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Holland America Line Features Robust Canada and New England Cruise Options for Summer and Fall 2015
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 27, 2015 — With 39 cruises throughout Canada and New England in 2015, Holland America Line offers an extensive array of cruises in the region that range from seven to 15 days. The voyages carry guests in elegant comfort aboard ms Eurodam, ms Maasdam or ms Veendam.
Whether exploring the area during the summer when the skies shine blue or in the fall when the leaves put on an incredible display of jewel-toned hues, Canada and New England is perfect for cruising in either season.
"We offer an incredible number of Canada and New England cruises because this in-demand region is rich in culture, history and stunning scenery — making it an ideal cruise destination that's close to home," said Orlando Ashford, president of Holland America Line. "There's something for everyone on these itineraries, whether it's exploring nature, trying local cuisine, antique shopping or visiting historical locales."
Scheduled May through October, the cruises depart from Boston, Mass.; Montréal and Québec City, Quebec, Canada; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; and New York City, N.Y., and visit some of the region's most iconic destinations.
Idyllic Summer Climate and Seven-day Cruise Options Perfect for Family Vacation
Maasdam begins the season with a 15-day northbound cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Montréal departing May 1, 2015, that includes scenic cruising in the Saguenay Fjord.
From May 16 through the Oct. 10 departure, Maasdam offers 22 seven-day sailings between Montréal and Boston, featuring scenic cruising in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the St. Lawrence River.
Maasdam concludes the season with a 13-day coastal sailing departing Oct. 17 from Montréal to Fort Lauderdale. Guests can take in the beautiful landscape at peak fall foliage time on scenic cruising along the St. Lawrence River, Saguenay Fjord and Gaspé Bay. Guests also can choose a 10-day option to sail from Montréal to New York.
Bermuda Collectors' Voyages and between Quebec and Boston
Veendam kicks off its Canada and New England season with a 14-day Bermuda and Canada/New England Collectors' Voyage departing Boston May 9, 2015. Highlights include three full nights at Hamilton, Bermuda, and an overnight at Quebec City. This itinerary also is offered in June and July, as well as the reverse route from Quebec City to Boston in May and June.
From May 16 through the Oct. 10 departure, Veendam sails 12 seven-day cruises between Québec City and Boston. These sailings include scenic cruising in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and an overnight at Québec City.
For seven-day Maasdam and Veendam itineraries, back-to-back sailings on the same ship can be combined for an extended 14-day roundtrip Collectors' Voyage, allowing extra time ashore to get to know each port better with repeating calls.
Fall Foliage Cruises Bring Region to Life with Nature's Colors
In September and October, during the height of the 2015 fall foliage season, Eurodam will sail a 10-day cruise between New York and Québec City, and a 14-day cruise from Québec City to Fort Lauderdale. Both itineraries include scenic cruising in Saguenay Fjord and an overnight at Quebec City.
Veendam kicks off Sept. with a 7-day Historic Coasts roundtrip Boston cruise departing Aug. 29. Ports feature Portland, Maine, Saint John, New Brunswick and Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia. Maasdam and Veendam also continue with seven-day fall foliage cruise options into October.
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On each Canada and New England cruise, Holland America Line's "On Location" enrichment activities brings local traditions, culinary tastes and cultural experiences to life both onboard and ashore to deepen guests' appreciation of the region.
Guests on a Canada and New England cruise might enjoy a New England clam bake or a "Fiddlin' Flapjack" breakfast, complete with authentic Canadian maple syrup and featuring local Cape Breton Celtic fiddlers. Other activities include regional beer and wine tastings, a Canadian Bar mixology class, cultural cooking demonstrations and a special historical and musical performance featuring the Halifax Citadel Highlander & Bagpiper.
Fares begin at $699 per person, double occupancy. For more information about Canada and New England cruises and Holland America Line, consult a travel professional, call 1-877-SAIL HAL (877-724-5425) or visit www.hollandamerica.com.
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About Holland America Line [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]
Holland America Line's fleet of 15 ships offers more than 500 cruises to 415 ports in 98 countries, territories or dependencies. One- to 110-day itineraries visit all seven continents and highlights include Antarctica, South America, Australia/New Zealand and Asia voyages; four annual Grand World Voyage; and popular sailings to ports in the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Canada/New England, Europe and Panama Canal. The line currently has a new ship on order from Fincantieri shipyard for delivery in February 2016.
Fleetwide, the company features Signature of Excellence enhancements, a commitment totaling more than $500 million, that showcase the Culinary Arts Center presented by Food & Wine magazine — a state-of-the-art onboard show kitchen where more than 60 celebrated guest chefs and culinary experts provide cooking demonstrations and classes — Explorations Café powered by The New York Times, Digital Workshop powered by Windows, teens-only activity areas and all new stateroom amenities highlighted by flat-panel TVs and plush Euro-top Mariner's Dream Beds.
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Spring Clean …Your Pantry
It's spring–yippee–my favorite time of year! I always feel energized to get myself organized and clear out the clutter that has accumulated over the winter months. One particular area I turn my attention to is my kitchen pantry. I typically sort through half eaten cereal boxes or stale crackers, but I also use this as an opportunity to reassess what I've got stocked on my pantry shelves.
I try to avoid most "convenience" foods such as boxed side dishes and stick to making things myself. They taste better, I can add veggies to my versions and I use a lot less salt than the what comes in the box! My goal is to keep some key ingredients on hand so that I can always throw something together at the last minute. Brown rice, whole wheat pasta, oats, whole grain cereal, canned beans, tomato sauce, canned veggies (to add to soups and stews), a variety of seasonings to spice up my meals, olive oil, balsamic and red wine vinegars, chicken broth and canned fruits are the staples in my pantry.
I think you'll be surprised at what you can create when you have the necessary items on hand. Fruits & Veggies–More Matters has a terrific list, The Well-Stocked Pantry, which lists everything you could possibly need for last minute meals. I'll share one of my family's favorite side dishes, Pasta Fagioli (pasta and beans), which is super easy to make and very budget friendly. Enjoy!
Pasta Fagioli
1 3/4 cup ditalini pasta
1 can small white beans, drained
2 large garlic cloves, minced
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
salt to taste (optional)
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley (optional)
Boil ditalini pasta according to package directions. While pasta is cooking, saute garlic in olive oil for a minute, just until tender (be careful because garlic can burn easily). Pour can of tomato sauce into pot and add dried basi (and salt if you choose). Stir and simmer while pasta finishes cooking. Use a soup ladle and drain pasta from cooking water and add to the tomato sauce (it's okay if some of the cooking water gets into the tomato sauce, this will help thicken it). Add canned beans and parsley. Heat through and serve.
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Aesthetic opinions differ dramatically and, in planning disputes, one property owner's dream is very often anathema to another. That was certainly so in one case in which the Court of Appeal opened the way for the demolition and replacement of a £4.75 million mews house despite a neighbour's determined objections.
The house had in the past been used as offices and, latterly, for storage purposes. It had a tortuous planning history but a developer was finally granted consent to change its use to residential and to demolish it and replace it with a luxury new home. A government planning inspector found that the development would enhance the character and appearance of the conservation area in which it stood. It would also have the material benefit of providing an additional family housing unit in an area where such accommodation was scarce.
The owner of an adjoining property successfully challenged the planning permission before the High Court on the basis that the inspector had failed to give adequate weight to the possibility of the property returning to office use.
In allowing the developer's appeal against that ruling, the Court of Appeal noted arguments that if the house reverted to office use it would be worth only about £1.4 million, as compared with the £4.75 million that she had paid for it. There was no real possibility of such a reversion, which would make no commercial or economic sense. The developer's proposals, which did not conflict with local planning policies, stood to be considered on their own merits and that is what the inspector had done. The planning permissions were restored.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — U.S. attorneys in Utah prosecuting a multimillion-dollar opioid drug-ring are moving quickly to sell seized bitcoin that's exploded in value to about $8.5 million since the alleged ringleader's arrest a year ago.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah cites the digital currency's volatility in court documents pressing for the sale. The bitcoin cache was worth less than $500,000 when Aaron Shamo was arrested on drug charges, but the value of the digital currency has skyrocketed since then.
Bitcoin was created as a digital alternative to the traditional banking system, and is prone to swings in value based on what people believe its worth.
For federal prosecutors in Utah, sales of seized assets like cars are routine, but bitcoin is new territory, spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch said Thursday.
Shamo is accused of selling pills containing the powerful opioid fentanyl on the dark web — an area of the internet often used for illegal activity — to thousands of people all over the U.S., at one point raking in $2.8 million in less than a year.
The 500,000-pill bust ranked among the largest of its kind in the country, and authorities also found $1 million of cash stuffed into trash bags.
Shamo has pleaded not guilty to a dozen charges.
The proceeds of the bitcoin sale will be held until the case is resolved, and then decisions will be made about where the money goes, Rydalch said. Seized asset sale proceeds usually goes to the agency that investigated, like the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Defense attorney Greg Skordas is not contesting the sale of his client's bitcoins.
Although there's no global consensus over the status of bitcoin — debate rages whether the virtual money is an asset or a currency — that hasn't stopped officials in the U.S. and elsewhere from cashing in on the digital hauls seized from cybercriminals.
In 2014 the U.S. Marshals Service announced the auction of nearly 30,000 bitcoins seized from notorious dark web drug marketplace Silk Road. Other seizures have since netted the American government millions of dollars in a series of sales.
Other governments — from Australia to South Korea — have set up similar auctions over the years.
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Austrian writer; born at Brody, Galicia, Sept. 19, 1827. At the age of seventeen he went for a year to Bessarabia, and on his return published "Bilder aus Russland und Bessarabien," and made contributions to Wertheimer's "Jahrbuch für Israeliten." After the Vienna revolution in 1848 Herzberg-Fränkel went to the Austrian capital and was employed on Saphir's "Humorist," and then on the "Oesterreichischer Lloyd"; later he became one of the editors of the "Reichszeitung." In 1856 Herzberg-Fränkel was appointed chief clerk of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Brody. For forty years he continued to occupy this post; was then pensioned, and now lives in summer at Teplitz, Bohemia, and in winter at Meran, southern Tyrol, occupying his leisure with literary work. In recognition of his long services as member of the city council, inspector of schools, and president of the musical society, he received from the Emperor of Austria the gold medal of merit, and a special medal of honor for his faithful work in the Chamber of Commerce.
Herzberg-Fränkel's chief publications are: "Die Einsiedlerin auf Louisiana"; "Polnische Juden," 1866 (2d ed., 1877; 3d ed., 1888), which was translated into French, Polish, Russian, and Hebrew; "Geheime Wege," Prague; and "Die Juden in Galizien," 1897, an ethnographical contribution to the "Oesterreich-Ungarn in Wort und Bild," a collective work published under the auspices of the imperial prince Rudolf.


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The Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) launched the Smart Ports initiative that aims to automate operations in Saudi ports, with the presence of Minister of Transport and Logistics, Eng. Saleh bin Nasser Al-Jasser; Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Engineer Abdullah Al-Swaha; President of Saudi Ports Authority, Omar bin Talal Hariri, and representatives of partners in the initiative, which entails a selection of leading Saudi and global companies in the technical and logistical sector.
Mawani signed three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) during the launch ceremony for the Smart Ports initiative, including agreements with (STC), Ericsson and Huawei, the Saudi Global Ports Company (SGP), the Red Sea Gateway Terminal Company (RSGT), and DP World. These agreements aim to make Saudi ports a leader in the application of modern technology, thereby enhancing their competitiveness at the regional and international levels.
Saudi Arabia is stepping up its efforts to strengthen its position as a leader in the logistics sector and will be expanding its capabilities through automation, serving importers and exporters, and providing logistics through the maritime transport sector as part of the latest upgrades. The three agreements focus on accelerating and implementing 5G technology in both the logistics and operation sectors, plus cooperating on infrastructure, cloud computing, cybersecurity, application services, and platform development.
In order to activate innovation, research, and development of emerging technologies, Mawani will work with its partners to generate creative ideas and then develop technical concepts and feasibility studies for feasible ideas that will contribute to the development of new products and solutions to raise the quality of performance of the Saudi ports network.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, the President of Saudi Ports Authority, Omar bin Talal Hariri, said: "Today, Saudi ports are entering a crucial stage of transforming into automated Smart Ports by adopting the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with their advanced applications besides relying on AI technology, IoT and technologies of 5G with the aim of raising the efficiency of the operational performance of Saudi port network and developing the marine transport system to enhance the Kingdom's presence on the global logistics services map."


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I shouldn't have had any cake. It would have been better to field this question on an empty stomach.
Robert said...
The cake sounds tasty, no matter how it may look. I do have a question for you: I've been out of work since April and my employment insurance is about to run out. I am desperatly seeking work, however, have been turned down for every job I've applied for so far. Out of desperation, I applied for a job as a cashier at a local er...adult...novelty...store... I myself am a virgin and plan to remain one until marriage, nor do I really condone the use of such uh...products. But, I really need a job (eviction is imminent) and they are the only company that seems interested in having me as an employee. What should I do? Should I take the job? If I did, would it be concidered a sin to work in such an industry?
The store also sells cakes.
Just not ones I'd eat.
I feel urp-py.
One of the reasons that the Catholic Church emphasizes a happy, happy life in heaven is that often life here on earth is no picnic. We are expected, when life is no picnic, to walk it off and offer it up to the Poor Souls in Purgatory.
So the simple answer is: starve first.
There is a much more complex answer, though, that involves what we call a "Near Occasion of Sin". A "Near Occasion of Sin" is Catholic Church lingo for "in harm's way". Of course, we are in harm's way constantly. We really can't leave the house. We can't stay in the house either. A lot of our sins are thriving right inside our own skulls. Only a labotomy could keep us out of harm's way, sinwise.
And while a Near Occasion of Sin isn't that hard to fathom, the four different types of Near Occasions of Sins can be a little more daunting.
Proximate: meaning one generally falls into sin
Remote: meaning one sometimes falls.
Necessary: meaning one cannot avoid.
Voluntary: meaning one could avoid with a little will power. Or a lot of will power.
Will power is always involved, in any case.
Spelled out thusly, you new job fires on all pistons. Your only sin loophole is that it may be necessary, as in, you can't get any other job.
Meanwhile, you're peddling sin, standing knee deep in sin every working hour, putting up the sin displays and answering customers questions about how to sin better.
Some loophole. I think the only way you get away with the "necessary" loophole is if you don't actually work for these people but ask to set up a table with pamphlets about the Catholic Church and St. Agnes and St. Maria Goretti and such and they actually say yes. It would be a great place to set up a table with scapulars on it and whatnot.
We are so sorry you mentioned their cake.
There are several patron saints for job hunting and financial stability. St. Joseph the Worker, springs to mind. I'm found of St. John of God, as well, as he wandered around aimlessly doing not so nice things for quite some time before he finally went looney and Jesus paid him a visit in the nut house. I would say 'psych ward', but they didn't have psych wards back then. They only had nut houses.
Good luck to you. Far be it from me to tell you that you have to go starve. I just recommend it.
And as long as our stomaches are already turned:
Sister, have you ever seen Corn Smut? It is a black, ugly, fungus-like growth that infects an ear of corn and ruins it. If you ever see it, you won't forget it, as it is very, very yucky looking. Smut is a perfect name for impure images.
Yes, I have. Thanks for the reminder.
So...no nun pictures today. Just...not today....


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The Invisible Man (2020)
Director: Leigh Whannell Run Time: 125 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 2020
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Benedict Hardie
Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister (Harriet Dyer), their childhood friend (Aldis Hodge) and his teenage daughter (Storm Reid). But when Cecilia's abusive ex (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia's sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.


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by Art Rosenblum, December 1st, 2017
This is the Russian perspective on earth changes. Hard facts that are going unreported in America. The atmospheres of the planets are changing. Dr. Dmitriev's work shows that the planets themselves are changing. They are undergoing changes in their atmospheres
For example the Martian atmosphere is getting sizably thicker than it was before. The Mars observer probe in 1997 lost one of its mirrors, which caused it to crash, because the atmosphere was about twice as dense as they calculated, and basically the wind on that little mirror was so high that it blew it right off the device.
Earth's moon is growing an atmosphere.
Also, the moon is growing an atmosphere that's made up of a compound Dmitriev refers to as "Natrium." Dmitriev says that, around the moon, there is this 6,000- kilometre- deep layer of Natrium that wasn't there before.
And we're having this kind of change in Earth's atmosphere in the upper levels, where HO gas is forming that wasn't there before; it simply did not exist in the quantity that it does now. It's not related to global warming and it's not related to CFCs or fluorocarbon emissions or any of that stuff. It's just showing up.
Magnetic fields and brightness of the planets are changing.
The planets are experiencing sizable changes in their overall brightness. Venus, for example, is showing us marked increases in its overall brightness. Jupiter has gotten to have such a high energetic charge that there is actually a visible tube of ionising radiation that's formed between its moon, Io. You can actually see the luminous energy tube in photographs that have been taken more recently.
And the planets are having a change in their fields. The magnetic fields are becoming stronger. Jupiter's magnetic field has more than doubled. Uranus's magnetic field is changing. Neptune's magnetic field is increasing. These planets are becoming brighter. Their magnetic field strength is getting higher. Their atmospheric qualities are changing.
Uranus and Neptune appear to have had recent pole shifts. When the Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus and Neptune, the apparent north and south magnetic poles were sizably offset from where the rotational pole was. In one case, it was 50 degrees off, and in the other case the difference was around 40 degrees, both of which are pretty big changes.
The overall changes could essentially be broken down into three categories: Energy field changes, luminosity changes, and atmospheric changes.
Overall volcanic activity has increased 500 percent since 1975
On the Earth, we're seeing the changes even more completely. For example, Michael Mandeville has done research that has shown that the overall volcanic activity on the Earth since 1875 has increased by roughly 500 percent. The overall earthquake activity has increased by 400 percent just since 1973.
Natural disasters increased 410 percent between 1963 and 1993
Dr. Dmitriev did a very elaborate calculation of natural disasters. He showed that if you compare the years 1963 through 1993, the overall amount of natural disasters of all different kinds – whether you are talking hurricanes, typhoons, mud slides, tidal waves, you name it – have increased by 410 percent.
The Sun's magnetic field has increased by 230 percent since 1901
There's a study by Dr. Mike Lockwood from Rutherford Appleton National Laboratories in California, who has been investigating the Sun. He has discovered that since 1901, the overall magnetic field of the Sun has become 230 percent stronger than it was before.
More than just Earth Changes
So, all in all, what we're seeing is a lot more than just what they call Earth Changes. Some people get into the idea that there is an interaction between the Earth and the Sun that's going on here.
Very, very few people are aware of the work that is being done in the Russian National Academy of Sciences in Siberia, specifically in Novosibirsk, where they are doing this research. They've come to the conclusion that the only possible thing that could be causing this energetic change all throughout the Solar System is that we are moving into an area of energy that is different – that is higher.
The glowing plasma at the leading edge of our Solar System has recently increased 1000 percent
Now, check this out. The Sun itself has a magnetic field, of course, and that magnetic field creates an egg around the Solar System, which is known as the heliosphere. The heliosphere is shaped like a teardrop, with the long and thin end of the drop pointing in the opposite direction from the direction that we're travelling. It's just like a comet, where the tail is always pointing away from the Sun.
The Russians have looked at the leading edge of this heliosphere, and they have observed glowing, excited plasma energy there. This plasma energy used to be 10 astronomical units deep (an astronomical unit is the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 93,000,000 miles). So ten astronomical units represents the normal thickness of this glowing energy that we used to see at the front end of the Solar System.
Today, that glowing plasma has gone to 100 astronomical units deep. Although Dmitriev's paper does not give an exact timeline, we can assume that this increase happened in the same 1963 to 1993 period as the increase he found in natural disasters. Whenever it happened, that's a 1,000 percent increase in the overall brightness of the energy at the front end of the Solar System.
And this means that the Solar System itself is moving into an area where the energy is more highly charged. That higher-charged energy is in turn exciting the plasma and causing more of it to form, so you see more luminosity, more brightness. This energy is then flowing into the Sun, which in turn emits the energy and spreads it out along its equatorial plane, which is called the Ecliptic.
This in turn is saturating interplanetary space, which causes the solar emissions to travel more quickly and charge up the energy on the planets.
And this is conscious energy that is changing how the planet works, how it functions, and what kind of life it supports. The harmonics of the DNA spiral itself are altering. That's the real, hidden cause of spontaneous mass evolutions in previous epochs of time.
All this is happening all at the same time, and it's all working up to a crescendo where there is going to be a sudden shift.
In other words, we will get to the point where we are so far into the new level of energy that there will be a sudden expansion of the basic harmonic wavelengths that the Sun emits as it radiates energy out of itself. This increase in energy emission will change the basic nature of all matter in the Solar System. The planets are pushed slightly farther away from the Sun and the atoms and molecules that make them up actually expand in terms of their physical size.
Peace and love,
Art Rosenblum
Aquarian Research Foundation
5620 Morton St., Philadelphia, PA 19144.
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【外聞】當獨居成為酷刑 ◎唐玉盈 譯 / 林政佑 短評 校對
作者:George F. Will
出處:《華盛頓郵報(The Washington Post)》2013-02-21
數以萬計的美國監獄收容人長期被單獨監禁,可能構成酷刑並違反第八條修正案禁止「殘忍和非常的處罰」。伊州聯邦參議員杜賓(Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.)曾促使一項獨立的聯邦監獄獨居估計,發現有半數的監獄自殺案例發生於被單獨隔離的囚犯身上。關於收容人是否容易遭受「嚴重傷害的實質危險」,州監獄也同樣容易面臨第八條修正案的挑戰。
美國人口佔全世界的5%,其中竟然佔全世界監獄人口的25%。大量監禁意味著受刑人重新進入社會的永久性危機,並且造成在聯邦和州的「超級」監獄 中,估計有25,000名收容人長期處於單獨監禁的情況,另外在普通監獄中大概有80,000名受刑人住在單獨隔離區。顯然地,單獨監禁所涉及的不只是為了保護其他收容人或監所人員而對有暴力習癖者所為之隔離措施。
第一間超級監獄始於1983年,在伊利諾伊州的馬里昂(Marion)。直到本世紀初,全國已有超過60間超級監獄,而且在大多數的最高防禦監獄(maximum-security prisons)裡均有單獨監禁設施。一位撰寫公共衛生議題的外科醫生Atul Gawande,在2009年3月30日於《紐約客(The New Yorker)》雜誌上發表了一篇文章〈地獄(Hellhole)〉,他指出:「單獨監禁的矛盾之一在於,雖然人們非常渴望友誼交往,但經驗使他們無法適應社會互動。」那些由於單獨監禁而失去能力的人被迫使繼續獨居,因為他們不適合「監獄或自由社會的高度社交世界」。去年,紐約時報報導在加州的皮利肯灣監獄(Pelican Bay prison)因為加入幫派而被送入獨居房的受刑人中,「248名在裡面待了5-10年,218名待了10-20年,還有90名待了超過20年」。
兩世紀以前,獨居被視為一種人性改造,可以促使反省、悔改以及改過向善。教友派的教義影響了費城東州監獄(Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary)的設計,該監獄開設於1829年,具有嚴格的獨居制度。狄更斯(Charles Dickens)於1842 年拜訪了該監獄:
When solitude is torture
By George F. Will, Published: February 21
"Zero Dark Thirty," a nominee for Sunday's Oscar for Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of American prison inmates are kept in protracted solitary confinement that arguably constitutes torture and probably violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishments."
Noting that half of all prison suicides are committed by prisoners held in isolation, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) has prompted an independent assessment of solitary confinement in federal prisons. State prisons are equally vulnerable to Eighth Amendment challenges concerning whether inmates are subjected to "substantial risk of serious harm."
America, with 5 percent of the world's population, has 25 percent of its prisoners. Mass incarceration, which means a perpetual crisis of prisoners re-entering society, has generated understanding of solitary confinement's consequences when used as a long-term condition for an estimated 25,000 inmates in federal and state "supermax" prisons — and perhaps 80,000 others in isolation sections within regular prisons. Clearly, solitary confinement involves much more than the isolation of incorrigibly violent individuals for the protection of other inmates or prison personnel.
Federal law on torture prohibits conduct "specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering." And "severe" physical pain is not limited to "excruciating or agonizing" pain, or pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, or even death." The severe mental suffering from prolonged solitary confinement puts the confined at risk of brain impairment.
Supermax prisons isolate inmates from social contact. Often prisoners are in their cells, sometimes smaller than 8 by 12 feet, 23 hours a day, released only for a shower or exercise in a small fenced-in outdoor space. Isolation changes the way the brain works, often making individuals more impulsive, less able to control themselves. The mental pain of solitary confinement is crippling: Brain studies reveal durable impairments and abnormalities in individuals denied social interaction. Plainly put, prisoners often lose their minds.
The first supermax began functioning in Marion, Ill., in 1983. By the beginning of this century there were more than 60 around the nation, and solitary-confinement facilities were in most maximum-security prisons. In an article ("Hellhole") in the March 30, 2009, issue of the New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon who writes on public health issues, noted, "One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves them unfit for social interaction." And those who are most incapacitated by solitary confinement are forced to remain in it because they have been rendered unfit for "the highly social world of mainline prison or free society." Last year, the New York Times reported that of the prisoners sent to solitary confinement in California's Pelican Bay prison because of gang affiliation, "248 have been there for 5 to 10 years; 218 for 10 to 20 years; and 90 for 20 years or more."
Two centuries ago, solitary confinement was considered a humane reform, promoting reflection, repentance — penitence; hence penitentiaries — and rehabilitation. Quakerism influenced the design of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary, which opened in 1829 with a regime of strict solitude. In 1842, Charles Dickens visited it:
"I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its ghastly signs and tokens are not so palpable to the eye and sense of touch as scars upon the flesh; because its wounds are not upon the surface, and it extorts few cries that human ears can hear; therefore I the more denounce it, as a secret punishment which slumbering humanity is not roused up to stay."
In 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court said of solitary confinement essentially what Dickens had said: "A considerable number of the prisoners fell, after even a short confinement, into a semi-fatuous condition, from which it was next to impossible to arouse them, and others became violently insane; others, still, committed suicide." Americans should be roused against this by decency — and prudence.
Mass incarceration is expensive (California spends almost twice as much on prisons as on universities) and solitary confinement costs, on average, three times as much per inmate as in normal prisons. And remember: Most persons now in solitary confinement will someday be back on America's streets, some of them rendered psychotic by what are called correctional institutions.


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Watch Guns N' Roses Debut New Song 'Absurd'
Guns N' Roses debuted what Axl Rose described as "a new Guns N' Roses song" tonight in Boston.
"Some of you might have heard this under another name," the iconic frontman noted. "But this is really kind of absurd for us to try this," Rose then joked, earning a rimshot from drummer Frank Ferrer. "Wasn't that funny? And they don't even know the joke yet. Ok, this is called 'Absurd.'"
From there, Guns N' Roses launched into what (arguably) sounds like one of the hardest tracks in their arsenal. Blistering drums and a frantic, punk rock pace propeled the song, as Rose unleashed his aggressive vocals in a Rage Against the Machine-style delivery.
"Listen motherfuckers to this song that should be heard / Dragged down in the gutters, it's more than you deserve / Screaming fucking banshee, you know that's what you are / Pussy full of maggots, isn't that absurd."
Videos from the performance can be found below.
The track bears a significant resemblance to "Silkworms," a song from the Chinese Democracy sessions (also embedded below). According to Setlist.fm, GNR performed "Silkworms" on four different occasions in 2001, the last taking place during a New Years Eve concert at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. It has not been played in concert since.
Unlike "Silkworms," "Absurd" features wailing guitar parts courtesy of Slash. The iconic axe-wielder offered up mind-blowing riffs at various moments throughout the Boston performance. "Absurd" also appears to lack the broader electronic elements found in "Silkworms."
While it may not be an entirely new composition, "Absurd" marks the closest thing to new material from GNR since the classic lineup reunited in 2016. In April 2020, Susan Holmes McKagan, wife of bassist Duff McKagan, revealed the band had been "working fastidiously on some killer new stuff." Her statement echoed a similar comment from Slash, who had said months earlier that "stuff (was) happening" within the band.
Guns N' Roses' current tour is scheduled to stretch through October, with stops across America.
Watch Guns N' Roses Perform 'Absurd'
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Oprah, Luke Skywalker And Maradona: New Study Investigates How Our Brains Respond To Them
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- July 26, 2009
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- University of Leicester
- Summary:
- New research reveals how visual and auditory information converges into the firing of single neurons.
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Pictures paint concepts of a thousand words- now, for the first time, scientists studying the brain have worked out how words paint concepts in our minds.
The team, including Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the Department of Engineering of the University of Leicester in the UK, Professor Itzhak Fried at the University California Los Angeles and Professor Christof Koch at the California Institute of Technology, has published these findings in the journal Current Biology.
The results are important for understanding how perception and memory formation occurs.
Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, head of Bioengineering at the University of Leicester, led the study which concluded that, although processing of visual and auditory information occur along completely separate pathways, the visual and auditory processing routes converge to end up firing the same single neurons.
He said: "Different pictures of Marilyn Monroe can evoke the same mental image, even if greatly modified as in Warhol's famous portraits. This process relates to one of the most fascinating questions in neuroscience: how do neurons in the brain manage to abstract and disregard irrelevant details to recognize highly variable pictures as the same person?"
Professor Quian Quiroga said various studies had provided insights into how visual information is processed in the brain. He added:
"Interestingly, in humans, the same "concept" of Marilyn can be evoked with other stimulus modalities, for instance by hearing or reading her name. Brain imaging studies have identified cortical areas in the human temporal lobe that are selective to voices and words. However, how visual, text and sound information can elicit a unique percept is still largely unknown."
The University of Leicester team in collaboration with UCLA and Caltech used presentations of pictures, spoken and written names to show that single neurons in the human hippocampus and surrounding areas respond selectively to representations of the same individual using different sensory prompts. For example a neuron responded to three pictures of the TV host "Oprah Winfrey", to her name written in the computer screen and to a computer synthesized voice saying "Oprah"; another one fired to different pictures and the written and pronounced name of "Luke Skywalker", from the classic movie "Star Wars". Another neuron fired strongly to the pictures and the written and spoken name of the ex-football star "Diego Maradona", even to a picture of Maradona in the soccer field when his face was not visible but the patient still recognized as Maradona.
They also found that such degree of abstraction –in the sense that neurons fired the same to different pictures or the name of a particular person- increased along the hierarchical structure within the areas they recorded from.
Moreover, Professor Quian Quiroga found neurons responding to his own pictures and name, thus suggesting that such neuronal representations can be generated relatively fast, because he was unknown to the patient a day or two before the recording took place.
Said Professor Quian Quiroga: "These results demonstrate that single neurons can encode concepts in a very abstract way, even if evoked by different sensory modalities"
The study breaks new ground by demonstrating how neurons previously studied by the team respond not only to picture, but to written and spoken names too.
Professor Quian Quiroga said: "The processing of visual and auditory information follows completely different cortical pathways in the brain, but we are showing that this information converges into single neurons in the hippocampus, at the very end of these pathways for processing sensory information.
"This work gives us further understandings of how information is processed in the brain, by creating a high level of abstraction which is important for perception and memory formation given that we tend to remember abstract concepts and forget irrelevant details."
This research is published in Current Biology, online on 23 July and in the print issue on 11 August.
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Introduction and Summary
Americans anticipate many perils in the next century, but none of them, no matter how grave, can dim the public's positive view of the future. Despite consensus forecasts of natural disasters, environmental calamities and international terrorism, Americans are near unanimous in their confidence that life will get better for themselves, their families and the country as a whole.
An overwhelming 81% of adults are steadfast in their optimism about what the 21st century holds for them and their families, and 70% believe the country as a whole will do well. Eight-in-ten Americans describe themselves as hopeful about the year 2000, and they anticipate the new millennium will usher in the triumph of science and technology. Majorities predict cancer most likely will be cured, AIDS will be eradicated and ordinary people will travel in space.
At the same time, nearly two-thirds of the public anticipates a serious terrorist attack on the United States within the next 50 years, and more than half say an epidemic worse than AIDS is at least likely. Vast numbers of Americans also view as probable a major earthquake in California, global warming and a severe energy crisis by the middle of the 21st century.
Very sizable minorities expect even more dire things to come, although less than 20% of the public describes themselves as worried about the coming of the year 2000. More than one-third of Americans say the U.S. will most likely be involved in a nuclear war within the next 50 years, and nearly as many believe an asteroid will hit the Earth within that time.
Analysis of the survey finds, however, that these specific ideas of what the future might hold — many of them grim — have relatively little impact upon the general feeling of optimism about it. Even among those who are certain nuclear war is imminent or fully expect the Earth to be struck by an asteroid, majorities remain optimistic about the future. Conversely, general optimism is not necessarily tied to anticipation of specific improvements and progress. Those expecting a cure for cancer or Jesus Christ's return to Earth are no more hopeful about their lives for the next 50 years than are those who do not anticipate these things.
These are the principal findings of the Pew Research Center survey of 1,546 adults on the millennium. The survey was conducted April 6 – May 6, 1999 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points. This report details America's hopes and fears for the future. A previous report, released July 4, 1999, looked back at the past one hundred years. It is available on our website www.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/politics/mill1rpt.htm.
One theme that connects many of the public's fears for the future is globalism: Problems that cannot be controlled by science or by our borders appear most threatening. Environmental problems and international terrorists stand atop the list of threats to the future, with nearly two-thirds of the public citing each as a major threat. The majority also believes the growing world population is likely to cause shortages of food and resources.
This pattern of global fears extends to American views of the U.S. economy and the country's role in the world. Although two-thirds (64%) of the public believes the U.S. economy will grow stronger in the next 50 years, half (52%) expect that the average American will be hurt by the global economy. Half of the country does not expect the U.S. to remain the world's lone superpower (53%); two-thirds believe that China will emerge as our global rival (67%); 41% foresee a nuclear war; 37% think the U.S. will be involved in such a war.
But for all the global worries Americans see looming, public faith is just as strong that science and technology will expand their horizons. Americans overwhelmingly say science and technology, medical advances and education will play major roles is creating a better future. Three-quarters think a manned spacecraft will explore Mars, and nearly six-in-ten go even farther, predicting ordinary people will travel in space before the middle of the 21st century. A 58% majority believe Americans will live much longer in the next century, and 78% of the public anticipates environmental progress.
Social and economic progress are also anticipated, but with smaller margins and more caveats than for scientific achievements. For example, despite faith that the domestic economy will be stronger, 69% say that the gap between rich and poor will widen. Similarly, the share predicting an increase in crime has fallen 9 percentage points over the past three years, but still 59% say the crime rate will climb in the next 50 years. Two-thirds of Americans expect the education system to improve by mid-century; but 60% see less affordable health care and 52% anticipate less honesty from political leaders.
The public is more consistently optimistic about racial matters. Two-thirds (68%) think that race relations will improve, and 76% believe an African American will be elected president by the middle of the 21st century, which is almost as many as think that a woman will be elected. African Americans are notably less optimistic than are whites about the future of race relations and about the prospects of one of their own occupying the Oval Office.
Few Americans, however, say they wish to live another 100 years to see how it will all turn out. This view is shared by optimists and pessimists. Age and religion matter more than outlook. Younger people and those with no formal religious affiliation express more interest in staying alive to greet the 22nd century than do older and more religious people.


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来源:湖北成考网日期:2019-04-30 15:10:56[ 历年真题 ]
1. A. climb B. job C. disturb D. club
2. A. sweater B. meant C. pleasure D. pleased
3. A. drunk B. dusty C. duty D. drug
4. A. breathe B. nothing C. clothes D. weather
5. A. prove B. rose C. wrote D. broke
6. Regular exercise can you against heart disease.
A. fight B. protect C. keep D. support
7. Over a hundred people expressed their worries, but were willing to help.
A. some B. many C. few D. little
8. You can''t do anything else until you your homework.
A. finished B. will finish
C. have finished D. had finished
9. First draw a line the middle of the page. Then write a word in the space above the line.
A. across 13. over C. between D. within
10, The managerhad Ms. Brunell the new assistant around yesterday.
A. to show B. showed C. showing D. show
11. Send for a doctor quickly. The man
A. will die B. isdying C. dies D. died
12. I enjoy listeningto Miss:: White; my English teacher, ,I can only understand about half ofwhat she says,
A. when B. because C. if D. though
13. The bag is very heavy. Come and lend me a hand, ?
A. should you B. do you C. can you D. will you
14. After working for two hours, I found impossible''to complete the paper in time.
A. me B. this C. that D. it
15. It was very kind of you to clean the office, though you
A. needn''t do B. wouldn''t have
C. didn''t have to D. mustn''t have done
16. The faster anything goes up into the sky,
A. it reaches the highest B. it reaches the higher
C. the highest it reaches D. the higher it reaches
17. Joe took his friends there by a shortcut, reduced the drive from 50 minutes to 15.
A. where B. which C. that D. what
18. there like that, you remind me of your father.
A. To sit B. Being sitting C. Sitting D. Sit
19. He told me that the number of students to be admitted at that time.
A. had not been decided on B. were not decided on
C. has not been decided on D.are not decided on
20. Jack told his daughter that she could have she wanted for Christmas.
A. which B. whatever C. that D. whenever
It was the late spring of 1979, a hot Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of us sat 21 , side by, side, in rows of wooden chairs on the maincampus lawn (校园草坪). We 22'' blue robes (毕业生长袍). We listened carefully to long 23 . When the ceremony (典礼)was 24_,we threw! our caps in the air, and we were officially graduated from college.
After that, I found Morrie Schwartz, my 25 professor, and introduced him to
my 26 .. He was a small man who took small steps, as ifa 27 wind could; at any time, 28 him up:into the cloudS! His teeth were in good shape: When he smiled it was as if you had just 29 him the funniest joke on earth.
He told my parents how I 30 every class he taught. He told them, "You havea 31 boy here. He helped me a 10t." Shy but 32 , I looked at my feet. Before we left,I 33 Mr. Schwartz a ''present, a briefcase with his name on the front. I didn''t want to forget him. 34 I didn''t want him to forget me. He asked if I would keep in 35 , and without hesitation (犹豫) I said, "Of course." When he turned around, I saw tears in his eyes.
21. A. along B. around C. beside D. together
22.A. took B. wore C. put on D. got in
23. A. lectures B. dialogues C. speeches D. reports
24. A. on B. up C. over D. away
25. A. lovely B. precious C. happy D. favorite
26. A. parents B. elder brothe? C. girl friend D'' friends
27. A. strong B.north C. warm D. cold
28. A. beat B. pull C. blow D. wipe
29. A. made B. told C. played D. given
30. ''A. left B. reached C. missed D. took
31. A. special B. brave C. busy D. serious
32. A. astonished B. pleased C. disappointed D. nervous
33. A. handed B. sent C. delivered D. brought
34. A. While B. But C. And D. For
35. A. conversatior B. mind C: company D. touch
After working long hours On her feet everyday in the operating ,room, Taryn Rose'' knew a lot about foot pain. But unlike most of her colleagues(同事),she turned her pain into money: Today she is the boss of Taryn Rose International, a $528 million company that makes nice and comfortable shoes.
At the beginning, Rose realized the only thing that could stop her was fear of ,failure. "I couldhear my friends and family saying, ''Why did you leave a good job?'' If I failed, would I be okay facing them? And: t thought, ''So what? I can go back for further study in medicine.'' I started to accept that it would be okay to say, ''I failed, but I tried.'' Once I was comfortable with that th6fight, the fear came to an end. I realized I feared regret more than failure. And after you turn to the path you choose, there is nothing acceptable but Success"
Now, Rose has no regrets about leaving medicine. "What I''m doing is not all that different from: what I Was doing as a doctor. The goal is the same: to relieve (减轻) pain. A former professor told me: ''You''re helping hundreds of thousands of women with your shoes. As a doctor, you would have helped only the few who went to your office. You''re having a much greater effect.''
Looking back, Rose admits she caught a couple of lucky breaks. "To me, luck is about being prepared for those opportunities (机会) that come knocking. You have to have an open mind, the right skilis and all your senses working ''to see what opportunities present themselves. Luck can open the door, but you still have to walk through it."
36. Before starting:her shoe business, Taryn Rose was a
A. nurse B. worker C. doctor D. boss
37. Rose realized later was the most fearful for her to have or face in her job change.
A. failure B. regret C. family D. colleagues
38. What did her former professor think about Rose and her new job?
A. She doesn''t have to meet many people in her office.
B. Her new work is qtiite different from her old job.
C. She can now serve more people than before.
D. Hernew work is much more difficult.
39. Which of thefollowing can best!explain the last sentence in the passage?
A. You have to do what you can afterluck brings you opportunities.
B. You should open the door when opportunities come to you.
C: YOu haveto be prepared for walking through the door.
D. You should open your eyes to see opportunities clearly.
Last fall was a first-of-its-kind season. I did not arrange (安排) any after-school classes formy children. No swimming.''No music lessons. No play dates. Nothing.
Once they finished their homework, they were free to do what they pleased, but only onehour of TV. In the beginning, my sons, Ben, 11, and Nick, 9, were anxious about this sudden,unplanned freedom. I had to, push them out of the door with a ball, a bike, and so on. "Play? Iordered.
I learned that this new plan takes time, patience and a lot of faith in the theory that havingexcellent grades isn''t really important.
When my older kids, now in college and high school, were young, I brought in the rules ofmodern parenting. They are unspoken, but followed carefully. First, you must let your childhave a variety of activities. After all, you never know where you''ll find a genius (天才). Second, if the child shows the slightest talent (才能), the activity must be pushed with lessons, special coaching (辅导) and practice of several days a week. Every minute should be taken and every minute has a purpose. That was really too much for my children.
Now with the new plan, we told stories, We listened to music. And'' the. kids played with bikes, balls, and whatever was handy. Nobody kept score. In fact, the boys played outside so much that the lawn was worn down to the soil in places. They''ve made friends with those who come from all over the neighbourhood to play games.
We like those peaceful evenings. Ben and Nick have a good time this fall, MaYbe that''s because the time offhas allowed us to enjoy each other''s company;
40.What was new for the family last fall?
A. The children began to learn music when school was over.
B. The writer arranged no'' extra lessons for the children.
C.The writer found no time to play with the sons.
D. The children had nothing toclo alter schooli
41. At the beginning of that season the children
A. hatedto spend more time on their homework
B. felt excited about making their own decisions
C. were pleased to have more freedom
D; were worried about thechange
42. According to '',modern parenting" discussed in Paragraph 4, parents should
A. make use of every minute to be with the children
B, provide coaching and practice for each, activity .
C.try ex, cry means to find a child''s real talent
D. know the rules but never talk about them
43. Fromthe passage we learn that
A. children like story''telling more.than bike-riding
B. parents should teach theirchildren how to make a plan
C. children should have time to enjoy themselves after school
D. parents can enjoy their evenings when children play with others
A woman:heads into apopular New York City coffee shop on a cold: winter rooming. Just ahead of her, a man drops a few papers. The woman pauses to help gather them. A clerk ata busy store thanks a customer who has just bought something. "Enjoy" the young woman says, smiling widely. "Have a nice day." She sounds like she really means it. These arethe common situations we may see every: day.
However, in her best-selling book Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss argues that common good manners such as saying "Excuse me" almost no longer exist. There are certainly plenty who would agree with her. According to one recent study, 70 percent of the U.S. adults (成A.)said people are ruder now than they were 20 years ago.
Is it really true? We decided to find out if good manners are really hard to see. In this politeness study, reporters were sent to many cities in the world. They performed three experiments: "door tests" (would anyone hold the door open for them?); "paper drops" (who would help them gather a pile of "accidentally" dropped papers?); and "service tests" (which salesclerks would thank them for a purchase [购物]?)
In New York, 60 tests (20 of each type)were done. Along the way, the reporters met all types of people: men and women of different races, ages, professions (职业), and income levels. And guess what? In the end, four out of every five :people they met passed their: politeness test making New York the most polite city in the study.
44, What does Lynne Truss argue in Talk to the Hand?.
A. People are not as polite as they used to.
B. "Excuse me" is not welcome nowadays.
C. Of all the adults in the US 70% are rude,
D. People don''t care about manners any more.
45. What is TRUE about the politeness study discussed in the passage?
A. The study was reported in many cities of the world.
B. New York was the most suitable city for the experiment.
C. Sixty tests were designed to see if people are polite to each other.
D. Experiments were performed to see if common good manners exist.
46. What is found in the study?
A. More people passed the tests in New York than in any other cities.
B. Different kinds of people acted differently in the New York tests.
C. Four out of five people passed the politeness test in the study.
D. Manypeople in the experiment passed the tests by guessing.
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Talk it UP Every time you pick Up the phone, stand up and walk around. Heavy people sit on average two and h half hours more every day than thin people, according to astudy.
Get face time We use e-mailso much that we''ve forgotten what our colleagues look like.
Pick a colleague or two who sit farthest from you: and deliver 10 of those daily messages in person. And go out of your way: go to a bathroom ora copy machine on another floor and take the stairs, of course.
Think about your drink Consider beer or wine instead of a frozen drink: A glass of regular beer has 140 calories and a serving of wine has 126 calories, while a strawberry daiquiri has about 300 and a margarita 340.
Reduce a total of 100 calories each day and you''ll be able to lose about 10 pounds in a year. This is really not difficult to do.
47. What is mainly talked about in the passage?
A. How to do exercises daily.
B. How to lose weight easily.
C. How to work comfortably.
D: How to eat and drink regularly.
48. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Thin people sit fewer hours daily than heavy people.
B. People deliver messages to their colleagues in person.
C. More people walk around when they talk on the phone.
D. Heavy people make longer phonecalls than thin people,
49, What does the writer mean by "face time" in Paragraph 37
A. Time for getting to know each other. B. Time for sharing ideas face to face.
C, Time for doing small jobs, D. Time for sharing ideas face to face
50. Which of the following probably has the most calories?
A. Strawberry daiquiri. B. Regular beer.
C. Margarita: D. Wine.
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The Pistol Annies serenaded us with their own harmonious take on Elvis Presley's classic "Love Me" on Sunday (Feb. 17).
Their performance was a part of an Elvis All-Star tribute that television network NBC put together to honor Presley's 1968 comeback special, and the trio were eager to give their number all the reverence possible.
Angaleena Presley introduced their performance, saying, "Elvis first cut 'Love Me' for his second album way back in 1956."
Miranda Lambert elaborated, "Elvis sang this song by [famed songwriting pair] Leiber and Stoller on his '68 special and he kept singing it right until his last tour in the summer of 1977."
Ashley Monroe added "We love this song, and hope you love it too. This is for Elvis, who the whole world was loving 50 years ago."
This isn't the first time the Pistol Annies covered the King's tune, as the trio performed "Love Me" at their Los Angeles concert on Nov. 7, 2018 at the Novo. That particular version was more stripped-back, focusing in on their vocals with only one acoustic guitar playing at certain points in the song.
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Other artists that performed on the special included: Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Dierks Bentley, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker, Alessia Cara, John Legend, Ed Sheeran, John Fogerty, Mac Davis and Adam Lambert.
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These docs are old and won't be updated. Go to react.dev for the new React docs.
These new documentation pages teach modern React and include live examples:
React provides a declarative API so that you don't have to worry about exactly what changes on every update. This makes writing applications a lot easier, but it might not be obvious how this is implemented within React. This article explains the choices we made in React's "diffing" algorithm so that component updates are predictable while being fast enough for high-performance apps.
When you use React, at a single point in time you can think of the render()
function as creating a tree of React elements. On the next state or props update, that render()
function will return a different tree of React elements. React then needs to figure out how to efficiently update the UI to match the most recent tree.
There are some generic solutions to this algorithmic problem of generating the minimum number of operations to transform one tree into another. However, the state of the art algorithms have a complexity in the order of O(n3) where n is the number of elements in the tree.
If we used this in React, displaying 1000 elements would require in the order of one billion comparisons. This is far too expensive. Instead, React implements a heuristic O(n) algorithm based on two assumptions:
- Two elements of different types will produce different trees.
- The developer can hint at which child elements may be stable across different renders with a
In practice, these assumptions are valid for almost all practical use cases.
The Diffing Algorithm
When diffing two trees, React first compares the two root elements. The behavior is different depending on the types of the root elements.
Elements Of Different Types
Whenever the root elements have different types, React will tear down the old tree and build the new tree from scratch. Going from
to
, or from

to <Comment>
, or from <Button>
to

- any of those will lead to a full rebuild.
When tearing down a tree, old DOM nodes are destroyed. Component instances receive componentWillUnmount()
. When building up a new tree, new DOM nodes are inserted into the DOM. Component instances receive UNSAFE_componentWillMount()
and then componentDidMount()
. Any state associated with the old tree is lost.
Any components below the root will also get unmounted and have their state destroyed. For example, when diffing:
<Counter />
<Counter />
This will destroy the old Counter
and remount a new one.
This method is considered legacy and you should avoid it in new code:
DOM Elements Of The Same Type
When comparing two React DOM elements of the same type, React looks at the attributes of both, keeps the same underlying DOM node, and only updates the changed attributes. For example:

By comparing these two elements, React knows to only modify the className
on the underlying DOM node.
When updating style
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When converting between these two elements, React knows to only modify the color
style, not the fontWeight
After handling the DOM node, React then recurses on the children.
Component Elements Of The Same Type
When a component updates, the instance stays the same, so that state is maintained across renders. React updates the props of the underlying component instance to match the new element, and calls UNSAFE_componentWillReceiveProps()
, UNSAFE_componentWillUpdate()
and componentDidUpdate()
on the underlying instance.
Next, the render()
method is called and the diff algorithm recurses on the previous result and the new result.
These methods are considered legacy and you should avoid them in new code:
Recursing On Children
By default, when recursing on the children of a DOM node, React just iterates over both lists of children at the same time and generates a mutation whenever there's a difference.
For example, when adding an element at the end of the children, converting between these two trees works well:
React will match the two
first

trees, match the two
second

trees, and then insert the
third

If you implement it naively, inserting an element at the beginning has worse performance. For example, converting between these two trees works poorly:
React will mutate every child instead of realizing it can keep the
Duke

and
Villanova

subtrees intact. This inefficiency can be a problem.
In order to solve this issue, React supports a key
attribute. When children have keys, React uses the key to match children in the original tree with children in the subsequent tree. For example, adding a key
to our inefficient example above can make the tree conversion efficient:

Duke

Villanova

Connecticut

Duke

Villanova

Now React knows that the element with key '2014'
is the new one, and the elements with the keys '2015'
and '2016'
have just moved.
In practice, finding a key is usually not hard. The element you are going to display may already have a unique ID, so the key can just come from your data:

{item.name}

When that's not the case, you can add a new ID property to your model or hash some parts of the content to generate a key. The key only has to be unique among its siblings, not globally unique.
As a last resort, you can pass an item's index in the array as a key. This can work well if the items are never reordered, but reorders will be slow.
Reorders can also cause issues with component state when indexes are used as keys. Component instances are updated and reused based on their key. If the key is an index, moving an item changes it. As a result, component state for things like uncontrolled inputs can get mixed up and updated in unexpected ways.
Here is an example of the issues that can be caused by using indexes as keys on CodePen, and here is an updated version of the same example showing how not using indexes as keys will fix these reordering, sorting, and prepending issues.
It is important to remember that the reconciliation algorithm is an implementation detail. React could rerender the whole app on every action; the end result would be the same. Just to be clear, rerender in this context means calling render
for all components, it doesn't mean React will unmount and remount them. It will only apply the differences following the rules stated in the previous sections.
We are regularly refining the heuristics in order to make common use cases faster. In the current implementation, you can express the fact that a subtree has been moved amongst its siblings, but you cannot tell that it has moved somewhere else. The algorithm will rerender that full subtree.
Because React relies on heuristics, if the assumptions behind them are not met, performance will suffer.
- The algorithm will not try to match subtrees of different component types. If you see yourself alternating between two component types with very similar output, you may want to make it the same type. In practice, we haven't found this to be an issue.
- Keys should be stable, predictable, and unique. Unstable keys (like those produced by
) will cause many component instances and DOM nodes to be unnecessarily recreated, which can cause performance degradation and lost state in child components.


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By Alan Caruba
Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities—some seventy at last count—that are being occupied need to crack down on it.
Not all agree, of course. Among the list of the Occupy movement are the following organizations and individuals that have expressed support or sympathy:
American Nazi Party
Revolutionary Communist Party
Industrial Workers of the World
International Bolshevik Tendency
International Socialist Organization
Marxist Student Union
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Party for Socialism and Liberation
President Barack Obama
Vice President Joe Biden
Former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi
The Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Communist Party of China
Louis Farrakhan, National of Islam
Black Panthers
There are others but they all have commonalities, not the least of which is a belief in Communism, they are representative of the American Far Left, and have an affinity for class and racial warfare.
There is nothing to recommend its supporters and considerable reason to take action against the movement that claims to be leaderless, but which has already been granted a tax-exempt status as it continues to collect a large bankroll.
As Lincoln pointed out, 'The Constitution is not a suicide pact" and this nation fought a Civil War to ensure that the Union would remain intact. Thus, appeals to freedom of speech have their limits when it comes to efforts to undermine and destroy the nation. The free speech argument has been the initial fall-back position of some mayors, but it is rapidly wearing thin.
No doubt, Mayor Bloomberg of New York has been hoping that the dropping temperature as we advance toward winter will have the salutary affect of causing the occupiers of Zuccotti Park to leave. In a cash-strapped city, the millions in overtime and other costs do not justify his forbearance, but the Mayor is a liberal so his inaction is understandable. Mayors of other cities under siege have responded timidly for the most part.
As a student of history, I recall the hippie movement of the 1960s, the famed Haight-Ashbury refuge in San Francisco, and other places where a disaffected and unhappy youth gathered to "tune out" and listen to speeches about the Vietnam War and other grievances. In general, they did not engage in violence because their focus was on drugs and "free love."
The Occupy movement is a different animal. The object of its anger is Wall Street, banks, capitalism, and the current economic distress. One group, OurTime.org, "a non-profit organization standing up for Americans under 30", noted that the October jobs report "reveals that young Americans hold a 15.4% unemployment rate, which marks the eighth straight month that the 18-24 demographic…"
Their anger would be better directed against a federal government that is responsible for the 2008 collapse of the housing market and major banking, investment and insurance companies, many of which were bailed out by Congress using the funds of taxpayers, the real 99%.
The youth have cause to be unhappy, but they would be better informed if they understood how poorly they have been served by a debased national educational system and indebtedness brought about by universities that thrive off the student-loan system underwritten by the federal government. Their ignorance of this and so much more is both understandable and deplorable.
You don't solve unemployment by embracing tyranny.
Further back in history, one recalls the mobs that brought down the Weimar Republic in Germany and opened the doors to the Nazi movement. Earlier, mobs led by Bolsheviks deposed the Russian czar and imposed some seventy years of Communist control there. It is not surprising, therefore, that so many communist organizations and nations support the Occupy movement or that Wall Street is its target.
In time we shall learn who the organizers of this "spontaneous" movement truly have been, but for now public safety must be asserted to rid Zuccotti Park of this gang of "useful idiots" and wherever else they show up.
There no longer is any excuse to tolerate them and plenty of communist groups who will welcome them or, if the message of "change" put forth by Barack Obama is more closely examined, they can join the Democratic Party and continue its long history of destroying the nation's economy.
© Alan Caruba, 2011


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By Kiana Brockel, NFU Intern
Regular readers of NFU's Climate Column know there are many ways farmers can mitigate the negative effects of climate change. The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) offers farmers technical and financial support to help interested farmers mitigate climate change and become more climate resilient. In every state throughout the U.S., the State Conservationist considers the advice of bodies like the State Technical Committee to identify key conservation priorities. The state NRCS office then focuses resources and programs like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to address the specific concerns so identified. Farmers can secure more support for practices and management decisions that work toward those state priorities.
As the state's second most lucrative sector, agriculture is central to Florida's economy. Florida is also one of the nation's top specialty crop producers; the state's farmers produces 66 percent of American oranges, bringing $1.5 billion to Florida annually. Agricultural success in Florida can be largely credited to the state's moderate climate, which allows for the production of perennial crops, including citrus.
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