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Manor eyes freight deadline, signs Will Stevens
Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24am ET
The former Marussia team on Wednesday said it is back on track for 2015.Now called Manor, founded for the junior categories by John Booth 25 years ago, the outfit has exited administration, set up cam
The former Marussia team on Wednesday said it is back on track for 2015.
Now called Manor, founded for the junior categories by John Booth 25 years ago, the outfit has exited administration, set up camp at the old F3 headquarters in South Yorkshire, and is working hard on preparing a car.
Earlier, Force India threw a spanner in the works by blocking an application to race 2014-spec machines this year, but Manor announced on Wednesday that a car for this season is in fact in an "advanced stage of build".
In a statement, the team said personnel are "working 24-7 towards the air freight despatch date of 6 March" - next Friday - ahead of the season opener in Melbourne.
And now, Manor has its first race driver for 2015.
British rookie Will Stevens' backers helped Caterham make its Abu Dhabi return last November against the odds, and the 23-year-old has now been signed up by Manor.
"It's very exciting to see everything coming together at Manor after the tremendous effort that has gone into saving the team," said Stevens, who late last year was also a reserve driver at Marussia.
"It would not have been possible without the incredible support we have received from all the suppliers and from within the sport, but most of all the fantastic team of people at Manor who are working around the clock to ensure we are ready for Melbourne," he added.
"My thanks to the team for their confidence in me and I can't wait to see all the hard work rewarded when we line up on the grid in two weeks' time."

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Turbo Delphi es un entorno de desarrollo integrado (IDE) creado por Borland y pensado para hacer la programación fácil y amena para aficionados. Este programa le permite a uno usar el lenguaje de programación Delphi, el cual es un dialecto moderno de Pascal.

Turbo Delphi fue anunciado el 8 de agosto de 2006 y está disponible para descargarse desde el 5 de septiembre de 2006.

Existen dos versiones de Turbo Delphi, una que genera aplicaciones Win32 nativas (Turbo Delphi para Windows), y otra que genera aplicaciones usando el entorno.NET (Turbo Delphi for .NET). Cada versión viene en dos ediciones, un edición libre llamada Explorer y una edición de pago, llamada Professional levemente más avanzada. la edición Professional cuenta con la ventaja de que permite la extensión y personalización de la aplicación del entorno integrado de desarrollo.

Además de Turbo Delphi, Borland también lanzó versiones libres de Turbo C++ y Turbo C#.

Borland Delphi 2006 es un paquete de desarrollo profesional que contiene múltiples lenguajes de programación, incluyendo C++, Delphi, C# y ensamblador.

Las versiones "Turbo" de Delphi, cbuilder -así como las restantes- ya no están disponibles para su descarga y están descontinuadas.

Enlaces externos
Turbo Delphi Sitio oficial para la versión Win32
Turbo Delphi for .net Official Sitio oficial para la versión .NET

Entornos de desarrollo integrados para Windows
Lenguaje de programación Pascal

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This Is the Tree We Planted (Library Binding)
By Kate McMullan, Alison Friend (Illustrator)
Not in Store - Usually Ships in 2-7 Days from Warehouse
Kobo eBook (February 1st, 2022): $8.99
Learn about all of the animals that coexist in just one tree that a classroom planted in this fun, informative, cumulative picture book in the tradition of This is the House That Jack Built.
A class plants a tree in the playground, and together, they watch it grow. There is no shortage of action to observe in its branches: a robin protecting her eggs from a squirrel and her kits, a lizard stalking a spider, and a hawk swirling around overhead. Within this tree is an entire ecosystem, all created by the class who planted it. Beloved children's book creator Kate McMullan has crafted a story that will encourage kids to cultivate a love of nature as they observe the world living inside their backyards.
Kate McMullan is the author of many books for young readers, including How Do You Take a Bath? and How Do You Go To Sleep? with Sydney Hanson. She is also the author of I Stink!, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, and I'm Mighty! with her husband, noted illustrator Jim McMullan; the series has since been turned into the Amazon Prime show The Stinky & Dirty Show. Kate lives in New York City and Sag Harbor, New York, with her husband. Learn more about Kate and her work at katemcmullan.com or on Twitter @KateMcMullan1.
Alison Friend has loved painting and drawing for as long as she can remember. Animals were always a favorite subject, and as a child she copied them obsessively from wildlife books and encyclopaedias. She studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and after graduating spent the next three years working as an apprentice stonemason high up on Nottingham's historic buildings. After a few years chipping away at stone, she moved to America where she began painting funny animal pictures to make into greetings cards. It was then she realized she should be illustrating books for children. Books she's illustrated include What Color is Caesar? by Maxine Kumin and Making a Friend by Tammi Sauer. See more of Alison's work on Instagram at @mcfriendy.
Publication Date: February 1st, 2022
Juvenile Fiction / Science & Nature
Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds
Juvenile Fiction / Recycling & Green Living
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Q: Running node-express application on Heroku with constant PORT currently my nodejs application listens on process.env.PORT
This PORT is randomly set by heroku everytime heroku starts the dyno.
However I now have multiple applications that are going to use this express application. I can no longer have the PORT updating itself randomly.
I tried setting the PORT in config section of HEROKU. That did not set the PORT however.

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Sweet and simple. I paint what I love. This is an original painting by me, Catherine Nolin. This size is 11x14 painted with acrylic paints on stretched canvas. The sides have been painted so no frame is needed but this one would look especially nice framed!


Magnetic Resonance Imaging play a vital role in the decision-diagnosis process of brain MR images. For an accurate diagnosis of brain related problems, the experts mostly compares both T1 and T2 weighted images as the information presented in these two images are complementary. In this paper, rotational and translational invariant form of Local binary Pattern (LBP) with additional gray scale information is used to retrieve similar slices of T1 weighted images from T2 weighted images or vice versa. The incorporation of additional gray scale information on LBP can extract more local texture information. The accuracy of retrieval can be improved by extracting moment features of LBP and reweighting the features based on users feedback. Here retrieval is done in a single subject scenario where similar images of a particular subject at a particular level are retrieved, and multiple subjects scenario where relevant images at a particular level across the subjects are retrieved.
Local Binary pattern (LBP), Modified Local Binary pattern (MOD-LBP), T1 and T2 weighted images, Moment features.
An adaptive Fuzzy Inference Perceptual model has been proposed for watermarking of digital images. The model depends on the human visual characteristics of image sub-regions in the frequency multi-resolution wavelet domain. In the proposed model, a multi-variable fuzzy based architecture has been designed to produce a perceptual membership degree for both candidate embedding sub-regions and strength watermark embedding factor. Different sizes of benchmark images with different sizes of watermarks have been applied on the model. Several experimental attacks have been applied such as JPEG compression, noises and rotation, to ensure the robustness of the scheme. In addition, the model has been compared with different watermarking schemes. The proposed model showed its robustness to attacks and at the same time achieved a high level of imperceptibility.
Watermarking, The human visual system (HVS), Fuzzy Inference System (FIS), Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT).


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It is an ideal day for a picnic.
He is looking for a wife but he hasn't found his ideal mate.
The facilities were not ideal but we managed as best we could.
It's my ideal of what a family home should be.
That is the ideal for the natives.
Ideal meaning would be the engine of intentionality in acts of consciousness.
The key of Terry Eagleton's literary ideal is to analyse the literary discourse system by the ideology theory of Marxism.
She 's looking for a job, but hasn't found her ideal yet.
They are determined to act out their ideal.
He considered the judge his ideal.
He was her ideal of all that was manly.
Success is the positive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
They apply to urban targets as well as to a wide variety of other approximately ideal situations.
My ideal profession is to be a doctor.
We should throw the ideal plan for reforming the world.
The place is ideal for a holiday.
Their ideals are peace and prosperity.
She's looking for a husband〔job〕 but hasn't found her ideal yet.
This isn't the ideal time to ask you.
You were a sort of ideal figure, and..I never thought they were as good as you.


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The NYT Veers Neocon
Robert Parry
Feb 28, 2010Consortium News
Many American progressives don't want
to recognize how bad the U.S. mainstream news media has become. It's
easier to praise a few exceptions to the rule and to hope that some
pendulum will swing than to undertake the challenging task of building a
new and honest media infrastructure.
But the hard reality is that the U.S. news media is getting
worse, with now both premier national newspapers - the New York Times
and the Washington Post - decidedly sliding into the neocon camp, where
the likes of the Wall Street Journal have long resided.
For the Post, this may
already be an old story, given its enthusiastic cheerleading for the
Iraq War. The Times, however, was a somewhat different story. Yes, it
did let Judith Miller and other staff writers promote the fictions
about Iraq's WMD, but it hadn't sunk to the depths of the Post.
That is now changing as
the Times - behind executive editor Bill Keller and editorial page
editor Andrew Rosenthal - tosses aside all pretense of objectivity in
the cause of seeking "regime change" in Iran, today's top priority for
the neoconservatives.
At Consortiumnews.com, we
have noted this trend for some months, not only in the New York Times
opinion section but in its news columns where Iran's alleged interest
in acquiring a nuclear weapon is trumpeted incessantly (despite its
denial of such a desire), while rogue nuclear states in the region
(such as Israel, Pakistan and India) are given a pass. [See, for
example, "US
Media Replays Iraq Fiasco in Iran."]
This Sunday, the Times'
bias was on display again in the lead editorial entitled, "New
Think and Old Weapons," which purported to examine the state of
nuclear weapons in the world.
Fitting with the Times'
deepening neocon tendencies, Iran's nuclear weapons (even though they
don't exist) were a major topic, while the rogue nuclear states of
Israel, Pakistan and India (which have refused to sign the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty) weren't mentioned.
So, you had formulations
like this: "Iran, North Korea and others have seemingly unquenchable
nuclear appetites" and the need to "bolster American credibility ... to
rein in Iran, North Korea and other proliferators." In all, there were
four such references to North Korea and Iran, but no specific
references to Israel, Pakistan and India.
The Times also observed
that China was "the only major nuclear power adding to its arsenal
[which] is estimated to have 100 to 200 warheads." There was no mention
of Israel, which is believed to possess one of the most sophisticated
nuclear arsenals in the world, totaling some 200 or more devices.
Ironically, the Times
editorial also cited problems of "hypocrisy and double standards" and
noted that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was "battered."
The Times did not seem at
all embarrassed by its own hypocrisy and double standards. Nor did it
bother to note that one of the key reasons this "bedrock" treaty is in
trouble is that non-signatories - like Israel, Pakistan and India -
have built nukes, often with a wink and a nod from Washington.
As neocon propagandists
pursue their goal of riling up the American public against some new
foreign threat, that effort requires highlighting certain facts (and
even fictions). But the propagandists equally must make sure that many
inconvenient truths are conveniently forgotten. Otherwise the alleged
threat might not seem all that unusual or threatening.
So, in the world of
neocon propaganda, Iran - a treaty signatory that has no nuclear
weapons and insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes - must
be endlessly badgered, but Israel - an undeclared rogue nuclear state
with a vast arsenal - must be shielded from similar criticism and
pressure.
That the New York Times
has now embraced these neocon biases, almost with the ardor of the
Washington Post, is a serious development for the U.S. news media and
for the nation.
© 2023 Consortium News
Robert Parry was an American investigative journalist. He was best known for his role in covering the Iran-Contra affair for the Associated Press (AP) and Newsweek, including breaking the Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare (CIA manual provided to the Nicaraguan contras) and the CIA involvement in Contra cocaine trafficking in the U.S. scandal in 1985. He was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 and the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence by Harvard's Nieman Foundation in 2015. Parry was the editor of ConsortiumNews.com from 1995 until his death in 2018.
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Why Do We Keep Settling for Half of What We Deserve?
Person hand weighs YES NO answer on scaleI mean with us, it's either time or money. We don't swing both ways.
One week we'll be holed up in our office working around the clock, ignoring the kids, fighting with our partner, and saying "no" to social events, just so we can make some damn money.
And the next, we wake up dreading work and do everything we can to avoid our office because we're burnt out, and we say "yes" to everything except work because we're so freaking tired of having no time do anything we really want to do.
Why can't we just get it together already?
Why do we have this constant "yes" or "no" struggle between time and money?
Because you're trying to grow your business backwards.
Yeah, sounds nuts. But listen, you were probably just like me when I started my business. You decided you wanted to work for yourself, so you said "screw it", plugged your nose and jumped in without any real plan for what you were going to do, and how you were going to get there.
Now don't get me wrong, because it was a good thing that you took that leap of faith and just did it, otherwise you'd still be working in some crap job and complaining about it to anyone who would listen.
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MyReporter.com What happened to the McDonald's in Leland? Is a new one being built?
What happened to the McDonald's in Leland? Is a new one being built?
Why don't the lights on U.S. 17 in Leland have yellow flashing left-turn lights?
When will they move that abandoned house across from Leland's new town hall?
According to a manager at the New Pointe Boulevard location who wouldn't give her name, the McDonald's was shut down for a rebuild.
Why was the McDonald's on U.S. 17 near Sunset Beach torn down? It was always busy.


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"Orange corn" foods? Could be heading to a shelf near you from Purdue-affiliated NutraMaize
Jillian Ellison
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— The cornmeal you purchase off the shelf could soon look a little more orange than you remember, but behind that color is more nutrition.
"Orange corn," a more nutritious, naturally selected variety of corn is now available in the U.S. markets through Purdue University-affiliated startup NutraMaize LLC.
Torbert Rocheford, the Patterson Endowed Chair in Translational Genomics for Crop Improvement in the College of Agriculture's department of agronomy, used a process known as biofortification to naturally increase the amount of antioxidant carotenoids in corn, making the corn more nutritious, and creating a deep orange color, according to a news release.
The human body converts certain provitamin A carotenoids, such as beta-carotene, into vitamin A, an essential vitamin that promotes eye health and supports the immune system.
"The project began as part of an ongoing humanitarian effort called 'HarvestPlus' to improve nutrition in developing countries," Torbert, who began working on naturally increasing the amount of health benefiting carotenoids in corn over 20 years ago, said.
He did not originally plan to market the orange corn in the United States, the release said, but when orange corn varieties were introduced in Africa, some consumers began to ask if it was grown and consumed in the U.S. When they were told it wasn't, some were skeptical, questioning "if it is so good, why don't American's eat it," the release said.
"So, I decided to grow some here and share it," Torbert said. "The response was overwhelmingly positive. I had people tell me that the orange corn made the best grits and cornbread they had ever eaten. So I thought it made a lot of sense to offer it to Americans, especially since it might help encourage adoption in Africa."
Torbert and his son, Evan Rocheford, co-founded NutraMaize to commercialize the corn in the U.S. NutraMaize is marketing the corn under the brand name "Professor Torbert's Orange Corn," and it is available at ProfessorTorberts.com.
"The name of the product is a homage to my father's lifelong dedication to improving the world through science and agriculture," Evan said.
The bright orange corn, derived from varieties that originated in South America and the Caribbean, is not the variety eaten off the cob. Rather, it is milled to make products such as cornmeal, grits and polenta.
"People have described our corn products as having a rich, kind of nutty, buttery flavor," Evan said.
Torbert developed the orange corn using traditional breeding techniques, rather than genetic modification, making it a non-GMO product, the release said. The orange color of the corn comes from natural plant pigments called carotenoids, which are the same family of compounds that give carrots their orange color. Carotenoids naturally occur in corn, but the low concentrations are typically only enough to produce a pale yellow color.
"Although it sounds like a relatively simple idea, it's actually quite revolutionary when it comes to a staple crop like corn," Evan said. "We are actively breeding and developing varieties that speak to the two qualities consumers care about most: taste and nutrition."
Because corn is used in a wide variety of popular food formats in the U.S., including tortillas, chips, and cereals, improving the carotenoid content of corn provides an opportunity to significantly increase the amount of the beneficial antioxidants Americans consume without changing consumers' eating habits, Torbert said.
Long-term, NutraMaize plans to sell its corn as an ingredient to food processors that produce widely consumed products like breakfast cereals and snack foods, according to the release.
The orange corn is licensed through the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization, according to the release, and the startup also received assistance in developing a business plan as well as seeking grants from the Purdue Foundry, an entrepreneurship and commercialization accelerator in Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as assistance from the State of Indiana Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
"When it comes to supporting innovation and economic development, Purdue University and the state of Indiana really put their money where their mouth is," Evan said. "Having a support network like this really makes a huge difference when you're trying to build a company from scratch. We are proud to call ourselves a Purdue Foundry startup and call Indiana home."
More Greater Lafayette business news:Sheepdog Coffee Company expands services to Tippecanoe County, looks to serve employers
More headlines:Purdue grad wins $10,000 toward student loans through trivia app


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Q: IP Restrictions with Nginx for GET arguments I want to restrict access to urls in nginx like "/start?do=login" by IP. What to match is the argument "do=login". "start" itselfe is OK. How to do this?

A: This idea should work:
error_page 418 = @do_login;

location /start/ {
  if ($arg_do = login) {
    return 418;
  }
  # other directives for normal action
}

location @do_login {
  allow xx.xx.xx.xx;
  deny all;
  # other directives for normal action
}

A: Solved!
at first I had this with "location /start" and it worked for "start" but there can also be ohter texts than "start". one for each page. This works for all pages:
error_page 418 = @do_login;
location / {
    recursive_error_pages on;
    if ($arg_do = login) {
        return 418;
    }
    index doku.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @dokuwiki;
}

location @do_login {
    allow x.x.x.x/29;
    deny all;
    index doku.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @dokuwiki;
}

Thanks to all for the hints!

A: Try something like this for example
location /start/ {
  if ($args ~ do=login) {
    allow xx.xx.xx.xx;
    deny all;
  }
}


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The Love Island contestants rarely have meals on camera so you wouldn't think that they'd have much chance to get into much food-related bother would you? Well, you'd be wrong. Recent Love Island arrival Ellie Brown has managed to annoy viewers by eating too loudly. Confused? Yes, me too. Ellie was shown enjoying breakfast in the garden with partner Alex during Sunday night's show, and by the time that short section of the episode was over there were plenty of tweets about Ellie on Love Island and her eating and chewing technique.
Now for some people, the chomping and lip-smacking sounds really are a genuine issue. A phenomenon known as misophonia, which is a fear or hatred of certain sounds usually associated with the mouth, can be a real problem. Some Twitter users have highlighted the condition in relation to the kissing sounds on the show, but when you read the below tweets about Ellie, the comments appear to be driven largely by old-fashioned misogyny.
Also, a lot of the criticism about Ellie's eating has been that she's talking while doing it. And I really sympathise with that predicament, she's on camera trying to talk to a date and eat. Who among us hasn't been forced to chat while eating during a meal with friends or family just out of pure necessity? I mean yes, you can always chew at the speed of lightning and swallow down a big gulp of half-eaten grub right after someone asks you a question, but I'm sure if Ellie had done that, there would be just as much criticism of her "weird" chewing. Also Ellie is well aware she's a noisy chewer, she said it during her entrance interview. I'm guessing she doesn't find it that big of a deal, so maybe we should all calm down about it too.
I can't help thinking this obsession with Ellie's manners taps into the ridiculous level of scrutiny we place around women's eating habits. Where was this outcry when Jack emptied a packet of crisps directly into his gob the other evening? Or when Wes was wandering around chomping on multiple ice lollies while discussing who was or wasn't in the newly-created Do Bits Society? All the people seemed to care about were his sensitive teeth.
It might seem lighthearted to mock Ellie's "bad" manners but it's worth remembering that expecting better manners of women than we do of men is a sexist double standard. It plays into centuries-old ideas that women should be "ladylike" while men can behave however they like. It's these same pressures and expectations that mean when a man sleeps with lots of women he's a "lad" and when a girl sleeps with lots of men, she's a well, you know what. How about we judge men and women's behaviour in the same way? That means if the boys are "bad" mannered we call them out on it too or we cut the girls just as much slack as we do the boys.
We also know that Love Island's representation of different body types is severely lacking, and its emphasis on slim, plucked, Western standards of beauty is pretty exclusionary. To be honest, I'm just pleased to see one of the islanders enjoying their food, a la Montana Brown last year, because that's way more like what my average holiday looks like. As one fan of the show, Michelle Dore, tweeted "Love Island is so unrealistic. Who goes to Spain and doesn't lie round the pool eating a giant bag of Lays the whole time?" And if a healthy attitude to food on my telly means a few more lip-smacking sounds to go with it, I'll take it. I mean that's what the volume down button was designed for after all.


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West's attempts to deny China's three-year effort against COVID by criticizing a short period of imperfection will end up in vain
Children skate at a business center in Beijing, capital of China, Dec 24, 2022. Photo: Xinhua
After easing epidemic restrictions, China is facing a new wave of COVID infections. And Western media is wasting no time promoting the narrative that China's three-year fight against the virus is ending in failure. Take a CNN article published on Wednesday. It suggests that zero-COVID was supposed to prove China's supremacy, but it went so wrong.
CNN compared the start of 2022 - "when Beijing showcased the success of its COVID containment measures by keeping the coronavirus largely at bay from the Winter Olympics" - with the "chaos and disarray" by the end of the year.
It's not hard to find that those who once smeared China as "authoritarian" because of strict COVID containment measures are the same group of forces who are now accusing China of walking into "chaos and disarray" after its COVID policy is optimized. This time, they have a vicious goal - to deny China's whole efforts over the past three years, to discredit China's national governance fundamentally.
China's 2022 journey started from the Winter Olympic Games, the first global comprehensive sports event that has been successfully held as scheduled since the outbreak of the pandemic. Later, some cities and regions, represented by Shanghai, went through a rebound of COVID cases. At the end of the year, China gradually adjusts its policies, initiating a transition mode toward returning to normalcy.
Unlike the previous two years, the major virus that confronts China in 2022 is Omicron. Soon after the virus was spotted in China by the end of 2021, it is realized that Omicron spreads fast and outpaces other variants of coronavirus where community transmission occurs. China's epidemic prevention and control measures in 2022 can be argued as a process of constant adjustment and optimization in the face of the changing situation of the epidemic. As it turned out, Omicron can hardly be blocked, but is less virulent than earlier strains like Alpha and Delta. Against this backdrop, China has decided to open up. The result now does prove that it is more transmissible, but the percentage of cases causing severe illness is low.
However, one can feel the barely contained glee in Western journalists' reporting when touching upon this round of infections. After all, China's previous response made the policies of quite a few Western countries look inept by comparison and, because of the same reason, made their elites anxious.
Yet those Westerners' attempts to deny China's three-year effort against COVID by criticizing a short period of imperfection will end up in vain. In terms of China's fight against the epidemic, one cannot separate 2022 from the two previous years. To grade China's handling of the public health crisis, one should examine it based on the big picture.
First, whether people's lives and health are well protected is beyond all doubt the top criterion. China not only avoided the high mortality rates like those in the US and European countries, but also witnessed a steady growth in life expectancy. By contrast, US life expectancy has dropped to the lowest level since 1996.
Second, China's economic development was not so much disturbed. China is the only major economy in the world with positive GDP growth in 2020. As grocery store shelves across the US were wiped clean and have stayed empty for quite a long time, there is no such situation in China. Nor has China ever faced severe inflation like in developed countries. China's domestic market supply is basically operating in full motion. Against the backdrop of this winter, this can be described as a miracle, Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
Neither is there social turmoil in China, expected by the West. Some people have complaints, but most trust the government. Because the achievements made over the past three years are solid, thanks to China's institutional advantages. Take two examples. China has always put the people and their lives first when dealing with the epidemic; China is capable of pooling resources and mobilizing forces from all quarters to confront major challenges. Quite a few Western countries have failed that test.
Omicron did cause a shocking wave in China. Yet as Liang Wannian, head of China's COVID-19 response expert panel under the National Health Commission, said, some Chinese cities have passed or are passing the first wave of peak infections without frightening widespread levels of death. This is because we have postponed the easing of restriction, kept away from the time when the virus was the most savage.
By the end of 2022, there are problems and imperfections. But China has done relatively the best in battling the virus. There is no major panic during the latest COVID wave, because people know that the principle "nothing is more precious than people's lives'' still prevails. And the Chinese society will never head toward a point where the natural selection of the human species is becoming a reality, or in other words, Social Darwinism, like what has been going on in the West.
Western media outlets and elites are only accusing China to make themselves feel better. The truth is, there will be pains in China's transition period, but the day the West wants to see - when China is trapped in a worse quagmire of the epidemic than the West - will not come.
By criticizing China's COVID policies, West is getting its retaliation in first
China walked the tightrope to keep its people alive. The US and UK lost their balance and fell.
US' information warfare on COVID-19 discredits itself
Everyone should know that there are no limits to American propagandists' perfidy.


Nanzen-ji (Southern Mountain Temple) is considered the most famous and important Zen temple in the world. Home of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism the temple consists of 12 sub-temples, which only a few are open to the public. Also within the temple grounds are several gardens, of which only three are available to be viewed. Two of the sub-temples also serve vegetarian lunches.
The history of the Nanzen-ji begins in the year 1290 when the emperor Kameyama invited Fumon the priest to his retirement palace (he abdicated in 1274 due to a poor relationship with the Kamakura shogunate) to exorcise a ghost that was plaguing the palace with problems. Instead of chanting incantations to drive out the malignant spirit, like any other priest, Fumon simply sat down and meditated (zazen) until the ghost apparently left. The emperor was so impressed with the strength of Zen Meditation he graced Fumon with his lower palace on his retirement villa grounds.
While the emperor lived in the Upper Palace, Fumon ran the lower palace as a Zen temple where he taught Zen. The emperor himself was a student - and even granted himself the title of Ho-o or Great Priest. In time Fumon asked the emperor to include the upper palace of the villa as part of the temple. The emperor readily agreed and the building of what is today known as the Nanzen-in was begun. This building was the start of the Nanzen-ji and today contains a statue of the emperor in priest's garb.
The popularity of Zen caused a bit of tension with the Tendai sect Monks of Mount Hiei. The warrior monks raided Nanzenji in September 1393 and burned it to the ground. The temple suffered other devastations including a fire in 1447 and the temple was leveled again in 1467 during the Onin Wars.
In 1597 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in addition to rebuilding the temple, presented the temple with a new Butsu-den (Buddha Hall). Others also granted gifts of buildings and structures to the temple, including Tokugawa Ieyasu and Emperor Go-Yozei.
In addition to its gifts of buildings Nanzen-ji also was granted land, being as it was in the good graces of the Tokugawa Shogunate. During the period from 1616 to 1868 the temple containing 62 sub-temples on 114,819 tsubo (roughly 378,902 square meters). This power and prosperity ended during the Meiji period (1868-1910) when the role of Buddhism was downplayed in favor of the more nationalistic Shinto religion. The temple's grounds were drastically reduced, leaving only 9 sub-temples and 33,966 tsubo or 112,087 square meters.
As you walk towards the main entrance of the temple you will see a two story gate called the San-mon (Mountain Gate) by some and Tenkanoryu-mon (Dragon Gate) by others. This gate is one of the three largest gates in Japan, though as one may expect it is not the original. Originally built in 1296, it was destroyed in 1447. It was not rebuilt until 1626 when Todo Takatora, a general of Tokugawa Ieyasu, rebuilt the gate as a memorial to the soldiers who died at the Battle of Osaka Castle in 1616.
Walking through the gate you will notice many stickers on the walls. These have been placed by followers who wish to be noticed by the gods. It is believed the higher your sticker is the easier it is for the gods to see it, therefore you are more likely to be noticed by them. To aid those who are vertically challenged, or for those who feel they need to be noticed by the gods there is an expandable stick that can be used to place your sticker.
Go on to the upper floor of the gate and you will not only be able to see a fine view of the city on the outside platform of the gate, but you will also see a room which holds images of Buddha, Ieyasu, Todo Takatora, 16 holy men, and 2 bodhisattvas. Look above above your head and take notice of the incredible painting of young women and phoenixes. This amazing work of art was created by Kano Tanyu and Tosa Tokuetsu.
This room has also been made famous in literature due to a famous Kabuki drama. The story is of Ishikawa Goemon, a man who unfortuanately killed during his first theft, making him an outlaw. As he ran from the authorities he hid in the San-mon. Upon being caught in 1585 he and his son were sentenced to be boiled in oil. As the punishment was being carried out he held his child above him until he collapsed into the boiling oil.
The Hojo (Abbots' Quarters) here is divided into a larger (Daihojo) and smaller (Shohojo). The Daihojo is used as the entrance to the quarters and was given to the temple as a gift from Tokugawa Ieyasu. Originally a gift to the emperor by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu did everything in his power to ensure that Hideyoshi would be forgotten. Commissioning a new palace for the emperor in 1611 he gave this building to Nanzen-ji, explaining why the roof is made of cypress, not the traditional Buddhist tile. Walk into the entrance and pay your fee for viewing both the Daihojo and Shohojo, then leisurely amble about looking at the painted fusuma created by the Kano school that once were housed in the imperial palace.
As interesting as the Daihojo may be, it is the Shohojo that is of interest to most people for its screens (fusuma) decorated in Chinese landscapes as well as noted paintings of tigers and the kuresansui (dry garden) outside. Believed to be created by Kobori Enshu (1594-1634) it is this garden, known as the Tiger and Cubs Zen Garden, that attracts people to Nanzen-ji.
Like most Zen gardens it is not only important what is present in the garden, but what is not in the garden as well. Within the garden are three small rocks (the tigers) accompanied by three smaller rocks (the cubs) all surrounded by pure white sand (a stream). While some feel the shrubs within the garden distract the viewer from their meditative thoughts (Ryoan-ji is another dry garden with no "distractions) others view the space between the rocks and shrubs as the most important part of the garden. Here they find the inner world and perhaps the "emptiness" of enlightenment.
Within the garden is a small teahouse that is unfortunately not opened to the public. The teahouse is also believed have been designed and built by Kobori Enshu.
Of the few sub-temples that are open to the people at large, the oldest is the Nanzen-in, which was presented as a gift from the emperor Kameyama. Though destroyed in the Onin Wars, the very religious mother of Shogun Tsunayoshi had it rebuilt in 1703. Within the main hall of this sub-temple are a portion of the remains of Emperor Kameyama and the statue of him in his priestly dress. The garden here is reported to have been created by Muso Soseki (1275-1351), but because the garden has been changed so often if he did indeed design it, few if any of his original ideas can still be seen. The garden's pond contains several small islands, one even in the shape of the Kanji for heart (shin). The hill that houses the waterfall which feeds the pond also is home to the temple Bell Tower.
Be sure to stop in at the Chosho-in, also called the Marishiten, at lunchtime. This sub-temple of the Nanzen-ji has been cooking vegetarian meals for over three hundred years, so they've had the time to get it right. The fresh tofu lunches served are simple but fantastic.
The Tenjuan sub-temple, though open to the public, is only open in the spring and autunm. This sub-temple was founded in the late 14th century by Kokan Shiren in honor of Priest Fumon, the founder of Nanzen-ji. Much like the other buildings here this temple was leveled in the Onin Wars and was not rebuilt until 1602 by Hosokawa Yusai. The Hondo, Shoin and Main Gate of Tenjuan that were rebuilt in 1602 are all still standing today.
Within the Hondo is a wooden statue of Fumon, a self portrait of Fumon, several painted fusumas with landscapes and the like, and portraits of Hosokawa and his wife.
Tenjuan's garden is open for viewing and consists of a small waterfall, a two ponds, a waterfall and a white sand footpath. Also on the sub-temple's grounds is a small cemetary with Hosokawa Yusai and a few well known figures of the Meiji area.
The Konchi-in sub-temple had a home in the northwest of Kyoto before coming to Nanzen-ji. In 1400 it was moved and became affiliated with Nanzen-ji. Not surprisingly it was damaged in the Onin Wars and was reconstructed in 1600 by Ishin Suden. A Chinese Gate and the Hondo of Konchi-in were brought by the Tokugawa shoguns to Nanzen-ji when they dismantled Fushimi Castle (Hideyoshi had built Fushimi castle to protect Kyoto's vulnerable southern flank - the Tokugawa's demolished the castle to prevent Kyoto from encouraging resistance to their power), but only the Hondo remains. After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868, the gate was removed by the new Meiji government to the Hokoku Shrine, ostensibly in honor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Many say this was actually a spiteful move to show the distain that the Meiji Government had for the favoritism previously shown to Nanzen-ji.
The dry garden in front of Konchi-in's Hondo is once again thought to have been designed by Kobori Enshu. Strolling around the sub-temple will bring you to a pond containing an island and across from the pond a small Shinto Shrine. Follow the path around the pond and you will find yourself in facing a large gateway that leads to a path lined with lanterns and ending in a Shinto Torii. To get inside the wall you see follow it around until you come to a Kara-mon (Chinese Style Gate). This memorial building to Tokugawa Ieyasu was built by Ishin Suden in 1628 according to Ieyasu's will. In front of the yellow and vermilion colored Shinto building is a black lacquered Buddhist building, inside of which is an image of Ieyasu with 8 holy men figures on either side. Behind the main hall is a teahouse.
Fukuji-cho, Nanzenji, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City.
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Inside: Break the habit of yelling at your children with these 11 little known tricks. Live scream free with your kids.
I asked my 7-year-old to throw his paper plate in the trash. He said no and walked away. Before I knew it, the noise level in my house exploded. Yelling ensued. Why can't my children do what I ask of them? I don't ask very much.
Soon my other child would be forgotten but scared and crying off to the side.
The emotional upheaval in my house escalated quickly but would take a good hour to bring everyone's emotions back down.
My son and I found ourselves in a power struggle for years I tried to solve with yelling.
I often didn't even realize the struggle we engaged in until it was too late. Later, after everyone calmed down I'd understand the unlying cause of the tension and yelling. I'd vow to do better next time. But guilt alone wasn't enough to change the yelling pattern.
Although all parents struggle with yelling at their children, single parents face a unique problem.
When you're a single parent, you don't have another to parent step in and tap you on the shoulder and say, "calm down, let me take over." You don't have another adult present to notice other children not involved are scared and need to be comforted and taken away from the confrontation.
If you have a strong-willed child, you cannot see past what your emotions are at the moment to understand the real reason they are so upset.
The yelling at my house had reached an almost daily occurrence. Screaming seemed to be the only way my child and I knew how to communicate with each other. I had a feisty child who wasn't backing down.
At the time, I saw him as being defiant towards me, but now I see he was refining me in areas I needed polishing.
If you find yourself yelling at your children, take the time to find ways to change your behavior regardless of how young or old your children are. According to Psychology Today, children who've been raised in a household of yelling have an increased chance of developing behavior issues.
Spending extra time with your kids might be the last thing you want to do if you're yelling all the time. But if your child is rebelling or being disrespectful, often it's an unknown cry from your child they want more of your attention.
I was pretty sure my son didn't want any more of my time because he acted like he wanted nothing to do with me. So I followed suit, and we fought all the time.
However, the most significant decline in the yelling in my house is due to spending 10 minutes alone with him each day.
Read or listen to audiobooks on how to parent scream-free.
The more content you soak in on the behavior you want to imitate, the more likely you are to do so. Keeping your mind engaged in ideas and scenarios brings about change quickly and permanently. My favorite resources are listed below.
The book Yell Less, Love More: How the Orange Rhino Mom Stopped Yelling at Her Kids helped immensely on my road to stop yelling at my kids.
If you want to skip the book, then at least pick up the free app that tracks how many days you went without yelling. Search for "Orange Rhino Challenge." You set goals and journal your yelling trigger points within the app.
I involved my children on the journey.
They would ask me how many days I'd gone without yelling or would tell me when I needed to reset the timer to zero if I shouted. As a single parent, I realized quickly I needed accountability even if it was from my children.
At the end of each day, review how you reacted to your children. Journal on paper or on your phone anything that set you off and why.
When you can identify your trigger points (hunger, late for work, multitasking), you're more easily able to locate a solution, so next time you can handle the situation differently. Go through this exercise without being hard on yourself and remind yourself tomorrow is a new day.
As a single parent, we can't shut our bedroom door and come back out when we have calmed down. Having another adult in the house helps to break up the dynamic. My child or I wouldn't dare yell or say those things with someone else in the house.
We say "let it go" a lot but rarely mean it. Once I considered if the situation was worth a possible altercation or not, I let a lot of things go – for real. I can't tell you how many times I would start a sentence then stop it. I still do when I realize I don't care.
We're going to be late to many places; the kids aren't going to bathe daily, they aren't going to eat everything (anything?) I prepare for dinner. It's not worth a 2-hour scream fest.
Twelve years later my kids still have nights where they cannot fall asleep, or one ends up in my bed. What I've had to do is relearn my reactions to their behavior. If I make a huge deal about my children falling asleep perfectly in their own beds at a particular time each night, then it adds stress for all of us.
I used to yell at my children to go to sleep. I have no idea how I thought yelling would work.
All logic goes out the window when you're working off emotions. When I get upset, then a child cries, it would take forever for them to fall asleep. If I handle it calmly, then they fall asleep so much faster.
One of the most stressful times for everyone is when the parents come home from work and the children come home from school or daycare.
These are times everyone needs time to decompress, and nothing should be expected out of anyone. Kids are "on" all day at school, give them some space when they come home.
Another stressful time is before bedtime and before school or work – either time is a signal to your child they are about to be separated from you. Seeing this from their point of view allows you to go through the motions with more compassion, prepare a comforting routine for them and slow down.
As a single parent of young children, I wasn't able to take 5 minutes to myself to calm down. If I went to my bedroom to calm down, my children would follow me, yelling at me.
If I went outside, they would still follow me, but often the yelling and crying would stop. The change of scenery and nature of the outdoors would help.
Remind yourself it's your child's job to act like a child right now. If your child is making annoying sounds, testing their boundaries with you, being lazy (a.k.a. playing), all of this is their job as a kid. The book "Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No" has a great chapter about this.
God wants to help with this. He desires you live in harmony with your children, building them up.
Take responsibility for your own emotions. In "Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool" by Hal Edward explains the most significant factor in our yelling at our children is our own emotional reactivity.
When challenging behavior arises, I check my reaction first. Some days my gut response is to yell. I still mess up. But each time I do, I either recognize it instantly and ask my child to forgive me, or I ask myself later how could I have reacted differently?
At times I find myself falling back into the trap of yelling instead of taking the time to work through the hard stuff. When extreme stress hits me, I know I'm especially vulnerable.
Making a concentrated effort to change is the first step. Giving yourself grace is always the second.
This article is part of a seven-month series, Secrets of a Successful Life by Single Mom Bloggers. This month, the topic was parenting. Please head on over here and check out the other blog posts and the rest of the series.
Break the habit of yelling at your children with these 11 little known tricks. Live scream free with your kids regardless of the age of your children.
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Jennifer, I love the idea of using an app. I definitely need to check that out.
Thanks for the great words of wisdom. God bless you.


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From the Vanmark Red Hats of Courage firefighter line is the sculpture titled "Safe From Harm. Measures 22cm x 14cm x8cm. Each Vanmark sculpture is individually numbered and is handcrafted from cold-cast resin.


Paul Tripp had a great post on being a better friend. He said, "But no matter how many friends you have and how many moments you've shared, everyone reading this post shares one thing in common: we have never had, and have never been, a perfect friend." He goes on to list several ways to improve friendship. I'm sharing this because of what we've written on the subject and thought this would be a good way to round things up.
Trevin Wax had a post on parenting. Trevin interviewed J.D. Greer about his parenting resource Ready to Launch: Jesus-Centered Parenting in a Child-Centered World" This is the kind of resource a church can use to help train parents on their God-given responsibility. I've (Pat) read the book and recommend it parents. This can be used in small group settings as well as for large groups.
Scott Kedersha had another great post on marriage. This time he writes on the number of marriage books out there. He says, "But, the best marriage book I've ever read can't even touch the lessons I see in real life in other couples." This is yet another reason we need community.
What have you been reading and benefitting from online? Leave us a link in the comment section for us to check out.


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Here's a cool wiring scheme that combines the virtues of normal Strat wiring with the ability to get the neck/bridge combo in the middle position, like a Tele. We call this "Nashville" wiring, since it mimics the wiring in a Nashville Tele (that's a 3-pickup Tele to you Yankees). Plus, the middle position may be toggled between the Nashville setup or standard Strat wiring. Now that's deluxe!
We use our ToneShaper pushbutton switch to toggle the middle position. This switch fits neatly between the first two pots and the 5-way, and is completely unobtrusive while remaining readily accessible. In the "down" position it protrudes from the face of the pickguard only slightly, and in the "up" position it's still very low-profile, so it won't get in the way of your finger if you like to do volume swells.
Another cool feature of this wiring is that we've used our ToneShaper narrow superswitch rather than the standard 5-way, so that we can customize the tone controls. The standard Strat switch assigns the tone controls to specific pickups, but the superswitch assigns them to specific switch positions, which allows for more granular control. We've assigned the lower tone control to position 1 only, so that rolling off a little treble in the 1 position (bridge only) doesn't affect the tone in positions 2 or 3. This makes the tone controls more "real world" useful.


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Nicolas Guilhot
Professor of Intellectual History
Extended CV
European intellectual history
Early modern and contemporary political thought
History of the social sciences
Internationalism and human rights
Historiography; history of political concepts
My current research focuses on the idea of conspiracy in European political thought and historiography. From Catiline's plot against the late republican elite to the immediate background of Machiavelli's Prince, the idea of conspiracy has long been a central notion of politics, before becoming an illegitimate category confined to "conspiracy theories" in the 20th century. The aim of the project is twofold. First, it seeks to rediscover the importance of a largely forgotten political concept and use it to revisit the history of modern political thought by suggesting that conspiracies provided one the main foils against which the modern state (and the modern state system) developed its self-image and its intellectual disciplines. Secondly, I am interested in the rhetoric of conspiracy. The notion of conspiracy destabilizes clear-cut distinctions between event and representation, fact and fiction, res gestae and historia rerum gestarum that are central to historiography and to the modern human sciences. It forces us to think about the production of truth and falsehood within the broader context of how political institutions represent themselves and their enemies, shape the terms of political legitimacy and produce historical knowledge. More generally, thinking about conspiracies raises broader questions about what counts as "truth" in history.
French, English, Italian, Bulgarian, German
Current seminars at the EUI
March Paper in Modern History B - Second Term 2020/2021
Figures of Conspiracy, History, Politics, Religion - Second Term 2020/2021
Selected Recent Publications
"Apocalypse of the Profane: Paranoia and Eschatology in Ernesto De Martino's La fine del mondo," under review with the Journal of the History of Ideas
"Automatic Leviathan: Cybernetics and Politics in Carl Schmitt's Postwar Writings," History of the Human Sciences, forthcoming - 2020
"After the Enlightenment: Political Realism and International Relations in the mid-20th Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
"The French Connection: Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, Raymond Aron et l'essor des relations internationales en France," Revue Française de Science Politique 67, no. 1 (2017): 43-67
"Rational C
vhoice as Neo-Decisionism: Decision-Making in Economics and Political Science After 1945" (with Alain Marciano), in Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity, ed. Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh, and Manuela Fernández Pinto (London: Routledge, 2017)
"The 'First Modern Realist': Felix Gilbert's Machiavelli and the Making of the Realist Tradition in International Relations," Modern Intellectual History 13, no. 3 (2016): 681-711
"The Kuhning of Reason : Realism, Rationalism and Political Decision in IR after Thomas Kuhn," Review of International Studies 42, no. 1 (2016): 3-24
"Portrait of the Realist as a Historian : On Anti-Whiggism in the History of International Relations," European Journal of International Relations 21, no. 1 (2015): 3-26
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Positive displacement pumps (see Figures 1 and 2), unlike centrifugal pumps, theoretically can produce the same flow at a given speed (RPM) regardless of the discharge pressure. Thus, positive displacement pumps are constant flow machines. However, a slight increase in internal leakage as the pressure increases prevents a truly constant flow rate. As the pump is turned faster, more liquid is ejected from the pump. There are only two ways to increase output where a positive displacement pump is used—turn it faster or buy a bigger pump.
In this type of pump, flow on the discharge side of the pump must never be stopped because discharge pressure will continue to build until something is damaged. There are many types of positive displacement pumps, but regardless of how a particular unit is configured, the results are the same. As the pump turns, the liquid inside it is trapped and must have a place to go. Positive displacement pumps have the same size inlet and outlet. On many of these pumps the suction and discharge can be changed by turning the pump in the opposite direction. Without a functional relief device on the discharge of the pump, catastrophic damage could occur.
Positive displacement pumps also have performance curves (see Figure 3 above), but they tend to look quite different than centrifugal pump curves.
If the discharge pressure is rising, the required horsepower is also rising.
If the pump is required to deliver more flow (e.g.—gallons per minute, barrels per day, etc.), then the speed of the pump must be increased or a larger pump is required.
If the viscosity of the fluid is increasing, then the horsepower required to pump the fluid is also increasing.
If the pump flow is increasing, then the net positive suction head required to prevent cavitation must also increase.
These basic relationships can help to troubleshoot a problematic positive displacement pump. When you detect a pump problem and decide to act, always list the symptom or symptoms that were noted on the work request, such as 'not enough pressure or flow', 'the outboard seal is not sealing', 'there is high vibration on the pump', etc. Allow maintenance to evaluate the situation and determine the proper course of action.


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157. Jimmy Smith
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Jimmy Smith was a great Wide Receiver but is he truly one of the elite, or is he just one of many in an inflated offensive age of Football. The answer to that question will determine whether he will get into to the Hall of Fame.
Jimmy Smith may have accrued two Super Bowl Rings with Dallas, but he was basically a bust there as major injuries prevented him from being in the lineup for the bulk of his stint there. After being released by the Cowboys, his career was resurrected in Jacksonville where he became one of the top wideouts in the game. Smith would catch for 1,000 yards nine times and twice top the 100 catch mark. Nobody can argue that those totals were not impressive (as they most certainly were), but a lot of other players were doing the same thing and Smith never made a First Team All Pro Team.
Jimmy Smith was very good for a long time, but sadly if there is an eligible player who has impressive stats who could be dismissed easily it could be Jimmy Smith. We will find out very soon what the initial verdict will be.
Should Jimmy Smith be in the Hall of Fame?
Definitely put him in! Maybe, but others deserve it first. Probably not, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. No opinion. No way!
Definitely put him in! - 59%
Maybe, but others deserve it first. - 28.2%
Probably not, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. - 7.7%
No opinion. - 0%
No way! - 5.1%
The Bullet Points
Country of Origin: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Eligible Since: Saturday, 01 January 2011
Position: Wide Receiver
Played For: Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars
College: Jackson State
Drafted: 2nd Round, 36th Pick in 1992
Major Accolades and Awards: Pro Bowl Selections (5) (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001)
Second Team All-Pro Selections (2) (1998 & 1999)
Most Receptions (1) (1999)
Super Bowl Rings (2) (Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowl XXVII & XXVIII)
Other Points of Note: Top Ten Finishes: Approximate Value (1) (2001)
Top Ten Finishes: Receptions (3) (1997, 1999 & 2001)
Top Ten Finishes: Receiving Yards (5) (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001)
Top Ten Finishes: Receiving Yards per Game (2) (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001)
Top Ten Finishes: Yards From Scrimmage (1) (1999)
Notable All Time Rankings: 23. Receiving Yards: 12,287
24. Receptions: 862
26. Receiving Yards per Game: 69.0
51. Receiving Touchdowns: 67
59. Yards from Scrimmage: 12,286
74. All-Purpose Yards: 12,875
92. Touchdowns: 69
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0 #1 Ziggy Koole -0001-11-30 00:00
If Jimmy Smith ever gets in the hall of fame, it will be because they want to induct a Jaguar and not because of how well he actually played. He was decent, but considering the numerous great receivers who have been snubbed, does anyone really think Smith has a chance?


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The Seattle Scientific Community, Mobilized
Kristin Anderson
Kristin Anderson, postdoctoral fellow, Fred Hutch
"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" – Fred Rogers
The Seattle scientific community has always been tight-knit and collaborative, but we have mobilized like never before to respond to the threat of COVID-19. My friend and fellow Climb to Fight teammate, Bob More (@Bobmorevc), recently wrote an excellent piece recognizing a number of Unsung Heroes in this battle.
My hope is to share just a few stories of people working behind the scenes which you may not have heard yet. From the scientists who led the charge to make testing widely available, to the community members who have stepped up to support all of their efforts – we see you. And we are grateful.
Here are just a few stories to highlight how our Seattle community has come together to support each other.
Dr. Helen Chu (@HelenChuMD) is an infectious disease expert and the lead scientist for the Seattle Flu Study (@seattleflustudy). In short, the project asks volunteers in the community with flu-like symptoms to send in nasal swabs. Her team of scientists studies those samples to learn more about the flu.
Dr. Helen Chu, assistant professor, allergy and infectious diseases, University of Washington
In January, when the outbreak in Wuhan, China was in the news, Dr. Chu hypothesized that the coronavirus was already in the United States and being transmitted through the community, not just by people who had recently traveled to the US from China. She asked Washington state, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration for permission to test the Flu Study samples for the novel coronavirus. The samples and all the infrastructure to study them were already in place. The study was up and running, collecting samples. It wouldn't take much to shift gears to look at those same samples for the new virus. But Dr. Chu was firmly denied. That wasn't part of what participants had signed up for. A new consent form, potentially taking weeks or months, would normally be required to move ahead on such a major amendment to study protocol.
Dr. Chu considered the ethics of the situation. This was a fast-moving and deadly pathogen. She discussed it with colleagues. Ultimately, she decided to test for the novel coronavirus anyway. They couldn't wait any longer. Her results, from samples tested Feb. 25, are the reason we know the virus was spreading undetected through the community in Washington state. Her results are the reason that public health experts began sounding the alarm about the virus in the United States. Her results are also the reason we now have the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) program, the first coronavirus surveillance program in the country, which can begin to assess the basics of how many asymptomatic spreaders we have in the community, and where they are, so they can be isolated. Like the Seattle Flu Study, SCAN utilizes simple nasal swabs that community members can perform at home. Dr. Chu's decision to persevere has been instrumental in our fight against this virus.
Keith Jerome, head of UW Virology division
Equally important in the early stages was the work of Dr. Keith Jerome and Dr. Alex Greninger, experts in virology at the University of Washington (@UWVirology) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (@FredHutch). Shortly after the new coronavirus was being discussed in the news, they realized the country needed a diagnostic test for the virus and decided to divert some of their lab resources to develop one. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's tests did not work, these UW / Fred Hutch scientists applied to have their lab, and the test they developed there, certified by the Food and Drug Administration. That way, they could perform diagnostic tests for healthcare providers across the country. Their decision to develop a test using their own resources, even if it had not ever been needed, is saving lives every day.
This is not the norm for a research lab to turn itself, virtually overnight, into an industrial-scale high-volume diagnostic testing facility. Normally, they'd focus entirely on research questions, such as incubation times for a new virus, viral shedding rates, or various modes of transmissibility. They put their horsepower into doing an industrial task for patients in need in our community because somebody had to do it.
Once their clinical lab was approved to run patient samples, their small team started running diagnostic tests as fast as humanly possible. But even at peak speed they could only run about 200 samples per day. Knowing they needed to ramp up their throughput, they purchased machines to automate some of the process, but there were some steps that still needed to be done by hand. UW Virology put out a call for help. The Seattle science community answered. Volunteers from a variety of scientific disciplines, many of whom are young graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, set aside their own research to learn molecular virology techniques so they could process patient samples and open up the bottleneck. These volunteers are currently working in shifts around the clock and have helped increased the lab's throughput to a maximum of more than 3,000 patient samples per day.
Processing thousands of samples is a massive undertaking. Administrators from multiple departments at the University of Washington quickly began volunteering their time providing logistical support. Almost immediately, the lab realized they were short on a critical lab supply: pipette tips. They again sent out a blast for help, this time on social media. Within 24 hours, local research labs and Roche (@Roche) delivered thousands of tips.
In response to the request, members of the community also reached out asking what they could contribute. One generous volunteer made hundreds of bags of healthy snacks for the researchers to "grab and go" between processing samples. Portage Bay Café (@portagebaycafe) donated breakfast, Starbucks (@Starbucks) donated coffee, and Pagliacci Pizza and Taste of India donated dinner for all the volunteers. Ellen Kuwana (@EllenKuwana) organized a Facebook Fundraiser and to date has raised over $15,000 to provide meals for the lab volunteers and healthcare workers while simultaneously supporting local restaurants.
Pavitra Roychoudhury
Once the clinical lab received the first sample containing coronavirus, bioinformatician Dr. Pavitra Roychoudhury (@pavitrarc) led UW Virology's effort to analyze the complete viral genome in each of the local samples. Their goal is to develop a better understanding of transmission dynamics and viral genetic diversity. To do that, they plan to sequence every positive sample run in the clinical UW Virology lab. So far, they have deposited over 230 sequences to the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (@GISAID) database. With sequences from this database, Dr. Trevor Bedford (@trvrb) and the team at Nextstrain (@nextstrain) construct a map of global transmission dynamics and viral evolution. These sequences are now open to the international scientific community to study, and to help other locations get a jump on the virus that's likely headed their way.
Importantly, sequencing, assembling, annotating, and depositing sequences in these databases is no small feat. To speed up this data sharing, UW Virology again put out a call for support. Within 24 hours, they had dozens of offers from people with computational expertise volunteering their time. This collaborative effort to make data available as quickly as possible is a sea change in how scientific findings and data are often shared. Science and knowledge are being made freely available, and in real-time. There's no waiting around for six months to get your manuscript published. It is inspiring.
The timing of this massive open science movement seems particularly appropriate. In an age when misinformation is so widely available on the internet, many people have been turning to scientists for answers. Community members are offering appreciation and virtual support through social media to scientists who they might otherwise not meet, or might not understand well in normal times. Parents are sharing that their kids want to be scientists. People are raiding their homes for supplies to donate, like masks, hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes, which are desperately needed by caregivers in local clinics and hospitals. For people in the lab or the clinic, working long days and putting their own health at risk, gestures like this provide an immeasurable morale boost.
We are all contributing to something monumental that will likely be the defining events of our lifetimes. I could not be prouder of my friends, colleagues, and community. #WeGotThisSeattle #WeGotThisWA
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Mary Anderson, a student of mine since Fall of 2015, is putting on a recital on Thursday, April 19th to commemorate her graduation from the University of St. Joseph. Mary will be graduating from the USJ nursing program in May. She has been studying voice for several years, including during her time at the Westminster School before we began our work together.
Mary's recital will feature a range of her favorite music, from early classical songs through modern pops selections. Titles include "Ave Maria," "Memory," "New York, New York," and many more.
"Break a leg" and congratulations to Mary!
Tickets: Free and open to the public, no tickets required.


Hej, we are the Swedish Creatures!
Patterns and ornaments have fascinated Kajsa since she was a little girl. It's something special about their rhythm and how they can tell a story that catches her eye and mind. Through her art work she passes on and shares this passion. Kajsa likes to start her art work with analogue sketching and afterwards she finishes off the illustration digitally.
Kajsa has a Bachelor of Design with a focus on sustainable development. She lives in the South of Sweden, Skåne, in a wooden house in the country side. She is inspired by the everyday things around her, such as nature and plants.


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The Story of Tracie
Wounded Warrior Project is a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and empower wounded members of our military, our "Wounded Warriors". WWP serves to raise awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of severely injured service men and women, to help severely injured service members aid and assist each other and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs.
Wounded Warrior Project began when several individuals took small, inspired actions to help others in need.
One night while watching the evening news, a group of veterans and brothers were moved by the difficult stories of the first wounded service members returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. They realized then and there that something needed to be done for these brave individuals beyond the brass bands and ticker tape parades.
The resulting objective was to provide tangible support for the severely wounded and help them on the road to healing, both physically and mentally. What had been initially viewed as a small contribution (compared with what the warriors had sacrificed while serving our country) has become WWP's signature program:"WWP backpacks delivered bedside to wounded warriors."
Here is an example of their involvement:
WWP's Heath Calhoun named U.S. flag bearer for Opening Ceremonies of 2010 Paralympic Winter Games
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The U.S. Olympic Committee announced today that alpine skier Heath Calhoun (Bristol, Tenn.), a veteran of the Iraq war, has been selected as flag bearer for the U.S. Paralympic Team at Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games on March 12. To select the flag bearer, captains from each sport met in the Athlete Village Wednesday.
"I am incredibly honored that my team even nominated me for this," he said. "Just being part of Team USA is a huge honor so being selected from this talented group of athletes is something that I'm proud of. It's surprising but I'm very grateful."
Calhoun lost both his legs above the knees while he was serving as a Squad Leader for the famed 101st Airborne Division. "I was at the rear corner of the Humvee when the grenade hit the tail light right beside my right leg and exploded," he said. The attack killed another soldier, who Calhoun honors by wearing a bracelet etched with the soldiers name and date of the attack on his right wrist.
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Toby Foyeh & Orchestra Africa to perform
7 p.m. @ Recital Hall, Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts
FREE with ticket
Toby Foyeh & Orchestra Africa will bring a diverse blend of African music to Coastal Carolina University's Recital Hall in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts for a free concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10.
The performance will feature the band's unique "Afrijam" genre, a fusion of traditional Nigerian Yoruba music, African Highlife and Afrobeat with more modern jazz, rock, Latin and pop. Toby Foyeh & Orchestra Africa tour worldwide with its assortment of traditional African instruments, including the Gangan and Bata drums, as well as the flute, guitars, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion instruments and a chorus of female singer-dancers dressed in African costumes.
Toby Foyeh, who sings, composes, produces and arranges the band's music, was born and raised in Nigeria. The award-winning, self-taught musician studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he also earned a degree in film directing. For additional information, visit www.tobyfoyeh.com.
The concert, presented by the Office of Multicultural Student Services, is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets may be picked up at the Wheelwright Box Office
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information, call the Wheelwright Box Office at 843-349-2502. The Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts is located at 113 Chanticleer Drive West in Conway. For more information on CCU's cultural season, visit www.coastal.edu/culturalarts.
Contact Wheelwright Box Office, 843-349-2502 for additional information


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Missing flight MH370 is still not located, and we are no closer to finding out what happened the the 239 people on board. But we do know that there will be a film made about the missing flight.
During Cannes Film Festival, Indian film director Rupesh Paul revealed the news that he is making a film about the missing Malaysian plane, and that the film will be ready for an autumn release date.
Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter about the drama - titled Vanishing Act - "will not affect any passengers' families", and will not exploit the ongoing search.
"Our movie is a thriller," he says. "It will not be based on stupid things. There will not be a [gun] and there will not be any aliens. The controversy will help indirectly, but we are not cashing in on the flight."
The search is continuing for the Boeing 777 plane, which disappeared on 8 March.


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E.coli outbreak in Europe infects thousands, proves fatal in some
nickj May 31, 2011
In what is being hailed by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control as one of the largest E.coli outbreaks of its kind, thousands of people have fallen ill and 15 have been counted dead in Spain, Germany, Sweden, France, Denmark and the Netherlands. Most deaths have occurred in the northern part of Germany and the news source reports that tensions have risen between the country and other European Union states.
German officials claim that the E.coli originated from cucumbers imported from Spain, according to Reuters. However, officials are unsure whether or not the vegetables became infected in Spain, or were already contaminated before they arrived in that nation.
Spain claims there's no proof that the cucumbers themselves were responsible for the E.coli, but a number of countries have already moved to block all cucumber imports, including Luxembourg, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Hungary and Russia.
Consequently, Spanish farmers are reportedly losing around $286 million each week in sales. Dutch farmers are being affected as well, because Germany has halted nearly all imports of cucumbers.
Russia's Gennady Onishchenko, the head of the nation's Federal Consumer Protection Agency, announced that Russia would be taking as many precautionary measures as possible.
"If the situation does not change, we will ban all the European vegetable products," he said.
Some believe that this kind of reaction is unnecessary.
"Efforts to pinpoint all possible sources of contamination are well under way and have already yielded preliminary results," the European Commission (EC) said in a statement."[The EC] would, therefore, consider any ban on any product as disproportionate."
The strain of E.coli is causing hemolytic-uremic syndrome, which has a 5 to 10 percent mortality rate and most often affects children. While most can recover naturally with no lingering side effects, patients occasionally develop chronic kidney disease. The elderly may also suffer more extreme symptoms than other adults.
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