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Digital terrorism in 2018 - Generation Z has arrived
For 24 years, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has released an annual "Digital Terrorism and Hate" report providing stakeholders, law enforcement and the media a snapshot that illustrates how extremists leverage online platforms to promote their insidious agendas.
Over the course of this time, we've witnessed a frightening evolution in the sophistication of the tools they use and professionalism by which they go about their work. Today, we're on the verge of a tipping point.
The post-millennial Generation Z has grown up with a smartphone in its hands and is reaching adulthood with an unprecedented ability to organize, fundraise, and, if so inclined, to create hateful content and distribute it through fragmented, but interconnected media channels.
Here are the principal 2018 takeaways, all tying back to the common theme that we are dealing with more agile and increasingly capable adversaries:
Here is the good news: While far from perfect, most major social media providers, led by Facebook, are removing hate and terror postings.
Here is the bad news: With 3 billion people online, committed bigots and terrorists still have little trouble mounting sophisticated marketing campaigns and propaganda onslaughts against their enemies.
Online hate is increasingly targeting African Americans and Jews, mirroring real-world FBI hate crime statistics that confirm blacks and American Jews as the top victims of hate crimes in America.
Here are only a few examples:
--The caliphate's zip code may be shrinking in the Middle East but ISIS' online presence and impact continues to surge. Evocative imagery rallies the faithful and gullible – especially lone wolves – to target innocents in Europe and North America with stabbings, car rammings and other acts of violence. While some counter-measures have become more commonly deployed, social media remains terrorists' most potent and effective weapon.
--Extremists are deploying off-the-shelf encryption apps to effectively mask communications and evade authorities' efforts to track their whereabouts.
--The Alt Tech phenomenon is gaining traction. Extremists in the Alt-Right movement reject the rules laid out by social media companies and others to curb online hate. As a result, they increasingly use platforms where there are few if any rules and, when necessary, start their own online funding efforts. Taking their inspiration from far-right gains in Europe, the U.S.-based extremists are recasting neo-Nazism, xenophobia, Anti-Semitism and white supremacism with a new vocabulary (e.g. "It's OK to Be White," "Stop White Genocide"). An entire subculture of hate is taking shape online ranging from Pepe the Frog's icon to gaming apps to t-shirts—all using insiders' vocabulary.
--Online hate is increasingly targeting African Americans and Jews, mirroring real-world FBI hate crime statistics that confirm blacks and American Jews as the top victims of hate crimes in America. There has been an explosion of anti-black imagery and discussion groups validating base racism. The Jewish community finds itself targeted by multiple enemies. These include: imams at mosques on both sides of the Atlantic delivering theological and genocidal dictates; alt-right fanatics recycling classic anti-Semitic screeds that blame Jews for society's problems; extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic campaigns led by groups like BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions); as well as state-sanctioned anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial led by Iran.
--A culture of online conspiracy theories is flourishing on social media. These range from attacking the legitimacy of the narratives of victims of the Parkland shootings, blaming the 9/11 catastrophes on CIA or Mossad and resurrecting the 'Big Lies' of the long-debunked "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in order to infect new generations of young people with history's oldest hate-anti-Semitism.
Here is the challenge ahead: America needs a consortium to tackle and degrade online hate. The players must include social media companies—both large and small – and our communities, including kids, their parents and teachers, and our elected officials.
This isn't a Pollyannaish suggestion but an urgent call to action. We must use every tool in our own powerful arsenal to reach digital-savvy teens and young adults with compelling messages of inclusion, compassion and love. The recent mass murder in South Florida is but one brutal reminder of the price we all pay for lessons unlearned in the social media age. The only way to fight a smart, organized, effective enemy is to be smarter, more effective and better organized.


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Meet Evan: Jewish Oklahoman of the Week!
Allison: How did you wind up living in DC?
Evan: I am originally from Oklahoma City. I was born and raised there. Then, I went to school at University of Kansas, and when I graduated I went to New York to work at URJ (Union for Reform Judaism). I was ready and excited to get out of the midwest. I was doing long distance with my girlfriend who was in DC, so when URJ let me start in a new role in DC, I moved down here. I just moved to DC this past summer. In the next couple of years, I want to go to rabbinical school.
Allison: What motivated you to want to work in the Jewish community?
Evan: I grew up in the Jewish community my entire life, but it wasn't until high school when I went to URJ Greene Family Camp and got involved with NFTY (The Reform Jewish Youth Movement) that I was able to see Judaism as more than just showing up to religious school or synagogue. NFTY was where I found a community I cared about and got to talk about important issues.
Allison: What's your favorite way to celebrate Shabbat?
Evan: I'm a very musical person, so I'd love to go to a a musical Shabbat service followed by dinner and dessert with friends. On Saturday, I don't set an alarm so I can sleep in; I like to make Saturday a very chill day.
Allison: If you could invite 3 celebs to join you for Shabbat dinner, who would you choose?
Evan: Number one would be Barack Obama. Beyonce would be really cool. I might also have to say Rep. John Lewis.
Allison: What's at the top of your travel bucket list?
Evan: Number one is France. I really want to go. I also want to go to Africa, I still need to pinpoint which countries. I'm biracial and my dad's side of the family is black and descended from slaves. I would love to be able to visit that country and learn more about those roots.
Allison: What's your favorite Jewish holiday?
Evan: One of my favorite Jewish holidays is Passover because of all the delicious foods that come with it. I love the fact that we have an entire holiday that is celebrated around the dinner table and is educational and fun. I'm big on charoset and gefilte fish – which I realize is a polarizing food.
Allison: Describe your dream DC day.
Evan: I would get up early, make breakfast and journal. I would find friends to go to brunch with at Busboys and Poets. I would spend the afternoon walking around DC and get closer to the mall and the monuments. Maybe pop in to a museum or two. In the evening, I'd find a great dinner place like Little Havana. At night, my girlfriend and I would have friends over to hang out at our apartment.
Allison: What's something people might be surprised to know about you?
Evan: Growing up, I was in choir from 4th until 12th grade. In junior and senior year I was in show choir, which was just like Glee. We had singing and dancing competitions and wore sparkly vests.
Allison: What are your favorite musicals?
Evan: Hamilton. I saw it on Broadway last year! I also love Aladdin the musical, and Wicked.
Allison: When Jewish of DC Gather…
Evan: It's exciting, comfortable, and new!
The views and opinions expressed in this blog and on this website are solely those of the original authors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the organization GatherDC, the GatherDC staff, the GatherDC board, and/or any/all contributors to this site.

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I am full of energy girl and I like to try everything. I like to be outside a lot, I enjoy fitness, going to the gym, dancing, skating and writing poems. As well when I have free time I read, listen to music, communicate with people and travel. I love the sun, sea and sand and everything about the seaside.
I study to be a food technologist because I love cooking. I am a sincere person and that is why from my heart I am saying that my dream it to meet a good man and move to his country. I do not like when people lie and do not respect those who are selfish.
I am a cheerful person and I know how to make people smile. As all young people I enjoy spending time with friends, going to different places and discussing interesting things.
I am looking for relationship that would be based on love, trust and respect. I believe in true love and hope to fall in love one day.
As you see I am in good form and i fond of going in for sport,
I adore fitness, ping-pong and different activities in the open air.
I like reading, I fond of classical Russian and Ukrainian literature.
I also like dancing, listening to the good music. The main hobby is writing poems.
The most important part of my life is self-development, which I find in an exciting literature, dynamic music, extravagant films and most importantly - the wise men. And plus to this - sport as strong contributor to the active position in life! Jogging, gymnastics, dance ... it's all I have!
I love to be photographed doing different shots, and if a little sexy pictures should not think that I'm not serious, it's just a hobby.
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Claire found out she had cervical cancer after making love with her boyfriend. Her story which appeared in That's Life magazine highlights the dangers of cervical cancer and the importance of smear tests to women under the age of 25. Below read Claire's true life health story.
Trying for a baby saved 24 year old Claire's life. She'll never have more children now but is just grateful to be alive after her boyfriend found a tumour in a very intimate place…
With each thrust Matt took my breath away…and not in a good way. Forget orgasmic, this was agonising. There was a sharp stabbing pain down below that was making me grit my teeth.
You're probably just bit tense, I told myself. Try to relax.
I glanced up at Matt. He didn't look like he was enjoying himself either.
Suddenly, he frowned and climbed off me.
'What's wrong?' I asked.
'I don't know,' he said. 'It's like there's a hard lump of flesh on the lining of your cervix, or something. It just doesn't feel right.'
Turning on the light we saw the sheets, and our bodies, were covered in blood. Not just a few drops but more than a period.
'Oh my God!' I gasped. No wonder I'd been in so much pain.
'You need to get this checked out,' Matt said, handing me a towel. 'It's not normal.'
I was concerned. For the past few years I'd been back and forth to the GP with 'women's problems'.
First, it was my periods. They were all over the place. I'd often miss one, then suffer terrible abdominal pain as well as backaches and mood swings.
'It's like I'm going through the menopause or something,' I said. But I was only 22.
Eventually, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries.
It meant it could take me longer to fall pregnant. I already had a three year old, Lenny, from a previous relationship but I kept thinking 'what if?' so at the start of the year, Matt and I stopped using contraception.
'If it happens, it happens,' we decided.
Only the more we made love, the less I wanted to. It was just so painful.
I went back to the doctor but was told it was most likely due to a water infection or linked to my ovaries.
Then two months ago, I started bleeding after sex. Just a few spots here and there at first.
'Do you think I might need a smear?' I asked at my next appointment.
But at under 25, I was deemed too young. 'The lab won't process it even if I did the smear, your under 25,' explained the doctor. It was the same all over the UK.
I remembered reading about campaigns to change it after Big Brother star Jade Goody died.
Still now after what Matt had felt, I wasn't taking no for an answer. I may be under 25, but I wanted that smear. I called the doctor that same evening.
This time, she backed down. 'The first time I can fit you in for a smear is in two days' time,' she finally said.
I had to wait nearly three weeks for the results. The smear had detected abnormal cells. I was being referred to a gynaecologist.
'Try not to worry,' Matt said that night in bed. 'Come here and give me a cuddle.'
But we didn't make love. Neither of us were in the mood after last time.
A fortnight later the consultant examined my cervix and carried out a biopsy.
'Does it look normal?' I asked.
But she couldn't say.
It meant yet more waiting. I tried to carry on as normal for Lenny's sake but it was hard. All the time I kept wondering if bad news was just around the corner.
The following week was Matt's brother's party. I wasn't really in the mood but I agreed to go along anyway. Hopefully it would help to take my mind off things.
But less than an hour in I collapsed in agony with sharp cramping pains.
You're bleeding again!' Matt said as he carried me into the taxi.
I was taken to X Hospital where they carried out blood tests and an internal.
On discovering blood in my urine they kept me in for three days before finally sending me home with antibiotics for a water infection.
Then a week later, I was back at the hospital having another scan.
'Hopefully we can move on from all this now,' Matt said as he drove me home.
But I still couldn't help worrying. And a week later, an official-looking letter fell onto the doormat. Turns out that they had discovered cancerous cells after all.
'We need you to come back in for treatment straightaway,' it said.
'I knew it,' I wept to Matt.
A week later they performed a LLETZ procedure to remove the area containing all the cells that could become pre-malignant or develop into cervical cancer. I was frantic. It was the first time the 'c' word had been used.
'We'll get through this,' Matt promised. 'At least they've picked it up early.'
But when we went back for the results it was bad news. This time the procedure had not been successful.
'So what does that mean?' I asked. 'Do you need to do it again?'
'I don't think you understand,' the consultant said gravely. 'I'm afraid you have cervical cancer.'
It was too much to take in. My worst fears of the last four years had come true.
I looked over at Matt. All of the colour had drained from his face. And then I thought about Lenny waiting for us at home. How on earth could I tell him that his mummy had cancer?
'Why?' I wailed to Matt on the way home. 'Why me?'
But, of course, there were no answers. Back home, I tried to act normal in front of Lenny but it was so hard. I could hardly sleep at night. Images of Jade Goody filled my dreams. Was I going to be like her? Lose my hair? Have to say goodbye to my boy? I needed answers.
Three weeks later, I finally got to see the cancer specialist.
He explained that there was a tumourous mass more than 7cm big at the neck of my womb. It had spread down into my vagina and pelvic tissues and was just centimetres from my lymph nodes. There was a small cyst on my ovaries too.
The tumour was what Matt had been able to feel when we were making love. The pressure it had put on my ovaries had caused the menopausal symptoms I'd experienced.
'So where do we go from here?' I asked. I still couldn't believe this was my body, my life, we were discussing.
As the mass was too big for surgery, I needed radio and chemotherapy immediately to try and shrink it.
'You'll need to come in every day for six weeks,' the consultant explained.
I thought about Lenny. Who'd look after him? Pick him up from pre-school, cook his tea, give him a bath?
Matt squeezed my hand. 'Don't worry, I'll be there for Lenny,' he said, as if reading my mind.
Back home, Lenny kept me going. I had to keep strong for his sake.
'When all this is over we'll try again for a little brother or sister for him,' Matt promised.
But there was more bad news. There was no time to save my ovaries and because I already had a child I wouldn't qualify for IVF on the NHS.
'I can't believe it,' I said.
I never wanted Lenny to be an only child, had always planned to have more children when I met the right man. And now I had it was too late. And I was still only 24.
'And what about you?' I sniffled to Matt. 'I know you were desperate to be a dad.'
He took my face in his hands. 'I've got you and I've got Lenny and to me that's the most important thing. So stop feeling guilty and concentrate on getting better because right now, that's all that matters.
It's ironic really. Having unprotected sex might not have resulted in creating a new life but it will hopefully have saved mine by meaning that I finally got a smear test and my tumour was detected.
But I'm angry because I can't help thinking that if there was routine testing for women under 25 then the likelihood is that it wouldn't have come to this. Looking back, the symptoms and signs have been there for at least the last four years but were explained away as other conditions. It was only when Matt said he felt something down there that I knew I had to keep on until I was granted a smear.
So why was it such a struggle to get one? It's crazy. I'm living proof that cervical cancer doesn't wait until you're 25 to make an appearance. Every woman should be entitled to a smear if they want one regardless of their age. And I'd tell any woman not to feel embarrassed if they feel uncomfortable down below or bleed after sex but to go and see their doctor straight away. It could save their life.
I've since found out you can pay for a private smear. It's about £50, the price of a new dress. If I'd have known I would have done it years ago.
Cervical cancer may have robbed me and Matt of having a baby together and that breaks my heart but I won't let it take Lenny's mummy away from him too. I'm going to fight it all the way.


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After Abba held little girl tightly for what felt like hours, she asked Abba a question. Little girl spoke quietly, almost a whisper, "Abba, my heart still hurts sometimes even though you've helped me so much. Will my heart always hurt?"
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Enable children to remain at home, or in the community, thus decreasing institutional placements. Use the individualized care approach to services emphasizing a partnership with family members and service providers. Service plans focus on the unique needs of each child and builds on the strengths of the family unit. Expand funding and service options currently available to youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families. Provides services that promote better outcomes, cost-effective and demonstrates a model that fosters a transition to manage care.
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In each HCBS Waiver site there exists an Individualized Care Coordinator (ICC) Agency, or lead agency. BHSN has been designated the lead agency and is required, in consultation with Clinton County Mental Health Services, to ensure that a network of services providers is available and to guarantee access to the full array of HCBS Waiver services to enrolled youth. This includes recruiting additional providers should a service area not be available or accessible, as the population requires.
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BHSN is an approved provider of Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) for adults in Clinton County. These services are for adults (age 21 and over), for Health and Recovery Plan (HARP) eligible enrollees who are Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health needs within New York State's Behavioral Health System. These individuals are diagnosed with a serious mental illness and/or substance use disorders and meet designated criteria as designated by New York State.
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We understood the pain of the parents, how crude people were being to them saying that their daughter didn't have morals and that she had run away with a boy. However, the parents were stubborn enough that something ill had happened to their daughter and she did not run away with anyone by her will.
We pulled out every string in the case, checked her phone's history and messages, talked to her school friends, neighbours and we deduced that there was a 16-year-old boy from 11th standard who spent quite a lot of time with this girl.
It had been almost ten days since the girl vanished. The boy was regularly coming to the school, so no one suspected him. But we knew something was not right and he was not telling the complete truth. We dig up through his chats and records. We found one unknown number which he talked to while he was in school or when he was out.
That number was of that missing girl. She had become pregnant with this boy's child and ran away panicking. She thought that this boy would save her, instead, he got her to an abortion centre and removed the child. This took a toll on the girl's health, she was not ready to go back home since she feared what her parents would think.
We followed the boy one day and he led us to the girl. We caught both of them and brought them to our centre and then called their parents. We tried and convinced the girl's parents that they should now just take care of her instead of giving her more strength as she had already lost her physical strength at such a tender age.
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August 12, 2003
When Georgia and John Locke went to New York City for a business conference last week, their family had a surprise in store.
"They'd been trying to get the house painted for over a year, but they're so busy with work and helping other people they haven't gotten around to it," said Susan Locke, 34, the Lockes' daughter-in-law.
Taking their cue from the popular TV show "While You Were Out," the family painted the entire house, located in central Greeley, aerated the yard and fixed the sprinkler system. Family members put a purple ribbon and bow around a column on the porch and tied balloons to the railing.
As Georgia and John drove up in their minivan Sunday, they thought it was a surprise birthday party for John, who turned 58 that day. But then they noticed their once yellow 1920s-era house was repainted a lighter yellow with white trim and a sage-colored trellis, chairs and gables.
Sunday was the third time they've been had by family members. Last September, the Lockes came home to a newly painted bathroom with refurbished cabinets and a note on the door, "While you were out."
The first time was about three years ago when their sister-in-law,
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On this weekend's project, 22 family members and volunteers from the Westview Church of Christ pitched in while the couple was away, using the paint already bought but gathering dust in the garage.
Figuring out what color paint went where was a little tricky, but the mission was accomplished. The crew also had to tear out bushes in front of the house in order to get the painting done. On Saturday, Sadie Keilitz, the Lockes' 31-year-old daughter, and Susan Locke planted flowers where the bushes once stood.
As the deadline approached Sunday, banter brought some laughs.
"They'll probably leave the house unlocked and go away more often," said Bob Locke, Georgia and John's 34-year-old son.
"That's probably why they go away so often now," said Fred Keilitz, a son-in-law.
Sadie told the crowd that they probably wouldn't do that much work for someone they didn't like.
"Unless you paint it purple," said Deborah Boverie, the wife of Westview's minister.
"It's not safe for people to leave town around us," someone else said.
Most of the family members have lived with Georgia and John at some point, Susan said, and they currently have an international student living with them. So the family wanted to do something nice for them, with the help of Chien-Chung, a 36-year-old man from Taiwan who is earning his Ph.D. in mathematics education from the University of Northern Colorado.
He was left in charge of the house and told not to let anyone in.
"You don't watch the house very well," John told Chien-Chung on Sunday, laughing. "Someone came over and put paint all over it."
The neighbors are probably glad, too, Georgia said. She and John felt as if their home was the black eye of the block, but they just couldn't find the time to get it all done.
The new look couldn't have come at a better time either. The Lockes need to get their home appraised for refinancing.
Georgia said she needs to start planning another trip because the floors need work. The top level kind of squeaks, and they need new carpet and linoleum, she said..
"See, this is why we moved everybody to Greeley," she said, "so they can take care of us in our old age."


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A meeting was held with support from the UK Biotechnology and Biosciences Research Council (with additional support from transPLANT) to bring together researchers from the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union to discuss the potential application of plant (trait, phenotype) ontologies to describe agronomic traits in crop plants.
Ruth Bastow, University of Warwick
Paul Kersey, European Bioinformatics Institute
Chris Rawlings, Rothamsted Research
As an ever-increasing amount of sequence information for a variety of plant species becomes readily available, a gap is emerging between the physical genome information and the quantitative information regarding phenotypes and traits. It is becoming clear that the application of quantitative genetic information by researchers and breeders is limited by a lack of standardisation in the nomenclature used to describe both crop development and agronomic traits. Without either standardisation of nomenclature, or information which provides the equivalence links between trait descriptions, it is hard to compare information from QTL and association studies in a way that permits systematic transfer of knowledge about genotype-phenotype relationships among crops or between crops and their nearest model organism.
We are therefore invited a small number of scientists from the UK and US to assess current plant-focused ontologies, to explore how they can be used to link between phenotype to genotype relationships, to identify gaps in their coverage and to recommend areas for future collaboration in the development and extension of ontologies.


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By Strunk (anonymous) | Posted June 21, 2012 at 12:47:02
Good read, but longish and inclined toward the academic. I suspect most would stop reading before they even hit the byline. Maybe more bite-sized commentary or a two-minute video is what we need to crack this nut.
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Apart from hot sun and sweat, summer reminds us about pickling, making vadams and vathals and many more. There are lot of seasonal fruits and vegetables with which we can make pickles and vathals and that can be stored and used later. Vadu manga (Tender mango) is one such. Generally vadu manga pickle is in watery consistency, I made it slightly thicker since I like it that way. Curd rice and vadu manga pickle is a great combo and also it goes well with hot phulkas or rotis. Here is the recipe for the pickle.
Vadu manga oorukai (Tender Mango Pickle)
- Recipe Cuisine: South India
- Recipe Category: Pickle
- Preparation Time: 2 weeks
- Cooking time: mins
- Serves: 2 cups
|Vadu manga (Tender mango)
|4 cups heaped
|Sesame oil
|¼ cup
|Mustard seeds
|1 tsp
|Curry leaves (optional)
|1 sprig
|Rock salt
|1 cup
|Red chilli powder
|2 tbsp
|Mustard powder (optional)
|2 tsp
|Fenugreek powder
|1 tsp
|½ tsp
1. Select the good ones and wash the mangoes in water and dry them with a kitchen towel. Make sure there is no moisture.
2. Put half of the quantity inside a ceramic or glass jar and add in rock salt.
3. Add the remaining mangoes and salt. Cover the jar with a lid and shake well to spread the salt evenly.
4. Keep it aside for a week. Shake the jar once in a day or twice. After a week the salt melts into water and the mangoes get shrunk.
5. Heat oil in vessel and season it with mustard seeds and curry leaves.
6. Add in asafoetida and the mangoes along with the salt water. Bring it to a nice boil.
7. Mix them well and now you can see the water get reduced. Now add in mustard and fenugreek powder.
8. Give it a mix and add in red chilli powder.
9. Mix them well. Store in an air tight container and give them a mix once in a while. Keep it aside for a week and use it later.
Enjoy it with fresh curd rice 🙂 .


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They're calling it a revolution and it may as well be, with robots poised to eventually takeover many jobs that humans are doing now. Is yours going to affected?
If we're to go by how Hollywood presents them, being a lawyer seems like a pretty great job to have. It's thrilling and likely to be very interesting, it's also a high earning career that's got plenty of social status attached to it. Hiring a lawyer, in fact, takes up a substantial portion of money and that amount only increases depending on their track record.
However, what they do is actually significantly more routinized when compared to others. Here's why their job is likely to be in danger once AI's get to a point of advancement that they can takeover:
Sure, bespoke legal work will require a human touch. However, AI's can be relied upon when it comes to doing legal discovery; this is the pre-trial process wherein lawyers would have to decide which of the documents they have would be most relevant to the case at hand. AI's can also work on creating contracts, handle routine divorce proceedings, and even argue parking fines.
How this could playout:
Well, should this come to pass, finding junior lawyer jobs would be very difficult to do. That said, having a knowledge on both law and computer science might provide you with an advantage. With progress and change comes other new and interesting opportunities, after all.
Data-Entry Clerks.
When people think of this particular job, the words repetitive and tedious often come to mind. But, that said, there is great stability when it comes to this job. Given the massive amount of data generated by different individuals and companies, there will always be a need for data-entry professionals.
But the repetitiveness of the job will become its greatest weakness. With the advent of AI's that can perform the same job at a faster pace, it is likely that companies will no longer be interested in hiring humans to do the job. Think of it from a financial perspective—why pay hourly wages when you can simply get a robot to do things for you. The accuracy will greatly improve as well.
How this could playout:
Okay, so sitting in a cubicle typing away all day might become a thing of the past for humans—but AI's will still need someone to oversee them. Data science is also another field that they can look into.
Surprisingly enough, this is a job that could be in danger of getting taken over by AI's. You might wonder how a robot would be able to write a compelling piece of work, but considering how advanced some bots have become it certainly isn't far from becoming a reality.
Bots can be used to generate simple sports reports or other casual news articles. AI can also be used for investigative journalism, with the ability to pull up data within seconds, put together statistics with just a click of a mouse, and find interesting patterns that human eyes may have missed.
How this could playout:
Journalists won't be completely pushed out of the picture—if they learn how to play alongside them. Using the AI's research abilities can certainly help improve the accuracy of an article or help unearth key information for investigative journalism.
AI's could also help human writers personalize their work better, transforming written pieces in a way that makes it more interesting and accessible to people based upon their age, location, and reading level.
Of course, all of the aforementioned are just scenarios—there's no real certainty that it will happen. In fact, some experts argue that artificial intelligence will replace tasks and not the job itself. What this means is that the robots would be taking over the boring and time consuming tasks, which would then allow humans to work more on higher-level tasks. This increases productivity two-fold and because people have more time to focus on the work that matters, it could even boost progress in different industries.
Not to mention, improve the worker's quality of life as well.
In this scenario, who gets affected the most? Experts suggest that about 40% of global jobs will be replaced by robots. Particularly, the blue collar and white collar professions, but it is those who drive for a living that will get hit the hardest. Even at present, it's easy to see why.
Self-driving vehicles are becoming our reality and whilst it is still mostly in its beta phase, one can only assume that it would continue to progress from here. This means that truck drivers, chauffeurs, cab drivers—anyone who drives for a living will have to look into other industries as changes are expected to happen within 15 to 25 years. Yes, that soon.
Going fully automated seems ideal, but only on a surface level. Even people like Elon Musk have warned against the overuse of artificial intelligence and how it could negatively impact whole communities. Particularly, the low income workers who rely on this so-called menial jobs as a means of making a living. Despite the detractors and the fears, AI progress continues to develop and the general public is becoming more accepting of it.
Whether that's a good or bad thing is still up for debate. We may not even full understand its effects until the whole thing is in full swing. Balance will become key here and properly delegating jobs between humans and their robotic counterparts would be essential. For example, giving long-distance driving jobs to AI who do not need to sleep or eat. Such a mindset would be beneficial to both the industries and the workforce behind it.
As with any type of advancement, there are always consequences. In this case, we cannot fully predict what might happen, but there is a way of preparing. For one, putting the appropriate systems in place could help with creating balance and make sure that we're able to utilize this powerful technology in the best way possible.
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May 25, 2018
Let's Make Your Memorial Day a DIY Breeze
Posted in Living by John Trupin
If you have ever had the responsibility of hosting a get-together over Memorial Day weekend, you probably know that it can be a daunting task. Between barbecuing, decorating, and general mayhem, the three-day weekend can feel like its own brand of work. To ease those stresses, we've gathered up a few of our favorite DIY Memorial Day traditions that can make everyone's lives easier.
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May 23, 2018
Three Deck Design Ideas to Get Your Yard Ready for Summer
Posted in Living by John Trupin
A delightfully warm spring in many parts of the Western U.S. has many folks brushing off their summer clothing early. While this is exciting for all who love the outdoors, public spaces like parks and beaches may be overcrowded. What better time, then, to focus on ways to maximize the space you have in your own home. There's no one ideal way to design or set up your deck, but...
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May 16, 2018
How An Accent Wall Can Bring Everything Together
Posted in Living by John Trupin
An accent wall is an emphasized wall in a room that has been designed to attract attention from adjacent walls. The simplest (and cheapest) option to go about an accent wall is by means of paint, though some may opt for wallpaper or tile. Homes with accent walls add a surprise element to a room and define an area of space that deserves attention.
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May 14, 2018
Start Moving in the Right Direction
Posted in Living by John Trupin
Moving is stressful, whether it is across town or cross-country. Once you've closed on your house, the reality of packing, moving, and setting up a new home can become overwhelming. While no list can make a move "stress-free", planning ahead and staying organized can help make your move a little smoother. Here is our list of tips:
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May 09, 2018
Simple Steps for Maintaining Air Quality in Your Home
Posted in Living by John Trupin
Most of us tend to think of air pollution as something that occurs outdoors where car exhaust and factory fumes proliferate, but there's such a thing as indoor air pollution, too. Since the 1950s, the number of synthetic chemicals used in products for the home has increased drastically, while at the same time, homes have become much tighter and better insulated. As a result, the EPA estimates...
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April 18, 2018
Why You Should Stay Put and Improve the Home You Have
Posted in Living by Kenady Swan
In "Staying Put," architect and writer Duo Dickinson has assembled a terrific and practical guide to help us make real improvements to our homes. Dickinson, an advocate of well-designed and affordable homes for all...
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April 11, 2018
Why Not White Marble?
Posted in Living by Kenady Swan
Are you thinking about replacing your kitchen or bathroom countertops? The choices are endless; tile, granite, soapstone, wood, or maybe marble? White marble often gets a bad rap because it's a more porous metamorphic stone than most (which means it's prone to stains and scratches), but we beg to differ, and here's why.
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April 02, 2018
Home Decor Through The Decades
Posted in Living by Guest Author
As we celebrate our 45th anniversary here at Windermere, we're feeling a bit nostalgic. The fundamentals of helping our clients buy and sell homes haven't changed much over the past 45 years, but the way we decorate our homes sure has. Let's take a trip down memory lane and explore interior design trends from the past four decades...
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March 19, 2018
12 Tips for Making Your Bedroom Cozier
Posted in Living by Kenady Swan
At the end of a long day, your bedroom should be a sanctuary of comfort that welcomes you in. But, as a room that guests rarely see and in which homeowners spend most of their time with their eyes closed, its upkeep frequently gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. Thankfully, there are some little design tricks that can make a big difference.
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March 12, 2018
A Home Addition: What to Consider Before Starting to Build
Posted in Selling, Living, and Architecture by Kenady Swan
Adding on to your current home may be your best bet if you're short on space, but you don't want to move or can't find another house in the area with all the qualities you're seeking. It's also an attractive option if the house you have is lacking just one significant element (a family room, another bedroom, a larger kitchen, a separate apartment, etc.).
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BBC: China's economy shows strong growth
China says its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, exceeding even the government's own initial expectations.
The pace of change increased as the year went on, with growth in the final quarter of 2009 increasing by 10.7% from 2008.
It is a major turnaround for an economy that was hit by the global downturn just a year ago.
China is now on course to overtake Japan and become the world's second-biggest economy.
Japan announces its latest GDP figures next month. Its economy is likely to have contracted by around 6% in 2009. ...


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It's safe to say that hybrid trap is where this whole bass wagon has been headed for a while. Dubstep started sounding like a person with A.D.D. flipping through bass samples with a remote control and trap had been too simplistic for it's own good. Why not combine the best of both worlds and take those raunchy 808s and compliment them with some dirty growls? Several artists have been able to pioneer this new style, while Dubsef and WHIPPED CREAM seem to be right on top of the movement.
On their original track "Anticipate," they took a more bounce forward approach with a fluttering kick and pitch bent laser progressions that keep the track evolving up and down the scale. This one is still a little thugged out for the dub-heads but we don't really see how anyone could not catch the rhythm of this massive beat. Make sure to grab a free download of the track below and hit up the guys on their socials.
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How to play the card game of cribbage. Some rules, strategy, and other tips to dig into this fun pasttime.
Cribbage is a fun game that can be played by just about anyone. Knowing how to play can pass the time on a dreary rainy day or a good warm day inside in the winter. Playing the game is continually interesting because no two games are alike. The combination of strategy and luck involved makes for a game anyone can win at. Knowing some tricks and tips will help you end up on the victorious end more often than not. Knowing how your opponent plays and figuring out how they are going to play brings a little bit of human behavior study into the game as well.
Cribbage is played on a wooden board with 120 holes per person. Pegging from the starting point through those 120 holes to the end will make you the winner. How to peg through each point will decide who gets there first. The game sometimes comes down to who counts first in the last hand so make sure that you diplomatically decide who goes first. Do this by drawing cards and the highest goes first or figure out some other way to make the decision.
Each person in the two person game gets six cards dealt to them out of an ordinary deck with no jokers. Each person then decides which four cards to keep and which two will go into the dealer's kitty. The kitty moves each time from person to person depending on who deals. After the normal hands are played, the kitty is counted as a separate hand which still uses the wild card.
Make sure not to throw any points into your opponents kitty if you can help it.
When each person has four cards, put the kitty aside until later. Then the pegging begins. Make sure your pieces are in the starting point on the board. Then the person who did not deal, takes the deck of leftover cards, cuts the cards and the other person takes the top card cut and puts it face up on the deck. This is the wild card that you may use in your hand when you start adding up your point. This wild card cut can make or break a lot of hands as some people are luckier than others.
Now each person lays down one card at a time face up on their side of the board. Counting the value of the cards until you reach 31. An example would be person #1 lays down a 9, then person #2 lays down a 7 for 16. Then person #1 lays down a 10 for 26. And so on up to 31. If someone can not put down a card to equal or be less than 31 they give a go to the other person, who pegs one point and puts down any cards that they have under 31. Then you start over with the person who gave the go back at 0 up to 31 again.
While this is going on you can earn points by pegging. While people are laying down cards if you make an exact 15, you get 2 points. If you make a pair off the other person's lay down you get 2 points. If one person lays down a 6, the other a 7 and the first person an 8 then they get 3 points for a run. A run can be any number of cards, they just have to be in a row. A K,Q, and Jack would work as well.
Pegging may seem like a simple exercise, but really someone can get quite a number of points and open up their lead with pegging points. Knowing not to play a 5 on your first card so that your opponenet may play a ten, J, Q, or K and make 15 for 2 points is one good strategy to learn.
After the pegging is over you count up your hand. The rules for points are pretty much the same as for those with pegging. Pairs are 2 points, runs are a point for each card in the run. 15's are 2 points etc. One exception is a double run. This would be comprised of a example like a 5, 6, and 2 7's. This is one of the nicer hands in cribbage. It is a double run equalling eight points. You get a run for 5, 6, and 7. Then use the 5 and 6 over with the other 7 for another run and then 2 points for the pair.
Triple runs work the same way if the card cut on the deck was the same as your pair for 3 7's. Three of a kind is worth 6 points. Very nice.
Cribbage is an extremely enjoyable game that anyone can play. Different boards are made that can be travelled with, can allow for 3 players, etc. Collections of boards can become quite a hobby in itself as you find differently made boards that are quite impressive.
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We are ClearIT.
ClearIT is a Swedish company headquartered in Stockholm. In bright offices located on the island of Södermalm, we work with one single thing: Clear Interact contact center solution. In other Nordic countries and in Ireland, we have customers as well as retailers and partners we work closely with. The company was founded in 2000 and we're proud to say that many customers from our early days are still with us today. Many of us who work here have been here from the start, and even some who went on to other things came back again. We believe this is due to the fact that we work closely with wonderful customers and that everyone who works at ClearIT enjoys working here.
Meet our team
We want to give you a chance to get to know our team a little better.
Peter Lindahl
Or "Head of IVR", which is the title he uses internally, as it's here the IVR magic is created. Peter is the most cheerful guy at the office, and the one who persuades (most of) us to do a daily plank. At the time of writing, we're up to an impressive 2.15 minutes. Maybe we'll all end up doing PT twice a week. Just like Peter does.
Madeleine Miljeteig
Support Manager
Our rock-steady Madde is not only a co-owner but also a founder of ClearIT, and has been with us from day one. When she's not running quarterly meetings, planning evening jobs, or just plain dominating the support department, then you'll find skiing in Björnrike is top of the list of places you'll find her.
Marcus Kero
Systems Engineer
Not to be confused with his little brother Martin Kero, support engineer at ClearIT. Marcus is the one who makes sure the technology works, from printers and mobile phones to VPN tunnels and RTP streams. He's the savior in tech emergencies and of course he's the fastest keyboard in the land. He also boasts the office's most pedantic desk.
Ola Hemb
Delivery Manager
Ola is a bit like ClearIT's very own toolbox; he has solutions and answers for nearly everything. It's doubtful if there is a single customer out there who hasn't worked with Ola in one way or another. In addition to being an appreciated and knowledgeable colleague, he's also a boys' hockey coach and a dedicated lunchtime exerciser.
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How to choose the best cordless water flosser?
Maintaining oral hygiene is pretty important to maintain good health of the teeth and gums. Usual flossing can often cause bleeding for people who have gum problems. So, they can actually look for the best cordless water flosser to make things easy for them. These are the things to keep in mind while buying one:
- Battery: This is an important point to check while buying the cordless water flosser. It can either have a replaceable battery or a rechargeable battery.
- Water Reservoir Capacity: This will decide on the amount of time that the flosser will work. So, do check on the capacity before buying the flosser.
- Water Pressure Settings: Different models will have either 2 or 3 pressure settings. It is best if you choose a model that has pressure settings between 45 to 75 psi.
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The River Falls Journal published an article discussing the presentation given by the Clifton High Speed Internet Coalition at the June 2017 Clifton Town Board meeting.
"At their monthly board meeting, Clifton Town supervisors saw the small Town Hall filled with residents trying to find a way to bring better broadband services to the township.
Coalition members presented a survey that will be designated for Clifton residents to give feedback on what kind of broadband services they would like to see. Questions relate to Clifton residents' services providers and their quality, the primary reasons for Clifton residents to use the internet, and what their overall level of satisfaction is with their current providers.
The coalition was requesting $400 to mail postcards to every single Clifton resident. The postcard will have a phone number that Clifton residents, if they're interested, can call to answer the questions on the survey if they have poor or no Internet access.
The full article can be found here: www.riverfallsjournal.com/news/government/4282703-clifton-board-rejects-clifton-broadband-coalition-400-request-joe-rohl-join
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Online Safety
There has been a recent trend on Youtube and other video websites of users uploading seemingly innocent videos that actually are unsuitable for children or even ask your child to do things and keep it a secret, even on Youtube for Kids. The following websites provide useful advice on spotting changes in your child's behaviour, monitoring history and developing healthy online habits.
Remember to teach your children the basic rule of 'if anything doesn't feel right and gives you an uh-oh feeling, show and tell an adult immediately'. Its better for your child to be overly cautious and seek reassurance multiple times than think they will get in trouble for seeking your help.
I'm worried my child might see something inappropriate online
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Thinkuknow aims to ensure that everyone has access to this practical information – children, young people, their parents and carers and the professionals who work with them.
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Working households have gained just £650 extra to spend since 2006/07, less than a tenth of what they gained in the previous decade (£7,200).
Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis of the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics shows that working households' disposable incomes have risen by a mere 0.2 per cent a year since 2006/7 – compared to annual growth of 3.3 per cent in the ten years before that.
And the TUC is warning that this decade's meagre increase could be wiped out in the coming year, as real wages are expected to continue falling in 2018.
The small growth in household income is mainly driven by more households having work. But pay is lower, with average real wages still worth £38 per week less than before the crisis.
TUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady said, "It's been a historically bad decade for working people's incomes.
"More people are working than ever, but their incomes have barely budged in a decade. That should set alarm bells ringing in Westminster.
"Britain needs a pay rise. Ministers should hike up the minimum wage and get investing across the UK."
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Norwegian energy firm Statoil could lay off another 2,000 employees by the end of 2016, business daily Dagens Naeringsliv (DN) said on Friday.
The decision will be finalised in the near future, after discussions with the management and representatives from the unions on Thursday.
According to DN, 1,500 employees will be laid off, as well as 500 hired workers.
The cuts would be part of Statoil's technical efficiency programme announced in February, which targets a $1.7 billion annual cost reduction.
A Statoil spokesman told Reuters that there was no basis to comment before a decision had been made.
Statoil employed 22,500 workers at the end of 2014 with 19,700 based in Norway.
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VNA Home, Inc. is a non-medical home care agency located in New Milford, CT. We are an affiliate of New Milford VNA & Hospice Inc.
VNA Home is passionate about enhancing the quality of life of our seniors and their families in Litchfield, Fairfield, and New Haven Counties. We are one of the few non-medical home care agencies that is a non-profit agency.
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Why connect is more important
It is a virtual world around us, no matter how much we crib either sides, in all honesty either of the extremes are not workable today. We cannot off tech completely cause then we are cut off from lot of ease on the other hand too much of tech is aloof of lot of people which again has more personality issues coming forward.
Where do we balance ? What do we balance ? Why do we balance ?
Last come first out, why do we balance ? There is still a life which is not virtual and until you plan to live a life similar to one in Wall – E, I actually suggest it is better to connect with friends without selfies, without worrying too much about where the phone is. More importantly having a real time conversations by looking at each other rather than face time only.
What do we balance ? Extended hours at work, rush hour traffic is saddening, better pay packs is conversely proportional to personal life time ? Lets put it another way face to face conversation than just on the phone conversations is not an ideal solution to stay connected. A tight hug, a warm hand shake, a smile after you meet, jokes on the spur of the moment, a walk with a deep conversation, sharing meal on the same table. These are things no matter what no virtual world would be able to replace to enjoy these you have to be connected to world.
On the other hand a visit to hospital, discuss your life lows, share the pain brought in by the loss of a family member, visit by your family or friends when you are alone. This all would happen when you are with people cause again tech is not going to compensate in life. What do we balance, balance between connectivity and real life conversations.
Still today people believe what you say, make sure you are communicating your best when you do, cause speaking is still just 30% of conversation there is still 70% of the conversation is lost out without you being there. Writing and sharing you feelings or talks is all the most worse, cause nobody knows the tone in which is going to reach the other person you are trying to communicate too.
I know all of this, now how or rather where do I do it? Make sure you are spending atleast 30 mins for yourself what you like to do, be it sleeping that extra 30 mins, watching the birds singing, reading a book anything that you love to do or helps you to grow. Does sleeping extra 30 minutes helps, I don't know it is upto you for me reading a book like I really look forward to or do a course for something to learn new. Something new thrills me. You need another 30 minutes for exercising be it yoga, walk, gym, cycling, swimming, or anything just make sure that there is something you are doing. I randomly do pick up one or the other activity but surely do it.
Procrastination is a disease just like any other disease you may think of. It is like making your life to live in urgency cause when you had the time and advantage to do it comfortably you avoided it, so that you are compelled to do. A sense of urgency will have higher burn outs for you and increases the chances of losing your creditability for commitments.
Conclusively dont take things too seriously, have time for self, other, work and tech it is 4th dimension of we multi dimensional beings.
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A couple projects I've been working on have a need for a REPL style console. I had written a simple framework for creating REPL's, which is open-sourced here.
A couple projects I've been working on have a need for a REPL style console. I had written a simple framework for creating REPL's, which is open-sourced here.
I recently had a reason to need a TELNET server and couldn't find a Java library that worked for me. After a weekend of hacking, I now have kTelnet, an Open-source, BSD-licensed, TELNET server.
I've recently become very interested in blockchain, and that, naturally led me to Ethereum and Bitcoin. From there, I got a little interested in online trading, but since I prefer not to have to think about trading, I started thinking about a trading bot. Part of the work I needed to do was write a Java API for Qaudrigacx. The API is here and is free to use under the GPL v3 terms.
I was recently asked to release some of my code to Maven Central, and therefore had to figure out how to do it. I've now released these khubla.com libraries: cBean Pragmatach antlr4test-maven-plugin OLMReader simpleIOC ParadoxReader The maven coordinates for each are documented on the github pages.
I recently had a reason to parse a large data set, for another project. I decided that an ideal "large data set" would be my Outlook mail saved archives. Sadly, Outlook for Mac doesn't output PST files, it outputs OLM archives, which are, essentially, giant zip files full of XML. I was coding this all in Java, so I needed a Java library to parse OLM files. The resulting source code is here. Schema for OLM XML is here.
I've been interested in RIAK for a while, and ORM's are nothing short of fascinating. I decided to try writing an ORM for Riak, and the results are here: https://github.com/teverett/cbean My ORM is not an ORM of course, because RIAK is not relational. However it is ORM-like; I can store POJO's and retrieve them. The features I wanted for my ORM were those that I am accustomed to with Hibernate, or eBean. Ability to store POJO's and retrieve them Ability to store object trees of POJO's which contain POJO's Support for Lists of POJO's composed inside a POJO Lazy Loading In the end, I ended up with a ORM-like layer that can store data into any Key-Value store. There is a plugin which supports RIAK, and there is an emulated Key-Value store built on a filesystem, which is useful for development purposes. Theoretically cBean could work on any Key-Value store, such as MongoDB, but I haven't built that support yet. Adding support for a Key-Value store is as simple as implementing the the interface KVService. Supported Types All java simple types (int, String, long, etc) All java wrapper types (Integer, Long, etc) Contained POJOs java.util.List of POJOs java.util.UUID java.util.Date Annotations Similar to Hibernate or eBean, cBean POJO's must be annotated. I didn't chose to use the JPA annotations, but instead defined my own. They are here. There numerous cBean annotated POJO's in the tests, here. @Entity Similar to JPA, the @Entity annotation simply marks the POJO as one which is of interest to cBean. @Id Every POJO must have an id field and it must be a String or UUID. The @Id field is a little different in cBean than in JPA. Inserting a new object with the same JPA @Id as one that already exists in the RDBMS is an error. In cBean, you simply overwrite the existing object. @Property The @Property is used to indicate that a specific property (simple type, wrapper type, object type or list type) will be persisted. POJO fields without the @Property annotation are ignored. There are a number of properties which are valid on an @Property annotation. cascadeSave cascadeDelete cascadeLoad ignore nullable cascadeSave, cascadeDelete, and cascadeDelete are only relevant for POJO fields which are themselves POJOs, or lists of POJOs. Setting "cascadeLoad=false", naturally, indicates that the field is lazy-loaded. @Version An POJO can define an Integer field and annotate it with @Version. cBean will increment the annotated field by 1 each time the POJO is saved. Referential Integrity Frameworks like Hibernate or eBean provide referential integrity because RDBMS's provide referential integrity. Key-Value stores, such as RIAK do not provide referential integrity, and therefore neither does cBean. Therefore is it entirely possible to persist a POJO which contains a POJO, and have the contained POJO be deleted underneath the parent. In a RDBMS this can be prevented with a foreign key; there is no such protection in cBean. Therefore application code using cBean must be aware that POJOs in lists, for example, may not be resolvable when the list is reloaded. The strategy that cBean uses for handling broken "foreign keys" is two-fold: If a POJO contains a child POJO and the child is deleted, that Object will be set to null on reload If a POJO contains a list of POJO's and one of the elements is deleted, the element Object will be set to null. The List size() will remain the same as when it was persisted. Example Code There is a working example at https://github.com/teverett/cbean/tree/master/example.
I've tried a couple different mp3 taggers to tag my mp3 library, however, most seem to have trouble with large mp3 libraries. So, after doing some reading about AcoustID and MusicBrainz I decided to quickly code up my own tagger, MusicBrainzTagger. MusicBrainzTagger is a command-line application which recurses a directory of mp3 files and tags each one, one by one. This approach allows it to handle very large libraries; it only processes one file at a time. File processing consists of reading any ID3 tags in the input mp3, and then calculating the Acoustic ID fingerprint. The fingerprint is then resolved to a MusicBrainz ID which is used to look up the recording. MusicBrainzTagger then tags the file, renames it, and moves it to a new directory.
A complete list of my ANTLR grammars HTML Redcode gff3 6502 Assembler fasta BASIC Creole Logo brainfuck
If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend it. I discovered it in high school and finally purchased my first copy at the now-gone Duthie Books in Kitsilano. Without going into the details of the book, the author uses a simple Peano arithmetic called Typographical Number Theory (TNT) to illustrate some of his points. An example expression in TNT could look like this (from Wikipedia): ∀a:∀b:(a + b) = (b + a) Which means "for every number a and every number b, a plus b equals b plus a" I decided to write a simple ANTLR grammar for TNT, which you can find here.
I've been interested in HTML parsing for a while now. There are a number of reasons to do this, such as: Validating that what claims to be HTML, is HTML Finding every style sheet and script in an HTML file Pretty-printing Syntax highlighting Linting Translating between markup languages, for example generating JSPs from PHP, or perhaps generating JSPs from ASPs. One of the most difficult aspects of modern web programming is that any example server-side markup file likely contains 4 programming languages: HTML CSS Javascript The markup language, such as PHP, JSP or C#. Or maybe VB. So, if you're going to write an HTML parser, you need to be able to not only parse the HTML, but also to find the style and script sections, and pull them out. You also need to be able to find the scriptlets where the markup is generated. Additionally, there is the fact that modern HTML is messy. It's perfectly valid to have missing end-tags, or attribute values that aren't quoted. These edge cases just add to the difficultly in writing the parser. If the end goal is to read .php source and emit similar .jsp source, then one needs an HTML parser that can do all of the above. The .php source will have to be pulled out of each scriptlet, and fed to another parser, which can parse the PHP. Strange as it may sound, this is not actually as difficult as it seems. It's not hard to imagine doing something similar with legacy .asp pages. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to convert source from one language to another. For example, an organization may have significant investment in an application that works, but is in an outdated language such as ASP. Re-writing the application is an option, however it's usually an expensive option. Conversion from one language to another might be cheaper, and approaches of that sort have been used before. The tree of ANTLR4 grammars didn't have a HTML parser, and I like ANTLR, so I wrote an HTML grammar for ANTLR4 which, I believe, does all of the above. You can take a look here. In order to show the parser working, I wrote a quick java program that reads an HTML input file and dumps all scripts and styles to the console. It's here. If you're interested to see what the generated AST looks like for an HTML page, here's the front page of reddit this morning, as an AST.


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At the end of the article he gives a huge shout out to longtime friends and members of TCC, Dick Burkhart and Mona Lee. Come say hi to Dick at Mona on Saturday at the Othello Station Streetfair!
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While certainly not easy (1995-96 and 2000-01 come to mind!), it has been an incredible honor to work with the elected officials on the ST Board, the staff (Joni Earl for instance) and particularly the interested citizens (Mona Lee and Dick Burkhart come to mind) who have engaged, often passionately in this saga. I do wish the voters had approved the Forward Thrust plan in 1968, but what a ride my generation would have missed! For someone who wants to make a difference in people's lives it has been the chance of a lifetime.


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FAQ 1. Is Flossing REALLY Important?
Honesty is the best policy! Here at Clatskanie Dental, we won't judge you. We're here to educate you & help you reach your oral health goals!
So...is flossing REALLY important?
Flossing cleans the surfaces in between the teeth that you can't reach with a toothbrush. The American Dental Association recommends people clean in between their teeth daily, but flossing is just one modality. When used correctly, people can achieve the same oral hygiene using small interdental brushes or oral irrigators (aka 'water flossers").
Cleaning between the teeth can reduce harmful inflammation and therefore lower your risk of PERIODONTAL DISEASE, which is said to affect at least 50% of Americans.
Still unsure? Ask your Dentist before implementing any new oral hygiene regimen.
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How a Health Savings Account (HSA) May Reduce Your Dental Costs*
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To help save you money on dental or medical care!
WHAT is a HSA?
A Health Savings Account is a separate account you or your employer can put money into before taxes are taken out, which may save you money on your dental care.
WHO can open a HSA?
You may ask your employer if they offer HSA to employees or you may apply for your own HSA through your financial institution or bank.
Interested in opening a HSA? Contact your employer or financial institution/bank for more information!
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FAQ 3. Painless Dental Injections: Fact or Myth?
Can getting a dental injection really be a 'painless' experience?
At Clatskanie Dental Clinic, we think it can! Let's explore why we believe this and why you should care.
What do most people dread about going to the dentist: the injection! However, there are actually quite a few techniques your dentist can implement to make the injection 'painless.' Here at Clatskanie Dental, Dr. Ross uses 3 distinct methods to ensure you have the most comfortable injection possible:
- We Warm It Up: We warm the dental anesthetic so that it is near body temperature. Your body can interpret cold substances as pain, so this helps the body absorb the anesthetic more comfortably.
- We Go Slow: We administer the anesthetic very slowly, which gives the body more time to adjust and therefore reduces the chance of it feeling painful.
- Remember To Breath: Most people forget to breathe during dental injections because they're afraid. We gently remind you to breathe during the injection, which calms our patients. Also, the body interprets pain less during exhalation so you don't feel it as much.
- Topical Agent: Our topical agent is very effective at "pre-numbing" the area, making the injection even more painless!
We strive to make our patients feel as comfortable as possible and we know dental fear is real. If you're suffering from dental pain and are avoiding going to the dentist because you're afraid, you're not alone!
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FAQ 5. Can a Dental cleaning really lower my risk of heart disease?
For decades, medical researchers have hypothesized the link between oral health and whole-body systemic health. Is this link still considered ambiguous in the medical community or is there hard evidence to prove that poor oral health leads to systemic deterioration? Recent studies published in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology (2013), Journal of Oral Science (2016) and Journal of Cardiology (2010) suggest the answer is clear in regards to the link between oral health and cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Oral Disease
Have you or a family member ever been told by your dentist that you need a "deep cleaning?" According to the CDC (2010), 1 in 2 Americans (47.2%) have moderate to severe periodontitis. Once you hit age 65 your odds of developing periodontitis skyrocket to 70%. Periodontitis is caused by harmful bacteria such as Porphyromonas gingivalis that, through multiple complex processes, illicit production of host immune and inflammatory chemicals that lead to the deterioration of the endothelial cells of the gums and subsequent bone supporting the teeth, similar to the way termites eat and destroy wood, potentially leading to serious acute infections and eventual tooth loss. Although periodontitis is an incurable condition, treatment modalities have shown to be effective long-term in slowing the progression and stabilizing the condition. The traditional treatment for periodontitis is non-surgical periodontal therapy, aka a "deep cleaning", performed at your dentist's office. Periodontal therapy, depending on the severity and presence of co-morbidities such as diabetes, may include adjunctive treatments such as local antibiotics that help treat the diseased tissue directly or even laser therapy.
Cardiovascular Disease
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Americans, killing over 600,000 people every single year (CDC 2017). Atherosclerosis, an immune and inflammatory disease that presents as dysfunctional thickening of blood vessels, presents in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The process by which atherosclerosis, or blood vessel thickening, takes place is multifaceted. Basically, as plaques build up in the arteries, endothelial cell breakdown leads to foam cell formation that narrows the blood vessel leading to blood flow blockage. These atherosclerotic plaques may burst open, potentially causing a blood clot that can block the flow of blood causing a thrombotic stroke. The destructive inflammatory processes involved in CVD lead to increased cardiovascular risk markers such as destructive inflammatory blood markers (CRP, fibrinogen, interleukin-6), increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure, increased left ventricular mass (an enlarged heart), and arterial stiffness (thickened blood vessels). Biomarker interleukin-6 is especially correlated with cerebral ischemia (stroke).
Oral-systemic Link
So, what is the connection between periodontitis and the number one killer, heart disease? Both diseases exhibit a mechanism of endothelial (blood vessel wall) breakdown which leads to increased inflammatory biomarkers CRP, IL-6, haptoglobin and leukocytes, which present as bone and soft tissue destruction around teeth (periodontitis) and blood vessel thickening and subsequent heart blockage or stroke (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease). The microbiological processes and components involved in both processes are analogous and the bacteria P gingivalis is present in most (64%) atherosclerotic plaques seen in patients with cardiovascular disease. Because research to find a causal relationship between oral bacteria and heart disease is extremely difficult and complex, as technologies improve medical researchers are finding more and more correlative and causative relationships between certain biomarkers. In a 6-month randomized clinical trial, non-surgical periodontal therapy was shown effective in reducing levels of systemic inflammatory markers such as ESR and triglycerides (significant reduction), as well as reduction in CRP and total cholesterol (moderate reduction). Periodontal therapy helps to stabilize these biomarkers up to 6-months post-operatively in patients with periodontitis.
In a 2013 study published by the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, non-surgical periodontal therapy (deep cleaning) was shown to significantly reduce all cardiovascular risk markers evaluated, including systemic inflammation plasma markers (CRP, fibrinogen and interleukin-6), systolic and diastolic blood pressure, left ventricular mass (heart enlargement) and arterial stiffness, which lead to a lower cardiovascular risk. Scaling and root planing, aka "deep cleaning", was shown to produce an even greater systemic reduction of inflammatory markers seen in patients who receive adjunctive therapies such as local administration of antibiotics such as minocycline.
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Oral cancer is one of the most common cancers today and has one of the lowest survival rates, with thousands of new cases being reported each year. Fewer than half of all people diagnosed with oral cancer are ever cured.
Moreover, people with many forms of cancer can develop complications—some of them chronic and painful—from their cancer treatment. These include dry mouth and overly sensitive teeth, as well as accelerated tooth decay.
If oral cancer is not treated in time, it could spread to other facial and neck tissues, leading to disfigurement and pain.
Older adults over the age of 40 (especially men) are most susceptible to developing oral cancer, but people of all ages are at risk.
Oral cancer can occur anywhere in the mouth, but the tongue appears to be the most common location. Other oral structures could include the lips, gums and other soft palate tissues in the mouth.
Warning Signs
In general, early signs of oral cancer usually occur in the form of lumps, patchy areas and lesions, or breaks, in the tissues of the mouth. In many cases, these abnormalities are not painful in the early stages, making even self-diagnosis difficult.
Here are some additional warning signs:
- Hoarseness or difficulty swallowing.
- Unusual bleeding or persistent sores in the mouth that won't heal.
- Lumps or growths in other nearby areas, such as the throat or neck.
If a tumor is found, surgery will generally be required to remove it. Some facial disfigurement could also result.
Prevention is the key to staving off oral cancer. One of the biggest culprits is tobacco and alcohol use. Certain kinds of foods and even overexposure to the sun have also been linked to oral cancer. Some experts believe certain oral cancer risk factors are also hereditary.
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables is one of the best defenses against oral cancer. Maintaining good oral hygiene, and regular dental checkups, are highly recommended.


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Miller, M. A. 2009. Controls on the Atmospheric Radiative Divergence Budget in West Africa. Work presented at Third International AMMA Conference, July 20—24, at Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
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Monsoon system and its variability
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African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analyses (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
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The atmospheric radiative flux divergence is defined as the difference between the net incoming radiation entering an atmospheric column at the top of the atmosphere (TOA) and the radiation that exits the column at the surface. Positive values of the radiative flux divergence indicate net warming of the atmospheric column through the absorption of radiation and negative values indicate cooling through the emission of radiation. The factors that control the atmospheric radiative flux divergence in West Africa include clouds, dust, biomass burning, column water vapor, and surface vegetation. As part of the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis, the US Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program deployed a Mobile Facility (AMF) in Niamey, Niger during 2006 to measure the surface radiative, latent, and sensible heat fluxes, and to characterize the atmospheric state using an array of surface based remote sensors including cloud radar (Miller and Slingo, 2007). The AMF continuously measured the fluxes at the surface whilst the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget experiment aboard Meteosat 8 measured the broadband radiative fluxes at the TOA, whereupon the column radiative flux divergence could be computed every 15 minutes. This approach offered unique and unprecedented capabilities to analyze the factors that control this divergence, which operate at time scales that are compatible with these measurements. Instruments deployed in association with the AMF made possible the identification of specific infrared spectral signatures associated with radiatively significant dust, which is observed throughout the year in West Africa (Turner, 2008). Of the three minerals that can be detected using this approach, Kaolinite was observed in 94% of all cases and a trajectory dependent mixture of Gypsum and Kaolinite was found to be the most frequently observed mineral combination (66.6%). An analysis of cloud fraction observed during the wet season showed a bimodal distribution with one maximum near the freezing level (5-km) and a second in the layer between 10 and 15 km. A strong relationship between the Lifting Condensation Level (LCL) and the occurrence of clouds and precipitation was present in the AMF data, while no relationship between the Convective Available Potential Energy and these variables was found (Kollias et al., 2009). The net and component radiative fluxes were computed for all of 2006 using one-day mean values to circumvent sampling issues (Slingo et al., 2009). The longwave radiative flux divergence in the column was reasonably constant through 2006 at approximately -175 Wm-2. This constancy in the net longwave flux divergence despite strong impacts from controlling mechanisms at the surface and TOA is because, as column water vapor increases, the atmosphere loses longwave energy to the surface with about the same increasing efficiency that it traps outgoing longwave radiation. The shortwave radiative flux divergence was approximately 100 Wm-2 in 2006 with clouds found to affect the component fluxes more than the net flux, whereupon the impact of cloudiness is to redistribute heat within the column rather than to change the column absorption rate. The net radiative flux divergence indicates that the atmosphere loses energy to space during the course of the year at a steady rate of approximately -75 Wm-2.
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