In our current day when the use of handheld, GPS-enabled devices has virtually supplanted the use of paper maps, it is possible that the following excerpt by Lewis Carroll may be lost on some. The message, though, is important.
Young, married Latter-day Saints in Chicago had a notable opportunity on 2 February 2019, when President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints, passed through the city as a visitor. There was some special meaning in his visit because he had lived in Chicago for a number of years, originally as a student at the highly-ranked law school of the University of Chicago and then, among other things, as a member of that law school's faculty.
"Research is not the answer"? Really?
[Page ix]Some might expect me to disagree with President Oaks's statement. After all, I was deeply involved for many years with the old Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and its successor, the pre-2012 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. And now I'm deeply involved with The Interpreter Foundation. These organizations have focused on fostering faithful research into the scriptures and claims of the Restoration and on publishing the results of that research as widely as possible.
If I didn't believe Gospel-related research and scholarship to be important, I certainly wouldn't have devoted so much of my time and effort to FARMS and Interpreter. And if others didn't believe such scholarship and research to be of great value, those organizations wouldn't have been launched in the first place.
Moreover, I believe that scholarship supplies many reasons to accept and sustain Latter-day Saint faith.
Nevertheless, in the last analysis, I agree with President Oaks. Apart from the most simple and noncontroversial topics, research and scholarly argument will almost always be tentative, inconclusive, reaching probable conclusions and arguing for positions that invite qualifications and counterarguments. What caused the fall of Rome? Who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad? What are the roles of nature and nurture in human personality? What is the ultimate origin of morality? These and thousands of other such questions have been and continue to be disputed — to say nothing of such far deeper and more essential questions as whether there is a God, whether Jesus really rose from the dead, or whether Joseph Smith was divinely inspired.
We can research forever. And I think that we should do so. In the meanwhile, though, we must live — and life is ticking inescapably away. Moreover, the life of a disciple requires commitment. It's not a never- ending PhD program supported by an inexhaustible scholarship fund. Covenants need to be made or not made, kept or abandoned. Children need to be reared, in faith or without it. Infinite postponement is impossible.
Please note the terms straightway (4:20) and immediately (4:22). Both of them render the same underlying Greek word (εὐθέως). The New International Version of the Bible translates them, respectively, as at once and immediately. J. B. Phillips gives them both as at once.
The sense is pretty clear. Neither Simon Peter nor Andrew nor James nor John pursued graduate studies in a theological school before responding to Jesus's call. None of them did any library research. They didn't even take the missionary discussions. They heard the call and felt impelled to accept it. εὐθέως. Immediately.
And at what a cost! Their acceptance of the divine call ripped these provincial Galilean fishermen out of the small rural lives they would otherwise have lived and made them figures of international historical importance — but not, necessarily, of international affection. The New Testament itself records that James (or Jacob), the brother of John and a son of Zebedee, was martyred by the sword in Jerusalem around AD 44, at the order of Herod Agrippa.4 According to ancient tradition, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, died by crucifixion in Achaea, a region of today's Greece. Somewhere around AD 64, Simon Peter was crucified upside down in Rome. John, the brother of James, disappears from history not long after his exile on the island of Patmos, off the coast of modern Turkey.
Shouldn't they have engaged in extensive and rigorous research before making so momentous a choice?
I recently read a book by the always-stimulating Swiss journalist, philosopher, and novelist Dr. Rolf Dobelli that might shed some interesting light on such questions. It's entitled Die Kunst des klugen Handelns: 52 Irrwege, die Sie besser anderen überlassen— roughly, in English, The Art of Smart Action: 52 Wrong Paths that Would Be Better [Page xi]Left to Others.5 Among the brief chapters of his book is one called "Hast du einen Feind, gib ihm Information" ("If you have an enemy, give him information").
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of one Province alone took up the whole of a City, and the map of the empire, the whole of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps did not satisfy and the College of Cartographers set up a Map of the Empire which had the size of the Empire itself and coincided with it point by point. Less Addicted to the Study of Cartography, Succeeding Generations understood that this Widespread Map was Useless and not without Impiety they abandoned it to the Inclemencies of the Sun [Page xii]and the Winters. In the deserts of the West some mangled Ruins of the Map lasted on, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in the whole Country there are other relics of the Disciplines of Geography.
He illustrates his point, also, with a personal story about searching for a hotel in Berlin. Having looked through a selection of possibilities, he chose one of them on an impression. But then, not trusting his "gut reaction" (Bauchgefühl), he did more research. He read dozens of comments, evaluations, and blog entries for a wide range of hotels and clicked through uncounted photos and videos. After two hours of intensive study, he decided on … the same hotel he had chosen at the very start.
A patient is suffering from symptoms that point, with a likelihood of 80%, to Illness A. However, if the patient's disease isn't Illness A, it is either Illness X or Y. Unfortunately, each of these diseases must be treated in a different way. Each of the three is roughly equally serious, and each potential treatment has similar side effects. As a physician, which of the treatments would you prescribe? Logically, you would bet on Illness A and, accordingly, order up Therapy A.
But now suppose that there is a diagnostic test that will give a positive result in the case of Illness X and a negative result in the case of Illness Y. If, however, the disease in question really is Illness A, half of the test results will come out positive and half will come out negative. Would you, as a physician, recommend that the patient undergo this diagnostic test?
In cases where the decisive facts are already on the table, Dobelli argues, "More information is not merely superfluous, it can also be detrimental."10 To illustrate this contention, he cites a little experiment conducted by the psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, of the Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin.
Dobelli closes his chapter with a brief allusion to the Great Recession of 2008. Scores of thousands of government, academic, and private economists — armed with mathematical models and research reports, commentaries and terabytes of data — failed to foresee the financial crisis. When certain knowledge is beyond the reach of human reason, more data and more research isn't going to give it to us.
[Page xiv]Another of Dobelli's chapters is worthy of note in this context. It's entitled "Wann Sie Ihren Kopf ausschalten sollen" ("When you should turn your head off").
Dobelli tells an interesting story about preferences in strawberry jam. In the 1980s, it seems, Consumer Reports had 45 different types of strawberry jam rated by expert "tasters." Some years later, a psychologist by the name of Timothy Wilson did exactly the same thing with his students, and the results were very nearly identical: The students preferred the same varieties of strawberry jam as the experts had.
None of what I'm saying here, I hasten to add, is intended to argue against the value of knowledge or the importance and interest of research. It is, however, intended to suggest that, in matters where ultimate answers are unavailable to human reason — e.g., whether there is a God, whether life has meaning, whether there is a real distinction between good and evil, whether there is a purpose behind the cosmos — additional research really cannot deliver the answers we seek. Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? No quantity of scientific data and no amount of immersion in the library stacks will settle those questions beyond doubt.
1.	Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillian, 1893), 169.
2.	Jason Swensen, "President Oaks' advice to young married couples in Chicago on how to tackle faith-threatening questions," Church News (February 4, 2019), https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-and-ministry/2019-02-04/president-oaks-advice-to-young-married-couples-in-chicago-on-how-to-tackle-faith-threatening-questions-48930.
5.	Rolf Dobelli, Die Kunst des klugen Handelns: 52 Irrwege, die Sie besser anderen überlassen (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2014), 33–35. Translations from Dobelli's book are mine.
6.	Jorge Luis Borges, "Del Rigor en la Ciencia," Ciudad Seva, accessed March 5, 2019, https://ciudadseva.com/texto/del-rigor-en-la-ciencia/.
7.	Jorge Luis Borges, "On Rigor in Science," in Dreamtigers, trans. Mildred Boyer and Harold Morland (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964), 90.
8.	Dobelli, Die Kunst des klugen Handelns, 33.
13.	Dobelli, Die Kunst des klugen Handelns, 174.
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That was a weird piece–seems to have completely missed the point. Oaks recommended in marriages wherein one spouse has become inactive due to difficult issues, that the believing spouse not research the questions raised by the unbelieving/skeptical spouse in terms of trying to help the unbelieving spouse. it is true that there are questions with no answers. He's not saying the research is not the answer because there are no answers to the questions. He's saying research is not the answer to help an unbelieving spouse. To help an unbelieving spouse the believing spouse should work to increase his/her faith in Jesus, and pray that the unbeliever get fixed or get over it–essentially.
It seems to me Oaks' advice helps to create a wedge within a marriage rather than a help. It comes off as Oaks telling a believing spouse to not try and understand where the skeptical spouse is coming from. If you hear him/her out and research on your own, it isn't going to help the situation. That's a shame because spouses should be able to be open with each other. All too often a spouse who starts to question, and worries that his/her concerns present too many problems for adherence to the Church, that skeptical spouse gets shut down by the believing spouse. Walls are formed and there is no resolve. The believing spouse may well take his/her name to the temple, perhaps, or fast for his/her spiritual welfare. But it still leaves the skeptical spouse feeling as if he/she is being ignored, unappreciated, disliked, rejected etc.
On the other hand if a skeptical spouse raises issues and concerns and the believer hears him/her and does some personal research into the issues, then at least the skeptical one gets heard, feels appreciated and listened to. I find Oaks' advice objectionable…and your piece missed the whole point.
I believe that you misconstrue President Oaks's advice, and that, therefore, you're not in a position to accurately construe my comments on it.
I don't for a moment agree that President Oaks advocates that a believing spouse solely work to increase his or her own faith in Jesus while praying that an unbelieving spouse get fixed or get over it. Nor do I see him saying that research is never of any use at all.
In other words, it is my opinion that your opinion about Oak's advice is wrong, therefore, in my opinion you have no right to have an opinion about my opinion about Oak's advice.
Bradley, everyone is entitled to an opinion. Having an opinion doesn't mean it is correct. Correctness also doesn't determine whether anyone else has an opinion. In this case, Dr. Peterson has suggested that your opinion was incorrect–not that you couldn't have one.
Thank you for your opinion regarding my opinion about Dan's opinion.
You are welcome for your opinion about my opinion about your opinion about Dan's opinion.
Oaks is replying to those who have spouses who have grown skeptical and concerned about the Church for various reasons. He tells the believing spouse research is not the answer, if such a believing spouse asks him how do these believing spouses approach researching the issues that are concerning the spouse.
In conclusion in your piece you say "Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? No quantity of scientific data and no amount of immersion in the library stacks will settle those questions beyond doubt." These are not the issues the skeptical spouses are dealing with. These are not the questions that the believing spouse would have to be researching.
As I said, you are far afield from the issue you are trying to address.
In my experience, they often ARE. And, in the end, they almost ALWAYS are.
But I cited such ultimate existential questions because they're so manifestly not answerable in a way that is decisively and obviously clear to everybody, not because I was claiming that they're the only or even the primary questions that arise in doubters' minds.
I happen, for example, to have been exposed to vigorous disagreements over the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Was Shakespeare a cover for the Earl of Oxford? This isn't an issue that especially fascinates me and it's certainly not a question of "ultimate concern," but it strikes me as quite analogous to certain questions about LDS scripture.
And there are, as I said, literally thousands of such questions that continue to be debated. That's why there are still so many journals devoted to ancient history, American history, European history, Islamic history, classical archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, and a host of such fields.
Except for such trivially simple issues as the date of the armistice that ended World War One or the identity of the president who led the Confederacy during the Civil War, history — to choose just one relevant field — is littered with debates and controversies.
Just try — go ahead, try! — to secure unanimous agreement on even many of the most basic facts about the Arab/Israeli conflict!
I stand by my position as not only true, but, if it's correctly understood, beyond reasonable dispute.
Saying there are questions about history, there are debated ideas of what happened, is an obvious, goes without saying, point.
I imagine a marriage. two people, as a hypothetical, because that's how Oaks' paints it. One faithfully committed to the Church. the other, after some studying/researching, and stumbling upon difficult "matters of Church history and doctrinal issues" finds him/herself left questioning and skeptical about the Church. So the skeptic brings some questions and ideas to the believer, "help me. Let's talk about these troubling things". The believer wonders what to do. Oaks says, "you should not research those issues".
I think it's bad advice. I think it's a horrible perspective.
If all you want to do is make the point that there are questions that people debate over and therefore research isn't going to necessarily answer any one question, definitely. Fine. but again, that seems to take Oaks' comment into a place that strips it of it's context. If your ultimate point here is to say "well the Church, it's history and teachings can very well raise many great questions and issues for people, but in some cases there are not answers; therefore, a believing spouse should not research the troubling items the skeptical spouse is dealing with." then you're in league with Oaks' point and I'll reiterate. It's a bad one.
I agree with Pres. Oaks as well, but I don't like Gigerenzer's experiment and the conclusions drawn from it. For one thing, the Census Bureau now says San Antonio is more populous that San Diego, so if the question was administered again, would the less-informed-on-US-cities Germans be 100% correct?
What if the question had instead included San Francisco and San Jose? Would knowing about San Francisco but not San Jose cause most to get the wrong answer — because San Jose is actually more populous?
And in the case of city populations, more research is what would make one "able" to answer correctly. While the lack of information resulted in more Germans answering the question correctly (given the populations at that time, and in line with the way the question was given), I don't think anyone would take from the results that the Germans were more "able" to provide the correct answer, even if they gave the right answer more often.
However, at the most basic level, as Dr. Peterson states — as in whether there is even a God — such things will not be found out by more and more researching of what others think. Ultimately such knowledge rests in our own experience with God, and our testimonies of other facets of the restored gospel rest in our own experiences with the witness of the Holy Ghost.
I wanted to yell bravo from the mere reading of the abstract of this illustrious article. Dan's piece gives me peace.
It calls to mind Robert Millet's book, What Ever Happened to Faith? As a new convert in my college years in the 1970's at California State University Long Beach, I was a History major. My anti-Latter-day Saint mother fed me with a slingshot some of the best saint killers — Fawn Brodie, Ann Eliza Young, and the Tanners. On my own I bought Walter Martin, Floyd McElveen, and other Evangelical 'tell the truth in love' propagandists that lied about my Faith and deliberately distorted its teachings and history. Worse actually, I inhaled much of the mustard gas in Sunstone and Dialogue.
To this day I am grateful that God gave me a believing heart. Leading up to my baptism, I had had a spiritual experience and I decided to trust in it. Faith really is a decision. Upon reading a handful of primary source documents on the Adam-God theory, I felt "So President Young was spouting off about something weird. So what?" I still think it's so-what. Same with the blood atonement issue. And other matters of chatter. Not to worry, Glen, we are promised our faith will be tried; go figure. And no need to whine about it or go sympathy-seeking at Liberal tea parties where you will be soul-buttered by pseudo-faithful failure-in-the-Faith sophisticates. Instead, stay rooted—stay anchored.
Initial contact with difficult points in our history are like getting the wind knocked out of me — after a few brief moments I get my breath back and I'm fine. I seek answers. If those are lacking then seek Faithful Perspective. If that fails for the moment, then recall spiritual experiences and evidences that that I do have. God is smarter than bunk. That is, if I look to Him. Evidence is not always reliable. It is not always truth; there can be illusion in it.
And you get what you want. God will provide it "because they desired it." Those who crave pseudo-intelligence and the wordcraft of priestcraft will dance to the music in Liberal dance halls.
Brother England, there never has been a conflict between faith and knowledge, belief and reason, obedience and 'intellectual integrity.' Conflict only comes with absence of faith, testimony, discipleship. Dissonance is a choice, not a thing that ambushes and victimizes.
O, and 'hobby' is not discipleship.
Delightful. In Borges' story the last line of the translation has a small error. Should read "there are NO other relics . . ." That makes Bro Dan's point even better. All our learning in more and more arcane knowledge will blow away like the 1:1 map and nothing will be left except our broken hearts and contrite spirits.
Borges was fully fluent in both Spanish and English so I wonder if he had read the Lewis Carroll piece and adapted it for his Castellano readers.
Dan Peterson is always such a joy to read. All thanks.
I am very familiar with three relevant cases that support President Oaks' counsel.
In two of the cases the believing spouse and the doubting spouse (in each case wife and husband, respectively) continued to express their affection for one another. In both cases the husband agreed to support her and the family's continued activity in the Church. In one case the husband, a university professor, remained active, supportive and engaged even amidst his unbelief. Over the years his testimony was rekindled and he ultimately served as a beloved Stake President. In the other case, the husband was actually a non-Church member who refused baptism shortly into the marriage, much to the surprise and disappointment of the wife. While he rarely attended church with her, he made sure to not interfere with the wife and children's scheduled church activities. When it came time to support missionary sons, he did so even if reluctantly at first. Ultimately all of their children were married in the temple with grandchildren serving full-time missions and looking to temple marriages of their own. He was much beloved by his children and grandchildren for his support. His 60+ year marriage to his faithful wife was recently interrupted by his passing.
In the third case, well-meaning friends and family tried to address the doubting husband's concerns, but this only served to entrench him in his negative opinions. He adopted an anti-religion world view and became active in anti-Mormon criticism. His wife resisted for a couple of years, but after his constant prodding, relented and agreed to accept him on his terms. Today the couple leads a lifestyle that very few – even the non-religious – would think is wise, and to the detriment of those close to them. Many family and friends are watching their situation closely, knowing they'll likely have to intervene at some point when things ultimately fall apart.
As I contemplate these three cases, the approach of the first two was clearly the best. The believing spouse stayed anchored to the gospel and asked the non-believing or disillusioned spouse to support her without criticizing or debating him. The love of the non-believing spouse – the desire to keep their marriage covenant the best they could given their current faith situation – allowed these two marriages to succeed marvelously. In the third case you had a few people try to directly address the husband's expressed concerns, but this backfired and made things worse. And it should also be noted that, contrary to the first two cases, the non-believing spouse demanded his wife accept him on his terms only.
I make no judgement on the specifics of anyone else's situation based on these 3 cases. I provide them only to illustrate that I think President Oaks gave wise and inspired counsel to the young married couples in Chicago.
Some of us, I suppose, are simply doomed to remain on the level of the obvious.
But the obviousness of my point is an indicator of its correctness. I stand by my position as not only true, but, if it's correctly understood, beyond reasonable dispute.
I agree that your version of President Oaks's position is a horrible perspective and that it would be bad advice. But I don't believe that it's his advice or his perspective.
That's neither my ultimate point, nor my proximate point, nor any point of mine at all — and I don't believe that it's President Oaks's point, either.
Bottom line is if a believing spouse has a skeptical spouse. If that skeptical spouse brings up questions and concerns about the Church, even requesting the believer help and look into the questions and concerns. it's bad advice to tell the believer that researching those issues is not something he/she should do.
It was bad advice. simply put. Your piece took this little hypothetical and ran in a different direction, missing the point of the hypothetical.
I imagine if a skeptical spouse came with those questions and concerns (again these are not questions that are in the "where did we come from" vein) and the believer responded with, "no no…we dont' want to talk about these. We need to get you to strengthen your faith in Christ and the Church. I'll continue to pray for you." The skeptic would feel ignored. A wall would be built between the two and problems could possibly at that point, only exacerbate. Terrible advice.
Hmmm. I wonder if I researched David Bennett's anti-Elder Oaks position — addressing every one of his arguments — I could bring him 'round to my pro-Elder Oaks point of view? Chances are I couldn't help him, but if I did "convince" him … this Bennett convinced against his will is of the same position still. Better not to indulge him.
President Oaks gave no such advice.
It would have been, had President Oaks given it. But he didn't.
President Oaks' talk is so relevant to our lives in the digital era when we have discovered that every scientific study is tentative and every "fact" is just a click away from becoming a factoid. 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day and 90% of stored data was created in just the last 2 years. Knowing what is really usable knowledge is critical in the era of our information Tsunami. Pondering your discussion prompted me to revisit TS Elliot's famous poem the Rock which I have heard from many in Information Technology. President Oaks was not the first to ponder this matter.
Ah. Thanks for reminding me of that poem — which I should have used in my little essay.


Thread: Stars in "La Luna"
c'mon, nobody has seen 'la luna"??? there's has to be a node comb or a shader that gives you that... inner glow, ceramic, translucent, something!!!
I don't have time to test my theory, but what about an inner star geometry encapsulated in an outer shell of geometry? The inner star would be Luminous (maybe with a Fresnel/Incidence angle gradient so that the geometry angled towards the camera is more Luminous than the edges angled away from the camera), and the outer shell could be Dielectric.
You're over-thinking the solution. The basic is very simple - a distance to center gradient. You can do it with two keys, though, to fine tune the look, I went with four. I used Jovian to get the colors off a frame from the short, which I applied to the four keys, and fed the color output of the gradient directly into the Diffuse Shading. Add a Spot Info and an Item Info, and feed the Object Spot and Object Position into a Distance node, and use that as the gradient's input. A bit of key adjusting and I got the basic look I wanted, which is nearly the final result.
Next was to add the Fresnel effect. Easy again, since there's a node called Fresnel that does the trick. I went with an IOR of 1.5. Feed this into the Reflection input, and your reflections are taken care of. For the darkening you see in the Pixar stars, I took this same output and added it to the output of the Distance node. This was a very slight change, so I multiplied the Fresnel's output by 5 first. Now, instead of the colors just getting darker, which also has the effect of making them lose some saturation, I'm shifting them to the darker colors in the gradient instead, on those glancing angles.
If you look at the Pixar versions, they don't have a perfectly smooth transition from one color to the next. There's a slight bumpiness to them. So, I added a Turbulence bump to the entire thing, with about a 25% amplitude. This gives a slight rippling to the surface, which adds a bit of irregularity to the color transition too, due to it affecting the Fresnel.
Note: The Bump and Normal inputs on the Surface Node, affect EVERYTHING, including Fresnel nodes, Materials, shaders, or anything else that references the normals of the surface. If you want them to affect only specific nodes, then do not plug them into the Surface Node.
There wasn't enough rippling to really affect the gradient when seen face on though, so I added a Crumple node, and added its Alpha to the Fresnel output as well, and scaled the Opacity to 35%. Now the gradient colors had a nice mottled effect like you see in the Pixar stars.
Finally, just for some variation, since I was using instances to fill the scene with a bunch of stars, I decided to vary each one a bit. First I rerouted the Gradient's color output into a Color Tool node, which then fed into the Diffuse Shading. I added an Instance Info, and took the Fixed Random output from that and fed it into the Color Tool's Hue input. The default output was too much, so I multiplied it by 0.2, and then I subtracted 0.1 from that, so my hue was shifting in both directions equally.
I also wanted to vary the brightnesses of the stars. Unfortunately, there's no way to get a different set of random values out of the Instance Info node - they all output the exact same values for each instance (an additional Seed value would be handy), so if I stuck with this, then the hue & brightness of the stars would all be linked; redder stars would always be darker than the greener ones, which would always be brighter.
To fix this, I used Mike Wolf's Random Scalar node. This generates a fixed random value based on a seed, so, unless you vary the seed value, it's going to give a constant value within the range you specify. So, to get a different value for each star, I took the ID Index from the Instance Info and fed that into the Seed input. However, this just gave me the same result that I got by just taking the Fixed Random output. So, to shake thing sup, I used a Power node and raised the ID Index by a power of 1.2 before putting it into the Seed input. Now there's no linear correlation between the two anymore. Finally, I added that random value, which I ranged from -0.5 to 0.5, to the Distance output, which further shifted the gradient up or down, this time, on a per star basis.
Took about 2 minutes to build the star, about 1 minute to set up the basic gradient, and about 20 minutes to finished up the rest of the tweaking. Render took another 7 minutes.
He Who Also Slightly Saturated The Original Colors To Allow For A Post Glow.
- Any typos are the result of a creative, yet rebellious keyboard.
Excellent explanation Dave. Cool test too!
OK, I'm officially incompetent now.
I probably spelled "incompetent" wrong too.
Very nice look Dave, (and also XswampyX) though I am not sure it quite feels as SSS as the pixar result. Much simpler and faster to render though! I wonder if you put some small balls with displacement and made them super white - and then give the stars huge SSS if that would be closer?
Well, I think Pixar spent a little more than 20 minutes on the look, and they also have that glow around them which will also change the look.
Not much point in going the SSS route when the surface is casting light. I saw the short & it didn't look like they were doing anything fancy. A few minutes of playing around and I came pretty close to what they have. I could tweak the colors a bit more, add in some blurred reflections, maybe some textured reflectivity as well, but if you look closely, their stars all look slightly different, so I could spend days trying to match one, and never have a match for any of the others.
He Who Is Satisfied With What He Came Up With.
Stolen and saved! Thank you!
This made me laugh. That's because they don't have you Dave.
The "distance from center" gag works good for a symmetrical object like a star, but what if you wanted to get this look on something like, sayyyyyy, an extruded block font?
A "cooled at the corners, but still glowing hot" effect?
He Who Is About To Throw This 32 Core Machine Out The Window.
He Who Anticipates Finding A 32 Core Machine Outside A Window.


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As part of a world-wide celebration of World Oceans Day 2019, we officially opened our first on-land Coral Reef Lab in the Dominican Republic. Iberostar's Coral Reef Lab is a cutting-edge research facility that will study the impacts of coral bleaching in the surrounding ocean, serve as a genetic bank for many species of coral as Stony Coral Tissue Loss disease spreads to the Caribbean, and act as a space for Iberostar guests to engage with the lab and learn about the importance of coral reefs while on vacation. Iberostar's first full-time science team member is using the lab for Coral Rescue and is conducting the first experiments for climate-resilient reef restoration as part of Wave of Change. Visiting scientists from Stanford and USC have utilized the facility, broadening the international research network in the Dominican Republic. The lab is located in what was formerly a yoga palapa on the beach of the Iberostar Bavaro in the Dominican Republic.
Iberostar is fully committed to helping find solutions to protect and restore coral reefs which have been declining at unprecedented rates in the last century. After all, 80% of our hotels are beachfront and 80% of our beaches are protected by reefs. Healthy reefs are a key part of healthy tourism which is why Iberostar's commitment to improve coastal health (through the discovery, protection, and restoration of coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrasses) is a key component of Wave of Change.
The opening of the lab on World Oceans Day is a milestone achievement for Iberostar and local partners Proamsa and Climatica. These three companies from the tourism sector jointly took on the challenge to build a research-grade coral lab. In less than a year, the lab was inaugurated, a testament to the dedication the Iberostar family has to Wave and Change and protecting our beautiful oceans.
This lab is the first in a network of research facilities Iberostar hopes to build. It compliments our growing efforts towards a diverse network of in-water nurseries in the Caribbean.
We want to thank every individual that helped build this laboratory, it was a team effort and could not have been done without every person contributing and working hard towards a common goal. This is a great first step towards finding a solution for our coral reefs.
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'Bagyong Amang' PAGASA weather update, storm signal (January 18, 2015)
Sunday, January 18, 2015 Posted by Admin
MANILA, Philippines - State weather bureau PAGASA on its 11:00am update today, January 18, 2015 said that 'Bagyong Amang' (Mekkhala) has slightly weakened after making landfall in Camarines Sur.
At 10:00 AM today, the center of 'Bagyong Amang' was estimated based on all available data including Virac and Cebu Doppler Radars at 100 km West Northwest of Virac, Catanduanes Samar or at the vicinity of Camarines Sur (13.9°N, 123.4°E).
The tropical storm has a maximum sustained winds of 75 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 90 kph. It is forecast to move Northwest at 15 kph.
Tropical Storm 'Amang' Forecast Positions:
24 hour (Tomorrow morning): 90 km North Northeast Casiguran, Aurora
48 hour (Tuesday morning): 225 km East Southeast of Basco, Batanes
72 hour (Wednesday morning): 475 km Northeast of Itbayat, Batanes
Public Storm Warning Signal (PSWS) #2 (Winds of 61-100 kph is expected in at least 24 hrs): Catanduanes, Albay, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte, Quezon incl. Polillo Island and Aurora. These areas will have stormy weather with heavy to intense rains. Residents along coastal areas are alerted against possible Storm surges.
PSWS #1 (Winds of 30-60 kph is expected in at least 36 hrs): Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Rizal, Batangas, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao, Quirino, Isabela, Sorsogon, Masbate, Burias Island incl. Ticao Island, Marinduque, Northern Samar, Northern part of Eastern Samar and Northern part of Samar.
The estimated rainfall amount is from 7.5 – 20 mm per hour (heavy - intense) within the 350 km diameter of the Tropical Storm.
Residents in low lying and mountainous areas of the provinces with PSWS#2 and #1 are alerted against possible flashfloods and landslides.
Ocean waves may reach up to 6.0 meters within the 350 km diameter of the storm.
Fisherfolks and those with small seacrafts are advised not to venture out over the seaboards of Luzon, Visayas and the eastern seaboard of Mindanao.
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La onzième circonscription des Yvelines est l'une des douze circonscriptions législatives françaises que compte le département des Yvelines (78) situé en région Île-de-France.

Description géographique et démographique

Composition de la circonscription de 1988 à 2012
La  regroupe les communes de :

 Bois d'Arcy (Canton de Saint-Cyr-l'École) ;
 Élancourt (canton de Maurepas) ;
 Fontenay-le-Fleury (Canton de Saint-Cyr-l'École) ;
 La Verrière (canton de Maurepas) ;
 Saint-Cyr-l'École (Canton de Saint-Cyr-l'École) ;
 Trappes (Canton de Trappes).

D'après les chiffres du recensement de 1999, la circonscription était alors peuplée de  et la population active était de .

Composition de la circonscription à compter de 2012

À l'issue du redécoupage effectué en 2010 pour la législature 2012-2017, le département des Yvelines conserve son effectif de douze députés. Sur les douze circonscriptions issues du découpage de 1988 cinq restent inchangées (les quatrième, cinquième, septième, huitième et neuvième circonscriptions des Yvelines) tandis que sept sont redécoupées (les première, deuxième, troisième, sixième, dixième, onzième et douzième circonscriptions).

La commune du Mesnil-Saint-Denis, du canton de Chevreuse, est transférée de la  à la .

La  est composée des communes suivantes :
 Bois d'Arcy ;
 Élancourt ;
 Fontenay-le-Fleury ;
 La Verrière ;
 Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis ;
 Saint-Cyr-l'École ;
 Trappes.

D'après les chiffres du recensement de 2008, la circonscription était alors peuplée de .

Les députés de la  des Yvelines (historique)

Historique des élections

Élections de 1988

La suppléante de Guy Malandain était Christine Vilain, directrice d'école maternelle, maire adjoint de Trappes.

Élections de 1993

Le suppléant de Jean-Michel Fourgous était François Neveu, ancien maire d'Élancourt.

Élections de 1997

Élections de 2002

Élections de 2007

Élections de 2012

Le suppléant de Benoit Hamon, Jean-Philippe Mallé, conseiller général du canton de Saint-Cyr-l'École, ancien premier adjoint au maire de Bois-d'Arcy, le remplace du 22 juillet 2012 au 26 septembre 2014, quand Benoit Hamon est nommé membre du gouvernement.
Jean-Philippe Mallé démissionne le 26 septembre 2014, et Benoit Hamon redevient député le 27.

Élections de 2017

Élection partielle de 2020
L'élection est provoquée par la démission de Nadia Hai, nommée membre du gouvernement. Son suppléant était Moussa Ouarouss.

Le suppléant de Philippe Benassaya était Othman Nasrou, conseiller régional.

Élections de 2022

La suppléante de William Martinet est Catherine Perrotin-Raufaste, médecin à Voisins-le-Bretonneux.

Notes et références

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Anime and I have changed since AOT S1
Posted on June 21, 2017 by Scott
Holy crap. Attack on Titan ended its second season this Saturday. A whole four-year span happened between these two seasons. A lot of things have changed for me and the anime world since it ended. Watching this show was like a time machine for me and reminded me of a lot of things. Time that has flown by, family members that are now long gone, how I feel and watch anime has changed, and the anime industry has changed quite a lot as well. I do admit that this post wasn't what I planned to write about Attack on Titan. I had a very clear outline that I made at work that I intended to write tonight, but everything I wrote felt wrong in some way. Sometimes, ditching plans to do something else just feels right. I'm flying off the rails here, so anything can happen.
I remember where I was four years ago. Right now, I can't believe that I've been in school for that long. Graduate School is hard. When I watched Attack on Titan, I actually watched it while it was airing. Not legally though, but that's before I knew it was a thing. I would just watch anime where I found a link on google and didn't have any specific sites that I always went to. Everything seemed almost the same to me. Crunchyroll's legal service wasn't as huge of a thing back then and I honestly didn't know about it back then. I wasn't making that much money either, though I don't think that's an excuse. At that point of time, I was still stuck in my ways of only watching mech series, other science fiction series, some series that are supposed to be intellectual, and action series in general. A lot has happened since then.
The Anime industry has changed a lot since Attack on titan first aired as well. When the first season aired in 2013, the anime industry was in a better place. Two cour series were far more common. Attack on Titan was another one of them. While there was a lot of single cour anime back then as well, Attack on Titan aired alongside Shinsekai Yori, My Scientific Railgun season 2, and had a lot more long running series airing at the same time (Space Brothers, Hunter x Hunter, etc) Why? I am no expert on the matter, but from my opinion, it seemed like creators were more willing to experiment four years again then they were now, studios had more faith in their products, and the industry was just starting to see the cracks from all the over production that we are seeing now. Now days, Studios first put a twelve episode series to see if it captures an audience before producing more. Plus, long running series aren't nearly as popular or worthwhile anymore unless they have a big name attached to them (Dragon Ball Super). At most, studios will make 24 episodes of a series like Bones is doing with My Hero Academia, before making more a year later. This has its advantages as well, but it's still a little bit of a negative sign. Also, the number of recap episodes has increased as well lately, because almost every series has one. Definitely not the same place that it used to be, though the anime industry has never been rock solid. There are always ups and downs.
A lot has changed for me as well. To talk about positive spins first, I started a blog and my taste in anime has grown a lot since Attack on Titan first aired. What I look for in anime has changed a lot. While I still like intriguing political world and some cool action stuff still, all I need are great characters and intriguing concept to keep me invested. That's it really. I also noticed that I have become a lot more emotionally invested into anime in general as well. Right now, I am a lot more sappy then I used to be. I feel like I know why that happened. Moving on to the bad side, I have lost a lot of family members since 2013. Some a lot closer than others, which has affected me on a very emotional level. I was unable to focus on classes for a long time and had to retake courses a few times during my graduate studies. Eventually it got to the point where I took a year off before jumping back in and going back to school. Anime was one of the many things that helped me out of the mental slump that I was in. This one of the many reasons why I can't take the "it's just anime, don't take it seriously" argument. Sometimes it can mean the whole world to people.
Attack on Titan has matured a little as well since its conception. On some levels, season two has improved a lot from season one. It's not just random people dying. We get to know more of these characters before they die, which makes each death feel horrifying. Also, the show focused more on the side characters this season, which are much more interesting than the main trio. They are all much more interesting and layered then them. I mean come on, Eren only has two modes, anger and sadness. That's it, he has no nuance. Mikasa isn't that much better either. Armin is the most interesting character in that trio, but he barely gets any focus. These are issues that also stayed with the show as well. Just like season one, the first half of Attack on Titan's second season had its engine running on all cylinders and the second half felt like it ran out of gas until the end where it mustered all its remaining gas together to make a decent finale. The action was good most of the way through, but what truly got to me this season was the characters and the political intrigue that is becoming more prevalent as the show goes on. Can't wait to see what season three brings to the table.
What about you guys? How have any of you changed during that four year gap between season one and season two?
I bet many people were expecting a review of the second season of this show, but those are a dime a dozen. Believe me, I seen a lot of posts that talk about the episode in the show in general around the anime blogosphere and all of those people can write a review better than what I can do. Lately, I've noticed that while I can write them, they are my strength. I'm going to see what I can do to change my reviews in the future to make them more snappy and interesting. That will take some experimenting. Should be fun, I think.
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Karandi says:
I probably am noticing a change in my viewing habits. Though I still love action and horror and the like, Attack on Titan didn't have quite the same appeal anymore. Even rewatching the first season doesn't quite hit me the way it used to. And something like ACCA wouldn't have grabbed my interest at all ten years ago.
Yeah, Acca it something like Sakura Quest and Tsukigakirei wouldn't capture my attention either. I bet it I rewatched season one, I would feel the same way.
VZ Madness says:
experimenting is always a good thing so good luck with that.
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HomeLife and LivingEqualityDemocratic Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine & Rep. John Lewis to Speak at the 20th Annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine & Rep. John Lewis to Speak at the 20th Annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner
August 26, 2016 Press Equality
Kaine, Lewis will address more than 3,600 guests at sold-out gala, additional speakers and talent to be announced soon
WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2016. Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization announced that Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Tim Kainewill deliver the keynote address at the 20th annual HRC National Dinner on Saturday, September 10, 2016, in Washington D.C. Civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) will also speak at this year's sold-out event, which will take place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
"Vice Presidential Nominee Tim Kaine has spent his entire career fighting for the equal rights of all Americans," saidHRC President Chad Griffin. "As part of the most pro-equality presidential ticket in American history, Tim Kaine will help ensure another four years of unprecedented progress for LGBTQ equality in this country and around the world."
"Representative John Lewis is an American hero, and his lifelong work for the civil rights of all people has transformed our nation. In his nearly three decades on Capitol Hill, Representative Lewis has been one of the strongest and most outspoken champions of LGBTQ equality," Griffin continued. "With all the progress we have made under President Obama, Tim Kaine and John Lewis will remind all of us just how important it is that we fight to elect a President who will champion LGBTQ equality every single day she sits in the Oval Office. We are honored to welcome them both to our 20th annual National Dinner."
Kaine has a strong commitment to LGBTQ equality. In addition to supporting marriage equality, Kaine is an original co-sponsor of the Equality Act — federal legislation that would finally guarantee explicit, permanent protections for LGBTQ people under our existing civil rights laws. One of Kaine's first actions as Virginia Governor in 2006 was to sign an executive order adding sexual orientation protections to the non-discrimination policy for state workers. Kaine alsorecently signed onto an amicus brief in the 2nd Circuit case, Christiansen v. Omnicom Group Inc., arguing that sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination are prohibited under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He has voted in favor of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and co-sponsored the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA).
Representative John Lewis (D-GA) will also be addressing the crowd at the September 10 event. Lewis knows the struggle for equality first hand and has been a longtime, outspoken advocate for LGBTQ civil rights. At the 2014 HRC Atlanta Gala Lewis said, "No government — state or federal — should tell a person who they can love and not love, who they can fall in love with and get married to… I will be there with you now and forever, as long as I have breath in my body."
Lewis is a longstanding champion for LGBTQ equality. He is an original cosponsor of the bipartisan Equality Act. He has a perfect 100 rating on HRC's Congressional Scorecard and, among other things, is also the lead sponsor of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, which prohibits any child welfare agency receiving federal financial assistance from discriminating against any potential foster or adoptive family on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
Donald Trump and Mike Pence have put at risk all the progress on LGBTQ equality made under President Obama. Trump has pledged to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn nationwide marriage equality, and supports vile laws like North Carolina's HB2. Pence became a national disgrace in 2015, for his "license to discriminate" bill that could have allowed businesses to deny service to LGBTQ people — and for subsequently defending the bill after an outcry from the business community and a majority of Hoosier voters.
The Human Rights Campaign is America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and queer equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
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Blu-ray, DVD: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
– January 28, 2014Find Others: Blu-ray, DVD, Movie, New Release, NewsGet More: Action, Adventure, Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Banks, Jena Malone, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Science-fiction, Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 7, 2014
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.99
The second installment in the franchise, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire scored even better than the original at the box office and with critics.
Based on the second book in the novels by Suzanne Collins, the science-fiction movie continues the story of reluctant heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, X-Men: First Class), who's now on a victory tour after winning the Hunger Games in the first film. This time, she has to go through the deadly games again, with even higher stakes as rebellion is sparked in the outer lying districts of the dangerous Capitol.
Josh Hutcherson (Red Dawn), Woody Harrelson (Seven Psychopaths), Liam Hemsworth (The Expendables 2), Donald Sutherland (The Eagle Has Landed), Lenny Kravitz (Lee Daniels' The Butler), Stanley Tucci (Jack the Giant Slayer) and Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect) all return in their roles, and additions to the cast include Philip Seymour Hoffman (Moneyball), Amanda Plummer (Small Apartments), Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and Jena Malone (Sucker Punch).
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire grossed a whopping $420.1 million in U.S. theaters and more than $850 million worldwide. It was the number one movie in 2013 and is the 12th highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office.
The action adventure comes to DVD and Blu-ray with these special features:
audio commentary with director Francis Lawrence (Watching for Elephants) and producer Nina Jacobson (One Day)
a sneak peek of Divergent, another movie based on a popular young adult science-fiction novel
and a downloadable digital copy of the movie via UltraViolet.
The Blu-ray/DVD Combo adds the nine-part feature-length documentary "Surviving the Game: Making Catching Fire."
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Watsonville man turns himself in for murder at illegal dispensary
Updated: 8:59 PM PST Dec 12, 2018
Christopher Salas
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Watsonville Police say 25-year-old Eli Gutierrez has been charged with murder six months after shooting and killing an armed robber outside his illegally run marijuana dispensary in a Watsonville neighborhood.Gutierrez turned himself into the Santa Cruz County Jail Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued last week.The Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office is charging Gutierrez with gun enhancement and murder charges.Police say the charges are from a June 30 incident when officers responded to the area of Lawrence Avenue and South Green Valley Road and found a 32-year-old year old victim dead in a driveway.WPD says the 32-year-old victim and Louis Ledesma went to Gutierrez's home where he and his father, Elias Gutierrez, ran an illegal marijuana dispensary and the two robbed them at gunpoint.The 32-year-old armed robber and Ledesma stole a large amount of cash and marijuana. As both men ran away from the scene, there was an exchange of gunfire and that's when WPD says the victim was shot and killed.Officers quickly located and arrested Ledesma just a few blocks from the scene. The next day, officers arrested Eli Gutierrez and his father Elias Gutierrez for murder.After reviewing the case, the D.A. held off on filing charges immediately until a full review of the investigation was completed. After a full review of the evidence, the D.A. issued an arrest warrant for Eli Gutierrez last week. Eli is being held on a $1.5 million bail and is expected to make a court appearance later this week. As for Ledesma, he's expected to be back in court for a preliminary hearing early next year.
WATSONVILLE, Calif. —
Watsonville Police say 25-year-old Eli Gutierrez has been charged with murder six months after shooting and killing an armed robber outside his illegally run marijuana dispensary in a Watsonville neighborhood.
Gutierrez turned himself into the Santa Cruz County Jail Wednesday after an arrest warrant was issued last week.
The Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office is charging Gutierrez with gun enhancement and murder charges.
Police say the charges are from a June 30 incident when officers responded to the area of Lawrence Avenue and South Green Valley Road and found a 32-year-old year old victim dead in a driveway.
WPD says the 32-year-old victim and Louis Ledesma went to Gutierrez's home where he and his father, Elias Gutierrez, ran an illegal marijuana dispensary and the two robbed them at gunpoint.
The 32-year-old armed robber and Ledesma stole a large amount of cash and marijuana. As both men ran away from the scene, there was an exchange of gunfire and that's when WPD says the victim was shot and killed.
Officers quickly located and arrested Ledesma just a few blocks from the scene.
The next day, officers arrested Eli Gutierrez and his father Elias Gutierrez for murder.
After reviewing the case, the D.A. held off on filing charges immediately until a full review of the investigation was completed.
After a full review of the evidence, the D.A. issued an arrest warrant for Eli Gutierrez last week.
Eli is being held on a $1.5 million bail and is expected to make a court appearance later this week.
As for Ledesma, he's expected to be back in court for a preliminary hearing early next year.


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Q: What does it take to built an Auto Alignment for elements like NetBeans? Currently I have a java applet tools for users to design GUI. The user is able to choose what element (TextBox, ComboBox, JTable and etc) drag and drop elements on top of a design area. An element can be moved, resized, and change properties.
I have been struggling to do one more thing: Element Auto Alignment
In NetBeans, when a user drags an element around the design area, it will snap to align with the existing element  (and additional ruler underline to show the user that it is currently align with this element)
Any idea how to develop this in Java applet?

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This past week I've been busy doing workshops. It has been a wonderful time for me to showcase some of the new products and watch others enjoy using new colors , punches and ribbons. The hostesses of the different workshops have enjoyed shopping with their hostess benefits getting several stamp sets and products of their choice. This is a great time to be a hostess. The new catalog, several great promotions and coming September 2ND our newest item for sale The BIG SHOT with several exclusive dies. For now I'm spending a lot of my time playing with our 4 new punches just introduced in the new catalog. With the punches in mind I have a wonderful hostess who likes to hostess when Stampin'Up unveils a new catalog. I have also provided a figure made from punches. In the past, a penguin and Hailey the Hippo and now everyone attending will get the cute owl I've made. Hope you enjoy the latest punch creation.


"As the elderly population continues to grow, the incidence of conditions like atrial fibrillation also rises. And the mainstay of treatment continues to be blood thinners such as warfarin," said Dr. Richard Temes, director of the Center for Neurocritical Care at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.
Temes said that newer (and much pricier) blood thinners – drugs such as Eliquis, Pradaxa, and Xarelto – have recently been developed, but come with their own problems. "As physicians, we need to carefully weigh the risks of using blood thinners in the elderly population, which is prone to falls and head injury, with the risks of stroke," he said.
The study was funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and published online March 9 in the journal JAMA Cardiology.
As you may know from some of my previous blogs, I have (had) a-fib. However, I have been symptom free since April of 2015, almost a year. Atrial fibrillation is a lifestyle issue. Rather than use blood thinners to reduce the risk of stroke, it's much better to resolve the a-fib and eliminate the problem.
This is accomplished by improving exercise, reducing stress (or increasing adaptation to stress), and improving the quality of sleep. In my case, I needed to decrease the intensity of exercise (most people need to add daily exercise). Simple supplementation of minerals (especially magnesium), vitamin B2 and B3, and Gymnema to control my hypoglycemia completed my protocol.
The most alarming aspect of this study was that the subjects continued to suffer strokes despite the use of warfarin. Warfarin doesn't treat a-fib, it supposedly treats the risk of stroke as a consequence of a-fib. This study suggests it doesn't even reduce that risk.
Warfarin is rat poison. It works by causing the rat to bleed to death. The therapeutic level and lethal levels of this drug are very close and sometimes indistinguishable. The new generation blood thinners are no better. Try to avoid these drugs at all cost. If you have a-fib, seek a qualified holistic physician who will help you improve your lifestyle and eliminate the a-fib.


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Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel (Pariz, 24. ožujka 1820. – Pariz, 11. svibnja 1891.), poznat i samo kao Edmond Becquerel, bio je francuski fizičar koji se bavio proučavanjem Sunčeve svjetlosti, magnetizma, elektriciteta i optike. Zaslužan je za otkriće fotonaponskog efekta iz 1839., na čemu se temelji princip rada solarnog članka. Poznat je i po svojim istraživanjima luminiscencije i fosforescencije. Otac mu je bio Antoine César Becquerel, otkrivač piezoelektričnog efekta, a sin mu je bio Henri Becquerel, jedan od otkrivača radioaktivnosti.

Biografija
Becquerel je rođen u Parizu, gdje je najprije bio učenik svoga oca, a kasnije i njegov asistent te profesor na Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Kada je imao 18 godina, primljen je u dvije visoke škole École Polytechnique i École Normale Supérieure, ali je obje ponude odbio kako bi pomagao ocu. Doktorirao je na Pariškom sveučilištu 1840., te je imenovan profesorom na Agronomskom institutu u Versaillesu 1849., a kasnije mu je dodijeljena Katedra za fiziku na Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers. Primljen je u Francusku akademiju znanosti 1863. Tijekom karijere je puno surađivao s ocem.

Prvi fotonaponski uređaj
1839. je 19-godišnji Becquerel, eksperimentirajući u očevom laboratoriju, napravio prvu fotonaponski članak na svijetu. U pokusu je uronio dvije platinaste elektrode obložene srebrovim kloridom (AgCl) ili srebrovim bromidom (AgBr) i odvojene tankom membranom, koje su generirale napon i električnu struju dok su bile izvrgnute svjetlosti. Koristio je svjetlosti različitih valnih duljina, te je uočio da najviše struje generiraju plava i ultraljubičasta svjetlost. Taj efekt nazvao je fotonaponski efekt, koji se njemu u čast naziva i "Becquerelov efekt". On nastaje kada energija s fotona prijeđe na poluvodički materijal, npr. silikon ili platina, te elektron u poluvodičkom materijalu ima dovoljno energije da se oslobodi veze i postane slobodni elektron, a tok slobodnih elektrona čini električnu struju.

Otkrića vezana uz fotografiju
Becquerel se bavio i istraživanjima vezanim uz fotografiju, te je 1840. otkrio da srebrovi halidi, inače neosjetljivi na crvenu i žutu svjetlost, postaju osjetljivi na taj dio spektra, proporcionalno tome koliko su izloženi plavoj, ljubičastoj i ultra-ljubičastoj svjetlosti, što je omogućilo da se dagerotipije i ostali fotografski materijali izrađuju pomoću snažne crvene ili žute svjetlosti, umjesto kemijskim tretiranjem. U praksi se ta tehnika rijetko koristila. 1848. je napravio fotografije spektra u boji, koristeći tehniku sličnu kasnije otkrivenoj Lippmannovoj metodi, ali je potrebna ekspozicija fotoaparata bila preduga i fotografije su mogle zadržati boju samo ako su bile u potpunoj tami.

Ostala istraživanja
Becquerel se posebno posvetio proučavanju svjetlosti, istražujući fotokemijske efekte i spektroskopski karakter Sunčevog zračenja i umjetnog svijetla, te fenomen fosforescencije na sulfidima i uranijevim spojevima. Kao rezulatat istraživanja fosforescencije, patentirao je fosforoskop. Becquerel je također istraživao dijamagnetična i paramgnetična svojstva tvari, te ga je posebno zanimao fenomen elektrokemijskog raspadanja. Uspio je čak skupiti dovoljno dokaza vezanih uz Faradayeve zakone elektrolize, da je predlagao određene modifikacije tih zakona koje bi obuhvatile neke uočene iznimke.

Fosforoskop
1857. Becquerel je patentirao fosforoskop; uređaj kojim se mjerilo vrijeme između izloženosti određenog materijala svjetlosti i pojave fenomena fosforescencije ili fluorescencije, što je omogućilo Becquerelu da lakše utvrdi koji materijali pokazuju svojstva fosforescencije ili fluorescencije, jer je razlika u te dvije pojave u vremenu pojave fenomena nakon izloženosti svjetlosti (fluorescencija se u pravilu javlja vrlo brzo nakon izlaganja svjetlost svjetlosti, dok je fosforescenciji potrebno puno dulje vrijeme da bi se pojavila). Fosforoskop je pomogao Becquerelu da utvrdi pojavu fosforescencije kod materijala, za koje se dotada nije znalo da su podložni tom efektu. Fosforoskop se sastojao od zapečaćene kutije s dva rotirajuća diska na istoj osovini koja su imala niz rupa na jednakim razmacima, ali se rupe na jednom disku nisu podudarale s rupama na drugom, tako da svjetlost ni u jednom trenutku nije mogla proći kroz cijeli uređaj. Uzorak materijala, na kojem su se ispitivala svojstva, se stavio između dva diska, te bi se osvjetlio kroz rupu na jednom disku, a pojava fosforescencije bi se očitovala kroz rupu na drugom disku. Promjenom brzine vrtnje diska, mjerilo se vrijeme između izlaganja materijala svjetlosti i pojave fosforescencije. Koristeći fosforoskop, Becquerel je uspio dokazati da je fluorescencija, koju je otkrio G. G. Stokes 1852., zapravo ništa drugo nego vrlo kratkotrajna fosforescencija.

Istraživanje dijamagnetizma
Od 1845. do 1855. Becquerel se najviše posvetio istraživanju dijamagnetizma. Kako bi objasnio odbijanje oderđenih tvari od polova magneta, koncipirao je "Arhimedov zakon" magnetskog djelovanja, koji je tako nazvao jer je podsjećao na hidrostatski Arhimedov zakon. Zakon je glasio: "Magnetski pol privlači tijelo podalje od sebe silom koja je jednaka razlici specifičnog magnetizma tog tijela i medija u kojem se nalazi." Kao što tijela gušća od vode tonu u njoj, a rjeđa plutaju, tako i tijela, koja imaju slabija magnetična svojstva od medija u kojem se nalaze, se odbijaju od magnetskog pola, a ona s jačim magnetičnim svojstvima od okoline, magnet privlači. Usprkos mnogim eksperimentima, Becquerel nije uspio dakazati tu svoju teoriju.

Publikacije
1867. i 1868. Becquerel je objavio raspravu La lumière, ses causes et ses effets (Light, its Causes and Effects) u dva svezka. Njegovi radovi i komentari su se pojavljivali u francuskim znanstvenim časopisima, ponajviše u "Comptes Rendus", časopisu Francuske akademije znanosti, od 1839. do neposredno prije njegove smrti 1891.

Nagrade i priznanja
1886. je primljen u Švedsku kraljevsku akademiju znanosti.
Svake godine dodjeljuje se "Becquerelova nagrada" za izvanredno postignuće u području fotonaponskih sustava na Europskoj konferenciji o solarnoj energiji (EU PVSEC).

Vidi još
Fotoelektrični efekt
Solarni članak
Fotonaponski sustavi
Dijamagnetizam

Izvori

Vanjske poveznice
 Radovi od ili o Alexandreu-Edmondu Becquerelu u Internet Arhivu
Radovi Alexandrea-Edmonda Becquerela na Open library

Francuski znanstvenici


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JSW Steel, the flagship business of 14 billion dollar JSW Group, on Friday began the roll-out of JSW Platina tinplate targeted at packaging industry.The launch enables JSW Steel to tap the growing opportunity for tinplate products demanded by India's packaging industry. India is one of the countries that have pledged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022.JSW Platina offers a significant opportunity to become the most preferred and sustainable packaging material for the future, the company said in a statement.JSW Steel currently has an annual cumulative installed capacity of 3.5 lakh metric tonnes tinplate, out of which one lakh tonnes are being produced by its joint venture JSW Vallabh Tinplate and the balance 2.5 lakh tonnes at its newly established tinplate facility at Tarapur in Maharashtra.Given the significant potential for the product to emerge as a preferred packaging material, JSW Steel is doubling its tinplate capacity at Tarapur to five lakh tonnes."JSW Steel becomes the .
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Our Thoughts on Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. ($SCHN) (2019-07-18)
REPORTING FOR 2019-07-18 | LOGISTICS-BUSINESS-REVIEW.COM: We have conducted a deep analysis of how Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. ($SCHN) has been trading over the last 2 weeks and the past day especially. On its latest session, Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. ($SCHN) opened at 25.02, reaching a high of 25.115 and a low of 24.6 before closing at a price of 24.87. There was a total volume of 161377. VOLUME INDICATORS: We saw an accumulation-distribution index of 279.84316, an on-balance volume of 25.05, chaikin money flow of 9.84211 and a force index of -0.0032. There was an ease of movement rating of -0.00082, a volume-price trend of 1.02066 and a negative volume index of 1000.0. VOLATILITY: We noted an average true range of 0.44845, bolinger bands of 24.82971, an upper bollinger band of 24.49029, lower bollinger band of 24.6, a bollinger high band indicator of 1.0, bollinger low band indicator of 1.0, a central keltner channel of 24.91167, high band keltner channel of 24.81667, low band keltner ...
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Anglo American's diamond unit takes sparkle away from results
Global miner Anglo American (LON:AAL) posted Thursday a 2% increase in overall production during the three months leading to June 30, helped mainly by its giant Minas-Rio iron ore mine in Brazil, but cut diamond guidance for the year as sales remain weak. Iron ore production rose by 7.1% from a year earlier to 16.4 million in the quarter, with the Kumba division in South Africa contributing 10.5 million tonnes and the Brazilian mine adding another 5.9 million tonnes. Production at Minas-Rio, one of the world's largest sources of high-grade iron ore concentrate, was suspended for most of last year because of a slurry pipeline leak, but Anglo was able to undertake optimization work in the meantime. Anglo needs to secure a final licence to increase the height of the water storage dam in order to keep producing iron ore beyond the end of the year. "The conversion of the installation licence to an operating licence for this lift is expected by year-end, subject to approval by the Minas Gerais state government ...
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GeM, SAIL ink pact to set up project management unit
Public procurement portal Government eMarketplace (GeM) and SAIL Thursday signed a pact to set up a project management unit (PMU) here, in the presence of Steel Secretary Binoy Kumar. The current steel secretary has launched this marketplace when he was additional secretary in the commerce ministry to increase efficiency and transparency in the public procurement, which runs into lakhs of crore. "GeM and Steel Authority of India (SAIL), signed an MoU (memorandum of understanding) to set up GeM Organizational Transformation Team - Project Management Unit (GOTT-PMU)," the commerce ministry said in a statement. The team will assist the buyer agency to transform their business activities, processes, competencies and models to fully leverage the opportunities of an open market based procurement. With this MoU, SAIL has become the first public sector undertaking to establish GOTT PMU for transforming their procurement landscape and increasing their footprint on GeM. It is projected that ...
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Pradhan discusses road map to make steel hub in Odisha
Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Thursday held a meeting with officials to discuss a road map for developing a steel hub in Odisha. "Met with steel industry stakeholders and senior officials of the ministry to chart out a road map for setting up a steel hub in Odisha. The state of Odisha is amongst the richest mineral bearing states of the country," he said in a tweet. Last month, Pradhan and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik discussed ways to enhance the state's footprints in the steel sector. The development assumes significance in the wake of presence of major steel producers, such as Tata Steel, Steel Authority of India Ltd, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, in the state. In a separate tweet, the minister said he also had a detailed discussions with stakeholders of the secondary steel sector on overcoming challenges faced by the industry such as availability of raw materials, expiry of mining lease to enable them to ramp up production. Pradhan earlier said the Centre is committed to
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Team Ruger Captain Doug Koenig Takes Trophy Spot at ALTUS AI Long Range Classic
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) is pleased to announce that Team Ruger's Captain Doug Koenig claimed the production division win at the Accuracy International (AI) Long Range Classic hosted at Altus Shooting Solutions in Baker, FL on March 2.
The AI Long Range Classic is a Precision Rifle Series (PRS) competition that incorporates a challenging, 16-stage course of fire designed to test the precision rifle competitor on accuracy, time and gear management, all while engaging an assortment of reactive and moving steel targets at distances ranging from 300 to 850 yards.
"I started shooting PRS a little over a year ago and I really love it," said Koenig. "The movement and diverse shooting positions that you encounter in this sport always keep it fresh. There is a steep learning curve whenever you start another shooting discipline, but I'm having a great time shooting my Ruger Precision Rifle."
According to PRS standards, "production division rifles are not permitted to be altered or improved in any way from the original factory configuration." The rifle is also not permitted to exceed $2,000 USD in retail price. Koenig claimed top honors in this division shooting the Ruger Precision® Rifle chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor, finishing with a final score of 133.00.
The Ruger Precision Rifle boasts high-end features like a cold hammer-forged, chrome-moly steel barrel with 5R Rifling manufactured with minimum bore and groove dimensions. This barrel coupled with an aluminum free-float handguard with Magpul® M-LOK® attachment slots provides enhanced long-range accuracy. The Ruger Marksman Adjustable™ trigger and 20 MOA Picatinny rail allow for increased long-range capabilities and make the Ruger Precision Rifle the ideal competition-ready rifle for the most discerning PRS shooters.


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ASTRO's Cha Eun Woo Shares How He Confessed To A Former Girlfriend
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On the latest episode of "Happy Together," ASTRO's Cha Eun Woo talked about a romantic relationship from his past!
The idol-turned-actor appeared as a special MC on the December 13 episode of the KBS variety show, where he mentioned that he hadn't had much dating experience.
Cha Eun Woo explained, "I originally made a promise with my dad [back in high school]. He told me to study hard [during high school] and then start dating girls once I was in college. He asked me to promise not to date at all before then, and I agreed."
He then shared that he had gone to extreme lengths to keep his promise, even going out of his way to avoid girls between classes.
"Older students would come to my classroom to see me," he recalled, "which was something I found really burdensome. I worried that it would weaken my resolve and that I wouldn't be able to keep my promise to my dad. So when they came in through the back door [of the classroom], I'd leave through the front door, and I wouldn't come back until the bell rang."
Despite the other MCs' protests of disbelief, Cha Eun Woo went on to insist that he had only ever been in one romantic relationship.
"I was the one to [confess] first back then," he revealed. "I didn't know what to say or how to express my feelings. So instead, I asked her, 'What do you think of me?'"
When Yoo Jae Suk asked what kind of response he had received, Cha Eun Woo replied, "She suddenly asked, 'What about you? What do you think of me?' So I said, 'I like you.'"
Unfortunately, however, the relationship didn't last for very long. "We ended up dating briefly," said Cha Eun Woo, "but being a trainee and all, [I wasn't able to see her often]."
Check out the full episode of "Happy Together" below!
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Dr. Jody Hironaka-Juteau is dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Fresno State. In her role, she oversees a diverse college that has over 4,750 students at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level from seven academic majors, as well as 280 faculty and staff members and six research centers and institutes.
She was appointed dean of the College of Health and Human Services in April 2015, having previously served as interim and associate dean. Since 1999, she has moved through the ranks from assistant to full professor in the Department of Recreation Administration and served as chair from 2007 to 2010. She was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award by the California Park and Recreation Society Therapeutic Recreation Section in 2003.
Hironaka-Juteau recently served as chair of the President's Commission on Human Relations and Equity at Fresno State, where she is recognized for her expertise and experience in the areas of diversity and inclusion training and collaboration. Her active record of service resulted in the Provost's Recognition for Achievements in Service in 2001 and 2006. She is also an alumna of the Leadership Fresno Program and the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows Program.
Outside of the academic setting, Hironaka-Juteau has over 20 years of experience as a certified therapeutic recreation specialist working with children, teens, and adults in hospital and community-based settings. She has worked in the areas of physical medicine and rehabilitation, mental health, sensory impairment, and developmental disability.
Hironaka-Juteau earned a doctoral degree in Educational Leadership and Change from the Fielding Graduate University, and a master's degree in Education and bachelor's degree in Recreation Administration from Fresno State.


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Alan Mak wins at prestigious MP of the Year Awards
Thursday, 16 November, 2017
Havant MP Alan Mak has been praised by the Prime Minister for his community work after being named as the Conservative Newcomer of the year at a prestigious MP Awards evening.
The award was presented yesterday (15 November) by the Speaker, John Bercow, at the MP of the Year Awards, organised by the Patchwork Foundation. It recognises MPs who have worked hard for their communities, especially underrepresented communities.
In particular, Alan was singled out for praise by the judges for organising a number of well-attended community events throughout the year, including his Jobs, Apprenticeships and Careers Fair, Older Persons Information Fair and Universities & Oxbridge Conference.
Alan Mak MP said: "I'm honoured to win a New MP of the Year. While I'm not involved in politics to win prizes, I'm delighted to have been chosen for such a prestigious award for my work representing residents locally and in Westminster. My community events have been well supported by local people, and this Award is for our constituency not just me."
He added: "With Jo Cox as one of the previous winners, it has real poignancy as this year my Havant Older Persons Information Fair supported her Commission on Loneliness' #Happytochat campaign, tackling social isolation. I've also been delighted that other events I've organised in my first two years as MP, including my Jobs and Apprenticeships Fair and Universities Conference to encourage more young people to continue their education have been so well supported by the local community. I look forward to repeating all these events in future and continuing to work hard to for everyone living in the Havant constituency. Thank you to all the residents and community groups in my constituency who have supported me."
All of the nominations for the MP of the Year Awards come from grassroots community organisations. In total more than 130 MPs were nominated across all of the major parties.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, said: "I would like to congratulate Alan Mak for winning a Patchwork Foundation award and for all their efforts and hard work in encouraging young people from under-represented communities to engage in the political process. I passionately believe that how far you go in life should be about your talents and your hard work and nothing else."
Picture: Left to Right – Andy Bagnall (KPMG: Director of External Affairs), Mr Speaker (Patchwork Patron), Alan Mak MP & Sir Martyn Lewis (Patchwork Patron).


Kai and Brendon just got back from a trip to Barcelona and all over Europe to premiere Cluster. From the looks of it, they got much more than just the inside of some theaters. Thanks to the crew at the Surf Film Festibal, the boys got a serious helping of authentic culture, modern culture, lots of drinks and a really thorough tour of of the Old World.
European filmmaker and What Youth favorite Guillem Cruells put together this piece, which provides both some beautiful cinematography of the trip, but also some insight from Kai and Brendon on the film.
Cluster is now out on DVD and iTunes and Vimeo on Demand.


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