do and have never complained about the CEO driving a Ferrari. If I wanted to work harder, I too could have those things, I just choose to do what I love. 4) Don’t get me started on “civic responsibility”…….. but if you do, you might want to start with ethically correct journalism.
Live updates Bid to boost butterfly population Seen as a barometer of an ecosystem's health, butterflies are an important indicator in assessing our natural world. But numbers of the insects are down on where they usually are. James Crichton-Smith reports on what's being done to give these colourful creatures a flying start.
No Lift Only BA, is It Possible? I do not want a lift, but want a BA. I am 30yrs old 5ft 4inches, 112lbs. I do not want a nipple lift. What are my surgical options? Thank you! Doctor Answers 9 Breast Implants Without Breast Lift Is Possible Thank you for your question. You are thin and fit with attractive natural looking breasts. You do have some degree of Breast Ptosis or sag. The "textbook answer" is that a breast lift combined with sub muscular placement of breast implants is the appropriate answer to your question. However most patients like yourself do not want the scarring associated with the breast lift procedure, which is understandable. A sub glandular (under the breast gland not under the chest muscle) breast augmentation can be done which will create fuller breasts for you and should give you a nice result. If you decide later that you want a lift, that can be done. Understand that most plastic surgeons today prefer to place the implant beneath the muscle. This cannot be done when the breast is sagging because the muscle would hold the implant high and can push the nipple down into a "snoopy deformity"-this should be avoided in your case. Have a question? Ask a doctor Do not use overly large implant instead of having a lift Thank you for your question and providing the photographs. It is hard to tell without examining you in person and taking some measurements. In some situations I have been able to avoid a lift using a shaped implant in the subglandular position but without examining you in person it cannot be known if this would be appropriate for you. One word of caution. If your plastic surgeons recommends a lift, there is a reason for this. Do not use an overly large implant to compensate for not having a lift; in my experience, in the long run you most likely will not be happy with an overly large implant. Hope this helps. Tracy Pfeifer, MD Tracy Pfeifer, MD Manhattan Plastic Surgeon 5.0 out of 5 stars 21 reviews No Lift Only Breast Augmentation, is It Possible? Thank you for the question and pictures. Although “official” recommendations would necessitate in person consultation, I think that you should do well with breast augmentation surgery only.    I hope this (and the attached link) help. Breast augmentation without lift In your case, breast augmentation (without doing a lift) is certainly possible. The most important aspect of this would be what your expectations of the result would be, as you would still have some "droop" or ptosis of your breasts. The best way for you to visualize this would be to review photos (from your surgeon) of other patients with a similar configuration, who had the same procedure. That way you can be relatively confident that your expectations will match what your surgeon can do, using only implants. Good luck! Matthew Concannon MD Breast augmentation without lift Great question. Because your nipples are well positioned on your breasts you should have no problem getting a great result with implants only. Take time to find a plastic surgeon who will thoroughly assess your breasts and choose an implant that will best fit you. Breast Augmentation without Lift It is hard to determine from your pictures exactly how much droop you have. However, it appears that it is minimal. If this is true, a breast augmentation done subglandularly instead of under the muscle can usually provide you enough nipple elevation that you will have a good cosmetic result without the incisions necessary for a lift. Robert T. Buchanan, MD Highlands Plastic Surgeon 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews No Lift Only BA, is It Possible? Yes, you can still get a breast augmentation, but your breasts will sit low on your chest. You can get a lift later if you desire. Karol A. Gutowski, MD, FACS Chicago Plastic Surgeon 5.0 out of 5 stars 27 reviews No lift and implants only I would have to see you in person to say for sure, but based on your photo, I can't say you absolutely need a lift. No Lift Only BA, is It Possible? Appears as you have pseudo ptosis. Thus a larger implant copuld be recommended like in the 400 cc range or more. Best to seek IN PERSON evaluations from boarded PSs in your city/..
For the vast majority, the effects of Obama's victory will be much less drastic than expected. suitcases orig 615.jpg Eight years ago, when the polls began to favor George W. Bush over John Kerry, thousands of progressive Americans planned their exodus to Canada. Canadian immigration applications rose threefold as Kerry's demise loomed, and when Bush emerged victorious, some diehard liberals followed through and fled northward. But six months later, when the post-election smoke cleared, the numbers turned out to be far less impressive than they first appeared. Many of those early applicants withdrew their immigration papers, and chose instead to brace for four years of mild, protracted disgruntlement. In fact, when analysts looked back, the rate of U.S.-Canadian immigration fell during the six month period following President Bush's election to a second term in office. Two years later, on the other side of the political aisle, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously promised to leave for Costa Rica if the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010. The Act passed, but Limbaugh continues to live in Palm Beach, Florida. Now that Barack Obama has emerged victorious, a new crop of immigration promises will go unfulfilled. Just after the election, Republicans are hurting -- but they'll calm down just as Kerry supporters did when Bush was elected to a second term in 2004. The question, then, is why we're treated to this spike in melodrama every four years. And the answer comes down to a simple psychological truth: that people have no idea how much pain they'll feel when they experience a dreaded outcome. Psychologists have known this for some time now. In 1978, Philip Brickman and his colleagues interviewed accident victims, lottery winners, and a sample of control citizens who hadn't experienced a major life event. The accident victims were in rehabilitation following major trauma that rendered most of them unable to use their arms and legs. In stark contrast, the lottery winners had won an average of $2 million in today's terms. If Obama supporters are happier than Romney supporters today, you'd surely expect that margin to pale in comparison to the disparity in wellbeing between lottery winners and accident victims. A researcher interviewed the lottery winners, accident victims, and controls one at a time, and asked them how happy they generally felt on a scale that ranged from "not at all happy" to "very happy." The lottery winners and controls were generally happier than the accident victims, but the difference was strikingly modest. All three groups used the more positive half of the scale, indicating that they were generally pretty happy, and the lottery winners were only a single point happier than the accident victims on the six-point scale. Brickman's results were far from a fluke, as a group of social psychologists showed sixteen years later, in 1994, when George W. Bush beat incumbent Democratic governor Ann Richards to become the 46th governor of Texas. Shortly before the election, Dan Gilbert and his colleagues asked a sample of voters to predict how they'd feel when their preferred candidate either won or lost the election. Anticipating a Bush victory, the Democratic voters expected to be much less happy than they were before the election, while Republican voters expected to ride a wave of long-term elation. A month later, when the researchers contacted them again, the voters had returned to the business of everyday life, noting that they were just as happy or sad as they had been before the election. The election's effects on their lives, for good or bad, were surprisingly modest and short-lived. More recently, we've come to learn plenty about why people overestimate the impact of major life events (and election outcomes) on their enduring sense of wellbeing. Our tendency to overestimate the impact of these events -- known as the impact bias -- comes down in large part to two psychological quirks. The first of those quirks is the urge to forget that life is about far more than election outcomes--or even the ability to walk following a devastating accident. In truth, most of life is a series of mundane events, from rising in the morning to eat breakfast, to choosing an outfit for work, to reading the newspaper; and so on. We tend to reconstruct the past by remembering the few very emotional events that punctuate our otherwise routine existences, but those events are in the tiny minority. (Danny Kahneman and his colleagues have shown this in many studies when they've asked people to carry small electronic diaries in which they indicate what they're doing and how they're feeling dozens of times a day.) In the end, the events that unite election winners and losers, or accident victims and lottery winners, are far more plentiful than the events that distinguish those groups. Despite what Hollywood might have you believe, even the rich and famous go to the bathroom, suffer occasional bouts of indigestion, and sometimes wish the dog would walk itself. The pain of Obamas's victory will subside for Republicans, and their lives will continue to be dominated by the same pedestrian events that dominated them before November 6, 2012. The second foible that explains why defeat only stings briefly is our tendency to overestimate how long psychological pain will last. Just as you might treat a deep gash with antibiotic ointment and bandages, we're equipped with a sophisticated psychological immune system that targets serious psychological injury. For ardent Romney supporters--particularly those who expected him to win easily--that pain is likely to be severe, and the psychological immune system kicks in more keenly following greater injury. So while the loss hurts a lot at first, it hurts less with each passing day, until the post-election era becomes a new normal. Like Ann Richards supporters a month after she lost the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election to George W. Bush, in a matter of weeks Republicans who promised to decamp to Canada if Barack Obama won a second term will go back to living the same lives in the same country they inhabited before the calamity of a Democratic victory in the 2012 Presidential election.
The Poems of Henry Van Dyke eBook November, 1903. All night long, by a distant bell The passing hours were notched On the dark, while her breathing rose and fell; And the spark of life I watched In her face was glowing, or fading,—who could tell?— And the open window of the room, With a flare of yellow light, Was peering out into the gloom, Like an eye that searched the night. Oh, what do you see in the dark, little window, and why do you peer? “I see that the garden is crowded with creeping forms of fear: Little white ghosts in the locust-tree, wave in the night-wind’s breath, And low in the leafy laurels the lurking shadow of death." Sweet, clear notes of a waking bird Told of the passing away Of the dark,—and my darling may have heard; For she smiled in her sleep, while the ray Of the rising dawn spoke joy without a word, Till the splendour born in the east outburned The yellow lamplight, pale and thin, And the open window slowly turned To the eye of the morning, looking in. Oh, what do you see in the room, little window, that makes you so “I see that a child is asleep on her pillow, soft and white: With the rose of life on her lips, the pulse of life in her breast, And the arms of God around her, she quietly takes her rest." Neuilly, June, 1909. The day returns by which we date our years: Day of the joy of giving,—that means love; Day of the joy of living,—that means hope; Day of the Royal Child,—and day that brings To older hearts the gift of Christmas tears! Look, how the candles twinkle through the tree, The children shout when baby claps his hands, The room is full of laughter and of song! Your lips are smiling, dearest,—tell me why Your eyes are brimming full of Christmas tears? Was it a silent voice that joined the song? A vanished face that glimmered once again Among the happy circle round the tree? Was it an unseen hand that touched your cheek And brought the secret gift of Christmas tears? Not dark and angry like the winter storm Of selfish grief,—but full of starry gleams, And soft and still that others may not weep,— Dews of remembered happiness descend To bless us with the gift of Christmas tears. Ah, lose them not, dear heart,—life has no pearls More pure than memories of joy love-shared. See, while we count them one by one with prayer, The Heavenly hope that lights the Christmas tree Has made a rainbow in our Christmas tears! Project Gutenberg Follow Us on Facebook
Ho Yay: Fruits Basket Here be all the Ho Yay / Les Yay found in the Fruits Basket series. Yuki and Haru • In Fruits Basket, Haru often hits on Yuki, usually while in "Black" mode. • Not to mention Haru tells Tohru that Yuki is his "first love", and Yuki implicitly supports this by warning Haru not to mention it again. • Shigure and Ayame intentionally start up suggestive conversations nearly every time they meet, as part of some sort of Running Gag between the two. • Shigure and Akito had loads of suggestive scences together until Akito was revealed to be a woman.. • Then there's that one scene where Kyou wakes up to find Ayame sleeping next to him in bed. He goes into a shocked state and Ayame mumbles "I'm still sleepy", grabs Kyou and tries to cuddle with him. We then see him covered in bandages from after Kyou beat the crap out of him and Ayame states he snuck into Kyou's room because Yuki had locked him out of his room when Ayame tried to sneak in. • Later Ayame tells a story about how he volunteered to let all the boys at his high school... express their desires with him. • Apparently, when he was Student Council President he claimed that if needed, he'd give himself to both men and women alike. • And then there's the tension between Yuki and Kyou (they're quite a popular Slash Fic pairing as well), best shown when they fight and Yuki got close enough to kiss Kyou before kicking him away. And then there's Tohru's "what would happen if Kyo and Yuki got along" fantasy with a lot of Bishie Sparkle. Also Shigure once said that Kyou and Yuki's arguing makes them sound Like an Old Married Couple. • In the English dub of the anime Kyo and Yuki start almost all of their fights by shouting let's do it! and clenching the fronts of each others' shirts. Kyo and Haru do this once in episode 10 as well. One of their first fights begins with Yuki saying he's going to give Kyo exactly what he wants and that he's not going to hold back ... right before undoing a couple of his shirt buttons. • Kyo's ahem obsession with Yuki is typically hostile, but he expresses blatant worry at times when Yuki is vulnerable. When Yuki collapses from an asthma attack Kyo abates his fight with Haru to see if he's ok, and when Yuki is confronted by Akito Kyo can be seen watching from afar with a frown on his face. This shows that while Kyo's resentment and jealousy drive their relationship, he does care for Yuki's well-being deep down, or at least does not want to see Yuki hurt by anyone other than himself. • Takei Makoto the Student Council president at Yuki and Tohru's school is shown to have a crush on Yuki, blushing whenever he is around and imagining him wearing a girl's uniform (skirt included) with a smile on his face. • To convince Takei that his hair is naturally black and white, Haru drags him into a closet and presumably shows him his pubic hair. • Ayame has a great admiration for Hatori and only listens to him because of it. • Also, in regards to the girls Hanajima Saki's and Arisa Uotani's and affections for and devotion to Tohru seem to go much deeper than simple sisterly friendship. They constantly protect her and threaten people that bother her. • In episode 10 Hana collapses during an endurance run and Tohru expresses blatant worry and comes to her aid and they both hold hands while looking into each other's eyes. • The manga hints a little more strongly that Saki in particular is suppressing deeper feelings for Tohru. During the play where she's cast as Cinderella, instead of mooning over the prince (Yuki,) it's Tohru she obsesses over and gets rather possessive about. Near the end, when she finds out Kyo is taking Tohru away, she gets very quiet and pensive, with her brother giving her an understanding look and asking if she's ok. • Kyo mentions worrying about losing Tohru to Rin, and this Troper thinks he has reason to worry. For example, Rin evidences conflicted emotions regarding Tohru. She rejects and harbours resentment towards what she sees as Tohru's interference in the family; Tohru is an outsider and she cannot understand. However, internal dialogue reveals that as early as their first meeting Rin is also possessed by the same desire that many of the Jyuunishi develop; to fall into Tohru's arms and be comforted. Her view of Tohru as a maternal figure manifests to the extent that on the verge of fainting she mistakes Tohru for her mother and responds with utter terror, cowering and pleading for forgiveness before she loses consciousness. Eventually Rin's physical distress, despair and torment culminate in her breaking down sobbing in Tohru's embrace. Though she never evidences such extreme vulnerability again, her previously aggressive behaviour softens and it is clear she cares for Tohru deeply. Kazuma commented that Tohru became Rin's first friend, being the first one outside of the Sohma house to become worried about her. • See also: Tohru's reaction after seeing Rin naked (post-transformation). • Akito is worthy competition as well seeing as how even though it might be an act in the manga where Akito is female she acts really affectionate with Tohru and they eventually become close friends. • Tohru and Kisa. Tohru is Kisa's make-believe 'big sister'. On the day she met Tohru, she bit her. But after running out of Shigure's house, Tohru finds Kisa and makes a very inspirational speech. After that, Kisa clings to Tohru like a real little sister does to her big sister. She always sees Tohru as her big sister and in the anime, she always calls her 'sissy'. Kisa loves Tohru very much, and goes on and on about her. She tells Hiro that whenever she's around Tohru, she feels all warm inside. Hiro says he doesn't like Tohru at all due to jealousy and Kisa is very sad and surprised at his reaction to Tohru. • After Tohru's initial encounter with Kisa the latter follows the former around for the duration of her stay. While Kyo cracks that it would bug the crap out of him, after Tohru stops walking and Kisa bumps into her, Tohru squeals and glomps her. After Kisa leaves, Tohru mentions her slight sadness at not having her around. Later volumes of manga have scenes where other characters are talking and the reader can see little hearts floating into the more serious panels, revealed to be emanating from Tohru and Kisa hugging each other. Every time they see one another, Tohru has the same squeal-and-glomp reaction. • Akito in the anime where's he male instead of female like in the manga where in episode 8 he gets really close to Hatori following inflicting Eye Scream on him trying to make him feel better and asking him what's wrong and later getting really close to him again and caressing his hand up his tie. • When Yuki makes a public reference to the number of times Hatori (the Sohma family doctor) has seen him naked, the girls listening are seemingly horrified... and simultaneously strangely fascinated. • Akito and Yuki in the anime where Akito is male, not in the manga where Akito is female have a very messed up relationship that can be seen as a twisted form of this, as shown when Akito gets close to Yuki and caresses his face with his hand but Tohru picks up a threatening atmosphere about him and pushes him away from Yuki. • Haru is very enthusiastic about allowing Momiji to wear a girl's uniform to school. • And all of the students, boys and girls, were overjoyed to see Yuki cross-dress. • Towards the end of the manga, after a ton of back story and character development, it's revealed in a huge fight that Yuki and Kyo both really admire each other and always have (Kyo for Yuki because of how perfect Yuki wanted he is in the family, Yuki for Kyo because people outside and inside the family gravitate to Kyo and always want to be friends with him). Yuki explicitly says to Kakeru that all he wanted was to be friends with Kyo when they were younger, but Kyo already hated him (see the hat incident). While their frustrations stem from mutual dislike built on a lot of pain, it also stems from envy, and they eventually do become friends by the end of the book.
Arsenic is unlikely warrior against cancerS The deadly poison made famous in countless Agatha Christie mysteries isn't known for its health benefits. But an arsenic compound has helped treat leukemia sufferers for over a decade, and we've just discovered it can fight other cancers as well. The specific compound is arsenic trioxide, and it's already been approved by the FDA for the treatment of humans. The arsenic is combined with other therapies to fight cancers brought on by an error in a cellular signaling pathway known as the Hedgehog pathway. This signaling cascade regulates embryonic development and remains crucial to properly functioning cells in adults. Malfunctions in the Hedgehog pathway have been shown to cause tumors in the skin, brain, blood, and muscle. Arsenic trioxide works in relatively low quantities by blocking one of the final steps in the Hedgehog pathway, preventing a few of the cell's genes being expressed that would otherwise cause runaway, cancerous growth. Other treatments currently on the market also target the Hedgehog pathway, but they do so at much earlier points in the signaling cascade. That gives the malfunctioning pathway many more opportunities to mutate around the drug and relay its self-destructive messages to the cells. The arsenic treatment takes effect so late in the pathway that's there is nearly no chance for the cancer to mutate around it. Researchers Philip Beachy and Jynho Kim at the Stanford medical school first became interested in arsenic as a treatment for cancer when they noticed that birth defects brought on by arsenic exposure are very similar to the physical effects of not having an active Hedgehog pathway. They found that the same small amounts of arsenic trioxide that treated leukemia patients could also shut off the Hedgehog pathway, providing a potential treatment for sufferers of many other kinds of cancer. Arsenic trioxide works by inhibiting a protein called Gli2 from causing gene transcription in the cell nucleus. Without Gli2, the Hedgehog pathway comes to a sudden, ineffectual end. Early tests of this treatment on mice found that most tumors either slowed down or stopped growing completely. Best of all, this works even in cells that have already proven resistant to other drugs that target the Hedgehog pathway. [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]
Colorado County Copes With Methane Mystery Tue, 11/03/2009 - 4:33am Associated Press Writer November 3, 2009 WALSENBURG, Colo. (AP) — Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high. The friend wasn't hurt. But that and an explosion at another home weeks earlier forced Colorado to suspend natural gas drilling around this southern plains town until someone could find out why dangerous levels of methane were getting into the groundwater. Two years later, Walsenburg and surrounding Huerfano County are still waiting, its residents caught in a collision between two of the West's vital resources: Water and natural gas. "The water is so saturated with methane and other chemicals it is not to be used for human consumption," said Bernice Angely, who's had water trucked to her home 10 miles west of town since her well blew up in July 2007. Petroglyph Energy Inc., a Boise, Idaho-based firm that has worked the rolling plains of the Raton Basin since 1999, suspended drilling until it can stem the methane. Colorado also is rewriting rules that had allowed Petroglyph to discharge water runoff from its drilling into streams and creeks. But Petroglyph says it's not clear the drilling caused the methane leaks or prompted other area water wells to run dry. Eying what it calls an extremely promising natural gas field, it believes a shallow water formation tapped by area homeowners isn't connected to a deeper one pumped by the company for its drilling operations. Petroglyph chief operating officer Paul Powell also believes a growing number of new homes in the area could explain some of the dry water wells. "We'll do what we need to do," Powell said, stressing that his firm is working with the state on a solution. Petroglyph has a plan to prevent the flow of methane into water wells by creating a hydraulic barrier. The company has proposed pumping water from an underground formation and injecting it into a row of wells where gas drilling occurs. Powell said gas will migrate into a void, and "if the void is full of water, there isn't room for gas to migrate through it." State regulators say the plan is plausible but that Petroglyph needs to prove it works. Democratic U.S. Rep. John Salazar, who farms in the nearby San Luis Valley, has asked the U.S. Geological Survey to weigh in by evaluating the area's water quality and formations to determine if the gas drilling is to blame for the problems. Water coursing through porous rock and streams has allowed farming, ranching and new subdivisions to thrive in the semiarid area about 160 miles south of Denver. It also helps trap methane gas in the vast coal seams that once made the area a mining hot spot. The coal mines are gone, but the methane that made digging for it dangerous is a valuable resource. Companies like Petroglyph pump huge volumes of water out of the ground to relieve the pressure trapping the natural gas. Steve Gunderson, director of Colorado's water quality control division, said Petroglyph will have to build a water treatment plant before it gets a new permit to discharge water. The old permit allowed Petroglyph to release up to 8 million gallons of water daily. Fourth-generation dairy farmer Brett Corsentino blames the discharges into the Cucharas River for ruining his corn crops. He uses river water to irrigate his crops just a few miles east of the homeowners having problems with their wells. He says the high levels of sodium in the wastewater has diminished his soil's ability to absorb water and stunted the corn's growth. "They say, 'Well, there's no proof,'" Corsentino said. "Well, we'd been getting along for generations just fine until they started pumping 8 million gallons out of this country." Corsentino also says his herd suffered abnormally high birth and death rates and now numbers 400, down from 650. He believes the cows consumed too much sodium from the water and corn grown from it. His corn used to produce 6,000 tons of silage; this year's crop yielded 1,500 tons. However, Corsentino says his herd is healthier and milk production has increased since drilling stopped. "There's an obvious direct, substantial impact to Brett Corsentino's dairy," the state's Gunderson said of the drilling. Petroglyph paid for soil tests on Corsentino's farm. They showed high levels of sodium but that it also needed more calcium, Powell said. Petroglyph and Corsentino are discussing possible treatments. "We still don't believe we have liability for the situation," Powell said. "But we were willing to help him fix his land and get back to productivity." Ten miles west of Walsenburg, a rushing sound emanates from a pipe that vents methane from Ben and Melanie Bounds' water well. The pipe was installed after a June 2007 explosion blew off a shed roof covering the well. The Bounds had moved from Dallas to build what they call their dream home atop a hill with a breathtaking view of the Spanish Peaks. They say their problems started when Petroglyph began drilling nearby. They're suing the company and haul water from town to their cistern. "If I could run the clock back, we'd have never tried this," Ben Bounds said. "I had more methane coming out of my water well than they had out of any of their gas wells. It sounded like a locomotive going down the road," said Kent Smith, who also has a methane detector in his house. "The damage and the problems they've caused have got to be addressed, and they keep getting pushed aside and forgotten about." Petroglyph insists it's a good neighbor. Despite the methane mystery, it's trucking water to 14 area homes and has supplied 15 homes with methane alarm systems. On the Net: Petroglyph Energy Inc. 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. Thomas Phillips, 1768 - 1841, s/o Tobias Phillips . (INDEX) 4211 Thomas Phillips,5 421 (Tobias,4,George,3,Tobias,2,John,1) . b 1768; d 1841 Anderson Co, Tenn. (he was b after 1775 acc to 1820 census, in the 1770's acc to 1830 census, and in the 1760's . acc to 1840 census) . ? m(1) Sarah Betts. . m(2) 9 Jan 1798 Montgomery Co, Va to his father's 2nd cousin Mary Goad (Polly), b 1770's, d/o Abraham and Anne Goad . (#23). . No evidence given to show that the Thomas Phillips who marr Sarah Betts is the same one who marr Mary Goad. The first 4 . children may not be the children of Thomas Phillips of Campbell Co, Tenn. Perhaps the other Thomas Phillips of Rutherford . Co, Tenn (see below) was the one who m Sarah Betts and had the 1st 4 children listed below. . Thomas and Mary moved to Anderson Co, Tenn with Abraham Goad ca 1802. . 1810 census, unavailable for Anderson and Campbell Co. . 1816, 15 Oct: Anderson Co: Thomas Phillips of Anderson Co appointed guardian of William Goad, minor. . (This was William Goad (#2321), s/o Isham Goad , s/o Abraham.) . 1818 Campbell Co, Tenn tax list, Thomas Phillips. . 1820 census, unavailable for Anderson and Campbell Co. . 1823 Campbell Co tax list, Thomas Phillips. . 1830 Campbell Co census, p 214, Thos Phillips, 00200001-00000001. . 1840 Campbell Co census, p 306, Thomas Phillips, 0000000001-000000001. . (listed adjacent to Joshua Goad (#234), s/o Abraham) . Some refs claim that the Thomas Phillips of Rutherford Co is the above Thomas, but no proof given. The census records for . Campbell and Anderson Co's are not available online, so this can't be proven by the census records alone. . 1810 Rutherford Co, Tenn census, p 3, Thomas Phillips, 10010-00100. . 1820 Rutherford Co census, p 78, Thomas Philips, 210010-30010-02. . 1830 Rutherford Co census, this Thomas not located. . issue: (1st 4 ch supposedly of Sarah, but this may be another family) . ? 1. Richard Phillips, b ca 1788 Pittsylvania Co. . The following is apparently Richard Newton Phillips, b 1794 Granville Co, NC, s/o Bennett Phillips: . 1820 Rutherford Co, Tenn census, p 76, Richard Philips, 300010-00010. . (listed near older Bennet and David Philips) . 1830 Rutherford Co census, p 312, Richard Philips, 102101-110001. . ? 2. Henry Phillips, b ca 1790 Pittsylvania Co. . ? 3. Nancy Phillips, b ca 1792 Pittsylvania Co. . ? 4. Murray Phillips, b ca 1798 Pittsylvania Co. 42111 ? 5. Joseph Phillips, b ca 1793-96 Va, m(1) Millie Lawson, m(2) Elizabeth Hicks. . All other sources claim this Joseph to be the s/o Tobias Phillips, that is, Thomas' brother, but Tobias' son Joseph was . b 16 Oct 1787, and was possibly the Joseph Phillips (#4216) of Marengo Co, Ala. Some sources state that this latter . Joseph was Tobias' son. 6. Jonathan Phillips, b 10 Oct 1800 "Scott Co", Tenn (or NC), m(1) Phoebe Goad, m(2) Lucrecia Terrell (Crecia). 42113 ? 7. John S. Phillips (Jack), b ca 1802-03 Tenn, m Kissiah Thomas. . No proof he is a son of Thomas, but he was living close to Thomas Phillips' sons in 1850, plus the letter mentioned below . by a descendant of John Phillips, b ca 1803, describes Tommie Phillips and kin coming to Tenn ca 1803. . Claimed by one source to be the son of William Tobias Phillips (#4212), but most websites list his parentage as unknown. . This apparently confuses him with William's brother John C. Phillips (#4211), b ca 1775. 42114 ? 8. Abraham Phillips, b ca 1807 Tenn, m Agness ____. . No proof he is a son of Thomas, but was listed next to him in 1840. Acc to one Ref, he was a s/o Charles Phillips, b ca 1770 . Haywood Co, NC, and Melvina ____. No sources say he was s/o Thomas. 42115 ? 9. Jesse Phillips, b ca 1808-11 Tenn (or NC), m Nancy ____. . Prob s/o Thomas Phillips. . Living in Fentress Co, Tenn in 1840 and 1850. 10. Emanuel Phillips, b 24 Nov 1813 Tenn, m(1) Leanner/Leander Sexton, m(2)____ Stephens. 11. Elijah Phillips, b ca 1816-19 Tenn, m(1) Margaret Sexton, m(2) Tennessee Newport. . Ref: 1. Ken Haas' notes contain a letter from a descendant of John Phillips, b ca 1803 Tenn. Acc to Jahue Phillips in 1904, . at age 86: ".... Tommie Phillips, his brother Joseph and his son Johnathan Phillips .... came to Tenn ca 1803, from . "Scott County, Virginia ... Joseph and Jonathan were mere boys..." This letter also states that Jahue was the 3rd child . of Joseph Phillips who was born in "Scott Cty, Va in 1788." Also Jahue went back to Virginia to see his Grandmother . Tobias Phillips, with his Uncle John. She had about 50 slaves. . 2. Mrs E. A. Vowell gives Thomas' wife as Sarah Betts, who d 1841. I don't know if this is his 2nd wife, or another fam- . ily. Supposedly Thomas' and Sarah's children were Richard, Henry, Mary, and Nancy, acc to notes of D.B. Peterson. . 3. Ephraim Phillips of Yancy Co, NC (1850 census), was a "known" descendant of Tobias and Peggy Phillips. He was . b 1826 and m Sarah Elizabeth ____. His dau Mary Louise Phillips, b 20 Apr 1848, d 8 Apr 1926, m 5 Nov 1865 . Yancy Co to Reuben Thomas Hughett (#214), and they lived in Greene and Claiborne Co's, Tenn. No evidence . given that Ephraim was descended from Tobias and he was a s/o George E. Phillips, s/o Willis, s/o Nehemiah, acc to . other sources. Ephraim was age 46 in the 1860 Yancy Co, NC census. . Ref: " Cox-Phillips Family Newsletter", Dec 1883, query by John W. Holt, and Jun 1882, query by Nellie R. Jeffreys. . 4. Monica Edmonds' notes at www.rootsweb.com, email: [email protected] . 5. JoAn Phillips Hoskins' notes at www.rootsweb.com, email: [email protected] . 6. John Crunk's notes at www.rootsweb.com, email: [email protected]
LIVE VIDEO: Live Newscast RIGHT NOW Watch 90-year-old Justyn "Jay" Ambrozia who was trapped in car for days due to broken hip dies 3:52 PM, May 17, 2013 \| comments • Share • Print • - A A A + New Port Richey, Florida -- 10 News learned Friday the elderly man trapped in his car for days has died. Justyn "Jay" Ambrozia's neighbor informed 10 News reporter Eric Glasser of his passing Thursday and we then confirmed it with the medical examiner. Ambrozia, 90, made headlines on May 7 when neighbors found him in his car after he was trapped for days surviving on snacks he had from a quick trip to the grocery store. It was during that trip to the store that he tripped and fell breaking his arm and hip. Store employees helped him up, out the front door and into his car with his groceries. He then, somehow, managed to make his way home but once he got there, he couldn't get out. Days passed. Ambrozia said he blew his horn and hollered, but no one heard him. Finally, a neighbor walking by with his dog noticed something was wrong and that's when he was found. Ambrozia underwent surgery at Medical Center for Trinity for his hip and was reportedly doing well for a while before his death Thursday. His autopsy revealed he died due to complications of blunt trauma and his death was classified as accidental. Most Watched Videos
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Virtual Voices What, we worried? Juan Williams' firing by National Public Radio has caused more brows to furrow about attitudes toward Muslims in the United States. With a generous contract renewal from Fox News, Williams isn't suffering. But the question remains: Does a wariness about Muslims mean that backlash is right around the corner? Even though backlash has been lurking around that corner for nine years without lashing? A case in point: Last week, the Fairfax County (Virginia) Board of Supervisors voted to renew the lease of the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA). The Saudi Arabian Embassy operates the academy for the stated purpose of enabling students "to excel academically while maintaining the values of Islam and gaining proficiency with the Arabic language." Students are also supposed to "achieve their highest potential while exhibiting civic responsibility and multicultural appreciation." At a packed board meeting, the supervisors heard voices both for and against (mostly against) renewing the lease, and after 90 minutes decided in the affirmative. The fact the Saudi embassy pays $2.6 million annually for the use of the property probably had something to do with that decision. But the serious concerns raised when the academy first opened have not been allayed, and now the school stands a very good chance of losing its accreditation. The accrediting agency AdvancedEd reported that ISA has failed to meet standards in vision and purpose, governance and leadership, teaching and learning, stakeholder communication, and commitment to continuing improvement-five standards out of seven. During the three days of its on-site inspection the headmaster made a point of being somewhere else, and the entire curriculum was not made available to the review team-particularly the Islamic studies materials. If it weren't for the lingering suspicion that students were being taught Sharia law and the virtues of killing infidels-including dissenting Muslims-ISA would at least be tolerated by the community. But suspicions remain because school officials have not been, in the vernacular of the day, "transparent." And because the tenets of the Wahabbi branch of Islam, the official religion of Saudi Arabia, are clear as glass. Saudi money talks, but Saudi intentions double-talk. Is it OK to say we just don't trust these people? Janie B. Cheaney Janie B. Cheaney You must be a WORLD member to post comments. Keep Reading Management mania Christian youth organization struggles to survive financial turmoil
Screen shot from "Democracy Now!" special on McGovern nearing death There is nothing I remember about the late Senator George McGovern, who just passed away at the age 0f 90. I was not alive when he made his historic run for president in 1972, energizing the antiwar movement and other Americans with hope. Nor was I alive in 1968 or 1984 when he also ran for president. And I did not ever get to vote for this man, however, I would like to take a moment to highlight the wisdom of McGovern and apply some of what he said about politics and society while he was alive to the present. McGovern delivered remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Detroit on April 25, 1972. The New York Times published his remarks under the title, “My Stand.” As the campaign of Ed Muskie floundered and Hubert Humphrey became his main rival in the Democratic primary, McGovern declared: …Prior to the first primary election in New Hampshire, and the most recent one in Wisconsin, the conventional view of men who write and read each other’s syndicated columns was that the Presidential candidate elected in 1972 would be the one who clings most tightly to the center. This view—heavily supported by pollsters and analysts of the public mind—held that the American people wanted not a hard-fought battle over the great issues but a quiet coronation of the status quo. I have not found this glorification of the establishment center to be the mood of the American people. Indeed, most Americans see the establishment center as an empty, decaying void that commands neither their confidence nor their love. It is the establishment center that led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster—a terrible cancer eating away the soul of the nation. Yet those who charted its course brand its opponents as too far out to be electable… McGovern’s words were an indictment of politics, where candidates split the difference and try to stake out a position they do not necessarily believe in. It was a rebuke against politicians, who try to artificially be everything to all people instead of someone authentic to some people. He recognized democratic society benefits from debate, not from keeping issues off the table which lead to animosity between candidates or political factions. And he understood that the establishment center, in its commitment to bipartisanship, could bring about some of the worst disasters and developments in American society and politics (in this instance, the Vietnam War). He decried the Masters of War, the military industrial-complex which the establishment center—and all politicians who govern from this place on the spectrum—were responsible for buttressing: …[T]he establishment center has constructed a vast military colossus based on the paychecks of the American worker. That military monster, now capable of blowing up the entire world a hundred times over, is devolving two out of three of our tax dollars. It inflates our economy, picks our pockets and starves other areas of our national life… Who was responsible for the Vietnam War? McGovern put the blame on “establishment wise men” or “academicians of the center.” The country has seen the politics of the establishment center envelope it in the past years. The beginning of the illegal and inhumane war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and thousands of US soldiers was of the establishment center. Its gradual end was of the establishment center. The lukewarm or indifferent response to investigating and holding hearings holding officials responsible for lying America into a war was of the establishment center. The ultimate decision on the part of the Justice Department to not prosecute anyone or to not hold anyone responsible for torture or warrantless wiretapping was of the establishment center. It was of the belief that accountability and justice would not renew society but would further tear it apart. And, the presidency of Barack Obama has been of the establishment center, with the employment of drone strikes and special operations forces being an unmistakable product of a president who does not wish to alienate the left by launching a military occupation but recognizes he must be militaristic on some level to neutralize and stifle criticism from the right. That said, it is not as if McGovern did not wish for the center to hold weight in American politics. It just appears he did not favor a center that based all its positions and decisions in pragmatism rather than idealism. In the remarks McGovern uttered, he called for a revitalization of the American center “based on the ideals of the Republic.” …The present center has drifted so far from our founding ideals that it bears little resemblance to the dependable values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I want America to come home from the alien world of power politics, militarism, deception, racism and special privilege to the blunt truth that “all men are created equal—that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”… Such desire rooted in tradition was not in actuality radical yet in the moment it inspired a radical electoral campaign. Can one imagine what effect it would have now? “Come home, America,” McGovern cried. “Come home from the wilderness of needless war and excessive militarism.” This would energize many Americans. As Bill Kauffman for The American Conservative wrote, “‘Come home, America,’ the most moving, the most resonant, the truest political slogan in the history of our Republic, was suggested by Eleanor McGovern after she saw the phrase in a speech by Martin Luther King. Because it echoed the peaceful dreams of the old Middle American isolationists and because it drew a sharp contrast between the vision of the Founders and the condition of modern America, McGovern was roasted for the slogan by the Vital Centurions.” Also, McGovern had no tolerance for “chronically cautious” politicians—”the kind of eunuchs who tell you behind closed doors that they’re against a war but don’t want to risk their position by taking a public stand.” He sponsored an “Amendment to End the War,” which called for “an end to all US military operations in or over Vietnam, Cambodia and Lao no later than December 31, 1971,” and told colleagues, “Every Senator in this Chamber is partly responsible for sending 50,000 young Americans to an early grave. This Chamber reeks of blood,” bluntly laying responsibility on the doorstep of the political class. McGovern was not a corporate-sponsored candidate like the candidates the system’s two most prominent parties have served up for Americans in this election. He bears more resemblance to a third-party candidate, which the establishment tells Americans they cannot vote for, than any one of the candidates from the Democratic or Republican Parties. In fact, the McGovern of ’72 might have mounted a primary challenge against President Obama on the basis that it would make his candidacy for re-election much better; however, in this election, all with the power to confront the bankruptcy and timidity of many of Obama’s policies opted to avoid confrontation. The legacy of McGovern can be much more than one of a “liberal stalwart.” It can be more than how he was, as Newt Gingrich put it, a “complicated person” who was not really opposed to war. Or, that he was a World War II hero, as Mitt Romney and former Gov. Bill Richardson both said this morning. It can and should be remembered that McGovern sought to redefine what it means to be a statesman and understood correcting the deepest flaws in America would require leaders, who did not simply make hardheaded calculations but also showed the courage to govern from the heart and soul. For more reflection on McGovern, please read this post from Firedoglake‘s dakine01, who writes about McGovern being a political hero of his adult years. Also, here’s a post from Firedoglake‘s Gregg Levine where he comments on how McGovern was the first candidate he ever worked for. And, also watch this special “Democracy Now!” ran on Friday. Some choice quotes:
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940) 1. The fundamental concept of liberty embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment embraces the liberties guaranteed by the First Amendment. P. 303 . 2. The enactment by a State of any law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof is forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 303 . 3. Under the constitutional guaranty, freedom of conscience and of religious belief is absolute; although freedom to act in the exercise of religion is subject to regulation for the protection of society. Such regulation, however, in attaining a permissible end, must not unduly infringe the protected freedom. Pp. 303-304 . 4. A state statute which forbids any person to solicit money or valuables for any alleged religious cause, unless a certificate therefor shall first have been procured from a designated official, who is required to determine whether such cause is a religious one and who may withhold his approval if he determines that it is not, is a previous restraint upon the free exercise of religion, and a deprivation of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. P. 304 . So held as it was applied to persons engaged in distributing literature purporting to be religious, and soliciting contributions to be used for the publication of such literature. A State constitutionally may, by general and nondiscriminatory legislation, regulate the time, place and manner of soliciting upon its streets, and of holding meetings thereon, and may in other respects safeguard the peace, good order and comfort of the community. [p*297] The statute here, however, is not such a regulation. If a certificate is issued, solicitation is permitted without other restriction; but if a certificate is denied, solicitation is altogether prohibited. 5. The fact that arbitrary or capricious action by the licensing officer is subject to judicial review cannot validate the statute. A previous restraint by judicial decision after trial is as obnoxious under the Constitution as restraint by administrative action. P. 306 . 6. The common law offense of breach of the peace may be committed not only by acts of violence, but also by acts and words likely to produce violence in others. P. 308 . 7. Defendant, while on a public street endeavoring to interest passerby in the purchase of publications, or in making contributions, in the interest of what he believed to be true religion, induced individuals to listen to the playing of a phonograph record describing the publications. The record contained a verbal attack upon the religious denomination of which the listeners were members, provoking their indignation and a desire on their part to strike the defendant, who thereupon picked up his books and phonograph and went on his way. There was no showing that defendant's deportment was noisy, truculent, overbearing, or offensive; nor was it claimed that he intended to insult or affront the listeners by playing the record; nor was it shown that the sound of the phonograph disturbed persons living nearby, drew a crowd, or impeded traffic. Held, that defendant's conviction of the common law offense of breach of the peace was violative of constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and freedom of speech. Pp. 307 et seq. 126 Conn. 1; 8 A.2d 533, reversed. Back to First Amendment Surpreme Court Cases List
This Article Bibliographic References Add to: Placing Base Stations in Wireless Indoor Communication Networks January/February 2000 (vol. 15 no. 1) pp. 49-53 The planning of wireless communication networks deals with installing small, local radio transmitters (base stations) to provide wireless devices with strong enough signals, wherever they are. Popular is an industrial prototype that lets users compute the minimal number of base stations and their location, given a blueprint of the installation site and information about the composition of walls and ceilings. To do this, Popular uses ray tracing to simulate the propagation of radio waves and then optimizes the number of base stations needed to cover the building. Implementing the necessary constraints to solve the problem is easy. Taking advantage of state-of-the-art techniques for programmable application-oriented constraint solving, Popular was among the first practical tools that could optimally plan wireless communication networks. Index Terms: antenna placement, constraint-based optimization, constraint programming, path-loss model, picocellular radio, simulation of radio cells Thom Frühwirth, Pascal Brisset, "Placing Base Stations in Wireless Indoor Communication Networks," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 49-53, Jan.-Feb. 2000, doi:10.1109/5254.820329
Tonight in Seattle: No One Wants the General Lee! is reporting that John Schneider, star of TV's "Dukes of Hazzard" is auctioning off the famous car from the TV show. It's said to be valued in the millions but has had no bidders yet. I wonder if it is because gas prices hit an all time record this week (and is now over $4 a gallon in Aspen, CO) and a 1969 Dodge Charger (the make and model of the "General Lee") gets about 9 MPG. Or maybe it's just that there are fewer people wanting to drive an orange car with a confederate flag on its roof these days. The full story is here. Wasn't there a fake winning bid of like $10 million? Now thats money Boss Hogg can be riled up over! Having grown up in the South and spent more than three decades there before moving here, I can guarantee you that somewhere in the Southland, there is a lottery winner who is just drooling over the idea of buying the General Lee. Of course, I assume that's what they're drooling about.... it could also be that the Hog Jowls are on the stove or that a cute relative just walked by. As a Southerner with lots of hillbillies in my own family, I can crack Southern people jokes and it's okay. :) How is that the actor in the show ended up with one of the cars? If he can't sell it I'll trade him a slighty beat up 2000 Toyota Camry for it, but only if he throws in one of the hats that Uncle Jesse used to wear. Post new comment
There They Go Again! by David J. Hanson, Ph.D. The private Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has again presented false statistics about underage drinking. Earlier CASA statistics have repeatedly been proven false and misleading. Any abuse of alcohol is unacceptable, but exaggerating its extent actually makes the problem worse. Thus, it is part of the problem rather than the solution. "Underage drinking has reached epidemic proportions in America" warns Joe Califano, head of the private National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). His alarm is ominous, even frightening, as he calls for strong action in response to this national crisis. But relax. Underage drinking isn't increasing -- it's actually dropping! Not only are fewer young people drinking today, but heavy drinking (so-called "binge drinking") continues to decline as well. Federal and other research repeatedly demonstrates this. The assertion that underage drinking is epidemic is clearly false. CASA also claims that underage people drink a quarter of all alcohol consumed in the U.S. Again...relax. It just isn't true. CASA grossly distorts the figure. In fact, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the federal agency that collects the data, has issued a statement that the CASA figure is wrong by a factor of over 100 percent. Any abuse of alcohol is unacceptable, but promoting such clearly false assertions gives dangerous messages to our youth. CASA earlier reported alarming statistics on alcohol and its relationship to sexually transmitted diseases, rape, other violent crimes, and "drinking to get drunk." But an investigative reporter revealed that one of its statistics appeared to have been "pulled from thin air," another was based on no evidence whatsoever, a third was based on only one small and inadequate survey totally inconsistent with all other studies, and a fourth was "highly suspect at best." A subsequent CASA report, this time on drugs, was severely criticized for alleged inaccuracies and distortions by then Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Donna Shalala. Reader beware. You might not be able to trust CASA. It has a dismally unacceptable track record for acuracy and reliability. Worse yet, its erroneous assertions, exaggerations, and alarmist language actually contribute to the problem. Young people tend to conform to their beliefs about what their peers do. When they believe false reports that exaggerate the extent to which other young people supposedly drink, they tend to drink, or to drink heavily, in order to conform. By exaggerating and sensationalizing, CASA is actually part of the problem instead of the solution. The one approach that has consistently led to reductions in alcohol consumption is amazingly simple and inexpensive. Anonymous surveys are used to determine the exact nature and extent of drinking among students who attend a school. The results are then widely disseminated to the school's entire student body. When students learn that fewer of their peers drink, and fewer of them drink heavily, than they thought, their own drinking dramatically drops. Study after study demonstrates the effectiveness of this truth-telling technique. Mr. Califano is, however, correct when he says that parents play a crucial role in reducing alcohol abuse. Young people repeatedly report that they are greatly influenced by their parents. If we expect that our young people will consume alcohol as adults, then we need to be good role models and drink in moderation ourselves. Our offspring are much more influenced by what we do than by what we say. The power is in our hands. For more fine print, read the disclaimer.
Today's Devotional The Shepherd's Voice read more Let's Make ItFacebook official! Unsaved Movie Review 18: Shutter Island Decent movie, but some will definitely get offended considering I will be presenting an opinion that's not popular with the mainstream. I am against Eugenics and will not be afraid to declare that to you and other viewers. I'm not saying that the movie is saying "Eugenics is good", but I will be basically say that the movie tries to discredit the existence of it within American society... which is wrong, because America has had a terrible history of supporting Eugenics... Thought the movie was overall a decent film and it really makes you think, but I am not afraid and won't regret saying that "Eugenics is evil" because it is. Original trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iaYLCiq5RM Related Videos
Wednesday, February 05, 2014 Only Thinking About What Is Good For The Person In Charge The AP was still tossing books, books that could be used by students in the school, books that could be sent to other schools, books still in wrappers. The book company was even willing to pay postage to have the books returned to them. The AP preferred dumping them. The AP doesn't care. The books could have been recycled, but that might have helped some students and teachers. Recycling day was coming but the books hit the dumpster today (recycling day is later in the week) thrown in by students, very low functioning students. Who knew they were permitted to be out of the building, doing work like this, without teacher supervision? The Principal is not much better than the AP. The Principal must have had knowledge of what was going on, but looked aside. Makes one wonder how much this Principal cares about educating students especially when so much time is being spent taking them out of the classroom and valuable resources are being tossed aside. He probably doesn't care much for the environment either. Pictured above are the books on the cart and the legs of the students who dumped them. Anonymous said... Did Packemin get a new principal this year? What happened to Hula?? Anonymous said... I find it difficult to believe that any administrator would allow a low functioning students out of the building after the events that took place in queens a few months ago! What message do we send to students when we ask them to toss books, books that are new in wrapping?
The sentiment is well and strong as the greenback seems the weakest of them all; while with growing expectations of further 50 bp cut next month of the feds key funds rate, all we can say is losers weepers! Americans' housing market has yet to find a bottom and until that actually happens all we can say is deterioration marks the path of sinners! With a fragile dollar and strong performance in equity markets which are now on the rise especially as bond insurers are to keep their AAA ratings preventing a major crash from crippling the markets to a vegetative state this time helped majors acquire back some momentum and pursue gains. Germany, the heart of the EU pumped back a little more blood into the veins of its economy, as despite slowing output growth confidence data coming above expectations boosted the 15 nation start, as in nowadays markets sentiment is the sole prosecutor as if businesses and households as well sink in fear they themselves will create an economic burden even if the economy was perfectly sound! The euro managed to bounce up and strong from were demand was seen at 1.4780s leaping to the over seventies resistance at 1.4870s which is still facing the euro to leap up higher closer to its 1.49 targeted area as it trades now near strong levels at 1.4860s; the euro managed the upside wave as well against the Japanese yen setting the highest of 160.55 after acquiring good momentum from the Asian session near 159.60s. Sterling is trading stronger today as took it out against the dollar heading back into the $1.97s once more were the strong level ahead the pound restricted the motion at 1.9720s, in the Asian session this morning the 1.9640s provided the currency with strong support as the pair attempted to breach down yet did not manage the move reversing to the upside mentioned levels, while currently trades near 1.9710s. The pound as well was helped by good risk appetite as despite the outlook for rate cuts in the UK the pound still masters the edge of the widest rate differentials against the yen the GBP/JPY pair managed to leap today test the strength of 212.86 which proved to be still valid and needs strong momentum for the pair to breach it up today to extent the upside targets. Japan's pride and joy, the yen, is battling a weak dollar and gluttonous investors, and both opposing headings are ripping the currency apart, as mentioned the yen fell against its European rivals, yet against greenback still is trading sideways as both are currently fragile to overcome the other! The dollar could not take the pair to maintain 108s falling from its opening levels highest of 108.13 while the yen on the other hand could not take the pair lower beyond 107.80s and now runs the tight ranges of late 107s and early 108s; noting that even the transition in history from the late 70s of peace and rock and roll was hard into the 80s so as we say history is a key essence of success of nowadays nations!!!
Celebrate Thanksgiving on a Budget We're all aware that there's a recession going on and it doesn't look like it's going to disappear any time soon. Many people are looking to see how they can manage thanksgiving on a smaller budget this year. It's often the one holiday when we walk the stores and collect anything on the conveyor belt without considering the cost. Times have changed for many people from all walks of life. Giving Instead of Receiving Despite being short of funds, many people are thinking about staying at home or going out to enjoy a day with friends by volunteering to help others or donating some of the money they would have spent on Thanksgiving Day to more needy people. Some folks are looking at new ways (which are really old ways just redesigned) to make Thanksgiving special. Talk Thanksgiving Memories One sure fire way to build up conversation and links between age groups is to reminisce with different generations. Whatever age you are, you can ask relatives about their memories of Thanksgiving Day in years gone by. You can write down their thoughts or record them straight to your cell phone or camcorder. If you prepare this well in advance you can share those thoughts with other members of your family on Thanksgiving Day. This is a sure way to develop fun between the different ages and encourages talking; something younger people appear to have forgotten about while on their favorite social networks and computers. Go Green Having a green Thanksgiving is another idea to tempt the imagination of children as well as their parents or guardians. Think about the food you can eat and how you can cook it. Compare your usual activities at Thanksgiving and see what consumes energy, what causes emissions. How can you cut down your carbon usage? Think local rather than ski hotels Sweden unless you live in the Nordic country. Children's Thanksgiving Activities You'll need to plan well ahead for children's games to be successful and not just a five minute wonder, but taking the time to plan activities can bring together the whole family. Remember it's not just the children who should play kids' games; get the whole family involved. Thanksgiving Trees Some people told of how as children they'd collect leaves in the fall. They'd preserve them in clear paper and sometimes make a Thanksgiving tree. Going back to the real theme of Thanksgiving Day, the children would write down what they were grateful for against each leaf. If you follow this tradition, each year becomes a great time to review what they have written before and to see what this year brings. Don't forget to date them so you know what you thought and when! The tree idea can be made out of anything waiting to be recycled. Thanksgiving Turkeys Another twist on the tree is to make a Thanksgiving turkey, also from recycled goods. Instead of leaves they can collect feathers and stick them onto the turkey. As time goes by the turkey gets covered with more and more feathers with a full story to be told. Think Pilgrims When you're thinking about the children's activities and how they can include the adults, blindfold games are always a success. Everyone thinks they can do better until it’s their turn. The Pilgrims’ 1620 voyage can be the theme of the game and it's something you can play indoors or outdoors, depending on where you live. Picking a person to represent the new world they can stand on a chair at one end of a room. Someone else can be the Mayflower. They stand blindfolded at the other end of the room/garden. All the other family or friends become rocks in the way. The new world gives directions for the Mayflower to find its way to the new world without hitting a single rock and finally making its way to safe ground, the harbor. These Thanksgiving celebration ideas don't have to cost a lot and can lead to fun for the whole family. Why not plan for some of these as the holiday season approaches? Find more party planning inspirations for Thanksgiving Inspiration to your inbox Want to receive the latest Celebrations.com ideas? Get our newsletter » Meet our Writer Becky Hardin Recipe Contributor Read More » Inspirations Delivered to Your Inbox
Dragonman12 Contest Entry Picture Firstly, I'd like to apologize sincerely for the tardiness and, well, badness. I spent too much time trying to think of a plot, and well, here we are. Anyway, because I get a bang out of this sort of thing, the characters you see before you are one and the same. "Artemis" switches between these two personas. The two of them were identical fraternal twins, that became one prior to birth (that does happen sometimes). But instead of the end result being the dominant twin taking over, the two twins now coexist in one body, changing from one to the other. The male Artemis prefers a fencing sword, and is left-handed, whereas female Artemis is right handed, and prefers nunchaku. Male Artemis is quiet and reserved whilst his counterpart is loud and mildly hyperactive. As for more magical abilities, Male Artemis can sense when people are lying, and Female Artemis can talk to animals. As for which persona is seen most predominantly, and who their teacher is, I leave that up to
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Pathways to Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad Secrets: Signs and Symbols about the underground railroad following the footsteps eyewitness to history figure it out mapping it out secrets: language, signs and symbols create a quilt block living history underground railroad library You are here! Follow the Drinking Gourd Music The Language of Quilts Language of the Railroad Teacher Tips Follow the Drinking Gourd The Big Dipper was called The Drinking Gourd Escaping slaves had to find their way north. Northern states such as New York and Massachusetts had strong abolitionist societies and benevolent groups — both black and white — that would help escaping slaves. The slaves' final goal was Canada, north of the U.S. border. Slavery was not permitted there, and American laws that allowed people to capture runaway slaves had no effect. People trying to escape slavery had many clues they could rely on to find out where "north" actually was. They knew moss usually grew on the north sides of trees. They also observed that migrating birds flew north in the summer. What are some other ways escaping slaves could determine where “north” was? One of the best clues they could use to find north was to locate the North Star. The North Star is also called Polaris. Unlike other stars, it never changes position. It always points to the north. People have always used a group of stars to help them find the North Star. They have called this group of stars many names, depending on how they saw the “picture” created by the stars. Sometimes people thought the group looked like a Big Bear. In fact, the Latin name for this star group was Ursa Major, or Big Bear. At other times, people thought the group of stars looked like a dipper — with a cup that had a very long handle. Slaves knew this group of stars as the Drinking Gourd. They sometimes used hollowed-out gourds to dip and drink water. The gourds looked just like long-handled cups. Two stars on the cup’s edge always point to the North Star. By finding the “drinking gourd” in the sky, people traveling at night could always find the North Star. Many escaping slaves — including Harriet Tubman, James Pennington, and Josiah Henson — may have “followed the Drinking Gourd” to freedom. Today, many people know of a song called “Follow the Drinking Gourd.” It talks about people escaping slavery by following clues to go north to freedom. The song is a combination of old ideas and new words by many musicians. Look at the Words of the Song » classroom resourcesscreensaverfor parentsabout this sitethinkport home ©2014 Maryland Public Television. All Rights Reserved.
Go to the Globe and Mail homepage Jump to main navigationJump to main content Author and philosopher Alain de Botton. (Luke MacGregor / Reuters/REUTERS) The Tell An atheist's defence of religion Add to ... Religion is wrong for all the right reasons. So says Alain de Botton, a schismatic atheist who has caused a stir among militant non-believers by insisting that they have a lot to learn from the world's great faiths. In his controversial new book, Religion for Atheists, the 42-year-old Swiss-born Englishman – whose atheist father founded Global Asset Management – castigates the mocking tone deployed by celebrity atheists to attack the supernatural side of faith. Instead of debating dogma, he thinks it is smarter to steal organized religion's best ideas: the art and architecture, spirit of community and humbling perspective on humanity that have kept belief systems going strong for centuries. Mr. de Botton recently spoke with The Globe's John Allemang. More related to this story It's the idea that to be an atheist, you have to resist everything to do with religion – including music, architecture, the sense of being a community. Atheists are so keen to prove God doesn't exist that they don't stop to ask what needs religion is catering for. They keep attacking religion through reason as if by launching a devastating argument they could make the whole thing collapse. But religion is for the most part a work of the emotion, so it's foolish to attack it as if it were an intellectual exercise. What should atheists learn from religion – what's worth stealing? Religion understands we need guidance, that we can't get through this life without help in challenging moments. The vulnerability and fragility of being human are right at the centre of religious analysis. Obviously there's a supernatural component as well, the reassurance about the next life. But there's also interesting stuff going on about community, holding people together in a group, breaking through the feeling of loneliness. There's reassurance about marriage, relationships and children. And throughout religious practice, there's an emphasis on wisdom: A lot of religion is about finding peace in a noisy world, about being alone in silence, about collecting one's thoughts and finding a focus. And you find that religion uses rather unorthodox methods to teach people stuff: architecture, art, music, food, certain clothing. Atheists often think that religions are just about a book, so we must write a book to make the whole edifice fall apart. But religion is only secondarily about a book. You seem particularly taken with the rituals and organizational power of Catholicism. Isn't that a particularly problematic religion for an infidel? If you listen to militant atheists, you'd think that what we had on our hands was something combining the intolerance of the Spanish Inquisition, the force of the Crusades and the intellectual muscle of the Jesuits. But it's totally unfair to compare any institution with its incarnation 400 years ago. The rituals of the Catholic Church remain the same, but otherwise it's hugely modernized – Catholics don't burn anyone at the stake any more. The Enlightenment has happened, but you wouldn't know it by reading the new atheists. They think the enemy they're facing is the same institution Galileo was up against. It strikes me as intellectually bankrupt to go on about parish tea parties and try to accuse them of being the second Crusade. In the first line of your book, you say it is boring and unproductive to look for truth in religion. Why doesn't truth matter? It doesn't matter because it's not available. The question is impossible – any discussion is going to be caught in a stalemate where the atheist declares the religious person to be an idiot, and the religious person declares the atheist to be damned. So you waste a lot of time. You've become an advocate for atheist temples, which seems to have made you a lot of adversaries, both believers and non-believers. What were you thinking? Many religions take architecture seriously and see having the right space as part of living a good life. So I playfully suggested the idea of temples for atheists, which was misinterpreted as a belief that atheists should worship reason and the concept of a non-god. This was shocking to religious people, and completely wrong. There's a design for an atheists' temple in my book, but I've got no plans to build it. That said, I'm very interested in non-denominational contemplative spaces, something like the Mark Rothko chapel in Texas. But do atheists really need a room of their own? I go to a Paris cathedral, listen to organ recitals and feel good in spite of my non-belief. What's wrong with that? Many cathedrals quite generously let in everybody, but there comes a time when you feel, as a non-believer, I'm at somebody else's party. Surely we can be creative too and not always be piggybacking. Is there a danger that by focusing on the attractive bits of religion, you've neglected its core values and missed the point? People often say that once religion disappears, we don't have anything to believe in, which strikes me as bizarre. If you gather a group of 500 Canadians and say, “Do you guys have any shared values?” you'll come up with a solid list of 40 things everybody believes, from fairness and kindness to being nice to children and respecting the environment. We're not devoid of values in the secular world. What we're devoid of are mechanisms to make those values effective, and this is what religion does. Secularists assume that an intellectual argument can improve the world. Religion teaches us that things don't change unless there is an involvement with everyday practice. Religions historically have been filled with practical people who use music, art, architecture, clothing, travel – the experience of a pilgrimage – to make ideas stick. You're very big on the religious concept of humility. What's the point of feeling insignificant? It's an important emotion. Feeling very small in the face of something large, powerful and beyond one's control is the uniting theme of religion. And I think that sensation is available to atheists through science and nature. In the modern world, people are unhappy because they've been promised a sense of control, that doesn't deliver. They've been promised that their relationships will go well, that money leads to happiness, that work will be fulfilling. And yet for many of us, these promises don't work out. So there's tremendous relief in the reminders of why that might be: Though we can put men on the moon, we're quite powerless in other areas. Yes, it's true that religions often promise us a lot in the afterlife. But they're also pretty realistic about what we get in this life, more realistic than many secularist ideologies. As atheists, we can learn something from this welcome pessimism, while ditching the rosy optimism about the next world. Is it possible that your argument for stealing organized religion's best ideas has already been pre-empted? I look at the average corporation and I see a mission statement filled with optimism and certainty, a cubicle workplace that features a series of monastic cells , and a hierarchical management scheme that would put the Vatican authorities to shame . Yes, there are strong similarities between religion and big corporations. The difference is what each organization is aiming at. Religion wants to save your soul and change the world at a psychological level. The corporation aims to make money in fulfilment of more basic human needs. In the modern world, the people now interested in saving your soul are outside corporate structures on the whole – psychotherapists, poets, guitarists, novelist, all running cottage industries. What's interesting about religions is how highly organized and systematic they are. Which leads to the thought that if you want to change the world at the level of the soul, you probably have to get organized, get out of your bedroom and get into a cubicle with other people. John Allemang is a Globe and Mail feature writer. This interview has been condensed and edited. In the know Most popular video » More from The Globe and Mail Most Popular Stories
Take the 2-minute tour × I would like to know in which order I should learn different areas of maths so I can have a robust overview of all the theory in case I need something for a computer programming problem. So I've created this mind map enter image description here I do not intend to know all those small details about how to do a certain thing (e.g. "gauss-jordan reduction"), I would rather look over an example, but then do it with math software like sage-maths or mathematica. I would like to know, for instance, how to get to a taylor series, given the analytical function (I know it already, I am merely illustrating the kind of knowledge depth I expect). So all I all, I want to be able to read academic articles about maths which have applicability in computer science / programming, and actually understand something from those articles, so I can use that knowledge in solving actual programming problems. The open question is: 1. (a) In what order do you suggest to learn about these areas, on what areas should I insiste more? (b) Do you see any missing areas in the mind map? share\|improve this question What a fantastic question. And it relates to computer science, so this is a great place for it. But the site's moderation philosophy has lost all reasonableness. – Charlie Flowers Feb 13 '13 at 8:55 @CharlieFlowers I agree. Please open an issue on meta. I can't do that any more, because I was banned (just for daring to challenge this very subjectivism of the status quo) – Flavius Feb 13 '13 at 20:09 add comment closed as off topic by Wesley Murch, duffymo, Rafał Rawicki, Daniel Fischer, Juhana Jul 1 '12 at 7:36 4 Answers up vote 1 down vote accepted There is a good book, that I think would help you to get more out of computer science research papers and dissertations. It's called "Concrete Mathematics: A foundation for Computer Science", and it's available on Amazon: I think this would help because it will all be relevant, and its consolidated which will help expedite the learning process. Even if you don't have any money, just Google it and take a look at the index to get an idea of what areas you might want to learn. And here's one more interesting book. share\|improve this answer add comment I was recommended this book in a data structures and Algorithms class a few years ago. It covers a lot of relevant areas ( probability, graphs, counting, relations, etc.) and it's free! :-) share\|improve this answer Unsure why I was downvoted, care to comment? – Aidanc Jun 30 '12 at 19:28 I agree with you, not sure why mine was also but there we go. – mathematician1975 Jun 30 '12 at 20:13 add comment If you want to be serious, you should get a graduate level course on computer science in a university. There is no replacement for this. You must know basic set theory, big O, basic data structures, basic real analysis. I suggest looking at Cormen et al. 'Introduction to Algorithms', and/or Manber's 'Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach'. For number theory, check Victor Shoup's book - contains far too much, but it is readable at any level. I suggest not bothering at all with topics such as: complex analysis, functional analysis, projective/inversive geometry, control theory, mathematical physics, until you know you need them. Instead of making your graph bigger and bigger, make it as small as possible. share\|improve this answer add comment This is almost impossible to answer as many programming tasks require no mathematical knowledge (other than counting and basic logic) at all. If you have specific interests in an area (such as numerical linear algebra or statistics for example) then start there. Still what I would suggest is getting a good grasp of how finite precision arithmetic works. Perhaps read an introductory text on numerical analysis as this will give a good understanding of what numerical stability is. A good book on analysis of algorithms (with regards to speed and efficiency) would do no harm, and if you plan on doing any kind of mathematical programming, getting a sound knowledge of linear algebra is a very good idea. Almost everything in applied mathematics reduces to ultimately solving a linear system of equations (or doing so iteratively). There is no right answer to be honest. share\|improve this answer I don't see why this was downvoted at all. – duffymo Jun 30 '12 at 19:22 I didnt realise it was - oh well, can't please everyone. – mathematician1975 Jun 30 '12 at 20:09 Well I'll vote it back up, because it is the correct answer. What math you need to understand depends strongly on what sort of application space you live in. – Novak Jun 30 '12 at 21:07 add comment
Star of Bethlehem: Fact or Fiction? - US - CBN News - Christian News 24-7 - CBN.com Star of Bethlehem: Fact or Fiction? Ad Feedback Since the 1600s, people have used astronomy, history, and the Bible to try to identify the Star of Bethlehem. So was the star something real, seen in the heavens as a sign of the coming Messiah? Or was it, as some say, merely made up by the early Church? The Heavens Declare the Glory of God With today's telescopes, the grandeur of the skies is more visible than ever before. Yet even with the naked eye the Psalmist proclaimed "the heavens declare the glory of God." How can he do that? Could the Star of Bethlehem be an example in announcing the Messiah? Or -- is this some kind of misguided astrology? "The Bible comes down extremely hard on astrology. Reverence for the stars, the idea that stars order your life or guide you or whatever - did you know it was a killing offense in the Old Testament?" Star of Bethlehem expert Rick Larson said. "A thermometer can tell you if it's hot or cold but it can't make you hot or cold -- because it's not an active agent. Stars are like that. According to the Bible they can tell you things; they can be signs from a higher power, from God on high. But they can't make you do anything, they're burning balls of gas, you know," Larson said. A new DVD documents Larson's discoveries that came after a decade of studying the mysteries of the "star of wonder." A number of experts consider his conclusions the most plausible in a subject full of opinions. And some even think Larson has gone far beyond what astronomer John Mosley and historian Ernest Martin told CBN News in 1994. "Even Virgil in the 1st Century in his fourth Eclogue mentions this messianic personage who was to come, who was to rule all the nations," Martin said. Mosley said, "I thought that this happened in such a known period of time and such a public place - the Roman Empire - that people would have figured this out long ago. That's not the case. It's very controversial." Larson has analyzed what heavenly signs in the book of Matthew brought the wise men to Bethlehem. He found nine testable points. "My idea is that if the Bible has nine characteristics and I find something in the sky that has, you know, eight of them, it might be interesting, but it's not the star. It's got to line up with Scripture or it doesn't do the job for me," Larson said. Using astronomy software, he then searched the ancient skies for matching events the Magi would have seen in the time around the birth of Jesus. That era was from 3 to 1 BC. The Identities of the Three Wise Men But who were these mysterious wise men? One ancient Jewish writer speaks of them. "He (ancient Jewish writer, Philo) describes a particular school of Magi, calls it the Eastern school and these Magi he praises. He says these guys understood the natural order and are able to explain the natural order to others. And they were, according to Philo, probably what we might call proto-scientists," Larson explained. Consider the Magi seeing Jupiter, the king planet, in the night sky one mid-September evening of 3 B.C. "This is Jupiter; the smaller object is a star. It has a name; it's called Regulus -- that's the same root word as our word "regal." The Babylonians called Regulus Sharru which means king," Larson said. This close proximity is called a conjunction. Larson explains what it would have looked like: "Jupiter passed Regulus, changed it's mind, stopped and went back for a second close approach. That's two, passed Regulus again..." And that's three. This took place in the constellation of the Lion, associated in ancient times with Israel. And the magi, attuned to such proclamations in the sky, might well have started thinking that a mighty king was to be born in Israel. But there's more: following Jupiter into the sky is Virgo the Virgin," and she's clothed in the sun and she has the moon at her feet," Larson said. Sound familiar? That's from the last book of the Bible, Revelation 10 which reads, "A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet." And she's described as pregnant. Theologians recognize this passage as John having a vision of the Virgin Mary with Jesus in her womb. "When you see that in the sky, and realize that John wasn't just recounting a vision. His vision involved actual astronomical events. That really got me. When I saw Virgo rise clothed in the sun with the new moon birthed at her feet, it stunned me," Larson said. The Significance of Rosh Hashana That new moon marks the onset of Rosh Hashana - the Jewish New Year - the day God is said to have created the world. Larson says the evidence supports this day as the time when the Holy Spirit conceived Jesus. So is there another sign? "Nine months after that first conjunction -- nine months -- the gestation period of a human," Larson said. "We see Jupiter and Venus come together to form the brightest star anyone had ever seen." That's mid-June of 2 B.C. - again near Regulus in Leo. "This is such an unusual conjunction that I can tell none of your viewers have ever seen such a conjunction because none have occurred in the 20th century. They're that rare, extremely rare," Larson said. This coin represents how impressive the star was - as the Romans placed the star in the upper left. Of course, the Romans thought it was all about them -- a sort of Star of Rome rather than the Star of Bethlehem. And that's probably what made the Magi ride toward Israel. Larson said, "So they ride to Israel's capital, Jerusalem, and say to the ruler Herod, 'We've seen his star in the East. Where's the baby king?' And he says, 'Bethlehem.'" "As they're riding out toward Bethlehem, they look up in the sky and there's Jupiter, the king planet, over the little town of Bethlehem," he said. "They ride down and find the baby boy, there are three gifts, they have the first Christmas." The date: Dec. 25, 2 BC. "Of course, they didn't use our calendar -- you know December 25th meant nothing to them. They never heard of December, but to us it could be a sign and it is interesting that the gifting did occur on December 25th," he said. There are indeed more signs -- many of which revolve around the death of Jesus on the cross. But that's an Easter story -- and can be found on Larson's DVD as he explains Good Friday's celestial events. While the mortal Augustus has long passed from history, Jesus is worshipped by millions around the world as the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, The Eternal One Who created the heavens - and the signs of His own coming. Related Link: The Star of Bethlehem Log in or create an account to post a comment. Gailon Totheroh Gailon Totheroh CBN News Science & Medical Reporter
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Skip to content My WebMD Sign In, Sign Up Lipitor vs Pravastatin? sanmart posted: Are there any studies or statistics in the difference between Lipitor and Pravastatin? What are the differences in side effects, etc.? the Doctors wants to prescribe both, together. Is this normal, and does it increase the side effects? billh99 responded: There is no medical professional that normally responds in their forum. Here is a Consumer Report on statins. Note that Lipitor is available as a generic, atorvastatin, and the price has dropped drastically from that shown in the report. I have been doing some comparisons of atorvastatin and simisvastatin and it is not easy. There are few, if any, trails that directly compare the two. And looking at the detailed drug reports there is enough difference in the details that make it difficult. But you can look at them here You might ask your pharmacist about how they compare. the Doctors wants to prescribe both, together. Do you have too different doctors and one want to prescribe one and the other doctor wants to prescribe the other? I have never hear of two different statins being prescribed at the same time. And I would be very concerned about the increase in side effects. You might want to ask in this forum. There is a cardiologist that does answer some of the questions. Featuring Experts There are no Expert stories for this community right now Helpful Tips Lower cholesterol without drugs Was this Helpful? 16 of 18 found this helpful
Restraining Orders Under Rhode Island law, taking out a restraining order against a spouse, former spouse, or a boyfriend / girlfriend is a relatively easy process. Typically, when a person is in fear for their immediate safety, they can request a restraining order by filling out an affidavit at the courthouse. A temporary restraining order will be issued and a hearing set to determine if the order should be extended. At Moyer Law Office, we represent clients who are in need of a restraining order, as well as those who suddenly find themselves with an order against them. Since evidence and eye-witness testimony can be introduced at the second hearing, it is especially important to have a skilled restraining order lawyer present who can defend your interests, protect your rights, and explain the options available to you. Getting a Restraining Order While a restraining order may not be hundred percent effective in providing total protection, it notifies law enforcement and the court of your situation. Should a restraining or protection order be violated, the authorities can immediately arrest and detain the person threatening you. Additionally, violating a restraining order can result in criminal charges, jail, fines, a permanent criminal record. While a restraining order may not ultimately prevent violence, they have the advantage of involving law enforcement early on, making it more difficult for someone to harm you. Facing a Restraining Order It’s not unusual for an angry ex-spouse or boyfriend / girlfriend to use one to make someone’s life difficult. Since they are issued without prior notice, they can cause substantial disruption to your life. Not only may you be unaware when one is issued against you, once it is in effect you can be arrested if you are alleged to have violated the restraining order. As a result, a restraining order has the potential to turn into a serious criminal charge and create further legal problems – especially when child custody or visitation is involved. Our RI restraining order attorneys take pre-emptive action in cases where a restraining order is clearly being used to complicate our client’s life and leverage certain issues in a divorce or family law dispute. If you are unsure what to do if you are under the threat of violence or are facing a restraining order, email Attorney Don P. Moyer or call at (401) 461-7800 today. Call Now 401-461-7800
long-term charts Discussion in 'Trading' started by baller1069, Nov 22, 2008. 1. Someone gave a link to a website that has really long term charts going back over 100 years for a lot of different commodities and indexes. Anyone know the website? 2. ? 3. Most indexes weren't around a 100 years ago because exchanges are a relatively recent development. If you don't mind me asking, why are you looking for this historical data? Most data providers will give you historical data going back to the 1970s.
Home > Honda generators provide powerful backup Honda generators provide powerful backup Supplier News article image Honda generators are ideal backup power for most home appliances. INCREASING demand for power in the hot conditions has the potential to leave many regions of Australia without power, causing productivity and stock losses to domestic and business users. In late October, regulator National Electricity Market Management Company (NEMMCO) released its Statement of Opportunities report, which showed that the Victoria-South Australia energy market faced a power shortfall of 500MW over summer. While electricity suppliers are trying to minimise the likelihood of blackouts, the proliferation of air conditioning systems across the country means there are no guarantees of a trouble free summer, particularly in heat wave conditions. According to Power Equipment Manager, Bob Donaldson, domestic consumers and businesses can ensure power interruptions are kept to a minimum by running a backup power supply. "Unfortunately power outages in Australia, particularly during summer, have become more frequent in recent years as people reach for their air conditioners and a multitude of other home appliances during a string of hot days," said Mr Donaldson. "A generator is a relatively inexpensive way you can be assured of business continuity and the elimination of inconvenience in the home - if there are electricity disruptions, a generator will quickly pay for itself. "Businesses including newsagencies, vets, doctors and dentists where lights, eftpos and security are required to continue to function, are well advised to have back up power." Honda has a large range of lightweight and whisper-quiet, advanced four-stroke generators, ideal for powering household appliances, sensitive electronic devices and larger food and beverage storage equipment. The generator range begins with the 700W ac, 12V/10A dc EX7, weighing only 12kg and capable of powering smaller appliances such as a television, stereo, light and camping fridge. If power is needed for sensitive electronic equipment such as computers, 'Pure Sine Wave Output' technology for smooth power delivery is recommended. This feature is standard on Honda's EU inverter models, which start with the 1000W ac/8A dc EU10i. For extra power, Honda's 2000W ac, 12V 8A dc EU20i model weighs just 21kg, less than half the weight of conventional generators. The EU20i can be operated continuously for 15 hours on a single tank of unleaded fuel and is capable of powering a fridge or microwave oven. At the top end of the EU range is the EU30is model with 3000W ac/12A dc output and the convenience of electric start to provide backup power for air conditioners and most home and business appliances. For added efficiency, the EU Inverter range is equipped with a load-sensitive ECO-Throttle system. This innovation automatically adjusts the engine's RPM to generate exactly the amount of power required by the appliance, thus reducing fuel consumption and noise levels. Honda's more powerful EM50is and EM70is models are the largest capacity inverter generators in their class. The EM50is has a maximum output of 5,000W ac and its rated output is 4,500W, while the EM70is delivers a maximum output of 6,500W ac, with a rated output of 5,500W, sufficient to power large household appliances or workshop power tools. Honda also manufactures a large water-cooled generator, the EX5500, which is capable of powering most appliances in the average home or business simultaneously. "It makes sense to be prepared over summer rather than experience blackouts and the associated loss," said Mr Donaldson. "A generator will provide peace of mind, and the Honda range is well suited to a large majority of household and business applications." Newsletter sign-up The latest products and news delivered to your inbox
Incredible India: 2,500 women get together on Facebook, create the world's largest crochet blanket Image: Facebook/Mother India's Crochet Queens Nearly 2,500 women from the Facebook group Mother India's Crochet Queens came together to break the Guinness World Record for the largest crochet blanket on Jan. 31. The resulting blanket was around 11,148 square metres in size, equivalent of one-and-a-half football fields. Each of the 8,034 blankets that went into making the giant bedspread was made by the group's 2,472 members. The participants, spread across 14 countries, were between the ages of 6 and 85 years, and kept in touch with each through WhatsApp and Facebook. They restricted themselves to the simple granny square pattern, but some created their own designs. The blankets were then transported to Chennai where they were stitched together. Once the record was set, the blankets were disassembled and donated to needy people. The previous record was held by a South African group that made a 3,377 square-metre blanket. crochet 2 Image: Mother India's Crochet Queens Crochet 3 The Facebook group was started by Chennai resident Subhashri Natarajan in August 2015 to connect with fellow knitting enthusiasts. She says that the project was a beautiful combination of social media and the old world charm of crochet. "When you put your effort into hand-made things, you feel a sense of pride that you are the creator. Yet, it's only because of technology that we were able to know each other and so many people joined the project," Natarajan told Mashable.
Silicon Insider: Little Guys Can Win The ants are going to win this round. I've long been interested in the so-called "cycles of history" — long enough, in fact, not to take it too seriously. Hardcore history cyclists of the Kondratieff/Spengler school [Russian economist Nikolai Kondratieff suggested half-century cycles, while German historian Oswald Spengler maintained every culture passes through a kind of life cycle] always end up treating history as if it was a living, powerful God, sweeping all of us along in its endless mood swings. I don't buy it, partly because people are so perversely unpredictable and partly because these Long Wave models always seem to be a lot better at looking backwards than forwards. On the other hand, there are two cycles of history that life has taught me are real. One, which covers everything from hemlines to membership rolls of the Ku Klux Klan, is driven by the human tendency towards fad, novelty and envy. And it doesn't surprise me at all that the stock market, which certainly exhibits those three traits in abundance, tracks this cycle pretty neatly. The other cycle is driven by technological change. And I don't just mean Moore's Law, though it obviously plays a part. Rather, in my 40 years of living in Silicon Valley, and a quarter century working in or reporting on high tech, I've noticed a longer, less-obvious cycle that seems to have a wavelength of about 10-12 years. This cycle is the endless vacillation between centralization and decentralization. This wave affects every part of the modern, tech-driven corporation, from products to organization charts. If you've been around this industry any length of time, you know what I'm talking about. Cycles of Centralization When I joined HP in the mid-1970s, the company was in the midst of a massive decentralization of its organization into dozens of divisions clustered about six major product groups. Not coincidentally, about a mile away, the Homebrew Computer Club was figuring out new ways to figure out how to build a "personal" computer that one could have of one's own, rather than timeshare off big corporate mainframes run by arrogant MIS priests. Nolan Bushnell was nearby in his spare bedroom trying to take a mainframe computer game he'd played in college and shrink it down into a pinball-sized package for a local bar. And, just down the road, Intel, AMD, National Semiconductor and Zilog were perfecting new processors that would bring stand-alone intelligence to calculators, watches, games and even appliances. Decentralization was in the air. And by the time I became a newspaperman in the early 1980s, the little guys had won. The stultifying, conformist, overpriced world of centralization had been defeated. Big batch mainframes, once the rulers of the digital world, now looked like dinosaurs lumbering off into extinction. Bushnell's Atari was now making games for the home, and there were as many microprocessors in the world as human beings. And that ultimate descendent of Homebrew, the Macintosh, was king. But the wheel was already turning once again. By the mid-1980s, the fundamental flaws of decentralization — incompatibility, lack of standards, stretched communication lines, isolation, and unpredictability — were becoming insufferable. The 1984 recession started the turn; the 1991 recession finished it. Companies pulled outlying divisions home. Great, dominating, standardizing firms like Microsoft, Intel and Nintendo arose, asserting predictability on the marketplace even as they crushed their tinier foes. We entered the era of the Big Players, the Tech Titans, where innovation was measured in product upgrades, not technological revolutions. The Wheel Turns Again The one countercycle of this era was the Internet, but that was only because the World Wide Web, itself a form of centralization, kicked off an unlikely entrepreneurial land rush. The boom itself, though disguised by the frenzy of activity and the thousands of new firms, was essentially a centralizing revolution. Why do you need hundreds of Safeways when you can have everything delivered from a single WebVan warehouse? Why go to a hundred garage sales, when you can visit a single eBay? The defining product of this wave was the "Server", born at place like the newly recentralized HP as the client-server for corporate MIS, then evolving into the network router for the Internet. The server, ever more powerful, lined up in great phalanxes in vast server farms, was the cynosure of the era. The hardware and software companies at the center of this movement, the Ciscos, Oracles, Siebels, et al, became the most successful corporations on the planet. They aren't so successful these days. Nobody seems to want to spend tens of millions of dollars anymore on big enterprise systems. Moreover, they no longer have to: the wheel has once again begun to turn. Late last year, while working on a cover story for a magazine, I was given a tour of Google by its CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt. I've known Schmidt a long time, since his big iron days at Sun. When it came to technology, Schmidt always went first class. So, when he took me into Google's server room, I was stunned to see how primitive the place looked. By way of explanation, Schmidt pulled out a motherboard, one of thousands in racks around me. You see, he said, we build them ourselves. All off-the-shelf stuff. Nothing fancy. We even chose one of the cheapest disk drives because it turned out to be more reliable in the highly demanding operating environment we work in. We don't buy fancy servers anymore. By coincidence, the next day I had lunch with Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape. I told him about what I had glimpsed at Google. What you just saw, he told me, was the next revolution. What Does This Decentralization Mean? This new decentralization wave is picking up speed and power by the day. If you know where to look it's everywhere: the rise of, the Apple iPod, home networks, multi-function PDAs and cell phones, the new super Gameboy, consumer broadband… It's one reason why Bill Gates went back into the lab two years ago — just watch what Microsoft is about to do with Tablet PCs and education. Most of all, you can see it in the rise of Linux, perhaps the most decentralized intellectual construction in human history.
Karan Patel, Divyanka Tripathi, Vivek Dahiya Karan Patel, Divyanka Tripathi, Vivek DahiyaInstagram Showbiz is a tricky place to be in. It gives you fame and money, but ruins the privacy. Most stars ignore speculations and rumours, which shroud them so heavily, but only to a certain point. "Yeh Hai Mohabbatein" actress Divyanka Tripathi has often made headlines for being friendly with her co-stars Karan Patel and Vivek Dahiya and she's not very pleased about it. Talking to The Asian Age, she said they often laugh off these rumours and it's really not fair to link them romantically. What's funny to this leading lady is fans wanting her to be with Karan only because they love their onscreen chemistry. "I don't pay attention to these things but it's strange that my fans want to see him with me. We're professionals who take our work very seriously. Moreover, he's a married man now and we don't share any such vibes at all," she told the leading daily. On being linked up with Vivek, whom she's closest to on the sets, she said it hurts when people malign her name, character and make false announcements. "There are always people making up stories and that really upsets me. I don't wish to curse anyone. I just feel bad when women especially try to sabotage the image of another woman," she further elaborated. Interestingly, speculations have never dampened her spirit. She told the publication at times like these she prefers talking to people with positive energy. In other news, Karan, who too doesn't appreciate such baseless relationship rumours, once said that some should learn to respect people's private lives.
Men's Tennis Falls to #16 Whitman 9-0 Men's Tennis Falls to #16 Whitman 9-0 WALLA WALLA, Wash. - The Lewis & Clark men's tennis team fell to #16 Whitman 9-0 on Sunday afternoon in Northwest Conference action. Michael Brewer put up a fight at the No. 1 singles position, taking Andy Riggs to three sets. The Pioneer freshman won the opening set 6-4 before falling by the same score in the second. In the third and final set Brewer could not hold on falling 10-6. Kevin Ross lost at the No. 2 spot 6-4, 6-0, while Daniel Hahm slipped 7-6, 6-2 as the No. 3. Scott Monismith lost 6-3, 6-2 in the No. 4 spot, Cameron Smith lost 6-1 in both sets as the No. 5 and Carter Gee-Taylor fell 6-0, 6-1 in the No. 6 position. Brewer and Smith were solid as the Pioneers No. 1 doubles tandem, but could not pull out a win over Colton Malesovas and Andrew La Cava falling 9-7. Ross and Morgan Joycelost 8-2 in the No. 2 spot and Hahm and Parker Nichols lost 8-5 as the No. 3. The Pioneers return to the court on Friday, March 8 at Willamette.
Apparently, some people never got over the whole zvue scandal Keynan:well howdy! I had a question for you, do you use adobe cs3 for video and picture editing? Platypuss: what makes you think i edit anything? Keynan: well, you sure don't upload entire reels of footage, unless you copy other peoples using a flv copier Platypuss: i dont even know what the hell youre talking about Keynan: alright nevermind toodlezo Platypuss: what do you mean entire reels of footage? Keynan: haha, its really not a big deal Platypuss: why in the world would I have reels and where the heck would I get those and what use would that be Keynan: well you upload clips, things like a minute long stuff like that, reel is the old term for a full length clip, not just a metal tape so i wanted to know if you a) created your own videos using a progam or b) just copy videos off other sites Platypuss: i dont see why i would not uplaod the entire clip. what good is it to be missing a part of it dude, NO ONE creates their own videos here maybe 1% for some inside jokes and stuff Keynan: well, your wrong there and we content creators enjoy the stereotype that we are all piracy masters but indeed well, i'm looking for content creators for my website so Platypuss: ok but... ebaum is THE site where people post stuff ripped off some other popular sites Keynan: enjoy your day! goodbye Platypuss: original content is extremely rare on here Keynan: not at all because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there Platypuss: wow, you really have no idea about this site do you Keynan: we merely title all our videos as fake titles Platypuss: its famous for ripping off other sites Keynan: so stupid people don't waste time with "cat" tags and "dog" videos Platypuss: here, lots of em do Keynan: your kinda funny Platypuss: theres isnt one page of feature without kittens Keynan: i would appreciate if you didn't make blind accusations without any fact tho Platypuss: there ARE facts Keynan: "Platypuss:wow, you really have no idea about this site do you" Platypuss: google ebaum and eric bauman and zvue Keynan: sigh goodbye, i'm not here to waste time in an arguement Platypuss: like i said, its about 1% That is original. almost everyone rips videos from other sites keep your head in the sand if you wish Keynan: i live no where near a beach but I appreciate the once again, blind comment, no offense Platypuss: why would you be offended that all the videos are ripped off here. its not like its YOUR site im not attacking you Keynan: you can't attack me Platypuss: all in your honor if your material is original really Keynan: so lets not even waste time talking about that this isn't my account i clearly take it you haven't heard of h33t right? or matt14? Platypuss: wait a minute, youre not the guy ive been talking to via PM recently? Keynan: yes of course! my friends gave me there accounts because I got blacklisted on ebaumsworld for taking on eric and his bastard of a father lovely bunch of people i worked with tom fulp, erin white to get this site banned for years, when you can't beat it, you have to ruin it from the inside Platypuss: then you did know what I was talking about when i told you this site is famous for ripping off others... Keynan: why would you admit something incriminating on this site? you know thats why zune bought this right to make him legally accountable for his actions, they have now have proof eric used malicious coding Platypuss: its already not a secret so why pretend we didnt do it Keynan: copying minute videos isn't illegal enough to be worth peoples time, purposely destroying computers is because its legal action, its not something someone snaps a finger at and says get him you need to prove eric owned this site, and its illegal to sell a website domain you don't own Platypuss: people copy videos from site to site all the time. if someone says i have a video that has to be removed, im ok with that because i know its not mine but if its funny i wanna share it with others Keynan: but thats not how the world works in any way i know pro photographers, take adam stewart for example Platypuss: that whole thing sort of faded away and people dont really talk about it anymore Keynan: guy spends his time, and money taking pictures wanna tell me what he gets out of it? you taking his videos and "sharing" them i mean no offense, in any way but i don't understand your logic Platypuss: im not wrong for sharing a video i liked with others. the site who makes money with the ads they put on that video is wrong Keynan: but you support that? thats like saying, apple is bad but people buy ipods are good you think if you didn't come to this site it would have all these ads? all these things come on, your really gonna say that Platypuss: most videos we post are homemade 1 min long and are about kids breaking their face on a skateboard and such Keynan: i've worked hours to try to understand the physiology of the people on this site. which is things im against by the way, being a skateboarder there is nothign funny about being out a carrer well, thank you for your time this is as much as I needed to hear Platypuss: of course not but when some idiot tries to land a front flip from a roof and breaks his arm, he had it coming Keynan: have a good day really? thats how you think? Platypuss: thats how I and most people think yes Keynan: wow, I hate to see when you get hurt and are on the other end of that stick Platypuss: if I get hurt and i can post it on the internet i would then other people can copy it and post it to other sites i dont give 2 shits Keynan: clearly you've got hurt if your over the age of 1 you've suffered and injury so why not post it? cause its not funny when it happens to you Platypuss: clearly, youre taking this way too seriously and this convo might end up as a blog Keynan: never Platypuss: lol Keynan: the only place I would put this would be h33t, and your in no way resembling an idiot so I have no reason to disturb you but as I said, I've heard enough, I wanted to see if a woman had morals on ebaumsworld. thank you for your time, goodbye Platypuss: youre a funny, strange guy Keynan: Once again, I would appreciate the inside insight to people who know me, but thanks for the compliment. 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