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*Quick note* the boots are inter-changeable (Pick one or the other depending on your enemies).
The build is very simple, high crit.
+Very mobal
+Super high damage output
+Good chaser
+Great in team fights
+Early advantage
+Great solo ability
-Very item dependant
-low hp and can be squishy aganst a tank hero at low levels
-not an effective pusher
The stratigy
The item of this build is to max your damage output from Parrrley (late game crits go as high as 800 or more)
Use parrrley to harras your compitition untill they slip up with low hp and you can try and nuke them (1. attack/parrrley 2. Ignite 3.Exaust to make sure they dont get away).
Team fights:
When in a team fight it is key (but not needed) to have a disabler run in and focus the highest threat target when he is stunned lay out with your ulti then rush in and crit them to death.
How good are you? Well you have about a 80% crit chance once you get Infinity edge so I would say your pretty damn deadly even early game with only 2 Avarice blade.
Bloodthirster can be replaced with black cleaver if your haveing troubles with tanks.
Your yoyo blade (not the starting avarice, buy this instead of upgradeing to the blade) and be replaced with Last Whisper for more armor pent for tanks.
This is a shot from a recent test match. I played aganst Warwick, Amumu(tank), and Twitch.
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One thing about The Tiny Life is that having a small home encourages you to spend for time outside. This has a huge appeal to me because I love being outside and enjoying various activities such as gardening, backpacking, grilling etc. I plan to extend my Tiny Home's square footage with the use of Outdoor Living areas. I am sure most people can figure out what I mean by this, but essentially it is an outdoor space which uses natural elements to create a room like feel.
The advantages of an outdoor space is huge because it's very cheap and can be done without permits or inspections (with exception of larger decks and electrical). You can have a rather large area for very cheap and allows you to spend more of the year outdoors or handle having a large dinner party or cook out. These things come in all flavors from a picnic table to 40 square feet of granite counter tops with a full on stainless steel kitchen.
I have often thought of owning two or three separate plots of land where I build these outdoor spaces and just tow my house from one to the next. This allows me to migrate with the seasons (job permitting) so I can go North for the summer, down South for the winter etc. This way I could maximize my use of these rooms and have the outdoor spaces' plants geared to bloom when I will be there.
So here are so design ideas and photos for some inspiration in your spaces.
Encourage the winter sun, block it out in summer
With a tree canopy or a pergola with vines, in the summer the leaves will grow to block the sun and in the winter the leaves will die to allow more sun to warm the space.
Outdoor garden screens
To add privacy, define the space or block winds use hedges and boarder plants which are taller than your eye level. This lets you establish where the space starts and ends, can give the area a bit more "room" like quality and block wind if you are in a windy areas where in others you might want the breeze for warmer climates.
Use vegetation to shelter outdoor living space
The Use of trees to create a ceiling is a great way to soften light and provide cover for when it rains. A large tree can block allot of rain. In addition it prevents the need for building an actual roof, which costs more and needs to be permitted.
Consider shade and shelter fabrics
Kent over at the Tiny House Blog did a great post about keeping cool with Shade Sails. These are simply a triangle of fabric that blocks the sun, are really inexpensive and work really well. When I traveled to Australia these where everywhere and if you have ever been in the outback, you know it's really hot and sunny there.
I stumbled across this from our friends over at Materialicious, It's a "Log Home" haha get it? Ba-Da-Psssh – Clicky Okay corny jokes aside, the aesthetic of this is a really interesting collision of rustic extreme meats modern extreme. With all walls except the one being entirely made of logs, I love the look!
It also brings about an interesting point. Many of us want to take our tiny homes to a wilderness setting, an area that is untouched, that hasn't been ruined by McMansions. With the logs being on most of the sides, the house can easily blend into the natural surrounds. This idea is interesting because you are minimizing the impact, not as we normally think of it as in renewable resources or recycled products, but in terms of Nature's aesthetics. You are essentially able to keep what we find so great about a forest intact even with placing a house in it.
The Designers website is in French, but here is what it roughly says when I ran it through a translator:
Flake House, house wandering with the road gauge, is conceived to equip the places where it fails and to thus transpose them in strange vision. A "madness" which Marie skilfully "low tech" and "high tech". The treatment of this poetic shelter is connected more with one object found than with an artifact. The madness is presented in the form of a cast solid building, monomatière (natural wood) broken in her center. This definite irregular break the sequence of entry and delimits space serving as been useful space. The interior treatment of the madness contrasts with the irregularity of the made exterior facade of logs. This space is punctuated random openings arranged between the logs of the walls.
If you where to see this thing rolling down the street, you might pass it off as a dump truck, but when you see an arm extend and ATV drop down, you might be wondering "what the hell?!?"
That pretty much what I did, but when you see this Truck's interior, it's amazing! I am not quite sure who the intended market is for this, but whatever market requires a mobile home with bullet proof glass and espresso machine, yeah that's the one…. What!?!? Regardless, this truck has tons of great design Ideas, its put together well and it certainly embodies the adventurers/outdoor spirit.
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One of the most original sounds to come out of the east coast in a long time, Lewn (pronounced "Loon") has gained the respect of fellow artists and fans all over the world. This Connecticut born artist brings a strong mix of rap blended with smooth harmonies and a hardcore underground sound that has made him a quick fan favorite. With songs like "Low Life" and "Fly Away" he shows his diversity as well as a clear understanding of true human emotion. On the other end of the spectrum songs like "Under Ground", "Chains" and "Stand Tall" paint a clear picture of a man who gains strength from those who believe in him and refuses to give up on this life. Bottom line, Lewn's music is as real as it gets......ask around.Read More
Keeping with the trend of giving his fans a complete spectrum of styles, Lewn is in the process of recording a brand new album that has fans from coast to coast talking already. This long awaited release will not only feature production by the one and only Sinima as well as stand out producer David Sanders II ,but it also promises an impressive display of guitar work by L-Wren. "The combination of Lewn, Sinima and L-Wren is like nothing I've ever heard before" says Lewn. "People have always said that my music is different and unique, but with these guys I feel it myself more than I ever have before".
Lewn has been building his fan base and his credibility as a respected artist for years now and the antisipation for this album has grown right along with it. "I know they're waiting" said Lewn "Now it's my job to make sure I don't let any of them down". No official release date has been announced as of yet.
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From a hype perspective, machine learning is just about at its peak. Overnight, it seems, everyone went from knowing next to nothing about it, to speaking about it every day. "Marketing attribution" and "omni-channel" went through similar buzzword phases, though Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gone beyond buzzword status: a recent Gallup poll found that 26 percent of Americans fear the technology will eliminate their jobs.
As I mentioned in my last post on machine learning, computers cannot yet replace humans. They can, however, do a terrific job sifting through raw data, images, and articles that, to the average human, look like nothing more than clutter. When we move past the hype, it is clear that artificial intelligence and machine learning are already forcing massive changes in the way companies do business, enabling much more personalized and relevant interactions with consumers.
The reality is, more companies than giants like Google and IBM are using machine learning and other forms of AI today.
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- Tesla leverages advanced AI and machine learning to allow its relatively new autopilot service to continually learn and improve.
- Opera Solutions' flagship technology platform utilizes machine learning for evaluating massive amounts of all types of data (social, transactional, cookies and so on). It enables "in-the-moment" experiences by extracting time sensitive insights 75% faster than the legacy tool sets.
- Prisma, one of my favorite apps, became a huge hit in 2016 thanks to AI that can take any photo from your smartphone to simulate works of art by the likes of Picasso, Munch, Van Gogh and others.
- Iris AI is using machine learning to sift through massive pools of scientific data and millions of published articles to find "needles in a haystack" to support scientific research.
- Zebra Medical is applying machine learning techniques to the field of radiology that will allow computers to predict multiple diseases with far more accuracy.
- Uber uses AI and machine learning to minimize wait time, determine the trip with the fewest detours, and almost instantly determine the price of the trip.
- Pinterest is increasingly leveraging machine learning to pour through images to surface content that resemble objects consumers are most interested in.
How does it all happen?
Very simply put, via the advances in computing software and the processing power of computers. Machine learning programs are created to take advantage of these advances. For example, programs are written that take full advantage of parallel processing to perform a wide variety of statistical analytics at scale.
Computers are extremely literal beasts and do precisely what you tell them or program them to do. If there is an error in your code—and I have made many in my years of coding in SAS and SQL—that program will keep running and generating the same mistake over and over until you tell it, via a change in the code, to stop.
Machine learning, which enables analytics at scale, is essentially giving computers the power to learn from experience, very much like humans do (and other animals, for that matter). There are many different types of machine learning, but the hottest form currently is called "deep learning." It leverages artificial neural networks, which is a simplified computing system modeled on the information processing and communication function of neurons in the human body, to identify patterns from massive pools of data.
For example, if you show a neural network enough pictures of a horse, it will eventually be able to tell you if a picture it has never seen before is a horse. Taking it a step further, if you show the neural network enough pictures of a certain breed of horse, like an Arabian, it will eventually be able to distinguish Arabians from other breeds of horses.
Neural networks are not new, but the exponentially increasing power of computers has enabled deep learning machines to simulate many billions of neurons. Simultaneously, the exponentially growing pool of data generated by the internet each day has provided the fuel for these machine learning programs to consume.
A human mind can process at most about five data elements and analyze them for patterns. An algorithm, however, can process all data points—and process them in a totally unbiased way that humans just aren't capable of. Machine learning is a form of AI that solves problems by using the massive processing power of computers to find patterns.
And it's not terrifying science fiction; it is already working diligently behind the scenes for numerous brands we are familiar with and interact with regularly.
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International Literacy Day is just around the corner. It is undoubtedly the busiest time of the year for the Pratham Books team. Serving so many Reading Champions who are getting ready to bring a 'story delight' to thousands of children is a big responsibility. Our office is buzzing with activity with event co-ordination, getting banners and posters ready, sending out activity suggestions and last minute additions to the ever growing list of books to be shipped out adds to the chaos.
Every year, much to our dismay, disappointments happen. The couriers don't reach on time, the speed post slows down or some books just get lost in transit. Also, a lot of times many people come in late with a request to become a Reading Champion and it is too late for us to send them a copy of the book. Usually, an e-copy of the book is always kept handy and duly mailed out for such occasions although sometimes, even for that it's a little too late.
So, what do you do if you read about our One Day One Story event just 24 hours before the event? Thankfully, we now have a solution for that.
For some time now, Pratham Books has been toying with the idea of launching a mobile application for our books. The application would be an extension of our efforts to take our books as far out, and in as many ways as we can.
So one day, we sat down with the good folks from CISCO Systems and together conceptualized a Mobile Reading Application for young readers. Just in time for our annual celebration of the International Literacy Day, the first version of the mobile application is up and running! *drum rolls*
24 hours before the event, or just 24 minutes before, all you have to do is to go to Google Play Store (for android devices) and download the application and voila, here is 'Takloo, the Little Salt Seller' (in six languages) on your mobile or tablet screens. In its first avatar, the application hosts a limited number of books but that repository will only increase. A couple of more books are also present for quick reading.
As much as this reading application gives you the flexibility and comfort of reading books that fit in your pocket, it also gives us the means to take our books and stories to the farthest corners of the country through technology. Books are finally travelling in bits and bytes through fiber optic cables to reach destinations far off, in record time.
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Recently Glenn Beck and Blaze Books extensively covered Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa and Professor Ronald Rychlak's, "Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism," which discussed the numerous shocking and chilling "disinformation" operations that have been used with great effect to damage and disarm the Western world over the past century.
Before Lt. Gen. Ion Pacepa–the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence officer to ever defect–there was another defector, a KGB intelligence officer named Anatoliy Golitsyn who fled the Soviet Union in the 1960s and sought to expose Communist strategic deception and subversion operations being perpetrated against the West, in order to defend the West against the Soviet Union and its Communist proxies worldwide.
Here's what Golitsyn wrote in a passage titled "Convergence" in his 1984 book "New Lies for Old," which seems to have eerily anticipated the recent efforts in politics, the media and academia to silence any dissent from the prevailing progressive orthodoxy [emphasis ours]:
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After successful use of the scissors strategy in the early stages of the final phase of policy to assist communist strategy in Europe and the Third World and over disarmament, a Sino-Soviet reconciliation could be expected. It is contemplated and implied by the long-range policy and by strategic disinformation on the split.
The Communist bloc, with its recent accretions in Africa and South-East Asia, is already strong. European-backed Soviet influence and American-backed Chinese influence could lead to new Third World acquisitions at an accelerating pace. Before long, the communist strategists might be persuaded that the balance had swung irreversibly in their favor. In that event they might very well decide on a Sino-Soviet "reconciliation." The scissors strategy would give way to the strategy of "one clenched fist." At that point the shift in the political and military balance would be plain for all to see. Convergence would not be between two equal parties, but would be on terms dictated by the communist bloc. The argument for accommodation with the overwhelming strength of communism would be virtually unanswerable. Pressures would build up for changes in the American political and economic system on the lines indicated in Sakharov's treatise. Traditional conservatives would be isolated and driven toward extremism.They might become the victims of a new McCarthyism of the left. The Soviet dissidents who are now extolled as heroes of the resistance to Soviet communism would play an active part in arguing for convergence. Their present supporters would be confronted with a choice of forsaking their idols or acknowledging the legitimacy of the new Soviet regime.
Golitsyn writes of this scenario in context of his overarching conspiracy theory of a so-called Soviet grand deception strategy — that the Soviets had a conscious, long-term strategic deception operation to build a one world government under Communism. Such an operation entailed a planned fake dismantling of the Soviet Union (including potentially tearing down the Berlin Wall), leading to a period of "liberalization" and "democratization," enabling the Russians to rebuild their economy, "cooperate" with the West (leading the West to slash its defense forces and ally with the Russians), and ultimately "convergence" under an international totalitarian government.
Golitsyn's "New Lies for Old," which he wrote over many years following his defection, proved shockingly prescient, however outlandish his overarching theory. As reported by Mark Riebling in a book on the decades-long battle between the CIA and FBI titled "Wedge," of 148 falsifiable predictions, 139 of Golitsyn's predictions had come true by the end of 1993.
Golitsyn was heavily influential following his defection with former CIA director of counter-intelligence, James Angleton, though many sought to discredit their shared theories and Angleton was forced to resign in 1974 after angering many for his zealous efforts to expose "moles" within U.S. intelligence circles.
American Thinker ran an article in 2010 that more extensively delves into Golitsyn and his theories, for those who are interested.
Regardless of what one makes of Golitsyn's grand strategy however–and to be sure it is nearly impossible to tell fact from fiction when it comes to Cold War era conspiracies and intelligence revelations more broadly–it is striking to know that the prediction of left-wing McCarthyism had been made some three decades ago.


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Add Susan Rice to the list of top Obama Administration officials who blame Israel for the lack of peace in the Middle East.
At the Middle East Institute last week, Rice proclaimed, "We have seen increased tensions on the ground. Some of this is a result of recent settlement announcements. So let me reiterate: The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity." In essence, Rice seemed to blame last week's brutal murder by a Palestinian terrorist of an 18-year old Israeli soldier on Israel's home building activities.
Rice is infamously known for appearing on the major network news Sunday shows following the murders of four Americans in terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 and chalking their deaths up to incitement caused by a YouTube video.
Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry lectured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the status of Israeli homes in the disputed West Bank territory. While Kerry was busy deeming the settlements as "illegitimate", Palestinian students at Al-Quds University in Jerusalem held a Nazi-like rally in which they called for the destruction of the Jewish State.
In addition to the hostile positions held by Administration officials on the disputed West Bank territory, newly appointed UN Ambassador Samantha Power previously advocated for US intervention by means of a "mammoth" American military force to resolve disputes in the area. Similarly, in 2009, now-Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel signed onto a statement lobbying for a 60,000 NATO troop deployment into the West Bank that would cost the US taxpayer an estimated 160 Billion dollars.
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While many poets believe the eyes are the windows to the soul, many acupuncturists and doctors of Oriental medicine believe that the tongue provides a window to the inner workings of the body.For thousands of years, tongue diagnosis has played an indispensable role in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine. TCM practitioners rely on tongue diagnosis to differentiate one syndrome from another, and use variations in the tongue's color, texture, shape and coating to evaluate a patient's condition.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are taking a scientific approach to the usefulness of tongue diagnosis. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind in the United States, the investigators have begun taking computerized images of patients' tongues to see if an examination can provide an early indication of colon cancer.
Yang Cai, PhD, a native of Suzhou, China and a systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon, is responsible for taking and analyzing the tongue images. He also has a vested interest in the subject, having lost a close friend to ovarian cancer and an aunt to brain cancer only four months after being diagnosed.
Determined to learn more about the relationship between the appearance of the tongue and certain cancers, Dr. Cai talked to Chinese medical experts and collected volumes of medical literature. He found several studies dating as far back as the 1960s that showed a correlation between the characteristics of the tongue and health conditions such as fever, dehydration and assorted internal diseases. For example, one intriguing paper, published in the Chinese-language Journal of Oncology in 1987, examined the tongues of more than 12,000 patients and found "significant changes" in color, coating and texture in the tongues of cancerous patients compared to those without cancer.
The results of Cai's informal investigation led him to Dr. Robert Schoen, director of colorectal and gastrointestinal cancer prevention and control research at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). After initial discussions, Schoen warmed to the idea of tongue diagnosis and allowed Cai to add his research project to Schoen's ongoing study with the Early Detection Research Network.
"I'm a big proponent of applying rigorous scientific methodology to things like traditional Chinese medicine," said Dr. Schoen.
Like Cai, Schoen's work centers around the early detection of colorectal cancer. However, while the bulk of Schoen's research consists of collecting blood and tissue samples from people who have already undergone a colonoscopy or surgery, Cai studies only patients in the preparation stages of a colonoscopy, an examination of the large intestine.
Patients about to receive a colonoscopy aren't allowed to eat for a minimum of six hours before undergoing the procedure. This benefits Cai in that it prohibits the patients from consuming something that would affect the color of the tongue. Using a digital camera, Cai takes two photographs of each tongue, with a color calibration chart for confirmation. He then uses vision technology software to isolate the tongue's image from other features in the mouth, and documents the color, texture and shape to create a mathematical model of each tongue, which is stored in a computer database.
To date, Cai has personally photographed more than 30 tongues, and has provided a camera and instructions on tongue imaging to Xingming Lin, a traditional Chinese medical doctor who oversees a cancer unit at Anhui Medical School in Hefei, China. In addition, Schoen has offered to share diagnostic information to determine whether the patients Cai photographed are diagnosed as normal, precancerous or cancerous.
While Schoen admits to some skepticism, he believes that Cai's research has merit. If tongue screening proves accurate, it would give providers an inexpensive, noninvasive alternative to a traditional colonoscopy.
"From a clinical standpoint, it's not really much of a burden to the patients to stick out their tongue and have a picture taken," Schoen explained. "If one could see some characteristics of the tongue correlated to the presence of adenomatous polyps that have the potential to transform into cancer, that would be great. Then you could just go around and take pictures of people's tongues. That's a lot simpler than doing colonoscopies."
Schoen noted that the tongue plays an important role in the diagnosis of Western-trained physicians as well. The color of the tongue, for instance, could indicate nutritional deficiencies, or conditions ranging from anemia to scarlet fever. An enlarged or inflamed tongue, meanwhile, could be a sign of infection elsewhere in the body.
"The tongue is one of the first parts of the GI tract that's visible," Schoen said.
Dr. Ronald Herberman, UPCI's director, is responsible for overseeing the work of Cai and Schoen. If tongue diagnosis proves useful, Herberman feels it could be used as part of a routine cancer screening at the institute.
"There may be valuable insights to come from the traditional Chinese experience," offered Herberman. "I can't dismiss out of hand what's been going on for hundreds of years because many of the drugs that actually are used in the United States and Europe started out as folk medicines."
For Dr. Cai, the goal of his project is not to replace the conventional means of detecting colorectal cancer simply by looking at the tongue, but rather as an alternative screening method that can accurately and effectively produce an early warning sign. That sign may be as simple as having a patient see a physician for a more complete evaluation, but it may make a significant difference in terms of cancer treatment, intervention, and a positive outcome of care.
For more information on the tongue diagnosis research project, contact Dr. Cai at .
- Snowbeck C. Researchers exploring whether tongue can reveal colon cancer. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette October 1, 2002.
- Curran A. Tongue tells health tales. Carnegie Mellon Magazine Fall 2002.
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Just months ago, top officials at SEIU, the massive service employees union that represents hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers, tended to spit when they spoke about the
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"The election of Barack Obama and the opportunity to transform our healthcare system, combined with the opportunity to give more healthcare workers a voice through passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), seems so profound, such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that it made the leadership of both organizations feel there were more significant things to do than continue our competition," SEIU president
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We are making increasing use of energy from renewable sources, for example with wood heating in stores and distribution centres, photovoltaic installations on our buildings, and through the promotion of biogas plants at our Naturafarm producers.
A modern wood-chip facility with flue-gas cleaning is used for the supermarket and restaurant at the Muripark shopping centre in Muri. In comparison with conventional oil heating, this enables us to save 90 tonnes of CO2 per year. In 2011, our own large bakery in Gossau became the first industrial bakery in Switzerland to use a modern wood-chip furnace, thereby cutting annual CO2 emissions by 70 per cent. This is equivalent to 900 tonnes. Our Interdiscount sales format also installed a wood-chip facility at its warehouse in Jegenstorf in 2012, with the result that 80 per cent of heating requirements are covered in this way and annual CO2 emissions have been reduced by 280 tonnes.
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We have mounted 20 photovoltaic installations with a total output of 3,700 kilowatts on our buildings. These installations produce around 3.6 million kilowatt-hours of solar electricity per year, which is enough to meet the average annual electricity requirements of up to 1,100 Swiss households. This environmentally friendly electricity is fed into the grid.
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From 2005 to 2011, the Coop Sustainability Fund supported the construction of biogas plants at Naturafarm and Naturaplan producers with up to CHF 200,000. These 11 plants produce around 6.4 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from biogenic waste every year, meeting the average electricity requirements of up to 2,000 Swiss households.
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The annual heat requirements of our distribution centre in Wangen were reduced by 30 per cent thanks to a building refurbishment project. We now already cover up to 70 per cent of these requirements with three groundwater heat pumps. The remaining heat requirements are met by a new gas heating system. We are currently building a new large bakery in Schafisheim, which will need 20,000 megawatt-hours of process heat in the form of thermal oil at a temperature of 300 degrees Celsius. We will obtain 85 per cent of the necessary heat from biomass, using both wood chips and milling by-products from Swissmill.


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It's a common belief that you can't train cats; that they are not obedient or can't be trained. It's very untrue. Though cats don't have the natural ability to understand cause an effect like dogs, they can be trained. In other words: it's a heck of a lot harder to train a cat than a dog. I've had my cat Wilson since he was three weeks old. Now at seven years old, Wilson (nicknamed "Mega Kitty") knows a handful of tricks: playing tag, sitting on command and coming home when he hears my call. Here are a few things I learned about training cats:
Cats are selfish by nature, so they need an incentive to do something
To train Wilson to sit, I shake a bag of treats and offer him one if he sits. In addition to sitting, he understands the command "wait" and knows not to get the treat until it is offered to him. The trick is not to give into the cat. If he or she doesn't sit, then no treat. Repetition is key with these little critters, so it might take a while for them to catch on and/or cooperate. It took me four hours to teach Wilson to sit. Remember not to give them too many treats like what my mom does. Wilson sits about 8 times a day with her!!
Using Non-Lethal Force
Cats can be kind of dense…that or they just don't want to do certain things. Sometimes you have to put them in the motions. For example, I had to tell Wilson to sit and then push his butt to make him sit down. After a few times, he started understanding the movement. Think of it as kitty training wheels!
Tone is Key
Be sure to watch your tone. When training your cat, speak in a friendly voice. However, you want to use a different tone when it's a command. When I tell Wilson to sit or call him home from playing in the yard, I use a deeper tone of voice so he can better recognize the context of what I'm saying. It typically takes about one to three attempts to get him to come home.
Remember that cats are all about looking out for number one. Give them affirmation that they did a good job. Pet them and tell them how proud you are of them. Your cat is not going to do everything you try to train them. For example, I've been trying for three years to teach Wilson how to fist bump…no luck!


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The major in communication combines the study of writing, speaking and editing with a liberal arts approach to the history and theory of communication. Students examine the rhetorical tradition and contemporary practice as well as the impact of mass media on contemporary American life. Students develop and apply their skills through practice in various kinds of speaking and writing, including journalism and creative and professional writing.
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What Kills Me by Wynne Channing
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
UPDATE: 12.09.12 Got an exclusive interview with Wynne Channing. It's up in my blog: Ramblings of a YA Reader.
I don't know what to say! OMG. This book doesn't have any boring moments, in my opinion! From the start, What Kills Me, surprised me with how the story progressed, the twists were really exciting and unexpected. One moment, it was like this and then, bam the story would go the other way you thought of. And it was really freakin' good! It was a fun read and brilliantly made.
I thought at the first chapters, it would suck and because I thought it was Paolo who's her partner. So I was shocked when Paolo said and did that to Zee. The author gave my mind some teasing! LOL. I really, really didn't expect that one! From then on, I was hooked. I was craving to know more. So when Axelia or Zee met new people and those people especially Noel wants to protect her, I feel like crying when they need to go now because the Aramatta (am I right about this one's spelling?) was coming for Zee. :(
And oh, that Obaia? I think I got that one right.
I like Lucas. Well, who doesn't like him? He's a bit of a jerk. But jerk guys when they started to like you, they are sweet. It's just an outer shell, their mask to hide their emotions. So yeah, love him.
My only problem with it was that there're lots of fade out scenes. I mean, not sex scenes, cause there's no sex scene as of yet. I want to see how they practice, like with Lucas' Obaia, or how Lucas trained Zee. I want to see how they would DO it. But it was not included and just treated like they already finished the training.
What Kills Me is a fast-paced book that I thought that it was not a series and just a stand alone. But the author confirmed to me that it will be a series and that she's currently doing the second book! Hurray!!! More Lucas! So I was wondering what would happen next? What will be Channing's new tricks for our mind now? ;)
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Ole, I'm a bit behind the times with this stuff. Could you give me a lay person's description of what this ecore model is? Right now it sounds like meta data for generating SDOs that persistent data objects. Please correct me if I am wrong. Also I have some questions: (1) Can we use an ecore model to generate SDOs for LDAP? (2) Can we (in LDAP Studio an RCP application) read an LDAP schema and generate SDOs and/or simple beans for the objectClasses defined in that LDAP schema? <note> There will be 2 forms of schema data: (a) Schema data in the OpenLDAP format within an LDAP schema file which does not include complex constructs like DITStructureRules, DITContentRules, Syntaxes, MatchingRules and NameForms. OpenLDAP schema files usually just have objectClass and attributeType definitions. (b) Schema data pulled from an LDAP server which includes all the schema types. Why is this important? Well these extra objects determine things like what attributes can be used in a relative name for example and can effect the DSO that needs to be generated. </note> Why am I thinking about all this stuff? ======================= Many of us I am sure envision LDAP Studio to become more than just an LDAP browser with a pretty LDAP schema editor. I see it as a platform to easy the development of LDAP driven applications and as an administrative tool to manage directories. Something tells me this ecore/ems stuff is very advantageous to assist in making LS a sweet LDAP design tool. I've had a personal pie in the sky dream WRT all this stuff. I've always wanted a slick LDAP schema design tool that allows a user to graphically design LDAP schema like we do for RDBMS schema using UML modeling tools. In addition to generating/pushing the schema directly into an LDAP server I'd like to see LS capable of generating code as these DSOs for example for the LDAP schema. Can you see how incredible this would be for users to launch LS, design their schema and press a button to generate a library that contains all the DSOs they need to directory enable their applications? (3) Can we achieve this vision with these eclipse modeling tools within LDAP Studio? It seems to me you have the know how to determine first if this is at all possible. Secondly, I am hoping if this is possible you can and others on this team can figure out a means for us to materialize the vision. There is nothing like this as far as I know. The closest thing I ever saw was a facility M$ added to visio after buying it to draw Active Directory diagrams. However according to my knowledge (about 2 years ago) these diagrams could not generate schema or any kind of library for use in applications. So the potential for a tool like this IMO is massive. It could finally make developers comfortable enough to avoid forcing data into relational databases and instead put them where they belong in LDAP directories. Regards, Alex On 1/30/07, Ole Ersoy <email@example.com> wrote: > > I checked in an emf ecore and genmodel > for the triplesec model concepts > we've been discussing: > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/directory/sandbox/oersoy/triplesec/triplesec.model.ecore > > A series of eclipse plugins, containing the model, > adapters for communicating between swt and the model, > and an editor can be generated using generate all > on the genmodel root. > > SDOs can also be generated for this model. > > Here's a good SDO article for those interested. > > > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0510_peterson/0510_peterson.html > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Have a burning question? > Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know. >
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U.S. Restricts China Milk Products
FDA Forces Importers to Prove Shipments Contain No Melamine After Positive Tests
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has restricted the entry of all food products from China containing milk after inspectors found evidence of melamine contamination, which has sickened tens of thousands of Chinese infants and caused at least four deaths.
The FDA directive requires importers to prove their food and drink shipments don't contain the industrial chemical melamine before they can be released to U.S. markets. The order may affect a big chunk of China's $3.8 billion in annual food and beverage exports to the U.S. It comes as Democrats in Congress are criticizing the agency's handling of food-safety problems and threatening to alter its responsibilities.
The Chinese products being held in U.S. ports include baby food, baked goods, breakfast food, candies, chocolate products, cheese, ice cream, beverages, pet food and lab-animal food.
An FDA official said the agency acted after about 60 tests of such products as candy and crackers. It found traces of melamine in some and a melamine-related compound in others. He said the agency hasn't received reports of illnesses linked to melamine in food.
The timing of the move was awkward, coinciding with a meeting next week between Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and top Chinese officials in Beijing. Mr. Leavitt and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach are set to open FDA offices in three Chinese cities, part of what they say is a new effort to cooperate with Beijing on food safety.
The FDA official said China received one day's advance notice of the new food restrictions.
China's foreign ministry declined to comment on the FDA decision and referred reporters to regulatory agencies. The country's main consumer-protection watchdog, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, as well as the Ministry of Commerce had no immediate comment.
Ben England, a former FDA official who now advises Chinese producers, said the U.S. government action could drive up prices, because foods made with milk, as well as any other foods in the same shipping container, would be held in port, pending clearance. "This will stop a lot of cargo anywhere from six weeks to three months," said Mr. England, founder of FDAImports.com. "This is going to be very, very expensive."
The FDA disagreed and said the percentage of food subject to the import alert is small. "We do not expect a significant impact on trade," a spokesman said.
The agency said it won't release the imported food unless an independent laboratory verifies that representative samples contain no melamine or cyanuric acid, a melamine derivative. The products can also be released if labels or manufacturing records show they don't contain milk.
The products tested by the FDA are found mostly in ethnic stores, but some could be sold at mainstream supermarkets, said Steve Solomon, the FDA's deputy associate commissioner for compliance policy.
This isn't the first time food from China has raised alarms in the U.S. and led to FDA restrictions. Pet food using wheat flour tainted with melamine was suspected in the deaths of thousands of pets in the U.S. last year. As a result, the FDA automatically blocks Chinese ingredients such as rice gluten and rice protein. The FDA also blocks certain farm-raised seafood, because of concerns about illegal antibiotics.
The U.S. has suffered a series of outbreaks involving food-borne illnesses, including a months-long string of salmonella cases traced to jalapeno and serrano peppers from Mexico.
Melamine in infant formula has sickened more than 53,000 children in China. The U.S. doesn't import infant formula from China, but inspectors from the FDA and states such as California and Connecticut have found melamine in products such as candies in Asian markets. That led the FDA to block foods from 10 Chinese companies making chocolate products and White Rabbit candies. Thursday's move was a rare case of the agency restricting products from an entire country.
"The FDA should have acted sooner to ban these milk products from entering the country," said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.), a critic of the agency who has proposed stripping it of its responsibility for regulating food. "It is disappointing that the ban did not apply to egg and fish products, given that animal feed has been found to be contaminated with melamine."
The FDA alert said some Chinese producers watered down milk and then added melamine to increase the nitrogen content, giving the appearance of normal protein levels in tests. Much of it ended up in infant formula and dried milk powder used in making other food products.
More than 13 countries in Asia and elsewhere have found melamine-contaminated ingredients from China in such products as chocolate, yogurt, frozen desserts, biscuits, cake and cookies, the agency said.
Among regulators, a consensus has emerged that melamine can be safely consumed in concentrations of less than 2.5 parts per million. Hong Kong has tested thousands of products for melamine because it imports much of its food from mainland China. Most were cleared, but some products, including eggs, exceeded the limit.
Meanwhile, in China, a Beijing-based lawyer representing families whose children were sickened by melamine-tainted milk, Xu Zhiyong, said that a group of attorneys representing such clients were preparing to file a group lawsuit on behalf of about 100 families. "We want the voices of the victims not to be ignored," Mr. Xu said. "They should get fair compensation."
—Sky Canaves in Hong Kong contributed to this article.
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