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Fiction | November 2015
Finding Clothes
By Z.Z. Boone
My eight-year-old daughter wants to know where her mother is.
"I'm right here," I say, trying to bag her lunch and still have enough time to throw together a PowerPoint for my 10:30 freshman comp class.
"Not you," she says indignantly. "My real mother."
We were warned about this by the director of the adoption agency: Eventually your daughter will have questions about her "bio-mom." Do not vilify this individual. Explain, instead, how China's one-child policy—with its preference for male heirs—forced a fearful woman to abandon a child she loved.
Usually Sophie's questions come up at more appropriate times. At dinner, with her father there to fill in any lapses. Or maybe after church, over rolls and jelly donuts, when we can play the God-card.
As a result of these family discussions, the topic of adoption isn't totally foreign to her. She knows she was abandoned—"discarded" she once called it—and my husband and I have both tried to make it clear that we were all destined to be drawn together as a loving, if somewhat unconventional, family. We've explained why we all look different, how ancestors from various parts of the globe have provided an assortment of both physical and mental traits.
"Is that why I love math and you guys don't?" she'd ask on occasion, and either my husband or myself would answer, "Yep. That's why." "Is that why I tan better in the summer?" she'd wonder. And one of us would say, "You got it."
But she's never asked about the whereabouts of the woman who dressed her in boy's clothing, dropped her off in front of a variety store named Red Dragon, and who probably hid herself until the baby was discovered.
"Is she dead?" Sophie asks.
"She's in China, Soph, you know that."
"Why haven't we looked for her?"
"Because she probably wouldn't want us to. Maybe she's afraid she'd get into trouble."
"In China it's against the law to abandon a baby. She's probably worried she'd get fined or even go to jail."
"Just for having me?"
"Honey, the bus is going to be here. We can talk about this tonight."
"It's not fair," she says.
"Nothing's fair," I say, and immediately fear I may regret these words.
Part of my problem: Sophie has made friends with another adopted Chinese girl in her third-grade class, Xiao-xing Murphy. Xiao-xing's mother, an alabaster-skinned single parent who recently moved here from California, sells real estate, dresses in traditional Chinese clothing, takes Mandarin language lessons every Saturday with her daughter, and has unofficially changed her first name from Jenna to Jing. I learned all this a couple of weeks ago when I picked my daughter up after a sleepover.
Most adoptive parents of Chinese children are somewhat like motorcyclists. Even moving at high speeds in opposite direction, we acknowledge one another. Usually it's no more than a slight smile, a gentle nod. Silently, we look at one another as if to say, Well didn't we make a good decision. But other APs take adoption more seriously. Like motorists who propose the death penalty for pedestrians who don't walk against the flow of traffic.
Jenna Murphy—and I refuse to call her "Jing"—was one such person.
"We need to constantly inform ourselves that we are merely representatives of these girls' true mothers," Jenna, eyes as blue as Neptune, informed me on that brisk October morning. "And as such we need to relentlessly remind them of the women who selflessly sacrificed."
"I kind of like to think our kids' lives began on adoption day," I said.
"Which is really selfish," she chided. "It may not be easy, but it's our responsibility to make sure that our girls have their Chinese heritage reinforced."
"I imagine that happens whenever they look in a mirror," I said.
"I'm surprised to hear you say that," Jenna said with the slow smile of someone who considers herself wiser than most everyone else. "Then again, I'd be surprised to hear anyone say that."
I admit, like many adoptive parents, I've been protective. Overly so, some—my husband among them—might say.
The first picture I saw of our future daughter was taken at the orphanage. She was maybe nine months old and had been placed in one of those wheeled walking chairs. Except for whoever took the photo, she was unattended. She looked toward a low open window and was apparently unaware of a flight of stairs behind her. There was a kitchen in the corner of the snapshot, and I imagined a hot stove and a collection of sharp knives within reach. The image stayed with me, and as I result I vowed to keep her out of danger's way. No horses from which she might be thrown, no flimsy-looking amusement park Ferris wheels, no gymnastic classes where bandaged children walked around like war veterans.
My husband, from a rough-and-tumble family consisting of a widowed mom and three older brothers, tried to convince me that pain and storytelling were the two most important elements in childhood. "We expand their imaginations," he said, "and Mother Nature toughens them up."
Frank makes most of our money as a commercial artist with an advertising firm on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. When Sophie started first grade, I taught a course—sometimes two—at the community college. But my real job, as I saw it, was as a parent, a guardian, a mother who never spent a single second in the hospital's emergency room while her daughter was poked, prodded, or sewn-up for God-knows-what.
That night, at Bella Pizza, Sophie tells us that from this point on she wants to be called Jade.
"Jade is considered a precious gem in China," she tells us, "and Jing says that's what I am."
Frank, who works half-days on Friday, asks, "Who?"
"Mom of one of the kids in her class," I say.
"There's nothing wrong with the name Sophie," my husband tells our daughter. "It was your grandmother's name."
"But it's not my real name. It's more like my slave name."
"And this is also according to . . . ?"
Sophie smiles. "Jing."
"You might need a word with this woman," Frank says looking over at me.
"I've already tried."
"Do you want me to talk to the dad?"
"Divorced."
"'Sophie' means 'wisdom,'" Frank says, taking menus from the middle of the table and passing them around. "I think it fits you perfectly."
"I only want a salad," Sophie says.
We both look over at her.
"No pizza?" I ask.
"Chinese people don't like cheese," she declares. "Jing says we're all lactose tolerant."
It's lactose intolerant, I almost say, but instead I just finish my wine and wave the waitress over.
"I think we should call her Ms. Murphy," I tell my daughter.
"She told me to call her Jing," Sophie insists. "Auntie Jing."
Frank and I exchange a glance. When the waitress arrives and reaches for my empty wine glass, I'm tempted to tell her to just bring over the bottle.
On the drive home, Sophie again brings up her birth mother.
"Maybe she just lost me. Maybe I crawled away and she's looking everywhere."
"That's not what happened, Soph," I tell her.
"But you can't know that," she states. "Maybe she was busy taking care of a bunch of other kids and she took her eyes off me for one second, and then I was gone. Maybe she didn't want to give me up at all."
"We need to take down her stuff," Frank says.
"What stuff," a voice from the backseat asks.
"Your stuff," Frank says looking into the rearview mirror.
At home Frank hands down a small plastic tote from the shelf in the hall closet and has me bring it into the dining room where Sophie sits in wait. It's been up there for over seven years and, truth be told, I'd hoped it might stay up there for at least another seven.
Sophie has taken her chair at the oval-shaped dining room table. "Is that my stuff you were talking about?" she asks.
"That's it," Frank tells her and takes a seat himself. And to me: "Do the honors."
I stand calmly in front of students all the time. Teenagers, adults sometimes older than myself. I appear confident and well prepared. But tonight my hands shake and my mouth feels dry. I clear my throat, and finally unclip the clear plastic lid like an archeologist unsealing a time capsule. I take out a folded sweatshirt, a "hoodie," hold it by the shoulder seams, let it fall open. It's crimson, with the logo of the Chicago Bulls basketball team on the front. UNBELIEVA-BULLS, it says in white block print, and it's big enough to fit a ten-year-old.
The words come.
"These are not the clothes you were wearing when you were delivered to us at the hotel. These are your 'finding clothes.'"
"From when I was dropped off?" Sophie asks.
I nod. Sophie comes over, takes the shirt, smells it, holds it at arm's length for inspection. "Cool." she says. "Can I wear it again?"
I look over at Frank, perhaps a child psychologist in another life, who says, "You can, but don't you think it's kind of boyish?"
Sophie slowly nods, places the shirt carefully on the table.
I go through the rest of the clothes: the grey woolen pants with the stretched elastic waistband, the thin white socks, the clear plastic shoes. There's also a small white blanket.
"I was bundled up."
"You were bundled up," I say, "and this was pinned to your shirt."
I take out one of those plastic, resealable sandwich bags, inside of which are two folded pieces of paper. I spread the first, with some Chinese characters in pencil, on the table. Next to it, I place the translation, provided by our in-China guide, written on the back of a piece of hotel stationery.
"Read it," Sophie says.
"'Warm-hearted people. I am irresponsible. Forgive me.'"
"My mother wrote that?"
I nod.
"I remember," Sophie says.
"I doubt you actually–"
"No," she persists. "I remember. I was hot and kinda scared and afraid to make too much noise."
I look over toward Frank who shrugs. It's his signal to press on. I take out a Chinese passport bound by a red cover with gold Chinese characters. It looks brand new.
"Do you remember your orphanage name?" I ask.
I open the passport, hold it up for Sophie to see. Her referral picture, a small headshot of an infant with her mouth open and her eyes shut, is on the first page. Her orphanage name is typed in both English and Chinese.
"Fu Dao-Ming," I tell her from memory. "Do you know what that means?"
Sophie shakes her head.
"It means path to happiness."
"That was my name? Path to happiness?"
"That's even better than 'Jade,'" Frank says.
But Sophie's attention is solely on me, her interest entirely on her mother.
"How come you never showed me any of this?" she says as she comes over to more closely inspect her past.
"I guess we were waiting for the right time," I say.
Sophie puts the passport carefully back into the tote. After a moment she says, "What if it's not true? What if my first mom abandoned me because she didn't like me?"
That's not how it was, I'm ready to say. Who couldn't help but like you?
But I don't. I say instead, "Well I guess that's possible, in which case her loss is our gain."
"She didn't see the path to happiness," Sophie says.
Sophie returns the finding clothes to the tote and snaps it closed.
I'll call Jenna Murphy in the morning and inform her, as gracefully as I can, that she is not Lindo Jong from The Joy Luck Club. I'll point out that she's as American as I am, and that she might be slightly less angry once she removes the bamboo rod from her derriere and learns to enjoy motherhood the way it's meant to be enjoyed. Then I'll ask if she likes coffee.
"Mom?" Sophie asks as her father takes the tote back toward the closet. "Do you think it's okay if I try out for field hockey?"
It's kind of dangerous, I think, but I know that's not the answer. Not tonight, not right now.
"I think it's fine," I say.
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Q: Interrelate select options with an array items How do I interrelate the select options with an array items and change content on button click?
I want to chage the content of a div dynamically using the select option and a button. The words I want to display are sotred in an array.
Here is my code:

function myCall() {
  var dBox = document.getElementById('displayBox');
  var msg = ["Good", "Fine", "Helpful", "Fantastic"];
  dBox.innerHTML = `${msg[2]}!`;
}
#displyBox {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 24px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #00d500;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 20px;
  font-weight: 800;
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

Change Words!

<select>
  <option>Good</option>
  <option>Fine</option>
  <option selected>Helpful</option>
  <option>Fantastic</option>
</select>
<button type="button" onclick="myCall()">Change Word</button>

A: *

*Use the "change" Event directly on your Select box

*Don't use HTML inline on* handlers. JS and CSS should be in their respective tags / files.

const EL_box = document.querySelector("#box");
const EL_words = document.querySelector("#words");

const populateBox = () => {
  EL_box.innerHTML = EL_words.value;
};

EL_words.addEventListener("change", populateBox); // on change
populateBox();                                    // on init
#box {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 24px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #00d500;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 20px;
  font-weight: 800;
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

Change Words

<select id="words">
  <option>Good</option>
  <option>Fine</option>
  <option selected>Helpful</option>
  <option>Fantastic</option>
</select>

If you really need a button:

const EL_box = document.querySelector("#box");
const EL_words = document.querySelector("#words");
const EL_change = document.querySelector("#change");

const populateBox = () => {
  EL_box.innerHTML = EL_words.value;
};

EL_change.addEventListener("click", populateBox); // on click
populateBox();                                    // on init
#box {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 24px;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #00d500;
  border-radius: 5px;
  padding: 20px;
  font-weight: 800;
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

Change Words

<select id="words">
  <option>Good</option>
  <option>Fine</option>
  <option selected>Helpful</option>
  <option>Fantastic</option>
</select>

<button id="change" type="button">CHANGE</button>

A: Here is working example:
First, it will be important to use value property with the the  tag, like:

Change Words!

 <select id="selectbox">
  <option value="Good">Good</option>
  <option value="Fine">Fine</option>
  <option value="Helpful" selected>Helpful</option>
  <option value="Fantastic">Fantastic</option>
</select>

<button type="button" id="buttonChange">Change Word</button>

i prefer use addEventListener instead of "onclick" attribute. it divides your view and business logic layers, that makes code more dry and clear :)
then, take a look at js:
const displyBox = document.getElementById('displyBox')

const buttonChange = document.getElementById('buttonChange')

const selectbox = document.getElementById('selectbox')

buttonChange.addEventListener('click', () => {
  displyBox.innerHTML=selectbox.value
})

link every important html-node to js constant. add eventListener to your html-button node and pass callback function inside. Callback function changes innerHTML property tag you need by the actual selectbox value.
Here is working example at codepen:
https://codepen.io/zaslavskij/pen/mdWPMRg

A: You need to add an id to your select like this...

function myCall() {
    var dBox = document.getElementById('displyBox');
    var msg = ["Good", "Fine", "Helpful", "Fantastic"];
    dBox.innerHTML = `${msg[document.getElementById('select').selectedIndex]}!`;
}
#displyBox {
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 24px;
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #00d500;
    border-radius: 5px;
    padding: 20px;
    font-weight: 800;
    margin-bottom: 14px;
}

Change Words!

<select id = "select">
<option>Good</option>
<option>Fine</option>
<option>Helpful</option>
<option>Fantastic</option>
</select>
<button type="button" onclick="myCall()">Change Word</button>

A: *

*You need to add value to your options like <option value=0>Good</option>

*Then you need to get value from <select> to change on button click.
check following code like document.getElementById('vals').value

*Based on that value you need to select the index of the element from word list array like ${msg[selectedVal]}

function myCall() {
var dBox = document.getElementById('displyBox');
let selectedVal = document.getElementById('vals').value
var msg = ["Good", "Fine", "Helpful", "Fantastic"];
dBox.innerHTML = `${msg[selectedVal]}!`;
}

Change Words!

<select id="vals">
<option value=0>Good</option>
<option value=1>Fine</option>
<option selected  value=2>Helpful</option>
<option  value=3>Fantastic</option>
</select>
<button type="button" onclick="myCall()">Change Word</button>


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Die Villa Ebbinghaus, postalische Anschrift Hochstraße 1, ist ein denkmalgeschütztes, 1902 errichtetes Wohngebäude im Ennepetaler Ortsteil Altenvoerde.

Beschreibung
Die frei auf einem Eckgrundstück stehende Villa wurde von dem Hagener Architekten Emil Eichelberg im Auftrag von W. Ebbinghaus errichtet. Es handelt sich um ein zweigeschossiges Gebäude im traditionalistischen Landhausstil mit Jugendstileinflüssen. Der Baukörper wurde in massiver Ziegelbauweise errichtet. Das Dachgeschoss, über das sich ein Walmdach befindet, besitzt dagegen ein Zierfachwerk mit teilweiser Verschieferung. Die Holzsprossenfenster werden von weißen Stuckrahmungen umfasst. Im Erdgeschoss weisen sie Rundbögen und teilweise ausgeprägte Sturzgesimse auf.

Zu den beiden Straßenseiten hin besitzt das Dach Ziergiebel mit Krüppelwalmdächern und reichhaltigen, farbigen Ortgangschnitzwerk. Auf der Gartenseite ist eine Auslucht für das Obergeschoss angegliedert worden. Der Eingang besitzt ein fein gearbeitetes Glasvordach und schmiedeeiserne Aufganggeländer. Die Türe ist aus Holz und mit Jugendstilglasornamentik reich verziert. Ein Emblem aus Stuck wird im Eingangsbereich von andersfarbigen Klinkern umfasst. Eine Bruchsteinmauer mit gründerzeitlichem Eisengeländer friedet die Villa ein.

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TOMRA wins Innovation Award at World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress
TOMRA Sorting Solutions is proud to announce that it has been presented with the 2015 Innovation Award at the World Nut and Dried Fruit Congress which took place last month in Antalya, Turkey.
Bjorn Thumas, director market development, says: "We are delighted to have won this prestigious Innovation Award, which recognises the latest innovative technology in the world of nuts and dried fruits. An award voted by the industry we work for and with is a confirmation we are on the right path. We believe that TOMRA's Nimbus BSI is a breakthrough for nuts and raisin processors."
With a combination of various sorting technologies, the Nimbus free fall sorting machine with Biometric Signature Identification (BSI) meets the continuously high requirements of the food industry and individual processors for safe and excellent food quality by removing unwanted material.
The BSI technology detects the biometric characteristics of nuts, dried fruits and potatoes and is the next generation of spectral imaging, introduced to identify the material's unique fingerprint. This creates a new range of never before seen sorting opportunities.
Almond processor, Stewart & Jasper Orchards, based in California, has already introduced the Nimbus BSI to its processing lines. Jim Jasper, owner and president, says: "By implementing TOMRA's Nimbus BSI, our company has benefited enormously. Our throughput has increased immensely and we have seen our labor expenses drop. On top of that, our product quality has improved.
"We have thoroughly researched the sorting industry and it goes without saying that TOMRA's Nimbus BSI is unmatched."
All information detected in a specific spectrum of light is analysed by TOMRA's in-house designed sensor module, compared and classified; all at the speed of light. The system identifies the sole biometric signature of either good product or defects and sorts based on these clear distinguishable patterns. The flying beam principle (patent pending) implements only two halogen light sources per sensor module, in combination with a rotating polygon. A concentrated and focused light beam allows maximum light efficiency. This results in a significant energy minimization and no increased heating effect, allowing the Nimbus BSI to be the only sorter in the world that can combine both spectral imaging and lasers on one sole machine.
Furthermore, the Nimbus scan path includes a dust protection shield, ensuring stable and reliable sorting results as dust cannot reach the optical inspection window. The state-of-the-art BSI module detects even smaller defects compared to conventional spectral technology, enhancing sorting quality but retaining nearly all good material. At the same time, reducing the number of passes needed and level of breakage or bruising. The platform therefore offers users lower labor time and higher throughput, yield and efficiency in the rest of the processing line.
The Nimbus BSI can also be used effectively for reverse or recycle sorts where the volume of 'bad' is higher than the 'good', targeting good product rather than faulty material, just by the touch of a button.
The INC (International Nut and Dried Fruit) Conference, held last month in Antalya, Turkey is the most important conference worldwide on nuts and dried fruit. It welcomed almost 1000 participants from over 60 countries.
Watch TOMRA's almond sorting machine in action.
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Written by TOMRA Food


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Home UK Culture Why do Brits say sorry so much?
Why do Brits say sorry so much?
This article was published by the Great British Mag content on July 30, 2018.
If you spend any time in the UK, you're bound to have someone tell you they're sorry. Brits are sorry for practically everything. They're sorry when you bump into them in the street, when they can't hear what you're saying… Honestly, is there a time when it's not appropriate to say sorry? It will probably come as no surprise to find that Brits can say "sorry" up to 200,000 times during their lifetime!
But… do Brits mean it when they say sorry?
More often than not, Brits use the expression as a way of showing good manners. It's a throwback to the British class system which still looms large over daily life in the UK.
Many people will toss a casual "sorry" to a stranger to help diffuse a potentially awkward situation, or as a politer way of saying, "we don't particularly care, but we felt like we needed to say something."
We are sorry for feeling sorry all the time. Sorry! Wait, did we just say "sorry" twice in a row? Sorry about that! Oh God…
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'It is the best it has ever been' – Lincoln City's success on the pitch is helping businesses off it
Danny Cowley's side are doing more than just getting three points on the board
While Lincoln City's huge success on the pitch appears to show no signs of letting up, businesses around the city seem to be scoring as well.
The Imps meteoric rise, which has included rewriting the history books by becoming the first non-league side in over 100 years to reach the quarter finals of the FA Cup and promotion back to the Football League, has helped put the city back on the map.
It has also inspired the supporters to return in their droves while inspiring a new generation that has seen attendances swell to the point where Sincil Bank is almost on the verge of collapse.
30,000 Lincoln City fans at Wembley? It could happen as tickets continue to sell 'like hotcakes'
The high numbers have given some much welcomed custom to the neighbouring independent businesses close the stadium and many more are taking advantage of a city who have fallen back in love with its football club.
"This business has been here for 50 years and we haven't seen anything like this," said Ian Dumbleton, owner of the Back of the Net fish and chip shop in Scorer Street.
"We have always been busy but there is a total difference now.
"Our queues are going right out of the door, so we have kept the menu quick and simple to get them in and out as quick as possible. We have kept the same amount of staff as we all know what we are doing.
"Our game day takings have doubled as they are getting 10,000 supporters every week compared to just before when it was 2,500.
"Those takings alone it would probably be fair to say have secured our future for the long-term."
Queues go out of the doors at one fish and chip shop (Image: Google Street View)
"We have been through it all," added Tyla Hall, assistant manager of Golden Eagle pub on the High Street.
"Business at the moment is booming. The football club's success has gone through the roof and so has ours.
"We used to be much quieter and would have less bodies – but now we have that many customers that it's body to body – you can barely move.
"We have had to set up another bar in the beer garden to cope with the demand.
"Our takings have tripled from what they were a few years ago."
You can't move in the Golden Eagle on a match day (Image: Google Street View)
The club has been forced to override its ticketing system and put on extra coaches to away games such has been the demand to see the team in action.
And Chris Ashton, a fan for more than 60 years, admits he is still stunned by just how much the people of the city have bought into the great work being undertaken by Nicky and Danny Cowley.
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"We have seen an increase," said Chris Ashton chairman of Red Imps travel. "We are taking a lot more fans away from home and our attendances at Sincil Bank have tripled.
"Two seasons ago we could just about fill one coach. Now on average we take about three and that can be even more for the big cup games and derbies.
"I have been a fan all my life and this is definitely the busiest I have ever seen it. It was quite busy under Graham Taylor, but not as much as it is now – the numbers definitely prove that.
"In football, if you do well the fans will come. You will always have the die-hards but success creates interest – it is as simple as that.
"All the profit we make gets invested back into the club. Last year we handed a cheque over of £15,000. The year before it was only £2,000.
"We have already handed over £3,000 and I am expecting that number to be even more."
Imps fans have travelled in their numbers (Image: Andrew Vaughan/CameraSport)
With a Wembley final still to come, the club is keen to continue taking advantage of the opportunities presented to them.
One of those to get on board early was stand and shirt sponsor Selenity.
The software firm signed up three years ago and the club's success has seen their logo broadcast to national tv audiences as well as featuring on FIFA 18, which is played all over the world.
A general view of Sincil Bank, home of Lincoln City FC The Selenity Stand (Image: Andrew Vaughan/CameraSport)
"When Selenity began sponsoring Lincoln City three years ago, little did we know what an exciting journey we had joined on their road to success", said chief executive Neil Everatt.
"With this we achieved our goal of increasing local awareness helping us to attract fantastic new talent. People now know who we are and they want to work for us.
"It has also helped us form great relationships with other club sponsors including the university, Running Imp, Sleafordian and Global Vision as well as enabling us to share some of the match experiences with our local business partners.
"Supporting the local community is part of Selenity`s DNA. Part of the reason we get up in the morning is to help colleagues, customers and the community.
"It's been absolutely amazing to see what the club have achieved bringing together our local community. We were overwhelmed with the gratitude we received from giving up our spot on the front of the shirt for the FA Cup final."
Lincoln City are grateful for all the support it has received and puts the success down to an amalgamation of efforts from everyone who has been a part of their journey.
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A club spokesperson said: "Success is helping the businesses and the club. It is a team effort with everyone pulling together. We are one city and one team. The success is helping to use Lincoln City as a hub for business in the city to come together.
"Lots of businesses have been in touch as everyone wants to be a part of it.
"We always welcome new sponsors and businesses interested in the advertising boards around the ground. We will always try to help them grow as much as we can.
"It is credit to everything Danny, Nicky and the team have achieved and long may it continue."


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'One Punch Man' Season 3: MAPPA To Allegedly Oversee Animation Of Series' New Season
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Rumors have it MAPPA will animate 'One Punch Man' Season 3. (Photo: Instacodez/Flickr/Public Domain Mark 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/))
After over three years, fans finally get some hope to see "One Punch Man" Season 3. Rumors have it that the anime's new season will soon be in the works under one of Japan's "it" studios, MAPPA.
The news comes from one of the most known anime leakers in the industry, ShonenLeaks. However, MAPPA itself is yet to confirm if it will oversee the animation of "One Punch Man" Season 3, but many hope so.
Like MAPPA, the series' creators are also mum about the alleged new studio for the series' third season. The same thing happened when the second season was announced-no J.C. staff member talked about the news.
However, fans can't help but get excited, knowing MAPPA has some of the best anime series on its resume, like "Attack on Titan," "Chainsaw Man," and more. It's also good to note that with the bland animation of the second season, resulting in a backlash compared to its much-praised debut season; many are clamoring for the anime to have a new studio.
So, will "One Punch Man" Season 3 become a part of MAPPA's catalog? The series has to win back fans, and MAPPA can help it by living up to their expectations when it comes to animation works, especially since the third season will see the fight between Saitama and Garou.
The third season is expected to adapt the manga's volumes 17 to 24, considering each season of the anime featured eight books. In chapters, it's from Chapters 85 to 118.
There are claims that it took years to make the new season because of the lack of source material. "One Punch Man" manga is far from finished, as the author One and the illustrator Yusuke Murata just dropped Volume 27 on November 4.
But as MAPPA is believed to give "One Punch Man" Season 3 the justice it needs after failing fans in the second season, there are talks about its employees being overloaded with work. In fact, instead of celebrating the news, fans sympathize with the studio's animators.
If the anime's third season adds to their workload, they will be left animating one anime after another. There is even a running joke that it has been quite a while since MAPPA employees see their families.
Fans believe that MAPPA employees experience the same situation as Twitter employees, who need to sleep in the headquarters due to their workload. Hence, if they indeed do "One Punch Man" Season 3, it will be another set of loads for them.
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A typical view of 3DSOM Pro is shown in Figure 2.1.1. To try out the basic features in this tour, start 3DSOM Pro then choose File > Open... menu item and select the vase.som project from the Examples/Vase directory installed with the application. You should now see the same view.
Figure 2.1.1. 3DSOM Pro interface with the View Model Window selected.
The upper half of the window includes a standard Windows menubar and the main toolbar and the Thumbnail Window. The lower half of the window displays either the Edit Masks Window, or the View Model Window depending on the currently selected tab. On the left of the selected window are the associated tools and settings. Across the bottom, a status bar displays help about the currently selected tool and information about the current project. Each of these elements is described below.
Click and drag the horizontal bar below the Thumbnail Window up and down to alter how much screen is used to display the thumbnails.
The status bar is shown across the bottom of the 3DSOM Pro window. You can toggle whether it is displayed or not from View > Status Bar menu item.
To quickly find out what a button does, hover over the button with the mouse to see a brief tooltip displayed. Also look at the help text displayed at the left side of the status bar for further details.
Which image is loaded in the Edit Masks Window or which is the closest image to the current viewpoint in the View Model Window.
What kind of texture maps, if any, have been created.
This toolbar is used to perform all major operations on the 3DSOM Pro project. You can toggle whether it is displayed or not from View > Toolbar menu item. Clicking Make all button (also known as the "GO" button) will guide you through building a new project from scratch. If the images have been pre-masked then this will construct a textured 3D model with no further user input required.
Each of the buttons in the toolbar is described in more detail in The main toolbar reference section.
This area of the interface is used to manipulate the images that are associated with the current 3DSOM Project. The images are displayed as thumbnails by default but can be shown as a list with detailed information about each image by selecting the View image details button.
In thumbnail mode, detailed information for an image is displayed as a tooltip when you hover over the thumbnail.
Most operations from the Main Menu > Images menu, such as Images > Delete Images menu item, are performed on the currently selected set of thumbnails. Images can be selected by clicking them or dragging a selection rectangle around them and the SHIFT and CTRL keys can be used to add to or remove from the current selection as usual.
Double-clicking on a thumbnail is a shortcut for the Images > Edit Mask menu item and loads the image into the Edit Masks Window.
All the operations available in the Thumbnail Window together with descriptions of the information held for each image, are described fully in The Thumbnail Window reference section.
Use this view to look at and edit the mask for a single view. You can zoom into the mask to see the detail using the tools in the Edit Masks toolbar.
If you are zoomed into the mask, you can move around the image either using the scrollbars or by switching to the Pan image button tool. Hold down SPACE to temporarily switch to the pan tool and drag the mouse to move, then release SPACE to return to the previous tool.
In the Edit Masks toolbar, there is also a set of tools for automating the masking process for an image. These are described in more detail in Fine tuning the auto-masking. There is also a set of tools for manual editing of the mask that is described in The Edit Masks Window section.
For a detailed description of all the tools and operations available in this window, see The Edit Masks Window reference section.
This window is used to display the 3D model generated by 3DSOM Pro. You can use the tools in the View Model toolbar to rotate the object and zoom into look at it in detail. Whilst manually aligning additional images, a background image is displayed and you can zoom and pan for more accurate positioning of the model.
Use the Reset view button to return to the default viewing position.
You can also change how the model is displayed. There are controls for editing the model geometry, including altering the number of triangles used to display it and clipping away unwanted geometry and also for editing the textures.
Addtional display options are available under the Main Menu > Model Tools menu from the main menu bar or by right clicking the mouse over the View Model Window.
There are also tools available for interactive editing of the model geometry and textures. For a detailed description of all the tools and operations available in this window, see The View Model Window reference section.


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As a long-time legal immigrant, I don't agree with the view that the country is filled with racism and white nationalism, or that open borders is the answer to past sins.
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December 31, 2019 By Edward Chang
If these predictions come to pass, their fulfillment will have lasting effects upon America in the 2020s and beyond.
If Trump Designates Cartels As Terrorist Groups, He Should Go To War With Them
November 27, 2019 By John Daniel Davidson
Washington is waking up to the threat of Mexican drug cartels and the growing chaos in Mexico. But is Trump prepared to take robust action?
My Parents Are Immigrants, But Joe Biden Is Right: Undocumented Immigrant Felons Should Be Deported
November 23, 2019 By Giancarlo Sopo
Immigration activists and opportunistic politicians are quick to denounce border enforcement measures while being short on specifics and long on platitudes.
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Cartels in Mexico aren't just fighting over drugs, they're fighting over industries, and it might well trigger a new and much bigger migrant crisis on the U.S. border.
It Doesn't Matter If DACA Is Good Policy. It's Unconstitutional
November 14, 2019 By Rita Dunaway
It's not the president or the Supreme Court's job or power to make laws. It's Congress's. And even though DACA is a good idea, Congress hasn't made it law, so nobody else should either.
It's Time For The United States To Wage War On Mexican Drug Cartels
November 6, 2019 By John Daniel Davidson
The slaughter of an American family in Mexico is the latest sign that violence in Mexico is out of control and the U.S. needs to step in.
Mexico-Based Smuggler Trafficked Six People From Terrorist Hotbed Over U.S. Border
November 6, 2019 By Todd Bensman
Moayad Heider Mohammad Aldairi's case is interesting because it briefly illuminates a fascinating kind of American counterterrorism-immigration operation reporters must do acrobatic yoga to avoid covering.
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October 21, 2019 By Todd Bensman
After several suspected ISIS operatives were caught, Ecuador is cracking down a little on the human smuggler's paradise it has created. But it's still helping foreigners amass at the U.S. border hoping for amnesty.
The Border Crisis Isn't Over, And Mexico Isn't Going To Fix It
October 9, 2019 By John Daniel Davidson
Migrant apprehensions are down but overall numbers are higher than they've been since 2007, and thanks to Congress the United States has no long-term solution to the border crisis.
In 2019 Fiscal Year, 980,000 Migrants Apprehended At U.S.-Mexico Border
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During fiscal year 2019, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested nearly 980,000, according to recent data from the acting commissioner and available data.
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Contrary to claims that the proclamation constitutes a 'racist attack on a community who deserves health care,' the order says not a word about a specific race, or national or ethnic group.
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Enter your S songs here. Deadline is Sunday November 27th.
I haven't had anything to enter for a couple of letters...and now I can't decide which S to use.
"The Sounds Through My Vents"
Hard to choose...let's go with the best that's still suffering from post-vote wipeout.
Jeff, can I have 2 entries? Pretty please? Nah, I thought not......Well, after much consultation, cogitation and consternation, I've decided to go with Singer/Songwriter.....Good luck all!
I'm proud of it, but it was voted down by those anonymous people who just give bad ratings.
Randy Yearout... your song dosn't work at all... it dosn't even have an S in the title, let alone the first word.
Thanks for catching that...it will obviously be left out of the voting.


When I wrote the art of the deal back in around 1987 or 1988, it became the number one bestseller for many, many weeks of that year. It was a big monster book. And to this day, it's one of the biggest selling business books of all time.
If not the biggest and a lot of people asked me when I wrote that book, did I have any idea that someday I might be running for president? And the answer is absolutely not. The country was strong, the country was a much greater place than it is today. It didn't have the problems that we have today.
It was respected more than anything else that was respected by the world were not respected today. So I certainly never even thought in terms of running for president, I'm thinking about it now for the opposite reason, we're not respected. We're going down.
China's taking things over. They're taking our jobs, they're taking our money and after they take our money, they loan it back to us and we pay interest then manipulating their currency, which makes it very, very tough for us to frankly compete in terms of our companies competing against them and their Companies and if you look at what's happening with OPEC and I made this prediction a year ago, your gasoline is going to six, seven and eight dollars a gallon and there gonna be a lot of very unhappy United States citizens. So I never thought when I did the art of the deal that I'd be running for political office, let alone president and now I'm thinking about it very seriously because this country has never been so low.
We've never been at a low point like we are now.


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Anselm: Baby Name of the Day
February 5, 2013 By appellationmountain 7 Comments
Statue of Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, from the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
He's a nickname-proof possibility never in the US Top 1000.
Thanks to Shannon for suggesting Anselm as our Baby Name of the Day.
There are oodles of not-in-the-Top-1ooo names for girls that feel wearable. Cordelia, Petra, Coraline are all wearable, recognizable choices that haven't been in the rankings for decades, if at all.
Boys' choices feel harder to find, but Anselm might just be one.
Most sources say that he's Germanic. Helm means helmet and implies protection. Ans means god. Anselm was a protector of god, or maybe protected by god.
Add an -o and he's Anselmo, heard in Italian and other romance languages, with the quirky short form Zelmo.
The name seems to have emerged amongst the Lombards, a Germanic tribe settled in Italy. From the sixth through eighth centuries, their kingdom was quite powerful, with a capital at Pavia. They likely came from Scandinavia originally. The element ans appears in other Lombard names and refers not to the Christian god, but to Odin or another pagan deity.
Nearly every distinguished bearer built his reputation in the Christian church, making Anselm feel like a saintly, scholarly appellation.
Saint Anselm was the Duke of Friuli in the 700s, but walked away from it all to live the life monastic.
A ninth century abbot of Farfa wore the name.
Several others with careers in the church can be found in the same era.
In the eleventh century, Anselm of Lucca was a bishop and politician.
In the early 1100s, an archbishop of Milan wore the name. He led the Lombards on Crusade, and died of battle wounds.
Then there's Saint Anselm of Canterbury. Despite his association with England, he was also a Lombard by birth – at least on his father's side. Born into a noble, land-owning family, it's said that he wanted to enter a monastery at an early age. His father refused, and Anselm didn't begin his religious career until his late 20s, in Normandy. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093, and held the office until his death in 1109. While he was much involved in temporal affairs, Anselm is remembered for his philosophical writings.
He's considered a founder of scholasticism, a medieval approach to thinking and reasoning that held sway for centuries. It is almost certainly impossible to study philosophy without reading his work.
The name remained in use after the medieval era drew to a close, but he was increasingly rare. Cervantes' Don Quixote used Anselmo for a Florentine nobleman in one of his stories-within-a-story. You probably don't remember Anselmo, but you'll likely recognize the name of his best friend: Lothario.
Add it all up, and Anselm is somewhere between wearable and not. He's a tw0-syllable A name with a friendly sound. If Austin, Aaron, and Adam can rank in the US Top 100, why can't Anselm work? He's been in steady, sparing – given to just a handful of boys, never more than a dozen in any one year.
Put him on the same list as the Nevilles. If you're after a smart, scholarly name, and appreciate his spiritual associations, Anselm could have real potential for a boy in 2013.
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Honestly, I can just see an Anselm being nicknamed Annie in school too much to really like it.
Lola says
Oh, I just love Anselm! He's so merry & bright! 😀 St. Anselm's our family saint. Such a pragmatic guy. I don't think he's overly tongue-trippy, an-SELM. Might be that overly particular tongue & ear I inherited from Pop. *shrug*
I think Anselm's aces and would just about keel over with joy if I ever met one. 😀
Yes! Poor Anselm just doesn't roll off the tongue like his brothers Ansel and Anselmo. In print it's fine, but for me it's not usable on a real-life kid.
Just a suggestion but could you provide the pronunciation in the write up? Sometimes I fear that I may not be getting it right and instead of searching on my own it would be great to be saying it correctly in my head while reading your article.
Jackie, sure – thanks for the suggestion. I tend to include for those where I'm aware there's going to be a question. I think I overlook it for names that strike me as familiar. But in this case, I live down the street from a boys' prep school called St. Anselm's Abbey. It's so familiar to me that I forget that it really is a rare name …
C in DC says
I find this to be a bit of a tongue twister.
rosamonte says
Anselmo is so cute, and yet stately! I never thought of Zelmo for a nn – I only focused on the "elmo" ending as a point against using this name.


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WHO says 'evidence emerging' airborne COVID-19 spread may be a threat indoors
jra 8 July 2020 10:13 #22
"Evidence is emerging" that the WHO is not really up to the task.
LutherBlisset 8 July 2020 10:22 #24
Short interjection: airflow in airplanes might actually be less likely to spread aerosols than in most other circumstances where indoors ventilation is present.
hungryjoe 8 July 2020 11:32 #25
I'm not super confident in any of these people. To put it in Dunning-Kruger terms, it has been hugely obvious since the very beginning that Coronavirus is airborne and asymptomatic people are very contagious. But the experts are still wringing their hands with uncertainty about that.
Akimbo_NOT 8 July 2020 13:29 #26
LutherBlisset:
airflow in airplanes might actually be less likely to spread aerosols
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tenbrook 8 July 2020 14:24 #27
Thanks for breaking this down and explaining it. I fear many people will have knee jerk reaction's upon hearing this news and will confuse aeresol transmission with droplet transmission and not listen any further thinking they have already heard all this. And of course the steps that the experts are recommending: upgrading/maintaining filtration systems and letting more fresh air in, will go unheeded because of this and we're all fucked.
GiantRobotPilot 8 July 2020 14:41 #28
WHO says 'evidence emerging' airborne COVID-19 spread may be a threat indoors?
Daaaaamn right.
ejeffrey 8 July 2020 15:55 #29
Wayward:
So here in the US, land of air conditioning, all the exhaled breath from all those maskless people is being recirculated endlessly in all those climate controlled indoor spaces we gather, work and study in, with only the minimum amount of outside air being introduced for efficiency. Not good.
Every furnace/AC system has a filter. And while many people don't change them often enough, performance generally increases with time. The reason you change them is because they obstruct airflow too much when they get plugged. Some of them are actually rated for removing viruses, others are not, but even standard filters will probably beat out your cloth mask. In any case it is a cheap and easy upgrade. It's not optimal as most furnace intake ducts are sized for a less restrictive filter so airflow will be reduced especially as the filter ages and gets more plugged, but at least at the moment it makes sense for pretty much anyone operating a public facility to replace the air filters with high MERV rated ones, ideally ones specifically rated to remove viruses and other very small particles.
An interesting compromise would be washable electrostatic filters. They obstruct airflow less than a pleated paper filter and are actually poorer at removing large particles like dust and pollen but are more effective at reducing sub-micron particles like aerosolized viruses.
As far as I can tell transmission through HVAC ductwork is not currently considered a major threat. The concerns I have seen about the role of ventilation in coronavirus transmission are more along the lines of three tables in a restaurant in the line of a AC vent. If someone at the first table is sick, the virus can be carried downstream much farther than 6' and infect the people at the next tables. But a filter upgrade is so cheap and easy it makes sense especially given how much we still don't know.
On the other hand, if anyone has references about transmission via HVAC ducts that I don't know about, please post it.
Long term, as a chronic allergy sufferer and someone who would like to avoid getting preventable infections I would like to see furnaces designed with "oversized" filter slots so that we can use more effective filters without compromising airflow.
FGD135 8 July 2020 16:05 #30
Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Coordinates: 20°53.919′N 156°25.827′W / 20.898650°N 156.430450°W / 20.898650; -156.430450 Aloha Airlines Flight 243 (IATA: AQ243, ICAO: AAH243) was a scheduled Aloha Airlines flight between Hilo and Honolulu in Hawaii. On April 28, 1988, a Boeing 737-297 serving the flight suffered extensive damage after an explosive decompression in flight, but was able to land safely at Kahului Airport on Maui. There was one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing, who was ejected from the airplane. ...
Back when a 737 would stay airborne when it ran into problems.
hungryjoe:
Well, no. Experts recognized that almost immediately, but there was and is still a lot of uncertainty in exactly the mechanisms that are most important. (aerosol vs. droplet).
That said, the CDC and WHOs communication especially on "asymptomatic" transmission was a giant shitshow. Not because of a lack of understanding or anything, strait up terrible communication. The distinction they made between "asymptomatic" and "presymptomatic" transmission is largely pointless in terms of public policy and irrelevant for public communication. Asymptomatic transmission has a clear obvious meaning to most people who hear it, including from what I have heard many infections disease specialists: people transmitting the disease when they aren't showing symptoms. Whether they eventually show symptoms is largely irrelevant. This is particularly silly for COVID when its known that many cases have mild symptoms which might only be recognized as symptoms retrospectively after a positive test. But they stuck to this pointless nomenclature and kept saying things like "asymptomatic transmission is rare, [several irrelevant sentences] pre-symptomatic transmission is common."
All of this fed junk-science coming from people other than public health experts that was saying things like "there are 99% asymptomatic cases and we are nearing heard immunity" back in april. So it was a giant fuck-up, but not because the experts didn't have a good idea of what was going on or a fair estimate of their uncertainties. It was a failure of communication from public health officials compounded by a complete absence of leadership to turn the justifiably uncertain knowledge from the public health experts into concrete "best effort" recommendations.
docosc 8 July 2020 16:26 #32
Well, obviously there is confusion over terms. But the key phrase in "under certain circumstances" the virus may act like an airborne illness. Chicken pox it is not, but in an enclosed area with inadequate turnover of air volume, it can be quite a problem. Since we are rarely in total control of those variables, avoiding indoor crowds remains the wise choice.
moortaktheundea 8 July 2020 16:34 #33
To put it in Dunning-Kruger terms, it has been hugely obvious since the very beginning that Coronavirus is airborne and asymptomatic people are very contagious. But the experts are still wringing their hands with uncertainty about that.
But that isn't what the evidence shows and this is one of those cases where the technical terminology readily confuses people. The current best evidence is that truly asymptomatic people aren't a major transmission risk, but presymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases are a large risk. There's a similar distinction in the airborne versus droplet issue. Sadly I don't think the airborne droplet distinction matters as much for political reasons, because I can't see many political figures pushing for full airborne precautions.
moortaktheundea:
The current best evidence is that truly asymptomatic people aren't a major transmission risk, but presymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases are a large risk.
Of course, these groups can only be sorted in retrospect. Also, the definition of "mildly symptomatic" is pretty suspect, as it can be tweaked to make the outcome whatever the researcher is looking for. I have advised my staff to take the same universal approach we did with HIV. You can't tell if they (or you) are sick or contagious, so treat everyone as if they are.
@ejeffrey and @moortaktheundea as of right now, I've been aware they were drawing a distinction between "asymptomatic" and "presymptomatic" for the exactly three minutes since I read your posts. That seems like a pretty good illustration of your points about poor communication to the general public.
Since we can't tell the future, presymtomatic vs. asymptomatic doesn't really matter for most purposes. It is just confusing terminology that was repeatedly misapplied.
Mildly symptomatic is also tricky. If you read some of the statements from the WHO, they say things like "when we go back and check people classified as asymptomatic we find out they did indeed have symptoms". Some of this is undoubtedly people who were pre-symptomatic, but it also appears that in some cases they are retroactively recognizing mild symptoms that the patient didn't associate with COVID until they had a positive test result. You can cough, feel tired or otherwise sick because of allergies, cold, exercise, stress, or fatigue. I can tell you first hand that if you have a very active and social four year old only child stuck at home, you would need have to have pretty severe symptoms before thinking it was any sort of illness.
Shuck 8 July 2020 17:33 #37
tenbrook:
upgrading/maintaining filtration systems and letting more fresh air in, will go unheeded because of this and we're all fucked
People aren't even wearing masks, so… [throws up hands in apocalyptic despair]
Glad to help. That has been a really frustrating part of this.
Mister44 8 July 2020 17:45 #39
I think the WHO is a little late to the party, here.
docosc:
You can't tell if they (or you) are sick or contagious, so treat everyone as if they are.
In any higher risk situation we pretty much need to assume everyone is high risk. The razor distinctions are mostly only useful in pruning the search tree when doing contact tracing and some research.
I've been aware they were drawing a distinction between "asymptomatic" and "presymptomatic" for the exactly three minutes since I read your posts.
Almost no one knew that distinction was being used, which is why the WHO had to walk back their press release a while ago, because almost everyone misunderstood it.
ejeffrey:
It doesn't matter, except in things like contact tracing and a few other highly specialized niches. The catch is that WHO statements are read by both the specialist audience and a lay audience these days. Similar terms with really nuanced meanings work when the audience is largely trained specialists, but they really need some type of media team given that everyone is reading their releases now with high stakes.
I get that it in specialized situations the distinction does matter. However, in my limited understanding from outside the field, that jargon is not even consistently used that way in the infectious disease community. I have heard multiple but anecdotal claims by people working on fighting other infections diseases that they call "asymptomatic transmission" transmission by people not showing symptoms at the time, and then further divide that with other terminology that makes clear the difference between people who eventually show symptoms vs. those who don't. This makes more sense to me, and if the community itself doesn't have a single standard meaning for those terms, using the less confusing versions seems better to me.
Still, I am not in the field, and I understand how jargon works and why they use it. So I understand why scientific papers may describe things in a way that isn't the best for public consumption. Some of the problem has been news organizations trying to report on technical documentation without understanding it. The WHO and the CDC have made press releases and public speeches/interviews that use such confusing jargon in a way that should be expected to be misunderstood and that is what bothers me the most.
Edgar_Carpenter 8 July 2020 21:03 #42
The old studies of air droplets and aerosols that led to the 2 meter (6 foot) distancing advice were done in the lab, in still air. They were NOT done in rooms with multiple people in them and air currents being blown about by air conditioning, open windows, or people moving around. Or rooms where people were singing, chanting or speaking loudly to be heard over background noise.
It was a classic case of making false assumptions about real-world consequences based on research which was accurate for what it actually was, but which didn't apply to the real world conditions. The same thing happened with mask-wearing - the studies on which they based the claim that cloth masks were ineffective did not look at the synergistic effects of everyone wearing masks, reducing the amount of infective material escaping infected people (rather than just looking at how well it prevents inhaling infected material), and reducing the distance the infected air travels from its source. When everyone wears masks and keeps their distance (more that 2 meters in lots of situations), masks and distance are very effective.
So yes, it became evident to anyone who has been paying attention to the new, pandemic-driven research into the effects of air movement that airborne transmission has been much more significant than expected, and that the 2 meter distancing advice, and a lot of the other advice, has been wrong and seriously inadequate.
This crisis has exposed some of the persistent flaws in the medical world, where studies may be perfectly good, but incorrect generalizations are made from them which are wrong. The medical establishment puts too much faith in their "educated guesses" - "if this is so, then that must be so". Well, no. Assumptions like the ones that have been made are often very wrong. As we're finding out once again.


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For her ninth album, "American Doll Posse", singer/songwriter Tori Amos sought inspiration from Greek goddesses:
This time Amos has taken a unique approach to her music and has emerged with five alter ego's – all of whom contribute to the album with their own distinct voices.
The quintet creates a compelling portrait of the role women play in today's society, expressed on the album both musically and thematically. The five alter ego's are representations of Tori, incarnating a number of the heroines and goddesses of Greek mythology.
Tori Amos said, "Once music started to dictate to me what the women were going to be I had to go and do the internal work and build their psyches, so I went to the Greek Pantheon because I thought people were more familiar with it, and then started to develop their stories,"
Through her research, Amos looked back to a time when the idea of females in all their different facets, were considered divine. Buried deep in ancient Greek history – she discovered what would become the foundations for her new group of confidants.
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This is the first blog I've seen that focuses 100% on event evaluation: Constellation Communication blog. Many interesting posts on event evaluation and ROI for events.
Similar to what I do with an "event scorecard", here is an interesting post with visuals on how to represent event evaluation – the ROI measures are particularly useful.
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Huawei will support R $ 190,000 to independent game developers
November 27, 2020 by ecstatic-chatterjee
Huawei seems to have an ambition to become the main point of attraction for independent mobile game developers. The Chinese company announced the creation of a series of incentives for app developers to open AppGallery, a platform created by the company for distributing applications on smartphones.
According to the disclosure, the incentive has a ceiling of US $ 35,681 (R $ 190,027.91 in direct conversion), applied in the campaign in the form of:
85% of the revenue in microtransactions generated by the app for the developer
VIP technical support during the application publishing process
Credit of one thousand euros (R $ 6,363.40) on Huawei's advertising platform for the 30 best independent games from the App Gallery and support in the launch of the first campaign
Special space reserved in AppGallery's exclusive "Indie Games" tab
AppGallery is Huawei's application distribution suite. Game developers can benefit from a new campaign run by the company.Image: Huawei / Divulgao
Mobile market grows rapidly
The campaign has been going on globally since the 19th, and will last until December 14, 2020. For Dr. Jaime Gonzalo, vice president of mobile services for consumers at Huawei in the European market, the initiative "one important step in Huawei's continued commitment to investing in the developer community. "
"The mobile gaming industry has shown incredible growth in recent years and we are delighted to offer support to more independent developers and stadiums in creating their games and making them available on the market," said Gonzalo.
The impression of the executive's growth in the unfounded: according to a survey by the market analysis company Statista, in 2020 the global mobile gaming market had revenues of US $ 77.2 billion (R $ 411.50 billion), with the expectation of reaching US $ 102.8 billion (R $ 547.95 billion) by 2023. For comparison purposes, the traditional game market, that is, consoles and PCs, earned US $ 57.73 billion (R $ 307.80 billion) in the year, and the estimate for 2024 of 73.62 billion (R $ 392.52 billion).
Huawei's incentive program can be accessed by subscription link from the AppGallery.
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After a period of writing and performing music as a solo artist in Europe, Manuel Gatti teamed up again with his band when returning to Chile. While his first album was much more rock-based, as 'Manuel Gatti & Los Volks' he has found a more folky sound. 'Gente del Sol' is their first single and is now available as a free download.


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Trevor Siemian will start against Bears; Paxton Lynch will start against 49ers
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. --The day-to-day rotation of quarterbacks Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch will continue in the first two preseason games.
Head Coach Vance Joseph announced after Monday's practice that Siemian would start the preseason opener at Chicago on Thursday, with Lynch starting the second preseason game against the San Francisco 49ers on August 19.
Siemian and Lynch were listed as co-No. 1 quarterbacks on the first depth chart of the season issued Monday morning.
Siemian led the No. 1 offense for the first team-period repetitions of OTAs and training camp, so in that regard, Joseph's decision was no surprise.
"He's been first out all spring and all training camp. I think Trevor's earned that much, to be the first guy out," Joseph said.
That does not mean that Siemian is in the lead in the ongoing competition, Joseph said.
"No, no, no, no," Joseph said. "He's first out. He's been first out all training camp. It's an open competition. The games matter. The games start Thursday."
"I want to get to the games so we can get to the bottom of this."
Joseph said he was uncertain how much each quarterback would play against the Bears, but "it's going to be more than most starting quarterbacks would play the first couple of weeks."
Some first-teamers will stay in the game after he inserts Lynch for Siemian on Thursday "just to keep the offense intact so the guy can play his best," Joseph added.