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NVIDIA: Deep Learning Opens Door to Intelligent Medical Instruments
For centuries, doctors have wanted to see inside their patients, using the best available tools to help them detect, diagnose and treat disease. Innovations in diagnostic imaging technology, such as CT scans, 3D-ultrasound and MRI, have helped save millions of lives. Running complex mathematics, these instruments are computers that convert signals captured by sensors into 2D and 3D images read by doctors.
Healthcare providers want these machines to do more, but there are significant technical challenges. Doctors want them to be fast, safe and precise. And providers need small, portable real-time diagnostics at the point of care. Meanwhile, demand for ever-increasing resolution and image fidelity requires the computational power of a supercomputer to be embedded within them.
Volta GPUs Accelerate Processing of Signals, Algorithms
The development of a new type of computer from NVIDIA is now making this possible. Using massively parallel computing, our latest Volta GPUs can process these signal and imaging algorithms at speeds that previously required many racks of traditional data center CPUs.
Read the entire article here, Deep Learning Opens Door to Intelligent Medical Instruments
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- When should testing for gestational diabetes take place – in the first or second trimester?
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- Conventionally, testing for gestational diabetes takes place in the second trimester. Intervention
has been shown to improve outcomes for women diagnosed with gestational diabetes. However,
maternal age and obesity are increasing, and some women (especially those from populations with
a high incidence of type 2 diabetes) enter pregnancy with undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, but may not be tested for diabetes until the second trimester. This exposes the woman and the fetus to risks resulting from early and prolonged maternal hyperglycaemia. It is presumed that this is associated with increased morbidity. UK population studies are needed to establish the incidence of glucose intolerance in women in the first trimester Well-designed randomised controlled trials are needed to establish if testing, diagnosis and intervention in the first rather than the second trimester improves maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes, including fetal hyperinsulinaemia.
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- Diabetes in pregnancy: management from preconception to the postnatal period
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Paver Joint Filling device for the Paver Laying Machine
Presented in 1998,
The Optimas paver joint filling device for the paver laying machine is perfectly-suited for inserting jointing material in paver joints on both small and large paver surfaces.
Only a completely filled joint transfers force from stone to stone, preventing stone movement and maintains the elasticity of the paver surface.
The paver filling device is fixed to the paver laying machine with socket pins without the need for tools. The extremely high manoeuvrability of the paver laying machine means that the jointing material can also be inserted in the curves and edges of paver joints.
The jointing material can be inserted dry and with water. As the best results (depending on the material to be filled) are often obtained by sluicing the material in with water, Optimas provides a water container (1.000 L).
The three overlapping and rotating brushes massage the jointing material into the paver joints, filling them completely. Depending on the joint width and depth, a person can complete up to 300 m²/hour.
Giving your paver surface a long service life.
Cleaning the paver surface with the sweeping machine carries off not only loose sand, but parts of the jointing material between the pavestones.
The Optimas paver filling machine is suitable for subsequently filling the joints with sand and stone chips.
- Higher placement speeds
- Considerable time saving
- Low manpower requirements (1 person)
- Low repair work
- Increases quality of outcome
- Easy to operate
- Low transport requirements
- Quick assembly and disassembly (2 min.)
|Working width:
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|110 kg
|24 brush sets spread across 3 brush crosses
|Hourly output:
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|Can be combined with a water carriage (1000 L)
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There are plenty of different out-of-the-box solutions ready to use as an edge service. Tyk.io, Zuul or Spring Cloud Gateway to name a few. Yet at Allegro we decided to build our own. Reinventing the wheel or filling the functionality gap? During the talk we want to share what are the qualities of different api gateways available out there and why sometimes it is still not enough (or too much).
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There is no such thing as a spiritually healthy person who is low on emotional intelligence. Knowing God and being filled with His Spirit will result in a growth of humility (Ephesians 4:2), self-control (Galatians 5:23), empathy (Romans 12:15), and giving relationships (Philippians 2:3,4). If we find we are low in any of these areas, we are not only low in Emotional Intelligence, but we need to stop and evaluate our walk with Christ.
Paul challenged the Corinthians to take a deep look at themselves and see whether what they believed was really – what they believed. Because whatever you believe, that is who you will become. We need to stop fooling ourselves if we say one thing but we are living in some way differently from that. Emotional Intelligence is a body of research that assists us in taking that good long look that can result in a healthy relationship with one another and helps us examine our faith.
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
2 Corinthians 13:5
Because everyone loves to eat, the following recipe, The Recipe for Handling Your Emotions (Bake Up Some Emotional Intelligence), outlines emotional intelligence – what it is, how to develop it, and what the end product (life) looks and tastes like. It takes some of the basic tenets of what E.I. is and lays them out, nice and simple, so we can put it together and then devour it later.
Share this recipe with your family over a meal and consider how to encourage one another in your own recipe for success in your relationships with one another and God!
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand and handle your own emotions and be able to understand and manage emotions with others. They can be categorized into two different sections:
- Knowing Self
- Knowing Others
Knowing Self involves self-awareness of one's emotions, self-management of these emotions, and the ability to handle them to meet long term goals.
Knowing Others involves empathy and social skills based on our understanding of others' emotions and being a team player.
Ingredients for E.I.
- Self-awareness – you know your emotions and how they affect your life
- Self-management – controlling your emotional expressions
- Motivation – work hard toward goals for self and in relationships
- Empathy – care for others
- Social Skills – effective communication
- Know Your Ingredients – understand each of the ingredients so you know what you are working with.
- What do you have? – for each ingredient, record your self-perception; what strength or weakness do you think you have for each one?
- Measure Carefully – how much of each ingredient do you really have? Answer some objective questions to see where your E.I. strengths and weaknesses lie; there are many online tests available.
- Mix Them Up – think about how all 5 ingredients are needed and work together; reflect and contemplate
- Cook Something Up – time to do something; create practical steps toward improving your E.I. ingredients
- Serve It Up– enjoy the outcome of what you have made! Celebrate how life tastes better with a good recipe for E.I.!
- Measure Your Success – all recipes need tweaking; what will you change to improve your E.I.?
- This recipe only works if you are honest with yourself. Honesty means you must be vulnerable and take risks.
- Growing in your emotional skills requires community; discuss E.I. with others and get their input
- Knowledge must be applied for growth to occur. If you know where you need to grow, but don't do something to grow, you won't grow.
ServingUp Success
How do you know if your E.I. recipe is delicious?
- You verbally express yourself well
- You are highly empathetic toward others
- Conflict is an opportunity to grow, not a threat
- You benefit from criticism
- You control your thoughts
- You pause before answering, acting or expressing your emotions
- You stick to your values
- You are generous in your praise of others
- You apologize humbly
- You forgive and forget (are not bitter)
- You build trust and inspire others
Happy Baking! Elizabeth


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A card alias (or create card tokens) is used as an identifier for a bank card number and its expiry date. It is linked to a single creditor. You can track the status of every card alias and create payments for it on the SlimPay Dashboard.
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If the codes RET or REJ appear on your report or as payment statuses, it means that these SEPA direct debit transactions have been rejected or refused. The transactions are called R-Transactions. Depending on the R-Transaction code, SlimPay allows you to replay some failed payments, either manually or automatically, using Automatic Retry.
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What we assume: We consider the will of every human being as untouchable and everyone should unfold in his own way. Nevertheless, the legal principle that the freedom of the individual has its limits in the right of the neighbour must apply to everyone. That is why the right of one's neighbour to the integrity of his health, water, air and soil is a fundamental right which is massively violated by the use of chemical-synthetic ingredients in cosmetics and care products as well as in cleaning products.
Considering the fact that
• many conventional cosmetic, care and cleansing products contain chemical-synthetic ingredients which are suspected to be –either on its own or in interaction- harmful to health (e.g. allergenic, skin irritant, hormone system altering, mutagenic, carcinogenic) and/or to be harmful to the environment.
• these substances are released into the environment when used, are ingested by the body and may cause harm to the body, especially when exposed frequently.
• these substances are released into the environment when used, are ingested by the body and may cause harm to the body, especially when exposed frequently.
• when chemical-synthetic ingredients are used, they get into our air, water and oceans and are often not or only hardly degradable (e.g. microplastic!).
• unborn babies and children can suffer health damage due to their physical sensitivity as a result of the chemical-synthetic ingredients.
• there are very good natural alternatives for cosmetics, care and cleaning, which are not harmful to the well-being of humans, animals and the environment, which preserve clean water, good breathing air and an intact earth for all of us.
With this manifesto, we express our deep concern for our health and for the integrity of the environment. Through information and education about dangers, we humans are becoming more and more aware of the urgent need to turn away from the past and towards a new path: "Together with nature".
With our signature, we therefore call on those responsible in politics and industry to issue a ban on hazardous chemical-synthetic ingredients and, more generally, to make a much stronger commitment to comprehensive and sustainable health and environmental protection.
This manifesto was created by: BBF – Bewegung bewusster Friseure International (Movement of Conscious Hairdressers International) The text is based on and inspired by the manifesto "Der Malser Weg" (The Malser Way), written by doctors, pharmacists, biologists, veterinarians of the Upper Venosta Valley, with the contents of which the authors are associated in solidarity.
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If you have been an ardent follower of NLP over the years you will agree that NLP is experiencing massive improvements. Simply put, NLP is going through a renaissance that is unprecedented in the many years. This is obvious from the level of popularity that is highlighted by the huge amount of NLP course bookings all over the world. The level of interest from new people and the area of interest have also experienced changes over the years. Thus, it is clear that NLP is presently in a renaissance state.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has been known to us for over forty years and during this period, it has faced controversies and criticisms without several people stating lack of scientific backing as a stronghold against it. But over these years, NLP has stood strong and this strength can be attributed to the attributed to the NLP patterns that are being introduced and the success being recorded by NLP trained people both in coaching and in business.
For the Coach or Trainer
I can state categorically that, for the prospective trainer or coach, the opportunities are greater now than ever. It is an exciting time for those who are new to NLP and considering the possibility of majoring on it as a career in the form of a trainer or a coach. It is so because the times we are in are highly competitive times in which individuals and businesses are looking for ways to outperform their competitors. Since NLP has proved itself as one of such ways, a highly effective one at that, the public is now open to personal and professional improvement through the principles of NLP and other related fields. Such is the trend and I really do hope that you are not one of the few doubting Thomas that are yet to embrace the powers of NLP.
The Early Challenges of NLP
Unlike now when you can easily book a digital or physical appointment with an NLP expert, at the early stages of NLP publicity, that was not the case.
Some of the challenges included:
- An infant web: different from what it is today, the web then was not as advanced and flexible as it is today. As a matter of fact, the only way to find any NLP course was to subscribe to NLP journals and magazines where NLP where advertised. There were just a little number of journals that majored on NLP and information was scarcely available.
- Inactive NLP Companies: NLP companies were not what they are now. They hardly responded to requests for information especially to a totally new person. They preferred teaching NLP to people who had a therapy background. They often time failed to communicate what the course really was to a totally new person hoping to get into NLP.
- NLP was more theoretical than practical: the few organisations that taught NLP didn't really teach its students how to get practical with NLP. It was based on pen and paper.
- It was expensive and reserved for the well to do.
NLP and NLP companies are different from what they used to be in the early days of NLP and this is evident in the widespread practice of the principles of NLP.
Are you interested in joining the ongoing NLP renaissance? Contact us and we will show you how.


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Meisy Llobenes, Dominique Ezquerra, Laura Servente and Marina Lavagetto
Purpose of the project
At the beginning of the year as part of the adaptation period, we
decided to make a personal album in order to set the environment for
the children to get to know themselves as well as their classmates.
Our main purpose was to help them discover what makes them unique,
using as a starting point those things we have in common as well as
the things which makes us different enhancing the importance of
treasuring them.
During the previous years in the adaptation period we used to work
with the children on the unit "My school" were they learnt about their
new school, the environment and the people who worked there. This
year we decided to start in a different way: first get to know the
child and then they got to know their new school. This change in
perspective enriched our practices as well as invited us to reflect on
our group in order to plan future lessons according to the peculiarity
they presented.
Working on developing their identity allowed the children to recognize
themselves as individuals and find their place inside a social group
learning from each other and taking into account others preferences as
well as respecting different points of view. This motivated them to
learn from others and acquire new experiences to their short lives.
We consider that the personal album was a great tool when working on
developing the child's rapport with others and helping them reach
their fullest potential. It has encouraged them to be flexible and
willing to adapt to a new group with different personalities and
It has also provided them with the necessary resources to be able to
express themselves and their very own tastes and preferences in the
different activities presented.
We think this project has stimulated the children's social, emotional
and intellectual abilities showing great results in the social
conformation of the group as well as their self perception and esteem.
On the other hand, it has been a solid foundation in which future
learning was built upon as one of our main purposes was to establish a
good bond with and between the members of the classroom.
Finally we strongly believe this new way of approaching learning
provided us with a warm, happy, stimulated environment for our young
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Real food was meant to be cooked outside with fire. Only evil wizards cook inside with magic boxes and electricity. Sadly, there isn't always the option for apartment dwellers or those in the Siberian wastes to fire up their favorite barbecue grill and sear some meat for their supper. Occasionally you need to embrace the weird, wired world and use an electric grill designed to work indoors to make a juicy, succulent steak. Thanks to the help of fine men like George Foreman this process is easy, painless, and can still give you a cut worthy of your designer steak knives.
When you're selecting your scalding indoor grilling companion, you need to think a little differently than you would for an outdoor or camping grill. You want to consider how much space you are going to need. Bigger is usually better, but a larger grill means an enhanced footprint. You should also think about how smart you want your grill to be. While brains on a bike computer are great, on a grill, you can get too simple or too complex easily. So that you're never working too hard, but still honoring the gods of the grill, we found the 9 best indoor electric grills.
Delonghi BG24 Perfecto
Pro: Extremely easy to clean
Con: Large footprint
Infallible: As with gas and charcoal models, an indoor electric grill can give you inconsistent results. The reason behind this all boils down to heat distribution. With a fully embedded grill plate, the Perfecto doesn't ever change how it works from one barbecue to the next. Topped off with a completely clear lid, it takes either serious effort, or distraction by an impressive ball game to cook your meat wrong.
George Foreman GGR50B
Pro: Sloped base reduces fat and grease
Con: Fat drainage hole tends to clog
Traditionalist: For the griller who likes to go out as much as stay in, there's the Foreman GGR50B. The build is very similar to a standard charcoal grill, though it uses fully electric cooking that complies with any building that disallows gas or flame grills. With a massive 240 inches worth of cooking space, it's big enough to accommodate your biggest backyard cookouts but can also handle smaller, more intimate affairs. If need be, you can even cook up a whole game bird.
Zojirushi EB-CC15
Pro: Gets hotter than indicated for more accurate grilling
Con: Short power cord and no included lid
Sear and Serve: The overly simplistic design of the Zojirushi left us doubtful to its aptitude, but we have to say, we were extremely impressed. The 12 ½ X 9 ¼ grill is separated from the housing so the handles stay cool for easy mobility and safer handling that allows you to make you favorite foods anywhere you are and slap them on a plate straightaway. With a wider 176 to 410 degree temperature range and the ability to be stored simply, this easily saved the most space of any grill we tried.
T-fal OptiGrill
Pro: Remarkably accurate settings
Con: Plates are tough to remove for cleaning
Brains on a Budget: Along with the world of smartphones, smartwatches, and increasingly smart televisions comes the smart grill. Even if you've never held a spatula or set of tongs in your life, the OptiGrill will help walk you through the process of making meat like a maestro. Using 1800 watts of cooking power attached to internal sensors that alter depending on what you're cooking, this will give you a stellar meal with just a few button presses.
Cuisinart GR-150 Griddler Deluxe
Pro: Wide range of uses
Con: Small cooking area for the price
Pop Top: The trick to the Griddler is the floating top that allows you to work with meat of any thickness to get an even heating throughout. While many hinged grills require extra attention, you can lower this over your favorite foods and trust it to handle the rest. Can also be used as a contact grill, Panini press, or full griddle. Just crank it to the desired height and let the magic begin.
All-Clad TG700262
Pro: Dishwasher safe drip tray
Con: Does not easily work with a lid
Dual Action: We've had very limited luck when it comes to electric grills that can actually cook at two different temperatures in different regions of the surface. This is where the All-Clad sets itself apart from the pack. The dual temperature zones actually allow you to get one side hot enough to sear while the other can remain at a warming temperature. The heating elements are bonded to the underside of the cast aluminum, which avoids heat transference, instead pinpointing where the heat is delivered.
Wolfgang Puck Reversible
Pro: Very large grease trap
Con: Temperature numerics fade quickly
Quick Change: Among all the indoor grills that could also be used as a griddle, this was our favorite. The ability to reach a high level of heat quickly and maintain it made it a pleasure for both grilling and flat cooking whether whipping up burgers or a batch of crepes. At 16 ½ inches wide by more than two feet long, it really delivered for grill and griddle size in a style that was easy to use, if a bit on the space consuming side.
Weber 55020001 Q 2400
Pro: Works outdoors as well as inside
Con: Does not come with a thermometer
Outdoor Style: Unsurprisingly, Weber has managed to shove the soul of an outdoor into their indoor electric grill. At 1560 watts, it pumps out plenty of power to the 280 square-inches of cooking surface. The grill itself is porcelain-enameled cast iron, just like many of their exterior models. Add in the traditional hood, and it's worthy of the Weber name. Just don't try to put any coals in it.
Breville BGR820XL
Pro: Grill plates heat directly
Con: Messy and prone to breakdowns
Intelligence Included: This grill from Breville is smarter than the average Joe wielding a spatula while wearing Bermuda shorts and hiking sandals with socks. It is made with the Element IQ system that adjusts for temperature change when cold foods hit the grill's surface. It then leverages its 1800 watt power output to bring the temperature back up with a burst of power. The result is more even cooking and less heat loss for faster output.


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"Though nothing earth-shattering seems to be going on, take photographs anyhow. This helps you remember what happened today, which will be far more remarkable in the light of memory."
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The Handwritten Word
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Assignment 2 Research: The Portrayal of Farming
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The Living Room as Studio
In 1691 Charles Augustin d'Aviler, a French architect, became the first writer to refer to a new type of room to be included in the design of a grand house, rooms that were "le plus habité", the most lived in. … Continue reading
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The Unaware, Some Strategies
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Street Photography and the Tourist
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Seeking Influences in Portraiture – Art and Documentary
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"We're on a good run with ten points out of a possible 12 and we've reached our points target. But I've said all along that I want to finish the season with some optimism for next year, because we want to be back in that top ten and that is our aim.
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A Millwall win at the Ricoh Arena combined with a Bristol City victory against West Ham would see Coventry relegated. Sky Blues boss Andy Thorne revealed yesterday that just five of his players had trained ahead of tonight's fixture.
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I love cinnamon rolls, but working with yeast can be scary. These cookies give you the taste of a cinnamon roll in cookie form—no yeast required! They look like flattened cinnamon rolls and feel special enough to serve around the holidays. —Erin Raatjes, New Lenox, Illinois
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling Bake: 10 min./batch + cooling
Makesabout 4 dozen
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1-1/2 teaspoons grated orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
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- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
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- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
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- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
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Edge of Hell's Abyss (奈落の淵, Naraku no Fuchi?) is the thirteenth episode of the Sword Art Online anime adaptation, as well as the thirteenth episode in Aincrad Arc. It aired on September 29, 2012.
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Beim Fischen an einem See in der Nähe begegnete Kirito einem älteren Mann namens Nishida, der auch als Netzwerk-Sicherheitsmanager die Entwicklung des Spiels überwachte. Er erzählte Kirito, dass trotz seines hohen Fischer Skills, er nicht in der Lage war, die Fische zuzubereiten. Kirito lud ihn dann zu sich nach Hause ein, wo Asuna die Fische, die er gerade für sie gefangen hatte, zubereitete. Während ihrer Mahlzeit erwähnte Nishida einen riesigen Fisch, den er viele Male versucht hatte zu fangen aber es nicht schaffte. Er fragte Kirito, ob er ihm helfen konnte. Nishida bagann und gab dann die Angelrute an Kirito weiter, als der Fisch anbiss. Der Fisch war ein riesiges Monster, das Asuna erschlagen musste. Kurz darauf erhielt Kirito eine Nachricht von Heathcliff, der sie an die Front zurück ruft. Sie erfahren, dass ein Spähtrupp im Boss-Raum der 75. Ebene gefangen und getötet wurde. Dewegen wurde ein großes Team von Spielern aus verschiedenen Gilden zusammengestellt, um den Boss zu besiegen. Da die Zeit für die Schlacht Ansätze, Kirito bat Asuna zurückzubleiben, aus Angst um ihre Sicherheit aber Asuna weigert sich und erwiederte, dass sie lieber sterben wollte, als ohne ihn zu leben. Sie erwähnt auch, dass die echten Körper aller Spieler derzeit in Krankenhäusern behandelt wurden und ihr Zustand nicht unbegrenzt gehalten werden könne. Dehalb kam die Flucht auch nicht in Frage, den sie konnten im Spiel nicht ewig leben. Als die Spieler im Boss-Raum ankamen, wurde sie mit "The Skull Reaper" konfrontiert, eine mächtiges Monster, das mit nur einem Schlag Spieler töten konnte. Kirito, Asuna und Heathcliff griffen die Kreatur am Kopf an, während die anderen Spieler von den Seiten angriffen.
On November 5, 2024, Kirito went fishing and met a man named Nishida, a well-known fisherman of the area. After talking and eating one of the fish Nishida had caught with some of Asuna's "soy sauce". Nishida was amazed that something that tasted like soy sauce existed in Aincrad and Asuna allowed him to take several bottles of it back to his home. Nishida then requested Kirito to catch assist him in catching a very large fish he had seen in the lake but could not catch because of his low strength skill. Kirito agreed to help, with Nishida using his high fishing skill and Kirito's strength skill.
A few days later, Nishida hosted an event, during which other fishermen came to watch. After struggling, they managed to pull the fish out of the lake, which turned out to be a humongous lungfish-like monster. Everyone ran away in fear until Asuna confronted the creature and killed it, but she took off her cloak in the process and everyone was able to recognize her, causing everyone to run towards Asuna. Kirito was going to join in the crowd but, at that moment, he received a message from Heathcliff calling Kirito and Asuna to return to the front lines, to Kirito's dismay.
The next day, they said their farewells to Nishida. Nishida wondered if he would be able to return to his old life in the real world and revealed that he had been thinking that his life as a fisherman in Sword Art Online was the best thing for him at such circumstances, but Asuna told him that she used to think the same way until Kirito reassured her to enjoy life to the fullest, convincing Nishida to rethink about living in the real world. Kirito and Asuna then promised to return as soon as they could before teleporting to Granzam.
Upon their arrival, Heathcliff told them that a group of twenty players had found the 75th Floor's Boss Room, but when 10 of them reached the center of the room, the door quickly shut and disappeared, leaving the other 10 players outside unable to assist them. When it reappeared 5 minutes later, no one could be seen there, neither the players, nor the boss. Because it was an Anti-Crystal Area, like boss room of the previous boss, the players could not escape and were slaughtered by the boss. Thus a team of players from several guilds was being assembled to confront the dangerous boss.
As the time of the battle approached, Kirito expressed his true feeling of wanting to run away with Asuna, believing that it would be better to live in SAO rather than risk their lives in order to return to the real world. Asuna then mentioned that the bodies of all players were most likely being treated in hospitals at that moment and that their condition could not be kept indefinitely, thus life in the game would not last forever, and that she wanted to live with him in the real world. With that he came to the realization that whether they cleared the game or not, there was a time limit and that they had no choice but to fight.
Prior to the battle, Kirito and Asuna found out that Klein and Agil were also joining the fight, the latter having closed down his shop. They all enjoyed a light conversation, with Kirito jokingly telling Agil that if he was participating out of his selfless desire to help, then he did not need to get any loot, before Heathcliff and the Knights of the Blood's arrival. Heathcliff then used a Corridor Crystal to open a portal to the 75th Floor's boss room. After everyone got ready, Heathcliff gave a word of encouragement to the players. Meanwhile, Asuna held hands with Kirito, reassuring him that she would protect him and asked Kirito to protect her as well. Kirito told Klein and Agil not to die and Klein responded by telling him the same. The large party then charged into the boss room, and waited for the boss to appear.
Once all players entered the room, the gateway closed and disappeared. However, the boss was no where to be found. At that point, Asuna listened carefully and heard a snake-like rattling above her, and quickly informed everyone that the boss was above them. The boss was a skeleton-like centipede named The Skull Reaper with a pair of gigantic scythes as weapons. The boss dropped down and immediately killed two players with its scythe in one hit, leaving others horrified and frozen with shock at the fact that the boss could kill such high-level players in one hit. The Skull Reaper then attacked another player, but Heathcliff blocked the attack with his shield, however, the boss quickly ignored him and re-targeted the same player with its other scythe, killing him instantly. As it was about to kill another player who was in shock, Kirito quickly jumped in front of the player and blocked one of the scythes, although it continued dangerously pushing his swords towards him.
The boss was about to strike Kirito with its other scythe, but Heathcliff came to the rescue and blocked it, while Asuna helped Kirito fend off the other scythe, and the three began distracting the boss while ordering the others to attack it from the sides. Although some players were worried, they helped with defeating the boss. Agil, Klein and two other players started attacking the boss, but The Skull Reaper smashed with its tail, killing the two players and wounding Agil. Everyone then continued to attack the boss from the sides, while Heathcliff, Kirito and Asuna kept it busy from the front.
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- Kirito
- Asuna
- Heathcliff
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- Flashing Penetrator - Asuna
- Aincrad Floor 22
- Lake Outside Coral Village
- Coral Village Teleport Gate Plaza
- Kirito and Asuna's Home
- Aincrad Floor 55
- Granzam
- KoB headquarters
- Aincrad Floor 75
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- Adapted Volume 1, Chapters 18-21
- In the Light Novel, Kirito wondered if Nishida was an NPC, before he clarified that he wasn't, while in the Anime, he explained his real-life occupation after meeting.
- There was no mentioning of the scouting party getting to the boss room without casualties. Along with that, when the boss door closed, separating the group, the outside group attempted to open the door, which was also not mentioned in the anime.
- When The Skull Reaper lands onto the large platform, the novel states that there were three players who did not react quick enough and got killed by the boss. The anime instead only shows two players.
- In the Light Novel, when Asuna confronts the Lungfish, Nishida takes a fishing rod from one of his fellow fishermen to use it to help Asuna with the monster, while in the anime he panics and tries to get Kirito to call her back.
- In the Light Novel, the fish takes a while to kill, being hurt when an explosion from Asuna's rapier sends it flying. The fish then gets hit by a chain attack, and is killed by the ability Flashing Penetrator. In the anime, Asuna instantly kills it with only Flash Penetrator.
- In the Light Novel, the crowd that came at the fishing event found out that Asuna and Kirito were married and expressed their displeasure about it. In the anime, they just flock to Asuna after she killed the Lungfish, but showed no signs of realizing that she was married.
- The rare fishing rod that Asuna got for killing the Lungfish was not mentioned at all in the anime.
- In the Light Novel, before Kirito and Asuna leave and are talking with Nishida, they are all sitting on a bench nearby. In the anime, the three are standing near the Teleport Gate and Nishida's past is omitted in this scene.
- Kirito does not mention that the Aincrad's quarter bosses, the 25th and the 50th Floor bosses, were much more dangerous than the bosses of the adjacent floors when Heathcliff explains that they have found the 75th boss room in the anime.
- "I got stronger so I'd be able to survive." - Kirito
- "I cried alone every single night. It felt like every day that passed here stole another piece of my real life away. After I cried, I'd go and fight as hard as I could. My only thought was winning, moving forward, and getting stronger." - Asuna
- "But as we partied up together. Even in a world like this, he was really living. He wasn't losing a day in the real world. He was gaining a day here. The one who taught me that was Kirito-kun." - Asuna
- "For the first time since I arrived here, I was happy here. To me, Kirito-kun is the meaning of my two years here and proof that I am alive." - Asuna
- "In other words, whether clear the game or not, there's a time limit?" - Kirito
- "I want to stay with you forever, I want us to date for real. To really get married.. To get old together!" - Asuna
- "Don't die." - Kirito
- "If we block together, we can do this." - Asuna


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I wanted to be able to receive the post from a email click , from a c++ program using an http connection instead of using a whole web site. This is likely possible in my mind. In the the link above that variable date is written in php. I doubt that would work in a c++ http connection does anyone know of this being done in a c++ compatible way, thanks.


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One change to the starting XI
- Harry Bunn replaces injured Sean Scannell
- Only one change to XI that faced Blackburn
- James Vaughan & Joe Lolley back among substitutes
Harry Bunn replaces the injured Sean Scannell in the only change to tonight's starting XI for the Sky Bet Championship at home to Brighton & Hove Albion; 7.45pm kick-off at the John Smith's Stadium.
Scannell drops out of the match day 18 entirely due to his hamstring issue, but there are welcome returns to the substitutes' bench for Joe Lolley and James Vaughan; both are yet to make a competitive appearance in 2015/16 due to injury.
Jacob Butterfield makes his 50th appearance for the Club this evening – he scored in the corresponding fixture last season – whilst Joel Lynch starts against his former club.
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Meeting Harry Smith by Drew Christie
Dec 12, 2011
A short anecdotal film by artist and animator Drew Christie in which musicologist John Cohen relates his first encounter with mercurial polymath Harry Smith, a man small in stature but large in interests and influence. Christie is something of a polymath himself since he also provides the banjo soundtrack. There's more art and animation at […]
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Summer is the best, amiright?! Sunshine, warm breezes, hammocks (they're nice to look at, even if I don't have time to swing on them), grass under bare toes – and ICE CREAM! I don't have much of a sweet tooth (I'm more a "eat-a-whole-bag-of-tortilla-chips" kinda girl), and don't care overly much for dairy products, but…Read more »
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You guys! It's been FOREVER since my last blog post! (Or, you know, like a month – which is basically forever in social media land.) I have had a few folks check in to make sure I'm ok, because I've been quiet for so long. Rest assured, all is well – it's just been hella…Read more »
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Summer is here! The solstice may be a few days off, but summer weather is here, and the only things my kids have an appetite for are watermelon, ice cream and popsicles. I don't have any issues with the watermelon, but I like to make the rest from scratch so I can cut down on…Read more »
A Good Day
I started writing this post a few days ago, and got distracted (by kids, laundry, dishes, chickens . . . the dog? I really can't remember) – which is kind of nice because what started out as one really good day stretched into a whole long weekend of good days, and now I get to…Read more »
Belated Haiku Thursday!
I have been failing miserably, lately, at staying on top of everything. I'm behind on laundry and vacuuming, I didn't make it to the grocery store last weekend so we've been scrounging around in the freezer for leftovers, our plants from the greenhouse are only just now making it to the garden (late of course).…Read more »


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I've been using Geany for a while. When I selected it, I was looking for a cross-platform text editor with convenience features for writing code because all of the IDEs I had tried were cumbersome. I wanted syntax highlighting and code folding. I was happy that Geany also includes auto-completion, project support, vertical selection (when that's useful, nothing else will work as quickly), and plugin extensibility.
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No, this is not the latest salacious political tale floating about the Internet; rather this is the latest iteration of the pass-through dilemma: how does a Sub S shareholder/LLC member/partner (gen'l or limited) protect him/her/itself when the manager (be said manager a manager, partner, or officer) grabs the goodies and freezes out the rivals?
I've discussed this before in my blogposts "Don't Get Yourself Into A State," 5/11/11 and "The Big Freeze," 8/13/13. But Judge Pugh discusses it again in Jay Enis and Sue Enis, 2017 T. C. Memo. 222, filed 11/15/17.
I know I'm a day late and a cliché short, but I spent the time I should have been blogging getting to a worthless discussion of long-term care coverage from which I walked out after fifteen wasted minutes.
Once again, as in the latter of my two above-cited blogposts, a doctor is the alleged villain in the piece. Jay and Sue, specifically Sue, were in some diagnostic-type S Corp with Doc Mark and Sister Ricki. Doc Mark ran the show. Jay and Sue claim Doc Mark looted the operation and stuck Sue with pass-through income to the extent of $413K. With no cash wherewith to pay tax on same, natch.
Jay and Sue stiped away their claim that the Sub S should'a been a C Corp. Comment: Stipulate, but don't capitulate.
Well, the doings of Doc Kumar and Doc Woody, more particularly bounded and described in the latter of my above-cited blogposts, are the pattern for handing Sue the tax attributes of a Sub S shareholder.
"Petitioners contend that while Mrs. Enis was issued [Sub S] shares, the removal of her power to exercise shareholder rights, as well as the actions of [Doc Mark], removed the beneficial ownership of her shares. Petitioners, therefore, assert that they are not required to include pro rata shares of [Sub S]' income. Petitioners identified no agreement or provisions in the corporation's governing articles removing beneficial ownership. Kumar does not support their position that a violation of the shareholders agreement could deprive them of the beneficial ownership of their shares. In Kumar we found that in the absence of an agreement passing the taxpayer's rights to his stock to another shareholder, a poor relationship between shareholders does not deprive one shareholder of the economic benefit of his shares. Kumar v. Commissioner, at *3. We, therefore, held that the taxpayer retained beneficial ownership. Id." 2017 T. C. Memo. 222, at p. 16.
But hey, Sue can have whatever pass-through deductions which she can glean.
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These are the books I read in November, 2018. There were 14 books total including 3 general fiction, 1 classic, 4 crime/mysteries and 6 nonfiction. Five were by women authors and none translated (although several from other countries).
by Kristina Olsson (Australia)
2018 / 272 pages
read by Melle Stewart – 10h 47m
rating: 8.75 / contemporary fiction
(both read and listened)
by David Mitchell
1999 / 427 pages
read by William Rycroft – 15h 9m
rating: 7.5 / fiction
(both read and listened)
By Love Possessed
by James Gould Cozzens
1957 / 570 pages
rating: 3 (classic and out of print)
(read in paperback from library)
Seize the Day
by Saul Bellow
1956 / 114 pages
read by Grover Gardner – 3h 47m
rating: 8 / classic US fiction
(both read and listened)
The Witch Elm
by Tana French
2018 / 526 pages
read by Paul Nugent – 22h 7m
rating: A++ / crime
The Colors of All the Cattle
by Alexander McCall Smith
2018 / 240 pages
read by Lisette Lecat – 9h 36m
rating 9 (because I'm a fan)
The Switch
by Joseph Finder
2017 / 381 pages
read by Steven Kearny – 9h 55m
rating: B / crime
Force of Nature
by Jane Harper
2018/ 329 pages
read by Stephan Shanahan: 9h 3m
rating: A- / crime
American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
by Nate Blakeslee
2017/ 290 pages
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read by Hisham Matar 8h 51m
rating: 8 / memoir
by (by Audible Originals and based on the book by Andrew Beahrs
2010 / 338 pages
Read by Nick Offerman (and cast)/ 4h 27m
Rating: 8 / nonfiction (history)
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
2018/ 335 pages
read by Julia Whealan – 12h 10m
(both read and listened)
Factfulness: 10 Reasons Why We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
read by Richard Harries – 8h 51m
Rating: 6 – nonfiction (social sciences)
The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic
by Ganesh Sitaraman
2017 / 433 pages
read by MacLeod Andrews – 12h 24m
Rating: 9 / history-economics
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The Soul and the City
by Andre Forget
One of the most remarkable features of Girls Fall Down is the way in which Maggie Helwig has managed to write the city of Toronto into existence. The well-documented Canadian obsession with place is in full bloom in this novel, but the Toronto Helwig creates is not Michael Ondaatje's Toronto (which is fundamentally a place of rebirth), nor is it Robertson Davies' Toronto in The Cunning Man, which is thoroughly colonial. Helwig's Toronto is a place haunted at once by profound loneliness and an almost terrifying sense of connection. Much of the novel's beauty is derived from how totally the author embraces this paradox; its genius, however, lies in the unflinching way in which Helwig uses the city to investigate the individual and the individual to interrogate the city.
Plato famously analogized the soul to the city in his Republic, and while the classical way of presenting this analogy assumes that we know something of the human soul and can therefore learn about the political body by using the same categories to think about it, Helwig inverts this; starting with a city that is disconnected, alienated, antagonistic towards itself and fundamentally neurotic, Helwig questions the assumption that the individual is a coherent category. The three main characters in this novel are at to some degree or another at war with themselves. Alex, the man over whose shoulder we spend most of the novel peering, is a diabetic whose body is in active revolt against him – he is a photographer by profession, but we learn that due to his condition he will eventually go blind: his special gift of sight will be robbed by the disease that is a part of him. Susie, Alex's old friend and new flame is an academic studying homelessness who is torn by the knowledge that her research will have little to no effect. She has committed herself to a studying a problem that her profession has no power to change, and she has no faith that what she is doing will help anyone else aside from herself. Finally, and most compellingly, we have Susie's brother Derek. A schizophrenic living in a tent in the Don Valley, Derek is the one whose mind has betrayed itself and whose great intelligence has been debased by a chemical imbalance.
The question of what it means to be human, for the characters in Girls Fall Down, comes back frequently to bodies – both individual and social – in all of their unromantic messiness. A small chemical failure in the brain leads to madness, an imbalance of bloodsugar leads to blindness. Cities are defined by the smallest, perhaps most irrational things – in this novel, the mystery lying in the background is a strange sickness that seems to have no cause and yet is spreading steadily, and a few falling girls in a city of millions sparks a massive panic. In the same manner, humans owe their existence to a complex yet terrifyingly rational set of causes and effects, and the smallest disturbance throws the whole order into chaos. But it goes the other way as well; just as the human body is the sum of a million interactions, so the city is the sum of millions of humans interacting and co-operating and falling into conflict.
To claim that this novel is about a single thing would be a gross injustice to the author, but I think it is fair to say that the heart of this novel is political. Helwig has given us a city that is defined by the deep rifts between its citizens caused by class, mental health, worldview, and the modern myth of autonomy, just as its physical landscape is divided by streets and avenues, river valleys and bridges, just as its individual characters are divided against themselves by illness or ideology. But it is also defined by the often hidden ways in which all of these citizens are connected – either tangentially or actually – by the material of the city and the material of their bodies. That a sickness could pass from a madman living in a tent through a poor young prostitute and beyond into the teeming masses of the subways and bars and restaurants speaks both to the fragility of the human body and in a strange way to the enduring strength of human communities: we are never so disconnected as we may think we are.
No one can accuse Helwig of having crafted a beautiful treatise on the goodness of the world. What she has created is far more interesting: a meditation on the profound and sometimes disturbing ways in which we are not alone.