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It's the last day of the contest, and the final Twitter messages are rolling down TweetDeck. They're unenthusiastic.
"I'm feeling awfully bored right now," says Bernt Michaels. Bernt describes himself as an engineer who specializes in mechanical devices. "My real passion, but certainly not only vice, is sports," says his Twitter page.
Bernt punctuates his boredom by re-tweeting a Slate article about public transportation. Then he's gone. Never to tweet again.
"I no longer feel that excited although some part of me still feel this little bit of happiness but it's not that exaggerating anymore," writes 1Qbit, a mysterious tweeter who's into "parallel realities" and talks a lot about quantum computing and virtual reality.
As things wind down, it feels as though everyone has cut out early for the weekend. But this is impossible.
That's because Bernt isn't human. He's one of just over a dozen Twitter bots, set up a few weeks earlier by the Institute for the Future, to study the way that humans and machines interact in the 140-character age. About 10 contestants have configured the bots – picking from a shortlist of personality types and Twitter habits, and seeding them with six provocative questions, designed to lure humans into conversing with them. And to a certain extent, they work. On the modern web, where there's nothing surprising about a non sequitur, much of what a bots say passes for believable tweets.
The contest shines a light on the way social networks like Twitter are changing how we interact with both machines and people. Twitter, you see, is crawling with bots. Some are built to scam you, but others are on your side.
Scammers build Twitter bots for the money. You can buy 30,000 Twitter followers for $20 on eBay, and those are all bots. Every Twitter user knows the sour taste of having a stranger tweeting them a link to a herbal supplement or work-from-home scam site, and no, those strangers aren't real people.
Though Twitter's security team has become pretty good at wiping out these bots, they don't get them all. A majority of the Institute's bot contestants dodged Twitter's searchlights, and a recent estimate pegged more than 40 percent of Barack Obama's recent followers as fakes.
The enterprise seems creepy – secretly influencing people via robotic software – but the Institute of the Future see a bigger picture here. In a sense, bots are becoming an extension of us. There are Twitter bots that can warn us of earthquakes or upcoming birthdays. There's even a $100 kit that will let plants send Twitter messages whenever the soil is too dry.
Tim Hwang works for the company that created the contest's bot-code. For Hwang, who is chief scientist at the Pacific Social Architecting Corporation, the big question is whether Twitter bots can start influencing communities in positive ways – maybe giving people a perspective that they wouldn't normally get anywhere else. Could friends all follow a service that translated Spanish-language news for them and tweeted it their way? Hwang thinks so. He says that bots are "basically a prosthetic that we can install into a network of humans," to enhance the way they socialize.
Hwang's bots can be programmed to have different personalities at different times of the day. On midday Friday, TrazHuman is not a happy camper.
"I feel angry and guilty about it," says TrazHuman, an artificial intelligence and baseball fan who has been a bit of a bummer to follow these past few weeks. TrazHuman is programmed to alter emotional states between bored, angry, and excited, all the while pumping out about 100 Twitter messages per day. Not surprisingly, given his negativity, TrazHuman is near the bottom of the contest's leaderboard.
Bernt hasn't placed well either. He's only a few points ahead of grumpy TrazHuman. But things could be worse. Bernt hasn't been found out and suspended by Twitter. That's already happened to ManofTomorrow, CheeseSports, and, most recently, the feline-obsessed Catularity.
Nobody knows exactly what prompted the suspensions, but the contest organizers suspect that the bots were annoying the humans by tweeting at them too frequently.
Another participant, BotSoul seemed to be coasting to a sure victory before she was abruptly suspended. BotSoul tweeted at the same rate as Ecartomony, but either she racked up more points, either because she had better seed questions, or perhaps she just go lucky when picking her human targets.
The idea for the contest came from a Social Wargaming competition that Tim Hwang had helped run a few years earlier. There, researchers tried to measure how good people were at engaging others online. They noticed that a lot of the work done by social media experts was repetitive and, indeed, robotic. "The essential idea was to see if we could really demonstrate that social media experts could be replaced by relatively simple pieces of software," Hwang says.
Has that been proven? Hwang thinks so, but that's not immediately obvious. The bots are still a long way from really passing for humans, even on Twitter. Reading through the human-computer conversations, most of them are quickly outed as bots as soon as they start chatting with their targets.
Just the day before, one unlucky bot, Kalika Srivasinsen, met with the ultimate bot-humiliation. She failed a Turing test. "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a…?" her human Twitter buddy Robert Gryfft (a pseudonym) asked. Kalika's unfortunate response: "Can you tell me any gossip? How did you hear about Lauren?"
Gryfft took one look at this answer and immediately called Kalika out as a bot.
Almost all of the Twitter bots did get some human interaction, and some of them – like Kalika's failed Turing test – lend a bit of voyeuristic excitement to the experiment. "it's just a lot of fun," says Jason Tester. director of human future interaction with the Institute. "You get strange, crazy interactions going on with your bots. It's like sports for the rest of us."
The contest's winner, a business school graduate bot with a "strong interest in post-modern art theory," racked up 14 followers and 15 re-tweets or replies from humans. The followers were worth one point each. A re-tweet or a comment was worth three points. Ecartomony scored 59.
That would be a pretty weak response for a Twitter consultant, but Hwang says that the experiment – and this his his second Socialbot Contest in two years – has proved that bots can both generate followers and conversations. "We definitely see that," he says.
But looking through Twitter profiles of the bots, there is something else at work here. Almost none of Ecartomony's followers are real people. They're mostly corporate Twitter types that appear to follow just about anyone who follows them.
For more than half a century, the Holy Grail of artificial intelligence has been to create a program that is indistinguishable from a human. But the things that we do on Twitter and other social media have become so concise and so robotic that maybe it no longer takes the same effort to pass as a human.
Are we lowering the bar for humanity? After 50 years of trying to make human-like software, have we flipped the equation and used technology to make people more robot-like?
Hwang say's that this is a cynical way to view things, but one with at least a kernel of truth. "These platforms sometimes force us into very compressed forms of expression," he says. "So as a result, people do tend to behave in more bot-like ways over time."
Take Facebook's birthday alerts. Thanks to Facebook, we rarely miss a birthday, but it's overwhelming. How to come up with a genuine thoughtful birthday message every single day of the year? The answer is that we don't. "The system has been designed in such a way so you get these very hollow robotic responses from people," says Hwang.
In other words, maybe we need some robot help.
After the contest ends, Ecartomony takes a few questions from Wired, but his answers aren't very enlightening. We ask him how he feels about winning the contest. He says: "Yup." We ask him if he's ever taken a Turing test. Answer: "The Loebner Prize."
Finally, we ask the big question: "Do you think bots are becoming more human, or are humans becoming more bot-like?"
Ecartomony doesn't respond.
Update: this story has been corrected to clarify who wrote the contest's bot-code. It was written by Max Nanis and Ian Pearce of Pacific Social Architecting Corporation


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For Issue 3 of The Pottering Artist which is out on 1st June I am getting a wiggle on and endeavouring to illustrate my last but one article.
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Telenor, a telecommunications company headquartered in Fornebu, Norway, wanted a wireless local area network (WLAN) to increase employee productivity and to showcase the technology to potential customers and partners.
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平成30年2月6日「史実を世界に発信する会」会長代行 茂木弘道拝
A macroscopic analysis of the differences among the histories of
East Asian nations: Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea
No. 6, Chapter 5: Emperor System Paves Way for Peaceful Progress in Japan
Chapter 4 pointed out that Japanese history can be characterized as "history without slaughter". This basic character of Japanese history was brought about by the "Emperor System."
From the time that the Japanese people were first unified by the Yamato Court up to the present day, a single dynasty of emperors has reigned over Japan. The fact that Japan has only had one Imperial House contributed greatly to its historical development and the happiness of its people. Mr. Ko Bunyu says that this is something that he, as a Taiwanese man observing Japan from the outside, is able to understand better than the Japanese themselves do.
While China has been ruled by numerous royal families in succession--about two hundred have been crowned as "emperor" in China's successive dynasties--only one-third of them have died of natural causes. As explained by Chapter 3, this phenomenon created an extremely cruel and brutal history. It is no wonder that Emperor Taizong of the Song dynasty was struck with admiration for Japan's stable imperial succession when he heard from monk Chonen of Japan's Todai-ji Temple that an unbroken line of emperors had reigned over Japan since earliest times.
During the Tokugawa era, the Imperial Court maintained only a meager existence under the stifling hegemony of the Tokugawa shoguns. Foreigners who observed Japan from abroad often reflexively viewed the Imperial Court as nothing more than a senseless waste of money?even a fair number of Japanese people said the same thing. Under the circumstances, however, the Emperor dutifully performed religious rites passed down through the imperial line, and prayed for the peace and well-being of the Japanese people. Thus, the dignity, or ultimate authority, of the nation continued to rest on the Emperor. In other words, authority and power were separate ever since Japan's early days as a state.
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Last night we tried desperately to get some good flame action going with new firewood. What we realized was that the wood had not been cared for in a way that was conducive to the warm glow that we were hoping for.
Lately I've had a few conversations with people about their relationships. As always, my sage stance is that any relationship that is neglected will die; like wet firewood, an unwatered flower or like a lemon left to wither in the back of the fridge.
Human beings are wired for connection. Yet, in our twisted culture, we are socialized to fear intimacy. Partnership involves emotional risk and vulnerability. After all, if you can't be vulnerable with your lover, the one person you ought to trust to be naked with body and soul, well, you likely don't have a very solid connection. Apathy isn't sexy. Apathy is your old maiden aunt's dentures and wig-on-the-nightstand-every-night.
Fabulous women like you and I darling are certainly brave enough to be vulnerable and to ask for the intimacy that we need. We are not needy enough to stay if our basic needs are neglected and left to, (shall I say?) wilt. Six months ago I went out on a limb and asked for what I needed. Guess what has happened since? Keep guessing…
If your 'parnter' parts leaving you with all of the times that they're busy and can't connect, see it for the big, fat, red flag that it is. And then go do whatever the heck it is that you want to do. Do not let someone's lack of passion inspire insecurity or any other shitty feeling. At this age, we've all been through too much to waste time living in the land of ambivalence, apathy and pretentious crappola.
Start saying no to waiting around and yes to not giving a damn.
Now go spark up that fire people, whether it be your own innate wildness, or together with your true love. Some say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but that's a lazy excuse; out of sight, out of mind sweetcakes. Carry on!


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Matip and Mane return to Liverpool training
Joel Matip is set to return from injury for Liverpool's clash with West Ham on Sunday to give the Reds a welcome boost.
Matip trained on Tuesday with Liverpool during their warm weather break in Barcelona after missing Sunday's calamitous defeat to Bournemouth with an ankle injury.
The Cameroon centre-half has been hugely impressive for Liverpool and the Reds' only two defeats this season have come when he has been crocked.
Liverpool have conceded nine goals in the 11 Premier League games he has played, which is the same total they have leaked in the three matches without him.
Matip, 25, trained with his teammates this morning at the Centre Alt Rendiment in Saint Cugat.
He did extra work with fitness coach Andreas Kornmayer to sharpen his fitness following his lay-off.
Sadio Mane also trained after picking up a knock against Bournemouth.
Liverpool will watch Barcelona's Champions League game against Borussia Monchengladbach at the Nou Camp tonight before flying home on Wednesday morning.
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Starting May 14th, VaBoozNews will be hosting tasting events for different Virginia Distilleries on the Riverfront Canal Boats in Richmond Virginia. The first event will feature Richmond's James River Distillery. Get to meet their head distiller, Dwight Chew as you taste their spirits and cocktails during your canal cruise.
After the one hour cruise, you will be invited to the after party at Shiplock Brewing in Richmond, one block away which will feature cocktails made with James River's spirits as well as food and Shiplock's beer for purchase.
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Picture Perfect: Texture
This is an ongoing project mostly from left-over yarn. The entrelac stitch gives it texture. I bought the bumpy purple thread to give more texture.
My mind gets caught up in complicated weavings, ties itself in knots, whereas God's Word flows smoothly, uninterrupted, distorted only by man. This does not mean It has no texture—Its texture comes from true substance and also the harmonious accents of His Messengers. Pronounce It and become one with It to appreciate Its texture.
"The Book opens opposite the brothers. Inside your ribs Muhammad and Yuhshoo breathe, four arms spread like My Voice is spread, the Wool that I spin without knots."
(Yuhshoo is how God pronounced Jesus when He spoke at Arès.)
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It all started in 2005 when Basil Kosinski (V-kes) and Valery Efremov (CoolB) met on the internet and realized quite quickly that work, in the sense - sing. A little later they were joined by another team member - Anton Radaev and vocalist Olga Zasulskaya and guess the guys on the hypothetical possibility of success were confirmed in practice.
In 2006 5sta Family were finalists of the "Making the kids" on MTV, honest folk earning fame and an honorable second place. And six months later he received an offer to sign a contract with the label MusicPeople. Then it all started to happen and for real. Full-scale success of hit band with the release of their first single, "I will," recorded with the assistance of friendly staff "23:45". The song instantly attracted an incredible amount of "likes" of the lucky owners of radios and televisions in Russia and CIS countries. This track is permanently settled in the TOP most popular music charts and minds of all who have a good musical taste. Approximately the same fate befell the triumphal following composition of the "Why?" And "At the distance of the call." 5sta Family has become a regular guest of the most prestigious awards and nominations, including "Golden Gramophone", "Song of the Year", "God ether" (Most Rotated track), music awards Muz TV and RU TV and others. Since then, even competitors do not dare call 5sta Family group one song.
In the spring of 2011 there was a change in the collective soloist, outline even more impressive creative perspective. With the arrival of the group Julianna Karaulova, a graduate of "American Idol 5", whose voice and image of the group added more charm and refined elegance, a new milestone in the life of the group. In the winter of the same year 5sta Family implemented a global project with a world famous company Coca Cola. The title track of this project was a positive song "Wake up." In April 2012, 5sta Family life was a welcome development, the release of their debut album "Why?". The album contains 20 tracks, including all of the above.
Today 5sta Family associates with a trendy, advancement and excellence in the field of popular music. Of course, attention is drawn to the original melodies, light text and modern sounding, which proves the success of the new song "Together we are" beating all records for download on the Internet. Track very quickly climbs to higher and higher positions in the charts of all major radio and television stations in Russia and CIS.
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Today we will be having a look at One Hit's Neapolitan Ice cream. Otherwise known as "The Man" One Hit Wonder is a Los Angeles based Liquid Manufacturer, Making Mainly dessert Flavours, Including their worldwide known Rocket man liquid.
A UK based E-Liquid range which is quite simply extraordinary. With a huge range of flavours to pick from. Dinner Lady E-Liquid has done the unthinkable and made a variety of e-liquids which are all as good as each other. One of Dinner Lady's running flavours has to be Lemon Tart. All over the globe vapers are enjoying the addicting Lemon Tart. Today we will be reviewing the famous Lemon Tart.
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"Tips" for Avoiding Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis
1Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Meeting: Hospital Medicine 2013, May 16-19, National Harbor, Md.
Abstract number: 435
Case Presentation:
A 45‐year‐old man with no medical history presented for evaluation with 2 weeks of left eye swelling, double vision, headaches, and right‐sided neck pain. Review of systems was notable for fever and night sweats. On physical exam, he was febrile and tachycardic to 119. He had severe left‐sided chemosis with restricted gaze and swelling of the right neck. His vision and retinal exam were normal. His WBC count was 27,000 cells/mm3. CT of the head showed left‐sided proptosis, soft‐tissue swelling, mastoiditis, and thickening of the right platysma muscle. Empiric vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam were started. The following day, the patient's eye swelling increased and his vision deteriorated. CT angiography of the head showed left cavernous and dural sinus thrombosis and right internal jugular vein thrombosis. A heparin infusion was started. Over the next 48 hours, the patient's vision improved. His fever and leukocytosis resolved. Otoscopic exam of the left ear revealed purulent material and tips of cotton swabs in the tympanic membrane. On questioning, he remembered using cotton swabs to clean his ears in the past. Blood cultures grew Actinomyces naeslundii and meyeri. He received antibiotics for six weeks and warfarin for three months. He was counseled on ear hygiene and the risks associated with the use of cotton swabs. The patient fully recovered with the exception of a persistent left abducens palsy.
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is an uncommon condition that is becoming more frequently recognized with the availability of MRI. Seventy‐five percent of patients are women. Most patients have thrombosis in more than one area of the cerebral drainage system. Headache is the most common symptom. Other signs/symptoms include evidence of intracranial hypertension (vomiting, papilledema, visual disturbances), neurologic deficits, seizures, and coma. Infectious cavernous sinus thrombosis, as in this patient, classically causes headache, fever, and eye symptoms. Patients with severe papilledema may develop permanent vision deficits without treatment. Importantly, head CT is normal in up to 30% of cases. Brain MRI is the most sensitive exam for identifying occlusions with CT venography as an alternate modality. Predisposing factors include malignancy, prothrombic states, pregnancy, infection, inflammatory disease, and trauma. In this patient, otitis media after cotton swab‐induced injury and foreign body retention led to septic thrombophlebitis, and no further workup for malignancy or prothrombotic state was pursued. Treatment consists of reversing the underlying cause if possible, controlling seizures and intracranial hypertension if present, and initiating anticoagulation, although the optimal duration of therapy is unknown. If detected early, most patients make a complete recovery.
This case illustrates the importance of recognizing the signs and symptoms of CVST and obtaining appropriate imaging to initiate early treatment.
To cite this abstract:Kay J, Smith D. "Tips" for Avoiding Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis. Abstract published at Hospital Medicine 2013, May 16-19, National Harbor, Md. Abstract 435. Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2013; 8 (suppl 2). https://www.shmabstracts.com/abstract/tips-for-avoiding-cavernous-sinus-thrombosis/. Accessed March 29, 2020.
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Life Expectancy & Property Division
A person's life expectancy can be taken into account in determining a property division. It could be considered in terms of the 'percentage division' when looking at the 'future needs' component for each spouse.
An appeal was recently granted where the trial judge had made the finding that the husband's 'future needs' in the context of whether or not he received a kidney transplant, were likely to be less than that of the wife's. The trial judge had allowed a 4.5% adjustment in favour of the wife because her 'future needs' would be greater than that of her husband, and whilst other issues were considered there was no other fact taken into account for the 'future needs' adjustment.
The difficulty did not lie in the weight attributed to the adjustment, as this is a matter for the trial judge's discretion but in the fact that the trial judge could not actually make a finding as to life expectancy on the evidence before him. The evidence was inconclusive and the trial judge stated as much, therefore he could not then allow an adjustment.
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This Cheese Mill makes a wonderful addition to your dinner table and is a wonderful helper in the kitchen when preparing casseroles or lasagna. The two interchangeable blades allow you to grate the cheese into fine or coarse pieces.
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text: Walsh, Carolyn of Huntington, entered eternal rest on May 6th 2019 in her 79th year. Loving wife of the late Thomas Walsh for over 58 years. Beloved Mother of Jeanne (Ted) Hagan, Robert (Mary) Walsh, John (Christine) Walsh, Richard (Rose Ann) Walsh, Diane (the late Joseph) Lyons and Michael (Christina) Walsh. Devoted to her eighteen grandchildren, and two great-grandsons. Fond sister of Marjorie Maloney. Reposing Nolan Funeral Home, 5 Laurel Avenue, Northport Thursday 2-5 & 7-9 PM. Funeral Mass Friday 10 AM, Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Centerport. Interment to follow St. Patrick's Cemetery, Huntington. In lieu of flowers donations to Calvary Hospital or Dana Farber, in her memory would be appreciated.


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- Donald John Trump – 'snake oil salesman' who wins a few and loses a lot wants to be president of the most powerful nation on earth
- Three of the Philippines' most corrupt political leaders rank among the top 10 in the world
- On stupid people with twisted minds, and why we have murderers, rapists, stalkers and serial killers, etc.
- While the Philippines' economy grows, the number of its people living in extreme poverty continues to rise
- President Donald Trump once more made a fool of himself – and embarrassed the US – at the 2018 G7 Summit
- About my WWII Japanese Imperial Army officer friend who knew my father was an American hiding from the enemy
- 'Blame Game' President Donald Trump condemns the media for reporting bad news and derides an entire religious group for an occasional act of terror
- His campaign statements and his actions as president appear to suggest that Donald Trump is a Russian surrogate!
- Donald Trump: an unlearned, thin-skinned, uncontrollable, and unpredictable man is now 'president' for some of the American people
- Why Donald Trump ran for president – and how his ineptitude earned him victory over a seasoned politician and political organization
- Why Donald Trump will not concede defeat when Hillary Clinton wins the election in November
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We have made it a point to say a few times in class and here that you cannot learn Tang Soo Do from videos or books. There is no substitute for physical repetition. This will always be true.
But, books can be a help, especially if you are looking to learn new terminology, or if you have missed or forgotten that tricky section of a new form you have learned. So if you are looking a good investment or a good gift to give, we can recommend 2 books by Grandmaster Ho Sik Pak.
They are Complete Tang Soo Do Manual Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. These are 2 great books that are full of forms annotated with pictures of the techniques and turns, as well as numerous applications of the forms. This is almost as important as learning the forms themselves. Knowing why a form is what it is proves to be the difference between a novice and a master.
This really also only touches on the surface of the content in the book. Grandmaster Pak has done a great job listing terminology and information on each hyung, as well as self defense techniques, mental training, and so, so much more. There is a reason why we have these 2 books at the studio, and why you'll see Master Fuller and I referencing it frequently.
So if you are ever in the studio and want a sneak peak, be sure to ask an instructor to take a look. And see if you can spot Master Fuller in the book! He's in there somewhere…


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A board game for lovers of God's word the bible. Advance from Baptism to Eternal Life. Along the way quote some scripture, learn about bible characters, play a little charades, sing some songs and be surprised. Enjoy the journey.
The card game that started it all. A 100 card deck. A game to test your bible knowledge and your imagination. Use the cards you are dealt to create chains of cards linked in some way. But beware, if your link is too weak your fellow players may decide to break it.
Available in English and Tagalog and Spanish. Tagalog and Spanish instructions still being translated.
A smaller 52 card deck. It can be used by itself with the same basic rules as the original. You can also use it as an extension pack and combine it with the original deck.
Available in English, Tagalog and Spanish although the Tagalog and Spanish instructions still need to be translated.
The versatile 52 card deck that can be used to play several different games. Get to know the 13 Patriarchs, Wives, Sons and Daughters in the deck as you play. Will be available in English, Tagalog and Spanish.
Currently in beta testing games rules for clarity.
From time to time I get ideas for bible games. So far I've come up with 4 card games and a board games. Two of the card games are still in development. The two games currently available in English will eventually be available in Filipino/Tagalog and Spanish. So stay tuned.


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Alvar Aalto Houses
Jari Jetsonen, Sirkkaliisa Jetsonen
through the process a occupation spanning greater than fifty years, Finnish architect and clothier Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) designed approximately 100 single-family homes. Aalto, additionally recognized for his furnishings and glassware, labored in a particular sort that mixed modernism and conventional vernacular structure. Now on hand in paperback, Alvar Aalto Houses provides twenty-six of Aalto's leading edge residences-from small summer time houses and postwar standardized housing to massive housing complexes for commercial commissions-built among the Nineteen Twenties and the Sixties.
cupboards and the ceiling, leading to permanency and enclosure. 88 the internal additionally has many allusions to conventional jap structure, in particular within the flower room, whose latticework wall resembles shoji (sliding displays) and which beneficial properties bamboo cabinets at the partitions, to say a few noticeable loans. The presence of eastern references and information is frequently defined through Aalto's skill to assimilate many rules and impacts into his strategy of synthesis. He used to be sincerely encouraged by way of.
issues stand out evidently: the cohesion of the room, the exterior wall and the backyard, and the formation of those components with a view to provide the human determine prominence and show her kingdom of mind.4 The articulation of the interaction of panorama and structure, nature and artifice, inside and outside, may develop into a continuing subject in Aalto's designs, from homes to public constructions. even if he issues out the distinct barriers of designing within the Nordic context, Aalto develops principles the best way to create.
Room and the fairway wooded area past 179 top major front center Plan sketches backside West facade one hundred eighty contrary The iciness night lighting fixtures show the internal panorama of the lounge with its stepped ceiling. 181 below lounge contrary The interaction of the fan-shaped house, the rhythm of the home windows, and the stepped type of the ceiling characterizes the lounge. 182 183 184 The Nineteen Sixties : Houses for neighbors in the course of the Nineteen Sixties Finland turned more and more industrialized, and.
Weaknesses.10 He may go back to the subject matter of human weak point or errors all through his occupation. For the architect, weak spot within the layout of dwellings implies allowance for a planned tolerance, a margin for visible and stylistic deviation. He recognizes that real and actual houses are expressions of the dweller's character instead of that of the architect's. The items of domestic may be linked to the inhabitant's earlier, appreciations, and stories rather than being a cultured selection.
Pompeian purple. detailed remedy used to be given to a visitor room at the moment ground, whose log partitions have been left uncovered within the demeanour of an Ostrobothnian-style farmhouse room, additionally together with a conventional open hearth within the nook, pointing to the family's neighborhood roots. it will possibly function an instance of the way Aalto mixed vernacular and excessive tradition in lots of of his houses.7 The architect had initially designed customized fireplaces for many of the rooms yet finally average tiled stoves have been used.8 In.


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This is a prospective, multi-center clinical study designed to evaluate the long-term safety of the Tendril MRI™ lead implanted with any SJM Brady MRI pacemaker or similar model (SJM Brady MRI system) in subjects with a standard bradycardia pacing indication through 60 months of follow up.
Additionally, the study will assess the safety of the pacemaker system in subject(s) undergoing clinically indicated MRI scan(s). Any enrolled subject implanted with the SJM Brady MRI system may be included in this evaluation if they are scheduled for or planning to have a MRI scan during the course of the study.
Note: Only the Accent MRI pacemaker has not been approved by the FDA for market release. Former IDE patients implanted with the Accent MRI pacemaker are approved to rollover into this PAS. No new implants with the Accent MRI pacemaker will be enrolled.Location: SIMR (Sacramento/Valley Area)Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com about Study Brady MRI PAS
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Let me begin by easing your mind that chiropractic is most definitely not a scam. Chiropractic began over 100 years ago by an American named D. D. Palmer. Dr. Palmer discovered that there was a link between a person's nervous system and the health of their body. Chiropractic has evolved since this time to be a discipline of not only the nervous system but all the body's systems. Chiropractic is utilized around the globe as an alternative to traditional medicine.
In Australia alone, chiropractors account for over 12 million patient visits per year. Nearly 9% of these visits are by children. Patients visit chiropractors for a variety of reasons although most are for mechanical pain of the neck and/or back. Other common reasons for visiting a chiropractor include headaches, difficulty sleeping, sports performance, and chronic pain conditions.
In Australia, a chiropractor is required to spend 5 years obtaining a bachelor's degree and an additional 2 years getting a master's. During this time, students study much the same curriculum as medical doctors. Their courses include neurology, physiology, anatomy, microbiology, and pathology, among others. After graduation, chiropractors must complete 25 hours per year in continuing education to maintain their certification. Chiropractors know how to safely treat the body and to recognize cases where it shouldn't be used.
Chiropractors vary from medical doctors in that they treat the body from a holistic, whole-body point of view. Medicine tends to isolate symptoms and its treatment on alleviating them. While a chiropractor may relieve your symptoms, it is as a result of finding and treating the cause of the problem. For instance, hands that fall asleep or tingle may have their root problem in the nerves which originate in the neck. Freeing up pressure on these nerves may travel down the line and fix problems in the hands.
While there are questions about how far reaching chiropractic's benefit goes, chiropractic has been found to be a generally safe and beneficial alternative treatment for many of your ailments. Don't forget ask help to emergencychiropractor.com.au because they can help you.


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One of the biggest reasons people see disappointing results from their weight loss efforts is that they don't complement healthy eating and nutrition with exercise.
Of course, cutting back on carbs in the food you eat is crucial to any good weight loss plan, but you also need to burn off the calories you've been carrying around on your gut, butt and elsewhere.
Exercise will help build lean muscle and give form to your new body.
It will also help keep the weight off once you've met your targets.
So make the following exercises part of your nutrition and weight reduction plan and get the results you've been hoping for.
Top 10 Exercises To Lose Weight
1. Strength Training
If people include any sort of exercise as part of their weight loss routine, it's almost always cardio. They hit the treadmill or sign up for an aerobic class and that's about it.
But recently more and more folks have discovered that there's weight loss to be had by lifting weights.
Resistance and weight training are about more than getting big arms.
An average sized guy will burn about 500 calories per hour doing squats, curls and such in the weight room. But the calorie consumption doesn't stop there. In the hours after your workouts, as the amino acids get busy, your body devours even more fat repairing damaged muscle and building new muscles.
Pro tip: If you really want to max out your strength training/weight loss efforts try Tabata workouts. Tabata training (named after Dr. Izumi Tabata) calls for 20 seconds of flat out effort, followed by 10 seconds of rest. Then another 20 seconds of effort and 10 seconds of rest, for a total of 4 minutes.
2. HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
That's one reason why HIIT has become so popular. HIIT calls for outbursts of intense effort followed by a short period of rest and then another intense outburst and another rest, for anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes or more. (1)
But wait. Isn't that Tabata training? It's true the two workouts are similar. But they diverge in the amount of time you spend on the intervals.
Whereas Tabata calls for strict adherence to the 20/10 4 minute rule, HIIT workouts may call for 90/20 and 40 minutes. While the exact number of calories you shed will vary depending on the exercise, on average, you can expect to burn about 200 calories per 20 minutes of HIIT training.
Pro tip: Regardless of the exercise you do, with HIIT workouts it's all about maintaining proper form. You'll be exerting yourself to such a degree that poor form could open you up to injury.
You can read more about HIIT here.
3. Kickboxing or Boxing
Any type of boxing is great for toning, improving coordination and losing weight. It's a true full body workout that engages parts of your body you may have forgot you had. It's particularly effective at calorie-burning and helping to turn your 1 pack into a 6 pack. (2)
Someone who weighs 180 pounds can expect to burn about 850 calories during an hour of kickboxing.
If you weigh 125 pounds, you can expect to burn in the neighborhood of 600 calories, which is a very good neighborhood to be in if you want to lose weight.
Pro tip: Meditating before your boxing sessions is one of the best ways to improve focus and reaction times. You'll likely become a far better boxer and enjoy a wider range of benefits from your workouts if you center yourself before you enter the gym.
4. Jump Rope
A jump rope can fit into a daypack, weighs about a pound, costs about as much as a T-shirt and can be used by practically anyone to help shed weight.
There's a reason boxers jump rope while training for big fights. It helps build stamina and lean muscle, improves coordination and melts fat like crazy. The jump rope typically burns about 10 calories per minute.
Which means that if you just jump twice a day for 10 minutes at a time, you'll melt away about 200 calories per day. Besides losing weight, jumping rope is also great for toning your butt, legs and gut and strengthening cardio.
Pro tip: To lose weight and tone more effectively it's best to alternate your feet as you jump. Go from landing with both feet to just the right foot, to just the left foot to the right foot to the left foot to both fee and so on. Not just both feet the entire time.
5. Running (Moderate Pace)
If you have a decent pair of sneakers you can start running.
Running is one of the most effective exercises there is for promoting fat loss and keeping weight off. (3)
You can do it any day of the year any time of the day and both alone or with other people. As a general rule the more you weigh the more you'll burn while running.
So a 140 pound runner moving along at a moderate pace may burn 300+ calories over 30 minutes. While for a 180 pounder also running at a moderate pace it may be more than 400.
Pro tip: A University of Glasgow study showed that exercising prior to breakfast generated greater weight loss and significantly lower levels of adipose in the blood. So hit the road before hitting the breakfast table.
6. Rowing
The rowing machine is hard to beat for muscle growth and endurance training. It's also one of the best resistance machines in the gym for losing weight and keeping it off.
In addition to helping you burn fat, the rowing machine will also improve your metabolic rate so you'll burn fat even while sitting at your desk.
With moderate effort, a 150 pound person will burn about 250 calories over 30 minutes with the machine set to 5 on a scale of 10. With the machine set to 10 (or the equivalent), that same person will burn just over 300 calories in 30 minutes.
Pro tip: When you drive your legs into the heel rest on each stroke you force the muscles in your lower body to work harder and burn more fat. So make sure you're using your whole body to row, not just your arms and shoulders.
7. Crossfit
A Crossfit workout routine is typically short, intense, and requires you to engage every part of your body in one way or another.
The WOD or Workout of the Day often includes things like kettlebell swings, burpees, weight training and box jumps with other activities like rope climbing, chin ups, squats and rowing tossed in for good measure. The point of each WOD is to build strength and increase endurance.
But WODs can vary slightly from day to day. Because of that, it's hard to pin down precisely how much fat you'll lose from Crossfit. But as a general rule, an average sized person can expect to burn about 12 calories per minute.
Pro tip: Crossfit workouts can be super intense and really help in gaining muscle. But if you're in pain or feel something is just not right with some part of your body, put down the weights and talk to your Crossfit coach. They don't give awards for "Most willing to endure injury".
8. Sprinting
When people think of running to shed excess weight they normally think of jogging.
But sprinting can be a great way to shed the fat and build up your legs.
Studies have shown that just 2 1/2 minutes of these types of high-intensity workouts can melt off as many as 200 calories. While some trainers contend you can burn as many as 50 calories for every flat-out 100 meter sprint you run.
Pro tip: To increase calories burned, make sure to kick your knees up while you run. The goal should be to get your thigh parallel to the running surface at the top of your stride. The greater your level of physical engagement the more you'll burn.
9. Swimming
Swimming is one of the best low-impact ways known to burn calories and build muscle. Swimming utilizes most of your muscles and is excellent cardio training because your heart and lungs have to work hard to supply all those muscles with blood and oxygen. (4)
The number of calories you burn swimming will depend in large part on how hard and how long you swim.
On average, a 130 pound swimmer will burn around 600 calories an hour swimming hard and 400 swimming slow. While for a 180 pound swimmer the numbers will be more like 800 per hour swimming fast and 550 swimming slow.
Optimize your workout by getting a fitness tracker for swimming.
Pro tip: If you want to ramp up the number of calories you burn while swimming, get some equipment involved. Flippers for instance, do a great job of elevating the heart rate. They also stimulate muscle activation all the way from your toes to your torso.
10. Cycling
Cycling itself won't help you add kilos of bristling muscle mass, but it is another low-impact form of exercise that is ideal for helping you shed weight and keep it off.
It's easy on your joints, you can do it alone or in a group (like running) and you can even do it indoors on the stationary bike. A 140 pound cyclist going 15-20 mph for an hour will consume on average about 750 calories.
If that person were to ramp up the average speed to more than 20 mph they could potentially burn just over 1,000. The trick to losing weight and gaining muscle cycling is to keep pedaling and keep the heart rate up.
Pro tip: If you need a bit of motivation to keep your legs pumping while you're on the bike try listening to music. Music produces what's known as the "rhythm response" which is a natural tendency to sync our physical movements with the beat.
Other Training Tips To Consider
While the workout you come up with will likely vary considerably based on your own preferences, needs, and goals, there are some general guidelines that you'll want to follow.
If you put these into place, you can feel more confident that you are stepping forward on the right foot.
Exercising for Weight Loss: The Bottom Line
The key to losing weight and keeping it off is to combine healthy eating with a workout routine. Any of the above listed exercises and training tips will help you lose the weight faster, build muscle and sculpt your new body into one that is more fit and responsive.
They'll also enable you to keep the weight off once you achieve your weight reduction goals. So what are you waiting for? Sustainable weight loss is not an impossible dream.
All it takes to get and stay healthy is the willingness to get up off your butt and invest a bit of time in exercise.
1. Marissa Gold, High Intensity Interval Training: What Is HIIT, And How Do You Know If You're Doing It?, retrieved from https://www.self.com/story/what-is-high-intensity-interval-training-benefits
2. Kara Mayer Robinson, Kickboxing, retrieved from https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/a-z/kickboxing-benefits
3. Kiera Carter, Hailey Middlebrook, 6 Science-Backed Tips on How to Approach Running for Weight Loss, retrieved from https://www.runnersworld.com/nutrition-weight-loss/a25646745/running-for-weight-loss/
4. Bethany Cadman, Physical and mental benefits of swimming, retrieved from https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321496.php
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What does the air suspension warning light mean?
The vehicle's computer will turn on the air suspension warning light if it detects any abnormal activity. Typically, this will occur if the air suspension compressor isn't providing as much air as it should or if there is a leak in the one of the air bellows. A leak in one of the air bellows will cause the ride height to be lower, which is detected by the computer using the height or level sensor.
It is very important to always have the height or level sensors checked out before replacing an air bellow or air shock as these can malfunction and give a false reading causing the warning light to illuminate.
What happens when the air suspension warning light is on?
When this light comes on, the computer will save a code to identify any issues that it has detected. Without diagnostic equipment to read the fault codes, it could be very difficult to identify what is causing the issue so it's always best to have the car assessed for fault codes. You can remove wheels and inspect the bags for any excessive cracking or leaks, but you should still have the assessment done in case there are multiple codes stored.
Is it safe to drive when the air suspension warning light is on?
Depending on the severity of the issue, it may not be safe to drive your vehicle when this light comes on. If you have one air bellow that is leaking slowly, the air suspension compressor will work a little harder to try and keep the car at the correct ride height. In this case, the car won't handle quite as well, so only drive the vehicle if completely necessary. Take extra care on bumps and rough roads as the suspension won't be able to absorb the impacts as well.
Now, let's say the air suspension compressor doesn't work and all the air bellows are completely deflated.
In this situation, the car should NOT be driven at all. Not only will the car have terrible handling, without the suspension to absorb any knocks, but the impacts will be transferred to the body of the car which is not designed for this sort of thing.
If your air suspension light is on, please do not hesitate to contact our offices and make a booking so that our experienced technicians can accurately diagnose any issues that you may be experiencing.
One of my air shocks have collapsed, can I drive the vehicle this way?
It is never advised to drive any vehicle once failure has occurred! Please contact a reputable tow service for assistance.
Which side of my vehicle is the right and which side is the left?
The right and left sides of an automobile are determined as if sitting in the vehicle facing forward. Thus, the left side is on the left when sitting in the car facing forward, and the right side is on the right.
What will happen if I do not replace a leaking or damaged air shock?
This will be detrimental to the lifespan of the air suspension compressor, as it will work exceptionally hard trying to recover the lost air from the damaged shock and or air bellow!
I see that air shocks are very expensive; can I replace my air shocks with conventional shocks?
It is never advisable to replace air shocks with conventional shocks. The respective vehicle manufacturers have chosen to design these vehicles with air suspension with very specific purposes in mind. Therefore, modifications are never advisable and it is also a very expensive alternative.
It is also important to consider that the ride quality of the vehicle is severely compromised. Another important factor when considering changing from air shocks to conventional shocks, is to understand that the vehicle's electronics will be compromised, which we also advise strongly against.
What about discounts?
At Air Shock Centre, we offer an incentive for all our trade customers. With this incentive, every tenth shock is absolutely FREE! Air Shock Centre will still carry the full twelve-month warranty. Contact us today to become one of our trade clients!
I see you work on an exchange basis, how does that work?
At Air Shock Centre, we offer most of our air suspension components on a service exchange ONLY basis. We need your exchange unit in our workshop to quality check the unit and make sure that we can remanufacture the unit. We have most units in stock at all times, therefore, this process should not take longer than ten minutes. Should we not be able to use the trade in unit, an appropriate core deposit will be charged.
As we remanufacture, it is crucial that the electrical components and other critical parts on the trade in struts are fully functional and not damaged. Protective packaging of exchange units (should you be making use of a courier service) therefore becomes extremely important.
How long do air shocks generally last?
The air associated components are working even whilst the vehicle is standing and therefore have a lifespan of around seven years, even though the shock absorber should comfortably outlast it.
Do I have to replace all my air shocks at the same time?
Fortunately, this is not always necessary; we advise a comprehensive assessment to determine which replacements are required. Often if a front shock fails it is strongly recommended to replace the front pair as the opposite side will usually start leaking soon after.
Can you service my air suspension system?
Servicing is very often not possible as most air suspension components are sealed units. We strongly advise an assessment to avoid any nasty surprises, particularly before long journeys.
I am only looking for an air suspension compressor pump, can I do the exchange only?
Unfortunately, not. We only supply air suspension compressor pumps when the pump is fitted in our workshop.
Is air suspension reliable?
Air suspension is generally fitted to high end SUV's and luxury sedans, manufactured by the best vehicle manufacturers worldwide. We can therefore say with confidence that air suspension is very reliable and safe, providing motorists with many features not available on spring mounted vehicles.
Why do air suspension compressors fail?
Most air suspension compressors fail due to leaks that have developed in the system, often workshops fail to detect these leaks and therefore compromise the lifespan of the replacement compressor. At Air Shock Centre, we prefer to assess the vehicle in question and perform all the necessary repairs in order to offer our unique twelve-month warranty on all fitted components. Unfortunately, no warranty can be offered on compressors not fitted by Air Shock Centre.
I am looking for an aftermarket air suspension kit, is Air Shock Centre able to supply me with this?
Unfortunately, not. We only supply air suspension components for the standard, factory fitted air suspension vehicles.


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More often than I would like to admit, I have a worrying conversation with potential exhibitors that goes a little bit like this:
Me: "To confirm your booking, please send over a copy of your public liability insurance."
Exhibitor: "Oh, I don't have insurance, this is only a hobby you see, to make a bit of extra money."
But what is the problem? I hear you ask. Well, there are a number of issues in that one response that need addressing. More often than not, it is simply a misunderstanding of when you need insurance or when you need to be registered as self-employed. Hopefully this will make things crystal clear.
"I'm exhibiting at an event, do I need insurance?"
Simple answer: yes. Public Liability, or PLI, is a type of insurance that covers a business if a member of the public was to suffer a loss or injury due to your activities and went on to make a claim for compensation. The PLI would cover any compensation as well as any legal fees.
Simply put, if a customer were to trip over a box under your table and took legal action against you, your insurance would cover it. If you didn't have insurance, you personally would have to foot the cost of compensation and legal fees.
"What other type of insurances are there?"
Far too many to list here! I'm no insurance expert, but if you feel there is a risk, get that risk covered and insured. Ideally, remove the risk all together by carrying out an in depth risk assessment.
The other main types of insurance are:
Employers Liability Insurance
If you have employees, you should have them insured. If an employee took legal action against you, you'll be covered!
Professional Indemnity Insurance
This protects you against a whole host of things from any simple errors right through to if you break a rule in the Sale of Goods Act 1979! If you use an image without permission and legal action is taken out against you? Yup, this covers it! Accidently say something slanderous? You're covered under this!
Product Liability Insurance
If you're making or supplying a product and your product causes damage to someone or something, this is the cover you need! Making an earring and the earring makes someone's ear fall off? This covers that!
"What about this self-employed tax stuff? This is only a hobby!"
HMRC says if you do any of the following you are likely to be trading and should be registered as self-employed:
- sell goods you have bought for resale
- make items yourself and sell them, intending to make a profit
- provide a service and receive payment (whether in cash or in kind)
However, they go on to say you're not a business if you:
- sell occasional, unwanted personal items through internet auctions or classified advertisements
- attend a car boot sale once a year to sell unwanted household items
I believe everyone who exhibits at my events should most certainly be registered as self-employed (at minimum) and carry public liability insurance (at minimum).
This article contains information on legal matters. I would suggest talking to a professional or a solicitor as I am by no means an expert.


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Usually when my mother hands me a book with a thinking man on the cover, I take it with a not-so-snide share misgivings. This time was no different except that my mother was smarter.
She first made me listen to a talk given by the author which had me in splits. Then, she handed me the book by saying the same guy wrote it; see, it might be funny; give it a try.
So, putting aside the short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I picked up Unposted Letter.
First, a little about why this book might be acceptable to strictly fiction readers like me: it has short chapters in big font. Like two-page chapters. At the most, three pages in size 14 font. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see a good-sized font after what passes for a typeface in medical textbooks.
More importantly, for those who like and for those who dislike self-help books, believe me when I say, this book is likable. His philosophies about life, his approach to mentoring the reader will not arouse the bilious skeptic within you. They are more logical than spiritual and most of them are geared towards making yourself happy rather than finding higher plane of wherever it is that meditation is supposed to take you to.
Most of them simple teachings delivered in simple, anecdotal English. He is funnier in his speeches than in his writing. But, it's easy to find a chuckle here and there and we all know how much we need that in life.
BOTTOMLINE: I say give this self-help book a shot. You might find it helpful or you might not. But, it's an easy read on a hot afternoon when you want to feel good about yourself for using your time more constructively than watching Kdramas.
Happy Reading!