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|Basic Information
|1′00″ (0.3m)
|11.9 lbs. (5.4kg)
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Evolves to...
|Parasect (lv. 24)
|50% Male, 50% Female
|Mushroom Pokémon
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The name Paras is a malformation of the word Parasect, its evolved form, a portmanteau of the words, parasite, and insect. The name Paras refers to both the species as a whole, as well as individual species in the games, anime and manga. Its name in the beta versions of Red and Blue was Parasyte.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
Paras resemble a small, orange, tick, with large, colourful fungi, growing from its back. Paras' legs resemble those of insects, and have pincers that are similar to those of a lobster. In the Pokémon universe, Paras would be born with tiny spores covering their body, which grow as the Pokémon feeds, called tochukaso mushrooms. It is noted in the Pokédex, that the relationship between the host and the mushrooms is a symbiotic relationship: the mushrooms would sap energy from the host, causing the Paras to continuously burrow underground in forest areas to gnaw on tree roots, since the tochukaso would draw most of the energy from the roots. In return, the mushrooms can defend the host by spraying toxic spores at enemies. The mushrooms themselves would have strong healing properties, and would be valued for their life extending properties
Appearance[edit | edit source]
Paras can be found in Mount Moon and the Safari Zone, in the Pokémon Red and Blue, Pokémon Yellow, Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen, versions of the series. They can be found in the Ilex Forest, Mount Moon, and in the bug-catching contests in the Pokémon Gold, Silver and Pokémon Crystal, of the series. In Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, a Paras can be snagged, captured from a trainer,[1] from Humah, a Peon grade member of the evil organization, Cipher.[2]
Paras can evolve into the Stage-1 Pokémon, Parasect at level 24, and can learn one of two abilities, Effect Spore, which has a thirty percent chance of affecting a Pokémon with a condition when Paras is hit with a physical blow, or Dry Skin, which causes a Paras to lose health when the sun is shining brightly, brought into play by the move, Sunny Day, but can regain health when the battle field is covered in rain, brought into play by the move, Rain Dance.[3] In FireRed and LeafGreen, Paras, along with Parasect, often hold an item called the Tiny Mushroom, and to a lesser extent, the Big Mushroom. After attaining a certain amount of one of these items, the services of a Move Relearner, on Island Two, become available, allowing Pokémon to remember moves, previously forgotten.[4]
Anime[edit | edit source]
The Pokémon anime series and films are a meta-series of adventures separate from the canon that most of the Pokémon video games follow (with the exception of Pokémon Yellow, a game based on the anime storyline). The anime follows the quest of the main character, Ash Ketchum[5]—an in-training Pokémon Master—as he, May and Dawn (as well as several other companions[5]) travel around the fictitious world of Pokémon along with their Pokémon partners, Pikachu, Blaziken,[6] and Piplup.[7]
The first major appearance of a Paras was in Episode 44, "The Problem with Paras", in which a trainer called Cassandra wanted her Paras to evolve to Parasect to make a healing potion from its mushrooms, however, Paras lacked experience in battle, making winning battles very hard. Ash offered for his Charmeleon to battle Paras, so it could gain experience and evolve into a Parasect. Ash commanded Charmeleon to let Paras win the battle, but Charmeleon used its powerful flame abilities to knock out Paras, before flaming Ash himself. Later, Paras plucked up the courage to battle the disobedient Charmeleon, and evolved into a Parasect, allowing Cassandra to use its exotic mushrooms to make healing medicine for Pokémon.[8]
Manga[edit | edit source]
A Paras was owned by a minor character in Chapter 46, "VS. Marowak", of the Pokémon Adventures manga, a series based on the original games, by William, a former student of university lecturer and gym leader, Erika. As Yellow entered Celadon City, Erika informs her that Red has appeared on the other side of the city, causing Red's Pikachu, Pika, (in the control of Yellow in his absence), to run off from the trainers.[9]
Erika and Yellow followed, but discovered Red was secretly William in disguise, who had plotted to kidnap Pika. Erika rushed up to her crazed, former student to save the Pokémon, but was attacked by the thief, who ran off into the dark city.[9] In Chapter 47, "VS. Persian", Yellow chased William into the city, releasing her Doduo and Rattata to battle William's Paras, Persian and Marowak. William held Pika close, immune to its electric shocks, and ordered his Marowak to use Bonemarang, soaked on Yellow's Pokémon.[10]
In Chatper 48, "VS. Paras", Yellow withdraws her Pokémon and tackles the Bonemerang attack head on, attaching her Poké Balls to it, using her Rattata and Doduo to direct the bone at William himself. As he tried to right himself, the Alliance of Justice, a group of gym leaders, composed of Misty, Brock, Erika and Blaine, intent on defeating the antagonistic Elite Four, cornered the William, battling with their Onix, Starmie, Gloom and Rapidash, to save the unconscious Yellow, and rescue Pika from the impersonator.[11]
Trading Card Game[edit | edit source]
The Pokémon Trading Card Game is a collectible card game similar in goal to a Pokémon battle in the video game series; players must use cards (with individual strengths and weaknesses) in an attempt to defeat their opponent by "knocking out" all of his cards.[12] The game was first published in North America by Wizards of the Coast in 1999, until Nintendo USA started publishing the series in 2003.[13] Most Paras cards are typical, Basic Pokémon cards, and are primarily used to play stronger cards (such as Stage-1 Pokémon, like Raichu, or Stage-2 Pokémon, like Charizard).[14] Paras have appeared in the Jungle, Base Set 2, Gym Challenge, (as "Erika's Paras") Neo Revelations, Aquapolis and EX FireRed/LeafGreen sets.[15]
References[edit | edit source]
- The following games and their instruction manuals: Pokémon Red and Blue; Pokémon Yellow; Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2; Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal; Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald; Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen; Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness
- Notes
- ↑ Pokémon Colosseum review Gamecube.gamezone.com. URL Accessed October 27, 2006.
- ↑ List of Paras locations in the Pokémon video games Psypokes.com. URL Accessed October 15, 2006.
- ↑ Paras Pokédex entry Serebii.net. URL Accessed October 13, 2006.
- ↑ Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen move tutors Serebii.net. URL Accessed October 15, 2006.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Pokémon anime overview Psypokes.com. URL Accessed May 25, 2006.
- ↑ Pokémon anime; May character bio Serebii.net. URL Accessed May 25, 2006.
- ↑ Pokémon anime character bio; Hikario bio Serebii.net. URL Accessed October 13, 2006.
- ↑ Synopsis of Pokémon anime; Episode 44, "The Problem with Paras" Serebii.net URL Accessed October 14, 2006.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 4: The Yellow Caballero: A Trainer in Yellow, Chapter 46, "VS. Marowak", VIZ Media LLC, January 9, 2002. ISBN 1569317100.
- ↑ Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 4: The Yellow Caballero: A Trainer in Yellow, "Chapter 47, "VS. Persian", VIZ Media LLC, January 9, 2002. ISBN 1569317100.
- ↑ Kusaka, Hidenori, & Mato. Pokémon Adventures, Volume 4: The Yellow Caballero: A Trainer in Yellow Chapter 48, "VS. Paras", VIZ Media LLC, January 9, 2002. ISBN 1569317100.
- ↑ Pokémon Trading Card Game "How to play" guide Pokemon-tcg.com. URL Accessed July 3, 2006.
- ↑ Pokemon Trading Card Game News; "Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire TCG Releases" Wizards.com. URL Accessed July 3, 2006.
- ↑ Pokémon Trading Card Game glossary Pokebeach.com. URL Accessed July 21, 2006.
- ↑ List of Paras appearances in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Psypokes.com. URL Accessed October 13, 2006.
- Publications
- Barbo, Maria. The Official Pokémon Handbook. Scholastic Publishing, 1999. ISBN 0439154049.
- Loe, Casey, ed. Pokémon Special Pikachu Edition Official Perfect Guide. Sunnydale, CA: Empire 21 Publishing, 1999. ISBN 1-930206-15-1.
- Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon FireRed & Pokémon LeafGreen Player's Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., August 2004. ISBN 193020650X
- Mylonas, Eric. Pokémon Pokédex Collector's Edition: Prima's Official Pokémon Guide. Prima Games, September 21, 2004. ISBN 0761547614
- Nintendo Power. Official Nintendo Pokémon Emerald Version Player's Guide. Nintendo of America Inc., April 2005. ISBN 1930206585
External links[edit | edit source]
- Official Pokémon website
- Bulbapedia (a Pokémon-centric Wiki)'s article about Paras as a species
- Paras on serebii.net
- Pokémon Dungeon Game Boy era coverage of Paras
- PsyPoke - Paras Pokédex entry and usage overview


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The aim of this bachelor thesis is a comparison between relation databases and NoSQL databases. The first ones are in use for more than 30 years. The majority of professionals were convinced that they achieved top of technology on this field. The NoSQL databases were developed with the development of social network, computing in cloud and processing data stream. Those databases could easily follow the need of high availability and scalability. In this bachelor thesis the most known NoSQL databases are presented with description and presentation features. The practical part introduces performance analysis between NoSQL database Cassandra and classical relation database MySQL. They are both installed on more nodes. We described handling and managing with Cassandra, comparison from the perspective of safety in case of hacking into system or the possibility of natural disasters (earthquake, floods, etc.)With this bachelor thesis the aim is to offer a specific answer about choice between relation databases or NoSQL databases, which are based on practical performance tests.
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Directed by: Barry Jenkins
Starring: Alex Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harrie, Jonelle Monae
Honestly, when I purchased my ticket to see Moonlight, I didn't know what to expect. I knew that it was a coming of age story set against the backdrop of Miami's drug stricken projects. I knew that the focus of the story, Chiron, experiences a consensual homosexual encounter. But I didn't know if this meant it would be in the vain of great racial commentary films, like John Singleton's Boys in the Hood, or maybe it would be more akin to Kimberly Pierce's tragic Boys Don't Cry, with its queer sexual awakening within a hostile community. I'm surprised, having now seen Moonlight, that the film that it most reminded me of was Sophia Coppola's Lost in Translation.
Moonlight is a brilliant film, wonderfully acted, that tells the story of Chiron (pronounced SHY-rone, undermining any attempt to draw parallels to the Centaur of ancient Greek mythology). The film moves through three different chapters in Chrions life marked by three names the he identifies with. As a young boy, Chiron (Alex Hibbert) is found hiding from bullies by Juan (Mahershala Ali) who takes the boy in and provides a refuge from Chiron's emotionally abusive, drug addicted mother, Paula (Naomie Harris). As a teen, Chiron (Ashton Sanders) finds himself again being bullied, but takes momentary refuge in a brief relationship with his one friend Kevin (Jharel Jerome). When Kevin turns on Chiron under pressure from Chiron's bullies, Chiron retalliates and is sent to juvenile detention. Finally we see Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) as a man in his mid twenties, inhabiting all the trappings that his drug dealing lifestyle demands. In this final act, we see him reconcile with his mother, now in rehab, and Kevin.
From the beginning we know that Chiron is out of place in his environment. He rarely speaks, appears to have no friends, and has a tragic relationship with his mother. When he connects with Juan, we see Chiron find the kind of nurturing relationship that we would hope for a young boy. Juan genuinely cares for him, feeds him, teaches him to swim. We know from the beginning that Juan is a drug dealer, and the disconnect between Juan's concern for Chiron and his drug dealing to Chiron's mother comes to a head when the two forces in Chiron's life confront each other and Juan is left speechless in the face of his own contradictions. He cares for Chiron, but isn't about to stop selling drugs to the boy's mother.
But why not? What are we to take from this inherent contradiction in someone we as an audience have generally come to like? Social commentary? Perhaps. Perhaps we nod our heads and recognize that lack of opportunities and material necessity that leaves an intelligent and compassionate man like Juan to deal drugs. It's a fine lesson, but I don't think it's the lesson Chiron takes away. Instead everything about this film points toward the boy's realization of inauthenticity as a survival tool and the toll it takes on those who employ it.
What does it mean to be authentic? To understand what's happening here, Sartre's concept of "bad faith" is helpful. Briefly, Sartre identifies the human condition as one of absolute freedom to decide the meaning and purpose of one's own existence. Of course there are things we can't decide about ourselves (our inherited socio economic status, for example) but within the context of these inherited facts about our lives, facticity, Sartre argues that it is the nature of human consciousness that we are free to decide their meaning.
"Bad faith," comes about when we effectively decide not to decide, and instead adopt the trappings associated with conformist roles about who we are in the spaces we inhabit. We shirk the responsibility to decide for ourselves the meaning and purpose of our lives, and thus turn ourselves into objects, playing out roles assigned by others. Sartre's example is that of a waiter whose every decision is colored by what people expect a waiter to be. The waiter, like the tables or the food, has become a mere object for the restaurant patron.
While we don't know much about Juan's story, Chiron is constantly punished for being who he is. Consequently, we find him in the end adopting a persona and playing a role. In the third act, the now adult Chiron has adopted the nickname "Black" which Kevin gave him years earlier and he initially didn't like. He wears "fronts" on his teeth and in his car we see the same crown air freshener that Juan had sported years earlier. When he reconnects with Kevin, Kevin notices the person Chiron has become and flat out says, "This isn't you" and we in the audience, can't help but agree.
But this isn't the story of a sweet natured child who, by way of his environment and encounters with the criminal justice system, becomes a hardened criminal. The criminality of Chiron's life is cleverly left o the viewers imagination. This is not a story about drug dealers. Instead, it's the story of a boy lost in his effort to become a man and deciding to trade his own agency for the convenient and even necessary expectations of a culture fundamentally adrift in violence.
We know already that Juan is not authentic from his encounter with Chiron's mother who confronts him with the performative contradiction of his life. But Juan understands his own bad faith, even if he seems powerless to stop it. The tenderness with which he responds to young Chiron's concerns about sexuality as well as Juan's admonitions that Chiron decide for himself who he is, let us believe that he might have been successful in leading Chiron to an authentic life. However, by the second act, Juan is no longer around, having died in circumstances that aren't explained, and Chiron is swept up into the violence too often confused with masculinity.
For a different viewer, with a different background, the story of Moonlight might resonate in ways specific to race and sexuality, for me, as a heterosexual, white male trying to raise a son of my own, the lesson is more far reaching. We are awash in a cultural moment where men have decided that anger and violence are a hallmark of masculinity, putting us at odds with our own ethical sensibilities regarding the treatment of others, especially women.
This view of masculinity, however, (the doltish beast, anti-intellectual, unconcerned with others, whose primary purpose is accumulating women and providing security), is mere caricature, but one so saturating that men have taken it as guidebook. This caricature is played out again and again in pop culture from Archie Bunker and Fred Sanford in the 70s until it moves from being merely cartoonish to literal cartoon with Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin.
Moonlight supplants these predominantly white memes of failed masculinity with the images common in impoverished black communities, drug dealers, bullies, gang bangers, but the result is the same. Men trapped in inauthenticity, playing out the only roles available to emulate. Thus the final shot of the movie is two men embracing in the quiet privacy of a darkened room. And while we might expect Kevin and Chiron to spark up a romance, the final embrace is not one of joy, but of one man consoling another in quiet recognition of their shared alienation from their lives.
I began by saying Moonlight reminded me of Lost in Translation, and this is why. A final sympathetic embrace between characters that we know can never quit lives of bad faith no matter how much we pull for them. Really though, such scenes point back to us. A film like this is not mere spectacle to absorb (a fear I had as I watched this film in a theater full of white faces), but it is rather an invitation to self-reflection. Is my life mere caricature? Am I only living out the expectations of others? To what extent have I bought into a toxic version of masculinity? Is it even possible to break out of that? The more often we ask such questions, the better off we will be and the more authentic our lives will become.


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Looking for a job after you've served your duty to your country? Military members go through rigorous training and learn diverse sets of skills to prepare them to defend their country. Those skills include leadership, communication, discipline, dedication, and a host of others that companies worldwide value in the workplace.
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JetBlue's "Vets In Blue" program actively looks to recruit and retain veterans through a series of outreach and network events, career fairs, and mentoring opportunities. Each event is carefully executed to attract the best talent from a large applicant pool.
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Think you'll have trouble applying your skills? The unknown is what many veterans fear when going back into the workforce.
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Take it from the veterans themselves. The company's website features several veterans who discuss what it's like to work for Verizon. Each interview is meant to convey how veterans in different areas of the company have transitioned from service into the workforce.
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Amazon offers a robust network of programs to help its employees succeed, and its network of veterans offers mentoring and various support groups.
Earlier this year, Amazon committed to hiring 25,000 veterans within the next five years, and aimed to train 10,000 veterans and military spouses outside of the company in cloud computing- a sought after skill in tech companies worldwide.
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"You've faithfully served your country. Now serve with a winning team where hard work, integrity, strong commitment and teamwork are highly valued."
These are the word's displayed on Sprint's veteran job portal. Sprint recognizes the commitment made by veterans and believes they can have the same type of commitment to the company.
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Macy's is a household name, and while many have stepped foot in its store, it's not as obvious that the retail giant has a longstanding relationship with the country's veterans.
In 2012, Macy's launched its yearlong Military Executive Development Program, with a mission to employ the best military veterans in all departments of the company. The goal was to reintroduce veterans to the workforce and help each new hire find success and acquire new skills.
Macy's firmly believes that the skills gained during service translate well into its career opportunities. With thorough training and support, the company places veterans in many areas, from operations and store management to logistics.
United Rentals
United Rentals is ranked #12 in the GI Jobs 2014 list of Top 100 Military Friendly Employers. It encourages veterans to put their hard training to work and takes pride into transitions them into the United Rentals workplace.
The company supports active military members by offering work flexibility necessary to those who serve in the Reserves or National Guard. They offer pay during active duty deployments and job protection for family and current service members during medical or active leave.
The Military Skills Translator tool helps job-seeking veterans to find positions within the company that best fit the applicant based on their military title.
Bank of America
Bank of America is the primary bank for more than two million Americans and is ranked #14 in the Top Military Friendly Employer list.
The bank has been supporting veterans for over 90 years and has several partnerships with military organizations, and various products and services geared towards military customers.
The Military Transition and Career site helps vets find a position that aligns with their skills and military experience. It hosts a slew of military resources, like their Military Transition Action Timeline Tools set and Personal Development section (featuring study guides on writing resumes, cover letters, interview tips, etc.)
On a grander scale, Bank of America has committed to hiring 10,000 veterans within the next few years. Other notable feats: more than 1,900 homes have been donated to military families, and over 40,000 military-related employee volunteer hours in 2015 alone.
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Johnson & Johnson
New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson has been a pioneer in consumer goods and technology. Chances are, you'll able to quickly think of a Johnson & Johnson product.
Johnson & Johnson values leadership and other core values taught during service. For this reason, the company happily employs veterans across the board. They've won a several rewards for their ongoing commitment to hiring veterans and hosts regular career events geared towards veterans across the country.
The veteran employment section shows how a veteran can grow within the company by highlighting the career track of several individual's growth since first joining the company.
The Coca Cola Company
Coca Cola has been a longstanding supporter of hiring vets since 1941, when former company president Robert Woodruff pledged to place Coca Cola locations within striking distance to military bases.
Like many companies who value veteran placement, Coca Cola has a Military Skills Translator that helps prospective employees find positions suitable to their skills.
Says one current employee and veteran, ""Transitioning out of the military will present its challenges but it's nothing that you can't get through. We have a military veterans business resource group, with people who come from where you've been, to help you with your journey here."
There are many areas of duty at the company that they actively seek to fill, such as: sales managers, mechanics, warehouse supervisors, accountants, supply chain managers, and more.
Delta has made a name for itself for its outstanding customer service and impressive aircraft fleet, but it's looking to impress veterans just as much as does its customers. The company is committed to hiring veterans through the 100,000 Jobs Mission and currently employs over 10,000.
The airline company puts its money where its mouth is; it has donated $400,000 to the Fischer House, which supports families of military members who have been deployed. The website shows job seekers the potential they have at Delta, where many veterans have found a long-lasting career.
The company also has an entirely separate website, which features blog posts, veteran employee profiles, news updates, and a photo gallery.
The Cisco Veterans Program aims to use human networks and technology to connect veterans with company opportunities. It believes that the skills veterans are trained to possess are perfectly geared towards the workplace: leadership, a strong work ethic, and dedication.
The company has donated $2.5 million to Futures Inc. – a separate mission to develop cloud-based pipelines that ultimately help match military job codes with civilian career paths. It uses this technology during career fairs to help military members find relevant jobs on the spot.
Cisco also puts military personnel through a series of IT trainings for certification via their-tracked IT Training and Certification Program.
Veterans Enablement and Troop Support (VETS) is the company's employee program which helps active and retired members and their families with mentoring and support, both in and out of the workplace.
Life insurance company MetLife is consistently recognized by the GI Jobs' Military Friendly Employers List, and offers targeted training to veterans to help them enjoy long-term careers with the company.
The MetLife Veteran Network is a resource network open to colleagues that are passionate about promoting veteran resources and advocating on their behalf. The goal of MVET is to attract, develop, and retain veterans.
MetLife also supports American Corporate Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to helping veterans transition into the workforce. Its website has a Military to Civilian Occupation Translator to help veterans find the right jobs within MetLife.
Time Warner Cable
"One veteran at a time" is Time Warner's motto when it comes to hiring veterans at the company. Currently, they've employed over 4,500 veterans, in areas such as Network Operations, Technical Operations, Engineering, Sales, Construction and various others.
Ivory is one example of an outstanding veteran-to-workforce story. When he left the Navy in 2005, he ended up homeless; Time Warner took him in, offering him a job in the Customer Call Center, where he's thrived ever since.
Time Warner Cable also offers a 4-year Apprenticeship Program in certain locations, where veterans are trained to become qualified technicians.
TotalMatch is the company's job matching tool. Veterans fill out a series of questionnaires, which generates a TotalMatch Report with the best relevant, available positions.
State Farm
Like many of the companies on this list, State Farm is listed on GI Jobs Top Military Friendly Employers – and in the top 2%.
The company has competitive benefits to new employees, including a lump sum payment of $4,000 for renters and $10,000 to homeowners, home marketing and home finding assistance, temporary storage and other relocation services.
StateFarm takes a "never stop leading the way" approach to hiring veterans, giving them the opportunity to continue utilizing leadership and management skills within its diverse positions. The company is continually awarded for its customer service, community involvement, and financial strength.
Military service changes lives of the American people, and IBM is life changing company. Veterans who work at IBM deal directly with technology that impacts and effects the way the world works through technology.
IBM is committed to making an impact, and each individual that shares that philosophy in the company makes a difference.
At IBM, employees are expected to complete at least 40 hours per year of professional development, and mentoring veterans at qualified programs count towards those hours. Its Veterans Externship is geared towards those who are six months from transitioning out of military duty and seeking employment in the technology sector.
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Sensory Studies
Hearing Study
What sounds can polar bears hear? What noises disturb them? It's almost impossible to answer questions like these by studying wild polar bears so we turned to researchers and trainers at the San Diego Zoo and SeaWorld San Diego for help.
Our Hearing Study team chose five healthy, adult female bears of breeding age as test subjects. They focused on adult females, because denning mothers with cubs:
- Are the most likely to react to noise disturbances
- Probably rely on vocal communications more than other age/sex classes of bears
How Do You Test a Polar Bear?
First the zoo scientists made the polar bears' bedrooms soundproof. Then they trained the bears to respond to tones by touching their nose to a target. All five bears quickly figured out the new game—they're intelligent and actively take part in training sessions.
The team:
- Presented over 4,000 tones ranging from 125 to 31,5000 hertz (Hz)
- Created an audiogram based on the data that shows the frequency range and best sensitivities of polar-bear hearing
So now that we know how sensitive polar bear hearing is, our team is testing how noise from vehicles and machinery travels through the snow where mother bears dig their maternity dens. This information will help protect polar bears from industrial disturbances, especially during the sensitive time when mother bears are in the den with cubs.
Although polar bears are generally solitary mammals, they come together at key times throughout the year. Vocal communication may play an important role in their social behavior at these times. In fact, the period when new polar-bear mothers are in snow dens with young cubs is potentially the most important social period of a polar bear's life.
Cubs vocalize a lot in the den! But we don't really know what these vocalizations mean or how important they are for cub survival. This aspect of our hearing study will help answer whether disruptions to cub vocalizations from industrial noises may impact their survival.
Olfactory Study
How do polar bears find mates in the vast expanses of the Arctic? A PBI study is helping to unravel that mystery and provide a better understanding of the polar bear's breeding process.
Scientist Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research is the project leader. Her hypothesis is that polar bears—like many solitary, wide-ranging animals—use scents to send signals to each other over long distances.
Love is afoot—er, maybe apaw. Most bear species mark their environment, usually trees, with cues that let other bears know who and where they are. But in the Arctic there aren't any trees to mark, so what do polar bears do?
- Observations of bears in the wild suggest that polar bears passively deposit a scent "signature" on the sea ice as they walk.
- These scented trails may tell other bears exactly who they are following—and help male polar bears know when a female is ready to breed.
If this proves true, as the Arctic continues to warm and the sea ice melts, scent trails could be broken up by large stretches of open water. This would make it harder for polar bears to find mates.
Cooperative Effort
PBI Advisory Council scientists who work with wild polar bears are helping with the study. They collect scent samples from the paws of tranquilized bears that they handle in capture-release efforts. The project is a good example of how our zoo and wild-bear Advisory Council members work together to answer key questions.
Don't scratch—just sniff. Within a zoo setting, Owen's team members mount scent boxes to:
- Test whether male polar bears can smell the difference between sex and reproductive condition
- Study responses from female bears as well
The basic measurement tool? How much time the bears spend checking out a scent.
Portable Study
Because the scent boxes are so easy to transport, the team has already tested both male and female polar bears at the San Diego Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, Toledo Zoo, Buffalo Zoo and SeaWorld San Diego.
Early results support Owen's theory. Conrad, a male polar bear at the Oregon Zoo, displayed a strong response to the female scent and some aggression to the male scent.
His female sibling, Tasul, was so intrigued with the male scent that researchers had to pause the trial before she completely destroyed the hanging support of the scent box.
Special thanks to Hearing Study Project Leader, Advisory Council member Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research (SDZICR), and Anne E. Bowles, senior research scientist with the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute. And, thanks to Trainer JoAnne Simerson and her crew, and to B.J. Kirschhoffer and Rusty Robinson for field support.
Thanks also to our Olfactory Study team: Megan Owen, San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research (SDZICR), project leader; Dr. Ron Swaisgood, SDZICR, consultant and coauthor; Christine Slocomb, research technician; Dr. Steven C. Amstrup, our chief scientist; and Karyn Rode, U.S. Fish & Wildife Service.


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November 2017, Thailand
Mr. Doley Tshering and Mr. Tashi Dorji from United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Bangkok Regional Hub visited AIT Solutions on 6 November 2017. Mr. Tshering and Mr. Dorji are the Regional Technical Advisers on Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Global Environment Finance under UNDP. Mr. Tshering and Mr. Dorji visited the premises of AIT Solutions to discuss the overall plan for the assessment of wildlife crime databases.
Mr. Tshering and Mr. Dorji reiterated that AIT serves as the unique, international yet neutral platform with strong convening power in the region and relevant resources in the nexus of engineering, conservation and management, which is ideal to advance work on sensitive issues critical for sustainable development. They also added that AIT Solutions, with its WEMS Secretariat, [ilab] and ICT resources, is well-placed to undertake the assessment, cater appropriate solutions to address the challenges in managing enforcement related information and develop pertinent capacity in the region and beyond.
Recently, AIT and UNDP agreed to undertake an assessment of currently-operational wildlife crime information management mechanisms to identify gaps in wildlife crime information-sharing for monitoring enforcement, to establish information-sharing mechanism for enhanced environmental governance in Asia, and strengthen capacity for data collection and institution of community of practice for improved coordination and knowledge transference.
During discussions with Dr. Naveed Anwar, Mr. Tshering and Mr. Dorji expressed their confidence that the partnership will serve as a stepping stone for more fruitful work towards curbing illegal taking, trading, and trafficking of endangered species of wild fauna and flora in the region and beyond.


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I had the most laziest Mother's Day ever sans kids and I loved it! No pampering just straight up lounging around and doing nothing--it was perfection! I did get dolled up today because I wanted to look how I felt--like a million bucks. And how could one not feel like a million bucks in these pants? As you all know, I've been taking bigger and bigger risks in shopping ASOS' main range. These pants caught my eye recently and I quickly read the item description to see if they would work for me. They were made of neoprene! You know, that stretchy stuff scuba outfits are made of? Yeah, that! It goes without saying but these pants are super forgiving and look so vivid in person. The only part of the pants that almost posed a problem was the waist. I barely got them to close. Once they did, I walked around in them for a bit and they stretched out even more.
I hope all you mother's out there had a wonderful day. I'm of the adage that Mother's day is every day. Take the time out to relish in your inner and outer beauty, laugh without caring who's looking, and live your today like it is the last. For those of you who are not moms, be sure to show appreciation to your mom/mom figure in your life...not just today, but everyday!


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I have used the gorgeous Holly Angel for this one and went for both red and green, keeping the card fairly simple for posting!
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Some of the worst fears about ISIS were realized during the November 13 Paris attacks that involved a suicide bomber, who turned out to be a Syrian refugee, and three groups of terrorists shooting out at three different locations. More than a hundred people lost their lives that night and several were injured as the terrorists mercilessly slaughtered peace loving French citizens. ISIS has taken responsibility for the heinous attack.
The incident has shocked and saddened everyone around the world, but it is just a reminder of how dangerous ISIS has become and how urgently substantial action against it is required.
The French President stated that his country would unleash a "pitiless" war against the terrorist state as revenge for the attack. While cynical critics would find that the hawks and the right wing rejoicing at this incident for using it for gaining support for the war, the truth is that many would see this as acting too late, though at least doing the right thing at last.
No wonder this atrocity is sufficient to warrant adequate military action by any standards. You know things are different when Democratic candidates sound as hawkish as the Republicans in their debate the following night, which gives you even more faith in the US leadership regardless of the political affiliation.
However, I find something else wrong with the approach of France to attack ISIS. While I am glad that France is finally prepared to strike ISIS locations in Syria and that it has every right to avenge the death of its citizens, they should have known better than just carrying out reactive vengeful strikes.
The French approach is precisely what is generally wrong with the reaction of the Western powers in terms of countering ISIS. They see ISIS as a distant security threat, which they do not need to do anything about unless their homes are threatened, instead of proactively intervening to prevent a humanitarian crisis and to destroy a local threat in the Middle East. The French reaction also suggests that up until this time it was not at war with the entity and did not consider its atrocities worthy of an intervention, as it considered necessary in the case of secular Libya. Sadly, it is only now that the French seek a global coalition against Islamic State.
Europe apparently did not have a problem with the existence of ISIS, without being bothered by the massacre they have been committing in Iraq and Syria. Even Israel has not taken any active action against it, because probably ISIS has been working to weaken Bashar Al-Assad, one of their archenemies. Or probably because the main victims of ISIS have primarily been Muslims of the Middle East, but by that rationale, you would expect Arab countries of the region to act against them, the reaction of which has been terribly dishonest and irresponsible. Nevertheless, you cannot expect much from morally bankrupt regimes.
The United States is probably the only exception, and they had better be, due to the enormous responsibility they bear following the Iraq War and their intervention in the Syrian Civil War. And they have been fighting ISIS alone without any considerable help from any ally in the region. However, despite reassurances by President Obama, his strategy has fallen short of effectively reducing the threat. Furthermore, he completely rules out deploying ground troops despite demands from the Republican leaders.
Such a reactive and defensive approach is what has resulted in the strengthening of ISIS in the first place. This should surely offer fodder to moralist critics who would accuse the Western powers of valuing the loss of life in Europe but completely ignoring the bloodbath in Syria and Lebanon, and genocide and human slavery in Kurdish Iraq.
Instead of striking back at ISIS as a reaction to some terrorist attack, proactive military action should be carried out against its targets until the complete annihilation of the terrorist entity as a state. This would not be possible without ground forces and occupation of the area making up the terrorist state.
The United States should also reconsider its withdrawal from Iraq, which has resulted in the breakdown of the security of a weak state with a Shia leadership unpopular with the local Sunnis. While President Obama could blame the Iraq War in 2003 initiated by George W. Bush for the rise of ISIS, history could see it as more of an unfinished business of his administration, or even a part of his Middle East foreign policy legacy.
As a matter of fact, President Obama has a great and rare opportunity to achieve undisputed greatness as a statesman following his historic Cuba initiative and the Iran Nuclear Deal. When he was elected President with the slogans of hope and change, even his fiercest enemies would have expected him to be destined to do great things. With the peace of the world at peril, and the Pope talking about the signs of a Third World War, his leadership can restore peace to the world if only he is willing to do what is necessary. It is up to him to execute a swift blow to the terror network or wait for the next President to replace him to get the job done.
The United States is already tackling ISIS at his own pace, but in the words of Hillary Clinton, President Obama's policy of "containment" of ISIS is not enough. President Obama tried calming the demands for more military action by using the very word just the night before ISIS attacked Paris and immediately came under fire. This incident seems to prove the last straw to wake the world up. The world must not rest until ISIS is destroyed. And since nobody else would even bother until the threat reaches their shores, United States remains the only moral leader in the world to take on the challenge.
However flawed the military strategy of Obama administration maybe, it still deserves greater respect for its principled action than the reactive measures France is going to take as revenge. If only a global coalition had been formed in a timely manner, the resources of ISIS could have been greatly reduced to carry out such attacks, though it would have required active pursuit of its presence in the continental Europe as well. But ISIS is feeding off the oil in the region and its supply lines must be destroyed.
ISIS has also threatened terrorist attacks in Washington D.C, and against any country that participates in bombings against them. The US intelligence believes they lack the resources to do so at the moment, but we must not let them grow strong enough to become capable of it, and must certainly stop underestimating the threat. The world still has time at its hands to prevent another tragedy like 11/13.
United States certainly does not need to bear this burden alone. The rest of the powers of the world have a chance to redeem their ignorance of the humanitarian crisis created by ISIS by joining a global coalition under US leadership. The United States, under the leadership of President Obama, is perfectly capable of rallying allied powers from around the world, not only from Europe and the Middle East, but from Asia Pacific as well to combat this threat together.
As long as the focus of the war becomes averting a humanitarian crisis in Iraq and Syria instead of just defense of Western countries, the war should not feel like such a burden. However, I am not too sure if many in the West are still too concerned about the situation on the ground in Iraq and Syria.
The post was originally published in The Nation blogs.
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Number of planet Earths we need
to provide resources and absorb our waste
Our search for Earth-like planets continues, but even if we do find one orbiting another star, we still don't have the technology that will enable our civilization to utilize its resources. It's going to take too long for us to even get there. Let's hope that the technology catches up with the need to find another planet. At the rate we're using up our natural resources and degrading the environment, we're going to need a couple of Earths to sustain life as we know it.
We've only been in this planet for a very short time as compared to how long the Earth has been in existence. Yet, we have done so much damage to our environment and caused the extinction of so many species. Advancement in technology and the rise in population increased our need for energy, land and raw materials. We consume large amounts of paper, oil and plastic, just to name a few - and in the process, we degrade and pollute our planet. How long can this go on?
More: Facts about the Environment
August 22, 2012 was called "Earth Overshoot Day". From this day, our civilization is living beyond the ecological capacity of the planet. We are taking more than she can give.
We have a responsibility to take care of our home. We may belong to different countries and races but we all live in one planet and we must all come together and save it from ourselves. A lot of people say that their efforts to recycle, driving less and conserving electricity don't make a difference. They're right, on their own it doesn't – but if you look at the bigger picture, one man's contribution makes a big difference. But it's also not enough to just practice these conservation methods. What will really make a big impact is connecting with other people and educating them on the real issues today.
More: How to Reduce our Ecological Footprint
It's like lighting one candle and passing on that light until the whole world starts caring for our planet! Some things we can't control, but there are some things that are in our hands. Once we all realize that, then things can really start changing for the better.
We are the only thinking living beings on this planet that can make a difference. Let's make it count.
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(This is a 10 part series in which I am reviewing some of the products sold as exercise equipment, fitness solutions, etc. on infomercials, magazine ads, and cable shopping networks. Unlike most of the ads for these products, this isn't based on a double blind, major university backed study. It is simply my professional opinion based on my fitness experience and knowledge in the hopes that it will save you some time, aggravation and money.)
Abdominals are what it's all about I guess. Forget about the decreased blood pressure, decreased risk of diabetes (among the hundreds of other diseases exercise improves the chances of not succumbing to) decreased chance of depression and anxiety, increased energy….I could go on with the real benefits to exercise. Perhaps it's that they're not as glamorous as the appeal of a chiseled six pack. Unfortunately, the real problem with that line of thinking is that the ultimate cost to dealing with the multitudes of maladies that could have been prevented as a result of an active lifestyle fails largely in comparison to the small satisfaction of having a mostly unattainable bit of vanity. Case in point, I present you the Ab Circle.
Going in Circles
To me, watching infomercials is like watching a bad train wreck. I can't stand to watch but I can't look away either. As a result, I either laugh hysterically or am so amazed that people actually fall for this junk that I get fueled to write a series such as this one. I wholeheartedly believe that it is this constant spewing of fitness junk that has the masses so confused about what real exercise is all about that whatever comes out next is going to be the answer everyone's been waiting for. Oh boy!
The Perfect Ingredients
Let's face it. Nothing sells fitness more than a scantily clad man or woman strolling or working out by the beach. Add a widget and you have yourself a top selling product. If you've been following the previous posts, you should understand by now how the abdominals work, what their true function is, and the deceptive concept of spot reduction. With the exception of a really bad commercial, the Ab Circle does nothing more than provide a ride the whole family can enjoy; or at least the average beach bum.
My advice. Anything that is sold to make abdominal training more fun and easy is like saying you can eat healthy at a fast food restaurant. Who are you kidding?
Stay tuned for future posts with my top 4-1.
Til next time, train smart, eat well, and be better.
In case you've missed them, here are My Top 10 Most Useless Pieces of Exercise Equipment so far:
#10 The Jump Snap
#9 The Thigh Master
#8 The Ab Roller
#7 The Red Exerciser
#6 Leg Magic


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Special Poem on Mother's day 2016 from Daughter in Urdu:
Mothers day is just few days away, so all of you must have planned some very precious gifts, presents to gift you mom, wife, grandma, mother-in-law, aunty, friends, and all women who are titled Mother. You would be searching online for some very special Mothers day poems to write on your cards to present. Here we have gathered some great mothers day poems to help you in finding. Do use them and also share them on social media if you like and finally don't forget to leave your feedback in the comments below.
Special Poem on Mother's day 2016 from Daughter in Urdu
- Of all the special joys in life,
The big ones and the small,
A mother's love and tenderness
Is the greatest of them all.
- Mom's smiles can brighten any moment,
Mom's hugs put joy in all our days,
Mom's love will stay with us forever
and touch our lives in precious ways…
The values you've taught,
the care you've given,
and the wonderful love you've shown,
have enriched my life
in more ways than I can count.
I Love you Mom!
- If I could be as good a mom as you,
My loving heart would make my family glad.
I'd be a good example in all I do;
I'd give my all, give everything I had.If I could be as good a mom as you,
I'd make each day for family a pleasure.
I'd use my energy, my love, my gifts,
Creating memories they would always treasure.You've done so much I never could repay;
I love you, Mom. Happy Mothers' Day!~ Joanna Fuchs source: web
Mom, you're very special;
I really think you're great.
On Mother's Day,
It's time to say
It's you I appreciate!
Your love is never ending; It shows in all you do.
There's no other mom
In the whole wide world
Who's half as good as you!
~ Joanna Fuchs
God made a wonderful mother
A mother who never grows old
He made her smile of sunshine,
And her heart of pure gold,
In her cheeks he placed fair roses,
In her eyes, stars that shine
God made a wonderful mother,
And that wonderful mother is mine
Happy Mother's Day
Special Poem on Mother's day 2016 from Daughter in Urdu
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- In a heartless manner.
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heartlessly — adverb in a heartless manner she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers • Derived from adjective: ↑heartless … Useful english dictionary
Heartlessly — Heartless Heart less, a. 1. Without a heart. [1913 Webster] You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster. [1913 Webster] 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent. [1913 Webster] Heartless they fought, and quitted soon… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
heartlessly — adverb see heartless … New Collegiate Dictionary
heartlessly — See heartless. * * * … Universalium
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heartlessly — adv. cruelly, mercilessly, in an unsympathetic manner … English contemporary dictionary
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I wonder if teachers today still exert as much influence over the lives of their students as they did in my day?
In my day, teachers were demi-gods. Very few of us would dare to defy a teacher, as any complaint from a teacher got severe repercussions from home. A teacher could shame a child into compliance by a word or two in the classroom.
It is still true, of course, that teachers have their students welfare at heart, for a student who turns out well is a credit to him/herself and the school.
Of course, there were awful teachers. They are people too. Like many of you, I met some bad ones as well as some outstanding ones. For most of my early school life I went to a sort of little private school (couldn't be called a prep). It was very small with only one teacher taking us through. Miss Shirley taught me for most of my early life. She made me believe that I could achieve things I never could have dreamed of. Knowing the limitations of my home, she prepared me to get a scholarship to Merl Grove High, which set the pattern for my later life.
The first day, at registration at Merl Grove, Miss Miriam Speid, the very scary headmistress, told me, "You are born in July, you will have to work hard for everything you get in life" Subconsciously, this remained the mantra for my life. She also told me that as a scholarship child I would have to participate in everything the school did. All extracurricular activities - choir, drama, speech festivals, dance – I balked only at sports. I couldn't run to save my life and hated netball etc.
But the emphasis on the arts was good for me. I loved school and all the things I got to do. In high school I met some of the teachers who would influence the way my life has gone. For one thing, the only career I saw for myself was teaching. And the exposure to creative activities pushed my own creativity. In the lower forms, as in many girls' schools, we developed 'crushes' on some of the teachers. Some didn't deserve our adoration as we found out when we grew more critical. Some did.
The major influence on my desire to become a writer was Alma Mock Yen (nee Hylton).I had always loved reading, but she made reading more than merely pleasure. Her literature classes were inspiring. Somehow she made the words lift off the page and invade my soul. She made Shakespeare come alive as if we were right there in the plays with his characters. Right there at my desk, I flitted about with Ariel and sang:
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
I was in pain when I went on to university and had to adopt jargon, pertinent to the subject area, and complicated (pompous) ways of expressing our thoughts in order to 'impress' the lecturers (or so we thought). (I wonder where a certain Bajan lecturer is now?) It was joy when I could ditch all that and write in a more comfortable style.
Today, I thank all the teachers I met. Those who had both negative and positive influences on my life. In my old age, I know that things go the way they were meant to. We are free to use our experiences as learning tools for later life. I can read and write and understand life, a little better, because of all my teachers.
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I have always loved painted ceramics - I just find painted ceramics so fun and cheerful! :) So, when I came across Cutie Patooties, I knew I had to share the shop with you all! Theresa, the shop owner, makes some of the cutest things! {and, yes... the majority of her items are personalized} :)
The plates - oh my! - I love them!!
The plates - oh my! - I love them!!
And, you know I love the crosses! How great would this be in your little one's room?
Got a sports fan to buy for this Christmas? How about one of Theresa's super cute pendant necklaces?! (not all are sports related: so check them all out!) ....they are all just $18 - great deal.
Now - let's talk teacher gifts. They can be hard. You want them to be special, but not "cheesy" (know what I mean?). Well, let me suggest this platter. Personalized with everyone in the class!
(15 faces are included in the price - but add only $1.50 more for additional)
Just an FYI:
If you want your Cutie Patooties order to arrive by Christmas, you must purchase by November 30th.
So, what do you like best from Cutie Patooties?
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(Image courtesy nbc4i.com, game information courtesy ohiostatebuckeyes.com, ESPN.com)
The Buckeyes (6-3, 1-0) opened the Big Ten season in fine form with an 83-58 demolition of the Badgers (5-2, 0-1) at my namesake Center. This was the worst beating a Wisconsin team has ever taken at the Kohl Center. Coach Chris Holtmann juggled the lineup a bit and started senior Kam Williams in place of C.J. Jackson. It seemed to have made a difference – for one night.
One story line of this game was OSU's alert, aggressive and opportunistic play. The other story line, which I'll touch on below was their uncanny shooting. In previous outings, Ohio State has had double digit leads and squandered them. Against Wisconsin, with 5 minutes remaining in the half, they held a 15 point lead, 39-24. By the end of the first half, the lead was expanded to 23 points, 49-26. With four minutes remaining in the game, the Buckeyes still had a 30 point lead, 79-49. At that point, the teams cruised to the finish lie with the Buckeyes salting away the 25 point win.
Within four and a half minutes in the second half, the Buckeyes had upped their lead to 35 points.
The Buckeyes were led by Kieta Bates-Diop's double-double (17 points, 11 rebounds), Kaleb Wesson (19, 4), Jae'Sean Tate (16, 3) and C.J. Jackson (10, 3). In Kam Williams' first start of the season he had 9 points and 1 rebound.
The Badgers was led by Kelan Martin (24 pts, 6 rebounds), Kamar Baldwin (14, 2, 4 asst) and Paul Jorgensen (10, 6).
Ohio State shot 66% from the field (31-47), 54% (7-13) from 3-point range and 74% from the foul line (14-19).
Wisconsin shot a pretty anemic 39% from the field (19-49), 37% from 3-point range (10-27) and a terrific 83% (10-12) from the foul line.
What Went Right
Pretty much everything. If you watched this game, you'd wonder "where in the hell were you for the last few games?".
On offense, the Buckeyes were crisp with their passing looking and finding an open team mate. They positioned themselves well and managed to find openings in the Badger defense for open shots. When drives were cut off, their perimeter spacing allowed them open 3-pt shots.They set and came off screens effectively, leading to several open and made jump shots. This was the best I've seen the Ohio State offense flow in a long time.
On defense, Ohio State had "active" hands. Wisconsin passes often were deflected to throw their offense out of rhythm or were intercepted by Ohio State. They were often pressuring the ball via double-team and yet had good enough rotation to the off-side they rarely got burned by weak side Wisconsin scoring.
There are probably a few other things, but we don't have all day, so let's move on.
What Didn't
I really don't have much here. Kaleb and Jae'Sean got into some foul trouble and turned the ball over a few times. Look, it's Big Ten basketball; frontcourt players are always going to get called for fouls and Jae'Sean has never been the best ball handler. Anything else is just picking nits about a 25 point win over a rival on their court.
I'm sure there will be other games where I have legitimate gripes – just not this game.
- Maybe Coach Holtmann was sending a message to C.J. Jackson by not starting him. In his previous two games, C.J. had totaled 12 turnovers. That's "play-making" for the wrong team. In 26 minutes against Wisconsin, C.J. still managed 10 points but turned the ball over only once.
- Ohio State, averaging 14 turnovers per game, still gave it up 13 times against the Badgers. This time the forwards were the culprits with Tate, Bates-Diop and Wesson (Kaleb) combining for 8 turnovers. Wisconsin wasn't squeaky clean either, committing 13 turnovers.
- However, Ohio State took advantage of opponent turnovers and Wisconsin didn't. Although the turnover total was a wash, Ohio State scored 17 points off turnovers to Wisconsin's 9.
- I think the brisk OSU ball movement was a huge advantage. Ohio State outscored Wisconsin 36-12 in Points-in-Paint. Ohio State had only 5 offensive rebounds, so that wasn't an advantage. What was?
- I think the spacing of the Ohio State players made a big difference. Drives to the basket resulted in layups or dump-offs to open team-mates.
- Kaleb Wesson had a career high scoring game with 19 points. He played only 17 minutes. So, let's ee; if I divide 19 by 17 I get 1.12, times 40 (minutes) and that gives me ~ 44 points. That's pretty efficient court time.
- I do want to mention that I thought that Kyle Young had a decent enough game. In 19 minutes, a season high, he had 4 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal. Not an eye-popping number, but nice game time to pick up some of the slack from Kaleb's foul trouble (4 fouls) and Micah Potter's ankle rehabbing.
Up Next
The Buckeyes host Michigan (7-2, 1-0) on Monday evening. The tip-off is scheduled for 6:30 pm ET. The game can be seen on FS1 and/or you can listen to it on 97.1.
The Wolverines average 77 points per game while allowing 62 ppg. They average 33 rebounds and 9 turnovers per game. For comparison, the Buckeyes are scoring 77 and allowing 68. Ohio State averages 39 rebounds and 15 turnovers per game. Not much to choose from here.
In this young season, Michigan has three layers that average double figures scoring per game. They are Moritz Wagner (15.6), Charles Matthews (15.2) and Duncan Robinson (11.1). Wagner also leads Michigan in rebounding with 8.4 per game. Ohio State has four players averaging double figures; Kieta Bates-Diop (17.3), Jae'Sean Tate (13.2), C.J. Jackson (12.8) and Kaleb Wesson (12.1). KBD also leads the Buckeyes in rebounds with 10.0 per game.


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Calcutta illegal market hit by deadly fire
At least 20 people have been killed in a fire that swept through an illegal market in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, police officials say.
The Surya Sen Market was housed in an old multi-storey building in the crowded Sealdah area of the city.
Several people were also seriously injured, and officials say the death toll could rise.
The deadly blaze was contained in three hours and it is thought there is no one left trapped inside.
The fire in the paper and plastic market broke out early on Wednesday morning while some people were sleeping inside the complex.
The head of the fire services Gopal Bhattacharya told AFP news agency that they "found dozens of people lying unconscious with severe burns" and that most of the victims had suffocated in their sleep.
Toxic gases were also released from the flammable materials present in the building, which hampered the rescue operations.
State Fire Services Minister Javed Khan told AFP: "The market has only one exit point and those who stayed in the market at night were trapped after the fire broke out."
Mr Khan also said the market was illegal and action would be taken "against the authorities for not having any fire safety arrangement".
'Unplanned buildings'
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, visiting the scene, promised a full investigation.
She said there were many such illegal or "unplanned" buildings in the city and that "no-one follows any safety norms".
She announced compensation amounts of 200,000 rupees ($3,714; £2,461) for the families of those who died and 50,000 ($930; £610) rupees for the injured.
At least 25 fire engines were sent to the scene and the injured were taken to nearby hospitals.
The reason for the fire remains unknown, but some local officials said a short circuit due to faulty electrical wiring could be to blame.
A police investigation into the cause is now underway and Ms Banerjee said they will have a report ready within three days.
There have been several major fires in Calcutta in recent years.
In December 2011, around 90 people died in a blaze at a hospital. A year before that, 43 people died in a fire at the historic St Stephen's Court building on the city's Park Street.
In 2008, more than 2,500 shops were destroyed in a huge fire at one of the city's largest markets.


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#pragma comment(lib, "opengl32.lib")#pragma comment(lib, "glu32.lib")
Those are libraries you need to link with to build basic OpenGL applications.Either add -lopengl32 -lglu32 to "other linker options", or add opengl32 and glu32 to link libraries on the left, or link against opengl32.dll and glu32.dll which are both found inside WINDOWS\system32.
-l is the GCC command to link a library. For some reason adding them to the linker libraries list didn't work in your case.... (weird)
Sorry, I am using the GCC compiler, it's just the source is an example tutorial. I didn't know the #pragma was VC only
Quote from: yaustar on September 17, 2005, 02:38:31 amSorry, I am using the GCC compiler, it's just the source is an example tutorial. I didn't know the #pragma was VC only Okay, as I understand "-lopengl32 -lglu32" solves your problems, but you want link libraries via GUI interface?If so, you should add libopengl32.a and libglu32.a (you can locate these in MinGW /lib subdirectory) instead of opengl32.lib & glu32.lib.It comes to any other lib as well, if you were linking foo.lib in your VC 6.0, you will link libfoo.a while using MinGW compiler.


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Rob will lead a discussion about his new book, "Brand Advocates" which shows marketers and other business leaders how they can get more referrals, recommendations, and sales by leveraging Brand Advocates.
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Today's post presents the work our team produced for the Information is BeautifulVisualization Challenge.
Our team is comprised of 5 people coming from France (Ludivine), Romania (Teodora), Mexico (Patricia), Algeria (Yacine) and Colombia (Mario); all working together in Paris.
We are passionate about new technologies and as part of our job; we provide innovative data management and visualization solutions to help customers make better decisions.
We jumped at the opportunity to apply our skills and creativity to this challenge.
It was fun to use the tools we know so well to produce an interactive standalone visualization that we hope will invite the viewer to discover interesting -sometimes unexpected- facts about their favorite movies.
We enriched the original data-set with Oscar awards data coming from the oscars resources database site. We decided to exclude all movies not having complete financial information or absent from the original data-set. Unfortunately, we did not find any resource database with information about BAFTA awards.
Data was modeled in snowflake schema on a MSAccess database. Reports, as well as interactive visualizations are created via Microstrategy BI tools.
Our visualization is composed of 3 layouts:
This layout focuses on movies that won or were nominated to Oscars prizes from 2007 to 2010.
In the Full List View we chose a simple approach, Data-Cloud widget pop's up to you the most successful motion picture in terms of Oscar film recognition.
It's quite easy to see that Slumdog Millionaire was the most awarded movie in our panel.
The Interactive view instead introduces dynamics and insight. The metrics are ventilated by Award Category, by Gender, or by Studio.
All the interesting facts about the movies are presented in the clap board.
Profitability allows you to analyze movies financial aspects using a Heat Map widget. This data-viz presents by default WW gross revenue (surface) and profitability (color) information for each movie. You can play around with the interactive panel, delete and search or set your own thresholds depending on which metric interests you most.
Easy to see that the most important blockbuster in WW gross revenue is Avatar but take a look at Paranormal Activity I profitability gap against all others. Just incredible!
Audience layout presents a scatter plot with information about studios' audience and profitability. This first figure sets Warner Bros as the most successful studio on average movie profitability and public audience. You can drill down to movies to have some insight over those that most contributed to this success.
Moreover, you can play around with the interactive controls to choose metrics for axis. Finally, you can build out of this scatter plot a bubble graph giving you a third type of information with the bubble radius size.
This interactive visualization is designed to fit 1280x800 or 1024x768 screen resolutions. Flash visualizations are embedded in a PDF container that can be downloaded locally and run with no need to connect to the internet.
Here you have a short video presenting the different features and layouts contained in our interactive app.
Once you have taken a look at the video, you can download the app from these links:
The app is 4Mo so please be patient. I would suggest saving a copy locally and then executing it in full screen mode (Ctrl + L) to benefit of your whole screen resolution.
Adobe Flash player 10.2 and reader 8.x or newer required.
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The Ugarit TV began broadcasting on Wednesday from Lattakia as a local TV that airs service, political and social programs.
Minister of Information, Omran al-Zoubi, said that all of Syria's sons have to confront the current difficult circumstances and large challenges.
In a phone call with the TV, al-Zoubi said that the staff of Ugarit has worked hard in the last few months as to launch the new media outlet in the new year, adding that another channel, al-Karameh, will be launched in Sweida on Wednesday as to cover the Syrian southern region.
Minister al-Zoubi saluted the soldiers of the Syrian army, highlighting that their sacrifices will not go in vain.
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- Suran: 250 gm
- Onion: 1 small
- Salt: 1 teaspoon
- Turmeric powder: half teaspoon
- Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
- Chili powder: 1 teaspoon
- Garam masala powder: half teaspoon
- Cumin seed: half teaspoon
- Ginger paste: 1 tablespoon
- Bay leaf: 1 no.
- Mustard oil/cooking oil: 4 tablespoon
- Curd: 2 tablespoon
- Fresh coriander: 2 tablespoon (chopped)
- Clean and peel off the suran and, wash thoroughly.
- Chop them into cubes.
- Chop onion into very small pieces.
- Take fry pan, heat oil till smoke appears.
- Add cumin seed, bay leaf and sputter it for few seconds.
- Add cut onion and ginger and stir it.
- Add suran, salt, chili powder and coriander powder.
- Fry on low flame till done.
- Add turmeric powder, stir properly.
- Add beaten curd slowly at low heat.
- Add one forth cup of water. Stir continuously and bring it to boil, (Otherwise it will cuddle).
- Let it cook for another 4-5 minutes.
- Add Garam masala powder.
- Put off the flame and decorate with green coriander leaf.
- Suran sabji is ready to serve with any Indian bread or side dish.
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BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Jessica Mendoza will become the first female analyst to call a nationally televised Major League Baseball postseason game when she works the American League wild-card matchup next week for ESPN.
Mendoza had replaced Curt Schilling on the network's top MLB announcing team for the rest of the regular season after the former pitcher was suspended last month in the wake of his anti-Muslim tweet. ESPN said Thursday that Mendoza will remain in the role alongside Dan Shulman and John Kruk for Tuesday's wild-card game.
Schilling said Sunday that he would return to the network's studio coverage later in the playoffs.
The 34-year-old Mendoza won two Olympic medals with the U.S. softball team.
The AL wild-card matchup is ESPN's only 2015 postseason game.


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This document proposes changes to the National Telephone Numbering Plan to clarify that 07X numbers, known as mobile numbers, are to be used for identifying mobile apparatus as the destination for electronic communications services.
The National Telephone Numbering Plan sets out details of all the UK telephone numbers and how they can be used.
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Keeping a project under wraps
It is hard to have a project underway and not be able to talk about it. Especially when it seems to be exciting, provocative and possibly groundbreaking. But, like any parent, you don't want to talk about the infant before it is a definite reality. In this case it is just a set of ideas, a direction, a couple of payments and some churning research. However, let it be known that there is a project underway and it will be big and it will see the light of day in some form this coming year. So keep coming back for more snippets. When we're ready to reveal, we'll do so here first . . . and then Facebook second.