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Q: I am facing Performance issue with Javers while inserting data I am using Javers with Spring Data JPA + Hibernate.
When I use CurdRepository.save(Collection), the Javers API is auditing each object in the collection one by one and its causing delay to the overall insert process.
Before Integrating Javers the Process took 30 seconds to process 100 rows and after integrating Javers it took 80 seconds.
Is this an expected behavior ?

A: Javers compares each object you are committing with its last snapshot persisted in JaversRepository. For large object graphs it could take a while.

A: If your transaction (without JaVers) takes 30 seconds to insert 100 rows, I guess you have some performance problems with your infrastructure, possibly a database. On well-tuned database, inserts throughput is measured in milliseconds and not in hundreds of milliseconds.

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current mode drivers are coupled with very high impedance to lower power consumption. This also isolates them from teh vagaries of the interconnect. They can be designed much more easily for lower power than full swing voltage mode drivers.
like an open to the transmission line.
to have current source like drivers for high speed signaling?
such as a resistor's IV curve? Am I missing something?
I agree with Ken's excellent response. In fact most high speed drivers should behave close to ideal current sources. Otherwise the device will be in deep trouble.
However advanced modeling will require "structural" circuits. Specctraquest has this ability with a comprehesive suite of controlled sources which we use extensively.
simpler and the interconnect model becomes much more detailed and complex.
be OK using IBIS style models for some pretty high speed applications.
quite a bit for modeling complex passive stuff like packages, vias, etc.
Your results will be very dependent on how well you can model these things.
is another data point for you on behavioral vs. structural device mod! ! ! ! eling.
application, and your mileage will vary.
personal design experience about when you would use one versus the other.
pond gets a bit thin.
them and how we can improve the IBIS model.
> The answer to your question is: it depends.
> were doing things differently.
> on which you can base design decisions.
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View of Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific, 2011, Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis. Courtesy of the artist, Photo: Whitney Curtis.
Tomás Saraceno: Cloud-Specific showcases newly commissioned artworks by this Argentine artist internationally recognized for his fantastic architectural proposals and environmental installations. Featuring a selection of his latest pneumatic sculptures, video work, and experimental prototypes,the installation at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum highlights the breadth of the artist's practice while significantly advancing his ongoing exploration of an "Air-Port-City," a visionary project for a sustainable city in the sky consisting of a series of bubble-like cells fueled by solar energy. Based on extensive material investigation, Saraceno's spatial practice crosses disciplinary boundaries, effectively transforming the gallery into a laboratory space that raises challenging questions about the sociopolitical condition of the lived environment and our potential to transform it. A fully illustrated catalogue, coedited by Meredith Malone, exhibition curator, and Igor Marjanovic, associate professor of architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, and distributed by the University of Chicago Press, accompanies the exhibition.
Tomás Saraceno was born in Tucamn, Argentina, in 1973 and lives in Frankfurt, Germany. He trained as an architect at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires (1992–99) and did postgraduate work in art and architecture at the Staatliche Hochschule fr Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt (2001–03). In 2009, he won the Calder Prize and that summer was artist-in-residence at the International Space Studies Program at NASA. Upcoming projects include major commissions at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and K21, Dusseldorf. Saraceno has had recent solo exhibitions at the Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2010); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2010); Muse d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2009); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009); Berkeley Art Museum, University of California (2007); and Portikus, Frankfurt (2006). His work was featured in Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale (2009) and numerous other group exhibitions in Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, and Berlin.
The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, is committed to preserving and developing its art collection and continuing its legacy of collecting significant art of the time; providing excellence in art historical scholarship, education, and exhibition; inspiring social and intellectual inquiry into the connections between art and contemporary life; and engaging audiences on campus, in the local community, across the nation, and worldwide. The Kemper Art Museum dates back to 1881 with the founding of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts at Washington University. The Sam Fox School, established in 2005, links strong studio programs in art and architecture with the resources of the Museum. As such, it is dedicated to the creation, study, and exhibition of multidisciplinary and collaborative work with an emphasis on fostering intellectual exchange.


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Rocking your way to radio
Celina Feng
What big-name competitions have to give and gain from young bands
Photo courtesy of the CBC
If you know someone who's in a band, or you're in one yourself, you probably know how hard it is to get discovered.
Nowadays, it's easier than ever to play, record, and sell music, but that also means the music scene is more saturated. After all, you can only post so many links to your Bandcamp page and invites to your show at the local dive bar.
Many young bands make use of big-win opportunities like the Big Money Shot competition run by Ottawa radio station Live 88.5. This month, CBC Music launched its own version of battle of the bands with Rock Your Campus, a contest that promises the winning artist or group $10,000 in cash, free production of a music video, a headlining concert, and CBC airplay.
"At CBC Music, part of our mandate is to support young Canadian talent and expose that talent to the rest of Canada," says Judith Lynch, associate producer of CBC/Radio-Canada. "We love discovering great new music and it's really important for us to help new artists out," she says.
Much like other contests of its kind, Rock Your Campus relies on fan voting through social media websites, which often means the most popular band, regardless of talent, is crowned the winner.
Are these branded, sponsored competitions the best way to promote Canadian talent? Sean Callaghan, co-founder of Ottawa's E.L.E Festival, says he wholeheartedly supports them simply because they help promote Canadian music. But he says those that give wider and more consistent help to young Canadian talent are more commendable.
"I do like to see events that are more rewarding to a group or the Canadian music scene in general, as opposed to a single individual or band," such as the CBC Bandwidth program run by Amanda Putz, which "consistently promotes up-and-coming Canadian talent," he says. "It's these types of programs that really help build the foundation for Canadian music to grow."
Catching your "big break" through major competitions like these are rare, he says, and there's always room for local festivals that promote multiple artists to a larger Canadian audience.
"I am noticing more and more events like ours that are about mutual promotion and bringing the music community together, where everyone benefits as opposed to only the 'winner,' which I think is a positive thing for the music community that will ultimately yield more long term success stories," he says.
Greggory Clark, a local musician and the media director of Ottawa-based label Pop Drone, says the promotion that comes from radio play and big competitions is a two-way street.
"Where there are keen listeners can be a great place to play. CBC's Searchlight 2014, and Live 88.5's Big Money Shot have contributed plenty to artists," he says.
"Bands, though, are directing audiences to the station and a few will see the return in new listeners from the station. In participating, you're promoting the CBC to your existing audience."
Clark suggests that bands look at how the radio station will benefit from them, not just how they can benefit from the radio station.
"Bands could ask what the radio station is doing for them, if only a handful are going to benefit from promo and prize money," he says.. "For $10,000 the CBC has hired hundreds of brand ambassadors who are willing to put in work for nothing, or a slim chance at something. A marketing manager somewhere is smiling."
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Starting out as a small get-together with a piece of cardboard to breakdance on, it has grown exponentially over the years into a festival spanning over five days, and including a huge variety of events, with an attendance of almost 10,000 people.
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I made this plaque as a shower gift for my sister- in-law when my niece was born. It made from foam core board covered with patterned paper and then elements Mod Podged on top. The fairy is made from felt and patterned paper with buttons for hands and stamped wings with Distress Stickles added to them. The face is an old picture of my grandmother, Chloe's great-grandmother. The gift box is a Clementine crate decoupaged with coordinated patterned paper. I can't believe my beautiful niece is almost one year old!
Love the fairy ~ so sweet. What a great gift. A keepsake, for sure!


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The UK is abandoning its alliance with Trump as the United States 'withdraws from its leadership around the world'
Adam Bienkov
President Donald Trump.
The UK is threatening to tear up its defense alliance with the US after President Donald Trump's Iran crisis triggered a rupture between the two countries.
UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sunday Times that the UK was looking to forge stronger alliances with other international partners that shared its priorities.
He said the US under Trump risked withdrawing from its global leadership role.
Wallace also said Trump threatened to tear up the US's intelligence-sharing relationship with the UK.
President Donald Trump's order to assassinate Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani has triggered a major rupture between the US and its historically closest ally, the UK.
In remarkably outspoken comments, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview published Sunday that Trump's isolationist foreign-policy stance had prompted the UK to look for alternative allies.
"I worry if the United States withdraws from its leadership around the world," he told The Sunday Times.
He added: "The assumptions of 2010 that we were always going to be part of a US coalition is really just not where we are going to be."
The comments came after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government distanced itself from the attack that killed Soleimani, with UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab labeling it a "dangerous escalation" that risked a conflict in which "terrorists would be the only winners."
A spokesman for Johnson was also quick to condemn Trump's threats to target Iranian cultural sites, if carried out, as a breach of international law and possibly a war crime.
The UK is now openly threatening to tear up its long-standing defense partnership with the US.
The US 'withdraws from its leadership' of the world under Trump
Trump and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Wallace told The Sunday Times that the UK was increasingly looking for alternative international allies.
"Over the last year we've had the US pullout from Syria, the statement by Donald Trump on Iraq where he said NATO should take over and do more in the Middle East," Wallace said.
"The assumptions of 2010 that we were always going to be part of a US coalition is really just not where we are going to be."
Wallace said the UK would need to reduce its dependence on US military assets.
"We are very dependent on American air cover and American intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets," he said. "We need to diversify our assets."
Wallace told the paper that the UK would increasingly need to turn to other allies that more closely shared the UK's interests.
"Regardless of what the US does ... we are going to have to make decisions that allow us to stand with a range of allies, the Five Eyes [intelligence partnership with the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand] and our European allies where our interests converge," he said.
Trump is threatening to cut intelligence ties with the UK
Wallace also said the Trump administration had threatened to cut off its intelligence-sharing partnership with the UK if Johnson's government pursued its plan to allow the Chinese technology company Huawei a role in building Britain's 5G network.
"They have repeatedly said that. They have been clear about that," he told the paper.
"President Trump, the national security adviser. The defense secretary said it personally to me directly when we met at NATO. It's not a secret. They have been consistent. Those things will be taken into account when the government collectively decides to make a decision on it."
He added: "Friends and enemies that are independent make you choose."
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\section{Introduction}
In recent years, the formation of mesoscopic structures on crystal surfaces has become a
subject of intense experimental investigations. Generally, for non periodically ordered nanostructures,
the increasing specific area is favorable in order to enhance the physical properties (in optics,
semiconducting etc) owing to the increased number of active sites \cite{shalaev}. \\
\indent
We will study here the evolution of a thin YSZ film deposited on a single $\alpha$-alumina
crystalline substrate with planar defects \cite{bachelet}. The thin film itself is polycrystalline with the
size of crystals corresponding to the thin film thickness. The experimental method employed
to obtain such thin films is sol gel processing \cite{brinker}. The sol gel method proceeds as follows:
a thin film is deposited at room temperature on a substrate by dip-coating. After a first
heat treatment (stage I), the thin film of nanometric thickness is made of a large amount
of nanocrystals of random orientation. At this stage the film thickness is much larger than
the mean size of these nanocrystals. After a second heat treatment at higher temperature
(stage II), thermal annealing induces grain growth. At this stage, the size of the crystals is
of the order of the film thickness. Simultaneously, the film is submitted to fragmentation
into more or less interconnected islands in order to reduce the total energy and hence to
reach a more stable state \cite{miller}. \\
\indent
The aim of this article is to model the spontaneous formation of nanoislands and
especially the evolution of their crystallographic orientations, without
matter deposition, during thermal annealing of polycrystalline nanometric thin films.
Here, we used a Monte Carlo method applied to a polycrystalline thin film.
This model is derived from the Solid on Solid model but is applied here in the absence of deposition.
Our model is also derived from the two dimensional models of polycrystalline materials which computed
the evolution of polycrystalline domains during thermal treatments \cite{srolo1, srolo2, srolo3}.
Our model is based on energetic considerations: we compute the energies resulting from the elastic strains
due to surface morphology of the thin film, the lattice mismatches and the grain boundary energies.
We will see that the resulting shapes of the islands depend on the relative values of these three energies.
This model seems to be a good approach to describe the fundamental mechanisms of nanoislands formation and
crystallographic orientation, without matter deposition, from the breaking of a thin film
under thermal annealing. \\
\indent
In section II, we shall present the model. In section III, numerical results are discussed.
Section IV corresponds to the conclusion.

\section{Numerical procedure}
We modelled a polycrystalline thin film deposited on a single crystalline substrate with
a random distribution of defects. The thin film is divided into 10$^4$ domains. Each domain
contains approximately 500 to 1000 atoms. The substrate has a random distribution of
planar defects and the domains have a section depending on the distribution of defects. The
locations of the defects are generated by a random distribution of points on the substrate.
The horizontal sections of the domains correspond to the Voronoi array of the locations of the
defects. The locations of the domains do not change during computation: no displacements
of the defects are occurring in the substrate. This model represents a polycrystalline thin
film deposited on a single crystalline substrate with planar defects. \\
\indent
In a previous article \cite{olivi}, we used the following energetic equation for the evolution of the
height of the nanocrystals:

\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta E_i & = & Al_i^2\sum_{j=1}^{NN}(h_i-h_j) \\
A & = & Y(1+\nu)\sqrt{\left( \frac{D_S\gamma_S\Delta t}{k_BT} \right)}
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
where $h_i$ (respectively $h_j$) is the height of elementary domain $i$ (respectively $j$) and $NN$ the number of
next nearest neighbours. $Y$ is the Young modulus, $\nu$ the Poisson ratio related to the displacement $l_i$ in the horizontal direction.
$D_S$ is the self-surface diffusion constant, $\gamma_S$ the surface tension, $\Delta t$ the time interval between
two Monte Carlo steps, $k_B$ the Boltzmann constant and $T$ the absolute temperature. \\
\indent
The crystallographic reorientation of a domain may be related to the modification of the
inter-plane spacing. Indeed, for our system of $N$ lattice domains, the energy necessary to
change crystallographic orientation for domain $i$ with respect to domain $j$ becomes \cite{olivi}:

\begin{eqnarray}
\Delta E'_i & = & B\left( \frac{l_i^2}{h_i}+l_i \right)\sum_{j=1}^{NN}(d_{hi}-d_{hs}-(d_{hj}-d'_{hs})) \\
& + & C\left( \frac{l_i^2}{h_i}+l_i \right)\sum_{j=1}^{NN}(d_{vi}-d_{vs}-(d_{vj}-d'_{vs}))
\end{eqnarray}

\noindent
where $B=C=2\gamma_{jg}$ is the surface tension at the grain boundary induced by the association
of two free surfaces. The parameter $d$ is the inter-plane spacing of the family planes, thus
the value of d is defined as: $d = 1/|\mathbf{r}|$, where $\mathbf{r}$ (the reciprocal space lattice vector in m$^{-1}$),
is orthogonal to the family planes. As a consequence, $d_{vi}$ and $d_{vj}$ (respectively $d_{vs}$ and $d'_{vs}$)
are the inter-planes spacings of the family planes of the domains $i$ and $j$ (respectively of the
substrate) in the vertical plane (orthogonal to the interface). The parameters $d_{hi}$ and $d_{hj}$
(respectively $d_{hs}$ and $d'_{hs}$) are the inter-planes spacings of the family planes of the domains
$i$ and $j$ (respectively of the substrate) in the horizontal plane (parallel to the interface). See
figure 1 for a schematic view of all inter-plane spacings. In our model, each domain owns
three states ($h_i$, $d_{vi}$, $d_{hi}$); $h_i$ has its value ranging from 0 nm to a value that depends on the
physical properties of the thin film as will be seen in the results. \\
\indent
Straightforwardly, we consider here three aspects which contribute to the energy of our
thin film consisting of crystal species: the grain boundary energy (which is here equivalent
to the interfacial energy between two elementary domains of different crystallographic ori-
entations), the interfacial energy (which corresponds to the difference of energy between one
elementary domain and the substrate) and the surface energy (which is related here to the
height of each elementary domain). \\
\indent
At the beginning of computation, i.e. at $t=0$ MCS, all elementary domains were assumed
to have a height of 1 nm (the thin film is perfectly flat) and a random inter-plane spacing i.e.
0.5, 1, 1.5 or 2.5 \AA \space for both vertical and horizontal directions. The inter-plane spacings of the
substrate are chosen to be constant in the horizontal direction whereas they are as large as
the number of next nearest neighbours of the corresponding elementary domain is high. This
model is suitable to take into account the planar defects of the substrate which modifies the
inter-plane spacing of the substrate itself at its surface in the vertical direction. The Monte
Carlo algorithm works according to the classical Metropolis scheme \cite{metro}. A lattice domain is
chosen proportionally to its number of very next neighbours for three events (changes in the
projections of the crystallographic orientation and height exchange) occurring. A neighbour
of each domain is also chosen at random, and the energies given by equations (1), (2), (3)
and (4) are computed. The following numerical results have been averaged over 10 runs.

\section{Results and Discussion}
We computed all the results presented in the following figures at a temperature $T=1800$ K
which corresponds to experimental data ($\sim$1500\textsuperscript{o}C). We have chosen $Y=300$ GPa,
$\nu=0.3$ and $D_S=8.10^{-5}$ m$^2$.s$^{-1}$\cite{ridder}; $\gamma_S=620.10^{-3}$ J.m$^{-2}$\cite{pascal}.
$\Delta t$ is chosen to simulate the experimental time (i.e. 15 min) according to the total number of Monte-Carlo Steps
- MCS - (i.e. 10$^9$) thus $\Delta t=9.10^{-7}$ s and $k_B\sim1.38.10^{-23}$ J.K$^{-1}$; as a consequence $A=1755.10^{13}$ J.m$^{-3}$.
According to the cubic symmetry of the YSZ phase, the surface tension at the grain
boundary can be considered as independent of the crystallographic orientation at first
order. Indeed we found in the literature a relative difference of $\sim$20$\%$ for $\gamma_{jg}$ for all
crystallographic orientations [11]. Finally we have chosen $B=C=2\gamma_jg=2\gamma_s=1240.10^{-3}$ J.m$^{-2}$. \\
\\
\indent
The aim of this section is to understand the influence of the substrate on the evolution of
the heights and crystallographic orientations of the elementary domains. We performed the
Monte Carlo process as written in section II, for a substrate with planar defects. \\
\\
\indent
We focus hereafter on the evolution of the heights of the domains. \\
In figure 2 one can see a top view of a thin film after 10$^9$ MCS. The domains are represented
by squares and the substrate appears in white; the grey level of each domain is as high as its height is small.
This figure clearly shows the islanding process of the thin film which breaks into discrete domains during
the computation process. This result is also illustrated on figure 3 where the number of domains of a given
height (1, 2, 3 or 4 nm) is represented as a function of the computation time (MCS). One
can note a huge increasement of the number of domain with height $h=0$ nm correlated
to the decreasement of the number of domains with height $h=1$ nm after 10$^3$ MCS. This
evolution illustrates the result presented on figure 2. One can note moreover that the number
of domains with heights 2, 3 and 4 nm increase during a short time and vanish after. From
figure 2 it is clear that the islanding process is very efficient; as a consequence, the height
of the domains increase dramatically higher than 2, 3, or even 4 nm which explain the
tendency illustrated on figure 3. Consequently, our numerical approach accurately simulate
the experimental results of Bachelet and coll.\cite{bachelet} who demonstrate a enhanced growth in
height of the YSZ nanocrystals on a alpha-alumina substrate with planar defects. \\
\indent
We now turn to the evolution of the inter-plane spacings of the domains in the vertical
direction. \\
On figure 4 one can see the evolution of the number of domains with a given inter-plane
spacing in the vertical direction with regard to the computation time. It is clear that at the
end of the computation process the 10$^4$ domains reach the highest inter-plane spacing in the
vertical direction. This result is in perfect agreement with the experimental investigations of
Bachelet and coll.\cite{bachelet}. Indeed, these authors demonstrate that, on a $\alpha$-alumina substrate
with planar defects, the YSZ nanocrystals reach the [111] crystallographic direction in the
direction normal to the interface i.e. the vertical direction in our model.

\section{Conclusion}
We modelled the islanding, without deposition, of polycrystalline thin films by a Monte
Carlo process. The governing equation allowing to compute the energy of each of these
domains takes into account their height, their horizontal and vertical inter-plane spacings
with respect to the substrate. \\
\indent
Our numerical results traduce the experimental fact that the YSZ nanocrystals, which are
obtained after thermal treatment of an YSZ thin film on a alpha-alumina substrate with
planar defects, grow in height and reach the crystallographic direction [111] in the direction
normal to the interface. \\
\indent
The conclusion of this computation is that the influence of the planar defects of the substrate
can not be neglected as it leads to different crystallographic orientations of the nanocrys-
tals. The comprehension of the physical parameters involved in both the morphological and
epitaxial properties of YSZ nanocrystals on crystalline substrates is a key point to design
new systems suitable for photoluminescence applications.

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Pulkkinen, Tuija I. & Partamies, N. & Kilpua, E. K. J.. 2014. Substorm occurrence during quiet solar wind driving. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space physics, Vol. 119, nro 4. pp. 2978-2989. ISSN 2169-9402 (electronic). ISSN 2169-9380 (printed). DOI: 10.1002/2013JA019503.
We examine the OMNI database and International Monitor for Auroral Geomagnetic Effects (IMAGE) magnetometer chain records to study the substorm occurrence and characteristics during quiet solar driving periods, especially during the solar minimum period in 2009. We define substorm-like activations as periods where the hourly average AL is below −200 nT. Using the OMNI data set, we demonstrate that there are limiting solar wind speed, interplanetary magnetic field magnitude, and driving electric field values below which substorm-like activations (AL < 200 nT, intensification and decay of the electrojet) do not occur. These minimum parameter values are V < 266 km/s, B < 1.4 nT, and E < 0.025 mV/m; such low values are observed less than 1% of the time. We also show that for the same level of driving solar wind electric field, the electrojet intensity is smaller (by few tens of nT), and the electrojet resides farther poleward (by over 1°) during extended quiet solar driving in 2009 than during average solar activity conditions. During the solar minimum period in 2009, we demonstrate that substorm-like activations can be identified from the IMAGE magnetometer chain observations during periods when the hourly average IL index is below −100 nT. When the hourly IL activity is smaller than that, which covers 87% of the nighttime observations, the electrojet does not show coherent behavior. We thus conclude that substorm recurrence time during very quiet solar wind driving conditions is about 5–8 h, which is almost double that of the average solar activity conditions.


Ambur Mutton Biryani is spicy and aromatic and is ideal for days you want to impress your family with a dish which is bursting with flavours and is a complete meal in itself. It uses fennel seeds, curd and mint which gives it an edge over other rice recipes. If you are a lover of mutton dishes, this biryani recipe is a must try.


THE DRAKE EQUATION - TIME FOR JUDGEMENT!
'Variables EP'- after a bigger tour and being in the final of one of the most famous rock-metal contest of Scandinavia, these five guys from Västerås are ready to conquer the metal era. At least its seem so. Their first album will release soon- maybe in one month, but the hungry audience already got a chance to taste how the Drake disc will sound.
As the style and the message of it, the feeling also interesting about this track from Drake, as melodism also shaked with the most hardest metalcore elements, and fast screaming voice in it- calming down in the middle to give place for the thoughts also, folowed by yells again. Crazy as genius, and progressive at all. Big questions about life, and our world in serving like that? It seems that 'Variables EP' will be a kind of masterpiece from these youngs, for alls, who had a bit piece of metal heart ever.
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Discussion Sessions and Supplementary Materials for
Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities
by Jeffrey S. Rosenthal
Below are some "Discussion Sessions" to be used with students in conjunction with the book Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities. Each Session consists of a short reading assignment from the book, together with some questions to inspire discussion. The intention is that the students will first do the reading and make notes about the questions on their own (e.g. as homework), and then the entire class will have a full discussion of the issues raised. (The students should also be invited to offer additional observations / comments / questions / opinions about the readings.) I have found that the Sessions lead to class discussions usually lasting approximately 45 minutes.
The book and questions are appropriate for group study or for high-school or university students. You are welcome to use these Discussion Sessions in your own teaching. If you do, I would appreciate your letting me know.
Below are also links to some "Supplementary Materials" (in pdf format) for in-class small-group exercises. They are listed under the chapter to which they most closely correspond, but many of them can be used at virtually any point in the course. Their levels and lengths vary, but generally they are slightly more mathematical/technical exercises which expand upon the book's material. They usually take about 45-60 minutes including follow-up discussion, and work well for groups of 3-4 students with limited mathematics background. (See also a related course and other questions.)
Discussion Session #1: Introduction
Read Chapter 1 (pages 1-6), and then answer the following questions.
Make a brief point-form list of the 3-4 different kinds of randomness, mentioned in the chapter, that you found the most interesting (and why).
List 2-3 kinds of randomness (whether mentioned in the chapter or not) that have affected your life in some interesting way (and explain how).
Supplementary Materials: intro, gambler
Discussion Session #2: Coincidences, Part I
Read the beginning of Chapter 2, from page 7 to the end of page 14. While you read, consider (and make notes about) the following questions:
What does the book mean by "out of how many"?
Consider the following six "stories" from the reading: the lottery winner, the ten coin flips, Disney World, the friend's dream, Richard Feynman, the molecules of water, and Darth Vader versus Lord Dark Helmet. For each of these six stories:
(a) Provide a one-sentence summary of the story.
(b) Explain (in one more sentence) what we can conclude from the story.
Describe Milgram's "six degrees of separation" experiment. Had you heard of it before? Do you find it interesting? What can we learn from it? What flaws did it have?
What are "Erdos numbers"? What other similar "numbers" have been developed? Do you find them interesting? Can you suggest any other similar "numbers" not mentioned in the book?
Think of two or three "coincidences" that have occurred in your own life. For each one, answer the following questions:
(a) Did you find it surprising? Why or why not?
(b) Did you feel that it happened just by chance, or that it had some special significance? Why?
(c) To what extent do you feel that it can or cannot be explained by considering "out of how many"?
Supplementary Materials: seating
Discussion Session #3: Coincidences, Part II
Read the end of Chapter 2, from page 15 to the end of page 22. While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
Why is it so much more likely that some pair of people at a party will have the same birthday, than that someone at the party will have their birthday today? Explain.
Do you think that some pair of people in this class has the same birthday? Why or why not? What if we also include everyone's mother's birthday, as well?
Why does the value 0.69 (on page 16) represent "a little bit of overcounting"?
How do you think we could calculate the exact probability that some pair out of 23 people has the same birthday? [Hint: This is equal to one minus the probability that no pair has the same birthday, i.e. that every birthday is different.]
What is the conclusion of the "Musical Mayhem" story? Do you find it surprising?
What is "Poisson clumping"? How is it related to Figure 2.1? How is it related to the five Toronto homicides in the first week of November, 2003? What other examples of Poisson clumping does the book allude to?
What is the "common cause" explanation? How does it relate to the "Parental Musings" story?
Think of at least two examples of coincidences from your own life, or that you have heard or read about, which you think can be explained by "number of pairs" or "Poisson clumping" or "common cause". Describe your reasoning.
Supplementary Materials: fives, matchings
Discussion Session #4: Law of Large Numbers, Part I
Read the beginning of Chapter 3, from page 23 to page 30 (stop at "Another game is keno"). While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
What are the "two key facts" which explain why casinos always make money? Did you already know these facts? Do you find them surprising?
What is the Law of Large Numbers, and how is it related to casino profits?
What can we conclude from the "Honorable Bus Fine" story?
What are all the different roulette bets which are considered?
For each of those bets, how is the average outcome calculated? What does it work out to be?
What "gambler's ruin" question is considered (p. 27)? What answer is provided? How does this answer compare with what you would have guessed? How difficult do you think it would be to compute this answer mathematically?
What can we conclude from the "Slowly but Surely" story?
Supplementary Materials: gambler1 (longer; could save until later), mathrem, gambler2
Discussion Session #5: Law of Large Numbers, Part II
Read the end of Chapter 3, from page 32 ("Rolling the Dice") to the end of page 43. While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
Summarise the three different explanations for why, when rolling two ordinary dice, the most likely sum is 7. Did you already know that fact? Do you find the explanations convincing?
Explain how to compute the probability of getting at least one 3, if you roll an ordinary die 4 times. And of getting at least one pair of 6's, if you roll a pair of ordinary dice 24 times. What is the historical significance of these calculations?
Explain the rules of craps, and the probability of winning.
Do you know (or can you easily figure out) how to compute the probability of winning at craps? If yes, explain how. Or, if no, explain why it is difficult, and whether or not you would like to learn how.
What is a "Don't Pass Line" bet? Why does it not give the edge to the player?
Summarise the examples presented in the section "A Life of Large Numbers". Do you find the asserted connections to the Law of Large Numbers to be convincing? Why or why not?
Come up with at least two examples from your own life, of events which are somehow related to the Law of Large Numbers.
Supplementary Materials: craps
Discussion Session #6: Card Games and Beyond
Read the beginning of Chapter 4, from page 44 to the end of page 51, and also from the middle of page 60 ("Patience, Patience") to the end of page 62. While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
What is the point of the Larry Bird and bowling examples?
Do you play bridge? Poker? Other games of chance? Do you enjoy them?
In bridge, what is a "finesse"? How do expert players differ from novices when it comes to finesses?
What is duplicate bridge? To what extent does duplicate bridge eliminate luck from bridge? Explain. How is this related to the "Bridge Bickering" story?
In poker, what is the probability of successfully drawing to a Flush? How does this depend on the opponents' face-up cards?
What is the difference between drawing to an Inside Straight and an Outside Straight? How are the probabilities related? Why?
Explain the probability calculation in the "Showdown" story on page 50.
What are "pot odds"? How can they help make decisions when playing poker? Explain the pot odds calculation on page 51.
Why is "patience" required to be successful at games of chance? How is this related to the Portuguese Postal Puzzle story?
Think of at least two examples from your own life in which you had a high probability of winning or succeeding at something, but you still didn't win due to bad luck and insufficient repetition.
Supplementary Materials: smallsum, pokerprobs, flush
Discussion Session #7: Homicide Counts and Rates
Read the beginning of Chapter 5, from page 63 to the middle of page 68 ("... how large is the decline?"). While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
According to the book, what segments of society declare that violent crime is increasing? What evidence does the book give for this?
Can you think of any other examples of people declaring that violent crime is increasing?
What is the difference between homicide counts, and homicide rates? Why is this distinction important?
Give at least four examples from the book of pairs of countries or regions, for which one of them has a higher homicide count, and the other one has a higher homicide rate.
What is the connection between homicide rates versus counts, and the "out of how many" principle from Chapter 2?
Describe the data in Figure 5.2, noting as many features as you can. What do you think we can and cannot conclude from this graph? Explain your reasoning.
In the summer of 2005 (just after the book was written), the city of Toronto experienced a higher-than-usual number of homicides involving handguns, leading to many alarming headlines ("summer of the gun", "Toronto has lost its innocence", "guns used to bathe Toronto in blood", ...). Do you feel that this was the start of a new and dangerous period of violent crime, or merely a statistical fluctuation that will soon disappear? Explain your reasoning. The following data may help:
Homicides per 100,000 population of various metropolitan regions in 2005:
Toronto 1.96; Winnipeg 3.72; Regina 3.97; Edmonton 4.29; New York 6.60; Los Angeles 12.6; Chicago 15.6; Buffalo 19.8; Detroit 39.5. All of Canada: 2.04. (Toronto in 1991: 2.41.)
Discussion Session #8: Homicide Trends
Read the end of Chapter 5, from the middle of page 68 ("Measuring Trends: Regression") to the end of page 77. While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
What is "regression", and how does it avoid bias and subjectivity? How does it relate to the "Weight Gain, Weight Loss" story?
Explain the purpose and conclusion of each of the first five figures of Chapter 5, i.e. Figures 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5. Also explain the relation between the different figures: do they present different information? are they all necessary? why or why not?
Summarise the comparison of homicides in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Great Britain. Do you find any of the comparisons surprising? Why or why not?
Summarise the content of Table 5.3. Do you find any of the information surprising? Why or why not?
Summarise the comments about crime rate trends in the section "Playing with Numbers?" What is your reaction to these comments? Why does the section conclude by saying "Just the facts, ma'am"?
Last Session, we discussed the question of whether Toronto's higher-than-usual number of homicides in 2005 represented the start of a new and dangerous period of violent crime, or merely a statistical fluctuation that will soon disappear. Has your opinion on this question been affected by anything from this Session? Why or why not?
Discussion Session #9: Utility Functions
Read the book from the top of page 87 to the end of page 95. While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
Summarise the two decisions made in the story "Walk or Ride?" Do you agree with the decisions? Why or why not?
What are utility functions?
How were utility functions used in the book to decide about the wedding, and about phoning "Juan"? (Explain the calculations used.)
Do you personally believe that expected values of utility functions are a good way to make decisions? Do you think that most people make decisions this way (whether they realise it or not)? Why or why not?
Summarise the calculations in the book about the insurance policy. Why does the book say that insurance can sometimes be a win-win situation? Do you personally believe in purchasing insurance? Why or why not?
Summarise the various examples of differing utility functions in the section "Your Utility or Mine?" Give an example from your own life where two people had significantly different utility functions, and a conflict that arose as a result.
On a scale where seeing a pretty good movie equals +10, decide (with brief explanation) on the value of your own personal utility function for each of the following events: (a) getting caught in the rain without a jacket; (b) finding a $20 bill; (c) losing a $20 bill; (d) winning one million dollars; (e) winning ten million dollars.
Based solely on your utility function values, would you be willing to run through the rain without a jacket (a) in order to pick up a $20 bill you found? (b) in order to pick up a lottery ticket that had one chance in a million of being worth ten million dollars? (Explain your calculations.)
Think of an example (as different as possible from those already mentioned in the book or the previous question) of an event which is quite unlikely, but which would have significant consequences. Give a rough guess of its probability, and also decide (with brief explanation) the value of your utility function for the consequences (again, on a scale where seeing a pretty good movie equals +10).
Supplementary Materials: utility, utility2
Discussion Session #10: Medical Studies, Part I
Read the book from page 96 to the middle of page 106 (ending with "... publicize their product"). While you read, consider (and make brief notes about) the following questions:
Summarise the "Lucky Shot?" story. What answer would you give to the boyfriend at the end?
What does it mean to "just get lucky"?
What are p-values? (Give as much detail as possible.)
What is the "5% standard"? Do you feel that 5% is an appropriate standard? Why or why not? Does it depend what is being studied?
Discuss the various calculations related to the Probabilitus example and the candies example.
In the Probabilitus example, suppose instead that 70 patients out of 100 were cured. Do you think this would this "prove" that the drug works? Why or why not? What mathematical quantity would be important for determining this?
What is the principle of "regression to the mean", why does it arise, and what examples does the book provide?
Explain "sampling bias" and "reporting bias". Summarise the book's examples of them. Think of two additional examples not from the book.
On July 31, 2005, the Globe and Mail newspaper's web site conducted an on-line survey, in which they asked, "Which medium do you rely on most to keep abreast of the news?" They received 1623 responses, and the results were: Television, 194 votes (12%); Radio, 110 votes (7%); Newspapers, 298 votes (18%); Internet, 1013 votes (62%); Magazines, 8 votes (0.5%). To what extent does this survey "prove" that most Canadians receive most of their news from the Internet? Explain. How is this related to medical studies?
Supplementary Materials: medical, medical2, regtomean
Discussion Session #11: Medical Studies, Part II
Read from the middle of page 106 (beginning with "Publication Bias") to the bottom of page 114 of the book. While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
What is "publication bias"?
Summarise the stories about each of: asking your mom/dad; Happiness Hats; Dr. Nancy Olivieri; Dr. Betty Dong; and Vioxx. What do these stories all have in common? What can we learn from them?
What did the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors declare in 2001? How is it related to publication bias? Do you feel that it will completely solve the problem of bias in medical studies? Why or why not?
What does it mean that "correlation does not imply causation"?
Summarise the stories about each of: the Jumping Frog; cigarettes and yellow stains; the Meditation Medical Miracle; the medical school class presidents; and television versus violence. What do these stories all have in common? What can we learn from them?
What are "randomized trials"? How do they relate to correlation and causation? Do you think they solve all problems of interpreting causation? Why or why not?
The next time your doctor tells you to take a certain drug or action because studies prove it is beneficial, how will you react? Why?
Supplementary Materials: medical3
Optional Mid-Course Amusement:
Read the book's "Interlude" (Chapter 9, pages 133-144) for a little fun reading. Note any comments or questions or reactions that you have.
Then, if you wish, make up your own humorous probability story -- just a few paragraphs long -- in the spirit of the book's Interlude. (You can later read your story out to the class.)
Discussion Session #12: Election Polls
Read the beginning of Chapter 10 of the book, from page 145 to the end of page 153. While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
What elections (including referenda) are referred to in these readings? (List as many as you can.) Which of them had you already heard of?
Why does the book claim that "polls provide us with more direct democracy than elections do"? To what extent do you agree or disagree? Why?
Why does the book claim that polls "provide an extra level of communication among the electorate"? What examples are given to support this claim? To what extent do you agree or disagree with it? Why?
According to the book, what does a poll's "margin of error" really mean? What factors does it take into account? What factors does it not take into account?
What examples does the book give of elections (and referenda) in which voter opinion changed after polls were conducted? (List as many as you can, and provide as much detail as possible.)
What examples does the book give of situations in which respondents will provide dishonest or misleading answers to pollsters?
Summarise the (fictional) story about the "Apathy Party", and explain what we can learn from it.
Explain the example of the cannabis survey, and how a "randomized response" poll could help.
Given everything you have learned so far about election polls, to what extent do you think they can or cannot be used to predict the results of an upcoming election? Explain.
Supplementary Materials: pollster
Discussion Session #13: Margins of Error
Read pages 164 to 171 (inclusive) of the book, and also the story "An Uncertain Day" on pages 174-175. While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
From a probability perspective, in what way is conducting a poll like flipping coins? In what way is it different?
What does the book claim is the "95% Range for Percentage of Heads when Flipping 10 Coins"? What does this mean?
What about for 100 coins?
What formula does the book claim for the margin of error when flipping lots of coins? Do you understand how it was derived? How is it related to the "bell curve"? How is it related to the margin of error for polls?
For each of the four polls summarised on pages 145-146:
(a) How closely does the published margin of error follow the claimed formula?
(b) How close was the poll's result to the actual election result?
(c) Was the poll's true error (compared to the actual election result) more or less than the published margin of error?
Find some election poll not mentioned in the book (e.g. from the internet, or from a current election), which includes the number of people sampled and a margin of error. How closely does the published margin of error match the book's formula?
What examples does the "Uncertain Day" story give about how margins of error might arise in everyday life? For each example, do you agree that it is a valid illustration of margins of error in everyday life? Why or why not?
Present at least two additional examples, not mentioned in the book, of how margins of error might arise in everyday life.
Supplementary Materials: buffon
Discussion Session #14: Randomness to the Rescue
Read Chapter 12 from page 176 to the middle of page 185 (ending with "but to create it"), and also all of page 192. While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
What action does the book claim gives results that the CIA couldn't reproduce in a million years? Do you believe this? Do you find it surprising? Why or why not? Does it give you any new perspective about your daily activities, and if so, what?
Give an additional example (not from the book) of types of things people frequently do, which have probably never occurred before precisely that way in all of human history.
Explain the stories of the million monkeys and the Internet searches. Had you heard of them before? Do you find them surprising? Why or why not?
Perform a few Internet searches of your own (on search strings not from the book), using the Google search engine, keeping track of the number of hits each time, to further illustrate the book's story about Internet searches. You could try random digits, random letters, or even random sequences of words (within quotation marks).
Explain the examples about Johnny Hooker, Rock/Paper/Scissors, and the World Series. Did you find them convincing? What do they all have in common?
Do you think that the game Rock/Paper/Scissors involves some skill, or is just pure luck? After considering this question, try out the NYT RPS robot (on "Veteran" mode); how did you do, and how does that affect your answer to this question?
Summarise the uses of randomness by computers. Do you find any of them surprising?
What are "pseudorandom numbers"?
Summarise the story "Dividing the Restaurant Bill". Do you feel that the solution reached was fair? Why or why not? How is the solution related to the Law of Large Numbers? How are these questions related to this auction house newspaper story?
Have you ever considered using such a method in the past? Would you consider using such a method in the future?
Supplementary Materials: rng
Discussion Session #15: Randomness in Biology
Read the book from the middle of page 195 (beginning with "Designer Blue Genes") to the end of page 205. While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
What did you previously know about the importance of probability in biology?
What rule does the book give for genes being passed from parent to child? How is this related to eye colour?
What does the book claim about children of two Light-eyed parents? Does this claim agree with your observations about yourself and/or your family and friends?
What does the book claim about children of one Light-eyed and one Dark-eyed parent? How about two Dark-eyed parents?
What does the book claim about the eye-colour genes of the book's author?
How is the spread of viruses related to probability?
Summarise the story "Spread the Word". How is it related to the spread of viruses?
What is "herd immunity"? How is it related to HIV/AIDS and to vaccines?
Summarise the history of the MMR vaccine in the United Kingdom. What can we learn from this story? (See also this update.)
What does the book say is the "total fertility rate" of the world? Of Canada? What is the significance of these figures?
Recently, Canada has had yearly totals of about 340,000 births, 230,000 deaths, 240,000 immigrants, and 40,000 emigrants. What does this say about Canada's population change in recent years? How is this related to the previous question?
What does the book mean by "self-replicating"? What self-replicating examples are given? What to they all have in common, related to probabilities?
What other sciences (besides biology) do you think are related to probability? In what ways?
Supplementary Materials: genetics, disease
Discussion Session #16: Conditional Probability and Spam
Read the book from the top of page 206 to the middle of page 209 (ending with "... for any other contestant"); and also all of page 220; and also from the top of page 224 (beginning with "Block That Spam") to the middle of page 229 (ending with "... new spam-filtering computer programs"). While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
Summarise the (brief) stories about crossing the road, passing an examination, and "the woman of my dreams". What do they have in common?
Summarise the stories about each of the bearded men, the lupus scare, and the spelling bee. (Include details of the calculations made.) What can we learn from them?
What common societal situations/reactions are analogous to this "Beware the Bearded Men" story? (Think of as many as you can.)
What is spam e-mail?
Why does spam e-mail have that name? [See also the original Monty Python spam skit.]
What is automatic spam filtering?
What does the book describe as a "first attempt" at automatic spam filtering? How does it work? What are its limitations?
Summarise the stories "The Dastardly Spammity Spam" and "Spammity Spam Revisited". What can we learn from them?
Explain probability-based spam filters (giving as much detail as possible). Do you think they are more effective than previous spam filters? Why or why not?
Read the blog post "Adventures in spam, part two". How is it related to the above issues?
Does your own personal e-mail account have a spam filter (e.g., a "junk folder")? Approximately how many spam messages per week does it catch? How many does it miss? Do the spam messages ever contain intentionally misspelled words like "Vi@gra"?
Supplementary Materials: conditional
Discussion Session #17: Causes of Randomness
Read all of Chapter 16 (pages 234 to 246). While you are reading, consider (and make notes about) the following questions.
What does the book mean when it says that randomness is often based on ignorance?
Summarise the story of the Restless Restauranteur, and relate it to the previous question.
How does the book explain the randomness of flipping a coin?
What does it mean for a system to be chaotic? (Give as much detail as possible.)
What examples of chaotic systems does the book give? (List as many as you can, and discuss whether or not you agree that they are chaotic.)
What are some other examples, not mentioned in the book, of chaotic systems? Of non-chaotic systems? (Try to think of at least two of each.)
Do you agree with the book's assertion that "meteorologists are ambassadors of probability"? Why or why not?
Do you often listen to weather forecasts? If yes, then how do you feel about them? Do you think they are usually accurate? Do they describe probabilities in a way that you find clear?
Are you surprised that probability theory is related to physics? Why or why not?
What does the theory of quantum mechanics say about nature and randomness? (Give as much detail as you can.)
How are chaos and quantum mechanics related to the random numbers used by computers? (Provide as many connections as you can.)
Do you believe that nature is truly random? Why or why not? If yes, then does this affect your perception and feelings about the universe, and if so how?
Optional End-of-Course Amusement:
Read aloud the book's mock "Final Exam" on pages 247-254, taking turns reading each question (including all the multiple-choice answers).
Then, as a group, come up with at least three additional "Final Exam" style questions about this course, in a similar style to those in the book (i.e. multiple choice, obvious answer, humorous, etc.). (You will later read some of your questions out loud to the entire class.)
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Ok! This one I really like so I'm going to definitely be doing it! :D @Aberdeen Nice picture btw! You got some great talent!
Sharbbit! omg that's is the cutest name I love it! Ok I make no promises with this one, due to the the fact I'm not great at drawing animals, I'll try my best! :D And thank you that really means a lot! ;-;!!
It's okay if you don't do this, but can you draw a Corphish from Pokemon?
Your amazing and I wonder if you could space it self.
Can you make it with many things and just add your creativity.
I think it would come out great with your imagination!
@Cryptic I'm not sure what you mean, like an outer space picture?


McQueen Lakes is located 3 miles south of the 202 freeway on McQueen Road in Chandler. This lake subdivision has 90 homesites with 20 that can be considered waterfront. The lake is the first thing you see when you enter from McQueen Rd. Most of the homes were built in 2005 by Trend Homes which unfortunately was at the height of the Phoenix real estate bubble. Because of the this situation many of the current sales are lender owned or short sales.
McQueen Lakes is one of the numerous Chandler waterfront communities in the southeast valley. Other lakefront communities near McQueen Lakes include Pinelake Estates and Fulton Ranch. The standard lot in McQueen Lakes is around 7,000 sq.ft , measuring 60 ft. by a little less than 120 ft. deep. Since it is a smaller community that must maintain a lake, walking paths and common area, monthly HOA fees are $129. Students attend the Chandler Unified School District.
If you would like to receive listings for available homes in McQueen Lakes, click on e-mail waterfront listings.
For more real estate information go to Chandler real estate.
I've always wanted a waterfront house. This community looks awesome.


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by Dr. Kiran Khanzada
ST. LOUIS — Johnson & Johnson has been ordered by a U.S. jury to pay $55 million to a South Dakota woman who claimed the company's talcum powder products for feminine hygiene caused her to develop ovarian cancer.
It marked the second straight trial loss for Johnson & Johnson, the health-care giant who is facing about 1,200 lawsuits for similar claims for its lack of warnings about its talc-based products.
The jury returned the $55 million verdict Monday in favor of plaintiff Gloria Ristesund.
Ristesund was awarded $5 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages, according to multiple reports.
The verdict comes on the heels of a $72 million jury award in February to the family of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer after years of using talc powder for feminine hygiene.
Johnson & Johnson intends to appeal the decision, company spokesperson Carol Goodrich told Reuters.
The jury's decision should "end the litigation" and compel Johnson & Johnson to settle the remaining cases, said Jere Beasley, whose firm represents Ristesund.
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Problem is that why json_encode returns 0 value sometimes.
i have column type longtext in db table where im saving its response.
is it issue with character types? like UTF8 or non UTF8?
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Roads of the Mid-South & West > Highways of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts > Massachusetts State Route 141 > Massachusetts State Route 141, Hampden County
Massachusetts State Route 141
Massachusetts State Route 141 is an east-west highway in the Metro-Springfield Area. It runs from the Hampshire/Hampden County Line, near Easthampton, to U.S. Rt. 20 in Springfield.
MA St Rt 141 passes through the following towns in Hampden County.
MA St Rt 141 is multi-plexed in Hampden County.
Interstate 391, across the Connecticut River.
Massachusetts State Route 21, at Springfield.
MA St Rt 141 crosses the following highways in Hampden County.
Interstate 91, near Holyoke.
U.S. Rt. 5, at Holyoke.
U.S. Rt. 202, at Holyoke.
Massachusetts State Route 116, at Holyoke.
Interstate 391, at Holyoke.
Interstate 391, at Chicopee.
Massachusetts State Route 116, at Chicopee.
Interstate 90, (Massachusetts Turnpike) at Chicopee. (NO Interchange)
Massachusetts State Route 33, at Chicopee.
Interstate 291, at Springfield. (NO Interchange)
U.S. Rt. 20, at Springfield.
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You can make many awesome pizzas with what you have in stock, and again as always, Jonathan did his magic on pizzas! So lucky me!
I'm actually lactose intolerant, not severely but depending on the amount of consumption I have to move in to a toilet for sure 🙁 Thank you Jonny for making it with moderate amount of cheese.
And here's another famous gourmet from Montreal. Yes, Montreal Smoked Meat! Usually with light rye bread and mustard other than the meat. It is simple but has huge impact on eyes and tummy!
Too thick for it to close!! I was worried if I'd get sick (beef also affects on a lactose intolerant.) I was OK after all, just couldn't finish the fries. Oopsie!


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Single father Seeks...
By: Amy J. Fetzer
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He was Secret Service. She was CIA. He wasn't hiding that fact.
But right now they weren't hiding a thing from each other. A desire, no, a raging passion she'd never imagined existed inside her, was taking complete command. Ciara loved every second of it. And from the look on his face as she shoved open his trousers, so did he.
She drove her hand inside the dark fabric and he groaned and pushed her against the nearest wall, taking her mouth with an excitement so powerful, so hot, it would burn out of control in no time. She was counting on it. She had wanted him the minute she saw him. She wanted to be wild and escape and spend this one night with him. He was head-turning handsome with a hard body, and that sexy to-die-for look of a secret agent. Coal-black hair, Nordic blue eyes, and a chiseled jaw she wanted to kiss 'til dawn. Add to that a gentlemanly southern drawl, slightly disguised, and she was melting for him with the first word.
Behind them in the hotel room lay a trail of clothes—black, inconspicuous. Just what their jobs called for. But the situation now called for none. Naked. Ciara was nearly there. He wasn't getting there soon enough.
He ground against her, letting her know he was ready for whatever she had in mind, and she pushed his trousers lower and cupped the tight curve of his buttocks, pulling him into her and sending the same message.
"You're driving me insane, you know that?" he said, his voice whiskey rough as his mouth rolled over her throat, her shoulder. He made quick work of her slip, adding it to the trail with her dress.
"No more than you are me."
He unclasped her bra, pulling it off, tossing it aside, then filling his palms with her breasts.
Ciara gasped, then gasped again as his thumbs circled her nipples deeply. Oh mercy, his touch was all she needed to explode.
"The instant I saw you, I thought about this."
She smiled. "Did you imagine this?" she asked, then slicked her tongue over his nipple. He flinched and made a helpless sound she already loved.
"Yeah, I did."
His knife-creased black slacks hit the floor, and she bent to help them all the way off. And when she stood, she scrubbed her hands over his corded thighs, his trim bare hips. He was built like a wall of muscle, twisted, ropy, delicious to touch and she could tell that he liked watching her touch him. It made her burn for more. She wrapped her hand around his arousal and stroked him harder than he already was.
He couldn't take it and suddenly he grabbed her against him, and growled, "My turn." He knelt, peeling her panties down as he went and just the motion made her breathless. He laid wet, grinding kisses to every inch of skin he exposed, rolled her thigh-high stockings down like unrolling a piece of candy and he murmured, "I had a sneaky feeling you were wearing these."
Just knowing she had, in a roomful of attachés and dignitaries and the former first lady, drove him wild. Now she was wearing only a strand of pearls.
"My, my, secret agent man. You were fantasizing a lot more than I thought," she said, then howled when his mouth covered her soft center. He licked and played, probed and stroked until she was biting her lip to keep from screaming and bringing hotel security. For an instant, a sliver of time, she wondered about letting a complete stranger do this to her, then she didn't care. He was all she'd imagined and more, and when he threw her leg over his shoulder and drove deeper, Ciara thought she'd come apart at the seams.
He chuckled darkly as she melted, her leg slipping limply off his shoulder as she sank down, sliding down the wall and straddling his thighs.
"There's a bed a few feet away," he said.
"Too far," she gasped, rocking against his thickness.
He reached for his trousers, fumbled in the pocket, and she barely noticed because he never took his mouth from her. He bent her back over his arm, and then he was inside her, driving upward and clasping her against his wide chest.
"Oh, sweet heaven," he groaned, cupping her bottom and giving her hips motion because he couldn't stop it. Bryce pushed his fingers into her hair, loving the sounds she made, that she was as demanding as he, because he craved her. Craved. He'd never hungered for a woman from first sight, never had instant fantasies and instant arousal as he had with just looking at her. The moment he spotted her in that plain black dress, standing off to the side, he'd been preoccupied with her. Wondering what was under that simple dress, enjoying the shift of silk as she walked. Wondering what she looked like with her hair down instead of in that tight, reserved twist. He even liked the way she sipped champagne. And the way she looked at him, slow and possessive. As if she knew what he looked like naked, and she was in a hurry to see it firsthand. As if she knew one touch and they'd be unrestrained and reckless like this.
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Imagine you're spirited away from your house without warning, leaving behind its central heating, fridge freezer and close proximity to a supermarket, and you're dropped beside a cabin in a remote forest. You're not interested in escaping, but you do want to survive. What would your essential requirements be and how would you manage?
Deciding how difficult to make life for my characters in their cabin in a forest was one of the best bits of writing Our Endless Numbered Days. There were hundreds of decisions to make, and each one had massive implications for the story and characters; whether they lived or died.
Firstly food and water: I needed my characters to be able to get through the severe winters and to find enough food, but novels are all about tension, so I didn't want to make life too cosy for them. I wrote them an axe, a knife and a gun. And then I took the gun away. (You can do that if you're a writer.) I think I was quite generous – I gave them a bag of rice to get started, a fishing rod and some seeds for when the spring came. But then, since I also controlled the travel arrangements and the weather, I had them arrive at the cabin in late summer, and gave them the worst winter ever. Their food sources – the berries, mushrooms, squirrels, rabbits and fish – disappeared. I let them have a month or so of preparations before the really bad weather hit, so they were able to chop some wood and dry some squirrel and rabbit meat. But then, half way through that first winter I had them realise they had miscalculated the amount of food they would need, and they faced starvation.
The next thing to consider (although of course, I didn't make decisions consecutively, but all in a jumble) was warmth. There was a stove in the cabin which they used for cooking and for heat, but no blankets. Conveniently you could say, my characters arrived fully dressed with dungarees and coats and shoes, but I couldn't let them have it quite that easy, so one of them lost a shoe before she even made it to the cabin. I'm not much of a planner when I write, and sometimes I write things which surprise even me – like the losing of a shoe – and then have to deal with the consequences throughout the rest of the novel. And the consequences can be huge. What do you do if you only have three pieces of footwear between two people? Shoes can be shared, but then only one person at a time can go outside in winter, which makes it very difficult to hunt large animals, which means you have to hunt or forage every day. Or shoes can be improvised from roof shingles and fur, but what if the fur rots? Or you can go bare-foot, but what if you have to run away from something very fast?
There were many items that my characters didn't take with them or ran out of: toothpaste for instance; a couple of tubes aren't going to last long, and the consequences of a lack of dental hygiene was paid for years later. String and rope – crucial for forest survival. My characters learned how to make it from nettles. Salt – I worried for a long time that my characters wouldn't live without it, but after lots of research I decided that they would probably get enough from the animals they ate. Soap – this can be made from lye (hardwood ashes) and animal fat. I even considered how my female character, Peggy, would manage when her periods started. Some of these things didn't make it into the novel; I didn't want it to become a survivalists' handbook, but I hope I thought about all the major necessities.
So, back to that 'Desert Island Disc' question I started with. After all my thinking and research I like to imagine I'd do alright if I was air-lifted from my comfortable sofa and dropped in a forest. How about you?
Many thanks to Claire for joining me on my comfortable Literary Sofa today and making us think about all the things we take for granted, just as the novel does.
It is rare for me to be able to write about a book I read months ago without looking at it again or referring to my notes, and it's a good sign. With this novel, Claire Fuller demonstrates great flair in two of the key areas by which fiction stands or falls: creating an immersive and believable world – in this case, one in which civilization itself fades from view – and bringing to life a protagonist the reader really cares about. Peggy and her experiences in the forest, in all their beauty and horror, were so vivid and visceral that I was moved, distressed and fraught with anxiety about what was going to happen to her as the story progressed. Apart from the journey to Germany, where my interest flagged a little (maybe I'm just an impatient traveller), the pacing and building of suspense were handled very well, the denouement breathtakingly so. And if all that weren't enough, the writing has a spare beauty that I absolutely loved – this is a novel that will stay with me for a long time.
I've just started reading Claire's novel, and enjoying it immensely, so glad this post didn't give too much away.
I'm not sure if I could write a survivalist narrative myself, I find it a really interesting area to contemplate, but don't like to go into it too deeply in my thoughts. I do manage to grow my own vegetables and even save some of the seeds for the next year, but otherwise I'm very lacking in practical skills.
Thank you very much, Isabel and Claire, for a fascinating post. I have just started reading Our Endless Numbered Days and find it hard to put down. I might continue to buy soap from the supermarket, but wouldn't mind trying on a pair of roof shingle shoes.
I thoroughly enjoyed Claire describing the ways in which she tried to create the right tension for her characters. Also, I look forward to reading this hot pick.


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