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This book provides a valuable reference tool for technical and management personnel who lead or are a part of incident investigation teams. This second edition focuses on investigating process-related incidents with real or potential catastrophic consequences. It presents on-the-job information, techniques, and examples that support successful investigations. The methodologies, tools, and techniques described in this book can also be applied when investigating other types of events such as reliability, quality, occupational health, and safety incidents. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text of the book for portability as well as additional supporting tools for on-site reference and trouble shooting.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Barry White's Candlelit Rendezvous
By: Linnea Crowther
5 years ago
Barry White, who would have turned 68 today, passed away nearly a decade ago and we still can't get enough. When White died in 2003, we learned that neither could his fans.
At the time of White's death, Legacy.com was just a few years old and had been providing Guest Books with obituaries for a relatively short time. We reviewed each and every entry submitted to make sure it was appropriate for the Guest Book, and we thought we had seen it all. And then with White's death, a new conundrum: how to handle the many messages from people who wanted to reminisce about, um, what they were doing and which/how many of their children were conceived while listening to White's, er, deeply romantic songs.
These Guest Book entries initially threw us for a loop. Is it OK in a condolence message to share the story of how your child was conceived? In the end, we decided that for Barry White's Guest Book, this kind of memory was totally appropriate to post (as long as it didn't describe that "special moment" too graphically). After all, back in the '70s, White's songs were the gold standard for setting a romantic mood. We can't help but think of a candlelit, soft-focus rendezvous when we hear a song like this one…
But White did more than help along countless relationships. He also ushered in the disco era with his innovative blend of R&B and classical music, set to a driving and danceable beat. At the helm of The Love Unlimited Orchestra, he became one of the first disco chart-toppers.
White kept the hits coming throughout the '70s – like "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe," which dominated both the R&B and pop charts.
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After his failed presidential campaign, Rick Santorum needed a job and took one as the head of a Christian movie company, which has caused all kinds of problems in that company’s management. It doesn’t look like they’re getting much for their money as the first movie released under his leadership is a huge flop.
The Christmas Candle, set in the fictional English village of Gladbury and billed as “a timeless holiday film for the entire family”, attracted widespread critical scorn as well as dismal box-office results, having grossed just over $1.6m (£988,000) after two weeks on release.
The bad reviews were perhaps predictable, with the New York Daily News saying: “This odd Dickens-meets-Sunday-school movie is as artless as the setup is muddled”, while the New York Post judged: “This throwback, made-for-TV-style film takes the easy way out in a cheesy climax, but its resolute quaintness may appeal to the kind of viewers who regard electricity as disturbingly newfangled.” The Arizona Republic called it “resolutely stiff and hollow”…Its opening weekend, on a small “platform” release on just 5 screens, took a respectable $68,000; but in its second week, when it expanded to over 390, it took less than $1m. The crucial screen average was an extremely moderate $2,500, putting it below the likes of The Best Man Holiday, Narco Cultura, and bodybuilding doco Generation Iron – and far beneath Catching Fire and Philomena.
I’m sure it’s all the devil’s fault. Or the liberal media. Or Obama and George Soros. Or maybe it’s just a crappy movie.
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Fine and Decorative Arts
Our region has talented Artists and Artisans from the Tłı̨chǫ Region. They include traditional art and crafts, which preserve traditional knowledge and the unique Tłı̨chǫ style. We also have contemporary aboriginal art, which include paintings, depicting Tłı̨chǫ oral history passed on from generation to generation.
You will find paintings, prints, and clothing using traditional tanned hides, beadwork, embroidery, jewelry, traditional drums, snowshoes and many other beautiful and useful things.
To browse through the Artists and Artisans creations. Feel free to contact them directly to acquire their creations or visit the Tłı̨chǫ Online Store.
- The Tłı̨chǫ Government and the Tłı̨chǫ Community Services Agency have worked together on projects related to discovering, preserving, recreating and celebrating the cultural heritage of our communities. They announced the that the Tłı̨chǫ Online Store is now open. If you would like to make inquiries please email onlinestore[at]tlicho[dot]co
If you are in the Tłı̨chǫ region or Tłı̨chǫ descendant and would like to have your work displayed on this site, please email info[at]tlicho[dot]com.
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Exact and mid-point rounding cases of power(x,y)
Abstract : Correct rounding of the power function is currently based on an iterative process computing more and more accurate intermediate approximations to x^y until rounding correctly becomes possible. It terminates iff the value of the function is not exactly a floating-point number or an midpoint of two floating-point numbers of the format. For other elementary functions such as exp(x), arguments for which f(x) is such an exact case are, few. They can be filtered out by simple tests. The power function has at least 2^35 such arguments. Simple tests on x and y do not suffice here. This article presents an algorithm for performing such an exact case test. It is combined with an approach that allows for fast rejection of cases that are not exact or mid-point. The correctness is completely proven. It makes no usage of costly operations such as divisions, remainders or square roots as previous approaches do. The algorithm yields a speed-up of 1.8 on average in comparison to another implementation for the same final target format. It reduces also the percentage of average time needed for the exactness test from 38% at each call to 31% under unlikely conditions. The algorithm is given for double precision but adapts and scales perfectly for higher precisions such as double-extended and quad precision. Its complexity is linear in the precision.
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'Rich killers' stalk City of Lost Girls
Sandra Jordan reports from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where one campaigner is battling the authorities to expose the powerful men she believes to have murdered 100 women
Ciudad Juarez is known as 'the city of the dead girls'. In 10 years almost 400 women have been murdered in this city on the border between Mexico and El Paso, Texas, and the killings continue. Now a courageous Mexican-American journalist is alleging a group of six businessmen is behind the slaughter. Described as 'untouchables', their wealth puts them above the law. Their motive is said to be blood sport.
The border has always been violent, but organised crime exploded in 1993 when the Carrillo-Fuentes drug cartel, known as the Juarez Cartel, took control. It is the most powerful cartel in Mexico, and the most brutal, being responsible for trafficking most of Latin America's drugs into the US. In daylight, the narcos smuggle their loads across three bridges that link Juarez with El Paso. Law enforcers on either side have the choice, according to one former trafficker, of being 'very rich, or very dead'.
Cartel members live in garish mansions in the Golden Zone of Juarez, a far cry from the shanties where most of the city's two million residents subsist. The narcos pay millions of dollars in bribes to stay above the law and Juarez has become one of the money-laundering capitals of the world. Narco money has built 'legitimate' businesses and made Juarez the fourth-largest city in Mexico. The rise of the cartel coincided with the feminicido, the female murders. The first victim was Angelica Luna Villalobos; her body was dumped in the Alta Vista neighbourhood in 1993.
Since then, 370 women have been killed. Some deaths may be attributed to domestic violence or random crime. But more than a third of the women were raped before death. Most victims are tortured and mutilated. Sometimes the killer leaves a signature; a breast or a nipple is sliced off. The bodies are then dumped in wasteland.
The average age of the victims is 16; all were poor. Their deaths, says Amnesty International, 'have no political cost to the authorities'. Many suspects are in custody, but the killings go on.
Human rights organisations accuse the authorities of incompetence, and there have been allegations of torture used to obtain false confessions. Women are frightened to go out, day or night, reminded of danger by the pink crosses marking places where bodies were found.
Only prostitutes come out at night - to cater to the Americans from an army base in El Paso. Prostitutes can earn $100 a day compared to the $30-$60 weekly wage of a factory worker. 'This is a dangerous job,' said Sandrita, 19, 'but it's safer than working in a maquila (factory). Most of the girls who disappear have worked in the maquilas. At least we get protection from the police.'
Hundreds of factories - often internationally owned sweatshops - have drawn tens of thousands of women here from all over Mexico to seek work. The police have often blamed the girls for the abductions, accusing them of behaving sluttishly. Public pressure forced the maquila bosses to provide buses to ferry the girls home safely.
A mother of one of the victims took The Observer to a cross that marked where her 17-year-old daughter's body was dumped. The girl disappeared after leaving work to catch a bus home. Like other victims, she had been gang-raped and strangled. Her left breast had been severed and her body, covered in bite marks, was badly beaten.
Diana Washington Valdez has investigated the murders for five years for the El Paso Times. Courageous in the mould of Veronica Guerin, the investigative journalist murdered in Ireland, she has gone on the record about the killers' identities. In doing so, she knows she is putting her life on the line.
In her book, Harvest of Women, to be published next year, Washington exposes the seedy underworld of Juarez's narco-traffickers. 'The girls are carefully screened,' she says. 'They're always a safe bet. Disposable women. They are watched in advance for suitability - young and poor.'
Washington's accusations are based on her research and on leaks from the FBI and Mexican investigators.
'Mexican federal authorities have conducted investigations, which reveal who the killers are,' she claims. 'Five men from Juarez and one from Tijuana who get together and kill women in what can only be described as blood sport. Some of those involved are prominent men with important political connections - untouchables.'
The chosen victims are so young, explains Washington, to avoid sexually transmitted diseases. Underlings supply new victims: 'They capture the girls and bring them to their masters.'
Washington alleges at least 100 women have been killed by these men, of whom all but one are multi-millionaires. They have political connections going all the way to President Vicente Fox, and some have allegedly made contributions to Fox's presidential campaign. They have ties to the Juarez Cartel, and have used their drug wealth to build respectable businesses.
In March, the FBI passed a report to the Mexican authorities detailing locations in Juarez where the abducted girls are brought to. The FBI believes the Mexicans did not act on the intelligence, even though it revealed plans to capture another four girls.
Sickened that the authorities did nothing to prevent further murders, Washington campaigned to expose the killers. She does not believe they will be arrested.
'It sounds crazy,' said psychologist Dr Stanley Krippner, who teaches in Cuidad Juarez, at the Institution of Medical and Advanced Behavioural Technology. He attributes the murderers' behaviour to a mix of male bonding and wild fantasies.
'It is one aspect of men in power,' he said, 'especially in a developing country. They know they can get away with outrageous behaviour because they are more powerful than the police and the government.'
Manuel Esparza, spokesman for the women's sexual homicide department, said: 'We don't have information that links our cases to organised criminals, to the drug cartels.' He says if there was evidence of who was committing the murders they would be arrested. But Amnesty International's report, which Esparza admitted he hadn't read, said his unit had undermined the credibility of the justice system.
Now the feminicido seems to be spreading. In the neighbouring city of Chihuahua, at least 16 young women have disappeared over two years in a seemingly copycat pattern. Eight have turned up dead.
· 'The City of the Lost Girls', filmed and directed by Rodrigo Vazquez - winner of the 2003 Rory Peck award for features - is on C4's Unreported World on Friday at 7.30pm.
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Only he is an emanicipated thinker...
So last night I learned that the 1956 scifi classic Forbidden Planet (you know, the one with Robby the Robot) is a reimagining of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Makes me wonder what else I've been missing.
Do you think frickin' laser beam weapons (aka directed energy) are strictly scifi? Think again.
Clyfford Still, Untitled, 1964, collection of the Dallas Museum of Art
User experience (aka UX). Many people use the term. Few understand what it means. So here's a Venn diagram illustrating the UX disciplines.
Using a byproduct called spent grain, Alaskan Brewing Co. has reduced their energy usage by 60% while continuing to produce award-winning beers.
Search for the best GIFs on the web using Giphy.
Back in the year 775 the earth was irradiated by a two-second gamma ray burst resulting from the collision of two black holes between 3,000 and 12,000 light years away. (When you read the article it's hard to miss the blatant, comical error.)
After I put Stiffy the Cat on my Facebook page (just do a Google image search for Stiffy the cat - it should be the first result) someone sent me procatinator.
A visual guide to espresso drinks.
When the components of a system interact, behaviors may result that aren't found in the individual components. This is called emergence.
There's a lot going on here - an interactive, 360 video of a helicopter flight over four erupting volcanoes.
Or this 360 photo from the top of the Burj Kahlifa.
Bacon. Cotton. Candy.
In this review of a book on Duke Ellington, he's quoted as saying "You can't write music right unless you know how the man that'll play it plays poker."
Unless you remember dialup forget about this incredibly detailed graphic that illustrates and explains a modem handshake.
Science shows us that some spiders have large enough brains and small enough bodies that their brains extend into their legs, giving a modicum of credence to the observation that men think with their third leg.
Science answers the unasked question: Why is the penis shaped like that? (Don't laugh - it's from Scientific American. Hint to answer: "semen displacement theory." Hmm, that's probably too strong of a hint.)
What's old is new again. NASA is learning from, refurbishing, and firing the Saturn V's F-1 engines (i.e. Apollo moon rocket) and hoping lessons learned can be applied to the new SLS.
Are you really concerned about how many hours of daylight you'll have? Then fret no more: Daylight Hours Explorer.
Submarine Map 2013 - source
How well do you know vim? Like do you know these 100 vim commands every programmer should know? (For example, what does gggUG do?)
Tweetping - a map-based website for monitoring Twitter in real time. (Very cool to watch.)
Grilled cheese guacomole and bacon bruschetta. Am I kidding myself or would this be awful?
That prankster Ahmadinejad has been sniffin' too much airplane glue if he thinks we believe his oversized toy is actually Iran's Qaher-313 stealth fighter.
This nice periodic table of spices is one thing, but at the link you'll see how you can make and stock a real one to hang on your kitchen wall.
I knew it! And science has now proved it! All things being equal, the express checkout line isn't faster.
Tales and photos of clandestine visits to Vandenberg's ICBM sites.
In Egypt, diarrhea is cause by dirty breasts. Dirty, dirty breasts.
Teh interwebs was made for stuff like this: a collection of vintage bottle caps.
Endurance test: how long can you listen to this demonstration of DJ tricks called turntablism?
From the Things I Didn't Think You Could See deparment, this page purports to show photographs of Revolutionary War veterans.
How did I end up with two completely different maps of undersea cables this week?
Say it ain't so - scientific genius is extinct.
Stardust: a short bit of astronomy pr0n.
...who is not afraid to write foolish things. ~Anton Chekhov
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5 Tips for Grounding Yourself
By FCS | September 11, 2020
When you’re feeling anxious or overwhelmed, having some strategies up your sleeve to alleviate the pressure and debilitating emotions you’re feeling can be extremely useful. We’ve picked five of our favorite grounding tips for you here.
Submerge Your Hands in Water
Find a sink or bowl, and fill it with warm water, then submerge your hands in it. Focus on the sensation of the water and how it feels on your hands – can you feel it everywhere or just certain places? How does it feel when your hands move in the water? Next, tip the water out and try the process again with cold water. How does it compare to the warm water? Are you experiencing other physical changes in your body because of the temperature difference? Use the physical sensation to channel your focus outside of your mind, allowing yourself to have a mental break from your emotions.
Count Backwards
You can make this strategy as simple or complicated as you’d like. Count backwards from 10 if you just need a quick reset, or down from 100 by twos if you need a bigger distraction. To ground yourself in your surroundings, count backwards from 5, tapping into one of your 5 senses and identifying sensations as you go. For example; 5 things you can see, 4 things you can hear, 3 things you can feel, 2 things you can smell, 1 thing you can taste.
Listen to Calming Music
Whether you have Spotify, Apple Music, or even YouTube, search for calming music and hit play on the first playlist you find. Close your eyes and focus on the music, or try not to focus on anything at all. If you have headphones, this will help keep you from getting distracted by your surroundings so you can focus on the peaceful music, and on quieting your mind. Once you’ve listened for a while, open your eyes, take in your surroundings and focus on your breathing before turning the music off.
Think About an Activity You Enjoy
Another eyes-closed activity, but this time using visualisation and tapping into your imagination. You can couple this with the music strategy as well if you’d like. Close your eyes and think about an activity you enjoy doing, whether it’s baking, knitting, sitting by the fireplace with a good book, or even bungee jumping! Try to remember the process you go through with this activity; what do you see, hear and feel? Try to be as detailed with your imagination as possible. Take a moment now to decide what this activity could be for you, so when the time comes to use this technique, you already have a plan up your sleeve.
Do a Mental Body Scan
Lastly, you could try a body scan. Sit or lie still, and do a mental scan of your body, starting with your toes, all the way up to the top of your head. How do your feet feel, and what are they touching right now? Move up to your legs, your torso, your shoulders, down your arms to your fingertips, then back up your neck to the top of your head. Mentally check in with every inch of your body to recenter yourself and your thoughts. Start wiggling each of your fingers and toes one by one, counting them as you go.
Anxiety and overwhelm are a normal part of the human experience, but they don’t have to take over your entire day. Take just a couple of stolen moments for yourself with these time-tested tricks to reclaim your day in no time.
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import React, { useState, useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
import './CardSpread.css';
import Card from '../../Components/Card/Card';
const CardSpread = React.memo(props => {
const [cardSets, setCardSets] = useState({set: [], wonSet: []});
const [study, setStudy] = useState(true);
const [deck, setDeck] = useState([]);
const studyTimeout = useRef();
const compareTimeout = useRef();
useEffect(() => {
const cardArray = [];
for (let i = 0; i < props.difficulty; i++) {
cardArray.push({key: i + 'a', id: `set${i}-a`});
cardArray.push({key: i + 'b', id: `set${i}-b`});
};
setDeck([...fisherYates(cardArray)]);
studyTimeout.current = setTimeout(() => setStudy(), (props.difficulty/3) * 1000 );
return () => clearTimeout(studyTimeout.current);
}, [props.difficulty]);
function fisherYates(arr) {
let array = [...arr];
for (var i = array.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
var index = Math.floor(Math.random() * i);
var tmp = array[index];
array[index] = array[i];
array[i] = tmp;
};
return array;
};
function compareSet(card) {
if (cardSets.set.length === 0) {
setCardSets({set: [card], wonSet: [...cardSets.wonSet]});
} else if (cardSets.set.length === 1) {
compareTimeout.current = window.setTimeout(() => {
if (cardSets.set[0].split('-')[0] === card.split('-')[0]) {
setCardSets({set: [], wonSet: [...cardSets.wonSet, ...cardSets.set, card]});
} else {
setCardSets({set: [], wonSet: [...cardSets.wonSet]});
props.triesHandler(props.tries - 1);
};
}, 500);
};
};
function didjaWin() {
return cardSets.wonSet.length === props.difficulty * 2 ? true : false;
};
return (
<div className='card-spread-container'>
{didjaWin() ? props.setGameEnd({end: true, wonLose: 'win'}) : null}
{props.tries === 0 ? props.setGameEnd({end: true, wonLose: 'lose'}) : null}
{deck.map(e => <Card key={e.key} id={e.id} handleCompare={compareSet} wonSet={cardSets.wonSet} set={cardSets.set} difficulty={props.difficulty} study={study} />)}
</div>
);
}
);
export default CardSpread;
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It has not been smooth sail for both Android Pay and Google Wallet in recent months—the competition from other digital payment providers has been tough. It was not actually so from the beginning—Google Wallet for instance was the app of choice for many users making NFC payments at stores. Things started changing when in 2015 Google introduced Android Pay, which eventually took on NFC payments. To provide better services and probably compete at the same level with its rivals, Google today announced a new product called Google Pay.
“Today, we’re excited to announce we’ll be bringing together all the different ways to pay with Google, including Android Pay and Google Wallet, into a single brand: Google Pay,” Pali Bhat VP of Product Management, Payments wrote in a blog post.
What’s Google Pay?
Google Pay is a new brand that combines the services Android Pay and Google Wallet. Going forward, you will be able to make in-store payments, money transfers, and online transactions all from a single app [Google Pay]. Google Pay will also be able to fill in your payment details if you use Chrome.
Google Pay, according to the Mountain View California-based tech giant is now available on Airbnb, Dice, Fandango, HungryHouse, Instacart, and other apps and websites. The company is also giving away some juicy offers to help users save money and time.
Google Pay is still in its early stage of roll out, and things will gradually take shape in the coming days.
“With Google Pay, it’ll be easier for you to use the payment information saved to your Google Account, so you can speed through checkout with peace of mind. Over the coming weeks, you’ll see Google Pay online, in store, and across Google products, as well as when you’re paying friends.”
Last September Google launched a new payment app called Tez designed for the Indian market. Tez is translated to mean “fast” in Hindi, and comes with a digital wallet that will enable users in India to store currency.
Tez uses UPI (Unified Payments Interface) and is designed to work with all major banks, including Axis, HDFC Bank, ICICI and State Bank of India. Since it uses UPI, the new app will allow you to transfer money to other users at no cost. You will be able to enjoy a simplified checkout system while using Tez. Credit card support and third-party wallets have also been added to enable the new platform compete with popular wallets like Paytm and Mobikwik.
With Tez, you can pay directly from your bank account, and continue to earn interest while you do so. This does not only make your money safe, it also means you can continue to earn interest while doing so.
The Tez Shield works 24/7 to help detect fraud, prevent hacking, and verify your identity. Each transaction is secured with your UPI PIN and the app is secured with a Google PIN or your screen lock method such as fingerprint.
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Check out the All-Star edition of Shaqtin'.
The NBA All-Star weekend in New Orleans wouldn't be complete without a blooper recap courtesy of LSU's favorite son, Shaquille O'Neal.
In this special All-Star edition of Shaqtin' A Fool, the Diesel made a point to call out Master P for his horrendous performance in the celebrity game which included a brutal missed lay up.
Additionally, Shaq took some jabs at Kyrie Irving for his belief that the Earth is flat, found a flaw in Eric Gordon's 3-point contest victory, and highlighted Brandon Armstrong's hilarious "euro step" in the celebrity game.
Check out Shaqtin' A Fool: NBA All-Star edition below.
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## Conversion formula
The conversion factor from days to years is 0.0027379070069885, which means that 1 day is equal to 0.0027379070069885 years:
1 d = 0.0027379070069885 yr
To convert 294 days into years we have to multiply 294 by the conversion factor in order to get the time amount from days to years. We can also form a simple proportion to calculate the result:
1 d → 0.0027379070069885 yr
294 d → T(yr)
Solve the above proportion to obtain the time T in years:
T(yr) = 294 d × 0.0027379070069885 yr
T(yr) = 0.80494466005462 yr
The final result is:
294 d → 0.80494466005462 yr
We conclude that 294 days is equivalent to 0.80494466005462 years:
294 days = 0.80494466005462 years
## Alternative conversion
We can also convert by utilizing the inverse value of the conversion factor. In this case 1 year is equal to 1.2423214285714 × 294 days.
Another way is saying that 294 days is equal to 1 ÷ 1.2423214285714 years.
## Approximate result
For practical purposes we can round our final result to an approximate numerical value. We can say that two hundred ninety-four days is approximately zero point eight zero five years:
294 d ≅ 0.805 yr
An alternative is also that one year is approximately one point two four two times two hundred ninety-four days.
## Conversion table
### days to years chart
For quick reference purposes, below is the conversion table you can use to convert from days to years
days (d) years (yr)
295 days 0.808 years
296 days 0.81 years
297 days 0.813 years
298 days 0.816 years
299 days 0.819 years
300 days 0.821 years
301 days 0.824 years
302 days 0.827 years
303 days 0.83 years
304 days 0.832 years
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“Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
Love them no matter what.” – Nikki Sixx
Friday, December 19th
I know deep down when my feelings get hurt that I need to face that situation with love, compassion, and more understanding that I feel like sharing. It is the only way to grow and learn, in the end. But my ego sure doesn’t feel like being this gracious. I want to shut down, keep quiet, and close myself off to other people. Because it feels like I’m stronger if I’m more protected.
A week or so ago, I ended up in the middle of a social debacle when I tried to stand up for someone who was being left out. She was in a thread of conversation but was not invited to an event. It turned into a big ol’ ball of awkwardness…I’m talking about a much bigger mess than it ought to have been. I tried to make peace between parties and move on with things, but my feelings were still stuck on this as I found out today when it got brought up again. So I went to the source of this ball to confront the person I felt that I had unresolved awkwardness with. Be clear. Be concise. Express your emotions. I had already stated out loud to the universe that these social breakdowns are much more telling than the parties and the rowdy little good times. How can you navigate the faltering communication?
For the most part, this cleared the air. But I have found that the devil really is in the details: little phrases like “I shouldn’t have to explain myself.” Nope. No one is contractually bound to explaining themselves. The hope is that one’s friends are compelled to explain themselves. Because that’s what we do. Hash it out. We don’t just declare our good intentions, we look at how we may have contributed to the breakdown in the first place.
In the end, I want to leave the hurt behind. I move forward, if for no other reason, for my own selfish need to be clear of this. I want to write several sentences here that start with “But”, but I feel that friendship ultimately can’t have buts in it. I take people’s flaws as I take their strengths. We are all works in progress and experience guides me in how I choose to interact and not interact with people in the future.
What do you do when those you love hurt you?
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Week 4 Reading Response
Interaction Relabelling and Extreme Characters: Methods for Exploring Aesthetic Interactions
J.P. Djajadiningrat, W.W. Gaver, J.W. Frens
Coming from an industrial design background, it was really interesting to read this article. In the world we currently live in, mostly all the famous must-have gadgets focus entirely on a rectangular screen interacting with people through complicated software. Hardly do you see products with different shape and for and material physically interacting with human. This article talks about how interactive relabeling and designing for extreme characters may lead designers to think outside the box. When deciding on a thesis project in undergrad, it was really hard for me to decide on a topic. After long thought, I decided to create a design that focused on a somewhat extreme character in Alzheimer’s Disease patient’s caretakers. I made countless trips to different sanatoriums and used many methods such as diaries, user tracking, collaging, etc. to really grasp how the caretakers felt and how they acted towards patients of Alzheimer’s Disease. I had the opportunity to dive into a distinct user and to create a product that did not look prototypical. Because caretakers in Korea were usually old and were far from being tech geeks, it really would not have made any sense for me to create an iPad-like device that enables caretakers to manage Alzheimer’s Disease patients – the caretakers would not really find it comfortable carrying around an iPad and working with software that can be hard to understand. What I spotted was that almost every caretaker had a watch. I somewhat held an interactive relabeling myself and tried to store daily logs of patients into a watch so that caretakers could easily manage different patients. While reading the article, I really liked the product design created for the polyandrous twenty-year old. The other products for the drugs dealer and the pope were too clichéd and stereotyped therefore didn’t show much potential for development. But the “appointment fan” really made use of its aesthetics and combined it with interaction in a very purposeful way. I can see an image of a polyandrous woman luxuriously taking out her fan and blowing wind to herself while at the same time checking her schedule. Not only can this fan-appointment device be used by polyandrous woman, but I can see it also being used by other comparatively “normal” people.
What do Prototypes Prototype?
Stephanie Houde, Charles Hill
As a designer, there are many times when designers need to prototype their concepts. There are also several reasons for prototyping. Designers may prototype their conceptual “artifact” in order to see if their design really works, or to find out any other ways to solve different problems, or simply to make an effective presentation in order to persuade clients. Deciding on what the main goal of the prototype is essential during the process of prototyping as prototypes have several different outcomes. I like to think of prototypes as a communication tool towards different audiences in order to receive feedback that can improve the final outcome of the artifact. Just like people talk differently to children, teenagers, adults, old people, etc., prototypes must also be different for different types of audiences for better understanding. As an example, you would not make your prototype through touchscreens if you wanted feedback from a baby; you would make it on paper and crayons. After reading this article, it was quite clear that there are very diverse mediums such as video, paper / pencil, computer programs, pizza boxes, toy cars, etc. that can be used in order to communicate with different types of people. But it doesn’t mean the higher the technology, the higher the hierarchy of prototype. As seen in Example 9 of the article, toy cars and walkie talkies were used just for the sole purpose of the look and feel of the design. Because the “role, look and feel, and implementation” are three main factors of prototypes that need to be considered in order to achieve “integration”, I believe this is why designers like us make user scenarios, draw countless number of aesthetic sketches, and carry technological research and practice.
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Ricegrowers face low water allocations
Low water allocations mean another difficult season for Australia's ricegrowers.
Last year's total harvest of about 400,000 tonnes was down by two thirds on average.
Murray Valley water allocations are currently at zero per cent and the Murrumbidgee's storage dams are almost empty.
"People are quite concerned about their future, they're looking at a winter crop that in some cases may or may not even be sown," Ricegrowers Association of Australia spokeswoman Deborah Kerr said.
"So, you know, the second year into a really dry sequence of...income generation for farmers [is] causing great angst and anxiety among farmers."
Ms Kerr says payback demands to Snowy Hydro and South Australian commitments mean high water allocations next season are unlikely.
"We have 80 per cent of our crop...exported, so there's a great deal to conserve and maintain our overseas markets," she said.
"So certainly there's a great deal of concern about the industry for the forthcoming year...there's not panic at this stage if you like, there's just concern about the water situation because, as we know, rice is fairly dependent on water for its survival."
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A SCHOOLBOY burning scraps of paper with a lighter put his family’s lives at risk when he sent their home up in flames.
Mum Helen Brown, 33, said her nine-year-old son Richard is desperately sorry for causing the blaze which has destroyed everything they own.
The fire service said Helen, her children Richard, eight-year-old Rebecca, Kayla, six, three-year-old Thomas, their grandmother Heather and the family’s pet dog Jenny are lucky to have escaped alive.
It was around 5.30am yesterday when the schoolboy started burning paper upstairs at the terraced house on Finchale Terrace in Byker, Newcastle.
While Helen was sleeping downstairs with Heather, 53, upstairs, the small flames had quickly got out of control and set a bed alight.
The blaze spread rapidly, triggering the smoke alarm.
Panicked Helen ran upstairs and darted into the bedrooms screaming and ushered out her sons and daughters while Heather and neighbour Donna McNeill called the emergency services.
“I thought they were all asleep but Richard was playing with a lighter and bits of paper,” said Helen.
“The smoke alarm went off and I woke up so quickly.”
The mum-of-four tried to extinguish the fire with a wet blanket but the blaze had already begun to ravage the furniture and the heat had burst the radiator and flooded the downstairs of the property.
“All of their school uniforms, their toys, the television, everything, is ruined,” she said.
“But I keep saying to myself ‘I’m alive’. We were just thinking ‘get the kids out’.
“You can replace toys, you can replace furniture but I can’t replace Richard, Rebecca, Kayla and Thomas. We have lost everything – all of our possessions – but we are still alive.”
Two crews from Byker Fire Station were soon on hand to extinguish the blaze.
Helen said son Richard is ashamed for his behaviour but is unable to explain it.
“He couldn’t even say why he did it when we asked him,” said Helen. “He says he is sorry and he will never play with a lighter ever again.
“I’m just pleased we all got out OK.”
Neighbour Donna, 36, said: “I was up with a cough when I saw the brightness of the flames through the window so I rang the fire brigade.
“I just thought about the kids. The flames were coming right out the window and the guttering was coming off the roof,” added the mum-of-two.
Helen was taken to hospital for a precautionary check after inhaling smoke. The family now have to find a new home.
Peter Iveson, district manager at Newcastle for Tyne & Wear Fire and Rescue Service said: “There is no doubt the family had a very lucky escape.
“We would like to remind anyone who smokes to keep lighters and matches well out of reach of children at all times.
“We would also like to remind people about the importance of a working smoke alarm; they really can be the difference between life and death.”
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What is Net Neutrality?
Imagine that you are Netflix boss Reed Hastings. You're busy trying to eat the cable companies' collective lunch by offering on-demand Internet streaming video; sure, you're not there yet, but it's clear this model has a bright future… except for one little worry.
The cable companies and telcos you rely on to deliver your bits also compete with you, offering profitable video services of their own that don't come through "the Internet" but are increasingly based on IP and use the exact same pipe. Should those companies be allowed to offer managed quality of service enhanced video streams over a segregated section of the last-mile Internet pipe to directly compete with your own best-effort Internet offering?...
"The fact that network operators control the delivery pipes and generate significant revenue from content that travels over those pipes provides both the means and motive for discriminating against new ventures that might threaten revenue sources of the network operators," Netflix warned. These developments "exacerbate the growing concern that [video providers] will use their control over programming networks to stifle competition, including the growing competition from online video providers like Netflix."
Therefore, according to Netflix, the FCC should apply its open Internet principles to "managed services," too, possibly by requiring that such services could never consume more than a set fraction of the Internet pipe, reserving the rest for the "open Internet."
So, basically, Netflix says that the mere possibility that their competitors might throttle throttle other people's service is unfair. So, their remedy is to: throttle other people's service. This is a classic example of overt regulatory corruption, one group lobbying government to restrict their competitor's ability to compete. The fact that the most efficient technological solution might not involve Netflix is sufficient to use government to intervene on their behalf.
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The bank with the quintessential metropolitan-sounding name began life to service rural areas outside of Toronto which were in need of banking opportunities. Slow-starting, the Bank of Toronto opened its doors to the public in 1856 and is still in operation today as the Toronto-Dominion Bank after amalgamating with the Dominion Bank in 1955. Geoffrey Bell Auctions Ltd.’s Toronto Coin Expo 2018 Spring Salefeatures a rare opportunity to acquire a pair of Bank of Toronto discovery notes.
The bank was only two decades old, but growing rapidly, when they issued a four-dollar note in 1876. These are normally only available to collectors with town overprints, as the only known example without an overprint resided in an institutional collection until the discovery of this note. Catalogued in Charlton as 715-18-02 this piece is an attractive aVG with edge nicks and crayon on the back and it represents a potentially spectacular addition to a serious collection.
It’s always a special thrill to hold an example in your hand of a note listed as “no known issued notes” and this is precisely the case with our next offering. When this unique five-dollar note was printed in 1911, the bank’s stately head office at the corner of King and Bay streets was still two years off. These artistically ornate and desirable notes, the “yellow issues,” are popular with collectors and this example will attract some serious parties. PCGS graded as F15, this only known example of CH 715-22-08 is conservatively estimated to achieve $20,000 to $30,000 in Toronto.
The Toronto Coin Expo 2018 Spring Sale takes place May 3rd and 4th live at the Toronto Reference Library and online via our iCollector auction site.
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The OfficeScan server's quarantined directory has no files, even if it was confirmed that the correct Quarantine directory path is specified in the OfficeScan console.
The total files quarantined and total file size show "0" even after downloading the eicar test virus several times on an OfficeScan client machine. During the eicar testing, the OfficeScan client showed a pop up message saying the virus was quarantined.
Upon checking the OfficeScan server's Virus logs in Logs > Networked Computer Logs > Security Risks, the following appears: "Unable to send the quarantined file to the designated quarantine folder. Refer to the online help for solutions."
After enabling debugging on the OfficeScan server, the following errors were observed in the logs:
2010 04/15 18:07:20 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe][ProcessVirusLogFile] lpszMoveDir:"http://avserver.global.domain.com/" lpsz2ndMoveDir:"http://avserver.global.domain.com/" - [(1)]
2010 04/15 18:07:20 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe][HTTP_CopyFile] lpExistingFileName=C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan Client\SUSPECT\eicar_798.VIR - [(1)]
2010 04/15 18:07:21 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe][HTTP_CopyFile] HTTPUpload Failed. error=7:0 - [(1)]
2010 04/15 18:07:21 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe][ProcessVirusLogFile] 2.HTTP_CopyFile Failed. - [(1)]
2010 04/15 18:07:21 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe][ProcessVirusLogFile] LogName = C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan Client\FLog\_r0716676.LOG - [(1)]
2010 04/15 18:07:21 [0300 : 0a04] (00) (F) [-IO-][pccntmon.exe]C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\OfficeScan Client\SUSPECT\eicar_798.VIR - [[ProcessVirusLogFile] Copy file failed. (Error = %d), Src=%s, Dest = %s(0)]
The issue, in this case, was that the OfficeScan clients were pointing their Quarantine Directories to a non-existent OfficeScan server.
To resolve this issue, do the following for all the scan types (Manual, Real-time, Scheduled, and Scan Now Settings):
- Log on to the OfficeScan management console.
- Do one of the following:
- For OSCE 11.0, go to Agents > Agent Management.
- For OSCE 10.6 and below, go to Networked Computers > Client Management.
- Select the root, domain, or client where you want to make the changes.
- Click Settings > Scan Type Setting (Manual, Real-time, Scheduled and Scan Now Settings).
- Go to the Action tab.
- Update the Quarantine Directory with the correct information and then click Save.
- Repeat the steps for all the scan types.
The OfficeScan clients will be updated and will be able to upload the files to the quarantine directory.
The registry location of the OfficeScan client where the moved directory is stored is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\Real Time Scan Configuration moverdir=
If the issue persists, do the following:
- Check and ensure that the latest OfficeScan patches are applied:
- Restart the following Services:
- At the OfficeScan Server both the Microsoft IIS (or Apache2 Service) as well as the OfficeScan Master Service.
- At the target workstation, the OfficeScan NT Listener Service.
If the above solution did not resolve the issue, do the following:
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Flag Burning and Free Speech
The Founding Fathers agreed that the First Amendment protected 'symbolic expression.'
Congress is once again considering a constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag. The proposal, introduced this spring in the Senate by David Vitter (R., La.), and cosponsored by 20 other Republicans and Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, probably won't get enough votes. Yet even if it doesn't, one longstanding misunderstanding about the First Amendment is likely to live on.
Advocates for flag amendments argue that activist Supreme Court Justices have twisted the original meaning of the First Amendment to protect symbolic acts such as flag burning. As Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said in supporting the Vitter proposal, "if you read the debate in 1790 -- the First Amendment was not written to protect nonverbal speech . . . . [W]e want to make sure we get the Constitution back to its original intent before the Supreme Court screwed it up." Or, as Judge Robert Bork argued in his book "Slouching Towards Gomorrah," flag burning "is not speech," and the court shouldn't have held "that an amendment protecting only the freedom of 'speech' somehow protects conduct if it is 'expressive.'"
Yet the best historical evidence suggests Messrs. Bork and Grassley are mistaken. The Framers fully understood "freedom of speech, or of the press" to include symbolic expression as well as verbal expression.
The Framers were working within a late 18th century common-law legal system that generally treated symbolic expression and verbal expression the same. Speech restrictions -- such as libel, slander, sedition, obscenity and blasphemy -- covered symbolic expression on the same terms as verbal expression.
Many cases and treatises, including Blackstone's "Commentaries" published in 1765 and often cited by the Framers' generation in America, said this about libel law. And early American court cases soon held the same about obscenity and blasphemy. Late 18th and early 19th century libel law cases and treatises gave many colorful examples: It could be libelous to burn a person in effigy, send him a wooden gun (implying cowardice), light a lantern outside his house (implying the house was a brothel), and engage in processions mocking him for his supposed misbehavior.
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The Power of YouTube Influencer Marketing: 2X Brand Awareness Plus Customer Trust & Sales — What’s Not To Love?
There’s a variety of influencer marketing tactics out there –– and many of them are highly effective.
Whether you are paying influencers to promote your product, or working to build yourself a community of ambassadors that take on the micro-influencer movement, influencer marketing can help you tackle every part of your sales funnel.
After all, influencer marketing is word-of-mouth marketing at scale.
People trust what influencers say and which products and brands they recommend. Their audiences are very engaged and finally accessible –– not sitting behind the Netflix paywall or browsing with the “help” of an adblocker.
And while influencer marketing of all shapes and colors can be beneficial for your brand, our team over at The Outloud Group, an influencer marketing agency that has created and executed campaigns for top ecommerce brands including 23andMe, LegalZoom, and GrubHub, has seen one platform above all others kill two birds (awareness and conversion) with one stone (or post).
Which is it? YouTube influencer marketing.
Here’s a complete breakdown of why YouTube influencer marketing is more effective than most other influencer marketing programs. We’ll also show you examples of exactly why this is and how it’s working for other brands across the web.
Influencer marketing vs. YouTube influencer marketing
An influencer campaign can fit into multiple categories of your marketing spend.
- Interested in driving acquisition? Perfect. This is where discounts + influencer marketing can really help.
- Looking to build awareness? Even better. This is where Instagram excels. TV advertising & YouTube are great for awareness, too. Lots of dollars are flowing into pre-roll.
- Looking to do both? Now you’re really talking. This is where YouTube influencer marketing excels.
Depending on which part of the funnel you’re focused on, you’ll want to work with influencers on different platforms. Here’s a quick overview of some of the ones we’ve seen be most effective:
- Snapchat influencers work well for building awareness and creating buzz around real-time events like product launches or products targeting young audiences (think gummy bears).
- Instagram influencers make sense if you’re a particularly visual product or looking to build your following on social media, and can be especially effective when paired with Instagram ads.
- Twitter is useful if you’re working to engage in broader conversations online.
- YouTube is particularly special because it works well at every part of the funnel — offering both visual branding opportunity and attributable traffic to your site.
Of course, YouTube influencer marketing is very different than YouTube pre-roll marketing. It’s the difference between going to the driving range at a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and getting 1:1 coaching from the Golden Bear himself.
YouTube influencer marketing is great because it can both educate consumers about your brand and drive conversion in one fell swoop.
With the right guidance, YouTube influencers can create incredibly effective direct response ads that include a promo code or unique link to your site and drive their audiences to purchase.
These campaigns capitalize on all the branding work you’ve already done and push people across the finish line.
Often the influencer advocating for a product is enough to take someone from awareness to consideration to conversion, all in one step.
4 examples of YouTube influencer marketing done right
Using YouTube influencer campaigns for direct acquisition works well for mature brands and makes sense if you’ve nailed down your cost per acquisition and figured out what works for you on Adwords and Facebook.
Here are 4 brands YouTube influencer marketing has worked incredibly well for –– and what you can learn from their strategies.
Warby Parker’s YouTube Influencer Marketing Campaign
Warby Parker pioneered the home try-on model in the glasses industry.
Now, they use YouTube influencer marketing to explain that model. After all, buying a pair of glasses from Warby Parker is more involved than just clicking “add to cart”.
The lifestyle influencers Warby works with are easily able to share their experience with the brand in a way that feels natural, because so often they already share those types of details about their lives with their audience. Watch the influencer campaign below.
In this example, Stephanie is able to convey Warby Parker’s value in a visual and participatory way, and promotes their low-bridge frames to an audience who cares about Stephanie’s world-view and the products that are most helpful for her (and then likely, for them).
Let’s look at another brand example to really drive this home.
KiwiCo’s YouTube Influencer Marketing Campaign
KiwiCo partnered with Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day. The brand sponsored his adventure –– which if you haven’t, definitely watch! And, the brand was able to negotiate how much they paid for the sponsorship based on how many crates were bought.
Check it out (the KiwiCo part comes at the end).
Now, if the product you’re promoting is higher-consideration and you are primarily looking to bring customers into the top of your sales funnel, or just trying to get customers to look at you slightly differently than your competitor, dedicated content is a great addition to direct response ads.
Dedicated content is often described as branded content on sites like The New York Times and BuzzFeed (among many, many others), but YouTube has versions of this as well.
Let’s look at an example, of course.
Lowe’s YouTube Influencer Marketing Campaign
Here is a piece of branded content Lowe’s created with a YouTube influencer. Lowe’s sponsored the content and also paid for the set and production.
For doing so, they got high visibility on a video that received 5.5 million views, and got unique content of their own (in the form of behind-the-scenes content) for their own channels.
Even that behind-the-scenes video currently has more than 85,000 views.
23andMe’s YouTube Influencer Campaign
Another great example of dedicated YouTube content is this one with 23andMe and AsapSCIENCE.
In this example, 23andMe created a specific landing page for the show. You can easily do this by creating a web page on your ecommerce backend that uses the show’s handle as the URL. Here’s how you can do that in 5 minutes on BigCommerce.
OK –– now back to the 23andMe and AsapSCIENCE YouTube influencer marketing campaign. Check it out:
23andMe partnered with AsapSCIENCE to have hosts Mitch and Greg talk about their experience with the product as a way of advocating for the brand.
Of course, most influencer content drives both awareness and acquisition –– but it’s helpful to consider how your influencer campaign will fit into your attribution model.
With an average of seven touch points before conversion, being ready to retarget those who hear about your brand is also key.
A landing page like 23andMe’s is helpful in this way –– where you can retarget folks who land on it back to your site with additional offers to get them to convert.
Identifying and pitching YouTube influencers
Identifying YouTube influencers is a healthy mix of art and science.
There are obvious markers of a good influencer partner –– namely a general brand fit, strong presence with your target demographic, and a rate that doesn’t blow your budget out of the water.
The low-hanging fruit are often the influencers whose area of expertise is a direct overlap with your industry.
- For an outdoor apparel company, it’s natural to partner with hunting, fishing, and camping influencers
- For a scientific education company, it makes sense to partner with nerdy science types
But great work with YouTube influencers does not stop at strong demo and topical overlap. Some of the best successes come from brands working with influencers well known in adjacent markets.
Adjacent markets are often full of interested consumers who would benefit from being educated about a product by an influencer they trust.
Influencers in adjacent markets are tremendously successful at moving customers from consideration to acquisition.
One example of this is Wisecrack, an intellectual comedy show, advocating for LegalZoom. Let’s take a look:
Who maintains creative control? Hint: It’s not you.
Once you’ve picked the right influencers, the key to a successful partnership is to let influencers do what they do best –– which is not being a puppet for anything, especially your brand.
Don’t be overly prescriptive when it comes to letting them create. If the ad doesn’t sound, look, and feel natural, it won’t work. End of story.
You should be familiar enough with an influencer’s content to suggest a few concepts for how they might include your product in a video, but you should also trust that they know what their audience will respond to.
After all, they’re the ones who built their strong and loyal following.
YouTube influencers are your brand advocates, not your brand mouthpiece.
When you engage with YouTube influencers, successful companies remember that they are participating in an existing community that already has its own modes of interaction and norms. It is crucial that you treat creators and their audiences with respect. They have an audience for a reason, and they know what will work.
Approaching creators with that in mind will make all the difference.
Where to start when providing creative direction
Sharing 4-5 talking points is a good place to start, but what’s most important is being sure that the influencer is authentically excited about your brand.
Send them product, let them talk to the people who are the backbone of your business, and make sure they feel connected to your message.
Build a relationship. Ask what content they have planned in the coming months and how they think your product might be most naturally integrated.
Remember: you’re working with influencers, not using them.
How to avoid the 5 most common pitfalls
One of the most frequent pitfalls is using an influencer as a celebrity endorser.
Both influencers and celebrities can be powerful tools for developing brand associations and moving product, but they are fundamentally different.
An influencer’s sway depends on their relationship with their audience, not simply being well recognized and having “star-power.”
If you take creators out of context and community, you lose much of their value.
The point of working with influencers is gaining access to their unique relationship with their followers. If you use influencers like you would a celebrity, you miss out on delivering a message to the audience who will actually hear it.
This is the difference between inviting a YouTube influencer to play a part in your TV ad and asking them to create a dedicated video on their own channel.
Choose wisely and you’ll maximize your ROI.
Other key pitfalls include:
- Requiring influencers to focus on too many talking points, which draws them away from an authentic endorsement
- Requiring too many specific words or phrases from influencers
- Having specific time limitations on length of the post
- Focusing on product functions and features as opposed to how the product makes the life of the influencer better
7 ways to measure the success of your campaign
If it’s working, you’ll know.
Most obviously –– YouTube influencer marketing done right generates new customers and increases brand awareness.
What’s great about working on a platform like YouTube is that you’ll not only get the benefit of branding, but you’ll be able to track direct acquisitions thanks to a custom URL or promo code that’s easy to attribute…or at least the “final click” in the funnel is easy to attribute.
Let’s repeat that:
You’ll not only get the benefit of branding, but you’ll be able to track direct acquisitions thanks to a custom URL or promo code.
While we’re all ultimately selling something, not every campaign is structured with the goal of acquiring new customers directly.
To capture users who don’t buy immediately, successful influencer campaigns often focus on first leaving a positive impression through influencer advocacy and then creating an incentive for consumers to explore the website of the brand.
Co-branded (influencer + brand) landing pages are helpful in that they welcome an influencer’s audience to your site, opening up the possibility of re-targeting these consumers in the future.
For example, when Flash Tattoos did an influencer campaign with Beyoncé, they created a custom category page for the products. This page and link were given out to all the media that mentioned the partnership, including Vogue, Refinery29 and many, many more (as you can imagine).
Note that to be able to do this, you must be able to custom edit your category URL. This is not possible on all platforms, but does come out-of-the-box with BigCommerce on all plan levels. In other words, this is the difference between a URL that reads: www.flashtats.com/collections/beyonce and www.flashtats.com/beyonce. The second one is preferable.
Other metrics you can use to gauge your content’s effectiveness beyond conversion:
- Video drop-off (i.e. what portion of the audience is actually watching the ad?)
- Click-through rate: 1% CTR is pretty darn good
- Increase in organic search traffic: YouTube increases search 2X compared to TV…and that’s not even factoring in the trust of influencers on YouTube
- Acquisition cost on other platforms, e.g. Facebook, decreases
- CPM / CPV: Aim to get <$25 CPM for your YouTube campaigns
- Engagements: Look for influencers who drive likes, shares and comments
While we’ve been evaluating influencers from the perspective of brands, it’s important to keep in mind that successful partnerships are a two-way street.
Influencers need to feel like they are benefitting significantly from association with your brand.
Let’s not forget that it’s the influencers who have cracked the code for developing a strong audience connection –– they know what works with this select group of people better than you do.
They have developed a personal brand that often spans across multiple platforms.
Influencers have earned the right to be particular about their channel and most have a high volume of offers from brand partners on the table at a given time.
So there you have it. Successful influencer marketing rests on your ability to make your relationships with influencers mutually beneficial and to empower the creators you work with to become your brand advocates.
There are a lot of bells and whistles you can add, but at the end of the day, authenticity is most important to any influencer campaign.
The Outloud Group’s Kay-Anne Reed contributed to this post.
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"But you know me, I'm in too deep
And I'm waiting for another me
One that can change the pain of yesterday
Carry me through another day
And I'm waiting for another me
One in between the burn
And the lessons learned
'Cause being me ain't no way to be"
Chorus of "Another Me" by Sister Hazel
I don't know about you, but there are certain songs that speak to me, the above song from Sister Hazel, is one. Now, I don't know what the songwriter was going through at the time, but for me it's about seeing yourself and recognizing your flaws - and trying to figure out how to be the person you want to be.
"I'm waiting for another me..." How often have I looked at what I'm doing (or thinking) and wondered why the cycle has not been broken. Have you said something (or done something), that you wish you could take back. Maybe it's a pattern of thinking or behavior (once again a cycle) that you just want to stop -- but it's very hard. You get going down a path, gain momentum, and BOOM, you crash at the bottom. Now looking up, it's such a huge climb to get back to where you were to begin with.
Here's the good news -- each of us has the capacity to change. Bad news -- it can be hard work. If you're in debt, you have to change your spending pattern and maybe do without some things. If you're in bad health, figuring out a way to get in better health (exercise, eat better, stop "bad" habits, etc.). If you've hurt those you love, or ruined valuable relationships with other people in your life and you want to repair them, you've got to do what it takes (ask for forgiveness, forgive them, decide you'd rather be happy than right, whatever). And possibly, it means just walking away from something or someone - because you know that's the only way real change will happen.
The chorus ends with "Cause being me ain't no way to be" -- the other you (and me) is inside. Our job is figuring out what's not working and fix it. Happiness is never about "what's going on outside" -- it's always about "what's going on inside". The other you is there, find that person, talk to them, get to know them and changing into that person will become much easier. Everyone around you (including you) will thank you for it.
In case you want to purchase the song on iTunes, it will cost you $0.99.
1. A thought provoking post Arnie, excellent stuff. And thanks for your input into my Windows/Mac debate. Looked at the Mac Pro today very nice.
2. And the song ain't too bad either!! Once again thanks for stopping by - and I hope you get to the right decision concerning your new purchase. The following company/website allows Windows to run on an Intel Mac Platform...
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BHK's Kids Probiotic Powder with Colostrum (Orange Flavor) Description & FAQ
Kids Immunity
BHK's Kids Probiotic Powder with Colostrum (Orange Flavor) Description
[Probiotics tailored for children]
* American bovine colostrum IgG is rich in Ig, PRPs and various growth essential nutrients to maintain health away from the threat of growth stage.
* The patented egg yolk IgY, the dual patent process strictly controls the quality, and has multiple literature support, which helps maintain the health of the digestive tract.
* Six-in-one functional probiotics, selected from the probiotics of the professional R & D team in the Netherlands, help to adjust the constitution and reduce sensitivity.
* When children are exposed to changes and threats in the external environment, they can have enough protection to defend their health.
Main Ingredients (Per serving):
Colostrum (bovine)(30% IgG) 350mg
Egg Yolk Powder (Egg Yolk IgY) 250mg
Take 1 stick pack once or twice a day.
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BHK's Kids Probiotic Powder with Colostrum (Orange Flavor) FAQ
The colostrum probiotics contain "Probiotics compound with Somin", which can prevent children from having allergies. In addition, adding IgY and Ig G can increase resistance and avoid the risk of colds and rotavirus infection.
How to eat?
Children under 3 years old, can take one pack a day, over 3 years old, it is recommended to add 2 packs a day, one pack each morning and evening.
What time do I eat?
Take one pack per day, can take it directly with water, if want to strengthen, one day can supplement 2 pack.
Contains milk and egg products, people who are allergic to it or egg milk are not suitable for consumption.
Can pregnant women take it?
How old can you eat?
Generally, there is no age limit. If the baby starts drinking formula milk or eating non-staple foods, it can be supplemented.
Can vegetarians eat it?
This product is lactoprotein, if it is vegan, it is not recommended to supplement.
What are the main ingredients?
The main ingredients of each pack are: American Colostrum Protein IgG 30% 350 mg, patented egg yolk powder (including egg yolk IgY) 250 mg.
What kind of bacteria are there?
There are 6 kinds of bacteria, each pack contains about 200 million bacteria.
Bifidobacterium bifidum, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus salivarius, Bifidobacterium lactis, Lactobacillus casei, Lactococcus lactis.
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Traditional African beliefs play a significant role in the lives of Kenyans in spite of adapting to modern values. Kenyans practice traditional values of humility, concern for neighbors and maintenance of kinship ties. Beliefs in superstition are not common except deep in the rural areas. On the other hand, there has been an explosive growth in the number of Christian churches and Islamic mosques.
There is wide appreciation of the importance of a modern education and most people speak English though with varying accents depending on ethnic origin. A typical visitor may be surprised at the contradiction in professing traditional and modern beliefs simultaneously. Several commentators have interpreted this characteristic of Kenyans as a lack of commitment to either beliefs. To the Kenyans, however, the two beliefs contain elements that compliment each other. Its not necessary for an individual to completely embrace modernity and abandon tradition, or vice-versa. What most people do (subconsciously) is to take the components from either set of beliefs that are relevant to their lives, and then combine them into a lifestyle.
Some communities have retained more of the traditional African lifestyle than others. They live in huts, walk barefoot, dress in robes and decorate their hair with colored soils. The Maasai tribe is famous for maintaining a nomadic way of life revolving around cattle and the search for pasture. This fiercely proud tribe of warriors has resisted numerous attempts at modernization and consequently has gained great respect (and curiosity) internationally.
A visit to the bustling cities, towns and villages of Kenya will be an eye opener to the determination of the people. Right from casual workers in sprawling industrial complexes to executives at the stock market and further onwards to the roadsides where men and women of all ages are earning a living for their families. Everyday has its fortunes: sometimes business is good, other times they walk home with nothing. Entrepreneurship is the locomotive engine behind these attributes of hard work and perseverance as Kenyans remain united in the quest for success and fulfillment.
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This booklet helps the young visitors of the museum, aged 5 to 8, to go on a tour in the Museum aided by the messenger Goddess Iris. The children count from 1 to 10 and discover some of the Museum’s masterpieces that reflect the number they are looking for each time.
1. Booklet Side A (.pdf)
2. Booklet Side B (.pdf)
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Time: May 4, 2018 from 6:45pm to 9pm
Location: Salem Cross Inn
Street: 260 West Main Street
City/Town: West Brookfield
Website or Map: https://www.salemcrossinn.com…
Event Type: murder, mystery, dinner, theater
Organized By: Salem Cross Inn
Latest Activity: Apr 10
Murder Mystery Dinner Theater: These Jokes are Killing Me
Salem Cross Inn and Cornely Productions present a Murder Mystery Dinner: Our interactive dinner theater, These Jokes are Killing Me...
Friends of a lovely woman discover she is dying. To bring some joy into her last days they organize a dinner party where everyone, including patrons, delivers jokes in order to bring laughter to her final days.
But you never know if she will make it through the night. Who has the last laugh now!?
Join us for a laugh-filled night, a great dinner, and a mystery we need your help solving.
Tossed Garden Salad with Creamy Italian Dressing
Rustic Boneless Breast of Chicken – Supreme Sauce
Seasonal Potato and Vegetable
Ice Cream Cakeballs with Homemade Hot Fudge
Brewed Tea or Coffee
The Murder Mystery Dinner is an advanced ticket purchase dining event. To order tickets, please call Salem Cross Inn at 508-867-2345 or submit your order online. $56 per person, includes all taxes and gratuities.
Arrive 6:45pm. Show begins at 7:00pm.
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BACKGROUND:Hospital outbreaks of carbapenemase-producing organisms, such as blaIMP-4-containing organisms, are an increasing threat to patient safety. OBJECTIVES:To investigate the genomic dynamics of a 10 year (2006-15) outbreak of blaIMP-4-containing organisms in a burns unit in a hospital in Sydney, Australia. METHODS:All carbapenem-non-susceptible or MDR clinical isolates (2006-15) and a random selection of equivalent or ESBL-producing environmental isolates (2012-15) were sequenced [short-read (Illumina), long-read (Oxford Nanopore Technology)]. Sequence data were used to assess genetic relatedness of isolates (Mash; mapping and recombination-adjusted phylogenies), perform in silico typing (MLST, resistance genes and plasmid replicons) and reconstruct a subset of blaIMP plasmids for comparative plasmid genomics. RESULTS:A total of 46/58 clinical and 67/96 environmental isolates contained blaIMP-4. All blaIMP-4-positive organisms contained five or more other resistance genes. Enterobacter cloacae was the predominant organism, with 12 other species mainly found in either the environment or patients, some persisting despite several cleaning methods. On phylogenetic analysis there were three genetic clusters of E. cloacae containing both clinical and environmental isolates, and an additional four clusters restricted to either reservoir. blaIMP-4 was mostly found as part of a cassette array (blaIMP-4-qacG2-aacA4-catB3) in a class 1 integron within a previously described IncM2 plasmid (pEl1573), with almost complete conservation of this cassette across the species over the 10 years. Several other plasmids were also implicated, including an IncF plasmid backbone not previously widely described in association with blaIMP-4. CONCLUSIONS:Genetic backgrounds disseminating blaIMP-4 can persist, diversify and evolve amongst both human and environmental reservoirs during a prolonged outbreak despite intensive prevention efforts.
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Today I'd like to share 2 of the December Paper Pumpkin cards I made so far from my Stampin' Up subscription. These 2 were made exactly as the directions included in the kit described so that I could take them along to display at the library class last week.
The white glimmer paper behind the die cut panels really is very pretty and adds such a nice touch!
I bent up the wings on the die cut and stamped butterflies to add a bit of dimension to the card fronts.
Even though the second card is a smaller square size you can still mail it inside a regular size envelope and not have to pay additional postage.
That's it for me today, but stay tuned over the next few weeks to see what else I use the pieces from my Paper Pumpkin kit to make! Until next time~
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I am having trouble getting the ConvertToMSD Function to work. Technically it works, but not in the long run of my script.
I use the converttomsd function to create an msd. I then publish this msd as a web service. However, the webservice does not show the map. But.. I can save the mxd to an msd in ArcMap, and then publish from my python script and it works. So the snag seems to be the converttomsd function,
I originally thought it was the publishmsdtoserver function, but I was wrong. Any ideas..... I can provide my code if necessary.
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do you need to run a validate in py first? I know that if you run create msd on it's own in arcmap it requires the validate first. Just a shot – Brad Nesom Aug 19 '11 at 20:13
what do you mean validate? – Bailey Aug 19 '11 at 20:27
prior to creating an msd in arcmap you should alway see the validate window come up. this shows the requirements for creation. All services have a required layer description and must pass the other requirements. You may see some warnings and messages like data not using direct connection. – Brad Nesom Aug 19 '11 at 21:32
Compare the contents of the MSDs (the one generated in ArcPy and the one generated in ArcMap) and see if there is a difference. The MSD is a zip file. Unzip it to see the contents. – Craig Williams Aug 21 '11 at 7:10
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"I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance."
I love old buildings whether it be homes, barns, or what have you. I think they are beautiful. And where other people might see a lost cause I always manage to see potential.
These were just a couple of photos I took while in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina this Fall.
The first photo is just the side of an old Southern house that had been empty for many years. I like the way the light falls and the trees next to the well-weathered clapboards.
I love the barn with the angled siding.
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import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.ServletComponentScan;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.EnableTransactionManagement;
@ServletComponentScan
@SpringBootApplication
@EnableTransactionManagement
public class PpApplication {
public static void main(String[] args) {
SpringApplication.run(PpApplication.class, args);
}
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import unittest
from unittest import TestCase
import dynet as dy
from dynn.layers import normalization_layers
class TestLayerNorm(TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.pc = dy.ParameterCollection()
self.d1 = 10
self.d2 = 20
self.bsz = 7
def test_single_dim(self):
# Create compact lstm
norm = normalization_layers.LayerNorm(self.pc, self.d1)
# Initialize computation graph
dy.renew_cg()
# Create inputs
x = dy.random_uniform(self.d1, -1, 1, batch_size=self.bsz)
# Initialize layer
norm.init(test=False, update=True)
# Run lstm cell
y = norm(x)
# Try forward/backward
z = dy.sum_batches(dy.sum_elems(y))
z.forward()
z.backward()
# Check dim
self.assertTupleEqual(y.dim(), ((self.d1,), self.bsz))
# Check values
expected_mean = norm.parameters["bias"].as_array().mean()
expected_std = norm.parameters["gain"].as_array().mean()
y_val = y.npvalue()
for b in range(self.bsz):
self.assertAlmostEqual(y_val[..., b].mean(), expected_mean, 6)
self.assertAlmostEqual(y_val[..., b].std(), expected_std, 6)
def test_broadcast(self):
# Create compact lstm
norm = normalization_layers.LayerNorm(self.pc, (self.d1,))
# Initialize computation graph
dy.renew_cg()
# Create inputs
x = dy.random_uniform((self.d1, self.d2), -1, 1, batch_size=self.bsz)
# Initialize layer
norm.init(test=False, update=True)
# Run lstm cell
y = norm(x, d=1)
# Try forward/backward
z = dy.sum_batches(dy.sum_elems(y))
z.forward()
z.backward()
# Check dim
self.assertTupleEqual(y.dim(), ((self.d1, self.d2), self.bsz))
# Check values
expected_mean = norm.parameters["bias"].as_array().mean()
expected_std = norm.parameters["gain"].as_array().mean()
y_val = y.npvalue()
for b in range(self.bsz):
for d in range(self.d2):
self.assertAlmostEqual(y_val[:, d, b].mean(), expected_mean, 6)
self.assertAlmostEqual(y_val[:, d, b].std(), expected_std, 6)
if __name__ == '__main__':
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package com.schedushare.core.user.service;
import java.sql.Connection;
import com.google.inject.ImplementedBy;
import com.schedushare.common.domain.dto.UserEntity;
import com.schedushare.common.domain.exception.SchedushareException;
import com.schedushare.core.user.service.impl.UserServiceImpl;
/**
* User DAO service.
*/
@ImplementedBy(UserServiceImpl.class)
public interface UserService {
/**
* Gets a user.
*
* @param connection the connection
* @param userId the user id
* @return the user
* @throws SchedushareException the schedushare exception
*/
UserEntity getUser(Connection connection, String userId) throws SchedushareException;
/**
* Gets a user.
*
* @param connection the connection
* @param userId the user id
* @param authToken the auth token
* @return the user
* @throws SchedushareException the schedushare exception
*/
UserEntity getUser(Connection connection, String userId, String authToken) throws SchedushareException;
/**
* Creates a user.
*
* @param userEntity the user entity
* @return the user entity
*/
UserEntity createUser(Connection connection, UserEntity userEntity) throws SchedushareException;
/**
* Updates a user.
*
* @param connection the connection
* @param userEntity the user entity
* @return the user entity
* @throws SchedushareException the schedushare exception
*/
UserEntity updateUser(Connection connection, UserEntity userEntity) throws SchedushareException;
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class Person {
var firstName:String = "Victor"
var lastName:String = "Chen"
var fullName:String
init() {
print("Person init")
fullName = "\(firstName)+\(lastName)"
}
init(firstName:String, lastName:String) {
print("Person init 2 variables")
self.firstName = firstName
self.lastName = lastName
fullName = "\(firstName)+\(lastName)"
}
deinit {
print("Person deinit")
}
}
var person1:Person? = Person()
var person2:Person? = Person()
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Commodity Currency Trading
Commodity Currency Trading
The term “commodity currency” is used to refer to the currencies whose value depends largely on the country’s export for raw materials such as oil, precious metals and agricultural products. There are a number of commodity currencies but some of the most commonly traded in the forex market include the Australian Dollar the Canadian Dollar and the New Zealand Dollar. These 3 currencies are also referred to as the commodity dollars or “comdolls”.
How Do Commodities Affect The Value Of Commodity Currencies?
Canadian Dollar. In an industrialized world such as ours, oil is vitally important. It is used to fuel machines which are then used to produce many of the goods we use in daily living. It is used as fuel for transportation. To denote the importance of oil, it was dubbed as “Black Gold”. Countries controlling the reserves of this precious commodity will benefit (or lose) depending on the direction prices will take.
Canada is considered the 2nd largest exporter of oil in the world, second only to Saudi Arabia, hence its currency is reliant on this commodity. It also supplies the world’s biggest oil consumer – the United States. Because the US is largely dependent on oil, the rise and fall of the commodity will have an effect not only on the Canadian Dollar but also on the US Dollar – the higher the price of oil, the higher benefits Canada gets, and the more disadvantaged the US becomes. In currency exchange, the higher the oil prices are, the lower the USD/CAD value will be.
Australian Dollar. Of all the precious metals discovered, gold remains the favorite. Because of its unique qualities, it is used in a number of applications – from jewelry, dentistry, reflective coating and even conductive wiring! In terms of investment, gold is often the asset of choice in times of inflation and economic crisis. It is a highly traded commodity and it never loses its value.
A large portion of the Australian GDP is accounted for by the rise and fall of gold prices. The country is considered as one of the biggest producers of gold and 50% of its exports are comprised of gold and other precious metals. The connection between the Aussie and the value of gold can be seen in a number of charts, hence, it is used as a leading indicator of the AUD/USD currency pair.
New Zealand Dollar. Unlike the first two commodity currencies, the Kiwi is not dependent on one commodity because its basket of commodities is really diverse. It offers a number of agricultural products to the world, and is one of the top exporters of milk, meat and even fruits. Since 1990, the correlation between the NZD/USD pair and the Commodity Research Bureau Index (CRB Index) is at 60-63%.
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LocationBuccaneer Archipelago, Pearl Sea
Orat-Khagor is a deep sea canyon of the Pearl Sea area Tregmauroth. The upper reaches of Orat-Khagor are claimed by the ixitxachitl empire Ranturâpha. The lower reaches are wild, the abode of giant octopuses, sea serpents and leviathans.
During the time of the Durkoth Descent (995 HE - 1355 HE), this area's ixitxachitl were enslaved by Abâthigûr's Chosen. These were Durkoth that had mutated, abandoning the surface for deep waters.
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a couple of patterns that came to me whilst making a completely seperate pattern. i actually want to make more on the theme of weather and seasons, and i have some autumnal ideas in my head. my ice cream pattern that i made a few months ago has been quite popular, so i may do something to do with foods at different times of the year too. so nice to have lots of ideas! any patterns or collage themes you’d like to see from me? let me know!
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First off I’m so sorry that I appear everyday on your feed with random shit😂🙈. I can’t help but leave everything that I have to study and pick up my phone and write a post or scroll through my social medias.
I have my French exam and I can’t tell you how much difficulty I am in right now. Half of the things have gone over my head. But I’m still trying. French exam preparation is a work in progress (get it? The Connor Franta reference?). This post is just a little update on how my first exam was uhm good. I did make some mistakes (I think) so I might not get an A but hey! I tried.
It’s honestly so frustrating when you tell someone that you didn’t understand something in a particular subject and stopped studying it out of frustration (it’s not my favourite word, I swear) and they cut you off saying “you don’t say” or “you’ll still get perfect marks”, like no. I’m not the perfect scorer you think I am. And I can’t be that, sorry. Stop stereotyping people please. It honestly brings down my confidence because no one gets that I’m actually so done with that subject. I don’t know why but it’s just very weird. And then when I don’t get that “perfect score”, it brings me down even more. Has it ever happened to anyone here? Do your friends tend to do this too?
Also because I have nothing to do, I would just want to take a couple of minutes (hours) and talk about Ed Sheeran ‘s (he’s the real MVP. Peace.) new album. I mean there’s nothing to say honestly because has Ed Sheeran ever made an album which didn’t have your mind blown? I’m not taking yes as an answer. I just want to do a little review on each song. So without further ado, LET’S GET STARTED FAM!
ED SHEERAN’S DIVIDE (÷)REVIEW
Eraser- This song is like groovy and has great lyrics and Ed raps here, like um Ed what? You’re amazing.
Castle On The Hill- When this song came out I was like “This is already my favourite!” And then he dropped the album and I was like “oh well, okay..”
Dive- This was like the first song I heard after Castle On The Hill and Shape Of You and I thought to myself “this album already sounds amazing” and uhm yes, it is AmAZIng.
Shape Of You- Groovy. Groovy. Groovy. When these two songs first came out though, castle on the hill was my favourite. No offence sorry.
Galway Girl- This song has this super groovy thing to it and when I heard it I immediately was like “wooooow.” This is lit as f***k.
Happier- This is just sad (I won’t make a pun here, sorry it’s a sad song). But let’s just talk about the melodies, shit!
New Man- Yass Ed. This song is super groovy. A weird story: I thought he once said Cameron Dallas in the song and I just went like whattt..? So I went and searched the lyrics and yeah obviously, he didn’t
Hearts Don’t Break Around Here- This is so so so sweet. Daisies are like one of my favourite flowers (is that weird?) and so the part when he sings “daisies, daisies perched upon your forehead”, I just went like aww.
What Do I Know?- This. Song. Is. Lit. I love it!! This is definitely like my most favourite one (because all are my favorite) and the message is honestly so good.
How Would You Feel (Paen)- “AWW” my ultimate reaction.
Supermarket Flowers- I love this song. And the story that’s being told from this song. Ed I love you.
Barcelona- This song would make anyone want to dance! There’s this segment where he does this thing (sorry I suck at describing I guess) and I was like “woah.”
Bibia Be Ye Ye- The title may sound unpronounceable but I swear it’s a great song!
Nancy Mulligan- I think this album has so many groovy tracks, I love it!
Save Myself- This makes me so sad honestly and I can somewhere relate to it too. So thanks Ed, I love those songs that I can relate to.
So my review ends here. I hope that you liked it and if you haven’t listened to it yet, please go and do. This album is amazing and the King’s back guys!
So because this was like a little rant kind of post, I decided to include one of the pictures I took the other day. Sorry my photography ain’t that good🙈. Okay this post was kind of weird so thank you for bearing with me! Hope you have a great day/night and I’ll just go back and continue my sad story with my French book and notes. Fairwell.
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Class Filters Dialog
The dialog box opens when you select the Class Filters checkbox and click the Browse button in the Breakpoints dialog box.
Use this dialog box to configure class filters that determine in which classes a specific breakpoint will be hit and in which classes this breakpoint should not be triggered.
|Class Filter|| In this area, configure the set of classes where the selected breakpoint must be hit. Specify the classes either explicitly or using a class pattern. |
A class pattern is a string that may start or end with an asterisk (*). The asterisk in a pattern means any number (including zero) of any characters. The patterns are matched against fully qualified class names.
The breakpoint behavior is different in relation to classes specified by their names or using class patterns.
A filter specified through a class name points at the class itself as well as at all its subclasses (i.e. the classes directly or indirectly extending this one).
A filter specified through a class pattern points at the classes whose fully qualified names match the pattern. The subclasses of such classes are selected only if their fully qualified names also match the specified pattern.
|Class Exclusion Filter|| In this area, configure the set of classes where hitting the selected breakpoint is suppressed. Specify the classes either explicitly or using a class pattern. |
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A cube is a three-dimensional shape belonging to the category of polyhedra. It is characterized by having six square faces, eight vertices, and twelve edges, where every face meets each adjacent face at a right angle (90 degrees). The length of all its edges is equal. This symmetry gives cubes unique properties which make them interesting to study across various fields including mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer graphics. In this discussion, we will focus on finding the volume and surface area of a cube using different given information about its sides, walls, and total edge length. We'll go through detailed calculations based on the provided problem set and demonstrate how to apply formulas systematically to obtain correct results.
Firstly, let's consider case (a): when the length of side $/AB/$ is given as 4 cm. To calculate both the volume ($V$) and the surface area ($S$), we need to understand two basic formulas associated with cubes:
Volume of a cube: $V = s^3$, where $s$ represents the length of one side.
Surface Area of a cube: $S = 6 * s^2$.
Applying these formulas to our given problem:
$s = 4$ cm, so
$V_1 = s^3 = 4^3 = 64$ cm³, and
$S_1 = 6 * s^2 = 6 * 4^2 = 96$ cm².
Next, consider case (b): the perimeter of wall ABCD is 22 cm. Since a cube has four identical walls, each wall consists of a single square face. Hence, the perimeter of a single wall provides information about the circumference of one face of the cube rather than the whole cube itself. Recall that the formula for the perimeter of a square is $P = 4 * s$. Solving for $s$, we get $s = P/(4*1)$. Now applying this value back into our original volume and surface area equations from earlier, we have:
$s_2 = P/(4*1) = 22/(4*1) = 11/2 = 5.5$ cm, so
$V_2 = s_2^3 = (11/2)^3 = 1331/8 = 166.375$ cm³, and
$S_2 = 6 * s_2^2 = 6 * (11/2)^2 = 363/2 = 181.5$ cm² .
Lastly, look at case (c): the sum of the lengths of all edges of the cube is 30 cm. Each vertex of a cube connects exactly three faces; therefore, there are always 12 edges in a cube regardless of their individual lengths. Thus, knowing the total length of all edges doesn't directly give us enough information about any particular side length because it does not indicate how many times that length occurs among those 12 edges. However, assuming that the total length is distributed uniformly among all edges, then each edge should be $(30/12)=(2.5)$ cm long. Substituting this into our previous volume and surface area equations yields:
$s_3 = 2.5$ cm, thus
$V_3 = s_3^3 = (2.5)^3 = 15.625$ cm³, and
$S_3 = 6 * s_3^2 = 6 * (2.5)^2 = 75/2 = 37.5$ cm².
In conclusion, analyzing the volume and surface area of a cube requires knowledge about either the side length, half the diagonal (which can provide the side length indirectly), or other relevant measurements like the perimeters or total edge lengths under certain assumptions. Through rigorous mathematical manipulation and application of fundamental principles, users can solve complex geometrical problems involving cubic structures efficiently and accurately.
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(Gen 35:1 NASB) Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Gen 35:1: Elohim is calling Jacob back to Bethel where He wrestled with him all night. It is also where Elohim confirmed the Abrahamic covenant with Jacob. This chapter involves a re-commitment of Jacob and his family to serve Elohim.
(Gen 35:2 NASB) So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;
Gen 35:3: The household of Jacob and his servants were to put out the foreign gods from among them and purify themselves. The act of purifying themselves and changing their garments was an outward act indicating the cleansing of the heart toward Yahweh (Isa. 1:16-18).
The instructions that Jacob gives here are very similar to the instructions given to Israel before they made the covenant with Elohim. He told them to wash their clothes and then to put away their false gods (Ex. 19:10-14, 20:3-6).
(Gen 35:4 NASB) So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.
(Gen 35:5 NASB) As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
Gen 35:5: The terror spoken of here could be a reference to the events as described in the book of Jasher. In that writing, Jacob states that the sons of Jacob went to several of the cities and killed many of the people there. However, the book of Jasher, as we have it, is not a reliable document since it was not preserved as was the Tanakh. It is possible that the acts of Levi and Simeon to the men in the city of Hamor and Shechem would explain the terror of the people around them.
(Gen 35:6 NASB) So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
(Gen 35:7 NASB) And he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him, when he fled from his brother.
(Gen 35:8 NASB) Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.
Gen 35:8: “El Bethel” means “Elohim of Bethel.” Since Bethel means “House of Elohim,” the altar is referred to as “the Elohim of the house of Elohim.”
The terebinth tree was named “allon bachuth” which means “oak of weeping.”
(Gen 35:9 NASB) Then God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him.
(Gen 35:10 NASB) And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; You shall no longer be called Jacob, But Israel shall be your name.” Thus He called him Israel.
Gen 35:10: Jacob is blessed by Elohim and is again told that his name is changed to Israel.
(Gen 35:11 NASB) God also said to him, “I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come forth from you.
(Gen 35:12 NASB) “And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”
(Gen 35:13 NASB) Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.
Gen 35:13: The name Elohim calls Himself in verse 11 is “El Shaddai.” Jacob is told to be fruitful and multiply. He already has eleven sons and an untold number of daughters. Israel is told that he will become a “company” (multitude or assembly) of nations. Kings shall proceed from his body.
That land is given to Israel and to his descendants after him (Romans 4:11-12, 16, 9:6-8).
(Gen 35:14 NASB) And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He had spoken with him, a pillar of stone, and he poured out a libation on it; he also poured oil on it.
Gen 35:14: Why did Jacob pour a drink offering (libation) and oil on the pillar? Jacob is now in the land given to him by Elohim and it is the law that he is to do so (Num. 15:2-7).
Jacob had not yet been cultivating the ground and did not have the grain, but it appears that he followed much of this requirement.
(Gen 35:15 NASB) So Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
(Gen 35:16 NASB) Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe labor.
Gen 35:16: Ephrath is the ancient name of Bethlehem. The prophet Micah prophesied that this would be the birthplace of Messiah (Micah 5:2). Matthew quotes this verse as being one known by the scribes as the one that told from where the King would come from (Matt. 2:4-6).
(Gen 35:17 NASB) And it came about when she was in severe labor that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear, for now you have another son.”
(Gen 35:18 NASB) And it came about as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.
Gen 35:18: Rachel called her last son “Ben-Oni” which means “son of my sorrow or misfortune.” Israel changed his name to Benjamin which means “son of the right hand.” In this way he is a picture of the Messiah who came out of Bethlehem who is at the right hand of the Father.
(Gen 35:19 NASB) So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
(Gen 35:20 NASB) And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.
Gen 35:20: While Jacob had four wives, Rachel was the only one that he asked for, worked for, longed for, and was the one he truly loved the most. Without a doubt, he was very sad.
(Gen 35:21 NASB) Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
(Gen 35:22 NASB) And it came about while Israel was dwelling in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. Now there were twelve sons of Jacob–
Gen 35:22: This is a shameful act that Reuben would pay for. Israel did not forget it even on his deathbed (Gen. 49:3-4). It is strictly prohibited in Torah (Lev. 18:7-8).
(Gen 35:23 NASB) the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s first-born, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;
(Gen 35:24 NASB) the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
(Gen 35:25 NASB) and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;
(Gen 35:26 NASB) and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Gen 35:26: The sons of Israel numbered twelve in all from all four of his wives.
(Gen 35:27 NASB) And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.
(Gen 35:28 NASB) Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
(Gen 35:29 NASB) And Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Gen 35:29: Jacob was present to witness the death of his father. He and his brother buried Isaac at the ripe old age of 180.
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Does Pilates Make You Sweat? [Yes, Here’s How]
Does Pilates Make You Sweat
Does Pilates Make You Sweat
Sweating is a normal process and all of us sweat on a regular basis. Depending on a temperature, physical activity, and fitness level sweating can vary a lot among people.
This body function is very useful and it helps you lower your temperature. Just make sure to hydrate and drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration.
So, does Pilates make you sweat? Pilates will make you sweat although it is sometimes perceived as an activity that doesn’t include cardio or working with high loads. Despite that, Pilates practice can be very intense.
Some people think that the amount of sweat determines the success rate of their exercise, however, that is not completely true. A lot of it depends on numerous outside and inside factors.
In some rare instances, too much sweat can be linked to some medical conditions, however, that is not common at all and sweating during exercise is completely natural.
Here I will tell you a bit more about sweating while practicing Pilates.
Does Pilates Make You Sweat? [Here’s How]
Before telling more about does Pilates make you sweat, I have to tell you some basics about sweating. Your body temperature can rise because of hormones, illness, heat, or intense movement. Here we are going to talk about the last reason which is physical activity or exercise.
When your body produces sweat, that sweat evaporates from your body and it is actually lowering your temperature. Your body is doing everything it can to maintain a constant temperature.
Those with high fitness level tend to lose less sodium in their sweat. Older people have less ability to control body temperature. Muscle mass produces more heat and those with higher muscle mass will sweat more than a person of the same weight with less muscles. Overweight people will sweat a lot because they need to work very hard to move the extra weight. As you can see, variations are almost unlimited.
All of this answers your question about sweating while practicing Pilates. Pilates includes movement, sometimes very intense, and your body will produce sweat to cool down. How much of it you will produce is influenced by all of the factors I mentioned here.
What Kind of Pilates Makes You Sweat?
Every kind of Pilates can make you sweat if the room temperature is high or your fitness level is very low. For example, very fit person won’t sweat a lot during beginners’ class because that person won’t have to put a lot of effort into the movement. But someone who never practiced before will sweat a lot.
If we observe people of the same fitness level, obviously the intensity of training will determine how much will they sweat. There are various kinds of Pilates, and the most popular are classic, clinical, reformer, mat, and power Pilates. The last one became very popular because that variation is focused on high intensity exercises that will make you lose weight and become very fit. It still has the same benefits as the classical one, but the end goal is a bit different. So, this is the kind that will make you sweat the most.
Clinical or restorative are the two kinds that will not make you sweat a lot, because these are made to be practiced by people who have some physical conditions.
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Does Pilates Make You Sweat – Workout
Why do I Sweat so Much During Pilates? Is it Healthy?
I already listed the reasons why people sweat, and that can answer this question. Maybe you are out of shape, or you are practicing during summer in a studio without the AC.
If you feel good, and you can finish the class normally, there is nothing to worry about. It is perfectly normal. You just have to drink water to prevent dehydration, and eat high quality meals that will replenish everything that you lost through sweat. As I already mentioned, unfit people tend to lose a lot of sodium, so you could drink a sports drink that contains enough electrolytes, just make sure to choose those without too much artificial flavors and sugars.
However, if you are having troubles keeping up with the class, you are sweating so much that you can’t replace the lost liquids, or have any other symptoms besides sweating, you should see a doctor and make sure that everything is ok before you continue practicing.
Does Sweating During Pilates Mean You’re Unfit?
As I already mentioned, yes and no. Sometimes, even the fittest people will sweat because the class was very intense, or because of the outside temperature.
But, in general, people who are not fit tend to sweat more when performing the same exercises as very fit people. The reason is that you have to put a lot more effort into the movement, and your muscles are not as strong and controlled. This will generate a lot of heat and you may sweat more that your Pilates instructor, for example.
Fit people have bodies that are already used to a certain level of movement, and the only way to achieve that is to keep practicing to become fit. When I compare my first class with classes today, the progress is obvious and some things I can easily do without sweating were almost unimaginable when I started. Believe me, it is worth the effort.
BUT, Is it Normal / Better to NOT Sweat During Pilates?
If you are not completely wet after class, don’t worry, it is still normal. Pilates, especially some “calmer” versions of it, is performed in a way that you are strengthening your body through slow and controlled movement. It is not a cardio training, and it is normal not to sweat a lot.
However, if you are not sweating at all, but you are working hard and feel that your temperature is increased, then you should see a doctor. Sweating is a normal and beneficial process for maintaining body temperature.
Most often, people notice that they sweat less as they become more fit, at leas when doing the same exercises. If you are not sweating a lot during Pilates, it may be that you are more fit than you think, so maybe try to go to more advanced classes or practice another kind of Pilates, if you want to work harder and sweat more.
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Does Pilates Make You Sweat – Towel
There is something very satisfying about finishing your Pilates practice and feeling sweaty, but also energized and strong. However, even if you didn’t sweat a lot, that doesn’t mean that you didn’t do anything for your body.
Keep in mind that the intensity of your practice has a large influence on the amount of sweat, together with room temperature and your body and its functions.
Pilates will not make you sweat like running or mountain climbing, but sometimes that is even better, because this exercise was created to heal our bodies (like knees, posture, flexibility and more) not just to lose weight (burn calories) or just to increase your fitness level. Instead of wondering does Pilates make you sweat, think about all the benefits it has when you are practicing on a regular basis.
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Measure a Bipolar Signal with an Arduino Board
Arduino is a popular family of open source microcontroller boards. Hobbyists, students and engineers all over the world use this platform to quickly design and prototype a microcontroller driven circuit. One of its interfaces with the analog world is the ADC. Since these boards are mostly designed around an ATMEL ATmega32 or ATmega168 microcontroller, the ADC has 8 inputs and 10-bit resolution, making it suitable for many applications.
From time to time I receive a message through my Contact page with the question, how to interface a sensor, or an outside circuit with the Arduino ADC? In most cases the answer is an interface between a bipolar circuit and the Arduino board. As the bipolar circuit output varies from some negative to a positive level, the Arduino ADC cannot measure this signal directly, because the ADC inputs can only be between 0V and the reference voltage.
In one of these messages a reader asked me how to build an interface between a board that has an output voltage of -2.5V to +2.5V and the Arduino ADC. He told me that the Arduino reference voltage is AVCC = 5V. He would like to measure the +/-2.5V signal with the Arduino board and direct the microcontroller to take some action based on the result.
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Using the Summing Amplifier as an Average Amplifier
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A Summing and Differential Amplifier with One Op Amp
In a comment, one of my readers asked me what is the transfer function of the non-inverting summing amplifier in Figure 1, when R3 is connected to a reference voltage instead of ground. Well, this is a summing amplifier with a differential configuration.
Figure 1
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Bipolar to Unipolar Converter Example
The calculator solves the summing amplifier resistors based on the input and output voltage range requirements. It is a great tool to design a bipolar to unipolar converter, as an example and other circuits.
Enter the input range, Vin1 to Vin2, the output range, Vout1 to Vout2 and a reference voltage Vref which helps in adjusting the common-mode level of the amplifier. Since the 2-input summing amplifier has 4 resistors, you need to choose two resistors, R1 and R3, and calculate R2 and R4. For more details about this calculator read How to Design a Summing Amplifier Calculator.
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How to Design a Summing Amplifier Calculator
Several articles in this website describe the Summing Amplifier. In one of these articles, Solving the Summing Amplifier, I showed a numeric method to design a non-inverting summing amplifier based on its input and output voltage range requirements.
This article shows how to design a summing amplifier calculator and the mathematical relations it uses. You can find the calculator here:
JavaScript Summing Amplifier Calculator
Type the input voltage range, output range, a reference voltage and a choice of two resistors. The calculator gives you the answer for the remaining two resistors. The default values are for a bipolar to unipolar converter, which is explained in Design a Bipolar to Unipolar Converter to Drive an ADC.
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Dan Nosowitz just posted an awesome long read on the horrifically polluted Gowanus canal over at Popular Science.
He describes the canal:
The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long waterway connecting Upper New York Bay (the bay in between Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, and Staten Island) with the formerly industrial interior of Brooklyn. Originally it was fed by the marshland and freshwater springs in Brooklyn and drained into the Atlantic Ocean in Upper New York Bay;
Because of the way it was created, though, it has become stagnant and polluted by decades of runoff and dumping from local neighborhoods and businesses. In the summer, you can smell it from blocks away. It's not a good smell. The post notes some pretty horrible things about the canal:
1. The Gowanus is literally a sewer. First, small businesses along the canal are illegally dumping sewage and wastewater into it. There are also raw sewage tanks at the end of the canal, maintained by the city, that overflow right into the Gowanus.
2. It should kill most marine life in it because the water doesn't contain enough oxygen. Somehow even under these toxic conditions, bacterial life survives.
3. The bubbles that float up from the lake come from decomposing sewage at the bottom.
4. It's a superfund site and the EPA has a plan to clean it up. The cleanup is expected to cost $500 million, but will probably end up costing much more.
5. Giant white clumps of bacteria — called biofilms — float near the bottom of the canal.
6. We don’t really have any idea of the things that are growing in it. Even the EPA is clueless. There could be entirely new species growing in there.
7. Things that we know are in there? Heavy metals including arsenic at 60 times the healthy exposure levels, carcinogens (that cause cancer), and congeners (a type of toxic chemical that come from factory runoff).
8. The EPA also has no idea about the long-term effects on people who live near the canal, and no one is studying it. There is anecdotal examples that residents succumb early to cancer, Nosowitz writes. That's just from breathing in fumes.
9. The most disgusting thing? People canoe in it.
Read all of Nosowitz's post on the Gowanus here >
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You know how people sometimes write letters to their 16, 18, 30 year old selves? My letter wouldn’t go back that far. I wouldn’t intone the wisdom of years. I’d write a letter to the girl of two hours ago, the girl from half an hour before.
Dear Me of a Few Minutes Before,
That insensitive, ugly thing that happened on the playground, the one that left you sucker punched. Yeah, that was hard. Then later hauling two kids home in the hot sun that on the walk down to the park felt golden, yeah, that sucked.
Remember how you kept going when all you wanted was to fall down on the hot concrete and weep? That a girl. You know how all you felt capable of was donning sack cloth and ashes and wailing but somehow you managed some inane comment about those yellow flowers? I’m proud of you.
I know you think you can’t do this. You can. I know you feel like you’re not cut out for this. You are.
You’ve surrounded yourself with smart, caring people. They are there for you. Your faith has not failed you. It’s steadfast truth. You believe in unfailing grace. Show it to yourself.
Yeah some moments are hard – they are. You can’t change that.
But you can keep going until you get to the beautiful ones.
Rise up, phoenix, RIse.
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3 Benefits of Online Banking
Online banking is growing in Kingston and across the globe, as everyone begins to understand how convenient and impressive this brand-new service truly is. Simply a decade back, individuals had to perform every purchase by visiting their bank, or even something as simple as examining their financial institution equilibrium was difficult to do unless they were in fact at the financial establishment.
A whole lot has actually altered since then, and also with the development of online banking, life has actually come to be so much easier for numerous individuals. There are three vital benefits of financial online.
1. Conveniently Pay Bills
One of the best advantages of electronic banking is that individuals could quickly pay their bills with a straightforward click of a button. Instead of needing to mail checks or use various other old-fashioned approaches of paying off costs, people could now merely log in to their accounts and transfer the money to the business that they owe loan to. That one can conserve the company's info after the first purchase so that every purchase after that can be done really swiftly just adds to the convenience and also comfort.
2. Conserve Time
Not only can expenses be paid conveniently, however a lot of energy and time-- not to mention gas-- can additionally be saved by carrying out one's purchases from home. Rather than needing to drive to the financial institution to move funds or ask about certain deals, people could read more easily do that from the comfort of their very own home. Banking applications have actually made every little thing so much faster and a lot more reliable. Currently, as opposed to needing to visit to the computer to get access to one's account, an easy swipe on one's phone can provide a person access to all the info they require. Bills and funds can quickly be paid as well as moved making use of the financial applications, and these apps could additionally be used to locate the nearby Atm machines for fast cash money withdrawal.
3. Spend More Wisely
When one has access to their account balance as well as deal background at the ideas of their fingers it could be a lot easier to regulate oneself from overspending or to reevaluate one's budget. Having a created document of what does it cost? an individual has spent can allow one to easily compute what does it cost? loan they are spending on essential things or if the cash is simply being lost on unnecessary costs.
Online banking allows one to pay their costs with loved one convenience, save a lot of time and gas by performing a great deal of their deals in your home, and also permits one to invest more intelligently due to the fact that they have a composed record of their investing background. Online banking is definitely worth a shot for anyone living in Kingston, and also it could make one's life a lot easier.
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The following article is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2017 in Review.
I have come to trust Vitalik Buterin to ask the most important questions in blockchain.
The ethereum founder did that again last month when he asked in a tweet: “Alright, the crypto market is now worth $525 billion, but how much of that valuation have we really earned?”
We can answer Vitalik’s question by using the tried-and-true method of discounted cash flows.
This time isn’t different
During the 1990s dot-com boom, valuation by counting eyeballs and various other body parts was rampant.
During the housing boom, valuation was whatever you wanted by tuning projects’ default rates, prepayment rates, volatility and correlation.
During the current crypto boom, methods rooted in science fiction such as network-based valuation, technical analysis, Metcalfe’s law and Moon-based valuation have all blossomed.
Unfortunately, whenver bubbles burst, discounted cash flows return with a vengeance.
So, while we all believe blockchain technology can solve all our problems including valuation problems, let’s pretend this time is not different, and one day either everyone in crypto will have to generate fiat revenues and profits in some form.
The less likely that you will get the cash you think you will get in the future, the higher the discount rate. That is a big mess when you are dealing with anything except government bonds, which academic orthodoxy treats as risk-free (never mind the humongous national debt).
Asset pricing gets even worse when commodities and currencies are involved and we have to start watching costs and benefits of HODLing all your digital GODL or any “implied interest rate” you might earn on your GODL. That forecast of net benefit to the HODLer is basically your cash flow forecast.
So, as Vitalik pointed out – the crypto market is worth $525 billion but what did we do that is worth that in the future?
The question is what did we solve, enhance, or deliver that will make individuals, companies or governments produce more, be more efficient, or enjoy their lives and relationships more?
At a high level, we can ask:
1. What features (e.g. Truffle), products (e.g. UPort) or platforms (e.g. Digital Trade Chain) did we build that a consumer is using or benefiting from? No, I don’t mean tether, Telegram chat channels, or proofs of concept.
2. Which enterprise solutions went live and how much new revenue or efficiencies did they create? This includes the work ConsenSys and IBM are doing in Dubai, trade finance platforms by IBM and R3, MUFGCoin and so on.
3. How much did we improve the infrastructure and stack by in terms of scalability, privacy, confidentiality and other such nice things? Quorum, zcash, Fabric, Corda, Coco – all count.
4. What original business models and technologies were created in 2017? ERC-20 tokens and CryptoKitties are included. Stablecoin crypto exchanges are excluded.
5. For each of these, what’re the odds that we will see the invention used by a real person or enterprise over time? In the absence of any information, let’s assume 50% for each.
Incremental value added in 2017
There is simply no way that we baked $500 billion worth of additional consumer value last year that we didn’t have in 2016 – and all we had in 2016 was PoCs and a few promising ideas.
Any which way you make your list, there was just not enough useful kit in consumer or enterprise production last year.
Bitcoin scraped through to Segwit and all sorts of forks. A very large set of ethereum tools and solutions was released; Quroum, Corda, and Fabric became useful in the enterprise ecosystem, and a very small number of consortia got into technical production.
We bypassed VCs and made it possible for good, bad, and ugly blockchain startups alike to fund their runway.
So how much value did we add in 2017? When we calculate the consumer value of ERC tokens and CryptoKitties, and subtract the future disasters from future Amazons, we will probably get a smaller number than the $3 billion that was raised last year in ICOs.
Then we will thank Vitalik that all this money that could have gone into a largely useless coinware instead went into useful tech.
Why I bet on ethereum
Yes, there will be a lot more value created with blockchain in 2018 and even more the year after but there’s so much future baked into the prices today – and it may need to be swapped around as we learn more.
I suspect that each year, half of the ICO-funded startups from the previous year will die – if they even make it that long.
Yet there will be the next Amazon or Google or Netflix in there. If you know how to pick them, go ahead. I don’t.
This is why I am making a big bet of time on ethereum rather than a bet of money in crypto.
Ethereum has momentum, developer adoption, and a team that is willing to address the technical limitations even at risk to the price of ether.
It has people who are serious about the Web 3.0 vision and solving real consumer and business problems.
Does that mean $7, $70, or $700 billion is a fair value for ether? I can’t say. Whether ether will go to the moon in 2025 depends on if ethereum is still the public blockchain in widespread use or if someone comes up with something much better, and if ethereum continues to evolve unlike some other crypto networks have.
Does that mean you should buy ether today? I can’t and don’t offer investment advice.
Should you start learning how to use ethereum to build solutions and decentralized businesses? Definitely – my son is learning how to build with ethereum and he is 14. He can do quite well just knowing how to build solutions for other people.
When we are dead, it’s not what we HODL or SODL that matters. It’s what we BUIDL
So I advise everyone to think about that and BUIDL. Those who BUIDL do seem to enjoy it and look happier than the rest of us.
Besides, since BUIDLers don’t have the time to day trade or buy dodgy coins, they are also a lot less likely to get REKT.
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The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins is journalist Marjorie Wallace’s moving and compulsive true story about identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons .
From a young age, the twins refused to speak to anyone, including their parents and siblings. The reasons for their shared silence is never fully understood. Though the sisters did have a slight speech impairment, it did not explain why they would not even interact with those closest to them. For instance, while their family would be together watching TV, the twins would sit outside the living room watching the TV on the stairs. Their self-imposed exile is believed to be part of an unspoken pact between the two sisters, a pact that would manifest itself in a painful and violent struggle for identity, for an individual voice and ultimately for life itself.
Wallace’s novel at times reads like a psychological case study but it is made personal by giving a much needed voice to the twins through the excerpts of their diaries and their short stories and poems. These reveal June and Jennifer to be exceptionally intelligent and talented writers, even managing to get their stories published. The twins are also very much aware of their social problems but sadly ill-equipped and at times too naive to deal with them adequately. Plus they’re caught up in their own struggle to break free of the other twin. This struggle forms a very dark, sinister and almost supernatural aspect to their story as the twins appear to have hold on the other which prevents them from being their own person. Attempts by educational psychologists to separate the twins in a bid to force them to mix with others, resulted in the twins becoming further withdrawn into a catatonic state. Eventually, when the girls leave school they are left to their own devices which later leads to their downfall.
A series of teenage pranks take destructive turn towards petty crime and before long the twins are arrested on charges of arson and theft. Unable to explain their behaviour much less defend it the girls were sentenced to be detained indefinitely at Broadmoor Prison Hospital, on the grounds that the twins’ were psychopaths. They were just nineteen years old.
I would agree that the the girls’ were suffering from some sort of mental illness, but as the author is at pains to point out, the girls were not psychopaths. Instead you can see that they were so badly let down by a system that should have assisted and to some degree protected them but instead boxed them up and labelled them and stored them away. Such was and, still is the misconception that surrounds mental illness, especially when the sufferer is a person of colour. Not only that, I think personally, that as much as their parents were very loving, kind people, they also played their part in being complicit with their daughters’ silence by barely acknowledging it and pretending that all was well and normal. Not once do they challenge their daughters’ behaviour, so strong is their desire to blend or to fit into their community and not stand out. Again this failure on the parents part allows the girls to continue in their own way. It also makes me wonder about how mental illness is addressed in black families. ‘Not telling your business to people’ may be a way of preventing gossip about your life but it can have devastating effects, as keeping things locked up inside of you for so long can fracture, if not completely break a person.
The Silent Twins is a fascinating study which leaves you with many questions but overall my feeling coming to the end was of real sadness as I got a real sense of who these young women could have and should have been.
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#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
using namespace std;
vector<pair<int, pair<int, int> > > Place;
int Table[27][27];
int main()
{
int t;
cin >> t;
for(int p = 0; p < t; ++p)
{
int n, m;
cin >> n >> m;
for(int i = 1; i <= n; ++i)
{
for(int j = 1; j <= m; ++j)
{
if(i == 1 && j == 1)
{
continue;
}
else
{
Place.push_back(make_pair(i - 1 + j - 1, make_pair(i, j)));
}
}
}
sort(Place.begin(), Place.end());
int k = 0;
for(int i = m*n - 1; i > 0; --i)
{
Table[Place[k].second.first][Place[k].second.second] = i;
k++;
}
Table[1][1] = m*n;
for(int i = 1; i <= n; ++i)
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for(int j = 1; j <= m; ++j)
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cout << Table[i][j] << " ";
}
cout << endl;
}
Place.clear();
}
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20 Habits of a Highly Successful Teacher
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Teaching is a craft, and every teacher is an artist. Their canvas includes four critical components. These components include students, parents, co-workers, and the content that they teach. A masterpiece is created when a teacher can successfully incorporate and include each of these four components. Leave any of the four components out, and a teacher’s overall effectiveness is reduced significantly.
Highly successful teachers realize that they must develop professional habits built around maximizing these four components.
Students are the focus within a teacher’s masterpiece. All other components provide support for the students, but students should remain the focal point. Successful teachers understand this and maintain an emphasis on the students while honing the other essential areas.
1. Successful teachers foster meaningful relationships with their students that transcend the walls of the classroom. They build relationships where there is genuine respect, admiration, and trust between the students and themselves. They value their students as people, recognize when they are going through a difficult situation, and provide them when support when they need it.
2. Successful teachers embrace individual differences in how students learn. They understand that there is not a one size fits all approach to learning. They tailor lessons to meet the needs of all the students in the classroom. They utilize students who have specific strengths to help students who have weaknesses in the same area.
1. Successful teachers are strong in all aspects of classroom management. They have high expectations for their students and hold everyone accountable. They are structured, but fair. They have well-established rules, procedures, and guidelines. They teach their students to monitor and correct their behavior before it becomes a major issue.
1. Successful teachers understand that the school year is a long journey. They recognize that it is a marathon and not a race. They utilize ongoing assessment to determine whole class and individual instruction and support throughout the year. They meet their students where they and guide them to where they want them to be.
2. Successful teachers maximize learning opportunities and engage all students. They take advantage of teachable moments and include lessons that will help their students become productive citizens. They are master motivators who can draw in even the most reserved student and help them become productive
Parents are the foundation of the masterpiece. They are the first strokes laid down on the canvas. A good background sets the tone for the entire piece. A good foundation will only enhance the focal point in the piece. Successful teachers understand that parents are critical in providing overall classroom support as they lay the foundation for academic success.
1. Successful teachers cultivate parent relationships. They communicate with parents frequently. They inform them of their child’s progress, offer suggestions for them to do at home, and provide positive feedback as often as possible. They work extremely find common ground that allows them to gain a foothold to build a trusting, collaborative relationship.
1. Successful teachers listen to parent concerns. They value two-way communication between themselves and the students. They solicit feedback from parents and are open to trying suggestions that may be out of the box. They do not dismiss a parent's concerns, but value their opinion recognizing that parents can insights that can be beneficial.
2. Successful teachers understand the value of parent volunteers and recognize that the presence of a parent can have multiple benefits. First, it provides the parent with firsthand knowledge of what is going on in the classroom. Next, it shows the students that their parents care about education. Finally, it can help reduce the workload of the teacher allowing them to devote more time to their students.
3. Successful teachers find a way to get even the most reluctant parent involved. Some parents are apprehensive about getting even minimally involved. Teachers have to build relationships with their parents, educate them on the importance of parental involvement, and then provide them with a task that they are comfortable with to get them more involved.
1. Successful teachers make themselves accessible. They make themselves available 24/7. They become more than just a teacher. They become an educational resource for the parents. They utilize social media to communicate with parents. They respond to emails and text quickly. They engage in casual conversation at ballgames, the grocery store, and gas station.
Co-workers provide balance and arrangement of the colors in the masterpiece. Administrators, other teachers, and staff members all have duties that provide specific support in developing a masterpiece. It is the blend of colors strategically placed on the canvas that helps everything come to life. Successful teachers understand that they must build and utilize relationships with co-workers throughout their building.
1. Successful teachers value relationships with other teachers. When they are beginning their careers, they recognize that veteran teachers are a valuable resource. When they become veteran teachers themselves, they seek out beginning teachers to serve as a mentor to them. They rely on other teachers to offer encouragement and to celebrate successes.
2. Successful teachers are not afraid to share best practices and exchange ideas with others. They do not limit themselves to what they can create. They understand that the world is filled with great ideas and that wheel often does not have to be reinvented. They recognize the benefit of sharing their ideas with others in that it can impact students beyond their classroom.
3. Successful teachers value relationships with members of the support staff. They understand that schools would not function without administrative assistants, custodians, cafeteria personnel, maintenance, technology support, bus drivers, etc. They recognize that these people have valuable resources that can be utilized to enhance learning in the classroom at various times throughout the year.
4. Successful teachers have wonderful relationships with their administration. They solicit and value feedback and advice from their administrators. They trust that they have their best interest in minds and welcome them into their classroom. They recognize how busy their administrator is and limit the number of students that they send to the office.
1. Successful teachers take advantage of leadership opportunities. They seek out leadership roles. They want to be innovators for positive change. They are not afraid to speak up for their students or other students, but do so in a respectful manner. They are continuously looking for ways to improve their classroom and the school as a whole.
Content is the subject matter of the masterpiece. Great subject matter captivates, intrigues, and holds one's attention. It is just as much about presentation as it is about the content itself. Successful teachers understand that they must be content experts who find creative ways to share this content with their students in such a way that it captivates their attention.
1. Successful teachers are content experts. They know their content standards for their grade level inside and out. They seek out opportunities to extend their content knowledge. They have a firm grasp on the curriculum in which they are using. They read and complete lessons and activities before doing it with the class so that they can improve upon it.
2. Successful teachers create dynamic and engaging lessons. They utilize hooks within their lessons to draw students in and captivate their attention. They engage students in hands-on learning opportunities when appropriate. They create a learning environment where dialogue is common, and opinions are exchanged and valued.
3. Successful teachers develop lesson plans with a purpose. They understand that every minute of every day is valuable. They maximize learning opportunities and create dynamic lesson plans that standard specific and content driven. They create plans that are easy for others to follow. They always have the materials ready to go before the lesson so that learning time is maximized.
4. Successful teachers incorporate technology into their lessons on a regular basis. They provide students with opportunities to learn and use these technologies when appropriate. They recognize the positive impact that technology has on this digital generation. They seek out new technologies that can enhance learning in their classroom.
5. Successful teachers are not afraid to try something new. They recognize that innovations surrounding education are being introduced on a daily basis. They will try anything new, scrap ideas that did not work, and tweak things that did just to make them better. They do not limit themselves to one prescribed way of doing things. They are open to change and to trying new things if they are convinced it will have a positive impact on student learning.
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Scientists Find Coldest Ever Star
The temperature of the surface is like a hot summer's day in Arizona or Seville - and would be quite pleasant for humans. It's the coldest object ever photographed outside our solar system.
But WD 0806-661 B is not a planet - it's a very small star. Its mass is just six to nine times the gas giant Jupiter.
Artists impression of what the brown dwarf discovered with the Nasa spitzer telescope would look like - the tiny, cold star orbits a white dwarf, the burnt-out remnant of a star like our sun:
Penn State Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kevin Luhman, who discovered the object said, 'It is a very small star with an atmospheric temperature about as cool as the Earth's.'
The astronomers used Nasa's Spitzer space telescope - the most sensitive space telescope on Earth - to find the cold star, scanning 600 near-earth stars for objects orbiting them. Infrared telescopes are used because cold objects 'shine out' brightly in the images. The record-breaking star is 63 million light years from Earth and orbits a dense, collapsed 'white dwarf' star.
The star is a brown dwarf - and formed, like other stars, out of a cloud of dust and gas.
But because it failed to accumulate enough mass from the dust cloud, the thermonuclear reaction that 'lights up' normal stars fail to ignite.
The new brown dwarf's surface is between 27 and 80 degrees centigrade - so in places, it's a temperature humans might enjoy.
The new brown dwarf has a surface temperature between 27 and 80 degrees centigrade, and orbits a white dwarf star:
Artist's impression of a brown-dwarf object (left foreground) orbiting a distant white dwarf, the collapsed-core remnant of a dying star:
Ever since brown dwarfs first were discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to find new record holders for the coldest brown dwarfs - the objects are seen as valuable laboratories to help us understand the atmospheres of extrasolar planets with Earth-like temperatures.
Astronomers have named the brown dwarf ‘WD 0806-661 B’. It orbits the ‘white dwarf’ core of a star . The white dwarf would have shone like our sun until its outer layers were expelled into space in the final stages of a star's life.
‘The distance of this white dwarf from the Sun is 63 light-years, which is very near our solar system compared with most stars in our galaxy,’ Luhman said.
The orbit of the brown dwarf is huge, about 2,500 times the distance between Earth and the sun.
Luhman and his colleagues presented this new candidate for the coldest known brown dwarf in a paper published in spring 2011, and they now have confirmed its record-setting cool temperature in a new paper that will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
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# How do you write the point-slope form of an equation of the line that passes through each pair of points (4,1), (-3,6)?
point-slope form: $y - {y}_{1} = m \left(x - {x}_{1}\right) m = \left[s l o p e\right] \left(h \texttt{p} : / s o c r a t i c . \mathmr{and} \frac{g}{a} l \ge b r \frac{a}{g} r a p h s - o f - l \in e a r - e q u a t i o n s - \mathmr{and} - f u n c t i o n \frac{s}{s} l o p e\right) \mathmr{and} \left({x}_{1} , {y}_{1}\right)$ is the point
slope-intercept form: $y = m x + c$
m(slope)=$\tan \theta = \frac{{y}_{2} - {y}_{1}}{{x}_{2} - {x}_{1}} = \frac{6 - 1}{- 3 - 4} = - \frac{5}{7}$
$\implies$7y-7= -5x+20
$\implies$ 5x+7y-27=0
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“Gentlemen, start your engines!” It’s been three months since the 2011 NASCAR season ended in November at Homestead Miami Speedway. That event crowned a new champion, Tony Stewart, to cap a nine-month season that launched at Daytona the previous February. But here we are once again launching the 2012 season with the 54th running of the Daytona 500. For 75 million fans, NASCAR’s back.
NASCAR is a sport unlike any other. No other season is as long as the nine month NASCAR season. Football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, etc.
Major league sports draft players mostly from college sports. NASCAR develops its drivers through the various “series:” the regional Whelen All-American Series, the Camping World Truck Series, the Nationwide Series, and, of course, the top series—the Sprint Cup Series. Additionally, drivers come to NASCAR from many other types of racing. Rather than draft players, car owners hire drivers to run their cars. Drivers can start as kids in kart racing and many drive well into their 40s or 50s.
The NASCAR drivers are unlike participants in any other sport. Each is media trained and savvy with the press and with fans. Other sports could benefit by sending their players to the NASCAR school of public relations. Drivers are positive to a fault, never failing to praise their cars, their crews, the fans, and of course the sponsors. They are clean-cut, wholesome images often with families in tow. Races start with a prayer, the singing of the national anthem, presenting of the flag by a military color guard, and a fly-over by some branch of the service. While competitive with each other, drivers know they are part of an extended family in a close-knit sport. There is no other sport where participants thank the sponsor before answering a question, or take a sip of Coca-Cola on camera to plug the brand. This, in turn, builds value for those sponsors and attracts even more money and loyalty from them.
NASCAR is big business. The average value of each team is about $143 million with average annual revenue of nearly $100 million. Like most forms of entertainment, the sport was hurt during the recession as fans were forced to cut back on their spending, but attendance has bounced back recently.
Some key facts: 1 in 3 U.S. adults, or 75 million people, and countless kids are NASCAR fans. Roughly 40% of fans are women. The sport has become the No. 1 spectator sport, and 17 of the top 20 most attended sporting events in the United States are NASCAR events. The sport is broadcast in 150 countries, and it is the second-most-watched sport on TV (after the NFL). NASCAR's current eight-year TV deal began in 2007 and is worth $4.5 billion, or $560 million per year. The largest NASCAR tracks can accommodate upwards of 190,000 people in the stands and infield, far larger than any non-motorsport venue in North America. NFL stadiums, by contrast, hold on average 60-80,000 people.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) sanctioning body is a private organization led by Brian France, grandson of founder Bill France Sr. In 1948 France was instrumental in bringing together a rough and tumble racing world descended from bootlegging stock car drivers from the prohibition era. The first sanctioned Daytona race was run that February, partially on beachfront pavement and partially on the beach itself. Since 1959 the race has been run on the current 2.5-mile asphalt tri-oval track that is four miles inland from the beach. Today the Daytona 500 is the most watched race of the year and is considered the “super bowl” of NASCAR racing. This is unusual since most sports have their top event at the end of the season while the Daytona 500 initiates the season for NASCAR. The 2006 Daytona 500 attracted the sixth largest average live global TV audience of any sporting event that year with 20 million viewers. The Sprint Cup season alone extends over nine months with 36 races at 25 different tracks.
So NASCAR is a sport with a colorful history that has grown into a big business with an international following. But most of all, NASCAR is about fans.
So here we go again with another start to another season. Who will be this year’s champion: Jimmie Johnson for number six? Jeff Gordon for number five? Tony Stewart for number four? Carl Edwards for his first? Fan favorite Dale Earnhardt Jr.? Maybe it will be one of the other eighty or so drivers who will race in the series throughout the season. If you haven’t experienced a NASCAR race, you owe it to yourself to see one. Once you do, you’ll be hooked.
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I read something a few minutes ago that said something to the effect that when we begin using a new curriculum, teachers want to get to the point where they have institutionalized the process, so that it becomes a routine. My question is, do we really want to get to the point where our curriculum becomes institutionalized? Doesn’t that admit that we want to routinize the what and how of our courses so that nothing unexpected happens?
After reading and spending some time thinking about it, this is at the root of many of our struggles in education and making “change” (whatever that is by the way) happen. We want routine. We want the expected. It’s comfortable, reassuring. But it’s also damaging considering how quickly the world is changing. Content continues to expand at a more rapid rate everyday. Students are more diverse and thus have differing needs. And society in general is demanding different knowledge and skills, most of which we haven’t, as an education system, been able address adequately.
We need the unexpected, even though it’s messy and chaotic. That’s how the world works. Nothing of any real value comes in nice little packages.
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Reasons Taking an Airport Transfer in New York Is a Must
There are few places in the United States apart from New York that are very difficult to reach airports. Traffic and public transportation are usually smooth, but New York City with its constant traffic jams and congestion basically doesn't have a reliable way to get around when you need a flight. You can also hire Hamptons VIP Ride for best travelling experence.
For this reason, helicopter companies usually offer air tours of the Big Apple and offer additional transfer services from the airport. If you're considering this option, why is airport transfer mandatory in New York?
Another transit is too much Gamble
Being on time for flights from JFK or LaGuardia Airport can be a big bet. Taking a taxi in New York is risky because there will always be traffic in Midtown and on the freeways. Another problem is that the cabin can be uneven and time spent at the rear of the cabin is usually wasted.
The last, annoying way to get to airports in and around New York is by taking public transit. Buses, subways, and even vans are often late, unreliable, and full of people who are not in the customer's best interest.
No parking problem
Another bad option is driving to the airport; In this case, there is again the risk of traffic, long lines in the garage, and expensive costs that arise when the car is left in the garage for an extended period of time. When you park your car at the airport, there is always a problem of potential theft and / or damage.
Shorter travel time
To arrive at the airport on time and at low cost, it is best to take a private helicopter from one of the helipads in the center. It takes less than 30 minutes to drive from the heart of Manhattan to any of the three airports, and only the sights on a clear day are worth the trip.
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Exploring the Self Study Lessons
Change! It’s How You Grow!
Course Recording, Reflections, and Further Support
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For You to Ponder on Your Spiritual Journey this Week:
Key Points from Sunday’s Course:
1. Changes arise every day to help make you stronger, moving you out of old patterns that have kept you stuck. Embrace the changes and use them to move forward in consciousness.
2. Embrace the changes–and the emotional pain that sometimes comes with them–and use it to move yourself forward in consciousness.
1. What inside and outside changes are you experiencing in your life today?
2. How can these changes support your spiritual progress?
3. How is journaling helping you work through any emotional pain or resistance that arises with these changes?
4. Identify some of your comfort zones. Why is it important to let them go? What might you gain from doing so?
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Detroit is Trying to Become the Next Major Tech Hub
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Detroit isn’t exactly known as a tech hub. But some people and organizations are looking to change that. One such organization is TechTown Detroit, a non-profit business incubator located in an old General Motors factory in the city’s Midtown neighborhood.
The TechTown Detroit building is a five-story building currently playing host to about 40 small businesses. And the organization is working to build that community even more by promoting some of the benefits of starting a business in Detroit.
One of the main benefits is the low cost of living. Rents at TechTown Detroit are about 70 percent cheaper than they would be in a comparable space in Silicon Valley. And homes and other amenities are also much more affordable than in more established hubs like the Bay Area.
However, cheap space isn’t the only benefit. CEO of TechTown Detroit Ned Staebler told NPR:
“We have more engineers per capita than anywhere in the world. So, if you need to know how to make something, you need to know how to extrude plastic or bend metal, there’s no place better in the world to do it.”
Adam Leeb is one of those entrepreneurs who has realized some of the benefits of launching a business in Detroit. The MIT grad co-founded Hemingwrite, a company that produces typewriters that automatically add whatever you type to a cloud-based server. The product allows people to have that old typewriter feel while still giving them the opportunity to save documents digitally so they can go back and make edits later. It also allows for distraction-free writing since there aren’t any emails or other windows popping up.
Leeb works out of the TechTown Detroit building, and enjoys the low cost of living and comeback spirit of Detroit.
But being part of a tech community that’s still relatively small doesn’t come without drawbacks. Leeb said that his company has had a more difficult time raising money since it’s not located in a major hub like Silicon Valley.
He also added that the other benefits won’t necessarily offset the downsides for all different kinds of businesses, telling NPR:
“If you’re coming here just for the cheap office space or the cheap living, then you probably need a better idea.”
Finding an inexpensive place to run a business can clearly have its benefits. And those companies that might need access to nearby engineers for product development could also very well benefit from setting up shop in Detroit. But low rent, alone, shouldn’t be the deciding factor for choosing a startup location.
The high cost and oversaturation of Silicon Valley have caused many entrepreneurs to set up shop elsewhere. And Detroit’s up and coming tech startup scene is an intriguing option. But entrepreneurs should consider all of the pros and cons so they can choose a location that offers the benefits that will cater most to their specific needs.
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Social Deviant: Dabbing Physics Teacher in Singapore
Textbook that’s heavy.
Paper that’s light.
Now, paper on top of textbook; let’s try this.
One, two – and three!
Plop goes the textbook – and paper. Pop goes my heart, because the Physics teacher then does something none of my ex-teachers are likely to have done… heck, most students couldn’t have done it either with his self-assuredness.
This is Mr Tan Thiam Soon, a teacher at Chung Cheng High School. His triumphant dab has made it past the classroom onto Facebook, and been featured in overseas sites like Daily Mail in the UK. Clearly, he has done something out of the ordinary. He is an example of a social deviant!
The dab is a dance move used by Michael Jackson in the Smooth Criminal MV. It evolved into a youth subculture in recent years, emanating from the US, as a move to indicate triumph or playfulness. Such an interpretation is not universal; in Saudi Arabia, it is seen as an allusion to drugs.
How Is This Deviant?
To understand the significance of Mr Tan’s act, we must put it in context, in terms of the role he’s assumin’. He is a classroom teacher in Singapore. Isn’t Singapore one of those “hardcore mugger” Asian nations? A place where teachers rule with an iron fist, acting as figures of authority existing on a higher plane than students?
Well, that’s the kind of assumptions we like to apply to entire foreign nations.
Mr Tan did stand on higher ground as he did his experiment. But he was innovating, making Physics fun as it can be. Even if we Singaporeans ownself complain about the education system, there are often teachers in our past we can recall more fondly. These are teachers who, through charisma and innovation, bring a human touch to the process of learning.
What made Mr Tan’s act deviant was the subsequent dab. He invoked a youth subculture. He must have known that Singaporean youths are in tune with the American subculture. At that instant, he placed himself on an even ground with his (cooler) students. What iron fist? No wonder then, how refreshing it must have been for his students. He took the gravity out of the classroom!
It was cooler to see how Singapore netizens responded in general: very positively.
What Next for Teachers?
Does this mean that all the other teachers should start dabbin’ now? Of course not. If they want to shoot to temporary Internet stardom, they should up their game. Instead of dabbing, perhaps they can try twerking?
That was a joke. That would also be no joke.
Mr Tan’s dab received backing because of what came before it, i.e. the innovative demonstration. If the student only uploaded the dab portion, we might expect a more contested reception, at least initially.
What more, coolness has a shelf life. Cool acts have diminishing returns. It would quickly get tiring if every teacher hops on the bandwagon. That would produce a very different narrative about SG teachers: Are teachers getting too casual? Can they still maintain authority?
It’s always nice to be seen as cool. But things always return to a normal. What might this normal look like? Should some teachers keep to their iron fist? Should all teachers start trying to be cool and friendly with students? Or should teachers maintain authority by keeping their distance, but occasionally surprise students with acts of deviance?
Degree of Deviance: ★★★☆☆
Value of Deviance: ★★★★☆
How will you rate this Physics teacher’s dabbling into social deviance?
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Deck the Walls 2011
By Amanda Scuglia, MFA 2013
Deck the Walls is a holiday themed party thrown by The Academy every year. It's the perfect chance to purchase small artworks from students, staff, faculty and alumni for a great price! This is a chance to score some really unique holiday gifts, or to start/add to your art collection.
Buyers lined up at the door, anxiously awaiting access. When the doors opened, there was such an excitement and rush to see all the great work for sale. The walls were packed with nearly 350 pieces, but it didn't take long before they turned bare. All of this, while painters and sculptors worked live from models. AND, the event was sponsored Heineken, and featured an open bar!
As a first year student, it was my first time participating. I had so much fun, and I sold a piece! Here are some highlights from the evening.
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1. Pure sign of the times and a strong indicator of the destruction of the middle class. As the divide between the rich and poor further increases, more and more we will see the master/servant relationship evolve in US society as an accepted norm. As the middle class dissolves, the poor will have no choice in many circumstances but to serve the rich. We are watching the US slave class emerge.
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A Gentle Introduction to Shaders
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We can safely say that Unity has made game development easier for a lot of people. Something where it still has a long way to go is, with no doubt, shader coding. Often surrounded by mystery, a shader is a program specifically made to run on a GPU. It is, ultimately, what draws the triangles of your 3D models. Learning how to code shaders is essential if you want to give a special look to your game. Unity also uses them for postprocessing, making them essential for 2D games as well. This tutorial will gently introduce you to shader coding, and is oriented to developers with little to no knowledge about shaders. Tutorials to extend the knowledge gained from this one can be found at Alan Zucconi's site.
Shader Theory
3D models are, essentially, a collection of 3D coordinates called vertices. They are connected together to make triangles. Each vertex can contain few other informations, such as a colour, the direction it points towards (called normal) and some coordinates to map textures onto it (called UV data).
Anatomy of a shader
Unity supports two different types of shaders: suface shaders and fragment and vertex shaders. There is a third type, the fixed function shaders, but they’re now obsolete and will not be covered here. Regardless which type fits your needs, the anatomy of a shader is the same for all of them:
Shader "MyShader"
// The properties of your shaders
// - textures
// - colours
// - parameters
// ...
// The code of your shaders
// - surface shader
// OR
// - vertex and fragment shader
// OR
// - fixed function shader
You can have multiple SubShader sections, one after the other. They contain the actual instructions for the GPU. Unity will try to execute them in order, until it finds one that is compatible with your graphics card. This is useful when coding for different platforms, since you can fit different versions of the same shader in a single file.
The properties
The properties of your shader are somehow equivalent to the public fields in a C# script; they’ll appear in the inspector of your material, giving you the chance to tweak them. Unlike what happens with a script, materials are assets: changes made to the properties of a material while the game is running in the editor are permanent. Even after stopping the game, you’ll find the changes you made persisting in your material.
The following snippet covers the definition of all the basic types of properties you can have in a shader:
_MyTexture ("My texture", 2D) = "white" {}
_MyNormalMap ("My normal map", 2D) = "bump" {} // Grey
_MyInt ("My integer", Int) = 2
_MyFloat ("My float", Float) = 1.5
_MyRange ("My range", Range(0.0, 1.0)) = 0.5
_MyColor ("My colour", Color) = (1, 0, 0, 1) // (R, G, B, A)
_MyVector ("My Vector4", Vector) = (0, 0, 0, 0) // (x, y, z, w)
The type 2D, used used for _MyTexture and _MyNormalMap, indicates that the parameters are textures. They can be initialised to white, black or gray. You can also use bump to indicate that the texture will be used as a normal map. In this case, it is automatically initialised to the colour #808080, which is used to represent no bump at all. Vectors and Colors always have four elements (XYZW and RGBA, respectively).
The image below shows how these properties appear in the inspector, once the shader is attached to a material.
Shader Inspector
Unfortunately, this is not enough to use our properties. The section Properties, in fact is used by Unity to give access from the inspector to the hidden variables within a shader. These variables still need to be defined in the actual body of the shader, which is contained in the SubShader section.
// Code of the shader
// ...
sampler2D _MyTexture;
sampler2D _MyNormalMap;
int _MyInt;
float _MyFloat;
float _MyRange;
half4 _MyColor;
float4 _MyVector;
// Code of the shader
// ...
The type used for texture is sampler2D. Vectors are float4 and colours are generally half4 which use 32 and 16 bits, respectively. The language used to write shaders, Cg / HLSL, is very pedantic: the name of the parameters must match exactly with the one previously defined. The types, however, don’t need to: you won’t get any error for declaring _MyRange as half, instead of float. Something rather confusing is the fact that if you can define a property of type Vector, which is linked to a float2 variable; the extra two values will be ignored by Unity.
The rendering order
As already mentioned, the SubShader section contains the actual code of the shader, written in Cg / HLSL which closely resembles C. Loosely speaking, the body of a shader is executed for every pixel of your image; performance here is critical. Due to the architecture of the GPUs, there is a limit on the number of instructions you can perform in a shader. It is possible to avoid this dividing the computation in several passes, but this won’t be covered in this tutorial.
The body of a shader, typically looks like this:
"Queue" = "Geometry"
"RenderType" = "Opaque"
// Cg / HLSL code of the shader
// ...
The actual Cg code is contained in the section signalled by the CGPROGRAM and ENDCG directives.
Before the actual body, the concept of tags is introduced. Tags are a way of telling Unity certain properties of the shader we are writing. For instance, the order in which it should be rendered (Queue) and how it should be rendered (RenderType).
When rendering triangles, the GPU usually sort them according to their distance from the camera, so that the further ones are drawn first. This is typically enough to render solid geometries, but it often fails with transparent objects. This is why Unity allows to specify the tag Queue which gives control on the rendering order of each material. Queue accepts integer positive numbers (the smaller it is, the sooner is drawn); mnemonic labels can also be used:
• Background (1000): used for backgrounds and skyboxes,
• Geometry (2000): the default label used for most solid objects,
• Transparent (3000): used for materials with transparent properties, such glass, fire, particles and water;
• Overlay (4000): used for effects such as lens flares, GUI elements and texts.
Unity also allows to specify relative orders, such as Background+2, which indicates a queue value of 1002. Messing with Queue can generate nasty situations in which an object is always drawn, even when it should be covered by other models.
It is important to remember, however, that an object from Transparent doesn’t necessarily always appear above an object from Geometry. The GPU, by default, performs a test called ZTest which stops hidden pixels from being drawn. To work, it uses an extra buffer with the same size of the screen its rendering to. Each pixel contains the depth (distance from the camera) of the object drawn in that pixel. If we are to write a pixel which is further away than the current depth, the pixel is discarded. The ZTest culls the pixel which are hidden by other object, regardless the order in which they are drawn onto the screen.
Surface versus vertex and fragment
The last part which needs to be covered is the actual code of the shader. Before doing this, we’ll have to decide which type of shader to use. This section will give a glimpse of how shaders look like, but it won’t really explain them. Both surface and vertex and fragment shaders will be extensively covered in the next parts of this tutorial.
The surface shader
Whenever the material you want to simulate needs to be affected by lights in a realistic way, chances are you’ll need a surface shader. Surface shaders hide the calculations of how light is reflected and allows to specify “intuitive” properties such as the albedo, the normals, the reflectivity and so on in a function called surf. These values are then plugged into a lighting model which will output the final RGB values for each pixel. Alternatively, you can also write your own lighting model, but this is only needed for very advanced effects.
The Cg code of a typical surface shader looks like this:
// Uses the Lambertian lighting model
#pragma surface surf Lambert
sampler2D _MainTex; // The input texture
struct Input {
float2 uv_MainTex;
void surf (Input IN, inout SurfaceOutput o) {
o.Albedo = tex2D (_MainTex, IN.uv_MainTex).rgb;
Shader Soldier
In this example a texture is input using the line sampler2D _MainTex; , which is then set as the Albedo property of the material in the surf function. The shader uses a Lambertian lighting model, which is a very typical way of modelling how light reflects onto an object. Shaders which only use the albedo property are typically called diffuse.
The vertex and fragment shader
Vertex and fragment shaders work close to the way the GPU renders triangles, and have no built-in concept of how light should behave. The geometry of your model is first passed through a function called vert which can alter its vertices. Then, individual triangles are passed through another function called frag which decides the final RGB colour for every pixel. They are useful for 2D effects, postprocessing and special 3D effects which are too complex to be expressed as surface shaders.
The following vertex and fragment shader simply makes an object uniformly red, with no lighting:
Pass {
#pragma vertex vert
#pragma fragment frag
struct vertInput {
float4 pos : POSITION;
struct vertOutput {
float4 pos : SV_POSITION;
vertOutput vert(vertInput input) {
vertOutput o;
o.pos = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, input.pos);
return o;
half4 frag(vertOutput output) : COLOR {
return half4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
Red Soldier
The vert function converts the vertices from their native 3D space to their final 2D position on the screen. Unity introduces the UNITY_MATRIX_MVP to hide the maths behind it. After this, the return of the frag function gives a red colour to every pixel. Just remember that the Cg section of vertex and fragment shaders need to be enclosed in a Pass section. This is not the case for simple surface shaders, which will work with or without it.
This tutorial gently introduces the two types of shaders available in Unity and explains when to use one over the other. Further tutorials following from this one can be found at Alan Zucconi's site.
Alan Zucconi
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Alan Zucconi is a passionate developer, author and motivational speaker recognised as one of Develop's "30 Under 30". He started his independent career to fully explore his creativity, designing experimental gameplays and interactive experiences. His titles include the gravity puzzle "0RBITALIS" and the upcoming time travel platformer "Still Time". In 2015 he started a series of tutorials oriented to game developers and ranging from shader coding to machine learning. Ask him for a biscuit.
Дополнительная документация
1. Introduction to Lighting and Rendering
2. Choosing a Lighting Technique
3. The Precompute Process
4. Choosing a Rendering Path
5. Choosing a Color Space
6. High Dynamic Range (HDR)
7. Reflections
8. Ambient Lighting
9. Light Types
10. Emissive Materials
11. Light Probes
1. Introduction to Precomputed Realtime GI
2. Realtime Resolution
3. Understanding Charts
4. Starting the precompute process
5. Probe lighting
6. Unwrapping and Chart reduction
7. Optimizing Unity's auto unwrapping
8. Understanding Clusters
9. Fine tuning with Lightmap Parameters
10. Summary - Precomputed Realtime GI
1. Lighting Overview
2. Lights
3. Materials
4. The Standard Shader
5. Textures
6. Using Skyboxes
7. A Gentle Introduction to Shaders
8. Using detail textures for extra realism close-up
9. Frame Debugger
1. Cameras
2. Image Effects: Overview
1. Meshes
2. Mesh Renderers and Mesh Filters
1. Where to Start?
2. Preparing Unity Render Settings
3. Lighting Strategy
4. Modeling
5. Standard Shader/Material PBS and texturing
6. Lighting and Setup
7. Understanding Post Process Features
8. Dynamically Lit Objects
9. Sample Project File
1. Using Cameras
2. Using Lights
3. Fun with Lasers!
4. The Particle System
5. Cinematic Explosions - PIT
6. Cinematic Composition - PIT
7. Image Effects: Overview
8. Fun with Explosions!
9. Exploring the Blacksmith Environment
1. Substance - Introduction
2. Substance - Understanding PBR
3. Substance - Working with PBR in Unity
4. Substance - Using Substance materials in Unity
5. Substance - Optimization for Substance materials
6. Substance - Creating rock shapes
7. Substance - Creating rock material, Pt 1
8. Substance - Creating rock material, Pt 2
9. Substance - Creating the dirt ground material
10. Substance - Creating the rock ground material, Pt 1
11. Substance - Creating the rock ground material, Pt 2
12. Substance - Publishing the Substance
13. Substance - Creating a blocking scene
14. Substance - Creating the ground model
15. Substance - Modelling the rock assets
16. Substance - Texturing the upper body
17. Substance - Exporting textures from Substance Painter
18. Substance - Creating a scene in Unity, Pt 1
19. Substance - Creating a scene in Unity, Pt 2
1. Introduction and Goals
2. Flame Particles Overview
3. Particle Emission and Color
4. Adding Movement To Particles With Noise
5. Creating The Ember Particles
6. Adding Lighting To Particles
7. Creating Sparks With Particle Trails
8. Particle Question and Answers
1. Introduction and Goals
2. Adding a Second Camera
3. Adding Minimap Icons
4. Render Textures and UI
5. Adding A UI Mask and Border Image
6. Questions and Answers
1. Session Introduction
2. Rendering In Unity
3. Anatomy Of An Unlit Shader
4. The Vertex Function
5. The Fragment Function and Color Tint
6. Making A Transparent Shader
7. Displacing Vertices and Clipping Pixels
8. Questions and Answers
1. Introduction and Session Goals
2. The VideoPlayer Component
3. Texturing Objects With Video
4. Playing and Pausing
5. Playing A New Clip
6. Displaying Current Time and Clip
7. Animated Playhead
8. Questions and Answers
1. Overview and Goals
2. Tonemapping and Color Grading
3. Camera Movement & Animation
4. Post Processing Volumes
5. Timeline & Cinemachine
6. Questions and Answers
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When the Boston Celtics traded for Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen in the summer of 2007, it changed the game. The two future Hall of Famers, combined with longtime Celtic Paul Pierce, created a "Big Three." When they won the NBA title less than 12 months later, the mold for winning had changed.
This made every team—at least in the back of its mind—wonder how it could make a deal or two that would turn it from also-ran to champion.
The Miami Heat elevated the chase for talent even further in 2010.
Like many of their rivals, they had spent recent seasons clearing their salary cap in hopes of signing LeBron James or one of the other coveted members of a 2010 free-agent class featuring Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Amar'e Stoudemire and Carlos Boozer.
When they retained Wade while also acquiring James and Bosh, the world was flipped upside down.
Everyone began thinking this was the new model: Rid your books of bad salaries and look to sign a free-agent bonanza.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
The San Antonio Spurs have always presented an alternative. And in this year's playoffs, four of the remaining six teams show that building—slowly and surely, even forgoing a superstar—can also get you into the NBA's final four.
(NOTE: Throughout, players acquired on draft day via trade are considered to have been acquired through the draft.)
The Golden State Warriors' three most important players this postseason have all been drafted by the team.
The Warriors have had the good fortune of high picks, selecting all of Stephen Curry (seventh pick in 2009), Klay Thompson (11th pick in 2011) and Harrison Barnes (seventh pick in 2012) in the top 11 over a four-year stretch.
But Golden State's current ascension shows how well a team can do even if it doesn't have a top-five pick. There were questions surrounding all three of these young players when they entered the league, and all three have already exceeded expectations.
That is superb drafting.
The big-man spots were filled out by trade, first when the Warriors moved a package that amounted to very little (Anthony Randolph, Kelenna Azubuike and Ronny Turiaf) for David Lee in a sign-and-trade deal.
Acquiring Andrew Bogut cost more: professional scorer Monta Ellis. But the result was the final step in changing the offense from an isolation-based attack toward a more ball-movement-oriented one.
Jarrett Jack (acquired in a trade that cost only Dorell Wright), Draymond Green (a 2012 second-round draft pick) and Carl Landry (signed cheaply in free agency last summer) round out the rotation.
Between finding all the right players and the right coach, the Warriors have adeptly put together one of the most exciting and promising teams in the NBA. They may come up short in making it to the Western Conference finals this year, but nobody expected that anyway.
They have already overachieved. And this is just the beginning.
The front office of the Indiana Pacers, a team on the verge of making the Eastern Conference finals, has built its team in a similar way. But given where they they have drafted, they might deserve even more acclaim.
Paul George, the defensive stalwart who became an All-Star this year, was selected 10th overall in 2010. But the other two starters acquired through the draft, Roy Hibbert and Lance Stephenson, were taken 17th and 40th overall in the 2008 and 2010 drafts, respectively.
George Hill was also acquired on draft day, an acquisition that cost Indiana only its 15th pick in 2011. The team's other draftee in the playoff rotation, Tyler Hansbrough, was taken 13th overall in 2009.
In short, the Pacers managed to find three starters and one useful reserve using nothing but picks ranging from No. 10 to 17 and a fourth starter with a second-round pick. Not too shabby.
The fifth starter—and arguably most important considering his role in changing the team's culture—was signed as a free agent. Though Indiana fans have long bemoaned their team's ability to attract any marquee signings, David West chose the Midwest over his other best offer following the lockout, which reportedly came from the Celtics.
Two other players of note arrived as the result of an oft-criticized trade.
Last offseason, the Pacers dealt water-bug guard Darren Collison (and Dahntay Jones) for center Ian Mahinmi. In addition to getting the big man, this freed up the backup point guard role, which the team immediately filled through free agency with D.J. Augustin.
The two have had their struggles this season—Augustin early, Mahinmi late—but both have risen their play of late to help the Pacers take a 3-1 lead over the New York Knicks in their series that could end Thursday in Game 5.
Sam Young and Jeff Pendergraph, two semi-regular playoff contributors, were both picked up for low-level free-agent contracts.
Nobody thought the Memphis Grizzlies were building a juggernaut when they traded for Zach Randolph or Marc Gasol.
But in this case, it's the quiet ones you have to watch for.
No frontcourt in the NBA is more imposing, and along with a seemingly ho-hum free-agent pickup in Tony Allen, this team has forged a "Grit 'n Grind" identity that few teams can match.
The other critical move: drafting Mike Conley and signing him to a large extension.
Those core four are the heart and soul of this team, and their talents have been lifted by a surprisingly potent surrounding cast.
Tayshaun Prince is the fifth starter, and it was the midseason deal that brought him in and sent out Rudy Gay that arguably set all this current success in motion. The team was left for dead after the deal. The move was carried out for long-term financial reasons, and—so we in the media said—the team had gotten worse by hemorrhaging talent in favor of profits.
Not at all.
The team used that dynamic to fuel a late-season push that carried into the playoffs and now has it in the Western Conference finals. Prince has fit in nicely with the team's substance-over-style identity.
While that remains at the center of everything, the team has also gotten great contributions at times from Jerryd Bayless (signed as an unheralded free agent), Quincy Pondexter (grabbed in a mundane trade), Darrell Arthur (drafted) and Keyon Dooling (signed for the playoff run in April).
To the SportsCenter-watching world, it is a team of nobodies.
To the Western Conference, it might soon be its representative in the NBA Finals.
Everyone knows how the Heat were assembled: In the summer of 2010, Wade, James and Bosh formed together like Voltron.
The league will never be the same.
Given how much these three players take home in salary, however, team architect Pat Riley knew he would have to get creative to fill out the roster. Along with help from his coach Erik Spoelstra's "space and pace" philosophy, he found an ideal surrounding cast, relying largely on overpaid castoffs and unwanted role players.
Ray Allen was the big get through free agency last summer. Mike Miller was acquired the same way two years earlier, as the Heat spent their mid-level exception to lock up the sharpshooter long-term.
Shane Battier was convinced to sign for cheap after the lockout ended. It is this phenomenon—rich veterans' willingness to take little pay for a big chance to win—that Riley has been able to count on to pick up the final pieces of what is likely to be the league's next back-to-back champions.
Rashard Lewis, too, chose the Heat, which were able to dust him off the scrap heap and stick him in the corner for a minimum contract. Miami was able to do the same with Chris Andersen.
Udonis Haslem, though having never played in the NBA, was last decade's Birdman. The team picked him up for cheap as an undrafted free agent in 2003 and he repaid the favor in 2010, bypassing a larger payday to stay with his buddy Wade in Miami.
The team hasn't been completely bought, however.
Wade was of course drafted by the Heat in 2003. And Mario Chalmers and the increasingly productive Norris Cole were both acquired in the draft in recent seasons.
The critics will always say this team is an unholy Frankenstein's monster. To some, LeBron may never live down his Decision to "team up" with his rivals rather than walk his own path in Cleveland.
But does it really matter?
The team had a unique opportunity to put together a champion in a flash, and it has already pulled it off once. The second is likely only another few weeks away.
(NOTE: James and Bosh were technically acquired by trade. Due to the structure of the former CBA, it made more sense for Miami to entice their former teams with a few draft picks so it could ensure its new superstars were signed to the most favorable contracts.)
The New York Knicks always have the strangest teams. This year's incarnation, a top-heavy roster of seemingly mismatched parts and old folks, blended together perfectly in the regular season.
There were bumps along the way, but whenever someone went down, another player filled in.
Jason Kidd, who is 40 years old and was signed in free agency in 2011, began playing huge minutes after an injury sidelined Raymond Felton, who the Knicks employed for half a season before packaging him in the Carmelo Anthony trade but then reacquiring in free agency last summer.
Then there was the trio of Rasheed Wallace (signed out of retirement), Marcus Camby (acquired in a trade centered around Toney Douglas) and Kurt Thomas (picked up via trade). Each did his part for a few games when New York lacked better options.
When Thomas went down for the year with injury, Kenyon Martin was signed. He hadn't played for any team this season until the Knicks gave him a deal in February.
In the backcourt, Pablo Prigioni, a free-agent signing plucked from Spain, jumped into a starting role late in the season during a resurgent stretch that earned the team the No. 2 seed in the East.
All of this was what it took to compile a supporting cast around the team's marque players, Carmelo Anthony (picked up in a blockbuster midseason deal in February 2011), Tyson Chandler (signed as a free agent later in 2011) and J.R. Smith (a free-agent pickup after he returned from playing in China during the lockout).
The team may now be coming apart at the seams, however.
Everyone is struggling, and the team's 2011 draft pick, Iman Shupert, is mending a sore knee. Many fans want to see more of Chris Copeland and Steve Novak, two lethal shooters who have thrived at times this season despite being signed only as bench fodder.
Still, the job that the Knicks front office has done this year has been remarkable.
Not only has the team been able to find all these players from the island of misfit toys, but it has given Mike Woodson players that he could turn into an offense that at times looks like the league's best.
The San Antonio Spurs are less of a professional basketball team and more of a program. They got their guys a decade or more ago in the draft (Tim Duncan with the No. 1 pick in 1997, Manu Ginobili in the second round in 1999 and Tony Parker with the 28th pick in 2001), and they have since continued to rotate the surrounding parts while never losing a step.
Coach Gregg Popovich has changed his style, and general manager R.C. Buford has changed the roster, but nothing has changed: The Spurs remain able to win with any cast.
Kawhi Leonard is the team's greatest recent get and best hope for the future. The draft-day trade it made to acquire Leonard (giving up George Hill in a difficult choice) has been one of the best moves the franchise has made in a decade where almost everything has seemed to work out.
Tiago Splitter, too, was grabbed on draft day. Though the Spurs were not able to bring him over from Brazil for years, the decision to draft him in 2007 (with the 28th pick, no less) has proved critical to helping the team make another run at the title.
Amazingly, Danny Green is the only player among the team's top six players in minutes per game this postseason who was not drafted by San Antonio. He was picked up when the Spurs were one of the few teams that showed interest in him as a free agent after he was waived by the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2010.
Boris Diaw and Gary Neal were grabbed through similarly non-marquee free-agent deals, while Matt Bonner may be one of the most Spurs-eque acquisitions. He was a "who cares?" member of a 2006 trade that sent Rasho Nesterovic to the Toronto Raptors—and then he stuck around for the next seven years, even starting 67 games in 2008-09.
At some point, you just have to shake your head.
They do it every time.
Unfortunately, it's a tough model to mimic. Instead, teams continue to try to hope for the Heat route (convincing a franchise-changer to come in free agency) and usually settle for the Oklahoma City Thunder path (lose a ton of games and try to draft a franchise-changer or two).
Those ways can work. We have watched it happen.
But if we end up seeing that three of the final four teams left standing (San Antonio, Indiana and Memphis) were built more through long-term planning and savvy pickups, it may change the game again.
General managers may start to consider looking less for a headline-making splash and more for an available player who fits their culture.
Nobody can replicate San Antonio's "Program"—but any team can build its own. The Pacers and Grizzlies are showing that it is possible to become a contender the old-fashioned way.
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Diploma and Master Theses (authored and supervised):
"Decentralized Diagnosis: Complexity Analysis and Datalog Encodings";
Supervisor: R. Pichler, S. Woltran;
Institut für Informationssysteme, Arbeitsbereich Datenbanken & Artificial Intelligence,
final examination: 11-2009.
Diagnosis is an important field of AI. Recently, Console et al. proposed a framework for decentralized qualitative model-based diagnosis. The basic idea is to decompose a complex system into subsystems, each of which gets a local diagnoser assigned. The global diagnosis is computed by "asking" the local diagnosers, while some information may be private. However, some problems remained open, in particular a detailed complexity analysis and an implementation are missing. The goal of this work is to resolve some of these open problems. To this end, we introduce extended definitions, based upon which we will define several related problems and analyze their complexity. For each defined problem, an upper bound is presented. Furthermore, we discuss slight modifications which allow us to prove the completeness of some problems. Using these theoretical results from the complexity analysis, we propose datalog encodings of the previously defined problems that match the complexity. Finally, the encodings are evaluated using the datalog system DLV.
Created from the Publication Database of the Vienna University of Technology.
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Croft Stone Garden Walling
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Porsche is inviting young motor racing aspirants to apply to become Australia’s 2017 Porsche Junior.
Launching the driver development programme in 2016, Porsche will again award one young driving talent aged under 23 the Jamey Blaikie Scholarship to compete in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia presented by Pirelli season.
Valued at over $40,000, scholarship benefits include a season’s entry fee, race suits, driver mentoring, media and fitness training, along with a season’s allocation of race tyres free of charge, provided by scholarship partner, Pirelli.
The inaugural recipient of the Jamey Blaikie Scholarship was Perth based driver Jake Klarich, who finished an impressive third outright in his maiden GT3 Cup Challenge season.
The driver development programme is structured to assist young drivers climb Australia’s Porsche Motorsport Pyramid, from GT3 Cup Challenge through to Porsche Carrera Cup Australia. Thereafter, there is the potential to progress to international Porsche one-make racing, including Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, through to Porsche Motorsport’s global racing programme.
This driver progression model was proved successful by New Zealand sports car star Earl Bamber, who moved from GT3 Cup Challenge through to Carrera Cup, Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Porsche factory GT racing to eventually become the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans champion.
A local example of the Porsche Motorsport Pyramid at work is Matt Campbell, who raced in GT3 Cup Challenge in 2014, finishing fourth outright in a 2005-spec Class B Porsche, before moving to Carrera Cup in 2015, placing third in his debut season, and ultimately winning the Carrera Cup title in 2016.
The German marque has a strong history of driver development with initiatives such as the Porsche Motorsport Junior Programme, which annually promotes one Carrera Cup driver to the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup. The Jamey Blaikie Scholarship, named after the late Jamey Blaikie, the individual responsible for the introduction and growth of Porsche one-make racing in Australia and a strong supporter of emerging driving talent, will continue this support in the Australian market.
“We are pleased to continue this driver scholarship into the 2017 GT3 Cup Challenge season. This was very well received in 2016 and our first ever Porsche Junior, Jake Klarich, was a tremendous brand ambassador for Porsche both on and off the track,” said Porsche Cars Australia Motorsport Manager, Kurt Sakzewski.
“We again look forward to supporting one young racer in 2017 in the GT3 Cup Challenge championship. Porsche provides an unrivalled, proven driver development pathway following the success of drivers like Earl Bamber and Matt Campbell. I encourage any young driver looking to follow in their footsteps to apply for our 2017 Porsche Junior position.
“Thank you to Pirelli for continuing as a major supporter of this programme and for assisting in the development of young Australian motor racing drivers.”
Porsche Cars Australia is encouraging eligible drivers to send a completed Application Form and Driver CV to [email protected]. Nominations will be accepted up until December 01, 2016.
Eligible drivers must be:
– be aged under 23 as of January 01, 2017
– be a resident of Australia
– be eligible for a CAMS Provisional Circuit (PC) License
– be able to show proof of success in motorsport/karting
– be able to secure season budget to the 2017 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Australia presented by Pirelli season
– not have raced a full season in Carrera Cup, GT3 Cup Challenge (Class A) or similar level GT, Touring Car or open wheel series
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'Wonder Woman' in Sensation Comics #12.
William Moulton Marston was an American psychologist who invented the systolic blood pressure test, which forms the basis for another invention: the lie detector. Unusual for a psychotherapist, Marston was also a comic writer. In the final six years of his life he created 'Wonder Woman' (1941), the most iconic female superhero of all time. He developed her origin story and several side characters still used by artists and writers today. 'Wonder Woman' was remarkably pro-feminist for its time. She was not only a strong female character, but also encouraged other women to stand up for themselves. Some of Marston's plots were even co-written by a woman, Joye Hummel, and while Harry G. Peter was the original artist, he too received assistance from several anonymous female artists. This explains why Wonder Woman has endured and earned respect from many feminists. Today she is one of DC Comics' "Big Three", alongside Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's 'Superman' and Bob Kane and Bill Finger's 'Batman'. Since 2016 she is even the first superhero to come out of the closet as being bisexual. Yet, at the same time the series has always been surrounded by controversy, particularly regarding Marston, whose ideas and private life almost seem contradictory with his feminist ideas. He deemed women superior, yet had a polyamorous relationship and saw submissiveness as empowering. His plots for 'Wonder Woman' have a not-too-subtle undercurrent of erotic bondage, role play and spanking. This aspect of the character's origins has been airbrushed from the series since, but is also the very reason why Marston's life and work continue to fascinate audiences.
Drawing of Marston's "Original Harvard Experiment" (1915).
Early life and academic career
William Moulton Marston was born in 1893 in Cliftondale, Saugus, Massachusetts. He came from a privileged background and from an early age he was surrounded by strong, independent women like his mother and his spinster aunts. Marston went to Harvard University where he first studied law, but eventually got more interested in psychology. A brilliant student, he graduated with a B.A. (1915), L.L.B. (1918) and a Ph.D (1921). During this period he met yet another determined woman: Elizabeth Holloway. Holloway was in every way just as gifted as him. She received her B.A in psychology at Mount Holyoke College (1915), followed by a L.L.B at the Boston University School of Law (1918) and an M.A at Radcliffe College (1921). Throughout her life she indexed documents of Congressional meetings, worked as an editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and McCall's Magazine and frequently gave lectures at universities. Between 1933 and 1968 she was assistant-chief executive at Metropolitan Life Insurance. She even came up with an invention frequently attributed to Marston himself. While they studied blood pressure Elizabeth noticed that it rose whenever she was angry or excited. Their research led to the creation of the systolic blood pressure test, a predecessor to the polygraph and modern lie detector. Their groundbreaking invention was passed off as a lie too. Elizabeth allowed Marston to act as if he came up with the idea, which led to his B.A. They married the same year. When the USA got involved in the First World War in 1917, Marston became second lieutenant. He tried to sell the test to the U.S army, but his method wasn't considered reliable enough. Marston spent the rest of his life working as a psychology professor at the American University in Washington D.C. and Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. In 1929-1930 he was also briefly head of the Public Services department of Universal Studios.
Marston (seated) conducting a lie detector test. The woman on the left is Olive Byrne.
Marston's women and sexual fetishes
During the early 20th century women still were second-class citizens in society. The suffragette movement held many demonstrations to gain more rights, including women's right to vote. Marston was a strong supporter of suffragettism in a time when many men still were against the idea. One of the activists he met was a librarian named Marjorie Huntley. They fell in love and just like him she turned out to be a fan of bondage. In 1919 Marston broke the news to Elizabeth, who was pregnant at the time. Yet he made clear he didn't want to leave her, but rather preferred them to live together in a ménage à trois. After a six-hour walk to let it all sink in, Elizabeth accepted the situation. In 1925 matters got more complicated when Marston met yet another interesting woman: Olive Byrne. Olive was one of his younger female students. She was related to no less than two famous suffragettes, both historically famous for opening the first birth control clinic in the USA: Ethel Byrne - who was her mother - and Margaret Sanger - who was her aunt! She also liked bondage and was somewhat of a nymphomaniac. Olive surprised Marston by taking him to a rather kinky sorority party where female students were dressed up as babies, blindfolded and tied down, while other women made them carry out tasks. If they disobeyed they were playfully hit with sticks. The experience later inspired the 'Wonder Woman' story 'Grown Down Land' (1944) published in issue #31. Naturally Olive also became part of Marston's household. He and his three wives developed a free love cult named the "Love Unit". He even wrote a 95-page manual on how they had to behave during their sexual roleplays.
Standing: Byrne Marston, Moulton (Pete) Marston and Olive Byrne Richard. Sitting: Marjorie Wilkes, Olive Ann Marston, William Moulton Marston, Donn Marston and Elizabeth Holloway Marston.
Polygamous family life
As unusual as the Marstons' family life was, the women seem to have gotten along pretty well. In some ways it even made certain things easier. While Olive stayed at home and took care of the household, both William and Elizabeth could concentrate on their respective careers. Olive occasionally brought in some income too by writing articles for the magazine Family Circle, ironically on "how to create wholesome family homes". William conceived two children with Elizabeth and another two with Olive. Elizabeth showed her gratitude for all of Olive's parenting by naming one of her children after Olive. Even after Marston's death in 1947 she kept supporting Olive and her children financially. Olive passed away in 1985 (some sources say 1990). Elizabeth in 1993, when she - 100 years old - worked on a biography about her famous husband. Nevertheless, the Marstons kept their polygamous relationship a secret to the outside world. When people asked about Olive they were told that she was Marston's sister-in-law, who worked as a housekeeper. In 1935 Olive's children were legally adopted by William and Elizabeth. As they grew older they were told that their actual father "had passed away before their birth". They only found out the truth in 1963, when they were already adults. Still, the Marston family could never keep this facade up for long. It practically cost him his academic career. No professor wanted to be associated with a polygamous man and he was thrown out every university. His reputation was furthermore damaged by a 1923 indiction for federal business fraud over the financial failure of his engineering and dress company. Even though the charges were later dropped he basically lived of his wives' earnings and the lecture circuit during the final decades of his life.
Early sketch of Wonder Woman, with notes by Marston (red) and Peter.
Theories about women
Another reason why Marston got more isolated as time went by were his controversial sex and gender theories. He saw men as aggressive by nature and prone to conflicts. Women, in his opinion, were superior since they were more honest and efficient. Yet he also felt they were submissive by nature and thus ought to behave accordingly in relationships. He even went so far to indicate that this would "empower" them and help them once "rule the world", which would be beneficial to mankind. Marston also wrote a lot of essays about sex, particularly his preferred fetish: bondage. He tried promoting his ideas through more easy-reading literature, like the novel 'Venus with Us' (1932). While the book didn't sell well it was still important as his first attempt to fit his theories into a narrative. Marston then took an interest in comics. Interviewed by his wife Olive (under a pseudonym) he talked about their "great educational potential" in two articles named 'Don't Laugh at the Comics', published in 1940 and 1942 for the Family Circle. Publisher Max Gaines of National Periodicals and All-American Publications (nowadays DC Comics) was so impressed that he hired Marston as educational consultant. His company had just struck gold with their succesful superhero comics 'Superman' and 'Batman' and were very interested in gaining more prestige. In reality Marston was no longer in demand as a professor and basically seen as a disgrace in the academic world. But Gaines was blissfully unaware of this situation and thus Marston got hired instantly.
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The "birth" of Wonder Woman, from All Star Comics #8.
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Marston pitched a superhero comic where the hero used love as a weapon, rather than violence. His wife Elizabeth suggested making the character a woman, since there were hardly any female comics characters in a starring role. France had Emile-Joseph Pinchon's 'Bécassine' (1905) and Jo Valle's 'L'Espiègle Lili' (1909), but they were unknown outside the francophone world. In the USA the most enduring comics series about women were Gene Carr's 'Lady Bountiful' (1902-1929), Cliff Sterrett's 'Polly and Her Pals' (1912-1958), Abe Martin's 'Boots and Her Buddies' (1924-1959) and Chic Young's 'Blondie' (1930). Particularly superhero comics were a male universe, with women mostly being damsels in distress. The only exceptions were 'Fantomah' (1940) by Fletcher Hanks, 'Black Widow (Claire Voyant)' (1940) by George Kapitan and Harry Sahle, 'Invisible Scarlet O'Neil' (1940-1956) by Russell Stamm and 'Nelvana of the Northern Lights' (1940) by Adrian Dingle. Yet none of these were particularly succesful, left alone well known.
Marston therefore had enough room to invent his own ideal superheroine. To draw her adventures he picked out Harry G. Peter, a veteran artist who was known for his pro suffragette cartoons. Peter designed a black-haired woman who wears a tiara, a red bustier, white belt, arm bracelets, golden boots and a dark skirt patterned after the American flag. Originally she was called "Suprema", but this was eventually changed into the snappier 'Wonder Woman'. Her physical features, personality and attributes were loosely based on Marston's own wives. Just like Elizabeth, Wonder Woman is strong, intelligent and liberated. Her looks were loosely based on Olive, down to her arm bracelets. Elizabeth furthermore invented Wonder Woman's catch phrases: "Suffering Sappho" - referring to the Greek lesbian poet Sappho - and "Great Hera!" - referring to the Greek goddess of women Hera. These weren't the only personal quirks Marston snuck in the series, though. The entire concept was based on his gender theories, mixed with some ideas from Greek mythology.
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Wonder Woman (named Diana in her culture) lives on a faraway island where women are in power, unsubtly named "Paradise Island". Their society is modelled after Mount Olympus and the Amazonians. Wonder Woman was sculpted from clay by the local queen Hippolyta. The gods blessed her with various gifts and powers, including a telepathic device named "mental radio". While Wonder Woman is strong and intelligent she originally mostly relied on gadgets. One of these is her "invisible plane", a transparent aeroplane flown to remain unnoticed by enemies. Since this vehicle looks somewhat silly it is nowadays rarely used in the franchise. Far more prominent is her "Lasso of Truth". Whoever she catches with it is forced to tell her the truth. The analogy with Marston's lie detector invention is quite obvious. Another blatant reference to his theories are Wonder Woman's "bracelets of submission". She uses them to withstand energy beams and gunfire, but in her culture they are also symbol of her tribe's obedience to Aphrodite.
Wonder Woman made her debut in the eighth issue of All Star Comics (December 1941), which happened to coincide with the Battle of Pearl Harbour. Several of her early stories reflected the war period. After American intelligence officer Captain Steve Trevor crashlands on Paradise Island Wonder Woman is given the task to bring him back to his home country. Under the alias "Diana Prince" she works as an army nurse and later an air force secretary. After a while she fights Nazis, Japanese soldiers, spies, saboteurs and other enemies. One of her most common opponents are men (and women!) who oppose female empowerment, like her major nemesis Doctor Psycho. Wonder Woman also motivates other women to stand up for themselves.
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'Wonder Woman' daily comic strip.
After only one month the world's greatest superheroine sported the cover of the first issue of Sensation Comics (January 1942), and she remained a regular feature in this title, as well as in the anthology title Comic Cavalcade. Six months later she received a series of her own. 'Wonder Woman' was a huge bestseller all throughout the 1940s. The comic book also had a back-up feature called 'Wonder Women of History'. It was created by former tennis player Alice Marble and told the stories of prominent women of history in comic form. In May 1944 the character also received her own daily newspaper comic strip through King Features Syndicate, which only lasted less than a year, and was also drawn by Peter and scripted by Marston.
Marston had the creative freedom to do what he wanted with the character, even though his lack of experience in writing for comics occasionally led to some long-winded narratives. Originally all stories were credited under the pseudonym "Charles Moulton", but when Wonder Woman received her own comic book line he finally revealed he was her creator. In reality the comic was more of a family product. Marston's wives and children occasionally came up with ideas. His second wife, Marjorie Huntley, and his daughter-in-law, Louise Marston, did lettering and inking. In fact, more women worked on it than men, including Helen Schepens (coloring) and Jim and Margaret Wroten (lettering)! Joye Hummel, a student of Marston, ghost-wrote several storylines. From 1945 on, when his health declined from polio, she de facto became the series' main writer until he passed away in 1947 from skin cancer. While Marston's comics career only lasted the final six years of life, he had the foresight of signing a financially lucrative contract with DC before his death. The company was contractually obliged to publish at least four issues of the series a year, or they would lose their rights. As a result he was one of the few comic writers to get rich off his own creation and pass his wealth on to his surviving family members.
Wonder Woman in Sensation Comics #8.
Wonder Woman after Marston's passing
After Marston's death his wife Elizabeth wrote to DC Comics to succeed her husband as creative consultant. Instead, Robert Kanigher became the series' main writer, while Harry G. Peter remained illustrator until 1958. From issue #98 on (May 1958) Ross Andru and Mike Esposito took over drawing duties. Wonder Woman's groundbreaking female powers and embarrassing bondage themes were replaced in favor of more conventional superhero stories. She also received a teenage spin-off series, 'Wonder Girl' (1958) and a junior spin-off 'Wonder Tot' (1961-1965). In 1968 a new artistic team was established, with Denny O'Neil as scriptwriter and Mike Sekowsky providing illustration work. They created a new set-up where Wonder Woman gave up her powers to become a regular woman in our world. She became the owner of a boutique store where she studied martial arts under the Buddhist monk I Ching. Clearly inspired by the popularity of spy and kung fu media, Wonder Woman now became a secret agent who could dropkick anyone. The authors even went so far to kill off Steve Trevor. The series sort of aimlessly wandered around during his period, with different scriptwriters and artists taking turns. Even Samuel R. Delany, famous for the science fiction novel 'Babel-17' (1966), stepped in to write two issues #202-203 (October/December 1972).
'Wonder Woman' #7.
In 1973 Wonder Woman returned to her roots, mostly with celebrity support from real-life feminist Gloria Steinem. The character became firmly established as part of the Justice League, of which DC Comics' other superheroes are also members. Writers like Robert Kanigher, Len Wein, Cary Bates, Ellio S. Maggin, Martin Pasko, Jack C. Harris and David Michelinie penned the most 'Wonder Woman' stories, while artists like Curt Swan, Tex Blaisdell, Irv Novick, Frank Giacoia, John Rosenberger, Vince Colletta, Dick Dillin, Kurt Schaffenberger, Dick Giordano and José Delbo visualized the narratives. The 1980s kicked in with the return of Steve Trevor (issue #271, September 1980). Two years later Roy Thomas and Gene Colan gave Wonder Woman a makeover by replacing the eagle on her chest with a "WW", designed by Milton Glaser. During this decade female scriptwriters like Dann Thomas and Mindy Newell finally received credit. For the first time a woman drew the series too: Trina Robbins. From 1983 on Dan Mishkin, Don Heck, Romeo Tanghal and Mindy Newell became main creators.
The entire franchise was rebooted in 1987 with tremendous acclaim by writers Greg Potter, Janice Race, Len Wein, Mindy Newell and writer-artist George Pérez. The feminist aspects of the character became more outspoken, as well as her mythological roots. Trina Robbins and Colleen Doran also created a notable graphic novel under the title 'Wonder Woman: The Once and Future Story' (1998), which addressed spousal abuse. In 2007 Gail Simone wrote the new narratives, becoming the longest-running female writer of the franchise in the process. Another notable writer was Jodi Picoult. In the 2010s J. Michael Straczynski, Phil Hester, Brian Azzarello, Meredith Finch and Greg Rucka became the new writers, while Cliff Chiang, Jim Lee, David Finch, Nicola Scott and Liam Sharp provided art. In 2016 Wonder Woman finally came out of the closet, so to speak. Writers Greg Rucka and Gail Simone made her a bisexual character and even let her officiate a same-sex marriage in a 2016 storyline, drawn by Jason Badower.
'Wonder Woman' #24.
Wonder Woman: Character contradictions and bondage themes
Despite Wonder Woman's long run she has always been slightly less popular than DC Comics other stars, Batman and Superman, even though she is often named along with them when referring to the company's "Big Three". Some have attributed this to the fact that young boys prefer male heroes. Another reason might be Wonder Woman's inconsistent personality. Depending on the author she has either been highly clever or naïve. In some stories she refuses to use violence, while in others she is an unapologetic master of combat. The heroine sometimes defends womanhood very staunchly, while in other tales it is severely downplayed. Wonder Woman has always been a walking contradiction, particularly in Marston's original stories. On one hand she is the embodiment of feminist ideals, yet on the other she still looks like a lust object. Some of Marston's narratives and Peter's illustrations read like male fanservice. The short-skirted title character shows quite some skin and is often drawn in revealing poses. The plots are brimful with scenes where characters are tied up, bound down, gagged and/or chained. Sometimes several times in one storyline! Wonder Woman rarely fails to mention "how tight" she is tied up. Her home country has a place called "Reform Island", where prisoners are re-educated with "loving bondage and discipline". Comic critic Tim Hanley devoted an entire book to the topic, 'Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine' (2014) and discovered that roughly 27% of Marston and Peter's stories include bondage, compared to only 3% of 'Captain Marvel', who also occasionally got tied up. Ropes, chains, lassos, girdles, tentacles, hypnosis, temporary paralysis, spanking, torture and even a very Freudian example of gooey ectoplasma in Wonder Woman #28 are staples of the series.
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'Wonder Woman' in Sensation Comics #7.
As if the S&M undertones weren't heavy enough already one of the antagonists in the series was a Nazi baroness who enjoys sadistic torture: Paula von Gunther. At the time even M.C. Gaines worried about this content. He sent Marston a list with suggestions on how to reduce the use of chains in the storylines. In 1942 the series was blacklisted by the National Organization for Decent Literature as "disapproved for the youth", since "Wonder Woman is not sufficiently dressed." In 1954, when Fredric Wertham wrote his book 'Seduction of the Innocent' which launched a witch hunt against comics, 'Wonder Woman' was one of the series he singled out. To him the franchise was troublesome for children, not just because of its bondage but because it "promoted lesbianism". Naturally all this sexual innuendo has always been the series' biggest contradiction. How could female readers be inspired by feminist messages if the narratives constantly portrayed them as passive lust objects? It undoubtely played a factor in why male readers vastly outnumbered the female ones. Then there is the problem that feminism is about equality between the sexes, while Marston saw women as superior to men. All these elements, combined with Marston's polygamous life, have always made the series' origins embarrassing. Naturally ridicule was easy, like in Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder's parody 'Woman Wonder', published in Mad Magazine (issue #10, April 1954).
'Wonder Woman' #3.
TV adaptations
DC went through great lengths to distance themselves from Wonder Woman's controversial past. Later writers and artists have swiftly removed all bondage elements from the series. It also explains why the character has always been less prominently adapted into other media. In 1967 a TV pilot was made, 'Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?', scripted by Stan Hart and Larry Siegel, then rewritten by Stanley Ralph Ross, but never aired. Numerous other TV projects were considered and sometimes made, but usually abandoned by lack of interest from producers. By far the most succesful attempt was the live-action TV series 'Wonder Woman' (1975-1979) which starred Miss World 1971 Lynda Carter. The show was popular enough to inspire the single 'Wonder Woman Disco' (1978) by The Wonderland Disco Band. Apart from this program, Wonder Woman was merely part of the supporting cast in animated TV series like Hanna-Barbera's 'Super Friends' (1973-1986) and the 'Justice League' (2001-2006).
Film adaptations
Her cinematic career was even scarcer. It took until 2016 before she first appeared on the big screen in 'Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice' (2016) by Zack Snyder. She was played by Miss Israel 2004 Gal Gadot, but though she played a major part she wasn't even mentioned in the title. Only as recently as 2017 did the heroine finally receive her own live-action film, 'Wonder Woman' (2017) by female director Patty Jenkins, in which Gadot reprised her role. In a sweet act of revenge the picture actually became a critical and commercial success and even the most unanimously well received DC Comics film adaptation in years. 'Wonder Woman' even received her own thrilling theme music, composed by Hans Zimmer and Dutch deejay Junkie XL. Gadot's performance of the famous superheroine became so popular that Wonder Woman received a bigger role in DC's next movie 'Justice League' (2017) than originally planned. In 2020 she starred again in 'Wonder Woman 1984' (2020), again directed by Patty Jenkins, which also featured a cameo by Lynda Carter.
'Wonder Woman' #13.
Legacy and influence
While some regard Marston as merely a horny old geezer who wanted to print his sexual fantasies under the pretense of "feminism", others have defended him. It has been suggested that the erotic undertones were merely a commercial consideration. A way of selling his ideas to as many readers as possible. Marston was once confronted with the fact that his male readers outnumbered his female ones. Rather than see this as a failure he responded that this was perfect, since it were men who needed to understand the message the most. He also felt: "You can't have a real woman character in any form of fiction without touching off a great many readers' erotic fancies." It should also be mentioned that the bondage in 'Wonder Woman' is always presented as something fun and playful. Wonder Woman sometimes seems to enjoy it, just for the sake of untying herself. This already sets it apart from more degrading and sadistic BDSM comics.
Gloria Steinem also felt that 'Wonder Woman' overall gave an inspiring message to women. She pointed out that Wonder Woman works together with other women and can rely on her own strength as well, if necessary. When she founded the feminist magazine Ms. in December 1971 Wonder Woman was the first individual to appear on the cover of its first issue in July 1972, under the telling title: 'Wonder Woman for President'. Other celebrity fans were novelist Jane Yolen (best known for 'The Devil's Arithmetic'), Olympic swimming champion Helen Wainwright Stelling, singer Judy Collins, comic artists Carol Lay - who wrote the book 'Wonder Woman: Mythos' (2003) - and Trina Robbins, who wrote the 2006 essay: 'Wonder Woman: Lesbian or Dyke?'. Among the series' male fans have been boxing legends Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. In 1978 artist Dara Birnbaum made the video art piece 'Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman', though this was based more on the 1970s TV show than the comics. In 2016 the United Nations named Wonder Woman a UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Actresses Lynda Carter and Gal Gadot were present during the ceremony hosted by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon.
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'Wonder Woman' #3.
In 1999 an asteroid was named after W.M. Marston. In 2006 Marston was inducted in the Eisner Hall of Fame. His life story and that of his wives was adapted into a stage play, 'Lasso of Truth' (2014) by Carson Kreitzer. The production came with illustrations and set design by Jacob Stoltz and Ryan Zirgngibl, who also designed the poster to look like a comic book cover. In 2017, in the wake of the success of the 'Wonder Woman' movie, Angela Robinson directed a Hollywood biopic about Marston and his polygamous relationships named 'Professor Marston & the Wonder Women', which received excellent reviews, despite criticism of Marston's relatives who weren't consulted during the production process.
Books about Marston
For those interested in Marston and Wonder Woman Jill Lepore's book 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman' (2014) is a must-read. Another recommendation is Noah Berlatsky's 'Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948' (2014).
Wonder Woman conference with Dr. William Moulton Marston, Harry G. Peter, Sheldon Mayer and editor M.C. Gaines.
The New Yorker on Marston's Wonder Woman
Series and books by William Moulton Marston in stock in the Lambiek Webshop:
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Election boost for NJ offshore
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New Jersey has elected Phil Murphy as its next governor, raising prospects for a significant boost for the offshore wind sector.
The Democrat defeated Republican candidate Kim Guadagno, bringing to an end the reign of incumbent governor Chris Christie.
Christie repeatedly blocked efforts to advance offshore wind plans despite legislation calling for construction of 1.1GW.
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On 2D Inverse Problems/Zolotarev problem
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The following rational approximation problem demonstrates how fast the considered discrete models converge to their continuous analogs. The problem of optimal rational approximation of the square root on an interval was solved by Russian mathematician Zolotarev with the closed form solutions in terms of elliptic integrals, see [DIK] & [PP].
The elliptic function
\xi = sn(u,k)
can be defined by the following integral equation:
u = \int^{\xi}_0\frac{dt}{\sqrt{(1-t^2)(1-\kappa^2t^2)}}.
0 < \kappa < 1 \mbox{ and } \kappa' = \sqrt{1-\kappa^2}
The optimal rational approximation function of order (k-1,k).
||1-\sqrt{\lambda}\tilde{r}(\lambda)||_{C[1,1/\kappa'^2]} = inf \{||1-\sqrt{\lambda}{r}(\lambda)||_{C[1,1/\kappa'^2]}, r \in R_{k-1,k}\}
is given by
\tilde{r}(\lambda) = c\frac{\prod_{l=1}^{k-1}(\lambda+c_{2l})}{\prod_{l=1}^{k}(\lambda+c_{2l-1})},
c_l = \frac{sn^2(lk/(2K),\kappa)}{1-sn^2(lk/(2K),\kappa)}, l = 1,2,\ldots,2k-1.
K = \int^{1}_0\frac{dt}{\sqrt{(1-t^2)(1-\kappa^2t^2)}}
Exercise (**). Use the interlacing of zeros property to prove that the function
s(\lambda) = \lambda\tilde{r}(\lambda^2)
can be written as a Stieltjes continued fraction.
The optimal approximation converges exponentially fast with the degree of the rational function.
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Those who don’t know me in real life may be forgiven for thinking that this blog, like so many others on the internet, has been abandoned. Not the case – although I note I haven’t blogged since March! – more that I’ve just been tremendously busy. I have been thinking about the blog though, about how I want to take it forward from here, given that I am now moving into the primary source research phase of my PhD.
But before that, I wanted to do a bit of a catch up, fill in the gaps of what has happened in the last three months or so: Continue reading
One of the best things about the taught MA is that, like a BA, you get to work on a number of smaller projects in the run up to the mighty dissertation (a meaty 20,000 words rather than the 10,000 at BA level). This introduces a level of variety that I, for one, really enjoy. In the last two years I’ve worked on the medieval landscapes of Ludlow and its environs; the relationship between Thomas, Lord Coningsby and the town of Leominster; a project evaluating what a small country churchyard in the south of Shropshire can reveal about the community and culture of the parish it serves; and finally, a project asking what Joyce Jeffrey’s Household Accounts could reveal about her local identity. Each of these has resulted in a document numbering around 5,000 words and each one has been great fun to research and write – the bigger word count means there’s more room to play with and to explore complex themes. Continue reading
As part of my MA dissertation I’ve been researching the case of Robert Foulkes, and I gave a paper on a part of my research at the University of Leicester’s School of History Postgraduate Conference on May 17th. The full title was ‘Every step thou makest in sin, brings thee in greater danger’: The penitential sermon of Robert Foulkes‘, and I’d like to write a little bit about that paper here.
I’ve written about Robert Foulkes before, and his affair with Ann, and the dreadful circumstances that led him to commit murder. In the paper I gave, I focused on two different theories around execution, and explored which I thought Robert Foulkes’s case might be more relevant towards. Continue reading
I blinked… and suddenly, it’s January.
Last I knew I was giving a paper at a conference, and then it was a case of … well, head down, and keep on charging through. I didn’t really get time to think, let alone think about writing here. I have missed it though, which is why I’m back here today: things have cleared enough that I’m no longer impersonating a bull determined to get through that red cloak if it kills him, and I can put my head up and breathe…. and think, reflect. Continue reading
Having had a look around the internet this morning, this doesn’t seem to be discussed anywhere [feel free to correct me if I’m wrong]. But I think it’s an important thing that has to be dealt with – the thing being the post-conference come down, for those who presented a paper at a conference. If you’ve only attended conferences, then this isn’t for you, or if you’re a seasoned conference speaker, then maybe you don’t need to worry about this so much. But for people like me, finding their feet, their speaking style, their research methodology and topics … basically, their confidence in who they are as academics and speakers, this is certainly something that needs to be discussed.
What is post-conference come down? In the period immediately after the conference, there may be some jubiliation, a high, if you feel as though you’ve done well, a sense of relief, perhaps. There may not be, and that’s okay. This isn’t meant to be prescriptive, a “you must feel these things after the conference” list. Everyone feels things differently. But after the high, and perhaps if you didn’t have a high, and certainly if you struggle with imposters syndrome, the doubt and the questioning can start to set in. ‘I only got one question!’ … you might think. ‘I ran over by a few minutes, had to drop a couple of slides’. ‘I didn’t explain that bit very well..’. The exact words & phrases will of course differ, but the underlying emotional tones are the same: self-doubt, questioning, and if you did have a high, that drop from the high to the self-doubt and questioning is horrible. Really, and truly emotionally horrible, and it can be enough to really badly knock you off your path as an academic. It can come out in a number of ways: being grumpy, being teary, lethargic, not wanting to do any work, right through to feeling really low, down, and perhaps even depressed and wanting to quit.
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Makanan untuk mereka yang menderita Hypoglycemia
Jan 7, 2011 | By Jerry Shaw
Foods for Controlling Hypoglycemia
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Hypoglycemia occurs when blood glucose levels drop below normal. Foods digested in the body break down into nutrients, including glucose, a sugar that helps fuel the body for energy. During the process of regulating the amount of sugar in the blood, the body may produce too much insulin for people with hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Symptoms may include anxiety, hunger, sweating, rapid heartbeat, dizziness, blurred vision and fatigue. A blood glucose test determines hypoglycemia. Doctors recommend a diet similar to one that helps control diabetes.
Protein converts into glucose at a slow pace, so the glucose enters the bloodstream consistently, preventing sudden blood sugar changes. Healthy sources of protein include lean meats, skinless poultry, fish, peanut butter, nuts and seeds. Avoid fatty or fried meats, high-fat sauces, gravies, butter, shortening and hydrogenated oils. Prepare and cook meats, poultry and fish with unsaturated vegetable oils, such as olive, canola, peanut, sunflower and corn oils. Choose skim milk, 1 percent milk, plain or artificially sweetened nonfat yogurt and buttermilk. Avoid whole-milk products, ice cream, processed cheeses and cheese spreads.
Enjoy whole-grain breads and pasta, unsweetened cereals, English muffins, rice and potatoes. These foods also take time to break down during digestion to keep blood glucose levels under control. Crackers, pretzels, plain popcorn, plain cakes and cookies made with sugar substitutes and low-fat milk also help control hypoglycemia.
Fresh or cooked, fiber-rich fruits and vegetables work effectively in a hypoglycemia diet. Avoid glazed or sweetened vegetables or fruit canned in heavy syrups. Eat dark green or yellow vegetables and citrus fruits daily. You can also have other vegetables, fruit, dried fruit and fruit canned in natural juice or water. Some fruits, vegetables and legumes contain soluble fiber that digests slowly to help regulate blood sugar. They include oranges, apples, carrots and dried beans and peas. Blueberries, cherries, tomatoes, squash and bell peppers contain antioxidants, which help protect the blood from damaging effects.
Consume jams, jellies or gelatin and other sweet products made with sugar substitutes. Avoid table sugar, soft drinks and sugary foods, such as candy, pastries, donuts and pies. Check labels for sugar, which may also be listed as corn syrup, corn sweetener or high fructose corn syrup. Limit or eliminate your intake of fast foods and commercially baked goods made with trans fatty acids. Choose decaffeinated coffee, tea or herbal teas, unsweetened fruit juice, diet decaffeinated sodas and water instead of sugar-laden drinks.
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Here it is
=> ONE Bed-Time Greek Ritual To Reverse Diabetes
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import algorithms
import grid
def create():
columns, rows = input('Enter maze size (columns,rows)').split(',')
columns = int(columns)
rows = int(rows)
foo = grid.Grid(columns, rows)
name = input('Name your maze.')
filename = name + '.png'
foo = algorithms.wilsons(foo).to_png(filename)
if __name__ == '__main__':
while True:
create()
done = input('Would you like to create another? Y/n')
if done.lower() == 'n':
exit()
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Are church bonds tax exempt?
While the interest on church bonds is not tax-exempt, loss of the church’s tax-exempt status could cause some church members to reduce their contributions because they would no longer be eligible for a charitable deduction. Reduced contributions would, in turn, reduce debt service coverage.
Are church bonds tax free?
Investors purchase the bonds and the development authority uses the funds either to make a loan to the nonprofit or to acquire facilities for lease to the nonprofit. … Interest on such bonds also generally is exempt from income taxation in the state in which the bonds are issued.
Are church bonds exempt?
The CHURCH BONDS must be exempt from registration pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(a)(4) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
What type of bond is tax-exempt?
Private activity bonds are municipal bonds that are issued to raise money for a private project (as opposed to a project for the good of the public). These bonds are exempt from federal taxes under the regular income tax system, but subject to tax under the alternative minimum tax system.
Are church bonds a good investment?
Church Bond Investments
Thousands of churches, including many of the largest ministries in the country, have been constructed through church bond financing, and millions of investors have enjoyed great returns. While not without risk, church bonds are a viable and attractive alternative investment for some.
THIS IS EXCITING: Where in the Bible does it say Agree with your adversary quickly?
Can you invest in a church?
While you can’t buy investments from a church, you can certainly donate investments to a church, if you prefer to give than to receive.
Do taxpayers pay for bonds?
Taxpayers pay off those bonds over time, usually via an increase to their property taxes. Bonds are issued for a specific period, and when they are paid off, taxpayers tax bills go down. Enter no tax increase bonds.
What investments are tax free?
• Pension. Rs. 1,50,000 (Rs 1.5 lakhs) …
• Life Insurance. Rs. 1,50,000 (Rs 1.5 lakhs)
Who can issue tax-exempt bonds?
Generally tax-exempt bonds are issued by a state or local government issuer which loans the bond proceeds to the 501(c)(3) organization. State law governs which state and local government issuers may issue bonds for 501(c)(3) organizations.
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Vanuatu commits to strengthening climate change and disaster risk governanceSep 25, 2013
(Port Vila, Vanuatu) – The National Advisory Board on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (NAB) with support from the Pacific Risk Resilience (PRR) programme organized a one-day inception workshop for a nation-wide the Risk Governance Assessment in Vanuatu.
While significant progress has been achieved during the last two years, remaining weaknesses in coordination and governance mechanisms in the climate and disaster risk sector continue to lead to stakeholder confusion, duplication of efforts, excessive time and resource demands on a limited number of actors, and a less effective delivery of services to ni-Vanuatu people.
The objective of this Assessment was to analyze current climate and disaster risk capacities, strengths and weaknesses at all levels (national, provincial and local), evaluate critical institutional functions and their performance by Vanuatu’s national institutions, and suggest mechanisms and improvements to make best use of strengths or remedy weaknesses. Most importantly, the Risk Governance Assessment will inform and contribute to the development of a much needed climate change and disaster risk reduction policy to benefit of the people of Vanuatu.
The participants included the Director General of the new Ministry of Climate Change who acknowledged UNDP and AusAID for assisting the Government with the Risk Governance Assessment through the PRR programme. “Thank you for providing funds to help improve sectors mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction...while Vanuatu is taking lead in this role, the only missing issue is linking the sectors therefore we have the Risk Governance Assessment team to assist us”.
Mr Napat continued to state that “climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction are broader sustainable development and we welcome everyone’s view in this Risk Governance Assessment exercise”.
Following on from this inception workshop, the team will have follow up meetings with stakeholders at the national level and in two provinces.
The Pacific Risk Resilience (PRR) Programme will focus on strengthening governance mechanisms for disaster risk management and climate change adaptation at the sub-national and local levels. The programme is supported by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and implemented by UNDP for an initial period of five years in Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Fiji.
Sheryl Ho, UNDP Knowledge Communications Analyst, tel: (679) 322-7504 or email: [email protected]
Moortaza Jiwanji, Programme Coordinator, Pacific Risk Resilience Programme, tel: (679) 330 0399 or email: [email protected]
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Some kids get into specific habits and routines and do not like to change them. If your child is like that, then you may struggle when it comes time to changing out his or her toothbrush unless you find the exact same kind each and every time.
Instead of trying to find a mega-box of the same exact toothbrush, make the whole experience fun and exciting.
Letting Them Pick the Day
Look at your calendar when you first open their new toothbrush and point out when you will hit that magical three-month mark. Tell them that this is when you need to change out their brush, so they need to pick out a day to go with you to the store and find the one they will like the most. Then, leave the heavy decisions up to them.
Let Them Pick the Best Toothbrush Out of the Bunch
Even the most expensive toothbrush for kids is only about $10, so over the course of three months, it’s only a few dollars each month. Just let your child look at the wide variety of brushes that are available and pick out the one that they are most likely to use each morning and night. If they get to pick out their toothbrush, then they are far more likely to be accepting of it than if you pick out one that just doesn’t match what they wanted.
Have fun with the toothbrush process with your kids. Getting them involved in the habits early on that will give them optimal oral health later is the best way to instill the need for them to always take care of their mouth. This process is easy, and can give your child a sense of empowerment when it comes to taking care of themselves, which is a great lesson to grow with.
Please contact us if you have any questions about your child’s toothbrush.
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E-Land Register is a register of ownership relations and limited real rights. It has electronic online data interchange with other basic registers, cadastre and population registry. Digital Land Register software covers the whole registration procedure and has made electronic conveyance much easier. It has improved the quality, speed and security of the process of registering titles to land.
Information in the e-Land Register has legal power and everyone can get this information over the internet. The proceeding deadlines have decreased from 3 months to approximately 10 days because it is paper free. Notaries and other officials get all the necessary information from e-Land Register electronically.
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Watering During a Dry Winter
We are in a moderate drought this winter; do I need to water my trees, shrubs or other plants that are now dormant? I’ve never watered outside plants in the winter!
Although watering outdoors in the winter is not necessarily my idea of a good time, it is important to be aware of the precipitation during this season and how it is affecting your landscape. During winter drought conditions can occur and dormant plants still transpire moisture, although at a slower rate than when temperatures are warm. Tree, shrub, perennial and turf root systems may be damaged if not given supplemental irrigation during times of low rainfall. At risk are plants that have recently been planted, evergreens, shallow rooted species and any that may be in a micro-climate where they receive reflected heat from buildings, walls or fences in southern or western exposures
or in a windy site where the drying of the soil can be accelerated. Even bulbs will need water if they are to sprout in the spring.
Plants that have suffered from winter drought may appear normal and even resume growth in the spring because they
have a reserve of food energy to keep them going for a short time. The real damage occurs in the roots and as the
temperature rise the plant will weaken and possibly die.
Monitor the weather conditions, the precipitation (including snowfall in areas that rely on winter snowfall as a crucial part of their yearly water supply), and the condition of your soil. If necessary, water deeply once every 3 to 6 weeks depending on how fast the soil dries out. Try for a depth of 12 -‚¬ 24 inches depending on what type of plants you are watering. Water only when the air temperature is above 40 degrees and around the middle of the day so that it can soak in before freezing night temperatures. Never water when the ground is frozen. The purpose is to provide for the roots to prevent desiccation in cold, dry ground by keeping moist conditions. Do not saturate the soil. Even if there is adequate precipitation it’s a good idea to watch the areas close to the house foundation or under the eaves. These spots generally receive little or no rain and lose more moisture because of their proximity to the heated structure.
One final point, be sure to disconnect and drain all hoses after use.
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#include<cstdio>
#include<algorithm>
using namespace std;
const int maxn = 2003;
int a[maxn];
int dp[maxn][maxn]; //dp[i][j]i˯,jʱ˯˯
int main(){
int n,h,l,r;
int res = 0;
scanf("%d %d %d %d",&n,&h,&l,&r);
for(int i=0; i<=n; i++)
for(int j=0; j<h; j++)
dp[i][j] = -1; //dp[i][j]ʱ˯
dp[0][0] = 0; //߽
for(int i=1;i<=n;i++)
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
for(int j=0;j<h;j++){
if(dp[i][j] == -1) continue;
if(l<=(j+a[i+1])%h && (j+a[i+1])%h<=r){
dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1])%h] = max(dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1])%h] ,dp[i][j] + 1);
}else{
dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1])%h] = max(dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1])%h] ,dp[i][j]);
}
if(l<=(j+a[i+1]-1)%h && (j+a[i+1]-1)%h<=r){
dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1]-1)%h] = max(dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1]-1)%h],dp[i][j] + 1);
}
else{
dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1]-1)%h] = max(dp[i+1][(j+a[i+1]-1)%h],dp[i][j]);
}
}
}
for(int j=0;j<h;j++)
res = max(res,dp[n][j]);
printf("%d",res);
return 0;
}
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Greetings! I'm a big fan of the ADA MP1 sound, and was looking to find a pedal that could recreate this sound. I sometimes have to travel to shows and cant always bring my preamp with me, so i'd really like to find a pedal that can do something similar (minus the chorus sounds of course!). Any suggestions or info would be appreciated!!
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sutra: ददातिदधात्योर्विभाषा
vRtti: दाञो धाञश्च विभाषा शप्रत्ययो भवति ॥
vRtti_eng: The affix श is optionally employed, after the root दा 'to give', and धा 'to hold', when used without a preposition.
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This debars ण. Thus ददः 'giving'; or दायः 'inheritance'; दधः 'holding' or धायः 'having'.
When a preposition is used, the affix श is not employed; as प्रदः, प्रधः.
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A self-erecting, trailer-mounted tower serves as the base of the G-BOSS; an elevation platform 80' high; a multi-spectral Electro-Optic/Infrared sensor suite comprised of a Star SAFIRE IIIFP camera with a laser pointer and range finder; a ThermoVision 3000 camera with a global Positioning System (GPS), a Man-portable Surveillance and Target Acquisition Radar (MSTAR) and a Ground Control Station (GCS) with optional Remote Ground Station (RGS). The G-BOSS Lite is an integrated system, based on the Cerberus trailer-mounted surveillance system, and employs multiple detection and assessment technologies, all self-contained on a single mobile platform. Other associated equipment includes capability for video capture, storage, transmission, and power generation. G-BOSS can integrate signals from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) using the VideoScout video management system and from the Tactical Remote Sensor Suite (TRSS) unattended ground sensors (UGSs). The G-BOSS is a persistent surveillance system consisting of three variants: G-BOSS, G-BOSS Lite, CERBERUS Lite.
The system provides (24/7) display and tracking of items of interest through the use of high resolution day and night cameras with enhanced target recognition and radar to enhance the ability to detect moving targets. These capabilities enhance situational awareness by allowing the Commander to monitor activities along roads, borders, rivers, pipelines, and other choke points. Capable of tracking objects of interest within the Area of Responsibility (AOR) the G-BOSS Lite allows the warfighter to counter insurgency activities with an emphasis on disrupting the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) network. Multiple systems have the ability to be networked into a single RGS. Networking multiple towers allows an operator to observe his entire perimeter through an easily understood display. The alarm and assessment data are presented automatically on the display through data overlay and window pop-ups. This networking capability will help reduce manpower hours by reducing the number of personnel needed for guard and watch duties. The G-BOSS are used for Force Protection, check point security, route reconnaissance, patrol over watch, IED emplacement detection, intelligence collection, and personnel/vehicle identification.
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> This entry is about loops in [[algebra]]. For loops in [[topology]] see *[[loop (topology)]]*.
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## Idea
In [[algebra]] a *loop* is a [[quasigroup]] with (two-sided) [[identity element]].
## Definition
### With multiplication, divisions and identities
A __left loop__ is a [[unital magma]] $(G, (-)\cdot(-):G\times G\to G,1:G)$ equipped with a __left division__ $(-)\backslash(-):G \times G \to G$ such that $x \cdot (x \backslash y) = y$ and $x \backslash (x \cdot y) = y$. A __right loop__ is a [[unital magma]] $(G, (-)\cdot(-):G\times G\to G,1:G)$ equipped with a __right division__ $(-)/(-):G \times G \to G$ such that $(x / y) \cdot y = x$ and $(x \cdot y) / y = x$. A __two-sided loop__ or just a __loop__ is a unital magma that is both a left loop and a right loop.
### With multiplication, inverses, and identity
Equivalently, one could speak of left and right [[inverse elements]] instead of left and right division:
A __left loop__ is a [[unital magma]] $(G, (-)\cdot(-):G\times G\to G,1:G)$ equipped with a __left inverse__ $^{-1}(-):G \to G$ such that $x \cdot (^{-1}x \cdot y) = y$ and $^{-1}x \cdot (x \cdot y) = y$. A __right loop__ is a [[unital magma]] $(G, (-)\cdot(-):G\times G\to G,1:G)$ equipped with a __right inverse__ $(-)^{-1}:G \to G$ such that $(x \cdot y^{-1}) \cdot y = x$ and $(x \cdot y) \cdot y^{-1} = x$. A __two-sided loop__ or just a __loop__ is a unital magma that is both a left loop and a right loop. One then defines __left division__ to be $x \backslash y = {^{-1}}x \cdot y$ and __right division__ to be $x / y = x \cdot y^{-1}$.
### With divisions and identity
There is another definition of a loop using only division and identity:
A __left loop__ is a [[pointed]] [[magma]] $(G,\backslash,1)$ such that:
* For all $a$ and $b$ in $G$, $a\backslash a=1$
* For all $a$ in $G$, $(a\backslash 1)\backslash 1=a$
A __right loop__ is a [[pointed]] [[magma]] $(G,/)$ such that:
* For all $a$ and $b$ in $G$, $a/a=1$
* For all $a$ in $G$, $1/(1/a)=a$
A __loop__ is a left and right loop as defined above $(G,\backslash,/,1)$ such that $a/(1/b) = (a\backslash 1)\backslash b$ for all $a$ and $b$ in $G$.
## Properties
Loops are described by a Lawvere theory.
Note that, even in a loop, left and right inverses need not agree. See [the discussion on the English Wikipedia](http://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Quasigroup#Inverse_properties) for convenient inverse properties. A loop with a two-sided inverse is a [[nonassociative group]].
## Examples
* Any [[group]] is a loop.
* Any [[nonassociative group]] is a loop.
* The nonzero elements of a (not necessarily associative) unital [[division algebra]] (such as the [[octonion]]s) form a quasigroup; this fact is basically the definition of 'division algebra'.
* [[code loop]]s are loops which are central extensions of abelian groups (actually vector spaces over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_2$) by $\mathbb{Z}_2$.
* A [[Moufang loop]] is a loop.
## Applications
Local analytic loops have interesting induced structure on the tangent space at the identity, generalizing the Lie algebra of a group, see [[Sabinin algebra]]. Sabinin algebras are closely related to the local study of affine connections on manifolds. They include some known important classes of nonassociative algebras, namely Lie algebras, Mal'cev algebras, Lie triple systems (related to the study of [[symmetric space]]s), Bol algebras as simplest cases.
## Related concepts
* [[Moufang loop]]
* [[possibly empty loop]]
* [[nonassociative group]]
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## Literature
* [[Kenneth Kunen]], _Quasigroups, loops, and associative laws_, J. Algebra __185__ (1) (1996), pp. 194–204
* Péter T. Nagy, Karl Strambach, _Loops as invariant sections in groups, and their geometry_, Canad. J. Math. __46__(1994), 1027-1056 [doi](http://dx.doi.org/10.4153/CJM-1994-059-8)
* Lev Vasilʹevich Sabinin, _Smooth quasigroups and loops: forty-five years of incredible growth_, Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae __41__ (2000), No. 2, 377--400 [cdml](http://dml.cz/dmlcz/119171) [pdf](http://dml.cz/dmlcz/119171)
See also:
* Wikipedia, *[Loops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasigroup#Loops)*
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As is very evident if you read my blog, I am the definition of perpetually single. When I was younger, especially in college, this was something that was really tough for me, because I felt like there was something WRONG with me. But thankfully, college was an enormous character building experience and coming out of it I really kind of figured myself out and became comfortable in my own skin.
This recently led me to the decision that since I was finally happy with myself, it might finally be a good time to start looking for someone else to be happy with. And that was how I stumbled innocently, naively, into the world of online dating apps.
I documented my rather interesting experiences with Tinder, the first app I tried last summer. But things just never quite clicked for me and eventually I gave up on it.
I had essentially quit my pursuit of dating, but this fall, as something of a lark, a couple of my coworkers signed me up for OKCupid. And so I was sucked back into the wild world of electronic courting.
I started out, as I mentioned, with OKCupid. I liked it a million times better than Tinder, because you actually answer tons of questions about yourself and you can see what people you’re potentially interested in have answered to those questions. So, I can see if guys smoke or are against gay marriage or are virulently conservative or if they’re into threesomes, and I can harshly, harshly judge and reject them. It’s really quite fabulous.
And, shock of all shocks, I actually went on dates with TWO different guys I met on OKCupid (and naturally, because my life stubbornly remains a cosmic joke at all times, they both had the same name. Like, the same first name. And like, one guy’s middle name was THE SAME as the other guy’s last name. God). It didn’t work out with either, but the experience really wasn’t that unpleasant. I was slightly reassured that maybe, just maybe, online dating could work.
But after the first two guys, things seemed to go downhill. As always seems to be the inevitable rule, if I was interested in a guy and liked them, they never were interested back. If I looked at a guy and had no interest, naturally that guy would send me a message. It was all very disheartening and reminded me of my tragic youth where the guys I liked never liked me back (SOB).
I was starting to give up on the whole thing–eventually scrolling through endless profiles of guys just made me tired. What were the odds I’d find the guy who was right for me here? It seemed essentially impossible. I started to think that I was honestly just too used to being single, and deep down I didn’t even want to date.
I basically quit looking at the website, as the whole thing just started to get kind of stupid and I felt like I’d seen EVERY. GUY. and none of them were right.
So, naturally, I signed up for another dating app called Plenty of Fish.
At first, it was actually pretty exciting. There were tons of cute new guys who sounded appealing, and my irrepressibly optimistic, hopelessly romantic heart thought, “HE’S GOT TO BE HERE!”
Readers, let me tell you something. I just don’t think he is there.
Come along with me as I lead you down the magical and always delightful (HEAVY SARCASM) paths of online dating.
First, I will include a selection of my very favorite messages I’ve received. Enjoy.
“You into black guys??”
I’m just into guys??
“Hey, kind of off the wall question lol but would you be into having a threesome with two guys?”
LOL THREESOMES, A LITTLE OFF THE WALL AMIRITE?! Though you do get some points for giving me details, it’s nice to know just what kind of threesome I’m being propositioned for.
“Let me unsingle you girl ;) lol”
“Hello Sarah, okcupid sent me in your direction and I’m glad they did.”
Too bad OKCupid couldn’t send you in the direction of spelling my name correctly, even though it’s right there on my profile.
“Would you dat a black guy just asking no disrespect”
Okay, 1. What is “dat”? 2. Why would this be disrespectful to me?!
“Hey I’m looking for a sugar baby. I own my own business and would love to take care of a good looking girl like yourself. If this interests you let me know.”
My personal favorite. I’m not going to lie and say I didn’t consider this. The older I get, the better a sugar daddy sounds.
Of what? My cats? Because that’s about all I’ve got pics of.
“Hey sweetheart how are you”
Hey sweetheart, good thing I’m like three years older than you, you patronizing little twit.
“heyyy are you single?”
Oh, dear lord.
And, the BEST of all:
“sorry you’re still single. i cant help with that with my current situation but if you’re crazy enough to come to okc and get some head then im your dude haha”
So. Many. Questions. Like, what is wrong with you?
One of my favorite things about online dating, aside from the completely inappropriate propositioning of my person and lack of any recognizable grammar, is looking at the profile pictures guys select and wondering just what in the hell they were thinking when they did so. I suppose at heart I’m a horrible, awful person but I take so much joy in looking through a guy’s pictures and judging them cruelly. I’m sure there are guys who think the same about my pictures, but thankfully I remain blissfully ignorant of them.
I was deeply tempted to post all the screenshots of the really, really SPECIAL ones I’ve seen, but that seems just a touch too personal and mean-spirited. So instead, I’ve created a compilation of some of the most common types of profile pictures I see, performed by yours truly.
They are as follows:
The WAAAY Too Close-Up
I’m not sure where any human being could get the idea that the closer to your face one gets, the hotter it is. Someone needs to show these guys a few Monet paintings. I’ve seriously seen so many pictures where the camera was so close to the taker’s face that I couldn’t even tell what his hair looked like. Literally the ONLY excuse for that is if you have T-Rex arms.
The Bathroom Selfie with Tons of Crap in the Background
Not only do I get to see your best selfie pose, I also get to see every product you use in your shower routine as well as every single thing on your bathroom counter. This particular type is also at times taken in front of a closet, complete with random hangers and piles of clothes. The two are interchangeable, though the bathroom is by far the most prevalent.
The Shirtless, Pensive Romantic in Bed
This is a particular favorite of mine and one of the most common. These seem to be some kind of attempt to show a softer, more intimate side of the guy, because everyone knows that’s only accomplishable in bed. Most often it is accompanied by a dreamy look, sometimes with the subject gazing at a point just out of focus beyond the camera. Bonus points if a hand is put to the face with the eyes peeking up at you as though overcome with shyness.
The I Don’t Realize I’m Supposed to Look at the Mirror and Not My Phone Screen Selfie
Though this type isn’t always taken in a bathroom, that is a frequent setting. Other acceptable locales include the gym, dressing rooms, or other public bathrooms. This particular guy seems unable to overcome the challenges of technology and optics in order to realize that, while it is a good idea to check your selfie on your phone screen, you need to actually look up in order to take a picture of your own face.
The I Kill Animals So I’m a REAL Man
Maybe this is just a Southern thing, but the number of times my eyes have been assaulted by a grinning, self-satisfied fellow posing jauntily next to a dead or a large number of dead animals is really depressing. Nothing screams romance like the sight of blood and gore and death! Am I supposed to be impressed because you went into the woods and shot a defenseless animal with your high powered rifle? Sadly, I seem to be in the minority in Oklahoma, but I am so sick of dead deer and ducks popping up in my face with blood leaking from their mouths. There’s even a guy on there posing next to a dead zebra. A DAMN ZEBRA. I guess this is supposed to show me that you, the big he-man, can provide for me, the little female. Talk about caveman mentality… I’m by no means claiming that I’m a saint and that I don’t eat meat, because I do, but I don’t go sneaking up on animals and blowing a hole in them before posing triumphantly with my grisly trophy. Even if you are hunting simply to feed yourself, doesn’t it seem just a trifle disrespectful and hateful to paparazzi the poor, dead animal like you’ve done something SO AMAZING? Ugh. Thanks, but NO thanks.
The I’ve Got A Little Free Time In My Giant Truck
I’m not really sure what the deal with this is, but I’ve noticed a strange but overwhelming phenomenon where guys take selfies in their vehicle, which is almost invariably a truck. Like, what’s going on? You’re just on your lunchbreak and you’ve finished eating and you think, Well shoot, I’ve got a little more time before I have to clock back in, might as well take some photos of my face?
Sometimes, I can’t tell if they’re actually parked or not, and then I have terrifying images of single guys swerving between lanes as they snap pics of themselves for their dating profile.
The I HAVE ABS NOTHING ELSE IN THE WORD MATTERS LOOK AT THEM
I AM NOT EVEN A NORMAL HUMAN, I CONSIST OF NOTHING BUT PERFECT, BREATHTAKING, SIXTEEN PACK ABS. THAT IS LITERALLY ALL I AM, CHOOSE ME AND YOU ENTER INTO A RELATIONSHIP WITH A DISEMBODIED, FLOATING WASHBOARD OF MUSCLE.
There are, of course, variations and there are even some nice guys who don’t seem to have any of these in the repertoire. But unfortunately, those guys seem to be the minority. Perhaps you’ve now gained some idea of why online dating is so very treacherous. For now, I’ll keep giving it a chance, and hopefully I’ll come away with some more good stuff for you guys, if nothing else. Stay tuned as I continue my search to find someone who could possibly live up to my true love, Steven Adams.
So, for my final thought– I used to think there was something wrong with me because I was single. Now I’m starting to think that maybe I’m doing something very, very right by staying single.
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Definition of dating and courting
definition of dating and courting Courtship definition is - the act, process, or period of courting how to use courtship in a sentence.
A practical and biblical understanding of dating there is a great deal of godly responsibility when it comes to dating and courtship charisma magazine. How do we, as followers of jesus christ, engage in courtship in a biblical way, a way in which honours and glorifies god, leaving both parties obedient to the word. Courtship, traditionally the wooing of a female by a male, includes activities such as dating (dinner and a movie, a picnic, or general hanging out), along with other forms. Answer: dating and courtship are two methods of beginning relationships with the opposite sex while there are non-christians who date with the intention of having a series of intimate physical relationships, for the christian this is not acceptable and should never be the reason for dating.
Courtship 1 variable noun courtship is the activity of courting or the time during which a man and a woman are courting 2 uncountable noun the act, period, or art of seeking the love of someone with intent to marry.
Interested in the definition and meaning of courtship many wonder what's the difference between courting and dating, we'll show you. Basically, we can make three general statements about modern dating vs biblical dating in terms of their respective philosophies: modern dating seems to be about finding the right person for me (as my friend michael lawrence has written on this site, stop test-driving your girlfriend) biblical dating is more about being the right person to serve.
Courtship is a rather outdated word used to describe the activities that occur when a couple is past the dating stage and in a more serious stage of their relationship. Biblical dating: how it's different from modern dating mention dating or courtship, and then definitions we may define biblical dating as a method.
The definite line between the definitions of dating and courtship is often convoluted nowadays, the terms can be difficult to define, as sometimes people define dating as synonymous with a committed relationship.
• The definition of courtship is the period of dating before a decision to marry an example of courtship is the time during which a young couple dates before getting engaged.
• How does courtship work how does courtship work concepts to consider for a successful courtship i think a dating model can bring glory to god.
• If a teenager's parents do not approve of the relationship, the teen may choose to continue dating the person, but face friction at home if she pushes for the relationship to enter courtship if the couple decides to go forward and begin courting, they may have to make the arrangement a secret one in the absence of parental approval.
Courtship meaning: the period in which two people have a romantic relationship that often leads to marriage: learn more. Definition of courtship romance, affair, love affair, going out, going steady, dating ‘male courtship displays and bright coloration are usually. The difference between dating and courtship purpose of the relationship the main difference between dating and courtship involves the goals to be reached by spending time with a potential marriage partner men and women who choose to date often have no commitment to consider marrying the other person.
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Entomology, the study of insects, and apiculture, the practice of keeping honeybees, are two fields that intersect with pest control in interesting ways. When it comes to managing unwanted pests, understanding the biology and behavior of these creatures is crucial to choosing the most effective methods of control. Let's take a closer look at some of the key considerations when dealing with common household pests using entomological principles.
Firstly, let's discuss the role of chemicals in controlling pests. Chemical pest control often involves the use of pesticides and insecticides to reduce pest populations. These compounds target specific physiological processes in insects, such as nerve function or growth regulation, leading to death or incapacitation. However, it's important to note that indiscriminate use of broad-spectrum chemicals may harm beneficial insects, including pollinators like honeybees (a critical component of our food system). Therefore, selecting targeted chemistries specifically designed to minimize non-target effects is essential. This approach aligns closely with the practices of integrated pest management (IPM), which combines multiple strategies to maintain pest levels below economic thresholds while minimizing environmental impact.
One example where careful selection of chemical controls is necessary is with ants. Ant colonies contain various castes—queens, workers, soldiers—that perform specialized tasks. Workers typically forage for food sources outside the nest, providing opportunities for exposure to bait formulations containing slow-acting toxicants. As worker ants carry these back to the colony, they unknowingly share the poison with other members, eventually eliminating the entire group. By contrast, contact sprays act quickly but only affect exposed individuals, potentially fragmenting colonies rather than eradicating them entirely.
Bees present unique challenges due to their ecological importance as pollinators. Beekeepers employ several techniques to manage parasites and pathogens affecting hives, collectively known as varroa mites and American foulbrood disease. For varroa mites, treatments range from organic acids (like formic acid) to synthetic compounds (such as amitraz or fluvalinate). The choice depends on factors such as time of year, stage of development, and overall health of the colony. With American foulbrood, strict sanitary measures combined with antibiotics (usually oxytetracycline) offer the best chance of control without spreading the highly contagious bacterial infection.
Spider removal requires its own set of guidelines since many species play vital roles in natural ecosystems by consuming large quantities of insect prey. Most spiders pose little threat to humans unless provoked or allergic reactions occur. Mechanical exclusion—physically preventing entry through sealing cracks and crevices around windows, doors, vents, etc.—offers a long-term solution that doesn't rely on chemical applications. If relocation becomes necessary, capturing spiders gently with glass jars and releasing them outdoors away from living areas ensures minimal harm.
Lastly, rodent control demands attention given the potential public health risks associated with diseases spread by rats and mice. Snap traps remain popular choices due to their effectiveness and low cost. However, humane alternatives exist, such as live catch traps, which allow safe release far from structures. Preventive measures, like securing trash receptacles, removing access points, and maintaining cleanliness inside and outside buildings, further discourage infestations.
In conclusion, integrating entomological knowledge with applied pest management strategies offers promising avenues for responsible and efficient pest control. Understanding the biology and habits of target organisms enables more precise application of appropriate control methods, reducing unnecessary impacts on both human inhabitants and desirable wildlife.
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A ranking of American colleges and universities providing quality education to international students from Sri Lanka.
Columbia University in the City of New York tops our Nationwide list of the Best U.S. Colleges & Universities for Students From Sri Lanka. These rankings were developed to help students from Sri Lanka find American colleges and universities that will offer quality educational outcomes and a supportive community to students from other countries.
We reviewed 154 colleges and universities to come up with this ranking. Columbia earned the top spot due to the quality education provided, and the presence of students from Sri Lanka on campus, as well as other quality metrics unique to international students. Read the methodology behind this ranking.
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|1||Columbia University in the City of New York||New York, New York||$49,973|
|2||Carnegie Mellon University||Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania||$52,310|
|3||Northeastern University||Boston, Massachusetts||$47,653|
|4||New York University||New York, New York||$49,062|
|5||University of Southern California||Los Angeles, California||$52,283|
|6||Cornell University||Ithaca, New York||$50,953|
|7||University of California - Berkeley||Berkeley, California||$40,191|
|8||University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign||Champaign, Illinois||$34,011|
|9||Stanford University||Stanford, California||$47,940|
|10||University of Connecticut||Storrs, Connecticut||$35,858|
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Below is a complete The Bugs Bunny Show episode list that spans the show's entire TV run. Photos from the individual The Bugs Bunny Show episodes are listed along with the The Bugs Bunny Show episode names when available, as are the dates of the original airing of the episode. The Bugs Bunny Show episodes from every season can be seen below, along with fun facts about who directed the episodes, the stars of the and sometimes even information like shooting locations and original air dates. This poll contains items like “The Honeymousers” and “Do or Diet.” Are you remembering a funny scene but can't think of the name that the The Bugs Bunny Show episode is from? Scroll below and you'll find what you're looking for.
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Villanova, PA – On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day—shortened to “V.E. Day” – brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. A new book co-authored by Villanova University History professor Marc S. Gallicchio, PhD, explores the final months of America’s war with Japan and the critical decisions of well-known politicians, military leaders and ordinary citizens.
In Implacable Foes: The War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2017), Dr. Gallicchio and co-author Waldo Heinrichs, PhD, a World War II veteran and the Dwight E. Stanford Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University, offer what Kirkus Reviews calls “an in-depth account of the denouement of the Pacific phase of World War II.”
The book covers a crucial period beginning in early 1944, as American forces began to shift from containment of Japanese advance to a sustained offensive. The two award-winning historians deliver a detailed account of a grueling campaign of bloody attrition against an enemy determined to fight to the last man.
“The contribution of this vital book is its portrait of history as lived desperately in the moment; of the varied troubles that beset planners and commanders in the war's horrific last year; and of the mettle and vision of an American president whom history should underrate no longer,” noted The Wall Street Journal. ’Implacable Foes shows war operations as a human ordeal even at the highest level, fueled by the exhaustible human spirit.”
Dr. Gallicchio, who is chair of Villanova’s History department, was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer in Japan from1998 to 1999 and again from 2004 to 2005. He is the author of The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895 – 1945 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2000) which won the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell book prize.
About Villanova University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Since its founding in 1842, Villanova University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has cultivated knowledge, understanding and intellectual courage for a purposeful life in a challenged and changing world. With more than 40 majors across the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, it is the oldest and largest of Villanova’s colleges, serving more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students each year. The College is committed to a teacher-scholar model, offering outstanding undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and a rigorous core curriculum that prepares students to become critical thinkers, strong communicators and ethical leaders with a truly global perspective.
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PHHC has released a notification for the recruitment of Clerk posts for 283 vacancies apply online. PHHC has invited applications for the recruitment of eligible candidates for the post of 283 clerks in their department. Candidates who are interested in government jobs can apply for the PHHC recruitment 2015. Punjab Haryana high court is also called as PHHC. It is the government body which helps the people in solving their problems. PHHC releases the recruitments annually. it releases the recruitment to fill the vacant places in the respective fields. Recently it released a recruitment for the posts of Clerk to fill the 283 vacancies. Candidates who are looking for the latest government jobs can use this vacancy to apply for the PHHC recruitment 2015. Job seekers who are ready to engage with the Clerk posts of Punjab and Haryana High Court Notification must refer it before applying offline. Aspirants can visit highcourtchd.gov.in and download the PHHC clerk application form.
PHHC Clerk Recruitment 2015
Candidates who are interested in government jobs have great opportunity to apply for the PHHC recruitment 2015. PHHC has presented the notification through the recruitment procedure in 2015 for the vacancies of Clerical posts. Punjab Haryana clerk recruitment released for 283 vacancies. Aspirants has to visit the official site to know the details of PHHC clerk recruitment notification.
PHHC Job Recruitment 2015 Apply
Name of the Organisation: Punjab Haryana high court
Official Website: highcourtchd.gov.in
Job Role: Clerk
Vacancies: 283 posts
Job Category: Government
Job Location: Haryana and Punjab
Essential Qualifications: Applicant should possess Bachelor of Arts or Science or any other degree equivalent thereto from a recognized university with must proficiency in operation of computer
Age Limit: should not be more than 30 years.
Selection Process: Candidates will be selected on the basis of their performance in the written test.
RS 550 for general
RS 300 for reserved applicants
Last date to fill application: 06.08.2015
RPSC Recruitment 2015 Apply Online
How To Apply
- Go to the official site highcourtchd.gov.in
- Check for recruitment notification
- Check for eligibility criteria
- Eligible applicants can download the notification
- Application form is available at the bottom of the notification
- Print the application and fill the details post the application with DD/challan
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The Reality Gauntlet is a powerful glove that covers the hand and arm to the elbow, and it was designed to hold 4 gemstones, known as the Reality Gems. It has vast supernatural powers including its main ability to alter reality. The Reality Gauntlet along with the Reality Gems is used by it's creator, the wicked ringmaster known as Freakshow.
The Reality Gauntlet is powered by a triangular gem which acts as the power source and three other gems. This artifact uses "spectral power" to weave and reweave the fabric of reality. It only appeared in "Reality Trip" where Freakshow sought after it and its powers, ultimately forcing Danny Phantom and his friends to collect all 3 gems in exchange for their family's life. They do so and Danny is confronted in a final showdown with a reality-controlling Freakshow, eventually fooling him and destroying the gauntlet.
Aside from the Reality Gauntlet, there is still another ghost who is capable of altering reality: Desiree, though she never uses her powers offensively, perhaps because it needs a wish but most likely is because she simply has never thought about it.
- Gem of Life is a square ruby. This gem allows the wearer to control the power of life and death, and potentially give life to a lifeless object, or possibly take life away from the living. Examples range from Freakshow turning train cars into robots or a space shuttle coming to life because a little boy touched the gem and dropped it on the shuttle.
- Gem of Form is a diamond-shaped topaz. This gem gives the wearer of the gauntlet the power to transform one thing into something different. For example, in the final confrontation, Danny is turned to an orange jello like substance that is crashed into by the coaster holding Danny's family and friends as well as their families. Another example is turning Gothapalooza into a Teddy Bear Land.
- Gem of Fantasy is a circular sapphire. This gem allows the wearer to make their wishes come true; that is, they can change reality into fantasy, and fantasy into reality. For example, three geeks had transformed into supervillains according to their costumes.
- Power Source is a triangular ruby that is actually the gauntlet's power source. Freakshow wears it as an earring suggesting that it is a family heirloom like his Crystal Ball Staff. It is sometimes referred to as the "Gem of Power" by the Danny Phantom fanbase.
When the gems are pressed in a certain order (form, fantasy, form, life, fantasy, followed by the final gem), their powers combined together, giving the wearer total control over all reality. In the initial fight with Freakshow, Danny Phantom, Tucker Foley, and Sam Manson accidentally set off this sequence, giving the gauntlet control of all reality. To prevent this power from being abused, the gauntlet has a built-in safety mechanism: whoever touches one of the gems while it is in the gauntlet can teleport the gem out of the gauntlet by simply wishing it away. With the gem out of the gauntlet, the gauntlet loses the power that the gem supplied. The gem's power can be activated by mere touch outside of the gauntlet, but it is only when they are in the gauntlet that they can be properly controlled and rewrite reality. When used by hand they seem to burn the hand of the user.
- The Reality Gauntlet along with the Reality Gems are reminiscent of the Infinity Gauntlet and Infinity Gems from the Marvel Comics universe.
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Student Information
Kyu gradings are usually held 3-4 times a year and all instructors are able to grade their students up to 1st kyu brown belt.
To ensure the standard for Shodan is maintained, all students testing for Shodan and above must do so at the dan gradings held twice a year. If they cannot make this trip then Jon Marshall Shihan must be consulted for alternative arrangements.
There are no honorary grades given out in Gyokushin ryu. There are also minimum time lines that must be adhered to in regards to dan rankings. To maintain a high standard these timelines are to be looked upon as a minimum guide, for someone training at least 3-4 times a week.
When considering grading a student, a combination of the following is critical:
• Attitude
• Ability
• Attendance
Guideline for ranking in Gyokushin ryu
To obtain Shodan, a minimum of 3-5 years of consistent training.
Shodan-Nidan: 2 years
Nidan- Sandan: 3 years
Sandan-Yondan: 4 years
Yondan- Godan: 4 years
Godan- Rokudan: 5 years
Rokudan and above: Honbu dojo to decide
Grading students from other Martial arts
The Gyokushin ryu comprises several martial arts primarily Judo, Karate and Kenjutsu and is practiced by high ranking practitioners and teachers of other arts. Unlike some schools, the Gyokiushin ryu is a progressive art and it is Washizu Sensei’s greatest wish that you develop your own budo and not just imitate the movements but rather try and think of the fundamental principles and fit them to your body. In saying this, the very core of the art is Aikido. People holding rank in other budo may be considered on a case by case basis in regard to ranking. Despite their current rank, a strong grasp on the fundamentals of Aikido is imperative and the awarding of ranks in these cases will be made solely by Jon Marshall Shihan. There should be no expectation or mention that they will be awarded a specific grade.
Instructor Grades
Instructor titles are authorised by Washizu Kancho and awarded by Jon Marshall Shihan on his behalf.
These titles are for instructors only and are not automatically awarded once a certain dan level has been achieved. These titles are:
Jyokyo : 1st-2nd dan
Kyodo: 3rd -4th dan
Shihan-dai: 5th dan
Shihan: 6th dan
On attainment of 6th dan, the red and white belt (kohaku-obi) may be worn to signify 6th dan and the recognition of the Shihan title. Unlike other schools of Aikido/Aikijujitsu, the hakama is not worn in Gyokushin ryu Aikido.
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Annual Day
The school annual day is the culmination of the school's academic year. It's a time for celebration and recognition of the students as well as the school's achievements. It's also a time for team work and being proud of what the school stands for and believes in.
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Euphoric to Walk On, Easy to Clean
Cloud Nine is a carpet for the sophisticated homeowner – it’s super soft and requires very little maintenance. Walking across this textured nylon is a joy to behold, making it a natural frontrunner for the master bedroom or living room. In addition to its warm, soft feeling, Cloud Nine is designed to perform extremely well in high traffic areas. R2X® Stain and Soil Resistance offers a powerful line of defense against common spills, stains, and soiling. In addition, PUP® Pet Urine Protection helps protect this carpet from urine stains. Less time cleaning, more time floating – that’s what sets Cloud Nine apart.
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# Fearless - Core Server
## Tech stack
- Node.js (Server/Language)
- Express (Framework)
- Jest/Supertest (Testing)
## Install
- **Required**: Node.js v12+
- Clone the repository
- HTTPS: `git clone https://github.com/fearless-tech/core-server.git fearless-server`
- SSH: `git clone [email protected]:fearless-tech/core-server.git fearless-server`
- Change directory: `cd fearless-server`
- Install: `npm i`
- Run: `npm start`
## Scripts
- `npm start`: Runs the server for dev
- `npm test`: Runs the test suite
- `npm run update`: Resolve package security issues (WARNING: Can break the application)
- `npm run update:check`: Runs the above security analysis without installation (SAFE)
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University of Missouri Douglas County Extension received news Tuesday that they will not be receiving any funding for the 2012 budget year from the Douglas County Commission.
According to the Missouri Revised Statutes, the minimum amount of funding the Extension service should receive is $10,000 based on assessed valuation, according to University Extension County Program Director Angie Fletcher.
The Douglas County Council will be meeting tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m. in the Douglas County Courthouse to discuss the future of Extension in Douglas County.
This is an open meeting and citizens are welcome to attend. Signs will be posted on the north entrance indicating in which room the meeting will be held.
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Afternoon visitors and followers,
I have finished my Canvas today, it was inspired by Finnabair and I wanted to use a photo of my Daughter Shan and grand-daughter Chloe.
I was quite pleased with the way it turned out, I tried to use lighter colours this time and I didn’t completely cover my embellishments either, as I wanted more of the metal to show up.
I have used Lindy Stamp Gang sprays, some textured paste, a Prima door lock and some wooden letters.
I also used some lace, a chipboard bird-cage some beads and paper flowers
I have added lots of little charms and some glass glitter
My words didn’t stand out very well to start with so I painted them black,
then lightly dry brushed a few places with black acrylic paint, just to blend in a little.
And here are My Beautiful Girls
hope you like it
Thanks for looking
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“The Weber Shandwick Telling Your Story workshop provided a welcoming atmosphere, with shared ideas, and the tools to re-energize our story. And for Weber Shandwick to offer this workshop at no charge to a small nonprofit speaks volumes of their commitment to helping our community,” – 2017 TYS nonprofit participant.
Every year, Weber Shandwick opens its doors to local nonprofits for the Telling Your Story Workshop. This year marked a few special milestones: a 25th anniversary, new branding and a new space to host the annual event! 55 nonprofit attendees and 59 Weber Shandwick employee volunteers helped make this year’s workshop a huge success.
This year’s highlights:
An event welcome and opening from Eric Pehle.
A special appearance from Dave Mona. The WS veteran discussed the importance of communication, saying, “If you’re going to communicate with people, you need to know how you’re going to get their attention.”
A dynamic panel of nonprofit representatives, including Paul Ramsour, Elpis Enterprises executive director; Kelsey Steiner, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation development manager; Ellen Walthour, The BrandLab executive director; and Sara Dziuk, College Possible Minnesota executive director.
Maggie Fairs moderated the discussion on how these organizations strive to remain relevant in an ever-changing world.
Following the panel, WS offered seven different breakout sessions on themes ranging from social media to visual storytelling, and key messaging to website content.
The keynote took place after lunch. Sara Gavin graciously introduced Erich Mische, executive director of Spare Key, who gave an uplifting presentation on “Punching Above Our Weight.”
Before wrapping up the workshop, WS staff members volunteered to share their expertise and strategic insight with nonprofit attendees during one-on-one consulting sessions.
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