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Welcome to the second last season of Murder She Wrote oh god.
Welcome to Season 11 Fletcherfans and more specifically welcome to the jungle.
And by jungle I mean the Los Angeles Animal Park, home of the greatest game of all – shadowy figures ratting out their employers to reporters.
The shadowy figure is keen to take down park director Norman Gilford and wants to enlist the moustachioed Jimmy Russell into the fight. Apparently, Gilford is corrupt up the wazoo and there is a petition to have him removed. Russell returns a key to the figure and says this better be real.
More importantly than all that, Our Heroine is in town researching for her new book in which someone gets bumped off and the killer tries to make it look like an animal did it. She's getting a lift from Kelly Michaels, golf cart driver and park operations assistant manager according to IMDB (there are like eleven million people in this episode and I'm s-to-the-leepy so bear with me on this one guys ok?) Kelly is pulled over by another angry moustache, this time it's City Councilman Joe Gandolph who isn't happy about something in the paper that apparently Norman said. Kelly shrugs and floors it – she promised Norman she'd take JB straight to see him.
They arrive at the park HQ as Norman's assistant Bea Huffington eavesdrops on Norman's interview/argument with Jimmy Russell about corruption in the park and Joe Gandolph's investigation of it. Norman throws him out of his office and immediately apologises to JB for all this unsightly yelling. JB tries to explain she's on a tight deadline but he won't have a bar of it, he orders Bea to get coffee and he wants to hear all about Jessica's book.
Down at the vet clinic, Jessica bumps into veterinarian Dr Ray Stinson and animal caretaker Ted Fraley gossiping about Norman and his latest attempts to not pay for things (this is set after the 1994 earthquake and there's a whole thing about trying to rebuild). Bea tells Ray that he's wanted in the boss's office but Ray has an elephant situation happening (don't we all) and promises Jess he'll see her later. Ted has some ideas for Jess's book but also some ideas about asking Bea out, but she tells him she has to cancel on their date, something came up.
Meanwhile, Ray meets Norman and Kelly and is told in no uncertain terms (by Norman) have nothing to do with the petition or anything involving Norman's departure. Ray tells him he has no interest in Norman's job but that he should be more concerned about Mark Attwater and the Earthspeak mob who want the park to close. Kelly thinks that's not true but Norman thinks she's biased on account of she's having a thing with Mark.
Jess continues her tour of the animal kingdom.
Ted then introduces her to a black mamba who might feature in JB's book as a murder suspect.
Someone calls out to Ted, who leaves JB reciting sonnets with Snakespeare. It's Mark Attwater, who wants his money in 24 hours or else past transgressions will become public knowledge.
That night Norman watches a news story with Gandolph calling for his departure and makes plans to meet someone the next day. Kelly gets met at the office by Mark who escorts her out for the night but not before making snide remarks at Dr Ray who seems to have a thing for Kelly maybe? I don't really know, this episode has a love octagon in it.
Later that night JB is invited to a party at TV reporter Joyce Hacker's house. Joyce explains she's passionate about zoology, doubly so as her late husband liked to thinking hunting endangered species was doing the world a favour. Ugh. Mark declares he'd like to offer an unpopular opinion (a white man offering an unpopular opinion? I don't believe it) but Joyce shoots that down and asks Ray for a quiet word. She wants him to take over the park management and she will take over the park board. Ray tells her he doesn't want it but he's flattered and disappears. Joyce is soon joined by Mark and in the 3 seconds before they start making out it is established that she has arranged for Mark to be working for the Earthspeak crew. Downstairs Kelly spots them making out and runs out of the house crying past JB.
The next day Bea is showing JB the leopards when Ted pops up looking to impart more Black Mamba wisdom. Jess says she'll come see him later and he leaves, but not before sulking at Bea about her not going to the movies with him the night before. (Bea went to the party thing with Ray. As friends. Just FYI)
I think I have it straight now. Ted loves Bea. Bea loves Ray. Ray loves Kelly. Kelly is engaged to Mark Atwater. Mark Atwater is making out with Joyce.
Kelly runs into Mark who tells her it's not what she thinks it is. Gee Gaslight was a good movie. Across the park, Norman begs Gandolph into finding someone else to take the fall for the park's demise and offers 150K to sweeten the pot. Gandolph tells him he'll think about it and wanders off, past Bea who heard the whole thing. Later, Norman meets mark and offers him money to throw Joyce under the bus and disavow the whole campaign.
That night…
Mark Atwater comes in looking for Kelly but JB hasn't seen her all day. Mark assumes Kelly told Jessica about what happened the previous night and Jessica tells him she didn't need to be told, she was there. Mark gets a phone call and departs but not before telling JB she doesn't have all the facts.
Cut to Jimmy Russell slinking around in the vet room and bumping into Snakespeare…
Also Mark Atwater is slowing dying and clutching his neck but whatever.
The next day Lieutenant Gabriel Caceras wanders in to take charge of the investigation while a bear cub gets ready for the Grammys.
Caceras takes down JB's and Jimmy's statements but it's case closed, the black mamba did it. Jess finds it a curious set of circumstances that led to Mark being in the same place as a loose black mamba but Carceras won't buy into it. Ray wanders past and asks where the esteemed Norman Gilford is while this crisis is happening.
Jess and Ray go for a drive and run into Joyce and Gandolph. Gandolph wants to shut the park down but they beg him for more time. Joyce thinks the whole situation with the snake and the shady lady would make wonderful fodder for a book and Jess quite agrees. She shoots off in the golf cart with Ray while Gandolph tells Joyce about Norman's big fat bribe.
Jessica continues her research into deadly snakes and proves that Snakespeare was not the murderer, obviously. Joyce confronts Norman about the bribe and gives him the option to fess up or flee.
Back at the animal hospital…
Jess discovers that there is black mamba poison missing from the fridge. Caceras and Bea wander in and announce Ted's been arrested for the murder after his prints were found at Atwaters' ransacked house. It turns out Ted was being blackmailed by Mark and after he heard Mark was dead he tried to get the proof back. Jess believes him, and after a eureka moment gets Caceras to find out who owns the vacant land next to the park. Caceras calls her later that night and tells her that it's owned by the CH foundantion but he doesn't know more than that.
A sign on the wall gives Jessica another eureka moment and she goes to confront Bea Huffington who confesses to being the source of Jimmy Russell's info. Russell wasn't the only recipient of Bea's info, and JB gets her to call the other person and set up a meeting.
To conclude…
Joyce's husband owned the land, Joyce wanted the park's land, Gandolph was in on it and Atwater tried to blackmail her.
But never mind all that. My chronic fatigue might have come back, but a bunch of lions killed some rhino poachers in South Africa and in the omnishambles that is life on Earth in 2018 let's just take the wins where we find them.


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At a roundtable discussion high atop a movie studio in Los Angeles…
Who are the two most beautiful people in Hollywood right now? Okay, let's take Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway and put them in a movie together. Let's get them to have lots of sex, including Hathaway having an explosive, awkwardly intimate orgasm on screen. Oh and we mustn't forget that the boy has to upset the girl and then win her back in the end. We'll give it a catchy title…how about Love & Other Drugs… People will fill the seats!
Time goes by. Fingers drum on the oak tables of the studio offices. Shortly thereafter…
Okay, who are the two most beautiful people in Hollywood right now? How about Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson? Excellent. Let's take them and put them in a movie together, and let's adapt it from source material to ensure maximum attendance. Water for Elephants sounds good…I like the artistic sounding title, it has intrigue…
Diversion. Women are being insulted right now by the Hollywood "chick flick," or RomCom. It's an arrogant assumption that women are apt to line up for (and drag their boyfriends or spouses to) a cookie-cutter movie that follows a regurgitated formula: Boy meets girl, and they are an unlikely match. Inevitably, they charm one another into some semblance of "love." But the boy makes a big mistake, and must work in earnest to regain the affections of the girl. Along the way will be a "fat character," or one generally less attractive, to serve as comic relief. There will be an older couple so that viewers outside the target demographic are not left out, and can find relatable characters. The design is as specific as a functioning automobile. You don't have a big box office movie without all the requisite parts.
Or so we would be led to believe.
As ever, the power of change lies in the hands of the consumer. Whether it's conversion from the paradigm of limitless energy to one of sustainable resources in the Environmental movement, or it's American Idol, the power is in the hands of the people. Media cannot be blamed, whether it is news programs or entertainment fodder. Media is not a leading indicator, but a trailing one. And media propagates more media as quickly as data can be analyzed and contracts can be signed.
Our very culture itself can be anything it wants. Looking around a room at a conference I recently attended, I noticed how similarly everyone was dressed. How hair styles had very little variance. The current American trends in fashion seem to be drab colors, earth tones and minimalism. We are an inventive society, but we cannot escape the inexorable pull of the herd, and our culture trails the indelible fact of our tendency to conform. (I imagined that if this conference was held in Mumbai, India, how the garb would change to sandals and robes. Or the colorful palate of a Nairobi audience. The even more conservative-wear of Beijing.) We flock to the same movies because we needn't, for our survival, be very discerning in terms of what we watch anymore than what we wear. The extra effort it requires to be different doesn't seem to be worth it. So we pack into theatres presenting us the latest redone slop, all of us setting our Smartphones to silent and sliding them into the pocket of our Gap jeans or Patagonia bags.
In effect, these aspects of culture accrete in our minds to form what we think of as "reality." The "reality" is that in order to please a mass audience, you need to invoke the lowest common denominator. You need to "give them what they want," which are a set of beautiful, relatable characters in predictable situations. Some twists and turns are cleverly thrown in so that the story doesn't seem predictable, but, then, it is. As the herd gradually moves to envelope the notion that climate change exists, for instance, the consensus comes to view it as a "reality." And the way to move the herd towards certain pastures is, it would seem, fiscally powered.
Here's an example: New operations are underway to do simple things that change the way people use energy, and they are often price-driven. If everyone turns on their dishwasher and has all the lights on in the home at the peak hour of, say, six p.m., the stress on the energy systems that produce the power is greater than if there was a more even-tempered usage of the energy throughout a 24 hour period. So, the higher-ups are thinking that instead of the usual cryptic meter that spins around outside the home, a gauge inside the home which ticks off dollars and cents (like a gas pump) will help people to realize what concurrent energy use really does – drains their bank accounts.
What if movie theaters across the globe made redundant tripe like the modern day RomCom or slasher flick more expensive? What if it cost thirty dollars a ticket instead of ten or twelve to see a movie like Machete? (Because guys, you are being duped and talked down to as well.)
Well, of course that wouldn't work because the cost inhibitor is at a conflict with the revenue incentive of the theatre.
This is why we have the rise of on-demand distribution. It is cheaper to see a good film online that uses innovation and creativity to do something outside of the norm. To buck the trends that hold us fast to the herd culture and mentality.
This doesn't mean that theatres need to be put out of business and disappear. It means that self-distributed films can set up packages for theatres where they download a film for a greater cost when showing it publicly. Such packages may cost $300 or $400 for a theatrical run. All your theatre needs is a good laptop and digital projector. No more shipping prints, no more big heavy machinery. And audiences around the world can have a greater variety of films to chose from, and exercise that thing which is the best of what we have as human beings – choice. You can talk to your local theatre and advocate for digital on-demand movies to be part of your choice as a consumer, or, hey, open your own and serve coffee with the films you screen. All this hype about "the end of theatrical distribution"… well, we don't need to do away with it, silly, but enhance it and make the theatrical experience more accessible to emerging and independent filmmakers.
…Though let's be sure and keep Miss Hathaway around.

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Nicotine is produced from a tobacco plant which is a member of the nightshade family of plants. Manufacturers extract the nicotine from the plants for their use. Nicotine in small amounts is also found in eggplant, green pepper, tomato and potato plants.
Nicotine is produced by these plants as a form of protection from predators such as grazing animals.
Nicotine is a colorless chemical. When it comes in contact with air it turns brown. Nicotine can be deadly when even a few drops of pure nicotine is placed in your hand. It only takes 30-60 mg of pure nicotine to be fatal.
When you inhale nicotine it can cause chemical reactions to many functions of the body.
Even though smoking in the United States has decreased in recent years nicotine is still one of the most widely used drugs. When you smoke, a single cigarette contains about 10 mg of nicotine. However, you inhale only about 1 milligram of the nicotine. The balance goes up in smoke.
Of course, in a closed space the residue from the cigarette smoke lingers in the room. The nicotine left in the room can deposit itself on anything there including the children's toys. A young child can handle the toys with the nicotine residue. Then the child gets it on his hands and then put his hands in his mouth. In this way the child is ingesting nicotine.
For young children 10 milligrams of nicotine can be deadly.
Mothers who smoke will have the nicotine accumulate in their breast milk
and this is ingested by the baby. This may interfere with the baby's sleep pattern.
A fetus carried by a woman who smokes may receive less nutrients and oxygen then he should since nicotine can cause blood vessels to constrict.
For men who are heavy smokers nicotine can greatly reduce the ability of sperm to fertilize eggs.
Nicotine is a stimulant. Some people find smoking relaxing while others find it gives them more energy.
Nicotine can be absorbed into the body either by ingestion, inhaling or through the skin.
Within 10 seconds nicotine can reach the brain after a single puff.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter which activates when nicotine reaches the brain and causes feelings of motivation and pleasure.
Nicotine also releases adrenaline when it reaches the brain. This can cause the feeling of a racing heart.
Nicotine may also limit blood to the heart and increase blood pressure.
Nicotine can slow healing when a bone is broken. Nicotine may contribute to spinal disk degeneration.
Nicotine is very highly addictive. It does not stay in the body very long so someone addicted to nicotine needs to keep replacing it. On average the craving comes about every 40 minutes. You can become just as dependent on nicotine as someone who is addicted to heroin or cocaine.
Cigarettes are not the only product containing nicotine. Smokeless tobacco and some electronic cigarettes may contain nicotine as well.


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Good vs. evil? The sword cuts both ways! And somehow despite our differences we are all divinely the same. There was a beautiful dichotomy evident in Prabal Gurung's Fall 2012 Collection; redolent, luxurious, and seductive, speaking of a self-realized woman who has come to her full power.
Interestingly, the makeup look for this show, created by Charlotte Tilbury, really crystalized for me what could be the driving force behind this collection. Possibly one of the boldest looks this season, a great welcome given the muted and almost makeup-free faces seen on most other runways.
Gorgeous teal washes the lid as peacock blue creates a slash extending from the inner corners lifting the eyes and ending at the edges of the brows. Accents of iridescent green and brown deepen the eyes creating a sense of meaning and gravity to the brilliance — a look made possible by the creatives at MAC Cosmetics.
Although the clothing leads us on a journey from dark to light, this look unifies the transition as a reminder that the same woman has many ways to be. With such apparent confidence this fusion is not a reconciliation but rather a celebration or declaration of the right to be oneself.
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For many, the aubergine is synonymous with Parmigiana: in fact, who does not love this dish? Typical summer vegetable , the aubergine is part of the category of vegetables that can not be eaten raw. This fact is due to the presence of solanine, a toxic substance with a bitter taste, which during cooking decreases, therefore not dangerous for health. Even if they have very few kilocalories, about 18 for a hectogram, in cooking, the aubergines absorb a lot of the seasoning, so you have to pay close attention to the way used to cook them.
In supermarkets we often find aubergines of different shapes and colors: round, elongated, oval and white, light purple, very dark purple, even there are yellow or pink aubergines. The white eggplants have a more delicate flavor, they are not to love so good to be grilled. The dark purple aubergines , with an elongated shape, have a very strong flavor, a very fine peel and a fast cooking time so they are perfect for preparing sauces or for seasoning risottos and pasta dishes.
The property
If you have problems with water retention, start to include the aubergines in your diet more often: thanks to the high water content, this vegetable has diuretic and draining properties, so it is an excellent ally against cellulite . In addition, being rich in fibers, they help digestion and regulate intestinal functions (goodbye constipation). In addition to this, the aubergine is a rich source of mineral salts such as calcium, magnesium and potassium, thanks to which the consumption of this vegetable promotes the purification of the liver. The aubergines are also given antioxidant, laxative and anti-inflammatory properties.
Finally, the aubergines are also used in cosmetics: the tannin content (responsible for the bitter taste) has antioxidant properties, thus neutralizing free radicals that damage cells and tissues.
With what to combine the aubergines
Aubergines are very versatile: in fact they can be combined with most of the summer vegetables such as zucchini, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and peppers. They marry very well with basil, mint, marjoram, thyme, parsley, sage and garlic. It enhances the flavor of this vegetable by adding a pinch of black pepper, curry, fennel and sesame seeds in the recipes. Aubergines are used a lot not only as a side dish, but also as a condiment for pasta dishes (the famous pasta or baked pasta).
They lend themselves to many dishes, from delicious appetizers to desserts. And already, the coupled aubergine – chocolate is the star of a delicious cake from Campania.
How to cook aubergines
If you have in mind a dish with aubergine baked, before starting to cook you have to remove the bitter taste of the vegetable. For this, fill a basin with very cold water (add also a few ice cubes), wash the aubergines well, cut into the desired shape and dip for about 30 minutes.
Squeeze the eggplant well and start cooking. If you want to cook the aubergines on the grill or use for the parmigiana, wash and cut into the desired shape, put in a metal colander, sprinkle with coarse salt and place on a weight. Leave it for about an hour and before cooking, dry with a clean cloth.


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The practice of illegally frightening homeowners by telling them that people who are members of a particular race, religion, or national origin are moving into their neighborhood and that they should expect a decline in the value of their property. The purpose of this scheme is to get the homeowners to sell out at a deflated price.
An unscrupulous real estate agent will subsequently sell the vacated homes to minority group members at an inflated price, thereby obtaining a large profit. Fair access to housing is defeated by blockbusting.


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Special Sort of Oil InsulationThe cable oil is used to impregnate the paper insulation of cables and to fill the cables for operating voltages up to 35 kV. Important is that cable oil should have good dielectric properties – low dielectric loss tangent, a high resistance to the electric field of ionized gas (gas-resistance) and electrical properties stability during prolonged heating. GlobeCores's technology is real benefit for reclamation of special sorts of insulation oil! Using of Liquids Dielectric The liquid dielectrics are widely used in electrical equipment. The base sorts of insulation oil are: – transformer oil – cable oil – condenser oil. The liquid dielectrics fill the inner space of power transformers, reactors, circuit breakers, capacitors, cables and other electrical devices. This oil saturate porous winding insulation well, cardboard and other porous insulating materials. In oil circuit breakers dielectric fluid not only insulates the conductive parts, but also acts as a medium, which quench the electric arc that occurs due to contacts of circuit breakers.
Sorts of Cable Oils For power cables depending on the voltage, design and application, the following sorts of cable oils and compounds are used.
Cable Oil KM-22 KM-22 oil cable oil is the impregnating and insulating medium in the oil-filled cables. The oil has good dielectric properties – low dielectric loss tangent, a high resistance to the electric field of ionized gas (gas tight), stable electrical properties during prolonged heating. The oil KM-22 is produced by selective solvent purification. This oil doesn't contain additives. Oil is intended for impregnating masses of voltage power cables 1-35 kV with paper insulation.KM-22 Properties 1.Kinematic viscosity at 100 °С, mm² / sec, not less than: 22,0 2.Acid number, mg КОН / g, not more than: 0,03 3. Temperature, °С: – open cup flash point, not lower than 2700 – pour point, not higher than -10 4. Mechanical impurities: None – ash: 0,007 – water: еraces 5. Insulating strength at (25 ± 10) °С, AC and frequency 50 Hz, MV / m, not less than: 15 Cable oil C-220 To impregnate the height voltage cables of high-pressure in steel pipes, cable oil of medium viscosity (P-100 and P-220) are used. Cable oil C-220 is made from air oil which has a low freezing point and their purification by dewaxing. It is used for impregnating oil-filled cables of high pressure, in contrast to the transformer oil, this oil does not contain aromatic hydrocarbons, which provides better electrical characteristics Viscous Cable Oil P-28 For cables with voltages up to 35 kV one can use the compound of a viscous oil P-28 (bright stock) and rosin. Viscous cable oil P-28 (bright stock) is made of the viscous oil concentrate from Surakhan selective crude oil by acid cleaning. Technology of this oil production has its own peculiarities. Due to the fact that the oil is highly viscous (about 250 cSt at 50 ° C), it can't be exposed to an alkaline cleaning. Therefore, immediately after acid cleaning and sediment of acid sludge, acid oil contacts with gumbrinom at high temperature. Oil MH-2 Low viscosity oil MN-2 is for oil-filled cables for low and medium pressure (1-3 am). Conclusion. As we see, the cable oil has its own characteristics and better properties than other sorts of insulation oil: it can be very viscous with good dielectric properties. Therefore the requirements for oil reclamation equipment increase. GlobeCore's offer comprehensive custom solution for reclamation of cable oil.


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Fall Registration, General Meeting for OLLI Held Sept. 12Published: September 1, 2009
Registration for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at CSULB fall session will be held Saturday, Sept. 12, beginning at 9 a.m. A general membership meeting follows at 10 a.m. Registration and the meeting will be held in CSULB's Human Services and Design building, Room 101, near the corner of Palo Verde Avenue and Anaheim Road. Free parking for this event is available in Lot 9. The fall session runs from Monday, Oct. 5, through Wednesday, Dec. 9.
OLLI is offering a host of lecture classes this fall, including new courses titled The Law Can be a Kick in the Pants; Yellow Brick Road to Theater and Art; Falls and Balance; The Jury System; Auto Racing; Ancient Ireland; Shakespeare Act VII; Comparative Justice; Belly Dancing; and others.
Returning this session will be Tai Chi; Beginning and Conversational Spanish; Drawing and Watercolor Workshops; Historical Walking Tour of Long Beach; and many more. For those looking to improve their health and endurance, OLLI offers Tai Chi Chih and Longevity Stick. New computer class offerings this session include Spreadsheets Solve Your Problems; Google E-mail, and more. OLLI computer classes are conducted in a 10-seat PC and Mac-equipped lab by skilled instructors.
OLLI at CSULB's annual membership fee of $40 covers the fall, spring, winter and summer sessions. Tuition is $10 per lecture class and $45 per computer class, which also require an annual $40 SeniorNet membership. Parking permits are available for a fee.
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I know its very late to even be talking about this, but Antoine's test cases made me notice an oddity which the current semantics for datatyped literals produces, and which would be easy to fix. So I'm outlining it here in case the WG feels it would be worth doing. We distinguish 'recognized' datatype IRIs from the others, and right now, if you see a literal with an unrecognized datatype IRI in it, say x:dt, then you know nothing at all about what that literal means. Absolutely nothing. So this inference: :a :p "foo"^^x:dt . |= :a :p _:x . _:x rdf:type x:dt . is not a valid entailment. But if x:dt were recognized, it would be: and moreover, you know this without knowing anything about x:dt. This entailment is valid for ANY recognized datatype, and ANY string "foo". So why isn't it valid for any datatype, recognized or not? This is clearly slightly irrational. A rational way to reason would be: I know now, even without recognizing that datatype, that this inference will be valid when I do recognize it; and I won't need to know anything more about the datatype in order to make that inference; so why not just pretend that I recognize the datatype and make the inference now, to save time? We could fix this with the following changes. In section 7.1, add the condition (to the table, it would be the third line out of three): For any literal "sss"^^aaa, if IL("sss"^^aaa) is defined then <IL("sss"^^aaa), I(aaa)> is in IEXT(I(rdf:type)) and add the explanatory text immediately below: "The third condition applies to all datatyped literals, whether the datatype IRI is recognized or not." And in section 7.2.1, at the beginning of the text, add the entailment pattern (moved from section 8.1.1, and with "for ddd in D" removed): rdfD1 <if S contains> xxx aaa "sss"^^ddd <then S D-entails> xxx aaa _:nnn . _:nnn rdf:type ddd . together with its explanatory text from 8.1.1. The advantage to RDF engines is that this is one less case where they have to check whether or not a datatype is "recognized", and it means that the interpolation lemma is more useful when there are datatyped literals around. Any comments? Is this worth doing? Is this legally possible to do at this LC stage? I would be willing to declare the current version an error if that is what it takes :-) Pat ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile (preferred) firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayesReceived on Friday, 13 September 2013 05:26:18 UTC
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Life Success Method
Coaching with Wisdom
By Sally Forrest
BSc, MRPharmS, MBA
16th October 2018
"You are the author of your own life story" – Vikas Malkani.
This quotation is written on the wall at SoulCentre and every day I read it as a much-needed reminder.
We are the authors of our own life story and the pen is firmly in our hands.
What you do in this moment determines the rest of your life.
The moment you decide to take control of your life is the moment you change your destiny.
What does Life Success mean to you?
We get so caught up in being busy, the endless "to-do lists" that we forget to take time out for silence.
Silence offers a time to reconnect, to re-calibrate and to focus on what life truly means.
From silence comes the solutions to life.
One Decision
One Choice
One Action …changes your life.
Often, we stay safe, we hold onto the mundane, the tried and tested, the known, and we do not venture forth into the unknown, into a brighter world and a new future.
I inspire my clients to "Have the courage to follow your heart".
Sit in silence and allow yourself the opportunity to really listen to the voice of your heart.
What does it want?
What does it not want?
The heart provides a deep inner knowing, and from a space of silence decisions can be made that will move you in the right direction.
Of course, the mind will try to talk you out of it, as it operates from a base of conditioning, fear and judgement.
We live in a noisy and busy world. We are connected 24/7 and bombarded with messages trying to grab our attention wherever we go. I call it the "copy –paste" society as everyone wants instant rewards, is constantly watching what others are doing and then copying it.
In such a world, the Authentic Souls shine bright.
Find your inner moral compass.
Find out what makes your heart sing.
Find your inner passion.
Stop chasing the next shiny new object.
Connect with your heart and become one with your natural flow.
The depth of the voice within your heart knows the truth.
You were born an original, so there is no need to copy others.
Listen, Trust and follow the Flow.
From this state synchronicity and miracles happen.
What you do in this moment leads to the next moment.
Life changes in a Moment.
Life Success…begins with you.
Life Success Method.
Sally conducts coaching one on one and also group programs.
At Life Success Method, you discover your life purpose, bring out your passion and find ways to make all of this into a success.
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Filed under: Alcoholism, Bad Step-Parent Stories, Parents and their Dates, Physical Abuse, Play
Story out of Minnesota about a Mother and her boyfriend who shaved the head of the Mother's daughter and forced her to wear diapers and run around outside their house. They locked the girl out of the house and when police showed up she was understandably crying and hysterical. To make matters worse about 50 neighbors were standing around staring at her.
The parents were arrested and were said to be laughing as the police put them in the police car. They are charged with a misdemeanor crime.
It's the easiest thing in the world to have a kid. You have something to bully and humiliate. The reason the Mother and the boyfriend gave for this crime was that the daughter wasn't doing well in school. I can't imagine why she wouldn't be doing well in school… A really large percentage of children from Divorced families don't do well in school.
I suspect that parenting becomes much more sloppy in divorced families and even worse in step-families. Maybe somebody would do a study someday to come up with a couple of statistics.
Here's another one out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Dad's got 3 kids. Mom's got one. They all pile into the car and drive off to the liquor store because the adults are drunk and Dad gets the idea of how this group must somehow form a family. He straps the kids to the hood of the car to give them a ride. It was probably kind of fun until the guy at the liquor store called the police and the police called the U.S. Marshall and the U.S. Marshall pulled them over. They made it 3 blocks. Nobody was hurt. The Dad's kids were picked up by their Mother. The Mom's daughter was put into protective custody. This is some sort of Felony in Indiana. Dad was crying at he was arrested. Mom admitted the children were in danger. Dad should dry up and open an amusement park. It sounds like Indiana needs one.
There are many step situations with Mom and Dad's Lovers where this doesn't happen. The tension is much more subtle. Or it's not there at all. Often money will happily replace it. I'm just saying, parenting is difficult.
Filed under: Abandonment, Bad Children of Divorce, Foster Children, Immigration and Divorce, Leaving the "Nest", Long Term Fallout, Parents and their Dates, Physical Abuse, sexual abuse, Violence
Ew, this is looking bad. This is a difficult little post to write up. It looks like the Minutemen community has been assembled by Children of Divorce. Maybe I'm wrong. Because, of course, we don't have statistics. Makes sense. As adults we try to fix what we didn't have as a child. And Children of Divorce don't have borders.
Shawna Ford is a former Minuteman member who has just been sentenced to Death Row in Arizona for the murders of a Father and his Daughter in their home in Texas. Forde's bio states that she was booted from the original Minutemen group for being mentally unstable and formed her own group.
Is Shawna Ford from Divorce? Well, yeah, hate to say it. Ford had one bad childhood. It's described in the Daily Beast.
Ford was the 7th of 9 children who were from 5 different Fathers. I guess that it's sort of difficult to know whether you are officially from Divorce, in that case. The school shrink would have tested Ford for ADHD before he/she would have counseled her on how to cope with that type of background. Ford's Mother abandonned her to a relative when Ford was 10 months old. (Astro stuff: natal Venus 30 Libra, she would have already have had her first Venus Return, n.Venus c. South Node in Libra, that explains the loveability issues along with narcissistic personality disorder, Mother gave her away because M's b-f- didn't like her). (The newspapers are announcing that she is officially a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, you have to read on to find out why).
There were Foster Homes and then at Age 5 Ford was placed in a permanent home. Or, at least, I think that's what happened. Ford has been in trouble in pretty much all places where trouble can exist. Guess it's a bit difficult to see the illegal aliens hogging up all the social services when you yourself could use some help.
So I looked up the original founders of the Minutemen. The media writes them up as being completely insane. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-05-24-minuteman-goals_x.htm?csp=34.
Chris Simcox, a former kindergarten school teacher is a Child of Divorce. It's always amazing how the media never discusses divorce from a children's point of view except when wanting to turn the public against the person who is being written about. Like this article from USAToday. If the media were to persecute every immigrant who leads the exact same life that Simcox has led, I wouldn't have a problem with it. But, they don't. Anyway, Simcox is from Divorce. He has been married 3 times himself and apparently is going through a journalism followed 3d divorce in which he threatens to kill everyone around him. He has one child with his 2d wife, but has lost custody. Guy has a bad dependency on guns, that's for sure. I wonder if his parents divorced when he was going through his Mars Return.
Simcox formed the Minutemen with James Gilchrist on Oct. 1, 2004. They became a big hit really fast and it seems to have gone to their heads. This is probably one statistical study that some Latina psych major will bite her teeth into: What percentage of the Minutemen are Children of Divorce? Sorry, it just seems that Latinas do the Psych major thing a little too much, guess it reminds them of Lifetime TV.
If your parents didn't make you feel secure, probably you will have complexes about how the Government doesn't do anything about your security either. Either way, Children of Divorce are probably more likely to act like vigilantes. I mean, if you grow up in a blended home, you're pretty much used to this type of tension already, aren't you? You are on your own. You know you are replaceable. You can't complain the way the immigrants do. You can't even mention the big D in your Wikipedia entry, for Christ's sake.
Other founder of the Minutemen, is James Gilchrist. This guy is hopelessly conservative. Wikipedia doesn't mention what happened to Gilchrist's Mother. He's still protecting her no doubt. His greatest quote online, though, says it all. "I have struck the mother lode of patriotism."
Wikipedia says that Gilchrist lived in Kansas and Texas with his Father and older twin brothers. And Gilchrist moved out at Age 17 to get away from his Father and Step-Mother.
Yo, doggy, it does look like the U.S. Borders are being protected by vigilante Children of Divorce. Since I do agree with the basic idea that something needed to be done to control the huge influx of immigrants, I can't say that the original intent was bad. I'm very much against the guns. So I'm adding to both Bad and Exemplary Children of Divorce categories.
Filed under: Astrology stuff, camp, Exemplary Children of Divorce, multiple households, Physical Abuse, poverty, sexual abuse
Today Yahoo carries an article about an upcoming 60 Minutes interview with Senator Scott Brown who talks about being sexually molested by a Camp Counselor. The article barely touches on the fact that Brown was molested by a Step-Father as well because, of course, growing up in Divorce and in blended families is never, ever discussed from a Child's point of view. Anyway, the molestation was never consummated and the counselor threatened to kill Brown if he said anything. So, this is how it goes. Brown posed almost nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine while he was in law school. Often children who are molested, and women who are raped, will become promiscuous, not that Brown is promiscuous.
Brown talks about how Camp Counselors will take advantage of children who are from disadvantaged homes. Guess they know who to prey on. I've already discussed in previous posts that I've noticed (just observational, no statistics so hopefully there's nothing to this) that women from divorce seem to show up in the news as victims of husband/partner abuse & homicide.
Brown's entry on Wikipedia is more enlightening. And, wow, if you can grow up in the situation that Brown grew up in and still manage to become a Senator, I guess parents really do have the right to toss out all those parenting manuals. The human spirit is resilient (some of the time).
Brown's parents divorced when he was around one year old. That's the Solar Return, maybe Mercury and Venus. Astro Notes: N. Sun 20 Virgo; N. Moon Cap or Sag; n.Mercury 15 Virgo; n. Venus 2 Virgo. By 1st Birthday (Solar Return) had had both Mercury and Venus Returns already, (same as Marilyn Monroe). Mercury 1 Libra; Venus 13 Libra.
Brown's parents have each remarried three times. Great financial difficulties in families, working Mother on welfare for a time. Brown bounced between different relatives' households. I don't know if he has siblings. Brown is married and has two children.
60 Minutes, this upcoming Sunday. I'll watch it. Brown is promoting his memoir which has just been published.
Filed under: Death of a Parent, Fiction about Divorce, Mentally Ill parents, Movies About Growing Up in Divorce, Physical Abuse, separate households, Uncategorized
After I watched the movie Biutiful last night, all 2.45 hours of it, I was not feeling very good. It's Spanish movie about a guy who is dying and, all I could really think was that I must have aged out of the European movie market. I figured I just can't handle the reality anymore. Then, this morning I woke up thinking, "O my God, Uxbal is my Father!"
So, why I'm listing this movie on this blog is because Javier Bardem, as always, gives the most amazing performance of a Father who is divorced. One realizes how much he loves his children and wants to provide for them. He has custody because the children's Mother is Bipolar and unreliable. There are two children in the story. The oldest daughter has her 10th Birthday during the time that the movie takes place. Her parents do everything they can to make it special for her, but their complicated lives and personal problems turn the celebrations in to one catastrophe after another.
I don't know who the actress is who plays the wife/ex-wife, but she is brilliant. Society really has come a long way when one sees that children are not expected to live with their Mother when she is that mentally ill. My generation; usually the Father couldn't handle it, and took off, the way mine did. This character acknowledges that his children will turn out however they will turn out, whether he is around or not in the same way that he and his brother both turned otu, but he also acknowledges the importance of providing for them as a parent. This centers around his obsession with leaving enough money to keep the rent for their apartment.
But, here, what is so incredible is to see the portrayal of this Father from so many different angles. He sees his life through his spiritual side, which is strongly related to death and unresolved grief, as both his parents died when he was very young. He makes a few extra bucks helping newly dead people to pass over.
One sees that he just keeps going, focusing on fixing other people's problems but perpetually unable to break out of the slums that he is born into. Finally his body just gives out. Incredible scene where he goes to the toilet; looks out the window to see a guy passed out in the street, you can see that he is feeling bad for the guy and meanwhile looks down to see that his urine is full of blood. He himself has waited too long before going to the Doctor.
Better description than what I can provide here.
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biutiful
Filed under: Addiction - Children, Addiction - Parents, Alcoholism, Bankruptcy, Guilt, Health, links to articles, Long Term Fallout, Physical Abuse, PTSD, Suicide, Unemployment, Violence
The University of Toronto has just published yet another amazing finding on long term effects of Divorce which it published in the Jan. 19, 2011 issue of Psychiatry Research. That is, Children of Divorce are much more likely to seriously consider Suicide later on as adults.
I'm not sure if I'm reading the article correctly so it's likely that the statistical information down below is correctly quoted. I need to take a class on how to understand Statistics, obviously. I also get really upset when the program director is quoted as telling the Mothers not to panic about their kids. And, of course, nothing is said to reassure the folks who are directly affected by this information, namely the adult Sons and Daughters of Divorce (we are a ca$h cow for psychiatry, after all. Another weird twist on the "Do No Harm" needlepoint sampler that Modern Medicine hangs over its creepy threshold. (Have I ever said what happened to me when the drugs the psychiatrist gave me made me suicidal? She didn't call me back for 3 days, literally snickered, and then didn't write the episode down in her notes — and I think was eventually fired. Thing is, she was divorced and a single mother herself and there's no way in Hell she was going to put up with this guilt trip).
At any rate. Here is the information as I understand it. Link to Medline is here. Article published Jan. 2011 Psychiatry Research. (My Mother attempted Suicide 4 x. 3x were right after my Father left. My Father later said he thought about Suicide all the time. Both my Brother and I have attempted Suicide. I seriously doubt my Step-Mother has ever thought about Suicide, although she did have to quit drinking because her liver couldn't handle the booze and she was going to die. –She was just there for the money.)
Sons who come from Divorced families are 3 times more likely than Sons from Intact Families. It becomes much more likely if they also suffered from physical abuse, parents with addiction issues, or unemployment.
Daughters from Divorced families are 83 percent more likely than Daughters from Intact Families to have thoughts of killing themselves. It doesn't matter if physical abuse, addiction, or unemployment was part of home life.


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Making the best ideas happen successfully
Whilst creativity is about divergent thinking – opening up to explore new perspectives, make new connections, generate more ideas – innovation is about convergent thinking – evaluating the best ideas, focusing on making them practical and profitable, then making them happen effectively.
In my book "Creative Genius" we explore Leonardo da Vinci's 8 principles, then apply them to today's business world: being curious, exploring margins, reframing context, visualisation, resolving paradox, balancing art and science, making new connections and being alive.
Innovating the whole business
Innovation in most companies is still mostly about products and services, whereas innovation has most impact when applied to business models and customer experiences. We therefore focus on business innovation, driven by your purpose and opportunity, and by thinking hard about what is the problem we are trying to solve, and the impact we want to make. Innovation is therefore particularly about five important factors, looking across the whole business to open up, and then close down:
- Design thinking – embracing "insight" to understand the deeper motivations and aspirations of customers, through deep-dive immersion with individuals, connecting analytics with observation and intuition. Design thinking is about better defining the challenge – problem, opportunity – then being more human, creative and real in solving it.
- Making connections – fusing ideas to create richer "concepts", but also learning from other places, from "parallel" markets where the same customers are already embracing change and new ideas, and then applying to your own market, as a pioneer. Connecting initial ideas into concepts makes them stronger and more distinctive.
- Creative disruption – how to be different, to challenge the conventions, break the rules, and redefine the markets in a different way – for example by technological simplification, or new customer behaviour. This creates rethinking – changing the who, why, what and how – and can potentially recalibrate the market.
- New business models – more dramatic and sustainable innovation usually involves changing the way the business works – in particular through new partnerships, and creating new revenue streams built around a strong value proposition at the core – this focuses on value propositions and business model design.
- Accelerating action – facilitating your best ideas to market better and faster, through challenge and support, bringing your best people together, adding external ideas to internal expertise, and disciplined process. This includes "lean thinking" techniques from minimal viable products, prototyping and then vortex market adoption.
Doblin's "10 types of innovation"
and examples of each of the 10 types:
coming together to shape your own business model:
of which there are infinite options to innovate business:
Peter Fisk helps you to innovate, further and faster. This can be either through fast and focused facilitation using the "Innolab" methodology that brings expert support to help you make the best ideas happen faster, through to the broader challenges of developing a creative culture, and innovation strategy – from capability diagnostics to portfolio management.
Examples of recent clients include
- American Express: Innovation mindset and breakthrough projects, developing a shared process and culture for innovation.
- Aster Atelier: Reimagining the fashion business for one of the largest private label manufactures on the high street, how to be better and go direct.
- Coty: rethinking business models for a very different future of beauty – consumer change, market disruption, finding new growth.
- Canon: FutureBook, creating the future of printing and publishing, positioning Canon as the thought leader of its customers world.
- Erste Bank: How banks can innovate for innovators, by recognising the roles of finance and advice at each point in the start up, and scale up, journey for small businesses.
- GSK: Rethinking healthcare around patients and doctors, from an old model of product-centric selling to a new future of patient-centric wellbeing.
- Vodafone: Creating a global strategy for sustainable innovation, by focusing on what the brand can uniquely enable, through its subscriber network, rather than just do itself.
Explore more about innovation
- Book: "Creative Genius: The Business Leaders Innovation Handbook"
- Book: "People Planet Profit: How to Drive Sustainable Growth"
- Article: Never Stop Reinventing
- Article: Innovate like Leonardo Da Vinci
- Article: Finding your Magic
- Article: Innovative Business models
- Workshop: "Business Innovation Lab: insight to innovation to implementation"
- Workshop: "Creative Disruption: reinventing your business and market"
- Leadership tool: "Innovation Matrix: The right innovation strategy for you"
- Leadership tool: "Innovation DNA: Evaluating your innovation approach"
- Leadership tool: "10 Types of Innovation"
- Leadership tool: "Innovation Toolbox"
- Leadership tool: "Design Thinking Process Guide from Stanford's D.School"
- Leadership tool: "IDEO Method Cards"
- Leadership tool: "IDEO Human Centred Design Toolkit"
- Leadership tool: "IDEO Human Centred Design Fieldguide"
- Leadership tool: "27 Creativity Tools"
- Leadership tool: "Intuit's Leapfrogging Innovation Catalyst"
- Further reading: "Design Thinking" by IDEO's Tim Brown
- Further reading: "How P&G Tripled its Innovation Success Rate"
- Further reading: "20 Ways to Test your Business Ideas"
- Further reading: "The Customer-Centred Innovation Map"
- Further reading: "8 Essentials of Innovation"
- Further reading: "Disrupted to Disruptor: Reinventing the core"
- Further reading: "The Open Book of Social Innovation"
- Video to watch: "Design Thinking Explained"
- Video to watch: "Innovation Explained"
- Video to watch: "Disruptive Innovation Explained"
- Video to watch: "Business Model Innovation Explained"
- Video to watch: "Business Model Canvas Explained"
- Video to watch: "Minimal Viable Product Explained"
- Video to watch: "Pivot Explained"
Explore more insights from GeniusWorks:
- Inside Daimler's Lab1886 … the Stuttgart innovation hub focused on creating the future of mobility
- Inside Disney's new iD8 Innovation Studios … where the magic of Mickey Mouse lives on with Buzz and Brainstorms
- Inside Medtronic's Applied Innovation Lab … a focus on improving patient experiences, services and outcomes
- Inside IKEA's Future Home innovation incubator … from even better Swedish meatballs to flexible rooms
- Inside Nike's Research Labs … harnessing the spirit of Bill Bowerman to innovate the future of sports performance
- Inside Shell's TechWorks innovation lab … where there is freedom to fail and to succeed
- Inside HENRi … Nestle's global hunt for big ideas, named after the pharmacist founder who invented a baby formula.
- Creating a "Growth Factory" … How P&G tripled its innovation success rate, and how you could too.
- Corporate Innovation Ecosystem … how does innovation thrive in large companies
- Compendium of Innovation Methods … Nesta's compilation of the best tools and methods for innovation
- Innovation Accelerator: 10 frameworks to accelerate your growth … summaries the most popular frameworks


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Nintendo's Metroid: Samus Returns released this past weekend, and series fans couldn't wait to get their hands on it. It's easy to see why; people have been waiting twenty-six years for an official remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus, a title originally released on the Game Boy. Although many felt cautiously optimistic about it before release, Samus Returns is already receiving solid praise, averaging an 88 on Metacritic. While it's great to see a forgotten title getting recognized, there was another remake of Metroid II that released in August 2016, and sad to say, everyone seems to have forgotten about it.
I'm talking about Milton Guasti's (AKA DoctorM64) passion project: Another Metroid 2 Remake (AM2R). This incredible title took Guasti nearly ten years to complete, including long periods of no work done. Guasti's intention was to recreate Metroid: Zero Mission's gameplay and combine it with SR388's foreboding atmosphere. Any programmer could've easily used Metroid II's assets, spruced them up, and released it as-is. But Guasti wasn't satisfied with just prettier visuals. Even the Metroids, the titular enemies of the series, had been redone. From Alpha to Omega, all of them were altered to have new techniques to keep Samus on her toes. Here's but a sample of some of the changes he made:
- A map system
- Updated gameplay controls
- New areas
- New mini bosses
- Remastered visuals and audio
- Updated enemy AI
- Log system (for the dankest of lore)
AM2R was a remake done by fans, for fans. Unfortunately, Nintendo tackled Guasti's development with a DMCA takedown at the same time of AM2R's release (which was free). According to Nintendo, the unapproved use of their IP "can weaken [their] ability to protect and preserve it, or possibly use it for future projects." Metroid: Samus Returns was one of the "future projects" that Nintendo was referring to, and suddenly, it became clear why the company was hell-bent on shutting AM2R down.
Although Samus Returns has been received as a solid title, there are some design choices that ultimately beg the question: Is this the remake fans truly wanted? The 3D graphics are nice, but it's obvious that the game's engine was reaching its limits with the Nintendo 3DS's hardware. The original had survival horror traits because it was easy to get lost and the enemies were ruthless. In Samus Returns, it focuses more on the latter, and since you're almost always prepared, it loses that sense of impending doom. An entire game mode (Very Hard) is locked behind an exclusive amiibo paywall. On top of having extra items being unlocked via Samus amiibo purchases, it feels like Nintendo is charging for what are basically cheat codes, but that's another subject for another day. Although these are small gripes to put up with in exchange for a solid title, there are ways to give fans exactly what they want without such compromises.
When looking for an example of this, Sonic Mania is a great place to start. It was a fan-made revival of Sega's flagship franchise, one that released just last month. Not only did it receive extremely high praise, it also sold very well, becoming the number one best selling title on the Nintendo Switch during its release week…worldwide. But what does Sonic have to do with Samus? The answer lies with their respective publishers.
Nintendo seems to be the Disney of video games. Despite their affable exterior, they're infamous for micromanaging their IPs and protecting them with unyielding fervor. AM2R's fate and the advent of Samus Returns are crystal-clear examples of this. Sega could've easily done the same with Sonic Mania, but Sega saw a mutual opportunity instead of a nuisance. Christian Whitehead, Headcannon, and PagodaWest Games collectively worked on the title, with the goal of the game being better than something you'd see on the Sega Genesis, while staying just under the Sega Saturn's performance ceiling. The publishing company noticed their effort, and instead of shutting them down, Sonic Team head Takashi Iizuka decided to collaborate with the indie developers to make their "passion project" as amazing as possible. Because of this, they accomplished both organizations' objectives in a profoundly meaningful way.
Sega took the risk, and it quite literally paid off. So with all of Sonic Mania's success, why has Nintendo been so afraid to follow suit? Capcom wasn't scared to officially sanction Street Fighter X Megaman, and they released that for free, to boot. When a publisher decides to ignore a particular title from a prestigious franchise for over a quarter-century, one can't blame fans for wanting to remake it themselves. Especially so when it shows what a small, dedicated team is able to accomplish. Instead of Nintendo giving that team's labor of love their backing and support, they tend to C&D it in spite of that team's sustained passion as well as their commitment to seeing it done right.
Nintendo doesn't seem to realize that the barrier between "fan work" and "official work" has begun to blur into near-nothingness, and their real problem is that their policies stand in direct contrast to the winds blowing through the age of crowdsourcing. Instead of capitalizing on that and giving a fledgling developer a leg up in the industry (while getting a game for their systems that will likely sell well enough to justify any related costs), they decide to shut something down and commission someone else to do that job. This practice only ends up wasting valuable effort and time expended by so many people, resourced entirely from a deep and abiding love of neglected chapters in a copyrighted franchise.
Nintendo handled their issue like most publishers would, and that's fair, because it is their IP, after all. But for once, it would be nice to see Nintendo give the nod to someone who's shown the ability and drive to do a stellar job on their own. It's certainly food for thought.


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Actor Seth Rogen and director Judd Apatow have slammed the Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday for suggesting that their movies played a part in motivating the suspected Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger in last Friday's bloody rampage, which resulted in seven deaths.
In an article published in the Post on Sunday, Hornaday wrote: "How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like Neighbors and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of 'sex and fun and pleasure'? How many men, raised on a steady diet of Judd Apatow comedies in which the shlubby arrested adolescent always gets the girl, find that those happy endings constantly elude them and conclude, 'It's not fair'?"
On Monday, Rogen tweeted:
Director Judd Apatow weighed in:
While some Twitter users supported the Post critic's piece, many others also laid into her arguments, claiming her Hollywood lashing was misguided.


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Trampolining is comparatively new to the Olympic scene, having been added to the games first as an exhibition sport in 1996, then as a medal sport for women and men at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Out of all the sports anime that exists, that is the perfect of them all for me. All stunts on this present are insane!
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Demonstrative Pronouns
What is a demonstrative pronoun?
Demonstrative pronouns are pronouns used to replace nouns or noun phrases in a sentence, representing that which is nearby or far away in space or time.
Because demonstrative pronouns are less specific than the nouns or noun phrases they replace, you must use context to clarify what is being referred to. In spoken English, this can mean having to gesture toward, point to, or look at the thing or things indicated by the demonstrative pronoun. In written English, demonstrative pronouns are usually used to refer to previously mentioned things, ideas, or topics.
Here is a complete list of demonstrative pronouns:
- this
- that
- these
- those
- none
- such
- neither
Functions of major demonstrative pronouns
The most common demonstrative pronouns are this, that, these, and those. Their functions are explained in the following table:
Demonstrative Pronoun
Nearby/Far Away
far away
far away
Each of the four major demonstrative pronouns describes something that is either singular or plural and either near or not near to the speaker. For example:
- "This isn't mine." (singular, nearby)
- "Give me that." (singular, not near)
- "These are really gross." (plural, nearby)
- "I forgot to bring those." (plural, not near)
Demonstrative pronouns can also be used to indicate more abstract things, such as chronological events or ideas:
- "I really love this!" (This can possibly represent a physically close thing, a current event, or a recently developed idea.)
- "That was so cool." (That can possibly represent a physically distant thing, a past event, or an old idea.)
- "These are the times I remember to stay calm." (These represents recently occurring events in this sentence, made clear by the word times.)
- "Those were some fantastic days, right?" (Those in this case represents past events, made clear by the word days.)
Though the demonstrative pronouns in the above cases do not refer specifically to physical things, the singular and plural rules still apply. In other words, you cannot replace this with these or that with those unless the number of things indicated has increased to more than one.
Functions of other demonstrative pronouns
The less commonly used demonstrative pronouns are none, such, and neither. None and such can be used as both singular and plural demonstrative pronouns. For example:
- "None of this makes sense." (None is singular because this is singular.)
- "None of the people here seem to like the cake I made." (None is plural because the people is plural.)
- "Such is the way of life." (Such is singular because the way of life is singular.)
- "Such are the rules." (Such is plural because the rules is plural.)
There is debate as to whether none can denote plurality. Some sources argue that none can only represent the singular not one, whereas others claim it can also represent the plural not any. Since none has a long history of being used as both a singular and plural demonstrative pronoun, there is little historical or grammatical basis to support the claim that it can only be treated as singular.
On the other hand, neither is always treated as a singular demonstrative pronoun, regardless of the presence of any plural nouns:
- "Neither sounds good to me." (correct)
- "I think neither of the twins wants a babysitter." (correct)
- "Neither of his parents work at the firm." (incorrect)
Describing people with demonstrative pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns always represent nouns, typically things, places, events, ideas, and animals. In certain cases, however, some of these pronouns may also be used to describe people. This can only be done when the person is identified by the pronoun's antecedent within the same sentence. For example:
- "That is Amy standing by the door."
- "This must be Jake."
- "That appears to be the woman I saw earlier."
- "Who is that?"
Demonstrative pronouns vs. demonstrative adjectives
Most demonstrative pronouns may also be used as demonstrative adjectives (also known as demonstrative determiners), but their usage is quite different. As demonstrative pronouns, this, that, these, those, such, and neither represent nouns. As demonstrative adjectives, however, these same words instead modify nouns, appearing immediately before them in a sentence. We can see this in the examples below:
- "She wants to photograph this." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "She wants to photograph this painting." (demonstrative adjective)
- "That is one of my favorites." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "That book is one of my favorites." (demonstrative adjective)
- "These taste the best." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "These chocolates taste the best." (demonstrative adjective)
- "He wanted to try those." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "He wanted to try those recipes." (demonstrative adjective)
- "Such is the man's poor choice." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "Such men make poor choices." (determiner)
- "Neither is mine." (demonstrative pronoun)
- "Neither locket is mine." (determiner)
None is the only demonstrative pronoun that cannot also function as a demonstrative adjective:
- "I'll eat none." (correct)
- "I'll eat none sandwiches." (incorrect)
Be careful to note that demonstrative adjectives cannot simply be shortened to demonstrative pronouns if they are being used to describe a person. For example:
- "Go talk to that woman." (correct)
- "Go talk to that." (incorrect)
- "This man is quite handsome." (correct)
- "This is quite handsome." (incorrect)
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Bryan took over the songs chart top spot from the record setting megahit Cruise from Florida Georgia Line. Bryan also was third on the song chart with Crash My Party. Hunter Hayes was fourth with I Want Crazy. Brett Eldredge's Don't Ya was fifth. Keith Urban was up three to sixth with Little Bit of Everything. Thomas Rhett earned his first top 10 single with It Goes Like This at 10, up two.
Tim McGraw stood at 17, up five, with Highway Don't Care, his song with Taylor Swift.
On the Top Country Albums chart, Bryan took over the top from Florida Georgia Line's "Here's to the Good Times," which fell to second. Blake Shelton stayed third with "Based on a True Story..." Bryan also was fourth with his last regular studio CD, "tailgates & tanlines." Hayes was fifth with his self-titled debut. Bryan had yet a third disc in the top 10 with "Spring Break...Here to Party" at ninth, up four.
Carrie Underwood was at 11, up four, with "Blown Away." Little Big Town's "Tornado" was up six to 12th. Glen Campbell debuted at 22 with "See You There." "Caught in the Act: Live" from Eric Church placed 24th, up four. Johnny Cash debuted at 32 with "LIFE Unheard." "Nashville: The Music Of Nashville: Season 1: Volume 2" was at 36, up six.
The stranglehold of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell on the Bluegrass Albums chart with "Love Has Come For You" ended as The Isaacs shot to the top with "Living Years" in its first week out. Martin and Brickell were second. Steve Ivey's "Beset of Bluegrass: Collector's Edition" was third, Steven Curtis Chapman's "Deep Roots" fourth and Old Crow Medicine Show's "Carry Me Back" fifth.
On the overall top 200, Florida Georgia Line was eighth, Shelton 11th, Bryan 16 with "tailgates..." and Hayes 19th.


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- On Sat 10 feb 2018
Yes, I know it's the story of the Von Trapp Family Singers featured in the beloved favorite The Sound of Music. But when CAP-Altoona (Class Act Productions) puts on a show, it's always a family affair. Their upcoming production (starting February 16) is, as usual, filled with kids.... many of whom have gotten their parents and other loved ones involved as well.


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Charting the data lake: Model normalization patterns for data lakes
"A place for everything, and everything in its place" Benjamin Franklin
The data lake can be considered the consolidation point for all of the data which is of value for use across different aspects of the enterprise. There is a significant range of the different types of potential data repositories that are likely to be part of a typical data lake. These data repositories are likely to be required to address a number of different roles to address the needs of the different users, for example:
- Storing of raw unprocessed data v's storage of highly processed data
- Managing normalized data v's managing aggregated data
- Data for general use across the enterprise v's data for use for a specific business purpose or for a specific set of business users
- Data structures with no predefined schema v's data structures with a predefined schema.
The other key question in building out the data lake repositories is to what level is some standardization or consistency of schema desirable or even necessary. It is a valid choice for an organization to decide that there is no need to enforce any degree of standardization of schema across the data lake. In this case, the expectation is that whatever virtualization layer is in place is capable of guiding the different users through the array of different structures, the duplication, the different terminology. In other cases, the decision is taken that at least some parts of the data lake need to comply with some degree of standardization in the data base schemas, even in cases where such data bases are still doing a range of different jobs and so may need to be structured differently.
The diagram below shows such a typical collection of different data structures combined together within a data lake.
In the landing zone, the focus is on initially ingesting the data as it comes into the data lake in a raw format. The landing zone may also be extended to enable some initial processing of the data enabling it to be more generally useful across the data lake. The data scientist sandboxes are typically ad-hoc issue-specific, very flat structures containing many repeating groups of data. The Data Warehouse typically has a need for storing data in a reasonably flexible format for various different downstream uses, whereas the data marts are often made up of a lot of aggregated data focused on a specific business issue or a specific group of users.
So a key potential role of a data model is to enable a degree of standardization across such a disparate set of repositories. So that where possible, the same or similar structures and terminology are used to assist with the subsequent understanding and navigation of the data lake. The need to address potentially different characteristics across these data repositories in terms of how the data is stored and accessed, is where the different normalization patterns come in.
The typical data models traditionally used in the construction of data warehouse structures would often start with a model structure that has a reasonably high degree of normalization, typically a degree of normalization that provides the necessary level of flexibility to allow the effective representation of the various business needs. When these models are then transformed from such a logical platform-independent format into a more platform-specific format, varying degrees of denormalization takes place in order to ensure physical models that are performant in the specific physical environment
The focus on denormalization becomes critical in the context of the data lake and specifically in terms of any associated Hadoop/HDFS data structures. The traditional trade-off to make when considering the appropriate level of normalization/denormalization to define in physical platform-specific structure is between
- the flexibility of storing data elements in their most granular and most atomic form, which enables the ability to store data to address many different business issues, in many case even to address as-yet-unanticipated business questions.
- The storage of data in a format that is close to that required by the immediate and/or known business requirements. Adopting this denormalized approach enables simpler ETL, simple access SQL, but at the cost of flexibility.
In general the tolerance and performance of Hadoop/HDFS structures in handling normalized data structures is not as good as that which has been possible with relational DBMSs. So this typically means that the same logical data model can result in quite radically different denormalization approaches when being deployed to RDBMS and HDFS physical structures. The diagram below shows an example of such different denormalization patterns from the same logical data model (in this case taken from the IBM Banking and Financial Markets Data Warehouse).
In this example the main entities of Arrangement, Involved Party and Campaign are connected via the relevant associative entities (IP AR Relationship and AR EV Relationship). At the platform independent level it is possible to start to virtually group these entities into different diagrams to reflect the coverage of the two different business areas.
However when these are then transformed into the platform specific physical models, their treatment can be quite different depending on the target data repository. When deploying to the various RDBMS environments it is deemed acceptable to leave the associative entities in place and represent them as individual tables. However for the deployment to Hadoop/HDFS, the decision is taken to converge the various entities into a single combined file structure.
Different normalization patterns
Overall the different options to be considered when denormalizing data models such as those supplied as part of the IBM Industry Models are:
- Vertical reduction of the supertype/subtype hierarchy – this is effectively the "roll up" or "roll down" of the super-type hierarchy in the logical data model (for example the "Party" hierarchy consisting of Individuals, Organizations, Organization units, etc).
- Reduce or remove the associative entities – these entities are also sometimes known as "link entities" (for example the Patient/Claim entity in Healthcare). These provide significant flexibility when implemented, but can also result in significantly more complicated SQL logic to traverse the data structures. The alternative is to collapse the information into a single entity (so resulting in a patient entity which incorporates potentially repeating groups of all the claims associated with that patient). A variant on this is the converging of entities involved in 1-to-many or many-to-1 relationships (for example where an Asset entity has a relationship to a separate Asset Model entity).
- Reduction or removal of the Classification entities – in certain models there is an extensive set of classification entities designed to call out the different type mechanisms across the models (for example the Credit Card Type in a banking model). Even in traditional RDBMS deployments, these classification entities are often removed, something that is even more likely to happen with Hadoop/HDFS deployments.
- Denormalize the Accounting Unit structure into a single profile entity – the set of logical entities in the "Accounting Unit" of the IBM Industry Models typically provide a highly flexible mechanism for the storage of numeric attributes such as balances, totals, counts, averages, etc.. The denormalization option here means the possibility to converge these entities into a single profile table for the area to which the figures relate (for example converging the "Agreement Credit Risk Accounting Unit" entities into a single "Agreement Credit Risk Profile" table).
There is more information on these different denormalization patterns and other logical to physical deployment considerations for Hadoop in the document "Guidelines for deploying an IBM Industry Model to Hadoop".
The next and final blog in this series will focus on the possible role for the different models to play when assisting data scientists and their activities.


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The Railways of Great Britain: A Historical Atlas was a labour of love. Cobb, a lifelong railway enthusiast had, since the 1920s, attempted to travel on every line in the country, before being foiled by the mass closures of Dr Beeching. In his atlas he set out to record and map every railway and station opened between 1807 and 1994, superimposing them on the one inch to one mile Ordnance Survey map.
The idea arose after Cobb was asked to produce a postscript for the last PG Wodehouse book, Sunset at Blandings Castle, examining railway information in all of the Wodehouse books, to try to determine the location of Blandings Castle. He soon realised that there was no definitive cartographic study of railways and stations.
He started work in earnest in 1978, finished the last pages in 1996 and saw the atlas published, by Ian Allan, in 2004. Publication was financed by James Collyer-Fergusson, a friend and fellow enthusiast since he and Cobb were 14.
Despite the two-volume boxed set of 646 pages being priced at £150, the atlas went into a second edition within two years, Cobb welcoming the opportunity to correct "lots of silly mistakes".
With the project well under way, Cobb chanced to mention it at a reunion at Magdalene College, Cambridge. One of the Fellows suggested he present his research for a PhD, and several, including the college's senior tutor Mark Billinge, helped him steer it through the Board of Graduate Studies. In July 2008 Cobb was awarded his PhD, with 40 members of his family in attendance.
Richard Smith, head of the university's Geography department and one of his examiners, described the atlas as "a remarkable piece of scholarship", saying: "It's not just of interest to the enthusiast, but a vital tool for anyone seriously interested in the economy, geography and history of Great Britain. There's nothing like it." Cobb himself was more modest about his research: "I went to look at stations for five years, but otherwise it's all from the history books."
Michael Herbert Cobb was born on September 10 1916 at Harrow Weald. He was educated at Harrow and Magdalene, Cambridge, where he read Mechanical Sciences. Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1938, he was sent to the Continent in 1940, and after German forces broke through escaped on the last boat from the port of Dunkirk.
It was a close run thing. Driving his brigadier to the harbour, he quickly discovered that the man could not read a map. "For God's sake, sir," Cobb exclaimed, "you drive and I will map-read!"
He spent the next four years training airborne commandos for D-Day, but his unit was not required in Normandy and was instead ordered to the Far East. In the Mediterranean their troopship was torpedoed, an experience he described as "very interesting".
He ended the war in Burma, building airstrips, and then commanded 42 Survey Engineer Regiment in Egypt. He qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1949, and completed the Army Survey Course and Staff College. From 1956 to 1959 he was commandant of the Royal School of Military Survey, near Newbury.
Cobb retired from the Army in 1965, then worked as a cartographer with Geographia until his retirement in 1971. Compiling his book required him to learn a number of new techniques. But after 18 years' work he was ready for a publisher, and Ian Allan, himself in his eighties by the time the atlas appeared, was honoured to produce it. Visiting Cobb's home at Cullompton, Devon to discuss the project, Allan said his only regret was that there was not a road atlas as clear that he could have used to avoid getting lost on the way.
Michael Cobb died on June 23. He married first (dissolved), in 1941, Coralie Blamire. He married secondly, in 1964, Elizabeth Roberts. She predeceased him and he is survived by the three sons of his first marriage.


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Campus going greener than expected, with new goal of reducing carbon emissions by one-third by 2010
By Krishna Ramanujan |
For the first time Cornell has calculated how much carbon it emits. The inventory reveals that the university expects to reduce its central utilities emissions by almost one-third by 2010 -- far exceeding its goal of being 7 percent below 1990 carbon emission levels by 2012.
The greenhouse gas inventory includes data on combustion-related gases, purchased electricity, commuting and institution-funded air travel.
Administrators also announced Sept. 15 that Cornell will receive $425,000 from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to help develop its Climate Action Plan (CAP). The plan will provide a time frame and strategies for meeting the university's pledge to the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (APUPCC) to emit zero carbon by 2050. Cornell President David Skorton signed the commitment in February 2007, along with 500 other universities and colleges.
"Cornell is one of a hundred institutions that will be [creating a climate plan] for the first time," said Stan Wrzeski, a sustainable design consultant who works for Affiliated Engineers, a sustainable design consulting firm based in Madison, Wis., hired by Cornell to help develop the CAP. "If someone is looking for a precedent, there isn't one."
In fact, Cornell's plan should serve as a model for other institutions in the future to help them speed up their own sustainability efforts, said Dean Koyanagi, Cornell's sustainability coordinator.
The President's Climate Commitment Implementation Committee is currently working with Affiliated Engineers and other internal and external consultants to brainstorm ideas to further reduce carbon emissions. The groups plan to whittle these ideas into a CAP draft plan by June 2009, for final submission to the APUPCC by Sept. 15, 2009.
Cornell has invested in many programs and energy-efficient designs to bring about carbon emission reduction. Without such investments in the Lake Source Cooling project, the Combined Heat and Power Plant, and building efficiency measures, "our carbon footprint would be much higher," said Koyanagi.
Cornell will target energy reduction in such sectors as central utilities, development and building, energy efficiency and conservation, fuel choices, transportation mitigation and carbon offsets (where users pay a "tax" for carbon emissions that are then invested into carbon-cutting ventures) and renewable resources.
"If we put in front of people these challenges that are very ambitious, people will meet them most of the time," said Steve Beyers, services team leader for Cornell's Environmental Compliance and Sustainability. He noted that before Cornell's $162 million Weill Hall was built, a green design workshop helped architects see ways to combine sustainable building practices without interfering with the functions of the cutting-edge research facility. Weill Hall is under review for "gold" green-building certification by the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
In 2007, the Cornell Board of Trustees passed a resolution requiring that building projects over $5 million meet LEED silver standards. "Now, for every other building we are constructing, gold looks to be within reach," said Beyers.