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From r/xxKetoOver50
Good Morning August! As kids, we did goofy things on the first day of the month - like, go down the stairs backwards, or some other thing handed down from older siblings. I have no idea if these things were happening in other households or just ours. Anyway, we marked each new beginning and kept ourselves aware of where were were on the calendar.
As an adult, it always feels like 'potential', a new day. The stalls are rampant for me. Eight years ago I lost swiftly. This time, its molasses so I need to dig deeper, I guess. 'Check all the boxes' to me means water, track everything, intake at a deficit, etc. Reading all the experiences here helps keep focus.
So, just saying hello and let's keep it dialed in for August!
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From Reddit r/yugioh:
I'll come back for the second post to agree with goku - Nekroz are *really* easy to gather up. Their combos take a little getting used to, but as an older player, it's really just Ritual Monsters on steroids.
You already know their mechanics, and the "staple" cards (Manju of 10,000 Hands, Preparation of Rites, etc.) are familiar concepts. The hardest (newest) thing you'll need to do is build up an Extra Deck with Herald of Arc Lights and Fusion/Synchro monsters whose stars equal the monster(s) you want to Ritual Summon. Make sure to get higher numbers like 9, 10, 11, 12.
I got a turn 2 (went second) win last night. Just played all 6 cards in the right order, got rid of two set cards on his side of the field, Ritual Summoned three times in the same turn, and attacked for 8500 total.
You really need to plan out which cards you use in what order (you pretty much can't use any of the cards' effects twice in the same turn, including Ritual Spell Cards), so it's not an easy deck at first, but you don't need to learn any new summoning techniques or crazy rulesets.
Once you get used to the cards and remember what each one does (took me about 3 days of playing it), you will *love* it.
EDIT: PS4, perchance? I don't have many people on my list who play this.
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<issue_start>Title: overlap 的横坐标对齐问题？
user0: Please help me.
我想使用overlap将一个scatter和一个line绘制在一起，但是两个图的x轴数据是独立的，并不是一一对齐的，绘图时出现了以下情况：
Decision Boundary line 图绘制到了右边，而且横坐标值不正确
我将line的数据用scatter画出来（Decision Boundary scatter）就没有横坐标数据对齐问题？
这个该怎么处理呢？
我的notebook：
github:[LogisticRegression.ipynb](https://github.com/username_0/MachingLearninginActive/blob/master/5.LogisticRegression/LogisticRegression.ipynb)
核心源代码：
```
# plot with ptecharts
def plotBestFit1(weights):
dataMat,labelMat = loadDataSet()
dataArr = np.array(dataMat)
n = np.shape(dataArr)[0]
xcord1 = []
xcord2 = []
ycord1 = []
ycord2 = []
for i in range(n):
if int(labelMat[i]) == 1:
xcord1.append(dataArr[i,1])
ycord1.append(dataArr[i,2])
else:
xcord2.append(dataArr[i,1])
ycord2.append(dataArr[i,2])
x1 = np.arange(-3.0,3.0,0.1)
x2 = -(weights[0]+ weights[1]*x1)/weights[2]
online()
scatter = Scatter("")
scatter.add("1",xcord1,ycord1,is_stack = True)
scatter.add("0",xcord2,ycord2,is_stack = True)
scatter.add('Decision Boundary scatter',x1,x2.getA1(),is_stack = True)
line = Line("")
line.add('Decision Boundary line',x1,x2.getA1(),is_symbol_show =False,is_stack = True)
overlap = Overlap()
overlap.add(scatter)
overlap.add(line)
return overlap
```
user1: Overlap 画在一起的图如果只使用一个 x 轴的话请确保 x 轴数据一致，不然可使用多 x 轴
user1: #672<issue_closed>
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SEEING SOUND With A Home-Made Oscillograph (Nov, 1936)
SEEING SOUND With A Home-Made Oscillograph
by MAXWELL R. GRANT
Hooked up to the loudspeaker terminals of a radio this device converts music into rhythmic light rays.
FASCINATING mysteries of sound can be explored with a simple oscillograph made from junk-box parts. Plugged into your radio set, it will convert programs into wiggling lines of light, moving across a screen. The human voice may be “seen” as it is projected upon the wall, and any sound may be virtually put under the microscope for analysis. The instrument described below was designed by J. E. Hoover, a Venice, California teacher, who found it a useful tool for demonstrating the principles of sound to his physics classes.
At one end of a 12xl6-inch panel board, place an old loudspeaker unit. Directly in front of it, five inches away, place a post to carry an adjusting screw and small tension spring.
A shaft about an inch long, mounted in jewelled or cone bearings, should be placed midway between the diaphragm and the spring post. An old clock escapement can be used for this.
Three-fourths of an inch from the end of the shaft, fix securely a reflecting mirror about an eighth of an inch square.
Fasten one end of a silk thread to the center of the diaphragm. Secure the other end to the tension spring after passing it once around the small shaft.
In one end of a metal cylinder about 1/2 x 3/4-inch, place a flashlight bulb and socket. An old automobile dashlight may be used, but it must be closed so that light can escape only through a 1/32-inch hole drilled through one wall, half an inch from the top. Mount the cylinder or dashlight on the panel in such a manner that light emitted through the hole will fall upon the mirror.
A lens about 1-1/2 inches in diameter must be fastened to the panel in such a position that rays from the bulb will be reflected through the lens by the small mirror. Any lens will do so long as it has a focal length of several inches—long enough to bring rays of light from the dash bulbs to a focus upon the revolving mirror.
Fashion four mirrors, each 1% inches square, into a box and mount it securely on the shaft of an old clock. The clock must be securely mounted on the panel so there is no vibration and the mirrors must run true without wobble. Speed of the mechanism can be controlled by attaching a fan blade to one of the shafts of the clock to form a governor. This fan may be fashioned from any light strap metal.
By the rotation of the mirrors, the light reflected from the flashlight bulb is thrown upon a screen a few feet away. The screen may be a piece of paper tacked to a drawing board. If sensitized paper is substituted and the instrument used in a dark room, a photograph record may be made. Simply expose the paper for the desired interval of time, then develop it like an ordinary snap-shot print.
The oscillograph is connected to the loudspeaker terminals of any radio employing a magnetic type speaker or to the plate prongs of the two output on a more modern receiver. Where the receiver uses but a single output tube connect one lead to the plate prong of the tube and the other to the set chassis.
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(CNN)Scientists began to uncover a link between sugar and heart disease about 60 years ago, and now, the general consensus among experts is that sugar intake is associated with heart disease risk.
But why did it take so long for researchers to inspect this link?
A new historical analysis published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine on Monday claims that the sugar industry sponsored research that cast doubt about sugar’s health risks and promoted fat “as the dietary culprit” in heart disease — and didn’t disclose it.
A group then called the Sugar Research Foundation funded some of the early research on fat as the primary risk factor for heart disease, a “sophisticated” tactic to overshadow other research that placed blame on sweets as a risk factor, according to researchers.
The foundation, now called the Sugar Association, questioned the new paper’s findings in a response to CNN, saying it’s “challenging for us to comment on events that allegedly occurred 60 years ago, and on documents we have never seen.” The organization was founded in 1943 by members of the American sugar industry and was dedicated to the scientific study of sugar’s role in food, as well as communicating that role to the public.
Schmidt, Kearns and Glantz have done the science community “a great public service” by resurfacing the history of funded heart disease research, said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, in an editorial accompanying the new paper in JAMA Internal Medicine.
“As George Santayana famously said in ‘Reason of Common Sense’ (1905), ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,’ ” she wrote.
Just last year, Coca-Cola was exposed funding health research to claim that exercise can mitigate the effects of excessive consumption of its products, according to a written statement from Dr. Jim Krieger, founding executive director of the nonprofit Healthy Food America. Krieger was not involved in the current study.
“We have to ask ourselves how many lives and dollars could have been saved, and how different today’s health picture would be, if the industry were not manipulating science in this way,” he said in the statement. “Only 50 years later are we waking up to the true harm from sugar.”
Read more: www.cnn.com
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The DNA profile of Franklin Pierce
Are you related to the famous president?
Discover a possible family connection with the famous president and also compare yourself with many other famous people!
The DNA of an American President
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States of America, serving a term from 1853 to 1857. During a period of intense political turmoil and discontent that eventually culminated in the Civil War, Pierce had the difficult task of governing an increasingly divided country.
Franklin Pierce was born on November 23, 1804, in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. His father, Benjamin Pierce, was a distinguished veteran of the War for Independence and also governor of New Hampshire. His mother, Anna Kendrick Pierce, came from an influential family.
Despite a distinguished lineage, Franklin Pierce emerged as a political figure who was constantly controversial. After graduating from law school in the early 1820s, he entered politics. Pierce served in the U.S. Senate for several years and was also the youngest president of it. He was often referred to as "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills," indicating his political leanings - he was a supporter of Democrat Andrew Jackson, who was known as "Old Hickory."
Although his presidency was marked by controversy and devastating political divisions, Pierce also had significant accomplishments. Under his leadership, negotiations were initiated with Japan that eventually led to the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Also during his tenure, the Nebraska-Kansas Act was passed, which hoped to resolve the dispute over slavery in the new territories, but ultimately led to more conflict.
Franklin Pierce married Jane Means Appleton in 1834. The two had three sons, but all died young. Their youngest son, Benjamin, died in a train accident shortly before Pierce took office. This tragic incident and other personal problems, including Pierce's alcoholism, significantly overshadowed his tenure and influenced his political actions.
After his term ended, Pierce retired from public life and spent the rest of his life in New Hampshire. He died in 1869 of cirrhosis, a disease likely caused by his excessive drinking.
In summary, Franklin Pierce, despite his controversies and mistakes, still plays a remarkable role in American history. His leadership during a time of great political uncertainty and his contribution to the advancement of U.S. diplomatic relations have secured his place in history. In the process, his genealogical roots shed additional light on this important figure and allow us to gain a deeper understanding of his origins and character.
Franklin Pierce belonged to haplogroup R-M343 (subgroup R-DF96) in the paternal line.
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Questions and answers about the DNA test
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// Copyright 2020 dfuse Platform Inc.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
package eosws
import (
"context"
"encoding/hex"
"encoding/json"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/dfuse-io/bstream"
"github.com/dfuse-io/bstream/forkable"
"github.com/dfuse-io/dfuse-eosio/eosws/wsmsg"
pbcodec "github.com/dfuse-io/dfuse-eosio/pb/dfuse/eosio/codec/v1"
pbstatedb "github.com/dfuse-io/dfuse-eosio/pb/dfuse/eosio/statedb/v1"
"github.com/dfuse-io/dstore"
"github.com/dfuse-io/jsonpb"
eos "github.com/eoscanada/eos-go"
proto "github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
func Test_onGetTableRows(t *testing.T) {
archiveStore := dstore.NewMockStore(nil)
abiGetter := NewTestABIGetter()
cases := []struct {
name string
lib uint32
archiveFiles []archiveFiles
stateDBResponse string
abiForAccountName *ABIAccountName
msg string
expectedOutput []string
}{
{
name: "sunny path",
lib: 1,
archiveFiles: []archiveFiles{{name: "0000000000", content: pbcodecBlockToFile(t, pbcodecBlockFromString(t, `{
"header": {
"previous": "00000001a",
"timestamp": "2019-09-09T00:00:00Z"
},
"id": "00000002a",
"number": 2,
"unfiltered_transaction_traces": [
{
"db_ops": [
{
"action_index": 0,
"new_data": "096e65772e76616c7565",
"old_data": "096f6c642e76616c7565",
"new_payer": "new_payer",
"old_payer": "old.payer",
"code": "eosio",
"scope": "eosio",
"table_name": "table_name_1",
"primary_key": "key_name_1"
}
],
"id": "trx.1"
}
]
}
`))}},
stateDBResponse: `{"last_irreversible_block_id":"00000001a","last_irreversible_block_num":1,"up_to_block_id":"00000001a","up_to_block_num":1,"rows":[{"key":"a","payer":"eosio","json":"{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"}]}`,
abiForAccountName: &ABIAccountName{accountName: eos.AccountName("account.1"), abiString: `{"version":"eosio::abi/1.0","structs":[{"name":"struct_name_1","fields":[{"name":"struct_1_field_1","type":"string"}]}],"tables":[{"name":"table_name_1","index_type":"i64","key_names":["key_name_1"],"key_types":["string"],"type":"struct_name_1"}]}`},
msg: `{"type":"get_table_rows","req_id":"abc","listen":false,"fetch":true,"data":{"code":"account.1","scope":"scope.1","table":"table.name.1","json":true}}`,
expectedOutput: []string{`{"type":"table_snapshot","req_id":"abc","data":{"rows":[{"foo":"bar"}]}}`},
},
}
for _, c := range cases {
t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
for _, f := range c.archiveFiles {
archiveStore.SetFile(f.name, f.content)
}
subscriptionHub := newTestSubscriptionHub(t, c.lib, archiveStore)
stateClient := pbstatedb.NewMockStateClient()
handler := NewWebsocketHandler(
abiGetter,
nil,
nil,
subscriptionHub,
stateClient,
nil,
nil,
nil,
NewTestIrreversibleFinder("00000001a", nil),
0,
12,
)
conn, closer := newTestConnection(t, handler)
defer closer()
mockRows := new(pbstatedb.MockStreamTableRows)
json.Unmarshal([]byte(c.stateDBResponse), mockRows)
stateClient.SetStreamTableRows(mockRows)
abiGetter.SetABIForAccount(c.abiForAccountName.abiString, c.abiForAccountName.accountName)
err := conn.WriteMessage(1, []byte(c.msg))
require.NoError(t, err)
validateOutput(t, "", c.expectedOutput, conn, 5*time.Second)
})
}
}
func TestTableDeltaHandler_ProcessBlock(t *testing.T) {
scope := eos.Name("eosio")
msg := &wsmsg.GetTableRows{
CommonIn: wsmsg.CommonIn{
Fetch: false,
Listen: true,
StartBlock: 3,
},
Data: wsmsg.GetTableRowsData{
Code: "eosio",
Scope: &scope,
TableName: "table_name_1",
JSON: true,
},
}
abiString := `{"version":"eosio::abi/1.0","structs":[{"name":"struct_name_1","fields":[{"name":"struct_1_field_1","type":"string"}]}],"tables":[{"name":"table_name_1","index_type":"i64","key_names":["key_name_1"],"key_types":["string"],"type":"struct_name_1"}]}`
abi, err := eos.NewABI(strings.NewReader(abiString))
require.NoError(t, err)
cases := []struct {
name string
block *bstream.Block
step forkable.StepType
expectedMessageCount int
}{
{
name: "no delta matching",
block: testBlock(t, "00000002a", "00000001a", "eosio", 1, `{"id":"trx.1","db_ops":[{
"old_payer": "old.payer",
"new_payer": "new_payer",
"code": "eosio",
"scope": "eosio",
"table_name": "table_name_1",
"primary_key": "key_name",
"old_data": "096f6c642e76616c7565",
"new_data": "096e65772e76616c7565"
}]}`),
step: forkable.StepNew,
expectedMessageCount: 1,
},
{
name: "no delta none matching",
block: testBlock(t, "00000003a", "00000002a", "eosio", 2, `{"id":"trx.1","db_ops":[{
"old_payer": "old.payer",
"new_payer": "new_payer",
"code": "eosio",
"scope": "eosio",
"table_name": "table_name_1",
"primary_key": "key_name",
"old_data": "096f6c642e76616c7565",
"new_data": "096e65772e76616c7565"
}]}`),
expectedMessageCount: 0,
step: forkable.StepHandoff,
},
}
for _, c := range cases {
t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
fobj := &forkable.ForkableObject{
Step: c.step,
}
require.NoError(t, err)
emitter := NewTestEmitter(context.Background(), nil)
handler := newTableDeltaHandler(context.Background(), msg, emitter, zlog, func() *eos.ABI {
return abi
})
err = handler.ProcessBlock(c.block, fobj)
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, c.expectedMessageCount, len(emitter.messages))
})
}
}
func Test_dbopsFromBlock(t *testing.T) {
abiString := `{"version":"eosio::abi/1.0","structs":[{"name":"struct_name_1","fields":[{"name":"struct_1_field_1","type":"string"}]}],"tables":[{"name":"table_name_1","index_type":"i64","key_names":["key_name_1"],"key_types":["string"],"type":"struct_name_1"}]}`
abi, err := eos.NewABI(strings.NewReader(abiString))
assert.NoError(t, err)
goodBlock := testBlock(t, "00000002a0", "00000001a0", "eosio", 1, `{"id": "abcd","db_ops":[{
"operation": "OPERATION_UPDATE",
"action_index": 0,
"old_payer": "old.payer",
"new_payer": "new_payer",
"code": "eosio",
"scope": "eosio",
"table_name": "table_name_1",
"primary_key": "key_name",
"old_data": "096f6c642e76616c7565",
"new_data": "096e65772e76616c7565"
}]}`)
badOldDataHEX := testBlock(t, "00000002a0", "00000001a0", "eosio", 1, `{"id": "abcd","db_ops":[{
"operation": "OPERATION_UPDATE",
"action_index": 0,
"old_payer": "old.payer",
"new_payer": "new_payer",
"code": "eosio",
"scope": "eosio",
"table_name": "table_name_1",
"primary_key": "key_name",
"old_data": "096f6c642e76616c7565",
"new_data": "096e65772e76616c7565"
}]}`)
scope := eos.Name("eosio")
msg := &wsmsg.GetTableRows{
Data: wsmsg.GetTableRowsData{
Code: "eosio",
Scope: &scope,
TableName: "table_name_1",
JSON: true,
},
}
msgWrongCode := &wsmsg.GetTableRows{
Data: wsmsg.GetTableRowsData{
Code: "wrong",
Scope: &scope,
TableName: "table_name_1",
JSON: true,
},
}
cases := []struct {
name string
block *bstream.Block
msg *wsmsg.GetTableRows
step forkable.StepType
expectedError error
expectedOldData interface{}
expectedNewData interface{}
expectedStep string
expectedTableDeltaCount int
}{
{
name: "sunny path",
step: forkable.StepNew,
block: goodBlock,
msg: msg,
expectedStep: "new",
expectedTableDeltaCount: 1,
expectedError: nil,
expectedOldData: json.RawMessage([]byte(`{"struct_1_field_1":"old.value"}`)),
expectedNewData: json.RawMessage([]byte(`{"struct_1_field_1":"new.value"}`)),
},
{
name: "sunny path with undo",
block: goodBlock,
msg: msg,
step: forkable.StepUndo,
expectedStep: "undo",
expectedTableDeltaCount: 1,
expectedError: nil,
expectedOldData: json.RawMessage([]byte(`{"struct_1_field_1":"new.value"}`)),
expectedNewData: json.RawMessage([]byte(`{"struct_1_field_1":"old.value"}`)),
},
{
name: "Bad old data hex",
step: forkable.StepNew,
block: badOldDataHEX,
msg: msg,
expectedStep: "new",
expectedTableDeltaCount: 1,
expectedOldData: nil,
expectedNewData: json.RawMessage([]byte(`{"struct_1_field_1":"new.value"}`)),
},
{
name: "wrong code",
block: goodBlock,
msg: msgWrongCode,
expectedOldData: nil,
expectedTableDeltaCount: 0,
expectedNewData: nil,
},
}
for _, c := range cases {
t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
tableDeltas := tableDeltasFromBlock(c.block, c.msg, abi, c.step, zlog)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedTableDeltaCount, len(tableDeltas))
if c.expectedTableDeltaCount > 0 {
require.NotNil(t, tableDeltas[0].Data)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedStep, tableDeltas[0].Data.Step)
if c.expectedOldData != nil {
require.NotNil(t, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp)
require.NotNil(t, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp.Old)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedOldData, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp.Old.JSON)
}
if c.expectedNewData != nil {
require.NotNil(t, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp)
require.NotNil(t, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp.New)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedNewData, tableDeltas[0].Data.DBOp.New.JSON)
}
}
})
}
}
func TestToV1DBOp(t *testing.T) {
abiString := `{"version":"eosio::abi/1.0","structs":[{"name":"struct_name_1","fields":[{"name":"struct_1_field_1","type":"string"}]}],"tables":[{"name":"table_name_1","index_type":"i64","key_names":["key_name_1"],"key_types":["string"],"type":"struct_name_1"}]}`
abi, err := eos.NewABI(strings.NewReader(abiString))
assert.NoError(t, err)
cases := []struct {
name string
rowHexData string
asJSON bool
expectedJSON interface{}
expectedHex string
expectedErrorPrefix string
}{
{
name: "sunny path",
rowHexData: "096e65772e76616c7565",
asJSON: true,
expectedJSON: json.RawMessage(`{"struct_1_field_1":"new.value"}`),
},
{
name: "sunny hex path",
rowHexData: "096e65772e76616c7565",
asJSON: false,
expectedJSON: nil,
expectedHex: "096e65772e76616c7565",
},
{
name: "abi error",
rowHexData: "1027000000000000",
asJSON: true,
expectedJSON: nil,
expectedErrorPrefix: "Couldn't json decode ROW:",
},
}
for _, c := range cases {
t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
rowData, err := hex.DecodeString(c.rowHexData)
require.NoError(t, err)
v1DBRow := newDBRow(rowData, eos.TableName("table_name_1"), abi, "payer.1", c.asJSON, zlog)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedJSON, v1DBRow.JSON)
require.Equal(t, c.expectedHex, v1DBRow.Hex)
require.True(t, strings.HasPrefix(v1DBRow.Error, c.expectedErrorPrefix))
})
}
}
func protoJSONUnmarshal(t *testing.T, data []byte, into proto.Message) {
require.NoError(t, jsonpb.UnmarshalString(string(data), into))
}
func pbcodecBlockFromString(t *testing.T, in string) (out *pbcodec.Block) {
out = &pbcodec.Block{}
require.NoError(t, jsonpb.UnmarshalString(in, out))
return
}
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From r/marvelstudios:
These are all good points but I think pietro is the good guy we all know and love. I have a two separate theory’s involving Mephisto and dr strange.
The first the x men were fighting Mephisto and Mephisto grabbed quicksilver and put him here because he sensed that Wanda was starting to break, Mephisto is fast but he’s not quicksilver fast, Peter (I’m not calling him pietro) is trying to snap Wanda out of it by asking her questions, he might sound evil but he’s not, he’s just a dick with a heart of gold even in the x men movies he wasn’t really that nice, he wasn’t a bad guy but was not a goody two shoes either. The reason he called the children demon spawn is maybe because Mephisto wanted to use jean grey like he’s using Wanda, so pietro knows what the children represent, that’s why he’s so close to them he wants to protect them because regardless of Mephisto wanting him there to distract Wanda.
My second theory which I’m not so sure of is dr strange found out that Mephisto got out and that he’s currently with Wanda. So he got Peter explained what is happening and told him to go there.
Nightmare might be involved too but he’s pretty much either working for or with Mephisto or he’s an amalgamation of the two which I really hope doesn’t happen
Edit why am I being downvoted seriously guys this is a theory which means none of this is true it might be but like come on guys really don’t downvote others just because you don’t like someone else’s theory
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Small Business Marketing Blog » Personal Accessories Marketing Tips & Industry Trends powered by Myron Promotional Products & Gifts Thu, 23 Oct 2014 09:56:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Custom products for summer parties Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:01:54 +0000 As your planning this summer's hit parties, consider the endless possibilities to incorporate custom promotional products into the celebrations for party favors. These will be gifts that attendees can hold on to forever as a reminder of the fun times you shared. Three classic summer party types are family reunions, graduation parties and neighborhood or block gatherings.
Family reunion
Summer is the perfect time to organize a family reunion because kids are off from school and the weather is nice to be traveling. It may be a good idea to plan the party for a weekend so people won't have an issue taking time off from work to attend. A large party such as this is usually easier to host if it's potluck style. Think about assigning each separate family unit a type of food to bring, be it dessert, snacks or part of the main dish. If the family is large, people can also bring paper products and plastic utensils. This will take a lot of pressure away from the hosts because there will be less shopping and preparation to deal with. It's possible some of the family members haven't seen each other in a long time, so it's key to have plenty of space for people to spread out and catch up. Gather enough chairs for outdoor seating but be sure to have an alternate plan in case of poor weather.
To get everyone in the spirit of summer, consider handing out personalized coolers, like the 6-pack cooler lunch bag from Koozie. You can also order flying disks or beach balls for the family to throw around at the party.
Graduation celebration
Whether a member of the family recently graduated from high school, college or junior high, it's an excellent accomplishment to dedicate a party to. Graduation parties often combine groups of people from multiple areas of an individual's life so there should be several activities to chose from. This is because people typically invite family and classmates, creating a mix of adults and younger individuals who have likely never met. While that may be an inevitable factor, there is much more to a graduation celebration than the crowd.
Guests will enjoy favors like totes, especially the tri tone personalized tote bag.
Block party
Neighbors may not see each other beyond getting the mail, putting the kids on the bus, or in passing at the grocery store. While there are typically some tight-knit neighborly families, an annual block party is the time for everyone to mingle. Perhaps a new family has moved in since last summer and has yet to meet very many people in the area, making this an integral event in their lives as residents of the block.
Because it involves such a large group, this should be a party where mostly everyone contributes in some way. It's a celebration of community, so it only makes sense for the event itself to be community-driven. Some families may bring games to keep kids occupied and others can be responsible for various types of food. It could be fun to encourage everyone to bring their dogs for a group puppy playtime. There can also be tournaments of games including outdoor sports, board games and card games to bring the whole gang together.
Since this is a less personal celebration than the previous parties, more traditional promotional products might fit the crowd better. For example, consider personalized stadium cups with the street or development name printed on them. People may also like custom sports bottles that represent their neighborhood.
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June 26 is National Beautician’s Day Tue, 27 May 2014 10:17:56 +0000 There are few pleasures in life that measure up to the fabulous feeling after an appointment at the salon or spa. Whether people revitalize their entire look with a fresh cut and color or simply get a trim to keep up their classic style, a visit to the hairdresser or barber can be quite a treat. Everyone enjoys personalized care combined with luxury, and beauticians are the people who deliver that experience.
June 26 is National Beautician's Day, a time to show appreciation for cosmetologists, hair dressers, spa employees and the like. It's important to acknowledge the effort and attention they put into their clients' appearances. Men and women in the industry help customers feel their most attractive, which in turn may lead them to feel more confident. Part of being a beautician is finding the perfect medley of his or her own expertise and a customer's vision for the resulting look. It's a career that integrates customer service and creativity to brighten the days of each and every client. Customers and beauticians tend to talk about their lives and fill each other in on family matters, romantic situations and their latest shopping trip. As National Beautician's Day grows closer, consider how the business can show appreciation for the hardworking hairdressers, nail artists, cosmeticians and other employees on their unofficial holiday.
Written gestures of gratitude
It's always wonderful to hear positive feedback directly from customers. However, most clients probably aren't aware of the upcoming day. Facilitate gestures of appreciation for employees with Thank You Cards. Find a discrete way to offer them to each customer then collect the completed cards to distribute on June 26. Employees will have tangible evidence of their skill and caring nature to reference whenever they're having a tough day.
An array of custom promotional products
Organize gift bags for employees that allow them to show off their pride in the company. Start with a tote bag that they can use over and over again, whether as a work bag or for an afternoon off enjoying the summer weather. Some excellent options are the Marina Tote Bag and the Double Pocket Zippered Tote, both available in black, blue and red. Fill the totes with personalized products that fit the lifestyles of salon and spa employees. Custom Dual Vanity Mirrors, Custom Hand Sanitizer, 3 Way Promotional Emory Boards and Personalized Lip Balm are a few items to consider.
The gift of health
One way some companies show appreciation for employees is with discounted gym memberships. This gift promotes a healthy lifestyle, provides employees with a service they might not pay for themselves and could improve their self-esteem and confidence. Give each employee a Cool Gear Pure Bottle with Filter sport bottle with the membership so they stay hydrated through every workout.
Appeal to their appetites
Close down shop early one night and have a small party or celebration for the employees in honor of National Beautician's Day. Consider ordering take-out food or even bringing everyone out to a local restaurant for a group meal. If it isn't feasible or logical to hold an evening party, try a lunchtime affair. Some businesses will have lunch catered for the staff so the event is stress-free for everybody. This type of gathering is not only a great way for employees to know owners, supervisors and managers care, but it's also an amazing opportunity for the staff to bond. There's often a different dynamic between employees when they socialize in a different context besides work conversation.
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Promotional products make the great outdoors even better Wed, 21 May 2014 16:15:50 +0000 brafton As the warm weather sets in, families and friends will undoubtedly turn to the great outdoors for fun and recreation. While many vacations are characterized by ritzy hotels that provide various amenities, many people prefer to escape the trappings and electronics that pervade their everyday lives with camping trips. Camping allows people to nurture that subdued instinct of surviving on one’s own wits and intuition, as adequately “roughing it” comes into focus. Issue promo items to your customers that will help make their wilderness experiences memorable.
Promotional bags are always useful no matter what kind of camping trip your clients are going on, whether they are sleeping in the forest of a national park or renting a campsite for the weekend. They will always be one of those items that are vital to camping, such as the stakes used to properly set up a tent, or a tarp to help keep the firewood dry. Either way, your gift will allow them to carry everything, and because it is free they can enjoy these items even if they get dirty.
As the sun sets, your clients might still need to find a way to navigate, whether they are looking for more kindling or making an excursion to the restroom. Walking blindly in the dark can be hazardous, exacerbated by the fact that this is likely the first journey to the area.
Lighted promotional products, like flashlights and lighted pens with your company’s name printed on them could be useful as clients can carry them in their pockets. Once dusk sets, they will have a use for them during their camping trips. From then on, your client will think of practicality and guidance whenever they see your company logo.
The campfire is the staple of every campsite. It’s where the late night social interactions occur as people tell ghost stories or form bonds through words that could not be spoken in the confines of an office. Give your customers stadium cushion seats and blankets so they can sit comfortably around the warm blaze and feel the earth beneath them. This will allow your brand to be incorporated into meaningful moments that they will forever remember.
If your customers are going hiking or biking through trails, injuries could occur. Help them heal with a travel first aid kit, which may allow them return to action quickly and will serve as a reminder to always be prepared.
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Promotional products make great tailgating paraphernilia Wed, 16 May 2012 17:02:15 +0000 One of the best parts about the warm weather is not just the great concert or game that your clients will go to, but the beginning festivities where everyone congregates for hours in the parking lot to turn the day into a party. Music and sports are fun to watch, but they become a full-fledged experience when they are turned into a means of celebration. Give your customers promo items that help enhance that pre-game fiesta on the black top.
Keep it cool
The cornerstone of any successful tailgating venture is the refreshments. It is what occupies the event-goers when they aren't socializing, and it provides an excuse to show up early. The added nourishment will also give everyone energy to go on through the night, so they can keep rooting for their hometown team or crowd surfing for their favorite band.
This is why the ideal personalized business gifts for the warmer months will help keep everything fresh for an afternoon of fun in the sun. Give your clients a custom insulated lunch bag with your company's name on it. They will undoubtedly get a lot of mileage out of it and will forever be grateful for the memorable times it was a crucial part of.
H20 is the way to go
While the party atmosphere encourages the consumption of alcoholic beverages, it's always wise to make sure your bodily water content stays in check. The beer and mixed drinks might enhance the experience, but they can be a hindrance when combined with the hot sun, especially when dehydration or heat stroke sets in. Give your clients a BPA Free 18oz. Metallic Sports Bottle or a BPA-free 24 oz. Water Bottle with Handle with your company's logo emblazoned on the side. These containers are convenient ways for clients to always have hydration at hand so they can keep rooting, clapping, dancing and partying without thirst ever being an issue.
The essentials as promotional items
Of course no pregame getdown is complete without the necessities. What good is bringing a beverage if you can't open it? That is why a Multi Function Opener Key Ring is a great way to create brand recognition. Your clients and their friends – who could be prospective customers – will be passing around your gift all night as they pop tops on their respective beverages and kick back before the big game.
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Tools are excellent small business promotional items Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:12:13 +0000 dparker Small businesses should take advantage of every marketing tactic that is available to them, so fully realizing the potential of promotional products needs to be a priority for every organization. To do so, the key elements of these items should be maximized. They include usefulness, a high rate of retention among customers and frequent use among consumers.
Small tools and helpful devices fit this description nicely. Certain items, whether they're needed or not, will often be set aside for times when people project that they'll be necessary. Local companies and small businesses should provide the following promotional tools so that they can keep their names, logos and brands in customers' homes, cars and offices indefinitely.
Pocket tools and knives
Many people, particularly middle-aged men, feel naked if they don't have at least a few tools at their disposal. Whether it's a screwdriver, a knife, bottle opener, file or tweezers, certain objects have a habit of disappearing when people need them most. These situations are annoying and shouldn'thave to be repeated. Consequently, promotional pocket tools or collapsible knives that can be attached to keys or simply stowed in a glove box are sure to stick around for a while.
Wallet magnifier
Most consumers are loathe to admit it, but aging robs the eyes of their ability to focus. Many older people need a little bit of help to make out menus or instructions from time to time, but they refuse to wear reading glasses. Hence the value of a promotional wallet magnifier – this handy tool can be tastefully hidden in one's billfold or purse and only brought out in the most desperate of situations. Consumers will be grateful for a surreptitious way to get by without having to give into Father Time, so they'll certainly remember the company that provided it for them.
Tool pen
The only thing better than always having a promotional pen on hand is having a promotional tool pen available. This neat item is not only a fully functional writing implement – it can be used as a screwdriver in a pinch. Besides being useful, this sort of promotional product is the sort of item that can be used with pride and additionally functions as a novelty to be shared with others.
Emergency auto tool
Car accidents do not occur so frequently that people need to have complicated tools on hand to escape from them. However, keeping something like an emergency auto tool in one's vehicle is a gesture that ensures peace of mind and confidence in the ability to escape from a car wreck. A promotional emergency auto tool is equipped with a glass breaker, a seat belt cutter and a 3-LED light. Promotional products that provide comfort and ease fears are always thought of highly and become memorable in their own right.
Flashlight ring
There are very few people who have ever had an experience when they wished that they'd had a flashlight with them. Some people constantly fumble with the locks on their front doors while others frequently feel frightened walking down a dark street by themselves. Regardless of the basis, this desire for light can easily be filled with a flashlight ring to which keys can be attached. Few people would shun such a gift, knowing that it is extremely valuable and very convenient.
Tape measure
Situations in which a tape measure would be fruitful are quite common, but procuring such a tool is not a regular occurrence. Thus, a promotional tape measure helps people keep track of lengths and distances while actively promoting a company's brand.
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Promotional bottle opener keyrings are excellent branding items Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:50:12 +0000 dparker How many times have you been at a gathering and found that you or someone in your party required a bottle opener and there wasn’t one to be had? Now imagine that a guest nearby comes to the rescue with a handy keychain bottle opener. Everyone cheers and wants to take a look at this great little gadget. Lo and behold, it has your company’s logo on it.
Choosing an item that is both useful and unique can be challenging when you are looking for just the right promotional product giveaway. Promotional bottle openers are useful tools, and as such, customers are tempted to hold onto them at all times. Keychains are an obvious favorite because keys are used every day and seen by a wide variety of people. By using a combo product like a bottle opener and a keyring, your marketing dollar can stretch even further.
Additionally, people who are the recipient of a helpful hand when they have un-openable bottles will notice and remember the name that’s printed on this cool tool. Small businesses can find a great deal of success through using these inexpensive but powerful marketing items.
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Reddit r/NYCtrees
Such hostility toward patients who in general just want relief without risking legal issues. I’m so glad you’re able to find what you need elsewhere and don’t have to pay as much for it. But who cares if someone wants to get their med card and purchase from a legal dispo rather than worry about CPS knocking on their door or what’s gonna happen if their employer drug tests them?
Yeah our program in NY is very limited, but you can usually find out the strain you’re buying if you care to ask or look for the information. I know that hasn’t always been the case but things have come a long way since even I got my card 2 years ago. The state says they can’t advertise strain info, but not that patients can’t have access to it. So yeah, it’s mostly distillate, and yeah it’s not as great as if we had access to hash or even whole flower for that matter, but it’s a hell of a lot better than being doped up on benzos and opioids, and much better than the anxiety that comes with trying to source elsewhere... especially for those using to treat anxiety.
Everyone has different needs, can we please stop bashing card holding patients in this sub for doing what’s best for them? I’d never bash someone for going to Maine or Rhode Island to get what’s best for them... Not everyone can or even wants to “hit up their guy” or commit a federal crime by crossing state lines with product. Keep writing your state reps and pushing for a better program and market for all. Stay well, and if you need help deciphering the “color code” for products, feel free to reach out.
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Hello again everyone! I'm excited about this weeks reading, we are starting to see some good examples of the evolutionary process as well as some of the primary examples that helped Darwin shape his realizations. I found a few of the examples very interesting and I really enjoyed reading about the predictions that were made by two different people (Darwin & Wallace) around the same time periods, with limited knowledge of each others research. This, to me, was great to read about. Finding that multiple researchers were finding some of the same information at the same time shows me that there is a decent amount of merit to what they proposed.
When i was getting through the examples in the text there were a few things that stuck out to me and a few things I had some questions about.
1- The idea that the pollinators (Hummingbirds, Bees, etc.) had the same tendencies towards what we described as 'beautiful' flowers. Hence, causing the flowers that were more colorful and pleasing to look at to become pollinated more often and have better chances of surviving. Also falling under this same idea was the idea that the hens are more attracted to a mate that had a more flamboyant and colorful than others that looked a little more plain, again using the same presumption that they are seeing these colors the same way we see them.
2- Natural Selection. There are so many good examples of this in the book, and the way it ends up working always seems to be a cycle to me. The one i saw the cycle in the most was the Canary. The idea that the females were attracted to the males song and it caused a sort of arousal that caused the likelihood of them mating to increase. This, in turn, would help to develop more males to be born that had the more attractive song and would eventually cause more mating. This is the big concept behind Natural Selection, Right? I'm new to the details of Natural Selection and the majority of the ideas in this chapter include the female making a choice of its mate, so I wanted to clarify the process and what parameters constitute that it is indeed Natural Selection.
Okay, i don't want to take up all the main points, I hope to hear from everyone soon. Thanks again for joining me!
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced that it has withdrawn Aleem Dar from the remaining matches in the ongoing India-South Africa series over security concerns.
The ICC made the decision following Monday’s incident in Mumbai where a group of activists of India's far-right political group Shiv Sena attacked the headquarters of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), just before Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan was to meet BCCI chief Shashank Manohar to discuss a bilateral series in December.
Shiv Sena had also threatened to stop Dar from officiating in the fifth and final ODI between India and South Africa to be played in Mumbai on Sunday.
“Under the present circumstances, it will be unreasonable to expect from Aleem that he will be able to perform his duties to the best of his abilities. As such, he has been withdrawn and his replacement will be announced in due course,” an ICC spokesman said.
Aleem, a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, had officiated in the first three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and was also scheduled to umpire in the fourth and fifth ODIs in Chennai and Mumbai on 22 and 25 October, respectively.
Earlier today, Sena activists crashed through the gates of the office in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium, which serves as the headquarters of the BCCI, to disrupt a meeting of BCCI and PCB officials.
The activists shouted anti-Pakistan slogans and held posters that read 'Shahryar Khan go back', determined to stop Manohar from meeting his Pakistani counterpart.
The protesters entered Manohar's office and crowded around his desk, shouting slogans and demanded that the Indian chief cancel talks with PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan that were planned in Mumbai on Monday.
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From reddit r/cordcutters:
Maybe I'm not as demanding of my TV entertainment, because I thought the show was fine. It wasn't amazing, and I probably won't re-watch it a half-dozen times over my life, but I'm glad I watched it once and I don't regret it one bit. It's 8 episodes; it's not like you're investing a lot of time. The casting is solid, the acting is mostly solid, the writing is easily the cause of most of the complaints, but it's not going to have you shouting at the TV like a truly awful show or movie will. Once it gets going about halfway through the third episode, most of the plotlines are fun all the way to the end.
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New single by James Calleo is backed up by new band, more to come this summer - nj.com
New single by James Calleo is backed up by new band, more to come this summer
James Calleo and Widely Grown performing at The Hoboken Spring Arts & Music Festival this past May.
It took a three-month long road trip during the lockdown from the COVID-19 pandemic for James Calleo to put together the right ingredients for a new album. But this time, the solo Jersey City artist decided to take a different approach to his new work and got together with some of his friends in New Jersey to form Widely Grown.
Among the material for the new album, which is expected to drop in August, is the lead single, Pickles, a feel-good summer song about having a good time. The new single’s origins go back to a couple of weeks before the recording session for the upcoming album began.
“I was thinking about my time backpacking in India almost 10 years ago, where I found myself with my now wife, sitting on a rock watching the sun go down,” says Calleo. “We had a great view and my guitar, so naturally others kept climbing up to the same vantage point, with beers, fruits and guitars. We just sang the night away.”
While staying true to his roots and remaining on acoustic guitar, Calleo dug into the Americana and country vibes of the mid-western United States. Joining him on this new album are Jersey City fiddler Sean-David Cunningham, drummer Dave DeRiso, and upright bassist Dave Lockhart, who brought with him his invaluable recording and touring experiences with Lake Tahoe’s Dead Winter Carpenters.
It was after their debut show at White Eagle Hall where the band was contacted by Fruition drummer Tyler Thompson, who offered to take on the production of their upcoming record. Calleo and the band went out to Studio 110 outside of Pittsburgh where they laid down 10 tracks in three days with Thompson’s “do it live” approach.
“I’ve learned a little here and there from past experiences,” said Calleo. “I told Tyler, if I leave here and anything is incomplete, I’m going to change my mind. I don’t want to be able to change my mind.”
Pickles was released on June 3 and can be heard on Spotify at https://spoti.fi/3mlLPpN. Another single is set to release mid-summer and followed by the self-titled debut album, Widely Grown, in August. The band will then hit the road to the Midwest following the release to tour in support of the new album.
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Affectionately known as la madrina (the godmother) of the Hartford Puerto Rican community, Maria Clemencia Colón Sanchez served the city as advocate, listener and mentor and earned tremendous respect citywide. She advocated for bilingual education in public schools and served on the Hartford Board of Education. In 1988, she became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly.
In 1954, at the age of 28, Sanchez boldly left her parents, her five siblings, and her native home of Comerio, Puerto Rico, and came to Hartford, Conn. Though she only had an 8th-grade education, Sanchez was determined to create a better life for herself. In Hartford, Sanchez found a new family and the new life that she sought. When she arrived in Hartford, Sanchez found work where she could – including in the tobacco fields – to earn money for herself and her family back in Puerto Rico.
Eventually, she was able to open her own storefront, “Maria’s News Stand,” on Albany Avenue, which doubled as an office space for much of her political work. By the late 1950s, the Puerto Rican population in Hartford was sizeable, and members of the community felt their rights were not being respected, and their voices were not being heard. The storefront served as a home base for community members to congregate and give voice to their concerns. The social unrest continued to grow in the 1960s, and on August 10, 1969, the Comanchero riot erupted between the Puerto Rican and French Canadian communities. By this point, it was clear from the work done at her store that Sanchez could mobilize communities. Not only was she able to quiet some of the rioting, but the community leader also used the fight as an opportunity to bring city members together to discuss their worries. Finally, the voices of the Puerto Rican community were being heard.
As an activist, Sanchez founded the Puerto Rican Parade Committee in 1964 and co-founded La Casa de Puerto Rico, the Society of Legal Services, the Spanish-American Merchants Association, the Puerto Rican Businessmen Association, and the Community Renewal Team. Along with her extensive work in community activism, Sanchez is most closely associated with education reform, an issue about which she was extremely passionate. In 1971, along with Edna Negron Rosario, Sanchez led the fight for mandatory bilingual education in Hartford. She recognized the right of children with limited proficiency in English to be taught in their native language and took this right seriously. Though opponents feared that a bilingual school would compromise traditional American ideals and encourage complacency in Puerto Ricans who had not yet become comfortable speaking English, La Escuelita opened in 1972, becoming the first bilingual school in the state of Connecticut. The following year, Sanchez took her education reform efforts to the next level and ran for a seat on the Hartford Board of Education. She won and served on the Board for 16 years, taking on additional bilingual and bicultural education challenges during her tenure.
In 1988, Sanchez became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly. She served in this position until her sudden death on November 25, 1989. To honor her memory and recognize her valuable contributions to Hartford’s Hispanic community, the Maria C. Sanchez Elementary School on Babcock Street was dedicated in September 1991. On October 14, 1993, Maria C. Sanchez was commemorated along with other distinguished Hartford citizens in the Hartford Public Library’s Plaza of Fame.
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1966 - Today: Struggle for Justice
Feminism in the late 1960s was aided by President Kennedy, who formed the President’s Commission on the Status of Women in 1961, and his successor, President Johnson, who backed passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination based on race, sex, national origin, or religion. Difficulties in implementing the law through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) led a group of women in 1966 to create the National Organization for Women (NOW), demanding “action to bring American women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now.”
A younger group called for a more radical approach to social change than simply considering what was possible to achieve politically. “Women’s liberation” demanded freedom without limitation. Some took part in consciousness-raising groups, others demonstrated against the Miss America pageant, and many discussed their expectations of mutual enjoyment of sex. They established rape crisis centers, domestic shelters, and women’s studies programs. Title IX of the federal Education Amendments Act also increased pressure on universities to hire more women faculty and expand the number of female college athletes. Activist protest among gays and lesbians, such as the Stonewall Riot, symbolized this group’s potential to resist oppression.
Under pressure, many states repealed legislation prohibiting abortion. In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized its availability to women in Roe v. Wade. Also in 1973, the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the ERA, and states began its ratification.
Yet, dissension arose in the ranks of the movement, as it had earlier after passage of the 19th amendment. Feminists disagreed as to whether pornography should be banned or protected as a form of free speech, and whether lesbian identities should be kept secret or disclosed. Black women were more concerned with poverty and welfare in their communities than with personal career advancement; for them, sterilization abuse was more important than abortion, and they were deeply insulted by attacks on the African American family as matriarchal and dysfunctional.
A backlash was growing in the 1970s, along with a New Right in politics. The ERA was defeated and opposition to abortion increased. Conflicts between pro-life and pro-choice candidates have impacted every presidential campaign since then.
Still, gains have been made in many areas. From 1960 to 2000, increasing numbers of women sought entry to higher education, and bachelor’s degrees awarded to them increased from forty to sixty percent. Definitions of marriage have changed, as when courts gave full rights and responsibilities and the name of marriage to same-sex civil unions in Connecticut in 2008. The Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991 highlighted concern about sexual harassment on the job, and the number of sexual harassment cases filed with the EEOC have increased, as have judgments in favor of the women. Finally, in 2009, women crossed the fifty percent threshold and became the majority of the American workforce. Once largely confined to repetitive manual jobs, now they are running organizations that once treated them as second-class citizens.
The Women’s Movement has changed women’s lives, influenced the economy, and made debate about their roles, family life, and sexual conventions central to national politics and American history.
Special thanks to Barbara E. Lacey, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, St. Joseph's College (Hartford, CT) for preparing these historical summaries.
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Subreddit: Whatcouldgowrong
Some are trolls others actually believe. My cousins a true believer, when we were on an airplane once I even tried to tell him look you can see the curvature of the earth and he's like no no no thats not real blah blah blah blah NASA's lying blah blah blah. Which I always thought was crazy, like the government can barely keep people from talking to the press and you expect us to believe every single NASA employee is in on it? Nope I dont think so someone would have gone to the press by now and been like NASA's lying and heres the proof.
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Description: ------------ If a spammer does spam, the emails are still sent. Don't send bug emails out until the account is confirmed. This way, spam will never reach its intended target.
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Q: Is there a Skyve method that returns the current version? I understand the version of Skyve was removed from the UI for security reasons but is there a Skyve method that returns the currently running version that we can use?
A: UtilImpl.SKYVE_VERSION returns the current version of Skyve.
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The Gymnopédies (French pronunciation: [ʒim.nɔ.pe.di]), or Trois Gymnopédies, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie. He completed the whole set by 2 April 1888, but they were at first published individually: the first and the third in 1888, the second in 1895.
The work's unusual title comes from the French form of gymnopaedia, the ancient Greek word for an annual festival where young men danced naked – or perhaps simply unarmed. The source of the title has been a subject of debate. Satie and his friend Alexis Roland-Manuel maintained that he adopted it after reading Gustave Flaubert's novel Salammbô, while others see a poem by J. P. Contamine de Latour as the source of Satie's inspiration, since the first Gymnopédie was published in the magazine La Musique des familles in the summer of 1888 together with an excerpt of Latour's poem Les Antiques, where the term appears.
Oblique et coupant l'ombre un torrent éclatant
Slanting and shadow-cutting a bursting stream
However, it remains uncertain whether the poem was composed before the music. Satie may have picked up the term from a dictionary such as Dominique Mondo's Dictionnaire de Musique, where gymnopédie is defined as a "nude dance, accompanied by song, which youthful Spartan maidens danced on specific occasions", following a similar definition from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Dictionnaire de Musique.
In November 1888, the third Gymnopédie was published. The second Gymnopédie did not appear until 1895, and its impending publication was announced in several editions of the Chat Noir and Auberge du Clou magazines. As a whole, the three pieces were published in 1898.
These short, atmospheric pieces are written in 3
4 time, with each sharing a common theme and structure.
- Lent et douloureux (D major / D minor)
- Lent et triste (C major)
- Lent et grave (A minor)
The melodies of the pieces use deliberate, but mild, dissonances against the harmony, producing a piquant, melancholy effect that matches the performance instructions, which are to play each piece "painfully" (douloureux), "sadly" (triste), or "gravely" (grave). The first few bars of Gymnopédie No. 1 (shown below) consist of an alternating progression of two major seventh chords, the first on the subdominant, G, and the second on the tonic, D.
By the end of 1896, Satie's popularity was waning and financial situation deteriorating. Claude Debussy, a friend of Satie's whose popularity was on the rise, helped draw public attention to Satie’s work. In February 1897, Debussy orchestrated the third and first Gymnopédies.[a] Debussy omitted the second, stating that it did not lend itself to orchestration. (Orchestrations of the second Gymnopédie were later attempted by other composers but never frequently performed.)
From the second half of the 20th century on, the Gymnopédies were often erroneously described as part of Satie's body of furniture music, perhaps because of John Cage's interpretation of them. Collectively, the Gymnopédies are regarded as an important precursor to modern ambient music.
The first and second Gymnopédies were arranged by Dick Halligan for the group Blood, Sweat & Tears under the title "Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie" on the group's eponymous album, released in 1968. The recording received a Grammy Award the following year for Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance. In 1979, the English/Australian musical group Sky performed Gymnopédie No. 1 on their self-titled debut album. The track also appeared on Sky's 1984 compilation album Masterpieces, The Very Best of Sky. In 1980, Gary Numan produced a track called "Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement)", which appeared on the B-side of the single "We Are Glass". In 1999 the chord sequence was used in the Sunship remix of the song "Flowers" by girl band Sweet Female Attitude. All three pieces were arranged with percussion by the UK electronic duo Isan in 2006, in their signature analogue sound.
Gymnopédies have been heard in numerous movies and television shows. Examples include the BBC television series The World at War, Louis Malle's My Dinner with Andre, the French thriller Diva, the documentary Man on Wire, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, and Woody Allen's Another Woman, all of which use Gymnopédie No. 1 in their soundtracks. The 2010 Japanese animated drama film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya prominently features all three Gymnopédies, and they are included in the film's soundtrack release as a bonus disc, including Satie's Gnossiennes and his composition "Je te veux". Mother 3 also features Gymnopédie No. 1 in its soundtrack as Leder's Gymnopedie. In 2007 Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann arranged the first and the third Gymnopédie for The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic. Jack DeJohnette included a tribute to Gymnopédies in his 2016 album Return. In 2018, Fernando Perdomo included a portion of Gymnopedie No. 1 on his album Out to Sea. In 2021, violinist Fenella Humphreys released an arrangement of Gymnopedie No.1 for violin. NBCs Community in the episode "My Dinner With Abed" 2013
The song is also played in the 3rd episode of the Korean show Aelliseu(Alice).
Notes & referencesEdit
- When Debussy published the scores two years later, he reversed the numbering, with Satie's first became Debussy's third, and vice versa.
- Mary E. Davis (2007). Erik Satie. Reaktion Books. p. 31. ISBN 9781861896025.
- Robert Orledge, Satie the Composer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 207, ISBN 978-0-52135-037-2
- Erik Satie, Ornella Volta (2000), Correspondance presque complète, Paris: Fayard/Imec, p. 936, ISBN 978-2-213-60674-3
- Steven Moore Whiting. Satie the Bohemian: From Cabaret to Concert Hall. Clarendon Press, 1999. ISBN 0191584525, p. 129
- Cage's Place in the Reception of Satie by Matthew Shlomowitz (1999) Archived 2005-10-26 at the Wayback Machine on Niclas Fogwall's Erik Satie website.
- Mark Prendergast, The Ambient Century: From Mahler to Moby – The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, p. 6 ISBN 0-7475-5732-2
- "12th Annual Grammy Awards". Grammy Award. 28 November 2017.
- "Gary Numan – We Are Glass". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
- "Someone to Call My Lover by Janet Jackson". WhoSampled.com. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- "Man on Wire Soundtracks". IMDb. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- "The Royal Tenenbaums Soundtracks". IMDb. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- Another Woman (1988) – Satie's "Gymnopedie No. 1" (aka "Marion's theme"). YouTube. June 17, 2011. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- "Lantis web site" 映画『涼宮ハルヒの消失』オリジナルサウンドトラック [Film The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya Original Soundtrack] (in Japanese). Lantis. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- Leder's Gymnopedie – Mother 3. YouTube. October 11, 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12.
- "Fleur de Paris". Prestoclassical.co.uk. EMI Classics.
- "Jack DeJohnette – Return". Newvelle Records. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- "Round Revue – Fenella Humphreys – Music for Violin". Round Revue. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
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“CHARISMATIC megafauna” is the term that conserva-tionists use to describe the flagship species that bring in the ecotourism dollars and may stir the conscience of a government. Without them it is much harder to establish projects that can preserve whole ecosystems and throw a lifeline to smaller, often less photogenic creatures.
And they don’t get much more charismatic than the giant panda, the strange vegetarian bear from the mountains of western China. Even with the panda’s iconic status, however, it looked as if nothing could save it a few years ago: between 1975 and 1989 the giant panda lost half its remaining habitat to logging and agriculture. The survivors clung on as small groups in 24 forest fragments. It was a “blueprint for extinction”, says leading panda expert George Schaller in his foreword to this book.
Since then things have changed and the panda’s future is brighter. Now recognised as
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Algebra- I get 1 out of two parts
posted by Rachal .
Owners of a recreation area are filling a small pond with water. They are adding water at a rate of 25 liters per minute. There are 700 liters in the pond to start.
Let W represent the amount of water in the pond (in liters), and let T represent the number of minutes that water has been added. Write an equation relating W to T, and then graph your equation.
I get W=25T+700
How do I graph this
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Beijing: China marks 70 years of communist party rule on Tuesday with a major military parade in Beijing and celebrations nationwide. Chinese authorities have left nothing to chance in their meticulous planning for the biggest national anniversary since president Xi Jinping came to power.
The capital has been put on lockdown, with bans on everything from kites and homing pigeons to drones. People who live along the parade route have lived with curfews all week and were asked to leave their homes ahead of the National day.
This day is usually marked with speeches, flags, fireworks and the like. However, October 1, 2019, will see “mass pageantry,” including a military parade, as 2019 carries particular significance for President Xi Jinping, marking 70 years of Communist Party rule.
Timeline of The people's Republic of China at 70
1949: After more than 20 years of civil war, Mao Zedong leads the communists to victory over the nationalists, and proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China on 1 October.
1958: China launches a five-year economic plan, the "Great Leap Forward", collectivising farming and investing in heavy industry. The plan is abandoned after two years after poor harvests lead to starvation and millions of deaths.
1966–1976: The 10-year "Cultural Revolution" causes economic and political upheaval, as Mao attempts to purge communist China of remaining capitalist and traditional elements of society, and enforce Maoism as the dominant and permanent ideology.
1976: Chairman Mao dies.
1977: Deng Xiaoping initiates major reforms of China's economy
1980: China's "one-child policy" is introduced to curb population growth.
1989: Troops fire on protesters in Tiananmen Square who had been campaigning for greater freedom and democracy. The uprising is crushed.
1990: The opening of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges symbolise the increasing economic liberalisation of China.
1997: Control of Hong Kong is handed back to China from the UK. Two years later Portugal transfers the sovereignty of Macau back to the Chinese.
2001: China joins the World Trade Organization.
2003: Yang Liwei becomes the first Chinese astronaut. Within 10 years the country will successfully deploy a robot rover on the moon.
2007: After years of tension, including riots over how Japanese schoolbooks are accused of portraying the events of the second world war, and tensions over territorial claims in the South China Sea, Wen Jiabao becomes the first Chinese prime minister to address Japan's parliament.
2008: Beijing hosts the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games.
2010: China overtakes Germany as the world's biggest exporter of goods. The following year it becomes the world's second-largest economy, overtaking Japan.
2016: The Chinese economic "miracle" falters, as growth falls to its lowest level for 25 years.
2018: China becomes increasingly embroiled in a trade war with the US. Xi Jinping is cleared to be president for life
2019: A series of major pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong challenge Chinese rule there.
What is National Day?
The People’s Republic of China was founded on October 1, 1949, after the Communist Party, led by Mao Zedong, defeated the Nationalist Party in a civil war, following the end of Japanese occupation during World War II.
On that day, a ceremony was held in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the formation of the Central People’s Government. It included a parade by the People’s Liberation Army and an address by Mao Zedong, the country’s new leader, from the nearby Gate of Heavenly Peace.
Tuesday’s ceremony, like those of the past seven decades, echoed the pageantry of that first National Day. Xi oversaw a military parade after delivering a speech. For many Chinese people, it is a day of patriotic celebration that is followed by a weeklong holiday.
National Day is a holiday in Hong Kong too, and workers and students who have the day off are expected to hold anti-government protests.
It is unclear what will happen in Hong Kong on Tuesday, but the party will be hoping the world sees images of orderly troop formations and dancing civilians in Beijing rather than huge protests in Hong Kong.
How Beijing celebrated its 70th anniversary?
Beijing was the centre of the action. In an 80-minute parade, the military was showing off new weapons, including an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States; supersonic and hypersonic drones; and tanks and fighter jets.
Xi, the most powerful Chinese leader in decades, used his opening speech before the parade to highlight the Communist Party’s role in “the advance of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.”
Xi also attended a “grand evening gala” in Tiananmen Square, where party and state leaders and members of the public watched unspecified performances and a fireworks display.
At least 100,000 people took part in “mass pageantry,” with some 60,000 attending the evening gala, according to Chinese state media.
China has not invited foreign leaders, but foreign ambassadors based in Beijing would attend. Retired Chinese leaders were on the podium with Xi, perhaps including former president Jiang Zemin, who at 93 is still active behind the scenes.
Why 2019 is so important to Xi Jinping?
At 70, China’s Communist Party becomes the second-longest ruling party in history, about a year behind its neighbour, North Korea.
But in January, Xi summoned ministers and provincial chiefs to Beijing to warn that “major risks” abound and their “long-term rule” wasn’t guaranteed. The speech came the same day China reported its slowest annual economic growth since 1990, in the wake of the Tiananmen Square crackdown (the 30th anniversary of that event this year went unmarked).
The communist state has now outlived the Soviet Union that was once its sponsor and supporter; Chinese officials for years have studied the collapse of the USSR in a bid to avoid a similar fate for the PRC.
A risky road ahead for China?
The recent global trade war started by United States President Donald Trump and other moves --- such as sanctions imposed on Huawei Technologies Co.-- that China sees as intended to hinder its growth and technological progress.
In few days, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin are scheduled to meet as the tensions take a toll on both their economies.
At the same time, Hong Kong’s months-long protests against China’s increasing influence have rocked the city.
In November, Xi will go to South America for a BRICS summit in Brazil and then APEC in Chile, probably the next opportunity for him to meet US President Donald Trump.
China’s slowing economy adds tension for Xi, and more supportive measures could be rolled out before the end of 2019.
In January, self-ruled and proudly democratic Taiwan, claimed by the party as China’s sacred territory since 1949, holds presidential elections.
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You will be given a definition of a task first, then some input of the task.
Use a disfluent question or a proper question and find the answer to the question based on the given context or return None if an answer can't be found. A disfluent question is a question that has some interruptions in it while framing. A proper question is the correct form of the question without any disfluency.
proper question: The abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate is believed to have ended what system?
disfluent question: The abolition of the colonial powers, oh sorry, the Ottoman Caliphate is believed to have ended what system?
context: In its focus on the Caliphate, the party takes a different view of Muslim history than some other Islamists such as Muhammad Qutb. HT sees Islam's pivotal turning point as occurring not with the death of Ali, or one of the other four rightly guided Caliphs in the 7th century, but with the abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924. This is believed to have ended the true Islamic system, something for which it blames the disbelieving (Kafir) colonial powers working through Turkish modernist Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Output:
true Islamic
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अर्जेन्टिनाले महामारीको कारण 'कोपा अमेरिका' आयोजना नगर्ने - Dainik Online Dainik Online
ओसुमसियोम । अर्जेन्टिनाले देशभरि कोरोनाभाइरस सङ्क्रमणको समस्या कम हुन नसकेको भन्दै खेल आयोजना गर्न नसक्ने बताएपछि कोपा अमेरिकाका लागि नयाँ आयोजकको खोजी भइरहेको दक्षिण अमेरिकी फुटबल महासंघले आइतवार जानकारी गराएको छ।
कोलम्बिया र अर्जेन्टिनाले संयुक्त रुपमा आयोजना गर्ने उक्त 'फुटबल प्रतियोगिता' यही जुन १३ देखि सुरू गर्ने कार्यतालिका सार्वजनिक गरिएको छ।
महामारीको कारण उक्त प्रतियोगितालाई अघिल्लो वर्ष स्थगित गरी यो बर्ष आयोजना गर्ने तयारी भइरहेका समय आयोजकले नै स्वास्थ्य सङ्कटका कारण खेल सञ्चालन गर्न कठिनाई भएको जानकारी गराएको बुभिएको छ।
"वर्तमान परिस्थितिलाई ध्यानमा राख्दै अर्जेन्टिनामा गरिने कोपा अमेरिकाको सञ्चालनलाई अन्यत्र लग्ने प्रयास भइरहेको छ," दक्षिण अमेरिकी फुटबल महासंघले आफ्नो आधिकारिक ट्वीटर पेजमार्फत् सार्वजनिक विज्ञप्तिमा उल्लेख गरेको छ।
विज्ञप्तिमा भनिएको छ, "आयोजक अर्जेन्टना पछिहटेपछि महाद्वीपीय प्रतियोगिताको आयोजना गर्न चासो देखाएको अन्य देशहरूबाट प्राप्त भएका प्रस्तावहरूको हामी विश्लेषण गरिरहेका छौं। यस सम्बन्धमा समाचार छिट्टै घोषणा गरिनेछ।"
अर्जेन्टिनाको स्वास्थ्य मन्त्रालयले अहिलेसम्म त्यहाँ सङ्क्रमितको सङ्ख्या ३७ लाख पुगेको बताएको छ भने ७७ हजार सङ्क्रमित व्यक्तिको मृत्यु भएको जनाएको छ।
यल घ। लाख भन्दा बढी कन्फरेन्स कोरोनाभास र अबकभक ठठ,००० भन्दा बढीको मृत्यु भएको रिपोर्ट गरेको छ। सरकारले मे २७ मा सार्वजनिक तथ्याङ्कमा यहाँ दैनिक ४० हजारभन्दा बढी व्यक्तिमा सङ्क्रमण पुष्टि भएको जनाएको छ।
अर्जेन्टिनामा महामारी नियनत्रण गर्न सरकार विफल भएको भन्दै भएको १० दिनदेखि सरकार विरोधी व्यापक प्रदर्शन भइरहेका समय सरकारले खेल आयोजन गर्न नसक्ने जनाएको हो। रासस
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Government mulls temporary cut on some crop export taxes due to fall of foreign reserves
Argentina’s government is weighing a temporary reduction on some export taxes to boost dollar inflows as its foreign reserves fall to a three-year low, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Officials are still discussing which products will be considered in the measure, the percentage of the tax reduction, and how it will apply. Measures may be announced for soy soon and could apply in the month of October.
Source: Buenos Aires Times
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From subreddit r/INDYCAR:
I don't think he was as butt hurt as some may believe. He was going back and forth with helping John Edwards to enter either Indycar or Indy Lights after reunifcation but John Edwards didn't want to race on ovals and that's where it ended. He was also backed up by other Atlantic owners Eddie Wachs. I also believe he was also backing up guys like Hinch and Wickens even after reunification making sure they were taken care of.
Why he never built a full team who knows. At that time though many of the Champ Car teams were losing races to the former IRL teams.
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The skies over the U.S. alone play host to more than 87,000 flights per day — in fact, there are around 5,000 planes over the country at any given moment, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.
That's just in the U.S. Now, imagine what the dizzying webs of air traffic must look like across the entire globe.
Here it is, in one image.
The European Space Agency has a little satellite that documents planes flying across the globe. The Gom-X-3 has been in space for the last six months picking up on signals from millions of planes, according to the ESA.
The satellite's job is to keep an eye on aircraft entering European airspace and record information about how fast they're traveling, where they are in space and at what altitude they're flying.
The neon green shows where planes were located over the six-month period.
There's even more we're not seeing. Not all aircraft currently have automatic dependent broadcast surveillance — the signal that the Gom-X-3 uses to capture data about a given plane — so this is a limited view into how much air traffic crosses the planet. The ESA says it expects all aircraft passing through Europe to have ADB-S soon.
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Diamond and Dolls
Diamond and Dolls is a South African reality drama series that airs on Showmax. The show is produced by Tebogo Elesta Ramokgadi.
Tebogo Elesta Ramokgadi is a South African television producer, stylist and musician.
In the reality TV series show Diamond and Dolls, the cast members live in lifestyle as they pursue fame and money as event hosts and influencers.
Cast
Eva Modika
Paloma Mlunjwana
Luminitsa Jemwa
Innocencia Morolong
Tebogo Ramokgadi
References
External links
English-language Showmax original programming
South African drama television series
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From r/anime_titties
The only point you are using in defense of china is that it gave you nuclear warheads to defend yourself.
You do know you can criticize china while defending your own country. But no, you have gotten so used to being a lapdog, that you guy don't have a sense of pride left.
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Write a story related to the extract above, focusing on Lifestyles / Country Life / Mountain Life, to an alien named Alice that just landed on earth and has zero knowledge of the world and human interactions.
The story should use simple terms, and thoroughly explain very basic information about physical and human interactions. Use easy-to-follow examples and incorporate questions an alien with no knowledge about earth could have along with their answers. Ensure that the story covers everyday actions and the use of common objects. Do not call Alice an alien.
Answer: Once upon a time, there was a curious and open-minded individual named Alice who had just arrived on planet Earth. Although she was eager to learn about this new world, she found herself feeling quite overwhelmed by all the new sights and sounds around her. She wondered how people lived their daily lives here.
One day, while exploring the countryside, Alice came across a small mountain village nestled among rolling hills and lush green forests. The villagers greeted Alice warmly and welcomed her into their community. They showed her how they grew their own food, tended to their animals, and worked together to maintain their peaceful way of life.
Alice marveled at the simplicity and beauty of country living. She asked the villagers what it meant to live in a place like this. One of them replied, "Living in a rural area means being close to nature and having plenty of space for farming and raising livestock."
"What's farming?" asked Alice.
"Farming is growing crops such as wheat, corn, and vegetables," explained another villager. "We also raise chickens, goats, and cows for eggs, milk, meat, and other products."
As Alice watched the farmers work the land, she noticed that some used machines while others did everything by hand. "Why are some using tools and others aren't?" she asked.
A farmer smiled and said, "Those without machinery rely on traditional methods passed down through generations. It may be harder work, but it connects us deeply to our ancestors and the land we cultivate."
Curious about the homes in the village, Alice followed a narrow path leading towards a quaint wooden cabin. A kind elderly woman invited her inside and offered tea made from local herbs. As they sat and chatted, Alice admired the cozy interior filled with handmade furniture and colorful quilts.
"How do you make these beautiful things?" Alice inquired.
"Well, many of us enjoy crafting items ourselves rather than buying mass-produced goods. We believe in preserving old skills and traditions," the woman answered proudly.
Intrigued by the concept of self-reliance, Alice decided to stay in the village for a few weeks to immerse herself fully in its culture. During her visit, she learned valuable lessons about sustainability, cooperation, and resiliency. Through observing and participating in various activities, she discovered that despite differences between urban and rural lifestyles, humans share fundamental needs and desires.
Before leaving, Alice thanked everyone for sharing their wisdom and experiences. She felt grateful for having encountered such a welcoming community where people valued hard work, tradition, and connection to each other and the natural environment. With newfound appreciation and understanding, Alice continued her journey through planet Earth, excited to explore even more diverse ways of life.
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When the Chicago River sprung a leak 20 years ago today, it wasn't the first time the city's system of underground tunnels was the source of an unpleasant surprise.
On that Monday, April 13, 1992, many Chicagoans learned for the first time of the miles of freight tunnels honeycombing downtown. As Loop basements filled with water and emptied of people in a mostly invisible urban disaster, the heads started rolling and the cleanup bills piled up. An embarrassed Mayor Richard M. Daley immediately blamed a bungling city bureaucracy, and indeed it was revealed that city officials had had at least a month to fix the leak but failed to act in time. It took four days to plug the leak and weeks to pump out the waterlogged basements, subbasements and sub-subbasements, like those at Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, 29 E. Madison St. and DePaul University.
But imagine Daley's shock if he or his staff hadn't known about the tunnels at all. That's what happened to Mayor Carter Harrison II at the turn of the last century.
See, the tunnels themselves were an audacious, legally suspect land grab by a wealthy businessman who received city permission to lay telephone wires under the Loop and parlayed that into constructing an extensive underground railroad.
In March 1899 the Illinois Telephone and Telegraph Co. and its president, Albert Wheeler, received a 30-year lease "to construct and operate in all the streets, avenues, alleys, and tunnels and other public places of the city … conduits and wires or other electrical conductors … for the transmission of sound signals by means of electricity or otherwise."
Less than a year later, the commissioner of public works reported, "The city will be unable to head off the promoters of this scheme. Something should have been done long ago, but it is now too late, I fear. More than two blocks of the concrete tunnel have been completed, beginning in Powers & O'Brien's basement and running in Madison street to La Salle, and then to Monroe and Washington streets."
Wheeler refused to explain himself, saying only, "We don't want the question aired before the public."
As city officials blustered, Illinois Telephone kept digging. Harrison was told these big 7-foot-high by 6-foot-wide tunnels were needed to handle the hundreds of thousands of telephone wires intended to service the Loop. But the surprises kept coming. In March 1902, city officials found tunnels big enough to "drive a load of hay," 14 feet high and 12 feet wide. Wheeler said it was storage space.
A month later, Wheeler finally came clean on his scheme. In a blatant example of "ask for forgiveness, not permission," he announced plans to use the tunnels to deliver packages, newspapers, mail and other goods throughout downtown. He admitted he would need the city's permission to operate such a business, and said, "The wires … will be strung in the roofs of the tunnels, and we will have left ample space to be devoted to other uses."
Of course, Wheeler got his approval, but not before a Tribune editorial headlined "The illegal tunnels" took the city to task for the whole fiasco. And city lawyers issued a report questioning the existence of the tunnels themselves. "The city has never admitted that the company is entitled to build anything more than conduits for the carrying of telephone wires," the report read.
Five people — Wheeler, a former alderman, the former city clerk, the deputy city clerk and the city printer — were indicted in 1905 for forgery in the scandal. But the charges were tossed by a judge who, while ruling that the company "knowingly intended to defraud the city," found a technicality: The prosecutors failed to show how the defendants benefited.
But over the years, as the outrage faded, the wonder grew. These tunnels were a marvel. A 1909 story, headlined "Underground Chicago is as mysterious as the sewers of Paris and as wonderful as the catacombs of Rome," painted a vivid picture of thousands of tons of merchandise, coal, ash and refuse being transported 40 feet underground on a narrow-gauge electric railroad. A company could drop tons of merchandise at a South Loop tunnel depot and have it reappear as if by magic at four different locations, delivered in some cases directly to a firm's basement warehouse or to any of the city's main railroad depots. At its height, the system of concrete-lined tunnels ran for more than 60 miles, under nearly every Loop street and south to Roosevelt Road, north to North Avenue and as far west as Halsted Street.
The benefit went beyond the speed and ease of delivery and extended above ground. Loop streets then were an almost impassable tangle, with multiple streetcar lines competing with pedestrians and hundreds of horse-drawn wagons (and later, automobiles). And don't even get a shipping manager started about the vagaries of getting his goods across the Chicago River via one of the fickle lift bridges! As the 1909 story pointed out, that one shipment of goods took 106 wagon loads of freight off the streets. Also sent underground were the hundreds of coal shipments, and banished from the streets were the three-horse drays groaning under 5-ton loads the Tribune called "one of the bugbears of the Loop district."
But the system never made money, at least for the company's shareholders, who never saw a dividend in the life of the venture. In 1929, when the lease expired and the tunnels became city property, the various corporate entities that owned the tunnels owed the city more than $1 million in unpaid franchise fees. A new 30-year franchise was granted in 1932, but by 1949, a city report found that the system was deteriorating and accused the company of diverting revenues to avoid paying a portion to the city. As late as 1954, the system still moved 220 tons a day, but competition from trucks and a changing economy forced the tunnels to close in 1959.
But the tunnels didn't go quietly. In July 1959, in a spot very close to the 1992 leak at Kinzie Street, excavators punctured the tunnel. Water poured in, but a widespread disaster narrowly was averted.
So could it happen again? Not likely. After the 1992 flood, massive concrete bulkheads were installed at the 30 spots where the tunnels intersect the river.
Editor's note: Thanks to Jill Krupp, of Bartlett, for suggesting this Flashback.
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[Empirical treatment of granulomatous hepatitis of unknown origin: practice investigation in the French National Society of Internal Medicine].
PURPOSES
Ten to fifteen percent of granulomatous hepatitis are idiopathic. If symptoms like prolonged fever are present, empirical treatment is discussed. The goal of this study is to describe the empirical treatment proposed in this situation by French specialists of internal medicine.
METHODS
We conducted a practice investigation among the French national society of internal medicine (SNFMI), using an anonymous questionnaire that related a case of idiopathic granulomatous hepatitis. This questionnaire was proposed to all French internists present at the SNFMI congress in June and December 2004. French specialists of internal medicine had to answer if they would prescribe an empirical treatment and if so, to specify this treatment.
RESULTS
Thirty-six French specialists of internal medicine answered to the questionnaire. In the proposed situation, 89% of them initiate an empirical treatment. In 18/36 cases (50%), a first-line anti-tuberculosis empirical treatment is proposed (quadritherapy in 11 cases). In 7 cases (19%), an empirical treatment with prednisone, 0.4 mg/kg/d (N=1) and 1 mg/kg/d (N=6), would be prescribed. Seven internists (19%) would prescribe an empirical treatment with cyclins at the dose of 100 to 400 mg/d. Median duration of the empirical treatment would be 28 days (range: 8-252d). The evaluation parameters mentionned are: fever (69%), weight (59%), seric level of C-reactive protein (59%), and liver biology (53%). In case of failure of first-line empirical treatments, 69% of all questionned internists prescribe a second-line treatments: prednisone at the dose of 0.4 to 2 mg/kg/d (72%), anti-tuberculosis treatments (16%), cyclins 200 mg/d (12%), with a median duration of 28 days. Seven internists (19%) propose to combine two empirical treatments.
DISCUSSION
Faced with a problem of idiopathic granulomatous hepatitis, French internists questionned propose four therapeutics options: no treatment, anti-tuberculosis treatment, cyclins or steroids treatment. First-line anti-tuberculosis treatment is a coherent proposition regarding to the high prevalence of tuberculosis. There are only few data available concerning empirical treatment with steroids or cyclins. Specific proposition of such empirical treatments should be defined.
CONCLUSIONS
The management of idiopathic granulomatous hepatitis is difficult. Our study shows that therapeutics practices of French internists are heterogenous. The main proposition consists in a first-line anti-tuberculosis empirical treatment, that has to be evaluated after four weeks, and switched with steroids (prednisone, 1 mg/Kg/d) in case of failure. This study is not an expert proposition but contributes to suggest clinical practice guidelines for a rare, complex, heterogenous, and typically internist situation.
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တ နေ့ ကျွန်တော် အိမ်ပြန်လာ တော့ ညီဇော်တို့ လင်မယာ အိမ်ရောက် နေသည် ။ ညီဇော် က ပြုံးလျက် “ ကိုကောင်းမြတ် ကျွန် တော် မိန်းမ မှာ ကိုယ်ဝန် ရှိနေပြီ (၃) လကျော် လို့ ” ပြုံးလျက် ပြောသည် ။ “ ဟုတ်လား ကောင်းတာ ပေါ့ ညီဇော် ရာ ဝမ်သားပါ တယ် ” ညီဇော် မိန်း မ ယုယုခင် က “ ကိုကောင်းမြတ် တို့ ကော ကလေး မရသေးဘူးလား ” “ မရသေး ပါဘူးဟာ ” “ အကူအညီ လိုရင် ညီဇော် ရှိတယ် လေ ” လို့ ယုယုခင် လှမ်းစ သည် ။ ကျွန်တော်မိန်း မ ဝင့်ဝါဖူး က ရှက် ပြီး “ ယုခင် နင် က လည်း ” ကျွန်တော်တို့ အိမ်ထောင်သက် (၄) နှစ် ကျော် ပြီ ။ အခု ထိ ကလေး မရသေး ။ ဘယ်သူ့ လိုအပ်ချက် လည်းတော့ မသိ ။ ဆေး လည်း သွား မစစ်ဖြစ်ပါ ။ ညီဇော် တို့က အိမ်နီးချင်း တွေ လေ။ ကျွန်တော်တို့ နောက်မှ အိမ်ထောင် ကျတာ ။ အခု တော့ ကလေး ရသွားပြီ။ ညီဇော် က ကျွန်တော် ထက် အသား ညိုသည် ဗလ တောင့်သည် ။ ကျွန်တော် မိန်းမ ဝင့်ဝါဖူး နဲ့ ယုယုခင် ငယ်သူ ငယ်ချင်းတွေ လေ ။ ဒီတော့ မိသားစု ချင်း ရင်းနှီး ကျတယ် ။
ဒီ လို နဲ့ ယုယုခင်လည်း ကိုယ်ဝန် ၆လလည်း ရောက်ကော သူအမေအိမ်ပြန်နေတယ်။ ကိုယ်ဝန် အဆင်ပြေအောင်လို့။ ညီဇော် ကတော့ သူယောက်ခမနဲ့ သိပ်မတည့်လို့ မွေးခန်နီမှဘဲ လိုက်သွားမယ်တဲ့။ ညီဇော်စားရေသောက်ရေးကတော့ အိမ်နီးချင်ဖြစ်တဲ့ ကျွန်တော်အိမ်မှာဘဲ လာစားတယ်။ နောက် ၁လောက်အကြာမှာ ကျွန်တော် Nightduty က နေ့အလုပ်မရှိလို့ မန်နေဂျာကလည်း သဘောကောင်းပြီး အိမ်ပြန်ခွင်ပေးလိုက်တယ်။ ည ၉လောက်တော့ ရှိပြီ။ ဒါနဲ့မိန်းမလည်း ဝမ်းသာအောင် သူကြိုက်တဲ့ ခေါက်ဆွဲ ကျော်ဝယ်ပြီးပြန်ခဲ့တယ်။ အိမ်ရှေ့ကမဝင်ဘဲ တမင်တကာ အိမ်နောက်ဖေး ပြတင်ပေါက်ကဝင်လိုက်တယ်။
“ အား ကောင်လိုက် တာ ညီဇော်ရယ်.. အရမ်းကောင်နေပြီး.. ပြွတ် ပြွတ် အင့် အင့် အ” ဟာဘာသံတွေလည်း ငါမိန်းမနဲ့ညီဇော်တို့ ဖြစ်နေပြီလား။ အိပ်ခန်းဘေးထံရံပေါက်ကနေ လှမ်းကြည်လို့က်တယ်။ ညီဇော်က ကျွန်တော်မိန်းမကို လေးဘက်ကုန်ပြီးချနေတာ။ မိန်းမရဲ့ ကျွန်တော်မြတ်နိုးတဲ့ ဆံပင်တွေကို လက်တဖက်ကစုပြီး ဆောင့်ဆွဲထားတယ်။ လက်တဖက်က ဖင်နှစ်ခြမ်းကို တဖြန်ဖြန်နဲ့ ရိုက်လိုက်တာ ဖင်နှစ်ခြမ်းမှာမှာ လက်ငါးချောင်ရာနီလို့။ ဆောင့်လိုးလို့ မိန်းမရှေ့ရောက်ရင် ဆံပင်ဆောင့်ဆွဲလိုက်နဲ့ အေားကား ကြည့်ရတဲ့ အတိုင်ဘဲ့။ မိန်းမပုံစံကလည်း တအားကောင်းနေတဲ့ပုံဘဲ့။ ကျွန်တော်လည်း ဘာလုပ်ရမလည်းမသိ။ ထူးပူနေမိတယ်။ ကိုယ်ဝင်သွားရင်လည်း အော်ဟစ်ပြီး ပတ်ဝန်ကျင်သိမှာလည်း ကြောက်တယ်။ မိန်းမကိုလည်း မခွဲနိုင် မိန်းမကလည်း စိတ်ပါလက် ပါ ခံနေတော့။ ဒီအတိုင်းကြည့်နေမိတယ်။
“ အား ကောင်းလိုက်တာ ညီဇော်” “နင်လင်လိုးတာနဲ့ ငါလိုးတာနဲ့ ဘယ်ဟာကောင်လည်း” “ရှင်လိုးတာကောင်းတယ်..အား အား ဆောင့်ဆောင့်” ညီဇော်တော်တော်လိုးနိုင်တယ်။ ကျွန်တော်ဆို ထန်ကုန်နာရီဝက်လောက်ဘဲ လိုးနိုင်တယ်။ ပါစပ်ကလည်း ပက်ပက် စပ်စပ်ပြောလိုးတာ။ ကျွန်တော်နဲ့ဆို ရှက်သလို့လုပ်နေတဲ့ မိန်းမကလည်း ညီဇော်နဲ့ကျမှ မထင်ရအောင်ထန်နေတယ်။ နောက် ၁နာရီလောက်နေတော့ ညီဇော်ဆောင့်ချက်များ မီးကုန်ရမ်ကုန်ဖြစ်လာတယ်။ ခဏကြာ မိန်းမအဖုတ်ထဲ ညီဇော်က ဆောင့်ထည့်ပြီး ဖိကပ်ထားတယ်။ ခဏနေပြီး ညီဇော်လီးမိန်မအဖုတ်ထဲ ထုတ်လိုက်တော့ လက်ရည်တွေ ထွက်ကျလာတာအများကြီးဘဲ။ ညီဇော်ကပက်လက်လှန်ထားပြီး မိန်းမဆံပင်ကိုဆွဲကာ လီးစုပ်ခိုင်တယ်။ ကျွန်တော်လီစုက်ခိုင်ရင် ရှက်သလို့နဲ့ မလုပ်ချင်တဲ့မိန်းမ က ညီဇော်လီးကို စိတ်ပါလက်ပါ စုပ်နေတယ်။ ညီဇော်ကဆံပင်ကိုဆွဲကာ မိနမအာခေါင်ထဲထိရောက်အောင် မိန်းမပါစပ်နဲ့ ဆီးစပ် ထိဆွဲကပ်ထားတယ်။ ခဏကြာတဲ့အထိ ဖိကပ်ထားပါပြီး။ ပါကို ခပ်စက်စက်လေး ၃ ၄ချက်ရိုက်ခါ ထုတ်ပေးလိုက်တယ်။မိနမက ညီဇော်ရင်ခွင်ထဲမှာ ဝင်လဲနေသည်။ နှစ်ယောက်သား မောသွားလို့ မှိန်းနေကြတယ်။
ကျွန်တော် လည်း သူတိုထွက်လာရင်တွေမှာဆိုလို့ အလုပ်ကိုဘဲ ပြန်လာခဲ့။အလုပ်မှာ လည်း အိပ်လို့မပျော် ညီဇော်နဲ့မိန်းမလိုးတာဘဲ စိတ်ထဲဝင်လာတယ်။ ကျွန်တော်စိတ်တွေလည်း ဘယ်လို့ဖြစ်နေလည်းမသိ ဖီးအရမ်းတက်တာနဲ့ ဂွင်ထုလိုက်မိတယ်။ ဒီလိုနဲ့ မနက်လင်းတော့ အိမ်ပြန်လာသည်။ အိမ်ရောက်တော့ မိန်းမကအလှပြင်ပြီးကြိုလျက် “ယောက်ကျားပြန်လာပြီးလား ယောက် ကျားအတွက် မှုန်ဟင်ခါး ပြင်ထားတယ်.. နေအုန်းဝါလေး ကော်ဖီဖျော်ပေးအုန်းမယ်” ဆိုပြီး နောက်ဖေးထွက်သွားတယ်။ မိန်းမရဲ နောက်ကြောအလှကိုကြည်းပြီး ညက ညီဇော်ဖင်ကြီးကို ရိုက်ပြီးလိုးနေတာ ပြန်မြင်ရောင်လာတယ်။ “မိန်းမရေ ညီဇော်ကော လာ သွားပြီလား” မိန်းမက ဘာမှမဖြစ်သလို “ပုံမှန်အတိုင်းဘဲ ထမင်းချိုက်လာယူးသွားတယ် မောင်ရေ” လို့လှမ်းအ်ာပြောသည်။ သူ လည်း မသိချင်ရောင်စောင်နေမှတော့ ကိုယ်လည်း မသိချင်ရောင်စောင်နေမှ တော်ကြာရပ်ကျော်ရွာကျော် ဖြစ်နေမှအရှက်ကွဲကုန် အုန်မယ်။ မိန်းမကိုလည်း မပြတ်နိုင်ဘူးလေ။ မိန်းမကလည်း ညီဇော်ဘက်ပါနေတယ်လေ။ ဒီအတိုင်လေးဘဲ မသိချင်ယောင်စောင် နေလိုက်တယ်။
ည ရောက်တော့ ညီဇော်အရက်လာသောက်တယ်။ ဘာမှ မဖြစ်သလို့ပုံမုန်အတိုင်း သောက်စားပြီးပြန်သွားတယ်။ ညရောက်တော့ မိန်းကကို လိုးမယ်ပေါ့။ အစပြိုးတဲ့အနေနဲ့ မိန်းမနှုတ်ခမ်းကို နမ်းလိုက်တယ်။ မျက်လုံးထဲ ညီဇော်လီးကို မိန်းမစုပ်ပေးနေတာ ပြန် မြင်လာတယ်။ ပိုပြီးဖီးတက်သလိုဘဲ။ ပြီးတော့ မိန်မအဖုတ်ကို ယက်လိုက်တယ်။ ညီဇော်လီးမဲကြီးက မိန်းမစောက်ဖုတ်ကို လိုးနေ တာပြန်မြင်လာတယ်။ ပိုပြီး စိတ်ပါလက်ပါယက်မိတယ်။ “မိန်မရေ ကိုလီကိုစုပ်ပေးပါလား ” “မစုပ်ချင်ပါ ဒီအတိုင်ဘဲလုပ်ပါ” စိတ်ထဲမှာတော့ လင်ငယ်လီးကျတော့ စိတ်ပါလက်ပါစုပ်ပြီး ကိုယ်ယောကျာ်းလီးကျတော့ ရှက်သလို ရွံသလို့ မိန်မတွေများ။ “မိန် မရေ လေးဘက်ထောက်ပေးပါလား ” “ဟာကွာ ဒီအတိုင်ဘဲလုပ်တော့ မိန်းမအိမ်အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာ ညောင်းနေတယ်.. အိပ်ချင်ပြီ.. မြန်မြန်လုပ်တော့” ညောငမှာပေါ့။ မနေ့က ညက ညီဇော်နဲ့လိုးထားတာကို အိပ်ချင်မှာပေါ့။ တညလုံး လိုးနေကြတာလေ။
ဒီ လို နဲ့ ကျွန်တော်လည်း လှေကြီးထိုးရိုးရိုးနဲ့ ၁၀မိနစ်လောက်လုပ်ပြီး ပြီးသွားတယ်။ မိန်မကမှ စိတ်မပါတာ။ နောက်တကြိမ် Nightduty ကျမယ် ရက်ရောက်ပြန်ရော။ မသွားမဖြစ်လို့ သွားခဲ့ရတယ်။ စိတ်ထဲမှာတော့ အိမ်ကိုစိတ်ရောက်နေတယ်။ မိန်းမကတော့ သေခြာ ပါတယ် ညီဇော်နဲ့လိုးနေမှာ။ အလုပ်လုပ်ရတာ စိတ်မဖြောင့်ဘူး။ ညီဇော် ငါ့မိန်းမကို ဘယ်လိုးလိုးနေမလည်းပေါ့။ ၉နာရီရောက် ဖုန်းဆက်ချင်စိတ်ဖြစ်တာနဲ့ ဆက်ကြည်တော့ “မိန်မလား ” “ဟုတ်အကို ဘာဖြစ်လို့လည်း အား ဖတ်ဖတ် ရူး ညီဇော်ဖြည်းဖြည်း ယောက်ကျားဖုန်းဆက်နေတယ်.. ပြော အကိုဘာဖြစ်လို့လည်း” “စောနက မိန်မဘာပြောတာလည်း” “ဘာမှမပြောပါဘူး” မိန်းမ ဖုန်းက စပီကာပိတ်ထားတာတောင်မှ အပြင်က အသံတွေကြားရတယ်။ မိန်းမက ဘာမှမဖြစ်သလိုနဲ့ လိမ်နေတယ်။
“ ဘာ မှမဟုတ်ပါဘူး ညီဇော်ကော လာသွားသေလား” “ဖတ် ဖတ် အ အင့် လာသွားပြီ အကို.. ထမင်းစားပြီးပြန်သွားပြီ.. အ အင် အင့်” ဖုန်းထဲမှာ မိန်မအလိုးခံနေရတဲ့အသံကြားရတာ ဖီးတမျိုးဘဲ။ဒါနဲ့စကားဖြတ်ပြီး အိမ်သားထဲသွား ဂွင်ထုလိုက်ရတယ်။ ဒီလို နဲ့ နောက် ၃လလောက်အကြာ ညီဇော်လည်း သူ့မိန်းမမွေးခန်နီးလို့ သူ့ယောက်ခမအိမ် လိုက်သွားတယ်။ ကျွန်တော်တို့လင်မယာ လည်း အရင်ကထက် ပိုလိုးဖြစ်ကြတယ်။ ညီဇော်မရှိတော့ ညီဇော်နေရာဝင်ယူတာပေါ့။ ညီဇော်လို မိန်မကို ခပ်ကြမ်ကြမ်းလိုးရတာ ပိုဖီးလာသလိုဘဲ။ မိန်မလည်း ညီဇော်ဇာတ်သွင်ထားပြီး အခုညီဇော်မရှိတော့ ကျွန်တော်လုပ်သမျှ စိတ်ပါလက်ပါနဲ့ အလိုးခံနေ တယ်။ ၁လလောက်ကြားတော့ မိန်းမက အားရဝမ်းသာစွာ “ယောက်ကျားရေ မိန်းမဆီးစစ်တာ ကလေးရပြီတော်” လို့အော်ပြော တယ်။ ကျွန်တော်လည်း အရမ်းဝမ်းသာလို့။ အဓိက စိတ်ပါလက်ပါလုပ်ဖို့ပါဘဲ။မိန်မကလည်း စိတ်ပါလက်ပါ ခံ။ ညီဇော်ကလည်း စိတ်ပါလက်ပါ လိုး။ ကျွန်တော်ကလည်း စိတ်ပါလက်ပါ ကြည်ဖြူ။ အခုကြည့်စမ်း လိုချင်တဲ့ကလေးရပြီ မဟုတ်လား ။
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(From subreddit r/relationships)
I would just back off and give her some space and see what she does.
I didn't learn this lesson until way into my 20s, but the fact of the matter is, if someone wants to be with you, they will make time for you. If you find yourself doing all the chasing, all the initiating, then that person is really not worth all the time and attention you're giving them.
Now, in my opinion (and I know you didn't ask, but I feel like it's worth bringing up), I think she's a little too young for you. In this stage of your life, 2 years is a pretty big age difference. It's concerning because depending on the age of consent in your area, messing around with a girl much younger than you, even if you're just making out, can get you in a lot of trouble. If she decides she gets mad at you or doesn't want you around anymore, do you really think she has the maturity or the good judgement at 15 not to cry rape to get back at you? And next year, you'll be 18. Technically you'll be an adult and would probably be tried as such in the event of a reported sexual assault.
**It happens. I have seen it happen. Do you trust her?**
Not to scare you, but I would just back off all together.
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Parus Americanus Gutture Luteo: The Yellowthroated Creeper.
Weighs seven Penny-weight. The Bill is black. The Forepart of the
Head black, having two yellow Spots on each Side, next the upper
Mandible. The Throat is of a bright yellow, border'd on each Side
with a black Lift. The Back and Hind-part of the Head are grey.
The Wings are of a darker grey, inclining to brown, with some of
their covert Feathers edged with white. The Under-part of the Body
white, with black Spots on each Side, next the Wings. The Tail black
and white. The Feet are brown; and, like those of the Certhia,
have very long Claws, which assist them in creeping about Trees
in Search of Insects, on which they feed. There is neither Black
nor Yellow upon the Hen. They are frequent in Carolina.
Acer Virginianum, folio majore, Subtus argenteo, Supra viridi
Splendente: The Red Flow'ring Maple.
These Trees grow to a considerable Height; but their Truncs are
not often very large. In February, before the Leaves appear,
the little red Blossoms open, and continue in Flower about three
Weeks; and are then succeeded by the Keys, which are also red, and,
with the Flowers, continue about six Weeks, adorning the Woods earlier
than any other Forest-Trees in Carolina. They endure our
English Climate as well as they do their native one; as appears
by many large Ones in the Garden of Mr. Bacon at Hoxton.
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Sunday, 20 July 2014
'The Mahé Circle' by Georges Simenon (Review)
As many of you will know, Penguin Classics have committed themselves to bringing out new translations of all of Georges Simenon's 'Maigret' detective novels/stories over the new few years (and there are a lot of them). However, as someone with little interest in crime novels, I didn't really expect to get involved in reading the Belgian author's work - until, that is, I was tipped off about something a little different. You see, Simenon's work isn't all about Maigret, you know...
The Mahé Circle (translated by Siân Reynolds, review copy courtesy of the publisher) is a short novel set on an island in the South of France, and on the first page we meet our 'hero', the good doctor François Mahé, out in a boat, trying to catch fish in the company of one of the locals. It's the first time Mahé has brought his family to the island of Porquerolles, and initially his decision seems to have been a poor one, as both he and his family struggle to adapt to the southern way of life.
However, once he returns to his comfortable bourgeois existence, the doctor realises that he misses the unstructured, chaotic life of the south, and he gradually begins to loathe his daily life. At the age of thirty-five (and tipping the scales at ninety kilos), Mahé slowly comes to think of his world as a conspiracy against him, an identity which has been gradually built around him, without his permission - a stifling circle preventing him from living his own life. It's inevitable that by the time the holidays come around again, Doctor Mahé is itching to pack up the car and head South again...
Simenon's short novel is an excellent portrait of a man whose average, unthinking existence is shattered by the realisation that there's something more to be had from life than Sunday dinners with friends and a spot of fishing at the weekend. While most of the 'action', as it is, happens on the island, much of the psychological drama takes place back at home. It's a place where he should be in his element, an environment of his own, yet this simple truth turns out to be an enormous lie.
The truth is that Mahé, like many people, has been formed by his environment. He lives in the house of his dead father (his mother still lives with him), and his wife is a woman chosen more for her ability to fit into the running of the house rather than from any true feelings of love. Mahé realises that most people would be happy:
"What more could he ask for? He had a quiet life, plenty of free time to go hunting and fishing whenever he wanted to. Good dogs. And anyone from the village would readily keep him company."
p.52 (Penguin Classics, 2014)
For him, though, those village people, many of whom bear the same family name as him, form a tight circle, smothering his hopes of freedom.
Where there's a mid-life crisis, there's usually a catalyst to set it off, and while life on Porquerolles is lazy and sunny, it's not just boules and pastis in the evening that have the doctor in a spin. At the start of the novel, he is called to the house of a dying woman in place of the absent local doctor, and a glimpse of her elder daughter, an eleven-year-old girl in a red dress, sets off an explosive chain reaction of thoughts in his head.
"No, it was an obsession, that was the word, a haunting obsession. And it had started that very first day, but faintly, insidiously, like those incurable illnesses that you only become aware of when it is too late for treatment." (p.75)
It's here that his rebellion against 'normal' life begins, and the comparison above is remarkably apt in many ways...
...all of which will undoubtedly trigger Lolita warnings in most readers' minds, but that's not quite the way The Circle of Mahé goes. The young Elizabeth is less a real sexual target than an embodiment of the allure of the South, a representative of the freedom Porquerolles offers in the face of the staid, stifling village of Saint-Hilaire:
"Here men drained the life out of day after day, with tasks that followed the inexorable rhythm of the ploughman's almanac.
There..." (pp.111/2)
The implication here is that in Saint-Hilaire, life is merely a form of serving time, whereas back on Porquerolles life is truly worth living - which sounds suspiciously like a hankering after greener grass.
The Mahé Circle is a brief read, 150 pages (with fairly large type), and you can skip through it at a brisk pace, thanks in part to a nice, breezy translation from Siân Reynolds. By keeping some words in the original French, particularly in the Porquerolles chapters, she gives the book a Mediterranean air, one which would be spoiled by translating absolutely everything into English (don't forget, many of these things are alien to Mahé too). I have absolutely no idea what the English for péquois is, but I suspect that if the fish the doctor is obsessed with catching does have an English name, knowing it would make me none the wiser ;)
While the Lolita comparison doesn't stand up, I was reminded of a few other works over the course of the book (not least Moby Dick, in Mahé's obsession for catching a péquois!). One is Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, particularly in the way Newland Archer's life is skilfully manipulated in Wharton's novel by the women in his family circle. For a more contemporary slant, though, I often thought that Mahé's troubles could see the book fit right into Peirene Press' 'Male Dilemma' series - Simenon's work is a book verging on a novella with a male protagonist at a pivotal point in his life...
In the end, though, The Mahé Circle is an excellent story that stands on its own, a clever work which, in a way, forms its own circle, leaving the good doctor back where he started in more ways than one. It's a book I enjoyed immensely (for more than just the hour or so it took me to read it!), and while I'm still not convinced about crime fiction, I may just be tempted to give Maigret a go. You see, I did get another book along with this one, and... well, it can't hurt, can it? ;)
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Prized Porcelain: Collecting Chinese Exports
My parents have had the greatest influence on my love of beautiful home environments. My Dad once told me that what makes a home remarkable is collections of art and antiques, instead of one piece here and there. To make a statement, display pieces together. He has one such set of Chinese Export that I have admired over the years.
Chinese porcelain first came on the scene in Europe in the fourteenth century as a rare and precious possession. It wasn’t until the early sixteenth century, thanks to trade routes between Portugal and the Far East that Chinese potters began to produce objects explicitly for export to Europe.
The Chinese had a different approach to painting porcelain. At the time, in most countries potters would create an object, fire it in a kiln and then paint it, glaze it and fire it again. With their blue and white porcelain, the Chinese’s technique involved applying blue decoration directly on the unfired clay, glazing it and then firing it. With this process, they achieved what is considered among the finest artistic craftsmanship.
The influence Chinese porcelain
It’s hard to over-state the influence Chinese porcelain has had on subsequent European porcelain over the centuries. From Delftware to Chinoiserie to the popular willowware pattern which is still widely collected. Yet during the height of production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Chinese saw the export pieces as just that, valuable for trade.
“It was not made for their own consumption,” says antiquarian John Nelson of John J. Nelson Antiques in Los Angeles. By the eighteenth century, wealthy European families were commissioning enormous dinner sets adorned with everything from armorial family crests, to elaborate flowers, animals and architectural buildings. (At this time, the popularity of polychrome enameled decoration, painted over the glaze, increased.) “The Chinese considered it inferior. They revered simple designs, as opposed to what they were being asked to create,” adds Nelson.
Europeans desired many utilitarian forms not known in China, so they sent potters many pieces to copy including mugs, terrines, punch bowls, ewers, cream pitchers, helmet pitchers, chocolate pots, and incredible animals created as terrines.
“Export porcelain animals are probably among the most sought after and highly collectible export pieces,” says Nelson. “The French loved them so much they would embellish them with gold, washed dore, bronze, and mounts and turn them into candelabras.”
Canton Chinese export porcelain reached its zenith in the eighteenth century. And although the founding of European porcelain factories in the early eighteenth century would in some respects take away from the Chinese export, it did have a revival in the farther West after America became independent and established its own trade routes. American agents commissioned pieces with patriotic depictions of several American themes and motifs including the American eagle and portraiture of the country’s forefathers.
Today, authentic Chinese export porcelain is still highly sought after.
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Forgive me for the non-sexy post, but sometimes, routines are just really important. Sorry too as the title to this post could be more explicit, but it strikes me that as teachers it’s really important that we ensure that we’re giving a students considerable support and focus in our lessons. And I don’t just mean from the support we give them in terms of their learning of facts and practice of skills. It’s really important that we get the culture and climate for learning correct.
One way we can help provide support is by getting the structure right before students even enter the classroom. Decent entry and exit routines to your classroom should involve meeting and greeting students as they come in to your classroom and the importance of this cannot be under-estimated, in my opinion. I have on occasion seen some teachers sat beavering away at their desks when students arrive. They don’t have an entry routine to their lessons. Students come in as and when they arrive. There’s no orderly queue outside. They’re chatting and being generally student-ish as they come in. That’s not to say that the teacher isn’t working hard – we all do. And it’s even more difficult when (as I was told by one friend from another school recently) you’re teaching in 8 different classrooms, but entry and exit routines in your classroom can make or break your success with your groups. All that said though, decent established entry and exit routines help give order and purpose to your entire lesson. If your students turn up and just waltz in (imagine if they really did waltz in?!) getting a decent start to your lessons is going to prove difficult. As time moves on as well, the more established the lack of an orderly start is and the more difficult it is to get that order back.
Here are some entry things that I think should be no brainers:
- Meet your students at the door
- Make sure they’re orderly and not blocking the corridor (don’t lean on the wall – is your middle name Scaffolding?!)
- Say hello to them as they come in
- Enquire as to their well-being
- Ask them how they got on with their homework
- Have an activity for them to do as they come in (this can be preprepared with wall displays or activities in folders already stuck to the wall for those people who work in many classrooms)
- Direct them to the starter activity
- Ask them a question on topic from the previous lesson to earn entry to the room
- Have some music playing or stimulus – ‘where’s the Maths in that’ inspirational image displayed on IWB / projector.
Here are some things that you might like to consider as they leave:
- Return their confiscated items
- Check they have written their homework in their planners correctly as they leave (making them go back in and write it down correctly if all they’re written is ‘ Do Homework’ or ‘Do Sheet’ – they hate it so being a stickler for this ensures they’ll write it correctly in the future).
- Wish them a good rest of the day
- Ask them a question on the lesson topic to gain exit to the class
- Get students to ask a question of the person leaving after them in order to gain exit to the class
- Check uniform is still correct
Have you got any other routines that help you order your lesson?
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Weekend Long Reads: Facebook's New Data Policy
It's the weekend and that means you've got some time kick back, make a cuppa, and finally read Paul Ford's 38,000-word article about coding from 2015. But wait, Facebook just stepped in and dropped its new data policy. And now that it's a full 1,500 words longer, you're going to want to set aside a little time.
As you've probably heard, Facebook is doing a lot of shuffling around in order to give you the impression that it's cleaning up its act, being more transparent, giving users more control, and generally not being a data privacy nightmare. It's also doing its best to exhaust you with announcements that no one has the time to scrutinize. The leap from an almost 2,700-word data policy to a "friendlier" nearly 4,200-word policy will surely help with that latter goal.
One area of criticism that Facebook and many others are facing at the moment is that their terms of service and policies are too difficult to understand. With Friday's release of a longer data policy, Facebook is going a little deeper in its explanations and using clearer language. In the old policy, you'll find the phrase "for example" used 13 times, this time around, you get 19 examples.
One could argue that Facebook could simplify this whole thing and make their data policy something along the lines of "You own all data that is associated with you, and you can see everything we know about you right here. Let us know if you want us to scrub it." But that wouldn't cover the wide net of cookies, partners, outside data purchased about you, inferences made by Facebook's system, the facial recognition exemptions, or the million other data points the social media company wants to obscure.
So, is the policy clearer now? Well, the reviews are pretty good. The Wall Street Journal says, "Much improved, the new policy actually makes for a read that is finally consumable." Bustle raves that "this updated version does, as Facebook promised, explicitly lay out some of the concerns users have been expressing." We'll say that this all whet our appetite for a real deep dive over the weekend.
Here are 10 of our favourite passages from our first glimpse at this clearer data policy:
1. "We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products..."
2. "We collect information about the people, Pages, accounts, hashtags and groups you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products..."
3. "We also collect contact information..."
4. "We collect information about how you use our Products..."
5. "We also receive and analyse content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you..."
6. "...we collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices you use."
7. "...partners provide information about your activities off Facebook — including information about your device, websites you visit, purchases you make, the ads you see, and how you use their services - whether or not you have a Facebook account or are logged into Facebook."
8. "Partners receive your data when you visit or use their services or through third parties they work with."
9. "You should consider who you choose to share with, because people who can see your activity on our Products can choose to share it with others on and off our Products..."
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Way Klingler Fellowships are for full-time regular faculty at the associate or full professor rank who have potential for significant scholarship. In 2009, one Way Klingler fellowship in science and one in the humanities were awarded. The science fellow receives $50,000 annually for three years, and the humanities fellow receives $20,000 annually for three years. Funding for the science applicant is for research that requires higher-expense items, such as equipment, supplies and research staff. The humanities recipient can use the funding for critical research that requires time, access to information and travel.
When the blood flow to a region of a person's brain is obstructed, the result may be a catastrophic, and often fatal, injury. If the victim survives, he likely faces severe, debilitating injuries. Dr. Robert Scheidt, associate professor of biomedical engineering and recipient of the Way Klingler Fellowship in science, is hoping to change that.
Scheidt is researching sensorimotor learning — the process by which the brain learns to control motor actions such as reaching and interacting with dynamic objects. "Think about the challenge of bringing a spoonful of peas to your mouth without spilling," said Scheidt. His research integrates one-of-a-kind robotic tools developed at Marquette with neuroimaging techniques. His goal is to better understand how impaired sensory processing in the nervous system limits one's ability to perform activities of daily living.
Findings may be able to be applied to stroke victims and autistic children. "Because interacting with objects is fundamentally important to maintain a high quality of life, we need to optimize technologies and therapies for motor rehabilitation in patients with a neural injury or neurodevelopmental disorders," said Scheidt.
The fellowship award will allow Scheidt to generate the research data needed to develop federal grant proposals to continue his work beyond the three-year Way Klingler fellowship.
Although the subjects of her research are more than 200 years old, Dr. Diane Hoeveler sees relevant parallels in today's society. Hoeveler, professor of English and recipient of the Way Klingler Fellowship in the humanities, is researching English gothic chapbooks and their effect on Catholic emancipation between 1791 and 1829.
As part of her fellowship, Hoeveler is planning three summer research trips — to the University of Virginia in 2009, Germany in '10 and England in '11 — to examine as many of the 1,500 known chapbooks as she can. The chapbooks were typically 32- or 76-page publications that selectively condensed and manipulated longer gothic novels that were intended for the middle and upper classes, according to Hoeveler.
Chapbooks, Hoeveler thinks, were meant to incite the recently literate lower classes who were largely opposed to Catholic emancipation. Hoeveler has examined about 20 chapbooks and sees evidence that they were developed to influence anti-Catholic sentiment throughout England. "I was amazed at how virulent, crude, volatile and angry the voice was in these chapbooks," she said.
Hoeveler recognizes similar sentiment in religious intolerance today. "It shows how popular media and popular journalism can be used to stir up people by presenting 'others' as demonized," she said.
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Olympische Sommerspiele 1980/Teilnehmer (Guatemala)
Guatemala nahm an den Olympischen Sommerspielen 1980 in Moskau, UdSSR, mit einer Delegation von zehn Sportlern (allesamt Männer) teil.
Teilnehmer nach Sportarten
Gewichtheben
Luis Rosito
Mittelschwergewicht: 11. Platz
Reiten
Oswaldo Méndez
Springreiten, Einzel: 4. Platz
Rudern
Edgar Nanne
Zweier ohne Steuermann: Viertelfinale
Alberik de Suremain
Zweier ohne Steuermann: Viertelfinale
Schießen
Arturo Iglesias
Laufendes Scheibe: 15. Platz
Carlos Silva
Laufendes Scheibe: 19. Platz
Francisco Romero Portilla
Trap: 30. Platz
Francisco Romero Arribas
Skeet: 26. Platz
Mario-Oscar Zachrisson
Skeet: 33. Platz
Segeln
Juan Maegli
Finn-Dinghy: 19. Platz
Weblinks
Guatemala
Sommerspiele 1980
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defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
class Statuspensiun extends CI_Controller {
public function __construct()
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cek_login();
}
public function index()
{
$data['pengajuan'] = $this->db->get_where('pengajuan',['_id' => $this->session->userdata('id')])->row();
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16. August 2018
What are the symptoms?
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?
Everyone knows the term high blood pressure or the technical term “hypertonia”, however, in the fewest cases, it is assumed that he or she will ever deal with the subject himself or herself. The fact is the high blood pressure is regarded by many doctors as an “insidious danger”, as high blood pressure is not necessarily expressed as systems that can be clearly named. It is often even the case that high blood pressure exists entirely without symptoms over many years. It is well-known that high blood pressure usually develops in middle age and frequently are not regarded sufficiently from other hormonal changes to the body.
With most women, for example, it is the transition to menopause, the signs of menopause in conjunction with sleep disorders, headaches, nervousness, feelings of dizziness or impaired performance. The significant changes to the female body are so dominant, that hypertonia is frequently not suspected.
The same applies to men, but also for women in another context, when it comes to cardiac arrhythmias or breathing difficulties, for example. The symptoms of ageing, such as with physical activity, after a strenuous working week or in a generally stressful, hectic environment, are interpreted incorrectly or insufficiently. Often, losses of performance or such complaints are assessed as being “normal” or “logical”, as a normal process, that things are no longer running quite naturally, as was the case in younger years. However, a medical consultation is urgently recommended.
Diagnosis: high blood pressure – Which symptoms can manifest themselves?
High blood pressure can already be responsible for initial damage to organs after a short time. The small blood vessels are particularly affected, if even visible symptoms can rarely be identified as such. As a general rule, symptoms of high blood pressure are noticeable as soon as the first organ damage has occurred. Areas, such as the eye, heart and kidneys, as well as the brain, can be affected relatively quickly.
High blood pressure – how does it feel?
In the following, we are listing all of the symptoms, which can occur at various stages of high blood pressure and with different intensity and sequence. With these high blood pressure symptoms, it mainly involves non-specific symptoms, which can basically also have a different cause. In any case, a medical examination is meaningful, as high blood pressure can be treated well – the earlier the better.
- Heart palpitations, cardiac arrhythmias
- Erectile dysfunction
- Visual impairments
- Uncontrolled sweating
- Nervousness or faster irritability
- Concentration disorders
- Dizziness and tinnitus
High blood pressure and the symptoms, which suggest it, are only recognised or perceived as being dangerous late or not at all, in many cases. However, the fact is that high blood pressure already has harmful implications for important organs of the human body after a short time. Treatment and clarification of risk factors, an early lifestyle change and other measures promise relief and significantly minimise the risk of insidiously developing high blood pressure. The risk is specifically that practically every organ can be damaged and the treatment of secondary diseases is therefore made significantly more difficult.
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HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN OLDER ADULTS TRACED TO GENE'S EFFECTS IN BLOOD VESSELS
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists have identified the gene that sets off a sequence of events in the blood vessels of otherwise healthy adults that can lead to high blood pressure. The disease process eventually makes conditions in vessels ripe for the creation of blockages that can cause heart attacks, strokes and circulatory problems.
The finding in a study led by Ohio State University researchers might lead to new therapeutic options for high blood pressure, especially hypertension associated with aging. Obesity and aging contribute to increasing cases of high blood pressure, which currently affects an estimated 50 million Americans.
Despite more intensive treatments available for hypertension, little has been done to prevent it. A change in the structure of the blood vessels, called vascular remodeling, increases with age and triggers the onset of the disease. When remodeling occurs, blood vessel walls increase in thickness, decreasing the diameter of the channel through which blood normally flows.
The gene, called profilin 1, has been traced to a series of interactions within the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels that causes those cells to increase in size. This in turn narrows the channel through which blood flows, causing stress on vessel walls, injuring the lining of the vessel walls and making it easier for blockages to develop. By identifying this pathway, researchers hope to pinpoint the most effective therapeutic target to interfere with the disease process.
The researchers used genetically altered mice that produce excessive amounts of the human profilin 1 gene in the vascular smooth muscle cells and observed the changes to the vessels that followed, which led to high blood pressure by the time the mice were 6 months old – the rough equivalent to middle age in humans.
“We created the disease in the animals and then went backwards to understand how the disease developed. This is an important finding because vascular disease originates in the smooth muscle cells, which have significant impact on the dysregulation of blood pressure that leads to heart disease,” said Hamdy Hassanain, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Ohio State University and senior author of the study. Hassanain also is an investigator in Ohio State's Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.
The findings were published in the Dec. 28, 2007 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Blood vessels contain three important layers – the endothelium that lines the vessel walls, the smooth muscle cells responsible for regulating blood flow, and the lumen, the open channel through which blood travels. In healthy young humans, the production of compounds by the cells in these layers remains balanced, allowing for normal vessel function and unrestricted blood flow.
Hassanain developed a transgenic mouse that produces excess human profilin 1 in the smooth muscle cell area with the intent to cause stress in the vessel walls that leads to hypertrophy, or an enlargement of the smooth muscle cells that eventually leads to structural and functional changes in the entire vessel. The mice were developed to test the theory that the impaired regulation of the profilin 1 gene would eventually lead to high blood pressure, and observe how that happens.
“Vascular remodeling is a known problem as people get older. Their blood vessels tend to stiffen, even in healthy adults. This causes stress on the vessels, which leads to hypertension,” Hassanain said.
At the heart of the vessel activities is a protein called actin within the smooth muscle cells, and its relationship to profilin 1. In the presence of too much profilin1, actin is transformed from a loosely configured protein into a more rigid fibrous state. This change in actin's nature increases the size and the stiffness of smooth muscle cells.
The cells undergo other changes that prepare them for cell division, but under these conditions, the vessel lining releases a substance, nitric oxide, that won't allow the cells to divide. The smooth muscle cells' resulting growth pushes inward, putting pressure on the lumen and restricting blood flow, resulting in high blood pressure.
“Profilin 1 is a tool that triggers events that make the vessel more constricted and leads to the signal that results in vascular remodeling. Because we have understood the pathway of the disease process, we might be able to control vascular remodeling,” Hassanain said.
Once a vessel is remodeled, more trouble is typically ahead. Diseased vessels are often characterized by injuries to the endothelium, where the lining of the vessel loses its protective layer. Once the lining is injured and vulnerable, smooth muscle cells will start to migrate inward, creating sticking points for fats, debris and other blood remnants.
“That's the first hint of plaque. The smooth muscle cell migration is the tip of the iceberg of the plaque,” Hassanain said. “We're talking about all vessels, but when we're talking about this narrowing effect in the brain, this could lead to stroke, and in the coronary artery, it could lead to heart attack. It's all the same phenomenon.”
Other Ohio State co-authors of the study are Mazin Alhaj, Maqsood Chotani, Zeinb Aboelnaga, Mohamed Hassona, Gerard Nuovo and Jay Zweier, all of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute; Osama El-Sayed of cardiology; and Sheik Wisel of surgery; additional co-authors are Mariana Morris of Wright State University and Pascal Goldschmidt-Clermont of the University of Miami. First author Moustafa Moustafa-Bayoumi completed his Ph.D. in Hassanain's lab at Ohio State and is now at California State Polytechnic University .
Contact: Hamdy Hassanain, (614) 292-1062; [email protected]
Written by Emily Caldwell, (614) 292-8310; [email protected]
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King's School has its roots firmly set in Saxon England. In 680 the see of Worcester was created by the monks of Whitby, under the protection of the powerful kings of Mercia. The monks of Worcester provided education to their own members and outsiders.
The monastery site was fortified under King Alfred, and Alfred's defenses were later replaced by a Norman castle. The remains of the castle are within the school grounds.
The school declined in the turmoil of the 9th century. Viking raiders travelled up the Severn, causing the monks to scatter and flee for their lives. In the relative peace following the Viking period, monasticism flourished and the Benedictine order in particular maintained a strong focus on teaching. Under Saints Dunstan and Oswald, both of whom were Bishops of Worcester, the monastery and school continued to grow.
The monastery continued to focus on education, and under Wulfstan (early 11th century) it expanded from 12 to 50 monks. Wulfstan in particular invited the lay public to enter the monastery to receive education - and religious instruction. Monks who had finished instructyion at the monastic school might choose to go on to University. Gloucester Hall (later renamed Worcester College) at Oxford University was set up in 1291 as a school for Benedictine monks, and Worcester generally sent two monks to Gloucester Hall every year thereafter.
A second school at Worcester began about 1341 in the Almonry building. It seems likely that this school was focussed on teaching poor lay students.
The priory of Worcester was disbanded in 1540 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. However, the dissolution was fraught with difficulties, for while the monastery itself was no longer needed, the Bishop of Worcester needed the Cathedral as his seat. The lands taken from Worcester Priory were allocated to the Dean and Chapter (i.e. the administration) of the Cathedral. Many of the monks actally maintained their influence by becoming Canons of the Cathedral.
Though the monastery school was disbanded with the priory, a new Cathedral College was established in 1541, containing within it a new King's School. The first headmaster of the school was apoointed by Henry VIII himself. Originally all students were supported at the school's expense, but later paying students were added to the mix.
The students, who were required to be "poor and destitute" aged between 9 and 15. It seems that the "poor and destitute" requirement was interpreted rather loosely, for many students came from the families of gentry, and quite a few went on to University after graduating from King's.
Students were taught in the 12th century College Hall, the former monastic refectory (dining hall). At 124 feet in length College Hall is the second longest surviving refectory in England, trailing only Westminster Hall. The interior of the hall boasts superb medieval carving, particularly a large sculpture on the eastern wall depicting Christ in Majesty.
College Hall saw its share of drama over the years; after the Battle of Worcester in 1651 the hall was used as a hospital by Scottish troops fighting for the royalist cause. Worcester city councillater paid for "rosin and pitch" to perfume the hall after the Scots had left!
Changes over the years eventually allowed girls to enter King's, and the school only recently became a non-boarding institution.
The School is not generally open to tourists. Try contacting the school administration at
The King's School
Telephone +44 (0)1905 721700
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The Claybank Brick Plant Historical Society purchased the 256 acre historic Clay Pits and wildlife area adjacent to the Claybank Brick Plant from Saskatchewan Environment Resource Management in 2001. In honour of the ‘Year of the Volunteer’ the Society decided to name the area after one of its dedicated volunteers and in this way honour all the Site’s volunteers past, present and future.
Since this land has never been broken by farmers, many of the plants are indigenous to the area. Much of the landscape has been in place since the last glacial age, the Wisconsin, which retreated approximately 10,000 years ago from the Plains region. Despite, the similar landscape, there have been some major changes to the flora and fauna. For example, much of this land was probably covered in forests for a few thousand years, but as the climate became warmer and drier in the past 2,000 years, the forests began to disappear and the grasslands began to expand northward. Along with the changing flora, many of the animals where also becoming extinct. For example, when the first peoples came to north America approximately 12,000 years ago, much of the land far into the southern states was still covered over in ice.These people lived by hunting large woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, and giant bison. These animals are now extinct, as is much of the fauna they needed to live on. First Nations peoples of 2-3,000 years ago, would subsist on both animals and plants. In this area, there was no agriculture, so people lived by a method called “hunting and gathering”. As you can probably guess they hunted animals like Bison, deer, antelope and so forth. Not only did they hunt large animals but they hunted small animals like rabbits as well. Like people today, First Nations peoples had to eat their fruits and vegetables. But instead of going to the local grocery store, they would walk out onto the prairie and gather the fruits and vegetables that nature provided. Some of plants that we will see along the way include: crocus, sage, roses, cat-tails, willow, puffballs and other mushrooms, Buffalo-berries (yellow sweet peas), skunk cabbage and probably a few others. Plants like wild onions, yarrow, saskatoons, wild strawberries, gooseberries and so forth can be found in the surrounding area. Many of these plants were used as food, while other plant provided important medicines.
For example, puffballs could be eaten, or when dried they were used to stop bleeding. The inside bark of Willow was used to make a tea which would relieve pain. In fact, willows produce acetacylic acid that is the main ingredient in Aspirin. Other plants like wild onions and sage were used as seasonings. Sage was also used for purification before and during different ceremonies. Berries like saskatoons, gooseberries, strawberries could be eaten off the bush or preserved and used later. Rosehips contain a high amount of Vitamin C, so they were eaten to prevent various diseases. Sometimes a ‘tea’ was made from the stems and parts of the root. This tonic could be used to treat eye inflammation. Even the damaged outer skin of some rosehips was used in a paste to treat burns. As we can see, First Nations peoples took advantage of what Mother Nature provided. Although it seems that there isn’t enough plants here to sustain anyone, we must remember that First Nations peoples of the Plains were nomadic. This means that they moved around a lot and that they would be gathering the plants from a number of localities in order to get a good supply of plants for medicines and so forth.
What is geology? Geology is defined as” the science that investigates the planet on which we live, the rock of which it is made, and the history that it has had. Geology deals with the landscape and with mineral resources. It investigates the changes that have taken place over millions of years and the changes that are going on today…” (Gordon, 1976 p.1)Geology is responsible for the landscape we see around us. Geology is also responsible for where people live, the names of places, development of industry such as local potash plants and as is the case here, it is responsible for the development of the Claybank Brick Plant. If we look around, we see different coloured bands of soil; these bands are variant types of clays that are found throughout the Whitemud Formation.
Long before, people inhabited North America; or even before North America was North America, the land was one giant continent. During the earliest times of the Paleozoic Era, the area that is now Saskatchewan, was situated near the equator. At this time, the province was covered over by shallow tropical seas. These seas would retreat and erosion would also occur in these regions. It is during this time that many of Saskatchewan’s mineral deposits were laid down. It was also a time from which we can trace the emergence of many plants and “hard-shelled animals”. Various shale and limestone deposits throughout the province contain fossils that are from this era. The next era is the Mesozoic, and it is here that we have the development of birds and mammals; and of course the dinosaurs. This is also when the sea “completely withdrew from Saskatchewan”; leaving behind many of the plant and insect species that exist, in part, today. This era has four periods including the Permian, Triassic, Jurassic and of most importance to this area, the Cretaceous. Throughout this era various types of limestone and shales were forming, including the remains of various plants and animals. The cretaceous is one of the longer periods in geological history; it is during this period that we have the development of what is called the Whitemud Formation. The Whitemud Formation is the geological name for the whole picture of what/when the Claybank Hills are and were formed.The Whitemud Formation is noted for the clays which are deposited in a number of areas of Saskatchewan including Claybank. There are two types of clay in the formation; one is white and the other is grey in colour. Each colour of clay possess different properties and can be used to create different types of products.Here at Claybank, the clay is considered ‘high-refractory’ which means that it has excellent heat and pressure bearing properties which makes it suitable for products like face brick, tiles, fire brick, insulating brick and so forth. When we get down into the plant you will be able to see some of these products.
Although much of the clay that was used in the early manufacture of bricks came from these hills, there are also deposits of clay in the nearby Dirt Hills. The clay in these hills is often a “bentonitic clay”. This type of clay contains decayed particles of volcanic ash from Cretaceous age volcanoes. This clay has a greasy/soapy feel when wet.
After the Cretaceous period, and the laying down of these hills, along came the Cenozoic era. During the tertiary period of this era, Saskatchewan became wetter, thus swampy. During this time period we have lush floral growths that would later become the coal beds of Southern Saskatchewan.Finally, we come to the period in which we live. We are currently living in the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era. Granted, a lot has changed since the beginning of this era approximately 15-16,000 years ago. This period is marked by the glaciation of North America. As you have guessed, through the previous era, the plates that once made up the giant continent have broken apart and have moved into the current geographical positions.
Back to glaciation. Much of North America was covered by glaciers right down into the Gulf of Mexico. There were various stages of glaciation in which the ice sheets retreated and advanced. As mentioned at the beginning of our tour, the final glacial period of the Wisconsinian is of greatest relevance when discussing the peopling of North America.
Now that we have looked at the geology of the area as well as the earliest human history of the area, we enter into the recent history of these hills. As we have already talked about, these hills have been occupied for a long time by various First Nations people. It is likely that First Nations people utilized the clay resources as well, since pottery was being on the Plains for a couple thousand of years. However, we are now concerned with the commercial development of the clay resources. One question remains. Who “discovered” the clay that lead to the development of the brick plant? According to local history and ownership, the clay resources were “discovered” in and around 1886 by Thomas McWilliams. McWilliams, along with friends and various family members were reported out searching the area for some lost cattle and picking saskatoon berries. While venturing into the hills, McWilliams became aware of the outcroppings of clay. The clay is evident from a distance today due to erosion and past mining, but it is very likely that the striations of clay were not evident in those days. At any rate, McWilliams realized the resource that lay there and he also realized the economic potential. Well, McWilliams headed into Moose Jaw from his original homestead that was located by the Moose Jaw Creek. He was headed for the land titles office, and once he got there he laid claim to the land that contained the clay outcroppings. In accordance with the rules for establishing claim to land, McWilliams moved his family to this new site, and established a new homestead. True to the rules and regulations of the time for establishing claim a ‘house’ and fences for livestock were built. Apparently, part of the land was even broken and cultivated to facilitate some kind of cropping or a garden. We know from present agriculture that the hill’s clay content was not conducive to farming, which is probably just as well for McWilliams. Why? Because it appears that McWilliams’ goal was to mine clay from the hills and sell it to the established Wellington White brick plant in Moose Jaw.
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The feast of Jesus Christ the Universal King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 and is observed on the last Sunday of the Roman Catholic Liturgical Year. It causes us to ponder what sort of authority, kingdom and dominion are truly lasting, and what judgment will be truly final
From the dawn of civilization, kings have arisen who have dreamed of possessing a world-wide dominion, a universal kingdom that would last forever.
Some have come close to conquering much of the known world–Alexander, Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, and Adolf Hitler, to name a few. And some kingdoms have lasted a very long time, such as Rome which lingered on in the East for 2000 years.
But despite all their machinations and self-glorifying monuments, the great rulers of the earth all proved mortal like anybody else. They had their day in the sun . , , only to disappear. Their kingdoms, too, ultimately passed away, leaving abundant ruins for generations of tourists and archeologists to explore.
There is another thing that these great ones of the earth had in common–they jealously guarded their glory, sharing it with no one. Their ascent to the pinnacle of power was made over the backs of others, and they did not hesitate to eliminate any and all rivals.
The feast of Christ the King celebrates the fact that there is one who is remarkably different. He came to serve all, even His enemies. He truly was a Son of Man, with a vulnerable human nature. But He was also truly Son of God. Not in some mythological sense, like the Pharaohs. Or the wishful thinking sense, like the Caesars. But really and truly, the Immortal, the Eternal, taking the form of a mortal man in a specific time in history.
Rather than executing His opponents, He forgave them. Rather than dominating His subjects, He exalted them.
He even called them not servants, but friends, and bestowing on them a share in His priesthood and kingship. Though He died, like other kings, it was for a different purpose than Augustus in his bed or Hitler in his bunker. He died willingly to save His people, and His death was not a result of a battle lost or a plan gone awry, but of a glorious victory planned before the world began.
He rose in glory, which can’t be said for the rest of them. And at His heavenly coronation, when He ascended to His Father, He was given what all the rest lusted for in vain–a worldwide dominion that will never pass away.
But the world goes on oblivious, with corporate executives and politicians still jockeying for position, exalting themselves at the expense of others. Still others crowd the cover of People magazine competing for other glories like the King of Rock’n roll.
The true King, however, is biding His time. He will return and suddenly things will be seen as they truly are. His coming will sweep away ambition, vanity, and pretensions. And much of what now appears important will look very empty. No longer will oppression be allowed to stand; the innocent will finally be liberated from their tormentors.
This dominion will truly be universal. There will be nowhere left where He is not recognized as Who He is, though in some quarters, that acknowledgment will be made with consternation and gloom.
For His coming means doom–judgment for those who have for so long resisted Him. They will be allowed, of course, to cling to the evil that they have chosen, and hold it close to themselves for all eternity. But they may no longer afflict others with it.
This judgment, this kingdom, will have the last word. No election will overturn it in four years or four million years. There is no one stronger who can rest the dominion from his Almighty hand.
The Catholic Church instituted this feast of Christ the King during bleak days, when fascist and communist clouds were darkening the earth. The feast serves as a reminder to us that we know the end of the story and should not be fooled by the braggarts who strut and the bullies who gloat. They’ll be gone soon.
And He’ll be here soon. How soon no one knows.
A reflection upon kingdom, dominion, and authority for the 34th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feast of Christ the King, Cycle B. (Daniel 7:13-14; Psalm 93; Revelation 1:5-8; John 18: 33-37).
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John W. Campbell
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defining characteristic of Chaucer’s writings is his
use of juxtapositions to create both complex and simple
dichotomies. Perhaps the most prevalent of these
is Chaucer’s insertion of Medieval and early modern figures
conceptions into classical settings. This clash between past
present is not only entertaining but critically important to
understanding Chaucer’s view of his own world. The devices
interrupt Chaucer’s storybook portrayals of an ideal past are
often those most associated with the hard realities of his own time:
bureaucracies, parliaments, and practicality. Indeed, Chaucer
directly attacks the validity of the legends of antiquity.
faced with a challenge based in practical, real world terms, the
dynamics of Chaucer’s fairy tales are thrown into
Love becomes a mere rhetorical game among birds, Homer’s
hero is made powerless by democratic parliaments, and only death can
ascribe to a knight the virtues he lacked during life. In
Chaucer creates attractive, classical realms only to demonstrate how
they could have never existed outside of books. The legends
antiquity were never more than escapes from the pettiness of their own
times. Therefore, Chaucer’s tragedies of the past
even sadder. Chaucer and his learned contemporaries could
their books and travel to a land filled with virtuous heroes and lovers
of antiquity. But, as Chaucer knew well, the trip was only
temporary and ultimately self-delusional. Once the book was
closed, the immutable difficulties of civil society remained to blot
out the wistful hopes and dreams of societies long since dead.
Even in Chaucer’s early works, there is clear skepticism in his handling of classical legend. For instance, the Parliament of Fowles, Chaucer’s Valentine’s Day work, cynically proposes that Greco-Roman teachings are of little use in the quest for love in the modern world. Before examining the details of Chaucer’s story; however, it is worth noting that the placement of a springtime day of love in the middle of February has no recorded precedent before Chaucer (Benson 383). If Chaucer originated the idea, then his choice of dates was counterintuitive at best. However, in light of his overall theme, February 14th is a perfect date to express the absurdity of the general mood. By placing a day of love in the heart of dreary February, Chaucer practically dares the characters within the tale to prove practicality wrong and allow true love to bloom in adverse circumstances. Disappointingly for the audience, and perhaps for Chaucer himself, the story does not allow love to conquer all.
In addition to the celebration of love’s curious date, Chaucer further complicates the story by introducing his readers to a narrator obsessed with love but reading Macrobius’s edition of Cicero’s “Dream of Scipio” (PF 29-31). Rather than expounding the art of love, Scipio’s dream tells “of hevene and helle / And erthe, and soules that therinne dwelle” (32-33). From the outset, Chaucer steers the substance of the Parliament of Fowles away from love and towards a much greater critique.
When the narrator falls asleep and then dreams that Scipio Africanus volunteers himself as Chaucer’s guide through a garden of love, there can be little doubt that Chaucer has something other than romance in mind (109-133). Scipio, though a great Roman commander, would hardly be the first guide chosen by a young medieval man seeking love and affection. For one thing, Scipio was often portrayed in medieval art and literature as a shining beacon of sexual restraint (“Scipio Africanus”).1 Furthermore, one historian described Scipio’s views of society in the following terms: “he had marked how pride and cupidity, the thirst for pleasure, the decay of wedlock and all the passions of the commercial era […] had ruined the old military power of Rome” (Ferrero 47). To say that the subject to which Chaucer’s narrator was drawn would disinterest the medieval conception of Scipio would be a great understatement. As Chaucer’s narrator notes, Scipio was primarily interested in “commune profyt,” not in personal glorification (PF 46-49). In the meeting of the two Scipios in Cicero, Chaucer records the elder as serving the ultimate indictment against the earthly pleasures: “Than bad he hym, syn erthe was so lyte, / And dissevable and ful of harde grace, / That he ne shulde hym in the world delyte” (64-66).
By delivering his narrator into the puritanical hands of Scipio, Chaucer introduces an element not present in many of his other Greco-Roman settings. Scipio, unlike Theseus and Hector, was an actual man living without the aid of superhuman strength or the aid of friendly gods. As Chaucer apparently recognized, Scipio at one time had an identity free of legend. Furthermore, Chaucer not only represents Scipio as a virtuous man, but also hints at a certain weariness the world has placed on him. Scipio takes his grandson to a “sterry place” to show him “the lytel erthe,” thereby demonstrating the pettiness of worldly affairs (43, 57). Through this interpretation of Scipio, Chaucer badly damages the romanticism often accompanying classical works. As a sort of last survivor of the Roman world, Scipio appears in the Parliament of Fowles to suggest that there never was a golden age of virtuous love and action as romanticized in Chaucer’s England. In addition, the glory ascribed to Scipio is apparently retroactive and incidental since Scipio appears to shun such earthly delights. Instead, Scipio plans to show Chaucer’s narrator some of the worldly, petty concerns that dominate love, that trait that the narrator apparently considers such a worthy endeavor.
Once Scipio and Chaucer’s narrator arrive at their dream destination, they are confronted with all of the lusty images of springtime romance that the narrator could wish to see. Within a tastefully vegetated garden, the narrator witnesses the Greco-Roman figures of indulgence enjoying their dominion (PF 260-280). However, this celebration of classical love is short-lived. As Scipio inexplicably disappears from the tale, Chaucer’s narrator is left to witness figures of Greek mythology in the process of dying as love’s servants (288-294). Uncomfortable with this turn of events, the narrator says that he “[f]orth welk I tho myselven to solace” (297).
At this point, the narrator notices Nature, who is in the process of assembling the parliament of birds to begin the mating season (298-315). The narrator is drawn to Nature, who “fayrer was than any creature” (301). But once again, the narrator’s expectations of virtuous love go unfulfilled. For after the three tercel eagles engage in a rhetorical contest for the formel, the romantic imagery is broken by the stirrings of the birds of lesser nobility (484-497). Quickly, it becomes apparent that the aristocratic birds most akin to the classical heroes are hardly in control of the Parliament. Symbolically, the love overtures of the upper classes are stripped of their noble dressings and exposed as nothing more than the same lustful desires expressed by the commoners. “Have don, and lat us wende!” the lesser birds cry (492).
As if to stymie this reality check, Nature eventually silences the birds and allows the formel to choose “hym on whom hire herte is set,” once again opening the possibility for an expression of true love (627). Unfortunately, however, the formel states plainly that she “wol nat serve Venus ne Cupide,” thereby introducing an element not often seen in classical romanticism: a woman who really cannot be persuaded or forced to love her suitors (652). Thus, the narrator’s hopes for examples of ideal love are shattered by the invasion of real world circumstances into a fantastic setting. First, by using the “commune profyt” doctrine of Scipio, the lesser birds are capable of forcing an early decision from the formel so that they can be free to choose their own mates. They accomplish this through parliamentary procedures, which were quite familiar to Chaucer. Second, the formel is revealed to be a bird with a will of her own and no interest in love. When taken together, Chaucer paints a portrait of an institution of love that is far from ennobling. The tercel eagles are engaged in a contest more concerned with besting each other than winning the female, the lower birds are clearly anxious to fulfill their biological urges, and the formel is simply unwilling to deal with the entire situation. In short, the lofty imaginations of love that the narrator gathered from his books of antiquity turn out to be mere illusions (1-28). Everyone ends up following their own practical self-interest, leaving the disgruntled narrator to flee from the nasty dose of reality and return to the escapism of his old books (695-699).
Despite the sufficiently heavy-handed nature of the Parliament of Fowles, Chaucer continued to craft the classical world in disappointing terms in a number of other stories. At the forefront of these inventions is Chaucer’s adaptation of Boccaccio’s Il Filostrato. Entitled Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer’s version takes extra care to build a world of adventure where courtly heroes wisely guide their charges. Then, Chaucer reverses course in the latter half of the story and demonstrates the impossibility of such a place ever existing in anything but his own story. As John P. McCall explains in “The Trojan Scene in Chaucer’s Troilus,” the space between the twenty-first stanza of Book One and the beginning of Book Four contains no mention of the ultimate destruction of Troy and only one questionably negative mention of the city (265). Otherwise, this section, constituting the bulk of the book, has only positive descriptions of the reputation and imagery of Troy (265). Even the raging Trojan War fails to pierce the quiet of the city. Indeed, until the beginning of Book Four, the Trojans are constantly victorious in battle (267). This success relegates the classical war to a mere sideshow for the romance at the center of the story. Such an approach allows Chaucer to portray the heroes and maidens of classical literature in their best possible light (with the possible exception of Troilus). Given the totality of circumstances, Troy appears to be a peaceful city made for a love affair.
However, Books Four and Five of Troilus and Criseyde quickly destroy the illusion that Chaucer so carefully engineered. Book Four has hardly begun when Hector, the greatest of Homer’s Trojan heroes, draws up a plan of battle that fails miserably when put to the test (IV, 29-49). Later, as the Greeks and Trojans negotiate the exchange of the great hero Antenor for Cressida, Hector once again fails to provide a victory to the forces of virtue. His arguments to retain Cressida in Troy meet only sharp criticism from the Trojan people (IV, 176-196)
The richness of the Parliament of Troy scene is a Chaucer original, having no parallel in Il Filostrato (TP 230-235). Indeed, the idea of a democratically empowered parliament existing in ancient Troy sounds strange in its very conception. Once again, Chaucer fills the holes in the stories of antiquity by supplying a complication from his own world. Although it is unlikely that an English-style parliament would exist in ancient Troy, the general thrust of Chaucer’s argument rings exceptionally true. If the Trojan story had really progressed in the way portrayed by Homer, then a war of extermination was being waged by Greece simply to retrieve one woman. The objects of that extermination, the Trojan people, would certainly not be too excited about the prospect of becoming martyrs to temporarily indulge the fancies of one of their princes. Therefore, although Chaucer cannot undo the immensely counterintuitive story of Homer, he can include a substantial roadblock made by the people against their rulers. The people, thinking things out logically and practically, as the real world requires, make the following demand of their prince and their king:
“And we han nede to folk, as men may se.After the people have made their voices clear, not even the fearless Hector can rally even one other vote to his cause. Once again, Chaucer has placed the legendary figures of the classical world into a realistic position and they fail to turn the tide against the harder aspects of the world. Hector, as perhaps the most virtuous and admirable figure of the Greco-Roman tradition, is specifically targeted by Chaucer to demonstrate the futility of believing in the classical tales. The great hero’s objection is not in Il Filostrato, suggesting unmistakable Chaucerian intent to belittle Hector’s power (TP IV, 176-182).
He [Antenor] is ek oon the grettest of this town.
O Ector, lat tho fantasies be!
O kyng Priam,” quod they, “thus sygge we,
That al oure vois is to forgon Criseyde.”
And to deliveren Antenor they preyde. (TP IV, 191-196)
After Hector’s clout is disrupted, Troilus and Cressida really have no chance of overcoming the challenges of the real world to allow their fairy tale to continue. Throughout the tale, Cressida is too often the servant of practical safety and Troilus accuses Fortune of conspiring against him every time there is a minor setback. If Hector could not protect the two lovers from the world, then they are surely doomed when left to their own devices. Predictably, Cressida yields to Diomedes after hearing that Troy will fall and Troilus with it (TP, V, 883-889). The classical fairy tale, though enjoying sway for three-fifths of the book, ultimately must bow before the overpowering force of practicality and realism. This adds new dimensions of tragedy to Troilus and Criseyde, with the most interesting perhaps not even being based in the story itself. It is easy to imagine Chaucer imposing the realism he knows cannot be avoided, yet maintaining an inner hope that his analysis is perhaps incorrect. However, the extent of Chaucer’s sentimental streak can hardly be revealed by merely reading his text. However romantic Chaucer’s inner self may have been, the readings suggest that his logical mind approached the classical texts with skepticism. The worlds created in them were simply too good to be true.
Interestingly, Chaucer’s canon includes a story that not only allows reality to pierce the heart of a classical setting, but also offers an explanation as to how the fairy tale perceptions of excessively virtuous men arise. In the Knight’s Tale, Chaucer presents a contest between two knights for the hand of the beautiful, but inaccessible Emelye. Just as in the Parliament of Fowles and Troilus and Criseyde, there are plenty of moments that cut at the fabric of the fairy tale. Emelye, for instance, is refused aid from Diana despite her years of loyal service (CT I, 2346-2357). Of course, the most crushing blow to the romanticism of the story is the simple fact that Arcite dies by accident (another real world complication, despite the interference-of-the-gods explanation given within the tale) in the service of a woman to whom he has never spoken (I, 2684-2699). And, once again, no one really goes home happy at the conclusion.
Beyond these intrusions, however, lies Chaucer’s answer to how such glorious, but false classical tales may have formed in the first place. As Duke Theseus is delivering his final speech for Arcite, he remarks:
And certeinly a man hath most honourTheseus highlights the ultimate reward that a great warrior from the past can garner: the glorification of one’s name.2 In fact, there can be little doubt that Arcite’s stature in death is so much greater than it was in life that his deeds will soon be retold in an exaggerated, excessively virtuous manner. He is no longer a frustrated youth fighting his best friend over a pretty face, but a glorious knight who made the ultimate sacrifice for love. Meanwhile, his opponent, Palamon, though getting the girl by default, will soon have “his name appalled for age.” Given Theseus’s speech, it is not unreasonable to doubt the facts surrounding Arcite’s death. After all, it is far more romantic to say that the gods fated Arcite to die rather than admit that the great hero simply couldn’t handle the reins of his horse.
To dyen in his excellence and flour,
Whan he is siker of his gode name;
Than hath he doon his freend ben of his deeth
Whan with honour up yolden is his breeth,
Than whan his name appalled is for age,
For al forgeten is his vassalage.
Than is it best, as for worthy fame,
To dyen whan that he is best of name. (CT I, 3047-3056)
Through this process of glorification, then, the tales of antiquity have been overblown, exaggerated, and firmly detached from their original context. The medieval mind’s formulation of an attractive classical world, Chaucer realized, is an extreme error in interpretation. As noted by Moses Hadas, “the Greek city-states were extremely particularistic, war rather than peace being the normal relationship between them” (105). Furthermore, each group of people viewed the world suspiciously, accusing their neighbors of being “strange and repulsive, uneducated, superstitious, awkward, stupid, unsocial, lawless […] slavish and cowardly, unrestrained in passion, petulant, cruel, violent, faithless, greedy and gluttonous (106). Living in an age of such pettiness hardly seems attractive in a historical sense, a perspective Chaucer tried to subtly convey while upholding the central tenants of the classical legends. After all, despite the falseness with which the ancient tales were crafted, they are still entertaining stories with admirable characters. But, Chaucer reminds us, they are just stories. The actual world has too many harsh realities to depend entirely on a virtuous nature to ensure a noble ending. Any fairy tale unable to adapt to the impositions of modernity has no real basis in either the past or the present. And unfortunately, Chaucer demonstrates that the fairy tales capable of adapting to such complications are few and far between.
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1 More recently, historians have cast considerable doubt on Scipio’s purity. Some sources have suggested that Scipio actually took great interest in young and beautiful members of both sexes. However, this perception was certainly not present in the fourteenth century, when Scipio was the champion of self-restraint and traditional marriage. (Wikipedia, Ferrero)
2 This personal glorification is also what Scipio warned his grandson not to seek. It apparently does not pay off in the afterlife.
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Peatlands are sensitive to, and under threat from, the anticipated effects of climate change. Higher temperatures in the summer will lead to peat drying out further, while heavier rainfall will damage these landscapes. These landscapes are resilient but, if they are unable to regenerate, can release large amounts of carbon back into the atmosphere that will compound the effects of climate change.
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Our peatlands research is multifaceted and providing an evidence base for the wider costs and benefits of Scottish peatlands restoration. This includes improving methods for calculating carbon stores and establishing the extent to which peatland restoration will help Scotland and the UK meet their emission reduction targets.
This research is not limited to emissions and also looks at how peatland restoration enhances other environmental benefits, such as biodiversity and water regulation. We have also engaged with the wider public about what they think about peatlands and how it should be used and managed.
Our ongoing research has dramatically improved estimates of peatland carbon stores. Peatland restoration activities have been carried out for over a decade. However it had previously not been possible to formally account for the benefits this restoration has provided. We have direct access to a flagship experimental site (a formerly afforested bog) located on the RSPB Scotland at the Forsinard Flows Reserve. The reserve is Europe’s largest blanket bog and accounts for 5% of the world’s total.
Working in partnership with others, we have monitored the GHG fluxes at several Forsinard sites and have shown how restored peatland can significantly help store more GHGs. We are also developing methods to more accurately evaluate the cost-effectiveness of peatland restoration and evaluate the condition of peatland.
Our research shows that Scottish people consider peatlands to be an important part of their national identity and that restoration will benefit them and future generations.
We have also been able to demonstrate the positive effects of specific peatland restoration interventions on soil fungi and invertebrates, such as insects and moths. Following restoration, the populations of these communities became like those of near natural peatlands. We have developed a decision support tool for peatland restoration across Scotland that summarise all the information that is available on peatland locations and their condition.
Ongoing work aims to develop a systems model of peatland restoration. We are also experimenting with virtual reality in the form of 360 degree video to help communicate our science.
Our research shows that people consider peatlands to be an important part of Scotland’s national identity and that restoration will benefit them and future generations. The main types of benefits mentioned were increased biodiversity, improved water regulation and carbon storage, and uses such as grazing and peat cutting, to less tangible benefits such as inspiration, and a sense of space and connectedness.
Our findings also highlight the economic value the public attach to these benefits (from £127 to £414) and the locations where they would most like to see restoration taking place (i.e. wild-land areas with high-peat concentration). This demonstrates the public’s understanding of the issues and their broadly positive views on peatland restoration.
Our research has demonstrated the wide-ranging benefits of peatland restoration on biodiversity and water aspects, its carbon storage potential, how peatland restoration is viewed by the public and how it can contribute to other societal uses including human values.
By taking into account and aligning diverse viewpoints we aim to safeguard the long-term sustainability of peatlands and the environmental benefits we derive from it.
Our research has played an important role in helping Scotland assess progress towards the statutory GHG emission reduction targets. We have also informed how to better incorporate the effects of draining and the rewetting peatlands into calculations for UK GHG inventories.
Work is ongoing to ensure that restoration efforts continue to take place in the right place, at the right time, and with the best possible practice, in order to provide the maximum societal and ecological benefits.
LocationForsinard Nature Reserve
- James Hutton Institute
- RSPB Forsinard
- University of Leeds
- University of Exeter
- University of Aberdeen
- Peatland Overview Presentation Slides
- A Summary of Peatlands Research 2011-16
- Public Views of Peatland Restoration in Scotland
- WISE Peatland Choices A decision support tool for peatland restoration in Scotland
- Potential for using remote sensing to estimate carbon fluxes across northern peatlands – A review
- Conservation in the face of ambivalent public perceptions - the case of peatlands as "the good, the bad and the ugly"
- How to make complexity look simple? Conveying ecosystems restoration complexity for socio-economic research and public engagement
- Assimilation of optical and radar remote sensing data in 3D mapping of soil properties over large areas”
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Q: Read the dialog and predict the next turn. 2-way dialog: -When was the Brooklyn-Jamaica Expressway built?; -Land for both projects along Jamaica Bay in the area was acquired via eminent domain in 1938, and Shore Parkway opened in 1940, with an interchange to the south end of Pennsylvania Avenue.; -What was the proposed Jamaica Bay seaport?; -This put an end to the proposed Jamaica Bay seaport.; -Was Robert Moses responsible for the development?; -Later plans by Robert Moses in the 1950s called for Spring Creek Park to extend to Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, Queens and include a new beach and boat basin.; -What are some other interesting aspects about this article?; -The Milford Street Landfill began operations in the 1930s, occupying much of the area where the Gateway Center now sits.; -When did the landfill close?; -
A: The Milford Street Landfill was closed in 1950.
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A first aid box is obvious...but I have trouble understanding why you would need an eye-wash station in a condo? Those are typically only located in places where it's expected that (if your arent following he rules and wearing your safety goggles) you'll get a corrosive chemical in your eye (labs and factories being most common I'd say).
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> Just be sincere about thanking them and appreciating the difficulty of their profession, especially in these circumstances.
Which works across the board-not just on airplanes! Many years ago, I was on an overnight Amtrak train and we had heavy boarding at our originating station. For some reason, rather than boarding groups first, they let everybody on at once and the poor car attendant was trying to sort out things so people could sit together. I caught him halfway up the aisle and said that I had a vacant seat next to me and that he could move me anywhere that he needed to in order to free it up for someone travelling together.
He ended up putting another single next to me (which was fine) but after the tickets were collected, said he had a different seat or me. Not just one...but a pair of seats all to myself (which is the jackpot for overnight coach passengers)!
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<issue_start>Title: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/PreDestroy Error after upgrade to macOS Mojave
user0: After upgrade to macOS Mojave today, DBeaver can't startup correctly as it does before.
Checked the log file for details and get this:
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!ENTRY org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench 4 0 2018-09-26 17:28:54.879
!MESSAGE FrameworkEvent ERROR
!STACK 0
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/annotation/PreDestroy
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.InjectorImpl.disposed(InjectorImpl.java:450)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.di.Requestor.disposed(Requestor.java:156)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.ContextObjectSupplier$ContextInjectionListener.update(ContextObjectSupplier.java:78)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.TrackableComputationExt.update(TrackableComputationExt.java:111)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.TrackableComputationExt.handleInvalid(TrackableComputationExt.java:74)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.EclipseContext.dispose(EclipseContext.java:178)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.osgi.EclipseContextOSGi.dispose(EclipseContextOSGi.java:99)
at org.eclipse.e4.core.internal.contexts.osgi.EclipseContextOSGi.bundleChanged(EclipseContextOSGi.java:141)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.BundleContextImpl.dispatchEvent(BundleContextImpl.java:908)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.ListenerQueue.dispatchEventSynchronous(ListenerQueue.java:148)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxEventPublisher.publishBundleEventPrivileged(EquinoxEventPublisher.java:213)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxEventPublisher.publishBundleEvent(EquinoxEventPublisher.java:120)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxEventPublisher.publishBundleEvent(EquinoxEventPublisher.java:112)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxContainerAdaptor.publishModuleEvent(EquinoxContainerAdaptor.java:168)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.publishEvent(Module.java:476)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.doStop(Module.java:634)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.stop(Module.java:498)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.SystemModule.stop(SystemModule.java:202)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxBundle$SystemBundle$EquinoxSystemModule$1.run(EquinoxBundle.java:165)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:834)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.annotation.PreDestroy cannot be found by org.eclipse.e4.core.di_1.6.100.v20170421-1418
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:433)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:395)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:387)
at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.ModuleClassLoader.loadClass(ModuleClassLoader.java:150)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:521)
... 21 more
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user1: Same here but it doesn't seem to respect jenv (which I think would only apply in a shell). If you're using Homebrew I think it has less to do with Mojave than with the fact that the `java` cask is now 11.
user1: Probably a dup of #4208
user2: Yep, looks like duplicate of #4276<issue_closed>
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Friday, April 21, 2006
The perfect issue for gasbags
I awoke today to see this story, about how the Democrats are eager to exploit rising gasoline prices as a campaign '06 issue, and my reaction was:
Dream on.
This issue pops up in the spring and summer of every single election season -- gas prices inevitably spike as car-dependent Americans prepare to hit the road -- and politicians from the "out" party always convince themselves that they have been handed a gift. They love the gas issue because so many Americans love their cars. So they try to pin the blame for high prices on the incumbent party...and nothing happens.
Warm-weather anger never translates into autumn votes; the amnesiacs in the Democratic party don't seem to even recall the recent past.
Consider the spring of 2004, when John Kerry tried to hang the average $2.06 per gallon price around President Bush's neck, by lamenting Bush's refusal to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (a phony charge anyway, because such a move would have slashed prices by only a few pennies, as President Clinton discovered in 2000, when he released 30 million barrels). In 2004, other Democrats joined in by painting Bush as a do-nothing tool of the oil companies. Yet somehow I don't remember this issue playing much of a role in the November results.
No doubt, in the weeks ahead, the Republicans will retaliate by contending that the Democrats are to blame for high gas prices because the "obstructionists" barred oil drilling in the Arctic refuge. But that will be a phony charge as well, because Bush's own Energy Department concluded several years ago that any price drop triggered by new domestic oil would be "negligible." Meanwhile, today, the GOP decided that the best way to handle the gas price hike issue was to resurrect the fact that many Democrats voted to raise the federal gas tax. So they put out a press release. Those Democratic votes 1993 and 1996.
The point is, presidents and political parties can't control the pump price of gas. Voters sense that there is no way to strictly assign partisan blame. Anyone who picks up a newspaper can see that the biggest global factor driving up gas prices is the burgeoning demand for oil in the fast-developing economies of China and India.
And as Democrats seek to exploit this issue at GOP expense, let's see whether they will point any of the blame at the gas-guzzling American consumer. Not likely, since gas-guzzling consumers vote. Checking a news website the other day, I saw two headlines: gas prices are going up...and Detroit is expecting a big sales year for SUVs.
Which reminds me of a story. This comes from John Zogby, the pollster. He told me a few years back, "My son and I just went to a book party for Arianna Huffington. She waxed eloquent about the pitfalls of SUVs, everybody listened -- and when we left, maybe 11 SUVs were parked outside, waiting to pick up guests. Point is, you can't call on Americans to sacrifice during a...campaign. That's a loser."
So is the gas issue itself.
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Sigmund's freud's the uncanny (das unheimliche) was published in 1919 as part of his three essays on the theory of sexuality. Caused an 'uncanny trigger', which is mostly known through sigmund freud's “ the uncanny” essay from 1919 in freud's attempt to conceptualise the uncanny, . The “double” is a theme that has quite often been addressed over centuries of time one of the most iconic being in sigmund freud's essay titled the uncanny. Criticism and literary theory assessment freud and 'the uncanny' freud opens his essay with disulaimer he states that his paper is only 'modest uontribution. This was my favorite quote from freud's “the uncanny as a “double” which freud discussed earlier in his essay, is a symbol of repetition that.
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Disclaimer: free essays on cliff notes posted on this site were donated by originally, the uncanny is a freudian term used to describe a psychological feeling. In his 1919 essay of the same title, austrian psychoanalyst sigmund freud defines das unheimliche ('the uncanny') as, 'that class of frightening. Moment where coraline realizes that this world that she's discovered, and that was becoming more and more, as freud would say, uncanny,.
Sigmund freud's iconic essay in his study of the 'uncanny' jentsch quite rightly lays stress on the obstacle presented by the fact that people vary so very. Sigmund freud's essay the uncanny (1919) however repositioned the idea as the instance when something can be familiar and yet alien at the same time.
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Roof is a remarkably varied area that includes a large range of building kinds in addition to a large array of products and setup procedures. Membrane roof covering is one kind that has actually been especially designed to decrease leaks and also other troubles connected with traditional roof layouts. Generally utilized on level or primarily level roofing systems, membrane protects against leakages while additionally preventing water from pooling on the roof. Usually talking, there are three types of membrane roof covering: artificial rubber, thermoplastic, or asphalt. The majority of typically used in industrial applications, membrane roof has actually lately even started to change typical property systems like asphalt.
Sorts of Membrane layer
Artificial Rubber – Also referred to as Thermoset membrane layer roof covering, artificial rubber designs feature large, level areas of artificial rubber that are affixed at the seams to develop a single, constant membrane layer. Synthetic rubber membrane layer roofings are typically between 0.75 as well as 1.5 millimetres thick. In order to seal the joints on an artificial rubber roofing system, strips of rubber are laid with the joints overlapping; ultimately, the seams are warmed causing the rubber to melt together. The particular kind of rubber utilized enables a chemical bond to create at the joints to make sure that the final sheet of rubber is as strong as the individual pieces so it is almost leakage proof.
Thermoplastic Membrane layer – Thermoplastic membrane layer resemble artificial rubber roofings, however they use PVC sheets instead of rubber. PVC sheets do not bond in the fashion as the rubber sheets as they do not form a chemical bond when heated up, yet they do develop a tight seal. Thermoplastic membrane layer sheets are generally bonded making use of warmth or some sort of solvent as well as are cheaper than artificial rubber membrane layer roof coverings, yet they additionally usually call for even more maintenance.
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Benefits of Membrane Layer Roof
There stand out benefits to membrane roof covering compared to asphalt and other typical roof. Membrane is either smooth or has joints as strong as the body of the roof making them substantially less likely to leakage. FURTHERMORE, membrane layer roofing systems can be covered conveniently and breaks and also leakages are less difficult to situate. Finally, membrane layer systems withstand development and contraction while likewise being resistant to UV damage suggesting they are extra long lasting and also much longer long-term.
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Q:Raymundo Asuncion started a journey in a board games from a mobile vending truck in Valley County, Nebraska. When moving, the board games ascends at a rate of 45 units per minute. When stationary, the board games descends at a rate of 11 units per minute. During the journey, Raymundo Asuncion moved for 27 minutes, then stopped for 7 minutes, moved again for 27 minutes, and finally stopped, allowing the board games to descend back to the starting point. What was the highest point, in units, reached by the board games during the journey?
A:Raymundo Asuncion moved for 27 minutes at a rate of 45 units per minute, ascending 1215 units. Then, the board games descended 77 units over 7 minutes. After moving again for 27 minutes, the board games ascended another 1215 units. The highest point reached was 1215 - 77 + 1215 = 2353 units. The result is 2353.
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Head-Fi.org › Head Gear › Dedicated Source Components › DACs › Matrix M-Stage DAC
Matrix M-Stage DAC
Pros: Handsome companion for the M-Stage Amplifier
Cons: USB is limited to 24/96
The build quality is identical to the amplifier, same enclosure, same materials, it's the same. It came with a power cable, but no USB cable.
I suppose this makes sense, otherwise next you'd be expecting them to throw in interconnects as well.
The LED's are a softer intensity this time, they are very much the same blue and they light up instantly. Where as the power LED on the amplifier tends to fade in slowly, and shines at this arrogant intensity. It seems strange to have the M-Stage duo, each with their lights shining at varied intensities, though it's negligible and purely cosmetic. There an LED's for the power and sample rate indicators (44.1, 96 and 192). When no source is attached, the lights toggle in succession to indicate that it's "searching" for an input.
There's also a filter and input switch, which snap just like the input on the M-Stage amplifier. After an little while the unit warms up, but runs much cooler than the amplifier. To the touch, it's about halfway between dead cold and amplifier hot, so I stack the DAC on top.
There's a switch for 3 filters on the front of the panel, "Sharp", "Slow" & "Mute". Out of the box, it was set to slow. Sharp makes the highs sound the slightest bit clearer, though the DT770 isn't renown for it's detail. I found the difference especially noticeable on José González's album, Veneer, where the acoustics sounded a bit flabby on the slow filter. Slow seemed to suit metal and electro genres. The mute setting just zeros the volume (which is nice instead of reaching for your volume or source if the situation calls for it).
The volume fades in when you turn the DAC on, for around 1.5 seconds, enough to avoid any unexpected "pop" of ear bashing, headphone damaging noise. I suppose it's a nice feature which some DAC's could tend to skip.
I don't have enough equipment to make comparisons, or the adequate experience to provide a review, but to sum up my own experience; the bass has this glorious resonating, deep-and-powerful, one-flavour-of-kickass to it, while the rest of the spectrum seems to take a backseat, occasionally sounding inadequate. I'm sure this is the telltale story of the the DT770's, and although I haven't tried other cans, I'm having lots and lots of fun with this powerful sound. I'm thinking about trying out the HE-400, or saving up for the Schiity LCD-2 combo.
One thing I will mention, and perhaps someone can point out why; for happy listening levels, I'm needing to apply gains to the amplifier.
This seems strange to me, I mean, my amplifier is paired with a DAC that was designed to be it's companion... I have the opinion that the gain switches exist purely to save your sanity should you end up with high-impedance headphones. It seems unnatural to set them at anything besides 0dB.
Up until now I was using the DAC within the amplifier (USB version), and I could happily listen with the volume at about 10 o'clock.
With this DAC in the equation, achieving that same level of happiness involves turning the volume all the way around to about 5 o'clock.
So instead, I've applied the first step of gain (10dB), and now the volume I'm seeking can be found around 12 o'clock.
I sincerely hope the gain doesn't affect the sound signature, if it does, this oversight is just absurd.
Admittedly, I'm not sure what to expect here. Maybe the output through the amplifier's DAC was unusually loud, or maybe there's an impedance factor when interconnecting the DAC. Regardless, and although I don't have another DAC to compare, it just seems unusual to have the amplifier turned up to 11 before my face features a glimpse of a grin or raised eyebrows.
Seemingly, sticking with the 10dB gain makes everything normal, and I'm really enjoying the sound as it settles in. It sounds much smoother than the amplifier's DAC, which sounded harsh in comparison.
Noob tip: At first I was a bit concerned that the USB input lacked 192KHz. However, I learned that upsampling from 44.1KHz to 96Khz makes the sound very different. It's a surreal, unnatural sound, but an interesting one. Sometimes I prefer upsampling if the sound needs to be livened up a little, but in most cases the sound is better without conversion. Just a general consideration I suppose, since most music played with this source (MP3, FLAC) is encoded at 44.1KHz, so when you see those inputs with the big numbers, you should really only be considering one thing.
The DAC appears to not only have the same form factor, but the same op amps as the amplifier.
I wonder if upgrading the op amps in this DAC would have the same effect as it does in the amplifier? There are 3 OPA2134's on the board (I'm presuming one for each input) (picture), though I have no idea which one is which. Food for thought I guess.
Matrix M-Stage DAC
Designed to be paired with the Matrix M-Stage Headphone Amplifier, the Matrix M-Stage DAC features a PCM1792 supporting up to 24Bit/192kHz playback.
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Watch the video, Environmental Justice (opens in new window) (00:04:32). https://www.youtube.com/embed/0L2xCwD5RNI?rel=0&autoplay=1
When we focus upon our community’s needs for public health interventions, we soon discover that these issues are not as local as we first thought. Common challenges to public health are what people, governments, military and medical professionals face daily. As a public health professional, you will find that it becomes difficult not to consider the greater community, society and those around the globe.
After presenting your action plan ( ATTACHED) to your audience, share some of the non-confidential feedback received about your action plan. Be sure to paraphrase and protect the audience members’ identities.
• Did the responses to your feedback survey surprise you?
• How would you be able to apply what you learned to make a positive impact in your community? What about in the world?
• Where do you see any ties between environmental public health issues and socio-economic or cultural factors?
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Samiti në New Jersey
Diaspora shqiptare mbetet vetëm për t'u bashkuar...
Kokrra produktive, për emacipimin e kombit - realitet, shihet, në çdo pjesë të jetës se një populli ose kombi.
SUMMIT - NEW JERSEY: Ndërkaq ditë më parë i shoqëruar nga një aktivisti i dalluar, dhe bizensmenë i suksesëshëm z Ibrahim Kolari, në vijim të vizitës së tij të suksesëshme në Nju Jork, Prefekti i Komunës se Dibrës së Madhe, dr. Argëtim Fida, nga partia Bashkimi Demokratik për Integrim(BDI) e Ali Ahmetit, vizitojë edhe shtëpinë e Vatrës, në Amerikë. Me plotë dashamirësi dhe ngrotësi, në këtë takim, ai u pritë nga kryetari i Federatës PanShqiptare të Amerikës VATRA, inxh. Agim Karagjozi, dhe kryesia e Vatrës, n/kryetari Agim Rexhaj dhe anëtarët e kryesisë: Musli Mulosmani, Muhamet Omari, Zef Përndocaj, Marian Cubi e Zef Balaj.
Në takim morën pjesë edhe profesori i mirënjohur nga Prishtina, z Zekeria Cana. Takimi u përcollë nga fjalë miradie nga të dy palët. Kryetari i Vatrës, z Agim Karagjozi, pasi i urojë atij mirëseardhjen në shtëpinë e Vatrës, vlersojë lartë punën, e rolin e komunitetit dibranë, në Amerikë, dhe në Dibrën e Madhe. Fida, nga ana e tij u shpreh i emocionuar nga që po takohej me pasardhësit e Nolit e Konicës, atyre, që mbajtën edhe sot, e kësaj ditë ndezur flakadanin e shqiptarizimit, edhe pse në kushtet e egra të asimilimit që të sjellin rrugët e mundimëshme të gurbetit. Takimi qe shumë miqësor dhe i ngrohtë, duke u përcjellë më pasë në një takim tjetër, në restoratin "Fiorino", pronë e biznesmenit të suksesëshëm shqiptar në Nju Jersi, qytetin Summit, aktivistit të shquar të çështjes kombëtare z Zabit Bytyqi.
Takimi në në restoratin "Fiorino", ku morën pjesë edhe, Agim Karagjozi, Agim Rexhaj, Musli Mulosmani, Muhamet Omari, Zef Përndocaj, Marian Cubi, Lavdërim Cami, Zabit Bytyqi, Zef Balaj, Haxhi Hysenaj e Burhan Mela, ishte një takim pune. Ku u rrahën dhe u trajtuan shumë probleme dhe shqëtesime, që po i proukupojnë më së shumti, sot, shqiptarët e çështjen shqiptare, sidomos në Diasporën këtu në SHBA-s. Agim Rexhaj, kryetari i degës së LDK-së, dhe n/kryetar i Vatrës, që në fillim ceku se :"Do të dëshiroja që në të mirën e të gjithë shqiprave do të kishte qënë, që atë lidhje dhe bashkëveprim që kemi pas në mes njëri tjetrit, për çështjet madhore e në veqanti atë të Kosovës, duhet t'a ruajmë dhe t'a forcojmë në gjitha drejtimet, edhe pse sot, Kosova, është e lirë dhe çështja shqiptare, nuk, është më ajo e para disa decineve".
Prefekti i Dibrës së Madhe, dr Argëtim Fida, edhe në këtë takim përsëri gjeti rastin me u faleminderue në emër të popullit të prefekturës, Dibrës së Madhe. Në këtë takim, tha Fida, duke nxjerr edhe një herë në pahë rëndësinë që pati lidhja ndërshqiptare si një popull - të një gjuhe, e të një gjaku, gjatë ditëve më të vështira që kaloj populli ynë, si në Kosovë edhe në Maqedoni, e Preshevë, Bujanovc e Medvegje, duhet edhe të nxjerrëm mësime e duhura. Ai tha se : atë çka bënë shqiptarët në Maqedoni për lirinë e çlirimin e Kosovës, bëri Kosova për shqiptarët në Maqedoni. Aty ku trumbetojë kushtrimi për liri e pavarësi , shqiptarët, pa dallim u ndodhën krah-për krah njëri tjetrit. Kjo, kudo u pa, si një çështje e përbashkët që na lidhë në deje. I këtij mendimi pothuajse ishte dhe zotëri Lavderim Cami, ish- kryetari i shoqatës Atdhetare " Dibra" në Staten Island(NY), kur solli disa fragmente nga kujtesa e tij me liderit shqiptar në Kosovë. I paharruar, tha ai ka qënë, për mua dhe delegacionin nga SHBA-s, vizita në memorialin e kushtuar heroit legjendar Adem Jashari, dhe takimi me akademikun e njohur të Kososvës, profesor Idriz Ajetin, e tjerë.
Ndërsa, Profesor Zekria Cana, në fjalën e tij tha se :" Kjo ditë të jetë një kujtim i mirë për të ndjerin, kolegun tim, akademik Fehmi Aganin. Pse? ai e tregojë qysh at'here kur ishte puna e universitetit të Prishtinës, që të vinin sa më shumë djem edhe vajza nga të gjitha trojet shqiptare. I ndjeri profesor Agani në çështjen e rregjistrimeve në Universitetin e Prishtinës, konvikteve dhe të bursave, për djemt dhe vajazat jashtë Kosovës, tha se do të ketë përparsësi absolute !!!, Pse? me këtë lloj forme ne po përpiqeshim që Kosova, të kryente misionin e saj jo vetëm në rrafshin e arsimit e të kulturës, por edhe në rrafshin kombëtar. Sepse, duke ardhë sa më shumë studentët e rinjë e të reja nga të gjitha trojet shqiptare, do të njiheshin edhe më shumë mes vetit - lidheshin mes vetit e do të afroheshin më shumë. Dhe kështu në ato pak kushte që kishim - krijohej një unitet kombëtar.
Çdo njeri veqse do të kryente studimet, por dhe kur të shkonte në viset e veta, do të çonte bashkë me diturinë edhe dashurinë e respektin e madh, të atij një populli, që e lidh më gjuhë e gjak. Kjo në atë kohë shihej si një arritje shumë e madhe. Mirpo në këtë aspekt, ka pasë edhe shumë probleme. Kjo, për vet faktin se Universiteti i Prishtinës, at'eher u bë si më thanë:" Halë në Sy". Sa që u shpall edhe si bastioni i nacionalizmit shqiptar, me plotë djallëzi nga rregjimi sërb. Në këtë këndëvështrim, nuk mund të lë pa përmendur edhe vështërsit dhe problemet, me të cilat, padrejtësisht u ballafaquan, gjatë gjithë jetës së tyre, edhe shqiptarët në Maqedoni. Ju jetuat me një sundues akoma më shovinist se sërbët, e grekërit ndoshta. Jetuat e punuat tek një shovinizëm i egër dhe barabarë, shovinizmi i sëmurë e primitiv maqedonas.
Por, s.d.q. pa mohur dhe pa ulur sadopak rolin e kontributin e çdo shqiptari, me aq sa mundi duhet të ngremë lart shpirtin margaritar të çdo njerit. Kush punojë e luftojë, kontribojë për këtë ditë, duhet t'i shprëhem mirënjohjen e thellë kombëtare. Mirpo, tha ai duhet me pranue me keqardhje, se deri tani ne shqiptarët, kemi pas më shumë një lidhje rajonale ose krahinore, lidhje e cila edhe pse ajo ashtu siç ka qënë, prapëseprapë i ka shërbyer shumë çështjes kombëtare. Ndonëse, duhet pranuar se ky lloj parimi, nuk është fare i parapëlqyshëm .Përse? çdo komb integrohet prej krahine me krahinën, e rajonin dhe gërshetohet. Por, në disa raste tek ne po ndodhë krejt e kundërta. Dhe që ndodh krejt e kundërta, po e ushqen dashje pa dashje lokalizmin. Deshje e pa deshje, e ushqen krahinizmin ose edhe një farë bajraktarizmi, që e kemi nga vetë natyra ne shqiptarët.
Kjo është një dukuri që i themi ne shqiptarët "prapanike", e duhet të quhet e kaluara jonë. Kokrra produktive, për emacipimin e kombit - realitet, shihet, në çdo pjesë të jetës se një populli ose kombi. Kështuqë, kur mbrrita këtu u befasova menjëher. U befasova, kur në çdo shitore ose vitrinë tjetër, shihja posterat që bënin thirrje për kremtimin e ditës së flamurit - 28 Nandorit Shpalljes së Pavarësisë. Të gjithë nën një flamur, por, të vequar, pa një kremtim qoftë ai edhe simbolik të përbashkët, pa dallim krahine, rajoni ose bindjesh. Me thënë të drejtën ndjeva një shqetësim dhe u trondita. Pra ky është komb - realiteti.
Pyetja që duhet të ngrej çdo shqiptar, sot, është:' Le të punojmë sejcili veqeveq dhe t'i kuntribojmë me mënyra e forma të ndryshme, të gjithë kësaj çështje të shejtë, dhe të kryejm misionin që kemi për të kryer në këtë çështje. Duke u tubuar e organizuar edhe me krahina e rajone , duke i zhvilluar e ndihmuar ato vende. Kështu, si po veprojnë dibranët që në rrafshin ekonomik kërkojnë të rimëkëmbin qytetin e tyre. Por, për të gjitha këto ndihma dhe kontribute ka ardhur koha që parimisht, ato duhen të vendosen në binarë të përbashkët, jo vetëm për Dibërn, por edhe për Kosovën, Çamërinë, Shqipërinë, Malin e Zi ku jetonë e punojnë shqiptarët, Preshevën Bujanovcin dhe Medvegje.
Ka ardhur koha, dhe sa që nuk është vonë, se koha nuk do t'ua falë kurrë - të krijohet dhe formohet një bashkim gjithëshqiptarë në diasporë. Ka ardhur koha që diasporës, t'i dalë në krye një, Anton Çeta i ri. Të dalë njeri, që do t'i bashkojë shqiptarët nën një "ombrell" . Se vetëm të bashkuar dhe së gjithë së bashku, do të rritëni jashtëzakonishtë efektiviteti, dhe kontributin e punës suaj, do të ngrihet edhe më lart roli juaj historik, në dobi të çështjes kombëtare. Kështuqë, kam idenë e sinqertë, se për çështje madhore, shqiptarët e Amerikës, duhet të mbildhen me të gjithë ushëheqësit e tyre , fetar, politik e shoqëror, rreth Vatrës, pa u shkrirë ose u larguar nga aktiviteti me shoqatat dhe organizatat e tyre, ku ata po kontribojnë dhe militojnë, prej krijimit të tyre. Të nxirret një platformë e mirëfillët kombëtare , për probleme dhe çështje që i proukupojnë më së shumti shqiptarët, në të gjitha viset ose vednlindjet e tyre. Në këtë këndëvështrim shqiptarët e Amerikës, kur të dalin para kongresmenit , senatorit, ose adminstratës amerikane, duhet të dalin në "bllok", dhe jo veq e veq.
Ibrahim Kolari, u shpreh se gjatë gjithë kohës për sa u njohëm dhe u lidhëm mes vetit në diasporë, ka qënë një lidhje e njohje e madhe, që solli vet natyrësh edhe frutet e saja. Së bashku me ju ne 'ju gjendem në ballë të gjitha nevojave që na kërkojë vendi ynë. Nuk kurrësyem asgjë për Shqipërinë dhe shqiptarizëmën , kudo ku flitet dhe këndohet shqip. Pavarësisht, se ku ishte thirrja që na bënte vendi ynë ; në në Kosovë apo në Maqedoni, Prushevë, Bujanovc e Medvegje, në Çamëri apo Mal të Zi. Si anëtar i Federatës PanShqiptare VATRA në Amerikë, e ndjej veten të lumtur edhe krenar që ja arritëm kësaj dite të çlirohet Kosova, shqiptarët e Maqedonisë të kenë më shumë të drejta dhe të behën faktorë në shtetin e tyre, dhe Shqipëria të jetë demokratike.
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Friday, October 24, 2008
Coming Soon? Watergate Redux
Those of us who have paid attention know that elections have been stolen since 2000, but there has been a corporate media blackout. Suddenly, the mainstream media has discovered that there is fraud, fraud! in our elections. What's going on?
In 1973-74, the East Coast media and the Congress went after Richard Nixon, who had won a landslide election the year before. Those of us who hated Tricky Dick were thrilled at the justice of it all. We were told that "the system worked", and that crimes of state would be punished, and that media was an alert watchdog keeping an eye on those in power. And for a while, I believed.
Now I believe that that scenario was a bunch of hooey. I think that Tricky Dick was right and "they" were after him. I don't know what he did, but he royally pissed off part of the ruling class, and they got rid of him. He had Spiro Agnew as his impeachment insurance, but that insurance was as good as flood insurance in New Orleans, when it was decided to dump him.
Sprio Agnew was gone in weeks, and Establishment favorite, Gerald Ford was placed in waiting.
Then I watched the media play up the hostages in Iran in 1979. Day after day, we were treated to updates and countdowns. There have never been, before or since, such important hostages. And so, bye-bye, Jimmy. Hello Ronald Reagan, the man the media tell us us to this day that "we" all loved. (Which sends me into sputtering fury whenever I am so informed.)
How will this election play out? It seems very clear to me that Obama is their man. But, apparently, there are rogue elements in the Republican Party apparatus who seem determined to steal another election, even though the ruling class wants to play Team B this time. The repubs are using the same dirty tricks that they used the last few times. Caging, voter suppression, voting machine tampering, etc.
Well. They weren't supposed to do that this time. So, here's my guess. If they manage to "elect" McCain, we will see a massive media "expose'" of voting fraud. All that has been ignored for the last 6 years will suddenly be discovered and uncovered. There will be Pulitizer Prize winning reporters who will be lauded for years to come, like Woodward. (But those reporters won't be the ones that have been on this story, like Bob Fritrakis, Brad Freeman and Bev Harris, of course.)
60 Minutes will be on it. It will even be on your local network station.
And the most disgusting part? The part where they congratulate the system for working!
Nader Enthusiast said...
I do think it is all a game also with the media in cahoots. How many men with power are faithful and which ones get exposed, for one small example.
I think Ford was Nixon's insurance, Spiro resigned in disgrace.
wagelaborer said...
What I meant was that Nixon picked an idiot for his vice-president as insurance against impeachment or assassination.
But when it was decided to get rid of Nixon, first they got rid of Agnew, and put in an acceptable replacement, Gerald Ford, a reliable puppet. Remember that he was on the Warren Commission.
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Liberal Party willingly take political donations from university that Abbott govt funds
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Lee Rhiannon 4 Jun 2015
Despite Liberal and Labor MPs receiving generous political donations from three NSW universities the Abbott government has failed to recognise that this is an abuse of public funding, Greens higher education and democracy spokesperson Senator Lee Rhiannon said.
Last night in Senate estimates, Assistant Minister for Education and Training Senator Simon Birmingham and Associate Secretary Robert Griew were questioned by Senator Rhiannon about political donations made by universities.
Link to the proceedings:
"Not only did Senator Birmingham fail to rule out that universities do not use Commonwealth public money for political donations, it also became very clear there are no mechanisms in place to ensure public money is not used for political donations," said Senator Rhiannon.
"Mr Griew says the Commonwealth Grants Scheme Funding Agreement specifies the funding to universities is to be used for the purpose of delivering education research, yet under questioning it became apparent that there are no measures in place to ensure this occurs.
"It is extraordinary that the University of Wollongong which is a part of the Commonwealth Grants Scheme Funding Agreement has donated over $25,000 to political parties with more than $21,000 going to the Liberals in the last four years.
"The public have a right to know the name of the other two NSW universities that have made political donations, with that money most likely coming from the public purse.
"The public also have a right to know if the University of Wollongong did use any public money for political donations.
"Political donations have a corrupting influence, and public universities should not be engaging in such activities.
"The federal and state governments need to immediately take leadership on this and put an end to public money ear marked for universities flowing on to political parties," said Senator Rhiannon.
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The most famous of the ‘vanished’ Impressionists, his richly chromatic paintings are in museums and galleries around the world, but seldom get much attention now. However, his influence on the work of Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Paul Signac, and Vincent van Gogh was considerable.
(Jean-Baptiste) Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927)
Born in Moulins, he first came to Paris in 1857 to work in a shop, but took evening classes in drawing with the aim of becoming a full-time artist. He attended the Académie Suisse in 1861, where he became friends with Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne. To support his painting, he then worked for the Paris municipal services, at times digging ditches for three nights each week, and painting as much as he could in the daytime. He remained deeply poor until late in life.
In 1868, he left his service work, and painted blinds, as Renoir and Pissarro did at various times in their careers, but returned to municipal work in 1872. In that year, he painted near Pontoise, in company with Pissarro, Cézanne, and Béliard. Although some were against his taking part in the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874, he showed three landscape paintings in it. In addition to painting, he also made engravings, although his prints are even harder to find than his paintings.
Continuing to live in Paris, he again painted in company with Cézanne when they lived near to one another in 1875 and 1877. In 1875, following the winding up of the original company of Impressionists, he joined l’Union, organised by Meyer with Pissarro as its leading light, but never exhibited with that group. Instead he participated in five more of the Impressionist Exhibitions, in 1877 (the third), 1880 (fifth), 1881 (sixth), 1882 (seventh), and 1886 (eighth and last).
Signac befriended him in 1884, and for a while Guillaumin mentored Signac as he was starting to paint en plein air. As a result, Guillaumin joined Signac’s group, and exhibited with them in December 1884, with Seurat, Odilon Redon, and Schuffenecker.
During 1886-7, when Vincent van Gogh was living in Paris, he too became friends with Guillaumin, and visited him frequently. At the time Guillaumin was living in the former studio of Daubigny.
Having endured his entire life in poverty, working whilst trying to find time to paint, in 1891 he won sufficient in a lottery to finally provide him with financial security. However, by this time he had lost contact with his Impressionist friends, and it is usually considered that his paintings had become weak, and had lost their earlier attraction. His output increased considerably, though, and most of his surviving works are from that late period.
The Seine (1867) is a typical early motif, a view of the River Seine in Paris, and shows unusually early coarse facture and bright colours, considering that it was painted two years before Monet’s celebrated views of La Grenouillère.
At the time that Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir were starting to explore the stark forms and subtle colours of snow scenes, Guillaumin painted Hollow in the snow (1869).
Guillaumin was distinctive from early on in using very high chroma colours in his paintings, as shown here in his Landscape (c 1870).
This View of the Seine, Paris (1871) has clearly been worked on over a longer period in the studio, and appears unusually well finished and detailed.
Probably his most famous painting today, Sunset at Ivry (1873) was bought by Dr Gachet, a great friend and patron to the Impressionists who cared for Vincent van Gogh during the final months of his life. It was loaned by Gachet to the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, and is now in the Musée d’Orsay. It must rank among the greatest of Impressionist paintings of sunset.
The Seine at Charenton (formerly Daybreak) (1874) is another of his urban riverside views.
Pont Marie, Quai Sully (1878) returns to his very high chroma style, showing a row of horses and carts queued to move earth during embankment works in Paris.
Notre Dame de Paris (date not known) was probably painted during this mature period, and shows a very familiar view.
La place Valhubert (date not known) is one of his finest riverside views. This location is further upstream from Notre Dame, by the Gare d’Austerlitz, and is seen in the warm light of dusk in winter.
For me, the best of Guillaumin’s paintings is his Épinay-sur-Orge (c 1884), showing the rich colours of this village to the south of Paris (now swallowed up into the city’s sprawling suburbs). He painted several views around this area, most of which are comparable in their quality.
River Scene (1890) is another view of the bustling life alongside the River Seine in Paris, this time with a party of anglers, and two yachts under sail.
Guillaumin later brought his vibrant colours to the distant countryside dominated by the ancient volcano of Puy de Dôme, in the Massif Central, south central France. Plateau Bromont at Pontgibaud (Puy de Dôme) (1890) is one of the best of his paintings from that area.
Puy de Dôme Landscape (date not known) is probably from the same period, but very different in its treatment of the local countryside.
Painted around the time that he finally achieved financial security, his Self Portrait (c 1890-5) is almost as colourful as his landscapes.
Although many of his later paintings are weaker, some, including this Snow Landscape at Crozant (c 1895), are still well-composed and accomplished. It suggests a reticence, even uncertainty, which could have been a cause of his lack of recognition.
He also explored new motifs, and his style continued to evolve, as shown in his Bouchardon Mill, Crozant (c 1898), which appears decidedly Post-Impressionist. Sadly such paintings were not ‘discovered’ by the likes of Roger Fry, nor were they promoted by dealers or galleries.
There can be no doubt that Guillaumin was a fully-fledged French Impressionist who painted as a full member of its inner circle. His most recent catalogue raisonné, by Serret and Fabiani (1971), is almost unobtainable even on the secondhand market, and lists 847 of his paintings. A second volume is apparently in preparation. There is no substantial account of his work currently in print or, as far as I can discover, available electronically.
Critical opinion of his work appears to be based mainly on his weaknesses rather than his strengths, and does not do justice either to his importance in the Impressionist movement, or to his best paintings. His innovation, importance, and many great paintings should be celebrated in the company of Pissarro, Monet, and Sisley – not buried by current Monet-centred branding.
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Ich bin Mohamed, geboren am 13.10.1996 in Essen-Steele. Seit meiner Geburt in Deutschland habe ich nur eine Duldung!
Ich bin bis zur 4. Klasse auf die Karl-Schule in Altenessen gegangen, dann auf eine weiter führende Schule. In der 9. Klasse habe ich parallel zur Schule ein Praktikum bei einer großen Firma begonnen. Das bedeutete, dass ich an 2 Tagen in der Woche dort Praktikum machte und an 3 Tagen am Schulunterricht teilnahm. Im weiteren Verlauf habe ich bei dieser Firma eine Ausbildung machen können und habe heute einen Gesellenbrief als Maler und Lackierer.
Alle 6 Monate muss ich in der Ausländerbehörde meine Duldung verlängern. Es war auch keineswegs selbstverständlich, dass ich meine Lehrstelle bei dieser Firma bekam – auch hier hat man gezögert, weil ich ja gemäß meiner Duldung „ausreisepflichtig“ bin. Wie soll sich ein Betrieb auch auf einen Menschen einlassen, der möglicherweise nach 6 Monaten abgeschoben wird?
Die Ausländerbehörde hat mittels Ahnenforschung herausgefunden, dass ich türkischstämmig bin. Mein Großvater hat einen türkischen Namen. Ich aber habe Deutsch als Muttersprache gelernt, meine Eltern sprechen Arabisch. Diese Sprache kann ich auch ein wenig verstehen und sprechen, aber Türkisch verstehe ich kein Wort, geschweige denn, dass ich das sprechen könnte. Um einen Aufenthaltsstatus jenseits der Duldung zu bekommen, müsse ich erst die türkische Staatsbürgerschaft beantragen und erhalten, wurde mir seitens der Ausländerbehörde mitgeteilt. Darauf habe ich mich auch eingelassen und war mehrfach beim türkischen Konsulat, um einen türkischen Pass zu beantragen. Dort hat man mir das verwehrt, war dann aber nicht bereit, mir das schriftlich zu geben. Das aber fordert die Ausländerbehörde ein. Somit bin ich in einer Zwickmühle gelandet, aus der ich mich mit eigener Kraft nicht herausbegeben kann. Im Ergebnis habe ich nach wie vor eine Duldung, bin „ausreisepflichtig“. Dabei bin ich doch hier in Essen geboren.
Ich bin aufgewachsen in Essen und respektiere die Gesetze dieses Landes. Dennoch fühle ich mich fremd in diesem Land, ausgeschlossen von vielem, was für Andere, mit denen ich zusammen aufgewachsen bin, selbstverständlich ist. Klassenfahrten sind ein Problem gewesen oder die Teilnahme war nicht möglich. Urlaubsreisen: nicht machbar. Wenn ich eine Prüfung in meiner Ausbildung oder auch im Zusammenhang mit der Schule ablegte, musste ich immer meine Duldung vorzeigen und es war in diesen Momenten nicht selbstverständlich, dass ich daran teilnehmen durfte. Einen Handyvertrag abzuschließen: nicht möglich. Einen Kredit aufzunehmen, wofür auch immer: nicht möglich. Ich arbeite in einer großen Firma, die auch international tätig ist, beispielsweise in Finnland. In das Ausland zu fahren, um dort für die Firma tätig zu werden: nicht möglich.
Ich habe eine Zeit lang versucht, mich politisch einzubringen. In dieser Zeit habe ich auch mit vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern über das Thema Duldung gesprochen. Nahezu alle fanden es falsch, dass ich mit der Duldung leben muss ...und doch: es hat sich nichts geändert. Ich bin der Meinung, dass eine ganze Generation junger Menschen diesem Land verloren zu gehen droht, wenn sich an dieser Situation nichts ändert. Wie sollen Menschen, die in der selben Situation sind wie ich, also hier in Deutschland geboren, verstehen, dass sie derart ausgegrenzt werden und alle 6 Monate zur Ausländerbehörde müssen, um die Duldung zu verlängern, während Kriegsflüchtlinge ohne Umstände einen Aufenthaltstitel bekommen, der 3 Jahre Gültigkeit besitzt.
Ich habe mittlerweile jedes Vertrauen in die Politik verloren. Schon vor Jahren habe ich von Politikern die Aussage gehört, man wolle sich darum kümmern: nichts ist passiert. Ich fühle mich im Stich gelassen.
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Here's a little bit of information about the lighthouse:
Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115-foot Pigeon Point Lighthouse, one of the tallest lighthouses in America, has been guiding mariners since 1872. Its five-wick lard oil lamp, and first-order Fresnel lens, comprised of 1,008 prisms, was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872. The lens stands 16 feet tall, 6 feet in diameter, and weighs 8,000 pounds. It sits in a lantern room that had been constructed at the Lighthouse Service's general depot in New York before being shipped around the Horn. Although the original Fresnel lens is no longer in use, the lighthouse is still an active U.S. Coast Guard aid to navigation using a 24 inch Aero Beacon.
If you're interested, you can read more information here at the California Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Q: Why does changing this image's height to be equal to the document's height fail? So in a simple page, there is a div containing an img. The document would presumably be the same height as the image. However, this is not the case. The document is slightly larger depending on the environment. See this jsfiddle to see an example. Basically what happens is if the image is set to the document height, then the document height changes.
In case the jsfiddle is no longer available, here is the setup:
html
<div><img id="img" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/138/overrides/save-the-ocean-tips_13821_600x450.jpg" /></div>
js
$(function(){
alert("Image Height Before Assignment: " + $("#img").height());
var docH = $(document).height();
alert("Document Height Before Assignment: " + docH);
$("#img").height(docH);
alert("Image Height After Assignment: " + $("#img").height());
alert("Document Height After Assignment: " + $(document).height());
});
Why can't an image be set to the document height like this, without changing the document height?
How can an image be set to the document height without changing the document's height?
A: I have fixed that by adding align="absmiddle" to the image
Demo here
A: It has something to do with the HTML DTD. When I changed it to HTML 4.01 Transitional, all alerts gave the same value. HTML 5 and HTML 4.01 Strict both change the document height, as you said.
'Hope this helps to track down the cause.
A: Using align="absmiddle" is bad form and non standardized. I had asked haynar1658 to change his answer to reflect what I found as the solution due to looking for a more standardized version of align="absmiddle". What I came across was the css property vertical-align:middle;. Here is a solution in jsfiddle.
For those who are afraid or critical of jsfiddle, here is the code:
html
<div><img id="img" src="http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/138/overrides/save-the-ocean-tips_13821_600x450.jpg" /></div>
css
/*
This will ensure the document height doesn't change
*/
#img
{
vertical-align:middle;
}
js
//Display Image height, then document height, then change image height and show that the change no longer affects the document height
$(function(){
//Show Image height before
alert("Image Height Before Assignment: " + $("#img").height());
//Get Document Height
var docH = $(document).height();
//Show Document Height
alert("Document Height Before Assignment: " + docH);
//Assign image height
$("#img").height(docH);
//Show image height
alert("Image Height After Assignment: " + $("#img").height());
//Show document height
alert("Document Height After Assignment: " + $(document).height());
});
A: I Would suggest you to create a CSS like this to remove all extra from the body
body{
margin:0px;
paddin:0px;
border:0px;
}
The body tag has its own proprety.
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West Coast Ridaz
Tag: rap
(Main Verse)
[Frost]
Let me take you back in time with this old school rola
Kick a little rhyme for the cholos and cholas
This Big Frost, East Los, the rap vetarano
Still stay boracho, still stay marijuano {*inhale*} {*exhale*}
You lame chavalas, no, you can't say nada
Yeah, we keeps a loaded cuete that'll feed you full of valas
Cruisin' the calles in a drop Impala
Chevrolet
213, East L.A. (Yeah)
I dip and hit the switch
On my way to the barrio
To pick up ya bitch, I mean a heina
Tonight, ese, don't try to find her
She's with the label now, homeboy, we sign her
You know I'm a cold piece, Frost be the hielo
On her back, legs opens
Starin' at the cielo
Then it's doggystyle with the face in the pielo
Kid Frost, the big boss, forever stay frio
Game right here, holmes, I sell by the kilo
And that's real talk, said no pedo
You don't believe it, you can ask the homie, Dedos
[Fingazz]
Yeah
That's right
[Diamonique]
It's the Queen of the West, and I'm brown and proud
About fifteen years, I been puttin' it down
Just like my homie Lil Rob
He's been doin' his thang (Uh huh)
Y'all don't know that my boy is a Chicano rap king (Yeah)
So get it up (Come on)
And all mi gente
In they lowride Chevys, hit a switch, raise it up
Now drop it down (Uh huh)
And hit the boulevard
On A Sunday Afternoon, cruisin' around
Hey, there's a war goin' on in the streets
So my people gotta squash all the beat (Yeah)
Yo
Cause some people from this side, and people from that side
That's side wide, and more fools gon' die
And it's a neverending drama (Uh huh)
And on the sideline
There's tweaked-out baby mamas (Whoo)
To raise the next generation (Uh huh)
It's no wonder why we trippin' on this southern migration
[Lil Rob]
From San Diego to East Los, from the west to the east coast (That's East, L.A.)
I rock the mic and make it tight for my people (Yeah)
Bumpin' this in the chalis of the regals (That's right)
Chevy Impalas, a bomba with your tio (Uh huh)
Stop at the tienda and pick up some pisto
If I stay listo, I ain't gots to get listo (Ain't gots to get ready)
Jump in the rag, top, I'm brown baggin' it (Brown raggin' it)
Jump in the rag, top, I'm brown baggin' it (I'm brown raggin' it)
Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane
No, it's Lil Rob, flyin' high, stimulatin' my brain (Stimulatin' my brain)
Puffin' on a marijuana cigarette
It's good shit, you need a hit if you ain't shit yet
And you'd be high, just as high as I (Yeah)
Ese, we don't die, we just multiply (Uh huh)
Heh
I put it down for the homies
And the heinas, in the barrio, listenin' to oldies
[Lil Rob]
That's right
It's ya homeboy, Ese Lil Rob
With the homeboy, Frost
My homegirl, Diamonique
Puttin' that shit down
Chicano style
You know
Yeah
San Diego to East Los (That's right)
From the west to the east coast
Yeah
Put it down for the brown, ese
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And Relevance Is All About the ContextIf we are going to talk about school reform designed to create meaningful education, we need to look at education within the context of the individual, her community, history, and the planet. And hopefully with as much sophistication as each context demands.
Today’s education reform narrative is filled with buzz words that are meant to capture the majority of perceived issues we need to address in schools. Most are about making today’s learners competitive in tomorrow’s job market. None does this better than “21st century skills.” I actually have little issue with “21st century skills.” It’s the common context and application that is more worthy of critique. They fail to appreciate the largest possible context within which education needs to be understood to be relevant.
“21st century skills” are birthed from the perspective that the function of education is to create economically viable products. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills says that their purpose is “to successfully face rigorous higher education coursework, career challenges and a globally competitive workforce.”
It remains a factory system, where the economically viable products being created are workers. Perhaps the products are a little more sophisticated than they were a century ago, just like the iPhone is a little more sophisticated than the rotary phone. But they are still fundamentally things severed from a larger holistic view.
Just like manufacturing products like the iPhone have environmental impacts, or “externalities,” that are not reflected in the price of the product, the education system has effects on students and the world that are often seen as outside the scope of public education. Accounting for the whole child as a human being living in a complex world is not common practice in the public education system.
We have no time to continue choosing to wear blinders because its convenient. Let’s look at the real picture of what it means to live in the world today.
Humans have fundamentally altered the planet that is our one and only home. We are pushing the planet’s life systems to the brink of shutting down. We have not known a day of peace globally in…have we ever? Slavery continues. An obesity epidemic is spreading while more people than ever are starving. The modern economic system is collapsing. Families are falling apart and more and more children are at a disadvantage to develop healthily.
So while we are talking about evaluating teacher effectiveness based on common standards that are intentioned to embody 21st century skills, we’re just having the wrong conversation. It’s simply not the most relevant conversation we need to be having. It’s not relevant because we are defining success in the wrong context.
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people,” writes David Orr in The Earth in Mind. “But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”
So what would be relevant? Educational experiences designed with and around students to understand themselves, their communities, and the planet. In the end 21st Century Skills would be gained, but through personally and collectively meaningful experiences that allow students to develop these skills through projects based on their passions and interests and in collaboration with others in their community–store owners, social service agencies, scientists, artists, etc. Humane education and systems thinking would be intrinsic to this kind of learning as it is designed to address the largest issues we face today.
Perhaps most fundamentally, education that is relevant is led by mentors who have developed a quality of wholeness in their own perspectives and lives. As a mentor said to me “a fractured world cannot be healed by fractured people.” Wholeness is achieved through ecological thinking as a process and extension of character development.
And so when we are talking about real education–meaningful education–let’s be sure to be talking in the largest and most comprehensive context possible. The problem is not inventing the next iPhone. The problem is how to develop a sustainable, just, and peaceful world. We need to worry less about being competitive for the Ivy-league schools and more about graduating solutionaries as Zoe Weil calls them.
When our graduates resemble the TED Fellows we’ll know we’re on the right path.
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Summary: H.R.2019 — 115th Congress (2017-2018)All Information (Except Text)
Shown Here:
Introduced in House (04/06/2017)
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to specify that, for the purpose of a health savings account, an abortion is not a qualified medical expense unless: (1) the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest; or (2) the woman suffers from a physical disorder, injury, or illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.
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Automath is a language designed by N.G. the Bruijn in the late sixties in order to represent mathematical proof in the computer. It's the direct ancestor of the "type theoretical" line of proof assistants from which the better known current ones are Nuprl and Coq.
This web page is the home of a modern reimplementation of Automath by Freek Wiedijk. It presents a portable, simple and fast checker (which is written in C) for the AUT-68 and AUT-QE languages.
The current version of the program is version 4.2. But because the manual describes version 4.1, that one is here too (although it hardly differs from the latest version: the main difference being that the new version can compile a Automath text to a "single line" representation.) Both are gzipped tar files containing a bunch of C files. Compile them all together and you have a program that reads Automath from its input and prints diagnostics about it to its output.
There's not enough documentation about this Automath implementation: for instance there's no Unix-style man page yet. All that currently exists is a short paper called A Nice and Accurate Checker for the Mathematical Language Automath (clicking this link will download a postscript file; there is a PDF version too) which contains the manual of version 4.1 of the system.
The largest Automath text that was written in the seventies was Jutting's translation of Landau's Grundlagen der Analysis (this link gives a gzipped tar file with both a plain TeX version of Landau's book as well as Jutting's translation.)
There are three main differences between Automath and the "modern" systems that have been derived from it:
In the modern systems a proof object is generated by the user interactively invoking so-called "tactics". In Automath all proof terms have to be "coded" by hand. This means that Automath has no automation, but that on the other hand in Automath proofs are more explicit. (The Half system is an interesting attempt to compromise between these two worlds.)
Automath has no "inductive types". This means that the basic types that in the modern systems are built from inductive types have to be introduced axiomatically in Automath. So, because the logic of Automath has less "datatypes" built-in, in Automath the use of axioms at the start of a proof development is unavoidable.
This in its turn causes that in Automath generally people are less inclined to stay within the constructive logic built into the system. The big proof developments that were created in the Automath project from the seventies all used classical logic.
The type theory on which Automath is based is subtly different from the "modern" type theories that are based on the "calculus of constructions" (with its fine structure as given by the Barendregt cube.)
To be specific: suppose that in some context
x : D
we have an expression f(x) that has type R(x) that in its turn has some type T(x), so that we have
f(x) : R(x) : T(x)
(actually, the variable x won't occur in the "kind" T(x), so we could just write "T".) Then in the modern systems we have
[x:D]f(x) : (x:D)R(x) : T(x)
(in which the "[x]" should be read as "lambda x" and the "(x)" as "Pi x".) However, in the Automath system we'd have
[x:D]f(x) : [x:D]R(x) : [x:D]T(x)
In some way the Automath "" abstractor generalizes both the lambda and Pi abstractors. Or conversely, the lambda an Pi could be seen as the first two stages of the Automath "". (Actually, in the Aut-QE language there is something called "type inclusion" which means that there the typing
[x:D]R(x) : T(x)
is also allowed, muddling this distinction between the "old" and the "new" ways of typing a lambda abstraction.)
(last modification 1999-09-29)
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I think the equation for the relationship of the E (electrical) and B (magnetic) fields in electromagnetic (EM) radiation is E=Bc, where c is the speed of light. I think this is correct, but what does it tell us? On it's face, it looks as though the B field (of a photon, say) is 1/300,000,000th the strength of the E field. Is this not correct? Why, then, do we see these diagrams of the EM propagation of say, light, where the proportion of the E and B field appear to be equal? According to that equation, the size of the B field would be almost negligible. So why am I seeing blue lines on this diagram? I've heard it both ways, though: 1) that the B field is, indeed, much smaller than than the E field in EM radiation, and 2) that they are actually the exact same in field strength. I can spend some valuable time searching for the references but it's going to cost you if you make me do that I think the counter-argument is that you can just set the speed of light to 1 and then the equation just becomes E=B? Its that simple? And perhaps this is the case because EM radiation is relativistic, and always travels at c so therefore we should set c to one here? Or is this bad logic? In any case, what is the answer? Are the strengths of the E and B fields identical in a traveling EM wave or is the E field much stronger than the B field?
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As a woman, learning to navigate hormonal imbalance, understand the ups and downs of estrogen levels and live with the side effects of menopause are all a part of the journey. Now, in addition to mood swings and hot flashes, there is another condition that has been linked to menopause. If you or a loved one has ever complained of memory lapse during menopause, research confirms there is now scientific evidence to back it up, according to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Study Finds That 'Brain Fog' Is Real
A collaborative study by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School led to confirmation that a woman's reproductive stage is linked with lapses in memory, reported the IFGO. In an analysis that was originally of 200 males and females between the ages of 45 and 55, it was found that the dip in hormone levels that occurs during menopause is linked to changes in the functioning of both the brain and memory, which can cause temporary forgetfulness.
"We set out to study cognitive ageing from a women's health perspective," said lead author Dr. Emily Jacobs. "One of the most profound hormonal changes in a woman's life is the transition to menopause. By shifting our focus to this midlife period, we detected early changes in memory circuitry that are evident decades before the age range traditionally targeted by cognitive neuroscience studies on ageing."
A Change in Estrogen Levels
Estrogen levels, which cause other common symptoms and side effects of menopause, were the central factor in identifying complications with recollection, reported Newsmax Health. One of the primary forms of estrogen, estradiol is related to an area of memory function in the brain called the hippocampus. By asking study participants to take part in various learning and recall tasks, the researchers concluded that females with decreased levels of estradiol did not perform as well as their counterparts. While participants were performing these tasks, MRI scans also tracked signals in the brain.
The lower the levels of estradiol were, the more significant the changes in cognitive activity recorded and thus, memory recall, were. Research showed that brain function patterns were similar among premenopausal women and menopausal women, while the cognitive activity of postmenopausal women was different. In addition to a heightened forgetfulness,"brain fog," as researchers like to call it, also encompasses difficulty in thinking clearly and trouble focusing, noted Newsmax Health.
Relieve Symptoms Naturally
However, there was an outlier to this general consensus: Close to 33 percent of women who had the highest scores on the tasks were in post menopause and also had low levels of estradiol. Further research is needed to fully understand why. However, researchers hypothesized that it may have to do with how estrogen is used by the body or the cognitive exercise levels of an individual over the years, reported Newsmax Health.
Regardless, concluded the researchers, it's important for women to know that these experiences of forgetfulness and difficulty concentrating are completely normal. If you are looking for ways to reduce symptoms and side effects, consider a diet rich in primarily raw, plant-based foods. For those going through menopause looking for additional natural relief, Hallelujah Diet's Luminology Breeze supplement can aid in naturally restoring hormonal balance, thus helping to alleviate symptoms including brain fog.
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From reddit r/relationship_advice:
Not OP, but I (f) had MG last year. I had no symptoms from it for at least a few months, but my partner (m) did. So we had the opposite of the norm. The way my doctor explained it to me is that sometimes when having sex the bacteria can materialize through the mixing of fluids and create an imbalance in the natural flora of the vagina. I took the antibiotics just to get rid of the bacteria, and so did he, but it came back whenever me and this same guy had sex. Good thing that didn’t work out because our bodies were basically rejecting each other lol.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , or CBT, is designed to help clients make sense of their overwhelming thought patterns. Most of the time, those suffering from addiction as well as co-occurring disorders like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder do not realize the impact of their thoughts on their behavior.
With CBT, the main goal is to gain insight to an individual’s thoughts. By obtaining this insight, clients begin to replace destructive thoughts with functioning and critical thinking. In CBT, problems are broken down into five main categories:
CBT is different from other therapy methods in a variety of ways, including that it is:
CBT aims to stop negative thought cycles by breaking them down. If thoughts are too negative, they can make an individual feel bad, anxious, or scared. CBT breaks these thoughts down to change the negative thought patterns and make problems more manageable.
This therapy method helps the person understand the dysfunctional thought patterns that are triggered by things beyond their control. The person may experience negative automatic thoughts during these cycles. CBT encourages individuals to step outside of their automatic thoughts and test them out. By experiencing a more realistic perspective, patients are able to correct misinterpretations.
Cognitive behavioral therapy’s highly structured approach uses a variety of techniques. Each session is focused on attaining certain goals set by the therapist and the client. The collaborative relationship benefits the patient in therapy.
CBT techniques incorporate a number of therapeutic tools. These tools and techniques assist people in evaluating their emotional patterns and states. Common CBT techniques include:
Techniques are used during sessions and as homework for patients to reinforce therapy. When patients use them as homework, they learn how to continue working on their own even after therapy comes to an end. People gradually develop new coping skills to handle their difficulties as well as more positive beliefs and behaviors.
Since every individual is different, some factors make people more likely to benefit from CBT than others. Those with specific issues that impact their quality of life can benefit from CBT. The same applies to people with clearly defined emotional and behavioral concerns. It is used to effectively treat numerous mental conditions, including:
Every person is different and may respond differently to CBT. This therapy type will help you take steps towards coping in a healthy way. By engaging clients in the process of becoming conscious and aware of their thought patterns, clients will learn to consciously shift away from destructive thinking.*
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verb (used without object), bounced, bounc·ing.
verb (used with object), bounced, bounc·ing.
Origin of bounce
Synonyms for bounce
Related Words for bouncerebound, bump, bound, ricochet, jump, leap, hop, carom, heave, throw, vigor, life, zip, give, energy, pep, elasticity, vitality, liveliness, animation
Examples from the Web for bounce
Contemporary Examples of bounce
The whole idea was to be a stone wall and just let everyone else bounce off us.Street Harassment Shouldn’t Be a Crime
October 29, 2014
The gosling's best chance at surviving the jump is to bounce off the cliff on its soft belly.Barnacle Gosling’s Death-Defying Cliff Dive
Alex Chancey, The Daily Beast Video
October 28, 2014
In contrast, word that Ebola might be sexually transmitted would likely bounce very differently.Ebola Might Be Sexually Transmitted
September 4, 2014
After all, with twerking, Cyrus was appropriating the hip-hop dance moves of Southern black women in Bounce music and culture.Miley Cyrus Embraces Activism Like a Stripper Pole and It's Fantastic
August 25, 2014
Ojile likens it to chronic sleep deprivation: An occasional all-nighter is rough, but you bounce back.Can Changing Time Zones Affect Your Health?
June 13, 2014
Historical Examples of bounce
See, I'd get hot and hotter, plase your honour, till I'd bounce!Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10)
The tone in which this was spoken was harsh and stentorian, and almost made me bounce.The Room in the Dragon Volant
J. Sheridan LeFanu
"Bounce our bombs right into the open end of the hangar," Stan said, grinning.A Yankee Flier Over Berlin
Glass is elastic; you know how you can bounce a glass marble.
The mirror is like that plank; it is something that will reflect (bounce) the light directly.
Word Origin for bounce
early 13c., bounsen "to thump, hit," perhaps from Dutch bonzen "to beat, thump," or Low German bunsen, or imitative; sense probably influenced by bound (v.). Sense of "to bounce like a ball" is from 1510s; the rubber check sense is from 1927. Related: Bounced; bouncing.
1520s, "a heavy blow," also "a leap, a rebound" from bounce (v.). In reference to politicians and public opinion polls, by 1996, American English.
In addition to the idioms beginning with bounce
- bounce around
- bounce back
- get the ax (bounce)
- more bounce for the ounce
- that's how the ball bounces
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Xylem and phloem are the vascular tissues that are present in vascular plants like clubmosses, ferns, and angiosperms, etc. They transport food, water, mineral, and other substances from one part of the plant to another. Now let see the pivotal differences between xylem and phloem.
1. Phloem tissues are useful in transporting nutrients from the roots to other parts of the plant
Functions of both xylem and phloem tissues are different from each other. Xylem tissues are accountable for taking water and minerals from the roots to the airborne parts of the plant while phloem takes food, Carbohydrate and other essential supplements from the leaves to the capacity parts and afterwards developing parts of the plant.
2. Xylem forms from dead cells
Both xylem and phloem tissues are formed of two types of cells. Xylem is made up of dead cells other than the Parenchyma cells while Phloem is made up of leaving cells except for phloem fibers.
3. The wall of the phloem is made up of cellulose
The thick cell wall of the xylem is made up of lignin that gives rigidity to the plants while the thin wall of the phloem is made up of cellulose.
4. Xylem tissues moves in one direction
Xylem tissues have a unidirectional pathway as it takes water from the ground or roots to the airborne parts of the plants this is the reason that it only moves in an upward direction. Phloem tissue has a bidirectional pathway as it takes food and other essential elements from the leaves to the storage parts and then from storage part to the growing parts of the plants. It can move in both upward and downward directions.
5. Xylem tissues include xylem fibers
Xylem tissues are comprised of xylem fibers, tracheids, xylem parenchyma, and vessels while Phloem tissues are comprise of sieve tubes, sieve cells, companion cells, Phloem fibers, and Phloem Parenchyma.
6. Phloem cells have cytoplasm
There is no cytoplasm in the xylem cells while Phloem cells have a cytoplasm that goes through the holes in the sieve tube from one cell to the other one.
7. Xylem offers mechanical strength
Apart from conduction, xylem provides mechanical strength to plant that helps them to stand in the time of stress. Phloem does not provide any mechanical strength to plants.
8. The conducting channels in phloem tissues are sieve tubes
The conducting channels and treachery elements in xylem tissues are tracheid and vessels. While in Phloem tissues the conducting channel are the sieve tubes.
9. Phloem is situated outside the vascular bundle
In a vascular bundle, xylem occupies the central position while a phloem positions outside the vascular bundle.
10. Xylem cells are not permeable
The xylem cells are impermeable to water while the phloem cells are permeable to food.
11. Xylem cells are star-like in shape
Xylem is like the shape of a star while Phloem is not like a star shape.
12. Greater part of mature plants are Xylem
In mature plants, xylem occupies a large volume of the plant body while phloem occupies a small proportion of mature plant body.
Xylem and phloem are both the types of vascular tissues. The major difference between the xylem and phloem is in the transport material by each of the vascular tissues. This transportation occurs in the xylem in passive mode while in phloem it occurs in active mode.
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(from subreddit Advice)
Like you said, this decision is your own. You don’t owe the manager the answer they desire and if they value you enough to give you this job, they will understand you setting a boundary that it’s not good for you.
However, I will say in my time in retail I realized that if this is a larger store, you can not mess up. The system is set up so you can’t do anything too bad and if you did mess up a little you get a little talk and the store takes the hit. So long as you do your best you would be amazing at it. It doesn’t technically matter if the customers really love you but if you’re kind and trying your best they will. If they do complain the manager will know you and your character enough to know it’s a baseless complaint.
If you want to do this, I feel based on this you would be fine. However you do not have to feel like you have to want it because the manager wants it for you. Just because you would be good at it doesn’t mean you would like it or that you should feel pressured to take it if you don’t want to. Retail is pushy. The day I learned to tell them no was liberating.
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IELTS Writing Task 2 Sample 13
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Motorways help people travel quickly and cover long distances but they also cause problems. What are the problems of motorways and what solutions are there?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
Many countries in the world rely on motorways for speedy and efficient transportation, as they are a very convenient way of travelling long distances. However, motorways also have negative aspects such as dangerous traffic, damage to the environment and pollution. In this essay, I will look at some of the problems of motorways and how they can be overcome.
One major problem of motorways is that they can be dangerous. In many countries, the speed limit on motorways is very high. This means that any accidents are more likely to be serious and involve many vehicles. Sometimes in bad weather, several vehicles crash into each other and many people are killed or injured. This problem could be solved in a number of ways. People could have special lessons on how to drive safely on motorways. In addition, special signs could be displayed when driving conditions are bad to make people drive more slowly and safely. Alternatively, the general speed limit could be reduced slightly.
Secondly, motorways can spoil the environment. Motorways often go through beautiful areas and may damage plants and wildlife. This problem could be avoided by building motorways through less beautiful areas or putting some sections in tunnels. In addition, the large amount of traffic on motorways produces both air pollution and noise pollution. However, governments could help to reduce air pollution by making environmentally-friendly cars cheaper. Noise pollution could be reduced by changing motorway surfaces or by putting up sound-proof fences.
Despite the problems of motorways, they are necessary and useful. With careful preparation and planning, the problems they cause could be reduced. People today are also more aware of environmental issues and as a result cars and road transport in general are becoming more environmentally friendly.
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The main purpose of this product is for students to take on the role of either defender or prosecutor of the main villain from one of the literary classics listed below. Using the resources supplied here they can investigate the book for textual evidence that will support claims that the character has or has not carried out any crimes or villainy and then, either on paper or in the classroom, engage in a mock trial to demonstrate their persuasive argument skills.
The works covered are;
• The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Sherlock Holmes – The Adventure of the Final Problem
• Oliver Twist
There several different sets of materials that can be utilized with the novels I have included. They can be used alone or in combination. These are;
1. A PDF slideshow to introduce the characters from the novels and elicit knowledge of their ‘villainy’.
2. A set of ‘Wanted Posters’ in color and black and white for the characters; The Monster, Mr. Edward Hyde, Count Dracula, Captain Nemo, Professor James Moriarty and Bill Sikes.
3. A set of ‘rap sheets’ in color and black and white containing picture and background information relating to the history and alleged crimes of the same characters.
4. The same ‘rap sheets’ without the background information.
5. Student explanation print outlining the type of information they need to find for the purposes of the lesson.
6. A student note taking print.
7. A student writing print for making either a character analysis or a persuasive essay.
8. Teacher Notes print.
These materials can be used with the actual books, targeted chapters, graded readers, or movies based on the works. As they are PDF files they can also be opened in most note taking apps on teacher and student iPads.
If you don't have access to these books, free versions of all of these can be found at the link below. They are all in the public domain and can be downloaded in a variety of formats including PDF, ePub, Kindle and others.
Other resources you might find useful include;
Murder Mystery - Video Based Interactive Detective Story
The Raven-Comic Book
The Tell Tale Heart-Comic Book
Classic Literature Villains - Textual Evidence Activities
by Paul Carr (kibishipaul)
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒfən/, enPR: sŏf′en
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɔfən/, enPR: sôf′en
- (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈsɑfən/, enPR: sŏf′en
Audio (US) (file)
- (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
- Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
- (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
- Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
- (transitive) To make less harsh
- Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
2015 February 7, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I soften a brick wall with plants?”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G7:
- I have recently reclad the south-west facing side of my single-storey cottage […] . I now want to plant some climbers of more manageable proportions to soften the building.
- (intransitive) To become soft or softer
- The butter softened as it warmed up.
(transitive) To make something soft or softer
(transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up)
(transitive) To make less harsh
(intransitive) To become soft or softer
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Welcome to OOPS interview questions and answers. There are many Object Oriented Programming languages such as Java, C++ and Python. Having a clear idea about OOPS concepts is very important if you are going to face any interview on these programming languages. That’s why I thought to share the top OOPS interview questions with you and provide detailed answers for them.
Object Oriented Programming System is the programming technique to write programs based on the real world objects. The states and behaviors of an object are represented as the member variables and methods. In OOPS programming programs are organized around objects and data rather than actions and logic.
Major advantages of OOPS programming are;
OOPS core concepts are;
Abstraction is an OOPS concept to construct the structure of the real world objects. During this construction only the general states and behaviors are taken and more specific states and behaviors are left aside for the implementers.
Encapsulation is an OOPS concept to create and define the permissions and restrictions of an object and its member variables and methods. A very simple example to explain the concept is to make the member variables of a class private and providing public getter and setter methods. Java provides four types of access level modifiers: public, protected, no modifier and private.
Polymorphism is the occurrence of something in various forms. Java supports various forms of polymorphism like polymorphic reference variables, polymorphic method, polymorphic return types and polymorphic argument types.
A subclass can inherit the states and behaviors of it’s super class is known as inheritance.
A child class inheriting states and behaviors from multiple parent classes is known as multiple inheritance.
In case of multiple inheritance, suppose class A has two subclasses B and C, and a class D has two super classes B and C.If a method present in A is overridden by both B and C but not by D then from which class D will inherit that method B or C? This problem is known as diamond problem.
Java was designed to be a simple language and multiple inheritance introduces complexities like diamond problem. Inheriting states or behaviors from two different type of classes is a case which in reality very rare and it can be achieved easily through an object association.
Static or early binding is resolved at compile time. Method overloading is an example of static binding. Dynamic or late or virtual binding is resolved at run time. Method overriding is an example of dynamic binding.
"IS-A" relationship implies inheritance. A sub class object is said to have "IS-A" relationship with the super class or interface. If class A extends B then A "IS-A" B. It is transitive, that is, if class A extends B and class B extends C then A "IS-A" C. The "instanceof" operator in java determines the "IS-A" relationship. When a class A has a member reference variable of type B then A "HAS-A" B. It is also known as Aggregation.
Association is a relationship between two objects with multiplicity.
Aggregation is also known as "HAS-A" relationship. When class Car has a member reference variable of type Wheel then the relationship between the classes Car and Wheel is known as Aggregation. Aggregation can be understood as "whole to its parts" relationship. Car is the whole and Wheel is part. Wheel can exist without the Car. Aggregation is a weak association.
Composition is a special form of Aggregation where the part cannot exist without the whole. Composition is a strong Association. Composition relationship is represented like aggregation with one difference that the diamond shape is filled.
When one class depends on another because it uses that at some point in time then this relationship is known as Dependency. One class depends on another if the independent class is a parameter variable or local variable of a method of the dependent class. A Dependency is drawn as a dotted line from the dependent class to the independent class with an open arrowhead pointing to the independent class.
The main difference between Association and Dependency is in case of Association one class has an attribute or member variable of the other class type but in case of Dependency a method takes an argument of the other class type or a method has a local variable of the other class type.
A class is the specification or template of an object.
Object is instance of class.
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This gives us OOP concepts deeply. Thank you for this post.
- Surabhi v
Nice and easy way of explaining OOP concepts.
- sunil Naique
very easy and understandable about oops concepts .Thank you.
- Pravin Rathod
Well explained topics, helped me!
Nice explanation It’s really helpful but I would recommend that if examples are also given then it’s easy to relate with programming.
- Raju Sharma
I have a perfect concept and topic to easy a learn and easy to understand
Thanks sir, you helped me to prepare for interview.
- Saddam Hussain
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<issue_start>Title: 编辑用户资料时出现错误 slim application error
user0: 请将 [ ] 替换为 [x] 。Please relpace [ ] with [x] .
- [x] 我已知晓并同意，如果我不遵循以下格式提交 issue，或者我使用的并非最新版本的 SSPanel UIM，或者我没有提供足够的信息，或者我没有选中这些框，则我的 issue 将会被无条件关闭和锁定。 I acknowledge if I don't follow the format below, or I'm on an old commit, or I fail to provide sufficient information, or I don't check these box, my issue could be closed without any notice.
- [x] 我已确认我已经阅读过使用文档、Wiki，并在 issue 列表中查找相似的问题。I certify that I have read project Wiki and other issue may related to this one.
- [x] 我已知晓并同意，如果我不同意上述条件却仍然提交 issue，或即使同意上述条件但在提交 issue 时不按照条件执行，我的 issue 可被 SSPanel UIM 维护团队视为 spam、并在必要时会被举报到 GitHub。 I acknowledge if I disagree with the conditions above but still submit a issue, or if I agree conditions above but do not follow them when submitting a issue, my issue could be considered as spam by the SSPanel UIM maintenance team, and might be reported to GitHub if necessary.
**Environment 环境**
Centos7，mysql5.7，php7.3，nginx1.17.9
**Commit**
The commit you on. 你当前的 SSPanel UIM 位于哪条 commit。
**Bug**
用户编辑出现错误，并无法编辑
**Reproduce**
在管理面板，找到任意用户，点：编辑
**Logs**
Slim Application Error
The application could not run because of the following error:
Details
Type: TypeError
Message: Return value of App\Models\User::last_detect_ban_time() must be of the type string, null returned
File: /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/src/Models/User.php
Line: 507
Trace
#0 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/storage/framework/smarty/compile/be8d8e7768a830fd6728631b02bd18409f0835dc_0.file.edit.tpl.php(131): App\Models\User->last_detect_ban_time()
#1 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_template_resource_base.php(123): content_5e715a0c55c090_84383820(Object(Smarty_Internal_Template))
#2 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_template_compiled.php(114): Smarty_Template_Resource_Base->getRenderedTemplateCode(Object(Smarty_Internal_Template))
#3 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_template.php(216): Smarty_Template_Compiled->render(Object(Smarty_Internal_Template))
#4 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php(232): Smarty_Internal_Template->render(false, 1)
#5 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/smarty/smarty/libs/sysplugins/smarty_internal_templatebase.php(134): Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase->_execute(Object(Smarty_Internal_Template), NULL, NULL, NULL, 1)
#6 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/src/Controllers/Admin/UserController.php(309): Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase->display('admin/user/edit...')
#7 [internal function]: App\Controllers\Admin\UserController->edit(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#8 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Handlers/Strategies/RequestResponse.php(40): call_user_func(Array, Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#9 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Route.php(281): Slim\Handlers\Strategies\RequestResponse->__invoke(Array, Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Array)
#10 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/src/Middleware/Admin.php(25): Slim\Route->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#11 [internal function]: App\Middleware\Admin->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\Route))
#12 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/DeferredCallable.php(57): call_user_func_array(Object(App\Middleware\Admin), Array)
#13 [internal function]: Slim\DeferredCallable->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\Route))
#14 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(70): call_user_func(Object(Slim\DeferredCallable), Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\Route))
#15 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(117): Slim\Route->Slim\{closure}(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#16 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/Route.php(268): Slim\Route->callMiddlewareStack(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#17 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(503): Slim\Route->run(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#18 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/zeuxisoo/slim-whoops/src/Zeuxisoo/Whoops/Provider/Slim/WhoopsMiddleware.php(70): Slim\App->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#19 [internal function]: Zeuxisoo\Whoops\Provider\Slim\WhoopsMiddleware->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\App))
#20 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/DeferredCallable.php(57): call_user_func_array(Object(Zeuxisoo\Whoops\Provider\Slim\WhoopsMiddleware), Array)
#21 [internal function]: Slim\DeferredCallable->__invoke(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\App))
#22 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(70): call_user_func(Object(Slim\DeferredCallable), Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response), Object(Slim\App))
#23 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/MiddlewareAwareTrait.php(117): Slim\App->Slim\{closure}(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#24 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(392): Slim\App->callMiddlewareStack(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#25 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/vendor/slim/slim/Slim/App.php(297): Slim\App->process(Object(Slim\Http\Request), Object(Slim\Http\Response))
#26 /www/wwwroot/xxxxxxx.com/public/index.php(34): Slim\App->run()
#27 {main}
user1: @user2
user2: php xcat update
@user0 <https://wiki.sspanel.host/#/update>
user3: @user0 说明您在 `php xcat update` 中发生了异常
### 您可查看
- **user** 表结构是否有 **last_detect_ban_time** 以及 **all_detect_number** 字段
- 并且是否存在 **[detect_ban_log](https://github.com/username_1/SSPanel-Uim/blob/dev/sql/detect_ban_log.sql)**、**[gconfig](https://github.com/username_1/SSPanel-Uim/blob/dev/sql/gconfig.sql)**、**[telegram_tasks](https://github.com/username_1/SSPanel-Uim/blob/dev/sql/telegram_tasks.sql)**、**[user_subscribe_log](https://github.com/username_1/SSPanel-Uim/blob/dev/sql/user_subscribe_log.sql)** 表
- 并且 **detect_log** 表结构中是否存在 **[status](https://github.com/username_1/SSPanel-Uim/blob/dev/sql/glzjin_all.sql#L776)** 字段
- 是否进行过 #918
不存在的请前往 sql 目录下手动导入对应
user4: tg bot关掉试试
user0: 该问题已经解决了，一直是外挂数据库，没有留意数据库增添了很多内容，结构同步之后，问题已经解决了，谢谢2位大佬的帮忙~~
@user2 @user1<issue_closed>
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r/communism:
I wouldn't really say Orwell "showed" much of anything about the USSR, but the book was very revealing about Orwell himself, I think. You're right that he had incomplete information, but even so he didn't exactly write this book as some informed polemic against Stalin et al -- it's more of a caricature. I mean, come on, the thing is written in the style of a children's book. The fact that people hold it up as some kind of meaningful critique of either communism in general or Stalin is absurd to me.
I'm a big fan of Orwell but he was somewhat politically confused and I don't know if even he had a clear idea of what he was trying to present with his simplistic parody. My idea is that it's more of an emotional reaction to his bad experience with "Stalinists" in Spain.
I think AF, even if not intended as such, is essentially an allegory for the "failure" and "betrayal" of Orwell's own "idealistic" type of leftism in Spain rather than the "failure" or "betrayal" of communism. As such says very little about either the actual events in Russia or communism in general. Orwell was always a such a deeply personal, emotional writer and AF, despite the political symbolism, is no deviation from that.
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(from reddit r/IAmA)
We publish a "z/OS Communications Server Performance Index" (which can be found at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27005524 ) that provides performance data on a variety of CS functions. However, we have not published a white paper with a collection of tuning advice such as the one you link here. Doing so would be a good idea, especially given some of the new tuning parameters that will be provided in V2R1, so we will take that as a suggestion for something to consider in the future.
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<issue_start>Title: Support Structured properties
user0: Properties coming from the TNC-O Resource manager are being updated to include types of Lists, Maps, Integers, Floats, Booleans and Timestamps rather than just Strings so the driver needs to support these same kinds of structured properties.<issue_closed>
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Love, as it has been said, is a many splendid thing. It is something so simple and beautiful we all seek its possession, yet its complexities astound the most able of philosophers. It cannot be adequately defined, yet as a topic it is one that is most written about, talked about, and sung about.
Love: Elusive, Yet Essential
History is replete with poets, kings, priests and peasants chasing after love, often discovering its elusiveness…yet something so sought after is too often something that cannot be grasped.
Elusive as love can be sometimes, there is however one love affair we must all have. And that is a love affair with the Creator, our Maker and Redeemer. Proverbs provide us with some wisdom of love, Psalms speak of God's great love and the greatest of commandments is to Love God. That which defies definition appears as one of the greatest of commandments...
...to love God and to love your neighbour.
Going Deeper... What Does "With All Your Strength" Mean?
The Most Important Commandment?
When asked the question, "What is the most important commandment?" Yeshua replies with the Sh’ma recorded in Deuteronomy 6:4-5:
Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. Love God with all your Heart, Soul, and Strength.
It should be immediately noted that this is an imperative, not a suggestion.
Commanded to Love
We are commanded to Love, thereby indicating we have a choice in the matter.
The choice either to obey or not to obey what has been commanded. Love, according to the Bible, is a choice. Love is not an emotion nor is it something that you fall into without freewill. That’s something else. Lust is an emotion, but Love is a command from the Lord. Technically then, you can love anyone, even as Jesus says, our enemies.
What Did "Strength" Mean to First Century Jews?
We are commanded to Love God with all our Heart, Soul and Strength. It is usually obvious to see a connection between Love and the Heart, perhaps even with Love and the Soul, but what is the meaning of Strength? How do I love God with my strength?
What did Strength mean to 1st Century Jews?
Here the Targums help. Targums are Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible. Most people spoke a vernacular Aramaic over a Hebrew for everyday language in 1st Century Israel. Aramaic became dominate after the return from Babylon. While Hebrew did remain in use, it was not the most common tongue. Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible were read aloud after a reading of the Hebrew version in a synagogue.
The first recording of this taking place occurs in the book of Ezra, following the return under the Decree of Cyrus. One such Aramaic translation is called the Targum of Onkelos. The Targum of Onkelos translates Deuteronomy 6:4-5 as .. 'you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your property.'
Love with everything we have?
Strength, therefore, to the hearer in the First Century meant your property.
Your strength was everything you have - your time, your spouse, your money, your house and possessions. How will you love the Lord your God? You will love God with everything you have and you will hold nothing back.
And this is a choice we have to make as we respond to the Command of the Lord. Will we indeed love God in this way? Or will we choose something else?
Ready for further study? Return to the Resources page.
Thanks, Aaron. I was exploring the Yeshiva site and will continue to do so. I do appreciate the discussion of the meaning of the Hebrew or Aramaic words that clarify the Biblical text.
Interesting questions towards the end. I don't think it's humanly possible to love God fully with everything we have. At least not on our own. We always retain or hold back something. To love fully starts indeed with a choice and surrender to in this case His command to love. Personally I believe God Himself instills Love in us for Him, through His Spirit. But it's a process and coincides with the second but equal part "Love neighbour...as yourself" To answer your questions, I try, fail, learn and (hopefully) love better.
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
New Domestic Organism Genome: The Sugar Beet
This Nature paper announces the genome sequence of the sugar beet, a domestic crop that provides ~30% of the world’s sugar. The completed sequence was ~567Mb with over 27,000 predicted genes and 3,000 predicted ncRNAs. The researchers used a combination of 454 and Illumina platforms, as well as Sanger sequencing. The functional categories of defense and response to stress were enriched among gene families showing gain and loss. Resequencing of the genomes of several other sugar beet specimens revealed large “variation deserts,” most likely reflecting domestication.
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The Triumph Motor Company had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863-1951) and Moritz (Maurice) Schulte from Germany founded Bettmann & Co and started selling Triumph bicycles, from premises in London and from 1889 started making his own machines in Coventry, England.
The Triumph Cycle Company
From bicycles, the Triumph Cycle Co. Ltd., as the company was named in 1897 , branched out in 1902 into making Triumph motor cycles at their works in Much Park Street. At first these used bought-in engines but the business took off and they soon started making their own and in 1907 expanded into a new factory in Priory Street taking over the premises of a spinning mill. Major orders for the 550 cc Model H came from the British Army during World War 1 and by 1918 they were Britain's largest motor cycle maker.
In 1921, Bettmann was persuaded by his general manager Claude Holbrook (1886-1979), who had joined the company in 1919, to acquire the assets and Clay Lane premises of the Dawson Car Company and start producing a 1.4 litre model called the Triumph 10/20 which was actually designed for them by Lea-Francis to whom they paid a royalty for every car sold. Production of this car and its immediate successors was on a moderate scale but this changed with the introduction in 1927 of the Triumph Super 7 which sold in large numbers through to 1934.
In 1930 the company changed its name to the Triumph Motor Company. It was clear to Holbrook that there was no future in pursuing the mass manufacturers and so decided to take the company upmarket with the Southern Cross and Gloria ranges. At first these used engines made by Triumph but designed by Coventry Climax but from 1937 they started to make them to their own designs by Donald Healey who had become the company’s Experimental Manager in 1934.
The company hit financial problems however and in 1936 the Triumph bicycle and motorcycle businesses were sold, the latter to Jack Sangster of Ariel to become Triumph Engineering Co. Ltd. . Healey purchased an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and developed an ambitious new car with an Alfa inspired Straight-8 engine called the Triumph Dolomite. However the eight-cylinder engine was not used in the production car with the same name.
In July 1939, the Triumph Motor Company went into receivership and the factory, equipment and goodwill were offered for sale. T.W. Ward purchased the company and placed Healey in charge as general manager, but the effects of World War II again stopped the production of cars and the Priory Street works was completely destroyed by bombing in 1940.
In November 1944 what was left of the Triumph Motor Company and the Triumph brand name was bought by the Standard Motor Company and a subsidiary "Triumph Motor Company (1945) Limited" was formed with production transferred to Standard's factory at Canley, on the outskirts of Coventry. The pre-war models were not revived and in 1946 a new range of Triumphs starting with the Triumph Roadster was announced. Because of steel shortages these were bodied in aluminium which was plentiful because of its use in aircraft production. The same engine was used in the 1800 Town and Country saloon, later named the Triumph Renown, which was notable for the razor-edge styling chosen by Standard-Triumph's managing director Sir John Black. A similar style was also used on the subsequent Triumph Mayflower light saloon. All three of these models prominently sported the "globe" badge that had been used on pre-war models. When Sir John was forced to retire from the company this range of cars was discontinued without being directly replaced.
In the early 1950s it was decided to use the Triumph name on sporting cars and the Standard name on saloons and in 1953 the Triumph TR2 was launched, the first of a series that would run through to 1981. Curiously the TR2 wore a Standard badge on its nose and the Triumph globe on its hubcaps.
Standard had been making a range of small saloons called the Standard Eight and Ten and had been working on a replacement for these. The success of the TR range meant that Triumph was seen as a more marketable name than Standard and the new car was launched in 1959 as the Triumph Herald; the last Standard car to be made in the UK was replaced in 1963 by the Triumph 2000 .
In December 1960 the company was bought by Leyland Motors Ltd with Donald Stokes becoming chairman of the Standard Triumph division in 1963. Further mergers led to the formation of British Leyland Motor Corporation in 1968.
In the 1960s and 1970s, Triumph sold a succession of Michelotti-styled saloons and sports cars, including the advanced Dolomite Sprint, which, in 1973, already had a 16-valve four cylinder engine. It is alleged that many Triumphs of this era were unreliable, especially the 2.5 PI with its fuel injection problems. In Australia, the summer heat caused petrol in the electric fuel pump to vapourise, resulting in frequent breakdowns of the 2.5 PI and TR6 models. While the injection system had proved itself in international competition, it did lack altitude compensation for the adjustment of mixture at altitudes greater than 3000 ft (1000 m) above sea level. The key reason for the Lucas system's unpopularity, was that Lucas was not inclined to further develop it on the one hand allied to the unwillingness of Standard-Triumph dealers to attend factory and field-based training courses dedicated to this propulsion method.
For most of its time under Leyland or BL ownership the Triumph marque belonged in the Specialist Division of the company which went under the names of Rover Triumph and later Jaguar Rover Triumph apart from a brief period in the mid 1970s when all BL's car marques or brands were grouped together under the name of Leyland Cars.
The only all-new Triumph model launched under Rover Triumph was the TR7, which had the misfortune to be in production successively at three factories that were closed - Speke, the Leyland-era Standard-Triumph works in Liverpool, the original Standard works at Canley, Coventry and finally the Rover works in Solihull. The four-cylinder TR7, its eight-cylindered derivative the TR8, and its still-born fastback variant the Lynx, were dropped when the Solihull plant ceased making road-going cars (the plant continues to build Land Rovers.)
The last Triumph model was the Acclaim which was launched in 1981 and was essentially a rebadged Honda Ballade built under licence from Japanese company Honda at the former Morris works in Cowley, Oxford. The Triumph name disappeared in 1984, when the Acclaim was replaced by the Rover 200, which was a rebadged version of Honda's next generation Civic/Ballade model. The BL car division was by then called Austin Rover Group which also sounded the death knell for the Morris marque as well as Triumph.
The trademark is currently owned by BMW, acquired when it bought the Rover Group in 1994. When it sold Rover, it kept the Triumph marque. The Phoenix Consortium, which bought Rover, tried to buy the Triumph brand, but BMW refused, saying that if Phoenix insisted, it would break the deal. The Standard marque was transferred to British Motor Heritage Limited, along with Austin, Morris, and Wolseley marques. The Austin, Morris and Wolseley marques were later sold to MG Rover Group Ltd, on the 10th December 2003. The Standard marque is still retained by British Motor Heritage who also have the licence to use the Triumph marque in relation to the sale of spares and support of the existing 'park' of Triumph cars.
The MG marque was sold to Phoenix along with the sale of the Rover brand images and a licence to use the Rover name. The Rover name was later sold to Ford, with Nanjing Automotive gaining the rights to the brand image. The Triumph name has been retained by BMW along with Riley, Rolls-Royce and Mini. In late 2007, Auto Express, on the back of continued rumours that Triumph might return under BMW ownership, ran a story showing an image of what a new version of the TR4 might look like. BMW has not commented officially on this.
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