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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25033 | If you were looking for the article about the DVD, then see Karate Choppers (DVD).
"Karate Choppers" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season one. In this episode, SpongeBob and Sandy get obsessed with karate.
SpongeBob and Sandy are practicing karate against each other. After fighting in SpongeBob's house and at Barg'N-Mart, Sandy threatens SpongeBob with a drop of Volcano Sauce, and tells him that she will sneak up on him and fight him tomorrow. At the Krusty Krab the next day, SpongeBob thinks anyone or anything can be Sandy, so he is cautious and does not work much. When he strikes one of the customers, Mr. Krabs demands to know what is going on, so SpongeBob explains to him that he is doing karate.
Therefore, Mr. Krabs tells him to stop doing karate or he will have no choice but to fire him. Later, Sandy attacks him, and though SpongeBob attempts to explain Mr. Krabs' warning, Sandy does not believe or listen to him. At that moment, Mr. Krabs sees this and thinks he is doing karate with Sandy, so he ultimately tells SpongeBob that he is fired. This upsets SpongeBob and he starts throwing a big tantrum. Sandy quickly explains to him that SpongeBob tried to warn her, but she would not listen. Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob his job back and tells him not to do any more karate, as he feels that it is poisoning his mind.
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The two try to forget about karate and go to Seashell Park for a picnic. However, while slicing sandwiches, they begin doing karate against each other again.
After they destroy the park, Mr. Krabs catches them once more. SpongeBob admits the truth and explains that he cannot help himself. However, instead of firing SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs decides to have SpongeBob and Sandy slice the Krabby Patties with karate chops which makes twice as much money as before.
) Associated production music
) Original music
) SpongeBob music
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [title card]
Panther Prowl - David Farnon [opening]
Cieszyn Polka - Wladyslaw Rakowski [TV show]
Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob screams]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [SpongeBob and Sandy doing karate]
Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob throws Sandy through the door]
Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [SpongeBob does a karate dance]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [karate over the phone]
Bossa Cubana - Gerhard Narholz [Sandy shopping]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [tin cans]
Police Car - Sam Spence [SpongeBob laughs]
Dancing the Hula - Kapono Beamer ["What a beautiful day!"]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [more karate]
House of Horror - W. Merrick Farran [volcano sauce]
Death Trap - Gregor F. Narholz ["By the powers of naughtiness..."]
Panther Prowl - David Farnon [Sandy drinking volcano sauce.]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [novelty toy]
The Rake Hornpipe - Robert Alexander White [at the Krusty Krab]
Keep Cool - Jean Christophe Thomas, Laurence Peter Cottle [customer swatting a fly/"I'm fast, I'm mean, and I can do this!"]
Blow the Man Down (b) - Tim Laycock, Robert Alexander White [Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to get back to work]
Keep Cool - Jean Christophe Thomas, Laurence Peter Cottle [SpongeBob enters the bathroom]
Sailor's Waltz - Heinz Matschurat [Mr. Krabs tells SpongeBob to stop doing karate or he is fired]
Hawaiian Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["Fired?"]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [Sandy starts karate chopping SpongeBob/Sandy continues karate chopping SpongeBob/Sandy karate chopping SpongeBob again]
Stack of Leis - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob crying/"Aww, shoot, SpongeBob. I guess you ain't fibbing."]
Vibe Link (b) - Richard Myhill ["We can?"]
Nostalgic Hawaii - George de Fretes, Jan Rap [SpongeBob squeezes a rock]
On the Beach - Kapono Beamer [SpongeBob and Sandy on a picnic]
Mavericks - The Woodies [making sandwiches]
Police Car - Sam Spence [sting]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [they fight]
Hawaiian Link (a) - Richard Myhill [everything cut in half]
Dramatic Cue (d) - Ronald Hanmer [SpongeBob screams]
O Makalapua (b) - Kapono Beamer ["Oh, all right, Mr. Krabs, you caught me."]
Take That! (a) - Helene Muddiman [ending]
*On The Complete 1st Season and The First 100 Episodes DVDs, Mavericks is replaced with "El Dementia" by The Surfdusters.
• "Karate Choppers" was ranked #44 during the Best Day Ever event on November 9–10, 2006.
• This and "SB-129" are the only episodes to premiere on New Year's Eve.
• There is an online game based on this episode called Kah Rah Tay Contest.
• On The Complete 1st Season DVD, this episode, along with "Plankton!," has an audio commentary.
• This was the last episode to premiere in 1999, last to air during the 1990s decade and the last to air in the 20th century.
• This was Merriwether Williams' first episode as a writer. Her final episode was "Pranks a Lot."
• A fish is seen fishing for fish with a fishing pole at the park, even though this is an act of cannibalism.
• This is the first time that "Dancing the Hula" plays normally instead of in reverse.
• The face on the hot sauce drop is Tom Kenny's face. In the season 1 DVD commentary, he stated that he had to wear red makeup all over his face in order to make the scene better.
• Kenny also stated that the scene was shot in the Nickelodeon restroom, since he had an audition later that same day the scene was shot, and the red makeup would not come off fully.
• This is the first of four episodes transcribed as a comic into the SpongeBob SquarePants/Tokyopop book Gone Nutty!. The other three were "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm," "Pressure" and "Sandy's Rocket."
• Two clips of this episode were featured in the 2010 film Date Night. Coincidentally, Ray Liotta, who voices the leader of the Bubble Poppin' Boys in season 5's "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?", also appeared in the movie as crime boss Joe Miletto.
• In this episode, SpongeBob is a karate master like Sandy. However, in other episodes, SpongeBob is much less skilled.
• This episode includes a rare instance in which SpongeBob defeats Sandy in a karate fight.
• The mask that Sandy says is her "worst disguise yet" looks similar to the one that SpongeBob wears when he pretends to be Sandy's "pappy" in "Sandy, SpongeBob, and the Worm." The only difference between them is the colors.
• The Volcano Sauce drop has become an internet meme.
• The fish shown on SpongeBob's TV is a royal gramma (Gramma loreto), a tropical aquarium fish.
• In the Japanese dub, this episode is called "空手大好き," which translates to "I Love Karate."
• The volcano sauce drop is dubbed over by Keijin Okuda. He's the Japanese voice of Mr. Krabs, Patchy, Larry, and the French Narrator.
• In the Croatian dub, the episode's name is "Karate udarci," which translates to "Karate Chops."
• A short clip of SpongeBob crying from this episode was featured in the music video for "Hallelujah Money," a 2017 single by British virtual band Gorillaz.
• In the scene of the Treedome at night, Sandy hums "The Yellow Rose of Texas."
• In the beginning, SpongeBob's shoes appear to make "quacking" sounds, only to reveal he has stepped on three ducks. "Stepping on ducks" is a euphemism for flatulence.
• Later in the episode, SpongeBob suggests he "cut the cheese", another euphemism for flatulence, although, in this case, it is literally slicing cheese.
Cultural references
• When SpongeBob is caught off guard by Squidward's orders, he calls him "ma'am", "sir", "boss", then "Pooh-Bah". Grand Poohbah is a character from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado, later made famous as a title given to the head of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes on The Flintstones.
• When Sandy is at SpongeBob's door, she has an extra stripe on her sleeve.
• SpongeBob leaves the kitchen with a tray of six Krabby Patties. When he tosses the Krabby Patties onto Squidward's head, all six stick to it. In the next shot, there are eight Krabby Patties. In the final zoom shot of Squidward's head after SpongeBob says "Nice hairpiece, Squidward," ten Krabby Patties can be seen.
• When SpongeBob is cutting the food, on his first cut, the mustard seems to disappear.
• SpongeBob's arm disappears when Sandy hangs up on him after his attempt at phone karate.
• During the fight between SpongeBob and Sandy, a brick can be seen in their dust cloud.
• After the bubble transition cuts to the Krusty Krab, some bubbles freeze in mid-air.
D'oh! Closed-Cation Error
D'oh! closed-caption error
• When Squidward lets out the frustrated yell at SpongeBob, the closed-captions say "d'oh."
• When SpongeBob slices the first slice of salami, the mustard bottle is missing.
• A second window is added to SpongeBob's pineapple house near the lower-right corner. Before, there was only one window on the upper left corner.
• Mr. Krabs tells Squidward that he was in his office. However, Mr. Krabs' office is the first door on the left, and when he comes in, he is on the right, but when SpongeBob talks to him, Mr. Krabs is on his office side, next to Squidward.
• When SpongeBob rolls Sandy into a ball, her helmet disappears.
• When SpongeBob goes into the restroom, there is the "Please wash your fins" sign on it. Later, when SpongeBob is walking, it disappears.
• In the scene with SpongeBob holding the rock together to hide it from Mr. Krabs, a tree can be seen in the background chopped in half. The "leaves" of the tree are also chopped in half, even though they would not be touched just from chopping the tree in half.
• In the scene where SpongeBob captures Sandy with the Novelty toy tongue, she has her left arm inside her suit while she guzzles down hot sauce. Once SpongeBob loops the tongue around her, her arm immediately appears outside of the suit.
• When SpongeBob gets fired, his face wrinkles up. In this shot, one of his holes goes above his head.
Awards and nominations for SpongeBob SquarePants (VE)
Golden Reel Awards StatueStraight
Best Sound Editing in Television Animation – Music
Best Sound Editing in Television Animation – Sound
Best Sound Editing in Television – Animation
Best Sound Editing in Television Animation
Best Sound Editing in Television: Animated
Best Sound Editing: Television Animation
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25040 | When testing our website, I usually have to find a customer order with which I can test. I do this by running queries against various databases. Once I find the order that will work, I begin the test. My question is whether or not the "search" for the customer order should actually be included in my test steps.
• this sounds like a prime candidate for "pre-test steps/requirements" – costrom Feb 5 '16 at 16:09
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I agree that they are pre-test steps, I'm just unsure how to account for them in the test case, or if they should even be part of the test case. If I'm the one executing the tests, it's not an issue; however, if contracted QAs or a new QA tester is working with the test suite, they will not be familiar with how to query the database to find the needed info. Do I simply list it as "Step 1 - query database to find X order" and not actually include the steps on how to query the database? – Renae Feb 5 '16 at 16:43
• I think one of the big things I'd push for in your shoes would be to test changes against a test or staging database, rather than finding production data. Then the step can be simplified to creating an order in the proper form or using fixture data in your test db . . . – ernie Feb 5 '16 at 22:25
You should aim to create the data yourself
although whether you are doing manual or automated testing is a key factor and the following mostly applies to automated testing.
One of the principles you should be looking to follow when performing automated testing is
setup - execute - teardown
Basically you want the system and most notably the data store to be empty of any transactional data. The only data that should be considered to stay between tests is seed reference data, e.g. valid zipcodes, auto model types, etc.
So in many cases you will need to create the customer and all the associated records that are needed for the test. This is a big change from 'let me just query for a record'. It also implies that you should be using a version of the system that has a mostly empty test database suitable for such testing. This is different from the development database that will usually need a fair mount of data to be present in order to use and manually test the UI.
When first getting into professional testing this can be a big hurdle / change. It also tends to differentiate between manual testing and writing automated tests.
• My question was in regard to manual testing as indicated by the tag. – Renae Feb 5 '16 at 18:29
This would be your test precondition, of which if successful would mean Step 1 you are ready to go with the test. For example, precondition "query database to find X order, navigate to order". Step1 - Using order from precondition, press button Y
If the precondition can be achieved then the test case can be run. If the precondition cannot be achieved then the test case is "blocked" rather than "failed". ie, you cannot fail it as you have not got it into a state to start it.
You might well raise one or more bugs on precondition steps if relevant.
• Agree with Michael Durrent above - if possible you should be trying to use your own base test data at all times. Sometimes it might not be possible, but that should be the exception – Jake Feb 5 '16 at 16:59
While documenting tests or rather reporting them to your dev team, its suppose to have sufficient details that will help the team trace, understand and fix the issue at hand.
Every data you use for testing is important test artifact. Mentioning that in your test cases will tell the developer what data used used for your test that caused the failure. Using this they can check the conditions and logic they implemented and correct it to make sure that the issue won't be repeated.
Yes, in certain cases it may be a part of pre-requisites or pre-condition. You may not say how you found that piece of data (Although it may be easier for the developer to analyze if you did), but you should mention what data you used.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25051 | Disclaimer: I'm no expert in the field, this question could be axiomatically flawed.
When programming a very basic regression based machine learning algorithm one uses a number of variables; it seems to me that when applying this to natural language processing the number of variables would be so large that the training set would be unreasonable. I've heard that a good rule of thumb for training set size is 5 - 15 times the number of variables - even with a relatively simple application that's many thousands of words - many millions of 2 word 'n-grams'.
Overall question: How would one apply machine learning when one of the inputs is a body of text?
There are other techniques, but the simplest one is to start with dimensionality reduction - e.g. Principal Component Analysis. After reducing the dimensionality you can employ usual ML tools for doing classification, regression, etc.
Here are a few articles that may give you more information about the process
• Martins, C. A., Monard, M. C., & Matsubara, E. T. (2003). Reducing the dimensionality of bag-of-words text representation used by learning algorithms. pdf
• Shafiei, M. et al (2007). Document representation and dimension reduction for text clustering. pdf
• Penagarikano, M., Varona, A., Rodríguez, L. J., & Bordel, G. (2011). Dimensionality Reduction for Using High-Order n-Grams in SVM-Based Phonotactic Language Recognition. pdf
• $\begingroup$ Thanks for the great answer. Any time I get an answer with references it's always more helpful! $\endgroup$ – FraserOfSmeg Jan 11 '15 at 14:35
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Non-Degradable pollutant: These are not broken down by natural processes, e.g. lead, aluminum, mercury, DDT etc. they are not cycled in ecosystem naturally.
Air Pollution
Air is the most vital component without which the question of survival dose not arise beyond a few minutes but due to rapid industrialization the air pollution become a cause of public concern. Air pollution can be define as “the presence of one or several substances in the external atmosphere, introduced by man to such an extent as to effect health and welfare of human system and the life in the atmosphere.”
Sources: Air pollution is being done mainly due to gaseous products from industry, thermal power stations, automobiles combustion processes, fire etc. Some source of air pollution is:
a) Industrial units: fluoride, nitric acid, iron-steel, chloro-alkali,cement, mineral acid plant and industries are most common sources of air pollutants. These emits a variety of pollutants in the atmosphere specially oxides of carbon, nitrogen, and sulphur.
b) Thermal power plants: thermal power plants of are main source of dust, carbon oxide, aldehydes, carbon, hydrocarbon, ash etc. are the common emission of power plants.
c) Automobile: Gasoline used in automobiles as fule produces carbon-monooxide, hydrocarbons, lead compounds, carbon particles and some carbonyl compounds in the atmosphere. They are the major source of air pollution.
d) Mining: The intensive coal minings of world also the main cause of air pollution.
e) Other sources: the other sources of air pollution are solid wastes, radio-active natural sources, viable particles, odour pollutants etc.
Types: Although thousands of air pollutants are present in the atmosphere but some of which are important having an unique position in the air environment. They can be categories into:
1. Primary pollutants: these are directly produced as a result of interaction between two or more primary pollutants e.g. nitrogen peroxide, ozone, sulphur trioxide etc. or those which directly come out from different sources e.g. SOfrom H2SO4 industry.
2. Secondary Pollutants: They are photo chemically active and responsible for the formation of smog or which are formed in the atmosphere from primary pollutant e.g. H2SO4 from SO2. They can be categories as,
a) Gaseous: carbon compound, H2S, Halogens etc.
b) Agriculture: Pesticides, Fertilization etc.
c) Complex organic matter: Benzene, ether, aldehyde, ethylene etc.
d) Deposited matter: Soot, smoke, tar, dust etc.
e) Metals: Lead, zinc, iron etc.
f) Others: floride, radioactive rays, toxic substance etc.
Some air pollutants and their effect:
1. Ozone (O3): Ozone is present in the atmosphere mainly in a layer at altitude of 20-30km in ozonosphere. It screens out 99% of solar radiation of harmful wavelength. Over few years it has been clear that the ozone concentration of the earth’s atmosphere is thinning out largely due to increasing use of CFMS or feron by human beings. With the depletion of atmospheric ozone there is danger of the increase in the flux off UV radiation over earth’s surface. And it can cause skin cancer, can damage in cornea and can reduce the crop production.
2. Carbon Dioxide (CO2): CO2 is a combustion product. About three billion tonnes of coal and 13 billion barrels of oil burns every year in the world. It also release by animal during the process of respiration. The world’s temperature is becoming warmer due to carbon dioxide.
3. Carbon Monooxide (CO): It comes from gasoline burning, coal combustion and automobiles exhausts. Automobile produce about 80% of total CO emission. Cigarette smoking is one of the major causes of CO poisoning in man. It can cause difficulties in respiration, hearing, and in nervous system when its level increases in air. It also causes leaf curling, leaf dropping and reduction in leaf size in plants.
4. Sulphur Dioxide (SO2): SOis one of the most potent pollutant present in the air over and around the industrial areas. Burning of coal, fuel, chemical industries and automobiles are the major sources of SO2production. In atmosphere SOreacts with water to form sulphurous acid. It also reacts with oxygen to form SO3by photochemical process. The latter react with water in presence of sunlight and produces H2SO4. Matters like papers, textiles, stones, marbels and metals are severely attacked by SOin presence of atmospheric moisture. SOdamages higher plants by causing neurotic lesions on leaves. In human it damage skin, mental disease, respiratory problem etc.
Preventive measures:
1. Public awareness programs should be lunched.
2. The alternative source of energy like solar energy, wind energy, electric energy etc. should be used in place of coal, wood, oil etc.
3. In industries the air filtration technique should be used.
4. Population growth rate should be controlled.
5. Plantation should be done.
6. The use of cheap fuel with higher sulphur content should be avoided.
Water Pollution
Water is the prime necessity of the life and survival is not possible in the absence of water. No life without water is a common saying. Water may be present in rivers, ponds, lakes etc. Due to population explosion, industrialization and urbanization today, many of these water resources get polluted. Addition of any substance to the water or any undesirable change in physical chemical or biological characteristics of water, which interferes with its use for legitimate purpose, is called water pollution.
Sources of water pollution
1. Point sources: Point sources of water pollution are of definite identity with almost constant volume and fixed composition of the effluents discharged.
2. Diffused Sources: These are points situated far beyond the sight, having wastes of unknown composition and volume.
3. Potential Sources: The potential source of water pollution in all developing or underdeveloped countries are sewage, industrial effluents and wastes, agriculture and physical pollutants.
1. Sewage and Domestic Wastes: The domestic water borne wastes including human and animal excreta, domestic waters, and industrial water borne wastes, ground and atmospheric waters which enters the sewerage system is collectively known as Sewage. One of the most common sources of water pollution is the discharge of untreated sewage into fresh water bodies. It has been estimated that about 75% water pollution is caused by sewage and domestic waters.
As the sewage contains organic matter that harbor disease causing microorganism and accelerates dissolved oxygen consumption for decomposition of such huge amount of organic matter by microorganism. This process leads to develop maximum biological water demand.
2. Industrial effluents: Most of the Nepali water streams are seriously polluted by industrial wastes, which come along waste waters of different industries. The industrial effluents contain several toxic substances.
The paper and pulp industries cause mercury pollution. The symptoms of mercury poisoning include visual disturbance, mental disorders, convulsions and genetic diseases and death. The lead causes liver and kidney damage and mental disorder as well as weakness. The oils, hydrocarbon compounds acids, alkalis, cyanides and metals cause several effects in human health.
3.Agricultural wastes: Pesticides is the another major source of water pollution. An important source of pesticides in the aquatic sources is run-off form the fields and industrial effluents. These are responsible for contamination of aquatic ecosystem by which they reach to different tropic levels of food chain of terrestrial ecosystem, causing serious health hazards through the process of biological magnification.
4. Hot Water: when hot water is mixed with water bodies from industries affects aquatic animals.
5.Surface run-off: Minerals, slits and organic wastes are carried to the lakes , rivers and the seas from construction sites, agriculture fields and other land parts are also responsible for water pollution.
Prevention of water pollution:
Different types of waste should be recycled or treated before transfer into the rivers.
Use of the pesticides should be reduces.
Public awareness programs should be lunched.
Dissolved substances from the water should be removed by physical or chemical method.
Proper drainage for sewage and efficient sewage collection should be managed properly.
Industrial effluents should be treated before discharging into the water bodies
Bad habits of people like open disposal of wastes, and washing clothes near the water sources must be changed.
Soil Pollution
Soil is the surface layer of earth on which human civilization depends for its existence. It provides us place to live, as reservoir for the mineral wealth and sustains plant life on earth.Any undesirable change in physical, chemical and biological characteristics of soil, which reduces soil fertility and affects plants and animals life, is called soil pollution.
Sources of soil pollution
There are numerous sources of soil pollution, but the important among them are,
1. Indiscriminate discharges of industrial effluents on land and in water.
2. Unscientific disposal of solid water on land.
3. Increasing intensive fertilizers and pesticides.
4. Open defection of animal and human beings especially in rural areas.
5. Radioactive out fall is putting additional poisonous ingredients into the land.
1. Pesticides: In the recent years, there has been tremendous use of pesticides in agriculture. When pesticides are used in agricultural land, they accumulate in plant. Through food chain, they reach to animal body. So large amount of pesticides used in crops can affect human being directly.
2. Chemical Fertilizer: In excess concentration chemical fertilizers pollute soil and cause damage of soil flora and fauna. These are capable to alter the nature of soil too. Nitrogenous chemical fertilizers have been found responsible for reduced plant growth, if they are present in more concentration.
3. Radioactive Substance: Radioactive substances produced during fission and fusion process enter into the life supporting soil through leaching and percolation.
4. Acids:Acids like HNO3 and H2SO4 coming from acid rain makes the soil acidic. Which cause death of number of micro flora and plants. They also degrade the quality and fertility of soil.
5.Metals: Soil pollution also occurs due to surface run-off of water containing considerable amount of metals from various sources. Metal in soil is basically due to industrial and domestic discharges in or on land surface.
Control measures:
The waste product should be recycled.
Sewage or dumping sites should be properly managed.
The use of fertilizer and pesticides should be reduced and replaced by bio fertilizers.
The use of pesticides should be reduced and the biological method should be used to control pests and diseases
Education awareness and plantation should be increased.
Water logging in the field should be prevented.
DDT:DDT (“dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane”) is a colorless, crystalline, tasteless and almost odorless organochloride known for its insecticidal properties. DDT has been formulated in almost every conceivable form, including solutions in xylene or petroleum distillates, emulsifiable concentrates, water-wettablepowders, granules, aerosols, smoke candles and charges for vaporizers and lotions.
First synthesized in 1874, DDT’s insecticidal action was discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939. It was then used in the second half ofWorld War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. After the war, DDT was made available for use as an agricultural insecticide and its production and use duly increased.
Effects of Pesticides:
1.They are toxic in nature
2. The small doses of DDT in human are reported to have lethal effects.
3. They excess use of pesticides decrease the soil fertility.
4. Some pesticides can also effect on human DNA. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25090 | 1. Introduction
1. Licensing
2. System Requirements
3. Setup and Installation
2. Getting Started
1. Creating a Database
2. RM Studio Users/Contacts
3. Email Configuration
4. Web Module Setup
5. Web Module Update
3. Navigating RM Studio
1. Main Menu
1. Save Function
2. Import External Data
1. Import Assets
3. Clear User Cache
4. Security
5. Properties
6. Languages
7. Registration
8. User Manual
9. Manage Checkouts
10. About
11. Application Style
2. Navigation Tree
3. Tabs
4. The Grid
5. Context & Flow
4. Common Entities
1. Business Entities
1. Asset Details - Basic Information tab
2. Asset Details - Risks tab
3. Asset Details - Categories tab
4. Asset Details - Business Entities tab
2. Contacts
3. Teams
4. Categories
5. Assets
6. Threats
7. Standards/Controls
1. How to: Standards, Regulations, Controls
2. Standards Implementation Comparison
8. Documents
5. Gap Analysis
1. How to: Gap Analysis
2. Reporting
6. Risk Assessment
1. How to: Risk Assessment
1. Working with Assets
2. Evaluation Values
3. Evaluating Risks
4. Various Definitions
5. Risk Assessment Reporting
2. Risk Owner Tasks
3. Risk Profile
7. Web Module
1. Dashboard
2. My Tasks
3. Reports
4. Standards/Regulations
5. Documents
6. Incidents
7. Risk Owner Web Solution
8. Control Assessment
1. Control Assessment Templates
2. Control Assessment
3. Reports - Control Assessment
9. Risk Treatment
1. How to: Risk Treatment
1. Risk Treatment Templates
2. Risk Criteria
3. Asset Level
4. Controls Tab
5. Scheduling a Future Control
6. Future Controls Tab
7. Overview
8. Reload Assets, Threats and Controls
2. Risk Treatment Reports
10. STPA
1. STPA Projects
2. Models and Diagrams
1. How to: Create CS Models
1. Models Progress Check
2. How to: Create CS Diagram
1. Diagram Elements
3. Analyses
1. How to: Define Purpose of Analysis
2. Losses
3. Hazards
4. Relationship
5. Constraints
6. How to: Identify UCAs
1. UCA Progress Check
7. How to: Identify Loss Scenarios
1. Loss Scenario Progress Check
4. Reporting
5. Global Properties
11. Business Continuity Management Module
1. Organization
1. New Organization
2. Stakeholders
3. Resources/Processes
1. Impact Analysis
2. Requirements
2. Incident Response/Recovery
1. Associated Threats
2. Plans
1. Steps
3. Maintenance
1. Test plans
2. Test Results
3. Templates
4. Maintenance
5. Reports BCM
12. Database Settings
1. Database Upgrade
2. Add Existing
3. Remove
4. Migrate
5. Backup
6. Restore
13. Glossary
14. Calculations
10.1.STPA Projects
The STPA Module makes use of STPA projects as containers for the analysis. Multiple STPA projects can co-exist in parallel. However, they are completely separate and do not share any information.
How to: Start STPA Project
1. In the RM Studio Navigation tree under Risk Management – Steps, double click STPA to open the STPA project tab in the work space to the right.
2. Click the to create a New STPA Project.
3. In the popup enter a unique name for the new project.
4. Then select the appropriate Business Entity from the drop down list and click button to save the new project to the database.
create new STPA Project
Your new STPA project is now created as a tile. Each STPA project you create will appear in the tile list arranged from top to bottom, oldest to newest. The tiles can be rearranged according to user preference and when a tile is selected a yellow border and check mark appear around the tile.
Click the Open button to begin working in the selected STPA project.
*Quick tip: you may want to close the main RM Studio navigation tree to create more working space for your STPA project. Click the divider bar once (highlighted by the green circle around the arrow below) to collapse the tree.*
STPA project tiles
After opening your newly created project you will see the STPA Project Overview panel with navigation tree and toolbar.
STPA Project start
The name of your project is at the top of the tree and automatically the Model and Analysis are named the same as the project. Double click your model in the tree and a new context tab opens displaying:
1. Edit the name of the model
2. Enter the System Goals of the project
3. Enter the Description of the model
Model name, goals, desc.
Around the central diagramming canvas there are several panes. These panes can be moved and rearranged to meet your unique needs, and easily set back to default when desired. The diagram panes include (in a clock-wise manner): Modeling Elements, Canvas with toolbar, Properties and Description, Canvas Overview (zoom in and out), and the Browser.
*If you prefer to begin your STPA project with identifying Losses, then you will need to double click in the tree. The Losses tab will open and you click the to begin entering in losses for the analysis.
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Discussion in 'Sobriety Tips and Inspiration' started by blur92, Feb 5, 2015.
1. blur92
blur92 Senior Contributor
Does anyone have some ideas for socializing? I am looking for something that is a little out of the norm. I know there are other options like going to the movies, restaurants, coffee shops, shopping, etc. However, I want to find an activity or hobby that is different but not too expensive. Any suggestions are appreciated! :)
2. Rainman
Rainman Community Champion
I'd suggest going to church. Join the choir or any of the fancy groups they have. You'll get to meet a lot of people and from what I know they are usually very welcoming. And hey, it's all free.
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3. 003
003 Community Champion
For me, well, it's just exercise and playing music, and learning other new interesting stuff. Reading books is also among. There are so much in life to appreciate and be thankful for, for ours. We just have to seek the ones that fit us and those that are gonna inspire us. Trust me, when you find yours, you'll be strong enough to overcome your future struggles and even the ones you are already facing.
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4. blur92
blur92 Senior Contributor
I have actually starting doing that in the past several months. I reconnected with a friend of mine from high school. She invited me to a relatively new church, and it has been great.
Still, I was thinking of some kind of activity that is out of the norm. Something along the lines of geocaching in regards to peculiarity.
5. juno
juno Community Champion
Have you tried a social group through something like Meetup? There are all types of groups based on interests in different areas. It is a good way to meet people and do an interesting activity together. That can definitely keep you busy and away from the old habits.
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6. blur92
blur92 Senior Contributor
Yeah, but I did not find anything really :/
I want it to appeal to both my boyfriend and I. A lot of it seemed to coordinate around normal, everyday activities. I think I am not close enough to a big city to have more interesting options. Thank you for your suggestions, though!
7. Tournique
Tournique Senior Contributor
I recommend taking some latino dance classes. You can meet a lot of people there and it's a great social circle.
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8. SuicideMan
SuicideMan Member
Sometimes I just start programming and get into the "Zone" programmers can get into were they work completely focused for 12+ hours. This has gotten me over some weekends were I usually drink a lot. But more often than not it is harder getting into the zone when the temptation for alcohol is very easy to act up on.
9. blur92
blur92 Senior Contributor
What exactly is "Zone" programming? I have been curious about getting into general programming in the past, but I am not sure it is my kind of thing. My boyfriend enjoys working on computer related activities. It seems too complicated for me, and that it would take to much time for me to catch up with today's technology.
10. stariie
stariie Community Champion
I would suggest thinking about things that you liked to do as a kid, and then see if any of those "likes" you had back then still are things that you are interested in. Do those.
I like photography, it's relatively inexpensive, and there are photography groups that you can join, or a book club, I highly recommend that. I love to read and sometimes it's entertaining to join a book club and talk about a current book you're reading.
Also, there are walking clubs, or Zumba meetings, where you can socialize and get fit.
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11. missbishi
missbishi Community Champion
I would suggest somt type of sport. It doesn't have to be competitive sport at all - it could be an individual pursuit or something fun like an exercise class. @blur92, I think SuicideMan is referring to getting himself into the correct state of mind for a 12 hour programming stint when he talks about the "Zone".
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12. ThatKidWithTheFace
ThatKidWithTheFace Active Contributor
I've said it before, I'll say it again: Music. Music is where it's at, my man. At least, that's what helped me.
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13. xTinx
xTinx Community Champion
How about you volunteer in your community? You can join feeding programs and help send food to hungry children and families. You can also assist in organizing empowerment and recreational activities. Exposure to the plight of other people - who may be suffering more but are still able to maintain a great outlook in life - may strengthen the need to be sober.
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14. blur92
blur92 Senior Contributor
Thank you, everyone, these are all really great ideas :) I appreciate this.
@missbishi, oops haha, that crossed my mind for a second, but I was thrown off for some reason by the capitalization. I think the lack of sleep is starting to show through my posts.
I probably will check out where I can volunteer at. I tried once before but for other reasons. However, I was not on medication, and my social anxiety was worse than ever. I backed out. There are a ton of other options, though, and I am hopeful I'll find something just as good.
15. ThatKidWithTheFace
ThatKidWithTheFace Active Contributor
xTinx made a great point! Volunteering would keep you busy, help you meet new people, and give you a good feeling.
Can't see any downsides to that!
16. elles-belles
elles-belles Community Champion
I agree with xTinx, maybe volunteering and giving back would give you a great sense of being and you get to forget about your issues for a while. It's free and you get to meet a lot of people plus make a great difference.
17. dyanmarie25
dyanmarie25 Community Champion
I suggest listening to happy music and doing some exercise. It's also good to have some bonding moments with your closest friends like throw movie marathons or sleepovers. It's really fun. :)
18. Gelsemium
Gelsemium Community Champion
For me the best idea is to start doing sports, some sport we love. With sports comes someone to do sports with, so everything happens naturally.
19. Tournique
Tournique Senior Contributor
It's kinda hard to do sports in the winter, I would recommend an indoor activity for this time. But with spring close by, outdoors sports are awesome.
20. piez
piez Member
If you are the religious type I would say that church is definitely a good way to help get your mind off of things. I think a very good activity would be meditation. It helps to go inside of your mind and calm the nagging thoughts inside of your mind. I have also heard that various forms of exercising is also a great way. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25111 | 1. TCM Wiki
2. 干岩矸
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Gan Yan Gan (Herba Corydalis Tomentellae Siccata)
The drug is the dried or fresh whole herb of Corydalis tomentella Franch. (Family Papaweraceae), growing on cliff or in crevice, and distributed in Shaanxi, Hubei, Guizhou and Sichuan of China.
1. Gan Yan Gan
2. Dried herb of tomentulose corydalis
3. Herba Corydalis Tomentellae Siccata
The Effect of 干岩矸
Bitter, cool.
Whole herb is used as antioncotic, analgesic, blood purifing agent and hemostatic, for the treatment of traumatic injury, pain by swelling and ecchymoma, bleeding due to blood heat, diarrhea and dysentery due to damp-heat, stomachache, cough caused by lung-heat, chronic bronchitis, hemoptysis and hematemesis caused by tiredness, swelling and pain of eyes, sore throat.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 3~9 g, or soaked in water for drinking, or made into powder for oral taking. |
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Equal Breath
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1. Yes, I use breath exercises in my Nia classes. I use to teach Yoga and breath was a big part of my classes. My favorite was the Ujayi breath — the deep breath. I like the equal breath too though and also the nostril breath.
• That is cool that you use the breathing exercises in Nia. My yoga students aren’t that “into” pranayama, I am hoping to introduce it into the classes more. I do not like the pranayamas where you touch the nose. I have allergies too bad. I can barely breath through my nose much less close off a nostril.
• Oh I understand about allergies and closing one nostril. Have you ever tried it though (perhaps not in a class, but by yourself)? I find it really refreshing and I can breathe so much easier after I do this for a bit. You know your capabilities though with the allergies; just letting you know that it works for me and I have allergies, too.
• Actually I tried it in a class, not one that I was teaching, one that I was taking. It was a pranayama workshop. I honestly could not breath . . . my allergies include congestion, so plugging one nostril actually would have caused me to stop the airflow. So I “cheated” and breathed through my mouth. While I FORCED the air through the other nostril which was only slight blocked. I was sitting close enough to the teacher that he heard by struggle and instructed those of use that couldn’t breath through our nose to breath through our mouths. So, for me and my allergies is does not work. In fact, yoga and breathing through my nose all the time is very difficult because I am often congested. There are so many other pranayamas, that not plugging my noses is not one I will miss. 🙂 I will probably post about it one of these days. XO
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25142 | New theories clash over causes of carnage
As the hundredth anniversary of World War One approaches, a flurry of new books offers a bewildering range of answers to the question that has dogged history for decades: who was to blame?
Ninety-nine years and eight months ago, a militant Serbian nationalist fired two fatal shots at Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. The assassination lit the fuse on a series of diplomatic events culminating in a war that killed over ten million young men and changed beyond recognition the face of Europe and the world.
About that much, at least, historians are agreed. But beyond the bloody drama of its initial spark, there is little consensus about the true cause of World War One. Debate has raged back and forth ever since the first shot was fired, spawning ‘a historical literature of unrivalled size, sophistication and intensity’. Now, as the war’s centenary approaches, this war of words has flared to a new pitch.
This much we know: in the decades leading up to 1914, Europe had become divided into two alliances. On one side stood the ‘Entente Powers’ of France, Russia and Britain; on the other, the ‘Central Powers’ led by Germany and Austria-Hungary.
As a nation, Germany was very young. The Prussian king had established an Empire from a fragmented array of small states in 1871 after subjecting France to a humiliating defeat. The old European powers were daunted by this bold new beast in the diplomatic stables. And the new power was both ambitious and insecure. At breakneck speed Germany built up a navy to rival that of Britain, whose mastery of the sea had been beyond dispute.
Franz Ferdinand’s murder triggered the knotty alliance networks and launched these mighty militaries into action: Austria declared war on Serbia, Russia mobilised against Austria, Germany attacked Russia, and so on. But who was to blame?
In the immediate aftermath of the war, the victors’ answer was clear: the Versailles Treaty portrayed Germany as an aggressive, expansionist dictatorship which, by attacking Russia, had fired the first shot.
Gradually, however, a different narrative emerged: the great powers had complacently ‘sleep-walked’ into a conflict that nobody wanted. Every one of Europe’s leaders was complicit in the posturing and brinkmanship that led to war; each was culpable.
Trench warfare
Until the 1960s, this was the accepted version of events. But then, as Germany agonised over its role in World War Two, one German historian challenged the consensus. The Kaiser had been plotting a war of conquest for years, he claimed. The fault lay with Germany after all.
But the intellectual battle rages to this day. In recent months, historians have published books pointing the finger of blame in many directions: Germany, France, the European aristocracy, imperialism, nationalism, class struggle or even a ‘crisis of masculinity’.
You Decide
1. Can history help us understand the present? How?
2. Is history driven by individuals or abstract forces?
1. As a class, come up with five factors that contributed to the start of World War One. Which do you think were the most important ones?
2. ‘Europe slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war’ – David Lloyd George. Do you agree? Sketch the plan for an essay answering this question.
Some People Say...
“There is no history. Only fictions of varying degrees of plausibility.’Voltaire”
What do you think?
Q & A
Could anything like this happen again?
Some warn that the collapse of the EU could spark another mass conflict. But that’s a provocative and contentious suggestion. We should never be complacent about the possibility of another world war, but for now such an eventuality looks remote – in Europe at least.
So it might happen somewhere else?
Some historians note ominous similarities between the Europe of 1914 and the current situation in the Middle East. A region divided into two broad alliances, disputed territories, nationalist movements and a local war dragging major powers into a high-stakes conflict. Could Syria be now what Sarajevo was then? Nobody knows for sure.
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Serbian nationalist
In 1914 the Austro-Hungarian Empire ruled over large sections of the Balkans. Many Serbian nationalists wanted Slavic countries to be united under independent rule, and some resorted to terrorism to achieve their goals.
Unrivalled size
A 1991 survey counted 25,000 books and articles written in English alone, and since then there have been many more. The quotation is from the historian Christopher Clark.
An Empire built on union between the two great monarchies of Austria and Hungary, which also incorporated into its territory several less powerful nations. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed after being defeated in World War One.
A region in the north-east corner of Germany which grew increasingly powerful in the 18th and 19th centuries before finally uniting German principalities and city states into an empire under Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Versailles Treaty
The treaty that ended the war to the advantage of Britain and France, in which Germany was blamed for the conflict and forced to pay enormous ‘reparations’. Resentment about this settlement is often cited as an important factor in Hitler’s rise to power.
German historian
The influential academic Fritz Fischer is generally credited with breathing new life into this debate.
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S1E2 Tacos Part 2 - Fish tacos and how pork shaped taco history
May 10, 2018
More Tacos! The history of 3 of Mexico's most popular taco styles
In this Episode:
• The mystery and rivalry behind the invention of the modern fish taco
• Is one of Mexico's most famous tacos really Mexican at all??
• How pork shaped the world of tacos
• PLUS: Will Megsy eat the strangest pork taco filling we've ever seen!? |
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I was thinking of creative ways of making golems beyond a summon spell or mud calling.
My first thought was like a ritual with a sacrifice for a blood golem. Then my second was an animate construct spell with the inanimate genus an the required amount of materials there for the golem to be created from. What are your thoughts on this feel free to post any of your creative golem creation ideas here
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Along the lines of the ritual sacrifice, I could see a fire golem (or any kind, really) resulting from a death in the chosen element. For example, say there's an NPC that the Fated really connect with. Now let's say he/she dies in a fiery inferno. The Fated are upset that their friend is gone, when suddenly a fire golem stomps out of the flames and begins a rampaging quest for revenge against those who killed him/her in life.
Think of it like a cross between a Draugr and a Drowned. The Fated are just trying to keep up and point the golem away from innocent bystanders. Maybe Social/Wp checks of some sort to command it, rather than just a (1) action? If they fail, it goes charging into something, heedless of the consequences.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25161 | Roulette 101 – Everything You Need to Know
For those who have been to brick and mortar casinos, they have seen the crowds of people standing around a roulette table. The electric energy radiating from the tables draws many people into the game. Because of this popularity, many people seek out that same betting game at online casinos. Most casinos will offer at least a few tables of roulette, and some will even have live versions of the game. Once you understand the rules of roulette, it can be a fun diversion that offers you a great chance to gamble and earn some money.
The origins of the game roulette can be traced back to the 18th century in France. It was first devised by a Frenchman, Blaise Pascal, who was searching for a perpetual motion machine. His invention later became the roulette wheel.
Until the 1800s, the single zero was red in colour, and the double zero was black, but it was confusing for some places. It was later updated to the iconic green that we now associate with the roulette reel in online casinos.
Since the early days of the roulette, many different forms of roulette have popped up, with the two biggest differences between the European style (one single zero), and the American version (a single zero, and a double zero). However, in 2016, The Venetian Las Vegas first introduced the first triple-zero wheel. Since that time, a few other casinos have also adopted this version. However, the most popular version will either have a single zero, or both a single zero and a double zero.
One interesting fact about the roulette wheel is if you add up all the numbers on the roulette wheel (0 to 36), the sum is 666, which is the “Number of the Beast.”
The Basic Rules Of Roulette
In French, the word roulette translates roughly to a “little wheel.” Roulette might seem complicated at first, but it contains just three parts: a wheel, a ball, and the roulette table.
Regardless of whether you are playing in-person or online, you will see that the table and the wheel both have the numbers 1 to 36 written out, and a single zero. As we stated above, the American casinos do often have a different version of roulette, and their wheel and table will contain a spot for the green double zero.
The numbers will alternate in colour between red and black, except the single zero and double zero. The zeros will often be green. When placing bets on the roulette table, you can choose between a wide variety of bets, including betting on evens, odds, red, black, low (1-18), high (9-36), and first, second, or third dozen. Depending on your bet, you will have different odds of winning, and each bet pays out differently.
When playing online, the game will happen automatically once you place the bet. That means you can go as slowly or as quickly if you want. However, if you are playing in a live version of the game, you will only have 15 – 30 seconds to make your betting decisions. The dealer, also called a croupier, will toss the roulette ball in the opposite direction of the rotating roulette wheel. While you likely won’t notice this when you play roulette online, it is worth noting.
At a real roulette table in Las Vegas, or the live version of roulette at online casinos, the dealer will call it when you are no longer able to place more bets. Once the roulette ball starts rolling, you aren’t able to change your bet. When the ball stops spinning in the wheel, it will land on a certain number and colour. If you guess the right colour, number, or section correctly, you will be awarded based on your betting odds. If you choose incorrectly, you lose that bet. You aren’t limited to betting on just one thing; as long as you are within the minimum and maximum of a table, you can place as many or as few bets as you wish.
Roulette is one of the most popular games for new casino betters due to the fact that it is fairly simple to learn, and it pays out well, just like it’s cousin Baccarat. We will talk at length about the betting odds, but if you were to decide to bet on just black or red, you would have approximately 50/50 odds of winning your bet back. However, you do have to remember that the single zero and double zero are both green, which helps to give the house a slight edge.
How To Bet In Roulette
When you play online, you will be able to choose how much you want to bet. If you are playing in-person, you put those betting chips on many different spots and wagering opportunities. When making your bets, it is essential to establish that the single zero and double zero are not odd or even, and are not black or red. Therefore, you won’t win an “even” bet if the roulette ball lands on zero.
All the winning percentages are based on the European roulette wheel, which has one less number than the American roulette wheel. Because the American roulette wheel has a double zero, your winning chances will go slightly down if you play on this version. Regardless of the version you are playing, the payout rate stays the same. In roulette, you place many different types of bets, but those listed below are some of the most popular.
• Inside bets are one of the easiest to understand for players. You place an inside bet by putting your chips or bet on one or more numbers on the roulette table. Here are a few examples of an inside bet:
• Straight Up Bet: The European roulette wheel has 37 numbers (1 to 36, as well as the single zero) on the roulette wheel. If you were to bet on just one of these numbers, it would give you a return of 35:1. That means if you were to bet $1 on the black 15, and the ball landed on that number in the wheel, you would win $35, in addition to getting your original stake back. But, remember, since there are 37 different options on the European roulette wheel, and only one of them can win, your chances of winning are 1/37. That means for every $37 you bet, you would get just $36 back. However, on the American roulette wheel, since they also have the double zero, your odds of winning would be a little bit less.
• Split Number: A split number bet happens when you place the chip between two numbers that are adjacent. These numbers can either be next to each other vertically or horizontally. For example, the red 26 and black 29 are right next to each other. You can put your chip in between these two numbers and would win a payout if the roulette ball lands on either of these numbers. A winning bet on a Split Number pays out 17:1. You have a 5.4% of winning this bet.
• Line or Street Bet: This bet covers an entire horizontal row of three numbers. You must place the chip (or click your mouse, if you are playing online) on the vertical line on the outermost number in that particular row. You are betting on three numbers, so the win chance is 3/37, or 8.1%. If you win this bet, it pays out 11:1.
• Basket Bet: A basket bet is when you make a bet either on 0, 00, 2, or 0, 1, 2 or 00, 2, 3. It pays out 11:1, and you have an 8.1% of winning.
• Corner or Quad Bet: To place this bet, you put a chip (or more!) on the intersection or corner of four numbers. Because you are betting on four numbers, you have a 10.8% chance of winning, and the bet pays out 8:1.
• Top Line Bet: To place this bet, you put a chip on the border that covers the 0, 00, 1, 2, and 3. It pays out 6:1.
• Double Street or 6 Line Bet: To make this bet, you bet on two adjacent “streets,” or two lines of three numbers. You win if any of those six numbers come up, so you have a 16.2% of winning. This bet pays out 5:1.
• Outside bets are the opposite of an inside bet. For this kind of bet, you must place your wager outside of that central number grid on the roulette table. These types of bets won’t be on a specific number, but instead on a column, odd/even, high/low, and red/black. Here are the most common outside bets and its payouts. Once again, these winning percentages are based on the European roulette wheel.
• Column Bet: To make this bet, place a chip on the head or the top of the long columns of numbers. When you do so, it means you are betting on all twelve numbers in that column. You have a 32.4% chance of winning, so the payout is only 2:1.
• Dozens: The roulette table is split into three blocks, with a dozen numbers into each block. To bet on this, you put the chip or click your mouse on the left side of the table. You have a 32.4% of winning this type of bet, and it pays out 2:1.
• Odd/even: Novice players often start off with this type of bet because it is the easiest type to make. On the roulette table, you’ll see a space reserved for odd and even bets. Simply put your chip there to have a 48.6% chance of winning. Because of the relatively good odds of winning, it pays out 1:1 when you win.
• Red/Black: Another common type of bet because it is easy for new players to pick up on. Just like the odd/even types of the bet, you simply put your chips in the black or red section on the table. With a 48.6% chance of winning, you get a payout of 1:1.
• Low/high numbers: Low numbers are 1 to 18, and the high numbers are 19-36. Note that the single zero and double zero are not included in this bet. On the roulette table, you’ll see any option to make this bet in one specific area of the table. By placing the chip there, you can make that bet. You also have a 48.6% chance of winning this bet, and it will pay out 1:1.
Roulette Betting Strategies
When you first start to bet, you might want to try out a few things to see what type of strategy you like the best. As you begin to develop your own techniques and methods, you’ll realize how you should act when you win, lose, and how much to bet.
As you use these strategies, you’ll see that some of these strategies, as well as other popular techniques, are done by using even bets. That means that you will reduce or double your next bet depending on if you win the bet. To fully take advantage of these types of strategies, you have to be paying attention to each round and make smart bets.
Remember, betting is always a gamble. Therefore, even if you follow these strategies every time, there is no guarantee that you will go home with money. These methods are instead meant to help you gamble online or on your mobile phone for longer periods of time. Using these strategies, you likely won’t win lots of money, but you also won’t lose a ton of money. However, if you are smart, you can stop playing when you go on a winning spree and take home a nice chunk of change. These strategies can help you get on a spree. Keep trying out these strategies to see what works best for you when you are playing at an online casino. Here are the best roulette wheel techniques for winning at roulette.
• Martingale Strategy: This is one of the most common betting techniques out there, and if you are playing with other people, you might see that they are following this strategy. This strategy has you double your bet until you make a winning bet. Regardless of the bet you make (evens, odds, line bet, basket bets, etc.), you can use this bet. Of course, if you are just starting out, I recommend that you make easier bets that have more straightforward odds, like odds/evens, high/low, or red/black because these bets payout 1:1. The odds of you winning this bet are about 50%, so you have a good chance of winning a few bets in a row. Regardless of the bet you make, make sure to double the next bet when you lose a bet.
• The Reverse Martingale Strategy: As the name suggests, the Reverse Martingale strategy takes the opposite approach of the Martingale strategy. Now, instead of doubling your losing bet, you double your bet when you win.
• D’Alembert Strategy: This betting technique is another one that is more suitable for even money bets like red/black or odds/evens. It is a relatively low-risk betting strategy, so that means that you probably won’t lose or win much money each bet.
• This strategy is similar to other bets, and your next bets depend on what happened in the previous one. If you win the bet, you lower your betting amount by one. When you lose a bet, you should raise your bet amount by one. For example, if you start off betting $2 on red, and you lose, you should bet $3 on the next bet. With this strategy, as well as the other ones on this list, you should decide how much you can afford to lose before you cash out. Likewise, you should decide how much you want to win before walking away. That way, you can keep your gambling losses to a minimum.
• Reverse D’Alembert Strategy: As you might have guessed, this strategy has you do the opposite of the D’Alembert strategy. Instead, you should increase your bet by one when you win, and decrease your wager by one when you lose.
• Fibonacci Betting Strategy: Since the year 1202, the Fibonacci number sequence has been around. You’ve likely heard of it before; to follow this sequence, you add the sum of two numbers to get the next. Therefore, if you start with one, the sequencing order would go 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, etc. You can use this strategy on the even money bets (red/black and odds/evens), and it lets you win money in small increments. When following this strategy, you should increase your bet by the next number in the series when you lose. However, when you win a bet, you should retreat back two numbers in the sequence. This technique can be a bit tricky for new players to keep track of, so I do suggest that you use a pen and paper to keep track of what your bets are and what you should be betting next.
• The Reverse Fibonacci Betting Strategy: If you decide to use this strategy, you should do the exact opposite of the Fibonacci betting strategy. If you win, you should take one step up in the Fibonacci sequence. If you lose your wager, you take two steps back in the sequence.
Six Tips For Playing Roulette Online
1. Find a table with a Live Dealer: At some online casinos, you’ll find some that offer the chance to play with a live dealer. In this situation, you’ll be playing with other players, and there will be a real wheel and table used. This game will be just like a real table at Las Vegas. It does take a little longer for each round to happen, but it has a much more authentic feel. Plus, if you are a new player, it can be helpful to see what the strategies of other players are.
2. Play at a European roulette table. All of the odds of winning each bet that we mentioned above were by using the European roulette wheel. This version has only one zero on the wheel, which means you better odds for you as a player. The return to player is 97.3%, whereas the American roulette wheel offers 94.73% odds. If possible, you should play at an online casino that offers the European roulette wheel.
3. Don’t make side bets. Just like in many other casino games, side bets are almost never profitable for you as the player. You shouldn’t make them in roulette either. Otherwise, you might lose more than you make.
4. Don’t bet more on a single spin than you can win on one of your bets. As we talked about before, you can make more than one bet. You could choose to combine any number of bets that you want. In fact, that is the strategy of people to make many different bets. However, in order to be profitable, you should never bet $10 in total if you won’t win that back if one of your numbers does win.
5. Decide your limits. One of the best ways to safely gamble online is to set your limits before you even start. Maybe you are only prepared to lose $100. Once you have reached that limit, make sure that you stop gambling immediately. If you decide you want to win $50, then make sure to stop when you hit that number too. Taking breaks can also be a good way to switch up your luck.
6. Read reviews and recommendations. Playing at a new online casino can sometimes be a risk. You want to make sure that it is a trustworthy place to spend and gamble your money before you make a deposit. It’s always a good idea to read reviews and recommendations of other players before you pick your online casino.
Versions of the Online Roulette Games
Different casinos will offer a variety of roulette games. You can try out the kind that you like the best to decide what is right for you.
• American roulette: This version has both a single zero and double zero on the wheel.
• European roulette. With only zero on the wheel, it gives you slightly better odds than the American roulette wheel.
• Roulette Royale. This roulette wheel has a slots-like feature, where you can hit a progressive jackpot. This pot can be up to hundreds or thousands of dollars. When the same number is landed on five times in a row, it means you win the progressive jackpot.
• French roulette. This version is like the European roulette and only has a single-zero roulette wheel. One interesting rule this roulette wheel has is called La Partage. When you make an even-money bet (odds/evens, black/red, etc.), and the ball lands on a zero, you don’t lose your entire wager, but instead, only half.
• Multiplayer roulette. If you and five of your friends want to play at one time online, then the multiplayer roulette game should be your go-to.
• Multi-wheel European roulette. If one wheel is too boring for you, you can instead spin on eight roulette wheels online at the same time. Because you are spinning more wheels and bets, your chances of winning (or losing) big is greater.
Now that you understand how to play roulette, and some of the strategies behind betting, you can join an online casino, make your first deposit, and spin that wheel. Because online roulette wheels are automated, everything does move quickly. Make sure to take breaks, set limits, and have fun! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25177 | Super Mario Land (1989)
Perhaps the biggest criticism of the Mario franchise is that Nintendo refuses to evolve the formula beyond what made it so captivating in 1985 with the release of Super Mario Bros. And while I largely agree with that criticism, there are also obvious benefits to sticking with what you know. It has been Nintendo’s calling card from the beginning, even as they continue to innovate within the console space which, most recently, has led to outlandish success.
With that in mind, Super Mario Land is a testament to what can happen when you try to alter the formula of what works. While it’s still a Mario game at its core, complete with goomba smooshing, coin collecting, and brick punching, it also finds Mario tangling with a weird alien rather than the iconic Bowser, flying around in space in bullet hell-esque sequences, and perhaps most damningly, not adhering to his standard mechanics. While Super Mario Land is still a good game, some of these key deviations, coupled with the game’s brevity, leave it significantly underwhelming in the world’s most famous plumber’s lexicon.
I’ll start with the positives. While Super Mario Land looks like it could run on a calculator, it was a legitimate marvel for its time capable of delivering a bite-sized Mario experience on Nintendo’s first handheld device at launch. This, coupled with the original Game Boy’s runaway success, makes Super Mario Land surprisingly one of Nintendo’s best-selling games ever. With over 18 million copies sold, Super Mario Land is currently Nintendo’s 24th best-selling game ever, putting it ahead of incredibly popular titles like Mario Kart 8, Pokemon Yellow, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy, and perhaps most surprisingly, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. And for what it is, Super Mario Land is a surprisingly rewarding experience. The difficulty ramps up on a satisfying curve, the music is incredibly endearing, and I enjoyed the game’s two bullet-hell sequences that take the place of the annoying underwater levels of Mario’s older (and newer) 2D adventures. But for die-hard Mario fans, there are several key differences that make Super Mario Land a near sacrilegious atrocity.
Chief among these aberrations are Super Mario Land’s altered mechanics. Mario falls way, way faster in Super Mario Land than he ever has before or since and the shell-sporting koopas now explode upon death creating some likely unintentional one-off difficulty spikes. In addition, Mario’s fire flower balls now bounce off surfaces not unlike bouncy balls rather than fire balls and new balls can only be fired once the previously fired one has left the screen. As a whole, the game simply lacks the bouncy charm that made Mario famous. This didn’t bother me that much, but others may find it crippling.
My biggest problem with Super Mario Land is its length. While I’m all for short games, Super Mario Land can be completed in a matter of minutes, making it without a doubt the shortest main series Mario title. While the difficulty (and lack of save features) make beating the game somewhat difficult, I’ve only beaten a handful of Mario games and I only saw the game over screen twice before beating the final boss. It’s difficult for a game of this scope to leave a lasting impact, especially considering the other games in this series.
Overall, while Super Mario Land is far from a bad game, it’s equally far from the top of the Super Mario heap. Quite often, it’s considered the black sheep of the Mario franchise and it’s not hard to see why. Though it is a fun diversion, Super Mario Land is probably the last Mario game you should play.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25193 | What I Would Do with a Billion Attacks a Day
If you think about, every single one of you reading this is really pretty damn lucky. Not because I finally wrote a new article, but because every one of you exists today because your ancestors all luckily survived every bug, bomb, and brutality long enough to have offspring ending at you. That’s some serious luck.
And a smarter person than me once said that life is not about surviving but about what you do with your life while you are surviving. Maybe it was Aristotle or maybe Sportacus, I don’t remember.
But then I recall seeing statistics somewhere that some organizations get more than a million attack attempts a day and some ISPs claim to see more than a billion! I started thinking, how long can our luck hold out? Can we survive this cyber onslaught?! If we were lucky enough to get this far, maybe it’s time to not look that gift luck in the mouth. We need to truly live that life!
This fits perfectly with my new efforts to get cybersecurity more aligned with business practices in the sense that “if you can’t beat them, join them.” Therefore, I started thinking that instead of fighting all these attacks, we should use them. Where business says, “take life’s lemons and make lemonade”, I say we take those attacks and find something productive and even profitable to do with them.
Making Lemonade out of (Juicy) Lemons
Now some of you are thinking, what? Well, you know how I told you how I turn every TSA pat-down into a much-needed hug by feigning dizziness? Or how I use neighborhood package thieves to haul my trash away by packaging it in Amazon boxes and leaving it on my porch during the day? Or how I got rid of the raccoons in my yard by putting up a sign that said “Free Kittens” until the neighborhood middle school kids cleaned out every last one? Well, we need to do something like that. We need to turn something terrible into something wonderful, maybe even profitable.
So, when I read about a million attacks, I think, wow, that’s a lot of effort wasted. Remember, we’re talking about attacks, not breaches or even “successful” attacks. Because that effort is apparently NOT wasted. Which makes me wonder what we can do with that kind of traffic.
It’s a shame that we can’t get real power off a packet (or actually, symbols, the analog wave of electricity or light that becomes the bit). Which really limits us from gaining anything truly physical. I mean imagine if we can light up our offices with all those electrons? Except it would require a true rebuilding of Internet hardware to get anything like that, or else you’d basically just be taking “power” off your gateway router. I suppose we could heat up our coffee with the heat “created” but…. ya know. I’m going to stop there on that thought because I hate writing so many “quotes” all the “time” on this.
The other issue is that if we wanted any kind of cryptocurrency mining or other work done, we’d need to use the attacker’s machines to do it. That means we’d have to serve them something back that will run, likely in their browser. So, unless we have a honeypot that provides these mathematical challenges, we’re not going to get much financial benefit out of these attacks. We need to be smarter.
Converting Hacks Into Haikus
The first clever thing I can think of is we transform the attacks into words or phrases. At a million a day, that gives us over a billion words in just three years! While it’s not exactly infinite monkeys writing Shakespeare, I’d bet port-scanning traffic could get us some Young Adult fiction, or at least a really great haiku.
If we’re smart we can set it up so different variables of the attacks including origin, destination, protocol, data, etc. could be different words or types of words. SQL injection attacks as variables for homonyms would make a huge variety of knock-knock jokes. Or, as they’re also known, unfunny jokes. The body from phishing mails could become the next great collection of international short stories, or based on the more recent attempts I’ve seen, erotic fiction.
The repetitive and limited nature of port scans tied to timely cybersecurity jargon would make some pretty convincing whitepapers. We just need to make sure blockchain and IoT are represented by ports 22 and 80 respectively.
But we don’t need to stick to words. We could have attack packets represent notes from various instruments. A trillion collected attacks can possibly contain the next great orchestral composition. A billion might get us the typical 14-minute jazz song. A million or so would certainly get us a few catchy refrains for pop songs. A few thousand linked to chumba-chumba sounds would make enough music to last a whole night at a rave. Even a few hundred representing nature sounds could pipe into our break rooms to make for relaxing, Zen spaces.
However, that all requires selling books or music generated to turn a profit. We need something more immediate. And it should be really easy.
Gaming sites could use the slightly random nature of scans to give life to non-player characters in MMORPGs. It could give a more human nature to them, letting different protocols and packet types represent quirks in their nature or decisions made from minute to minute.
Gambling sites could use their constant attacks to tweak the randomness in bets or games. Every shuffle of a card deck uses represents the ports attacked at that moment. It could even lead to a new generation of games like horse races which are actually representations of attempted exploits.
Cooking sites could mix and match ingredients based on brute force password-cracking attempts to invent wild new dishes. However, since it’s often the same attack types again and again, we need to make sure we don’t end up with something unrealistic, like pumpkin spice in everything.
Final Thoughts…
In case you’re wondering, “What the hell did I just read?!” let me remind you that we shouldn’t let all these billions of attacks go to waste. We should do something constructive with all that energy. We’re talking unlimited imagination in a finite scope with known variables. There’s just so much potential there to make the next great movie blockbuster.
But since this is a cybersecurity article, you’re expecting that I at least give some suggestions of how billions of unsuccessful attacks can lead to new security products or better defend our networks. And you’d be wrong. Unsuccessful attacks are just wasted attacker energy, but they’re also justification that we did something right in cybersecurity. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25220 | Utah Parks Book: Notes on Adjusting Shutter Speed for Shooting a River
Zion is the most popular of the Utah National Parks. And the classic location of the Virgin River and Watchman is likely the most photographed. When shooting a river or stream, the flowing water can evoke various moods depending on how you adjust your shutter speed.
Getting There: Zion NP is in southern Utah about 40 miles off of Interstate 15. You get onto Utah Route 9 and at the far end of the resort town of Springdale, you’ll find the park. For most of the year, the park is accessed by the park buses. So park at the Visitor Center, hop on the shuttle and get off just after the Canyon Junction bus stop (just past the bridge over the river). Walk back to the bridge and set up on the south side and away from the road.
The shot is of the river below, and in the distance, The Watchman, one of the iconic Zion peaks. The best time for the shot is sunset. If you just want the picture, you don’t need a tripod. But if you want to play with shutter speed, you kinda need a tripod and a cable release (or you camera’s timer function).
So let’s assume we’ve found a spot on the bridge and gotten a composition and zoom level we like. (I talk about lighting and composition in the book and that’s too much to put into a blog post.) What might our initial shot look like with no special shutter speed chosen:
Focal Length-32mm, F-6.3, Exposure 1/40th of a second
Notice that at 1/40, the stream is totally frozen, no discernible blur. You’re getting lots of colors in the water from the trees and sky. And every little ripple and detail of that stream is clear.
Now let’s crank up the shutter speed to half a second:
Focal Length-40mm, F-5.6, Exposure .5 second
Now, don’t look at the photographer who wandered into my shot. And I won’t tell you what all the photographers on the bridge were saying while he stood there for 20 minutes. We’re just looking at the water.
And at half a second, the water no longer has as much detailing. You’re eye doesn’t get as caught up in the minute ripples. But there’s still plenty of detailing in the surface of the stream. In fact if I hadn’t added the shutter speed setting, the viewer would assume this image is pure stop action.
Now lets go long.
Focal Length-32mm, F-22, Exposure 8 seconds
Obviously 8 seconds is a lot. And you can’t make this shot work if there’s any wind. But the river still looks like a real river. All the standing waves are there as are the reflections. But the minute texturing of individual waves is gone, especially in areas without rocks.
Essentially what we’re doing is showing the eye how a river looks in time. In fact, we could take a shot with a 60 minute shutter speed and we’d still see the same set of standing waves. And subjectively, the shot does evoke more of a timeless feel than it did with a faster shutter.
Is the shot as “honest” as one with a fast shutter? Is a slower or longer shutter speed more true to life? That’s the wrong question to ask. The real question is, how does the viewer respond to a given image. If the change doesn’t seem weird or “fakey” to the viewer then the photograph will work for them. — The willing suspension of disbelief, to quote Aristotle.
The second question is, what’s the effect I’m going for? That’s ultimately what matters. I go back and forth on how much I want to push the shutter speed. For some river situations, a slow shutter focuses too much attention to the turbulence. But in a slow moving river that’s not an issue. Generally most viewers don’t mind the effect.
But this is just one element in a larger set of artistic considerations. In this shot I was trying to capture a feeling I have about Zion, that when I come, I’m in a timeless place. And the image gives me some of that feeling– a tranquil river flowing through a place that has been this way always.
But each of us has to make that shutter speed choice (and all our compositional issues) based on the mood we want to share in that shot. And there’s nothing wrong with exploring your choices.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25259 | Top 10 Virtual Instruments of 2017 (VSTi/AU)
What are the top VSTi (VST Instruments) and AU instruments that pack the most sonic punch in 2017?
Here are our top ten virtual instruments we find ourselves using lately, in ascending order:
1. UVI Falcon (Our main workhorse lately, with so many types of synthesis!)
2. Xfer Serum
3. Reveal Sound Spire
4. KV331 SynthMaster
5. Spectrasonics Omnisphere
6. Arturia Analog Lab (yes, we know, there are many synths inside here, but you can load them all as one, and even layer them!)
7. Korg MonoPoly
8. NI Massive
9. NI Kontakt (with the huge array of libraries for it)
10. NI Reaktor (Monark, Form, Rounds, Polyplex, Blocks, etc.)
Runners Up
11. NI FM8
12. Korg MS-20
13. Camel Audio Alchemy
14. NI Absynth
15. NI Battery
16. Korg Poly 6
17. iZotope Breaktweaker
18. iZotope Iris
19. Korg Lexington
I suppose you could say these are our “desert island” VST instruments. Music Radar does a yearly poll to see what’s at the top synths of it’s readers lists. SynthMaster fell at the top of that list most recently, which we think is well deserved. Splice has it’s own list. What are the VSTis that get used most in your collection? Drop a comment.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25268 | Novice Simple Signature
Updated tutorial with better Gimp instructions for gradient maps. Thanks Charl!
OK... I cannot work on this pic any more. LOL
I have my own tutorials to follow in photoplus. I forgot how much it can do!
Looks awesome! What is photoplus? I haven't heard of that before.
Serif PhotoPlus. Its compatible with adobe and its plugins at about 1/3 the price, less if you subscribe to their website for a special. It also runs in unison with WebPlus, its more for website design. Both programs are free to use and learn with, but it publishes with a watermark until a purchase is made. It can be overcome if you export thru the Webplus (good enough for this stuff). Between the two programs I have a lot of tools to use.
in case anyone tries the program. WebPlus will freeze if you save all the assets (goodies/bells and whistles) with your work. I save them all in a separate file and copy and paste what i want into my work file!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25271 | Unregistering NSNotificationCenter Observers in iOS 9
A reminder of something that Apple sneaked into the Foundation Release Notes for iOS 9 and OS X 10.11. It is no longer necessary for an NSNotificationCenter observer to un-register itself when being deallocated. There are some caveats if you need to support iOS 8 or use block based observers. I forgot this while writing last weeks post on detecting low power mode so here to jog my memory are the details along with a bonus tip.
NSNotificationCenter Changes in iOS 9
Registering an observer for an NSNotificationCenter notification is a common task in iOS and OS X. Here is a typical line of code you might use in the viewDidLoad method of a view controller to receive notification when the user changes the preferred font size:
name: UIContentSizeCategoryDidChangeNotification,
object: nil)
Using iOS 8 or earlier you need to unregister for this notification before deallocating the observer object. If you forget you are at risk of a crash when the notification center sends the next notification to an object that no longer exists.
Using iOS 9 or later the Foundation framework release notes contain some good news:
In OS X 10.11 and iOS 9.0 NSNotificationCenter and NSDistributedNotificationCenter will no longer send notifications to registered observers that may be deallocated.
The notification center now keeps a zeroing reference to the observer:
If the observer is able to be stored as a zeroing-weak reference the underlying storage will store the observer as a zeroing weak reference, alternatively if the object cannot be stored weakly (i.e. it has a custom retain/release mechanism that would prevent the runtime from being able to store the object weakly) it will store the object as a non-weak zeroing reference.
So the next time the notification center wants to send a notification to the observer it can detect that it no longer exists and remove the observer for us:
This means that observers are not required to un-register in their deallocation method. The next notification that would be routed to that observer will detect the zeroed reference and automatically un-register the observer.
Note that this does not apply if you are using a block based observer:
Block based observers via the -[NSNotificationCenter addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock] method still need to be un-registered when no longer in use since the system still holds a strong reference to these observers.
Also if you prefer, or need to support iOS 8 or earlier you can still remove the observer:
Removing observers (either weakly referenced or zeroing referenced) prematurely is still supported.
To be clear if you support iOS 8 or earlier do not forget to remove the observer in the deinit method:
deinit {
name: UIContentSizeCategoryDidChangeNotification,
object: nil)
Debug Description
This is another bonus in the Foundation release notes that makes it easier to list the observers registered with the notification center:
NSNotificationCenter and NSDistributedNotificationCenter will now provide a debug description when printing from the debugger that will list all registered observers including references that have been zeroed out for aiding in debugging notification registrations.
(lldb) p NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().debugDescription
(String) $R10 = "<NSNotificationCenter:0x134e0cb10>\nName, Object, Observer, Options
UIAccessibilityForceTouchSensitivityChangedNotification, 0x19b0bbb60, 0x134d5d2e0, 1400
UIAccessibilityForceTouchSensitivityChangedNotification, 0x19b0bbb60, 0x134d605f0, 1400
UIContentSizeCategoryDidChangeNotification, 0x19b0bbb60, 0x134e5c2a0, 1400
You may find the number of notifications your application is observing surprising! There are so many that you will most likely need to increase the max length of the output string to see them all in the LLDB console:
(lldb) set set target.max-string-summary-length 50000
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25276 | Embedding Google Maps on your website doesn't always have the right effect on the design. With some effort you can stylize Google Maps, but I have bad experiences with that.
To me, the only real reason to embed the Google map is the interactivity and the fact visitors can easily plan a route.
When I'm advising clients what to use I name the aesthetic value of the static stylized map and the interactive possibilities of the Google map. Most of the time they don't question my advice and go for the Google Map, but recently a client asked me about the usage of the Google map. How often do visitor actually use the interactive possibilities of the Google Map? I couldn't answer.
My personal experience is that I never use any Google maps on websites. Often they are 300x500 pixels and just too small to use easily. The Google Maps website is often more clear with the big, window filling, map.
Does anyone have any statistics or experience with this issue? (I couldn't find any)
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Purely subjective here - but I often use the embedded map on sites to zoom out to give me some context as to their actual location. (I'm not looking for full navigation, just a way to zoom out until I recognise the general area). Specific street address may be useful for people who know the area of the place, but just a zoomed in map showing 'George St' and 'Martin Luther King Bvd' is no use to someone not familiar with the location. – JonW Jan 30 '15 at 14:28
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Have you considered using some other map services? E.g. the BBC chose to use Openstreetmap, there are also the Bing Maps or Here Maps which are also a good alternative. Just wanted to point out to whoever finds this that it's not only about the Google Maps really – aexl Jan 31 '15 at 12:00
Coming from a cartography background, I agree with you in a sense. Some of those maps are useless, however some are quite useful. Let's take a look at a couple examples.
The first is something like you describe like on the Yelp website when you search. The link provided takes you to a search I did searching for Taco places in NYC and as you can see, this map isn't very helpful IF you want to browse using the map. In this particular case however, that isn't the main point of why Yelp wanted you to go to their website. They wanted you to go to browse listings, read and create reviews, add photos, etc. Having the map there is like a cherry on top.
The next example is something like AirBnB when searching for a place to stay. The map takes up half of the screen, but the intention is that the user will browse the list on the left first, then continue on the right with the map to make sure the location is close to attractions, friends, or whatever else they want to see.
The final example is something like Padmapper while looking for apartments and homes. In this case, the filters are somewhat of a secondary measure, because without the map, you would be browsing a giant list of apartments. This isn't super helpful because in real estate, it's all about "Location, Location, Location!".
So to answer your original question...
What's your opinion?
My answer would be it depends on what you want to the user to do with the map. One thing to always keep in mind though is the smaller the map, the harder it will be to interact with it. So if you want to put a map up that you want your users to use, make sure it is big enough so people don't get so frustrated they leave your site.
Also, consider other alternatives other than Google Maps. Leaflet has a great set of tools to create awesome looking maps and there are plenty of tile sources out there, like the ones from Stamen Design to help give you the perfect look for your map.
Typically maps shown on a website are small as they aren't the focus of the page, and so trying to navigate or interact with a small map is a nightmare. So usability wise, the interactivity is poor.
To me the best option is to use a good looking stylistic map, but make it clickable and link it to an interactive online map where a user can use the full screen. Something like the map below.
Map of Delft
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I like the idea of linking to Google Maps (or other interactive map) with full route description, maybe even with 'your location' selected. – Paul van den Dool Feb 2 '15 at 9:50
I just randomly found this but thought that I could help out in some way.
You ought to check out a company like Mapbox! A great, styler for Google Maps design. This customizer is great for these GM integrations.
Also, in my personal experience, I have used maps in websites before. In commerce design, it's essential for displaying the numerous retailers your client is located. However the use of static VS interactive depends solely on context – what is the user trying to do with the map? Getting a glance at a location? Or planning a trip? Etc.
It depends greatly on the nature of your app. If you only need to highlight the location of your business consider a static or extremely simple map embedded for reference.
If you need directions - as somebody above mentioned - you can link to a directions provider like Google (with the destination prepopulated) to guide users to the business.
Yelp or AirBnB use a Partial Map to relate results in a list to their geographic location on the map. The map also serves as a 'spatial filter' to adjust the results accordingly.
Concluding I don't think you are after statistics for what works better but ought to think about the purpose of using a map which will inform the best approach.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25319 | How to uninstall apps on your Mac computer in 3 different ways, and remove their stored data
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• You can uninstall apps from your Mac computer in a few different ways when you no longer need them.
• Uninstalling apps on a Mac can be as simple as clicking and dragging them into the trash, but removing the stored data they leave behind sometimes requires a little more work.
• Here’s how to uninstall apps on your Mac (and where to go to remove their stored files, too).
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If every time you power up your Mac, you get the dreaded “Startup disk is almost full” popup or an overwhelming number of update notifications on apps you don’t even use, then it’s probably time for a purge.
There are a number of files that could be taking up space on your Mac, ultimately causing it to run slowly, but before you go dragging your beloved photos, music, and movies into the trash, you should consider uninstalling those apps you know you’ll never use again.
Whether it’s the Adobe trial you decided not to buy, or the software you downloaded for that one work-from-home day last year, these programs could be running in the background or automatically updating without you even realizing it.
Deleting an app (which is, in fact, synonymous with uninstalling it) will free up most of the space it’s occupying on your computer. However, keep in mind that some apps like Microsoft Office and Adobe programs could actually be storing large amounts of files on your Mac even after you delete them.
Dragging an app into Trash only removes the .app file, but not necessarily the data it has already saved on your Mac (including preferences, logins, and licensed files). Going the extra mile to remove this stored data will free up even more space on your computer.
Some apps, such as Adobe, offer dedicated uninstallers — whether built into the app or downloaded separately from the manufacturer’s website — that will remove additional, associated files. For those that don’t, though, you can either manually delete files from your Library or purchase a third-party program like CleanMyMac to completely clear them away for you.
Here are three simple ways to uninstall App Store programs and other apps you’ve downloaded from the internet.
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How to manually uninstall apps on a Mac computer
Uninstall apps using Launchpad
1. Click “Launchpad” in your Dock and find the app you wish to delete.
2. Click and hold your cursor on the app until an “X” appears on the corner of the icon.
3. Click the “X” to delete the app. An “X” will remain on each app that can be deleted, so scroll through and delete any others you wish to remove.
4. When finished, click anywhere on the screen that’s not occupied by an app icon to exit deletion mode.
Uninstall apps by dragging them to the trash
1. Find the apps you wish to delete in “Launchpad.”
2. Click and drag them individually into the trash can icon in your Dock.
3. When finished, open Trash and click “Empty” in the top right corner.
Uninstall apps through the applications folder
1. Under the “Go” menu in Finder, locate and open the “Applications” folder.
2. Select all the apps you wish to delete, then right click and select “Move to Trash” from the drop-down menu.
3. Again, remember to empty your Trash when finished.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25325 | Petting dogs, and being touched by dogs, builds bonds we need
A ruby cavalier puppy lying on his master’s lap is a classic example of petting dogs
A ruby cavalier puppy lying on his master’s lap [1]
Bonding is necessary for normal development
The long-term discovery from Harlow’s work was that… isolated monkeys developed relatively normally physically, but abnormally socially. They did not interact with other monkeys well: terrified, they huddled in the corner when another young monkey was put into their cage.
Social interaction and personal contact is more than desirable: it is necessary for normal development.
Months later, Harlow tried to rehabilitate those monkeys whose early isolation so malformed them. He found that the best remedy was regular contact with young normal monkeys, whom he came to call “therapy monkeys,” in play. This restored some of the isolates to more normal social actors.
Petting dogs brings measurable changes that are very good
Simply petting a dog can reduce an overactive sympathetic nervous system within minutes: a racing heart, high blood pressure, the sweats. Levels of endorphins (hormones that make us feel good) and oxytocin and prolactin (those hormones involved in social attachment) go up when we’re with dogs. Cortisol (stress hormone) levels go down.
There is good reason to believe that living with a dog provides the social support which correlates with reduced risk for various diseases, from cardiovascular disease to diabetes to pneumonia, and better rates of recovery from those diseases we do get.
In many cases, the dog receives nearly the same effect. Human company can lower a dog’s cortisol level; petting can calm a racing heart.
Bonding with a pet can do the work that long-term use of prescribed drugs or cognitive behavioral therapy do.
Petting dogs is the first thing we reach for to build bonds
Petting zoos have arisen to satisfy the urge to engage that animal on the other side of the fence not only by looking at it, but by touching it. Better still if the animal is touching back—with, say, a warm tongue or worn teeth grabbing at the food in your outstretched hands.
Children and even adults who approach me on the street as I walk with my dog want not to look at the dog, to watch her wag, to meditate on the dog—no, they want to pet the dog: to touch her. In fact, after a cursory rub, many people appear satisfied with that interaction. Even a brief touch is sufficient to bolster the feeling that a connection has been made.
Occasionally one might find one’s toes, hanging off the end of the bed bare, being licked.
Petting dogs — and in general, touch — is the first thing dogs reach for to build bonds
Dogs and humans share this innate drive for contact. … being held by the mother may be naturally comforting.
Watch an infant child, with limited vision and even more limited mobility, try to snuggle into his mother, his head rooting around for contact, and one is seeing just what newborn puppies look like.
Blind and deaf at birth, they are born with the instinct to huddle with siblings and their mother, or even with any solid object nearby. The ethologist Michael Fox describes the head of a puppy as a “thermotactile sensory probe,” moving in a semicircle until it touches something. This begins a life of social behavior reinforced by and embracing contact.
Wolves are estimated to make a move to touch one another at least six times an hour.
Petting dogs, and being touched by dogs, builds our bonds and maintains our bonds
Directed toward us, the dog’s youthful instinct becomes a drive to burrow a head under our sleeping bodies or to rest a head upon us; to push and bump us as we walk; to gently nibble or lick us dry. We find them touchable: furry and soft, right under dangling fingertips…
…full-body contact is preferred by some dogs, especially young dogs, and especially when they are the initiators of the contact. Dogs often find places to lie down that maximize contiguity of body with body. This might be a safe posture for dogs, especially as puppies, when they are entirely reliant on others for their care. To feel light pressure along the whole body is to have assurance of your well-being.
It is hard to imagine knowing a dog but not touching him—or being touched by him. To be nudged by a dog’s nose is a pleasure unmatched.[2]
1. Tamaki, Rie. “Yuzu Ruby Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Puppy Sleeping on My Lap.” YouTube, 6 May 2013, Accessed 28 May 2017.
2. Horowitz, Alexandra. Inside of a dog: What dogs see, smell, and know. Scribner, 2009, Scribd pp. 325-343.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25329 | Writer Karl Taro Greenfeld on growing up with an autistic brother
In his touching and honest memoir, “Boy Alone,” writer KARL TARO GREENFELD talks about growing up in the shadow of an autistic brother and a childhood defined by anger, confusion and love. Greenfeld is in the studio with Marty. Listen to the mp3
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25351 | I'm writing about an OC's home empire for a short bio, and I am completely baffled as to what would happen when she marries her husband, who is the heir to the throne of a different empire. Would it just become one large empire?
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$\begingroup$ That's the kind of thing that is decided before the marriage is allowed. In the case of Spain of Ferdinand and Isabella, the two states did merge. In other cases, like the Hapsburg Empire of Charles V the components soon split up among descendants. $\endgroup$ – Oldcat Jul 1 '15 at 20:26
• $\begingroup$ OC? In real life, it depends. What's the setting? $\endgroup$ – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Jul 1 '15 at 21:25
• $\begingroup$ @Oldcat actually, in Spain the different kingdoms continued to be separate entities (which happened to be ruled by the same king) for several centuries. When the old king died, each "Cortes" had to approve his heir as the new King separately. Similarly, laws were different for people of the different kingdoms (one example being commerce with America being a Castillan only privilege). The kingdoms were actually merged only after Philip V of Spain and (maybe most importantly) the War of the Spanish Sucession. $\endgroup$ – SJuan76 Jul 1 '15 at 21:37
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$\begingroup$ I may be the only one, but what's an OC? $\endgroup$ – clem steredenn Jul 1 '15 at 22:22
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$\begingroup$ @bilbo_pingouin Original character. you would think $\endgroup$ – Necessity Jul 1 '15 at 22:47
As mentioned by Oldcat, marriages of state should be carefully negotiated beforehand. Assuming that didn't happen, consider this:
• The heir of the Empress of A and the Emperor of B might be in line for the throne of A and B. Are the rules of succession compatible? For instance, B might have a salic succession while A is strictly based on primogeniture. If the first child is a boy, he will inherit the crowns of A and B. A girl would only inherit in A.
• As mentioned by SJuan76, having the same head of state doesn't necessarily unify empires. The technical term is personal union, and it may or may not last. Consider that Elisabeth II is queen of the Bahamas, but that doesn't make the Bahamas part of the UK.
• How strong are laws and traditions in both empires? Can a strong ruler overcome them? The Habsburgs tried that, and unrest followed.
Summarized, empires don't merge just because their current rulers are married. On the other hand, that is one way how mergers can happen.
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For some reason the predictive text on my mobile doesn’t like the word ‘hope’. This is a pain as I find I use it all the time! That shouldn’t be surprising as ours is a hope filled faith – our message is a positive message, a story with a good ending. Ultimately God will make everything new.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25407 | David Rees
Interview by Ed Robertson
David Rees is an online and print cartoonist whose best known works include Get Your War On, and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable. Get Your War On drew acclaim shortly after 9/11, combining the bravado of the Bush administration, the occasional language of a street thug, and an office setting. Before skepticism of the war on terror was cool, David Rees drew attention to the lack of dialogue in the U.S. concerning the bombing campagin in Aghanistan, and the eventual invasion of Iraq.
In addition to Get Your War On and MNFTIU, Rees is the creator of Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear, Relationshapes, and My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable.
Edward Robertson: There is a quote attributed to you that says "Anyone who takes the time to draw a comic by hand is a maniac." Did you ever think of being a maniac prior to getting started in the strips?
David Rees: I drew cartoons by hand for years, starting in middle school and continuing through college. I didn't like how long it took, and since I'm left-handed I always got ink all over my hand and smudged the drawings, which drove me bonkers. So I farmed out all the art-making to Microsoft PowerPoint clip art (personally rendered by Bill Gates, I heard) and, later, to Dover Publications clip art. That meant I had more time free for writing the dialogue and watching TV and eating chips and cheese, which is my real passion.
Edward Robertson: During those years when you were still hand drawing, did you think comics were something you were going to "do", or was it just a hobby until you were free from the ink?
David Rees: Cartooning was always a hobby. If I ever hoped to make a living being creative, it was to be a professional indie-rock musician. That particular dream died a thousand deaths.
Edward Robertson: You're still involved in a band though, right?
David Rees: No, my band broke up years ago. I haven't been performing music. In fact, I have a gig on Tuesday (1/30) that will be my first music gig in three years.
Edward Robertson: Are you getting going on a whole new band, or is this just a one-time deal?
David Rees: I'm performing solo acoustic singer/songwriter stuff...very short songs (like ninety seconds each). I'm opening for famous internet singer Jonathan Coulton.
Edward Robertson: Is your stuff somewhat similar lyrics-wise? I've heard a few of his songs, and they were fairly amusing...
David Rees: My songs are less amusing and more abstract. Also, shorter.
Edward Robertson: Is working in two different mediums a challenge? In terms of finding time, material, focus...?
David Rees: Actually, I work in six different mediums:
1. Cartoons (this takes approximately two minutes per week.)
2. Music (forty-five minutes per day.)
3. Television watching (three hours per day.)
4. Ice-cube sculpture, ie micro-sculptures of D&D characters in ice cubes (twenty minutes per day.)
5. Mud-slingin' painting with dirt brushes and leaves-and-branches frames (every other Saturday in the woods.)
6. Performative levitation (two hours per day.)
Edward Robertson: Sounds rewarding—but only three hours for TV? Do the cartoons often write themselves, then? What's your process like?
David Rees: The cartoons do not write themselves. However, I don't write them either. I have a computer program I developed that generates each week's cartoon automatically. It scans New York Times headlines (a most liberal newspaper), then inputs keywords into a profanity-filled "dialogue template." The text is then dumped into a graphical interface with three pieces of randomly selected clip art (randomly selected from a library of five pieces of clip art). The whole thing is then compressed to squeeze out any remaining humor or subtlety, and then emailed to my editors. That gives me more free time to watch TV and cash my fat checks...which I then spend on upgrading my cartoon-generating supercomputer.
Edward Robertson: How did Get Your War On get started?
David Rees: After 9/11 I wanted to read jokes about the War on Terrorism, but I couldn't find many I liked. So I made my own and sent the comics to my friends. And they sent 'em to their friends, etc. etc.
Edward Robertson: There's also a sense of angry confusion in those jokes, like maybe we were moving too fast to war, which wasn't exactly a commonly-expressed sentiment a month after 9/11. Did the response to this come as a surprise?
David Rees: I was surprised anyone other than my friends found the comics interesting or meaningful. But it turns out a lot of people shared the same skepticism and mixed emotions in the fall of 2001. I was surprised by the attention the comic received, and I think others were surprised the comic existed.
Edward Robertson: How mixed were your emotions about the national response? Did making GYWO clarify them any?
David Rees: I was bothered by how little skepticism there was about launching a "war on terror," and how little discussion was given to the possible humanitarian consequences of a bombing campaign in Afghanistan. I also thought some of Bush's "good versus evil" talk was hyperbolic— but, again, there wasn't much skepticism about it. I don't know if GYWO clarified my emotions, but it felt good to express them in such a concise way—and then, to find out that other people shared my concerns.
Edward Robertson: The particular rhetoric of the president and his staff seems to be one of GYWO's focal points. What role do you think language plays in the war on terror?
David Rees: Language is really important. It is the only way we can figure out who's evil— if Bush says someone is evil, then we know! Also, words on banners are REALLY important!
Edward Robertson: How long do you see the comic going?
David Rees: I'll stop making GYWO when Bush leaves office.
Edward Robertson: How did you get involved with Rolling Stone? Webcomics haven't had a ton of success in print.
David Rees: Rolling Stone picked GYWO as their "HOT COMIC" for 2002. They were about to undergo a big redesign and editorial shake-up, and they asked if I'd be interested in running GYWO in the magazine. I said: Yes, if Lenny Kravitz would give me a private fashion consultation. And the rest is HISTORY!!! I HAVE AN AWESOME COLLECTION OF BELT BUCKLES NOW.
Edward Robertson: Do you follow other webcomics?
David Rees: Oh shit, there are other webcomics? I don't really look at comics online. In fact 99% of my online time is spent hitting "refresh" on talkingpointsmemo.com. I still think the best web comic of all time was Leisuretown, even though it was a bit too nihilistic for my taste.
Edward Robertson: Too nihilistic?
David Rees: Yes, it was really, really dark. It made me a little uncomfortable, even as I marveled at its technical excellence.
Edward Robertson: How suggestive are the shapes in RELATIONSHAPES supposed to be?
David Rees: At first I thought it would be good to base the dialogue on the physical properties of the shapes...but I quickly abandoned that idea because it would require ten seconds more work per comic. Although, now that you bring it up, I wonder if maybe I SHOULD return to that idea—for instance, there was a scene in which one shape had a sort of staircase appendage, and that shape invited the other shape to climb up the stairs ( I.E. CLIMB UP HIS SHAPE-BODY) if she thought it would be comforting. That was pretty deep, I must say. In fact, if I may continue to say, the fact that RELATIONSHAPES has achieved exactly 0% popularity is perplexing to me. I think it is the most original comic I ever made. After all, "IT'S RELATIONSHIPS FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW... THE POINTS OF VIEW OF MOTHERFUCKIN' GEOMETRIC SHAPES!!!" (Relationshapes motto.)
Edward Robertson: It's a little trickier than your other comics.
David Rees: Yeah, it's trickier because it's like ten thousand times better. PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT RELATIONSHAPES!!! For instance, you could draw a big parallelogram and then ask your friends, "What do you think this guy's inner emotional life is like?" When their heads explode and then their exploded eyes start weeping all over the room, calmly double-click on a RELATIONSHAPES comic and show them the true pathos of geometric shapes.
Edward Robertson: Do you think inner lives should stay inner?
David Rees: It depends on who you're talking about. For us regular people, yes—inner lives should stay inner. But for celebrities and really attractive people, HELL NO—those inner lives should get as outer as possible.
You can learn more about David Rees at mnftiu.cc
Interview conducted by email, February of 2007
Copyright © 2007 Adventures Underground
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You see someone being bullied what do you?
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Two of your friends are fighting what do you do?
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One of your friends did something kind for you what do you do?
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Your friends are pranking a girl named Nicole do you do it to?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25443 | A More Perfect Union: An Alternate History of the Land of the Free
The girl I like, while definitely a nerd, is not one for history, I don't think. She's more of a math and science person, while I like writing and history. But hey, she's also just about the only girl I've met IRL who likes 90% of the stuff I do, from Star Wars to Marvel, so I'm not too worried about that.
I prefer D.C. Comics. Btw, that would be cool to put in this TL
Is Henry Ford in this world still as much of a bigot?
Definitely not. Ford still had some labor issues, though, enough to cause him to flee Detroit during the Falcon Uprising. He's back now, though, and his company is one of the biggest to return to the Great Lakes region after the war.
I also never figured you were still a teenager, given how detailed and researched this timeline was. Though in retrospect, it does sort of explain the relentless optimism.
Good luck out there, HeX. Always glad to read from you. I love this timeline.
Sorry to detract from the thread, but I had some ideas of a timeline of my own and I would like some help. Remember back in the single digit pages where Jefferson's anti-slavery language made it in to the Declaration of Independence and later into the Constitution? Well, in my experiment, GA and the Carolinas chickened out due to that. Britain still loses the American Revolution, so the US still forms. I'd like help for that. PM me if you're interested.
The Greatest Generation, Part Twelve: Yin, Meet Yang New
Japanese propaganda to inspire patriotism in the Asian Front, ca. 1916
As far as rivalries went, no theater of the Grand War had older or stronger conflicts than Asia. For centuries, millennia, even, the Japanese Tiger and the Chinese Dragon had squared off for domination in isolation. Both were prideful of their cultures which, though similar, were very distinct, and the two had played a tug-of-war over the Yellow Sea and Korea for quite some time. In the modern era, this rivalry became inflamed as both Asian nations sought to consolidate their power through friendships with the new kids on the block, Europe and the Americas. The Entente quickly torpedoed any chance of an alliance with China when they came in guns blazing in the two unjust Opium Wars, their brief dominance over the Middle Kingdom coming to an abrupt close when it allied with the United States, industrialized, and threw off the shackles of treaty ports and trade deals. In the process, though, an Anglo-Japanese, and therefore Entene-Japanese, alliance formed. This alliance was not built upon similar ideological practices (for the rest of the Entente was far more brutal and racist), but realpolitik. After all, the enemy of one's enemy is their friend. Though the alliance was initially strong, during the Great Depression things only went downhill. In the decades to come, the alliance would come to be viewed as the most regrettable period in Japanese history, contributing heavily to the modern, playful stereotype of the "apologetic Japanese."
The Asian Front was perplexing. Though the massive continent was a complex web of League-Entente relations, most of the actual fighting was constrained to the eastern half of the continent. A massive rebellion in the British Raj never began due to the crushing defeat of the Indian Revolt of 1894, no matter how much the US wished it would. Just as well, the vast majority of the war would be fought almost via proxy, as China and Japan knew full well that invading the other's homeland would be suicide. Therefore, just like the last climactic episode between the two empires, the war at sea and the front in Korea would make up the majority of the fighting, though Russia would strike at Manchuria as well.
Battle began in earnest the instant the Japanese caught wind of the Anglo-American declarations of war on July 4, 1916. Flexing their naval superiority even without full aid from Mother Britain, Tokyo was raring to send their mighty fleet into the Yellow Sea once more. But the Qing had been preparing. Though nowhere near Japan's strength, China had built up its navy to a considerable degree over the past few decades. This war, as well, was lacking in the provisions of the War of Honor that had almost singlehandedly given Japan the victory; the full brunt of the Chinese and Japanese armed forces could be used, as well as all of the new technologies and tactics developed to better let nations slaughter each other. The first shots in Asia were fired when a few ships of Japan drifted into Chinese territorial waters in the northeast. Caught off-guard, numerous Qing ships were lost to the Rising Sun.
And so it began.
Japan hardly even entertained the concept of a seaborne invasion of mainland China, an idea about as wise as invading Russia in the winter. Instead, coastal Qing metropolises were bombarded and besieged for the war in the East's duration. Their land forces, meanwhile, were reserved for the real challenge: the invasion of Korea. The Land of the Morning Calm had been caught between the rock of China and the hard place of Japan for eons, but had always favored the former over the latter, a relationship made solid with both of their ascendancies to the League. But Japan wanted the peninsula, which they saw as the next stepping stone on their trip to Pacific domination that had gone unchecked since the 1890s. On August 14, 1916, Japanese armies made the harrowing journey across the Korea Strait from Hiroshima to Pusan, supplemented by a boisterous IJN and a few aircraft. They landed on the beaches guns blazing, taking the nearby detachment of the Korean Imperial Army, still awaiting the Chinese forces bolstering their own to trickle that far south, by surprise. Pusan held, however, in a large part due to the effort put forth by the local Korean population, and the battle continued.
The Battle of Pusan
As the battle there raged, the Japanese were sending a strike team to another coveted spot, the nearby Korean island of Cheju-do. The closest League territory to Japanese home soil, Tokyo worried endlessly that if a hypothetical Sino-Korean invasion came, it would be from that speck of land in the Yellow Sea. On August 30, as fighting raged in Pusan, more troops landed on the island. The battle was fierce, but Cheju-do caved to the Japanese onslaught after a week of fighting.
Japan wasn't the only one doing the attacking. Like Korea, the island of Taiwan was a recent addition to the great Asian tug-of-war, with most of its inhabitants ethnically Chinese yet perfectly content under Japanese rule, and the island's culture having metamorphosed into a strange mixture of both. Throughout the end of summer and into the autumn of 1916, China launched numerous naval raids on the island, though things didn't go anywhere for the time being. Back in Korea, a devastating counterattack was launched against the Japanese in Pusan, but the Entente held on by the skin of their teeth and managed to remain. Luckily, further penetrations into the peninsula, including an attempted landing at Masan, were defeated and thrown back.
China, Korea, and Japan may have dominated the headlines in Asia, but they were not the only countries there. The Entente had the Qing surrounded on all sides: Russia to the north and west, Britain to the southwest, and France to the south. Now, this wasn't as debilitating as it sounds, because China was largely protected from these threats by the wastes of Siberia, the vast Gobi Desert, the peaks of the Himalayas, and the jungles of Indochina. The Entente nations were not idiots. A direct assault through any of those avenues would lead to nothing but disaster. So, as autumn turned to winter, just two options were open: Russian incursion from the north, and French invasion from the south. They selected both.
Russia was a nation chronically starved for ports. Despite sporting one of the longest coastlines in the world, only a fraction of it was accessible by boat, for the ice and snow of the hypothermic North Pole froze the sea solid. As such, only a few coastal cities west of the Urals held any significant value. Head further east, and there was but one: Vladivostok, the critical link between Saint Petersburg and the surprisingly profitable colony of Alyeska. Lose Vladivostok, lose the gold and natural resources that flooded into the mainland each year. To protect such a valuable port, Tsar Nikolai II had, in 1914, sent an absurdly large force to garrison Vladivostok, larger than any Russian city other than the imperial capital itself, strictly instructed to only fire when fired upon and to hold the line to the last man. A siege of the city would be a costly, extended affair.
Japanese forces sent to protect their allies in eastern Russia, ca. 1917
France's foothold in Asia was solely located in Indochina. Though they had taken their sweet time in colonizing the region, King Louis-Philippe II had made it clear that the land was France's and would remain France's for the foreseeable future. Unlike how they handled their African colonies, Indochina was given a relatively light hand, most likely due to the extreme difficulty that would result from a native rebellion--the Philippines times ten, Paris reasoned. When war had broken out with the League, though, something interesting had happened: the Vietnamese and their contemporaries wanted to join the fight on the side of the Entente. To a Western viewer, this seemed both insane and impossible, but a mutual hatred ran deep between the Chinese and the Vietnamese, the product of centuries of antagonism between the two peoples.
Vietnamese soldiers stand awaiting orders near the Chinese border, December 1916
The Qing decided their best course of action was a simultaneous strike both north and south. If they attacked either the Russians or the French first, then surely the other would launch their own deadly push. It was best to get both out of the way at once--they certainly had the manpower for it. On the morning of December 3, 1916, a joint Sino-Korean force began a surprise assault on Vladivostok. A few hours later, the first Chinese troops stepped across the Indochinese border on the long drive to Hanoi and the Mekong. The American Pacific Fleet joined the Imperial Chinese Navy in their coastal bombardment of French Indochina, now forced to split their time between there and the other side of the South China Sea, the Japanese Philippines. Neither initial land offensive went well, a premonition of things to come…
The winter of 1916 was a winter of guerrilla activity in Asia. Korean nationals scraped away at Japanese military might in Pusan. Russian troops held strong against Chinese attempts at taking the metropolitan holy grail of Vladivostok. Taiwan weathered the storm of League naval operations, which would soon spiral into the most titanic seafaring battles in history. And the Chinese boots on the ground in Indochina would later be recognized as the catalyst for one of the longest, most important, most polarizing conflicts of the twentieth century.
As it stood, though, it was just a few shots fired in the jungle.
Interesting times afoot.
Seems like my call about Japan being the "good guy" of the Entente was right.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25447 | Bird Deaths: Environmentalists Target Energy Instead of Real Killers
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried a prominent article about accidental bird deaths caused by communications towers. According to the article, a whopping 6.8 million birds are accidentally killed by flying into these towers (the article did not specify if bird suicides were included or not). These 6.8 million birds are usually attacked – apparently without provocation – by these aggressive and belligerent towers under the cover of darkness by their illuminated red lights.
As previously mentioned, 6.8 million birds are killed by these towers, yet that is only a tiny fraction of the 2.38 BILLION accidental bird deaths a year. Bird deaths by communication towers account for a minuscule 0.286% of accidental bird deaths a year. If you add up all the bird deaths from airplanes, wind turbines, communications towers, automobiles, pesticides, hunters, and power lines, it still doesn’t even come close to the most notorious, “accidental” bird killers, cats and buildings (and windows), which kill a combined 2 billion birds annually.
Conservationists and biologists are calling for the lights on these communications towers to be turned off at night to halt the ornithocide. The conservationists and biologists are also quick to point out the potential saved energy costs by turning off these lights.
That environmental activists are perennially hostile to energy development due to the wildlife impacts on birds, lizards, toads, and all other species of airborne and earthbound critters appears more ridiculous given today’s revelation by the Wall Street Journal.
Cats and windows (even energy efficient windows recently installed as part of the President’s stimulus package) are the unmatched killers of nature’s aviators. One wonders when the Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council will soon crank up efforts to oppose the American Association of Cat Fanciers, or the Associated Builders and Contractors’ Union, each of which is apparently complicit in a billion bird murders every year. In fact, they might want to step up efforts to increase the criminal penalties for cat hoarders while they’re at it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25460 | HomePod Sales May Be Closer to 1-1.5 Million Than 3 Million Since the Speaker Launched
HomePod shipments totaled an estimated 700,000 gadgets in the 2nd quarter of 2020, giving Apple a kind of six % percentage of the international good speaker marketplace, in accordance to analysis company Strategy Analytics.
Strategy Analytics prior to now estimated HomePod shipments totaled 600,000 gadgets in the first quarter of 2020, suggesting that international shipments have reached 1.3 million gadgets since the speaker was to be had to order in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom in overdue January.
That determine is far not up to one shared by way of analysis company Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, which lately estimated Apple has offered three million HomePods in the United States by myself since the speaker introduced.
The vital variance in the datasets stems from the undeniable fact that Apple does not divulge HomePod gross sales, as an alternative grouping the speaker underneath its “Other Products” class in its profits stories, along the Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods, Beats, iPod contact, and different Apple and third-party equipment.
Apple reported earnings of $3.74 billion from its “Other Products” class closing quarter, up 37 % from $2.73 billion in the year-ago quarter.
Shipments don’t seem to be gross sales, both, so it is unimaginable to know precisely what number of HomePods ended up in the palms of shoppers.
If we had to bet, we might say the Strategy Analytics numbers are more than likely extra inside the ballpark, as the HomePod is a distinct segment product. The speaker may be to be had in simply six nations, after launching in Canada, France, and Germany in June, with out a indication when availability would possibly extend to different areas.
Versus the Competition
HomePod used to be the global’s fourth most well liked good speaker in the 2nd quarter, in the back of the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Chinese corporate Alibaba’s Tmall Genie, in accordance to Strategy Analytics.
Amazon remained the chief in the class closing quarter, with the Echo commanding an estimated 41 % marketplace percentage, whilst the Google Home completed runner-up with an estimated 27 % marketplace percentage, in accordance to Strategy Analytics. Alibaba took 0.33 position with an estimated seven % marketplace percentage.
While the HomePod has made quite of a dent, Apple nonetheless has vital flooring to make up, which is to be anticipated given its good speaker introduced round two to three years after its largest competition.
It is also difficult for Apple to acquire additional marketplace percentage except it releases a extra competitively priced style, as the HomePod at $349 is significantly dearer than the Amazon Echo, priced from $50, and the Google Home, $129.
To that finish, rumors recommend Apple will have a lower-priced HomePod or a Siri-enabled Beats speaker in its pipeline.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25471 | Heterologous Mesothelioma
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A rare subtype of an already rare cancer, heterologous mesothelioma is less understood than the disease’s other forms. Because only a handful of cases have been documented in medical literature, researchers are still debating an absolute definition of the term, and have yet to determine statistics for its true incidence and survival rates.
The clinical characteristics of this cancer are not much different from other types of mesothelioma. Its histology, or the type and visible structure of the cancer cells within the tumor, is what makes this subtype unique.
Heterologous tumors are peculiar because they contain bodily tissues different from the tissues in which they form. Recorded elements in tumors include bone, cartilage and soft tissues. As more cases of this subtype emerge, researchers aim to define the term more accurately and uncover how this histological subtype affects the course of treatment and patient survival.
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Although the occurrence of heterologous mesothelioma, like all other forms of the disease, has been linked to asbestos exposure, the exact mechanism behind this histological anomaly is not fully understood. Researchers have yet to determine how elements like bone and cartilage tissue arise in asbestos-related cancer tumors, but evidence suggests a process known as cellular differentiation plays a significant role.
Differentiation is a normal developmental process through which a less-developed cell becomes specialized to perform a distinct task. Connective tissue cells, for example, perform functions distinct from those of bone cells, yet they develop from a common cell line. Once a cell differentiates, it is rarely able to divide and only performs the job it is intended to do.
When a cell is cancerous, differentiation does not occur normally. Cancer cells come in various levels of differentiation, but are generally less developed than the healthy cells that surround them. Poorly differentiated tumor cells no longer resemble the healthy cells from which they formed, and are often associated with a negative prognosis. This is because tumors with poor differentiation grow and spread more aggressively than tumors with well-differentiated cells.
As indicated by its name, mesothelioma cancer is a mutation of the cells that compose mesothelial tissue. This tissue forms a protective membrane known as the mesothelium, which lines several body cavities including the lungs, heart and abdomen. Mesothelial cells are known for their ability to differentiate into various types of connective tissue, leading researchers to believe they may have applications in regenerative therapies, much like stem cells do.
The natural versatility of these cells, combined with the genetic changes of cancer, might explain how heterologous elements form within mesothelioma tumors.
Current Data
Our current knowledge of heterologous mesothelioma is severely limited by the small number of cases described in medical literature. In one of the most comprehensive studies on the topic, 27 cases were characterized clinically and pathologically for the journal Modern Pathology.
The elements found within these 27 cases included osseous differentiation (bone), chondroid differentiation (cartilage) and liposarcomatous differentiation (soft tissue). Osseous and chondroid elements were most common, with liposarcomatous elements being particularly rare. A handful of mesotheliomas with rhabdoid differentiation, which has histology similar to a kidney cancer called Wilms’ tumor, was described as well.
Approximately 89 percent of the heterologous cancers in the study arose from the pleural cavity, which surrounds the lungs. The remaining 11 percent of the tumors formed in the peritoneal cavity of the abdomen. With patient age ranging from 27 to 85 years, the median age at the time of diagnosis was 68 years old. A history of asbestos exposure was confirmed in all cases for which exposure history was available (63 percent of all cases).
Survival Rates
The average survival for patients in the study described above was six months. However, conflicting survival data was noted by the researchers. The overall average survival for mesothelioma is about 9 months, yet four of the heterologous subtype cases studied displayed survival of more than three years after diagnosis. Most unusual was a patient with osseous differentiation who survived for 69 months. These outliers are not completely understood, but some authors attributed extended survival to the expression of a protein known as bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2).
Because only a small sample of heterologous mesotheliomas was studied, there is no way to be sure that six months is the true average survival rate. As additional cases emerge and more data becomes available, our understanding of this type of mesothelioma will continue to grow.
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Researchers have identified several issues that must be resolved in future studies. First, there is no clear definition of the term heterologous mesothelioma or mesothelioma with heterologous elements. Researchers also noted that some of the documented cases do not specify whether the tumor had true malignant heterologous elements or benign (noncancerous) growths, which is an important distinction.
The authors of the study published in Modern Pathology suggest the term heterologous mesothelioma be reserved for tumors that display malignant heterologous elements like bone, connective tissue, or rhabdoid differentiation. It was also noted that no specific criteria exist for what elements should be considered heterologous; researchers, for example, questioned whether soft tissue and smooth muscle elements should be included in the subtype. They did not recommend a minimum percentage of heterologous elements be required for diagnosis, as is the case with biphasic mesothelioma.
Lastly, researchers stressed the importance of determining the true incidence of this subtype, which is presently unknown. In the 27 case series, the incidence corresponds to about 0.5 percent of all mesothelioma cases. However, researchers were concerned this may be an overestimate.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25478 | The Stages Immediately Following Star Birth
In regions of active star formation, several other phenomena have been observed, again through studying the molecular line emission, which indicate that stars just about to start shining eject a lot of material at hundreds of kilometers per second. These objects are known as T Tauri stars, named after a variable star discovered in the constellation of Taurus. Immediately surrounding a T Tauri star, within an arcminute or so, a small nebula can often be seen. This is made of interstellar dust and gas immediately around the protostellar object. Gas seems to be moving both in and out of the T Tauri star while, incredibly, at some distance further out small nebulae are found streaming away from the star in the same way that a jet in a radio galaxy is pointed away from its nucleus (Chapter 11). These small companion nebulae are known as Herbig—Haro (HH) objects after their discoverers. The HH objects were for a very long time a mystery because they did not appear to have any stellar objects associated with them. The stellar objects are not located in the HH objects, but are light-years away.
It appears that when a T Tauri star, soon ready to turn on its nuclear furnace, begins to stir in its cocoon, the energy it generates, due to the collapse from dimensions of several light-years across to stellar size, is so great that it can hurtle a great amount of matter outward (a millionth of a solar mass per year is typical). This matter travels in two directions because something prevents the material from moving in the other directions. That something is a disk of matter accreting around the star, The accretion disk is shaped like a flat doughnut and gases that are pulled into the accretion disk can escape only by flowing out of the hole in tw o directions at right angles to the plane of the disk. This is called a bipolar flow.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25490 | PRINCE2 Agile Foundation: blending agile approaches with greater governance
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If you want to successfully deliver new products and services to keep your organization competitive in today’s changing world, effective project management is critical.
The project management method, PRINCE2®, has been taken up by more than 150 countries and, by its proven track record and pioneering approach, has already benefited thousands of organizations.
In more recent years, many organizations have started using agile ways of working to respond rapidly to these challenges and constant demands. PRINCE2 Agile® offers you the best of both worlds: effective project governance tailored to suit the agile context.
Previously, if you wanted to certify as a PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, you had to pass the PRINCE2 Foundation exam first.
Now, with the launch of the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation exam, you can attend a one-week integrated course which allows you to achieve PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner. This is great news because you have two choices:
1. You can attend an integrated course offering PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner as part of the same event.
2. You can sit the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certification, with the PRINCE2 Foundation as a pre-requisite.
The PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner certifications are aimed at:
• Anyone who is already using PRINCE2 and wants to adopt agile ways of working (route 2 above would be the best if you are already PRINCE2 Foundation certified).
• Anyone who is using agile and wants to apply more governance and control, enabling a broader application of their agile ways of working (route 1 above would probably be more suitable).
So what does the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation qualification cover?
It will give you a high-level understanding of the following PRINCE2 elements:
• PRINCE2 principles
• PRINCE2 themes
• PRINCE2 processes
• PRINCE2 management products
• PRINCE2 roles and responsibilities
However, the majority of the Foundation syllabus is focused on how you can integrate the agile ways of working with PRINCE2. So you will have the benefit of gaining a basic understanding of PRINCE2 but with the emphasis more on how you should apply it in an agile context. This will include how to apply or tailor the PRINCE2 elements when working with agile delivery teams.
In particular, you will understand the agile behaviours of self-organization, collaboration, transparency, rich communication and exploration. Another key part of the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation syllabus is to gain an understanding of Scrum and key terminology that would be used by Scrum development teams.
Why PRINCE2 Agile?
PRINCE2 Agile can be integrated with many different agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban, AgilePM and Lean Start-up. So, if you are using an agile framework currently, there’s no need to change frameworks. What you are doing is enabling your current agile way of working to be used in a wider project context.
How do you keep your PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certificate current?
PRINCE2 Agile Foundation certificates are valid for life. One of the recent changes AXELOS has made to the PRINCE2 Agile certificate scheme is to bring the PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certificate validity in line with PRINCE2 2017. PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certificates are now valid for three years and there are two ways in which candidates can remain current.
• re-sit the full PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner exam;
• or subscribe to online content subscription, My PRINCE2. Candidates must log 60 CPD points in the prescribed categories across the three-year period to earn a PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner digital badge linked to their certification.
STOP PRESS: for all people newly-certified in PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner, AXELOS is including a one-year subscription to My PRINCE2 , our new online subscription service where practitioners can access the latest templates, toolkits and thought leadership to keep your best practice skills up-to-date.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25494 | Sunday, November 20, 2016
A Study In Foreshadowing: How NOT to Use Foreshadowing
Welcome back to my mini-series on foreshadowing! Last month I wrote Why Foreshadow? Today I’ll be sharing with you some of the major downfalls of foreshadowing.
Caution: Because of the nature of foreshadowing, the way that it includes predicting of plot events and its fulfillment, this post includes some spoilers to The False Prince and Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle, book 4).
Foreshadowing, although one of my favorite writing techniques, can be one of the most difficult to master. But it doesn’t have to be. Below I’ve included some of the most common mistakes made in foreshadowing:
Don’t give away the story in the title or the premise.
While I’m not necessarily an advocate of incredibly vague titles or confusing premises, I don’t like ones that give away all the major plot twists. In fact, with some books I’ve given up reading the back entirely because I don’t want anything to be spoiled for me.
(SPOILER ALERT for The False Prince.)
I picked up The False Prince via recommendation, and while the prose was excellent and witty, the plot was predictable. And it all came from the title. The word false alludes that there is a real prince out there, and 99% of the time, it’s the main character. Go figure.
Then I read part of the premise:
“Huh,” I thought. “Wouldn’t it be something is Sage turned out to be the real prince.”
And this was before I had even read a single page. I will admit, the narrator seems unreliable for a while, but in the end, he’s predictable.
The premise and the book titles are supposed to be beautiful teasers, not a self-explanatory synopsis. Please pay attention to the difference. Teasers hook the readers. Synopsis summarize everything. Teasers are exciting. Synopsis are explanatory. Unless you’re writing a cookbook in which readers need to know everything (especially what they’re cooking), a little bit of mystery is a good thing.
Of course, there are exceptions to this point. Many books have used their titles to in order to reveal major plot points, and it’s the how the author tells the story that hooks the readers (eg. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead).
Don’t make unfulfilled promises.
In Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle, the . The stakes are high and only grow higher as the series progresses, and as it does, the narrator presents readers with several foreboding promises. They come in different forms, from prophecy to oaths made by characters.
(SPOILER ALERT for Inheritance.)
One of the very first promises readers are given comes in the form of a prophecy that states Eragon will leave Alagaesia and never return. Knowing how much Eragon has given up to protect the people of Alagaesia, which also happens to be his home, nobody wants to see him leave. In this particular prophecy, Paolini follows through, and Eragon and Saphira leave after the defeat of Galbatorix because they suddenly find themselves to be the most powerful beings on the continent.
On the other hand, Paolini fails to follow through with other dreadful promises. For example, in Eldest, Eragon’s cousin Roran helped the people of Palancar Valley (their home) escape the Ra’zac and get to safely. But Roran can’t save everybody, and several men die in the process. One grieving widow blames him and swears she will have a blood price from him. The suspense is built, and the reminders of his debt continue throughout the books as the woman seeks justice. But when her time finally comes, all she does is cut his hand without actually giving any indication of forgiveness.
Similarly, in Brisingr, Eragon made a deal with an ancient Menoa tree that he would give it anything it wanted in exchange for a magical steel beneath its roots so he could make his sword. In Inheritance, he returns to the tree to fulfill his promise, and the tree says maybe four words and tells him to go instead of asking for anything.
In both instances, I got to the end and thought, “Well, that was anticlimactic!” I was disappointed. Not because I wanted Roran to die or Eragon to get hurt, but because it seemed like the high stakes didn’t matter in the end. It felt like a cheap writing to get beloved characters out of a difficult situation.
If you’re going to promise high stakes, follow through with them. Otherwise, readers may not buy into the suspense next time. And a book without suspense is one that’s less likely to be read.
Don’t rely on clichés.
The Lego Movie is a great example of how to use foreshadowing, and how not to do it. It plays on expectations and reality in a humorous way that pokes fun at many, many clichés in plots. For example, in the opening scene, President Business marches in to carry out his plan to end the world. Determined to stop him, Vitruvius says, “Wait… There’s a prophecy.”
“Oh, so now there’s a prophecy?”
You can just hear his voice dripping with sarcasm. Prophecy is one of the most overused forms of foreshadowing today, and not because it should be avoided entirely but because people tend to use the same prophecy over and over again. Recycling is good to save the earth, not your story.
I’m not saying you can’t use prophecy. If written properly, it can serve as a great method for foreshadowing, but more often than not, stories fall into the trap of using the same predictable prophecies over and over again.
Just a few clichés in foreshadowing include: The prophesied teenager from foreign country/dimension saves the world. The deadly bomb that’s going to go off only to be stopped seconds before it does. Basically, any time a boy meets a girl, and they fall in love.
Don’t avoid foreshadowing altogether.
Another one of my favorite kids’ movies that pokes fun at plot holes is The Emperor’s New Groove. Near the climax of the movie, the heroes race the villains all the way back to the capital city, overtake them halfway through the journey, only to have the bad guys show up before them. That’s when the characters stop and say, “No! It can’t be! How did you get here before us?”
“Uh… How did we, Kronk?”
“Well, you got me.” He pulls out a flipchart showing their routes and the villains’ random disappearance. “By all accounts, it doesn’t make sense.”
The problem is not the plot twist; the problem is that it’s unexplained. Don’t throw random stuff at your readers thinking, “Hah! They’ll never see this coming!” Because maybe they won’t. It’d be just about as fair as the catcher at a baseball game expects the batter to miss the ball only to have him get hit in the back of the head with a football. It just doesn’t make any sense, and it’s isn’t consistent.
My main point: don’t try to be too obvious with your foreshadowing. It’s as simple as that. Be sneaky. But hint at what’s coming. That’s how writers are seen as clever when readers still don’t see it coming. It may be difficult to master, but countless authors have proved it’s possible. For more on this subject, be sure to check back next month for part 3: Three Methods for Foreshadowing.
Previously in A Study in Foreshadowing: Why Foreshadow?
Literary references: Jennifer A. Neilsen’s The False Prince, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle.
Movie references: The Lego Movie and Emperor’s New Groove.
Let’s chat! What would you add to the list? What helped you the most? What are some of the worst misuses of foreshadowing you’ve seen?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25521 | Tried and Tested: 4 mascaras the Beaut Team swear by
Mascaras that belong in every handbag
If you missed us on Facebook Live then not to worry, here are the mascaras the Beaut Team swear by.
Out of all the makeup in the world, mascara really is a girl's best friend. It's one of the quickest ways to give your eyes definition and enhance your natural eye colour too. And unlike trickier products like liquid liner, highlighters or contouring products etc you don't need to be a pro to apply it.
Last week we sat down to chat about some of our favourite mascaras that we've tried and tested. From budget to luxury, here are our top picks.
• Rimmel Lash Accelerator Endless €9.95
Rimmel mascaras
Our Beauty Editor Aisling loves this mascara and she has the lashes to back it up too. The formula helps to strengthen weakened lashes so they grow longer. So if you're in the market for longer, stronger lashes then this is definitely one to put on the wish list.
• Maybelline Falsies Push Up Drama €12.30
Maybelline mascaras
Maybelline and Rimmel are both famed for their mascaras so it's no surprise that we have both brands in our top picks. This one comes from Editor Miriam who says that the formula works to make her shorter lashes look longer and more volumised.
• Clarins Supra Volume €26
Clarins mascaras
We've been raving about this mascara since it came out last year and we're still loving it. Why? Because it helps to give you the fullest, longest lashes ever. Not only that, but over time it also strengthens lashes to help them grow longer too.
• MAC Haute and Naughty €22.50
MAC mascaras
Em, two mascaras for the price of one - what's not to love? This cult classic mascara is one we all love. It takes you from day to night giving the option for naturally defined lashes or fully loaded dramatic lashes.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25539 | Bible Book List
Exodus 2:9-11 Modern English Version (MEV)
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 Now the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”
11 In those days, when Moses was grown, he went out to his brothers and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25545 | 3.2.2 Causal pathways
The conceptual model of causal pathways (as described in companion submethodology M05 (as listed in Table 1) for developing a conceptual model of causal pathways (Henderson et al., 2016)), and the hazard analysis that underpins them, describe the logical chain of events ‒ either planned or unplanned ‒ that link coal resource development and potential impacts on water and water-dependent assets. These causal pathways provide the logical and transparent foundation for the impact and risk analysis. They have been identified through a systematic and exhaustive process, and while there is subsequent prioritisation of those pathways according to the likelihood, severity and detectability of potential impacts, there is a need to ensure that all causal pathways are addressed for the impact and risk analysis to meet the necessary quality criteria. This does not mean that all causal pathways need to be assessed in the same way, only that they are all addressed in some way. Many causal pathways are represented directly in the quantitative numerical groundwater and surface water modelling, while others cannot be modelled for scale or complexity reasons and are addressed qualitatively through a narrative using the current conceptual understanding and knowledge base. There are causal pathways that are more local and addressed adequately by existing site-based management, and others that must be considered knowledge gaps (e.g. because the means of disposal for co-produced water is unknown) and some that are on balance considered implausible.
The causal pathways developed for the Namoi subregion have leveraged existing resources and knowledge of geological, surface water and groundwater conceptual models and are available in companion product 2.3 for the Namoi subregion (Herr et al., 2018).
A systematic hazard analysis, using the Impact Modes and Effects Analysis method (described in companion submethodology M11 (as listed in Table 1) for hazard analysis (Ford et al., 2016)), identified the activities that occur as part of coal resource development in the Namoi subregion and that might result in a change in the quality or quantity of surface water or groundwater. The many individual ‘hazards’ themselves are not represented in the hydrological models, instead they are grouped into four causal pathway groups that reflect the main hydrological pathways via which the effects of a hazard propagate away from its origin and which are broadly represented in the BA hydrological models. They are:
• ‘Subsurface depressurisation and dewatering’
• ‘Subsurface physical flow paths’
• ‘Surface water drainage’
• ‘Operational water management’.
Figure 5 and Figure 6 illustrate the regional, three-dimensional overview of the regional settings and form the basis for these causal pathway groups. Further details about causal pathway groups, their hazards and effects are in companion product 2.3 for the Namoi subregion (Herr et al., 2018).
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Figure 5 Schematic diagram of the south-east of the Namoi subregion from Quirindi to Gunnedah showing underlying geology relative to coal resource development
The coal resource developments in the coal resource development pathway (CRDP) are the sum of those in the baseline coal resource development (baseline) and the additional coal resource development (ACRD).
Figure 6
Figure 6 Schematic east-west diagram of the Namoi subregion from Gunnedah to Wee Waa showing underlying geology relative to coal resource development
CSG = coal seam gas Modelled hydrological changes
The hydrological models represent causal pathways through their conceptualisation and parameterisation of changes in surface water drainage, dewatering of the mines, changes in hydraulic properties above longwall mines and discharges of mine water off site. The models integrate the hydrological changes from the different causal pathways into the predicted hydrological response across the model domain over time.
Hydrological numerical modelling (companion product 2.6.1 (Aryal et al., 2018) and companion product 2.6.2 (Janardhanan et al., 2018) for the Namoi subregion) describes the effects of surface water interception and aquifer depressurisation associated with coal resource development. The numerical modelling produces spatially explicit, probabilistic estimates of changes to the hydrology.
Groundwater modelling simulates the change in groundwater fluxes and stores associated with the coal resource development pathway (CRDP) within the model boundaries. The surface water modelling provides probabilistic estimates for a range of hydrological response variables, including changes in flow and volume, in the major streams of the Namoi subregion due to the coal resource development.
The variables estimated by the hydrological modelling form the basis for assessing the changes to landscape classes, and the classification of different types of ecosystems within BAs. Variables that characterise the hydrological dependence of landscape classes within the zone of potential hydrological change were identified and refined through two expert workshops held in August 2016 and December 2016 (see companion product 2.7 (Ickowicz et al., 2018)). These variables were subsequently mapped to hydrological response variables that were able to be modelled. For example, where the ecological experts identified overbank flow as important to a landscape class, this was modelled by considering the number of events that exceed the flow corresponding to a return period of 3 years for the reference period 1983 to 2012. Hydrological changes addressed otherwise
Some hazards and potential hydrological changes were not modelled. For example, changes in water quality due to coal resource development activities are out of scope of BAs, except the potential effects on stream salinity. Changes in stream salinity were not modelled, but are considered qualitatively in Section 3.3.4. Some identified hazards are relevant to the local conditions, and site-based management addresses these.
Companion product 2.3 (Herr et al., 2018) identifies the hazards and their hydrological effects. Table 13 in Herr et al. (2018) shows the causal pathway groups and associated hydrological effects. Figure 35 and Figure 37 in Herr et al. (2018) show the individual hazards the hydrological modelling covers, while Figure 36 and Figure 38 show the individual hazards that are addressed more qualitatively through a narrative. Many other hazards fall within the site-based risk management and therefore are not considered part of this Assessment. These are grouped in Table 14 and Table 15 in Herr et al. (2018).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25546 | TY - JOUR T1 - Identification of peptide coatings that enhance diffusive transport of nanoparticles through the tumor microenvironment JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/659524 SP - 659524 AU - Mohanty, Rashmi P. AU - Liu, Xinquan AU - Kim, Jae Y. AU - Peng, Xiujuan AU - Bhandari, Sahil AU - Leal, Jasmim AU - Arasappan, Dhivya AU - Wylie, Dennis AU - Dong, Tony AU - Ghosh, Debadyuti Y1 - 2019/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/06/04/659524.abstract N2 - In solid tumors, increasing drug penetration promotes their regression and improves the therapeutic index of compounds. However, the heterogeneous extracellular matrix (ECM) acts a steric and interaction barrier that hinders effective transport of therapeutics, including nanomedicines. Specifically, the interactions between the ECM and surface physicochemical properties of nanomedicines (e.g. charge, hydrophobicity) impedes their diffusion and penetration. To address the challenges using existing surface chemistries, we used peptide-presenting phage libraries as a high-throughput approach to screen and identify peptides as coatings with desired physicochemical properties that improve diffusive transport through the tumor microenvironment. Through iterative screening against the ECM and identification by next-generation DNA sequencing and analysis, we selected individual clones and measured their transport by diffusion assays. Here, we identified a net-neutral charge, hydrophilic peptide P4 that facilitates significantly higher diffusive transport of phage than negative control through in vitro tumor ECM. Through alanine mutagenesis, we confirmed that the hydrophilicity, charge, and their spatial ordering impact diffusive transport. P4 phage clone exhibited almost 200-fold improved uptake in ex vivo pancreatic tumor xenografts compared to the negative control. Nanoparticles coated with P4 exhibited ∼40-fold improvement in diffusivity in pancreatic tumor tissues, and P4-coated particles demonstrated less hindered diffusivity through the ECM compared to particles functionalized with gold standard poly(ethylene) glycol or iRGD peptide ligand. By leveraging the power of molecular diversity using phage display, we can greatly expand the chemical space of surface chemistries that can improve the transport of nanomedicines through the complex tumor microenvironment to ultimately improve their efficacy. ER - |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25577 | HAILO auf der Ambiente 2019 – Thumbnail
HAILO’s Ambiente booth
For the complete brand relaunch by BRAINARTIST, all that was missing was the concept for the new trade fair booth, which had to be developed at the same time. But because there was no room for 12 metres of POS shelving (also newly developed by us) with more than 40 newly equipped products, we simply showed the whole POS world virtually. The customers were sitting safely with their VR glasses on our designer chairs – otherwise some would have fallen over. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25601 | Isis: Shades Of The Swarm
Release the hounds. Release the bees. Release the hounds with bees in their mouth so when they bark, they shoot bees at you. It's ten of years of Isis in poster format. Aaron Horkey brings the gold, the natural roughage, and the decay.
22 x 31"
Signed & numbered by Aaron Horkey
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25604 | America's Most Popular Lightbulbs Are Going Off The Market
Soon you won’t have much of a choice than to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs — the government ban on the production of 40- and 60-watt incandescent bulbs has gone into effect for the new year.
These lightbulbs account for more than half of the lightbulbs purchased in the U.S., according to Sustainable Business. The government has already phased out 75- and 100-watt incandescent bulbs.
Retailers will still be selling the rest of their inventory of incandescent bulbs, but new bulbs will not be produced.
George W. Bush signed legislation for the ban in 2007. It’s part of an effort to promote energy efficiency.
LED and CFL bulbs (the latter being the lightbulbs that have a spiral shape) are energy-efficient alternatives to incandescent lightbulbs, but they’re known for casting a harsher light than the warm glow of incandescents.
The energy-efficient bulbs, however, save consumers money on their electric bulbs and typically last longer than incandescents.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25623 | In our first report we asked the question: are the world’s capital markets carrying a carbon bubble? This question related to the fact that there is unburnable carbon, and some of that is owned by listed companies. In terms of carbon there is a clear overhang of fossil fuels beyond what can be burned in a 2°C scenario; there is a lively debate about the financial implications. Some of the issues that have arisen include:
• Does the short-term bias of valuation models mean that the impact of lower-than-expected future demand is largely discounted out at present?
Although it is well established that there are greater amounts of fossil fuels available than can safely be burned, it does not necessarily follow that there are material valuation implications for most listed companies at present. Valuations tend to be based on near term cashflows, which are less likely to be affected by climate-related factors. However, exposure will vary and some companies will be better positioned to withstand weak future demand fossil fuels than others. A significant proportion of fossil fuel projects outside the carbon budget are related to future projects, which companies still have time to cancel – the less that energy transition risks are factored into company planning now, the greater chance of value impacts in the future.
A number of financial institutions have published research on this issue, including HSBC, Citi and Morgan Stanley. We encourage further research in this area to ensure that the market understands the different scenarios and prevents a carbon bubble being inflated. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25639 | Catsu The Cat
"Some of my favourite things" Scarf in Nude Pink
"Favourite things" scarf takes a step away from a cat theme but stays true to playful and girly mood of Catsu.
During two years of existence of a Catsu brand we've got a lot of inquiries for a scarf that would be made in a more sophisticated and less agressive color. So here it is: executed from a pale nude-pink silk, it is a versatile and complimenting piece for all skin and hair types.
And yet, we couldn't completely give up on a cat theme... so there's 7 cats in total hidden in this design. :)
Size of the scarf is 65*65cm.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25672 | The Letterman Standard
The Letterman Standard
October 6, 2009
You're waiting for me to comment on the David Letterman mess, aren't you? OK. What did we expect from people who live by no moral compass other than the one they design for themselves? This compass points whichever way the winds blow and directs people to destinies that will make them happy for the moment.
The media coverage displays the usual double standard. When a Republican, especially a conservative and most especially a self-identified Christian has sex out of wedlock, the media cover it with dripping sarcasm. When one of their own -- David Letterman, Barney Frank, Bill Clinton -- engage in such things, it's all fine with them and the media only wonder what affect this might have on their policies.
It's the same with ACORN. Criminal activity? No problem as long as the goal is the advancement of Democrats and a liberal point of view. The New York Times has named someone to monitor talk radio and Fox News for stories it ought to be looking for itself.
David Letterman has given me one more reason not to watch TV. If you want to read the column I wrote about it, consult your newspaper or find it today on my web page,
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25697 | Coding with Jesse
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I didn't know there is a place to report phishing. Thanks!
The the one I remember receiving was sent from someone who claims to be a VERY rich investor in somewhere like Saudi Arabia. He is having difficulties transferring his money to the states, so he wants me (or everyone he sent the emails to) to send him a few hundred dollars as processing fee, and his money goes under my name.........or some such nonsense. Not exactly phishing, but dangerous nevertheless. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25778 | Ehhhh, What's Up Doc?
Discussion in 'TV Show Talk' started by SayWhat?, Jul 27, 2015.
1. SayWhat?
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2. yosoyellobo
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Felices cumpleaños Bugs.
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And now some of the old cartoons come with a disclaimer that they are for adult viewing only.
Some Looney Tunes characters and plots do at least benefit from a knowledge of history and popular culture at the time.
4. TomCat
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Aug 31, 2002
If I owned a streaming service, one of the products I would be looking to offer would be WB cartoons. All of them. Each and every one. Very few of us could disagree that WB accomplished one of the great artistic achievements of the 20th century. Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Mel Blanc....the cornucopia of genius is unending. Disney should have had this sort of genius, but they really didn't. Pixar and WB make Disney look like a bunch of pikers. If the world of the 50's had seen Cali theme parks based on WB characters instead of DIsney characters, I think they would have sold a pot-load more E-tickets.
One media thing that shocked me the other day was that parents are punishing their kids by making them watch TV. Read it again. WTF, get out of town, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop the clock. When I was a kid I was punished by not being allowed to watch TV. But today it is a punishment to have your iPad taken away and be forced to watch TV. It's a real thing. And common.
And this tells me that streaming services are driven, possibly in large part, by the ability to park kids in front of an iPad, instead of a TV, which is what most of us were parked in front of back in the day. That means that kid-friendly, family-friendly (OK, some of the beauty of WB cartoons might have been its lack of being family friendly at times) content is an asset to a streaming service. And I can't think of another asset that might be this good.
I used to battle depression, but I beat it. Depression-free for 2 decades and counting. But I keep a bunch of DVDs of The Three Stooges available, in case I go into a blue funk (has yet to happen). I think if we each had the ability to dial up a 7-minute Bugs adventure on demand, none of us would ever have to worry about a funk of any kind.
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The one interesting bit on Mel Blanc is that some of the characters voices were actually very similar, they'd speed them up afterwards.
His Tweety was sped up, and I believe Porky was as well.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25791 | are_your_internet_connect_113540_210118As internet devices go, PCs, laptops, and handhelds are all pretty secure, which may sound strange, given the number of successful hacks we’ve seen this year. They’re loaded with security features that make them relatively robust, and able to fend off a variety of attacks.
By comparison, the rapidly growing army of Internet objects are virtually, and often completely defenseless. These could be items such as health and fitness monitors, security cameras, baby monitors, kitchen appliances, video game systems, and just about any device that you connect to the Internet. Many of these simply have no security features at all and some of these objects use recycled encryption keys, meaning that if a hacker breaks into one, he can break into hundreds of thousands of other object sharing the same key.
It is estimated that by 2020, there will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 billion Internet-connected objects online, and the number will only explode from there. If your company has any Internet connected objects in its arsenal they’re much more vulnerable to attack than the PCs, laptops, and handhelds you’ve got connected. Any of these can be used as a potential point of entry for a hacker.
Recently, a new Google-powered search engine called Censys joined the Internet’s ecosystem. Its purpose? To track every vulnerable Internet object online, and it’s really good at its job. The array of devices you’ll find on the Censys list is both staggering and terrifying. On it, you’ll find everything from ATMs to an array of medical devices, computers embedded in modern automobiles, and even control systems for power plants that supply energy to thousands. Again, everything on this list appears because it is vulnerable. These devices lack even rudimentary security features, meaning that even a casual, hobbyist-level hacker can easily take control of them.
Anyone can use the search engine. The good news is, you can use it yourself to identify specific objects on your own company’s LAN to check for vulnerabilities.
The Internet of Things is still in its infancy, and the security measures we take for granted on our PCs simply haven’t caught up with the millions of objects we’re adding to the Internet. Until that happens, your level of vulnerability increases. Take precautions and research the security of devices that you are going to add to your network to minimize your risk and exposure.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25799 | AFCON: Benin National Team
AFCON: Benin National Team
Benin has appeared three times in the African cup of Nations tournament. This would make it the fourth time and they are here to prove to everyone that they are worthy to be called the CAF champions. Their head coach, Michel Dussuyer, has announced his team for the competition:
GOALKEEPERS: Saturnin Allagbe, Fabien Farnolle, Cherif Dine Kakpo
DEFENDERS: Khaled Adenon, Moise Adilehou, Seidou Baraze, Rodrigue Fassinou, Emmanuel Imorou, David Kiki, Junior Salomon, Olivier Verdon
MIDFIELDERS: Jordan Adeoti, Sessi D’Almeida, Rodrigue Kossi, Mama Seibou , Stephane Sessegnon, Anaane Tidjani
FORWARDS: Desire Azankpo, David Djigla, Jodel Dossou, Steve Mounie, Mickael Pote, Cebio Soukou.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25805 | The Crown, Happy Valley and Fleabag lead BAFTA 2017 TV nominations
But The Night Manager misses out almost entirely.
Claire Foy in The Crown
The BAFTA 2017 nominations are in, and leading the pack this year is historical drama The Crown, with five nods.
In the Leading Actress, Claire Foy is up for her role as Queen Elizabeth II, while Jared Harris and John Lithgow each get nominations for Supporting Actor. Vanessa Kirby is up for Supporting Actress, and the programme is also nominated in Drama Series.
Close behind is one-off drama Damilola, Our Loved Boy with three nods in Single Drama, Leading Actor (for Babou Ceesay) and Supporting Actress (for Wunmi Mosaku).
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Happy Valley also nabs three nominations in Drama Series, Leading Actress (for Sarah Lancashire) and Supporting Actress (for Siobhan Finneran). Also nominated in Drama Series are War & Peace and The Durrells.
Somewhat surprisingly, The Night Manager missed out almost entirely. The BBC series' lead stars Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and Hugh Laurie all picked up Golden Globes for their performances earlier this year, but only Tom Hollander has been recognised by BAFTA in the Supporting Actor category.
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Elsewhere, other Leading Actress nods go to Jodie Comer for Thirteen and Nikki Amuka-Bird for NW, while other Leading Actor nominations are for Adeel Akhtar (Murdered by My Father), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hollow Crown) and Robbie Coltrane (National Treasure).
On the comedy front, Fleabag gets three nods in Scripted Comedy and Female Performance in a Comedy Programme (for both Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Colman).
Also with nods in the Female Performance in a Comedy Programme are Diane Morgan for Cunk on Shakespeare and Lesley Manville for Mum.
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In the Male Performance in a Comedy Programme are Asim Chaudhry (People Just Do Nothing), David Mitchell (Upstart Crow), Harry Enfield (The Windsors) and Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle).
Up for best Comedy & Comedy Entertainment Programme are Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe, Cunk on Shakespeare, The Last Leg and Taskmaster.
Sue Perkins will host this year's BAFTA Television Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday, May 14.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25806 | Saturday, February 15, 2014
Sony Alpha 6000 review: Hands-on
The Sony Alpha 6000 is the latest Compact System Camera to join the brand's newly named range of Alpha interchangeable lens cameras
The Sony Alpha 6000 is the brand's latest Compact System Camera (CSC) and an upgraded version of the similar Sony Alpha 5000, which was announced at CES. The 6000 brings a few new treats to the party, including an Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) and the brand new Bionz X processor and what it claims is the world's fastest autofocus - just 0.06 seconds.
While the 5000 replaces the Sony NEX-3N and Sony NEX-5T models, the newer Alpha 6000 will replace the popular Sony NEX-6 and Sony NEX-7 models as the brand continues to drop the NEX name from its interchangeable lens camera range.
Sony Alpha 6000: Size and build
Packing an E-Mount lens system, the camera's design is similar to that of the NEX models and the Alpha 5000, although unlike the latter, the new 6000 includes the new OLED Tru finder EVF, which has a wider viewing angle, higher contrast and higher resolution than Sony's previous viewfinders.
Whether you like the EVF is largely down to personal taste, but in our swift hands-on, Sony's new EVF seemed just as good as those we've seen from other brands. The proximity sensor works pretty fast when you hold the camera up to your face, although the colours looks slighly cold, as with most electronic viewfinders.
Sony Alpha 6000: Features
The Alpha 6000 packs a 24.3 megapixel Exmor APS HD CMOS sensor, and there are 7 customisable buttons – including two dedicated custom buttons – resulting in a whopping 43 assignable functions.
The camera also features Wi-Fi for direct uploading and hooking up to your smartphone or tablet for use as a remote control. On-board NFC also means that you can set up a 'one-touch' connection with compatible products.
You'll also get a 3-inch tiltable LCD screen, built-in flash and multi-interface shoe.
Sony Alpha 6000: Picture quality
Although we reeled off some shots of the riverside view of the Thames on a very rainy and grey, the units that we were using weren't final retail products so we can't really make a fair comment on picture quality yet but that's something we'll be looking at in more detail in our full review.
Sony Alpha 6000: Verdict
We like the sturdy build of the camera - the controls fell well placed and it sits comfortably in the hand, unlike some CSCs which can feel a little unbalanced once a lens in attached. The added Wi-Fi and NFC, plus the EVF and also neat tweaks and we look forward to taking the new sensor for a spin as soon as we can get our mitts on a full review model.
Sony Alpha 6000 release date: Mid-April 2014
Sony Alpha 6000 price: £550 (body only), £670 (with 16-50mm kit lens), £880 (Tele double lens kit), 16-70mm Zeiss lens kit (£1400)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25832 | The PlayFinder™
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Dark Comedy Farce Historical Melodrama Mystery Romantic Satire Tragedy Thriller
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Total Cast: 1, Flexible Set
ISBN-13: 9780822223658
FEE: $100 per performance. SPECIAL NOTE: A CD containing the original music by Jack Holmes is available through the Play Service for $35.00, plus shipping and handling. To include this music in your production, you must complete the Optional Production Materials Rights Application. The nonprofessional fee for the use of this music is $20.00 per performance.
THE STORY: By late summer, 1964, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was a deeply wounded man. Still in shock and consumed with grief and guilt over the assassination of his older brother, President John F. Kennedy, on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas, he was at a crossroads. The 1964 presidential election was approaching and President Lyndon Johnson, who had been dangling the possibility of a vice-presidential role to RFK, finally called Kennedy over to the White House to tell him his decision. The result of that meeting and the subsequent direction for the next, and last, four years of Robert Kennedy's life are the focus of this play.
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Beto Says "No Más"
There are a number of Democratic presidential candidates who seemed very promising heading into this cycle, but who never gained any real traction. Exhibit 1A is Beto O'Rourke, who seemed as if he might be the next Jack Kennedy, but performed more like the next Jack Fellure. His original strategy of "be charismatic, and make good YouTube videos" did not work out, so he shifted to "threaten to seize people's guns." To nobody's surprise, his polling numbers kept dropping, and he was in serious danger of missing the next debate. On Friday, O'Rourke finally bowed to reality and ended his presidential bid.
In the e-mail announcing his decision to supporters, O'Rourke said he will not run for any office in 2020. So, he won't challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), though Cornyn will still have all he can handle in the general election from MJ Hegar. There is no U.S. Senate race in Texas in 2022, so unless O'Rourke decides to make a run for the governor's mansion or some other statewide office in that year, or he attempts a return to the House of Representatives, then we won't be hearing from him again until 2024 at the earliest. In that year, however, he could attempt a rematch of his close-but-no-cigar run against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), this time with a bluer Texas and a presidential-year electorate. It would not be a surprise if that is what O'Rourke has in mind.
Of course, by then he will be out of the public eye for 5 years and what people will remember is his dreadful presidential run, not his almost-successful Senate run in 2018. This goes to show you just how blinding the presidency is. If the day after the 2018 election O'Rourke had announced that he was challenging Cornyn in 2020, every Democrat in the country would have cheered him on and money would have poured in. Now his political career is probably over. Moral of the story: Maybe, just maybe, a 50-50 or so shot at a lifetime job in the Senate is better than a 1 in a gazillion shot at being president (Yes Steve Bullock, we are looking at you).
Saturday Q&A
For now, the status quo is that we start the Q&A with questions about the quid pro quo, and go from there.
Q: At this point, it's obvious that there will be Senate impeachment proceedings. You have also noted that it is likely that it will be a trial rather than a parliamentary-gimmicked sham. At very least, it will look like a trial. Unless every single witness (thus far; there's plenty more coming) is all fake, as Fox News would have us believe, the case seems one of res ipsa loquitur, or nearly so. Even the little we've seen and heard is damning, plausible, and corroborated. What happens if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) makes it look like a trial and then all of Donald Trump's Toadies fall neatly into line, put obeisance before country, and acquit? Chief Justice John Roberts will preside over the trial. What if there's a patently obvious violation of the Constitution, one which Roberts can't possibly misinterpret let alone miss, yet a corrupt Senate acquits? In criminal and civil courts, the judge may set aside an obviously wrong verdict. Is there any provision for this at the presidential impeachment level? How much latitude does the Chief Justice have during and after the proceedings? B.H., Norwood, MA
A: As we all know, impeachments are rare, having happened only 19 times in all of U.S. history. Further, the Chief Justice only presides in the case of presidential impeachments and, of course, there have only been two of those, both conducted in front of a Senate that was broadly hostile to the defendant.
All of this to say is that there is virtually no precedent here that helps to answer any of these sorts of questions. Consequently, John Roberts will largely be operating without a roadmap. That said, we think it is very unlikely that he would try something like this. It is true that judges have the power to set aside verdicts in a civil or criminal trial. However, Roberts will be acting not as a judge but as a "presiding officer," and the question is not whether Trump committed a criminal or civil offense, it is whether or not he committed "high crimes and misdemeanors." It is improbable that any judge would feel confident that their well-established powers in the first scenario would apply in the second scenario, especially since that would de facto mean that a single person would be declaring, by fiat, who gets to be President of the United States. It is especially improbable that Roberts would reach that conclusion, since he's previously been quite clear about the limits of judicial power, even when something unconstitutional appears to be taking place. His position on political gerrymandering, for example, is that it's wrong, but it's also not the business of the federal court system and is an issue for the politicians. Surely, even if he thought the Senate reached the wrong verdict, that would be his position in an impeachment case.
Q: Isn't it possible that Republican Senators are publicly supporting Trump, but will nonetheless happily vote to impeach him when given the opportunity? After all, all of them currently have to be associated with this guy but few of them actually want to be. By voting to impeach him, they would be replacing him with Mike Pence (who is deplorable to me, but is a much more acceptable "regular" Republican). They could say to their constituents: "Look what I did! I got rid of that person we all knew was a reckless maniac and I restored our country's dignity by giving you President Pence. You're welcome." Is it really all that implausible? M.F., Philadelphia, PA
A: It's not implausible. With the caveat that there are a lot of "known unknowns" right now—"what else will future witnesses add?," "will folks like John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney be compelled to testify?," "how will the public respond when they actually get to hear it from the horse's mouth?," etc.—we think there are three plausible scenarios for how this turns out:
• Trump is acquitted on a party-line vote (or a near-party-line vote)
• Trump is acquitted, with most or all Democrats and a handful of centrist/vulnerable GOP Senators voting to convict
• Trump is convicted, with the GOP deserting him en masse, perhaps even unanimously
If one of the first two scenarios comes to pass, then the President's Republican supporters in the Senate will continue to insist, until they are blue in the face (red in the face?) that this whole procedure was irregular, that the Democrats are lawless jerks who don't respect election results, that this was a witch hunt, and so forth.
If the third scenario comes to pass, the Republicans in the Senate will adopt a position that blends mournful ("We didn't like having to do that, but no president is above the law, so we had no choice") with optimistic ("Fortunately, in Mike Pence, we elevated a good man to take the reins"). Of course, if Pence ends up implicated too, then the calculus gets trickier, but McConnell & Co. will cross that bridge when they come to it.
Whatever happens, you can bet that the Senate GOP caucus is very well aware of where everyone else stands, and that there will be a collective decision about what to do. Someone like Susan Collins (R-ME) or Mitt Romney (R-UT) might go rogue and turn against Trump, because their personal circumstances/agenda demand it. But there is zero chance that, say, a Ted Cruz or a Ron Johnson (R-WI) votes for conviction unless they know dozens of their fellow Republican senators are doing so as well.
Q: In your October 31 post, you write that Senator Doug Jones (D-AL) has his mind already made up on how he would vote on the conviction of President Trump (against conviction). This is due, of course, to the rather deep red nature of Alabama electorate.
But doesn't this assume that Roy Moore would be his opponent, thus giving Jones a chance at reelection? In most other scenarios, against practically anyone (and I would even include Jeff Sessions) Jones will not be re-elected. And this leads up to my question: If Jones sees the writing on the wall that re-election is not going to happen, why would he not vote with his base who placed him in office and vote to convict?
P.M., Pensacola, FL
A: Each night, we write many thousands of words, often with a fairly short amount of time to do so. Sometimes, it comes out clunky, and our intended meaning is not perfectly clear. In this case, we did not mean to suggest that Jones has already made his mind up, or even that he's likely to vote for acquittal. After all, far more of his base is made up of Trump haters than of Trump lovers. All we intended to suggest is that he is one of the very few Democrats who has something to ponder when it comes to his vote.
Q: Just for the books, through Friday what's our current total on "Ukraine-scandal X" nicknames? R.R., Memphis, TN
A: Thus far, we're up to five: Ukrainegate, Ukrainepot Dome, Ukraine-ghazi, Ukraine-Contra, and UkraineYZ Affair. As you can imagine, more are coming (and we welcome suggestions). We're also building toward a grand finale, you might say, at some point down the road.
Q: I have a question regarding impeachment and its impact on the Republican primary. Let us assume that Trump is impeached, convicted, removed, and barred from holding future office. And just for this hypothetical, let's say that the conviction vote comes down mid-to-late January. Is the process far enough into the election cycle that such a result could throw the Republican primary into chaos? Presumably, the GOP would try and latch onto Pence as their candidate, but how would that happen? He's not going to file before any of the primary deadlines right now, as that would not please Trump. Would the GOP potentially be thrown into a brokered convention? D.P., Seattle, WA
A: We're not actually certain that the GOP would latch on to Pence, particularly if he appears to be compromised by the same scandal that swept Trump out of office. In any event, if the President is no longer available to run as of mid-to-late January, that probably won't create too much chaos. Here is a list of primary filing dates, by state and party.
There are quite a few states whose deadlines come prior to, say, January 20. And that list does include some very large and important states. However, we suspect that most or all of them would bend their deadlines in this scenario, for at least four reasons: (1) it's the right thing to do; (2) many of them are red states; (3) some of them, like Ohio with John Kasich, might want to be able to get a native son or daughter onto the ballot; and (4) changing the filing deadline is a heck of a lot easier than asking polling place workers to deal with hundreds of thousands or millions of write-in votes.
Our guess is that a brokered convention starts to become a real possibility if Trump is convicted and removed after primary voters have started casting their votes. At that point, he would have sucked up some delegates that would be "dead," plus it would be tough for any replacement candidate to pull things together in time to dominate Super Tuesday. And if the Super Tuesday vote is split three or four ways, with Trump also owning delegates, it would be pretty hard for anyone at that point to lock up the nomination pre-convention.
Q: Mitch McConnell says it's not fair that Trump can't have his own attorney in closed impeachment inquiry hearings. How about this quid pro quo from the Democrats to the White House: Trump can have his attorney in the hearings as soon as the White House starts obeying subpoenas. Do you think it could happen? J.J.F., Woodbridge, VA
A: There is, first of all, no chance that this offer is publicly announced. It would be bad optics for the Democrats, and would play into the Republicans' claims that the Democrats are just making this up on the fly, and are playing political games.
It's possible that this is proposed privately, but we doubt it. From the perspective of the White House, agreeing to abide by impeachment-related subpoenas would not only be out of character, it would put their resistance to non-impeachment-related subpoenas on even shakier legal ground (if that is possible). From the perspective of Democrats, they're not likely to get much value out of Trump loyalists' testimony. And, on some level, the Trump loyalists' resistance actually strengthens the blue team's claims that the President thinks the law doesn't apply to him. Further, allowing a Trump-employed lawyer (or six) into the room would muddy the waters, and would end up giving the Republicans talking points.
Q: I've noticed that you sometimes use sports teams in your analogies, almost always referencing one of the professional sports teams from Pittsburgh. Are either one of you originally from the Pittsburgh area or just fans (or haters)? J.J., Johnstown, PA
A: First of all, any sports analogies, references, quotes, etc., were almost certainly written by (Z). (V) hasn't followed sports regularly since Mickey Mantle was with the Yankees, and he took his undergrad degree from an institution not exactly known for its sports prowess (MIT). On the other hand, (Z) went to a university (UCLA) with 118 national championships across the various sports, and he follows several sports closely, particularly baseball, football, and basketball.
Anyhow, there are two reasons for the tendency toward Pittsburgh sports references. The first is that (Z)'s maternal grandparents, who first sparked his interest in politics, were from...Johnstown, PA, as chance would have it. Consequently, they were big Pittsburgh sports fans. So, it's a small tip of the cap to them, not unlike Carol Burnett tugging on her ear.
The second reason is that a friend and fantasy football rival of (Z)'s, and a regular reader of the blog, is also a big Pittsburgh sports fan. (Z)'s NFL team, grandparents notwithstanding, is actually the Green Bay Packers (a habit acquired from his Wisconsin-born stepfather). Sports-inclined readers may recall that the last time the Packers played in the Super Bowl, they beat the Steelers. So, most of the time that an analogy is deployed in which one NFL team defeats another, (Z)'s choice is generally Green Bay defeating Pittsburgh. It's not unlike making USC jokes, which (Z) also does on occasion (including once this week).
Q: Regarding Trump's change of residency: I think you might be on to something with your third guess as to why Trump may have switched his state of residence. While the GOP bench is paper-thin in New York, it does include Ivanka Trump. Picking his daughter as candidate for VP seems to be just the kind of absolutely bonkers thing DJT would do. Would it be legal? R.H.O., Portland, ME
A: Yes, it would be legal. There are federal anti-nepotism laws, but federal laws cannot supersede the Constitution. And the Constitution has only a handful of requirements for presidential and vice-presidential candidates, none of which are "they cannot be related to one another." Since Ivanka is above the age of 35, is a natural-born citizen, and has lived in the United States for at least 14 years, she could indeed be on a ticket with her father.
Q: In Trump's reelection campaign ad, it touts his great accomplishments. I know in the past he has stated that he will never be impeached because he has accomplished so much for the American people. Recently, Jared Kushner stated that Trump's "record of accomplishments is unimpeachable." Really? I admit that I'm not a fan of Trump, but from my standpoint, thankfully, he has been a pretty ineffective president, even ignoring the constant barrage of scandal and corruption! Is there a metric that historians use to judge how effective presidents are during their term(s)? And if so how does Trump stack up?
It seems to me that despite his personal loathing of President Obama, Trump has tried to emulate or one up him on almost every thing he accomplished, from getting the Nobel to killing bin Laden. It's not working, I think, because he is doing it not in the spirit of what's best for the nation but what can further his childish feud. The Baghdadi killing has proven to barely moved the needle and no one is talking about it like they did with bin Laden. His tax cuts have been generally greeted with a "meh" from the American public. He hasn't built a Wall, he hasn't replaced Obamacare with something better, he hasn't brought peace to the Middle East, he hasn't passed astonishing international deals, he hasn't made things better for the middle class, he hasn't revived the coal industry, farming, or manufacturing industries, and he certainly hasn't drained the swamp. Granted, he has "owned the libs" a lot, but at the end of the day how does that help anyone, including his precious base? I know he is the ultimate Con Man but running on his record of accomplishments seems like a very risky move.
D.E., Lilitz, PA
A: We're going to start with the second paragraph. You're right that Trump doesn't have a particularly impressive record of accomplishment, particularly if we subtract things that had nothing to do with him (the tax cut) and things that any GOP president could have done (executive orders). However, one cannot run for reelection without talking about one's record, and so Trump has to piece together whatever "record" he can, and run on it. The irony that the hated Barack Obama has provided virtually the entire structure for Trump's presidency is not lost on us, though we suspect it's lost on the President and most of his followers.
As to Trump's followers, they—like most voters—have a psychological need to be "right" about the person they voted for and that they support. And so, Trump can count on them to cling to his accomplishments, such as they are, like they are precious diamonds. He can also count on them to invent "accomplishments," as well. On regular occasions, (Z) frequents places where rank-and-file Republican voters post their political opinions. Just yesterday, he read a lengthy conversation between a sizable number of Trump supporters in which they all congratulated him (and each other) on the "fact" that he has significantly reduced the national debt. Wow.
And now, your question about evaluating presidents. There are many moving parts to a presidency. Further, being president in 1830 was very different from being president in 1890, which was very different from being president in 1950, and so forth. Consequently, most of the time that historians are asked to produce rankings of the presidents, they are simply asked to crunch all the data in their heads and to make their best possible judgments.
That said, some surveys do try to put things on something of an objective mathematical basis by asking historians to rank the presidents in a slew of categories. For example, in the widely publicized 2017 C-SPAN poll, scholars were asked to rank presidents according to 11 different standards: public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision/setting an agenda, pursued equal justice for all, performance within context of time, and overall. Not bad, but it can be very hard to consistently apply some of these abstractions. For example, George Washington—who, as you may have heard—owned slaves, did not regard women as equals, and felt only people with property should be allowed to vote, ranked #13 in "pursued equal justice for all." That's just one spot below Dwight D. Eisenhower, who forcibly integrated Little Rock Central High school, supported women's suffrage as a young man (women got the vote when he was in his 20s), and certainly favored universal male suffrage.
Whenever (Z) is asked to consider this question, he prefers to rank presidents according to the six key functions of the job. To wit: the president is the commander-in-chief (leads the armed forces), the nation's chief diplomat (manages foreign policy), the nation's chief economist (manages the economy), the head of state (serves as a symbol of American culture, and an inspiration to the citizenry), the chief executive (runs the executive branch), and the chief legislator (sets and advances the country's legislative agenda). If we rank a president in each of these areas, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being highest, it is awfully hard to see any where Trump currently merits a score higher than 5 (chief economist). There are at least a couple (chief diplomat, head of state) where he's right around a 1.
Q: Various media outlets have been reporting a running tally of the total number of Trump's lies, but I have not seen any tally of the total number of claims of fact he has made, and therefore the lie total is a somewhat meaningless statistic, as it is a numerator lacking a denominator. I am much more interested in learning what percentage of his claims of fact are found to be lies, e.g. is that 12,000 lies out of 120,000 total claims (10% lie rate), or more like 12,000 out of 18,000 (67% lie rate)? My impression is it is much closer to the latter than the former, so with just 50% more tallying effort these outlets could be giving us a much better picture, and a story like, "Two thirds of everything Trump says is false," would be more powerful than, "Trump has lied 12,000 times." Have you heard of any attempts to capture the denominator? K.C., Portland, OR
A: This would be very difficult to do, in practice, because it would be quite hard to decide what does and does not constitute a statement of fact. For example, what if the President says, "I woke up this morning, looked out across the White House lawn, and as I saw the sun rise, I thought about the good people of Ohio." Is that a statement of fact? If so, is it one? Or is it four (waking up, looking out, seeing the sun rise, thinking of Ohio)? Ultimately, the assumption is that any president utters a lot of: (1) opinions, (2) spin, (3) declarations of fact that are unimportant, like that the sun rose this morning, (4) declarations of fact that are important, like jobs figures. Every president fudges some things across these various categories. However, even in the absence of a direct comparison or a percentage, there is simply no doubt that Trump lies far more often than anyone who has ever held his office. Or any office, for that matter.
To the extent that this can be put on a systematic basis, the only way to do it is to focus on major (and possibly dubious) pronouncements by presidents and other politicians, and to assess those. This is the bailiwick of Politifact. According to their numbers, 85% of the Trump statements they have looked at are at least halfway false, and 50% are completely false. By way of comparison, the figures for Mitch McConnell are 60% and 18%, for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) they are 76% and 28%, for Barack Obama they are 51% and 13%, for Hillary Clinton they are 50% and 13%, and for Bill Clinton they are 54% and 12%. For reasons that are not clear, the site does not have a tally for George W. Bush.
What this suggests is that when you take the most assertive and aggressive statements of politicians (which is what Politifact tends to select for analysis), you're going to find a lot of spin and distortion, but not all that many outright lies. While Trump is at least a little more willing to spin and distort than anyone else, what really separates him is his willingness to peddle outright falsehoods.
Q: There are several headlines on various web sites like this one from Axios: "October Jobs Report Surprises with 128,000 Jobs Added." We've seen these kinds of headlines over many months now, all while leading economists have predicted that various indicators should be turning lower.
Can economic indicators coming from the Trump administration be trusted? Or could the numbers be fudged to make the economy seem better than it is and to keep the stock market at record levels? If the numbers could be manipulated for political ends, how likely is it that they are just another lie—more fake news—from an administration that thinks lying is a legitimate tool to keep them in power?
H.B., Edgewood, NM
A: When it comes to stats produced by the federal bureaucracy, you can probably trust them. First, it is quite clear that many of the folks who work under Trump are unwilling to play ball the way he wants it to be played, and that they are going to keep doing their jobs the way they think they should be done. Second, cooking the books would be very tough. Humans are very bad at faking data, and it would take only one person to blow the whistle and to blow the lid off of the whole scheme if the administration was trying to do so.
Perhaps most importantly, however, is that Trump is not particularly constrained by what the data actually reveal. He has no compunction about lying (see previous answer), and he knows his base does not double-check his "facts." Consider the jobs figure you quote above. Here is Trump's tweet prompted by that news (a tweet that, by the way, came 38 minutes earlier than it's supposed to, per the embargo that the government imposes on this information):
No need for fake data, or fake results, when you're willing to completely make up 50% of your major pronouncements on policy.
Q: In discussing paying for Medicare For All, you wrote that Emmanuel Saez' and Gabriel Zucman's contention is that "If employer healthcare contributions were turned into salary, and then everyone was taxed a bit more, there would be enough money to pay for Medicare for All, and Joe the Janitor and Mike the mid-level manager would also take home more in pay, since their tax bill might go up by $5,000, but their take-home pay would go up by $15,000, leaving them $10,000 ahead."
I believe there is no way in blue blazes employers would turn healthcare contributions into salary as evidenced by the fact that most of the companies who got the big Trump tax cuts failed to give big increases to workers rather using the money to buy back stock. What indications are there that workers would get a pay increase big enough to offset the tax increase required by M4A?
R.C., Des Moines, IA
A: Let us start with a reminder that Saez and Zucman are not politically neutral in this matter, and so their analyses must be taken with at least a small grain of salt.
That said, you're right that most employers will not be so generous. It is also the case that the item we wrote was a little bit imprecise. What is more correct is to say that the average working adult costs $15,000 to insure, with half of that coming from the employee's paycheck and the other half coming from the employer. As you may have heard, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released her long-anticipated plan for paying for Medicare for All on Friday (we'll have more on it on Monday), and she's solved this riddle in a fairly predictable manner. She would have the employers send their $7,500 to the federal government, while the employees' $7,500 would no longer be taken from their paychecks, with no tax increase. So, the employers would not be able to take any new money for themselves, while the employees would see an increase of $7,500 in income. Even if, in the final bill, there has to be a tax increase on the middle class, it would probably cost less than $7,500. In short, the Senator has put forth a plausible scenario in which more people get insurance, many people take home more in salary, and business owners won't be able to enrich themselves.
Q: You have mentioned a few times over the last year regarding the future of the GOP post-Trump. Your basic premise seems to be that they will be in a sort of "political wilderness."
I have given some thought to this, but I'm not sure quite where the GOP goes once Trump leaves the stage. After all, Trump supporters (and even the Never Trumpers) need to go somewhere. The way the modern media works suggests that they will still have a big seat at the table in some way.
Should a woman or a gay man get elected president, I can see that president being treated by the GOP in much the same way they treated Barack Obama. I think there will be a rise of the Tea Party 2.0 (they will all of a sudden start to care about the deficit again). There will likely be a significant uptake in sexist or homophobic behavior/language from the right much like the racism that was prevalent during the Obama era.
What do you think? I'd be curious to know what your thoughts are on what happens to the large population of the country who still identify as Republicans—whatever that actually means these days.
R.M., Pensacola, FL
A: Our position on this question has been consistent. The GOP can choose to be a minority party, with great strength in one or two regions of the country, but largely unable to win national elections. That is what happened with the Federalists between 1800 and their collapse in the 1820s, and it is what happened with the Democrats between the Civil War and the New Deal. It's also the course that the GOP is on right now. Keep in mind that the Party has won the popular vote in just one of the last seven presidential elections (2004), and that both men they have put in the White House in that time needed help from the Electoral College, along with some shenanigans. In this scenario, a lot of the NeverTrump Republicans end up as Democrats or as independents.
The alternative is to change the Party's focus in some major way, and to try to bring one or more new political factions into the tent. There has been talk for at least a decade, for example, that the GOP could be a natural home for Latinos, who tend to be religious, family-oriented, value hard work and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, etc. However, that cannot happen until the Republicans abandon xenophobia and their generally anti-immigration stance, and thus, much of Trumpism. There are a number of cases, in U.S. history, of a party reinventing itself, with the two most obvious being the Democrats in the 1920s and the Republicans in the 1960s. This usually takes a few cycles to pull off; you will notice that the blue team did not start to win presidential elections again until the 1930s and the red team did not start to win again until the late 1960s and 1970s.
We do not know which path the Republicans will ultimately choose; nobody does. If you made us take our best guess, however, we would guess that it will be option #1. Reinventing a political party takes an awful lot of bridge-building, and no small amount of fortitude. We see limited evidence that the current leadership of the GOP has those capacities. It is far easier, particularly for those who are currently in office and whose careers will have wound down by 2025 or 2030, to just stay the course.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25876 | electric mountain bicycle pedal
Pedals were initially attached to cranks connecting directly to the driven (usually front) wheel. The safety bicycle, as it is known today, came into being when the pedals were attached to a crank driving a sprocket that transmitted power to the driven wheel by means of a roller chain.
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This Australian Designer Says Kylie Jenner Copied Her Look For Coachella
You know it's Coachella season when every single social media news feed is covered with flower crowns, flash tats and floppy hats.
Around this time every year, it's basically impossible to avoid seeing the influx of festival photos. I mean, did you even attend Coachella if you didn't post 24 pics of you in front of a ferris wheel?
Don't worry, Kendall and Kylie Jenner uploaded their fair share of photos, too.
In the past 48 hours, Kylie's entire SnapStory has been closeups of her in bikinis, monokinis and rainbow braids. She's covered all angles of her looks, so her followers can take note of all her festival outfits.
Now here's where things get interesting. It seems as though Kylie actually copied a look from an Australian designer instead of coming up with it herself.
The designer (@BritDay121 on Instagram) uploaded a photo of a sequin swimsuit she wore two weeks ago next to a photo of Kylie wearing the same look at Coachella.
Brit apparently wore the Discount Universe bikini to the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival in New South Wales.
The designer captioned the photo,
When the babe'n @kyliejenner steals your look!!
The tone of the caption makes me think Brit isn't too mad about Kylie copying her style, but is actually rather flattered.
The outfit is pretty identical, down to the pink hair. In my eyes, everyone looks the same at Coachella anyway, but maybe Kylie owes the designer a bit of credit for inspiring her festival look.
Or maybe Kylie just saw it on Pinterest. Who knows. Either way, I'm excited to see what other outfits the Jenner sisters wear before the festival is over.
Citations: Kylie Jenner Coachella Outfit (Teen Vogue) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25892 | My Wild Ones #16 | A Simple Box
Isn't it funny how the most simple things are usually the most fun for kids? I couldn't begin to tell you how many toys these two have (it's a bit ridiculous, send help when August comes around haha). But the best thing they've played with all week? A cardboard box and some plastic balls!
We do have a ball pit somewhere, but who needs one when you have a cardboard box?
1. It always amazes me how much children (and cats) love a cardboard box. Even though mine have way too many toys, they will still play with cardboard boxes and they are 10, 8 and 4! Sarah #MyWildOnes
2. mine love cardboard boxes, empty water bottles and the youngest loves the baby wipes. It's hilarious how much fun they get out of such simple things. xx
3. Parker's smile is just priceless! I have these boxes too. A lot. How can I throw it away when my son would give me the sad face when I am about to =P
4. Ah look how grown up Parker looks! Such a happy boy! Mine are the same, weve had a load of deliveries so the kids have been having loads of fun haha xx
5. Haha! They look like they're having a fab time :) Parker is looking so grown up! Where does time go??
Thanks for linking up to #MyWildOnes xx
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25895 | Continuing Benefits
Health insurance is one of the biggest concerns for employees who lose their jobs -- not to mention their spouses and children. So many of us get our health care coverage through work, and often at a much reduced cost. Federal law gives employees the right to continue their group health insurance coverage after they quit, are laid off, are fired (for reasons other than gross misconduct), or have their hours cut to below the employer's threshold for eligibility. Spouses and family members can also continue coverage for these reasons, or if they lose coverage through the employee in other ways (for example, through divorce or death).
There's a big, big catch to COBRA coverage: You have to pay the full premium, including whatever your employer used to pick up for you. But at least you'll be paying at the employer-negotiated group rate, often much lower than what you'd have to pay for an individual policy.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25904 | The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire tells the story of four familiar plants—the apple, the tulip, the marijuana plant, and the potato—and the human desires that link their destinies to our own. Its broader subject is the complex reciprocal relationship between the human and natural worlds, as illustrated through the cultural history of plant domestication and gardening. Pollan writes in his introduction that his book is “as much about the human desires that connect us to those plants as it is about the plants themselves.” These human desires, he asserts, “form a part of natural history the same way the hummingbird’s love of red does, or the ant’s taste for the aphid’s honeydew.” His book is both a social history of plant domestication and a natural history of the human desires these plants evolved to gratify. The question Pollan raises is: Who is really in control? Are humans selecting humanly desirable plant traits, or are these plants “tricking” humans into helping them propagate by enticing them with sweetness, beauty, intoxication, or the illusion of control?
In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan inverts the conventional, human-centered view of the world and looks at plant domestication from the plants’ point of view. What is in it for them? Coevolution involves a complex process of adaptation within a mutually beneficial relationship in which each organism receives something in return for a service rendered. The most familiar example of coevolution is the honeybee and the flower, in which the honeybee receives nutritious pollen and nectar in return for cross-pollinating the flower. Human domestication of plants is a special case of coevolution in which humans have selected and bred certain plants for their nutritional, medicinal, or aesthetic value, and plants have responded by expressing, within the range of their genetic variability, new and humanly desirable traits. Plant domestication could not have occurred, however, without a prior innovation in plant evolution, the emergence of angiosperms, or flowering plants, about one hundred million years ago. Instead of scattering their pollen to the wind or using asexual cloning, these plants evolved showy flowers and seeds to disseminate their genes. With flowering plants, Pollan argues, beauty entered the world and made it possible for plants to attract pollinators and seed dispersers on the basis of color, flower appearance, and the food value of their fruit.
About ten thousand years ago, a second innovation in plant evolution appeared known as the agricultural revolution. A group of edible grasses responded to human selection by evolving larger and more nutritious kernels, which in turn encouraged humans to clear land and plant more of them. The concentrated food value from these annual grasses—wheat, rye, barley, oats, and corn—made it possible for them to be harvested, stored, ground, and used as a reliable food source, transforming humans from hunter-gatherers to settled agriculturalists. These grains, in turn, found a reliable means of propagation. The first cities and ancient human civilizations emerged in part because of this dependable annual food surplus, which freed a part of the population to become scribes, priests, warriors, or artists. Charles Darwin referred to the sexual revolution among plants that made this possible as “an abominable mystery,” acknowledging that without flowering plants, human civilization would not be here. When Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species (1859), he began his first chapter with a discussion of the history of “artificial selection,” or plant and animal breeding, showing how in selecting from among the wealth of genetic traits to be passed down to future generations, humans are playing a comparable role to natural selection in nature. Perhaps domesticated plants and animals, Pollan muses, are nature’s “success stories.” Humans and nature are not so very different after all.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25924 | How Can You Remember to Take Your Cholesterol Medications? - Cholesterol Center - EverydayHealth.com
How Can You Remember to Take Your Cholesterol Medications?
There are many ways to remind yourself to take your medication, from phone and email reminders to establishing a daily routine.
Everyday Health: What are three tips for remembering to take cholesterol medications during the busy holiday season?
Stuart A. Seale, MD (fullplatediet.org)
Try to associate taking your medication with some other regular daily activity, such as brushing your teeth. If you have a smart phone, set a daily reminder that will alert you. Put your medication in a location where it’s difficult to overlook - on your pillow, for instance.
Jacob DeLaRosa, MD (portmed.org)
Prepack your medicines and place them in a holder for each day. It's much easier to travel without multiple bottles of medications but only a medicine holder for daily meds.
Pamela Warren, MS, CHN (artofconsciousliving.com)
It seems that everyone has smart phones or e-mail these days. You can set your smart phone to send you a reminder to take your medication. Alternatively, you can use the calendar associated with your e-mail account - set it up to send e-mail reminders. And always take your medication at the same time each day.
Inna Topiler, MS, CNS (competenutritionandwellness.com)
To remember to take your medication, it's very helpful to have a routine and take the medicine at the same time every day. If you travel a lot, I recommend getting a little pillbox and packing the pills for the week.
Jeanette Bronée, CHHC (pathforlife.com)
Set the alarm on your phone to remind you. Ask your spouse to help you remember. And take your medicine at the same time every day so it's a routine. Put it next to something else you use every day, like your toothbrush.
Raja R. Gopaldas, MD (rajgopaldasmd.com)
Almost everyone has a smart phone today, so my advice is to put it on your calendar as a recurring event! The best time to take the medication is usually when you get up or just before you go to bed. However, remember to follow the instructions for taking your particular cholesterol medications, and talk to your physician if necessary to ensure that you're compliant. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25930 | Why Are You Afraid?
March 27, 2018
Lying in the pitch-black, with the sound of my own breathing as my only company, I thought...
"What are you scared of?"
Social humiliation.
Within the tank, these immediate fears reared their ugly heads. Common fears which many have overcome, but they scare me the most.
"Why are you afraid of these?"
My thoughts swam as I floated on top of the salt-infused water.
Social humiliation.
Everyone is afraid of social humiliation. As humans, there is an innate social hierarchy which predetermines our status. We work hard to ascend the ladder as time passes, with each raise, social interaction and accomplishment adding another rung under our boot.
The last thing we want to do is start over.
We care a lot, often too much, of what people think of us. For some reason, we care what people who have never even met us think.
It comes down to people's perceptions of you defining your identity, then you acting in a way congruent to this. If people treat you with respect, you will feel like a respected member of society and act the part - standing tall and making eye contact. The opposite occurs when you are treated like dirt; your identity becomes dirt.
Being socially humiliated can affect one's identity so profoundly, it's frightening.
It's fair to be afraid.
The world is becoming more socially interconnected, and with that, it's easier to be put in the spotlight. Especially if it doesn't go to plan.
But other's have overcome the fear... so why haven't you?
Failure is the hardest thing a man can come to grips with. That his efforts weren't good enough. That he, himself, isn't up to the task.
Combining failure with a socially connected world is scary. The thoughts of social humiliation become real when failure is a possibility.
This begs the question, "is it worth the risk?"
Failure is often seen as binary. You either won or lost. We know this is not the case, as some failures can lead to future success. But, in the present tense, not being good enough is a hard bite to swallow.
When failure is a possible future, how do you proceed?
A) Do you burn your bridges and lay it all on the table? Go all in?
B) Or do you hesitantly test the waters, dipping a toe in?
Either way, failure can still occur. In most cases it's more likely in option B, which is the option most of us will take, tiptoeing around the edges trying not to make any waves.
It's understandable to fear failure, but that fear may cause it to happen. It take's an almighty amount of courage to charge forwards. To know that by doing so will increase the chance of success.
A man who can conquer his failure is the epitome of strength.
Success is a weird thing to be scared of since it's what most of us are striving for. It's a combination of the fears of social humiliation and failure, with the question, "am I good enough?"
Often the thought of success can get into your head. All of the 'what-ifs' condensing into a smouldering stream of consciousness which undermines your actions.
Fear comes from the unknown. Success, for most of us, is undefined in its nature. The best we can come up with is some comparisons to other people we see as successful. This is counter-productive, as your true vision on success will look very different to theirs. They are probably asking the very same questions you are.
In defining success we may be able to break it down into its relative parts - financial, social, mental, physical etc. - and understand what we are truly aiming for. Your success will look different to my success. That doesn't mean it's more or less successful, just different.
When our beliefs, actions and identity are all in line with our personal success, it becomes less of a 'fear' and more of an 'aspiration'.
It becomes your purpose.
"How can you overcome these fears?"
• Surround yourself with people who will support you in whatever you do, and don't give a single thought towards what everyone else thinks.
• Master yourself. Your emotions, perceptions, feelings and actions. You are in complete control of your reality.
• Don't let others perceptions of you change your identity. Develop a filter and strong sense of self-awareness.
• Don't try and please everyone.
• Define success on your own terms.
• Go all in on your goal. "You gotta risk it to get the biscuit."
• Make tasks so small you can't fail.
• Stop comparing yourself to other people. You are on your own journey.
• You cannot control the past or the future. Only the present.
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Thinking about questions which you never really get the chance to find an answer to opens up so many avenues of possibility.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25931 | Noble Savages
Noble Savages
Exposing the Worldview of Pornographers and Their War Against Christian Civilization
by Rousas John Rushdoony
Publisher: Ross House Books
Trade Paperback, 161 pages
Price: $18.00
The roots of pornography are religious, and it must be resisted religiously.
This $57 billion dollar industry is swallowing peoples worldwide as its revenues exceed that of professional football, baseball, and basketball combined. Statistics reveal that upwards of 40 million American adults regularly visit over 372 million published pornographic web pages. How did we get here?
In the "free love" decade of the 1960s, the New Left refashioned pornography into a new image — the symbol of moral freedom. What was once sold "under the counter" as filth was now celebrated as the literary symbol of liberation from God and His law-word. This refashioning was nothing new. It was but an echo of the liberation theology of the Marquis de Sade, the 19th century pervert de France (1740-1814).
In 1974, R. J. Rushdoony, wrote, "[T]his new pornography, first conceived by Sade — will not be eliminated by moral indignation or by legislation." Rushdoony recognized that the roots of pornography in modern culture are essentially religious and must be combated religiously.
In this powerful book Noble Savages (formerly The Politics of Pornography) Rushdoony demonstrates that in order for modern man to justify his perversion he must reject the Biblical doctrine of the fall of man. If there is no fall, the Marquis de Sade argued, then all that man does is normative. Rushdoony concluded, "[T]he world will soon catch up with Sade, unless it abandons its humanistic foundations."
In his conclusion Rushdoony wrote, "Symptoms are important and sometimes very serious, but it is very wrong and dangerous to treat symptoms rather than the underlying disease. Pornography is a symptom; it is not the problem." What is the problem? It's the philosophy behind pornography — the rejection of the fall of man that makes normative all that man does. Learn it all in this timeless classic.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25948 | When to engage in intercourse after menses
Reference: Sharh ‘Umdatil-Fiqh – Tape No.7, Question No.15 Question: If the menstruating woman completes her menses, but has not had a bath [or shower], is it permissible for her to engage in intercourse with her husband? Response: No. Do not oppose the command [of Allaah]: {And do not approach them until they are pure. And […] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25951 | NOVA stands out in the Leiden ranking 2019 by scientific impact, collaboration and gender equality
According to the Leiden ranking 2019, NOVA University Lisbon is the Portuguese institution with the greatest impact in terms of published scientific articles on a global scale, with 12,5% of all scientific production on the TOP 10% of the most cited publications.
The ranking, prepared by CWTS-Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University, analyses the scientific performance of more than 1000 universities on a global scale and takes in consideration the impact of scientific articles, which is measured by the number of citations.
NOVA is also the number one on a national level in terms of collaboration, being the institution that had the greatest collaboration of international partners in published articles.
In regards to the mean normalized citation score (MNCS), NOVA stands 17% above the world average in terms of normalized citation per area.
This year the ranking has a new feature and includes a criterion that analyses the authorship of scientific articles from the gender perspective. Through this angle, NOVA also leads in Portugal with the highest proportion of publications authored by female researchers (50,6%), occupying the 6th and 9th places at European an global levels, respectively.
This result confirms the commitment of NOVA with the Sustainable Development Goal 5 of the United Nations, Gender Equality, which is also corroborated by the participation in the European project SPEAR - Supporting and Implementing Plans for Gender Equality in Academia and Research that began in the first trimester of 2019. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/25976 | Foods Wines from SpainFEDER
This is the muscular belly of fish that covers the intestines. The meat in this area is particularly delicate and tasty, especially in species such as albacore and tuna. It is normally the most expensive part of the fish. If bought fresh, the belly is generally joined to the ijada (the bones that support the jaw), as both pieces come from the front underbelly of the fish. It is usually roasted over coals or in the oven. However, preserved ventresca (in oil or escabeche) is frequently used in salads.
A popular, open-air festival celebrated in the evening.
Verdial de Huévar
This variety of olive is called verdial (which comes from 'verde', meaning 'green') because it never completely blackens on ripening. It produces very fragrant and fruity oils. It is widely cultivated in Huelva and Seville.
The juice of unripened grapes (agraz - sour grape juice) which was formerly used as a condiment. The word verjus is not accepted by the dictionary of the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy) of the Spanish language. However, it appears in early proverbs and is mentioned in documents from the Middle Ages in Navarre. Ruperto de Nola, in his Libro de Cocina (1520) used the terms 'agràs' and 'berjús'. This condiment disappeared from the Spanish culinary scene until 1996, when the Sociedad Navarra de Estudios Gastronómicos (Society of Gastronomic Studies of Navarre) and the Estación de Viticultura y Enología de Navarra (Navarre Viticulture and Oenology Station) - EVENA - decided to bring it back under the name agraz-verjus, made from the red Garnacha grape.
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VOS_RENAME(1) AFS Command Reference VOS_RENAME(1)
vos_rename - Renames a volume
vos rename -oldname <old volume name>
-newname <new volume name>
[-cell <cell name>]
[-noauth] [-localauth]
vos ren -o <old volume name>
-ne <new volume name>
The vos rename command changes the name of the read/write volume
specified with the -oldname argument to the name specified with the
-newname argument. The names of the read/write's read-only copies and
backup copy, if any, change automatically to match.
After issuing this command, remember to correct any mount points that
refer to the old volume name, by removing the old mount point with the
fs rmmount command and creating a new one with the fs mkmount command.
-oldname <old volume name>
Is the current name of the read/write volume.
-newname <new volume name>
Is the desired new name for the volume.
-cell <cell name>
Constructs a server ticket using a key from the local
/usr/local/etc/openafs/server/KeyFile file. The vos command
interpreter presents it to the Volume Server and Volume Location
Server during mutual authentication. Do not combine this flag with
Produces on the standard output stream a detailed trace of the
command's execution. If this argument is omitted, only warnings and
error messages appear.
Encrypts the command so that the operation's results are not
transmitted across the network in clear text. This option is
available in OpenAFS versions 1.4.11 or later and 1.5.60 or later.
very useful when the server address is registered as or
OpenAFS versions 1.4.8 or later and 1.5.35 or later.
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options
are ignored.
The vos rename command produces no output if the command succeeds.
If the volume named by the -oldname argument does not exist, the
following message appears:
vos: Could not find entry for volume <old volume name>.
The following example changes the mistaken volume name "sun4x_56.afsws"
to the correct alternative "sun4x_56.usr.afsws".
% vos rename -oldname sun4x_56.afsws -newname sun4x_56.usr.afsws
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26016 | Super Mario Odyssey Reveal Trailer
A new Mario game is coming! Watch the trailer and more.
During the Nintendo Switch Presentation, a new Super Mario game was announced. Named Super Mario Odyssey it will be the latest Mario game. The game will be in 3D and appears to be an open world game, a little like Super Mario Sunshine. The game seems as if it will be in a human world.
Upon viewing the trailer it reminded me a lot of the old Super Mario Galaxy games, and it seems as if the graphics are great.
As you watch the trailer it will show other humans in a city which looks almost identical to Chicago or New York. We are also shown Mario flying from planet to planet in a ship; similar to the Super Mario Galaxy games, we will be able to travel around the galaxy completing challenges in hopes to defeat Bowser and save Princess Peach.
The game is set to launch on the Nintendo Switch, but the release date is not announced yet.
Bringing content about the latest and greatest video games! Stay tuned!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26043 | You and your spouse have built a successful life in the military. One or both of you may be officers who earn substantial income and have been able to provide for your children’s financial needs, perhaps even accruing savings for their college educations. Life as a military officer can be both rewarding and challenging. It is definitely not easy to balance the demands of career, marriage, parenting and family life in general, especially if your duties take you overseas.
In some ways, military life is quite different from civilian life. Then again, being a military family doesn’t guarantee that you will be unscathed by many of the problems that plague civilian marriages and families nowadays. If you or your spouse files for divorce, it is safe to assume that hundreds of other military and civilian families are currently navigating similar situations. There are several issues regarding divorce in the military of which you’ll want to be aware.
It is the same as civilian divorce, yet different
As mentioned earlier, your military family may face the same types of problems as the average civilian family in Virginia. Military life does not cause divorce, per se; however, military couples may indeed encounter marital challenges that most civilians do not. When it comes to divorce, the following issues can have an impact on your ability to achieve a swift and agreeable settlement
• If you or your spouse has a permanent overseas station or active deployment, it can cause delays in your divorce.
• A main difference between civilian divorce and military divorce involves the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act. This law allows the court to classify military retirement pay as a property asset in divorce rather than as income.
• If you are not an active service member but your spouse is, you can receive retirement payments from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service after your divorce as long as your marriage lasted 10 years during 10 years in the military spouse’s service.
• If you do not qualify for DFAS payments, it is still possible that a portion of retirement pay can be written in to your divorce settlement.
A spouse who is not an active military member may also qualify for full base privileges if he or she meets certain eligibility requirements, one of which is that he or she has not remarried. Because military benefits often change and numerous military issues may affect your divorce, it’s always a good idea to stay as updated as possible so that you can protect your interests if you and your spouse divorce. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26062 | JUN 17th 2014
Meet Olympic athletes on the Nissan stand
Nissan is supporting TeamGB and ParalympicsGB athletes on their course to Rio 2016, and you can meet some of them at FoS. Three famous athletes will be on the stand where you can meet them, get their autographs and enjoy a Q&A session.
Snowboarder Jenny Jones, runner Richard Whitehead and cyclist and now Nissan racer Sir Chris Hoy will all be present… so make sure you’re there at the right times.
Friday – Sir Chris Hoy 2.30pm
Saturday – Jenny Jones 11am, Richard Whitehead 2.30pm
Sunday – Richard Whitehead 11am, Sir Chris Hoy and Richard Whitehead 2.30pm
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26091 | Subject: [Wordpress] Profit From These SIX Instant Amazon Store
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26144 | PAAC students mapping a site on the annual summer survey.
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There are 12 regular courses in the program, all of which have accompanying lists of suggested readings (Bibliography) and definitions of terms (Glossary) relevant to that subject. Courses range from eight to 25 hours in length and are taught in 11 locations throughout Colorado.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26154 | Due Saturday noon PST
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Choose a non-governmental actor or interest group involved in the process of buying, selling, distributing or regulating either food or water. The actor or player can be an individual, an organization, or a company. It may be local, domestic or international.
In a minimum of 6, complete pages, (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, font of 12), write a profile of this actor with the following elements:
- Introduction
- How is this actor connected with the topic of sustainability in food and water? Why is this actor important? How does understanding this actor help us understand the social, economic, cultural or political challenges to sustainability?
- Description
- description of actor and analysis of strategy and tactics
- actor’s specific goals or priorities
- strategy, tactics used by the actor to achieve the goals
- obstacles in the way of achieving the goals
- resources: what tools or assets does the actor use to get to its goals
- opponents and allies: who stands in the way or who helps the actor
- each of these categories should have examples or illustrations
- how does your chosen actor reflect what we have read about so far in class?
- refer to specific class readings
- your own reaction or conclusion to what you have read
- can you work with this group? How can you help it?
- do you oppose this group? Why? What is that group’s main weakness? What are your goals and how does this group affect your goals? How can you interact with this group to advance your own goals?
Sources (aim for one source per written page):
- main textbook or other class readings
- organization website (this counts as just one source, regardless of the number of different web-pages from the same company or office)
- newspaper articles
- commentary from other organizations or from opposing groups
BEWARE!: The paper should not rely solely on the organization’s website. This is a critical analysis of a group, so be sure to include perspectives and reactions from many sources.
This should be a research paper, with at least six pages of written content.
Also, a research paper will identify its sources of information in appropriate ways: footnotes, endnotes, or in-text references, etc.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26159 | Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Exclusive : Interview with D'Banj on Deportation Story
If you missed the initial story on the Koko master's deportation from France click here
Hot Swen Magazine was able to interview the koko master himself in his Banana island mansion.
H.S girl - Welcome back to Nigeria Mr D'Banj
D'Banj - Thank you babylet
H.S girl - We heard you were deported from Paris for getting drunk, is that true ?
D'Banj - My sister, it is the Hennessy people that gave me the bottles to drink don't mind them !
H.S girl - What happened between you and the French President's daughter ?
D'Banj - The girl was so endowed , ooshe, I wanted to be her scape goat, you know I'm an oliver twist na.
H.S girl - So you mean if you could rewind the time you would repeat the whole drama again ?
D'Banj - Of-course yes, just that this time around I would first of all send K-switch to go and sing "sister caro " for her.
H.S girl - Are you still an Hennessy ambassador ?
D'Banj - Errmm, they have removed me sha, but I am currently making some deals with Alomo Bitters so lets be hopeful.
H.S girl - Ohh, it's been wonderful having you here Mr D'banj
D'Banj - Oooshe, you are a sweet kokolet or babylet I can make you a mamalet see me at koko lounge this night .
No long tin.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26173 | I often get asked, out of all the webpages and scores that I have put online, what my own work is.
Here is an overview of my work:
1. Arranged by me (Alto, Tenor, Bass), but the tune (the Soprano melody) and the text/lyrics are NOT mine:
2. Arranged by me (tune/Soprano-melody; NOT by me) and also the lyrics ARE mine:
3. NOT arranged, nor composed by me, but just/only the lyrics ARE mine:
4. Composed by me, but the lyrics are NOT mine:
5. Composed by me and also the lyrics ARE mine:
6. Not composed, nor arranged by me, but sung by me (with recording of my own voice):
7. Figured bass realizations of Schemelli's (originally) solo pieces turned into SATB scores by me. All inner voices (Alto/Tenor) are mine: |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26252 | Maximizing the Benefits of Solo Transcription
January 9, 2008
While there are many pedagogical approaches to jazz improvisation, the most effective method of learning to play jazz remains learning tunes, phrases, and solos by ear from significant recordings. It is through this process that we gain an intimate knowledge not only of musical vocabulary, but also countless other essential musical elements such as phrasing, […]
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Arranging Fundamentals: Reinventing Melodies
October 30, 2007
Some of the greatest experiences an arranger can have are the opportunities to lovingly “mess with” someone else’s melody. It is also the one aspect of arranging which I’ve found that less experienced musicians are the most intimidated by.However, altering aspects of a song’s melody shouldn’t be looked upon as something that is taboo.Rather, the […]
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Slash Chords – Part II Beyond Western Harmony
September 5, 2007
Last time we covered how to substitute slash chords to simplify complex harmonic situations. Now we’ll look at how to use slash chords to create modal chord structures and interesting re-harmonizations. These techniques can be useful in creating a more modern sound in your writing and arranging. What Mood Is Your Mode?Modal music has intrigued […]
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Slash Chords – An Introduction
June 20, 2007
Slash chords offer musicians a plethora of new sonorities to incorporate into their playing and arranging.Not to be confused with poly-chords (two triads stacked upon each other), the term �slash chord� refers to a triad played over an independent bass note. There are innumerable ways in which to incorporate slash chords into your playing and […]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26264 | Improving your strength(s)
In team-sports, like football and field hockey, the type of workload that each player has to perform is largely dependent on their playing position. These differences in playing positions influence the capacities that each player needs to have to fulfill these match demands. Based on the position-specific profiles and the physical capacities of the individual players, it is possible to determine on which factor the individual players need to improve (maximal speed, high speed running capacity, more explosive accelerations, or winning duels). Even though these factors can be improved within conditional training sessions, in this blog we will discuss how you can further improve these factors with strength training.
Figure 1: The strength-training continuum with an inverse relationship between force and velocity
Strength-training models
Before we discuss exercises that could be used to improve one of the capacities described above, it is important to know one of the strength-training models. When looking at the way the muscles produce force, it is important to know the relationship between force and velocity (see figure 1). Even if you have never seen this relationship before, you have encountered situations during which you have experienced it. Just think back to the time when you were lifting weights. With light weights to lift, you are able to perform the movement quite fast. However, as soon as you start to use heavier weights, you can’t lift it as fast as the lighter weights. This is because your muscles need to produce higher forces and, therefore, are not able to contract at the same speed. This is exactly the relationship that you see in figure 1: when the required forces are large, the speed at which you can perform the movement is relatively low; and when the needed force is small, the movement speed is high.
The purpose of strength training is to shift the force-velocity curve to the right. For untrained individuals, focusing on general strength will already shift the whole curve to the right. However, for trained individuals more specific training is needed to move a specific part of the curve to the right. Therefore, when players return from the summer break (and suffered some detraining effects), it is important to initially focus on general strength training first. When this has improved, it is advised to work towards the more specific strength exercises. For example, for a winger, it is important to train the speed-(strength) part of the curve, whereas for central defenders the focus will be on strength-(speed)/power.
Now that we have seen the relationship between the force-velocity curve and different physical capacities, the question remains which maximal effort exercises belong to the specific parts of the curve (see figure 2). For the strength related exercises, the exercise needs to be performed with maximal effort, even though this will not result in high movement speed. But if we move more towards the speed-part of the curve, the movement’s speed of the exercises becomes more important (and should thus increase).
Once you have focused on one of these aspects for an individual player, it is advisable to check whether the strength training had an effect on the performance of the player. For this, it is not only interesting to see if the player has improved on performance the exercise itself, but especially the change in on-field performance is of interest. If you have focused on speed-related capacities it is worthy to see whether a player has covered more distance at a higher speed or whether his maximal speed during a match has increased. Or if you have focused on improving strength, checking whether the player was able to increase the number of high accelerations (relative to the number of total accelerations), will give you information on whether his/her on-field performance improved. In the end, it is not the improvement in exercise performance that will make the difference, it is the on-field performance that is crucial and needs to be optimized.
Figure 2: Exercises corresponding to the strength-training continuum
Different playing position requires different physical capacities for the individual players. One of the ways to improve the physical capacity of the players in through strength training. The goal of strength training is to challenge the muscles and hence, shift the force-velocity curve to the right. For trained individuals, you need to perform exercises corresponding to the specific parts of the curve to shift these specific parts to the right. To check whether the player has improved his performance, it is essential to check whether there have been changes in the external workload (GPS data) of the players during the match.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26265 | The end of hard-edged science?
Bradley Efron says that science is moving away from things like predicting sunrise times and toward predicting things like the weather. The trend is away from studying precisely predictable systems, what Efron calls “hard-edged science,” and toward studying systems “where predictability is tempered by a heavy dose of randomness.”
Hard-edged science still dominates public perceptions, but the attention of modern scientists has swung heavily toward rainfall-like subjects, the kind where random behavior plays a major role. … Deterministic Newtonian science is majestic, and the basis of modern science too, but a few hundred years of it pretty much exhausted nature’s storehouse of precisely predictable events. Subjects like biology, medicine, and economics require a more flexible scientific world view, the kind we statisticians are trained to understand.
Certainly there is increased interest in systems containing “a heavy dose of randomness” but can we really say that we have “pretty much exhausted nature’s storehouse of precisely predictable effects”?
Source: Modern Science and the Bayesian-Frequentist Controversy
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10 thoughts on “The end of hard-edged science?
1. Yoav: It’s subtle, but I think you’re essentially right. I agree with E. T. Jaynes that most of what is said about “randomness” is nonsense. This post has a couple quotes from Jaynes along these lines.
2. EastwoodDC: I’d like to think so, that what is understood statistically today would be understood more fundamentally tomorrow. But I think Efron is resigned to never understanding anything again the way we understand Newtonian mechanics.
3. I think there is a subtlety that hasn’t been addressed yet. There is a difference between chaotic systems and random systems. One is completely deterministic and the other is not. The problem with atmospheric science is that the system is chaotic. This means that the equations that govern atmospheric science are understood “fairly-well”. However, it is practically impossible to make hard predictions because small perturbations in measurements can have a huge impact in the evolution of the system. After saying that, just because one can’t get hard predictions, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t really useful information to learn from them (ie. bifurcations) which are testable.
4. This sounds suspiciously like the Grad Student’s Lament: “All the easy problems have been solved, and I’m stuck studying something that God would barely understand!” (And I’m not going to get some cool Law or Theorem named after me, either.)
Twenty years from now, Efron’s students will tell him that HE got solve all the hard-edged problems; he left the “soft” ones for them.
5. Yoav,
in a trivial sense, yes, randomness is just lack of information about future outcomes of random trials.
We are past Newtonian mechanics here, dealing with systems that have true quantum randomness in them. Even if we could describe these systems with good old mechanics, there is still the problem of chaos. Chaos essentially means you need infinite number of decimal places, and therefore infinite information, to describe something fully.
Conversely, the evolution a chaotic system may be determined by a truly random quantum coin flip.
6. Hi Thomas,
I am confused by your last statement:
“Conversely, the evolution a chaotic system may be determined by a truly random quantum coin flip.”
What do you mean by this? Are you just trying to say that a system could seem random because either it is
1) chaotic (and the initial conditions are not perfectly known) or it is
2) stochastic (in which case probably has a quantum element to it)
If this is the case, I totally agree. Also, I like the definition of chaos theory that wikipedia gives. “Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.”
7. I know what I will say is a little bit weird to a material mind set.
The thing that modern science is forgotten is God’s factor. This should be a new branch in science in which you should believe that every single atom, particle, electron, proton, … etc is fully controlled by God.
Humans do science discoveries in order to control nature. And nature is as I said fully controlled by God. And what God wants in order to give some control over his nature is to believe in Him and obey his orders.
8. Ahmed: I would agree that God is sovereign over every particle in the universe. However, God almost always exercises His sovereignty in regular ways. Science is the study of this regularity. The belief that God’s consistency makes it worthwhile to study science is one reason modern science developed in the West and not, for example, in animist cultures.
When God chooses to act outside His usual manner, i.e. to perform a miracle, He does something that science would not and could not have predicted. This is not to deny the possibility of miracles, only to say that they are by definition beyond the ability of science to predict.
For more discussion along these lines, I recommend the book Miracles by C. S. Lewis. The author had a surprisingly good grasp on science for someone whose life’s work was literature.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26266 | FramerJS Prototyping
December 8, 2015
Prototyping is one of those things that always interested me. It was something that combined design and code so well. I also thought that if you were going to write code for the design process why not just start coding. FramerJs was always interesting because it used CoffeScript and anyway I can keep writing JS was ok with me.
Skillshare released this intro to Prototyping class, and I decided to take the Framer finally out for a test drive. I love a good Sketch document, and Framer has excellent support for importing all of your Sketch files and layers right into the app. FramerJs gives an 8 hour trial for the app. There was something about the trial that made me have this sense of urgency. I wanted to use it way more often than I normally would in a trial because I felt like the time was running out on me.
The class was broken up into three sketches and allowed you to wet your whistle on what Framer can do and how it could work into your workflow. The class was not super in-depth but it was something I was able to spend a few hours on a Sunday afternoon with. It was fun to be able to write some code an interact with your Sketch documents. It felt like the natural next step for projects that needed. Prototyping is something that ever design project will need to do. When
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The Truth in Afghanistan
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A Washington Post report details misleading public information over the course of the war in Afghanistan, San Diego has a stark racial gap when it comes to arrests and drug prosecutions, and the new religious themed Legacy International Center opens in Mission Valley.
Show transcript
Speaker 1: 00:05 Deception in bell up the U S mission in Afghanistan after 18 years, thousands of lives and $1 trillion. What leaders and fighters really say about America's longest war from arrest to prosecution, major disparities when it comes to justice and race in San Diego, and divine inspiration for San Diego's latest tourist attraction, the new Bible theme resort opening this weekend in mission Valley. I'm Mark Sauer. The KPBS round table starts now.
Speaker 2: 00:40 [inaudible]
Speaker 1: 00:45 welcome to our discussion of the week stop stories. I'm Mark Sauer and joining me at the KPBS round table today. KPBS military Porter, Steve Walsh. Laurie Weisberger covers tourism and marketing with the San Diego union Tribune, NBC seven San Diego investigative producer, Dorian Hardgrove and Lindsey weekly watchdog reporter with the union Tribune. Well, the big news today of course, is the historic vote by the house judiciary committee to impeach president Donald Trump. We're leaving that coverage to NPR and PPS. Excuse me, with the full house considering the matter next week. First up for us following a three year court battle. The Washington post this week published a series of devastating stories about what's really gone on and America's longest war. The confidential trove of documents show top defense department leaders and commanders in the field misled the nation about the war in Afghanistan over the past 18 years. Quote, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable. Now Steve, these stories, they shock the conscience. I don't know how much news there is really there, but what are some of the main points revealed in this Washington post series?
Speaker 3: 01:58 Well that's right. This feels kind of like a one stop shop of all the things we've learned about the Afghan war over the last 18 years. I don't think anybody thought it was going well up into this point. Anything that goes on for 18 years is going a little slowly, if nothing else. So, you know, the things we, we that really were hit home here is there was no real clear strategy by either the, uh, Obama administration or the Bush administration or even the Trump administration for that matter. We would push the Taliban out of a certain regions and then they would come right back then we tried to attack the drug trade or the drug trade is, is now thriving. The Bush administration missed a real opportunity early on, about six months into the war, we kicked out Al-Qaida, which is why we started the war in the first place. We started hunting around for who was the real enemy here. We decided it was the Taliban because they had helped. Um, they had helped Al Qaeda and unfortunately the telethon was indigenous to Afghanistan and we were left with basically an insurgent war from there on out.
Speaker 1: 02:59 And uh, as the post says in the opening, their, their, their whole series here didn't understand the culture, didn't understand the history, you know, the language of course was an issue. Didn't realize what kind of a political system they had all of these things going in, which was reminiscent of course Vietnam AraC I mean the same criticisms of the U S in, in the, uh, adventures misadventures there.
Speaker 3: 03:21 Well that's true. I mean, the only pushback you'll get from the Pentagon on this is the whole notion that this was all complete lying here. They said these scenarios had come out, but um, it's very clear. Um, it's at one point it was called a self-licking ice cream cone. I loved that line and it was a great line. It's basically we poured all of this money into the country to stop corruption and we ended up creating even more corruption every time we wanted to change strategy, which Obama did want to change strategy to have a surge and then get out, uh, you needed to go back to Congress and say that you were making progress. So you had to keep telling him that there had been some progress on the ground and the cycle just perpetuated itself.
Speaker 1: 04:00 And then it became kind of the forgotten war. We didn't hear about it much in 2016 or even in 2018 congressional elections. And until this came up this week, it's not on the radar.
Speaker 3: 04:10 When Mark Esper, the secretary of defense, when he, uh, testified in his hearings before Congress, nobody even asked him a question about how things were going in Afghanistan. Right? Laurie, obviously you were about to say this, but you know, it's been much like into the Pentagon papers then how we were lying to about Vietnam. And even though as you point out, maybe it doesn't come as a surprise that things weren't going well going well. But on the other hand, we were led to believe that we weren't. So how do we ever believe in our military people in the future? Wait, I mean, it's like a spouse has been on, how do I ever trust you again? Right now, that is the question here, because clearly throughout, almost from the very beginning, we knew we had no clear mission in Afghanistan. The question has always been, how do you extricate yourself without the, without Al-Qaida returning and there may never really be a solution to them. Russians go through this. I mean, it was nothing. Afghanistan was supposed to be there. Vietnam, well, apparently our Vietnam was really Afghanistan
Speaker 1: 05:11 and yeah, we had a 10 year last lesson from the Russians just before we decided to do this. Now Steve, many local families connection to someone served in the war. Um, of course, obviously a military town. This is a, had a direct impact and a toll here in San Diego.
Speaker 3: 05:25 Oh, I, he always comes to mind. The, uh, the dark horse, uh, battalion, uh, back in 2010, you had 25 Marines from camp Pendleton killed and how Mont province, uh, another 200 were wounded. Three dozen people lost limbs to them. It's never going to be a forgotten war.
Speaker 1: 05:45 Absolutely. And uh, the U S invaded and tried to occupy Afghanistan course following the nine 11 attacks here. And as you said, the original mission, then the mission changed the mission creep. You've got in Rumsfeld, original secretary of defense in this, in the George W. Bush administration saying, you know, I'm blind here. Who is the enemy? What's going on? I mean, this is the secretary of defense. Indeed, the secretary of defense,
Speaker 3: 06:09 um, who seemed, I mean at one point the, the Bush administration were working with people that in hindsight, according to, um, some of these interviews turned out to be worse than the Taliban there. Um, there were talk that some of these leaders had their committed murder mayhem. At one point, the bank of Kabul nearly went bankrupt under the weight of $1 billion worth of, uh, of fraudulent loans. Many of them tied to the Afghan government themselves and people didn't empower.
Speaker 1: 06:38 Now we've got a bite here from Donald Trump. He says he's only going to fight Wars to win. Let's hear what he says it at a rally. They said, when I was elected, we'll be in a ward the first day, right? Do you remember that? Now? But
Speaker 4: 06:50 when we do, and if we do, and I hope we never do, we will win. We're going to fight to win. We only fight to win
Speaker 5: 07:00 [inaudible].
Speaker 4: 07:00 But if we are forced, we will avenge the enemy with overwhelming power and we will win. Like
Speaker 1: 07:08 [inaudible]
Speaker 4: 07:08 days we won and we went where we sort of played for ties. But we don't play for ties anymore. We don't do the tie thing anymore. Is that okay with you folks?
Speaker 1: 07:21 Yeah. Well three years here and uh, you know, Ty is at best we're playing.
Speaker 3: 07:25 Yeah, that would be the best case scenario. Still have 12,000 troops in Iraq in Afghanistan right now. And we are trying to negotiate once again with the Taliban.
Speaker 1: 07:33 Well, I highly, highly recommend this Washington post series on the failures in Afghanistan. I do want to move on to another military topic though. The budget passed this week, a $738 billion, uh, bill, uh, moving on to the Senate, it points a high points of that one.
Speaker 3: 07:47 Well, it's only they've reached an agreement between the house and Senate. Uh, this was important. You've got a deadline coming up next Friday to avoid a budget shutdown. Uh, it looks like the Senate will probably end up voting on this, uh, Monday night, maybe Tuesday. Some of the key points in this, um, space force will be in there. It's going to be a separate branch within the, uh, within the air force. Re, you remember when president Trump came here, it was the first time we announced the notion of space force. Uh, one thing it doesn't have in there is it does not put back the $5 billion taken for the wall. It also in the end, does not, uh, have language on it telling the president that he cannot remove more money in the [inaudible]
Speaker 1: 08:26 future and 12 weeks for federal leave for federal workers, I should say ending federal leave to not matter when Republicans are happy. Right.
Speaker 3: 08:36 And a 3.1% pay raise. Uh, which is, is well bought off. Again, I think it's, uh, under the Trump administration we've spent an additional 130 billion.
Speaker 1: 08:46 And before we leave this a topic, another military story, a you've updated regarding, sorry, state of some of the military housing.
Speaker 3: 08:52 Yeah. One thing that is included in this is attempt to get a handle on problems with military housing. They're going to have a, a, in this included a tenant's bill of rights. They're also going to give a more authority to commanders to actually have oversight of these contracts and private military housing. Something that, that's really vexed them in the last year and a half while they tried to get their hands on this.
Speaker 1: 09:12 All right. A lot of stuff to look forward to and on that beat, which is always, always happening. Certainly in San Diego, we're going to move on. Advocates in minority communities in San Diego and many other cities have long complained that law enforcement officers treat people of color, especially blacks differently than whites. And for the second time in three years, a study here as concluded has concluded just that. Now, Lindsay, tell us about this latest study. Who conducted it and what did they find?
Speaker 6: 09:36 Yeah, so it was commissioned by the ACLU here and it was conducted by campaign zero, which is a group that, um, is really championing, um, the, uh, elimination of unnecessary use of force by police officers. Um, and essentially what it found sort of boiled down deeply is that blacks are, uh, arrested, searched and suffer force more often than their white neighbors by both the San Diego police department and the San Diego Sheriff's department. There was also some additional findings, um, that weren't, um, so much about racial disparity. For example, uh, members of the LGBTQ community as well as, um, people who have disabilities were more likely to be searched by both departments as well. Um, so,
Speaker 1: 10:22 and this follows a similar, uh, findings from a study what just three years ago I think in that involved San Diego state university?
Speaker 6: 10:29 Correct. So the senior Eagle police department was the focus of that studies. The Sheriff's departments not included, but what they did is, uh, the study was a different, a different set of data. So, uh, they were looking at just traffic stops, whereas this most recent study was looking at basically any contact between police departments and the Sheriff's department. Um, but what it determined was that, uh, while it was not more likely for, uh, blacks to be stopped by police, it was more likely for them to be, uh, searched. Once that stopped, it occurred.
Speaker 1: 11:04 And, uh, you've, um, uh, interviewed a lot of policing experts here you say it's tricky to parse out racial bias here from the data involving, it's a tough thing to study.
Speaker 6: 11:15 It is. I mean, I think that a kind of beneficially, we have like lots of more data that looks at this issue. Everybody is very focused on pulling out a numbers that can kind of, uh, that can say in a definitive way what many people, especially in San Diego have been saying for a long time, what they feel has been happening to them for years. That disparity is called a caused by racial bias. Um, and I think that people felt like, okay, if we can find numbers that say that it will be easier to kind of propel this conversation to, uh, motivate departments to create change. Um, but it's hard sometimes, right? There is, there are a lot of other things that kind eat these numbers.
Speaker 7: 11:54 In reading your story, it talks about maybe it's more the targets of the, of the study, but they talk about, well, it really, the methodology wasn't quite right. It wasn't really fair. Um, but I'm wondering number one is a really any right methodology that anybody, that everybody's going to have consensus on in second. Um, is there enough here that will persuade law enforcement to make changes or they think, no, it's just not
Speaker 8: 12:18 a reaction. The police and the sheriff in San Diego.
Speaker 6: 12:20 Yeah. So, okay. So for the first one, yeah. Essentially what the argument of this particular data scientist who actually is helping the state of California kind of go through rebut data. So she's familiar with it, but essentially what she was saying was when you use population as a kind of a benchmark to look at this sort of disparity, you're essentially piling all kinds of sources of structural inequities on one source, right. On police department. And we know, I think most of us understand that there are a lot of systems that have built in structural inequities that are separate from the police department. That being said, um, there are some, there are some, uh, statistical ways that people kind of try and cut down on that to really hone in on bias. Um, this study was not particularly persuasive, um, to our two biggest law enforcement agencies. Um, I think, I think they didn't, uh, I, I don't think that they, they read it and said, okay, we need to create change right now. Uh, that being said, both departments have already asked for outside agencies to take a look at this very same information. And I think it will be very interesting to see what those results show because if they're very similar, then I think that the department is going to be forced to take a hard look at that.
Speaker 8: 13:30 I was always ordering as far as other, you know, similar size cities. I mean I thought San Diego was always relatively low. When you look at, you know, other large cities in, in this disparity. I mean the disparities there when you think bias problem. Yeah. And I think, you know, that's the unfortunate thing that we all have to say is yes, we all admit there's disparity, but it seems like in other large cities it's actually higher. Um, I don't know if you look into that or saw any of that. Are you talking about the part of the study that talked about use of force or not? Not necessarily. Just this study, but what other cities have in terms of what the stops are versus tricky to measure that amongst it?
Speaker 6: 14:04 Yeah. Well, I mean I think that we can all agree here that like disparity is not something that anybody is arguing about anymore. Right? We all recognize that disparity exists. And so I think right now the big focus is how do you drill down into this, into these numbers to identify racial bias and do that in a way that sparks actual conversation and real change. I think that that's what people are really hopeful.
Speaker 8: 14:26 Dory, I wanted to get onto to your story. NBC seven investigated the data regarding drug prosecutions locally. What did your reporting find? So we looked at misdemeanor drug prosecutions by the city attorney's office. They handle all misdemeanors and found that uh, blacks are five times more likely to get prosecuted for minor drug and fractions, then whites and Hispanics. Um, I thought it was interesting because like w what Lindsey was saying as far as the and stops and searches and everything else, I think, you know, you're dealing with a lot of, a lot of factors, whether it's socioeconomic factors, a lot of factors go into that and why that is unfortunately why that is. But then when you take it to the next step of prosecutions, I think it looks into really these people now entered the system and now, and for a lot of, a lot of, you know, people, a lot of minorities they're in.
Speaker 8: 15:15 And this is, you know, and this is one of the reasons. So that's why we wanted to look at that number and, and see the, I didn't know what the disparity was going to be when I, when we got the numbers back. And I mean, you know, five times is a, is a rather large number. And you mentioned comparing it to other cities. This kinda does mirror what's happening in big cities. It, it does. And, uh, we spoke to a district attorney in San Francisco or former district attorney who's running in LA now. And, uh, he said the same. He was like, yeah, those numbers sound about right. And you know, when you hear that, it's kind of a wow, that's so, that sounds right. You know? So I guess it's a good thing that San Diego is in some sort of a nominally, but it's Steve.
Speaker 8: 15:51 And my question would be, let's assume we accept the numbers and at this point you would imagine we'd be getting closer and closer to accepting the numbers. So what's the solution if they did accept the numbers, what do you do about it? Well, so, uh, this, this, this former district attorney in San Francisco that we talked to, he implemented this thing called blind prosecutions, where prosecutors do not get names. They don't get pictures at first, right. That even the neighborhood, like if it's a Chinatown or something, they wouldn't know where it was. And that's just to get out any kind of implicit bias that might be there. I think, you know, speaking to him, I think more of it is, it's a sign to the community saying, Hey, we're gonna do whatever we can. Obviously they're not going to say, yes, prosecutors are racist or biased. That's not necessarily the case. However, if you remove that just as a sign in the show, maybe it is something to build trust and get people behind it. Right. Even if you just think, you know, the community thinks that you're bias, that's going to impact on how effective you're going to be.
Speaker 6: 16:52 And if that is effective though doesn't that show that there may be is implicit bias at play? I mean I think though, I mean police departments over the last couple of years have definitely invested fairly heavily in implicit bias training and I do think that that helps. But I also think that we have to kind of look at these policies and procedures that we can put in place or stopping practices altogether because we know that people are have implicit bias and you know, if you can avoid that by not giving them the option in the first place.
Speaker 8: 17:19 And it certainly trying to hire more black officers and well, and it was interesting to hearing from that former district attorney and the candidate now in LA is cause he said he got major pushback from district attorney's offices throughout the country saying, you know, Hey, you were essentially throwing us under the bus now and yeah. And, and you know, he says, well Hey, it doesn't matter. This is a sign that's shows we're willing to go at this, you know, in a as fair as we can. Well we're gonna move on but it's a terrific one to follow up on is great reporting. Very interesting stuff. Well, driving along
Speaker 1: 17:50 I ate in mission Valley these days it's hard to miss the gleaming new complex just West of the highway one 63 interchange. The sign reads legacy center and it's a long PLA planned, very expensive legacy project for a televangelist, a Bible themed resort. And Laura, you got a tour before the grand opening. Give us the overview here, kind of describe what you saw.
Speaker 7: 18:12 So this is a pretty large side. It's an 18 acre site. And if you are, as you say, driving up the freeway, it's a very impressive looking, very modernist kind of architecture with mostly glass and stone that came straight from a Cory outside of Jerusalem, but it's like complex of buildings and it's um, in part the relocation of more Sarillo. This televangelists his world evangelism headquarters there. It's got 126 room resort hotel. It's got a conference facility and it's got a number of religious themed attractions. The parking garage fountains, the catacombs replicates a replica of the Western wall, um, and then this big interactive. So I haven't seen the technology yet. It wasn't in place yet, but this big interactive world globe where you will be able to have touchscreens in pull up, um, as visitors to the center pull up different parts of the world, learn about them. Um, there'll be museum like exhibits of, um, artifacts that more Sarillo has, um, collected over the years, old Bibles and Torres and et cetera.
Speaker 1: 19:16 So not like the creationism place up in El Cahone Santi where can write a dinosaur?
Speaker 7: 19:22 Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. When I did leave out, one big thing was that there's a motion theater when the motion see like four D movie theaters, like think about soaring over California at California venture. Well they have some ties to that sort of thing and it's, it's um, it's going to be, um, journey through the Bible and uh, a sort of soaring over Israel too. There's two productions they're gonna have and the fountains are pretty. And then fountains that you've ever seen. The fountains at the Bellagio dancing waters with the Ori API's. Yeah. So yeah. Not quite as many fountains, but that similar kind of look and feel.
Speaker 1: 19:56 No. Is this designed to be a, a, a destination in itself? A kind of Pentecostal theme park?
Speaker 7: 20:02 I think it is. I think it was in part, they don't like the word thing park, but it, it, it, these attractions make it feel like a theme park. But it's also a place where he can bring ministers, um, from around the world that he trains and they can come for conferences and weddings and bar mitzvahs. I can't believe they've already booked a bat mitzvah. Yeah. Well that's interesting. Don't find Christian thing.
Speaker 1: 20:26 Why here in San Diego is kind of an expensive place. If it seemed like you could do this more cheaply elsewhere if you wanted.
Speaker 7: 20:32 Right. Well, I mean I think it helps that more Cyrillic headquarters, um, are based in San Diego. They were off of arrow road, so there they relocated here so that, that's a big part of it. Even though he travels the world, he is from here. But they do, um, they do feel that no matter what the politics are in San Diego, that people will come and they, they're hoping that people don't just have to be, you know, um, evangelistic type Christians to come. We want to see it as a tourist destination. Yeah. I think in part, in part, yes. Yeah. Oh, I was just, I mean, do they feel confident that this is going to attract enough people to be?
Speaker 1: 21:08 Yeah. How have other ones, a similar type things around the country done?
Speaker 7: 21:12 So there's three main ones around the country. Two are in Kentucky, in Kentucky. One is, um, uh, it's, it's like a real life. Noah's Ark. It kind of be like Noah's Ark and then there's one in Orlando. Um, so there's three. I think they're doing okay. One's in years past, haven't done so well. Um, Jim Baker's, um, heritage USA lasted about 10, 10 years, but I think those are doing okay. Whether it works in San Diego, I don't know. I think there's going to be a lot of curiosity.
Speaker 1: 21:41 Yeah. You think somewhere in the Bible belt, maybe it's good to Steve.
Speaker 7: 21:44 Yeah. I mean, I, you know, I don't know if it's going to be, Hey, let's take the kids to see Roland and go over to the international center. I don't know. And so it's not a huge hotel. It's 126 rooms. It's luxury hotel. They have a restaurant. You're going to have a steak house in the restaurant. Then there's going to be more casual restaurant near the fountains that they're calling the fountains. So they're hoping people will come, go the fountains. They're going, Oh, they're going to have an outdoor, indoor, outdoor retail market, kind of like the middle Eastern markets that you may or may not be familiar with. And they're going to have vendors from around the world so people can come shop. They don't have to pay to go see the exhibits. They can just go shop
Speaker 1: 22:21 100 per two with your camel if you're going to be shopping. So tell us about the man behind it all a Marcella, he claims the vision for legacy center came straight from God, right?
Speaker 7: 22:31 Well, he, yeah, exactly. It's, it's been a dream of his, he says forever. He's in his late eighties. He wants to leave a legacy. As I said, he, they don't, they again also don't like the label televangelists but he has used video and television over the years to spread his message. But he also, he's a world traveler. Like he said, he trains, um, ministers throughout the world and then they in turn pass on his teaching. So he's, he does have this ministry, but it's not like a church. He has, I mean, it's go when you can see videos of him preaching,
Speaker 1: 23:05 no other denominations to Jews, Muslims, atheists, heaven forbid, uh, they welcomed their, everybody, uh, they expect non-religious people to use the restaurant, the hotel, the spa. [inaudible]
Speaker 7: 23:18 um, I could see non-religious people using it. Um, but I, you know, that's a big question. The question is really out will all nonreligious people come that maybe there's enough religious people to fuel it? They, um, they collected donations. They did this debt free, so they raised money to do this so that they're not in debt. I don't know how much came from there. I was saying how much came from their ministry,
Speaker 1: 23:40 they got the money, uh, CV. Did you get a chance to talk him? Does he feel welcome in San Diego? Like this is the sort of place that
Speaker 7: 23:49 I did talk to him. Um, I was, um, in years past they never, there was always a reason why they wouldn't let me talk to him. I did talk to him this time and there was some criticism from the LGBT community.
Speaker 1: 24:00 Yeah. I wanted to ask you about that. Not everybody's crazy about this project.
Speaker 7: 24:03 Yeah. Because they felt that in his past he has been known to advocate for gay conversion therapy. Um, I don't know that he advocates for that now. So when I talked to him, I did bring that up. That was one of the things I brought up and he said, I don't know what I can say basically to mollify these, these people. But I, I as you know, we just said, everybody's welcome. So he, he harbors no animosity toward anybody. Um, I don't think the council was real. It was a close vote on the council, but they, they, I shouldn't say it was a close one. There were only two nays but there were other council members who, um, raised some issues but knew that, you know, it met all the land use codes and they couldn't vote again.
Speaker 1: 24:43 All right. A few seconds left. One is it officially opened a customer's, you can't really go there right now.
Speaker 7: 24:48 So there's a big over the top Christmas tree lighting ceremony, um, this coming weekend and then the following weekend, and you can go in the public Plaza, you can see the fountains. This one restaurant will be open, but not till February. Will all the bells and whistles with all this cool technology be.
Speaker 1: 25:03 Yeah. So if you want to go to the restaurant or stay at the, at the hotel or spa or anything else there, the hotel opens in February. Okay. So we'll be looking for that. And we should say it's a right smack. I mean the is right there in mission Valley across from the old town of country in Riverwalk golf course. It's right in. I'm going to tell sir
Speaker 7: 25:18 town and country is getting a huge overhead.
Speaker 1: 25:20 Yeah, that's where a lot of building going on right there. Well, construction workers are happy in the unions. Well it does. We are about out of time. Now. That wraps up another week of stories at the KPBS round table and I'd like to thank my guests, Steve Walsh of KPBS news, Lauria Weisberg of the San Diego union Tribune, Dorian Hardgrove of NBC seven San Diego, and Lindsey Winkler of the union Tribune. And a reminder, all the stories we discussed today available on our website. KPBS dot. O R. G I'm Mark Sauer. Thanks for joining us today on the round table.
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• If the object is very close to the sensor, the signal comes back quickly.
• If the object is far away from the sensor, the signal takes longer to come back.
The sensor sends a message back to the computer brick telling it the time taken for the signal to return. Then the brick uses this info to compute how far away the object is.
How does an ultrasonic sensor work?
• The ultrasonic sensor uses a pair of transducers. The sensor emits a sound pulse and measures the distance of the object depending on the time taken by the echo to return back to the other side.
• Electrical energy is converted to sound to send the pulse, and then the sound received back is converted to electricity, which is what the brick understands.
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• Detection of Liquid Level
Ultrasonic sensors are widely used for liquid level detection. However, in some cases, measurements may not be successful, such as when the surface of the liquid is rough or foamed up, or other objects on the liquid are wrongly detected.
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Although ultrasonic sensors are often used for liquid level detection, if it is used for acid, alkali, or organic solvents, the sensor head can become damaged. In such cases, please examine introducing the countermeasures introduced below.
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Ultrasonic sensors are also used for distance detection in rear motion of automobiles and depth of many bores where measurement of distance is not easy by other means.
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In other news, childbirth complications could set kids up for social anxiety in their teen years. (Infant and Child Development)
The fast-acting psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, found in some toad species (and fostering the risky practice of toad-licking), improved anxiety and depression symptoms in around 80% of those responding to an online survey. (The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse)
First hospitalized with what doctors thought was schizophrenia-induced psychosis and placed on aripiprazole, a 14-year old boy actually turned out to be infected with bacteria from a cat scratch. (Journal of Central Nervous System Disease)
Inflammation may be one of the underlying links between depression and coronary heart disease. (Molecular Psychiatry)
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Mono M80 guitar case review
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While a hard case is the best option for protecting your precious guitar, it can be cumbersome and heavy when travelling.
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Weird Things Humans Do Every Day, and Why
• Ogugua Belonwu
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Find below some of the things we do (or that happen to us daily).
1. Pins and Needles
Hitting your funny bone isn't very funny. Neither is crossing your legs for too long, or waking up at night with a dead-seeming hand that gradually tingles back to life. What causes that horrible "pins and needles" sensation?
It happens when you apply too much extra weight or pressure on a nerve, temporarily inhibiting its function, and then remove the pressure. As the nerve gradually returns to normal, our brain somehow interprets its activity as a tingling sensation pins and needles.
2. See in 3D
Hey, wait a second... how do two eyes produce 3-D vision?
It's actually a trick of the mind (or three tricks, to be exact). First, our brains utilize "binocular disparity" the slight difference between the images seen by our left and right eyes. Our brains use the two skewed versions of a scene to reconstruct its depth.
For a close-up object, the brain registers the "convergence" of our eyes, or the angle they swing through to focus on the object, to decide how far away it is.
When glancing at things on the go, we subconsciously gauge distance by registering "parallax." That's the difference in speed at which closer and farther objects seem to move as you pass them.
3. Blink
4. Fart
The answer may stink, but everything we eat or drink gives us gas. In fact, it's normal to fart up to half a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas each day.
Particularly fragrant flatulence, however, comes from colonies of bacteria shacked up inside our lower intestinal tract. In the process of converting our meals into useful nutrients, these food-munching microbes produce a smelly by-product of hydrogen sulfide gasthe same stench that emanates from rotten eggs.
Just like the rest of us, the bacteria like munching on sugary foods best. The types of sugar naturally present in milk, fruit and, of course, beans produce the most farts .
5. Kiss
It's weird, when you think about it, that swapping spit seems romantic. Turns out it's a biological instinct.
Kissing allows people to use smell and taste to assess each other as potential mates. People's breath and saliva carry chemical signals as to whether they are healthy or sick, and in the case of females, whether they're ovulating all important messages for potential partners in reproduction.
Furthermore, the skin around peoples' noses and mouths is coated with oils that contain pheromones, chemicals that broadcast information about a person's biological makeup. When people pick up each other's pheromones during a sloppy kiss, they'll subconsciously become either more or less sexually attracted to each other depending on what they detect.
Alongside the chemosensory cues exchanged during kisses, psychologists also believe the actual physical act of kissing helps couples bond. This theory is supported by the fact that oxytocin a hormone that increases most peoples' feelings of sociality, love and trust floods brains when mouths kiss.
6. Hiccups
Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm the muscular membrane in your chest that figures importantly in breathing. A spell of them ensues when that muscle gets irritated, often by the presence of too much food in the stomach, or too little.
Weirdly, though, hiccups are as useless as they are annoying; they serve no apparent purpose. One hypothesis suggests they may be a remnant of a primitive sucking reflex. Whatever the ancient function, they are little more than a nuisance now something to be gotten rid of via a variety of creative folk remedies.
7. Cry
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26513 | TY - JOUR AU - Gertler, Mark AU - Trigari, Antonella TI - Unemployment Fluctuations With Staggered Nash Wage Bargaining JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 12498 PY - 2006 Y2 - August 2006 DO - 10.3386/w12498 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12498 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12498.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Mark Gertler Department of Economics New York University 269 Mercer Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 Tel: 212/998-8931 Fax: 212/995-4186 E-Mail: [email protected] Antonella Trigari Bocconi University Via Roentgen 1 20136 Milano Italy Tel: +39 02 58363040 Fax: +39 02 58363302 E-Mail: [email protected] AB - A number of authors have recently emphasized that the conventional model of unemployment dynamics due to Mortensen and Pissarides has difficulty accounting for the relatively volatile behavior of labor market activity over the business cycle. We address this issue by modifying the MP framework to allow for staggered multiperiod wage contracting. What emerges is a tractable relation for wage dynamics that is a natural generalization of the period-by-period Nash bargaining outcome in the conventional formulation. An interesting side-product is the emergence of spillover effects of average wages on the bargaining process. We then show that a reasonable calibration of the model can account well for the cyclical behavior of wages and labor market activity observed in the data. The spillover effects turn out to be important in this respect. ER - |
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Exp Cell Res. 1995 Oct;220(2):243-56.
Cadherin expression in the developing vertebrate CNS: from neuromeres to brain nuclei and neural circuits.
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Department of Biochemistry, Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.
Cadherins are a family of cell surface glycoproteins which mediate cell-cell adhesion by a Ca(2+)-dependent mechanism. Results from in vitro studies with cadherin-transfected cell lines show that cadherins preferentially bind to each other in a homophilic fashion. In the developing vertebrate brain, at least 10 cadherins are found. Some of these cadherins are expressed in a restricted fashion in particular developing brain nuclei and neural circuits. Based on these results, specific morphogenetic roles for cadherins during CNS development have been proposed. This review focuses on the possible role of cadherin-mediated sorting and aggregation of early neurons and neurites in the formation of brain nuclei, fiber tracts, and neural circuits. Moreover, at least 1 cadherin is also expressed in a segmental ("neuromeric") fashion in the early chicken forebrain, suggesting that this cadherin regulates developmental processes involved in the transformation from the neuromeric organization of the early neuroepithelium to the functional organization of the mature brain.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/26525 | Traditional drawing and introduction to the world of 2D and 3D digital artistry.
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Reviews for "Snowman Slide"
okay game got really irritating beat it but my medals didnt go through
Zanzlanz responds:
If you beat the game, just come back and replay level 1; You'll get all your Newgrounds medals.
It doesn't seem to happen often, but you probably never got connected to the Newgrounds API.
I got em all! :D Didn't think I ever would since last time it seemed like an impossible task, reached a dead end with one of the latter levels and there it stopped... but all of a sudden I can SEE the patterns, I can find the paths even before I navigate them, I can avoid the treacherous loops and water pools with just a little forethought!! Or maybe I just got an easier set of levels, who knows. I assume the levels aren't actually random btw, but selected randomly from a set? If they really are random it'd be an incredible AI! Great game.
Zanzlanz responds:
Haha no they are completely randomly generated :) They're always different each time anyone plays. It generates later levels while you play so you never see a loading screen. <3
But hey man, amazing job beating the game! You rock! And yes, eventually you start being able to visualize all the routes and it almost becomes a strategic endeavor! :D
Your randomly generated levels work great both in theory and practice, which doesn't happen too often. I really enjoyed the game, even though the general idea is very old and simple.
My advice for the mobile sequel is to (unless you're planning to expand and introduce it to the gameplay more) get rid of the story. It's silly in a bad way and unnecessary (at the very least).
Zanzlanz responds:
Thanks! If the generator wasn't working how I'd want it too, I wouldn't have even continued through Ludum Dare :) It just wouldn't be worth it.
And yeah the sequel won't be anything like this x)
There's a bug where (sometimes? somehow?) the coin total from the previous level can get added to that of the next level. For example, my first time through I got all of the coins on each of the first four levels without retrying and as a result my coin totals for those levels are now stuck at 3/3, 6/3, 10/4, and 14/4 respectively. I didn't notice this until I got to the end of the game and it told me I hadn't gotten the "all coins" achievement even though I definitely got all of the coins, and now I'll have to wipe my data and play the whole thing over in order to have a chance because it's impossible to overwrite just those erroneously-high values. This is one of those situations where it's better to use "greater then or equals" and/or "less than or equals" when checking for achievements (what if someone was able to find a way to complete one of the randomly-generated levels in less moves than the algorithm predicted possible?).
Anyway, I don't care about achievements or endings, so I still give this five stars, 'cause everything else is great (the only other complaint I can think of is that there's some weird slowdown in parts, but that doesn't affect much).
Zanzlanz responds:
No one has mentioned the coin issue before, but I went through the code hoping to find a reason for it to happen. Didn't really come to a conclusion... but I did reinforce coin resetting, and updated the game with a code that lowers your coin values for you :) You just have to beat one level and the medals should update.
Greater/Less Than or Equals would fix the results of the actual error, which is why it's good not to use it in cases like score. The generator will always be accurate when showing the moves, since the number of moves is exactly how it's generated :D
Thanks for your feedback and help! Again I hope the bug is fixed for you.
Found this really great, was the perfect level of challenge for me to get all the achievements, could maybe be improved with more of a storyline, but I thought the unicorn thing was amusing enough for now!
Zanzlanz responds:
Whoo! Excellent job completing it :D
Haha it's the best story I could make in a night x) I needed a good enough reason for the snowman's passion xD |
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