A total of 66 percent of American voters are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" that climate change will affect them or a family member personally, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.
The U.S. should discourage the use of coal because of environmental concerns, 56 percent of voters say, while 36 percent say the U.S. should encourage coal use, citing jobs and economic benefits, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds.
68 percent of voters say the U.S. can fight climate change and protect jobs, while 24 percent say one goal hurts the other.
A total of 92 percent of American voters say it is "very important" or "somewhat important" that the U.S. produces all of its own energy - energy independence.
"It's personal. Climate change is an existential threat, many voters feel. They are concerned, and some are very concerned, about the looming menace of climate change," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
In an open-ended question, allowing for any answer, 12 percent of American voters list health care as the most important problem facing the nation, with 11 percent each for the economy and the Trump Administration.
The U.S. Senate should confirm Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, American voters say 50 - 35 percent. But voters say 67 - 25 percent it is a "bad idea" to change Senate rules to bypass a filibuster to allow confirmation by a simple 51-vote majority.
Opposed to this so-called "nuclear option" are Democrats 86 - 8 percent and independent voters 69 - 26 percent. Republicans are divided with 47 percent saying it's a "good idea" and 43 percent saying it's a "bad idea."
American voters oppose 64 - 33 percent building a wall on the border with Mexico, the highest level of opposition measured so far and up from 60 - 37 percent opposition in a February 23 Quinnipiac University poll.
Republicans support the wall 72 - 24 percent and white voters with no college degree are divided 50 - 47 percent. All other partisan, gender, age, racial or education group listed oppose the wall.
"And The Wall keeps tumbling down, or at least support for what was once a crowd-pleasing campaign promise," Malloy said.
American voters disapprove 56 - 30 percent of President Donald Trump's handling of U.S. policy toward Russia.
Voters support 68 - 27 percent an independent commission to investigate potential links between Trump campaign advisors and the Russian government.
But voters are divided 44 - 44 percent on whether they believe individuals in the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Still, 64 percent of American voters are "very concerned" or "somewhat concerned" about President Trump's relationship with Russia.
12. What do you think is the most important problem facing the country today?
39. Supporters of the coal industry say that the use of coal as an energy source protects the jobs of coal miners and helps the economy. Opponents of the coal industry say that the use of coal as an energy source has negative impacts on the environment and that coal miner jobs cannot be saved because they are being taken by machines. Do you think the U.S. should encourage the use of coal, or do you think the U.S. should discourage the use of coal?
40. Do you support or oppose increasing federal spending for roads, bridges, mass transit and other infrastructure?
41. Do you support or oppose reducing taxes across the board?
TREND: Do you support or oppose reducing taxes across the board?
41a. Do you support or oppose reducing taxes across the board? (If support q41) If the tax reductions caused an increase in the deficit, would you still support reducing taxes across the board, or not?
TREND: Do you support or oppose reducing taxes across the board? (If support q54) If the tax reductions caused an increase in the deficit, would you still support reducing taxes across the board, or not?
42. Do you support or oppose building a wall along the border with Mexico?
43. As you may know, the Mexican government has refused to pay for the border wall. Would you support or oppose building a wall along the border with Mexico if it was entirely funded by the U.S. government and citizens?
44. Do you think that significantly cutting funding for scientific research on the environment and climate change is a good idea or a bad idea?
TREND: Do you think that significantly cutting funding for - scientific research on the environment and climate change is a good idea or a bad idea?
45. As you may know, President Trump tweeted that he had found out that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election. Do you believe that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, or not?
TREND: As you may know, President Trump tweeted that he had found out that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election. Do you believe that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, or not?
46. Do you think that President Trump truly believes that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, or do you think he deliberately made a controversial statement that he does not believe?
TREND: Do you think that President Trump truly believes that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, or do you think he deliberately made a controversial statement that he does not believe?
47. Do you believe that recent climate change is primarily caused by human activity, or not?
48. How concerned are you about climate change; very concerned, somewhat concerned, not so concerned, or not concerned at all?
49. How concerned are you that you or a member of your family will be personally affected by climate change: very concerned, somewhat concerned, not so concerned, or not concerned at all?
51. How important is it to you that the United States fights climate change: very important, somewhat important, not so important, or not important at all?
52. How important is it to you that the United States produces all of its own energy and becomes energy independent: very important, somewhat important, not so important, or not important at all?
53. Do you think that the United States can fight climate change and protect jobs at the same time, or do you think that achieving one of those goals means hurting the other?
54. As you may know, Congress must pass a new budget bill by April 28th in order to prevent a government shutdown, which then must be signed by President Trump. If a government shutdown does occur, who would you blame more: Republicans in Congress, Democrats in Congress, or President Trump?
55. Do you approve or disapprove of President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court?
TREND: Do you approve or disapprove of President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court?
56. Do you think the U.S. Senate should confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, or not?
57. The current rules of the U.S. Senate allow a filibuster to be used on a vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee, which means it would require 60 votes instead of 51 to confirm the nominee. In most cases, this allows the minority party to have a say on the Supreme Court nominee. Do you think it would be a good idea to change this rule and allow a Supreme Court nominee to be confirmed with 51 votes, or do you think it would be a bad idea to change this rule?
58. Thinking about the past few years, do you think that there has been more extreme or unusual weather in the United States, less extreme or unusual weather in the United States, or about the same amount of extreme weather in the United States as before?
59. How concerned are you about President Trump's relationship with Russia; very concerned, somewhat concerned, not so concerned, or not concerned at all?
60. Do you think that the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election is a very important issue, a somewhat important issue, a not so important issue, or not an important issue at all?
61. Do you support or oppose an independent commission investigating the potential links between some of Donald Trump's campaign advisors and the Russian government?
62. Do you believe that individuals in the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, or not?
63. Do you think climate change is a hoax, or not?


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Q: SPARQL query GRAPH unions in-memory? I was reading a book where I came across this line:
"The SPARQL FROM clause provide another way to define custom union graphs. The FROM clause is used to identify the default graph for a query. The most typical use is to identify a single RDF graph. However if multiple FROM clauses are specified in a query then the contents of those graphs are merged (typically in-memory) to provide a union graph that will form the default graph for the query. This feature of SPARQL can therefore provide another way to assemble a useful graph-agnostic view of a dataset."
Here it says "those graphs are merged (typically in-memory) to provide a union graph".
I am new to Apache Jena, so this got me thinking are such big GRAPH unions happen in-memory ?
So I use TDB to store my graphs and I am querying them using SPARQL and I want to query the "GRAPH union of 2 particular graphs given in multiple FROM clauses" or "GRAPH union of all named graphs":
Will these UNION happens in-memory from my Java code where I use ARQ to query TDB ??
Will this not cause OutOfMemory error lot of times since Graphs can be many ?
This might seem rookie question, pardon my beginner experience in Jena.

A: I can of course only guess the authors' intent here, but it's possible that they only meant to say that the processing of multiple FROM clauses can happen by retrieving data from each named graph and then as part of the query processing producing the union merge of those as the query result. Note that this doesn't imply that the entire named graphs are kept in memory, merely that as the query executes and iterates over individual results (in memory), it combines results from both source into a "unionized" result.
In any case: it's highly unlikely that any serious SPARQL database (including Jena) processes queries with multiple FROM clauses by loading the entire dataset into memory first.

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U.N. chief: Vaccine can't undo damage from global pandemic
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the social and economic impact of COVID-19 'is enormous and growing.'
By EDITH M. LEDERERAssociated Press
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks Thursday during the U.N. General Assembly's special session to discuss the response to COVID-19 and the best path to recovery from the pandemic. UNTV via AP
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. chief warned Thursday that the social and economic impact of COVID-19 "is enormous and growing" and said it's foolish to believe a vaccine can undo damage from the global pandemic that will last for years or even decades.
Speaking to world leaders at the General Assembly's first and mainly virtual special session on COVID-19, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres accused some countries he didn't name of ignoring or rejecting the World Health Organization's recommendations at the start of the crisis early this year, resulting in nations going in their own directions and the virus spreading "in every direction."
"Nearly a year into the pandemic, we face a human tragedy, and a public health, humanitarian and development emergency," Guterres said.
The U.N. chief pointed to rising poverty, the looming threat of famine, and the prospect of "the biggest global recession in eight decades," saying these impacts aren't due to the coronavirus alone but are the result of long-term inequalities and injustices exposed by the pandemic that must be addressed.
General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir opened the two-day session, calling it a historic and overdue moment of reckoning to forge a path to end the pandemic that not only ensures people everywhere have access to vaccines but mobilizes financial resources for "an inclusive and resilient recovery."
Nearly 80 world leaders, over 50 government ministers and 10 deputy leaders and ministers were scheduled to speak during the special session that began with Bozkir asking masked diplomats from the U.N.'s 193 member nations in the assembly hall to stand in silent tribute to the 1.5 million people who have lost their lives to COVID-19.
Bozkir called the session "a test for multilateralism" and said what the world must do is clear – ensure fair and equitable access to vaccines, work together "to protect the most vulnerable countries," provide adequate resources for an economic recovery that goes beyond pre-pandemic levels, and adopt policies that don't harm human rights or undermine democratic institutions.
Guterres has been urging the Group of 20 – the world's richest nations – to back WHO's cash-strapped ACT-Accelerator program to develop and distribute vaccines that includes Covax, an ambitious global project to buy and deliver virus vaccines for the world's poorest people.
The secretary-general, clearly frustrated at the lack of a significant response, told world leaders there is a $28 billion financial gap, "including $4.3 billion urgently needed for the next two months."
French President Emmanuel Macron said in recorded speech that $10 billion has been raised for the ACT-Accelerator "but we must continue to raise funds from the entire international community."
He reiterated the proposal he made at last month's G20 summit for "a donation mechanism" that would ensure a portion of the first doses of vaccines that become available – whether from Europe, China, Russia or the United States – be used to vaccinate priority groups in developing countries.
European Union chief Charles Michel said a key lesson from the pandemic is that "we were caught unprepared" even though the number of pandemics has increased in recent decades.
He said the "monumental achievement" of developing vaccines in less than a year, rather than the 10 years generally needed, happened because of "unprecedented global cooperation and mobilization involving the scientific community and industry, to which the public authorities have provided the necessary support and funding."
Looking ahead, Michel proposed that this mobilization and international solidarity be the basis of a new international treaty within the World Health Organization to deal with future pandemics. He said the aim should be to monitor the risks of emerging infectious diseases in animals for humans, ensure all people are alerted to health risks, improve access to health care, and address the needs for financing.
"The principle of universal access to the new COVID-19 vaccines is fundamental," he said. "Our aim must be to guarantee access to vaccines, treatment and tests for future pandemics. This should be laid down in a treaty."
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, speaking on behalf of the 120-member Nonaligned Movement, which initially called for the special session, noted that the pandemic "has exposed and aggravated vulnerabilities and inequalities in both developing and developed countries."
Like many speakers, he stressed the importance of strengthening international cooperation and multilateralism.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro urged that pandemic efforts be internationalized.
"It is crucial that the vaccine or vaccines to address coronavirus be declared by the United Nations and by the World Health Organization as global public goods," he said.
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, who said "the second wave of the pandemic is at our doorstep," also called for a joint response by the world, saying that otherwise the inequalities between developed and developing nations will continue even as a vaccine becomes available.
"Our call for the vaccine to be a global public good must be loud and clear," Ghani said, stressing that the role of multilateral organizations in distributing vaccines "will be critical."
Friday's session will continue with speeches by leaders and ministers, but the focus will be on three virtual panels – the first on the U.N. response to the the coronavirus, the second on vaccines and the third on recovery from the pandemic.

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With Bestselling Author and Dream Shaman
Robert Moss
Go on dream journeys beyond ordinary perception — where connecting with your ancestors and catching glimpses into your future can bring inner peace, healing… and inspiration for navigating your life in this realm.
Many of us sense on a very deep level that what happens after death is hugely important.
If only we knew the truth about what lies beyond this life, we'd have access to greater clarity, experience less anxiety in our lives, feel more joyful… and move through life with much more peace and security.
And yet, we rely on hand-me-down beliefs and secondhand accounts of what life after death is really like...
The firsthand knowledge we need about life after death or connecting with those who have already departed actually is available to us — right there every night, in our dreams.
This powerful firsthand wisdom lies in mastering the modes of dreaming where you leave behind ordinary perception. From there, your dreams become portals to connect with a beloved family member who's passed away, or to peek into the details of your own future.
You can receive guidance from — or give guidance to — an ancestor to promote healing for yourself… and for them.
You can even find the courage to face death, because through your dream journeys, you'll already know what happens on the Other Side.
When you see that death can be an ally, you can approach your life choices with a sense of inner peace and stillness.
With death all around us in the present crazy state of our world, we're hungrier than ever for confirmation that healing, peace, and support are available on the Other Side.
Thankfully, there are safe and authentic ways to gain direct evidence that consciousness survives the death of the body — and to develop your own personal geography of the afterlife.
Join us for a powerful new course with bestselling author and dream shaman Robert Moss. Throughout this 7-step journey, you'll learn how to part the veil between the living and the dead to exchange healing, forgiveness, and blessings.
You'll travel beyond the curtains of ordinary perception into a deeper reality.
You'll discover that dreaming is not fundamentally about what happens during sleep at all. Instead, it's about waking up to a deeper reality — and deeper sources of counsel and healing than are available to you in your waking life.
Robert will show you how to have these life-changing experiences using an array of powerful practices — spontaneous sleep dreams, liminal experiences in the hypnagogic zone, visions, meditations, shamanic journeys, active dreaming (Robert's original method for dreaming while awake, asleep, and in between)...
… and through the play of synchronicity when you notice the dreamlike play of signs and symbols in the world around you when you're awake.
Robert, one of the world's most respected and beloved dream experts and dream shamans, has inspired hundreds of thousands around the world with his books and workshops throughout a lifetime of teaching.
In these healing and inspiring 7 sessions with Robert, you'll:
Explore the core elements of Active Dreaming, Robert's original meld of dreamwork and shamanic journeying
Call in guidance, blessing, and protection for your encounters with the ancestors and your journeys to the Other Side
Learn to have easy and natural communication with the departed in your dreams — either because they're still around, they come calling, or you've traveled to realms where they're living
Discern whether the appearance of a deceased person in a dream is a transpersonal encounter — or a projection of a trait you already have
Understand why healing and forgiveness are always available across the apparent barrier of death
Experiment with portals to help you journey to the Other Side, using methods from several world traditions
Learn how departed loved ones and ancestors can become family guides and counselors
Discover how to help the deceased when they're stuck or confused
Explore powerful tools for ancestral healing
Learn the many levels on which consciousness operates
Explore powerful dream techniques, including Dream Transfer (bringing someone else a dream of yours), Dream Reentry (to assist with lucid dreaming), establishing a base camp (a place of sanctuary and vision for bringing your deepening journeys into the larger reality), and many more
Discover an effective remedy for nightmares that can be your key to communication with departed loved ones and spiritual guides
Construct simple rituals to honor the departed and facilitate helpful contact when you're ready
In this 7-part course, Robert will guide you through the fundamental skills and competencies you'll need to connect with loved ones, heal your relationship with death, and gain clarity for this life.
This course will feature teachings, training sessions, and experiential practices with Robert. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you'll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you'll need to access powerful wisdom through shamanic dreaming.
Module 1: Wake Up & Dream (November 12)
This opening session will be a high-octane introduction to the core techniques of Active Dreaming, Robert's original meld of dreamwork and shamanic journeying.
Robert will guide you and your fellow participants to play the Lightning Dreamwork Game — a fun, fast process for sharing dreams and moving towards action to embody your creative and healing energy.
You'll also experiment with one of the royal roads to lucid dreaming, the Dream Reentry Technique. The easiest way to become a lucid dreamer is to start out lucid, and stay that way.
As Robert will show you, you can use any meaningful dream as the portal for a shamanic journey for healing and adventure...
You'll explore a sovereign remedy for nightmares that can be your key to communication with departed loved ones and spiritual guides.
You'll also establish what Robert calls a base camp — a place of sanctuary and vision for bringing your deepening journeys into the larger reality.
Robert will also share how to call in guidance, blessing, and protection for your encounters with the ancestors and your journeys to the Other Side.
In this first module, you'll learn how to:
Improve your dream recall and break a dream drought
Keep a dream journal
Use a dream or personal image as the portal for a shamanic journey
Reenter a dream to confront and resolve a nightmare terror, solve a mystery, and claim a power
Grow a place of sanctuary and vision where you can call on spiritual allies
Protect your psychic space
Create a safe space with your classmates where you can share dreams of the night and dreams of life with others, receive helpful feedback, and encourage each other to move towards creative and healing action
Module 2: Dream With the Departed (November 19)
The dimension that separates the living from the dead is exactly as wide as the edge of a maple leaf.
— Handsome Lake, Seneca prophet
On a cellular level, we carry the collective memory of all our ancestors. To understand this powerful truth, you only need to remember something meaningful.
On a psychic level, we're constantly connected to the energies of both the departed and the living. In this class, Robert will share how to shift your perception so you can tap into both of them.
You'll also explore how you can have entirely natural communication with the departed in your dreams. For many dreamers, this is direct and life-changing evidence of the reality of the soul — and its survival of physical death.
As you'll discover, the departed appear in your dreams either because they haven't really left, they're visiting — or because you're entering their realms while you dream. These encounters offer you important opportunities for healing, closure, and giving or receiving forgiveness and guidance.
In this class, you'll:
Clarify the reasons for a visitation (there are 13 main reasons!)
Use a dream of the departed as a portal for further communication
Welcome the departed when they're ready to play counselors and family angels
Module 3: Visit the Departed on the Other Side (December 3)
We do not know where death will meet us, so we must be ready to meet death everywhere.
— Michel de Montaigne
During this session, we'll call in spiritual guidance and protection and embark on a journey to the Other Side for helpful and timely communication with a departed friend or loved one — perhaps someone who's appeared to you in a dream, or an ancestor from further back.
You'll discover how to choose to use a personal dream or memory as the portal for a journey...
And you'll be invited to use group portals that have opened the way for previous dream travelers.
Open helpful and timely communication with a departed loved one or ancestor
Learn about conditions in the afterlife as your departed loved ones and ancestors have experienced them
Module 4: Dream With Wise Ancestors & Master Teachers (December 10)
The gods love to travel in disguise.
— Greek folk tradition
Your ancestors are calling…
They might be the ancestors of your bloodline, of the lands where you live and travel — or of your spiritual lineages across time and place.
In this class, you'll learn to open and cherish soul connections to these wise ancestors — and explore how they can help you clear unhealthy legacies and practice spiritual discernment.
Robert will share how your authentic spiritual allies and teachers come looking for you in dreams — and in the threshold space between sleep and awake.
They even put on masks or costumes adapted to your level of understanding. A sacred guide may appear in a form that's shaped by your religious upbringing — or in a form that's wildly shocking to conventional beliefs. As Robert says, genuine teachers often love to shock us awake!
Your encounter with the guide may challenge you to become brave, to move decisively beyond the fear and clinging of the little everyday mind — and to claim your connection with deeper sources of wisdom and true power.
You may find that the most important spiritual teacher you can know is not a stranger at all, but your higher self.
Come prepared to journey deep in this class, to the Cave of the Ancestors and to a place of encounter with the Master Teacher for your life right now.
In this module, you'll discover how to:
Cleanse and release ancestral karma
Call on the wisdom of the great ones in your ancestral lineage who've stayed close to the Earth to guide and protect you
Recognize the many forms of the dream guide
Communicate with inner and transpersonal guides in "the place between sleep and awake"
Journey to a place of direct encounter with your Master Teacher — and learn about choices you made before you entered this life, and the ones you'll make when you leave it
Module 5: Build a Home on the Other Side (December 17)
The path of the soul after death is the same as the path of the soul in dreams.
— Lakota saying
There are as many afterlife locales as there are human imaginations, according to the people of the South Pacific...
This may be entirely correct, yet because many people are lacking imagination, they may settle in collective belief territories... or confine themselves to very limited environments.
During this session, you'll explore the ways imagination, memory, and desire are the architects and building contractors in the transition zones that one of Robert's guides calls "Memorydream."
Robert will also walk you through the power of a life review.
In this module, you'll discover features and location found on the Other Side, including:
Places of welcome, rest, regeneration, and love
Schools of higher learning
Real estate options
Communications centers where the departed seek to contact the living
Job opportunities, including becoming an apprentice guide
The Plane of Recollection, where you'll see and remember your larger soul history and connection with dramas being played out — in many times, and many worlds
Module 6: Flying to the Moon (January 7)
All who depart from the world of the body go to the moon. In the bright half, the moon delights in their spirits. In the dark half, the moon sends them on to be born again.
— Kaushitaki Upanishad I.2
Are you ready for even wilder adventures? Are you willing to follow the path of moonlight on water, into the realm of Luna?
Robert will share how, for the ancients, the astral realm of the moon is where spirits take on subtle bodies — before entering their mothers' bodies in the physical world.
It's also the space to which spirits ascend, after cleansing and preparation. These spirits may continue to reside in the astral realm of the moon for a long time — watching over the Earth, entertaining Earth travelers, and producing dreams they will send to those on the lower plane.
In this realm, the astral body is left behind when a soul ascends to higher levels. Come prepared for a thrilling ride...
In this module, you'll journey with Robert and your classmates through:
The encounter with the "Scrubbers" who cleanse and prepare you for entry life after life in the many worlds
An encounter with a moon spirit
Visits to destinations of your choice — perhaps a school, pleasure palace, art studio, or café — in the realm of Luna
A place of rendezvous you'll create for return visits with residents and other travelers
An inspection of what happens to astral bodies in this realm, before birth and after death
An observation of astral traffic between Earth and the moon
Module 7: Relish the Divine Comedy in Life & Death (January 14)
The living have the ability to assist the imaginations of the dead.
— W.B. Yeats
As you reach the closing module of this course, you may feel ready to help midwife death for others and assist in their transitions.
By encouraging others to remember dreams and open to the dream adventure, you can help prepare them for the big journey beyond this life — since dreams take us beyond the ordinary world and prepare us for life in other dimensions.
As you'll discover, you can even grow a dream — which may be a road map to the Other Side — for someone who doesn't have a dream of their own.
By this point on your journey, you'll deeply understand how healing your relations with death and the departed gives you courage and clarity — and sometimes, superabundant energy for the choices you make in LIFE, in any reality.
You may also find you can now bring a sense of divine comedy that will carry you through whatever life throws at you on any day.
You had a full life before you were conceived, and you'll have one after death, too...
You'll emerge from this course, with firsthand knowledge of:
Why healing and forgiveness are always available across the apparent barrier of death
The ways departed loved ones and ancestors can become family guides and counselors
How to help the deceased when they're stuck or confused
The many levels on which consciousness operates — including several energy vehicles it uses during life and after death
Assisting the dying as they prepare for death — by helping them open to their dreams, or by using the Dream Transfer technique to bring them a dream of yours
The "building contractors" in the afterlife — desire and imagination
Calling in spiritual guidance and protection as you embark on a journey to the Other Side
The Dream Journeys Beyond the Veil Bonus Collection
In addition to Robert's transformative 7-part virtual course, you'll receive these powerful training sessions to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Cures for Bad Dreams & Nightmares
Video Teaching From Robert Moss
Every culture that values dreams has rituals for expelling the unwanted energy of a bad dream. In this fascinating teaching, Robert will explain how a nightmare isn't just a bad dream — it's a dream so bad you run away from it, leaving it unfinished. You'll explore the sovereign remedy for a nightmare — to go back into the dream space and face the challenge on its own ground.
9 Keys to Your Dreams
Dreams, big and small, always tell us more than we already know. But we may be clueless about how to read them and apply their messages. Robert's high-octane tutorial gives you nine keys you can use to explore any dream. You'll learn to trust your feelings around a dream — and discern whether what's going on needs to be read literally, symbolically, or as an experience in another reality.
Wilder Shores of Dreaming
Serial dreams, with scenarios that seem to continue night after night in episode format, sometimes suggest that we're living continuous lives somewhere else. In this powerful teaching, Robert shares how collecting and studying these dream "episodes" helps you develop firsthand evidence of the reality of parallel lives and parallel worlds. He'll explain how dreaming can be a horizontal meditation — to help you grow continuity of consciousness and improve your understanding of multidimensional reality.
Active Dreaming Toolkit
A Medley of Tools From Robert Moss
These three powerful tools, selected from Robert's previous courses with The Shift Network, will deepen your experience as an Active Dreamer:
Drumming Track for Shamanic Dreamers
This 12-minute drumming track was created by Robert to complement your Active Dreaming practice.
The Lightning Process for Sharing Dreams & Life Stories
Audio Recording and Transcript
The Lightning Dreamwork Game, invented by Robert, is a fast, FUN way to share dreams and life stories, receive helpful feedback, and encourage each other to move toward creative and healing action.
Creative Journaling
In this powerful recording, Robert offers you many fun games to play with your journal, from formulating your daily one-liner... to reading signs and symbols from the world around you... to turning reports into poems, stories, and scripts.
What Graduates of Robert's Courses Are Saying…
— Kristin Clark: "Robert Is a Wise and Powerful Guide Between You and the Other Realms"
— Alis Anagnostakis: "Robert Is One of the Wisest People I Have Ever Had the Good Fortune of Meeting"
— Monica Kenton: "Robert Brings a Sense of Fun and Playfulness to Discovering the Dreamworld"
— Kai Altair: "My Life Has Been Forever Changed as I've Stepped Into the Magic of Dreaming With Robert Moss"
— Anna Bromley: "Robert Brings a Big Dollop of Magic to His Classes"
— Jane Carleton: "It Really Is a Gift to Yourself to Spend Time With Robert"
"… transition from a mild depression to very intense joy and hope even in the midst of a pandemic! "
I found this class was so profoundly healing, pure magic — thank you so much, Robert. I have made a great transition from a mild depression to very intense joy and hope even in the midst of a pandemic!
— Toni Wilder
"… stretched me, cradled me, healed me…"
I have deep gratitude in my heart for this experience, for how this collective showed up, for how Robert led us headfirst into possibilities, for how The Shift Network facilitated all of it. I can't wait for the continuation. This journey together has stretched me, cradled me, healed me, called out my BS, and invited me to step back into a self that I had put on hold.
— Yolande Grill
"[Robert's] course created a transformational shift in my reality."
[Robert's] course created a transformational shift in my reality. My dreamworld discovery and healing definitely flourished. Robert Moss' energy draws you in as we escape and delve deeper to each dreamworld. He is so knowledgeable and he presented each module with so much passion and light-hearted humor. I now feel connected and empowered by interpreting my dreams, open to receiving dream spirit guide messages with ease, and confident to venture into different realms of the dreamworld.
— Diana, Fresno, California
"… following Robert Moss' clear guidance is an easy ride into your own unlimited future."
I can see that this course has launched me and many others in our group into new realms of unexplored dreams, new imaginal realms, and above all new ways of acting out our deepest intentions in this world. To say that it has opened whole new worlds of possibilities is still an understatement. I can assert unequivocally that following Robert Moss' clear guidance is an easy ride into your own unlimited future. Blessed be!
— Will Bradley, Albany, Oregon
"Health symptoms lessened, soul came alive, joy increased, and life circumstances reflected this."
Working with Robert Moss, master teacher and dream shaman, is a life-changing experience. The balance of historic context, anecdotal information, and mutual community experiences through journeying and sharing was a perfect combination to invoke the soul into an awakening dance and to learn from the learning. The results were swift, efficient, effective, and palpable. Health symptoms lessened, soul came alive, joy increased, and life circumstances reflected this. It was truly a fun adventure!
— Lesia, Olympia, Washington
"I'm more confident of the connection between worlds, and how the world 'speaks to us' through dreams and 'waking' life."
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public class PersonalityInsights

The Watson Personality Insights service uses linguistic analytics to extract a spectrum
of cognitive and social characteristics from the text data that a person generates
through blogs, tweets, forum posts, and more.

                    serviceURL

The base URL to use when contacting the service.

Declaration

Swift

public var serviceURL = "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/personality-insights/api"

                    defaultHeaders

The default HTTP headers for all requests to the service.

Declaration

Swift

public var defaultHeaders = [String: String]()

                    init(username:password:version:)

Create a PersonalityInsights object.

Declaration

Swift

public init(username: String, password: String, version: String)

Parameters

                                username

The username used to authenticate with the service.

                                password

The password used to authenticate with the service.

                                version

The release date of the version of the API to use. Specify the date in "YYYY-MM-DD" format.

                    getProfile(fromText:acceptLanguage:contentLanguage:rawScores:consumptionPreferences:failure:success:)

Analyze text to generate a personality profile.

Declaration

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public func getProfile(
        fromText text: String,
        acceptLanguage: String? = nil,
        contentLanguage: String? = nil,
        rawScores: Bool? = nil,
        consumptionPreferences: Bool? = nil,
        failure: ((Error) -> Void)? = nil,
        success: @escaping (Profile) -> Void)

Parameters

                                fromText

The text to analyze.

                                acceptLanguage

The desired language of the response.

                                contentLanguage

The language of the text being analyzed.

                                rawScores

If true, then a raw score for each characteristic is returned in addition to a normalized score. Raw scores are not compared with a sample population. An average Mean Absolute Error (MAE) is returned to measure the results' precision.

                                consumptionPreferences

If true, then information inferred about consumption preferences is returned in addition to the results.

                                failure

A function executed if an error occurs.

                                success

A function executed with the personality profile.

                    getProfile(fromHTML:acceptLanguage:contentLanguage:rawScores:consumptionPreferences:failure:success:)

Analyze the text of a webpage to generate a personality profile.
The HTML tags are stripped before the text is analyzed.

Declaration

Swift

public func getProfile(
        fromHTML html: String,
        acceptLanguage: String? = nil,
        contentLanguage: String? = nil,
        rawScores: Bool? = nil,
        consumptionPreferences: Bool? = nil,
        failure: ((Error) -> Void)? = nil,
        success: @escaping (Profile) -> Void)

Parameters

                                fromHTML

The HTML text to analyze.

                                acceptLanguage

The desired language of the response.

                                contentLanguage

The language of the text being analyzed.

                                rawScores

If true, then a raw score for each characteristic is returned in addition to a normalized score. Raw scores are not compared with a sample population. An average Mean Absolute Error (MAE) is returned to measure the results' precision.

                                consumptionPreferences

If true, then information inferred about consumption preferences is returned in addition to the results.

                                failure

A function executed if an error occurs.

                                success

A function executed with the personality profile.

                    getProfile(fromContentItems:acceptLanguage:contentLanguage:rawScores:consumptionPreferences:failure:success:)

Analyze input content items to generate a personality profile.

Declaration

Swift

public func getProfile(
        fromContentItems contentItems: [ContentItem],
        acceptLanguage: String? = nil,
        contentLanguage: String? = nil,
        rawScores: Bool? = nil,
        consumptionPreferences: Bool? = nil,
        failure: ((Error) -> Void)? = nil,
        success: @escaping (Profile) -> Void)

Parameters

                                fromContentItems

The content items to analyze.

                                acceptLanguage

The desired language of the response.

                                contentLanguage

The language of the text being analyzed.

                                rawScores

If true, then a raw score for each characteristic is returned in addition to a normalized score. Raw scores are not compared with a sample population. An average Mean Absolute Error (MAE) is returned to measure the results' precision.

                                consumptionPreferences

If true, then information inferred about consumption preferences is returned in addition to the results.

                                failure

A function executed if an error occurs.

                                success

A function executed with the personality profile.

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8 Positive and Influential Ways Apple Contributes to the World
By Mike Peterson Published: Aug 10th, 2019
Credit: Apple
While a company's main goal is to make money, that doesn't mean that corporations and firms can't support positive change in their day-to-day activities.
Just take Apple. The iPhone maker is well-known for its decisive political stances. But Apple goes a lot further than that by supporting a wide range of causes. Here are just a few ways that Apple demonstrates its values. Continue reading to learn 8 Positive Ways Apple Contributes to the World.
Partnering with Great Causes
Apple regularly partners with causes that foster positive change across the globe. Last year, for example, the Cupertino tech giant partnered up with the Malala Fund to support girls' education. That included scaling up the fund's technology and providing financial support.
There's also, of course, the company's long-standing partnership with Product(RED). A portion of the proceeds from purchases of Apple's Product(RED) devices, which feature the program's signature red color, help fund initiatives that treat HIV and AIDs across the world. Over a twelve-year period, Apple has raised more than $200 million for (RED).
Investing in Sustainability
Another of Apple's primary values is sustainability. To start, Apple has been voted one of the greenest tech companies for years. And Apple CEO Tim Cook famously called out President Donald Trump when he pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord.
But a commitment to sustainability also shows up in virtually all aspects of the company. From the painstaking measures Apple takes to ensure its packaging is sustainable to the fact that its data centers run on completely renewable energy, it's not hard to see that Apple is taking massive steps toward caring for the environment.
Taking Action in Times of Tragedy
Apple doesn't just talk a big game when it comes to its values. In times of tragedy, the company has also taken action. One example is the Charlottesville tragedy. After that incident, Apple pledged $2 million to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center to fight hate and racism.
The company also makes it easy for users to donate to charitable causes after natural disasters. Back in 2016, Apple started taking donations to the American Red Cross through the Apple Store in the wake of devastating flooding in Louisiana. The company has made similar moves after hurricanes and wildfires across the globe.
Being a Vanguard for Privacy
Apple takes the privacy of its user seriously. From going toe-to-toe with the FBI over backdoors to shutting down its human review process for Siri voice data, the company routinely "walks the walk" when it comes to data privacy and security. The result? Apple's devices and ecosystem are among the most secure and privacy-respecting in the tech industry
The company is also one of the few tech giants that continually lobbies for privacy regulations. Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly called for a substantial and far-reaching privacy law in the U.S. — something akin to the GDPR regulations in Europe. That's stands in stark contrast to companies like Facebook.
Standing up for Human Rights
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The Cupertino tech giant is no stranger to supporting equality and diversity. Just as an example, Apple CEO Tim Cook stood against the Trump Administration's 2017 executive order that restricted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. He also spoke out against the Administration's inhumane border policies.
Apple is also well-known for its support of the LGBTQ community. In 2017, it fought for protections for transgender students. Back in 2015, Tim Cook vocalized his opposition to laws that allow discrimination on the basis of religious freedom. The company also routinely offers Pride edition products and donates a portion of those proceeds to advocacy groups.
Supporting Older Devices
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A few years back, Apple caught some flack for slowing down the performance on older devices. But the media coverage and resulting backlash surrounding that scandal were largely unjustified. For one, Apple implemented performance throttling to reduce random shutdowns on devices with aging batteries.
If you look a bit deeper, you can see that Apple has no interest in planned obsolescence. For one, it runs numerous repair programs where it fixes devices with known issues for free. It also continually supports older devices with new software and encourages users to trade in their old device for recycling when it does come time to upgrade.
By Boosting the U.S. Economy
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Apple has famously clashed with President Donald Trump over the U.S. economy. Trump has repeatedly called for Apple to manufacture its devices in the U.S. — a task that's not nearly as realistic as it seems. But Apple has made massive contributions to the U.S. economy despite making its products in China.
Just as an example, there's the App Store. That's a whole new economic sector that didn't exist before Apple kickstarted it. But Apple has also pledged $1 billion to boost U.S. manufacturing and plans on investing more than $350 billion in the U.S. economy as a whole over the next five years.
By Fostering the Next Generation
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Apple, among other things, believes that coding is "an essential skill." But Apple isn't just content to tout the importance of coding; it also actively fosters coding education through various programs and platforms. Most of it focuses on Apple's own Swift coding language, but those skills can translate to other languages, too.
One of those programs is the Everyone Can Code initiative, which is a comprehensive curriculum that Apple developed to bring coding to the classroom. The company also offers other educator and student resources in an effort to let "anyone learn, write and teach code."


What Good Is the Social Model of Disability?
A social model of disability relates a person's disadvantage to the combination of personal traits and social setting. The model appears to have had a profound impact on academics, politics, and law since the 1970s. Scholars have debated the model's force but its limitations are more severe than have been recognized. This Article claims that the model, like all social construction accounts, has essentially no policy implications. Its impact depends on normative commitments developed by some other logic, such as membership in the disability rights movement or adherence to versions of libertarian, utilitarian, or egalitarian theory that are triggered by the model's causation story. At the same time, a normative framework within which the social model is relevant will suggest not only policy goals but also an institutional design. These points are illustrated by recent controversies involving genetic screening technology, cochlear implants, and sign language communities. Contrary to impressions left in the law literature, the social model has nothing to say about the proper response to such developments, although the model might have a mediated influence on our sense of the best decisionmakers.
Adam Samaha, "What Good Is the Social Model of Disability?" (University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 166, 2007).


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Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation during isotretinoin treatment: a 12-week follow-up study of male Finnish military conscripts.
J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2009 Nov; 23(11):1294-7.JE
To investigate the putative association between isotretinoin treatment and depressive symptoms or suicidal ideation among Finnish male military conscripts. METHODS; Consecutive acne patients were enrolled into an uncontrolled, prospective 12-week follow-up study conducted at the Central Military Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. Of the 135 patients prescribed isotretinoin, 126 (93.3%) completed the follow-up. Depression and suicidal ideation were investigated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at baseline, weeks 4-6, and weeks 10-12.
BDI mean score was low at baseline and declined further significantly (p < 0.001) during the follow-up from 3.0 (SD 3.948) to 1.8 (SD 3.783) among patients on isotretinoin. Moreover, the proportion of patients with clinically significant depressive symptoms (BDI > or= 10) declined non-significantly from 7.1 % to 3.2 %. Suicidal ideation was reported by 17 (13.5 %) patients at baseline and 9 (7.1%) patients at the end of the follow-up (NS). During the follow-up, one non-depressed patient attempted suicide while intoxicated by alcohol.
On group level, isotretinoin seems not to be typically associated with treatment-emergent depression or suicidal ideation among young men. However, the possibility that individual patients may be susceptible for mood effects of isotretinoin as a rare idiosyncratic reaction can not be excluded.
Rehn LM
Helsinki City Health Center, Department of Psychiatry, Helsinki, Finland. laura.rehn@hel.fi
Meririnne E
Höök-Nikanne J
Isometsä E
Henriksson M
Acne VulgarisDermatologic AgentsFinlandFollow-Up StudiesHumansIsotretinoinMaleMilitary PersonnelProspective StudiesSuicide
Rehn, L M H., et al. "Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation During Isotretinoin Treatment: a 12-week Follow-up Study of Male Finnish Military Conscripts." Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV, vol. 23, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1294-7.
Rehn LM, Meririnne E, Höök-Nikanne J, et al. Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation during isotretinoin treatment: a 12-week follow-up study of male Finnish military conscripts. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2009;23(11):1294-7.
Rehn, L. M., Meririnne, E., Höök-Nikanne, J., Isometsä, E., & Henriksson, M. (2009). Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation during isotretinoin treatment: a 12-week follow-up study of male Finnish military conscripts. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV, 23(11), 1294-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3083.2009.03313.x
Rehn LM, et al. Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation During Isotretinoin Treatment: a 12-week Follow-up Study of Male Finnish Military Conscripts. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2009;23(11):1294-7. PubMed PMID: 19522777.
TY - JOUR T1 - Depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation during isotretinoin treatment: a 12-week follow-up study of male Finnish military conscripts. AU - Rehn,L M H, AU - Meririnne,E, AU - Höök-Nikanne,J, AU - Isometsä,E, AU - Henriksson,M, Y1 - 2009/06/11/ PY - 2009/6/16/entrez PY - 2009/6/16/pubmed PY - 2010/1/12/medline SP - 1294 EP - 7 JF - Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV JO - J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol VL - 23 IS - 11 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To investigate the putative association between isotretinoin treatment and depressive symptoms or suicidal ideation among Finnish male military conscripts. METHODS; Consecutive acne patients were enrolled into an uncontrolled, prospective 12-week follow-up study conducted at the Central Military Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. Of the 135 patients prescribed isotretinoin, 126 (93.3%) completed the follow-up. Depression and suicidal ideation were investigated with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) at baseline, weeks 4-6, and weeks 10-12. RESULTS: BDI mean score was low at baseline and declined further significantly (p < 0.001) during the follow-up from 3.0 (SD 3.948) to 1.8 (SD 3.783) among patients on isotretinoin. Moreover, the proportion of patients with clinically significant depressive symptoms (BDI > or= 10) declined non-significantly from 7.1 % to 3.2 %. Suicidal ideation was reported by 17 (13.5 %) patients at baseline and 9 (7.1%) patients at the end of the follow-up (NS). During the follow-up, one non-depressed patient attempted suicide while intoxicated by alcohol. CONCLUSION: On group level, isotretinoin seems not to be typically associated with treatment-emergent depression or suicidal ideation among young men. However, the possibility that individual patients may be susceptible for mood effects of isotretinoin as a rare idiosyncratic reaction can not be excluded. SN - 1468-3083 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/19522777/Depressive_symptoms_and_suicidal_ideation_during_isotretinoin_treatment:_a_12_week_follow_up_study_of_male_Finnish_military_conscripts_ L2 - https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-3083.2009.03313.x DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -
Dermatologic Agents
Isotretinoin
Depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation and acne: a study of male Finnish conscripts.
A prospective study of the responsiveness of depression and suicidal ideation in acne patients to different phases of isotretinoin therapy.
Evaluation of depressive symptoms in acne patients treated with isotretinoin.
Comparison of depression, anxiety and life quality in acne vulgaris patients who were treated with either isotretinoin or topical agents.
A pilot study evaluating anxiety and depressive scores in acne patients treated with isotretinoin.
Mood changes, depression and suicide risk during isotretinoin treatment: a prospective study.
Psychiatric reactions to isotretinoin in patients with bipolar disorder.
Agitated "unipolar" depression re-conceptualized as a depressive mixed state: implications for the antidepressant-suicide controversy.
[Psychiatric symptoms during isotretinoin therapy].
Prevention of suicide and attempted suicide in Denmark. Epidemiological studies of suicide and intervention studies in selected risk groups.


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Biobased rigid plastics are one step closer to reality, according to a study published in Nature Communications. A team from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands developed a simple
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An extensive network of wildlife cameras took over 2 million photos to follow when tropical mammals are active and why, according to a study published in Nature Communications. What wild
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Tiny fish could play a big role in tackling malnutrition and food insecurity in many countries around the world, according to a study published in Nature Food. Small fish —
Female monkeys become more selective with friends as they get older
Female rhesus monkeys have fewer friends as they get older and prefer to stay with family and close connections, according to a study published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the
3D microscopic structures in petals to attract bees
Plants have the incredible ability to be able to regulate the chemistry of their petals to create appealing and iridescent signals to attract bees, according to a study published in
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria do not transfer from animals to humans
Bacteria resistant to antibiotics — similar to MRSA — found in livestock and pets are rarely transmitted to humans, according to a study published in Nature Microbiology. An international team
Rocky coastlines more affected by climate change than previously thought
Rocky coastlines are not as stable as previously believed and could retreat rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise, according to a study published in the scientific
Work colleagues influence eating and exercise habits
Employees are more likely to follow a healthy diet and engage in exercise when their colleagues at work encourage this attitude, according to a study published in the journal BMC
Exercising in the morning is better for your heart
Exercising in the morning reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. The authors found the same results
Carbon emissions still not decreasing
Carbon emissions worldwide remain at the same levels, according to the team at the Global Carbon Project. The team includes researchers from the University of Exeter, the University of East


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No sooner had the TRON Foundation around founder Justin Sun announced an airdrop of the BitTorrent token, the TRX course could gain strength. While Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and their cohorts are still in the bear's paws, TRON has actually managed to gain ten percent in the last 24 hours. The TRX price is therefore currently at 0.0253 US dollars.
That has a good reason. Because in the course of the announced BitTorrent Airdrops obviously many investors add extra tokens. Because with such an Airdrop it actually "rains" tokens.
Thus, anyone holding TRX tokens will receive additional BitTorrent tokens. That announced the BitTorrent Foundation in a blog post on Medium on January 20. The first BTT Airdrop is scheduled for February 11th. Thereafter, on every 11th of the following month, further Airdrops should follow.
The tokens that are distributed go back to the file-sharing company BitTorrent. With the help of its own token or its own blockchain infrastructure, the veteran of the DotCom era wants to support its users with file sharing. In addition, the initiators want to create an alternative for authors of content. Thus, the BTT token is to serve, among other things, to pay for file sharing, the contact between the author and beneficiary should therefore be facilitated and tokenisiert. As the announced Airdrop suggests, the platform is based on the TRON blockchain.


1. From womanish. (Opp. of "girlish," i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, "you acting womanish," i.e., like a woman. Usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered "good" for one. Interested in grown up doings. Acting grown up. Being grown up. Interchangeable with another black folk expression: "You trying to be grown." Responsible. In charge. Serious.
Walker, Alice. In Search of our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose. New York: Harcourt Inc, 1983.
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