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World's Longest Flights Leave Passengers in the Air for the Better Part of a Day
Josh Lew
Josh Lew is a freelance writer and copywriter who focuses on travel, green living, and personal finance.
Emirates flies some of the lengthiest non-stop flights, clocking in at more than 16 hours. Marco Prati/Shutterstock
With ever-improving fuel efficiency and aerodynamics, planes are able to stay in the air for longer than ever before. All major airlines have extended-range aircraft that can make a leg-cramping 14-hour flight with no problem. A few commercial carriers have even been able to stretch their time aloft to more than 18 hours.
Because of wind patterns, route paths, air traffic and other factors, flights that cover the longest distance do not necessarily take the longest amount of time. Favorable west-to-east tailwinds, for example, can make a journey from Sydney to Dallas an hour faster than the exact same trip in the other direction.
For fliers, time in the air is what matters the most. About 16 hours in economy class will give you the same amount of "seat numbness" no matter how much distance you've covered. Most passengers answer the question "how bad is it going to be?" by glancing at the "flight duration" figures on their itinerary.
So what are the longest flights in the world in terms of time in the air?
The long hauls from the Middle East to New Zealand
Auckland Airport welcomes the first Qatar Airways flight with a traditional water cannon salute. Qatar Airways/Facebook
Holding the number one spot as of February 2017 is Qatar Airways. The airline rolled out a regularly scheduled flight between its hub in Doha, Qatar, and Auckland, New Zealand. The flight covers 9,032 miles, and is in the air for 16 hours and 10 minutes for the Auckland-bound leg. If you're flying to Doha, however, prepare for an even longer flight. Due to strong headwinds, the flight to Doha will take 17 hours and 30 minutes.
The Boeing 777 flight has 42 seats in business class and 217 in economy. While every passenger gets to enjoy individual screen entertainment offerings during the flight, those 42 folks in business class also have "fully-flat beds" seats and an on-demand food menu available at all times. (No waiting for the drink and snack carts in business!)
With its first flight taking place on Feb. 5, Qatar Airways' flight to Auckland beat Emirates's Dubai-to-Auckland flight for the longest flight. The Emirates flights from Dubai to Auckland covers 8,819 miles in just under 16 hours and 17 hours and 15 minutes in the other direction. That non-stop flight will also use a Boeing 777.
Asia to the U.S. in a less than day
Air India's flight to San Francisco covers 9,400 miles. Bill Abbott/flickr
But what about flights not out of the Middle East to the land of the kiwis? How do they measure up?
For sheer distance, Qatar loses out to Air India's Delhi to San Francisco flight. Previously a flight that took a shorter polar route, the airline changed things up in the fall of 2016 and now flies over the Pacific Ocean, making the previously 7,700-mile flight now 9,400 miles. Why the change? The tailwinds allow the flight to get to its destination two hours quicker than the polar route. And it probably won't surprise you at this point to learn that the flight also uses a Boeing 777.
All these flights would have paled to Singapore Airlines' old flights from Changi Airport to Los Angeles and to Newark, New Jersey. The Singapore-Los Angeles flight jetted across the Pacific and landed after 17 hours in the air while the flight to New Jersey would go over the North Pole and would clock in between 19 and 21 hours. Both flights were cancelled in 2013 due to rising fuel costs and an aging fleet of long-haul planes. However, the airline announced in October 2015 that it would begin non-stop flights to Los Angeles and New York City starting in 2018. The airline won't be using the Boeing 777 — surprise! — but will instead use the "ultra long-range" version of the Airbus A350.
The planned flight from Singapore to New York will cover just over 9,500 miles, which would make it the longest flight in terms of mileage in the world.
The longest of the rest
Flying from Dallas, Texas, to Brisbane, Texas, on Qantas involves one layover, and the result is a 19-hour trip across a few time zones. ERIC SALARD/flickr
Even if it loses in longest flights to Qatar, Emirates still has couple of flights out of Dubai that cross the 16-hour line. Its flights to Houston Intercontinental in Texas and to Los Angeles both take longer than 16 hours and cover more than 8,000 miles.
Australia's flagship carrier, Qantas, is also in the ultra-long-haul market. The airline offers two flights longer than 8,000 miles between Australia and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport: one from Sydney and one to Brisbane. The DFW to Brisbane trip crosses the 19-hour threshold, including a single layover, but the flight that originates in Sydney is a non-stop one that takes a mere 15 hours to reach its north Texas destination.
One final service that deserves mention in the behind-numbing flight category is from taking Delta from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to Johannesburg. The outbound journey from Atlanta tops out at just more than 15 hours; the return trip breaks the 17-hour barrier.
Long in-country flights
Strap yourself in for the American Airlines flight from Seattle to Miami. BriYYZ/flickr
If you don't plan to travel abroad, reading about these long air journeys should make you feel better about the amount of time you spend on domestic flights. The longest routes within the U.S. are between the East Coast and Hawaii. Non-stop flights from New York's JFK to Honolulu on United and Hawaiian Airlines take more than 11 hours.
The longest routes in the lower 48 are between Florida and Seattle. American Airlines flies to Sea-Tac International Airport from Miami, while Alaska Airlines flies to Fort Lauderdale. Both flights are aloft between 5.5 and 6 hours. United, JetBlue and Virgin America are close runners-up. These three carriers offer seven-hour service on the heavily traveled Boston to San Francisco route.
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On today's RPG-focused episode, Greg and Jakub shine a light on one of the less popular adventure settings: swamps. Everybody's seen the standard Tolkein-esque campaign on the plains and in the forest. Ports and mountins get their hare of love too. But what about swamps? Join us as we examine some of the fantastic things you can do here, from unconventional cityscapes to unsettling monsters.
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I Kings 8:56 "Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.
1 and 2 Kings continue the story of God's faithfulness to His covenant with His children, particularly as it involves the promises around the Promised Land. Though Israel's history is full of stories of their failure to obey God, God was faithful to give them rest and keep His promises.
"The clear contrast between God's covenant keeping and Israel's covenant breaking, particularly among Israel's kings, is perhaps the most important theme in the book of Kings. For this stark contrast highlights the gracious and undeserved nature of God's faithfulness to his people. The biblical term for this reality is "steadfast love" (see Ex. 34: 6– 7; 1 Kings 3: 6; 8: 23), sometimes translated as mercy, loyalty, faithfulness, or graciousness. Behind the variety of terms used to express this idea in the Bible is one central idea: God does not treat his people as their sins deserve.
But how is this gracious behavior of the Lord possible? We know that God is flawlessly faithful to his covenant promises, yet part of those promises include the promise to curse covenant breakers: "Cursed be anyone who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them" (Deut. 27: 26; cf. 27: 15– 26; 28: 15– 19). How can God be both merciful to his people but also faithful to curse covenant breakers, especially since all of God's people have broken the covenant? The book of Kings hints at the answer with the small but important expression 'for the sake of my servant David' (cf. 1 Kings 11: 11– 13, 32, 34; 2 Kings 8: 19; 19: 34; Isa. 37: 35).
Because the Lord made a covenant with David to establish an eternal kingdom through his offspring (cf. 2 Sam. 7: 9– 16; 1 Kings 3: 6; 9: 4– 5; 11: 4, 34; 14: 8; 15: 3), the nation of Israel was repeatedly treated in gracious mercy, in ways it did not deserve. Ultimately, however, the sins of Israel increased to such a point that the covenant curses of destruction and exile were required by the Lord's faithfulness to his own covenant obligations (cf. 2 Kings 17 and 25), but even these disciplinary measures were sovereignly administered in such a way as not to undo the Davidic promise that would remain Israel's hope.
The destruction and exile of 2 Kings 17 could be the real life example of the adultery and slavery that the story of Hosea and Gomer pictured. At first, we might view Israel's exile as God breaking covenant with them, but when we zoom out in time, we see from the books of Ezra and Nehemiah that, no, God has not given up on His covenant at all. But He does have a long view of His pursuit of His people that the story of Hosea and Gomer reflect.
1 and 2 Kings give us better perspective on the problem Judges showed us. In Judges, there was no king, and everyone did what was right in their own eyes. But lest we think the solution was the system of earthly kings, we see that injustices and disobedience continued on, often perpetrated by the king himself. From Judges to Kings to Jesus, the only answer for these people that could affect real change was King Jesus, not King Saul or David or Solomon.
1 ESV Bibles by Crossway (2013-09-30). ESV Gospel Transformation Bible (Kindle Locations 70642-70678). Crossway. Kindle Edition.


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SF Insider > Uncategorized > Where Can One Find Gluten-Free Cupcakes in San Francisco?
Where Can One Find Gluten-Free Cupcakes in San Francisco?
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Eliminating gluten from one's diet isn't always easy — especially when eating out. Most people on gluten-free diets stay as far away from bakeries and cupcakes as possible. However, there are several San Francisco bakeries dedicated to making gluten-free baked goods, or simply tailoring some of their top recipes to accommodate those who cannot consume gluten. That means that cupcakes are back on the menu. People looking for a sweet treat can enjoy gluten-free cupcakes in San Francisco at these bakeries.
Mariposa Baking Company
Mariposa Baking Co. started out as a small venture by a woman on a mission to make wholesome, gluten-free baked treats while pregnant with her first child. Seeing the need for these products in San Francisco, she began making them to sell throughout the Bay Area. Mariposa Baking Co. has several storefronts in San Francisco and surrounding areas, and also offers a mail order service so that people all across the US can enjoy her gluten-free cupcakes. In particular, the mocha cupcakes are a must-try. The rich chocolate cupcake is topped with a smooth mocha buttercream icing and finished off with one neatly placed chocolate-covered espresso bean.
Wholesome Bakery
Wholesome Bakery was founded in 2009 as the first vegan and gluten-free bakery in the area. The bakery prides itself in crafting delicious treats from organic, locally sourced ingredients that are guilt-free. One unique flavor that cupcake lovers can't miss is Wholesome Bakery's lavender cupcake. It's one of their specialties, and a top seller. It is lightly sweet, with a perfectly balanced lavender flavor, and topped with dried organic lavender that almost makes it too cute to eat.
Pretty Please Bakeshop
Pretty Please Bakeshop is not a dedicated gluten-free bakery, but it has quite a varied selection of gluten-free cupcakes. Pretty Please Bakeshop does not make gluten-free cupcakes daily, but customers can order them for special events. One unique flavor that customers will have a hard time finding anywhere else is toasted pistachio butter cake, one of the bakery's signature flavors. While nearly all flavors and fillings are gluten-free, lime Callebaut white chocolate ganache and vanilla Swiss meringue buttercream pair with pistachio cake nicely.
Kara's Cupcakes
Kara's Cupcakes is a San Francisco institution. Anyone looking for cupcake bakeries in San Francisco will likely be pointed in this direction. The bakery is accommodating to people who do not eat gluten, and has five gluten-free varieties on its menu every single day. Customers should also keep a lookout for special monthly or seasonal flavors. Chocolate velvet is a crowd favorite. It's a chocolate cupcake topped with a smooth bittersweet chocolate buttercream: a chocolate lover's delight.

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Abstract : Up until now, attempts to systematically understand the space-time statistical structure of the atmosphere (including precipitation) have been hampered by both inappropriate theoretical frameworks and inadequate, problematic data. On the one hand, the theories have concentrated on classical turbulent fluxes especially the energy and enstrophy fluxes which are only justified with strong but unrealistic isotropy assumptions: on the contrary, the real atmosphere is strongly anisotropic (stratified) but nevertheless scaling. On the other hand, if we restrict our attention to the wind, temperature and other standard meteorological fields, then only very narrow ranges of space-time scales are empirically accessible. If the stratification is scaling, then atmospheric dynamics can be governed by anisotropic cascades of nonstandard turbulent fluxes. In this generalized scaling framework we expect scaling relations of the (generalized) Kolmogorov form to hold: F(L) = e(L)LH where F(L) is the fluctuation in a field at scale L and H is a scaling exponent and e(L) is the underlying resolution L flux. We use this approach to estimate e(L) and then to systematically degrade it to lower and lower resolutions. The cascade hypothesis predicts that : lower than e(L)qhigher than = (Louter/L)K(q) where here L is the resolution of the flux, Louter is the outer scale of the cascade (where it starts) and K(q) is a scaling exponent function describing all the statistical properties as a function of scale. In order to exploit the space-time data with highest resolution possible, we analyse satellite radar and radiance data spanning the visible, infra red, and microwave regions of the spectrum from the TRMM and MTSAT satellites over the region ±40o latitude. The temporal resolutions are respectively 2 -4 days and 1 hour and both have spatial resolutions of 5km. We analysed the spatial properties over all these radiance channels and found that scaling behaviour is obeyed to within about ±1% from planetary scales down to the smallest available. Since the dynamical (velocity) field is strongly coupled to the radiances (via the cloud field), and the velocity couples the spatial and temporal statistics, we expect that the radiances will also be scaling in time. We therefore determined the statistical lifetime-size relation for structures defined by the various fields. Up to about 20-30 days (the lifetime of planetary size structures), we found that the relation is quite with an effective velocity of about 6 m/s. For longer (climate scale) periods there seems to be another scaling regime with outer scale around 1200 days with corresponding characteristic velocity of about 0.5 m/s. This apparently corresponds to the temporal precipitation cascade as shown by space-time analyses of the TRMM precipitation radar data. We discuss the implications for measuring and modeling atmospheric fields especially precipitation.


These are some lies we made up about Hanna.
The spirit of a security guard with a bullet hole in his forehead was spotted in a Hanna building. When the ghost was observed it faded away into the thin air. No matter what folks articulate, it's a terrifying phantom that you shouldn't go trying to find.
The ghost of a guy sporting an army outfit has regularly been seen marching alongside a deserted highway close to Hanna. One thing is for sure, it unquestionably is a scary ghost that should be left alone.
An alien from Venus is frequently perceived by Union Mills Dam after midnight looking at the water.
A knight's armor from the middle ages lacking a human being inside has purportedly been observed on many instances at Cusher Arm before dawn staring down into the water. In any event, this is an unsympathetic ghost that is better not upset.
An ET from outer space may frequently be seen hauling a cadaver from the freezing water of Mill Creek at night.


A car accident can often be a devastating situation for those involved, especially when the car accident was caused by someone else's negligent behavior.
Car accident victims are often left with property damage to their vehicle and physical injuries to their person as a result of the accident.
Anyone who has been involved in a car accident needs to speak with an experienced Toccoa car accident attorney as soon as possible after the accident.
Below are several frequently asked questions that the Atlanta lawyers at The Angell Law Firm hear from clients on a regular basis.
Q: What Should I Do If An Accident Occurs?
A: The most important thing is make sure the accident scene is safe and everyone is out of harm's way. Once the area is under control it is important to call 911. Once the police and emergency services arrive it is important to inform them of the facts of the accident. If there is a lawsuit resulting from the incident anything said by anyone at the scene may be used later in court. Statements made to the police officer at the scene will be recorded on the police report and used later in determining the outcome of the case. Therefore, it is important to be as clear and accurate as possible when talking to the police.
Q: What If I am a Passenger in the Accident?
A: Unless you are an immediate family member, you will usually have full rights to sue the at-fault driver for negligence with the guidance of an attorney. It is important to note that immediate family members usually cannot sue one another since Georgia recognizes interspousal immunity, parental immunity, and sibling immunity.
Q: Should I Talk to an Insurance Adjuster?
A: This is a very common question, and we believe there's only one reasonable answer for this question – and that is "NO". Even if the insurance company calls you after the accident, we advise you to avoid speaking to them until AFTER you've discussed your case with a car accident lawyer in Atlanta. Why, you ask? Simple. Insurance companies' main goal is to make money and cut expenses, and if they pay you a settlement, that hurts the company's profit. It doesn't matter which party's insurance company we're talking about; believe us, these companies are only interested in protecting their pockets, not yours.
Q: What If My Bills are Higher than the At-Fault Driver's Insurance Limits?
A: Unfortunately there aren't a lot of great options when this occurs. It's one of the biggest reasons to carry uninsured motorist coverage and medical coverage. However, an injured person can negotiate for payment from the at fault driver if that person can actually afford such an agreement. However, most people can't afford to cover damages since they probably don't have enough wealth to afford it. The other option is to negotiate with the medical providers by requesting them to reduce their bills. They are often willing to negotiate once they have been informed that there is insufficient insurance and the injured person can't afford to pay.
If you need legal help to obtain compensation from those who are responsible for causing your injuries after your car accident, please contact the car accident lawyers in Atlanta at The Angell Law Firm at (770) 217-4954 today.
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The Jerky Boys return with new album of prank calls
Vicky Sequeira
Most everyone has made a prank phone call or two. But hardly anyone manages to turn juvenile high jinks into a career.
Then there's 59-year-old Johnny Brennan, who is reviving his antics as half of the comedic duo the Jerky Boys with a new album for a fresh generation of jerks.
Born in Manhattan and raised there and in Queens, the troublemaker began making phony phone calls at the age of 7. "I always broke other people's chops," he said. As a teenager, he'd occasionally record them. By 1985, when Brennan was in his 20s, local pal Kamal Ahmed had joined in on the madness. Portraying funnily voiced characters for prank phone calls, often in response to ads in newspapers, they made waves on the radio and later on the Internet.
In 1992, while overhearing her son trying to cook up a group name for himself and Ahmed, inspiration struck Brennan's mother. "She said, 'Why not just call yourselves the f–king Jerky Boys?'" Brennan told The Post. "We used to call people 'jerky' all the time. It was magic."
Now, 27 years after the Boys first unleashed their brand of aural terrorism onto the world, Brennan is back. A married man with two grown daughters — "They're used to my voices and hear them all day long," he said — he's releasing a fresh collection of brand-new gut-busting convos that annoy victims and tickle listeners. "The Jerky Boys" drops Friday, available to stream and on vinyl from Amazon.
Kamal Ahmed, John Brennan, 1995.©Touchstone Pictures/Courtesy E
"Our world is a wacky place, and that is perfect for what I do," said Brennan, who is working solo these days, as Ahmed quit to produce and act in movies back in 1997. "There could not be a better time. The Jerky Boys project is about absurdity. We've always been considered off-the-wall, and everyone can use a laugh now."
While the voices and gags are as acerbic as ever, technology has provided a big change for capturing calls. "It's gotten more convenient," said Brennan. "A buddy of mine customized a Galaxy Note phone for me so that every call going out and coming in is recorded. I did most of the calls for this album from my car — parked right in front of the Cornwall, NY, police station where there is a giant cell tower. Not a single call got dropped."
Back in the early '90s analogue days, when calls were recorded via speaker phones onto cassettes in unwieldy boomboxes, the Jerky Boys' homemade tapes began circulating around the New York music scene. "Howard Stern heard some calls and said he wants to know who this guy is," recalled Brennan, who was working construction at the time. "People who knew, they told me to put on Stern because everyone is talking about me. I came out of the woodwork and went from hanging off of scaffolding to being signed by Atlantic Records."
The new release picks up where the Boys left off: Brennan has revived 1990s characters such as the whiningly befuddled Sol Rosenberg and the antagonistic Frank Rizzo. "Frank is based on my father, and he's the typical New York loudmouth," said Brennan, who will do a livestreamed discussion Friday at 9 p.m. with tickets available through RushTix. "Sol is based on my mom. I always tell people that her waking me up for school in the morning was golden."
Taking on the nasal honk of his mom, er, Sol, Brennan wailed, "'Get out of the f–king bed. It's time for school!' She always made me laugh. Then I'd imitate her and get smacked."
Now he gets paid — via releases like this one and an ongoing gig voicing the character Mort Goldman on "Family Guy." (Fans might notice Mort sounds quite similar to Sol.)
But he insists it's not rocket science; the calls write themselves.
"You get people irate and then roll with it. I set up nutty situations," he said. On the new album, for example, Sol calls an unassuming iRobot customer-service worker and fakes being attacked by the company's robotic vacuum cleaner to which he attached a knife. "Then I just react in character. Some people are clueless. Others want to rip your head off. Of course, those live wires are always the best."
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Horror film mavens and genre enthusiasts will find no safe haven at Comic Con International 2012, as independent production and distribution studio The Asylum announced today that they will be joining their fellow fanboys at this year's San Diego Convention.
In celebration of their 15th anniversary, The Asylum will be bringing in talent from some of the studio's most popular action, fantasy, thriller and monster movies for signings, including Scream Queen Lynn Lowry; Zombie Apocalypse stars Lilan Bowden and Johnny Pacar; and the twisted minds behind The Asylum: David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, and Paul Bales.
Check out The Asylum's survival guide to making to it through Comic Con and the impending "end:"
1. Hoard favorite flicks - The Asylum will be selling DVDs for only $5 and Blu-Rays for $10. Whether your tastes are more Mega Shark Vs Crocosaurus than Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies, The Asylum's wide range of productions can help rock you to sleep at night. Plus, with every $50+ purchase, you will receive an exclusive 15th Anniversary The Asylum t-shirt, sure to be a collector's item, while supplies last.
2. Meet your heroes and grab mementos for safekeeping - Take an "official" photo ID with a cut-out of one of the sharks from the Studio's upcoming SHARK WEEK - and cross your fingers that you don't get eaten in real life!
Wednesday, July 11 (7:00pm - 8:00pm) - Bikini Spring Break cast and crew signing with Jared Michaels (Co-writer and Director) and stars Rachel Alig, Jamie Noel and Erin O'Brien.
Thursday, July 12 (2:30pm -3:30pm) - Zombie Apocalypse cast and crew signing with Nick Lyon (Director) and star Lilan Bowden.
Friday, July 13 (2:30pm - 3:30pm) - MEET THE FILMMAKERS OF THE ASYLUM, including Christopher Ray, Chris Ridenhour, Eric Forsberg, Micho Rutare, Richard Schenkman, Mark Atkins and Thunder Levin.
Friday, July 13 (5:30pm - 6:30pm) - American Warship cast and crew signing with Thunder Levin (Writer and Director), Chris Ridenhour (Composer) and stars Johanna Watts and Chris Hayes.
Saturday, July 14 (2:30pm - 3:30pm) - The Haunting of Whaley House cast and crew signing with Jose Prendes (Writer and Director) and stars Stephanie Greco, Carolina Groppa, Arielle Brachfeld, Maria Olsen, Lynn Lowry, Mindy Robinson, Shawn Philips, Graham Denman and Abby Prendes.
Saturday, July 14 (5:50pm -6:30pm) - MEET THE MASTERMINDS OF THE ASYLUM - Signing with The Asylum owners and producers David Michael Latt, David Rimawi, and Paul Bales.
3. Gather the remaining essentials - The Asylum and Arcana Comics are teaming up to bring you A Field Guide to Cryptozoology: The Strange and the Fantastic, a book that examines the creatures of The Asylum films through the lens of a field guide. Written by a woman following in her adventurer father's footsteps as he uncovers unbelievable creatures of the past, present and even the future, this guide book is a must-have. Drawn by the talented Mike Dubisch with words from Michael David Nelsen, assisted directly by The Asylum, this book will be on sale at The Asylum/Arcana Comics booth.
Enter to win a slew of fun prizes, including the most important survival tool of all: the Crovel. Designed specifically to kill zombies, this sleek amalgamation of your basic shovel and typical crowbar, is not only versatile but light-weight. How to use this MacGyver-approved apparatus? Check out how it's used on the undead in The Asylum's Dead Walking, airing on Syfy this October.
Founded in 1997, The Asylum is a full production and distribution studio, specializing in creative content for the global television, film and home entertainment markets. Based in Burbank, California, the company fully finances and produces 20-25 titles per year. These include top rated TV premieres for Syfy Networks and Lifetime Television and a development deal with MTV. With over 100 titles in its library and an aggressive, cost-effective, reactive and collaborative production model, The Asylum is rapidly growing as one of the industry's go-to source for telefilms and cable series.


New MK Sponsor & Giveaway: House 8810.
UPDATE: Winner was picked Tuesday, Feb. 15th and was Hannah from A Hole is to Dig!
Oh my, have we got a humdinger of a grand giveaway! Prepare to fall in love with House 8810, my new home away from home!
Our friends at House 8810 are giving away a Super Care Package which includes this terrific tongue-in-cheek "yellow pages" booster seat, an amazing Oh Deer plate & cup set and lastly this terrific retro styled memory game.
Really, the coolness is endless. Who is the purveyor of perfection behind House 8810? I sat down with the lovely Alison Scully and chatted with her about her wonderfully fun nook of the Web.
MK: Friend, what inspired you to open this grand online store?
HOUSE 8810: Having THE house on the block is what inspired House 8810. We've always wanted to have a house that made people feel welcome, you know, the house with all the great parties and the one that was decked out for all holidays. We wanted to create a place where people can shop and find many unique items that make their house the home they've always wanted.
MK: What is your favorite item in the shop?
HOUSE 8810: Since there are three of us behind House 8810 we couldn't come up with just one favorite item, so we each picked one. We came up with the My Life Story Lifetime Diary, the Flea Market throw and the Paper Dollies.
MK: How do you pick out the amazing items in your shop?
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We've made a list of some of the gear you may need on your African hunting trip.
may be some of the things you'll need.
You don't need to bring big cameras if you only come for a hunting safari. The smaller but good quality cameras, are much more convenient to use in the veldt.
Our PH has a good rangefinder. Since you as the hunter will have your rifle to handle and the PH accompanying you all the time on your hunts, you don't need to spend the extra money on a rangefinder.
You will definately need ankle gaiters during your hunt. If you can't get it, we'll get you a pair here in Namibia.
We also created a detailed Namibia Hunting packlist to assist you in your final preparations for your Namibia Safari. Feel free to use also your discretion when going through this list.
We hope that the list below proof to be very useful to you!


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Alâeddinova mošeja (turško Alâeddin Camii) je glavni spomenik na citadeli Konya v Turčiji. Stavba je služila kot " prestolna mošeja" za seldžuške sultane iz sultanara Rum in vsebuje dinastični mavzolej. Zgrajena je bila med sredino 12. do sredine 13. stoletja. Obe, citadela in mošeja nosita ime sultana Ala al-Din Kayqubada I. (Alâeddin Tepesi in Alâddin Camii).

Mošeja
Po tipičnem postopku Seldžukov se je krščanska bazilika na tem mestu pretvorila v mošejo po zajetju mesta leta 1080. Večina gradbenega materiala in arhitekturnega ornamenta, vključenega v poznejšo obnovo, zlasti stebrov in kapitelov, je bila rešena iz te bazilike in drugih bližnjih bizantinskih struktur.

Dokazi o zgodnjem gradbenem programu izvirajo iz časa  Mesuda I. Napis datira konec, ebenovinast minbar na 1155; minbar je prvi datiran primer seldžuške umetnosti v Anatoliji. Večbarvni okvir mihraba in kupola zgoraj lahko sodita v to obdobje.

Kejkavus I. je začel velik obnovitveni program leta 1219. Spremenil je glavni vhod z zahoda proti severu, nasproti mihrabu. Dodal je monumentalno fasado na severni strani, s pogledom na mesto in obrnjeno proti palači. Na dvorišču je začel graditi marmornat grob. Delo na Kejkavsovi stavbi je bilo prekinjeno z njegovo smrtjo v istem letu, nato ga je nadaljeval njegov brat in naslednik Kejqubad I. Ta je spremenil nekaj bratovih napisov in zahteval izboljšave v mošeji zase. Leta 1235 je dodal veliko sobo, ki jo podpira 42 stebrov, vzhodno od mihraba.

Minaret, mmarmorni mihrab (1891) in vzhodna vrata, skozi katere vstopa v mošejo večina obiskovalcev, izhajajo iz osmanskega obdobja. Vzhodno krilo mošeje, zgrajene s ponovno uporabljenimi bizantinskimi in helenističnimi stebri, ima edinstveno odprtost in prostornost.

Grobnice sultanov v mošeji

Dvorišče Alâdinove mošeje obsega dva monumentalna mavzoleja ali türbe. Po napisu na fasadi je Kilij Arslan II. zgradil desetstrano grobnico s stožčasto streho. Ta mavzolej je postal pokopališče dinastije Seldžukov in hiša sarkofagov osmih sultanov iz Ruma:
 Mesud I. (1156)
 Kilič Arslan II. (1196)
 Sulejmanšah II. (1204)
 Kejhüsrev I. (1211)
 Kejkubad I. (1236)
 Kejhüsrev II. (1246)
 Kilič Arslan IV. (1266)
 Kejhüsrev III. (1283).

Drugi mavzolej je začel graditi Kejkavus I., vendar je v času sultanove smrti ostal nedokončan (umrl 1219). Grobnica je osmerokotna in zgrajena iz marmorja. Ta nedokončan mavzolej je znan kot Adsız Türbe ali 'Anonimni mavzolej', ker so imena tistih, ki so pokopani, neznana. Mumificirana trupla so na ogled.

Galerija

Sklici

Viri

Zunanje povezave

Mošeje v Turčiji
Zgradbe in objekti, zgrajeni leta 1235
Konya

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Disney's Dumbo Was Number #1 This Weekend At The Box Office!
It was a depressing weekend at the box office!
Disney's Dumbo opened this weekend and didn't do as well as Tim-Burton and executives had hoped! The Live-action remake opened with $45 million domestically.
The movie cost about $170 million to make so they have quite a ways to go before breaking even! Plus this one a great opening for Disney compared to The Jungle Book! This movie has huge star power behind it with Colin Farrell and Danny DeVito. It got mixed to negative reviews. Dumbo was sad and upsetting when it was a cartoon, -critics have given it a 53 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The $45 million was enough however to bump Jorden Peele's "Us" to second spot with an additional $33.6 earned!


This Apple Mac Book Pro 17" has been reported stolen.
Model : Mac Book Pro 17"
This Apple Mac Book Pro 17" was reported stolen in Los Angeles, CA 90034, USA on 03-10-2010.
If you recieve information about your Stolen Apple Mac Book Pro 17", you should contact local authorities immediately. Do not attempt to recover your Stolen Apple Mac Book Pro 17" personally.
If you would like to report a Stolen Apple Mac Book Pro 17" on stolen-property.com, you can do so by clicking the link. Stolen-Property.com is not a government agency. If you wish to report a Apple Mac Book Pro 17" theft to law enforcement, you need contact your local law enforcement agency.
All Stolen Apple Mac Book Pro 17"s can be viewed in the stolen property database.


In the Oxford/Philadelphia area between September 21st and September 30th, Country Chrysler Dodge Jeep & Jeff D'Ambrosio Chevrolet are handing out these free $50 Dinner cards, and they are accepted by 18,000 restaurants nationally, and over 78 quality restaurants in the Oxford/Philadelpia area.
We would appreciate any support you can give us in getting the word out through your resources. We've done this in 50 markets across the country over the past ten months, and the media coverage and community reaction has been fantastic.


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Desperately Seeking Solace
Tom Shadyac's new documentary, 'I Am', searches for answers to life's big questions.
Mark Moring| March 22, 2011
When budding film director Tom Shadyac hired a relatively unknown Jim Carrey in 1994 to make a silly movie called Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, the careers of both men exploded—and so did their bank accounts. Shadyac, who went on to direct The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty—several of them morality tales that reflected Shadyac's spiritual beliefs—dove right into the lifestyles of the rich and famous with huge Hollywood homes and expensive cars.
As often happens, it wasn't long before Shadyac discovered that wealth and the accumulation of stuff didn't buy happiness. It hit him especially hard on his last mansion upgrade when, after the movers left and he was standing in the foyer all alone, he had what he calls a spiritual epiphany: Materialism isn't working.
Shadyac heard but ignored that small voice inside for a few more years until a 2007 bike accident left him with a concussion and then post-concussion syndrome, where he suffered migraine headaches, a constant ringing in his head, and severe mood swings. When he was depressed, he even wanted to die: "I was done," he said. He wondered, "If I were to die, what did I want to say to the world before I left?"
Eventually, Shadyac turned a corner in his recovery, and in doing so, re-evaluated his life and priorities. He embarking on a quest for the answers to two questions: "What's wrong with the world?" And, "What can I do about it?" He grabbed a small film crew and traveled the world in search of the answers, then turned all that footage into a new documentary called I Am, now showing in limited theaters. (Our review will post Friday, March 25.)
We talked to Shadyac (whom we also interviewed when Evan Almighty released ...
More From: Mark Moring
Parents Set the Pace for Their Adult Children's Religious Life
"Handing Down the Faith" shows a vast majority of Americans don't choose their religious beliefs. They inherit them.
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk


The 2019 Giant Fastroad SL 1 - fitness riding made fun. This sporty, smooth-riding flat bar road bike is pure exhilaration.
This bike is ex-demo and has a chip on the rear dropout, right lever, and seat tube, see images for more details. This bike is supplied with the full manufacturer's warranty on the frame and components.
FastRoad SL 1 gives you the perfect balance of road bike speed and city bike versatility. It's built on Giant's ultra-lightweight ALUXX SL-grade aluminium frameset, which is designed with an efficient rider position for a smooth, fast ride quality. It's great for commuting, fitness riding and other on-road pursuits.


Although the Vendee region of France is best known for its impressive collection of beautiful beaches, there is much more to the place than may be immediately apparent to first-time visitors.
Indeed, there is literally loads that you can see and do in this beautiful part of the country, meaning you're sure to be entertained on your next camping holiday in France.
Here, we're going to run through some of the top activities that can be enjoyed in the Vendee.
If you're a big fan of the highlife, then the Vendee is a top holiday destination, as it is home to a number of great casinos.
There are casinos at St-Jean-de-Monts, St-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Les Sables d'Olonne and at La Faute-sur-Mer.
So don your best outfit for the night and prepare to gamble some of your money in a glitzy and glamorous location.
For something slightly more becalmed, you may instead wish to hop on board a bike and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the region.
In the majority of villages in the Vendee, you can easily rent a bike and take it for a ride through the spectacular countryside that you're sure to encounter here.
As a quick tip, there are some good signposted routes around the island of Noirmoutier, so keep your eyes peeled for these.
The region is well-known for hosting water sports activities and so if you fancy a bit of an adrenaline rush, then this is one destination that is worth considering.
Whether it is surfing, swimming or anything else in between that tickles your fancy, you will find loads of beaches in the Vendee that are perfectly suited to those sorts of activities.
Indeed, with so much to see and do in the region, you're certain not to be disappointed by this beautiful part of France.


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Q: Dealing with float precision in Javascript I have a large amount of numeric values y in javascript.  I want to group them by rounding them down to the nearest multiple of x and convert the result to a string.
How do I get around the annoying floating point precision?
For example:
0.2 + 0.4 = 0.6000000000000001

Two things I have tried:
>>> y = 1.23456789
>>> x = 0.2
>>> parseInt(Math.round(Math.floor(y/x))) * x;
1.2000000000000002

and:
>>> y = 1.23456789
>>> x = 0.2
>>> y - (y % x)
1.2000000000000002

A: You could do something like this:
> +(Math.floor(y/x)*x).toFixed(15);
1.2

Edit: It would be better to use big.js.
big.js

A small, fast, easy-to-use library for arbitrary-precision decimal arithmetic.

>> bigX = new Big(x)
>> bigY = new Big(y)
>> bigY.div(bigX).round().times(bigX).toNumber() // => 1.2

A: > var x = 0.1
> var y = 0.2
> var cf = 10
> x * y
0.020000000000000004
> (x * cf) * (y * cf) / (cf * cf)
0.02

Quick solution:
var _cf = (function() {
  function _shift(x) {
    var parts = x.toString().split('.');
    return (parts.length < 2) ? 1 : Math.pow(10, parts[1].length);
  }
  return function() {
    return Array.prototype.reduce.call(arguments, function (prev, next) { return prev === undefined || next === undefined ? undefined : Math.max(prev, _shift (next)); }, -Infinity);
  };
})();

Math.a = function () {
  var f = _cf.apply(null, arguments); if(f === undefined) return undefined;
  function cb(x, y, i, o) { return x + f * y; }
  return Array.prototype.reduce.call(arguments, cb, 0) / f;
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Math.s = function (l,r) { var f = _cf(l,r); return (l * f - r * f) / f; };

Math.m = function () {
  var f = _cf.apply(null, arguments);
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  return Array.prototype.reduce.call(arguments, cb, 1);
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Math.d = function (l,r) { var f = _cf(l,r); return (l * f) / (r * f); };

> Math.m(0.1, 0.2)
0.02

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A: Check out this link.. It helped me a lot.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_toprecision.asp
The toPrecision(no_of_digits_required) function returns a string so don't forget to use the parseFloat() function to convert to decimal point of required precision.

A: From this post: How to deal with floating point number precision in JavaScript?
You have a few options:

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*Use a special datatype for decimals, like decimal.js

*Format your result to some fixed number of significant digits, like this:
(Math.floor(y/x) * x).toFixed(2)

*Convert all your numbers to integers

A: Tackling this task, I'd first find the number of decimal places in x, then round y accordingly. I'd use:
y.toFixed(x.toString().split(".")[1].length);

It should convert x to a string, split it over the decimal point, find the length of the right part, and then y.toFixed(length) should round y based on that length.

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How to Have Great Conversations
Sonya Glyn NICHOLSON 9 Avr 2014
Martine's Guidelines from 1866
What type of conversationist are you…and do you recognize yourself or anyone else in these archetypes to avoid?
1. The Loud Talker
2. The Life-Sharer
3. The Clever Bore
4. The Indifferent or Apathetic Bore
5. The Lingering Bore
6. The Hobby-Riders
7. The Malaprops (aka Mr. or Ms. Inappropriate)
8. The Egotistical Bore
"Martine's Handbook of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness" by Arthur Martine (1866) gives a good run-down of things to pay attention to when we talk to each other. I like the freewheeling vibe of writers from the nineteenth century and Martine is no exception with his no-holds-barred way of describing types of talkers and his direction on how to correct conversationist faults.
Here he gives entertaining details on the above types of talkers:
The loud talker "silences a whole party by his sole power of lungs. All subjects are alike to him; he speaks on every topic with equal fluency, is never at a loss, quotes high authority for every assertion, and allows no one else to utter a word; he silences, without the least ceremony, every attempt at interruption, however cleverly managed. … Great, and especially loud and positive talkers, have been denounced by all writers on manners as shallow and superficial persons."
The excessive life-sharer "is the man who gives an account of his dogs, horses, lands, books, and pictures. Whatever is his, must, he thinks, interest others; and listen they must, however resolutely they may attempt to change the current of his discourse. Women of this class are sometimes too fond of praising their children. It is no doubt an amiable weakness; but I would still advise them to indulge as little as possible in the practice; for however dear the rosy-cheeked, curly-headed prattlers may be to them, the chances are, that others will vote the darlings to be great bores; you that have children, never speak of them in company."
The clever bore "takes up every idle speech, to show his wisdom at a cheap rate. The grave expounder of truisms belongs to this class. He cannot allow the simplest conversation to go on, without entering into proofs and details familiar to every child nine years of age; and the tenor of his discourse, however courteous in terms and manner, pays you the very indifferent compliment, of supposing that you have fallen from some other planet, in total and absolute ignorance of the most ordinary and every-day things connected with this little world of ours. All foreigners are particularly great at this style of boring."
The indifferent or apathetic bore relishes in his inattentiveness. "If he refrains from the direct and absolute rudeness of yawning in your face, [he] shows, by short and drawling answers, given at fits and starts, and completely at variance with the object of the conversation, that he affects at least a total indifference to the party present, and to the subject of discourse. In society, the absent man is uncivil; he who affects to be so, is rude and vulgar. All persons who speak of their ailings, diseases, or bodily infirmities, are offensive bores. Subjects of this sort should be addressed to doctors, who are paid for listening to them, and to no one else. Bad taste is the failing of these bores."
The lingering bore well overstays his welcome. "[These are] the ladies and gentlemen who pay long visits, and who, meeting you at the door prepared to sally forth, keep you talking near the fire till the beauty of the day is passed; and then take their leave, 'hoping they have not detained you.' Bad feeling or want of tact here predominates."
The hobby-riders, who sound like a broken record. "[They] constantly speak on the same eternal subject [and] bore you at all times and at all hours, whether you are in health or in sickness, in spirits or in sorrow, with the same endless topic, must not be overlooked in our list; though it is sufficient to denounce them. Their failing is occasioned by a total want of judgment."
The Malaprops. The formal definition of the word malaprop is the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect, as in, for example, "dance a flamingo " (instead of flamenco ). The Malaprop conversationalist has a "special ability for choosing the least appropriate topics of conversation…A numerous and unhappy family [of malaprops, who] are constantly addressing the most unsuitable speeches to individuals or parties. To the blind they will speak of fine pictures and scenery; and will entertain a person in deep mourning with the anticipated pleasures of tomorrow's ball. A total wont of ordinary thought and observation is the general cause of the Malapropfailing."
The egotistical bore "who stifles those around him with his vanity. It is truly revolting, indeed, to approach the very Boa-constrictor of good society; the snake who comes upon us, not in the natural form of a huge, coarse, slow reptile, but Proteus-like, in a thousand different forms; though all displaying at the first sight the boa-bore, ready to slime over every subject of discourse with the vile saliva of selfish vanity. Pah! It is repulsive even to speak of the species, numerous, too, as the sands along the shore."
HAVING THE RIGHT ATTITUDE
In a day when the howl of car horns and the waving of middle fingers in traffic is standard fare, something feels amiss. It's as if we have traveled so far back to primitive behavior that people act more like prehistoric man than modern man. This defiance of simple manners begs the question: Why the digression? And our Grandparents must ask themselves, "whatever happened to the concept of being a gentleman?"
Call it freedom of speech or the new wave of the "me generation" where self-interest rules. Call it rebellion against the establishment or call it "venting"…but whatever you call it, you may admit that the way societies have abandoned the pursuit of gentlemanly behavior feels like something of a loss.
The lyrics from the 50 Cent rap song "Be a Gentleman" tells us: It's best you be a gentleman and you watch what you say. This dictate hits an artery with a curt summary of how to behave by simply watching what you say. Simple enough. After all, what else can heal or harm, create war or peace, scar or mend, and motivate or debilitate the human spirit more than words?
We crave words that make us feel good, supported or at least motivated and we can give words to affect the day of other people. And Martine's text shows us that conversation is not only about using words, but also about restraining from the use of words. While some people are proud of their lack of restraint in guarding their words, these same people can become tiring after a while, as their demeanor feels lazy…as if no effort is put into considering anyone except themselves.
But before this turns into a Polyanna sing-along or worse, sermonizing–we can at least admit that the simple words of people can play in our heads for years and each of us has the power to have that same lasting effect on other people.
To get started, Martine offers Three Basic Guidelines for Conversation:
1. If you have a good nature, then you are naturally polite. It's good to please people and not offend them. He gives us these words:
"[Politeness]… is a ceremonial, agreed upon and established among mankind, to give each other external testimonies of friendship or respect. Politeness and etiquette form a sort of supplement to the law, which enables society to protect itself against offenses which the law cannot touch. For instance, the law cannot punish a man for habitually staring at people in an insolent and annoying manner, but etiquette can banish such an offender from the circles of good society, and fix upon him the brand of vulgarity. Etiquette consists in certain forms, ceremonies, and rules which the principle of politeness establishes and enforces for the regulation of the manners of men and women in their intercourse with each other."
2. The aim of politeness? Try to make people well-satisfied with themselves. He follows with encouraging us to give the gift of grace:
"Politeness is a sort of social benevolence, which avoids wounding the pride, or shocking the prejudices of those around you."
3. Like a garden, you have to cultivate politeness, and it only comes from effort and discipline. This means self-restraint at times from blurting out what you really want to say. It feels uncomfortable to hold back your immediate thoughts, but sometimes you forego drawing attention to yourself in order to help out another human being. But as a caveat, Martine warns us not to take concern for others so far that we discredit ourselves in the process. His words:
"But even courtesy has limits where dignity should govern it, for when carried to excess, particularly in manners, it borders on sycophancy, which is almost as despicable as rudeness. To overburden people with attention; to render them uncomfortable with a prodigality of proffered services; to insist upon obligations which they do not desire, is not only to render yourself disagreeable, but contemptible."
FOUR THINGS TO REMEMBER
Martine proceeds to offer four cardinal rules when speaking. An abbreviation of the rules:
1. Know when NOT to speak.
2. Don't answer questions with short dismissive answers as if you are being bothered by a toddler.
3. Don't be a self-righteous prick.
4. Arguing should be for a debate, laughs and entertainment …if you are seriously arguing at a gathering, it is a sign of bad breeding.
In his discourse, he summarizes the points:
"The power of preserving silence is the very first requisite to all who wish to shine, or even please in discourse; and those who cannot preserve it, have really no business to speak. … The silence that, without any deferential air, listens with polite attention, is more flattering than compliments, and more frequently broken for the purpose of encouraging others to speak, than to display the listener's own powers. This is the really eloquent silence. It requires great genius—more perhaps than speaking—and few are gifted with the talent…
Never give short or sharp answers in ordinary conversation, unless you aspire to gain distinction by mere rudeness; for they have in fact no merit, and are only uncivil. "I do not know," "I cannot tell," are the most harmless words possible, and may yet be rendered very offensive by the tone and manner in which they are pronounced. Never reply, in answer to a question like the following, "Did Mrs. Spitewell tell you how Miss Rosebud's marriage was getting on?" "I did not ask." It is almost like saying, I never ask impertinent questions, though you do…We can always be ordinarily civil, even if we cannot always be absolutely wise.
Don't be a self-righteous contrarian…Leave quibbling of every kind to lawyers pleading at the bar for the life of a culprit; in society and conversation it is invariably out of place, unless when laughter is going his merry round. At all other times it is a proof of bad breeding."
This section is borrowed directly from Maria Popava's text on The Art of Coversation: Timeless Do's and Don'ts from 1866. Here, we find a nice summarization of Arthur Martine's Rules of Conversation:
1. Don't correct your conversation partner, or go on righteousness crusades. It's a sign of vanity at best and sheer rudeness at worst, to force your opinion on another:
"Reproof is a medicine like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, with report either to the adviser or the advised, it will do harm instead of good.
If a man is telling that which is as old as the hills, or which you believe to be false, the better way is to let him go on. Why should you refuse a man the pleasure of believing that he is telling you something which you never heard before? Besides, by refusing to believe him, or by telling him that his story is old, you not only mortify him, but the whole company is made uneasy, and, by sympathy, share his mortification.
It is bad manners to satirize lawyers in the presence of lawyers, or doctors in the presence of one of that calling, and so of all the professions. Nor should you rail against bribery and corruption in the presence of politicians, (especially of a New York politician,) or members of Congress, as they will have good reason to suppose that you are hinting at them. It is the aim of politeness to leave the arena of social intercourse untainted with any severity of language, or bitterness of feeling.
Whenever the lady or gentleman with whom you are discussing a point, whether of love, war, science or politics, begins to sophisticate, drop the subject instantly. Your adversary either wants the ability to maintain his opinion,– and then it would be uncivil to press it — or he wants the still more useful ability to yield the point with unaffected grace and good-humor; or what is also possible–his vanity is in some way engaged in defending views on which he may probably have acted, so that to demolish his opinions is perhaps to reprove his conduct, and no well-bred man goes into society for the purpose of sermonizing.
To reprove with success, the following circumstances are necessary: mildness, secrecy, intimacy, and the esteem of the person you would reprove."
2. Do be selective
Novelist William Gibson has stressed the importance of a"personal micro-culture". Susan Sontag wrote in her diary that she's only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation. Artist Austin Kleon has astutely argued that "you are a mashup of what you let into your life." Martine suggests the same is true of selecting your conversation company:
"If you have been once in company with an idle person, it is enough. You need never go again. You have heard all he knows. And he has had no opportunity of learning anything new. For idle people make no improvements.
Don't give your time to every superficial acquaintance: it is bestowing what is to you of inestimable worth, upon one who is not likely to be the better for it."
3. Do keep your commitments
But give those who fail to keep theirs the benefit of the doubt:
"Be careful of your word, even in keeping the most trifling appointment. But do not blame another for a failure of that kind, till you have heard his excuse."
4. Do be mindful of your audience
"And don't parade your knowledge before those less learned:
All local wits, all those whose jests are understood only within the range of their own circle or coterie, are decided objectionables in general society. It is the height of ill-breeding, in fact, to converse, or jest, on subjects that are not perfectly understood by the party at large; it is a species of rude mystification, as uncivil as whispering, or as speaking in language that may not be familiar to some of the party. But you must not make a fool of yourself, even if others show themselves deficient in good manners; and must not, like inflated simpletons, fancy yourself the object of every idle jest you do not understand, or of every laugh that chance may have called forth. Ladies and gentlemen feel that they are neither laughed at nor ridiculed.
In society, the object of conversation is of course entertainment and improvement, and it must, therefore, be adapted to the circle in which it is carried on, and must be neither too high nor too deep for the party at large, so that every one may contribute his share, just at his pleasure, and to the best of his ability.
A gentleman will, by all means, avoid showing his learning and accomplishments in the presence of ignorant and vulgar people, who can, by no possibility, understand or appreciate them. It is a pretty sure sign of bad breeding to set people to staring and feeling uncomfortable.
In a mixed company, never speak to your friend of a matter which the rest do not understand, unless it is something which you can explain to them, and which may be made interesting to the whole party.
Do not endeavor to shine in all companies. Leave room for your hearers to imagine something within you beyond all you have said.
Think like the wise; but talk like ordinary people. Never go out of the common road, but for somewhat.
Put yourself on the same level as the person to whom you speak, and under penalty of being considered a pedantic idiot, refrain from explaining any expression or word that you may use."
5. Do practice omission
Omission isn't lying…It's politeness. Learn to evade.
"You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth."
6. Do say "yes" whenever possible, but say "no" firmly
"When you say "no," do so firmly:
If a favor is asked of you, grant it, if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner, as that one denial may be sufficient."
7. Do let your opinion change
"Fools pretend to foretell what will be the issue of things, and are laughed at for their awkward conjectures. Wise men, being aware of the uncertainty of human affairs, and having observed how small a matter often produces a great change, are modest in their conjectures.
Reflect upon the different appearances things make to you from what they did some years ago, and don't imagine that your opinion will never alter, because you are extremely positive at present. Let the remembrance of your past changes of sentiment make you more flexible.
In disputes upon moral or scientific points, ever let your aim be to come at truth, not to conquer your opponent. So you never shall be at a loss in losing the argument, and gaining a new discovery.
Give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candor; and ever endeavor to find out, and to communicate truth.
It is an advantage to have concealed one's opinion. For by that means you may change your judgment of things (which every wise man finds reason to do) and not be accused of fickleness."
8. Don't be pretentious…
And do away with affectation:
"Avoid the habit of employing French words in English conversation; it is extremely bad taste to be always using such expressions as ci-devant, soi-disant, en masse, couleur de rose, etc. Do not salute your acquaintances with bon jour, nor reply to every proposition, volontiers.
There is an affected humility more insufferable than downright pride, as hypocrisy is more abominable than libertinism. Take care that your virtues be genuine and unsophisticated.
If you can express yourself to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen. Go not about to prove, by a long series of reasoning, what all the world is ready to own.
You will please so much the less, if you go into company determined to shine. Let your conversation appear to rise out of thoughts suggested by the occasion, not strained or premeditated: nature always pleases: affectation is always odious."
9. Do practice genuine humility…
Avoid arrogance:
"Nothing is more nauseous than apparent self-sufficiency. For it shows the company two things, which are extremely disagreeable: that you have a high opinion of yourself, and that you have comparatively a mean opinion of them.
The modest man is seldom the object of envy.
If you are really a wit, remember that in conversation its true office consists more in finding it in others, than showing off a great deal of it yourself. He who goes out of your company pleased with himself is sure to be pleased with you."
SOME QUOTES WORTH REMEMBERING
Martine himself:
Cheerfulness, unaffected cheerfulness, a sincere desire to please and be pleased, unchecked by any efforts to shine, are the qualities you must bring with you into society, if you wish to succeed in conversation. … a light and airy equanimity of temper,—that spirit which never rises to boisterousness, and never sinks to immovable dullness; that moves gracefully from "grave to gay, from serious to serene," and by mere manner gives proof of a feeling heart and generous mind.
Jonathan Swift:
Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much; yet I rarely remember to have seen five people together, where some one among them hath not been predominant in that kind, to the great constraint and disgust of all the rest. But among such as deal in multitudes of words, none are comparable to the sober, deliberate talker, who proceedeth with much thought and caution, maketh his preface, brancheth out into several digressions, findeth a hint that putteth him in mind of another story, which he promises to tell you when this is done, cometh back regularly to his subject, cannot readily call to mind some person's name, holdeth his head, complaineth of his memory; the whole company all this while in suspense; at last says, it is no matter, and so goes on. And to crown the business, it perhaps proveth at last a story the company has heard fifty times before, or at best some insipid adventure of the relater.
Congenial conversation—what a pleasure!
The right word at the right time—beautiful!
La Bruyère:
The great charm of conversation consists less in the display of one's own wit and intelligence, than in the power to draw forth the resources of others; he who leaves you after a long conversation, pleased with himself and the part he has taken in the discourse, will be your warmest admirer. Men do not care to admire you, they wish you to be pleased with them; they do not seek for instruction or even amusement from your discourse, but they do wish you to be made acquainted with their talents and powers of conversation; and the true man of genius will delicately make all who come in contact with him feel the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that they have appeared to advantage.
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Great post! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Mdu85 — 9 Sep 2014
great insight on the subject.
sameer iqbal — 18 Sep 2014
Rien à voir mais, connaitriez vous une marque de cravate proposant des modèles du même genre que ceux que l'on voit sur les deux gentlemen de droite ? Thanks !
Guillaume — 17 May 2015
Spot on! Thank you and I hope to read more articles like this. A sorely lacking yet fundamental component of everyday life for most . . the art of conversation.
Quo — 18 Aug 2015


NPR may struggle mightily with what to call torture - "the problem is that the word torture is loaded with political and social implications for several reasons, including the fact that torture is illegal under U.S. law and international treaties the United States has signed" - but when it comes to human beings killed by the US military, be they civilians or irregular forces, there's no hesitation: they are militants plain and simple.
This morning David Greene introduces another drone attack story by claiming that the "US has struck again at militants near the border with Afghanistan. The American airstrikes yesterday killed at least 45 militants...." Greene then turns things over to Julie McCarthy who says, "The details of the assault on the remote tribal area of South Waziristan - known as Pakistan's badlands - are still emerging, but local media report that dozens of militants were killed when three drone missiles were fired on Taliban fighters as they gathered for a funeral of fellow militants."
There are a few problems with Greene and McCarthy's reporting. Despite the heavy civilian toll of past drone attacks, Greene asserts as fact that "at least 45 militants" were killed. So where is the evidence? How does he know any of them were "militants." McCarthy notes that details "are still emerging," but that doesn't stop her from claiming that "local media report that dozens of militants were killed," that they were "Taliban fighters," and that it was a "funeral of fellow militants." So what local media is McCarthy referring to, and just how were the dead identified as "Taliban fighters"?
"At least 43 people have died in missile strikes by a US drone aircraft in a militant stronghold of Pakistan, a Taliban spokesman has told the BBC."
Pretty basic journalistic practice. "People" get killed, and the allegations are sourced. The Guardian goes even further noting that "one local security official, who could not be identified as he was not authorised to speak to media, said that more than 60 had died of whom 'half are civilians'." Civilians? What do you know, another detail that NPR somehow missed.
In addition to the factual vagaries of the report, Greene and McCarthy's casual attitude about unmanned killing machines and attacks on a funeral is really disturbing. So now it's acceptable military practice to bomb funerals? It's telling that when the word is torture NPR is concerned about "the fact that torture is illegal under U.S. law and international treaties," but when they are using language favorable to the US military there is no such concern.
If they're dead, they're VC.
Update: If they're dead, they're militants.
Thanks for this. I'd made a comment related to the drone attack to the previous post.
Quite a different take (and headline) to the story from AJE, which states 80 have died.
'Pakistan officially objects to strikes on its territory by the pilotless US aircraft.
Maybe I am wrong, but frequently NPR just cuts and pastes the DoD press release, without question.
Even if it were a "funeral for militants", it is unlikely that all those attending would be "militants".
Some would undoubtedly be family members, including women and children.
Obama has simply not learned the lessons of Vietnam.
If he won't listen to his own counter-terrorism people(Kilcullen and others) when they tell him that the drone attacks are likely to produce more terrorists than they kill, he won't listen to anyone.
He's a lost cause, IMHO.
or perhaps someone at NPR actually WRITES the DOD release.
PEOPLE - normal term indicating human beings.
MILITANT - generic, detached, Life Is Cheap term, having much appeal to the Homeland, indicating bearded, turbaned, US-armed fanatics - everywhere, all the time. See related: commies, Soviet threat, Red Peril.
Perhaps we should be celebrating that the Predator/Reaper UAV/drones cost only 1/1000 of their old cousins, the B2 stealth, etc. This should free up beau coup buck-a-roo to help meet the needs of health, education and welfare for people. But wait, damn. We're still spending $70B for the F-22 Raptor. For that much moolah we need to kill some serious "militants." There must be a fair number of such right handy at that five-sided building...maybe start there? I mean, I want some bang for my buck.
It seems to me that on the flimsiest of evidance (if ANY), your correspondent called all 45 Pakistanis killed in the drone attack "militants."
Yet, in the face of enormous amounts of evidence, you will still not call waterboarding, etc, "torture"? What am I missing here?
It seems that the torture piece has transformed NPR's ombudsman overnight from "NPR spin control" into "NPR spun out of control"
Those of us who call NPR national Propaganda Radio have basically had our allegation validated in a big way by Shepard's torture piece. Propaganda is ALL about euphemisms and other tricks meant to distort or hide the truth.
Thanks to the Shepard piece, NPR can now expect their entire vocabulary to be scrutinized: "militants", "terrorists", "economic recovery", "health care" [sic], .
As most of those who post here well know, NPR's aversion to saying "torture" is just a small part of a much larger picture.
it really paints a picture of who they are and the picture ain't pretty to look at.
Management are stuck between a rock and a hard place on this one.
I'm sure they would like to be able to make the problem just "go away", but they can't (and won't) fire Shepard because Shepard has accurately represented their policy.
"local media report that dozens of militants were killed,"
That would be the local "newspaper" run by the local war lord who had a score to settle with a rival who was cutting into his opium business.
For all its hugh-minded statements (from NPR's ombudsman and others) about the importance of giving its listeners "context", that is woefully absent in most NPR pieces.
Eg: They report that "a drone precisely hit its target" with the implication that there was no "collateral damage" (ie , no innocent people killed).
What they leave out (unwittingly or otherwise), is the possibility that the target may not have held what they implied ("militants") or even have been the intended one.
But Rehman says he didn't just tag jihadists with the devices. "The money was good so I started throwing the chips all over."
..and if he's an Evangelical bombing an abortion clinic for Jesus, he's a hero to a large fraction of our "Christian" populace.


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Matías Bize (* 9. August 1979 in Santiago de Chile) ist ein chilenischer Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur.

Biografie
Bize studierte an der "Escuela de cine de Chile" mit Schwerpunkt Drehbuch und Regie. International bekannt wurde er mit seinem ersten Spielfilm Sábado – Das Hochzeitstape. Für dieses "Echtzeit-Video" gewann er auf dem 52. Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg den Rainer-Werner-Fassbinder-Preis.

Bize zählt als einer der Protagonisten zu einer jungen Bewegung im lateinamerikanischen Kino. Wegen der schlechten wirtschaftlichen Situation der chilenischen Filmproduktion realisiert er seine Projekte mit einfachen Mitteln. Die Handlung seines zweiten Films En la cama (dt. Im Bett) entwickelt sich mit nur zwei Darstellern in einem einzigen Raum. Der Film gewann 2005 den Hauptpreis des Filmfestivals Seminci.

Bizes dritter Spielfilm Lo bueno de llorar wurde 2006 erstmals veröffentlicht, erschien bisher aber noch nicht in deutschsprachigen Ländern. Der Film wurde beim Valdivia International Film Festival ausgezeichnet.

Der vierte und bisher letzte Film des Regisseurs war La vida de los peces (2010). In Deutschland wurde er am 11. November 2010 beim Internationalen Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg und bereits am 18. Dezember 2010 im Fernsehen unter dem Titel Fremd wie ein Fisch bei arte gezeigt.

Filmografie
 1999: Carla y Max (Kurzfilm)
 2000: La gente está esperando (Kurzfilm)
 2003: Sábado – Das Hochzeitstape (Sábado, una película en tiempo real)
 2005: Juego de verano (Gemeinschaftsarbeit mit Fernanda Aljaro, Nane González und Andrea Wassaff)
 2005: Im Bett (En la cama)
 2005: Llamando (Kurzfilm)
 2005: Llamando ficción (Kurzfilm)
 2006: Lo bueno de llorar
 2010: La vida de los peces
 2015: The Memory of Water

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Q: Can variable templates infer type? c++14 introduced variable templates so I can do:
template <typename T>
const auto PI = std::acos(static_cast<T>(-1));

Now, when using this variable can the type be deduced? For example:
const auto TWO_PI = 2.0F * PI;

Here I would expect PI<float> it seems like the compiler should be able to deduce that. Why won't the compiler select this for me?

A: No, it's not possible.*

*There is an ugly alternative, but I'd advise against using it:
template <typename T> const auto pi = std::acos(static_cast<T>(-1));

struct auto_pi_t {} auto_pi;

template <typename T> auto operator+(T a, auto_pi_t)
{return a + pi<std::conditional_t<std::is_floating_point_v<T>, T, double>>;}
template <typename T> auto operator+(auto_pi_t, T a)
{return pi<std::conditional_t<std::is_floating_point_v<T>, T, double>> + a;}
// For similar overloads for all plausible operators.


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Anunnaki, the blood of aliens on Earth
The modern era has witnessed the growing popularity of mythological stories about ancient Mesopotamia.
A huge role in this was the work of a number of researchers who saw the connection between the Sumerian myths about the Anunnaki with Nibiru and the theory of the origin of man with the participation of an alien civilization.
When the Anunnaki from the planet Nibiru came to Earth, Australopithecus became wiser.
Our understanding of the theory of ancient astronauts is based mainly on the transcription of cuneiform tablets, executed by Zacharia Sitchin. His series of books "Chronicles of the Earth" forms the basis of an alternative history of the evolution of species, revealing an entertaining vision of the origin of man.
In Sitchin's story about our past, there is an influential group of aliens under the name Anunnaki. According to the author of the idea, they invested their own DNA in Homo Erectus, who later became the founder of modern man. Sophisticated genetic manipulation was made with the intention of using indigenous people with a weak mind as helpers to extract precious minerals from the bowels of the earth. However, the Anunnaki are represented by the equivalent of God from the Old Testament.
So what do cuneiform texts say about mythical aliens from Nibiru? How much does the version with the participation of aliens and their activities correspond to the real idea in the ancient world?
Anunnaki – royal blood!
Firstly, the Anunnaki are interpreted as "royal blood" or "the seed of Anu," not "those who descended from heaven," or "those who came from heaven to earth," as the followers of the theory of ancient astronauts claim.
At the same time, the Anunnaki – "Sumerian deities of the primordial time." This is the pantheon of the gods of the sons of the heavenly god Anu and his sister Ki. According to a number of prominent historians, it will be more true to consider the Anunnaki as demi-gods. Anu's sister, Ki, was not originally a deity and attained the status of a goddess much later in the history of the mythological cycle.
As William Clauser explains: many people wonder if Ki was considered a deity?
Today there is no evidence of a cult, and his name appears only in a few texts of the Sumerians about creativity. Samuel Noah Kramer identifies Ki with the Sumerian goddess Ninhursag and claims that they were originally the same figure. She later became the Babylonian goddess and Akadia Antu, wife of the god Anu (Sumerian An).
In essence, this would mean that the Anunnaki themselves were born from the union of the gods of heaven and a mortal woman, who would subsequently be deified in the mythological tradition.
In addition, "Ki" is the Sumerian symbol of "earth", and the wife of Anu is sometimes considered the personification of the Earth itself. This fact is similar to the biblical tradition, where mortals were created from the dust of the earth (Genesis 2.7). The concept of a group of semi-divine beings born of mortal women is very similar to the biblical and non-biblical traditions of the Nephilim.
One of the most frequently mentioned ancient texts describing the Nephilim is the biblical Book of Enoch, attributed to Patriarch Enoch, the father of Methuselah. The book of Enoch is considered an apocryphal text today and is rejected by most dominant theological systems, although this has not always been the case.
Many of the early church fathers, such as Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, and Tertullian accepted this book as a sacred script, and fragments of 10 Aramaic copies of the Book of Enoch were found among the Dead Sea scrolls. Enoch is also quoted in the Bible Message of Jude, and it has been estimated that there are several more references in the New Testament.
Why did they reject the records of Enoch? In short, he described space technology and flight in heaven.
The most famous passages from the Book of Enoch include a detailed description of certain events before the Flood recorded in the Bible (especially Genesis 6, verses 1-4). According to the Book of Enoch, a group of 200 fallen angels known as Observers, led by a man named Semyaza, descended to Mount Hermon, where they took the paternal oath with human women.
All of them "took their wives for themselves … each chose for himself … they began to come to them and be corrupted by them," the union that led to the birth of the "great giants."
These giants finally "swallowed all the products of people", and "when people could no longer support them, the giants turned against them and devoured humanity (Book of Enoch, chapters 6-7).
These actions provoke the intervention of God. He "curses" the giants to fight each other, "so that they can destroy each other in battle" and sends archangels to bind their guardian leaders "in the valleys" of the Earth (Book of Enoch, 10). As you know today, Hebrew texts refer to these powerful observers as the Nephilim.
Mount Hermon, abode of the Anunnaki gods
Researchers have found a serious similarity between the mythologies of the Anunnaki and the Nephilim. In 1971, Edward Lipinski (almost simultaneously with Sitchin) published an academic analysis of several ancient texts, including the ancient Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic. The legend of Gilgamesh's journey contains important information that shows the true location of the Anunnaki sanctuary in cosmology and thought of the ancient East.
The researcher found that: "In fact, the ancient Babylonian version of the Gilgamesh epic identifies Hermon and Lebanon with the abode of the Anunnaki."
Incidentally, this is a strong turn of the legend to the facts of history. Edward emphasizes lines 12-21 of Gilgamesh in ancient Babylon, which reports the destruction of Humbaba, the keeper of the dwelling of the gods, from the companion of Gilgamesh, Enkidu. The text directly confirms that they "penetrated the forest and discovered the secret abode of the Anunnaki."
Later mythologies offer different alternative places for the house of the Anunnaki. However, Lipinski believes that the oldest Mesopotamian and Tanoan texts of the Middle East point to the cedar forest of Mount Hermon:
"… we find traces of the oldest tradition in the mention of the mountain, which was the abode of the gods. Access to it was hidden by the Cedar Forest, whose guardian was Humbaba. This mountain was the place in the depths of which the Anunnaki lived, according to the ancient Babylonian version of the epic of Gilgamesh. In the ancient Babylonian period, the Anunnaki were still considered gods. Therefore, Mount Hermon must be identified with the abode of the gods. "
Edward Lipinski also points out that Mount Hermon was considered the custodian of international treaties in the ancient world and links this tradition with the oath performed by observers in the Book of Enoch.
Having included apocryphal texts in his research, such as the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs and the Book of Enoch, Lipinski concludes:
"Mount Hermon is a cosmic mountain that unites the earth with the lower heavens. We find the same idea in the episode of the sons of God from the Book of Enoch. Life-giving creatures gather at the top of Mount Hermon because it is the mountain of the gods, Canaan Olympus. "
Mount Hermon is located on the southern tip of the Antilivan mountain range, occupying the border between Syria and Lebanon. The highest peak of Hermon reaches 2814 meters. The area abounds with ancient altars dating back thousands of years, and continued to host shrines and rituals until the time of Constantine the Great.
Of great interest is the fact that Gilgamesh was known in the ancient world for his knowledge, which he received in the antediluvian world. Wherever he explored centers of power, Gilgamesh learned old wisdom. He, who traveled the distant road to the gods and crossed the ocean, restored his knowledge of the antediluvian era.
These passages close the circle with an interpretation of the ancient Babylonian version of the epic of Gilgamesh, where the ancient king went to Mount Hermon, the monastery of the Anunnaki on Earth.
So contrary to popular sayings in modern literature and other media, there is data found by expert academic research.
A comparative study of cuneiform letters and other ancient texts shows that the true identity of the Anunnaki is found in the eastern tradition of a group of demigods born from an improper relationship between divine beings and mortal women. The described events occurred on Mount Hermon, located in the Antilivan mountain range.
These creatures are often associated with knowledge of the world before the Flood, and later they have various functions in the underworld. The above "facts" certainly do not state anything, but they turn the Anunnaki into the equivalent of "Elohim," which creates a person in the book of Genesis. The same references to ancient sources inspire the idea of extremely developed civilizations of outer space.
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Well done! I'm laughing at the Efron fans being all BZUH that you would want to leave him to them.
I'm laughing at the Efron fans being all BZUH that you would want to leave him to them.
Their concern was touching given that I'm about 20 years out of his fan demographic!