Today I got a copy of The Baker's Catalogue. Inside is a loaf pan I've been yearning for. Looks like this.
Much like my French loaf pans, except it allows the dough to remain flat on bottom so it doesn't roll over (which annoys the hell out of me). And it's back ordered until July. Curse the luck.
If I had metal bending equipment it would be easy to make this sort of pan, but I don't work in that sort of job. I found a couple of other pans that are similar, but quite frankly I think this one would work best. So I have about 5 months to wait and yearn for the pan. Kinda pathetic when you look at it that way, yearning for a bread pan for 5 months. I need to get a life.
A double batch of sourdough is proofing now, a simple savory loaf. First proof will be an overnight proof in the fridge, tomorrow I'll shape and bench proof two loaves. If they turn out right, one might become the first in a project I've been pondering.
With luck Kiyan is asleep, and I can go to bed myself. Pari's been talking in her sleep, which is annoying when you go to comfort a distraught child only to discover they are still asleep. I think the change in routine from over the holiday to going back to school has thrown her off a little bit.


Nut trees can provide highly nutritious food for centuries. Local nuts can be used for anything from holiday snacks to staples like flour, oil, and butters. This class, taught by experienced nut growers Brian Caldwell and Akiva Silver, will provide information on growing nut trees in a changing climate, the best types of nuts for growing in NY, harvesting and processing nuts, and samples of several types of local nuts.


* Document care per documentation policy and standards.
Qualified applicants are required to possess a mininum 5 years experience working with people with dementia/Alzheimer. Prior supervisory experience is required. Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills along with proficiency in MS Office. College Degree or equivalent experience and/or relevant certification is required. ADC (Activity Director Certified) is preferred. Must possess a valid and current driver's license, where applicable. Current CPR and First Aid certifications are required or must be willing and able to become CPR and First Aid certified.


We are pleased to note that today the Secretary of State has rescinded Cuba's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
In December 2014, when the President announced our historic shift in Cuba policy, he opened a new era in our relationship with the Cuban people, and the entire hemisphere. The President's new approach to Cuba moves beyond decades of unsuccessful efforts to isolate Cuba, and is the continuation of a process designed to empower the Cuban people. This dramatically improves our capacity to promote the interests and democratic values that the United States stands for across the Americas and around the globe.
As part of our new way forward with Cuba, the President in December instructed the Secretary of State to immediately launch a review of Cuba's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, and conclude that review within six months. In April, the Secretary of State completed that review and recommended to the President that Cuba should no longer be designated as a State Sponsors of Terrorism. The President then submitted to Congress the statutorily required report indicating the Administration's intent to rescind Cuba's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation, including the certification that Cuba has not provided any support for international terrorism during the previous six-months; and that Cuba has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.
The 45-day Congressional pre-notification period is now complete and we are pleased to note that today the Secretary of State has rescinded Cuba's designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
For 55 years, we tried using isolation to bring about change in Cuba. But by isolating Cuba from the United States, we isolated the United States from the Cuban people and, increasingly, the rest of the world. Through this new approach of engagement, we are finally in a position to advance our interests while simultaneously improving the lives of the Cuba people. Our new direction allows us to work with the Cuban government on areas of common interest like the environment, law enforcement, health and migration. Our new direction provides new opportunities for Americans to travel to Cuba, and for U.S. businesses, which for too long have been unable to compete in Cuba or to bring U.S. products and services to improve the lives and living standards of the Cuban population. Our new direction will allow us to better promote our values, including support for basic human rights, as attention within Cuba and the international community is no longer focused on opposition to U.S. policy. And our new direction dramatically increases the potential between the American and Cuban people, contact which we will use to hasten a democratic, prosperous, and stable Cuba.
We welcome today's announcement by the Secretary of State, which is another step forward toward a more normal and productive relationship between the United States and the Cuban people.
Bernadette Meehan is the Spokesperson for the National Security Council.


text:
using System;
using System.Linq;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using MongoDB.Driver;
using MongoQueryBuilder.Exceptions;
using MongoQueryBuilder.Infrastructure;
using System.Reflection;

namespace MongoQueryBuilder.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class UseCases
    {
        [Test]
        public void ItThrowsWhenItCannotConvertCriteriaToQueryable()
        {
            var repo = CompanyRepo.CreateRepo();

            repo.Collection.Drop();
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "bar"
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 2,
                Name = "foo",
                ChildCompanies = new [] { 1 }
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 3,
                Name = "bar",
                ChildCompanies = new [] { 1 }
            });

            Assert.Throws<NotSupportedException>(() => repo.Builder()
                .Queryable(q => q
                    .Where(i => i.Name.Split(',').Count() == 0))
                .Count());
        }

        [Test]
        public void ItExposesMongoQueryable()
        {
            var repo = CompanyRepo.CreateRepo();

            repo.Collection.Drop();
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "bar"
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 2,
                Name = "foo",
                ChildCompanies = new [] { 1 }
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 3,
                Name = "bar",
                ChildCompanies = new [] { 1 }
            });

            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo
                .Queryable(q => q
                    .Where(i => i.Name == "bar"))
                .Count());

            Assert.IsNotNull(repo
                .Queryable(q => q
                    .First(i => i.Name == "bar")));

            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .Queryable(q => q
                    .Where(i => i.Name == "bar"))
                .Count());

            Assert.AreEqual(1, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("bar")
                .Queryable(q => q
                    .Where(i => i.ChildCompanies.Any()))
                .Count());

            Assert.IsNotNull(repo.Builder()
                .ByName("bar")
                .Queryable(q => q.First()));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ItQueriesSuccessfullyWithTwoConventions()
        {
            var repo = CompanyRepo.CreateRepo();
            repo.Collection.Drop();
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "Test One"
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 2,
                Name = "Test Two",
                ChildCompanies = new [] { 1 }
            });

            Assert.AreEqual(1, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("Test One")
                .GetAll()
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .GetAll(true)
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(1, repo.Builder()
                .ChildCompaniesContains(1)
                .GetAll()
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(1, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("Test Two")
                .ChildCompaniesContains(1)
                .GetAll()
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, repo.Builder()
                .ChildCompaniesContains(0)
                .GetAll()
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(0, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("Test One")
                .ChildCompaniesContains(1)
                .GetAll()
                .Count);
        }

        [Test]
        public void ItLimitsResultSetsWhenYouAskItTo()
        {
            var repo = CompanyRepo.CreateRepo();
            repo.Collection.Drop();
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "foo"
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 2,
                Name = "foo",
            });

            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .GetSome(3)
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .GetSome(2)
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(1, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .GetSome(1)
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .GetSome(0)
                .Count);
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .GetSome(-1)
                .Count);
        }

        [Test]
        public void ItReducesAtTheDatabaseQueryLevel()
        {
            var repo = CompanyRepo.CreateRepo();
            repo.Collection.Drop();
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 1,
                Name = "foo"
            });
            repo.Save(new Company
            {
                Id = 2,
                Name = "foo",
            });

            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Queryable(q => q.Count()));
            Assert.IsNotNull(repo.Queryable(q => q.First()));
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .Queryable(q => q.Count()));
            Assert.AreEqual(2, repo.Builder()
                .ByName("foo")
                .Queryable(q => q.Count()));
        }
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Tag Archives: interlibrary loan
Information Sharing as a Common Good
On the Intersection of Traditional Interlibrary Loan Services and Open Access Publishing
A scholarly communication system can enable information sharing. It can encourage it. Or, it can make sharing impossible.
Dennis Dillon observes that traditional scholarly publishing, maintained by copyright protections and subscription licensing, exploits and encourages competition. Talent, funding, and resources accrue easily to élite universities with large budgets and huge libraries. Traditional publishing does little to ensure widespread, unfettered access to academic knowledge. Within this system, however, libraries have devised and improved systems to share and redistribute information otherwise purchased or licensed — at great and increasing expense — for regulated, discrete academic audiences.
Embracing the mission to preserve and to provide meaningful access to the world's cultural record, librarians have developed interlibrary loan (ILL) and cooperative collection management. These innovations defray the individual burdens of cost and preservation, allowing libraries to diversify, to collectively assemble more material, and by opening collections to use by others, to provide greater access to a broader range of library resources for more people.
However, there are significant limitations to what libraries can share under this framework. While no library, even the wealthiest, can afford to purchase everything, neither can libraries perfectly distribute items so that everyone who wants something can get it. Not everything is available via ILL, and some of it is expensive, slow, and troublesome to deliver.
Given the successful interventions libraries have made to democratize access, it is particularly troubling that publishers now increasingly preclude libraries from sharing. ILL has worked well for PDF journal article distribution, and it has not toppled the academic journal subscription system as was once feared. But e-book publishers are threatened by the ease and speed with which PDFs can travel through ILL networks. E-books are not generally distributed in PDF. Instead, publishers license e-books to libraries on an array of proprietary platforms that regulate reader use and prevent sharing. Even those e-book publishers buckling to reader demand for PDF often prohibit libraries from sharing titles via ILL. These anti-sharing licenses force libraries to reduce service again to only those regulated, discrete audiences from the days before the creation of efficient high-speed ILL networks.
Open access publishing, in comparison, epitomizes barrier-free information sharing. It's the scholarly community's best improvement on a publishing system attempting to restrict and regulate, not to expand and de-regulate, distribution of scholarly work.
As long as all information is not equally available, because of cost, rarity, copyright or license restrictions; as long as it exists in different formats, including print, libraries will continue to facilitate sharing. Our mission – connecting people and information through discovery, evaluation, preservation, print, media and computer access – remains as important as ever. Whatever it takes, we continue to work to build a world where information is freely distributed, scholarship is freely read, and libraries are free to share.
Authors: Silvia Cho and Beth Posner
This entry was posted in Open Access, Topic Series and tagged collaboration, collection development, ILL, information sharing, interlibrary loan, open access publishing, resource sharing on February 18, 2014 by Silvia Cho.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


Fast Kar in a €16,000 maiden in Lyon means that both his two-year-old runners in France have won.
The Matthieu Palussiere-trained filly Fast Kar got off the mark at Lyon on Sunday to give her sire a quick juvenile double, after another French-trained juvenile by Fast Company, Red Onion, won impressively in Paris on Thursday. A third juvenile starter from the son of Danehill Dancer's third crop – David Evans's debutant Rapid Rise – ran well to be third at Leicester on Saturday.
It's a big week for the new Overbury stallion: Hamdan Al Maktoum's colt Taqdeer is an intended runner in the 2,000 Guineas – connections rate the colt a strong place possibility behind the short-priced favourite.
Meanwhile, Brian Meehan, who trained fast Company to be second in the Dewhurst Stakes to New Approach as a juvenile, is set to introduce two youngsters by the stallion this week: Jet Setter, a £57,000 yearling purchase and a brother to the stable's of 2015 first-time-out winner Maccus, starts his career at Windsor on Monday, while Await The Storm, who cost £38,000 as a yearling, runs at Bath on Tuesday. There, one of his opponents will be Nazik, trained by David Evans: the first runner by fellow Overbury stallion, Delegator.


text:
#include <string.h>

namespace Streams
{
int IStream::GetEndianness()
{
    return _Endian;
}

void IStream::SetEndianness(EndianType endiantype )
{
    _Endian = endiantype;
}
bool IStream::is_big_endian( void )
{
    union {
        unsigned int i;
        char c[4];
    } bint = {0x01020304};

    return bint.c[0] == 1;
}

void IStream::EndianSwap ( void* Data, size_t DataLength, size_t ElementSize )
{
    // i starts at the beginning, j starts at the end.
    // Loops until i >= j
    for (int i = 0, j = (DataLength * ElementSize) - 1; i < j; i++, j--)
    {
        // Create a temp copy of i's index
        unsigned char temp = *((unsigned char*)Data + i);
        // Replace whatever is at i with j
        *((unsigned char*)Data + i) = *((unsigned char*)Data + j);
        // Replace j with whatever was at i
        *((unsigned char*)Data + j) = temp;
    }
}

void IStream::DetermineAndDoEndianSwap( void* Data, size_t DataLength, size_t ElementSize )
{
    DetermineAndDoEndianSwap( Data, DataLength, ElementSize, false );
}

void* IStream::DetermineAndDoEndianSwap( void* Data, size_t DataLength, size_t ElementSize, bool IsByteArray )
{
    if (!IsByteArray)
    {
        if ((!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
        {
            EndianSwap( Data, DataLength, ElementSize );
            return 0;
        }
    }
    else if ((is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
    {
        BYTE* NewData = new BYTE[ElementSize * DataLength];
        memcpy(NewData, (BYTE*)Data, ElementSize * DataLength);
        EndianSwap( NewData, DataLength, ElementSize );
        return NewData;
    }
    return 0;
}

void* IStream::DetermineAndDoEndianSwap( void* Data, size_t DataLength, size_t ElementSize, bool IsByteArray, bool Reverse)
{
    if (!Reverse)
    {
        return DetermineAndDoEndianSwap(Data, DataLength, ElementSize, IsByteArray);
    }

    if (!IsByteArray)
    {
        if ((is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
        {
            EndianSwap( Data, DataLength, ElementSize );
            return 0;
        }
    }
    else if ((!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
    {
        BYTE* NewData = new BYTE[ElementSize * DataLength];
        memcpy(NewData, (BYTE*)Data, ElementSize * DataLength);
        EndianSwap( NewData, DataLength, ElementSize );
        return NewData;
    }
    return 0;
}

void IStream::DetermineAndDoArraySwap( BYTE* Data, int Length )
{
    if ((is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
    {
        EndianSwap( Data, Length, sizeof(BYTE));
    }
}

void IStream::DetermineAndDoArraySwap( BYTE* Data, int Length, bool ReverseOrder )
{
    if (!ReverseOrder)
    {
        DetermineAndDoArraySwap(Data, Length);
    }
    else if ((!is_big_endian() && _Endian == Big) || (is_big_endian() && _Endian == Little))
    {
        EndianSwap( Data, Length, sizeof(BYTE));
    }
}
}


"Writer-director Peter Mullan crafts a stunning, brutal portrait of a bright youth's descent into gang crime in Neds," writes Robert Koehler for Variety. "An eight-year break after his knockout The Magdalene Sisters proves not to have dulled Mullan's continuing skill at delivering total movie experiences that combine vivid social critique with astonishing performances by virtual unknowns and felicitous cinematic technique."
"Set in working-class Glasgow during the early 1970s — Mullan's previous film was set in 60s Ireland — Neds is an acronym for Non-Educated Delinquents." Michael Rechtshaffen in the Hollywood Reporter: "It's a classification that ruddy-cheeked John McGill (Conor McCarron, as well as Gregg Forrest as the younger edition) would at first seem determined to circumvent.... But he ultimately and systematically succumbs to the inevitable as deeply seated resentment and rage are allowed to fester unheeded by those bleak surroundings. Credit McCarron for making every step of that dramatic transformation disturbingly but sympathetically credible, as his fellow young castmates play their roles with similar conviction."
"Neds may sound like an exercise in kitchen-sink misery but it is often painfully funny as it flavours the drama with all the cheeky insolence and gallows humour of the communities that John must navigate," writes Allan Hunter in Screen. "Mullan also counterpoints some of the more horrifying moments with bitterly ironic music choices-one gang fight unfolds to the sound of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band performing Irving Berlin's 'Cheek to Cheek' which feels like an homage to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange."
For Eye Weekly's Dave Morris, "once the protagonist embraces gang life, the film's promise slips away in a tangle of outrageous plot developments and melodrama. While the intense social critiques of directors like Alan Clarke (whose influence is heavily felt) are long overdue for a revival, Mullan could stand to inherit Clarke's economy and simplicity with narrative."
Also screening at the San Sebastián and London film festivals.
Update, 9/25: Tim Robey's glad to have had a few days now to mull this one over, "particularly since it's now been awarded the Best Film and Best Actor awards [in San Sebastián]. I remain thoroughly on the film's side, some clearly wobbly sequences notwithstanding, but an especially tricky problem was posed by the sound: this soft Southerner struggles to comprehend thick Scottish accents at the best of times, but every single English-speaking viewer I bumped into afterwards had the same complaint about huge quantities of mumbled Glaswegian slang falling by the wayside." That said: "What's particularly outstanding here is the school stuff, and there's a (very) good hour of this"; the second half is "patchier." But: "What Mullan grasps here he grasps with clenched fists, and shakes often enough to sock his points home: that adolescent unhappiness and intellectual promise can be about the worst possible bedfellows, and the deadliest thugs, in another, more privileged life, might have been shoo-ins to Oxbridge."
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The world's most leaked smartphones are finally here. Consequently, we know almost everything about Google 's new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL but that doesn't stop them from being two of the most controversial flagship phones available. They also pack several surprises which Google didn't mention during the launch.
While the Pixel 3 plays things safe with a taller and thinner 5.5-inch display than its 5-inch 16:9 predecessor, the Pixel 3 XL generates all the attention for the massive notch Google has built into its 6.3-inch display.
I'll discuss this in the design section below, but Google actually deserves a lot of credit for the quality of the Pixels' panels this year. After the controversy surrounding the Pixel 2XL in particular, both new models have premium OLED panels which have been lauded by DisplayMate as being in the same class as the Galaxy Note 9 and iPhone XS.
In addition, both phones retain their front-firing stereo speakers (now 40% louder than last year), deliver dual front cameras (discussed in the Camera section), upgraded IP68 dust and water resistance (up from IP67 last year) and most of their glass backs are textured to make them both more grippy and fingerprint resistant in hand.
This year's colors also retain the upbeat feel of their predecessors. I'm sorry to see the so-called 'Panda' black and white colorr scheme go, but in its place are 'Clearly White' (white with a green power button), 'Not Pink' (yes pink, with an orange power button) and 'Clearly Black' (even the charging port is black). All three colours are available on both models.
What sticks out like a sore thumb here is the RAM. In 2018 Android rivals have moved onto 6GB and even 8GB of RAM with exceptional results and, while stock Android is efficient, my experience with the similarly 4GB-equipped Pixel 2XL is it can get bogged down with a lot of multitasking - which is where extra RAM shines. It's simply a bizarre decision at this price point.
Helping out the RAM is Qualcomm's top of the range Snapdragon 845 chipset which delivers approximately 30% more power than last year's 835. That said, the timing of Google's Pixels leaves something to be desired as Qualcomm announces its next-generation chips every December for release in January so these devices won't be on current gen hardware for long.
I'm sure the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will be lightning quick out the box. The big question for me is: How long will they stay that way?
Where Google has been listening to customer concerns, however, is security. Apple dines out on its claims about data security and in response, both the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL come equipped with a new 'Titan M' security chip which is designed to secure your data and passwords. Google has yet to detail how the chip works, but the fact it exists is a step in the right direction.
While left out fo the Google presentation, both the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will support standard sims and eSims (electronic sims) simultaneously. A point Google later confirmed and which brings true multi-sim functionality for home/work numbers and frequent travellers. Or it will when more networks begin to support eSims - something which should happen quickly now this functionality is also built into Apple's new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
It is worth noting that last year's Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL had standard and eSim support as well, but they could not be run simultaneously and forced the user to alternate between them.
Edit: Google has come back to me to say this information was incorrect. Unfortunately, both new Pixels do have eSims but they still cannot work simultaneously alongside a standard sim. Disappointing news, especially given Apple's implementation of this on the new iPhones.
Yes, the dual cameras are on the front! Google did this so it could add a second wide-angle lens with 97-degree FOV (field of view). This is welcome and a notable upgrade for group photos, but it also makes me wonder why we still need the standard (75-degree) lens as well? Google could've removed it and made the notch a lot smaller. We can hold the wide-angle lens closer if necessary.
There are two other camera complaints: still no optical zoom due to the single rear camera on the back, and no 60fps 4K recording - something supported by many rivals.
Top Shot - a 'best shot' feature which automatically suggests alternative photos taken before and after your photo, if the subject was blinking or you missed their smile.
Photobooth Mode - automatic shot taking when you smile or pull faces in front of the camera. There's no need to press the shutter button.
Super Res Zoom - a machine learning alternative to optical zoom, which compensates for the movement of your hand when you zoom for a shot.
Playground - add AR (augmented reality) characters, such as Marvel superheroes, into your shots. They will interact with the scenery and the subject. Kids (and big kids) will like this.
Motion Auto Focus - tap on a moving subject and the new Pixels will automatically track it and keep it in focus. Great for shots of pets and children.
Night Sight - a potentially game-changing low light mode which uses "computational photography and AI" to not only light a very dark scene but even restore the colors. Google's demo showed a startling comparison with the new iPhone XS (below), so let's hope the theory plays out in reality. The feature will arrive via an update to both new and older Pixels after the Pixel 3 launch.
In conjunction with its smaller display and lower resolution, the Pixel 3 should now last almost as long as the Pixel 3 XL which - somewhat surprisingly - has a slightly smaller battery than last year. But this should be more than compensated for by its more efficient chipset.
USB-C fast charging also remains, with Google claiming a 15-minute charge with the bundled fast charger will provide up to seven hours of usage.
But the real headline news - and the reason for the glass backs - is the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL now support fast Qi wireless charging at up to 10W. Google is capitalising on this with the launch of a Pixel Stand, which not only has 10W wireless charging but turns your phone into a smart display (automatic photo slideshows, reminders, integration with its Nest Hello video doorbells, etc) and virtual assistant when the phone is in standby.
The result is the Pixel 3 costs a hefty $150 more than the Pixel 2 while the Pixel 3 XL is $50 more than the Pixel 2 XL. This is a risk, especially with Apple offering iPhones in capacities of 64GB, 256GB and 512GB.
Google will argue greater capacity is not needed since it offers unlimited photo and video storage on Google Photos to Pixel owners. But not everyone will choose to use Google Photos and, even if you do, it still can't beat the speed and offline flexibility of having the vast majority of your phones in native storage.
Personally, I think Google has taken a big risk here as the average user walks into a shop, looks at a spec list and the Pixels will lose out (especially on paper with their single rear cameras). For me, 64GB and 256GB options would've been the smart move.
The Pixel 3 XL is going to get a lot of abuse. When the original Pixel launched, Google mocked Apple for removing the headphone jack and threw the company's own 'Think Different' message in its face. Since then the Pixel 2 models removed the headphone jack and the Pixel 3 XL has the largest notch on the market. Some of this abuse is deserved.
Despite this, there's a lot to like about the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL.
They are all but certain to have class-leading cameras once again (given the year-old Pixel 2XL is still the class leader at this point) and a lorry load of new tricks. The wide-angle selfie cam will prove useful, the displays are now top quality, there's greater performance, wireless charging, improved water resistance and true dual sim functionality. And don't forget stock Android and instant updates as well.
Despite this, I'm not convinced Google has done enough to persuade Apple and Samsung fans to jump ship. The designs do look dated, the prices are high, storage options are low and they launch with 10-month-old chipsets and a needlessly small amount of RAM.


Pouches are of various kinds and so are the laminations. Pouch manufacturing industries have different lamination machines for different kinds of pouches. The lamination film thickness of a pouch depends on various factors like its flexibility and frequency at which a particular pouch type is used. So, lamination should be done considering the purpose for which a particular type of pouch will be used to ensure its durability.
Budget – Thin lamination costs less while you have to pay considerably more for a thick lamination.
Flexibility – Lamination should not be thick if you want your pouches to be flexible. Though, it should be that much strong that all the stored contents remain well protected from moisture and dust.
Sturdiness – Go for a thicker lamination for your pouches if you want them to be super sturdy. This kind of lamination provides a rigid yet strong support for the pouches.
Usage – The usability of the pouch is the greatest determining factor for its lamination thickness as the pouches that are used more often require a thick lamination film to ensure their durability.
Pouch Material – Some pouch materials like paper and aluminium are super delicate to handle and thus need a laminating film thick enough to provide them good support.
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From the Japanische Marchen und Sagen.
THE SPARROW WITH THE SLIT TONGUE
A long long time ago, an old couple dwelt in the very heart of a high mountain. They lived together in peace and harmony, although they were very different in character, the man being good-natured and honest, and the wife being greedy and quarrelsome when anyone came her way that she could possibly quarrel with.
One day the old man was sitting in front of his cottage, as he was very fond of doing, when he saw flying towards him a little sparrow, followed by a big black raven. The poor little thing was very much frightened and cried out as it flew, and the great bird came behind it terribly fast, flapping its wings and craning its beak, for it was hungry and wanted some dinner. But as they drew near the old man, he jumped up, and beat back the raven, which mounted, with hoarse screams of disappointment, into the sky, and the little bird, freed from its enemy, nestled into the old man's hand, and he carried it into the house. He stroked its feathers, and told it not to be afraid, for it was quite safe; but as he still felt its heart beating, he put it into a cage, where it soon plucked up courage to twitter and hop about. The old man was fond of all creatures, and every morning he used to open the cage door, and the sparrow flew happily about until it caught sight of a cat or a rat or some other fierce beast, when it would instantly return to the cage, knowing that there no harm could come to it.
The woman, who was always on the look-out for something to grumble at, grew very jealous of her husband's affection for the bird, and would gladly have done it some harm had she dared. At last, one morning her opportunity came. Her husband had gone to the town some miles away down the mountain, and would not be back for several hours, but before he left he did not forget to open the door of the cage. The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking no evil, and all the while the woman's brow became blacker and blacker, and at length her fury broke out. She threw her broom at the bird, who was perched on a bracket high up on the wall. The broom missed the bird, but knocked down and broke the vase on the bracket, which did not soothe the angry woman. Then she chased it from place to place, and at last had it safe between her fingers, almost as frightened as on the day that it had made its first entrance into the hut.
By this time the woman was more furious than ever. If she had dared, she would have killed the sparrow then and there, but as it was she only ventured to slit its tongue. The bird struggled and piped, but there was no one to hear it, and then, crying out loud with the pain, it flew from the house and was lost in the depths of the forest.
By-and-bye the old man came back, and at once began to ask for his pet. His wife, who was still in a very bad temper, told him the whole story, and scolded him roundly for being so silly as to make such a fuss over a bird. But the old man, who was much troubled, declared she was a bad, hard-hearted woman, to have behaved so to a poor harmless bird; then he left the house, and went into the forest to seek for his pet. He walked many hours, whistling and calling for it, but it never came, and he went sadly home, resolved to be out with the dawn and never to rest till he had brought the wanderer back. Day after day he searched and called; and evening after evening he returned in despair. At length he gave up hope, and made up his mind that he should see his little friend no more.
One hot summer morning, the old man was walking slowly under the cool shadows of the big trees, and without thinking where he was going, he entered a bamboo thicket. As the bamboos became thinner, he found himself opposite to a beautiful garden, in the centre of which stood a tiny spick-and-span little house, and out of the house came a lovely maiden, who unlatched the gate and invited him in the most hospitable way to enter and rest. 'Oh, my dear old friend,' she exclaimed, 'how glad I am you have found me at last! I am your little sparrow, whose life you saved, and whom you took such care of.'
The old man seized her hands eagerly, but no time was given him to ask any questions, for the maiden drew him into the house, and set food before him, and waited on him herself.
While he was eating, the damsel and her maids took their lutes, and sang and danced to him, and altogether the hours passed so swiftly that the old man never saw that darkness had come, or remembered the scolding he would get from his wife for returning home so late.
Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the maiden was a sparrow hopping in and out of her cage, the night passed away, and when the first rays of sun broke through the hedge of bamboo, the old man started up, thanked his hostess for her friendly welcome, and prepared to say farewell. 'I am not going to let you depart like that,' said she; 'I have a present for you, which you must take as a sign of my gratitude.' And as she spoke, her servants brought in two chests, one of them very small, the other large and heavy. 'Now choose which of them you will carry with you.' So the old man chose the small chest, and hid it under his cloak, and set out on his homeward way.
But as he drew near the house his heart sank a little, for he knew what a fury his wife would be in, and how she would abuse him for his absence. And it was even worse than he expected. However, long experience had taught him to let her storm and say nothing, so he lit his pipe and waited till she was tired out. The woman was still raging, and did not seem likely to stop, when her husband, who by this time had forgotten all about her, drew out the chest from under his cloak, and opened it. Oh, what a blaze met his eyes! gold and precious stones were heaped up to the very lid, and lay dancing in he sunlight. At the sight of these wonders even the scolding tongue ceased, and the woman approached, and took the stones in her hand, setting greedily aside those that were the largest and most costly. Then her voice softened, and she begged him quite politely to tell her where he had spent his evening, and how he had come by these wonderful riches. So he told her the whole story, and she listened with amazement, till he came to the choice which had been given him between the two chests. At this her tongue broke loose again, as she abused him for his folly in taking the little one, and she never rested till her husband had described the exact way which led to the sparrow-princess's house. When she had got it into her head, she put on her best clothes and set out at once. But in her blind haste she often missed the path, and she wandered for several hours before she at length reached the little house. She walked boldly up to the door and entered the room as if the whole place belonged to her, and quite frightened the poor girl, who was startled at the sight of her old enemy. However, she concealed her feelings as well as she could, and bade the intruder welcome, placing before her food and wine, hoping that when she had eaten and drunk she might take her leave. But nothing of the sort.
'You will not let me go without a little present?' said the greedy wife, as she saw no signs of one being offered her. 'Of course not,' replied the girl, and at her orders two chests were brought in, as they had been before. The old woman instantly seized the bigger, and staggering under the weight of it, disappeared into the forest, hardly waiting even to say good-bye.
It was a long way to her own house, and the chest seemed to grow heavier at every step. Sometimes she felt as if it would be impossible for her to get on at all, but her greed gave her strength, and at last she arrived at her own door. She sank down on the threshold, overcome with weariness, but in a moment was on her feet again, fumbling with the lock of the chest. But by this time night had come, and there was no light in the house, and the woman was in too much hurry to get to her treasures, to go and look for one. At length, however, the lock gave way, and the lid flew open, when, O horror! instead of gold and jewels, she saw before her serpents with glittering eyes and forky tongues. And they twined themselves about her and darted poison into her veins, and she died, and no man regretted her.
Laura Gibbs (laura-gibbs@ou.edu). Date: July 12, 2003 6:45 PM


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Tracking what students grasp
Socrative mobile quiz app saves teachers time and offers real-time data on student comprehension of material.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office
Caption: A view of the Socrative app.
Credits: Photo collage: Christine Daniloff/MIT (photo by Allegra Boverman)
Caption: Socrative co-founders (left to right) Amit Maimon, Benjamin Berte, and Michael West
Credits: Courtesy of Amit Maimon
A view of the Socrative app.
Photo collage: Christine Daniloff/MIT (photo by Allegra Boverman)
Socrative co-founders (left to right) Amit Maimon, Benjamin Berte, and Michael West
Courtesy of Amit Maimon
As a teaching assistant at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2010, Amit Maimon MBA '11 witnessed the origins of a technological phenomenon: Smartphones and tablets had started creeping into the classroom in the hands of students.
But instead of dismissing these devices as distractions, Maimon saw a way to leverage them to help teachers get a better idea of what students grasp during lectures.
That year, Maimon co-developed Socrative, an app that lets teachers design or select premade quizzes for students to answer, publicly or anonymously, on personal mobile devices during lectures. The app is now being used by about 1.1 million teachers and millions of students across the globe.
The idea is that students respond better to quizzes deployed via mobile devices — "which they're already staring at," Maimon says — and many feel more comfortable answering questions anonymously. For the teacher, the accumulated data gives immediate feedback on student comprehension — allowing tailoring of lectures to address problematic material — and tracks student or class progress over time.
"Teachers benefit tremendously by having knowledge of what their students find easy or difficult, what they're understanding or not, in the moment, in class," says Maimon, who co-founded a startup, also called Socrative, to commercialize the app. "Teachers [with Socrative] can see how well the class is doing in a very detailed way, and see who's struggling more, what the class doesn't understand, and even which students can help others."
Quizzes can be designed, using a "teacher" app, on any mobile device — either as one-off questions or as a series of true-or-false, multiple-choice, or open-ended questions. In the classroom, students can punch in a class's identification number on their "student" apps and answer away. Color-coded results for each student and question pop up instantly in the teacher app in rows and columns, with green boxes indicating correct responses, and red boxes indicating incorrect responses.
Importantly, the app is a time-saver — grading is automatic, and there's a growing database of premade quizzes designed and shared by teachers — which has contributed to its wide adoption, Maimon says. In June, after accumulating 750,000 teacher users worldwide, Socrative sold for $5 million in stock and cash to MasteryConnect, a company that provides digital student-assessment tools to around 85 percent of U.S. school districts.
Current Socrative employees — including two co-founders, Benjamin Berte and Michael West — are further developing the app under MasteryConnect. (After the acquisition, Maimon is no longer part of the company.)
From classroom to classroom
Socrative was conceived and trialed in course 15.060 (Data, Models, Decisions), where Maimon served as a teaching assistant. Frequently, after lectures, students would pose questions about certain aspects of material that were not fully addressed in class, reflecting an understanding that was very different from what he might have expected.
Back then, the only real-time student-response systems were "clickers" — remote-control-like devices with buttons students can press to answer questions or vote in class. But teachers usually rent those systems, which can be expensive, and the systems are difficult to implement.
Seeing the inevitability of mobile devices in the classroom, Maimon recruited fellow MIT Sloan students — Slava Menn MBA '11, Puneet Newaskar SM '03, MBA '11, Karan Singh MBA '11, Tal Snir MBA '11, and Jaime Contreras MBA '11 — to help build an early prototype for an app that would send out a few multiple-choice questions on material he taught during class.
When he used the app in class a few days later, Maimon saw the potential power of gathering anonymous, real-time data. First, his students voted on answers to lesson-based questions by a show of hands. Then the students weighed in anonymously on the same questions on the prototype app. Maimon saw that certain answers received more votes anonymously than by a show of hands. One reason, he posits: Students may be uncomfortable admitting they don't understand, so they don't ask for clarification.
"That's when the power of real-time anonymity came in, which is fantastic because it changes the social layout," he says. "If you're afraid of asking a question because you think you're the only one who doesn't understand it, and then suddenly you remove that barrier, you see many others don't understand as well, and it changes people's comfort levels."
In 2010, Maimon recruited Berte and West, and turned to mentors in MIT's Venture Mentoring Service and Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship for advice on marketing and financing, among other things. In 2011, they joined the Imagine K-12 startup accelerator in Palo Alto, Calif., and grew out their team.
"It was internal and external momentum," Maimon says. "The more we saw people being excited about it from the outside, and the more we brought in team members who were excited about carrying this forward internally, the more we realized this is turning into an actual company."
That momentum carried Socrative through to the 2012-13 academic year, when the app saw 278,000 quizzes created and shared by more than 3 million teachers and students worldwide, with more than 1,000 teacher users joining per day.
The experience of teachers
Today, other companies have released similar student-response tools. But what sets Socrative apart, Maimon says, is a core focus on K-12 teachers, which informs its simple design.
The app, for instance, has dedicated K-12 features, making it accessible to a broad audience, Maimon says. Apart from quizzes, a "space race" feature lets students compete for the most correct responses; "exit tickets" let students weigh in on what they learned — and what they'd like to learn — as they're leaving the class.
This simplicity is especially important for teachers trying to educate dozens of students — sometimes very young — without disrupting class. "The experience of the teachers in the class became core to everything we do: making sure that it's seamless. We knew that if we can't make it simple enough for core users, we aren't going to intro more teachers into our system," Maimon says.
Today, testimonials on the company's website — and countless online reviews from K-12 teachers of all disciplines — laud the app for its simplicity, as well as for saving time, helping students better understand material, and providing clear data analysis on student progress.
Having reached so many teachers, Socrative is expanding its mission — such as by using data to improve and personalize K-12 education. For instance, Maimon says, should some students learn by video or by lecture? What lessons should be taught by hands-on, experiential methods? Overall, how can we provide better tools for teachers to help every student based on individual needs?
"We need a body of data that is available to start deriving meaningful insights about how to tailor learning methods to students," Maimon says. "That's the lofty objective."
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Recorded live at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, on 26 March 2014.
This is the first recording released on the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ. This sell out concert in March 2014 was part of the Pull Out All The Stops festival launching the refurbished Harrison and Harrison organ, complete for the first time since 2005. The sense of occasion in this live recording is palpable.
From the first earth-shattering chord of the Poulenc, it is clear that this is an instrument of hugely impressive proportions. The thrilling finale of the Saint-Saëns in particular showcases the organ's resonant bass; the packed Royal Festival Hall vibrating to its core.
In the adept hand of conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Saint-Saëns Symphony demonstrates how well this huge instrument integrates with the Orchestra – always a challenge in live recordings. There is an amazing transparency of sound between organ and orchestra, and a sense of space that allows the music to breathe naturally.
Soloist James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of Music at Westminster Abbey, has received numerous awards and honours for his recordings, including the Gramophone Award for 'Record of the Year' in 1998 for his recording of Masses by Martin and Pizzetti for Hyperion.
Booklet includes full organ specification and an article on the history and refurbishment of the organ by its curator, Dr William McVicker.
these live performances showcase different aspects of this remarkable instrument's capabilities in tandem with orchestra. The Poulenc is generally a hard-edged performance, James O'Donnell dispatching its dramatic opening with a brisk imperious strut tather than a grandiose swagger.
James O'Donnell finds plenty of warmth and colour in the instrument which, combined with some rich string playing, benefits from the improved acoustics of the hall...plenty of verve and passion in equal measure and the performance is rightly rewarded by a rapturous response from the audience at the end.
conducted with élan by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and expertly played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The Poulenc, in particular, gets a blistering performance. The Saint-Saëns plays a long game and rises to a suitably magniloquent ending. James O'Donnell, organist of Westminster Abbey, is master of the king of instruments.
All in all, it is the faster music that seems to come off best, with a good rhythmic pulse in the Poulenc together with organ-playing of sensitivity and spark from O'Donnell, and with plenty of nervous energy, impetus and instrumental detail in the outer parts of the Saint-Saens.
Nézet-Séguin brings out all the contrasts in this bipolar score with a confidence and flair that one normally associates with conductors of far greater experience. His grip is tight but never throttling and he's fortunate to have at his fingertips a band that responds with alacrity to his every demand.


We're taking our second excursion into enterprise-class desktop territory with the kind of machine that should be of interest both to IT management and enthusiasts alike: HP's Z210 SFF (small form factor) workstation. Desktop computers are capable of getting smaller and smaller these days, and with the Z210 SFF, HP is hoping to make serious number crunching power available in even the tightest of spaces. It's always interesting to see just how much performance can be crammed into a tiny computer, but did HP have to make any sacrifices to hit this target?
I'll readily admit I'm a huge geek when it comes to smaller computers like this one, so whether it was enterprise class or not, the Z210 SFF was going to be something I'd want to get my hands on personally. Thankfully, it fits right in with our hopefully expanding coverage of enterprise-class towers. We're still working out kinks in our testing of workstations, so suggestions on how to improve it are always welcome. The last time we reviewed a desktop workstation was our Dell Precision T1600; as you'll see there were some changes made here.
Unfortunately, at time of publication HP didn't have a page up for custom configuring the Z210 SFF; the top-of-the-line model they list is basically identical to our review unit, but with the NVIDIA Quadro 600 workstation graphics card added. Keep in mind that's the most powerful workstation card HP offers with the Z210, and it retails for $169. Given vendors' proclivity towards adding a premium to upgrades, I'd expect the end price for this kit to be around $2,000.
So what do you get for your money? For starters, HP equips the Z210 SFF with an Intel Xeon as opposed to a consumer-grade Core i3/i5/i7, in this case the E3-1245. The E3-1245 is roughly equivalent to a Core i5-2500 with the additions of Hyper-Threading, Intel HD Graphics 3000, and 2MB more L3 cache; it runs at a nominal 3.3GHz and is capable of turbo-ing up to 3.7GHz on a single core (losing 100MHz for each additional active core under turbo), sports 8MB of L3 cache, and maintains a 95W TDP. Connected to the integrated memory controller are four 2GB Hynix DDR3-1333 DIMMS with ECC.
Pulling graphics duties is a half-height NVIDIA Quadro 600 workstation card, and we have some surprises for you when we get to the workstation benchmarks. The Quadro 600 is the enterprise-class version of the GF108 chip that powers the desktop GeForce GT 430, featuring 96 of NVIDIA's CUDA cores with 1GB of DDR3 strapped to a 128-bit memory bus. Clock speeds are a bit underwhelming, though; the GT 430 ships at 700MHz on the core and 1400MHz on the shaders, against the Quadro 600's 640MHz core clock and corresponding 1280MHz shader clock. The DDR3 runs at an effective 1.6GHz. Still, remember that this is a workstation card and benefits from NVIDIA's Quadro drivers.
The rest of the system is relatively tame and unsurprising for a workstation, but HP does add both a USB 3.0 expansion card and an Intel X25-M 160GB SSD based on 34nm NAND. In our admittedly anecdotal experience, Intel's SSDs tend to be extremely popular in the enterprise sector; outside of the current issue with the 320 series SSDs, Intel drives have typically demonstrated the lowest failure rates on the market. So for those of you wondering why we're not seeing high performance SandForce-based SSDs or SATA-III kit, there's your answer.
I builded a minitower PC back in december 2010 and it happens to include a 2600K and a Nvidia Q600 + 8 MBs of memory and W764. It is a great system and it was about $1500 from Newegg, Amazon and a local CompuUSA. So it is a mixed commercial PC with an entry Quadro to run 3D apps, mostly Maya 2011, but I run 3D terrain modelers, Photoshop or gaming engines with an Nvidia 460 installed on another slot (both cards at the same time). It runs very well and stable, I haven't overclocked the CPU but is really fast. For comparison it renders one image using Maya software or Mental Ray as fast as my Mac Pro 2008 with 8 Xeon cores at 2.8 MHz. But at some other rendering jobs as toonshading the 2600K doubles the Mac Pro performance (because the memory subsystem in the newer i7). However the Mac Pro is the machine I run all day and night and it is as stable as it possibly can be, it never fails and it runs cool and silent. But for 2K the HP including a Xeon is very competitive. Also the size (not the shape) is appealing to me.
I need a Mac for FCP and because I have a ton of images, references, fonts, software, devices connected I like OSX and I am proficient using the Mac. I will upgrade the MP at the end of this year. I am thinking to try the top iMac that includes the 2600K, but I am afraid the iMac wont be able to handle all the demanding job the Mac Pro does or it may not be as easy to upgrade, handle everything, exchange HDs. etc The Mac Pro is a very solid workstation based on Xeon technology.
An experience I can share is the BIG difference a Quadro makes in Pro 3D, it is not only the performance numbers you can digest. I tested the 460 alone and it is a horrible card for that. The Q600 produce an image in the viewport the 460 can't touch.
I am glad I have both machines to run what I need at critical times and now I will always have both the Mac and PC combination. It gives me literally 2 eyes to try many things and I do.
It hasn't yet! because I did not "upgraded" immediately (clever me) but it was shocking to know Apple's new strategy and in general the massive complains it generated and why. Being an early adopter has been hard on me lately on both Mac (Software and hardware) and PC (hardware). I guess I will investigate in detail how the new FCPX will affect me and when I feel confident I will upgrade. As for Premier Pro I guess I will download the trial and see how it works before the upgrade to FCPX.
Well what you would need is a video card with HDMI audio support.
While one Anandtech reviewer recently referred to HP as a slow moving company, compared with Lenovo, as stated in this article, they do come up with enterprise hardware using the latest technology fairly quickly.
In our organization we migrated to Windows Vista about 3 years ago and are about to move to Windows 7 next year. The hardware we received at the time was reasonable but already more than a year old in terms of when the chip hardware was released by Intel. I have a Lenovo S10 workstation that takes 90-120 seconds to boot up when you factor in all the corporate crap and is not noticeably faster than their standard desktop. They are proposing to replace this NEXT YEAR with the "BRAND NEW" S20 which can be found in reviews dating back to August 2009 (PCMag).
Thanks for the article (haven't read it all, yet), but I wanted to ask you if you can also post the measurements of the case in the metric system (mm or cm) for your international viewers. Anandtech sometimes has both, sometimes just the metric one and sometimes just the imperial one.
Thanks for the article! Tho I like to build my own gaming pc for home, at work we're considering workstations like this because of service, warranty, etc. I'm stunned by the OpenGL performance of the Quadro 600 card, didn't think there was such a gap compared to GTX580-class GFX.
CS5 benchmarks are all well and good, but I would reckon if you're in the market for one of these then you're in either engineering (ie, CAD or similar) or development, and the benchmarks covered neither.


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Jack, I'm appalled at your response. This study finds a solid foundation between high doses of B12 and 6 and lung cancer and not just among smokers. Almost all B12 supplements are mega doses.
is it the kind of b12 used in this studies cyanocobalamin? there is less risk for methylcobalamin and other b12 (bacause of cyanide)? i'm currently using 1000mcg of methylcobalamin a day (since i read in veganheatlh.org that 1000mcg is the ideal dose for methylcobalamin, cyanocobalamin just gave a lot of acne).
Why in the study link they concluded one thing (there is risk for all men), and the author replied you another conclusion (that the risk is only among smoking men)?
The article didn't state, but since almost all B12 supplements are cyanocobalamin, it's a safe bet that's what most of them were in this study.
> Why in the study link they concluded one thing (there is risk for all men), and the author replied you another conclusion (that the risk is only among smoking men)?
> There were too few patients among never smokers to evaluate associations. For vitamin B6 and B12, the HRs con- trasting the highest to the lowest categories of 10-year use were considerably stronger among current smokers versus recent or former smokers.
So it might be safer to say that there's no reason to assume this finding would be true in never smoking men.
Does this finding pertain only to tobacco smokers? Would it have implications for someone taking b-12, who also smokes cannabis for chronic pain?
Thanks for all your work. Take care.
I personally don't think there's an effect here caused by vitamin B12—I think this study is most likely a statistical anamoly. That said, I don't feel confident about that and so caution may be warranted. I would have no idea if it translates to cannabis. It might be most prudent to stick with small amounts of B12 in your case.
The confusing part of this for many is the conflating of the various vitamin B12 molecules, most of which are available in supplement form. What is at issue is not B12 (cobalamin) supplementation, but supplementation with cyanocobalamin.
Cobalamin is naturally in various forms in the body, bound to other different molecules. Without a attached subunit, it is susceptible to degradation and not really usable. Without getting into the big scope of vitamin B12 metabolism, suffice it to say that the two primary forms of B12/cobalamin in the body are: methylcobalamin and 5-deoxyadenosylcobalamin (aka adenosylcobalamin). Methylcobalamin is used in methyl group metabolism, including DNA synthesis, and adenosylcobalamin is used in the mitochondria as a co-factor in helping odd-chain fatty acids, some amino acids and cholesterol get metabolized into energy (into the Krebs cycle).
There is one other form, hydroxocobalamin that is naturally made by bacteria (although synthesized commercially) , and which the body easily converts into methylcobalamin. So, what's with the primary supplemented form (in the USA), cyanocobalamin? It is cobalamin, with a cyanide molecule cap on it. Cobalamin has a really strong affinity for hydrogen cyanide, to the point that hydroxocobalamin is a common treatment for cyanide poisoning (cyanide is a mitochondrial poison in high enough quantities).
Bottom line is that the body can deal with a small amount of cyanide easily (it is found in some foods in small amounts). And cyanocobalamin is stable in storage, compared to other forms. So, inexpensive production coupled with stability is why it is a common form in the USA. In the end, it will get converted to either adenosyl or methylcobalamin in the body and the cyanide will get shifted onto another molecular sink for excretion (but maybe methylcobalamin, ironically).
But when people smoke, the body is getting a non insignificant amount of hydrogen cyanide in the smoke (and in answer to the question, cannabis smoke has been shown to have even higher levels of hydrogen cyanide [as much as 6x more] as compared to tobacco smoke). As a primary detox sink for cyanide is the cobalamin group in the body, the question is raised whether taking cyanocobalamin allows the body to deal with the excess cyanide or not. Logically, it would seem that your body needs cobalamin that is not cyanide bound to fulfil that role, so, especially for smokers (of any kind) it may be important that you take a form of B-12 that is not cyanocobalamin. (There are products on the market with methylcobalamin, adenosylcobalamin and hydroxocobalamin, either individually or in combination. – although they are more expensive than cyano versions).
By the way, here is a link to a good breakdown regarding tobacco vs cannibis smoke content. So much focus has been on the intoxicating affect of cannabis smoking, that the toxic potential of cannabis smoke content to the lungs and body has not been as much on the table. While it lacks meaningful amounts of nicotine, as with tobacco, there are still issues with tar, but also way higher levels of things like nitric oxide, ammonia and hydrogen cyanide.
So B12 causing lung cancer due to the cyanide molecule doesn't seem plausible.


An update on this commissioned drawing here. I started step-by-stepping it a little while back (you can see the first stage in this post) but due to some urgent deadlines it has progressed very slowly.
On a personal level this really is one of the most important drawings I've ever made. Probably THE most important. The commissioner (is that even a word?) gave me free reign over everything - subject, size, materials.
Whilst that's the best kind of commission it does present you with a different kind of pressure from working to a brief. But, it also shows an amount of trust that touches me deeply. This image just came into my head as I drove home the day it was commissioned. I have no idea where from. And, I LOVE that.
I've not only been step-by-stepping it here, but also with the person who I am painting it for. I take it to show him at various stages and we talk about it and what it means to both of us. He said it reminded him of Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott (which again touches me no end). Not only do I love that poem but my all time favourite painting is Waterhouse's version - SEE.
When this image popped into my head it came fully formed. I knew exactly how I wanted it to look. I wanted to create a piece of work that paid the same kind of attention to detail that the Pre Raphaelite's would have. It's a big piece too; over A2 in size. Which is why it's difficult for me to share with you - excuse the rubbish photographs.
The deadline for this piece is the 17th of September, when it needs to be finished and framed. So, basically what I'm looking at is two weeks, whilst working the day job and other illustration jobs, to create my Pre Raphaelite masterpiece.
No, need really. I'll say it to myself; good luck with that!
There is plenty of time. As much time as you are willing to make.
Very nice sketch, thanks for sharing.
I love that poem & painting too which introduced me at a very young age to Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelite painters, still firm favourites.
All I have to say to you now is - sleep is for wimps and jolly good luck getting it all done. I'm sure you will!
Em, yes, BIG Pre raphaelite fan. Oh, and don't mention #september! It's not going so well.
Cheers, everyone. More updates soon. I hope!
SO beautiful...can't wait to see the finished piece!
I love the subtle color, Andrea!


Fancy fully furnished flat for rent in a spectacular location in sanabis. The apartment consists of one bedroom, one bathroom, a fully equipped kitchen and spacious living room with dining table.
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Do you still remember that Airtel is the only telecommunication provider in Nigeria that made it possible for her customers to recharge with as low as #50? Well here is another new one From Airtel Internet; 4MB internet plan. Pretty small though.


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Are Tories ignoring carbon tax rebate? Likely no change in Israeli leadership after election
By Wendy Gray
Wednesday, Apr. 10th, 2019
Liberals say Conservatives are ignoring carbon-tax rebate
The Liberals are on the attack against pamphlets the Conservatives are handing out. It's called "2018 Tax Guide; Claim everything you qualify for." But, the Liberals say missing from the long list of credits is the carbon tax rebate that applies in four provinces. The Tories openly oppose the carbon tax saying it will do nothing to reduce emissions.
Netanyahu set to win historic fifth-term
Exit polls are pointing to a historic fifth term in office for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. The win could help him fight back against criminal charges for corruption but experts say it will do little to ease the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Class action lawsuit filed against Boeing
There are more legal woes for Boeing. A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed by shareholders accusing the company of securities violations for hiding safety concerns in the 737 MAX planes. Boeing's market value dove by 34-billion dollars just two weeks after the Ethiopian Airlines crash.
Scientists to announce "ground breaking result"
Scientists may reveal the first ever picture of a black hole today. The Event Horizon Telescope Project has been trying for seven years to capture an image of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy. If they have been successful it could put to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.


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Although heart disease still has the largest number of fatalities in the modern world, cancer is probably one of the most feared diseases. Treatments have improved dramatically over recent years, and the numbers of people surviving cancer for longer are increasing, but the treatments take their toll and unpleasant side effects and stress are common.
Yoga can help people with cancer in a number of ways.
Whilst cancer can leave people feeling too weak to attempt any vigorous exercise, yoga can be adapted to meet almost anyone's needs.
• Restorative poses can help relax and energise the body and require almost no physical effort.
• Therapeutic yoga helps you really listen to the body and teaches the movements at various levels so everyone can benefit.
• Relaxation, breathing exercises and meditation can help with pain.
• The yoga philosophy can be really useful for people with cancer; encouraging as it does, the individual to listen to the messages from your body (physical and emotional) and adjust how you manage your practice to suit.
Whilst there are no scientific studies on whether yoga can improve the survival rate for people with cancer, there are a growing number of studies which show it does have some benefits for those who practise regularly.
Benefits can include less anxiety, depression, confusion, anger, fatigue diarrhoea and emotional irritability. Some find their pain lessens.
The key to yoga for anyone with cancer is to go gently, and to teach a routine which can easily be continued at home for maximum benefit.
Therapeutic classes focus on helping you tune in to your body. You learn a number of movements taught at various levels - so no matter where you're at in terms of your ability, you will be able to execute the movement and benefit from it. We'll teach you how to use simple props to help you with the movements and you'll learn how to breathe in a way which can revitalise and calm the mind.
Learn more about the yoga for cancer programme below.
Please note: This therapeutic programme will not begin until the second half of 2015. If you are interested please contact us.
An individual assessment of your current flexibility, strength and any health issues.
Ideally, join a "kick-start" programme first.
You'll learn enough in these 10 sessions to be able to continue on your own at home if you want to.
You don't have to attend specific dates - but you do have to attend 10 sessions over a 16 week period. This is to help you really get used to the new exercises, to set your personal health goals, establish your own personal routine and begin to encourage new habits which will stick.
After your 10 sessions you can continue either as a drop in, or choose one of the discounted regular user options.
Specialised classes for supporting cancer patients do not begin until later in 2015.
Contact us if you are interested in joining these classes and we'll ensure you are the first to know when they begin!


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How To Develop A Self-Transforming Mind
We usually associate mental strength with having a solid and immovable character but paradoxically one of the key features of a mentally tough person's mindset is their adaptability to change. They don't possess the mental obstacles surrounding uncertainty or unpredictability, which enables them to mentally deal with new situations and circumstances more quickly positively and effectively than others. This flexibility is especially important when considering the rapidly changing nature of the workplace.
Dealing with unpredictability requires what one Harvard psychologist has called a "self-transforming mind" and Alexander explores this concept further in this article reproduced from Fast Company magazine
In the 1930s, long before machine learning was anything more than a figment of popular sci-fi imagination, the Swiss clinical psychologist Jean Piaget identified four universal stages of cognitive development.
His work suggested that adolescents reached a final, "formal operations" stage, in which they remained throughout adulthood. This includes the ability to think through things in the abstract and draw conclusions, without the need for direct, physical experience.
Today, thanks to breakthroughs in brain science, we know a lot more about cognitive development than Piaget did. Research on brain plasticity in particular has shown that we don't reach some kind of plateau, and that's the end of that. We're capable of so much more.
This should come as good news to any adult who has to face the messy ethical and moral choices that adult life inevitably presents us with, especially today. As machine learning and other forms of workplace automation gain ground, technical competence alone doesn't cut it. To stay competitive, we need to get comfortable making difficult, complicated, higher-order decisions more regularly—until we've achieved what Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan refers to as "immunity to change."
Sound daunting? Hopeless, even? Don't fret. It isn't about turning yourself into a superhuman or somehow making yourself "smarter." It simply means tapping into the potential that your mind is already hardwired to possess.
Here's how;
Meet your self-transforming mind
In his 2009 book, Immunity to Change : How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization, co-authored with Lisa Laskow Lahey Kegan makes no bones about the difficulty of the challenge. Successfully navigating a world of inherent unpredictability, he says, demands catapulting ourselves into higher levels of thinking. But they sketch out a cognitive path to help get us there.
At level three of what is essentially a five-part hierarchy, we operate according to our "socialized mind," where ideas and beliefs are shaped by our "tribes" (i.e., our politics are regurgitated from our chosen news sources and our purchases mirror our friends' and social circles' purchases). One level higher (level four) is the "self-authoring" mind-set, and above that (level five) is the "self-transforming" mind.
Kegan and Laskow Lahey don't see these echelons as inevitable—some folks, they believe, bottom out at one or another, making people who've achieved the more rarified mind-sets, well, rarer.
The tricky part, though, is that Kegan and Laskow Haley believe the world we're living in demands more people operating at those higher levels. Their "self-transforming mind" isn't just some sort of mystical techno-speak. It recalls F. Scott Fitzgerald's (a contemporary of Piaget's—the two were born six weeks apart) "test of a first-rate intelligence," which he defined as the "ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."
Kegan and Laskow Lahey intended Immunity to Change as a wide-ranging, 340-page user manual to the modern mind—a tool to help readers uncover their "hidden competing commitments" and big, but usually erroneous, assumptions. But there may be some other, more straightforward brain hacks to train your mind so you're less blindsided by future events.
Psychiatrist and futurist Charles M Johnson has developed a concept he calls "cultural maturity," based on some four decades of research. To help clients achieve cognitive upgrades, Johnston offers an exercise that goes something like this. Start by seating yourself in a chair and articulate a specific challenge that you feel uncertain how to solve–maybe you're worried that your job will be automated, for instance, and don't know whether to make a career move. Then ask yourself who else is in the room and set out a chair for each of them, which may include the angry part of you, the fearful part, or even the part that's excited by possibilities for change.
You then move to another chair to give the "angry" perspective an opportunity to express itself, then the fearful part, and so on. It may feel silly at first, but take your time. As you focus on your challenge from these different angles, you don't just illuminate potential courses for action and give an outlet to your mixed emotions—you also reorient your brain.
"I'm always amazed by the incredibly creative information and ideas that come out of such conversations," says Johnston. "By addressing conflicting internal perspectives this way, complex cognitive changes begin to happen." This one-person game of musical chairs that you're enacting in physical space is similar to the one you're training your mind to undertake when it faces complex challenges.
A little goes a long way
CEO of Human Synergistics Rob Cooke cautions against dismissing exercises like this as ineffective. He finds that when people change things up in small ways, they begin to develop more constructive styles to problem solving—roughly akin to Kegan's and Laskow Lahey's levels four and five—and move toward what psychologists call an internal " locus of control", a belief that they can influence and impact the future rather than be swept along by it. "People with constructive styles take self-development seriously," says Cooke. "They'll deliberately seek out and assemble an unconventional mix of people to help them question assumptions, take small risks, and try new approaches."
According to one recent analysis, level five thinking is currently limited to just 8% of the population—good news for those who want to differentiate themselves and remain marketable in an uncertain future, but not so great for society at large. According to Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, who in a recent investors meeting ,sounded only too willing to replace workers with machines, it'll be just 40 years before "artificial intelligence will exceed the wisdom of human beings."
That's highly disputable, given how multifaceted "wisdom" is, but even if it's much longer before machines "think wisely," it's worth considering that not many humans currently do. The good news is that your brain can be rewired, and leveling up just a little could put you considerably ahead of the pack.
For more on how to develop self-transforming mind and building mental toughness contact us.


Global foodservice provider Sysco has announced the addition of John M. Hinshaw to the company's Board of Directors. Hinshaw brings decades of experience in various senior tech and information roles to his new position on Sysco's Board.
The addition of the experienced tech exec will expand the company's Board to 14 members. According to a company press release, Hinshaw will stand for reelection later this year at Sysco's Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Nov. 16, 2018.
Hinshaw most recently served as the Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations (from November 2011 to October 2016), and Chief Customer Officer of Hewlett Packard Enterprises (from November 2015 until his retirement in October 2016).
Before joining Hewlett Packard, Hinshaw served as Chief Information Officer (from 2007 to 2010) and Vice President and General Manager (from 2010 to 2011) for The Boeing Company. Hinshaw also spent 14 years at Verizon Communications where he served in various senior executive capacities, including Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Verizon Wireless, overseeing the IT function of the wireless carrier.
Hinshaw also serves on a number of Executive Boards, including The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, DocuSign, and NAF.
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Episode 277 – A mixed bag of politics
Episode 279 – Murder in the Arctic with Lawrence Millman
Episode 278 – Don't ignore secular voters
Gary Mitchell is back and we talk about Trump's attacks on the press, impressive voter numbers, Mississippi senator's public hanging joke, Ohio's heartbeat bill, a public school teacher making her students memorize Bible verses, an atheist winning lawsuit over being thrown out of a city council meeting, and more!
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Judge orders White House to return Jim Acosta's press pass
http://bit.ly/an278-acosta
The case CNN v. Trump was filed after CNN's Jim Acosta was ejected from the White House Briefing Room and his press pass was revoked for asking the President questions the day after the midterm elections. The Trump administration also doctored a video of the exchange to make it look like he reacted violently.
The judge in the case has issued a temporary restraining order that required that Acosta's press pass be reinstated. Trump's response in an interview on Fox News was:
"It's not a big deal. What they said, though, is that we have to create rules and regulations for conduct, etcetera. We're going to write them up. It's not a big deal. If he misbehaves, we'll throw him out or we'll stop the news conference."
Turkey says any US attempt to 'barter' cleric Gulen to hush the Khashoggi investigation wouldn't work
http://bit.ly/an278-turkey
On October 2 a Saudi national with residency in the US who was working for the Washington Post was summoned to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul where he was executed, dismembered, and removed from the consulate. Khashoggi was an enemy of the Saudi royal family and the Trump family and was allegedly on an enemy list that Jared Kushner gave to Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman several months back.
Now it is alleged, including by the Turkish government, that the Trump administration is offering to extradite a Turkish cleric living the US as a bribe to get them to call off their investigation of Khashoggi's murder. Turkey is not willing to take Trump's bait.
Secular voters are a growing part of the electorate
http://bit.ly/an278-voters
With the recent midterms there are some interesting trends that politicians should take note of.
* Protestants were not a majority of the electorate for the first time in history.
* White evangelicals continue to decline in their share of the electorate.
* People who identify with no religion have risen to 17% of voters, a 55% increase over 2006's mere 11%.
* The number of openly nontheist or humanists in office across federal and state levels of government has tripled.
* There are seven new members headed to the House that are religiously unaffiliated.
* Kyrsten Sinema, who "ascribes to no religion" is headed to the Senate.
Mississippi governor defended lynching joke by calling abortion 'Black genocide'
http://bit.ly/an278-mississippi
Mississippi's Senate race is headed to a runoff and Sen Cindy Hyde-Smith, who is all but guaranteed to win getting some heat for joking about being in the front row if a supporter invited her to a public hanging. In other words if her black opponent was lynched, she'd be there.
Gov Phil Bryant came to her defense with a deflection. He said:
"Absolutely we have been sensitive to race relations in this state. Today, I talked about the genocide of over 20 million African American children. See, in my heart, I am confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted."
Heartbeat abortion bill passes in Ohio House
http://bit.ly/an278-ohio
Two years ago Ohio's governor aborted his state's heartbeat bill with a veto. It's back in the lame duck session and has passed the state House and is headed to the Ohio Senate. This bill would ban abortions once a heartbeat can be detected, which thanks to modern technology is six weeks into a pregnancy.
Kat Kerr orders East Coast winter storm to put out the California wildfires
http://bit.ly/an278-kerr
Public school teacher brags about forcing 1st graders to memorize Bible verses
http://bit.ly/an278-teacher
Susan Schobel is a 1st grade teacher at Brown Primary School, a public school in Smithville, TX who make the mistake of posting a video of her first grade class reciting Romans 12:9-10, complete with rehearsed hand gestures. Some parents of the students in her class saw this video, saved it before she deleted it, and shared it with the Friendly Atheist. Obviously the parents are outraged.
Schobel has gotten some kudos, to which she responded:
"Girl I'm a rule breaker!!! I decided if I get fired for teaching my children about Jesus then I'm getting fired for a great reason!!"
Wentzville settles with woman removed from meeting after disagreeing with mayor
http://bit.ly/an278-wintzville
In episode 247, back in April, we talked about Sally Hunt suing over getting forcibly ejected by the Mayor\ from a town Board of Aldermen meeting in Wentzville, MO because she criticized the "In God We Trust" sign in the chambers.
The town is settling the case. They will pay her legal fees, put policies in place that will make it clear that the public can't be censored for their beliefs, pass and read a resolution affirming their commitment to the 1st Amendment and acknowledging that members of all religious traditions are welcome to participate in government. Finally, they will be training the town's police officers in what rights citizens have in meetings and how they are not to interfere unless a crime has taken place, not just because the Mayor wants someone silenced.
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