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Fuller, Buckminster (1895-1983)
Fuller looks out at the world through a "tensegrity" model (1971, Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
Richard Buckminster Fuller, who discovered the most economical way of being able to use space, was born in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1895. A Unitarian, he attended Milton Academy, Harvard College, and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. However, he found that formal education got in the way of his being able to educate himself to the full potentiality of the powers that were within him.
When one of the senior members of The Architects Collaborative in Harvard Square—an area which is noted for its architects—found out that Buckminster Fuller was going to be recorded for national public television and radio broadcast at the historic Meeting House of the First Parish in Cambridge, he said, "I think he is the Thomas Alva Edison of our time." Marshall McLuhan called Bucky "the 20th century Leonardo da Vinci."
Nonetheless, Buckminster Fuller was no mere technological inventor; his thought has profoundly affected our awareness of the amazing, emerging social and environmental potential of humanity.
It's important to note that in 1927 a drastic change took place in his life. He decided that he was not going to commit suicide but committed his life to the furtherance of humanity. He found ingenious ways of doing that repeatedly.
People began to say, "Oh Bucky, you're a thousand years ahead of your time!" A decade later, he noted, people were saying, "Oh, Mr. Fuller, you're a century ahead of your time." Now, he says that they said, "My, you certainly are up to date!"
Buckminster Fuller in 1962 (courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
What follows is what he said in 1980 at that Cambridge Forum national broadcast at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Harvard Square.
Humanity is in great crisis. We're in great crisis because evolution is intent on integrating all the human beings who for thousands of years were deployed remotely from one another in finding their own ways of surviving.
Now, she's integrating all of humanity. Earth is going to integrate all kinds of different credos and all the different colored skins. Evolution is intent on doing that. This brings about a great crisis due to the enormous amount of conditioned reflex in humanity—the relative ignorance that's still dominant in human affairs.
Evolution is also intent on making all of humanity economically successful. There are so many, many centuries, or thousands of years of humanity operating on the basis that there's not enough to go around; it has to be you or me. We've had all the great political institutions, and soforth, organized that way, so society does not understand. Those who are in power tend to amass even more power rather than yielding to evolution's apparent intent to make all humanity an economic success.
Go back to William Ellery Channing and his time; he graduated from Harvard just two years before the opening of the nineteenth century. When Ellery Channing had been out of Harvard University seven years, we had the battle of Trafalgar. The British Empire was established and was maintained for a hundred and seventeen years. It was established by virtue of ships being able to master the lines of supply of the three-quarters of the earth which are covered with water. There had been incredible battles for all this mastery, and it finally came to the British.
Behind military strategy, they had the economic strategy for the development of the British Empire, the first Empire in history on which the sun never set. If you realize what you were taught about empires in school—about Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, and so forth—they were all flat empires. They were just a part of Europe, Northern Africa, and a little Asia. They were flat empires that went to infinity. You didn't know where the edges were, or what went on beyond the edges. Because you seemed to live in infinity, if you didn't like what was going on, there were an infinite number of chances that if you prayed in the right way you might come out all right. But we haven't.
Fuller stands in front of his famous Dymaxion map which shows the world without distortion. (1971, Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
Fuller's Dymaxion map in color.
The time when the British Empire was established, was also the time after Magellan had first been around the world. It was the first time we had a great empire which was a sphere.
The political and economic strategy of the British Empire was that of the East India Company. The Company had a college, and still has in England. You can go on that campus, find the room of the East India Company directors, which is very impressive, and see the long table where they made many decisions about that British Empire. At that time Thomas Malthus was a professor of political economics for the East India Company, and in 1800, five years before Trafalgar, he wrote his first book. In 1810, five years after Trafalgar, he wrote a book confirming his theory. He was the first human being in the history of humanity to have the total vital statistics from a closed-system spherical empire within his hands. He said it was perfectly clear, and he was deeply aware of the fact, that we're dealing in a sphere which is a closed system in contradistinction to a plane going to infinity. He said, "Quite clearly, humanity is multiplying itself at a geometrical rate and increasing its life support on an arithmetical rate. Quite clearly, the majority of humans are destined to have to live out their years in great want and pain."
There were very few people who were interested in what Malthus was saying. In fact, it was pretty much classified information, only of interest to those who were ambitious to try to take the British Empire away from the British. There was a general illiteracy of humanity at that time. Very few people would have been able to read it, anyway. This information really remained almost classified and secret for a long, long time.
Forty years later, we have Darwin promulgating his theory of evolution, explaining it as a consequence of the survival of only the fittest species, and of the fittest individual within those species. Darwin said he did not mean any economic inference, but the economists said that it had obvious economic inference. We have Karl Marx saying, "I now accept Thomas Malthus' scientific statement; I have to think of it as absolutely valid. I also accept Darwin; quite clearly the workers are the fittest to survive. They know how to handle the tools; they know how to nurture the seed. These other people are parasites."
Fuller discusses his theories with a group of students from Southern Illinois University (1971, courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
Those other people said, "We're not parasites. According to Darwin's survival of the fittest, we are on top of the heap because we are the fittest. The workers are very dull, they don't have enough imagination. What is needed is some vision and daring and cunning and enterprise." So they said, "We're going to stay on top of the heap."
This, then brought about the two great political divisions of humanity since the time of Channing. We have the Socialists and the Capitalists. You can call it Communist and Private Enterprise, or any way you want to call it, but each of these great ideologies says: "Although you personally may not like our system, we are convinced that we have the fairest, most logical, most ingenious way of coping with lethal inadequacy of life support on our planet. Because there are those who disagree diametrically on how to cope, this problem can only be resolved by trial of arms as to which system is fittest to survive." That is why for the last thirty years Russia and the United States spent a sum now totaling six trillion four hundred billion dollars to buy the highest scientific capability of humanity in order to develop the means of killing the most people at the greatest distance in the shortest time. A very unworthwhile endeavor of humanity.
Ten years ago, it became clearly demonstrable, engineering-wise, that with a ten year engineering—or as I call it design-revolution—taking the metals that have been proliferated into armaments, melting them up, so that within ten years we could have all humanity living at a higher standard of living than human beings have ever experienced before, and on a sustainable basis. During that ten years we could phase out forever all further uses of fossil fuels and atomic energy. We could live entirely on our energy income. I've made this public announcement on many, many platforms. I've been checked-up by many competent people who have found my figures to be correct. What I do know is, it does not have to be you or me, ever, ever again. War is obsolete. All the necessity of humanity to rationalize selfishness, how and why your family should exist as other families, should not carry on. We've had to do all this on the mistaken assumption that it had to be you or me. Then I began to find that nobody was paying any serious attention to me except a young world that was very pleased to know they had an option.
The Epcot Center: an example of Fuller's Geodesic dome structure.
Studying the whole thing, you find that all big government, all big politics, all big religion, almost all big business, would find it absolutely devastating to their activity to have humanity a success. "You poor kid, come on down, I'll get you a job at City Hall. Come on down, and I'll give you a turkey dinner; I'll get you into Heaven." So, I began to realize this also in big government tax hungry to take care of all its big bureaucracies. All those in bureaucracy want to have their jobs keep on. Neither government nor big business could see any way of putting meters between you and your energy income, between you and the wind, or between you and the sun. So I find that while it's clearly demonstrable that we really can get on with our energy income, that big government and big business are doing nothing serious about it whatsoever.
How do we get the information to humanity that we really do have the option to make it? The means of doing it is to realize that 99 percent of humanity doesn't understand science. They don't understand science because science has a language—a mathematical language—that the 99 percent can't read. Therefore, they think that science is really something new, and they don't know that all that science has ever found out is that the universe is the most incredibly reliable technology—so reliable as to be the only 100 percent efficient absolutely continuous system universe.
The majority think the word technology is something new. They equate it only with weapons, or machines to compete for their jobs. They say "I'm against it." If we're going to make and exercise our option, it has to be done by humanity. With our educational system we're going to have to get it clear to humanity that science and technology are necessary to understand what its options are.
I find our educational system incredibly ignorant (saying this in the presence of my dear old Harvard). I've had the honor of being asked to speak to a number of scientific societies of real prominence. I've always asked those scientists, or any scientists present, "Who does not see the sun going down in the evening? If any of you do not, please show hands." No hands. I say to those scientists, "You've had five hundred years that scientists have known that the sun's not going down. You haven't 'downed' anything to come up, coordinating your senses with your knowledge. What are you doing telling all your children 'sunset, sunrise'? You're deceiving all your children. What's the matter with your kind of education? It's five hundred years behind design."
So, we're in for a very great revolution in education, in our technology, in evolution, where all humanity, instead of being specialized, is cultivated in what every child wants to be: a comprehensivist. Comprehensive information and intelligence now are only in the hands of those who are in great power—and using that power to keep everybody else conquered and kept conquered by keeping all the specialists and keeping them divided. All these things are going to have to be overcome in the next ten years. The curve of acceleration is like that; probably a fourth power greater acceleration of human affairs. Humans were born with beautiful minds as well as brains, with access to the great laws of design of the universe itself. No other creature has such capability. We quite clearly have a very important function to fulfill. We were deliberately designed to be born naked, helpless, ignorant, to learn only by trial and error, being given hunger and thirst to drive us to make the trial and error. We've now come to the point where humanity is about ready to graduate into a comprehensive functioning of all of our great beautiful minds.
Fuller addresses Boston College's 1969 graduating class (courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
I was born here in 1895. I was the first generation of my family to go to Harvard, and I tell you that when I was young what was fundamental, what was reality, was everything you could see, smell, touch, and hear. The year I was born X-rays were discovered, but they didn't make any newspaper. Nobody knew that it was going to amount to anything—you couldn't see them anyway. When I was three, the electrons were discovered. That didn't make any newspapers. Nobody knew that was going to amount to anything. Marconi had invented theoretical wireless the year I was born; but didn't get the first SOS until I was twelve years of age.
I was eight years of age when the Wright brothers flew. I was seven when the first automobile came into Boston. Out of seven hundred in my class here at Harvard, entering in 1913, two had automobiles. One of them was Ray Stanley, whose father invented the Stanley Steamer, so that was logical. Automobiles were anything but for everybody. We didn't have any kind of roads except dust roads. Once in a while somebody was able to get through to a place like New York after getting mired and pulled out by horses.
Since that time in America and the world, the electron began to be of prominence, and we began to learn something about the invisible world. While you couldn't see it, the human mind and instruments began to open up a greater range of reality, ah, but invisible reality.
Fuller and other architects present the model for the US Pavilion in the 1967 Canadian Exhibition (courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department).
I was brought up here in this particular world—this Cambridge and Milton where I went to school—where my mother and all the schoolteachers said, "Darling, never mind what you think. Listen, we're trying to teach you." The working assumption of the older people was that the children's thinking was very unreliable.
Suddenly evolution does something absolutely amazing here, when the young discover that the grown-ups don't know what it's all about. So we have the young world doing its own thinking; and without any experience, it had to make many mistakes. But it's getting now where it's not being politically exploited the way it was at first. I find the young everywhere around the world are completely intent in thinking about the total world. They're not impressed with local nations anymore. There's a young world coming along, each child born successively in the presence of less misinformation. Just think, until I was eight years of age, I had been told it's inherently impossible for man to fly. I've had undue, enormous amounts of misinformation. Each child, now, is being born in the presence of a great deal more reliable information.
I'm getting letters now—not very often, about five a year—from children who were born after humans got to the moon. How they find I'm someone they can write to I don't know, but they do, and they write incredibly beautiful letters, and the syntax couldn't be better. They say they are familiar with the critical path of all the things that had to be done before the blast-off to get humanity over to the moon and back safely. They say, "Humanity can do anything it needs to do; why don't we make this thing work?" So a young world is coming along which may very likely exercise that option.
Resources Recommended by Harvard Square Library:
Fuller, Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.
Fuller, Buckminster. Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity. New York: Batnam Books, 1969; London: Penguin Books, 1970.


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Airbnb Clone in China Tujia Raises $300M
Global Crowdfunding Market to Grow at 27% by 2020
Uber is Raising $10B from Softbank
On Demand will be a $57B Market in 2018
Linkedin for X?
Job Board for X?
B2B Marketplace will be Worth $6.7 Trillion in 2020
Global Freelance Market Size is $1.5 Trillion
Tencent Tried to Buy Spotify Valued at $13
There are 1.24 Billion Websites in the world
Tujia is taking its rivalry with Airbnb, by raising $300 million to intensify its focus on global markets. The investors seem buoyant that the Chinese market will grow as big as the U.S., allowing Tujia to be the next big thing in the market.
The funding was driven by online travel monster Ctrip — the Nasdaq firm that works in association with Tujia — and All-Stars Investment, with cooperation from China Renaissance's New Economy Fund and G Street Capital. Strikingly, Glade Brook, who is an investor in Airbnb and also Uber, was engaged with the round, as well.
Tujia claims it has piled on 180 million downloads to date with "a few hundred thousand clients making booking request each day." The organization said, as of now it covers 345 goals in China, and more than 1,000 abroad because of its association with Rakuten in Japan. Altogether, it asserts somewhere in the range of 650,000 postings. Airbnb doesn't give numbers for China, yet overall it says it has four million postings crosswise over 65,000 urban areas.
Tujia has been occupied on M&A movement after it gobbled up a littler opponent Mayi in June. Airbnb had been connected with a China-based procurement of its own, however bits of gossip about an arrangement to purchase Xiaozhu never worked out as intended.
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It comes as no surprise that crowdfunding allows entrepreneurs to appoint respective investors across the globe. A lot of the fundraising depends on campaigning. A smart marketing campaign increments the sum collected in funds. According to Technavio, The global crowdfunding market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 27% by 2020.
The fame and fast selection of crowdfunding have launched the market to an unheard of level in this region. Startup endeavors and independent ventures have dependably relied upon elective financing. Crowdfunding is famous in this region as it was constantly viewed as a client driven approach.
With the improving probability of achievement, the income expands, which additionally urges more financial freelancers to be a piece of crowdfunding. Talk about the money in the pocket, eh?
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Softbank has been negotiating with the investors of Uber and its board about how good to invest billions in the ride hailing company. The deal's been sealed in a whopping figure $10 billion, with $1 being raised directly and the other $9 by buying the existing shares.
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The aggregate proprietorship by Softbank and Dragoneer is accepted to be 14 percent. In any case, the valuation at which these offers will be purchased is obscure. Uber's present valuation is near $60 billion.
While Travis will not be able to retake his position of royalty and control as CEO, he will at present have noteworthy impact over the organization. As a feature of the governing body, Travis has the ability to select two additional seats; in any case, any further changes will require a dominant part endorsement from the board.
Masayoshi Son, CEO, Softbank, had even told the press that it won't invest into Uber but rather could likewise take a gander at putting resources into it's rival, Lyft. A few sources had additionally expressed that for the arrangement to experience, Softbank had consulted for lessening the forces of Founder and previous Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
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In case, you haven't paid any attention to the news, the on-demand economy is on the rise magnificently. According to BIA/Kelsey, the entire US transaction values of the on-demand economy increased from $22 billion in 2105 to $34 billion last year and its anticipated to reach $57 billion by the end of the year.
Three years prior, 76 organizations gave on demand services in only 6 ventures as indicated by Crowd Companies. The interest for on demand benefits is venturing into each industry, not just those that take into account recent college grads. In spite of the decrease in wander financing and the contracting pool of ventures that stay untouched by the on demand economy – it's still amazingly a long way from achieving its maximum capacity and few debate that the on demand economy is changing business as we probably am aware it.
BIA/Kelsey gauges that the on demand economy will serve only 7% of its $758 billion US addressable market in 2017. In this way, essentially, there's still a great deal of space for new businesses that give on demand benefits and a wide assortment of ventures holding up to be disturbed – at the same time, abusing that potential will turn out to be progressively troublesome with each passing day.
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"Different networks for different types of people" is on the rise. Linkedin is the paramount professional social network. Some recent fundings of companies that are called as "Linkedin for X", are booming. 'X' here is an entity. You can choose your X – Professional network for doctors, farmers, tutors, sportspersons, beauticians etc.
Think about another region for experts: People with past military experience. RallyPoint is charged as "LinkedIn for the military" and as of late raised a $5.3 million round. By and by, they aren't the main diversion around the local area, as new businesses like Hirepurpose are entering the shred. While LinkedIn has influenced commendable walks toward helping veterans in discovering business (to witness LinkedIn for Veterans), the development of these vertical systems addresses a market require.
At last, there's a gathering of people where LinkedIn has attempted to discover product advertise fit throughout the years and it's a major one: school kids. A prominent vertical system here is Piazza, which as of late raised a $8 million round from Khosla Ventures. Piazza now has about a million understudies utilizing its Quora-style Q&A stage and has extremely convincing engagement measurements.
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Handshake, a job portal, concentrated on helping undergrads discover employments, simply brought $20 million up in new financing, drove by Spark Capital.
Online employment selecting is a market loaded with contenders like LinkedIn, Monster, and CareerBuilder. Be that as it may, Handshake, helped to establish by design Garrett Lord, is concentrating on a market that numerous bigger organizations have overlooked: colleges and schools.
Handshake's software controls a marked enrolling site for colleges that enables understudies to transfer their coursework, resumes, transcripts, and different archives. Understudies can look and apply for occupations, message scouts, and access occasion postings.
As a site, Handshake resembles an adaptation of Facebook (FB, – 2.09%) made for work seeking, with a solitary sustain showing customized proposals of employments, substance, and occasions for every understudy. Understudies can take after specific managers to ensure they get any updates, occasions, or other substance from them. Understudies can likewise get to Handshake on their cell phones and get cautions when work postings are posted.
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Business-to-business (B2B) internet retailing has been seeing solid development because of the quick relocation of Buyers and sellers from inheritance frameworks to open, online stages. As heritage frameworks include the utilization of electronic information exchange, which is costly and awkward to deal with, B2B startup business model will keep on moving towards omnipresent online stages that permit buyers and sellers from anyplace on the planet to execute products and enterprises easily. Indeed, the B2B online retail advertise is relied upon to achieve twofold the span of the business-to-buyer (B2C) online market, creating incomes of 6.7 trillion USD by 2020.
New investigation from Frost and Sullivan, Future of B2B Online Retailing, uncovers that B2B online deals will represent near 27 percent of aggregate assembling exchange, which is probably going to hit 25 trillion USD by 2020. Geologically, China and the United States will lead the B2B web based retailing market. The last is foreseen to twofold its income commitment to 1.2 billion USD by 2020.
As marketplace and cross-industry open stages, for example, Alibaba and Amazon wind up noticeably prevalent, B2B online connections are probably going to move from a one-to-many to many-to-numerous plan of action. Rather than a model where one organization contributes and fabricates an e-stage for its providers, the inclination will be for an answer in which anyone coordinates an e-acquirement process and encourages the buy of merchandise on the web.
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The world is seeing a sensational increment in the quantity of temporary workers and freelancers, as laborers try to get away from the inflexible requests of the 9-5 professional workplace. The ascent of digitization, including components, for example, cell phone applications, online marketplace, and distributed computing, has made it less demanding for talented freelancers to take up autonomous profitable exercises, and make their own particular bespoke working environments. 41.9% of freelancers get their preparing from school and colleges, 43.8% are self-trained, while 13.4% earn on the activity.
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For Freelance/Gig work, the numbers for Europe are 8.9 million Research likewise demonstrates that "India's autonomous workforce at 15 million. With respect to the United States, the Freelance Union "53 million" Report expresses that the quantity of freelancers in the USA remains at 53 million. This puts the aggregate number of formally identified independent freelancers universally in the locale of 77 million. As there is no other openly accessible information for different nations, this number reflects a level of the worldwide freelancer workforce.
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Spotify has for some time been connected with opening up to the world in the U.S. — it is conjectured to plan for an IPO-less posting one year from now — however it has developed that the organization repelled the chance to pitch to a noteworthy tech name prior this year: Tencent, the Chinese web goliath esteemed at $380 billion.
Tencent is said to have moved toward Spotify with a view to getting the organization to broaden its blossoming music business outside of China and Asia, a source with learning of talks told TechCrunch.
Spotify has risen as the best music gushing administration around the world, with more than 140 million dynamic clients and 60 million paying client. The 11-year-old organization is allegedly esteemed at $13 billion, its essential opponent is Apple, which propelled its administration years after the fact and keeps on playing catchup. Apple Music achieved 27 million paying clients this past June.
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…and They Need a Marketplace to Buy and Sell
According to the research, there are 1.24 billion websites in the world. And they definitely need a marketplace for buying and selling.
All through history, marketplaces have been indispensable to groups. They are where buyers and sellers meet, where data is traded and connections are created.
Digital marketplace work in the very same route, with the exception of that groups normally share a zone of intrigue, as opposed to a geographic area.
Marketplace can likewise give buyers with a more prominent selection of items, expanded comfort and lower costs. Dealers, in the interim, can get to a significantly bigger gathering of potential clients without holding stock on the rack and they advantage from the specialized framework that the commercial center itself gives, for example, stock show and installment handling.
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It was a sunny Friday in late summer, and Elaine had taken the day off work so that she could spend the afternoon at the zoo with her nephew while her sister rested. Nadine was in the late stages of pregnancy, and was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with an active four-year-old. Elaine had wanted to show Adrien the otters. They were her favourite zoo animal, because they always seemed to be having too much fun to care about their captivity. But it turned out that the zoo carpark was being dug up for purposes unknown, and Adrien was fascinated by machines, so instead of looking at animals, they had spent three hours watching a bulldozer, several trucks, and assorted construction machinery at work. Adrien could name every single vehicle, and did so, often.
No, Elaine was thinking about her bed, and about whether she could get to that boucherie that made the really good ratatouille and confit duck to take away before it shut, and whether she even wanted dinner at all in this weather, and most importantly, whether she would be able to close her eyes without seeing endless construction machinery behind her eyelids any time in the next week. She was thinking about how children were cute, but also exhausting, and wondering how on earth her sister was going to manage another one with her husband away so often.
She wasn't thinking about doors at all.
But the door was there anyway.
It was gold and rather neoclassical in style, and it was just inside the entrance to the Metro, and Elaine felt something turn over in her chest with a sickening flop.
She stopped short, and looked from the door to the golden statue of Athena and back. The artist appeared to be the same. Charming.
She tried to walk around the door.
She didn't see it move, but it was somehow still in front of her.
Elaine sighed. She was not in the mood for this. She turned around, and walked out of the Métro, towards the next station on the line.
The golden door was there, too. It didn't match the décor this time.
The golden door was at the next station, and the next. Elaine was beginning to feel stalked.
By the time she had walked the five kilometres home, she was in no mood for dinner. Hot, dusty and tired, she took a quick shower and went straight to bed. She knew exactly what awaited her the next day, and her dreams were angry, fearful ones.
She walked through the door at République at 7:30 the next morning.
The words came without thought, and she shut her mouth quickly.
She heard masculine laughter behind her. Of course. She did not bother to turn.
Elaine stepped away from him hastily, but said nothing. She had no idea what the rules were this time, or why Nathair wanted to trap her, but as she had lain awake the previous night, contemplating what lay ahead, one thing had been clear to her. Nathair wanted to trap her – she was trying to forget that he had also tried to kill her – but he also wanted to play with her, much as her cat would do with a mouse.
Silence made for a pretty boring cat-toy, and had the advantage of avoiding any risk of asking a question.
"Aren't you going to look at it?" His voice was still amused. Elaine held her peace, instead looking down at her feet, which were bare again. Of course.
There didn't seem much purpose in responding to that, so she didn't.
A finger pressed under her chin, forcing her face up to meet Nathair's gaze. He smiled. Elaine did not. He shrugged again, and let go. Elaine returned her gaze to her feet.
This gave her pause, but since she was reasonably sure that Nathair was no god, she remained silent.
Nathair reached out to take her by the shoulders, turning her to face away from the orchard. Elaine did not resist, nor did she look up. Something round and heavy was pressed into her hand. An apple, but not, she thought, one that could be eaten. This apple was formed of metal – red gold? – and was engraved with Greek letters.
Involuntarily, she looked up. Three women stood before her, their gaze on the man who was now at her back. All three were beautiful in a way that defied description. All three had something in their gaze that made Elaine very glad that she was not the focus of their attention.
"A woman?" The three goddesses looked at each other in consternation.
Elaine felt her jaw drop at this breathtaking piece of chauvinism. The goddesses, however, seemed to accept this explanation, though the tallest of the three rolled her eyes slightly.
He bowed very low to the goddesses, and walked away.
Elaine looked down again at the apple in her hand. It was easier than meeting the eyes of the three goddesses. This situation felt rather familiar, and she was fairly certain it was not one that had ended well for the mortal involved. Annoying Nathair was one thing; angering these goddesses was quite another. She bowed her head and waited.
The voice was stern and impossibly lovely – it was as though the goddess before her sang rather than spoke.
Elaine looked up, and felt dazzled again. Her gaze fell immediately back to her hands. She had always thought she had rather good hands, but her fingers now seemed blunt and stumpy, her skin rough, her knuckles awkwardly knobbled compared to those of the goddesses.
… which she might not, since she had no idea who these three goddesses were, and she did not think that they were going to like that.
Elaine sighed, and bowed her head.
There was no good answer to this question, so Elaine did not make one.
Hera stiffened, and Elaine stepped back, reflexively.
Aphrodite rolled her eyes a little. "Well, if you like reading, I suppose. Or weaving. Some of us are not so dull." She flounced back to the others.
Elaine, who had suppressed a reflexive shudder at the mention of weaving, let out a small breath of relief. There was something uncomfortably sensual about Aphrodite's voice at close quarters, and Elaine really didn't swing that way.
"Some of us have morals." The Queen of the Gods still looked offended.
"And brains," noted Athena. "And a little discrimination." Hera's approving nod turned into a frown.
Elaine was beginning to feel as though she had walked into the middle of a family fight. She looked down at the apple in her hand again, tracing the Greek letters with a finger. Kappa, alpha, two lambdas, iota… kalli…? She frowned, trying to remember the name of the next letter.
"Kallistei." Elaine looked up into the grey eyes of Athena. She was almost becoming accustomed to the goddess's beauty. "It means 'for the fairest'. May I?" She reached out for it with a smile.
"And a figure," added Aphrodite, who certainly had an excellent one.
She looked at Elaine, who found herself beginning to nod reflexively. She frowned, and shook her head.
Elaine looked at each of the goddesses, then back down to the apple, cold and heavy in her hand. Almost as cold as the realisation of where all this affirmation was coming from.
"Are you trying to bribe me?" she asked, incredulous.
"Or you," suggested Athena, drily.
"Hence the conflict of interest," murmured Aphrodite.
Elaine thought several highly impolite thoughts about a King of the Gods who was so afraid of offending two goddesses that he gave that job to a human.
Athena looked at her as though she knew precisely what Elaine was thinking. Aphrodite giggled, and Hera looked pained.
"I think that was pretty much what Eris had in mind when she threw the apple," said Athena.
In other words, she was doomed no matter what choice she made. So she might as well choose honestly.
Elaine looked from one goddess to the next. Each, when Elaine looked on her, was the most beautiful woman Elaine had ever seen. Wisdom shone from Athena's grey eyes; Hera's green eyes glowed with power and majesty; Aphrodite's blue eyes sparkled with sensuality and love.
Elaine looked down at the apple in her hand, and took a deep breath.
"I am not going to judge between you," she said.
"She has a point," noted Athena.
"Nonetheless, she must choose." Hera's voice was firm.
Elaine turned, and threw the apple as hard as she could, back towards the orchard whence it came. She heard a thunk and a faint 'ow' in the distance, and hoped, very much, that it was Nathair. She turned back to face the angry goddesses, her hands shaking, and was struck by a thought.
There was a sympathetic silence.
"The apple is a distraction," decreed Hera.
"A deliberate one," agreed Athena.
"Demeter is still furious about that. We should definitely talk to her." Hera nodded.
"And Artemis. She has been swearing vengeance on Zeus ever since he transformed her lover into a stag, and put it about that she had killed him deliberately," added Aphrodite.
"Wait, Acteon was her lover?" Athena was astonished.
"I was thinking something more along the lines of Lysistrata…" suggested Hera.
She gestured with her right hand, and a door appeared in the air.
The two other goddesses echoed her words. Elaine bowed her head in thanks, and turned to go.
Athena's voice stopped her before she could reach the door. She turned back.
Elaine swallowed again. This was not comforting.
She curled Elaine's fingers around the ring, turned her around, and pushed her gently through the now open door into the Metro. There was a squeal of railway wheels as the train drew up at the station, but Elaine did not move. Her handbag was heavy on her shoulder, and her shoes heavy on her feet.
The only light part of her was the ring on her index finger, which looked like a swan, but weighed nothing at all.
She stood for a long time on the platform, watching the trains come and go, then turned, and climbed up the Metro stairs.
It was the long way around, but today, she was going to take the bus.
Porte Dorée, which opened in 1931, is in the 12th arondissement, near the border of the Bois de Vincennes and the Parc Zoologique. Doré actually means golden, but depending on who you ask, the Métro station actually got its name from a gate in the old Thiers wall, or from a reduction of the phrase 'porte de l'orée du bois' (gate at the edge of the wood). Alternatively, it may have been named for the golden statue of Athena that now graces the fountain right by the entrance to the station.
Incidentally, while there are several possible etymologies for the name of the city of Paris, there is a story that claims that the area was settled by the Trojans after the fall of Troy, and that this group of people became the Parisii, taking their name from Troy's dimmest Prince. So there's another little Paris connection for you.
I have used four pictures to illustrate this story, all in the public domain. Hera is illustrated with a painting by R.F. Jehanne from 1913, called 'The Peacock Complaining to Juno', which is in the public domain and available from Wikimedia Commons. Aphrodite is, of course, 'The Birth of Venus' by Botticelli, also available from Wikimedia. Athena is illustrated by a fragment from a painting by Rubens, called 'Hercules and Minerva expelling Mars'. Finally, I included François-Xavier Fabré's painting of 'The Judgment of Paris' (also available on Wikimedia Commons), mostly because I like the way Athena seems to be flinging up her hands in exasperation with Paris, while Hera is almost, but not quite, giving him the finger.
I enjoy your Elaine stories. I like the twist on the Paris story in this one.
Thanks so much, Christine! I always feel like I'm going out on a limb with these stories (a quite explicitly feminist limb in this case), so I'm very glad you enjoy them.


MLB Playoff Betting: Do Hot Septembers Translate to Postseason Success?
The Houston Astros won 21 of 27 games in the month of September, best in baseball.
Houston's opponent in the ALDS, the Cleveland Indians, went 14-14 in the last month of the season.
Historically, teams that enter the MLB Playoffs on a hot streak haven't performed better than those playing badly.
The Houston Astros finished the regular season winning 21 of 27 games. The hot September run helped the defending champions win 103 games, a franchise record.
The Astros head into the postseason trending in the right direction, but Houston's opponent in the ALDS can't say the same. The Cleveland Indians are the only 2018 MLB playoff participant to not have a winning record in September.
The Tribe played .500 baseball to close out the season.
If you believe in clichés, it's not the best team that wins the World Series but the team that gets hot at the right time. Does a team's performance in the final month of the season correlate to postseason success?
Using a team's record in September (plus any regular-season game played in October), we checked the hottest and coldest teams entering the playoffs since the wild card expanded to two teams in 2012. That gives us a sample of 60 teams and 214 playoff games.
The 30 hottest teams entering the postseason had a combined record of 568-292 (.660) over the final month of the season. That is equivalent to this year's Boston Red Sox, who won 108 games and are the favorites to win the World Series.
On the other end of the spectrum, the 30 coldest teams slid into the postseason with a 451-418 (.519) record. How did the hot and cold teams perform in the postseason?
The hot teams compiled a 109-114 (.489) record, a steep decline from the level of play at the end of the season. The cold teams fared better, going 105-100 (.512).
Even looking at the 10 best and worst teams heading into the playoffs doesn't change the outcome. The 10 teams with the best record won 72.4% of games in the last month of the season but managed just a 48.1% win rate in the postseason.
The 10 worst teams had a 45.8% win rate ahead of the playoffs, but when October rolled around, their win rate jumped to 54.5%.
Houston is playing its best baseball heading into October, and Cleveland looks destined for an early exit. But the way a team finishes the regular season doesn't say much about its playoff chances.


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Elegant as Hollywood stars, bursting with the spirit of youth, and wrapped in a sense of passion, this attractive young pair embody the spirit of all I hope this brand new month will be. Energetic, gorgeous, and full of intriguing possibility!
My sweet friends, let us wish upon a star that March (finally) caps off the plethora of snowstorm filled weeks we've all grown accustomed to as of late and that the third month of 2011 (which brings with it the glorious return of spring ) proves to be a marvelous one for all of us.
Here's to hoping that it brings us all joy paired with our favourite things, and that it sparkles with as much chic beauty as these two wonderful young lovers had in their eyes.
oh my gosh, this photo is gorgeous!! thank you for sharing!
But this post I must comment on...that photo is totally gorgeous!! What a beautiful couple, and the quality of the photo is fabulous. It could almost look like a "today" photo using some vintage costumes and developing techniques.
As one who is currently researching my family genealogy, I would give my eye teeth for photos like this. I'm not sure why my family doesn't seem to have wedding photos of my grandparents, but they don't, and I really lament that. So, the owner of this photograph is one very blessed person to have this lovely photo.


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Episode 125: Interview with the Oracle of Payments & Identity: David Birch
February 2, 2017 August 16, 2020 ~ Faisal Khan
In this week's episode of Around The Coin, Faisal Khan interviews the Oracle of Payments & Identity, David Birch. Dave is truly multi-talented, he is the author of "Identity is the New Money", which was his book that came out in 2014. He's a public speaker, world traveler, and needless to say a consultant in the payments space and works with Consult Hyperion. We discuss the importance of identity and where it is heading with respect to payments. In our pre-show discussion, David hinted about the new book he is writing so we will have him say a few words about that as well.
About David Birch
David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. In addition he holds non-executive positions in both public and private sectors.
An internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money, he was named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information by Wired magazine and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking by Financial Brand; was found by PR Daily to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators, along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson; was ranked in the top three most influential people in London's FinTech community in the top five global thought leaders in identity; was listed by Hot Topics as one of the world's top 100 most influential FinTech leaders and was rated Europe's most influential commentator on emerging payments by Total Payments.
In the London Review of Books his Identity is the New Money was called fresh, original, wide-ranging and "the best book on general issues around new forms of money". His new book "Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understand us" will be published in the Spring.
David G.W. Birch
Also available on iTunes, Stitcher and YouTube.
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It is difficult to imagine a modern kitchen without a stove andMicrowave, and the daily diet - without boiled and fried food, is not it? But after all, we did not always eat that way - our distant ancestors were engaged in gathering, and the basis of their diet was raw fruits. Now such a diet adheres to the dietary system under the name raw diet.
Raw food is a food system that Excludes the use of food that has undergone any heat treatment. It includes fried, boiled, smoked,baked, stewed, steamed food. In the diet, you can also include dried food (for example, dried fruits) without seasonings and salt, cold pressed vegetable oils and sprouted cereals.
Devotees of this food system consider raw diet the most biologically natural nutritional value for humans: cooked food, meat, milk simply could not be present in its food chain. In their opinion, raw food is the optimal menu for any person, because it was provided by nature itself.
In addition, people who are eating raw food, believe that this food system useful for health: it helps maintain a good physical shape, stay healthy and fight diseases.
Traditional Raw Food on the composition of the diet most closely resemblesveganism (veganism) - strict veggie, excluding from the diet any products of animal origin. But there are other varieties of raw food. They can differ quite considerably in the composition of the diet, only the main "commandment" of raw food is left unchanged - food should not be subjected to heat treatment.
Omnivorous raw diet. Food is allowed to eat any food (vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, seafood, eggs, milk), but only in a damp or at least cured form.
Vegetarian Raw Food. Meat and fish can not be consumed, but raw eggs and milk, and sometimes dairy products are allowed.
Vegan (traditional) raw diet. This is the most common type of raw food, allowing the use of exceptionally raw food of plant origin. Any food of animal origin is prohibited.
Carnivorous raw food (raw food of the Paleolithic era, raw cheese). This is a type of raw food - the least common, its adherents eat raw meat, fish, seafood, eggs, animal fat. At the same time, the share of vegetables and fruits in the diet is minimal.
Fructorianism. The ration includes only raw fruits, mainly fruits and berries. It is forbidden to eat vegetables that are not fruits (cabbage, beet, radish, carrots, potatoes) and cereals.
In addition to the above varieties, differing in the composition of the diet, the raw diet is divided into two subtypes, differing in the methods of diet planning. Mixed Raw Food allows in a single meal to eat several foods that are similar in nutrient content (for example, different types of fruit). A raw cheese (CME, monotrophic raw diet) allows one meal only one type of food without salt and seasonings.
Syromonozhdenie allows you to consume only raw food of plant origin. In one meal only one food can be eaten (for example, only apples, or only nuts, etc.). You can drink only water, not during meals, but separately from food.
Cheese-making does not fix time of food intake, its quantity and the interval between meals. It is best to rely on your own feelings - a break between the use of different products can be half an hour, and a few hours. But the longer it is, the better.
Immediately after awakening, there is no need - the first meal should be delayed longer. It is best if the first meal is easy and not very satisfying. At least noon, the first serious meal can take place.
Syromonozhdenie calls to listen to your body, but at the same time try to narrow the diet to a minimum. It is better to eat more than to suffer from hunger.
Is it useful to eat raw food (like cheese-making, and its other varieties) for the body? Adherents of this power supply system will definitely say yes. But most dieticians are not so optimistic. Constant strict raw food is unlikely to benefit children and adolescents, pregnant women and young mothers. But as a temporary diet, moderate raw diet can be useful.
Raw food is a not yet fully understood food system, which has both supporters and opponents. If you decide to try raw food, Your best advisor and assistant is your own organism. If you feel good and even better,than before, raw food is what you need. But if raw food does not work, health problems begin - it's better to return to the usual diet.
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Hello! This is the official account for the Lunaescence Sitewide Events!
All challenges and events are collected into series here!
You can find our contact information on our respective accounts.
Mao and Kay founded Fic Trades!
Kerrigan Sheehan and crazydominodragongirl have run events in the past.
Diamond April was promoted from community mod to site admin, and used to run events before she decided to save Luna from its ancient coding!
Currently we have just recovered this account and are in the process of collecting past fictrade and challenge rounds into series!
There will be an announcement the next time a fic trade round is decided on!
Please check back for more information once a new round is announced!
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Home Entrepreneurship DEBUT competition by VentureWell
DEBUT competition by VentureWell
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Deadline: May 30, 2016 | Apply here
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Prize: $65,000 in prizes
Eligibility: undergraduate students only
With $65,000 in prizes, debut is a competition open to undergraduate student teams working on innovative solutions to unmet health and clinical problems.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and VentureWell have come together to support and expand the, a project that recognizes undergraduate excellence in biomedical innovation.
DEBUT competition challenges teams of students in undergraduate biomedical education to solve real world problems in healthcare.
In past years, undergraduate student teams have applied separately to NIBIB's DEBUT competition and to VentureWell's BMEStart competition. The new public-private partnership on the DEBUT competition allows student teams to submit one application and gives teams more chances to win a prize in recognition of their technology solution.
NIBIB's goals:
1) to provide undergraduate students valuable experiences such as working in teams, identifying unmet clinical needs, and designing, building and debugging solutions for such open-ended problems;
2) to generate novel, innovative tools to improve health care, consistent with NIBIB's purpose to support research, training, the dissemination of health information, and other programs with respect to biomedical imaging and engineering and associated technologies and modalities with biomedical applications; and
3) to highlight and acknowledge the contributions of biomedical engineering to advancing healthcare.
VentureWell's goals for the competition are to challenge undergraduates to learn, practice, and demonstrate their technical, creative, and innovative capabilities by addressing a real clinical need and documenting the promise of
1) technical, economic and regulatory feasibility;
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3) potential for commercialization of the solution described.
Strong DEBUT submissions will define a healthcare problem and demonstrate the development of a device, product, or technology designed to solve it. Examples include but are not limited to: surgical devices, home health care devices, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative applications, rehabilitative and assistive technologies, technologies for underserved populations and low resource settings, point-of-care systems, precision medicine, or other innovations that will have a substantial impact on clinical care and patient outcomes.
DEBUT is open to undergraduate students only (teams with graduate students on them should consider applying to VentureWell's BMEidea competition). Students enrolled in senior biomedical engineering capstone design courses are especially encouraged to apply to DEBUT. Multidisciplinary teams are also encouraged to apply and may include undergraduate students from diverse fields such as business, nursing, physical therapy, life sciences, physical sciences, or other related disciplines. Inter-institutional collaborations are also encouraged; in these cases we require a faculty advisor from each institution. Each team must include at least one Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering student.
Strong DEBUT submissions will demonstrate a mastery of analytical and design skills and capabilities; the ability to manage the product development process; the ability to work effectively in teams; and written technical communication skills. Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
Significance of the problem being addressed
Impact on potential users and clinical care
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Additional prizes will be awarded to entries that also demonstrate:
Market potential and economic feasibility
In past years, undergraduate student teams have applied separately to NIBIB's DEBUT challenge and to VentureWell's BMEStart competition. The new public-private partnership on DEBUT allows student teams to submit one application and gives teams more chances to win a prize in recognition of their technology solutions.
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Masha Karan was a Digital Marketing Strategist at AlphaGamma. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Italian language and literature, followed by a Master's degree in Linguistics. She is certified in Inbound Marketing, Content Marketing, Email Marketing, Social Media Marketing, PR, Online Branding & Communications etc. She is passionate about Digital Marketing, Psychology, Entrepreneurship and continuous Self-Development.


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Check In and Blend In with Frank Jaeger
In this episode my guest is Frank Jaeger. Frank is a professional coach and trainer. I met Frank in an international coaching conference in Prague and loved his energy. He shared part of his career story and I was hooked. In this episode I am finding more about it and so will you.
Why should you listen to this episode
Maybe you are feeling that the work you are doing for the moment is approaching to an end for you, then you should definitely listen to this episode. What about how to create more business opportunities, new ideas, keep life interesting? If these sound intriguing this episode is for you. What if I told you that there is something vital (actually 5 things) to learn from improv theatre? Yes, the answer is in this episode too.
If none of these really apply to you, I am sure you will be energised listening to Frank because he definitely energised me.
The Key messages I took away
A career is an evolving story and we bring bits and pieces together, enrich our career and make it more specific and unique as life goes on. I loved Frank's career story. His first idea of what he wanted to be was influenced by his father. He added sports to it being inspired by his girl friend- then a surprising meeting with a new activity came into place: he discovered movement theatre. He started a troupe, connected with people through theatre and turned it into an activity called business theatre. He then discovered coaching for himself in a time where he felt the business theatre activity was coming to an end and moved into this field.
He defined life like surfing the waves and he himself mastered the surf – that was what I felt when I listened to his story.
He made his last career change in his 40s which is a late age for many people for such a move. I asked him what gave him courage, he said he always listened to his intuition. Trusting his intuition was always his best guidance. When he fell off the surf he took time off, checked in with himself how things were going, thought what he could blend in from himself to life and got on to ride a new wave.
I loved what he learned from doing improv theatre and how he uses these principles in his life and in his work. It is all about saying "yes + and", not preparing too much but showing up, celebrating mistakes (which he calls something special – find it out yourself in the episode) and making your partner shine.
I was moved by his purpose which I felt he was living – I experienced his energy just having this conversation with him.
03:53 How he changed his career in his 40's
06:42 His story of starting the business theatre
10:04 How the movement theatre passion turned into a business
12:10 How he meets people and create connections which turn into business opportunities
15:24 His purpose statemeny
17:41 Experimenting, checking in and blending in
19:48 What to doubt and what to trust
23:13 Improv principles
If you'd like to connect with Frank, you can find him on LinkedIn.
In this episode we mentioned about Coaching and International Coach Federation (ICF), you can find more information about these on the website of ICF.
How did you find this episode? What are you taking away from it? Write to me on Linkedin. If you feel generous and also help more people find about this podcast, please rate it on iTunes and write a review. Unique Careers, Unique Lives is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and other platforms where you can listen to podcasts.
If you think someone needs to listen to this episode, please share it with them. We will change ourselves together, we will change the world together, we are in this together!


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Q: External variable and scoping inside jQuery function I have this code below which supposed to run test() every time the window is resized.
var i = 0;
var test = (function() {
    console.log(i++);
})();

$(window).resize(function() {
    test();
});

Code: http://jsfiddle.net/qhoc/NEUdA/
However, I am getting Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function because test() is not available within resize.
Can someone help to explain why? And what is the workaround to have (1) a self-executing function and (2) be able to call it within resize?

A: You probably want to do this:
var test = function() {
    console.log(i++);
};

instead of this:
var test = (function() {
    console.log(i++);
})();

Updated fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/NEUdA/1/
The second form will invoke the function on the spot, and because it doesn't have a return statement, it will return undefined, so test will be undefined.
Why do you want test to be self-executing?

A: The following should do the trick, though it is not really any more convienent than just calling the function right after the declaration:
var i = 0;
var test = (function test() {
    console.log(i++);
    return test;
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$(window).resize(function() {
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package com.commafeed.backend.model;

import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

import org.hibernate.annotations.Index;

import com.google.common.collect.Sets;

@Entity
@Table(name = "USERS")
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class User extends AbstractModel {

	@Column(length = 32, nullable = false, unique = true)
	@Index(name = "username_index")
	private String name;

	@Column(length = 255, unique = true)
	@Index(name = "useremail_index")
	private String email;

	@Column(length = 256, nullable = false)
	private byte[] password;

	@Column(length = 40, unique = true)
	private String apiKey;

	@Column(length = 8, nullable = false)
	private byte[] salt;

	@Column(nullable = false)
	private boolean disabled;

	@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
	private Date lastLogin;

	@Column(length = 40)
	private String recoverPasswordToken;

	@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
	private Date recoverPasswordTokenDate;

	@OneToMany(mappedBy = "user", cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST)
	private Set<UserRole> roles = Sets.newHashSet();

	public String getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(String name) {
		this.name = name;
	}

	public byte[] getPassword() {
		return password;
	}

	public void setPassword(byte[] password) {
		this.password = password;
	}

	public byte[] getSalt() {
		return salt;
	}

	public void setSalt(byte[] salt) {
		this.salt = salt;
	}

	public Set<UserRole> getRoles() {
		return roles;
	}

	public void setRoles(Set<UserRole> roles) {
		this.roles = roles;
	}

	public boolean isDisabled() {
		return disabled;
	}

	public void setDisabled(boolean disabled) {
		this.disabled = disabled;
	}

	public String getEmail() {
		return email;
	}

	public void setEmail(String email) {
		this.email = email;
	}

	public Date getLastLogin() {
		return lastLogin;
	}

	public void setLastLogin(Date lastLogin) {
		this.lastLogin = lastLogin;
	}

	public String getApiKey() {
		return apiKey;
	}

	public void setApiKey(String apiKey) {
		this.apiKey = apiKey;
	}

	public String getRecoverPasswordToken() {
		return recoverPasswordToken;
	}

	public void setRecoverPasswordToken(String recoverPasswordToken) {
		this.recoverPasswordToken = recoverPasswordToken;
	}

	public Date getRecoverPasswordTokenDate() {
		return recoverPasswordTokenDate;
	}

	public void setRecoverPasswordTokenDate(Date recoverPasswordTokenDate) {
		this.recoverPasswordTokenDate = recoverPasswordTokenDate;
	}

}


This tour of Twin Cities agricultural sites conveys highlights of Ramsey County's current vibrant engagement with urban food systems work. Pointing out several sites where residents and neighbors are building garden, orchard, and farm networks in parks, public utility corridors, repurposed buildings, and disinvested land, we show how community organizations and residents are investing in urban community food systems to support their neighborhoods and region.
Traveling from the conference site to Maplewood, a first ring suburb, to the Frogtown and Rondo neighborhoods in the residential core of Saint Paul, this tour explores the ways that agricultural knowledge, food security imperatives, and work for equity for successive generations of migrants have shaped the food-land relationships of the Twin Cities.
Join us on a community tour showcasing the local community food systems transformation taking place in North Minneapolis. The tour will feature a portfolio of innovative and interconnected projects addressing various challenges across the food cycle. This tour will highlight the work of community coalitions, nonprofits, entrepreneurs and food systems advocates that are at the forefront of converting the local food system in myriad ways. Projects featured will share successes, challenges and lessons learned when designing and implementing new solutions to increase access to affordable, healthy and nutritious food in an area of the Twin Cities that the federal government has declared a "food desert." Building community capacity and agency is a critical ingredient and the tour will be co-hosted by Greater Twin Cities United Way as part of their new Full Lives grant program and the Northside Fresh Coalition and will illuminate the importance of coalition work and community driven grant making strategies in supporting local food systems change.


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Главная Коллекция "Revolution" Иностранные языки и языкознание Semantic transformations of English verbs in pilot-controller communication
Semantic transformations of English verbs in pilot-controller communication
The article as devoted to the analysis of requirements of ICAO in relation to the levels of English on international airways. Analyses of the importance of ICAO fourth level of English in the process of professional activity of aviation specialists.
Рубрика Иностранные языки и языкознание
Предмет English
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Размер файла 226,7 K
The significance of English in today's world
The reasons of importance of studying of English. Use of English in communication. Need for knowledge of English during travel, dialogue with foreigners, at information search on the Internet. Studying English in Russia is as one of the major subjects.
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Professional sea English language
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The contrastive analysis of morphological characteristics of English and Ukrainian verbs
А complex comparison of morphological characteristics of English and Ukrainian verbs. Typological characteristics, classes and morphological categories of the English and Ukrainian verbs. The categories of person and number, tenses, aspect, voice, mood.
Intercultural communication in English language education
Basic approaches to the study of the English language. Intercultural communication and computerization of education. The use of technical means for intensification of the educational process. The use of video and Internet resources in the classroom.
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Q: Java Native Interface: data type of long integers I am working on a Cryptographic project, where several 1024 bit numbers (using GMP in C) are generated. These numbers are communicated via a Java program (the C file is called through JNI). I need those large numbers to be returned to the Java program. Now, data types are different mpz_t and BigInteger, so which native data type should be used?

A: jbyteArray because BigInteger can be serialized and deserialized to/from Java byte[] and mpz_t can be serialized and deserialized to/from a structure that—without the header—seems like it would be same sequences of bytes.

A: C part.
#include <jni.h>

jbyteArray array(mpz_t *m) {
  const size_t size = sizeof (mpz_t);
  jbyteArray jbytes = (*env)->NewByteArray(env, (jsize) size);
  if (result != NULL) {
    jbyte *cbytes = (*env)->GetByteArrayElements(env, result, NULL);
    if (cbytes != NULL) {
      int i;
      for (i = (int) (size - 1); i >= 0; i--) {
        cbytes[i] = (jbyte) (*m & 0xFF);
        *m >>= 8;
      }
      (*env)->ReleaseByteArrayElements(env, result, cbytes, 0);
    }
  }
  return result;
}

JNIEXPORT jbyteArray JNICALL Java_Test_bytes(JNIEnv *env, jclass cls) {
  mpz_t *m = getSome();
  return array(m);
}

Java part.
static native byte[] bytes();

static BigInteger bigInteger() {
    final byte[] bytes = bytes();
    return bytes == null ? null : new BigInteger(1, bytes);
}

Note that the first argument 1 means a positive signum.


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Mark Anthony Aguirre (Chicago, Illinois, ) es un exbaloncestista estadounidense de la NBA. Ocupaba habitualmente el puesto de alero.

Biografía

Los comienzos
Mark Aguirre tiene origen mexicano por parte de su padre y abuelo. Aunque empezó a jugar de joven su paso a la relevancia se produjo cuando, después de su paso por el instituto George Westinghouse, Aguirre decidió unirse a los Blue Demons de la Universidad DePaul de su Chicago natal en la temporada 1978-79.

Su impacto en el equipo fue inmediato, con unos fabulosos promedios de 24 puntos y 7,6 rebotes lideró a DePaul en el torneo de la NCAA y los llevó a la primera Final Four en la historia de la universidad. En la semifinal se encontraron ante Indiana State, el número uno del país, liderados por un joven alero llamado Larry Bird. El partido fue ajustadísimo, consiguiendo Indiana la victoria con una canasta final del propio Bird que dejaba a Aguirre fuera de la final.

El año siguiente, 1979-80, no sería menos brillante a nivel de números para Aguirre, pero aquí comenzó a forjarse su mala fama. 26,8 puntos y 7,6 rebotes colocaban a Aguirre como uno de los mejores jugadores del país. Junto a Terry Cummings y Clyde Bradshaw formaban un potentísimo equipo que acabó la fase regular como primero del país. En la primera ronda se enfrentarían a UCLA, a priori un rival fácil para los chicos de DePaul. Aguirre se empeñó en jugar solo el partido ante las quejas de Bradshaw y Cummings y saltó la sorpresa. A pesar de esto Aguirre fue galardonado con el Premio John Naismith y con el Trofeo Oscar Robertson y seleccionado para integrarse en el equipo de baloncesto de los Estados Unidos que representaría al país en las Olimpiadas de Moscú.

Durante esta campaña se ganó el apodo de "Muffin Man" (Hombre Bollo) debido a sus problemas de sobrepeso, había llegado a 120 kilos, pero estaba dispuesto a resarcirse en las Olimpiadas. Con un duro entrenamiento con la selección de Estados Unidos consiguió rebajar su peso hasta los 101 kilos e impresionó a todo el mundo con su juego y potencia. Finalmente, debido al boicot de Estados Unidos a las Olimpiadas de Moscú no participaría en el evento, la revancha habría que dejarla para el año siguiente.

El éxito
El año 1980-81 comenzaba como el anterior, Aguirre estaba dispuesto a demostrar que podía guiar a su equipo al título y que por encima de su mala fama como individualista y jugador de mal carácter, era un ganador. Durante la fase regular conseguiría unos número fantásticos de 23 puntos y 8,6 rebotes para llevar a DePaul al primer lugar de las listas del país. Con una marca de 27 victorias y 1 derrota parecía que este año sí llegaría el éxito. En una temporada marcada por las sorpresas, UCLA y Louisville, finalistas del año anterior habían caído el la primera ronda, DePaul y Aguirre no estaban dispuestos a hacer concesiones.

En la primera ronda jugarían contra St. Joseph, una pequeña universidad de Philadelphia que no ganaba un partido de las finales de la NCAA desde hacía 15 años, la víctima era propicia para acabar con los fantasmas. A 11:15 para el final del partido DePaul ganaba con comodidad por 42-35 y el partido parecía controlado. En ese momento Clyde Bradshaw, base y una de las estrellas del equipo comete su cuarta falta personal y debe ir al banco. Comienza una remontada de St. Joseph que los lleva a colocarse con 48-47 a 13 segundos del final. Al Dillard, jugador de DePaul conocido como "money" por su facilidad en los tiros libres (85%) tenía dos lanzamientos a su favor. Todo acabaría en un susto y DePaul caminaría hacia el título...o no. Para sorpresa de todos Dillard falla el tiro libre (en la NCAA se lanzan aún series de 1+1 y no 2), y tras recuperar el rebote St. Joseph anota la canasta de la victoria. Aguirre apático y desaparecido durante todo el partido cierra su periplo universitario con 8 puntos y 1 rebote y solo 6 lanzamientos a canasta.

A pesar de esta actuación sería nombrado Jugador del Año de la NCAA y daría el salto a la NBA antes de su último año universitario quedando en la historia de DePaul como su mejor anotador.

En la NBA

Dallas Mavericks

A pesar de su fama de controvertido sus números y su juego le hicieron llegar al número 1 del Draft de la NBA de 1981 seleccionado por los Dallas Mavericks. En su primer año con los Mavs participó solo en 51 partidos debido a las lesiones y no pudo rendir a su máximo nivel. A pesar de esto logró 18,7 puntos y 4,9 rebotes por partido, nada mal para un novato. El equipo terminó con un récord de 28-54 pero había esperanzas de un gran futuro para los Mavs con jugadores jóvenes como Aguirre o Rolando Blackman.

En su segunda temporada, 1982-83 los Mavs y Aguirre mejoraban, 24,4 puntos y 6,3 rebotes llevaban al equipo de Dallas a una marca de 38-44, aún fuera de playoff. Un dato indicativo de este equipo durante este año es que terminó tercero en anotación de toda la NBA, pero último en defensa, recibir 109,7 puntos por partido son demasiados para pensar en playoff.

La temporada 1983-84 fue la mejor en la carrera de Aguirre. Unos espectaculares promedios de 29,5 puntos, 5,9 rebotes y 4,5 asistencias le llevaron a establecer una marca en la franquicia de media de puntos y puntos totales en una temporada que aún permanecen. Aun así no terminaría como máximo anotador de la liga, Adrian Dantley de Utah Jazz terminó con 30,6 puntos por partido arrebatándole el título. Este año, a pesar de que su defensa seguía sin mejorar, consiguieron una marca de 43-39 que le llevan por primera vez en su carrera a la lucha por el título. Tras superar en primera ronda a los Sonics por un ajustado 3-2, caen contra los Lakers por un claro 4-1.

En la temporada de 1984-85 llegaron Sam Perkins y Derek Harper, pero a pesar de estas incorporaciones y el buen hacer de Aguirre (25,7 puntos y 6 rebotes) seguían sin avanzar. La defensa de los Mavs seguía haciendo aguas y su tremendo poder ofensivo solo les permitía llegar a playoff. De nuevo alcanzarían la postemporada este año con una marca de 44-38 pero caerían en primera ronda ante los Blazers por 3-1.

Llegó el año 1985 y a pesar de la ligera caída en las prestaciones de Aguirre (22,6 puntos y 6 rebotes) los Mavs seguían en su línea. Segundo equipo en anotación y vigésimo sobre 23 equipos en defensa. Repitieron la marca del año anterior con 44-38 y en esta ocasión vencieron en primera ronda a los Jazz por 3-1 aunque de nuevo los imbatibles Lakers dominadores de la Conferencia Oeste durante la década de los 80 se cruzaron en su camino. Caían en segunda ronda por 4-2 y el anillo de campeón seguía lejos de Aguirre.

La temporada 1986-87 parecía que traía unas expectativas distintas. La llegada de Detlef Schrempf, Roy Tarpley y el buen hacer de Aguirre (25,7 puntos y 5,3 rebotes), Blackman, Donaldson etc. llevaron a los Mavs a una marca de 55-27 ganando la división Medio-Oeste, principalmente debido a una ostensible mejora en su defensa y manteniendo el nivel ofensivo. A pesar de estas buenas perspectivas de nuevo los Sonics se cruzaban en su camino en primera ronda dejando fuera del playoff a los Mavs por 3-1. A pesar de todo eran los mejores años de la franquicia que continuarían en la temporada 1987-88.

Durante esta campaña los jóvenes siguieron progresando y el equipo aumentando su nivel en defensa. Gracias a esto Aguirre (25,1 puntos y 5,6 rebotes) situó a Dallas lo más cerca del título que estuvo nunca. Con una marca de 53-29 se colocaron segundos de la división Medio-Oeste lo que les llevó a un enfrentamiento de primera ronda contra los Rockets a los que vencieron por 3-1. En esta ocasión la barrera de las semifinales de conferencia sería contra los Nuggets que habían superado en la división Medio-Oeste a los Mavericks. En esta ocasión Aguirre y compañía lograron superarse y meterse en la final venciendo por 4-2 a Denver. Por desgracia para ellos de nuevo aparecía en su camino el dominador de la liga en los 80. Los Lakers fueron demasiado para los Mavs y cayeron en la final del Oeste por un apretado 4-3.

Detroit Pistons

La temporada 1988-89 sería una temporada de cambios para Aguirre, a la postre muy importantes para su carrera. Comenzó la temporada con los Mavs pero a mitad de campaña fue traspasado a los Pistons a cambio de Adrian Dantley y una primera ronda del draft. A pesar de quedar como segundo máximo anotador de la franquicia tras Rolando Blackman, (superado posteriormente por Dirk Nowitzki como anotador de Dallas), tanto los aficionados como los directivos se alegraron de perder de vista al problemático Aguirre. En Detroit formaría con los conocidos como "Bad Boys" (Chicos Malos) junto a Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Rodman, etc. El carácter de Aguirre y su estilo de juego chocaron con la filosofía del equipo, y en una famosa cena que mantuvieron varios compañeros de equipo, Bill Laimbeer dejó bien claro el sitio de Aguirre en los Pistons. Contra todo pronóstico Aguirre encajó bien las críticas y se adaptó rápidamente al juego de Detroit, ayudando a los Pistons a conseguir el primer lugar del Este. Tras clasificarse para playoff con una marca de 63-19 barrieron en la primera ronda a unos Celtics ya en decadencia apurando sus últimos momentos de gloria. En la segunda ronda volvieron a barrer a los Bucks por 4-0 y llegaron a la final de conferencia ante los Chicago Bulls de Michael Jordan. A pesar de tener más dificultades vencieron por 4-2 y llegaron a las finales, la venganza de Aguirre estaba servida, de nuevo los Lakers aparecían en su camino al título, pero esta vez en la final y con Detroit. Los "Bad Boys" fueron implacables y fulminaron por 4-0 a los Lakers consiguiendo el título después de dos años de intentos fallidos, Aguirre por fin conseguía su anillo.

En la temporada 1989-90 seguiría en reinado de los Pistons. Con un Aguirre integrado en la filosofía del equipo y con una gran defensa conseguían alzarse por segundo año consecutivo con el campeonato de la NBA. La rivalidad que mantenían en la Conferencia Este con los Bulls dio un vuelco en la temporada 1990-91. Jordan y los suyos comenzaban su reinado destronando a los Pistons, Aguirre no volvería a ganar el anillo a pesar de seguir jugando a buen tanto individual como colectivamente.

Los "Bad Boys" agonizaban en la temporada 1991-92, a pesar de su clasificación para playoff caen en primera ronda ante los Knicks por un ajustado 3-2, la última vez que Aguirre disputará un partido de playoff, ya que la puntilla definitiva sería la siguiente campaña. En la temporada 1992-93 con una marca de 40-42 los Pistons quedan fuera de la lucha por el título, los números de Aguirre bajan hasta 9,9 puntos y 3 rebotes. Esta campaña es cortado por Detroit a pesar de quedar 2 años de contrato por lo que firma como agente libre con Los Angeles Clippers por una campaña. Aguirre, ya un veterano de 33 años completa la campaña con 10,6 puntos por partido pero los Clippers, equipo maldito durante la década de los 90 queda en los últimos lugares de la competición.

Tras esta temporada con Los Angeles Clippers decide poner fin a su carrera como jugador profesional, actualmente pertenece al cuerpo técnico de los Knicks como entrenador asistente.

Estadísticas de su carrera en la NBA

Temporada regular

Playoffs

Logros y reconocimientos
 Máximo anotador en la historia de la Universidad de DePaul.
 Miembro del equipo nacional Olímpico de Estados Unidos en Moscú 1980.
 Jugador del Año Universitario (1981).
 Número 1 del draft de 1981.
 Segundo máximo anotador de la NBA 1984.
 3 veces All-Star de la NBA (1984, 1987, 1988).
 2 veces campeón de la NBA (1989, 1990).
 Tercer máximo anotador en la historia de Dallas Mavericks.

Enlaces externos
 Ficha personal
 Estadísticas en BasketballReference.com
 Todo sobre Mark Aguirre Estadísticas, premios, logros, galería de fotos de Mark Aguirre en UltimateNBA.com

Baloncestistas de la NBA
Baloncestistas All-Star de la NBA
Baloncestistas de Illinois
Baloncestistas de los Dallas Mavericks
Baloncestistas de los Detroit Pistons
Baloncestistas de los DePaul Blue Demons
Baloncestistas de Los Angeles Clippers
Entrenadores de baloncesto de Estados Unidos
Deportistas de Chicago
Afroestadounidenses
Nacidos en Chicago

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The units accessed from Moorland Way form part of the popular and well established Nelson Park industrial estate in Cramlington. Cramlington is in Northumberland and is situated 9 miles north of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The estate benefits from good transport links with the town lying; between the A1, A19 and A189 roads. The A19 provides links to the north and south of the region and is accessed 3 miles from the estate.
The town is served by Cramlington Railway Station which is on the East Coast Main Line, with services to the MetroCentre, Morpeth and Newcastle upon Tyne provided by Northern. The town is located approximately 12 mi (19 km) from Newcastle International Airport and 10 mi (16 km) from North Shields International Ferry Terminal.
The estate also benefits from excellent local amenities with a range of retail outlets, including Currys PC World, M & S and Sainsbury's located only 5 minutes' drive away.
Nelson Park is a large estate comprising of 193,114 sq ft of industrial workshop and warehouse units. The units which form part of Moorland Way range in size from 565 sq ft up to 2,400 sq ft.
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When using SVN and FileVault command. It may update my files after a commit,update or checkout using the vlt command even I didn't really change anything.
This usually happen if your svn checked in files was done from another operating system that uses different end-of-line style (aka eol-style). On Windows it is usually a CRLF, while on Unix/Mac it is LF. FileVault regenerate non binaries when using commit, update or checkout , and is using the native operating system eol-style.
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James Alexander Jermyn was an Anglican priest in the first half of the Twentieth century.

Jermyn was educated at the University of New Zealand and ordained deacon in 1915, and priest in 1916. After a curacy in Karamea he was a Chaplain with the New Zealand Military Forces during the First World War. When peace returned he was a curate at Holy Trinity, Stroud Green. He held incumbencies at Murchiston, Westport and Greymouth. He was Archdeacon of Māwhera from 1930 to 1940.

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