The most common understanding of "pizza" in North America is one that has been loaded up with tons of cheese and plenty of toppings, oftentimes on a rather thick crust… and that crust might have been stuffed with cheese too. This is not the pizza I encountered while traveling through Italy a couple of years ago.
Traditional Neopolitan pizza in particular is generally rather sparse with the toppings with a stretchier, thinner dough. It's not greasy and it's tossed into the high heat oven for only about 90 seconds. To be fair, we shouldn't be so quick to equate authenticity with something that actually tastes good. At the same time, getting some "real" pizza can be a real treat, just as going to an authentic ramen joint is far more satisfying that breaking open some instant noodles.
To this end, we went in search of some great pizza at Cotto Enoteca Pizzeria in North Burnaby. They aim to provide the traditional authenticity we desire, but with some modern creativity for good measure. In addition to the chili pepper flake shaker, for instance, we were provided with bottles of garlic-infused and chili pepper-infused olive oil.
My first reaction when this arrived at our table was, "Whoa. This is really small." The bowl is not much larger than a grapefruit in diameter, but what this dish lacked in quantity, it certainly made up in quality. This is positively scrumptious. Each piece is light, yet packed with flavor. The combination of lemon and chili is pretty standard, while the parmesan adds just enough salinity to make this work wonderfully.
Our server told us that this pizza in particular was a recent award winner and we can see why. The dough is exactly as I like my Neopolitan pizza: crispy on the outside, airy on the instance, and with a satisfying chew to it. The freshness of the apple slaw serves as a great complement to the fennel salami. And yes, in true "Italian" form, I ate this with a knife and fork… after drizzling some of the aforementioned olive oil on top.
The canneloni, both in terms of the pasta and the filling, was just okay when compared to the pizza and the artichokes. That said, there's something surprisingly special about the sauce. It looks like any other pomodoro sauce, but there's a wonderful richness of flavor and a distinct savoriness to it that really lifts this pasta dish to another level. We found ourselves dunking the pizza crust in this sauce just to mop it up.
Lunch for two — including a housemade limoncello (not pictured, $6), taxes and gratuity — came to just under $60. This isn't the most affordable lunch on the block, but the pricing at Cotto Enoteca Pizzeria is certainly comparable to other restaurants that serve authentic Neapolitan style pizza around Metro Vancouver.
Don't forget to sign up for the Cotto loyalty program as well. Powered via a smartphone app, it allows you to collect points that can then be redeemed for draft beer, appetizers, pizza and so on. We did and this lunch was enough to earn us a free coffee.


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A special election was held on April 11, 2017, to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 4th congressional district after the incumbent, Mike Pompeo, resigned because of his nomination by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Republican Ron Estes received 52.2% of the vote and won, while runner-up Democrat James Thompson lost with 46% of the vote.

Background

Kansas's 4th congressional district is located in the south-center region of the state, centering on the city of Wichita and Sedgwick County, which contain approximately two-thirds of the district's voters. Sixteen other counties make up the rest of the district, including Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Comanche, Cowley, Edwards, Elk, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt, Stafford, and Sumner counties, as well as a portion of southwestern Pawnee County. Regarded as a conservative district, the seat is considered to be safe for Republicans; the Fourth District had a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+15 following the 2016 presidential election. Going into the election, the seat had not been held by a Democrat in more than twenty years, since Dan Glickman lost his reelection campaign in the 1994 midterms. At the time of the special election, the Republican Party held about a 2-to-1 advantage in voter registration in the district, with 186,850 registered Republicans to 95,788 registered Democrats. Republican Donald Trump won the district by a 27-point margin in the 2016 presidential election, receiving 60% of the vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton's 33%. Republican Mitt Romney defeated Democrat Barack Obama by a similar 26-point margin in 2012, taking approximately 62% of the vote to Obama's 36%.

Election
On January 23, 2017, the U.S. representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district, Mike Pompeo, resigned after being nominated by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was confirmed by the United States Senate. Gov. Sam Brownback had five days to declare a special election to be held between 45 and 60 days after being called. The day following Pompeo's resignation, Brownback declared a special election to take place on April 11.

Nominees for each party were selected by a district convention of party activists. Independent candidates were eligible to gain ballot access upon submitting 3,000 signatures within the first 25 days after the election was called.

Although not initially expecting a close race, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) spent $100,000 on advertising in the last week of the campaign, and Republican politicians Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, President Donald Trump, and Vice President Mike Pence recorded robocalls or campaigned in person supporting their nominee Ron Estes. On April 10, the Cook Political Report moved the rating of the district to Lean Republican. Estes won the election by 6.2% over political newcomer James Thompson. This not only marked a dramatic shift from the 61.6%–29.6% margin that Pompeo had been re-elected by in the previous year's regularly-scheduled election, but this was also the closest race in the district since incumbent Todd Tiahrt, who held the seat from 1995 to 2011, edged out Democrat Randy Rathburn by 3% in 1996.

Republican Party
The Republican Party selected a nominee at a convention held on February 9, 2017.

Candidates

Nominated
 Ron Estes, State Treasurer

Eliminated at convention
 Joseph Ashby, former radio talk show host
 George Bruce, attorney
 Alan Cobb, former Donald Trump campaign staffer
 Todd Tiahrt, former U.S. Representative

Withdrawn
 Eric Kidwell, attorney
 Pete Meitzner, Wichita City Councilman

Declined
 Willis Hartman, businessman
 Mark Hutton, state representative
 Mark Kahrs, state representative
 Ty Masterson, state senator
 Michael O'Donnell, Sedgwick County Commissioner
 Susan Wagle, President of the State Senate

Endorsements

Results

Democratic Party
The Democratic Party selected a nominee at a convention held on February 11, 2017.

Candidates

Nominated
 James Thompson, attorney and U.S. Army veteran

Eliminated at convention
 Laura Lombard, entrepreneur
 Dennis McKinney, former Kansas State Treasurer and former Minority leader of the Kansas House of Representatives
 Robert Tillman, nominee for this seat in 2012 and candidate for this seat in 2016
 Charlie Walker, police officer

Withdrawn
 Kevass Harding, former Wichita School Board member

Declined
 Carl Brewer, former mayor of Wichita
 Dan Giroux, attorney and nominee for this seat in 2016
 Henry Helgerson, state representative
 Jim Ward, state representative

Endorsements

Results

Libertarian Party
The Libertarian Party selected a nominee at a convention held on February 11, 2017.

Candidates

Nominated
 Chris Rockhold, educator

Eliminated at convention
 Gordon Bakken, candidate for this seat in 2016
 John Kostner, farmer and rancher

Results

General election

Predictions

Polling

Results
The Associated Press called the election for Estes while he was leading by 6% with 88% of precincts reporting. The lead was 6.2% when all the votes were tallied.

See also
 List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives
 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas
 2005 Ohio's 2nd congressional district special election

Notes

References

External links
Official campaign websites
 Ron Estes (R) for Congress
 Chris Rockhold (L) for Congress
 James Thompson (D) for Congress

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Could Xbox's "Forza Motorsport" franchise be heading to mobile? "Forza Street", developed for Windows 10, Android and iOS, was accidentally mentioned in an official blog post update.
United Kingdom studio Electric Square, which previously created 2018's "Miami Street" for Windows 10, is thought to be developing an accessible, mobile twist on the Xbox's successful "Forza Motorsport" motor racing franchise.
Suspicions were raised after March 1's "Forza Week In Review" blogpost published a link in error.
In a section detailing results of a Canadian eSports event, what was supposed to be a link to racing game news site GTPlanet instead contained a paragraph describing the unannounced title "Forza Street".
"Developed in partnership with U.K.-based studio, Electric Square, 'Forza Street' is built from the ground up to support a wide range of Windows 10, iOS and Android devices," the HTML link read before its inevitable correction.
Could that have been draft copy from a future Forza blog post?
The error led GTPlanet itself to suggest that a "Forza Street" mobile title could provide the franchise with its annual release, as both the track-based "Forza Motorsport" and its open-world spin-off "Forza Horizon" would be absent in 2019.
The original "Miami Street", published by Microsoft Studios, already features a range of licensed sports cars, bringing it closer in line with the "Forza" style.
Its point-to-point races require players to manage only gas, brake and turbo boost. Easy races require no interaction from the player.
Though largely associated with the Xbox console family, "Forza" was previously broken out of its Xbox-exclusivity through the free-to-play "Forza Motorsport 6: Apex" for Windows 10, announced in March 2016 and released six months later.
Furthermore, franchise owner Microsoft is believed to be preparing an expansion of its Xbox brand via a cross-platform framework.
The console brand has already struck a deal that lets players access their Xbox Live profiles from Nintendo's Switch through Microsoft-owned game "Minecraft".


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Trepashkin Sentenced To Four Years In Prison
May 26, 2004 12:00 AM Age: 19 years
Mikhail Trepashkin, the dissident ex-FSB lawyer who tried to investigate his former employer's links to the 1999 apartment bombings that gave Vladimir Putin his justification for the second Chechen war, received a four-year prison sentence on May 19 for revealing state secrets and for illegally carrying a pistol in his car (see Chechnya Weekly, March 10).
In an article published in Novaya Gazeta on May 24, Roman Shleinov noted that the allegedly "secret" documents found in Trepashkin's home were "mostly dusty collections of Marxist-Leninist writings." An experiment by official investigators showed that the pistol allegedly confiscated from under the seat of his car could not have been squeezed into that space, Shleinov reported.
Alex Rodriguez reported in the Chicago Tribune on May 17 that he asked the FSB for an interview about the Trepashkin case, but the agency "requested that questions be submitted in writing, then did not respond to those questions." "A spokesman for the Russian prosecutor general's office declined to comment on the Trepashkin case," Rodriguez reported.
The prominent human-rights advocate Lev Ponomarev called Trepashkin "a political prisoner, beyond any doubt."
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Today, the neighborhood — which was just about the closest to Sacramento's core of any of the areas where West End redevelopment exiles landed — is the locus of gentrification as tech firms bring in new-money professionals who disdain the suburban lifestyle. "They really want you to believe, hey, they can't do anything wrong! The Sacramento Police Department has had a few of these incidents in recent memory. With the new financing systems circumventing populist opposition to West End redevelopment and federal money gushing into the roads project, the area's doom was sealed. "Meadowview was first a suburban white space, but then it was one of the very few places where minorities could buy decent housing starting in the 1960s." People of color were pushed south away from the core census tracts where development was still bound by the race covenants from J.C. Carly's era. This neighborhood is an excellent example of 1900 through 1920s architecture that exemplifies the arts and crafts movement. Any donations can not be deducted from your income taxes, but all donations will go towards preserving Sacramento's historic places. Their legacies extend a dozen miles either way from downtown, scraping out that sociologist's X that Hernandez sees reflected in everything from school graduation rates to subprime lending. Other people's money. Nobody wants to understand or admit how this has taken shape.". The short strip of a 1400-mile superhighway connecting Mexico to Canada where they walked crushed its westernmost edge. The Broadway corridor continues to develop, increasing the need for small neighborhood preservation. Sacramento Register of Historic and Cultural Resources. 3M said the final persuader was the charm of the tree-lined streets and the established neighborhoods of East Sacramento, which reminded them of their own Midwestern neighborhoods. In that isolated pocket, where no one could get a loan to fix up a house or buy a new one, they dropped by 30 percent. "It came from a longstanding desire from the city to reclaim those areas for the white business class.". Commercial activity on Broadway is threatening demolition of this neighborhood. Every time the Kings play, crowds flock unwittingly to the epicenter of the racist housing policy and public works experiments that shaped the city where Stephon Clark was born and, on Thursday, buried. Again, as former deputy state treasurer Mark Paul explained in a 2012 article, that word "blight" was crucial. "A city redevelopment agency could declare a particular area to be blighted–and then cap the property taxes that flowed from that area to other local governments like schools and counties. Developed in the 1910s and into the 1920s East Sacramento, and 38th Street in particular, contains some of Sacramento's best examples of period-revival and craftsman architecture. Neighbors reached out to Preservation Sacramento to provide technical assistance but the community led the survey effort from start to finish. Additionally, the 2008 and 2009 survey identified several residential historic districts surrounding the business district. The Sacramento, CA neighborhood map is a great way to see which neighborhoods have a higher Livability Score compared to those with a lower Livability Score. It's a fairly short walk from City Hall to I-5 to the arena, if you consult a simple street map. The protesters returned to the same chosen ground repeatedly in the week since that first freeway takeover and arena shutdown. The survey identified a historic district with a high degree of historic integrity (over 90% of the buildings were identified as contributing historic properties). It seems as if there's a neighborhood for everyone in Sacramento. At the closest zoom possible from census data, the neighborhood where Stephon Clark died was roughly 47 percent white in 1980. Despite using city funding for the survey, the residential historic districts were never listed on the Sacramento Register. In both cases the dead man had a knife, a stark difference to Clark's death. National Trust for Historic Preservation - California Preservation Foundation - California Office of Historic Preservation - Western Chapter Association for Preservation Technology - City of Sacramento - Sacramento Modern - Sacramento Heritage - East Sac Preservation - Preservation Directory, Preservation Sacramento - P.O. Damn near all," said Berry Accius, a community activist who's helped lead the protests that followed Clark's killing. Preservation Sacramento hopes the City of Sacramento will commission a comprehensive survey of the neighborhood to help facilitate future development and land use priorities. And this is why the Clarks end up in Meadowview," Hernandez said. Alan Pyke Twitter Mar 30, 2018, 11:59 am Where the schools are, where the poverty is, who doesn't have health insurance, who's out of work. Preservation Sacramento hopes the City of Sacramento will commission a comprehensive survey of the neighborhood to help facilitate future development and land use priorities. The focus of both organizations had become more clearly aligned and the result is one larger and more effective voice for East Sac's interests. "They really want you to believe, hey, they can't do anything wrong! None of those stories are as simple or as baffling as Clark's death, with 20 shots fired in a matter of seconds based on a cell phone somehow mistaken for a pistol. The agency could keep for itself any property tax growth above that cap," Paul wrote. By 2010, that share had dropped in half. When Roosevelt's new federal housing finance system came online a decade after Carly started building out from downtown, the new system replicated the same kind of racial barriers nationwide. East Sacramento (also known as East Sac) is a neighborhood in Sacramento, California, United States, that is east of downtown and midtown.East Sacramento is bounded by U.S. Route 50 to the south, Business Loop 80 to the west and north, Elvas Avenue to the northeast and east, and California State University, Sacramento and the American River to the southeast. "Go to random people in Sacramento and mention the words Oak Park or Del Paso Heights or Meadowview, and there will be instantaneous perceptions, particularly if they're older. Considerable time has passed, since the original survey and now this surveys area need to be updated to ensure the original findings are still accurate. The same strip of busy highway where protesters put their bodies in the way of traffic last Friday was a key tool in the redevelopment scheme. Shouting for change as they walked, they traced the outline of Sacramento's laboratory of segregation: the old West End. Alan Pyke Twitter Mar 30, 2018, 11:59 am. To learn more about the different neighborhoods and organized associations representing these communities, visit the neighborhood directory. of fatal police violence against black people, as academics have long understood. use-of-force incidents on record had involved a black civilian. Enjoy a boat ride on the Sacramento River and take in sights like the Tower Bridge and I Street Bridge in Old Sacramento. This neighborhood is a reflection of a growing city, containing buildings from many time periods. "This is an intergenerational process of how we separate race and space.". Sacramento picked up the weapon, and the fight was on.". Their victory spawned communities like Meadowview, where Stephon Clark was shot down for the sin of holding a cell phone in his grandma's backyard. Three out of four cops are white in a city where two thirds of the people aren't. What if the West End could be torn down and replaced, but with retail space and office blocks instead of new housing? Yale Avenue Historic District, a discontinuous street between Broadway and X streets, is a collection of 1920s residences surveyed in the early 2000s. That shift — from 90 percent white before the urban renewal schemes vivisected Sacramento's ethnic downtown melting pot, to less than one quarter white in 2010 — is evidence of how a century of racist development policymaking yielded the environment that drives Sacramento policing to be at its twitchiest and most fearful in places like Meadowview where crime is relatively high and opportunity is relatively low.
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Parliament member requests inspection of Russian Scientology Church
"RAPSI," February 19, 2015
St. Petersburg - A member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Vitaly Milonov, sent a letter to Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov requesting an in-depth inspection of the Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg and other Russian regions, the deputy's press services reports.
According to the press statement, the request followed numerous inquiries from St. Petersburg residents concerned over the opening of the Scientology Church branch in St. Petersburg. The church followers are said to be aggressively promoting their pseudo-religious movement among the youth and students of nearby schools and universities
Milonov says that the Scientology Church "is a typical example of totalitarian cults that aim to brainwash people."
"They have nothing to do with religion and the church," he added.
The parliament member believes that the movement forces people to forget traditional Russian cultural and religious values, destroys their idea of their home country and replaces true morals with "a phony spiritual substitute." He describes scientologists as "fanatics with a sterile consciousness," who, he believes, lead all kinds of color revolutions.
Milonov claims that Scientology poses a threat to the state and Russian citizens and that this organization must be banned.
Dianetics and Scientology is a religious and philosophic movement established in the US in the early 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard.
The scientific community never recognized it as science.
A resolution passed in 1996 by the lower house of parliament, or the State Duma, classified the Church of Scientology as a destructive religious organization.
The Moscow Regional Court ruled in 2012 that some of Hubbard's books be included on the Federal List of Extremist Literature and banned from distribution in Russia.ST. PETERSBURG, February 19 (RAPSI) A member of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Vitaly Milonov, sent a letter to Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov requesting an in-depth inspection of the Church of Scientology in St. Petersburg and other Russian regions, the deputy's press services reports.
The Moscow Regional Court ruled in 2012 that some of Hubbard's books be included on the Federal List of Extremist Literature and banned from distribution in Russia.


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When I hear the word "craving" it conjures up images of pregnant women eating cottage cheese and peanut butter on toast. I think of people doing crazy things in order to obtain a meal, a dish, a food item that will hit the spot right then and there. Maybe this is because I encountered my first craving anecdote through the Brothers Grimm. Okay, I'm a little odd. But do you remember the story of Rapunzel? What got her in that witch's tower letting down her golden hair was a craving of her mother's.
Rapunzel's mother and father lived next door to a witch who had a bountiful garden. One day, before Rapunzel was born, the wife saw some lettuce that the witch was cultivating. The woman had such a strong desire for it, she could eat nothing until she had some. Her husband, distraught with fear for his wife's health, decided to climb into the witch's garden at night to steal some of the lettuce, no matter the risk. He came back successful. The wife made the lettuce into a lovely salad and ate it up. Three days later the craving came back. The wife wanted, needed, had to have more lettuce. She pestered her husband to no end until he climbed back into the witch's garden for more.
This time, however, he was caught. The witch, instead of killing the poor thief, made a deal with him. She gave him and his wife all the lettuce they wanted in exchange for their first-born child. When a baby girl was born to the unlucky couple, the witch whisked her away and named her Rapunzel, a German word for lettuce.
While I can't exactly relate to the woman's impulse to risk her husband's life for lettuce, I can honestly say there were times in my life when I would have crawled through a witch's garden for a really great brownie sundae. And I suspect I'm not alone. Dr. Harvey Weingarten, Professor of Psychology at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada gained notoriety in his field through a series of surveys he conducted on cravings. "What struck me was how common the experience was and how ubiquitous it was. Most people have these feelings, understand what they are, recognize that they are different from hunger. It was surprising to me how little we understand about the concept given how powerful these descriptions were." All of the experts on food cravings I talked to agreed. Weingarten summed up the conclusions of many of his colleagues: "I think the whole question of where food cravings come from is an important question and one that we don't have a good answer to."
But ask an average American which foods he or she craves the most, and your answer will most likely be an item full of sugar. Why is that? Studies by scientists who study this sort of thing have shown that there is a general preference among humans for sweet foods and drinks. Non-humans that show a preference for sweets are horses (like Mr. Ed), bears (like Winnie The Pooh), ants (think picnic), and lab rats (go figure). Professor Linda Bartoshuk teaches otolaryngological (ear, nose and throat) surgery at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She's also trained as an experimental psychologist. "Taste is absolutely hard-wired into us from birth," she says. Babies are born loving sweet and hating bitter. There is an evolutionary basis for our rejection of bitter: bitter is typically a signal of poison. On the other hand, mother's milk is sweet."
Sweet foods and drinks have high concentrations of sugars and therefore calories. Calories are important to survival and were especially important to early man who didn't have a 7-11 on every corner. Preferences for sweets attracted man to ripe fruits which provided him with sugar, vitamins, and minerals necessary to body function and growth. It's only natural that we should love and crave those foods which make our bodies feel good and energetic.
But what about cravings for potato chips and pretzels, snacks full of salt? Certainly no one is a stranger to that sensation. Professor Bartoshuk has this to say about babies: "They show a liking for dilute salt and a disliking for strong salt. And [sodium] is the most important mineral for our muscles." Our salt cravings, as with sugar ones, seem to have a strong base in genetic predisposition. As Bartoshuk pointed out, sodium is essential for survival, so it's better for our bodies to have too much rather than too little. Because of this, our bodies have figured out how to assure a proper intake if our levels are low. A study done with lab rats demonstrates that rats' (whose biology is similar to humans) preference for salt increases following sodium deprivation. After being deprived of salt for 10 days, the rats were less sensitive to the taste of salt, therefore they ate more of it, giving their bodies what they most needed.
We crave foods like spinach, broccoli, red meat, oysters, or shrimp for similar reasons. "Taste is linked to body needs. If a nutrient is needed in your body, your brain tells you to go out and get it," says Professor Bartoshuk.
Paul Rozin, Experimental Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, lived up to his title by feeding rats food lacking thiamine. After they were deprived of thiamine for a time, he then gave them dishes of thiamine-rich food next to dishes of their original nutritionally incomplete food. The rats ate only the new thiamine-laden food. Seems they only liked the food that made them feel better. Rozin called this urge specific hunger. He proposed that rats and humans show high responsiveness to the consequences of their diets and are very good at selecting nutritious foods for themselves.
Cravings can also be based on what we've just eaten. Scientists have shown that ingestion of certain types of foods can automatically affect a person's preference for other types of foods. If you had mostly carbohydrates like donuts for breakfast, you'll want more proteins like meats and cheeses for lunch.
All of this sounds good, almost as though if humans were left to their own devices they would have the perfect diet. But the truth is, while animals appear very good at selecting foods that provide most of the essential nutrients, humans, given a wide selection of foods to choose from, tend to consume too much salt and sugar and not enough of other essential vitamins and nutrients.
And while much of the scientific writings on cravings purport the idea that biology directs desire, just as much writing exists which seems to support the idea that cravings are psychological in nature. "Cravings are something we [scientists] think we understand, but they are hard to define," says Bartoshuk. "Is craving really separate from liking? We know a great deal about liking." We know a great deal about liking because scientists have typically researched the subject of cravings through interviews with humans and experiments with rats. But there's an obvious shortcoming here: "For humans cravings are an emotional experience, and we simply don't know how a rat feels," says Dr. Weingarten.
One empirical study done on cravings in humans (one of the few) disputes the idea that cravings are biologically based. Paul Rozin, the thiamine-deficiency guy, conducted an experiment with people who consistently craved chocolate. After they experienced a craving, he gave them one of two treatments. The first treatment was a chemical cocktail that mimicked the chemicals found in chocolate. Chocolate contains phenylethylamine or PEA and serotonin, which the brain produces when we're feeling good. Eating chocolate also causes our brains to release endorphins and encephalins–mental opiates.
The second treatment was a fake chocolate bar with none of pharmacological properties of chocolate but all of the sensory properties. It looked, smelled, and tasted like chocolate. It even had the same mouth feel as chocolate, but none of the chemicals in real chocolate. Which treatment do you suppose satisfied his subjects the most? The fake chocolate bar.
Says Dr. Harvey Weingarten, "There is a body of literature that is consistent with that observation. It is one of the better scientific experiments we have on food cravings. Scientific in that it goes beyond description." Dr. Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology at Yale University, agrees. He says, "Separating the biological and psychological bases of food addictions and cravings is difficult." Brownell runs Yale's Center for Eating and Weight Disorders so he deals closely with the psychological connections humans have to food. "People associate food with good feelings. Food is also used to counteract negative feelings. [Individuals] gravitate toward foods they like and those foods get associated with feeling better."
Research has shown that food paired with pleasurable activities becomes more attractive, especially if food follows the pleasure, (as opposed to preceding the pleasure). That's why reward eating stays with us so well from childhood. Once a chocolate chip cookie is linked with success in grade school, it's hard to break that connection. With every success that follows, you may want to celebrate with a chocolate chip cookie.
Mom isn't the only reason we link food with pleasure as youngens. The way our senses of smell and taste process information has much to do with why we link food to feelings at all. Tastes and smells are gathered through taste buds and nasal tissues. In both cases, the body is processing information about food by absorbing its gaseous chemicals. But most of what we consider to be our sense of taste is really our sense of smell. So much so that what we label artificial flavors are really not much more than artificial odors. This isn't really earth-shattering news to you if you had a fun Biology professor in high school. Remember having to plug your nose and close your eyes and then try and tell the difference between an apple and an onion just by chewing it? Not so easy.
Most of the chemicals we absorb from food are released in the back of the throat as we chew. These retronasal smells float up and are absorbed into our nasal tissue and olfactory bulb which sits just behind the bridge of the nose. Then the olfactory nerve connected to the bulb sends impulses to the limbic lobe of the brain. The limbic lobe is responsible for generating emotions and processing memory. That's where our brains decide whether or not they like a smell. That's how smells get mixed up with and connected to emotions and memory. From there the information is sent to the thalamus of the brain where the smell is finally identified.
This contrasts sharply with the way that information from other senses is processed. The optic nerve, for example, sends impulses to the thalamus of the brain first, and then to the limbic lobe. In other words if we see something, we identify it first and then decide if we like it. When we smell, or by extension, taste something, first we decide if we like it, then we identify it. It goes something like this:
Eyeballs to Brain: hmm, fur, claws, huge, brown. Must be bear. Bear bad. Run!
Nose to Brain: pretty, happy, calming, nice. Is this lavender or rose? Maybe it's gardenia. Can't tell.
That's why smells and tastes are so closely related to events in our lives and our feelings surrounding those events. Let's say for example, the best meal of your life was had when you were 12 years old sitting in the bleachers watching a baseball game with your dad. Life was good, the weather was perfect, your team was winning, dad was spending time with you, etc. That Dodger dog probably tasted sensational. And at the moment you ate it, the taste of the hot dog got mixed up with all those good feelings. Your brain forever linked the sensations together. Now, whenever you're longing for a simple, stress-free hour of life, you have an undeniable yearning for a hot dog with mayo and extra relish.
With all this biology and psychology working against us, how should we deal with the urge to down a gallon of rocky road in the time it takes the L.A. Kings to beat the tar out of the Mighty Ducks? Use your craving as a barometer. Pay attention to it. It's your body's way of telling you that you need something. Maybe it's an extra dose of calcium or some tender loving care. And use your judgment regarding when to indulge. Says, Brownell, "It's fine to listen to [cravings] as long as it leads to a healthy diet, but if you find yourself going beyond the boundaries of healthy eating, then it doesn't make sense."
If you fall into the latter category, you can use the powers of association to help you combat those highly caloric cravings. Perhaps if you're yearning the comfort of chocolate cake you should have a Hershey's kiss and a bubble bath. That way your brain gets the chemicals it wants, your mouth gets the sensation it loves, and your body can experience the relaxation it's looking for through the pleasure of soaking in a warm tub. Together the small dose of chocolate and the long soak may equal the pleasure you normally get from downing eight pieces of Devil's food. In other words, make new connections in your brain. Begin to link food with other easily obtainable, yet pleasurable, actions. That way, if you don't want to indulge in the food that makes you feel good, you can indulge in something less caloric.
It's either that, or become a stockholder in Ben & Jerry's.
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I´ve moved to Symi Island in Greece for the winter. As you can see it´s a very colourful place. Walking down the narrow lanes looking at houses painted with happy colours or lifting my eyes to the view of the ocean overwhelms me … deeply.
I live in a beautiful house. It´s white with lavender shutters. It has an outdoor kitchen and bathroom. And I love it. Getting up early in the morning, putting on a warm sweater and standing outside stirring the pot with steaming oatmeal. The constant view of the ocean and the ships that come and go. Washing the dishes with a ray of sun coming through the vine and a breeze caressing my cheek. And of course getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, crossing the terrace and looking up to the dark nightsky and stop momentarily to gaze at the stars. Somehow this makes me feel at home – alive. Living such a big part of the day outside in all kinds of weather. It makes my soul rejoice. Yes it will probably get cold at some point and yes it will rain, but I´m feeling optimistic and today we put up a big white sail over the kitchen so that we can walk from the house to the bathroom without getting wet.
This is just the kind of thing I've been rummaging for! Excellent and cheers!
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A Four-Port DC-DC Converter for a Hybrid Wind/Solar Energy System
Jiahong Ning, Minnesota State University, Mankato
With the increasing demand for clean and hybrid energy in the last decades, more and more attentions are paid to the renewable energy, e.g., wind and solar energy. According to the International Energy Agency, solar power was growing-fastest source in the world. In a hybrid wind/solar system, power converters play an important role in in power management and the voltage regulation. Gradually, power systems have undergone a paradigm shift from centralized generation to distributed generation. Smart grid, which is a combination of power systems and communication networks, was proposed to allow power systems to fit the future system challenge. However, Due to their intermittence characteristics, energy storage such as battery is used together with renewable energy sources. Generally, there are two ways to integrate these distributed energy sources, one is to use several individual converters for each source; the other is to use an integrated multiple ports converter. The later iv solution is preferable because some component can be shared and has lower cost and higher efficiency than that using several individual converters. In this thesis, a new four-port DC-DC converter is proposed for a hybrid wind/solar energy system. The operation principle is analyzed and different controllers are designed to regulating the DC-link and source voltage, power management for the battery and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for the renewable energy sources. The effectiveness of the hardware design and controllers are validated by a developed prototype which interfaces wind turbine generator, photovoltaic (PV) panel, battery, and the load.
Jianwu Zeng
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Ning, J. (2020). A four-port DC-DC converter for a hybrid wind/solar energy system [Master's thesis, Minnesota State University, Mankato]. Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works for Minnesota State University, Mankato. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/etds/1076/
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Scone Palace unveils ambitious plans for first ever Scottish Garden Show
By Jamie Buchan
December 1 2020, 12.40pm
Lady Mansfield mowing the grass in June 2020, in preparation for the reopening of Scone Palace.
A huge horticultural show, to be staged in Perthshire next year, aims to capitalise on Britain's lockdown gardening boom.
It is estimated that stay-at-home restrictions helped create around 3 million new gardeners across the UK.
The Horticultural Trades Association found that families up and down the country have spent their summer experimenting with growing vegetables and other backyard projects.
Now Scone Palace hopes to attract green-fingered enthusiasts, old and new, to its inaugural Scottish Garden Show.
The three-day event will be held over the Spring Bank Holiday, May 29-31, next year. It was originally planned as a two-day show, but has been expanded to allow for additional social distancing and other Covid-19 safety measures.
Organisers said the show will take place across the palace gardens and amongst the towering conifers of the Victorium Pinetum.
It will feature a line-up of top nurseries selling an assortment of plants, alongside scores of trade stands offering gardening products and workshops. Family-friendly attractions and a food zone are also planned.
The event has been organised by Strathmore Events Services, which has pledged that the "strictest" safety measures will be in place.
Scone Palace's Lady Mansfield, who helped keep the historic grounds trim and tidy during lockdown, said: "It is exciting to see so many people take up gardening during the pandemic.
"We appreciate the benefits of gardening in our day-to-day lives and we have a long history of creative gardening and landscaping here at Scone Place dating back to the 12th Century."
She said Head Gardener Brian Cunningham, who is a regular face on the BBC's Beechgrove Garden programme, will be instrumental in creating the Scottish Garden Show.
Lady Mansfield said: "The event promises to showcase something for everyone, whether you are a novice or professional gardener, young or old, you are sure to find inspiration for your own garden during your visit."
She added: "We are delighted to host this event in partnership with Strathmore Event Services and visitors can be rest assured knowing the Scottish Garden Show will have the strictest measures in place to ensure a safe and enjoyable day out."
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"The Character Booster will not cost real money to use. We'll have final pricing info on the game to share soon, but we can confirm that there will be no microtransactions for the upcoming rerelease of Final Fantasy VII on PC," a Square Enix representative told Kotaku. The RPG, which is expected some time this year, will pack in a number of new features like cloud saves alongside the shortcut Character Booster, which many had speculated would cost a few dollars on top of the cover price.


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Blended families are formed when a divorced man with children seriously dates or marries another divorced woman with children. When they all come together, a blended family is formed.
1. Look for things that work.
Review the different things, activities, or routines that can work for your new family. You may not get it at first, but with trial and error, you will know what will work best for your setup.
Remember, getting married to your love is one thing. Getting married to his or her entire family is a whole different universe. A short-tempered person may not be the perfect fit here. But, the longer the patience that you have, the better shot that you have in making this work.
Rules and boundaries should be established in the home. Each one, young and old, should know their place and position in the family. These boundaries should be clearly laid out to everyone in a family meeting. Make sure that everyone understands. Encourage the kids to ask questions and answer them as directly as possible.
A lot of issues can be resolved with a fun-loving attitude. You don't have to be so serious as you settle your new blended family. It can be stressful, yes, but with a positive and fun perspective, everything will be lighter and easier to handle.
5. Display consistency between all children.
A lot of disputes and ill-feelings are borne when parents tend to favor their own children over their spouse's children. It can be in terms of money, attention, freedom, opportunities, or even discipline. The parents need to agree to treat everyone equally. Of course, opportunities will vary for children of different ages, but the important thing is the parents' attitude towards them.
6. Hold regular family meetings.
Family meetings are very important. They should be done frequently, especially during the early months of the new family setup. This is the only time when parents can hear out children and also for the children to get to know each other.
Each blended family has a different profile, but just focus on what you have and try to look at things from a positive perspective. The more you think positively about your new family, the easier it will be for everyone to adjust. For more tips, check out our blog.
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Hailey's dreams have always been, well…vivid. As in monsters from her nightmares follow her into her waking life vivid.
When her big sister goes missing, eighteen-year-old Hailey finds the only thing keeping her safe from a murderous 3,000-year-old beast is an equally terrifying creature who has fallen "madly" in love with her. Competing to win her affection, the Dream Creature, Asher, lures her to the one place that offers safety–a ParaScience university in Alaska he calls home. There, she studies the science of the supernatural and must learn to live with a roommate from Hell, survive her ParaScience classes, and hope the only creature who can save her from an evil immortal doesn't decide to kill her himself.


About a month ago I was sent a copy of the retail demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum from the publisher, but unfortunately, at that point, I didn't have a PS3 debug kit in my arsenal of wicked game reviewing tools, so there it sat. It did finally motivate me to annoy Sony into finally sending Opposable Thumbs a PS3 test system, so there you go. Better coverage for all!
The demo is a single challenge map, which pits Batman against waves of increasingly tough thugs. You may be able to play this demo at a retail location near you, and if you can, check it out. Give it some time. Let the control system, with the context-sensitive hits, cape-flowing misdirection, and acrobatics sink in. At first I found things incredibly limited, and slightly disappointing. The more I played—and I've put more time into this one room than I'm comfortable admitting—the more I become convinced that this is going to be one of the best Batman titles ever released.
The trick is to not worry about attacks, as one button lands whatever blow is appropriate. Worry about your spacing. You can whip around an enemy and pound him from behind, you can wave your cape and confuse your opponent for a moment, you have take down moves that look appropriately brutal. By managing how many enemies you're attacking at once, and knowing when to back off or press your advantage, you'll be able to best even a room full of foes. Every now and again you'll get a close up, slow motion shot of a particularly vicious blow, and it looks and feels great.
The game simply feels like Batman. The combat is supremely satisfying, and is easy to pick up and land complex-looking combos without feeling like control is being taken from you. It's an interesting mixture of cinematic flair and strategy, and it's a great take on combat for the game. It may take some time for gamers to actively "get" what the game is trying to do with the combat, but I think once they do, everyone is going to be very happy.
While the time I played the game at the Game Developers Conference mostly dealt with swooping around levels and strategy with the game's weapons, this was a great look into melee combat. I'm even more jazzed about the game now, and can't wait to see more at E3.
Batman: Arkham Asylum is coming to the Xbox 360 and PS3 September 1, while the PC version should hit by September 30.


Duck Dynasty daughter and Dancing With the Stars runner-up Sadie Robertson's bucket list must be getting short when she's already checking off things like "Walk the runway at New York Fashion Week... more than once!" The 17-year-old Louisiantrepreneur was back in The Big Apple strutting the catwalk as part of the Sherri Hill Fall 2015 Collection runway show in which she wore two of Sherri's trademark colorful bling 'n' sheen looks. Keep reading to watch the full video and see tons of photos as well as comments from Sadie, mom Korie and grandma Chrys!


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Wärtsilä and DHL deploy cutting-edge mobile robots from Fetch Robotics to streamline warehouse operations
11 July 2017 at 11:00 AM E. Europe Standard Time
Central distribution centre of Wärtsilä Global Logistics Services in Kampen
The robots recognise their location and surroundings, thus enabling evasive action to work safely with and around people.
The entire logistics chain of Wärtsilä's spare parts
The technology group Wärtsilä and DHL, the world's leading logistics company, have completed a successful pilot, where the companies tested mobile robots of Fetch Robotics. The pilot was carried out in Wärtsilä's central distribution centre in Kampen, the Netherlands, where the entire logistics chain of Wärtsilä's spare parts, from order intake to customer delivery, is managed. As Wärtsilä's partner, DHL runs the warehouse operations.
The aim of the project was to investigate possibilities to utilise the latest technology innovations in the daily operations of the warehouse. Wärtsilä and DHL also wanted to gain more understanding of the added value of robotics in a warehouse environment and to learn about the human–technology interface between robots and employees.
The mobile robot system simplifies point to point material handling. Workflows at Wärtsilä's warehouse can be set up and modified very quickly to accommodate today's dynamic environments, without the need for complex programming. Workers can interact with the robots via touchscreen and send them on their journeys with a push of a button.
"Our colleagues took centre stage during the trial. The robots are designed to work alongside employees and to relieve them from physically strenuous tasks. The robots alone took over a walking distance of more than 30 kilometres per day, thereby increasing productivity and safety within the warehouse working environment," says Denis Niezgoda, Robotics Accelerator Lead, DHL Customer Solutions & Innovation.
The autonomous mobile robots have a loading capacity of 78 kilograms and can cover a distance of two metres per second. When the battery life of maximum nine hours comes to an end, the freight robot independently makes its way to the charging unit. The intelligent robots recognise their location and surroundings, and can differentiate between dynamic and static obstacles, thus enabling evasive action to work safely with and around people.
Wärtsilä and partners to develop potential of mobile robots further
This new generation of smart mobile robots can impact the logistics industry through enhancing people's capabilities. They enable people to perform tasks faster and save energy, thus improving efficiency.
"Our relationship with DHL is a great accomplishment. We were able to deploy our robots in the facility in a matter of days, rapidly improve on-site productivity, while increasing the safety of the warehouse employees," explains Melonee Wise, CEO at Fetch Robotics.
"The pilot was a success and, as a result, we have decided to continue exploring and developing new applications of smart mobile robot technology. Over the coming months, we will continue to trial different robot types and technologies together with our partners to further improve productivity, quality and safety in our operations," says Anne Träskbäck, General Manager, Parts Delivery at Wärtsilä Services. "We have exciting times ahead. Working with robots means embracing a new change, and co-operating in new, productive ways in the future."
Caption: Central distribution centre of Wärtsilä Global Logistics Services in Kampen, the Netherlands.
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Caption: The entire logistics chain of Wärtsilä's spare parts, from order intake to customer delivery, is managed in Wärtsilä's central distribution centre.
Caption: The robots recognise their location and surroundings, thus enabling evasive action to work safely with and around people.
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You can watch the video about the pilot here.
About Wärtsilä's central distribution centre
Wärtsilä's central distribution centre in Kampen was established in 2010. It is responsible for goods reception, quality inspection, storage, packaging and shipping of spare parts for Wärtsilä's engines and other products. The floor space of this centre is 37,000 m2 and it has over 80,000 unique parts, with some 27 million different pieces, in stock. In 2016, over 100,000 deliveries to more than 180 countries were shipped from the Kampen central distribution centre. On average, this means 35 trucks departing every day.
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Wärtsilä Services in brief
Wärtsilä Services provides high-quality lifecycle services that enhance customers' business. Its broad range of services supports both shipping and power generation companies, whenever and wherever needed. Solutions range from spare parts and basic support to ensuring the maximised lifetime, increased efficiency and guaranteed performance of the customer's equipment or installation – in a safe, reliable, and environmentally sustainable way.
www.wartsila.com/services
DHL in brief
DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry. Our DHL family of divisions offer an unrivalled portfolio of logistics services ranging from national and international parcel delivery, e-commerce shipping and fulfillment solutions, international express, road, air and ocean transport to industrial supply chain management. With about 350,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide, DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global trade flows. With specialized solutions for growth markets and industries including technology, life sciences and healthcare, energy, automotive and retail, a proven commitment to corporate responsibility and an unrivalled presence in developing markets, DHL is decisively positioned as "The logistics company for the world". DHL is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group. The Group generated revenues of more than 57 billion euros in 2016.
On the Internet: www.dpdhl.com
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Fetch Robotics in brief
Fetch Robotics develops and manufactures collaborative, autonomous mobile robot solutions for the warehousing and intralogistic markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Fetch Robotics takes advantage of its deep robotics expertise to provide reliable and safe collaborative AMR (Autonomous Mobile Robot) solutions for two commercial applications: material handling and data collection.
For more information, please visit http://www.fetchrobotics.com or follow the company on Twitter @FetchRobotics.


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"Bishop has New York audiences in stitches"
-- New York Post
"Novel and hysterical! She can really sing and she NAILS it!" –Huffington Post
Blessed with a voice capable of opera, Broadway, and pop, she creates funny but appreciative portraits of the women we love. – Michael Musto
In the smash Off-Broadway hit Spamilton, Dorothy Bishop ruthlessly impersonates divas from Liza Minnelli to Barbra Streisand, with Bernadette Peters and Patti LuPone along the way.
But Spamilton hardly scratches the surface of Dorothy's talent for mimicry. In her fast-paced one-woman show "The Dozen Divas," she does Liza and Barbra… and Stevie and Adele and Cher… and, well, too many others to mention!
"The Dozen Divas" has already been nominated for two Broadway World Awards and two Mac Awards for best musical comedy show. In between stints with Spamilton, Dorothy squeezed in a triumphant Mexican tour of "Divas" during which she headlined at the beautiful Red Room in Puerto Vallarta.
She was spotted in "The Dozen Divas" by the music director of Spamilton, Broadway conductor Fred Barton.
He was bowled over: "Dorothy's innate sunny sense of humor and goodheartedness transcends all – but her true secret weapon lies in the sky-high quality and range of her own native, superlative singing."
Dorothy and the Dozen Divas are featured monthly at The TRIAD Theater - one of NYC's most historic Off Broadway Theaters. TICKETS


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Q: Alternative to VALUES LESS THAN in interval partitioing creation query As we know that Interval partitioning is an extension of Range partitioning and it takes much of its syntax from
range partitioning.
From various sources on the net, I assume that interval partitioning creation query do have mandatory following clause:
VALUES LESS THAN (XXX)
But when we go for interval partitioning, is there any simpler way where we do not provide any VALUE LESS THAN CLAUSE.
I was searching for something similar like EQUAL TO (012019) where 012019 corresponds to the January month Interval
of 2019 year.
I have gone through following links for the help/understanding but couldn't find useful for my concern.
http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_interval_partitioning.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/VLDBG/GUID-C121EA1B-2725-4464-B2C9-EEDE0C3C95AB.htm
The code used by me is like as follows:

create table
pos_data (
   start_date        DATE,
   store_id          NUMBER,
   inventory_id      NUMBER(6),
   qty_sold          NUMBER(3)
)
PARTITION BY RANGE (start_date)
INTERVAL(NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1, 'MONTH'))
(
   PARTITION pos_data_p2 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('1-7-2007', 'DD-MM-YYYY')),
   PARTITION pos_data_p3 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('1-8-2007', 'DD-MM-YYYY'))
);

From my search It looks like there is no other way apart from the one VALUE LESS THAN.
Please share if anyone have some understanding about someother approach for creating interval based partitioning.
Remainder: my concern is in BOLD above

A: I think what you are looking for is the partition extended name
PARTITION FOR(DATE'2019-01-01')

Actually the LESS THAN definition plays in interval partitioning close to zero role.
You use it only once while creating the table to define some lower bound of the data.
Here is an example to define a table containing data starting from the year 2019
create table pos_data (
   start_date        DATE,
   store_id          NUMBER
)
SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED
PARTITION BY RANGE (start_date)
INTERVAL(NUMTOYMINTERVAL(1, 'MONTH'))
(
   PARTITION pos_data_init VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('1-1-2019', 'DD-MM-YYYY'))
);

Note that the first partition is not an interval partition (INTERVAL = NO) and doesn't physically exists due to SEGMENT CREATION DEFERRED. It will also never contain any data, as you start with 2019 content.
select PARTITION_POSITION,PARTITION_NAME,INTERVAL,MIN_EXTENT, HIGH_VALUE
from user_tab_partitions where table_name = 'POS_DATA'
order by PARTITION_POSITION;

PARTITION_POSITION PARTITION_NAME INTERVAL MIN_EXTENT HIGH_VALUE
------------------ -------------- -------- ---------- -------------------------------
                 1 POS_DATA_INIT  NO                  TO_DATE(' 2019-01-01 00:00:00',

New partitions are created on the fly e.g. while inserting new data, you don't need to specify LESS THAN
insert into pos_data(start_date,store_id) values(DATE'2019-01-01',1);

PARTITION_POSITION PARTITION_NAME INTERVAL MIN_EXTENT HIGH_VALUE
------------------ -------------- -------- ---------- -------------------------------
                 1 POS_DATA_INIT  NO                  TO_DATE(' 2019-01-01 00:00:00',
                 2 SYS_P16713     YES               1 TO_DATE(' 2019-02-01 00:00:00',

While accessing the table you use the partition_extended_name, you may choose any date within the month to reference the partition.
select * from  pos_data
partition for (date'2019-01-15');

Same syntax may be used for partition maintainance
alter table pos_data move partition for (date'2019-01-30') compress;


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Dirt Is Good for Children
Rupert Taylor
I've spent half a century (yikes) writing for radio and print—mostly print. I hope to be still tapping the keys as I take my last breath.
Old folklore wisdom stated that "A little dirt never hurt anyone," or "Everyone must eat a pound of dirt before they die." As so often proves the case, the knowledge of the pre-scientific world was based on common sense and observation.
Babies seem to know instinctively that dirt is good for them; when they find something of interest on the ground it usually goes straight in their mouths. As Jane E. Brody writes in The New York Times, "Since all instinctive behaviours have an evolutionary advantage or they would not have been retained for millions of years, chances are that this one too has helped us survive as a species. And, indeed, accumulating evidence strongly suggests that eating dirt is good for you."
Parental Concern
Few parents today tell children to "Play outside and get dirty."
Moms and dads have been guilted by advertising into raising their little treasures in an antiseptic, germ-free environment. Kids mustn't be allowed to touch anything that hasn't been wiped clean, disinfected, and sterilized. We are advised to:
dose the little ones up with an oral antiseptic;
bathe them daily in an anti-bacterial cleanser; and,
slap on a coating of germ-killing cream.
The British lobby group parentsoutloud.com says that an overabundance of government health and safety regulations has created an artificially cleansed environment around children.
The guiding force of parentsoutloud is Margaret Morrissey, and she is quoted by The Telegraph as saying: "Parents have become so paranoid about their children playing outside and getting dirty that today's youngsters are not enjoying a proper childhood."
Morrissey blames living in an antiseptic bubble for tripling of the number of children developing food allergies.
Tom Brady of The New York Times writes that the incidence of peanut allergies "tripled from 1997 to 2007, an epidemic for which there is no clear explanation."
The Hygiene Hypothesis
Nobody disputes that good hygiene reduces infections, but research suggests we shouldn't be obsessive about it.
In November 1989, David Strachan, an epidemiologist, wrote an article in The British Medical Journal in which he proposed the existence of what came to be known as "The Hygiene Hypothesis."
Dr. Strachan was studying the incidence of hay fever and eczema when he noticed that these allergy-based problems cropped up less frequently in children who came from large families when compared with kids from single-child families.
He speculated that exposure to germs during early childhood gives the human body better protection against allergies.
Mark Holbreich has studied the incidence of allergies among the Amish in Indiana. According to The New York Times he "discovered that just 7.2 percent of the 138 Amish children he tested were sensitized to tree pollens and other allergens, as opposed to about half of all American children."
Why the difference? It's the barn or, as European scientists call it, the "farm effect." Almost all Amish children grow up on farms, and, says The Times "The theory is that microbes from the cowshed, plant material, and raw milk stimulate the immune systems of children and protect them from allergies."
Dirt Helps Skin Heal
Writing in The Telegraph, Murray Wardrop reports that researchers in the United States have found a scientific explanation for the hygiene hypothesis. "Scientists have discovered that bacteria on the surface of the skin play an important role in combating inflammation when we get hurt. The bugs dampen down overactive immune responses, which can lead to rashes or cause cuts and bruises to become swollen and painful."
By over-sanitizing their children's environment, parents may be impairing the ability of the harmless bacteria to aid the healing process.
Dermatologist Professor Richard Gallo of the School of Medicine at University of California, San Diego led the research team that made the discovery. The results have been published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine and reported by BBC News as showing that "a common bacterial species, known as Staphylococci, blocked a vital step in a cascade of events that led to inflammation."
The bacteria "did this by making a molecule called lipoteichoic acid or LTA, which acted on keratinocytes – the main cell types found in the outer layer of the skin."
Blaming the Hygiene Hypothesis
Dr. Graham A.W. Rook is a professor in the department of infection at the Centre for Clinical Microbiology at the University College, London. He says the hygiene hypothesis can be blamed for:
Severe allergic reactions;
Gastrointestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn's disease; and,
Autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Dr. Rook told U.S. News and World Report "The evidence for all this is very, very powerful … The bottom line is organisms that were present in mud, untreated water, and feces were with us right from the start of humanity."
Exposure to these organisms trained our immune systems to combat infection. But walling children off from all the bacteria, microbes, and bugs means they are not developing defences against illness.
Dr. Mary Ruebush is the author of Why Dirt Is Good. She says that if children play in an environment occupied by bacteria their systems will develop "immune responses, which will be necessary for protection, but it also plays a critical role in teaching the immature immune response what is best ignored."
Bonus Factoids
According to the University of Nebraska "There are more organisms in a gram of soil than there are human beings on this Earth!"
Geophagia is a condition that causes people to eat soil; it can cause serious health problems.
On the impoverished island of Haiti people make cakes out of mud, occasionally mixed with salt and butter, which are called bonbons par terre. Although they have no nutritional value, the bonbons par terre are eaten to ward off the pangs of hunger.
"Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good For You." Jane E. Brody, New York Times, January 26, 2009.
"The Trouble with Germ-free Bubbles." Tom Brady, New York Times, November 23, 2013.
"Dirt Can Be Good for Children, Say Scientists." BBC News, November 23, 2009.
"Commensal Bacteria Regulate Toll-like Receptor 3-Dependent Inflammation After Skin Injury." Nature Medicine, published online November 22, 2009.
"Children Should be Allowed to Play in the Dirt Because Being too Clean Can Impair the Skin's Ability to Heal Itself, New Research Suggests." Murray Wardrop, The Telegraph, November 23, 2009.
"A Little Dirt May Be a Good Thing." Dennis Thompson, U.S. News and World Report, September 9, 2011.
"Soil Biota." University of Nebraska, undated.
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My mom never let me play with dirt, but I heard that in korea, it is alright to play with dirt that cures skin disease
CJ Kelly
2 years ago from Auburn, WA
Bravo. I hope parents hear you. Whenever I see kids using hand sanitizer I just want to scream, "No." Sharing everywhere.


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Larry King Involved In Beverly Hills Car Crash
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Man Killed In Car Crash In Malibu
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One Dead In Hit-And-Run Collision
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The plumbing system is one of the home's major functions. It's often an overlooked part of the home that receives little to no maintenance. Homeowners often don't pay attention to their plumbing system until it's too late when a problem comes up. You may be wondering more about your septic system, how it operates, and what kind of maintenance it requires. We will address some common misunderstandings about your septic system and what you can do to help prevent problems.
Myth #1 – If you have a slow draining shower, tub, washing machine, sink or toilet, this is not a problem and you shouldn't worry about it. The reality is that this could be an indication of a problem related to your plumbing system.
Truth- If you do notice a slow draining sink or tub, contact a professional to come out and check it. It could be a sign that your tank needs to be pumped.
Myth #2 – you don't have to get you septic tank pumped often.
Truth – This is definitely a misconception, and your septic tank should be pumped and inspected every one to three years. How often you should get your septic tank pumped will depend on the size of your home and the amount of occupants in your home.
Myth #3 – You need to use additives in your septic system.
Truth – This is also a myth. Using additives will not prevent backup. They also won't prevent you from needing to get your system periodically pumped. And using additives also won't break down solids properly.
Myth #4 – It's okay to put chemicals, medicines and foods down the drain because it won't harm your septic system.
Truth – It's always best to put only liquids, septic-safe toilet paper, and other septic safe products. If you stick to septic-safe products and liquids, this will be best for your septic system and also your pipes and plumbing.
Myth #5 – Well water doesn't require any maintenance.
Truth – This is definitely a myth. If you have a septic system, you'll need to get your well water tested every year to ensure that the nitrate levels aren't too high. If the nitrate levels are too high, this could mean that the waste water is overflowing and leaching into your system.
Central Carolina Air Conditioning, Plumbing & Electrical can provide routine maintenance on your septic system and doing a yearly pump for your septic system. We can also perform dye tests on all your toilets to ensure that there are no water leaks, which equate to money wasting. If your toilets are connected to a septic tank and there's a water leak, then you could be wasting even more money! Not only can we provide dye tests, but we can also check all faucets in your home and all exposed hot and cold water lines to identify and repair any water leaks in your home.