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Friday, May 11, 2012 Jeremy Mayfield Former Nascar driver Jeremy Mayfield The judge awarded Mary Bolton $1,000,000. :-) Catawba County, NC A 32 yr old female letter carrier was attacked by Jeremy Mayfield's five dogs when she tried to deliver a package that was too big for his mailbox. Mayfield ran outside and grabbed the injured letter carrier and brought her in his home. The letter carrier was hospitalized with injuries to her legs, arms and shoulders. The dogs are described as pit bull lab mixes. The dogs are in quarantine and can be seen in the video in this link. More fun facts Mayfield failed at least two Nascar drug tests and then sued Nascar after they suspended him for violating their zero tolerance policy on substance abuse. That lawsuit was eventually thrown out. Mayfield blamed the failed drug test on a combination of OTC and RX drugs that caused him to test positive for methamphetamine. Mayfield's stepmother Lisa Mayfield accused the Nascar driver of making and using meth during the years of 1998 - 2005 with his father Terry Mayfield. Jeremy Mayfield said his stepmother is a liar and a "whore" and murdered his father in 2007. Jeremey also claims Nascar has a vendetta against him and paid his stepmother to lie. Jeremy filed a wrongful death suit against his stepmother even though his father's death was ruled a suicide. Lisa Mayfield sued Jeremy Mayfield for slander in 2009. The case was settled out of court in February 2011. The details are confidential but Jeremy "issued a signed apology to his stepmother". Bagheera Kiplingi said... This dude sounds a bit paranoid. scratch said... Is he paranoid because of the enormous quantities of drugs taken, or did he take all those drugs because he is paranoid? Or possily he is simply a classic, lying, drug abusing nutter? snack sized dog said... Well, if this isn't the king of all nutters, he's certainly in the royal nutter family. Even if your step-mother is a whore, when you say your step-mother is a whore in public, you look like a douche. every time. Anonymous said... What you failed to mention is that Mayfield had several signs posted not to come onto his property because of dogs. Maybe if the mail carrier could read it wouldn't have happened. The dogs were protecting their property. dawn james said... damn that mail carrier for doing their job!! Anonymous said... "damn that carrier for doing their job" Dawn, would you touch fire even if someone is warning you not to touch it because it will hurt you? Animal Uncontrol said... Hey Pit Knucklehead: Those worthless maulers need a change in job description. What would YOU do if I shot you in both arms and both legs when you visited my home on legitimate business? Yeah, I THOUGHT so. The 98% of us who do NOT own freak fighting dogs WAY outnumber you and WE say that any dog on human attack thats not legit self defense demands 2 things: 1) Destroy the dogs, and 2) jail the owner. Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! dawn james said... sorry animal uncontrol, your comment landed in spam. hey anonymous, that mail carrier has a right and obligation to deliver mail. this fucktard should have gotten a post office box and put a sign up telling all delivery people to go away. Jenny Rosenquist said... I love you dawn; quick to cut through the bullshit. Anon, this is why it's illegal to obstruct mail delivery! And that doesn't just mean parking front of a mailbox. If this nut didnt want people on his lawn, he should've relocated an appropriate drop-box to the perimeter of his property, or, as previously mentioned, acquire a po box. Even so... What are people going to do in regards to sensitive deliveries that require confirmed contact? He had the duty of defining appropriate boundaries for the animals and a dog-free access point for mail/deliveries/firefighters/the police/etc.. The mail carrier is innocent, and was maimed because of this jackass. Period.
4 December 2012 More than the words Yesterday I got a package in the post. It was beautifully decorated and it had an American stamp. On opening it I found this treasure trove of crafty things... Thank you Rinda. You made my day. It got me thinking about blogging. Late in the evening as you do! It struck me, not for the first time, how this thing we do is more than the words on an electronic device. I was explaining to my friends how I meet people through blogging. How we share words, stories, images and art. How we all have these things in common. How we visit each others spaces and form friendships. Looking around my room I see the beautiful things blogging friends have made for me. I go back through emails and blog posts and see the kind words you guys have written, particularly as I headed off to uni. This thing we do it really is more than words. To risk sounding too mushy, it is friendship and a relationship. The internet is so big but in that we can form such friendships with such like minded people. This amazes me continually and makes me smile. Thank you for reading my words. Thank you for writing yours. This thing we call blogging. Man, it is so much more! scrappyjacky said... You are so very,very right,Abi. Beverly said... It is, indeed and I am so glad it brought you into my world. Lizzie said... You are right Abi! I value the friendships and sharing that I am part of through my blog. And I am honoured to be one of those friends you have made - it's a joy to be friends with someone so lovely! boysmum2 said... I couldn't have written it any more perfect than you just did, so true Karen said... Right you are! It's been an enriching experience from the beginning. Maria Ontiveros said... What sweet, sweet words! I'm so glad you like your package (and that it arrived before you left Durham). I remember loving getting mail at University and wanted to share that feeling. Can't wait to see what you do with your little trees. alexa said... You are so right, Abi! We make and nurture connections which in turn nourish and create something in us ... How lovely to have a crafty package to open! Missus Wookie said... Just catching up after a week of doing assignments too - the snow photos made me smile, as did the carol concerts - I remember seeing my friends singing in their gowns. That star garland is lovely and I hope you have a great time at home. Advent is all about getting ready for Christmas but I find the first bit always frantic. Blogging has brought me new friends - I'm always grateful for the words, inspiration and friendships shared over the 'net.
Should You Do the Same Exercises Every Day? Being active is great—but what if you do the same exercises every single day? Will that help you stay fit? Here’s the answer: If you have a fitness regime in place but always do the same thing, you’ll get some of the benefits of activity, but you won’t get all of them. With some adjustments, your hard work could create even greater results. For example, someone who runs 3 km at the same pace every single day is going to be much better off than someone who isn’t active at all. Running burns calories and works your cardiovascular system, and regular activity is great for maintaining your health. But the body adapts to the demands on it, and once it’s adapted to be able to run 3 km at a certain pace, it doesn’t make any additional changes. You still burn calories, get your heart working and use your muscles, but you won’t get a lot fitter. You won’t continue to get faster or stronger. In training, we call this “hitting a plateau.” Improvements stop, and sometimes you might even slide backward a little. To make further improvements, you need to change things to put new stresses on the body and force it to adapt. For example, you could run 3 km in less time, you could run 4 km, or you could do 3 1-km intervals at a very fast pace with rest between efforts. All these variations still involve running but would cause your body to make positive changes again. It’s the same thing with weight training. If you do dumbbell biceps curls for 3 sets of 8 reps at 20 lb. every day, your body won’t change much. It has the capacity to do the work, so it doesn’t add more. But if you asked it for 3 sets of 10 reps, or to move 25 lb. instead of 20, it would adapt to accomplish the effort. Your muscles would grow. So if changes to your routine are needed to keep making progress, how do you know what to change and when? That’s where we come in. How a Coach Can Help First, you must get the right program in place to start, and it should be based on your exact health and fitness goals. Some people just take a routine from a magazine and do it over and over. Again, it’s great to get moving. But that routine won’t be perfect for you, and your needs will change. When we create programs, we find out exactly what people want to accomplish, and then we put an ideal plan together. Then we monitor progress, and we evaluate daily, weekly and monthly results. Because we’re experts, we can tell when you’re ready for a new challenge that will ensure you’re always moving forward. Programs are constantly updated to ensure you’re training optimally. Beyond physical adaptation, there’s also something else to consider: boredom. By changing the program regularly, we’ll keep you interested and engaged. Running the same 3 km every day on the same path can grow stale, and sometimes boredom makes people quit activities. But what if we had you do that 3 km on a more rugged trail that challenges your balance and strength with obstacles and climbs? Or what if we had you stop running every 500 m and perform 10 burpees? A good coach is always working to make sure a client is moving toward goals as quickly as possible while staying motivated. Let’s Talk About Your Training Plan! If you’re already active but feeling bored with your routine, we can energize you by setting some goals and adjusting your training plan. If you like your current routine but have stopped making progress, we can help you start moving forward again while maintaining some of the elements you enjoy. And if you’re thinking about becoming active, we can make sure you start off on the right foot and continue moving forward for years. With a coach behind you, you’ll never hit a plateau or experience boredom. Instead, you’ll make steady progress toward your goals. To find out how a coach can help you, book a free consultation with us below. Schedule your free intro fill out this form to get started >> Take the first step towards getting the results that you want!
M.S. in SLP (online) Alumni Profile: Myia Sower ('16) MS, CCC-SLP PHOTO: Myia Sower Myia Sower (‘16) is making a difference and providing essential speech-language pathology (SLP) services via teletherapy even during shutdowns and social distancing. Sower graduated from the Speech-Language Pathology (online) program four years ago and now owns a teletherapy company, LowKey Speech Teletherapy LLC (www.lowkeyspeech.com). She also works in five other SLP positions providing services, which offer her flexibility and unique opportunities. Tell us about the work you are doing now. I am currently holding down 6 positions as an SLP! I recently launched my own teletherapy company LowKey Speech Teletherapy LLC. In this position I assess and provide individualized speech and language services to anyone ages 2- 90+ who are willing to pay out of pocket for their speech services. Most of my patients are school age children who do not qualify for services through their school district because there is no academic impact. I love owning my own company. I decide who I serve based on my skills and how I provide services based on the client’s needs. I just started so, to keep the lights on, I work other positions as well. I have two contracts to work in school systems across the country as a teletherapist. In this position I provide speech and language services to students via Zoom and Google meets. I get to provide individualized, direct services to students who would not get services due to an SLP shortage in their area. I started doing teletherapy about 2 years ago. Due to some health issues, it was becoming increasingly difficult to work a regular 9-5 job. As luck would have it, a recruiter called me one day and asked if I wanted a job as a teletherapist. I interviewed, got the job, quit my brick and mortar position and have been loving teletherapy ever since. In addition to providing therapeutic services to school systems, I work as a contractor for a company to provide speech and language assessments to a school system in California that fell behind on assessing their students due to the COVID-19 school closures. I have always enjoyed the diagnostic side of Speech-Language Pathology and this position gives me the opportunity to hone those skills. I have one shot at assessing and diagnosing a student then writing a report that paints a picture of their abilities and disabilities. I must be precise and clear to convince the school system that a student either needs their help via speech services or to convince a parent that their child is developing appropriately and does not require services. Have you been working in schools since you graduated? When I first graduated from the JMU program, I worked in a skilled nursing facility. After some time, I decided that this position was not for me, so I reduced my time to PRN (as needed) and continue to provide services to patients via that model. Now, I work 2 PRN positions. One position is in an inpatient rehab facility and the other is in a SNF (skilled nursing facility). I interned with the inpatient facility and loved it however, all the therapists that work there love their positions, so they never quit. Since a full time, position never opened I decided to work as a PRN therapist to maintain my adult diagnostic and therapeutic skills. Has your role changed since the start of the pandemic? How so? Since COVID started my role as a teletherapist has changed slightly in the school system. Instead of my students logging on with a school aid, they are logging on with their parents, grandparents, or other caregiver. This works to my advantage because I am now able to not only work with the student, but also their caregiver to provide skills to help their child with speech and language skills in the home. My school positions function more like my private practice now than they did in previous years. I am enjoying the change. However, scheduling is a nightmare! It is exceedingly difficult to convince parents that, speech is not just another 30 minutes in front of a screen, it is a valuable therapeutic intervention that their child continues to require to improve their communication skills even when they are doing school from home. How did the JMU online Speech-Language Pathology program help prepare you for your current position? What was the most valuable aspect of the program? The JMU online Speech-Language Pathology program provided me with the knowledge to be a competitive candidate in the field of Speech-Language Pathology. I have often gotten my foot in the door just because I have a degree from James Madison. The reputation of their skilled and knowledgeable therapist precedes you everywhere you go in the state of Virginia. When you interview for a job with a JMU education on your resume, the interviewers are not concerned with whether or not you know how to provide therapeutic services, you just have to convince them that your personality fits the job. What is your favorite part of being an SLP? I love the diversity in the field. I have 6 incredibly unique positions that each challenge me to be a better therapist and grow in the profession. I enjoy making an impact on my patients’ lives and helping them to improve their communication and, in some cases, academic skills. SLPs help people communicate, that is so rewarding. What advice would you give to anyone considering a career as an SLP? If anyone is considering a career in Speech-Language Pathology, I would encourage them to reach out to an active SLP and shadow them. Find SLPs in several different settings and even explore settings that you do not think would interest you. See as much as you can, learn as much as you can. Most SLPs are very generous and love to help others just starting out.
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How to make a mobile-friendly website responsive design in CSS? With smartphones in everyone’s hands, it is quite impossible now to avoid making a website mobile-friendly. Over 50% of people use mobile devices to search for information and data. Having a responsive website design is a best practice that everyone who designs a website should consider in today’s world. Using responsive design, a site or application adapts to the device or environment it is being viewed on. When it comes to building websites, it’s a combination of several CSS and HTML features and strategies. In this blog, let us take a look at how you can make a mobile-friendly website responsive design in Cascading Style Sheets or CSS. How to make a mobile-friendly website in CSS? When it comes to web design, CSS stands for “Cascading Style Sheets.” Written in a markup language or a coding language such as HTML, it is a language called a style sheet that is used to describe the display of a document or a page. 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One way to make sure that your image is not bigger than the parent container is by using the code given below: Responsive CSS However, the image might be displayed a lot smaller than its intrinsic size. You can resolve this by using the <picture> element and the <img> srcset and sizes attributes. In addition to providing several sizes, you may also supply “hints” or metadata that defines the screen size and resolution the image that is most appropriate for. The browser will then select the image that is most suitable for each device, guaranteeing that the user will download an image of a size that is suitable for the device that they are using. Typography is an important part of website design. The font sizes were defined earlier using pixels, but a responsive website needs a responsive font. For this, ‘rems’ are used. Rems are relative to the HTML element and are also user-friendly. You can start off with making responsive fonts by resetting the HTML font size. html { font-size:100%; } After changing the font size, you can add the responsive font sizes as shown in the below image: CSS media queries Wrapping Up The rise in popularity of online channels has necessitated a shift for businesses to utilize digital platforms in recent years. In today’s world, websites serve as a one-stop-shop for consumers to learn about and purchase their products, voice their opinions, and get support if needed. In such a scenario, it is important that you make a responsive web design that can help your audience view your website on all kinds of screens. This blog was all about making a mobile-friendly website responsive design in CSS. I hope this helped you in getting started with making responsive websites. Author: Danish Wadhwa Danish Wadhwa is an Entrepreneur and Growth Hacker with more than ten years of expertise in Data Driven Marketing. 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After animating some property in Blender using keyframes you can edit their corresponding curves. When something is «animated», it changes over time. This curve is shown as something called an F-Curve. Basically what an F-Curve does is an interpolation between two animated properties. In Blender, animating an object means changing one of its properties, such as the object’s location, or its scale. As mentioned, Blender’s fundamental unit of time is the «frame», which usually lasts just a fraction of a second, depending on the frame rate of the scene. As animation is composed of incremental changes spanning multiple frames, usually these properties are not manually modified frame-by-frame, because: • It would take ages! This is why nearly all direct animation is done using interpolation. The idea is simple: you define a few Keyframes, which are multiple frames apart. Between these keyframes, the properties“ values are computed (interpolated) by Blender and filled in. Thus, the animators“ workload is significantly reduced. Example of an interpolation. For example, if you have: • A control point of value 0 at frame 0, • another one of value 10 at frame 25, Direction of Time Although F-Curves are very similar to Bézier (Безье), there are some important differences. • For the above reason, it is impossible to have a closed F-Curve. Before moving the second keyframe. After moving the second keyframe.
In detention April 29, 2020 Australian series Stateless is described as an “urgent and compelling” drama that follows four people caught up in an immigration system that profoundly changes their lives. Yvonne Strahovski, Jai Courtney, Asher Keddie and Fayssal Bazzi star as four disparate people whose lives converge at an inshore detention centre in the middle of the desert, miles from anywhere, in a story that examines how people around the world are affected by an immigration system struggling to cope. In this DQTV interview, co-creator, co-star and exec producer Cate Blanchett and Alastair McKinnon, MD of producer Matchbox Pictures, shine a light on the story at the centre of the six-part series and reveal why it speaks not only to Australia but countries around the world. They also discuss the challenges of financing a series with such topical themes and why dramas can push subjects like this further than documentaries might be able to. Stateless is produced by Matchbox Pictures and Dirty Films for ABC Australia and distributed by NBCUniversal Global Distribution. Netflix airs the series worldwide. tagged in: , , ,
, , Hello, poem peeps! De Jackson here, aka WhimsyGizmo. It’s my favorite poeming day again, Quadrille Monday, when we pen our poems of exactly 44 words (not counting the title), and including one word we here at dVerse provide. Today, I want you to crack the whip on your muse. Crack a joke. Crack us up. A mirror cracked. A book cracked open. The crackling of a fire. A crack of lightning. A crack of light under the door. The crack of dawn. Get it? Crack open your pen and give us a poem of 44 words using some form of the word crack. Cracking. Crackling. Cracked. Crackled. Crackage (I may have made that one up, and so can you! Have fun with this.) Okay, get cracking. Just don’t step on any the cracks in the sidewalk along the way (all that “break your mama’s back” business.) Here’s some inspiration from the Bard: From Shakespeare’s King Lear, Act 3 Scene 2 And we don’t mean to crack down on ya, but the rules still stand: A poem of precisely 44 words, not including the title, and literally making use of some form of the word “crack.” New to the Q? Here’s what to do: Pen us a poem of exactly 44 words (not counting the title), including some form of the word crack. Link your poem to dVerse using Mr. Linky below (and please link back to dVerse on your poem post), and then make way ’round the blogiverse to read some of the best poets around. And the Q’s open all week, so come back for seconds, and thirds. (Poetry’s addictive, ain’t it?)
How do you pronounce tante Dutch? How do you pronounce tante Dutch? 1. IPA: /ˈtantə/ 2. Hyphenation: tan‧tê Is numpty a bad word? The Oxford English Dictionary has launched a search to find the first recorded use in English of the word ‘numpty’, which means a foolish or stupid person. Since the mid-1980s, numpty has been used as a mild term of abuse in Britain. What is a git in British slang? British slang : a stupid or worthless person (especially a man) What’s a pregnant camel called? I was thinking today, for some reason, about the words git and twit, two ancient playground insults which are seldom heard today. A git, I was solemnly told, means ‘a pregnant camel’ while a twit is a pregnant goldfish. … What is a git in Harry Potter? Git – Mildly derogatory, meaning a foolish or contemptible person. Is the F word in Harry Potter? Aside from that the only other instance of this in the Deathly Hallows is when Harry amd Ron fight over ‘The effing locket. ‘ And that’s exactly how it’s spelt. They don’t actually say the word ‘fuck’, but it’s definitely alluded to. What curse words are in Harry Potter? Merlin’s beard, Merlin’s “baggy y-fronts,” Merlin’s pants, or simply just his name are all common curses uttered by the wizarding community in times of surprise or crisis. Does Hermione swear? We all know that Hermione is constantly chastising Ron for his swearing, and that JKR actually used this as a tool to have her characters swear (especially Ron), without actually writing down the swear word. Is Mudblood a bad word in Harry Potter? What is your favorite wizard swear? Griffin: “What is your favorite wizard swear?” Griffin: Of course not. Travis: Oh… I think I really like ‘fuck’. Who killed Fred Weasley? Augustus Rookwood Who killed Lucius Malfoy? How did Lupin die? Lupin, played in the films by David Thewlis, was murdered in the battle by Death Eater Antonin Dolohov, while Tonks was killed by Bellatrix Lestrange, leaving their son, Teddy, an orphan. Lupin’s death is a sore spot for many fans, who fell in love with the werewolf, nicknamed Moony. Did Bellatrix kill Hermione? Bellatrix didn’t kill Hermione but a real question should be WHY she didn’t do that. It is well known Bellatrix tortured many Muggle-born and killed them as well, for her own amusement. At Malfoy Manor, Bellatrix had a great opportunity to kill Hermione who was literally saved by Godric Gryffindor’s sword. Does Hermione kiss Harry? The moment that all fans had been waiting for finally occurred during Deathly Hallows when Ron and Hermione shared a passionate kiss during the heat of the Battle of Hogwarts. The kiss that Ron and Hermione shared is certainly incredibly passionate, but she did technically kiss Harry before their big moment.
How do you say im so-so in French? How do you say im so-so in French? When asked how you are doing, and you want to say “so-so”, you could say “comme ci, comme ça”. This seems to be the closest direct translation for “so-so”. Which French term means so-so? [ˈsəʊsəʊ ] (informal) adverb. comme ci comme ça ⧫ couci-couça (informal) What is the meaning of Comsi comsa? Comme ci, comme ça is a French phrase that literally means like this, like that. In conversation it means so-so, or neither good, nor bad. What does BOF mean in English? Acronym Definition BOF Best of Friends BOF Best of Five BOF Bank of Fukuoka, Ltd. (Japan) BOF Book of Fun Why do French people say Boff? Bof is a spoken interjection that translates more as a feeling of disinterest or mild unhappiness than an actual word. It’s nearly always used as an indifferent or slightly negative response to a question, for example, – Que penses-tu de ce film? – Bof. Pas terrible. What is BOF BOF? Translation of “bof bof” in English. Adverb. so so. was’n good. How do you say meh in French? meh {interjection} expression de l’indifférence ou de l’ennui [ex.] How do you use BOF? Bof in French : lukewarm feeling Here, “bof” has a value of “so so”, “not so good”, average. Here it’s just “bof”, i.e. not bad but not good, not so great, could be better. What is the BOF 500? Is Soso a word? Soso means ‘dull’ or ‘bland’. Soso can be used in two contexts: when talking about food or about something or someone. When describing food, soso translates as ‘tasteless’ or ‘bland’. How do you spell cute? Correct spelling for the English word “cute” is [kjˈuːt], [kjˈuːt], [k_j_ˈuː_t] (IPA phonetic alphabet). What is another word for Soso? SYNONYMS FOR so-so 1 mediocre, fair, ordinary, average, passable. What can I say instead of pretty good? pretty good • adequate. • decent. • reasonable. • satisfactory. • average. • medium. • middling. • okay. What is Soso in Tagalog? The English word “so-so” can be translated as the following words in Tagalog: 1.) medyo – [adverb] a little; a bit; somewhat; kind of; kinda; comparatively; pretty; fairly; partial; slightly; semi-; so-so 3 Example Sentences Available » more… 2.) médyo-medyo – [adjective] so-so more… What can I use instead of in order to? What is another word for in order to? to so as to as a means to for the purpose of that one may that it would be possible to with the aim of in order to achieve so as to achieve for How do you say in order to in another way? Synonyms for In order to 1. for the purpose of. conj. 2. for. adv. 3. for the sake of. prep. 4. with the purpose of. conj. 5. in the interest of. prep. 6. with the intention of. conj. 7. with a view to. prep. & conj. 8. so as to. conj. What is the meaning of in order to? Filters. As a means of achieving the specified end; to. She stood in order to see over the crowd. / She stood to see over the crowd. phrase. Is in order to necessary? The reality is that in order to is an example of overwriting (i.e., using more words than necessary) and can almost always be written simply as to. Is it OK to say in order to? In order to is a subordinating conjunction. We use in order to with an infinitive form of a verb to express the purpose of something. Is it bad to say in order to? ANSWER: In order to placate you, I answer that there is nothing grammatically wrong with the phrase “in order to…” So the use of “in order to…” is grammatically quite in order. However, it is a redundant phrase which can be easily replaced by “to”. When should I use in order to? “in order to” is used before the clause which indicates the purpose ( subordinating clause ). “in order to” is used with non-finite verbs in subordinate clauses ( this kind of clause can be called “non-finite clause” or “infinitive clause”). “in order to” is used if subjects of two clauses are the same. What is the difference between in order to and so as to? Note 1- ‘in order to’ and ‘so as to’ are more common before stative verbs like: be, have, know, appear, seem, understand, etc. Example: she left work early in order to be at home with the children. 2- Before a negative infinitive, we normally use ‘so as’ or ‘in order’. Which is correct in order to or in other to? In order to introduces a clause that explains why someone is doing something. In other words introduces a clause that presents the same information again, using different words. Is in order to formal? to… / in order to…. / so as to…. If we use in order to it sounds a bit more formal and explicit than to by itself, but both are equally possible in both spoken and written English. They both convey exactly the same meaning when expressing purpose: To cut the tree down, I had to hack through the undergrowth first. What does should be in order mean? From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English be in ordera) if something is in order, it is correct or right Everything is in order. b) to be a suitable thing to do or say on a particular occasion I hear congratulations are in order.
How do you write can you in French? How do you write can you in French? The French for “you can”, using the familiar tu form, is tu peux: it turns out that in this case, the actual verb form (peux) is the same as the je form. What is the word for writing in French? write → écrire, rédiger, enregistrer, composer. How do you say I am writing in French? There is one translation in common for “I write” and “I am writing”: J’écris. In French you do not make the distinction between these by the choise of words – they are the same. “un” is for masculine nouns, and “une” for feminine ones. What are some French sayings? The 10 Most Useful French Expressions For Everyday Life 1. C’est simple comme bonjour ! 2. On n’est pas sorti de l’auberge ! 3. Être dans la galère. 4. Mettre les points sur les i. 5. À qui mieux mieux. 7. Ça ne casse pas trois pattes à un canard. 8. Pisser dans un violon. What is a popular French saying? The French phrase is the only one used in English. Mangez bien, riez souvent, aimez beaucoup means: “Eat well, laugh often, love abundantly.” Instead of “live well”, the French say “Eat well:” Mangez bien. La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin, meaning: “Life is too short to drink bad wine”. How do French express their love? Je t’adore – I adore you. In French, it means something more like “I like you very very much” and is used as something in between “Je t’aime” and “Je t’aime bien.” Je t’aime passionnément – I love you passionately. Je t’aime d’amour – I love you with true love. Can you say Mon Cheri to a man? Ma chérie / mon chéri This means my darling or my sweetheart. Say ma chérie when speaking to a female, and mon chéri when speaking to a male. How do you know when to use de in French? The French preposition de is required after certain verbs and phrases when they are followed by an infinitive. And de is required after many French verbs and phrases that need an indirect object, Keep in mind that de plus a noun can be replaced by the adverbial pronoun en. For example, J’en ai besoin. > I need it. Is pain masculine or feminine in French? LE for masculine nouns (‘le pain’) LA for feminine nouns (‘la pomme’) Is Vin masculine or feminine French? 4 – French Nouns Ending in In are Masculine For example le vin (the wine), le magasin (the shop), le dessin (the drawing), le chemin (the road, way), le jardin (the garden). An exception is la fin (the end). Is bread masculine or feminine in French?
• Uncategorized What did Athena do to get Odysseus ready for his wife? What did Athena do to get Odysseus ready for his wife? What did Athena do to get Odysseus ready to meet his wife? She made him beautiful. To what does the simile and lines 8 through 12 compare Odysseus? He is compared to fine art. How does Athena transform Odysseus just before he reveals his identity? How does Athena transform Odysseus just before he reveals his identity to Telemachus? He changes him into himself with a wand. In setting up the test of the bow for the suitors, how is Penelope really suggesting she is looking for Odysseus? How did Athena help Odysseus in The Odyssey? She instills confidence and strength into Telemachus and helps him in his journey into manhood. Athena also helps Odysseus, giving him both advice and assistance as he faces the many problems through his journey back to home. Athena doesn’t just help Odysseus and his son; she helps to develop them as epic heroes. How does Athena help Odysseus when he returns to Ithaca? When Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, Athena helps him by disguising him so that he will not be recognized by anyone before his plans for revenge on the suitors are ready. What does Athena suggest Odysseus do as soon as he gets back to Ithaca? Terms in this set (34) When Odysseus arrives in Ithaca, what advice does Athena give him, and why? Athena advises him to go disguised as a beggar because his home is full of enemies. What disguise does Athena give Odysseus? Athena has provided a mist to cover the land so that she can privately alter Odysseus’ appearance and help him hide his treasure. Athena turns the hero into an old beggar, even going so far as to shrivel his skin, remove the “russet curls” (13.456) from his head, and dim the fire in his eyes. Who does Athena disguise herself as in Book 7? Who does Athena disguise herself as in book 7? A young girl carrying a pitcher, telling him how to get to the palace. Who does Athena advise Odysseus to direct his plea for help to? Who does Athena disguise herself as in Book 2? Who does Athena disguise herself as in Book 3? Telemachus himself Why does Athena disguise herself as Mentes? Simply, Athena disguises herself so often (in the Odyssey, it is first as Mentes, an old family friend of Odysseus’s) because she can. She can come as ANY person or animal or even object, but she chooses Mentes because he represents loyalty and trust. Why does Penelope allow the suitors to stay? Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, has suitors because she is physically attractive and possesses great wealth. In other words, she is both beautiful and rich. There is another reason Penelope has suitors, and it is cultural in nature. So, another reason Penelope has suitors is because she is expected to remarry. Who killed Penelope? However, after it was revealed that Clifford was actually the one responsible for the death of their son and that he had merely framed FP, she killed him in revenge with pufferish venom and hanged his body in the farm to stage it as suicide. Does Odysseus cheat on his wife? He was also married to Penelope the whole time he was trying to make his way back home. During this time Odysseus met a witch named Circe and then a nymph named Calypso. Not only did he cheat with Calypso in addition to Circe, but he stayed on her island for seven years until Zeus ordered her to release him. Why Odysseus is not a hero? Odysseus, the crafty ruler of Ithaca is not a hero because of his lack of many important heroic qualities. Odysseus is not a hero based on the standards of merciful, selfless, and gentle. His actions against Polyphemus, the Suitors, and his men truly show that he is in fact the opposite of a hero. Who killed Poseidon’s son? When the Greek hero Odysseus was cast ashore on the coast of Sicily, he fell into the hands of Polyphemus, who shut him up with 12 of his companions in his cave and blocked the entrance with an enormous rock. Why is Percy afraid of drowning? Percy Jackson After nearly dying in a muskeg in Alaska, he developed a fear of suffocation so intense, that it actually made him wary about traveling underwater, despite knowing that he can breath underwater. Who is Percy Jackson girlfriend? Annabeth Chase
What is German Oma? What is German Oma? Oma is the name for a German grandmother. Does Gigi mean great grandmother? GG or Gigi, is a cool great grandmother nickname. It is a blessing to be a grandparent and great grandparent. Makes a great gift for GG for Mother’s Day, Birthday, Pregnancy Announcement or give to her at your baby shower. Why is Gigi a nickname for grandma? Another popular subset of unique names are those that are derived from the (most often) grandmother’s first name. So Gabby McCree is Gigi. “It’s an abbreviation for ‘Grandma Gabby’ and also my initials growing up,” she says. “It’s more fun than Grandma,” she says. Is Gigi used for Grandma? Does mimsy mean Grandma? Mimsy. Another traditional Southern grandma name, Mimsy is definitely unstuffy and just quirky enough to be interesting, which will appeal to a new grandmother who relates to that description. What do country people call their grandparents? What country calls Grandma Baba? What Do People Around The World Call Their Grandparents? Grandmother Grandfather Language Jeeda Jaddee Berber, Northern dialect Mamm-Baour Tad-Paour Breton (NW France) Baba Dyado Bulgarian Àvia, Iaia (used by small children) Avi, Iaio (used by small children) Catalan (Spain) What are Scottish grandparents called? What is the Celtic word for grandfather? Is Papa a Scottish word? A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700) Papa. (L. pāpa, Gk. πάπας, father, as applied to bishops and latterly the Bishop of Rome, Pape n.; also e.m.E. (1559).)
What is mean of hear? What is mean of hear? transitive verb. 1 : to perceive or become aware of by the ear didn’t hear what she said thought I heard them leave. 2 : to gain knowledge of by hearing heard that you were ill. 3a : to listen to with attention : heed would not hear my side of the story. What is synonyms of hear? In this page you can discover 91 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hear, like: listen to, hearken, make out, become aware of, hark, take-in, hear tell of, catch, give attention, listen and detect. Can hear properly synonyms? adj. hearing, attentive, aware, listening, conscious, willing. What is past tense of hear? Past Tense of Hear Present Tense: Hear Past Tense: Heard Past Participle: Heard Present Participle: Hearing Will hear in a sentence? I will hear what she has to say. Listen and you will hear how wise they were. Somebody will hear us. The neighbors will hear you. What does heard it mean? Heard means “perceived by the sense of hearing.” If you detected a sound using your ears, you heard it. Why is it important to be heard? Communication is not only about the words that are spoken. Words allow us to exchange information, but they are also the medium through which we communicate what is in our hearts. For good communication to occur, we need to respect what the other is saying, even if we disagree. … Why do we need to be heard? Being heard is important for both ourselves and others. It’s a part of healthy communication, and it leads to solutions we won’t find if we just ignore one another. Do you have people in your life who you feel comfortable talking to in an open and honest way? What does it mean when someone says heard you? According to the “top definition” of “I hear you” in the Urban Dictionary, the phrase is an “old hippie expression for accepting another persons statement/oppinion even if you do not agree with them, because you respect the other persons right to their own oppinion and freedom of expression and speech.” What does order mean? noun. English Language Learners Definition of order (Entry 2 of 2) : a statement made by a person with authority that tells someone to do something : an instruction or direction that must be obeyed. : a specific request asking a company to supply goods or products to a customer. What does hard mean? adjective. Something that is hard is very firm and stiff to touch and is not easily bent, cut, or broken. He shuffled his feet on the hard wooden floor. Synonyms: tough, strong, firm, solid More Synonyms of hard. hardness uncountable noun. How do you spell heard? verb (used with object), heard [hurd], hear·ing. to perceive by the ear: Didn’t you hear the doorbell? to learn by the ear or by being told; be informed of: to hear news. How do you spell beautiful? Correct spelling for the English word “beautiful” is [bjˈuːtɪfə͡l], [bjˈuːtɪfə‍l], [b_j_ˈuː_t_ɪ_f_əl] (IPA phonetic alphabet). Why do we say hear hear? Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him/her. It represents a listener’s agreement with the point being made by a speaker. The phrase hear him, hear him! was used in Parliament from late in the 17th century, and was reduced to hear! or hear, hear! … How do you spell picture? Correct spelling for the English word “picture” is [pˈɪkt͡ʃə], [pˈɪkt‍ʃə], [p_ˈɪ_k_tʃ_ə] (IPA phonetic alphabet)….Similar spelling words for PICTURE 1. pictorial, 2. piscatory, 3. piastre, 4. picturing, 5. pictured, 6. pictor, 7. pictural. How do you spell weird? adjective, weird·er, weird·est. involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound;weird lights. strange; odd; bizarre: a weird getup. What is a fancy word for weird? bizarre, offbeat, quirky, outlandish, eccentric, unconventional, unorthodox, idiosyncratic, surreal, crazy, absurd, grotesque, peculiar, odd, curious, strange, queer, cranky, freakish, insane, zany, madcap, off-centre, far out, alternative. outré informal wacky, freaky, way-out. Why is it weird and not weird? ‘Weird’ doesn’t have the sound ‘ee’; it’s more like the vowels in the word ‘ear’ (in my accent anyway— think ‘eah’). So it’s not a word where the choice is between ‘ie’ or ‘ei’. ‘Neighbour’ is another word in which the rule is not relevant because the ‘ei’ combination is not pronounced ‘ee’ but ‘ay’. How do I know if Im weird? Here are some things that may earn someone a negative “weird” label: • Simply being too different from the norm in some way. • Having an odd sense of humor. • Any kind of social awkwardness. • Acting hyper and childish. • Doing things just to amuse yourself. • Having too many esoteric thoughts, knowledge, and experiences in your head. Is it OK to be weird? It’s okay to be weird. Weirdness usually is, in fact, potential strength waiting to be harnessed. Throughout history, the best and brightest among us, the great creators and innovators, have been those willing to stand out and risk being perceived as weird. What does it mean when a guy calls you weird? If a guy calls you weird, it simply means you are not at all his type. However, it should not disappoint you. Sometimes weird people could be very much interesting and they are hard to ignore. Ask him what he means – that’s the best way to find out. Why do I do weird things when I’m alone? You do weird things alone just because of the fear that what other people might think. That is the thinking that makes you feel doing weird things makes you insane. You can do this in front of people as well, so as to gain ur freedom from other’s thinking. Is dancing alone weird? It is something very normal in the world of dancers. Dance ask for practice and practice ask for concentration that can be attained when you practice alone. There is nothing like wierd about dance alone in a room. What you can do when you are alone? So, as soon as you can put a label to your loneliness, it’s time to try and do something about it. 1. Write down positive memories. 2. Smile. 3. Take note of all the things you’re grateful for. 4. Volunteer. 5. Get a pet, or spend time with someone else’s. 6. Join a club or take a class. 7. Make a schedule for yourself and stick to it. What do you do on day alone? Fun Things to Do Alone • Go to a farmer’s market. Enjoy a leisurely stroll through your local farmer’s market, grab a bouquet of fresh flowers, and find some new produce that you have never cooked with before. • Write a song. • Check out a nearby town. • Shop. • Discover some new music. • Make a time capsule. • Travel. • Learn a new skill. Is it healthy to be alone all the time? Too much time alone is bad for our physical health. Studies have found that social isolation and loneliness can increase the likelihood of mortality by up to 30%. What should I do with a week off by myself? 19 Awesome Things to Do Alone • Go to the matinee of a sad or embarrassingly bad film. Feel no shame as you cry or swoon alone in the corner. • Travel somewhere new. • Take yourself on a dinner date. • Tour a museum. • Have a spa day, or get a massage. • Go to a bookshop and get lost. • Binge on a TV show. • Go to a free concert.
What is the meaning of Paniolo? What is the meaning of Paniolo? The official definition of the Hawaiian word Paniolo is “a person who herds cattle; cowboy.” At Paniolo Preservation Society, the word Paniolo is so steeped in Hawaiian ranching history, so much a part of who we are, that it is actually a bit daunting to attempt to sum it up in a few words! Where did Paniolo come from? The Big Island, and especially North Kohala, is the home of the paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy). In 1793 Captain George Vancouver brought the first long horned cattle to the Big Island. The cattle were presented to King Kamehameha I, who placed a kapu (taboo) on their slaughter so they could multiply. Did Hawaii have cowboys? ranching in Hawaii herds, beginning a tradition of paniolos, or Hawaiian cowboys, who derived their name from these vaqueros and predated the cowboys of the American West. The paniolos still run their ranches in much the same way today. Who wrote Aloha rodeo? David WolmanJulian Smith What does Aloha Cowboy mean? vin-jon aloha cowboy Aloha Cowboy is a term used between two gay males when they engage in sexual intercourse Usually the top says this to the bottom to initiate when he pulls out. Dude 2: Aloha cowboy. Who brought the popular music in Hawaii? The popularization of Hawaiian music around the world began in the last quarter of the 19th century, mainly through the publishing of many of Queen Liliuokalani’s songs in the United States. The early Royal Hawaiian Band played the first Hawaiian hit song, Aloha Oe, (composed by the Queen) in San Francisco in 1883. Are horses native to Hawaii? The most recent USDA Census reported Hawaii had 5,114 horses and ponies in 2012, down from 6,547 in 2007, but well above every other equine census since at least 1992. Horses were originally brought to the Islands to help Hawaiians herd cattle. How much does a horse cost in Hawaii? How much does it cost to care for a horse where you live? State Average Annual Cost Hawaii $11,565 Idaho $9,079 Illinois $9,715 Indiana $8,832 How much is it to fly a horse to Hawaii? Horse Prices Westbound – LAX to HNL 1-HORSE $ 2,600.00 $ 2,600.00 2-HORSES $ 2,500.00 $ 5,000.00 3-HORSES $ 2,400.00 $ 7,200.00 Westbound – LAX to KOA Who brought cows to Hawaii? It began with five cows—brought across the ocean by British Captain George Vancouver in 1788, just ten years after James Cook first landed in Hawai’i. Vancouver presented the cows to King Kamehameha I, who ruled the eight Hawaiian Islands as one kingdom for the first time. Why are there no cows in Hawaii? Cattle arrived in Hawaii in 1793, when Captain George Vancouver presented King Kamehameha with six cows and a bull. This loss of supply forced the shutdown of the final feeding operation and Hawaii’s cattle producers had to find an alternate way to market their cattle. Why is milk so expensive in Hawaii? Most of the milk you’ll find in Hawaii stores comes from California, where it’s purchased by a processor that ships it to Hawaii. The California Milk Control Program sets the price that processors pay. But fuel prices that remain near their peak and tanker rental costs drive up the price that consumers ultimately pay. Why is Spam popular in Hawaii? Why are SPAM®’s products so popular in Hawaii? The true root of the island’s love for SPAM® products goes back to World War II, when the luncheon meat was served to GIs. By the end of the war, SPAM® products were adopted into local culture, with Fried SPAM® Classic and rice becoming a popular meal. Can you eat Spam raw? Because Spam is already cooked, it can be eaten straight from the can and requires minimal preparation prior to eating. It’s also highly versatile and can be added to a wide variety of recipes. What do the letters in SPAM stand for? Special Processed American Meat What part of pig is spam? Who eats the most spam? On the island of Guam, for instance, the average Spam consumption works out to 16 cans per person, more Spam per capita than in any other country. It’s used in many different dishes there, including Spam fried rice. Guam has been called “the Spam capital of the world.” What state is spam most popular? state of Hawaii What state eats the most ice cream? Researchers found that when it came to the highest consumers per state, the District of Columbia topped the list. Rhode Island and Wisconsin came in second and third, respectively. The infographic also has information on the top five ice cream chains in the country. What country consumes the most? What’s the drunkest place on earth? The 15 Drunkest Countries on the Planet • Romania. • Andorra. • Estonia. • Ukraine. • Russia. • Hungary. • Czech Republic. What country eats the most meat 2020? America ranked as the number one meat eating country, with Australia taking second. Argentina, a country famous for steak ranked in third. What country eats the fastest? Which country eats the most unhealthy food? Which country eats the most healthy food? 10 Healthiest Countries in the World • Iceland. • Japan. • Switzerland. • Sweden. • Australia. • Singapore. • Norway. Which countries eat at restaurants the most? Top 10 countries where people eat out the most each week: • USA (3.6 times) • Italy (3.4 times) • China (2.6 times) • France (2 times) • United Arab Emirates (2 times) • UK (1.6 times) • Germany (1.1 times) • India (1.1 times) Who has the best McDonald’s in the world? 10 coolest McDonald’s around the world • Taupo, New Zealand. • New Hyde Park, N.Y. • Rome. • Dallas, Texas. • Bray Town Hall, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. • Ulsan, South Korea. • Sydney. • Roswell, N.M. Who eats the most McDonald’s in the world? Donald A. Gorske
• Uncategorized When an ecosystem loses biodiversity How does it change? When an ecosystem loses biodiversity How does it change? A decrease in biodiversity causes a decrease in ecosystem stability, because a change to one organism will have a greater impact on the entire ecosystem. With greater biodiversity, the loss of one type of organism could be moderated by the adaptation of other organisms to fill its role. Which is the final and most stable stage of change in an ecosystem? What is most often meant by biodiversity? Genetic Diversity: refers to all the different genes contained within all members of a population. Species diversity is most commonly meant by biodiversity. You just studied 12 terms! Which type of threat is having the greatest impact on biodiversity? Habitat loss What are the 5 benefits of biodiversity? The Importance of Biodiversity • Increase ecosystem productivity; each species in an ecosystem has a specific niche—a role to play. • Protect freshwater resources. • Promote soils formation and protection. • Provide for nutrient storage and recycling. What are the 5 threats to biodiversity? What are the effects of biodiversity loss? What are 5 ways that human activity reduces biodiversity? • Altering habitats. Hunting. • Invasive Species. Pollution. • Driving Climate. Change. What are four ways that human activity can reduce biodiversity? Which of the following is the most effective way for humans to reduce biodiversity loss? Environmental Chapter 10 Test What is the most effective way to slow the loss of biodiversity? creating large parks/preserves in biodiversity hotspots In what part of the world are the greatest number of extinctions occurring? tropical rainforest What are the two main benefits of protecting entire ecosystems? Summary: Ecosystems are essential to our well-being and prosperity as they provide us with food, clean air and fresh water. Ecosystems also represent an exceptional source of outdoor recreation opportunities.
Who is the main antagonist of the story? Who is the main antagonist of the story? In storytelling, the antagonist is the opposer or combatant working against the protagonist’s or leading characters’ goal (“antagonizing”) and creating the main conflict. The antagonist can be one character or a group of characters. In traditional narratives, the antagonist is synonymous with “the bad guy.” What do you call the second antagonist? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In literature, the deuteragonist or secondary main character (from Ancient Greek: δευτεραγωνιστής, deuteragōnistḗs, second actor) is the second most important character, after the protagonist and before the tritagonist. Who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist? Protagonist and antagonist and are nouns that refer to characters in a story. The protagonist is the main character, often a hero. The antagonist is the character who opposes the protagonist, often a villain. Can the antagonist be the main character? The protagonist is the one who is the prime mover of the effort to achieve the goal. The antagonist is all about preventing the protagonist from achieving the goal. So, any character in a story can be the main character, not just protagonist or antagonist. Is antagonist good or bad? What is an evil protagonist called? Can the protagonist be a villain? The villain protagonist. Short answer: yes, a protagonist can be evil. Villain protagonists are nowhere near as common as heroes, but can be done well if you do the necessary character-building, which we’ll go into shortly. Sometimes the villain protagonist will start evil and become a better person at the end. Can a protagonist die? How do you make an evil protagonist? How to Write a Villain Protagonist in 6 Steps 1. Mix character traits. When protagonists are either extremely moral characters or extremely immoral characters, it might be hard for readers to relate to them. 2. Keep the stakes high. 3. Use internal monologue. 4. Understand the character’s morality. 5. Build the backstory. 6. Consider your antagonist. How do you identify the protagonist? So who is the protagonist in a story, and how can we identify them? The protagonist faces challenges, particularly the central challenge or conflict within the story. The protagonist wants or needs something (has a goal). The antagonist’s actions are interfering with the protagonist’s ability to achieve the goal. Is the protagonist always the narrator? While the protagonist is usually the main character, the protagonist is not always the narrator. This is connected to your chosen point of view (i.e. first, second, third objective, third limited omniscient, and third omniscient). Sometimes, the writer is the narrator—especially when written in second and third person. What are the two types of protagonist? There are three types of protagonists: heroes, anti-heroes, and villain protagonists.Il y a 4 jours Is the protagonist the main character? Protagonist comes from a Greek word for the principal actor in a drama. In modern literature, the protagonist drives the story forward by pursuing a goal. The protagonist of a story is sometimes called the main character. The protagonist of a story is opposed by an antagonist. Who is the protagonist in the most dangerous game? Sanger Rainsford Is a Deuteragonist? The definition of a deuteragonist (from the Greek deuteragōnistēs, for “second actor”) is the second most important and present character in a story—often called a secondary main character.Il y a 4 jours Who is the protagonist in Fargo? Marge Gunderson Did the wife in Fargo die? Jean Lundegaard (née Gustafson) is a character in the movie Fargo. She was the wife of Jerry Lundegaard and the victim of his ill-fated kidnapping scheme….Jean Lundegaard. Died: January 1987 Status: Deceased Fate: Killed by Gaear Grimsrud Portrayer: Kristin Rudrüd Jean Lundegaard Gallery Why is it called Fargo? The Coens (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) have described Minnesota as “Siberia with family restaurants.” Frances McDormand, looking around for a role as a killer or prostitute, was hesitant to play a pregnant cop. The movie is called Fargo because the Coens (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen) thought it was a better title than Brainerd. Is Fargo actually real? The series is set in the same fictional universe as the film, in which events took place in 1987 between Minneapolis and Brainerd, Minnesota. The first season features the buried ransom money from the film in a minor subplot. Additionally, a number of references are made connecting the series to the film. Is Season 1 of Fargo a true story? But fortunately for the show’s countless murders, nothing about Fargo’s first season is based on fact. Martin Freeman’s Lester Nygaard and Billy Bob Thornton’s Lorne Malvo are completely fictional. Are the Fargo seasons connected? While the first season of Fargo won’t immediately reveal connections for those new to the series, there are a few key pieces here that come into play in later seasons. However, there are callbacks to the original film. Does Netflix have Fargo? Here’s How You Can Watch It in 2021. The acclaimed dark comedy crime series Fargo is now available on Netflix Canada, Japan, and the UK. Unfortunately, if you’re not living in these countries Netflix geoblocks its content.Il y a 5 jours Why is Fargo not on Netflix? Who is the black guy in Fargo Season 2? Bokeem Woodbine Why is Fargo Season 4 not on Netflix? Traditionally, it starts airing Fargo about a month behind US broadcasters. Netflix includes the first three seasons as part of its UK library, so if you’re looking to catch up, now’s the time. All 4 and Netflix are region-locked. This means that you may not be able to stream Fargo from outside the UK without a VPN. Is Hulu free? Is Fargo Season 4 a true story? Every episode of “Fargo” starts with a claim that it’s based on a true story, but of course it is not. Hawley says the new season is not inspired by any real Kansas City mob history. Hawley says once he arrived at the story idea for the new season, he had Chris Rock in mind for the lead role. Do I need to watch Fargo in order? With another intriguing story and a stellar cast, it’s easy to get excited about season 4 of Fargo. And while watching the previous seasons is not a prerequisite for watching this one, you’ll find it richly rewarding. You don’t need to watch them – but you should. How do you ignore an antagonist? What are the best decisions to make when dealing with antagonistic people? 1. Ignore them, all they are looking for is attention do not give it to them. 2. Walk away from them, they only want you to feel as bad as they do deep down. 3. Do not entertain them, it makes no sense all it will do is work you up. What is an antagonist in psychology? An antagonist is a chemical or drug that binds to receptors in the brain and prevents an agonist from having a reaction. Antagonists attach to the receptors in the brain and block the effect of agonists (which are chemicals that stimulate receptors and cause a response). How do you deal with Antagonizers? Do No Provoke: Keep your ego intact and politely take away their reason to fight. You may need to repetitively apologize and then distance yourself from the conflict. Remember, anger only fuels anger. Avoid: Do not attract attention to yourself. What’s the meaning of antagonize? transitive verb. 1 : to incur or provoke the hostility of His criticism antagonized his friends. How do you deal with an antagonist at work? How to deal with antagonistic ‘rule people’ in the workplace 1. See everything in black and white, need all procedures and boundaries clearly defined and labeled, with rewards and consequences spelled out exactly – no gray areas and no choices. 2. Insist on clear titles and privileges. 3. Use authority and experts to back up their opinions. How do you confront a professional coworker? 1. Give the Benefit of the Doubt. First off, before you jump to conclusions (and confrontations), start with the assumption that others may have acted with the best of intentions—and that you might not know the whole story. 2. Resist the Urge to Email. 3. Sit Down and Talk. 4. Write it Down. 5. Pick Your Battles. How do you deal with a passive aggressive coworker? How to deal with a passive-aggressive coworker while maintaining your professionalism 1. Understand why people act passive aggressively. 2. Don’t feed into it. 3. Model assertiveness. 4. Enforce consequences if the behavior doesn’t stop. 5. Take care of yourself. How do you talk to passive aggressive people? Here are ways to successfully deal with passive-aggressive people. 1. Pay attention to passive-aggressive behavior. 2. Call out the specific behavior. 3. Stay present. 4. Be open and inclusive to communication. 5. Recognize your own passive-aggression. 6. Remove yourself from the situation the best you can. Is passive aggressive a mental illness? How can you tell if someone is passive aggressive? Signs of passive-aggressive behavior • frequently criticizing or protesting. • being disagreeable or irritable. • procrastinating or being forgetful. • performing tasks inefficiently. • acting hostile or cynical. • acting stubborn. • blaming others. • complaining about being unappreciated. Are Passive-aggressive people happy? Passive-aggressive people rarely show anger. Instead, they stuff it down inside. They may even appear happy and accommodating on the outside most of the time. By doing so, they are letting out some of their anger without ever admitting that they are upset. How do you outsmart a passive-aggressive person? Dealing with Passive-Aggressives Without Losing Your Mind 1. Hold them accountable. When you fail to hold a passive-aggressive person accountable for their actions, you unintentionally perpetuate their behavior. 2. Stop apologizing. Unless you did something wrong, don’t apologize. 3. Put your needs first. How can you tell if someone is passive? 9 Signs of passive behaviour 1. Hesitant approval-seeking speech. 2. Broken speech pattern. 3. Belittling their own views. 4. Putting the preferences of others first. 5. Overpowering self-criticism. 6. Self-deprecating. 7. Soft spoken with declining volume. 8. Avoiding eye contact. How do I stop being passive? How to Stop Being Passive 1. Be Proactive, Not Reactive. One of the most effective ways to stop being passive is to stop reacting to other people and situations as soon as they unfold. 2. Consider the Future and Act in the Present. 3. Address the Emotional Side of Passivity.
Monsooned Malabar ( / ) Veuillez sélectionner toutes les options. Bag Size: 350g Grind Coffee: Whole Bean Prévenez moi quand ce produit sera disponible: Coffee Info Coffee category: Bold Process: Monsooned What to expect: A coffee with a very low acidity and full body. Drank black there are chocolate notes and a natural smokey aftertaste. Adding milk really highlights the chocolate notes and rounds this coffee off nicely. Farm Info Producer: Various producers Region: Chikmagalur, India Altitude: 1,100m above sea level Varietals: Kents, S.795, Catimor, Selection 9 Legend has it that Monsooned Coffee was developed by accident. The story goes that in the days of sailing ships Arabica Coffee bound for overseas encountered torrential rain at the coastal port and across the high seas to its ultimate destination. So much so that the coffee changed its characteristics completely on arrival. These days the coffee is monsooned with a controlled process indirectly exposing the coffee to the same moist warm winds. During the process of monsooning, the Coffee undergoes certain biological changes, bloats to almost twice its size, changes its texture and colour to pale gold and above all acquires a unique flavour and quality. Customer Reviews Based on 1 review Write a review
E-commerce on marketplaces: choose an international or local platform? Local marketplace_Pigu_allegro Online marketplaces are taking an increasing share of the e-commerce market in the Baltic States. There are international names such as Amazon and eBay, as well as the growing local marketplaces such as Allegro.pl and Pigu.lt. What are the biggest challenges for marketplaces, how to choose between an international and a local platform, and many other questions will be answered at one of the biggest e-commerce conferences and exhibitions Ecomexpo’22, which will take place at the Vilnius Exhibition Centre Litexpo on 29 September. Why do local marketplaces win in their markets? Katarzyna Rosa, Senior Education and Merchant Development Partner at Allegro.pl, the online trading platform sponsoring the conference, says that in those markets that have particularly strong local online trading platforms, they tend to dominate compared to the global players. “Good examples are Bol.com in the Netherlands or our own Allegro.pl in Poland, which are ahead of the global powerhouses in their markets. This is because local marketplaces really know their customers’ needs, take the time to build trust, take into account local customers’ challenges and make the relevant and necessary changes to make their customers’ e-businesses thrive,” says Rosa. According to Allegro.pl, while the big global online platforms open up large swathes of new buyers, it is easier to stand out and get noticed on local ones: “On local online platforms, new e-sellers do not have to compete with millions of other sellers and still have a sufficient customer base and traffic to reach their sales targets. Is it worth combining local and international marketplace trading? Katarzyna Rosa’s opinion and insights is supported by Raimondas Žilėnas, Head of Pigu.lt marketplace, who says that the advantages of Pigu.lt compared to global marketplaces are that buyers can be served in the local language, and that sellers’ issues can be resolved much faster. “Marketplaces benefit from the fact that they already have a huge customer traffic. 66% of all visits to e-shops in Europe are on online shopping platforms. Customers want to find everything in one place, get their goods quickly and use the payment and delivery methods they prefer. This explains the popularity of marketplaces”, comments Žilėnas. When asked whether it makes sense to combine local and international marketplaces, he argues that it is not only valuable, but also necessary to achieve maximum results: “Our key differentiator is our knowledge of the Baltic market. That’s why sellers who sell on other marketplaces join us for our Baltic clients. We have a good knowledge of the Baltic e-commerce market, requirements, regulations, and are well-known and trusted brands in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with a large loyal customer base. However, we only operate in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – this is our strength and uniqueness. We are the only and largest marketplace in the Baltic States. We are only 3 years old, but we already have more than 4,000 sellers, and we expect our sellers’ sales revenue to reach EUR 100 million next year. The numbers are impressive and only confirm that the global trend of marketplaces is gaining ground in the Baltic States.” What is the difference between payments in local and international marketplaces? When it comes to eCommerce exports via marketplaces, one of the important questions to ask is whether there are differences between trading on international and local platforms in terms of payments? Dovilė Bansevičienė, Head of Funds Management at SEB Bank, says that there is a variety of payment methods available to e-commerce marketplace participants, but their popularity varies across European countries. “For example, in the Baltic countries, the most popular online payment method is the Bank Link service and payment initiation, while in Sweden and the UK, card payments dominate. Therefore, companies wishing to increase customer loyalty and sales in any market need to take into account a variety of factors to best match their payment options with the expectations of consumers in those markets,” says D. Bansevičienė, SEB Bank expert. According to her, it can be concluded that local marketplaces are well aware of how their customers like to pay and usually offer a wide range of payment options: on-site payment when you come to pick up the goods in person, bank transfer, e-banking (payment initiation or Banklink services), bank card, buy now pay later, cash, etc. Global platforms, on the other hand, usually only offer a few payment methods: card payment and digital wallet. It should be stressed that there is no single best payment method that works for everyone. Local payment preferences vary from country to country, so it is important for a merchant wishing to expand internationally to analyse the available local payment methods and offer them to customers in that country. You also need to consider that the reach of your products will be significantly higher on a global sales platform and that local e-shops will mostly only be available to buyers in that country. One of the largest e-commerce conferences and exhibitions, Ecomexpo 22, formerly known as E-Commerce, will take place on 29 September at the Litexpo Exhibition Centre. The exhibition will also be webcast. Tickets for the live participation and the webcast are available online.
Follow us! A high-school student suffered a concussion during football practice. The student brought a constitutional claim against the school district and several of its officials for failing to protect him from bodily harm. The district court dismissed the suit, finding no substantive due process claim and the Fifth Circuit affirmed in favor of the school district defendants. The suit alleged that at practice one day, the coaching staff instructed the student and his teammates to perform a drill in which half the players tried to prevent the others from crossing the line of scrimmage. The student was matched against an older and substantially larger student. The two players repeatedly collided as the coaching staff instructed them to run the drill again and again “and to hit harder, harder, harder.” After practice, the student began to experience a severe headache. He contacted his mother, who told him to go to the school nurse. The nurse sent him to the football trainer, who instructed him to sit out afternoon practice. The student followed that instruction, but his headache persisted. The next day, the trainer directed him to seek medical treatment. A day later, the student went to a sports medicine clinic, where he was diagnosed with a concussion and cervical sprain. The doctor advised him that he had likely suffered an initial injury at an earlier practice and had been playing football with a concussion for a few weeks. After his diagnosis, the student continued to experience concussion-related symptoms. As a result, he filed this suit against the Santa Fe Independent School District and various members of its athletics staff. The suit alleged that the defendants violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to bodily integrity by subjecting him to dangerous football drills. The defendants moved to dismiss the claims, arguing first and foremost that the suit failed to allege a colorable constitutional violation. The district court agreed. To state a claim for violation of his liberty interest in bodily integrity, the student had to show either (1) that the constitutional violation was caused by a state actor or (2) that the defendants had a constitutional duty to protect him from a nonstate actor. The suit failed because he was injured by his teammate, a nonstate actor. The question then is whether the defendants had a constitutional duty to protect him from his teammate. Generally, the government is not obligated to protect its citizens from violence by third parties. The Fifth Circuit has repeatedly declined to recognize the state-created danger doctrine, as alleged in this suit. To prove a state-created danger, the student would have to show that the defendants used their authority to place him in immediate danger and did so with “deliberate indifference” to his plight. The appeals court recognized that football is “dangerous.” But football does not present such an immediate or specific danger to the players that schools and coaches can be held liable for any injuries that result. Indeed, courts have frequently rejected civil-rights claims based on football injuries—some of which involved more glaring and unreasonable dangers than those alleged in this case. Even if the student could show that football is a qualifying danger, his claim still failed because the defendants did not act with deliberate indifference by allowing him to participate. The court observed that, while there is a growing debate over the safety of football, it did not see “a role for the Constitution in the weighing of risks and benefits that participants in America’s most popular sport must make.” The case is Yarbrough v. Santa Fe ISD, No. 21-40519 (2022).
1888 - The Phomo Postcard Thomas Edison is known for quite a few inventions that helped change the course of daily human interaction. Among these, the planning of the phonograph conceptualized the beginnings of vocal communication at large distances, leading up to today. Between the years 18887 and 1892, Edison sketched out and fine-tuned his idea of the phonograph and the audible letters that people would be able to input into them. Edison evolved from the idea of wax sheets being sent to and from a person to wax cylinders, that would then be put upon a phonograph. Although, realistically at the time, not everyone could have a phonograph, Edison proposed the idea of setting up stations containing phonographs that would be available to rent for a bit to play the message. Edison supported this by saying, “And which of us would not rather pay something extra, in order to hear a dear friend’s or relative’s voice speaking to us from the other side of the earth.” The wax cylinder evolved into discs, akin to records, that were made of celluloid. This made delivery easier and did not increase the cost to send these. Camlot, Jason. “The First Phonogramic Poem: Conceptions of Genre and Media Format, Circa 1888.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. Accessed 12 November 2020 Associated Place(s) • http://www.lotz-verlag.de/Online-Disco-Phonocards.html Image Date: circa. The middle of the month Summer 19th century
Despite plenty of documentation, it’s usually difficult to determine how some of the road names in Kings County originated. But there are exceptions. Take Canard Street, for example, a 10 kilometre stretch of Highway 341 (from Porters Point to Upper Dyke) which likely was named because it runs parallel to the Canard River and along the northern edge of the Canard Dykes. For generations, residents along this highway have called it Canard Street and no matter what it says on highway maps, that’s what it is. Not so obvious to people not familiar with our history is the origin of Middle Dyke Road. A visitor here might ask, “What’s a dyke and if there’s a Middle Dyke Road why isn’t there an upper dyke road and a lower dyke road?” After you explain about dykes and Acadians and aboiteaux you could tell the visitor that there is an Upper Dyke village and according to a map Kentville historian Brent Fox has in his book on the Wellington Dyke, the field or dyke just below it is called the Middle Dyke. Hence, I assume, this is the origin of the road’s name. It’s likely that the original Middle Dyke Road was a two-kilometre stretch running north from Chipman Corner to Canard Street, crossing that area of the Canard River where the Acadians made an aboiteau. Today, Middle Dyke Road runs south to cross Church Street, Belcher Street and the Cornwallis River, and runs north to Canard Street and Sheffield Mills. More than a few times in the past prominent residents have been honoured by roads being named after them. I’m not positive but I believe this is the case with Belcher Street and it was named after Benjamin Belcher. Eaton’s Kings County history notes that Benjamin was the founder of the Belcher family in Kings County. A latecomer, Benjamin didn’t receive a grant here until 1797 but he quickly became one of the most prominent residents of Kings County Eaton says that Belcher was “an important landowner and farmer, a prominent merchant, a warden of St. John’s Church, a representative to the Legislature, and the owner of several slaves.” What Eaton didn’t mention was that Belcher’s grant lay along a road connecting what was to become Port Williams with Horton Corner (Kentville). Belcher maintained a general store along this road, a store that served a wide area of the county Hence naming the road after such a distinguished gentleman would seem like a normal thing to do. When he died in 1802, Benjamin Belcher left a substantial sum towards the construction of a new church along what was is now known as Church Street. The St. John’s Anglican Church, which was formally opened in 1810, was the second church built on the street. The first Anglican Church was built about a mile east at what is known as Fox Hill. The Anglican Church history says the first church was never consecrated but a cemetery was established there and its remains are still visible. What is fairly certain is that the Acadians also built a church along this road in the vicinity of Chipman Corner. So with three churches having existed at different periods along a relatively short stretch of road, naming it Church Street was a given. Church Street is (or was as recently as the 1950s) recognized as a community in the book Place Names and Places of Nova Scotia and at one time had its own school and postal station. The piece of highway from Canning to Sheffield Mills, while designated as the start of Highway 221, has been known as Borden Street for generations. Most likely it is named after Canning’s most famous son, Sir Frederick Borden. I understand, however, that prominent farmers named Borden once lived on this road so maybe there’s no Sir Frederick connection. Terrys Creek Road in Port Williams is another street with a historical connection. Early on, until 1856, the village was called Terrys Creek for the first family to settle there. One John Terry was a grantee in Cornwallis in 1761and supposedly it was his family who settled it what was to become the village of Port Williams. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
Define an Angular Service Share this video with your friends Send Tweet Published 5 years ago Updated 4 years ago An Angular service is a simple ES2015 class with a decorator on top. In this lesson we take a look at the anatomy of a service, what the @Injectable decorator is about and why and when it is actually required. Instructor: [00:00] Angular services are a very fundamental part of every Angular application. The reason is because most of the logic, given you follow best practices, should reside inside those services, especially the application logic. The different kinds of components import those services and reuse and share that logic among them. [00:19] The good news is that an Angular service is nothing else than a simple ECMAScript class. Let's create, for instance here, a people service. All we have to do here is to define such ECMAScript class. We usually have a constructor inside there, where we could have for dependencies, and then you have your application logic. [00:40] For instance, let's create here getPeople function, which for the sake of this example, simply returns a hard coded set of people. That's actually already a valid Angular service, which you could go and reuse. [00:58] Most often, however, whenever you generate such kind of service, for instance with Angular CLI, you see something like that. You have that Injectable decorator at the very top, which gets imported from Angular core. [01:11] The reason for having that Injectable decorator is because Angular needs to be able to analyze your service at runtime and see whether it needs further dependencies. For instance, we could have here another service and also some further dependencies. [01:30] Whenever there's a decorator at the top of the file, TypeScript will generate some media information for that file. That includes also all the times it get injected into that class. That said, you could have whatever decorator you want at the very top here, but just to have a convention, Angular provides here that Injectable decorator. [01:48] This also means that whenever, as in our case for instance, you don't have any dependencies, you can simply remove that Injectable decorator at the very top. The best practice, however, suggests you to leave it at the very top. Whenever you then add some dependencies later on, you would get an error, and you would have to come back and basically add that Injectable decorator again. [02:11] That service is a valid one, so what we could do is to go to our app component, for instance, and create here that people service and instantiate it. Obviously, we have to import that using the plain ECMAScript syntax. Then, we could expose the result here to our template. We could associate here to that people array, which we get from our function here. [02:38] Inside a template, for the sake of simplicity, let's simply bring here the JSON structure of our object. As you can see, it prints out the data correctly. Take a note here. That's something which you won't usually do in your application. [02:57] While this perfectly works, because this is a simple ES6 class, usually you have order dependencies inside that service, which you would have to provide here in the constructor, which you don't want to do manually. That's actually where the dependency injection from Angular comes into place. ~ 3 years ago nice, I didn't know that @Injectable is not needed when you don't have dependencies
David uses a mixed insulin twice a day. He takes a dose before breakfast and his evening meal. He often plays badminton between 10 -12 midday as he works shifts. He often finds he is low during playing and right up until he has his evening meal. This happens at no set time though. He tries to eat extra carbs but is watching his weight. Here is his exercise chart, what could he do? Davids insulin and exercise plan Leave a Reply
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The Simple Way To Write A Good First Chapter 15 ways to defeat depression Fagotsitoz-pogloshcheniye firm particles. The cages which are carrying out are called as phagocytes; this function is, for example, by some types of leukocytes. The sack enveloping the absorbed particle call fagotsitozny. Pinotsitoz is characteristic for ameboidny and for many others (often ameboidny) a, such as leukocytes, cages of a germ, cell of a liver and some cells of kidneys participating in a water-salt exchange. It is possible to observe as well in cages of plants. Modification of this mechanism is so facilitated diffusion at which to a any specific molecule helps to pass through a membrane. This molecule can have a special channel passing substances only of one certain type. Intake of glucose in is an example of such ; it is not broken by inhibitors of breath and, therefore, is not active process. Transfer of sodium and potassium through a membrane as believe, as a result of conformational changes which are undergone by this protein. Protein works and as Atfaza, catalyzing hydrolysis of ATP with release of energy which the pump in the movement. Pay attention that three ions of sodium are brought to each two absorbed potassium ions from a cage. of it contents of a cage becomes more, in relation to environment, and between two parties of a membrane there is a of potentials. All processes of activity of cages happen to expense of energy which arrives from the outside and is transformed by special organala of a cage: in a plant cell is a chloroplast, in animal – mitochondrions. Processes of transformation of energy photosynthesis (vegetable, ATP synthesis – an animal cage is called. Arnon quite right foretold that photo phosphorylation, as well as an oxidizing, has to be interfaced to transfer of electrons in membranes. Transfer of electrons is a basis for understanding as photosynthesis, and. Rather recently it became clear that at the most part of cages in a plasmatic membrane the sodium pump which is actively extorting sodium from a cage operates. Usually, though not always, the sodium pump is interfaced to the potassium pump, actively potassium ions from environment and transferring them to a cage. Such integrated pump call sodium - the potassium pump (Na +, K+ - the pump). In nervous and muscular cages sodium - the potassium pump provides emergence in a plasmatic membrane of the potential difference called rest. In membranes of a sarkoplazmatichesky retikulum of muscular cages the pump, Na +, with K+ - to the pump operates; in this case due to energy of ATP in sarkoplazmatichesky calcium is actively pumped up. The sodium extorted from a cage usually passively diffundirut back in a cage. However the membrane is not enough pronitsayem for sodium and therefore this in the opposite direction occurs very. For membrane potassium ions approximately by 100 times more a pronitsayema, than for sodium; also diffundirut potassium much quicker. Pinotsitoz - absorption of liquid material (solution, colloidal solution, suspension). Often thus very small bubbles are formed. In that case speak about a mikropinotsitoza and bubbles call mikropinotsitozny.
Falcon (programming language) From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki ParadigmMulti-paradigm: Procedural, object-oriented (class-based and prototype-based), functional, tabular, message passing Designed byGiancarlo Niccolai DeveloperFalcon Committee First appeared2003; 19 years ago (2003) Stable release (Chimera) / December 31, 2010; 11 years ago (2010-12-31)[1] Typing disciplineDynamic LicenseGPLv2, FPLLv1.1[2] (a modified version of the Apache License) Filename extensions.ftd, .fal, .fam Influenced by C++, Perl, Lua, Smalltalk, PHP, Lisp, Python, Ruby Amazon.com Logo.png Search Falcon (programming language) on Amazon. A small project, HASTE,[6] developed in 2002, in an attempt to create a small fast virtual machine, soon evolved into the Falcon programming language. In early 2008, the package was first shipped under open source licensing as a package in Ubuntu, and included in the KDE 4 scripting framework.[citation needed] "Hello World" example[edit] Although there are various forms of basic I/O, an example Hello world program using fast print: > "Hello World!" Supporting Unicode,[7] below is an internationalized example of introductions: // International class; name and street class 国際( なまえ, Straße ) // set class name and street address नाम = なまえ شَارِع = Straße // Say who I am function 言え() >@"I am $(self.नाम) from ",self.شَارِع // all the people of the world! 民族 = [ 国際( "高田　Friederich", "台灣" ), 国際( "Smith Σωκράτης", "Cantù" ), 国際( "Stanisław Lec", "południow" ) ] for garçon in 民族: garçon.言え() which, when evaluated, displays I am 高田　Friederich from 台灣 I am Smith Σωκράτης from Cantù I am Stanisław Lec from południow Data types[edit] • Nil - The nil keyword, a non-value. • Integer - an integer 64 bit value. • Numeric - An IEEE 64 bit floating point value. • Range - a triplet of lower bound, higher bound and step. • MemBuf - Raw memory buffer, where each location is an unsigned 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes integer. • Function - Functions (callable entities). • String - Mutable sequences of UNICODE characters (but they can be used as byte buffers). • Array - Mutable sequences of items. • Dictionary - Mutable ordered set of key/value pairs; the key can be any Falcon item. • Object - Instances derived from classes or stand-alone classless objects. • Class - Classes, entities that can create instances. • Method - Immutable pairs of instances and functions to be applied on them. Procedural programming is supported through classic function declarations and calls.[8] Every function supports implicitly variable parameter calls and named/positional parameters. A set of procedural style statements (e.g. for, while, if, switch statements) is provided. The following is a complete procedural program: function sayList( saying ) for elem in saying >> elem formiddle: >> " " forlast: > "!" sayList( List("Have", "a", "nice", "day") ) If the above is saved to a text file as niceday.fal, a command line of falcon niceday.fal produces: Have a nice day! on standard output. Falcon has an evaluation engine called Sigma-reductor, which allows programmers to write completely functional programs without the need to use any procedural construct,[9] not differently from what is seen in Lisp. The intermixed programming style allows use of different paradigms (such as OOP or procedural approaches) in functional sequences, or to use functional evaluations during the course of otherwise procedural programs. Functional sequences are represented by standard language arrays; this means that sequences can be created, inspected and changed dynamically by the program itself, either across different evaluations or during the course of a Sigma-reduction evaluation. The following example does that by changing a special variable reference, called late binding in a list loop. seq = [ printl, '"', &value, '"' ] dolist( function(p); seq.value = p; eval(seq); end, Standard arrays can be called as functions if their first member is itself a callable item, as in the following example. f = [printl, "Prompt> "] f( "Real data to print" ) One-level functional sequences (as in the above example) can be conceptually treated as cached calls, and once assigned to a variable, they are morphologically equivalent to a function symbol. The functional paradigm includes an out-of-band item marker. Items can receive an oob flag marker which can be tested through language operators and functions and indicate a special meaning for values traveling in functional sequences. For example, many functional loops, as floop and times, can perform loop restarts or can be interrupted by returning either an out-of-band 1 or 0 from any of the involved functions. The map function, transforming all the values in an array through a mapping function, will ignore the returned value (discarding it) if it's an out-of-band nil; in this way, it is possible to perform map-and-filter operations in place. Class-based object-orientation[edit] The Falcon programming language provides an OOP paradigm with classes, an inheritance model, class-static members, property initializers and instance constructor.[10] Multiple inheritance is supported under the condition that at most one underlying ancestor class is reflecting native data. Access to base class members is supported. Instance structure is fixed and immutable,[10] but due to Falcon's functional nature where functions are seen as just a special kind of data, it is possible to set instance members to plain data or functions (making them methods) dynamically. Functional sequences can be assigned to properties, in which case they become functional methods for the given OOP instance. Falcon supports stand-alone objects, which can be either classless or derived by class ancestors, which are instantiated and readied before the Virtual Machine executes the main script. Instance Resolution order is tracked by the Falcon Linker to ensure proper initialization of stand-alone objects, which may refer one another in program modules. Class instances can be created through functional sequences, as instancing a class is morphologically equivalent to calling its symbol, and so, evaluating a functional sequence whose first element is a class has the effect of creating an instance. Falcon OOP model is completed by operator overloading,[10] which allows to create classes on which the mathematical and logical operators have a special behavior. Prototype-based object-orientation[edit] Prototype OOP[11] is similar to classic Class-based OOP, but it drops the concept of classes. Instances are all classless, and their structure can be dynamically changed. Falcon language dictionaries (ordered key/value pair collections) can include functions; dictionaries can then be blessed to inform the language that they are to be treated as classless instances, and applying dot accessor causes their values to be treated as properties or methods. In the following example, a dictionary becomes an object: dict = bless([ 'state' => 0, 'incme' => function(); self.state++; end ]) > dict.state // will print '1' Bindings in arrays works similarly. array = [1,2,3] array.showMe = function() for item in self > item Message-oriented programming allows indirect calls to one or more registered listeners when a message is broadcast. The contents of the message are arbitrary and can include any language item, including but not limited to classes from which to create instances, functional sequences or tables. Listeners can either compete to receive the message and exclude the others, or participate in building a common reply to the message in ordered steps. Messages can be broadcast and require an immediate reply or can be left in the environment to be received and processed by latecomers (termed assertions in Falcon[12]). Message oriented programming has a direct interface into the Virtual Machine, on which external native modules and embedding applications can interact. For example, a multithreaded application may throw into the virtual machine messages coming from different threads, for serialized processing at script level and later broadcast of processed solutions directly from within the scripts. Tabular programming[13] can be seen as a special extension of OOP programming, where a class is represented by a table, whose columns are properties and where each row is an instance. Other than keeping all the instances together, and allowing each instance to work on the surrounding rows of the parent table, modification on the table are dynamically reflected into every instance. Tables offer a means to select behaviors between a finite set of choices, or to mix behaviors and merge them, providing fuzzy logic engines. As each row, actually a Falcon array, can contain both table-specific data and logic or private logic (via array bindings), an entity selected in a table via global selection logic can provide specialized working abilities. List comprehensions[edit] Base types and classes exposing the sequence interface to the internal engine offer a "comp" method which offers all the functionality of a list comprehension[14] construct. The comp method takes a mandatory "source" parameter, which can be another sequence, an item of range type or a generator function returning one item at a time, and a special marker at termination. A function (or in general a callable item) can be provided as second optional parameter, and acts both as a filter and modifier. Associative pair sequences (as i.e. dictionaries) are supported as well. The following is a simple example using a range to create a list comprehension; the result is an array of even numbers 2..10: even_array = [].comp( [2:11:2] ) This generates a list of random integer numbers in the range 1,9; the list terminates when the random number is 10 (that is, each item as 1/10 probability to be the last). random_list = List().comp( function(); n = random(1,10); return n == 10 ? oob(0): n; end ) The next, more complete example, uses a generator to fill a set of exactly 10 unique random numbers chosen in the 1..100 range. In this occasion, the role of determining the end of the comprehension is delegated to the filter. random_set = Set().comp( [random, 1, 100], // generator, callable array function( number, myself ) // filter, using the optional "myself" param if myself.len() == 10 return oob(0) // return oob(0) as a generator to terminate return number The "comp" method returns the same object it operates on. So, it is possible to apply it on an already existing sequence to add more data to it. Similarly, the "mfcomp" generic method allows to create list comprehensions using more input sets, as in the following example. sums = [].mfcomp( {x,y=> x+y}, .[1 2 3], .[4 5 6] ) The resulting array in "sums" contains the values obtained summing each element in the first set (x) with each element of the second set (y). Template documents[edit] Falcon allows scripts to be part of text documents, with the preprocessor <? .. ?> or <?fal .. ?> directive.[15] Scripts saved as ".ftd" files are treated as text documents and simply echoed until one of those processor directives is encountered. Inbound scripts are executed as in the following .ftd example: You called this script with <? print( args.len() ) ?> parameters. FTD documents can be merged with normal Falcon scripts to form applications, where the presentation logic is in dynamic templates (the FTD files), and the application logic is stored in Falcon modules. FTD documents can be used in driving dynamic websites. Some popular webservers (currently Apache 2), have modules which directly parse and execute ".fal" and ".ftd" scripts, providing an API which integrates in the webserver engine. It is also possible to use dynamic FTD pages along with CGI scripts. Falcon supports error handling via the raise, try and catch statements.[16] The raise statement can throw any Falcon item, including nil, numbers, strings, objects and so on. Library functions and external modules will usually raise instances of the Error class, or instances of a class derived from that. The catch statement can be used to catch any type of item, a certain type (i.e. strings or integers), or instances from a certain class. Caught classes are organized on a hierarchical base, so that it is possible to provide more generic error handlers like the following example (TypeError is a library class derived from Error): // ... code that can raise ... catch TypeError in error // ... if we mixed up types ... catch Error in error // ... another generic error ... catch StringType in error // ... an explicit raise "something" was issued ... catch in error // ... some other exception has been raised, referenced in the variable ''error''. The in clause of the catch statement is optional (this means that the error itself may be discarded). The catch statement mimics the select statement, which can be used to switch on the type or class of a given variable. Explicit string expansion[edit] Falcon includes an '@' unary string expansion operator[17] that returns a string with inline '$' variable references replaced. This operation allows for formatting during the substitution. For example: a = 123456.789 v = "formatted as" s = "a = $a, $v $(a:12rg3,.2), rounded hex as $(a:C)" printl( @ s) Which prints: a = 123456.789, formatted as 123,456.79, rounded hex as 0x1E241 • a literal string, a = , the value of the variable a, and a literal comma • an expanded string from the variable v • the value of a, right-aligned in a width of 12, 12r, with a grouping of 3 using comma, 3g, and then rounded to 2 decimal places, .2 • the value in upper-case hexadecimal (rounded up to closest integer) prefixed with '0x'. Embeddable runtime[edit] Falcon is designed for embedding[18] into and extending other systems with a linkable runtime library, libfalcon. Documentation generator[edit] Falcon ships with an integrated documentation system, called faldoc,[19] which is specifically designed to provide Falcon based libraries (be they native C++ code or module sets written in Falcon) with maintainable documentation. Virtual filesystem[edit] All I/O operations happening at engine or at virtual machine (script execution) level are delegated to a centralized Virtual Filesystem Provider, to which external modules or embedding application facilities are allowed to register dynamically. Subscribed Virtual Filesystems abstract I/O operations as directory read, file creation and stream opening, and can be addressed from within scripts by URI. This makes it possible to load modules or open resources from any VFS (as network resources or compressed/crypted archives), which may include special virtual locations provided by third party modules and/or by applications embedding the engine. Concurrency support[edit] In versions 0.8.x, the separate Threading module provides full multithreading to scripts, while starting from version 0.9.x the "Threading" module is integrated in the standard modules and threading support is provided directly inside the main engine. The multithreading model is agent oriented, and data across threads must be explicitly shared through several possible sharing mechanisms. Each thread runs a different virtual machine, which runs separately from any operation happening in the others (as i.e. garbage collection). This allows for efficient parallel processing and zero contention outside the control of the script developer. Falcon supports quasi-parallel coroutining.[20] Coroutines are code executed in time slices or during idle times by the Virtual Machine. They provide a lighter parallel approach than the full threading model and allow full visibility of program global data through different coroutines. Explicit cooperation of each coroutine is required, (i.e., each coroutine must check for data availability before blocking reads). The Falcon compiler contains a meta-compiler[21] that supports macro expansions. A Falcon Virtual Machine in the standard compiler drives the meta-compiler. Output generated from the meta-compiler is sent to the language lexer as if part of the original source. Using \[ ...\] escape sequences, it is possible to dynamically write the contents of the program being compiled by printing it: \[ printl( "printl( 'Hello world' )" ) \] The keyword macro provides a simplified candy-grammar interface to compile-time meta-programming. Native internationalization[edit] Strings prefixed with an 'i' are recognized as exported (international) strings.[7] Declaring the language used in a module through the directive statement, it is possible to indicate which is the native language in which strings are written, as in the following example: directive lang=fr_FR // uses 5 characters ISO language code > i"Bonjour à tout le monde!" A command line tool called fallc is provided to export 'i' strings into XML definition files, which can be used as templates to provide translations into different languages. The translated string table is applied to the modules at load time. Feathers standard library[edit] Supporting modular programming, Falcon ships with Feathers,[22] the standard module suite, which integrates the built-in core module, containing the basic I/O and language-integrated base functions, classes and objects. Feather modules currently include: • Compiler - Reflexive compiler and dynamic plugin loader module. • Configuration Parser - Complete configuration file parser support. • DBI - Allows you to connect to various open source databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and SQLite. • JSON - Module converting Falcon data and objects to and from JavaScript Object Notation. • Logging - High performance parallel logging facility. • MXML - Very fast and simple Minimal XML parser (compatible with XML 1.0). • Process - Interface to cross platform process support (start, kill, pipes...) • Regular Expressions - PCRE 7.x compatible regular expression library interface. • Socket - implementation of BSD sockets cross platform networking support. • Threading (since 0.9.0) - Multithreading structures support. • ZLib - Interface for simple compression routines. The core VM and official modules, (including Feather modules and other community provided support modules) are all written in C++. Some very low level module and engine elements are written in C and Assembly. Supported platforms[edit] Falcon is distributed through installers on Mac OS X and Windows systems (where building and installing is a more articulated process), or through self-building source packages on various open systems as Linux or OpenSolaris.[23] Falcon is available on Solaris based OS distributions through the Blastwave project, and through the DragonFly BSD system. Falcon Programming Language License[edit] Falcon Programming Language License AuthorGiancarlo Niccolai Latest version1.1 PublishedMarch 2008 DFSG compatibleYes FSF approvedNo OSI approvedNo GPL compatibleNo The Falcon Programming Language License is the free software license applied to the Falcon programming language and also available to be used in other projects. The original FPLL 1.0 was described by its creator as being "... mainly an Apache2 license modified to extend the openness of the license to the embedding application and to the scripts." Version 1.1 has been redesigned not to extend to the scripts. 1. "Getting Falcon". 2. "Falcon Programming Licence 1.1". 3. "Falcon authors". 4. "Geek of the Week". 5. "Falcon VM Opcode Format". 6. "ComputerWorld interterview with Giancarlo Niccolai, with some background on HASTE". 7. 7.0 7.1 "Falcon International strings". 8. "Falcon functions and procedural programming". 9. "Functional Falcon". 10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Class object-oriented Falcon". 11. "Falcon prototype-based object-orientation". 12. "Falcon message oriented assertions explained". 13. "Falcon Tabular Programming". 14. "Falcon list comprehension". 15. "Templates explained in the Falcon Showdown" (PDF). 16. "Falcon exception handling". 17. "String expansion". 18. "Embedding the Falcon engine in other applications". 19. "Faldoc". 20. "Falcon coroutines". 21. "Falcon runtime meta compilation". 22. "Falcon Feathers library". 23. "The Falcon programming language". Falconpl.org. Retrieved 2013-07-08. External links[edit] Other articles of the topic Free software : Frontaccounting, Open-source model, KGet, chipVault, Tranalyzer, GNU Interpreter for Java, ZenCash (cryptocurrency) This article "Falcon (programming language)" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Falcon (programming language). Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
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Gov. seeks to end shortcomings in aerospace field: Raeisi TEHRAN, Aug. 10 (MNA) – President Ebrahim Raeisi described aerospace knowledge and technology as a driving force for the country's development in various fields and his government seeks to overcome backwardness in this field. Iranian president Ebrahim Reisi made the remarks in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday in reference to the successful launch of the "Khayyam" satellite. The President thanked Iranian experts who made the satellite and control the data it is sending. Raeisi also said that Iran seeks to make up for scientific shortcomings, adding that the country will witness the unveiling of new achievements in the field in near future. He further pointed to the anniversary of the national Journalist' Day and thanked the efforts made by the journalists in giving information to the society. He called on his cabinet members to cooperate constructively with the media to give accurate information on his government's actions in all fields to the people. The Iranian president referred to naming the 18th of August as Holy Shrine Defender Martyrs Day in the official calendar of the country and said that the martyrs who defend the sacred shrines are the guardians of Islam, who defended values while they become martyred. AY/ 5559931 News Code 190068 Your Comment You are replying to: . • captcha
Pro-Rajapaksa 'national organisations' say that some of the recent statements made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa indicate that he has failed to learn from the past. Dr. Wasantha Bandara has stated this when 'Lanka Lead News' has sought the opinion of national organisations regarding the statement made by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa that he knows how to get two-thirds in parliament if the people fail to give him a two-thirds majority at the election. "We would be really shocked if the Prime Minister has made such a statement. This would be unjust for the people for voted for the Pohottuwa. Does it mean that we would form a majority regardless of whether you vote or not? That is a serious statement. We feel that he has not learned any lessons from the past. We have no doubt that whichever faction they garner support from to form a national government and get two-thirds, be it from Ranil, Sajith or Sampanthan, they will use that power to the benefit of separatist and racist forces. Although Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa asked for a two-thirds majority from the people, he didn't clarify what he was going to do with it."
Entity Framework Core get relation from database asp.net-core c# entity-framework-core Perhaps I have set up my models incorrectly, or I'm expecting EF to do more work than it actually does, but... I have a User model and a UserRole model. There is a 1 to 1 relation between User and UserRole. When I log in, the User's UserRole is null but the UserRoleId is not null. I have since set up the login function to manually get the UserRole that matches the UserRoleId, but shouldn't that relation be made implicitly? public class AuthController : Controller private readonly IAuthRepository _repo; private readonly IConfiguration _config; private readonly IMapper _mapper; public AuthController(IAuthRepository repo, IConfiguration config, IMapper mapper) _mapper = mapper; _config = config; _repo = repo; public async Task<IActionResult> Login([FromBody] UserForLoginDto userForLoginDto) var userFromRepo = await _repo.Login(userForLoginDto.Username.ToLower(), userForLoginDto.Password); //<!<!<! userFromRepo has a NULL UserRole property !>!>!> if (userFromRepo == null) return Unauthorized(); // generate token... var user = _mapper.Map<UserForListDto>(userFromRepo); return Ok(new {tokenString, user} public class User public int Id { get; set; } public string Username { get; set; } public int? UserRoleId { get; set; } public UserRole UserRole { get; set; } //other user attributes public class UserRole public int Id { get; set; } public string Role { get; set; } public class AuthRepository : IAuthRepository private readonly DataContext _context; public AuthRepository(DataContext context) _context = context; public async Task<User> Login(string username, string password) var user = await _context.Users.FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Username == username); if (user == null) return null; if (!VerifyPasswordHash(password, user.PasswordHash, user.PasswordSalt)) return null; //this is how I'm currently linking the User to it's UserRole user.UserRole = await _context.UserRoles.FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Id == user.UserRoleId); // auth successful return user; public class DataContext : DbContext public DbSet<User> Users { get; set; } public DbSet<UserRole> UserRoles { get; set; } //I do not have an explicit relation between Users and UserRoles in OnModelCreating 7/9/2018 5:40:42 PM Accepted Answer The reason is explained in the Loading Related Data section of the EF Core documentation. The first behavior is because EF Core currently does not support lazy loading, so normally you'll get null for navigation properties until you specifically load them via eager or explicit loading. However, the Eager loading section contains the following: Entity Framework Core will automatically fix-up navigation properties to any other entities that were previously loaded into the context instance. So even if you don't explicitly include the data for a navigation property, the property may still be populated if some or all of the related entities were previously loaded. which explains why the navigation property is not null in the second case. Now, I'm not sure which of the two behaviors do you want to fix, so will try to address both. The first behavior can be "fixed" by using one of the currently available methods for loading related data, for instance eager loading: var mutants = db.Mutants.Include(m => m.OriginalCode).ToList(); The second behavior is "by design" and cannot be controlled. If you want to avoid it, make sure to use fresh new DbContext instance just for executing a single query to retry the data needed. Update: Starting with v2.1, EF Core supports Lazy Loading. However it's not enabled by default, so in order to utilize it one should mark all navigation properties virtual, install Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Proxies and enable it via UseLazyLoadingProxies call, or utilize Lazy-loading without proxies - both explained with examples in the EF Core documentation. 7/9/2018 6:02:40 PM Related Questions Licensed under: CC-BY-SA with attribution Not affiliated with Stack Overflow Licensed under: CC-BY-SA with attribution Not affiliated with Stack Overflow
change blog language shein vs zara which is better SHEIN vs Zara, which one is better? how are they different [2022] Does SHEIN and Zara sound familiar to you but you can't figure out how they differ? In this article we talk about all the singularities of Zara and SHEIN and I compare them so you can know which is the best option to buy fashion. Author of the article: Olalla Mellado Digital editor of trends. Do you want to buy clothes at SHEIN or Zara but don't know which is really the best option? In this article I explain the differences between these two fashion stores so that you can decide which is the best option to buy in your case. What is SHEIN SHEIN is a store Chinese fashion online. Their factory and warehouses are located in China and it is from there that they ship orders. They have international shipments to the whole world except for a very few countries to which they do not ship. They do not have physical stores anywhere in the world. They are manufactured in a chain and with the philosophy of Fast Fashion they manufacture fashion of current trends in a chain and in large quantities, which they offer to the public at a low price. Your online store is fully gamified, that is, users can earn points and coupons daily just as they would in a game. These points are then used to buy in their store and obtain purchases of many clothes for a low price. They have created a social phenomenon by which many people in the world, especially people from Latin America, sell their clothes under catalog . They do not sell wholesale clothes, they are not suppliers for other companies, but users have been called to sell their clothes due to the success that SHEIN has around the world. SHEIN began its rise to success on the Internet in 2014 and since then he has only expanded his fame being known all over the world. Word of mouth and advertising has been part of its success. But above all, the fact of being an online store of cheap clothes with all kinds of sizes and a lot of variety where shopping is fun is what has marked its success the most. What is Zara Zara is a fashion brand belonging to the Inditex chain of mocha stores created by Amancio Ortega in Spain that spread unstoppably to the world since 1975. However, it was not until 2003 that it burst onto the Internet with its online store. This fashion brand has expanded to almost all countries, being available in 260 countries in which it has a physical store, warehouses and online sales. It also has approximately 6,800 stores around the world. Like SHEIN, it is a Fast Fashion company that mass-produces and sells mass-produced clothing. They have very similar sales objectives. Are Zara and SHEIN the same thing? Although if you know the answer to the question if Zara and SHEIN are the same There are many people who still ask this question, perhaps because they don't know either of the two stores originally. The answer is NO. Fashion companies are totally independent and have very different concepts and growth objectives. Although they may have some similarities in their fashion design, this is only given because SHEIN seeks to manufacture fashion with current trends and is "inspired" by Zara for being one of the giants in the fashion sector, among other stores and fashion designers. . Origin of the SHEIN vs. Zara rivalry Zara's start on the Internet was in 2003 while this was the queen of fashion who arrived in 2014 to shake the foundations of online fashion sales and hitting the table. The problem for Zara is that SHEIN started as a small Chinese fashion store that gradually increased its variety of clothing and gained fame with garments that are similar, such as the Moft brand, to theirs but with a very low cost price, making a large part of the clients buy from SHEIN. During the year 2021 Zara decided to change course and become a company premium progressively raising its prices to position itself towards another type of public and avoid in this way that SHEIN incurred within its clients. Therefore, this SHEIN vs. Zara competition is nothing more than a healthy competition between giants of the fashion retail sector. Comparison of SHEIN vs Zara There are a series of key ideas that differentiate SHEIN from Zara, and vice versa, that you should know to know which is your best option to buy : • Physical stores SHEIN vs Zara SHEIN does not have physical stores while Zara does, so we can try on your clothes in person. • Shipping SHEIN vs Zara Zara has clothing stores all over the world and therefore has faster online order shipping than maximum one week. While SHEIN has shipments that revolve around 10 to 20 shipping days depending on the country in which we are. We can find SHEIN shipments for a minimum order depending on the country, as in Zara. If you like shopping at SHEIN but you like ZARA fashion, find ZARA clones at SHEIN here. • Returns SHEIN vs Zara Zara and SHEIN returns are really similar. Although SHEIN is usually further away from most of the people who buy in this store, the return is easy to do. The only difference is that the period between when you send the order for the return and it arrives at the warehouse is longer at SHEIN than at Zara. The return is free at SHEIN on your first returned item. At Zara we will also have free shipping. In the case of Zara we can also make returns at their physical stores for free, which allows us to have an instant refund of the money, while at SHEIN we can only do online returns. • Measures SHEIN vs Zara One of the most striking advantages of SHEIN is the fact that indicate the measurements for each of their garments. The fact of expressing the measurements of the garments in great detail greatly reduces their returns. ( Does SHEIN clothes run big or small?) This is a disadvantage for Zara, which has a general size table and does not indicate the measurements of the sizes for each garment . For this reason, it is really easy to make a mistake when shopping at Zara if we are not very used to trying on their clothes regularly. Another advantage of SHEIN is that their large sizes can measure up to 150 centimeters from the hip, while the Zara's largest size is an XXL with a hip of 116 cm. This is why plus-size people cannot shop at Zara even if they label a 45-inch waist as a large size. However, plus-size people can wear some Zara sizes if they are wide garments that stretch enough. But it is not a general rule and we can only find out if a garment is suitable for a large size by trying it on in its physical stores, since if we order online we can make a mistake unless we have the reference of another person who has bought a large size. However, the smaller hip size in SHEIN and Zara shows a different nuance. And it is that the smaller sizes are similar. And both stores have children's sizes that can cater to petite women. • Style SHEIN vs Zara Unlike Zara in which we find clothing of a very specific fashion style with an elegant cut, SHEIN has many different clothing brands that are sold on its website with very different styles and for all tastes, among which is Emery Rose, Dazy or Moft among all. ( Find ZARA clones at SHEIN here) • Coupons and discounts SHEIN vs Zara You should know that when it comes to coupons and discounts the comparison between SHEIN and Zara is clear . Zara is a more traditional store: medium prices and physical stores complemented by online sales. While SHEIN only has one card which is online sales. SHEIN focuses all its efforts on the online store and offers daily deals, coupons and discounts that customers don't have to work hard to get. If not, it's really easy. For this reason, Zara does not offer discounts or coupons beyond the offers of its sales period in order to be able to cover the costs of physical stores (What day is better to buy in SHEIN for save money?). • Quality SHEIN vs Zara Surely you were waiting to know who has more quality in their clothes, SHEIN or Zara. The answer is a bit random. Zara has the best finishes of the garments and the clothes in their entirety are professional. SHEIN has clothes with better and worse finishes and it depends on the price of the garment. On the other hand, that Zara has more expensive prices does not mean that its clothes do not break and this is possible. In my case I have been able to verify it. So it all depends on the store where you buy, many times it depends on the garment itself. Why choose SHEIN to buy fashion online If you want large size clothes (more than 116 centimeters from the hip) your answer is clear, you should buy at Zara. If you want to spend little money on clothes, your answer is SHEIN. If you want to have many garments in your wardrobe with which you can combine or be able to choose garments without taking into account trends, SHEIN's variety will be very useful for you to make your purchases. Why choose Zara for buy fashion online If you want to buy fashion and be able to physically try it on, you don't care about the price and you have a hip size less than 110 centimeters, you can buy at Zara. In addition, it can also be positive for you to buy at Zara if it seems important to you that your clothes are from a recognized brand. In the event that you support the Slow Fashion initiative, that is, the manufacture of conscious fashion, neither of the two stores is recommended for you, although Zara is incorporating the manufacture of garments through other disused garments that customers deliver in their containers. I hope I have helped you in this article to know the difference between these two fashion platforms such as SHEIN and Zara and being able to make your choice to buy in one or the other. If you want to know many more online fashion stores, you have many articles at your disposal in this blog you can read.
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Previous Chapter Next Chapter 11 min read Translated by JayQue of Exiled Rebels Scanlations Editor: Gwyndolyn, Kris Chen Bai never thought he would easily accept anyone’s embrace. The one he hugged most often was probably Mani, but that was largely when Mani was young and he was the one who initiated it. It could be clearly seen that Heinz’ hugs were different from Mani’s. This hug had a faintly sweet smell, not like someone who purposefully sprayed on perfume, but good-smelling nonetheless, and the strong broad shoulders could also make someone feel secure. This frivolous looking man has a very dependable arm and shoulder, Chen Bai quietly thought in his mind. He still remembered the first time he was hugged by Heinz; the other was still a teenager. Heinz’ embrace was filled with teenage courage and a driving force to move forward. Seventeen years had passed, and he had morphed into someone like this. Chen Bai silently closed his eyes, counting three minutes in his heart before he left Heinz’ embrace, looking like a scared cub who had just calmed down after some comforting, though his eyes were still slightly reddened around the edges. Heinz looked on and couldn’t help but reach out and touch his head. Then he hugged him, pulling Chen Bai tightly with his face against him, thinking of taking him out of there. At the same time, the crowd of onlookers that had gathered outside of the washroom immediately separated to create a path, letting Heinz take Chen Bai away. “I’ll bring you to the hospital for a checkup.” After getting onto the mech, Heinz fretted as he stared straight at the wounds on Chen Bai’s arm, thinking that using disinfectants for a simple treatment was not enough, and acted as though he was fighting for his way to bring Chen Bai to the hospital. Chen Bai didn’t know whether to laugh or cry for a while. Although his act in the washroom was a cover up so that his intense actions before could be seen as instinct instead of rationale, Heinz’ trust in him while he managed the situation as well as the comfort undoubtedly made him feel touched. “No need. It’s just a light wound. I still need to go to class later.” “No, the Gabudor went inside her body just now. What if you were infected with some kind of virus?” Heinz insisted, his eyes staring meaningfully at Chen Bai’s arm. An image of a blood stained hand flashed in his mind, and Heinz’ heart wavered, immediately adding, “… it’s better to do a full body checkup.” Not waiting for Chen Bai’s reply, he looked down at the wound once more and suddenly sighed, “Though I didn’t think your actions were problematic, but could you consider my feelings the next time you do something dangerous like this?” Chen Bai was stunned, the words he wanted to say sliding back down into his stomach. … Thinking about it, there were a lot of people at the scene, so there was bound to be someone who filmed the entire thing. With him rushing forward like that, it’s fine if the woman was alright, but if there was any mishap, he would have to bear the full responsibility. Chen Bai didn’t care about any of this. For him, having been at the scene and having had the ability to help, to watch someone lose their life because he minded other people’s thoughts was the most unbecoming. Even though in his past career he had countless near-death experiences, it was exactly that that made Chen Bai understand even more how fragile a life was. Therefore, if it happened again, he would definitely do it again. But Heinz? If that video was filmed and shared out, everything Heinz did yesterday would be in vain. The public media would surely have put some of the focus on Heinz, and the responsibility would not be only his to bear. “I’m sorry.” Thinking until now, Chen Bai lowered his eyelids. “I didn’t consider it thoroughly.” Through Chen Bai’s expression, Heinz seemed as though he understood what Chen Bai was thinking. Looking at that extremely average face, he took a deep breath, then sat beside Chen Bai. “It’s not like that.” His voice was very gentle, moving closer to Chen Bai’s ear. The latter could even feel Heinz’ breaths hitting his own neck, close enough that it was almost as though Heinz could kiss the hollow of his neck in the next second. “You misunderstood. I don’t care about the media or the public opinion, I was referring to when you do these kinds of dangerous stunts next time.” Heinz said, suddenly reaching out and pinching Chen Bai’s chin, forcefully turning his head around. He remembered to use his light green eyes to stare straight at Chen Bai, the emotions flowing out of his eyes at that instant could almost swallow Chen Bai whole. “This marriage came very abruptly, and you might not have even accepted it fully. But no matter what, I hope you remember that you are not alone anymore,” Heinz’ tone was serious as he spoke. “When you rushed up just now, you didn’t glance back at me. Does it mean that, if one day the road ahead of you was filled with danger, you won’t even give me any notice before just walking towards it?” Chen Bai was stunned. He then opened his mouth, unable to speak. Heinz’ gaze turned darker and darker, as though remembering some extremely bad memory. His tone even took on some fierceness, “So, what I’m trying to say is that for this kind of situation, there wouldn’t be a second time.” There wouldn’t be… a second time? Chen Bai blinked, under Heinz’ almost forceful manner and posture, he softly called out pain. It really hurt; the pain could even be heard in his voice. Only then did Heinz come to with a start, and his gaze moved, all the sternness just now disappearing without a trace. Then he loosened his fingers, his brow furrowing when he saw the marks left on Chen Bai’s chin. Chen Bai didn’t notice his expression but instead minded what the other had said. Is it to not let him rush in without any notice next time… or is it to not walk this path without any notice?¹ He could accept the former… but the latter seemed to have a different taste, so he couldn’t help but give a few more glances towards Heinz. Yet Heinz somehow turned and walked away, his movements so blunt that Chen Bai, who was sitting behind him, felt stunned at his actions. He got… angry? Heinz was not angry. Of course, he wasn’t. Not only was he not angry, he also quickly opened a thread in the pink forum, the title [Accidentally bruised my wife’s chin, what to do, waiting online, quite urgent.] Not sure if it was because of his previous posts having attracted followers, nonetheless, Heinz received the replies faster than last time. [1L: Wow, the original poster is doing great! Quick to learn the ways of a high-powered CEO! Not sure what your wife’s type is, but some females like to be abused like this~ maybe the original poster can imagine later on the bed…] What kind of nonsense? Heinz frowned before he even finished reading it, thinking that not only was Chen Bai’s behavior in bed only for him to see but also only his to imagine. Therefore, he deleted that thread without a second thought. [2L: Advice to original poster! Now it’s time for your heroic moment! You must bring them to the hospital coldly, with an expression like you’ve undertaken the entire hospital! Also radiate some gentleness, you will definitely move their heart!] The entire hospital… undertaken by me? Heinz thought, first with a frown, then his eyes lit up. While Chen Bai was still debating whether his actions really angered someone, Heinz returned. “I’ve just talked to my assistant; we’ll go to the hospital now.” His tone was unshakably firm. “Ah?” Chen Bai turned blank. “I have class later…” “Private doctor. It’ll be quick,” Heinz coolly persisted. Why go to the hospital for a private doctor? “But what if there’s no time…” “Then take a leave of absence.” He hadn’t finished speaking before he was cut off by Heinz. Chen Bai could only look at him speechless, feeling as though he was entirely in the hands of the other. Although he had decided to use this method to get what he wanted, knowing that there may be many difficulties, he never would have thought that Heinz would make things difficult in this way. But, Chen Bai quickly understood why Heinz had taken them to the hospital. Because Heinz didn’t take them to just any other hospital but the one that the wounded girl at the breakfast shop was taken to. After bandaging and a blood analysis, Chen Bai walked out with an obviously wounded arm, coincidentally hearing a female doctor conversing with Heinz. That doctor obviously quite liked Heinz. Her face blushed red when she spoke, and her eyes sparkled as she looked at Heinz carefully. When facing this kind of woman, Heinz seemed very gentle, occasionally replying to the other, both of them seemingly having a pleasant conversation. Even so, the moment Chen Bai walked out, Heinz saw him immediately. He said something to the doctor from afar, which Chen Bai didn’t catch. But the doctor’s gaze turned to look at him. She looked at Chen Bai, then looked at Heinz, finally turning her eyes back to blink at Chen Bai. “…All in all, the patient is currently out of danger. But to minimise the possibility of bacterial infection, they should still stay in the hospital for observation for a while.” With all the discussions online, the doctor who had shown some dislike of Chen YiBai before couldn’t help but to continue, “The wound was treated very well. If a wound caused by a Gabudor is not treated in time, the patient would most likely lose their life. The cases I’ve seen before mostly… didn’t have any survivors. So, I would like to help Lilya thank you for your bravery and decisiveness.” This was a very patient doctor. After explaining to Chen Bai word for word, she also added that last sentence. Chen Bai quickly waved his hands saying that it was no problem, his gestures having a hint of embarrassment from being praised for the first time. The doctor suddenly smiled wider, then waved at both Chen Bai and Heinz, not bothering them anymore. “I’ll send you to school, then wait for your report when you get back.” Heinz informed after she walked away, his voice sounding like it’s a matter of fact and without any of the gentleness from when he spoke to the doctor just now. Chen Bai looked at him, thinking that this contrast was quite interesting; he asked amusedly, “Don’t you need to do anything in the morning?” Heinz’ brow moved, thinking that high-powered CEOs are probably very busy, so he immediately schooled his expression and breezily said, “Let the secretary wait.” Assistants or secretaries, didn’t seem to fit in with a marshal. Walking behind Heinz, and noticing his slightly reddened ear tips, Chen Bai couldn’t help his heart from softening and chuckled lightly. At the front, Heinz seemed to have heard his movements and turned his head to ask, “Why walk so far behind?” “Ah.” Chen Bai felt awkward after being discovered snickering. “Come here.” Heinz didn’t seem to mind at all and pointed to the place beside himself. “Walk side by side.” Chen Bai looked at the direction he pointed, understanding his meaning. He didn’t reject it and walked over in two steps, stopping right beside him. Thinking that Heinz’ actions were a bit funny, he didn’t try to hold it in. But in his sparkling gaze, there seemed to be an emotion other than amusement swirling in that gleam. He said with a laugh. Editor’s Note: [1] This sentence is kind of ambiguous, but I believe Chen Bai is internally asking whether or not Heinz is aware of his abilities. Something like, if Heinz didn’t want him to intervene here without notice, would he need to be notified of Chen Bai’s other combat/intelligence related abilities. Previous Chapter Next Chapter 6 Tell us your thoughts on the chapter. Inline Feedbacks View all comments July 16, 2021 12:56 pm Really enjoying this. Chen Bai is a fascinating character, as is his past relationship with the sweet Heinz. What a hero too! Heinz must have been both surprised and impressed. Looking forward to the next chapter. Thank you for translating. July 17, 2021 3:02 am Great chapter! Looking forward to more fluff between Chen Bai and Heinz. They suit each other perfectly! Thank you for the chapter!!! July 17, 2021 4:57 am Heinz reading too much on CEO setting😂😂😂😂 July 17, 2021 1:11 pm WTF!? Bruising his wife’s chin is considered acting like a CEO, and is admired!? You think masochism is more likely than domestic abuse? (╯ರ ~ ರ)╯︵ ┻━┻ Are you being sarcastic, internet!? July 24, 2021 4:15 pm Enjoyed this chapter! I’m glad Heinz was able to convey to CB that he is not alone and cannot just walk towards a dangerous situation like that! I’m hoping Heinz realizes that he does not need the forum! People can just get ridiculous there! I’m enjoying seeing their relationship grow! ❤️❤️ January 11, 2022 6:39 am These past few chapters, the way it was faced seemed too forced for me. It might be early to say this but I don’t see any chemistry. error: Content is protected !! %d bloggers like this:
An Invitation EV 5/10 Hand Printed Multiples & Editions Monotype Collage & Linoleum Block Printed Chine Collé 24 x 30 inches In this varied edition series, three people are building relationships with each other and collaborating to transform their future. Each person is holding an individual piece of a puzzle. Each figure is focused on a separate, yet complimentary pathway towards a shared goal. This series is derived from a social justice art poster that was commissioned by Amnesty International in 2016. In the edition, I reworked the original composition and experimented by adding playful and intuitive layers of colors, shapes, and textures that disrupt and recreate the flow of the piece. It was an opportunity for me to move from a formal and direct style of communication towards a more interpretive and expansive language. Each piece in the edition is both a destruction and a reimagination of it's original composition. I reorganized, ripped, dissected, and dramatically recomposed the figures in the piece, as a metaphor for challenging our own assumptions about what constitutes as “social justice art.” The various layers of collaged monotypes are metaphors for lightness, darkness and complexity, and how we as humans can experience all of the emotions along that spectrum.
Bottom Feeders The worst of these are not the low lives that steal and thieve. They are the self-important people who have a modicum of intelligence; the manipulators, deceivers and tragic beings with the constant need to attempt to destroy another and consume them in their pathetic plight to make themselves appear to be bigger or better than they are. They have no personal power so they suck the life force out of anyone in their attempts to survive and to assume a sense of self, rallying and pitting anyone they can against others in order to get their energy quota for the day. They are dangerous because they stop at nothing so that they may elevate themselves to a position of false authority and control. As warriors, we try to rise above these petty tyrants who are imprisoned by the predator. We scratch our heads wondering why we become adversaries when all we want to do is go through our lives as creative beings with a full immersion of doing that which we love to do in this world. We might get momentarily caught up in the drama as they attempt to consciously or unconsciously hook our attention into their world of madness and insecurity but the bottom line for the warrior is to always take the high ground, to rise above the nonsense and unplug. We may find that the ego wants so badly to “take control”, to put this type of idiot of the monkey mind in their place, to alert others as to the enormity and danger of the game. But we know we cannot; most unconscious beings won’t understand because they are they incapable of seeing the lines of energy that attempt to disrupt because it is often candy-coated in intelligence, degrees, and inauthentic mumbo-jumbo as they lie their way through each situation and even operate from a place of pity to receive the food of compassion and support from others. Without an ounce of humility or even humanity, they successfully make most believe in them as a “model humans”. Take the high road and become the observer from a place of silence. To discuss it with others will serve as a loss of energy because it’s difficult to make another see what they are unable to perceive. While you may lose some energy to these situations, through the thought processes spinning around in your mind while trying to reason out what makes a person act so pitifully and simultaneously mean, try instead to breath the positive life-force energy of the universe into the center of your being with the knowing that these types of people are being held prisoner within the dark world of the predator. As warriors, that’s not a place where we are interested in dancing. So, the dance continues around the predator, above the predator and in spite of the predator. When you encounter these beings, even if you thought, as I had, that this energetic disturbance was a thing of the past, they can materialize at any moment. I remain diligent. Keep Dancing!!!! 10 thoughts on “Bottom Feeders 1. sometime in my life I experience the power of “not to talk about it” …to think and to talk about it sometimes gives more power and importance then it really have….its a very “subdol” game system…everyone has to find his “trick” to “know without knowing”…i am sure you understand me if we are connected….laugh and dance and play and be creative on some “inner mission”,,,that build real “impeccability”…i mean “doing something really FOR LOVE and BECAUSE OF LOVE”….As i go on I see the big limits of Castaneda’s legacy meanwhile I am fully grateful to them….everything is the opposite of everything…and this is dancing…capoeira…axè! With Love 2. I remember sitting in the boulders high above the desert in south California back in the 70s, with three other guys late one night. down below a truck was moving around with a bright spot light, shining it on the boulder hills. It came to rest on us, and we just sat there. we didn’t know if it was hunters or the migre, but my friend said, “Nagual warriors have to always remember that there are tonal warriors too.” Even Don Juan told Carlitos that when dealing with the Tonal world, there was no time to devote to Naugual things, and when dealing with the Naugual there was not time to waste on Tonal crap. Refuse all injury. Hold to your inner truth. enter the silence. Stay strong sister. 3. The Universal Intent is three-fold. Consumption. Expansion. Transformation. Everything has its own frequency. A frequency is a filament. Everything consumes. This is because it is the Eagle’s Command. Consume. Expand your awareness. Transform that which you consume into finer life. The Eagle’s Command. Certain species have found ways to avoid being consumed by predator species/energies. They develop natural defenses against their main enemy. It is no different for humans. To be useless to our flier predators, we need to know what they seek! ……they seek Emotional energy. Thus, a person that has healed their personal history, stopped their inner dialog and stopped the world offers nothing to those predators. Likewise, a person that has embraced death and has ‘died to this world ’ offers nothing for the flier and has the chance to slip beyond at the time of death! A person must have the ability to empty himself. Nothing feeds on an empty morsel. Does anything upset you? Do you have anything to defend? Are you really empty? 4. I think there’s a battle going on, by that I don’t mean the one between good and evil. You have the choice to merge the animal awareness that you are with the awareness of the animal planet Mother or feed it to the predator. We are being fed upon whether you like it or not. We could learn from our brothers and sisters- the plant, animal and mineral kingdoms. We have violated their existence, just as the predators have violated ours. Have you seen animals being trucked to the slaughterhouse? Don’t you think they know whats coming? We could learn something from them. Its called humility by that I don’t mean surrender, I mean going with the flow- merging with this great Drama at large. We are awareness participating in life and death. A warrior is someone who takes in the insanity called existence at its face value and yet finds it in his/her heart to love! Who better to love than the great Goddess? At any point, a warrior has the ability to throw everything away and embrace the great vibration that is the Earth! And there is only this moment to do so, who knows, in the next moment, death will decide to deal you a blow? This is freedom, the ultimate freedom to live and die being the essence you are. This is the only way of dropping your personal drama- that little niche that the inorganics occupy within you, feeding off you. Nature- the spirit of the Universe governs this great Drama. She has a way of correcting everything in her time. What is important is we learn from her and align with her. You are a sovereign being, use your sovereign heritage. You may not win every battle with the inorganics, you may have not a single victory. Use the feeders to evolve, once you evolve you have the tenacity to change this drama, you become a conduit for Nature. We are all sound vibrations. Everything is connected to everything else. You are that part of Earth that must reclaim its freedom. Don’t worry about the rest, blend in. Let Nature do what shes does best. 5. I just had exactly this,5 yrs of peace and balance as my energy moved further into oneness,then all of a sudden im confronted by the most powerfull.persistent predator energy ive ever come accross,i learned to take myself to higher levels of oneness…three yrs later the enegies and those around me are clear,but i would have never believed i could be affected by those levels,i was three days fom the hospital a couple of times. Ive learned a lot,this experience pushed me to find inner resources i would never have found,and while the predator in whatever form is a pain,it is also damaged and in trouble. The dance goes on… Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘installation’ tag. To take our minds off of the cabin fever of being stuck at home (in a pandemic…in the snow), today’s post features one of the world’s most extravagant and beautiful buildings. This complex is Wat Rong Khun, the white temple of Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand. Sources inform me that it actually totally exists, right here in the real world (although I find it somewhat difficult to believe such a thing, because, well, just look at it!). Wat Ron Khun was an extant Buddhist temple (one of thousands throughout Southeast Asia) which, by the end of the twentieth century, had fallen into disrepair. In 1997, Thai visionary artist Chalermchai Kositpipat restored/rebuilt the temple into the fantastical form which you see in these photos. Interestingly Wikipedia now balks at calling Wat Rong Khun a temple and instead describes the complex as “a privately owned art installation” where people can meditate and learn about Buddhist teachings (and which is intended to ingratiate Kositpipat into Buddha’s good graces and ensure immortal life for the artist). Hmm… How is that different from just saying “temple”? Anyway, the bridges, gates, and buildings of Wat Rong Khun are all white or reflective with one big exception. The building which houses the compound bathrooms are gold. The white/mirror colors reflect the mind and the intellect–colorless, pure, and abstract. The bathroom compound however is gold to contextualize worldly and physical concerns (such as material wealth). Still, it’s a pretty nice bathroom Gardens aside, the other non-monochrome portion of the compound is found in the main ubosot, where mind-bendingly strange murals illustrate the human condition. These murals are not as, uh…restrained (?) as the rest of the wat, and I will write about them later when I feel stronger. Suffice it to say that if anything belonged inside this squirming albescent nirvana-cake, it is the paintings which are indeed in there. Although I suppose I should be comparing Wat Rong Khun with Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew (the “temple of a thousand bottles”) what it truly reminds me of is Orvieto Cathedral, another installation/temple which is completely bedazzled with mind-altering religious ornamentation (and which features insane hell frescoes inside). Let’s all get vaccinated so we can go to some of these places in the real world (assuming they can indeed actually be found there). Ye Olde Ferrebeekeeper Archives October 2022
Swimming pool water treatment Uncontaminated and healthy bathing fun with the right technology Every year, around 150 million visitors use around 6,000 public and commercial swimming pools in Germany. Sophisticated technology in the background ensures that nothing stands in the way of bathing fun in clear and hygienically perfect swimming pool water. Without the permanently operating treatment technology, the water would quickly become polluted, as bathers unconsciously carry impurities such as hair and skin cells, textile fibres, cosmetics and sunscreens, saliva, sweat and urine into the water. In addition to these contaminants, pathogens also enter the water and could spread to the other guests without treatment technology. In addition to being polluted by bathers, the bath water is also polluted by the environment. Thus dust and organic material are primarily introduced into the pool by the wind in open-air swimming pools. Technical officer - Water department Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Aharon Weiß, M.Sc. +49 221-37668-53 Treatment processes for swimming and bathing pool water Several treatment stages are combined to keep the bath water clean and hygienic. The various processes permitted in Germany are described in DIN 19643, which the figawa working group on swimming pool water treatment is involved in actively updating. An important step in the purification of water is the filtration of the water in a multi-layer filter. In order to filter out smaller particles, flocculants are added before filtration. Another possibility is the use of membranes for filtration. Dissolved water components are either removed by adsorption to the activated carbon in the filter or destroyed by adding ozone gas. UV irradiation is also used to remove unwanted compounds from the bath water. Finally, the water is chlorinated for disinfection with depot effect. As an alternative to disinfection with chlorine, the ozone-bromine process according to DIN 19643-5 is also permitted. To ensure that the treatment technology can function without problems, the relevant standards also describe the basin hydraulics and the measuring and control technology.
Committed to MissState! That was the rumor when he decommitted 4 hrs. vs. 10 hrs. Stankville is much closer to ATL… 13 hrs vs 7 hrs from Thomasville And “Those Numbers” mean absolutely nothing! I agree, there is more to it, read my response on the other thread to PJ about it. Not that shocking What are Macon’s tweets? (from another thread)
Downloadhub – Web Series 300MB Dual Audio and Bollywood Movies Download How do I know about Downloadhub? It’s a site that offers the latest and trending film collection that has excellent image quality. They also offer the benefit of dual audio too. The movies you love are available in various resolutions such as 420p, 720p Hevc, 720p, and 1080p, with the dual audio option. You can download the movie in just 350 MB. When you’ve got a fast Internet connection, the process will take only a few minutes or even seconds. The site is not restricted to just movies. It allows users to watch trailers or web series as well as video songs online, and download them for later viewing. The most recent PC game, Mp3 songs, as well as films in different languages, are also accessible here. The straightforward layout of the Download Hub website lets users navigate the site and find the information they need. The site’s owner is not known. Contrary to other sites unlike other websites, this one does not contain any type of virus or malware that could cause damage to your system. If you’re using VPN VPN and are using it, you will not face any issues. You don’t need to shell out any money to download it to your device or stream your online content. You might be asking why I chose Downloadhub? The answer is easy. It’s so well-known and is among the most extensive collection of content across various categories. How Does the DownloadHub Website Function? DownloadHub is a no-cost movie, shows, and games download site that is run by a few unknown individuals from a variety of hidden locations. This site has millions of people using it each month. The site’s owners earn lots of money from this fact. DownloadHub website does not make use of Google AdSense for earning. It makes use of different advertising networks such as “media dot net”, Infolink’s Taboola adverts, and other link shortening sites” to make money. They are known as the captcha skipping ads or pop-up advertisements, which means that users need to be patient and need to wait for advertisements to either close or go away. In the beginning, the website, it was offering just Hindi Bollywood movies, but in recent times, it is now offering web-based dramas, web series, and documentaries as well as TV shows. What is the reason DownloadHub not opening? Cyber-savvy citizens have access to the internet, a world of entertainment and information that is available on their mobile and computer screens with a single click. Film lovers are always looking for newer movies and shows to watch on various platforms. They are directed to numerous illegal sites such as DownloadHub that are responsible for pirating new Hollywood and Bollywood films online to stream online for free and downloading. The entire box-office collection that includes movies from all over the globe is being affected by piracy. This has resulted in a decline in the number of movie lovers who visit theaters to watch the latest releases. The losses incurred by the television as well as the film business have surpassed the threshold of billions of dollars as a result of these illegal piracy-related websites. Many experts in the field of film have attempted to fight against the problem of piracy in movies by speaking out and by filing several complaints. However, sites like DownloadHub that offer free movie downloads appear to be in constant flux with their illegal operations. This is the reason why the DownloadHub website has been blocked by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to stop pirates. However, all sites that are blocked may be accessed using various methods which I’ll discuss in a separate post on this blog. How is Piracy Helping the industry grow? This is especially true for third-world nations such as India in which entertainment isn’t something people would like to spend money on. The majority of Indian parents view it as to be a waste of time and this leaves little room for boys to request anything from their families. It’s the only way for them to experience the game world, and this is how they grow interested in them. When they come to earn money, they’ll choose to buy the games instead of piracy. Pirated games usually don’t come with all features that are unlocked and that’s why they’re compelled to purchase the original version and anyone with the capability doesn’t hesitate to move on. A lot of gamers play pirated games to test various games before purchasing the one they enjoy the most and then playing the full version. This boosts the number of players the game is played to and increases the sales of the game if it’s a great one. Similar to the movie and TV industry, when a brand new film is released and is loved by the public, and is of low quality, the film recorded in the theatre is pirated. When people see the film and enjoy it they’ll take their attention to cinemas to watch the film in HD, which helps the box-office collections of the film. This is exactly the reason that a lot of websites that offer pirated content are active. They remove them, but not in a hurry, to ensure that the privacy chain is broken, and the target audience shifts away from pirated content to legitimate ways of enjoying the content. Are movies downloaded via DownloadHub Legal or not? The reason is that DownloadHub is an illegal pirated website, therefore downloading movies from Online Pirating Websites is a crime. It isn’t illegal in India to download or stream films on Downloadhub. This site might have been banned from all areas of the world however if you reside in India and you are a resident of India, then quit using the website as it is among the websites that have been banned from Google Webmasters. The law governing Piracy in India states that if a person downloads or streams videos from a website that is illegal and then violates laws and a criminal crime, the offender is required to pay an amount of money. Pirates who spread piracy may be jailed, and it is suggested that you beware of websites that promote piracy. A lot of mainstream celebrities also urge viewers to end up watching movies in cinemas. We also ask our readers to view films in cinemas only and on platforms that are Over-The-Top like Amazon Prime Video, Zee5, Netflix, Voot, Hot star, and many more. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published.
Compendium: The “Paranoid Style” as a Jeffersonian Obstacle for Hamiltonian Federal Socialism Anyone who has made serious contemplations about the return of Hamiltonianism as “Federal Socialism” must contend with the “Paranoid Style” identified by the American historian Richard Hofstadter. Written in the wake of conspiracy theories surrounding the rise of Barry Goldwater (and by extension, Ronald Reagan), McCarthyism and the then-recent JFK assassination, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” remains relevant in important discussions of American politics under Jeffersonianism. Hofstadter maintained throughout the essay that American political-economic discourse has always been plagued by the prevalence of conspiratorial thinking since the end of the 18th century. It took on various guises in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as the American Union struggled with the issue of slavery and the influx of Roman Catholic immigrants from the European mainland. While Hofstadter stated that the phenomenon tends to be prevalent in the “American Right,” it would be remiss to never address its existence within the “American Left.” The significance of Hoftstadtler’s discussions of the Paranoid Style in relation to the SMP Compendium pertains to the various characteristics displayed by this particular mentality. It is the same mindset that proliferates conspiracy theories, exploiting the recent developments in information technologies from the 20th century to reach a worldwide audience. There is also the potential for demagogues to exploit any rising populist fervor in the pursuit of their own self-interests. The impact of the Paranoid Style affecting Americans on any side of the Left-Right Political Spectrum is alluded to when Hofstadter wrote about American political-economic discourse as being the product of “angry minds.” Put another way, American politics is rife with people who are involved solely to voice their grievances rather than imbued with the determination to actually change any given aspect of the Union. Their rhetoric, Hoftstadter continued, will always contain certain exaggerations of historical facts, flawed conclusions derived from entertaining suspicions based on shoddy evidence (if any at all), and the belief and dissemination of conspiracy theories. Interestingly, the documentation cited by Hofstadter in relation to the conspiratorial thinking behind the Paranoid Style conveys economic and financial undertones. One recurring motif has been the Antisemitic belief that a cabal of international bankers controls American Kapital. This particular conspiracy theory was widely disseminated in America and the Western world between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culminating in the propagation of the forgery known as The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. Another has been the nativist belief that immigrants ‘invade’ the Union to ‘steal American jobs’ and ‘introduce’ their way of life to the American people. There is the persistent theme that work in itself is ‘scarce’, which is not only another influence of Liberal Capitalist thinking (as in “Marginal Utility”), but a reflection of the urbanization of the American cities in the North. Much of the Roman Catholic population between the 19th and 20th centuries were concentrated there. And the religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants were also motivated by conspiracy theories directed against the influence of the Catholic Church among American Catholics, particularly those of the Jesuit Order. But Antisemitism and Anti-Catholicism were not the only themes recurrent in the Paranoid Style that spawns conspiracy theories. Hoftstadter identified evidence of conspiracy theories with Anti-Freemason, Anti-Mormon, and Anti-Slavery themes. Here, it is possible to argue that the Paranoid Style permeates across different political, religious and ethnic orientations insofar as there is the consistent pattern of framing a specific collective identity as being involved in a conspiracy. It was in his discussions of religion in relation to this mindset by Hofstadter that an argument can be made regarding the decline of religiosity in America and the broader Western world since the Enlightenment. It is also where this author is in agreement regarding how the more religious elements of the Federalist Party expressed opposition toward the Enlightenment by presenting Reason as a replacement for God. The significance of those religiously-devoted Federalists and that of Prussia and Socialism will be explored later on in this entry. In essence, Hoftstadter rightfully identified that religiosity promotes a recurring belief in the existence of good and evil, that where there is good, there must also be evil. Both absolute good and absolute evil cannot exist without the other, just as there will always be the existence of morally ambiguous situations. What the Paranoid Style did differently, when religiosity gave rise to irreligiosity from the 19th century onward, was to reject the existence of anything that is morally ambiguous, supporting the belief in absolute good and absolute evil being locked in perpetual conflict. As Hoftstadter noted in the literature of the Paranoid Style, it is often absolute evil that prevails over absolute good, which in turn justifies its propagation of conspiracy theories. The evidence of irreligiosity and the existence of economic and financial undertones were highlighted again by Hofstadter in relation to economic and financial injustices of the Gilded Era. It was known that some Anti-Catholic American Protestants peddled and believed in conspiracy theories blaming American Catholics for the “Panic of 1893.” Hoftstadler documented the various slanderous writings from the period, including a forged papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII. For those who are not familiar with economic history, the Panic of 1893 is an historical example of an asset-price bubble created by overspeculation in the American railroad companies and the Price of wheat. It was exacerbated by a run on the banks by Europeans who chose to hoard gold and silver after a wheat crop failure in Argentina led to the Argentine Revolution of 1890 and a collapse in wheat Prices. Worsening the crisis was an oversupply of silver in the United States that compelled the “Free Silver Movement” to agitate for the new silver to be converted into coins and made readily available as part of an expansionary monetary policy. These failures of Liberal Capitalism did not sit well with the Paranoid Style, preferring oversimplification and superficial explanations. Reviving Anti-Catholic sentiments, no matter how flawed the conclusions were, became conducive in the search for scapegoats. Towards the latter half of the essay, Hoftstadter devoted much of the discussion on the various characteristics of the Paranoid Style. In addition to providing a connection between the tendency toward belief in conspiracy and irreligiosity as well as the economic and financial undertones, Hofstadter identified “fear of dispossession” as a recurring theme. Such a sentiment is tied to the flawed belief that Kapital constitutes a form of “Private Property,” which seems ridiculous until one realizes that both Private Property and Common Property ought to be understood as “Private Wealth” and “Common Wealth” (‘Commonwealth’) respectively. On the one hand, it is a sentimental holdover from America’s colonial past and on the other it is a manifestation of the Jeffersonian worldview. The latter became apparent in the decades after Hoftstadter wrote the essay, when the Bretton Woods System collapsed and gave rise to Supply-Side Economics, Monetarism, New Keynesianism, Cryptocurrencies, and financial technologies. It is precisely here that the arguments of Hofstadter become aligned with others already cited in the SMP Compendium. Familiar personalities included Ernst Jünger (in Der Arbeiter), Martin Heidegger (in Being and Time), and Oswald Spengler (in Prussianism and Socialism), with the latter being mentioned by Hofstadter in passing. In essence, the 20th century developments in Cybernetics and the resulting information technologies had exposed the tendencies of the Paranoid Style. Besides providing more efficient methods of projecting personal insecurities and shortcomings, information technologies made identification of the Paranoid Style more reliable. It was possible for the Paranoid Style to project its insecurities toward specific individuals rather than the overgeneralizations of collective identities. The result has enabled arguments against Income Taxation, the legacy of various New Deal programs like Social Security, attempts at continuing the New Deal as in the case of expanding Medicare coverage for all Americans, and allowing conspiratorial thinking to assume proper political-economic form. The Paranoid Style was no longer thinking in abstract terms anymore; the 20th century allowed for thoughts to be directed against imaginary “communists,” “crypto fascists,” or a “red-brown alliance of communists and fascists.” The McCarthy Era during the early half of the Cold War is an appropriate example cited by Hofstadter. It would be grossly naïve to suggest that information technologies have enabled the Paranoid Style to become more accurate and factual with their conspiracy theories. On the contrary, Hofstadter insisted that it has provided the Paranoid Style with the need to keep mounds and mounds of circumstantial evidence. The need to hoard evidence is more akin to the need to collect gold and silver in an economic crisis as a sign of personal crisis. The Paranoid Style, upon realizing that there may be flaws in the veracity of their conspiracy theories, will try to gather more evidence in order to maintain their belief in them. That can lead to a conspiracy theory being connected to others, creating a grand narrative that is both artificially fabricated and unnaturally coherent. There is also the tendency to project enough personal insecurities of the Self to enable the Paranoid Style to imitate the very thing that they oppose. It contradicts the justification for viewing Life itself only in terms of either absolute good or absolute evil while leaving no room for anything in between or for the two absolutes to coexist. Subconsciously, the opposed figure is perceived as something to be emulated rather than actually opposed. One can argue that it arises from a conception of time where history follows a linear direction in terms of “Cause and Effect.” It opposes the more traditional approach of history unfolding in a circular pattern (as in the case of Spengler’s cultural morphology from The Decline of the West) or in spiral one (as in the case of “On the Question of Dialectics” from Vladimir Lenin’s Philosophical Notebooks). The idea that the Paranoid Style views the flow of time by perceiving the development of history as linear and thus progressive is a sound conclusion. Understanding the world in that sense entails viewing the economic and financial conditions as the “Cause” of everything else related to human intellect like art or religion as being its “Effect.” The prevalence of the Paranoid Style in the broader Western world, as Hofstadter addressed, should be seen as the negative effects of Modernity causing art and religion to become meaningless, lifeless and devoid of symbolism. It can be said that the Paranoid Style’s prominence in the Western world is tied to the need to believe in something that is more than a simple theological pastime. From the spread of conspiracy theories to the gravitation toward the New Age and the Occult, they are signs of the need to believe in something that is far greater than the Self. Categories: Compendium, Economic History, Philosophy, Politics Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s %d bloggers like this:
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Hundreds of Guatemalans set out from various points of the capital Thursday to protest alleged corruption by a deeply unpopular government, the high cost of living and attacks on freedom of expression. University students, faculty and other employees marched from the campus of the capital’s only public university carrying signs demanding that the corrupt get out. “If there is no justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government!” read one. President Alejandro Giammattei is under fire for his reappointment of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, who has been criticized by the United States government and others for blocking corruption investigations and instead pursuing the prosecutors and judges who used to carry them out. Most recently, her office arrested award-winning journalist José Rubén Zamora whose El Periodico newspaper has a reputation for corruption investigations, including against Giammattei. Marchers were headed for Guatemala City’s historic downtown and the seat of power. Leaders of Guatemala’s Indigenous population joined Thursday’s march as well, warning that the rising cost of living in the country was harming the people. Enrique Saquic, an Indigenous leader from Santa Lucia Utatlán, said “they are strangling us, our brothers, our people are those who are suffering all this high cost of living.” He also noted that the co-optation of the justice system had left Guatemalans defenseless. Daniel Pascual, leader of the Committee of Farmer Unity, said the cost of living “means an increase in hunger for the poor.” “The corruption in the end is the stealing of money from the people and those who pay taxes are the poor and middle class, because the rich don’t contribute equitably to the country,” Pascual said. The United States has sanctioned Porras and included her and others on a list of corrupt actors in Guatemala who pose a threat to democracy. Giammattei however has stood by her, reappointing her to a second four-year term earlier this year.
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The challenge of Digital Identification in a Cloud world, Password Managers Emerge At time when the news headlines are filled with a parade of data breaches (DNC, Yahoo, etc.), the Password Manager has emerged as an effective tool to solve the problem of Digital Identification. Digital Identification is the way you prove who you are to all your Cloud based online accounts. The Password Manager is a online system combined with software tools that allows users to create long, complicated password strings that are unique to each online system. This prevents passwords from being guessed and prevents compromised passwords from being used to access other sites if one system has been hacked. The challenge for online service providers is to secure their systems and accounts but allow users easy and convenient access. Without a Password Manager, long, complicated and unique passwords are not something that people can easily use. Without a Password Manager, username and passwords are ineffective because: 1. People choose passwords they can remember, which are simple for criminals to figure out. • Brute Force techniques allow criminals to guess thousands and millions of common combinations (Ex. Password1, Sex123, etc.) from dictionaries and lists of already discovered passwords from previous data breaches. • Old fashioned PI work is surprisingly successful using social media and public records to formulate possibilities including children’s initials, birth dates, mailing addresses, pets names, hobbies, etc. • Phishing techniques like was used in the DNC hack trick users into sharing their passwords through fake websites and email solicitations. 2. Long, random, secure passwords are difficult for humans to remember and as a result are not used or are stored insecurely. • Often, passwords are kept on sticky notes under keyboards, in note pads and in insecure online address books in Google or Outlook. • Users find creative ways to compromise complex password requirements by making minor modifications, writing them down but leaving out some characters, etc. 3. The same passwords are often shared across different systems. • Long complex password that change frequently are hard to remember, so users use the same or similar passwords across many systems • Hackers know passwords are shared across multiple systems so they try and access other online systems once a password is discovered and verified. The Password Manager evolves The original password managers were not useful because they were inconvenient. They presented too much of a challenge to setup, organize and access. Also, securing all your passwords and private information with a single password seemed like having all your eggs in one basket. If that system and password was compromised, so was everything else! Modern password managers have solved most of these challenges. They are now the hub of your digital identity. Products like 1Password, LastPass and Dashlane provide simple solutions to protect your passwords and provide convenient access from all your devices and online. You are in control • With the help of these tools, long, random, unique and complex password are created for your online accounts. The Password Manager software makes logging in and accessing your online accounts simple without having to remember these passwords. • There is no need for 3rd party solutions like certificate authorities to issue and manage your credentials. No one else can grant access to your online accounts and you don’t have to use permanent physical characteristics like your fingerprints, DNA, etc. to identify yourself. • No one but you can see your passwords and account info. None of these online solutions store your passwords in a form that is accessible to anyone other than yourself. They do this by employing high levels of encryption within their systems and they encrypt your passwords with your own master password, which they don’t have. Isn’t this risky, putting all your eggs still in one basket? Many people still get stuck on the single master password and the concern with having all your eggs in one basket. It’s a legitimate concern but these systems have checks in place to limit this risk. • Before you can attempt to un-encrypt your database with the master password, you must first authorize your devices and demonstrate control of the email account associated with your account. • Attempts to access your account are logged and reported to you so you’ll know quickly if someone else is trying to access your account. • 2FA/Multifactor Authentication can additionally be added onto your account. • The Master Password is never stored in their system, so if they become compromised hackers still should not have access to your information. Emergency access One feature that I find particularly compelling is “Emergency Access.” When someone becomes ill or passes away unexpectedly, there is a panic among family, friends and sometimes within businesses to try ensure access to online accounts and protected files. My wife and I have many online accounts related to finances, insurance, mortgages, photo sharing, etc. One day I realized I had no idea what passwords my wife was using for many of these accounts as they change often and have so many different requirements. With the Emergency Access feature, I can setup emergency access to her passwords after a 2 day waiting period. Why shouldn’t we just use alternatives to passwords? Biometric or genetic authentication: Science fiction has often extolled the benefits of genetic or biometric authentication including retinal scanners, fingerprint readers, voice recognition or DNA scanning. The problem with these technologies are twofold: 1. They can be fooled: If a would be hacker learns a target’s fingerprint, retinal pattern or DNA unique identifiers, systems can be devised to represent these unique patterns in a way that can fool an automated system. There are currently many examples online of fingerprint readers being fooled. 2. Once a biometric or genetic marker has been compromised, users cannot “reset” them, they are hard coded into our bodies. So if one’s identity was stolen and it was tied to a unique DNA identifier, the individual is now unable to easily reclaim his identity. Digital Certificates: For a time there was a lot of discussion about how Digital Certificates from certificate authorities could replace passwords. These certificate systems are currently widely used for securing websites, securing corporate and the government systems, and to sign software code. They use a private and public key model to encrypt and identify authorized users and systems. However, Digital Certificate systems have failed to become broadly used because of two major challenges: 1. There is no one to trust with all this power! • Over the past few years there have been several high profile compromises of certificate authorities including Comodo, Symantec, and others. • Certificate authorities hold the master keys, allowing a single point of failure. This allows malicious actors who successfully compromise one of these systems to access unauthorized systems or issue illegitimate certificates. This allows the publishing of fake bank, google, or other systems where users are tricked into providing information through fake systems. 2. Public and private key certificate systems have proved to be too complicated and inconvenient for most average users. • Users have to be able to understand the private and public key model, which is often beyond the interest and abilities of most users. • Personal certificates are not very convenient. • I can load my Private Key on my computer so that when I go to my banking site I can easily log in, but what do I do when i’m at my parents house? • I can load my Private Key on a USB Smart Card but that opens up many other challenges and security risks including plugging in USB drives to other people’s computers. 2FA or Multi Factor Authentication: 2FA (Two form Factor Authentication) or Multi Factor Authentication is the technique of using 2 or more methods to uniquely identify a user. This usually includes some form of password combined with a text message, phone call or possession of physical hardware Token (USB device, Phone App or computer app that generates random numbers, etc.). 1. 2FA or Multi Factor Authentication doesn’t get rid of passwords but makes them much harder to compromise. • Even if a hacker knows a user’s password, they cannot gain access to a system without the second or third authenticator. 2. 2FA and Multi Factor Authentication methods are becoming broadly and freely available with many online systems including Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. • The problem with these solutions are that they make access a lot less convenient. This is especially true if you’ve misplaced your smartphone or are not working on your own computer or if you’re sharing access to a system (usually can’t list multiple cell phone numbers). • Additionally they don’t eliminate the password, they just make it more secure. A good option now for greater security The convenience of the Cloud’s always on, always available nature means that these systems are always available to enterprising criminals all over the world. Long gone are the days when systems are safely behind physical walls and firewalls requiring special software and/or physical access. There is a significant need now for greater security across all these systems and the Password Manager is one of our best options. Best Bluetooth speakers for home and office with some business inspiration to boot! This subject may seem like a fluff topic but I have to tell you about these speakers and the company behind them. They’ve got me pumped because they are great speakers, lots of fun to use, have great business applications and even offer a great business lesson. The Product The products I’m talking about and love are the Oontz Angle 3 and Oontz Angle 3XL. They are inexpensive ($30-$110) Bluetooth speakers with truly incredible sound given their size and cost. They have a built-in mic for use with phones and computers as a sound source and are super easy to setup and pair with your devices (phones, computers, etc.). As you can imagine, they are a great way to bring music wherever you are but they also offer impressive portable speakers for business presentations and can be used as a portable speakerphone for ad hoc conferences when paired with your smartphone. So these are great to place in conference rooms or with traveling executives and sales staff. One unique feature of the Oontz Angle 3XL (the larger unit) is that if you buy two of them, you can set them up to offer true stereo sound with each one carrying a separate stereo channel. I have not tested this as the single units have proved to be more than sufficient for my needs. The history I used to be a bit of an audiophile when I was younger and was really into a company called Cambridge Soundworks, based in my home town of Newton MA. I visited their factory store, dreamed of their speakers and even tried to get a summer job there. Cambridge Soundworks has gone through enormous changes over the years. At one time they had a national chain of retail stores and huge online direct distribution. But with anyone familiar with the consumer electronics and Hi Fi industry, everything changed with the iPod and digital music and people lost interest in component music and high fidelity sound systems. And so the likes of Lechmere, Tweeter, Circuit City and many others went out of business in the late 2000s. Cambridge Soundworks was no exception and was struggling in the late 90s but had a niche with products that worked directly with computers and the new portable music players like the iPod, known as SoundWorks. They had comparatively good sound next to the competition. In 1998 Creative Labs, a computer components and portable electronic manufacturer, acquired Cambridge Soundworks. As best I can tell, Creative Labs cannibalized Cambridge Soundworks for their technologies and distribution and ended up closing all their retail locations. Their products dwindled, there was no innovation and their brand suffered. As a loyal and committed customer, it was very sad to see this downfall. In 2011, SoundWorks, Inc. was formed and purchased the remaining assets of Cambridge Soundworks from Creative Labs Inc. They relaunched the business based on a new product called Oontz, a portable Bluetooth speaker system. Frankly I was dismayed. As someone who was into sound quality this was the last straw! Bluetooth was notoriously bad at carrying high fidelity sound and the speakers were so small that I couldn’t imagine anything worthwhile coming out of them. Fast forward to 2016 and I’m a HUGE fan! I think the Oontz products are incredible. Yes, they still don’t offer truly high fidelity sound, but they do provide an exceptional solution for a convenient, connected speaker and mic system with good sound. And they have achieved this with a product that is simple to use and has better sound than the competition at a lower cost. My takeaway As a business owner I can become overwhelmed with the necessity and constant pressure to innovate and evolve to stay relevant. It is easy to get stuck in the nostalgia and wishful thinking of what used to work or how things used to be. All you have to do is think of behemoths like Polaroid and BlackBerry to know what the risks are. But when I think of Cambridge Soundworks, I’m inspired and amazed at the vision and guts it takes to truly innovate and evolve a business. I’m inspired by Cambridge Soundworks because they were not held back by their own old products and past successes. They were forward looking, understood their unique value proposition of good simple sound products at a lower cost, and created great brand new products that people want. The result is a business reborn and great speakers I can call the Best Bluetooth speakers for home and office. To Slack or not to Slack? Our Experiment The Verdict Using Slack does have some drawbacks. The Cloud requires a new kind of intelligence, “Cloud Smarts” Growing up as kids we could easily differentiate between school smarts and street smarts. School smarts were the skills needed to excel in the classroom and school institution and street smarts were the “intuitive” skills that some had to survive on the “streets” and negotiate challenges, strangers, bullies and other potential threats. These different kinds of smarts came to different kids with different levels of ease and were learned and taught in school and the home. But in today’s Cloud enabled world driven by Big Data, there is a new set of skills and understandings that almost all of us are unaware of. I would like to term these skills and understandings as “Cloud Smarts.” As a society, it’s increasingly critical that we cultivate an awareness of Cloud Smarts and its impact on our daily lives. Without this awareness our democracy, economy and even our own free will are at stake! The Cloud and Big Data Explained The Cloud allows data and systems for many users to be maintained centrally. This has a lot of benefits including huge operational and development efficiencies and improved access through web-based systems. It also allows the data from a huge sampling to be analyzed, giving insights and making sense of data that would otherwise be inaccessible and seem random. Big Data is the ability to analyze and make sense of these huge seemingly unrelated data sets. Here are a few good examples of the positive impact of the Cloud and Big Data. Example 1: A large restaurant Point of Sale (POS) Cloud solution is able to see across thousands of its subscriber restaurants and develop insights using Big Data tools that can identify likely fraud patterns by analyzing retail, inventory and transaction information. They share these findings as a benefit to its subscribers and alert them when likely fraud is taking place in their operation. Example 2: A large Antivirus company uses its millions of software agents across its installed base to inventory file signatures of all the files its software scans. With this information, Big Data tools can help identify maliciously modified files and files that don’t belong on systems. This helps the Antivirus company to identify threats that have not yet been discovered and improve the accuracy of detection of known threats. Example 3: A large Cloud provider of file and email services is able to see logon and access patterns of users across a large user set and geography and is able to use Big Data tools to identify likely hacking attempts by a sophisticated global actor. With this information they are able to notify the affected users and put in place counter measures to limit user exposure. Anonymity and therefore privacy are lost forever Cloud systems and Big Data are wonderful when they help solve problems that are becoming increasingly complex in a connected world. However, with this incredible insight into huge amounts of data and patterns, anonymity becomes a thing of the past. It doesn’t matter how many laws the EU puts into place “protecting” privacy or how well the medical industry protects your medical records through HIPAA compliance practices, people’s online behaviors generate unique patterns that, through the use of Big Data along with publicly available data sources, can uniquely identify them. If you don’t believe me, check out this article. Your Internet behaviors are being collected from many sources including your ISP (through sold DNS traffic), your Cloud service providers and Ad tracking systems (like the SilverPush system linked above). They are being carefully curated and stored by companies you’ve never heard of before called Data Brokers. Data Brokers are happy to sell any of this information to whomever is willing to pay for it and allow the information to be used for whatever purposes the buyer would like. With the loss of anonymity and personal privacy, the Cloud and Big Data can lead to some scary outcomes. Here’s a few examples of the Cloud and Big Data gone wrong. Example 1: A large sales organization uses several online Cloud services to help facilitate their sales team. The team can “share” materials with prospective consumers by sending presentation materials and links to online resources about their services and products. Because the prospect is logged into Google online services (Chrome web browser) and also their FaceBook account, the Sales person can pull lots of personal profile information about the prospect without them being aware. This is permissible through the Google and Facebook terms of use. Also, the tool used to share the product materials allows the sales person to see what pages the recipient spends most time on, what info is skipped, etc. all without the prospect knowing it. The sales person is now armed with a trove of personal information without the prospect having any idea that the scenario is lopsided and the prospect’s chances of making an informed and fair decision are significantly impaired. Example 2: Large stock traders already use High-Frequency trading to connect directly into the electronic stock markets using fiber optic lines and high-speed computers to make hundreds and thousands of trades in fractions of seconds. They use algorithms to anticipate even very minor changes in stocks and the market and make many buys and sells as a stock goes up or down. These small changes can mean big money if you’re able to sell thousands of stocks in a fraction of a second. Many people already find the High-Fequency trading unfair to the average joe trader. But now imagine if High-Frequency trading firms were able to combine this capability with seemingly inside knowledge only available to them through the use of huge data sets and Big Data tools? They might be able to correlate information from Data Brokers, Internet traffic behaviors, trending on FaceBook, trending on Twitter, trending on Google, weather feeds and other data sources to anticipate specific movements in the market. They may even be able to track the likely geographical movement and purchasing behaviors of key executives to help determine certain outcomes. Example 3: It is possible that local and national elections are being impacted by well financed special interest groups using Data Brokers and other online data sources to create highly customized and individualized advertisements that would directly speak to individuals’ specific situations and concerns in order to influence their thinking and voting? This advertising is unfair and manipulative because the viewer has no idea that the message is individualized and is based on inside knowledge of them. These advertisements may not even look like Ads and may direct them to seemingly reputable resources and reporting with a specific political bent or misinformation. It is very difficult to regulate these types of efforts and the use of Big Data and the availability of information in the Cloud makes these efforts relatively simple and scalable to roll out. We must develop a good sense of “Cloud Smarts” I’m constantly asking my friends, colleges, clients and family if they care if Google (The Cloud) knows so much about their behaviors: Searches, documents, photos, movements around the globe, phone calls, friends, etc. And resoundingly they all say for the most part, No they don’t care! They like the information, convenience and free services they get and are willing to give up “some info” to get them. So what do we do to protect ourselves and make sure we continue to benefit from the Cloud and Big Data while not giving up the freedoms that make our society great? Ultimately Laws will need to evolve to catch up with the technology to adequately protect citizens. But until then, individually we have to cultivate an awareness of what data is out there, how easily it is collected, who has it (anyone who wants it) and how it can be used to impact our behaviors and our fortunes. This trend is only accelerating as more systems and solutions move to the Cloud and more of our daily lives are conducted online. We can also demand transparency and clarity from our Cloud providers. One company who is setting the bar for this level of transparency is Microsoft with Office 365. They clearly spell out how data is stored, protected and used and provide tools for customer auditing. Cloud Smarts starts with a healthy sense of feeling vulnerable, a good defensive posture and being mindful of what data you knowingly put online (Ex. Google, Facebook, “free” services, Ad links, etc.). We can no longer browse the Internet believing we’re in control, because mostly we’re not. We have to understand that Ads, links, sales people and other “strangers” likely have more information about us than we realize. Brian Krebs is a well known reporter and blogger on computer and Internet security. His blog posts and writings on security breaches and the general sense of online insecurity are eye opening and have helped me stay informed and understand the full scope of the issues. He has several posts about ways to protect yourself online including setting up a Credit Freeze and Tools for a Safer PC. There was also a very interesting article about Data Brokers on NPR worth reading. Staying informed, aware and skeptical are the foundation of the new Cloud Smarts we should all start practicing. Perhaps if we’re lucky the kids in school will learn about this, give it a better name and help teach us about the new reality. Where does the traditional phone fit in with the modern business – VoIP and Internet Based Phones Solutions VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has been in use since the early 2000s by both businesses and consumers. However, if anyone remembers the early days of Vonage at home, you probably remember the horrible call quality issues. Today the technology has improved and the needed bandwidth is now readily available. VoIP is now the new standard for business and home phone systems. VoIP basically means the phones are connected and calls are being carried over network equipment using Internet based protocols instead of the traditional low voltage copper lines in use since their invention by Alexander Graham Bell. VoIP systems offer many benefits over traditional phone lines and phone systems including: • Simplified self administration, usually web based • Enhanced functionality including voicemail to text by email, call recording and internet based voicemail management • Simple and powerful automated attendant systems for flexible and professional call routing • Simple and powerful presence and call routing including find me follow me functionality, so calls can easily be routed to cell phones, home phones, office phones or wherever you are • Simplified unified system for offices and remote staff because all that is needed is good Internet connectivity • Built-in phone conferencing VoIP solutions come in two main flavors, On Premise and Cloud Hosted. The On Premise solutions have four main benefits: 1. They can include integration with on premise CRM applications and other on premise software. This is great for customer service departments and other call heavy departments. 2. Lower cost for some organizations that have a requirement for a large number of handsets but few actual users. This might include labs, manufacturing facilities, kitchen operations, etc. Hosted solutions will charge monthly for handsets even if they’re not being used while on premise solutions only charge for the lines being used for inbound and outbound calls. 3. Greater control and visibility into security as systems are maintained in-house and access to systems is limited. This mitigates some exposure to threats like eavesdropping, call hijacking and long distance fraud, among other threats. 4. Generally greater reliability and call quality due to the frequent use of dedicated switched circuits and the elimination of variables from network and Internet bandwidth limits. Cloud Hosted solutions offer the following benefits: 1. Very low up-front costs • Handsets and possibly some networking equipment are the only needed equipment • Dedicated Internet connectivity may also need to be purchased 2. Very low maintenance costs as those costs are built into the monthly recurring subscription fees 3. Unparalleled flexibility and scalability allowing phones to be setup at multiple locations, can be easily moved and can be easily expanded or contracted to accommodate changing workforce and business 4. Lower Long Distance charges as many VoIP solutions offer fixed and inclusive National and International LD solutions VoIP pitfalls and common mistakes There are some significant pitfalls with using VoIP solutions, and often the sales people for these systems are not familiar with all the networking and technical challenges that should be considered, so it is really important to include your IT staff or consulting firm in these decisions. Choosing the wrong VoIP solution or improper implementation can lead to lots of frustration, can impact call quality and wreak havoc on business data networks. Some of these mistakes include: • Using the same data network that is used for your computer equipment • In this setup users “uplink” their machines through the VoIP phones. This may be OK for some simple networks but it effectively puts a network switch in front of every computer. This can have a significant impact on network performance and may impact the performance of some high throughput applications. • Using phones with slower ports than the existing networking equipment on your network. Many phones are sold with 10/100Mbps ports while many offices are running 1000Mbps networks. Newer networks are even going to 10Gig speeds. By uplinking to these phones, the networks are effectively slowed down by a factor of 10 or more. The phones with slower ports are less expensive and easier to sell for sales people who are not familiar with these limits. • Not provisioning proper Internet connectivity or traffic segmentation and prioritization • This can lead to dropped calls and call quality issues, especially when bandwidth becomes challenged by large computer downloads and online applications. • Simultaneous loss of multiple critical business data systems including phones and Internet when there is a reliance on a single Internet provider. • Purchasing too much networking equipment that overlaps with existing data infrastructure • Sometimes VoIP providers try to replace existing networking switches and firewalls, which may not meet the needs of the data systems, but are sold to accommodate the needs of VoIP systems. This can lead to all sorts of network and security challenges. Do you really need phones anymore?! Before making any changes or replacing your current phone system, many businesses should really ask themselves do they even need phones anymore and if so how many? It used to be that every desk and person needed a phone with voicemail, but now that paradigm has shifted. Many startup companies don’t get phones for much of their staff unless they are direct client facing. I’ve seen whole offices of programmers with no phones. With so many modes of communications including email, chat, IM, voice services like Skype and Google Voice, Slack, Yammer, etc. in addition to users’ mobile phones, desk phones have become superfluous for many. In fact, I have users complaining about having to have an office phone as it is just another voicemail they have to manage. Similarly many people are seeing their home LAN lines as unnecessary. Alternative Internet based phone solutions Many businesses should consider using a Virtual Phone System rather than a full-fledged VoIP or on-premise phone system. Virtual Phone Systems include some elements of a VoIP solution but do not actually include handsets. These solutions allow businesses to have a phone number, automated attendant and call routing but lets them take advantage of the diverse phone solutions their staff already have in place including mobile phones, traditional LAN lines, etc. This is great for a distributed work force or sales team and offices that have low call volumes. These types of solutions can also be effectively combined with VoIP and On Premise systems to meet the needs of many businesses. Some of these Virtual Phone Systems include Grasshopper, VirtualPBX and OneBox. Great VoIP solutions for office and home for people who don’t “need” a LAN line The move is on in homes across US to drop their home LAN lines. People don’t see the need for the expense and functionality is redundant with their mobile phones. Even small home based businesses are simply using mobile phones and other solutions like a Virtual Phone System. But there are still good reasons to have a primary phone line and there are some really good inexpensive solutions to meet this need. Some of the compelling reason to still have a “LAN” line are: • Phone number tied to a location: Sometimes you need to call a location rather than a person and the LAN line is always in the same place. So if calling the house or the office, you may not care who picks up but that someone does. • Safety: Having a fixed phone to ensure communications in the event of an emergency can be very important. Mobile phones wander and are tied to users but kids and staff may need to place calls to safety personnel when mobile phones are not available and don’t reflect a traceable address for 911 operators. • Call quality: Good VoIP phones is still offer better call quality then mobile phones, especially within some buildings or areas where coverage may not be good. Ooma is one of my favorites choices for VoIP solutions for home or small office. They offer “Free” and Premium solutions that meet most user’s needs at a very compelling price. The “Free” offering requires an up-font $100 purchase and monthly $4/month “Taxes and Fee” for their basic service plus International LD and other service charges. Their Premium services is only an additional $10/month, but this may not be necessary for many users. In a world of so many communications options, the traditional phone has still managed to stay relevant. But with the Internet as its backbone, the phone has morphed into a much more flexible and capable tool with many different deployment options, which businesses and individuals should be keen to take advantage of. Imagine my 9 year old son, at home, going to to search for videos for fast cars and Hot Rods. I do limit his access to sites by category, but is considered a legitimate and safe site. is run entirely over HTTPS, encrypting all traffic from my home computer to the servers. Once he’s connected, the Next Generation Layer 7 Firewall I have installed at home (perhaps overkill for home but this is my line of work) can’t see anything going back and forth between my son’s input and the results that YouTube gives him because its all encrypted. His search terms and the results are blind to the filtering I put in place. So when that video of Hot Rods shows up, which was not at all what he was expecting, me and my wife are put in the unenviable position of answering our very inquisitive son why someone might make that video! Our trust and privacy was violated! But are we safer and is our information more secure? Safe Internet Behaviors • Identity theft • Stolen online funds • Lost data • Lost access to online accounts • Future unknown risks 1. Email 2. Web browsing 3. Phone 4. Wire Policy Cyber Insurance, it’s worth another look for most businesses Is the risk real, am I really a target? Some of these experiences have included the following: What are the options and costs? • Access to or Disclosure of Nonpublic Files • Breach Notification and Credit Monitoring • Lost Business Income • Reputational Damage • Loss or Damage of Computer Systems
The head of the cryptocurrency exchange also joined the discussion on Twitter Binance has explained customers’ problems with Dogecoin after the Musk's tweet 24.11.2021 - 10:35 3 min What’s new? Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the glitch with old Dogecoin (DOGE) transactions at cryptocurrency exchange Binance looks suspicious. He asked Changpeng Zhao, the platform head, personally about the cause of the incident and its solution. “Hey Changpeng Zhao, what’s going on with your Dogecoin customers? Sounds shady,” Musk wrote. What did Binance respond? The representatives of the cryptocurrency exchange first responded to Musk's question. They stated that the platform is now solving the problem with the withdrawal of customers’ funds affected by the glitch. However, this will take about another week. According to the Binance staff, the reason for the glitch lies in the technical configuration of the wallet for DOGE. In response to Binance's official statement, Musk pointed out that DOGE holders using the platform should be protected against such errors. How did the head of Binance react? Following Musk's comment, Changpeng Zhao joined the discussion. He noted that Tesla also has software failures. And they also threaten the security of the electric car manufacturer's customers. How did events develop? On November 10, because of a software update glitch, Binance re-attempted an unknown number of user DOGE transactions from several years ago. On November 11, the platform temporarily disabled the altcoin withdrawals until the technical issues are resolved. It is still unavailable. yanazakomoldina yanazakomoldina
A wallet with a balance of 407 BTC, from which transactions have not been made for 8 years, has come out of hibernation Crypto investor made more than $15 million with bitcoin 08.03.2022 - 12:15 1 min What’s new? An unknown person withdrew 407 BTC from a bitcoin address that had been inactive for eight years, Whale Alert reports. The holder bought the cryptocurrency for $355 254 in 2013. On March 7, he withdrew bitcoins for $15,46 million, making a 4234% profit. Whale Alert’s data What does the crypto community say about this? Some people assume that the owner of the wallet has only now been able to regain access to it. Over the past few months, there has been an increase in such cases. In September 2021, an investor transferred all his 616 BTC to different accounts after 9 years, and in December a wallet with 321 BTC was reactivated. Vasiliy Smirnov Vasiliy Smirnov
In total, more than 221 000 cryptocurrency mining devices were seized The Iranian authorities continue to crack down on illegal mining 12.11.2021 - 08:05 1 min What’s new? The Financial Tribune reports that Iran's crackdown on illegal cryptocurrency mining continues apace. In total, more than 221 000 miners had been seized and around 5750 farms shut down by the time of publication. News source on the Financial Tribune website Why do the authorities struggle with miners? Although the country's ban on cryptocurrency mining was lifted back in the autumn, only licensed companies may engage in the activity. A total of 30 such organizations, with a combined mining capacity of around 400 MW, are registered in the country. At the same time, unregistered farms may have a capacity of up to 2000 MW. The load on the power grid and regular power outages lead to grid disruptions. All this forces the authorities to get actively involved in the struggle against illegal miners. Even Iran's intelligence service has had to be involved in finding and shutting down unlicensed farms. Michael Golikov Michael Golikov
What Color Should Vaped Cannabis Be? Colored pencils arranged in a ring. If you're new to using a dry herb vape, it can be tough to know whether your bud has any potency left, or if it's time to reload the chamber. Sometimes vapor is visible, but other times it's very subtle and invisible. Just because you can't see anything doesn't mean nothing is happening though. Is there a particular color cannabis should be after it's done vaping? Are there any other ways to know if your dry herb vaporizer is done? Let's look at how different vapes heat herb, and what happens to the material in the process. How a Dry Herb Vaporizer Heats Weed You've probably used a "combustion" method like smoking a joint to enjoy cannabis. It's easy to know when your herb is done when you smoke: it turned into ash, and there's nothing left. You couldn't get another hit off of it if you tried. Dry herb vaporizers heat up cannabis to a high temperature, and release cannabinoids like THC and CBD into vapor. Lower temperature settings will produce fewer effects than high temperatures. You can always also start low, and gradually increase the heat during a session. When you use a dry herb vaporizer, the cannabis doesn't disappear: just the cannabinoids inside the plant as they are released into vapor. So it can be tough to know when there's no potency left. Dry herb vape with pre-loadable ovens by Furna Vapor quality difference while vaping In general, the first hit will be a little weak, as the dry herb still needs to get hot enough. Then, the next bunch of hits should be full strength. The number depends on the size of your vape oven or chamber, but you should be getting 5-10 full-strength pulls of vapor. The taste should be fresh and flavorful as you inhale, and you should feel effects as soon as the air makes contact with your lungs. After that, the draw will get noticeably less flavorful and probably feel less potent too. However, your vape is likely still good for about 2-5 more draws after those full-strength hits. How much you decide to extend the life of a session is up to you. At higher temperatures, you'll get the most possible effects out of your herb, but it may burn slightly, creating a worse smell and flavor. Conduction vs convection devices Dry herb vaporizers can use two different heating methods: conduction and convection. Convection vapes tend to be large desktop vaporizers and not portable, but do a slightly better job of evenly heating the herb in the chamber. Conduction vaporizers are more compact, but because the chamber directly touches the heating element, some vapes might heat the cannabis unevenly. So the color might be lighter or darker in some areas. If you find that this is often the case with your vape, try giving the dry herb in the chamber a stir halfway through your session. Another key step: make sure you grind your weed before you load your vape. Use a fine grind for conduction vapes, and grind a little looser for convection devices. Grinding will help with even heating, and make your device as efficient as possible. A jar of cannabis on a desk next to a book and pencil. After Vaping, What Color Herb? Vape sessions vary from device to device, so there are no hard and fast rules. A lot also depends on the strain and the temperature settings you used when vaping. But in general, your herb should be a light to medium brown color when you're done. If you can still see pockets of green, then there's definitely more pulls left. Give the herb a bit of a stir and keep going! Light brown means you can likely still get some effects out of it, but it will have less of a taste. It's fine to vape your weed further until it is dark brown, but the odor will become worse, and so will the flavor. It still won't be anything like smoking, but higher temperatures vaporizers can release some carcinogens. If your cannabis looks black, you went way too far. Empty out your vape, and reload it if you're still eager for more. Bonus tip: you can save leftover herb for use in edibles and capsules. This is called AVB, already vaped bud, also sometimes called ABV. It will taste worse and have less potency if you heavily vaped it at a high temperature and overtoasted it. You can even sprinkle AVB in coffee! Cleaning a dry herb vape In order to keep your dry herb vaporizer heating evenly and delivering amazing tasting vapor, you have to make sure to clean the device regularly. If the airflow gets clogged at all, that will make it difficult to heat the herb properly. Most vaporizers include cleaning accessories, and a tool to help with disassembly of the mouthpiece and any removable parts. Usually, removable metal and ceramic parts are soaked in isopropyl alcohol, then set to try. But each vape has its own specific maintenance guide, so be sure to consult your manufacturer's instructions. Colorful chess pieces lined up in a row. Best Portable Dry Herb Vaporizers Most new users of vaporizers decide to go with a portable vape. They're less expensive than desktop vaporizers, and more versatile because you can pack them in your pocket. But not every vape is created equal. You'll want one with the following features: compactness, accurate temperature control, long battery life, and ease of cleaning. You also want enough power to produce good quality vapor - most lower-end vaporizers don't deliver the same efficiency and value from your cannabis. Take vaping to the next level If versatility is a priority for you, you should consider the Furna, a vaporizer with oven swapping technology. You can load up multiple ovens in advance, and swap one for another with no wait time. Reloading your vaporizer is often inconvenient when you're on the move, so it's nice to be able to set it all up in advance. Vaping is less discreet when you have to bring out a tool and some accessories to have a second bowl. Furna even features optional cannabis concentrate ovens, making it just as convenient to switch between dry herb and concentrates. It also has the best battery life out there, making it the ultimate in portable vaping. Check out Furna now. Furna dry herb vapes with pre-packable ovens Back to blog
Commit c78cf06d authored by Marina Glancy's avatar Marina Glancy Browse files MDL-46585 lang: 6 unused strings 'hidden' are deprecated Strings are not used in the components where they are defined. If they are used in other components they should be defined in appropriate locations since the translation may depend on the subject that is being hidden. parent 482abd0f ......@@ -263,7 +263,6 @@ $string['externalbadges'] = 'My badges from other web sites'; $string['externalbadgesp'] = 'Badges from other web sites:'; $string['externalbadges_help'] = 'This area displays badges from your external backpack.'; $string['fixed'] = 'Fixed date'; $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; $string['hiddenbadge'] = 'Unfortunately, the badge owner has not made this information available.'; $string['issuedbadge'] = 'Issued badge information'; $string['issuancedetails'] = 'Badge expiry'; ......@@ -389,3 +388,7 @@ $string['viewbadge'] = 'View issued badge'; $string['visible'] = 'Visible'; $string['warnexpired'] = ' (This badge has expired!)'; $string['year'] = 'Year(s)'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; ......@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ $string['gotocalendar'] = 'Go to calendar'; $string['group'] = 'Group'; $string['groupevent'] = 'Group event'; $string['groupevents'] = 'Group events'; $string['hidden'] = 'hidden'; $string['hidecourseevents'] = 'Hide course events'; $string['hideglobalevents'] = 'Hide global events'; $string['hidegroupsevents'] = 'Hide group events'; ......@@ -217,3 +216,7 @@ $string['weeknext'] = 'Next week'; $string['weekthis'] = 'This week'; $string['yesterday'] = 'Yesterday'; $string['youcandeleteallrepeats'] = 'This event is part of a repeating event series. You can delete this event only, or all {$a} events in the series at once.'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'hidden'; ......@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ $string['format_richhtml'] = 'HTML with attachments'; $string['format_spreadsheet'] = 'Spreadsheet'; $string['format_text'] = 'Plain text'; $string['format_video'] = 'Video'; $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; $string['highdbsizethreshold'] = 'High transfer dbsize'; $string['highdbsizethresholddesc'] = 'Number of db records over which will be considered to take a high amount of time to transfer'; $string['highfilesizethreshold'] = 'High transfer filesize'; ......@@ -181,3 +180,7 @@ $string['unknownplugin'] = 'Unknown (may have since been removed by an administr $string['wait'] = 'Wait'; $string['wanttowait_high'] = 'It is not recommended that you wait for this transfer to complete, but you can if you\'re sure and know what you\'re doing'; $string['wanttowait_moderate'] = 'Do you want to wait for this transfer? It might take a few minutes'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; ......@@ -333,7 +333,6 @@ $string['generalfeedback'] = 'General feedback'; $string['generalfeedback_help'] = 'General feedback is shown to the student after they have completed the question. Unlike specific feedback, which depends on the question type and what response the student gave, the same general feedback text is shown to all students. You can use the general feedback to give students a fully worked answer and perhaps a link to more information they can use if they did not understand the questions.'; $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; $string['hintn'] = 'Hint {no}'; $string['hintnoptions'] = 'Hint {no} options'; $string['hinttext'] = 'Hint text'; ......@@ -435,3 +434,7 @@ $string['whichtries'] = 'Which tries'; $string['withselected'] = 'With selected'; $string['xoutofmax'] = '{$a->mark} out of {$a->max}'; $string['yougotnright'] = 'You have correctly selected {$a->num}.'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; ......@@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ $string['foldernotfound'] = 'Folder not found'; $string['folderrecurse'] = 'Folder can not be moved to it\'s own subfolder'; $string['getfile'] = 'Select this file'; $string['getfiletimeout'] = 'Get file timeout'; $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; $string['help'] = 'Help'; $string['choosealink'] = 'Choose a link...'; $string['chooselicense'] = 'Choose license'; ......@@ -238,3 +237,7 @@ $string['unzipped'] = 'Unzipped successfully'; $string['wrongcontext'] = 'You cannot access to this context'; $string['xhtmlerror'] = 'You are probably using XHTML strict header, some YUI Component doesn\'t work in this mode, please turn it off in moodle'; $string['ziped'] = 'Compress folder successfully'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; ......@@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ $string['grade:unlock'] = 'Unlock grades or items'; $string['grade:view'] = 'View own grades'; $string['grade:viewall'] = 'View grades of other users'; $string['grade:viewhidden'] = 'View hidden grades for owner'; $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; $string['highlightedcellsshowdefault'] = 'The permissions highlighted in the table below are the defaults for the role archetype currently selected above.'; $string['highlightedcellsshowinherit'] = 'The highlighted cells in the table below show the permission (if any) that will be inherited. Apart from the capabilities whose permission you actually want to alter, you should leave everything set to Inherit.'; $string['checkglobalpermissions'] = 'Check system permissions'; ......@@ -423,3 +422,7 @@ $string['whydoesuserhavecap'] = 'Why does {$a->fullname} have capability {$a->ca $string['whydoesusernothavecap'] = 'Why does {$a->fullname} not have capability {$a->capability} in context {$a->context}?'; $string['xroleassignments'] = '{$a}\'s role assignments'; $string['xuserswiththerole'] = 'Users with the role "{$a->role}"'; // Deprecated since Moodle 2.8. $string['hidden'] = 'Hidden'; Supports Markdown 0% or . Finish editing this message first! Please register or to comment
Choosing Your Foreign Language; Opening a World (This is a guest post by A.D. Giovanna) If you have made the commitment to yourself to learn your first foreign language, but still need to decide which one, you have a wondrous world of possibilities ahead of you. Sometimes there is a natural choice because of your job, such as the medical professional who needs basic fluency in Spanish. However, you can also decide to pick a language with the possibility of transitioning your career in the future, or for entirely non-work-related reasons. If you are looking for a language that could open up career horizons, you need to balance your decision between (1) the easier, more common languages that you can acquire more quickly but which will not distinguish greatly from your peers, and (2) the harder languages that imply a larger time commitment to gain professional fluency, but which open up more lucrative career paths. I would place Spanish for the U.S. and French for Canada in the first category. Easy languages more similar to English, lots of language-learning materials available, and the end of the tunnel within sight. Depending on your field, you may be able to be clever and get ahead with a simpler but less frequent language, such as Portuguese for the burgeoning Brazilian market. In the second category are the tougher languages that may be prized by the government (Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu and Hindi among them) and that will get you bonus points for hiring. I would also add business languages, such as Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, to that category. These languages require a longer and deeper commitment, but the potential pay-off in real terms is greater. (Sign up here for and receive a free report about how successful people think. Plus, you’ll get info about free offers and other goodies I don’t post elsewhere. Link opens in new window so you won’t lose your spot.) It will help your decision if you accept that your first foreign language does not have to be your only foreign language. Learning a romance language (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese or Romanian) or a Germanic language (German or Dutch) will help to get your brain ready for the tougher acrobats ahead in a language that does not resemble English. Because yes, foreign languages are a thrilling type of brain-stretching activity! You will find parts of your brain that you didn’t even know were there! Your “starter language” will also help you learn English grammar, which many Americans don’t learn well at school. Having a strong base in English grammar will help you with all the foreign languages you will learn. However, if you are motivated to dive right into a harder language immediately, by all means, do it! Interest and drive to attain anything will help you reach your goal much more so than doing something just to do it. So if learning Farsi has always been your dream, embrace it and skip my advice on starter languages! You should also do a little reconnaissance on whether the language is grammar-heavy or not; whether it is written with our alphabet, a different alphabet, or characters; whether it is tonal or has other sounds way, way outside the realm of English. Those difficulties might be the points that attract you or that put you off, but at least you’ll know. I can do heavy grammar and non-English sounds, so Arabic was within my realm of possibility. [weaver_widget_area] - Area donation not defined. On the other hand, I am completely and totally tone-deaf. People cringe uncontrollably when I sing Happy Birthday. Mandarin and Cantonese have very little grammar, but the former has four tones and the latter a mind-boggling nine tones. If you can’t hum a tune acceptably well, don’t take a tonal language unless you are prepared for a serious uphill struggle. I am a real believer in playing to your strengths. If you have perfect pitch, you can be that person to master Mandarin like a native. If you are artistic, Chinese characters may be an added bonus part of the joy of the language. Know your learning style, know your strengths, and take that into account when you are picking your target language. Choosing Your Foreign Language; Opening a World — 1 Comment 1. For non-English speakers, how does learning English factor in?Â If you start off with Farsi as your native language, for example, what’s the easiest second language to learn?
Shifting Google Gears to mobile Monday, March 3, 2008 \| 10:51 PM Ever use a mobile web application and suddenly lose your cell connection? That's happened to me many times. If you've shared my pain, you'll be excited to know that we've launched Google Gears for mobile, which lets users access Gears-enabled mobile web apps offline. Initially available for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices, mobile web app developers have already started integrating Gears for mobile into their online services. Take Zoho and Buxfer, for example: Zoho is a powerful suite of web-based productivity applications, while Buxfer is an innovative personal finance web application that helps you track your money. With Google Gears for mobile integrated into mobile Zoho and Buxfer, you can now access these web applications even when your phone is disconnected from the mobile web. Stuck on a plane? No problem — you can still read your docs on your mobile with Zoho Writer Mobile offline. Want to buy that new plasma TV, but can't remember how much is in your account? Check your balance with Buxfer's mobile web application, even if there is no cell phone signal. Try them out on your Windows Mobile 6 device by going to m.buxfer.com or mobile.zoho.com. When you first access mobile Buxfer or Zoho Writer on your Windows Mobile device and go offline, you will be asked to install Google Gears for mobile. Once installed, Gears sits happily on your phone helping you stay connected to your data -- even when you lose your network connection. If you're a developer who's interested in creating mobile web applications using Google Gears for mobile you can find out more information on our developer site. Finally, if you're not a Windows Mobile user, stay tuned -- we're working to roll out Google Gears for other platforms with capable web browsers, including Android. Jono said... I hope the other platforms include S60! I'm sure I remember reading that it's the most popular platform outside North America. Shonzilla said... Is Google working on a version of Google Gears for Google Android platform or you're relying on Google Android Challenge contestants? p.s. Can anyone beat the number of Googles in a single, rather normal sentence? ;-) CJ Millisock said... I've been waiting for this since June 2007. :-) This is great! Giff Gfroerer, i2SMS said... Giff Gfroerer, i2SMS. We need to remember that the mobile web is NOT the internet. We want to do different things with the mobile web then with the Internet. Mobile devices are with us all the time and we can misplace them. However, the PC at home is where it is. How many times have we heard of a laptop being misplaced and all the confidential information on the PC being compromised? Mobile devices are lost on a factor of 10x compared to laptops. Though this is going to be great for most applications, we must also remember that being able to see ones balances and the like can cause great problems if the mobile device is lost or stolen. Tommy Freestyle said... Not to be that guy, but would this include the iPhone? Hal said... Maybe it's just me but I don't get it. I think that this adds an unnecessary layer to what should be a native app experience rather than a web application. You've already made Google Maps as a native app for Windows Mobile, why not continue in this vein for Mail and everything else? Yes, I understand how Gears enables offline stuff for Google as well as for third parties, but offline is so last century. Unlimited mobile data plans are pretty cheap (if you're with Sprint, anyway--come on other carriers!), there's no need for offline at all unless you live in the boonies. Subodh Gupta said... So is it already enabled for Google reader? Brad Neuberg said... Hi everyone, thanks for the nice comments on Google Gears for mobile. Individual responses below. @Giff: Good comments about stolen laptops and devices. I created something called Dojo SQL that encrypts and decrypts the data stored offline in Gears. Gears provides threads to JavaScript, so that you can do things like encryption without blocking the browser. These threads, called worker pools, are also on Google Gears for mobile, so someone could encrypt their data stored locally if they wanted to. I'd love to see someone do this with the new Windows Mobile release! Who wants to knock out a quick open source library to do this and put it on code.google.com? @halr9000: Hi there. You raise two points: why add new abilities to mobile web apps rather than just make them native; and why is offline necessary on mobile devices? For your first question, it is _much_ easier to create mobile web applications than native ones. The mobile space is very fragmented. Being able to create consistent mobile applications that are web-based (and use Gear's open source abilities to augment this with offline access, greater reliability, etc.) is much easier than creating many different native applications. Further, getting permission from carriers to install native apps is very difficult. Something like Google Gears for mobile makes it much easier for entrepreneurial firms like Buxfer and Zoho to innovate and get their software on mobile phones without having to get executive-level buy-in from carriers. Sure Google can get Google Maps native installed on mobile phones, but what about other companies? We should all be able to innovate in the mobile space. On the question of whether offline is useful on mobile phones, if I want my applications to be in the mobile browser than I need them to be available even with intermittent network connections. How often does your cellular connection drop? Mine drops alot. @Subodh: Google Reader is not tied into Google Gears for mobile yet. Good question. Brad Neuberg Google Gears Hal said... @Brad, I don't disagree with your aims, they all sound good. I just feel that native apps offer more and are for the most part, worth it. I'm a big Gmail and Bloglines user, so I'm not a purist. But it just doesn't always work, and it sorta feels like Gears is a shoehorn. But--if anybody can make it work well, it's probably you guys. :) As far as carrier software, I suppose that only applies if your aim is to get things pre-installed when a handset is shipped. Thereafter, the carrier has less control, and that control is only lessening as time goes on, thank God. With few exceptions, Windows Mobile devices usually don't restrict "certified" application installs, although I know the capability is there and some carriers to try their darnedest. That's what cooked ROMs are for. :) And as far as my connection goes...I can't say that I've ever noticed a data drop in the same way that you immediately notice voice drops. Maybe Sprint's 3G data network inherently fares better than the voice connection, I don't know. It has not been an issue to date, but I do live near a large metro (Atlanta). sygyzy said... I know it's probably just me but I don't really find this announcement that clear. I have Gears installed on my web browsers (all three of them across diffrent systems) and I think it's a great idea for offline browsing (in particular, for Reader). I don't understand how this has been implemented for Mobile, though. I installed Gears of Mobile and then at the end, didn't know what to do with it. I visited Buxfer on my Mobile device. Cool, that works. Can't tell that it uses Gears or anything. It just worked as expected. What else works offline and how can it tell it's offline? It'd be cool if you can just mark yourself offline in case you may be connected to a tower with poor reception. What about Reader, Docs, etc for mobile? Does this mean I can read my RSS feeds without a data connection? Hal said... @sygyzy, check out the video linked to from Lifehacker, they do a good job explaining it. I think that's the point though--you are not supposed to tell much difference. The guy had to manually disconnect his data connection and even then there was no difference. michelim said... Google Gears for my mobile phone seems to have screwed up windows and i had to do a hard reboot clearing out all my data. I have a Samsung i760 with Windows Mobile 6 CE OS 5.2.979 (Build 17233.0.1.1) Processor ARM920T S3C2442. Unknown said... @mike, please submit a report on the Google Gears issues list so we can follow up with you on this. Thanks. Editor: Vasantrao Koparday said... I am waiting for google gears for my Nokia. Lost/stolen mobiles again. I wonder how safe and feasible would the worker pools encryption of data be for symbian system. I believe that Nokia has built in poor lock PIN code system. The data is vulnerable. Offbeatmammal said... @halr9000 Windows Mobile already supports Gmail both POP3 and IMAP. I use it every day (several times a day in fact) and love it! I agree a native app will usually give you a better UI and access outside the browser sandbox but at the same time sometimes it's quicker/ easier to knock up a simple webapp and Gears is great to extend that for when you're not connected. Hal said... I'm not a fan of IMAP in general, and when using it on gmail it messes with your labels in a bad way I've found. Aside from that it's slow as molasses and POP is no better. Have you tried push mail w/Exchange? It's really nice. Google should do as Zimbra did and provide an actual connector that appears to the WinMo device as an Exchange server. Transparent--no new client software to install. Mike said... I'm sorry but I downloaded Gears to my Tilt and except for adding a Gears setting to Menu - Tools it has done absolutly nothing. There are no allowed sites and no denied sites when I open the setting menu. And not one application such as the Google Reader or Picasa has asked to be allowed. What is the use of this program as so far it does nothing on the Tilt/
Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: A Unifying Peoples Project With a population of 118 million (expected to top 200 million by the end of 2049) Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa. 70% (c.80 million) are under thirty, the median age being just 20. The majority of people live in rural areas where infrastructure is poor or non-existent: around 67 million are currently without electricity; for millions of others (including in the capital, Addis Ababa) the supply is inconsistent, with frequent power cuts, 62 million, according to the WHO Joint Monitoring Programme, do not have access to safe drinking water (7.5% of the global water crisis is in Ethiopia); farmers are routinely hit by floods or drought, millions are food insecure. In an attempt to address these basic needs, some would say rights, in 2011, Ethiopia revised plans first drawn up in the 1950s, and began constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Owned by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCO), the $5 billion “Peoples’ Project” has been largely funded by the Ethiopian government through the sale of government bonds, together with donations from Ethiopian citizens and an initial investment by China of around 30%. Situated in the western region of Benishangul-Gumuz (about 40 km from the Sudan border) on the Blue Nile, the dam is 80% complete, and to the jubilation of Ethiopians everywhere the reservoir has been part filled (in 2020 5 billion m3 – total capacity is 74 billion m3) for the second year in succession. The GERD is the biggest hydroelectric dam in Africa (the seventh largest in the world), it harnesses water from the Blue Nile and will provide millions of Ethiopians with secure electricity and a reliable water supply. The Blue Nile is the major tributary of The Nile: it flows from Lake Tana (the largest lake in Ethiopia) in the Ethiopian Highlands and supplies 86% of the great river’s water. Despite this fact, it is Egypt and Sudan that use almost the entire flow. Since its inception, Egypt and Sudan, with political support from the U.S., Britain and Co., have attempted to derail the project and maintain their historic control over the Nile, which both countries depend on. In the early days there was even talk, by Egyptian leaders, of war, and in March 2021, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi stated hyperbolically: “No one can take a drop of water from Egypt… If it happens, there will be inconceivable instability in the region that no one could imagine. This is not a threat.” To their credit the Ethiopian government, which holds all the Nile cards, has ignored such inflammatory rhetoric, and persevered with the work of construction. When the project was first announced in 2011 the Ethiopian government invited Egypt and Sudan to form an International Panel of Experts (IPoE) to understand the benefits, costs and impacts of the GERD. The recommendations made by the IPoE, however, were not adopted. For decades, access to and control of the life-giving waters of The Nile has been governed by various unfair agreements dating back to British colonial rule (Egypt and Sudan were both British colonies). 1902, 1929 and 1959 agreements all gave control of the Nile to Egypt and Sudan, primarily Egypt. The 1959 agreement allocated 75% of the total flow of the Nile to Egypt and 25% to Sudan, and nothing at all to Ethiopia, not a drop. Enraged by these lop-sided, antiquated “agreements” in May 2010, the upstream states of the Nile (including Ethiopia) signed a Cooperative Framework Agreement pronouncing the 1959 Treaty dead in the water, and claiming rights to more of the river’s bounty. Egypt and Sudan, unwilling to share what they had hoarded for decades, refused to sign. As a result of this intransigence no mutually acceptable agreement between upstream and downstream countries exists, and Egypt and Sudan worried, they say, about water security, have consistently argued against the project. Egypt in particular has been pushing for a legally binding agreement on the operation of the GERD and the filling of the reservoir. At the request of Tunisia the matter was recently heard at the UN Security Council (UNSC), a completely inappropriate forum for such a topic: the Security Council is set up to establish and maintain international peace and security (something it has serially failed to do), not intervene in development issues, and the GERD is a development project. Negotiations are set to continue under the auspices of the African Union, and early signs are more positive. Ethiopia’s willingness to work towards an agreement (not a legal requirement) is in itself an act of goodwill, and augers well. Any agreement must reject totally the colonial constructs and recognize that Ethiopia has a right to utilize the natural resources that lie within its territory, a right that has been denied for generations. A vital resource The GERD is badly needed, it will play a significant part in reducing poverty and transforming the country. Among the many potential benefits to Ethiopia, it will quadruple the amount of electricity produced, providing millions of people with access to electricity for the first time while allowing surplus electricity to be exported to neighbouring states, generating national income. It will provide clean water, which will lower the spread of illness, provide decent drinking water to those who currently have none, and irrigate 1.2 million acres of arable land – helping to create successful harvests, therefore reducing or eliminating food shortages. All dams have an impact on the natural environment and surrounding ecosystems, and the GERD is no exception. However, while solar and wind are the ideal, hydroelectric dams are preferable to nuclear or fossil fuel power plants and the broader positive effects are potentially substantial. Without electricity, millions of people burn wood or dry dung to cook with. This causes de-forestation and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as respiratory illnesses. As electricity is generated and supplied, these practices, which are embedded in many communities and have been followed for generations, can be dropped, resulting in a decrease in GHG emissions, the revitalization of natural habitat, and enable dung to be used as a fertilizer by farmers. The dam will also help manage the impact of climate change by providing consistent water flow. Not only for Ethiopia, but also for downstream countries (particularly Sudan) that are frequently hit by drought or flooding. As Meles Zenawi (Ethiopian PM when construction began) said, “when the dam becomes operational, communities all along the riverbanks and surrounding areas, particularly in Sudan, will be permanently relieved from centuries of flooding.” The GERD is rightly a source of national pride, a unifying symbol in a dangerously divided country and an essential resource if the country is to move into a new phase of economic and social development. Its successful completion is a significant achievement, and reaffirms Ethiopia’s place as a major regional power, not just within the Horn of Africa, but the continent as a whole. Once the dam is fully operational, Ethiopia will once again become a beacon of hope and empowerment to other nations in Africa, many of which have lived under the shadow of poverty, conflict and external control for far too long. A powerful Ethiopia however, is something neither Egypt or “the West”, meaning the U.S. and her allies, welcome. Ethiopia has been a thorn in their imperialist side for centuries; never colonized by force, fiercely proud and independent with a rich diverse culture. An example to nations throughout the continent, Ethiopia and the Ethiopian flag have long been a symbol of defiance for other African countries, many of which incorporated the colors of the Ethiopia flag (red, yellow, and green) into their own. This is a crucial moment in Ethiopia’s long history; the country has just staged its first democratic elections, which should be seen as extremely positive, but millions are displaced and armed conflicts in Tigray and elsewhere continue. Ethiopians are faced with a choice: unite and prosper or withdraw into ethnic rivalries and fall into further conflict and discord. While there are those inside and outside the country that are fanning the flames of division, hatred and fear, the vast majority yearn for peace and social harmony. It is these voices that must prevail if this wonderful country is to flower once again. Leave a Reply You are commenting using your account. Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
Commercial Video Surveillance: How It Works And Its Advantages For Businesses? Video surveillance is a field that is growing alongside the technological advancements of society. This article discusses the benefits of commercial video surveillance for businesses, and why it might be worth your time to invest in this type of video surveillance. Also, you can have a look at for more information about commercial video surveillance. Image Source: Google First, video surveillance can help identify theft or vandalism. By monitoring footage of areas where money or property is stored, businesses can identify who has been committing these crimes and arrest them accordingly. Second, video surveillance can help prevent accidents. In many cases, footage of employees working in dangerous or hazardous areas can be invaluable in ensuring that no one gets hurt. Third, commercial video surveillance provides a complete view of the area being monitored. This means that if there is a break-in at a business, for example, the camera will capture images of anyone breaking into the premises and any activity taking place inside. Lastly, video surveillance can help businesses protect themselves from potential lawsuits. By recording footage of interactions between employees and customers, businesses can ensure that any allegations of wrongdoing are easily disproved. By monitoring your property in real time, you can detect and prevent crime before it happens, saving yourself time and money in the long run. Not to mention, having footage of accidents or other incidents can help protect your business from lawsuits. If you're interested in learning more about how commercial video surveillance works and how it could benefit your business, read on!
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Q&A about the Atlantic-Crossing Hey there HaveWind followers! As you may have seen on Patreon on Facebook, Phillip and I recently hosted a Skype Q&A session with Patrons who had watched the movie from our Atlantic-crossing and had some questions about the boat, maintenance, provisioning, things that frightened us, things we learned, etc. While it is not a perfect recording (this was my first time hosting a group Skype) there are some great segments in here, primarily from Phillip, where we share our thoughts, lessons learned and experience from our first ocean-crossing aboard a catamaran. I thought you all might get a kick out of it. Yes, a kick. Enjoy!
Judd Nelson Judd Nelson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Judd Asher Nelson (born November 28, 1959, height 5' 10" (1,78 m)) is an American actor. He is best known for being a member of the "Brat Pack" in the mid-1980s; and for his roles as John Bender in The Breakfast Club, Alec Newbary in St. Elmo's Fire, and Jack Richmond in Suddenly Susan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Judd Nelson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia Відомий: Acting День народження: 1959-11-28 Місце народження: Portland, Maine, USA Також відомий як:
How Online Hypnotherapy Works Modern technology and video conferencing solutions like Zoom offer a world of opportunity to coaches, therapists and their clients. I now see nearly all of my clients online and I find it is even more effective than in person hypnotherapy sessions, clients can feel more relaxed in an environment they are familiar with and more easily fit the therapy sessions in around their day. Why Should You Have A Therapy Session Why Not Just Listen to A Recording? Online Hypnotherapy This is a question I get asked quite often and one common objection I hear from potential clients when I suggest an online session is that it will be like listening to a recording, this is not at all the case because the traditional hypnosis section is just a small part of the actual session. When you have a session with me online we will have a long chat before the part that most people would consider to be hypnosis actually begins, the truth is I am using conversational hypnosis and NLP techniques from the moment we meet. The fact finding chat enables me to tailor the session for the client and lay the foundations for the client to experience the changes they want. So How Does Online Hypnotherapy Work? First clients need to book their session, clients can order hypnotherapy sessions from me online via my website, or they can contact me via my contact page or phone. The Video Conferencing Software Once payment is received and a time has been scheduled I send clients a Zoom link. Zoom is a video conferencing platform similar to Skype but I believe it to be more stable and offer better encryption, the encrypted connection and being in their own home means clients can be sure of confidentiality and that their privacy is protected. Zoom works on all modern SmartPhones, tablets and laptop computers. Clients should sit somewhere that they are comfortable, where I can see their face upper body and where they won’t be disturbed. Their phone or device should be set to do not disturb. The Pre-Talk As mentioned above the pre-talk is a very important part of the therapeutic process, it enables me to tailor the therapy session towards the client and lay the groundwork for positive change to occur. The Hypnosis Part Hypnosis is a perfectly safe, natural state that we all experience several times during the course of a day, some people believe we are always drifting from one trance state to another. A focused state of attention is one form of trance for example, have you ever driven somewhere then arrived at your destination and not remembered the journey or been playing a sport so intensely that you didn’t notice a small cut or injury? Hypnosis is not sleep but it is usually a deeply relaxing state. Is The Connection Stable? I have performed hundreds of therapy and coaching sessions online and to date I have only lost the connection once. It is unlikely that we will get disconnected but if it should happen the client will just wake up as though they have been asleep and be able to reconnect so we can continue the session. What Does Hypnosis Feel Like? The feelings experienced in hypnosis vary from person to person but generally it is a very relaxing experience. We are looking to access the theta brainwave state this is a hyperlearning state. Research has shown that a child’s brain is in the theta state until the age of seven. This is known as the imprint period when we learned the most and gained most of our self image. By accessing this state we can change habits, increase confidence, remove fears, phobias and much more. Theta brainwaves also occur in the R.E.M sleep cycle. This is where dreams occur and so it is easy to visualise ourselves the way we want to be doing the things we want to do, to keep us safe and stop us sleepwalking our body tends to go to sleep when we enter the theta state, or arms and legs become very heavy this is known as catalepsy. Visualisation is a very effective way to create change in a person, our minds cannot distinguish between what is real and fiction so by seeing ourselves as more confident or successful we start to behave that way and the change we want can occur. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published.
I destroyed some very good leaves. I recently found a bundle of absolutely terrific leaves just sitting about the forest floor. I stared at them for awhile, admiring how perfectly crinkly and brown and orange they seemed. After taking in their lovely aesthetic, I rolled around in them, as I have done with many leaves I have seen for as long as I can remember. This has been a routine, normal thing for me to do for a very long time, and before now, I had never put much thought into it beyond the simple pleasures it had brought me. It was almost as if I had always assumed leaves were there for me to roll around in. Now, I am not quite sure the truth is anywhere near that. After the last time I rolled around in perfectly crinkly leaves, I took a moment to look upon the destruction I had unleashed onto them. They were completely destroyed, dilapidated, decimated. Ripped asunder by my careless rolling. My want for the crunch of their tiny leaf selves beneath my not-very-tiny bear body overshadowed my ability to consider what they were being put through. I had ended so many leaves just because I liked to roll around on them. The mangled leaves got me thinking about how often I must ignore the results of me pursuing my interests and wants. How often do I do something for me, all the while ignoring how everything else in the forest is affected? When I break a branch on a tree while climbing it, I focus on the hurt I feel when I hit the ground, but what about the tree? Does the tree not also feel hurt with a once perfectly good branch ripped from itself? Does the water in the river have any interest going into my mouth and through my bear body? I have certainly never asked it. When I thought about how my actions affect everything in the forest, I started to realize that most of my forest interactions are positive for me and horribly negative for the other party. Of course, some are unavoidable. Sorry, river water, but I need to drink you and you show no protest against it. But do I need to roll around on leaves? Of course not. I do not know where to begin when it comes to making sure there is a balance between my actions and ensuring their positive affects on others, but maybe it begins with being more aware I am not the only creature, the only thing, the only being in the forest. I am one, single bear among many other creatures and such, and understanding my own bearness certainly must involve knowing how it affects those others. I am a bear. 4 thoughts on “I destroyed some very good leaves. 1. Derek Zimmerman (@zimmermd84) Hello Bear, the leaves are falling off the trees because that was the tree’s plan all along. As the leaves fall to the ground they will, regardless of any rolling by a single Bear, break apart and be consumed by tiny bugs called bacteria that help make the soil better for more trees and plants. By rolling in the leaves, you experience joy and happiness and you help the leaves along in their final mission to break apart and help other things grow. Breaking a branch is a different story, I guess. But I think you shouldn’t feel bad about the leaves. Liked by 2 people 2. wolfnowl Like Derek said, maybe the leaves need you to roll around on them so they can better do their job of becoming food for new plants. A leaf has more than one job in it’s lifetime. Everything is part of the dance. Leave a Reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
Whether you kickstart your community using a member import or your advocate army is growing out of control, you will want to manage them as efficiently as possible. Audience filters will allow you to search through your members, group them and target your campaigns and messages at specific segments. Composing an audience Let’s walk you through all of the dials and knobs you have at your disposal when creating a custom audience using the audience filters. Each option is highlighted in the screenshot below. Filtering mode Filtering mode can be used to switch between different types of matching. Match all filters This requires that any member in the audience you are creating must match all of the filters you have added. If one of the filters does not match a person, that person will no longer be included in the created audience. Match any filter Whenever the audience uses this filtering mode a single matching filter will include the person in the audience, regardless if there are other filters that do not match the person. This allows you to select based on multiple conditions, for example: Every person named John or Jane. Field name The field name indicates on which field the filter will operate, in our screenshot below we are filtering based on the values of the email address and First name fields. Each filter has a configuration which allows you to specify how it should or should not match your members. What the options are and how you should use them can be found in the section on filter types. Description of filter The description of your filters summarizes what that specific filter does in a single, short sentence. This helps you keep an overview of what is going on as soon as you close the panel for a specific filter. Removes filter This button removes the configuration and filter that is directly above it, in our example it would remove the filter on the First name field. Filter types Filter types determine which type of filtering can be performed on a field. The Ambassify platform will automatically select the type best fit for the field you are trying to filter on. Below is a list of the available types of filters and explained what each Some filters apply to almost any kind of field, these filters are concerned with checking if a value is set or not and don’t have any relation to the type of field. has any value This filter allows you to check if any value has ever been set, regardless of the actual value. This is useful if you want to check if an advocate has provided certain information, for example the language in which an advocate wants to be addressed. is unknown Here we perform the opposite check of has any value. This filter matches any advocate that does not have any value set for this field. Text filters Text filters are useful whenever you want to match a field containing text against a specific string of text. An example would be all users named “John”. Text filters will always perform a case insensitive match, which means that there is no difference between the search term “John” or “john” without the capital J. is / is not Using the is filter it is possible check for exact matches between the value in the field and your search term. Similarly is not matches any person where the field does not match the search term. starts with / ends with If you are looking to match only the start or end of the field's value against your search term you will need to use starts with or ends with respectively. These allow you to search for any person where the specified field has the search term either at the start or end of it’s value. contains / does not contain The contains filter allows you to check the presence of the search term in the field you are searching. Whenever your search term is part of the value for that field, regardless of the location of the match, the person will be added to your audience. In a similar fashion does not contain will match any person that does not have a match between your search term and the value in the selected field. Date filters Whenever a field contains a date or timestamp the Date filter will be presented. Using the date filter you can select a range of valid values for the selected field. You select one of the types of filters you’d like and use the date picker next to it to select the date or timestamp. before / after Both the before and after filters allow you to select a date or time. This timestamp will be used to select people for which the specified field is set to a time before or after the date you selected. before or at / after or at These filters work very similar to the before and after filters, however these will include people with exact matches to the specified date and time in the audience. between The between filter works very similar to the before and after filters, but you are required to enter two different timestamps for this filter. Only the people for which the value of the specified field falls between these two dates will be selected. Numeric filters Numeric filters operate on fields that only contains numbers, the field containing a person’s points is an example. This filter supports some of the most common numeric comparisons. is / is not Selecting only those people for which the specified field exactly matches the value entered into the current filter. Or for is not , where the field's value does not match exactly. greater than / less than Selecting only those people for which the specified field is either greater than or less than the value entered into the current filter. greater than or equal to / less than or equal to Similar to the greater than and less than filters with the difference that it will match any person that has an exact match to the entered value. between This filter will select any person for which the value in the current field sits between the entered maximum and minimum of this filter. Boolean filters Whenever a field only contains binary answers such as Yes, No, True or False you will be presented with the boolean filter. is The boolean is filter allows you to make a binary decision on whether the value should be false or true. True might also be read as meaning Yes and False as No depending on the context in which this filter is shown. Language filters Whenever a person is first identified on the platform we will store the language that fits his/her computers’ configuration best. At some later points you may filter your advocates based on this field. The language filter allows you to leverage this information to target the people that speak a specific language. Remember that we will only allow languages that are enabled for your account. Interaction filters The interaction filters allow you to get insights into your advocate's activity. You can filter your ambassadors based on the number of interaction, when they first interacted or when they last interacted with content you published using Ambassify. interaction count If you would like to filter on the amount of interactions a person has had with a specific campaign or across all campaigns, this is the filter you'll need. It functions the same as numeric filters with the exception that you can select the campaign for which you would like the interactions to be counted. When looking for the advocates that have ever interacted with the Ambassify platform you can create a filter that requires that the interaction count be greater than 0. first interaction Using this filter you will be able select people based on the date of their first interaction similar to the date filters. Like the interaction count filter it is possible to limit this filter to a specific campaign rather than across all interactions. last interaction This filter works exactly the same as the first interaction filter, but will filter on the last interaction that we have on file for an advocate . Net Promotor Score Net Promotor Score is a very important factor in the selection of community members, because of this reason it is possible to filter on the submissions that you have gotten from your members. NPS Score Filtering on NPS scores provided by your members is essential to establish who is a detractor, passive or promotor. The NPS Score is a numeric filter that applies to all of the NPS submissions of a person. Using this filter you can select advocates based on the raw scores they have submitted (0 - 10). NPS submissions Similar to interaction count this filter is a numeric filter that allows you to filter your members based on the number of times they submitted an NPS score. first NPS This filter allows you to filter members based on the first time they submitted an NPS score. Like the first interaction filter this uses all of the options availble to a date filter. last NPS This filter works exactly the same as the first NPS filter, but will filter on the last NPS submission timestamp. Address field The address filter is very similar to the Text filter, with that exception that it allows you to search in a specific part of a member's address. The Address field dropdown contains the four fields within an address on which you can filter, once selected you can choose between all of the options discusses under the Text filter section. Did this answer your question?
Draft Statistics Hero pick rates, ban rates, and pick order rate. Teams win, losses, and win rate are based on where they pick a hero in the draft. So if a team bans Chromie at the first position of the draft, we are showing those teams wins and losses and win rates as well as when teams actually pick Chromie. Chromie overall ban rate: 2.40% Ban 12.8731230050.98 Ban 22.6427528848.85 Ban 33.7640439850.37 Ban 43.6338039449.10 Pick 15.1653256948.32 Pick 26.8872074949.01 Pick 37.1573379448.00 Pick 47.8980687947.83 Pick 57.5879782049.29 Ban 55.4858758250.21 Ban 64.6450648551.06 Pick 68.4892988051.35 Pick 78.6585399346.21 Pick 88.3384993047.72 Pick 98.4088990449.58 Pick 108.4788792049.09
Myths and Legends Pop Culture Swell Obsessed Swimwear (SOS) Swell Obsessed Swimwear (SOS) is a unique swimwear line that offers an array of styles and colors that are anything but basic. SOS is best known for their seamless and versatile designs, that are made in the USA. These swimsuits are comfortable, yet sexy. SOS was designed for every woman who feels a calling to the sea and a love for adventure. Swell Obsessed Swimwear Ad campaign To understand Swell Obsessed Swimwear more, I asked it’s designer and owner Maria a few questions about her line of unique, versatile, and sustainable swimsuits. What inspired you to create SOS? The very first aha moment was in Costa Rica on a surf trip- realizing I had quite specific taste for small details subtleties in other suits and being suggested I should just make my own ones. No brainer- I had studied design and had worked in fashion for years before that “aha” Moment. (I had the tools in my belt to start experimenting/trying things out) How would you describe SOS? A whimsical, premium swimwear brand based on simplicity, versatility, and sustainability. Swell Obsessed Swimwear What’s it’s connection in design or concept with mermaids? 1. The brand aesthetic- Caribbean life growing in PR with many historical influences of colonization and legends of sirens/pirates. I’m fascinated with the idea of balancing Male/Female. To me make is represented by the concept of a Pirate/surfer/waterman. And female is respresented by Mermaids/Sirens/Fairies. Overall I love History and Fairytales. I’m also a space cadet and daydreamer so when I’d surf I’d just get mesmerized staring at swells come in- that’s how the name came- my friends would say I’m “Swell Obsessed” I’d do super long road trips all around California and PR just chasing the swell.. 2. The daydreamer in me- lost in time, time travel, escapist, believing in things I’ve never seen 3. The Siren- Ultimate symbol of femininity goes in hand with my design aesthetic. I’ve been told my designs are very “pretty, feminine, and clean” this matches my interpretation of the mainstream depiction of a “mermaid/siren” 4. The power of narrative, dynamics on voice losing it etc, righting some wrongs her story etc. There’s quite a lot of fluff and negative connotations (in my opinion) about what a mermaid is and what she symbolizes /represents. Legends say the siren song would bring forth storms, death for sailors. The siren song could capture the hearts of those who hear it and swallow you into the sea. The story of the little mermaid- well, she has to give up her voice to fulfill her wishes. I started Siren Voices to help redefine/reposition the concept of voice with Sirens to connect it with a more empowering, uplifting, and overall positive tone. Check out Siren Voices series on SOS IGTV#sirenofsos 5. My lifestyle growing up raised the water baby of the family. Water sports, (scuba, sailing, sup, swim team, surfing) cancer is my astrological sign- I’ve always been the water baby in my family The letters in my name: Mariamer (Maria Mercedes) Mar: ocean in Spanish Mer: ocean in french Mer: beginning of mermaid, etc… To check out Swell Obsessed Swimwear’s amazing line of swimsuits, check out their website!
Heat Waves and Our Food System The summer of 2022 has seen heat waves across the world – from Europe to the horn of Africa; US to Japan. With the world’s global surface temperature having risen 1.1C, climate scientists are warning that severe weather events will become more extreme if we do not reduce our carbon emissions. Food system activities, including producing, transporting and disposing of food, generate up to 30 percent of total global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Our demand for energy intensive food exerts immense pressure on natural resources – livestock production accounts for an estimated 14.5% GhG emissions. Meat and dairy from ruminant animals, such as cattle and goats, are particularly emissions-intensive. Closer to home, China is also experiencing its worst heatwave and drought since records began 60 years ago. The water levels of Yangtze River dropped over 50%, affecting millions and threatening the autumn harvest. China, has strict national strategic targets and reserves, as the second largest economy, it is the largest importer of food in the world. Given the impact our food system has on climate, changing our diets is the most immediate thing we can do. A recent survey showed that an overwhelming majority of consumers in China, US and the EU are supportive of reducing meat intake for climate reasons. But this requires more than just public sentiment, a holistic policy package needs to be pushed so that we can meet the Paris Climate targets and Sustainable Development Goals. Title: China’s Extreme Heatwave Host: Andrew Work and Janice Wong Panel Members: Daisy Tam (Hong Kong Baptist University) HK's first public digital food rescue platform
Useful Tips Are Shias allowed in Saudi Arabia? Are Shias allowed in Saudi Arabia? Saudi Arabia’s Twelver Shia community, the Baharna, is primarily concentrated in the country’s Eastern province, chiefly Qatif and Al-Ahsa. Shia Islam exists in the southern region of the kingdom, with Najran and its Yam tribe being traditionally Sulaymani Ismaili. Can non-Muslims be citizens of Saudi Arabia? Which fiqh is followed in Saudi Arabia? Sunni Islam Hanbali school is the strict traditionalist school of jurisprudence in Sunni Islam. It is found primarily in the countries of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where it is the official fiqh. Can Shia go to Hajj? Are Saudi Muslims Shia? Most of the 15 to 20 million Saudi citizens are Sunni Muslims, while the eastern regions are populated mostly by Twelver Shia, and there are Zaydi Shia in the southern regions. Can unmarried couples live together in Saudi Arabia? Shiites cannot serve as judges in ordinary court, and are banned from gaining admission to military academies, and from high-ranking government or security posts, including becoming pilots in Saudi Airlines. Does Saudi Arabia allow non-Muslims? Are Shias allowed tattoos? Shia Islam Shia Ayatollahs Ali al-Sistani and Ali Khamenei believe there are no authoritative Islamic prohibitions on tattoos. The Quran does not mention tattoos or tattooing at all. What kind of religion is Shia in Saudi Arabia? Shia Islam in Saudi Arabia. Followers of the Wahhabite mission—who dominate religious institutions, courts and education of the kingdom —believe that ” Muslims should return to the interpretation of Islam found in the classical texts, the Quran and the Sunnah .”. They also believe that “Muslims who seek intercession from holy men,… Are there any non Muslims in Saudi Arabia? Children born to Muslim fathers are deemed Muslim by law. The country is the home of Mecca and Medina, Islam’s two holiest sites. The government prohibits non-Muslims from entering central Mecca or religious sites in Medina. Muslims visit these cities on the annual Hajj pilgrimage and during Umrah pilgrimage throughout the rest of the year. How are the Shias treated in Saudi Arabia? Saudi Shias are working establish their community in a Sunni society that punishes their religious expression, limits their political participation and civil liberties, and deprives them of economically prosperity (Al Rasheed 1998). The Sunni government has imposed multiple constraints on the Shia community. Is the Shia and Sunni conflict in Saudi Arabia? The Sunni and Shia conflict is embedded in Saudi Arabia’s social and religious norms. The Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom analyzed multiple textbooks from the Saudi Ministry of Education used in Islamic studies for elementary and secondary students. Share via:
Christian martyrs in the 3rd century By around the year 200, despite widespread persecution, the church was still growing rapidly. However, so was opposition from the Roman rulers. Early in the third century, the Emperor Severus (193-211 AD) instituted the death penalty for any exclusive religion. This included both Jews and Christians. The Emperor Decius (249 to 251 AD) insisted that everyone should make sacrifices to the Roman gods and goddesses. The Emperor Valerian (253 – 260 AD) made it illegal to be a Christian. Many believers refused to recant their faith, so there were vast numbers of Christian martyrs in this era. Then the greatest major persecution of all took place under the Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD). He was a strong militarist, and counted all Christians as his enemies. In March 303 he made an official edict or announcement: all services were to be disbanded, all Bibles were to be burned, all church officers were to be deposed, all church buildings were to be destroyed, and all resistors were to be imprisoned. Besides that, the authorities insisted that all Christians sacrifice to pagan gods, or die. One of the most significant early writers of church history, Eusebius, says that the prisons were so full of Christians that there was no room for criminals. Many people in Rome hid in the catacombs, which were originally tombs. Christians lived and worshipped there as they waited for freedom. Paintings and inscriptions dating from then are some of the earliest Christian art. When caught, some of them were sent to slave labour camps. Others were sent into exile, or tortured and then martyred. Others were sent to fight wild animals in the arenas. In 305, Diocletian abdicated. His successor, Emperor Galerius, continued the persecutions. He only lived until 311 but on his deathbed passed an edict of toleration of Christianity. This was on condition that Christians should not violate the peace of the Empire. Persecutions came to a complete halt in 313 when the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, an official recognition of religious toleration throughout the whole Roman Empire. Christian worship in the Church in the first three centuries The central core of Christian worship during this period, from the mid-first century to the end of the third century, was the celebration of Communion. This was when groups of believers would break bread and drink wine together. They were following what Jesus told them to do at the Last Supper before he died. This ceremony was used to remember the Resurrection. It was also as a foretaste of the banquet which will be prepared for believers in heaven. A communion service usually happened on a Sunday, since the Resurrection was a Sunday. Unlike most churches today, believers then usually had a full meal too. Baptism was also important. This was a ritual where new believers and their families would go under water, usually in a river, as a picture of Jesus having washed them clean of all their sins. They would make some promises before the other believers, that they would follow Jesus for the rest of their lives. Baptisms usually took place on Easter Sunday, after a lengthy period of preparation. During the last few weeks before Easter, believers who had already gone through baptism would also prepare themselves to re-affirm their promises at the same time. This was the origin of the season which we now know as Lent. Early church hierarchies There were various forms of Church government in the church. The people in charge of the earliest groups of believers were usually called ‘elders’ or ‘bishops’, and the two titles were roughly equivalent. By the end of the second century, a hierarchy had developed, with Bishops at the top, taking charge of several areas. Elders were those who oversaw individual congregations, and deacons were the people who saw to the practical matters. More church history pages: Church history begins Paul’s Missionary Journeys Heresies in the Early Church Persecution of Christians in the first two centuries Constantine and the council of Nicea
berriesinblackPartassipant [3] 8 points9 points 2 years ago YTA. One time when I was 10yo I was prevented from using a bathroom before going to bed and held it until morning. 40y later and I still wake up multiple times at night bc the slightest urge makes me feel anxious that I will be prohibited from using the bathroom. It's ridiculous how one adult's poor decision has affected me. Secure_YoghurtPartassipant [1] 29 points30 points 2 years ago No one is preventing the child from using the bathroom though. There is another one she can use. Significant_RiskPartassipant [1] 2 points3 points 2 years ago By waking up the parents. If i was the kid, i would wake them every night, multiple times, just because. How dificoult is is to give the older kid the key. NoApollonia 0 points1 point 2 years ago My kind of petty! Bet it wouldn't take long for OP to figure out a better solution!
Trained as an interaction designer in France, I've practiced creative coding and critical thinking around technology since 2012. My work revolves around the intersection of data and civil rights, information security, environmental conservation, and the art world. These days I work with NGOs, universities and news organizations. Do you need some data visualization work done? Drop me a line! Twitter Aurora Aurora is a suite of data driven experiences visualizing the communities and conversations happening on the Twitter platform in real time. Deface is an app that prevents Facebook from reading people’s messages. (External link to Into the Okavango Can we make open science accessible beyond academia? Into the Okavango turns a field expedition in Botswana into an immersive online experience and a user-friendly API. C2 Brain I joined the The New School’s Center for Data Arts to visualize the depth and breadth of conversations that took place at one of the world’s most eclectic business conferences. A sample of the talks I’ve given. Over the past years I’ve been invited to talk about information design, open data practice, and in one instance about the lack of diversity in tech. Elephant Atlas Elephant populations are declining dramatically in most African countries. Can data visualization provide tools for addressing this issue, given the complex scientific and socio-economic background involved in wildlife conservation? Radiant City In 1996, Lev Manovich described interactivity as a ‘totalitarian art form’, the internet as ‘a communal apartment of Stalin era.’ What can we learn from authoritarian architecture and its influence on social media? How can we claim back the ownership over our online identity when most data systems are designed as black boxes? Floodwatch reverse-engineers targeted advertising by crowdsourcing data collection. Specimen Box What do botnets tell us when given a voice? Specimen Box is a research tool that lets us explore the personality of those malware networks.
Thursday, December 20, 2012 Green Lantern #15: how predictable The 15th issue of the series has come out, still focusing on Geoff Johns' adherent to Islam named Simon Baz, and as this review on Blog of Oa tells, the identity of the culprit who rigged the van was rather expected: ...Baz makes his way to the address his sister Sira provided to him last issue, the address of the owner of the explosive filled van that Baz stole. The occupant, Edward Wale, greets Baz at the door, recognizing him as the "terrorist" and threatening to call the police before being convinced to allow Baz to come in and talk. Agents Valdez and Fed continue their pursuit of Baz but Fed still follows his hunch that Simon is innocent so the two men split up to try differing methods of tracking the Green Lantern down. Things at the Wale residence don't go as planned and we learn that Wale himself rigged the van and parked it under the bridge in an attempt to blow it up for reasons as yet unknown other than taking out a train. Baz's ring prevents him from being shot but that ends up being the last act of a ring desperately in need of a charge and before long the scene turns into a chase scene as Wale hunts a perplexed Green Lantern. [...] Wale gets the drop on Baz but Fed arrives in the nick of time to prevent the man from killing Simon Baz and emerging as a hero triumphant over the man who tried to blow up the city. Their confrontation is interrupted by the arriving Third Army who had been tracking Baz's ring signature. While Wale doesn't survive the encounter, both Baz and Fed manage to escape after blowing up the home, only to be met by B'Dg, who was sent to Earth to find Hal. [...] We all knew that Simon Baz's story is one that is very personal for Geoff Johns, and of course Baz is not going to be a terrorist, but I honestly was looking for something perhaps a little more original with how it turned out. While we may never know Wale's backstory his form of domestic terrorism seems to be aimed at advancing a white supremacist or xenophobic agenda. Having the hero falsely judged based on some sort of bias only to have the villain revealed as one of "us" has been overused and I really hope that Johns doesn't overreach the bounds of competent story telling and fall into the abyss of the cliche. Or as I like to call it, pulling a Terry Berg. Ah yes, that older story by Judd Winick, where he shoved his leftist positions down the readers' throats with overbaked leftist blather about gay agendas. And even when it wasn't stuff like that, the book was still pretty bad: at one point, he came up with a son for Abin Sur, the dying alien who gave Hal Jordan his power ring and lantern, who was named Amon Sur, and made him a villain, thus insulting a key part of Hal's origins. And also during Winick's run, there was a peculiar discrepancy in the character design for Kyle Rayner's mother Maura: the first time she appeared in issue 88 of volume 3, she looked early to mid 50s, but when she turned up a second time during Winick's run in issue 153, she looked more like early 40s, with lighter-colored hair. Clearly, the editors by that time didn't place much value on the book. But turning back to the current subject in focus, knowing where Johns was taking his cues from, I realized we couldn't expect him to take any negative position on the Religion of Peace, and so, we get a cliched story where the culprit turns out to be a non-Muslim white criminal who'd planned an act of terrorism for reasons that'll probably never be fully explored. But that's why subtlety and stealth make such cunning tools. I think I'll also take the time to comment on this confrontation between Baz (who's still noticeably wearing an orange outfit like what's seen at Gitmo) and his sister from the 13th issue: I'm not sure why we're supposed to feel sorry for a guy who steals cars and gives an unconvincing defense for why he'd do it. "Cars no one would miss"? It wouldn't matter if it were an Edsel or a lousy-looking Studebaker; if the cars were owned, and the engines worked well, someone's bound to notice them missing, namely, the owners. And it wasn't a car in this case that Baz stole, it was a large van. As far as I know, panel vans are far from the most coveted vehicles on the black market in America, even for spare parts. And Baz's sister didn't need the money before he began stealing cars with the job she had in the Michigan state government offices. So after he got arrested, all he did was embarrass her standing at the workplace. Maybe Johns doesn't think so, but he's actually making the character look more like he's got a low-IQ. What's so admirable about that? I really don't care where the story is going to go from here, not even if it travels into the galaxy. But Johns has once again insulted the intellect in his downhill spiral as a writer. No comments:
7 Places You Need To Visit In Georgia Sanjana Sule, November 16, 2015 Far away lies a land, a place where two varied cultures come to meet, only to rush off into the blue sea, all the while being looked upon by tall mountains, the pillars of time. A forgotten land that holds the mysteries of man and nature, Georgia. Flanked by the Black Sea to its west, Russia to its north, and Turkey to its south, Georgia is the land that the Caucasus mountain range calls home. A beautiful country, it often finds itself caught in the crossfires of armed conflict. But there are still many reasons to book an air ticket to Georgia, and we bring you seven. 1. Batumi Records state that Batumi was founded in the 8th century. But its history dates back further than that. Once a site of an ancient Greek colony, it has since then been a Roman fortress, and has passed through the hands of the Byzantine and Ottoman rule. A seaside city, located on the coast of the Black Sea, it is known for its unique and contemporary architecture. The best example of which being the building that looks like an upside-down white house. 2. Tbilisi A city that has been destroyed and rebuilt 29 times, its beauty only to have been exemplified with each destruction, such as the capital city Tbilisi. The structure of the old town can still be felt in the narrow alleyways and crooked houses. Despite its turbulent history, it’s one of the most vibrant cities of Georgia, its history reflected in the sprawling structures and architecture, right from medieval, classical to soviet styles. 3. Uplistsikhe A cave town in eastern Georgia, Uplistsikhe literally translates to “Lord’s Fortress.” One of the oldest urban settlements, it was founded in the Bronze age. The time comes to a standstill in the vast barren caves that cover the entire landscape. A mystical place, it is wrought with Pagan and Christian architecture. You’ll never see deserted rock-cut structures look as beautiful as they do in Uplistsikhe. 4. Prometheus Caves Prometheus Caves When the Greek deity Prometheus stole fire for mankind, he incurred the wrath of Zeus and was cast down to earth, where he was doomed to die over and over again, until the end of eternity. Legend has it that this prison of his was the Prometheus Caves in Georgia. But when your prison is as beautiful as these underground caves, not many would have reasons to complain. The beautiful stalagmites, stalactites underground waters, and lakes are a sight to behold. 5. Kinchkha Waterfall and Okatse Canyon Kinchkha Waterfall and Okatse Canyon If you truly want to witness the beauty of nature that hasn’t been rearranged by the hand of man, then Kinchka waterfall is your place. The tallest waterfalls of Georgia, with blooming flowers all around, it’s nature at its best. The Martvili canyons nearby add to the beauty. It also houses the Martvili monastery, built in the 7th century, that perches on top of the highest hill. 6. Narikala Fortress Narikala Fortress A fortress that overlooks the old skyline of Tbilisi, it was built in the 4th century. Built to protect the town of Tbilisi in ancient times, today it offers a breathtaking panoramic view of the entire city. The inside of the fortress is just as spectacular as the outside with frescos showing scenes from the bible, as well as the history of Georgia. Witness the fortress lit up at night, and beauty will have a new meaning. 7. Mtskheta
Re: Freedom and Welfare or Bharat Maata? [Topics under debate]: GOOD GOVERNANCE Dear Ritu, Sorry for the late response. I'm happy you realise the futility of rhetoric or emotion in such discussions. But please don't call me Sir! I am but a humble student. Forgive me if I sound a little confused, but I really amn't sure what your consistent position is. You say: "1. Kashmir - You are right when you say that I do not even consider that we are fighting for the freedom of the Kashmiri people. There are two reasons for this: firstly, even with the Kargil conflict sorted out, I can still see bombs exploding in Kashmir, curfews imposed - basically the same thing that has been happening there since the 1980s. So, even with the intruders driven out, they would still not be enjoying too many individual freedoms. The second reason has to do with much the same point that you have made - whether or not the indigenous population wants to remain in India. Not having had talked to a Kashmiri for more than a decade, I would not presume to speak for them. But from what my friends in the army and the BSF tell me of their experiences, I have stopped holding my breath waiting for a happy conclusion to the whole mess. And, that sir, is the reason I do not say that the army is fighting for the freedom of the Kashmiri people. Frankly, sir, even the army doesn't quite believe that." My comments: But I amn't talking only about Kargil. Kargil may be thought of as a single battle in a long war. For what is the war being fought? If we don't believe we can, through our present course of action, allow the Kashmiris their freedom, we have to find other means of working to ensure that. RE: the Kashmiris wanting to remain in India or not, if serious demands are being made, it is our duty to listen. As I have asked Mr. Kulshreshta, if we believe in national sovereignty, why not You also say: "The point you make about welfare of the same people is indeed a very positive thought, though one that I find hard to hold on to. If we could not win the confidence of the Kashmiri people in the decades before Terrorism became such a big problem, I wonder how we will manage that now. Still, I hope that you are right in this instance and that I am My comments: If the Indian nation-state isn't confident of facilitating any useful activity by its citizens in Kashmir, I think it only humane to ask the Kashmiris whether they want to stay with it or not. Of course, self-determination is complex and has complications e.g. the tyranny of the majority, the question whether a free and fair referendum, or whatever other means is used, can be conducted in a given situation or not, etc. But we have to decide whether or not to accept the principle in the first place. I'm talking of principle, not reality, nor of having a referendum now. I think self-determination has to be considered. Maybe it has been (and rejected). Perhaps someone with more knowledge can let us know. You say: "Nowhere have I claimed that one ought to have a blind allegiance to Bhaarat maata, nor that the end is [or should be] Bhaarat maata. I have merely attempted to point out that blind patriotism has its place and ought not to be dismissed in haste - a point with which you concur." My comments: Well, in the context of Kashmir, you had said that the end we are fighting for can only be Bharat Maata -- neither the freedom nor welfare of Kashmiris, nor those of the rest of the Indians. I assumed you carried this perspective to other spheres. I don't find a place for blind patriotism. I do find a place for an undying love for a (one's own too) country and its culture. But that love can be achieved without blind patriotism which, to me, means nationalism. In fact that love can exist in a person irrespective of nationality. As I have said in my reply to Mr. Kulshreshta, I greatly admire and am inspired by the zeal that people show in risking their lives for the security of their fellow citizens. But we can see that in people other than soldiers, people who may not be doing it for the 'nation' or Bharat Maata. You then say: "The second point had to do with the argument of national interest vs. individual freedoms. The example of FDR was not given to confound the economists [they may go on debating to their heart's content if it was FDR or the war or the economic cycle or whatever that ended the depression]. It was just used to make the point that even in a country like the US, where individual liberties are sacrosanct, individual rights have been curtailed if the administration thinks that national interest requires it." My comments: I dont think national interest is synonymous with nationalism. Nationalism or blind patriotism may come in the way of national interest, which can be defined as the freedom and welfare of the people of the nation. Once this end has been identified, a reasoned debate can ensue whether a particular policy is in the interest of the citizens or not. There is no room for irrationalism. I just wished to establish The question of whether "the administration" has the ability or willingness to, on the whole, gauge correctly the "national interest" can be debated no end and yet not settled here. But, of course, we aren't arguing about that here. IMO we should consider the argument of people like Ohmae who claim that "national interest" can no longer automatically be considered the people's interest. Because nations are coming in the way of a more useful flow of all kinds of resources, even You say: " Having said this, let me also state that I am not advocating a blind surrender to 'national interests' [Good heavens, NO!]. All I am doing is pointing out that such situations may arise [and have arisen]. Any abrogation of individual rights is potentially dangerous, and the decision to do so cannot be taken lightly. I thank you for your word of caution, but believe me, it was really not necessary." My comments: Frankly, I am a little confused. I am a little unsure of how this position fits with the position you have taken on Kashmir. There you seemed to be saying that it's okay if the fighting isn't being done in the people's interests but for the glory of Bharat Maata, the deified Just because the situations you talk of may arise, doesnt mean that they are likely to occur with frequency. That is important to understand. It affects the way we see things. If the situation does come up, we will we see. But the burden of proof, IMO, has to be on the "administration" to, as conclusively as is possible, prove that their intervention in my activity is likely to lead to a better situation for everybody or "most people" than if it had been naturally sorted out. In the past, such claims on the part of the government have turned out to be wrong horribly wrong. Though I guess you agree with this. Your comment: "This brings me to the next sub-topic , what are the interests of the nation other than the freedom and welfare of its citizens? None, really. The point is that there have been situations where individual liberties have been suspended to ensure the long term freedom and welfare of the citizens - the emergencies imposed on the nation during the wars of '62 and '71 come to mind." Well, here again, I don't think this quite fits with your position on Kashmir. And war is very different from normal civil life. Your comments: "You said, "Loving your country is very different from worshipping it and being uncritical of what is being done in its name." I know, I agree. I do love my country but I am anything but uncritical of all that is done in its name. You also wanted to know if I would despise those who migrate for personal interest. It is their decision, based on their situations - it is not for me to approve or disapprove. I do wonder, though, what made you ask this." My reply: 'Despise' wasn't really the word I meant. I'm sorry if I sounded a little presumptuous. I think you will agree this discussion is more than a little confused. For my part in this, I apologise. Chirag Kasbekar TYBA (Econ, Socio) St. Xavier's College, Mumbai (Bombay), India. This is the National Debate on System Reform. [email protected]
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Meme coins are dead, long live meme coins! Once every while, the crypto market catches a craze. A real one. Not like some measly "BTC is up 20% today", but a true face-melting hype train, blowing through resistances at full steam and emptying the pockets of anyone who decided to short it. These moments bring those elusive 100 and 1000 baggers to the brave degens who were crazy (or stupid) enough to buy them and not sell at the first signs of profit. At different times in the past the meme king crown belonged to $DOGE, $SHIB, $SAFEMOON and others, but today there's no doubt that the name of the game is $LUNC. It had a spectacular rise and an even more spectacular downfall, going literally to 0 and leaving even the most stubborn dip buyers begging for change on the side of the road. But now it turns out, the phoenix has risen from the ashes, and a whole new wave of speculation is rolling up to the crypto shores. Just observing the price and volume patterns, there's a very similar structure in LUNC right now to what was happening with DOGE a year and something ago: Both had an initial run-up, followed by a flat consolidation, after which the real craze began. Looking into social data, a similar picture appears: Also worth noting, at the time of writing LUNC-related keywords are taking #1 and #8 of our social trends, which is another sign of massive crowd attention. If next we see a crash in LUNC to around $0.25 per 1000, followed by the last leg up above $0.8, then we can safely say that the crypto crowd truly never learns anything from the past, and it's only a matter of time until a carbon copy of today's event happens again. Thanks for reading! Conversations (0) No comments yet Be the first to comment
Share, , Google Plus, Pinterest, Posted in: Weekend of December 4, 2020 – Hour 2 Payment Pos Machine Purchase - mohamed_hassan / Pixabay Tech News and Commentary Dave and the team discuss a firefighting robot, Alexa and fitness tracking, Google and spying, an update to Nest WiFi that allows traffic prioritization, cash not being accepted at the Super Bowl, a new option for low cost 5G phones entering the market, and more. Lance in Dearborn, Michigan listens on AM800 CKLW and asked: “I’ve been getting into gardening lately. Since I live in the northern states, I’m planning to try some indoor gardening. Are there any sensors I can use, any sort of tech, that could help me in my desire to get the perfect tomato, either outdoors or indoors?” Lance, the main sensor youd be able to use is a soil moisture sensor. Theyre relatively inexpensive, for example a PlanetLink soils sensor will cost you about $35 and can be calibrated to monitor for the moisture requirements of tens of thousands of plants. Those kinds of sensors are not all the same, but you can find smart ones that will alert your phone if the plant needs more water, which can be a helpful hint if youre new at this hobby. Its not rare for sensors like these to need to be linked to a hub like Samsungs SmartThings hub. That is a little bit of a pain because youll need one extra device, but it does help extend battery life by using less energy hungry radios than what WiFi requires. Since you mentioned indoor gardening, you may be interested in some of the all-in-one indoor smart garden devices. These are boxes that have room for the plants themselves, but that also include monitoring and grow lights. Some can control their humidity as well to create an ideal environment for the plants. There are lots and lots of these boxes to the point that theyre fairly generic and itd be hard to recommend an actual brand. A few years ago they made up probably 30% of all of the major tech trade shows. They normally start at around $100 and go up in price depending on both size and features. For example, the soil sensor and humidity control, but also WiFi alerts, automatic watering, automatic light schedule, etc. Jake in Colfax, Washington listens on K-MAX and asked: “I just got a car with an older radio. It’s a 2013 Nissan, but it’s got a 2008 radio in it. Do you know if Android Auto would work on it? and on a side note, how does Android Auto work?” Jake, any aftermarket Android Auto head unit will work on it! Any Android Auto radio will do all of the work as long as you just give it power from the same inputs any normal radio will take. The only thing that will affect compatibility and overall experience is whether you can get a double DIN or a single DIN unit, but youll figure that one out right away by just looking at your current car radio. Smart car radios are one of those very rare technologies that play nice with older partners, in this case cars. Ironically, cars dont play nice with newer phones at all and their stock radios can randomly lose features because theyre never updated, so youre probably saving yourself a headache by installing an Android Auto radio if you want to count on being able to pair it with your phone. Puro Sound Labs: Wireless Noise-Canceling headphones for kids Sylvania: SMART+ Wi-Fi light bulbs Turtle Beach: Stealth 700 Wireless Gaming Headset Love Handle: Custom “Into Tomorrow” Smartphone Grips EZVIZ: Indoor Pan/Tilt Wi-Fi Security Cameras Audio archived for at least 6 months Share, , Google Plus, Pinterest, Written by Dave Graveline Dave thrives on audience participation! 3989 posts
To put it simply, cryptocurrencies are assets. They are not backed by any government and are not considered currencies. To avoid confusion, the term cryptocurrency is sometimes used interchangeably with the term crypto-assets. Regardless of the legal status, the two concepts have tax implications. Let’s examine the terms and determine what they mean for you. This article aims to provide an overview of what crypto-assets are and what they are not. The primary difference between cryptocurrency and a traditional currency is the way that they operate. In a traditional bank, assets are either fiat or digital. With cryptocurrencies, you invest in a digital currency, which has no underlying value like traditional fiat currency. However, with crypto-assets, you can exchange, invest, or access goods. To invest in crypto-assets, it is important to understand how they work and why they are valuable. For the layperson, crypto-assets are digital representations of value that can be stored and transferred electronically using distributed ledger technology. In this article, we examine this digital asset from an accounting perspective. Traditionally, there is an implicit belief that miners are compensated via transaction fees or block rewards. However, a recent study suggests that the payment methods may differ and that this may affect the security of the digital asset. You should always understand the risks associated with cryptocurrencies before putting your money at risk. The downside to cryptocurrencies is that they are volatile and unpredictable. While they are not legal tender, they are still subject to market volatility and regulatory concern. Because of their unregulated nature, the value of crypto-assets is dependent upon the community believing they have value. Because cryptocurrencies are considered highly volatile, they need strict regulation to ensure investor protection. In addition, some banks prevent their customers from buying Bitcoin using their credit cards. And, as a result, there is no guarantee of safety. Essentially, cryptocurrency is a form of digital currency. However, it uses blockchain technology and peer-to-peer networking to operate. As a result, the blockchain technology helps in the execution of smart contracts and other financial functions without the need for a third party. These technologies have led to seismic shifts in the financial markets and disrupted financial systems. In particular, cryptocurrencies are used to store and exchange information, make purchases, and settle bills. The world has been abuzz with the emergence of crypto assets. Bitcoin is perhaps the most popular and best known crypto asset. Many have even referred to it as a “North Star” of the digital asset space. Indeed, its trajectory is a compass for the entire ecosystem. In this article, we’ll examine the merits of cryptocurrencies and the technical architecture of the blockchain. If you’re interested in investing in crypto assets, be sure to check out our related article! Before you decide to buy any crypto, make sure it’s registered with the appropriate regulator. Investing in crypto is a highly risky activity, and you should consider the risks of any investment before moving forward. The Canadian Revenue Agency’s guidance on the taxation of crypto assets is a good place to start. Check whether the company is registered with the Canadian Securities Administrators to avoid fraud. If they are, they have a free tool for checking whether they are registered. Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Related News
Friday 11 Rabi‘ al-awwal 1444 - 7 October 2022 Is a husband obliged to spend on his wife’s Hajj? Is it 'Fardh'(obligatory) for a man to send his dependant wife to Hajj if the man is having enough money for the same?. Praise be to Allah. It is not obligatory for a husband to bear the costs of his wife’s Hajj, even if he is rich. Rather it is mustahabb for him to do so and he will be rewarded for that, but he is not sinning if he does not do that. That is not enjoined by either the Qur’aan or the Sunnah. But Islam gives the wife the Mahr which is her exclusive right, and it permits her to dispose of her own wealth. Rather Islam enjoins on the husband to spend on his wife in a manner that is good and reasonable, but it does not oblige him to pay off her debts, or to pay zakaah on her behalf, or to pay the costs of Hajj etc. Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen was asked: will a husband be rewarded if he appoints someone to do Hajj on his wife’s behalf, if she dies without having done Hajj? He said: it is better for him to do Hajj on her behalf himself so that the rituals will be done properly… Then he said: But as for it being obligatory, that is not obligatory for him. Al-Liqa’ al-Shahri, 34, no. 579 Just as it is not obligatory to make up Hajj on her behalf after she dies, so too it is not obligatory for him to pay for her Hajj whilst she is still alive. This is as far as the issue of whether or not it is obligatory is concerned. With regard to being kind to her, if he does that then Allaah does not cause the reward of those who do good to be lost, and Allaah will record for him the reward of her Hajj. The fuqaha’ (may Allaah have mercy on them) stated that it is obligatory for a husband to spend on his wife’s Hajj in the event that he deliberately spoils her Hajj, such as one who forces his wife to have intercourse before the first stage of exiting ihram, etc. Shaykh ‘Abd al-Kareem Zaydaan said: It is not one of the wife’s rights over the husband that he should bear the costs of her Hajj, or share the costs with her. Al-Mufassal fi Ahkaam al-Mar’ah, 2/177 Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked about the same issue and he replied: It is not obligatory for a husband to pay the expenses of his wife’s Hajj. This has to do with men. If a woman has sufficient money to go for Hajj then it is obligatory for her to go for Hajj; if she does not have enough money then she is not obliged to go for Hajj. And Allaah knows best. Was this answer helpful? Source: Islam Q&A
Market Pulse Survey 2020 for Banking in Luxembourg Surfing the waves of change: Is it the calm before the storm for Luxembourg banks? November 6, 2020 Consumer behavior is changing. Nowadays, most of us are used to shopping online, watching films and listening to music on digital platforms, working remotely from home, and even interacting with medical professionals via video-consultations. These ongoing changes have been accelerated due to the current global pandemic. Banks are not being spared from the consequences of these changing habits. In the ocean of possibilities, will they sink or swim? Accenture’s 2020 Market Pulse Survey measured current experience and future expectations of banking customers in Luxembourg. Based on the findings, this article provides a few recommendations that can help banks to master the waves of change. Provide consistent personalized support across all channels While we have seen the increased appetite of consumers to reach out to their bank remotely, our survey highlights a serious weak point applicable to all banks: despite the more important role call centers had this year, they receive a negative Net Promoter Score (NPS) of -10 points. NPS measures customer experience by rating their likelihood to recommend a company, product or service. For our survey, respondents were asked, on a scale of 1 to 10, “would you recommend your bank?” for the overall service, branch, web, mobile, and call center. When asked which channels they feel more inclined to use to connect with their bank today (and after COVID-19), the first preference is phone (51% of respondents), followed by email (48%), via chat (18%) and video call (16%). of consumers feel more inclined since the COVID-19 crisis to use the phone for advice and general questions to their bank of consumers feel more inclined since the COVID-19 crisis to use email for advice and general questions to their bank If remote channels are becoming more and more important, the branch still remains relevant. For years, Luxembourg banking customers have indeed preferred to meet their advisor face-to-face in a branch. A positive branch experience is still one of the most important reasons for staying with their bank for 42% of respondents to our survey. However, this year’s exceptional circumstances have shown that physical locations could still be optimized and adapted more to the new interaction model. It could explain the important drop in NPS for branch experience (down from 14 to 5 points this year). To meet customer expectations, banks not only need to be available at a time and place that is convenient for them, but also to provide consistency and continuity across the different channels their customers value and want to use. By connecting the dots across these channels, banks can demonstrate that they are making an effort to know their customers well and care about the information they have already shared. Keep the positive digital momentum going Consumers are indubitably becoming more digital-savvy – and banks are managing to satisfy their needs. Customers not only accept more virtual interactions with their bank, they also expect them to be offered as a standard. An easy to use mobile app is the main reason to stay with their bank for 37% of respondents. This year’s NPS for mobile and web also indicates a high level of contentment among consumers, who would recommend their bank to friends and family based on their mobile experience (score of 17) and their web experience (score of 20). Also 87% of respondents are satisfied with their daily digital banking and 85% are satisfied with digital onboarding. So, what can banks do to stay on top of the rising wave of digital? Our survey shows that security and transparency score high among consumers. Seventy-two percent of respondents would trust their bank even more if they knew it was taking special care of its data and cybersecurity, while for 78%, transparency on the part of bank advisors when offering them new products and services is a key element of building trust. Going above and beyond traditional banking services Variety is the spice of life, also for banking customers, who value a comprehensive and competitive portfolio of products and services at their bank. However, only half of the respondents are satisfied with proactive offers from their bank, which makes the relationship fragile. One in four respondents would consider leaving their current bank for a competitor that proposes a (more attractive) product or service. This is where beyond banking services can make the best players stand out in the ocean of possibilities. For example, banks can play a more dynamic role in helping their clients achieve financial wellbeing: 30% of respondents would be interested in receiving personalized advice on their fiscal situation and 23% in receiving personal finance advice. For these services, their bank would be the first choice of provider for the majority of consumers. Consumers are expecting more advice and help from their bank in other areas of their lives such as car or home financing services. And there is also interest in beyond banking services such as home maintenance (22% would be interested). 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Sunday, March 7, 2010 The Marriage Pattern of Abraham and His People Alice C. Linsley The rulers among Abraham's people married cousins, nieces and half-sisters. The patrilineal parallel cousins are of special interest because they named their first-born sons after their fathers, thus enabling us to trace descent through many generations. A patrilineal parallel cousin bride is a first cousin who is in the same descent group as her husband. In other words, she and her cousin husband have a common male ancestor. This appears to have been the preferred marriage arrangement for rulers among Abraham's Horite people whose religion was Egyptian/Nubian. These rulers had two wives living in separate households on a north-south axis. One wife was a cousin and the other was a half sister. In Abraham's case, Keturah was his cousin bride and Sarah was his sister bride. This arrangement doesn't seem to have been the practice among common people, as evidenced from excavations such as Deir El Medina where the average housing indicates monogamous marriages. Yet having multiple wives was common among kings and ruler-priests in ancient Nubia and Egypt. Also, the tradition of brother/sister marriages was confined to the royalty until the Greek period. Brother/sister marriage was a common feature of the deities in Egyptian mythology, although these siblings often have different mothers. It may be that Egyptian kings, who were regarded as deities, married according to the mythological deities. Brother/sister, uncle/niece, and patrilineal cousin marriages also strengthened the king's control over his territory. It is also possible that the rulers believed that the Son of God, who they called Horus, would be born of their royal priestly lines and therefore they married only the daughters of royal priests. Egyptian royal couple. Note that the wife is “made white” and the husband is dark, suggesting the symbolism of the Sun (male) and to the Moon (female). Cousin marriage and uncle/niece marriage was common among ancient Egyptian rulers and priests, although it appears that nieces were considered cousins. Half-sister marriage was also common and there is some evidence that the first wife was a sister bride. This was the case with Abraham who married Sarah before he married Keturah. It appears to have been the case with Isaac also (see diagram below). This explains the youthful sexual forlicking described in the Song of Songs where the groom addresses his bride as "my sister" (see 4:9-12). The sister wife is the bride of the man's youth. She is described as having been "made white" (8:5) while her beloved has skin as dark "as the tents of Kedar" because he was made to work in in the Sun by his older brothers (like David). The second wife, a cousin or niece, would be taken at the age that the man was to take over the rule of his father's territory. This explains Abraham's urgency to fetch a cousin bride for Isaac before his death (Gen. 24). It was through the cousin/niece brides that throne names were passed to first-born sons. I call this the cousin-bride's naming prerogative, although it sometimes pertains to nieces as in the case of Isaac's first wife, a daughter of his brother Yisbak. See below. No comments:
The World’s Oldest Lottery Historically, the lottery has been around for a long time. The British government banned lotteries in England from 1699 to 1709, but the Dutch state-owned Staatsloterij is one of the oldest continually running lotteries. The New York Lottery pays winners in lump sums rather than annual payments. The Louisiana Lottery was the first to sell lottery tickets in the United States, but it was only successful in a few states. Lotteries were banned in England from 1699 to 1709 Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the only organized form of gambling in England was the lottery. The popularity of these games led to widespread corruption and astronomical markups. Contractors bought tickets at low prices and resold them for outrageous markups. Moreover, the government received no tax revenue from side bets. Because of these factors, the lottery was widely condemned as mass gambling. Dutch state-owned Staatsloterij is the oldest running lottery The Netherlands is home to the world’s oldest running lottery, the Dutch state-owned Staatsloterij. It is also one of the biggest. In 2008, the lottery needed to strengthen its brand presence and experience. Their existing logo was simply made up of an orange and fish. Moreover, it lacked an elaborate brand identity. The Dutch lottery needed a more engaging brand experience to attract more visitors. New York Lottery pays lump sum instead of annual payments If you are one of the lucky lotto winners who have won the New York Lottery, you may be wondering whether to choose a lump sum payment or annual payments. While you do have the option of choosing between the two, it is crucial to read the terms and conditions of each agreement carefully. In most cases, the lump sum payment will be the equivalent of the advertised jackpot amount. Depending on your age and the amount of money you want to withdraw, you may have a choice of one or the other. Louisiana Lottery was the most successful lottery in the United States In the United States, the Louisiana Lottery is one of the largest and most popular. It began in 1970 and held daily, monthly, and semi-annual drawings, offering a prize of $600,000 once in a while. Players could purchase tickets by mail, and a lucky winner was drawn at random. The lottery company then claimed unsold tickets and split the prize with the board of directors. Lottery pools boost your chances of winning Having a pool of friends or co-workers who buy tickets to the lottery boosts your chances of winning big. Each member agrees to purchase at least one ticket each and share the prize money, even if it is only a small amount. In the case of small prizes, members can buy more tickets without having to spend more money. Often, the lottery pool manager buys a number of tickets, which increases the prize money.
Toggle description Adam Moore, Haarlem Artspace Collectivism Residency 2019. Image: Hayleigh Longman Adam Moore Adam Moore is an interdisciplinary artist exploring themes of multiculturalism, unity and resilience. Applying embodied processes across various disciplines, Adam investigates emergent transdisciplinary forms and their potential to amplify and transcend meaning. Using dance, writing, drawing, collage, sculpture, video and sound, he explores how transdisciplinary practice entails a deeper understanding and synthesis of experience. He limns poetics and theories of sustainability through his practice, inviting others into new ways of perceiving and connecting, through performance and artistic collaboration. Adam sees sustainability as a life-cycle of trial and improvement, enquiring personal and collective exchanges across cultures, identities and experiences. Sustainability explores how these exchanges soften hardened institutions and attitudes, and at the same time reveal alternative ways for life to thrive more fully.
Can Bankruptcy Help Me Pay Off My Student Loans? June 11, 2021 For many graduates, paying off student loans is the first financial task that they face, and often the most daunting. Even if one is employed, starting salaries can be low and it is easy to quickly fall behind on monthly loan payments. This problem can grow over time as loans are easily deferred through the agencies that service student loans, but the balance will remain and interest will accumulate for years. A single five year deferment of a $10,000 loan at the current 6.8% interest rate will add over $3400 to the balance owed, a substantial increase that does not solve the problem of repayment. Will Bankruptcy Dissolve My Student Loan Debt? At some point, one may look at alternatives to repayment just to relieve the financial pressure, and bankruptcy is one of those options often considered. However, student loan debt is not one of the categories of debt that can be dissolved by filing bankruptcy. Since 1976, student loans have been classified as exempt from bankruptcy protection, with substantial collection powers given to government agencies in the case of default. Although there have been a few cases where student loan debtors were allowed by the courts to include that debt in a bankruptcy, those situations are uncommon. In each case, the debtor was able to show a level of undue hardship that persuaded the court that an exception could be made, but in one case it took 10 years to receive a favorable ruling. Assuming that you are not facing extreme economic hardship, how can bankruptcy help you pay off your student loans? Usually, student loans are not the only debt one carries, and you may have credit cards, personal loans or medical debt as well. These areas are all covered by the bankruptcy law and can be discharged under Chapter 7, or reorganized under Chapter 13 with a payment plan. Given this fact, there is an opportunity to adjust your finances and place a priority on paying your student loans, while discharging other types of debt in bankruptcy. Filing Chapter 7 Bankruptcy If you choose to file Chapter 7, your student loans will be listed on the bankruptcy filing, but will not be discharged with the rest of your debt. However, if you had significant debt payments of other types, you may be able to take the money previously paid monthly to those creditors and apply it now to your student loan payments. For example, if you were paying $500 a month on credit card bills, discharging that debt will allow you to use that $500 toward reducing your student loan balance. Under a Chapter 13 filing, the student loan debt would be grouped together with the other listed debts, and included in the payment plan set up by the court. At least in this case the debt is under the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court and is given equal treatment with other debts for repayment. In some cases, you may be allowed by the court to allocate more of the payment to the student loan debt. Filing bankruptcy to reallocate money to student loans can be a sound financial strategy, and is a valid part of the ‘fresh start’ policy that lies behind the bankruptcy laws. For some, it may open the door to creating financial balance for the future. Call the Law Firm Of Joel M. Aresty, PA today to learn more about bankruptcy and student loans.
Yelena Khanga, Belonging, and Blackness in Russia Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a doctoral student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. Early in Episode 694 of the This American Life podcast, “Get Back to Where You Once Belonged,” hosts Emanuele Berry and Ira Glass are watching clips from the 1936 Soviet film Tsirk. Both hosts are entranced by the story’s climax, in which a multiethnic array of Soviet citizens makes a show of accepting American circus performer Marion Dixon’s mixed-race baby (played by Afro-Russian James Lloydovich Patterson). The film led Berry to wonder if the lack of racism in the Soviet Union was real, so she found a Black Russian to interview — Yelena Khanga. Khanga, an Afro-Russian journalist and former television presenter, is known as the Russian Oprah. Many listeners, including those who directed me to the podcast, were surprised to learn that Black Russians existed. The interactions between Berry and Khanga are as intriguing as the content of Khanga’s story. In particular, Khanga’s experience with racism in the Soviet Union and the United States challenged Berry’s understanding of race’s role in non-African Americans’ lives. At times, Khanga’s responses to Berry’s questions made sense considering Russia’s highly specific context but occasionally came off as problematic to the interviewer and many Black American listeners. Khanga and Afro-Russians’ experiences can help us understand the dynamics of race outside of the United States, shedding light on the liminal space Afro-Europeans occupy across the Atlantic. My research examines multiple facets of Black experience in the Soviet Union, Russia, and the post-Soviet space. I currently work on how the unique cultural and social context of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s provided African Americans escaping the Jim Crow United States a relative tabula rasa to interpret and understand their identities as Black people. Yelena Khanga’s grandfather, Oliver Golden, is one of the African Americans who went to the Soviet Union before World War II. In many ways, Khanga is unique, even for Afro-Russians. She is the descendent of an African American and his Jewish wife. Her mother, Lily, is a mixed-race, first-generation Russian. Her father, Zanzibari politician Abdullah Khanga, returned to Zanzibar and was assassinated. Thus, Lily raised her with her grandmother Bertha. A Black woman raised Yelena in a mostly white city, Soviet-era Moscow. Khanga’s discussion of her experiences dating white Russian men exposed the cleavages of race and discrimination in the “anti-racist” Soviet Union. Her mother often told her that she needed to be careful whom she dated because boys would only be interested in the color of her skin. One of Khanga’s boyfriends, Vasya, was in love with her and even went against his family’s wishes to date her. What started as a tale of star-crossed lovers fighting family prejudices took a disturbing turn: according to Khanga, Vasya would call her “Monkey.” For Khanga, this nickname was not racist because it resembled a more conventional Russian pet name like “zaika [little rabbit],” which her female friends heard from their boyfriends on a regular basis. Khanga added that calling her “Monkey” was not racist because Vasya did not have any racist intent or realize he was being insulting. Berry is, understandably, incredulous. Khanga’s reaction to Vasya’s nickname for her illustrates her specific understanding of the role of racism in Russian society. “I couldn’t explain to him that it was racist because I knew he was not racist,” she explained to Berry. “That’s just what he called me.” Growing up with the Soviet ideological framing of racism as a backward product of capitalism, Khanga was not conscious of institutional racism in her upbringing. Thus, for her, racism could only be a product of not of malice, but of ignorance, to be rectified through education and contact with people of other races. Khanga’s view of racism is not unique among Afro-Russians. In recent articles about the Afro-Russian experience, interviewees described their encounters with racism through the prism of ignorance. Khanga’s understanding of racism led to heartbreak in the United States. She fell in love with an African American man to whom she hoped to become engaged. However, a disagreement over their treatment at a restaurant led to their breakup because he felt “we would never understand each other,” due to her not seeing the racial “pressure points” that shaped his life. Khanga’s hardships with dating and finding acceptance as a Black woman in Russia and America illustrates important issues of sexuality, exotification, and belonging for people of color in the post-Soviet region. Khanga longed to visit the United States to find a sense of community and a man who could love her. She describes her dream man as “tall and black.” The man she did meet played music and sports, just as she did. Still, her initial desire for romantic love with a Black man speaks to Khanga’s isolation in the Soviet Union and suggests that Russian men exotified her after all. Isolation understood more generally was a key feature of Khanga’s life in the Soviet Union. She had her mother and grandmother, two positive female forces who made sure she did not feel shame about her Blackness, but her interactions with other Soviet children and teenagers made her feel like an outsider. She mentions asking her mother why she was “ugly” and why her facial features were different from those of her classmates. In response, her mother shared pictures from a magazine she calls Black and Lovely. It is disheartening to hear Khanga explain that, once she showed the magazines to her friends to demonstrate to them that she was, in fact, a beautiful Black girl, they told her it was strange. Berry is surprised when Khanga discusses these episodes because she assumed there was at least a small community of Black Russians who could provide Khanga with solace. The isolation Khanga experienced is often hard for African Americans like Berry and me to understand, since home and family are often the two sources of safety and community that protect us physically and spiritually from American society’s racism. However, Black Russians like Khanga lacked this sense of community. In a recent Calvert Journal article, Afro-Russians born before and after the Soviet Union’s collapse shared their upsetting experiences with isolation and instances of estrangement with their mothers and maternal family lines because of their mixed heritage. Herein lies the paradox of the Soviet Union’s portrayal of itself as an anti-racist state. While many African Americans were able to gain economic opportunities that were not possible for them in the United States, nearly all had returned home by the beginning of the Second World War. The next wave of people of color to travel to the Soviet Union came in the 1950s, as Khrushchev invited African students to study in the USSR as part of the nation’s push to influence the decolonization movement on the African continent. The children born as a result of mixed-race relationships between Soviet citizens (mostly women) and African students were often left alone to face increasing racial discrimination when their fathers returned to their home countries. Race relations in the Soviet Union got so bad that, in 1963, an African student from Ghana was murdered. African students took to the streets to protest the Soviet government’s response to the crime and their own mistreatment as Black students. Unfortunately, the current situation for Afro-Russians and African residents in Russia has shown little improvement. There have been dozens of attacks on Black people and visible minorities in Russia in the past two decades, as well as a marked increase in the number of members in Russian white supremacist skinhead gangs. Even the BLM protests in the United States have impacted race relations in Russia. Over the summer, the Russian Lives Matter movement began in response to Russian police brutality and quickly became a hashtag filled with racist imagery of the American protests. In June, a Russian taxi driver denied a ride to an African student, openly admitting that he, the driver, was a racist. These instances of racism, Afro-Russians’ experiences, and the isolation Khanga experienced in both childhood and adulthood speak to the diversity of Black experience in Russia. These phenomena also beg the question, how did the region go from making an apparently anti-racist film like Tsirk to one in which Africans and Afro-Russians are afraid to go out alone at night? Several scholars, myself among them, are actively seeking answers to this question. Examining the dynamics of race and racism in Russia and the Soviet Union reveals how white supremacy can manifest in society, shedding light on the effects of cultural and social context on minority understandings of racism and prejudice.
Even though we’re seeing insane volatility in the current price of Bitcoin and other coins, there’s a lot of exciting blockchain news in the space for those looking beyond just a quick buck. One big development in this space are cross-chain swaps, aka atomic swaps. The Problem with Modern Coins The DeFi boom means more and more tokens are now being launched. Unfortunately, the current limitation means that users are limited to the blockchain that their token is developed on, meaning it’s still hard to use your tokens or coins on a different system. Even though this is supposed to be decentralisation’s time in the limelight, it’s hard right now for one token to interact with another if they run on different ecosystems, making them largely isolated. This means that if, for example, you have some Ether (ETH) and want to buy some Litecoin (LTC), you would first have to go through an exchange. Cross-Chain Swaps vs. Crypto Exchanges Crypto exchanges today are the primary avenue that allows users to trade their tokens or coins. However, this type of crypto asset management in the UK and elsewhere comes at a cost. You don’t control your tokens, the exchange does. This means that if an exchange is hacked or goes down, you can lose access to your tokens. And, if you’re trading on an exchange that supports a single cryptocurrency or token, this means that you have to deal with liquidity issues. With cross-chain swaps, there are no third-parties involved. As a result, this means that you no longer have to trust anyone with your asset or tokens, which makes for huge cost savings. Not only will the process be faster, cheaper, and safer with cross-chain swaps, but it will also be easier to perform. Cross-Chain Swaps: How Do They Work? Here’s where cross-chain swaps or atomic swaps come to the rescue. In order to do perform a cross-chain swap, both parties will use a special smart contract. Here’s the process: • Two parties agree to exchange their tokens or assets. • They submit their assets to the smart contract, called the Hash Time locked Contract (HTLC). • Each party then exchanges their hash keys to verify that the other party has approved and deposited their assets within the specified time frame. • If both parties make the correct deposit at the time specified by the smart contract, the transaction is executed and carried out. If it’s not, the tokens are returned to their respective owners. Easy, lightning-fast, and trustless. Cross-chain swaps will essentially change the way we transact with each other by removing the need for expensive third-parties that often charge exorbitant fees just to trade. Stay Updated on the Latest Blockchain News Cross-chain swaps are just one of the many exciting new technologies that are currently in development. Learn how to integrate these new technologies into your investment strategy with Key Coin Assets! We also offer key services for blockchain companies, such as digital marketing for blockchain, brand ambassador services, and digital asset management. Call us NOW at 843-886-9547 to get FREE personalised recommendations on how to build wealth in crypto and the blockchain! In the meantime, explore our blog for the latest blockchain news today!
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Who Was Priest Fleischmann? 10 Tips to Ensure Success as an Adult Learner Top 8 Benefits Of Using A Tupperware Online Loans Scam Alert: Beware of These 6 Common Types Online loans have become quite popular over the past... The 3 Essentials To Be Able To Live In A Tiny House Loads of people have decided to downsize and get... Inflation and Its Impact on the Pink Tax Anneliese Michel was thought to have been possessed by six different demons, one of which was believed to be Priest Fleischmann. The fictional film “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” was based on the actual events that occurred during an exorcism of these demons. In the 16th century, a man named Valentin Fleischmann served as a Catholic priest in the Diocese of Frankfort. Approximately 1572 and 1575 were the years that Fleischmann served as a priest. Because of the way he behaved while under the influence of alcohol, the Catholic church had excommunicated and defrocked him. Fleischmann was charged with both assault and murder, respectively. Fleischmann was the sixth demon discovered to be inhabiting Anneliese Michele’s body, as stated by the priests who performed the exorcism of Anneliese Michele, a young German woman. The exorcism took place in Germany. It is possible that Anneliese, who was a devout Catholic and lived in Germany, was taught about Valentin Fleischmann during the course of her education. The Franks were of Germanic origin, and Fleischmann was a resident of Ettlebin, Bavaria. It’s possible that this information played a role in the alleged appearance of Fleischmann in his demonic form. During the course of the exorcism, it was discovered that Anneliese’s body was inhabited by a total of six different demons. Lucifer, the Roman Emperor Nero, Adolf Hitler, Cain, and Judas Escariot were the other members of the other five, which also included Fleischmann. There is a school of thought that holds that Valentin Fleischmann exemplifies the moral rot that permeates the Catholic priesthood as well as the church itself. Before she passed away in 1976, Anneliese was the subject of nearly seventy exorcisms, all of which were performed by Father Arnold Renz and Pastor Ernst Alt. Josef and Anna Michel, Anneliese’s parents, have been charged with negligent homicide in their daughter’s death. Renz and Alt were also charged. Anneliese’s death was caused by a lack of nutrition and water, and she weighed only 68 pounds when she passed away. What exactly is meant by “Qualcomm 3G CDMA”?
Why Compliments Directed at Others Aren’t Criticisms Directed at You There seems to be a tendency within us to perceive third-party compliments directed at our competitors to be personal attacks directed against us. Whether you want to call it envy or a mechanism of survival, taking personal offense to compliments which have nothing to do with us can be a bad social habit to possess. We perceive the recognition sent toward those we consider ourselves to be better than as unjust. For example, if you perceive yourself to be a charismatic individual, compliments directed at how charismatic your friend is during social gatherings can feel painful to you. Your identity would anchor on your perception of being more charismatic than the rest. You can thereby set out to prove that identity right in the face of others receiving recognition for the same thing. This article is written to motivate you to observe these feelings within you without allowing them to spark unnecessary actions or commentary. Specifically, this is written to warn you against attempting to step into the shining spotlight that was cast on someone else. Voluntary Publication of Your Sensitivities In bearing witness to someone receiving the compliments you think should be directed your way, you’ll feel a desperate desire to reel them in for yourself. As the spotlight is cast on the person being complimented, you can find yourself attempting to place yourself in it. Remember though, that spotlight tends to illuminate your insecurities when it’s not meant for you. If the conversation is about an individual who is not physically present, you can observe yourself wanting to downplay the accomplishments / skills which are being complimented. Other times, you may subtly want to insert yourself into the conversation. “Yeah John does very well during stakeholder meetings, trust me I know how hard it is to be likeable as well as to the point during these. I’ve had to prepare for hours the night before meetings like that, and that work often goes unnoticed.” You will voluntarily disclose the insecurities you hold if you make attempts to make an otherwise positive, complimentary, conversation about yourself. Remember, only someone else should make you the subject of a complimentary conversation. If you do so yourself, it will be evident to all around just how much you’re attempting to socially gain from that fact. Since such social dynamics happen in the psychological realm, they’re difficult to visualize. You should therefore try to remember the chocolate and the pickle: The Chocolate and the Pickle Your intentions to place yourself in the spotlight (either by discrediting others or by propping yourself up) are akin to switching out a piece of chocolate for a pickle as others try to take a bite. Even though there’s inherently nothing wrong with the pickle, the people around you do not expect to take a bite of it at that moment in time. The shock factor of forcing yourself into their psychological bite will almost always result in a reaction of disgust They’re there to indulge on the topic of someone else’s skills / performance / etc. Do not try surprising their appetite for that by forcing your pickle down their throat. Voluntary Publication of Perceived Competition The people complimenting others do not know that you may perceive those they’re complimenting as competitors. There is an even more important point to remember about your act of taking offense in the face of others receiving compliments. We seldom get offended at others’ receiving compliments if we don’t perceive ourselves to compete with them in the thing they’re being complimented about. Your Shapely Glutes If you’ve focused on improving the size and shape of your glutes at the gym, for instance, you will feel a desire to be noticed when others’ glutes are complimented. If you don’t think much about that portion of your body however, compliments about others’ shapely behinds will not give birth to envious discomfort within you. You will not feel as if your own glutes have been overlooked. You will thereby not be personally offended at your workout progress not being recognized by others. The publication of those you find yourself in competition with is sensitive information to give up for various reasons. People around you will have information on who you deem your competitors to be. By knowing those we compete against in various aspects of life, people will, at the very least, know how to push our competitive buttons. They’d be able to cause us pain in the form of eliciting jealousy. They’d begin comparing us to those we compete against and perhaps involuntarily grouping us with / against those people inside their perception. Be careful in exposing who you secretly compete against in life. Be calculated in analyzing how knowledge of your secret competition against someone will affect the social dynamics around you. Your competitors may begin picking at your weaknesses. They may ramp up the competition into realms you didn’t want to enter. Others may begin taking sides; talking behind your back about the domain you compete in, and can inadvertently add on more stress to your existence. Try to not expose your desire for the presence of your competitors’ mediocre results. An essential way of doing that is to not take compliments they receive from others as personal attacks. Read our analyses of current events by becoming a subscriber.
Search Menu Selena Duvivier You are here: Home / Alumni / Alumni Profiles / Alumni Profiles Folder / Selena Duvivier '18g International Affairs, '18 International Politics \| AmeriCorps VISTA, National Housing Trust \| Washington, D.C. Up one level Selena Duvivier Liberal Arts Majors: International Affairs ('18g) and International Politics (B.A.) Liberal Arts Minors: Spanish and Latin American Studies Hometown: Philadelphia, PA Current Location: Arlington, VA What enrichment activities did you participate in as a student? I completed a summer internship at the International Department for the Ministry of Energy in Santiago, Chile. I also completed work study with Global Connections, a local nonprofit organization. What was your first job after graduating from Penn State? After graduating from Penn State, I interned for the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). What was your favorite class? My favorite classes were related to the history of the United States and Latin America, and how that has impacted modern-day society. How did your liberal arts education and skills prepare you for your life after graduation? My liberal arts education was defined by the hands-on experiences I had. From a degree like international affairs, the traditional classroom setting would not and could not have prepared me for the lived experiences of the topics in which I was studying. My international experiences, internships, and various jobs related to my degrees definitely contributed to my education and skills obtained. What networking advice would you share with current students? Networking is essential to my career. Particularly as I start my career in D.C., not having a strong network of connections would deeply limit the opportunities available to me. My advice to current students is to stop thinking of networking events as a one-sided relationship, with the goal of obtaining a job. It really doesn't work like that and will make networking into this big monster that you avoid, when in reality it should be an opportunity you run to. Not only does continuous involvement in networking events allow you to practice that "elevator speech" with various people, but it also allows you to practice advocating for yourself and building a network of smart, experienced individuals. Singularly, one person may not lead to a job, but combined, multiple individuals can point you in the direction of your next opportunity. What role have mentors played in your career progression? Mentors have been key to my career progression. I'm someone who doesn't make decisions easily, so getting the advice and perspective of those I consider my mentors have been incredibly helpful in professional and personal growth. Mentors, like those in the Career Enrichment Network and supervisors in my current role, have been amazing in helping to build my career confidence and support me in my career "spiral." Return to Top
Lawful Rebellion is only where it starts 0 Flares 0 Flares × If you want anymore information about Lawful Rebellion and all the retaliatory paper we’ve included in our website for you in the past, then this website from this point forth, and this piece of writing probably isn’t going to be for you all the time, so don’t expect anything more. But if you want to read about somebody who probably feels just like you do at times, who wants to express their journey, then please read on. We want to break away from being an exclusive Lawful Rebellion only website and movement. I have lost nearly everything in the material world except for the things I need to help me with my journey. Why? Because I believed that Lawful Rebellion was going to solve all the world’s troubles and I wouldn’t miss having money. Before I found Lawful Rebellion I had forgotten the ability to reflect and consider other peoples’ points of view. But how can any of us ever make any progress in our lives if we are always busy doing other peoples work and using up most of our energy in servitude to the System? Catch 22 whatever that means! Certain people, who some may call villains, cowards, evil or even sheeple, are just like us. There is a good chance most people think they’re doing the best thing they can think of at this moment in time, protecting their families; helping the environment; gaining control of a company; hiding from the truth; waging war on people; protecting their country’s culture; getting their own back; maybe even dicing some people up into tiny pieces. What does make something right and wrong? This is I suppose why I embraced Lawful Rebellion and let it completely change the direction of my life. After studying all the theory of Lawful Rebellion, testing out the practises and then making myself a Sovereign in Law, I cannot say the conflict has brought me much success. Yes, I’ve stood upto an international bank; walked over the TV License; all fines; and helped many others do the same. For me, this part of the journey was just another way of me looking outwards instead of inwards. One of the most evident things I’ve learned along the way is that everything I say and do is only a reflection of my mind expressing itself through my five senses. And that it is much easier to pass judgment and transfer energy to another soul, rather than to dissipate the energy through reflection. I was and still am so lost from all the programming and social pressure that it is very natural to blame the visible programmers of the System. The people who control this ‘System’ have been allowed to dominate us. Great Britain in the name of its people kill innocent families every single day in places, most of us will never see. CCTV is rampant on this Island because we allowed it. The tax burden and the blind robbing of your pockets from the socially dominant is allowed by us every single day. So why do we accept this reality, channel our energy into it, then on the other hand loath it and think about how to bring it all down? A sensible instinct is that my basic natural rights as a human being have been taken away. Not by them, but by me because I’ve allowed it to happen by playing the game. I have let others gain control of something that cannot be controlled. This is why I’m chaotic, confused, fearful and angry. I am trying to interact with a reality that is built upon something learned, called rationality. What is the source of this rationality? I believe it came from the only thing that we all still share with our rational minds, the ‘information highway’. I have got so used to taking part in this giant fountain of rational human information, that when I believe something is right or wrong, which isn’t rational to ‘society’, it’s repelled, as it unbalances the status quo. Stupid rational minds!Status quo isn’t just reserved for the System, it’s also rampant with family and friends. Have you ever done things you regret? Then your family or friends sometimes don’t even give you chance to explain yourself before they judge, which could last years? It seems this rational reasoning is favoured by modern Western civilisation and has moved us into an era of dealing with situations plainly with our minds and not with our hearts. A perfect example of this transformation of the mind and heart is the physical manifestation of the Web. There is no contemplation, love or spirit inside the Web of our collective digital minds. It is the quintessential guidebook to rationality; and a place where everyone can instantly transmit vacuous sentiment and poor information without fear of reprisal. The Web is the ultimate battleground where man meets mind and all human focus is zombified into 0s and 1s, slowly gnawing away at our lifeblood. If the System wants nothing more than for us to be sitting inside our homes connected to the Web dictating and watching our every move, then it’s ‘rational’ to assume that our minds’ want nothing more than to lay back and be programmed what to do. This theory isn’t bollox I’ve pulled out of the ether, it’s been scientifically-proven that our brains do their best to not think. It’s actually really hard to engage our minds’ is it not? Procrastination is a disease, which has spread across Western culture. Since the machines and slaves do everything for ‘society’ now, we have nothing to do except procrastinate in our free time. I’m not talking about procrastination in the typical definition. I’ve formed the opinion that the System is a manifestation of our minds’ taking over, resulting in this self-loathing reality, just so we can endlessly search for the answer as to why we’re here now doing what we do. The Orion Nebula from Hubble At this stage I’d like to pose what Lawful Rebellion means within the aforementioned paradigm? Is it a way out if you learn about how the System works; a conflict with bureaucracy; or an expression of the desire to make our world a better place? How can any of these suggestions be right if the popularised foundation of Lawful Rebellion itself is made up of pieces of defining and retaliatory paper? I now realise, the very System that I’ve been fighting against is there for the purpose of conflict, which is shrouded in justice and liberties – just another reflection of the chaotic order of the mind. How is this scenario any different than throwing rotten veg at the Village idiot who’s in the Stocks for committing anti-social behaviour; or everyone ganging up on the adulterer each throwing a stone at her in disgust. I’d like to ask, why are there ways in which we’ve found to ‘lawfully’ counteract the System? How can we be right and the whole System be unlawful? Don’t you think that’s paradoxical, if it’s supposed to be oppressing us? Please contemplate this for a moment, as it’s important you express this within your thoughts. I see four distinct journeys in Lawful Rebellion. The people who want to maintain the System and just achieve fairer Serfdom; people who seek to discredit; people who have begun to question themselves and everything around them; and those who are already becoming enlightened, thus free from the prison, but directly suffering caused by attachments and judgments. Humans can manifest so many objects, join them together to create physical spaces for no real reason than to escape. We can blame everything around us, and then destroy all the physical manifestations we believed to be wrong, only to see that later in history we’re building the same thing with a slightly new twist. So you see, to rebuild something that clearly doesn’t work like, The British Constitution, British Common Law or the System itself, is the illusion that the problems we face are merely physical, which to me is wrong and will result in the square root of buggerall. Why? Simply because it’s the rational thing for people to do. Our collective consciousness has allowed a Kingdom of rules and regulations for the governing of our minds with a hierarchy to match. We cannot blame anyone but ourselves for all of this torture. Have any of you noticed how the System is continually modulating to the new frequencies of our enlightenment? The rise of CCTV, police domination and civil liberties giving people the power to condemn somebody to judgment in a Court because of an emotion or action ‘out of control’? These are all manifestations from the rational consciousness fearing instability will occur if any of us rock the boat. Thus resulting in good men and women fighting for what they believe is the right thing to do, by issuing Justice to those who just want to experience something irrational like rocking the boat. There is no way of telling what anything would be like until we all experience it for ourselves – not through books, media or whispers, just through our hearts. Fear is the mind’s greatest weapon and it’s this very thing, which is at the core of the System’s construct. The System is nothing more than you and me. I cannot see how any kind of paper bureaucracy produced by Lawful Rebellion or individuals can be anything but conflict with ourselves. If fear is based on rationality, then surely to break the System, we all need to become irrational? Using this philosophy, it’s obvious that the System knows our every rational move, because it’s already anticipated it, or at extremes will use other rules to move the goal posts in order to maintain control. Does this sound like how your mind sometimes deals with difficult issues? I know mine does at times. This is where the element of surprise comes from and the System’s antidote is people fearing to express even the slightest ‘extreme’ viewpoint in case they’re reported. Democracy, the Free Market (Capitalism) and freedom of expression for all Serfs is the perfect model to sustain control, because it shifts with our collective rational mind. We’ve allowed our entities to be segmented into various disorders, organisations, clubs, unions, groups, countries and races for the ease of flow of information and some crude form of identity, which has created divides like nothing seen in previous history. And we’ve allowed the Rule of Law, to develop a colossal body and voice in which for it to nurture its growth, the only reminders being Justice, sacrifice and the paper trail. Law has merely given the mind the ability to shift Liability, thus offloading any burden ‘rightfully’ onto somebody else. Once we have all mastered as individuals the ability to be altruistic, which is quintessentially irrational to the System of the mind, Mother Nature will in time reclaim all control, hierarchy, economies, cities and ‘societies’. Only then will we be able to transfer our new light into physical manifestations stepping closer to enlightenment. I don’t think any of us will need anything more than to be with others; and have enough to live to accomplish this goal, anything else will be a distraction, thus outwardly-faced and within the confines of the System and mind. This is a message in the change of direction with Both Richy and myself have decided that Lawful Rebellion’s boat needs to be rocked, as we feel it has reached the end of the universe with us both and we need to plot a new course. Please leave comments about how you feel. 0 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 0 0 Flares ×
Basic Instructions To Share and +4 nLEARNs Basic instructions To compile release version of the smart contract you can run: cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release The above build command is setting a target flag to create a WebAssembly .wasm file. Notice that your project directory now has a few additional items: ├── Cargo.lock ⟵ created during build to lock dependencies ├── Cargo.toml ├── src │ └── └── target ⟵ created during build, holds the compiled wasm Build and Flags We recommend you to optimize your build artifact with the use of the next flags in your Cargo.toml file. If you are performing a multi-contract build, you should include these settings in the Cargo.toml that is at the root of your project. codegen-units = 1 # Tell `rustc` to optimize for small code size. opt-level = "z" lto = true debug = false panic = "abort" # Opt into extra safety checks on arithmetic operations overflow-checks = true The above command is essentially setting special flags and optimizing the resulting .wasm file. At the end of the day, this allows you to customize the cargo build --release command. Custom Flags If you wish to add custom flags to your build, you can perform this by adding build flags to your ProjectFolder/.cargo/config.toml as illustrated in this example. rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-s"] A full set of build options can be accessed at You can find an example here. Scroll to Top
Roughly ten years ago, the influencer marketing space was restricted to only dedicated bloggers and celebrities. In the present, it seems like there is an influencer around every corner of your next click on a link. With such an increase in prevalence comes an increase in misinformation. Don't you think it's important to get informed through the right channels from people who have been where you're looking to go? Some recommendations come in the form of half-hearted thoughts to convicted opinions that resemble a sort of internet dogma; marketing strategies using influencers have become more complex with each passing year. What is Influencer Marketing? On a basic level, influencer marketing is a kind of marketing that uses social media in order to leverage the popularity of individuals with a dedicated online following and their endorsement of a product. Generally seen as experts within their arenas, market influencers are successful because they have built up a high level of confidence and trust over time. Therefore, product recommendations from their social media accounts serve as a form of social proof for the company that incorporates them into their brand. Influencer Marketing Today With the consolidation and growth of social media platforms, standing out as unique on sites such as Instagram or Facebook has become an uphill battle. If you were fortunate enough to stand apart from the crowd in 2014, you might have been tapped as a rising influencer in your field of expertise. Once one had enough brand experience under their belt, they could transform from social media influencer to full-time marketer. But Change is the Universal Constant, Right? We are all influenced in one way or another by what we see online, and cultural aesthetics are no different. It now seems as though everyone has carefully curated images of items resting against click-provoking backgrounds with splashes of bright colors flung throughout. When the "standout" look becomes the new normal, what's the next evolution? Trends point to a more "organic" feel becoming the accepted standard. This is being driven by the younger users of social media networks who are seeking a return to what they feel like a natural communicative exchange over something that has too much corporate gloss. While millennials waxed poetic about getting that "perfect shot" with the most expensive or unique camera equipment, zoomers are content to post directly from their mobile devices to their media platform of choice. To serve as a fashionable influencer marketer amongst a younger generation, there is no rule to adhere to ideally-set photos with professional posture. Rather, casual and friendly poses rule the day, and any editing is usually kept to a minimum. However, this too will only be transitory, as the only constant across influencer marketing is constant change. What is the Value of Influencer Marketing? Although it has become a researched strategy today, there are several different networks dedicated to growing influencers for increased web traffic. The worth of the influencer marketing industry is set to exceed 11 billion dollars in value by 2022. Each social media network like TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook have their own set of influencers and demographics that are likely to be found in their sphere. Influencer marketing creates a return on investment greater than most traditional marketing channels, especially when considering that industries advertising across various media outlets intends to increase their budgets substantially year by year. How To Create an Influencer Marketing Strategy Just like any other marketing strategy, designing an influencer program takes careful planning and demographic targeting. At Legnd, we know that you won't find success by merely sending free things out to every random person who asks for something or even to your already existing network of contacts. We understand the steps of cultivating the ideal influencer program: 1) How to Find Market Influencers Research is always the first step of many processes, and this is no different. Stick to one platform at first, and expand later after you find a tactic that works. Ideally, you will already have a footprint on the platform you want to start off with. Since the industry you're in matters, focus on the platform that seems to naturally highlight your strengths as an organization or company. For example, fashion and beauty are all across Instagram and YouTube, while gaming is the dominant genre on Twitch. 2) Set a Budget and Management Strategy for Influencers Compensation can vary quite a bit, so make sure that you have set a budget in accordance with the typical rates and size of influencers that you're looking to attract. Micro-influencers might be able to be dealt with directly by contacting them on their platform of choice and sending them product samples, while large celebrities that span multiple platforms might require you to go through a talent agency. 3) Decide on Goals and Messaging If you have the resources, consider a formal ambassador program. This will both help to elevate sales and increase your brand awareness with what could be the most effective return on investment. However, you can always elect to focus on the specific needs of your brand or organization. This could include increasing your awareness amongst new user groups or increasing awareness within younger demographics. It's critical to remember that an engaged audience is one that will continually interact with your content and translate their participation into sales. 4) Evaluate and Refine Your Influencer Marketing Strategies Even as your influencer marketing strategy is being actively implemented, it's important to set specific times and dates when you will take a bearing on its progress. As each campaign is carefully evaluated, you can see where your greatest return on investment was had and amend your budget accordingly. Capitalize on Influencer Marketing Influencer marketing is the way of the social media future, and it has become a fixture of the landscape online. However, with every iteration and advancement of how people interact online, there is always change. 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“When a Child’s Dreams reach to God”, offered by Linda Willows…photo/inspiration 6 thoughts on ““When a Child’s Dreams reach to God”, offered by Linda Willows…photo/inspiration 1. Hello, that you for your question. The first key is that I never assign writing as a task. I wait until I feel a “fullness of that which is seeking to be expressed” prompted from my heart and that feels like a great fullness that is like carrying something which longs for expression and must be put to word. Then, because of the waiting art, the writing time is very full and that creative period is like pouring out that fullness like water from a full vessel. The words come full bodies in sentences, though I never know the next sentence until I write the one prior. It is like pulling a woven thread from a place that is already partially created but I need to use myself as the sculptor to finish the form with the dance of the words. I am like one part of the process but not the full creator. Creativity is the willingness to be still, to listen to something greater than yourself, to remain in waiting, to learn to hear the prompting, to follow it, and to learn to dance with it as the medium of expression. Then, to stand back and review, edit, review, refine, shed, refine and create an aesthetic that matches the original nature of the prompting that initiated the writing. Leave a Reply to Linda Willows Cancel reply WordPress.com Logo Twitter picture Facebook photo Connecting to %s
I am frequently asked if acupuncture can help with weight loss. The short answer is yes. Now to qualify this answer–acupuncture brings the body back into balance so everything, including your metabolism, will function more optimally. And, during treatment times we will explore lifestyle issues that may be preventing you from retaining a healthy weight. Here are some lifestyle tips to help with weight management and digestion as a whole. 1. In the Chinese paradigm, how you eat is just as important as what you eat. • Eat sitting at a table, relaxed and unhurried. • Eating in the car, while watching television, while arguing with your daughter, or while working will impair your digestion and the manner in which your food is transformed. • Sit comfortably. Look at your food. Smell your food. Taste every bite. Enjoy your meal. If you are with others, have tranquil, stress-free conversation while you savor your food. • Chew your food thoroughly. This action will help you get more flavor from your food, will begin the digestive process as food is masticated and saliva begins to break it down, and contributes to the feeling of satiety. • The stomach is at its peak between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. Your first meal of the day should be your largest, providing you with a foundation of nutrition to sustain you for the rest of the day. Continue to nourish your body and mind with a hearty lunch to help keep up your activity level through the afternoon. Conversely, the stomach’s low time for functioning is 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. It is best to finish eating a light dinner before 7:00 p.m. so your food will not stagnate overnight in your stomach while you are sleeping. 3. Eat at fairly consistent times. • The body likes consistency. Experiment to find an eating schedule that works for you and then stick to it as much as possible. Does your body function best with three good meals? Or do you need a snack in the morning and/or one in the afternoon? The body and brain need an adequate, steady supply of material to digest and transform throughout the day in order to make acquired qi (energy force) to provide you with the energy you need to function well through the day. 4. Stop eating when you feel almost full. • Overeating causes the stomach to have to work very hard to process food and frequently results in food stagnation and digestive problems. Stop when you are not quite full. Continue to sit at the table and enjoy the conversation. It takes about 20 minutes for the brain to register satiety once the stomach is full. If you are still truly hungry after this rest, then have another small helping. 5. Eat warm or room temperature foods. • The stomach works at a temperature of around 100 degrees. If you put cold or frozen food into your stomach, it has to work that much harder to bring the food to a temperature it can process. This effort will diminish the ability to digest and metabolize your food. 6. Drink fluids between meals. • Have only a small cup of water or green tea with your meals. Too many fluids will dilute stomach acids and reduce the effectiveness of digestion. 7. Eat seasonally. • Eat foods which are locally grown in season and eat appropriately cooked foods for the season. For example, in the winter we need a diet that produces more heat so we eat a little more protein and grains; and it is best to eat soups and stews cooked with winter squashes or cold weather greens and warming herbs and spices. While in the summer we need a diet to help us stay cool and light, so we cut back on meat and dairy products and eat higher water content foods, mostly fruits and vegetables. Also, in the summer we are better able to digest cool, raw foods such as salads. See the Seasonal Health pages on my website. 8. Eat what your body recognizes as food. • Eat real foods—fruits, vegetables, whole grains, meats, legumes, eggs . . . The body doesn’t recognize most processed foods and additives as food. Therefore, we can’t break them down and metabolize them in a way that provides us with optimal nutrition. Do you need a plan? If so, make one. Here are some suggestions to get you started. • Define your goal(s). Do you want to lose 10 lbs.? Gain 10 lbs.? Maintain your current weight? Reduce your blood pressure or blood sugar levels? Whatever it is or they are, write it/them down. • Pick a date to start, and put it in bold letters on your calendar. • Enroll the assistance of everyone with whom you have daily contact; tell them your aspirations and request their help to NOT offer you unhealthy or inappropriate foods. • Clean out your kitchen. Give away or throw out all processed foods. If you can’t recognize or pronounce an ingredient in an item, your body can’t either (this includes artificial sweeteners). Also move out anything containing sugar (especially high fructose corn syrup) and white flour. • Restock your kitchen. Shop after a satisfying meal so you’re less likely to be tempted to buy processed foods. Buy only good quality produce, olive oil, high quality organic butter, organic pastured meats and poultry, and high quality herbs and spices. • Community support can make all the difference in maintaining changes after the “honeymoon period.” See if you can get a friend, a family member, or a small group to join you in changing your habits. As for what to eat, see my page, Food Matters and all the sub-pages.
Where old school meets new age. How do the world’s most powerful leaders and influential brands step out of status quo and into quantum levels of success? You know that constant drive, never-enough feeling? That desire to succeed, create, achieve, compete, and create? Energy accelerates that. Energy is the difference between quantum leaps and status quo. The difference between “mediocre” and “extraordinary”. By leveraging energy you’ll experience next-level results in your life and work - results that can’t be achieved by any other means. Simply put, there is no amount of grind that can match the power of an aligned person running their life and business through energy. 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