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US going through what's now known as a "mass formation" phenomenon
Posted by AlternateEarth on January 14, 2022 at 4:03pm in Alternative Media, World Events & News
Thursday, January 13, 2022 by: Mary Villareal
Tags: badhealth, badmedicine, big government, brainwashed, conspiracy, coronavirus, covid-19, deception, insanity, lies, mass formation psychosis, mass hypnosis, mental health, mind control, pandemic, Psychology, Robert Malone
(Natural News) The United States is currently suffering from a phenomenon called "mass formation," where social anxieties over a common threat lead to less-than-sober groupthink due to a strong community desire to combat the said threat. This can occur in any number of species, such as mega-flock behaviors in birds to ideological narrative acceptance in humans.
Around 62.3 percent of Americans have already been vaccinated, whether willingly or unwillingly, yet, President Joe Biden is still declaring the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) as the pandemic of the unvaccinated. Since the definition of "fully vaccinated" is about to change according to Dr. Anthony Fauci and Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the list of "unvaccinated" is about to expand.
The government is still relying on vaccines that do not work as advertised, and are still shutting down early treatments for the disease like ivermectin.
The mass formation phenomenon, for people, can be naturally occurring, such as the case with plagues and pandemics. However, it could also be synthetic constructs such as that was seen in Nazi Germany, which can be exploited often for political gain.
Dr. Robert Malone, who is credited as part of the team that created the mRNA technology, said as much. In a conversation with Joe Rogan in "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast on Spotify, Malone shared, "When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free-floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere."
Malone described how "leaders" can exploit the COVID situation because they identify with their leaders, who come it with plans to solve the problems for them.
Mass formation holds following the left's insistence of only two binary categories of vaccination status to exist: vaccinated or unvaccinated. This is a tactic to pit various segments of the population against each other in order to coerce unending compliance for all, which is a political end goal of a greater plan.
Further, the mass formation theory says that the more absurd the narrative becomes, the more strong believers of the narrative cling to its absurdities. This phenomenon occurs because believers are fearful of the pre-narrative threat that going along with any absurdity is preferable as long as it comes with a promise of delivery from the said threat.
Mass formation and COVID response
For COVID-19, the government is insistent on using mRNA gene therapies or vaccines to combat it. However, with the 29 distinct proteins of the virus, the mRNA vaccines only recognize one of them: it is nothing more than a sparring partner.
The human immune system needs to see as many parts of the actual virus as possible to become fully prepared to attack the real thing, and this is why traditional vaccines that use inactivated or live virus work better compared to the mRNA therapy, and the flawed proposition by the government is what is wrong within the current mass formation phenomenon. (Related: Being worried about COVID-19 impairs a person's cognitive abilities.)
For those who are still thinking outside the current mass formation, rational science is necessary. Rational science tells people to use all manner of early therapies to combat COVID-19 as early as possible. In a pandemic, healthcare workers should try existing drugs not yet proven effective through double-blind studies, as long as they fit known science, show strong evidence of working and demonstrate safety.
Mass formation thought says to deny the existence of early treatment regimes and withhold all treatment until the disease progressed to the final phase, and give patients oxygen and blood thinners.
It does not have to remain this way: physicians need to reengage with medical truth and act accordingly to get to a new normal that is better than previous ones. However, a conscious choice must be made to get out of the mass formation way of thinking.
Watch the video below to learn more about the mass formation phenomenon:
This video is from the "ZGoldenReport" channel on Brighteon.com.
Read more about what the government is doing to solve COVID-19 at Pandemic.news.
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How to Read the Bible for All It's Worth!
I have found daily readin g from the Bible to be vital for my life. Today, I want to share some interpretation rules I have learned in one of my academic classes that I believe will help you to read the Bible for all its worth!
I think these guidelines can help achieve consistency in anyone's biblical understanding. I pray you will find this to be true for you: (1) The first rule addresses our starting point, which is what we call exegesis. Exegesis is what we do in trying to understand what was written to them back then and there. One does not have to be an expert to do the basics of exegesis. We just need to be aware of a few things. For instance, Fee and Stuart, authors of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, recommend that we set limits to what the text can and cannot mean today based on what it could mean when written to the original recipients. In other words, it cannot mean something to us today that the hearers then would not have understood. Remember, those that these words were originally spoken or written to didn't try to interpret them in their present time according to a future understanding or future culture such as our western lifestyle in the twenty first century. It is we who have that task. We must look back and interpret according to their situation and culture, not according to our own.
This seems like a basic idea; yet, we all can probably think of some times we have seen poor interpretation from ignoring this rule. For example, those who do not believe that spiritual gifts are for today sometimes use 1 Corinthians 13:10: "When the perfect comes the partial will be done away" as their theological basis for refutation of the spiritual gifts. They claim that the perfect has come in the form of the written Word of God, particularly the New Testament. They say, therefore, prophecy and tongues are no longer needed. With good exegesis, however, we know that First Corinthians 13:10 could not possibly mean this to the first century Christians; because, they did not know we would have the Bible in the form we have it today. By asking the question, "Could this have meant that to the first century reader?" when we are considering an interpretation, we can prevent ourselves from building a false theology.I am not trying to tell you what to believe concerning spiritual gifts. But I am saying that if you don't believe they are for today, hopefully this isn't the reason.
The second rule: When the situation surrounding the first century recipient is comparable to ours, then God's Word to us is the same as it was to them. That's easy enough. On the other hand, if it is not comparable, whether it is what we want to believe or not, we must accept that most likely it needs to be interpreted in view of cultural relativity. In other words, it is vital that we correctly reconstruct the circumstance of the hearer then in our exegesis, if we are to apply this rule with biblical accuracy. These things must be done before we can then determine what the Word means to us today in our present situation.
One such place in Scripture that is interpreted differently by different denominations is First Timothy 2:11 concerning the operation of the church and women. As I have studied the passages concerning this issue this past year, I have found that the Church at Ephesus was a church in crisis! This is important to know because a church in crisis may need different instructions than one that is not. One of their challenging issues involved some very specific women who were spreading wrong teachings (1 Timothy 5:11-15; 2 Timothy 3:6-9). When considering what they may have been teaching, consider the culture of Ephesus. The culture was highly influenced by the goddess Artemis which encouraged women to dominate men. Her worship was fanatical and traced back to the Amazon (female warriors), of whom many in Ephesus claimed to be descended from.
Having this type of knowledge about what was going on in Ephesus helps us to understand the situation, problems, and crisis Timothy was trying to handle which demanded drastic measures. It helps us to understand why Paul would write, "But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet" in one place and do the opposite in another. Paul w as the founder of the church at Ephesus and had left Timothy there to handle the crisis. Paul was laying down some strict measures based on the situation present in Ephesus at this particular time in order to bring it out of a crisis situation. Paul wouldn't allow a woman to teach or speak for that particular church at that particular time for that particular circumstance, but did not mean this to be a doctrine for every church for all time.
After all, Paul writes to the church in Corinth (1 Corinthians 11) to help them sort out the issue of head dressings when women are… what?–when they are prophesying and praying in public worship services! He didn't command them to be silent. He gave instructions for them to pray and prophesy. One cannot pray and prophesy and keep silent! In other areas of Scripture we see women were involved in leadership roles in Paul's ministry as well. Therefore, we must take the this Scripture and the one other used to prevent women from holding leadership roles in some churches today and consider them in light of all the Scriptures and references to women and ministry made by Paul. When we do, I believe the best conclusion is these two situations must be culturally relevant, meant for very specific situations, and not a universal mandate.
Again, I am not trying to change your doctrine about this controversial issue with this short post. However, I do hope I have heightened your sensitivity to specific problems inherent in Scripture, and helped you realize why different options exist. I share Fee and Stuart's goal that as readers, we learn to discern between good and not-so-good interpretations and perhaps to know what makes them one or the other.
Until next time…may you be safe in our Father's care and may He continue to reveal His truth to you, unhindered by tradition!
1Fee, Gordon D. and Stuart, Douglas. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2003.
My prayer for all of us for 2013 is that we could live just as stated in this song by Matt Redmond…. Enjoy and Happy New Year!


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Judo's History
The origin of Japan's martial arts is vague, and what we know of it, is more legend than truth. However, the takenouchi-ryu martial art system founded in 1532 is considered the beginning of Japan's jujitsu forms. The system's founder taught jujitsu in a structured and methodical manner.
For the next several hundred years, the martial arts were refined by Samurai who made a lifetime study of some twenty or thirty martial arts. Of these arts only one was based on weaponless self defense -- jujitsu. By the mid-1800's more than 700 different jujitsu systems existed. The most popular were takenouchi-ryu, jikishin-ryu, kyushinryu, yoshin-ryu, mirua-ryu, sekiguchi-ryu, kito-ryu, and tenshin-shinyo-ryu; the last two were instrumental in Judo's development.
It was during this time that Japanese politics disintegrated into disarray. Commodore Perry's visit to Japan in the mid-1850's also changed Japanese civilization by opening up a new world to them. In 1868 Imperial rule was restored (Meiji Restoration) and the decline of the Samurai class started along with a rapid decline in all martial arts. Although the government did not officially ban the martial arts, people were not encouraged to learn or practice them since the state was considered more important than the individual. Jujitsu literally fell into disuse. What was once the glory of the samurai was now looked down on and many well established jujitsu schools began to disappear.
If the budo concept was to survive the Meiji Restoration, it had to change and become a tool to cultivate an individual and make him a better person for the good of all. As a result budo found a home in physical education and sport.
Sport provided teamwork which was good for all and also developed the individual. It was a complete physical education; not just a game. Although self defense techniques were included in the training, emphasis was on using the techniques in a holistic manner. Dr. Jigoro Kano is credited with jujitsu's survival of the Meiji Restoration. He took jujitsu and adapted it to the times. His new methodology was called Judo.
In 1882, Dr. Jigoro Kano (The Father of Judo) made a comprehensive study of these ancient self defense forms and integrated the best of these forms into a sport which is known as Kodokan Judo.
The Founding of Judo
In the seaside town of Mikage, near Kobe, Japan, Jigoro Kano was born on October 28, 1860. In 1871, Kano's family moved to Tokyo.
As a boy, Kano was an undersized, slender, weak, and sickly child with one sickness after another. Against his doctor's advice, Kano decided to do something to improve his health and at the same time learn how to defend himself against bullies. At the age of 18 he enrolled in the Tenjin Shinyo ryu school of jujitsu. Under the guidance of Fukuda Hachinosuke, Kano began his long journey to physical well-being. The Tenjin Shinyo ryu was a soft martial art that stressed harmony rather than combat, yet at the same time included striking and grappling techniques.
After studying at the Tenjin Shinyo ryu, Kano transferred to the Kito ryu school to study under Tsunetoshi Iikubo. This brand of jujitsu was much softer and stressed moderate workouts with attention given to freedom of action, the abstract symbolism connected with physical technique, and throwing techniques.
It was during these times that Kano began a comprehensive and systematic study of other forms of jujitsu such as sekiguchi-ryu and seigo-ryu. He started this project out of respect for his masters, but he soon he craved for a mental knowledge that was lacking in their teachings. He sought to understand the superior control that his teachers had mastered. He also studied the manuscripts developed by the founders of various schools, the I Ching, (Book of Changes), and Lao-Tsze's philosophy.
Around 1880 Kano started rethinking the jujitsu techniques he had learned. He saw that by combining the best techniques of various schools into one system he could create a physical education program that would embody mental and physical skill. In addition, he believed that the techniques could be practiced as a competitive sport if the more dangerous techniques were omitted.
So in 1882, having pulled from ancient jujitsu the best of its throws and grappling techniques, added some of his own, and removed such dangerous techniques as foot and hand strikes. Kano at the age of 22, presented his new sport--Judo. He called this sport Kodokan Judo. The term Kodokan breaks down into ko (lecture, study, method), do (way or path), and kan (hall or place). Thus it means "a place to study the way." Similarly Judo breaks down into ju (gentle) and do (way or path) or "the gentle way."
Kano established his Judo school, called the Kodokan, in the Eishoji Buddhist temple in Tokyo which grew in size and later moved. The first Kodokan had only 12 mats (12 feet by 18 feet), and nine students in the first year. Today the Kodokan has over 500 mats and more than a million visitors a year.
Kano's devotion to Judo did not interfere with his academic progress. He pursued his study of literature, politics and political economy, and graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1881.
In 1886, because of rivalry between jujitsu schools and Judo, a contest was held to determine the superior art. Kano's Judo students won the competition easily, thus establishing the superiority of Judo, its popular principles and its practical techniques.
The categorization of Kodokan Judo was completed about 1887. The Kodokan had three broad aims: physical education, contest proficiency and mental training. Its structure as a martial art was such that it could be practiced as a competitive sport. Blows, kicks, certain joint locks, and other techniques too dangerous for competition, were taught only to the higher ranks.
Starting in 1889 Kano left Japan to visit Europe and the U. S. He traveled abroad a eight times to teach Judo and several times to attend the Olympics and its committee meetings. Often in the face of extreme hardship, several of Kano's students devoted their lives to develop Judo in foreign countries.
In 1892 Judo began to spread its wings across the world when Takashima Shidachi lectured the Japan Society in London on the history and development of Judo.
In 1895 Kano classified the Judo throws into the Go Kyo No Waza. In 1900, the Kodokan Dan Grade Holders Association was established.
On July 24, 1905, representatives of the leading jujitsu schools (ryu) of Japan, gathered at the Butokukai Institute in Kyoto to agree upon the forms of Kodokan Judo and to continue the development of the technical forms of the sport. The ancient jujitsu techniques of each particular school were to be preserved in kata (pre-arranged form) for posterity.
In 1907, Gunji Koizumi arrived in the United States to teach Judo.
In 1909, the system underwent a big change and the Kodokan became an official Japanese foundation. In the same year Jigoro Kano became the first Japanese member of the International Olympic Committee
By 1910 Judo was a recognized sport that could be safely engaged in and in 1911 it was adopted as a part of Japan's educational system. In the same year, the Kodokan Judo Instructors' Training Department, Kodokan Black Belt Association and Japan Athletic Association were formed. Beginning with the fifth Olympiad in Stockholm, Kano attended every Olympic Game and International Olympic Committee meeting and became a leading figure in international sport.
Kodokan Judo underwent an evaluation by its members in 1920. The Go Kyo No Waza was revised to include only 40 throws. Eight throws from the previous classification were discarded.
Judo in Europe in 1921 -- osotogari, osotomakikomi, seoinage In 1921 the Judo Medical Research Society was born.
The Kodokan mottoes, Seriyoku-zenyo (maximum efficiency) and Jita-kyoei (mutual welfare and benefit), emphasize moral and spiritual training in addition to the physical training of Judo. The ultimate goal of Judo was to perfection the individual so that he can be of value to society. This spiritual phase developed gradually and was completed around 1922. In the same year the Kodokan Cultural Judo Society was established.
In his lifetime, Kano attained a doctorate degree in Judo, a degree equivalent to the twelfth dan, awarded to the originator of Judo only. He constantly worked to ensure the development of athletics and Japanese sport in general, and as a result is often called the "Father of Japanese Sports." In 1935, he was awarded the Asahi prize for his outstanding contribution to the organizing of sport in Japan during his lifetime.
Apart from being an innovator and administrator, Kano was also a skilled player as testified to by a high-ranking Judoka who, when asked about his experience in competing against Kano, said, 'It was like fighting with an empty jacket"!'
While returning home from an IOC meeting in Cairo where he succeeded in having Tokyo nominated as a site for the 1940 Olympics, a lifetime devoted to Judo ended when Kano died of pneumonia aboard the S. S. Hikawa Maru on 4 May 1938, at the age of seventy-eight years .
World War II saw a different development of Judo. Instead of being used for sport, Judo was being taught as a combat skill. Those selected for commando and special services training often achieved a high standard of expertise.
When Japan hosted the 1964 Olympics, Judo was given its first opportunity as an event. Of the sixteen medals awarded for Judo, Japan won three gold medals, and one silver medal. Judo was no longer a Japanese sport but had developed to become an international sport.
For more than sixty years the structure of Kodokan Judo had not changed. However in 1982 the Kodokan revised the Go Kyo No Waza by reintroducing the 8 techniques that were discarded in 1920 and by adding 17 new techniques. These sixty-five techniques became known as "The 65 Techniques of Kodokan Judo."
There have been two main developments in Judo over the years. The first was the introduction of weight categories. In the early days, weight differences were not considered important. Everyone fought everyone else, with the result that, if two players were equally matched in skill, the bigger man usually won. There was much opposition to the introduction of weight categories. Some masters feared that it meant the end of Judo as a skillful art. Initially there were three categories, and later this was made into five. Inclusion of the sport in the Olympic Games in 1964 helped to hasten this important reform.
The second development was the teaching of Judo to children. In the early days, it was thought much too dangerous to teach children because they would not have the self-discipline to avoid using it outside the club. Today many clubs are composed largely of junior membership.
There are different styles of Judo. With its inclusion in the Olympics, there has been a shift toward a contest style practice. In clubs where this style is taught, practice becomes largely a continuous contest. Other schools stress skill. They favor repetitive movements to make them instinctive, and the development of speed through practice with little resistance. Such clubs usually also teach the kata,. Such clubs could be considered traditional Judo clubs.

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Minneapolis: Dinkytown Antiquarian Books, 2003. Limited ed. Near Fine/near fine. Dunning, John. The Bookman's Limericks. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dinkytown Antiquarian Books, 2003, limited edition of 2,250 copies of which this is no. 1543. Softcover, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2-inches, not paginated (20 pp.). Staple-bound card wraps with dust jacket. Booklet is fine, jacket is near fine with only faints signs of shelf wear. SIGNED by Dunning on the title page. With an introduction and nearly seventy limericks by Dunning. Printed by the late Larry Dingman of Dinkytown, with his bookseller label at the colophon, and distributed at five 2003 book fairs (450 copies each). Dust jacket present.


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On the 18th October 2011, at 1300hrs Singapore Local Time, I was first introduced to a very powerful DSLR that sets the benchmark for professional level series DSLR, "it's a monster" something like what we called the Nissan Skyline GT-R 34, the same equivalent of a very powerful DSLR. This was the Canon EOS-1D X and I still recall my first hands on experience with the Canon EOS-1D X, it's so beautiful and so powerful.
My belief and trust in the Canon EOS-1D series especially the Canon EOS-1D X, the strengths, reliability and high speed capabilities for photojournalism, events and high speed sports action photography.
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Day 1 of Seoul Fashion Week
By Im Eun-byel
Published : Mar 20, 2018 - 23:26 Updated : Mar 20, 2018 - 23:26
The 2018 fall-winter HERA Seoul Fashion Week officially began Tuesday at Dongdaemun Design Plaza. Various local brands staged eye-catching shows, providing the audience the chance to observe Korea's fashion industry at the scene. Following are three highlights of the day.
A.Bell (Seoul Collection)
(Seoul Design Foundation)
"Light" was the main keyword here. Around 34 outfits portraying the refraction and reflection of light were showcased. Hues of white, beige, ivory and black were dominant.
The show started with various trench-coat looks. Keeping the classic touch, the looks were varied with feminine elements. Few details were added to the garments, yet the silhouettes were graceful.
Soft, thick knitwear underlined the show, matching an assortment of outerwear. Suits for women focused on the use of fine lines designed to accentuate femininity.
As the brand joined the trend of adopting a "See Now, Buy Now" model, mini bags that appeared on the runway Tuesday could be purchased through Naver's Designer Window immediately. More products are to be added to the web portal.
Led by designers Choi Byung-doo and Park Eui-ji, A.Bell attempts to overcome the limitation of materials and manufacturing processes. The brand started as a costume jewelry brand, but now is a total fashion brand for women and offers some menswear.
Bourie (Seoul Collection)
To explain Bourie's outfits for the upcoming fall and winter seasons, only two words are needed -- "pleats" and "darts."
Designer Jo Eun-hye chose a series of black garments to open the show. Taking a similar yet different approach from last season's clean cutting, the garments were more detailed, with heavy and wide use of darts and pleats.
Shirtdresses and shirts with darts were featured. Bold use of darts allowed the clothes to be creative while keeping their original shape. Pleated skirts, partly pleated jackets and pleated shirts ruled the runway.
Jo stresses experimental, sensual tailoring, with hopes to interpret conceptual art through the use of fabric.
BESFXXK (Generation Next)
Under the concrete bridges of DDP, a unique fashion show took place. All the models wore scarf-like masks to completely hide their faces. With the models' expressions obscured, the audience were left to observe the garments alone.
While the concept could come off as creepy for a runway, the vivid colors of the masks lent to a light, casual atmosphere.
The garments were highlighted by unique cuts, creating bold silhouettes and volume. Atypical and asymmetrical shapes were also exaggerated by stripes and checked patterns.
Designers Kim Bo-na and Lim Jae-hyuk of BESFXXK studied fashion in London and have been heavily influenced by the metropolitan city's style. The duo seeks to connect military functionality with Britain's tailoring heritage.
By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)


Drum Corps International?s voting membership (representatives of the 23 World Class corps) gathered this week at the Hyatt in downtown Indianapolis. The scheduled business meeting took place over three days starting Sunday, Sept. 26 and covered a variety of business topics including the creation of the 2011 summer tour schedule, adjudication and related administrative systems development, upcoming rules proposal discussions, and preliminary planning for the annual meeting of the membership in January.
?This was a very productive gathering of the World Class members and will help to chart our course well beyond the next several months,? said Dan Acheson, executive director and CEO of Drum Corps International. ?We?re already into the nitty gritty of the planning stages for the 2011 season and will be working to refine the tour as we prepare for another outstanding and exciting season.?
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Economists expect the UK economy to accelerate in the autumn after official figures today confirmed that output grew at a rapid 0.7 per cent in the second quarter.
Gross domestic product growth in the first three months of the year was also revised up to 0.4 per cent from 0.3 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said, taking economic growth in the first half of the year to 1.1 per cent.
The third and final estimate of second quarter showed consumers spent an extra £661million between April and June, with spending on new cars 4.5 per cent higher than three months earlier.
The upward revision to the first quarter data combined with growing consumer confidence and increased optimism about all sectors of the economy has led some economists to forecast growth of as much as 1 per cent in the third quarter.
However, the ONS said growth over the past 12 months was slower than previously thought. GDP has expanded by just 1.3 per cent in the last year, rather than the 1.5 per cent previously calculated, due to downgrades in the final two quarters of 2012.
The surprise recovery in recent months has made Britain one of the fastest-growing advanced economies, although the economy remains 3.3 per cent smaller than in early 2008, when it started the descent into recession after the financial crisis.
While household spending rose by 0.3 per cent during the quarter this was actually the smallest increase for three quarters and less than originally estimated. Consumer spending was previously believed to have grown by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter.
There was however a sharp upward revision for construction, which is now estimated to have grown by 1.9 per cent during the quarter from a previous 1.4 per cent estimate, as state stimulus initiatives such as the Help to Buy and Funding for Lending schemes fuelled the housing market.
What next for house prices? Cheap mortgages and Help to Buy fuel a mini-boom, but can it continue?
Britain's factories also expanded more than previously estimated with manufacturing output rising by 0.9 per cent, compared with an original estimate of 0.7 per cent.
Earlier today think tank the Centre for Economics and Business Research said consumer confidence had hit a record high in September and forecast economic growth in 2014 would equal that in 2007.
The CEBR/YouGov consumer confidence index is now 13 points higher than a year ago at 108.1, a record high and surpassing the previous high of 106.3 in April 2010.
Other economists said the figures showed Britain's recovery 'gained momentum' in the second quarter, with hopes building that the economy can expand further between July and September.
Spending on transport, and cars in particular, was the biggest driver of rising consumer purchases, while there were also increases in spending on clothing and footwear. But there were falls in spending on food, alcohol and tobacco.
Rising spending on cars echoed recent industry figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders which showed year-to-date car production is up 3.1 per cent, at 984,545.
But the ONS said household spending is still 2.8 per cent below its late-2007 peak.
Household disposable income rebounded by 1.5 per cent in the latest quarter following a fall of 1.7 per cent in the previous three months.
The household savings ratio also increased to 5.9 per cent from 4.4 per cent during the quarter - but down from 6.8 per cent across the whole of 2012.
Separate data on investment by businesses cast a shadow over the largely positive set of figures, falling by £786million or 2.7 per cent on the prior quarter.
Lee Hopley, chief economist at manufacturers' organisation the EEF, said this highlights the 're-balancing challenge' for the UK economy.
But Ms Hopley said the better-than-expected manufacturing growth - the strongest quarterly expansion in almost three years - bodes well.
'With industry surveys also on the up, the prospects for the remainder of this year look better than we've seen for a number of years,' she said.
The UK's dominant services sector recorded unchanged growth of 0.6 per cent during the quarter.
Economists believe Britain could grow by around 1 per cent in the third quarter amid more signs of expansion from factories, building sites, restaurants and law firms.
IHS Global Insight chief UK and European economist Howard Archer said: 'The broad-based nature of second-quarter growth fuels hopes that growth can become more balanced and long-lasting.
The CEBR said its index showed growth in consumer confidence was based on signs of a strengthening economy, jobs market and rising house prices, all of which suggested the UK was finally entering a sustained recovery.
Its job security measure is now 2.4 per cent higher in the three months to September than the same period a year ago and at its highest level since the survey began four years ago.
Meanwhile, business activity also hit a record high for the index in September, up 7.1 per cent on a year earlier. The index read 111.4 in September, two points higher than the previous high seen in April 2010 of 109.5.
Stephen Harmston of YouGov said: 'Although a lot of the talk about the rise in consumer confidence has focused on the house price bubble, these figures suggest it is now also underpinned by a strengthening of the economic fundamentals.
But the upturn comes alongside a slowdown in employment growth following surprisingly strong job creation in 2012.
Employment increased year-on-year by 2.1 per cent in the three months to December 2012 but the rate since has been falling to just 0.9 per cent in the three months to July and is expected to stand at 0.8 per cent year-on-year in the three months to the end of September.
With output increasing but job creation slowing, the upshot is a return to stronger productivity growth in the UK, the CEBR said.
It estimates UK productivity growth will reach its fastest pace in two years, with annual growth of 0.8 per cent projected for the third quarter.
A return to productivity growth is crucial for the UK's long term economic health and points to a more sustainable recovery.
However, if UK economic growth continues to come from enhanced productivity performance, job creation is likely to be only steady. Hence, the unemployment rate will decline only slowly – implying Bank of England interest rates will remain the same for some time to come, the CEBR added.
CEBR, executive chairman, professor Douglas McWilliams said: 'It's clear from this indicator that the present recovery is now broader-based than the false dawn we saw in 2010.
'Given this continued momentum, we would expect growth next year to be its strongest since 2007 – before the financial crisis crippled the real economy.


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"The Avengers" Premieres at Tribeca, Weirdly Enough
"The Avengers" Premieres at Tribeca, Weirdly Enough
Austin Dale
Remember when the Tribeca Film Festival hosted the World Premiere of "New York Minute," the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen vehicle? The U.S. premiere of "The Avengers" at BMCC Tribeca on Saturday falls into place as Tribeca's 2nd most egregious bow towards movie stars regardless of their merit. And that's sad. I can think of countless other major films in need of visibility who would have no doubt been aided by a gala slot. What does "The Avengers" gain from a Tribeca gala? It's already one of the most anticipated movies of 2012.
First of all, in purely technical terms, a film like this shouldn't be playing at Tribeca. The BMCC's theater is basically a junior high auditorium, an unlikely atmosphere for a Hollywood premiere of this scale. The screen is tiny, and the audience in the rear might as well have seen this big, bombastic superhero epic at home on a TV with tinny speakers and running commentary from a talkative aunt. Marvel is planning to break box office records here. Even though I didn't love the film, I still believe it warrants a gala premiere on par with its aim as the be-all-and-end-all of superhero blockbusters. Perhaps the film would have won me over, at least on a visual level, in a more cinematic space. I mean, come on. They even left some of the lights on in the theater.
Obstensibly, as Robert Downey Jr. put it when introducing the film, the reason for this Tribeca premiere was to honor New York's "real heroes," the 9/11 first-responders, who sat in the front row and received a standing ovation. It was a dignified moment we've come to expect from Tribeca, which took it upon itself to launch a new downtown cultural tradition in the aftermath of the WTC attacks. But "The Avengers" is, if anything, a film that plays with our emotions about 9/11 with about as much dignity as "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" did. "The Avengers" bases its show-stopping showdown in midday Manhattan to exploit New Yorkers' 9/11 memories. The enemies swoop down from the sky, kill thousands of innocent New Yorkers and blast off the faces recognizable landmarks. Instead of writing superheroes who use their strengths to fight for good in Marvel's expansive fictional universe, Whedon breaks the fourth wall, brings the story into our world and aligns the superheroes with the NYPD. I'm guessing he was attempting to give "The Avengers" a departure from the fabulously entertaining comic book frivolity of its first two acts and wrap up with some quick and easy real-world drama, but it's not really a ploy I liked being dragged into, even when there's some distracting jokes.
Full disclosure: I don't know the first thing about superhero movies – The last one I watched all the way through was "Spiderman 2" – so I actually don't know whether this sort of reimagining of 9/11's carnage is commonplace, but it didn't really sit right with me. I'm happy to suspend my disbelief if an comic book movie earns it, but that doesn't mean I'll surrender my bullshit meter as well.
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Course Brings Experts on Asian Religions to Hartford Seminary
Instructors from around the world came to Hartford Seminary in June 2015 to teach a class called "The Spirituality and Practices of Asian Religions."
Fourteen students were enrolled in this week-long intensive, which included three public lectures and a visit to the Shinnyo-en Temple in White Plains, N.Y. The course was made possible by a generous grant from the Shinnyo-en Foundation and coordinated by Dr. Michiaki Okuyama.
President Heidi Hadsell said she was grateful to the Shinnyo-en Foundation for developing this course and offering it in Hartford. "It's so important for Hartford Seminary to include Dharmic religions and spirituality in the interfaith conversation here," she said.
Program Director for the Shinnyo-en Foundation, Dr. Ineko Tsuchida, said the course came about partly as a result of Shinnyo-en's previous experience in working with Hartford Seminary. It was also an attempt, she said, to meet an expressed need in the community to learn more about Dharmic religions.
"Hartford was so flexible to accommodate our requests," she said. "Creating a course is very challenging, and Hartford said, 'We can do it.'"
Working with Hartford Seminary, Dr. Okuyama selected the lecturers, invited them and coordinated with them about the lecture content. He also coordinated with the temple manager, Rev. Eitaro Hayashi, for the course participants' visit to the Shinnyo-en Temple.
"Without his expertise in Asian Religions, this course would not have been possible," Dr. Tsuchida said.
In the future, the foundation would like to continue to expand the content of the course and invite additional speakers, as well as reaching out to a wider community.
In addition to the course work, three of the instructors gave lectures to supplement the course and to educate the public.
The first was on Tuesday, June 9, by Mario Poceski, an associate professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the University of Florida. Prof. Poceski talked about religious pluralism in China. The first part of the lecture focused on three main religious traditions — Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism — and how they were practiced during China's Golden Age of Civilization from 618 to 907 A.D. The second talked about the modern-day religious landscape, in which segments of the Chinese population practice a variety of religions.
A second public lecture on June 11 was given by Elise Ann DeVido, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Duke University. Prof. DeVido described how Buddhist nuns have been instrumental in the globalization of Buddhism. Nuns in China and Taiwan constructed networks and built bridges between eras, people, institutions, and regions.
The third lecture was given on June 13 by Hank Glassman, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Haverford College. He spoke about a deity called Jizô bodhisattva and about the place of religious icons in medieval Japan.
The course itself introduced students to religious life and spirituality throughout Asia, with a focus on daily practices. Each instructor was a specialist in one tradition of Indian, Chinese, Korean or Japanese religions.


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Japan is Getting Cleaner With Its Energy Choices, But Still Wants Nuclear Power
While Japan will invest in cleaner energy solutions, it will still depend on fossil fuels for power.
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According to The Guardian, Fukushima plans on turning itself into a "renewable energy hub."
Fukushima, which suffered a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, is planning on installing 11 solar and 10 wind farms on abandoned farmland and mountainous regions by 2024. The project will cost around $2.75 billion, but is expected to power the region with 100 percent renewable energy by 2040, "compared with 40 percent today," The Guardian says.
The newly constructed grid will connect Fukushima's power generation with the Tokyo metropolitan area; it is expected to produce 600 megawatts of electricity, which is about two-thirds the output of a nuclear power pant.
Green Won't be Japan's Color
While Fukushima is investing in cleaner energy, nuclear power won't be going away. The Guardian says that Japan's government wants to restart idle nuclear reactors, and wants nuclear power to consist of 20 to 22 percent of the country's overall energy. It even has a goal to restart 30 nuclear reactors by 2030. Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, says that nuclear energy will help the country attain its "carbon dioxide emissions targets."
Despite other politicians' efforts to halt the use of fossil fuels, Japan is still readily dependent on imported coal and natural gas, and would continue to be even with its proposed clean energy solution; "Japan is the third-biggest importer of coal after India and China," The Guardian says. With this and all of the above regarding fossil fuels, Japan is facing criticism from campaigners, "who say nuclear plants pose a danger given the country's vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunami;" this was the original cause of the 2011 meltdown, which forced the evacuation of 150,000 residents.
Aside from fossil fuels contributing to a worn ozone layer and climate change, Japan should consider cutting them – especially nuclear power – just for safety's sake. The 2011 nuclear plant meltdown was "the worst nuclear incident since Chernobyl in 1986," and there's guarantee that a similar emergency won't happen again. Japan's environment minister, Shinjiro Koizumi, requested that the country get rid of the nuclear reactors altogether for this very reason. "We will be doomed if we allow another nuclear accident to occur. We never know when we'll have an earthquake," Koizumi said in the fall of 2019.
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The kamikaze (, ) were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan. These fleets attacked Japan in 1274 and again in 1281. Due to the growth of Zen Buddhism among Samurai at the time, these were the first events where the typhoons were described as "divine wind" as much by their timing as by their force. Since Man'yōshū, the word kamikaze has been used as a Makurakotoba of waka introducing Ise Grand Shrine.

History
The latter fleet, composed of "more than four thousand ships bearing nearly 140,000 men", is said to have been the largest attempted naval invasion in history whose scale was only recently eclipsed in modern times by the D-Day invasion of allied forces into Normandy in 1944.  The size of the fleet is often disputed by modern historians, however.

Events
In the first invasion, the Mongols successfully conquered the Japanese settlements on Tsushima and Iki islands. When they landed on Hakata Bay, however, they met fierce resistance by the armies of samurai clans and were forced to withdraw to their bases in China. In the midst of the withdrawal, they were hit by a typhoon. Most of their ships sank and many soldiers drowned.

The first incident took place in autumn 1274 when a Mongol fleet of 500 to 900 ships carrying 30,000 to 40,000 men attacked Japan. While in Hakata Bay, Kyushu, a typhoon hit the fleet. An estimated 13,000 men drowned, around one-third of the ships sank, and the rest were damaged.

During the time period between the first and second invasion, the Japanese prudently built two-meter-high walls to protect themselves from future assaults.

Seven years later, the Mongols returned. Unable to find any suitable landing beaches due to the walls, the fleet stayed afloat for months and depleted their supplies as they searched for an area to land. After months of being exposed to the elements, the fleet was destroyed by a great typhoon, which the Japanese called "kamikaze" (divine wind). The Mongols never attacked Japan again, and more than 70,000 men were said to have been captured.

The second fleet was larger, comprising two forces with an estimated total of 4,400 ships and 140,000 men, greatly outnumbering the Japanese soldiers, who had an estimated 40,000 samurai and other fighting men. The typhoon led to the death of at least half the men, and only a few hundred vessels survived. Following the storm, most survivors were killed by the Japanese. This event is considered "one of the largest and most disastrous attempts at a naval invasion in history."

In myth
In popular Japanese myths at the time, the god Raijin was the god who turned the storms against the Mongols. Other variations say that the gods Fūjin, Ryūjin or Hachiman caused the destructive kamikaze.

As a metaphor
The name given to the storm, kamikaze, was later used during World War II as nationalist propaganda for suicide attacks by Japanese pilots. The metaphor meant that the pilots were to be the "Divine Wind" that would again sweep the enemy from the seas. This use of kamikaze has come to be the common meaning of the word in English.

See also
Act of God
Battle of Bun'ei
Battle of Kōan
Divine providence
Mongol invasions of Japan
Protestant Wind
Boreas
Miracle of the House of Brandenburg
Theodicy
Tornado

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References

External links
Japan's Kamikaze Winds, the Stuff of Legend, May Have Been Real
Typhoons
Pre-1940 Pacific typhoon seasons
Unknown-strength tropical cyclones
Typhoons in Japan
13th century in Japan
1270s in Japan
1274 in Asia
1280s in Japan
1281 in Asia
Military history of the Mongol Empire
13th-century natural disasters
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Custom Feeding Cattle From California to the Carolinas
A city on the Missouri River north of Omaha is a far cry from Oklahoma's largest mesa. But with cattle feeding on his mind, Scott Anderson made the transition easily from Blair, Neb., to outside Guymon in the middle of the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The Husker-to-Okie move wasn't just temporary. Anderson is now in his 32nd year at CRI Feeders, where he is manager. He's also the 2021 chairman of the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, which includes some 175 member feedyards in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Those yards range from small yards with fewer than 20,000-head capacity to mega brands like Cactus Feeders and Friona Industries.
"Our feeding capacity is from 42,000 to 45,000," Anderson says. "Most cattle are customer cattle owned by producers, stocker operators and backgrounders from California to the Carolinas and the Southeast. We feed a lot of cattle from South Texas and Mexico, which perform well in our typically dry climate."
A Culture of Care
CRI is located in the region once known as No Man's Land. In its early days, some quipped that CRI stood for "cowboys, renegades and Indians." Anderson is quick to note that description "doesn't come close to depicting the culture we're working to develop and maintain here. CRI stands for 'care' of our customer's cattle, 'respect' for our customers and our employees, and a staff with 'integrity.'"
He learned those "CRI" traits while growing up on a crop and livestock farm at Blair. "We grew corn and soybeans, had a cow-calf program and also a farrow-to-finish hog operation," he says.
Anderson earned a bachelor's degree in animal science and a master's in ruminant nutrition from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He finished those studies in 1986 and headed to Garden City, Kan., for a job at the Kansas State University research feedyard, and then with Farr Better Feeds. "That's when Doug Schmidt [now CRI general manager] talked me into coming down here," he says. "I joined CRI in 1989 and have been here ever since."
CRI was reorganized in 2004 and began operating as an LLC. It created a relationship with Midwest Feeders, Inc. of Ingalls, Kan.
"Midwest Feeders was considered one of the premier feeding facilities on the High Plains and still is," Anderson says. "We had a lot of common customers, so it made sense to link with them. This alliance with a respected organization like Midwest enables the leveraging of our collective strengths and to better serve our respective customers."
Even though CRI normally doesn't handle All-Natural or age- and source-verified cattle, many are marketed through the U.S. Premium Beef program and sold to National Beef Packers in nearby Liberal, Kan. With tight cattle markets, CRI is seeing more retained ownership.
"Stocker operators and backgrounders are our biggest share of customers," Anderson says. "There is more market pressure on them. More of them are feeding out their cattle. They're working to lock in a breakeven price to protect what they have made at their operation as well as potential grid premiums.
"We can help with price risk management for these and other customers. We can also help with feed and cattle financing or procurement. On occasion, we partner with customers on a portion of their cattle. Everyone has a different risk tolerance, but some type of price protection is needed in today's feeding environment."
Meeting Consumer Demand
Anderson believes consumer demand for higher quality beef provides producers and feeders with promising opportunities. "After COVID-19 caused the lockdown of restaurants and other food service businesses, consumers turned to retailers for most of their beef and other proteins," he says. "The supply chain to retailers was slow at first, but when supplies of higher quality beef cuts hit the meat case, consumers responded with strong purchases."
Consumers have been willing to pay more for Choice and Prime cuts, even in poor economic conditions. Anderson is an opponent of issues that would reduce the availability of high quality beef. "We need to be responsive to our consumer customers," he says. "I believe we have more opportunities to grow domestic demand and export demand. Everything hinges on those."
He believes proposals to create government-mandated negotiated cash trade levels could reduce the ability to market higher quality cattle at a premium. "A better means of price or value discovery is needed, absolutely," Anderson contends. "But I've never been a big fan of government programs of any kind to control our industry.
"There are differences in regional production and feeding and different business models. We need to keep our freedom to operate. We need to keep government from mandating how we operate and sell our product.
"We need the opportunity to work on this ourselves. This will take trial and error efforts. We need to be granted that latitude to learn and grow through voluntary negotiated cash trade. We're serving a customer that wants a quality product. We need a marketing structure that promotes creating that quality product."
Anderson says it's the duty of producers and feeders to support their local, regional and national cattle associations. And he encourages crop and livestock producers to tell their stories.
"The average consumer is three generations removed from production agriculture," he says. "People have questions about their food. We need them to be aware of all of the good elements of the beef story – how it's produced, how safe it is and how it is a quality protein.
"We as an industry do a good job of educating consumers, but it's a continuing effort. We need to tell our stories and inform consumers of how our product is produced in a sustainable manner that promotes good animal welfare. BQA helps us answer those questions."
Anderson knows one must never stop learning. When there was an opportunity to enter an Oklahoma State University Ph.D. program to focus on organizational behavior, he took it. "I was the only one in the program from production agriculture," he says. "I used that time to tell a few of my own stories."
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By this time next week, the students—and myself—will have departed Siena, or will be about to depart. They're thinking about how unbelievable it is that four months just flew by; meanwhile I can't comprehend how fast nine months went.
But I'd rather not dwell on endings. I've recently decided that there aren't endings in life, really, there are only stages, one flowing into the next like chapters in a book. When it's time to move on to the next stage, you keep everything you learned from the last, and maybe hold onto some of the people you met too.
1) "Serendipitous friends." These are the friends who might only be in your life for an evening, a week, a semester, or maybe the whole year, but who are no less important and impactful on your life because of that. I don't know when again I'll see a good 90% of the people I've met and hung out with this year, but they will forever hold a special place in my memory.
2) Self-assurance. Moving abroad and traveling around all alone has been one of the most challenging things I've done, but the confidence and self-assurance I've gained have been so rewarding.
3) Entering into a new culture. Learning to speak a new language and navigating a foreign world is not easy and, in the case of Italy, not always a magical fairytale, but it will make you grow so much as a person. If you have the opportunity to do something like this, take it. It will enrich your life and take your worldview to new levels.
It has been my utmost pleasure and privilege to get to intern with the Siena School this year, and to run this blog in particular. I've loved reading what the students have to say about their own experiences, and I can't wait to see where we all go next.
It's not the end of the adventure; it's merely the start of another.


I read it all. It's just that there is nothing to say at the moment.
Last week an small update has been made to enable some dev. The games is 6 years old and like you said, there is not a lot of players on it. Hard to invest all our time in it. So, we move forward with what we can, try to fix stuff, not break too much others. I don't think many games have still dev after so many years with such player base. And for some players to be here, I see this as something encouraging that we have something into the way we do things, with off course many big things to address at the same time.
We can not announce things at the moment and I don't expect to do it soon : many months, a year, more, I really don't know. Discussions on a weekly basis is difficult to have in this case. Maybe something more meaningful would be done on SM Storm by then but I can not say if yes or no even if I know it would be better to have a clear yes or no.
Lost Hylis his positivity ?
From Hylis' last post, I don't see negativity and also no missing positivity, since they do all they can.
And he certainly became even more careful about what to write, due to the past issues with (mis-)interpreting his messages.
To be fairly honest, I don't care about SM or TM anymore. I just want that Nadeo gets successful. Let it be with TM/SM or a new game. Idc. They just deserve to be successful. All the pain that they had to endure over the last years.. by pursuing a dream... damn that hurts. I really wish that they get their success for what they have been working and waiting the last years. Seriously.
Ahhh I like it when we talk like his thanks soprah it still shows our motivation for the company and the team!
To me it looks a bit like the "hen and egg" problem... What was first?
I'm not in the mood to chew all that stuff again; we did that too often. Pointless as it's not changing anything.
You all know maybe what happened to giving gamers project. Its was about SM and TM² as well. So i thought it would be attractive to companies to spend some money to get advertise in the game... But every company i asked to jump in and give it a try said: "As long as the dev's don't care about the game and do no advert at all, why should we do? When giving money to a charity, we wanna have to make our investment public to the world. The game is great, pleeze come back when the world knows it!" Not even Nadeo or Ubi did... So the project died, 90 % of the collected money was my own... Maybe you can imagine my feelings about. And believe me, i got some very harsh mails and posts in forum, because the ppl that spended planets thought i am a thief or an impostor because i couldnt deliver some good news at all. And I couldn't give back because monthly balancing took the most of them.
As long as nobody knows the game at all and as long as none of those responsible takes care of a change to this case, the community will shrink, not get stronger. I'm not ok with this, but I'm not in the place for to change this.
My children love to play shootmania, but don't do it, because none of their friends do it. So they started playing ... fortnite Urgh!
My old friend wawawawu... I feel your disappointment. We both (and like many others too) held projects for the game. We failed. Failing creates bitterness, anger. I felt the same feelings and still do to a certain extent. Yes, Nadeo "failed". They had an unique game concept. Unique regarding the gameplay and unique regarding their game management. Sometimes it turns out to be good (regarding the gameplay. We all love it!) and sometimes it turns to be bad on another aspect (regarding the advertisement etc.).
I perceive your disappointment, but let us look to the future instead.
Yes, "Nadeo failed", but they're going to get their act together.
It will probably take time to do this, but as you can see, they are working on trackmania. They're trying to compete.
There are several streamers like zerator and domingo that make cups. For my part, I think that Trackmania²'s popularity will gradually increase, I feel that way.
Finally, I think Shootmania will also increase in popularity, but it will take I think more time. However, for this to be the case, we would need more manpower and more exchanges with the community, us, the Shootmania players.
For us, the Shootmania players, anger is growing, because we have the impression that you are not listening to us... Let's wait for the next updates to be sure of that!
We don't ask for anything complicated, we just need NADEO to interact with its community, on google doc for example, and we will answer you with great pleasure.


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This year's donations will keep the Springer on the forefront of excellence in theatre, education, and film. The Springer has been utilizing technology in our productions for several years. Audiences remember the video projection component of shows like Tommy, Newsies, Ace: The Eugene Bullard Story, Avenue Q, and Dreamgirls.
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ABOUT TEN SECONDS AGO a perfect example of Ambition and Confidence played out right in front of me. I was sitting here quietly sipping on my coffee when before my droopy eyes a teeny tiny spider no bigger than…than…than what you see in the picture of it next to my pen appeared. It was dangling from a silken thread.
This spider had seen me sitting here and thought, "I can take him," and he lowered himself down from the ceiling.


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El triángulo Reuleaux es el ejemplo más sencillo de los llamados polígonos de Reuleaux, denominados así por el científico e ingeniero que los desarrolló, Franz Reuleaux. Estos polígonos tienen la particularidad de ser curvas de anchura constante, es decir, que la distancia entre dos rectas tangentes paralelas opuestas es la misma, independientemente de la dirección de esas rectas. Esto puede apreciarse en la figura adjunta, en la que siempre hay cuatro puntos de tangencia con el cuadrado, uno en cada lado.

El área del triángulo de Reuleaux es , donde a es la anchura constante. El área de un círculo de igual diámetro es , que es mayor. Más aún, el teorema de Blaschke-Lebesgue establece que el triángulo de Reuleaux tiene menor superficie que cualquier otra figura de igual anchura constante.

Su perímetro es  (véase la explicación en la sección siguiente).

El triángulo de Reuleaux puede generalizarse a otros polígonos regulares con un número impar de lados, como puede ser el caso de las monedas británicas de 20 peniques (basadas en un heptágono).

Trazado del triángulo de Reuleaux

Partiendo de un triángulo equilátero de lado a delíniese, haciendo centro en uno de los vértices del triángulo y con radio a, un arco de circunferencias que una entre sí a los dos vértices restantes, repítase la operación para cada vértice y ya se habrá obtenido el triángulo de Reuleaux buscado. Borrando el triángulo inicial, el espacio central que delimitan en común las tres cirunferencias es el triángulo de Reuleaux, una curva de anchura constante.

Cada uno de los ángulos de un triángulo equilátero es de  radianes. Cada uno de los tres arcos es de longitud . Por tanto el perímetro del triángulo de Reuleaux es .

Otros usos

 Debido a que todos sus diámetros tienen la misma longitud, el triángulo Reuleaux, junto con los demás polígonos regulares de Reuleaux, es la respuesta a la pregunta "Además de un círculo, ¿qué otra forma puede tener una tapa de alcantarilla para que no caiga a través del agujero?"
 El rotor de un Motor Wankel puede fácilmente ser confundido con un triángulo de Reuleaux. Aunque se parece mucho en su aspecto, el rotor Wankel tiene entre vértices una curva algo más plana que la del triángulo de Reuleux y por ello no tiene ancho constante.
 En 1914 el ingeniero británico Harry James Watts patentó (US-Patent 1241175 y siguientes) una broca (llamada de Harry Watts en los países de habla inglesa) con forma de triángulo de Reuleaux. Esta broca va montada en un dispositivo especial que hace que gire un tanto excéntricamente y así puede taladrar un agujero con una forma casi exactamente cuadrada. En la figura se puede ver la rotación de esta broca dentro de un agujero cuadrado. Se ve que solo en las esquinas dicha broca deja cuatro pequeñas áreas sin cubrir, que suman un 1,33% del área del cuadrado.

 Un triángulo de Reuleaux puede rodar fácilmente, pero no funciona bien como rueda debido a que no tiene un centro fijo de rotación. Sin embargo, en la figura adjunta la tabla puede hacerse avanzar de manera perfectamente horizontal. En el rodillo de la izquierda habrá un eje que solo se desplace horizontalmente, mientras que en la sección del rodillo de la derecha, que es un triángulo de Reuleux, todos los puntos tienen algo de movimiento vertical, como se aprecia en la animación de la broca de Harry Watts.
 La existencia de los polígonos de Reuleaux es una buena demostración de que el que una figura tenga anchura constante no implica que sea un círculo.
 Muchos lápices son fabricados con este perfil, en lugar de los mucho más tradicionales de sección redonda o hexagonal. Por lo general son promocionados como más cómodos y producen un agarre adecuado, además de ser menos probable que rueden fuera de las mesas.

Versión en tres dimensiones
La intersección de esferas de radio s centradas en los vértices de tetraedros regulares con lado también s es denominado el tetraedro Reuleaux, pero en este caso no es una superficie de anchura constante. Puede, sin embargo, ser realizada dentro de una superficie de anchura constante, conocida como el tetraedro Meissner, reemplazando sus límites en forma de arco por "parches" de superficie curvada. Alternativamente, la superficie de un triángulo de Reuleaux en revolución sobre uno de sus ejes simétricos forma una superficie de anchura constante.

Notas y referencias

Véase también
 Tetraedro de Reuleaux.
 Superelipse

Enlaces externos
Shapes of constant width (cut-the-knot)

Curvas
Polígonos
Figuras geométricas epónimas
Triángulos
Ciencia y tecnología de Alemania del siglo XIX
Tipos de triángulos


Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have received a grant from leading men's health charity, Prostate Cancer UK, as London continues to lead the way in advanced prostate cancer research.
Researchers have discovered how a gene involved in regulating hormone receptors may contribute to drug resistance in some prostate cancer patients. Their findings, published in eLife, suggest that disrupting specific activity of the GREB1 gene could be explored for developing more effective therapies in future.


The use of power morcellators in gynecologic procedures has decreased substantially after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned in 2014 that the devices could spread undetected uterine cancers. A study published in JAMA examined trends in power morcellation among women undergoing a hysterectomy. Researchers found that in the first quarter of 2013, 13.5 percent of minimally invasive hysterectomies involved the use of a power morcellator. By the first quarter of 2015, after the FDA issued its safety communication, usage dropped to 2.8 percent.
Power morcellators are used to cut up tissue into smaller pieces, making them easier to remove through small incisions during a minimally in invasive surgery. In 2014, the FDA discouraged use of the devices due to its cancer-spreading risks. In November 2014, the agency advised against the use of power morcellators in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. The issue is that some women undergoing a minimally invasive gynecologic procedure have a uterine cancer that is not reliably detected before surgery. This cancer can masquerade as a uterine fibroid, and morcellating the malignant tissue can spray the cancer cells through the pelvic area, greatly worsening a patient's prognosis.
Concerns over power morcellators were brought to light by husband-and-wife physicians Hooman Noorchashm and Amy Reed. Dr. Reed shared her own personal story after undergoing a procedure with a morcellator. Her previously undetected sarcoma was greatly worsened, or "upstaged", following morcellation. The couple have become advocates and made it their mission to raise awareness. It was previously believed that these hidden cancers were extremely rare, but now it is known that 1 in 350 women undergoing morcellator procedures may have a hidden uterine cancer.
The JAMA study involved data from 203,520 adult women who underwent a hysterectomy between 2013 and the first quarter of 2015. In the fourth quarter of 2013, 59.7 percent of hysterectomies were minimally invasive. This decreased to 56.2 percent during the first quarter of 2015. Researchers found that the overall complication rate did not change significantly during the study period.
In light of morcellator concerns, U.S. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y. and Michael Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. introduced the Medical Device Guardians Act of 2016. Under the new bill, doctors would be required to report medical device problems to the FDA. Currently, this is only required of hospitals and manufacturers. Physicians are already required to report drug-related injuries. The bill is meant to identify medical device hazards as early as possible.
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Quentin Tarantino's Has Finally Spoken On His Latest Film!
Director Quentin Tarantino is working hard to shoot his next project. Although Tarantino has not started shooting, the confirmed cast members indicate that the film will be certainly exciting.
On his latest interview, Tarantino has spoken about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Back in 1992, Tarantino has created one of the most iconic film's of cinema history. Reservoir Dogs was the first feature film of the director. The film had a modest budget, 1,2 million dollars to be exact. Reservoir Dogs was a huge success at the box office and scored 2,8 million dollars at the box office.
Quentin Tarantino has recently made a surprise appearance at CinemaCon 2018. Tarantino was not alone, he brought famous actor Leonardo DiCaprio as well. These two famous names are working on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood together. According to director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will have a similar aesthetic with Pulp Fiction. The upcoming feature is set around the year 1969. Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio will co-star in this project for the first time.


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TurboTax Ordered To Pay Former Customers $141 Million For Allegedly Steering Them Away From Using Free Tax Services
Although income tax-filing season is officially over, leading tax-preparing company TurboTax is at the center of new headlines due to a massive amount of money they must pay former customers. Following a recent court order, TurboTax must pay over $140 million to low-income customers for allegedly directing them not to use free tax-filing services that were available.
@CNN reports, due to a recent court judgement, TurboTax has been ordered to pay out a jaw-dropping $141 millionsettlement with all 50 states because the company allegedly steered millions of its low-income customers away from free tax-filing services throughout a two-year period. Those who filed taxes with the TurboTax Free Edition between the years of 2016 through 2018 will receive a check via USPS for approximately $30 for every year they were charged when they were able to use free services instead.
In response to the settlement terms, TurboTax (via statement) "admitted no wrongdoing" and that the company is "clear and fair with its customers, including with the nearly 100 million Americans who filed their taxes free of charge with our products over the last 8 years — more than all other tax prep software companies combined." Reportedly, an estimated 4.4 million customers were "unfairly charged."
The investigation was initiated by New York Attorney General Letitia James, after the company was accused of turning eligible customers away from federally supported tax-filing products by making them difficult to find in Internet searches — and instead directing them toward the paid version of the company's tax services.
Speaking about the multi-million judgement, James said "Intuit cheated millions of low-income Americans out of free tax filing services they were entitled to. For years, Intuit misled the most vulnerable among us to make a profit. Today, every state in the nation is holding Intuit accountable for scamming millions of taxpayers, and we're putting millions of dollars back into the pockets of impacted Americans."
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Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Condominiums
A vertical axis wind power project is a possibility with the recent announcement between McKenzie Bay International and M.T.C.C. 815, "The Savoy", for McKenzie Bay to perform a wind resource evaluation for a WindStor System configuration employing one 200 kW rooftop mounted vertical-axis Dermond Wind Turbine.
Toronto, Ontario – August 23, 2004 [SolarAccess.com] The Savoy is a twenty-two story, 210 unit, condominium in Ontario, Canada. WindStor Power, a wholly owned McKenzie Bay subsidiary, is proposing to sell electricity to The Savoy at a fixed rate under a long-term supply arrangement employing WindStor equipment to reduce existing electricity costs while minimizing the impact of future rate increases for grid-supplied electricity. The installation is contingent on sufficient wind resource being present resulting in an economic pricing structure for WindStor Power Co. and The Savoy. It is also contingent upon obtaining all necessary approvals for a rooftop installation, connecting onsite inside the Ontario Hydro meter, and the structural integrity of the building to support a 200 kW rooftop mounted Dermond wind turbine. Including The Savoy, a total of eight agreements have been signed to evaluate wind resources for WindStor Systems, representing a potential for more than 600 rooftop and ground mounted Dermond wind turbines. Wind studies are underway in Las Vegas, NV; Middletown, PA; and five Southeast Michigan sites including Dearborn, Flint, and Dexter in the greater Detroit area. WindStor is an electricity management system that provides retail users with electricity at fixed, long-term, rates by generating electricity at the user's location with a Dermond wind turbine "DWT", and storing excess electricity in a battery for distribution in peak demand periods with a proprietary "System Integrator". The first Dermond wind turbine is presently being installed at the University of Quebec Abitibi Temiscaming in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.


Win Tickets to see Turnpike Troubadours at the Crossroads Aug. 1!
We have two tickets we'd like to give you for the red dirt sounds of the Turnpike Troubadours, performing at the Crossroads in Kansas City on Friday, August 1. Jason Boland and the Stragglers will be opening the show, so it'll be a full night of country, old-time and alt-country music. It's easy to enter, just fill out this Turnpike Troubadours Entry Form. On July 29, we'll draw the winner's name and notify them via email or phone.
Love Turnpike! Seen them all over Texas and Oklahoma! Now my hubby is working in Kansas so this would be perfect, one more state to mark off the list!


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Q: Can someone please provide me a pom.xml file for setting up karate framework for UI testing? I'm currently looking into karate-core, but I'm not sure whether I'm on the right path or not.

A: They have a demo project you can reference on github. This would be a good place to check https://github.com/intuit/karate/tree/master/examples/ui-test

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Democrats' 'War' Talk Says Women Are Gullible
Marybeth Hicks
Budget and Government
In 1968, cigarette maker Philip Morris launched a brand of smokes just for women. Marketed with the provocative slogan, "You've come a long way, baby," Virginia Slims offered an elegant profile and an image that suggested freedom, empowerment and equality.
Unfortunately for women, "Skinny Ginnys" were not a cultural or political statement, they were just cigarettes. The brand caused nicotine addiction and lung cancer but also was responsible for a rapid increase in smoking among teen girls.
Nonetheless, sales of Virginia Slims made buckets of money for a whole lot of savvy men in sales and marketing. Chalk one up for the boys in the backroom.
Turns out women still haven't come a long way. In this election year, they continue to be manipulated with tactics that make them feel good, even if the result will be bad.
According to the latest data from the Pew Research Center, women are ready to return President Obama to the White House later this year by a margin of at least 20 percentage points over either Republican candidate Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum.
This is a drastic change since February, when both potential Republican candidates were running about even against the president in tracking polls.
Then, in a bizarre — almost surreal — turn of events, the fight against an insurance mandate that violates tenets of Catholicism became a controversy over whether Republicans want to ban contraception. (They don't.) What should have been an all-out battle to protect our nation's heritage of religious liberty has become a phony "war on women."
Some women may believe Democrats are looking out for their best interests, but they ought to remember the old saw, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on the Democrats."
Oops. That's the new saw.
Just as Virginia Slims used savvy marketing tactics to foist an unhealthy addiction onto a generation of unsuspecting and gullible women and girls, the political left continues to manipulate women with strategies that make them think their "issues" are being addressed and their interests are being protected.
Thus, the hysterical response about birth-control pills to the serious subject of insurance mandates. No one is suggesting that female contraception be banned. It's just not a responsibility of the American people to provide free birth control to their fellow citizens, and it's especially not the responsibility of religious employers or others of faith who object to providing such coverage on moral grounds.
The fact that this political straw man has measurably swayed female voters is actually more embarrassing to conservative women than is the fact that our prospective candidates have been coerced into a debate whose irrelevancy is only superseded by its deceit.
Meanwhile, rolling out a masterful strategy to up the ante, the Obama administration last week hosted a forum on women and the economy, simultaneously (and disingenuously) claiming "women are not an interest group" while presenting the party line on subjects such as women's health care, violence against women and girls, women in the workforce, education, and women and entrepreneurship.
Yet it is the very definition of hypocrisy to tout Democratic solutions to the economy as being in the best interests of women. Posing as the ultimate government sugar daddy, Mr. Obama continues to promote the false security of big-government programs to respond to women's special concerns. (Note that he did this while making a quaint, sexist joke about how long it takes women to "settle down." And the ladies all laughed because, well, he's Barack Obama.)
Conservative women don't want a government sugar daddy.
We want the debt reduced and real spending cut — just as we're doing in our homes. We want jobs for ourselves and our families.
We're concerned about energy independence, overregulation, national security and upholding our tradition of religious liberty.
We're not so easily manipulated that you can shove us into a voting bloc, pat us on the head and consider us placated.
Some of us have come a lot farther than that.
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Happy Earth Day! We try our best to recycle, to conserve resources, and to reduce consumer waste. Although we admit we are not doing nearly the amount that we could be, Earth day helps to remind us that recycling, reusing, and upcycling items is a great way to minimize our impact on the environment. Today's post focuses on totally random eco-friendly items found on Etsy. We love Etsy because many of the items are handmade, affordable, and unique. And, of course there is the added bonus of knowing that buying from sites like Etsy helps to support independent artists, some of which may even be in your area!
Why buy an unattractive rubber case or flimsy plastic one when you can have this? This eco-friendly, durable case is made out of bamboo and has a look that is sleek, modern, and professional.
Those little cardboard sleeves might protect your hands, but they definitely create unnecessary waste. If you get coffee on the run, forgo the cardboard sleeve and opt for a reusable sleeve to protect your hands from hot liquids.
Reclaimed leather has never looked so good! This bag, perfect for weekend getaways or as an airplane carry-on, is made of vintage canvas and salvaged leather.
Soft and cozy, these adorable bright green flats are handmade using eco-friendly cotton canvas and hemp.
Old gold rings, necklaces, and bracelets get a new life by being melted down and reformed into new, beautiful pieces like these charming recycled rose gold earrings.
All natural lip balms? Yes, please! Try these balms (made in NJ! yay!) that come in all different scents.
On the hunt for a cute, earth friendly bridesmaid dress or dress to wear to an event? This bamboo jersey dress, by Gina Michele, comes in all different colors and is one we'd be dying to wear again and again.
Old plates are upcycled into something new with this adorable tiered dessert stand with carefully selected vintage plates, featuring a pretty rose pattern and delicate gold details.
Happy Earth Day, Happy Easter/Passover, and Happy Spring Break! This is our last post for a little bit as we'll be taking off some time next week for spring break and some much needed R & R. But, never fear, we'll be back before you know it!
Great idea for a post! I love the phone cover - if they had one for Dan's phone I'd be all over that for his birthday.


Join us for a co-occurring mental health and addictions disorders workgroup, Keys to Saving Lives: Screening, Brief Intervention, & Referral to Treatment.
Learn a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of early intervention and treatment services for persons with substance use disorders, as well as those who are at risk of developing these disorders.
This event is presented by MAPP and the Camden County Board of Freeholders. It will be held on Tuesday, December 5th from 8:45 AM to 4:30 PM at the Camden County Services Commission in Clementon.


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Q: SFML 2.3 can't render texture with RectangleShape child I seem to be experiencing a problem with adding a texture to my one class named Paddle that has a superclass of sf::RectangleShape.
I'm using the texture as a variable in the header to avoid it being trashed after the scope of the constructor like so:
class Paddle : public sf::RectangleShape {
private:
    // other variables here
    sf::Texture texture;
};

Then in my Paddle.cpp I'm using the following:
Paddle::Paddle(Game* game)
    : RectangleShape(sf::Vector2f(WIDTH, HEIGHT)) {
    // some code here

    if (!texture.loadFromFile("paddle-texture.png")) {
        std::cout << "Couldn't load paddle texture" << std::endl;
    }

    setTexture(&texture);
    setPosition((windowSize.x / 2 - WIDTH / 2), (windowSize.y - 20));
}

However, this doesn't work for whatever reason. I've tried moving the texture outside of the Paddle class altogether and it still doesn't have a problem. Also, I think I should mention that the "couldn't load paddle texture" message does not appear to the console.
The other thing I did is writing in my main.cpp:
sf::RectangleShape paddle(sf::Vector2f(100, 10));
sf::Texture texture;
if (!texture.loadFromFile("paddle-texture.png")) {
    std::cout << "Couldn't load paddle texture" << std::endl;
}
paddle.setTexture(&texture);

Which works perfectly and renders with its texture! However, I lose the functionality and cleanliness of my class if I use this. So I'm wondering why it's rendering the texture in the Main.cpp but not as a class object that inherits the RectangleShape class?
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Due to a request, I'll explain my expected and actual results. Right now I'm trying to render a paddle with a texture (paddle-texture.png); however, I'm getting a white paddle (or whatever the fill colour is set to) as if it's not using the texture at all.
To call the create the Paddle I use the following:
Paddle paddle;

Then with the Window I use:
sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(600, 600), "My Project with SFML");

// some code here
// could use the following here:
// Paddle paddle;

window.setFramerateLimit(64);

while (window.isOpen()) {
    sf::Event event;

    // check if close button or esc key is pressed
    while (window.pollEvent(event)) {
        switch (event.type) {
        case sf::Event::Closed:
            window.close();
            break;
        case sf::Event::KeyPressed:
            if (event.key.code == sf::Keyboard::Escape)
                window.close();
            break;
        }
    }

    // render everything onto the screen
    window.clear();
    window.draw(frameDisplay);
    game.drawObjects(); // this is a custom object but could be replaced with:
    // window.draw(paddle);
    window.display();
}