Ham hocks (pork shanks) are an inexpensive cut of meat. They can be turned into something delicious by first hot smoking them and then cooking them sous-vide. This is a technique I've used before on ham of lamb and brisket, and I wanted to try it on a ham hock. It was absolutely delicious. A light smoky flavor, tender and juicy. Many recipes call for brining the ham hock first, but there does not seem to be a reason to do this for this preparation. The sous-vide cooking allows the smoky flavors to penetrate all the way to the core of the meat and will turn the meat completely tender without drying it out.
In Germany ham hocks are called Eisbein and are served with sauerkraut (Sauerkraut mit Eisbein). I served my smoked ham hock with a sauerkraut and potato mash, and some homemade spicy ketchup. I had picked up some mesquite wood chips to try them for hot smoking instead of my usual beech sawdust. I did not notice any difference (except for the price tag), so perhaps I should do a side-by-side some time to make sure.
Season the ham hock with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Put the smoking chips in a stovetop smoker and heat up until smoke starts to appear.
Cover the smoking dust with a dripping tray and arrange the ham hock on a rack.
Close the stovetop smoker and smoke for 15 minutes.
The ham hock will already look and smell great, but it will still be completely raw inside.
Cook sous-vide for 72 hours (!) at 57ºC/135ºF. An interesting phenomenon is that although the pouches used for sous-vide cooking are airtight and waterproof, some of the smoke can somehow 'leak' through into the sous-vide cooker. This is not a problem, as long as you do not cook something else alongside it (I tried and rather than a nice smoky flavor it will impart a bitter taste — apparently if the smoke can escape from the pouch with the smoked meat, it can also enter another pouch) and if you discard the smoky water afterwards.
Serve with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut as well as some ketchup, preferably spicy and of course homemade.
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I have always just used ham hocks to season meat, I never knew that you could actually make a meal out of them. Thanks for sharing.
There is quite a lot of bone and rind, but also a lot of nice succulent meat.
Lovely almost caramelized look to the hock!
Thanks, John. We didn't actually eat the smoked rind, but perhaps we should have.
This is a real winter warmer. Lovely smoking. That gives me an idea….
Great recipe! Thanks for sharing. The "leaking" of the vaccum pouches works the other way round, too. Some days ago, I cooked potatoes sous vide. I used a large and heavy Le Creuset pot for this purpose, since I needed my sous vide machine for a piece of lamb. I often use the Le Creuset pot for smoking. Even after days you can still smell the lovely flavor. To my surprise, the smoky flavor leaked through the vaccum bag and into the potatoes. Not exactly what I wanted, but funny anyhow.
Hi Mike, thanks for your message. I've had a similar experience and even ruined a dish that way as the smoke from one pouch leaked out of it into the sous-vide water and then into another pouch that was not supposed to be smoked. It actually turned out bitter.
Just came across this recipe today, and it sounds great. I was wondering if you ever tried to glaze and crisp the hock after the sous vide? I think glaze with a little soy and something sweet could be good?
I think my family would like the meat a little more cooked, so I am thinking of 60-62C, but maybe it would then be OK to sous vide for 48 hours only?
Hi Leif, I haven't tried glazing and crisping it yet. The combination of crisping (which would require high heat) and sugar may easily lead to burning.
According to me it would be a shame to cook it hotter 😉 48 hours would certainly be enough if you cook it as high as 60 or 62. You could also go a lot higher and get more of a traditional/stewed texture.
Thank you for replying, I will try cooking at 60 and maybe crisp the rind separately.
My attempt at crisping this was a failure. After I cooled the hock, I refrigerated it for a day, then rubbed the skin with salt and a bit of baking soda to dry it out further and encourage the Maillard reaction. I dried it in the refrigerator for two more days (I have one with no wet items in it). I think the sous vide cooking makes the skin too soft (and maybe too moist). Within minutes in the hot oven it dramatically split open! I turned it over and the other side did not crisp at all after 10 minutes. It was delicious anyway! It was like a very tender, moist smoked ham. I am making this again.
The low and slow sous-vide cooking will dissolve most of the connective tissue in the skin, so I'm not surprised that it would disintegrate or break. You could cook it separately like Leif mentioned. Good to hear it turned out delicious. Tender, moist, smoked ham is what I remember this to be like. I should make this again soon!
Yes, I think that removing the rind could work. I'd scrape the excess fat off of the underside and let it dry out at about 300F and then crisp it up at 425. I have two more cooking now, one Chinese style with five spice powder and soy and one with just salt and better. I will try crisping the latter. I do love my crispy pork skin!
I want to make Bavarian style schwienhaxe, does this recipe exemplify that?
To make Schweinhaxe you'd have to add cumin and aromatics to the sous-vide bag, and after sous-vide crisp up the skin in a hot oven.


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Approximately 15 to 20 young people aged 11 to 18 will participate. The result will be a 45-minute performance on the main square on 30.6.2019 in Landsberg, Germany, in which the participants will first get to know, experience, try out and practice acting skills, speaking, moving, improvising and the acrobatic ability of playing on stilts.
Afterward, the topos of the classic "hero's journey" will be taken up with the young people and new perspectives on migration in the sense of "hero's journeys" will be jointly developed for the staging. The "Theatre on Stilts" technique allows the performances to take place in the middle of the city and to experience self-empowerment as theatrical appropriation of the city. The title "rambler, wayfarer or walker" goes back to the "Wanderer-bicycle factories", whose founder Johann Winkelhofer belongs to the city history of Landsberg. The typewriter, bicycle, rover and Audi are connected to this and will play a "role" in the play.
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According to the EActíVate Barometer survey, 60% of firms will invest in digitalization in 2021
Ivie carries out an analysis of national economic indicators, along with a survey addressed to firms that participate in the EActíVate Barometer for Economic Recovery
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The first EActíVate Barometer offers information on 20 indicators organized according to five major areas: employability, productivity, reinventing oneself (digital transformation), sustainability and infrastructure. According to the data collected in the report, despite the crisis, jobs were created in 14 of the 88 sectors of the Spanish economy during 2020, namely, those related to ICT, ecommerce, agriculture, food processing, retail and healthcare. Also, as reported by the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), Spain has made progress in digital performance, standing at 57.5 points, five points above the European Union average of 52.6 points. The year 2020 has been key in digital transformation and also the year in which many firms and workers adapted to teleworking, which was implemented by almost half of businesses (48.8%) during the state of emergency, compared to 14.8% before the pandemic.
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Q: oracle adf view criteria realted I am creating a VO based on an sql query(list employees for a given deptid joining the dept and employee tables) which returns multi records for a given dept.
And I am creating a web service based on this VO using AM service interface .
I cannot make the deptid attibute as key value as there are multi records for the dept.
If I don't make deptid a key attribute then I am not able to check the getVO checkbox during the web service creation using the
AM service interface creation  and this results in just a "find" parameter screen which shows so many parameter input fields.
How do I make the web service parameter screen just to take the deptid value as input to return the employee list please?

A: Can you try adding a view criteria to your VO and see if you can expose it in your SDO.
Also if you are on 12c check out the rowFinder new feature:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/documentation/1212-nf-1964675.html#12c%2812.1.2.0.0%29NewFeatures-ADFBusinessComponents
And you can always write a client service method that accepts a param and returns data and expose it in your web service.

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is a Japanese professional shogi player ranked 5-dan.

Early life
Kadokura was born in Toshima, Tokyo on June 3, 1987. He learned shogi when he was a third-grade elementary school student from an acquaintance who was a strong amateur player.

Kadokura entered the Japan Shogi Association's apprentice school as a student of shogi professional  at the rank of 5-kyū in 2000. He was promoted to 1-dan in 2003 and 3-dan in 2005. It took him eleven seasons of 3-dan League play before he obtained full professional status and the rank of 4-dan after tying for first place in the 48th 3-dan League (October 2010March 2011) in 2011 with a record of 13 wins and 5 losses.

Shogi professional
In August 2019, Kadokura defeated Junpei Ide to win the 4th . It was Kadokura's first tournament championship as a professional.

Promotion history
Kadokura's promotion history is as follows:

 6-kyū: September 2000
 3-dan: October 2005
 4-dan: April 1, 2011
 5-dan: November 17, 2016

References

External links
ShogiHub: Professional Player Info · Kadokura, Keita

Japanese shogi players
Living people
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York Waterfall Chart: Understanding Learning Disabilities – How Processing Affects Learning
Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Processing Affects Learning, developed by the York Region District School Board, is a comprehensive resource designed for educators working with students with learning disabilities, from kindergarten to grade 12. Referred to as the "waterfall chart", this resource provides the starting points to think, plan and support programming in response to a student's assessed areas of strength and/or need. The waterfall chart lists various processing areas, including: phonological processing, language, visual-motor skills, memory, processing speed, attention and executive function. Additionally, the waterfall chart provides a definition, possible signs, instructional strategies, environmental strategies, assessment strategies, and possible assistive technology for each of these processing areas. To support the implementation of this practical tool, the York Region District School Board developed a companion guide, which includes all of the information from the waterfall chart (in a sequentially flowing format), along with recommendations on how to use the chart and templates for students to assist in the understanding of their own strengths and needs.
Click here to view the Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Processing Affects Learning Chart.
Click here to view the Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Processing Affects Learning Waterfall Chart.
To better understand how to put the York Waterfall Chart to use in your school board, school, or classroom, Dr. Sue Ball of the York Region District School Board explains some of the reasoning for the creation of the chart, and some of the ways it has been used in York Region in the video below:
Click here to access a copy of the transcript for this video.
This resource has been developed and produced by the York Region District School Board. Rights to the internal and external sale, reproduction and use of this resource belong solely to the York Region District School Board. Copyright for this resource belong to the York Region District School Board and therefore the materials are not to be scanned, stored, digitally transmitted, duplicated or altered in form or content unless permission is received in writing from the York Region District School Board. Further, this material is not to be reproduced for external use or sale without separate written approval from the York Region District School Board.
If you would like printed copies of Understanding Learning Disabilities: How Processing Affects Mathematics Learning, please contact the York Region District School Board directly.
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What Hickman Charter events took place this month? Art Workshops, 8th Grade Speech Day, History Activity Groups, Seasonal Music programs, Technology events, and so much more! Look for additional pictures in various Facebook albums!
A sampling or our Children's Chorus Honor Choir opening for Tuesday's (12/10/13) winter performance! Outstanding!
HCS students take part in the Hour of Code. Thanks to Tyler Benziger of Adobe Systems for spending the day teaching our kids. Thank you Mrs. Brodie for setting this up for our students.
Many of our students are enjoying an art workshop today, painting a beautiful winter scene!
Today our guitar students crowded into the Charter Office, bringing with them songs of the season! Staff, parents and siblings enjoyed both instrumental and sing-along music.
Extra Towels and Blankets? Clear clutter & put your old towels & blankets to good use by donating them to local animal shelters. During the month of January, please bring any used towels, blankets, collars, leashes, and toys, etc. to the Annex, HCS Library, or the McHenry Resource Center. There will be large yellow boxes where you can place your donations. Items will be given to local animal shelters. Thank you!
Our staff is spending time this year studying and learning about the Common Core State Standards. When implemented, they will bring about changes in the way students will be learning in the years ahead. A recent local newspaper article provided a glimpse of how teachers and students view the changes, showing what is taking place with math instruction right here in our area. Click here to view the article!


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Charity Puts Veterans On The Street To Ask For Money
The spirit of charity was in front of Publix on Friday. Before they went into the grocery store or after...
By Gary Pinnell, Highlands Today, Sebring, Fla. August 28, 2016
The spirit of charity was in front of Publix on Friday. Before they went into the grocery store or after they left, customer after customer pitched a dollar or two in a gallon bucket marked, "Please Help." At 3:30 p.m., the bucket was 75 percent full.
One lady spoke to the young man in a tan khaki T-shirt and green khaki pants behind the table before pulling all the coins from her blouse pocket. Muscular, with a high-and-tight haircut, he looked ex-military. Except for the black tennis shoes.
One donor was a corrections officer in uniform, wearing the same green pants. The corrections officer got into a Ford pickup truck with a U.S. Marines emblem on the Florida tag.
Most read the big sign on the flag-decorated card table: "Veterans Support Organization." What they should have read was the small type on his flag-decorated name tag: "NOT A VETERAN."
"They just start giving their money out," said Gene Brown, first vice commander the American Legion Post in Sebring. "I'm proud of Highlands County for doing that, but it's not going to be used here."
That's despite what the sign said: "Money raised helps local veterans." The man wouldn't give his name, but he said higher-ups at the VSO would choose a local charity later.
How much will go to Highlands County? He couldn't say, but page after page in the notebook on the table described the VSO or copied news reports or letters from the attorney general. One says 78 percent goes to the VSO itself.
"Are you a veteran?" Denise Williams demanded to know Friday.
"I never said I was," the man said, and then he pointed out his name tag.
"I've been in combat. Twice," said Williams, an Army sergeant who has served two Middle East tours. "Where is your organization from?" She is the official veterans service officer for Highlands County.
According to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, VSO is a Rhode Island non-profit with its principal place of business at 4245 SW High Meadows Ave., Palm City.
Two Publix managers came outside. Unaware of who the man was and who Williams was, they assured her that VSO had cleared the man to be there and set up a table on Friday and Saturday.
WPTV, the NBC channel 5 in West Palm Beach, reported on July 2, 2015 that Richard VanHouten admitted while some of the money VSO collects goes to veteran grants, most of the millions pay for his own veteran's work program, which puts veterans on the streets to collect money for his charity.
"Why give the work to other professional for-profit companies?" he told the TV station. "Give it to the local veteran…"
Charitywatch.org didn't buy that. "What are you doing to help veterans, putting them on the streets to beg?" asked Daniel Borochoff.
Others say VSO does good. A May 2012 post on courtantblogs.com said, "Richard Bittleman, my dad … worked for VSO as a substance abuse relapse prevention specialist for about 14 months. While at VSO, he and Ms. Giron build a 8,500 sq. ft. center in NY and were running programs there that changed the lives of homeless veterans. One veteran even was about to kill himself when he got a call from America Works sending him to VSO. He told his story at the grand opening and everyone was in tears. It was filmed."
Williams pointed Friday to the sign on the card table at Publix. "We want to know if the money will go to help local veterans, that's what we want to know."
A Google search turned up dozens of stories about VSO.
On Dec. 17, 2012, the Associated Press reported VSO, "a charity already under scrutiny for how it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Tennessee, handed out only a fraction of the money in the form of gift cards, and threatened to fire workers if they didn't meet fundraising quotas."
On Feb. 28, 2014, FOX 4 tracked "the VSO across the country and found South Carolina kicked out the charity, Connecticut suspended the VSO after members of Congress complained to the Federal Trade Commission … Florida slapped the company with a fine for hiring felons and misleading the public, and North Carolina is now investigating."
In Florida, Attorney General Pam Bondi has an online file: "Beginning at least November 2005 through the (Aug. 11, 2015), respondents have engaged in the business of soliciting donations from consumers in Florida and elsewhere in order to provide financial support and work programs for financially distressed and/or homeless veterans."
The attorney general "has investigated allegations that, when promoting its organization and soliciting donations from the general public, respondents have misrepresented the amount and type of financial and non-monetary support that it provides to veterans. Respondents deny these allegations."
Charity Navigator, an impartial evaluator of publicly reported financial information, listed several reputable charitable organizations, included the Honor Flight Network, the Wounded Warrior Project and Disabled American Veterans.
"Seventy-eight percent," Brown repeated in a telephone conversation Saturday morning. That's how much will go to VSO. He and two other members of local veterans organizations planned to meet at Publix on Saturday morning. "We're going to see what this guy is all about. We're going to be dressed up in uniform."
But the man and the card table were gone.
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The Value of Pleasure
Edited by Ben Bramble (University of Liverpool)
Aesthetic Pleasure (29)
Hedonist Accounts of Well-Being (31)
Pleasure and Desire (25)
Pleasure and Pain (34)
Pleasure, Misc (8)
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Suffering Pains.Olivier Massin - forthcoming - In Jennifer Corns & Michael S. Brady David Bain (ed.), Philosophy of Suffering. London: Routledge.details
The paper aims at clarifying the distinctions and relations between pain and suffering. Three negative theses are defended: 1. Pain and suffering are not identical. 2. Pain is not a species of suffering, nor is suffering a species of pain, nor are pain and suffering of a common (proximate) genus. 3. Suffering cannot be defined as the perception of a pain's badness, nor can pain be defined as a suffered bodily sensation. Three positive theses are endorsed: 4. Pain and suffering (...) are categorically distinct: pain is a localised bodily episode, suffering is a non-localised affective attitude. 5. Suffering can be expressed, pains cannot. As a consequence, we can have compassion for the suffering of others, not for their pains. 6. The relation between pain and suffering is akin to the relation between danger and fear, injustice and indignation, wrongdoing and guilt: suffering is the correct reaction to pain. One upshot is that both the influential view that the experience of pain is incorrigible and the influential view that the ordinary conception of pain is paradoxical are false. (shrink)
Art, Pleasure, Value: Reframing the Questions.Mohan Matthen - 2018 - Philosophic Exchange 47 (1).details
In this essay, I'll argue, first, that an art object's aesthetic value (or merit) depends not just on its intrinsic properties, but on the response it evokes from a consumer who shares the producer's cultural background. My question is: what is the role of culture in relation to this response? I offer a new account of aesthetic pleasure that answers this question. On this account, aesthetic pleasure is not just a "feeling" or "sensation" that results from engaging with a work (...) of art. It is rather a mental state that facilitates engagement with an artwork, and (in the long run) enables a consumer to learn how to maximize this kind of pleasure. This is where culture comes in. If you belong to a culture, you know how to engage pleasurably with an artwork that is produced so you can engage with it in just this way. The aesthetic value of an artwork is that it plays into such a culture-pleasure nexus. -/- . (shrink)
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments and Our Shared Hatred of Pain.Ben Bramble - 2017 - Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 12 (1):94-101.details
This article responds to an argument from Katarzyna de Ladari-Radek and Peter Singer in their article, "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason.".
Intersubjective Properties by Which We Specify Pain, Pleasure, and Other Kinds of Mental States.Irwin Goldstein - 2000 - Philosophy 75 (291):89-104.details
By what types of properties do we specify twinges, toothaches, and other kinds of mental states? Wittgenstein considers two methods. Procedure one, direct, private acquaintance: A person connects a word to the sensation it specifies through noticing what that sensation is like in his own experience. Procedure two, outward signs: A person pins his use of a word to outward, pre-verbal signs of the sensation. I identify and explain a third procedure and show we in fact specify many kinds of (...) mental states in this way. (shrink)
A New Defense of Hedonism About Well-Being.Ben Bramble - 2016 - Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 3.details
According to hedonism about well-being, lives can go well or poorly for us just in virtue of our ability to feel pleasure and pain. Hedonism has had many advocates historically, but has relatively few nowadays. This is mainly due to three highly influential objections to it: The Philosophy of Swine, The Experience Machine, and The Resonance Constraint. In this paper, I attempt to revive hedonism. I begin by giving a precise new definition of it. I then argue that the right (...) motivation for it is the 'experience requirement' (i.e., that something can benefit or harm a being only if it affects the phenomenology of her experiences in some way). Next, I argue that hedonists should accept a felt-quality theory of pleasure, rather than an attitude-based theory. Finally, I offer new responses to the three objections. Central to my responses are (i) a distinction between experiencing a pleasure (i.e., having some pleasurable phenomenology) and being aware of that pleasure, and (ii) an emphasis on diversity in one's pleasures. (shrink)
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The Pleasure of Art.Mohan Matthen - 2017 - Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (1):6-28.details
This paper presents a new account of aesthetic pleasure, according to which it is a distinct psychological structure marked by a characteristic self-reinforcing motivation. Pleasure figures in the appreciation of an object in two ways: In the short run, when we are in contact with particular artefacts on particular occasions, aesthetic pleasure motivates engagement and keeps it running smoothly—it may do this despite the fact that the object we engagement is aversive in some ways. Over longer periods, it plays a (...) critical role in shaping how we engage with objects to get this kind of pleasure from them. This account is yoked to a broadly functional understanding of art: it is not the nature of the object that makes it art, but the nature of the response that it is designed to elicit. The view does not, however, rest on individual psychology alone, as some other functional accounts do. Crucially, it is argued that shared cultural context is a key determinant of the pleasure we derive from aesthetic artefacts. The pleasure of art is always communal and communicative. (shrink)
The Case Against Meat.Ben Bramble - forthcoming - In Ben Bramble Bob Fischer (ed.), The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. Oxford University Press.details
There is a simple but powerful argument against the human practice of raising and killing animals for food (RKF for short). It goes like this: 1. RKF is extremely bad for animals. 2. RKF is only trivially good for human beings Therefore, 3. RKF should be stopped. While many consider this argument decisive, not everyone is convinced. There have been four main lines of objection to it. In this paper, I provide new responses to these four objections.
The Role of Pleasure in Well-Being.Ben Bramble - forthcoming - In Guy Fletcher (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Well-Being. Routledge.details
What is the role of pleasure in determining a person's well-being? I start by considering the nature of pleasure (i.e., what pleasure is). I then consider what factors, if any, can affect how much a given pleasure adds to a person's lifetime well-being other than its degree of pleasurableness (i.e., how pleasurable it is). Finally, I consider whether it is plausible that there is any other way to add to somebody's lifetime well-being than by giving him some pleasure or helping (...) him to avoid some pain. (shrink)
The Myth of the Super Pleasure Helmet.Bryan C. Rickertsen - 1976 - Journal of Thought 11 (3):240-244.details
WILLIAM DAVIS HAS MAINTAINED THAT A SUPER PLEASURE HELMET COULD IN PRINCIPLE SATISFY ALL HUMAN NEEDS, BUT THAT SUCH A MACHINE IS PROBABLY A PRACTICAL IMPOSSIBILITY. I ARGUE THAT THE SUPER PLEASURE HELMET IS CONCEPTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE BY ARGUING THAT A PERSON'S NEEDS CANNOT BE SATISFIED JUST BY BRINGING ABOUT CERTAIN PSYCHOLOGICAL STATES IN THAT PERSON.
Pain, Pleasure, and Unpleasure.David Bain & Michael Brady - 2014 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 5 (1):1-14.details
Compare your pain when immersing your hand in freezing water and your pleasure when you taste your favourite wine. The relationship seems obvious. Your pain experience is unpleasant, aversive, negative, and bad. Your experience of the wine is pleasant, attractive, positive, and good. Pain and pleasure are straightforwardly opposites. Or that, at any rate, can seem beyond doubt, and to leave little more to be said. But, in fact, it is not beyond doubt. And, true or false, it leaves a (...) good deal more to be said: about the nature of sensory affect; its relations to perception, motivation, and rationality; its value; and the mechanisms underlying it. Much is said about these matters in the contributions that follow. Here, in this introductory essay, we map the dialectical landscape and locate our contributors' papers within it. (shrink)
Malicious Pleasure Evaluated: Is Pleasure an Unconditional Good?Irwin Goldstein - 2003 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (1):24–31.details
Pleasure is one of the strongest candidates for an occurrence that might be good, in some respect, unconditionally. Malicious pleasure is one of the most often cited alleged counter-examples to pleasure's being an unconditional good. Correctly evaluating malicious pleasure is more complex than people realize. I defend pleasure's unconditionally good status from critics of malicious pleasure.
Pain for Objectivists: The Case of Matters of Mere Taste.David Sobel - 2005 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 8 (4):437 - 457.details
Can we adequately account for our reasons of mere taste without holding that our desires ground such reasons? Recently, Scanlon and Parfit have argued that we can, pointing to pleasure and pain as the grounds of such reasons. In this paper I take issue with each of their accounts. I conclude that we do not yet have a plausible rival to a desire-based understanding of the grounds of such reasons.
Utilitarianism.John Stuart Mill - 2009 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Oxford University Press.details
John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important, controversial, and suggestive works of moral philosophy ever written. Mill defends the view that all human action should produce the greatest happiness overall, and that happiness itself is to be understood as consisting in "higher" and "lower" pleasures. This volume uses the 1871 edition of the text, the last to be published in Mill's lifetime. The text is preceded by a comprehensive introduction assessing Mill's philosophy and the alternatives to utilitarianism, (...) and discussing some of the specific issues Mill raises in Utilitarianism. (shrink)
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Pleasure and Pain: Unconditional Intrinsic Values.Irwin Goldstein - 1989 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50 (December):255-276.details
That all pleasure is good and all pain bad in itself is an eternally true ethical principle. The common claim that some pleasure is not good, or some pain not bad, is mistaken. Strict particularism (ethical decisions must be made case by case; there are no sound universal normative principles) and relativism (all good and bad are relative to society) are among the ethical theories we may refute through an appeal to pleasure and pain. Daniel Dennett, Philippa Foot, R M (...) Hare, Gilbert Harman, Immanuel Kant, J. L. Mackie, and Jean-Paul Sartre are among the many philosophers addressed. (shrink)
Pain and Evil.Steven M. Duncan - manuscriptdetails
In this paper I defend the thesis that, considered simply as certain sorts of bodily sensations, pleasure is not the good nor is pain intrinsically evil. In fact, the opposite is largely the case: pursuit of pleasure is generally productive of ontic evil, and pain, when heeded, directs us toward the ontic good.
Whole-Life Welfarism.Ben Bramble - 2014 - American Philosophical Quarterly 51 (1):63-74.details
In this paper, I set out and defend a new theory of value, whole-life welfarism. According to this theory, something is good only if it makes somebody better off in some way in his life considered as a whole. By focusing on lifetime, rather than momentary, well-being, a welfarist can solve two of the most vexing puzzles in value theory, The Badness of Death and The Problem of Additive Aggregation.
On Pleasures.Olivier Massin - 2011 - Dissertation, Genevadetails
This thesis introduces and defends the Axiological Theory of Pleasure (ATP), according to which all pleasures are mental episodes which exemplify an hedonic value. According to the version of the ATP defended, hedonic goodness is not a primitive kind of value, but amounts to the final and personal value of mental episodes. Beside, it is argued that all mental episodes –and then all pleasures– are intentional. The definition of pleasures I arrived at is the following : -/- x is a (...) pleasure of a person P =df x is an intentional episode of P which is finally good for P. (shrink)
Hedonism.Chris Heathwood - 2013 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Wiley.details
An encyclopedia entry on hedonistic theories of value and welfare -- the view, roughly, that pleasure is the good.
The Asymmetrical Contributions of Pleasure and Pain to Animal Welfare.Adam J. Shriver - 2014 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 23 (2):152-162.details
Recent results from the neurosciences demonstrate that pleasure and pain are not two symmetrical poles of a single scale of experience but in fact two different types of experiences altogether, with dramatically different contributions to well-being. These differences between pleasure and pain and the general finding that "the bad is stronger than the good" have important implications for our treatment of nonhuman animals. In particular, whereas animal experimentation that causes suffering might be justified if it leads to the prevention of (...) more suffering, it can never by justified merely by leading to increased levels of happiness. (shrink)
The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism.Neil Sinhababu - manuscriptdetails
I defend hedonism about moral value by first presenting an argument for moral skepticism, and then showing that phenomenal introspection gives us a unique way to defeat the skeptical argument and establish pleasure's goodness.
Two Questions About Pleasure.Fred Feldman - 1988 - In D. F. Austin (ed.), Philosophical Analysis. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 59--81.details
In this paper, I present my solutions to two closely related questions about pleasure. One of these questions is fairly well known. The second question seems to me to be at least as interesting as the first, but it apparently hasn't interested quite so many philosophers.
Why People Prefer Pleasure to Pain.Irwin Goldstein - 1980 - Philosophy 55 (July):349-362.details
Against Hume and Epicurus I argue that our selection of pleasure, pain and other objects as our ultimate ends is guided by reason. There are two parts to the explanation of our attraction to pleasure, our aversion to pain, and our consequent preference of pleasure to pain: 1. Pleasure presents us with reason to seek it, pain presents us reason to avoid it, and 2. Being intelligent, human beings (and to a degree, many animals) are disposed to be guided by (...) reason, and hence by what there is reason to choose, seek, and prefer, when they act. (shrink)


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Draconia is on the brink of war with Nadasha, all in the name of the Priestess Princess, which is annoying little Asahi. Ruri decides she has to go talk to Asahi, regrettably, to maybe stave off a war that will get people killed. The talk doesn't go well - Asahi does some pretty impressive mental gymnastics to get out of seeing Ruri's points, so Ruri leaves, dejected. Meanwhile, her abrupt trip has sent the Dragon King into an absolute frenzy. He wants to go after Ruri, send search parties, appeal to the fairies - anything but run the kingdom. Ruri's return stops the kingdom-wide panic, and the Dragon King finally gets back to some of the paperwork that's been piling up. But soon, the news of war reaches them, and the Dragon Army must start preparing for what's to come.
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Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu are still reeling from their major battle that closed out Part One. The three try to adjust back to normal life, but the weight of what happened in Cefiro weighs heavy on them. The three meet up in Tokyo Tower again to try to come to terms with what has happened when suddenly, they are transported again! This time, the world they enter is in shambles. The ocean is gone, the sky is black, and the only thing they can see is a castle standing tall above a jagged, rocky island. The three are taken to the castle, where they reunite with what's left of the old cast, and they are told what grim fate has befallen Cefiro. They also discover that there are several invading forces from other worlds desperately clawing at Cefiro's borders, all vying for the chance to install themselves as a new ruler. Our Magic Knights pick up the mantle once again in defense of this once-beautiful world.
Illustrated by Hiroyuki Aigamo
Akira has retreated back to the labyrinth his class went to in volume one, determined to gain maximum levels in as much as he can. He's been in the labyrinth a month before he finds Amelia trapped inside a slime monster. She's an elven warrior who has come to the labyrinth for the same reason, and the two decide to team up to defeat the most challenging monsters at the end of the labyrinth. Back in the castle, Kyosuke, another classmate whose class is samurai, wakes to find himself in the princess's chamber, having just cut through six black crystals. He has no idea what he's doing or what the crystals are until the next day when hero Tsukasa announces he's going off to fight the demon king. The rest of the class ridicules him, all except six classmates, Kyosuke among them.
This has a really long, very Japanese title, but it's overall a fun story. Akira's entire class gets suddenly transported to another world where they are tasked with fighting the Demon King and saving the kingdom. Each pupil, upon entering the world, was given skills and a job class that best suited them. Tsukasa, the class president and star athlete, was obviously the hero, and he has to lead the charge against the Demon King. Akira, however, is an assassin, and his stats are much, much higher than Tsukasa's as the hero. Not everything is as it seems in this world, and Akira uses his max level [conceal presence] skill to find out what's really going on. He befriends the commander of the guard and trainer of the Class, and uncovers a plot that speaks of more sinister intentions than just fighting a Demon King.


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Start by downloading for your platform: [Mac](https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/mac), [Windows](https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/windows), or [Linux](https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/linux). Once you have Docker installed, simply create the various config.json files for your different accounts (e.g. `configs/config-account1.json`) and then create a Docker image for PokemonGo-Bot using the Dockerfile in this [repo](https://hub.docker.com/r/svlentink/pokemongo-bot/).

#Setup
##Automatic setup
Use this docker hub url: https://hub.docker.com/r/svlentink/pokemongo-bot/
```
docker pull svlentink/pokemongo-bot
```

##Manual setup
```
cd PokemonGo-Bot
docker build -t pokemongo-bot .
```

#Run

You can verify that the image was created with:
```
docker images
```
- In case of automatic setup, you'll see an image called: `svlentink/pokemongo-bot`
- In case of manual setup, you'll see an image called: `pokemongo-bot`

To run PokemonGo-Bot Docker image you've created, simple run:
```
docker run --name=pokego-bot1 --rm -it -v $(pwd)/configs/config-account1.json:/usr/src/app/configs/config.json -v $(pwd)/data:/usr/src/app/data pokemongo-bot
```

Replace `pokemongo-bot` with `svlentink/pokemongo-bot` in case you followed automatic setup.

_Check the logs in real-time `docker logs -f pgobot`_

If you want to run multiple accounts with the same Docker image, simply specify different config.json and names in the Docker run command.
Do not push your image to a registry with your config.json and account details in it!

Share web folder with host:
```
docker run -it -v $(pwd)/web/:/usr/src/app/web --rm --name=pgo-bot-acct1 pokemongo-bot --config config.json
```

TODO: Add configuration for running multiple Docker containers from the same image for every bot instance, and a single container for the web UI.


My grandmother was particular about her tea. She insisted that she drink her tea from a glass. I didn't realize until much later just how unusual this was, because we all drank our tea from a glass, at least, in our home. It had to be pipin' hot, so that when she poured scalding hot water from the kettle, she needed to have a spoon in it to prevent the glass from cracking, which it sometimes did anyway. When Aunt Lucy came over, the two sisters went through an elaborate ritual in preparing their tea and then, they'd talk for hours. Tea time was a time for conversation.
By the time I got to Toronto, where I lived for 11 years, attending elementary, junior, senior high school and then college, I learned that the ritual for drinking tea was even more elaborate than my grandmother observed. Now it involved fine china and a tea pot and loose tea in a tea ball.
One thing that was common to the ritual was that conversation was the central purpose of a good cup of tea. It was time to speak, but even more important, it was time to listen. It was in the exchange of ideas, convictions and knowledge that I discovered wisdom grew and I came to appreciate the sacred space that conversation provides. I also learned what it meant to "hot the pot".
Across the contininents and across the cultures a cup of tea symbolizes something precious in human relationships. It symbolizes peacemaking.
In 2007, Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin published "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Quest for Peace...One School at a Time". The book was on the New York Times best seller list for three years. The thesis of the book is that "religious extremism can be deterred by collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education." (Wikipedia article.) Mortenson faced daunting challenges in Pakistan and Afghanistan as he worked out the particulars of such a vision, including charges of fraud and hypocracy. As the old saying says "no good deed goes unpunished".
What I would like to explore with you today is the idea of "God's cup of tea".
We begin today with the first reading about a woman providing for her family. A man can also take his position in providing for the family and how we do that may be in traditional, reversed, or otherwise amended roles to suit the customs of cultural context. In fact, as we now know, two men or two women may also provide for their families or one another lovingly and wisely.
Whatever the specifics it is in the very being of our lives that we are called by the psalmist to "delight in the law of God and meditate on that law day and night". Whether it is in our family lives, in our friendships, at work or at school, it is critical that we take the time to know each other, listen to one another, and learn from one another. This is the beginning of wisdom.
The scripture places a high value on Wisdom. James tells us in today's lesson;; "Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom." Wisdom, I submit to you, is "God's cup of tea." Otherwise, as James continues, "if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts" then all kinds of conflict arises. Even in the Gospel for the day, the disciples were fussing about who would be the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. James concludes his thoughts with a sobering reminder that, these conflicts and disputes, unchecked long enough and intensely enough result in murder.
Really! Isn't that a bit overstated James? Not if you read the papers. Apparently a child's cries went unheard from those who were taken in by addiction. And the child's cries were silenced by violence. She is no longer "Baby Doe" she is, she was, God love her soul, "Bella", the beautiful, she who now lives in the everlasting arms; where now, all her tears are wiped away.
My friends; you and I are required by the law and love of God to practice of the presence of God. It is God's intention that we come together in peace and practice the art of wisdom, a wisdom we gain perhaps over a cup of tea, and within the context of much conversation. As James so equisitely expresses it; "The Wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocracy." And that, my friends, is God's cup of tea.
We are a nation where the art of conversation is rare. Our parliamentary process in Congress is such that strident conviction often short circuits communication. The logjam in a deadlocked Congress finds it root in the inability to cultivate something as fundamental to peacemaking as having a conversation. After all, the very word "parliament" means to have a place to talk. Having a place to talk, to listen, to learn, perhaps to have a cup of tea is missing in so many of our modern relationships. It is the missing ingredient at national, local, and even family and personal levels.
James says; "Resist the devil, and the devil will flee from you. Draw near to God, and God will draw near to you".
This is what our worship is for week by week. It is to celebrate the nearness of God to us. Here is where we come to recognize that the kingdom of heaven is near at hand, within us and among us.
We worship God not because God needs us to say how good God is. We worship God because deep within us God is encouraging us to be at peace within ourselves and with one another. The purpose of our praise is to listen to God deep within the soul. The scripture and the sacrament are the primary means by which God speaks to our hearts to remind us that God's kingdom is close, very close indeed.
Without such a closeness and such a praise, we will always succomb to conflict and dispute, indeed taken to extreme it results in violence, murder...indeed it results in warfare.
In 1898 Leo Tolstoy published a book called; "The Kingdom of God is within you". It was banned by the Russian Orthodox Church, because Tolstoy suggested that warfare itself was an affrontery to the Christian faith and the established church in Russia not only participated in warfare but in the oppression of the poor. Gandhi and Tolstoy communicated with one another and Martin Luther King followed in the tradition of non violent resistence. The idea of building God's kingdom within us this way has left a permanent mark in modern history in India and in the struggles for civil rights in the United States.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. At least that's what Jesus says in Luke 17:21. The kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is near. Again and again Jesus points to the presence of God within and among us.
Perhaps if we lower our voices and listen to one another over a cup of tea, for instance, wisdom will have a place to flower within us. Years ago I learned that to listen to another human being required a four step process. We called it the LAPS strategy.
Too often if we hear someone say something we disagree with we react first and think later. The LAPS stategy suggests we listen first, allow even if we profoundly disagree, probe a person's heart and soul to find out mre and then support them...find something in what they say to hear and agree to. Then and only then are we in a position to respond, and when we do we'll be in a better position to respond rather than react.
My grandmother, often said, when someone came through the door with a perplexity, a heartache or even a tone of anger; "Put the kettle on! Let's just sit down and have a cup of tea."
How I pray for God's cup of tea in our time. As we sip on a pipin' hot cup of tea may we discover the kingdom of heaven living within and among us.


In a study by Vacharkulksemsuk and associates, speed daters who used expansive body language like widespread limbs or a stretched torso. So there was this competition outside our school and he texted me if I was going. First if you are interested in the guy, get a friend who is taken and is clearly not interested in the guy yet is willing to make random conversation with the guy. Maybe when you last week, you told him about that time that a llama sneezed in your face when you were five. It can be scary to start up a conversation with your crush. Find out more about things they like, be it movies, shows or anything else. Lightly brush his arm when you're talking to him, for example.
What I needed when I finally got free and believe me I was in your friends shoes. It has to be quiet stratigically planed. And by sacrifice I mean. Wanna know how to tell if a guy likes you? I didn't see the signs. Even the most determined suitor gets turned off by that. So a trend started back then and carried through centuries and generations.
What is a good excuse to talk to hot girls I see during the day?
So if you want to tell if a guy likes you, pay attention to how he finds an opportunity to touch you or. This will help you stay calm. Maybe when he's having lunch or something you could sit down at a table near by and draw him. This means that unless the person texts you on their own volition, you should probably refrain from trying harder. Maybe he just wants the same shifts that you generally work. I clearly remember this freaking fine chick who was a few years older then me, very professional looking later found out she was at a very high position in her company , that just seemed to be taken off guard and was a little reserved, but still ended up giving me her number.
And besides you miss the hole point of talking to a girl if you can not look at her chest. Wrap up the conversation when it seems to have reached its natural end. More so if these trips happen to occur suspiciously during times when you ask him to hang out at family or other important social events. No, don't ask his friends if he likes you. I do this for my friends all the time, and vice versa.
And i often catch his eyes directed on me and dart right away. How do I know if he is busy or just not interested? You want him to introduce you to his mom. You can even compliment him on his self-restraint: Wow! Another answer Quite worrying about what to say. If they considered that person just a friend, they looked at feet or legs more. Was it any of these? Just think about what you do around a man that you like when you get nervous. If a conversation is slowing down, ask a question. Rehearse what to say if you're nervous.
They want to be seduced. I developed a huge crush on him n I told him. A man who is into you will find excuses to touch you. He always looks at me and his gf is also my friend. There are cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page.
Download Uber and never hail a cab again. There are an endless number of excuses to use. It is very important to try and figure out what the reasons are for waiting and do they outway the reasons for leaving? Or how to keep him interested. Buy yourself a new item of clothing or other treat. Like hes a shy overthinking guy. Stsres st my backside mainly.
Answer: Good Excuses are hard to come by. This article was co-authored by. Help me please, what am I gonna do. I played it cool and told him not to apologize. When they get close, gently bump shoulders to strike up a conversation. I already knew it wasn't a good relationship. Hey, you know, you cleaned that up really fast.


So the internet spoilers for the new issue of 52 should be hitting the net in a matter of hours...are you going to read them or wait till you get your hands on the issue?
I will definately read them today, and inviso-text re-post them on our site as well for others if they so want to read them.
I haven't purchased anything DC since about Countdown. Oh, I'll check out scans from time to time to keep updated in case anything actually interesting happens, but still.
I'm going to spoil myself on this. I know I won't be happy when I do.
The Spoilers have been posted in the 52 thread in the Q at DC comics section!!!!!
The panels start to inter twine between Lex and Charlie, so as to not make things confusing I will provide the storyline for Charlie/Question and then Lex. When you get the book you will see why.
So, has he or hasn't he?
His questions have been answered.


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A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association.
The researchers—Grant Ho, University of California, Berkeley; Aashish Sharma, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Mobin Javed, University of California, Berkeley; Vern Paxson, University of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute; and David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley—presented a paper, "Detecting Credential Spearphishing Attacks in Enterprise Settings," (.PDF) last week at the 26th USENIX Security Symposium, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
At the crux of the researchers' detection method is something they call an anomaly scoring technique for ranking alerts.
The technique, Directed Anomaly Scoring (DAS), operates in a non-parametric fashion, cherrypicking what Ho and company call the most suspicious events from an unlabeled dataset. The technique ranks events by how dubious they appear.
"Once all events have been ranked, DAS simply selects the N most suspicious (highest-ranked) events, where N is the security team's alert budget," the researchers write in the paper.
The researchers claim a standard detection method would take nine times as many alerts as theirs to detect the same number of attacks, and that in an experiment they carried out, it detected all but two attacks and even fingered out two previously unknown phishing attack vectors.
The researchers took an anonymized dataset containing 370 million emails from UC Berkeley's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to test the scoring algorithm. The facility, a Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science lab managed by University of California, didn't receive any malicious attachments during the four-year experiment but did receive a number of credential spearphishing attempts.
Credential spearphishing attacks are far less expensive and easier to pull off than attachment-driven exploits. The attacks usually rely on a tricking a user into clicking through a deceptive email to an attacker's site and entering credentials.
The technique detected six known spearphishing attacks that succeeded and nine that failed. What makes the detector truly remarkable is its false positive rate, 0.004 percent. The number of incoming emails to an enterprise can obviously fluctuate; the researchers say the median number of emails received per day is 263,086. At that false positive rate however the detector can generate 10 or fewer alerts per day 80 percent of the time, Ho and company claim.
The technique is quick too; the researchers say an analyst could investigate a month's worth of alerts in just 15 minutes. That breaks down to under a minute a day spent by an analyst going over one day's alerts.
"Ultimately, our detector's ability to identify both known and novel attacks, and the low volume and burden of alerts it imposes, suggests that our approach provides a practical path towards detecting credential spearphishing attacks," the researchers wrote.
LBNL was so impressed with the detector it decided to implement and deploy the tool fulltime.
Facebook, which believes the technique could help better protect people from getting hit by social engineering attacks, saw merit in the research as well.
Nektarios Leontiadis, a research scientist with the social network, said late last week the fact the research could help reduce information leaks in the future. Key to winning the prize money was the researchers' breakdown the method's false positives.
"The authors acknowledge and account for the cost of false positives in their detection methodology. This is significant because it factors into the overhead cost and response time for incident response teams," Leontiadis said Thursday.
Facebook, for four years running, has awarded the Internet Defense Prize to researchers for defensive work that prevents vulnerabilities and mitigates attacks.
In 2014 it awarded researchers who came up with a static analysis tool to identify second-order vulnerabilities. In 2015 researchers who identified a series of C++ security issues won the prize. Last year Facebook awarded $100,000 to researchers who came up with a new way to bolster post-quantum security for TLS. The research, which ultimately made its way into Chrome and Tor, was based on bridging the gap between a key exchange protocol (Ring-LWE) and OpenSSL.
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NEW MUSIC: Ron Isley "Dinner And A Movie"
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KG Smooth was born and raised in Dayton, OH, the birthplace of funk music. KG is a very multi-talented man. He can sing, dance, write, produce, vocal arrange, host and entertain. KG got his start in radio in the year 2000 in Cincinnati, OH at WIZF, 100.9 The Wiz, now 101.1 The Wiz, where he learned all he could and did the best at everything he did. He then moved on to Cleveland, OH, where he served as afternoon and midday host on heritage station 93.1 WZAK, where he was dubbed "a breath of fresh air" with his smooth delivery. After this time in Cleveland, KG then moved to Columbus, GA to do mid-days on WKZJ, K92.7, where he became a staple in the community. KG is now shaking up the airwaves in Houston! His mellifluous voice, charm, charisma and humility has already been recognized here in the city of Houston. You can listen to KG Smooth weekends on the Quiet Storm from 7-10 M-F.
Mr. Bigs is back!! Check out the new single from Ron Isley called "Dinner And A Movie" Take the poll and let us know what you think!
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